The Mummy Page #18

ARDETH BAY:

it has begun. The beginning of

the end.

EVELYN:

Not quite yet it hasn't. C'mon,

Evelyn dashes back to the display cases. Everyone follows.

EXT. MUSEUM - NIGHT

The crazed mob CRASHES into the huge front doors, which are

locked. They pound furiously, throwing themselves at it while

CHANTING CONSTANTLY. Imhotep solemnly comes up the driveway.

INT. MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES - UPPER BALCONY - NIGHT

The BANGING on the doors can be heard as Evelyn and the

Curator quickly sort through broken pieces of stone tablets.

The others watch. Evelyn pulls out a large piece.

EVELYN:

Got it!

O'CONNELL

Got what?

The BANGING gets LOUDER. Multiple windows SHATTER. Evelyn

talks while quickly translating the tablet:

EVELYN:

Since the black Book of The Dead

was found inside the statue of

Anubis, then according to this,

the golden Book of The Living

should be inside ........

Evelyn finds the translation in the tablet and smiles.

O'CONNELL

what?

JONATHAN:

What?

DANIELS:

WHAT!?

EVELYN:

The golden Book Of The Living,

is inside the statue of Koz-us.

CURATOR:

Which would be located not far to

the east of the Anubis statue.

O'CONNELL

Don't tell me we gotta go back

out there?

CURATOR:

If we want to kill the creature, yes.

TWO HIDEOUS BOIL & SORE-COVERED MEN charge out of a doorway,

SCREAMING. O'Connell and Ardeth Bay grab them and chuck them

over the railing. The men fly through the air and CRASH into

the lower display cases. The front doors suddenly BURST OPEN,

The crazed mob pours into the museum. our heroes haul-ass

across the balcony and down the staircase.

EXT. MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITY - NIGHT

Jonathan sneaks out of some bushes and quickly heads for his

convertible. Suddenly, a splinter group of the diseased mob

comes around the side of the museum. Jonathan instantly bugs

his eyes out, starts drooling, and begins CHANTING---

JONATHAN:

Anck-su-namun! Anck-su-namun!

The crazed group runs past him and heads into the front doors

of the museum. Jonathan leaps into the convertible, fires it

up and 180's it back over to the bushes.

O'Connell, Evelyn, Daniels, Ardeth Bay and the Curator jump

inside the car. Beni steps out of the museum and sees them.

BENI:

Imhotep! IMHOTEP!

Imhotep looks out of the museum from the shattered upper

windows just as the convertible PEELS OUT. O'Connell points a

finger at Beni as they race past him.

O'CONNELL

You're gonna get yours, pal!

Imhotep UNHINGES his jaw, his mouth stretches to an inhuman

size, he lets out one of his horrific, primordial SHRIEKS.

His disease-ridden disciples immediately begin pouring out

of the front doors of the museum and chasing after the car.

EXT. BAZAAR - NIGHT

The convertible hauls-ass down the narrow bazaar street.

Crazies start jumping out of stalls and LEAPING onto the

car. O'Connell and the others fight them off, throwing them

overboard. More people JUMP on. Jonathan SWERVES the car,

CRASHES through some stalls, knocking them off, but not

before they manage to open the back door and YANK Daniels

out. He TUMBLES across the pavement. Gets up SHOOTING. Backs

into a corner, FIRING his pistol into the hideous rabble,

killing several, keeping them at bay. His gun goes empty,

CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! But the mob stays back, looking at him

like rabid vultures. Daniels eyes them, filled with fear.

The mob parts like the red sea as Imhotep walks through them

and up to Daniels. Daniels whimpers in fear, tears pour down

his cheeks. Then he gets an idea, reaches into his pocket,

and pulls out his jewel encrusted SACRED CANOPIC JAR. He

holds it out for Imhotep. Imhotep takes it and grins. Through

his tears, Daniels grins back, hopeful that he'll be spared.

WE CUT WIDE:
Somewhere in the middle of the crazed, diseased

mob, we hear Daniels give out A BLOOD CURDLING SCREAM ........

INT./EXT. CONVERTIBLE - STREETS - NIGHT

The convertible slowly motors down the narrow alleys. WE

DOLLY across the hood of the car from Jonathan to Evelyn to

O'Connell. Ardeth Bay and the Curator are still in the back.

All of them staring out the front windshield. Freaked-out.

Then suddenly one of the hideous ghouls CRASHES through the

windshield! Everybody SCREAMS. Jonathan hits the gas, loses

control, the car SLAMS into a wall. O'Connell grabs Evelyn.

O'CONNELL

C'mon! C'mon! Let's go! Let's go!

They all leap out of the car. But the angry, festering mob

quickly surrounds them. O'Connell quickly reaches into his

gunny-sack, pulls out a stick of dynamite, then reaches into

his pocket and pulls out a match. He looks around for a way

to light it, then reaches over and strikes it across Ardeth

Bay's stubbly face. Ardeth Bay YELPS. O'Connell holds the lit

match near the fuse.

The crazed, CHANTING mob gives O'Connell a wide berth,

staring at him and the others with insane, bloodshot eyes.

And then Imhotep steps through, --having fully regenerated,

he now looks as young and handsome and muscular as he did the

day he was buried alive. Evelyn stares at him.

EVELYN:

He's gorgeous.

O'Connell gives her a look, the match burns his fingers. He

YELPS and throws it down, grabs another match and strikes it

across Ardeth Bay's face again. Ardeth Bay YELPS and gives

O'Connell a look to kill. The Curator shakes his head.

THE CURATOR:

He has consummated the curse,

now all he need do is raise

Anck-su-namun from the dead,

then it will be the end of us,

and the beginning for them.

Imhotep moves forward, heading right for them. O'Connell

LIGHTS THE FUSE. Imhotep steps up to O'Connell and stops,

watching the fuse burn down. it's a game of chicken. The

tension mounts. The LIT FUSE is about to vanish inside the

stick of dynamite, blowing it up, --when Evelyn leans forward

and blows it out. O'Connell exhales, but keeps his eyes on

Imhotep, who extends his hand to Evelyn.

IMHOTEP:

Koontash dai na.

Beni steps through the swarming mass, translating.

BENI:

Take his hand and he will

spare the others.

Evelyn hesitates, looks around at the huge, bloodthirsty

crowd surrounding them, holding axes, picks and scimitars,

waiting to pounce, then she looks at Imhotep, confident,

powerful, invincible. Then she looks at O'Connell.

EVELYN:

Any bright ideas?

O'Connell talks through angry, grit teeth.

O'CONNELL

Sorry, fresh out.

Evelyn looks back at Imhotep, then starts to reach out to

take his hand. Both O'Connell and Jonathan move to stop her,

--but Ardeth Bay grabs them both and holds them tight.

O'CONNELL

Don't do it, Evelyn.

EVELYN:

I have no choice.

Evelyn's trembling hand touches Imhotep's: His hand closes

around hers. Nothing happens. Imhotep smiles.

IMHOTEP:

Keetah mi pharos, aja nilo, isirlan.

BENI:

Come with me my princess. It is

time to make you mine, forever.

Evelyn gives Beni a nasty look, correcting him--

EVELYN:

All eternity, idiot,

Then she looks at O'Connell and puts on her best face.

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