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Theme Song: "Message In A Bottle" ~ The Police
"I'll send an SOS to the world, I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my Message in a bottle, message in a bottle, yeah…."
~~The Police
The actors couldn't believe what they were seeing, there in front of their eyes were people, dining in the restaurant, sure that was normal but what wasn't normal was HOW they were dressed in the restaurant and WHAT they looked like in the restaurant. Everyone in the restaurant was dressed in 1912 clothing and Victor could've sworn he saw the REAL Thomas Andrews walking around the restaurant.
"OK, can someone explain WHY everyone is dressed in 1912 clothes?" Leo asked with an eyebrow raised.
Billy laughed and shook his head.
"Good God, James, sure knows how to pull a fast one on someone." Billy said between laughter.
Kate looked at Billy and Leo with a smile.
"You guys really think this is some sort of joke he's pulling?" Kate asked.
"Please it's gotta be," Kathy said with a simple wave of her hand. "Either that or these people are dressed like that in celebration of Titanic's release today."
Ewan stared closely at one of the officers of the ship who walked past them and smiled and scoffed.
"Well James sure did a damn good job in making them look—real."
"I think it's neat!" Frances said with a smile. "It's like being on the set of the film ALL over again."
"Well I don't know about you all," Billy said with a slight smirk, "but I'm going to get a drink or something, who cares if they're dressed in 1912's clothing, all I care is if they serve Margaritas and Brandy in here."
Leo and Billy laughed as they walked away further inside the restaurant/dining room, with the other actors following. Victor looked all around at the other restaurant/dining room patrons in their 1912 clothing. Victor couldn't understand why James would pull off a joke such as that on the very actors he had to play in the film. Victor's mind was crowded with confusion. Kate sighed as she and the others sat down at a table in the middle of the restaurant/dining room, the restaurant/dining room that was already crowded with people walking around, sitting at tables, eating, chatting.
"So I wonder is all this—reenactment shit for the press party James was talking about." Kathy asked as she picked up a menu that was lying on the table in front of her.
Frances shrugged.
"Probably so," Frances said before taking a sip of water that was sitting on the table beside her. "You know James, he'll go to the ends of the Earth to promote this film, even if it is just a re-release."
Victor looked all around the restaurant/dining room with a deep frown. His eyes then widened slightly, he looked at the actors with a raised eyebrow.
"Have—have you all noticed that the—the restaurant—the dining room is made up just like the first class dining room on Titanic?" Victor said in a low voice.
All the actors looked all around the dining room/restaurant they were in.
"Damn, I know, James really did go all out, huh?" Leo said with a laugh.
"Now THAT'S what I call promoting." Ewan said with a laugh, which was shared by Leo, Kate and Billy.
Victor shook his head and looked down at the table with a deeper frown.
"No, no, NO." Victor said strongly. "LOOK again, you guys. This looks EXACTLY like the dining room. Not even the dining room set we were in to shoot Titanic looked EXACTLY like the actual dining room. Something weird is going on here."
Billy sighed and began to look agitated.
"Ok fine, Victor, what do YOU think is going on?" Billy asked. "I mean come ON, it's a PLOY by James, so that when the paparazzi comes, they'll see all of this and be influenced even more to promote the re-release that's out today."
"You wanna really know what I think is going on?" Victor asked.
Leo shook his head and raised both eyebrows.
"Yes please Victor, enlighten us all." Leo said jokingly which garnered a laugh from Frances and Kate.
Victor looked at Leo with insulted eyes.
"Well I DON'T think this is some joke from James." Victor said strongly. "I—I read about two years ago about how these four people once boarded this train and they were on the way to um—Mexico or something, anyway, once they boarded the train, they realized they were on the WRONG train and had somehow got sent through this time warp and had ended up back in time somewhere, when they came back to the time they were in, they had little memory of what happened during their time travel, but they suffered constant visions which caused them to go to a therapist, where they were put under hypnotherapy, where they then discovered their experience on the train and from what I read of their experience, it seems like THAT'S what this seems like is going on here—I believe anyway."
All the actors looked at Victor as if he had lost his mind, then Leo, Kate, and Billy all burst into loud laughter. Victor sat back in his chair and sighed and rolled his eyes at them in anger.
"Laugh if you want, but no damn joke can make things look THIS real." Victor said.
"Oh please, you're delirious or something, Victor." Billy said with a smile. "We are NOT in some time travel or whatever the hell you said. Good GOD, don't you remember any of the antics James pulled when we filmed years ago?"
"Yeah, this is SO him, to do something like this." Ewan said with a smile.
Victor shook his head and frowned and rolled his eyes at Billy.
As Kathy opened her menu, and looked inside, she dropped her menu quickly, with a look of "what the hell?" on her face.
"Um, if this is a joke, then he really went ALL out then." Kathy said as she looked at her fellow Titanic co-stars with a serious expression.
"Why do you say that?" Kate asked.
Kathy put her hand to her face and frowned and shook her head in disbelief.
"In—in the um—in the menu, he even has on the top page, the RMS Titanic." Kathy said.
Victor's eyes widened with shock.
"What?" Leo asked with surprise in his voice.
"Read—look at the menu, go on, look." Kathy said as she sat back in her chair and looked puzzled.
Kate picked up the menu and opened it and indeed, she saw at the top of the page: "R.M.S. Titanic"
Kate frowned.
"Holy shit, it does say the Titanic." Kate said with a brief, slight smirk.
Leo quickly grabbed the menu from Kate and opened it up and read inside and laughed.
"Oh my God, James is gonna run this joke to the ground isn't he?" Leo said with a laugh.
"Yeah but to go THIS far—for a joke?" Ewan asked. "Seems kinda—odd."
"I say we play along, maybe he's just trying to set a theme for the press party." Frances said with a smile.
"I agree, I mean come on, the movie comes out today—HELLO people?" Billy said with a laugh.
A young, twenty something male waiter walked past Victor, and Victor grabbed his arm.
"Um, excuse me, just by curiosity, can you tell me what ship we're on, sir?" Victor said.
Frances laughed.
"Oh please Victor, get a GRIP!" Frances said with a smile.
The waiter looked at Victor with seriousness.
"You're on the RMS Titanic, sir." The waiter replied.
Victor's eyes widened and he looked with shock.
"Holy shit, just what I thought." Victor said in a low voice.
All the other actors looked at the waiter with seriousness and as if they were waiting for him to say they were being punk'd.
"Ok, ok, how much did James pay you to say that, hmm?" Leo asked with a laugh that was shared by Kate.
The waiter looked at Leo with confusion.
"James? James who sir?" The waiter asked.
Leo's smile quickly faded.
Victor sat back in his seat again and frowned with worry.
'He doesn't KNOW who James is, Leo." Victor said.
"Oh—SHUT UP, Victor." Billy snapped. "This is ALL one big joke, I know it is."
"It damn well better be." Ewan said. "I'm not trying to be a case on Unsolved Mysteries."
Frances laughed.
"Look, James Cameron, you probably don't know him too well, seeing as though you're just a waiter," Billy said, "but he's the film director of the film Titanic, where is he?"
The waiter looked at Billy with even more confusion.
"James—Cameron? Film director—Titanic?" The waiter asked. "Sir, I have no idea who James—Cameron is or about any—film. I—I'm sorry, would you like a Brandy?"
Kathy sat up and began to look frustrated.
"Look young man," Kathy said in an almost angry tone. "You can STOP with the joke now about us being on the Titanic, alright? Now just—just tell James, the joke is funny, but I for one am certainly not in the mood for jokes right now."
The waiter frowned deeply and shook his head.
"Ma'am, I—I'm SORRY but you ARE on the RMS Titanic." The waiter replied.
Kate, Leo, Ewan and Frances looked at the waiter with surprise.
"Ugh, thank—thank you, young man, you can leave now." Victor said almost coldly.
The waiter walked away with an irritated expression.
"Ok, I'm about annoyed at this joke now, too." Kate said as she pushed her chair back from the table and looked at everyone with frustration.
"This is NOT a joke damn it!" Victor yelled.
"What do you mean Victor, of course it is." Leo said with a brief smile. "This is just James taking it too—"
"NO this ISN'T!" Victor yelled. "I mean think about it, when we boarded this—ship, where were the other actors we worked with? Where was Bill, David or even—Suzy or Jason?"
All the other actors looked puzzled as to how to answer to that question.
"Or answer me this," Victor continued, "where's the paparazzi? Where IS James? He said he'd be on here, wouldn't we have run into him down here by now? Also, why is the press party in New York—on a ship and NOT in Los Angeles where the premiere of the film is?"
Kathy looked at everyone with an eyebrow raised.
"He does have a point." Kathy said seriously. "Something doesn't seem right here."
"Oh PLEASE, I refuse to believe we've somehow went through some time portal and ended up on the Titanic." Leo said.
"I'm with Leo, it doesn't make sense AT all." Billy said.
Victor stood up and sighed.
"Fine, don't believe me?" Victor asked. "If I'm lying, then lets go see who the captain of this ship is, and if its NOT Captain Smith, then I will gladly believe we are being pranked by James—ok?"
Frances stood up and smiled.
'I'd love to see who the captain is," Frances said happily.
"Ya know if Victor is right, you DO know that means we're on the DOOMED Titanic, right Frances?" Kathy asked as she stood up and looked at Frances.
Frances laughed.
"Yeah I know, I know." Frances said with a smile. "But I don't know, it would seem a bit exciting to me."
Kate stood up and frowned and sighed.
"Fine, lets go and see if Victor is right." Kate said almost angrily, "and if he isn't and this is a joke from James, when I see him, I'm going to KICK his ass."
"Good, fine, follow me, everyone." Victor said as he walked away from the table, with Kate, Kathy and Frances following.
Ewan, Leo and Billy looked on with confused expressions.
"Ok, is it just me or does anyone else think that Victor has turned into um—how should I say this—one flew over the cuckoo's nest?" Billy said to Leo and Ewan, with Leo and Ewan laughing.
"Well if he has, he's spread it around to the others too, now." Leo said before walking away with Billy and Ewan.
