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!

EXT. ARCTIC WARRIOR - DAY

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.

WIDE ON TUG AND CHIMERA

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.

The tug slows still 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.

A pencil traces a route.

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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