260    INT. CAPT. BURKE’S QUEARTERS – DAY                                                            260

 

            Coffee pot.  Burke, Pitt, Giordino and Seagram.

 

SEAGRAM

Nicholson swears the C.I.A.

didn’t leak that byzanium story.

Kemper swears it didn’t come from

the Pentagon and Sandecker swears

it didn’t come from the White House.

 

PITT

                                                                        That sounds familiar.

 

SEAGRAM

                                                                        Sandecker thinks somebody from

                                                                        this ship could be feeding information

                                                                        to that Russian ship out there.  He

                                                                        thinks those tapes you sent may be

                                                                        the answer.

 

BURKE

                                                                        You think that’s possible, Dirk?

 

PITT

                                                                        Anything’s possible.  That’s my

                                                                        theme song.

 

261    EXT. MODOC – DAY                                                                                                  261

 

            More banks of lights are being handled and are dropped overboard.

 

262    EXT. CAPRICORN – DAY                                                                                          262

 

            The crew are attending the hose operation from the foam tanks.  Quiet, businesslike activity.

 

263    INT. PENTAGON CONFERECE ROOM                                                                 263

 

            Sandecker, Kemper, Busby and Nicholson.

 

NICHOLSON

                                                                        They’ve changed the rhythm.

                                                                        It’s a different vocabulary

                                                                        from before.  But our people

                                                                        are convinced it’s a variation

                                                                        of a code the North Vietnamese

                                                                        used.

 

            Sandecker and Kemper exchange a look.  Sandecker picks up the phone and dials one number.

 

SANDECKER

(into the phone)

                                                                        Call C.I.C.  Tell them to

                                                                        clear me a line to Captain Pitt

                                                                        at the North Atlantic salvage

                                                                        location.  I’ll be there in twenty

                                                                        minutes.

 

263A EXT. COMMUNICATIONS CENTER, MODOC                                                   263A

 

            Pitt comes out and we TRAVEL WITH him to the wheelhouse.  He looks in and then goes up the outside

            steps to the flying bridge.  Burke comes out to meet him on apron.  They walk to the rail.

 

PITT

                                                                        Sandecker ordered a triple

                                                                        security check on every civilian

                                                                        we’ve got out here.

 

BURKE

                                                                        We did that before we left

                                                                        Norfolk.

 

PITT

                                                                        This time we’re doing it with a

                                                                        microscope.

 

263B EXT. UNDERWATER – DAY                                                                                   263B

 

            We SEE, in detail, the Deep Quest and the Turtle working together to maneuver a piece of the complex

            welding equipment into position to patch a hole in the Titanic’s hole.  We PAN ALONG and FIND the

            Sea Cliff handling a foam hose and feeding it through a porthole.

 

263C EXT. MODOC – DAY                                                                                                263C

 

            Burke, Pitt and Seagram wait on the fantail as a helicopter comes in.

 

BURKE

                                                                        What’s the word?

 

PITT

                                                                        He wouldn’t say much when we

                                                                        talked.  But I think he’s got his

                                                                        teeth into something.

 

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