Beyond the Poseidon Adventure Page #3

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Now, wait a minute.

Tell me the truth, is this really ours?

Yeah, the law of salvage.

Pack up and let's get out of here.

Can you see us now, Mike? Can you

see us along the Riviera now, huh?

Why, we're rich.

You know what? We don't need

a bank anymore, do we, huh?

No bank for us anymore.

We're filthy, stinking...

Great, great. So you're all rich.

Puke, son.

That's fine Saint-Emilion, 19 and 61.

Whole ship's rocking pretty bad,

ain't it, captain?

How you doing, Tex?

Well, I gotta confess,

I've had smoother crossings in my day.

Name's Dewey Hopkins.

I'm from Big D, Texas.

That's Dallas, folks.

With your permission, captain,

I'd like to buy the house a round.

Much obliged, Tex, but we're here

on a pretty tricky, salvage operation.

I'm Captain Mike Turner,

this here's Wilbur and Celeste, my crew.

- How you doing?

- Pleased to meet you.

Tell you what, Captain Mike.

You just salvaged yours truly

out of this here wreck.

There's 100,000 in it for your trouble.

I can't take your money, Tex.

Anyway, I don't need it now.

Well, as one man of substance

to another, let's go right to the mat.

I mean, let's not pussyfoot around.

A hundred and fifty thousand

for the three of us.

They're with me.

There's nobody there, sport.

- You're seeing double.

- Triple, maybe.

They must've got lost.

Hey!

Hey, come on out here, y'all...

...and get yourselves rescued.

- Theresa! Theresa!

- Daddy.

Oh, thank God.

Thank you.

- Would somebody catch this, please?

- My baby.

Thank God.

- Thank you.

- I didn't think I'd see you again.

I love you, baby.

He knew she was alive somewhere.

He just knew it.

- Oh, my baby.

- Daddy, this is Larry Simpson.

He saved my life.

I was coming down in the elevator

and the ship turned over.

- I was operating it.

- My baby.

We tried to get out,

but the passageway was on fire.

I fainted, but he pulled me out.

My baby. Look, look, kid, l...

I'm never gonna forget you for this.

Here, here. Your dress is torn.

All right, folks...

...let's wet ourselves down

for safety's sake...

...and get this herd

on the road for home.

Here.

Wrong year?

Wrong time, Tex.

All right, now, we've found

what we wanted.

Each one of you fill a bag

with gold or diamonds and carry it out.

Everyone gets 10 percent

of what they carry.

Diamonds.

Look, we don't want

your filthy loot around our necks.

Just get us the hell out of here.

Well, perhaps just a few.

Ten percent of this will pay off

the balance on my folks' farm.

Maybe buy me one too.

- You, a farmer?

- I will be if I get out of here alive.

Look here, Mr. Hopkins.

We've all gotta have

our wits about us from now on...

...so as they say in Dallas,

drop the bottle, Tex.

What I'm a-holding here means

more to me than...

...any two bags of that trash

you got there, captain.

Why this is a original Beaune, 1865.

Maybe only six of them left

in the whole world.

Now I'd a whole lot rather drink it

out in the daylight...

...but one way or another...

...it's a pleasure no man's

gonna deprive me of.

All right, Tex.

If disaster strikes, I'll try and give you

a couple of minutes warning.

Okay, everybody, let's...

Where's Suzanne?

- Probably in the powder room.

- Suzanne?

Suzanne?

Suzanne?

Suzanne?

She's gone, Mike.

- What do you mean, gone?

- Gone. Split. Disappeared.

She could've gone off with Svevo.

Who knows why?

I sure wish I did.

Hazards of the trade, kid.

Hazards of the trade.

Anyone else feel safer with Svevo?

Who's Svevo?

As a matter of fact,

who the devil's Suzanne?

All right, let's go, then.

- Mike.

- That's a beautiful bottle.

That's a beautiful bottle of wine.

- Actually...

- Young lady, let me...

Actually, sir, you know, I much prefer

a Chteau Haut-Brion, '50s and '60s.

Odd years. It doesn't really have the bite,

but I much prefer the body, you know?

I surely do.

- Young lady, I most certainly do.

- Yeah.

You ever been to Texas?

No, not I myself. But I had a

great-granddaddy who died at the Alamo.

- The Alamo?

- Yeah.

- Well, do tell.

- Yeah.

- Hey, monkey, come on.

- Yeah. Coming.

Stefan?

Stefan?

Stefan?

Oh, thank God.

Well, doctor...

...aren't you even going to say hello?

Here.

Stefan, I'm petrified. Please, can we just

get out of here as quickly as possible?

It took two years

to put this thing together.

I mean, do you really believe

I can get off without it?

I've done everything you wanted.

And now I just want to get out.

I...

I understand.

Would I have gotten aboard

if I could've avoided it?

But since I'm here,

since we're both here...

...we've got to see

this thing through.

Besides, I don't have an option, do I?

No, but I do.

Captain Turner,

at least he's looking for a way out.

Well, the choice is yours, Suzanne.

One must do what one must do.

Stefan, I'm sorry.

And I'm sorry too.

- Good luck.

- And you.

Doyle.

Kill her.

Finish her.

Wilbur, is anybody hurt?

Okay up here. Keep moving.

All of you, keep going.

Quick, move down.

Through here.

Quickly, through here.

Wilbur.

Keep going, skipper.

I'll catch up with you.

Mike?

- Mike?

- Coming.

Jesus Christ.

- What should we do?

- Start moving furniture.

All right, all right, let's pitch in.

Come on, kid, give me a hand.

Get the wino to help you.

Nothing personal.

- Move.

- Here, got it.

Wilbur, what's taking so long?

Wilbur?

What do you think you're doing?

- Bag of gold. I lost it.

- The hell with the gold.

- Let's get out here.

- Let me get...

Get out.

You crazy old man, you...

I'm sorry, Wilbur.

Is it that bad?

I'll come along.

Go on up there with the others.

Like hell I will.

I don't want them to see me like this.

Not Celeste, anyway.

It'll pass, Mike.

- Believe me, it'll pass. It always does.

- Sure, sure.

I think my body's trying

to tell me something.

You don't have to pretend to me, Wilbur.

I know what you've got.

I've been to see that doctor

you're always sneaking off to.

You went and saw the...?

What's his name?

Bernheim.

Well, I guess there isn't much

we can do about it, is there?

Of course there is, Wilbur.

As of this morning, we have all

the money we need for an operation.

- Do you think you can stand?

- Don't help me.

I can stand better than you...

...for an old man.

- Oh, I'm terribly sorry.

- God.

Mike. Mike.

- Who are you, ma'am?

- I'm Hannah Meredith.

This is my husband, Harold Meredith.

- How do you do?

- It's all right.

You two seem to have taken

all of this very calmly.

I mean, why didn't you try to escape?

In our case, it seemed safer

just to stay right here.

We couldn't risk

being separated outside.

Well, I accept the sentiment, ma'am...

...but at this particular point, I strongly

recommend you come along with us.

It'd be very difficult for us

to get out.

Well, I'm gonna

have to tell you, ma'am...

...that where we came in

is blocked off.

- The explosions.

- That's right, and there could be more.

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