Sam Snoop vs. killer jaws

 

(This is script to my next video – I’m trying to make it no longer than 10 minutes which means using minimum shot sequences – we shall see)

 

 

SCENE 1: Surfers

Surfers go out into rough oceans. One gets isolated and is attacked by a shark.

 

 

SCENE 2: sheriff on beach

 

The sheriff looks over the remains and is clearly upset. Crowd around him is restless.

 

 

RESIDENT #1 This makes four times, Sheriff? Are you going to call in somebody or what?

 

SHERIFF: I have called several times. State and federal people got enough on their plate worrying over terrorists. Sharks don’t matter

 

RESIDENT #2 Then you’ll have to find someone else to call.

 

SHERIFF: Maybe.

                   But it’s not the shark I’m worried about.

 

RESIDENT #1: What do you mean, sheriff?

 

SHERIFF: There’s something queer about all this. But I think I know someone I can call about it.

 

 

 

SCENE 3: Sam Snoop picks up the ringing phone in his office.

 

 

SNOOP: Snoop here.

 

SHEIRFF: It’s me, Sam. You remember, Sam Dart?

 

SNOOP: How can I forget the best partner I ever had. How’s the sheriffing business?

 

SHERIFF: Confusing. I need you to come down here.

 

SNOOP: The Jersey Shore? No way.

 

SHERIFF: Still scared of the ocean, Sam?

 

SNOOP: Scared is the wrong word

 

SHERIFF: well, you’re going to have to get over it. I need you down here. You’re the only one who can solve this case.

 

SNOOP: All right, I’ll do it for you. But don’t expect me to become no life guard.

 

 

SCENE 4: Driving into the shore

 

SNOOP (VOICE OVER) I felt the old tension as soon as I smelled salty air.

            You don’t nearly drown as a kid and get over it easily.

            While this wasn’t Coney Island Beach, a beach was a beach and the ocean was behind it.

 

 

SCENE 5: (Sheriff’s office)

 

SNOOP: Shark’s attack people all the time. So why drag me here?

 

SHERIFF: It’s the pattern of attacks. I’ve never see anything like it.

 

SNOOP: The last victim was a surfer. What’s so strange about that?

 

SHERIFF: He was the son of a local businessman connected to a redevelopment project.

 

SNOOP: So?

 

SHERIFF: the first victim was an old woman who refused to sell her property. The fish nabbed her near the dock.

 

SNOOP: So it’s a coincidence.

 

SHERIFF: Except for the fact that another of the victims was a woman reporter who started asking too many questions about the project. She was walking barefoot in the surf when the shark dragged her in.

 

SNOOP: Okay, that’s suspicious. What about other victims?

 

SHERIFF: One other. A book keeper for the city got chopped up fishing the night after he told the city council he had some questions about the financing.

 

SNOOP:

            Any theories?

 

SHERIFF: Just that there seems to be one person behind the whole redevelopment nobody is willing to talk about.

 

SNOOP:  Fine, let’s go find the bastard. The sooner we get him the sooner I can get back to civilization.

 

 

SCENE 6: (Snoop in a phone booth)

 

 

SNOOP: Hey doc, we got a situation with a shark down here.

 

JACOBS: I’m a busy man, Sam. I can recommend someone.

 

SNOOP: This shark appears to attack on command.

 

JACOBS: I’ll be there as soon as possible.

 

 

SCENE 7: (old house)

 

GRANDSON: You two are a little too late.

 

SNOOP: How do you figure?

 

GRANDSON: The city’s already used eminent domain to take my grandmother’s property.

 

SHERIFF: You mean they’re moving ahead with the project?

 

GRANDSON: So it would seem.

 

 

SCENE 8: (city accounting office)

 

BROTHER: Are you two crazy coming here like this?

SHERIFF: We’re only trying to find out the truth.

 

BROTHER: Not from me you don’t. I’ve already lost a brother to this. You want me to lose job, too?

 

SNOOP: Has someone threatened you?

 

BROTHER: You don’t think my brother’s dying was warning enough. Go ask Brinkman. He was a member of the corporation.

 

 

SCENE 9 (NEWSPAPER OFFICE)

 

 

SHERIFF:  What exactly are you looking for?

 

SNOOP: (TURNING THE PAGES OF NEWSPAPER BOOK) clues in the reporter’s stories that made someone kill here.

            From these stories it seems the corporation bought up a lot of property, including an old military base.

 

SHERIFF: So?

 

SNOOP: Townhouse developers usually don’t buy remote locations.

Someone wants some private to hide his activities.

Let’s go talk to Brinkman.

 

 

SCENE 10 (Business office)

 

BRINKMAN: I’m not part of that outfit anymore.

 

SNOOP: But you know what they were up to.

 

BRINKMAN: I know nothing and would be crazy to tell you if I did.

 

SHERIFF: We can drag you down to the station. People will think you talked even if you don’t.

 

BRINKMAN: Go away. I’m leaving town.

 

SNOOP: Give us a name and a reason for the purchase and we’ll go away.

 

BRINKMAN: The man’s name is Menendez, and he wants to build some kind of animal preserve.

 

SNOOP: My God! (to Sheriff) We’ve got to hurry.

 

SHERIFF: What is it?

 

SNOOP: You wouldn’t believe it if I told you. Let’s go talk to the Doc. This is right up his alley.

 

 

SCENE 11 (the sheriff’s office)

 

JACOBS: (looking over reports and photographs) I’ve never seen anything like it. Sharks don’t attack like trained dogs.

 

SNOOP: Menendez has a way of making things like this happen.

 

JACOBS:  We have to stop him.

 

SHERIFF: But where is he?

 

SNOOP: My guess he’s set up operations out on that old military base.

 

JACOBS: Let’s go there.

 

SNOOP: It’s probably locked up tight.

 

SHERIFF: I know that place. It’s accessible by water. Come on. We’ll take my boat.

 

SNOOP: (Sighs) figures

 

 

SCENE 12 (on the boat)

 

SNOOP: (VOICE OVER) As scared as I was, the beauty of the scenery stunned me. My mind was also bent on stopping Menendez and left little room for fear.

Then something banged the side of the boat and the old panic leaped back into my like an electric shock.

 

SHERIFF: It’s the shark

 

SNOOP: Kill it before it kills us.

 

SHERIFF: (trying to aim) I’m trying

 

JACOBS: (looking through binoculars) There’s another boat. And a man holding a remote control.

 

SNOOP: It must be Menendez!

 

JACOBS: He seems to be laughing

 

SNOOP: That’s Menendez

 

SHERIFF: (fires again and again at the shark, then the shark bursts through the side of the boat grabbing him by the legs)

 

Help me.

 

(But he is soon dragged away)

 

SNOOP: We’re sinking. We got to abandon ship

 

JACOBS: Not into the water. I got a raft

 

SNOOP: Won’t the shark rips right through that?

 

JACOBS: Not if we reach land first

 

 

SCENE 13: (in the raft)

 

SNOOP: The shark’s coming after us.

 

JACOBS: Shoot it

 

SNOOP: (fires point blank into the shark’s face and finally kills it.)

 

JACOBS: Menendez is escaping.

 

SNOOP:  He’s headed for the military base I’ll bet. Get on the radio to the coast guard, while I steer this hunk of rubber after him.

 

 

SCENE: 14

 

SNOOP: (voice over) I was determined to make sure Menendez didn’t get away this time, like he had during our previous encounters.

But when we reached shore and climbed the embankment to the old military bunker, I got a bad feeling about everything, and we soon entered a world as strange as any I had encountered before, with strange creatures to either side of us – obviously part of Menendez’s new plot to take over the world.

Even older fears came into me, not from my near drowning at Coney Island, but the darker fears as a child awake and alone in the dark.

 

JACOBS: What a place!

                 These creatures are monstrous in size and many would be deadly to man if a tenth this size.

 

MENENDEZ: (stepping out from the shadows)

A good point, Dr. Jacobs. But hardly useful in my plans if they were as nature created them. In doing battle with mankind, animals, too, just adapt, and become as powerful as the machines humanity has created.

 

 

SNOOP: You won’t get away with this, Menendez!

 

MENENDEZ: (cocking his head to the sound of approaching helicopters)         Perhaps not here and now. But eventually. This is not over, Mr. Snoop.

 

(Menendez slips back into the shadows, the echo of running feet)

 

JACOBS:  What do we do now? Go after them?

 

SNOOP:  No, I’m sure he’s set a trap for us. We sit here until the good guys arrive and blow all this stuff up

 

JACOBS:  Blow it up? Are you crazy? This is a scientific marvel?

 

SNOOP: So was Frankenstein’s monster.

 

JACOB: All right. Can I at least look around before they do?

 

SNOOP: Look if you want, just don’t touch anything.

 

 

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