Deep Rising Page #15

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Massive AIR BUBBLES EXPLODE out from under the bow.

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109INT. FUJI MARU - NIGHT

RED WARNING LIGHTS FLASH up and down every passageway. And a CLAXTON

RINGS, in accelerating tones, giving a frenetic urgency to ALL OF THE

FOLLOWING SCENES:

110INSIDE A PASSAGEWAY:

WATER BLASTS through a hatch and CHASES Finnegan and Trillian down a

passageway.

They jag left at an intersection -- WATER BLASTS through the hatch

directly in front of them.

FINNEGAN:

We're going to sink! We've got to

get on deck!

They backtrack. Trillian's now in the lead. They HAUL ASS down a

hallway. WATER ROARING IN from everywhere behind them. All of the

watertight HATCHES begin to hydraulically CLOSE. Trillian and Finnegan

JAG into a hatch. It's a small room. The hatch in front of them

closes.

WATER BLASTS in behind them. SWEEPS them off their feet. The ROOM

quickly starts to FILL UP. Trillian pulls frantically at the hatch.

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111INT. NARROW PASSAGEWAY - NIGHT

Hanover and Pantucci quickly slog their way through knee-high water.

Pantucci stumbles into the water, frantically scrambles up. He looks

back --

UNDER THE WATER, INKY FORMS hurl themselves down the passageway right

towards him. Pantucci YELPS, and splashes away.

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112INT. SUBMERGING ROOM - NIGHT

Trillian and Finnegan pull with all their might on a tiny portal.

Finnegan tries to insert the blade of his knife in the crack.

TRILLIAN:

So how do you get from the Bronx to

the South China sea?

FINNEGAN:

You quit high school, lie about your

age, join the navy, and next thing

you know, four years are up and you

need a way to make a living...

The knife blade slips into the crack.

FINNEGAN:

I'll break the seal! Pull.

He yanks the blade. Trillian pulls. The seal pops. The portal flies

open.

Waist-high in water, Trillian sticks her arm out, tries to get her

shoulder out, but there's no chance in hell of that.

TRILLIAN:

Too small!

She pulls her arm out. And a TENTACLE LUNGES IN. Just missing

Trillian. It SPLASHES under the water. GRABS Finnegan's ankle. Pulls

him under. FINNEGAN sticks the barrel of his gun underwater and OPENS

FIRE. WATER EXPLODES. The Tentacle recoils. And rips itself back out

the porthole. Trillian SLAMS the PORTHOLE SHUT and dogs it tight. The

WATER QUICKLY RISES.

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113INT. PASSAGEWAY - NIGHT

Pantucci and Hanover hauling ass. Hanover pulls out his last two

Thermite grenades. Pantucci panics and grabs for them.

PANTUCCI:

Gimme one! Gimme one!

He knocks both of them out of Hanover's hands. They DISAPPEAR under

the water.

HANOVER:

You idiot!

They quickly fumble around in the water, trying to find them. A

TENTACLE BLASTS around the corner. Partially obscured by the wave in

front of it. Heading right for them. Hanover finds the two grenades.

Gives one to Pantucci. They rip the pins out and toss the grenades

behind them. Then HAUL ASS faster. The Tentacle right behind them.

A BEAT. And then the GRENADES EXPLODE, BA-WOOM! BA-WOOM!

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114EXT. FUJI MARY - NIGHT

The storm hammers the deck. Canton staggers out onto the RAIN-SLICKED

DECK just in time to see --

A HOLE BEING BLOWN OUT the side of the Fuji Maru's HULL. BUBBLES

continue to EXPLODE OUT from under the bow.

CANTON:

Oh my God, it's going to sink.

Then slowly, Canton gets a gleam in his eye, now thrilled.

CANTON:

It's going to sink.

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115INT. SUBMERGED ROOM - NIGHT

Finnegan and Trillian are getting banged around the frothy WATER as it

quickly RISES. Now only inches from the ceiling. Trapped. They're

about to drown. Finnegan keeps looking around, trying to figure a way

out.

TRILLIAN:

I was so goddamn close, Finnegan! So

goddamn close to my island... I

could almost taste the sand...

FINNEGAN:

Keep tasting...

Finnegan shoves the pulse rifle to the ceiling. And blasts away untill

part of the ceiling falls out and into the water. There's just enough

room between two metal beams to get out. The rising WATER SHOVES them

up through the hole.

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116INT. PASSAGEWAY - NIGHT

Side-by-side, Hanover and Pantucci quickly slog their way through

waist-high water. They round a corner and look back -- INKY FORMS

SLOSH around the corner. Heading right for them. They slog faster.

PANTUCCI:

They're catchin' up! They're

catchin' up! We gotta slow 'em down!

HANOVER:

Feed them. That'll slow them down.

A black STRIATED MUSCLE ROILS out of the foamy water, then quickly

VANISHES under it, heading straight for them.

PANTUCCI:

Feed 'em?!! Okay! All right! Feed

'em what? WHAT ARE WE GONNA FEED

'EM?!

Hanover takes his pistol and SHOOTS Pantucci in the leg, BLAM!

Pantucci SCREAMS. FALLS into the water. Hanover RUNS on. Pantucci

doesn't even have time to deal with the pain. He starts SCRAMBLING

through the water.

UNDERWATER, the INKY FORMS RACE AFTER HIM. Only meters away.

Pantucci throws himself into the opening of a dumbwaiter. SLAMS the

DOOR SHUT. The TENTACLE ATTACKS the door. WORMING its way across the

surface, trying to find a way inside. Pantucci is scared beyond his

pain. Pushing back as far as he can against the rear wall, he sees the

control button. He presses the up arrow. The dumbwaiter starts to

move.

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117EXT. FUJI MARU REAR DECK - DAY

The Saipan is still bobbing behind the Fuji Maru. But the HARPOON

HOOK, which holds the tow-line and is embedded into the rear deck of

the ship, is starting to PRY LOOSE. It JERKS and BUCKS against the

metal wall.

Canton doesn't notice this as he slips and slides his way up to the

railing. He sees the Saipan and smiles. Then he looks off at --

118AN ISLAND

rising out of the ocean. About a mile away. Canton starts to climb

over the railing. And that's when the HARPOON HOOK RIPS FREE. WHIZZES

FORWARD. And IMPALES Canton's LEG. He SCREAMS. Tries to spin free. The

hook hangs onto his leg for a long, agonizing BEAT as Canton continues

to SCREAM. Then the HOOK RIPS FREE, grabs the METAL RAILING and starts

TEARING IT off the deck.

Canton drops to the deck, holding his leg and whimpering in pain. And

then he sees it --

119THE SPEEDBOAT

dangling from its harness down on the watersports platform.

120BACK TO SCENE

Canton starts to crawl for it. Moaning and bleeding.

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121EXT. CRYSTAL POOL DECK - NIGHT

Finnegan and Trillian race up onto the pool deck. Passing beneath a

colorful NEON SIGN which READS:

"THE FUJI MARU - YOUR FUN SHIP"

In the dark, Trillian trips. She falls to the slippery, waterlogged

deck, and SCREAMS...

TRILLIAN:

EEEEEYYYYYAAAAHHHH!

...clawing at her face... Finnegan pulls her hands from her face...and

the thing that attached itself there...a small squid from the

shattered aquarium.

TRILLIAN:

(freaked)

Ah...ah...ah...

Tries to catch her breath.

FINNEGAN:

It's OK...it's not one of them...

it's from the aquarium...it's...

And then it dawns on Finnegan.

FINNEGAN:

It's not them...it's it...

TRILLIAN:

What?

FINNEGAN:

You know what kind of force it took

to rip open the bow of this ship? A

million little things like this...

He holds up the squid.

FINNEGAN:

...can't exert that kind of

pressure... And the way it tracked

us? A million little things don't

carry portable phones to coordinate

positions... What's chasing us...

it's one...thing...one giant...

thing.

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