NEMO 2 An Original Screenplay by Laurie Craig Based on ...

FADE IN:
INT. SMALL UNDERWATER GROTTO - DAY
A bed of ru<strong>by</strong> red fish eggs are nestled in the rock.
CORAL (V.O.)
Ah, look, they're dreaming...
WE PAN up from the eggs to see two clown fish, CORAL and
MARLIN, lovingly watching their ba<strong>by</strong> eggs.
CORAL (CONT'D)
We still have to name them. I like
Nemo.
MARLIN
Nemo? Well, we'll name one Nemo,
but I'd like most of them to be Marlin
Jr.
The camera moves past them and out of the grotto, as their
VOICES RECEDE.
CORAL (O.S.)
Just think, in a couple of days,
we're gonna be parents...
MARLIN
Yeah... What if they don't like me?
EXT. REEF - DAY
From a distance, we see Coral and Marlin leaving the grotto
and playfully entering their anemone home. We hear bits of
their MUFFLED LAUGHTER and FLIRTATION, as we move away.
Someone is watching them. We keep moving further and further
back, until finally, we rest on a BARRACUDA.
Then, the Barracuda makes his move with lethal certainty.
We hold on the murky water as he swiftly glides out of sight.
There is a ripple in the current that betrays the life and
death struggle that is happening off screen.
NO!!
MARLIN (O.S.)
We hear the IMPACT and CUT TO BLACK.
INT. A<strong>NEMO</strong>NE HOME - LATER THAT NIGHT
All is quiet. Marlin comes to, uncertain how long he's been
unconscious. He races out of the anemone.