The Mummy Page #20

A smile on his face. The plane suddenly starts to move, the

sand sinks under their feet, they quickly high-tail-it away.

O'Connell, Jonathan and Ardeth Bay make it to some rocks and

look back. The biplane, with Winston Havlock inside, slides

away over a dune. O'Connell gives it a salute. The plane

vanishes over the dune and into the SWIRLING SAND ...........

HAMUNAPTRA - DAY

O'Connell, Jonathan and Ardeth Bay come down a ravine in the

volcano and look out over the ruins of Hamunaptra.

O'CONNELL

Okay, now what the hell does

this Horus guy look like?

JONATHAN:

He's a big fellow with pointy

ears and a face like a falcon.

O'CONNELL

Got it

HAMUNAPTRA STAIRWAY - DAY

Carrying TORCHES, O'Connell, Jonathan and Ardeth Bay make

their way down a long, winding, narrow staircase. Heading

into the bowels of the necropolis. A passageway to hell.

NECROPOLIS - DAY

Evelyn follows Imhotep into the underground cemetery.

She stops at the sight of all the big hairy rats scurrying

through the mausoleums and over the gravestones. Beni shoves

his rifle into her back and pushes her forward.

BENI:

Keep moving

Evelyn gives him a look.

EVELYN:

You know, nasty little fellows

such as yourself, always get

their comeuppance.

Beni suddenly looks worried.

BENI:

Yeah?

EVELYN:

Oh yes, always,

Beni looks even more worried, he nervously starts chewing on

his lip. All three of them walk over the bridge crossing the

disgusting DETRITUS MOAT. Evelyn looks down at it, horrified.

INT. PASSAGEWAY - DAY

O'Connell and Ardeth Bay are busy digging out a collapsed

doorway. Jonathan notices an AMETHYST SCARAB on the far wall.

JONATHAN:

I say, look at that.

He walks over and tries to jiggle it free. It comes loose in

his hand. He looks at the scarab in his palm. It starts to

glow. And then something inside it starts to WIGGLE.

JONATHAN:

Say, gents! You should come

have a look at this.

The wiggling continues; a long, agonizing BEAT, and then the

scarab breaks out of it's cocoon and instantly BURROWS into

Jonathan's palm. Jonathan starts to freak out and SCREAM.

O'Connell runs up and rips the arm off Jonathan's shirt. The

scarab is now BURROWING UP JONATHAN'S ARM. O'Connell whips

out his butterfly-knife, snaps it open and grabs Jonathan's

arm. Jonathan's eyes widen in terror as the knife passes in

front of his face. Jonathan SCREAMS LOUDER, obviously being

cut open. O'Connell's hand flicks something away.

The scarab hits the floor and immediately starts scurrying

back towards Jonathan, wanting to finish the job.

O'Connell pulls out his gun and blows it away, --BLAM!

INT. CEMETERY - DAY

The GUNSHOT echoes into the cemetery as Imhotep, Evelyn and

Beni step6up to the strange ALTAR, where four thousand years

ago Imhotep tried to bring Anck-su-namun back to life.

Imhotep scowls at the sound and angrily reaches into a

CANOPIC JAR. He pulls out the crusted remains of Anck-su-

namun's heart, crushes it to dust in his hand and starts

reading from The Book Of The Dead. Then he BLOWS the dust

against a mausoleum wall, --THE WALL STARTS TO COME ALIVE.

Evelyn and Beni stare at the wall, both of them wide-eyed.

TWO FORMS emerge from the mausoleum's wall. Horrific-looking

mummified CORPSES. , Two of Imhotep's long dead Priests. They

bow to Imhotep,-then turn and move off down a passageway.

INT. PASSAGEWAY - DAY

O'Connell helps Ardeth Bay mend Jonathan's wound.

O'CONNELL

From now on, don't touch anything.

Not a damn thing. Keep your hands

off the furniture, got it?

Jonathan swallows hard and nods vigorously.

INT. CEMETERY - DAY

Imhotep prepares the altar while speaking in HEBREW. Beni

holds his gun on her, translating:

BENI:

Prince Imhotep wants your heart.

Evelyn blushes, feeling complimented by the handsome prince.

EVELYN:

Tell him, I'm truly flattered.

... but that it's already taken.

Imhotep continues SPEAKING while laying the four jewel

encrusted canopic jars next to the shattered one.

BENI:

He wants your heart and your

brain, your liver, your kidneys...

Evelyn's eyes widen

BENI:

... and how do you say? Those

slimy things, in your stomach?

EVELYN:

Intestines

BENI:

Yeah! Them.

Evelyn can't believe it, she furiously turns to Imhotep.

EVELYN:

You only want me for my organs?!

Imhotep looks at her and grins, then BACKHANDS her --WAP!

Evelyn goes down for the count. Imhotep stares at her, cold,

malevolent, then h e turns and walks off into the mausoleums.

Beni nervously glances around, then quickly scurries away.

TREASURE CHAMBER - DAY

O'Connell squeezes through a small crevice in a wall and

drops to the floor of a dark chamber. He picks up his gunny-

sack and scans the darkness. Something GLITTERS. Jonathan and

Ardeth Bay crawl in behind him.

O'Connell notices a SHAFT OF LIGHT, high above him, shooting

through a small hole in the ceiling and stopping against a

wall next to one of those mirror disks. O'Connell aims his

gun. FIRES. The bullet STRIKES the disk's pedestal, spinning

the mirror into the shaft of light, --And WHAM! THE SHAFT OF

LIGHT HITS THE DISK AND QUICKLY BOUNCES AROUND THE ROOM FROM

ONE DISK TO ANOTHER UNTIL THE WHOLE CHAMBER IS LIT UP.

It's an enormous TREASURE CHAMBER. Filled to overflowing.

Everything sparkles and shines. The wealth of Egypt.

O'Connell, Jonathan and Ardeth Bay are speechless.

that's when the two mummified Priest-mummies walk in.

O'CONNELL

who the hell are these guys?

ARDETH BAY:

Priests. Imhotep's priests.

O'Connell pulls the elephant gun out of his gunny-sack.

O'CONNELL

I never killed a priest before,

ARDETH BAY:

They are evil, cursed, they

matter not.

O'CONNELL

Well, okay then.

O'Connell FIRES the elephant gun. SMOKE and FLAME shoot out.

BLASTS one of the mummies. Blows it's upper torso clean off.

O'Connell pumps the gun, the huge spent cartridge flips

through the air. He FIRES again. BLASTS the other mummy,

b1ows this one's torso clean off as well. The smoke clears.

The two sets of LEGS keep walking forward, unaffected by the

loss of their upper torsos. O'Connell can't believe it.

O'CONNELL

Oh come on, gimme a break here.

And then the disemboweled upper torsos start to move, turning

over and crawling towards our heroes, who start to back away.

INT. CEMETERY -DAY

Imhotep turns from the altar as he hears more GUNSHOTS

echoing out of the passageways. He angrily reaches into

another of Anck-su-namun's canopic jars, pulls out her crusty

liver and crushes it to dust, then quickly starts reading a

passage from the Book and BLOWS the dust down a passageway.

IMHOTEP (ancient Egyptian - subtitled)

Kill them! Kill them all! And

bring me the Book Of The Living!

INT. TREASURE CHAMBER - DAY

A dusty BREEZE blows into the chamber as O'Connell, Jonathan

and Ardeth Bay back away from the mummy pieces. The floor

where they were just standing suddenly STARTS TO MOVE. Two

more mummies slowly dig their way up out of the floor. More

mummies start coming out of the walls and crawling out of the

piles of gold. All the mummies head for our heroes. O'Connell

lifts the elephant gun. Ardeth Bay stops him.

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