The Flintstones Page #21

FRED:

Barney! The elevator --!

Barney runs toward it, hits the button.

246 OTHER SIDE OF WALL 246

REVEALING elevator mechanism. The button pokes a mouse

which runs out of a box. Seeing the mouse, a nearby

mastadon becomes frightened, begins running. A heavy

cable tied to the mastadon runs over a pulley and into -

247 THE ELEVATOR SHAFT 247

--where the elevator rises out of the sub-level and

INTO VIEW! Fred and Barny start towards it... when

suddenly the Fibrerock elevator begins to crumble!

FRED:

Quick! Use your coo-coo gun --!

Barney aims, pulls back the plunger... too late! The

elevator is gone. The cable swings back and forth

loosely, "whapping" the shaft walls as it shoots upwards.

Fred dives for the cable, misses! As he stumbles, Barney

leaps on Fred's back, catches the cable! As Barney

starts to whizz upwards, Fred garbs onto his ankles!

248 ABOVE -FIBRESPHERE 248

Propelled upwards, the would-be rescuers shoot OUT of

the FRAME, disappear into the Fibresphere with a CRASH!

CUT TO:

249 INT. BEDROCK POLICE STATION -NIGHT 249

The POLICE CHIEF looks skeptically at Feldspar and

Gravel, who are exhausted, covered with dust, uniforms

torn.

(CONTINUED)

108.

249 CONTINUED:
249

CHIEF:

Feldspar, if you ask me, you've

seen too many Rockzilla movies: In

all the Xenosaurus sightings we've

had reported, not one has had this

kind of wholesale destruction -

FELDSPAR:

Chief, you --you gotta believe me

--just one swipe of its paw and

--wham --a whole house was

pre-history --!

Suddenly one of those police DISPATCH PARAKEETS comes

flying excitedly through the window, lands on a perch in

front of the Chief.

DISPATCH PARAKEET

Calling all cars. Calling all cars.

Unconfirmed reports of destruction

and collapse at Slate City.

Rescue vehicles are on the way.

The xenosaurus has been spotted

in the area. That is all. That

is all.

FELDSPAR:

(excited)

Yousee--? Itoldyou-

CHIEF:

All right, Feldspar, I'm

convinced! As of this moment

you're completely in charge of

operation...

(dramatic)

... 'Xeno Dino'! Now, what do

you need?

CAMERA TIGHTENS ON Feldspar. This is the moment he's

waited for all his life.

FELDSPAR:

(firm-jawed)

Artillery.

CUT TO:

250 INT. FIBRESPHERE -NIGHT 250

Dust and little fragments of construction material are

still tinkling down around our heroes. The elevator

cable sways from its uppermost pulley. Slowly, something

stirs in the pile of arms, legs and scaly limbs.

(CONTINUED)

109.

250 CONTINUED:
250

First to sit up is Barney, who groans, rubs his head.

Next, Fred sits up. Damn! The impact has knocked Fred's

monster mask back on his head! Fred mutters angrily...

Barney starts to help... and then they both notice that

there's another monstrous head in the middle of their

group! There're big "takes" all around, and then the

xenosaurus leaps out of the tangle of bodies, treads

air, and runs away!

BARNEY:

(recovering)

Fred, stop it! It might know

the way inside!

Fred "gets up to speed" and chases the xeno. Barney

follows.

251 NEW ANGLE 251

Fred and Barney both leap on the mysterious xenosaurus -all

crash through a wall -

252 INT. SLATE NEEDLE -NIGHT 252

The panicked partygoers turn as a section of wall

collapses. Dust and debris billow upwards. The battered

monster mask breaks loose from Fred's costume, bounces

on the floor. Slowly, everyone gets up: Fred... Barney

... and two halves of the xenosaurus:

The bottom half is Piltdown; the top-half is Pyrite.

WILMA BETTY:

Fred? Barney?

PEBBLES BAM-BAM

Daddy! Pop!

FRED BARNEY:

Piltdown? Pyrite?

SLATE:

What the devil's going on here?

FRED:

It's real simple, Mister Slate.

Your boy Lava here has been

stealing the coo-coo berries from

the Fibrerock mix and fixing the

books to hide it!

LAVA:

That's ridiculous, Flintstone!

Nobody could get that many coo-coo

berries off our premises!

(CONTINUED)

110.

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252

Suddenly the bottom of Piltdown's canvas sack rips

open. Thousands and thousands of coo-coo berries tumble

out.

253 LAVA 253

Slaps his hands over his face.

254 THE SCENE 254

BETTY:

(dryly)

These sure look like coo-coo

berries to me -

LAVA:

(smoothly)

They're convincing fakes, Mrs.

Rubble --part of our exciting

display -

PYRITE:

Fakes?

(to Piltdown)

Gee, Pilty, I thought the real

ones were gonna be moved up here

for us ta steal --whatta waste

a time -

PILTDOWN:

Pyrite, shaddup -

FRED:

(snapping fingers)

Now I remember! These guys were

pulling this xenosaurus act that

night at the plant! What's this,

Lava... 'Plan B'?

LAVA:

Uncle! Are you going to stand

there while aspersions are being

cast at the Slate family? This

is absurd -

SLATE:

Of course it is! Why, without

the coo-coo berry sap, Fibrerock

would be completely -

(realizing)

--unstable...

Suddenly the entire building shudders. Dust falls from

the ceiling. Everyone looks at Lava.

(CONTINUED)

111.

254 CONTINUED:
254

LAVA:

All right, all right, I admit it!

I got in over my head in the stock

market... took some big losses...

I had these guys pull jobs for me

all over town disguised as a

monster... but it still wasn't

enough... and when I saw all those

coo-coo berries being delivered

every day, I guess I just lost my

head... I figured with the Woca

sap in the Fibremix, the berry

juice as superfluous...

SLATE:

I'll tell you what's superfluous,

Lava... your liver! So why don't

we remove it --!

He leaps, snarling, on top of Lava... Fred and Barney

pull them apart. Then, more falling dust and beams give

everyone more pressing problems -

CUT TO:

255 EXT. SLATE NEEDLE -NIGHT 255

Rescue VEHICLES and police CARS ROAR up, slam to a halt,

CAT SIRENS WAILING. The rescue workers jump out.

Firefighters carry circular trampolines of hide stitched

to bamboo frames; others go to the back of their trucks

and start to turn cranks on the hook and ladder trucks to

raise the ladders.

256 CLOSE ON A HOOK AND LADDER TRUCK 256

It's actually a wheeled carriage carrying a firesaurus,

which is a critter with a very tiny body and an incredibly

long neck. The bony plates on the creature's back

make perfect stairs.

However, the creature is noticeably listless and

uncooperative.

FIRE CHIEF:

Come on, come on, what's the hold

up --?

FIREFIGHTER:

It's the kibble crisis, sir -

the firesauruses have been on

half-rations for a month!

Above them, the BUILDING SHUDDERS again.

112.

257 IN THE SLATE NEEDLE 257

Now, the remaining LIGHT FIXTURES CRASH down. When they

hit the floor, the oil lamps inside spills and fire

spreads.

WILMA:

(pointing)

Fred! There's a fire hose --!

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