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    Dracula Script

    This script was originally transcribed by BJ Kuehl.

    1931

    D R A C U L A

    cast

    Count Dracula....................Bela Lugosi

    Mina Seward...................Helen Chandler

    John Harker....................David Manners

    Renfield.........................Dwight Frye

    Van Helsing.................Edward van Sloan

    Dr. Seward...................Herbert Bunston

    Lucy Western....................Frances Dade

    T R A N S Y L V A N I A

    EARLY AFTERNOON

    In a Coach in the Carpathian Mountains

    A young woman reads to four passengers

    from a travel brochure

    YOUNG WOMAN: "Among the rugged peaks that frown down on the

    Borgo Pass are found crumbling castles of a bigone age."

    The woman is knocked from her seat

    by the jostling coach

    RENFIELD: I say, driver, a bit slower.

    MAN: Oh, no! Must reach the inn before sundown!

    MADAM: And why, pray?

    MAN: It is Walpurghis Night, the night of evil! Nosferatu!

    MAN'S WIFE: (places her hand over his mouth)

    MAN: On this night, madam, the and to the

    Virgin we pray.

    LATE AFTERNOON

    A Village Inn

    Villagers anxiously greet the coach

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    RENFIELD: I say, porter, don't take my luggage down. I'm going

    on to Borgo Pass tonight.

    PORTER: (speaks in Hungarian to the Innkeeper)

    RENFIELD: No, no, please, put that back up there.

    INNKEEPER: The driver, he is afraid. Walpurghis night. Good

    fellow, he is. He wants me to ask if you can wait and go on

    after sunrise.

    RENFIELD: Well, I'm sorry, but there's a carriage meeting me at

    Borgo Pass at midnight.

    INNKEEPER: Borgo Pass?

    RENFIELD: Yes.

    INNKEEPER: Whose carriage?

    RENFIELD: Count Dracula's.

    INNKEEPER: Count Dracula's?

    RENFIELD: Yes.

    INNKEEPER: Castle Dracula?

    RENFIELD: Yes, that's where I'm going.

    INNKEEPER: To the castle?

    RENFIELD: Yes.

    INNKEEPER: No, you mustn't go there. We people of the

    mountains believe at the castle there are vampires. Dracula and

    his wives! They take the form of wolves and bats. They leave

    their coffins at night, and they feed on the blood of the living.

    RENFIELD: But that's all superstition. Why I...I can't

    understand why...

    INNKEEPER: Look, the sun! When it is gone, they leave their

    coffins. Come, we must go indoors.

    RENFIELD: But, wait. I mean, just a minute. What I'm trying

    to say is that I'm not afraid. I've explained to the driver

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    that it's a matter of business with me. I've got to go, really.

    Well, good night.

    INNKEEPER'S WIFE: Wait! Please, if you must go, wear this for

    your mother's sake.

    Innkeeper's wife places crucifix around Renfield's neck

    INKEEPER'S WIFE: It will protect you.

    Exit coach carrying Renfield

    SUNDOWN

    The Crypt at Castle Dracula

    Dracula and three vampiresses awaken from their coffins

    MIDNIGHT

    Borgo PassRenfield's coach arrives

    Renfield dismounts and the coach speeds away

    RENFIELD: (approaches awaiting coach) The coach from Count

    Dracula?

    COACHDRIVER: (motions to get in but does not speak)

    RENFIELD: (enters coach)

    The coach speeds away.

    RENFIELD: (peering out the coach window) Hey, driver!

    The coach is led by a flying bat.

    LATER THAT NIGHT

    The entrance to Castle Dracula

    Renfield arrives at the castle

    RENFIELD: I say, driver, what do you mean by going at this...?

    There is no driver

    A door into the castle opens

    Renfield enters the castle

    Inside Castle Dracula

    Enter Renfield

    Enter Dracula down a long flight of stairs

    DRACULA: I am...Dracula.

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    RENFIELD: It's really good to see you. I don't know what

    happened to the driver and my luggage and...well...with all

    this, I thought I was in the wrong place.

    Dracula: I bid you welcome.

    Dracula heads upstairs

    Offstage: Wolf call

    DRACULA: Listen to them...children of the night. What music

    they make!

    Renfield follows Dracula,

    breaking a path through spiderweb

    DRACULA: A spider spinning his web for the unwary fly. The

    blood...is the life, Mr. Renfield.

    RENFIELD: Why, yes.

    Renfield's Bedchamber

    Enter Dracula and Renfield

    DRACULA: I'm sure you will find this part of my castle more

    inviting.

    RENFIELD: Oh, rather! It's quite different from outside. Oh,

    and the fire! It's so cheerful.

    DRACULA: I didn't know but that you might be hungry.

    RENFIELD: Thank you. That's very kind of you. But I'm a bit

    worried about my luggage. You see, all your papers were in...

    DRACULA: I took the liberty of having your luggage brought up.

    Allow me.

    RENFIELD: Oh, yes. Thanks.

    DRACULA: I trust you have kept your coming here...a secret?

    RENFIELD: I've followed your instructions implicitly.

    DRACULA: Excellent, Mr. Renfield, excellent. And now, if

    you're not too fatiqued, I would like to discuss the lease on

    Carfax Abbey.

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    RENFIELD: Oh, yes. Everything is in order, awaiting your

    signature. Here is the lease. I hope I've brought enough

    labels for your luggage.

    DRACULA: I am taking with me only three...boxes.

    RENFIELD: Very well.

    DRACULA: I have chartered a ship to take us to England. We

    will be leaving...tomorrow...evening.

    RENFIELD: Everything will be ready.

    DRACULA: (pointing to bed) I hope you will find this

    comfortable.

    RENFIELD: Thanks. It looks very inviting.

    Renfield cuts his finger on a paperclip.

    RENFIELD: Ouch!

    DRACULA: (stealthily approaches Renfield)

    Renfield's crucifix falls over the cut finger.

    DRACULA: (turns quickly away)

    RENFIELD: Oh, it's nothing serious. Just a small cut from thatpaperclip. It's just a scratch.

    DRACULA: (pouring a glass of wine) This...is very old wine. I

    hope you will like it.

    RENFIELD: Aren't you drinking?

    DRACULA: I never drink...wine.

    RENFIELD: Well, it's delicious.

    DRACULA: And, now, I'll leave you.

    RENFIELD: Well, good night.

    DRACULA: Good night, Mr. Renfield.

    Exit Dracula

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    RENFIELD: (opens windows)

    Enter Bat

    RENFIELD: (faints)

    Enter three vampiresses and Dracula

    DRACULA: (motions vampiresses back)

    Dracula approaches Renfield

    **************************************************

    SEVERAL WEEKS LATER

    A B O A R D T H E V E S T A --

    B O U N D F O R E N G L A N D

    NEAR SUNDOWN

    On Deck

    The crew battles a raging storm

    In the hold

    Renfield awakens Dracula

    RENFIELD: Master, the sun is gone.

    DRACULA: (leaves his coffin)

    RENFIELD: You will keep your promise when we get to London,

    won't you, master? You will see that I get lives...not human

    lives but small ones...with blood in them. I'll be loyal to

    you, master. I'll be loyal.

    Exit Dracula to the deck

    ***********************************************

    E N G L A N D

    THE NEXT MORNING

    Whitby Harbor

    On the deck of the Vesta

    VOICE OF MAN 1: Here now! Here now, get back! Nobody goes

    aboard this here boat until the authorities are here.

    VOICE OF MAN 2: The captain dead, tied to the wheel. Horrible

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    tragedy! Horrible tragedy.

    In the hold

    Renfield whispers to Dracula's coffin

    RENFIELD: Master, we're here! You can't hear what I'm saying,

    but we're here. We're safe!

    On deck

    VOICE OF MAN 1: They must've come through a terrible storm!

    Offstage: Renfield laughs

    VOICE OF MAN 1: What's that? Why, it's come from that hatchway!

    Hatchway opens to reveal Renfield

    RENFIELD: (laughs)

    VOICE OF MAN 1: Why, he's mad! Look at his eyes! Why, the

    man's gone crazy!

    From the Whitby Newspaper

    Late edition

    CREW OF CORPSES FOUND ON DERELECT VESSEL

    SCHOONER VESTA DRIFTS INTO WHITBY HARBOR

    AFTER STORM BEARING GRUESOME CARGOSole survivor a raving maniac. His

    craving to devour ants, flies and

    other small living things to obtain

    their blood, puzzles scientists. At

    present he is under observation at

    Dr Seward's Sanitarium near London.

    MANY NIGHTS LATER

    A Sidewalk in London

    Dracula approaches young girl selling violets

    FLOWERGIRL: Violets! Violets! For your buttonhole, sir!

    Here's a nice one.

    DRACULA: (drinks her blood)

    FLOWERGIRL: (screams)

    LATER

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    A Symphony Theatre in London

    An usherette leads Dracula inside

    DRACULA: And after you've delivered the message, you will

    remember nothing I now say. Obey!

    The Sewards' box

    Seward, Harker, Mina and Lucy listen to the symphony

    Enter Usherette

    USHERETTE: Dr. Seward?

    SEWARD: Yes?

    usherette: You're wanted on the telephone.

    SEWARD: Thank you. Well, excuse me.

    MINA: Oh, Father, if it's from home, will you say I'm spending

    the night in town with Lucy?

    SEWARD: All right, dear.

    Seward steps from the box

    DRACULA: Pardon me?

    SEWARD: Yes?

    DRACULA: I could not help overhearing your name. Might I

    inquire...if you are the Dr. Seward whose sanitarium is at

    Whitby?

    SEWARD: Why, yes.

    DRACULA: I'm Count Dracula. I have just leased Carfax Abbey.

    I understand it adjoins your ground.

    SEWARD: Why yes, it does. I'm very happy to make your

    acquaintance. May I present my daughter Mina...

    MINA: Count Dracula.

    SEWARD: ...Miss Western...

    LUCY: How do you do?

    SEWARD: ...and Mr. Harker.

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    HARKER: How do you do?

    SEWARD: Count Dracula has just taken Carfax Abbey.

    LUCY: Oh, it will a relief to see life in those dismal old

    windows!

    SEWARD: It will indeed. Well, you will excuse me. I'm wanted

    on the telephone.

    Exit Seward

    HARKER: The abbey could be very attractive, but I should

    imagine it will need quite extensive repair.

    DRACULA: I shall do very little repairing. It reminds me of

    the broken battlements of my own castle...in Transylvania.

    LUCY: The abbey always reminds me of that old toast about

    "..........lofty timbers,

    The walls around are bare

    Echoing to our laughter

    As though the dead were there."

    HARKER: Nice little medley.

    LUCY: There's more, even nicer.

    "Pass a cup to the dead already,A glass to the next to die..."

    MINA: Oh, never mind the rest, dear.

    DRACULA: To die...to be really dead...that must be glorious.

    MINA: Why, Count Dracula!

    DRACULA: There are far worse things...awaiting man...than death.

    Music begins

    LATER THAT NIGHT

    Lucy's Bedroom

    Mina prepares to leave as Lucy prepares for bed

    MINA: "It reminds me of the broken battlements of my own

    castle...in Transylvania." Oh, Lucy, you're so romantic!

    LUCY: Laugh all you like. I think he's fascinating.

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    MINA: Oh, I suppose he's all right, but give me someone a

    little more normal.

    LUCY: Like John?

    MINA: Yes, dear, like John.

    LUCY: Count Dracula! Transylvania!

    MINA: Well, Countess, I'll leave you to your Count and his

    ruined abbey. Good night, Lucy.

    LUCY: Good night, dear.

    Exit Mina

    LUCY: (opens the windows)

    Dracula peers up at Lucy's open window

    Lucy lies down on her bed

    Enter bat

    DRACULA: (materializes and approaches Lucy)

    THE NEXT DAY

    An autopsy theatre

    DOCTOR: Another death! Dr. Seward, when did Miss Western havethe last transfusion?

    SEWARD: About four hours ago.

    DOCTOR: An unnatural loss of blood which we've been powerless

    to check. On the throat of each victim, the same two marks.

    SEVERAL DAYS LATER

    The Grounds of the Seward Sanitarium

    Offstage: Renfield screams

    FEMALE PATIENT: He probably wants his flies again.

    Renfield's Room

    Renfield pleads with Martin

    RENFIELD: No, Martin, please. Please, don't, Martin. No,

    Martin, please. Please, Martin. No, Martin. Oh, Martin,

    please. No, No, Martin, please. No, Martin. Martin, don't.

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    MARTIN: Here, give it to me.

    RENFIELD: Don't throw my spider away from me. Oh, Martin, oh!

    MARTIN: Ain't you ashamed, now, ain't ya? Spiders now, ain't

    it? Flies ain't good enough?

    RENFIELD: Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat

    flies?

    MARTIN: You do, you loony!

    RENFIELD: Not when I can get nice fat spiders.

    MARTIN: All right, have it your own way.

    MEANWHILEA Laboratory at the Sanitarium

    Van Helsing, Seward and doctors analyze a blood sample

    HELSING: Gentlemen, we are dealing with the undead.

    DOCTOR: Nosferatu!

    HELSING: Yes, nosferatu, the undead, the vampire. The vampire

    attacks the throat. It leaves two little wounds, white with red

    centers. Dr. Seward, your patient Renfield, whose blood I have

    just analyzed, is obsessed with the idea that he must devourliving things in order to sustain his own life.

    SEWARD: But Professor Van Helsing, modern medical science does

    not admit of such a creature. The vampire is a pure myth,

    superstition.

    HELSING: I may be able to bring you proof that the superstition

    of yesterday can become the scientific reality of today.

    LATER THAT AFTERNOON

    Seward's office

    Van Helsing and Seward confer

    SEWARD: But Professor, Renfield's cravings have always been for

    small living things. Nothing human.

    HELSING: As far as we know, Doctor. But you tell me that he

    escapes from his room. He's gone for hours. Where does he go?

    Enter Renfield and Martin

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    HELSING: Well, Mr. Renfield, you are looking much better than

    you did this morning when I arrived.

    RENFIELD: Thanks, I'm feeling much better.

    HELSING: I am here to help you. You understand that, do you

    not?

    RENFIELD: (shakes hands with Helsing) Why, of course, and I am

    very grateful. (drops Helsing's hand) Keep your filthy hands

    to yourself!

    SEWARD: Now, now, Renfield.

    RENFIELD: Oh, Dr. Seward, send me away from this place. Send

    me far away!

    HELSING: Why are you so anxious to get away?

    RENFIELD: My cries at night. They might disturb Miss Mina.

    HELSING: Yes?

    RENFIELD: They might give her bad dreams, Professor Van

    Helsing, bad dreams.

    SUNSET

    The crypt at Carfax AbbeyDracula rises from his coffin.

    MEANWHILE

    Seward's Office

    Van Helsing, Seward and Martin discuss Renfield

    Offstage: Wolf call

    HELSING: That sounded like a wolf.

    SEWARD: Yes, it did, but I hardly think there are wolves so

    near London.

    MARTIN: He thinks they're wolves. Me, I've heard 'em howl at

    night before. He thinks they're talking to him. He howls and

    howls back at 'em. He's crazy!

    HELSING: I might have known. I might have known. We know why

    the wolves talk, do we not, Mr. Renfield? And we know how we

    can make them stop.

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    Van Helsing holds up a sprig of wolfbane

    RENFIELD: (screams and turns away) You know too much to live,

    Van Helsing.

    SEWARD: Now, now, Renfield.

    HELSING: We will get no more out of him now for a while.

    SEWARD: Take him away, Martin.

    MARTIN: On your way, old fly eater.

    RENFIELD: I'm warning you, Dr. Seward. If you don't send me

    away, you must answer for what will happen to Miss Mina!

    SEWARD: All right, Martin.

    MARTIN: Come along, now, come along.

    SEWARD: What was that herb that excited him so?

    HELSING: Wolfbane. It is a plant that grows in central Europe.

    The natives there use it to protect themselves against vampires.

    SEWARD: Renfield reacted very violently to its scent.

    HELSING: Seward, I want you to have Renfield closely watched byday and night, especially by night.

    THAT NIGHT

    Renfield's Room at the Sanitarium

    Renfield lies in his bed, crying

    Enter Dracula under Renfield's window

    Offstage: Wolf call

    RENFIELD: Yes, master. Master, you've come back. Oh, master,

    please. Please don't ask me to do that. Don't. Not her.

    Please, please don't, master. Don't, please. Please. Oh,

    don't.

    LATER THAT NIGHT

    Mina's Bedroom

    Mina lies asleep in her bed

    Enter Dracula

    SEVERAL EVENINGS LATER

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    The Seward Parlour

    Mina and Harker sit on couch

    MINA: I laid in bed for quite a while...reading. And just as I

    was commencing to get drowsy, I heard dogs howling. And when

    the dream came, it seemed the whole room was filled with mist.

    It was so thick, I could just see the lamp by the bed, a tiny

    spark in the fog. And then I saw two red eyes staring at me and

    a white livid face came down out of the mist. It came closer

    and closer. I felt breath on my face...and then, its lips!

    HARKER: Dear, it was only a dream.

    Enter Van Helsing and Seward

    MINA: And then in the morning, I felt so weak. It seemed as if

    all the life had been drained out of me.

    HARKER: Darling, we're going to forget all about these dreams

    and think about something cheerful, aren't we?

    HELSING: Allow me.

    HARKER: Certainly, Professor.

    HELSING: Think for a moment. Is there anything that might have

    brought this dream on?

    MINA: No.

    HARKER: (whispering to Seward) Doctor, there's something

    troubling Mina, something she won't tell us.

    HELSING: And the face in the dream...you say it seemed to come

    closer and closer? The lips touched you? Where? Is there

    anything the matter with your throat?

    MINA: Why, no, but I...!

    HELSING: Permit me.

    MINA: Oh, no, please!

    HELSING: Yes...yes...How long have you had those little marks?

    HARKER: Marks? Mina, why didn't you let us know?

    HELSING: Do not excite her. Well, Miss Mina?

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    MINA: Since the morning after the dream.

    HARKER: What could have caused them, Professor?

    Enter Maid

    MAID: Count Dracula!

    Enter Dracula

    DRACULA: It's good to see you back again, Doctor. I heard you

    had just arrived. You, Miss Mina, you're looking

    exceptionally...

    HELSING: Pardon me, Dr. Seward, but I think Miss Mina should go

    to her room at once.

    MINA: Professor Van Helsing, I don't believe it's as important

    as you seem to think it is.

    SEWARD: Excuse me. Count Dracula...Professor Van Helsing.

    DRACULA: Van Helsing. A most distinguished scientist whose

    name we know...even in the wilds of Transylvania.

    MINA: I had a frightful dream a few nights ago, and I don't

    seem to be able to get it out of my mind.

    DRACULA: I hope you haven't taken my stories too seriously?

    HARKER: Stories?

    DRACULA: Yes. In my humble effort to amuse your fiance, Mr.

    Harker, I was telling her some rather...grim tales of my far off

    country.

    HARKER: I can imagine.

    MINA: Why, John!

    Harker opens cigarette case with mirrored top

    Van Helsing notices that Dracula casts no reflection

    DRACULA: I can quite understand Mr. Harker. I'm sorry.

    SEWARD: I'm afraid it's quite serious. My dear, I'm sure Count

    Dracula will excuse you. You must go to your room, as Professor

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    Van Helsing suggests.

    MINA: Oh, but really, father, I'm feeling quite well.

    DRACULA: You had better do...as your father advises.

    Harker notes that Dracula casts no reflection

    MINA: Very well. Good night. John.

    DRACULA: Miss Mina, may I call later to inquire how you are

    feeling?

    MINA: Why, yes, thank you.

    Exit Mina

    DRACULA: I'm sorry, Doctor. My visit was so ill-timed.

    SEWARD: Not at all.

    HELSING: On the contrary, it may prove to be most enlightening.

    In fact, before you go, you can be of definite service.

    DRACULA: Anything I can do, gladly.

    HELSING: A moment ago, I stumbled upon a most amazing

    phenomenon...something so incredible, I mistrust my own

    judgement. Look.

    Van Helsing holds mirror to Dracula

    DRACULA: (slaps mirror to the floor) Dr. Seward, my humble

    apology. I dislike mirrors. Van Helsing will explain. For one

    who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man,

    Van Helsing.

    Exit Dracula

    HARKER: Whew!

    SEWARD: What on earth caused that?

    HARKER: Did you see the look on his face? Like a wild animal!

    SEWARD: Wild animal? Like a madman!

    HARKER: What's that running across the lawn? Looks like a huge

    dog!

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    HELSING: Or a wolf?

    HARKER: A wolf?

    HELSING: He was afraid we might follow.

    SEWARD: Follow?

    HELSING: Sometimes they take the form of wolves but generally

    of bats.

    HARKER: What are you talking about?

    HELSING: Dracula.

    HARKER: But what's Dracula got to do with wolves and bats?

    HELSING: Dracula is our vampire.

    SEWARD: But surely, Professor.

    HELSING: The vampire casts no reflection in the glass. That is

    why Dracula smashed the mirror.

    HARKER: I don't mean to be rude but that's the sort of thing I

    expect one of the patients here to say.

    HELSING: Yes, and that is what your English doctors would say,your police. The strength of the vampire is that people will

    not believe in him.

    MEANWHILE

    Outside the Sanatarium

    Mina enters the garden where Dracula stands waiting

    The Seward Parlour

    Van Helsing, Seward and Harker talk

    HARKER: But professor, vampires only exist in ghost stories.

    HELSING: The vampire, Mr. Harker, is a thing that lives after

    its death by drinking the blood of the living. It must have

    blood or it dies. Its power lasts only from sunset to sunrise.

    During the hours of the day, it must rest in the earth in which

    it was buried.

    SEWARD: But then, if Dracula were a vampire, he would have to

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    return every night to Transylvania. That's impossible!

    HELSING: Then he must have brought his native soil with him.

    Boxes of it. Boxes of earth large enough for him to rest in.

    Offstage: Renfield laughs

    SEWARD: Renfield? What are you doing there? Come here.

    Enter Renfield

    SEWARD: Did you hear what we were saying?

    RENFIELD: Yes, I heard something. Enough. Be guided by what

    he says. It's your only hope. It's her only hope. I begged

    you to send me away, but you wouldn't. Now it's too late. It's

    happened again.

    SEWARD: What's happened?

    RENFIELD: Take her away from here. Take her away before...

    Enter Bat

    RENFIELD: No, no, master. I wasn't going to say anything. I

    told them nothing. I'm loyal to you, master.

    Harker shoos bat outside

    HELSING: What have you to do with Dracula?

    RENFIELD: Dracula? I never even heard the name before.

    HELSING: You will die in torment if you die with innocent blood

    on your soul.

    RENFIELD: Oh, no. God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He

    knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with

    weak minds.

    Offstage: Maid screams

    MAID: Oh, Mr. Harker! Mr. Harker, it's 'orrible!

    Enter Maid from the Terrace

    MAID: Oh, it's 'orrible! Dr. Seward! Miss Mina...out there

    dead!

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    HARKER: Out where?

    MAID: Out there!

    Exit Harker, Van Helsing and Seward to garden

    RENFIELD: (laughs)

    MAID: (faints)

    On the Sanatarium Lawn

    Van Helsing and Seward find Mina

    HARKER: (carries Mina)

    SEWARD: Thank heavens, she's alive. Thank heaven for that.

    HELSING: Alive, yes, but in greater danger for she's alreadyunder his influence.

    SEWARD: Horrible, Van Helsing, horrible. Incredible.

    HELSING: Incredible, perhaps, but we must...

    Van Helsing, Seward, Harker and Mina exit into the house

    Dracula peers out from behind a tree

    LATER THAT NIGHT

    A Park in LondonPoliceman walks down the park path

    Offstage: A child cries

    Exit Lucy into the shadows

    THE NEXT DAY

    The Seward Sanatarium

    Martin reads a newspaper to two nurses

    MARTIN: "...several attacks on small children committed after

    dark by the mysterious woman in white took place last night.

    Narratives of two small girls, each child describing a "bootiful

    lady in white" who promised her chocolates, enticed her to a

    secluded spot, and there bit her slightly in the throat.

    NURSE: Ghosts!

    MARTIN: Vampires.

    LATE THAT AFTERNOON

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    Mina's Bedroom

    Van Helsing, Harker and Mina sit on the terrace

    HELSING: And then, Miss Mina?

    HARKER: How could she know anything about the woman in white?

    It's bad enough for her to read it in the newspaper without...

    HELSING: Please, please, Mr. Harker. And when was the next

    time you saw Miss Lucy after she was buried?

    Exit Harker

    MINA: I was downstairs on the terrace. She came out of the

    shadows and stood looking at me. I started to speak to her, and

    then I remembered she was dead. The most horrible expression

    came over her face. She looked like a hungry animal...a wolf.

    Then she turned and ran back into the dark.

    HELSING: Then you know the woman in white is...

    MINA: ...Lucy.

    HELSING: Miss Mina, I promise you that after tonight she will

    remain at rest, her soul released from this horror.

    Enter Harker

    MINA: If you can save Lucy's soul after death, promise meyou'll save mine.

    HARKER: Darling, you're not going to die, you're going to live.

    MINA: No, John, you mustn't touch me, and you mustn't kiss me

    ever again.

    HARKER: What are you trying to say?

    MINA: You tell him. You make him understand. I can't.

    Exit Van Helsing

    MINA: Professor? It's all over, John, our love, our life

    together. Oh, no! No, no, don't look at me like that. I love

    you, John...you...but this horror! He wills it to me.

    HELSING: (calling from inside Mina's bedroom) Mina, you must

    come indoors. You must.

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    Mina and Harker come inside

    HARKER: Do you know what you're doing to her, Professor?

    You're driving her crazy.

    HELSING: Mr. Harker, that is what you should be worrying about.

    The last rays of the day's sun will soon be gone and another

    night will be upon us.

    Enter Seward

    HARKER: Dr. Seward, I'm taking Mina with me to London tonight

    or I'll call in the police.

    SEWARD: But, John!

    HARKER: Mina, please get your bags packed.

    HELSING: Seward, I must be master here or I can do nothing.

    Right, Miss Mina? Both this room and your bedroom have been

    prepared with wolfbane. You will be safe if Dracula returns.

    HARKER: She'll be safe alright because she's going with me.

    Mina, I will be waiting for you in the library.

    Exit Harker

    MINA: Oh, John! Father, talk to him. Please don't let him go.Exit Seward and Mina

    HELSING: Oh, Briggs.

    Enter Briggs

    HELSING: Miss Mina is to wear this wreath of wolfbane when she

    goes to bed. Watch her closely and see that she does not remove

    it in her sleep.

    BRIGGS: I understand, professor.

    HELSING: And under no circumstances must these windows be

    opened tonight.

    BRIGGS: Very well, sir.

    SUNDOWN

    The Crypt at Carfax Abbey

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    Dracula awakens from his coffin

    Offstage: Wolf call

    LATER THAT EVENING

    The Seward Parlour

    Enter Van Helsing, Harker and Seward

    HELSING: You will recollect that Dracula casts no reflection in

    the mirror.

    SEWARD: Yes?

    HELSING: And that three boxes of earth were delivered to him at

    Carfax Abbey.

    SEWARD: Right.

    HELSING: And, knowing that a vampire must rest by day in hisnative soil, I am convinced that this Dracula is no legend but

    an undead creature whose life has been unnaturally prolonged.

    HARKER: Well, Dr. Seward, what about it? Is Mina going with me

    or not?

    HELSING: If you take her from under our protection, you will

    kill her.

    SEWARD: Now, John, please. Please, be patient.

    HELSING: Mr. Harker, please, come here.

    HARKER: Well?

    SEWARD: John, I know you love her, but don't forget she's my

    daughter, and I must do what I think is best.

    HELSING: Mr. Harker, I have devoted my lifetime to the study of

    many strange things...little known facts which the world is

    perhaps better off for not knowing.

    HARKER: I know. But professor, all I want is to get Mina away

    from all of this.

    HELSING: That will do no good. Our only chance of saving Miss

    Mina's life is to find the hiding place of Dracula's living

    corpse and to drive a stake through his heart.

    Enter Renfield

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    RENFIELD: Isn't this a strange conversation for men who aren't

    crazy?

    SEWARD: Renfield, you're compelling me to put you in a strait

    jacket.

    RENFIELD: You forget, Doctor, that madmen have great strength.

    HELSING: Dracula has great strength, hey, Renfield?

    RENFIELD: Words, words, words!

    SEWARD: (talking on telephone) Hello, Martin, didn't I warn

    you to keep a strict watch?

    The Sanitarium Ward

    Martin speaks on the telephone

    MARTIN: What? Again? Yes, sir. At once, sir. Yes, sir.

    Right away, sir. Here, the doctor's pet loony is loose again.

    The Seward Parlour

    Renfield talks to Van Helsing, Harker and Seward

    RENFIELD: He came to my window in the moonlight. He promised

    me things. Not in words, but by doing them.

    HELSING: Doing them?

    RENFIELD: By making them happen. A red mist spread over the

    lawn, coming on like a flame of fire. And then he parted it,

    and I could see that there were thousands of rats with their

    eyes blazing red like his only smaller.

    Enter Martin

    RENFIELD: And then he held up his hand and they all stopped.

    And I thought he seemed to be saying, "Rats...rats...rats!

    Thousands! Millions of them! All red blood! All these will I

    give you if you will obey me."

    Enter Dracula at the terrace door

    HELSING: What did he want you to do?

    RENFIELD: That which has already been done.

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    MARTIN: Strike me down dead, Doctor. He's got me going. Now

    he's twisted and broken them iron bars as if they was cheese.

    HELSING: Dracula is in the house.

    SEWARD: In the house?

    HELSING: Doctor, this time he can do no harm. We are ready for

    him.

    SEEWARD: Martin, come with me. I'll show you where we can put

    Mr. Renfield where he won't escape again.

    MARTIN: Well, all right, but I have me doubts. Come on, old

    fly eater.

    Exit Seward, Renfield and Martin

    DRACULA: Van Helsing! Now that you have learned what you have

    learned, it would be well for you to return to your own country.

    HELSING: I prefer to remain and protect those whom you would

    destroy.

    DRACULA: You are too late. My blood now flows through her

    veins. She will live through the centuries to come...as I have

    lived.

    HELSING: Should you escape us, Dracula, we know how to saveMiss Mina's soul if not her life.

    DRACULA: If she dies by day. But I shall see that she dies by

    night.

    HELSING: And I will have Carfax Abbey torn down stone by stone,

    excavated a mile around. I will find your earth box and drive

    that stake through your heart.

    DRACULA: Come here. Come...here.

    HELSING: (Takes three steps toward Dracula, then backs up)

    DRACULA: Your will is strong, Van Helsing.

    Dracula approahces Van Helsing

    Van Helsing reaches into his pocket

    DRACULA: More wolfbane?

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    HELSING: More effective than wolfbane, Count.

    DRACULA: Indeed?

    Van Helsing pulls out crucifix

    DRACULA: (snarls and turns away)

    THAT NIGHT

    The Hallway outside Mina's Bedroom

    Harker listens in as Briggs prepares Mina for bed

    MINA: Open the window, Briggs, so that you can let in some air.

    The awful smell from that horrible weed. It's stifling. I

    can't stand it.

    BRIGGS: But the professor gave orders.

    MINA: Oh, never mind the professor now.

    BRIGGS: Now, please, go back to bed at once. I'm going to call

    your father.

    Exit Briggs into the hallway

    HARKER: What is it, Briggs?

    BRIGGS: I don't know, Mr. Harker. I felt strangely dizzy. Andwhen it cleared away, Miss Mina was up and dressed and out on

    the terrace. And I can't get her to go to bed.

    HARKER: Well, let me see her. Tell her I'm here.

    Harker enters Mina's room

    Mina stands out on the terrace

    MINA: John? Oh, John, I'm so glad you're here. What have they

    been doing to me, dear? Locking me in my room! Oh, and the

    horrible smell of that awful weed. It's been like a nightmare.

    What's been the matter? Why are you looking at me like that?

    HARKER: Mina, you're so...like a changed girl. You look

    wonderful.

    MINA: I feel wonderful. I've never felt better in my life.

    HARKER: I'm so glad to see you like this. I've been awfully

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    worried about you.

    Enter Briggs

    BRIGGS: Mr. Harker, you've got to bring Miss Mina inside.

    HARKER: That's all right, Briggs, now that I'm here.

    MINA: Run along, Briggs, don't worry.

    Exit Briggs

    MINA: John, look! The fog's lifting. See how plain you can

    see the stars.

    HARKER: Yes, millions of them. I've never seen them so close.

    Why, it looks as though you could reach out and touch them.

    Would you like me to get your hat? Why, what's the matter?

    MINA: Oh, nothing. Nothing at all. Come. Let's sit down.

    MEANWHILE

    The Seward Parlour

    Exit Van Helsing and Seward towards the stairs

    HELSING: Seward, that which I feared from the beginning has

    happened.

    SEWARD: What?

    HELSING: Dracula boasts that he has fused his blood with that

    of Miss Mina. In life, she will now become the foul thing of

    the night that he is.

    SEWARD: But, Van Helsing...

    HELSING: No, no, come, Seward, come. There's not a moment to

    be lost.

    Mina's bedroom

    Mina and Harker sit together out on the terrace

    MINA: Oh, but I love the fog! I love nights in the fog!

    HARKER: But only yesterday you said you were afraid of the

    night.

    MINA: But darling, I could never have said anything so silly.

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    I couldn't! I love the night. That's the only time I feel

    really alive.

    Enter Bat

    HARKER: There's that bat again!

    MINA: Yes?

    HARKER: Look out. He'll get in your hair.

    BAT: (squeaks)

    MINA: Yes?

    HARKER: My, that was a big bat!

    BAT: (squeaks)

    MINA: I will.

    HARKER: You will what?

    MINA: Why, I didn't say anything.

    HARKER: Yes, you did. You said, "I will."

    MINA: Oh, no, I didn't. John, come, sit down.

    Enter Van Helsing and Seward into Mina's bedroom

    SEWARD: There must be some way...some way to save her.

    HELSING: There is only one.

    MINA: (unaware of Van Helsing and Seward's presence) John,

    that funny little old professor. He has a crucifix. I want you

    to get it away from him and hide it.

    HARKER: But why, dear?

    MINA: Oh, he'll be wanting to protect me again from the night

    or Count Dracula or whatever it is.

    HARKER: Well, I don't know. He may be right, Mina. Your eyes!

    They look at me so strangely. Mina! Mina, you're...

    Mina bends forward to bite Harker's neck

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    SEWARD: No, Mina, no!

    Helsing runs forward with crucifix)

    MINA: (screams)

    HARKER: Give me that. What's the idea? Are you crazy? What

    are you trying to do...frighten her to death?

    HELSING: No, I was trying to save her.

    HARKER: Save her? That's a fine way. It's all right, darling.

    MINA: Oh, John, darling. You must go away from me. The cross!

    Put it away. After what's happened, I can't bear to look at it.

    HARKER: What's happened?

    MINA: I can't tell you, I can't.

    HARKER: But you must. You must tell me. I have a right to

    know.

    MINA: Oh, John. You can believe everything he says. It's all

    the truth. Dracula, he...

    HARKER: Dracula? What's he done to you, Mina? Tell me.

    MINA: He came to me. He opened a vein in his arm, and he made

    me drink.

    Offstage: Sound of gunshot

    SEWARD: (looking over terrace wall) What is it? Who is it,

    Martin?

    Below on the Lawn

    Martin and Maid look after bat

    MARTIN: It's that big grey bat again.

    HELSING: There's no use of wasting your bullets, Martin. They

    cannot harm that bat.

    MARTIN: No, sir.

    Exit Van Helsing

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    MAID: He's crazy.

    MARTIN: They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and

    me. Sometimes I have me doubts about you.

    MAID: Yes.

    Exit Martin

    LATER THAT NIGHT

    Mina's Bedroom

    Briggs watches Mina sleep

    Dracula peers in window

    BRIGGS: (removes wolfbane and opens windows)

    Enter Dracula

    A FEW MINUTES LATER

    The Front Gate of the Sanitarium

    Van Helsing and Harker prepare to depart

    They see Renfield approach Carfax Abbey

    HARKER: That's Renfield. What's he doing at the Abbey?

    HELSING: Come, Mr. Harker.

    Inside Carfax Abbey

    Enter Mina and DraculaEnter Renfield

    RENFIELD: Master! Master, I'm here!

    Outside Carfax Abbey

    Van Helsing and Harker look for a way into the Abbey

    HELSING: Where else would he be going but to Dracula?

    Inside Carfax Abbey

    Renfield approaches Dracula and Mina

    RENFIELD: What is it, master? What do you want me to do?

    Outside Carfax Abbey

    Van Helsing and Harker find an opening into the Abbey

    HARKER: Look, here's an opening. Mina! Mina!

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    Inside Carfax Abbey

    Dracula approaches Renfield

    RENFIELD: I didn't lead them here, Master. I didn't know, I

    swear! I'm loyal to you, Master. I'm your slave. I didn't

    betray you. Oh, no, don't! Don't kill me! Let me live,

    please! Punish me, torture me, but let me live. I can't die

    with all those lives on my conscience...all that blood on my

    hands!

    DRACULA: Throws Renfield down the stairs

    Enter Van Helsing and Harker

    Exit Dracula and Mina

    HARKER: Mina! Mina! He'll kill her if we don't get to her!

    HELSING: We must not be too late! We have him trapped! Day isbreaking! We have him trapped!

    Offstage: Mina screams

    HARKER: Hurry! Mina! Mina, where are you? Mina! Mina!

    Mina, where are you? Mina! Mina! Mina! Mina!

    HELSING: (seeing coffins) Harker! Harker! Come!

    HARKER: Where? Where are you?

    HELSING: Here! Here, Harker, I have found them! Get me a

    piece of stone...anything to help me drive the stake through

    their hearts.

    Van Helsing opens Mina's coffin

    HARKER: Is she? How is she?

    HELSING: She is not here!

    HARKER: Then...then she may be alive! Mina! Mina! Mina!

    Mina!

    HELSING: (Drives stake through Dracula's heart)

    DRACULA: (gasps)

    MINA: (screams)

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    HARKER: Mina! Mina! Mina!

    MINA: Oh, John! John, darling! I heard you calling, but I

    couldn't say anything.

    HARKER: We thought he'd killed you, dear.

    MINA: The daylight stopped him. Oh, if you could have seen the

    look on his face!

    HELSING: There's nothing more to fear, Miss Mina. Dracula is

    dead forever. No, no, no! You must go.

    MINA: But aren't you coming with us?

    HELSING: Not yet. Presently. Come, John.

    Exit Harker and Mina

    Offstage: The Sound of Church Bells

    THE END