The Perfect Storm Page #6

You're wrong, Jer!

They're coming for us.

I'm not gonna leave you here, Jer.

You have just one chance to

grab ahold of those nets.

-You roger that?

-Okay.

-Back full!

-Back full on!

You gotta swim now, Jer!

Grab it, Jer, just grab it!

Come on!

Climb! Climb!

Reach!

We lost one! Pick up the net!

Come on! Give me your hand!

Reach and grab it with everything

you got. Everything you've got!

Hold on!

Pull!

Yes! Get them inside

and clear this deck.

All right, let's go.

There's another man out there!

There's another man!

Jonesy!

Jonesy!

Skip, we're gonna make it.

She's not gonna let us out.

No.

Come on, you b*tch!

Come on!

Come on!

Come on. We gotta get out.

How do we do this, skip?

No school for it.

Never was.

This is gonna be hard

on my little boy.

Bobby...

...l'm sorry I got you into this.

Skip, we made the right call.

We had to try.

We were so close.

It was a hell of a fight, though, huh?

Let's get out of here, huh?

Christina.

Christina, can you hear me?

I don't know if you can,

but I'm talking to you, baby.

Do you know how much I love you?

I loved you the moment I saw you.

I love you now...

...and I'll love you forever.

No goodbye.

There's only love, Christina.

Only love.

It's been a week of round-the-clock

flights involving...

...efforts of half a dozen Northeast

air rescue stations.

However, as of this hour, the Coast

Guard has suspended its search...

...for Air National Guard

para-rescue jumper Millard Jones.

He leaves a wife and three daughters.

The search for the Andrea Gail

out of Gloucester...

...has also been suspended

after aircrafts covered...

... 1 16,000 square miles of ocean...

... without finding a single survivor.

We'll have more news

after these messages.

I knew Billy Tyne.

I did not know his crew very well.

But any man who sailed with him

must've been the better for it.

Robert Shatford...

...Dale Murphy...

...Michael Moran...

...David Sullivan...

...Alfred Pierre...

...may you rest easy, long-liners...

...in fair winds and calm seas.

For those of us left behind...

...the unmarked grave which is

home for those lost at sea...

...is of no consolation.

It can't be visited.

There is no headstone on which

to rest a bunch of flowers.

The only place we can revisit them...

...is in our hearts or in our dreams.

They say swordboatmen suffer from

a lack of dreams.

That's what begets their courage.

Well, we'll dream for you...

...Billy...

...Bobby...

...and Murph...

...Bugsy...

...Sully...

...and Alfred Pierre.

Sleep well.

Good night.

I'll be asleep...

...and then all of a sudden,

there he is.

That big smile.

You know that smile.

And I say,

"Hey, Bobby, where you been?"

But he won't tell me.

He just smiles and says:

"Remember I'll always love you,

Christina.

I love you now,

and I'll love you forever.

There's no goodbye.

Only love."

And then he's gone.

But he's always happy when he goes.

So I know he's gotta be okay.

Absolutely okay.

I love your dream.

The fog's just lifting.

You throw off your bow line,

throw off your stern.

You head out the South Channel...

...past Rocky Neck,

Ten Pound Island...

...past Niles Pond,

where I skated as a kid.

You blow your horn and wave to...

...the lighthouse keeper's kid

on Thatcher Island.

Then the birds show up.

Black-backs and herring gulls...

...big dump ducks.

The sun hits you.

You head north, open up to 1 2.

You're steaming now.

The guys are busy,

you're in charge.

You know what?

You're a goddamn swordboat captain.

Is there anything better in the world?

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