Godzilla Page #5

MAJOR HICKS:

Don't tell me why it's not, tell me

what the hell it is.

NICK:

What do we know? It was first sighted

off the French Polynesian Pacific. An

area that has been exposed to dozens

of nuclear tests over the last thirty

years.

ELSIE:

Hence the radiation.

NICK:

More than that. I believe this is a

mutated aberration, a hybrid from the

fall out in that region.

CLIVE:

(sarcastic)

Like your earthworms?

NICK:

Yes! We're looking at a completely

incipient creature. The dawn of a new

species. The first of its kind.

CUT TO:

OCEAN WATER:

Racing close to the ocean waters below, something DARK

and ENORMOUS moves swiftly below the surface. We TILT UP

from the raging tides up to REVEAL...

29 EXT. MANHATTAN ISLAND - SKYLINE - RAIN - DAY29

A storm has arrived as rain moistens the city ahead.

30 INT. DINER - SAME - DAY30

Dripping wet, Audrey enters from the rain, removing her

raincoat. She walks to a booth where Lucy and ANIMAL, a

slovenly, Italian video cameraman is his mid-thirties,

are taking their lunch break. Animal has two plates of

food he cobbles down.

AUDREY:

(sitting)

My life sucks.

LUCY:

Oh, please, your life doesn't suck.

His life sucks.

ANIMAL:

(between chews)

That's cuz I'm married to you.

LUCY:

Shut up. How can you eat like that?

ANIMAL:

Big bites.

AUDREY:

I can't believe he put the moves on

me. After everything I've done for

him.

LUCY:

He's scum! As far as he's concerned

you're just a pair of breasts that

talk.

ANIMAL:

I like that image.

AUDREY:

You know how I spent last weekend?

Walking his damned dog.

LUCY:

I'm telling you he's dirt. He's a

douche bag, gutter slime, dog crap,

puke chunks...

ANIMAL:

Hey, hey! I'm eating here!

LUCY:

Audrey, you're too damned nice, that's

your problem. Nice gets you nothin' in

this town. You gotta be a killer to

get ahead, you know what I'm sayin'?

I'm sorry, baby, but you just don't

got what it takes.

AUDREY:

Animal, you don't think that's true,

do you?

ANIMAL:

Nice guys finish last. First rule of

the jungle.

AUDREY:

Well, I can be tough if I want.

ANIMAL & LUCY

Yeah, sure.

AUDREY:

(seeing something)

Oh my God!

Everything turns to see what Audrey is looking at.

Audrey gets up and rushes over to a television above the

counter.

AUDREY:

(excitedly)

Turn that up, turn it up.

The waitress does. On the t.v. plays the same news story

we saw from before from Panama. This time we SEE Nick

and Major Hicks walking on the beach.

AUDREY:

It's Nick! I know that guy. I know

him!

LUCY:

(unimpressed)

Who is he?

AUDREY:

He was my college sweetie! Look at

him. He looks so handsome on t.v. What

the hell is he doing in Panama.

31 EXT. NEW YORK FISH MARKET - BELOW JFK HIGHWAY - DAY31

Even in the rain doesn't keep people away. Buyers haggle

with sellers. A large MARKET, truck loads of fish. No

one seems to notice the river across from them...

MOUTH OF THE EAST RIVER

Enormous turbulence in the water. Slowly something

begins to LIFT, sheets of water fall. Bursting out, the

backside TALONS of the enormous reptile pierce through.

The TAIL slices through the turbulence.

Two ships anchored at dock begin to LIFT UPWARDS as the

beast below them begins to rise.

ANGLE FISH MARKET

A groaning WAIL ROARS, echoing. The people of the fish

market turn just in time to see...

THE ANCHORED SHIPS

Lifting impossibly into the air above the pier. Suddenly

a TIDAL WAVE of water comes CRASHING down, flooding the

fish market.

32 INT. TRANSIT BUS - P.O.V. THROUGH WINDSHIELD - RAIN -32

DAY:

Through the swinging windshield wipers of the bus we see

the JFK highway in front of us. Suddenly we see...

AN ENORMOUS FOOT

Comes crashing down atop JFK highway, crushing it. The

TRANSIT BUS tumbles off the demolished highway.

The man in the MARKET TRUCK is TOSSED and ENORMOUS TEETH

puncture the top and bottom of his truck as it's LIFTED

IN THE AIR. The man LEAPS from the open back of the

truck.

He lands, HARD, down in front of one of the fish market

stores as hundreds of fish RAIN DOWN from above. With a

loud CRASH, the demolished truck SLAMS to the ground

nearby.

33 EXT. POLITICAL RALLY - BUILDING STEPS - RAIN - DAY33

With a large RE-ELECT MAYOR FAUSTINO poster behind him,

the MAYOR is at the podium. Before him is a sea of

umbrellas.

MAYOR:

I'd like to thank you all for coming

out on this beautiful New York City

day.

Some in the crowd laugh as others applaud. Lost in the

sounds of the crowd we HEAR a soft THUMPING in the

distance.

MAYOR:

When I came into office four years

ago, people didn't think we could

reduce crime and I did.

ANGLE - COP IN BACK OF CROWD

leaning to the cop next to him.

COP:

(sarcastic)

Yeah, he did.

MAYOR:

People didn't think I could restore

order...

This time the THUMPING is HEARD, growing much louder.

MAYOR:

...and I did. The city is a safer

place today...

Before he can continue the crowd begins to murmur with

fear as the THUMPING grows LOUDER and CLOSER. Suddenly

with a large CRASHING SOUND a building nearby begins to

CRUMBLE.

MAYOR:

(to his aides)

What the hell....

People SCRAMBLE to get out of the way as DEBRIS from the

falling BUILDING litters the area. The Mayor is pulled

inside by his security men.

Bursting out of the crumbling corner of the building we

SEE the enormous LEG of the reptile as it KICKS debris

out of its way.

SIDE ANGLE - WALL STREET - FAST TRAVELING SHOT

Several cars are SQUASHED quickly as the enormous FEET

of the beast STOMPS through the street. Cars FLATTEN and

SCATTER, flipping toward us, from the weight of the

beast. We try to keep up with it, but it's too fast.

After it passes, the Mayor sticks his head out of the

doorway to see the demolished street scene.

MAYOR:

What was that?

34 INT. WNEW - CAIMAN'S OFFICE - SAME - DAY34

Caiman's on the phone as his SECRETARY enters with some

files. Rain and thunder continue outside.

CAIMAN:

(into phone)

I don't give a crap about some war in

a country I can't pronounce. That's

not a lead story. Find me a damned

story, will ya!

Just then his Secretary notices a desk lamp, the shade

SHAKING and the light FLICKERING. She hears the THUMPING

approaching. She turns and SEES...

GIGANTIC TEETH:

The enormous head of GODZILLA growls as it passes by

Caiman's office window.

SECRETARY:

Mr. Caiman. I think your story just

walked by the window.

Caiman turns but there's nothing there. He's confused,

she's dazed.

CAIMAN:

What?

Just then the TAIL WHIRLS past with a THUNDERS whip.

35 INT. DINER - SAME - DAY35

Animal, Lucy and Audrey are at the cashier paying.

LUCY:

Did Romeo have a name?

AUDREY:

Nick Tatopoulos.

ANIMAL:

That why you dumped him?

AUDREY:

No! I just couldn't see myself with

some boring egg head who spends his

summer picking apart cockroaches. I

wanted to have some adventure, some

fun...

LUCY:

And now you live the glamorous life of

Caiman's assistant. Life's a b*tch,

ain't it?

In the distance we can HEAR the THUMPING approaching.

ANIMAL:

How long where you and dis guy goin'

steady?

AUDREY:

Nearly four years...

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