1979 D R A C U L A cast Count Dracula.........................Frank Langella Abraham Van Helsing.................Laurence Olivier Lucy Seward............................Kate Nelligan Mina Van Helsing.........................Jan Francis Dr. Jack Seward.....................Donald Pleasance Jonathan Harker...........................Trevor Eve Milo Renfield....................................... SUNDOWN A Schooner from Varna Seamen attempt to toss overboard a crate labeled 'Count Dracula, Whitby, Yorkshire, England' A wolf leaps from the crate THAT NIGHT Billabeck Hall Sanitorium Dr. Seward races through a ward of agitated mental patients SEWARD: Swales, for God sakes, give these poor wretches some laudanum to calm their shattered nerves. SWALES: They won't take nothing, Dr. Seward. I can't do anything. ANNIE: Dr. Seward! Dr. Seward, where's Miss Lucy? Where's Miss Lucy to help with my baby? SEWARD: Mrs. Callaway, where is my daughter? CALLAWAY: Miss Lucy's upstairs in the house, sir, looking after that friend of hers. LUCY: How can she abandon us? Swales, I'm coming down. Lucy's Bedroom Lucy and Mina prepare for bed LUCY: "...but anyway, you needn't worry. As soon as you finish law school, I'm sure our firm will hire you in a second." MINA: Hey! LUCY: "You will make a beautiful addition to the firm of Snodgrass, Shilling and Wollop." The storm blows open the window MINA: Good Lord! Is it all right? LUCY: Yes...yes. MINA: You know, Lucy, you're so much braver than I am...taking on all those men like that. LUCY: But don't you think we ought to have some influence, some say on things? After all... LUCY & MINA: ...we are not chattels! MINA: No, I know we're not. Enter Mrs. Callaway CALLAWAY: Lucy! LUCY: Yes? CALLAWAY: Your father says he needs you in the wards right away. LUCY: Yes, I'm coming. Exit Mrs. Callaway MINA: Oh, do you have to go now Lucy? LUCY: Yes. Into bed. MINA: All right. Thank you. LUCY: Now remember, Mina. If you don't rest, you'll be stuck in this bedroom all winter. MINA: Yes, you're quite right. You go down to them. I'll be fine. LUCY: Good night, darling. MINA: Good night. The Sanitarium Ward Seward paces among the agitated patients Enter Lucy SEWARD: Lucy, we've got our work cut out for us. LUCY: I'm sorry, poppa, but Mina isn't feeling at all well tonight. SEWARD: I know she's our friend but really Mina's never feeling very well. LUCY: Now father, that's not fair. We invited her for her health and we have to look after her. Enter Annie and her baby LUCY: Oh, Annie, don't worry, I'll take him. Let me take him, darling. There we are. Oh,it can't be as bad as that. Offstage: Church bells ANNIE: Bells! SEWARD: What? Bells? ANNIE: Hollow bells...listen. SWALES: Sunken bells! SEWARD: Sunken bells? Are you mad, Swales? LUCY: It's just the church bells to warn the ships, that's all. Lucy's Bedroom Mina, awakened by the bells, goes to the window, sees schooner about to beach and runs down to the beach A wolf jumps from the schooner deck Mina folows the wolf into a cave where she finds a man lying on the ground She goes to him THE NEXT MORNING The beach Villagers remove items from the beached schooner MAN: That's it. A little bit more. Come on, you two, get your hands out of yur pockets. No, no, no. Tell them women to get out of the way. Jonathan Harker drives up POLICE: Sorry, no one allowed on board HARKER: I've got business on board. POLICE: What sort of business? HARKER: I'm a solicitor, Jonathan Harker, and I've been on the road all night from London. SEWARD: Jonathan! It's all right. Let him pass. POLICE: Right. Carry on. SEWARD: What the devil are you doing here? HARKER: Our firm was telegraphed yesterday that this ship had been sighted a week early. The man we represented in the purchase of Carfax Abbey, Count Dracula... SEWARD: Count Dracula, of course! How stupid of me! I almost forgot... HARKER: Is he safe? SEWARD:...in all this...who? HARKER: Dracula! SEWARD: Oh, yes, he's the only one who is. Young Mina found him on the beach last night, and we took him to Carfax. As for the rest of the crew...look. Harker looks at sailor with his throat torn open HARKER: What happened? SEWARD: We don't know. Maybe the ship's log will tell us. Enter Harbourmaster HARKER: Excuse me, is all this cargo the Count's? HARBOURMASTER: Well, there's more down below. but the rest of the crates broke up on them rocks. Seems to be some kind of dirt. HARKER: Dirt? What for? Enter Renfield RENFIELD: Whatever it is, I'll take it. I'll put it on me wagon. HARBOURMASTER: You can't do that, Renfield. The Count's not here to sign for them, and they stay here until he comes round himself. HARKER: I'm sorry, harbourmaster, but the rights of this ship are already completely sacrificed since the tiller of this vessel is held in a dead hand. Now, where's the rest of Dracula's baggage? I'd like to inspect that as well. HARBOURMASTER: Come this way. RENFIELD: Harker, you sold me house right out from under me, and you sold that poor old Count a right bill of goods with your fancy silver tongue! SEWARD: Renfield! RENFIELD: I've half a mind to tell Dracula he's been took good. SEWARD: Mr. Renfield, I wonder if I could impose upon you to ask the Count when he rises if he would join us for dinner tonight at Billabeck Hall? RENFIELD: What? At the loony bin? SEWARD: At my home, Mr. Renfield! RENFIELD: Well, I'll give him the message but I don't think he'll be in the mood for any fancy socializing. LATER The road from Billabeck Hall Lucy and Mina depart in a carriage while Harker and Seward arrive in Harker's car LUCY: Jonathan! Thank God you're here. Lucy hugs Harker SEWARD: There, there, that's enough of that. Save that for after you're married. LUCY: I can't tell you how dreadful it's been! Mina went... HARKER: Slow down, Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, slow down. I had to come up here to meet your new neighbor. LUCY: It was terrifying! Mina found him washed up on the beach. It's a miracle he's not dead. HARKER: God, you look lovely, Lucy! LUCY: I look dreadful. I haven't been to bed all night. SUNDOWN Carfax Abbey Renfield drags crate of dirt into the Abbey Dracula rises from another crate RENFIELD: This is the last one and lucky for you cause I'm not a bloody machine. Dracula changes into bat and flies at Renfield THAT EVENING The Seward Parlour Lucy, Mina, Seward, Harker and Swales share drinks before dinner SEWARD: ...pushed along by the storm, no doubt. HARKER: No storm could have caused that captain's throat wound. I've never seen anything so ghastly. LUCY: Please, Jonathan, not before dinner. HARKER: Sorry. MINA: And Dr. Seward, that wolf or dog or whatever it was? SEWARD: A dog, I'm sure. Probably the ship's mascot. SWALES: Early this morning, that big dog belonging to Dussman were found dead as a doornail. Had it's throat tored away. HARKER: Tore away? SWALES: Aye. By some savage claw, they say. Enter Butler BUTLER: Count Dracula. Enter Dracula DRACULA: Good evening. Miss Seward. SEWARD: Good evening, Count. DRACULA: Dr. Seward. Miss Van Helsing, my saviour. I trust you're feeling improved. MINA: Yes, thank you. LUCY: I don't think she looks well at all. DRACULA: Well, perhaps a trifle pale. HARKER: Count Dracula, we've haven't actually met. SEWARD: This is... DRACULA: Yes, Jonathan Harker, my new English solicitor. I have enjoyed our correspondence. HARKER: As I have, too, I must say. DRACULA: I must thank you for finding me an extraordinary house here on Whitby. HARKER: It's a pleasure. LUCY: (laughs) I'm sorry, but I don't see how anyone, except possibly Milo Renfield, could spend even a day at Carfax Abbey. DRACULA: A house, Miss Seward, cannot be made habitable in a day. And, after all, how few days go to make up a century. LUCY: I'm sorry, I don't understand. DRACULA: I am of an old family. To live in a new house would be impossible for me. Enter Swales SWALES: I've got dinner hot, if anybody cares. HARKER: I care, Mr. Swales. Come on, Lucy. Exit Harker and Lucy SEWARD: Come along, Count. Food. Exit Seward DRACULA: Miss Van Helsing? Exit Mina and Dracula The Seward Dining Room Seward, Lucy, Harker and Mina discuss the beached schooner with Dracula DRACULA: It is difficult for me to express precisely, but there seemed to be a doom over the ship from the moment we left Varna. SEWARD: Count, some wine? You haven't... DRACULA: No, thank you, I never drink wine. LUCY: Before you arrived, we were looking at the ship's log. DRACULA: It wasn't lost at sea? LUCY: No. The very last entry was a strange word, a word that Mina thought meant 'undead'. DRACULA: Undead? LUCY: Yes. 'Nosferatu'. DRACULA: Ah, it means 'not dead'. LUCY: You were right. DRACULA: No, with your permission and all due respect, Miss Van Helsing... Swales attempts to remove Dracula's full dinner plate DRACULA: Yes, I'm quite through, thank you...there is a distinction. The words 'not dead' carry the simple meaning... SWALES: Damn! Swales licks blood from a cut finger Dracula watches intently MINA: Dead...undead...I don't care. They all frighten me. LUCY: Oh, I love to be frightened. DRACULA: Do you? LATER The Seward Parlour Harker and Lucy dance Mina pours coffee for Seward and Dracula DRACULA: This is written in an obscure regional dialect. The captain was a Magyar. I am Shekyl. Unfortunately, I cannot translate it for you. SEWARD: Magyar. Shekyl. I had no idea, Count, that your country was so complex. DRACULA: Oh, we're doctor. Indeed, it's very very complex. MINA: Coffee? SEWARD: Umm. So, you've come to England, Count, to settle down? DRACULA: Settle down? No, hardly. I've come to wander through the crowded streets of London. Or to be here in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death. MINA: You have a great lust for life, Count. DRACULA: How well you phrase it. MINA: (faints) LUCY: Mina! MINA: Oh, I'm all right. I'm all right, I'm just dizzy. SEWARD: Swales, get the laudanum. DRACULA: No, no drugs. You must not pollute her blood. Put her here, on the couch. Forgive me, Doctor. You see, in my country we are a simpler people. The strain of the last day has been too much for you, Miss Van Helsing. And I am the cause, I fear. MINA: No, no, no. It's just this...this pain in my head. It runs down here into my neck. DRACULA: I can remove this pain. SEWARD: Yes, and so can I. Swales, get my... DRACULA: Such pains yield readily to suggestion. HARKER: If you mean hypnotism, she'd be better off having the pain. LUCY: Why? DRACULA: I suspect Mr. Harker thinks of some ugly waving of arms. That is not my method. Now, look at me. When I will you to do a thing, it shall be done, here and always. From now on, you have no pain. LUCY: And no will of her own, either. SEWARD: Lucy! DRACULA: I admire your candor, Miss Seward. It is precisely the kind of stimulating encounter I'd hoped to find here in England. HARKER: Indeed. DRACULA: Yes, indeed. I despise women with no life in them. No blood. When you awake, you will remember nothing. MINA: (wakes). Good Lord, was it something that I said? DRACULA: Well, Mr. Harker, come. We must talk seriously. I want to sign the deed to my new home here in England. HARKER: Of course. LUCY: Tonight, I won't hear of it. This is meant to be a party to welcome our new neighbor. Come, Count, come and dance with me. DRACULA: But I hardly know... LUCY: It doesn't matter. I'll teach you. DRACULA: I meant I hardly know you. LUCY: Nonsense. Lucy and Dracula dance as Harker frowns THAT NIGHT Lucy's Bedroom Lucy gets out of bed while Mina sleeps on The Seward Parlour Enter Lucy on tiptoes LUCY: (whispering) Jonathan? Jonathan? Enter Harker HARKER: Booo! LUCY: Oh, my God, Jonathan, don't ever do that... HARKER: I thought you loved to be frightened? LUCY: I think I shall go back to bed, Mr. Harker. HARKER: Mister Harker, is it? I see. Looks like I'm not going to be good enough for the likes of you anymore, hobnobbing with royalty now, are we? LUCY: Really, Jonathan, you pretend to be so utterly modern. We were just dancing. HARKER: Just dancing. That's a right amazing way of putting it. LUCY: Do you know, Jonathan, if you go on being cross, you're going to sprout the most enormous wart right on the end of your nose. The outside wall of the sanitarium Dracula crawls down the wall from the roof Lucy's Bedroom Mina awakens to see Dracula remove windowpane Enter Dracula The Seward Parlour Lucy and Harker sit together Offstage: Wolf howl HARKER: It's nothing. Just a dog. LATER Lucy's Bedroom Lucy covers Mina with a blanket and returns to bed Carfax Abbey Renfield awakens and eats a cockroach RENFIELD: Here we go. Nice and fat and juicy. Enter Dracula DRACULA: Good evening. Renfield attempts to leave but the door won't open DRACULA: It will not open. You have nothing to fear. I'm accustomed to barring my home. There are wolves in Transylvania. RENFIELD: Not here, there ain't. DRACULA: You must have patience with me. You must try to understand me. I can reward you with a long and fruitful life, but I must have your loyalty. Can you give that? RENFIELD: (nods) DRACULA: Then come. RENFIELD: I've been bit by a bat. DRACULA: Yes, I see. THE NEXT MORNING Lucy's Bedroom Lucy is awakened by Mina gasping for air LUCY: Mina, what's wrong? What is it? Poppa! Poppa! Come quickly. Darling, try and tell me what's wrong. What is it? Poppa, come quickly. Enter Seward LUCY: Poppa, help her! SEWARD: What's wrong with her? LUCY: She can't breathe. MINA: My throat. I can't get any air. SEWARD: There's plenty. Take a deep breath. Enter Harker HARKER: What happened? SEWARD: I don't know. She's so white. Asphyxia? LUCY: Just breathe in, darling. Just breathe. Try. SEWARD: Breathe, Mina. Mina, breathe. Breathe. MINA: I can't. I can't. SEWARD: Breathe. Breathe. Breathe, Mina. LUCY: Breathe, Mina. Breathe. Breathe. Poppa! Oh, darling! MINA: (stops breathing entirely) LUCY: Oh, my God, Poppa! She's dead! Look at her throat! SEWARD: Two punctures. Not very large but not wholesome. LUCY: Not wholesome? Poppa, what are you talking about? Exit Lucy and Harker LATER The Breakfast Table Seward talks on the phone as Mina and Harker eat breakfast SEWARD: Twelve Van Rigelstadt, Amsterdam. Yes, Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Now, read the whole thing back to me like a good girl. Enter Swales with food platter LUCY: Nothing for me, thank you. HARKER: Come on, you need your strength. LUCY: I should never have left her alone. HARKER: That's preposterous. You had no way of knowing. SEWARD: Mina has died. No, not lied...DIED. Telegraph, oh, come at once. Your dear friend on this saddest of occasions. Jack Seward. Yes. I do hope the professor gets it. That poor poor man. LUCY: Poor Mina. HARKER: Do you think it was her heart? LUCY: Or that pain in her head last night? SEWARD: I don't know. It's been so long since I've practiced real medicine. LUCY: Well, what do you think killed her? SEWARD: Killed her? That's an odd word. Yet, there was no sign of disease. HARKER: What about those marks on her neck? SEWARD: Marks on her neck, um? Perhaps she injured herself fastening her shawl. LUCY: Oh, father, don't be absurd! You saw those wounds! NEAR SUNDOWN Carfax Abbey Jonathan knocks on the door and enters HARKER: Hello? Hello? Is anyone at home? Hello? Count Dracula! Enter Dracula DRACULA: You needn't shout, Mr. Harker. You frightened me. HARKER: I'm sorry. I had a key. I had to let myself in. DRACULA: I wonder where Renfield can be? HARKER: I don't know. I knocked but he didn't... DRACULA: Yes. Well, the man is worthless. It doesn't matter, at any rate, you are here. Welcome, come up. HARKER: Thank you. Hello. DRACULA: Good evening. I'm sorry to hear of Miss Van Helsing's death. HARKER: You know already? DRACULA: Yes. News of death travels fast. She was very ill. I could tell last night when I looked into her eyes. HARKER: Yes. She'd been frail all her life. Here's your key. I only had it to inspect the property. DRACULA: Yes, of course. Have you brought the original deed? HARKER: Yes, if you'd like to sign at the bottom. And some customs documents for your crates. Now, I didn't know what to say of their contents. DRACULA: Soil. HARKER: Soil? Just plain dirt? DRACULA: Transylvanian earth. I have a keen interest in Botany. Can you drive to London at once to record the deed? HARKER: No. Tomorrow I must stay with Lucy for the funeral. DRACULA: Oh, yes. Of course. She's taking it...? HARKER: Not well. She blames herself. She was with me when Mina was taken ill. DRACULA: I see. Then you and Miss Seward will marry? HARKER: Yes, I suppose so, if I can ever persuade her to settle down long enough. DRACULA: Yes. She is stronger than most women, isn't she? HARKER: Yes, she is. I must be getting back now. DRACULA: Mr. Harker, would you deliver this letter to Dr. Seward for me? HARKER: Of course. DRACULA: I should like to offer his daughter and he the hospitality of my home after the funeral. You're welcome, of course, but you are leaving, are you not? HARKER: Good evening. DRACULA: Good evening. Exit Harker The road from Carfax back to Billabeck Hall Harker drives Enter Renfield suddenly from the back seat RENFIELD: Take me to the hospital! Help me get away from the castle! You've got to help me! Help me! You've got to save me! Please, you've got to help me! In a nearby tree, a bat hangs listening The Ward at Billabeck Hall Harker brings in Renfield ATTENDANT: Hold him. Hold him there. RENFIELD: The Master is angry. He promised me lives...not little ones--flies and spiders--but big ones. Human lives! THE NEXT AFTERNOON The Cemetery Mina's Funeral PREACHER: I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, yeah, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever believeth in me shall never die. I know that my redeemer liveth and that I shall rise out of the earth on the last day and shall be covered again with my skin and shall see the Lord in my flesh. Behold, I show you mystery. When the trumpet shall sound, the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed. Then shall be brought to pass that which stays. Death, where is thy sting? Oh, grave, where is thy hatred? HARKER: I don't see why not. It's no good to stay around here feeling sorry for yourself, feeling guilty for no reason. LUCY: You don't understand, Jonathan. I don't want to feel happy, to feel silly, not now. HARKER: Then I'll come back tomorrow night. LUCY: You needn't. I can manage. HARKER: Can you? LUCY: Jonathan, let's not part enemies. HARKER: We're not enemies. SEWARD: Lucy. Oh, Lucy. Mina's father, professor Van Helsing, is arriving from Paris this evening, and we shall have to meet him. I'm afraid we shall be unable to take advantage of Count Dracula's kind invitation to dinner. LUCY: Invitation to dinner? You didn't tell me... SEWARD: Didn't I? Well, it doesn't matter now. I'll have to send word around excusing us. LUCY: No, I'll go. SEWARD: Go? I should have thought you'd rather... LUCY: As a courtesy. SEWARD: He's sending a carriage round at eight, so if you... THAT EVENING, 8:OO P.M. The Road between Billabeck Hall and Carfax Abbey Lucy rides in Dracula's carriage MEANWHILE Whitby Train Station Van Helsing is met by Seward CONDUCTOR: Whitby. Whitby. This is Whitby station. SEWARD: Abraham! In my own house! How could I ever... HELSING: What happened? What, in God's name, could have happened? SEWARD: I don't know. I don't know. HELSING: Jack, Jack, you must explain to me from the beginning as patiently... SEWARD: I am baffled. Carfax Abbey Lucy arrives LUCY: Hello? Hello? Is anyone here? Count Dracula? Enter Dracula DRACULA: Good evening. Welcome to Carfax Abbey, Miss Seward. LUCY: Thank you. DRACULA: I regret Mr. Harker and your father were unable to join us. Let me see to your comfort. The Road from the Train Station to Billabeck Hall Seward rides in a carriage with Van Helsing HELSING: Of course, you examined her with great care? SEWARD: There were no functional causes, none. She'd been nervous, certainly, sleepwalking... HELSING: Sleepwalking? SEWARD: ...nightmares. I prescribed laudanum. HELSING: What? Laudanum? SEWARD: For nervous prostration. HELSING: But a great loss of blood? How? Carfax Abbey Lucy dines with Dracula LUCY: Mina was so young. DRACULA: So are you. LUCY: Tonight I feel positively ancient. DRACULA: There are worse things than death. You must believe me. LUCY: If there are, I can't imagine them. DRACULA: I have buried many friends and I, too, am weary. I am the last of my kind, descended from a conquering race. My family was its heart's blood, its brains, its swords. But the warlike days are over. LUCY: Anyway, it's not healthy to live in the past. DRACULA: No, it isn't. Jonathan Harker tells me you speak some Romanian. LUCY: Oh, hardly, I know... DRACULA: (in Romanian) LUCY: (smiles) DRACULA: There, you do understand. LUCY: No, really. I have no idea what you said. DRACULA: I said 'It would be nice to see you smile'. LUCY: Then you should be pleased. DRACULA: I am. But I must warn you to take care. LUCY: Whatever for? DRACULA: If, at any time, my company does not please you, you will have only yourself to blame for an acquaintance who seldom forces himself but is difficult to be rid of. THAT NIGHT The Ward at Billabeck Hall A woman in tattered clothes leaps from a second floor window Annie comes tearing down the hall, screaming ANNIE: (screams) Murder! She's murdered my baby! SWALES: What's going on here? ANNIE: Doctor, help me! She's murdered my baby! SWALES: My God, no, Annie. Stop her! Annie! No, Annie! Don't! SEWARD: What's happening? Seward and Van Helsing find Annie's baby dead HELSING: Two punctures directly into the aorta? ANNIE: She just opened the door, like she had a key. She murdered my little Alex. She was as hot as like a burning coal, and her eyes were red like rubies, and her lips all drawn back, and her breath so foul. And she had these long, dreadful teeth like the fangs of a wolf...like nothing from this earth. Then she grabbed him, and I grabbed her, and the next thing I remember, she bit him in the throat. HELSING: This woman, you did not know her? ANNIE: Yes, I did. I did so. It was Miss Lucy's friend Mina who we put in the earth yesterday. Carfax Abbey Lucy and Dracula walk outside Offstage: Wolf call DRACULA: Listen to them, the children of the night. What sad music they make. LUCY: Do you think it's sad? DRACULA: So lonely, like weeping. LUCY: I think it's a wonderful sound. I really love the night. It's so simple. DRACULA: So deceptive. LUCY: So exciting. DRACULA: You take the dawn for granted. The warm, hot sunlight. Ah, but the night... LUCY: ...was made to enjoy. DRACULA: Yes. Yes, it was. It was made to enjoy life...and love. Look at me. Look. You must forgive me. LUCY: What for? DRACULA: For intruding on your life. LUCY: I came of my own accord. DRACULA: You should perhaps go. LUCY: No, I'd rather stay. DRACULA: It will be light soon. LUCY: Not for hours yet. DRACULA: I will see you again. LUCY: Oh, please! EARLY THE NEXT MORNING The Seward Parlour Van Helsing sits reading about vampire bats Enter Seward SEWARD: Abraham? HELSING: Jack! SEWARD: Will you take some breakfast? HELSING: Oh, yes, thank you, Jackie. A little later perhaps, if you please? SEWARD: Thank you. THAT EVENING The Cemetery Van Helsing sits overlooking Mina's grave which has been covered with garlic flowers Enter Lucy LUCY: Professor, you should come inside now. It's getting very cold. HELSING: I was just sitting a while with Mina. LUCY: What are these? HELSING: Ah, those tiny flowers are from the garlic plant. LUCY: Whatever for? HELSING: Do you believe in corporeal transference? LUCY: No. HELSING: In materialization? LUCY: No. HELSING: And not in astral bodies? LUCY: What has this to do with Mina? HELSING: You know the legends of Central Europe of the werewolves and vampires? LUCY: Vampires? HELSING: Creatures who suck the blood of the living? LUCY: You aren't saying that you believe that Mina attacked... HELSING: A creature that is dead and yet not dead. A thing that lives after its death by drinking... LUCY: Oh, no, please... HELSING: It must have blood or it dies an agonizing death. Miss Lucy, I wonder if I may? Van Helsing hands Lucy a small box HELSING: This was to be Mina's for her birthday. She would want you to have it and to wear it always. Lucy pulls out a crucifix VANHELSING: Always. Mina puts on the crucifix Enter Dracula on horseback DRACULA: Good evening, Lucy. LUCY: Good evening. DRACULA: I am Count Dracula. HELSING: Abraham Van Helsing. DRACULA: Then it is your daughter, sir, who brings me here. I have come to pay my respects. What is that around your neck? LUCY: This? It's a gift from Professor Van Helsing. DRACULA: How kind. LUCY: We were just going inside. Perhaps you'd like to join us? DRACULA: No, thank you. With your permission, sir? HELSING: With my blessing. The Seward Parlour Enter Lucy and Van Helsing LUCY: Do sit down, professor. I'll bring you some tea. HELSING: Thank you, Miss Lucy. Van Helsing looks out window to see Dracula's horse rearing over Mina's grave LATER The Cemetery Van Helsing, Seward and Swales lead a horse A wolf looks on from the shadows SEWARD: Abraham, this is nonsense. Witchcraft! This beast can tell us nothing. There are no such things as vampires. There's nothing but the Lord's own dead out here. The horse begins to rear SWALES: I can't hold it! SEWARD: What if he should break a leg? HELSING: He won't. Look how alert! See, he knows. He will find out where lies the vampire just as surely as you, Jack Seward, could predict a human cancer. The horse paws at Mina's grave SEWARD: Stop him! Dear God in heaven, stop him! THAT NIGHT Lucy's Bedroom Lucy sits on her bed Enter Dracula Dracula drinks of Lucy then opens a vein in his chest for her to drink DRACULA: Now it is you, my best beloved one. You will be flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood. You shall cross land or sea to do my bidding. I need your blood. I need. MEANWHILE The Cemetery Helsing and Seward prepare to open Mina's coffin HELSING: Give me a wrench and pliers, Jack. Hold up the cross. The coffin is empty SEWARD: It's not possible! I saw her put...body snatchers! Van Helsing notices a hole in the side of the coffin SEWARD: The mines! They run underneath the entire town, everywhere. Van Helsing slides through the hole SEWARD: No. No, Abraham, please, I...I...beg you...don't! Seward follows Van Helsing A bat lunges at Van Helsing and he drops the cross SEWARD: The cross! The cross! Enter Mina HELSING: Mina! MINA: Poppa, komme mit mir. Komme, poppa. HELSING: Leave me! MINA: Poppa! Poppa! SEWARD: Mina, No! Seward jumps Mina and burns a mark in her forehead with the cross Mina spins around and is impaled on a stake held by Van Helsing MINA: Poppa! Mina dies LATE THAT NIGHT The front door at Billabeck Hall Mrs. Galloway opens the door to Harker MRS. GALLOWAY: Mr. Harker! HARKER: Mrs. Galloway, I'm sorry to bother you at this hour but is Miss Lucy... GALLOWAY: In her room, sound asleep, which is where we should all be if we had more common sense. HARKER: Yes, you're right. I think I'll do the same. I'll wait till morning to say hello. Lucy? It's Jonathan. Lucy? Lucy lies across the bed in a faint HARKER: What's the matter? Lucy! Oh, Lucy, what is it? Lucy? Enter Seward and Van Helsing SEWARD: Come, Abraham, we need to get......Jonathan? HARKER: Dr. Seward, thank God you're here. Quickly, look at Lucy. She's so cold. Professor...? HELSING: She has lost a great deal of blood. SEWARD: There's scarcely any pulse. She'll have to be given a blood transfusion. I pray to God that one of us has her type. Swales! LATER Lucy's Bedroom Seward gives Lucy a transfusion of Harker's blood Enter Van Helsing with basket of garlic HELSING: Take these and rub them against the inside of all doors and windows. Crush them against the glass so that the fragrance permeates the whole room and keeps away all evil. And don't forget the little room in there. HARKER: Oh, good God, Professor, not garlic. I'm sick to my stomach as it is. SEWARD: Are you feeling weak? HARKER: No, it doesn't matter. HELSING: She needs more than your blood, Jonathan. HARKER: What she doesn't need is to breathe the odor from those wretched plants! HELSING: Do not trifle with me. There is a grim purpose in all I do. SEWARD: Just a little bit longer. Exit Van Helsing The Seward Parlour Van Helsing fixes himself a drink and gazes in a mirror HELSING: Oh, how in the devil... Enter Dracula DRACULA: I'm not as bad as that. HELSING: I did not hear you come in, Count. DRACULA: I am often told I have a light footstep. HELSING: I was looking in the mirror. It reflects the whole room, and yet I cannot see... Dracula throws a vase, breaking the mirror DRACULA: Forgive me, Doctor, I dislike mirrors. They are the playthings of man's vanity. HELSING: You are a most unusual creature, Count Dracula. DRACULA: Yes. How is the fair patient? HELSING: Her diagnosis presents difficulties. DRACULA: I feared it might, my friend. HELSING: Would you care to see what I have prescribed for her? DRACULA: Anything that you've prescribed for Miss Lucy has the greatest interest for me. HELSING: My prescription is a most unusual one. Van Helsing holds up a bunch of garlic Dracula cowers behind his cape DRACULA: You are a wise man, Professor, for one who has not lived even a single lifetime. HELSING: You flatter me, Count. DRACULA: But not wise enough to return to Holland at once now that you have learned what you have learned. HELSING: I prefer to remain. DRACULA: In the past 500 years, Professor, those who have crossed my path have all died, and some not pleasantly. Come here! Van Helsing takes steps toward Dracula then stops DRACULA: Your will is strong. Then, I must come to you. Dracula advances on Van Helsing Van Helsing pulls out a eucharist DRACULA: Sacrilege! Sacrilege! Dracula leaps toward the window while changing into a wolf Enter Seward and Harker SEWARD: Abraham, the color is returning to Lucy's cheeks. HARKER: Professor? SEWARD: Abraham, what's happened to you? HELSING: Dracula has been here. HARKER: What for? HELSING: He came to kill me. SEWARD: He what? HELSING: It is he who is the vampire. SEWARD: Abraham, this night has been a monstrous... HELSING: He came to kill me, and now he will prey upon you. HARKER: What's happening? Please, for God's sake, will someone tell me what is happening? THE NEXT MORNING The Cemetery Seward, Van Helsing, Harker and Swales uncover Mina's body HARKER: She looks... HELSING: Alive? She is the devil's undead. SEWARD: Nosferatu. HARKER: You can't seriously expect me to believe that Count Dracula is some hideous monster? HELSING: I don't expect you to believe anything but what is. Van Helsing holds up mirror Mina casts no reflection HARKER: What are you going to do? HELSING: To save her soul, I must take out her heart. SEWARD: Heaven and earth, NO! HELSING: It's not your choice. She was my daughter. If we fail here, it is not merely a matter of life and death, it is that we shall become such as she. That we and your Lucy... HARKER: No, it's not possible! HELSING: ...may become foul things of the night. There is work, wise work, to be done. And now are the powers of all the devils against us. Van Helsing makes an incision into Mina's chest Lucy's Bedroom Lucy peers through the window watching the events in the cemetery LUCY: Mrs. Galloway? GALLOWAY: Yes? LUCY: Would you be kind enough to make me a cup of tea. I feel rather cold. GALLOWAY: No wonder. The doctor's orders were that you should stay in bed. But how he thinks I could keep you there, I don't know. The Seward Foyer Mrs. Galloway walks through with tea Enter Harker, Van Helsing and Seward HARKER: Mrs. Galloway. GALLOWAY: Good morning, Mr. Harker. HARKER: Where's Lucy? GALLOWAY: In her room. She's looking much better and asking for tea. Harker, Van Helsing and Seward run to front door in time to see Lucy ride off in carriage HARKER: Get the car! The road from Billabeck to Carfax Harker, Van Helsing and Seward in car chase Lucy in carriage SEWARD: Lucy, stop! For God's sake, Lucy, stop! HARKER: What are you doing? Where are you going? LUCY: Get out of my way, Jonathan. HELSING: There! Now you must believe! HARKER: Lucy, now you can't possibly go to him. LUCY: He's no danger to me. HARKER: He's a monster, a vampire! HELSING: She means to warn him. LUCY: Jonathan, if you try to stop me, I shall kill myself. HELSING: I charge you on your living soul, Lucy Seward, that you do not die or think of death until this great evil which has fouled your life is true dead himself. LUCY: You dare try to confuse me. Tormenting him who is the saddest, the kindest of all. HELSING: Kind? If I could send his soul to everlasting, burning hell, I would! LUCY: I despise you, all of you. Get out of my way! HARKER: Lucy, no... LUCY: Let me go! Let me go! No! HARKER: Be calm. Be calm. HELSING: Take her home, Jack. Watch over her. SEWARD: Abraham, what are you going to do? HELSING: Miss Lucy's life is at stake, and so is her soul. Jonathan and I must go and find this monster and utterly destroy it! THAT AFTERNOON Carfax Abbey Harker and Van Helsing break into Carfax HARKER: Oh, God, what a stench! HELSING: Take the cross, Jonathan, take the cross. Van Helsing opens Dracula's coffin to find it empty Enter Dracula DRACULA: Gentlemen, how kind of you to call. HELSING: I have underestimated your powers, Count Dracula. To move about in daylight hours! DRACULA: It is always daylight somewhere on earth, Professor. After my rest, my need is only to stay in darkness. Van Helsing holds up large cross Dracula grabs the cross and it bursts into flames DRACULA: You fools! Do you think with your crosses and your wafers you can destroy me? Me! You do not know how many men have come against me. I am the king of my kind. You have accomplished nothing, Van Helsing. Time is on my side. In a century, when you are dust, I shall wake and call Lucy, my queen, from her grave. HARKER: No! DRACULA: Yes. I have in my time had many brides, Mr. Harker, but I shall set Lucy above them all. HARKER: You won't get Lucy. DRACULA: She's mine already. HARKER: Nooo! Harker swings shovel at Dracula Dracula turns into bat and attacks Harker HARKER: God! Damn you! Help me, Professor! Professor! Van Helsing breaks open a hole in the wall letting in sunlight Bat Dracula flies away Helsing places Eucharist in Dracula's coffin HELSING: In nomine patri filius et spiritus sancti. LATER The Ward at Billabeck Sanitarium Seward leads Van Helsing and Harker through the ward SEWARD: But I helped him. I saw that two of those crates were safely delivered from the ship. HELSING: Yes, but you must not blame yourself. He probably had other coffins brought to him other ways. You know this man's cunning. SEWARD: Yes, and my poor Lucy, then. He's probably got them scattered all over Whitby by now. HARKER: Then we'll find them and tear them open one by one. Seward stops in front of a padded cell HARKER: In there? She can't possibly be... SEWARD: I couldn't help it. When she came round, she was like a wild thing. HELSING: You have given her medication? Laudanum? SEWARD: My own daughter? Certainly not! HARKER: No, please, can I have a moment alone with her? Please, I must. I must. HELSING: But remember, Jonathan, she is not what she will seem. Lucy's Cell Lucy sits on a cot Enter Harker LUCY: Jonathan! What happened to your face? You're frightened of me, too, aren't you? Oh, it can't be! I don't understand. I don't understand what's happening to me. HARKER: You seem yourself again. LUCY: I've never felt so weak. HARKER: Weak? You had the strength of ten men. LUCY: Jonathan, can you still love me? HARKER: I worship you. Lucy embraces Harker LUCY: Will you tell me something? HARKER: But of course. LUCY: What were you doing, you and my father and the Professor, in the cemetery to Mina? HARKER: I can't. I can't. LUCY: You say you love me, but you don't trust me. HARKER: Oh, Lucy, with my life, my soul. LUCY: Then tell me. What were you doing, you and the professor, at Carfax? I only want to know if you can still love me. HARKER: Oh, Lucy, please! Please! LUCY: There's no need to hide your schemes and your plots from me, is there? HARKER: No. LUCY: Jonathan, it's no use. Whatever he wants to know, he finds out. He knows everything you think, everything you do. HARKER: Lucy, stop, please! LUCY: All right. HARKER: Stop it. LUCY: All right. HARKER: No. LUCY: Don't worry. HARKER: No, Lucy, please. LUCY: There's nothing to be frightened of. I love you. HARKER: No, please. No. LUCY: Shhhh. HARKER: No. Oh, no. Lucy kisses Harker and attempts to bite his neck HARKER: Professor! Professor! Enter Van Helsing with crucifix LUCY: Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Lucy kisses crucifix and passes out SEWARD: She'll sleep now. HARKER: But shouldn't we stay with her? SEWARD: It's all right. My people will look after her. Renfield's cell Swales fights with Renfield RENFIELD: Give me them back! Give me them back! Give me them back! Give me them! Dr. Seward, make him give me them back! Enter Seward, Van Helsing and Harker SWALES: He's collecting bugs! SEWARD: Bugs? SWALES: And he's eating them alive. He's disgusting! RENFIELD: You'll see what disgusting is when he comes. HELSING: Excuse me. When who comes, please? RENFIELD: You know. Give me them back, you crap brain old buzzard. Ah, you've got no blood in you, anyway. Besides, I've got one here that you didn't find. SWALES: In the strait jacket with him. SEWARD: Do you think Dracula will come back tonight? HARKER: Of course, he will. SEWARD: When? HELSING: We must obviously be ready. LATE THAT NIGHT Renfield's Cell Renfield in straitjacket stands at window RENFIELD: They shouldn't have tied me up like this. I would've gone quiet, like a kitten. I'd like a kitten, a nice, little, sleek, playful kitten that I could feed you to. I'd play with him. And I'd stroke him. And I'd feed him and feed him and feed him. Renfield looks out window and sees Dracula climbing up the wall RENFIELD: Swales! Mr. Swales! Mr. Swales, he's coming to get me. He's climbing straight up the wall to get me. I'm dying and he's laughing with his red mouth and those sharp white teeth of his like rats, hundreds and thousands and millions of them. Enter Dracula RENFIELD: Oh, God, help my poor soul. DRACULA: Renfield. RENFIELD: I'm a slave, I'm a dog, master. Put please, don't kill me. For the love of God, let me live. DRACULA: Did I not promise you that you should come to me at your death and enjoy centuries of life and power over the bodies and souls of others? RENFIELD: But I don't want human life. DRACULA: You betrayed me. You sought to warn them all against me. RENFIELD: Then punish me. Torture me. I deserve it. But, please, let me live. DRACULA: Oh, Renfield, you disappoint me so. Dracula breaks Renfield's neck The ward explodes into commotion The Ward Harker and Seward run to Lucy's cell HARKER: Dracula? Come on! Quickly. Lucy! Lucy! Find a hole in the wall and no Lucy Van Helsing, Seward and Harker look out window to see Dracula and Lucy climbing down the wall SEWARD: Come on. Where is he taking her, Abraham? The Road from Billabeck to Carfax Seward, Van Helsing and Harker in car follow Dracula and Lucy on foot SEWARD: Faster! HARKER: I can't go any faster! Carfax Abbey Enter Dracula and Lucy DRACULA: Lucy, come. Come to me. Lucy and Dracula embrace DRACULA: Now, you must go on a bit longer as a creature of the sun, only until we have left behind those who would destroy us. LUCY: And then? DRACULA: Then you will join me on a higher plane, feeding on them. We will create more of our kind, Lucy. LATER A Crossroad Harker's car comes to a stop HARKER: Which way? SEWARD: I know that way lies Scarborough but I don't know! VAN HELSING: Listen. Listen. Sound of a wagon approaching HARKER: Hey, there, driver! SEWARD: Tom Hensley, is that you? HENSLEY: Yes, sir, it's me. HARKER: What are you doing out here at this hour? HENSLEY: I had to pick up another one of them damn crates and take it to the dock at Scarborough before I could...woah! Woah! Hensley's horses charge onwards SEWARD: Look. That crate! HARKER: Scarborough! VAN HELSING: The port! HARKER: Then he's leaving England. SEWARD: After him. Harker follows Hensley SEWARD: Hensley, for God's sake, stop, man! HENSLEY: I can't stop her. I'm doing my best. Whoa, Nellie! Hensley's cart hits a rock and throws him into the road SEWARD: Look out. Harker's car runs off the road into a tree SEWARD: This thing mocks us, Abraham. HELSING: If we are beaten, then there is no God. HARKER: The axle's cracked. HELSING: Scarborough, how far is it? SEWARD: It's ten miles. It's no use. HARKER: Come on, we must try. Harker, Seward and Van Helsing begin walking TEN MILES LATER The Scarborough Dock Harker, Seward and Van Helsing arrive on the dock SEWARD: Where is it? HELSING: You, sir. This wagon. You did see it arrive? BOATSMAN: Is that the one with the big crates on it? HARKER: Yes, where is it? BOATSMAN: It's out there, aboard the Czarina Catherina, bound for Romania. HARKER: Take us to Romania. HELSING: We must catch that ship. BOATSMAN: What? HELSING: You stay here, in case they are not on board. Keep well, bye. SEWARD: Take care. The Czarina Catherina Van Helsing and Harker board HARKER: Dracula, where is he? Count Dracula is on this ship. SAILORS: Nyet, nyet. HELSING: Nosferatu. Vampyr! Harker and Van Helsing descend into the hold HARKER: Where is it? Come on. HELSING: Jonathan, here! HARKER: I see it. Open the coffin to find Lucy lying in Dracula's arms Lucy awakens and is lifted out by Harker Van Helsing places stake over Dracula's heart LUCY: Noooooooooooooo! Dracula awakens and impales Van Helsing Dracula attempts to break Harker's neck Van Helsing throws a winchhook into Dracula's back Harker winds Dracula up the mast where he hangs in the sunlight LUCY: Nooooooo! Lucy becomes human again Dracula's cape escapes from the mast Lucy smiles THE END