The Mummy Page #10

INT. ANLIBIS CHAMBER -

Having heard the crash, Beni and the Americans have their

guns pointed at the floor. The Egyptologist could care less,

he looks at the Diggers, gripping their crowbars, and YELLS--

EGYPTOLOGIST:

FENI!

The three Diggers PULL HARD. The ancient seams start to give,

The Egyptologist YELLS again. The Diggers PULL HARDER. The

compartment starts to loosen. Again he YELLS. The Diggers

give one final pull and--

--AN INTENSE BURST OF LIQUID SPRAYS OUT OF THE SEAM. HITS THE

THREE DIGGERS. MELTS THEIR SKIN CLEAN OFF. They SCREAM. Dying

horribly. HALF SKELETAL by the time they hit the ground ......

INT. IMHOTEPIS CHAMBER - DAY

The dust is starting to clear. O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan

slowly get up and step over to the massive stone casement.

We immediately recognize it as IMHOTEPIS SARCOPHAGUS.

EVELYN:

Oh my god, ...it looks like,

it looks like a sarcophagus.

O'CONNELL

Why would they bury somebody

in the ceiling?

EVELYN:

They didn't, they buried him

at the foot of Anubis. He was

either someone of great importance.

or he did something very naughty.

INT. SCARAB CHAMBER - DAY

The warden drops an amethyst-scarab into his pouch, then

greedily-starts prying away at another. It rips off, he drops

it into his pouch, --only he misses, and this scarab quietly

falls to the sandy floor without the Warden noticing.

CLOSE ON:
the scarab on the floor. It begins to TRANSFORM.

The amethyst starts to glow. Something inside starts to

WIGGLE; as if the amethyst were some sort of strange cocoon.

Then it splits open and a real live hideous SCARAB--BEETLE

scurries out. It races over to the warden's shoe, quickly

burrows into the leather and vanishes inside.

The Warden's eyes FLY OPEN. He starts to SCREAM, drops his

knife and frantically starts clawing away at his pant leg,

higher and higher until he rips open his shirt revealing a

large, hideous LUMP, BURROWING UNDER HIS SKIN. IT BURROWS

IT'S WAY UP HIS FAT BELLY AND ACROSS HIS HAIRY CHEST. The

Warden claws and scratches at it, trying to stop it. The lump

BURROWS UP HIS NECK. The Warden starts GAGGING and COUGHING.

And then the scarab-lump VANISHES INTO HIS HEAD.

INT. IMHOTEPIS CHAMBER - DAY

Our Heroes clear the dirt off the top of the sarcophagus,

revealing a single, ominous hieroglyph. Evelyn stares at it

Jonathan impatiently strums his fingers across the lid.

JONATHAN:

Well? .... Who is it?

Evelyn stares at the hieroglyph, confused and concerned.

EVELYN:

'He that shall not be named.

O'Connell dusts off the huge LOCK

O'CONNELL

There's some sort of lock here.

You say these thing's are made

of granite with a steel interior?

EVELYN:

Quarried granite with a cobalt lining.

JONATHAN:

Whoever's in here, sure wasn't

getting out.

O'CONNELL

No kiddin', without a key, it'll

take us a month to crack this thing,

EVELYN:

A key! That's it! That's what he

was talking about.

O'CONNELL

Who was talking about what?

Evelyn starts rummaging through the pack on Jonathan's back.

EVELYN:

The man on the barge. The one

with the hook, he was looking

for a key.

Evelyn pulls out the key/box. Jonathan tries to take it back,

JONATHAN:

Hey that's mine!

Evelyn slaps his hand and quickly unfolds the box, --it's now

shaped exactly like the LOCK'S KEYHOLE. Evelyn smiles. And

that's when they hear the Warden's SCREAMS echoing through

the labyrinth. All three of them turn and take-off running.

INT. LABYRINTH - DAY

The Warden is SCREAMING and dancing insanely around the

labyrinth, totally freaked from the extreme pain in his head.

O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan run up just as the Warden

starts RIPPING his own hair out of his head. O'Connell and

Jonathan grab at the Warden's hands, but he's far too crazed,

he shoves them aside, runs full bore down the length of the

labyrinth and SLAMS his head straight into a rock wall. The

Warden drops to the ground. Dead as lead. Eyes wide open.

O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan just stand there staring,

breathing hard, wide-eyed themselves ..............

EXT. BASE CAMP - NIGHT

Evelyn and Jonathan are nuzzled up to a campfire.

EVELYN:

What do you suppose killed him?

JONATHAN:

Did you ever see him eat?

O'Connell comes up over some rocks.

O'CONNELL

Seems the Americans had a little

misadventure of their own today,

three of their diggers were killed.

EVELYN:

How?

O'CONNELL

Salt acid. Pressurized salt acid.

Some sort of ancient booby-trap.

JONATHAN:

Maybe this place really is cursed

A GUST OF WIND blows through the camp. The campfire FLICKERS

O'Connell and Jonathan share a nervous look. Evelyn laughs.

EVELYN:

two!

O'CONNELL

don't believe in curses, huh?

EVELYN:

No. I believe if I can see it

and I can touch it, then it's

real. That's what I believe.

O'Connell c*cks his rifle, KA-CHANK! Gives her a big grin.

O'CONNELL

I believe in being prepared.

Jonathan opens the Warden's POUCH, the one that held the

scarabs. He reaches in, starts scrounging around. WE SLOWLY

PUSH IN. Waiting for the attack. THE MUSIC BUILDS. And then,

--Jonathan SCREAMS in pain and RIPS his hand back out of the

pouch. O'Connell and Evelyn both jump.

O'CONNELL/EVELYN

WHAT?! WHAT IS IT?!

Jonathan sucks his finger, then reaches back into the pouch

and pulls out a LIQUOR BOTTLE, the top has been chipped off.

JONATHAN:

Seagrams!

Jonathan smiles at the bottle, then turns the pouch inside-

out and shakes it, nothing but SAND is inside it.

JONATHAN:

Well, he may have been a stinky

fellow,....but he had good taste

Jonathan takes a swig. O'Connell and Evelyn laugh, guiltily

And then O'Connell suddenly kneels down and sticks his ear to

the sand. Evelyn and Jonathan watch him. A BEAT. And then a

BARAGE OF GUNFIRE IS HEARD coming from the American camp.

O'Connell jumps up and throws the elephant gun to Evelyn.

O'CONNELL

Stay here!

He takes off running through the ruins. Evelyn immediately

gets up and runs after him. Jonathan grabs a gun, holds the

bottle of Seagrams; tight and dashes after her.

JONATHAN:

Evy! Excuse me! But didn't

the man just say--!

EXT. AMERICAN CAMP - NIGHT

The American camp is under siege. Two dozen MUMIA RIDERS

gallop through. FIRING RIFLES. Several Diggers are killed as

they run. The Americans leap out of their tents FIRING. Kill

multiple Riders. Daniels is shot, spins and falls, keeps

SHOOTING. Henderson and Burns run to his aid, BLASTING AWAY.

O'Connell races through the ruins and SLAMS right into Beni,

who is obviously trying to high-tail-it out of there.

O'CONNELL

Goin' somewhere?

BENI:

Just looking for you, O'Connell!

I wanted to be with my friend!

O'Connell drags him back towards the American camp.

O'CONNELL

C'mon, friend.

BENI:

(struggling)

Why do you like to fight so much?

O'CONNELL

'Cause I look good doin, it.

Ardeth Bay gallops through the camp, cutting Diggers down

with his scimitar. O'Connell runs up on top of some rocks,

LEAPS OUT and TACKLES him off his horse. The two men SLAM to

the ground. O'Connell spins up onto one knee and FIRES, point

blank. Blows the scimitar out of Ardeth Bay's hand. O'Connell

is about to shoot again when a horse rides up between them.

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