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EXT JUNGLE DAY

BETTY, an attractive brunette wearing a khaki safari outfit, kneels in front of a makeshift fire and pours herslf a cup of coffee from the percolator. She hums tunelessly to herself while the voices of two men can be heard talking excitedly yet indistinctly from one of the two tents behind her.

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JUNGLE JIM, a muscular young man wearing only a loincloth and a knife at his side, sits perched on a high tree branch, surveying his surroundings. He hears Betty?s humming and swings down to a lower branch to investigate.

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(from Jungle Jim?s perspective) Jim looks down at the unaware Betty as she walks over to a nearby fallen log to sit down. Zoom in from a wide shot to a close-up of Betty. Suddenly, Betty turns when she hears the growl of a ferocious LEOPARD. Betty screams.

BETTY: Aaaaahhhhhh!

Jungle Jim snaps back to attention and spots the leopard. He starts moving through the branches with the intention of jumping down and fighting off the cat.

TREVOR (o.s.): Betty? What?s wrong?

BETTY: Aaaahhhh!

TREVOR steps out of one of the tents. He?s handsome, well-bred, but not overly muscled, and is also wearing a standard safari outfit. On his right hip he wears a pistol. Following Trevor is PROFESSOR WAINWRIGHT, and old man with white hair, bald on top, wearing round wire-framed glasses, and a white suit.

WAINWRIGHT: What is the matter, my dear?

Betty points toward the oncoming leopard.

BETTY: Aaaahhhh!

Trevor pulls his pistol from its holster and fires a shot into the air, scaring off the leopard. Betty leaps up and hugs Trevor tight.

BETTY: Oh, Trevor!

TREVOR: It?s all right now, Betty. That?s one cat who won?t be coming around here again anytime soon. Why don?t you come into the tent and lie down for a while?

Trevor guides Betty through the tent flap. Trevor puts a hand on Wainwright?s chest to prevent him from following.

TREVOR: Hey, Professor?.

WAINWRIGHT: Hmm? Oh! Yes, of course. I?ll go?study the runes some more.

Trevor smiles his 100-watt smile, pats Wainwright on the shoulder, and heads into the tent. Wainwright stands there a moment, unsure what to do with himself. Eventually, he wanders off.

Suddenly, the body of Jungle Jim falls out of a tree and hits the ground hard, obviously dead from a gunshot. The leopard comes along, grabs Jim?s foot, and drags him away.

BETTY (o.s.) (lustfully): Oh, Trevor!

FADE OUT.

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