The Story in Pictures pg. 7

Pete turns, face down on the ground in the darkness. He's holding his head and shaking.
As he starts to stand - he turns into the glare of the headlights and we see that it is NOT PETE - BUT FRED.

Fred: Where is Alice?

Mystery Man: Alice who?...Her name is Renee. If she´s told you her name is Alice, she´s lying...

Mystery Man: AND YOUR NAME, WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR NAME?!

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Fred freaks, scared to death. He bolts down the stairs to the car, stumbling more than once.

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Fred is driving along the two-lane desert "lost highway". The wind is picking up even stronger than before. A big storm is blowing in.

Fred enters the Lost Highway Hotel.

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Fred in front of the Lost Highway Hotel.

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As Fred drives away, a HAND appears in our window foreground. The hand moves the window curtain further to one side.

The camera pulls back to reveal it as the hand of the Mystery Man. The Mystery Man leans fully into the frame and watches Fred drive off down the Lost Highway as day breaks.

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Al: We've got Pete Dayton's prints all over this place. Ed: You know what I think? Al: What's that, Ed? Ed: There's no such thing as a bad coincidence.

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A knife comes into Fred´s hand from another.

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Mr. Eddy/Dick Laurent: What do you guys want?

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The Mystery Man hands him a watchman and Mister Eddy/Dick Laurent sees:

"Man sieht ihn um die Kirche schleichen..."

"Seit einem Jahr ist er allein..."

"Die Trauer nahm ihm alle Sinne..."

"Schläft jede Nacht bei ihrem Stein..."

Mystery Man: Now you can hand it back to me.
Mr. Eddy/Laurent: You and me, mister, we can really out-ugly the sumbitches, can't we?

The Mystery Man then leans close to Fred and whispers in his ear.

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Dick Laurent is dead.

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Fred drives up to his house in Mr. Eddy/Laurent's Mercedes 600 Pullman and stops in front. He gets out of the car, goes to the front door and RINGS THE DOORBELL. There is a BEEP sound.
Fred (into intercom): Dick Laurent is dead.

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As Fred finishes this sentence we see the cop car containing Ed and Al pull in to the curb just up the street from Fred and Renee's house.
Fred turns and sees the cop car. He jumps in his car, fires it up, and peels out. The cops give chase.

Fred is behind the wheel of his car. Behind him are the cops.
CLOSE UP ON FRED'S FACE - through the front windshield. The shot is wide enough to reveal the cop car in hot pursuit.

Fred's face begins to change again, grotesquely contorting as he races into the vortex. His tormented SCREAM blends with the howling SIREN of the police car gaining on him.

"funny how secrets travel..."