USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage Page #4

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(JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING)

Ah, yeah, doc.

Okay.

Yeah. Mmm.

Deuce, where's my ring?

- What the hell you talking about?

- Oh, no, you know exactly

- what I'm talking about!

- No, I don't know what you're talking about!

Double or nothing!

Hey!

(EXPLOSIONS)

MAN:

Oh, my God!

(ALARM BLARING)

General quarters!

(SPEAKS JAPANESE)

(SHOUTING)

(SHOUTING, CLAMORING)

- Out of the way!

- (SCREAMS)

(SIZZLES)

Report!

All comms are down, sir!

I tried to stop the engines!

- But I don't know if the signal went through!

- Stay calm.

Cavanaugh,

keep trying to get through.

Standish, I want eyes

on the damage.

(MUTTERS)

You heard the captain!

Go! Go!

Fire control, fire control now!

Hoses, starboard side.

Get that fire out!

(EXPLOSIONS)

(SCREAMING)

Shut the engines down!

Shut them down!

(SCREAMING)

(SHOUTS)

(CLAMORING, SHOUTING)

Are we getting through?

Radios are down,

but I jerry-rigged the wires.

- You sent the SOS out?

- Yes sir.

Look at the needles.

They're moving.

Good work. Carry on.

(MAN SCREAMING)

(BOTH SHOUTING)

Don't touch it

with your hands!

(SCREAMS)

I told you not to touch it!

Come on, come on,

come on, come on!

(SCREAMING)

We gotta go.

We gotta go!

(ALL CHEER)

USS Indianapolis trying to

establish any and all contact.

- Does anybody copy?

- Anything?

I don't know, sir.

- Keep trying.

- Yes, sir.

- Damage control.

- It's dead, sir.

This is USS Indianapolis.

Does anybody copy?

This is USS Indianapolis trying

to establish any contact.

Indianapolis, Indianapolis,

do you copy?

This is Leyte.

- What's going on?

- Three calls, sir.

One caller identified

himself as the captain.

- I dispatched three tugboats...

- On whose command?

Pull them back!

We don't send anyone out

until we get confirmation of their position.

That could be an enemy sub

trying to draw us out.

- Is that understood?

- Yes, sir.

(MEN SHOUTING,

ALARM BLARING)

We're not going to be able

to fight this one off.

She's going down.

Pass the word!

Abandon ship.

Abandon ship!

Abandon ship!

MAN:

Help me, father.

Help me, father.

I hear you.

(GRUNTS) Help me, father!

I'm scared.

Abandon ship,

abandon ship!

Captain's orders,

abandon ship!

- Grab the documents, now!

- Aye aye, sir.

All hands on deck!

Abandon ship!

(MEN SHOUTING)

Come on, come on, come on,

come on, come on!

I've got the keys!

(MEN SHOUTING)

Come on, help me, too!

Help me, too!

(EXPLOSION)

Come on! Come on!

(EXPLOSION)

The keys, I dropped the keys!

I can't find them!

Hey!

No, no, no, no, no!

Hey, you can't leave me here!

Please come back!

Please!

(COUGHING)

Go. Watch out,

watch out, watch out.

Let's go, let's go!

Come on, let's go,

let's go! Let's go!

Please! Come back!

Please! Help!

Garrison, please!

You gotta come back, man!

Come on, let's go!

Garrison, please help me!

Come back, man! Help!

(MEN SHOUTING)

Bama,

toss the documents!

He said,

he gave the order.

(SHOUTING, CLAMORING)

(DISTANTLY)

Help!

Help me with the raft!

(EXPLOSION)

Help!

Garrison! Garrison!

Get the keys, man.

You gotta get me

out here, man.

Hold the light!

Hold the light!

Get the keys!

Garrison, hurry up!

(MUTTERS)

- I got it.

- Gimme.

Come on.

Were locked in!

(BOTH SHOUTING)

Abandon ship!

Swim away from the ship

as fast as you can

as soon as you hit the water.

Try to see stay clear

of the oil.

Cavanaugh, jump!

(MEN SHOUTING)

That is in order!

The ship's breaking.

The ship's breaking.

The ship's breaking.

Listen.

I'm sorry!

Pray with me.

Pray with me.

Our Father who art

in heaven...

You should have left me here.

I'm sorry, man.

I'm sorry I got you killed.

I'm sorry.

Thy will be done.

(MEN SCREAMING)

Go, go!

Go, jump! Jump!

(SCREAMS)

Hello?

Hello!

Can anyone hear me?

(FAINTLY)

Hello?

Hello!

Can anyone hear me?

Paul?

Paul.

(SCREAMS)

Keep your head up.

Come on.

- (SPUTTERING)

- Kick with me, now.

Kick with me.

Kick with me. There you go.

Come on, man!

Keep your head up.

(COUGHING AND SPUTTERING)

Oh, God.

(ALL SCREAM)

(SHOUTS)

This is not safe.

We got to get to the rafts.

Sir, are you crazy?

We can't leave this thing.

This thing's sinking.

That's an order.

No.

MAN:

Get Lindy in the raft.

- Get him up.

- Come on, guys.

- (MUTTERING)

- Like this.

What sunk us?

It had to have been the Japs.

They might still be a out there

looking to finish this off.

- Did the signal go out?

- It had to.

Someone will know

we're missing.

They'll come rescue us, boys.

They'll come rescue us.

You guys okay?

The captain make it?

He went down

with the ship.

Attention, men!

Attention!

If you are able-bodied

and in a raft, get out now!

The rafts are for

injured men and officers!

Bring all of the provisions

over here now!

- Grab my hand!

- I need help over here!

Now!

(GUNSHOT)

Get out of the raft!

Let the injured men

into the raft now!

Hold on.

Captain.

Hey, you made it.

Campbell.

Campbell.

Medicine.

I need it.

Hey... you made it,

Captain, you made it.

You got some morphine,

huh? Hey.

You made it.

Okay... ah.

(GROANS)

Ain't this a hell

of a damn note?

(GROANING)

(SCREAMS)

Gotta keep the leg elevated!

Keep it elevated!

Okay.

Don't go nowhere.

Sir, please

don't go nowhere.

- I'm not going.

- Don't go nowhere. Please don't go nowhere.

- How's my little boy?

- He's good.

- Yeah.

- He's strong, like his daddy.

He is? Don't go nowhere.

Don't leave me here.

I'm not.

I'm not leaving you.

(ALL SHOUTING)

MAN:

What I'm saying, Fireplug,

is if you gotta

leave a woman,

you always make sure

she thinks she left you.

Yeah? And how do

you do that?

That requires

a level of sophistication

you have not yet

acquired, my friend.

(ALL SHOUTING)

Calm down!

Save your energy!

Calm down!

You too good

to flag a plane, sir?

Oh, you think me waving

would've made the difference?!

I'll kill you!

- I will have you court-martialed, sailor!

- Go ahead!

If we get rescued...

and if we get rescued...

(ALL SHOUTING)

Let's all cool off!

We're going to get rescued soon.

These men look to us on how

to conduct themselves.

We need each other.

I need to get the life

jacket off the doctor.

Father, bless his soul,

in the name of the Father,

Son, and Holy Ghost.

How much longer are we going

to circle, an hour, a day?

Keep looking.

It's nine men lost on one plane,

Lieutenant.

It's beyond a needle

in a haystack.

Even with coordinates,

we barely have enough fuel

to get back to base.

(MAN SPEAKING OVER RADIO)

Do you copy?

You got eyes

on that plane?

That's a negative, sir.

Request a few

more beats out here.

Negative, you've been

out there too long as it is.

Bring it back.

(HARMONICA PLAYING

SOMBER MUSIC)

(MEN MOANING,

MUTTERING)

This way,

right over here.

Just grab on.

- (MAN SPUTTERING)

- (MUSIC STOPS)

Quinn...

your head looks like

40 miles of bad road.

We gotta get you

in the raft.

Unh-unh, no.

Not with him, no.

Keep playing.

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