30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007) Movie Script
(dramatic music)
(digital beeps)
(sonar pings)
- [Man] Approaching
Mariana's Abyssal Plane.
- [Woman] Approaching
Mariana's Abyssal Plane.
Depth, 734 feet.
- Steady as she goes.
- [Man 2] Sonar's up.
(sonar pings)
Unidentified contact aft.
- Make a path!
Take the comm.
- Aye, captain.
- It just came out
of nowhere, captain,
and it's not ours.
- File?
- Sorry, captain, there's
no record. She's new.
- Is she passive or active?
- Passive, sir.
- It's man-made, not organic.
- So it's not a fish, huh?
- She's moving like a fish.
Doppler's bouncing
all over the place.
- All right, run a track on her.
Take us down another
hundred feet.
Hide this boat in the trench.
- Aye aye, captain.
Make depth down 834
feet, rudder left.
- [Man] Aye, 834
feet, rudder left.
- There's some major volcanic
activity in the area, Captain,
and I detect temperature surges.
- The water temperature
is rising, sir,
67 degrees, 68 degrees.
70 degrees and rising, sir.
(crash)
- [Captain] Status report.
- [Man] Pressure
normal. Hull intact.
All clear, sir.
- Steady as she goes.
- We're out of range.
- All right.
All stop.
- All stop. I repeat, all stop.
- Let's just sit
silent for a while.
See what she does.
- [Woman] Engines
down, power to low.
- Engines are down, sir.
- What's the time?
- 08:36, Captain.
- Send the fingerprint
to Admiral Hobson.
Tell him we found a
bogey, please advise.
- Yes sir.
- Captain, sir, you
should see this.
(sonar pings)
- Is that a shipwreck?
- I don't know, sir.
I checked the chart
for sunken ships and downed
oil platforms, there's nothin'.
This area has never been mapped.
It's just blank.
- Have you seen that?
- What?
- Sir, we got bogeys on our
left flank, ten degrees.
- Looked like a fish.
- Down this deep? No.
It's mostly plankton
down here, Bogel.
(crash and metal stress)
(alarms)
- Captain!
- Damage assessment!
(alarms)
- Waiting, captain.
(alarms)
Nothing.
(alarms)
- Captain, 120 tracking
northeast, estimated coming 2-0.
- It's clear in the engine
room, pressure is normal.
- Depth, 2300.
(alarms)
- What's on the chart?
- Multiple bogeys, closing in.
- Full ahead.
- All ahead, full.
- Full ahead.
- They're coming into starboard.
- Right full rudder!
- Right full rudder.
- Flood torpedo tubes!
- Tubes one and
two are flooding.
(crash and metal stress)
- What the hell is out there?
(alarms)
Pull the tanks! Pull
the goddamn tanks!
- [Man] The pressure
is building!
- We're losing her, captain!
(alarms)
- The tank won't latch!
(alarms)
- We're going down!
(alarms)
- Keep trying the tanks,
I'll fire the rescue buoy!
(yelling and alarms)
(dramatic music)
(yelling)
(soothing music)
- Hey, Sustin. Be careful.
You park that thing too
close, it'll pop the bubble.
- [Sustin] Didn't want you
to get too comfortable.
- Just wake me up in an hour.
- [Sustin] Sorry,
sir, your hour's up.
Time to come in and
review the data.
- All right.
Okay, get me inside.
- A little too much salinity,
everytime we knock it off
over .2 degrees.
- Ah, what is the word, guys?
- Twenty minutes in the
bubble, still nothing.
(mumbles) to you.
- How was it?
God, you're not even wet.
- I know.
- You shouldn't
go back in there,
the bubble's unstable.
You're emiting too
much carbon dioxide.
- And you thought you left
your mother back on land.
By the way, I wanna go next.
- Uh-huh, we'll talk about it.
- [Radio] Lieutenant
Arronax, this is the U.S.S
. Abraham Lincoln, come in.
Call for Arronax this is
Captain Farragut calling
from the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.
An American nuclear
submarine the U.S.S. Scotia
disappeared this morning
just north of us.
I've been order to pick
up you and your crew
and head straight to the
Mariana Trench and find her.
I've informed Admiral
Hobson that you were
the best recovery specialist
in the entire Navy.
He wants you to use Deep
One to bring her up,
congratulations.
- Yes, sir.
- The Abraham Lincoln will
be directly above you.
We'll rendevous and
dock link at 1100 Zulu,
I'll brief you further then.
- Sir, I promise you if
the Scotia's down there
we'll blow the water
right out of her
and get everybody
to the surface.
- There's 160 men
on board that boat,
for their sake I
hope you're right.
- [Arronax] We'll depart
right away and dock with you
in two hours.
Ramirez, Sustin
change of plans.
- I want all life
boats on the rig.
- Yes, sir.
- Start having the men
sleep in six hour shifts.
I want those bunks clear by
time the survivors arrive.
- Sir, sir.
what's the procedure if
there are no survivors, sir?
- You're dismissed.
(submarine engine)
(beeps)
- [Arronax] Docking
orders received.
(beeps)
Approaching U.S.S. Lincoln
500 feet and closing.
- Approaching docking hatch.
Moving five degrees starboard.
- [Arronax] Initiate
docking sequence.
(metallic clang)
- Captain, the Aquanaut
Three has just docked.
- [Farragut] Arronax.
- Captain, permission
to board, sir.
- Permission granted.
- Aye.
Sustin, I want you to start
packing up the Aquanaut,
get everything that you can fit.
And Ramirez, fit those casings
to steel external pods.
- [Ramirez] Got it, sir.
- Any word from the Scotia?
- So, how far down
can your bubble go?
- 30,000 feet simulated.
- On field?
- 15 give or take.
- [Farragut] Your oxygenator
is the key in saving those men.
- It's not ready yet, sir.
It's just a six by six tank.
- [Farragut] Your orders
are to attach the oxygenator
to the Scotia, convert the
water and save the crew.
- [Arronax] Captain, of
course, but it's best to send
another ship.
- Arronax, we're the only
boat that's going out there.
There's an experimental Trident
Four loaded on that class.
- SLBM is only limited
to the Ohio class, sir.
- Not this one, that's why
we're keeping it quiet.
- [Arronax] How many
warheads are on the Scotia?
- [Farragut] I've been
authorized to tell you six.
- Understood.
- Oh, and there's
one more thing.
Admiral Hobson
has decided to put
his own team leader into place.
I'm sorry.
- So, I'll just focus
on the human cargo
and let Hobson's man
focus on the metal.
Who is he?
- She, it's Lieutenant
Commander Conciel Wallins.
- Conceil?
I didn't think she was
a field operator, sir.
She won't even get wet
without a wet suit.
- She's the best
person that we have
from the Admiral's desk.
She knows your Aquanaut
inside and out.
Michael.
She's willing to put
things aside if you are.
- Aye, Captain.
So, when is the Lieutenant
Commander boarding?
- She's already waiting for
you in the briefing room.
(waves breaking)
- Time?
- 8:23.
- He's late.
Call Captain
Farragut and tell him
we need a replacement, now.
- Well, Lieutenant
Arronax is getting briefed
by Captain Farragut.
- It's a mistake.
- Pardon?
- We'll have to watch
Arronax closely.
He's a Navy man but with
an Marine's outlook.
You know the type,
never leave a man behind
and all that Hoo-rah
jingoistic garbage.
He'll put us all at risk.
- Unless it's you I'm saving.
(sighs)
- Don't you dare
come back for me.
Save one and risk everyone else?
We can't play the hero
all the time, Arronnax.
- Looks like you
two need a minute.
I'm Lieutenant
Blackwell by the way.
- [Arronax] Nice to meet you.
- Do you know where I can
find Ramirez and OS Sustin?
I have orders to
overlook for loading.
- Yeah, they're in the dock
port retrofitting the Aquanaut.
- From now on, orders of
such nature should go through
the Lieutenant Commander.
You know where I'll
be if you need me.
- Do you have a
problem with that?
- No.
- Do you have a problem with me?
- I don't have any problems.
- I wanna keep this relationship
strictly professional.
- I'll hold back my urges.
- I want an itemized list of
everything you're bringing.
- [Arronax] Why?
- Because I'm your
commanding officer
and I want information.
- All right, I'll get
it to you in an hour.
- Ten minutes.
- Come on.
- I want it in ten,
including bios.
- Look, you've been
briefed, right?
You have dossiers on all the
principles, so what is it?
- Not everyone on your crew
has been properly vetted
and you seem to
attract stragglers.
- You know everyone on my
crew because you hired them.
It's Noreen and Ramirez.
- Well, I can't
believe they stayed.
- Well, of course they stayed.
They're loyal and
they're good people.
And, they've been
with me on the A3
from the very begining.
- I know.
I know, and I hired them.
Fine, give me the latest
operational data on the A3.
- Aye, ten minutes.
- Make it nine.
I mean eight.
- Ramirez.
You gotta pull an
inventory list for the A3.
- What's the pull for?
- Because our new Lieutenant
Commander wants it.
- Who is it?
- My ex-wife.
(waves breaking)
- Okay, so this is where
the distress bouy was found,
but the current
actually dragged it
from somewhere over here,
the Circle of Fire.
There's a ring of deep
sea volcanoes uncharted,
inside of the Bermuda triangle.
Ships go in, they
never come out.
- How far down is the Scotia?
- About 20,000 feet, maybe more.
There's 9,000 pounds of
pressure per square inch,
enough to crush a refrigerator
into the size of a peanut.
- Yeah, but Arronax said
the Aquanaut could take it.
- We had her pegged
at 15, maybe 18 tops.
- Chart a new course,
north by ten degrees east.
Let's go to 75 knots.
I'll get you to
the Circle of Fire,
after that it's up to you.
(waves breaking)
- Commander.
- Lieutenant.
- I'm looking at your
plans for your minisub
where's the hatch on this thing?
- There's only the dock port.
You'll be fine, Blackwell.
- Actually, there's two,
one up and one down.
- What about this bubble
box or oxygenator?
- It deconstructs water
molecules into breathable air.
We're gonna attach
it to the Scotia.
- That's possible?
- How many dives have you done?
- Well me, I've been on a
dozen or so in training.
- What depth?
- About 500 feet in a suit,
more in a regular sub, you know,
in a real one.
- Lieutenant Blackwell's
qualifications
are in engineering
and technology rather
than dive time.
- In other words, be
gentle it's his first time.
- Oh, I've got a
very, very soft hand.
(chuckles)
- Is everything set?
- Yes, sir.
- We'll get you all
strapped into the boat,
get a reading then.
We'll have you guys in
position in about ten minutes.
Good luck.
- Yes, sir.
- Thank you.
- Good luck.
(horn)
- Okay then, get your
crew down to the A3.
- [Arronax] Whatever you
say, Lieutenant Commander.
You miss it?
- Of course I do, you never
forget your first love.
- [Sustin] Lieutenant
Arronax we're operational
at your command.
- [Ramirez] All systems go.
(beeps)
- You folks locked and loaded?
- Yes, sir.
- I want you to push us
ten degrees starboard,
get us as close as we can.
- [Man] Yes, sir.
(beeps)
- Can you really
convert water into air?
- In smaller scales.
- Small, we've tested
this at over 300 feet.
- We simulated it.
- I wouldn't want to go there.
- Go in where?
- The bubble factory.
- You see, as water's converted
to air a bubble is created.
- That you can go in--
- Inside,
it's amazing.
- Yes, it is amazing.
- If it worked.
- Michael just did it.
Lieutenant Arronax
just did a test.
- Drop in ten, nine,
eight, seven,
(beeps)
- [Man 3] six, five, four,
three, two,
(metallic clang)
(clicks)
(clicks)
(beeps and gasps)
- Everybody okay?
- Yeah, yeah I'm fine.
(beeps)
- You should look outside.
It's incredible.
(inspiring music)
- 20 million years ago there
was the surface of the Earth,
trees growing there,
animals roamed.
(submarine engine)
- [Arronax] Lieutenant
Blackwell how you doing?
- I'm good.
- I want you to bring the
Aquanaut a little bit closer
to the right.
- A3 this is Lincoln
one go two by 16,
radio four with a side line.
Do you copy?
Sir, we're getting a lot
of interference from below.
- What's their depth?
- 5400 feet, sir.
(sighs)
(beeps)
- [Sustin] I've got
a read on the Scotia,
12000 feet and closing.
- [Ramirez] No way
anyone survived.
The pressure probably
cracked the hull.
(beeps)
- Sir, we have a visual.
- I see her, yeah she's deep.
Let's get in as
close as possible.
- Yes, sir.
(submarine engine)
- Depth 17,000 feet.
Water temperature is 41
degrees and dropping.
- What's wrong, why
are we shaking so much?
- Because, each layer of water
temperature we go through
is like hittin' a brick wall.
- It's just a matter of who'll
break first the brick or us.
- We're at 21,000 feet.
(beeps)
- Hey, I'm getting some nasty
turn of pressure reading
in here.
- 23,000 feet, water
temperature is 35 degrees.
- I think we should go back.
- 24,000 feet.
- Arronax?
- We can make it
to the Scotia, sir.
- Stop, what's going on?
(metal stress)
- Prepare to abort.
- No, we can handle it.
(crash)
- Sir, we're losing oxygen fast.
It looks the external
pod blew out.
- Blew out, what through
the pressure casings?
- Lieutenant Blackwell
ordered us not to put it on.
- I wanna go back.
- They weighed too much, if
we had them on we wouldn't
be able to get back
with our cargo.
(crash)
- Dive capacity
is dropping, sir.
Fuel pressure is down to 30%.
20, 10.
- Bring us back up to
the Abraham Lincoln.
(electronic beeps)
- She won't respond.
- What do you mean
she won't respond?
(beeps)
- I think we can
get to the Scotia.
We can tap her fuel lines
and patch in the air.
- What? What happened?
(beeps)
- The water pressure
just dropped to normal.
Outside water temperature
is 82 degrees.
- Con-yo, Devil can-is,
sweet.
- [Sustin] There she
is, sir, the Scotia.
(anticipatory music)
- [Arronax] See
that? She's intact.
- Yeah.
Sir, we're losing pressure.
- Can we use your
bubble machine?
- No, listen we're gonna
put on the scuba gear.
That'll give us another
hour with the re-breathers.
- Sir, we were told
not to load them.
Sorry, sir I tried to
tell you ahead of time.
- Anything else
you'd like to share?
Huh? Like sugar
in the gas tanks,
something like that?
- Dive gear at 20,000 feet?
It's ridiculous.
It was a lot of
weight we didn't need.
- Officer Arronax, what's
going on down there?
- We've lost our power and
our oxygen in the dive, sir.
- I'm approaching the
Scotia, sir, we'll be okay.
Dock us on the
Scotia, okay Sustin?
Let's hope she's
not flooded out.
- Why?
- We need to steal some air.
(beeps)
(metallic clang)
- Contact.
- I'm reading that
there's a pocket of air
in the center of the chamber.
- Sir, I'm getting
vibrations on the doppler.
(sonar pings)
I think there might
be life in there.
- Just turn that down.
The dock link on the
Scotia is broken, sir.
- Are there any tears in the
hull that we can dock to?
- Sustin, use the remote and
hook it to the bubble box
let's see if we can
reverse the water flow.
- That is just wasting time.
- I say we take advantage
of the low pressure pocket,
we swim for it no suit, no gear.
I open the top hatch manually.
- Low pressure?
- Low pressure, looks
like it's only a few feet
from the surface.
- We need to do as ordered.
- There are people down there.
Attach oxygenator to the
hull, ready power supply.
(mechanical whirring)
Sustin, status.
- The bubble box
is attached, sir.
We've sprung an oxygen
leak, losing it fast.
- We've gotta go back.
- We need to set the
remote, turn it on.
There's no time to go back.
(gasps)
- [Sustin] Oxygen continuing
to vent, almost out.
Sir, we have to do something.
(gasps)
- [Arronax] Just breathe
everybody, just breathe.
- We swim for it,
we swim for it.
- Sustin.
(gasps)
(anticipatory music)
(ominous music)
(electronic whirring)
- Michael Arronax, would
you come with me please?
- That's Lieutenant Arronax.
- Follow me.
(footsteps on metal)
- This way.
(footsteps on metal)
(yawn)
(electronic whirring)
- Michael.
(electronic whirring)
- Good to see you all.
- [Sustin] I knew you were okay.
- What is this place?
- We're not dead if
that's your next question.
- Is there an underwater
refuge we don't know about?
I mean, I just don't understand.
- What do you know?
- We didn't build it.
- I can't figure this out.
I've seen Chinese markings.
- I'm telling ya, we're
prisoner of war, I just know it.
- Any word from the Lincoln?
- No.
- I should have stayed on the
Lincoln, this isn't right.
- Well, I think it's
a better option.
- What are you saying?
(electronic whirring)
(footsteps on metal)
- Welcome to the Nautilus.
I am Captain Nemo.
- Lieutenant Michael
Arronax, U.S. Navy.
- I know who you are
and why you're here.
Are you hungry?
If you're up to it I would
like you all to be my guests
at dinner tonight.
- Thank you Captain Nemo,
but we need to radio
our C.O.
I'm sure you understand.
- Done and done.
Captain Farragut of the U.S.S.
Lincoln is a very lovely man.
- You talked to
Captain Farragut?
- Of course, your
rescue is assured.
- Well, we'd like to make
arrangements ourselves.
- Of course, not an issue.
- You have a radio?
- Right, right, right.
It will have no effect now.
We're in the Titan Straits.
Below us is one of the largest
volcanoes on the planet.
There's literally no
radio reception for us
for at least five hours.
- What?
- You're acting as though
you're my prisoners,
how fantastic.
Look, soon you'll come to
see how silly all of this is.
As soon as we get
above the Terno Canapy
you can radio
whomever you'd like,
but for now relax,
enjoy yourselves.
- You got a beer?
- How many would you like?
- How many you got, papi?
- I find all this rather
a great stroke of luck
that I should rescue you five.
It's good karma, we
should embrace it.
- Did Captain
Farragut mention that
we're on a rescue mission?
- No, he didn't mention it.
- Well, there are 100 people
trapped on a submarine.
- Your sub, the
Aquanaut Three is in one
of our salvage bays.
Our boys are working
on it right now
so that you can once
again roam the ocean.
Well, let's see how
far they've got.
Maybe we can help you with
your rescue operation, hmm?
- Sir, I can put the casing
on the baby in half an hour,
should be fine in any depth.
- Already done, in fact,
I've made some modifications
of my own.
- Modifications?
- I hope you don't mind.
(electronic whirring)
- Yes, sir.
- Please take these lovely
people to salvage bay number 12.
- Yes, sir.
- You two can stay.
My crew are still working,
you have a few minutes.
Please, indulge me.
- I think I should stay
behind with you two.
- Nonesense, I've arranged
some wonderful exotic fruits
in the transit bay.
(footsteps on metal)
(electronic whirring)
So, how long have
you two been married?
I'm an excellent
judge of character.
- So, did you
build the Nautilus?
- My concept, my vision,
but the work that took
decades with thousands
of dedicated craftsmen.
- For an underwater cruise ship.
- Oh, don't mock me.
It's not a cruise ship.
It's a lifestyle. It's a dream.
It's a glimpse at our future.
- Underwater?
- Sure, eccentric
billionaire designs
underwater floating city.
Sounds like something
from a book, hmm?
- So, how many
people does it hold?
- Oh, tens of thousands.
Down here everything is new.
Around every corner
a new species,
a new concept, a new ecosystem.
- Then you're a research vessel.
- Sure.
Look at this, it's incredible.
This device allows you
to breathe underwater.
Even the most advanced scuba
gear is now antiquated.
It's brilliant.
Like you I love to invent
and discover things.
Take for example the
A3, your minisub.
It took me 30 years
to design the Nautilus
to dive this deep.
And, here you are
swimming around with those
treacherous squids.
- Sounds like you
already know a lot.
- I know that our time
together is limited,
that you will be on your way.
But, there is a place
here for you two.
I have great admiration for
those who push the limits
and expand our horizons.
- I'll think about it.
- Yes, yes the Scotia.
Let's go save a bunch
of people, shall we?
(electronic whirring)
(footsteps on metal)
The Nautilus is actually
more like a floating city
than a submarine.
We have multiple levels
with guest rooms,
restaurants, entertainment.
(electronic whirring)
(dance music)
- He's cute.
- You can get anything
you want here.
But, we also have science labs,
medical facilities, and
of course salvage bays.
(footsteps on metal)
It's amazing what you can find
at the bottom of the ocean.
(ominous music)
- Let's load in.
- If you don't mind
I'd like to stay.
- Oh, let him stay.
Then I can show him
around, he's going to have
a hell of a lot of stories
to tell when you come back.
- Let's get into the Aquanaut
and go salvage the Scotia.
- Very good.
- I don't know how to
thank you, Captain.
- Well save everyone, that
would be a great thank you.
- Deal.
(footsteps on metal)
(inspiring music)
(footsteps on metal)
- Wow, good as new.
(beeps)
- They even fixed
the hole in my chair.
- Systems check.
- Doppler check.
- Generators juiced, show time.
- My steering's locked.
(beeps)
- I can't type in
my coordinates.
- The hydraulics are locked.
- Nemo, what did
you do to my sub?
- This is Captain Nemo.
I didn't mention this before,
but I've installed a remote
control device to assist you
in leaving our transit bay.
Yes, our bay doors
can be quite tricky.
- A remote control?
- Find it.
- I'm bringing you out now.
(mechanical whirring)
(submarine engine)
(beeps)
I have you at three minutes
to touch down with the Scotia.
- Captain,
we're gonna take it
from here on our own.
(electronic squeaks and squeals)
- Voila.
- And, I now have
control of the ship
and I'm heading to dock port.
- You really know
how to make friends.
- Steady as she goes.
- This is the Aquanaut rescue
sub to the U.S.S. Scotia.
How do you read?
Aquanaut to Scotia, come in.
(squeals)
(submarine engine)
- There's an access hatch
on the starboard side.
We need to volley to that dock.
(beeps)
- Bring us right
to the dock port.
- I'm sure we can
parlay into place, sir.
(crash and gasp)
- Sir?
(crash and gasps)
- Jesus Christ.
(submarine engine)
(beeps)
(crash)
- Get Nemo on the horn.
- Aquanaut to Nautius,
do you read me?
- This is the
Nautilus, I read you.
Calm down, I'll take
care of everything.
First, reattach the
remote control device.
- Reattach them, now.
- Fine.
Ramirez, reattach 'em.
- It's attached, sir.
- All right, Nemo,
we're attached.
- Thank you.
(shriek)
Masterful creatures
those squids.
- Those were squids?
- Well, not exactly.
You see, new things
discovered every day.
(electronic whirring)
- What are you doing now?
- I am deploying
the salvage port.
We're going to bring
everything and everyone
back on board the
Nautilus immediately.
I am remotely using
your tether arm.
(beeps)
(metallic clang)
- [Sustin] Sir, we've
docked on the Scotia.
- Where are we going?
- I don't want you to
leave anything behind,
especially this.
We can't have your unique
device left in such
a harsh environment.
- [Sustin] Sir, he--
- [Ramirez] Son of a bitch.
- What is he doing?
- He's grabbing the oxygenator.
(beeps and metallic clang)
- [Ramirez] Sir,
we're heading back.
- Do you want me
to pull the remote?
- No.
- There's people in there.
- And, there's people in here.
You rip that remote out and
those things are coming back.
- And, your point is?
- [Sustin] Fine, what
do you want me to do?
- We were almost there, Nemo.
We could have saved them.
- [Man 4] Sorry sir, they
insisted on speaking with you.
- It's fine.
- It is not fine.
First, you tether my boat, then
you make me abort my mission
before it's completed.
- Michael.
- And, where were you?
We needed you.
- Michael, the people
on the Scotia are dead.
- Bullshit, there was
breathing, there was movement.
- [Blackwell] The hulls were
flooded you heard water.
- [Sustin] That's not true.
- [Arronax] We could
have saved them, Nemo.
- I'm not going to leave
100 men out to die.
I'm not evil.
We're trying to save, save
people with the Nautilus.
- I wanna go back in there.
- [Blackwell] You tried.
- Hey Blackwell, remember whose
team you're on, all right.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- [Conceil] Michael.
- What?
- Shortly after your team
arrived we spotted the Scotia.
I sent a rescue team there.
- How'd that work?
- You were right,
they were alive.
We counted more than 50.
It was a great moment,
but those creatures.
I lost six good men trying
to rescue your team.
- Michael.
- One of them was a
dear, dear friend.
I'm sorry, I used you
to drive the Aquanaut
because I was unfamiliar
with that technology.
And, I wanted to see for
myself this oxygen converter
you've created.
But, there was no one left
on the Scotia, no one.
- So what, Nemo? What
can we do for you?
What do you want from us?
You want my experiements?
You want the oxygenator? What?
(metallic whirring)
(anticipatory music)
- Now do you see why I
have to be so careful?
- It's a city.
- This is the eighth
continent of the world.
Yes, known to the
ancients as Mu,
the land of Lemuria.
- It's Atlantis.
- A place of untold
riches and wisdom.
10,000 years ago it
disappeared into the sea
and now I've found it.
Lost no more, lost no more.
- And, you need my oxygenator.
- [Nemo] Well, as you see
these streets would live again.
A Utopia in the most real sense.
- But, it's just
a prototype, Nemo.
We can't build it
more than ten by ten.
- [Nemo] You can't, but I can.
- How?
- Ah, now you're curious.
Ah-ha I like that.
You see the big picture.
See, there is good
in the world and you
are helping to create it.
- The machine's too unstable.
- Down here you can
live for 200 years.
Think of it, works of art, the
sum of all human knowledge.
This is the library
of Alexandria,
the ark of Noah, the Shangri-la.
- What about the people
that don't buy into
your Utopia, your new world?
What about them?
- Gunner, escort
these people out.
Blackwell and Arronax you stay.
- It's okay, go ahead
I'll catch up with you.
(door closes)
(footsteps on metal)
- On the one hand
I could see the awe
and wonder in your eyes.
I can sense you want
this very badly.
And, on the other you have
a full sense of loyalty
to a failing world.
I know I can't convince
you to see my position.
But, meet me halfway.
- Perimeter is breached,
Captain. Ships are coming fast.
- Well, classify the boat.
What is it?
- It looks like a Sea
Wolf class sub, sir.
Large, and heavily armed.
Could be Phillipine Navy,
or American Coastal Guard
out of Guam.
- Course?
- Course is for here
sir, right above us
like they're looking
for something.
- Did she scan us?
- Yes sir, infra-red
and standard sonar
sweeping the area.
- Quite a tease, isn't
she? Ever so coy.
- You gotta contact them, Nemo.
Look, I know this is a big ship
but you can't go
against the U.S. Navy.
Even you can see that.
- I need you to see
that they are the enemy.
They want to stop
this, all of this
before I can
resurrect my Atlantis.
- Who's they, the military?
- Everyone, everyone on land.
Every sad, pathetic, worrisome
little creton above water.
They breathe air
that is contaminated.
They eat food that
is full of bacteria.
They bathe in filth.
The earth is dead,
but we don't see it.
We're like maggots feeding
off its rotten corpse.
It's time to make a stand,
hydromagnetic (mumbles).
- [Gunner] Staring
hydromagnetic engines.
- Take us up.
- Yes, sir starting
hydromagnetic engines.
- Switching engines
in five, four,
three, two, one.
(whoosh)
- Hyperbolic equalizers engaged.
Secure all personnel
for rapid ascent
leaving deep ocean basin,
entering pelagic environment.
- [Arronax] Nemo, stay at
this depth, you're safe here.
- [Nemo] We're
not safe anywhere.
- We're approaching
the midway point.
We're looking at a
Sea Wolf class, sir,
approximately 350
feet up to 25 knots.
- Intercepting some
radio traffic, sir.
- [Nemo] Let me hear it.
- [Man on radio 1] They
picked us up sir, what is it?
- [Man on radio 2]
Fire torpedo one.
(whoosh)
- Ready to see what
we're fighting for?
(crash)
Are you scared?
- Four and five locked, sir.
- Oh, don't run
little boy, don't run.
You're going to make my
little Melusca very angry.
(roar)
- Target has seen us and
is turning hard to port.
(explosion and shrieks)
- You control these things?
- I control a lot of things.
(shriek and metallic clang)
- Did you down the Scotia?
- It's unfortunate, but
sometimes I struggle
with the ethics of so
many lives wasted for my
perfect place, my
Shangri-La in the sea.
- [Gunner] Should we
send a salvage team, sir?
- No, there's no time.
Take her down to the bottom.
- [Gunner] I think we
should hit it again sir,
before the send out an S.O.S.
- They've already
radioed the Navy.
We're no longer a secret,
you can count on that.
- You can't take on
the whole U.S. Navy.
- Gunner, take Mister Arronax
down to the holding cell
with the others.
- Yes, sir.
(footsteps on metal)
(grunts and yells)
(thud)
(footsteps on metal)
- Those are the nuclear
missiles from the Scotia.
What are you gonna
do with those, Nemo?
(engines whirring)
- Holding steady at
25,000 feet, Captain.
- What's the nearest ship?
- Battleship, approaching
from the south.
On it's present course
it'll miss us by
eight miles.
- Tell if it gets within three.
- [Man 4] Yes, sir.
- Blackwell.
Show me how to launch
those nuclear missiles.
Because our situation
here has changed,
Mister Arronax's
molecular oxygenator
was the last piece
of a large puzzle.
There's no reason
to wait any longer
on the rest of the plan.
- What, now? Tonight?
- Soon, these waters
will be full of ships,
far more than the Nautilus
or the Sentinals can stop.
By this time tomorrow
we will no longer exist.
(beeps)
(electronic whirring)
- Blackwell?
- [Blackwell] Yes, sir?
- [Nemo] How are you doing
with the launch codes?
- [Blackwell] We're 11 minutes
and 47 seconds to launch.
I have half the codes.
- Blackwell, you're a
son of a bitch traitor.
- Blackwell has seen the truth
and so will you very shortly.
(footsteps on metal)
(clangs)
- [Arronax] What are
you, Nemo's watchdog?
Who are ya?
- United States Merchant
Marine Billy Cooper, sir.
Abducted, Subic
Bay, Phillipines.
- Subic Bay, huh?
How long you been here?
- A long time, sir. Look,
we don't have much time.
I have a deal for you.
- [Arronax] What do
you want from me?
- I wanna go home, sir.
Will you take me
with you, please?
Look, I know everything
about this place
all the back passages,
all the door codes.
I even know where
your friends are.
- All of them?
- They're together,
Nemo's pleasure domes.
He keeps people there
till they come around,
see things his way.
I can help you
get them all back,
but you gotta take me with you.
(electronic whirring)
- I stacked them
according to range,
long range, medium
range, and short range.
- Short range, how
far do they go?
- Guam, Pacific
Fleet, area bases.
- And the others?
- The medium would reach
Japan, South Korean, Hawaii.
Long range easily
California, maybe Texas.
- Amazing, thank you Blackwell.
With your help the surface
world will be nothing
but death and devastation
by the day's end.
How long will it
take to arm them?
- About 40 minutes
each, and another 40
to punch in the
target sequences.
- Okay, it's clear
take me there now.
(footsteps on metal)
- What's this?
- Brain scan.
It's like a re-education tool.
I call it the zombie maker.
The brain washing is
all pheromone based,
it can make you loopy
but it works quickly.
That's how Blackwell
turned so fast.
This is the mainframe I can
shut this off from here.
Each one of these units are
connected to each other.
You can access your team
through these goggles.
- You're kidding me.
- [Billy] No, I'm not.
And, if we don't get to
them soon they'll be under
Nemo's control.
(laughs)
(beeps)
- She okay now?
I gotta take that
thing out of her face?
- Right.
(grunts)
- Conceil, Conceil
Wake up, come on we
gotta get outta here.
Okay?
- Do you love me?
You like me. (laughs)
- Well yeah, I like you.
- You love me.
- Well...
- I'll go find the others.
- That's a good idea.
(kisses)
(slap)
- Ow, what's that for?
- Taking advantage of me.
- You kissed me.
- Hardly.
- Well, we gotta get
out of here, okay?
Can I help you? Let me help you.
- I can do this.
I have it.
- Okay.
(beeps)
Why don't you sit
down over there, okay?
Let me get him squared away.
There, sit right there.
Hey, Ramirez, buddy.
Time to wake up, man.
Okay.
(crash)
You all right?
- Is Ramirez okay?
- Yeah, he'll be fine.
All right man, up we go.
(electronic whirring)
- You could have had everything.
Nemo is a visionary.
- You see Nemo it's
just not the same
when you have to brainwash
people to follow you.
- I was willing to
give you so much.
- Well, I guess you really
can't trust free will, can you?
- Michael, humanity
isn't about free will.
Religion isn't free will.
Military isn't free will.
Government isn't free will.
Simple relationships
aren't free will.
Free will is
anarchy at its core.
And, who wants that?
We all desire to be controlled.
We crave it, we seek it out.
- Why don't you just let us go?
What do you want
with us, anyway?
- We need you, you're one of us.
The oxygenator, the
Aquanaut, you love to create,
to explore.
And, you're just the
tip of the iceberg.
With our resources and
support think of the new
inventions to help mankind.
- You know what, you
make it sound so noble,
but whose mankind
would I be helping?
Huh? Yours? Or the world's?
- The Earth world is dead.
We've been defecating
on it for centuries.
But, the new world,
the underwater world,
the new Atlantis and it's yours,
all yours.
- [Arronax] And the nuclear
missiles in your transit bay?
Are they part of your new world?
- Those are from your world,
excrement we picked up
from ships we've come across.
And, I assure you that
they are to be dismantled
and not to be used, Michael.
Conceil, Ramirez
I deplore violence.
Now, let's turn around
and head back to them.
(anticipatory music)
- Ramirez, what are you
doing man, put it down.
- Why don't you listen, Michael.
They're trying to help.
- Well, it appears that
some of us have come
to our senses.
- It's me, it's Michael.
- [Sustin] We didn't
get to Ramirez in time,
he's brainwashed.
- Ramirez,
give us the gun.
- Cooper, you're
going to regret this.
Ramirez, shoot him.
- I'll make the deal.
- [Arronax] No, Conceil.
- I helped Michael
with the early designs
for the molecular restructuring.
I was an engineer
on the prototype for
the Aquanaut Three.
I know it almost
as well as he does.
I was brought on this mission
because I know it's operations.
I know you need the oxygenator.
I know you want it to
help build the Atlantis,
but in exchange he doesn't die.
- Bring her down to the
transit bay with Blackwell.
(footsteps on metal)
- We'll need to
do this in stages.
- Well, I will need the
first stage to begin soon.
- How soon?
- Immediately.
Presently our air supply
comes from the surface
and I'm expecting that to
be compromised rapidly.
- So, you're on your own.
- In 15 minutes we
will be on our own.
- I can have the first
stage ready to oxygenate
in 10 minutes.
- [Man 5] Captain, what do
you want done with the traitor
and his little friend?
(beeps)
- I need an escort.
I would hate to
take any chances,
even if you are as
delicate as you appear.
- [Man 5] Keep you hands
where I can see them.
Let's move.
- Shoot them.
(thuds)
- First person moves Captain
gets a bullet through his neck.
Put your guns down
on the ground now.
Now! Now!
Put 'em on the ground, now.
Put your hands on you
head and turn around.
Sustin, get in the Aquanaut
get it fired up, now.
Conceil, go.
(footsteps on metal)
(anticipatory music)
(gun fires)
(thud)
(anticipatory music)
Go, go, go, go, go, go.
- By the way, I yanked
out Nemo's device
and attached our own.
What happened to your arm?
- You're shot.
- I'm okay.
- [Sustin] Where's Cooper?
- He's dead.
At least we got Ramirez back.
(beeps)
- [Sustin] He wasn't
in the machine long,
he should be okay soon.
- Sustin, make it
to the surface.
We have to get above the
volcano to make contact.
- [Sustin] Detached sir, getting
ready to make the ascent.
- Sustin, we need to go faster.
- [Sustin] I'm trying, sir.
- I need to see your wounds.
I need to see how
severe your injury is.
- It's okay.
- Michael.
- Sir, the A1 is not responding.
- Hey, did we dump
the water tanks?
- [Sustin] I'm flipping
switches, but...
- There's something
caught in the propellers.
(grinding)
- I'll go, I'll go,
I'll take care of it.
- Stay here and
get us out of here.
- [Arronax] Don't be ridiculous,
I didn't just save you
so you could drown.
- I can clear the propellers.
You need to stay here on your
sub and get us to the surface.
Look, he's going to launch
those nuclear missiles.
We have to warn the military.
- Okay.
- I can do it.
- Here.
Take this.
Be careful.
(sighs)
(electronic whirring)
- Get Blackwell on the radio.
Turn this ship around.
We have to get that
oxygenator back.
- [Gunner] Sir, remote is
unresponsive, it may be damaged.
- [Nemo] Then get
it working, now.
We must not let them get away.
(respirator)
(anticipatory music)
- [Arronax] Sustin,
how's Conceil doing?
- [Sustin] I don't have a
visual but the propeller
is unresponsive.
(sonar dings)
(ominous music)
- [Arronax] Conceil,
you have to hurry.
(respirator)
- There they are, keep
them in your sights.
Blackwell, we will have the A3
under our control momentarily.
How long until the
missiles can be launched?
- [Blackwell] I need minutes
to finalize the trajectories.
Then I can launch the missiles.
- Very good.
Then we have eight minutes
to get that device back.
- Captain, we have multiple
ships coming into view.
- Then we have no time to lose.
We must recover the oxygenator.
Open hatches for torpedo launch.
(mechanical whirring)
- The Nautilus is on our tail.
She's heading right for us, sir.
We can take her down,
but I can't go up.
- Cut aft propeller,
prepare to dive.
- [Sustin] But Conceil.
- [Arronax] She has a tether.
- Hold on.
- [Gunner] Sir, the
A3 is descending.
- Descend, 30 meters.
- [Gunner] Descending
30 meters, Captain.
- Right engines, full.
- [Man 5] Full engines.
- Oh, come one, come
on man, right engines.
(submarine engine)
- [Gunner] Sir, the A3 is
hiding in the trenches.
- [Ramirez] Sir, the
Nautilus swung on by,
I think we lost it.
(beeps)
- Conceil, we have
to pull her in.
Ramirez, let's go.
If I'm not back in
ten minutes I want you
to leave without me.
- Sir.
- Sustin, that's an order.
Come on, I need help
with the tether.
Come on, let's go.
Ah, damn it the winch
isn't responding
we have to pull her in manually.
(submarine engine)
- [Ramirez] Sir, Conceil is
not at the end of the rope.
- [Arronax] I'm going
down to find her.
- [Gunner] Sir, they've
entered the cliff side.
It's too small for the Nautilus.
- Release the sentinels.
(respirator)
(beeps)
(shriek)
(crash)
- We've got squid.
- [Ramirez] Michael went into
the water to look for Conceil.
- I need to blow the life raft.
- [Ramirez] If you blow the
raft we could lose the boat.
- I need to blow the raft, sir.
(respirator)
(shrieks)
I need to blow the
life raft, sir.
- [Ramirez] Wait for Michael.
- I need to blow the raft.
- [Ramirez] Wait.
- [Sustin] We need to do it now.
(whoosh)
(shrieks)
- [Gunner] Sir, they've
neutralized the squid.
- [Ramirez] Michael's inside,
let's get out of here.
- [Arronax] Ramirez, check the
starboard view for Conceil.
Sustin, anything?
- I see her, I see her, sir.
- [Arronax] Conceil?
- No, sorry.
- [Arronax] What is it then?
- The U.S.S. Scotia,
right where we left her.
(ominous music)
What do you want me to do?
- [Arronax] Can we ascend?
- No.
- [Arronax] Then
dock us to the Scotia
and lets pray it still works.
- Yes, sir.
Sorry, sir.
(beeps)
(metallic whirring and clang)
- [Gunner] Captain, the
A3's found the Scotia.
- I know.
Blackwell, the time is at hand.
Prepare all missiles for launch.
(beeps)
(clangs)
(clangs)
- I should have gone.
I don't know what she
was trying to prove.
- She was trying
to save your life.
She was trying to tell
you she still loves you.
- [Ramirez] Sir, we
can't wait any longer.
We have to get on the Scotia.
- [Arronax] I know, let's move.
(clangs)
(clangs)
- It's the hatch.
(clangs)
(grunts)
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Do you mean it this time?
- Oh, shut up and kiss me.
(thud and gasps)
- Sustin!
(screams)
(shrieks)
(clangs)
(whimpers)
(beeps)
(clangs)
- U.S.S. Scotia is live, sir.
- Don't damage that vessel.
I need that oxygenator.
It's the key to Atlantis.
- [Man 4] Sir, we have the
remote on the A3 working.
We will bring her in now.
(beeps)
- [Arronax] Conceil,
help me with this hatch.
- [Conceil] It's not stuck,
there's a high pressure pocket.
(metallic squeal)
- [Arronax] Got it.
- Hey.
- Captain.
- I knew you'd make it.
- [Conceil] Is everyone, okay?
- Looks like everybody's
breathing, right?
- The bubble maker,
Michael it worked.
- I can't believe
it, I don't see how.
How all that water could be
converted to air in this space,
this size space.
(ominous music)
- [Man 5] SIr, they've
boarded the Scotia,
but the oxygenator
is still on the A3.
(laughs)
(beeps)
(submarine engine)
- They've activated
the remote on the A3.
Captain, we're gonna have you
and your crew topside A.S.A.P.
Hang in there.
- She's all charged
up and ready to go.
- I'm not getting a
strong enough signal yet.
Have you converted
the emergency power?
- Yeah, they're coming on.
- All right, she's on.
(beeps)
- Holding steady at
25,000 feet, Captain.
(laughs)
- Good.
- [Arronax] I'm gonna
need you to move over
to that red valve to your right.
RIght there, whoa.
- Okay.
- Okay, you gotta turn it
one full turn, clockwise.
- Ugh, it's stuck.
- It's not stuck, just
use your elbow grease.
Come on.
- Flood bays one and two.
- [Man 4] One and
two are flooded, sir.
(beeps)
- Now that my oxygenator
is safe blow up the Scotia.
Prepare torpedos,
lock coordinates.
- [Gunner] Torpedo
bays are flooded, sir.
Ready to fire, one
minute to countdown.
- Aim for the propeller.
- Can you help me?
- I can help.
- [Arronax] I can't,
I'm busy over here.
- Okay.
- I've gotta do stuff over here.
- Okay, turn it this way.
(grunts)
- [Gunner] Torpedos
are ready, Captain.
- Fire.
- Fire torpedo one.
(whoosh)
- It's moving.
(squeaks)
- A little more, got it.
All right, hold on.
(explosion)
- Direct hit, sir.
- Full stop.
- Stop all engines.
- [Man 4] All engines stopped.
- [Conceil] We're
fine, no hull breaches.
But, we can't take another hit.
- Don't worry I set
the remote to target
the controller's signal.
She's on her way
to the Nautilus.
The oxygenator should
start a chain reaction
with the warheads.
- Blackwell.
- Captain.
- [Nemo] Once we
are fully stopped
begin the countdown.
- [Blackwell] Yes, sir.
Launching missiles in ten,
nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four,
three, two, one.
- Launch the Trident now.
(submarine engine)
(explosion)
(Crash and alarms)
- [Nemo] Disarm the
warhead, disarm them.
- [Man 5] Warning, hull
breached, hull breached.
Warhead room inaccessable.
Levels one through four flooded.
We're taking on too much
water, going down fast.
All hands to bottom
deck escape pods.
Abandon ship, abandon ship.
(alarms)
(crash)
(explosion)
(screams)
(explosion)
(sonar pings)
- We held, we held.
- [Ramirez] 3,000 feet, 27,
we're going up fast sir.
- [Anderson] Slow
it down, slowly.
- All right, Captain
we're gonna slow it down
at 20,000 feet.
- We're actually going home.
- This is the U.S.S.
Scotia, anybody copy?
U.S.S. Scotia, I repeat
this is the U.S.S. Scotia.
Anybody copy?
This is the U.S.S.
Scotia, anybody copy?
(horn)
- Officer Arronax.
- Yes!
- What's going on down there?
(cheers)
- [Arronax] Yes!
We got her, sir.
- [Farrgut] Arronax,
identify your vessel.
- This is the U.S.S. Scotia.
- [Farragut] Where are
you, what's your status?
- 21 seconds north latitude,
142 minutes 11 seconds latitude.
Do you read me?
- A3 this is Lincoln
One go two by 16,
radio four to a sideline.
Do you copy?
That allows me to
inform you here
that the Scotia was lost
at sea four days ago.
- Yes, sir.
- How long would it take you
to send a tether down there
and tow them up?
- [Bogel] Five minutes.
- Do it.
Sit tight, we're sending
down a line for you.
- Yes, sir.
- [Farragut] Let me speak
with Captain Anderson.
- Aye, sir got it.
- Sir, Captain
Anderson U.S.S. Scotia.
We have 17 dead and
148 survivors, sir.
Yes sir.
- Thank you, sir. Aye sir.
I'm on your command, Captain.
- [Anderson] Take it away.
- If I show you something
can you keep a secret?
- Yeah.
- Just for a while.
Just till we figure
out what to do.
- Oh my god, Conceil
how did you get these?
These are Nemo's plans,
his private blueprints.
What?
- Just don't say anything.
(sonar pings)
(digital beeps)
(sonar pings)
- [Man] Approaching
Mariana's Abyssal Plane.
- [Woman] Approaching
Mariana's Abyssal Plane.
Depth, 734 feet.
- Steady as she goes.
- [Man 2] Sonar's up.
(sonar pings)
Unidentified contact aft.
- Make a path!
Take the comm.
- Aye, captain.
- It just came out
of nowhere, captain,
and it's not ours.
- File?
- Sorry, captain, there's
no record. She's new.
- Is she passive or active?
- Passive, sir.
- It's man-made, not organic.
- So it's not a fish, huh?
- She's moving like a fish.
Doppler's bouncing
all over the place.
- All right, run a track on her.
Take us down another
hundred feet.
Hide this boat in the trench.
- Aye aye, captain.
Make depth down 834
feet, rudder left.
- [Man] Aye, 834
feet, rudder left.
- There's some major volcanic
activity in the area, Captain,
and I detect temperature surges.
- The water temperature
is rising, sir,
67 degrees, 68 degrees.
70 degrees and rising, sir.
(crash)
- [Captain] Status report.
- [Man] Pressure
normal. Hull intact.
All clear, sir.
- Steady as she goes.
- We're out of range.
- All right.
All stop.
- All stop. I repeat, all stop.
- Let's just sit
silent for a while.
See what she does.
- [Woman] Engines
down, power to low.
- Engines are down, sir.
- What's the time?
- 08:36, Captain.
- Send the fingerprint
to Admiral Hobson.
Tell him we found a
bogey, please advise.
- Yes sir.
- Captain, sir, you
should see this.
(sonar pings)
- Is that a shipwreck?
- I don't know, sir.
I checked the chart
for sunken ships and downed
oil platforms, there's nothin'.
This area has never been mapped.
It's just blank.
- Have you seen that?
- What?
- Sir, we got bogeys on our
left flank, ten degrees.
- Looked like a fish.
- Down this deep? No.
It's mostly plankton
down here, Bogel.
(crash and metal stress)
(alarms)
- Captain!
- Damage assessment!
(alarms)
- Waiting, captain.
(alarms)
Nothing.
(alarms)
- Captain, 120 tracking
northeast, estimated coming 2-0.
- It's clear in the engine
room, pressure is normal.
- Depth, 2300.
(alarms)
- What's on the chart?
- Multiple bogeys, closing in.
- Full ahead.
- All ahead, full.
- Full ahead.
- They're coming into starboard.
- Right full rudder!
- Right full rudder.
- Flood torpedo tubes!
- Tubes one and
two are flooding.
(crash and metal stress)
- What the hell is out there?
(alarms)
Pull the tanks! Pull
the goddamn tanks!
- [Man] The pressure
is building!
- We're losing her, captain!
(alarms)
- The tank won't latch!
(alarms)
- We're going down!
(alarms)
- Keep trying the tanks,
I'll fire the rescue buoy!
(yelling and alarms)
(dramatic music)
(yelling)
(soothing music)
- Hey, Sustin. Be careful.
You park that thing too
close, it'll pop the bubble.
- [Sustin] Didn't want you
to get too comfortable.
- Just wake me up in an hour.
- [Sustin] Sorry,
sir, your hour's up.
Time to come in and
review the data.
- All right.
Okay, get me inside.
- A little too much salinity,
everytime we knock it off
over .2 degrees.
- Ah, what is the word, guys?
- Twenty minutes in the
bubble, still nothing.
(mumbles) to you.
- How was it?
God, you're not even wet.
- I know.
- You shouldn't
go back in there,
the bubble's unstable.
You're emiting too
much carbon dioxide.
- And you thought you left
your mother back on land.
By the way, I wanna go next.
- Uh-huh, we'll talk about it.
- [Radio] Lieutenant
Arronax, this is the U.S.S
. Abraham Lincoln, come in.
Call for Arronax this is
Captain Farragut calling
from the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln.
An American nuclear
submarine the U.S.S. Scotia
disappeared this morning
just north of us.
I've been order to pick
up you and your crew
and head straight to the
Mariana Trench and find her.
I've informed Admiral
Hobson that you were
the best recovery specialist
in the entire Navy.
He wants you to use Deep
One to bring her up,
congratulations.
- Yes, sir.
- The Abraham Lincoln will
be directly above you.
We'll rendevous and
dock link at 1100 Zulu,
I'll brief you further then.
- Sir, I promise you if
the Scotia's down there
we'll blow the water
right out of her
and get everybody
to the surface.
- There's 160 men
on board that boat,
for their sake I
hope you're right.
- [Arronax] We'll depart
right away and dock with you
in two hours.
Ramirez, Sustin
change of plans.
- I want all life
boats on the rig.
- Yes, sir.
- Start having the men
sleep in six hour shifts.
I want those bunks clear by
time the survivors arrive.
- Sir, sir.
what's the procedure if
there are no survivors, sir?
- You're dismissed.
(submarine engine)
(beeps)
- [Arronax] Docking
orders received.
(beeps)
Approaching U.S.S. Lincoln
500 feet and closing.
- Approaching docking hatch.
Moving five degrees starboard.
- [Arronax] Initiate
docking sequence.
(metallic clang)
- Captain, the Aquanaut
Three has just docked.
- [Farragut] Arronax.
- Captain, permission
to board, sir.
- Permission granted.
- Aye.
Sustin, I want you to start
packing up the Aquanaut,
get everything that you can fit.
And Ramirez, fit those casings
to steel external pods.
- [Ramirez] Got it, sir.
- Any word from the Scotia?
- So, how far down
can your bubble go?
- 30,000 feet simulated.
- On field?
- 15 give or take.
- [Farragut] Your oxygenator
is the key in saving those men.
- It's not ready yet, sir.
It's just a six by six tank.
- [Farragut] Your orders
are to attach the oxygenator
to the Scotia, convert the
water and save the crew.
- [Arronax] Captain, of
course, but it's best to send
another ship.
- Arronax, we're the only
boat that's going out there.
There's an experimental Trident
Four loaded on that class.
- SLBM is only limited
to the Ohio class, sir.
- Not this one, that's why
we're keeping it quiet.
- [Arronax] How many
warheads are on the Scotia?
- [Farragut] I've been
authorized to tell you six.
- Understood.
- Oh, and there's
one more thing.
Admiral Hobson
has decided to put
his own team leader into place.
I'm sorry.
- So, I'll just focus
on the human cargo
and let Hobson's man
focus on the metal.
Who is he?
- She, it's Lieutenant
Commander Conciel Wallins.
- Conceil?
I didn't think she was
a field operator, sir.
She won't even get wet
without a wet suit.
- She's the best
person that we have
from the Admiral's desk.
She knows your Aquanaut
inside and out.
Michael.
She's willing to put
things aside if you are.
- Aye, Captain.
So, when is the Lieutenant
Commander boarding?
- She's already waiting for
you in the briefing room.
(waves breaking)
- Time?
- 8:23.
- He's late.
Call Captain
Farragut and tell him
we need a replacement, now.
- Well, Lieutenant
Arronax is getting briefed
by Captain Farragut.
- It's a mistake.
- Pardon?
- We'll have to watch
Arronax closely.
He's a Navy man but with
an Marine's outlook.
You know the type,
never leave a man behind
and all that Hoo-rah
jingoistic garbage.
He'll put us all at risk.
- Unless it's you I'm saving.
(sighs)
- Don't you dare
come back for me.
Save one and risk everyone else?
We can't play the hero
all the time, Arronnax.
- Looks like you
two need a minute.
I'm Lieutenant
Blackwell by the way.
- [Arronax] Nice to meet you.
- Do you know where I can
find Ramirez and OS Sustin?
I have orders to
overlook for loading.
- Yeah, they're in the dock
port retrofitting the Aquanaut.
- From now on, orders of
such nature should go through
the Lieutenant Commander.
You know where I'll
be if you need me.
- Do you have a
problem with that?
- No.
- Do you have a problem with me?
- I don't have any problems.
- I wanna keep this relationship
strictly professional.
- I'll hold back my urges.
- I want an itemized list of
everything you're bringing.
- [Arronax] Why?
- Because I'm your
commanding officer
and I want information.
- All right, I'll get
it to you in an hour.
- Ten minutes.
- Come on.
- I want it in ten,
including bios.
- Look, you've been
briefed, right?
You have dossiers on all the
principles, so what is it?
- Not everyone on your crew
has been properly vetted
and you seem to
attract stragglers.
- You know everyone on my
crew because you hired them.
It's Noreen and Ramirez.
- Well, I can't
believe they stayed.
- Well, of course they stayed.
They're loyal and
they're good people.
And, they've been
with me on the A3
from the very begining.
- I know.
I know, and I hired them.
Fine, give me the latest
operational data on the A3.
- Aye, ten minutes.
- Make it nine.
I mean eight.
- Ramirez.
You gotta pull an
inventory list for the A3.
- What's the pull for?
- Because our new Lieutenant
Commander wants it.
- Who is it?
- My ex-wife.
(waves breaking)
- Okay, so this is where
the distress bouy was found,
but the current
actually dragged it
from somewhere over here,
the Circle of Fire.
There's a ring of deep
sea volcanoes uncharted,
inside of the Bermuda triangle.
Ships go in, they
never come out.
- How far down is the Scotia?
- About 20,000 feet, maybe more.
There's 9,000 pounds of
pressure per square inch,
enough to crush a refrigerator
into the size of a peanut.
- Yeah, but Arronax said
the Aquanaut could take it.
- We had her pegged
at 15, maybe 18 tops.
- Chart a new course,
north by ten degrees east.
Let's go to 75 knots.
I'll get you to
the Circle of Fire,
after that it's up to you.
(waves breaking)
- Commander.
- Lieutenant.
- I'm looking at your
plans for your minisub
where's the hatch on this thing?
- There's only the dock port.
You'll be fine, Blackwell.
- Actually, there's two,
one up and one down.
- What about this bubble
box or oxygenator?
- It deconstructs water
molecules into breathable air.
We're gonna attach
it to the Scotia.
- That's possible?
- How many dives have you done?
- Well me, I've been on a
dozen or so in training.
- What depth?
- About 500 feet in a suit,
more in a regular sub, you know,
in a real one.
- Lieutenant Blackwell's
qualifications
are in engineering
and technology rather
than dive time.
- In other words, be
gentle it's his first time.
- Oh, I've got a
very, very soft hand.
(chuckles)
- Is everything set?
- Yes, sir.
- We'll get you all
strapped into the boat,
get a reading then.
We'll have you guys in
position in about ten minutes.
Good luck.
- Yes, sir.
- Thank you.
- Good luck.
(horn)
- Okay then, get your
crew down to the A3.
- [Arronax] Whatever you
say, Lieutenant Commander.
You miss it?
- Of course I do, you never
forget your first love.
- [Sustin] Lieutenant
Arronax we're operational
at your command.
- [Ramirez] All systems go.
(beeps)
- You folks locked and loaded?
- Yes, sir.
- I want you to push us
ten degrees starboard,
get us as close as we can.
- [Man] Yes, sir.
(beeps)
- Can you really
convert water into air?
- In smaller scales.
- Small, we've tested
this at over 300 feet.
- We simulated it.
- I wouldn't want to go there.
- Go in where?
- The bubble factory.
- You see, as water's converted
to air a bubble is created.
- That you can go in--
- Inside,
it's amazing.
- Yes, it is amazing.
- If it worked.
- Michael just did it.
Lieutenant Arronax
just did a test.
- Drop in ten, nine,
eight, seven,
(beeps)
- [Man 3] six, five, four,
three, two,
(metallic clang)
(clicks)
(clicks)
(beeps and gasps)
- Everybody okay?
- Yeah, yeah I'm fine.
(beeps)
- You should look outside.
It's incredible.
(inspiring music)
- 20 million years ago there
was the surface of the Earth,
trees growing there,
animals roamed.
(submarine engine)
- [Arronax] Lieutenant
Blackwell how you doing?
- I'm good.
- I want you to bring the
Aquanaut a little bit closer
to the right.
- A3 this is Lincoln
one go two by 16,
radio four with a side line.
Do you copy?
Sir, we're getting a lot
of interference from below.
- What's their depth?
- 5400 feet, sir.
(sighs)
(beeps)
- [Sustin] I've got
a read on the Scotia,
12000 feet and closing.
- [Ramirez] No way
anyone survived.
The pressure probably
cracked the hull.
(beeps)
- Sir, we have a visual.
- I see her, yeah she's deep.
Let's get in as
close as possible.
- Yes, sir.
(submarine engine)
- Depth 17,000 feet.
Water temperature is 41
degrees and dropping.
- What's wrong, why
are we shaking so much?
- Because, each layer of water
temperature we go through
is like hittin' a brick wall.
- It's just a matter of who'll
break first the brick or us.
- We're at 21,000 feet.
(beeps)
- Hey, I'm getting some nasty
turn of pressure reading
in here.
- 23,000 feet, water
temperature is 35 degrees.
- I think we should go back.
- 24,000 feet.
- Arronax?
- We can make it
to the Scotia, sir.
- Stop, what's going on?
(metal stress)
- Prepare to abort.
- No, we can handle it.
(crash)
- Sir, we're losing oxygen fast.
It looks the external
pod blew out.
- Blew out, what through
the pressure casings?
- Lieutenant Blackwell
ordered us not to put it on.
- I wanna go back.
- They weighed too much, if
we had them on we wouldn't
be able to get back
with our cargo.
(crash)
- Dive capacity
is dropping, sir.
Fuel pressure is down to 30%.
20, 10.
- Bring us back up to
the Abraham Lincoln.
(electronic beeps)
- She won't respond.
- What do you mean
she won't respond?
(beeps)
- I think we can
get to the Scotia.
We can tap her fuel lines
and patch in the air.
- What? What happened?
(beeps)
- The water pressure
just dropped to normal.
Outside water temperature
is 82 degrees.
- Con-yo, Devil can-is,
sweet.
- [Sustin] There she
is, sir, the Scotia.
(anticipatory music)
- [Arronax] See
that? She's intact.
- Yeah.
Sir, we're losing pressure.
- Can we use your
bubble machine?
- No, listen we're gonna
put on the scuba gear.
That'll give us another
hour with the re-breathers.
- Sir, we were told
not to load them.
Sorry, sir I tried to
tell you ahead of time.
- Anything else
you'd like to share?
Huh? Like sugar
in the gas tanks,
something like that?
- Dive gear at 20,000 feet?
It's ridiculous.
It was a lot of
weight we didn't need.
- Officer Arronax, what's
going on down there?
- We've lost our power and
our oxygen in the dive, sir.
- I'm approaching the
Scotia, sir, we'll be okay.
Dock us on the
Scotia, okay Sustin?
Let's hope she's
not flooded out.
- Why?
- We need to steal some air.
(beeps)
(metallic clang)
- Contact.
- I'm reading that
there's a pocket of air
in the center of the chamber.
- Sir, I'm getting
vibrations on the doppler.
(sonar pings)
I think there might
be life in there.
- Just turn that down.
The dock link on the
Scotia is broken, sir.
- Are there any tears in the
hull that we can dock to?
- Sustin, use the remote and
hook it to the bubble box
let's see if we can
reverse the water flow.
- That is just wasting time.
- I say we take advantage
of the low pressure pocket,
we swim for it no suit, no gear.
I open the top hatch manually.
- Low pressure?
- Low pressure, looks
like it's only a few feet
from the surface.
- We need to do as ordered.
- There are people down there.
Attach oxygenator to the
hull, ready power supply.
(mechanical whirring)
Sustin, status.
- The bubble box
is attached, sir.
We've sprung an oxygen
leak, losing it fast.
- We've gotta go back.
- We need to set the
remote, turn it on.
There's no time to go back.
(gasps)
- [Sustin] Oxygen continuing
to vent, almost out.
Sir, we have to do something.
(gasps)
- [Arronax] Just breathe
everybody, just breathe.
- We swim for it,
we swim for it.
- Sustin.
(gasps)
(anticipatory music)
(ominous music)
(electronic whirring)
- Michael Arronax, would
you come with me please?
- That's Lieutenant Arronax.
- Follow me.
(footsteps on metal)
- This way.
(footsteps on metal)
(yawn)
(electronic whirring)
- Michael.
(electronic whirring)
- Good to see you all.
- [Sustin] I knew you were okay.
- What is this place?
- We're not dead if
that's your next question.
- Is there an underwater
refuge we don't know about?
I mean, I just don't understand.
- What do you know?
- We didn't build it.
- I can't figure this out.
I've seen Chinese markings.
- I'm telling ya, we're
prisoner of war, I just know it.
- Any word from the Lincoln?
- No.
- I should have stayed on the
Lincoln, this isn't right.
- Well, I think it's
a better option.
- What are you saying?
(electronic whirring)
(footsteps on metal)
- Welcome to the Nautilus.
I am Captain Nemo.
- Lieutenant Michael
Arronax, U.S. Navy.
- I know who you are
and why you're here.
Are you hungry?
If you're up to it I would
like you all to be my guests
at dinner tonight.
- Thank you Captain Nemo,
but we need to radio
our C.O.
I'm sure you understand.
- Done and done.
Captain Farragut of the U.S.S.
Lincoln is a very lovely man.
- You talked to
Captain Farragut?
- Of course, your
rescue is assured.
- Well, we'd like to make
arrangements ourselves.
- Of course, not an issue.
- You have a radio?
- Right, right, right.
It will have no effect now.
We're in the Titan Straits.
Below us is one of the largest
volcanoes on the planet.
There's literally no
radio reception for us
for at least five hours.
- What?
- You're acting as though
you're my prisoners,
how fantastic.
Look, soon you'll come to
see how silly all of this is.
As soon as we get
above the Terno Canapy
you can radio
whomever you'd like,
but for now relax,
enjoy yourselves.
- You got a beer?
- How many would you like?
- How many you got, papi?
- I find all this rather
a great stroke of luck
that I should rescue you five.
It's good karma, we
should embrace it.
- Did Captain
Farragut mention that
we're on a rescue mission?
- No, he didn't mention it.
- Well, there are 100 people
trapped on a submarine.
- Your sub, the
Aquanaut Three is in one
of our salvage bays.
Our boys are working
on it right now
so that you can once
again roam the ocean.
Well, let's see how
far they've got.
Maybe we can help you with
your rescue operation, hmm?
- Sir, I can put the casing
on the baby in half an hour,
should be fine in any depth.
- Already done, in fact,
I've made some modifications
of my own.
- Modifications?
- I hope you don't mind.
(electronic whirring)
- Yes, sir.
- Please take these lovely
people to salvage bay number 12.
- Yes, sir.
- You two can stay.
My crew are still working,
you have a few minutes.
Please, indulge me.
- I think I should stay
behind with you two.
- Nonesense, I've arranged
some wonderful exotic fruits
in the transit bay.
(footsteps on metal)
(electronic whirring)
So, how long have
you two been married?
I'm an excellent
judge of character.
- So, did you
build the Nautilus?
- My concept, my vision,
but the work that took
decades with thousands
of dedicated craftsmen.
- For an underwater cruise ship.
- Oh, don't mock me.
It's not a cruise ship.
It's a lifestyle. It's a dream.
It's a glimpse at our future.
- Underwater?
- Sure, eccentric
billionaire designs
underwater floating city.
Sounds like something
from a book, hmm?
- So, how many
people does it hold?
- Oh, tens of thousands.
Down here everything is new.
Around every corner
a new species,
a new concept, a new ecosystem.
- Then you're a research vessel.
- Sure.
Look at this, it's incredible.
This device allows you
to breathe underwater.
Even the most advanced scuba
gear is now antiquated.
It's brilliant.
Like you I love to invent
and discover things.
Take for example the
A3, your minisub.
It took me 30 years
to design the Nautilus
to dive this deep.
And, here you are
swimming around with those
treacherous squids.
- Sounds like you
already know a lot.
- I know that our time
together is limited,
that you will be on your way.
But, there is a place
here for you two.
I have great admiration for
those who push the limits
and expand our horizons.
- I'll think about it.
- Yes, yes the Scotia.
Let's go save a bunch
of people, shall we?
(electronic whirring)
(footsteps on metal)
The Nautilus is actually
more like a floating city
than a submarine.
We have multiple levels
with guest rooms,
restaurants, entertainment.
(electronic whirring)
(dance music)
- He's cute.
- You can get anything
you want here.
But, we also have science labs,
medical facilities, and
of course salvage bays.
(footsteps on metal)
It's amazing what you can find
at the bottom of the ocean.
(ominous music)
- Let's load in.
- If you don't mind
I'd like to stay.
- Oh, let him stay.
Then I can show him
around, he's going to have
a hell of a lot of stories
to tell when you come back.
- Let's get into the Aquanaut
and go salvage the Scotia.
- Very good.
- I don't know how to
thank you, Captain.
- Well save everyone, that
would be a great thank you.
- Deal.
(footsteps on metal)
(inspiring music)
(footsteps on metal)
- Wow, good as new.
(beeps)
- They even fixed
the hole in my chair.
- Systems check.
- Doppler check.
- Generators juiced, show time.
- My steering's locked.
(beeps)
- I can't type in
my coordinates.
- The hydraulics are locked.
- Nemo, what did
you do to my sub?
- This is Captain Nemo.
I didn't mention this before,
but I've installed a remote
control device to assist you
in leaving our transit bay.
Yes, our bay doors
can be quite tricky.
- A remote control?
- Find it.
- I'm bringing you out now.
(mechanical whirring)
(submarine engine)
(beeps)
I have you at three minutes
to touch down with the Scotia.
- Captain,
we're gonna take it
from here on our own.
(electronic squeaks and squeals)
- Voila.
- And, I now have
control of the ship
and I'm heading to dock port.
- You really know
how to make friends.
- Steady as she goes.
- This is the Aquanaut rescue
sub to the U.S.S. Scotia.
How do you read?
Aquanaut to Scotia, come in.
(squeals)
(submarine engine)
- There's an access hatch
on the starboard side.
We need to volley to that dock.
(beeps)
- Bring us right
to the dock port.
- I'm sure we can
parlay into place, sir.
(crash and gasp)
- Sir?
(crash and gasps)
- Jesus Christ.
(submarine engine)
(beeps)
(crash)
- Get Nemo on the horn.
- Aquanaut to Nautius,
do you read me?
- This is the
Nautilus, I read you.
Calm down, I'll take
care of everything.
First, reattach the
remote control device.
- Reattach them, now.
- Fine.
Ramirez, reattach 'em.
- It's attached, sir.
- All right, Nemo,
we're attached.
- Thank you.
(shriek)
Masterful creatures
those squids.
- Those were squids?
- Well, not exactly.
You see, new things
discovered every day.
(electronic whirring)
- What are you doing now?
- I am deploying
the salvage port.
We're going to bring
everything and everyone
back on board the
Nautilus immediately.
I am remotely using
your tether arm.
(beeps)
(metallic clang)
- [Sustin] Sir, we've
docked on the Scotia.
- Where are we going?
- I don't want you to
leave anything behind,
especially this.
We can't have your unique
device left in such
a harsh environment.
- [Sustin] Sir, he--
- [Ramirez] Son of a bitch.
- What is he doing?
- He's grabbing the oxygenator.
(beeps and metallic clang)
- [Ramirez] Sir,
we're heading back.
- Do you want me
to pull the remote?
- No.
- There's people in there.
- And, there's people in here.
You rip that remote out and
those things are coming back.
- And, your point is?
- [Sustin] Fine, what
do you want me to do?
- We were almost there, Nemo.
We could have saved them.
- [Man 4] Sorry sir, they
insisted on speaking with you.
- It's fine.
- It is not fine.
First, you tether my boat, then
you make me abort my mission
before it's completed.
- Michael.
- And, where were you?
We needed you.
- Michael, the people
on the Scotia are dead.
- Bullshit, there was
breathing, there was movement.
- [Blackwell] The hulls were
flooded you heard water.
- [Sustin] That's not true.
- [Arronax] We could
have saved them, Nemo.
- I'm not going to leave
100 men out to die.
I'm not evil.
We're trying to save, save
people with the Nautilus.
- I wanna go back in there.
- [Blackwell] You tried.
- Hey Blackwell, remember whose
team you're on, all right.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- [Conceil] Michael.
- What?
- Shortly after your team
arrived we spotted the Scotia.
I sent a rescue team there.
- How'd that work?
- You were right,
they were alive.
We counted more than 50.
It was a great moment,
but those creatures.
I lost six good men trying
to rescue your team.
- Michael.
- One of them was a
dear, dear friend.
I'm sorry, I used you
to drive the Aquanaut
because I was unfamiliar
with that technology.
And, I wanted to see for
myself this oxygen converter
you've created.
But, there was no one left
on the Scotia, no one.
- So what, Nemo? What
can we do for you?
What do you want from us?
You want my experiements?
You want the oxygenator? What?
(metallic whirring)
(anticipatory music)
- Now do you see why I
have to be so careful?
- It's a city.
- This is the eighth
continent of the world.
Yes, known to the
ancients as Mu,
the land of Lemuria.
- It's Atlantis.
- A place of untold
riches and wisdom.
10,000 years ago it
disappeared into the sea
and now I've found it.
Lost no more, lost no more.
- And, you need my oxygenator.
- [Nemo] Well, as you see
these streets would live again.
A Utopia in the most real sense.
- But, it's just
a prototype, Nemo.
We can't build it
more than ten by ten.
- [Nemo] You can't, but I can.
- How?
- Ah, now you're curious.
Ah-ha I like that.
You see the big picture.
See, there is good
in the world and you
are helping to create it.
- The machine's too unstable.
- Down here you can
live for 200 years.
Think of it, works of art, the
sum of all human knowledge.
This is the library
of Alexandria,
the ark of Noah, the Shangri-la.
- What about the people
that don't buy into
your Utopia, your new world?
What about them?
- Gunner, escort
these people out.
Blackwell and Arronax you stay.
- It's okay, go ahead
I'll catch up with you.
(door closes)
(footsteps on metal)
- On the one hand
I could see the awe
and wonder in your eyes.
I can sense you want
this very badly.
And, on the other you have
a full sense of loyalty
to a failing world.
I know I can't convince
you to see my position.
But, meet me halfway.
- Perimeter is breached,
Captain. Ships are coming fast.
- Well, classify the boat.
What is it?
- It looks like a Sea
Wolf class sub, sir.
Large, and heavily armed.
Could be Phillipine Navy,
or American Coastal Guard
out of Guam.
- Course?
- Course is for here
sir, right above us
like they're looking
for something.
- Did she scan us?
- Yes sir, infra-red
and standard sonar
sweeping the area.
- Quite a tease, isn't
she? Ever so coy.
- You gotta contact them, Nemo.
Look, I know this is a big ship
but you can't go
against the U.S. Navy.
Even you can see that.
- I need you to see
that they are the enemy.
They want to stop
this, all of this
before I can
resurrect my Atlantis.
- Who's they, the military?
- Everyone, everyone on land.
Every sad, pathetic, worrisome
little creton above water.
They breathe air
that is contaminated.
They eat food that
is full of bacteria.
They bathe in filth.
The earth is dead,
but we don't see it.
We're like maggots feeding
off its rotten corpse.
It's time to make a stand,
hydromagnetic (mumbles).
- [Gunner] Staring
hydromagnetic engines.
- Take us up.
- Yes, sir starting
hydromagnetic engines.
- Switching engines
in five, four,
three, two, one.
(whoosh)
- Hyperbolic equalizers engaged.
Secure all personnel
for rapid ascent
leaving deep ocean basin,
entering pelagic environment.
- [Arronax] Nemo, stay at
this depth, you're safe here.
- [Nemo] We're
not safe anywhere.
- We're approaching
the midway point.
We're looking at a
Sea Wolf class, sir,
approximately 350
feet up to 25 knots.
- Intercepting some
radio traffic, sir.
- [Nemo] Let me hear it.
- [Man on radio 1] They
picked us up sir, what is it?
- [Man on radio 2]
Fire torpedo one.
(whoosh)
- Ready to see what
we're fighting for?
(crash)
Are you scared?
- Four and five locked, sir.
- Oh, don't run
little boy, don't run.
You're going to make my
little Melusca very angry.
(roar)
- Target has seen us and
is turning hard to port.
(explosion and shrieks)
- You control these things?
- I control a lot of things.
(shriek and metallic clang)
- Did you down the Scotia?
- It's unfortunate, but
sometimes I struggle
with the ethics of so
many lives wasted for my
perfect place, my
Shangri-La in the sea.
- [Gunner] Should we
send a salvage team, sir?
- No, there's no time.
Take her down to the bottom.
- [Gunner] I think we
should hit it again sir,
before the send out an S.O.S.
- They've already
radioed the Navy.
We're no longer a secret,
you can count on that.
- You can't take on
the whole U.S. Navy.
- Gunner, take Mister Arronax
down to the holding cell
with the others.
- Yes, sir.
(footsteps on metal)
(grunts and yells)
(thud)
(footsteps on metal)
- Those are the nuclear
missiles from the Scotia.
What are you gonna
do with those, Nemo?
(engines whirring)
- Holding steady at
25,000 feet, Captain.
- What's the nearest ship?
- Battleship, approaching
from the south.
On it's present course
it'll miss us by
eight miles.
- Tell if it gets within three.
- [Man 4] Yes, sir.
- Blackwell.
Show me how to launch
those nuclear missiles.
Because our situation
here has changed,
Mister Arronax's
molecular oxygenator
was the last piece
of a large puzzle.
There's no reason
to wait any longer
on the rest of the plan.
- What, now? Tonight?
- Soon, these waters
will be full of ships,
far more than the Nautilus
or the Sentinals can stop.
By this time tomorrow
we will no longer exist.
(beeps)
(electronic whirring)
- Blackwell?
- [Blackwell] Yes, sir?
- [Nemo] How are you doing
with the launch codes?
- [Blackwell] We're 11 minutes
and 47 seconds to launch.
I have half the codes.
- Blackwell, you're a
son of a bitch traitor.
- Blackwell has seen the truth
and so will you very shortly.
(footsteps on metal)
(clangs)
- [Arronax] What are
you, Nemo's watchdog?
Who are ya?
- United States Merchant
Marine Billy Cooper, sir.
Abducted, Subic
Bay, Phillipines.
- Subic Bay, huh?
How long you been here?
- A long time, sir. Look,
we don't have much time.
I have a deal for you.
- [Arronax] What do
you want from me?
- I wanna go home, sir.
Will you take me
with you, please?
Look, I know everything
about this place
all the back passages,
all the door codes.
I even know where
your friends are.
- All of them?
- They're together,
Nemo's pleasure domes.
He keeps people there
till they come around,
see things his way.
I can help you
get them all back,
but you gotta take me with you.
(electronic whirring)
- I stacked them
according to range,
long range, medium
range, and short range.
- Short range, how
far do they go?
- Guam, Pacific
Fleet, area bases.
- And the others?
- The medium would reach
Japan, South Korean, Hawaii.
Long range easily
California, maybe Texas.
- Amazing, thank you Blackwell.
With your help the surface
world will be nothing
but death and devastation
by the day's end.
How long will it
take to arm them?
- About 40 minutes
each, and another 40
to punch in the
target sequences.
- Okay, it's clear
take me there now.
(footsteps on metal)
- What's this?
- Brain scan.
It's like a re-education tool.
I call it the zombie maker.
The brain washing is
all pheromone based,
it can make you loopy
but it works quickly.
That's how Blackwell
turned so fast.
This is the mainframe I can
shut this off from here.
Each one of these units are
connected to each other.
You can access your team
through these goggles.
- You're kidding me.
- [Billy] No, I'm not.
And, if we don't get to
them soon they'll be under
Nemo's control.
(laughs)
(beeps)
- She okay now?
I gotta take that
thing out of her face?
- Right.
(grunts)
- Conceil, Conceil
Wake up, come on we
gotta get outta here.
Okay?
- Do you love me?
You like me. (laughs)
- Well yeah, I like you.
- You love me.
- Well...
- I'll go find the others.
- That's a good idea.
(kisses)
(slap)
- Ow, what's that for?
- Taking advantage of me.
- You kissed me.
- Hardly.
- Well, we gotta get
out of here, okay?
Can I help you? Let me help you.
- I can do this.
I have it.
- Okay.
(beeps)
Why don't you sit
down over there, okay?
Let me get him squared away.
There, sit right there.
Hey, Ramirez, buddy.
Time to wake up, man.
Okay.
(crash)
You all right?
- Is Ramirez okay?
- Yeah, he'll be fine.
All right man, up we go.
(electronic whirring)
- You could have had everything.
Nemo is a visionary.
- You see Nemo it's
just not the same
when you have to brainwash
people to follow you.
- I was willing to
give you so much.
- Well, I guess you really
can't trust free will, can you?
- Michael, humanity
isn't about free will.
Religion isn't free will.
Military isn't free will.
Government isn't free will.
Simple relationships
aren't free will.
Free will is
anarchy at its core.
And, who wants that?
We all desire to be controlled.
We crave it, we seek it out.
- Why don't you just let us go?
What do you want
with us, anyway?
- We need you, you're one of us.
The oxygenator, the
Aquanaut, you love to create,
to explore.
And, you're just the
tip of the iceberg.
With our resources and
support think of the new
inventions to help mankind.
- You know what, you
make it sound so noble,
but whose mankind
would I be helping?
Huh? Yours? Or the world's?
- The Earth world is dead.
We've been defecating
on it for centuries.
But, the new world,
the underwater world,
the new Atlantis and it's yours,
all yours.
- [Arronax] And the nuclear
missiles in your transit bay?
Are they part of your new world?
- Those are from your world,
excrement we picked up
from ships we've come across.
And, I assure you that
they are to be dismantled
and not to be used, Michael.
Conceil, Ramirez
I deplore violence.
Now, let's turn around
and head back to them.
(anticipatory music)
- Ramirez, what are you
doing man, put it down.
- Why don't you listen, Michael.
They're trying to help.
- Well, it appears that
some of us have come
to our senses.
- It's me, it's Michael.
- [Sustin] We didn't
get to Ramirez in time,
he's brainwashed.
- Ramirez,
give us the gun.
- Cooper, you're
going to regret this.
Ramirez, shoot him.
- I'll make the deal.
- [Arronax] No, Conceil.
- I helped Michael
with the early designs
for the molecular restructuring.
I was an engineer
on the prototype for
the Aquanaut Three.
I know it almost
as well as he does.
I was brought on this mission
because I know it's operations.
I know you need the oxygenator.
I know you want it to
help build the Atlantis,
but in exchange he doesn't die.
- Bring her down to the
transit bay with Blackwell.
(footsteps on metal)
- We'll need to
do this in stages.
- Well, I will need the
first stage to begin soon.
- How soon?
- Immediately.
Presently our air supply
comes from the surface
and I'm expecting that to
be compromised rapidly.
- So, you're on your own.
- In 15 minutes we
will be on our own.
- I can have the first
stage ready to oxygenate
in 10 minutes.
- [Man 5] Captain, what do
you want done with the traitor
and his little friend?
(beeps)
- I need an escort.
I would hate to
take any chances,
even if you are as
delicate as you appear.
- [Man 5] Keep you hands
where I can see them.
Let's move.
- Shoot them.
(thuds)
- First person moves Captain
gets a bullet through his neck.
Put your guns down
on the ground now.
Now! Now!
Put 'em on the ground, now.
Put your hands on you
head and turn around.
Sustin, get in the Aquanaut
get it fired up, now.
Conceil, go.
(footsteps on metal)
(anticipatory music)
(gun fires)
(thud)
(anticipatory music)
Go, go, go, go, go, go.
- By the way, I yanked
out Nemo's device
and attached our own.
What happened to your arm?
- You're shot.
- I'm okay.
- [Sustin] Where's Cooper?
- He's dead.
At least we got Ramirez back.
(beeps)
- [Sustin] He wasn't
in the machine long,
he should be okay soon.
- Sustin, make it
to the surface.
We have to get above the
volcano to make contact.
- [Sustin] Detached sir, getting
ready to make the ascent.
- Sustin, we need to go faster.
- [Sustin] I'm trying, sir.
- I need to see your wounds.
I need to see how
severe your injury is.
- It's okay.
- Michael.
- Sir, the A1 is not responding.
- Hey, did we dump
the water tanks?
- [Sustin] I'm flipping
switches, but...
- There's something
caught in the propellers.
(grinding)
- I'll go, I'll go,
I'll take care of it.
- Stay here and
get us out of here.
- [Arronax] Don't be ridiculous,
I didn't just save you
so you could drown.
- I can clear the propellers.
You need to stay here on your
sub and get us to the surface.
Look, he's going to launch
those nuclear missiles.
We have to warn the military.
- Okay.
- I can do it.
- Here.
Take this.
Be careful.
(sighs)
(electronic whirring)
- Get Blackwell on the radio.
Turn this ship around.
We have to get that
oxygenator back.
- [Gunner] Sir, remote is
unresponsive, it may be damaged.
- [Nemo] Then get
it working, now.
We must not let them get away.
(respirator)
(anticipatory music)
- [Arronax] Sustin,
how's Conceil doing?
- [Sustin] I don't have a
visual but the propeller
is unresponsive.
(sonar dings)
(ominous music)
- [Arronax] Conceil,
you have to hurry.
(respirator)
- There they are, keep
them in your sights.
Blackwell, we will have the A3
under our control momentarily.
How long until the
missiles can be launched?
- [Blackwell] I need minutes
to finalize the trajectories.
Then I can launch the missiles.
- Very good.
Then we have eight minutes
to get that device back.
- Captain, we have multiple
ships coming into view.
- Then we have no time to lose.
We must recover the oxygenator.
Open hatches for torpedo launch.
(mechanical whirring)
- The Nautilus is on our tail.
She's heading right for us, sir.
We can take her down,
but I can't go up.
- Cut aft propeller,
prepare to dive.
- [Sustin] But Conceil.
- [Arronax] She has a tether.
- Hold on.
- [Gunner] Sir, the
A3 is descending.
- Descend, 30 meters.
- [Gunner] Descending
30 meters, Captain.
- Right engines, full.
- [Man 5] Full engines.
- Oh, come one, come
on man, right engines.
(submarine engine)
- [Gunner] Sir, the A3 is
hiding in the trenches.
- [Ramirez] Sir, the
Nautilus swung on by,
I think we lost it.
(beeps)
- Conceil, we have
to pull her in.
Ramirez, let's go.
If I'm not back in
ten minutes I want you
to leave without me.
- Sir.
- Sustin, that's an order.
Come on, I need help
with the tether.
Come on, let's go.
Ah, damn it the winch
isn't responding
we have to pull her in manually.
(submarine engine)
- [Ramirez] Sir, Conceil is
not at the end of the rope.
- [Arronax] I'm going
down to find her.
- [Gunner] Sir, they've
entered the cliff side.
It's too small for the Nautilus.
- Release the sentinels.
(respirator)
(beeps)
(shriek)
(crash)
- We've got squid.
- [Ramirez] Michael went into
the water to look for Conceil.
- I need to blow the life raft.
- [Ramirez] If you blow the
raft we could lose the boat.
- I need to blow the raft, sir.
(respirator)
(shrieks)
I need to blow the
life raft, sir.
- [Ramirez] Wait for Michael.
- I need to blow the raft.
- [Ramirez] Wait.
- [Sustin] We need to do it now.
(whoosh)
(shrieks)
- [Gunner] Sir, they've
neutralized the squid.
- [Ramirez] Michael's inside,
let's get out of here.
- [Arronax] Ramirez, check the
starboard view for Conceil.
Sustin, anything?
- I see her, I see her, sir.
- [Arronax] Conceil?
- No, sorry.
- [Arronax] What is it then?
- The U.S.S. Scotia,
right where we left her.
(ominous music)
What do you want me to do?
- [Arronax] Can we ascend?
- No.
- [Arronax] Then
dock us to the Scotia
and lets pray it still works.
- Yes, sir.
Sorry, sir.
(beeps)
(metallic whirring and clang)
- [Gunner] Captain, the
A3's found the Scotia.
- I know.
Blackwell, the time is at hand.
Prepare all missiles for launch.
(beeps)
(clangs)
(clangs)
- I should have gone.
I don't know what she
was trying to prove.
- She was trying
to save your life.
She was trying to tell
you she still loves you.
- [Ramirez] Sir, we
can't wait any longer.
We have to get on the Scotia.
- [Arronax] I know, let's move.
(clangs)
(clangs)
- It's the hatch.
(clangs)
(grunts)
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Do you mean it this time?
- Oh, shut up and kiss me.
(thud and gasps)
- Sustin!
(screams)
(shrieks)
(clangs)
(whimpers)
(beeps)
(clangs)
- U.S.S. Scotia is live, sir.
- Don't damage that vessel.
I need that oxygenator.
It's the key to Atlantis.
- [Man 4] Sir, we have the
remote on the A3 working.
We will bring her in now.
(beeps)
- [Arronax] Conceil,
help me with this hatch.
- [Conceil] It's not stuck,
there's a high pressure pocket.
(metallic squeal)
- [Arronax] Got it.
- Hey.
- Captain.
- I knew you'd make it.
- [Conceil] Is everyone, okay?
- Looks like everybody's
breathing, right?
- The bubble maker,
Michael it worked.
- I can't believe
it, I don't see how.
How all that water could be
converted to air in this space,
this size space.
(ominous music)
- [Man 5] SIr, they've
boarded the Scotia,
but the oxygenator
is still on the A3.
(laughs)
(beeps)
(submarine engine)
- They've activated
the remote on the A3.
Captain, we're gonna have you
and your crew topside A.S.A.P.
Hang in there.
- She's all charged
up and ready to go.
- I'm not getting a
strong enough signal yet.
Have you converted
the emergency power?
- Yeah, they're coming on.
- All right, she's on.
(beeps)
- Holding steady at
25,000 feet, Captain.
(laughs)
- Good.
- [Arronax] I'm gonna
need you to move over
to that red valve to your right.
RIght there, whoa.
- Okay.
- Okay, you gotta turn it
one full turn, clockwise.
- Ugh, it's stuck.
- It's not stuck, just
use your elbow grease.
Come on.
- Flood bays one and two.
- [Man 4] One and
two are flooded, sir.
(beeps)
- Now that my oxygenator
is safe blow up the Scotia.
Prepare torpedos,
lock coordinates.
- [Gunner] Torpedo
bays are flooded, sir.
Ready to fire, one
minute to countdown.
- Aim for the propeller.
- Can you help me?
- I can help.
- [Arronax] I can't,
I'm busy over here.
- Okay.
- I've gotta do stuff over here.
- Okay, turn it this way.
(grunts)
- [Gunner] Torpedos
are ready, Captain.
- Fire.
- Fire torpedo one.
(whoosh)
- It's moving.
(squeaks)
- A little more, got it.
All right, hold on.
(explosion)
- Direct hit, sir.
- Full stop.
- Stop all engines.
- [Man 4] All engines stopped.
- [Conceil] We're
fine, no hull breaches.
But, we can't take another hit.
- Don't worry I set
the remote to target
the controller's signal.
She's on her way
to the Nautilus.
The oxygenator should
start a chain reaction
with the warheads.
- Blackwell.
- Captain.
- [Nemo] Once we
are fully stopped
begin the countdown.
- [Blackwell] Yes, sir.
Launching missiles in ten,
nine, eight, seven,
six, five, four,
three, two, one.
- Launch the Trident now.
(submarine engine)
(explosion)
(Crash and alarms)
- [Nemo] Disarm the
warhead, disarm them.
- [Man 5] Warning, hull
breached, hull breached.
Warhead room inaccessable.
Levels one through four flooded.
We're taking on too much
water, going down fast.
All hands to bottom
deck escape pods.
Abandon ship, abandon ship.
(alarms)
(crash)
(explosion)
(screams)
(explosion)
(sonar pings)
- We held, we held.
- [Ramirez] 3,000 feet, 27,
we're going up fast sir.
- [Anderson] Slow
it down, slowly.
- All right, Captain
we're gonna slow it down
at 20,000 feet.
- We're actually going home.
- This is the U.S.S.
Scotia, anybody copy?
U.S.S. Scotia, I repeat
this is the U.S.S. Scotia.
Anybody copy?
This is the U.S.S.
Scotia, anybody copy?
(horn)
- Officer Arronax.
- Yes!
- What's going on down there?
(cheers)
- [Arronax] Yes!
We got her, sir.
- [Farrgut] Arronax,
identify your vessel.
- This is the U.S.S. Scotia.
- [Farragut] Where are
you, what's your status?
- 21 seconds north latitude,
142 minutes 11 seconds latitude.
Do you read me?
- A3 this is Lincoln
One go two by 16,
radio four to a sideline.
Do you copy?
That allows me to
inform you here
that the Scotia was lost
at sea four days ago.
- Yes, sir.
- How long would it take you
to send a tether down there
and tow them up?
- [Bogel] Five minutes.
- Do it.
Sit tight, we're sending
down a line for you.
- Yes, sir.
- [Farragut] Let me speak
with Captain Anderson.
- Aye, sir got it.
- Sir, Captain
Anderson U.S.S. Scotia.
We have 17 dead and
148 survivors, sir.
Yes sir.
- Thank you, sir. Aye sir.
I'm on your command, Captain.
- [Anderson] Take it away.
- If I show you something
can you keep a secret?
- Yeah.
- Just for a while.
Just till we figure
out what to do.
- Oh my god, Conceil
how did you get these?
These are Nemo's plans,
his private blueprints.
What?
- Just don't say anything.
(sonar pings)