Submergence Page #2

Your white wine, Madame.

Thank you, Marcel.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[WAVES CRASHING]

Hey.

Good Morning.

JAMES:
Good Morning.

- You're English?

- British. Scottish British.

Dani, Dani Flinders.

James More.

- DANI:
Will I see you later?

- JAMES:
Yeah, I'd like that!

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Oh.

JAMES:

I think you're following me.

Or you're following

me in advance.

- Tricky.

- [JAMES LAUGHS]

Mr. More,

the newspaper you wanted.

Thank you, Beatrice.

You're definitely following me.

I haven't even had a

chance to shower yet.

I love the smell of sweat.

- I have to do some work.

- Is this your room?

- Lunch?

- Would 1:
30 be too late?

No.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

MAN:
[OVER RECORDING]

Free-living chemoautotrophic

microorganisms at

hydrothermal vents.

We integrated the analyses of IPL

diversity and delta13C values,

delta13C lipid with

16S RNA gene-based...

[ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS]

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

- [KNOCKING CONTINUES]

- Yes?

JAMES:
I've come

to take you to lunch.

It's open.

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

Carry on, Professor.

How did you know

I was a professor?

I looked at your name on the

letter you picked up this morning.

What are you a professor of?

Take a guess.

Um...

- Music?

- [LAUGHING]

DANI:
Nope.

Do you mind turning

it down a little bit?

It's awfully loud in here.

I mean, you couldn't

really hear me... [CHUCKLES]

knock on the door even, so...

[MUSIC STOPS]

- Thank you, Law?

- [SCOFFS] Please.

- Uh, anthropology?

- Wrong again.

Well, just... tell me then.

I apply mathematics to the

study of life in the ocean.

JAMES:

You're an oceanographer?

There's no such

discipline as oceanography.

I'm a bio-mathematician.

It's the working of the science

to whatever is in the sea.

Or at the bottom of it.

Precisely.

It's quite rude,

just sitting there, watching me.

Insisting that

we eat something?

I know, it's entirely

unreasonable.

[LAUGHING]

So, what ocean is your favorite?

It has to be that one,

the Atlantic.

JAMES:
Okay...

Carry on.

- About?

- The sea.

I feel certain it's going

to tell me all about you.

All right, then, um...

close your eyes.

You're determined not

to let me eat, aren't you?

Close them.

The ocean has five layers.

- Five.

- Are you going to cooperate?

Mm-hm.

- I want you to picture this.

- Okay.

Yes, it has five layers

and the first one is epipelagic.

It contains all the plant

life and coral reefs.

Whatever memory

you have of baptism,

or any other form of submersion,

is there in the blue water.

The next layer,

is mesopelagic.

This is the twilight zone...

into which...

blue and all other

colors and light vanish.

[LAUGHING]

Everything under the

mesopelagic is night.

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