INDIANA JONES AND THE SONS OF DARKNESS

ABNER rides up to the house on his bike.

INT. ABNER'S HOUSE - FRONT DOOR - JUST AFTER      

ABNER marches inside with his bulging backpack weighing him down.

                           ABNER
             Mom!  I'm home!  Mom!

Silence.

INT. ABNER'S TIDY BEDROOM UPSTAIRS - JUST AFTER

ABNER upends his backpack and dumps out the library books onto his
bed.  He starts to neatly arrange the books on his desk. 

A BRIEF LOOK AT ABNER'S ROOM: It's well organized.  Everything in
its place.  ABNER is no ordinary kid.   

ABNER, puzzled, holds up a familiar looking book.  IT'S INDY'S
BOOK.

                           ABNER
             Where'd this come from?

He glances briefly at the author's photo on the back jacket. 

                           ABNER
                     (shrugging it off)
             Mustta got mixed in. 

CUT: Now ABNER is at a work table.  He pours melted candle wax
over sections of a foot-long popsicle stick model of NOAH'S ARK.
The ark is painted to look rotted.  Jagged holes in the bow and
stern add convincingly to the effect.  The wax hardens as it
cools, adding even greater detail to the model: a simulated layer
of ice.  ABNER is a crafty one. 

Squatting on another table is a nearly finished paper-mache MT.
ARARAT (just its snow-capped peak has been duplicated).  White
cotton simulates the snow-cap.  A real professional job.  

PUSH IN SLOWLY ON THE FAKE MT. ARARAT.

                                             CUT TO:

EXT. THE REAL MOUNT ARARAT, TURKEY - SUN UP      
 
A vast aerial view of the mountain as seen from the under belly of
an airplane.  The snow-capped peaks reach up and threaten to knock
us out of the sky.

EXT. THE SKY OVER MT. ARARAT

A RECONNAISSANCE PLANE banks sharply, letting us see the SOVIET
RED STAR insignia on its wing.

EXT. SNOW COVERED LOWLANDS, RUSSIA - OVERCAST

The lines of a MILITARY AIRFIELD AND OUTPOST are visible behind a
veil of blowing snow.

UP CLOSE on the outpost sign written in Russian.  Its translation
appears on the screen: HEADQUARTERS -- SOVIET AIR COMMAND.