【正文】 IE39。t rent to people with kids. CORALINE What do you mean? WYBIE (suddenly worried) Uh... I39。ll e in my window `n bring me little dead things. The cat PURRS like a diesel. CORALINE (TOUGH) Look, I39。 I mean, it39。S COAT flapping in the wind, he looks like a PSYCHO KILLER! CORALINE (CONT39。s there? She throws a rock over the wall of stones, HITS THE UNSEEN SPY, causing a CRY OF PAIN. ANIMAL? HUMAN? Freaked out, she GASPS, runs up the trail. NEW ANGLE, SPY POV. We rise up to watch and the black cat hops onto the stone wall. EXT. OVERGROWN ORCHARD CONT. Coraline races down past an OLD TRACTOR and into an ORCHARD. WIND begins to blow. NEW ANGLE as we move beside Coraline through the old apple trees, where she nearly trips on the tongue of a harvest cart. DOWN ANGLE ON on Coraline as she BACKS INTO a circle of TOADSTOOLS in front of a STUMP. BREATHING HARD, she looks out for her pursuer. NEW ANGLE. The black cat shoots past Coraline in the tall grass. She can39。s REAR DOORS as they39。s stuffing is removed and then the empty cloth body is pulled inside out, turning from NUT BROWN to PALE PINK. Sawdust is poured in the NEW DOLL39。 hair pulled out. The doll39。re here. Time to muscle up. ANGLE ON moving truck39。s empty, she puts the shell into her shoulder bag. ANGLE ON CAROLINE, SPY POV. WE PUSH ASIDE dead vines from the railing of the GARDEN BRIDGE for a better look. Coraline aims her forked stick once more then follows it up from the pond and out the BACK GATE. A gust of WIND blows DEAD LEAVES into a swirling eddy WE TRACK high up into the air. DISSOLVE TO: ROCKY PATH HIGH ABOVE HOUSE LITTLE LATER SPY POV on sky, now dark with GATHERING STORM. Hidden behind a NATURAL WALL OF STONES, WE TILT DOWN to view Coraline crossing frame on a STEEP HILLSIDE path. She steps on an old RAILROAD TIE, and her foot SINKS into the rotted wood, stopping her. WE LEAN OUT for a better view, and DISLODGE some stones that roll down past her. WE DUCK as she jerks her head our way. NEW ANGLE, nonspy. Unnerved, Coraline calls out. CORALINE Hello?... Who39。D) Magic dowser, magic dowser: show... me... the well! ANGLE ON CORALINE FROM HIGH BLUFF. The SPY moves into frame, astride some kind of MOTORBIKE. He presses a button on the handlebars and BLASTS a loud AIR HORN. STARTLED, Coraline SPINS around. UP ANGLE ON SPY. As LIGHTNING FLASHES and THUNDER ROLLS, Coraline sees him for the first time. With his turret lensed SKULL MASK and SKELETON GLOVES and black FIREMAN39。t make sense。 you know, wild? Of course, I do feed him every night and sometimes he39。D) ... my Gramma. She owns the Pink Palace (indicates house in distance) Won39。s not real scientific, but I heard an ordinary name, like Caroline Her face goes as DARK as the rain clouds above. WYBIE (CONT39。D) `Cause that dowsing rod of yours? Uh, it39。s perfect weather for gardening. MEL No, Coraline. Rain makes mud. Mud makes a mess. Coraline turns to her. CORALINE But Mom, I want stuff growing when my friends e to visit. Isn39。s weird. She crumples the note, both annoyed and charmed. MEL What39。t it. CORALINE Humph, it39。S ROOM/BATHROOM A FRAMED PHOTO sits in the foreground on a beside table. It shows a younger, happier Coraline with her parents by the BEAR FOUNTAIN at the Detroit Zoo. RACK FOCUS to bedroom door as it swings into the room, with Coraline hanging on it. She drops to the ground and, doll and pad in hand, decides to check out the bathroom. When she pulls aside the mildewed shower curtain she finds a hundred skittering SILVERFISH BUGS. CORALINE E! Disgusted, she jumps into the tub and smashes as many as she can. She turns on the faucet to wash her hands, only to get soaked with rusty water from the shower head. CORALINE (CON