Leviathan Page #9

BECK:

Affirmative...Widening picture.

The image on the screen widens and we see the opening is a

huge gash in the side of a sunken ship.

BECK(cont'd)

(to DOC)

Tighten the picture on the

upper righthand corner.

CLOSE ON THE MONITOR: The picture zooms in on the corner

and Willie's added light suddenly brings the letter "M" into

focus.

Beck presses the red record button and pans the ROV slowly

across the bulkhead of the ship. The next letter is an "A".

Then suddenly a Cyrillic letter appears, then others.

COBB:

What the?...

DOC:

Russian.

WILLIE'S VOICE(RADIO)

I'm going inside.

BECK:

What's your air reading?

WILLIE'S VOICE

Twenty minutes...

BECK:

Twenty minutes!...Who had

tank duty?

BOWMAN:

Who else...Sixpack.

JONES:

The man is unbelievable...

I say, leave him in there.

BOWMAN:

(dryly)

What about his suit? That's

a million five the company's

got to replace. They'll make

somebody go get it.

BECK:

(to Willie)

Willie, we're giving you five

minutes...after that we're coming in.

WILLIE'S POV

Her life-support gauges move eerily around the perimeter of

her mask. She moves along steadily down darkened corridors.

She opens a door and it drops from its corroded hinges--a

cloud of sludge rises off the bottom. The room looks empty.

WILLIE:

Sixpack?...Answer me.

She throws open another door. It also looks empty, then

WHAM! a grotesque ECHONODERM slams into her helmet. Willie

bats it aside and as soon as she recovers shines her light

into the room.

WHAT SHE SEES:
The ship's infirmary. Broken glass,

stainless steel...the light does strange things, reflecting,

sparkling...

WILLIE(ON RADIO)

The infirmary...

BECK'S VOICE(RADIO)

Three minutes...

Her helmet-mounted camera pans the room one more time, then

as she turns to leave it captures a strange gleam of white

in the corner--A LARGE HUMAN-LIKE SKELETON. Willie doesn't

see it.

INT. THE CONTROL ROOM

CLOSE ON DOC He stares at the monitor screen. Did he see

something or were his eyes playing tricks? He looks across

the console and sees the videotape is recording.

UNDERWATER:

ON WILLIE She moves to the end of the hall. It ends with

two doors.

BECK'S VOICE(RADIO)

One minute.

Willie hesitates at the junction and PUSHES OPEN the door on

her left, SOMETHING HUGE BEHIND IT MOVES--IT'S SIXPACK. His

mechanical arms suddenly rise and in their grasp we see the

ship's huge safe.

SIXPACK:

(laughing)

I'm rich, honey. Rich!

THE SWAMP - LATER

The door to the Russian ship's safe stands open. BANG!

BANG! Jones and DeJesus hammer safety deposit boxes with a

chisel. While the others watch, Sixpack pleads his case

with Beck.

SIXPACK:

It's all mine if I'm on report.

Otherwise you gotta take me off

report before you look at any more...

Ain't that right, Cobbie?

COBB:

You're on your own, Sixpack, you

f***ed up everybody's day off...

DeJesus pries off the top from the first safety deposit box

and dumps the contents on the workbench...several wallets,

wristwatches, a pocket watch, a wedding ring...Bowman who

stands with a clipboard begins taking inventory.

BOWMAN:

Personal effects...

WILLIE:

(considering

a watch)

Timex...

She picks up something else, a pack of soggy chewing gum and

tosses it to Cobb.

WILLIE(cont'd)

Here's something for you, Cobbie.

JONES:

(checking a wallet)

Russian money...Don't look like much.

Jones opens the next box and dumps it out onto the

table...Life Savers candy, a postcard of a fat Russian woman

in a bathing suit. Bowman looks at it.

BOWMAN:

(grinning to

Sixpack)

Yeah, I'd say you can retire

with all this loot.

SIXPACK:

Shut up.

Everyone chuckles. More papers and a small, book-shaped

object wrapped in plastic. Jones unwraps it. It's a video

tape. He looks at the label.

WILLIE:

What is it?

JONES:

(reading)

"Debbie Does Dallas"...

(looks up and

grins)

Hell, it's in Russian. I can't

read it...

DOC:

May I see it?

Jones hands it to Doc who looks at it.

DOC (cont'd)

It's a log of some sort.

Jones pries the lid off another box and dumps it

out--Papers, more cheap watches.

ON SIXPACK He notices something silver, the size of a

paperback book, under a stack of papers. Discreetly he

covers the object with a piece of paper and slides it off

the table out of sight.

Jones opens the last box, and something rolls across the

table toward the edge and starts to drop when it is caught

by DeJesus. He holds it up and we see--a clear liquor

bottle.

WILLIE:

Vodka.

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