umed
dead at this time. Civilian employees of a
Benthic Petroleum offshore drilling rig--
HIPPY
Hey that's us!
CATFISH
SSSSHHH!
ANCHORMAN
--are apparently participating in the recovery
operation but we have little information about
their involvement. On the scene now is--
FINLER
BOOOOH! We want names!
SONNY
Hey, hey! There's the Explorer.
A LONG LENSE VIDEO SHOT of the Benthic Explorer and the other vessels in a
stormy sea CUTS TO a shot of BILL TYLER, the on-scene reporter, in rain
gear, clutching his microphone. He is on the deck of a Navy support ship,
being used as a staging area from the press, well away from the center of the
operation.
TYLER
--there is a tremendous amount of activity.
With Cuba only 80 miles away, the massive buildup
of US ships and aircraft in the area has drawn
official protest from Havana and Moscow and has
led to a redirection of Soviet warships into the
Caribbean theater.
ANCHORMAN
How would you describe the mood there?
TYLER
The mood is one of suspicion, even confrontation.
A number of Russian and Cuban trawlers,
undoubtedly surveillance vessels, have been
circling within a few miles throughout the day,
and Soviet aircraft have repeatedly been warned
away from the area...
HIPPY
This sucks.
INT. CORRIDOR/SUB BAY 84
Bud, Lindsey, and Hippy walking along the corridor, Hippy in a black mood of
incipient paranoia.
BUD
What's the matter with you?
HIPPY
Now we're right in the middle of this big-time
international incident. Like the Cuban Missile
Crisis or something.
LINDSEY
Figured that out for yourself, did you?
HIPPY
We got Russian subs creeping around. Shit!
Something goes wrong they could say anything
happened down here, man. Give our folks medals,
know what I mean?
BUD
Hippy, just relax. You're making the women
nervous.
LINDSEY
Cute, Virgil.
HIPPY
No, I mean it. Those SEALs aren't telling us
diddly. Something's going on.
BUD
Hippy, you think everything's a conspiracy.
HIPPY
Everything is.
One Night is pounding down the corridor from the sub bay.
ONE NIGHT
Hurry up! Coffey's splitting with Flatbed! He
got me to show him the controls, then his guys
suited up and they're rolling.
Bud breaks into a run, passing her.
BUD
Goddamnit! D'you tell him we need it right now?
ONE NIGHT
I told him we had to get the umbilical unhooked
ASAP.
INT. SUB BAY 85
Bud clears the door in time to see an empty moonpool, roiling with turbulence.
He runs to the edge and looks down. Flatbed is a vague shape moving off.
BUD
Unbelievable.
CUT TO:
EXT. EXPLORER BRIDGE -- DAY 86
The sky is charcoal, the sea is a mountain range of gray slopes. Waves
thunder over the foredeck, whipped by eighty-know winds. Men in life
jackets scurry like insects. Off the port bow, the ASW destroyer ALBANY
vanishes and reappears among waves sixty feet tall. McBride scream orders
that can't be heard to the crewmen on deck. He staggers back along the bridge
railing.
INT./EXT. BENTHIC EXPLORER BRIDGE -- DAY 87
McBride steps into the quiet of the control room. He turns on De Marco.
MCBRIDE
We're trying to get unhooked and get out of
here... and your boys go sightseeing!
DEMARCO
They'll be back in two hours.
MCBRIDE
Two hours?! We're gonna be getting the shit
kicked out of us by our friend Fred in two hours!
De Marco's expression is infuriatingly calm... icy. McBride looks at his
watch and swears under his breath.
CUT TO:
EXT. USS MONTANA WRECK SITE 88
For a second time the black hull of the ballistic missile sub is illuminated
by diver's lights. Tiny figures, the divers move like moths around a distant
streetlight. Wilhite, Monk and Schoenick are clustered around an open missile
hatch. Using a large lift bag, they are removing the frangible fiberglass,
or 'diaphragm'. Coffey pilots Flatbed with increasing deftness, deploying
the big arm to aid in the work.
DOWN ANGLE as the diaphragm lifts away... revealing the blunt nose of the
TRIDENT C-4 MISSLE. Like looking down the barrel of a gun at the bullet
aimed right at you.
CUT TO:
INT. DEEPCORE/MESS HALL 89
TIGHT ON VIDEO SCREEN: A HELICOPTER SHOT of a warship burning, rolling
ponderously as it sinks in stormy seas.
NEWS ANCHOR (V.O.)
Little is known at this hour about the events
leading up to the collision. The US Navy guided
missile cruiser Appleton apparently struck the
Soviet 'Udaloy' class destroyer in low visibility
conditions...
VARIOUS CUTS of men in life jackets among huge waves... Rescue helicopters
hovering. Shaky camera work. Wind blasting. INTERCUT WITH REACTIONS of the
rig crew watching.
NEWS ANCHOR (V.O.)
In violent seas little hope remains for over a
hundred Russian crewmen still missing after the
sinking an hour ago.
SHOT OF AMERICAN CRUISER, burning, listing to one side in heavy seas.
Replaced by SHOT OF NETWORK ANCHORMAN.
NEWS ANCHOR
Soviet military spokesmen have claimed that
the collision constituted an unprovoked attack.
This was denied--
It continues. Bud looks at Lindsey. She turns to him, expression grim.
LINDSEY
Bud, this is big time.
CUT TO:
EXT. MONTANA WRECKSITE 90
The divers are working head-first in the missile's launch tube. Monk reads
from a plasticized card, directing the other two step by step. The arcane
litany is punctuated by the hissing rasp of their breathing.
WILHITE (filtered)
Separation sequencer disconnected. Next?
MONK (filtered)
Remove explosive bolts one through six in
counterclock-wise sequence.
SCHOENICK (filtered)
Check... removing bolt one.
INT. DEEPCORE 91
ON THE RIG CREW, watching. Bathed in the light of the video screen.
NEWSCASTER (V.O.)
... just learned that Soviet negotiators have
walked out of the strategic arms limitation
summit in protest over the incident this morning.
Bud switches the channel.
ANOTHER NEWSCASTER
... US and NATO military forces have been put on
full alert worldwide this morning in the wake
of...
BUD
It's on every channel.
Bud switches again. Reception is getting worse as the storm affect the
satellite down-link to Explorer. THE SCREEN shows a reporter on a city
street, stopping people at random. Their answers are edited together:
YOUNG WOMAN
You just feel so hopeless. You can see it coming,
but what can you do? What can anyone do?
CO
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