JASON OF THE LIVING DEAD Written by Cody Hamman Inspired by screenplays by Tom McLoughlin and Ken Wiederhorn OPEN ON: Darkness. We look into the dark for a while, waiting to see if anything is going to come out of it, or if we can make anything out in the dark. After a while lightning streaks through the dark and we realize we're looking at the night sky. Thunder rumbles as we tilt down to see- EXT. A COUNTRY ROAD - NIGHT Rain pours down hard and lightning flashes across the sky as a convoy of Army trucks drive past. They pass a sign that reads: WELCOME TO CRYSTAL LAKE. SUPERIMPOSE: 1968 Once the last truck in the convoy passes the sign, we- CUT TO: INT. THE LAST TRUCK This truck is being driven by a YOUNG SOLDIER who's smoking a cigarette. Riding shotgun is another SOLDIER holding a rifle. CUT TO: EXT. THE TRUCK - NIGHT The back of the truck is filled with large black barrels with domed plastic lids. Like the barrel seen in RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. The barrels are held in the truck with a strap across the back end, but they're bouncing around, hitting the strap and loosening it a bit every time. CUT TO: EXT. THE CONVOY - NIGHT The first truck reaches a small bridge and starts driving over it. Below the bridge is an overflowing stream, the water rushing along. CUT TO: EXT. THE LAST TRUCK - NIGHT The barrels continue bouncing around in the back. CUT TO: INT. THE LAST TRUCK The soldiers ride in silence, they seem to be oblivious to what's going on in the back. CUT TO: EXT. THE BRIDGE - NIGHT The other trucks are going over the bridge. As they go we see that the barrels in the backs of all the other trucks are secure, not moving at all. We also see that there's a large bump in the road when the trucks reach the bridge. The last truck is coming up to it. CUT TO: EXT. THE LAST TRUCK - NIGHT The barrels bounce around. The strap holding them in has loosened a lot and is starting to sag. CUT TO: INT. THE LAST TRUCK The young soldier driving is stubbing his cigarette out in the ashtray while the soldier with the rifle is lighting a cigarette of his own. CUT TO: EXT. THE LAST TRUCK - NIGHT The truck reaches the bridge, hitting the large bump. The barrels are bounced around hard, and one is thrown out, over the sagging strap. It hits the road on it's side and rolls off the edge of the bridge, falling down into the water. The truck just keeps going. The barrel is swept away in the rushing water. CUT TO: EXT. THE BRIDGE - DAY A 1980s model car is now driving over the bridge. SUPERIMPOSE: NOW CUT TO: INT. THE CAR Driving is 17 year old CLARE, a party girl type. In the passenger seat is LINNY, also 17, who looks like a nice girl next door type. LINNY Can't you take me to work first? CLARE This won't take long. LINNY I just don't want to be late. CLARE Dad's not gonna fire you, Linny. Not on your first day at least. Are you really that excited to start working the register at a hardware store? LINNY No, I'm not excited. But I don't think it'd be very good to show up late on my first day when he's only making me work half a shift in the first place... I just don't want to let Uncle Carl down. CLARE I've been letting him down for 17 years, you get used to it. CUT TO: EXT. THE CAR - DAY It drives over a railroad tracks crossing and through the gates of a cemetery. The sign above the entrance reads: ETERNAL PEACE CEMETERY CUT TO: INT. THE CAR Linny looks around at the cemetery as Clare drives down a dirt path that cuts through the middle. LINNY Why are we here? CLARE I told you, Rand wants to show me something. LINNY You didn't say it was in a cemetery... CLARE It's not, this is just a short cut. Haven't you ever been to a party on Dugan's Point? LINNY No. CLARE Figures. You really need to hang out with me more on the weekends. CUT TO: EXT. THE CAR - DAY It pulls up and parks beside two other cars that are parked at the back of the cemetery. Clare and Linny get out of the car and walk toward the fence of wrought iron poles with spiked tops that surround the cemetery. One of the poles is missing at the back of the cemetery, leaving a space big enough for people to go through. Clare and Linny go through this space, then head for the woods that is all around the cemetery. CUT TO: EXT. THE WOODS - DAY Linny and Clare walk through the woods for a while, eventually coming to a large clearing. They walk out into the clearing, and we see that they're on a small piece of land that juts out into Crystal Lake. Already in the clearing are Clare's boyfriend RAND, 18, a rebellious punk, an 18 year old Asian guy called SZECH, a 19 year old guy dressed in all denim and bandanas tied around various parts of his body, JESSE, his semi-punk girlfriend JUSTINE, 19, and an overweight guy in a leather jacket, Z, 20. CLARE Hey, guys. Everyone says "hello", "hey", or nods in acknowledgment. RAND Hey, baby. What's up? Clare and Rand embrace, kiss. CLARE Not much, just dropping by to see whatever you want to show me... Rand looks around. RAND It's a little crowded around here, we'll have to find somewhere a little more private if you want to see that. CLARE Get your head out of your pants. RAND That's what I'm talking about doing. CLARE Rand, really. I've got to get Linny to the store soon. RAND Fine, fine. Can't have any fun. Rand looks over at Linny. RAND How are you doing, Linny? LINNY Alright... Linny keeps her hands in her pockets and her head tilted down a bit, she seems nervous around these people. RAND OK, let's go check this thing out. CUT TO: EXT. THE WOODS - SOON The group walk along through the woods, Rand and Z leading the way. CLARE Are we almost there? Z Almost. CLARE What were you guys doing so far out in the woods? RAND Well, we were drunk... Z Like we will be later tonight... RAND And were having trouble walking, so we decided it'd be really cool if we raced through the woods. JESSE You and Z racing? That's no contest. Z Hey, I may have a gut, but this fucker's still more out of shape than I am. JESSE Sure. SZECH So who won? RAND I did. Z Nobody won, I passed out. It's not fair to call a winner. RAND Yeah, Z passed out but I didn't know and just kept running. Eventually I came across this place we're going to. CUT TO: EXT. ANOTHER CLEARING - SOON The group steps out of the woods and into the clearing, looking at something. JESSE Whoa. SZECH This place is awesome! We pull back to see that they're looking at a large cement drainage pipe that sticks out of the side of a hill, currently pouring a small amount of water into a small stream that winds off into the woods. (Exactly the same as the place the barrel is found in in ROTLD2.) JUSTINE Where are we? RAND Just off Cunningham Road. JESSE We need to start having parties here. RAND We can't just abandoned Dugan's Point, man. JESSE We don't have to abandon Dugan's Point. We can party at Dugan's one weekend, here the next. Rand starts climbing up the hill, headed for a cement ledge that's around the pipe. RAND The location isn't even the best part. Come on... CLARE Ew, Rand, I don't want to go in that thing. RAND Don't be a wimp, Clare. Rand reaches the ledge. Szech starts climbing up the hill, followed by the others. Clare and Linny stay behind, watching. Z Yeah, Clare, don't be a wimp! Clare sighs and starts to follow the others up the hill. Linny waits for a beat, then follows. CUT TO: INT. THE DRAINAGE PIPE Rand walks into the pipe, followed by the others one by one. The pipe is large enough that even the tallest of the group can stand in it. Rand goes a few yards into the pipe, to a bunch of junk that has been lodged up against a large tree trunk at the side of the pipe. Among the junk is a black barrel. The barrel that fell off the truck at the beginning. Now covered with mud, leaves and rust. RAND Here it is. JESSE (sarcastic) Wow. A barrel. Z Read what it says, numbnuts. Rand brushes some mud off the side, making something on the side easier to see- Stenciled on the side of the barrel, white lettering, is- PROPERTY DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY IN CASE OF EMERGENCY CALL 1 (800) 454-8000 SZECH Awesome! JESSE Did you guys open it? RAND I tried, but couldn't get it. Jesse kneels down beside the barrel. JUSTINE Don't open it! JESSE Why not? JUSTINE Who knows what's in there? It could be germs or something. JESSE I doubt they keep barrels o' germs, Jus. Jesse pulls on the plastic lid, but it doesn't move. Szech kneels down beside him. CLARE Justine's right, I really don't think you guys should open it. JUSTINE I think we should call that number and just leave it alone. Z No fucking way. This is too cool to just give away, especially to the fucking Army. Szech finds a panel of buttons on the side of the barrel. SZECH Buttons here... Szech pushes a button and the plastic lid quickly flips open. JESSE Nice. The top of the barrel under the plastic lid has a small glass window in it. At that can be seen inside the barrel is darkness. Everyone leans in to get a closer look. The rotten face of a corpse quickly comes into view. Everyone yells and jumps back, Jesse and Szech quickly standing up. JESSE Holy shit! CLARE What the hell is that? Z Looks like a dead body to me, folks. RAND Why would the Army put a body in a barrel? JUSTINE I don't wanna know. I told you not to mess around with it! CLARE That's it, I'm getting out of here. Come on, Linny. Clare turns and starts walking out of the pipe. Linny stays behind for a moment, looking at the barrel. Then she turns and follows Clare. RAND You're still coming to the party tonight, right? CUT TO: EXT. THE TOWN OF CRYSTAL LAKE - DAY We look over the main street of Crystal Lake, then turn to watch as Clare's car pulls up in front of a building. A sign on the building reads- WILSON'S HARDWARE CUT TO: INT. THE CAR Clare and Linny sit in the car, talking. CLARE Don't tell anyone about that barrel, OK? LINNY Don't you think we should call that number? CLARE No... Not yet anyway. Let Rand and the others figure out what they want to do. If they get too childish about it, then we'll bring in the Army. Clare laughs. LINNY Alright... Are you going to the party tonight? CLARE Yeah. You want to come? LINNY Not really. CLARE Come on, Linny, you need... Clare is interrupted by a loud knocking on her window. Clare and Linny look over to see that Clare's father, Linny's uncle, CARL, 50, is standing beside the car. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE Linny and Carl enter as we see Clare's car drive away in the background. CARL You're twenty minutes late. LINNY I'm sorry, uncle Carl. CARL Not a very good way to start off. LINNY I know, I'm sorry, it's just... CARL (interrupts) It's alright, it's not like we're a huge business here. Just get to work, and don't make tardiness a habit. Linny goes around the counter and takes her position by the cash register. CARL I'll be in the back for a while. If you need help with anything, just let me know. LINNY OK. Carl walks off to the back of the store and goes through a door to the back of the building. Linny is left alone in the store. She stands there for a while, looks around at the empty aisles of hardware, then sighs and leans on the counter. CUT TO: EXT. A DIRT ROAD - DAY The road cuts through the middle of the woods. Parked on the side of the road is one of the cars we saw in the cemetery earlier, leaning against it are Rand, Jesse and Z, passing around a joint. Justine is sitting in the car, listening to the radio. JESSE Have any theories? RAND About what? JESSE Why the Army would ship dead bodies around in barrels like that. Z It's a mystery to me. RAND Maybe the person was infected with some disease and he died, so they were shipping the body somewhere for further testing... That's all I can imagine. Z It's pretty fucking creepy no matter what. (beat) It'd be great for tonight's party, though. RAND How do you mean? Z I say we haul it out of that pipe, put the barrel right next to the kegs. That would be cool as hell. JESSE Speaking of the kegs... Jesse points down the dirt road and everyone looks in that direction. A pickup truck is driving down the road, kegs in the back. Driving is a raggedy dressed friend of their's, CORT, 21. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE Through the front window we see a junky old pickup truck pull up in front of the store. Linny looks at the truck through the window. The truck is shut off, and two people get out of it. Getting out of the passenger side is DAVE, a jittery, twitchy, nervous man of about 22. The driver is TOMMY JARVIS, 18. A regular looking kid, though there's something "haunted" about him. Tommy and Dave enter the store, causing the bells on the door to jingle. They step in and look around as the door closes behind them. LINNY Hi. DAVE Hey. Tommy gives her a nod. LINNY Can I help you guys with anything? Dave looks at Tommy, then back at Linny. DAVE N-no, I think we've got it. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - SOON We pan over a row of shovels hanging on the wall. When we're nearing the end of the row, a hand reaches in and grabs one of the shovels, pulling it down. We pull back to see that Tommy has taken down the shovel. He takes down a second one. In another aisle, Dave grabs a lantern. Cut to a CU of a crowbar as a hand reaches into the shot and grabs it. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - SOON Tommy and Dave walk up to the counter, carrying the things we've seen them get. LINNY Find everything you needed? TOMMY Yeah. Linny looks at the price tags on the items Tommy and Dave have brought to her, typing the prices into the cash register. Tommy watches her as she does this. She looks up at him and they make eye contact very quickly, before Tommy looks away, out the front window. The door bells jingle and Linny looks back at the door. LINNY’S P.O.V. - Clare comes walking into the store. She’s changed into her party clothes, a black dress with some goth/punky apparel. CLARE Hey. How’s it going? LINNY Alright. What are you doing here? CLARE Well, I’m about ready to head out to the party, and seeing as it’s almost closing time I thought I’d stop by and see if I could get you to go. LINNY Clare, I told you, I don’t want to go to the party. CLARE I know. But I want you to, and I will peer pressure the hell out of you until you do. Linny motions her head toward Tommy and Dave. LINNY I can’t really talk about this right now. DAVE I don’t mind. Linny has finished typing the prices into the register and has Tommy and Dave’s total. She tells them what it is, and Tommy reaches into his pocket, pulling out a wallet. CLARE Why don’t you want to go? LINNY I just don’t feel comfortable around your friends. CLARE You don’t feel comfortable around anybody. LINNY Well there you go. Tommy hands Linny some money. She opens the register and goes about getting him his change. CLARE Come to the party, Linny. LINNY No. CLARE Come to the party. LINNY No. CLARE I’m going to say it over and over until you get so sick of me you say “yes” just to shut me up. Come to the party. Linny ignores her. CLARE Come to the party. Linny has Tommy’s change. He holds his hand out as she puts the change in his palm, counting it out. Their hands touch briefly as she does this, and they again make quick eye contact before they both look back down at his hand. She finishes counting. LINNY There you go. TOMMY Thanks. CLARE Come to the party, come to the party, come to the party, come to the party, come to the party, come to the party... Tommy and Dave take their things and head for the door. LINNY Have a nice day. CLARE Come to the party, come to the party, come to the party... Tommy reaches the door, opens it with a jingle of the bells, and walks out- side. Dave follows, stopping the doorway to look back at Linny and Clare. CLARE Come to the party... DAVE God, please, just go to the party with her. Dave steps outside and the door swings shut behind him. Clare laughs. CUT TO: EXT. DUGAN’S POINT - EVENING Cort’s pickup is parked very near the edge of the point, the kegs set up in front of it. A couple other cars have pulled onto the point, and a small group of people are milling around in the center of everything. CUT TO: INT. WILSON’S HARDWARE Linny and Clare are behind the counter, Clare leaning against the wall as she unwraps a pack of gum. LINNY So if I don’t like it, you’ll drop whatever you’re doing and take me home. CLARE That’s the deal. LINNY You promise? CLARE Cross my heart, hope to die... The door to the back of the building opens and Carl comes out. CLARE Hey, daddy. CARL Clare. What are you up to? CLARE Not much. Waiting for Linny so we can go party. CARL Where is this party going to be? CLARE Just a friend’s house. It’s a friend of Justine’s, so I’m not really sure. CARL What will you be doing there? CLARE Hanging out. CARL Those are just hanging out clothes? CLARE Sure. CARL Right. Carl goes to the front door. CARL So, how’d things go for you today, Linny? LINNY Fine. CARL You going to be coming in tomorrow? LINNY Yeah, if I still have the job. CARL Of course you’ve still got the job. I didn’t hear of any customers losing any limbs today, so I’d say you did pretty good. Carl flips the sign in the door from OPEN to CLOSED. CUT TO: EXT. DUGAN’S POINT - DUSK More cars have pulled onto the point, parking in a semi-circle, their headlights left on to shine on the larger group of people milling around. CUT TO: EXT. A BACK ROAD - DUSK A wolf is munching on road kill in the center of the road. Tommy’s pickup rounds a nearby corner and the wolf runs off into the woods. CUT TO: INT. TOMMY’S TRUCK Tommy drives while Dave rides shotgun, nervously chewing a straw and holding a hockey mask. DAVE I don't know how you talked me into this, Tommy. (laughs) Hell, I must be crazy... (beat) If the institution found out about this, we'll end up back in straitjackets. Permanently. TOMMY You didn't have to come, Dave. This is between me and Jason. DAVE I know... I just don't get the therapy here. All you need to know is Jason's dead, right? Seeing his corpse ain't gonna stop the hallucinations. TOMMY Seeing it won't... but destroying it will. Jason belongs in Hell. I'm gonna see he gets there. Dave gets a worried look. He looks through the back window, at a gas can in the truck bed. CUT TO: EXT. DUGAN'S POINT - NIGHT Lots of cars are parked around the point now, and there are a lot of people partying, drinking beer and dancing to the music blaring from some of the cars. Among the partiers are Jesse and Justine, dancing. Z comes walking up to them, beer in hand. Z Hey, Jesse. Let's go get that... Z sees that Justine is looking at him, doesn't want her to know what he's talking about. Z ...that thing we wanted to put by the kegs, before any more people show up. JESSE I didn't want it by the kegs, you did. Z So, just help me get it. JUSTINE What are you talking about? Z Uh... nothing. Jesse turns his back on Z, going back to dancing. Z Alright, fine. I'll get it my damn self. Z turns to walk away, then he turns back to Jesse, grabs him by the arm and starts dragging him away. JESSE Damn it, Z. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT Tommy's truck drives over the railroad tracks and through the gate. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT Tommy and Dave walk through the cemetery, carrying the stuff they bought at the hardware store, along with the gas can and hockey mask. As they walk along, the wind starts to pick up. Thunder rumbles. Tommy and Dave walk up to a tombstone on one side of the cemetery. Thunder rumbles again, lightning flashes as Tommy looks at the tombstone. TOMMY'S P.O.V. - Lightning illuminates the name on the stone - JASON VOORHEES. Tommy stares at the stone while Dave stands beside him. DAVE OK, there it is... (beat) There's his grave... (long beat) OK, let's go. Dave turns to leave, but Tommy grabs his shoulder. TOMMY Wait a second. DAVE What? TOMMY I've gotta be sure. Tommy takes a shovel and starts digging up Jason's grave. Dave watches him, looks around to make sure they're alone. DAVE'S P.O.V. - In a flash of lightning we see four cars are parked at the back of the cemetery. DAVE Oh, shit, Tommy. Somebody's here. Tommy stops and looks in the direction Dave is. TOMMY We'd better get this done then, huh? Tommy goes back to digging. DAVE Shit... Dave sets his lantern down, tosses the hockey mask aside and starts digging. CUT TO: EXT. THE DRAIN PIPE - NIGHT Z and Jesse walk up to the drain pipe as thunder rumbles again. Jesse looks up at the sky. CORT Shit. Sounds like the party's gonna be getting wet tonight. Z Yeah. Z starts to climb up the hill to the pipe. CUT TO: EXT. CLARE'S CAR - NIGHT The car is driving down a country road. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S CAR Clare is driving. Linny, having changed her clothes, is looking out at the windy, lightning filled night. LINNY It's gonna storm... CLARE That's alright. If you stand in the right places, you can stay pretty dry. If it gets too bad, you can still party in a car. Linny sighs. LINNY I don't know how you talked me into this. CUT TO: INT. THE DRAIN PIPE Z and Jesse are just finishing setting the barrel up. Z This gonna be cool as fuck. JESSE Yeah, great. We should cover up the number and stuff with something, though, so nobody calls and gets our asses in a sling. Z scoops up some mud from the edge of the pipe, rubs it over the stenciling on the barrel. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT Tommy and Dave continue digging up Jason's grave. They're at least five feet down already. CUT TO: INT. THE DRAIN PIPE Z and Jesse are carrying the barrel toward the end of the pipe. Z reaches the end and starts backing out onto the ledge. Z Be really fucking careful now, man. CUT TO: EXT. THE DRAIN PIPE - NIGHT Z backs along the ledge as Jesse steps out onto the ledge with him. They carry it along the ledge, then Z steps back onto the hillside. There's a huge crack of thunder at the same moment that Z slips, falling down. Jesse loses his grip on the barrel and it falls, too. Z and the barrel go rolling down the hill. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT Dave has climbed out of the grave, Tommy is scraping dirt off the lid of Jason's wooden coffin. DAVE OK, there's your proof. There's his coffin. Let's go! Tommy hands the shovel up to Dave. TOMMY Hand me the crowbar. CUT TO: EXT. THE DRAIN PIPE - NIGHT Z and the barrel are laying on the ground at the bottom of the hill as Jesse comes hurrying down to them. JESSE Are you alright? Z sits up. Z Yeah... He climbs to his feet. Z Is the barrel alright? JESSE Looks fine. They bend down and grab the barrel to start carrying it again. Z's hand hits a button on the side of the barrel. There's a beeping noise. Z Whoops. A huge blast of yellow gas suddenly bursts out of the barrel, hitting Z and Jesse in the face. Z and Jesse drop the barrel, coughing and gagging as they fall to the ground. Yellow gas continues to pump out of the barrel, covering the ground around it. Spreading outward. CUT TO: EXT. THE WOODS - NIGHT The yellow gas moves along the ground. CUT TO: EXT. DUGAN'S POINT - NIGHT The party continues as the gas spreads out across the point, swirling around the feet of the partiers. EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT Tommy is prying Jason's coffin open with the crowbar. Once the lid has popped up a bit, Tommy looks up at Dave. He then bends down to the coffin and slowly opens it. The coffin lid creaks loudly as it opens, eventually revealing the corpse of JASON VOORHEES laying inside. Rotten, covered in dust, cobwebs and maggots. Dave looks disgusted, tries not to puke. Tommy stares down at Jason. Breathing heavily. We hear his thoughts, voices from the past. Young Tommy's voice yelling "Die!" as he hit Jason over and over with the machete, his sister's screams... Tommy snaps. He drops to his knees, raising the crowbar high above his head, bringing the straight end down into Jason's chest. TOMMY Bastard! Tommy stabs Jason with the crowbar over and over. After stabbing Jason over a dozen times, Tommy finally regains control. He leaves the crowbar stuck in Jason's chest and climbs out of the grave. At the back of the cemetery, the yellow gas is seeping in under the wrought iron fence and is spreading out past the parked cars. Back at Jason's grave, Tommy grabs the hockey mask as he gets to his feet. DAVE Man... he must've really messed you over... Tommy looks at the mask for a moment, then tosses it into the grave. TOMMY Yeah, screw you Jason. Tommy walks over to the gas can, sitting on the ground nearby. As Tommy does this, Dave looks at the yellow gas that has reached his feet. He looks around and sees that it's all over the cemetery. DAVE What the hell... Dave turns his attention back to Tommy, who has picked up the gas can and is carrying it back to the grave. The yellow gas seeps down into the grave, swirling around Jason's body. Jason's eyes pop open. Dave and Tommy aren't looking at him. DAVE Are you sure this will help? I mean, putting him in the ground obviously didn't... TOMMY If I know he doesn't exist at all... that he's just a pile of ash... I think I'll be able to move on. They stand in silence for a moment, then- DAVE Let's get it done then. They turn their attention back to the grave, and at that same second Jason comes bursting up out of the grave, grabbing at Tommy's legs. Tommy screams, hurrying back away from the grave. Dave screams and runs away. Tommy backs away from the grave, frantically trying to get the lid off the gas can as Jason climbs out of the grave, holding the crowbar. Tommy gets the lid off and splashes the gas into Jason's face. Jason gets to his feet and hurries toward Tommy. This isn't a slow walking zombie Jason, this is a zombie Jason that can run just as well as he did in 2-4. Tommy throws the whole gas can at Jason, the can hitting Jason in the chest upside down, spilling more gas down his front. Tommy turns and runs away, Jason runs after him. As Tommy runs he reaches into a coat pocket, fumbling, trying to get something out of it. He finally does - a Zippo lighter. Tommy loses Jason among a cluster of small tombs, ducking behind one. Jason walks among the tombs, looking around. He walks toward the tomb Tommy's hiding behind. Dave comes running up behind Jason, shovel in hand, screaming. DAVE You're supposed to be dead! He slams the shovel into the back of Jason's head and it breaks in half. Jason spins around, swinging the hooked end of the crowbar into Dave's neck. He hooks it around Dave's jugular, then brutally rips it out. Blood bursts out of Dave's neck and mouth as he falls to the ground. TOMMY (O.S.) Dave!! Jason turns around to see Tommy standing a few feet in front of him, holding the Zippo. The Zippo is lit. The storm finally breaks and rain starts to pour down hard at the same moment that Tommy tosses the Zippo against Jason's chest. The rain washes down over Jason, so the Zippo's flame doesn't ignite the gasoline. The rain causes the yellow gas to start seeping into the ground. TOMMY Oh, shit. Jason drops the crowbar, grabs Tommy by the shoulders and tosses him to the side. Tommy slams into one of the tomb's doors and doors break. Tommy falls into the tomb, landing on the floor between two coffins. He doesn't move. Jason turns and walks away. CUT TO: EXT. DUGAN'S POINT - NIGHT The partiers react to the rainfall, some running off to get under the cover of trees or into cars, others just continue to party in the rain. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT Jason has returned to his grave. He picks the hockey mask up off the ground and puts it on. He looks around as lightning flashes. He spots the cars parked at the back of the cemetery and starts walking that way. CUT TO: EXT. CLARE'S CAR - NIGHT Clare's car is pulling up to the railroad tracks in front of the cemetery gate. In the distance we see a train coming down the tracks, but Clare has plenty of time. She drives over the tracks and through the gates. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S CAR Clare and Linny ride in the car, Linny looking out her window. LINNY'S P.O.V. - She sees Tommy's truck parked on a path that branches off from the one Clare's driving down. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT Jason is behind the back fence, ripping one of the fence poles out. Once he has the spiked pole, he walks off into the woods. As soon as he disappears from view, through the fence we see Clare's car pulling up to join the other cars parked at the back of the cemetery. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S CAR Clare shuts the car off, but she and Linny stay in the car, looking out at the pouring rain. CLARE You want to wait for it to die down, or do you want to head out? LINNY Let's wait for a minute. CUT TO: EXT. DUGAN'S POINT - NIGHT The party continues despite the rainfall, but most people are now in their cars. There are only about a dozen people still out in the rain. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT We watch the rain pouring on the ground. CUT TO: INT. THE GROUND We watch the rain/yellow gas mixture seep down through the dirt. It goes six feet down and reaches a coffin. CUT TO: EXT. THE WOODS - NIGHT Jason walks through the woods, carrying his fence pole weapon. CUT TO: EXT. DUGAN'S POINT - NIGHT We look over the parked cars. In one of the cars are Rand, Justine, Szech and Cort. CUT TO: INT. THE CAR Rand and Cort are drinking, Szech is for some reason watching his hand as he waves it back and forth in front of his face, and Justine is staring through the windshield, toward the woods. JUSTINE Where do you think Jesse and Z went? They've been gone a while. RAND Oh, the sad bastards probably went to get the barrel. CORT What barrel? JUSTINE Get it for what? RAND Z had this idea, he wanted to set it up beside the kegs. Thought it be cool. JUSTINE God, you guys can be real dumbasses some times. SZECH Thank you! CORT What barrel? JUSTINE'S P.O.V. - Jesse and Z come stumbling out of the woods and onto Dugan's Point, coughing. JUSTINE There they are. Szech lowers his hand to look at them as they start walking toward the cars. SZECH They don't look too good. CUT TO: EXT. DUGAN'S POINT - NIGHT The rain starts to slow down as Z and Jesse slowly make their way across Dugan's Point. They stop as Justine, Rand, Szech and Cort come hurrying up to them. CUT TO: EXT. THE WOODS - NIGHT From behind a clustering of trees, we watch as Justine checks on Jesse and the others stand around them. CUT TO: EXT. DUGAN'S POINT - NIGHT We join the group of Jesse, Justine, Z, Rand, Szech and Cort. JUSTINE Are you alright? JESSE I don't know... I don't feel very good... RAND What the hell happened? Z That fucking barrel... We were carrying it out of the pipe, then this fucking gas started pumping out of it. JESSE Hit us in the face. JUSTINE Oh my God. JESSE What? JUSTINE Well, who knows what it could have been? We need to get you guys to a hospital. Z Eat a bowl of fuck! I'm not going to the hospital. RAND You could be poisoned or something, man. Z Bullshit. Just give me a fucking beer, I'll be fine. Speaking of beer, a rain-soaked partier is making his way over to a keg, plastic cup in hand. The keg is set up right at the edge of the woods. He reaches the keg, goes to get more beer, when he's suddenly hit by a huge blast of beer. He looks disturbed, and looks down to see what's going on. We pull back to see that the spiked fence pole has been stuck through the keg and is sticking into the partier's stomach. The pole is quickly pulled out of the partier and the keg and he falls to the ground, dead. Jason walks out of the woods, fence pole in hand, headed straight for the few dancing and talking anonymous partiers that are still outside. The partiers don't notice Jason as he approaches. The first people he'll reach are a guy and girl dancing. He walks up behind the guy, jams the fence pole into his back. The girl screams as the pole comes ripping through her dance partner's chest, the spiked tip stopping less than a foot in front of her face. Jason jams the pole further into the guy, and the spiked tip slams right into the girl's face. Jesse, Justine, Z, Rand, Szech and Cort turn to see what's happening when there's another scream, followed by even more. RAND'S P.O.V. - Jason has impaled another female partier on the fence pole, and is lifting her up in the air on the pole. When she's over Jason's head she goes flying off the pole and over the edge of Dugan's Point, into Crystal Lake. RAND Holy shit! A male partier runs up and punches Jason in the chest. Jason hits him in the side of the head with the pole with a loud CRACK. Another partier is running toward Jason, Jason swings the fence pole's spiked tip across his throat. The partier falls to the ground, clutching his throat and gurgling blood. The rest of the partiers are running for their cars. Jason throws the fence pole and it flies through the air, slamming into the back of one of the runners. He falls to the ground in front of a parked car, as another one of the running partiers reaches the car and opens the driver's door, getting in. In the background we see a lot of cars quickly driving away. CUT TO: EXT. THE WOODS - NIGHT Rand is running through the woods, followed closely by Cort and Szech. Justine is lagging behind, hurrying along with Jesse, and Z brings up the rear. CUT TO: EXT. DUGAN'S POINT - NIGHT Jason has reached the car the one partier fell in front of and the other partier got into. He has stuck the fence pole through the car windshield and into the partier in the driver's seat. We hear yelling offscreen and Jason turns around. JASON'S P.O.V. - Another partier is running off into the woods, past the beer kegs. Jason runs after the partier. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT The rain has stopped completely. We pan over the wet cemetery ground as we hear strange moaning, pained sounds. CUT TO: EXT. CLARE'S CAR - NIGHT The doors open and Clare and Linny get out. They head for the back fence, when they hear the pained sounds. They stop and look back over the cemetery. LINNY What is that? CLARE I don't know... CUT TO: EXT. THE DRAIN PIPE - NIGHT The partier that ran into the woods comes running up in front of the drain pipe. The barrel is laying on the ground where it was when we last saw it, but the lid has been removed and we can see that it's now empty. The partier looks around, making sure Jason isn't around. The partier then hurries over to the hill and starts climbing up for the pipe. CUT TO: INT. THE DRAIN PIPE The partier enters the dark pipe, and only takes a couple steps before something comes bursting out of the darkness. This something is a tall zombie in dark, ripped clothing. It's skin has been reduced to a black slime. It's very similar to the TAR MAN from RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. TAR MAN Brains! The Tar Man grabs the partier, bites into the partier's head. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT Clare and Linny stop listening to the moans and head for the back fence. Clare notices that a second pole is missing. The one Jason took. CLARE Another pole's gone. Clare steps toward the hole in the fence, when Rand suddenly comes bursting through the hole. Clare jumps back, yelling. Cort and Szech come through the hole immediately after. CLARE Rand, what are you doing? RAND We've gotta get out of here. CLARE Why? SZECH We've got some trouble! CLARE What are you guys talking about? CORT This guy was killing people back at the Point! CLARE (doesn't believe it) What? Rand has gone to the driver's door of a junky looking car. He's unlocking the door when he stops, listening to the pained moans. He doesn't listen for long, though. The noises just make him move faster. Offscreen, we hear a loud train whistle. CORT Oh, shit. There's a train coming! Rand gets his door open, gets into it. RAND Get in your car and get out of here, Clare. Six more partiers, who must have passed Justine and the sick ones in the woods, start pouring through the hole in the fence. They go to the other parked cars, quickly start getting into them. Another partier comes through the fence, and he doesn't even bother with a car. He just starts running across the cemetery. Clare turns to Linny. CLARE I don't know what the hell's going on, but we're getting out of here. LINNY Good. Clare and Linny go to Clare's car. As they do, Justine, Jesse and Z start coming through the hole in the fence. CUT TO: EXT. THE DRAIN PIPE - NIGHT Jason steps up in front of the drain pipe and looks around. He spots the pipe, walks toward the hill. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT The partier that decided to run through the cemetery is still doing just that... For a while. He then trips and falls into a large mud puddle. PARTIER Damn... The partier starts to stand, when a HAND suddenly comes reaching up out of the puddle, grabbing him by the wrist. The partier screams. Another hand comes reaching up out of the puddle, grabbing the partier by the hair and pulling him face first down into the water. We watch the partier struggle as he's pulled down into the ground, as all around him ZOMBIES begin to climb out of their graves. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT We pan over the wet ground as zombies start climbing out of every grave in the cemetery. We eventually reach one of the driveways that cut through the cemetery, just as a car drives by. We turn to watch the car speed through the cemetery, toward the gates. Just before the car reaches the gates, a train starts going past on the railroad tracks. The driver of the car has to slam on it's brakes to keep from crashing into the side of the train. CUT TO: INT. THE DRAIN PIPE Jason enters, stops a couple steps in. JASON'S P.O.V. - Tar Man is kneeling down, feasting on the partier's brain. Tar Man senses that someone else has entered the pipe, looks back at the entrance and spots Jason standing there... Jason is just another zombie to Tar Man, so he ignores him. Goes back to eating the partier's brain. Jason walks forward, grabs Tar Man by his exposed ribs and pulls him to his feet. Tar Man will have none of this, he reaches back and grabs Jason by the shoulder and face, trying to shove him back off of him. Jason stumbles back, keeping his hold on Tar Man's rib with one hand, while swinging his other hand up toward Tar Man's head. Jason's fist hits Tar Man in the side of the head, and his head goes flying off. Tar Man falls sideways, through the pipe opening. Since Jason is still holding onto his rib, he falls too. CUT TO: EXT. THE DRAIN PIPE - NIGHT Jason and Tar Man's body fall from the pipe and into the stream. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT The train is still going past, the car was saw have to slam on it’s brakes still in the same spot. The passenger door of the car opens, and one of the partiers runs out, toward the train. The partier stops a couple feet from the train, hesitates for a second, then rushes forward. As the front wheels of a box car passes him, he ducks down and starts crawling under the train as fast he can. He gets under the train before the back wheels of the box car can catch him, then he waits under the train as the front wheels of the next car go past. He then scrambles forward, and- He’s not fast enough. The back wheels of this car catch him, cutting him in half at the waist. The three partiers still in the car react to the sight of their friend being run over by the train. A car with two partiers in it pulls up behind the first car, followed by Rand's car and Clare's car. A large group of zombies crowd around the first car, yelling for “Brains!” Some zombies go to the closed doors and open them, others start piling into the car through the open passenger door. The zombies drag the screaming partiers out of the car and begin tearing them apart. Seeing this, the other three cars pull away as zombies run toward them. Zombies are all over the cemetery now, as the three cars begin driving around the driveways. CUT TO: INT. CLARE’S CAR - NIGHT Clare is driving, Linny is riding shotgun, Justine, Jesse and Z are in the backseat. JUSTINE What the hell is going on? Who are all these people? LINNY The dead... CUT TO: EXT. A TOMB - NIGHT This is the tomb Tommy was thrown into. He’s still laying on the floor of the tomb as the lids of the coffins on each side of him begin to open. Tommy regains consciousness, looks around to see where he is, then sits up. As Tommy sits up, so do the rotten corpses in the coffins. Tommy grabs the side of one of the coffins, using it to pull himself to his feet, not yet noticing the zombies. As he pulls himself up, he comes face to face with the zombie in the coffin he’s holding on to. TOMMY’S P.O.V - CU of the zombie’s face. The zombie’s eyes widen as it realizes Tommy is a living person. ZOMBIE Brains! Tommy screams, jumping back from the coffin and bumping into the other coffin. As he does, the zombie in that one reaches out for him. OTHER ZOMBIE Brains, brains, brains! TOMMY Shit! Tommy turns and runs out of the tomb. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT Tommy comes out of the tomb, and he’s among a huge group of zombies. TOMMY Holy shit! As a bunch of zombies yell for “Brains!” and rush toward Tommy, he spots the two pieces of Dave’s shovel laying on the ground. Dave’s body is gone. Tommy grabs the shovel just as the zombies begin to reach him. The zombies reach out for him, try to bite him, and Tommy begins using the shovel pieces to fight for his life. He stabs zombies with the sharp wooden handle half, hits zombies with the shovels, stabs them with the shovel. Tommy desperately cuts his way through the sea of zombies, heading toward the front of the cemetery and his truck. The three cars continue driving around the cemetery, trying to keep moving while the train continues going past. Zombies step in front of the front car, they get run over. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S CAR Jesse and Z are really pale now, looking terrible. Jesse lays his head back on the back of the seat, groaning. JUSTINE What's wrong? JESSE I hurt all over... My head feels like it's about to burst open... Linny is staring out her window as the cemetery full of zombies. LINNY'S P.O.V. - We see Tommy fighting his way through the zombies. LINNY Stop! CLARE What? LINNY Stop, Clare! JUSTINE We can't stop! These people... LINNY Stop and start honking your horn! There's someone out there! Clare hits the brakes. CLARE Everyone make sure your doors are locked! CUT TO: EXT. CLARE'S CAR - NIGHT Clare's car stops, and zombies are immediately all over it. The horn begins honking. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S CAR Through the window we watch as zombies block out our view of anything else and start pounding on the windows. Some zombies try to open the doors, but they're locked. CLARE If that person isn't in this car in 30 seconds, I'm not waiting any longer. CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT Tommy hears the horn as he continues to fight his way through the zombies. He spots Clare's parked car and heads that way. CUT TO: EXT. THE TWO PARTIERS' CAR - NIGHT The train finally clears the gateway, and the partiers' car drives out. CUT TO: INT. RAND'S CAR Through the windshield we see the partiers' car driving away from the cemetery. Rand starts to drive after them. In the passenger seat, Szech is looking through the back window. SZECH Rand, Clare is stopped back there. RAND What? Rand looks in his mirror. RAND'S P.O.V. - In the mirror we see Clare's parked, zombie-covered car. RAND Damn. Rand turns his car around. CUT TO: Tommy is about three yards from Clare's car now, continuing to knock down any zombie that comes at him with the shovel halves. A zombie comes running up to him, screaming, mouth wide open. The zombie grabs him and goes to bite him in the head- Tommy shoves the shovel handle into it's mouth, the sharp tip ripping out the back of it's neck. Tommy punches the zombie out of the way and runs toward Clare's car. The zombies that are on the car turn to Tommy as he gets close to them. There are two by the front passenger door. One of these zombies lunges toward Tommy, he grabs it by the arm and turns, throwing it to the side. The other zombie at that door stands it's ground. Tommy knocks it out of his way with the shovel to the side of it's head. He goes to the door, grabs the handle. TOMMY Let me in! CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S CAR Linny unlocks her door and slides over on the seat. Tommy opens the door and hurries in. TOMMY Thank you. Tommy starts to pull the door shut, and a zombie reaches in at him. The door shuts on the zombie's wrist, severing it's hand. Tommy locks the door, and Clare hits the gas as Rand's car pulls up beside her. CUT TO: INT. RAND'S CAR Rand starts turning his car around again as Clare drives away. RAND Jesus... CUT TO: EXT. THE CEMETERY - NIGHT Clare and Rand's cars speed through the cemetery gates, the zombies running after them. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S CAR TOMMY Does anybody have any idea what the hell is going on? JUSTINE There was this barrel, Army property, we found it in a pipe and these guys just couldn't leave it alone. It started leaking, and these two got hit in the face with the gas. Clare and Linny react to this. Doesn't sound good for Jesse and Z. JUSTINE I don't know how... the cemetery... I don't know. CLARE No kind of gas I ever heard of could bring the dead back to life. Z Well the Army is obviously into some heavy fucking shit. LINNY What were you doing in the cemetery? TOMMY I dug up Jason Voorhees' grave. CLARE What? JUSTINE What are you, some kind of grave robbing freak? TOMMY No... I'm Tommy Jarvis. LINNY The kid who killed Jason? JUSTINE I thought Tommy Jarvis was in a mental hospital. TOMMY Yeah. I was... Got released last week. (beat) I just wanted to destroy his body. I've been having hallucinations ever since... since I killed him. I thought destroying his body would make the hallucinations stop... (beat) But he came back to life and killed my friend. LINNY We need to get to a phone and call the number on the barrel before those... things... can hurt anybody. JUSTINE We can call from the hospital. LINNY We need to call as soon as possible, from the first house we come across! JUSTINE We can call from the hospital, Linny! Jesse and Z need help! Jesse starts having a coughing fit. CUT TO: EXT. A COUNTRY ROAD - NIGHT A stream runs under a bridge at an intersection of roads. In the distance we see the headlights of a vehicle driving toward us, it will soon be driving over the bridge. At first all we can see are the headlights, as the vehicle gets closer we see that it's a yellow Oldsmobile. CUT TO: INT. THE OLDSMOBILE Driving is MR. MANDEL, a nice looking man in his 50s. MRS. MANDEL, his pleasant 50-something wife, is riding shotgun and nodding off. We look through the windshield as Mr. Mandel drives down the road. We see that we're approaching the bridge. CUT TO: EXT. THE ROAD - NIGHT Jason crawls out of the stream beside the intersection bridge, and starts crawling up the bank up to the road right before the bridge. CUT TO: INT. THE OLDSMOBILE Mr. Mandel continues to drive along. Through the windshield we can see Jason doing his crawling, but Mr. Mandel doesn't notice him. CUT TO: EXT. THE ROAD - NIGHT Jason reaches the road and stands up - right in the path of the car. CUT TO: INT. THE OLDSMOBILE Now that Jason is standing right in front of the RV, Mr. Mandel notices him. MR. MANDEL Whoa! Mr. Mandel slams on the brakes. The suddeness of this causes Mrs. Mandel to pitch forward and wake up with a yell. CUT TO: EXT. THE ROAD - NIGHT Despite Mr. Mandel hitting the brakes, there's no way the car can stop before reaching Jason. It skids down the road as it slows down. The car slams into Jason, throwing him backwards down the road. Jason lands in the middle of the road about ten yards down the road. He doesn't move. The car comes to a stop right before the bridge. CUT TO: INT. THE OLDSMOBILE Mr. Mandel looks out at Jason's body, freaking out. MR. MANDEL Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God... Mr. Mandel opens his door, starts to get out of the car. Mrs. Mandel is confused. MRS. MANDEL What happened? MR. MANDEL We just hit someone! MRS. MANDEL Oh my God... CUT TO: EXT. THE OLDSMOBILE - NIGHT The driver's door opens and Mr. Mandel gets out. Jason is still laying on the middle of the road, not moving. Mr. Mandel hurries over to him, stops beside him. MR. MANDEL Hey, buddy... Are you alright? Jason doesn't move, and of course he doesn't answer. MR. MANDEL Buddy? Mr. Mandel kneels down beside him. CUT TO: INT. THE OLDSMOBILE Mrs. Mandel looks through the windshield. She looks very worried. MRS. MANDEL'S P.O.V. - Through the windshield we see Mr. Mandel kneeling beside Jason. As we watch Jason suddenly sits up, grabbing Mr. Mandel by the shoulder with his left hand. He then punches Mr. Mandel in the chest with his right hand. CUT TO: EXT. THE OLDSMOBILE - NIGHT Jason's hand rips out through Mr. Mandel's back, clutching his heart. Blood bursts from Mr. Mandel's mouth as he dies. Jason shoves his body aside and stands up, still holding the heart. JASON'S P.O.V. - Through the Oldsmobile windshield, we see Mrs. Mandel as she starts screaming. Jason runs toward the car. CUT TO: INT. THE OLDSMOBILE - NIGHT Mrs. Mandel slides over the seat, getting behind the steering wheel. Before she can do anything, Jason reaches the driver's door, grabs it and pulls it open. Mrs. Mandel screams and tries to get away from the driver's door as Jason lunges into the car, reaching for her. CUT TO: EXT. RAND AND CLARE'S CARS - NIGHT The cars drive down a country road. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S CAR The scene is pretty much the same. Clare driving, Linny and Tommy in the front seat, Justine sitting between Z and Jesse in the back seat as they moan and groan in pain. While we're looking at Z, Justine and Jesse, we see the severed zombie hand crawling on the ledge under the back window. Z notices the movement out of the corner of his eye and looks back at the hand. Z What the fuck? The hand skitters forward and grabs Z by the throat. Z starts yelling, grabbing the hand, pulling it off his throat and tossing it aside, into Justine's lap. Justine screams, grabbing the hand and tossing it aside, into Jesse's lap. Jesse yells, grabbing the hand and tossing it. This goes on for a while, the three back seat riders yelling and tossing the hand around. CLARE What are you guys doing? Z A hand! Tommy and Linny look back at them, not sure what's going on. The hand has been passed to Jesse, and he drops it on the floor. The hand disappears from view. The back seat riders look down at the floor, calming down. Then the hand comes crawling up onto Z's shoulder and grabs him by the side of the face. The screaming and tossing starts over again. Justine throws the hand into the front seat and Linny screams, moving to avoid it. The hand lands in Tommy's crotch and grabs him by the balls. Tommy yells in pain. Linny grabs the hand, pulling it out of Tommy's crotch. LINNY Roll down your window! Clare rolls down her window, and Linny tosses the hand out of the car. CUT TO: EXT. THE CAR - NIGHT The hand lands in the road on it's back, in front of the driveway to a house. As the car speeds away, the hand gives it the finger. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S CAR The car's passengers settle down. Z Jesus Christ... Are there any more severed fucking limbs in here? Clare looks around the front seat, then looks back up at the road. CLARE Oh, shit! Clare slams on the brakes. CUT TO: EXT. THE CARS - NIGHT We see why Clare slammed on the brakes - Rand's car has went into the other lane to pass the Mandel's car, and Clare's car is about to crash into the parked Oldsmobile. Clare's car tries to stop, screeching along the road, but Clare noticed too late- her car slams into the back of the Oldsmobile. CUT TO: INT. RAND'S CAR Rand sees the crash in his rear view mirror. RAND Oh, shit... Rand hits his brakes, and his car stops in the other lane, a few feet past in front of the Oldsmobile. CUT TO: EXT. THE CARS - NIGHT We look at the cars for a while. The night is silent. After a few seconds, the driver's door of Rand's car opens and Rand gets out. Szech and Cort follow Rand out. Clare, Linny and Tommy get out of Clare's car. RAND What the hell, Clare? CLARE I didn't see it. We... had a problem in the car... CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S CAR The passengers calm down after the crash. Z Great. What next, is a fucking plane gonna crash land on top of us now? CUT TO: EXT. THE CARS - NIGHT As Rand and Clare talk, Tommy and Linny are looking at the Oldsmobile. With the driver's door gone they can see blood streaked all over the inside of the vehicle. TOMMY Something's wrong here... The back driver's side door of Clare's car opens and Justine gets out. JUSTINE Come on, guys. We've got to get out of here! RAND If you haven't noticed, Justine, we've got a little problem here. Rand looks over Clare's car. The front of it is crumpled in, and smoke is pouring out from under the hood. RAND And I think Clare's car is pretty much dead. JUSTINE Then we'll take your car. SZECH How are we all gonna fit in Rand's car? JUSTINE It will be uncomfortable, but it can be done. JESSE (O.S.) Justine! Justine goes back to Clare's car, gets back into the back seat. Linny and Tommy are still looking in at the bloody inside of the Oldsmobile. LINNY That's disgusting. TOMMY Yeah... Szech looks down the road ahead of them and spots Mr. Mandel's body laying in the road. SZECH I think I found the driver. Tommy looks down the road. TOMMY Yeah... Looks like some of the dead people got ahead of us somehow... RAND Great. (beat) Here's what I think we should do... Before Rand can continue, the driver's side back door of Clare's car opens again, and this time it's Jesse coming out. He runs to the side of the road and starts vomiting. Justine gets out of the car, looking worried. JUSTINE God... Jesse, baby... Justine hurries to Jesse's side as he finishes vomiting. She rubs his back and then turns to the others. JUSTINE What are you doing just standing around?! RAND I was just about to say, I think we should go back to that house we just passed. We can call the Army from there, and an ambulance for Jesse and Z. JUSTINE We don't have time for all that! RAND Well, that's what I'm doing. You can do whatever you want. But it looks like some of those dead things have already gotten this far, and that house looks like the best bet at the moment. JUSTINE You bastards. Your friends are sick, and you won't even try to get them to a hospital?! RAND I said we'd call an ambulance. But if you want to try to drive that Oldsmobile out of here, go ahead. I don't think the owners will mind. Justine looks at the gore-streaked Oldsmobile. By the look on her face, we can tell there's no way she'll be getting near that car. CUT TO: EXT. THE ROAD - NIGHT The severed zombie hand scurries across the end of the driveway it landed by. Suddenly a car tire drives across the frame, crushing the hand. We pull back to see Rand's car start driving down the tree-lined driveway, Rand driving, Justine, Jesse and Z in the back, Clare and Cort in the front. Tommy, Linny and Szech walk along behind the car. CUT TO: INT. RAND'S CAR As the car passes the house's mailbox, Cort spots the name on it. CORT Looks like we might finally have run across some good luck tonight. CLARE Why? CORT I think this is Doc Trimmer's house. My family's doctor, until he retired a few months ago. JUSTINE Thank God... CUT TO: EXT. THE HOUSE - NIGHT Rand's car pulls up in front of the house and stops. It's a nice two story house, with the garage attached to it and a brand new RV parked beside the garage. CUT TO: INT. THE HOUSE - SOON The only light in the whole house comes from a lamp in the livingroom, and the glow of the TV screen showing a rerun of THE MUNSTERS. Sitting in a recliner, wearing a robe and nursing a bottle of Scotch, is DOC TRIMMER, 68. From offscreen we hear the doorbell ring. Doc Trimmer doesn't react. A couple seconds later, the doorbell rings again. Doc Trimmer still doesn't react. Then comes the sound of nine people pounding on his front door, and Doc Trimmer hears this. He quickly sits his recliner up and looks in the direction of the front door. DOC TRIMMER What the hell is that? CUT TO: EXT. THE HOUSE - NIGHT The teens are gathered together at the front door when the door opens, revealing Doc Trimmer standing in the house - bottle of Scotch in one hand, a pistol in the other. Behind him there's a doorway to another room and stairs going up to the second floor. DOC TRIMMER What's goin' on out here? SZECH Don't shoot! CORT Doc Trimmer, it's me, Cort. DOC TRIMMER Cort Garris? What are you doing beating on my door at this time of the night? CORT We're having some trouble. DOC TRIMMER What kind of trouble? TOMMY Car trouble. And a couple of us... (motions to Z and Jesse) ...are really sick. They need a doctor, and we need a phone. Doc Trimmer looks Z and Jesse over. DOC TRIMMER Mm-hmm... He lowers his gun and steps back out of the way. DOC TRIMMER Well, you're at the right place for both of those things. Come on in. JUSTINE Thank you. The teens enter the house. CUT TO: EXT. THE WOODS - NIGHT Jason watches from the trees lining Doc Trimmer's driveway as the teens disappear into the house and the front door closes. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - THE LIVINGROOM Doc Trimmer walks in, followed by Cort helping Z walk into the room and Justine helping Jesse walk. CORT I hope we're not disturbing you. DOC TRIMMER No, I wasn't doing anything... CORT Where's Misses Trimmer? DOC TRIMMER She... she died three weeks ago. CORT Oh, I'm sorry. DOC TRIMMER Yeah. So am I. Cort leads Z to the recliner, Justine takes Jesse to the couch. CORT So, uh... that's a real nice RV you got out there. DOC TRIMMER Thanks. I just bought it last month. Misses Trimmer and I... we were planning on going on a road trip. Z looks into Cort's face as Cort helps him sit down in the recliner. Z Cort, you might want to shut up. Doc Trimmer takes a swig of Scotch. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - THE KITCHEN The kitchen light is now on, and Tommy, Linny, Clare and Szech watch as Rand goes to the wall-mounted phone. He stops beside it and looks back at the others. RAND So... does anyone remember what the number was? SZECH I remember... that it started with 1-800... RAND Thanks, Szech. Clare looks at Linny, expecting her to remember the number. CLARE Linny? Put that photographic memory to work. You remember it, right? LINNY Yeah. It's an easy one, really... RAND You make the call then. Rand steps back from the phone. Linny steps up to it, grabs the phone and dials the number. LINNY 1-800-454-8000. Linny puts the phone to her ear, and everyone stares at her, waiting as the line rings. SZECH What do you think the Army will do? Rand just waves for Szech to be quiet. The phone line stops ringing as someone answers- MAN ON PHONE Hello? LINNY Hello... I'm calling the number stenciled on the... the barrel. MAN ON PHONE Your name please. LINNY Linny Wilson. MAN ON PHONE Stay on the line, Miss Wilson, your call is being transferred. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - THE LIVINGROOM Justine is getting Jesse to lay down on the couch while Cort helps Z lay back in the recliner. Doc Trimmer is standing back in the middle of the room, putting a stethoscope around his neck. DOC TRIMMER What are they on, and how much did they take? JUSTINE They're not on anything. This isn't a drug overdose! CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - THE KITCHEN Scene's the same, as Linny listens to dead air on the phone. Then, there's the sound of someone picking up the line. GLOVER ON PHONE Miss Wilson? This is Colonel Glover. Where are you calling from? CUT TO: INT. AN OFFICE - DUSK Sitting at a desk, in an Army uniform, is COLONEL GLOVER, who we recognize from the first RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD. As he gets the answer to his questions he writes in a notepad. GLOVER I see. And when did this take place? (beat) And when was the tank first breached? CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - THE KITCHEN Scene's the same, as Linny answers Glover's questions. LINNY I don't know, maybe an hour ago? You have to get help here quick. The cemetery... this is going to sound crazy, but... We pull back and see that we're actually looking into the kitchen through the window over the sink. We pan over, and we're EXT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - NIGHT The phone line runs down the side of the house. An axe swings into frame, chopping into the side of the house and cutting the phone line in half. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - THE KITCHEN Linny realizes something has gone wrong with the phone. LINNY Hello? Hello, Colonel Glover, are you there? Linny takes the phone away from her ear and looks at the other. LINNY The phone went dead. CLARE Oh, Jesus. Linny hangs the phone up. TOMMY Well, at least you got to them. They know where we are... now we just have to hope they do something. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - THE LIVINGROOM Doc Trimmer holds a flashlight over Z's face as Justine and Cort stand back and watch. DOC TRIMMER Mm-hmm. Say "ahh". Z just opens his mouth, not saying "ahh". His throat is swollen, and we see his tongue is also swollen and has a white coating. DOC TRIMMER (disgusted) Oh my God... Doc Trimmer moves over to Jesse on the couch. Shines the flashlight in his eyes, then- DOC TRIMMER Say "ahh". Jesse opens his mouth and manages to croak out an "ahh". DOC TRIMMER OK. Jesse, could you sit up for me? Jesse tries to sit up, but doesn't get his back far up off the couch. DOC TRIMMER Here, let me help. Doc Trimmer pulls Jesse into a sitting position, Jesse's body making sick cracking and popping sounds. Jesse yells in pain. DOC TRIMMER It's alright, Jesse. It's alright. Doc Trimmer pulls up the back of Jesse's shirt, and we see that his back is basically one large bruise. Doc Trimmer sighs, letting Jesse lay back down. He turns back to Justine and Cort. DOC TRIMMER This is... very strange. They have no pupilary response, I can't find any pulse... Tommy, Linny, Clare, Rand and Szech walk into the room, listening to Doc Trimmer. DOC TRIMMER Their temperatures seem to be about room temperature. And Jesse here seems to have... uh, rigor mortis. CORT Is it serious? DOC TRIMMER Is dead serious? Jesse screams in pain. Z starts retching and quickly gets out of the recliner and hurries out of the room, clamping a hand over his mouth. SZECH Where's he going? CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - THE KITCHEN Z runs into the kitchen, goes to the sink and starts throwing up into it. Tommy and Clare step into the doorway between the kitchen and the livingroom, watching him. Z finishes throwing up and wipes his mouth with the back of his hand. He looks up through the window above the sink and - Z'S P.O.V. - Through the window we see Jason's hockey masked face looking in at us. Z screams. Jason's hands burst through the window, grabbing Z by the sides of the head and pulling him forward, off his feet. Z Fuck! Tommy and Clare can only watch in shock as Z's large body is quickly pulled through the windowframe. Tommy snaps out of it first and runs forward to try to help Z. He reaches for one of Z's feet, but it's pulled away from him as Z's whole body is pulled out the window. CUT TO: EXT. DOC TRIMMER'S - NIGHT Still holding Z by the sides of the head, Jason holds him up with his feet off the ground. He slams Z's face forward - into the side of the house. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - THE KITCHEN Tommy is watching Jason through the window, when Z's head comes bursting through the wall beside the sink. Tommy turns to Clare. TOMMY We gotta get out of here! CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - THE LIVINGROOM Tommy and Clare run in from the kitchen, yelling about needing to go. DOC TRIMMER What's going on? TOMMY Jason's here! Clare, Rand, Szech and Cort run for the front of the house while Doc Trimmer looks around, confused. Justine tries to pull Jesse to his feet. JUSTINE We have to go, Jesse. Jesse screams in pain. JUSTINE Help me! Tommy and Linny start helping her. DOC TRIMMER Jason who? CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - FRONT ROOM The teens run into the front room, Rand reaching the door first. He pulls the door open, and starts to run out... But stops, grabbing the sides of the doorway and looking out into the front yard. RAND'S P.O.V. - The front yard is full of zombies. One of the zombies is wearing a police uniform. He looks over at the house, spotting the teens standing at the doorway. The zombie raises a hand and points at them. COP ZOMBIE Brains! The zombie starts running toward the house, other zombies looking, spotting the teens, and starting to run as well. The teens back away from the door and Rand slams it shut. CORT What do we do now? Doc Trimmer walks in. DOC TRIMMER What the hell is going on? TOMMY Upstairs! Tommy starts up the stairs, helping Justine pull Jesse along. The others follow them up as Doc Trimmer watches. DOC TRIMMER Hey! You can't... SZECH (interrupts) You better follow us if you want to live, old dude! Slamming sounds start coming from the front door, along with yells of "Brains!" Doc Trimmer looks at his front door as the fists of zombies start busting through the small windows that line the edges of the door. DOC TRIMMER Son of a... A FEMALE ZOMBIE WITH WORMS WRITHING IN THE FLESH OF HER FACE looks in through one of the busted windows, looking right at Doc Trimmer. WORM WOMAN Brains! I need... brains! Doc Trimmer would yell at the woman for busting his window, but the worms in her face are a sure sign something is wrong. He turns around to see Jason standing in his livingroom, headed for him with axe in hand. DOC TRIMMER Get outta here! Jason starts rushing toward him. Doc Trimmer starts up the stairs as fast as he can go. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - SECOND FLOOR - HALLWAY Tommy, Justine, Jesse, Linny, Clare and Rand run down the hallway, going to a door at the very end of the hall. Szech runs into the first door he comes to, and Cort follows him in. The doors of the rooms slam shut. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - FRONT ROOM As Jason reaches the stairs, the front door is knocked to the floor and zombies start flooding into the house. Jason cocks his head to the side as he watches the army of rotting people rush into the house, completely ignoring him. The zombies start rushing up the stairs. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - SECOND FLOOR - HALLWAY Doc Trimmer has reached the top of the stairs. He stops look back at the zombies running toward him. DOC TRIMMER Oh, dear... Doc Trimmer is grabbed from the side and pulled out of frame. We cut to another angle in the hall to see that it's Tommy who is pulling Doc Trimmer down the hall, toward the door at the end. TOMMY Come on! Tommy and Doc Trimmer reach the door as zombies start surging into the hall. The zombies spot them and run toward them. Tommy opens the door, shoves Doc Trimmer into the room, then quickly follows him and slams the door shut just as the first of the zombies reaches it. Down the hall, a TEENAGE ZOMBIE is knocked down by the others, falling in front of the door Cort and Szech went through. The zombie's nose is at the base of the door, and he sticks his nose into the small space between the door and the floor. He sniffs the air. TEENAGE ZOMBIE Brains... CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - BATHROOM Szech and Cort stand in the bathroom, staring at the door, scared. Szech holds a pair of scissors and Cort a bottle of hair spray. The bathroom seems to be a death trap if the zombies bust in. There is a window at the back of the room, but it doesn't look like a person could fit through it. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - BEDROOM The others are in a bedroom. There are two large windows in here, both looking over the roof of the attached garage. Justine and Jesse are sitting on the bed, everyone else stands around nervously as zombies start pounding on the door. TOMMY The door's not gonna keep them out forever. We've got to keep moving. Tommy motions to the windows. RAND So, what, we go out onto the garage roof, break our legs jumping down and get killed on the yard instead of in here? LINNY There's the RV... Everyone looks at Doc Trimmer. Doc Trimmer grabs a set of keys off a nearby dresser and holds them up for everyone to see. CLARE What about Cort and Szech? RAND I guess they have to fend for them- selves. There's no way we can get through all of those things to get to them... CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - STAIRWAY Jason is making his way up the zombie-crowded stairs, slashing zombies out of his way with his axe, knocking them to the side, shoving and tossing them through and over the railing. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - SECOND FLOOR - HALLWAY Zombies are pounding on the doors of both rooms that have people inside. One of the zombies pounding on Szech and Cort's door is Z, his face full of splinters. Jason reaches the top of the stairs behind Z and swings the axe, catching Z in the side of the head. Z falls to the floor, his head split in half. Jason turns and starts cutting his way down the hall. Split-headed Z starts climbing to his feet. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - BEDROOM A window is open and Tommy is standing off to a side as the group starts to climb out onto the garage roof one-by-one. Justine and Rand are already outside and are helping a very weak Jesse climb through the windowframe. The door shakes as the zombies pound on it. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - SECOND FLOOR - HALLWAY Jason is still cutting his way through zombies. He grabs one and tosses it upwards, through the ceiling. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - ATTIC The zombie bursts through the floor and lands a few feet away from the hole. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - BATHROOM Szech and Cort are still staring at the door, backing further away from it. A crack appears in the middle of the door as the zombies on the other side continue to pound on it. CORT Here. Cort hands Szech the hairspray and turns, running for the small window. SZECH (out of it, staring at the door) Thanks... The crack in the door grows. Cort pushes the small window open and starts trying to climb through it. It's tough, since the bottom of the window is at neck level and he's got nothing to boost himself up with. Zombie arms smash through the middle of the bathroom door. SZECH They're getting in! The zombies start tearing a large hole in the middle of the door. CUT TO: EXT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - NIGHT Cort's head, shoulders and upper arms come through the small window on the second floor, in the back of the house. Cort looks down. CORT'S P.O.V. - From this window it's a two story drop to a concrete patio. CORT Oh, Jesus... CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - BEDROOM The door of the bedroom looks ready to bust off its hinges as the group continues to climb through the window and out onto the garage roof. Everyone but Tommy and Doc Trimmer are on the garage, and Tommy is in the middle of climbing out. Doc Trimmer stands nearby, drinking his Scotch. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - SECOND FLOOR - HALLWAY Jason has almost reached the bedroom door. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - BATHROOM As Cort struggles to fit through the window, Szech pockets the scissors and pulls out a lighter, running to the door as zombies continue ripping it open. Szech lights the lighter and sprays the hairspray into the flame, torching the zombie arms that are reaching through the hole in the door. The zombies don't seem to be too bothered by their flesh being burned. Split-headed, splinter-faced zombie Z sticks his face into the hole in the door. Z Fucking brains! Szech aims the flames into Z's face. The flesh of the right side of Z's face gets fried off before another zombie knocks him aside. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - SECOND FLOOR - HALLWAY Jason steps up behind a zombie beating on the bedroom door and swings his axe into the back of the zombie's head. The zombie's head slams forward into the bedroom door, the axe ripping through it and chopping into the door. The force of the hit causes the door to collapse. Down the hall, zombie Z, his burnt face sizzling and smoking, takes a step back away from the bathroom door, yells as loud as he can, raises his arms and slams them into the door as hard as he can. The door splits in half. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - BEDROOM Jason steps into the bedroom as Doc Trimmer gets out onto the garage roof. CUT TO: EXT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - GARAGE ROOF - NIGHT Now that everyone's out on the roof, they start making their way onto the RV's roof. It's just a large step away from the edge of the garage. At the sound of Jason entering his bedroom, Doc Trimmer stops and looks back through the window. Tommy grabs his Scotch arm and tries to pull him along. TOMMY Come on! Doc Trimmer pulls his pistol out of a robe pocket and aims it at Jason. DOC TRIMMER This is for messing up my house, you bastards! Doc Trimmer opens fire on Jason and the zombies that start entering the bedroom around him. The bullets rip through their rotten flesh, but don't bother them at all. Jason throws his axe side-arm. AXE P.O.V. - We axe spin through the air, headed right toward Doc Trimmer's head. Doc Trimmer's eyes widen in surprise. In the background, some members of the group scream. Tommy tries to pull Doc Trimmer out of the way, but it's too late. The axe catches Doc Trimmer in the throat, decapitating him. Blood sprays across Tommy's face. Doc Trimmer's head falls to the garage roof, bouncing and rolling down off the front edge. Doc Trimmer's hands relax, dropping the pistol and bottle of Scotch. The bottle shatters. Tommy hangs onto Doc Trimmer's body as he reaches into a robe pocket and pulls out the set of keys he got off the dresser. He then lays the body down and hurries to join the others on the RV roof. CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - BATHROOM Szech drops the hairspray and lighter as zombies start to pour through the busted door. He pulls out the scissors. SZECH Oh, shit, oh, shit, oh, shit... Cort is still trying to climb out the window, he's now got up to his mid- chest out the window. Szech kicks the first zombie that reaches him in the face. The zombie's rotten neck splits open and its head falls back, hanging down its back by a small strip of flesh. Szech punches the next, then swings the scissors into the side of another's head, pinning its head to the wall. Szech goes to punch another in its face, but the zombie opens its mouth wide enough to split its rotten cheeks open and catches Szech's fist with a bite. Szech screams as the zombie chews into his hand. Z zombie tackles Szech and the hand-chewer to the floor. Cort, knowing zombies are in the bathroom, starts trying frantically to get the rest of the way out the window, despite the drop. Zombies start grabbing and ripping at Cort's legs, trying to pull him back through the window. He's wedged in there pretty well, though. Cort kicks back at the zombies. CORT Get off me! A kick from Cort hits a zombie in the side of the head, causing its head to twist around backwards. Another zombie gets a foot in the face, causing half of its face to cave in. One zombie pulling on Cort apparently gets tired of pulling and yells, shoving his body upwards. Cort's back hits and shatters the window. The zombies now have more room to move Cort around in the windowframe. Cort is pulled back through the window a few inches. He grabs the frame and pulls himself back out while twisting around onto his back. He catches a couple zombies with kicks to their chins, then... Loses his balance on the frame. Cort falls backwards out of the window and drops, screaming, head-first to the patio below. CUT TO: INT. THE RV The skylight in the middle of the RV falls to the floor, followed by Tommy. The others start dropping into the RV after him. (This RV is exactly the same as the one in JASON LIVES.) CUT TO: INT. DOC TRIMMER'S HOUSE - BEDROOM Jason stands watching through the windows as zombies unsteadily start trying to climb onto the garage roof. The first zombie out onto the roof slips and falls, rolling off the edge. Rand is the last person on the RV roof, currently helping ease Jesse down through the skylight. A zombie gets on the garage roof and runs at Rand as Jesse disappears from view into the RV. Rand turns to the zombie as it jumps onto the RV roof and lunges at him. Rand grabs the zombie by the shirt and turns, tossing it off the roof. Rand then looks down through the skylight, makes sure the area below him is clear, then jumps down through it. CUT TO: INT. THE RV Tommy walks toward the driver's seat, Linny and Rand close behind. RAND Here, give me the keys. I'll drive. TOMMY I'll drive. Tommy sits down in the driver's seat, sticks the key in the ignition and starts the vehicle up. Linny sits in the seat beside him. Rand sits down on the floor, facing the door. At the back of the RV, Clare helps Justine lay Jesse down on the bed. CUT TO: EXT. THE RV - NIGHT From a ground-level shot we watch the RV start driving away from Doc Trimmer's house. A half dozen zombies watch it from the roof of the garage. Some zombies start running out the front door of the house. CUT TO: EXT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - NIGHT The lights are off and, as we know, the store is closed for the night. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE We go down an aisle, headed for the door to the back room. Light shines through the spaces at the edges of the door. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - BACK ROOM Carl sits at his desk, drinking a can of beer, eating a McDonald's meal and laughing at a rerun of ALL IN THE FAMILY that's on a small TV. The phone starts ringing and Carl turns the TV volume all the way down before answering it. CARL Hello? CUT TO: INT. HOUSE - KITCHEN Carl's wife/Clare's mother EVE, 48, is talking on a wall phone. EVE Hey, hon. What are you up to? CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - BACK ROOM Carl keeps an eye on the TV as he talks to his wife. CARL Ah, paperwork. Doing some inventory. I should be home in an hour or so. CUT TO: INT. HOUSE - KITCHEN Through the doorway behind Eve we can see into a livingroom with windows looking out to the front yard. Dark figures hurry past the windows. Eve doesn't notice, she's got her back to the doorway. EVE Alright. I'll start supper then. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - BACK ROOM Carl is shoving some fries in his mouth. CARL (moving the fries into a cheek) Good, good. CUT TO: INT. HOUSE - KITCHEN Scene's the same. EVE How did Linny do on her first... Eve is interrupted by the sound of the front door being knocked in. EVE What...? Eve lowers the phone from her ear, turning around to look into the livingroom. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - BACK ROOM We hear Eve start to scream through the phone. This really gets Carl's attention. CARL Eve? Eve, what's going on? Eve's scream ends abruptly. We hear thumping sounds, the sounds of a bunch of people moving around, then silence. CARL Eve?! Are you there? Nothing but silence from the phone. Then Carl hears the sound of several fists pounding on the front door and windows of the store. He lays the phone down. CARL What the hell... CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - STORE Carl slowly walks down an aisle, toward the front of the store. He stops when he gets a full view of the door and windows. CARL'S P.O.V. - Over a dozen zombies are beating on the door and windows, trying to get in. CARL We're closed! CUT TO: EXT. A COUNTRY ROAD - NIGHT The RV speeds past us. As it goes by, we see Jason hanging on to the metal ladder on the back of the vehicle. CUT TO: INT. RV A curtain has been pulled shut in the "bedroom" doorway. We can hear Jesse yelling in pain inside. Clare has sit down beside Rand, leaning on him. They have their arms around eachother. Tommy is still driving, Linny in the passenger seat. CLARE I'm sorry, Linny... LINNY Why are you sorry? CLARE You wouldn't be going through this if I hadn't pestered you into coming to Dugan's Point with me. LINNY It's not like you could've predicted this. (beat) It might sound crazy, but I'm kind of glad... that, if you have to go through this, I'd rather be here with you. CLARE Yeah... (beat) That does sound crazy. (beat) I just hope my parents are alright. CUT TO: EXT. RV - NIGHT Jason is climbing from the ladder up onto the roof. The RV passes a sign that reads: ENTERING CRYSTAL LAKE CITY LIMITS CUT TO: INT. RV - BED AREA Justine is sitting on the bed next to Jesse, who looks worse than ever. JESSE It hurts... JUSTINE I know, baby. We'll be at the hospital soon. You'll be ok. Jesse goes completely still, staring up at the ceiling. Not breathing. Justine stares at him, waiting for him to breathe. He doesn't. JUSTINE Jesse? He still doesn't move. Doesn't breathe. Keeps staring. JUSTINE Jesse... Justine grabs his shoulder and shakes him lightly. JUSTINE Jesse, don't... Jesse blinks. JESSE Justine... JUSTINE You scared me. JESSE I know what to do now. JUSTINE What do you mean? JESSE I think the doctor was right. I am dead. JUSTINE That's ridiculous. JESSE And I know how to stop the pain. There's something that can take it all away. JUSTINE What? JESSE You have to let me... Jesse sits up quickly, grabbing Justine by the hair and pulling her head toward his mouth. JESSE EAT YOUR BRAIN! Justine screams. CUT TO: EXT. THE RV - NIGHT Jason is walking along the top of the speeding vehicle, headed for the skylight. The RV is now driving through a business part of town. CUT TO: INT. THE RV Everyone looks back as they hear Justine scream at the back of the RV. Rand and Clare stand up as the doorway curtain is ripped down. The curtain was pulled down by Justine, who falls to the floor on top of the curtain, bloody teeth prints on her left temple. Jesse comes charging out of the bed area, running toward Rand and Linny. JUSTINE Jesse, stop it! RAND Jesse, what the hell... Jesse passes under the skylight right before Jason comes dropping down through it. Jesse hears the loud THUD as Jason's boots hit the RV floor and stops between Jason and the others. He slowly turns around look at Jason. JESSE These brains are mine, asshole. Jason steps forward, grabbing Jesse and tossing him aside. "Aside" happens to be right into the door, causing it to collapse - CUT TO: EXT. THE RV - NIGHT The door and Jesse fall to the street as the RV speeds on. CUT TO: INT. THE RV Jesse out of his way, Jason is now running toward Tommy, Linny, Rand and Clare. Tommy is staring ahead, the others are watching Jason run toward them and are starting to look nervous. LINNY Tommy... When Jason is just a step away from reaching Rand and Clare, Tommy slams on the brakes. Rand and Clare are thrown back against Tommy and Linny's seats, Jason is thrown forward between them... and head-first into the windshield. CUT TO: EXT. THE RV - NIGHT Jason explodes through the RV windshield and is thrown through the air in front of the vehicle as it skids to a stop. Jason's flight ends quickly when he slams into a brightly lit sign in front of a business. The glass of the sign shatters and the lightbulbs inside break. Jason falls to the ground, his bottom half in a rain puddle at the base of the sign, his top half leaning into the sign. Electricity courses through his body. CUT TO: INT. THE RV The group watches as Jason is electrocuted. Tommy smiles. CUT TO: EXT. THE RV - NIGHT The electrocution of Jason continues. By the time the sign shorts out, releasing Jason and dropping him to the ground in front of it, Jason's rotten flesh is smoking and parts of his shirt are on fire. CUT TO: INT. THE RV Everyone continues staring at Jason. LINNY Is he dead? TOMMY I doubt it. RAND Then let's get out of here before he gets back up. Tommy resumes driving, but starts going the speed limit now. Clare walks back to Justine, who's still laying on the floor, and kneels down beside her. Through the back window we can see Jesse running down the street after them. CLARE Are you alright? Justine raises her hand to the bite marks on her temple, stopping just short of touching them. JUSTINE Yeah... I think so... (beat) Jesse, he turned into one of those things... What is going on, Clare? Up front, Tommy, Linny and Rand look around at the passing buildings and streets. There's no sign of life anywhere, the streets are completely empty. TOMMY Anybody else noticing something strange? LINNY Like no people? TOMMY Yeah. Like that. RAND Maybe those things have already swept through and eaten everybody. Linny gives Rand a "shut up" look. RAND What? It's not like I want that to be true. But it's a possibility. (beat) I guess there's no reason to go to the hospital now. TOMMY So we go to the police station. CUT TO: EXT. THE CRYSTAL LAKE POLICE DEPARTMENT - NIGHT The RV pulls up in front of the small P.D. and stops. Tommy, Rand and Clare get out of the RV and walk toward the P.D.'s front door. Linny stays in her seat. Justine stands in the RV doorway. Rand reaches the P.D.'s door first and tries to pull it open. It doesn't budge. He tries pushing. Doesn't budge. RAND It's locked... Rand starts knocking on the door. RAND Hey! Anybody in there? Tommy looks through a window. TOMMY'S P.O.V. - There's no one in sight. TOMMY Don't see anybody. CLARE They can't just leave a police station empty. Justine is looking around at the empty town from the RV doorway. She looks ahead of the RV and spots something in the RV's mirror. JUSTINE'S P.O.V. - In the mirror we see a group of about a dozen people crossing the street a block behind the RV, looking around. JUSTINE Oh, thank God. Justine turns around and steps out of the RV. The people are in the middle of the street. JUSTINE Hey! Over here! The people stop and look over at Justine. By the way they move, Justine realizes something's wrong. These are zombies. ZOMBIE Hey, fresh brains! The group of zombies start running toward the RV. JUSTINE Oh, no... Justine turns around to go back into the RV and bumps right into Jesse. Jesse smiles at her. His fall to the street from the speeding vehicle as scraped flesh off one side of his face and his arms, ripped up his clothes. JESSE Justine, please... Justine screams as Jesse grabs her by the arms. JESSE Let me be the one who eats you. I'm the one who loves you. I... Jesse is interrupted when Tommy grabs him from behind and pulls him away from Justine. As Tommy's pulling him away, Rand steps up and punches Jesse in the face, knocking him to the ground. RAND Leave her alone, dead kid! Clare grabs Justine and pulls her into the RV. Tommy and Rand follow as Jesse starts getting to his feet. JESSE I thought we were friends, Rand! The RV starts driving away as Jesse reaches for the doorway. The group of zombies reaches the RV at that moment, knocking into Jesse and stopping him from being able to grab on to the doorway as they start reaching for it themselves. CUT TO: INT. THE RV The RV was able to drive away so soon after the others got in because Linny is now driving. Justine is in the passenger seat, Clare standing beside her. Tommy and Rand are standing in front of the door, ready to fight off any zombies that might be able to get in. One zombie does manage to pull himself up into the doorway and Tommy and Rand both kick him in the chest at the same time. The zombie falls back out of the RV, against the others who are running alongside it, tripping them up. Clare sees something ahead of the RV and points it out to Linny - CLARE My street! Turn down my street. Linny turns the RV. CUT TO: EXT. CLARE'S HOUSE - NIGHT The RV drives down a residential street and stops in front of Clare's house. The front door of the house is open. CUT TO: INT. THE RV Everyone's looking at Clare's house. RAND Doesn't look promising. CLARE I have to check... Linny shuts the RV off. CUT TO: EXT. CLARE'S HOUSE - NIGHT Clare, Linny, Tommy, Rand and Justine walk up to the house, watching out for zombies. Clare reaches the open door and looks in. CLARE Mom? Dad? Clare steps into the house. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S HOUSE The group enters the livingroom, looking around. The house is empty, but nothing seems to be out of place. No sign of a struggle anywhere. CLARE Hello? Silence. LINNY They're gone. With everybody else. JUSTINE But where is that? RAND If we knew that, we'd be there, too. Clare heads up the stairs to the second floor. Rand follows. Tommy goes over to the fireplace and takes the poker from in front of it. Linny and Justine walk into the kitchen, where they find the phone where Eve left it, hanging against the wall. Linny grabs the phone and raises it to her ear, listening. After a couple seconds - LINNY Hello? CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - BACK ROOM Carl's phone is still laying on the desk. Through it we hear - LINNY Hello? Carl isn't in the room to hear it. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S HOUSE Justine, her back to a window, watches Linny as she talks into the phone. JUSTINE Is somebody on... Justine is interrupted when a zombie steps up to the other side of the window and smashes a fist through the glass, grabbing her by the hair. Justine screams, grabbing the wall to stop herself from being pulled outside. LINNY Justine! Linny drops the phone and rushes to Justine's side, grabbing her and trying to pull her away from the zombie. The zombie pulls Justine's hair harder. She screams in pain. Linny looks over and sees a full knife holder on the kitchen counter. She reaches over and pulls the biggest knife out of it. Tommy enters the kitchen and is about to start helping Justine when the back door bursts open, revealing a bunch of zombies standing outside. The first to enter is split-headed, splinter and burn-faced Z. Linny starts cutting the zombie's fingers off, along with the piece of Justine's hair that they're holding. LINNY I got it! Tommy runs to the back door and swings the poker into the side of Z's head. Z stumbles off to the side. Tommy tries to slam the back door shut, but the next two zombies that are entering stop it from shutting. Tommy throws himself against the door, crushing one zombie between the door and the frame. All of the ribs on one of the zombie's sides break. Tommy pulls the door open a couple inches, letting the broken ribbed zombie stumble back outside, then shuts the door again. With zombies out of the way, the door is able to actually shut this time. Tommy locks it. Z grabs Tommy in a headlock, bringing his open mouth toward the top of Tommy's head. With all of the window zombie's fingers cut off and wriggling around on the floor and a chunk of Justine's hair cut off, Justine is now free. Linny slams her knife into the middle of the zombie's forehead and it stumbles back away from the window. Z's teeth are about to sink into Tommy's skull when we hear a shotgun fire twice. Z's body is blown in half at the waist, his legs falling to the side as his top half keeps hanging on to Tommy. Clare stands in the kitchen doorway, holding a double barrel shotgun. Rand stands behind her, holding several more guns. Tommy does a backward headbutt, slamming the back of his head into Z's face and turning, throwing Z's top half onto the kitchen counter. Z yells at Tommy. Tommy steps up to him and sticks the poker into his chest, impaling him to the wall. Z You fucking bastards! Tommy joins Linny, Justine, Clare and Rand in the kitchen doorway. Rand is holding another shotgun, a rifle and two pistols. RAND Pick your weapon. CLARE Raided my dad's gun case. Tommy takes the shotgun, Linny and Justine take the pistols, leaving Rand with the rifle. JUSTINE I've never fired a gun before... TOMMY Neither have I, actually. CLARE Not much to it. Make sure the safety's off, point, shoot. Beware the kick. Don't shoot yourself. RAND Or one of us. We hear sitcom canned laughter. CLARE What was that? More laughter, followed by - CARL'S VOICE Hello? Is anybody there? CLARE Daddy? CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - BACK ROOM Carl is sitting on his desk, TV up to full volume as he yells into the phone - CARL Hello? Carl has several tool belts with various kinds of tools in them strapped around his body. CLARE (on phone) Daddy, are you alright? CARL Clare! Carl turns the TV off. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S HOUSE Clare is on the phone, eyes brimming with tears. CARL (on phone) I'm fine. At the moment. Are you ok? CLARE Yeah... Where are you? Where's mom? CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - BACK ROOM Scene's the same. CARL I don't know where your mother is. I'm at the hardware store. I'm stuck in my office right now. These lunatics broke through the windows. I don't know what's going on with them. Drugs or something. PCP. I heard screams and gunshots over the phone. What is going on there? CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S HOUSE Same. CLARE Same thing. It's all over town. It's not drugs... I can't explain it right now. I'm gonna come over there and get you, alright? CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - BACK ROOM Carl looks toward the door to the store. We hear zombies beating on the other side of the door. Then an axe blade breaks through the top of the door. CARL That might be a good idea. CUT TO: INT. CLARE'S HOUSE - SOON The back door collapses and zombies flood into the kitchen as the teens are running out the front door. Z's top half is still on the kitchen counter and impaled to the wall, struggling to pull itself off the poker. CUT TO: EXT. THE RV - NIGHT The teens punch, shove and shoot their way through a small group of zombies between the house and the RV. CUT TO: INT. THE RV Tommy is the first to enter, to find a zombie standing in the middle of the RV. Tommy raises his shotgun and fires. The kick of the gun causes him to take a step backwards. The zombie's head explodes, its twitching body falling to the floor. Tommy goes to the driver's seat as the others enter the RV. The zombie's headless body climbs to its feet. RAND Jesus... The body stumbles toward Rand. He steps aside and shoves it out the door. Zombies reach the doorway as the RV starts to drive away. Linny and Justine try out their guns by firing into the zombies through the doorway. Rand fires his rifle at one. The bullet hits the zombie in the forehead and blows a large hole in the back of its head. CUT TO: EXT. THE STREET - NIGHT We watch the RV drive away through the hole in the zombie's head. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - BACK ROOM Carl watches as zombies reach through a small hole in the door at about head level. Any hands or fingers that get through the hole, Carl chops off with a hatchet. CUT TO: EXT. A TOWN STREET - NIGHT An Army Jeep is parked on the side of the street. Four SOLDIERS and a SERGEANT sit in the Jeep. The Sergeant is looking at a map. SOLDIER #1 I'm tellin' ya, Sarge, we cleared out the town. We should be way over here... Soldier #1 points out a location on the map. SOLDIER #1 We don't have the equipment to be out here. Soldier #2 is looking off down the street. SOLDIER #2 What's this? The others look in the same direction. SOLDIER #2'S P.O.V. - The RV is turning a corner and driving toward them. The soldiers get their automatic rifles ready. The RV drives up and stops nearby. Rand steps out, rifle in hand and ready. RAND Help us, please! SERGEANT Easy with that rifle, pal. RAND Right. Sorry. Rand lowers his rifle as Clare steps out of the RV. CLARE You've gotta help us. We need to go get my father from the hardware store, then we need to get out of here... SOLDIER #3 The town's been evacuated. We're not supposed to take out anybody else. CLARE Why not? SERGEANT Plague. RAND Plague? We're not sick! CLARE The dead people in the cemetery... Well, they're not dead anymore. I know that doesn't make any sense... SOLDIER #1 (interrupts) Orders are... Soldier #1 stops talking as Jason steps up to the side of the Jeep, on the opposite side from the one the RV is on, grabs Soldier #4 from behind, pulls a knife from a sheath on the soldier's belt and slams it into his chest. SERGEANT Son of a bitch! Jason pulls Soldier #4's rifle away as he falls to the street. Jason swings the rifle like a bat and hits Soldier #3 in the head, caving his forehead in. Blood runs down the soldier's face as he falls back, dead. Sergeant and the remaining soldiers turn their rifles on Jason and open fire. Jason stumbles backwards as dozens of bullets rip into him. The back of his boots bump into the curb and he falls backwards onto the sidewalk. The soldiers stop firing as Jason lays still. Then Jason sits up. SOLDIER #1 Sarge... I think we should get out of here... SERGEANT Right. Sergeant shifts the Jeep into gear. Jason throws Soldier #4's knife and it flies right into Soldier #2's throat. Soldier #1 catches the man as he falls backwards. As Soldier #2's blood pumps all over Soldier #1's face, Sergeant hits the gas and the Jeep speeds off down the road. Rand and Clare have stepped back into the RV and fire their weapons at Jason at the same time. CLARE Go, Tommy! The rifle shot hits Jason in the chest and the shotgun blast hits him in the stomach. Jason is thrown back against a light pole as the RV drives away. CUT TO: INT. THE RV Tommy drives, Justine is sitting in the passenger seat, the others stand around behind them. Rand leans back against the wall. RAND We just can't catch a break tonight. JUSTINE At least the Army's here, taking care of things. RAND Yeah, but we apparently missed the boat when it comes to getting helped out of here. JUSTINE We'll get out... They'll let us out... LINNY Yeah... I hope so. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - BACK ROOM The top half of the door to the store is pretty much broken away. Carl is fighting the zombies back away from the door with various items from the store. A blowtorch, a hammer, hatchet... The zombie that axed the door earlier steps up to the door, swinging the axe in at Carl. Carl grabs the axe's handle and pulls it away from the zombie, at the same time sticking a large screwdriver into its right eye. CUT TO: EXT. AN ALLEYWAY - NIGHT The Army Jeep is parked at the back of the dead end alley. Sergeant and Soldier #1 are staring toward the opening of the alley, where at least three dozen zombies are coming toward them. SOLDIER #1 I joined the Army to see the world, not this. We don't have the right equipment! SERGEANT Get ahold of yourself, son, you're an American soldier! Now, we've got a firefight on our hands. Enemy's already dead... It's beautiful. Sergeant and Soldier #1 get their rifles ready as the zombies approach. SOLDIER #1 It's not gonna work. Sergeant ignores him. SERGEANT Alright, you dead sons 'a bitches. I'm gonna blow your tired, ugly asses right back to Hell! Sergeant and Soldier #1 open fire on the zombies. CUT TO: INT. THE RV Everyone's in basically the same spot they were in when we left them. TOMMY'S P.O.V. - We see Wilson's Hardware in the next block, zombies milling around the front of the building. TOMMY Clare, does your father have a car at the store? CLARE Yeah, out back... TOMMY And he's in the back of the building, right? CLARE He said he was trapped in the back room. Why? Tommy drives the RV right toward the front of Wilson's Hardware. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE The RV hits the zombies outside, throwing some through the air, crushing others under the front wheels. The RV then hits the front of the building and plows through, destroying the front wall. It continues through the store, hitting aisles, smashing the check out counter, crushing and hitting several more zombies. One zombie is so rotten, he completely disintegrates into a wave of flesh and formaldehyde when the RV hits him. The RV stops five feet from the door to the back room, four zombies between the front of the vehicle and the door. Carl looks at the RV parked in his store, shocked. CARL Unbelievable... Clare, Rand, Justine, Linny and Tommy get out of the RV. Carl takes a step back and opens the back room door. Three of the zombies rush toward him, the other has turned its attention to the RV group. Carl swings a chain, which hits one zombie in the head and wraps around its head. Carl pulls on the chain, pulling the zombie's head off. Another zombie reaches him, ready to bite. Carl shoves the blowtorch into its mouth. The last zombie gets the axe planted in its face. The zombie that turned its attention on the RV group gets blown to pieces by shotgun and rifle shots. Part of one of the store's racks has jammed into the RV's gas tank. Gas is leaking all over the floor. Carl approaches his rescuers, motioning toward the RV. CARL I can't believe you drove into my store! CLARE I'd ask you if you're alright, but if your biggest concern is the store, I guess you are. RAND The RV's an improvment if you ask me. CUT TO: EXT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - NIGHT The teens and Carl exit the store, checking to make sure it's safe. There are a few zombies down the street, but no immediate danger. Carl has strapped on more tool/weapons. They head around the corner and toward a parking lot behind the building. As the group turns the corner, the Army Jeep drives past the hardware store. It's being driven by a zombie, with several zombie passengers. Covered in blood and weaving all over the road. Jason stands in front of the hardware store, watching the Jeep speed off down the road. He then looks over into the store. CUT TO: INT. WILSON'S HARDWARE Jason walks through the store, along the side of the RV. He sees something he wants. The zombie with the blowtorch in his mouth is stumbling around the store, its whole head on fire. Jason reaches what he wants - hanging on the wall is a machete. He pulls the machete out of the plastic and its sheath and admires the blade. Then, weapon in hand, Jason turns to exit the store. On the other side of the RV, the blowtorch finally explodes, taking the zombie's head with it. The zombie's burning body falls to the floor... right into the large puddle of gas that has leaked from the RV. CUT TO: EXT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - NIGHT The group is reaching Carl's car, an orange Camaro, at the same moment that the hardware store explodes. CARL Holy shit! My store! CLARE Just get in the car, dad. Carl pulls his keys from a pocket, but as he does a zombie comes running toward them, screaming for "brains!". Carl drops his keys, grab a rope that's over his shoulder, and swings the rope at the zombie. On the end of the rope is a saw blade, which hits the zombie right in the throat, decapitating it. Rand picks up the keys and unlocks the car's passengrt door. He opens the door and gets into the car. RAND Get in! Rand gets behind the wheel and puts the key in the ignition. He turns the key, but the car doesn't start. CARL Hey! Nobody drives this car but me. This baby's cherry. CLARE Just get in the car, dad! The group piles into the Camaro. CUT TO: INT. THE CAMARO Everyone's in. Tommy pulls the passenger door shut. Rand is still trying to get the car started. RAND What the hell's up with this car? CARL You're gonna flood it! Tommy looks through the windshield to see a large group of zombies rushing across the parking lot, toward the Camaro. TOMMY Get it started, Rand... RAND If I could... CARL Let me try it. RAND Cherry, huh? CARL Well, it *was* cherry... The others watch the zombies' approach. They're less than 10 feet away from the Camaro now. TOMMY Rand... The zombies reach the hood of the Camaro. Some of them punch and bang their hands down on the hood, a couple of them scramble up the hood. CARL My store's destroyed, don't let them hurt my car! The zombies swarm around the Camaro, beating on the windows. The car starts. RAND Thank you! CUT TO: EXT. THE STREET - NIGHT The Camaro speeds out of the parking lot and turns onto the street, throwing off some zombies that hung on to it. It drives off down the street, away from the hardware store. The streets in front of and beside the hardware store are covered with burning rubble. Jason is laying among the rubble, machete still in hand. He starts climbing to his feet. CUT TO: EXT. THE CAMARO - NIGHT The Camaro drives down a road that runs through the woods. CUT TO: INT. THE CAMARO The group rides in silence. Tommy is staring out the passenger window. TOMMY'S P.O.V. - The car drives past a dirt road that branches off into the woods. Beside the dirt road's entrance is a wooden sign, barely visible through the ivy that has grown up over it and long-uncut weeds. But we can still see that the sign reads: CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE Tommy looks forward. RAND Here we go. CUT TO: EXT. THE CAMARO - NIGHT The road the Camaro's on intersects with another. The Camaro turns onto the other road. Not far in this direction is the bridge from the beginning. CUT TO: INT. THE CAMARO The group is getting excited about the idea of being able to get out of town. CLARE Alright! Goodbye, nightmare. We look through the windshield as the Camaro drives onto the bridge. The headlights soon reveal a row of barbed wire run across the middle of the bridge. CARL What's this? Blindingly bright lights come on on the other side of the wire, revealing several Army Jeeps and a tank, along with several soldiers with their rifles pointed at the Camaro. TOMMY Maybe they'll let us by if we... MAN (O.S.) Commence firing! The soldiers open fire on the Camaro. The group screams, yells and curses as bullets fly around and into the Camaro. CARL My car! Rand shifts into Reverse and drives backwards off the bridge, back onto the road. JUSTINE Why are they shooting at us? TOMMY They think we're those things. CLARE Or that we've been infected by them. Rand turns the Camaro back down the road they came from. RAND This is bullshit, man. What are we supposed to do now? CARL Maybe we should go to a bar and go out drunk. CLARE Judging by your breath, you're half in the bag already. CARL I only had a case. CLARE (nods) "Only". CUT TO: EXT. THE CAMARO - NIGHT The Camaro drives back past the Camp Crystal Lake entrance. CUT TO: INT. THE CAMARO Same. CARL It's an interesting problem. Soldiers in front, zombies behind. Rand hits the brakes. RAND Strike that. Reverse it. RAND'S P.O.V. - A huge wave of zombies are running down the road toward the Camaro. RAND Anyone feel like camping? Rand backs the Camaro up and turns down the road to the camp. LINNY I don't think this is a good idea. CUT TO: EXT. CAMP CRYSTAL LAKE - NIGHT We look around at the cabins. They're not in the best shape, it's been 11 years since the events of the original FRIDAY THE 13TH, and nobody's taken care of the camp since then. The Camaro comes speeding down the dirt road into the campgrounds and stops in front of the main cabin. The car is shut off and the group climbs out. Tommy looks over at the lake. Where it all began for Jason. TOMMY Trying to find safety at Camp Blood. RAND Yeah. Who'da thunk? Most of the group walks toward the main cabin. Linny stays back by the Camaro. LINNY I still think this was a bad decision. Stopping has never worked out. The only way to stay safe is to keep driving. We can hear the sounds of zombies yelling and moaning as they run down the path to the camp. Rand is standing at the main cabin door when he stops to look back at Linny. RAND Well, what do you suggest we do now? If Linny has a suggestion, Rand doesn't get to hear it. The main cabin's door opens, revealing Jason standing inside, machete raised. Justine sees Jason and screams. Rand turns around just in time to catch the machete in his stomach. The tip comes out his back and Jason lifts him up on the blade. CLARE Rand! No! Jason pulls the machete out of Rand, dropping his body to the ground. As the body hits the ground, we see that the Camaro keys are still in his hand. Jason turns on the rest of the group and they start running away. Carl does a Starsky & Hutch slide across his car's hood as he goes. Justine grabs the driver's door handle and starts opening the door. Linny grabs her and pulls her away from the car. LINNY We can't, Rand had the keys! As the group runs across the camp, a large group of zombies comes into view on the dirt path, entering the grounds. TOMMY Shit! Jason looks over at the zombies. When he looks back toward his intended victims, they've disappeared among the cabins. CUT TO: INT. A CABIN The cabin's a mess. Dusty, cobwebs and spiderwebs all over. The door bursts open and Tommy, Clare, Carl, Justine and Linny enter. Tommy slams the door shut behind them. LINNY OK, we need to barricade the doors. JUSTINE We're gonna die. This is it! LINNY Don't talk like that, Justine. We're gonna make it through this. We've made it this far. Everyone starts dumping the matresses off the bunks and moving the bunks in front of the front and back doors of the cabin. TOMMY The real problem will be keeping Jason out. CUT TO: EXT. THE CAMP - NIGHT Zombies are all over the campgrounds now, as Jason walks among the cabins. CUT TO: INT. THE CABIN Two bunks have been moved in front of both doors. The group stands in the middle of the cabin, weapons ready. They've thrown sheets over the small windows in the front and middle of the cabin. Justine is shaking, tears running down her face. CUT TO: EXT. THE CAMP - NIGHT Jason is walking past a cabin when a creaking sound comes from inside. He turns to the cabin, slamming a shoulder into the front door and knocking it open. This isn't the cabin his victims went into. The sound was made by the back door being opened by a zombie that is now walking around inside the cabin. CUT TO: INT. THE CABIN Everyone reacts as a scraping and rattling sound comes from the back door. Tommy takes a step toward the door, in case he has to fight to keep it shut. CUT TO: EXT. THE CABIN - NIGHT A zombie who looks especially rotten and out of it is leaning against the door as he tries to turn the knob with a hand that is missing several fingers. As he continues to try to turn the knob, another finger snaps off. Another zombie is walking along one side of the cabin, coming up to the window on that side. Not far away from this side of the cabin, Z is crawling along the ground, the fireplace poker still stuck through him. Jason is walking past him when Z looks up at him, recognizing him. Z Hey, you rat fuck! Jason stops and looks down at Z. Z motions to his split-head. Z Look what you did to my fucking head! Jason does something more - with a swing of the machete, he decapitates Z. Z's head rolls across the ground, stopping at the feet of the zombie who's walking along the side of the cabin. Z Fucking asshole! The walking zombie kicks Z's head along with its shuffling feet as it reaches the cabin window. The zombie stops, looking into the window. ZOMBIE'S P.O.V. - Through a small space between the wall and the sheet hanging over the window, we can see Justine inside the cabin. ZOMBIE Hey! Z (O.S.) What is it? The zombie looks down at Z's head. It bends down and picks the head up. Z Brains? The zombie throws Z's head through the window. CUT TO: INT. THE CABIN Z's head flies through the window, hitting the opposite wall and falling to the ground. It ends up on it's top, propped up against the bottom of the wall. Clare turns to the broken window as the zombie reaches in, yelling. Clare fires, the shotgun blast hitting the zombie in the chest and throwing it back away from the cabin. TOMMY Here we go. CUT TO: EXT. THE CAMP - NIGHT The zombies start running toward the cabin the shot came from. CUT TO: INT. THE CABIN Tommy and Linny cover the back door, Carl and Clare take the front, and a jittery Justine backs up against the mid-cabin window that's not broken. Linny looks over and sees this. She takes Justine by the arm and pulls her away from the window. LINNY Stay away from the windows. As soon as Linny's done saying that, a zombie's arms comes bursting through the window. The zombie looks at the girls and yells - ZOMBIE Brai--- The zombie is interrupted when Linny fires her pistol into the zombie's mouth. The zombie stumbles away from the cabin, gagging. Z's head is still alive, upside down against the wall. Z (singing) My brain is hanging upside down... Tommy fires his shotgun into Z's face. The head explodes into several small pieces. And that's all for Z. Zombies start beating on the back door. Carl and Clare look back to make sure things are alright back there, and at that moment zombies hit the front door with such force that the door opens a couple inches, knocking the bunk blocking it against Carl's legs. Carl falls down over the bunk, accidentally pulling the sheet down off one of the front windows as he falls. CLARE Are you alright? CARL Yeah. Carl puts his hands on the door, trying to shove it back shut. The window he pulled the sheet off of suddenly shatters as Jason reaches in through it. CLARE Daddy, watch out! Jason grabs a couple of the tool belts Carl has strapped around him and pulls him out through the windowframe. CLARE Daddy! CUT TO: EXT. THE CABIN - NIGHT Jason turns, throwing Carl hard to the ground. Three zombies run toward Carl, but Jason steps up over him and swings his machete. The three zombies are cut in half at their chests. The pieces fall down around Carl as he looks up at Jason. Jason turns his machete so the tip is pointed straight down at Carl. CARL Hockey sucks. Jason slams the machete down into Carl's chest. CLARE (O.S.) No! You bastard! Clare is sticking her shotgun through the broken front window, but some zombies have grabbed it, keeping her from being able to shoot Jason and hopefully save her father. Clare fires the shotgun, but it doesn't hit any of the zombies. They pull the gun away from her. CUT TO: INT. THE CABIN Clare turns away from the window. CLARE He killed my dad... He killed my dad... Linny is looking back at her cousin as Tommy holds the bunk against the back door, trying to keep it shut. LINNY I know. Clare, I'm sorry... But you've got to keep it together right now. The front door is still open a couple inches. As the zombies push against it, it opens some more. Linny turns to Tommy. LINNY Justine and I can take this door. Help Clare with the front. TOMMY OK. Tommy lets go of the bunk and rushes over to the front door. Justine and Linny put their hands on the bunk and hold it against the back door. Tommy leans against the front bunk, sliding it back against the door, pushing as hard as he can. The door goes back an inch or so, but doesn't shut. TOMMY I could use some help. Clare is standing off to the side, dazed. CLARE My dad... Rand... Where's my mom? TOMMY Please help me, Clare. CLARE It's over. The wall behind Clare explodes as Jason bursts through it, grabbing her from behind. TOMMY Clare! Clare barely reacts as Jason wraps his arms around her, lifting her up in a backwards bear hug. Linny sees what's happening to her cousin and lets go of the back bunk, turning her pistol on Jason. She fires a few shots into Jason's side, but it doesn't bother him much. Clare's ribs collapse and blood bursts from her mouth. Jason drops her to the floor. Jason turns on Tommy. Tommy lets go of the front bunk and points his shotgun at Jason. The zombies slam into the front door, knocking the bunk into the back of Tommy's legs. Tommy falls back onto the bunk, his shotgun firing into the cabin's ceiling. Zombie hands grab Tommy's upper half, pulling him closer to the opening door. Before Tommy can be pulled outside by the zombies, Jason grabs him, pulls him to his feet, then tosses him backwards through the wall opposite the one he came through. CUT TO: EXT. THE CABIN - NIGHT Tommy flies through the air, landing about 15 feet from the cabin. He hits the ground, groaning. A zombie runs at him and Tommy sits up, shooting it in the stomach. CUT TO: INT. THE CABIN Jason is about to step out of the cabin to go after Tommy when Linny and Justine open fire on him with their pistols. Jason turns toward them. Before Jason can go toward them, the front door bursts open and zombies flood into the cabin, between Jason and the girls. Linny grabs the windowframe of the nearest mid-cabin window as the zombies rush toward her, pulling herself up into the frame. She reaches back to pull Justine along with her, but - Justine just screams as the zombies swarm around her. Jesse makes his way through the pack, smiling. JUSTINE Jesse? JESSE I told you I should be the one. Jesse grabs Justine, bringing his mouth toward her head. LINNY Jesse, stop! Linny aims the gun to shoot Jesse in the head... The gun clicks, empty. Jesse sinks his teeth into the top of Justine's head. The zombies reach for Linny. She lets herself fall backwards out of the window. CUT TO: EXT. THE CAMP - NIGHT Tommy is holding on to a tree as he climbs to his feet, Jason coming toward him. Once he's standing, Tommy puts his back up against the tree, aims the shotgun at Jason and fires. The blast hits Jason in the chest, knocking him to the ground. He lays there for a couple seconds, then sits up. Tommy shoots him again, causing him to roll a couple yards before going still again. LINNY (O.S.) Tommy! Tommy looks over to see Linny running across the campgrounds near the lake, pursued by a couple zombies. Linny trips, falling at the edge of the beach. The zombies keep running toward her... Tommy pushes off the tree, running toward the lake. As Tommy runs away, Jason sits up again. Linny crawls along the beach as the zombies come toward her. She finds a boat oar laying the sand. As the zombies reach Linny, she rolls over and hits one in the side of the mouth with the oar, knocking its bottom jaw off. The other is leaning down toward her when a shotgun blast hits it in the side, throwing it away from her. Tommy comes running up, grabbing Linny by an arm and helping her stand up. TOMMY Are you alright? LINNY Physically, yeah. Tommy looks at the oar she's holding, then over at a canoe that's tied to a post at the end of the beach. He then looks over to see Jason and several zombies running toward them. TOMMY I have an idea. Hopefully it won't get us killed. LINNY What is it? Tommy points to the canoe. CUT TO: EXT. WILSON'S HARDWARE - NIGHT A large Army truck drives past the burning rubble that remains of the store. Army Jeeps drive in the opposite direction. Soldiers walk along the sidewalks, carrying modified rifles. Motionless zombie bodies lay all over the street and sidewalk. CUT TO: EXT. THE CAMP - NIGHT Tommy and Linny are pulling the canoe out into the water. TOMMY I hope the dead can't swim. LINNY And if they can? TOMMY You know as well as I do. They climb into the canoe. Linny grabs the second oar from the floor of the boat and they start rowing out on the lake. Jason and the zombies are on the beach. Jason is running down into the water. Some zombies follow him into the water, most of them stop at the edge of it. A couple try to stop and fall in. The water slows Jason down to a walk. More zombies stop when they're about waist deep in the water. Jason keeps going. Tommy watches Jason as he rows. TOMMY Jason's not stopping. LINNY Not surprising. TOMMY Well, he drowned in this lake before. I hoped... Shit. Jason goes from chest deep in the water to mouth deep. Only one zombie is still going along with him at this point. After a couple steps, Jason and the zombie both disappear under the water. CUT TO: IN THE WATER The zombie steps off a ledge in the floor of the lake and it's a 15 foot drop to the bottom. The zombie lands on the bottom, then looks around, seeming kind of helpless now. CUT TO: EXT. THE LAKE - NIGHT Tommy and Linny continue rowing, watching the water nervously. TOMMY If Jason comes up... I'll handle him. LINNY What do you mean? TOMMY I mean, you get out. Start swimming. Get away, to the other side of the lake. LINNY I'm not just gonna leave you... I don't need you sacrificing yourself for me. TOMMY Jason and I have issues to work out. Bubbles break on the surface of the lake on the left side of the canoe. Tommy and Linny watch that spot. Tommy puts a hand on his shotgun beside him. Then Jason bursts up out of the water on the right side, lunging toward Tommy. LINNY Tommy, look out! Tommy's already aware of Jason and turning the shotgun on him at chest level. Jason hits the shotgun barrel up as he reaches the side of the canoe. Tommy fires. The shotgun blast blows the hockey mask off Jason's face, taking quite a bit of his rotten face with it. Jason falls back into the water. Tommy pumps the empty shell out of the shotgun, then points the gun down at the water. Linny resumes rowing. The hockey mask floats on the surface of the lake, now in several pieces. Bubbles burst up to the surface right beside Tommy, making him jump. He turns the shotgun on that spot and pulls the trigger. The shotgun clicks, empty. TOMMY Shit! Tommy drops the shotgun to the bottom of the canoe, grabs the oars and starts rowing again. After a while, the canoe lurches to a sudden stop, like it's hit something. TOMMY What... Tommy turns around and sees - Jason in the water, his hands on the front of the canoe. He lunges up at Tommy. Tommy jumps back, swinging an oar as hard as he can into the side of Jason's head. The oar snaps in half. Jason slams into Tommy, knocking him back to the bottom of the canoe. Tommy knocks into Linny on his way down, knocking her off the back of the canoe. When Jason and Tommy hit the bottom of the canoe it causes it to crack a bit. Water starts leaking into the canoe. Jason and Tommy grapple on the bottom of the canoe. Jason grabs him by the throat, strangling him, squeezing his throat as hard as he can. Tommy's face is soon very red. Tommy sticks the jagged, broken end of the oar into Jason's side. Jason ignores it. Tommy pulls the oar out, then shoves it upwards - Into the bottom of Jason's chin. Jason pulls back, letting go of Tommy, opening his mouth slightly so we can see the broken end of the oar sticking through the bottom and up into the roof of his mouth. Tommy pulls the oar out of Jason's chin, then stabs him in the chest with it, putting all his weight onto the handle so that Jason falls back into the front of the canoe. The front of the canoe tips into the water and it begins to sink faster. As the canoe sinks, Tommy stabs Jason in the chest with the oar handle repeatedly. After a few stabs, we start seeing quick flashes - Every time Tommy stabs Jason with the oar, we see one frame flashes of him at age 12 chopping Jason's body with the machete and him earlier in the night, stabbing Jason's body with the crowbar. TOMMY You son of a bitch! Linny is in the water a couple yards from the sinking canoe, watching. LINNY Tommy! Tommy, just leave him! Jason swings a fist at the side of Tommy's head. Tommy manages to move his arm around so that Jason's arm hits his, saving his head from the fist. Tommy slams the oar into Jason's heart, and this time leaves it stuck in him. He punches Jason in the face. He grabs the rope that the canoe was tied up with and wraps it around Jason's neck. Jason grabs Tommy by the sides of the head. The canoe goes all the way under the water. CUT TO: IN THE WATER We watch the canoe start sinking toward the bottom of the lake, the rope trailing up toward the surface. CUT TO: EXT. THE LAKE - NIGHT We hear cracking sounds as Jason continues squeezing Tommy's head. Tommy is hitting Jason on the neck and shoulders, but he doesn't let go. Linny starts swimming toward them. CUT TO: IN THE WATER The canoe has sunk deep enough that the rope, still around Jason's neck, pulls taut. CUT TO: EXT. THE LAKE - NIGHT Jason is jerked down into the water by the rope, causing him to lose his grip on Tommy. He disappears into the water. Linny reaches Tommy's side. LINNY Are you alright? Tommy rubs the sides of his head. TOMMY I think so... A rumbling sound comes from the direction of the camp. Tommy and Linny look back to see what it is. CUT TO: EXT. THE CAMP - NIGHT Army trucks and Jeeps roll into the campgrounds. Soldiers with modified rifles pour out of the backs of the trucks. Zombies running toward the soldiers get metal spikes shot into their heads from the rifles. Electricity courses through the spikes and the zombies' eyes glaze over. They then fall to the ground, unconscious. CUT TO: EXT. THE LAKE - NIGHT Tommy and Linny watch all this from the water. TOMMY You think if we... Tommy is interrupted when he's suddenly pulled underwater. CUT TO: IN THE LAKE Jason has managed to grab Tommy's foot as he sinks and is pulling him down with him. Tommy kicks his legs, tries to get back to the surface, but Jason holds on. The canoe hits the bottom of the lake, the rope pulled tight around Jason's neck. Jason struggles to hold on to Tommy while trying to pull the rope from around his neck. Tommy continues to try to get loose, running out of breath. CUT TO: EXT. THE LAKE - NIGHT Linny is watching the bubbles rise to the surface. LINNY Tommy! Linny goes underwater. CUT TO: IN THE LAKE Tommy loses his struggle, forced to breathe water. He makes a couple more frantic movements, then goes limp. Jason lets him go. Linny is swimming down to Tommy when he starts to float back up toward the surface. She grabs on to his arm, going to follow him back up - When Jason grabs her other arm, pulling her down to his level. Linny lets go of Tommy and he continues to rise. Linny tries to swim up after him, but Jason pulls her back down. Linny starts punching and kicking at Jason's head, but it's no use. Linny spots the canoe oar sticking out of his chest. She grabs it with her free arm and starts pulling it out. Jason grabs that arm, too. Linny doesn't give up. She brings her legs around in front of her and kicks Jason in the stomach as hard as she can. The oar pulls out of his chest. Jason lets go of Linny's arm and grabs at the oar. Misses. Linny pulls the oar back away from Jason, then jams it toward his face as hard as she can. The oar sinks into Jason's left eye socket. Jason pulls back, reaching for the oar with both hands. Linny takes this chance to swim away from him. CUT TO: EXT. THE LAKE - NIGHT Linny surfaces beside Tommy's floating body. She grabs him and starts swimming toward the camp shore. CUT TO: INT. A CABIN - NIGHT It's the cabin the group was barricaded in earlier. Jesse is kneeling beside Justine's body, still devouring her brains. A soldier steps up into the cabin's front doorway. Jesse looks up at the soldier and gets a spike shot into his forehead. CUT TO: EXT. THE LAKE - NIGHT Linny pulls Tommy's body onto the shore. Soldiers see them come out of the water and start walking toward them. Linny sees them approaching. LINNY Don't shoot! We're not infected! Linny then turns her back on the soldiers, performing CPR on Tommy. Pushing on his chest, giving him mouth-to-mouth... Tommy doesn't respond. LINNY Come on, Tommy... A group of soldiers gather around, watching. SOLDIER So if he comes back, will he be one of them then? ANOTHER SOLDIER I guess we'll find out. Linny continues the CPR. LINNY I can't be the only one... Still no response from Tommy. Tears run down Linny's face. LINNY I can't be the only one! She hits Tommy hard on the chest. Tommy rolls onto his side, coughing up water. Linny smiles, relieved and kind of surprised. LINNY Tommy... The zombie-concerned soldiers around them get their modified rifles ready. Finished coughing, Tommy looks up at Linny. TOMMY (hoarse) Jason... Where is he? LINNY Where he belongs. Linny motions toward the lake. Tommy sits up, sighing. He and Linny embrace. He's obviously not a zombie. The soldiers lower their rifles. TOMMY It's finally over. We pull back from Tommy and Linny, rising into an aerial shot. Past the soldiers watching them. We end up looking over the campgrounds, soldiers milling around, Army trucks driving out, unconscious zombies laying all over the place. CUT TO: IN THE WATER Jason floats in the dark water. Having removed the broken oar from his eye socket, he's now trying to get the rope off his neck. As he's doing this, a light shines down on him from above. Jason looks up to see what it is. JASON'S P.O.V. - A spotlight shines down on us from the surface. The spotlight becomes the sun as we - DISSOLVE TO: EXT. A MILITARY BASE - DAY CUT TO: INT. THE MILITARY BASE - HALLWAY Two men in suits, SMITH and BURLESON, are walking down the hallway. SMITH So why do they eat brains? BURLESON That's still under investigation. We managed to interrogate one of them, he said it stopped the pain. SMITH What pain? BURLESON Apparently it hurts to be dead. SMITH Well, that's nice to know. BURLESON But there's one of them that seems to have no interest in eating brains. He doesn't mind the pain, I guess. We can't say for sure, because he doesn't talk. He's a very interesting specimen, though. Apparently he was a serial killer before being re-animated. He's been much more violent and aggressive than the others. He's killed... well, maimed... several of the others, in fact. The only one of them that has any interest in harming others of his kind. We had to give him his own cell... Here it is. Smith and Burleson reach a large window with thick, shatterproof glass. They stop and look in. We look through the glass and see Jason chained up in a small cell. He stands against the far wall, staring straight at Smith and Burleson. Straight at us. We move through the glass, slowly zooming in on Jason's face. As he stares at us, eye full of hate, full of rage, we - FADE TO BLACK. The end credits roll. Cast CJ Graham as Jason Voorhees Thom Mathews as Tommy Jarvis Marsha Dietlin as Linny Jennifer Cooke as Clare Dana Ashbrook as Rand Suzanne Snyder as Justine David Kagen as Carl Philip Bruns as Doc Trimmer Hal Havins as Z Tom Fridley as Cort Ron Palillo as Dave Jonathan Terry as Colonel Glover Mitch Pileggi as Sergeant Sally Smythe as Eve Allan Trautman as Tarman Brian Peck as several zombies THE END Deathcount 1. Dave - jugular ripped out with crowbar (Jason) 2. Partier #1 - impaled through beer keg with fence pole (Jason) 3. Partier #2 - impaled with fence pole (Jason) 4. Partier #3 - stabbed in the face with fence pole (Jason) 5. Partier #4 - impaled with fence pole, tossed into lake (Jason) 6. Partier #5 - hit in the head with fence pole (Jason) 7. Partier #6 - throat cut open with fence pole (Jason) 8. Partier #7 - fence pole thrown into his back (Jason) 9. Partier #8 - impaled with fence pole offscreen (Jason) 10. Partier #9 - brains eaten (Tar Man) 11. Partier #10 - pulled into the ground (Zombie) 12. Partier #11 - run over by train 13-15. Partiers #12-14 - torn apart (Zombies) 16. Mr. Mandel - heart ripped out (Jason) 17. Mrs. Mandel - torn apart offscreen (Jason) 18. Z - turns into a zombie (245 Trioxin) 19. Doc Trimmer - decapitated by thrown axe (Jason) 20. Szech - eaten alive offscreen (Zombies) 21. Cort - falls head-first onto concrete patio (Zombie-induced accident) 22. Jesse - turns into a zombie (245 Trioxin) 23. Soldier #4 - stabbed in the chest (Jason) 24. Soldier #3 - hit in face with rifle (Jason) 25. Soldier #2 - knife thrown into his throat (Jason) 26. Soldier #1 - and 27. Sergeant - killed offscreen (Zombies) 28. Rand - impaled with machete (Jason) 29. Carl - stabbed in the chest with machete (Jason) 30. Clare - crushed in a bear hug (Jason) 31. Justine - brain eaten (Jesse Zombie) What happened to Eve? The original intention was that she was evacuated. But if you want to imagine that it was zombies busting into the house and that she was killed, go right ahead.