Jurassic Park 3 Page #12

Amanda follows. The catwalk creaks and groans, listing

slightly. She freezes mid-stride.

GRANT (CONT'D)

(glancing back)

We'd better do this one at a time.

Amanda steps of and Grant carefully pushes forward,

disappearing into the thick fog.

The others listen to the CREAKING of the catwalk until it STOPS

ABRIPTLY.

SILENCE.

PAUL:

Dr. Grant?

More silence. Then, out of the fog, a distant voice call out --

GRANT (O.S.)

Come on over. One at a time.

Amanda steps tentatively forwards. Eric is clinging to her.

AMANDA:

Eric, its okay. You'll be right behind me.

PAUL:

We're not going anywhere, I promise.

As Paul holds Eric, and Amanda shares a look.

Amanda

We're all together now, Eric.

Eric reluctantly releases her mother. Amanda starts to cross.

73EXT. REVER CANYON - FAR WALL - DAY73

Grant has stopped at a lateral support across the

catwalk, trying to get the sense of where they are and what

purpose this place may have served.

Seeing that the support beams are brace high arched walls of steal

mesh, it becomes obvious that we are inside this vast

construction.

Amanda emerges from the mist and turns back to the catwalk.

AMANDA:

(calling out)

Okay! Come on, Eric!

74EXT. LANDING - DAY74

Eric is next to go across. He's still tentative.

PAUL:

How 'bout if I...

ERIC:

No, I can do it.

Billy and Paul look on as Eric disappears into the vapor.

PAUL:

(muttering to himself)

That's it Eric. Nice and easy...

75EXT. CATWALK - DAY75

Eric slowly gropes his way forward. He feels a GUST OF WIND and

a HEAVY THUD ahead on the catwalk which now sways beneath

him.

Regaining his balance, Eric peers forward, but the fog prevents

him from seeing more than fifteen feet ahead. There is an EERIE

SILENCE. Eric calls out timidly.

ERIC:

Mom?

75AEXT. RIVER CANYON - FAR WALL - DAY75A

Across the canyon, Grant moves across the later support. With

his hand on the railing, he sends a white, hardened substance

dropping into the mist.

Looking up, Grant notices a large strut, covered with the same

substance. Realizing what it could be.

GRANT:

Oh, my God.

AMANDA:

What is it?

GRANT:

A bird cage.

Then, the sound of Eric SCREAMING.

75BEXT. CATWALK - DAY75B

Eric watches as A LOOMING SHAPE emerges from the fog -- a

nightmarish vision stalking purposefully forward.

A FULL GROWN PTERANODON,

standing over seven feet high, walks upright on clawed feet, his

thirty foot wings folded bat-like at his side.

The creature sees Eric and fixes him with a demonic glare.

Eric CRIES OUT and dashes back down the teetering catwalk.

The Pteranodon ruses to its feet, spreads its thirty-foot wings

and flies directly at him.

AT THE OTHER END OF THE CATWALK

Hearing Eric's SCREAMS, Paul charges onto the catwalk,

searching in the fog.

PAUL:

Eric!

BILLY:

It won't hold!

Suddenly,

ERIC:

emerges from the fog, racing toward his father. And then

THE PTERANODON:

swoops out of the fog, opens its giant rear claws, and snatches

the terrified boy from the catwalk.

Paul Kirby watches in stunned, abject horror as the Pteranodon

carries Eric directly overhead --

PAUL:

ERIC!

The flying reptile struggles with the boy's weight. Paul

watches helplessly as Eric is carried high across the canyon.

Paul runs back alone the catwalk in a desperate attempt to keep

Eric in sight.

Billy stays behind, moving back up the platform to try to

keep the dinosaur in view. With a new idea, he races back up the

stairs to the observation room. He has a way to save Eric.

When he reaches the canyon wall, Paul turns a corner and runs

along another enclosed catwalk leading deeper into the canyon.

Grant and Amanda now come pounding down the catwalk trying to

catch up with Paul.

AMANDA:

(shouting)

Paul! Where is he? Can you see him?

PAUL:

(shouting back)

I'm trying! That thing took him down this

way!

GRANT:

Split up!

THE PTERANODON:

carries Eric deeper into the canyon. The creature's wings beat

steadily overhead, and the WIND is fierce. Eric looks down and

sees the river far below.

The Pteranodon swoops over an isolated outcropping of rocks at

the end of the canyon and drops Eric into --

75CEXT. PTERANODON NEST - DAY75C

A large bowl of mud and branches the size of a satellite dish.

Eric lands right on top of a pile of dinosaur bones picked

clean. Mixed among is one human skull.

Before Eric has time to cry out, he looks up to find

SIX PTERANODON HATCHLINGS

closing in on him with sharp-edged beaks.

He picks up the human skull and whips it to the hatchlings.

They easily duck it and keep coming.

76EXT. OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS DAY76

Grant looks up to see Billy leaning out over the edge of the

observation platform. He suddenly realizes what Billy is about

to do.

GRANT:

BILLY! WAIT!

Billy SHOUTS BACK, an excited-terrified grin on his face.

BILLY:

I CAN GET HIM!

GRANT:

NO!

BILLY:

I KNOW THE CONSEQUENCES!

Billy jumps off the railing and

DROPS TOWARDS THE CANYON BELOW.

Grant, Paul and Amanda watch as Billy FALLS past them like a

stone, plummeting towards certain death. But then --

THE PARASAIL CHUTE

blossoms above him.

Not only does it slows Billy's descent, but he even manages to

catch an updraft and begin to rise.

He struggles to control the parasail, swooping dangerously

close to the canyon wall, barely avoiding it.

Up ahead he catches sight of Eric and steers towards him.

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81EXT. PTERANODON NEST - DAY81

Eric struggles to keep away from the hatchlings. But there's

no way out of this nest.

Billy SWOOPS overhead, but he's too high to reach Eric.

BILLY:

ERIC! HOLD ON!

He circles around to make another attempt.

82EXT. ENCLOSED CATWAY - DAY82

Paul rounds the corner and finally catches sight of Eric in the

nest, some fifty feet below, fighting off the hatchlings.

PAUL:

Hang on, Eric!

Paul sees an outcropping he could jump onto from here. It's a

big leap, though, he might not make it. He steels himself up for

the jump, then chickens out.

Grant and Amanda come up behind him. Suddenly,

A SECOND PTERANODON

CRASH LANDS on the catwalk enclosure about them -- right next

to a gaping hole in the mesh. The catwalk GROANS with the

extra weight.

The pteranodon JAMS its head through the hole, SNAPPING at

them.

83EXT. CANYON - IN THE AIR - DAY83

Billy circles, making his approach.

In the nest, Eric kicks at the hatchlings, but they're

undeterred. Billy and Eric will only have one chance.

As Billy swoops past, Eric jumps and grabs onto his boot. He is

yanked up and out of the nest. But than, MOTHER PTERANODON

shoots past, tearing out a piece of the parasail in its beak.

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86EXT. OVER THE RIVER - DAY86

The pteranodon who landed on the top of the catwalk continues to

SNAP through the hole in the enclosure.

Finally the reptile's massive weight proves to much, and the

entire section of the catwalk BREAKS FREE of the canyon wall

and FLIPS OVER LATERALLY.

Amanda, Grant and Paul are able to hang on, but so is the

pteranodon, who now climbs their way.

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