Here's my script for raise the Britannic Pleae
Critiqe suggest and ask what you want.

We Hear the roll of Kettle Drums as the presentation credit rolls
up A Raymond Leggs Production

EXT U-boat underwater night
We See a U-boat dropping a Mine Into the Ocean
a Freeloating Mine

EXT AGEAN SEA DAY- HMHS BRITANNIC
We see the Britannic slide Across the screen at 18 knots when suddenly-
BOOM!

we HEAR the hard-edge BLAST of a

SHIP'S HORN, REPEATED, stuff breaking FLames Licking Meatal tearing WOOD Slintering Peole Screaming

EXT Boat deck we see People Running

SINGLE ON MAN 5

He is bearded, gray hair he Grabs a young sailor as he passes by and shoves Him
BEARDED GUY: "Take me to Cargo Hold Number one NOW Or I'll Permanantly Disable you"

INT BRITANNIC CARGO HOLD

The Bearded Man releases the Junior Third Mate, stumbles across the cargo area till he comes to his vault,

an eight-foot square cube of steel. As he stands by the vault door, stroking it like a Cat

EXTREME CLOSEUP ? BEARDED MAN'S MOUTH 11

BEARDED MAN

(softer now,

but with a hollow

ECHOING SOUND)

Thank . . . God . . . for . . .Whitby thank God for (seals self in Vault)

EXT Britannic Boat deck Day The young Esigh Races up the deck as a Nurse Is wedged in a corner behing a fallen vent He and onother ensiogn shove
the Vent over and Pulls Her uP and they Both JUM into the ocean The Ship Lets out a
Beath Moan Its going Finally The ship Rolls over on its side and sinks like a HUGE IRON
BEAST THE ENSIGN RIPS the Pennant off the stern Mast as the stern Goes down . .

UNDERWATER- Day
We see The Britannic LAnd with Maximum force the silt clears and we pan over the deck on the Britannic
the title comes up we thear the timpani thunder then a dark Note And a Darkly Romantic Music Begins to play
in the britannic

RAISE THE BRITANNIC

we fade from the Warm Depts of the agean to The Coldness Of NOVAYA ZEMLYA, russia as the same dark Peice Play's
in the background

EXT WASHINGTON DC DAY:
A blonde girl (Mid to Late Teens) and an older man talk in front of the White House gates

ANYA
If this stuff hits the papers...

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
Not gonna happen.

ANYA
How can you be sure? This isn't a Navy Op.
(indicating White House)
You know he's gonna ask.

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
National underwater and Marine Agency may
not be Navy but we understand Top Secret.
You can tell him that. He's got my word.

ANYA
He'll trust you, but can you trust the scientists
to be quiet? How can you stop them?

The question hangs in the air as Admiral Johnston stares
at the White House.

INT WHITE HOUSE OVAL OFFICE DAY
The president sits and stares out the window. Anya sits in front of the President's desk.

PRESIDENT
Miss Routousky.

ANYA
Sir.

PRESIDENT
(turning around to face Anya)
How did the National Underwater and Marine Agency
get mixed up in this crap"?

ANYA
Accidentally. It was originally a mining contractor,
then the Navy started getting involved. The Press
were starting to notice. Navy is too big for this kind
of thing. Shifting it seemed the best way to take the
media off the scent.

PRESIDENT
(rubbing his bald scalp)
If this Project is what they say it is I'd like to find the guys
who dreamed it up and send them to Antarctica for awhile.

Anna avoids the President's stare.

EXT RUSSIAN ISLAND DAY

We se a Girl No older than 16 no younger than 14 Digging Through the Snow deeper until she slides in

INT MINE DAY
Whe see Her Crawl into The Mine shaft

She waks among the rusty Mining eqipment she comes agross an Old Frozen Dead guy
Laying with a 2 by 4 across his chest a Message is burned into it

Here Lies SGT Jake Rode Froze in storm september 1st 1910 and then she spots a copy of the rocly mountain news dated sometime in 1909

suddenly she hears a thundering boom and races up the Front of the cave
We see a Lone Russian Sentry Holding an AK-47 The girl runs the guy aims and fines The girl Goes down then suddenly the man starts to aim his weopon again wen another thunder Crack is heard in
the Distance The MIddle of his head turns red indicating a Clean shot we pan slowly to see a girl in
a coat that seems too thin for the cold Holding a 45. Milimeter Police Pistol The Clonde girl Kneels down infront of the wounded girl And helps her up and she drags her across the snow as we rise over them

Fade to black

EXT. Iraqi EMBASSY, WASHINGTON ? NIGHT
A stone mansion, wrought-iron gate. Muslim. seal. Iraqi soldiers, slim tall square-faced, standing guard.

INT. Iraqi EMBASSY CORRIDOR ? MOVING SHOT ? NIGHT

High ceilings. Marble floors. Tapestries on walls.

CAMERA MOVES UP at a staircase to the second floor, down a corridor. Through half-closed door we

HEAR arab accented voices.

Heusein (V.O.)

Are these the photographs you told
me about?

Koresh (V.O.)

Yes, . These enlargements just
came in maybe ,half an hour ago.

CAMERA ENTERS.

INT. OFFICE

CAPT. Michael Heusein is behind his desk. His assistant, Abdul Koresh , stands beside him.

Maps and blow-up photographs are spread on a desk. Heusein is smooth and well-groomed, the
opposite of what we think of arabs . He seems cultured and civilized. Koresh is neat, rigid and proper,
a solid career civil servant, total patience and a talent for detail. Koresh puts a large photo in front of Heusein.

KORESH

These are the most recent satellite
photos of the area. Here's Novaya
Zemlya and there's the ship our spyship
sighted.

HEUSEIN

(he studies the photos then points)

You see that? That configuration,
it's an American Ship. Looks like a
ocean going reasearch vessel. About sixty miles off shore,

I'd guess . . .

(beat and still looking)

How about this, Koresh ? Did you

notice this?

He points.

Koresh

Yes. But I can't make it out.

Heusein

Look right here . . .

(beat, beat)

The silhouette. It's a helicopter.
I'd say returning to the ship from
the island. Flying low to avoid radar

detection.

(after a beat)

So we have an American ship and
helicopter. Perhaps that explains
who killed the russian's sentry. Would you
like some Kentucky Barton?

Koresh

No. Thank you.

Heusein
No alcoholisim, Right, Koresh ?

Koresh
(he's embarrassed)

It's not that. Brandy gives me a headache.

WASHINGTON DC. NUMA HEADQUARTERS:
we pan ower the Roof of the building until we are in perfect line with The street side Facing the washingon monument on the opposite side

INT:

We See an older Man (Late 50's) sitting in a Chair wearing a Business Suit sitting at a desk Smoking a CIGAR speaking to a girl in her late teens

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
Are tou aware of the new Project the department of defence has cooked up?

JESSICA RIDE
NO Not exactly But I did hear od something Called the Katien Project
Could this Be tied into why You Bought Me Here or in fact what I did in russia

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
Yes it does in the Matter of fact the raidiocactivty Haley Morgan found in the Mine was the Mineral Byridium or traces of it something so rare that well that Nobody's even really hear of this stuff its so raidioactive it goes into raidioactive decay after a while We need it to power a New Lazer missile defence system

JESSICA RIDE
Jim this isnt the cold war this sisent Raise the titanic
stop watching so many movies this isnt The Day after.

Admiral Johnson looks at her with utmost dissaproval

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
"Im serious this came from the President while you were out on the USS Bill Clinton caring for haleys injury's

JESSICA RIDE
"so your telling me Were Buildin this thing over the Presidents Ranting over Iraq's Missle capabilities He calls them weopons of mass destruction Even though I doubt that they even have the capability of making a warhead of any effect exept Irrradiating themselves by usiing inferior soviet components."

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
I wouldnt count on that after the tips we got from a few agents we sent over there one of them you know personaly
INT NAVAL CYCLONIC CENTRE MEETING ROOM

Admiral Johnson sits in front of a bunch of men we focus on another Man Admiral John Clancy
who is standing with a younger man in front of a Map of the United states

CLANCY
We Have a visitor from the National underwater marine agency
Dr Geoprge Kennedy who will be giving us a short lecture on our
New Defence system codnamed the Katien project

we see Dr kennedy (CU) pointing a long stick at a map of the United sttes with LED Lights Flashing around it

KENNEDY
Each one of these Points is a power station which projects an invisible Beam from ground to infinity which is capable of destroying missiles of every make type or design before it reaches it reaches its Designated target.

CLANCY
what's this russian thing eveyone's talking about ?

HOPPER
Tell Him Jim

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
We sent in a low level member of NUMA to Explore a mine an old mine that is saposedly there to find Byridium an element more powerful than uranium to power the lazer's for..

HOPPER
wha? what the... this isnt some cold war novel this isnt some thriller from the 80's
we cant do this this is the United states government

INT: JESSICA's House georgetown Washington DC.

Anya looks at the Mirror Critiqing herself wearing a beautiful scarf she glances at Jessica
sitting on a couch with a pen in her mouth.

JESSICA
No need for one of those now

ANYA
aww come on I'm just trying to see How I look

JESSICA
I Prefer Comfort over flashiness

ANYA
Just because your not a girl getter like me doesnt mean you have
to be so Anal

JESSICA
"Your a lesbian?

? ANYA
I ment either one

JESSICA
You wish

ANYA
Whatever
Anna goes into the next room talking to herself softly

EXT Fishing Pier Day on the quiet Backwater lake

A young Man Sits with anya on the end of a fishing pier Holdiong two fishing poles
andy Holds a worm in front of anna's face

ANNA
Stop

ANDY
aww come on anna you used to love these things
I Heard when you were little

ANYA
I dont play with worms anymore

ANDY
what's it gonna Hurt

ANYA
seriously I dont play with them anymore
JUst Put it on the Hook and get on with it

Haley morgan comes along on the pier Holding a thick file folder
and handing it to anya

ANDY
"Haley come sit down with me

HALEY
Sorry but admirl johson just told me to drop this off to you and then send you to
(after a beat)
Aspen colorado
EXT ASPEN DAY we travel down the sidewalk and we follow jessica ride into a building and we focus on the door

FORSYTE MINING CORPORATION QUALITY MINING SERVICE SEINCE 1893

INT OFFICE BUILDING DAY Jessiv walked anong the sesks until she sat down in a chair in front of A Female secretary MARIA FORNICOLA

JESSICA RIDE
Excuse Me are you MAria Fornicola

MARIA FORNICOLA
Yes,are you Jessica Ride

Maria Hands a folder to Jessica Jessica opens it and begins to read it to herself ...

INT BOARDROOM:

DR kennedy sands in front of a dy erase board we pan to see Hopper
Clancy Anna Jesica Baker and Haley siting at the board table

DR. Kennedy
It turns ot the only person who could have ordered this equipment
at the date indicated in the reocords is a man By the name of Json Johnson
I havent read the whole report But the situation were in is a pretty Deep
one literaly.

JESSICA RIDE
THis man jason Johnson had a man working for him Named Jake rode a Tall soft spoken man
but a great worker He and his team of miners went on a mining expedioton in a russion Island
Novaya Zemlya which they later discovered Byridium eventhen they saw that it had qualities of
military use High radiation and so what so they had it loaded on a Tramp steamer Called the Antonio
grillo soon after they were going to ready up for the next load a storm came in and Jason johnson had been exposed from the cold after his Jacket was ripped from him when he fell from a rock an d on september 1st 1910 he died> the sip was loaded up soon after but then a Russian Cruiser started following them put a shot across the bow they fought a running gunbattle with the russian navy all the way to aberdeed where they were fired up on by the HMS Bedford The mineral sat unsused in southanpton for six years when Jason Johnson had them loaded on board a Hospital ship that was on her sixth run to mudros when the he and the ship sank to the bottom of the agean sea after a ysterious explosion ripped through her hull.

BAKER
(worried)
Name the ship

JESSICA RIDE
it was the Britannic The Titanic's almost unknown sister ship

BAKER
so your telling me that were going to cut open an eight hundred foot ship

JESSICA
Unless you have another option

INT NUMA HEADQUARTERS Board room

Jessica sit close to anna Andy looks at her with disdain

ANDY
"I have been talking to the agency and they said that your running a hell of a risk
going along with this Project being that there has been several problems with Iraqi
spies running around You could get your self killed

JESSICA
I guess it's just the luck of ther draw

Amiral Johnson looks at Jessica nd gives her permission to speak

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
May I have your attention please
The speaker of the house is ready to speak

JESSICA RIDE
The Byridium that we've looked so hard for to find is in seven boxes in the hold
ot the sunken hulk of a sunken ship called the HMHS Britannic which sank in 1916 during world war one

HOPPER
How large was she

JESSICA
60,000 tonnes exactly she sas the sister ship of the...

ANYA
TITANIC, you see we dont have any clue if if it ise even humanly posible
to get into the hold to find it

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
its the eqivilant of scaling mount everst in a storm but It's feasable.

BAKER
Like when bob ballard raised that soviet sub a while back

HOPPER
not nearly as big nor old

BAKER
what do you expect us to do

JESSICA
we dont scale mount everest the peak comes to us

HOPPER
you want to raise the britannic

JESSICA
yeah
EXT STREET DAY

we see jessic walking across the street o an unimpressive office building
she walks into the door.

INT ADMIRAL JOHNSON'S OFFICE DAY:

KENNEDY
Dont expect any good feed back from the government

JESSICA
since when is there good feedback when risks are involved?

KENNEDY
Almost never

JESSICA
you dont look much like a scientist

KENNEDY
What the hell am i saposed to look like?

JESSICA
Einstien

KENNEDY
I'm his hansome eqivilant

JESSICA
HA HA HA HA AH

Kennedy Glances at the street and sees admiral Johson getting out of a Car

KENNEDY
Here he comes it didnt take long it never takes an honest man longto say no

JESSICA
and it wouldnt take him long to say yes either

INT hallway we see admiral Johnson walking among a few businessmen

INT Admiral Johnson's office the door swings open

ADMIRAL JOHNSON
we're in business!

the music bulds up inyo a romantic triumphant theme.

EXT AGEAN SEA BOTTOM DAY

V.O (Male )
topside this is sea star we just had a powerspike over

VO (control)
message confirmed proceed to target as planned

We see the sea star come upon the botom of the HMHS Britannic's hull it makes it's way up and over the side of the ship's mud caked hulk the sup shines it's light on the open portholes and creeps along towards the bow and se see the enourmous crack caued by impact with the bottom

INT SEA SLUG
John Gunn (age unknopwn) manipulates the controls kennedy pours over a copy of the novel Raise the titanic Anna Moves over to a crowded computer console and stares at one of the screens she presses some buttons gunn peaks at the Dept gauge measuring 304 feet Kennedy puts down his book

ANNA
Check those lifeboat Cables Please their getting close to our thrusters

GUNN
A.. Ok..
we hear the motors whine louldly when he pushes the throttle upward

KENNEDY
the ship looks nice on the outside bun no telling how dangerous it's going to be
when we step inside this thing

JESSICA
Maybe it wont be so bad once you get over the smell of decay

KENNEDY
I wouldnt connent on that one

INT IRAQI EMBASSY DAY

we're in a paneled office that we hav e not seen before we pan to see a man sitting at a desk
Minister Tariq Saddat (Late 30's) we pan over to see a girl in her late teens Stamnding in front of a poster of saddam heusein

SADDAT
Mr heusein are you aware of what's going on with our situation with the US?

HEUSEIN
Does this have to do with a project to build a missile shield called the Katien Project.

SADDAT
as a matter of fact it does and We are had pressed to find
a way to expose the american's new program then stop it

SADDAT
Part of it's the greek government's financing of the american's alvage operation
regarding the byridum that weill power the amrican's defence shiel Mr Heusein.

EXT USS CHIAGO DAY
we pan over to the water behind it to see the se star surfacing directly Behind her

INT USS CHICAGO DAY CAPTAIN's office
WE see captain william mancusco (early 40's) stading behind hs desk as Jessica Comes in

CAPTAIN MANCUSCO
"I'm Captian william mancusco welcome aboard the uss chicago
the most advanced salvage vessel in the US Navy

JESSICA
Proud to be aboard sir

CAPTAIN MANCUSCO
your going to need Help from the CIA
because teir is a hit list on you and your friend so the Government has
provided you with an agent whi I'v hear you were very familiar with
AGENT birkowitz.

Jessica turns around to see him in the doorway

ANDY
HI

JESSICA
I havnt seen you for a long time How are the feds treating you

ANDY
Not good they have been lying up a storm I havent fired my pistol at human target for some time

JESSICA
DONT worry you'll hav pleny of time to shoot random people
EXT OUTSKIRTS OF BAGHADAD IRAQ

we see Takns blowing up we see soldiers runnig cannon firing random explosions everwhere fire
we pan to the streets of Iraq we see the Effects of war building missing fronds halves and backs

INT IRAQI House Day

We see two terrorist holding machine gun's as americqan soldiers pount the door in
a huge cloud of Dust the terroris fire tier machine guns the two un uniformed soldiers cut them down instantly the soldiers advance on an Unconcious Teenaged girl they snatch the girl up and go out the door

EXT WASHINGON DC ON THE POTOMACK

We see a CNN News caster staning in front of the camera's speaking

NEWSCASTER
Today in Iraq Michelle sharif Daughter of Mobil oil's new Chairmen Omar Sharif Has been found after being held hostage by terrorist almost a month this is Tom brokaw CNN washinton
INT JESSICAS HOUSE NIGHT

JESSICA
Anna go to bed

ANNA
I'm not even remotely sleepy

JESSICA
Well wake up or wathc Tv. or something

ANNA
I'm hungry

JESSICA
Eat asome cup noodles

ANNA
tired of cup noodles

JESSICA
well then eat something else

ANNA
Sounds nice!

(dozes off into deep sleep)

INT JESSICA's HOUSE NIGHT

Anna walks through the darkened corridor only the moonlight lights the hall she walks into the kitchen and open a cabnet when she hears a dull thud she cpntinues to open the cabnet when someine in a skimask with a silenced revolver and Dark clothing burs through the door firing like mad the silencer does little to hide the guns true BANG just the pop of a fire cracker anna dashes the ricochetting bullets running down the corridor as a loud Bang bang noise issues from the room she looks back and the assailent fires one round we travel the bullets direction and see that it exits out a window hits a wall and scares a random Homie wallking through the alley

All work and No Play makes Jack a dull boy