Jurassic Park Page #27

She SCREAMS and is lifted up, on top of its head, and pinned to

the ceiling above.

Grant SMASHES hit boot into the side of the raptor's head. The

raptor SLAMS at him, latching onto his boot for a second before the

raptor's own weight pulls it back down.

Lex goes down with the raptor, spinning into the hole in the

ceiling, tumbling down. Grant grabs her by the collar at the last

second, but Lex dangles there, above the raptor.

The animal flips over onto its feet and crouches to pounce just

as Grant summons his strength and jerks Lex back into the ceiling.

The raptor springs, but too late. Grant and Lex scramble over

to the air duct and join Ellie and Tim inside it.

136IN THE AIR DUCT,

Grant, Ellie, and the kids crawl through the air duct as fast at

they can, the thin metal BOOMING and creasing around them. They reach

a metal gate that shows daylight beneath. Grant reaches out and pulls

it up.

Through the gate, they can see the lobby of the visitor's center

below. They're directly above the skeletons of the dinosaurs, the T-

rex and the sauropod it's attacking. The unfinished skeletons are

surrounded by scaffolding.

137INTROTUNDADAY

Grant and the others climb down out of the air duct and onto a

platform of the scaffolding that stands alongside the skeletons. They

continue down to the second platform, then the third. They suddenly

see - -

A RAPTOR, standing to the side by the second floor railing.

It's much too far to jump to the lobby floor, so Grant climbs

gingerly onto the nearest skeleton, the towering brachiosaur.

They climb down as fast as they can. Grant helps Tim down, Lex

and Ellie follow. Ellie goes to the tail. Lex moves to the front.

Grant lands on the main body in the middle with Tim. And the raptor

watches them.

Up in the ceiling, the skeleton's anchor bolts GROAN in the

plaster, starting to pull free. But for now, they hold.

The raptor flies out and lands on the back of the middle section

of the skeleton. SNAP! It CRACKS apart with the weight, sending the

sections spinning in all different directions.

Grant and Tim twirl on the middle section. Tim begins to slide

down. Grant tries to hold on to him - - but Tim loses his grip and

falls to the ground right underneath the swinging, large middle section

of the dinosaur skeleton.

Meanwhile, Lex spins on the front section. She slips - - and

tries to keep from falling as she hangs by her legs.

The anchor bolts in the ceiling RIP free, ZINGING past them like

bullets. The entire brachiosaur skeleton collapses like a house of

cards sending Ellie to the ground. She covers herself with her arms,

trying to protect her head from the shower of falling bones.

Lex falls, landing on the ground with bones falling on top of

her. She SCREAMS.

Grant, alone in the middle section, looks up and sees the cable

about to SNAP - - he falls! The large section of the skeleton comes

careening down, heading straight for Tim, who lays where he fell on the

ground. It comes SMASHING down. . . with just enough space for him to

be safe.

The raptor tumbles to the floor in a cascade of splintering

bone.

It lands on its back a few yards away and staggers for a moment,

the wind knocked out of it.

Grant lands in front of Tim. He stands, and goes to Tim. Lex

sits up and sees the raptor regain its feet. She SCREAMS.

Ellie stands. She notices the shadows of the second raptor,

standing behind the visqueen. She stops dead in her tracks. She backs

up towards Grant and Tim.

The raptor comes out from under the plastic and looks around.

Grant gets Tim out from under the skeleton. Lex joins them. They back

away from the raptor, approaching from the left side. They back up

towards the large rock in the middle of the room holding the other

skeleton.

The raptor crouch in their pre-attack stance - -

The group is caught in the middle of the two approaching

raptors.

Lex looks back and SCREAMS. Grant and the others continue to

back up. They look up and see - -

- - TYRANNOSAURUS REX! It's massive head descends down from

above. A set of six-foot jaws clamp down on the raptor. Eighteen-inch

teeth sink into its side, and the helpless animal HOWLS in agony as

it's lifted up, up, up off the floor of the lobby.

Grant and the others look up in stunned amazement. They step

back behind the rock for safety and look to the right. They see

another raptor approaching.

The other raptor goes up in the air now, twenty feet off of the

lobby floor, held fast in the mouth of the Rex. It stands in the

entrance to the lobby in front of the massive hole it ripped through

the Visqueen wall. It shakes its enormous head once, BREAKING the neck

of the velociraptor, then drops it, dead, to the floor at its feet.

Grant, Ellie, and the kids skirt the battle royal on the lobby

floor and dash of the door of the Visitor's Center.

The second raptor turns from the humans and lunges at the Rex's

side, leaping twelve feet into the air and rending the Rex's flesh as

it comes down, slashing it open with its six-inch claw.

The rex BELLOWS in pain, and turns on the raptor, eyes raging,

and strikes, just once, quickly, as fast as the head of a serpent. It

catches the raptor by thick back end, buts one of its enormous feet

down on it, and tears.

It rips the last velociraptor in half.

The rex whirls around - as it turns, its heavy tail

counterbalances, SNAPPING the other way, sweeping across the lobby and

SMASHING right through the T-rex skeleton.

The skeleton collapses in an explosion of bones, falling to

pieces around the living rex.

The rex stands majestically in the middle of the lobby, both

skeletons swept away, SNAPPING like matchsticks as they settle around

the animal.

The rex draws itself up to its full height - -

- - and ROARS.

The sound is deafening, and the vibrations rattle the entire

Visitor's Center. The sign which dangled over the lobby by its one

remaining wire finally falls, CLATTERING to the floor at the Rex's

feet, face up.

"WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH", it says.

137AOUTSIDE THE VISITOR'S CENTER

Hammond SQUEALS the Jeep to a halt in front of the steps.

Malcolm is lying in the back.

Grant and the other practically fall into the Jeep.

GRANT:

Mr. Hammond, I've decided not to endorse your Park.

HAMMOND:

After careful consideration, Dr. Grant - - so have I.

Hammond hits the gas and the Jeep takes off.

137B

THRUOMITTED:

137C

139EXTHELICOPTER LANDING PADDAY

The helicopter rotors whirl to life as the chopper waits on the

landing cross. Two Jeeps ROAR up next to it, one driven by GRANT, the

other by HAMMOND.

INTHELICOPTERDAY

One by one, they climb aboard, their faces white from their

ordeal.

ELLIE comes on first, holding LEX. Then HAMMOND, carrying TIM.

And GRANT, helping MALCOLM.

No one speaks. Hammond takes another look at his dream, Grant

comes over and takes him back to the helicopter.

The helicopter takes off immediately. As they rise into the

air, they stare out the windows, looking down on the park as it spreads

out below.

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