The Mummy Page #12

DANIELS:

Assimilate their organs and fluids?

Ya mean eat 'em?

EGYPTOLOGIST:

And in so doing he will regenerate.

And no longer be the undead, but a

plague upon this earth.

The WIND WHISTLES. Torches FLICKER. VERY SPOOKY. Beni and the

Egyptologist share a fear-filled look. Henderson just shrugs.

HENDERSON:

Ah hell, let's open it anyways,

INT. IMHOTEP'S CHAMBER - DAY

WHAM! Imhotep's wooden coffin is DROPPED to the ground next

to his stone sarcophagus. Evelyn is very excited.

EVELYN:

Oh my god, love dreamed about

this ever since I was a little girl.

O'CONNELL

You dream about dead guys?

Evelyn just gives him a look, then starts brushing dirt and

cobwebs off the top of the coffin. Then she freezes.

EVELYN:

Look, all the sacred spells have

been chiseled off. The hieratics

and hieroglyphs that protect the

deceased on his journey into the

afterlife, they've been removed.

This man was cursed, ....doomed.

O'Connell and Jonathan are too excited to care

O'CONNELL

Tough break.

JONATHAN:

Yes, I'm all tears, now let's

see who's inside, shall we?

Evelyn can't believe these guys. Jonathan inserts the key/box

into the coffin's lock. Turns it. The lid cracks open with a

HISS. They all react to the FOUL STENCH. Then O'Connell grabs

the lid. It's stuck. He pulls with all his might. Jonathan

helps him. It starts to give way. Slowly. Slowly. Slooooowly.

And then it suddenly POPS OPEN and THE MOST HIDEOUS, MAGGOT-

INFESTED, ROTTEN CORPSE IMAGINABLE JUMPS UP!

O'CONNELL/EVELYN/JONATHAN

AHHHHH!!!

They all jump back. Scared to death. Imhotep is now the

'Elephant Man' of corpses; twisted and deformed. The years

have not been kind. He slumps back into his coffin.

INT. ANUBIS'-CHAMBER - DAY

Henderson and Daniels start to pry at the lid of the wooden

chest. Beni and the Egyptologist watch. In the background,

Beni starts backing away, filled with fear, sweating buckets.

BENI:

The curse, ....beware the curse!

turns and bolts from the chamber. Daniels spits.

DANIELS:

Stupid superstitious bastard.

And that's when the seal breaks, --A BLACK VAPOR BLASTS OUT

OF THE CHEST. Everybody vanishes into the strange cloud.

INT. IMHOTEPIS CHAMBER - DAY

O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan slowly creep forward and

carefully look back inside Imhotep's coffin, creeped-out

O'CONNELL

is he supposed to look like that?

EVELYN:

No. I've never seen a mummy look

like this. He's, he's still...

JONATHAN:

Juicy?

EVELYN:

Yes. He's more than four thousand

years old and still decomposing.

O'CONNELL

And look at this.

O'Connell points at the inside of the COFFIN LID, where there

are FINGERNAIL SCRATCHES and DRIED BLOOD all over the inside.

EVELYN:

Oh my god, he was buried alive,

This sends a chill through everyone. Evelyn leans in closer,

EVELYN:

And he left a message.

WE PUSH IN on a grouping of hieratics WRITTEN IN BLOOD.

EVELYN:

It says:
'Death is only the beginning*

Jonathan shivers. O'Connell looks around.

O'CONNELL

Where's my gun?

JONATHAN:

What are you going to do?

Shoot him?

O'CONNELL

If he decides to wakes up, hell yes!

INT. ANUBIS' CHAMBER - DAY

The vapor is settling. The Americans have their guns aimed at

the chest. The Egyptologist slowly steps up, reaches inside,

and lifts out a heavy burlap bag. Everyone's eyes widen in

excitement as he sticks his hand into the bag and slowly

pulls out the black BOOK OF THE DEAD, the same book Imhotep

used in his attempt to bring Anck-su-namun back to life.

EGYPTOLOGIST:

I have heard told of this book,

but I never truly believed it

existed. This, good gentlemen,

is a most priceless treasure.

Henderson kicks the sandy floor in anger.

HENDERSON:

I wouldn't trade ya for a brass

spittoon!

DANIELS:

Yeah! It's supposed to be made

outta pure gold!

Daniels kicks the chest. it breaks open, unfolding to reveal

a lower compartment. Inside, are Anck-su-namun's FIVE JEWEL

ENCRUSTED CANOPIC JARS (one is shattered and without jewels)

EXT. BASE CAMP - NIGHT

The two camps have now joined together. O'Connell and Beni

are roasting chunks of hairy meat over a fire. Jonathan

wrinkles his nose, disgusted by the smell.

JONATHAN:

What is this stuff? It smells

like our late friend, the warden.

O'Connell and Beni both grin. Jonathan looks horrified.

JONATHAN:

You did not!? .... We're not!?

O'CONNELL

Rat gizzards. They smell bad

and taste worse, but that's the

best the desert has to offer.

The gloating Americans sit down, fondling their jeweled jars.

HENDERSON:

Say O'Connell, whadaya think

these honey's'll fetch back home?

BURNS:

we hear you gentlemen found yerselves

a nice gooey mummy. Congratulations.

DANIELS:

Ya know if ya dry him out, you

can sell him for firewood.

The Americans laugh. Evelyn walks up, sits down and drops a

pile of big dusty BUG SKELETONS onto the ground.

EVELYN:

Scarabs, flesh eaters, I found

them inside our friend's coffin.

They can stay alive for years

living off the flesh of a corpse,

or in this case ........

She shrugs, then looks at the roasting meat

EVELYN:

famished.

O'Connell and Jonathan stare at the bug skeletons, disgusted.

O'CONNELL

Are you saying somebody threw

these things in with our guy,

and they slowly ate him alive?

EVELYN:

Very slowly.

JONATHAN:

He certainly was not a popular

fellow when they planted him.

O'CONNELL

Must of got a little too frisky

with the Pharaoh's daughter.

EVELYN:

According to my readings, our

friend suffered the HOM-DAI, the

worst of all ancient Egyptian

curses, one reserved for only

the most evil blasphemers. In

all of my research, I've never

read of this curse actually

having been performed.

O'CONNELL

That bad huh?

EVELYN:

Yes, they never used it because

they feared it so. it's written,

that if a victim of the HOM-DAI

should ever arise, he would bring

with him the ten plagues of Egypt.

O'CONNELL

The ten plagues? ... You mean all

ten plagues.

BENI:

Like what that Moses guy did

to that Pharaoh guy?

EVELYN:

That's one way of putting it.

JONATHAN:

Let's see, there was frogs, flies,

locusts....

BURNS:

Hail and fire.

HENDERSON:

The sun turning black.

DANIELS:

Water turning to blood.

JONATHAN:

And my personal favorite: people

covered in boils and sores.

All the men share nervous looks, really spooked. Evelyn just

laughs at them, then pulls a meat stick out of the fire.

EVELYN:

Fried gizzard anyone?

EXT. CAMP - LATER THAT NIGHT

Having just freshened up for bed, Evelyn exits the temple and

steps past the sleeping Diggers. She spots the Egyptologist,

his jeweled canopic jar snug under one arm, the Book Of The

Dead laying loose under the other. Evelyn stares at the Book,

nervously biting her lip, then she sneaks over, carefully

steals it, and quickly tip-toes away.

Lying on some blankets by the campfire, O'Connell rolls over

and sees Evelyn, sitting wide-eyed, staring at the Book.

O'CONNELL

You sure you outta be playin,

around with that?

EVELYN:

It's just a book, no harm ever

came from a book.

Evelyn opens the cover. THE FIRE FLICKERS. She and O'Connell

share a nervous look, then Evelyn shrugs and starts reading.

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