399B INT.
DULLES TERMINAL – TRAVELLING SHOT – NIGHT 399B
Sandecker, Pitt and Seagram walk toward the British Airways boarding area.
SANDECKER
Sure, it’s a long shot but this
whole project has never been
anything else.
SEAGRAM
Did you talk to the President
about it?
SANDECKER
Not yet. No point in getting him
steamed up again till we know
something for sure.
PITT
We’ll
call you from
tomorrow night.
SANDECKER
Good. I’ll be waiting to hear
from you.
DISSOLVE
TO:
399C EXT.
CHURCHYARD –
Exact duplicate of the postcard from Brewster’s pocket, only now the church is a bombed-out ruin. Where
the graveyard had been is an open grassy area with on, blocky granite monument in the center and a children’s
playground apparatus around the edges.
VICAR (O.S.)
We’ve restored the little chapel,
you see, but the church proper is
just the way we found it after the
explosion . . . It’s a reminder to
all of us . . .
399D FULL
SHOT – HIGH ANGLE 399D
We SEE Seagram, Pitt and the VICAR walking from the church towards the monument.
VICAR
As you can see, it wasn’t just
a bomb. A German plane crashed
here carrying a full load of bombs.
I’ll never forget it. This whole area
was like a crater, a hundred meters
across and twenty-meters deep.
Our parish graveyard was totally
obliterated . . .
399E TRAVELING
SHOT – THE THREE 399E
VICAR
. . . but we’ve put up this monument
with the names of all the people who
were buried here.
399F ANOTHER
ANGLE 399F
As they arrive at the monument.
399G INSERT
– LARGE BRONZE TABLE ON SIDE OF MONUMET 399G
VICAR
It’s a playground now, you see.
We filled in the crater . . .
The CAMERA TILTS DOWN SLOWLY and STOPS ON.
‘Jake Hobart
399H TWO SHOT –
SEAGRAM AND PITT 399H
They look at each other.
VICAR
. . . We turned it from a death
place to a life place. The new
cemetery for the village is
across the way . . .
399I FULL
SHOT 399I
VICAR
(he points)
. . . on that fine green hill just
there . . .
We PULL BACK AND UP as Seagram and Pitt shake hands with the Vicar and walk away toward
their car.
399J ANOTHER
ANGLE 399J
SEAGRAM
Do you think it was there? Do
you think he buried the byzanium
there?
PITT
We’ll never know the answer to
that question.
SEAGRAM
I know we won’t. But what to you
think?
PITT
I think it was there. I think
Brewster put it in a coffin and
buried it. And it would be there
yet if those bombs hadn’t blown
it to Hades and gone.
400 OMITTED 400
thru thru
408 408
408A CLOSEUP
– SEAGRAM 408A
No expression. But the irony is not lost on him.
409 FULL
SHOT – HIGH ANGLE 409
As Seagram and Pitt walk toward the car, we HEAR Pitt CHUCKLE.
SEAGRAM
What’s so funny?
410 TRAVELLING
TWO SHOT 410
PITT
I knew a girl once.
SEAGRAM
I’ll bet you did.
PITT
One day she said to me, ‘What
happened to you? I thought you
were going to change the world.’
SEAGRAM
What did you say?
PITT
I said they had me out-numbered.
SEAGRAM
(after a beat)
Is that supposed to be my lesson
for the day?
PITT
(shakes his head)
Not a chance. No lectures. No
lessons.
411 FULL
SHOT 411
SEAGRAM
You mean school’s out?
PITT
I wouldn’t be surprised.
We PULL UP AND BACK AS HIGH AS WE CAN GO as Pitt and Seagram get into the car and starts off
down the country road. MUSIC STARTS and we DISSOLE THROUGH to WIDE SHOT of the ocean.
In SLOW MOTION the Titanic breaks through the water again. As the MUSIC SWELLS AND PEAKS
we FREEZE FRAME, HOLDING the Titanic at hits highest pint out of the water. CLOSING CREDITS
ROLL ACROSS THIS SHOT. As they END the MUSIC FADES SLOWLY. Final STILL SHOT of the
Titanic thrusting up out of the water. The last SOUND we HEAR is the soft thunder of KETTLE DRUMS
as we:
FADE
TO BLACK
THE END
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