INT. DRESSING ROOM HALLWAY. NIGHT.

MEG is looking for CHRISTINE.  The building is deserted, shadows
everywhere.  MEG is a tiny figure in the darkness, vulnerable and
frightened.

MEG

Christine..

INTERCUT WITH:

INT. OPERA HOUSE. NIGHT.

Shots showing the opera house closing down for the night; the
LAMPLIGHTER extinguishing the lights along the stage, doors
closing etc..

INT. CHRISTINE/CARLOTTA DRESSING ROOM. NIGHT. (CONTINUOUS)

MEG steps into the dressing room.  The gaslight has been turned down
low.  She moves towards the dressing table covered in flowers.  Next to
it, we see her reflection in the full-length mirror.  Suddenly, the
gaslight goes out.  The room is plunged into darkness.  Startled, she
turns to the mirror and glimpses a shadow behind her reflection.  Her
hand reaches up, she steps to one side and suddenly the panel next to
the mirror swivels silently and gathers her through to the other side. 
(ie. We see the mechanics of what seemed at first magic).  MEG has
found CHRISTINE's route to the PHANTOM's world.

INT. CORRIDOR. NIGHT. (CONTINUOUS)

MEG comes into shot and sees the dressing room on the other side of the
mirror.  She turns and is immediately confronted by a moving AUTOMAT. 
Courageously, she walks down the corridor with the moving AUTOMATS. 
Shadows seem to follow.  It is dark, damp and dangerous.  A rat scampers
through.  A shadow appears directly behind MEG.  A hand reaches out and
grabs her shoulder.  MEG turns in terror.  It is her mother, MME. GIRY.

INT. BALLET GIRLS' DORMITORY. NIGHT. (TEN MINUTES LATER)

BUQUET is showing off to the BALLET GIRLS, who are dressed for bed,
aping the PHANTOM.  A length of fabric serves as his clock and a piece
of rope as the Punjab lasso.

BUQUET

LIKE YELLOW PARCHMENT
IS HIS SKIN…….

Demonstrating the PHANTOM'S method, he lassoes one of the girls. 
With a mixture of horror and delight, the BALLET GIRLS applaud this
demonstration.  BUQUET is clearly enjoying this.

BUQUET

YOU MUST BE ALWAYS
ON YOUR GUARD….

Behind BUQUET, MME. GIRY has entered with MEG.

MME GIRY

THOSE WHO SPEAK
OF WHAT THEY KNOW.

She takes the noose from his hand, drops it around his head, and
inserts his hand between the rope and his neck.

MME GIRY

JOSEPH BUQUET,
HOLD YOUR TONGUE.

She pulls the rope taut.  BUQUET's hand saves him from being strangled. 
MEG is at the window of the dormitory.  It overlooks a section of the
opera roof.  MEG screams as she sees the specter of the PHANTOM
leading CHRISTINE across the roof. 

MEG

HE'S THERE THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

The other ballet girls scream.  MME. GIRY claps her hands to order the
girls to bed.

MME GIRY

Au lit!  Au lit!

INT. CORRIDOR/STAIRCASE. NIGHT. (CONTINUOUS)

Another part of the corridor. MME. GIRY looks up and sees at the top of
a staircase, CHRISTINE, backlit by the moon.  CHRISTINE walks down
towards her and almost faints into MME. GIRY's arms as she reaches her. 
MME. GIRY leads her away.  BUQUET has been watching them. And
unknown to BUQUET, from a skylight above, the PHANTOM has been
watching him.