holding the axe above her head in two hands. She grimaces at the pain from
the literally freezing water.
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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.
The axe comes down. K-WHANG! Rose gingerly opens her eyes looks... Jack is
grinning with two separate cuffs.
Rose drops the axe, 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 breathe for a second.
JACK
Shit! Excuse my French. Ow ow ow, that is cold! Come on, let's 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.
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194 EXT. BOAT 6 AND TITANIC
TIGHT 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 somethin' you don't see every day.
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196 INT. SCOTLAND ROAD / E-DECK
The widest passageway in the ship, it is used by crew and steerage alike,
and runs almost the length of the ship. Right now steerage passengers move
along it like refugees, heading aft.
CRASH! A wooden doorframe splinters and the door bursts open under the force
of Jack's shoulder. Jack and Rose stumble through, into the corridor. A
STEWARD, who was nearby herding people along, marches over.
STEWARD
Here you! You'll have to pay for that, you know. That's White Star Line
property--
JACK AND ROSE
(turning together)
Shutup!
Jack leads her past the dumbfounded steward. They join the steerage
stragglers going aft. In places the corridor is almost completely blocked by
large families carrying all their luggage.
AN IRISH WOMAN gives Rose a blanket, more for modesty than because she is
blue-lipped and shivering.
IRISHWOMAN
Here, lass, cover yerself.
Jack rubs her arms and tries to warm her up as they walk along. The woman's
husband offers them a flask of whiskey.
IRISHMAN
This'll take the chill off.
Rose takes a mighty belt and hands it to Jack. He grins and follows suit.
Jack tries a number of DOORS and IRON GATES along the way, finding them all
locked.
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197 EXT. BOAT DECK
ON THE BOAT DECK, the action has moved to the aft group of boats, numbers 9,
11, 13 and 15 on the starboard side, and 10, 12, 14 and 16 on the port side.
The pace of work is more frantic. You see crew and officers running now to
work the davits, their previous complacency gone.
CAL pushes through the crowd, scanning for Rose. Around him is chaos and
confusion. A woman is calling for a child who has become separated from the
crowd. A man is shouting over people's heads. A woman takes hold of Second
Officer Lightoller's arm as he is about to launch Boat 10.
WOMAN
Will you hold the boat a moment? I have to run back to my room for
something--
Lightoller grabs her and shoves her bodily into the boat. Thomas Andrews
rushes up to him just then.
ANDREWS
Why are the boats being launched half full?!
Lightoller steps past him, helping a seaman clear a snarled fall.
LIGHTOLLER
Not now, Mr. Andrews.
ANDREWS
(pointing down at the water)
There, look... twenty or so in a boat built for sixty five. And I saw one
boat with only twelve. Twelve!
LIGHTOLLER
Well... we were not sure of the weight--
ANDREWS
Rubbish! They were tested in Belfast with the weight of 70 men. Now fill
these boats, Mr. Lightoller. For God's sake, man!
The shot HANDS OFF to Cal, who sees Lovejoy hurrying toward him through the
aisle connecting the port and starboard sides of the boat deck.
LOVEJOY
She's not on the starboard side either.
CAL
We're running out of time. And this strutting martinet...
(indicating Lightoller)
...isn't letting any men in at all.
LOVEJOY
The one on the other side is letting men in.
CAL
Then that's our play. But we're still going to need some insurance.
(he starts off forward)
Come on.
Cal charges off, heading forward, followed by Lovejoy. The SHOT HANDS OFF to
a finely dressed elderly couple, IDA and ISADOR STRAUSS.
ISADOR
Please, Ida, get into the boat.
IDA
No. We've been together for forty years, and where
(MORE)
IDA (CONT'D)
you go, I go. Don't argue with me, Isador, you know it does no good.
He looks at her with sadness and great love. They embrace gently.
LIGHTOLLER
Lower away!!
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198 EXT. BRIDGE / FORWARD WELL DECK / FOC'SLE
AT THE BOW... the place where Jack and Rose first kissed... the bow railing
goes under water water. Water swirls around the captsans and windlasses on
the foc'sle deck.
Smith strides to the bridge rail and looks down at the well deck. Water is
shipped over the sides and the well deck is awash. Two men run across the
deck, their feet sending up spray. Behind Smith, Boxhall fires another
rocket. WHOOSH!
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199 OMITTED
200 OMITTED
201 INT. E-DECK CORRIDORS AND STAIRWELL
Fabrizio, standing with Helga Dahl and her family, hears Jack's voice.
JACK
Fabrizio! Fabri!
Fabrizio turns and sees Jack and Rose pushing through the crowd. He and Jack
hug like brothers.
FABRIZIO
The boats are all going.
JACK
We gotta get up there or we're gonna be gargling saltwater. Where's Tommy?
Fabrizio points over the heads of the solidly packed crowd to the stairwell.
Tommy has his hands on the bars of the steel gate which blocks the head of
the stairwell. The crew open the gate a foot or so and a few women are
squeezing through.
STEWARD #2
Women only. No men. No men!!
But some terrified men, not understanding English, try to rush through the
gap, forcing the gate open. The crewmen and stewards push them back, shoving
and punching them.
STEWARD #2
Get back! Get back you lot!
(to the crewmen)
Lock it!!
They struggle to get the gate closed again, while Steward #2 brandishes a
small revolver. Another holds a fire axe. They lock the gate, and a cry goes
up among the crowd, who surge forward, pounding against the steel and
shouting in several languages.
TOMMY
For the love of God, man, there are children down here! Let us up, so we can
have a chance!
But the crewmen are scared now. They have let the situation get out of hand,
and now they have a mob. Tommy gives up and pushes his way back through the
crowd, going down the stairs. He rejoins Jack, Rose and Fabrizio.
TOMMY
It's hopeless that way.
JACK
Well, whatever we're goin' to do, we better do it fast.
Fabrizio turns to Helga, praying he can make himself understood.
FABRIZIO
(with a lot of hand gestures)
Everyone... all of you... come with me now. We go to the boats. We go to the
boats. Capito? Come now!
They can't understand what he's saying. They can see his urgency, but OLUF
DAHL, the patriarch of the family, shakes his head. He will not panic, and
will not let his family go with this boy. Fabrizio turns to Helga.
FABRIZIO
Helga... per favore... please... come with me, I am lucky. Is my destiny to
go to America.
She kisses him, then steps back to be with her family. Jack lays a hand on
his shoulder, his eyes saying "Let's go".
FABRIZIO
I will never forget you.
He turns to Jack, who leads the way out of the crowd. Looking back Fabrizio
sees her face disappear into the crowd.
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202 OMITTED
203 OMITTED
204 INT. CAL AND ROSE'S SUITE
CLUNK! Cal opens his safe and reaches inside. As Lovejoy watches, he pulls
out two stacks of bills, still banded by bank wrappers. Then he takes out
"Heart of the Ocean", putting it in the pocket of his overcoat, and locks
the safe.
CAL
(holding up stacks of bills)
I make my own luck.
LOVEJOY
(putting the .45 in his waistband)
So do I.
Cal grins, putting the money in his pocket as they go out.
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205 INT. STEERAGE, AFT
Jack, Rose, Fabrizio and Tommy are lost, searching for a way out. They push
past confused passengers... past a mother changing her baby's diaper on top
of an upturned steamer trunk... past a woman arguing heatedly with a man in
Serbo-Croatian, a wailing child next to them... past a man kneeling to
console a woman who is just sitting on the floor, sobbing... and past
another man with an English/Arabic dictionary, trying to figure out what the
signs mean, while his wife and children wait patiently.
Jack et al come upon a narrow stairwell and they go up two decks before they
are stopped by a small group pressed up against a steel gate. The steerage
men are yelling at a scared STEWARD.
STEWARD
Go to the main stairwell, with everyone else. It'll all get sorted out
there.
Jack takes one look at this scene and finally just loses it.
JACK
God damn it to Hell son of a bitch!!
He grabs one end of a bench bolted to the floor on the landing. He starts
pulling on it, and Tommy and Fabrizio pitch in until the bolts shear and it
breaks free. Rose figures out what they are doing and clears a path up the
stairs between the waiting people.
ROSE
Move aside! Quickly, move aside!
Jack and Tommy run up the steps with the bench and RAM IT INTO THE GATE with
all their strength. It rips loose from its track and falls outward, narrowly
missing the steward. Led by Jack, the crowd surges though. Rose steps up to
the cowering steward and says in her most imperious tone:
ROSE
If you have any intention of keeping your pathetic job
(MORE)
ROSE (CONT'D)
with the White Star Line, I suggest you escort these good people to the boat
deck... now.
Class wins out. He nods dumbly motions form them to follow.
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206 EXT. BOAT 6 / TITANIC - NIGHT
Ruth rows with Molly Brown, two other women and the incompetent sailors. She
rests on her oars, exhausted, and looks back at the ship.
It slants down into the water, still ablaze with light. Nothing is above
water forward of the bridge except for the foremast. Another rocket goes
off, lighting up the entire area... there are a dozen boats moving outward
from the ship.
207 AT THE BOAT DECK RAIL Captain Smith is shouting to Boat 6 through a
large metal megaphone.
SMITH
