The Two Towers Movie Script - Book Four, Chapter II The Passage of the Marshes

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Scene 1:  Frodo and Sam in the Dead Marshes                   (Click HERE for the associated images)
	(Following Gollum, Frodo and Sam reach the end of Emyn Muil and see that Mordor is now much closer)
Gollum:	See.  See.  We have led you out!  Hurry hobbitses, hurry.  Very lucky we find you. (Gollum jumps up on a rock.  Frodo walks past.  Gollum shrinks as Sam draws near) Nice hobbit. (He leaps after Frodo, putting a wide berth between him and Sam) (Sam’s foot slips into the muck)
Sam:	Whoa, it’s a bog!  He’s led us into a swamp!
Gollum:	A swamp, yes, yes.  Come, master.  We will take you on safe paths through the mist.  Come, hobbits, come.  We must move quickly. (Gollum looks back and gestures for the hobbits to follow) I found it, I did.  The way through the marshes.  Orcs don't use it.  Orcs don't know it.  They go round for miles and miles.  Come quickly.  Swift and quick as shadows we must be. (The marshlands stretch as far as the eye can see.  The hobbits and Gollum appear as little specks.  As the three pick their way gingerly though the marshes, they see faces floating just underneath the surface of the water, still, rotting and pale, and flickering flames of marsh gas in the swamps)
Sam:	There are dead things!  Dead faces in the water!
Gollum:	All dead.  All rotten.  Elves and men and orcses.  A great battle long ago. (He turns to face the hobbits) The Dead Marshes.  Yes, yes, that is the name.  This way.  Don’t follow the lights. (Sam’s foot slips again into the water)
Sam:	Ohh!
Gollum:	Careful now, or hobbits go down to join the dead ones and light little candles of their own. (Frodo is drawn to one of the faces in Elven armour.  He stares at it intently, until suddenly its eyes open.  Frodo falls in a swoon, face-down into the water, without even trying to stop himself)
Sam:	Frodo! (Frodo is in the water and sees many faces of the dead, no longer still, but screaming and grasping at him, their rotten robes and hair flowing around their gruesome faces.  Their hands are reaching for him.  Suddenly, he is grabbed from behind.  Frodo sputters and gasps for air as Gollum pulls him out of the water)
Frodo:	(He looks up at Gollum in perplexed gratitude and disbelief) Gollum...
Gollum:	Don’t follow the lights!  (he crawls away)
Sam:	(He runs to Frodo’s side) Mr.Frodo!  Are you alright? (Frodo lies panting, staring after Gollum) (Nightfall, close to sunrise.  Sam is asleep, but Frodo is still awake.  He is holding the Ring in the palm of his hand and stroking it, mezmerised.  Suddenly he hears Gollum)
Gollum:	Soooo bright.  Soooo beautiful. (Frodo quickly puts the Ring back inside his shirt.  He looks up to see Gollum crouching away from him, stroking the centre of his palm) Our Preciousss...
Frodo:	What did you say?
Gollum:	Master should be resting.  Master needs to keep up his strength.
Frodo:	(he moves over and crouches in front of Gollum) Who are you?
Gollum:	Mustn’t ask us.  Not its business.  *Gollum*  *Gollum*
Frodo:	Gandalf told me you were one of the River Folk.
Gollum:	Cold be heart and hand and bone. Cold be travellers far from home.
Frodo:	He said your life was a sad story.
Gollum:	They do not see what lies ahead, when sun has failed and moon is dead.
Frodo:	You were not so very different from a hobbit once, were you...  Sméagol?
Gollum:	(he looks up slowly) What did you call me?
Frodo:	That was your name once, wasn’t it?  A long time ago.
Gollum:	My...  My name...  S... S... Sméagollll... (Suddenly, the piercing cries of the Nazgûl are heard overhead)
Gollum:	Argh!!
Sam:	Black Riders!
Gollum:	Hide!  Hide!
Frodo:	Argh! (Suddenly, Frodo feels the pain of the Nazgûl's Morgul blade, and the call of the Ring.  Images of the Ringwraiths at Weathertop come to him in a flashback) Argh!!
Sam:	C’mon Frodo!  C'mon! (Frodo continues to clutch at the Ring on his chest, immobilized.  Sam drags Frodo across to hide beneath some bramble bushes.  The Nazgûl appears, tightening his hold on the reins of the Fell Beast that he is riding, swooping down across the marshlands.  The chilling screams of the Ringwraith fill the air)
Gollum:	They will see us!  They will see us!
Sam:	I thought they were dead!
Gollum:	Dead?  No, you cannot kill them.  No. (There is a loud screech from the Nazgûl flying high above the marshes.  Gollum cowers down) Wraiths!  Wraiths on wings!  They are calling for it.  They are calling for the Preciousss. (Frodo feels the call of the Ring and gropes for his necklace.  Sam sees this and he grabs hold of Frodo’s hand)
Sam:	Mr. Frodo!  It’s alright. (The Nazgûl continues to circle overhead, then flies off towards Mordor)
Gollum:	Hurry, hobbits.  The Black Gate is very close.
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