325    EXT. SOVIET EMBASSY, WASHINGTON – NIGHT                                              325

 

326    INT. ANTONOV’S OFFICE – ANTONOV, PREVLOV AND MARGANIN            326

 

            They’re watching television.

 

TV COMMENTATOR

                                                                        It is certainly the most remarkable

                                                                        event in the history of marine salvage . . .

 

326A CLOSEUP – TV SCREEN                                                                                         326A

 

TV COMMENTATOR

                                                                        The Titanic has been raised from

                                                                        the bottom of the ocean.  Somewhere

                                                                        in the North Atlantic this queen of all

                                                                        the luxury liners is floating again.

                                                                        Certainly not the magnificent creature

                                                                        she once was but all the same a haunting

                                                                        relic of an era of wealth and opulence that

                                                                        seems very long ago.  She will soon be

                                                                        coming into New York harbor, completing

                                                                        the tragic voyage that began almost seventy

                                                                        years ago . . .

 

326B FULL SHOT                                                                                                               326B

 

            Antonov click off the TV and turns to Prevlov.

 

ANTONOV

                                                                        When do you leave?

 

PREVLOV

                                                                        First thing tomorrow morning.

                                                                        I’ll be on board the Mikhail

                                                                        Kurkov before dark.

 

MARGANIN

                                                                        The plan is perfect, we think.

 

ANTONOV

                                                                        One way or the other we terminate

                                                                        the Sicilian Project.

 

PREVLOV

(he nods)

                                                                        One way or the other.

 

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