fields and oceanic flatulence
Skeptical investigators
Turbulent air
incompetent navigators
other natural and human causes, underwater explosion
“The real mystery is how the Bermuda
Triangle became a mystery at all”
The number of wrecks in this area is not
extraordinary
Investigations to date have not produced
scientific evidence of the disappearances
explosive detonators
at the bottom of Lake Loch Ness...
to blow Nessie
out of the water.
[Girl Chuckles]
Sir Curt Godfrey
of the Nessie Alliance...
summoned the help of
Scotlands local wizards...
to cast a protective spell over the lake
and its local residents...
and all those who seek for
the peaceful existence of our underwater ally.
[Chattering]
[Grunts]
Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
Hey, Napoleon, what
of the two remaining leaks on the seabed. This containment method has never before been attempted at such a depth. Efforts to close valves on a failed blowout preventer with underwater robots are abandoned.
18 2010. 5. 9 BP says it might try to plug the undersea leak by pumping materials such as shredded tires and golf balls into the well at high pressure, a method called a "junk shot".
EXPLOSIVE BOLTS RAPID-FIRE around the ships
skin, blowing away non-essentials that hinder aerodynamics --
including big deep-space drives. But this last separation puts
the ship into a dangerous roll.
INT. FLIGHT DECK - DAY
Out the windscreen, cloud strata roll vertiginously. Fry throws
actuators...
EXT. SHIP - PLANETS ATMOSPHERE - DAY
And airbrakes deploy. She manages to kill the roll. But the
s
UNDERWATER - NIGHT
Camera moving toward: A FIGURE in diving gear working at the
metal bars with an oxygen arc cutting torch. One bar has
already been cut out. Two quick cuts and a second bar falls to
the muddy bottom. Lit now only from the floodlights filtering
down through the ice, the figure slips through the bars and
swims powerfully along the stone canal wall.
Seem from below, the figure is
EXPLOSION in space out beyond the moon.
OFFICIAL VOICE
But this time we are ready !
Planetary defenses are better than ever !
Would you like to know more ?
3 KLENDATHU --- WHY WE HAVE TO FIGHT !
Klendathu, a fierce orange planet ringed by an asteroid belt,
orbits a double star.
OFFICIAL VOICE
Klendathu, source of the bug meteor attacks,
orbits a twin star system whose brutal gravitational
forces
underwater -- rip something into a bloody cloud.
END MAIN TITLES.
FADE TO:
EXT. BLUE BAY SCHOOL - DAY
A place of money and privilege. White coral buildings surround
an open yard. Tile roofs rise among banyan trees and banana
palms, shimmering before a blue blaze of sky.
Beyond the yard is the schools playing field and beyond that the
waters of Biscayne Bay, dappled in sunlight where the sloops of
explosion of water--
??
INT. BANK
--BAAAAAAMMM!
Glass doors explode OPEN and Pig Nose #1 SPINS inside. He
fires a burst into the ceiling. BRRAAMM!!
PIG NOSE #1
EVERYBODY on the floor!
PEOPLE drop.
VERY FAST HERE--
Two bandits handle BANK EMPLOYEES and customers--
Another PIG NOSE watches the door--
Pig Nose #1 moves behind counter, Uzi and canvas sack in
hand.
??
INT. SURVEILLANCE VAN
Dark. Monit
A SILHOUETTED MAN in front of mirror dons his Marine dress blues. Spit polish shoes laced. Medals clipped to jacket. All in CLOSEUP. We never see him fully.
The Man puts HIS HAT squarely on his head. EYES glint.
On the mans dresser: MARINE MEMORABILIA. Three Purple Hearts, photos of a WOMAN (his wife), PHOTOS OF MARINES in combat locales.
TIGHTER INTO THE PHOTOS
We HEAR PANICKED VOICES, EXPLOSION
The Abyss
AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
BY
JAMES CAMERON
August 2, 1988
Directors Revision
THE ABYSS
OMITTED 1
OMITTED 2
TITLE: THE ABYSS -- ON BLACK, DISSOLVING TO COBALT BLUE
EXT. OCEAN/UNDERWATER -- DAY 3
Blue, deep and featureless, the twilight of five hundred feet down.
PROPELLER SOUND. Materializing out of the blue limbo is the enormous but
sleek form of an Ohio-class SSBN ballistic missile submar