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Ghost Ship Page #7
DODGE:
Ready?
EPPS:
Bring it on, dude.
Dodge disappears from the hole and his hand comes back with
a smaller pilot cable, which Epps takes and threads through
the loop at the end of the tow cable. She places the end of
the pilot cable in a vice collar and uses a wrench to tighten
it down, with the effect of joining the two cables.
EPPS:
OK.
Dodge disappears, pulling up the slack from the pilot cable
through the anchor alleys.
DODGE (O.S.)
(finally)
Hit it!
Epps reaches over and unhinges the crane hook and the tow
cable explosively drops, banging loudly against the Chimera's
hull with a shower of black rust.
EXT. CHIMERA - WITH DODGE - CONTINUOUS - DAY
Dodge cranks a portable pulley winch on the deck, the pilot
cable slowly pulling the tow cable up through the anchor
alley.
It is heavy and the winch shows the strain as Dodge cranks
it. He continues, when something gives in the winch mechanism
and the whole thing slides forward on the pilot cable,
entangling Dodge's leg and dragging him on his ass along the
deck.
EXT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - WITH EPPS - CONTINUOUS - DAY
The tow cable creates a spray of rust and smoke as it spills
out of the anchor alley before Epps.
EXT. CHIMERA - WITH DODGE - CONTINUOUS - DAY
Dodge slides toward the anchor alley like a piece of meat
toward a sausage grinder, when the winch slams into it and
stops dead, the cable continuing on with a loud shriek
dangerously close to his face, until...
EXT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - WITH EPPS - CONTINUOUS - DAY
The last of the cable explosively whips out of the anchor
alley in front of Epps and splashes in the water below. A
beat as she holds there.
EPPS:
Dodge? You alright?
EXT. CHIMERA - WITH DODGE - CONTINUOUS - DAY
Dodge lies tangled in the winch.
DODGE:
Yes!
Two tow cables extend from the Chimera's anchor alleys down
into the water and come up again from the water to the tow
anchor on the tug's stern.
Dodge looks on as Greer and Epps stand by. He raises his
walkie.
DODGE:
Alright, skipper, real easy.
INT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - PILOTHOUSE - CONTINUOUS - DAY
Murphy slowly throttles up, moving the boat forward. He turns
to see as the Chimera drops back behind them.
EXT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - CONTINUOUS - DAY
The tug moves slowly away from the Chimera as Epps, Greer
and Dodge look on.
As the tug widens the distance, leaving the Chimera in place.
INT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - PILOTHOUSE - CONTINUOUS - DAY
Murphy holds the helm steady as the Chimera recedes.
DODGE:
Steady as she goes.
EXT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - CONTINUOUS - DAY
Dodge, Epps and Greer look on as the tow cables begin to
rise in their wake.
DODGE:
(into radio)
Throttle back.
The tug slows as the cables rise slowly from the water.
DODGE:
More.
DODGE:
More.
It slows still more, until the tug just creeps along, and
the massive tow cables rise entirely out of the water,
straightening as the slack is pulled out.
EXT. CHIMERA - CONTINUOUS - DAY
Some fifty yards behind the tug, the tow cables come taught
in the anchor alleys of the Chimera.
INT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - PILOTHOUSE - CONTINUOUS - DAY
Murphy holds the throttle.
DODGE:
Right there, skipper. Right there.
Murphy eases forward on the throttle and the turbines rise
in pitch.
EXT. CHIMERA - CONTINUOUS - DAY
As the tow cables stretch and the bow of the Chimera inches
forward.
EXT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - CONTINUOUS - DAY
The turbines grow louder as Greer, Epps, and Dodge look on
at the Chimera behind them, the massive tow cables bowing
under their own weight.
INT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - PILOTHOUSE - CONTINUOUS - DAY
Murphy eases forward on the throttle, picking up speed.
EXT. CHIMERA - CONTINUOUS - DAY
The giant ship CREAKS AND MOANS as it starts forward, a small
bow break forming on its hull.
EXT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - CONTINUOUS - DAY
The tug is kicking up a foaming wake as it pulls the Chimera
along behind it. Dodge lets out a hoot, exchanging high fives
with Epps and Greer.
INT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - PILOTHOUSE - CONTINUOUS - DAY
Murphy smiles as he looks back at the Chimera following
behind.
INT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - PILOTHOUSE - DAY
CLOSE ON A CHART. The south Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska.
MURPHY (O.S.)
I figure we go through at the Unimak
Pass here. Refuel at Sanak Island.
Greer looks on from the helm as Murphy, Dodge and Epps stand
over the map table.
MURPHY:
With a little extra fuel, weather
permitting, we should make Sitka in
five days without another stop.
DODGE:
Sounds reasonable.
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