Submergence Page #5

I see both as one treatment.

Medicine is mercy,

jihad is duty.

What about me,

am I a Crusader?

I came here

to bring clean water.

Allah will ask payment of you.

You said I was

going to be spared.

I need to go home.

[SOBBING]

I need to go back to her.

[CRYING]

Who am I to know

the will of God?

You may die tomorrow.

Or... you may become

a blessed one.

[DOOR SLAMS]

[BOLT LOCKING]

JORN:
So, how long are

you going to stay with us

on the Faroes,

Professor Flinders?

At least a week,

maybe more.

We found a quiet

place for you,

where you can

get your work done.

Thank you.

Captain's orders.

Is it possible to dock

by any of those rocks?

- Just for a few minutes?

- Sure.

[BIRDS CAWING]

What are you doing?

I'm counting.

Lichens.

Some of the species

here are very rare.

You think they're shells,

but if you come closer,

they're like tiny trees,

little forests.

And this one here is

the marriage between a...

a fungus and a cyan-bacteria.

If you would magnify the edges,

you wouldn't be able to see,

where life begins

and where it ends.

It just dissolves from...

from life into non-life.

[YELLING]

[MOB CHANTING]

[CHANTING CONTINUES]

[MAN SPEAKING SOMALI]

[CHANTING CONTINUES]

[ROCKS THUDDING]

[WAILING]

[SHOUTING]

[GUNSHOT]

[WOMEN CLAMORING, CRYING]

JAMES:
"No man is an island,

entire of itself.

Every man is a piece

of the continent,

a part of the main.

Any man's death diminishes me,

because I am

involved in mankind,

and therefore never send to

know for whom the bell tolls,

it tolls for thee."

Do you keep John Donne

with you wherever you go?

- JAMES:
Yeah.

- [DOOR UNBOLTING]

Let me go.

Let me go, please.

I will be killed soon,

I welcome it.

I believe you will

die too, Mr. Water.

[DOOR OPENS]

[GRUNTS]

[MUTTERING]

MAN:
[SPEAKING SOMALI]

Biyole, we will

videotape you soon.

Do you know Bambi, water boy?

I saw it when I was young.

You see, Bambi is

the innocent one.

When you watch the

forest fire again,

then you will see his

father protecting him,

giving up his own life.

It is like the Crusaders who

are burning the Islamic state.

[SPEAKING SOMALI]

[BIRDS CAWING]

[SPEAKING SOMALI]

Abdul... go.

I want to convert

you to Islam.

And I want you to be

merciful and let me go.

I won't make

a video for you.

I won't sit in

front of a camera

and say the things

that you want me to say...

You're of use to us.

Shadid told me you can

clean water, stop diseases.

You will do important

work for us.

But you are a non-believer.

I want you to meet

with your Creator.

- No.

- No?

No.

Allah sees you,

and he's waiting for you

to take the straight path.

We've got Allah

in common, you and I.

The Allah of our

common father, Abraham.

I love Abraham.

And I love his love

for all his children.

And yes, I do believe

that Allah sees me.

Sees us, but...

no.

Who are you to know this,

and reject the Koran?

[SPEAKING SOMALI]

[SHEEP BLEATING]

[POP MUSIC PLAYS ON RADIO]

MAN:
[SPEAKING SOMALI]

Hey, stop!

[MUTTERING IN SOMALI]

No!

F***!

- [SHOUTING]

- [EXPLOSION]

[SPEAKING SOMALI] Let's go.

[MEN PRAYING]

Allahu akbar. Allahu akbar.

WOMAN:
[OVER RECORDING] Recent geology

research from the University of Cincinnati,

presents new evidence

for bacteria

found fossilized in

two separate locations.

The 2.52-billion-year-old

sulfur-oxidizing bacteria,

are described as exceptionally

large, spherical-shaped,

smooth-walled

microscopic structures,

much larger than most modern...

[TRUCK RUMBLING]

[SHOUTING IN SOMALI]

You like working

for the MI6, Water?

You have fun?

I mean not now, but in

general, you have fun?

You like the CIA?

I don't know what

you're talking about.

Jihad is life.

Your friends,

they don't care about you.

Jihad is life after death.

[WIND BLOWING]

So, you're not sorry for

being a Donne-loving Brit

who loves his God and country?

No. No, I'm not.

God save the Queen,

and all that.

DANI:
I'm not sorry

for that, either.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[BOAT ENGINE RUMBLING]

[MEN LAUGHING]

She'll be ready to go

down tomorrow, professor.

Wonderful, thank you.

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

[SPEAKING ARABIC]

[WINCING]

[MEN LAUGHING]

[CHEERING]

- Come on!

- [CHEERING]

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

- Let's go.

- [CHUCKLES]

[RADIO CHATTER IN ARABIC]

Be safe, Dani.

SAIF:
[SPEAKING ARABIC]

I don't want death, Dani.

Not in this place.

- And not for any cause.

- [FLY BUZZING]

I wanna...

I want to be beside you.

MAN:
[OVER RADIO]

We're listening, Nautile.

Nautile to Atalante, Nautile to Atalante.

Do you read me?

Immersion one, zero, zero, zero.

MAN:
Understood, Nautile,

1,000 meters deep. Over.

What have you been writing,

if you don't mind me asking?

Oh, it's nothing.

It's just something...

I felt like I needed to write.

Can you read it to me?

"You will be in Hades...

drowned in oblivion,

swallowing water,

erasing all memory.

You will take your place

among the teeming hordes,

of nameless micro-organisms."

Must be bad luck, talking

like this at this depth.

[MOANS]

[GROANING]

Thank you, Abdul,

thank you.

ETIENNE:
In 20 minutes,

we'll be landing.

So, I'm just switching

on the main propeller.

Yeah.

And the sonar.

There's a reason

hell is down here.

There's a reason heaven is up

there, I remember that now.

[LAUGHS]

[SONAR BEEPS]

Can we turn up

the lights now?

ETIENNE:
Certainly.

ETIENNE:
Okay,

I dropped the second weight.

MAN:
[OVER RADIO]

We're listening, Nautile.

We're about to arrive,

give us our new coordinates.

MAN:
Navigation reset,

71 degrees north, 45 minutes,

two degrees west, 28 minutes.

You're almost at 3,400

meters now. Over.

Thanks, guys, we got that.

[SIGHING] We're close now.

- Careful now.

- Yeah.

[SPEAKING FRENCH]

Unbelievable.

Amazing.

There's a hydrothermal vent

straight ahead,

just to the right.

Shall we, tienne?

Yeah, sure.

I'm opening the basket.

And I'll start operating

the arm and collect.

You can help me, Dani,

direct the camera to it.

Oh, right, sorry.

Can you get the arm to grab

a piece of that chimney?

ETIENNE:
Yeah, sure.

ETIENNE:

Okay, here comes Godzilla.

Okay.

We got it.

Here it is,

mission accomplished.

DANI:
Fabulous.

I so wish I could have

shared this with him.

What would you

have told him now?

I would have told him that...

down here,

it's not photosynthetic,

like everything on the surface,

but chemosynthetic.

I would have told him

that life down here

exists without light,

and that it grows,

because of the

chemical energy just

pouring out of those cracks,

from the core of our Earth.

And he would have

understood that?

Yes.

- What's happening?

- I don't know.

Are we all right?

Okay, we need to reboot.

- DANI:
You want some light?

- Yeah, please.

Switch off all the instruments.

THUMBS:
Okay.

I turn on the emergency

battery, switch on.

Are there any other solutions?

THUMBS:
Do we need to drop the remaining

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