The Mummy PART 7 EXT. CAMP - LATER THAT NIGHT Having just freshened up for bed, Evelyn exits the temple and steps past the sleeping Diggers. She spots the Egyptologist, his jeweled canopic jar snug under one arm, the Book Of The Dead laying loose under the other. Evelyn stares at the Book, nervously biting her lip, then she sneaks over, carefully steals it, and quickly tip-toes away. Lying on some blankets by the campfire, O'Connell rolls over and sees Evelyn, sitting wide-eyed, staring at the Book. O'CONNELL You sure you outta be playin, around with that? EVELYN It's just a book, no harm ever came from a book. Evelyn opens the cover. THE FIRE FLICKERS. She and O'Connell share a nervous look, then Evelyn shrugs and starts reading. EVELYN Ahm kum Ra. Ahm kum Dei. Evelyn continues READING THE BOOK ALOUD IN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN. INT. IMHOTEPIS CHAMBER - NIGHT Evelyn's VOICE is OVERLAID as WE START WIDE on Imhotep's chamber and SLOWLY PUSH IN on his sarcophagus. WE PUSH IN over the lip of the coffin, then closer and closer towards Imhotep's rotten, twisted head, until his putrid face fills FRAME, --and then suddenly his crusty eyelids Pop OPEN! Revealing EMPTY SOCKETS. --BIG SCARY MUSIC STING. EXT. BASE CAMP - NIGHT The Egyptologist sits bolt upright. Quickly looks around, sees Evelyn reading the Book. He gets up and runs for her. EGYTOLOGIST NO! NOOOO! YOU MUST NOT! He skids to a stop as a strange, piercing WHINE is heard, coming from out in the desert. O'Connell and the others all leap to their feet. The Americans run out of their tents. The SOUND gets LOUDER and CLOSER. And then from out of the darkness a HUGE WALL OF LOCUSTS SWIRLS into camp and envelops everyone. O'Connell grabs Evelyn, and with Jonathan at their side they race for the crevice, trying to fend off the horrid vermin as they go. Beni and the Americans run for the temple. The Egyptologist is covered in locusts. He stares at The Book Of The Dead, looking haunted. EGYPTOLOGIST What have we done? The campfire is SUCKED UP INTO THE AIR INT. LABYRINTH CORRIDOR - NIGHT O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan race down the labyrinth, slapping at themselves and picking locusts out of their hair JONATHAN Did you see that!? Grasshoppers! Billions of grasshoppers! O'CONNELL That's one of the plagues, right? The grasshopper plague! EVELYN This is not a plague. It's generational. Every so many years the locusts of Egypt have a population explosion and they all take flight. Evelyn steps forward, something SQUISHES. O'Connell lowers his TORCH, --the entire floor is FILLED WITH SLIMY FROGS. O'CONNELL Okay, ....and what about frogs? INT. LABYRINTH PASSAGEWAY - NIGHT The Americans, Beni and the Diggers race into a passageway. Burns is knocked down, his bifocals skitter across the ground, they get CRUSHED in the stampede. Burns staggers to his feet, squinting. BLURRY FIGURES vanish into the darkness, BURNS Daniels! Henderson! INT. LABYRINTH CORRIDOR - NIGHT The ground under O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan starts to SHAKE. Then suddenly, right in front of them, --HUNDREDS OF CHITTERING SCARAB-BEETLES BOIL UP OUT OF THE SAND. Start scurrying towards them. Evelyn SCREAMS. Jonathan SCREAMS. Even O'Connell almost screams. They turn around and haul-ass. INT. PASSAGEWAY - NIGHT Burns staggers down a passageway, squinting, his hands out in front of him, groping, trying not to bump into anything. Then ten feet in front of him, a dark, blurry FIGURE steps out. BURNS Daniels? .... is that you? Burns half-blindly staggers forward. The Figure doesn't move. BURNS Henderson? Burns TRIPS, stumbles forward, towards the Figure, his hands reach out and SINK INTO IMHOTEPIS PUTRID CHEST CAVITY. Burns jumps like a scalded cat, pulls his hands out and looks at them, --HIS HANDS ARE COVERED IN MOLTEN FLESH ROT. He starts to SCREAM. A SKELETAL HAND clamps over his mouth. LABYRINTH STAIRCASE - NIGHT O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan race up the staircase, just ahead of the mass of SCURRYING, CHITTERING SCARABS. O'Connell leaps out onto a pedestal. Jonathan jumps up next to him. Evelyn jumps up into a grotto on the other side of the narrow stairway. The horrible herd of vicious scarabs scurries between them, their ear-piercing CRITTERS send shivers up Evelyn's spine. She leans back. THE WALL MOVES. Evelyn falls backwards through an opening. O'Connell and Jonathan watch the scarabs vanish up the staircase. Then they look across the way. Evelyn is gone. JONATHAN EVY!? SCARAB CHAMBER - NIGHT Evelyn sits up, shakes the sand out of her hair, fearfully looks around. It's almost PITCH BLACK. She gets up and feels her way along the dark walls. She rounds a corner. A shaft of MOONLIGHT filters in through a crack in the ceiling. A MAN stands in the middle of the room. Evelyn walks towards him. EVELYN Oh thank goodness, you're one of the Americans, aren't you? Just as she reaches him he turns around. It's Burns. BOTH OF HIS EYES ARE MISSING. He stares at her with vacant sockets. Evelyn SCREAMS in horror and backs away, hyperventilating, she bumps into something. She SCREAMS again and spins around It's Imhotep. With two fresh EYEBALLS in his sockets. Evelyn SCREAMS again and backs away into a wall. Her hair is down, her face is dirty and sweaty, her blouse is ripped, her dress is torn, she's never looked sexier. Imhotep SQUINTS. IMHOTEP Anck-su-namun? LABYRINTH STAIRCASE - NIGHT O'Connell is feeling his way around inside the grotto O'CONNELL Damn-it! Must be a trap door around here or somethin'. And then they heat MEN SCREAMING, and suddenly, Henderson, Daniels and one of the Diggers come running down the stairs. HENDERSON RUN, YOU SONS-A-BITCHES! RUUUUN! O'Connell and Jonathan join them as they hear the herd of CHITTERING scarabs coming their way. The Digger suddenly trips and falls. O'Connell slows down, about to go back and help him. But it's too late. The Digger SCREAMS in horror as the herd of scarabs run over him, eating straight through him, leaving behind the Digger's half eaten skeleton. Daniels Henderson and Jonathan react in horror. O'Connell's already running, races right past them. The others turn and haul-ass. SCARAB CHAMBER - NIGHT Imhotep steps forward, --the sand around him seems to MAGNETIZE, swirling and dancing around his flaking skeletal legs. Evelyn starts backing away, horrified, looks at Burns EVELYN Help me, ...please, ...help me. Burns opens his mouth, but can only GURGLE and MOAN because HIS TONGUE IS MISSING. Imhotep grabs him, throws him to the ground and sets his skeletal foot on Burns' chest, like a big game hunter standing on his kill. Imhotep then parts his fetid lips, --A FRESH TONGUE FLAPS BETWEEN HIS ROTTED TEETH. IMHOTEP Kadeesh pharos Anck-su-namun! Evelyn shivers in fear. Suddenly, O'Connell comes flying around the corner and runs right up to her. O'CONNELL Would you quit playin, around! Let's get outta here already! O'Connell sees the look in her eyes and turns around, --at the sight of Imhotep, O'Connell jumps back in fright. O'CONNELL WHOA! O'Connell and Evelyn start backing away down the wall. Imhotep glides sideways with them, like a tiger cornering his prey, the sand around him SWIRLS and DANCES. Burns starts to crawl away, whimpering as he goes. Imhotep suddenly stops and UNHINGES his skeletal jaw, his skinless mouth stretches to an inhuman size, and he lets out a horrific, primordial SHRIEK. IMHOTEP ANCK-SU-NAMUUUUUN!!!! Evelyn SCREAMS. O'Connell shudders, then, embarrassed by his fear, he opens his own mouth and ROARS right back at him-- O'CONNELL Ahhhhhhhh!! Then BLASTS him with the elephant gun, --BLAM! Through the SMOKE AND FLAMMAGE we see Imhotep blown off his feet, his ribcage half torn away. O'Connell grabs Evelyn and runs. EXT. CREVICE - NIGHT SAND and WIND whip through the ruins as O'Connell and Evelyn stumble up out of the crevice and COME FACE-TO-FACE WITH TEN ARMED MUMIA. The Mumia quickly raise their guns. O'Connell and Evelyn quickly raise their hands. Jonathan, Henderson, Daniels and the Egyptologist are already on their knees, hands over their heads. Ardeth Bay steps forward. ARDETH BAY I told you to leave or die, you refused, and now you may have killed us all. For you have unleashed the creature that we have feared for more than four thousand years. O'CONNELL Relax, I got him. ARDETH BAY No mortal weapons can kill this creature. He is not of this world. O'CONNELL Are we talkin, about the same creature? The walking corpse? Really big mouth? Really bad breath? INT. ANUBIS' CHAMBER - NIGHT Beni sloway backs up around Anubis, eyes wide, gun up. He turns around, --IMHOTEP IS RIGHT THERE! Beni SCREAMS, backs away and OPENS FIRE. Six GUNSHOTS perforate Imhotep, but have no effect except to SPLATTER molten flesh rot onto the back wall. Beni retreats into a corner, scared shitless. Imhotep moves forward, his one hand trying to stop the molten mummy guts from oozing out of the large shotgun hole in his side. Beni drops his gun and grabs at the CHAINS around his neck, 'RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS AND ICONS dangle from each chain. Beni holds the first one up: A CHRISTIAN CRUCIFIX. He quickly makes the sign of-the cross and blesses himself in English: BENI May the good Lord protect and watch over me as a shepherd watches over his flock. And may Satan in all his forms be vanquished forever. It has no effect on Imhotep, who continues forward. Beni quickly grabs at the other symbols and icons, holding them out towards Imhotep, one after the other, trying to slow his progress: an Islamic Sword and Crescent Moon necklace; a Hindu Brahma medallion; a small Buddhist Bodhisattva statue. All while blessing himself in Arabic, Hindi, Chinese and Latin. Nothing works. Imhotep's skeletal hand reaches for Beni's throat. Tears run down Beni's cheeks he's so freaked. And that's when he holds up THE STAR OF DAVID and blesses himself in HEBREW. Imhotep stops in his tracks. His hand lowers. His grotesque new eyeballs stare at Beni. IMHOTEP (subtitled) The language of the slaves. Looks at him quizzically. Imhotep takes a step back. IMHOTEP (in Hebrew - subtitled) I may have use for you. And the rewards will be great. Imhotep reaches into his tattered robe, and then holds out his fetid hand, filled with squirming MAGGOTS. Beni cringes, about to throw up, but then the maggots part, --revealing a tiny pile of little JEWELS. Beni's eyes widen. Imhotep raises his other hand, it holds Anck-su-namun's BROKEN CANOPIC JAR. IMHOTEP (subtitled) Where are the other sacred jars? EXT . CREVICE - NIGHT Several Mumia drag Burns up, he stares out with vacant sockets. Daniels and Henderson are especially horrified. DANIELS You bastards! HENDERSON What did you do to him!? ARDETH BAY We saved him! Saved him before the creature could finish his work Now leave, all of you, quickly, before he finishes you all. JONATHAN You're not going to kill us? Evelyn ELBOWS Jonathan in the ribs. ARDETH BAY We must now hunt him down, and try and find a way to kill him, before he consumes the earth. Allah be with us. Ardeth Bay and the Mumia start heading down into the crevice. O'Connell yells at them, trying to convince himself- O'CONNELL I told ya, I already got him! Ardeth Bay stops and looks back, deadly serious. ARDETH BAY Know this, the creature will be coming for you. He must consummate the curse. And until he does, he will never eat, he will never sleep, and he will never stop. Ardeth Bay turns and jumps down into the crevice, LastIndexNext