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Part Four of Six Want to hear the Titanic's distress call? 137 UNDERWATER we see the ice smashing in the steel hull plates. The iceberg bumps and scrapes along the side of the ship. Rivets pop as the steel plate of the hull flexes under the load. 138 IN #2 HOLD the two stewards stagger as the hull buckles in four feet with a sound like THUNDER. Like a sledgehammer beating along outside the ship, the berg splits the hull plates and the sea pour in, sweeping them off their feet. The icy water swirls around the Renault as the men scramble for the stairs. 139 ON G-DECK forward Fabrizio is tossed in his bunk by the impact. He hears a sound like the greatly amplified squeal of a skate on ice. 140 IN BOILER ROOM SIX Barret and Hesketh stagger as they hear the ROLLING THUNDER of the collision. They see the starboard side of the ship buckle in toward them and are almost swept off their feet by a rush of water coming in about two feet above the floor. 141 ON THE FORWARD WELL DECK Jack and Rose break their kiss and look up in astonishment as the berg sails past, blocking out the sky like a mountain. Fragments break off it and crash down onto the deck, and they have to jump back to avoid flying chunks of ice. 142 ON THE BRIDGE Murdoch rings the watertight door alarm. He quickly throws the switch that closes them. MURDOCH Hard a 'port! Judging the berg to be amidships, he is trying to clear the stern. 143 BARRETT AND HESKETH hear the DOOR ALARM and scramble through the swirling water to the watertight door between Boiler Rooms 6 and 5. The room is full of water vapor as the cold sea strikes the red hot furnaces. Barrett yells to the stokers scrambling through the door as it comes down like a slow guillotine. BARRETT Go Lads! Go! Go! He dives through into Boiler Room 5 just before the door rumbles down with a CLANG. 144 JACK AND ROSE rush to the starboard rail in time to see the berg moving aft down the side of the ship. 145 In his stateroom, surrounded by piles of plans while making notes in his ever-present book, Andrews looks up at the sound of a cut-crystal light fixture tinkling like a windchime. He feels the shudder run through the ship. And we see it in his face. Too much of his soul is in this great ship for him not to feel its mortal wound. 146 IN THE FIRST CLASS SMOKING ROOM Gracie watches his highball vibrating on the table. 147 IN THE PALM COURT, with its high arched windows, Molly Brown holds up her drink to a passing waiter. MOLLY Hey, can I get some ice here, please? Silently, a moving wall of ice fills the window behind her. She doesn't see it. It disappears astern. 148 OMITTED 149 IN THE CROW'S NEST Fleet turns to his Lee... FLEET Oy, mate... that was a close shave. LEE Smell ice, can you? Bleedin' Christ! CUT TO: 150 INT. / EXT. BRIDGE CLOSE ON MURDOCH. The alarm bells still clatter mindlessly, seeming to reflect his inner state. He is in shock, unable to get a grip on what just happened. He just ran the biggest ship in history into an iceberg on its maiden voyage. MURDOCH (stiffly, to Moody) Note the time. Enter it in the log. Captain Smith rushes out of his cabin onto the bridge, tucking in his shirt. SMITH What was that, Mr. Murdoch? MURDOCH An iceberg, sir. I put her hard a' starboard and run the engines full astern, but it was too close. I tried to port around it, but she hit... and I-- SMITH Close the emergency doors. MURDOCH The doors are closed. Together they rush out onto the starboard wing, and Murdoch points. Smith looks into the darkness aft, then wheels around to FOURTH OFFICER BOXHALL. SMITH Find the Carpenter and get him to sound the ship. CUT TO: 151 INT. G-DECK FORWARD In steerage, Fabrizio comes out into the hall to see what's going on. He sees dozens of rats running toward him in the corridor, fleeing the flooding bow. Fabrizio jumps aside as the rats run by. FABRIZIO Ma-- che cazzo! 152 IN HIS STATEROOM Tommy gets out of his top bunk in the dark and drops down to the floor. SPLASH!! TOMMMY Cor!! What in hell--?! He naps on the light. The floor is covered with 3 inches of freezing water, and more coming in. He pulls the door open, and steps out into the corridor, which is flooded. Fabrizio is running toward him, yelling something in Italian. Tommy and Fabrizio start pounding on doors, getting everybody up and out. The alarm spreads in several languages. CUT TO: 153 INT. FIRST CLASS CORRIDOR / A-DECK A couple of people have come out into the corridor in robes and slippers. A STeWARD hurries along, reassuring them. WOMAN Why have the engines stopped? I felt a shudder? STEWARD #1 I shouldn't worry, ma'am. We've likely thrown a propeller blade, that's the shudder you felt. May I bring you anything? THOMAS ANDREWS brushes past them, walking fast and carrying an armload of rolled up ship's plans. CUT TO: 154 EXT. FORWARD WELL DECK Jack and Rose are leaning over the starboard rail, looking at the hull of the ship. JACK Looks okay. I don't see anything. ROSE Could it have damaged the ship? JACK It didn't seem like much of a bump. I'm sure we're okay. Behind them a couple of steerage guys are kicking the ice around the deck, laughing. CUT TO: 155 INT. STEERAGE FORWARD Fabrizio and Tommy are in a crowd of steerage men clogging the corridors, heading aft away from the flooding. Many of them have grabbed suitcases and duffel bags, some of which are soaked. TOMMY If this is the direction the rats were runnin', it's good enough for me. CUT TO: 156 INT. CORRIDOR ON B DECK Bruce Ismay, dressed in pajamas under the topcoat, hurries down the corridor, headed for the bridge. An officious steward named BARNES comes along the other direction, getting the few concerned passengers back into their rooms. STEWARD BARNES There's no cause for alarm. Please, go back to your rooms. He is stopped in his tracks by Cal and Lovejoy. STEWARD BARNES Please, sir. There's no emergency-- CAL Yes there is, I have been robbed. Now get the Master at Arms. Now, you moron! CUT TO: 157 INT. BRIDGE / CHARTROOM C.U. CAPTAIN SMITH studying the commutator. He turns to Andrews, standing behind him. SMITH A five degree list in less than ten minutes. SHIP'S CARPENTER JOHN HUTCHINSON enters behind him, out of breath and clearly unnerved. HUTCHINSON She's making water fast... in the forepeak tank and the forward holds, in boiler room six. ISMAY enters, his movements quick with anger and frustration. Smith glances at him with annoyance. ISMAY Why have we stopped? SMITH We've struck ice. ISMAY Well, do you think the ship is seriously damaged? SMITH (glaring) Excuse me. Smith pushes past him, with Andrews and Hutchinson in tow. CUT TO: 158 INT. BOILER ROOM 6 Strokers and firemen are struggling to draw the fires. They are working in waist deep water churning around as it flows into the boiler room, ice cold and swirling with grease from the machinery. Chief Engineer Bell comes partway down the ladder and shouts. BELL That's it, lads. Get the hell up! They scramble up the escape ladders. CUT TO: 159 EXT. B-DECK FORWARD / WELL DECK The gentlemen, now joined by another man, leans on the forward rail watching the steerage men playing soccer with chunks of ice. GENTLEMAN I guess it's nothing too serious. I'm going back to my cabin to read. A 20ish YALE MAN pops through the door wearing a topcoat over pajamas. YALEY Say, did I miss the fun? Rose and Jack come up the steps from the well deck, which are right next to the three men. They stare as the couple climbs over the locked gate. A moment later Captain Smith rounds the corner, followed by Andrews and Carpenter Hutchinson. They have come down from the bridge by the outside stairs. The three men, their faces grim, crush right past Jack and Rose. Andrews barely glances at her. SMITH Can you shore up? HUTCHINSON Not unless the pumps get ahead. The inspection party goes down the stairs to the well deck. JACK (low, to her) It's bad. ROSE We have to tell Mother and Cal. JACK Now it's worse. ROSE Come with me, Jack. I jump, you jump... Right? JACK Right. Jack follows Rose through the door inside the ship. CUT TO: 160 INT. B-DECK FOYER / CORRIDOR Jack and Rose cross the foyer, entering the corridor. Lovejoy is waiting for them in the hall as they approach the room. LOVEJOY We've been looking for you, miss. Lovejoy follows and, unseen, moves close behind Jack and smoothly slips the diamond necklace into the pocket of his overcoat. CUT TO: 161 INT. ROSE AND CAL'S SUITE Cal and Ruth wait in the sitting room, along with the Master at Arms and two stewards (Steward #1 and Barnes). Silence as Rose and Jack enter. Ruth closes her robe at her throat when she sees Jack. ROSE Something serious has happened. CAL That's right. Two things dear to me have disappeared this evening. Now that one is back... (he looks from Rose to Jack) ... I have a pretty good idea where to fine the other. (to Master at Arms) Search him. The Master at Arms steps up to Jack. MASTER AT ARMS Coat off, mate. Lovejoy pulls at Jack's coat and Jack shakes his head in dismay, shrugging out of it. The Master at Arms pats him down. JACK This is horseshit. ROSE Cal, you can't be serious! We're in the middle of an emergency and you-- Steward Barnes pulls the Heart of the Ocean out of the pocket of Jack's coat. STEWARD BARNES Is this it? Rose is stunned. Needless to say, so is Jack. CAL That's it. MASTER AT ARMS Right then. Now don't make a fuss. He starts to handcuff Jack. JACK Don't you believe it, Rose. Don't! ROSE (uncertain) He couldn't have. CAL Of course he could. Easy enough for a professional. He memorized the combination when you opened the safe. FLASHBACK: Rose at the safe, looking in the mirror and meeting Jack's eyes as he stands behind her, watching. ROSE But I was with him the whole time. CAL (just to her, low and cold) Maybe he did it while you were putting your clothes back on. JACK They put it in my pocket! LOVEJOY (holding Jack's coat) It's not even your pocket, son. (reading) "Property of A. L. Ryerson". Lovejoy shows the coat to the Master at Arms. There is a label inside the collar with the owner's name. MASTER AT ARMS That was reported stolen today. JACK I was going to return it! Rose-- Rose feels utterly betrayed, hurt and confused. She shrinks away from him. He starts shouting to her as Lovejoy and the Master at Arms drag him out into the hall. She can't look him in the eye. JACK Rose, don't listen to them... I didn't do this! You know I didn't! You know it! She is devastated. Her mother lays a comforting hand on her shoulder as te tears well up. RUTH Why do women believe men? CUT TO: 162 INT. MAIL SORTING ROOM / HOLD Smith and Andrews come down the steps to the Mail Sorting Room and finds the clerks scrambling to pull mail from the racks. They are furiously hauling wet sacks of mail up from the hold below. Andrews climbs partway down the stairs to the hold, which is almost full. Sacks of mail float everywhere. The lights are still on below the surface, casting an eerie glow. The Renault is visible under the water, the brass glinting cheerfully. Andrews looks down as the water covers his shoe, and scrambles back up the stairs. CUT TO: 163 INT. BRIDE / CHARTROOM Andrews unrolls a big drawing of the ship across the chartroom table. It is a side elevation, showing all the watertight bulkheads. His hands are shaking. Murdoch and Ismay hover behind Andrews and the Captain. ISMAY When can we get underway, do you think? Smith glares at him and turns his attention to Andrews' drawing. The builder points to it for emphasis as he talks. ANDREWS Water 14 feet above the keel in ten minutes... in the forepeak... in all three holds... and in boiler room six. SMITH That's right. ANDREWS Five compartments. She can stay afloat with the first four compartments breached. But not five. Not five. As she goes down by the head the water will spill over the tops of the bulkheads... at E Deck... from one to the next... back and back. There's no stopping it. SMITH The pumps-- ANDREWS The pumps buy you time... but minutes only. From this moment, no matter what we do, Titanic will founder. ISMAY But this ship can't sink! ANDREWS She is made of iron, sir. I assure you, she can. And she will. It is a mathematical certainty. Smith looks like he has been gutpunched. SMITH How much time? ANDREWS An hour, two at most. Ismay reels as his dream turns into his worst nightmare. SMITH And how many aboard, Mr. Murdoch? MURDOCH Two thousand two hundred souls aboard, sir. A long beat. Smith turns to his employer. SMITH I believe you may get your headlines, Mr. Ismay. CUT TO: 164 EXT. BOAT DECK Andrews is striding along the boat deck, as seamen and officers scurry to uncover the boats. Steam is venting from pipes on the funnels overhead, and the din is horrendous. Speech is difficult adding to the crew's level of disorganization. Andrews sees some men fumbling with the mechanism of one of the Wellin davits and yells to them over the roar of steam. ANDREWS Turn to the right! Pull the falls taut before you unchock. Have you never had a boat drill? SEAMAN No sir! Not with these new davits, sir. He looks around, disguised as the crew fumble with the davits, and the tackle for the "falls"... the ropes which are used to lower the boats. A few passengers are coming out on deck, hesitantly in the noise and bitter cold. CUT TO: 165 INT. ROSE AND CAL'S SUITE From inside the sitting room they can hear knocking and voices in the corridor. RUTH I had better go dress. Ruth exits and Hockley crosses to Rose. He regards her coldly for a moment, then SLAPS her across the face. CAL It is a little slut, isn't it? To Rose the blow is inconsequential compared to the blow her heart has been given. Cal grabs her shoulders roughly. CAL Look at me, you little-- There is a loud knock on the door and an urgent voice. The door opens and their steward puts his head in. STEWARD BARNES Sir, I've been told to ask you to please put on your lifebelt, and come up to the boat deck. CAL Get out. We're busy. The steward persists, coming in to get the lifebelts down from the top of a dresser. STEWARD I'm sorry about the inconvenience, Mr. Hockley, but it's Captain's orders. Please dress warmly, it's quite cold tonight. (he hands a lifebelt to Rose) Not to worry, miss, I'm sure it's just a precaution. CAL This is ridiculous. In the corridor outside the stewards are being so polite and obsequious they are conveying no sense of danger whatsoever. However, it's another story in... CUT TO: 166 INT. STEERAGE BERTHING AFT BLACKNESS. Then BANG! The door is thrown open and the lights snapped on by a steward. The Cartmell family rouses from a sound sleep. STEWARD #2 Everybody up. Let's go. Put your lifebelts on. IN THE CORRIDOR outside, another steward is going from door to door along the hall, pouncing and yelling. STEWARD #2 Lifebelts on. Lifebelts on. Everybody up, come on. Lifebelts on... People come out of the doors behind the steward, perplexed. In the foreground a SYRIAN WOMAN asks her husband what was said. He shrugs. CUT TO: 167 INT. WIRELESS ROOM ON PHILLIPS, looking shocked. PHILLIPS CQD, sir? SMITH That's right. The distress call. CQD. Tell whoever responds that we are going down by the head and need immediate assistance. Smith hurries out. PHILLIPS Blimey. BRIDE Maybe you ought to try that new distress call... S.O.S. (grinning) It may be our only chance to use it. Phillips laughs in spite of himself and starts sending history's first S.O.S. Dit dit dit, da da da, dit dit dit... over and over. CUT TO: 168 EXT. BOAT DECK Thomas Andrews looks around in amazement. The deck is empty except for the crew fumbling with the davits. He yells over the roar of the steam to First Officer Murdoch. ANDREWS Where are all the passengers? MURDOCH They've all gone back inside. Too damn cold and noisy for them. Andrews feels like he is in a bad dream. He looks at his pocketwatch and heads for the foyer entrance. CUT TO: 169 INT. A-DECK FOYER A large number of First Class passengers have gathered near the staircase. They are getting indignant about the confusion. Molly Brown snags a passing YOUNG STEWARD. MOLLY What's doing, sonny? You've got us all trussed up and now we're cooling our heels. The young steward backs away, actually stumbling on the stairs. YOUNG STEWARD Sorry, mum. Let me go and find out. The jumpy piano rhythm of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" comes out of the first class lounge a few yards away. Band leader WALLACE HARTLEY has assembled some of his men on Captain's orders, to allay panic. Hockley's entourage comes up to the A-deck foyer. Cal is carrying the lifebelts, almost as an afterthought. Rose is like a sleepwalker. CAL It's just the God damned English doing everything by the book. RUTH There's no need for language, Mr. Hockley. (to Trudy) Go back and turn the heater on in my room, so it won't be too cold when we get back. Thomas Andrews enters, looking around the magnificent room, which he knows is doomed. Rose, standing nearby, sees his heartbroken expression. She walks over to him and Cal goes after her. ROSE I saw the iceberg, Mr. Andrews. And I see it in your eyes. Please tell me the truth. ANDREWS The ship will sink. ROSE You're certain? ANDREWS Yes. In an hour or so... all this... will be at the bottom of the Atlantic. CAL My God. Now it is Cal's turn to look stunned. The Titanic? Sinking? ANDREWS Please tell only who you must, I don't want to be responsible for a panic. And get to a boat quickly. Don't wait. You remember what I told you about the boats? ROSE Yes, I understand. Thank you. Andrews goes off, moving among the passengers and urging them to put on their lifebelts and get to the boats. CUT TO: 170 INT. MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE Lovejoy and the Master at Arms are handcuffing Jack to a 4" WATER PIPE as a crewman rushes in anxiously and almost blurts to the Master at Arms-- CREWMAN You're wanted by the Purser, sir. Urgently. LOVEJOY Go on. I'll keep an eye on him. Lovejoy pulls a pearl handled Colt .45 automatic from under his coat. The Master at Arms nods and tosses the handcuff key to Lovejoy, then exits with the crewman. Lovejoy flips the key in the air. Catches it. CUT TO: 171 INT. BRIDGE Junior Wireless Operator Bride is relaying a message to Captain Smith from the CUNARD LINER CARPATHIA. BRIDE Carpathia says they're making 17 knots, full steam for them, sir. SMITH And she's the only one who's responding? BRIDE The only one close, sir. She says they can be here in four hours. SMITH Four hours! The enormity of it hits Smith like a sledgehammer blow. SMITH Thank you, Bride. He turns as Bride exits, and looks out onto the blackness. SMITH (to himself) My God. CUT TO: 172 EXT. BOAT DECK - NIGHT Lightoller has his boats swung out. He is standing amidst a crowd of uncertain passengers in all states of dress and undress. One first class woman is barefoot. Others are in stockings. The maitre of the restaurant is in top hat and overcoat. Others are still in evening dress, while some are in bathrobes and kimonos. Women are wearing lifebelts over velvet gowns, then topping it with sable stoles. Some brought jewels, others books, even small dogs. Lightoller sees Smith walking stiffly toward him and quickly goes to him. He yells into the Captain's ear, through cupped hands, over the roar of the steam... LIGHTOLLER Hadn't we better get the women and children into the boats, sir? Smith just nods, a bit abstractly. The fire has gone out of him. Lightoller sees the awesome truth in Smith's face. LIGHTOLLER (to the men) Right! Start the loading. Women and children! The appalling din of escaping steam abruptly cuts off, leaving a sudden unearthly silence in which Lightoller's voice echoes. ON WALLACE HARTLEY raising his violin to play. HARTLEY Number 26. Ready and-- The band has reassembled just outside the First Class Entrance, port side, near where Lightoller is calling for the boats to be loaded. They strike up a waltz, lively and elegant. The music wafts all over the ship. LIGHTOLLER Ladies, please. Step into the boat. Finally one woman steps across the gap, into the boat, terrified of the drop to the water far below. WOMAN IN CROWD You watch. They'll put us off in these silly little boats to freeze, and we'll all be back on board by breakfast. Cal, Rose and Ruth come out of the doors near the band. RUTH My brooch, I left my brooch. I must have it! She turns back to go to her room but Cal takes her by the arm, refusing to let her go. The firmness of his hold surprises her. CAL Stay here, Ruth. Ruth sees his expression, and knows fear for the first time. CUT TO: 173 INT. STEERAGE BERTHING AFT / CORRIDORS AND STAIRWELL It is chaos, with stewards pushing their way through narrow corridors clogged with people carrying suitcases, duffel bags, children. Some have lifebelts on, others don't. STEWARD #2 (to Steward #3) I told the stupid sods no luggage. Aw, bloody hell! He throws up his hand at the sight of a family, loaded down with cases and bags, completely blocking the corridor. Fabrizio and Tommy push past the stewards, going the other way. They reach a huge crowd gathered at the bottom of the MAIN 3RD CLASS STAIRWELL. Fabrizio spots Helga with the rest of the Dahl family, standing patiently with suitcases in hand. He reaches her and she grins, hugging him. Tommy pushes to where he can see what's holding up the group. There is a steel gate across the top of the stairs, with several stewards and seamen on the other side. STEWARD Stay calm, please. It's not time to go up to the boats yet. Near Tommy, an IRISHWOMAN stands stoically with two small children and their battered luggage. LITTLE BOY What are we doing, mummy? WOMAN We're just waiting, dear. When they finish putting First Class people in the boats, they'll be starting with us, and we'll want to be all ready, won't we? CUT TO: 174 EXT. STARBOARD SIDE Boat 7 is less than half full, with 28 aboard a boat made for 65. FIRST OFFICER MURDOCH Lower away! By the left and right together, steady lads! The boat lurches as the falls start to pay out through the pulley blocks. The women gasp. The boat descends, swaying and jerking, toward the water 60 feet below. The passengers are terrified. CUT TO: 175 EXT. / INT. TITANIC HULL AND MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE TRACKING along the rows of portholes angling down into the water. Under the surface, they glow green. PUSHING IN on one porthole which has submerged. Inside we see Jack, looking apprehensively at the water rising up the glass. INSIDE THE MASTER AT ARMS' OFFICE Jack sits chained to the waterpipe, next to the porthole. Lovejoy sits on the edge of a desk. He puts a .45 bullet on the desk and watches it roll across and fall off. He picks up the bullet. LOVEJOY You know... I believe this ship may sink. (crosses to Jack) I've been asked to give you this small token of our appreciation... He punches Jack hard in the stomach, knocking the wind out of him. LOVEJOY Compliments of Mr. Caledon Hockley. Lovejoy flips the handcuff key in the air, catches it and puts it in his pocket. He exits. Jack is left gasping, handcuffed to the pipe. CUT TO: 176 EXT. BOAT DECK / STARBOARD SIDE, FORWARD At the stairwell rail on the bridge wing, Fourth Officer Boxhall and Quartermaster Rowe light the first distress rocket. It shoots into the sky and EXPLODES with a thunderclap over the ship, sending out white starbursts which light up the entire deck as they fall. WHIP PAN off the starbursts to Ismay. The Managing Director of White Star Line is cracking. Already at the breaking point from his immense guilt, the rocket panics him. He starts shouting at the officers struggling with the falls of BOAT 5. ISMAY There is no time to waste! (yelling and waving his arms) Lower away! Lower away! Lower away! FIFTH OFFICER LOWE, a baby-faced 28, and the youngest officer, looks up from the tangled falls at the madman. LOWE Get out of the way, you fool! ISMAY Do you know who I am? Lowe, not having a clue nor caring, squares up to Ismay. LOWE You're a passenger. And I'm a ship's bloody officer. Now do what you're told! (turning away) Steady, men! Stand by the falls! ISMAY (numbly, backing away) Yes, quite right. Sorry. CUT TO: 177 EXT. BOAT DECK / PORT SIDE SECOND OFFICER LIGHTOLLER is loading the boat nearest Cal and Rose... Boat 6. LIGHTOLLER Women and children only! Sorry sir, no men yet. Another rocket bursts overhead, lighting the crowd. Startled faces turn upward. Fear now in the eyes. DANIEL MARVIN has his Biograph camera set up, cranking away... hoping to get an exposure off the rocket's light. He has Mary posed in front of the scene at the boats. MARVIN You're afraid, darling. Scared to death. That's it! Either she suddenly learned to act or she is petrified. ROSE watches the farewells taking pace right in front of her as they step closer to the boat. Husbands saying goodbye to wives and children. Lovers and friends parted. Nearby MOLLY is getting a reluctant woman to board the boat. MOLLY Come on, you heard the man. Get in the boat, sister. RUTH Will the lifeboats be seated according to class? I hope they're not too crowded-- ROSE Oh, Mother shut up! (Ruth freezes, mouth open) Don't you understand? The water is freezing and there aren't enough boats... not enough by half. Half the people on this ship are going to die. CAL Not the better half. PUSH IN ON ROSE'S FACE as it hits her like a thunderbolt. Jack is third class. He doesn't stand a chance. Another rocket bursts overhead, bathing her face in white light. ROSE You unimaginable bastard. MOLLY Come on, Ruth, get in the boat. These are the first class seats right up here. That's it. Molly practically hands her over to Lightoller, then looks around for some other women who might need a push. MOLLY Come on, Rose. You're next, darlin'. Rose steps back, shaking her head. RUTH Rose, get in the boat! ROSE Goodbye, mother. Ruth, standing in the tippy lifeboat, can do nothing. Cal grabs Rose's arm but she pulls free and walks away through the crowd. Cal catches up to Rose and grabs her again, roughly. CAL Where are you going? To him? Is that it? To be a whore to that gutter rat? ROSE I'd rather be his whore than your wife. He clenches his jaw and squeezes her arm viciously, pulling her back toward the lifeboat. Rose pulls out a hairpin and jabs him with it. he lets go with a curse and she runs into the crowd. LIGHTOLLER Lower away!! RUTH Rose! ROSE!! MOLLY Stuff a sock in it, would ya, Ruth. She'll be along. The boat lurches downward as the falls are paid out. TRACKING WITH ROSE, as she runs through the clusters of people. She looks back and a furious Cal is coming after her. She runs breathlessly up to two proper looking men. ROSE That man tried to take advantage of me in the crowd! Appalled, they turn to see Cal running toward them. Rose runs on as the two men grab Cal, restraining him. She runs through the First Class entrance. Cal breaks free and runs after her. He reaches the entrance, but runs into a knot of people coming out. He pushes rudely through them... CUT TO: 178 INT. BOAT DECK FOYER / STAIRCASE / A-DECK FOYER Cal runs in, and down to the landing, pushing past the gentlemen and ladies who are filling up the stairs. He scans the A-deck foyer. Rose is gone. CUT TO: 179 EXT. OCEAN / TITANIC / BOAT 6 The hull of Titanic looms over Boat 6 like a cliff. Its enormous mass is suddenly threatening to those in the tiny boat. Quartermaster Hitchins, at the tiller, wants nothing but to get away from the ship. Unfortunately his two seamen can't row. They flail like a duck with a broken wing. HITCHINS Keep pulling... away from the ship. Pull. MOLLY Ain't you boys ever rowed before? Here, gimme those oars. I'll show ya how it's done. She climbs over Ruth to get at the oars, stepping on her feet. Around them the evacuation is in full swing, with boats in the water, others being lowered. CUT TO: 180 INT. MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE / CORRIDOR Jack pulls on the pipe with all his strength. It's not budging. He hears gurgling sound. Water pours under the door, spreading rapidly across the floor. JACK Shit. He tries to pull one hand out of the cuffs, working until the skin is raw... no good. JACK Help!! Somebody!! Can anybody hear me?! (to himself) This could be bad. 181 THE CORRIDOR outside is deserted. Flooded a couple of inches deep. Jack's voice comes faintly through the door, but there is no one to hear it. CUT TO: 182 INT. FIRST CLASS CORRIDOR Thomas Andrews is opening stateroom doors, checking that people are out. 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. CUT TO: 183 INT. FOYER / ELEVATORS Rose runs 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 with 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. CUT TO: 184 EXT. OCEAN / BOAT 6 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 go 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. CUT TO: 185 INT. FIRST CLASS ELEVATOR / CORRIDORS Through the wrought iron door of the elevator car Rose can see the decks going past. The lift slows. Suddenly ICE WATER is swirling around her legs. She SCREAMS in surprise. So does the operator. 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? Jaaacckk?? CUT TO: 186 INT. MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE / CORRIDOR 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! 187 IN THE HALL Rose hears his voice behind her. She spins and runs back, locating the right door, then pushes it open, creating a small wave. She splashes over 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. CUT TO: 188 EXT. TITANIC / BOAT ONE While the seamen detach the falls, Boat One rocks next to the hull. Lucile and Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon sit with ten others in a boat made for four times that many. LUCILE 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. CUT TO: 189 INT. MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE Rose stops trashing the room, and stands there, breathing hard. ROSE There's no key in here. They look around at the water, now almost two feet deep. Jack has pulled his feet up onto the bench. 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. CUT TO: 190 INT. STAIRWELL AND CORRIDORS 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-- 191 A LONG CORRIDOR... part of the labyrinth of steerage hallways forward. She is alone here. A long groan of stressing metal echoes along the hall as the ship continues to settle. She runs down the hall, unimpeded now. ROSE Hello? Somebody?! She turns a corner and runs along another corridor in a daze. The hall slopes down into water which, shimmers, reflecting the light. 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 me! 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 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 for 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 runs off, holding his bloody nose. She spits 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. 192 AT THE STAIRWELL she looks down and gasps. The water has flooded the bottom five steps. She goes down and has to crouch to look along the corridor to the room where Jack is trapped. 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. CUT TO: 193 INT. MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE 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 cuffs, 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 to 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. Script © 1996 James Cameron. All photos © 1997 by Paramount Pictures and Twentieth-Century Fox.
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James Cameron's Titanic
