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                                        EGYPT

               FADE IN:

               EXT. EGYPTIAN DESERT - DAY

               The sun burns down brightly on the sandy desert. Sand blows
               across the land, and in the distance there are PYRAMIDS. In
               the foreground are several BOULDERS.

               TITLE OVER: Egypt, 2008.

                                   LARA (V.O.)
                         Have you ever wondered about the
                         monsters under your bed? The
                         creatures waiting to get you.

               Distant sounds of a car engine begin as something starts
               getting closer.

                                   LARA (CONT'D)
                         What do they look like? Are they
                         real?

               And a JEEP enters into frame, SAND blasting all around it as
               it speeds towards the boulders. It slows as it approaches.

               The person at the wheel steps out - it's LARA, Britain's
               renowned adventurer. She's back in her blue sleeveless top
               and shorts, with her trusty DUAL PISTOLS hanging from her
               belt. 

                                   LARA (CONT'D)
                         I do. And that's why I'm here. My
                         name is Lara Croft, I'm an
                         adventurer hailing from Britain.
                             (beat)
                         And I'm here in search of an
                         ancient totem with mystical powers.
                         But not for myself. A man named
                         Hyde is after it, and I'm
                         determined to stop him.

               Lara sighs, closing her eyes as the sand brushes against her
               legs...it's something she likes to feel whenever she's in
               Egypt.

                                   BRYCE (V.O.)
                             (filtered through headset)
                         You alright there, Lara?

                                   LARA
                         I'm fine. It's just...Egypt. I love
                         coming here.

               And then there's a new voice on the headset - Lara's faithful
               butler, Hilary.

                                   HILARY (V.O.)
                             (dry; filtered through
                              headset)
                         I can see why.

               Lara opens her eyes and steps forward, inspecting the
               boulders. She frowns - something isn't right. 

               She places both hands on the top boulder and PUSHES - it
               rolls off quite easily.

               It also exposes a small hole. Lara peeks through, but can't
               see much.

                                   HILARY (CONT'D)
                             (sarcastic)
                         Just what everyone loves finding on
                         their holiday.

               She gets back to the boulders and pushes the seconds - it
               rolls away, exposing a large HOLE in the ground.

                                   LARA
                         Aren't butler's supposed to be
                         supporting, Hilary?

                                   HILARY
                         Staying quiet, Lady Croft.

                                   LARA
                         Thank you.

               Lara takes steps forward, and looks down - as the ground
               BREAKS beneath her and she FALLS!

               Seconds later, the third boulder TOPPLES to the side and
               begins to fall down the hole after her!

               INT. CHUTE - CONTINUOUS

               Lara slides down the gravelly chute, well aware of the
               boulder rolling behind her. 

               She frantically searches around for something to get out of
               the way or to stop the boulder -

                                   BRYCE
                         Lara, it's getting closer!

               - and quickly grabs a CRACK in the chute.

               The boulder ROLLS past, leaving Lara dangling from the crack,
               taking deep breathes as she tries to register what just
               happened -

                                   HILARY
                         By God, that was frightening!

               - and the crack breaks, leaving Lara tumbling back down the
               chute, but this time in safety.

               INT. TOMB ENTRANCE - MOMENTS LATER

               Lara slides out of the chute, landing with a roll before
               getting to her feet. She brushes herself down, patting the
               sand away.

                                   BRYCE
                         You alright?

                                   LARA
                         Always.

               With a frown, Lara takes in her surroundings. Dark tiles line
               the floor, the sand seemingly having been pushed back to the
               sides of the rooms.

               When she steps onto the tiles and walks forwards, she
               realizes why.

                                   LARA (CONT'D)
                         There's a breeze.

               She looks around, and everything seems to be indoors. No way
               the wind could get in, at least not in this room.

                                   LARA (CONT'D)
                         But from where?

               Distant sounds make Lara freeze and she strains her ears,
               listening.

                                   HILARY
                         What is it?

                                   LARA
                         I think I can hear... voices.

                                   BRYCE
                         Hyde?

                                   LARA
                         Possibly.

               She begins to walk towards the opposite doorway and just as
               she's about to step through - a BLADE slides DOWN, nearly
               cutting Lara in half from head to toe!

               And it would have done if Lara hadn't jumped back in
               surprise. She blinks rapidly, and then mentally kicks herself
               for not being more careful.

                                   WHISPERS
                         Intruder...

               Lara spins round, her dual pistols in hand as she aims in
               every direction. The whispers came from somewhere hidden.

               And then a MOAN makes Lara turn round. A MUMMY is wailing
               whilst is shuffles towards her, BANDAGES hanging from it's
               outstretched arms. It's like a scene right out of an Indiana
               Jones movie.

                                   LARA
                         Hmm.

               Lara FIRES, and the Mummy staggers with every bullet it
               takes, but doesn't stop, just keeps shuffling forward.

               Lara narrows her eyes, firing twice as fast, but to no
               visible reaction.

               Scowling, Lara makes a DIVE for the door, and as the BLADE
               slides DOWN, it CUTS the Mummy IN TWO!

               INT. THE OBELISK ROOM - MOMENTS LATER

               Lara ends her dive with a roll and as she stands, she's
               barely able to get a good look at things when she's CHARGED
               by a BLACK PANTHER.

               Lara's pushed down to the ground, with the Panther snapping
               its jaws, trying to rip out Lara's throat!

               She pulls one hand free and FIRES with one of her pistols -
               and with a single shot to the head the panther collapses on
               top of her, DEAD.

               She pushes it off her, flipping to her feet and finally takes
               in her surroundings.

               In the center of the room is an OBELISK. Around it is a POOL
               of water, with a thin strip of ground passing over it to the
               Obelisk, like a bridge.

               Behind the Obelisk is the front half of a SPHINX, which takes
               up the entire side of the room. A SEALED DOORWAY is in
               between it's two stone paws.

               PILLARS line the left and right walls, and an entire other
               floor is above that, although it's more a section of narrow
               passages and holes with long drops then a floor.

                                   BRYCE
                         Impressive.
                             (beat)
                         Although, I've been wondering
                         something, Lara.

               Lara begins to slowly walk towards the obelisk, guns at the
               ready.

                                   BRYCE (CONT'D)
                         These shards - you haven't actually
                         told us what they do. I guess it's
                         bad, if you want to stop Hyde from
                         getting them, but...

               Lara steps forward, crossing the bridge and steps up to the
               Obelisk, scanning the HIEROGLYPHICS on it.

                                   LARA
                         The totem makes the user
                         indestructible, and gives them
                         eternal life. It's also believed to
                         have hypnotic powers, so Hyde could
                         do whatever he wanted.
                             (beat)
                         If he gets all the pieces, of
                         course.
                             (beat; serious)
                         I don't have any intention of
                         letting that happen.

                                   BRYCE
                         So... why not tell us beforehand?

                                   LARA
                         I only learnt recently, actually. I
                         had a friend, Rutland, searching up
                         on the history of the shards, he
                         sent me the message back on the
                         plane.

               However, she's distracted when DUST falls into her hair and
               down her face. She freezes, looking up - to find the Obelisk
               shaking!

                                   BRYCE
                         Well, that can't be good!

               And suddenly the tip of the Obelisk BURSTS open, revealing a
               DUST SPIRIT, something apparently human, but made of dust,
               and with no facial features or gender-specific features.

               In both of it's arms are two SCIMITARS, the sunlight glinting
               off them.

               Lara takes steps back, avoiding the rubble of the Obelisk as
               it falls down in front of her. She doesn't take her eyes off
               the spirit.

                                   HILARY
                         It was a trap!

                                   BRYCE
                             (confused)
                         But who could have...

                                   LARA
                         Well. This should be a challenge,
                         shouldn't it?

               The spirit cocks it head, staring at her intently.

                                   SPIRIT
                             (raspy voice)
                         Target: Lara Croft.
                             (beat)
                         Kill Lara Croft.

               The spirit LEAPS forward as Lara unhooks her PISTOLS and
               FIRES - the bullets ping off the spirit, as if it was covered
               in armor.

               The spirit LANDS on the other side of the bridge, trapping
               Lara. She continues to fire but to no avail.

               She looks around for an escape route, but she's trapped in
               the center of the pool with no way back to the main land
               space... unless she swims.

               She catches site of the water and raises an eyebrow. Before
               the spirit can stop her, which it tries by diving for her,
               she SWAN DIVES into the water and out of sight.

               INT. UNDERWATER - MOMENTS LATER

               Lara swims down and swivels int he water, getting a good look
               up - just as the ROBOT jumps in after her!

                                   BRYCE
                         How the...

               Lara, eyes widening, swims for the side as a dusty arm GRABS
               her leg! Lara turns, pulling out a PISTOL and SHOOTS, but the
               bullet is almost useless underwater.

               Lara shoots at the hand grabbing her leg and it twitches,
               loosening slightly. Lara kicks it with her other leg and
               quickly surfaces, climbing out.

               The spirit follows, bullets pinging off it as it climbs out
               after her.

               INT. THE OBELISK ROOM - CONTINUOUS

               The dust spirit smoking, as if burning, as it stands to it's
               full height, and as it scans the room, it finds that Lara is
               GONE -

               - until she dives into frame, delivering a KICK that knocks
               it back into the water.

               It stays near the surface, but we can see smoke rising from
               it as it twitches underwater. Lara lets rip another round of
               BULLETS as it slowly falls still.

               Particles of dust begin to drift to the surface of the water.
               The dust spirit is DEAD.

                                   HILARY
                             (grimaces)
                         Nice.

                                   BRYCE
                         I'm still clueless as to who could
                         have put it there!

                                   LARA
                         Who knows what other secrets this
                         temple holds. I don't fancy being
                         on the wrong end of any others,
                         however.

               Smirking, Lara holsters her guns and looks in further detail
               at the room.

               She begins to head towards the door, but no switch to open it
               is in visible sight. So, she turns to the nearest pillar and
               scans it. Sure enough, there's a CRACK in it not high up.

               Lara steps back and gets a run up as she SCALES the wall and
               grabs the crack with both hands.

               Lara scans the rest of the pillar and SHUFFLES ROUND until
               there's a pillar a little above and JUMPS UP, grabbing it.

               She shuffles round once more, until one of the narrow
               passages is just above her.

               She steadies herself before jumping as high as she can. She
               grabs the side of the passage, and pulls herself up into a
               handstand...

               INT. NARROW PASSAGES - CONTINUOUS

               And her legs land on the passage, followed by her upper body.
               She scans the area...

               A SWITCH is on the north wall and ANOTHER is on the south
               wall.

               In the center of the room is a COMPASS, and as Lara
               approaches she notes that it unusually points at the south
               wall.

               A TEXT is written on the wall opposite it and Lara reads it
               allowed for Bryce and Hilary to hear.

                                   LARA
                         Do you trust the compass, or do you
                         take it as a lie?

               She thinks on it for a second...

                                   BRYCE
                         So?

                                   LARA
                         Please, Bryce, this requires focus.

                                   BRYCE
                         Sorry.

               Thinking for a few more seconds, Lara heads towards the south
               wall and pulls down the LEVER SWITCH -

               - and the entire room SHAKES! On top of that, the passages
               are standing to RETRACT INTO THE WALLS!

                                   HILARY
                         Lara, get out of there!

               Lara's eyes widen as she has to come up with a plan fast -
               and she pulls out her GRAPPLE, throwing it even as the
               passage below her retracts into the wall. 

               Lara shoots down, but is kept in the air by the grapple -
               which has attached itself to the other lever, which has been
               pushed down with it.

               Satisfied, Lara lets out a sigh of relief as she begins to
               LOWER herself down into...

               INT. THE OBELISK ROOM - MOMENTS LATER

               And as she reaches the bottom of the grapple, she TUGS on it
               and it comes loose from the lever it was attached to.

               Attaching it back to her belt, Lara races forward towards the
               door which is slowly ROLLING upwards.

               At the last minute, Lara dives through the gap - and the door
               seals up seconds afterwards.

               INT. MIRROR PUZZLE ROOM - CONTINUOUS

               Lara lands in a roll and gets to her feet, eyes darting for
               any enemies. Only when she makes sure the coast in clear does
               she approach the next room.

               Inside are two GIANT HANDS. On each is a large BLOCK, which
               can ROTATE. On one side of each block is a MIRROR.

               One mirror faces the other block, and the DAYLIGHT from a
               CRACK in the CEILING is shining down onto it.

               Lara puts together the various pieces of the puzzle, figuring
               out what she has to do. She goes over to the block on the
               left and turns it so the mirror is facing the other mirror.

               The light from that mirror reflects into the other mirror,
               and that back to the crack int he ceiling in a complete
               triangle.

               The doors beyond the two hands ROLL OPEN. Lara frowns, this
               was certainly too easy, but continues onto the next room.

               INT. STATUE ROOM - CONTINUOUS

               And as she enters, she realizes what the hands meant. A giant
               STATUE of a MAN sitting on a chair is present in this room
               and his hands reach out into two holes in the side of the
               room, obviously the hands from the room before.

               Lara's standing on a LEDGE halfway up the wall, with a large
               drop beneath her and a large gap above her. She is opposite
               the statue's torso.

               Inside the torso, in a visible CAGE is a floating, rotating
               DIAMOND SHARD - a LEG. The second leg, to be precise.

               Lara allows herself to smirk and walks to the edge of the
               ledge. Looking down, she calculates the drop. It's a long way
               down.

               Thinking, Lara takes several steps back - and then takes a
               RUNNING JUMP, grabbing the hole in the statue's torso. With
               one hand, she reaches up to grab the cage.

               She turns her body slightly - and then throws the cage back
               onto the ledge.

               After a few seconds, she leans back further and kicks off
               from the wall...

               ...and her fingers only just grasp the edge of the ledge. She
               pulls herself up and walks towards the cage. Pulling out a
               pistol, she SHOOTS the LOCK.

               Opening the cage up, she grabs the DIAMOND LEG and admires it
               for a second.

                                   BRYCE
                         Two down.

                                   LARA
                         And four more to go until I can get
                         the final piece.

                                   HILARY
                         Ah, Lara. I've been doing some
                         research on the "Land of the
                         Creators".

                                   LARA
                         And?

                                   HILARY
                         I got a hunch from that compass
                         puzzle earlier - the compass. The
                         Chinese were the first to develop
                         compasses, amongst other things.

                                   LARA
                         Of course. Focus your scans on
                         there too, then.

               Sounds of a chair being pushed back indicate Hilary has once
               again left the building. Lara sighs and heads back to the
               door when -

                                   WHISPERS
                         Intruder!

               Lara turns - and finds the statue's eyes are WIDE OPEN and
               it's mouth has contorted into a SNARL. The head bends down to
               look at her.

                                   STATUE
                         You shall not leave!

               Lara slowly inches back, taking out her PISTOLS. Without
               warning, the statue ROARS - and a FLAME ejects from it's
               mouth!

               Lara has to move quick, and she does - but forward and she
               sails over the edge of the ledge!

               She falls, down and down and she lets her pistols DROP from
               her hands in order to grab a CRACK in the giant chair the
               statue's sitting in.

               Slowly, she drops to another crack and another, lowering
               herself to the floor.

               Clearly out of the statue's sight now, it sits back down on
               it's chair.... Where several DOORS in it OPEN, revealing
               several MUMMIES, arms outstretched and trying to reach Lara.

               Lara dives for her guns... but the area of ground they are on
               collapses inwards, revealing POISON-TIPPED SPIKES just
               begging for Lara to have an early death.

                                   BRYCE
                         Jesus, Lara! Get out of there!

               Lara's eyes widen and as she sees the mummies are closing in,
               she looks for an exit.

               A SIDE DOOR ROLLS OPEN.

               Taking no chances, Lara runs for it and quickly dives
               through. It closes behind her, and almost reluctantly the
               mummies return to the doors they came through.

               INT. LADDER ROOM - CONTINUOUS

               The side door Lara exited through led to a tiny room, with
               it's only feature a long LADDER.

               Looking up, Lara can see a speck of LIGHT at the top. With a
               disgruntled sigh, Lara starts to climb.

               FADE TO further up on the climb and Lara's climbing, although
               visibly tired -

               - and a BLADE whips out of the left wall and Lara leaps
               upwards on the ladder to avoid it! 

               Suddenly, FLAMES start to spit out at her from the wall and
               Lara climbs faster.

               Spikes begin to jut out of the ladder and Lara's forced to be
               more careful with where she puts her hands.

               With a sigh, she stops, turns - and JUMPS to the opposite
               wall. She jumps back to the ladder again, slowly going up,
               but much faster then before.

               Using this method of transport, Lara begins to get nearer to
               the top and when she's close enough she JUMPS...

               And her fingers GRASP the edge. She pulls herself up -

               EXT. EGYPTIAN DESERT - DAY

               And finds she has the barrel of a GUN facing her, pointing at
               her dead in between the eyes.

               Lara glares at the person on the other end of the gun. It's a
               handsome man wearing rugged clothes and a REVOLVER, the gun
               pointing at Lara. This is JACKSON HYDE.

               He offers Lara a victorious smirk. This is obviously the
               first time he's had the upper hand over Lara, and it shows.
               She's getting frustrated.

                                   HYDE
                         Nice to see you, Lara.

                                   LARA
                             (cold)
                         And you.

                                   HYDE
                         Alright, let's just skip to the
                         chase.

               Hyde outstretches his hand, as if waiting for Lara to place
               something there. She doesn't take the hint.

                                   HYDE (CONT'D)
                         The pieces, Lara. I know you have
                         at least three.

                                   LARA
                         Wrong actually.

               Hyde raises his eyebrows, he obviously assumed she collected
               a piece in Peru, which she didn't.

                                   HYDE
                         More?

                                   LARA
                         Possibly.

                                   HYDE
                         So it's less. Either way, give them
                         here.

                                   LARA
                         You really think I'm just going to
                         hand them over?!

               Hyde shrugs and offers a laugh, indicating the revolver
               pointing at Lara's head.

                                   HYDE
                         You're the one with a gun to your
                         head and several other guards with
                         machine guns aimed at you.

               Lara checks around herself, and notices the presence of THREE
               GUARDS, all armed to the teeth with WEAPONS and all aiming
               them at Lara.

               She shrugs and turns back to Hyde. And then, she cracks loose
               a wide smile. This makes Hyde shiver despite himself.

                                   HYDE (CONT'D)
                         What?! What's so funny?

                                   LARA
                         This.

               WHACK!

               Lara knocks his arm away and the revolver skids across the
               ground. Lara dives to the side and scoops it off the ground.

               In three swift SHOTS, the guards are all down, either DEAD or
               INJURED.

               Lara turns to Hyde and points the gun at him.

                                   LARA (CONT'D)
                         I should end you here.
                             (beat)
                         But I like the competition.
                             (beat; playful)
                         Toodles.

               Almost playfully, Lara DROPS the revolver down the hole and
               into the ladder room.

                                   HYDE
                         No!

               Hyde goes to dive forward but sees the drop and stops. He
               turns to Lara, fuming.

               She smiles sweetly - and then SUCKERPUNCHES him. He goes out
               like a light, dropping in seconds.

               Lara smirks at the mess she's made, fishing in his pocket and
               pulls out a set of KEYS.

               She turns and strolls over to Hyde's JEEP and unlocks it. She
               enters and boots up the engine. It ROARS alive and she begins
               to reverse and turn.

               As she accelerates and starts to drive forward, Bryce speaks
               out over the headset:

                                   BRYCE
                         So were next Lara?

                                   LARA
                         Oh, I don't know.
                             (beat; sadistic)
                         But I hope it's just as fun.

               She lets out a playful laugh as the jeep roars out of sight,
               and we:



                                    END OF EGYPT
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