MOLLY BROWN

God Almighty.

The great liner's lights flicker.

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270 INT. ENGINE ROOM

In darkness Chief Engineer Bell hangs onto a pipe at the master braker

panel. Around him men climb through tilted cyclopean machines with electric

hand-torches. It is a black hell of breaking pipes, spraying water, and

groaning machinery threatening to tear right out of its bedplates.

Water sprays down, hitting the breaker panel, but Bell will not leave his

post. CLUNK. The breakers kick. He slams them in again and-- WHOOM! a blast

of light! Something melts and arcing fills the engine room with nightmarish

light--

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271 EXT. TITANIC

WIDE SHOT. The lights go out all over the ship. Titanic becomes a vast black

silhouette against the stars.

IN COLLAPSIBLE C: BRUCE ISMAY has his back to the ship, unable to watch the

great steamer die. He is catatonic with remorse, his mind overloaded. He can

avert his eyes, but he can't block out the sounds of dying people and

machinery.

A loud CRACKING REPORT comes across the water.