The Mummy PART 9 INT. MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES - DAY O'Connell, Jonathan, Henderson and Daniels follow Evelyn across the Ramesseum. EVELYN There's only one person I know who can possibly give us some answers. They round a corner and come upon the Curator, --who is talking with Ardeth Bay. Everybody stops. EVERYBODY YOU! O'Connell and the American's quickly draw their guns. Ardeth Bay just scowls. The Curator nods his head. CURATOR Miss Carnavon. Gentlemen. EVELYN What is he doing here? CURATOR Do you truly wish to know? or would you prefer to just shoot us? Everybody tenses, guns up. Then O'Connell uncocks his .38. O'CONNELL I just saw my fist vanish into some guy's head. He slides his gun back into his shoulder-holster. O'CONNELL I'm willin, to go on a little faith, here. CURATOR You will not believe it O'CONNELL Try me. INT. RAMESSEUM - MOMENTS LATER Everyone is assembled around the tomb display of Seti The First. We recognize his chariot and sword. The Curator sits on Seti's throne. CURATOR We are part of an ancient secret society, the cult-of-the-Mumia, and we have a sacred mission, passed down through thirty-nine generations. For over four thousand years we have guarded The City Of The Dead. we are sworn at manhood to , do any and all in our power to stop the High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world. ARDETH RAY And because of you, we have failed. EVELYN (appalled) And you think this justifies killing innocent people!? CURATOR To have stopped this creature? Yes! O'CONNELL Okay, let's cut to the chase. He's afraid of cats, what's that about? CURATOR According to the ancients, cat's are the guardians at the gates of the underworld. Imhotep will fear them until he is fully regenerated, and then he will fear nothing. Daniels is totally wigged-out, he looks at O'Connell. DANIELS Right! And ya know how he gets fully regenerated?! By killing everybody who opened that chest and sucking us dry! That's how! CURATOR Yes, the creature must first try and regenerate, and then he will attempt to resurrect the one he has loved for more than four thousand years. EVELYN Anck-su-namun. The Curator and Ardeth Bay look at Evelyn, thunderstruck. EVELYN In the necropolis, when I saw him, alive, ...walking, he called me Anck-su-namun. And then in Mister Burns' quarters he tried to kiss me. CURATOR It is because it was you who read from the Book. He has chosen you to be-the human sacrifice needed to regenerate the body of Anck-su-namun. Jonathan scratches his ear with the barrel of his pistol. JONATHAN This is not good. Not good at all Ardeth Bay has been staring out a wall of windows. ARDETH BAY Tonight is the full moon. The moon of Osiris. It will begin tonight. Everyone follows Ardeth Bay's eyes, through the windows we can see the SUN, --which is now going into a FULL ECLIPSE. JONATHAN "...and he stretched forth his hands towards the heavens, and there was darkness throughout the land of Egypt." EXT. BRITISH FORT - WINDOW - DAY FOR NIGHT O'Connell looks out a window at the British Soldiers manning the walls. Above and beyond them, --is the BLACK SUN. EXT. EVELYN'S FOYER - DAY FOR NIGHT Evelyn and Jonathan are pacing the foyer EVELYN we must stop him from regenerating. She turns to Daniels and Henderson EVELYN Who opened that chest? HENDERSON Well, there was me and Daniels here and then poor Burns of course, oh yeah, and that Egyptologist fella. O'Connell turns from the window O'CONNELL What about my buddy, Beni? DANIELS Naw, he scrammed outta there, EVELYN We must find the Egyptologist and bring him back here to the safety of the fort, before the creature can get to him. O'Connell looks at Evelyn, Daniels and Henderson. O'CONNELL Okay, ...Evelyn, you wait here, you two come with me. All three of them pounce on him at once-- HENDERSON The hell with that! I'm not goin' nowhere! we're safe here. DANIELS Yeah, I'm not leavin, this fort for nothin'. EVELYN Who put you in charge? You can't just leave me behind like some old suitcase. I'm the one responsible for this mess and I intend to be the one to clean it up. O'Connell just shakes his head and SIGHS. Totally put-upon. Then he takes Evelyn, shoves her into the bedroom, slams the door and locks it with a skeleton key. From inside her room we can hear Evelyn POUNDING on the door and YELLING. O'Connell throws the skeleton key to Daniels. O'CONNELL Keep an eye on her. If you leave her door, I'll rip your spleen out C'mon, Jonathan. Jonathan swallows hard and points to himself JONATHAN Me? CAIRO ALLEYWAYS - BAZAAR - DAY FOR NIGHT The Egyptologist stumbles through the dark alleys, looking haunted. He clutches the Book of The Dead in one hand and his SACRED CANOPIC JAR in the other. Imhotep is stalking him. A STREET VENDOR turns and sees Imhotep's horribly decayed face. He reacts and scurries away. Imhotep lifts his robe, covers his face, and moves in on the Egyptologist, who is heading into the bazaar. WE PAN UP TO-- THE EGYPTOLOGIST'S OFFICE - DAY FOR NIGHT Beni is RANSACKING the joint, pulling out drawers and files and throwing them on the floor. He finds a silver pocket watch, shakes it, then throws it into his pocket, then he starts tipping over bookcases and clearing shelves. O'CONNELL(o.s.) well, well, well. Beni spins around. O'Connell and Jonathan stand in the door. O'CONNELL Lemme guess, spring cleaning? Beni turns and runs for an open window. O'Connell grabs a chair, FLINGS IT into his path. Beni TRIPS and CRASHES into a wall. O'Connell strides over, grabs him and lifts him up the wall. Beni's feet dangle off the floor. O'CONNELL Where's your new friend? BENI what friend? You're my only friend O'Connell quickly slides his knife up under Beni's chin O'CONNELL Then you got no excuse for living. What the hell you doin, being buddies with this creep, Beni? What's in it for you? BENI It is better to be the right hand of the Devil,....than in his path. As long as I serve him, I am immune. O'CONNELL Immune from what? BENI You shall see. O'CONNELL What are you looking for? Lie, and I'll slit your throat O'Connell shoves the knife deeper into Beni's skin. BENI The book! The black book they found at Hamunaptra! Imhotep wants it back. Said to me it would be worth it's weight in diamonds. O'CONNELL What does he want the book for? BENI (shrugs) Something about bringing his dead girly-friend back to life He needs the book.... (looks at Jonathan) And your sister. O'Connell looks at Jonathan. Beni seizes the moment and KNEES O'Connell in the balls. O'Connell doubles over and collapses. Beni leaps out the window. Jonathan cringes. JONATHAN That looked rather painful O'CONNELL (wincing) Ya know, ever since I met you, my luck has been for crap. JONATHAN Yes, I know, I do that to people And that's when they hear a BLOOD CURDLING SCREAM coming from down in the bazaar. O'Connell and Jonathan scramble to the window and look out-- EXT. BAZAAR - DAY FOR NIGHT Down in the bazaar, people are SCREAMING and quickly backing away from the SHRIVELLED CORPSE OF THE EGYPTOLOGIST. A partially decayed HAND reaches down and takes the sacred canopic jar out of the Egyptologist's shriveled hand. It's Imhotep, having regenerated even further. He looks up and catches eyes with O'Connell. Imhotep grins, then UNHINGES; his jaw, his mouth stretches to an inhuman size, and then a huge SWARM OF FLIES comes out of his mouth and races straight up at O'Connell and Jonathan. They both SLAM the shutters. The flies SLAM into the closed window and immediately spread throughout the bazaar. Sending people SCREAMING and running. EGYPTOLOGISTS OFFICE - DAY FOR NIGHT O'Connell and Jonathan look at each other, panicked O'CONNELL Damn-it! That's two down and only two to go. JONATHAN And then he'll be coming after Evy. They turn and race out of the office. BRITISH FORT - WINDOW --NIGHT Daniels stares out a window, watching the British Guards at the front gate. more Soldiers march the encircling parapet. SOLDIER Ten O'clock! All is well! The lights and MUSIC from the Casbah come up from below INT. EVELYN'S FOYER - NIGHT Daniels turns from the window. Henderson sits in a chair next to Evelyn's door, chain smoking. Both look wired with fear. DANIELS The hell with this. I'm goin, downstairs to get me a drink. You want somethin,? HENDERSON Yeah, get me a glass of bourbon, a shot of bourbon and a bourbon chaser Daniels nods and heads out. Henderson just sits there, alone, smoking. He reaches into his jacket pocket, pulls out his SACRED CANOPIC JAR and fondles it. A BREEZE suddenly comes in through the open window. The curtains flutter. Henderson gets up and goes over to shut it. He looks out the window. The CAMERA races over the compound, into the window and HITS Henderson square in the FACE just as he's about to scream. Henderson is lifted into the air by a mass of SWIRLING SAND. His body TWISTS and TURNS and Slowly SHRIVELS as the life is SUCKED out of him. Then he COLLAPSES to the floor. On the wall above him, the SHADOW of the SWIRLING SAND condenses, forming a SHADOW of a human body. The SHADOW CONVULSES as the body REGENERATES. And then it's over. Imhotep steps into view. He's regenerated even further and looks almost normal now, his face no longer decayed. He steps over Henderson's shriveled body and up to Evelyn's door, rattles the knob. it's locked. Imhotep grins. EVELYN'S ROOM - NIGHT Evelyn is asleep in her bed as SAND begins streaming in through the keyhole, pouring onto the floor, forming a large mound. Evelyn starts to toss and turn. WE PAN BACK OVER TO THE DOOR: The mound of sand is gone and in it's place is Imhotep. LastIndexNext