177 EXT. NORTH
ATLANTIC – WIDE SHOT – DAY 177
Just after dawn. Mist. And a great, craggy wall of looming icebergs. Mysterious and ghost-like. We PAN ACROSS SLOWLY.
PITT (V.O.)
(filter)
Downstairs there at
is what they call the graveyard
of the icebergs . . .
We TILT UP SLOWLY. And SEE a Navy helicopter flying southwest from the carrier Garfield, which
is holding just off
PITT (V.O.)
(continuing)
. . . they float down this way till
they hit the warm currents . . .
178 INT.
HELICOPTER 178
The pilot is in the f.g. Behind him in the cabin are Pitt and Seagram. Seagram is looking out a window while
Pitt is reading.
PITT
. . . then they’re done for. They
just curl up and die.
Pitt opens a book and starts leafing through it.
179 SINGLE –
SEAGRAM 179
Looking down.
180 EXT. NORTH
ATLANTIC – SEAGRAM’S POV THOUGH CHOPPER 180
WINDOW – DOWN SHOT
Of the great white mass of icebergs shoving up through the mist.
181 ANOTHER
ANGLE – HELICOPTER – AIR-TO-AIR 181
Still HOLDING the icebergs in the b.g.
182 INT. CABIN 182
Seagram turns from the window and looks at Pitt. Silence. Pitt is buried in a book. Seagram stares at
him till he looks up.
SEAGRAM
(he’s been waiting a
long time to say this)
You know Dana Archibald, don’t
you?
PITT
(matter of fact)
Yeah, I do.
183 ANOTHER
ANGLE – TWO SHOT 183
SEAGRAM
(after a beat)
It’s funny you never said anything
about knowing her.
PITT
(he looks up)
Why would I do that?
SEAGRAM
I don’t know. It just seems
funny that you wouldn’t.
184 EXT.
HELICOPTER IN FLIGHT – AIR-TO-AIR 184
SHOOTING AHEAD and DOWN we SEE the salvage flotilla in the distance.
185 EXT. OCEAN
SURFACE – DAY 185
SERIES OF SHOTS of the salvage operation. Action above and below decks on the Modoc.
Submersibles rising and descending. We SEE Seagram observing.
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