Titanic Page #5

LOVETT:

Yes, hi, Tracy. You know, Titanic is not just A shipwrick, Titanic is THE

shipwreck. It's the Mount Everest of shipwrecks.

CUT TO:

17 INT. HOUSE / CERAMICS STUDIO

PULL BACK from the screen, showing the CNN report playing on a TV set in

the living room of a small rustic house. It is full of ceramics, figurines,

folk art, the walls crammed with drawings and paintings... things collected

over a lifetime.

PANNING to show a glassed-in studio attached to the house. Outside it is a

quiet morning in Ojai, California. In the studio, amid incredible clutter,

an ANCIENT WOMAN is throwing a pot on a potter's wheel. The liquid red clay

covers her hands... hands that are gnarled and age-spotted, but still

surprisingly strong and supple. A woman in her early forties assists her.

LOVETT (V.O.)

I've planned this expedition for three years, and we're out here recovering

some amazing things... things that will have enormous historical and

educational value.

CNN REPORTER (V.O.)

But it's no secret that education is not your main purpose. You're a

treasure hunter. So what is the treasure you're hunting?

LOVETT (V.O.)

I'd rather show you than tell you, and we think we're very close to doing

just that.

The old woman's name is ROSE CALVERT. Her face is a wrinkled mass, her body

shapeless and shrunken under a one-piece African-print dress.

But her eyes are just as bright and alive as those of a young girl.

Rose gets up and walks into the living room, wiping pottery clay from her

hands with a rag. A Pomeranian dog gets up and comes in with her.

The younger soman, LIZZY CALVERT, rushes to help her.

ROSE:

Turn that up please, dear.

REPORTER (V.O.)

Your expedition is at the center of a storm of controversy over salvage

rights and even ethics. Many are calling you a grave robber.

TIGHT ON THE SCREEN.

LOVETT:

Nobody called the recovery of the artifacts from King Tut's tomb grave

robbing. I have museum-trained experts here, making sure this stuff is

preserved and catalogued properly. Look at this drawing, which was found

today...

The video camera pans off Brock to the drawing, in a tray of water. The

image of the woman with the necklace FILLS FRAME.

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