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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
