Submergence Page #4

JAMES:
I'm on the

ocean floor now, Dani.

[WIND BLOWING]

[SPEAKING SOMALI]

MAN:
We will kill you now.

[GROANING]

Our Father,

who art in Heaven,

hallowed be Thy name.

Thy Kingdom come,

Thy will be done...

[SPEAKING SOMALI] Get ready!

[GUNS FIRING]

[SCREAMS]

[CRYING]

[WAVES CRASHING]

[SIGHING]

Oh, God, James.

Oh, man, you sh*t yourself.

[LAUGHING]

[LAUGHS]

[SPEAKING SOMALI]

MAN:
[SPEAKING SOMALI]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

JAMES:
So, you're

going to go down there

and you're going to be

surrounded by water,

and infinite blackness.

Are you afraid

something might happen?

- [ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS]

- [PANTING]

[SCREAMING]

[GRUNTING]

[SPEAKING SOMALI]

[PHONES RINGING]

MAN:
[SPEAKING SOMALI]

[MEN PRAYING] Allahu akbar.

MAN:
[ON TV] There were

also significant differences

in the numbers of

predators, scavengers...

[CRYING]

Open your eyes.

Open them!

[MOANS]

You're alive.

Good.

Drink this.

Why are you here?

I've told your men,

I'm a water engineer.

I wanted...

I still want to build...

a water system in Kismayo,

I was invited.

Not to do something else?

No, I'm just...

[WHISPERING]

What's your

business with Sharif?

He was the tribal leader

in Kismayo,

and I was going to teach the

water recognition system to him.

How do you know him?

I didn't, he contacted me.

He did? How?

He got in touch with the

charity that I work for

that installs wells

in refugee camps.

They asked me to

meet him, so I did.

Do you understand that

we are fighting a war here?

I understand.

Then what is this?

It was a mistake,

I was a young man.

- I needed a job!

- Coming here was a mistake!

Do you have children,

a wife?

I'm not married.

Your people rely on me

for clean water.

We shall call you Biyole.

That means water boy.

My name is James.

Do you drink alcohol, Biyole?

Yeah.

Alcohol separates you

from your creator.

Yeah, no doubt.

It is important to me

that you are being treated...

generously. It is Allah's wish.

Thank you.

[SPEAKING SOMALI]

[WINCES]

[GASPING]

We also need a

urine sample from you.

Doctor Shadid.

Open, please.

No hemorrhage.

How does it look, doctor?

Not too bad.

For an infidel.

Breathe, deeper.

[INHALING DEEPLY]

[COUGHS]

- You have a fracture.

- Oh.

It's a primitive diagnosis,

but we have limited x-ray.

This is more serious,

Mr. Water.

My name is James More.

More?

I was told to

call you Mr. Water.

Doctor, I haven't

spoken to my family.

They don't know that I'm okay.

Can you please

help me with that?

No.

MAN:
[OVER RECORDING] ...across the years.

In particular,

deposit feeders were at

their lowest density in 2007.

- 2.50 plus or minus 0.11...

- [GLASS SHATTERING]

[DOOR OPENING]

Don't.

I've prepared a dozen samples

for you, minus one.

I'll be all right,

I can handle it.

You sure?

Wouldn't say it if I couldn't.

I looked over the work.

We'll be fine, as long

as you do your part.

I'd be fine if I had

signal at some point.

I mean, we've been out now

in the middle of the ocean,

with no signal,

multiple dives,

and it just...

frustrates me, okay?

Okay.

So, you can't reach him.

Why don't you focus on your work

and put him out of your mind.

[SIGHS]

Cover of Nature.

Isn't that what we

promised each other?

Why don't you look at me,

Dani?

I know all about self-sabotage.

I'm the expert on it.

I want you to tell me now that

this is not you doubting yourself.

- This is not what this is.

- It's not doubt.

'Cause it deserves the cover,

not just to be published.

Searching for life that may

share the same way of life,

that we may eventually

find in water on Mars?

Possibly proving that

a billion years ago,

the same ecosystems

existed here and there?

You've touched

the limits of life.

You've touched it.

And now we have to wrap

our whole hands around it,

and bring it to the world...

and finish this.

Ifremer, they've partnered

with us, there's a lot at stake,

- a lot of money has been spent.

- I know, I know.

Now is not the time to

doubt yourself, Dani.

I know.

Good.

Morning, Ms. Flinders.

- Captain.

- Mr. Darren.

Thank you for

coming down, um...

Do you think it would

be possible for me

to go ashore after

the next two dives?

I'm having some difficulties

finalizing my calculations.

You mean go ashore

and stay ashore?

The other teams

don't need you to log?

- I can handle that work.

- And where would you...

We would be in reach

of the Faroe Islands,

after Mark and Annie,

I think.

- Right?

- Yeah.

I could fly to Iceland from

there and then on to Jan Mayen.

I don't see why not,

if your program sanctions it.

- It does.

- All right, then.

We'll arrange a boat

to come and pick you up.

Thank you.

- Good?

- Mm.

There should be a ban on

injecting the suicide bombers

with drugs to limit

their ability to think.

They do that?

I saw it, in Mogadishu.

I was really ashamed.

They also do it in Pakistan.

Why are you telling me this?

Why are you talking to me?

You will be gone soon,

one way or the other.

What do you mean by that?

They will not kill you.

Emir Yusef has promised.

Oh, that's good to know.

And there is

no one else here

to talk to

with an education.

[LAUGHING]

DR. SHADID:
So, what should we

do about the wells in Kismayo?

JAMES:
Well, that's what

I came here to find out.

DR. SHADID:
The water is

too expensive for the poor.

Do the local authorities have

control over all the water sources?

- I do not know.

- You need to find out.

You need to drive out

the water profiteers

by any means necessary.

Wait.

[SIGHS] Well, you need to

ascertain the depth of each well,

and the quality of

the water in it.

So, for example, the closer

a well is to the sea,

the more likely that

water is to be brackish.

You have to find out how many people

are using it, plot this all on a map.

I can help you with this.

This is what I do,

this is my job.

Already you are.

Here, only the air is free.

Not a day goes by

without a child in my care

dying of some

curable illness.

The people have no work.

They have not enough food.

They have no school and this is

something we intend to correct.

When it rains, the mud mixes with

the waste from the latrines.

I do believe with so many people

packed in such conditions,

Somalia will generate a plague

that will spread around the world.

Cholera?

A new plague.

You going to

turn it into a weapon?

[GROANS]

I am a doctor.

Who keeps company

with killers.

We have cholera here already.

- JAMES:
Report it.

- Here?

- To the United Nations.

- Never.

- Even UNICEF?

- Especially UNICEF.

Such an organization

that promises so much

yet delivers so little

to the children?

What is necessary is

to turn the Crusaders

back from the Muslim

lands of Somalia,

so that the people here can

live in a pure Islamic state.

What's more important to you,

treating the women and children

that come to your clinic

and looking for your help,

or... Or... Or following jihad?

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