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Jack and Ianto run aft... uphill... entering the galley. Behind them the tables have become islands in a lake... and the far end of the room is flooded up to the ceiling.
Hartman gets up and looks around for his gun. He pulls it up out of the water and wades after them.
They run through the galley and Ianto spots the stairs. Ianto starts up and Jack grabs his hand. He leads him down.
They crouch together on the landing as Hartman runs to the stairs. Assuming they have gone up (who wouldn't?) he climbs up them two at a time.
They wait for the footstep to recede. Then they hear it... a crying child. Below them. They go down a few steps to looks along the next deck.
The corridor is awash, about a foot deep. Standing against the wall, about 50 feet away, is a little boy, about 3. The water swirls around his legs and he is wailing.
"We can't leave him." Ianto whimpers and Jack nods and they leave the promise of escape up the stairwell to run to the child. Jack scoops up the kid and they run back to the stairs but A torrent of water comes pouring down the stairs like rapids. In seconds it is too powerful for them to go against.
"Come on." Kacl bellows charging the other way down the flooding corridor, they blast up spray with each footstep. At the end of the hall are heavy double doors. As Jack approaches them he sees water spraying through the gap between the doors right up to the ceiling. The doors groan and start to crack under the tons of pressure.
"Back! Go back!"
Ianto pivots and runs back the way they came, taking a turn into a cross-corridor. A man is coming the other way. He sees the boy in Jack's arms and cries out, grabbing him away from Jack. Starts cursing him in Russian. He runs on with the boy as Ianto cries out "No! Not that way! Come back!"
A wall of water thunders into the corridor. The father and child disappear instantly.
Jack and Ianto run as a wave blasts around the corner, foaming from floor to ceiling. It gains on them like a locomotive. They make it to a stairway going up.
Jack and Ianto pound up the steps as white water swirls up behind them.
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Lee comes reeling out of the first class entrance, looking wild-eyed. The lurches down the deck toward the bridge. Waltz music wafts over the ship. Somewhere the band is still playing.
A little girl, maybe two years old, is crying along in the alcove. She looks up at Lee beseechingly. Lee moves on without a glance back... reaching a large crowd clustered around a boat just aft of the bridge. He sees Murdoch and a number of crewmen struggling to drag the boat to the davits, with no luck.
Lee pushes forward, trying to signal Murdoch, but the officer ignores him. Nearby Tommy and Owen are being pushed forward by the crowd behind.
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Jack and Ianto run up seemingly endless stairs as the ship groans and torques around them.
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"I'll shoot any man who tries to get past me." Murdock shouts wildly waving the gun.
Lee steps up to him. "We had a deal, damn you."
Murdoch pushes him back, pointing the pistol at Lee "Get back!"
A man next to Tommy rushes forward, and Tommy is shoved from behind.
Murdoch shoots the first man, and seeing Tommy coming forward, puts a bullet into his chest.
Tommy collapses, and Owen grabs him, holding him in his arms as his life flows out over the deck.
Murdoch turns to his men and salutes smartly. Then he puts the pistol to his temple and... BLAM! He drops like a puppet with the strings cut and topples over the edge of the boat deck into the water only a few feet below.
Lee stares in horror at Murdoch's body bobbing in the black water. The money floats out of the pocket of his greatcoat, the bills spreading across the surface.
The crew rush to get the last few women and Gentry aboard the boat. "Any more women or children?!"
The child crying in the alcove. Lee scoops her up and runs forward, cradling her in his arms.
Forcing his way through the crowd Lee cries "Here's a child! I've got a child! Please... I'm all she has in the world."
McElroy nods curtly and pushes him into the boat. He spins with his gun, brandishing it in the air to keep the other men back. Lee gets into the boat, holding the little girl. He takes a seat with the women. "There, there."
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FIRST CLASS SMOKE ROOM
Thomas Andrews stands in front of the fireplace, staring at the large painting above the mantle. The fire is still going in the fireplace.
The room is empty except for Andrews. An ashtray falls off the table. Behind him Jack and Ianto run into the room, out of breath and soaked. They run through, toward the aft revolving door... then Ianto recognizes him. He sees that his lifebelt is off, lying on a table. "Won't you even make a try for it, Mr. Andrews?"
A tear rolls down his cheek as he blinks at the handsome Gentry "I'm sorry that I didn't build you a stronger ship, young Ianto."
"It's going fast... we've got to keep moving." Jack says gently as he tugs at Ianto.
Andrews picks up his lifebelt and hands it to Ianto "Good luck to you, Ianto."
Hugging him Ianto sobs "And to you, Mr. Andrews."
Jack pulls him away and they run through the revolving door.
Andrews stands like a statue. He pulls out his pocket watch and checks the time. Then he opens the face of the mantle clock and adjusts it to the correct time: 2:12 a.m. Everything must be correct.
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A wave travels up the boat deck as the bridge house sinks into the water.
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Collapsible B is picked up by water. Working frantically, the men try to detach it from the falls so the ship won't drag it under. Colonel Gracie hands Lightoller a pocket knife and he saws furiously at the ropes as the water swirls around his legs. The boat, still upside down, is swept off the ship. Men start diving in, swimming to stay with it.
Lee sits next to the wailing child, whom he has completely forgotten. He watches the water rising around the men as they work, scrambling to get the ropes cut so the ship won't drag the collapsible under.
Owen removes the lifebelt from Tommy's body and struggles to put it on as the water rises around him.
Collapsible A is hit by a wave as the bow plunges suddenly. It partially swamps the boat, washing it along the deck. Over a hundred passengers are plunged into the freezing water and the area around the boat becomes a frenzy of splashing, screaming people.
As men are trying to climb into the collapsible, Lee grabs an oar and pushes them back into the water. "Get back! You'll swamp us!'
Owen, swimming for his life, gets swirled under a davit. The ropes and pulleys tangle around him as the davit goes under the water, and he is dragged down. Underwater he struggles to free himself, and then kicks back to the surface. He surfaces, gasping for air in the freezing water.
Jack and Ianto run out unto a dense crowd. Jack pushes his way to the rail and looks at the state of the ship. The bridge is under water and there is chaos on deck. Jack helps Ianto put the lifebelt on. People stream around them, shouting and pushing.
"Okay... we keep moving aft. We have to stay on the ship as long as possible." Jack decides and they push their way aft through the panicking crowd.
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Collapsible A is whirled like a leaf in the currents around the sinking ship. It slams against the side of the forward funnel.
Lee screams to the crew in the boat "Row! Row you bastards!"
Owen is drawn up against the grating of a vent as water pours through it. The force of tons of water roaring down the ship traps him against it, and he is dragged down under the surface as the ship sinks. He struggles to free himself but cannot.
Suddenly there is a concussion deep in the bowels of the ship as a furnace explodes and a blast of hot air belches out of the ventilator, ejecting Owen. He surfaces in a roar of foam and keeps swimming.
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Jack and Ianto clamber over the A-Deck aft rail. Then, using all his strength, he lowers Ianto toward the deck below, holding on with one hand. He dangles, then falls. Jack jumps down behind him.
They join a crush of people literally clawing and scrambling over each other to get down the narrow stairs to the well deck... the only way aft.
Seeing that the stairs are impossible, Jack climbs over the B-Deck railing and helps Ianto over. He lowers Ianto again, and he falls in a heap. Baker Joughin, now three sheets to the wind, happens to be next to him. He hauls Ianto to his feet. Jack drops down and the three of them push through the crowd across the well deck. Near them, at the rail, people are jumping into the water.
The ship GROANS and SHUDDERS.
The man ahead of Jack is walking like a zombie. "Yeah, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death…"
"You wanna walk a little faster through that valley, fella?" Jack roars.
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The stay cables along the top of the funnel snap, and they lash like steel whips down into the water. Lee watches as the funnel topples from its mounts. Falling like a temple pillar twenty eight feet across it whomps into the water with a tremendous splash. People swimming underneath it disappear in an instant.
Owen, a few feet away, is hurled back by a huge wave. He comes up, gasping... still swimming. The water pouring into the open end of the funnel draws in several swimmers. The funnel sinks, disappearing, but Hundreds of tons of water pour down through the 30 foot hole where the funnel stood, thundering down into the belly of the ship. A whirlpool forms, a hole in the ocean, like at enormous toiler-flush. T. W. McCauley, the gym instructor swims in a frenzy as the vortex draws him in. He is,sucked down like a spider going down a drain.
Owen, nearby, swims like Hell as more people are sucked down behind him. He manages to get clear. He's going to live no matter what it takes.