The Ghost Ship Page #3

We don't want to mar the paint.

You'll mar somebody's skull

if you don't do something.

I'll speak to the captain.

- Excuse me, sir...

- lf you want to discuss...

...the hook with me, I've already

given my considered opinion...

...as to the danger involved.

On the bridge. The hook.

Look out! Heads!

- Look out.

- John. John.

You men there, get in and get that hook.

Make fast this end.

I'll fasten it around the hook.

Lower away on that winch.

- I can't. The cable's fouled.

- Get out there and grab that hook.

Put a stopper on that hook, Mr. Merriam.

Well, back to the black hole of Calcutta.

What are you thinking about,

Mr. Merriam?

I think I can tell you.

You're thinking about the hook.

You've made up your mind

that I was negligent.

- That's about it, isn't it?

- Yes, sir, I was thinking that.

You have no right to think that,

you know.

- The responsibility is yours.

- Mine?

I don't see that, sir.

I warned you about the hook.

- I told you twice about it.

- Exactly.

That's what I referred to.

You almost forced me into a position

where I had to show my authority...

...even though it put me in the wrong.

- I didn't see it that way.

But granted I was wrong, sir,

I don't see how you risked...

...the lives of John and the other men.

- I have rights over their lives, Mr. Merriam.

Remember the first day

you came into my office?

- Only vaguely.

- I told you...

...you had no right to kill that moth...

...because its safety

did not depend on you.

I have the right to do

what I want with the crew...

...because their safety

depends on me.

I stand ready any hour of the day

or night to give my life for their safety...

...and for the safety of this vessel.

And because I do, I have

certain rights of risk over them.

- Now do you understand?

- Yes, sir, I think I understand.

You must understand.

It's the first thing you have

to learn about authority.

This liniment should

have penetrated by now, Peter.

It's always worked like magic

on cows and horses.

And it's the only thing that ever cured

my old man's lumbago.

It's the liniment plus a kind of hypnotism

or something I got in my hands.

There. How is that?

You feel okay now, don't you?

It's the other side

where the pain is, Jim.

You mean to tell me you've just been

laying there letting me rub on this side...

...when it's there?

Mr. Merriam. I was working on him...

...but I just touched him there,

and he passed right out.

Has he ever complained

of pain here before?

Panama calling Altair.

Is the patient under anesthetic?

Altair to Panama. Patient is asleep,

breathing very heavily.

If the patient is completely anesthetized,

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