The Mummy Page #23

Imhotep let's go of O'Connell, who falls to the ground.

Evelyn and Jonathan fearfully stumble away from the spirits,

Jonathan trips and falls and accidentally throws The Book of

The Living into the detritus bog. Evelyn watches as the

golden book sinks into the black putrescence. Jonathan looks

like he's about to cry.

Ten feet off the ground, the spirits SWIRL around Imhotep's

body, TWISTING IT and TURNING IT and slowly SHRIVELING IT.

Accompanied by the same strange FLASHING LIGHT we saw at the

beginning of the movie when Anck-su-namun was cursed. one

last HUGE FLASH, accompanied by a BLAST OF WIND, and Imhotep

is spit out and thrown to the floor. He staggers to his feet,

he looks perfectly normal. His body is completely intact.

O'Connell swings his sword. Imhotep jerks back. The sword

scrapes Imhotep's chest, --a swath of blood appears across

Imhotep's chest where the sword hit him. Imhotep touches the

blood on his chest, amazed and horrified. He's mortal.

O'Connell runs Imhotep through with the sword and shoves him

backwards. Imhotep stumbles back and falls into the detritus

bog. The sword still in his stomach.

Evelyn and Jonathan run up next to O'Connell. They watch as

Imhotep gently sinks into the fetid swamp, slowly dying. And

then, just before his head goes under, Imhotep looks up at

them, grins broadly, and says something in ANCIENT EGYPTIAN.

Evelyn translates:

EVELYN:

Death is only the beginning.

Imhotep's grinning face vanishes under the black bile

STAFF CHAMBER - DAY

Beni staggers across a chamber, straining under the weight

of another saddlebag filled with treasure. He spots a large,

ornate STAFF sticking out of a wall. He throws the saddlebag

over the staff and collapses against the wall. Exhausted.

A BEAT. And then the weight of the treasure PULLS THE STAFF

DOWN. Which starts a massive AURAL CHAIN-REACTION.

Beni-backs away from the wall, wide-eyed, filled with fear.

ALL THE WALLS START TO SINK INTO THE GROUND. Driven by tons

of pouring sand. Beni turns and hauls-ass out of the chamber.

CEMETERY - DAY

O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan look around as all the walls

start to DESCEND. O'Connell grabs Evelyn's hand.

O'CONNELL

C'mon!

He pulls her forward and all three of them race past sinking

pillars. They duck as they run into a descending doorway.

INT. PASSAGEWAY - DAY

Beni scampers down a passageway, the ceiling getting lower

and lower until he has to crouch. And then he has to stick

the TORCH between his teeth and crawl on his hands and knees

INT. TREASURE CHAMBER - DAY

O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan crouch-run into the treasure

chamber. Evelyn skids to a stop. Looks in wonder at all the

treasure. SAND rains down on them. O'Connell grabs her again

and quickly pulls her through the mounds of treasure towards

a SINKING DOORWAY on the far side of the room. The SOUND of

the sinking walls is deafening.

Beni crouch-runs into the treasure chamber. O'Connell, Evelyn

and Jonathan race past him. He joins them as they run up a

staircase. heading for a DESCENDING DOORWAY, which is already

half gone, it's now only four feet high -- now three feet

high -- now two feet. Jonathan dives through the narrow gap.

Then O'Connell dives through, he spins around. Evelyn dives,

but gets stuck in the middle, about to get cut in half.

O'Connell grabs her arm and YANKS her through in the nick of

time. Beni reaches through the narrowing gap with his hand--

BENI:

O'CONNELL!!

O'Connell grabs it, but it's too late. Beni yanks his hand

back just as the top of the door CRASHES to the floor.

Sealing him in. Beni quickly crawls back down the stairs as

the ceiling SLAMS down behind him. He stands up and looks

around with his diminishing torch.

All the doorways FINISH CLOSING. There's no way out. He's

trapped. And then he hears something, and turns around. Over

in the corner, a scarab-beetle stares at him, CHITTERING.

Beni waves his flickering torch at the scarab and backs away.

BENI:

Go away

He stands in the middle of the treasure chamber as dozens

upon dozens of scarabs boil up out of the floor around him.

Beni is absolutely terrified. The scarabs start to move in.

And that's when Beni's torch goes out. PITCH BLACK. A BEAT.

And then we hear Beni start SCREAMING in horror and pain.

And the scarabs CHITTERING hungrily.

EXT. HAMUNAPTRA - DAY

The temple COLLAPSES as O'Connell, Evelyn, Jonathan and a

pack of stray camels race through the ruins. A SINKING

CREVICE DROPS OUT right behind them. Chasing them out through

the front gates. The whole place RUMBLES ominously.

They make it down the ramp as more ruins CRASH DOWN behind

them. A MASSIVE CLOUD OF SAND AND DUST billows out over the

wall and into the air. our heroes and all the stray camels

race out into the desert ..........

SLOW DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. PLATEALT - DAY

O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan stand in the middle of the

plateau, surrounded by stray camels. They stare off at the

sandy, dusty, volcano as it continues to RUMBLE-ominously.

JONATHAN:

Well, ...I guess we go home

empty handed.

O'Connell looks at Evelyn

O'CONNELL

Wouldn't say that.

Evelyn returns the look, A BEAT, and then she wraps-her

arms around his neck and kisses him. O'Connell ret urn s it.

Jonathan just rolls his eyes, snorts in disgust and climbs

up onto a camel.

When the kiss is-over, O'Connell and Evelyn share a smile,

then O'Connell leaps up into the saddle, reaches down, grabs

Evelyn's hand and pulls her up behind him. Evelyn wraps her

arms around his waist. O'Connell and Jonathan slap the reins.

O'CONNELL/JONATHAN

TUK-TUK-TUK!!

The camels start to move out. WE PAN DOWN: to the saddlebag

behind Evelyn, hidden under the closed back flap, --we can

see that it's filled with Beni's stolen TREASURE.

O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan ride off into the SUNSET.

THE END:

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