Run Silent Run Deep Page #5

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Outer doors open.

- Want me to take her down, sir?

- Not yet, not yet! Lookouts, below!

Range 3,000.

We'll have to fire from surface. Stand by.

- Commence firing!

- Fire 3.

Fire 3.

- 3 fired, sir.

- 3's away, sir.

Clear the bridge!

Dive! Dive!

(klaxon)

- Take her down to 300 fast!

- Aye aye, sir!

- Gimme a time check on that fish.

- 24... 23...

Torpedo screws, sir.

Heading toward our port side.

(radar bleeps)

- Must be that last torpedo, sir.

- It's a runaway.

Coming back at us! Crash-dive!

Sound collision alarm!

(alarm)

(radar bleeps)

Passing 7-5 feet, sir.

Passing 9-0 feet, sir.

(slow, regular bleeps)

(faster bleeps)

Destroyer coming in, sir.

He's shifting to attack frequency, sir!

(ship's propellers whirring)

Picking up splashes, sir.

Depth charges on the way down.

Passing 150 feet.

(bleeping continues)

It's all right! Leave it!

The governor'll stop it at 2100rpm.

(explosion)

Forward torpedo room reporting.

Hatch was blown on the main...

We cannot make...

Forward torpedo room.

Forward torpedo room.

(explosion)

Forward torpedo room.

Forward torpedo room.

- Phone circuit's out, sir.

- Check on the damage.

(explosion)

- Captain wants a damage report.

- Coupla dogs sheared off the hatch.

- Can you fix it?

- I'll know in a minute.

(explosions)

Turn on emergency lights.

Torpedo room.

Forward torpedo room, report.

Forward torpedo room.

Take the conn. I'm going to check.

- (Beckman) Levelling off.

- All ahead one third!

- Is the hatch sprung?

- Couple of dogs sheared off.

(screams)

(men) Close the hatch! Close the hatch!

Come on, close the hatch!

(explosion)

(Beckman) Losing depth control.

Heavy forward. Request more speed.

Forward room must be flooding.

All ahead standard!

- You OK, sir?

- Yeah.

- Is the compartment flooded?

- Partially.

Three dead.

(propellers whirring)

They're coming in for the kill, sir.

Only way to get outta this alive

is to make 'em think we're all dead.

- Send up an oil slick?

- Send up blankets, gear, everything.

Jim...

...the men that were killed,

send them up through the tubes.

Yes, sir.

(explosion)

(distant explosions)

(explosion)

(propellers whirring)

(rush of air)

(rush of air)

(radar bleeps)

(propellers whirring)

(speaking in Japanese)

(propellers whirring)

(whirring fades)

Screws diminishing, sir!

(bleeping continues)

(Morse code message)

Captain? Captain,

there's something else here. Listen.

(Morse code continues)

What is it, sir? I can't make that out.

What's the situation in the hatch?

It's OK. The engineer should have

the new parts ready in a couple of hours.

It's well secured

with block and tackle, sir.

Clear the compartment.

OK, everybody out. Come on.

On the double. Let's go, fellas.

(distorted Morse code)

What is it, sir? I can't make that out.

What is it, sir? I can't make that out.

What is it, sir? I can't make that out.

Here. Better take a swallow, sir.

- What is it?

- A stimulant from the medical safe.

It's 100 proof, sir.

- How long have I been out?

- Just a few minutes, Captain.

No.

You'd better worry about yourself.

You'll be in for a rough time.

Hendrix knows his stuff.

You've had a pretty bad concussion.

It's worse than that.

There's a medical term for it...

...but it all adds up to blacking out

now and then for quite a while.

If you don't keep off your feet, sir,

you'll be blacking out permanently!

- You'll keep this to yourselves.

- But, sir...

That's an order, Hendrix.

Send for Mr Bledsoe.

- Well, go on!

- Yes, sir.

The torpedo firing circuits

will take 24 hours to repair.

We'll have to set up

a jury-rig for the radio...

...and the radar needs some work, too.

That's another 24 hours.

Not bad, considering. We'll lay over

for two days, then we can get moving.

Yeah, the timing's perfect.

Those convoys come out every 48 hours.

- You really got shook up, didn't you?

- No.

- No, I couldn't feel better.

- Then maybe I didn't hear you right.

You heard me right.

I'm talking about the Straits.

Going back to the Bungo Straits.

We're through playing with lives.

It's the end of the line.

Why? Because a torpedo went wild?

You know that's 100 to 1, an accident.

The whole Japanese air force...

dropping everything it's got.

- That's an accident, too?

- Next time around, we'll make it.

What are you gonna do? Swim back

to the Straits or use a lifeboat?

Because that's all the help

you're gonna get.

Those are tall words.

You'd better stop and think a minute.

I have thought about it. That wasn't

a tea party the crew held before.

They wanted me to take over then.

They'll feel the same way now.

You make one move to take over and,

I swear, I'll see that you're hung!

Then we'll hang together. Orders

were disobeyed. No more technicalities.

A fleet boat of the Navy,

a sub with her fighting power intact...

...and you'd take her back to Pearl?

I don't believe it!

Mr Cartwright!

Yes, sir?

We'll lay over two days for repairs

before returning to Pearl.

I'll be in command.

Get a detail started right away.

- Yes, sir.

- That's all, Cartwright.

Yes, sir.

The best Exec I could get

in the whole Navy!

The backstop, I think you said!

And the first command you give

as a captain is to order a retreat!

# Goodbye, Bungo! Hello, Pearl!

- Funny, funny, funny!

- Aw, what's with you?

We're trying to eat. Knock it off.

- Is this a private dining room?

- Wanna sing? Go to the head!

It'll take more than you to put me there!

Break it up!

What's the matter with you guys?

We're going back to Pearl, aren't we?

How many patrols have you had,

Mr Sears Roebuck?

- This is my second.

- Well, I've had five since '42.

I've taken depth charges,

shells, strafings...

...even a bombing run off the Solomons.

This is the first time I've gone back

to Pearl with 15 torpedoes still aboard.

Kohler, better start the torpedo check.

- Aye aye, sir.

- Mr Cartwright?

- Do you think we could've had 'im?

- What?

Suppose that fish hadn't gone wild, sir.

You think that aircraft was playing

games? The Japs had us detected.

- The Captain said...

- He's flat on his back.

Be better if somebody

had put him there sooner.

- Kohler, get started.

- Mr Cartwright...

This time words just fail me!

- It's this way, sir. I...

- Why didn't you stop it?

- I didn't know it was gonna happen.

- You let it go on.

- No, sir...

- Then it didn't happen?

If I have to put every crew member

on report, I will!

It was my fault, sir.

Go on up to the bridge.

Tell the OD you're on report.

- Sir...

- What did you say?

I told you once

to keep your opinions to yourself!

Now get out of here!

Yes, sir.

I'm not going to stand for

any fighting or insubordination.

If you think you've got a soft touch,

you're mistaken! You hear?

Wow! How about that?

Chewing out an officer in front of us!

He was chewing us all out.

What's he so sore at us for?

(band music on radio)

- Turn it up a bit, huh?

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