Ghosts of the Abyss Page #8

- You got him.

- Still got it.

As Genya is pulling up on it,

the Velcro rips off the robot,

and for this brief second,

the entire robot was free

and starts floating back up.

There's no tether holding it.

It's free. Grab it.

Grab it any way you can.

Genya, the most amazing operator

of any machinery

I've ever seen in my life,

grabbed these manipulators.

He pulls it back in

and hugs it tight to the "Mir. "

I'm going gray over here.

I think he's got it

in that garage.

He's got the tool out.

I saw the tool. Yes!

Whoo!

- Garage closed.

- [Laughs]

He lives another day!

Oh, my God!

I do believe

Genya deserves a raise.

I do believe you owe

everybody here a beer.

CAMERON:

Dude, I'll buy you a brewery.

That was incredible.

That was absolutely incredible.

The R. O.V. Department

was almost out of a job.

Was that amazing?

That was the most amazing

thing I've ever seen.

I think I aged a year.

And we sat there,

and we just watched him

just fly up

out of the grand staircase

and keep on going.

Genya wound it all in like

a kid winding up a kite string.

Great job, man.

Good job.

So we got the rescue half done.

We installed the weight,

and then we had a problem.

We saw it with the weight

hanging on it.

I don't know

if it came down or not.

I think metal hooks would work

if you get a fishing lure

that you can stab

into the screen

and pull it out by the screen.

CAMERON:

I told you we'd nab him.

LEDDA:
Just remember,

when you hook up,

peel away to your right.

Come on, baby.

- We're in.

- We're in.

- I n?

- We're in.

Now I'm gonna sit for a minute.

Take a little break.

Very good.

Excellent. Excellent.

We're halfway.

There's nothing in front of him.

Push him a little bit,

and I think we busted loose.

- Hooks pulled out.

- Put him in the cage.

Hooks pulled out.

And I think

we knocked him off his weight.

Yeah, the weight would've

come off anyway, though.

All right.

The question is,

do we have another try?

Something's right over me.

Oh, there we go.

Got rid of that.

Now we're rising.

All right.

Time to go for the kill.

Okay.

Not the center.

We could bend our hooks

on the...

Oh, that looked good.

Push him a little bit,

then all back full, yaw right.

The hooks still there?

Negative.

It looks good.

Let's go for a drive

and see if he comes with us.

Oh, I'm yawing in a weird way,

so that must mean I have him,

so I'm just gonna

keep playing him.

I'm gonna play the hand.

I think the door is down there.

Tell him we're here.

"Mir-1," we see the door.

We're on station.

There's the light.

Tell them we see them.

"Mir-2," "Mir-2,"

we see your lights.

Maintain position.

- All right.

- There's the way out.

Hanging up.

I'm hung up.

We're stopped.

And we're stuck.

See it?

It's like hitting a wall.

We are hung up solid.

Absolutely solid.

Nothing.

I think we lost it.

I don't know what to do.

I'm sure nothing's changed,

but we'll try it again.

Okay. I'm gonna back up,

take a little leash.

And then charge it.

Now we get to

the same spot, and...

Hey.

- We're going.

- LEDDA:
You're going.

Go toward the light, Jake.

Go toward the light.

Oh, come on, baby.

Come on.

LEDDA:
"Mir-2," "Mir-2,"

tilt your light down.

Tilt your light down.

LYNCH:
Copy that.

Tilting it down.

I keep feeling shocks.

I think I still have him.

Oh, that's why.

They're coming this way.

Tell them to take a visual on us

and see if we have Elwood.

- Look at that.

- Do you see Elwood?

Oh, my God.

He got it!

LYNCH:
It looks great.

It's beautiful.

Do you see Elwood?

Do you see Elwood?

Yes, we do.

We got him.

# Just the two of us #

# We can make it if we try #

# Just the two of us #

# Just the two of us #

# Just the two of us #

We pulled it off, Daddy-O.

Yeah.

Whoo.

Great job.

Everybody did a great job.

MARSCHALL:

Elwood is safe and sound.

And the time is 6: 16,

September 11, 2001.

See you later.

What's this thing

that's going on?

The worst terrorist attack

in history, Jim.

CAMERON:
We all were wrapped up

in what we were doing

and thought it was important.

Hit by two separate

hijacked commercial jets...

And then this horrible event

happened

and slammed us

into this perspective.

God.

LYNCH:
The morning after

the attack on September 11th,

I kept thinking how trivial

this expedition suddenly became.

It just wasn't a big deal

anymore.

MARSCHALL:
The emotional

parallels came first.

We now understood

what it felt like

to be a witness to tragedy.

The sense of shock and numbness

and the disbelief that

the unthinkable has happened.

It does happen.

Occasionally,

life sits on your head.

But, hey,

I've been knocked down before.

We all have.

We get up.

We go on.

I think

that's what makes us great.

PAXTON:
Everyone decided

to continue the expedition.

I think that after we'd

gotten over the initial shock,

"Titanic" did seem to become

important again.

Not so much for itself,

but as a symbol

of what can happen

when warnings go unheeded

and how I think

we all hope to face death

when it comes.

PELLEGRINO:
Archie Frost was

in the engine room that night.

Just barely into his twenties

and had worked

with Thomas Andrews

when the ship was being built.

After a certain point, Andrews

had come down and told them,

"The ship does not have

much time to live,

and if you stay here,

you will die. "

Archie Frost said,

"We'll stay here as long

as we need to be here. "

Those are the everyday heroes.

The people

who ran those machines,

kept the generators running,

and kept power

for the telegraph going,

who kept the crowds calm.

You find the ordinary hero

that was standing next to you.

PAXTON:

When you see the stern

where 1, 500 people had died,

I don't really know

how to describe it.

MARSCHALL:
You can't help

but be emotional.

There's no doubt

people were taken to the bottom

in the stern.

But they're no longer there.

Every trace

of their human existence

has been dissolved

into the ocean.

CAMERON:

Okay, "Mir-2."

Get in position

to lay the plaque.

LYNCH:
Jim, getting into

position to lay plaque.

PAXTON:
"The 1,500 souls

lost here still speak,

reminding us always

that the unthinkable can happen

but for our vigilance, humility,

and compassion. "

Goodbye.

We had been at sea a long time.

I was thinking about

being home again.

On the final day, as we left,

at the stern of the ship

was a white rainbow.

It was almost like a halo effect

over the wreck of the "Titanic. "

And it had an ethereal feel

to it.

I think you leave "Titanic,"

but it never leaves you.

It's always there.

And many times,

when I close my eyes,

I'm suddenly back there,

floating over the wreck,

and I feel like I am

a ghost of the abyss.

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