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ANDREWS
Anyone in here?
Rose runs up to him, breathless.
ROSE
Mr. Andrews, thank god! Where would the Master at
Arms take someone under arrest?!
ANDREWS
What? You have to get to a boat right away!
ROSE
No! I'll do this with or without your help, sir. But
without will take longer.
ANDREWS
(beat)
Take the elevator to the very bottom, go left down the
crewman's passage, then make a right.
ROSE
Bottom, left, right. I have it.
ANDREWS
Hurry, Rose.
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Rose run up as the last Elevator Operator is closing up his lift to leave.
OPERATOR
Sorry, miss, lifts are closed--
Without thinking she grabs him and shoves him back into the lift.
ROSE
I'm through being polite, goddamnit!! I may never be
polite the rest of my life! Now take me down!!
The operator fumbles to close the gate and start the lift.
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Molly and the two seamen are rowing, and they've made it a hundred feet or so. Enough to see that the ship is angled down into the water, with the bow rail less than ten feet above the surface.
MOLLY
Come on girls, join in, it'll keep ya warm. Let's got
Ruth. Grab an oar!
Ruth just stares at the spectacle of the
great liner, its rows of lights blazing, slanting down into the
sullen black mirror of the Atlantic.
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The car has landed in a foot of freezing water, shocking the hell out of her. She claws the door open and splashes out, hiking up her floor-length skirt so she can move. The lift goes back up, behind her, as she looks around.
ROSE
Left, crew passage.
She spots it and slogs down the flooded corridor.
The place is understandably deserted. She is on her own.
ROSE
Right, right... right.
She turns into
a cross-corridor, splashing down the hall. A row of doors on each side.
ROSE
Jack? Jaaacck??
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Jack is hopelessly pulling on the pipe again, straining until he turns red. He collapses back on the bench, realizing he’s screwed. Then he hears her through the door.
JACK
ROSE!! In here!
She splashes over to Jack and puts her arms around him.
ROSE
Jack, Jack, Jack... I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.
They are so happy to see each other it’s embarrassing.
JACK
That guy Lovejoy put it in my pocket.
ROSE
I know, I know.
JACK
See if you can find a key for these. Try those
drawers. It’s a little brass one.
She kisses his face and hugs him again, then starts to go through the desk.
JACK
So... how did you find out I didn’t do it?
ROSE
I didn’t
(she looks at him)
I just realized I already knew.
They share a look, then she goes back
to ransacking the room, searching drawers and cupboards. Jack
sees movement out the porthole and looks out.
A LIFEBOAT hits the surface of the water, seen from below.
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While the seamen detach the falls, Boat one rocks
next to the hull. Lucille and Sir Cosmo
Duff-Gordon sit with ten others in a boat made
for four times that many.
LUCILLE
I despise small boats. I just know I’m going to be
seasick. I always get seasick in small boats. Good
Heavens, there’s a man down there.
In a lit porthole beneath the surface she
sees Jack looking up at her... a face in a bubble of light under
the water.
Rose stops trashing the room, and stands there, breathing hard.
JACK
You have to go for help.
ROSE
(nodding)
I’ll be right back.
JACK
I’ll wait here.
She runs out, looking back at him once
from the doorway, then splashes away. Jack looks down at
the swirling water.
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Rose splashes down the hall to a stairwell going up to the next deck. She climbs the stairs, her long skirt leaving a trail like a giant snail. The weight of it is really slowing her down. She rips at the buttons and shimmies quickly out of the thing. She bounds up the stairs in her stockings and knee-length slip, to find herself in--
ROSE
Hello? Sombody?!
She runs a corner and runs along another
corridor in a daze. The hall slopes down into water which, shimmers,
reflecting the lights. The margin of the water creeps toward her. A young
man appears, running through the water, sending
up geysers of spray. He pelts past her without slowing, his eyes
crazed...
ROSE
Help! We need help!
He doesn’t
look back. It is like a bad dream. The hull gongs with terrifying sounds.
The lights flicker and go out, leaving her in utter darkness. A beat. Then they come back on. She finds herself hyperventilating. That one moment of blackness was the most terrifying of her life.
A steward runs around the nearest corner, his arms full of lifebelts. He is upset to see someone still in his section. He grabs her forcefully by the arm, pulling her with him like a wayward child.
STEWARD
Come on, then, let’s get you topside, miss, that’s right.
ROSE
Wait. Wait! I need your help! There’s-
STEWARD
No need to panic, miss. Come along!
ROSE
No, let me go! You’re going the wrong way!
He’s not listening. And he won’t let her go.
She SHOUTS in his ear, and when he turns, she punches him squarely in the nose. Shocked, he lets her go and staggers back.
STEWARD
To Hell with you!
ROSE
See you there, buster!
The steward rushes off, holding his bloody
nose. She pits after him. Just the way Jack taught her.
She turns around, SEES: a glass case with a fire-axe in it. She breaks the glass with a battered suitcase which is lying discarded nearby, and seizes the axe, running back the way she came.
Rose plunges into the water, which is up to her waist... and powers forward, holding the axe above her head in two hands. She grimaces at the pain from the literally freezing water.
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Jack has climbed up on the bench, and is hugging
the waterpipe. Rose wades in, holding the axe
above her head.
ROSE
Will this work?
JACK
We’ll find out.
They are both terrified, but trying to
keep panic at bay. He positions the chain connecting the two cuff,
stretching it taut across the steel pipe. The chain is of course very short,
and his exposed wrists are on either side
of it.
JACK
Try a couple practice swings.
Rose hefts the axe and thunks it into a wooden cabinet.
JACK
Now try and hit the same mark again.
She swings hard and the blade thunks in four inches from the mark.
JACK
Okay, that’s enough practice.
He winces, bracing himself as she raises
the axe. She has to hit a target about an inch wide with all the
force she can muster, with his hands on either side.
JACK
(sounding calm)
You can do it, Rose. Hit it as hard as you can, I trust you.
Jack closes his eyes. So does she.
The axe comes down . K-WHANG! Rose gingerly opens her eyes and looks... Jack is grinning with two separated cuffs.
Rose drops the, all the strength going out of her.
JACK
Nice work, there, Paul Bunyan.
He climbs down into the water next to her. He can’t breath for a second.
JACK
Shit! Excuse my French. Ow ow ow, that is cold!
Come on, lets go.
They wade out into the hall. Rose starts
toward the stairs going up, but Jack stops her. There is only
about a foot of the stairwell opening visible.
JACK
Too deep. We gotta find another way out.
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TITANIC ON THE LETTERS TITANIC painted two feet high on the bow of the doomed steamer. Once 50 feet above the waterline, they now quietly slip below the surface. We see them, gold on black, rippling and dimming to a pale green as they go deeper.
MOLLY
Now there’s something you don’t see every day.
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The widest passageway in the ship, it is used by crew and steerage alike, and runs almost the length of the ship. Right now steerage passengers move along it like refugees, heading aft.
CRASH! A wooden doorframe splinters and the door bursts open under the force of Jacks shoulder. Jack and Rose stumble through, into the corridor. A STEWARD, who was nearby herding people along, marches over.
STEWARD
Here you! You'll have to pay for that, you know.
That's White Star Line property--
JACK AND ROSE
(turning together)
Shutup!
Jack leads her past the dumbfounded steward.
They join the steerage stragglers going aft. In places the
corridor is almost completely blocked by large families carrying all their
luggage.
AN IRISH WOMAN gives Rose a blanket, more for modesty than because she is blue-lipped and shivering.
IRISHWOMAN
Here, lass, cover yourself.
Jack rubs her arms and tries to warm her
up as they walk along. The woman's husband offers them a
flask of whiskey.
IRISHMAN
This'll take the chill off.
Rose takes a mighty belt and hands
it to Jack. He grins and follows suit. Jack tries a number of DOORS
and IRON GATES along the way, finding them all locked.
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ON THE BOAT DECK, the action has moved to the aft group of boats, numbers 9, 11, 13, and 15 on the starboard side, and 10, 12, 14 and 16 on the port side. The pace of work is more frantic. You see crew and officers running now to work the davits, their previous complacency gone.
CAL pushes through the crowd, scanning for Rose. Around him is chaos and confusion. A woman is calling for a child who has become separated in the crowd. A man is shouting over people's heads. A woman takes hold of Second Officer Lightoller's arm as he is about to launch Boat 10.
WOMAN
Will you hold the boat a moment? I just have to run
back to my room for something--
Lightoller grabs her and shoves her bodily
into the boat. Thomas Andrews rushes up to him just then.
ANDREWS
Why are the boats being launched half full?!
Lightoller steps past him, helping a seaman clear a snarled fall.
LIGHTOLLER
Not now, Mr. Andrews.
ANDREWS
(pointing down at the water)
There, look... twenty or so in a boat built for sixty five.
And I saw one boat with only twelve. Twelve!
LIGHTOLLER
Well... we were not sure of the weight--
ANDREWS
Rubbish! They were tested in Belfast with the weight
of 70 men. Now fill these boats, Mr. Lightoller. For
God's sake, man!
The shot HANDS OFF to Cal, who sees Lovejoy
hurrying toward him through the aisle connecting the
port and starboard sides of the boat deck.
LOVEJOY
She's not on the starboard side either.
CAL
We're running out of time. And this strutting
martinet...
(indicating Lightoller)
... isn't letting any men in at all.
LOVEJOY
The one on the other side is letting men in.
CAL
Then that's out play. But we're still going to need
some insurance.
(he starts off forward)
Come on.
Cal charges off, heading forward, followed
by Lovejoy. The SHOT HANDS OFF to a finely dressed
elderly couple, IDA and ISADOR STRAUS.
ISADOR
Please, Ida, get into the boat.
IDA
No. We've been together for forty years, and where
you go I go. Don't argue with me, Isador, you know
it does no good.
He looks at her with sadness and great love. They embrace gently.
LIGHTOLLER
Lower away!!
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AT THE BOW... the place where Jack and Rose first kissed... the bow railing goes under water. Water swirls around the capstans and windlasses on the foc'sel deck.
Smith strides to the bridge rail and looks down at the well deck. Water is shipping over the sides and the well deck is awash. Two men run across the deck, their feet sending up spray. Behind Smith, Boxhall fires another rocket. WHOOSH!
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Fabrizio, standing with Helga Dahl and her family, hears Jack's voice.
JACK
Fabrizio! Fabri!
Fabrizio turns and sees Jack and Rose
pushing through the crowd. He and Jack hug like brothers.
FABRIZIO
The boats are all going.
JACK
We gotta get up there or we're gonna be gargling
saltwater. Where's Tommy?
Fabrizio points over the heads of the solidly packed crowd to the stairwell.
TOMMY has his hands on the bars of the steel gate which blocks the head of the stairwell. The crew open the gate a foot or so and a few women are squeezing through.
STEWARD #2
Women only. No men. No men!!
But some terrified men, not understanding
English, try to rush through the gap, forcing the gate open. The
crewmen and stewards push them back, shoving and punching them.
STEWARD #2
Get back! Get back you lot!
(to the crewmen)
Lock it!!
They struggle to get the gate closed again,
while Steward #2 brandishes a small revolver. Another holds
a fire axe. They lock the gate, and a cry goes up among the crowd, who
surge forward, pounding against the steel
and shouting in several languages.
TOMMY
For the love of God, man, there are women and children down
here! Let us up, so we can have a chance!
But the crewmen are scared now. They have
let the situation get out of hand, and now they have a mob.
Tommy gives up and pushes his way back through the crowd, going down the
stairs. He rejoins Jack, Rose and Fabrizio.
TOMMY
It's hopeless that way.
JACK
Well, whatever we're goin' to do, we better do it fast.
Fabrizio turns to Helga, praying he can make himself understood.
FABRIZIO
(with alot of hand gestures)
Everyone... all of you... come with me now. We go
to boats. We go to boats. Capito? Come now!
They can't understand what he's saying.
They can see his urgency, but OLUF DAHL, the patriarch of the
family, shakes his head. He will not panic, and will not let his family
go with this boy. Fabrizio
turns to Helga.
FABRIZIO
Helga... per favore... come with me, I am
luck. Is my destiny to go to America.
She kisses him, then steps back
to be with her family. Jack lays a hand on his shoulder, his eyes
saying "let's go".
FABRIZIO
I will never forget you.
He turns to Jack, who leads the way out
of the crowd. Looking back Fabrizio sees her face disappear
into the crowd.
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CLUNK! Cal opens his safe and reaches inside. As Lovejoy watches, he pulls out two stacks of bills, still banded by bank wrappers. Then he takes out the "Heart of the Sea", putting it in the left pocket of his overcoat, and locks the safe.
CAL
(holding up the stack of bills)
I make my own luck.
LOVEJOY
(patting the .45 in his waistband)
So do I.
Cal grins, putting the money in his pocket as they go out.
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Jack, Rose, Fabrizio and Tommy are lost, searching
for a way out. They push past confused
passengers... past a mother changing her baby’s
diaper on top of an upturned steamer trunk... past a woman
arguing heatedly with a man in Serbo-Croatian, a wailing child next to
them... past a man kneeling to console a woman
who is just sitting on the floor, sobbing... and past another man with
an English/ Arabic dictionary, trying to figure
out what the signs mean, while his wife and children wait patiently.
Jack et al come upon a narrow stairwell and they go up two decks before they are stopped by a small group pressed up against a steel gate. The steerage men are yelling at a scared STEWARD.
STEWARD
Go to the main stairwell, with everyone else. It'll all
get sorted out there.
Jack takes one look at this scene and finally just loses it.
JACK
God damn it to Hell son of a bitch!!
He grabs one end of a bench bolted on
the floor of the landing. He starts pulling on it, and Tommy and
Fabrizio pitch in until the bolts shear and it breaks free. Rose figures
out what they are doing and clears a path
up the stairs between the waiting people.
ROSE
Move aside! Quickly, move aside!
Jack and Tommy run up the steps
with the bench and RAM IT INTO THE GATE with all their
strength. It rips loose from it's track
and falls outward, narrowly missing the steward. Led by Jack, the
crowd surges through. Rose steps up to the cowering
steward and says in her most imperious tone:
ROSE
If you have any intention of keeping your pathetic job
with the White Star Line, I suggest you escort these
good people to the boat deck... now.
Class wins out. He nods dumbly and motions for them to follow.
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Ruth rows with Molly Brown, two other women and the incompetent sailors. She rests on her oars, exhausted, and looks back at the ship.
It slants down into the water, still ablaze with light. Nothing is above water forward of the bridge except the foremast. Another rocket goes off, lighting up the entire area... there are a dozen boats moving outward from the ship.
SMITH
Come back! Come back to the ship!
CHIEF OFFICER WILDE joins him, blowing his silver whistle.
HICHENS
The suction will pull us right down if we don't keep
going.
MOLLY
We got room for lots more. I say we go back.
HICHENS
No! It's our lives now, not theirs. And I'm in charge
of this boat! Now row!!
SMITH
The fools.
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As Cal and Lovejoy cross the foyer they encounter Benjamin Guggenheim and his valet, both are dressed in white tie, tail coats and top hats.
CAL
Ben, what's the occasion?
GUGGENHEIM
We have dressed in our best and are prepared to go
down like gentlemen.
CAL
That's admirable, Ben.
(walking on)
I'll be sure to tell your wife... when I get to
New York.