Leviathan Page #10

COBB:

What a**holes, they lock booze

in the safe.

DEJESUS:

Probably confiscated. No

booze on board, same as us.

Doc turns the bottle around in DeJesus' hand so he can read

the label.

DOC:

(eyeing the bottle)

Stolichnaya.

Everyone looks at Doc.

COBB:

You read Russian?

DOC:

Russian, French, Italian, Spanish,

Greek, German, a little Hindu, some

Serbo Croat and a smattering of

Swahili...standard pre-med background...

Cobb stares at him a second then:

COBB:

Bullshit.

DOC:

(grins)

...and a Russian grandmother...

Beck ignores them and addresses Bowman.

BECK:

I want all this stuff impounded

in the supply safe.

He lifts the bottle of Stolie out of DeJesus' hands.

BECK(cont'd)

...except this...it goes in my

safe.

A disappointed crew watches Beck leave with the bottle. Doc

stops him.

DOC:

(to Beck,

holding up the videotape)

You mind if I take a look at

this?

BECK:

(leaving)

Be my guest.

RING CORRIDOR - LATER

The gloomy corridor outside the Infirmary. It is empty,

silent. Suddenly the door to the Infirmary opens slightly

and Bowman peeks out. Seeing the corridor is empty she

slips out with a a manila folder.

DORMITORY - SAME

Bowman hands the envelope to DeJesus, who's grinning

delightedly.

DEJESUS:

You got 'em!

Sixpack and Jones are there too. Sixpack scowls.

SIXPACK:

What good's the kid's med

records anyway!

DEJESUS:

Watch and learn, amigo...

CONTROL ROOM - LATER

CLOSE ON MONITOR SCREEN

We see a thin, bearded man in his late fifties, a RUSSIAN

SHIP'S CAPTAIN talking to the camera in Russian. The tape

is of poor quality and water spotted.

DOC'S VOICE(O.S.)

(translating)

Another party last night. More

Vodka. The infirmary is filled

as it is. I confiscate what

I can, but I know the Government

Observers have more...

Suddenly, the captain hears a noise off-screen and goes to

the camera and turns it off. The tape goes blank.

ON DOC:

He stops the tape and presses another button on the console.

WILLIE'S VIDEO of the huge hole in the hull of the ship

appears on another screen.

DOC(cont'd)

See that gash? The way the

edges protrude inward is like

from a torpedo explosion. It

couldn't have come from within.

Like an accident.

He looks back at Beck who we see is sitting behind him, and

has also been watching the tape. Beck looks at Doc and

shrugs.

BECK:

What do you want me to say?

That it all sounds mysterious?

DOC:

These observers were doing something.

A test...I think they sank that ship

on purpose to cover up their mistakes.

BECK:

What mistakes?

(he shakes his

head wearily)

Look, I think it's no big deal but

if you want to find out why this

ship sank have Maritime run a check.

He gets up and goes to the door. Doc watches him.

DOC:

I did. They have no record of

the wreck.

(beat)

The Marshal Goloviev is now on

a tour in the Baltic Sea.

Beck stops. This is a mystery.

CLOSE ON COMBINATION LOCK/ BECK'S QUARTERS - SAME

Fingers fiddle with the combination. He pulls on the

handle. The safe doesn't budge.

DEJESUS:

(whisper)

It's not the phone number...

We pull back to see that DeJesus is alone in Beck's darkened

quarters, he talks to the P.A. Suddenly we hear BOWMAN'S

VOICE over the intercom.

BOWMAN'S VOICE

(on intercom)

Okay, try the social security

number...

DeJesus puts his fingers back, on the safe dial.

DEJESUS:

Okay, give it to me...

INTERCUT WITH BOWMAN IN DORM.

BOWMAN:

(reading off of Beck's

forms)

Two...twelve...ninety-six.

SIXPACK:

(scoffingly)

You guys are so full of sh*t...

Who's going to use their

birthday...

DEJESUS VOICE:

(over intercom)

BINGO!

SIXPACK:

(suddenly sitting up)

Like I said, that bottle's mine!

CONTROL ROOM - SAME

ON Beck at the door and Doc.

DOC:

I want your permission to

check that vodka.

Beck looks at him. It is obvious that he doesn't trust Doc,

with the vodka, but he's diplomatic.

BECK:

This is a mining shack, not

a lab, Doc. If there's something

strange with the vodka it's safe

till we get back.

UPPER RING CORRIDOR

ON COBB Standing watch for DeJesus. Suddenly the door to

the Control room opens and Beck walks out. Cobb grabs a

walkie-talkie.

COBB:

Beck's coming.

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