Poseidon Page #3

What?

Daddy?

It's all right, baby. It's all right.

All right, all right.

There you go.

Give me your water and your hankie,

sweetie.

I think it's just a cut, but I wanna

clean it anyway, okay?

I'm gonna look for a way out of here.

- Chris.

- Yeah?

Thank you very much.

Sir, I didn't... I mean, she saved me.

Are you okay?

Just a bad headache.

Here, finish this.

One thing we have a lot of around here

is water.

My name is Nelson.

Elena. How bad is it?

It's very bad.

Were you with someone?

Yeah.

Not really.

My brother's in the hospital.

I didn't have any money

to get to New York...

...so I meet this guy at a club,

he works on a ship.

He says I can bunk with him,

you know, for passage.

He was pretty nice.

What are you doing?

Thinking.

- You?

- Thinking.

What are we thinking about, exactly?

Well, I figure this door is the way up.

I'm thinking, "What's behind it?"

Hey. Easy there, fireball.

Watch.

Conor! Hey, Conor, what are you doing?

Hey, Mom, this door is the way up.

Don't walk off from me like that, okay?

- Hey, it's the other guy.

- Hey.

Yeah, Robert, that door is extremely

hot, but it's our only choice.

- Here. What do you think?

- Let's give it a shot.

I'm hoping it was a flash fire, but this

whole area could be superheated still, right?

- You tour on a sub?

- I wouldn't call it touring.

Go.

- Flash fire.

- Good call.

It's all right.

- So how long were you in the Navy?

- Too long.

I feel like I know your dad.

He was mayor of New York for a while.

When I was a kid.

Cool.

It wasn't.

Another way up, anybody?

I've been sneaking around

this ship for days. This is it.

- All right, then we climb.

- Is it gonna hold?

It's possible. It is steel.

Look at the monkey boy.

Chris, what are you doing? Come back.

I think it'll hold.

Go easy.

Elena.

You're halfway there, come on.

Chris, wait. Come back and get Conor.

Conor, put your foot right where my foot is

and go to Robert.

There you go. Put your hand right there.

Okay, hang on. I'll grab him.

Great.

You might wanna take it easy on that.

- You got him, Chris?

- I got him.

Excellent, excellent, excellent, yes.

- You got her?

- Okay. Here you go.

- Okay, baby, it's your turn.

- Hell, no. Lucky Larry's ready to go.

What?

Oh, yeah. Right, sorry.

You know, I forgot. Big hero.

Rescued all those women and children

from the fires.

Got elected. Man of the people.

But you're not the boss anymore.

You quit, couldn't hack it.

If I recall correctly, you couldn't even

hang onto your wife.

Come on. Come on.

Dad. Dad, let it go, okay? Please.

"Daddy, please." Come on.

Hey, man. Hey, you got it.

Knock yourself out.

- It's okay.

- Go ahead.

A**holes, both of you.

You're right. It's okay.

I'm not gonna let you bring me down

with you, not by a short hair.

You don't just get the nickname

Lucky Larry.

You gotta be lucky.

No!

Damn it.

Hey, who's shooting at us?

Jen! Jen!

Get back, get back!

So we gotta go back down one level

and we find another way up.

Go back down? We just came

through there. There is no other way.

You go that way, you die.

We didn't look through every corridor.

You do what you want.

I'm getting across.

If you got a better idea,

I'm all ears...

No, Robert, I don't got another way,

but I'm getting across!

You get stuck here, you'll die!

We're going. Let's go.

- Daddy, I can't. I'm sorry.

- What?

- Dylan, can you get me across?

- Jen, baby girl, listen...

No! I haven't been in

a long time, Dad.

Chris asked me to marry him.

I love him. I need to find a way

to go with him.

- No, you need to listen to me for a second.

- I'm not going back, Dad.

I hate to break up the family therapy,

but you still looking for a way across?

Yes.

Do you see him? Where is he?

Hey, did you miss me?

Son of a b*tch.

- What do you need?

- All right. Take the slack.

Got it?

Hey, Ramsey! Ramsey!

Come on.

I did the hard part.

You couldn't even find your way home

from school. We lived two blocks away.

- I remember, Dad.

- Hey, Ramsey, come on!

Daddy?

Come on, Jen, you'll be fine. Come on!

Jenny!

Now, what kind of kid

can't find her way home?

I was 7, by the way.

So, what do you think?

You too big for a piggyback ride?

- Not today.

- All right.

All right, baby. Hold on.

Here we go. Hang on, baby!

I gotcha.

They're okay.

- You wanna hit me?

- Actually...

...you're doing pretty good. So far.

Can we keep going here?

Yeah, let's go.

This way's the best way up.

Hurry.

You're okay.

Let's go.

Come on!

Come on, let's go.

Look for a way up, everybody.

- I got an access hatch here!

- Over here!

Dylan, we got water coming in

over here!

Back up!

- Get back!

- Wait a minute. I got something here!

All right, get that corner.

We can't all fit in there.

We don't even know where it goes.

If we stay here, we drown. Let's go!

We gotta keep moving up.

Oh, my God!

All right. I got a vertical shaft

up ahead about 10 yards.

Looks like it leads to the upper levels.

- Chris?

- Might as well give him a chance...

...to kick me in the head.

- Come on, Chris!

We're good. The shaft leads up.

- Are you okay, sweetheart?

- I think so.

Just keep on moving.

God. How the hell

did you fit through here?

Mom, don't look down, okay?

- Okay, Nelson, you're next.

- Okay.

- I'll be the last one. You go.

- Elena, just get in the vent.

- I'll wait here a little longer.

- You're fine.

- I can't go in there. I'm sorry, I can't!

- Elena, get in the vent.

The water's rising.

Elena, get in the vent!

- Elena, if you don't go, we don't go.

- What? What?

No! No!

Go on, go! Grab her, grab her!

You got her?

It seems congratulations are in order,

Chris.

Thank you, sir.

I'm glad she finally told you.

Well, tradition might have had you

coming to me first.

Yeah, I realize that.

And I wanted to, I really did, but she

made me promise not to say anything.

She's really careful

when it comes to you, sir.

- Let me out! Let me out!

- Come on, Elena.

- You're doing great. Come on.

- Elena, take my foot!

Grab my ankle.

That's it. That's it. That's it.

- You can do it. That's it, just hold on.

- I can't breathe.

No.

Elena?

We're gonna go up now.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

I'm stuck!

Oh, my God. He's stuck.

Please, get me out! Get me out!

- Get me out, out, out!

- Hey, calm down, calm down.

Get me out of here.

Elena, you need to reach up

and help him.

I need you to reach up and help him.

Reach up.

- Conor. Conor, can you crawl up here?

- Yeah.

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