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AFTERNOON
Lucy's bedroom
Lucy sleeps
Mina watches over her
MINA (to herself): What is happening to Lucy and to me? When I was younger, my feelings were never troubled. I wish I were
myself again, the sensible Mina I've always depended on.
LONDON
EARLY EVENING
At a private table in a restaurant
Dracula pours a drink for Mina
DRACULA: Absinthe is the aphrodisiac of the soul. The green fairy who lives in the absinthe wants your soul. But you are
safe with me. For now.
MINA: Tell me, Prince, tell me of your home.
DRACULA: The most beautiful place in all creation. So cool.
MINA: Yes, it must be. A land beyond a great, vast forest surrounded by majestic mountains, lush vineyards, and flowers
of such frailty and beauty as to be found nowhere else. And the clothes!
DRACULA: You describe my home as if you had seen it firsthand. Even if you are not dressed as up-to-the-minute as one
might expect.
MINA: It's your voice, perhaps. It's so familiar. It's like a...it's like a voice in a dream I cannot place, and it
comforts me when I am alone. And what of the princess?
DRACULA: Princess?
MINA: There is always a princess with gowns flowing white. Her face...her face is the river. The princess, she is the
river filled with tears and with sadness and with heartbreak.
DRACULA: There was a princess...Elisabeta. She was the most radiant woman in all the empires of the world, and so cool
and well-dressed. The epitome of Transylvanian fashion. Man's deceit took her from her ancient prince. She leapt to her
death into the river that you spoke of. In my mother's tongue, it is called "Artzeche (or Arges?)", River Princess.
Don't even talk to me about Turkish Delight.
MEANWHILE
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
Castle Dracula
Harker climbs out a window, moves along a ledge
and plunges into the river below
He follows the river upstream and comes upon a convent
SEVERAL DAYS LATER
E N G L A N D
KENT
Hillingham Estate
In the garden, Mina reads a letter
LETTER FROM SISTER AGATHA TO MINA MURRAY: Dear Madam, your fiance is safe and in the care of the good sisters of the blessed
sacrement. Mr. Harker believes your life is in extreme danger, and he desires with all urgency that you join him here so
that you may immediately be married. He really needs to repent of some sins, too, so it's good he found us, otherwise his
soul might be lost forever. Other than that, he's fine. Yours with all blessings, Sister Agatha.
MINA: My sweet Prince. Jonathan must never know of us. Ever, ever, ever. Ever. Oh....my.....
Mina runs up the stairs to Lucy's bedroom door
MINA: Lucy! Lucy!
Van Helsing and Seward intercept Mina
HELSING: Abraham Van Helsing.
MINA: Dr. Van Helsing.
VAN HELSING: You are Madam Mina, dear friend to our Lucy, Ja? Did you know about her new dress?
MINA: No! How is she, doctor?
VAN HELSING: She is still very weak. She tells me of your beloved Jonathan Harker and your worry for him. Well, I too
worry for all young lovers. (He holds her as if to dance) La de da da. The darkness is not the Light, my child, and there
are Lights. You are one of the Lights, dear Mina, the Light of all Light. Go now, see your friend.
Mina and Seward enter Lucy's room
Lucy lies in bed
LUCY: You look different, Mina, you look positively radiant. You've heard from Jonathan, haven't you?
MINA: Yes. He's safe, Lucy. He's in a convent in Romania. He's suffering from a violent brain fever. The good sisters
are caring for them. They wrote to me and they say he needs me but I won't go. I'm not going to leave you.
LUCY: Mina, you've got to go to him. You've got to love him and marry him right then and there. And I want you to
take this, my sister.
Lucy takes off a ring from her finger
and hands it to Mina
MINA: No.
LUCY: It's my wedding gift to you.
MINA: No, Lucy, no.
LUCY: Don't worry aout spoiled little Lucy. I'll be all right. Tell Jonathan oceans of love. And don't forget everything
I taught you, you naughty girl.
Mina kisses Lucy
Enter Quincey Morris
MORRIS: How is she?
Mina places flowers on Lucy's bedtable
LUCY (begins to writhe and pull at garlic cloves tied around her neck): Oh, oh. This is why I can't breathe!
HELSING (springs to Lucy's side): Lucy, Lucy. It's medicinal...to help you sleep, Lucy. It's for the bad dreams.
LUCY: It's garlic! It's nothing but garlic. It's not even the good garlic!
SEWARD: Lucy, Quincey's here. Quincey's here to see you. (To Mina) Tell Franz to get some brandy.
LUCY: Oh, Quincey.
MORRIS: Now, Miss Lucy, you just rest easy. Arthur sent me to take care of you. He said if you don't get better right
quick I have to put you out of your misery like a lame horse wearing your wedding dress.
LUCY: Quincey, you're such a beast, I love that dress! Will you kiss me, Quincey? Kiss me.
Morris bends to kiss Lucy
She bites at his neck
Van Helsing pulls Morris away and holds Lucy down
MORRIS: You dirty old man!
LUCY: Get off me!
VAN HELSING: Lucy, listen to me. Sleep, sleep now, sleep. There, there. (He looks at the fangs in her gums) Ja.
Nosferatu. This isn't cool at all.
LONDON
LATER
Van Helsing's study
Van Helsing reads from the book Vampyre
HELSING: "Here occurs the shocking and frightening history of the wild berserker and clothes-horse, Prince Dracula,
how he impaled people and roasted them, boiled their heads in a kettle, how he skinned them alive and hacked them to pieces
and then drank their blood." Ja, Dracul! Her blood is the life.
MEANWHILE
In the restaurant
Dracula awaits Mina's arrival
Enter Waitor
He hands a note to Dracula
NOTE FROM MINA TO PRINCE VLAD: My dearest Prince, forgive me. I have received word from my fiance in Romania. I am going
to join him. We are to be married. I will never see you again, sorry dude. Mina.
DRACULA: (Cries)
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