skeletons everywhere.
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10 EXT. SHINKAI 9000 - NIGHT
The Shinkai approaches an eerie-looking rock formation. The robotic
arm comes out. The laser cutter steadies, aims, then shoots out its
blue beam and cuts into the rock.
WHOOSH!! A HUGE JET STREAM OF INKY BLOOD BLASTS OUT OF THE FORMATION!
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11 INT. SHNKAI 9000 - NIGHT
The Captain and the Science Officers recoil as the inky stuff
en
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!
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2.
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CONRAD HARPER shakes his head.
CONRAD
We
curve in the beach, her parents disappear from view
behind her. A RUSTLING sound draws her attention, and she
turns, toward where the thick jungle foliage gives way to the
sand.
A large bush, maybe twelve feet tall, is moving, its branches
swaying and shaking. Curious, Cathy walks up to the bush,
which abruptly stops moving.
A small, lizard-like animal, dark green with brown stripes
along its bac
curved, gleaming sharp.
-- MORE ANGLES, EVEN CLOSER. We can HEAR the MANs
wheezing BREATHING, but we still havent seen
his face. We never will. We just SEE more metal
being assembled with crude tools, into some sort
of linkage -- a splayed, spidery sort of apparatus,
against a background light of FIRE, and a deep
rushing of STEAM and HEAVY, DARK ENERGY.
-- And then we see this linkage attached to