The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Page #8

stand for over there?

Estaban.

Worked last night. But now the whole

tracking goes completely on the fritz.

Screw it.

We'll sell it for scrap along

with the boat and the submarine.

We're going home.

Just take up the whirlybird and see

what we will find out there anyway.

I got a feeling we can spot

this fish from 111 feet up.

Ned, I don't know if I

really saw the bastard.

I have $275,000 investment

in this damn production.

Something ate Esteban, did it?

Now lead!

Right?

What's that?

A letter from Jane.

What does she say?

Nothing to speak of.

Thank you for putting

me on the flag, Ned.

Of course, Klaus.

It was my pleasure.

But you stick me on the dolphin.

I want you to know how

much it means to me.

Well, I'm very pleased you like it.

You didn't listen to me.

I didn't just like it.

You understand?

Yes, I do.

Thank you, Klaus.

I still got yours of course.

My what?

"Dear Captain Zissou,

I am 12 years old

and live in Kentucky.

A creek runs behind our house.

I live with my mother.

She met you once some years ago.

I collect catalogue of

amphibians, reptiles and insects.

I don't know what this one was

called. So I named it myself.

You are probably my one of, if not

the favorite person I've ever studied.

I plan to be either: A. an oceanography,

B. an architect, C. a pilot.

Thank you very much

for your good work.

Sincerely, Ned Plimpton, Blue

Star Cadet, Zissou Society.

P.S. Do you ever wish you

could breath underwater?

I still wish I could

breath underwater.

Me too, Ned.

Fluorescence snapper.

What?

Where?

What's that?

A good sign.

The last time we saw

that, the big fish....

Zap a bark up there, didn't it?

I heard a pin snapped,

loose the rotator mechanism.

This is gonna hurt.

Ned! Ned!

Ned!

Hey, Stevesie.

Are you ok?

I'm ok.

What happened? Do we hit something?

Maybe the push drive failed.

I am sorry, Ned. I should've

scrapped this chopper ten years ago.

No. maybe I should've auto rotated and

perform a hard bank for the descent.

We might crash a little softer.

I wouldn't make any

difference at all.

All hands bear the deck.

This is the first time Eleanor's ever cried

in front of me as long as I've known her.

Except once when she got her

arm caught in the deck wrench.

Is this mine...

Espresso machine?

What is, how did you

get my espresso machine?

Well, uh...

He f***ing stole it, man.

Ali, Why don't you go party. You

know, I need to talk to your ex-wife.

We've never made great husbands.

Have we?

Of course.

I have got an excuse. I'm part gay.

Supposingly, everyone is.

I never told you

this, but I was hoping,

We might get a chance to adopt Ned.

I think he would've

wanted it that way.

Would you go along me on that?

He was 30, Steve.

But I would have considered it.

Thanks, Eleanor.

We are a dying breed.

Yeah.

I guess we were all right while

we lasted thought, weren't we?

We would like totally

escape, my darling.

We would like the body shot of

yours. You slam with the ahhh...

Damn it. I had it on the plane.

What was I gonna to say?

Oh, well...

It's good to see you.

How's your passport status?

Much better, thank you.

I'm back down to X-4.

Tell me.

Who knocked up the reporter?

I don't know.

By the way, thank you for

showing me the first draft.

You read it.

What did you think?

I was a little

embarrassed at first.

Obviously people is gonna think I am

a showboat, a little bit of a prick.

But then I realize,

That's me.

I said those things.

I did those things.

I can live by that.

You are a good writer, Jane.

It's the icing cover.

Is that a girl?

Excuse me.

I am sorry to interrupt.

But we've just got the

scanning module to back up.

It looks like the Jaguar

shark or whatever it is,

We're tracking it in the trench

on the far side of the reef.

Everybody feels like

going for a ride?

I hook up a bluefin on the rope

to give it something to eat.

Is that one of mine?

I think one of my

research turtles survived.

Is that him?

That's him, Klaus.

Are we safe in here?

I doubt it.

You still want to blow him up?

No. We are out of dynamite anyway.

It is beautiful, Steve.

Yeah, it's pretty good, isn't it?

I wonder if it remembers me.

In 12 years, he will

be eleven and a half.

That was my favorite age.

Like this?

Just like that.

You do it too.

We completed the adventure.

But another member of

my crew has been lost.

This one was my son.

Also our equity partner.

We started our voyage

home in our wounded vessel.

This is an adventure.

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