EVIL DEAD II Screenplay by Sam Raimi Produced by Robert Tapert Directed by Sam Raimi Cast List: Bruce Campbell Ash Sarah Berry Annie Dan Hicks Jake Kassie Wesley Bobby Joe Richard Domeier Ed Denise Bixler Linda Theodore Raimi Possessed Henrietta Lou Hancock Henrietta FADE IN: MONTAGE OF THE ORIGINS OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD PROFESSR (V.O.) Legend has it that it was written by the Dark Ones. Necronomicon ex Mortis, roughly translated, "Book of the Dead". The book served as a passageway to the evil worlds beyond. It was written long ago. When the seas ran red with blood. It was this blood that was used to ink the book. In the year 1300 AD, the book disappeared. TITLE CARD: "EVIL DEAD II" INT. CAR - DAY Driving on a remote highway. LINDA So what's this place like? ASH Well it's a little run-down... but, uh, it's right up in the mountains. LINDA Are you sure it's deserted? ASH Oh yeah... I think so. Linda giggles. INT. CABIN - NIGHT ASH Whoa. LINDA (giggle) Ow. ASH So what do you think kid? LINDA I love it Ash. LINDA I feel funny about being here. What if the people who own the place come home? ASH They're not gonna come back. Even if they do we'll tell them the car broke down or something like that. LINDA With your car, they'd believe it. ASH Hey, what do you say we have some champagne hey baby? LINDA Sure. ASH After all, I'm a man and you're a woman, at least last time I checked. LINDA OK. ASH Hey! There's a... There's a tape recorder here. LINDA See what's on it. PROFESSOR (on tape) This is Professor Raymond Knowby, Department of Ancient History, log entry number two. I believe I have made a significant find in the Castle of Candar. Having journeyed there with my wife Henrietta, my daughter Annie and Associate Professor Ed Getly. It was in the rear chamber of the castle that we stumbled upon something remarkable. Morturom Demonto, the "Book of the Dead". My wife and I brought the book to this cabin where I could study it undisturbed. It was here that I began the translations. The book speaks of a spiritual presence. A thing of evil that roams the forests and the dark bowers of man's domain. It is through the recitation of the book's passages that this dark spirit is given license to possess the living. Included here are the phonetic pronunciations of those passages. "Cunda astratta montose eargrets gutt nos veratoos canda amantos canda". ASH Linda? Hey Lind... EXT. CABIN ASH Linda!?! Linda... AT THE CABIN - DAY ASH It's gone. The sun's driven it away. Yeah. For now. Gotta... Gotta blow out of here for now... EVIL FORCE Join us. ASH Ah. Oh. Oh God. No. Oh no. No... no... No!!!! Gotta, I gotta get a grip on myself here. AIRPORT - NIGHT Annie (to Crewer) Thank you. ED Annie! ANNIE Hi! ED How'd the expedition go? ANNIE Great. I found the pages of the Book of the Dead. ED Yeah, I got your telegram. Thanks. So what condition are they in? ANNIE Take a look. ED They haven't aged a day in 3000 years. ANNIE Maybe longer. ED When do we begin the translations? ANNIE Tonight. Is everything all set with my father? ED Well, it should be but I haven't spoken with him in a week. There's no phone in the cabin. We'll take my car, it'll take us about an hour to get there. Annie you hinted in your telegram that your father was onto something in the first part of his translations. What has he found in the Book of the Dead? ANNIE Probably nothing. But just possibly, a doorway to another world? INT. CABIN - NIGHT LINDA (possessed) Dance with me. (cackling) ASH Ahhhhhh Ehhh... yeah, just a... LINDA (possessed) Hello lover. ASH Workshed. INT. WORKSHED LINDA (possessed) Even now we have your darling Linda's soul. She suffers in torment. ASH You're going down. Chainsaw. LINDA Please Ash... please don't hurt me. You swore- you swore that we'd always be together. I love you. ASH Nooo! LINDA (possessed) Yah! Your lover is mine and now she burns in Hell. ASH Oh yeah, alright... OK. INT. CABIN - NIGHT Ash looks at his reflection in a mirror. ASH I'm fine... I'm fine. MIRROR ASH I don't think so. We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound fine? (chuckle) ASH You bastards! You dirty bastards! Give me back my hand! Give me back my haaaaand!! AT THE WRECKED BRIDGE - NIGHT ANNIE Excuse me. Excuse me. Is this the road to the Knowby cabin? JAKE That's right. And you ain't going there. ANNIE And why not? ANNIE There must be another way in. There's gotta be another road or something. BOBBY JOE Sure ain't no road. Why the hell do you want to go up there for anyway? Huh? ANNIE None of your business. JAKE (clap) Hey! I just remembered. Why, yeah... that's right. There is a trail. You could uh, follow Bobby Joe and me. ED Sounds alright to me. JAKE But it'll cost ya. ANNIE How much? JAKE Forty fi... (nudge from Bobby Joe) Hundred bucks. ANNIE Tell ya what, you take my bags and you got a deal. JAKE Sure. (dorky laugh) ANNIE (with an evil grin) Heh heh. INT. CABIN - NIGHT ASH Ah. Ah. That's right. Who's laughing now? Who's laughing now? Yahhhh! Ahhhh! TRAIL TO CABIN - NIGHT JAKE Jesus H. Christ... thought all she was talking about were those two Goddamn little bags. INT. CABIN - NIGHT ASH Here's your new home. (BOOM!) Aha!! Son of a... Arrgh! (BOOM! BOOM!) Gotcha didn't I you little sucker?! Old double barrel here... blow your butts to kingdom come. See if we don't... JAKE You little bastard! You gonna be alright honey? BOBBY JOE I-I don't know. I-I think so. JAKE You just sit still for a minute. You know this son of a bitch? ED No we thought her father was going to be here. That's why we decided - ANNIE Oh my God! Where are my parents? What the hell did you do to them? What the hell did you do to them? ED Annie, come here. Annie, come here... come here. JAKE We'll throw him in there. Crazy buck's gone blood seeking. ASH Wait. I made a mistake. Wait. Wait. Wait. I made a mistake. JAKE Damn right. Blackmail son of a bitch. BOBBY JOE I hope you rot down there. INT. CABIN - LATER - NIGHT BOBBY JOE Oh shit! JAKE I know it hurts baby, but everything's gonna be fine. Now in about five minutes I'm gonna go fetch the sheriff and bring him- ED Checked all the other rooms. Folks aren't here. Maybe they never came. ANNIE But these are my father's things. PROFESSOR (on tape) It's only been a few hours since I've translated and spoken aloud the first of the demon resurrection passages from the Book of the Dead. ANNIE Shhh... Listen up. This is my father's voice. PROFESSOR (on tape) And now I fear that my wife has become host to a Candarian Demon. May God forgive me for what I have unleashed unto this earth. Last night Henrietta tried to... kill me. ANNIE No! PROFESSOR (on tape) It's now October 1st, 4:33 PM. Henrietta is dead. I could not bring myself to dismember her corpse. But I dragged her down the steps... and I buried her. I buried her in the cellar. God help me, I buried her in the earthen floor of the fruit cellar. ASH Wahhhhhhhhhh! JAKE What the hell was that? ED Somebody's down there with him. ANNIE No, can't be. BOBBY JOE Let's get the fuck out of here. HENRIETTA (possessed) Someone's in my fruit cellar. Someone with a fresh soul! ASH Ah! Ah! Let me out! There's something down here! Ah! ANNIE Let him out! JAKE It's a trick, I know it! ANNIE Let him out!! ASH Move it! Open those chains up! HENRIETTA (possessed) Come to me. ASH Ah! Help! Help! Help me! HENRIETTA (possessed) Come to sweet Henrietta. Hahaha. ANNIE Hurry! ASH Help! Help me please! HENRIETTA (possessed) I'll swallow your soul. BOBBY JOE Do something! INT. CABIN - NIGHT ASH There's something out there. That... that witch in the cellar is only part of it. It lives... out in those woods, in the dark... something... something that's come back from the dead. BOBBY JOE Plee! Please let's just get the hell out of here! JAKE We're going baby. We're going to get on that trail- ASH Nobody's going out that door, not till daylight. JAKE Now you listen to me - HENRIETTA (singing) Hush little baby don't say a word, Mama's going to by you a mocking bird. If that mocking bird don't sing, Mama's going to buy you a diamond ring. If that diamond ring turns brass, Mama's going to buy you a looking glass. HENRIETTA Remember that song Annie? I used to sing it to you when you were a baby. ANNIE Mother? HENRIETTA Unlock these chains. Quickly! ANNIE No. HENRIETTA You were born September 2nd, 1962. I remember it well because it was snowing. So strange it would be snowing in September. ANNIE That thing in the cellar is not my mother. ED (possessed) We are the things that were and shall be again. Hahahahha. Steps of the Book. We want what is yours. Life! Ha ha ha ha! Dead by dawn. Dead by dawn. HENRIETTA (possessed) Dead by dawn. Dead by dawn. ED (possessed) Dead by dawn. Dead by dawn. HENRIETTA (possessed) Dead by dawn. ED (possessed) Dead by dawn. HENRIETTA (possessed) Let me out. JAKE Thirsty son-of-a-bitch. ANNIE Where you going? Help us you filthy coward! HENRIETTA (possessed) Quickly. Set me free. We live! We live still! STILL IN THE CABIN - NIGHT JAKE That's funny. BOBBY JOE What? JAKE That trail we came in here on? It just ain't there no more. Like, like the woods just swallowed her up. ANNIE It's so quiet. JAKE What the hell was that? ASH Maybe something trying to force its way into our world. BOBBY JOE It's in there. ASH We'll all go in together. JAKE Hell no. You're the curious one. ANNIE Hey. I'll go with you. INT. CABIN - ANOTHER ROOM - NIGHT JAKE Shit. I told you there weren't nothing in here no how. JAKE Holy Mother o' Mercy. ANNIE Father? SPIRIT Annie. There is a dark spirit here that wants to destroy you. Your salvation lies there. In the pages of the book. Recite the passages. Dispel the evil. Save my soul. And your own lives! BOBBY JOE Jake. You're holding my hand too tight. JAKE Baby, I ain't holding your hand. JAKE Hey? Where's Bobby Joe? INT. CABIN - NIGHT JAKE Hey? Where the hell is she? We gotta go out there and find her. ASH If she went out in those woods, you can forget about her. ANNIE What's wrong? ASH Felt like someone just walked over my grave. What's that picture? What is that? ANNIE In 1300 AD they called this man the, ah, hero from the sky. He was prophesied to have destroyed the Evil. ASH Didn't do a very good job... Can you find it? ANNIE Here it is, two passages. Recitation of this first passage will make this dark spirit manifest itself in the flesh. ASH Why the hell would we want to do that? ANNIE Recitation of this second passage creates a kind of rift in time and space. And the physical manifestation of this dark spirit can be forced back into the rift. At least that's the best translation that I can - (shotgun reloading) JAKE Uh-huh. That's right. I'm running the show now. We're going to go out there in them woods and look for Bobby Joe. Once we find her we're getting the hell out of here. ASH No you idiot! You'll kill us all. She's dead by now. Don't you understand? With these pages, at least we have a chance. JAKE Bunch of mumbo jumbo bullshit. These pages don't mean squat. Besides, now you ain't got no choice. Now move! EXT. CABIN - NIGHT JAKE Move. ASH Look. You're nuts. JAKE I said move! ANNIE No! You stupid fool! JAKE I'll blow your fucken head off. ASH Hey. No trail. Where to now? JAKE Bobby Joe! Bobby Joe!! Bobby Joe!!! ASH You'll get us all killed! JAKE Shut up! ANNIE Leave him alone! JAKE Get outta here... Bobby Joe!!!! Bobby Joe!!!!! Bobby Joe... Where are you, girl? ASH (possessed) You're next. Annie! INT. CABIN - NIGHT ANNIE No... no... JAKE Ahhhh! ANNIE I'm sorry! JAKE Get me another room. Get the axe. We'll kill it when it comes back. But first, pull this damn thing out of me! JAKE Ahhh! I can't breathe, I can't breathe. Hurry! ANNIE I'm trying! I'm trying! JAKE Ahhhh! ANNIE Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! JAKE Check outside the windows. Check the windows, he's probably right out... Ahhh! Help me! ANNIE Oh God! Ahhhhh! ASH (possessed) Ahhhhh!! Waahahaha! ASH No! No wait! Listen to me! I'm alright now. That thing is gone! Damn it! I said I was alright! Are you listening to me? You hear what I'm saying? I'm alright! I'm alright. ANNIE OK, maybe you are. But for how long? If we're going to beat this thing, we need those pages. ASH Then let's head down into that cellar and carve ourselves a witch. HENRIETTA (possessed; cackling) Hahahaha. INT. WORKSHED ASH Groovy. INT. CABIN - NIGHT ASH Those pages are down there somewhere. ANNIE "Nos veratos alamemnon conda." ASH (whistles) Let's go. HENRIETTA (possessed) I'll swallow your soul. I'll swallow your soul. ANNIE (singing) Hush little baby don't say a word, Mama's going to buy you a mock... mocking bird. HENRIETTA (possessed) Hey! I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul! I'll swallow your soul! ASH Swallow this. (BOOM!) ASH G - ANNIE I only completed the first of the passages and that was to make the Evil a thing of the flesh! ASH Finish it! ANNIE There's still the second passage. The one- the one to open the rift and send the Evil back! ASH Well start reciting it! Now! ASH Don't look Annie! Finish the passages! Get rid of it! ASH No!!! EVIL TREE We've won. We've won. Victory is ours. ASH You did it kid. By God... No!!!! Ahhhhh!! For God's sake! How do you stop it? LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLAND MAN Slay the beast. It is a deadite! MAN Run! Back to the castle! (BOOM!) KNIGHT Hail he who has come from the skies to deliver us from the terrors of the deadites! CROWD Hail! Hail! Hail! ASH No! No! No!! No!!! No!!!! No!!!! No!!! FADE OUT THE END