Phoebe :
Hey. Don’t we get a phone call?
Sure you do.
Who you gonna call?
Make it quick.
[♪♪♪]
Do you experience feelings of dread in your basement or attic?
Have you or any of your family ever seen a spook, specter, or ghost?
If the answer is yes, then don’t wait another minute.
Pick up your phone and call the professionals.
[RINGING]
[GROWLS]
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters :
Ray’s Occult, and,
we’re closed.
PHOEBE:
Wait! I only get one phone call.
I’m… in prison.
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters:
Hmm.
The slammer, huh?
I’ve been there myself.
I’m not a lawyer,
but I’m listening.
PHOEBE:
Are you Ray Stantz,
The Ghostbuster?
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters :
….and now I’m hanging up.
PHOEBE:
Hang on. Please.
I… I’m calling about Egon Spengler.
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters:
…..Egon Spengler
can rot in hell.
PHOEBE:
…..He died last week.
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters:
[SIGHS]
Oh, man….
No kidding.
PHOEBE:
Weren’t you two friends?
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters :
That was a long time ago.
PHOEBE:
What happened to you guys?
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters:
[SIGHS, SCOFFS]
Oh, well, look, when we started,
busting ghosts was a gas.
The Economy was Good.
Reagan Years.
People Believed in Us.
Then things got slow,
hauntings got thin.
Venkman thought we
did Our Job too well.
We could barely keep up
our mortgage.
Some actor bought up
most of Tribeca,
and we lost the firehouse.
It’s a Starbucks now.
PHOEBE:
So then you all just
walked away?
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters:
Peter went back to academia.
He’s at SUNY Cortland now.
He’s a Professor Emeritus.
He teaches Advertising and Promotion.
Winston went into finance.
He worked hard,
coined a fortune and…
And I’m here.
PHOEBE:
Well, what about Egon?
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters:
Well, he wasn’t helping.
We went from ten calls a week
to one if we were lucky.
Egon started to tell people
that their ghost problems
didn’t matter because
The World was
coming to An End.
He got spooky.
Freaked me out.
One morning, I go to work
and Ecto-1, our old Cadillac, is gone,
his neutrona thrower, collider pack,
all the traps, 16 ounces
of fuel isotope, all gone!
He cleaned us out.
Now we were the dead ones.
PHOEBE:
Don’t you think he
had a reason?
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters:
He phoned me about ten years later,
some small town in Oklahoma :
He kept rambling about
“the rising storm” and
“the huge psychic tornado”
that was gonna
“consume humanity
in darkness forever.”
[SIGHS]
And, kid, I wanted to believe.
PHOEBE:
You don’t understand —
There is this mountain
and it has these ancient carvings…
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters :
Kid, there are a lot of mountains with ancient carvings.
Take a little advice —
Don’t go chasing ghosts.
PHOEBE:
….Egon Spengler was
My Grandfather.
Time’s up.
Dr. Ray Stantz,
The Heart of The Ghostbusters :
Hey, hello?
[CLICKING SWITCH HOOK]
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