Lake Placid Page #2

ANGLE WALT'S FACE

He knows he's done. OFF Keough's continued horror, we:

CUT TO:

BLACK AND WHITE:

A DINOSAUR (T-Rex) is angry and out for blood.

REVEAL:

INT. MOVIE THEATER - DAY

We're watching an old classic creature feature. FIND Kelly

alone, slowly eating popcorn, rapt, tense... watching the movie.

As the suspense builds, her hand freezes halfway between the

popcorn bag and her mouth.

ANGLE THE SCREEN

The monster pursues its human victim.

ANGLE KELLY:

fear on her face.

ANGLE THE SCREEN

The monster makes its final surge, capturing its prey.

ANGLE KELLY:

as she screams with fear and delight. Her scream is only

partially muted by the shrieks of the other moviegoers.

After a beat, she calms, daring to eat popcorn again. Wearing

gullibility, vulnerability all over her face. Then from behind

a hand appears, taps her shoulder, causing her to let loose with

the most blood-curdling scream of all.

All the moviegoers turn to SEE... as will WE:

MYRA OKUBO:

Thirties, standing mortified; the woman who tapped her shoulder.

CUT TO:

EXT. NEW YORK CITY - DAY

Kelly and Okubo emerge from the movie theater.

KELLY:

What do you expect, mugging me from

behind?

OKUBO:

I tapped you.

KELLY:

Well you shouldn't have. How did

you even know where I was.

OKUBO:

(sarcastic)

Wild guess.

KELLY:

I don't like to be scared, Myra, I

have a thing about fright, don't

ever scare me.

OKUBO:

Kevin told me you were upset.

KELLY:

Really? I never realized he was so

psychic, how could he detect that,

did he tell you there's somebody

else?

OKUBO:

(sheepish)

Well... he didn't have to tell me

that part.

Kelly freezes. Stares at her. Then:

KELLY:

You?

OKUBO:

It started before you, Kelly, I

never would've--

KELLY:

You?

OKUBO:

It was just a quick thing which we

thought was over, and and...

KELLY:

You and Kevin.

OKUBO:

It wasn't suppose to happen, I

don't know what to say...

A beat.

KELLY:

You don't know what to say, lucky

for you action speaks louder than

words.

OKUBO:

Kelly--

KELLY:

I'm not upset, Myra, okay. I just

never thought of you as a y'know...

OKUBO:

Backstabber?

KELLY:

(don't be silly)

No.

OKUBO:

Liar?

KELLY:

(c'mon)

Myra.

OKUBO:

Shitbutt?

KELLY:

I really... I should get back.

And Kelly peels off to go on her way. Bumps into a Pedestrian.

She then gives him an angry shove, under--

KELLY (CONT'D)

(to the pedestrian)

Don't f*** with me!

And off she goes. The Pedestrian and Okubo exchange a look.

CUT TO:

EXT. LAKE - DAY

Coroner's ambulance. Walt's covered body is being loaded, as

JACK WELLS, Fish and Game, thirty, emerges from his truck. He

approaches the body. Lifts up the sheet. Stares a beat in

disbelief. Turns to Keough.

JACK:

What did this?

OFF Keough, we:

CUT TO:

INT. MUSEUM - DAY

Kelly's in her office, working at her desk. Kevin enters.

KEVIN:

Hey.

KELLY:

Kevin. How's it going, what's

happenin', family good, great, nice

to catch up, get out.

KEVIN:

This is business.

(then)

There was an accident in Maine,

some guy got killed by something in

a lake. Probably a bear, but...

they found a tooth.

KELLY:

A tooth?

KEVIN:

A tooth they say couldn't have come

from any bear. They say it looks

prehistoric. Like maybe a

dinosaur.

KELLY:

(without looking up)

Oh, well then I'm sure that's it,

he got killed by a dinosaur,

anything else?

KEVIN:

I want you to go there.

Now she looks up.

KELLY:

Sorry?

KEVIN:

I'm sure it's nothing, but you're

a paleontologist, this is what we

do, I--

KELLY:

This is what we do?

KEVIN:

I'd like you to check out this

lake. See--

KELLY:

Are you on drugs?

KEVIN:

Kelly--

KELLY:

I'm not going to Maine, I won't

even go west of Forty-third Street--

KEVIN:

Part of our research--

KELLY:

I'm not even a field person.

KEVIN:

Well on this one I'd like you to

be.

Kelly stares back. The nickle drops.

KELLY:

This was Myra's idea, wasn't it?

Get me out of the office for a few

days, until--

KEVIN:

It has nothing to do with--

KELLY:

I never do field work and even if

I did, Maine, to look at a tooth of

a dinosaur who bit somebody,

couldn't you dream up something--

KEVIN:

Kelly--

KELLY:

I am not going to Maine. That's

ridiculous.

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