Freddy’s dead – Final Nightmare
They continue to watch in silence as Karen takes hold of Jacob’s hand.
INT. FOSTER HOME – THE TV ROOM – MORNING
We are ON KAREN as she sleeps curled up on the couch. Jacob is in the background putting on his shoes. He has a brown paper bag with him.
Jacob gets up, grabs his bag, and steps over to Karen. He gently pulls a lock of hair away from her face. Then he heads for the front door.
EXT. FOSTER HOME – FRONT PORCH – DAY
Jacob walks out the door and closes it behind him. He crosses to the porch steps and stops. He has to hold onto a porch column just to keep standing.
Karen appears behind him. Jacob jumps a bit.
KAREN Where are you going?
JACOB I’m leaving.
KAREN Why?
JACOB He can’t hurt you if I’m gone. Maybe I’ll go to the desert or something. I’ll lie down in the middle of nowhere and finally get some sleep. Krueger can feed of the dreams of snakes and vultures.
KAREN Fine. You’re just going to take off then…
Karen has an angry expression on his face. Jacob gives her a pained look.
JACOB Don’t do this to me. I’m just trying to protect you and the others.
KAREN Right. You blow into town and then blow right out. Terrific.
JACOB I don’t understand why you’re so mad at me.
KAREN You just don’t get it, do you?
JACOB Get what?
Karen, though still very angry, looks like she’s about to cry. Jacob, confused, sits down on the porch steps.
JACOB (cont’d) Maybe I’m crazy.
KAREN Running away doesn’t help.
He sighs and smiles a bit.
JACOB And you’re going to convince me, huh?
KAREN Maybe.
This time Karen smiles. Jacob looks at her and sighs. Then he yawns.
KAREN (cont’d) I’m going to make some coffee. You promise not to move?
JACOB Yeah. Sure.
Karen jumps and heads back into the house. Jacob stares at the grass in front of him, his eyes heavy.
JACOB’S POV – THE LAWN
A bush sits there doing nothing. Until it suddenly comes TO LIFE. Its leaves start to shrivel, the lawn turns brown, the sky turns dark. Everything changes and turns into
DREAM FLASH – NIGHTMARE SPRINGWOOD
We’re in a different front yard in a different town, in a different dimension.
The mutant bush starts to change, sprout legs, grow arms, become human.
ALICE
Her body takes shape as she reaches out a pleading arm to us.
ALICE Jacob! Help me!
She’s fully formed now. And Freddy bursts out from the ground behind her. He grabs Alice, reaches his knife arm around
ALICE (cont’d) No-o-o-o-o!
Her words are cut off as Krueger jams his blades in her gut and we re-live her death once more. But it’s even worse this time.
Blood POURS from Alice like a burst fire hydrant, spraying and showering the entire nightmare lawn like a human sprinkler. Freddy LAUGHS.
FREDDY Say it, don’t spray it, huh, Jacob? Come and join the fun!
JACOB (O.S.) NOOOOOOO!
Jacob’s voice rips through the scene as everything starts to BLUR RED.
EXT. FOSTER HOME – FRONT LAWN – DAY
Jacob is lying in the grass, violently shaking. Karen drops down next to him.
KAREN Jacob!
JACOB Nooooo!
His body jerks around as if caught in the throes of an epileptic seizure. He SHRIEKS, ignoring Karen completely, and continues to shriek and scream and yell and shake. Like he’s never going to stop.
EXT. MR. HOPKINS’ FRONT DOOR – DAY
We’re directly across the street from the Foster Home as Jacob’s cries echo through the neighborhood. Mr. Hopkins opens the front door. He sees what’s going on, scowls, and yells into his house.
MR. HOPKINS I told you! It’s an overdose! Jesus Christ, I saw this coming. Call 9-1-1!
He watches the commotion growing across the street, and never once moves to help.
EXT. FOSTER HOME – MOMENTS LATER
Jacob is being strapped into a stretcher, babbling incoherently. The residents of the Foster Home stand off to the side while neighbors gawk from the street. Karen is next to the AMBULANCE GUYS looking frantic.
JACOB No! Don’t let them take me!
KAREN Jacob, it’ll be alright.
AMBULANCE GUY #1 Calm down, kid. We’ll take care of you.
Jacob grabs the Ambulance Guy.
JACOB You don’t understand! Let me go!
The ambulance guy straps Jacob’s arm down. Mr. Ross grabs Karen and pulls her away as they start loading the crazed teenager into the ambulance. Scott shakes his head. Wesley looks terrified. Gina keeps her distance from any human. Karen can’t take it and runs into the house. Mr. Ross frowns.
DAVID This is just what we need.
The ambulance drives away as the gathered crowd stares at the kids angrily.
INT. AMBULANCE – DAY
Jacob yells and struggles as an Ambulance Guy prepares a syringe for injection.
JACOB Don’t fucking put me under! You’ll set him free!
The ambulance guy holds Jacob down and slams the needle home. Jacob screams and his eyes start to glass over.
JACOB (cont’d) He’ll kill them all…
Jacob’s head starts to go limp. A VOICE rings out in the van, a voice only Jacob hears:
FREDDY (O.S.) Every town as an Elm Street!
LAUGHTER echoes as Jacob turns his head towards a window.
EXT. A STREET CORNER – DAY
The ambulance zooms by. All is quiet for a second until CRASH! A twisted rusty sign post erupts out of the sidewalk and settles at an ugly angle.
It’s an ELM ST. sign.
INT. AMBULANCE – DAY
We PULL BACK from a wide awake Jacob, who is now suddenly alone in the van. Outside the window there is only darkness. Jacob twists and struggles on the stretcher as
CLANG! the ambulance doors crash open revealing BLACKNESS and KA-BOOM! the stretcher is shot out of the van like a cannonball.
INT. WAREHOUSE – DAY
The stretcher with Jacob BLASTS through a wall and starts to race across the floor of the building that Jacob had been sweeping up the day before.
It careens along, actually taking a few turns, like it has a mind of its own, heading for a shallow pit in the middle of the warehouse.
The stretcher hits the pit, drops a bit, swings up violently, and stops in a vertical position like a rake that has been stepped on AND A BLACK HUMAN SHAPE shoots out of Jacob’s body from intertial force, staying upright as it slides across the floor, spins, stops, then changes into:
FREDDY KRUEGER
Freddy has his hands on his hips and a grin on his face.
FREDDY Thanks for the lift, kid!
He saunters up to Jacob who is still strapped to the vertical stretcher. Krueger waves his knives and wiggles his tongue.
JACOB What do you want from me?
FREDDY I already got it! The rest I’m going to get from your new little friends.
JACOB Leave them alone!
FREDDY It’s my duty to clean up the neighborhood!
JACOB What have you done with my town?
FREDDY Aw, poor baby’s homesick, isn’t he? Don’t worry. We’ll all be one happy family soon. Wanna be the first recruit?
