| Grant and Ellie's Dig |
| Camera goes to the Badlands of Sankewater Montana with a workman walking up a hill. Worker "Dr. Grant, Dr. Satter, we're ready to try again." Grant looks up "I hate computers." Ellie "Feelings mutual." They tehn walk down the hill to the tent where everyone is and start looking at a computer screen. Elllie "How long does this usually take?" Computer worker "The receiver should send the image and the boom bounces the image back. Bounces it back. This new program is incredible. A few more years development and we won't even have to dig anymore." Grant "What's the fun it that?" Ellie laughs Computer worker "The image is a little distorted but I don't think it's the computer. " Ellie points to the screen "Look at the psoterior neck ligaments. Velociraptor?" Grant "Yeah, it's in good sha[ge too. Guessing five feet high, guessing nine feet long. Look at the extuardinary-- What did you do?" Ellie starts laughing "You touched it. Dr. Grant touched the compatible." Grant "They've got it in for me. Look at the half moon shaped hind leg. It's not a wonder these things didn't learn how to fly." Everyone starts laughing Grant "Well seriously. Well maybe dinosaurs had more in common with present day birds then they do with reptiles. Look at the pubic bone, turned backwards just like a bird. Look at the vertabre, full of parasectioned hollows just like a bird. And even the word raptor means bird of prey." Kid yells "That doesn't look very scarry. More like a six foot turkey." Everyone laughs again. Grant "Turkey? Try to imagin yourself in the Cretaceous Period. You get your first look at this six foot turkeyy in some ordinary clearing. He moves like a bird gently bobing its head. And you keep still because you think his vision is based on movement like T-Rex, he'll lose you if you don't move. But no, not Velociraptor. You stare at him, and he just stares right back. And that's when the attack comes not from the front, but from the side. With the other two raptors you didn't even know were there. You see Velociraptors are pack hunters. They use coordinated attack patterns, and he is out in force today." Grant then pulls a claw out of his pocket. Grant "And he slashes at you with this, a six inch attracktable claw like a razor on the middle tow. Now he doesn't bother to cut you up like a jackel or a lion. No, no. He slashes at you here, or here. Or maybe across the belly spilling your intestines. The point is you're alive when they start to eat you. So you know, try to show a little respect." Kid "Okay." Grant and Ellie then start walking back up the hill they came from. Ellie "Hey Alan, if you wanted to scare the kid you could've pulled a gun on him ya know." Grant "Yeah I know. Kids, you want to have one of those?" Ellie "I don't want that kid, but a breed of child Dr. Grant could be intrieging. I mean what's so wrong with kids?" Grant "I don't know, Ellie look their noisy,their messy, their expensive." Ellie "Cheap, cheap." Grant "They smell." Ellie starts laughing "They do not smell." Grant "Babies smell." Then a helicopter bursts low and starts to land with dust blowing all over the skeleton. Grant and Ellie start running down the hill toward the copter. Ellie "Cover up the slides!" Grant "Cover up the base!" Ellie "Shut down!" Both at the same time "Cut the machine!" Grant runs up the guy in the helicopter "Can it will ya! Sut it down! Shut it down! What?" Grant then runs down to the trailer and jumps in and says to a man inside the refrigerator Grant "Just what the **** do you think y0our doing in here?" The old man then turns around and pops the cork off of a champaine bottle. Grant "Hey! We were saving that!" Hammond "But today I guarantee it." Grant "Just who in god's name do you think you are?" Hammond "Ah, John Hammond, and I'm delighted to meet you finally in person Dr. Grant. I can see my fifty thousand a year has been well spent." Ellie comes in "Okay, who's the jerk!" Grant "Ah, this is our Paleobotanist Dr.-" Ellie "Sattler." Grant "Ah, Ellie this is Mr. Hammond." Hammond "Oh, I'm sorry for our dramatic enterance Dr. Sattler, but we're in a wie bit of a hurry. Come on, let me get you a drink. We don't want it to get warm. Come on sit down, sit down. I'll just get a glass or two. No, no, no, no, no. I can handle this. I know my way around the kitechen. Now, I'll get right ot the point. I like you. Both of you. I can tell instantly about people, it's a gift. I own an island. Off the coast of Costa Rica. I've least it from the government, and I've spent the last five years setting up a kind of Biological preserve. Really spectacular, spared no expense. Makes the one I've got down in Kenya look like a pattite zoo. And there's no dought, our attractions will drive kids out of their minds." Grant "What arre those?" Ellie "More small versions of adults honey." Hammond "But the park is making my lawyers nervious. I don't care for lawyers do you?" Both at the same time "Well we ah, don't really know any." Hammond "Well I don I'm afraid. There's a praticullar fury that represents my investors. Seems they insist on outside opinions." Ellie "What kind of opinions? Hammond "Well your kind not to put to fine a point on it. But let's face it in your field you're the top minds, and if I could just pursuade you to sign off on the park and give it your indorsement. Maybe pan a wie testaimonial I could get back on shedule, ah schedule." Ellie "Why would they care what we think?" Grant "What kind of park is this?" Hammond "It's right up your allie. I tell you what, why don't you come down just the pair of you for the weekend. I'd love to have the opinion of a Paleobotanist as well. I've got a jet standing by in Chotoe." Grant " Well this is just not a good time. We've just dug up a new skeleton." Hammond "I could commpinsate you by full funding your dig." Grant "Well this is a very unusal time." Hammond "For a further three years." Then they start smiling and toasting their glases. Ellie "Where's the plane?" Grant "Yeah." Then they start laughing again and they jump up and start hugging each other. |
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