RELIC

                              WATERS
                    We can't raise the S.W.A.T. team.  No
                    one's answering!  What do you want to
                    do?

     Ippolito eyes are fixed on the room below them.

                              IPPOLITO
                    Holy shit.  Pull him up.

     Lightning throws horrible shadows of the hulking dinosaur skeletons
     all around as MBWUN LIMPS INTO THE HALL!  The men on the roof stare
     down astonished.  Their mouths hang open at the sight!

                              IPPOLITO
                    Get more guns!  Now!

     The men get the drunk up and abandon the sling, leaving Jonathan
     trapped below.

     INT. HALL OF THE DINOSAURS - NIGHT

     Jonathan and Hobbes take cover behind one of the dinosaurs and hide.
     Mbwun sees Jonathan, lifts both claws, SWINGS at the skeleton, sending
     it crashing down!  Jonathan SCREAMS, Hobbes is caught and falls.  He
     scrambles into a corner, whimpering, as Pendergast and Margo appear in
     the door.  Fifteen more S.W.A.T. team members with rifles now line the
     hole in the roof.  They all point their guns at Mbwun.

                              IPPOLITO
                    Get back!  We're going to shoot!

     Now Margo runs forward.

                              MARGO
                    No.  Wait!  Let me talk to him first!

                              IPPOLITO
                        (screaming)
                    Kill that thing!  Kill it now!

                              MARGO
                    No!

     MBWUN... turns and sees Margo.  She speaks desperately.

                              MARGO
                    John... you can give up now!  Just lie
                    down where you are!

     Mbwun seems to consider for a moment, but then its eyes gleam and it
     ROARS.  With renewed vigor it leaps to the wall and starts to WALK UP
     IT like a GECKO, ON ALL FOURS!  ON THE ROOF...

     Some of the S.W.A.T. team fall back in terror!  Now that the monster is
     on the wall it's out of range of their fire!

                              WATERS
                    Holy shit it's coming this way!

                              IPPOLITO
                    It's headed for the roof.  Run!

     Ippolito turns and takes off once more in sheer terror.  Astonished,
     Waters tries to regain control.

                              WATERS
                    Get back here, you asshole!  We can't
                    let it get out!
                        (to the S.W.A.T. team)
                    Surround the opening and kill it!

     But the men are terrified, retreating like Ippolito.  Waters shouts.

                              WATERS
                    Back, everybody!  That's an order!

     But the team is in chaos and losing precious time.

     INT. HALL OF THE DINOSAURS - NIGHT

     The MONSTER is now half way up the wall.  Margo is distraught, crying.
     Her cool demeanor is cracked.  Pendergast is with her.  She shakes her
     head.

                              MARGO
                    Just like John.  He won't listen.

                              PENDERGAST
                    I have to shoot.

                              MARGO
                    Do it, quickly.  Please.  Aim for the
                    eye.

     Pendergast raises a HIGH POWERED RIFLE with a laser sight.  He aims the
     red laser beam directly at Mbwun's left eye.

                              PENDERGAST
                    He has to look here or I won't get a
                    clear shot.  Call him, Margo.

                              MARGO
                    I can't!

                              PENDERGAST
                    You have to.  Do it now!

     Margo takes a moment, her eyes streaming.  She has no choice, she calls
     out.

                              MARGO
                    John!  John, look at me!

     The beast looks down, sees Pendergast's rifle.  There's a long, awful,
     moment.  Suddenly it emits a sound like a wail.

     ON JONATHAN... staring, stunned.

     PENDERGAST... steady...

     MARGO... She's crying as she raises her arm as if to say good-bye.

     And the gun EXPLODES.

     ON MBWUN... its head shoots back in pain, and it falls... sixty feet
     straight down to the ground.  Silence.  Thunder rolls.

     It's over.  Pendergast turns to Margo and quietly folds her in his
     arms.

                                                       DISSOLVE TO:

     EXT. MUSEUM - NIGHT

     There are cops and journalists, ambulances, and medivacs all over the
     place.  Greg Kawakita, wet and bedraggled as a rat, runs up from
     Columbus Ave.  Behind him the Mayor and D'Agosta help the rest of the
     company to the ambulances.

     Waters is on the steps of the museum, helping to organize the rescue
     efforts as Kawakita runs up to Pendergast.

                              KAWAKITA
                    Margo Green.  Have you seen her?

                              PENDERGAST
                    She's over here.

     Greg turns to see Margo come out of the Rotunda with Frock, Jonathan
     and Hobbes.  Her face is devastated.  He moves to her side.  She reacts
     as she sees him, and teacher and pupil hug.

     D'AGOSTA is lost in the swirl of people.  And he likes it like that.  He
     rests against a large stone lion, pulls out a cheap cigar in
     cellophane, unwraps it carefully and tries to light it with a wet
     match.

     He's struggling hopelessly.  Finally he tosses the useless pack of
     matches, sighs.  But then a flame lowers right before his face.  He
     looks up to see Pendergast holding a silver engraved lighter.  D'Agosta
     smiles, takes a nice long hit.

                              PENDERGAST
                    Nice to see you, Lieutenant.

                              D'AGOSTA
                    The sub-basement, huh?  Great idea.

     We go to a wide shot of the museum as we slowly pull back...

                                                       DISSOLVE TO:

     EXT. NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM - DAY - SUPER TITLE: SEVERAL MONTHS LATER

     Christmas decorations are up.  A light snow is falling.  There is a very
     long line.

     INT. NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM - GIFT SHOP - DAY

     All the registers are doing a booming business.  People are buying
     Mbwun posters, t-shirts and hats.

     INT. SUPERSTITION EXHIBIT - DAY

     School tours, old ladies, parents and children, foreign tourists with
     cameras snake through the displays.  In the room with the Relic,
     there's a tremendous crowd.

     INT. MARGO'S LABORATORY - DAY

     Margo closes her computer, looks out a window at the falling snow.  She
     turns and walks into the back office.  Kawakita is working there alone.
     His fly-fishing rod stands in the corner, untouched.  Margo goes to it,
     smiles softly.

                              MARGO
                    No time for fishing anymore?

     Greg looks up from his work and smiles.