Jurassic Park 3 Page #6

Grant dives down between two fallen trees as the Spinosaurus and T-

Rex circle one another like gladiators, each searching for the

other's weakness.

Laying flat on his back, Grant lets out a terrified GASP as the

giant foot of Spinosaurus lands across the two trunks mere

inches from his face.

Spinosaurus lunges forward, powerful jaw open wide.

T-Rex sidesteps the assault, its tail knocking down small

trees as it spins out of the way.

In the tress, Paul and Amanda scurry again for cover.

Between the fallen trunks, Grant attempts to get away on his

hands and knees.

T-Rex presses the attack, slamming its tail into the flank of

its adversary. Spinosaurus is knocked back, and Grant is again

forced to duck for cover.

As Spinosaurus struggles to regain its balance, T-Rex dives

forward. Spinosaurus is driven backwards as T-Rex tries to

grip its throat.

Amanda yanks Paul out of their path. They Scramble over to

Billy.

Now on its side, Spinosaurus fights back ferociously. It slashes

at T-Rex with its long arms and razor sharp claws, then finally

kicks the animal with one mammoth foot.

Tyrannosaurus staggers back, wounded.

Down below, Grant is splashed by the blood pouring from the

dinosaur, as he slowly makes his way towards his fellow humans.

Spinosaurus lunges for the T-rex with gaping jaws and manages to

topple T-Rex off its feet and sends the falling dinosaur to the

ground.

With an earth-shuttering CRASH, the dinosaur lands between

Grant and the rest of the group.

The companions scurry out of the way, but as they do so, the

head of the T-Rex now lands almost directly on top of them.

Plastered against an immense tree, the group watches in horror

as T-Rex starts to rise but is thrown back down as Spinosaurus

latches onto its throat.

Spinosaurus crushes the life out of its adversary, and T-Rex

opens and closes its jaw a mere inches from our terrified

friends.

Finally, Grant reaches the others.

GRANT:

Come on!

Spinosaurus lets out a victorious HOWL, and the blood-drenched

professor leads the group through the undergrowth.

46EXT. JUNGLE - DAY46

Winded from running, Paul is caught off-guard as a furious

Grant slams his back against a tree. Only one thing he wants to

know --

GRANT:

Why did you bring us here?

Paul is too startled to speak. Udesky tires to step in, but

Grant gives him back a look.

AMANDA:

Our son is on this island. We need your help

to find him.

Still crunched against the tree, Paul pulls out a photo from his

shirt pocket.

PAUL:

This is him. Eric. He’s thirteen now. He's

just about the greatest kid in the world.

Letting go of Paul, Grant takes the photo, a Sears-style

portrait of the boy we saw Parasailing at the beginning. He

shakes his head, disbelieving. He hands the photo to Billy.

The group splits into two sides -- Paul and Amanda, Grant and

Billy -- with Udesky stuck between. Dialogue overlaps in

places.

AMANDA:

He's with a man named Ben Hildebrand.

BILLY:

Who's that?

PAUL:

Her new boyfriend.

AMANDA:

A friend. We were vacationing. Eric wanted

to see the island and the dinosaurs, so Ben

found a guy who would take them parasailing.

They never came back.

PAUL:

We called everyone, did everything we could.

Because of all the controversy over this

island, no one will step in. Costa Rica says

it's a no-fly zone, it's their own damn fault.

Guys at the U.S Embassy -- our U.S. Embassy --

said we should "accept the inevitable." You

believe that?

GRANT:

So you hired these mercenaries.

UDESKY:

We prefer "recovery specialists." We do

overseas custody issues and...

GRANT:

(interrupting)

Then you duped us into coming here.

PAUL:

We needed somebody who knew the lay of the

land. Somebody who'd been to this island before.

GRANT:

(disbelieving)

I have never been on this island!

PAUL:

Sure you have. You wrote that book...

BILLY:

That was Isla Nublar. This is Isla Sorna.

The second island.

PAUL:

(low, to Udesky)

I didn't know, there were two islands.

AMANDA:

Still, you have survived the dinosaurs before. You

saved those kids.

GRANT:

A few of us survived. A lot more died. And we

were better prepared and better armed.

(finally)

How many days have they been missing?

A look between Amanda and Paul.

PAUL:

Eight weeks.

Grand and Billy are speechless. It might as well be eight years.

GRANT:

After what you've seen today, you really

think your son could be alive?

AMANDA:

He's smart, Dr. Grant. And he knows so much

about dinosaurs.

Before anyone else can talk, Grant puts his hand out. He wants

everyone to shut up while he plans their next move.

GRANT:

No, I'm sorry, but no. We'll savage what we

can from the plane. Then we head for the

coast. There may be a boat left, something to

get us off this island.

PAUL:

Dr. Grant, we're not leaving without our son.

GRANT:

You can stick with us, or you can go and look for

him. Either way you're probably not getting

out of here alive.

With that he leaves, A beat later, Billy follows. He has

genuine sympathy for the Kirby's, but he's logical enough to

know Grant is right.

BACK WITH PAUL AND AMANDA

They look to Udesky.

PAUL:

What do we do?

Udesky is clearly at a loss, but for everyone's reassurance he

tries to mutter some brio.

UDESKY:

Well, I think we should start searching for your

son. In the direction they're going.

PAUL:

Excellent.

They follow after Grant and Billy.

47EXT. PLANE CRASH SITE47

The five survivors search through the wreckage, trying to find

anything useful. The task is grim. Mindful of Grant's

warnings, they move quickly and quietly.

Udesky picks up a gun out of the swampy water. The barrel is bent

almost 90 degrees, unless.

Billy finds his camera, intact.

Digging a change of clothes out of his suitcase, Paul steps

around the side of the plane to change. He's in his underwear

before he notices Amanda is also there changing.

PAUL:

Sorry.

AMANDA:

Nothing you haven't seen before.

A beat. Amanda looks over as they get dressed.

AMANDA (CONT'D)

How much weight have you lost?

PAUL:

Twenty, twenty-fire pounds. I've been

swimming at the Y.

AMANDA:

You hate to swim.

PAUL:

People change.

A nod to mean, that's the truth.

PAUL (CONT'D)

You look good.

AMANDA:

So do you.

They make brief eye contact, which Amanda breaks.

Around the side, Billy is taking photos of a giant footprint the

dinosaur left in the mud during its attack on the plane. Grant

looks over.

GRANT:

How would you classify it?

BILLY:

Obviously a superpredator.

(best guess)

Suchimimus. that snout.

GRANT:

They never got that big.

BILLY:

Baryonyx?

GRANT:

Not with that sail.

(Billy gives up)

Spinosaurus Aegypticus.

BILLY:

I don't remember that on InGen's list.

GRANT:

That's because it wasn't on their list. Who

knows what else they were up to?

Billy looks past Grant to see Paul approaching. He's struggling

with the straps on his backpack. turning in circles.

Billy regards him with suspicion.

BILLY:

So Mr. Kirby, tell me, when you climbed K2,

did you base camp at 25- or 30,000 feet?

PAUL:

Thirty-thousand, I think. Closer to the top.

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