Titanic Page #4

LOVETT:

(to the video cameraman)

Get that outta my face.

CUT TO:

15 INT. LAB DECK, PRESERVATION ROOM - DAY

Technicians are carefully removing some papers from the safe and placing

them in a tray of water to separate them safely. Nearby, other artifacts

from the stateroom are being washed and preserved.

Buell is on the satellite phone with the INVESTORS. Lovett is yelling at

the video crew.

LOVETT:

You send out what I tell you when I tell you. I'm signing your paychecks,

not 60 minutes. Now get set up for the uplink.

Buell covers the phone and turns to Lovett.

BUELL:

The partners want to know how it's going?

LOVETT:

How it's going? It's going like a first date in prison, whattaya think?!

Lovett grabs the phone from Buell and goes instantly smooth.

LOVETT:

Hi, Dave? Barry? Look, it wasn't in the safe... no, look, don't worry about

it, there're still plenty of places it could be... in the floor debris in

the suite, in the mother's room, in the purser's safe on C deck...

(seeing something)

Hang on a second.

A tech coaxes some letters in the water tray to one side with a tong...

revealing a pencil (conte crayon) drawing of a woman.

Brock looks closely at the drawing, which is in excellent shape, though its

edges have partially disintegrated. The woman is beautiful, and beautifully

rendered. In her late teens or early twenties, she is nude, though posed

with a kind of casual modesty. She is on an Empire divan, in a pool of

light that seems to radiate outward from her eyes. Scrawled in the lower

right corner is the date: April 14 1912. And the initials JD.

The girl is not entirely nude. At her throat is a diamond necklace with one

large stone hanging in the center.

Lovett grabs a reference photo from the clutter on the lab table. It is a

period black-and-white photo of a diamond necklace on a black velvet

jeller's display stand. He holds it next to the drawing. It is clearly the

same piece... a complex setting with a massive central stone which is

almost heart-shaped.

LOVETT:

I'll be God damned.

CUT TO:

16 INSERT

A CNN NEWS STORY: a live satellite feed from the deck of the Keldysh,

intercut with the CNN studio.

ANNOUNCER:

Treasure hunter Brock Lovett is best known for finding Spanish gold in

sunken galleons in the Caribbean. Now he is using deep submergence

technology to work two and a half miles down at another famous wreck... the

Titanic. He is with us live via satellite from a Russian research ship in

the middle of the Atlantic... hello Brock?

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