ships to load...
...l was greeted with six more cases
of beriberi...
...double beriberi this time.
So help me, lm going down
to the ships library...
...and throw that old copy
of Moby Dick overboard.
What are you giving them these days
for double beriberi?
Aspirin, what else?
Something wrong, Doug?
We missed you when you went
on watch last night.
l gave young Ensign Pulver another drink
of alcoho
ship
And fought
at Bunker Hill
My daddy
lost a leg in France
I have his medals still
My brother served with Patton
I saw action in Algiers
Oh, we must be doin
somethinright
To last
years
- I pray my sons wont go to war
- Oooh
But if they must, they must
I share our countrys motto
And in God
I place my trust
We may have had
our ups and downs
- Our times of trials and fears
- Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh
But we
SHIP rumbles into view. ON its hull the letters
NSEA PROTECTOR. Magnificent, though on closer inspection it
shudders ever so slightly, denoting pre-CGI model work on a
budget. Were watching a TV show.
LAREDO (V.0.)
Were exiting the time knot now sir!
2. INT. NSEA PROTECTOR COMMAND DECK - SPACE
5 Members of the crew of the NSEA PROTECTOR sit in the large
circa - 1979-"high-tech" cabin. All of them
engine is put into full throttle.
EXT. HILL - THE DOG
running feverishly up and over a hill of ice. A weather-
beaten, wooden sign sticks up on the other side:
U.S. NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION -- OUTPOST #31
A rifle blast kicks up more snow.
EXT. COMPOUND OF U.S. OUTPOST #31
A large, almost snow-covered building. Not far from that
a tall, meteorological balloon tower.
A scattering of several smal
engine.
- That enginell fly you anywhere.
Say, youve been two months on this job.
Youll get the habit.
Ill see you over at Harrahs later.
Lets talk about it.
Tom Dooley.
If you throw in your ring
youll never get another divorce.
Go ahead, honey. Everybody does it.
More gold in that river
than there is in the Klondike.
- Did you do that?
- Who, me? No.
I lost my ring on my honeymoon.
- Lets get a
Trucks are parked on the parking lot of an ice rink. Flemish technicians, grips and electricians, talk together while unloading the equipment, lamps, cables, tracks. They spread it out on the parking lot, take some lamps into the rink. The four technicians all wear the same black T-shirt with an inscription in Dutch.
A few cars arrive, belonging to the film crew (cinematographer, sound engineer).
ship surrounding four other, smaller craft in
concentric circles. A mile long circle of bouys.
CLOSE ON NORMAN
as he absorbs this new information. Whats going on?
NORMAN
All this for an airplane crash.
PILOT
I never mentioned a plane crash.
(beat)
CUT TO:
EXT. SALVAGE SHIP - DAY
The helicopter lands on the salvage ship helipad. Norman
hesitates at the door. A seaman coaxes him and he jumps down.
engine, seats,
and wheels.
The boys sit in its cockpit, butts crowded onto the nail keg
theyve replaced the seat with. Theyve even attached a 2x4
as propeller, as if their imaginations needed any help. They
wear overalls and have bowl haircuts: RAFE and DANNY, 10
years old.
RAFE
Bandits at 2 oclock.
DANNY
Power dive!
They buzz their lips in a flying noise and work the controls,
Rafes bare feet on
ship building is
a new endeavor for you...
STUCKEY
(cuts him off)
Come on. You know were not
going to go into ship building.
Besides, youre the ones with the
troubled track record, not us!
INVESTMENT BANKER 3
Bill, be reasonable. If youre
really going to digest Kross
Industries that quickly eighteen
should not be such a problem.
Besides, I dont think theres
anywhere else you can go for the
money
SHIP OF YOUR OWN.
NO, DARLING. THEY DONT GIVE SHIPS TO LIEUTENANTS.
THEN WHY WOULD IT BE ADMIRAL BRIDIE HIMSELF ?
IF YOU WERE JUST TO REPLACE SOMEONE WHOS ILL OR SOMETHING,
THAT WOULDNT MEAN SEEING ADMIRAL BRIDIE, WOULD IT ?
I DONT KNOW. YOU DONT QUITE KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT THESE DAYS.
ILL PICK UP JENNYS MILK ON THE WAY HOME FROM THE STATION.
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO PICK IT UP ?
THEY JUST WONT B