Sanctum Page #5

I have control.

You clipped in?

Roger that!

All right, give me some slack!

I'm going to have

to improvise this last bit!

Yes.

Are you good?

I'm good.

Good.

Good boy.

Are you okay?

Get that light off her!

My hair!

Jesus Christ!

Hang on, honey!

Victoria! Try not to move!

What's going on?

Her hair is caught in the rack!

Jesus Christ!

Hang on in there, honey!

Hang on!

Joshua, get back!

Get off that line.

It won't take the weight!

Help me!

Hang in there, Vic! We're coming!

Victoria, listen to me!

You have to transfer your weight!

Try and get a foothold!

I can't get a hold!

For Christ's sake!

She has to do something!

All right! I'm coming up!

You're not! You're staying here

until we work out a plan.

Victoria, don't panic!

I can reach her.

Hang on in there, Vic! Hang on!

Victoria! Listen to me!

I know you're in a lot of pain,

but you have to stay there! Help me!

Do nothing until we can

get a rope up to you! You understand?

I'm going to cut my hair free!

No! Do not use your knife!

Everest.

Put your knife away!

Take that knife away from the rope!

I can get up to her!

Christ!

Put your knife away!

Victoria!

I can climb up there and I can get her!

Do you understand me?

I can get up to her!

Victoria!

Christ! Jesus Christ!

F***!

We should get going.

Josh?

Victoria made her own choices.

All right? She chose

to come down here without experience,

she chose to dive without a wetsuit,

she chose to use her knife.

That's three big mistakes

in a place you're lucky

to get away with one.

Now we've only got one re-breather left.

You heartless bastard.

Have you no decency? Huh?

Who the hell do you think you are?

We can mourn her in the daylight.

We got to get on.

How did you become like this?

Look,

Josh,

I know I haven't been

anything of a father to you.

All right?

I'm not much good up there.

Full stop, mate.

That's just a fact.

Cities and cars and mortgages,

I could never be

what your mother needed.

Or probably what you needed.

Why?

Why caves?

Down here, I can make sense of this.

Do you know what I mean? I can...

It's like my church.

I can hold a mirror up

and say, "This is who I am."

I don't want to die, Dad.

I don't want to die down here.

It's all right. It's all right.

It's all right.

It's all right, mate.

We're not going to die.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

We're going to get out of here,

all right? Yep?

Yep.

Okay.

Let's keep moving.

Good Christ. Dead end again.

All right, we'll rest

up here for a while.

And I'll take the last re-breather,

run through, see if she goes.

Then I'll come back and get you, Josh,

and later, you, Carl.

Yep?

Sure, Frank. Whatever you say.

Dad! Carl's taking the re-breather!

What's he doing?

He's not going to come back.

The son of a b*tch.

F***.

Come on.

Dad. Dad.

Is it dead?

Yep.

Well, the tunnel could choke.

Then he'd have to come back.

If the tunnel chokes, we're dead anyway.

So what do we do now?

I don't know.

I'm tired. Need to rest.

What are you talking about?

We have to go back.

We will find another way out.

What's wrong with you?

You remind me of me.

Sh*t.

Bat sh*t.

Do you think there's a way out?

Well, I'm guessing the bats

didn't swim down here.

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

"A stately pleasure-dome decree"

What's that?

Coleridge.

Very hippy-skippy.

Well, he was on drugs when he wrote it.

I didn't know you were into poetry.

I'm not.

Your mother was.

Teach it to me.

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

"A stately pleasure-dome

decree

"A stately pleasure-dome decree

"Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

"Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

"Through caverns measureless to man

"Through caverns measureless to man"

Get up there. Climb over me.

Here, give me your hand.

Motherf***er!

-Good work.

-Yes.

Good work.

Bullshit.

I've got no light.

Right.

Sh*t.

Okay.

We should rest up.

Wait.

Dad, I can see you.

Well, we're not climbing out of here.

Now that's something

you don't see every day.

A tank?

A bloody tank?

Japanese.

They were all over

this place during the war.

Amphibious.

We must be pretty near the coast.

The cave must have

collapsed underneath them.

Do you think anyone survived?

Doesn't look like it.

There you go.

Told you.

We could stay here, you know?

Hope that someone finds us.

Assuming they're looking for us.

Huh.

Assumption is the mother

of all f***-ups.

That sounds familiar.

And we're so close.

Now that's just teasing us.

Don't take it personally.

We're here now, that's the main thing.

So what do we do?

Do we stay here or do we push on?

You decide.

Hey, Dad, I've found the river.

Lost my grip.

Well, you should be more careful.

Carl.

Empty.

Dead.

The river has flushed everything

through here like a sewer.

Yeah.

It stinks in here.

Josh?

Josh? Frank?

Is that you, guys?

Thank God.

Thank God!

Carl.

What the f***?

What the hell were you thinking?

Well, I was going to

come back for you guys.

I would have come back.

I would have, you know?

I just ran out of air.

Please.

You got any food?

Yeah, of course.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Frank, Frank, please.

Please don't go over there, Frank.

Frank, please.

Please, Frank.

The river dumped her here, Josh.

Like a piece of garbage.

Josh, I'm sorry, buddy.

I messed up, you know?

I admit it, I messed up. Okay?

I panicked, you know?

It was a moment of madness.

I don't know what came over me.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Josh.

Good girl, Judes.

Josh, let's go.

Wait. What?

Josh?

Josh.

No, no, no.

You're not gonna leave me here. No way.

You can do whatever you like.

Frank.

Well, f*** you, Frank!

She goes.

-There's a tight squeeze...

-Yeah?

...but once you get through,

it's crystal clear.

Well, we'll buddy-breathe

through the sump.

One breath each.

Nice shallow breaths.

What about Carl?

I'll go get him.

Can't breathe. It's my back.

It's in my, it's in my...

No, no, Josh. No, Josh.

Josh,

you trust the cave, all right?

Trust the cave and follow the river.

It'll lead you out.

What?

-No. No, we can still make it.

-Shh-shh.

Dad, we can buddy-breathe like you said.

It'll be fine.

It's all right.

He killed Victoria, Josh.

Luko.

He'll kill all of us!

You take one step closer

and I will f***ing kill you.

The only reason

we're still breathing is because of him.

Josh, could you get me into the water?

Could you help me into the water?

You've got better instinct than me,

so listen to it, all right?

You keep going and don't you give up,

or you'll be back on my shitlist.

No. Dad, I'm not leaving you here.

Can you...

Can you help me?

Help me.

I don't want this to take too long.

No. No, no, no.

It's all right. It's all right.

I'll stay. I'll stay with you.

I will stay with you.

You'll be fine.

Hey, no.

You stay and you die.

No, no.

Just help me.

I'm so proud of you, Josh.

Please help me.

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

"A stately pleasure-dome decree

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