The Making of 'The Abyss' Page #9

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Goddamn it, breathe.

Goddamn it, you b*tch ! You never

backed away from anything in your life !

Now fight !

Fight ! Fight !

Right now ! Do it !

Fight, goddamn it !

Fight ! Fight ! Fight !

Fight !

Linds. That's it, Lindsey.

That's it, Linds.

You can do it.

That's it, Linds. Come on back.

You can do it, baby.

[ Coughing ]

Lindsey.

[Coughing Continues]

- [ All Chuckling, Sighing ]

- Okay.

- [ Coughing Continues ]

- Get her some air. Get her some air.

- Easy. Breathe easy.

- Look at that.

- All right. All right.

-[All Chattering, Chuckling]

You did it, ace ! Huh ?

Yeah ! Yeah !

You did it, babe.

Easy. Breathe easy.

Watch her-- Make sure--

Make sure her heart's doin' okay.

Big boys don't cry.

Remember ?

Hi, lady.

Hi, tough guy.

[ Shudders ]

- I guess it worked, didn't it ?

- Yeah, ofcourse it did.

You're neverwrong, areyou ?

Howyou feelin' ? Huh ?

I've felt better.

[ Gasps ]

What did you do to me ?

Next time it's your turn. Okay ?

Yeah.

Yeah, you got that right.

Okay, these are soyour eyes can focus

in the breathing fluid.

How's that feel ?

There it is.

Ifyou can't see, you can't

disarm the bomb. Right ?

Okay, with this much weight

you're gonna fall like a brick.

We still got about an hour, so

we should get there in plenty oftime.

When you get down there,

all you gotta do is cut one wire,

drop the weights

and come on home.

[ Inhaling, Exhaling ]

- Hand me that wrench, will ya ?

- Maybe Ioughta checkandsee--

Uh, yeah, that'sagoodplace.

This is loose.

I'll fix that up.

Bud, you don't

have to do this.

Somebody's gotta do it.

It doesn't have to beyou.

Who, then ?

So, I-- I can hearyou,

but I can't talk, right ?

The fluid prevents the larynx

from making sound-- Excuse me.

- It'll feel a little strange.

- Yeah, no sh*t.

I gotta warn you all--

I'm a pretty lousy typist.

[ Chuckles ]

[ Sighs ]

The moment oftruth.

- Come on. Let's go.

- Let's go.

Okay. Easy.

Okay.

I need it in the front

a little bit. Thankyou.

- Got it.

- [ Fasteners Securing ]

- Set.

-Set.

- Clamp.

- Set.

Okay, let's rock and roll.

- [ Pump Hissing ]

- Crack it.

Headset. Headset, please.

- Okay ?

- Relax now, Bud.Just relax.

- Bud. Watch me.

- Relaxnow, Bud.

- Relax. It's okay.

- Okay ? Watch me. Watch me.

Don'tholdyourbreath.

Takeitin.

Just letyourselftake it in.

Take it in.

- That'sit.

-[Cat] Oh, man.

Don'tholdyourbreath. Takeitin.

Thereyougo. Don'tholdyourbreath.

Takeitin.

That'sit. Thereyougo.

- Bud-- This is not normal !

- [ All Shouting ]

This is normal. It'll pass

in a second. It's perfectly normal.

It's perfectly normal.

We all breathed liquid for nine months,

Bud. Your bodywill remember.

That's it. That's it.

- Perfectlynormal.

-[Cat] Christ, he'sbreathin'it.

Give me that.

Can you hear me ?

- Therehegoes. He'sgotit.

- Yes. Yes.

- Okay, Bud.

- That's it.

Tryyour key pad.

[ Chuckling ]

[Hippy]

Right.

I already have.

[ All Laughing ]

Okay, let's go.

- Okay.

- That's okay. I got it.

[Cat]

Igotit.

- Okay, Hippy, yougot that ?

-[Lindsey] Holdon,Jammer.

- Okay, Bud.

-[One Night] Easy. Easy.

Watch out. Watch theback.

[ Lindsey]

Careful.

I rigged in Little Geek's chip

the same as Big Geek.

It should takeyou

straight there.

All you have to do

is hang on.

- What's his depth ?

- Thirty-two hundred feet.

Your depth is 3,200 feet.

[ Lindsey Over Radio ]

You're doing fine.

You'd betterwatch out for crane

wreckage. You should be almost to it.

Forty-eight hundred feet.

It's official.

Yeah.

Bud, according to Monk here, youjust

set a record for the deepest suit dive.

Betyou didn't thinkyou'd be doing

this when you got up this morning, huh ?

One mile down.

Still grinnin'.

Eighty-five hundred feet.

[ Sighs ]

Eighty-five hundred feet, Bud.

Everything okay ?

Ask him about

pressure effects--

tremors, vision problems, euphoria.

Ensign Monkwants to know

howyou feel.

It's starting.

It hits the nervous system first.

Keep talking.

Let him hearyourvoice.

Okay, Bud, your depth is 8,900 feet.

You're doing fine.

No, Lindsey.

Talk to him.

Bud.

There are some--

some things I need to say.

It's hard for me, you know.

It's not easy

being a cast-iron b*tch.

Takes discipline

and years oftraining.

A lot ofpeople

don't appreciate that.

Jesus, I'm sorry I can't

tell you these things toyour face.

I have to wait till

you're alone in the dark,

freezing, and there's 1 0,000 feet

ofwater between us.

I'm sorry.

I'm-- I'm rambling.

[ Chuckles ]

Comin' up on

the big ten thou.

Twelve thousand feet.

Jesus, I don't believe he's doin' this !

[ Whispering ] Hippy !

Shut up ! What's wrong with you ?

[ Sighs ]

Bud, how areyou doing ?

[One Night]

Signal's fading.

No. No, Bud,

I'm not going away. I'm right here.

Kill everything we don't need.

Catfish, knock out those

exterior lights. Now ! Go !

Run it through the digital processor.

Cook it as much as you can.

I am right here

with you, Bud.

Bud, this is Lindsey.

Please.

I'm right here with you.

Okay ?

Try and stay calm.

I'm right here. All right ?

Bud ?

He's losing it.

Talk to him.

- Keep him with us.

-[Hippy]Coming up on 16,000.

B-Bud, it's the pressure.

All right ?

Listen to myvoice.

You have to try. Concentrate.

Allright ?

Justlisten tomy voice. Please.

Seventeen thousand feet.

Christ Almighty,

this is insane.

Bud-- I'm not getting anything.

-Whoa, whoa, whoa-- Oh, come on. No. No.

-What ? What ?

Little Geekjust folded.

[ Whispers ]

Jesus.

He can still make it.

Bud,

I know how aloneyou feel.

Alone in all that

cold blackness.

ButI'm there in the dark

withyou.

Oh, Bud, you'renotalone.

Oh, God.

Doyou remember that time--

You were pretty drunk.

You probably don't remember.

The powerwent out in that little

apartment we had on Orange Street.

We were staring at that

one little candle and I said

something really dumb, like,

''That candle is me,'' like--

like every one ofus is out there

alone in the dark in this life.

And youjust--

youjust lit up another candle

and put it beside mine...

and you said,

'' No. See, that's me. That's me.''

We stared at the two candles,

and then--

Well, ifyou remember

any ofthis,

I'm sureyou remember

the next part.

But there are

two candles in the dark.

I'm with you.

I'll always be with you, Bud.

I promise that.

Howyou doin', partner ?

You still with us ?

Come back.

- You talk to us, Buddy boy.

- [ Sobbing ]

- Come on.

- Bud.

Bud ? Now, come on.

You hangin' in there ?

You have to talk to me, Bud.

Please.

I need to know

ifyou're okay.

[ All Sighing ]

[Lindsey]

Yousee-- Youseealight ?

What kind oflight, Bud ?

He's hallucinating badly.

- Hemadeit.

- [ Sighs ] Oh, my God.

Oh, man.

Okay, Bud,

we'll go step by step.

Remove the detonator housing...

by unscrewing it counterclockwise.

All right, Bud,

you have to cut the ground wire,

not the lead wire.

It's the blue wire

with the white stripe.

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