Jurassic Park Page #11

GRANT:

Will you turn that thing off?

Ellie flips a switch and they wait in silence - - except for

Malcolm, who looks at the ceiling, thinking aloud.

MALCOLM:

God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God

creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.

ELLIE:

(finishing it for him)

Dinosaur eats man. Woman inherits the Earth.

ARNOLD (O.S.)

Hold on, we'll try to tempt the rex.

IN THE PADDOCK,

there is a low HUMMING sound. Out in the middle of the field, a

small cage rises up into view, lifted on hydraulics from underground.

The cage bars slide down, leaving the cage's occupant standing

alone in the middle of the field.

It's a goat, one leg chained to a stake. It looks around,

confused, and BLEATS plaintively.

IN THE FRONT CAR,

LEX and TIM look at the goat with widely different reactions.

LEX:

What's going to happen to the goat? He's going to eat

the goat?!

TIM:

(in heaven)

Excellent.

GENNARO:

(to Lex)

What's the matter, kid, you never had lamb chops?

LEX:

I happen to be a vegetarian.

IN THE REAR CAR,

GRANT:

(shakes his head)

T-rex doesn't want to be fed; he wants to hunt. You

can't just suppress sixty-five million years of gut

instinct.

IN THE PADDOCK:

The goat waits. And waits. From the Explorers, six faces watch

it expectantly. The goat tugs on its chain. It walks back and forth,

nervous. It BLEATS.

IN THE REAR CAR,

Grant watches, his eyes glued, his breathing becoming a little

more rapid.

IN THE FRONT CAR,

Tim and Lex can't tear their eyes away,

IN THE PADDOCK,

finally, the goat - -

- - lays down.

IN THE REAR CAR,

everyone sits back, disappointed again, as the cars pull forward

to continue the tour. Malcolm picks up the microphone.

MALCOLM:

Now, eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs on your

dinosaur tour, right?

37INTCONTROL ROOMDAY

HAMMOND just shakes his head as Malcolm's voice comes through,

HAMMOND:

I really hate that man.

38EXTPARKDAY

GRANT gets into the seat, leaving MALCOLM behind ELLIE. He

longingly looks out of the opposite window, while Malcolm rattles on to

Ellie.

MALCOLM:

You see? The tyrannosaur doesn't obey set patterns or

park schedules. It's the essence of Chaos.

ELLIE:

I'm still not clear on Chaos.

MALCOLM:

It simply deals with unpredictability in complex

systems. It's only principle is the Butterfly Effect.

A butterfly can flap its wings in Peking and in Central

Park you get rain instead of sunshine.

Ellie gestures with her hand to show this information has gone

right over her head.

MALCOLM:

I made a fly by, I go too fast.

Looking out of the opposite window, Grant sees movement at the

far end of a field. He sits bolt upright, trying to get a better look.

Malcolm, looking for another example - -

MALCOLM (cont'd)

(points to the glass of water)

Here. Give me your glass of water.

He dips his hand into the glass of water. He takes Ellie's hand

in his own.

MALCOLM (cont'd)

Make like hieroglyphics. Now watch the way the drop of

water falls on your hand.

He flicks his fingers and a drop falls on the back of Ellie's

hand.

MALCOLM (cont'd)

Ready? Freeze your hand. Now I'm going to do the same

thing from the exact same place. Which way is the drop

going to roll off?

(or)

Which way will the drop roll? Over which finger? Or

down your thumb? Or to the other side?

ELLIE:

Uh - - thumb!

(or)

The same way.

MALCOLM:

It changed. Why?

(or)

Okay, back over your wrist.

(then)

Because and here is the principle of tiny variations - -

the orientations of the hairs - -

ELLIE:

Alan, listen to this.

MALCOLM:

- - on your hand, the amount of blood distending in your

vessels, imperfections in the skin - -

ELLIE:

Oh, imperfections?

MALCOLM:

Microscopic - - never repeat, and vastly affect the

outcome. That's what?

ELLIE:

Unpredictability....

MALCOLM:

And even if we haven't seen it yet, I'm quite sure it's

going on in this park right now.

There's definitely something out in that field, and Grant has to

see it.

He jerks on the door handle and opens his door a few inches. He

looks outside towards freedom, then looks around to is anybody's

watching him.

Malcolm lowers his voice, becoming more seductive now.

MALCOLM (cont'd)

Life's a lot like that, isn't it? You meet someone by

chance you'll never meet again, and the course of your

whole future changes. It's dynamic - - its exciting - -

I think.

Grant throws the door open and bolts out of the moving car.

MALCOLM (cont'd)

There, there see?! I'm right again!

ELLIE:

Alan?

MALCOLM:

No one could have predicted Dr. Grant would suddenly

jump out of a moving vehicle!

ELLIE:

Alan?

She jumps out too and follows him into the field.

MALCOLM:

There's another example!

IN THE FRONT CAR,

TIM:

Hey! I want to go with them!

IN THE REAR CAR,

MALCOLM:

See? Here I am now, by myself, talking to myself - -

that's Chaos Theory! What the hell am I doing here?

I'm the only one who knows what's going on, etc, etc....

39INTCONTROL ROOMDAY

HAMMOND, MULDOON, and ARNOLD stare at the video monitor

incredulously as everyone now pouts out of the cars and follows Grant

down the hill.

The cars roll on slowly, empty, their doors hanging open.

ARNOLD:

Uh - - Mr. Hammond - -

HAMMOND:

Stop the program! Stop the program!

MULDOON:

There you are! How many times did I tell you we needed

locking mechanisms on the vehicle doors!

ACROSS THE ROOM:

DENNIS NEDRY sneaks a peek at the video monitor. It shows an

image of the steel door, plainly marked - - "EMBRYONIC COLD STORAGE.

RESTRICTED!"

He looks to another monitor, which is labeled "EAST DOCK." The

monitor shows a supply ship, moored at the dock. Its cargo is being

uploaded and a large group of WORKERS is filing aboard.

Nedry has something in the counter, where no one can see it.

It's a can of shaving cream.

40EXTPARKDAY

GRANT, ELLIE, GENNARO, and the KIDS are out in the open field,

heading towards a small stand of trees. For the first time, we notice

the sky is darken rather early in the day. Tim dogs Grant's footsteps,

so excited he can hardly keep his feet on the ground.

TIM:

So like I was saying, there's this other book by a guy

named Bakker? And he said dinosaurs died of a bunch of

diseases? He definitely didn't say they turned into

birds.

Gennaro is scared as hell, following the others, but his head

darting left and right.

ELLIE:

Alan? Where are we going? You see something?

GENNARO:

Uh - - anybody else think we shouldn't be out here?

TIM:

And his book was a lot fatter than yours.

GRANT:

Really?

ELLIE:

Yours was fully illustrated, honey.

GENNARO:

Anybody at all. Feel free to speak up.

Lex stumbles and Grant takes her hand, to stop her from falling.

She looks up at him and smiles.

Grant smiles back and tries to recover his hand, but Lex holds

tight. He's massively uncomfortable. Ellie notices.

Suddenly they all stop in their tracks. A huge smile spreads

across the faces of both Tim and Grant. Grant walks forward. Tim

follows.

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