Godzilla Page #8

LUCY:

I left my forgery kit back at the

office.

Audrey looks over at a young ten year old boy holding

his backpack, a RULER sticking out of the back.

AUDREY:

Hey, do you have any glue in your

bag?

KID:

What's it to you?

AUDREY:

Can I use some?

KID:

What do I get?

AUDREY:

The warm feeling of helping your

fellow man.

KID:

Five bucks.

AUDREY:

You're kidding, right?

The Kid simply puts his hand out.

58 EXT. NEW JERSEY TRAIN STATION - LATER58

People FLOOD off the train out into the station.

P.A. ANNOUNCER

Please exit the station. For those of

you without accommodations, the city

has opened up shelters on Monroe and

60th and at Bergenline and 72nd.

Please exit the...

Audrey and Lucy walk through the crowd. Audrey turns and

gives Lucy a kiss.

AUDREY:

Wish me luck!

LUCY:

Audrey, I don't think this is a very

good idea. Caiman finds out and he'll

have your job.

AUDREY:

I'm tired of waiting for someone else

to give me an opportunity, Luce. If

there's a story here I'm going to find

it.

Lucy nods in acceptance as Audrey disappears into the

dense crowd. Lucy worries for her friend.

CUT TO:

"YUM YUM DOUGHNUTS" BAG - PRE-SUNSET

Carried along with a Styrofoam cup of coffee. We WIDEN

TO REVEAL a MAN carrying the junk food to a GREY VAN

parked not too far from the Command Center Tent across

the way.

The man knocks on the back of the van. The van opens to

reveal...

59 INT. RAYMOND'S VAN - PRE-SUNSET59

Filled with high tech monitoring equipment, Raymond and

his men are listening in to a conversation. The man with

junk food hands it to Raymond.

RAYMOND:

Merci.

He opens the bag and takes out a croissant. He bites

into it and grimaces. To wash away the taste, he drinks

from the coffee. It's worse than the croissant.

RAYMOND:

You call this coffee?

MAN:

(French accent)

I call this America.

The man takes a seat near Raymond as Raymond turns up

the volume on his headset.

MAYOR (O.S.)

(mid argument)

You're telling me that in an election

month I've evacuated the entire city

for nothing?

60 INT. COMMAND TENT - WAR ROOM (TENT) - PRE-SUNSET60

From behind the Mayor's head we SEE the monitoring

device attracted to his collar. As he speaks we WIDEN TO

REVEAL...

MAYOR:

Do you realize what this evacuation

will cost the people of this city!?

Representatives of all branches of the military,

National Guard and the Mayor's office are here. The room

overflows with people. Nick, Elsie and the scientist

stand near the back of the tent.

ADMIRAL PHELPS:

We're been monitoring the waters

around the island. As far as we can

tell it hasn't left the area.

MAYOR:

But you don't know for sure.

MAJOR HICKS:

We think there's a strong reason to

believe it may be hiding inside one of

the buildings within the sequestered

area.

MAYOR:

But you don't know for sure!

Just then Sergeant O'Neal enters hurriedly. He wants to

speak but waits for the opportunity.

MAJOR:

(controlling his temper)

Mr. Mayor, if he's not in one of those

buildings then we give the all clear.

But not until we've checked each

building!

SERGEANT O'NEAL

Sir, that may be more difficult than

we originally projected.

MAJOR:

More good news?!

SERGEANT O'NEAL

We've run into a problem.

CUT TO:

A SIGN READING:
SUBWAY STATION: 23RD STREET - SUNSET

We CRANE DOWN to reveal several military sedans pulling

up into FLAT IRON SQUARE (where Broadway meets 5th).

Sergeant O'Neal leads the team out of the cars and down

a subway entrance.

61 INT. SUBWAY STAIRWELL - CONTINUOUS - SUNSET61

Marching down the stairs, the team enters into the very

large subway station. For all we see it seems like a

normal subway station except for the fact that every one

of the team members look ASTONISHED.

SERGEANT O'NEAL

Lt. Anderson and his men found this

late this afternoon.

The camera makes a hundred and eighty degree turn as we

suddenly SEE what the team is staring at...

AN ENORMOUS HOLE

The four normal subway tunnels have been CARVED OUT

making one GIGANTIC TUNNEL. Debris and crumbled brick

are everywhere. Several SOLDIERS with flashlights

approach the hole.

Lt. Anderson moves over to the astonished group. Some of

the scientists fan out, examining the area.

LT. ANDERSON

We were checking the office building

above when we discovered the floor was

gone.

LOW ANGLE - REVEALING THE HOLE IN THE CEILING

We SEE that not only is the ceiling gone but the

building above is hollowed and torn to shreds. Another

hole in the building leads to the street.

LT. ANDERSON

When we learned he could burrow his

way through the tunnels we realized he

could be out of the quarantined zone.

MAJOR HICKS:

Christ. How many tunnels lead off the

island?

LT. ANDERSON

Only five, Sir. We've checked them

all. He hasn't used any of them.

MAJOR HICKS:

Have them sealed off.

LT. ANDERSON

And how should we do that, Sir?

MAJOR HICKS:

Fill them with cement, brick them up,

put land mines in them, bombs, I don't

know, just make sure that goddamned

thing doesn't leave the island!

ANGLE - INSIDE DARKENED TUNNEL

As the SOLDIERS slowly move down deeper into the

tunnels, their flashlight beams scan the area. Could

they stumble onto something dangerous?

ANGLE - NICK

as he approaches Major Hicks and Sergeant O'Neal.

NICK:

You know, he's not an enemy trying to

evade you. He's just an animal.

MAJOR HICKS:

What are you suggesting?

NICK:

When I needed to catch earthworms, I

knew the best way to catch them was

not to chase them. I had to draw them

out.

ANGLE - SOLDIERS - DARKNESS

Still moving deeper into the tunnel we get the feeling

these soldiers may just waken a sleeping giant.

BACK TO TEAM:

Nick moves to the edge of the platform, looking off into

the dark tunnel.

NICK:

All we need to do is find out what it

wants, what it needs, and he'll come

to us.

ANGLE - SOLDIERS - DARKNESS

The lead Soldier SEES something. Cautiously he moves

forward thinking he's onto something. We HEAR something

MOVING in the darkness.

We FOLLOW his beam as the noise grows clearer. The beam

falls onto something on the floor...

A FISH:

Flopping on the ground is a large FISH. As the beam

moves farther along we see two, no, three fish ahead.

CUT TO:

62 EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET - POST-SUNSET (MAGIC HOUR)62

A battalion of armored TANKS roll down this deserted

city street. A large number of GROUND TROOPS march

behind.

COBRA HELICOPTERS - SAME - MAGIC HOUR

Banking in formation, the helicopters swerve, heading

towards mid-town Manhattan.

SAND BAG FORTIFICATION

Soldiers pile up sand bags, creating a make shift

fortification. SHARP SHOOTERS and a BAZOOKA BRIGADE

settle into place.

63 EXT. FLAT IRON SQUARE - SAME - MAGIC HOUR63

Major Hicks moves over to a jeep and grabs the radio.

64 INT. COMMAND TENT - SAME - MAGIC HOUR64

Major Hicks sits by a bank of communications

technicians.

MAJOR HICKS:

Where are they now?

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