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