Thursday, July 10, 2008

“Titanic” Exclusive Screenplay (Part Nine)

211 INT. FIRST CLASS SMOKING ROOM
There are still two cardgames in progress. The room is quiet and civilized.
A silver serving cart, holding a large humidor, begins to roll slowlyacross the room. One of the cardplayers takes a cigar from it as it rollsby.
CARDPLAYER
It seems we've been dealt a bad hand this time.
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212 EXT. / INT. A-DECK PROMENADE
Cal and Lovejoy are walking aft with a purposeful stride. They pass CHIEFBAKER JOHGHIN, who is working up a sweat tossing deck chairs over the rail.After they go by, Joughin takes a break and pulls a bottle of scotch from apocket, opening it. He drains it, and tosses it over the side too, thenstands there a little unteadily.
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213 EXT. BOAT DECK AND A-DECK, AFT
PANIC IS SETTING IN around the remaining boats aft. The crowd here is now amix of all three classes. Officers repeatedly warn men back from the boats.
The crowd presses in closer.
Seamen
SCAROTT
brandishes the tiller of boat 14 to discourage a close pressof men who look ready to rush the boat. Several men break ranks and rushforward.
Lightoller pulls out his Webley revolver and aims it at them. LIGHTOLLER
Get back! Keep order!
The men back down. Fifth Officer Lowe standing in the boat, yells to thecrew.
LOWE
Lower away left and right!
Lightoller turns away from the crowd and, out of their sight, breaks hispistol open. Letting out a long breath, he starts to LOAD IT.
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214 EXT. BOAT DECK, STARBOARD SIDE, AFT
Cal and Lovejoy arrive in time to see Murdoch lowering his last boat.
CAL
We're too late.
LOVEJOY
There are still some boats forward. Stay with this one... Murdoch. He seemsto be quite... practical.
215 IN THE WATER BELOW there is another panic. Boat 13, already in thewater but still attached to its falls, is pushed aft by the discharge waterbeing pumped out of the ship. It winds up directly under boat 15, which iscoming downt he right on top of it.
The passengers shout in panic to the crew above to stop lowering. They areignored. Some men put their hands up, trying futilely to keep the 5 tons ofboat 15 from crushing them.
Fred Barrett, the stoker, gets out his knife and leaps to the after falls,climbing rudely over people. He cuts the aft falls while another crewmancuts the forward lines. 13 drifts out from beneath 15 just seconds beforeit touches the water with a slap.
Cal, looking down from the rail hears GUNSHOTS--
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216 EXT. BOAT DECK / A-DECK, PORT, AFT
Fifth Officer Lowe, in Boat 14 is firing his gun as a warning to a bunch ofmen threatening to jump into the boat as it passes the open promenade onA-Deck.
LOWE
Stay back you lot!
BLAM! BLAM!
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217 EXT. BOAT DECK, STARBOARD, AFT
The shots echo away.
CAL
It's starting to fall apart. We don't have much time.
Cal sees three dogs run by, including the black French bulldog. Someone hasreleased the pets from the kennels.
Cal sees Murdoch turn from the davits of boat 15 and start walking towardthe bow. He catches up and falls in beside him.
CAL
Mr. Murdoch, I'm a businessman, as you know, and I have a businessproposition for you.
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219 EXT. BOAT DECK, PORT
Jack, Rose et al burst out onto the boat deck from the crew stairs just aftof the third funnel. They look at the empty davits.
ROSE
The boats are gone!
She sees Colonel Gracie chugging forward along the deck, escorting twofirst class ladies.
ROSE
Colonel! Are there any boats left?
GRACIE
(staring at her bedraggled state)
Yes, miss... there are still a couple of boats all the way forward. Thisway, I'll lead you!
Jack grabs her hand and they sprint past Gracie, with Tommy and Fabrizioclose behind. ANGLE ON THE BAND... incredibly they are still playing. Jack, Rose and theothers run by.
TOMMY
Music to drown by. Now I know I'm in First Class.
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220 EXT. BOAT DECK, STARBOARD, FORWARD
Water pours like a spillway over the forward railing on B-Deck. CAMERASWEEPS UP past A-Deck to the Boat Deck where Murdoch and his team areloading Collapsible Car the forward-most davits.
NOTE: There are four so-called collapsibles, or Engelhardts boats,including two which are stored on the roof of the officer's quarters. The crowd is sparse, with most people still aft. Cal slips his hand out ofhte pocket of his overcoat and into the waist pocket of Murdoch'sgreatcoat, leaving the stacks of bills there.
CAL
So we have an understanding then?
MURDOCH
(nodding curtly)
As you've said.
Cal, satisfied, steps back. He finds himself waiting next to J. BruceIsmay. Ismay does not meet his eyes, nor anyone's. Lovejoy come sup to Calat that moment.
LOVEJOY
I've found her. She's just over on the port side. With him.
MURDOCH
Women and children? Any more women and children?
(glancing at Cal)
Any one else, then?
Cal looks longingly at his boat... his moment has arrived.
CAL
God damn it to hell! Come on.
He and Lovejoy head for the port side, taking a short-cut through thebridge.
Bruce Ismay, seeing his oppurtunity, steps quickly into Collapsible C. Hestares straight ahead, not meeting Murdoch's eyes.
MURDOCH
(staring at Ismay)
Take them down.
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221 EXT. BOAT DECK / PORT SIDE – NIGHT
ON THE PORT SIDE Lightoller is getting people into Boat 2. He keeps hispistol in his hand at this point. Twenty feet below them the sea is pouringinto the doors and windows of B deck staterooms. They can hear the roar ofwater cascading into the ship.
LIGHTOLLER
Women and children, please. Women and children only. Step back, sir. Even with Jack's arms wrapped around her, Rose is shivering in the cold.
Near her a WOMAN with TWO YOUNG DAUGHTERS looks into the eyes of a HUSBANDshe knows she may not see again
HUSBAND
Goodbye for a little while... only for a little while.
(to his two little girls)
Go with mummy.
The woman stumbles to the boat with the children, hiding her tears fromthem. Beneath the false good cheer, the man is choked with emotion.
HUSBAND
Hold mummy's hand and be a good girl. That's right.
Some of the women are stoic, others are overwhelmed by emotion and have tobe helped into the boats.
A MAN scribbles a note and hands it to a womanwho is about to board.
MAN
Please get this to my wife in DeMoines, Iowa.
Jack looks at Tommy and Fabrizio.
JACK
You better check out the other side.
They nod and run off, searching for a way around the deckhouse.
ROSE
I'm not going without you.
JACK
Get in the boat, Rose.
Cal walks up just then.
CAL
Yes. Get in the boat, Rose.
She is shocked to see him. She steps instinctively to Jack. Cal looks ather, standing there shivering in her wet slip and stockings, a shockingdisplay in 1912.
CAL
My God, look at you.
(taking off his boat)
Here, put this on.
She numbly shrugs into it. He is doing it for modesty, not the cold.
LIGHTOLLER
Quickly, ladies. Step into the boat. Hurry, please!
JACK
Go on. I'll get the next one.
ROSE
No. Not without you!
She doesn't even care that Cal is standing right there. He sees the emotionbetween Jack and Rose and his jaw clenches. But then he leans close to herand says...
CAL
(low)
There are boats on the other side that are allowing men in. Jack and I canget off safely. Both of us.
JACK
(he smiles reassuringly)
I'll be alright. Hurry up so we can get going... we got our own boat tocatch.
CAL
Get in... hurry up, it's almost full.
Lightoller grabs her arm and pulls her toward the boat. She reaches out forJack and her fingers brush his for a moment. Then she finds herselfstepping down into the boat. It's all a rush and blur.
LIGHTOLLER
Lower away!
The two men watch at the rail as the boat begins to descend.
CAL
(low)
You're a good liar.
JACK
Almost as good as you.
CAL
I always win, Jack. One way or another.
(looks at him, smiling)
Pity I didn't keep that drawing. It's going to be worth a lot more bymorning.
Jack knows he is screwed. He looks down at Rose, not wanting to waste asecond of his last view of her.
222 ROSE'S PERCEPTION... IN SLOW MOTION:
The ropes going through thepulleys as the seamen start to lower. All sound going away...
Lightollergiving orders, his lips moving... but Rose hears only the blood pounding inher ears... this cannot be happening... a rocket bursts above inslow-motion, outlining Jack in a halo of light... Rose's hair blowing inslow motion as she gazes up at him, descending away from him... she seeshis hand trembling, the tears at the corners of his eyes, and cannotbelieve the unbearable pain she is feeling...
Rose is still staring up, tears pouring down her face.
SUDDENLY SHE IS MOVING. She lunges across the women next to her. Reachesthe gunwale, climbing it...
Hurls herself out of the boat to the rail of the A-Deck promenade, catchingit, and scrambling over the rail. The Boat 2 continues down. But Rose isback on Titanic.
JACK
No Rose! NOOOO!!
Jack spins from the rail, running for the nearest way down to A-Deck. Hockley too has seen her jump. She is willing to die for this man, thisgutter scum. He is overwhelmed by a rage so all consuming it eclipses allthought.
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223 INT. GRAND STAIRCASE
TRACKING WITH JACK as he bangs through the doors to the foyer and sprintsdown the stairs. He sees her coming into A-deck foyer, running toward him,Cal's long coat flying out behind her as she runs.
They meet at the bottom of the stairs, and collide in an embrace.
JACK
Rose, Rose, you're so stupid, you're such an idiot--
And all the while he's kissing her and holding her as tight as he can.
ROSE
You jump, I jump, right?
JACK
Right.
Hockley comes in and runs to the railing. Looking down he sees them lockedin their embrace. Lovejoy comes up behind Cal and puts a restraining HANDon him, but Cal whips around, grabbing the pistol from Lovejoy's waistbandin one cobra-fast move.
He RUNS along the rail and down the stairs. As he reaches the landing abovethem he raises the gun. SCREAMING in rage, he FIRES.
The carved cherub at the foot of the center railing EXPLODES. Jack pullsRose toward the stairs going down to the next deck. Cal fires again,running down the steps toward them. A bullet blows a divet out of the oakpanelling behind Jack's head as he pulls Rose down the next flight ofstairs.
Hockley steps on the skittering head of the cherub statue and goessprawling. The gun clatters across the marble floor. He gets up, andreeling drunkenly goes over to retrieve it.
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224 INT. D-DECK RECEPTION ROOM
The bottom of the grand staircase is flooded several feet deep. Jack andRose come down the stairs two at a time and run straight into the water,fording across the room to where the floor slopes up, until they reach dryfooting at the entrance to the dining saloon.
STEADICAM WITH HOCKLEY as he reels down the stairs in time to see Jack andRose splashing through the water toward the dining saloon. He FIRES twice.Big gouts of spray near them, but he's not a great shot.
The water boils up around his feet and he retreast up the stairs a coupleof steps. Around him the woodward groans and creaks.
CAL
(calling to them)
Enjoy your time together!!
Lovejoy arrives next to him. Cal suddenly remembers something and starts tolaugh.
LOVEJOY
What could possible be funny?
CAL
I put the diamond in my coat pocket. And I put my coat... on her. He turns to Lovejoy with a sickly expression, his eyes glittering.
CAL
I give it to you... if you can get it.
He hands Lovejoy the pistol and goes back up the stairs. Lovejoy thinksabout it... then slogs into the water. The icewater is up to his waist ashe crosses the pool into the dining saloon.
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225 INT. DINING SALOON
Lovejoy moves among the tables and ornate columns, searching...
listening... his eyes tracking rapidly. It is a sea of tables, and theycould be anywhere. A silver serving tolley rolls downhill, bumping intotables and pillars.
He glances behind him. The water is following him into the room, advancingin a hundred foot wide tide. The reception room is now a roiling lake, andthe grand staircase is submerged past the first landing. Monstrous groansecho through the ship.
ON JACK AND ROSE, crouched behind a table, somewhere in the middle. Theysee the water advancing toward them, swirling over the floor. They crawlahead of it to the next row of tables.
JACK
(whispering)
Stay here.
He moves off as--
Lovejoy moves over one row and looks along the tables. Nothing.
The ship GROANS and CREAKS. He moves another row.
ANGLE ON A METAL CART... five feet tall and full of stacks of china dishes.It starts to roll down the aisle between tables.
ON ROSE as the cart rolls toward her. It hits a table and the stacks ofdishes topple out, EXPLODING across the floor and showering her.
She scrambles out of the way and--
Lovejoy spins, seeing her. He moves rapidly toward her, keeping the gunaimed--
That's when Jack tackles him from the side. They slam together into atable, crashing over it, and toppling to the floor. They land in the waterwhich is flowing rapidly between the tables.
Jack and Lovejoy grapple in the icy water. Jack jams his knee down onLovejoy's hand, breaking his grip on the pistol, and kicks it away. Lovejoyscrmbles up and lunges at him, but Jack GUTPUCHES him right in the solarplexus, doubling him over.
JACK
Compliments of the Chippewa Falls Dawsons.
He grabs Lovejoy and slams him into an ornate columb. Lovejoy drops to thefloor with a splas, stunned.
JACK
Let's go.
Jack and Rose run aft... uphill... entering the galley. Behind them thetables have become islands in a lake... and the far end of the room isflooded up to the ceiling.
Lovejoy gets up and looks around for his gun. He pulls it up out of thewater and wades after them.
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226 INT. GALLEY / STAIRWELL
They run throught the galley and Rose spots the stairs. She starts up andJack grabs her hand. He leads her DOWN.
They crouch together on the landing as Lovejoy runs to the stairs.
Assumingthey have gone up (who wouldn't?) he clombs up them two at a time. They wait for the footstep to recede. A long CREAKING GROAN. Then they hearit... a CRYING CHILD. Below them. They go down a frew steps to looks alongthe next deck.
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227 INT. E-DECK CORRIDORS
The corridor is awash, about a foot deep. Standing against the wall, about50 feet away, is a little BOY, aobut 3. The water swirls around his legsand he is wailing.
ROSE
We can't leave him.
Jack nods and they leave the promise of escape up the stairwell to run tothe child. Jack scoops up the kid and they run back to the stairs but-- A torrent of water comes pouring down the stairs like rapids. In seconds itis too powerful for them to go against.
JACK
Come on.
Charging the other way down the flooding corridor, they blast up spray witheach footstep. At the end of the hall are heavy double doors. As Jackapproaches them he sees water spraying through the gap between the doorsright up to the ceiling. The doors groan and start to crack under the tonsof pressure.
JACK
Back! Go back!!
Rose pivots and runs back the way they came, taking a turn into across-corridor. A MAN is coming the other way. He sees the boy in Jack'sarms and cries out, grabbing him away from Jack. Starts cursing him inRussian. He runs on with the boy--
ROSE
No! Not that way! Come back!
228 DOUBLE DOORS BLAST OPEN. A wall of water thunders into the corridor.The father and child DISAPPEAR instantly.
Jack and Rose run as a wave blasts around the corner, foaming from floor toceiling. It gains on them like a locomotive. They make it to a stairwaygoing up.
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229 INT. STAIRWELL
Jack and Rose pound up the steps as white water swirls up behind them. PULLBACK to reveal that a steel gate blocks the top of the stairs. Jack SLAMSagainst the fate, gripping the bars.
A terrified steward standing guard on the landing above turns to run at thesight of the water thundering up the stairs.
JACK
Wait! Wait! Help us! Unlock the gate.
The steward runs on. The water wells up around Jack and Rose, pouringthrough the gate and slamming them against it. In seconds it is up to theirwaist.
ROSE
Help us! Please!
The steward stops and looks back. He sees Jack and Rose at the gate, theirarms raching through... sees the water POURING through the gate onto thelanding.
STEWARD
Fucking 'ell!
He runs back, slogging against the curretn. He pulls a key ring from hisbelt and struggles to unlock the padlock as the water fountains up aroundthem.
The lights short out and the landing is plunged into darkness. The water rises over the lock and he's doing it by feel.
JACK
Come on! Come on!
Jack and Rose are right up against the ceiling...
Suddenly the gate gives and SWINGS OPEN. They are pushing through by theforce of the water. They make it to stairs on the other side of the landingand follow the steward up to the next deck.
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230 EXT. BOAT DECK, STARBOARD SIDE
Cal comes reeling out of the first class entrance, looking wild-eyed. Thelurches down the deck toward the bridge. Waltz music wafts over the ship.Somewhere the band is still playing.
CAL'S POV: A little girl, maybe two years old, is crying along in thealcove. She looks up at Cal beseechingly. Cal moves on without a glanceback... reaching a large crowd clustered around COLLAPSIBLE A just aft ofthe bridge. He sees Murdoch and a number of crewmen struggling to drag theboat to the davits, with no luck.
Cal pushes forward, trying to signal Murdoch, but the officer ignores him.Nearby Tommy and Fabrizio are being pushed forward by the crowd behind.PURSER MCELROY pushes them back, getting a couple of seamen to help him. Hebrandishes his gun, waving it in the air, yelling for the crowd to stayback.
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231 EXT. BOAT DECK, PORT SIDE / ROOF OF OFFICERS' QUARTERS
Lightoller, with a group of crew and passengers, is trying to getCollapsible B down from the roof. They slide it down a pair of oars leanedagainst the deck house.
LIGHTOLLER
Hold it! Hold it!
The weight of the boat snaps the oars and it crashes to the deck, upsidedown. The two Swedish cousins, OLAUS and BJORN GUNERSEN, jump back as theboat nearly hits them.
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233 INT. STAIRWELL
Jack and Rose run up seemingly endless stairs as the ship groans andtorgues around them.
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234 EXT. BOAT DECK, STARBOARD SIDE
Murdoch, at Collapsible A, is no longer in control. The crowd isthreatening to rush the boat. They push and jostle, yelling and shouting atthe officers. The pressure from behind pushes them forward, and one guyfalls off the edge of the deck into the water less than ten feet below.
TOMMY
Give us a chance to live, you limey bastards!
Murdoch fires his Webley twice in the air, then point it at the crowd. MURDOCH
I'll shoot any man who tries to get past me.
Cal steps up to him.
CAL
We had a deal, damn you.
Murdoch pushes him back, pointing the pistol at Cal.
MURDOCH
Get back!
A man next to Tommy rushes forward, and Tommy is shoved from behind.Murdoch SHOOTS the first man, and seeing Tommy coming forward, puts abullet into his chest.
Tommy collapses, and Fabrizio grabs him, holding him in his arms as hislife flows out over the deck.
Murdoch turns to his men and salutes smartly. Then he puts the pistol tohis temple and... BLAM! He drops like a puppet with the strings cut andtopples over the edge of the boat deck into the water only a few feetbelow.
Cal stares in horror at Murdoch's body bobbing in the black water. TheMONEY FLOATS out of the pocket of his greatcoat, the bills spreading acrossthe surface.
The crew rush to get the last few women aboart the boat.
PURSER MCELROY
(calling above the confusion)
Any more women or children?!
THE CHILD crying in the alcove. Cal scoops her up and runs forward,cradling her in his arms.
CAL
(forcing his way through the crowd)
Here's a child! I've got a child!
CAL
(CONT'D)
(to McElroy)
Please... I'm all she has in the world.
McElroy nods curtly and pushes him into the boat. He spins with his gun,brandishing it in the air to keep the other men back. Cal gets into theboat, holding the little girl. He takes a seat with the women.
CAL
There, there.
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235 INT. FIRST CLASS SMOKE ROOM
Thomas Andrews stands in front of the fireplace, staring at the largepainting above the mantle. The fire is still going in the fireplace. The room is empty except for Andrews. An ashtray falls off the table.Behind him Jack and Rose run into the room, out of breath and soaked. Theyrun through, toward the aft revolving door... then Rose recognizes him. Shesees that his lifebelt is off, lying on a table.
ROSE
Won't you even make a try for it, Mr. Andrews?
ANDREWS
(a tear rolls down his cheek)
I'm sorry that I didn't build you a stronger ship, young Rose.
JACK
(to her)
It's going fast... we've got to keep moving.
Andrews picks up his lifebelt and hands it to her.
ANDREWS
Good luck to you, Rose.
ROSE
(hugging him)
And to you, Mr. Andrews.
Jack pulls her away and they run through the revolving door.
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236 EXT. BOAT DECK AND VARIOUS LOCATIONS
The band finishes the waltz. Wallace Hartley looks at the orchestramembers.
HARTLEY
Right, that's it then.
They leave him, walking forward along the deck. Hartley puts his violin tohis chin and bows the first notes of "Nearer My God to Thee". One by onethe band memebers turn, hearing the lonely melody.
Without a word they walk back and take their places. They join in withHartley, filling out the sound so that it reaches all over the ship on thisstill night. The vocalist begins: "If in my dreams I be, nearer my God tothee..."
THE HYMN PLAYS OVER THE FOLLOWING SEQUENCE:
237 A seaman pulls off his lifebelt and catches up to Captain Smith as hewalks to the bridge. He proffers it, but Smith seems to stare through him.Without a word he turns and goes onto the bridge. He enters the enclosedWHEELHOUSE and closes the door. He is alone, surrounded by the gleamingbrass instruments. He seems to inwardly collapse.
238 IN THE FIRST CLASS SMOKING ROOM Andrews stands like a statue. He pullsout his pocketwatch and checks the time. Then he opens the face of themantle clock and adjusts it to the correct time: 2:12 a.m. Everything mustbe correct.
239 IN CAL'S PARLOUR SUITE water swirls in from the private promenade deck.
Rose's paintings are submerged. The Picasso tranforms under the water'ssurface. Degas' colors run. Monet's water lilies come to life.
240 DOWNANGLE on the two figures lying side by side, fully clothed, on abed in a FIRST CLASS CABIN. Elderly Ida and Isador Strauss stare at theceiling, holding hands like young lovers. Water pours into the room througha doorway. It swirls around the bed, two feet deep rising fast.
241 IN A STEERAGE CABIN somewhere in the bowels of the ship, the youngIRISH MOTHER, seen earlier stoically waiting at the stairs, is tucking hertwo young children into bed. She pulls up the covers, making sure they areall warm and cozy. She lies down with them on the bed, speaking soothinglyand holding them.
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EXT. BOAT DECK / BRIDGE
242 IN A WIDE SHOT we see a wave travel up the boat deck as the bridgehouse sinks into the water.
243 ON THE PORT SIDE Collapsible B is picked up by water. Workingfrantically, the men try to detach it from the falls so the ship won't dragit under. Colonel Gracie hands Lightoller a pocket knife and he sawsfuriously at the ropes as the water swirls around his legs. The boat, stillupside down, is swept off the ship. Men start diving in, swimming to staywith it.
244 IN COLLAPSIBLE A Cal sits next to the wailing child, whom he hascompletely forgotten. He watches the water rising around the men as theywork, scrambling to get the ropes cut so the ship won't drag thecollapsible under.
Fabrizio removes the lifebelt from Tommy's body and struggles to put it onas the water rises around him.
245 CAPTAIN SMITH, standing near the wheel, watches the black waterclimbing the windows of the enclosed wheelhouse. He has the strickenexpression of a damned sould on Judgment Day. The windows burst suddenlyand a wall of water edged with shards of glass slams into Smith. Hedisappears in a vortex of foam.
246 Collapsible A is hit by a wave as the bow plunges suddenly. Itpartially swamps the boat, washing it along the deck. Over a hundredpassengers are plunged into the freezing water and the area around the boatbecomes a frenzy of splashing, screaming people.
As men are trying to climb into the callapsible, Cal grabs an oar andpushes them back into the water.
CAL
Get back! You'll swamp us!
Fabrizio, swimming for his life, gets swirled under a davit. The ropes andpulleys tangle around him as the davit goes under the water, and he isdragged down. Underwater he struggles to free himself, and then kicks backto the surface. He surfaces, gasping for air in the freezing water.
247 WALLACE HARTLEY sees the water rolling rapidly up the deck toward them.He holds the last note of the hymn in a sustain, and then lowers hisviolin.
HARTLEY
Gentlemen, it has been a previlege playing with you tonight.
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248 EXT. A-DECK AFT, PORT SIDE
Jack and Rose run out of the PALM COURT into a dense crowd. Jack pushes hisway to the rail and looks at the state of the ship. The bridge is underwater and tehre 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 aspossible.
They push their way aft through the panicking crowd.
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249 EXT. FORWARD FUNNEL
Collapsible A is whirled like a leaf in the currents around the siningship. It slams against the side of the forward funnel.
CAL
(to the crew in the boat)
Row! Row you bastards!!
250 NEARBY: Fabrizio is drawn up against the grating of a STOKEHOLD VENT aswater pours through it. The force of tons of water roaring down the shiptraps him against it, and he is dragged down under the surface as the shipsinks. He struggles to free himself but cannot. Suddenly there is a concussion deep in the bowels of the ship as a furnaceexplodes and a blast of hot air belches out of hte ventilator, ejectingFabrizio. He surfaces in a roar of foam and keeps swimming.
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To be continued…

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