Jurassic Park Page #21

A heavy shadow falls over all three of them, blocking out the

sun entirely. Grant awakens, only a little bit asleep, as - -

- - a brachiosaur's head pushes into the tree branches, right up

beside them. It hesitates there for a second, seemingly staring at

them. Grant just watches as it opens its mouth very wide and CHOMPS

down on a branch over their heads.

The kids awaken with a start. Tim points, Lex opens her mouth

to scream, but nothing comes out. Then - -

LEX:

Go away!

GRANT:

(quietly)

It's okay! It's okay! It's a brachiosaur!

TIM:

Veggiesaurus, Lex, Veggiesaurus!

But Lex isn't taking any chances and scrambles back, away from

its mouth. Tim and Grant come together on the branch, just staring at

the dinosaur in wonder as it eats its breakfast.

Grant gets another branch.

Tim scampers up, trying to get the brachiosaur's attention.

TIM (cont'd)

Come here, boy - - I mean girl.

(he tries whistling)

Grant moves forward and tries to feed the brachiosaur. The

animal gets the end of the branch and starts a tug-of-war with Grant.

Tim tries to help him - - they really begin to have a good time

with the brachiosaur.

HONK! The brachiosaur makes a loud honking noise, startling

Grant and the kids.

GRANT:

Take a bite, take a bite. I'm not letting go.

TIM:

It's so strong! Look at its nose.

(he grabs onto the branch)

Need help?

Tim reaches out, petting the dinosaur's head while it chews.

TIM (cont'd)

That's a girl. Hey Lex, you can touch it. It's a girl,

just like you. Come on, it's okay. Lex, come on and

touch it. It likes you. It's gotta like you. Come on

Lex. Lex, come over and touch - - it's a girl, it has

to like you. Lex, why don't you touch it. It has to

like you. It's a girl.

GRANT:

Come on, try some. Take a bite.

TIM:

It's good protein. Come on, Lex. Why don't you touch

it? Look at his nose.

GRANT:

This is a seventy-seven ton animal. Come on over, Lex!

Just think of it as a big cow. Look at it's teeth?

(he moves in closer)

Come here, girl. This is a seventy-seven ton animal.

Just think of it as a big cow!

Grant maneuvers in closer. He reaches out and grabs hold of the

thing's lip with both hands and pulls it down, revealing the jaw at

work.

LEX:

I like cows.

GRANT:

You're a beautiful big animal.

TIM:

His nose is running. It looks like it has a cold.

The dinosaur keeps chewing, not objecting to the inspection.

TIM:

Did you smell that?

Lex tentatively edges forward in the tree to the inspection.

LEX:

Come on girl, up here.

She barely touches the thing on the tip of its nose - -

- - and it SNEEZES. It's a vast explosion, and Lex falls back,

dripping wet from head to toe.

TIM:

God bless you!

96AOMITTED

97ON THE GROUND,

Lex, her shirt is soaked, and face all wet, walks away from the

tree. Tim and Grant follow.

TIM:

Oh, great. Now she'll never try anything new!

Lex is embarrassed and ticked off.

TIM (cont'd)

She'll just sit in her room and never come out and play

with her computer - -

LEX:

(as she wipes off some of the wet and throws it

at Tim)

I'm a hacker!

TIM:

That's what I said! You're a nerd! They don't call you

people hackers anymore - - they call you people nerds!

Tim and Lex continue talking, oblivious to Grant, who has

stopped by a tree root trunk.

TIM:

Hey Lex, ahhhchooo!

(or)

Hey Lex, com here.

LEX:

What?

TIM:

Hey Lex, you forgot to say gazundheit.

Grant is still crouching on the ground below the tree where he

landed, staring at something in the palm of his hand. They both come

and look over his shoulder, curious. They stare in amazement - -

- - at a whole clutch of dinosaur eggs! All hatched, now empty.

Grant picks up one of the fragments, a large one - nearly half an egg.

GRANT:

You know what this is? It's a dinosaur egg. The

dinosaurs are breeding.

TIM:

(taking the shell from him)

But - - my grandpa said all the dinosaurs were girls.

GRANT:

Amphibian DNA.

LEX:

What's that?

GRANT:

Well, on the tour - - the film said they used frog DNA

to fill in the gene sequence gaps. They mutated the

dinosaur's genetic code and blended it with that of

frogs. Now, some West African frogs have been known to

spontaneously change sex from male to female, in a

single sex environment. Malcolm was right! Look, life

found a way!

98INTCONTROL ROOMDAY

The mood in the room is hopeless. MALCOLM, his wounds bandaged,

but in real pain, hangs around with ELLIE and MULDOON, hoping for some

development while RAY ARNOLD is still at the computer terminal and

looking a mess, he doggedly sorts through the computer system's lines

of code. One. By one. By one. They BLIP by, reflected in his

glasses. He turns and stares up at HAMMOND with a look of absolute

incredulity on his face.

ARNOLD:

No, no, no, that's crazy, you're out of your mind, he's

absolutely out of his mind - -

ELLIE:

Wait a minute. What exactly does this mean?

Hammond turns to her, the twinkle back in his eye.

HAMMOND:

We're talking, my dear, about a calculated risk, which

is the only option left to us. We will never find the

command NEDRY used. He covered his tracks far too well,

and I think it's obvious he's not coming back. So

shutting down the system - -

ARNOLD:

I will not do it. You'll have to get somebody else,

because I will not.

HAMMOND:

- - shutting down the system is the only way to

guarantee wiping out everything he did. If I understand

correctly, all the system will come back on their

original start-up modes correct?

ARNOLD:

Theoretically, yeah (yes), but we've never shut down the

whole system. It may not come back at all.

ELLIE:

But would we get the phones back?

ARNOLD:

Yeah, again, in theory, but - -

MULDOON:

(desperate)

What about the lysine contingency? We could put that

into effect!

ELLIE:

What's that?

HAMMOND:

It's absolutely out of the question.

Hammond walks away from the group.

ARNOLD:

The lysine contingency - it's intended to prevent the

spread of the animals is case they ever got off the

island, but we could use it now. Dr. Wu inserted a gene

that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism.

Animals can't manufacture the amino acid lysine. Unless

they're continually supplied with lysine by us, they'll

go into a coma and die.

ELLIE:

How would we cut off the lysine?

ARNOLD:

No trick to it. Just stop running the program. Leaving

them unattended.

Malcolm speaks up.

MALCOLM:

How soon before they become comatose?

ARNOLD:

It would be totally painless - - they'd just slip into

unconsciousness and they die.

MALCOLM:

How long before they slip into unconsciousness?

ARNOLD:

About - - seven days, more or less.

ELLIE:

Seven days?! Seven days?! Oh, great. Oh good - -

clever.

MALCOLM:

That'll - it'd be a first; man and dinosaur all die

together. John's plan.

(he raises a hand)

Hammond finally loses his cool. He BELLOWS, summoning every

ounce of authority at his command. And that's quite a bit.

HAMMOND:

PEOPLE ARE DYING!

There is a moment in which no one dares to speak. Hammond

regains himself.

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