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!
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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 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.
[CUT TO]
188
[EXT. TITANIC / BOAT ONE]
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.
189
[INT. MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE]
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.
[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-
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A LONG CORRIDOR... part of the labyrinth of steerage hallways
forward. She is alone here. A long groan of stresses metal echoes
along the hall, unimpeded now.
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--
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.
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 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.
[CUT TO]
194
[EXT. BOAT 6 AND TITANIC]
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.
195
IN BOAT SIX, Ruth looks back at the Titanic, transfixed by the
sight of the dying liner. The bowsprit is now barely above the
waterline. Another of Boxhall's rockets EXPLODES overhead. K-BOOM!
It lights up the whole area, and we see half a dozen boats in the water , spreading out from the ship.
MOLLY :Now there's something you don't see every day.
[CUT TO]
--
『他鄉是一面負向的鏡子。
旅人認出那微小的部份是屬於他的，
卻發現那龐大的部份是他未曾擁有的，
也永遠不會擁有的。』
～『看不見的城市』；伊塔羅‧卡爾維諾
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