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SCRIPT: "THE ABYSS," AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BY JAMES CAMERON
August 2, 1988, Director's Revision
TITLE: THE ABYSS -- ON BLACK, DISSOLVING TO COBALT BLUE
EXT. OCEAN/UNDERWATER -- DAY
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 submarine.
INT. U.S.S. MONTANA -- DAY
In the attack center, darkened to womb-red, the crew's faces shine with sweat
in the glow of their instruments. The SKIPPER and his EXEC crowd around
BARNES, the sonarman.
CAPTAIN: Sixty knots? No way, Barnes... the reds don't have anything that fast.
BARNES: Checked it twice, skipper. It's a real unique signature. No cavitation, no reactor noise... doesn't even sound like screws.
He puts the signal onto a speaker and everyone in the attack room listens to the intruder's acoustic signature, a strange THRUMMING . . . . . CONTINUE
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