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hwp FADE IN:
EXT. CARIBBEAN ISLAND -- DAY
A secluded island surrounded by bright blue-green water.
Sand untouched by footprints, this place has been forgotten.
A mountain with the vague image of a skull on its craggy
face grows out of the jungle.
A seaplane zooms overhead, pontoons skimming the water until
they slide onto wet sand.
EXT. BEACH -- DAY
Two sets of BOOTS mar the smooth sand near the pontoons.
A pair of MEN kick up sand as they march up the beach.
The Leader (DEAKINS) holds a sextant-like device up to the
mountain, zeroing in on the skull face. In his other hand -
a laminated xerox copy of an ancient treasure map.
He adjusts the sextant to match the information on the map.
The pointer aims to a trail through the jungle.
DEAKINS (O.S.)
Its through there.
The two Men push back palm fronds, enter the jungle.
EXT. JUNGLE -- DAY
When the palm fronds snap back into place, the beach is gone.
Jungle noises surround the two Men as they follow the trail.
Deeper into the jungle. Surrounded by weird noises.
They step over a human skeleton... creepy!
Deakins pulls aside vines using a compass to follow the map.
Pulls a vine away from his face.
Not a vine...
A hissing snake!
DEAKINS
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Jumps back, and we see that hes NOT Indiana Jones.
KEN DEAKINS is a college freshman with a confident manner and
an easy smile. Athletic body in well-worn jeans. A kid!
(CONTINUED)
2.
??
CONRAD HARPER shakes his head.
CONRAD
We could be at Lauderdale surrounded
by babes in bikinis, but no. Nooo.
Deak wants to go on a treasure hunt.
Conrad is Deaks college room mate and best friend. A science
geek, every D-ring on his vest has some sort of gadget hanging
from it. Both have a coil of high-test rope over their
shoulders, hooked to a D-ring on their belts, for climbing.
DEAKINS
Connie, this is going to be the best
damned summer vacation youve ever
had. Trust me.
CONRAD
(gestures to skeleton)
Did he trust you?
Deakins keeps moving through the jungle, Conrad following.
DEAKINS
Would you rather be stuck with your
parents at Disney World?
CONRAD
They went to Paris this year. Great
food, museums, cute French girls...
DEAKINS
...with hairy legs.
Deakins stops suddenly, has to grab Conrad to keep him back.
A half dozen skeletons on the trail in front of them, legs
standing upright, bodies fallen backwards.
CONRAD
More fun?
DEAKINS
Sand traps.
Conrad shrugs, pulls a telescoping probe-stick from a D-ring,
clicks it open and sweeps the sand in front of them.
SNAP! SNAP! SNAP!
Bear trap-like devices clamp shut like mouse traps. The
probe gets stuck in one of them.
CONRAD
Should have made a couple of those.
(CONTINUED)
3.
??
DEAKINS
Who knew?
CONRAD
Let me see... What have I got?
Conrad pulls a nail gun-like gizmo from a D-ring, fires a
piton into a tree, hooks one end of his rope to it, hooks
the other end of the rope to the next piton in the gun and
aims across the clearing at a tree. Blam! Perfect shot.
The rope is stretched from tree to tree across the clearing.
Deakins grabs the rope and hand-over-hand across the booby
trapped clearing, feet only inches from skeletons and traps.
DEAKINS
A little low, Connie.
CONRAD
Sorry, Deak.
When he gets to the end of the rope he realizes the tree is
a dozen feet short of the booby trapped area.
CONRAD
Sorry again, Deak.
Deakins has to swing and let go... landing at the very edge
on the traps. Gestures for Conrad to come.
DEAKINS
Your turn.
Conrad reluctantly grabs the rope, starts across.
Halfway: One of the pitons begins to pull from the tree.
Conrads feet dangle over the traps and skeletons.
The piton pulls out some more.
Conrad gets to the end of the rope.
Looks at the edge of the traps a half dozen feet away.
CONRAD
Im not sure I can do this.
DEAKINS
Want to wait there? Ill find the
treasure and be right back...
Conrad swings back and forth. Lets go. Lands at the edge.
And falls backwards! Into the sand traps!
(CONTINUED)
4.
??
Deakins grabs him, pulls him upright moments before his butt
would have hit the sand traps.
DEAKINS
You owe me one.
Deakins pulls out the map, hands Conrad a measuring tape.
Conrad moves through the jungle until the end of the tape.
Deakins joins him, finds the next reading on the map, uses
his compass to pull the measuring tape on a new direction.
EXT. CAVE -- DAY
The tape and jungle both end at a clearing with a cave.
Deakins consults the map, smiles at Conrad.
DEAKINS
This looks like the place.
They click on flashlights and enter the cave.
INT. MAZE OF CAVES -- DAY
Spooky. Shadowed.
Conrad and Deakins follow the map deeper into the cave.
Around a corner.
A dozen skeletons pierced by arrows litter the ground.
Deakins shines his flashlight over the floor.
DEAKINS
Trip wires.
They carefully step over the trip wires.
Conrad shines his flashlight on the cross-bows on the wall.
CONRAD
Cool.
Conrad uses a can of gold spray paint from his vest to mark
the trip-wire.
Past the trip wires, to a Y in the caves. Right or left?
The map says left. They conti
