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jp 1st draft script
By Darth Chicken
BACK ON CRUISERS, REST AREA -
IN THE FIRST CAR, Regis drums his fingers on the dashboard. Timmy wears
his goggles and stares into the rain. Lex shifts her body around,
trying to get comfortable to rest.
LEX
I'm hungry. When can we get going?
REGIS
When the electricity comes back on,
honey. These cars run on electric cables
buried in the road.
IN THE SECOND CAR, Grant tries the radio to no avail. Gennaro smokes.
Grant looks forward toward the first cruiser. He can barely make out
the car in the dark and rain. Occasionally, LIGHTNING reveals all.
TIMMY PULLS GUM out of his pocket. Feels a tiny shake, looks around.
He puts it in his mouth, chewing quietly. SUDDENLY, the whole car
VIBRATES. Regis' sunglasses jump off the dashboard and fall to the
floor. The kids look at him.
REGIS
Must be turning on the electricity.
Lex sits up, looks around groggily.
LEX
Feels like a vibration.
INT T-REX PADDOCK - NIGHT
The T-Rex's huge hind feet crash down, one large foot following after
the other in long, powerful strides.
BACK ON CRUISERS, REST AREA - FIRST CRUISER
There is a thud, and then a THUD, and then a THUD. Tim and Lex share a
frightened look. Now the thud grows LOUDER. There is a CRASHING SOUND,
the whole cruiser SHAKES. Then silence. Then another SHAKE.
CAMERA PUSHES IN TILL CLOSE - Timmy stares out with his night goggles.
TIM'S NIGHTSCOPE POV IN CLOSE - T-Rex paws rest on the electric fence.
Tim takes off his goggles, stares, transfixed. Regis picks them up.
EXTREME CLOSEUP - of muscular forepaws with pebbled, grainy skin and
thick, curved nails comfortably gripping a thick wire strand.
The T-Rex moves his body forward of the brush, pushes against the fence.
IN THE SECOND CRUISER -
Grant and Gennaro stare out, unseeing in the rain and darkness.
CLOSE ON LEX -
Tears roll down her cheek. She cries silently with an unknown fear.
Regis pulls the goggles from his eyes, starts to gag, checks it.
REGIS
Jesus Christ.
LEX
Bad language.
REGIS
Jesus Christ. The fence isn't
electrified.
LEX
Is that bad?
Regis turns, looks out the side window, away from the T-Rex.
Regis is shaking uncontrollably. Suddenly he throws open his door and
bolts off into the rain, leaving the door open. No move from the Rex.
Regis races by the second cruiser. Grant stares out at him.
TIM
Mr. Regis! Mr. Regis, where are you
going?
LEX
He just left us. He just left us all
alone. Timmy, Timmy how could he do
that? We're all alone! We're all alone!
FLASH OF LIGHTNING. FLASH. The Rex butts his head.
TIM'S POV - The fence bangs down on top of his cruiser.
Timmy and Lex recoil from the scrape of the wire mesh against the car.
IN THE SECOND CRUISER -
GRANT AND GENNARO'S POV - through the almost obscuring rain they see the
fallen fence. An unseen weight pulls on it further, causing its
electric wire to pop like over-tuned guitar strings.
TIMMY REACHES -
out into the rain for the open door handle.
Another LIGHTNING FLASH and the creature is revealed standing between
the two cruisers, atop the crushed fence. His head turns back and
forth, he's deciding on his prey. Grant and Gennaro or Tim and Lex?
Timmy slams the door shut. He looks directly at the Rex, just a few
feet away. The Rex turns to him, stares back.
Lex SCREAMS and Timmy claps a hand over her mouth.
There is a whisper over Tim's walkie-talkie.
GRANT (ON WALKIE)
Timmy, be quiet. Don't move.
BACK ON GRANT -
He snaps off the walkie-talkie.
HIS POV - The rain runs in rivulets down the pebbled skin of the
muscular hind legs. The animal's head is out-of-view, above the
rooftops of the cars. The Rex lifts its huge hind leg.
GENNARO
Holy shit! Any suggestions what we do
now?
GRANT
Can't think of a thing.
The T-Rex slowly circles Grant's cruiser.
BACK ON TIM -
He watches the beast move.
BACK ON GRANT AND GENNARO -
As they twist and turn, trying to find a circling Rex in dark and rain.
The Rex pauses right next to Gennaro's window. He lowers his head,
looking for movement inside.
CLOSE ON - the beady, expressionless reptilian eye moving in the socket.
Grant whispers, hardly moving his lips.
GRANT
Don't move.
Gennaro's leg trembles uncontrollably.
IN THE FIRST CRUISER -
Very frightened, Lex discovers a flashlight. She flicks it on and off,
distracting herself. The beam shows her eyes full of a quiet panic.
LEX
It's too, too dark out there.
Tim waves his hands in caution.
BACK ON GRANT, GENNARO, AND THE REX -
The Rex bends down, bumps the windshield with his nose. Just stays
there, breathing heavily. In the distance, the flashlight goes on
again. The Rex raises his head suddenly. Grant grabs his walkie.
GRANT (TO THE WALKIE)
Shut that flashlight, Tim!
As the Rex heads off, a casual swipe of his tail SMASHES the side of the
cruiser, throwing Grant and Gennaro across the inside of the car.
ON TIM -
He lunges for the flashlight. Lex dodges him, keeps it lit.
LEX
No, it's mine. Please, I need it.
Tim looks up through the sun roof. The massive head of the
Tyrannosaurus Rex appears. Tim watches, transfixed. Lex looks up.
Irrational with terror, she aims her flashlight like a gun. Blasts him.
Her flashlight beam cuts through the dark and rain - she sees the beast
plainly for the first time and SCREAMS!
The POOL OF LIGHT bathes the Rex's face. He smashes his head down onto
the Plexiglass bubble. It crunches, and falls into the car, crushing
the children. Tim uses his feet to push it to the side.
Above, the Rex displays is gaping maw, drooling toward the opening.
GRANT -
watches the Rex raise his mighty head again, above the kids' cruiser.
TIMMY AND LEX -
have a half-instant of relief. Then SLAM. The Rex butts his head
against the cruiser. The Rex comes back down, tries to discover his
prey inside the cruiser. Pushes his head close to the glass, looking.
The dinosaur stands in front of the cruiser, his whole chest heaving,
his forelimbs pawing the air.
Timmy whispers to Lex.
TIMMY
Are you ok? Be quiet and don't move.
Lex barely nods and grabs Timmy's hand.
The Tyrannosaur places his head next to the car. He begins to shove the
cruiser with his head. The cruiser ROCKS. The back window bursts,
shards go flying.
Inside, the kids are THROWN back and forth, SHOVED against each other,
and finally FLUNG against the top of the car as the cruiser FLIPS.
The whole world TILTS CRAZILY - trunks of palm trees slide by, the
ground above, the blazing eye of the rex, the tops of palm trees.
The cruiser SLAMS DOWN on its side, the windows splat in the mud. Lex
falls helplessly against the side window and lies motionless. Timmy
falls beside her, banging his head. He reaches for Lex.
TIMMY
(softly)
Lex? Lex?
SILENCE. No movement from Lex.
THE ANIMAL toys with the cruiser. Like a dog with its bone, the
dinosaur pushes the cruiser along with his head. He pushes it past the
picnic tables toward the ripped fence and the embankment. Each shove
sends the children flying again.
The cruiser is pushes closer and closer to the unprotected embankment.
The cruiser slams to a stop completely upside-down. The T-Rex steps
right on the cruiser, crushing the roof against the ground.
INSIDE - the children crawl for their lives as the car crushes further
down from above and a tidal wave of mud oozes in from the sides.
THE REX - gnaws at the car, grabs a tire with his teeth, It ruptures
with a pitiful pop. The Rex grabs at the axle with his teeth, begins to
drag the car back. THe kids, half-outside, are pulled with the car.
GRANT DANCES -
with a flare! The Rex is distracted.
CLOSE ON - the Rex as he ROARS. The flare gleams in his eyes.
The Rex starts toward Grant. He tosses the flare over the half-standing
part of the fence. The Rex lunges after the flare.
GENNARO has reached his limit. Terrorized, he leaps out and SCREAMS:
GENNARO
Extinct animals should stay extinct!
He bolts. The Rex sees him and starts after him, THUNDERING by Grant,
who stays frozen in place.
Gennaro sprints for his life. He's not even a distant match for the T-
Rex jogging behind him.
Gennaro dives into the LADIES ROOM.
INSIDE - he slams the door and shoves the trashcan against the door.
POUNDING FOOTSTEPS APPROACH! Gennaro backs up into one of the stalls.
LOUDER POUNDING, THE WALLS BEGIN TO VIBRATE! Gennaro assumes a 'tuck'
position.
ON THE INTERIOR DOOR - The Rex smashes right through the steel-clad
door. Pieces go flying.
Gennaro hides amidst the wreckage as the Rex sniffs around.
GRANT RUNS BACK -
to check on the kids. He reaches a hand underneath the flipped car,
sitting in the mud. Lex's soft voice can be heard.
LEX (OFF)
Dr. Grant!
Grant fishes under, finds Lex's hand, drags her out. He quickly checks
her for broken bones.
GRANT
Lex, are you okay?
LEX
Timmy's unconscious, he won't move.
Lex SCREAMS. Grant turns to see the Rex return. He squeezes Lex tight.
The animal goes right past them, back to his toy - Tim's land cruiser!
The Rex BELLOWS a huge cry. Timmy awakens and sees the Rex above him.
He SCREAMS.
Lex, squeezed in Grant's arms, sees her imperiled brother.
LEX
Timmy!
The Tyrannosaur looks up, GROWLS across the upside-down cruiser, opens
its huge jaws menacingly, all the time staring at Grant and Lex.
INSIDE THE CAR - Timmy tries to unwedge himself. A thin trickle of
blood runs down his forehead. He's jammed between the crushed roof and
the bent bench seat. He can't free himself.
The Rex begins to SHOVE the cruiser toward Grant and Lex. They back up
but they have very few feet left - they're almost at the embankment.
But if they don't move, they'll by crushed by the oncoming car.
Grant slings Lex onto his back. She grabs her hands around his neck and
digs her feet into his sides. Grant begins to climb over the downed
fence and into the embankment - it's a huge drop!
Grant grabs a broken cable and lowers himself and Lex over the side of
the embankment.
Just in time as the Rex SHOVES the cruiser further. Now, the cruiser
TEETERS right on the edge, turning again on its side. Tim hangs halfway
out of the car, unable to get out further.
Grant, with Lex on his back, slides down the cable, rappelling down the
embankment. ABOVE, the car looms over them, rocking on the edge. Lex
looks up and grabs Grant so tightly, she chokes him, unknowingly.
Grant, eyes bulging, sees the danger from above. He pushes off the wall
and swings them toward the next hanging cable. He reaches out and -
- GRABS THE NEXT CABLE just as -
- the T-Rex BELLOWS and lowers her head, and gives a final shove. Timmy
and the cruiser SAIL INTO SPACE. Timmy SCREAMS!
Grant and Lex swing out of the way as the cruiser sails past them. Lex
SCREAMS, squeezing Grant's neck even tighter! They watch helplessly as
the cruiser BOUNCES off the wall and CRASH-LANDS into the top of a tree
at the base of the wall.
Grant and Lex stare down at the wreck in the tree. Timmy can't be seen.
Grant, choking from Lex's grip, grabs her fingers.
GRANT
Let ... go ... please.
The Rex ROARS above. They look up.
THE REX paws the air, GRUNTS in frustration and STALKS off, LIGHTNING
FLASHES.
EXT NEDRY'S JEEP, BACK ROADS -
Nedry speeds along the rain-slick road, fish-tailing as he goes.
CLOSE ON - Nedry at the wheel.
NEDRY'S POV - the dark, wet road running alongside a ten-foot chain-link
fence. Suddenly, a beast-like visage blurs across the road.
Nedry swerves. The jeep skids. Nedry tries to over-steer, can't bring
the careening jeep under control.
The jeep crashes though the fence, bounces down a cement culvert, and
dives into a raging gully.
Nedry curses. He spins the wheel. The tires spin and spray. The
jeep's hopelessly stuck in the gully. From Nedry's seat in the jeep, he
cranes his head around, examining his situation.
NEDRY'S POV - On the opposite side of the gully, there is an equipment
graveyard. By the titled jeep headlights, steely monsters all around
can be seen - discarded earth movers, graders, and tractors.
Nedry gets out of the jeep, grabs the winch from the jeep's back end.
and wades over to an abandoned tractor.
NEDRY
Shit. I'm going to have to change clothes.
He loops the winch around the tractor's base. Suddenly, he stops and
looks around as he hears a gentle HOOTING. He squints, looking at the
strange steel graveyard lit by the bright beams of the jeep headlights.
HOOT! HOOT! A distinctive HOOTING. Nedry looks up in fear. SILENCE.
Nedry starts moving toward his jeep. Again, the HOOT! Nedry stops,
looks right, looks left. A RUSTLE in the trees. Nedry's head cocks.
Looking through trees, lit by the strong beams, Nedry sees a SPITTER in
the eerie mist. Now it's gone. Now it's back. It circles Nedry
warily, hunting him. Nedry stares.
NEDRY
I hope this is one of them herbivores.
Nedry scrambles the other way, full-tilt. Hop, hop, and the Spitter
drops in front of Nedry from the other side. HOOT!
Nedry jumps back, lands on his butt. The Spitter zips in from the side
- HOOT!
Nedry doubles back, racing through the abandoned equipment, ducking and
rolling under a cement mixer, spinning past a tree. He splashes down
the embankment, trying to get to his jeep. He uses the winch line to
steady himself again the raging current. He finally reaches the jeep,
swings open the door - and, surging out of the water like a demonic
apparition, is the SPITTER! Nedry backs away, directly into the glare
of the headlights!
CLOSE ON - the Spitter. It's plume opens, bright orange gills swell out
like an umbrella around its neck. Something squirts beneath its jaws.
A big glob SMACKS Nedry on the arm. He brushes it off.
NEDRY
Gross.
EXTREME CLOSEUP - the Spitter's head. The jaws puff, the hood flares
out, the neck snaps forward. And - it spits.
This glob misses Nedry, splashes off the steaming headlight.
VERY EXTREME CLOSEUP - The Spitter's swollen poison sacs are inflated.
They fire!
This glob hits Nedry in the eyes. He SCREAMS.
NEDRY
I'm blind, I'm blind.
He falls against the jeep, rubbing his eyes. The Spitter calmly hops to
the embankment and watches the blinded Nedry weave drunkenly in the
water. Nedry grabs onto the jeep and pulls himself along toward the
driver's door. The Spitter stalks, watching him.
Nedry pulls open the jeep door, thrusts his head in, slams it against
the door frame. Now Nedry heaves his whole body into the jeep. The
Spitter's long ostrich-like legs stretch and bend in an easy gait as it
closes it on Nedry.
Nedry sits behind the wheel, unseeing as the Spitter watches patiently
turns his blind eyes that way.
A long beat. The Spitter leaps forward, the CAMERA PULLS BACK WIDER AND
WIDER. Nedry lets out an ear-splitting SCREAM and the car horn BLARES.
INT TIMMY'S CRUISER
Timmy lies against a spidered side window, his head pressed against the
door handle. He pushes himself up on one elbow, opens his eyes, and
tries to focus. Rain has nearly stopped but a light drizzle hits him
Timmy tries to straighten up, but he's too dizzy. He stops and hears A
CREAKING and feels the whole car gently swaying back and forth. With a
further effort, he raises his body so that he's standing with his feet
on the window frame and looks out the broken roof.
TIM'S POV - Dense foliage, moving in the wind, hard to see through. An
open space and - THE GROUND, FORTY FEET AWAY!
INT/EXT CRUISER - CONTINUING ACTION
Tim's cruiser is lying on its side, stuck in the higher branches of a
tree on the hillside.
TIMMY
Oh shit!
Timmy pulls his body up carefully, trying to get a better view. He
grabs the steering wheel for support and it spins free in his hand.
CRACK! The cruiser slips a few inches down the tree. Timmy grabs the
window frame and freezes. The car sways in the wind.
CRACK! The car slips a quick and rocky two feet.
TIMMY
Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit!
Timmy hears something. He raises his head very carefully. Climbing up
the tree, pulling himself on a nearby branch, is Dr. Grant.
GRANT
Timmy. Are you ok?
TIMMY
Thank God you're here. Where's Lex?
GRANT
Below. She's fine. Let's get you down.
Timmy nods.
Grant peers through the broken roof of the cruiser, analyzing Timmy's
predicament. He cranes his head back to examine how the cruiser is
supported in the tree. Grant turns back to Timmy.
GRANT
Try the door you're leaning against.
Nice and slow.
Timmy places his weight on the two sides of the door frame and reaches
between his legs, trying to open the door handle. Stuck. CRACK! The
cruiser drops another foot.
Grant scrambles down a couple branches until he is even with the cruiser
again. He motions for Timmy to hold still.
Grant reaches across to the other car door and tries the outer door
handle. This one opens and very slowly, he pushes open the door. Grant
gingerly holds it half-open in mid-air.
GRANT
Crawl this way. Slowly.
Carefully testing his weight with each step, Timmy lowers his body down.
He pushes his legs out the door. They kick in the air and slowly come
to rest on a lower branch. He lets himself down. Now he sits on a
branch, a few feet below the cruiser.
CRACK! The cruiser drops. Grant still hangs onto the door but now his
footing on the branch is gone. His legs hang in space. The cruiser
hangs precariously above Timmy. They're all twenty feet in the air.
GRANT
We're going to have to make a jump for
it, Timmy. Okay?
Timmy agrees.
GRANT
One, two, three, jump.
Timmy lets go and DROPS. Grant follows. So does the cruiser. It's
hurtling right at them.
Timmy BANGS against the wet tree-trunk and slides down. Branches WHIP
against his face, his hands SCRAPE against the trunk. Grant BOUNCES
them. They scramble down as quick as they can.
Timmy pulls his hands along the sap-sticky surface of the tree. CRACK!
Grant is stopped for a terrible instant - doubled over a branch, he
flips himself over, dropping further. The cruiser jolts along, just a
half-step behind them.
Timmy dives the last six feet and HITS the wet earth with a THUD! Grant
CRASHES next to him. Before they can roll out of the way, the cruiser
keeps coming. Grant and Timmy look up at it.
GRANT'S POV - The cruiser dropping, dropping toward them. And finally
stops, just inches away, its dented grill grinning at them, its cracked
headlight glaring.
Oil drips down on Grant. He grabs Timmy, who grabs the night goggles.
The two roll away. That second the cruiser SMASHES to the ground.
Grant brushes himself off painfully, extends a hand to Timmy. Timmy
slowly reaches up and pulls himself standing.
TIMMY
Thanks, Dr. Grant.
GRANT
You owe me one.
Grant turns around in a slow, fluid circle, checking out the forest.
GRANT
Where'd Lex go?
They hear a faint WHIMPERING.
TIMMY
There's Lex.
He runs. Grant follows.
INT DRAINPIPE -
Lex is curled up inside the drainpipe. Her baseball glove is in her
mouth and she is rocking back and forth, rhythmically banging her head
against the back of the pipe. She WHIMPERS.
ON THE HILLSIDE -
Grant and Timmy arrive at the drainpipe and stare in at Lex.
GRANT
Come on out now, Lex.
Lex continues to band her head. Timmy tries again.
TIMMY
It's your turn to wear the goggles, Lex.
She shakes her head. He holds up her baseball but she doesn't look.
TIMMY
I found your baseball.
LEX
You did?
But she doesn't move. Grant speaks encouragingly.
GRANT
Cone on, Lex, it must be cold in there.
And tight. Why don't you come out?
LEX
I'm afraid of the "animals".
TIMMY
The "animals" are gone.
LEX
Where did it go?
TIMMY
I don't know but it's not here now.
LEX
Are there any grownups out there?
GRANT
I'm a grownup, Lex. Come on out. Gimmie
you hand, come on, here you go.
LEX
I'm hungry.
GRANT
Me, too. We've got to get ourselves back
to civilization.
EXT ROADSIDE
Regis slowly crawls out from between a couple large boulders. He looks
around carefully. He peels mud off his face and rubs his neck.
He touches his cheek.
CLOSE ON Regis' swollen cheek. He rubs it with his finger. Suddenly,
he swats at his own mouth. He reaches in and pulls out a leech fat with
blood. He hurls it to the ground, spitting. He grabs another off his
arm and rips if off, leaving a bloody streak. He digs in his pants and
pulls out another. He SCREAMS.
As soon as he has done so, he knows he's made a mistake. He looks
around frantically. Sees the Rex trot down the road toward him.
REGIS
Noooooo!
BACK ON HILLSIDE -
Grant and the kids crest the hill. Grant puts on the night goggles and
adjusts the dial and looks toward Regis. The kids can't see that far.
TIMMY
What's going on?
Grant's green POV - Regis and the Rex bounding after him. Regis hugs a
tree, unmoving.
Grant whispers to the kids.
GRANT
It's Regis and the Rex is after him. But
it's okay. Regis knows the Rex can't see
him. Evidently, he can only see move-
ment. Regis'll be ok if he stays still.
AFTER A LONG MOMENT, the tyrannosaur walks away, disappears into the
shadows. Regis waits another long moment and releases his tree.
GRANT'S POV - The tyrannosaur leaps out of the shadows and knocks Regis
to the ground. Regis jumps up and backs off. The animal knocks him
right back down. Regis jumps up again and screams at the beast.
REGIS
You don't want to hurt Mr. Regis. Go
away. Ed's your friend. Back off!
THE REX watches him dance around. It goes toward him. This time its
jaws are open. Regis SCREAMS and in the middle, the scream cuts off.
Grant lets the goggles fall off his face. They hit the ground with a
METALLIC CLINK. The Rex turns toward Grant and the kids.
GRANT
Let's go!
Grant grabs both the kids' hands and they begin to run.
BACK ON TOUR REST AREA -
Drops of water splat on a big fern. Light swims in the little puddle.
In the sky above, clouds hurry by, intermittently revealing a half-
obscured moon.
The torn fence lies in a crumpled, twisted mess. The wheel of a Land
Cruiser spins. A little lizard runs in place on it.
The SOUND of the jeep's engine. It's Muldoon and Ellie.
THEIR POV - a single cruiser lies on its side in the middle of the road.
ELLIE
Oh, My God! Where's the other one?
Before the cruiser stops, she jumps out. Muldoon shouts a whisper.
MULDOON
Ellie!
Ellie turns in the headlight beams. Muldoon tosses her a flashlight.
MULDOON
Wait up.
Muldoon skids to a stop, leaps out of the car. He catches up to Ellie.
They share a frightened, apprehensive look. Muldoon gets on his knees
and and touches a muddies area.
MULDOON
T-Rex tracks.
Ellie looks out into the forest.
ELLIE
Then they must be out there. They must
be out there. I know it.
MULDOON
Perhaps.
ELLIE
No! They're out there.
MULDOON
I've seen a lot of animal attacks in the
bush. It's not as gory and horrifying to
see as you'd think. No pools of blood or
exposed bones. There is usually little or
no evidence left behind. And if victims
are small, a predator can kill by just
shaking the little thing to death, eating
it, and leave not so much as a button.
A definite RUSTLING in the brush.
Ellie jumps and SCREAMS. Muldoon puts his hand over her mouth and
pushes her down. They both squat by the cruiser. SILENCE. Ellie
swallows. Muldoon slowly gets up. Ellie follows.
Their flashlights swing back and forth in the night. Twigs crack under
their feet.
Ellie hears the RUSTLE at the edge of the forest. She shines her light
into the brush. She catches her breath. Her hand shakes.
Ellie flashes her beam right, left, up, down. Jumps. Something is
coming at her, rolling at her. She gasps, steps back. It's too late.
It's Gennaro. His limp body stops at her feet. She covers her mouth.
Muldoon runs to her.
Gennaro is face-down. Muldoon takes his pulse.
MULDOON
Thank God. (beat) We have to carry him.
First I have to ...
He stands and removes his jacket.
CLOSE ON - Muldoon tears the jacket into long strips.
He wraps Gennaro's wounds.
MULDOON
He's losing a lot of blood. Help me.
Muldoon and Ellie carry Gennaro to the jeep. They lay him on the back
seat. Muldoon jumps in back with him. He keeps wrapping the wounds.
Ellie starts the engine, looks back at him.
ELLIE
Looks like you've been through this
before.
Muldoon looks up.
MULDOON
I told you I've seen big game attacks in
Africa.
She starts the engine.
ELLIE
Right.
Ellie skids out of there.
INT CONTROL ROOM - NIGHT
The dark room is lit with two outdoor torches. Light flickering on
their faces, Arnold and Wu stare at the console screen.
WU
Why?
ARNOLD
Because Nedry messed with the code.
That's why I'm checking it.
WU
But that could take weeks. What would be
faster? Try keychecks.
Arnold snaps his fingers, grabs Wu,
ARNOLD
That's true. Keychecks will give me a
record of every button Nedry pushed.
With a rapid series of keys, Arnold initiates "keystrokes". The
computer displays a short series of commands. Arnold runs his finger
down the screen.
ARNOLD
Jesus, that's all he did all afternoon?
He was just dicking around, maybe waiting
to get his nerve up.
Wu points to a line. It reads: WHTE-RBT.OBJ
WU
What's that?
ARNOLD
Some sort of object. Let's see if we can
trace it.
Arnold types FIND WHTE-RBT.OBJ. Nothing. He tries DEFINE WHTE-RBT.OBJ.
Still nothing. LIST WHTE-RBT.OBJ. The screen fills with data. Each
line defines another security system that has been shut off: SECURITY
PERIMETER FENCES OFF/ SECURITY - INTERIOR FENCES OFF/ SECURITY -
LABORATORY DOORS OFF/, etc.
WU
What's it mean?
ARNOLD
It wasn't a bug. It was a trap door that
fat bastard left for himself. When he
hit WHTE-RBT. OBJ, it initiates a set of
commands that turned the whole goddamn
park off. Hammond was right about him.
WU
If I did that I'd leave a way to turn it
back on. In case I had to. I'm sure
Nedry did. You're find it.
Arnold nods grimly.
INT CAFETERIA - NIGHT
Hammond sits quietly in the deserted cafeteria, calmly spooning ice
cream into his mouth. This room is lit by dozens of candles.
Muldoon walks in, stares at Hammond in the semi-darkness.
MULDOON
We found Gennaro. He'd badly injured.
Harding's tending to him in your
quarters. He'll be all right if we can
radio for help. Your grandchildren and
Grant are somewhere in the park. I
believe they're alive but I don't know
where they are.
HAMMOND
I'm sure you'll find them.
MULDOON
I certainly hope so.
HAMMOND
I'm sure we will. After all, I keep
telling everyone, this park is made for
children.
MULDOON
Just so you understand that they're
missing, sir.
HAMMOND
Missing? Of course I know they're
missing. You just said that. Look, Bob,
let's not get carried away. We've had a
little breakdown from the storm or
whatever, and as a result we've had a
regrettable, unfortunate accident. And
that's all that happened. We're dealing
with it. Arnold will get the computers
cleaned up, and the radio and phone lines
open. You'll find those kids and my good
friend, Dr. Grant. I'm sure they'll want
some of this ice cream. It's very good.
INT HAMMOND'S QUARTERS - NIGHT
Dark. Ellie helps Harding get Gennaro comfortable on Hammond's couch.
Blood from Gennaro's injuries stain the rich leather. Gennaro babbles.
GENNARO
That Rex didn't even give me his full
attention. That's what hurts. I was
just an afterthought. I gave him my full
attention.
HARDING
He's had a lot of morphine.
GENNARO
(sings)
Not enough.
ELLIE
I need to find Wu. I have to run a few
tests in his lab.
HARDING
He's probably in the control room, get-
ting in the way while Arnold tries to put
things together.
As Ellie leaves, Gennaro is singing a shanty in his morphine stupor.
GENNARO
Yo ho, I'll close this place down ...
EXT THE ANNE B AT SEA - NIGHT
The ship is tossed around on a stormy sea.
MATCH CUT TO:
INT STATEROOM -
The eggs are tossed around in the womb of the incubator. The swell
settles but the rocking of one egg doesn't stop. The egg cracks, a
silvery line runs down its side.
EXT PARK - NIGHT
Somewhere in the dark park, laced by low fog, Grant, Timmy and Lex walk.
LEX
I'm tired.
TIMMY
You're too big to be carried.
LEX
But I'm tired-tired.
GRANT
Okay, Lex.
Grant picks her up.
GRANT
Oof! You're heavy.
The full moon is blurred by drifting clouds. Their blunted shadows lead
the three across an open field toward dark woods beyond. Grant is lost
is thought, trying to decide where to go.
GRANT
I think we're still in his paddock.
Lex's heavy eyes open. Her eyes grow big. She taps Grant's shoulder.
GRANT
What?
LEX
Don't you see? Don't you see?
GRANT
What?
LEX
The fence.
GRANT
(squinting)
No.
TIMMY
Oh I do, right there!
Lex lets herself slide off Grant and runs into the woods. Timmy
follows. Grant follows, squinting. Finally, he sees. A big smile.
The kids look up at a twelve foot high electric fence. Timmy gulps.
LEX
Timmy's scared of heights.
Timmy spins in fury.
TIMMY
Shut up.
Lex and Timmy stare at each other. No fighting - now. They relax.
GRANT
Okay with the fence, Timmy?
Timmy eyes it. Nods hesitantly. They start to climb. Lex climbs easily.
LEX
(mumbles quietly)
'Fraid of heights.
Timmy climbs tentatively. A dinosaur ROARS in the distance.
CLOSE ON - Timmy's foot loses its grip.
Timmy hangs for a moment, held only by his straining hands.
All three stop. Wait. Timmy regains his balance. Slowly, they proceed
up and over.
On the other side, Grant looks around. More high trees. Beyond a field.
GRANT
A herbivore grazing area. Excellent.
Grant starts to walk toward it. Timmy stops. Lets sits on a tree root.
TIM
We gonna walk all night?
Grant looks at his watch.
GRANT
Twelve hours before that ship reaches the
mainland.
TIM
We need sleep.
True, and Grant's thinking the same thing. He looks around, surveying
the misty forest. He looks straight up into the beautiful, tall trees
that ring the wide-open grassy meadow.
GRANT
Up there.
TIM
Climb? Again? I can't climb again?
Grant smiles.
GRANT
Sure you can.
Grant checks out and rejects tree after tree. Near the meadow he finds
it. A good, basic climbing tree.
EXT UPPER BRANCHES OF THE TREE
Grant helps Lex get comfortable on his lap. Timmy tucks himself in
between Grant's outstretched legs. Grant looks out. Back to kids.
Timmy and Lex are already snoring. Lex turns and hugs Grant close to
her. She murmurs in her sleep. Grant starts to pat her shoulder when
Timmy, without waking, reaches to her and strokes her hair.
TIMMY
(mumbles)
It's ok, Lex. Everything's gonna be okay.
CUT TO:
CLOSE ON - amoeba-like creatures swimming in a pool.
INT INCUBATION ROOM, LABORATORY - NIGHT
Ellie lifts her head away from the powerful microscope.
The dark room is lit by flashlight. Battery packs power the microscope.
Wu paces the room, regarding his eggs with dismay. Sitting on their
long tables with no moving wands above them - no thermal sensors.
WU
What is taking Arnold so long? This room
is too cold. My eggs will be damaged.
Ellie swings the lens to Wu. Not so interested but peers in politely.
ELLIE
No sign of those berries. Really
interesting. There are indications of a
similar virus in every tissue sample.
But it's not in the ground. Could I look
at some of the discarded embryos?
Wu reluctantly agrees. He opens a cabinet and brings her samples.
WU
I'm sure you'll find your virus ... or a
similar one. All animals carry many
viruses in a dormant condition. It's
almost impossible to say with certainty
which are the same strains.
Ellie begins a test on a sample. She adds a reagent and marks up a
slide. As she works:
ELLIE
And yet from what Harding tells me, many
of you animals have similar symptoms -
besides the microvesicles, a lack of
hunger, loss of reproductive urges, sores
in the mouth and gums.
Wu waves his arms.
WU
What the hell does Harding know? He's a
veterinarian, not a pathologist.
BACK ON CONTROL ROOM -
Arnold pushes his chair away from his console and claps his hands as
Muldoon walks in. Muldoon asks hopefully.
MULDOON
What is it?
Arnold points to the screen.
ARNOLD
That's it.
Muldoon comes closer.
MULDOON
That's what?
ARNOLD
I found the command to restore the
original code. It resets the linked
parameters.
MULDOON
The fences and the power?
ARNOLD
Right. And it does something else. It
erases the code lines that refer to it. It
destroys all evidence it was ever there.
MULDOON
Nedry could steal the eggs, get back and
reset the whole show. No one would ever
miss him.
ARNOLD
Watch this.
Arnold types in a command. The screen flickers and changes. Arnold and
Muldoon look out the window as lights come on through out the park.
ARNOLD
Hot damn!
MULDOON
Are the fences back on?
ARNOLD
You bet they are. It will take a few
seconds to get up to full power, because
we've got fifty miles of fence out there,
and the generator has to feed the
capacitors along the way. But in a half
a minute we'll be back in business.
Arnold points to the transparent map of the park. On it, bright red
lines snake out, moving throughout the park, as electricity surges
through the fences.
MULDOON
Motion sensors?
ARNOLD
Got them too. It will be a few minutes
while the computer counts. Then I'll
tell you where Grant and the kids are and
you can go and get them. But every-
thing's working. Half past ten and we've
got the whole thing back up and running.
Muldoon picks up a phone, shakes his head.
MULDOON
Just hiss.
5/23/2003 12:26:54 PM
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