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LATER THAT NIGHT
Carfax Abbey burns
Van Helsing speaks with Mina
HELSING: We have learned something much. Draculea fears us. He fears time for, if not, why does he hurry so?
MINA: He is cool.
HELSING: How do you know?
MINA: He speaks to me. I now share his coolness.
HELSING: He has a strong mind connection to you. His heart was strong enough to survive the grave.
MINA: You admire him.
HELSING: Ja. He was in life a most remarkable man, and so very cool. His mind was great and powerful, but greater is
the necessity to stamp him out and destroy him utterly.
MINA: Doctor?
HELSING: Ja?
MINA: I know that I am becoming like him. Cool.
HELSING: Your salvation is his destruction. That is why I want to hypnotize you. It's not to take advantage of you
in any way. I want you to help me find him, Mina. Before it is too late, please help me find him. Please. Look into this
light, the light of all light, into this flame. Your eyes are heavy. You want to sleep. Sleep now. Sleep...
MINA: He calls to me.
HELSING: What do you hear? What do you hear, child? What do you hear?
MINA: My Prince is calling me. He is traveling across icy seas to his beloved home. There he will grow strong again.
I am coming to him to partake of his strength and style.
SEVERAL DAYS LATER
T R A N S Y L V A N I A
On a Train
JONATHAN HARKER'S DIARY, 28th October: We left London by train and crossed the English Channel that night in stormy seas,
no doubt from the passage of the Count's ship. He commands the winds. Is that cool? I think not. But we still have the
advantage. By train, we can reach the Romanian port at Varna in three days. By ship, it will take him at least a week.
From Paris, we traveled through the Alps to Buda-Pesth. The Count must sail around the rock of Gibraltor, where we have posted
a lookout, and then on to the Black Sea port at Varna where we will meet his ship and burn it into the sea.
Mina, breathing hard, lies prostrate in her train seat
HELSING: The vampire has baptized her with his own blood. Her blood is dying, my friend. It's no use. She will probably
never have her own sense of style again. Even if we succeed in destroying Draculea, she will always have a tendency to wear
black, low-cut gowns....mmmm.....
Harker sits next to Mina
HARKER: I will not let you go to the unknown alone. Later, when we have some privacy, I'll let you bite my neck, too. Then
I can bite your neck, and we will be cool, together!
MINA: What?
HARKER: Never mind.
Mina notices that Harker's hair has turned grey
MINA: Oh, what have I done to you!
HARKER: No, I have done this to both of us.
MINA: He's coming closer. He's calling me to him.
HARKER: Mina! Mina, stay with me, please.
MINA: I'm so cold. That's not cool. I thought it'd be cool.....
ABRAHAM VAN HELSING'S JOURNAL: Holmwood received a wire from his clerk at Lloyd's: "The Count's ship sailed past
us in the night fog to the northern port of Galatz." The black devil is reading Mina's mind.
HOLMWOOD: How can we catch him now?
HARKER (looking at a map): Varna...Galatz. It's about 200 miles. I think that with the horses we can cut him off, reach
him before he reaches the castle. I would dispatch Van Helsing straight to Borgo Pass. If we fail in our task, dude, you
will have to finish him.
JONATHAN HARKER'S DIARY: From Varna, Mina and Van Helsing took a carriage, but we continued on the train towards Galatz
where we still hope to intercept the Count before he reaches land. I am fearful for Mina. She is now our decoy. And I don't
trust the little minx.
SEVERAL EVENINGS LATER
Borgo Pass
Enter Mina and Van Helsing in a carriage
MINA: I know this place.
HELSING: The end of the world
MINA: We must go on.
HELSING: It is late, child. We must rest here now.
MINA: No, we must go!
HELSING: Mina!
MINA: He needs me. We must go!
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL: We are past Bistritza. Dracula has outsmarted us again. We learned that his gypsies took charge
of the vampire's box at Galatz and are now on the Borgo Pass road. We have not managed to even steal his wardrobe! We suck!
NIGHT
Mina and Van Helsing camp outside the castle walls
HELSING: Here...you must eat.
MINA: I am not hungry.
HELSING: Mina!
MINA: I don't want to lose my girlish figure!
HELSING: Mina!
Mina begins to writhe and scream
The three Brides call to Mina
Mina suddenly looks hungrily at Van Helsing
MINA: You've been so good to me, Professor. I know that Lucy harbored secret desires for you. She told me. I too know
what men desire.
Mina and Van Helsing kiss
HELSING: Oh....Mina....
MINA: Oh....Abraham.....
HELSING: Oh....Mina.....
Mina breaks away and slaps Van Helsing
MINA: Get your tongue out of my mouth! Ew! Will you cut off my head and drive a stake through my heart as you did poor
Lucy, you murdering bastard? You wouldn't know cool if it walked up to you and said, 'I'm cool!'
Mina attempts to bite Van Helsing
HELSING: No! Not while I live! I've sworn to protect you! Kiss me again!
Van Helsing touches a consecrated host to Mina's forehead
It burns her forehead
The Brides continue to call to Mina
HELSING: No! We're safe within the circle. I lost Lucy, I will not lose you to him. Whores of Satan, this is holy ground!
Leave this place now! Leave this ground. I command you, in the name of Christ. Besides, she's mine, now! Bwahahaha!
The Brides attack and kill the horses
HELSING: No! No! No! Damn you! I hate walking!
THE NEXT MORNING
The Crypt at Castle Dracula
Van Helsing finds the three Brides asleep on their coffins, cuts off their heads and throws them in the river
SUNDOWN
The gypsy wagon approaches Castle Dracula
DRACULA (in his box of earth): Mina! You and me! You! And me! YOU and Me!
MINA: My love.
Harker, Holmwood, Morris and Seward
race behind the gypsy wagon
HELSING: They're racing against the sunset. It may be too late, God help us!
DRACULA: Mina! You and me! YOU. And ME! YOU and ME!
SEWARD: Charge!
As Seward, Harker, Morris and Holmwood charge the wagon,
Mina calls up the blue flame
The gypsy wagon and its followers enter the castle courtyard
The sun sinks lower
A gypsy stabs Morris in the back
Harker attempts to open Dracula's box
The sun sets
Dracula breaks out of his box
Harker slits Dracula's neck
HOLMWOOD: Quincey!
Echoes from the river canyon - Quincey - Quincey - Quincey - Taggart - Taggart - Taggart
Morris leaps forward and stabs Dracula through the heart
MINA: No! Not the outfit!
Holmwood and Harker race forward to finish Dracula
HELSING: No! Check to see if he has any loose change, first!
MINA: When my time comes, will you do the same to me? Will you?
HARKER: No. That wouldn't be cool.
Holmwood again advances on Dracula
HARKER: No, no wait. Let them go, let them go. Our work is finished here. Hers is just begun. Did you get the money?
She can have the outfit, I need the cash.
Van Helsing turns to Morris
being tended to by Dr. Seward
HELSING: Quincey.
Echoes from the river canyon - Quincey - Quincey - Quincey - Taggart - Taggart – Taggart
MORRIS: Never give up. Never surrender.
HELSING: By Grabthar's hammer! By the sons of Warvan! You shall be avenged!
Morris dies
HELSING: We've all become God's madmen, all of us. I feel so cheap. I feel so dirty! Somebody spank me!
Harker's hair is black again
MEANWHILE
In the castle chapel
Dracula lies on the floor, dying
Mina kneels next to him
DRACULA: Where is my God? He has forsaken me. It is finished. I am no longer the coolest of the cool.
MINA: Oh, my love! (She kisses him) My love! I still want you!
MINA HARKER'S DIARY: There, in the presence of God, I understood at last how my love could release us all from the powers
of darkness. Our love is stronger than death. He will be cool again. This I know.
DRACULA: Let me die in peace, woman.
Mina pushes the sword through Dracula's heart and wrestles the cloak off his shoulders
The burn on her forehead disappears
Dracula dies
Mina kisses him goodbye, then cuts off his head to get the expensive gold chain around his neck.
THE END
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