The Mummy PART 5 INT. SCARAB CHAMBER - DAY The Warden crawls into a DARK CHAMBER and LIGHTS A TORCH. A mural wall comes alive. Embedded into it are dozens of black amethyst SCARABS; glittering images of the sacred beetles. Awestruck, the Warden pulls out a pocket knife and starts prying away at one of the precious bugs. INT. ANUBIS' CHAMBER - DAY Beni and the Americans hover around the Egyptologist, who's found the SECRET COMPARTMENT inside Anubis. The Egyptologist brushes sand away from the seam . Henderson steps forward and grabs the seam, --the Egyptologist quickly stops him. EGYPTOLOGIST Seti was no fool. Henderson sees the intense look in the Egyptologist's eyes HENDERSON Yeah, sure.... He looks back at the native Diggers. HENDERSON We'll let him open it. The Egyptologist nods, then YELLS IN EGYPTIAN at the Diggers. The Diggers hesitate, filled with fear. Daniels pulls out his gun, aims it at three of the Diggers. The three Diggers hesitantly step forward with crowbars and stick them into the seams. The other Diggers back away, scared shitless. Beni and the Americans exchange looks, and then they back away as well. INT. IMHOTEPIS CHAMBER - DAY Three Heroes are still digging into the ceiling O'CONNELL Lemme get this straight, they stuck a sharp, red hot poker up your nose, cut your brain into small pieces, then ripped it all out through your nostrils? JONATHAN OWCH! That's really got to hurt. EVELYN It's called mummification. You're dead when they do this JONATHAN still.... O'CONNELL Yeah, that'd bring you back to life. EVELYN You two are worse than a couple of schoolboys. And that's when a huge chunk of the roof suddenly GIVES OUT. O'Connell GRABS Evelyn and JERKS her clear. Jonathan DIVES for the far wall. A MASSIVE STONE CASEMENT DROPS OUT OF THE CEILING AND CRASHES to the floor. DUST FLIES. Fills the room. INT. ANLIBIS CHAMBER - Having heard the crash, Beni and the Americans have their guns pointed at the floor. The Egyptologist could care less, he looks at the Diggers, gripping their crowbars, and YELLS-- EGYPTOLOGIST FENI! The three Diggers PULL HARD. The ancient seams start to give, The Egyptologist YELLS again. The Diggers PULL HARDER. The compartment starts to loosen. Again he YELLS. The Diggers give one final pull and-- --AN INTENSE BURST OF LIQUID SPRAYS OUT OF THE SEAM. HITS THE THREE DIGGERS. MELTS THEIR SKIN CLEAN OFF. They SCREAM. Dying horribly. HALF SKELETAL by the time they hit the ground ...... INT. IMHOTEPIS CHAMBER - DAY The dust is starting to clear. O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan slowly get up and step over to the massive stone casement. We immediately recognize it as IMHOTEPIS SARCOPHAGUS. EVELYN Oh my god, ...it looks like, it looks like a sarcophagus. O'CONNELL Why would they bury somebody in the ceiling? EVELYN They didn't, they buried him at the foot of Anubis. He was either someone of great importance. or he did something very naughty. INT. SCARAB CHAMBER - DAY The warden drops an amethyst-scarab into his pouch, then greedily-starts prying away at another. It rips off, he drops it into his pouch, --only he misses, and this scarab quietly falls to the sandy floor without the Warden noticing. CLOSE ON: the scarab on the floor. It begins to TRANSFORM. The amethyst starts to glow. Something inside starts to WIGGLE; as if the amethyst were some sort of strange cocoon. Then it splits open and a real live hideous SCARAB--BEETLE scurries out. It races over to the warden's shoe, quickly burrows into the leather and vanishes inside. The Warden's eyes FLY OPEN. He starts to SCREAM, drops his knife and frantically starts clawing away at his pant leg, higher and higher until he rips open his shirt revealing a large, hideous LUMP, BURROWING UNDER HIS SKIN. IT BURROWS IT'S WAY UP HIS FAT BELLY AND ACROSS HIS HAIRY CHEST. The Warden claws and scratches at it, trying to stop it. The lump BURROWS UP HIS NECK. The Warden starts GAGGING and COUGHING. And then the scarab-lump VANISHES INTO HIS HEAD. INT. IMHOTEPIS CHAMBER - DAY Our Heroes clear the dirt off the top of the sarcophagus, revealing a single, ominous hieroglyph. Evelyn stares at it Jonathan impatiently strums his fingers across the lid. JONATHAN Well? .... Who is it? Evelyn stares at the hieroglyph, confused and concerned. EVELYN 'He that shall not be named. O'Connell dusts off the huge LOCK O'CONNELL There's some sort of lock here. You say these thing's are made of granite with a steel interior? EVELYN Quarried granite with a cobalt lining. JONATHAN Whoever's in here, sure wasn't getting out. O'CONNELL No kiddin', without a key, it'll take us a month to crack this thing, EVELYN A key! That's it! That's what he was talking about. O'CONNELL Who was talking about what? Evelyn starts rummaging through the pack on Jonathan's back. EVELYN The man on the barge. The one with the hook, he was looking for a key. Evelyn pulls out the key/box. Jonathan tries to take it back, JONATHAN Hey that's mine! Evelyn slaps his hand and quickly unfolds the box, --it's now shaped exactly like the LOCK'S KEYHOLE. Evelyn smiles. And that's when they hear the Warden's SCREAMS echoing through the labyrinth. All three of them turn and take-off running. INT. LABYRINTH - DAY The Warden is SCREAMING and dancing insanely around the labyrinth, totally freaked from the extreme pain in his head. O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan run up just as the Warden starts RIPPING his own hair out of his head. O'Connell and Jonathan grab at the Warden's hands, but he's far too crazed, he shoves them aside, runs full bore down the length of the labyrinth and SLAMS his head straight into a rock wall. The Warden drops to the ground. Dead as lead. Eyes wide open. O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan just stand there staring, breathing hard, wide-eyed themselves .............. EXT. BASE CAMP - NIGHT Evelyn and Jonathan are nuzzled up to a campfire. EVELYN What do you suppose killed him? JONATHAN Did you ever see him eat? O'Connell comes up over some rocks. O'CONNELL Seems the Americans had a little misadventure of their own today, three of their diggers were killed. EVELYN How? O'CONNELL Salt acid. Pressurized salt acid. Some sort of ancient booby-trap. JONATHAN Maybe this place really is cursed A GUST OF WIND blows through the camp. The campfire FLICKERS O'Connell and Jonathan share a nervous look. Evelyn laughs. EVELYN two! O'CONNELL don't believe in curses, huh? EVELYN No. I believe if I can see it and I can touch it, then it's real. That's what I believe. O'Connell cocks his rifle, KA-CHANK! Gives her a big grin. O'CONNELL I believe in being prepared. Jonathan opens the Warden's POUCH, the one that held the scarabs. He reaches in, starts scrounging around. WE SLOWLY PUSH IN. Waiting for the attack. THE MUSIC BUILDS. And then, --Jonathan SCREAMS in pain and RIPS his hand back out of the pouch. O'Connell and Evelyn both jump. O'CONNELL/EVELYN WHAT?! WHAT IS IT?! Jonathan sucks his finger, then reaches back into the pouch and pulls out a LIQUOR BOTTLE, the top has been chipped off. JONATHAN Seagrams! Jonathan smiles at the bottle, then turns the pouch inside- out and shakes it, nothing but SAND is inside it. JONATHAN Well, he may have been a stinky fellow,....but he had good taste Jonathan takes a swig. O'Connell and Evelyn laugh, guiltily And then O'Connell suddenly kneels down and sticks his ear to the sand. Evelyn and Jonathan watch him. A BEAT. And then a BARAGE OF GUNFIRE IS HEARD coming from the American camp. O'Connell jumps up and throws the elephant gun to Evelyn. O'CONNELL Stay here! He takes off running through the ruins. Evelyn immediately gets up and runs after him. Jonathan grabs a gun, holds the bottle of Seagrams; tight and dashes after her. JONATHAN Evy! Excuse me! But didn't the man just say--! EXT. AMERICAN CAMP - NIGHT The American camp is under siege. Two dozen MUMIA RIDERS gallop through. FIRING RIFLES. Several Diggers are killed as they run. The Americans leap out of their tents FIRING. Kill multiple Riders. Daniels is shot, spins and falls, keeps SHOOTING. Henderson and Burns run to his aid, BLASTING AWAY. O'Connell races through the ruins and SLAMS right into Beni, who is obviously trying to high-tail-it out of there. O'CONNELL Goin' somewhere? BENI Just looking for you, O'Connell! I wanted to be with my friend! O'Connell drags him back towards the American camp. O'CONNELL C'mon, friend. BENI (struggling) Why do you like to fight so much? O'CONNELL 'Cause I look good doin, it. Ardeth Bay gallops through the camp, cutting Diggers down with his scimitar. O'Connell runs up on top of some rocks, LEAPS OUT and TACKLES him off his horse. The two men SLAM to the ground. O'Connell spins up onto one knee and FIRES, point blank. Blows the scimitar out of Ardeth Bay's hand. O'Connell is about to shoot again when a horse rides up between them. A scimitar swoops down, almost takes O'Connell's head off, misses him by an inch. O'Connell leaps up and blows the Rider off his mount. The horse BOLTS. --But Ardeth Bay is gone. Evelyn hides behind some rocks, watching the scene, suddenly, she hears something coming up behind her and spins around. A vicious tattooed Mumia Rider races at her. Evelyn quickly backpedals over the rocks, terrified. The Mumia Rider raises his scimitar, about to strike. Evelyn SCREAMS, trips over a rock and FIRES the elephant gun, --BLAM! Blows the Rider off his mount and CATAPULTS him twenty feet back into some ruins. At the same time, the kick blows Evelyn off her feet and over a ridge. She FLAILS through the air and lands in a sand dune. Jonathan and some - Diggers are holding their own near the temple door. Four Riders come CHARGING right at them. Jonathan takes a swig off the Seagrams. JONATHAN Let 'em have it, boys! Jonathan and the Diggers OPEN FIRE. When the smoke clears, the Riders are either dead or gone. Jonathan grins. JONATHAN I say, bloody good show. And then several more Mumia leap off the temple and land behind them. Jonathan and the remaining Diggers spin around and suddenly find themselves in hand-to-hand combat. O'Connell is quickly loading his pistol. He hears something THUNDERING UP behind him. He spins around just as Ardeth Bay on a horse swings his scimitar. O'Connell instinctively raises his hands to protect his face, the scimitar STRIKES! Hits his gun, --CHING! O'Connell's gun flips away. Disarmed, O'Connell dives and rolls and suddenly comes up with a stick of dynamite in his hand. He shoves the fuse into a fire. It IGNITES. He faces Ardeth Bay, towering above him. The two men lock eyes. The fuse continues to burn down. Ardeth Bay points his scimitar at O'Connell's head. ARDETH BAY LEAVE THIS PLACE! .... LEAVE THIS PLACE OR DIE! Ardeth Bay GALLOPS OFF. The remaining Mumia Riders race after him, vanishing into the night. O'Connell watches them leave, then turns to the burning fuse, ....and blows it out. Evelyn staggers up, looking very shaken. O'Connell gently takes her and holds her close. O'CONNELL You alright? Evelyn looks up into his strong eyes. It's the first time he's shown genuine concern for her. And she likes it. He's also holding her a little too close. And she likes that too. EVELYN Yes, ...fine, ...thank you. Beni crawls out from under some pillars as Henderson and Burns help Daniels to his feet. DANIELS See! That proves it! Old Seti's fortune's gotta be under this sand! HENDERSON For them to protect it like this, you just know there's got to be treasure down there. O'Connell looks up into the surrounding ridges, unsatisfied. O'CONNELL These men are a desert people they value water, not gold. Evelyn looks at O'Connell, suddenly very worried. EVELYN Where's Jonathan? LastIndexNext