EXT. OPERA ROOF. NIGHT.

They emerge onto the roof.  The huge statue of “La Victoire Ailee”,
vast gargoyles dominates and look out over a surreal panorama of Paris.

CHRISTINE

(Calming a little but intense)
RAOUL, I’VE BEEN THERE-
TO HIS WORLD OF ………
IN THAT DARKNESS……..
DARKNESS…….

And we realize the PHANTOM is right there with them on the roof.  He
watches from the top of a statue.  We INTERCUT continuously between
the lovers and him.

CHRISTINE

(Trance-like, them becoming
more and more ecstatic)
BUT HIS VOICE
FILLED MY SPIRIT….

RAOUL

WHAT YOU HEARD
WAS A DREAM
AND NOTHING MORE…..

CHRISTINE

(Still abstracted)
FLOATING, FALLING….
SAVOR EACH SENSATION

(ALW NOTE:  lyric change from
Sarah’s version of
Music of the Night.  ALSO,
She takes the melody further
Than the PHANTOM)

(Okay, okay we just HAVE to say it, we just KNEW that
Sarah Brightman would find a way to sing Music of the Night!!!!!!)

The PHANTOM sees and hears this.  He leans back, moved.

RAOUL

(Irritated)
CHRISTINE…
CHRISTINE…

PHANTOM

(Unseen, a ghostly echo of
love)
CHRISTINE…

RAOUL

(Almost interrupting)
NO MORE TALK …
LET  DAYLIGHT
DRY YOUR TEARS.

Snowflakes begin to fall on the opera roof.  And, as the snow slowly
covers the roof and the statues, we INTERCUT between, the lovers,
the PHANTOM’s shadow replaces RAOUL’s.

RAOUL  (Continued)

I’M HERE,
WITH YOU, BESIDE YOU….
YOUR FEARS ARE FAR BEHIND YOU…..

The lovers move perilously close to the edge of the roof.

CHRISTINE

ALL I WANT IS FREEDOM…..
TO HOLD ME AND TO HIDE ME…..

A shadow.  Perhaps the PHANTOM will send them to their deaths?

RAOUL

THEN SAY YOU’LL SHARE WITH ME ONE LOVE,
ONE LIFETIME….

The Phantom silently mouths RAOUL’s words of love,
his heart broken.

RAOUL

SAY YOU NEED ME
WITH YOU……..

CHRISTINE

SAY YOULL SHARE
WITH ME ONE.

BOTH

SHARE EACH DAY

CHRISTINE

SAY YOU LOVE ME

RAOUL

YOU KNOW I DO

BOTH

LOVE ME
THATS ALL I ASK
OF YOU.

They kiss.  The PHANTOM is watching, heartbroken. 
Their intertwining shadows are next to him and in the snow.

BOTH

ANYWHERE YOU GO.
THATS ALL I ASK
OF YOU

(And so on)

CHRISTINE

YOULL GUARD ME, AND YOULL GUIDE ME..

They disappear down the iron staircase back into the opera house. 
The PHANTOM has emerged from behind a statue where he casts
a vast shadow in the fresh snow. 

PHANTOM

(Very quiet and plaintive)
I GAVE YOU MY MUSIC..
WHEN HE HEARD YOU SING
Christine Christine..

He looks down through a glass dome and sees the distant figures of
CHRISTINE and RAOUL descending the iron staircase.  He HEARS:

RAOUL & CHRISTINE (O.S)

SAY YOULL SHARE WITH
ME ONE..

PHANTOM

(With sudden and terrifying fury)
YOU WILL CURSE..
ALL THAT THE PHANTOM ASKED OF
YOU.!

He runs across and wrenches open two huge iron doors in the roof,
releasing DOZENS OF PIGEONS into the air.  He jumps into the darkness
below, FILLED WITH HUGE BELLS and opens a second set of iron doors. 
Revealing THAT WE ARE DIRECTLY ABOVE THE CHANDELIER WITH
THE WHOLE OPERA HOUSE BELOW.

INT. STAGE. NIGHT.  (CONTINUOUS)

The opera curtains open and IL Muto begins again.  CHRISTINE is
conspicuously dressed in CARLOTTAS costume.

INT. AUDITORIUM/DOME/CHANDELIER. NIGHT.  (CONTINUOUS)

Simultaneously, the PHANTOM leaps right onto the chandelier.  The
lights of the chandelier begin flickering and, at a great cry from him, it
descends, swinging more and more madly over the orchestra pit.  The
AUDIENCE screams and both ORCHESTRA and AUDIENCE scramble
out of the way.

INT. STAGE. NIGHT.  (CONTINUOUS)

CHRISTINE pushes the OTHERS to safety as the PHANTOM swings on the
chandelier.

INT. AUDITORIUM/DOME/CHANDELIER. NIGHT. (CONTINUOUS)

It is as if the PHANTOM and she are looking at each other.  The PHANTOM
seems to aim the huge chandelier as it swings, then suddenly leaps off
hanging on to an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys which projects
him up into the inner workings of THE BELFRY: MASSIVE BELLS TOLL.

PHANTOM

Go!!!

He disappears into the darkness as WITH A BLINDING FLASH, THE
CHANDELIER CRASHES TO THE STAGE AT CHRISTINES FEET.