Something Which Represents The Best in Each and Every One of Us

Genesis 11:3

“And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. 

And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.”

“I remind myself of A Navajo Story — 

Twin War Gods 

come to Their Father, 

seeking Magic and Weapons 

to eliminate 

The Monsters of The World.

My Hope is the same for You, 

and that We might reconcile 

the differences between Us.

Your Loving Father.”

Ghostbusters 2 (1989) - No Dent, A Symbol

RAY: 

(half-heartedly)

Pull 'em.

EGON: 

Full neutronas.

RAY : 

Let's cook!

They open fire on The Shell but it becomes apparent 

they are shooting in vain.

RAY : 

Save 'em.

The crowds boo and hiss at them.

PERSON: 

C'mon!

PERSON: 

Aw, c'mon Ghostbusters!

EGON : 

That slime mold is PULSING with Evil. 

It would take a TREMENDOUS amount of Positive Energy to Crack That Shell 

and I seriously DOUBT 

there's enough Goodwill left 

in This Town to DO it.

Ray plants his face on Ecto-1A's hood in frustration 

then stands back up.

RAY : 

You know, 

I just Can't Believe Things have gotten 

So BAD in This City 

that there's 

No Way BACK. 

I mean, sure, it's Dirty, it's Crowded, it's Polluted, it's Noisy 

and there's People all around 

who'd just as soon step on your face 

as look at you. 

But Come on! 

There's gotta be a FEW Sparks of Sweet Humanity 

left in This Burned-out 'burg 

and WE just have to figure out 

A Way to MOBILISE it.

EGON : 

He's Right. 

We need Something that 

EVERYONE 

in This Town 

can GET Behind --

We Need... A Symbol.

They all started looking downwards.

RAY: 

Something that appeals to 

The Best in Each and 

Every One of Us.

Egon squats down.

EGON: 

Something GOOD.

WINSTON: 

Something DECENT.

VENKMAN: 

Something PURE.

The camera POV shifts down to Ecto-1a's license plate. 

It features An Image of 

The Statue of Liberty.

“Don’t Look for it, Taylor — 

You may not Like 

What You Find….”

Evening. Liberty Island. 

The Ghostbusters stare at The Statue.

VENKMAN: 

Kind of makes you wonder, doesn't it?

RAY : 

Wonder what?

VENKMAN: 

Whether she's naked under that toga. 

She's French -- You know that.

VENKMAN: 

Oh darn it. Oh, darn it.

Vigo raises Oscar in His Arms. 

Oscar cries.

VIGO: 

NOW We Become ONE --

"Auld Lang Syne" can be heard from The Skylight. 

Vigo recoils in Pain.

RAY : 

Where's that singing coming from?

WINSTON: 

It's The People OUTSIDE.

The crowds of people outside the Manhattan Museum of Art celebrate New Years TOGETHER.

Louis passes through The Crowd and makes His Way to The Front. 

The Statue of Liberty is on her back on The Street.

LOUIS : 

Sorry folks! Excuse me. 

Ghostbusters. Wow. 

I'm Here with You Guys.

Louis readies his particle thrower.

EGON : 

He's Weakening! 

The singing is neutralizing The Slime!

RAY: 

I can move!

Peter hobbles forward.

DANA : 

Oscar!

Vigo is forcibly propelled back into The Painting. 

Peter catches Oscar just in time.

DANA : 

Oh, sweetie.

EGON : 

He's back in The Painting!

VENKMAN: 

All right, go find a shady spot.

Ray turns towards The Painting and locks eyes with Vigo.

VENKMAN:

Vigi, Vigi, Vigi. 

You have been a BAD monkey!

Ray suddenly walks up to The Painting 

and stares at it.

EGON : 

Ray? We'd like to Shoot The Monster, 

Could you move, please?

VENKMAN: 

Ray?

WINSTON : 

Ray?

PETER, EGON, WINSTON: 

Ray?!!!

Ray turns around to reveal 

he is possessed by Vigo 

and transmogrified to resemble 

his True Ghost Form.

VIGO: 

No! I, Ray, am Vigo, shall rule the earth! 

Be gone, you pitiful half-men!

VENKMAN: 

Now!

Peter and Egon fire at The Painting. 

Winston slimes Ray.

At the same time -- 

in front of an ELECTRIFIED Crowd of THOUSANDS -

- Louis fires on The Slime Shell.

Ray drops to The Ground as Vigo is ejected 

out of His Body and back into The Painting 

as The Giant Floating Head. 

They continue to fire on him. 

Vigo is drenched in the positively charged

psychomagnotheric ectoplasm.

VIGO: 

No!

Vigo is sent spiraling further into The Painting 

until there is an explosion and a bright 

white light is projected. 

The Slime Shell disintegrates and shoot up into the sky. 

The people cheer. Several congratulate Louis.

LOUIS : 

I did it! I did it!

MAN: 

That was great! I loved it!

LOUIS: 

I'm a Ghostbuster!

EGON : 

What did you say Your Name was..?

LOUIS : 

Vinz Clortho, 

Keymaster of Gozer.

JANINE : 

[She looks at Louis's wallet] 

Well, according to this, 

His Name's 'Louis Tully'. 

Lives on Central Park West.

It's Old High Gallifreyan for 'Shadow'

VALEYARD: 
You have your Guardian and I have mine. 
You and I are on the same quest, Doctor, but whereas you have been scavenging across space and time, I have located the sixth piece here. 

DOCTOR: 
Oh. 

VALEYARD: 
Your are Inferior, just as your powers are Inferior. 
Once we have the Key to Time, we shall set not two small planets but the two halves of the entire cosmos at war, and their mutual destruction will be music in our ears. 

Unlike Others, it is not Power We seek, but Destruction that We Glory in. 

Fetch The Key. 

DOCTOR: 
Very well. 



DOCTOR [on screen]: 
Not like those innocents back on Atrios, you know. 

Time Lords sent by the Guardian to recover the Key to Time. 

VALEYARD: 
I know Who You Are, Doctor.

I have always known. 

(An image of Shadow's face fills the tunnel.) 

VALEYARD : 
I have been waiting for you. 

I, too, serve a Guardian. 
A Guardian equal and opposite in power to the one who sent you. 
The Black Guardian, 

He Who Walks in Darkness, 

and you are in 

The Valley of The Shadow. 

DOCTOR: 
No, no, no! No!

(The Doctor appears to fall down a hole.)


[Shadow's lair]

K9 [on screen]: 
The Doctor is captured, Master.

VALEYARD: 
You see, Princess, 

You Cannot Escape Your Destiny. 

ASTRA: 
My Destiny. 

VALEYARD: 
It is for this that you were born. 

The Sixth Child of The Sixth Generation of The Sixth Dynasty of Atrios. 

Born to be The Sixth and Final Segment of the Key to Time. 

Come, Princess, prepare yourself. 

ASTRA: 
I am ready. 

(Astra reaches for the tracer, and turns into the segment.) 

VALEYARD: 
Ah! 

MERAK: 
Astra! 

(K9 blasts through the wall, disrupting the Shadow's ecstasy.) 

VALEYARD: 

What is this? 

 
K9: 

Apologies, Master. 

 
VALEYARD: 

You Mechanical Idiot. 

 
K9: 

But there is An Intruder here. 

 

 
VALEYARD: 

I ordered her to eliminate him. 

 
K9: 

It shall be done. 

 
VALEYARD: 

Wait. Where is The Doctor? 

 
(K9 trundles past the Key and turns to face The Shadow.) 

 
K9: 

Ahem. The Doctor and Drax have been eliminated. 

 
VALEYARD: 

Good. Then these two shall stay and witness my moment of glory, my apotheosis. 

 
K9: (sotto) 

Master. 

 
VALEYARD: Mine at last! 

 
(The Shadow reaches for the tracer.) 

 
K9: Now, Master. 

 
(A panel opens in K9's side, and the Doctor and Drax jump out.) 

 
ROMANA: 

No, you'll break the time loop! 

 
MERAK: 

Millions will die! 

 
VALEYARD: 

A small beginning. Bwahahahahaha! 
DOCTOR: 

The stabiliser, Drax, now! 

 
(Drax restores the Doctor to normal height, then himself. The Doctor pounces on the sixth segment.) 
 

VALEYARD: 

You interfering fool. No one can resist the power of darkness! 
(The Doctor shines the light of the Key into the Shadow's eyes, and he recoils.) 
DOCTOR: Quick, back to the Tardis! Quick!





ROMANA: 

Right, I'll set the coordinates for Gallifrey, shall I? 

DOCTOR: Why Gallifrey? 

ROMANA: 
Well, that's where we're going, isn't it? 

DOCTOR: 
We have the power to do anything we like. 
Absolute power over every particle in the universe. 
Everything that has ever existed or ever will exist. As from this moment are you listening to me, Romana? 

ROMANA: 
Yes, of course I'm listening. 

DOCTOR: 
Because if you're not listening I can make you listen, because I can do anything. 

(The Doctor rolls his eyes back like a maniac.) 

DOCTOR: 
As from this moment there's no such thing as free will in the entire universe. 
There's only my will, because I possess the Key to Time! 

ROMANA: 
Doctor, are you all right? 

DOCTOR: (normal) 
Well of course I'm all right. 
But supposing I wasn't all right. 
This thing makes me feel in such a way I'd be very worried if I felt like that about someone else feeling like this about that. 
Do you understand? 

ROMANA: 
Yes. 

DOCTOR: 
What do you understand?

ROMANA: 
That the sooner we hand this over to the White Guardian

BOTH: 
The better! 

(Dramatic organ chords, and the Guardian appears on the scanner, dressed in white.) 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
My congratulations to you, Doctor. 

DOCTOR: 
Oh, thank you, sir, thank you. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
You performed your task with admirable dispatch. 

The Universe has much to thank you for. 

DOCTOR: 
Well, it was a pleasure, sir. Wasn't it a pleasure, Romana? 

ROMANA: 
Doctor, that's not the President. 

DOCTOR: 
What's the President got to do with it? 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
I can change my form or shape at will, my dear child. 
I appeared to you as the President so as not to alarm you. 

DOCTOR: 
Just be careful who you're talking to. 

ROMANA: Sorry, I -

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
You have the Key to Time, Doctor? 

DOCTOR: 
Ah. Oh, I have, I have indeed, sir. Do you like it? 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Do I like it? Yes, yes, I suppose you could say that I like it. 

DOCTOR: 
Yes, we're very proud of it, sir. Aren't we, Romana, proud of it? 

ROMANA: 
What? Oh, yes, yes. 

DOCTOR: 
What happens now, sir? 
You said, if I remember in our first conversation, that once it was assembled it would stop the entire universe and enable you to restore the natural balances of good and evil throughout the whole of the universe. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
That is correct, Doctor. 
So, will you release the Key to me that I may do this? 

DOCTOR: 
Certainly, sir, yes, certainly, of course. 
Key to Time, I command you... 
Could I ask you something, sir? 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Yes, Doctor? 

DOCTOR: 
It's just that, well, the Key is already assembled, sir. 
I mean, couldn't you restore the balances now? 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Yes, Doctor, but I must have the Key for safe keeping. It is an awesomely powerful key. 

DOCTOR: 
Oh yes, sir, yes, and mustn't be allowed to fall into the wrong hands. I quite understand, sir, yes. 

Key to Time, I command. What about the sixth segment? 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
What about it, Doctor? 

DOCTOR: 
Well, I mean, as you know, sir, the sixth segment was in fact a human being, and I mean, if the pieces are maintained in their present pattern it means that she'll be imprisoned forever, sir. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
That is, of course, regrettable. 

DOCTOR: 
Very regrettable. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
But with the fate of the universe at stake. 

DOCTOR: 
Quite. You can't be too careful. 
I quite understand. 
Key to Time, I command that you stay exactly where you are! 

(The Doctor hits a TARDIS control.) 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Doctor! You have fully activated all the TARDIS' defences! 

DOCTOR: 
We can't be too careful, can we? 
And it would be a terrible tragedy for the universe if it suddenly turned out that I was colour blind. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Doctor, release the Key to me immediately! 

DOCTOR: 
Unable to distinguish between the White Guardian and the Black Guardian. 

ROMANA: 
Doctor, what do you mean? 

DOCTOR: 
Look. 

(The Guardian snarls and turns into a negative of its former image.) 

DOCTOR: 
Don't you see? The White Guardian would never have had such a callous disregard for human life. 

ROMANA: 

Of course. Astra, the sixth segment. 
He would have dispersed it immediately. 

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
Doctor, you shall die for this! 

DOCTOR: 
I think not. Remember, the Key to Time is still mine, rage all you like.

GUARDIAN [on scanner]: 
I shall destroy you for this! 
I will disperse every particle of your being to the furthest reaches of eternity! 

DOCTOR: 
Ah well, I wish I could stay and watch you try, but you know how it is. 
Places to go, people to see, things to do. Romana? 

ROMANA: 
Yes?

DOCTOR: 
When I give the signal 

ROMANA: 
Yes? 

(The Doctor reaches for The tracer.) 

DOCTOR: 
Dematerialise. 

(He takes the tracer from The Key.) 

DOCTOR: 
Now! 

(And snaps the tracer in two. The first five pieces of the Key hurtle off into time and space, and the sixth becomes Astra again.)



DOCTOR: 
You see? I think of everything. 

ROMANA: 
Doctor? 

DOCTOR: 
Hmm? 

ROMANA: 
What exactly have you done with the Key to Time? 

DOCTOR: 
Key to Time? 

Oh, well, I just scattered it round through Space and Time. 

ROMANA: 
I see. So where are we going? 

DOCTOR: 
Going? I don't know. 

ROMANA: 
You have absolutely no sense of responsibility whatsoever. 

DOCTOR: 
What? 

ROMANA: 
You're capricious, arrogant, self-opinionated, irrational 

and you don't even know where we're going. 

DOCTOR: 

Exactly. 

ROMANA: 

What? 

DOCTOR: 

Well, if I knew where I was going, 

there'd be a chance The Black Guardian would, too. 

ROMANA: Oh. 

DOCTOR: 

Hence this new device. 

ROMANA: 

What is it? 

DOCTOR: 

Well, it's called a randomiser and it's fitted to the guidance system and operates under a very complex scientific principle called pot luck. 

(The Doctor sets The TARDIS going.) 

DOCTOR: 

Now no one knows where we're going. Not even the Black Guardian. 

ROMANA: 

Not even us.