Godzilla Page #5

Major Hicks stops, turns to Nick.

MAJOR HICKS:

(bemused)

Seventeen percent, huh? Sounds big.

NICK:

They're enormous! A new species

created by man's recklessness. That's

what I've been trying to tell you, I'm

only a biologist. I take radioactive

samples and study them.

MAJOR HICKS:

Then you're perfect.

(pointing to the ground)

Here's your radioactive sample. Study

it.

With that Major Hicks walks away.

NICK:

What sample?

MAJOR HICKS:

You're standing on it.

Nick looks down, sees nothing.

NICK:

I don't see it.

(no response)

Where is it?

We CRANE UP above him, pulling back farther and farther,

until we SEE he's standing inside of a 15 YARD LONG

GIGANTIC FOOTPRINT in the sand.

NICK (CONT'D)

I don't see it!

Two scientists have spread out a tape measure to

document its length as two others inspect it with Geiger

counters. Nick sees them and realizes he's standing in a

remarkable discovery. He looks up ahead and SEES...

OVERHEAD TITLT SHOT - Foot steps...-

Five gigantic footsteps in front of him. Other

researchers examining the prints with all kinds of

equipment. Geiger counters, CLICK, CLICKING away. Nick

is stunned.

18 EXT. TATTERED VILLAGE REMAINS - MOMENTS LATER18

Nick rushes to catch up with Major Hicks who walks

towards a command tent in the distance.

NICK:

(flabbergasted)

That was a footprint. I was standing

inside a footprint.

MAJOR HICKS:

That's right.

NICK:

But there's no animal in the world

that can make prints like that? Is

there?

MAJOR HICKS:

We're hoping you're going to help us

figure that out.

The Major gestures to the many villagers who are being

attended to. Some are injured, others are being examined

for radiation. The village has been decimated.

NICK:

Somebody must have seen it.

MAJOR HICKS:

It happened so fast no one knew what

hit them 'til is was over.

A jeep pulls up and PETERS, a young researcher, comes

rushing over with a video tape in his hands. As he passes

Major Hicks...

PETERS:

(on the run)

Tape's in. The French finally released

it.

Peters takes off for the command' tent. Nick and the

Major follow.

COMMAND TENT - CONTINUOUS - DAY

Part military, part scientific command post. Lots of

activity. Peters waves the tape as he rushes over to a

television. Major Hicks and Nick follow.

MAJOR HICKS:

A tanker was attacked and sunk

yesterday near the French Polynesians.

We think there's a connection.

WOMAN SCIENTIST (ELSIE)

Is that the tape of the witness?

Excitedly, ELSIE CHAPMAN, heavy set, early 30's,

paleontologist and head of the research team, leads

several of her colleagues over to the t.v.

NICK:

Hi. Nick Tatopoulos...

ELSIE:

Ah, Elsie Chapman, paleontologist.

She's clearly attracted to him. This doesn't escape

Nick, who's not too comfortable with her flirtatious

glare. She turns to a scientist standing next to her,

DR. CLIVE CRAVEN.

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