Godzilla Page #14

NICK:

(alarmed)

Are you sure? How do you know?

RAYMOND:

We know.

NICK:

Why are you telling this to me?

RAYMOND:

I need you to trust me.

NICK:

Why do you need that?

RAYMOND:

I need your trust if you're to help me

find the nest.

NICK:

Oh, my bags. I've checked them in.

RAYMOND:

We, have already taken care of them.

Nick realizes Raymond is serious. The waiter hands

Raymond his drink. Raymond toasts Nick.

RAYMOND:

Bon Chance!

CUT TO:

126 EXT. TENT CITY - AFTERNOON126

A makeshift tent city has been set up in the park.

Animal video tapes an interview with a displaced

person.

DISPLACED PERSON

No one tells us a Goddamned thing. My

family is getting soaked out here. We

have no place else to go. We just want

to go back to our home.

Animal begins to PAN his camera around the tent city

when he SEES a SEDAN in the distance. He focus in on it

and SEES...

ANIMAL'S P.O.V. - SEDAN - NICK AND RAYMOND

Coming to stop at a light. Animal quickly lowers his

camera and hands it off to the Reporter he's working

with.

ANIMAL:

I'll be right back.

Animal rushes over to the news van and takes off after

them, following.

127 EXT. WAREHOUSE - MOMENTS LATER - AFTERNOON127

Pulling up in front of a warehouse, Nick and Raymond

step out of the sedan. Staying hidden from view, Animal

pulls over. Intrigued, he watches them enter the

building.

128 INT. WAREHOUSE - RAYMOND'S MEN - AFTERNOON128

Raymond enters with Nick. The room is filled with

equipment; radios, guns, explosives and armored

vehicles. We notice that more of Raymond's support team

are here.

NICK:

How did you get all of this stuff into

the country?

RAYMOND:

This is America. There is nothing you

can not buy.

Raymond gives Nick a tour.

NICK:

So why all the secrecy? Why aren't you

guys working with the US military?

RAYMOND:

I am not permitted to speak of such

things.

Nick stops and confronts Raymond.

NICK:

You said you wanted my trust, then I

need yours.

Raymond considers this. Finally...

RAYMOND:

I am a patriot. I love my country. Can

you understand that?

NICK:

Sure.

RAYMOND:

It is my job to protect my country.

Sometimes I must even protect it from

itself. From mistakes we have made.

Mistakes that we do not want the world

to know about.

NICK:

Your talking about the nuclear testing

in the Pacific.

RAYMOND:

Yes. This testing done by my country

left a terrible mess. We are here to

clean it up.

129 EXT. WAREHOUSE - ANIMAL - SAME - RAIN - AFTERNOON129

Moving down alongside the building, Animal walks down

the side alley. He climbs up onto a garbage hamper and

peers into a cracked opened window.

ANIMAL'S P.O.V. - WAREHOUSE

Animal sees Nick and Raymond with all the hardware.

Several of the men are repainting the vehicles to

resemble those of the US Army.

130 INT. WAREHOUSE - SAME130

Nick walks past the myriad of warfare tools. Jean-Claude

turns from the radios.

JEAN-CLAUDE

They will set the trap at thirty

minutes to ten.

RAYMOND:

That is when we will go in.

Raymond leads Nick over to a large map.

RAYMOND:

We know how to get into the city. We

just do not know where to start

looking.

Nick moves closer to the map, putting his finger on the

Flat Iron square subway station.

NICK:

Here. 23rd street subway station.

Where we first found the fish. With a

little luck, this will lead us right

to it.

RAYMOND:

So you're in?

NICK:

Are you kidding? I always wanted to

join the French Foreign Legion.

CUT TO:

131 INT. LUCY'S APARTMENT BUILDING - LATER - LATE AFTERNOON 131

Animal quickly climbs the stairs. People are everywhere.

He has to step over them to get to his apartment. AS he

opens the door to his apartment he SEES...

132 INT. APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS - LATE AFTERNOON132

Filled with people, Lucy is serving coffee. She smiles

at Animal as he enters.

ANIMAL:

Who the hell are all these people?

LUCY:

What? I just couldn't just let them

sleep in the street.

ANIMAL:

Where's Audrey?

LUCY:

In the bedroom. Crying her eyes out

because of you.

ANIMAL:

What?

LUCY:

All that "you gotta be vicious" stuff

you filled her head with.

ANIMAL:

Me!? You where the one...

LUCY:

Go in there. Talk to her.

Lucy pushes Animal towards the back bedroom.

133 INT. BEDROOM - SAME - LATE AFTERNOON133

Audrey has been crying. Crumpled Kleenex wads piled up

all around her. A television plays a news broadcast,

boasting the headline: THEY CALL HIM GODZILLA! On the

t.v. we SEE a news conference with General Anderson

addressing some reporters.

REPORTERS:

(simultaneously)

Can you comment on the nest? How many

more of these things will there be?

GENERAL ANDERSON

(filtered)

That's why I'm holding this

conference. To try and avoid a

needless panic.

Animal enters and watches from the back of the room.

GENERAL ANDERSON

Contrary to some frivolous reports, we

have no information to lead us to

believe that there are any eggs of the

creature in the city.

AUDREY:

Stupid idiots!

ANIMAL:

You okay?

AUDREY:

It's all my fault. What have I done,

Animal? What have I become? Look at

me. This isn't me. I don't do things

like this.

ANIMAL:

You made a mistake.

Suddenly someone exits the bathroom and crosses out of

the room. Animal looks at the stranger as he leaves.

AUDREY:

Yeah, I just screwed up with the only

man who ever really cared about me.

ANIMAL:

Didn't you tell me he left for the

airport?

AUDREY:

Yeah. Why are you asking?

ANIMAL:

I just saw him. He's with a bunch of

guys who want to sneak into the city

tonight.

Audrey tries to make sense of this. Suddenly she

realizes.

AUDREY:

My God. He's going after the nest.

ANIMAL:

Perfect! You wanted a story, well,

baby, you got one.

Excitedly Animal goes to the closet and retrieves a big

overcoat.

AUDREY:

Animal, I can't.

ANIMAL:

Look, you want to make it up to your

friend? Well if he's right, this is

your chance.

He starts going through his drawers, taking out battery

packs, tapes, etc, and putting it in his pockets.

AUDREY:

(misgivings)

I don't know. I've already made such a

mess of things...

Animal walks up to the door, ready to exit.

ANIMAL:

(smiling)

Audrey, I'm going after them. You can

come with me or not.

Conflicted, Audrey is not sure what to do. Animal opens

the bedroom window and begins to climb out.

AUDREY:

What are you doing?

ANIMAL:

Lucy'd kill me if she knew.

CUT TO:

134 INT. WAREHOUSE - LATER - SUNSET134

Nick marches out of a changing room dressed in a

military uniform. As he moves into the room we SEE all

of Raymond's men dressed similarly.

As they climb into their vehicles, Raymond hands each a

stick of chewing gum. Nick gets in the passenger seat of

one of the vehicles, Raymond climbs in behind the

wheel.

NICK:

What's with the chewing gum?

RAYMOND:

Makes us look more American.

Nick looks over at the faux Americans. It's a tough

sell, gum or not.

NICK:

Just let me do all the talking.

With that the vehicles pull out of the warehouse and out

into the rainy night.

135 EXT. LINCOLN TUNNEL - ENTRANCE - RAIN - SUNSET135

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