Jurassic Park Page #13

GENNARO:

Doctors, if you please - - I have to insist we get

moving.

ELLIE:

Oh, you know, if it's alright, I'd like to stay with Dr.

Harding and finish with the trike. Is that okay?

HARDING:

Sure. I've got a gas powered jeep. I can drop her at

the visitor's center before I make the boat with the

others.

ELLIE:

(to Grant)

I'll catch up with you. You can go with the others.

GRANT:

Are you sure?

ELLIE:

I'll just finish. Yeah, I want to finish.

There is a lightning flash now, with a tooth-rattling

THUNDERCLAP right on its heels.

GENNARO:

Now.

Grant turns and follows the others, Lex right in his tracks.

Ellie and Harding go back to the triceratops, which is starting to come

back to life.

As Grant reaches the Explorer, he turns back for one last look

at Ellie. He raises his hand to wave, but she is turned the other way.

Feeling silly, he drops his hand and goes into the woods. Just as he

does, Ellie turns and waves to him, but with his back turned, he misses

it too.

In this way, they say goodbye.

BACK AT THE CARS,

as the reflections of the GROUP approach, the first raindrops

fall on the windshields of the tour vehicles. They're big, fat drops,

and they kick up little clouds of dust as they SMACK into the glass.

It's going to be a hell of a storm.

45OMITTED

46EXTPARKDUSK

It's near dark now. The wind has whipped up, and the trees are

swaying.

47INTCONTROL ROOMDUSK

HAMMOND is with RAY ARNOLD, staring at the video screens.

ARNOLD:

I found a way to re-route through the program. I'm

turning the cars around in the rest area loop.

HAMMOND:

Rotten luck, this storm. Get my grandchildren on the

radio will you? I don't want them to worry about a wee

bit of rain.

Arnold reaches for the hand microphone.

ACROSS THE ROOM,

DENNIS NEDRY, sweat forming on his upper lip now, is staring at

his video monitor. The supply boat is still docked on the island

shore, but is now being buffeted by heavy waves. Nedry whispers

sharply into the phone, arguing with the MATE of the ship again, who he

can see on the video monitor.

MATE:

There's nothing I can do! If the Captain says we gotta

go, we gotta go!

NEDRY:

No, no, listen to me. You've got to give me this time.

I did a test run on this thing and it took me twenty

minutes. I thought I could do it in fifteen - - you've

got to give me fifteen minutes.

MATE:

No promises! No promises!

NEDRY:

I'll be there in ten!

Arnold SNAPS a button on his console.

ARNOLD:

Visitor vehicles are on their way back to the garage.

HAMMOND:

So how much for our first tour. Two no-shows and one

sick triceratops.

ARNOLD:

It could have been worse, John. It could have been a

lot worse.

Dennis Nedry stands up.

He's shaking in his shoes, but trying like hell to be casual.

NEDRY:

Anybody want a Coke? Anybody what some from the

machines? Or a soda or something? I had too many

sweets.

(or)

I thought I'd get something sweet.

Hammond and Arnold shake their heads. Nedry starts to leave,

then turns back with an afterthought that is so rehearsed its almost

obvious.

NEDRY (cont'd)

Oh, I finished de-bugging the phones, but the system's

compiling for eighteen minutes, or twenty. So, some

minor systems may go on and off for a while. There's

nothing to worry about. Simple thing....

HAMMOND:

Okay, okay, okay, okay, that's enough! Ahh!

Nedry turns, stretches one finger out to his screen, and selects

an option.

"EXECUTE."

At the same time, he presses the start button on his digital

stopwatch he holds in his hand. A digital clock on the computer screen

starts to tick down from sixty seconds , and a musical clock starts to

sound too - - something like the "Jeopardy" theme.

He starts to leave - - but returns when he remembers the shaving

cream can. He grabs it and leaves.

48EXTPARK ROADNIGHT

Night was completely fallen now, and the rain has started. It's

a tropical storm, the rain falling in drenching sheets on the roofs and

hoods of the Explorers, which are making their way slowly back to the

visitor's center.

IN THE REAR CAR,

GRANT and MALCOLM are alone. Grant is staring out the window,

lost in his thoughts.

GRANT:

You got any kids?

MALCOLM:

Me? Oh, hell yes. Three.

(glowing)

I love 'em. I love kids. Anything at all can and does

happen.

He takes a flask from jacket pocket and unscrews the top. His

expression darkens.

MALCOLM (cont'd)

Same with wives, for that matter.

GRANT:

You're married?

MALCOLM:

Occasionally. Always on the lookout for the future ex-

Mrs. Malcolm.

49INTFERTILIZATION LABNIGHT

DENNIS NEDRY, waits outside the silver door marked "EMBRYONIC

COLD STORAGE," staring at the digital stopwatch in his hand.

NEDRY:

Two - - one - -

On cue, the security lock panel goes dark and the door CLUNKS

ajar.

IN THE COOLER,

Nedry hurries in and flips open the hatch on the bottom of the

shaving cream can, revealing slotted compartments inside. He goes to

the rack of dozens of thin glass slides. A sign says "VIABLE EMBRYOS -

- HANDLE WITH EXTREME CARE!"

He takes the slides out of the rack one by one. They're labeled

- - "STEGOSAURUS", "APATOSAURUS", "TYRANNOSAURUS REX" - - and puts them

into the can.

50INTCONTROL ROOMNIGHT

ARNOLD is staring at his terminal, puzzled. On the screen,

glowing red and blue lines are blinking off, in succession..

ARNOLD:

What?

HAMMOND comes up behind him, as does ROBERT MULDOON.

HAMMOND:

What?

ARNOLD:

The door security systems are shutting down.

HAMMOND:

Well, Nedry said a few systems would go off-line, didn't

he?

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53INTREAR CARNIGHT

GRANT and MALCOLM still wait in their car. They don't notice,

but the video screen in the middle of their front console suddenly goes

black.

Malcolm continues their conversation.

MALCOLM:

By the way, Dr. Sattler - she's not like, uh, available,

is she? - -

GRANT:

Why?

MALCOLM:

Why? Oh, I'm sorry. Are you two, uh - - are? I wish

you the best luck.

The cars jerk to a stop. The lights in the vehicles and along

the road go out, plunging them into blackness. Grant jerks his hands

away from the steering column, immediately assuming it's his fault.

GRANT:

What'd I touch?!

MALCOLM:

You haven't touched

(or)

didn't touch anything. We're stopping.

(or)

We've stopped.

GRANT:

I must've touched something. This happens all the time.

It must be my fault. Machines hate me.

MALCOLM:

Machines hate you?

GRANT:

Yeah, they hate me.

MALCOLM:

You want to talk about this?

GRANT:

No.

54EXTJURASSIC PARKNIGHT

Nedry's jeep SPLASHES up to the giant gates that lead into

Jurassic Park. NEDRY jumps out and hurries to the control panel on the

side of the cement supports.

He FLICKS a switch and gates CLICK unlocked.

He jumps back in the car and noses into the gates, shoving them

open far enough to drive through.

He ROARS into the park grounds

55EXTCONTROL ROOMNIGHT

RAY ARNOLD stares at his terminal, aghast, as row upon row of

colored lights crawls off on his screen.

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