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IN A WIDE SHOT we see a wave travel up the boat deck as the bridge house sinks into the water.

Fabrizio removes the lifebelt from Tommy's body and struggles to put it on as the water rises around him.

As men are trying to climb into the collapsible, Cal grabs an oar and pushes them back into the water.

                                     CAL
                            Get back! You'll swamp us!
 Fabrizio, swimming for his life, gets swirled under a davit. The ropes and pulleys tangle around him as the davit goes under the water, and he is dragged down. Underwater he struggles to free himself, and then kicks back to the surface. He surfaces, gasping for air in the freezing water.

                                  HARTLEY
                    Gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you
                                    tonight.

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Jack and Rose run out of the PALM COURT into a dense crowd. Jack pushes his way to the rail and looks at the state of the ship. The bridge is under water and there is chaos on deck. Jack helps her put her lifebelt on. People stream around them, shouting and pushing.

                                    JACK
                   Okay... we keep moving aft. We have to stay on the
                             ship as long as possible.
                   They push their way aft through the panicking crowd.

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Collapsible A is whirled like a leaf in the currents around the sinking ship. It slams against the side of the forward funnel.

                                     CAL
                              (to the crew in the boat)
                             Row! Row you bastards!
 

Suddenly there is a concussion deep in the bowels of the ship as a furnace explodes and a blast of hot air belches out of the ventilator, ejecting Fabrizio. He surfaces in a roar of foam and keeps swimming.

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Jack and Rose clamber over the A-Deck rail. Then, using all his strength, he lowers her toward the deck below, holding on with one hand, She dangles, then falls. Jack jumps down behind her.

They join a crush of people literally clawing and scrambling over each other to get down the narrow stairs to the well deck... the only way aft.

Seeing that the stairs are impossible, jack climbs over the B-Deck railing and helps Rose over. He lowers her again, and she falls in a heap. BAKER JOUGHIN, now three sheets to the wind, happens to be next to her. He hauls Rose to her feet. Jack drops down and the three of them push through the crowd across the well deck. Near them, at the rail people are jumping into the water.

The ship GROANS and SHUDDERS. The man ahead of Jack is walking like a zombie.

                                    MAN
                   Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow
                                   of death--

                                    JACK
                  You wanna walk a little faster through that valley, fella?

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The stay cables along the top of the funnel snap, and they lash like steel whips down into the water. Cal watches as the funnel topples from it's mounts. Falling like a temple pillar twenty eight feet across it whomps into the water with a tremendous splash. People swimming underneath it disappear in an instant.

Fabrizio, a few feet away, is hurled back by a huge wave. He comes up, gasping... still swimming. The water pouring into the open end of the funnel draws in several swimmers. The funnel sinks, disappearing, but--

Hundreds of tons of water pour down through the 30 foot hole where the funnel once stood,
thundering down into the belly of the ship. A whirlpool forms, a hole in the ocean, like an enormous toilet-flush. T.W. McCawley, the gym instructor, swims in a frenzy as the vortex draws him in. He is sucked down like a spider going down a drain.

Fabrizio, nearby, swims like Hell as more people are sucked down behind him. He manages to get clear. He's going to live no matter what it takes.

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Water roars in through the doors and windows, cascading down the stairs like rapids. John Jacob Astor is swept down the marble steps to A-Deck, which is already flooded... a roiling vortex. He grabs the headless cherub at the bottom of the staircase and wraps his arms around it.

Astor looks up in time to see the 30 foot glass dome overhead EXPLODE INWARD with the wave of water washing over it. A Niagara of sea water thunders down into the room, blasting through the first class opulence. It is the Armageddon of elegance.

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The flooding is horrific. Walls and doors are splintered like kindling. Water roars down corridors with pile-driver force.

The CARTMELL FAMILY are at the top of a stairwell, jammed against a locked gate like Jack and Rose were. Water boils up the stairwell behind them. Bert Cartmell shakes the gate futiley, shouting for help. Little Cora wails as the water boils up around them all.

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Rose and Jack struggle to climb the well deck stairs as the ship tilts. Drunken Baker Joughin puts a hand squarely on Rose's butt and shoves her up onto the deck.

                                  JOUGHIN
                                  Sorry, miss!
 Hundreds of people are already on the poop deck, and more are pouring up every second. Jack and Rose cling together as they struggle across the tilting deck.

People are JUMPING from the well deck, the poop deck, the gangway doors. Some hit debris in the water and are hurt or killed.

ON THE POOP DECK Jack and Rose struggle aft as the angle increases. Hundreds of passengers, clinging to every fixed object on deck, huddle on their knees around FATHER BYLES, who has his voice raised in prayer. They are praying, sobbing or just staring at nothing, their minds blank with dread.

Pulling himself from handhold to handhold, Jack tugs Rose aft along the deck.

                                    JACK
                   Come on, Rose. We can't expect God to do all the
                                  work for us.
  They struggle on, pushing through the praying people. A MAN loses his footing ahead and slides  toward them. Jack helps him up.

Above the wailing and sobbing, Father Byles' voice carries, cracking with emotion.

                                FATHER BYLES
                     ... and I saw new heavens and a new earth. The
                  former heavens and the former earth had passed away
                             and the sea was no longer.
  The lights flicker, threatening to go out. Rose grips Jack as the stern rises into the night sky ablaze  with stars.

                                FATHER BYLES
                    I also saw a new Jerusalem, the holy city coming
                    down out of heaven from God, beautiful as a bride
                   prepared to meet her husband. I heard a loud voice
                   from the throne ring out this is God's dwelling among
                    men. He shall dwell with them and they shall be his
                   people and He shall be their God who is always with
                                    them.
   Rose stares about her at the faces of the doomed. Near them are the DAHL FAMILY, clinging
together stoically. Helga looks at her briefly, and her eyes are infinitely sad.

Rose sees a young mother next to her, clutching her five year old son, who is crying in terror.

                                   MOTHER
                    Shhh. Don't cry. It'll be over soon, darling. It'll all
                                 be over soon.

                                FATHER BYLES
                    He shall wipe every tear from their eyes. And there
                    shall be no more death or mourning, crying out or
                      pain, for the former world has passed away.

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As the ship tilts everything not bolted down inside shifts.

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TRACKING SLOWLY IN on Ruth as the sounds of the dying ship and the screaming people come across the water.

The image is shocking, unbelievable, unthinkable. Ruth stares at the spectacle, unable to frame it or put it into any proportion.

                               MOLLY BROWN
                                 God Almighty.
                            The great liner's lights flicker.

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In darkness Chief Engineer Bell hangs onto a pipe at the master breaker panel. Around him men climb through tilted cyclopean machines with electric hand-torches. It is a black hell of breaking pipes, spraying water, and groaning machinery threatening to tear right out of its bedplates.

Water sprays down, hitting the breaker panel, but Bell will not leave his post. CLUNK. The breakers kick. He slams them in again and-- WHOOM! a blast of light! Something melts and arcing fills the engine room with nightmarish light--