The Mummy PART 11 INT. CATACOMBS - NIGHT O'Connell, Jonathan and Ardeth Bay slosh their way down the watery catacomb, crazies pouring in behind them. Up ahead, a LIGHT suddenly shines in from another cistern hole, and then more of the infected crowd drop down, SCREECHING like rats. O'Connell jags right, pushing Jonathan and Ardeth Bay ahead of him, he strikes a match off the wall, lights the nubby fuse on a stick of dynamite, throws it, and runs like hell. FIRE BLAST incinerates a bunch of crazies. STREET - ALLEY - NIGHT The EXPLOSION blows a cistern cover fifty feet into the air, followed by a mass of FLAMMAGE .............. EXT. ALLEY - NIGHT A sewer grate is kicked out of a wall. O'Connell, Jonathan and Ardeth Bay climb out of the hole and into AN ALLEY. O'CONNELL We gotta get her back. JONATHAN I'm with you, old man. No one touches my sister like that and gets away with it. O'Connell looks at Ardeth Bay, O'CONNELL You know where he's taking her? ARDETH BAY Yes. To Hamunaptra. To perform the ritual. Jonathan looks worried. JONATHAN And what ritual would that be? ARDETH BAY The ritual to bring the body of Anck-su-namun back to life. JONATHAN And how does one do that? ARDETH BAY By reading the Book Of The Dead. JONATHAN Oh yes, of course. ARDETH BAY And then killing your sister. JONATHAN Excuse me? Ardeth Bay looks at O'Connell, ARDETH BAY Imhotep is now able to cross the desert with great haste. Jonathan taps him in the shoulder, JONATHAN Begging your pardon, but I wasn't quite clear on that last part. Ardeth Bay ignores him, ARDETH BAY If he arrives before us, it will be too late. JONATHAN Did you say 'kill' my sister? O'Connell smiles O'CONNELL I know how to beat him to it. And on that WE SMASH CUT TO-- THE ERFOUD DUNES - DAWN Jonathan's bashed-in convertible steams it's way up to a set of semi-abandoned Quonset huts. A single WWI BIPLANE with R.A.F. INSIGNIAS sits in the sand beside them. A SIGN READS: HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL AIR CORP EXT. QUONSET HUT - DUNES - MINUTES LATER O'Connell, Jonathan and Ardeth Bay stand before Winston Havlock, the massive dunes of Erfoud as our background. WINSTON So what's your little problem got to do with His Majesty's Royal Air Corp? O'CONNELL Not a god-damned thing. Winston looks intrigued. WINSTON is it dangerous? O'CONNELL You probably won't live through it, This really interests him. WINSTON By Jove, do you really think so? JONATHAN Everybody else we've bumped into has died, why not you? Winston nods his head, he's hooked. WINSTON So what's the challenge then? O'CONNELL To save the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy and steal his treasure. A slow grin spreads across Winston's face, then he gives them a snappy salute. WINSTON Winston Havlock at your service, sir! SAHARA - DAY Way off across the desert, a large SAND-DEVIL races over the dunes. The SANDY WHIRLWIND comes to a stop and starts to dissipate. Evelyn and Beni are suddenly ejected out of it, they land in a dune. The SWIRLING SAND CONDENSES AND FORMS INTO IMHOTEP. He looks up into the sky, listening carefully. Evelyn shakes the sand out of her hair and looks at Beni. EVELYN what just happened? BENI All I remember is him turning into a blast of sand, ....and then I remember nothing. then they hear a plane in the sky and look up. INT. BIPLANE - DAY The WIND whips at Winston in the cockpit. O'Connell sits in the gunner's compartment. Jonathan is strapped spread-eagle across the left wing, Ardeth Bay is tied tight to the right. Both men are scared out of their wits and SCREAMING in fear. EXT. SAHARA - DAY Imhotep's jaw UNHINGES, his mouth opens to an inhuman size, he lets fly with another one of his horrible SHRIEKS. --And a massive WALL OF SAND rises up out of the desert BIPLANE - DAY O'Connell watches the desert below him come alive and rise up towards the plane. Winston looks over the side and sees what's coming. He laughs, throws the throttle, and puts the plane into a dive. WINSTON Hang on, men! WE GO WIDE AS: The sandstorm chases the diving, twisting biplane. Getting closer and closer, about to engulf it. O'Connell looks back into the blinding sand and sees a GIANT FACE forming inside the sandstorm. It's Imhotep. Grinning. O'Connell grabs the Lewis machine-gun, cocks the bracket and FIRES, blasting away at Imhotep's giant face inside the sandstorm. Imhotep's face begins to laugh, then his jaw unhinges, his mouth opens wide, and he ENGULFS the plane. Winston blindly fights for control, elated. WINSTON We're going down! The biplane SPINS inside the BLOWING SAND. Engines ROARING. Wind HOWLING. Jonathan and Ardeth Bay SCREAMING. Winston Havlock LAUGHING. WINSTON Here I come, laddies! O'Connell braces himself for impact, SAHARA - DAY Evelyn leaps to her feet and runs over to Imhotep. EVELYN Stop it! You'll kill them! Imhotep grabs her, pulls her close, her beautiful eyes stare into his shockingly intense ones. Then he kisses her, hard. Evelyn's eyes widen, stunned and mesmerized, then she pushes herself away and falls back into the sand. Imhotep laughs. EXT. BIPLANE - DUNES - DAY The biplane SMASHES over a dune, ROLLS OVER and CRASHES upside-down into another dune. The SAND SWIRLS as O'Connell falls out of the gunner's compartment. The left wing is jammed into the dune, Jonathan hangs upside down. JONATHAN Excuse me. ...A little help would be useful. ...IF IT'S NOT TOO MUCH TROUBLE!! O'Connell goes to help Jonathan. Ardeth Bay stumbles over to the gunner's compartment and tears the Lewis gun off it's mount. He throws the machine-gun over one shoulder, a cartridge belt over the other and staggers away. O'Connell and Jonathan look into the cockpit. Winston Havlock is dead. 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. LastIndexNext