The Goonies

Prologue
Astoria,Oregon: Fall,1985. A jailhouse

Interior jailhouse

A jail guard unlocks a cell block to call the inmates out for their lunch.

Guard: Lunch time

The inmates exit their cells and are murmuring amongst themselves.

Guard: The longer you animals bark the colder your lunch gets. Come on,move it out! (He looks toward the last occupied cell) You too down there. (He walks down the cellblock) Hey turkey...

The Guard walks down to an open cell where the expected inmate has not emerged. He walks in and discovers that the inmate,Jake Fratelli,has apparently hung himself. There is a note taped to his chest reading,"To whom it may concern". The guard removes it,he turns it over and reads the back.

Guard: "You schmuck. Do you really think I'd be stupid enough to kill myself?" (He repeats the last two words to himself in bewilderment) Kill myself?

Jake was alive. He opens his eyes,and cocks his head and grins,assaulting the unsuspecting guard,knocking him out. Jake untangles himself from his makeshift gallows,removing a pipe assembly from his beltline which supported his weight.

Exterior Jailhouse

Francis Fratelli,Jake's brother,is pouring a ring of gasoline around the front entrance,while their mother,Mama Fratelli,waits anxiously behind the wheel of their ORV.

Mama: Come on!

Francis throws the empty gasoline can in the back of the ORV and then jumps into the passenger seat,loading a semi-automatic pistol. Jake hurries down the front steps of the jailhouse in his street clothes.

Mama: Here he comes

Mama starts the car as Jake runs over to the right rear door. It's locked.

Jake: Francis,it's the lock. (Desperate to open the car door) The lock,Francis

Francis: Let go of the handle

Jake: I don't have the handle. Open the lock!

Mama: Jake,up! (Gesturing to the open sunroof)

Jake: No

Mama: Come on. Move...

Francis: It's open

Mama: (To Francis) Get down! (To Jake) Come on!

Jake: (He climbs head first down through the sunroof) Thanks Mama

Francis now reaches down through the open passenger side window and fires into the now gasoline-soaked pavement. A ring of fire flares up around the entrance,trapping the jail guards who have hastily emerged looking for Jake. Francis laughs victoriously. Mama Fratelli puts the car in gear and screeches away. A number of police cars quickly pursue them.

High School Field - Football and Cheerleading practice

A pretty,young girl,about sixteen,loads a cassette tape into a player and starts it. Andrea Carmichael,known to all her friends as Andi,is the cheerleading captain and is leading her team in practice.

Andi: Okay you guys,let's try the victory pyramid. Okay so...alright...(She directs the girls as they assemble as the police chase whisks by,sirens blaring) Let's work on this next move. We can do it. Next row,come on,put your arms up,put your arms up...smile...good. (excitedly) You got it!

Street corner

The Fratellis race through a red light with several police cars hot on their trail. A Hispanic woman,Rosalita,nervously hurries across the street as cars whisk by on both sides of her.

Interior - a house

Clarke Devereux,known to his friends as "Mouth",is watching an unrelated police chase on a small television which is turned up too loud. His father,a plumber,is struggling to make some repairs under a counter.

Mr.Devereux: Turn that TV off son,I can't hear myself think

Mouth: Yeah right,dad

Mouth grudgently turns off the TV set,but the live Fratelli chase is passing the open window. He slaps the TV a couple times,puzzled as to where the sound is coming from.

Mouth: Huh? (He walks over to his dad and sits on the counter,looking into the sink)

Mr.Devereux: The water going down son?

Mouth: (He looks in the sink) Ugh...no

Mr.Devereux: Going down now?

Water gushes from the drain,completely drenching Mouth. Mouth is unable to answer.

Mr.Devereux: Sorry,kid

On the docks

Stefanie Steinbrenner,known to her friends as Stef,is helping her dad at the docks. The chase passes behind her while her head is immersed in a fishing barrel. She surfaces with a crab in hand and tosses it aside,oblivious to the commotion.

An Alleyway

Ricky Wang,known to his friends as "Data" for his many little inventive gadgets,likes to think of himself as "007". He is testing a new device of his that shoots a small,suction-cupped harpoon from his belt buckle. It attaches itself securely to a steel drum across the alley. A thread spool in his belt buckle starts to reel it in with considerable torque. The drum starts to move towards him,much to his delight,but gets stuck. Data is drawn uncontrollably across the alley and falls head first into the drum. The police chase speeds by while he is in the drum.

Stop 'n Snack

Lawrence Cohen,whose friends refer to him affectionately as "Chunk" (for his everlasting love of food),is at an arcade game near the front window. He is the only Goonie to have actually witnessed the police chase. He presses against the window,food in his right hand and milkshake in his left,to get the best possible look.

Chunk: Oh wow...a police chase!

The cars race by and some gunshots are fired.

Chunk: With bullets!!

The condiments from his food smear all over the window and the milkshake bursts open.

Chunk: Ah,shit!

The Beach

The Fratellis arrive at the beach,temporarily away from their pursuers. Mama Fratelli laughs.

Jake: What the hell are we doing here?

Mama: Ah,trust in your old mother boys. Throw it into four wheel drive and hold onto your hats

The annual ORV beach rally is just starting and there are dozens of similar ORV's starting a race on the beach.

Announcer: Welcome to the third annual ORV rally. Are you ready to go? ...Go!

Mama Fratelli lurches the ORV forward in the sand and merges with the rally. They are quickly lost in the crowd of ORVs.

Act 1
It is a drizzly Saturday morning. Greedy land developers,eager to expand their country club with the construction of a golf course,are pushing a foreclosure on all the houses in this part of Astoria,known as the Goondocks.

Michael Walsh,known to his family and friends as Mikey,is a teenage boy about thirteen. He is particularly depressed. With the inevitable foreclosure pending for Monday morning,he feels gloomy about his last weekend with his friends. Mikey is sitting by his bedroom window looking through a telescope at the neighborhood. Mikey is asthmatic and must rely on a Salbutimol inhaler to control the effects.

Mikey's older brother,Brandon Walsh,known to all his friends as Brand,is about sixteen,and has similar feelings about leaving. He tries to bury his feelings in his benchpress.