Jurassic Park 3 Page #11

They start walking. Eric pulls something out of his pocket,

shows it off to Grant.

ERIC:

Know what this is?

GRANT:

(takes it)

A raptor claw. I use to have one. A fossil.

ERIC:

Mine's new.

Grant hands it back.

Eric is becoming more and more a normal thirteen-year old boy.

There's an innocence to him that's coming back.

GRANT:

How much of this island have you explored?

ERIC:

I stayed pretty close to the compound,

Figured if anyone came to look for me, that's

where they'd start.

GRANT:

We need to head for the coast.

ERIC:

Are you sure?

GRANT:

Why?

ERIC:

Closer you get to the water, the bigger

things get.

69JEXT. JUNGLE - DAY69J

Billy and Amanda wait for Paul as he comes out of the bushes,

hiking up his shorts.

Trying to take charge...

BILLY:

We need to stick to the plan. Head for the

coast.

AMANDA:

What about Eric and Dr. Grant?

BILLY:

Going to the coast was Alan's idea. If he's

alive, that’s where he's headed.

AMANDA:

What about Eric?

Billy represses his instinct to say Eric's dead.

PAUL:

(rationalizing)

He's probably has a better chance by the coast

as it is. Figures that all the big dinosaurs

would live in the center of the island.

(to Billy)

Right?

BILLY:

Sure.

69KEXT. JUNGLE - DAY69K

As Grant and Eric walk, both stop, hearing a strange sound. But

for a change, it's not an ominous one.

It's a human one.

A phone is RINGING, very faintly. Without a word to each other,

Grant and Eric decide its coming from the right.

69LEXT. JUNGLE - CONTUNUOUS DAY69L

Paul is picking the briars out of his socks as they hike,

risking tripping on every step. Then Amanda stops short. She's

the first to hear it:

THE SAME RINGING.

After a beat, everyone else can hear it too. And recongnition

finally lights on Paul's face...

PAUL:

My phone.

Suddenly, Paul frantically searches his pockets as the others

anxiously watch.

AMANDA:

You had the phone the whole time?

BILLY:

Where is it?

PAUL:

I don't know. I don't have it with me.

AMANDA:

When did you have it last?

PAUL:

I don't remember

AMANDA:

Think.

And Paul wracks his memory...

PAUL:

The plane. I got a call on the plane, put it in

my coat pocket, and...

Bust suddenly, he stops, his face is lighting with an awful

realization. Amanda couldn’t bear the wait...

AMANDA:

What?...WHAT!?

PAUL:

I loaned it to Nash. He must have had it on

him when he...

The hideous implication of his words slowly sink in.

69MEXT. JUNGLE - DAY69M

Still following the faint RINGING, Grant and Eric turn to find

A SAIL:

moving through the low trees. We recognize it as the back of a

spinosaurus. We might think it's any random spinosaurus,

except for the RINGING coming from somewhere inside it.

Grant and Eric press back against a tree, keep perfectly

still as they hear the THOOOOMB, THOOOOMB, THOOOMB of the

creature's footsteps reverberating. It's tail RUSTKES against

the brush.

It's moving behind them, and it's close.

We hear the RINGING move from left to right as it passes. So

far, its has no idea they're there.

Looking across the clearing, Eric is startled to see

PAUL AND AMANDA:

are no more than 20 yards away, also hiding. An involuntary

reflex, Eric calls out...

ERIC:

Mon! Dad!

Grant immediately covers the boy’s mouth. But it's to late.

The dinosaur has stopped. We still can't see it. We don't know how

close it is.

Paul and Amanda spot Eric with Grant. They're a thousand

emotions at once: relieved, disbelieving, terrified, overjoyed.

They want to run to him, to yell out to him, but the monster is

close.

Grant takes his hand off Eric's mouth. They both stay

completely silent.

All this time, the sat-phone is RINGING.

Than it stops.

And after an agonizing beat, the beast moves. At first we're

not sure which direction it's headed, but finally we can tell

its moving away.

Once the sail is finally out of sight, Eric breaks from Grant's

hold and dashes to his parents' arms. They coop him up. Hug

him, kiss him, their affection unquenchable. He's crying.

AMANDA:

(reassuring him)

Sweetheart, you're okay.

(reassuring herself)

You're okay.

(disbelieving)

You're okay.

PAUL:

Never had a doubt. Never did. Us Kirby men,

we stick around, huh?

ERIC:

We do.

Looking at her grubby son, Amanda licks her shirttail, trying

to rub his face clean.

PAUL:

Honey, there's not enough spit in the world

for that.

She LAUGHS. It's the first times she's laughed in two months.

Billy crosses the distance to Grant.

GRANT:

We need to keep moving.

BILLY:

Alan, I want to tell you that I'm so sorry

about the...

GRANT:

Billy, I can't talk to you now.

He walks off. Billy follows him.

BILLY:

Please, okay? Just yell at me. Call me an

idiot. An a**hole. Stupid. Tell me I screwed

up because I know I did.

Grant doesn't respond.

BILLY (CONT'D)

I thought if we could get a raptor back

to the mainland, we could get serious money

for it. Enough to fund the digging for 10

years. More. Whatever it took.

Grant shakes his head, disgusted, But doesn't stop.

BILLY (CONT'D)

You have to believe me. I did it with the

best intentions.

GRANT:

(finally turning on him)

Some of the worst things imaginable have

been done with the best intentions. You

rushed in with no thought to the

consequences, to yourself or anyone else.

(finally)

You're no better than the people who built

this place.

Grant keeps walking, leaving Billy with his guilt.

70INT. CANYON BUILDING - DAY70

The group enters a structure with giant windows designed to

look into the canyon beyond -- only there's nothing to see but a

thick fog.

Toward the center of the room, a spiral staircase that leads to

a lower level.

With Billy lagging, Grant approaches the stairs and peers down

the circular opening in the floor. There is not much to see, just

fog, a glint of sunlight.

71EXT. RIVER CANYON - DAY71

Step by step, Grant leads the group down a rusty spiral

staircase below the observation room. The stairs end in a lower

level. Although we're technically outside, this whole place feel

strangely enclosed.

There's a thick fog at this level -- clouds, really -- but far

below we can see the river. And at its banks, a barge.

GRANT:

We climb down to the barge and follow the

river out to the ocean. With any luck, the

Costa Rican coast guard will pick us up.

ERIC:

Then we go home?

AMANDA:

Then we go home.

Grant leads everyone down a RAMP to --

72EXT. LANDING - DAY72

A catwalk branches off, a SET OF STAIRS continuing down the

along the canyon wall.

Grant starts down the stairs. He's only taken a few steps down

the rusty staircase suddenly

BREAKS BENEATH HIS FEET.

Paul grabs him in the nick of time. The staircase vanish into

the fog. CLANFING AGAINST the canyon wall. After a few more

seconds of silence, they hear the CRASH far below.

AMANDA:

You okay?

Grant nods and looks in the other direction.

GRANT:

How about if we try this way?

Their only other option is a precarious catwalk that

disappears into the mist.

AMANDA:

Do you think it goes all the way across?

GRANT:

One way to find out.

The only way to get his-near-fall is to push ahead. But his

stomach turns at being so high.

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