Up On The Roof

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In the next-to-last chapter of BLUE HOTEL, Holly and Alona make love on the roof of the hotel in the moonlight ... while the cops find the dead bodies in Alona's room, and continue their search for them ...


INT. STARLIGHT HOTEL - CORRIDOR - NIGHT
Bernie and Danette stand
in front of Alona’s door.

DANETTE
This is the hooker’s room, right?

Bernie checks his notepad.

BERNIE
Alona Tal.
Twenty-three.
This is it.

Danette nods.
KNOCKS-KNOCKS-KNOCKS.

DANETTE
Ms. Tal?
This is the police.
Please open the door.
We want to ask you some questions.
(beat)
ALONA TAL, this is the POLICE.
Open the door, NOW.
(listens, to Bernie)
Maybe she’s not there.

BERNIE
Guy at the desk said
she hasn’t left.

Danette pulls out her gun.
Nods at Bernie.

Bernie nods.
Unholsters his piece.
Raises it --

And BANG, KICKS the door down.
They BURST into the room.

EXT. STARLIGHT HOTEL - ROOF - AT THAT MOMENT
Alona and Holly lie naked
on the tar-papered roof.

Making love in the moonlight.
Alona has her hand
between Holly’s legs.

Holly bucking slowly
like a simmering bronco.

HOLLY
Uhhh --

ALONA
(kissing her neck)
I knew it would be
amazing with you.

HOLLY
(gasps)
I’ve never -- felt like this before.

INT. ALONA’S SHITTY HOTEL ROOM - AT THAT MOMENT
The closet door is open.
Beggar’s wrapped-up body
has fallen onto the floor.

Danette goes to the bed.
Looks under it.

Finds Oscar’s body.
Her jaw DROPS.

DANETTE
SHIT.
(to someone off-camera)
There’s another one
under the BED.

BERNIE (O.C.)
Jesus fucking CHRIST.

He shuffles into the room.
White as a ghost.

BERNIE
Two more in the bathroom.
One of them half-cut
into pieces and bagged.

DANETTE
Is one of them the hooker?

BERNIE
No. Both guys.

DANETTE
So Alona and Holly
must be friends.

BERNIE
Roger that.

Danette pulls out her radio.
CLICKS it on.

DANETTE
Hello, dispatch?
This is officer Day,
Venice Beach substation.
We’ve got a ten-fifty-five
at the Starlight Hotel
on the boardwalk.
Send all available units.
(listens)
Four bodies.
Send as many evidence techs
as you’ve got.
(listens)
You don’t want to know.
It’s a real horror show. Over.

She holsters her radio.

BERNIE
So where you think they went?

A woman’s voice
CRIES OUT in ecstacy.

A ROAR of blood-curdling
animal passion.

HOLLY (O.C.)
OH-MY-FUCKING-GOD-YESSS!

BERNIE
They’re up on
the fucking roof.

HOLLY
And they’re fucking
up on the roof.

Danette dashes over to the window.
Starts climbing out
on the fire escape.

Bernie follows --