Venture: Missions (Joke Script)

'''EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' WIDE SHOT of a small, peaceful village. Distant sounds of native animals. A single wind chime. Suddenly a DROID RISES INTO FRAME, CLOSE: ROUND and SKITTERY, orange and white, this is BB-8. Focuses on something past camera. He BEEPS -- FAST, MORSE CODE-LIKE SOUNDS, clearly worried. Moves EVEN CLOSER TO CAMERA -- is MORE worried -- BEEPS more -- then TURNS AND

ROLLS OFF FAST --  '''INT. LARGE HUT - NIGHT ''' CLOSE ON A HAND: a small LEATHER SACK is placed in the palm. The hand closes. Another OLDER HAND covers it. In a primitive HUT, an old explorer, LOR SAN TEKKA, (rugged, kind) has handed the mysterious sack to POE DAMERON (32, in a pilot's jacket). Poe has charisma, a natural spark:

LOR SAN TEKKA This will begin to make things right. I've traveled too far, and seen too much, to ignore the despair in the galaxy. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force.

POE Well, because of you now we have a chance. The General's been after this for a long time.

LOR SAN TEKKA "The General." To me, she's royalty. Well, she certainly is that.

POE BB-8 ENTERS FRANTIC, BEEPS. Concerned, Poe turns to Lor San Tekka.

POE (CONT'D) We've got company.

'''EXT. LARGE HUT - NIGHT ''' The men exit fast. Poe moves TO CAMERA, raises QUADNOCULARS. POE'S POV: LIGHTS on the horizon -- approaching ENEMY SHIPS. POE lowers the quadnocs -- PUSH IN ON HIS UNNERVED EYES. A

'''GROWING, FRIGHTENING THUNDER.  POE '''You have to hide.

LOR SAN TEKKA You have to leave. Go! Poe turns to him. Conflicted. Finally nods, hurries off. BB-8 follows.

'''EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' TRACK FAST with Poe as he and BB-8 hurry through the village, various ARMED VILLAGERS taking position, prepared to defend.

'''EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' A ROAR of WIND and DUST: the TRANSPORTS LAND. Stormtroopers come out FIRING BLASTERS -- the VILLAGERS FIRE BACK -- many are HIT!

'''EXT. RISE ADJACENT TO VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' Poe runs to an X-WING fighter, parked at a distance from the village, hidden behind a ROCK OUTCROPPING.

POE Come on, BB-8! Hurry! Poe sends BB-8 into the droid socket / co-pilot seat -- he moves to the cockpit -- the CONTROLS COME TO LIFE. As the CANOPY CLOSES, Poe shoots a quick look back: the ENEMY ARRIVES

'''IN THE DISTANCE. '''Poe urgently works the controls -- BB-8 BEEPS. The X-WING LANDING LIGHTS COME ON, ENGINES WHINE TO LIFE! But just then: Poe's ship is suddenly HIT BY BLASTERFIRE! Poe turns to look: two STORMTROOPERS CHARGE HIS WAY, FIRING!

POE (CONT'D) I see 'em! BB-8 BEEPS nervously as Poe GRABS HIS CONTROLS and FIRES AT THEM, using the X-wing's drop-down antipersonnel blaster! The two Troopers are BLOWN AWAY in the large BLAST HITS! Poe tries to start the ship now, but the ENGINES SPUTTER. Concerned, he opens his canopy, jumps down, moves to the back of his ship: BAD DAMAGE ON THE REAR ENGINE PANEL. They're in trouble.

'''EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' Lor San Tekka moves sadly through the village as STORMTROOPERS wielding FLAME THROWERS destroy structures. Surrendering Villagers are ROUNDED UP. Penned ANIMALS panic.

'''EXT. RISE ADJACENT TO THE VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' Back at the X-wing, Poe kneels beneath his ship, pulls from the leather sack a SMALL, OLD ARTIFACT which he inserts into BB-8 -- the droid's MULTI-READER ENVELOPS it.

POE You take this. It's safer with you than it is with me. You get as far away from here as you can. Do you hear me? (BB-8 BEEPS, hesitates) I'll come back for you! It will be alright.

BB-8 watches Poe run off. BEEP-WHINES nervously, then turns and heads off. Turns back once to look at Poe, then ROLLS AWAY. Poe uses his blaster rifle to fire at incoming troopers from cover.

'''EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' The Troopers and villagers in battle -- as one Trooper is HIT and goes down. Another -- OUR TROOPER -- KNEELS to help. The hit trooper raises a torn, bloody glove -- his HUMAN HAND visible -- and MARKS OUR STORMTROOPER'S MASK WITH BLOOD just before he dies. Our Trooper, stands -- overwhelmed by the battle.

AN IMPOSING SHUTTLE CRAFT -- VERTICAL WINGSPAN 90 FEET TALL --  '''LANDS NEAR THE TRANSPORT VEHICLES. '''The shuttle craft door OPENS -- through the wind and smoke, KYLO REN exits the ship: a TALL, DARK FIGURE, he strides through the chaos toward San Tekka. A senior Trooper moves to our blood-marked Trooper, and orders

HIM:  SENIOR TROOPER Stay here. Our Trooper nods. Kylo Ren stops before the outraged Lor San Tekka, dwarfing him. Only now does it become apparent that Kylo Ren wears a DARK MASK, marked by battle. Inset metal lines reflect FIRE.

KYLO REN Look how old you've become.

LOR SAN TEKKA Something far worse has happened to you. Our blood-marked TROOPER is placed in line with other stormtroopers.

KYLO REN You know what I've come for.

(CONTINUED)  CONTINUED: LOR SAN TEKKA I know where you come from. Before you called yourself Kylo Ren.

KYLO REN The map to Skywalker. We know you've found it, and now you're going to give it to the First Order. Adjacent to the village, Poe enters frame -- sees the Ren/San Tekka exchange continue.

LOR SAN TEKKA The First Order rose from the dark side... you did not.

KYLO REN I'll show you the dark side.

LOR SAN TEKKA You may try, but you cannot deny the truth that is your family. Suddenly Kylo Ren raises his LIGHTSABER -- IGNITES IT --

PERPENDICULAR SMALLER BLADES AT THE HILT, A UNIQUE BUZZ --  YELLOW/RED ENERGY, SPITTING SPARKS AND SMOKE --  KYLO REN You're so right. And as he RIPS IT DOWN ACROSS SAN TEKKA! Poe, RUNNING, SEES THIS AND YELLS, AIMS HIS BLASTER AND FIRES AT KYLO REN! Instantly: Kylo Ren RAISES HIS HAND -- POE'S BLAST FREEZES -- THE BOLT

'''OF ENERGY STRAINING AND VIBRATING IN MID AIR! '''Kylo Ren sees Poe, who suddenly CANNOT MOVE, but strains to. He is grabbed by Stormtroopers who drag him past the VIBRATING, FROZEN BLAST, to Kylo Ren. A Stormtrooper begins a brutal PAT DOWN. Kylo Ren moves closer. Poe just glares. The Stormtrooper KICKS OUT Poe's legs -- he lands hard on his knees. Kylo Ren kneels to look at Poe.

POE So who talks first? You talk first?

KYLO REN The old man gave it to you.

POE  (INDICATES KYLO'S  MASK) It's just very hard to understand you with all the...

(CONTINUED)  CONTINUED:  KYLO REN  (TO TROOPERS) Search him.

POE ... Apparatus. The Troopers roughly pull Poe away. A Stormtrooper begins a brutal PAT DOWN. Kylo Ren moves closer. Poe just glares as the pat down ends.

STORMTROOPER #1 Nothing, sir.

KYLO REN Put him on board. Kylo Ren regards the Stormtroopers with the rounded up Villagers, then turns to the CHROME-SKINNED, FEMALE BLACK-

'''CAPED HEAD STORMTROOPER, CAPTAIN PHASMA.  CAPTAIN PHASMA '''Sir, the villagers.

KYLO REN Kill them all. Phasma nods, steps forward:

CAPTAIN PHASMA On my command! The Troopers, including OURS, aim at the Villagers.

CAPTAIN PHASMA (CONT'D) Fire! Poe is roughly PULLED into a transport ship, the ramp LIFTS. All around our Trooper BLASTERFIRE ERUPTS -- but we're WIDE ENOUGH to see he ISN'T FIRING. PUSH IN until the FIRING STOPS. All the Stormtroopers SPREAD OUT TO SEARCH -- except ours. Kylo Ren heads back toward his ship. But then he STOPS. Feels something. TURNS AND LOOKS AT OUR STORMTROOPER for a LONG MOMENT. Our Trooper can barely meet his gaze; knows he's doomed. Kylo Ren then heads off -- passes the FROZEN BLAST, which, after a beat, GOES FREE AND SLAMS INTO A NEARBY STRUCTURE, scaring the hell out of our Stormtrooper.

'''EXT. EDGE OF JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' A Stormtrooper climbs down from the cockpit of Poe's X-wing,

[A carriage passes under an archway (London, England appears in the center). A ton of people all over the street. A man holds up a sign advertising a pirate execution at the Old Bailey.] Someone off-screen: PIRATE SWORDS! PIRATE SWORDS! Man: PIRATE EXECUTION TODAY! WATCH HIM SWING! [points backwards] [Some boys jump and try to reach for toys of hanging pirates on a stick from a guy that looks like Ragetti. Two more play with wooden swords.] Another person: Pirate puppets! Boy: Take that, you! (Strangely, you can't really hear this quote) [A girl and her father make their way through the crowds] Girl: Hurry, Papa! Or we'll miss the hanging! Father: It's not a hanging, dear, it's a trial. The hanging comes this afternoon. Same guy from earlier: PIRATE HANGING TODAY! [Bars open, a Jailor grabs a hooded prisoner from his cell.] Jailor: Come on! Up you get! Move along, pirate! [shoves him against a wall] Or should I say, "Captain Pirate"? [laughs] Come on! Up you go! [they go up stairs] [Shot of crowds going wild, some kids hang from balconies holding their toy hanged-pirates-on-a-stick. Banging sound in the background.] Someone: Order! Order! Bailiff: Now appearing before the court, the notorious and infamous pirate, pillager, and highwayman - Captain Jack Sparrow! [The same Jailor brings the prisoner towards a pedestal. As soon as the Bailiff mentions Jack the hood is yanked off.] Gibbs: [squints around at the sudden bright light] I told ya! The name's Gibbs! Joshamee Gibbs! How many times do I -- Bailiff: Hear ye, hear ye! Presiding over these trials, all rise and attend to the right honorable Justice Smith! [Everyone gets up, doors open revealing someone in a big wig. Several people bow. Someone mutters to the Bailiff, handing him a stack of bills. The crowd sits back down, gets quiet as the guy in the wig pulls down his glasses - but a familiar voice!] Jack: Now. What do we have here? [he smiles, and we can see his powdered mustache and beard...and gold teeth.] Gibbs: [incredulous] Jack? [The Jailor clubs him on the back of the head, the crowd roars] One of the wigged guys: I don't recognize him. (This quote is also hard to hear) Jack: Not necessary! You were saying? Gibbs: Jack Sparrow is not my name. My name is Joshamee Gibbs! Jack: [thoughtful] Is that so? It says "Jack Sparrow" here. Gibbs: I told 'em! I'm not Jack Sparrow, who I would be happy to identify to the court, if it would help my case. Jack: I think that would be a poor defense unless you want to be bludgeoned again like a harp seal. [crowd roars somewhat] The prisoner claims to be innocent of being Jack Sparrow. How do you find? [The Foreman stands up] Foreman: No trial? But aren't we here to examine the evidence? Jack: Foreman. Your finding. Guilty? Foreman: Guilty verdict means he'll hang. [Very loud roaring and hand-drumming] Woman: HANG HIM! STRING HIM UP! [Jack glances around. It gets quiet.] Foreman: ...Guilty? Gibbs: [at the same time as the crowd roars loudly] THAT'S NOT FAIR! Jack: Shut it! [bangs gavel] Joshamee Gibbs! The crime which you've been found guilty of is being innocent of being Jack Sparrow. [Gibbs looks bewildered] I hereby commute your sentence and order that you be imprisoned for the remainder of your miserable, moribund, mutton-chopped life. Several people: Hang him! Jack: There. [bangs gavel once] [People stand up and roar louder than ever] Same woman: STRING HIM UP, HANG HIM HIGH! Bailiff: [as Gibbs is dragged back out] Means shall be arranged to transport this prisoner to the Tower of London! [But he and the others look around as fruit pelts to the ground - Jack's gone. He goes down a hallway, removes the wig, glasses, and the robes. Opens a door, revealing the real judge, who makes muffling sounds. Jack puts the robe on him like a blanket.] Jack: Thanks very much. [takes off the scarf] [Jack takes his hat from a horse] Jack: Ta. [pops it on, glances towards the driver.] [The driver nods, and there's a skull-and-crossbones tattoo on his arm. Meanwhile another jailor is shoving Gibbs into the wagon. Jack appears and he gets shoved in too. As soon as the doors close, the wagon moves forward.] Gibbs: Hell's teeth! Now we're both headed for prison. Jack: Not to worry. I've paid off the driver. Ten minutes, we'll be outside Londontown, horses waiting. Tonight we'll make the coast. Then it's just a matter of finding a ship. [drinks from a flask] [Wide view of the wagon going across a bridge] Gibbs: All part of the plan, yes? Jack: Exactly. I arrived in Londontown just this morning to rescue one Joshamee Gibbs from one appointment with the gallows. Seeing as how you're still alive, I'd say it's all been  very successful thus far. [Gibbs drinks from the flask] What happened to you, Gibbs? I thought you were employed elsewhere or otherwise engaged. Gibbs: Aye. But I always listened like a thief for news of the Black Pearl. Nobody's seen where she might next make port - then, I hear a rumor. Jack Sparrow was in London, with a ship, and looking for a crew. Jack: Am not. Gibbs: But that's what I heard. Fact is, you're signing up men tonight, pub called Captain's Daughter. [takes a drink] Jack: Am. Not! [grabs flask and drinks] Gibbs: Well, I thought it a bit odd. Then, you've never been the most predictable of sorts. [drinks] Jack: Tell me something. There is another Jack Sparrow out there sullying my good name? Gibbs: An imposter. Jack: Indeed. But...an imposter with a ship. Gibbs: [off-screen, hands flask over] And in need of a crew. Jack: Which, as fate would have it, so am I. Gibbs: What about you, Jack? Last I heard, you were hell-bent to find the Fountain of Youth. [grabs map and unrolls it] Any luck? Jack: [takes it back] Circumstances arose, and forced to compelling insight regarding discretion and the valor. Gibbs: Meaning, you gave up. Jack: I did not! I am just as bent as ever! Hellishly so! I shall taste those waters, Master Gibbs...mark my words. Gibbs: There's the Jack I know! Jack: And I'll not have it said, there's a point on the map Captain Sparrow never found - [Sudden lurch] Oh. Short trip.

[They exit the wagon, but see MANY guards.] Gibbs: All part of the plan, yes? [Jack turns around to go back inside, but gets whacked on the back of the head by a guard's rifle.] Jack: ...No. [Two guards grab him and march away. One throws a sack of coins at the driver, while another two close the wagon.] [Two guards march Jack down a hallway, their footsteps in time with the background drums. They later manacle him to a chair and leave as Jack frantically jerks at the chains. The door finally closes and it's absolutely silent. Jack looks up at the balcony, the window. Sees a plate full of creme puffs on the table. Glances to the side, then the table again. He scoots the chair forward. Scoots again, glances. Scoots forward twice. Then he pulls his arm forward, ready to grab the creme puff, but a hidden door suddenly opens. He gets scared and kicks the table from under, the creme puff rolls out of its plate and he kicks it with the toe of his boot and it flies upwards. He crosses his legs together as if nothing happened. A bunch of the guards file into the room. Jack looks up; the creme puff has stuck to the chandelier. Jack stares as King George enters, sits down.] Carteret: You ARE Jack Sparrow. Jack: ...There should be a "Captain" in there somewhere. George: I have heard of you. And you know who I am. Jack: Face is familiar; have I threatened you before? Pelham: You are in the presence of George Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Archtreasurer and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, King of Great Britian and Ireland ...and of you. Jack: [stares] Doesn't ring a bell. George: I am informed that you have come to London to procure a crew for your ship. Jack: [waves hand to the side] Vicious rumor. Not true. George: Then you lied to me when you told me you were Jack Sparrow. Jack: I am Jack Sparrow. But I am not here to procure a crew. [jiggles chains slightly] That is...someone else. George: Ah. Someone ELSE named Jack Sparrow. [to Carteret and Pelham] You brought me the wrong wastrel. Find the proper one, and dispose of this imposter! Jack: Oh, wait, wait, wait, hang on, wait a minute. I am Jack Sparrow, the one and only. And I am in London. [tries to jerk his hand free from the chains, rattling them] George: To procure a crew? Jack: What? [rattling gets nastier] George: To undertake a voyage to the Fountain - can someone please remove these infernal chains?!? [Two guards behind Jack come up to him.] Jack: [sighs in relief] Come, come. [George puts his fingers to his head as if he's stressed out. The Guards unlock the chains and walk off.] Pelham: We know you're in possession of a map. Carteret: So confiscate the map, and to the gallows with him! George: Have you a map? Jack: [pauses, glances around.] ...No. Pelham: Where is it? Jack: The truth? [stands up] I lost it. Quite recently, in fact. George: [as Jack admires the food] I have a report. The Spanish have located the Fountain of Youth. [just as Jack pokes some whipped cream, but flinches away every time George slams the table] I WILL NOT - HAVE SOME MELANCHOLY - SPANISH MONARCH - A CATHOLIC! - GAIN - ETERNAL - LIFE! [Finally, Jack dips a finger into the cream (stealing the cherry) and eats it] Pelham: You do know the way to the Fountain? Jack: 'Course I do. [flips away a handkerchief] Look at me! Carteret: You could guide an expedition? Jack: [positions a chair] With your permission, your heinie, you will be providing, then, a ship? [throws the handkerchief backwards behind him] And a crew? George: [leans back in his chair, gestures to Pelham, who gestures to the servants at the door] And...a captain. [Jack hides behind the chair as a man with a peg leg enters the room. He bows, and lo and behold, it's Barbossa.] Barbossa: Afternoon, sire. [Jack gives him a stern look as he limps over] If I may be so bold, why is that man not in chains? He must be manacled at once. George: [slight whiny, scornful voice] At the center of my palace? Hardly. Jack: Hector. How nice to see a fellow pirate make good of himself. Barbossa: Pirate? Nay. Privateer, on a sanctioned mission, under the authority and protection of the Crown. [fingers wig] Jack: As may be. First. What has become of my beloved Pearl? Barbossa: I lost the Pearl as I lost my leg! [slams peg leg on table, George moves his arms slightly] Jack: [disbelief] LOST THE PEARL? Barbossa: [lifts peg leg off table] I defended her mightily enough, but she be sunk, nonetheless. [Jack is so angry that he crawls over the table to get at him, but is held back by two guards.] Jack: If that ship be sunk, properly, you should be sunk with it. George: Captain Barbossa, each second we tarry, the Spanish outdistance us. I have every confidence you will prevail and be rewarded with the high station you so desire. Barbossa: [as he bows] To serve doth suffice, sire. Jack: You sir, have stooped. Barbossa: Jack, our sands be all but run. Where's the harm in joining the winning side? And you do meet a nicer class of person. Jack: I understand everything. Except that wig. [Jack breaks free of the guards, glances up at the creme puff. Kicks both guards' rifles upwards, grabs them, causing them to fire. One of the chains on the chandelier snaps, sending it swinging. Jack knocks the guards out with the butts of the rifles, then leaps on the table. He kicks a plate of food at another guard, then runs along the table, food flying everywhere. Knocks over a candle and backflips over to a chair and tosses it out the window. A guard takes out his sword and runs towards him. But he slips on the handkerchief and pummels out the window as Jack grabs a curtain tassel. A guard misses as he flies upwards to the windowledge. Just as the chandelier swings towards him he grabs hold of it. Barbossa and the others watch him. Jack gets to the balcony, snatches the creme puff. He bites into it and disappears. The rest of the guards file out of the main entrance.] George: ...He escaped? Barbossa: Leave it to me, sire. [George's expression freezes temporarily, then he does a dorky thumbs-up and smile face. Meanwhile Jack runs down some stairs, knocks away a guard's hat then speeds up again.] Guard: Guards! Guards! [The guard sets Jack's effects down on a table as he runs past in search of Jack along with some other guards. Jack peeks out from behind the table as soon as the coast is clear, then grabs the weapons. Scurries up even more stairs, runs through a hallway, pulls open a window and stops. Below is a busy street. Jack looks left and sees several banners. Looks back. Shot of the guards running up the same stairs, same hallway, same window - Jack isn't there.]

Guard: Find him! [The camera pans down to find Jack hiding behind one of the banners in a squatting position. The guard finally slowly backs out the window; just then Jack slips, his feet dangling. The guard sees his fingers appearing on top of the banner. He blows his whistle as Jack edges along it. Everyone below now see what's going on. Jack peeks out through a gap and notices that one of the tassels has fallen onto the ground. A boy runs over and picks it up, curiously looks up. His parents run over.] Guard: [as another guard opens a nearby window] There! [The other guard hacks away at the rope holding the banner with his sword. Jack shakes his head - he doesn't want to fall on the kid. The parents finally lead him away as the guard does a final slash. Jack plummets down into a passing carriage, landing face-first in a Society Lady's lap. She shrieks in horror. Jack sits up, stares at her rather seriously for a moment. Leans forward, bites off her earring as she sounds like she's about to faint. Jack climbs back out.] Society Lady: [peers out at him] Is that it? [Outside, Jack climbs onto the roof. The Society Lady smiles as if overcome by love, but then gasps out loud when she realizes her earring has gone. Jack has it in his mouth, hears guards coming. He eats it (I think, lol!), turns around, then manages to stand up on his feet as the carriage is still moving. Everyone stares. Guards run madly, pushing through the crowd. Jack bends down as the carriage rounds a curve. Stands up again and now there's another carriage next to this one. The guards start to gain on him. Jack glances up and around a few times, then leaps onto the second carriage. Loses his balance slightly and puts one foot on each roof. The gap between them seems to be widening. He jumps back to the original carriage and it turns left. Jack jumps again, faceplanting onto a coffin. Looks back and sees the guards taking a shortcut through several columns. Jack steps onto a wooden plank carried by two men, squishes a man's top hat, then ends up on a cart full of coal. The guards run into nasty traffic and end up running into each other. Jack pushes aside the cart driver, they fight over the reins. Jack looks back once more and now the guards are on horses.] Guard: [pistol aimed] Fire! [Multiple shots hit the coal. Jack and the driver duck. One shot hits one of the lanterns, igniting the coal. Jack snaps the reins and the driver falls out. The cart hits a bump in the road, dumping the coal. Then it runs into a bread stand. Jack looks around as the guards on horseback chase after him. The James Holt sign on the cart hits a low-hanging roof and Jack grins, the guards are trapped by the flames. They go the opposite direction, following the cart's path.]

[Camera pans to find Jack dangling on the Captain's Daughter sign. His face is in the woman carving's boobs, he waits until the guards are gone, then drops to the ground.] [Jack grins triumphantly, but his smile instantly fades.] Guard: Filthy pirate. [He cocks the rifle, but then a BANG is heard. The guard falls forward. Jack turns around...and sees Teague appearing out of the shadows.] Teague: Hello, Jackie. [salutes] Jack: [salutes back] Hello, Dad. [Inside the Captain's Daughter pub: a woman screams and laughs rather weirdly. Someone snores as his drink pours out of his tankard; a woman nearby shoves him slightly. The camera goes to a corner by a window.] Old Bill: Here, kitty, kitty, kitty! Have a little tot of rum with Old Bill, here. Come on, be a good little pussycat. [One of the cats meow] Teague: I heard you were putting together a crew. Jack: If enough people keep saying it, then it must be true. Teague: ...Is that your tooth? Jack: Aye. I broke it, swallowed it, passed it, sifted it, retrieved it, polished it...fashion. Teague: I heard where you're headed. The Fountain. Jack: Have you been there? Teague: Does this face look like it's been to the Fountain of Youth? Jack: Depends on the light. Teague: Son, the Fountain. There be items required, for the Profane Ritual. Two Chalices. Jack: On the map, there was a Chalice -- Teague: Two. Silver. From Ponce de Leon's ship. You'll need both. Jack: For? Teague: The Ritual! Don't be a fool, Jackie! Find out every detail before you set sail. Jack: Set sail? I'd love to. But for that, I may need a ship. Teague: [singing is now heard prominently] Those folk, over there. They have a ship. They're signing up sailors right now. [Jack looks over, and sees Scrum with some ladies. They are singing.] Scrum and the women: My heart is pierced by Cupid, I disdain all glittering gold... [Jack turns back to Teague] Teague: And one last thing, Jackie. The Fountain tests you. [mysteriously] Mark my words. [The two toast each other, and drink. Jack glances back over at Scrum.] Scrum and the women: ...there is nothing can console me but my jolly sailor bold! Woman: Ha ha haaaa! [Jack glances back - but Teague is gone. Scrum continues playing his mandola as the ladies leave. But stops instantly as Jack holds a small knife to his throat.] Jack: I hear you be recruiting a crew. Scrum: Aye. That is, Jack Sparrow be puttin' together a modest venture. [Jack steps out of the shadows] You've got some nerve, ain't ya? Turnin' up here, dressed like that?! What, are you some kind of imposter? Jack: Do you have any idea who I am, mate? Scrum: [laughs, then to everyone] Oi! Muckers! Some bloke here what forgot his own name! [Everyone laughs hysterically. A door bangs open.] Derrick: Lads, I'm sailin' with Sparrow! Who'll buy a sailor a drink? Several men: Aye! [cheers]

[Jack spots a shadow on the wall. He follows it into the Captain's Daughter storeroom and looks around. The imposter appears from behind a column. At the same time, the two brandish their swords. Jack: You've stolen me and I'm here to take meself back. [The other Jack races back behind the post, Jack does the same, but on the other side. They peek out from either side and back. They instantly face each other and clash swords. The two run over to the barbecue pit and circle each other. They have the exact same movements. Jack runs a hand down his beard while the other Jack does the same.] Jack: Stop doing that. [The two instantly begin to fight; other Jack dodges out of the way. Other Jack slashes for a moment then Jack misses, his sword stuck in the hunk of roasting meat. He yanks it out then he and the other Jack battle near a stack of barrels. They spin around, fight again, then other Jack kicks Jack in the stomach and races up a ramp. Jack gets up and chases after the other Jack just as a barrel comes rolling down. He leaps over one of them and trips. As the second barrel appears, Jack dodges it by jumping off the ramp. He watches other Jack run along the rafters. Pulls a lever and the elevator takes hims up there. Carefully balances on a narrow beam between two chandeliers. Again the two fight, jumping along the bars. Jack snaps loose a pulley and swings on it, kicks other Jack and he grabs the bar and swings, lands on the ground on top of stacked barrels. Jack appears near him and yet again resume fighting; the barrels collapse. Still more fights, other Jack stomps on Jack's foot. After a while other Jack does a slash-spin move, swordpoint straight at Jack.] Jack: Only one person alive knows that move. [A pause, slight clash of swords, but then OTHER JACK KISSES JACK! A long kiss, then other Jack lets go.] Jack: Always wanted to do that. Hello, Angelica. [he rips off her fake beard] Angelica: Hello, Jack. [as she removes the "soul patch"] Are you impressed? I think I almost killed you once or twice there. Jack: I am touched at this most sincerest form of flattery. [uses sword to flip away her hat] But why? Angelica: [removing bandanna and wig, ruffling out her hair] You were the only pirate I thought I would pass for. Jack: That is not a compliment. Angelica: [Jack rips open her coat slightly] Don't worry, Jack. I forgave you a long time ago. [rips off Borat-ish mustache] Jack: For what? For leaving you? Angelica: Recall that I left YOU. [walks off, Jack follows] Jack: A gentleman allows a lady to maintain her fictions. Angelica: Look, Sparrow, as long as my sailors get their money, they are willing to put up with any number of peculiarities. [moves off and Jack follows once more] Jack: Ah. But there is one peculiarity which I would not put up with. I will be impersonated as "Captain", nothing less. Angelica: Well, for that you need a ship. And as it turns out, I have one. Jack: ...I could use a ship. Angelica: I hear-tell you've been to the Fountain. Jack: There be a lot of hear-telling going on these days. Angelica: The Fountain of Youth. Jack: Dearest Angelica, fret not, you still have a few usable years left. Angelica: Haha! Always so charming. You didn't answer me. Jack: Eh? Ah, regarding the Fountain. Waste of time. Scrum: [Jack and Angelica instantly turn around at the sound of his voice] Milady! I see unseamenlike fellows of officious-looking nature! [Jack and Angelica take out their swords. Scrum looks outside then locks the door.] Angelica: Friends of yours? Jack: I may have unintentionally slighted some King or another. [Scrum piles stuff at the door.] Angelica: You haven't changed. Jack: Implying the need? Angelica: [faces him] Yes. Someone behind door: Open the door in the name of His Majesty! Angelica: You betrayed me. You seduced me and you used me. I was innocent of the ways of men. Jack: You demonstrated a lot of technique for someone I supposedly corrupted. [Angelica gives him a horrified, shocked look] Scrum: Imminent danger! Imminent now, milady! Someone behind door: OPEN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Jack hides in a corner] Angelica: I was ready to take my vows! And you - WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN A SPANISH CONVENT, ANYWAY? Jack: Mistook it for a brothel. Honest mistake. [Scrum runs just as the door is broken through. Immediately Jack and Angelica start fighting the Royal Guards. Scrum disappears up the stairs. Even more guards enter.] Angelica: We are at a disadvantage. Jack: [as he fights] Speak for yourself! Unlike some who pretend to be, that cannot in fact hold a candle to, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow! [Slices open a barrel, ale sprays out. Angelica joins in the barrel-stabbing, spraying the liquid everywhere. The guards slip and fall here and there. Jack lobs a barrel right at some guards and they fall down. Jack pokes a hole in one barrel and this time it's wine. He gulps hungrily from it, then Angelica pushes him away. The guards have their rifles aimed at them. Jack and Angelica glance at each other; Angelica slashes at a lever and the two drop down through a trapdoor into the water below. The guards watch as they swim away. Later they surface in the River Thames. Jack: How can you say I used you? Angelica: [exhaustedly] You know - exactly - how! Jack: I know, but how can you say it? [Angelica just grumbles] Angelica: So what is it. Jack: [miserably] What is what? [They land on the shore] Angelica: About the Fountain. What do you know? Jack: [empties his boot of water] You don't happen to be in possession of two Silver Chalices, circa Ponce de Leon? Angelica: No. Jack: Ha, thought not. Angelica: Why? Jack: I hear stories, rumors...you are of course aware of the Ritual. Angelica: Yes I am. Jack: [does his signature whiny "ooh" noise] What is it? What is required? [Instantly, a dart is shot into his neck. He plucks it out and stares at it.] Angelica: A mermaid, Jack. [Jack faints as the Quartermaster appears in the shadows. Angelica just grins.]

[In the Tower of London courtyard] Gibbs: There's been a mistake! It's a life sentence, not death. Life! [Guards open a gate as Barbossa enters.] Barbossa. Barbossa: Thank you, gentlemen. [throws some rope at him] I trust you can tie a noose. Gibbs: It's a hard thing. Forcing a man to twist his own hanging rope. [throws it back] Barbossa: You must lie in your bed the way you made it. [throws rope to Groves] Gibbs: What's happened to you? Barbossa: Where be Jack Sparrow? Gibbs: He escaped? Barbossa: [as Groves ties the rope] I'm on a tight schedule, Gibbs. The HMS Providence sets sail at first light, and if you do not care hanging here dead with a mouth full of flies [Groves tosses the rope over the wooden platform]...speak now. Gibbs: Take me with you. Any point of the compass -- Barbossa: Take you WHERE, Gibbs? The Fountain? Aye? Is that where Jack be headed? Have you anything you can offer me, Gibbs? [imploringly] Anything at all? [Gillette hoists the noose up the platform] Upon my naked word, you'll not see the dawn! [Gibbs rolls out the map] ...Hand it over. [But Gibbs tosses it to the ground, grabs a lantern, and throws it on the map.] Barbossa: YOU FOOL! Gibbs: [as a shot of the Aqua de Vida logo and a mermaid drawing appears in the flames] I've just enough time to study those infernal circles, every route, every destination - all safe. In here. [points to his head] Barbossa: Welcome back to His Majesty's Navy, Master Gibbs! [walks off] [Shot of a weird symbol on a drawing of Whitecap Bay as it burns up] HAGRID  Snape? Blimey, you're still on about him, are you? HARRY  Hagrid! We know he's after the Stone we just don't know why! HAGRID  Snape is one of the teachers protecting the Stone! He's not about to steal it. HARRY  What?

HAGRID  You heard. Right, now, come on, I'm a bit preoccupied today. HARRY  Wait a minute! "One of the teachers"? HERMIONE  Of course! There are other things defending the Stone, aren't there? Spells, enchantments? HAGRID  Right. Waste of bloody time if you ask me. Ain't no one gonna get past Fluffy. Ain't a soul knows how, except me and Dumbledore. I shouldn't have told you that. I should not have told you that. HARRY  Hagrid, what exactly is that?

HAGRID  Oh, That? It's a...it's um...

RON WEASLEY  I know what that is! But Hagrid how did you get one? HAGRID  I won it! Off a stranger I met at the pub. Seemed quite glad to be rid of it, as a matter of fact. HERMIONE  Is that...a dragon?

RON WEASLEY  That's not just a dragon! That's a Norwegian Ridgeback! My brother Charlie works with these in Romania. HAGRID  Isn't he beautiful? Oh bless him look, he knows his mummy! Hello Norbert! HARRY  Norbert?

HAGRID  Well he's gotta have a name don't he? Don't you Norbert? Te de de de de! Oh! Woah! He'll have to be trained up a bit of course. Who's that? HARRY  Malfoy.

HAGRID  Oh, dear.

HARRY  Hagrid always wanted a dragon. He told me so the first time I ever met him. RON WEASLEY  It's crazy! And worse Malfoy knows. HERMIONE  I don't understand. Is that bad?

RON WEASLEY  It's bad.

MCGONAGALL  Good evening. Nothing I repeat nothing gives a student the right to walk about the school at night. Therefore as punishment for your actions, 50 points will be taken. HARRY  50!  MCGONAGALL  Each. And to ensure that it doesn't happen again all four of you will receive detention. DRACO MALFOY  Excuse me professor. Perhaps I heard you wrong. I thought you said the four of us. MCGONAGALL  No you heard me correctly Mr. Malfoy. You see, honorable as your intentions were you too were out of bed after hours. You will join you classmates in detention.

FILCH  A pity they let the old punishments die. Was a time detention found you hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons. God, I'll miss the screaming. You'll be serving detention with Hagrid tonight. He's got a little job to do inside the Dark Forest. A sorry lot, this, Hagrid. Oh good God you're not still on about that bloody dragon now are you? HAGRID  Norbert's gone. Dumbledore sent him off to Romania to live in a colony. HERMIONE  Well, that's good isn't it? He'll be with his own kind. HAGRID  Yeah, but what if he don't like Romania? What if the other dragons are mean to him? He's only a baby after all. FILCH  Oh, for God's sake pull yourself together man. You're going into the Forest after all. Got to have your wits about you. DRACO MALFOY  The Forest? I thought that was a joke. We can't go in there. Students aren't allowed. And there are... werewolves! FILCH  Ah, there's more that werewolves in those trees, lad. You can be sure of that. Nighty- night. HAGRID  Right, let's go.

HARRY  Hagrid, what is that?

HAGRID  What we're here for. See that? That's unicorn blood, that is. I found one dead a few weeks ago. Now, this one's been hurt bad by something. So, it's our job to go and find the poor beast. Ron, Hermione, you'll come with me. RON WEASLEY  Okay...

HAGRID  And Harry, you'll go with Malfoy.

DRACO MALFOY  Okay, then I get Fang!

HAGRID  Fine. Just so you know he's bloody coward. DRACO MALFOY  Wait till my father hears about this! This is servant stuff. HARRY  If I didn't know better Draco, I'd say you were scared. DRACO MALFOY  Scared Potter. Did you hear that?

HARRY  Come on Fang!

DRACO MALFOY  Scared!

HARRY  What is it Fang?

DRACO MALFOY  '''AH!  FIRENZE ''' Harry Potter, you must leave. You are known to many creatures here. The Forest is not safe at this time. Especially for you. HARRY  But what was that thing you saved me from? FIRENZE  A monstrous creature. It is a terrible crime to slay a unicorn. Drinking the blood of a unicorn will keep you alive even if you are an inch from death. But at a terrible price. For you have slain something so pure that the moment the blood touches your lips you have a half-life, a cursed life. HARRY  But who would choose such a life?

FIRENZE  Can you think of no one?

HARRY  You mean to say that thing that killed the unicorn, that was drinking its blood, that was Voldemort? FIRENZE  Do you know what is hidden in the school at this very moment, Mr. Potter? HARRY  The Sorcerer's Stone!

HERMIONE  Harry!

HAGRID  Hello there Firenze. See you've met our young Mr. Potter. All right there Harry? FIRENZE  Harry Potter, this is where I leave you. You are safe now. Good luck. They have arrived at the front steps of the library.

INDY That doesn't look much like a library.

BRODY It looks like a converted church.

Elsa leads the way inside.

INT. THE LIBRARY - DAY

Indy, Brody and Elsa enter, their heels CLICKING across the marble floor.

We notice, along with Indy and Brody, that the library contains many stained-glass windows.

ELSA In this case it's the literal truth. We're on holy ground. These columns over here...

She indicates FOUR HUGE MARBLE COLUMNS that go from floor to ceiling.

ELSA ...were brought back as spoils of war after the sacking of Byzantium during the Crusades.

Indy glances at the Columns, then notices a stained-glass Window that depicts a Knight of the Crusades. Indy lingers for a moment in front of the window.

ELSA Now please excuse me. The library's closing in a few moments. I'll arrange for us to stay a little longer.

The minute Elsa is out of earshot.

INDY Marcus -- I've seen this window before.

BRODY Where?

Indy whips out the Grail Diary and opens it to the sketch he noticed in the airplane.

INDY Right here. In Dad's Diary. You see?

Brody glances at the Diary, then at the window -- noticing that the Roman numerals in question have been worked into the window's design.

BRODY Look, Indy. The Roman numerals!

INDY Dad was onto something here!

BRODY Well, now we know the source of the numbers, but we still don't know what they mean.

Indy and Brody now see Elsa approaching. Indy quickly tucks the Diary back into his pocket.

INDY (explaining to Brody) My dad sent me this Diary for a reason. Until we find out why, I suggest we keep it to ourselves.

ELSA Find something?

Indy doesn't reply. He's looking in five directions at once. His eyes moving across the walls and ceilings -- charged with the thrill of discovery.

BRODY (to Elsa) Uh, yes. Three, seven and ten. That window seems to be the source of the Roman numerals.

ELSA My God, I must be blind

INDY Dad wasn't looking for a book about the Knight's Tomb... he was looking for the Tomb itself

Elsa wears a blank expression.

INDY Don't you get it? The Tomb is somewhere in the library! You said yourself it used to be a church! Look.

Indy's eyes travel up one of the four huge marble columns.

INDY Three.

Indy looks again to the stained-glass window. He points.

INDY Three!

Indy has discovered that each Column is numbered with a Roman Numeral. Indy hurries away toward Column VII. All Brody and Elsa can do now is try to keep up with him.

INDY Seven.

He points again to the stained-glass window.

INDY Seven... Ten.

He looks down to the scrap of paper in his hands.

INDY And ten. Now where's the ten? Look around for the ten.

Indy walks past aisles of book-lined shelves. He stops, turns, then looks down.

INDY Three, seven and ten.

He climbs a spiral staircase leading up to a LOFT and looks down at Brody and Elsa. The floor beneath their feet is an elaborate tile design containing a huge "X" -- visible only from this higher angle.

INDY Ten. (wryly; to himself) "X" marks the spot.

Indy rushes down the staircase and goes to the CENTER TILE where the two sides of the X intersect. He blows dust away from the tile and tries to pry it up, but cannot.

Indy rushes past Brody to a cordon held in place by a brass stand underneath the stained-glass window.

Indy raises the brass stand and timing his actions, hits the tile precisely as the Librarian stamps a book. The Librarian regards the stamper curiously.

Indy continues to pound at the tile as the Librarian resumes his stamping, still puzzled by the SOUND ECHOING through the library.

Finally Indy breaks the tile. As he bends to remove the pieces of broken tile, a TWO-FOOT SQUARE HOLE IS REVEALED.

Cold air and a wet, rancid smell escape from the hole.

INDY Bingo.

ELSA You don't disappoint, Doctor Jones. You're a great deal like your father.

INDY Except he's lost, and I'm not.

ELSA Lower me down.

Indy is impressed with Elsa's spirit, and cooperates agreeably -- holding her by the hands and lowering her into the hole. When her feet finally touch ground below, Indy releases his grip on her and slips the Grail Diary to Brody.

INDY Look after this for me, will you?

Then Indy disappears into the hole.

INT. CATACOMBS BELOW LIBRARY - DAY

Indy jumps down a steep step. He reaches back to help Elsa.

INDY Come on.

Indy and Elsa glance around. This is really a horrid place. Dark and dank. Foul smelling. Elsa turns. She removes a cigarette lighter with a unique ivory four-leaf clover design.

Indy and Elsa inspect markings carved onto the walls.

ELSA Pagan symbols. Fourth or Fifth Century.

INDY Right. Six hundred years before the Crusades.

ELSA The Christians would have dug their own passages and burial chambers centuries later.

Indy takes the lighter from her and lights their way down a dark passageway.

INDY That's right. If there's a Knight of the First Crusade entombed down here, that's where we'll find him.

INT. LIBRARY - DAY

THREE MEN carrying guns make their way down the spiral staircase toward an unsuspecting Brody. One of the Men, KAZIM, raises his gun and brings it down hard on Brody's head.

BRODY Ohhhh...

Kazim gestures with his gun toward the now-unconscious Brody. The other two men take Brody's hands and drag him into one of the book-lined aisles.

INT. ANOTHER PART OF THE CATACOMBS - DAY

DECOMPOSING CORPSES rest in niches carved into the stone walls. Grotesque skeletal remains with rotting linen stretched across blackened bones.

Indy holds the lighter up as he and Elsa inspect symbols carved into the walls.

Elsa spots a symbol cut into the wall that she doesn't recognize. As she blows away some cobwebs:

ELSA What's this one?

Indy only has to give it a quick glance to know.

INDY The Ark of the Covenant.

ELSA Are you sure?

INDY (deadpan) Pretty sure.

Indy holds the lighter up and he and Elsa enter another dark passageway.

ANOTHER PART OF THE CATACOMBS

Indy steps to the wall and runs his hand over the stone. He scrapes the cobwebs away to reveal the ROMAN NUMERAL "X."

INDY Watch out.

Elsa now holds the lighter as Indy rams his shoulder into the wall. The wall collapses on impact and Indy falls through into another room.

ANOTHER ROOM - THE CATACOMBS

As Indy falls through the hole in the wall onto rocks surrounded by bubbling, green, slimy liquid. More skeletons surround him, resting in their carved niches. Elsa holds the lighter as she peers in at him through the hole in the wall.

INDY Petroleum. I could sink a well down here and retire.

Indy reaches up and tears a piece of cloth from one of the skeletons, which breaks apart and falls into the oil-slick water.

Indy uses the scrap of cloth and a bone to fashion a crude torch, which he then dips into the oily water.

INDY Give me the lighter.

ANOTHER PART OF THE CATACOMBS

Using the cloth-wrapped bone torch to guide their way, Indy and Elsa come upon a NARROW PASSAGEWAY. The water is knee- deep and TEEMING WITH RATS. Thousands of them crawling on one another's backs. SQUEALING. Squirming. Thrashing in the water.

INDY Oh, rats...

Elsa gasps as the rats scamper between her legs.

Indy moves forward through the rat-infested water as Elsa follows, still gasping in horror. Suddenly he slips into a hole. Recovering his balance, he reaches out to Elsa.

INDY Come on!

She gasps once again, terrified. Indy lifts her and carries Elsa as he moves forward.

THE CATACOMBS - THE HOLE IN THE WALL

Kazim and his men step to the opening Indy made earlier and shine their flashlights through to the rat-infested water.

ANOTHER PART OF THE CATACOMBS

More rat-infested water as Elsa, now walking again, follows Indy through another passageway lined with skulls and bones.

Indy reaches for a wall to steady himself and inadvertently grabs a skeleton. A bone comes loose in his hand as rats scurry about and leap at him from all directions.

He takes a moment to compose himself, then steps across the water to Elsa's side. He steps into the water, then reaches up to help Elsa do the same.

INDY Come here.

LARGE BURIAL CHAMBER

The chamber is flooded with black, briny water.

INDY Look...

In the center of the chamber, jutting up above the water, is what amounts to an "island altar" on which SEVERAL ANCIENT COFFINS rest. They move toward the altar.

Indy and Elsa begin to inspect the ornately carved COFFINS like the scholars of antiquity that they are. These are big oak caskets held together by straps of etched brass.

INDY It must be one of these...

ELSA Look at the artistry of these carvings and the scrollwork.

One coffin is elevated above the others.

ELSA It's this one.

Together they begin to push on the lid -- STRAINING and GROANING until it slides away and BANGS against the stone platform.

INSIDE THE COFFIN

Lie the DECOMPOSED REMAINS of a KNIGHT IN ARMOR. Indy and Elsa look in... Elsa gasps.

INDY This is it! We found it! Look -- the engraving on the shield. It's the same as on the Grail Tablets. The shield is the second marker!

Indy unfolds a piece of paper and holds it over the shield.

ELSA What's that?

INDY It's a rubbing Dad made of the Grail Tablet.

The missing portion of the rubbing is completed by the shield.

ELSA Just like your father -- giddy as a schoolboy.

Indy laughs.

ELSA Wouldn't it be wonderful if he were here now to see this?

INDY (chuckles) He never would have made it past the rats! He hates rats! He's scared to death of them!

CLOSE - A HAND

As it lights a match.

PULL BACK TO REVEAL KAZIM

Dropping the lighted match into the oil-slick water.

INDY AND ELSA

Elsa holds the torch. Indy looks around. Listens. Something is wrong. And then he sees the GLOW OF FIRELIGHT dancing across the Catacomb walls.

This is followed by THOUSANDS OF RATS FLEEING from around the corner of the Narrow Passageway, STAMPEDING toward Elsa and Indy -- SHRIEKING and SQUEALING as they approach.

The rats literally wash over them -- like a rodent tidal wave -- in their efforts to escape a:

HUGE ORANGE BALL OF FIRE

ROARING around the corner hurtling towards them -- feeding on the oil slick; consuming the oxygen.

Elsa SCREAMS.

INDY Get back! Back against the wall.

Indy braces his back against the altar and TOPPLES THE COFFIN with his feet. It CRASHES against the stone platform and SPLASHES into the water.

INDY Quick! Under it!

They jump into the water beside the bobbing, overturned coffin.

INDY Air pocket!

Elsa hesitates. Indy literally DUNKS her and pushes her underneath.

UNDER THE COFFIN

Elsa surfaces into the air pocket created by the coffin, SPUTTERING and SPITTING.

Now Indy pops up into the air pocket. He looks at Elsa -- they are both soaking wet.

INDY Don't wander off.

ELSA What?

Indy disappears under the water and swims out from under the coffin.

ELSA What?

UNDER THE WATER

Indy swims, looking for an escape route.

UNDER THE COFFIN

The rats are beginning to force their way inside, swimming through the water and climbing on Elsa, who squirms and screams in terror.

Indy pops back up through the water.

INDY I think I've found a way out. Deep breath.

Elsa groans. They take a deep breath and both dive under the water.

EXT. VENICE PIAZZA - OUTDOOR CAFE - DAY

The perfect picture postcard -- St. Mark's Square and the Grand Canal beyond. Cafe customers are startled to see Indy and Elsa climb out of the sewer, wet and smelly. Indy looks around at the postcard-perfect setting and smiles.

INDY (wryly) Ah, Venice!

Indy's delight, however, is short-lived since Kazim and TWO OTHER TURKISH AGENTS are running towards them with drawn guns.

He grabs Elsa by the hand and the two of them run down the dock and LEAP INTO A MOTORBOAT.

INT. THE MOTORBOAT - DAY

Indy fires up the engine and pulls away from the dock... but not before a TURKISH AGENT JUMPS in with him.

Elsa grabs the wheel and begins to steer the boat while Indy and the Turk trade punches.

EXT. THE HARBOR - DAY

Indy's Speedboat BOUNCES across the choppy waters heading in the direction of the DOCKED STEAMSHIP.

Kazim and his men rush to TWO MORE SPEEDBOATS tied to the dock.

They chase after Indy.

Indy grapples with the Turkish Agent. As Indy grips his arms, we SEE a GUN in the Agent's hand. It FIRES.

As Indy fights with the Turk, he becomes aware of the Speedboats behind him and two enormous Freighters ahead of him, joined together by two giant ropes.

Indy, having gained the advantage, leans on top of the Turkish Agent.

INDY (to Elsa) Are you crazy?! You don't go between them!

Elsa can barely hear Indy over the noise of the motor.

ELSA Go between them? Are you crazy?!

Indy finally delivers the punch that sends the Turkish Agent flying overboard. Turning, Indy sees that Elsa has committed the speedboat to a course BETWEEN the two Freighters, now being pushed even closer together by a Tugboat.

INDY I said go around!

ELSA You said go between them!

INDY I said don't go between them!

It's purely academic at this point since the hulls of the two Freighters loom up on either side of them like cavern walls.

EXT. FULL SHOT - THE HARBOR - DAY

One Enemy Speedboat chases Indy between the two Freighters. But the Speedboat containing Kazim veers off and goes around.

EXT. BETWEEN THE TWO FREIGHTERS - DAY

It's a race for daylight as the two Freighters drift ever closer to one another.

Indy's Speedboat just manages to squeeze through the gap. But the Enemy Speedboat EXPLODES as it is crushed between the two Freighters, FLYING INTO THE AIR and SPLASHING back down into the water.

INDY AND ELSA

Spin their boat around in a sharp half-circle to see KAZIM'S SPEEDBOAT appear racing toward them. He stands in the moving boat, FIRING A MACHINE GUN at Indy and Elsa.

KAZIM'S SPEEDBOAT

Matches Indy's move for move.

FULL SHOT - THE HARBOR

The two boats race across the water nearly side-by-side. A CHATTERING MACHINE GUN from Kazim's boat SPLINTERS the wood of Indy's boat, until finally the rear of the boat CATCHES ON FIRE.

The machine gun runs out of ammunition. Kazim puts it down and takes control of the wheel from one of the Turkish Agents in the boat with him.

As Indy's boat drifts toward the GIANT, TURNING PROPELLERS at the STERN of ANOTHER STEAMER, Kazim's boat draws up alongside and hits them. Indy steps into Kazim's boat. He knocks one of the Turkish Agents to the deck, then turns his attention to Kazim. The two men trade punches as the boat spins helplessly in the churning water.

ELSA No!!

Indy kicks Kazim in the face, knocking him into the water, then pulls him back into the boat, now being SUCKED THROUGH THE CHURNING WATER toward the Steamer's giant propeller blades.

INDY Why are you trying to kill us?

KAZIM Because you're looking for the Holy Grail.

INDY My father was looking for the Holy Grail. Did you kill him too?

KAZIM No.

INDY Where is he? Talk -- or you're dead. Damn it, tell me! Tell me!

KAZIM If you don't let go, Doctor Jones, we'll both die.

INDY Then we'll die.

KAZIM My soul is prepared. How's yours?

By now half the boat has been chopped up into matchwood and the blades are getting closer.

INDY This is your last chance.

KAZIM No, Doctor Jones. It's yours!

The wind of the blades is on their necks. Indy grabs Kazim just in time and jumps... into the motorboat, driven by Elsa, which gets alongside in the nick of time.

INDY All right! Where's my father

KAZIM If you let me go, I will tell you where he is.

INDY Who are you?

KAZIM My name is Kazim.

INDY And why were you trying to kill me?

KAZIM The secret of the Grail has been safe for a thousand years. And for all that time the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword has been prepared to do anything to keep it safe.

Kazim pulls back his shirt to reveal a birthmark... or is it a tattoo? Whatever it is, it's a cruciform sword; a Christian cross which tapers down, like the blades of a broadsword.

KAZIM Let me get off at this jetty.

The boat is close to the edge of the canal. Indy gives Elsa a nod, telling her to bring the boat in. Kazim steps ashore.

KAZIM Ask yourself, why do you seek the Cup of Christ? Is it for His glory, or for yours?

INDY I didn't come for the Cup of Christ. I came to find my father.

KAZIM In that case, God be with you in your quest. Your father is being held in the Castle of Brunwald on the Austrian-German border.

Kazim walks away.'''EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' WIDE SHOT of a small, peaceful village. Distant sounds of native animals. A single wind chime. Suddenly a DROID RISES INTO FRAME, CLOSE: ROUND and SKITTERY, orange and white, this is BB-8. Focuses on something past camera. He BEEPS -- FAST, MORSE CODE-LIKE SOUNDS, clearly worried. Moves EVEN CLOSER TO CAMERA -- is MORE worried -- BEEPS more -- then TURNS AND ROLLS OFF FAST --  '''INT. LARGE HUT - NIGHT ''' CLOSE ON A HAND: a small LEATHER SACK is placed in the palm. The hand closes. Another OLDER HAND covers it. In a primitive HUT, an old explorer, LOR SAN TEKKA, (rugged, kind) has handed the mysterious sack to POE DAMERON (32, in a pilot's jacket). Poe has charisma, a natural spark: LOR SAN TEKKA This will begin to make things right. I've traveled too far, and seen too much, to ignore the despair in the galaxy. Without the Jedi, there can be no balance in the Force. POE Well, because of you now we have a chance. The General's been after this for a long time. LOR SAN TEKKA "The General." To me, she's royalty. Well, she certainly is that. POE BB-8 ENTERS FRANTIC, BEEPS. Concerned, Poe turns to Lor San Tekka. POE (CONT'D) We've got company. '''EXT. LARGE HUT - NIGHT ''' The men exit fast. Poe moves TO CAMERA, raises QUADNOCULARS. POE'S POV: LIGHTS on the horizon -- approaching ENEMY SHIPS. POE lowers the quadnocs -- PUSH IN ON HIS UNNERVED EYES. A '''GROWING, FRIGHTENING THUNDER.  POE '''You have to hide. LOR SAN TEKKA You have to leave. Go! Poe turns to him. Conflicted. Finally nods, hurries off. BB-8 follows. '''EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' TRACK FAST with Poe as he and BB-8 hurry through the village, various ARMED VILLAGERS taking position, prepared to defend. '''EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' A ROAR of WIND and DUST: the TRANSPORTS LAND. Stormtroopers come out FIRING BLASTERS -- the VILLAGERS FIRE BACK -- many are HIT! '''EXT. RISE ADJACENT TO VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' Poe runs to an X-WING fighter, parked at a distance from the village, hidden behind a ROCK OUTCROPPING. POE Come on, BB-8! Hurry! Poe sends BB-8 into the droid socket / co-pilot seat -- he moves to the cockpit -- the CONTROLS COME TO LIFE. As the CANOPY CLOSES, Poe shoots a quick look back: the ENEMY ARRIVES '''IN THE DISTANCE. '''Poe urgently works the controls -- BB-8 BEEPS. The X-WING LANDING LIGHTS COME ON, ENGINES WHINE TO LIFE! But just then: Poe's ship is suddenly HIT BY BLASTERFIRE! Poe turns to look: two STORMTROOPERS CHARGE HIS WAY, FIRING! POE (CONT'D) I see 'em! BB-8 BEEPS nervously as Poe GRABS HIS CONTROLS and FIRES AT THEM, using the X-wing's drop-down antipersonnel blaster! The two Troopers are BLOWN AWAY in the large BLAST HITS! Poe tries to start the ship now, but the ENGINES SPUTTER. Concerned, he opens his canopy, jumps down, moves to the back of his ship: BAD DAMAGE ON THE REAR ENGINE PANEL. They're in trouble. '''EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' Lor San Tekka moves sadly through the village as STORMTROOPERS wielding FLAME THROWERS destroy structures. Surrendering Villagers are ROUNDED UP. Penned ANIMALS panic. '''EXT. RISE ADJACENT TO THE VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' Back at the X-wing, Poe kneels beneath his ship, pulls from the leather sack a SMALL, OLD ARTIFACT which he inserts into BB-8 -- the droid's MULTI-READER ENVELOPS it. POE You take this. It's safer with you than it is with me. You get as far away from here as you can. Do you hear me? (BB-8 BEEPS, hesitates) I'll come back for you! It will be alright. BB-8 watches Poe run off. BEEP-WHINES nervously, then turns and heads off. Turns back once to look at Poe, then ROLLS AWAY. Poe uses his blaster rifle to fire at incoming troopers from cover. '''EXT. JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' The Troopers and villagers in battle -- as one Trooper is HIT and goes down. Another -- OUR TROOPER -- KNEELS to help. The hit trooper raises a torn, bloody glove -- his HUMAN HAND visible -- and MARKS OUR STORMTROOPER'S MASK WITH BLOOD just before he dies. Our Trooper, stands -- overwhelmed by the battle. AN IMPOSING SHUTTLE CRAFT -- VERTICAL WINGSPAN 90 FEET TALL --  '''LANDS NEAR THE TRANSPORT VEHICLES. '''The shuttle craft door OPENS -- through the wind and smoke, KYLO REN exits the ship: a TALL, DARK FIGURE, he strides through the chaos toward San Tekka. A senior Trooper moves to our blood-marked Trooper, and orders HIM:  SENIOR TROOPER Stay here. Our Trooper nods. Kylo Ren stops before the outraged Lor San Tekka, dwarfing him. Only now does it become apparent that Kylo Ren wears a DARK MASK, marked by battle. Inset metal lines reflect FIRE. KYLO REN Look how old you've become. LOR SAN TEKKA Something far worse has happened to you. Our blood-marked TROOPER is placed in line with other stormtroopers. KYLO REN You know what I've come for. (CONTINUED)  CONTINUED: LOR SAN TEKKA I know where you come from. Before you called yourself Kylo Ren. KYLO REN The map to Skywalker. We know you've found it, and now you're going to give it to the First Order. Adjacent to the village, Poe enters frame -- sees the Ren/San Tekka exchange continue. LOR SAN TEKKA The First Order rose from the dark side... you did not. KYLO REN I'll show you the dark side. LOR SAN TEKKA You may try, but you cannot deny the truth that is your family. Suddenly Kylo Ren raises his LIGHTSABER -- IGNITES IT -- PERPENDICULAR SMALLER BLADES AT THE HILT, A UNIQUE BUZZ --  YELLOW/RED ENERGY, SPITTING SPARKS AND SMOKE --  KYLO REN You're so right. And as he RIPS IT DOWN ACROSS SAN TEKKA! Poe, RUNNING, SEES THIS AND YELLS, AIMS HIS BLASTER AND FIRES AT KYLO REN! Instantly: Kylo Ren RAISES HIS HAND -- POE'S BLAST FREEZES -- THE BOLT '''OF ENERGY STRAINING AND VIBRATING IN MID AIR! '''Kylo Ren sees Poe, who suddenly CANNOT MOVE, but strains to. He is grabbed by Stormtroopers who drag him past the VIBRATING, FROZEN BLAST, to Kylo Ren. A Stormtrooper begins a brutal PAT DOWN. Kylo Ren moves closer. Poe just glares. The Stormtrooper KICKS OUT Poe's legs -- he lands hard on his knees. Kylo Ren kneels to look at Poe. POE So who talks first? You talk first? KYLO REN The old man gave it to you. POE  (INDICATES KYLO'S  MASK) It's just very hard to understand you with all the... (CONTINUED)  CONTINUED:  KYLO REN  (TO TROOPERS) Search him. POE ... Apparatus. The Troopers roughly pull Poe away. A Stormtrooper begins a brutal PAT DOWN. Kylo Ren moves closer. Poe just glares as the pat down ends. STORMTROOPER #1 Nothing, sir. KYLO REN Put him on board. Kylo Ren regards the Stormtroopers with the rounded up Villagers, then turns to the CHROME-SKINNED, FEMALE BLACK- '''CAPED HEAD STORMTROOPER, CAPTAIN PHASMA.  CAPTAIN PHASMA '''Sir, the villagers. KYLO REN Kill them all. Phasma nods, steps forward: CAPTAIN PHASMA On my command! The Troopers, including OURS, aim at the Villagers. CAPTAIN PHASMA (CONT'D) Fire! Poe is roughly PULLED into a transport ship, the ramp LIFTS. All around our Trooper BLASTERFIRE ERUPTS -- but we're WIDE ENOUGH to see he ISN'T FIRING. PUSH IN until the FIRING STOPS. All the Stormtroopers SPREAD OUT TO SEARCH -- except ours. Kylo Ren heads back toward his ship. But then he STOPS. Feels something. TURNS AND LOOKS AT OUR STORMTROOPER for a LONG MOMENT. Our Trooper can barely meet his gaze; knows he's doomed. Kylo Ren then heads off -- passes the FROZEN BLAST, which, after a beat, GOES FREE AND SLAMS INTO A NEARBY STRUCTURE, scaring the hell out of our Stormtrooper. '''EXT. EDGE OF JAKKU VILLAGE - NIGHT ''' A Stormtrooper climbs down from the cockpit of Poe's X-wing, [A carriage passes under an archway (London, England appears in the center). A ton of people all over the street. A man holds up a sign advertising a pirate execution at the Old Bailey.] Someone off-screen: PIRATE SWORDS! PIRATE SWORDS! Man: PIRATE EXECUTION TODAY! WATCH HIM SWING! [points backwards] [Some boys jump and try to reach for toys of hanging pirates on a stick from a guy that looks like Ragetti. Two more play with wooden swords.] Another person: Pirate puppets! Boy: Take that, you! (Strangely, you can't really hear this quote) [A girl and her father make their way through the crowds] Girl: Hurry, Papa! Or we'll miss the hanging! Father: It's not a hanging, dear, it's a trial. The hanging comes this afternoon. Same guy from earlier: PIRATE HANGING TODAY! [Bars open, a Jailor grabs a hooded prisoner from his cell.] Jailor: Come on! Up you get! Move along, pirate! [shoves him against a wall] Or should I say, "Captain Pirate"? [laughs] Come on! Up you go! [they go up stairs] [Shot of crowds going wild, some kids hang from balconies holding their toy hanged-pirates-on-a-stick. Banging sound in the background.] Someone: Order! Order! Bailiff: Now appearing before the court, the notorious and infamous pirate, pillager, and highwayman - Captain Jack Sparrow! [The same Jailor brings the prisoner towards a pedestal. As soon as the Bailiff mentions Jack the hood is yanked off.] Gibbs: [squints around at the sudden bright light] I told ya! The name's Gibbs! Joshamee Gibbs! How many times do I -- Bailiff: Hear ye, hear ye! Presiding over these trials, all rise and attend to the right honorable Justice Smith! [Everyone gets up, doors open revealing someone in a big wig. Several people bow. Someone mutters to the Bailiff, handing him a stack of bills. The crowd sits back down, gets quiet as the guy in the wig pulls down his glasses - but a familiar voice!] Jack: Now. What do we have here? [he smiles, and we can see his powdered mustache and beard...and gold teeth.] Gibbs: [incredulous] Jack? [The Jailor clubs him on the back of the head, the crowd roars] One of the wigged guys: I don't recognize him. (This quote is also hard to hear) Jack: Not necessary! You were saying? Gibbs: Jack Sparrow is not my name. My name is Joshamee Gibbs! Jack: [thoughtful] Is that so? It says "Jack Sparrow" here. Gibbs: I told 'em! I'm not Jack Sparrow, who I would be happy to identify to the court, if it would help my case. Jack: I think that would be a poor defense unless you want to be bludgeoned again like a harp seal. [crowd roars somewhat] The prisoner claims to be innocent of being Jack Sparrow. How do you find? [The Foreman stands up] Foreman: No trial? But aren't we here to examine the evidence? Jack: Foreman. Your finding. Guilty? Foreman: Guilty verdict means he'll hang. [Very loud roaring and hand-drumming] Woman: HANG HIM! STRING HIM UP! [Jack glances around. It gets quiet.] Foreman: ...Guilty? Gibbs: [at the same time as the crowd roars loudly] THAT'S NOT FAIR! Jack: Shut it! [bangs gavel] Joshamee Gibbs! The crime which you've been found guilty of is being innocent of being Jack Sparrow. [Gibbs looks bewildered] I hereby commute your sentence and order that you be imprisoned for the remainder of your miserable, moribund, mutton-chopped life. Several people: Hang him! Jack: There. [bangs gavel once] [People stand up and roar louder than ever] Same woman: STRING HIM UP, HANG HIM HIGH! Bailiff: [as Gibbs is dragged back out] Means shall be arranged to transport this prisoner to the Tower of London! [But he and the others look around as fruit pelts to the ground - Jack's gone. He goes down a hallway, removes the wig, glasses, and the robes. Opens a door, revealing the real judge, who makes muffling sounds. Jack puts the robe on him like a blanket.] Jack: Thanks very much. [takes off the scarf] [Jack takes his hat from a horse] Jack: Ta. [pops it on, glances towards the driver.] [The driver nods, and there's a skull-and-crossbones tattoo on his arm. Meanwhile another jailor is shoving Gibbs into the wagon. Jack appears and he gets shoved in too. As soon as the doors close, the wagon moves forward.] Gibbs: Hell's teeth! Now we're both headed for prison. Jack: Not to worry. I've paid off the driver. Ten minutes, we'll be outside Londontown, horses waiting. Tonight we'll make the coast. Then it's just a matter of finding a ship. [drinks from a flask] [Wide view of the wagon going across a bridge] Gibbs: All part of the plan, yes? Jack: Exactly. I arrived in Londontown just this morning to rescue one Joshamee Gibbs from one appointment with the gallows. Seeing as how you're still alive, I'd say it's all been  very successful thus far. [Gibbs drinks from the flask] What happened to you, Gibbs? I thought you were employed elsewhere or otherwise engaged. Gibbs: Aye. But I always listened like a thief for news of the Black Pearl. Nobody's seen where she might next make port - then, I hear a rumor. Jack Sparrow was in London, with a ship, and looking for a crew. Jack: Am not. Gibbs: But that's what I heard. Fact is, you're signing up men tonight, pub called Captain's Daughter. [takes a drink] Jack: Am. Not! [grabs flask and drinks] Gibbs: Well, I thought it a bit odd. Then, you've never been the most predictable of sorts. [drinks] Jack: Tell me something. There is another Jack Sparrow out there sullying my good name? Gibbs: An imposter. Jack: Indeed. But...an imposter with a ship. Gibbs: [off-screen, hands flask over] And in need of a crew. Jack: Which, as fate would have it, so am I. Gibbs: What about you, Jack? Last I heard, you were hell-bent to find the Fountain of Youth. [grabs map and unrolls it] Any luck? Jack: [takes it back] Circumstances arose, and forced to compelling insight regarding discretion and the valor. Gibbs: Meaning, you gave up. Jack: I did not! I am just as bent as ever! Hellishly so! I shall taste those waters, Master Gibbs...mark my words. Gibbs: There's the Jack I know! Jack: And I'll not have it said, there's a point on the map Captain Sparrow never found - [Sudden lurch] Oh. Short trip.

[They exit the wagon, but see MANY guards.] Gibbs: All part of the plan, yes? [Jack turns around to go back inside, but gets whacked on the back of the head by a guard's rifle.] Jack: ...No. [Two guards grab him and march away. One throws a sack of coins at the driver, while another two close the wagon.] [Two guards march Jack down a hallway, their footsteps in time with the background drums. They later manacle him to a chair and leave as Jack frantically jerks at the chains. The door finally closes and it's absolutely silent. Jack looks up at the balcony, the window. Sees a plate full of creme puffs on the table. Glances to the side, then the table again. He scoots the chair forward. Scoots again, glances. Scoots forward twice. Then he pulls his arm forward, ready to grab the creme puff, but a hidden door suddenly opens. He gets scared and kicks the table from under, the creme puff rolls out of its plate and he kicks it with the toe of his boot and it flies upwards. He crosses his legs together as if nothing happened. A bunch of the guards file into the room. Jack looks up; the creme puff has stuck to the chandelier. Jack stares as King George enters, sits down.] Carteret: You ARE Jack Sparrow. Jack: ...There should be a "Captain" in there somewhere. George: I have heard of you. And you know who I am. Jack: Face is familiar; have I threatened you before? Pelham: You are in the presence of George Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Archtreasurer and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, King of Great Britian and Ireland ...and of you. Jack: [stares] Doesn't ring a bell. George: I am informed that you have come to London to procure a crew for your ship. Jack: [waves hand to the side] Vicious rumor. Not true. George: Then you lied to me when you told me you were Jack Sparrow. Jack: I am Jack Sparrow. But I am not here to procure a crew. [jiggles chains slightly] That is...someone else. George: Ah. Someone ELSE named Jack Sparrow. [to Carteret and Pelham] You brought me the wrong wastrel. Find the proper one, and dispose of this imposter! Jack: Oh, wait, wait, wait, hang on, wait a minute. I am Jack Sparrow, the one and only. And I am in London. [tries to jerk his hand free from the chains, rattling them] George: To procure a crew? Jack: What? [rattling gets nastier] George: To undertake a voyage to the Fountain - can someone please remove these infernal chains?!? [Two guards behind Jack come up to him.] Jack: [sighs in relief] Come, come. [George puts his fingers to his head as if he's stressed out. The Guards unlock the chains and walk off.] Pelham: We know you're in possession of a map. Carteret: So confiscate the map, and to the gallows with him! George: Have you a map? Jack: [pauses, glances around.] ...No. Pelham: Where is it? Jack: The truth? [stands up] I lost it. Quite recently, in fact. George: [as Jack admires the food] I have a report. The Spanish have located the Fountain of Youth. [just as Jack pokes some whipped cream, but flinches away every time George slams the table] I WILL NOT - HAVE SOME MELANCHOLY - SPANISH MONARCH - A CATHOLIC! - GAIN - ETERNAL - LIFE! [Finally, Jack dips a finger into the cream (stealing the cherry) and eats it] Pelham: You do know the way to the Fountain? Jack: 'Course I do. [flips away a handkerchief] Look at me! Carteret: You could guide an expedition? Jack: [positions a chair] With your permission, your heinie, you will be providing, then, a ship? [throws the handkerchief backwards behind him] And a crew? George: [leans back in his chair, gestures to Pelham, who gestures to the servants at the door] And...a captain. [Jack hides behind the chair as a man with a peg leg enters the room. He bows, and lo and behold, it's Barbossa.] Barbossa: Afternoon, sire. [Jack gives him a stern look as he limps over] If I may be so bold, why is that man not in chains? He must be manacled at once. George: [slight whiny, scornful voice] At the center of my palace? Hardly. Jack: Hector. How nice to see a fellow pirate make good of himself. Barbossa: Pirate? Nay. Privateer, on a sanctioned mission, under the authority and protection of the Crown. [fingers wig] Jack: As may be. First. What has become of my beloved Pearl? Barbossa: I lost the Pearl as I lost my leg! [slams peg leg on table, George moves his arms slightly] Jack: [disbelief] LOST THE PEARL? Barbossa: [lifts peg leg off table] I defended her mightily enough, but she be sunk, nonetheless. [Jack is so angry that he crawls over the table to get at him, but is held back by two guards.] Jack: If that ship be sunk, properly, you should be sunk with it. George: Captain Barbossa, each second we tarry, the Spanish outdistance us. I have every confidence you will prevail and be rewarded with the high station you so desire. Barbossa: [as he bows] To serve doth suffice, sire. Jack: You sir, have stooped. Barbossa: Jack, our sands be all but run. Where's the harm in joining the winning side? And you do meet a nicer class of person. Jack: I understand everything. Except that wig. [Jack breaks free of the guards, glances up at the creme puff. Kicks both guards' rifles upwards, grabs them, causing them to fire. One of the chains on the chandelier snaps, sending it swinging. Jack knocks the guards out with the butts of the rifles, then leaps on the table. He kicks a plate of food at another guard, then runs along the table, food flying everywhere. Knocks over a candle and backflips over to a chair and tosses it out the window. A guard takes out his sword and runs towards him. But he slips on the handkerchief and pummels out the window as Jack grabs a curtain tassel. A guard misses as he flies upwards to the windowledge. Just as the chandelier swings towards him he grabs hold of it. Barbossa and the others watch him. Jack gets to the balcony, snatches the creme puff. He bites into it and disappears. The rest of the guards file out of the main entrance.] George: ...He escaped? Barbossa: Leave it to me, sire. [George's expression freezes temporarily, then he does a dorky thumbs-up and smile face. Meanwhile Jack runs down some stairs, knocks away a guard's hat then speeds up again.] Guard: Guards! Guards! [The guard sets Jack's effects down on a table as he runs past in search of Jack along with some other guards. Jack peeks out from behind the table as soon as the coast is clear, then grabs the weapons. Scurries up even more stairs, runs through a hallway, pulls open a window and stops. Below is a busy street. Jack looks left and sees several banners. Looks back. Shot of the guards running up the same stairs, same hallway, same window - Jack isn't there.]

Guard: Find him! [The camera pans down to find Jack hiding behind one of the banners in a squatting position. The guard finally slowly backs out the window; just then Jack slips, his feet dangling. The guard sees his fingers appearing on top of the banner. He blows his whistle as Jack edges along it. Everyone below now see what's going on. Jack peeks out through a gap and notices that one of the tassels has fallen onto the ground. A boy runs over and picks it up, curiously looks up. His parents run over.] Guard: [as another guard opens a nearby window] There! [The other guard hacks away at the rope holding the banner with his sword. Jack shakes his head - he doesn't want to fall on the kid. The parents finally lead him away as the guard does a final slash. Jack plummets down into a passing carriage, landing face-first in a Society Lady's lap. She shrieks in horror. Jack sits up, stares at her rather seriously for a moment. Leans forward, bites off her earring as she sounds like she's about to faint. Jack climbs back out.] Society Lady: [peers out at him] Is that it? [Outside, Jack climbs onto the roof. The Society Lady smiles as if overcome by love, but then gasps out loud when she realizes her earring has gone. Jack has it in his mouth, hears guards coming. He eats it (I think, lol!), turns around, then manages to stand up on his feet as the carriage is still moving. Everyone stares. Guards run madly, pushing through the crowd. Jack bends down as the carriage rounds a curve. Stands up again and now there's another carriage next to this one. The guards start to gain on him. Jack glances up and around a few times, then leaps onto the second carriage. Loses his balance slightly and puts one foot on each roof. The gap between them seems to be widening. He jumps back to the original carriage and it turns left. Jack jumps again, faceplanting onto a coffin. Looks back and sees the guards taking a shortcut through several columns. Jack steps onto a wooden plank carried by two men, squishes a man's top hat, then ends up on a cart full of coal. The guards run into nasty traffic and end up running into each other. Jack pushes aside the cart driver, they fight over the reins. Jack looks back once more and now the guards are on horses.] Guard: [pistol aimed] Fire! [Multiple shots hit the coal. Jack and the driver duck. One shot hits one of the lanterns, igniting the coal. Jack snaps the reins and the driver falls out. The cart hits a bump in the road, dumping the coal. Then it runs into a bread stand. Jack looks around as the guards on horseback chase after him. The James Holt sign on the cart hits a low-hanging roof and Jack grins, the guards are trapped by the flames. They go the opposite direction, following the cart's path.]

[Camera pans to find Jack dangling on the Captain's Daughter sign. His face is in the woman carving's boobs, he waits until the guards are gone, then drops to the ground.] [Jack grins triumphantly, but his smile instantly fades.] Guard: Filthy pirate. [He cocks the rifle, but then a BANG is heard. The guard falls forward. Jack turns around...and sees Teague appearing out of the shadows.] Teague: Hello, Jackie. [salutes] Jack: [salutes back] Hello, Dad. [Inside the Captain's Daughter pub: a woman screams and laughs rather weirdly. Someone snores as his drink pours out of his tankard; a woman nearby shoves him slightly. The camera goes to a corner by a window.] Old Bill: Here, kitty, kitty, kitty! Have a little tot of rum with Old Bill, here. Come on, be a good little pussycat. [One of the cats meow] Teague: I heard you were putting together a crew. Jack: If enough people keep saying it, then it must be true. Teague: ...Is that your tooth? Jack: Aye. I broke it, swallowed it, passed it, sifted it, retrieved it, polished it...fashion. Teague: I heard where you're headed. The Fountain. Jack: Have you been there? Teague: Does this face look like it's been to the Fountain of Youth? Jack: Depends on the light. Teague: Son, the Fountain. There be items required, for the Profane Ritual. Two Chalices. Jack: On the map, there was a Chalice -- Teague: Two. Silver. From Ponce de Leon's ship. You'll need both. Jack: For? Teague: The Ritual! Don't be a fool, Jackie! Find out every detail before you set sail. Jack: Set sail? I'd love to. But for that, I may need a ship. Teague: [singing is now heard prominently] Those folk, over there. They have a ship. They're signing up sailors right now. [Jack looks over, and sees Scrum with some ladies. They are singing.] Scrum and the women: My heart is pierced by Cupid, I disdain all glittering gold... [Jack turns back to Teague] Teague: And one last thing, Jackie. The Fountain tests you. [mysteriously] Mark my words. [The two toast each other, and drink. Jack glances back over at Scrum.] Scrum and the women: ...there is nothing can console me but my jolly sailor bold! Woman: Ha ha haaaa! [Jack glances back - but Teague is gone. Scrum continues playing his mandola as the ladies leave. But stops instantly as Jack holds a small knife to his throat.] Jack: I hear you be recruiting a crew. Scrum: Aye. That is, Jack Sparrow be puttin' together a modest venture. [Jack steps out of the shadows] You've got some nerve, ain't ya? Turnin' up here, dressed like that?! What, are you some kind of imposter? Jack: Do you have any idea who I am, mate? Scrum: [laughs, then to everyone] Oi! Muckers! Some bloke here what forgot his own name! [Everyone laughs hysterically. A door bangs open.] Derrick: Lads, I'm sailin' with Sparrow! Who'll buy a sailor a drink? Several men: Aye! [cheers]

[Jack spots a shadow on the wall. He follows it into the Captain's Daughter storeroom and looks around. The imposter appears from behind a column. At the same time, the two brandish their swords. Jack: You've stolen me and I'm here to take meself back. [The other Jack races back behind the post, Jack does the same, but on the other side. They peek out from either side and back. They instantly face each other and clash swords. The two run over to the barbecue pit and circle each other. They have the exact same movements. Jack runs a hand down his beard while the other Jack does the same.] Jack: Stop doing that. [The two instantly begin to fight; other Jack dodges out of the way. Other Jack slashes for a moment then Jack misses, his sword stuck in the hunk of roasting meat. He yanks it out then he and the other Jack battle near a stack of barrels. They spin around, fight again, then other Jack kicks Jack in the stomach and races up a ramp. Jack gets up and chases after the other Jack just as a barrel comes rolling down. He leaps over one of them and trips. As the second barrel appears, Jack dodges it by jumping off the ramp. He watches other Jack run along the rafters. Pulls a lever and the elevator takes hims up there. Carefully balances on a narrow beam between two chandeliers. Again the two fight, jumping along the bars. Jack snaps loose a pulley and swings on it, kicks other Jack and he grabs the bar and swings, lands on the ground on top of stacked barrels. Jack appears near him and yet again resume fighting; the barrels collapse. Still more fights, other Jack stomps on Jack's foot. After a while other Jack does a slash-spin move, swordpoint straight at Jack.] Jack: Only one person alive knows that move. [A pause, slight clash of swords, but then OTHER JACK KISSES JACK! A long kiss, then other Jack lets go.] Jack: Always wanted to do that. Hello, Angelica. [he rips off her fake beard] Angelica: Hello, Jack. [as she removes the "soul patch"] Are you impressed? I think I almost killed you once or twice there. Jack: I am touched at this most sincerest form of flattery. [uses sword to flip away her hat] But why? Angelica: [removing bandanna and wig, ruffling out her hair] You were the only pirate I thought I would pass for. Jack: That is not a compliment. Angelica: [Jack rips open her coat slightly] Don't worry, Jack. I forgave you a long time ago. [rips off Borat-ish mustache] Jack: For what? For leaving you? Angelica: Recall that I left YOU. [walks off, Jack follows] Jack: A gentleman allows a lady to maintain her fictions. Angelica: Look, Sparrow, as long as my sailors get their money, they are willing to put up with any number of peculiarities. [moves off and Jack follows once more] Jack: Ah. But there is one peculiarity which I would not put up with. I will be impersonated as "Captain", nothing less. Angelica: Well, for that you need a ship. And as it turns out, I have one. Jack: ...I could use a ship. Angelica: I hear-tell you've been to the Fountain. Jack: There be a lot of hear-telling going on these days. Angelica: The Fountain of Youth. Jack: Dearest Angelica, fret not, you still have a few usable years left. Angelica: Haha! Always so charming. You didn't answer me. Jack: Eh? Ah, regarding the Fountain. Waste of time. Scrum: [Jack and Angelica instantly turn around at the sound of his voice] Milady! I see unseamenlike fellows of officious-looking nature! [Jack and Angelica take out their swords. Scrum looks outside then locks the door.] Angelica: Friends of yours? Jack: I may have unintentionally slighted some King or another. [Scrum piles stuff at the door.] Angelica: You haven't changed. Jack: Implying the need? Angelica: [faces him] Yes. Someone behind door: Open the door in the name of His Majesty! Angelica: You betrayed me. You seduced me and you used me. I was innocent of the ways of men. Jack: You demonstrated a lot of technique for someone I supposedly corrupted. [Angelica gives him a horrified, shocked look] Scrum: Imminent danger! Imminent now, milady! Someone behind door: OPEN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! [Jack hides in a corner] Angelica: I was ready to take my vows! And you - WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN A SPANISH CONVENT, ANYWAY? Jack: Mistook it for a brothel. Honest mistake. [Scrum runs just as the door is broken through. Immediately Jack and Angelica start fighting the Royal Guards. Scrum disappears up the stairs. Even more guards enter.] Angelica: We are at a disadvantage. Jack: [as he fights] Speak for yourself! Unlike some who pretend to be, that cannot in fact hold a candle to, I'm Captain Jack Sparrow! [Slices open a barrel, ale sprays out. Angelica joins in the barrel-stabbing, spraying the liquid everywhere. The guards slip and fall here and there. Jack lobs a barrel right at some guards and they fall down. Jack pokes a hole in one barrel and this time it's wine. He gulps hungrily from it, then Angelica pushes him away. The guards have their rifles aimed at them. Jack and Angelica glance at each other; Angelica slashes at a lever and the two drop down through a trapdoor into the water below. The guards watch as they swim away. Later they surface in the River Thames. Jack: How can you say I used you? Angelica: [exhaustedly] You know - exactly - how! Jack: I know, but how can you say it? [Angelica just grumbles] Angelica: So what is it. Jack: [miserably] What is what? [They land on the shore] Angelica: About the Fountain. What do you know? Jack: [empties his boot of water] You don't happen to be in possession of two Silver Chalices, circa Ponce de Leon? Angelica: No. Jack: Ha, thought not. Angelica: Why? Jack: I hear stories, rumors...you are of course aware of the Ritual. Angelica: Yes I am. Jack: [does his signature whiny "ooh" noise] What is it? What is required? [Instantly, a dart is shot into his neck. He plucks it out and stares at it.] Angelica: A mermaid, Jack. [Jack faints as the Quartermaster appears in the shadows. Angelica just grins.]

[In the Tower of London courtyard] Gibbs: There's been a mistake! It's a life sentence, not death. Life! [Guards open a gate as Barbossa enters.] Barbossa. Barbossa: Thank you, gentlemen. [throws some rope at him] I trust you can tie a noose. Gibbs: It's a hard thing. Forcing a man to twist his own hanging rope. [throws it back] Barbossa: You must lie in your bed the way you made it. [throws rope to Groves] Gibbs: What's happened to you? Barbossa: Where be Jack Sparrow? Gibbs: He escaped? Barbossa: [as Groves ties the rope] I'm on a tight schedule, Gibbs. The HMS Providence sets sail at first light, and if you do not care hanging here dead with a mouth full of flies [Groves tosses the rope over the wooden platform]...speak now. Gibbs: Take me with you. Any point of the compass -- Barbossa: Take you WHERE, Gibbs? The Fountain? Aye? Is that where Jack be headed? Have you anything you can offer me, Gibbs? [imploringly] Anything at all? [Gillette hoists the noose up the platform] Upon my naked word, you'll not see the dawn! [Gibbs rolls out the map] ...Hand it over. [But Gibbs tosses it to the ground, grabs a lantern, and throws it on the map.] Barbossa: YOU FOOL! Gibbs: [as a shot of the Aqua de Vida logo and a mermaid drawing appears in the flames] I've just enough time to study those infernal circles, every route, every destination - all safe. In here. [points to his head] Barbossa: Welcome back to His Majesty's Navy, Master Gibbs! [walks off] [Shot of a weird symbol on a drawing of Whitecap Bay as it burns up] HAGRID  Snape? Blimey, you're still on about him, are you? HARRY  Hagrid! We know he's after the Stone we just don't know why! HAGRID  Snape is one of the teachers protecting the Stone! He's not about to steal it. HARRY  What?

HAGRID  You heard. Right, now, come on, I'm a bit preoccupied today. HARRY  Wait a minute! "One of the teachers"? HERMIONE  Of course! There are other things defending the Stone, aren't there? Spells, enchantments? HAGRID  Right. Waste of bloody time if you ask me. Ain't no one gonna get past Fluffy. Ain't a soul knows how, except me and Dumbledore. I shouldn't have told you that. I should not have told you that. HARRY  Hagrid, what exactly is that?

HAGRID  Oh, That? It's a...it's um...

RON WEASLEY  I know what that is! But Hagrid how did you get one? HAGRID  I won it! Off a stranger I met at the pub. Seemed quite glad to be rid of it, as a matter of fact. HERMIONE  Is that...a dragon?

RON WEASLEY  That's not just a dragon! That's a Norwegian Ridgeback! My brother Charlie works with these in Romania. HAGRID  Isn't he beautiful? Oh bless him look, he knows his mummy! Hello Norbert! HARRY  Norbert?

HAGRID  Well he's gotta have a name don't he? Don't you Norbert? Te de de de de! Oh! Woah! He'll have to be trained up a bit of course. Who's that? HARRY  Malfoy.

HAGRID  Oh, dear.

HARRY  Hagrid always wanted a dragon. He told me so the first time I ever met him. RON WEASLEY  It's crazy! And worse Malfoy knows. HERMIONE  I don't understand. Is that bad?

RON WEASLEY  It's bad.

MCGONAGALL  Good evening. Nothing I repeat nothing gives a student the right to walk about the school at night. Therefore as punishment for your actions, 50 points will be taken. HARRY  50!  MCGONAGALL  Each. And to ensure that it doesn't happen again all four of you will receive detention. DRACO MALFOY  Excuse me professor. Perhaps I heard you wrong. I thought you said the four of us. MCGONAGALL  No you heard me correctly Mr. Malfoy. You see, honorable as your intentions were you too were out of bed after hours. You will join you classmates in detention.

FILCH  A pity they let the old punishments die. Was a time detention found you hanging by your thumbs in the dungeons. God, I'll miss the screaming. You'll be serving detention with Hagrid tonight. He's got a little job to do inside the Dark Forest. A sorry lot, this, Hagrid. Oh good God you're not still on about that bloody dragon now are you? HAGRID  Norbert's gone. Dumbledore sent him off to Romania to live in a colony. HERMIONE  Well, that's good isn't it? He'll be with his own kind. HAGRID  Yeah, but what if he don't like Romania? What if the other dragons are mean to him? He's only a baby after all. FILCH  Oh, for God's sake pull yourself together man. You're going into the Forest after all. Got to have your wits about you. DRACO MALFOY  The Forest? I thought that was a joke. We can't go in there. Students aren't allowed. And there are... werewolves! FILCH  Ah, there's more that werewolves in those trees, lad. You can be sure of that. Nighty- night. HAGRID  Right, let's go.

HARRY  Hagrid, what is that?

HAGRID  What we're here for. See that? That's unicorn blood, that is. I found one dead a few weeks ago. Now, this one's been hurt bad by something. So, it's our job to go and find the poor beast. Ron, Hermione, you'll come with me. RON WEASLEY  Okay...

HAGRID  And Harry, you'll go with Malfoy.

DRACO MALFOY  Okay, then I get Fang!

HAGRID  Fine. Just so you know he's bloody coward. DRACO MALFOY  Wait till my father hears about this! This is servant stuff. HARRY  If I didn't know better Draco, I'd say you were scared. DRACO MALFOY  Scared Potter. Did you hear that?

HARRY  Come on Fang!

DRACO MALFOY  Scared!

HARRY  What is it Fang?

DRACO MALFOY  '''AH!  FIRENZE ''' Harry Potter, you must leave. You are known to many creatures here. The Forest is not safe at this time. Especially for you. HARRY  But what was that thing you saved me from? FIRENZE  A monstrous creature. It is a terrible crime to slay a unicorn. Drinking the blood of a unicorn will keep you alive even if you are an inch from death. But at a terrible price. For you have slain something so pure that the moment the blood touches your lips you have a half-life, a cursed life. HARRY  But who would choose such a life?

FIRENZE  Can you think of no one?

HARRY  You mean to say that thing that killed the unicorn, that was drinking its blood, that was Voldemort? FIRENZE  Do you know what is hidden in the school at this very moment, Mr. Potter? HARRY  The Sorcerer's Stone!

HERMIONE  Harry!

HAGRID  Hello there Firenze. See you've met our young Mr. Potter. All right there Harry? FIRENZE  Harry Potter, this is where I leave you. You are safe now. Good luck. They have arrived at the front steps of the library.

INDY That doesn't look much like a library.

BRODY It looks like a converted church.

Elsa leads the way inside.

INT. THE LIBRARY - DAY

Indy, Brody and Elsa enter, their heels CLICKING across the marble floor.

We notice, along with Indy and Brody, that the library contains many stained-glass windows.

ELSA In this case it's the literal truth. We're on holy ground. These columns over here...

She indicates FOUR HUGE MARBLE COLUMNS that go from floor to ceiling.

ELSA ...were brought back as spoils of war after the sacking of Byzantium during the Crusades.

Indy glances at the Columns, then notices a stained-glass Window that depicts a Knight of the Crusades. Indy lingers for a moment in front of the window.

ELSA Now please excuse me. The library's closing in a few moments. I'll arrange for us to stay a little longer.

The minute Elsa is out of earshot.

INDY Marcus -- I've seen this window before.

BRODY Where?

Indy whips out the Grail Diary and opens it to the sketch he noticed in the airplane.

INDY Right here. In Dad's Diary. You see?

Brody glances at the Diary, then at the window -- noticing that the Roman numerals in question have been worked into the window's design.

BRODY Look, Indy. The Roman numerals!

INDY Dad was onto something here!

BRODY Well, now we know the source of the numbers, but we still don't know what they mean.

Indy and Brody now see Elsa approaching. Indy quickly tucks the Diary back into his pocket.

INDY (explaining to Brody) My dad sent me this Diary for a reason. Until we find out why, I suggest we keep it to ourselves.

ELSA Find something?

Indy doesn't reply. He's looking in five directions at once. His eyes moving across the walls and ceilings -- charged with the thrill of discovery.

BRODY (to Elsa) Uh, yes. Three, seven and ten. That window seems to be the source of the Roman numerals.

ELSA My God, I must be blind

INDY Dad wasn't looking for a book about the Knight's Tomb... he was looking for the Tomb itself

Elsa wears a blank expression.

INDY Don't you get it? The Tomb is somewhere in the library! You said yourself it used to be a church! Look.

Indy's eyes travel up one of the four huge marble columns.

INDY Three.

Indy looks again to the stained-glass window. He points.

INDY Three!

Indy has discovered that each Column is numbered with a Roman Numeral. Indy hurries away toward Column VII. All Brody and Elsa can do now is try to keep up with him.

INDY Seven.

He points again to the stained-glass window.

INDY Seven... Ten.

He looks down to the scrap of paper in his hands.

INDY And ten. Now where's the ten? Look around for the ten.

Indy walks past aisles of book-lined shelves. He stops, turns, then looks down.

INDY Three, seven and ten.

He climbs a spiral staircase leading up to a LOFT and looks down at Brody and Elsa. The floor beneath their feet is an elaborate tile design containing a huge "X" -- visible only from this higher angle.

INDY Ten. (wryly; to himself) "X" marks the spot.

Indy rushes down the staircase and goes to the CENTER TILE where the two sides of the X intersect. He blows dust away from the tile and tries to pry it up, but cannot.

Indy rushes past Brody to a cordon held in place by a brass stand underneath the stained-glass window.

Indy raises the brass stand and timing his actions, hits the tile precisely as the Librarian stamps a book. The Librarian regards the stamper curiously.

Indy continues to pound at the tile as the Librarian resumes his stamping, still puzzled by the SOUND ECHOING through the library.

Finally Indy breaks the tile. As he bends to remove the pieces of broken tile, a TWO-FOOT SQUARE HOLE IS REVEALED.

Cold air and a wet, rancid smell escape from the hole.

INDY Bingo.

ELSA You don't disappoint, Doctor Jones. You're a great deal like your father.

INDY Except he's lost, and I'm not.

ELSA Lower me down.

Indy is impressed with Elsa's spirit, and cooperates agreeably -- holding her by the hands and lowering her into the hole. When her feet finally touch ground below, Indy releases his grip on her and slips the Grail Diary to Brody.

INDY Look after this for me, will you?

Then Indy disappears into the hole.

INT. CATACOMBS BELOW LIBRARY - DAY

Indy jumps down a steep step. He reaches back to help Elsa.

INDY Come on.

Indy and Elsa glance around. This is really a horrid place. Dark and dank. Foul smelling. Elsa turns. She removes a cigarette lighter with a unique ivory four-leaf clover design.

Indy and Elsa inspect markings carved onto the walls.

ELSA Pagan symbols. Fourth or Fifth Century.

INDY Right. Six hundred years before the Crusades.

ELSA The Christians would have dug their own passages and burial chambers centuries later.

Indy takes the lighter from her and lights their way down a dark passageway.

INDY That's right. If there's a Knight of the First Crusade entombed down here, that's where we'll find him.

INT. LIBRARY - DAY

THREE MEN carrying guns make their way down the spiral staircase toward an unsuspecting Brody. One of the Men, KAZIM, raises his gun and brings it down hard on Brody's head.

BRODY Ohhhh...

Kazim gestures with his gun toward the now-unconscious Brody. The other two men take Brody's hands and drag him into one of the book-lined aisles.

INT. ANOTHER PART OF THE CATACOMBS - DAY

DECOMPOSING CORPSES rest in niches carved into the stone walls. Grotesque skeletal remains with rotting linen stretched across blackened bones.

Indy holds the lighter up as he and Elsa inspect symbols carved into the walls.

Elsa spots a symbol cut into the wall that she doesn't recognize. As she blows away some cobwebs:

ELSA What's this one?

Indy only has to give it a quick glance to know.

INDY The Ark of the Covenant.

ELSA Are you sure?

INDY (deadpan) Pretty sure.

Indy holds the lighter up and he and Elsa enter another dark passageway.

ANOTHER PART OF THE CATACOMBS

Indy steps to the wall and runs his hand over the stone. He scrapes the cobwebs away to reveal the ROMAN NUMERAL "X."

INDY Watch out.

Elsa now holds the lighter as Indy rams his shoulder into the wall. The wall collapses on impact and Indy falls through into another room.

ANOTHER ROOM - THE CATACOMBS

As Indy falls through the hole in the wall onto rocks surrounded by bubbling, green, slimy liquid. More skeletons surround him, resting in their carved niches. Elsa holds the lighter as she peers in at him through the hole in the wall.

INDY Petroleum. I could sink a well down here and retire.

Indy reaches up and tears a piece of cloth from one of the skeletons, which breaks apart and falls into the oil-slick water.

Indy uses the scrap of cloth and a bone to fashion a crude torch, which he then dips into the oily water.

INDY Give me the lighter.

ANOTHER PART OF THE CATACOMBS

Using the cloth-wrapped bone torch to guide their way, Indy and Elsa come upon a NARROW PASSAGEWAY. The water is knee- deep and TEEMING WITH RATS. Thousands of them crawling on one another's backs. SQUEALING. Squirming. Thrashing in the water.

INDY Oh, rats...

Elsa gasps as the rats scamper between her legs.

Indy moves forward through the rat-infested water as Elsa follows, still gasping in horror. Suddenly he slips into a hole. Recovering his balance, he reaches out to Elsa.

INDY Come on!

She gasps once again, terrified. Indy lifts her and carries Elsa as he moves forward.

THE CATACOMBS - THE HOLE IN THE WALL

Kazim and his men step to the opening Indy made earlier and shine their flashlights through to the rat-infested water.

ANOTHER PART OF THE CATACOMBS

More rat-infested water as Elsa, now walking again, follows Indy through another passageway lined with skulls and bones.

Indy reaches for a wall to steady himself and inadvertently grabs a skeleton. A bone comes loose in his hand as rats scurry about and leap at him from all directions.

He takes a moment to compose himself, then steps across the water to Elsa's side. He steps into the water, then reaches up to help Elsa do the same.

INDY Come here.

LARGE BURIAL CHAMBER

The chamber is flooded with black, briny water.

INDY Look...

In the center of the chamber, jutting up above the water, is what amounts to an "island altar" on which SEVERAL ANCIENT COFFINS rest. They move toward the altar.

Indy and Elsa begin to inspect the ornately carved COFFINS like the scholars of antiquity that they are. These are big oak caskets held together by straps of etched brass.

INDY It must be one of these...

ELSA Look at the artistry of these carvings and the scrollwork.

One coffin is elevated above the others.

ELSA It's this one.

Together they begin to push on the lid -- STRAINING and GROANING until it slides away and BANGS against the stone platform.

INSIDE THE COFFIN

Lie the DECOMPOSED REMAINS of a KNIGHT IN ARMOR. Indy and Elsa look in... Elsa gasps.

INDY This is it! We found it! Look -- the engraving on the shield. It's the same as on the Grail Tablets. The shield is the second marker!

Indy unfolds a piece of paper and holds it over the shield.

ELSA What's that?

INDY It's a rubbing Dad made of the Grail Tablet.

The missing portion of the rubbing is completed by the shield.

ELSA Just like your father -- giddy as a schoolboy.

Indy laughs.

ELSA Wouldn't it be wonderful if he were here now to see this?

INDY (chuckles) He never would have made it past the rats! He hates rats! He's scared to death of them!

CLOSE - A HAND

As it lights a match.

PULL BACK TO REVEAL KAZIM

Dropping the lighted match into the oil-slick water.

INDY AND ELSA

Elsa holds the torch. Indy looks around. Listens. Something is wrong. And then he sees the GLOW OF FIRELIGHT dancing across the Catacomb walls.

This is followed by THOUSANDS OF RATS FLEEING from around the corner of the Narrow Passageway, STAMPEDING toward Elsa and Indy -- SHRIEKING and SQUEALING as they approach.

The rats literally wash over them -- like a rodent tidal wave -- in their efforts to escape a:

HUGE ORANGE BALL OF FIRE

ROARING around the corner hurtling towards them -- feeding on the oil slick; consuming the oxygen.

Elsa SCREAMS.

INDY Get back! Back against the wall.

Indy braces his back against the altar and TOPPLES THE COFFIN with his feet. It CRASHES against the stone platform and SPLASHES into the water.

INDY Quick! Under it!

They jump into the water beside the bobbing, overturned coffin.

INDY Air pocket!

Elsa hesitates. Indy literally DUNKS her and pushes her underneath.

UNDER THE COFFIN

Elsa surfaces into the air pocket created by the coffin, SPUTTERING and SPITTING.

Now Indy pops up into the air pocket. He looks at Elsa -- they are both soaking wet.

INDY Don't wander off.

ELSA What?

Indy disappears under the water and swims out from under the coffin.

ELSA What?

UNDER THE WATER

Indy swims, looking for an escape route.

UNDER THE COFFIN

The rats are beginning to force their way inside, swimming through the water and climbing on Elsa, who squirms and screams in terror.

Indy pops back up through the water.

INDY I think I've found a way out. Deep breath.

Elsa groans. They take a deep breath and both dive under the water.

EXT. VENICE PIAZZA - OUTDOOR CAFE - DAY

The perfect picture postcard -- St. Mark's Square and the Grand Canal beyond. Cafe customers are startled to see Indy and Elsa climb out of the sewer, wet and smelly. Indy looks around at the postcard-perfect setting and smiles.

INDY (wryly) Ah, Venice!

Indy's delight, however, is short-lived since Kazim and TWO OTHER TURKISH AGENTS are running towards them with drawn guns.

He grabs Elsa by the hand and the two of them run down the dock and LEAP INTO A MOTORBOAT.

INT. THE MOTORBOAT - DAY

Indy fires up the engine and pulls away from the dock... but not before a TURKISH AGENT JUMPS in with him.

Elsa grabs the wheel and begins to steer the boat while Indy and the Turk trade punches.

EXT. THE HARBOR - DAY

Indy's Speedboat BOUNCES across the choppy waters heading in the direction of the DOCKED STEAMSHIP.

Kazim and his men rush to TWO MORE SPEEDBOATS tied to the dock.

They chase after Indy.

Indy grapples with the Turkish Agent. As Indy grips his arms, we SEE a GUN in the Agent's hand. It FIRES.

As Indy fights with the Turk, he becomes aware of the Speedboats behind him and two enormous Freighters ahead of him, joined together by two giant ropes.

Indy, having gained the advantage, leans on top of the Turkish Agent.

INDY (to Elsa) Are you crazy?! You don't go between them!

Elsa can barely hear Indy over the noise of the motor.

ELSA Go between them? Are you crazy?!

Indy finally delivers the punch that sends the Turkish Agent flying overboard. Turning, Indy sees that Elsa has committed the speedboat to a course BETWEEN the two Freighters, now being pushed even closer together by a Tugboat.

INDY I said go around!

ELSA You said go between them!

INDY I said don't go between them!

It's purely academic at this point since the hulls of the two Freighters loom up on either side of them like cavern walls.

EXT. FULL SHOT - THE HARBOR - DAY

One Enemy Speedboat chases Indy between the two Freighters. But the Speedboat containing Kazim veers off and goes around.

EXT. BETWEEN THE TWO FREIGHTERS - DAY

It's a race for daylight as the two Freighters drift ever closer to one another.

Indy's Speedboat just manages to squeeze through the gap. But the Enemy Speedboat EXPLODES as it is crushed between the two Freighters, FLYING INTO THE AIR and SPLASHING back down into the water.

INDY AND ELSA

Spin their boat around in a sharp half-circle to see KAZIM'S SPEEDBOAT appear racing toward them. He stands in the moving boat, FIRING A MACHINE GUN at Indy and Elsa.

KAZIM'S SPEEDBOAT

Matches Indy's move for move.

FULL SHOT - THE HARBOR

The two boats race across the water nearly side-by-side. A CHATTERING MACHINE GUN from Kazim's boat SPLINTERS the wood of Indy's boat, until finally the rear of the boat CATCHES ON FIRE.

The machine gun runs out of ammunition. Kazim puts it down and takes control of the wheel from one of the Turkish Agents in the boat with him.

As Indy's boat drifts toward the GIANT, TURNING PROPELLERS at the STERN of ANOTHER STEAMER, Kazim's boat draws up alongside and hits them. Indy steps into Kazim's boat. He knocks one of the Turkish Agents to the deck, then turns his attention to Kazim. The two men trade punches as the boat spins helplessly in the churning water.

ELSA No!!

Indy kicks Kazim in the face, knocking him into the water, then pulls him back into the boat, now being SUCKED THROUGH THE CHURNING WATER toward the Steamer's giant propeller blades.

INDY Why are you trying to kill us?

KAZIM Because you're looking for the Holy Grail.

INDY My father was looking for the Holy Grail. Did you kill him too?

KAZIM No.

INDY Where is he? Talk -- or you're dead. Damn it, tell me! Tell me!

KAZIM If you don't let go, Doctor Jones, we'll both die.

INDY Then we'll die.

KAZIM My soul is prepared. How's yours?

By now half the boat has been chopped up into matchwood and the blades are getting closer.

INDY This is your last chance.

KAZIM No, Doctor Jones. It's yours!

The wind of the blades is on their necks. Indy grabs Kazim just in time and jumps... into the motorboat, driven by Elsa, which gets alongside in the nick of time.

INDY All right! Where's my father

KAZIM If you let me go, I will tell you where he is.

INDY Who are you?

KAZIM My name is Kazim.

INDY And why were you trying to kill me?

KAZIM The secret of the Grail has been safe for a thousand years. And for all that time the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword has been prepared to do anything to keep it safe.

Kazim pulls back his shirt to reveal a birthmark... or is it a tattoo? Whatever it is, it's a cruciform sword; a Christian cross which tapers down, like the blades of a broadsword.

KAZIM Let me get off at this jetty.

The boat is close to the edge of the canal. Indy gives Elsa a nod, telling her to bring the boat in. Kazim steps ashore.

KAZIM Ask yourself, why do you seek the Cup of Christ? Is it for His glory, or for yours?

INDY I didn't come for the Cup of Christ. I came to find my father.

KAZIM In that case, God be with you in your quest. Your father is being held in the Castle of Brunwald on the Austrian-German border.

Kazim walks away.