Jurassic Park Page #15

- - Tyrannosaurus rex. It stands maybe twenty-five feet high,

forty feet long from nose to tail, with an enormous, boxlike head that

must be five feet long by itself. The remains of the goat hang out of

the rex's mouth. It tilts its head back and swallows the animal in one

big gulp.

Gennaro can't even speak. His hand claws for the door handle,

he shoulders it open, and takes off, out of the car.

LEX:

(freaking out)

He left us! He left us alone! Dr. Grant! Dr. Grant!

He left us! He left us!

62ON THE ROAD,

Gennaro runs away, as fast as he can, right past the second car,

towards a cement block outhouse twenty or thirty yards away.

He reaches it, ducks inside, and pulls the door after him - -

- - but there's no latch, just a round hole in the unfinished

door. Gennaro backs into a stall, frantic.

The whole bathroom begins to shake.

63IN THE REAR CAR,

Grant and Malcolm turn in the direction Gennaro went.

GRANT:

Where does he think he's going?

MALCOLM:

When you gotta go, you gotta go.

Malcolm looks the other way, out the passenger window. As he

watches, the fence begins to buckle, its post collapsing into

themselves, the wires SNAPPING free.

MALCOLM:

What was that all about? - -

Grant now turns and watches as, ahead of them, the "DANGER!"

sign SMACKS down on the hood of the first Explorer. The entire fence

is coming down, the posts collapsing, the cables SNAPPING as - -

- - the T-rex chews its way through the barrier.

They watch in horror as the T-rex steps over the ruined barrier

and into the middle of the park road. It just stands there for a

moment, swinging its head from one vehicle to the other.

64IN THE FRONT CAR,

The rex strides around to the side of the car and peers down,

from high above. Tim leaps into the front seat and pulls the driver's

door shut. Both kids are terrified, breathing hard, unable to speak.

TIM:

Please! Please!

65IN THE REAR CAR,

MALCOLM:

Boy, do I hate being right all the time.

GRANT:

Look at that!

The T-rex turns and strides quickly back towards them. It

circles, slowly, bending over to look in at them through the window.

Grant and Malcolm sit trembling in the front seat, watching as

the giant legs stride past their windows.

GRANT:

(a quivery whisper)

Keep absolutely still - - it's vision's based on

movement!

MALCOLM:

You're sure?!

GRANT:

(pause)

Relatively.

Malcolm freezes as the rex bends down and peers right in through

his window. The dinosaur's giant, yellowing eye is only slightly

smaller than the entire pane of glass

The T-rex pulls away slightly, then reaches down and BUMPS the

car with its snout, rocking it.

66IN THE FRONT CAR,

Lex is rummaging around in the back cargo area, looking for

something, anything. She finds a flashlight.

67ON THE ROAD,

The front car lights up from within as Lex switches on the

flashlight.

The dinosaur raises its head. It turns slowly from the second

car to the first car, drawn by the light. Making a decision, it

strides over to the first vehicle. FAST.

68IN THE FRONT CAR,

Tim and Lex can only stare out of the windows as the T-rex

reaches their car and starts to circle it.

The rex bends down and looks in through the front windshield,

then the side window. Tim is eye to eye with the thing for a second,

then the dinosaur raises its head up, above the car.

LEX:

I'm sorry - - I'm sorry - -

TIM:

Turn it off, Lex! Turn it off!

Tim climbs over the seat and joins Lex.

TIM (cont'd)

Where is the button then?

LEX:

I don't know, I don't know. I'm sorry - -

TIM:

Why did you do this?

LEX:

I don't know! I'm sorry!

The Kids look up, through the sunroof, as the head goes higher,

and higher, and higher, and then the rex turns, looks straight down at

them through the sunroof, opens its mouth wide and - -

- - ROARS.

The windows RATTLE, Lex SCREAMS, the flashlight goes on again,

and the tyrannosaur strikes.

SMASH! The thing's head its the plastic sunroof, knocking the

whole frame right out of the roof of the car and down into the vehicle.

The bubble falls down onto Tim and Lex, trapping them, and the animal

lunges down, through the hole, SNAPPING at them.

The Plexiglas holds, though and protects Tim and Lex even as it

pins them to the seats. The T-rex continues to push down, and the

glass GROANS, crack lines racing across it.

Tim, whose feet were caught above him, pushes back, only an inch

of glass between him and the dinosaur's teeth.

69IN THE REAR CAR,

Grant and Malcolm watch in horror as the dinosaur claws at the

side of the vehicle with one of its powerful thigh legs.

It pushes, starting to tip the car over.

MALCOLM:

Oh my God!

GRANT:

We gotta do something.

MALCOLM:

What? What can we do?

GRANT:

There's gotta be something - -

Grant looks around, climbs over the seat. He tears apart the

back area, searching - and finally finds a metal case. He opens it,

finding flares. He grabs one and moves quickly back to the driver's

seat and opens the door.

Malcolm grabs a flare, too.

70IN THE FRONT CAR,

the glass windows SHATTER, the Kids are thrown to the side, and

the Explorer tilts.

The rex bends down and nudges the car with its head, rolling it

up on its side. Tim and Lex tumble around.

71ON THE ROAD

the T-rex starts to nudge the Explorer toward the barrier. Over

the barrier, there is a gentle terraced area at one side where the rex

emerged from, but the car isn't next to that, it's next to a sharp

precipice, representing a fifty or sixty foot drop.

The car, upside down now, is pushed near the edge.

The rex towers over the car. Like a dog, its puts one foot on

the chassis and tears a the undercarriage with its jaws.

Biting at anything it can get a hold of, it rips the rear axle

free, tosses it aside, and bites into a tire.

The tire EXPLODES, startling the animal.

72INSIDE THE CAR,

Tim and Lex are trapped inside the rapidly flattening car. As

the frame continues to buckle, they crawl toward the open rear window,

the car collapsing behind them. Mud and rain water pout into what

little space there is left.

Tim is ahead, nearing the back window, when there is a CRUNCH

and a seat comes down, pinning him.

73ON THE ROAD,

the dinosaur backs up, dragging the Explorer, swinging it left

and right. It seems ready to fling it over the edge.

Grant gets out of his car. He's holding the flare in one hand,

which he pulls the top off of. Bright flames shoot out the end of it.

GRANT:

Hey! Hey! Over here!

The T-rex turns and looks at him

Grant waves the flare slowly in front of him from side to side.

The T-rex follows his moving arm, eyes locked on the flare. Grant

looks over to the wall, and tosses the flare over the edge of the

barrier. The rex lunges after it - -

Unclear with Grant's plan, Malcolm leaps out of the car and

tries to scare up the T-rex's attention with his own newly lit flare.

He begins to wave it at the animal. Grant sees him - -

GRANT:

Ian! Freeze! Freeze! Get rid of the flare!

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