The Ninth Gate script - Save the Cat beat sheet analysis

Introduces a grim suicide that sets a dark tone.

Corso’s appraisal dialogue hints at greed versus knowledge.

An impressive collection. You have some very rare editions here. Sure you want to sell them all?

Corso meets Bernie, attends Balkan’s lecture, and is hired to authenticate The Nine Gates.

I want you to go to Europe and play the detective. The other two copies are in Portugal...

Balkan commissions Corso to track down two other copies in Europe.

I want you to go to Europe and play the detective. The other two copies are in Portugal...

Corso researches the book, faces break-in and theft, questioning whether to proceed.

After Bernie’s murder and Liana’s betrayal, Corso commits to the pursuit overseas.

You could stage a theft. I'm sure your client is well insured.

Liana’s seduction subplot deepens, and the Ceniza brothers reveal diabolic implications.

Forging a book is expensive. Paper of the period, the right inks.... Too expensive to be profitable.

Travel sequences in Toledo and on train, encounters with the mysterious girl and danger.

I've seen you before, haven't I?

Discovery of Fargas’s death and mutilated book raises stakes dramatically.

Attacks by mustache man, Balkan’s manipulations, and multiple murders escalate threats.

It's simple enough. You give me 'The Nine Gates' and they start dropping like flies. I'm thinking of...

The mysterious girl warns Corso of police, isolating him.

Chase after Liana and search in Crillon suite test Corso’s resolve.

Arrival in St.-Damien signals final act beginnings.

Balkan’s ritual climaxes in murder and supernatural repercussions.

eight doors come before the Serpent that guards the word, Teth, Enea, Novem, Oded, the number nine, which...

Corso finds Ceniza workshop abandoned with the last engraving discovered.