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
underwater ally.
[Chattering]
[Grunts]
Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
Hey, Napoleon, whatd you do
all last summer again?
I told you. I spent it with my uncle
in Alaska hunting wolverines.
- Did you shoot any?
- Yes, like ofem.
They kept tryinto attack my cousins. What
the heck would you do in a situation like that?
- What kind of gun did you use?
- A frickin -gauge. What do you think?
You think youre funny?
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
vehicle...
- [Women screaming]
Theyre still alive.
Come on.
FBI!
[Flies buzzing]
[Door closes]
["Lullaby" continues]
[Cooing]
[Screaming, gunshots]
- Oh, God.
- Check the girls.
Sara!
Talk to me, Sara.
Predator to base.
Over.
We have the situation secure.
Repeat... situation is secure.
Suspect is dead.
So are the girls.
There were three shots fired.
[Gasps]
Hey!
Sara!
Sara, drop!
Get rid of the l
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
vehicles, angle-parked
in a military phalanx.
A monumental ribcage-like scaffolding has been erected in the
middle of the street, "sealing" the area with amber plastic.
Inside, UNIFORMED WORKERS take the disposal drum of roaches
and toss it into one of a number of huge DUMPSTERS.
The Team Leader watches from nearby, exhauster. Her mask is
off. We see her face: Enthomologist SUSAN WYETH, 28.
An AR
underwater explorer.
I got them all.
I have been trying to thumb
a ride down to "Titanic"
for probably years now.
What do you got?
We got bots, slimy bots, and
"A" deck, "B" deck, "C" deck.
Huge rusticles,
like this big around.
My name is Lori Johnston.
My position was
as a microbiologist,
looking at the rusticles.
The idea that she spiraled down,
spitting objects.
My name is Charles Pellegrino.
vehicle group...
I know that.
Give me something I dont know.
Were gonna have to stack some G.R.P.s with this commercial,
no matter where we run it.
- Now, the results are maxing out... - Speak English, Elliot.
We wanna put it on the Super Bowl, first quarter.
Super Bowl.
- Thats a whole pile of money. - Its time to gamble, Roy.
Its not like we have any choice.
Okay, well buy in the first quarter
vehicle
to make sure no one has
Sellotaped themselves to the ceiling
or hidden underneath,
disguised as a wheel.
Freddie and Jeff Stinger here,
famous bank robbers,
being taken to Alcatraz
at the end of their life.
Alcatraz. ln the sun, its almost
pretty. lts got a lighthouse.
And a big thing at the back
that looks like a monster.
But no, its Alcatraz.
Once an island paradise,
now a penitentiary.
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".