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GRAN (CONT'D)

Then my father smashed him with a rockand traded me to your Grandfather.

SANDY/THUNK/EEPHa ha ha ha ha ha ha!

BELT:

Ha ha ha ha.

PAN DOWN TO TREE BASE

Ugga and Grug approach. They hear the LAUGHING coming

from high above. Grug peers up and sees the SWINGINGHAMMOCKS, torch lights.

GRUG:

(panic)

Croods! Come get down here!

UGGA:

Grug, they’re okay. Guy’s with them.

GRUG:

Oh, oh, ‘Guy’. ‘Guy’ is with them. Well

thank you for bringing me that

interesting Guy update!

A BEAT - Ugga regards her husband

UGGA:

Oh, okay. I’m gonna go up and why don’t

you join us when you stop being a big

drag!

Ugga climbs up the tree to be with the rest of the

family.

Grug isn’t thrilled with Ugga’s shot at him. He picks uptwo rocks and tries to make fire.

GRUG:

Sleep pile? How about a story, huh?

Anyone?

Grug listens intently. All he hears is laughter.

TREE TOP:

Thunk, Sandy Belt and Gran are sitting around a torch,

listening to one of Gran’s stories.

GRAN:

And then Torg said “Know it? I drew it!”

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THUNK GRAN SANDY BELT

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.

THUNK:

That makes no sense.

Ugga arrives and sits next to Guy. She takes in the

scene.

UGGA:

(to Guy)

I know it was hard for you to bring usalong, but they had the best day of their

lives... Thank you for that.

A RUMBLE distracts Guy. He looks to the horizon. FIRES

and SMOKE on the horizon mark the leading edge of the

collapse. Eep comes to his side.

GUY:

I want to show you something.

Guy LIGHTS A TORCH and leads the Croods up, up, to the

forest canopy.

Guy BLOWS OUT his torch. The night sky is revealed in

all its glory. The Croods are amazed.

Music POUNDS as the spectacle SWEEPS around the Croods.

Perched on the canopy of the forest the Croods seem to

sit at the very brink of the universe.

THUNK:

More suns in the sky than you can count.

GUY:

Every sun that crosses our sky, comes to

rest up there.

EEP:

Tomorrow.

GUY:

That’s where we’ll be safe.

ON GRUG ARRIVING at the tree top. When he sees the stars

he DUCKS back down, terrified.

He overhears the rest of the conversation.

Eep with tears in her eyes.

EEP:

I’m going with Guy.

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Grug is beside himself with panic, sick at the thought of

losing Eep.

GRUG:

(whispered)

No. Not my little girl.

EEP:

Come with us.

UGGA:

I can’t go without Grug.

GRAN:

Well, that makes one of us. Count me in!

UGGA:

Really Mom? Now?

Grug continues to listen in.

GRAN:

Grug has no idea how to protect us. In

fact, he has no ideas at all.

UGGA:

No, that’s not true. What about that one

time when he a...

GRAN:

Face it! If he actually had an idea of

his own I’d, I’d have a heart attack and

die!

ON GRUG:

Grug smiles to himself.

CUT TO:

SEQ. 1550 - GRUG TRIES TO CHANGE

EXT. TREE - SUNRISE

ON UGGA:

UGGA:

Grug?

The whole family is searching for Grug. He has

disappeared.

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THUNK:

Dad?

EEP:

Dad?

GUY:

He’s a big guy. How can he just disappear

like that?

THUNK:

Hey wait. Let’s ask that ugly lady if

she’s seen dad.

UGA:

Yeah.

Grug SPINS AROUND. He’s wearing a rasta-style wig made

from knotted grass. The sight SHOCKS Ugga.

GRUG:

Haven’t seen him.

UGGA:

Augh!

ON GRUG with the family standing around him.

UGGA(CONT’D)

(concerned)

What are you doing?

GRUG:

(Playing to Eep)

Yeah, Wow. Like, I was up all night cuzlike all these, ideas just kept coming to

me.

Grug LIFTS his tunic, a Boa Constrictor is wrapped aroundhis waist.

GUY:

Is that a snake?

GRUG:

Belt! New and improved! It’s even self-

tightening. Ow!

The constrictor SQUEEZES Grug till he turns blue. GrugSMACKS it and it relaxes a little.

UGGA:

What is that on your head?

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GRAN:

It’s called desperation.

Grug strokes his weird, fake rasta-hair.

GRUG:

(swings his long hair around)

I call it a “rug.” Rhymes with Grug.

And this one. I call it a “ride.”

Rhymes with Grug.

Grug regards a boulder as if it’s a Ferrari.

GUY:

That, doesn’t-GRUG

It’s gonna get us places faster than

shoes.

Grug climbs on top of the rock, facing the wrong way.

GRUG (CONT’D)

Yeah. Try to keep up.

He LEANS FORWARD. The “car” ROLLS downhill and SMASHES

through a redwood, TOPPLING it.

THUNK:

I wish I had a ride.

ON THUNK:

His face SLATHERED with reddish mud.

GRUG:

Painting is a thing of the past. I call

this, a “snap-shot.”

Grug takes a huge flat stone and SMASHES it against

Thunk, forcibly transferring the mud image to the rock.

Grug shows the Croods.

THUNK:

Let’s do it again. I think I blinked.

Thunk PASSES OUT.

ON THE CROODS:

Wearing wooden sunglasses. They are effectively wearing

blindfolds.

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GRUG:

I call them “shades.”

THUNK:

The sun doesn’t hurt my eyes anymore!

Where do you get these great ideas?

GRUG:

Since I don’t have a brain, they’recoming from my stomach. Down deep below,

and then up again into my mind.

Thunk walks into a tree. All the other Croods RAISE their

“shades” in time to see Grug walk over a cliff.

GUY:

Grug. We have to keep moving.

ON GRUG:

GRUG:

See, I got ideas, I got thoughts.

ON Grug lifting a huge flat rock over his head.

GRUG (CONT’D)

Like this. I call it a “mobile home.”

Isn’t that something?

A huge BEAST BUNNY JUMPS into the opening of the rock.

Grug is smashed flat.

ON GRUG:

Standing on one side of a primitive Teeter-Totter.

GRUG (CONT’D)

And I’m calling this one a “lifterator.”

EEP:

Mom?

UGGA:

I know. It’s bad.

Grug tosses a massive boulder on the opposite end. Grugis LAUNCHED into the sky. Grug becomes a speck in the

sky. He is HIT by LIGHTNING.

GRAN:

I almost feel sorry for him.

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Grug falls back down onto the teeter totter dislodging

the boulder from the other side. The boulder rolls back

down onto Grug.

GRAN (CONT’D)

Hah, no I don’t.

DISSOLVE TO:

SEQ. 1950 - TRUTH REVEALED

Guy is rowing a SHELL BOAT with everyone inside.

UGGA:

What are you trying to do Grug?

ON GRUG:

Burned and battered, laying in the bottom of a turtleshell boat.

Ugga is attending to his injuries.

GRUG:

I thought if I could have ideas like Guy,

maybe Eep would listen to me. Maybe she

wouldn’t want to go with Guy.

Ugga gets a PAINED look on her face.

UGGA:

Oh Grug, is that what this is all about?

Ugga is about to confess her thoughts of going to

Tomorrow with Guy when Grug interrupts her.

GRUG:

And I also thought it would kill yourmother. So you know? Win win.

GUY:

We’re here.

The view of the mountain is beautiful.

Thousands of birds fly overhead darkening the sky.

The shell boat hits the shore. The Croods step out onto

land.

An explosion goes off on a nearby mountain. A PLUME of

magma BURSTS from the water in the distance.

Grug looks around for shelter and spots a cave.

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