Waterworld

[Narrator ]

The future:

The polar ice caps

have melted,

covering the Earth

with water

Those who survived

have adapted

to a new world

[ Gargling ]

[ Metal Clangs ]

[ Whistles ]

Bad luck, English

But the Slavers are producing

a good grade of poxy these days

Cost you a handful of dirt--

or maybe that wind chime

- What are you doin' here?

- Just waiting

Take your hand

off the sail

Take it off!

I've seen your boat before

Haven't seen you

Took it legal

Previous owner was dead on the tiller

when I found it

You had another hour

before I traded up again

[ Laughing ]

Just improving my means

- Well, I owe you then

- No, thanks

I got all the supplies I need

Just came from an atoll

Eight days east,

if you're interested

- Two drifters meet,

something needs to be exchanged

- I know the code

But I'll give you this one

for free

Nothing's free

in Waterworld

Ha-ha Yeah

Smokers

Just enough wind

to get away clean

[ Drifter ]

Forget the bag

It's not worth it You'll never

make it with your sails down

Hey!

[ Laughing ]

[ Gobbling Sound,

Laughing ]

What can I say?

[ Laughing ]

- Joe, he's goin' for it

- What the hell?

Never seen that before

Here we go! Go!

Drive! Drive!

Faster! Faster! Whoo!

Come on! He's gonna get it!

He's gonna get it!

- Pick her up!

- Get it! Get it!

[ lndistinct Shout ]

[ Curses In Hindi ]

Oh, no!

[ Shouting, Gunfire ]

[ Screaming ]

Inbound!

Straight out from the gates

English

Flag's down, drifter

We got enough traders

[ Murmuring ]

Dirt

Open the gates!

[ Man Coughing,

People Chattering ]

[ Man ]

Bones to berries

Veins to vine

These tendons to trees

This blood to brine

Too old she was

This woman does leave us,

recycled and enshrined

in the presence

of Him who leads us

[ Boys Chattering ]

- [ Boys Complaining ]

- What is that?

You know me?

I know what you are

Good Then you know if you

look for trouble while you're here,

you'll find more

than you can handle

You got two hours

I'll only need one

[ Boy ]

He's comin' over here

- Me

- You each get one

if everything's here

when I get back

- Pure dirt

- [ People Murmuring ]

How'd you come by

so much of it?

Another atoll

Where'd they get it?

- They didn't say

- [ Man ] We heard about that place--

that they was all killed

- That's why they didn't say

- Smokers?

Maybe Smokers,

maybe Slavers

So what's the word?

We tradin' or not?

We'll tally it

like, uh, pure hydro

Works out to 62 chits

[ Coins Clanging ]

I want twice that

[ Onlookers Murmuring ]

- I just want one sip of hydro!

- No, not 'til you tell me

She got inkings on her back

I seen her

They say if you read

the marks on the child,

they'll lead ya

all the way to Dryland

- Dryland's a myth

- Some still believe

They say the Smokers

even got an eye out for her

Well, then, we'd better

keep it to ourselves

- Help you?

- Yeah

- Where's the store?

- You found it

You don't have much

You the man

with the dirt?

Skoal

- One more

- Make it two

A man this rich will buy

for a fellow outwater, I'm sure

One

That's an interesting

pair of boots you got

- Trade?

- No

Shame

Enola

Hey, what are you doing?

- No, you can't do that

- I need another piece

I want to draw some more

I'll get it to you

Just stay in the back

With all those chits,

you could order up a bath

- Have you ever had a freshwater bath?

- Why are you talkin' to me?

Just being friendly

- Is that a tomato plant?

- Y eah

You have a keen eye

Saw one in a picture

How much?

Half your chits

- I'll take them too

- Take what?

- You bought everything

- I'll take them shelves

So, what did you see out there

in your 15 months?

- Such as?

- An end to all this water

Askin' the wrong person

- The one they buried today?

- Uh-huh?

She found the only end there is

I've got a proposition

for you, Mariner

- I'm not staying

- We're not asking you to

All we want is your seed

We can look to our own

for impregnation,

but too much of that sort of thing

gets undesirable

When she's pregnant,

you go on your way

with all the supplies

you need

You don't have anything

You're dying

No man stays out that long

and turns down a woman

- He's hiding something

- Maybe he's a Smoker spy

[ Whistles ]

When the elders say so,

you can leave,

and not before

Gills

- Mutation!

- He's a mutant!

[ Screaming ]

My hand!

[ Screaming ]

[ Man Shouting,

lndistinct ]

Throw the nets!

[ Crowd Yelling ]

[ Screams ]

By what right--

You pay me to keep the peace

This isn't it

- He has killed one of ours

- He was defending himself

- He needs to be destroyed!

- Kill him Let's kill him

- That may be,

but not here

and not like this

[ Boy ]

What is it?

Damn

It's tied

I can't get it off

Open the gate

[ Laughing ]

~ ~ [ Humming ]

Is it a map?

- You'd tell me if you knew,

wouldn't you, Enola?

- Mm-hmm

- What are you drawing?

- I don't know

Helen, look Look at

the prodigal child's latest vision

[ Chuckling ]

- How soon before we can leave?

- I don't have any idea yet

where we can go

I haven't figured out

the tattoo on her back

I'm a stupid man

The answer's right there

It's just beyond me

Maybe he knows

Oh, yes, I see

They are webbed

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight, nine,

ten digits That's wonderful

They tell me, too,

that you have gills

Isotropic gills Are they merely

vestigial or are they functional now?

My name is Gregor I've just come

to pay you a little vi-- vi--

Oh, my God

[ Laughing ]

I'm sorry

I'm not laughing at you

I'm excited Your gills

They're functional

Icthyus sapien

You can breathe in the water

How deep can you go?

Look, I'm only here

because I want to learn

more about you

[ Spitting ]

You don't like humans

very much, do you?

I can't say that I blame you

But tell me:

- Are all of your kind as

bad-tempered as you are?

- [ Slamming Cage ]

- I have no "kind "

- Oh, fish rot

I'd be surprised if there

weren't others, and if there aren't,

there will be eventually

Anyway, I've come here

because I need to ask you a question

Where-- Where did

your dirt come from?

Is it from Dryland?

Do you know what this is?

The ancients-- They did something

terrible, didn't they?

To cause all this water

Hundreds-- Hundreds of years ago

If I tell you,

will you open this lock?

I haven't a key

- There's a mooring cleat down there

- What?

- Good as any key

- A mooring cleat?

I won't hurt anyone

I'll just leave

- I'll be right back

- [ Man ] Gregor!

What's your business there?

- Move along!

- I'm not a brave man

If you know anything about Dryland,

please tell me Please!

Don't let it die with you

No, no, no, no

Stop!

[ Man ]

Gregor! Move along!

[ Elder ]

After considerable deliberation

of the evidence at hand,

it is our decision

that this mute-o

does, indeed,

constitute a threat

Therefore, in the interest

of public safety,

he is hereby sentenced

to be recycled

in the customary fashion

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