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... 1912. Like in a dream the beautiful woodwork and satin upholstery emerge from the rusted ruin. Jack is overwhelmed by the opulence of the room. He sets his sketchbook and drawing materials on the marble table.

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ROSE'S BEDROOM. ON THE BUTTERFLY COMB as Rose draws it out of her hair. She shakes her head and her hair falls free around her shoulders.

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IN THE SITTING ROOM Jack is laying out his pencils like surgical tools. His sketchbook is open and ready. He looks up as she comes into the room, wearing a silk kimono.

Jack looks so stricken, it is almost comical. The kimono drops to the floor (this is all in cuts, lyrical).

Despite his nervousness, he draws with sure strokes, and what emerges is the best thing he has ever done. Her pose is languid, her hands beautiful, and her eyes radiate her energy.

PUSH SLOWLY IN ON ROSE'S FACE...

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MATCH DISSOLVE/MORPH to Rose, 101 years old. Only her eyes are the same.

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BACK TO 1912. Jack is signing the drawing. Rose, wearing her kimono again, is leaning on his shoulder, watching.

She puts the diamond back in the safe, placing the drawing and the note on top of it. Closes the door with a CLUNK!

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Lovejoy enters from the Palm Court through the revolving door and crosses the room toward Hockley. A fire is blazing in the marble fireplace, and the usual fatcats are playing cards, drinking and talking. Cal sees Lovejoy and detaches from his group, coming to him.

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TITANIC glides across an unnatural sea, black and calm as a pool of oil. The ships lights are mirrored almost perfectly in the black water. The sky is brilliant with stars. A meteor traces a bright line across the heavens.

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ON THE BRIDGE, Captain Smith peers out at the blackness ahead of the ship. QUARTERMASTER HICHENS brings him a cup of hot tea with lemon. It steams in the bitter cold of the open bridge. Second Officer Lightoller is next to him, staring out at the sheet of black glass the Atlantic has become.

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Rose, fully dressed now, returns to the sitting room. They hear a key in the lock. Rose takes Jacks hand and leads him silently through the bedrooms. Lovejoy enters by the sitting room door.

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Rose and Jack come out of her stateroom, closing the door. She leads him quickly along the corridor toward the B deck foyer. They are halfway across the open space when the sitting room door opens in the corridor and Lovejoy comes out. The valet sees Jack with Rose and hustles after them.

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Lovejoy emerges from another lift and runs to the one Jack and Rose were in. The Operator is just closing the gate to go back up. Lovejoy runs around the bank of elevators and scans the foyer... no Jack and Rose. He tries the stairs going down to F-Deck.

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A functional space, with access to a number of machine spaces (fan rooms, boiler uptakes). Jack and Rose are leaning against the wall, laughing.

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They enter a roaring FAN ROOM, with no way out but a ladder going down. Jack latches the deadbolt on the door, and Lovejoy slams against it a moment later. Jack grins at Rose, pointing to the ladder.

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Jack and Rose come down the escape ladder and look around in amazement, It is like a vision of hell itself, with the roaring furnaces and black figures moving in the smoking glow. They run the length of the boiler room, dodging amazed stokers, and trimmers with their wheelbarrows of coal.

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Amid unparalleled luxury, Cal sits at a card game, sipping brandy.

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INT. BOILER ROOM SIX

The furnaces roar, silhouetting the glistening stokers. JACK kisses Rose's face, tasting the sweat trickling down from her forehead. They kiss passionately in the steamy, pounding darkness.

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Jack and Rose enter and run laughing between the rows of stacked cargo. She hugs herself against the cold, after the dripping heat of the boiler room.

They come upon William Carter's brand new RENAULT touring car, lashed down to a pallet. It looks like a royal coach from a fairy tale, it's brass trim and headlamps nicely set off by it's deep burgundy color.

Rose climbs into the plushly upholstered back seat, acting very royal. There are cut crystal bud vases on the walls back there, each containing a rose. Jack jumps into the driver's seat, enjoying the feel of the leather and wood.

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A BRILLIANT ARC OF ELECTRICITY fills frame-- the spark gap of the Marconi instrument as SENIOR WIRELESS OPERATOR JACK PHILLIPS (24) rapidly keys out a message. Junior Operator Bride looks through the huge stack of outgoing messages swamping them.

PHILLIPS
Christ! It's that idiot on the Californian.
Cursing, Phillips furiously keys a rebuke.

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Wireless Operator CYRIL EVANS pulls his earphone off his ear as the Titanic's spark deafens him. He translates the message for THIRD OFFICER GROVES.

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ON TITANIC, steaming hell-bent through the darkness, hurling up white water at the bows. The bow comes straight at us, until the bow wave WIPES THE FRAME--

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INSIDE THE CAR, Jack's overcoat is a blanket over them. It stirs and Rose pulls it down. They are huddled under it, intertwined, still mostly clothed. Their faces are flushed and they look at each other wonderingly. She puts her hand on his face, as if making sure he is real.

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The bow sweeps under us, and the CAMERA CLIMBS toward the foremast and the tiny half-cylinder of the crow's nest, which grows as we push in on lookouts Fleet and Lee. They are stamping their feet and swinging their arms, trying to keep warm in the 22 knot freezing wind, which whips the vapor of their breath away behind.

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Without hearing the words over the roar of the furnaces, we see stokers telling TWO STEWARDS which way Rose and Jack went. The stewards move off toward the forward holds.

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Cal stands at the open safe. He stares at the drawing of Rose and his face clenches with fury. He reads the note again: "DARLING, NOW YOU CAN KEEP US BOTH LOCKED IN YOUR SAFE. ROSE"

Lovejoy, standing behind him, looks over his shoulder at the drawing. Cal crumples Rose's note, then takes the drawing in both hands as if to rip it in half. He tenses to do it, then stops himself.

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The two stewards enter. They have electric torches and play the beams around the hold. They spot the Renault with its fogged up rear window and approach it slowly.

FROM INSIDE we see the torch light up Rose's passionate handprint, still there on the fogged up glass. One steward whips open the door.

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Rose and Jack, fully dressed, come through a crew door onto deck. They can barely stand. they are laughing so hard.

UP ABOVE THEM, IN THE CROW'S NEST, lookout Fleet hears the disturbance below and looks around and back down to the well deck, where he can see two figures embracing.

Jack and Rose stand in each others arms. Their breath clouds around them in the now freezing air, but they don't even feel the cold.

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IN THE CROW'S NEST Fleet nudges Lee.

FLEET'S POV: a massive iceberg right in their path, 500 yards out.

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Inside the enclosed wheelhouse, SIXTH OFFICER MOODY walks unhurriedly to the telephone, picking it up.

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IN BOILER ROOM SIX, leading stoker FREDERICK BARRETT is standing with 2nd Engineer JAMES HESKETH when the red warning light and "STOP" indicator come on.

MURDOCH'S jaw clenches as the bow turns with agonizing slowness. He holds his breath as the horrible physics play out.

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IN THE CROW'S NEXT Frederick Fleet braces himself.

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THE BOW OF THE SHIP thunders right at the CAMERA and--

KRUUUNCH!! The ship hits the berg on it's starboard bow.

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UNDERWATER we see the ice smashing in the steel hull plates. The iceberg bumps and scrapes along the side of the ship. Rivets pop as the steel plate of the hull flexes under the load.

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IN #2 HOLD the two stewards stagger as the hull buckles in four feet with a sound like THUNDER. Like a sledgehammer beating them off their feet. The icy water swirls around the Renault as the men scramble for the stairs.

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ON G-DECK forward Fabrizio is tosses from his bunk by the impact. He hears a sound like the greatly amplified squeal of a skate on ice.

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IN BOILER ROOM SIX Barrett and Hesketh stagger as they hear the ROLLING THUNDER of the collision. They see the starboard side of the ship buckle in toward them and are almost swept off their feet by a rush of water coming in about two feet above the floor.

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ON THE FORWARD WELL DECK Jack and Rose break their kiss and look up in astonishment as the berg sails past, blocking out the sky like a mountain. Fragments break off it and crash down onto the deck, and they have to jump back to avoid flying chunks of ice.

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ON THE BRIDGE Murdoch rings the watertight door alarm. He quickly throws the switch that closes them.

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BARRETT AND HESKETH hear the DOOR ALARM and scramble through the swirling water to the watertight door between Boiler Rooms 6 and 5. The room is full of water vapor as the cold sea strikes the red hot furnaces. Barrett yells to the stokers scrambling through the door as it comes down like a slow guillotine.

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JACK AND ROSE rush to the starboard rail in time to see the berg moving aft down the side of the ship.

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In his stateroom, surrounded by piles of plans while making notes in his ever-present book, Andrews looks up at the sound of a cut-crystal light fixture tinkling like a windchime.

He feels the shudder run through the ship. And we see it in his face. Too much of his soul is in this great ship for him not to feel its mortal wound.

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IN THE FIRST CLASS SMOKING ROOM Gracie watches his highball vibrating on the table.

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IN THE PALM COURT, with it's high arched windows, Molly Brown holds up her drink to a passing waiter.

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IN THE CROW'S NEST Fleet turns to Lee...

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CLOSE ON MURDOCH. The alarm bells still clatter mindlessly, seeming to reflect his inner state. He is in shock, unable to get a grip on what just happened. He just ran the biggest ship in history into an iceberg on it's maiden voyage.

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In steerage, Fabrizio comes out into the hall to see what�s going on. He sees dozens of rats running by.

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A couple of people have come out into the corridor in robes and slippers. A STEWARD hurries along, reassuring them.

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Jack and Rose are leaning over the starboard rail, looking at the hull of the ship.

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Fabrizio and Tommy are in a crowd of steerage men clogging the corridors, heading aft away from the flooding. Many of them have grabbed suitcases and duffel bags, some of which are soaked.

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Bruce Ismay, dressed in pajamas under a topcoat, hurries down the corridor, headed for the bridge. An officious steward named BARNES comes along the other direction, getting the few concerned passengers back into their rooms.

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He turns to Andrews, standing behind him.

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Stokers and firemen are struggling to draw the fires. They are working in waist deep water churning around them as it flows into the boiler room, ice cold and swirling with grease from the machinery. Chief Engineer Bell comes partway down the ladder and shouts.

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The gentleman, now joined by another man, leans on the forward rail watching the steerage men playing soccer with chunks of ice.

A moment later Captain Smith rounds the corner, followed by Andrews and Carpenter Hutchinson. They have come down from the bridge by outside stairs. The three men, their faces grim, brush right past Jack and Rose. Andrews barely glances at her.