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nasty gash on his forehead. He reaches up and touches it,

there is still a large gash open, and winces.

He thinks about it for a second and with the risk for

infection about as high as it could possibly be he decides to

take some action.

He gets the kit and wades back through the boat towards the

bathroom.

He opens the door and looks into the mirror.

He sees the extent of the gash. He takes out a bottle of

hydrogen peroxide and pours it into the cut. It bubbles.

The water is up to his shoulders.

He then is about to apply a butterfly bandage to the wound,

but as he is doing so the boat makes a severe groan and lurch

as if it is about to go under.

He looks around. The boat groans again then settles.

OUR MAN finishes putting the bandage on his head and then

hurries through the water to get the hell out of the boat.

19.

He grabs the bag with all the stuff he has collected. Takes

one last look around and heads up and off the boat.

One last look around.

EXT. BOAT - LIFERAFT

OUR MAN settles into the tiny raft and looks back at the

boat. It still refuses to go down.

Finally, what sounds like a very large balloon popping. The

boat begins to roll over and then turns to go under.

OUR MAN reaches out and unclips the raft from the boat. The

boat finally goes under.

EXT. VIEW OF THE LIFERAFT

An extreme pull back wide shot of the tiny liferaft totally

alone in the middle of the impossibly vast ocean.

ACT III (Man vs. Self)

INT. OCEAN

(This will be the first of a series of more abstract shots

placed throughout the final act.)

The camera is in the water looking back up at the liferaft

towards the surface. The shot will move in to a close up of

the bottom of the raft. There is a small amount of algae

starting to grow on the bottom of the raft. As the camera

gets very close on the algae out of the corner of the frame

comes a tiny small fish, no larger than a minnow, that swims

up to the algae and starts to eat it.

INT. LIFERAFT

(A few specifics about the liferaft. It is an octagon. The

base, or floor is filled with air but is quite flexible. As

the days go on it will become more so as it starts to

deflate. There is a tent over the whole thing that protects

from the extreme sun during the day and the cold and wind at

night. This tent is held up by inflated supports.)

OUR MAN is sitting in the liferaft looking around at the

clutter. What to do?

20.

He sifts through the bag and takes out the charts, the

sextant, and the book about celestial navigation. Now he has

some time, and he finally better figure out where the hell in

the world he is.

Eating canned beans.

Drinking a small amount of water from the jug.

Reading the book and trying to take a few rudimentary

readings with the sextant.

The sun is setting.

OUR MAN looks out the doorway of the liferaft at the horizon.

FADE TO BLACK.

INT. LIFERAFT

OUR MAN wakes up and his face is displeased. He looks and

feels around and he sees that there is a couple of inches of

water in the raft at the low points, which are of course

where his body is. We begin to realize life in this raft is

going to be pretty miserable.

Reading the book some more.

Looking at his watch. It’s almost noon.

Doing a reading with the sextant using the sun at exactly

noon. He writes down the numbers then checks in the book and

does some fairly simple calculations. He gets excited as it

seems like he may be finally for the first time in his life

be figuring this out. He scrambles through the mess in one of

the bags and takes out a stack of charts. He rifles through

them and pulls out one. He checks the compass points, then

gets out a pen and makes a mark. This is where he is.

The camera pulls back from that mark and gets wider till we

see that he is literally in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

OUR MAN zeroes in on several lines that are around him on the

chart, marks for shipping lanes, and he tries to figure out

what direction he is traveling in with his compass.

He looks around, back at the chart, and jumps to action.

He shimmies around the edge of the raft and begins to pull in

the sea anchor. He brings it into the raft. He is heading in

the correct direction and wants to get going at greater

speed.

21.

INT. OCEAN

The camera is again below the raft coming into a close-up on

the algae on the bottom of the raft. There are now ten or so

small fish eating the algae. The plants have grown larger as

well.

As the camera gets closer and closer to one of the minnows a

much larger fish comes darting in from the edge of frame and

eats the smaller fish.

This is startling and cuts into.

INT. LIFERAFT

OUR MAN is awoken from a nap by something hitting his back,

the fish bumping into the bottom of the raft as it ate the

little guy.

OUR MAN looks around and doesn’t know what it was.

Drinks water.

Eats.

Gets out a small mirror and a razor and shaves. This seems an

odd choice but OUR MAN seems to be wanting to keep up some

level of appearances for his own mental state if nothing

else.

As he is finishing shaving he hears something.

Then again.

Oh f***.

He looks out the door across the horizon and it is a perfect

sunny day.

Then the rumbling again.

He stands and turns around and looks behind him, across at

the far horizon there is a massive thunder head and very dark

skies. Here we go again.

OUR MAN looks around the raft and tries to decide what to do

next.

He grabs the sea anchor and launches it back into the water.

(A quick note about OUR MAN’s physical condition at this

point in the film. He has lost significant weight since the

start of the film.

22.

The gash on his forehead does not seem to be healing well,

but it also isn’t infected. He has been trying to stay shaven

so we can see his face.)

OUR MAN also starts battening down everything in the raft as

he knows it will be getting rough.

When all is as prepared as it can be he takes out the chart

and does one last reading with the sextant on the sun just as

it is getting covered up by the incoming clouds.

He does some calculations, cross references the book and

marks his progress on the chart. He is moving closer to the

marked shipping lanes.

INT. OCEAN

The camera starts on an extreme close up of the algae on the

bottom of the raft and begins to pull back. We now see

hundreds of the small minnows eating the algae. Then we see

thirty of the larger fish that are eating the minnows

circling below. Then below them there are five or six fish

probably two or three feet long circling below at the bottom

of the chain. As the camera pulls down further away from this

little ecosystem we see more and more of the oceans’ surface

from below and we can see that it is darkening and becoming

very stormy.

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