Deep Impact Page #6

by military personnel.

Civil defence teams

have been formed in every town

with a population over 5,000.

They will distribute supplies

and organize group shelters

in underground

parking facilities

and other

appropriate sites.

Construction plans..."

"Equipment lists,

and locations for securing

the necessary provisions..."

Hello?

Yes, this is

Ellen Biederman.

"...on how to grow your own food underground

and how to purify water

are now available on

We've been preselected.

"...fcda.gov."

Chuck? Chuck?

Where are you going?

Our phone.

They could be calling.

"...beginning on August 9th.

The only phones that ring

will be those of the people selected."

That's it.

That's all there is.

The interior camera circuitry is shot.

So, Andy, can we get back

into the cargo bay

to reroute the video functions?

Starboard cargo porthole's blown.

We could go in with the EVAs, but there's

not much left in the life-support packs.

We should be able to raise Houston

on the low band once we get closer.

And the Orion is still functioning?

System check was OK,

but I don't know about

the radiation shielding.

So, if we fire it up, we beat

the comet back to Earth, but

we may end up glowing

in the dark. Right?

OK, so, uh...

Anybody?

Let's go home.

OK.

I have to say it's liberating

knowing that I'm not

going to be called.

I don't think I've ever been happier.

I've even stopped smoking.

What are you gonna do with

all that extra money you save?

Do you know the National Gallery

is saving all of the art?

They're shipping it to the caves.

I've given them my beautiful

from New England and

all the Sheraton silver.

I really feel like I'd protected

something when I gave them.

You should see my apartment.

There's nothing there.

It's practically Japanese.

Seems kind of unfair

that I got picked.

You know, I'm not

a doctor or a scientist.

People need continuity.

Everyone knows you.

And they trust you.

But l...can't help you.

Don't worry about me.

I'm gonna be happy

as long as I know

you're going to live.

Mr Hotchner?

Who did I think I was gonna be

when I bought that bike?

Well, every kid on

the block wants one now.

Every parent on the block

hates you for it.

Thank you Leo, that's the

best news I've had in years.

Um, sir?

Could you give me a hand

over here for a second?

Yes, sir.

I just want to get

these bars up.

Hi, Mrs Hotchner.

A mob attacked and killed

a Miami rental yard operator

who was charging $5,000 an hour

for backhoe and tractor rentals.

Marines intervened to stop the violence.

Arizona...

Mrs Hotchner?

Sarah's on the hill.

Thank you.

Where were you today?

I've been looking all over for you.

Why weren't you at school?

My dad said I didn't have to go.

He said there's no point.

I talked to Civil Defence. They said

if you and I got married

we'd be family, and I could get you in

What about my parents?

They're not your family.

I don't want to go

without my parents.

You don't have to. I'm

the famous Leo Biederman,

and I haven't used

my fame for anything,

but I got them to let

your family go, too.

You--This is your

only chance to survive.

Across the country,

Looters continue to set fire

to abandoned stores.

The fires have been left to burn

since many fire fighters

have been called

to help prepare shelters.

Throughout Latin America's

major cities,

business districts have been

abandoned to looting gangs...

Airlifts have been ruled out

as too dangerous.

More street fighting in Moscow

as food and fuel shortages continue.

Believes all things, hopes all things,

endures all things.

When I was a child,

I spoke like a child,

I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.

When I became a man,

I gave up childish ways.

For now we see in a mirror dimly,

but then face to face.

Now I know in part,

then I shall understand fully,

even as I have been

fully understood.

Do you, Leo, take Sarah

to be your wife...

to have and to hold

from this day forward...

for better, for worse...

for richer, for poorer...

to love and to cherish?

I now pronounce you

husband and wife.

Here, let me help you.

I'll get it.

Yeah. How you feeling?

All right.

I want to tell you something.

You children didn't bring

any real books to read,

did you know that?

I brought Moby Dick

and Huckleberry Finn

and Baker and Simon

had never read them.

Now, I'm afraid to ask you,

have you ever read Melville or Twain?

Hmm?

Hey, I'm a child of the movies, Fish.

OK, I see.

So...

You got a shitty deal,

Oren, you know that?

You really did.

Don't worry about me.

Yeah.

I mean that. Really.

Don't worry about me.

My whole life l...

You know how it is for guys like us.

You--You and l, we're the same.

What do you mean

by that?

Gotta be the best.

Oh, I see.

Be...the best.

Sometimes I see...

flashes of light...

You know, like...colors.

I fall asleep...

and I dream.

But there's a part of me

that's always awake.

And I can see myself dreaming.

I'm seeing things differently, Fish.

Well, that's good.

Fish...

why the hell do they call you "Fish"?

Well, l...

Spurgeon, sturgeon, fish.

They took about 15 minutes of my

first day at the Naval Academy.

Yeah.

Your kids go there?

Yeah, they did.

They did.

And they're good men, both of them.

I don't see as much of them as

I used to when Mary was alive.

You don't have to talk

about it. It's OK.

No, it's OK. It's OK.

You're a married man.

You know what it's like.

Every marriage has its

good years and bad years.

We ended on a great year.

Yeah.

Anyway, let's get started.

Moby Dick. Chapter one.

"Call me Ishmael.

Several years ago, never

mind how long precisely,

having little or

no money in my purse...

grim about the mouth...

Whenever it is a damp,

drizzly November in my soul,

whenever I find myself...

...knocking people's hats off, then,

I account it high time

to get to sea as soon as I can."

Listen up!

Hold it right there!

- Biederman?

- That's us.

IDs, please.

Yeah. Got them right here.

There's 4 of us.

Lewis?

This is my wife Sarah.

We have a marriage license.

Um, I have it right here.

OK.

All right. Let's go.

Let's move it out!

Mom? Sir? My parents

are coming, too.

Wait! The Hotchners.

H-O-T-C--

H-N-E-R.

It's not here.

No no. It has to be there.

FCDA sent their names

to the White House.

- They're not there.

- Just check the goddam list again.

- Give me your bag

- They must be there.

Give me your bag, sweetie.

- No, they're not on the list. I'm sorry.

- Wait, wait...

Let's go!

Sir! Could you check

it one more time?

I put you on the list.

They said you're on the list.

- Sarah, I put them on the list!

- We're not on the list.

I need the Biedermans on the bus now.

- What?

- I want to stay with you.

No, no, no, no!

I need to stay with you!

- Sarah! Sarah, you need to go.

- No. I have to stay with you, dad

I'm not going anywhere without you!

- Honey, get on the bus!

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