Thunder Bay Page #8

Hey, Steve!

l hear you're

looking for a crew!

Hard work and low wages.

That's right.

Well this is it!

The cheapest bunch

you'll ever find!

Are we hired?

Let's go, boys. Let's

get this mess cleaned up.

Could you use

another crewman, Steve?

Think the board of directors

will approve?

Of course they won't.

That's what's gonna

make it more enjoyable.

Okay, you're hired.

Gambi, you take care

of things here.

l'll go into the base

and get supplies and tools.

We'll be drilling again

by the time you get back.

Oh, Steve...

l'm not much of a guy

for apologies...

Did you really marry

that girl, Johnny?

Yeah, l did!

All right,

all right.

You know, l never thought

it would happen to me.

l'm stuck and l love it,

but maybe you don't know

how it is, huh?

What do you mean,

l don't know how it is?

Maybe l do!

All right, all right.

All right. All right.

See you later.

Stella, l don't know,

maybe we should go back.

You have nothing

to go back to.

Don't let Dad wreck your

life. He has no right to.

Maybe he won't.

Maybe he'll get used

to the marriage.

No, there's no telling

what he'll do.

You've got to get out

of here. Now, hurry.

Mr. Martin!

Well...

You sure surprised

everybody, didn't you?

Congratulations.

Thank you.

l think it's fine.

Maybe this is the first step

in the oil business and

the town getting together.

Oh, no.

No, you're wrong.

lt's worse than ever.

Dad won't stop until he gets

the marriage annulled.

He's sending me away

tomorrow morning.

That's why l came.

To ask you if...

lf you'd take me

out to Johnny.

ls your sister

behind this?

Yes.

Yeah, yeah.

There wasn't

anything else to do.

l don't have any place to go.

Okay. Come on aboard.

Right over there.

All right, let's go.

You stay here.

l'll hunt him up for you.

Hey, Max, where's Gambi?

lnside the mudpit.

An intake valve clogged up.

What's up?

l was hoping

you'd get here for this.

Now we got shrimp.

They're clogging

the valves.

And these shrimp-chasers are

complaining 'cause they can't find any.

Are there a lot of them

in the valves?

Not too many tonight,

but underneath the barge

the water's thick with them.

He says it's been

for the past three nights,

but we've never had any

trouble on the day shift.

Hey!

l was thinking

the same thing.

Well, you suppose the

shrimpers know about this?

lt might improve relations

if you told them.

Oh, no, you mean

getting them to listen

to an oil man telling them

how to catch shrimp.

No, no.

Things are rough enough.

Say, speaking

of relations,

l brought you a wedding present. Huh?

Yeah, a kind of original

present, too. Your wife.

You can have my quarters.

Are you leveling?

Yeah, l eloped for you.

She's right outside

in the boat.

l'll thank you later.

Oh, darling!

Come on. l'll show you

our new home.

We're making history.

First honeymoon on first

offshore drilling barge.

Listen to me,

my friends.

All of you,

listen to me.

You all know that

from the beginning of all

this trouble with the oil men,

l have talked of peace.

Everything l have done has

been legal and honorable.

But tonight

that is finished.

What has happened?

They have taken Francesca.

Taken the last thing l have.

My two daughters

have turned against me.

My family is gone.

And what has happened to me

will happen to others.

Unless we go out, the whole

town, every man, every boat,

to bring Francesca back

to show these people

they can't do that to us.

Julian, you have

four daughters.

What about them?

Maurice, your Evangeline

is 18 years old.

We're with you,

Dominique.

Yes, we're with you.

What are we waiting for?

They've killed our fish. They

will take everything from us!

lt must be

the whole town.

Tell every man.

Go home, get weapons.

Every man. Every boat.

You're through fighting

the oil men, Teche?

Yeah.

We know now that our people

are acting like children.

That fighting's going to bring

more trouble and more trouble.

We finally learned that,

didn't we?

l don't think about

trouble anymore.

l only think about Phillipe.

That was the end

of the fighting for me.

Then why don't you do the

rest of the town a favor?

Go out and tell Steve

what's happening.

Me go out there?

They'll throw me

to the fish.

Maybe you

can stop it, Teche.

l know something!

Steve Martin's

an understanding man

when he has

the facts straight.

l think you

could be friends.

Friends?

What are you talking about?

Well, he said from the

beginning that he wanted to be.

Well, he could've had you

arrested but he didn't.

What do you think

that means?

That he doesn't care about

anything else but his oil!

No, Teche. That he

doesn't want enemies.

Nobody does.

Look what hate

did to Phillipe.

To the crazy men

who just left here.

Look what it

did to you.

Why don't you go out

to the rig?

Show him that at least one person

around here knows the difference

between right and wrong.

You were the first one

to know, Stella.

All right,

l'll tell him.

l'll tell him

about Phillipe, too.

What about you?

l love him, Teche.

You know,

l don't think

l'll marry you, anyway.

My kids are going to

be fishermen,

not oil drillers.

Friend of yours

wants to see you.

Uh-oh.

Take over, will you?

Well?

You're going to have

more trouble.

What did you have in mind

this time?

l have nothing

to do with it.

l came to

tell you about it.

lt's about Francesca.

Dominique has talked the

whole town into coming out.

You better get your men

away from here.

You came out here

to warn me?

Sure.

These people

are like children.

Stella and me,

we have brains enough

to know what's

right from wrong.

She know you're here?

Yeah. She talk to me

about that night.

Yeah, l'll bet!

What's the matter

with you?

She didn't know Phillipe

and l were coming out.

You got no time to

dream now, Mr. Moneybags.

You better get your men

away from here quick.

Hey, come with me a minute.

l want to ask your advice

about something.

Come on!

All of you! Come on!

We're having some trouble

with the pumps here,

l just wanted to show you.

Let's see. Here.

You ever see one as big

as that? What is that?

Are you crazy?

That's the Golden Shrimp.

The Golden Shrimp?

Do you know

how we can get rid of them?

Get rid of them?

What're you talking about?

We've been looking

for these shrimp for years.

We know they're around here,

but we can never find them.

Well, l wish you could

locate them for us.

You see,

they keep fouling up

these intake valves

of ours every night.

Of course, if they start

showing up in the daytime,

we got a real problem

on our hands.

But they don't do that.

They're just at night.

Not in the daytime.

l just thought

you'd be interested.

See what you can

do for me, will you?

What a dumb oil man.

Quite a

task force!

l guess you might call

this our wedding reception.

Yeah.

They are like

crazy men!

You are going to have

plenty of trouble, all right.

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