Jurassic Park 3 Page #3

Grant finishes his speech to what was a full house -- some

ATTENDEES are grabbing their coats and sneaking out. This

wasn't the exciting guest speaker they were all expecting.

A new slide comes up. Just black and white, and indecipherable.

GRANT:

It's through the painstaking study of the

Interior chamber in multiple specimens that

we can determine this exciting correlation

between the larynx and the upper plate. That

lets us theorize -- theorize, mind you -- that

the raptor might have been capable of bird-

like vocalizations. Which as you can

imagine, would be a tremendous breakthrough.

He's finished, but no one seems to notice at first. Then the

SYMPOSTUM LEADER stands up, leading a smattering round of

APPLAUSE.

SYMPOSTIUM LEADER

Thank you very much Dr. Grant. Now does

anyone have a question?

Nearly every hand goes up. Grant doesn't seem surprised.

GRANT:

Does anyone have a question that doesn't

relate to Jurassic Park?

Quite a few hands go down.

GRANT (cont'd)

Or the incident in San Diego, which I'll

remind you, I did not witness.

Now most of the hands are down. Picking one of the few

remaining...

MALE STUDENT:

Your theory on raptors is good and all, but

isn't all this conjecture kind of moot?

The STUDENT'S BUDDY nods in agreement.

MALE STUDENT (CONT'D)

I mean, once the U.N. and Costa Rica and

everyone decides how to handle the second

island, scientist will just go in and look

for themselves.

TOO-CLEVER SCIENCE REPORTER

Isn't paleontology itself in danger of

extinction?

Recognizing those as fighting words, the symposium leader is

about to step in. But Grant will take this himself.

GRANT:

No, and let me be perfectly clear on this

point. Dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago.

What's left of them is fossilized in stone

the actual scientists spend years to

undercover.

(MORE)

GRANT (CONT'D)

what John Hammond and InGen created are

theme park monsters. Nothing more, nothing

less.

The class clearly disagrees with his assessment.

ANOTHER STUDENT:

You're saying you wouldn't want to study

them if you had the chance?

GRANT:

No force on this earth or in heaven could get me on

that island.

8 INT. DERELICT COCKPIT - DAY 8

Looking through the cracked windshield of a junkyard plane, we

see someone spray painting red circles on the outside of the

glass.

9 EXT. AIRCRAFT GRAVEYARD - DAY 9

NASH, a wry, intelligent mercenary pilot and soldier, is

painting huge eyes the windows of a wrecked plane. Finished, he

tosses the paint can through the open windows and walks quickly

away from the plane.

We now see that RED TEETH are painted on the craft's nose. It

looks absurdly like some angry beast.

We are one the edge of a dry lake bed, part of an aircraft

graveyard. Wrecked planes lie all around.

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