Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Page #2

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for all of us up there...

...what sort of religion

would that happen to be?

Greek Orthodox.

Greek Orthodox. No kidding?

I'm a Greek Orthodox too...

...suddenly.

Wilbur, switch the steam off.

Over here.

- Are you the rescue team?

- We used to be.

Last night was the worst

New Year's party I've ever been to.

I mean, everything turns upside down.

What a party. What a night.

Look, I lost my daughter.

- You gotta help me find my daughter.

- Calm down, mister. Just calm down.

I'm Captain Mike Turner...

...and I have the salvage rights

to this wreck.

Now, who are you people?

I'm Gina Rowe, the ship's nurse.

It all happened so quickly.

We never knew what happened.

- Any other survivors?

- There couldn't be.

We can't be sure of that, Suzanne.

Mr. Mazzetti,

Suzanne and myself...

...we were following

some other passengers...

...and we got separated from them...

...and we stumbled

into the steam room.

It looked like a safe place, at the time.

- It was until that pipe broke.

- Look, forget the pipe.

Help me find my daughter,

I'll give you everything I got.

Understand? Everything.

Let's just get it out of here, okay?

Which way, captain?

We were hoping

you'd give us the answer.

Oh, my God.

The rest of your crew, they're

on their way down here right now?

No.

Those two over there are my crew.

All of it.

- Just the three of you?

- That's right.

What, did you come by canoe?

You, what are you doing down here?

I'm Dr. Stefan Svevo, Mr. Mazzetti...

...and I've been asking myself

that same question.

Oh, my God.

My daughter, she hated this trip.

She wanted to stay home

for Christmas.

I said, "Honey, I want you to see

where I fought the war in Italy. Anzio."

Anzio? I've been to Anzio.

Anzio's the pits.

- You sound just like my daughter.

- Easy, Mazzetti.

How well do you know this ship, Gina?

Hardly at all. It's my first voyage.

Well, there must be a deck plan

around here somewhere.

There's always one in every section.

Look, I used the gym a couple of times.

Seems like there's a deck plan

in the lobby over there.

The ladies stay here.

The rest of you,

help me find a deck plan.

Through here.

- I guess I was wrong.

- There it is.

We're here.

Here it is. Here it is.

We found it.

- You found a way out?

- No.

But we found the purser's office.

You're a very single-minded man,

captain.

- And some would say callously so.

- Watch out.

The way I see it, doctor,

is that we're all trapped here anyway...

...so I see no reason not to try

and get what I originally came for.

Here.

Look, forget the purser's office.

I gotta find my kid.

Mazzetti!

- Look, I'm sorry, I didn't know.

- Neither did I.

Okay, so I was stupid.

But somebody's gotta do something.

We just can't sit around.

Look, she's alive, I know it.

I can feel it.

Fine. Then you tell us where she is,

and we'll all go look for her.

- I don't know.

- Then shut up and calm down.

We have as good a chance

of finding your daughter or way out...

...by heading for the purser's office

as anywhere.

And that is through there.

Now let's go.

After you, skipper. Come on.

Keep on moving, that's my philosophy.

I really don't see

that there's any alternative.

We're putting our faith in you, captain.

What, you're putting your faith in him?

An hour ago, he's sunbathing

up there on the poop deck.

Now he's down

in this underwater coffin...

...trapped with the rest of us,

that's how smart he is.

You.

You haven't come forward yet.

You look like a reasonable man.

What do you say we throw in together?

We'll find my daughter

and get the hell out of here.

May I see the deck plan, please?

Well, I'm afraid my knowledge

of ships and underwater conditions...

...falls far short of Captain Turner's.

But I am flattered, Mr. Mazzetti,

that you'd feel safer being with me.

But at the moment, at least, I'd feel

much safer being with the captain.

And, captain, I'm at your service.

Well, I don't seem

to have a choice anymore, do I?

By the way, Mazzetti,

what rank were you in the war?

If it's any of your business,

master sergeant.

Good. Then you'll be used

to taking orders from captains.

Move it out, sarge.

Here it is, the purser's office.

Wilbur.

Take this...

...and hold those wires back.

Do you ladies think

you could jump this?

Well, it can't be more

than 6 or 7 feet across.

When I was the captain

of my college track team...

...often times, you know,

we'd dig this pit...

- Well, it can't be much of a jump, can it?

- Speak for yourself.

When I was in the Girl Scouts, I once

won a medal for the running broad jump.

How many tries they give you?

Best of three?

Show them how it's done, Gina.

Take a run at it.

Look, if you miss, Gina...

Mr. Mazzetti, would you

hold that for me, please?

Please, call me Frankie.

Take a run.

All right, Gina.

Come on, sarge, join us.

Don't worry about me, Turner.

- My dress. I don't think I can make it.

- Take it off.

- I beg your pardon?

- Take it off.

He's got a real way with words,

doesn't he?

- With apologies, madame. Givenchy?

- It's a copy, actually.

Should we be fortunate enough

to get out of here alive...

...I'd be very happy to replace it

with the real thing.

- Oh, God, hold me, please.

- Oh, brother.

I'm okay.

- Are you gonna be all right?

- As soon as you make it. Go.

Well, I can't, Wilbur, I can't.

I can't make this jump

unless you're on the other side...

Shut up, the pair of you,

and one of you jump.

- Right. Wilbur.

- Hold the wires back for him.

Come on.

Just a minute. Take a run.

- Okay.

- Okay.

- I have the shortest legs of any of us.

- Shut up and come now!

- Okay, here I come. Are you ready?

- Yes.

Okay.

That's a hell of a track team

you belonged to.

Actually, my specialty was the discus.

- Get out of here.

- I was good at the discus.

The safe, do you see?

- Coming, doctor?

- Well, I've been thinking, captain.

We'll separate into two camps.

We'll go aft...

...and you and your party

continue forward.

Is that an order?

Hopefully it's a constructive suggestion.

All right, doctor,

we'll play it your way.

Hey, look, we're wasting time.

This ship could blow up

or go down any second.

We gotta find my daughter.

- She could be anywhere.

- Mike.

Look, she's not here.

Let's look somewhere else.

- Think we need the plastique?

- I don't know.

- Did you ever live with a safe cracker?

- Absolutely.

Of course, I didn't know at the time.

She's not in the safe,

I can tell you that.

- Are you all right?

- I'm fine.

That's okay, Mike, don't worry

about me. I'm just fine too.

Well, what do you know.

Now, that's one way to crack a safe.

- Where do you think you're going?

- Let's not wait around for the cops.

- 1796.

- How much you think they're worth?

A hundred times its weight in gold.

Bort.

- What?

- Bort.

- What's that?

- Industrial diamonds.

How much are they worth?

Oh, I'd say 3 to 400,000 dollars' worth.

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