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ELLIE (cont'd) (still looking at the leaf) This species of vermiform was been extinct since the cretaceous period. This thing - -
Grant, never tearing his eyes from the brachiosaur, reaches over and grabs Ellie's head, turning it to face the animal.
She sees it, and drops the leaf.
ELLIE (cont'd) Oh - - my - - God.
Grant lets out a long, sharp, HAH - a combination laugh and shout of joy.
He gets out of the jeep, and Ellie follows. Grant points to the thing and manages to put together his first words since its appearance:
GRANT THAT'S A DINOSAUR!
- - a dinosaur. Chewing the branches. Technically, it's a brachiosaur, of the sauropod family, but we've always called it brontosaurus. It CRUCHES the branch in its mouth, which is some thirty-five feet up off the ground, at the end of its long, arching neck. It stares down at the people in the car with a pleasant, stupid gaze.
Ellie looks up at the sauropods in wonder.
They've pretty light on their feet - a far cry from the sluggish, lumbering brutes we would have expected.
Hammond gets out of his jeep and comes back to join them. He looks like a proud parent showing off the kid.
Ian Malcolm looks at Hammond, amazed, and with an expression that is a mixture of admiration and rapprochement.
MALCOLM You did it. You crazy son of a bitch, you did it.
Grant and Ellie continue walking, following the dinosaur.
GRANT The movement!
ELLIE The - - agility. You're right!
In their amazement, Grant and Ellie talk right over each other.
GRANT Ellie, we can tear up the rule book on cold-bloodedness. It doesn't apply, they're totally wrong! This is a warm-blooded creature. They're totally wrong.
ELLIE They were wrong. Case closed. This thing doesn't live in a swamp to support it's body weight for God's sake!
Several of the top branches are suddenly RIPPED away. Another sauropod, reaching for a branch high above their heads, stands effortlessly on its hind legs.
GRANT (to Hammond) That thing's got a what, twenty-five, twenty-seven foot neck?
HAMMOND The brachiosaur? Thirty.
Grant and Ellie continue to walk.
GRANT - - and you're going to sit there and try to tell me it can push blood up a thirty-foot neck without a four-chambered heart and get around like that?! Like that!? (to Hammond) This is like a knockout punch for warm-bloodedness.
HAMMOND (proudly) We clocked the T-rex at thirty-two miles an hour.
ELLIE You've got a T-rex!? (to Grant) He's got a T-rex! A T-rex! He said he's- -
GRANT Say again?
HAMMOND Yes, we have a T-rex.
Grant feels faint. He sits down on the ground.
ELLIE Honey, put your head between your knees, and breathe.
Hammond walks in front of them and looks out.
HAMMOND Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler. Welcome to Jurassic Park.
They turn and look at the view again. It's beautiful vista, reminiscent of an African plain. A whole herd of dinosaurs crosses the plain, maybe a hundred that we see in a quick glance alone.
GRANT Ellie, they're absolutely - - they're moving in herds. They do move in herds!
ELLIE We were right!
GRANT (to Hammond) How did you do it?! (or) How did you do this?!
HAMMOND I'll show you.
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IN THE REAR CAR,
everyone sits back, disappointed again, as the cars pull forward to continue the tour. Malcolm picks up the microphone.
MALCOLM Now, eventually you do plan to have dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, right?
37 INT CONTROL ROOM DAY
HAMMOND just shakes his head as Malcolm's voice comes through,
HAMMOND I really hate that man.
38 EXT PARK DAY
GRANT gets into the seat, leaving MALCOLM behind ELLIE. He longingly looks out of the opposite window, while Malcolm rattles on to Ellie.
MALCOLM You see? The tyrannosaur doesn't obey set patterns or park schedules. It's the essence of Chaos.
ELLIE I'm still not clear on Chaos.
MALCOLM It simply deals with unpredictability in complex systems. It's only principle is the Butterfly Effect. A butterfly can flap its wings in Peking and in Central Park you get rain instead of sunshine.
Ellie gestures with her hand to show this information has gone right over her head.
MALCOLM I made a fly by, I go too fast.
Looking out of the opposite window, Grant sees movement at the far end of a field. He sits bolt upright, trying to get a better look.
Malcolm, looking for another example - -
MALCOLM (cont'd) (points to the glass of water) Here. Give me your glass of water.
He dips his hand into the glass of water. He takes Ellie's hand in his own.
MALCOLM (cont'd) Make like hieroglyphics. Now watch the way the drop of water falls on your hand.
He flicks his fingers and a drop falls on the back of Ellie's hand.
MALCOLM (cont'd) Ready? Freeze your hand. Now I'm going to do the same thing from the exact same place. Which way is the drop going to roll off? (or) Which way will the drop roll? Over which finger? Or down your thumb? Or to the other side?
ELLIE Uh - - thumb! (or) The same way.
MALCOLM It changed. Why? (or) Okay, back over your wrist. (then) Because and here is the principle of tiny variations - - the orientations of the hairs - -
ELLIE Alan, listen to this.
MALCOLM - - on your hand, the amount of blood distending in your vessels, imperfections in the skin - -
ELLIE Oh, imperfections?
MALCOLM Microscopic - - never repeat, and vastly affect the outcome. That's what?
ELLIE Unpredictability....
MALCOLM And even if we haven't seen it yet, I'm quite sure it's going on in this park right now.
There's definitely something out in that field, and Grant has to see it.
He jerks on the door handle and opens his door a few inches. He looks outside towards freedom, then looks around to is anybody's watching him.
Malcolm lowers his voice, becoming more seductive now.
MALCOLM (cont'd) Life's a lot like that, isn't it? You meet someone by chance you'll never meet again, and the course of your whole future changes. It's dynamic - - its exciting - - I think.
Grant throws the door open and bolts out of the moving car.
MALCOLM (cont'd) There, there see?! I'm right again!
ELLIE Alan?
MALCOLM No one could have predicted Dr. Grant would suddenly jump out of a moving vehicle!
ELLIE Alan?
She jumps out too and follows him into the field.
MALCOLM There's another example!
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HARDING (O.S.) Hi everybody, Don't be scared.
Tim reaches the clearing and sees:
A Triceratops, a big one, lying on its side, blocking the light at the end of the path. It has an enormous curved shell that flanks its head, two big horns over its eyes, and a third on the end of its nose. It doesn't move, just breathes, loud and raspy, blowing up a little clouds of dust with every exhalation.
Grant stands next to Harding, almost in a daze.
GRANT Beautiful. Is it okay? Can I touch it?
HARDING Sure.
Grant walks next to the animal and strokes its head. Ellie moves forward to the animal.
GRANT Oh Ellie. It's so beautiful. It's the most beautiful thing I ever saw.
ELLIE It's my favorite.
They both kneel, checking the animal.
He furrows his bow, noticing something, all professional curiosity now. The animal's tongue, dark purple, droops limply from its mouth.
GRANT (cont'd) Ellie, take a look at this.
ELLIE Yeah, baby girl, it's okay.
She scratches the tongue with her fingernail. A clear liquid leaks from the broken blisters.
ELLIE Micro vesicles. That's interesting.
Grant, fascinated, wanders all the way around to the back of the animal. Harding joins Ellie and hands her his penlight.
ELLIE (cont'd) What are her symptoms?
HARDING Imbalance, disorientation, labored breathing. Seems to happen about every six weeks or so.
ELLIE Six weeks?
She takes the penlight from the veterinarian and shines it in the animal's eyes.
ELLIE (cont'd) Are there pupillary effects from the tranquilizer?
HARDING Yes, mitotic, pupils should be constricted.
ELLIE These are dilated. Take a look.
HARDING They are? (checks it out) I'll be damned.
ELLIE That's pharmacological. From local plant life.
She turns and studies the surrounding landscape. Her mind's really at work, puzzling over each piece of foliage.
ELLIE (cont'd) (pointing) Is that (or) this West Indian lilac?
HARDING Yes. We know they're toxic, but the animals don't eat them.
ELLIE Are you sure?
HARDING Pretty sure.
ELLIE There's only one way to be positive. I need to see some droppings. (or) I have to see the dinosaur's droppings.
HARDING You won't be able to miss them. (or) Can't miss them.
Malcolm walks up to Ellie.
MALCOLM Dino droppings?
ELLIE Yeah.
She walks way, Malcolm looks on.
41A INT CONTROL ROOM DAY
HAMMOND and ARNOLD are watching the video monitors, displeased about something. Arnold is looking at one that gives them a view from the beach, looking out at the ocean. The clouds beyond are almost black with a tropical storm.
ARNOLD That storm center hasn't dissipated or changed course. We're going to have to cut the tour short, I'm afraid. Pick it up again tomorrow where we left off.
HAMMOND You're sure we have to?
ARNOLD It's not worth taking the chance, John.
MULDOON (into phone) Sustain winds 45 knots.
HAMMOND (nods) Tell them when they get back to the cars.
MULDOON (into phone) Thanks, Steve.
ARNOLD (making an announcement to the others) Ladies and gentlemen, last shuttle to the dock leaves in approximately five minutes. Drop what you are doing and leave now.
HAMMOND Damn!
41 ACROSS THE ROOM
NEDRY stares at his video monitor, watching the boat. He's on the phone with the MATE, whose images he can see on the monitor. The seas around the dock are much rougher now.
MATE We're not well-berthed here without a storm barrier! We may have to leave as soon as the last of the works are aboard.
NEDRY (low voice) No, no. You stick to the plan. You wait till they're back from the tour.
42 EXT FIELD DAY
As the weather grows darker, ELLIE, GRANT, HARDING, and MALCOLM are grouped around an enormous spoor of triceratops excreta that stands at least waist high and is covered with BUZZING flies.
MALCOLM That is one big pile of shit.
Ellie has plastic gloves on the reach up to her elbows, and is just withdrawing her hand from the middle of the dung.
ELLIE (to Harding) You're right. There's no trace of lilac berries. That's so weird, though. She shows all the classic signs of Meliatoxicity, (thinking aloud) Every six weeks - -
She turns and walks out into the open field a few paces, thinking. Malcolm watches her, and looks back at the dung.
MALCOLM to Grant) She's, uh - - tenacious.
GRANT You have no idea.
MALCOLM to Ellie) You will remember to wash your hands before you eat anything?
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