Scene 1

    Establishing shot of a steaming, tropical jungle.

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Scene 2

    Framing shot. We see a simple and primitive campsite for two people. The camera pans around to show a pair of small tents, clothes drying on a line, etc. but nothing more than would fit in a pair of back packs. Finally, we see Mia, sitting at a tiny table examining some archaeological samples and writing in a notebook. Also on the table is a paperback book bearing the title, "The Legend of The Eyes of Death."

    Lucy: (from off screen): "Mia, come quick....I've got something....Mia!"

    Mia gets up and hurries off in the direction of the voice.

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Scene 3

    A wide angle shot showing Lucy sitting in a hole about a foot deep and three yards on a side. Strings divide the hole into a grid of 18 inch-wide squares. Lucy is scraping nearly dry clay from something protruding up from the clay. Mia approaches.

    Mia: "You found something?"

    Lucy: "Bones....Human bones....A hand ...Look!"

    Mia: "Wow" (she rushes in to see)

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Scene 4

    A clkose up of a clay-encrusted skeleton of part of a human hand. About an inch of the distal end of a fist is exposed above the clay.  fist is tightly clenched We see Mia using a probe to remove more of the surrounding clay.

    Lucy: "Now this is really weird.... Look at how tightly packed the clay is around where the flesh was located...I think it would be more losely packed if it was thrown in around a body....This clay had to be liquid at the time the body was buried."

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Scene 5

    Shot of both girls talking to each other.

    Mia: "You mean it was quicksand?"

    Lucy:"Well not in the strictest sense....it isn't sand....but yeah....it was wet, liquid, and deep....call it quick clay."

    Mia: "Ugh!"

    Lucy: "Some poor victim of a terrible accident....what a horrific way to die."

    Mia: "Perhaps it was some sort of ritual sacrifice. I was just reading about a local legend....something about an evil eye or eyes called the eyes of death. Anyone who looks upon the evil eye is doomed to die horribly and soon."

    Lucy: "The fingers look like their grasping something."

    Mia: "Here....Give me that probe, I'll dig at it for awhile."

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Scene 6

    A shot of Lucy sitting at the camp table. She is reading the book on the Eyes of Death.

    Mia (off camera): "Lucy, there's something in the hand....Come here."

    Lucy quickly puts the bookm down and rushes out to Mia.

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Scene 7

    A shot looking down at Mia, who looks up at the camera.

    Mia: "They're not quite free but there are at least three stones or something like stones inside these fingers."

    Lucy: "Here, try this, it should work better" (she hands Mia a hocked probe.)

    Mia: "Thanks" (she takes the probe and quickly pops three roundish stones out of the skeleton hand. She hands these up to Lucy) "Let's get these cleaned up."

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Scene 8

    A shot from the side as Mia and Lucy sit at their little table. The stones are in a small tray on the table. Lucy pours water from a small bucket over the stones.

    Lucy: "This ought to do the trick"

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Scene 9

    A close up of the stones as water is poured over them. The dirt on them falls away.

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Scene 10

    A shot from the side as Mia leans closer to examine the stones as  the dirt falls away. Suddenly she drops the stones.

    Mia:"Oh!" (very startled) (she turns away briefly)

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Scene 11

    A face shot of Lucy, looking equally startled.

    Lucy:What?"

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Scene 12

    Head and shoulder shot of Mia, recovering mquickly. She picks up one of the stones magain. Lucy leans in for aook also.

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Scene 13

    A close up of Mia's fingers, holding the stones. She turns one of them, revealing a stone having a black crust over a pure white, eye-shaped core. There is a black spot in the center of the white area. The second and third stones are then revealed to be the same. There is now some loud and ominous background music.

    Mia: "The eyes of death!"

    Lucy: "Oh my God!"

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Scene 14

    A shot of Lucy and Mia covering their dig site with brush.

    Mia: "Do you have any idea what those stones are worth?"

    Lucy: "Not that much in cash, I should think, but both our doctorates at least....No one really has given the Eyes of Death story much credence until now....Now we know the story really has a basis in fact."

    Mia: "Yeah, well it better not have too much basis in fact or we're supposed to die horribly and soon."

    Lucy: "You don't believe that stuff any more than I do....I just meant that the story is a genuine one, not that it represents fact."

    There is a rumble of thunder in the distance.

    Mia: "Come on, let's break camp and hit the trail before that storm breaks."

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Scene 15

    A shot of Mia and Lucy on the trail. They pass the camera, which pans as they pass and then follows as they hike. It begins to rain and thunder violently

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Scene 16

    Lucy and Mia stumble forward through heavy rain. They wander off the trail into an area of mud. Suddenly the mud liquifies beneath them and they sink to their knees.

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Scene 17

    Scene 17 is shot with at least three cameras and then montaged together. One camera holds a close up of each girl's face and the third shows both from somewhat further away. They try unsuccessfully to get their packs off. They sink deeper and deeper. Dialogue is ad-libbed. Both eventually go under, holding at least one stone in an upraised arm, exactly as in the skeleton arm.

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End

****A longer version of this might be made in which the girls have close encounters with lightening, a huge snake, and/or other horros before finally succumbing to the quicksand.*****.