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Liz Sherman’s Appearances in the Hellboy Script

Scene Seven

(Here is the seventh in a series of cuts from the Hellboy script. These are to serve as a reference for me and for anyone interested in how Del Toro originally wrote Liz. Again, Movie!Liz and Comic!Liz vary greatly, so I used personal digression to make up her unique character traits. Pretty much right out of the flick, though it seems Doug or David added the "freaks" part to "all we have is each other." It's the best line in the flick after "I'll never give up on you" IMHO.)

EXT. BPRD BUILDING - DAY

It's raining like hell. The PALLBEARERS, Manning and Myers among them, load Broom's casket into a HEARSE. Flanking it are two rows of BPRD agents. The hearse doors close and the vehicle pulls away. Watching like a gargoyle from a distant roof: Hellboy. Rain bounces off his wet overcoat. Liz observes him, worried.

LIZ'S VOICE: He hasn't spoken to anyone in three days. Not a word. He doesn't eat, he doesn't sleep...

INT. MEDICAL BAY - DAY

Abe, conscious now, but still in the cast, floats upside down, solving a RUBIK'S CUBE. Liz stands by the tank.

LIZ: I've never seen him like this. Never. (beat) Should I stay? With him, I mean?

She smiles faintly.

ABE: Listen -- I'm not much of a problem solver... (displays the cube) Three decades and I've only gotten two sides. (beat) But I know this much: if there's trouble -- all we have is each other. And I'm stuck here. (beat) So -- Take care of the big monkey for me, will you?

Their hands almost touch, separated only by the glass.