The Relic Page #34

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Now Margo runs forward.

MARGO:

No. Wait! Let me talk to him first!

IPPOLITO:

(screaming)

Kill that thing! Kill it now!

MARGO:

No!

MBWUN... turns and sees Margo. She speaks desperately.

MARGO:

John... you can give up now! Just lie

down where you are!

Mbwun seems to consider for a moment, but then its eyes gleam and it

ROARS. With renewed vigor it leaps to the wall and starts to WALK UP

IT like a GECKO, ON ALL FOURS! ON THE ROOF...

Some of the S.W.A.T. team fall back in terror! Now that the monster is

on the wall it's out of range of their fire!

WATERS:

Holy sh*t it's coming this way!

IPPOLITO:

It's headed for the roof. Run!

Ippolito turns and takes off once more in sheer terror. Astonished,

Waters tries to regain control.

WATERS:

Get back here, you a**hole! We can't

let it get out!

(to the S.W.A.T. team)

Surround the opening and kill it!

But the men are terrified, retreating like Ippolito. Waters shouts.

WATERS:

Back, everybody! That's an order!

But the team is in chaos and losing precious time.

INT. HALL OF THE DINOSAURS - NIGHT

The MONSTER is now half way up the wall. Margo is distraught, crying.

Her cool demeanor is cracked. Pendergast is with her. She shakes her

head.

MARGO:

Just like John. He won't listen.

PENDERGAST:

I have to shoot.

MARGO:

Do it, quickly. Please. Aim for the

eye.

Pendergast raises a HIGH POWERED RIFLE with a laser sight. He aims the

red laser beam directly at Mbwun's left eye.

PENDERGAST:

He has to look here or I won't get a

clear shot. Call him, Margo.

MARGO:

I can't!

PENDERGAST:

You have to. Do it now!

Margo takes a moment, her eyes streaming. She has no choice, she calls

out.

MARGO:

John! John, look at me!

The beast looks down, sees Pendergast's rifle. There's a long, awful,

moment. Suddenly it emits a sound like a wail.

ON JONATHAN... staring, stunned.

PENDERGAST... steady...

MARGO... She's crying as she raises her arm as if to say good-bye.

And the gun EXPLODES.

ON MBWUN... its head shoots back in pain, and it falls... sixty feet

straight down to the ground. Silence. Thunder rolls.

It's over. Pendergast turns to Margo and quietly folds her in his

arms.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. MUSEUM - NIGHT

There are cops and journalists, ambulances, and medivacs all over the

place. Greg Kawakita, wet and bedraggled as a rat, runs up from

Columbus Ave. Behind him the Mayor and D'Agosta help the rest of the

company to the ambulances.

Waters is on the steps of the museum, helping to organize the rescue

efforts as Kawakita runs up to Pendergast.

KAWAKITA:

Margo Green. Have you seen her?

PENDERGAST:

She's over here.

Greg turns to see Margo come out of the Rotunda with Frock, Jonathan

and Hobbes. Her face is devastated. He moves to her side. She reacts

as she sees him, and teacher and pupil hug.

D'AGOSTA is lost in the swirl of people. And he likes it like that. He

rests against a large stone lion, pulls out a cheap cigar in

cellophane, unwraps it carefully and tries to light it with a wet

match.

He's struggling hopelessly. Finally he tosses the useless pack of

matches, sighs. But then a flame lowers right before his face. He

looks up to see Pendergast holding a silver engraved lighter. D'Agosta

smiles, takes a nice long hit.

PENDERGAST:

Nice to see you, Lieutenant.

D'AGOSTA

The sub-basement, huh? Great idea.

We go to a wide shot of the museum as we slowly pull back...

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM - DAY - SUPER TITLE: SEVERAL MONTHS LATER

Christmas decorations are up. A light snow is falling. There is a very

long line.

INT. NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM - GIFT SHOP - DAY

All the registers are doing a booming business. People are buying

Mbwun posters, t-shirts and hats.

INT. SUPERSTITION EXHIBIT - DAY

School tours, old ladies, parents and children, foreign tourists with

cameras snake through the displays. In the room with the Relic,

there's a tremendous crowd.

INT. MARGO'S LABORATORY - DAY

Margo closes her computer, looks out a window at the falling snow. She

turns and walks into the back office. Kawakita is working there alone.

His fly-fishing rod stands in the corner, untouched. Margo goes to it,

smiles softly.

MARGO:

No time for fishing anymore?

Greg looks up from his work and smiles.

KAWAKITA:

Got to finish this thesis sometime.

MARGO:

How about lunch?

KAWAKITA:

Not today. Besides, I think the

director of the museum is expecting

you.

MARGO:

Okay.

Margo exits. Greg returns to his work.

INT. HALLWAYS - MUSEUM - DAY

Margo heads down the hall to the Director's office. She walks through

the new double oak doors to find DR. FROCK seated at Cuthbert's old

desk.

MARGO:

Dr. Frock?

FROCK:

Look who's here, Margo.

PENDERGAST and D'AGOSTA rise out of two high-backed chairs. Margo

smiles for the first time, takes Pendergast's hands.

MARGO:

I'm so glad to see you. What's the

occasion?

PENDERGAST:

I'm in town on a case. Dropped by to

see Vince and we thought we'd see

the new display.

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