She SHOUTS in his ear, and when he turns, she punches him squarely in the
nose. Shocked, he lets her go and staggers back.
STEWARD
To Hell with you!
ROSE
See you there, buster!
The steward runs off, holding his bloody nose. She spits after him. Just the
way Jack taught: her.
She turns around, SEES: a glass case with a fire-axe in it. She breaks the
glass with a battered suitcase which is lying discarded nearby, and seizes
the axe, running back the way she came.
192 AT THE STAIRWELL she looks down and gasps. The water has flooded the
bottom five steps. She goes down and has to crouch to look along the
corridor to the room where Jack is trapped.
Rose plunges into the water, which is up to her waist... and powers forward,
holding the axe above her head in two hands. She grimaces at the pain from
the literally freezing water.
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193 INT. MASTER AT ARMS OFFICE
Jack has climbed up on the bench, and is hugging the waterpipe. Rose wades
in, holding the axe above her head.
ROSE
Will this work?
JACK
We'll find out.
They are both terrified, but trying to keep panic at bay. He positions the
chain connecting the two cuffs, stretching it taut across the steel pipe.
The chain is of course very short, and his exposed wrists are on either side
of it.
JACK
Try a couple practice swings.
Rose hefts the axe and thunks it into a wooden cabinet.
JACK
Now try to hit the same mark again.
She swings hard and the blade thunks in four inches from the mark.
JACK
Okay, that's enough practice.
He winces, bracing himself as she raises the axe. She has to hit a target
about an inch wide with all the force she can muster, with his hands on
either side.
JACK
(sounding calm)
You can do it, Rose. Hit it as hard as you can, I trust you.
Jack closes his eyes. So does she.
The axe comes down. K-WHANG! Rose gingerly opens her eyes looks... Jack is
grinning with two separate cuffs.
Rose drops the axe, all the strength going out of her.
JACK
Nice work, there, Paul Bunyan.
He climbs down into the water next to her. He can't breathe for a second.
JACK
Shit! Excuse my French. Ow ow ow, that is cold! Come on, let's go.
They wade out into the hall. Rose starts toward the stairs going up, but
Jack stops her. There is only about a foot of the stairwell opening visible.
JACK
Too deep. We gotta find another way out.
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194 EXT. BOAT 6 AND TITANIC
TIGHT ON THE LETTERS TITANIC painted two feet high on the bow of the doomed