All language subtitles for A Twist of Sand 1968

[SHIP HORN BLOWING]

That's him.
Send the message.Sir.

Signal from
the other boat, Sir.

The Etoshahas
just passed.

Well.

Slow ahead both...

Fifteen degrees
starboard.

[ALARM RINGING]

[INAUDIBLE]

Slow ahead
both engines.

[ENGINE REVVING]

Up the starboard,
both engines.

Give him a burst, gunner.

[GUNFIRE]

Hard to starboard.

Can't we swing
across his path
and cut him off, Sir?

No, he's got
behind a sandbank.

We'll have
to follow him.

[GEAR CLICKS]

That little lot would
have brought us £6,000
in Cyprus.

Hope you enjoyed
chucking it overboard.

I thought I did
rather well considering
the short notice.

You know one of these days
you're gonna cut things just
a bit too fine.

Well, I thought
you'll be around
to pull this out.

Captain Peace.

Glad to see you came
so well prepared, Commander.

I have a warrant from
the flag officer of Malta
to search your vessel.

Mr. Garland,
show our guests aboard.

Gentlemen, this way.

If you'll please.

GEOFFREY: What else can I
do for you, Commander?

Captain.

You're charged with
violating the Smuggling
and Contraband Act.

And that charge
is not to be uh,
taken lightly.

Also requires evidence.

Well, I assume that
you were jettisoned
your entire cargo.

And what cargo is that?

[CHUCKLES]

We're informed that
you're carrying 100
automatic weapons,

an unspecified
number of rifles

and four cases
of ammunition.

Destination, Cyprus.

Really? And who
told you that?

I could send divers down to
get those crates you know.

Well, I'm sure you'll find
all kinds of things
in the bottom of the sea.

Yes, I'm sure
I should.

I'm well aware of the fact
that I can't prove that those
guns came from this ship.

And you may think
you're making fools
of us, Captain,

but all you're doing
is degrading yourselves.

Submarine Officer,
Distinguished Service
Cross 1943,

D.S.O. and Bar, 1944...

Yes, court-martialed and
dismissed of service, 1945.

I'm sure you'll find that
down the bottom of the page.

It is.

You know I spent the war
in the Mediterranean,
I remember you, then.

You commanded
for Trout,didn't you?

No, I was just
a paid hand commander.

£900 a year
for seeking out

and killing whoever
was supposed to be
the enemy at the time.

Well, some of us
joined up for
other motives.

Pity we all can't be
so lucky, isn't it?

Well?

Nothing in the cabins, Sir
and both holds are empty.

All right, Lieutenant,
carry on.

Very good, Sir.

You know, the Admiralty
take a pretty dim view

of former naval persons
running contraband,

especially in the
Mediterranean.

You know there are
some rather nasty jails in
some of these countries.

Well, it's awfully decent
of you to be so concerned
about our welfare.

Entirely sincere.
Commander.

[SHIP ENGINE REVVING]

Well, now that
we're dead broke,
back to port.

Back to port.

[SIREN WAILING]

[CAR HONKS]

You have to use
this entrance, Sir, since,
the fronts been bombed.

Ah.Enjoy your
leave, Sir.

[CHUCKLES]
Oh, well, I never
enjoy leave.

Hello, Paddy,
I thought you'd been
appointed to London.

Hello, Geoff.
Good to see you.
I was.

I was going
to look you up there,
except my travel order

seems to have got lost
in somebodies debt.

Let me buy
you a drink.

No.It's rather important.

Well, I've made
some arrangements

and I haven't even
checked into the hotel.

The hotel and
the young lady have
been taken care of.

This way, Sir.

PADDY: Sorry they changed
your plans like this

I suppose
it's rather confusing.

Is there some sort
of explanation?

Or am I just
supposed to be
amused?

Yes, I understand
exactly how you feel.

First they order you
to London and cancel it
and now this.

But there is
a reason for it.Oh, that's reassuring.

[DRILL SHOUTS IN BACKGROUND]

[CLEARS THROAT]

There's nothing quite
like the Mediterranean
sun, is there?

Beautifully enervating.
Turns a man into
a complete idiot.

Unless of course,
you're born to the climate.

Besides, the weather's
dreadful in London.

Thought I'd save you
the trip.

You did mention something
about there being a reason
for my being brought here.

What Lieutenant Commander
Peace means...

What Lieutenant Commander
Peace means is that
he's tired and irritable.

GEOFFREY: I didn't
request this leave.

If it's being canceled,
I'll return to my ship.

You will
Lieutenant Commander,
indeed you will.

This is Admiral Sir
Lieutenant Tringham.

Director of
Naval Intelligence.

I'm not his Uncle Bertie
after all.

Something no doubt
you are beginning
to suspect.

It had crossed
my mind, Sir.

Shall we walk a bit?

Splendid view.

I suppose you've
seen it before.

According to our reports,
you carried out a most unusual
mission this past week.

Against the advice of
your intelligence liaison

and with your fuel
dangerously low,

you've entered
the Bay of Naples and
carried out an attack,

an unauthorized attack
on an enemy battleship.

Why?

It seemed to be
worth the risk, Sir.

And you succeeded,
fortunately for you.

Otherwise you'd have
been up against
an official reprimand.

Otherwise I'd have
been at the bottom
of the sea, Sir.

And I wouldn't have
had to bother about
a reprimand.

No, I suppose
you wouldn't.

Worth the risk?

That's an interesting
locking contraption.

Shall we try it?

Do you think
this would be worth
the risk, Peace?

It's an entirely new
and devastatingly
efficient U-boat

developed by
Blohm and Voss.

The Germans call it N P-1.

NP-1.PADDY: One.

It's the only one
of its kind, so far.

It has to be the last.

The war at sea
depends on it.

You notice he didn't say,
"May depend on it."

Depends on it.

PADDY: The NP-1
carries 18 homing
acoustic torpedoes.

She's equipped with
a new type range finder

well in advance of us
or the Americans

which enables her
to fire those torpedoes
from a depth of 50 meters

without using
a periscope at all.

TRINGHAM: What's more,
the Germans have come up

with a rather revolutionary
system of propulsion.

What speed
does your sub do?

She might make
a single burst of nine
knots in emergency.

The NP-1can do
22 knots submerged.

22 knots!

That means that she
can outrun any of the
ordinary escort ships

in the North Atlantic
underwater.

And to make it worse,
the damn thing
is virtually silent.

At least, it doesn't
sound like anything
we've ever heard.

So, Lieutenant Commander,
all I'm asking you
to do is to find it...

[LIFT DESCENDS]

...and kill it.

[CHILDREN SHOUTING]

What an extraordinary
mixture.

Look at those faces,
and you can see the signs

of every conquering
horde to have crossed
the Mediterranean.

Doesn't that
sound unbelievable?

The 22 knots, I mean.

Of course it does.

Fortunately, the German
High Command agree.

They think it's
bound to blow up
sooner or later.

Blohm and Voss disagree.

So, the NP-1has been
sent on a long try out cruise
at the South Atlantic,

operating out of
a hidden anchorage
in South-West Africa...

One of the most
dangerous coasts
in the world.

The Skeleton Coast.

That's 500 miles
of reef and shore.

There's no way into it,
much less an anchorage.

So we thought...

...till the Germans
found one.

If the NP-1should
return successfully
from his crewing trip,

the Germans will start
mass producing it's type.

But, if it fails to
return with no hint of
what happened to it,

they might assume that
it's blown up or sunk
from malfunction,

and abandon the project.

You must make sure
that it does not return

and that nobody learns
what happens to it.

Well, even if I find
this NP-1,

how am I supposed
to catch her?

22 knots!Precisely.

You could
never catch her.

So, as a more
practical approach,

you're to find her
hidden anchorage,

and attack the NP-1
in its mooring.

If it exists.

It exists.

You'll have complete
access to Naval
Intelligence reports

and every scrap of
information we've been
able to assemble.

Even so...

We have no illusions
about the odds
confronting you.

But we do have
to try, don't we?

PADDY: Sealed orders
will route you through South
Atlantic command to Cape Town.

Neither your crew
nor your officers are to know
where you're going or why.

Well, that's an
extraordinary
requirement, Sir.

TRINGHAM: It can't be helped.

If German Intelligence
learns that the
NP-1'sattacked,

the whole purpose
of your mission
will be lost.

They'll simply build
another, and after that,
a 100 more.

Attacking a U-boat
in its mooring,

not on the high seas,

bound to be survivors.

You think that
German Intelligence

is smart enough
to pick up a leak
from my crew?

What happens
when I sail into port

with a whole bagful
of German prisoners?

That will not happen.
[CHUCKLES]

There'll be no prisoners.

You can't guarantee that.

You will guarantee it.

[CAR DOOR CLOSES]

There can be
no survivors,
Commander.

Is that quite clear?

No survivors.

[INAUDIBLE]

Well...

I suppose we could
look around for some
passengers for a cruise.

DAVID: Just a stray thought.

God bless.

Take us two more years
of running for others,

before we can afford
another load of our own.

Is it possible, Geoffrey?

The game is becoming
too risky for the price.

Maybe.

Look, if you want
to sign off at this point,
you can, you know.

Nothing else
I care to do.

No place else
I care to go.

[CLATTERING]

[ALARM BUZZING]

MAN: Permission to come
aboard, Skipper?

Very smart vessel.

Radar, echo sounder,
800 horse-power engines
for Davey to play with...

Not quite up to your
submarine,Trout,

but very smart.

[PHONE CLICKS]

Lieutenant Riker
reporting, Sir.

Hello, Harry.

Long time no see.

Well...

Isn't this cozy,
the three of us
back together again?

You haven't changed
a bit, Davey.

You're not looking
too well, yourself.Ah!

And still the
same old game.

Yes, chess was
always a bit beyond
you, wasn't it?

Beyond my interest.

Mind if I have a drink?

Why the visit, Harry?

Oh, what you might
call a condolence call.

Good whiskey.

[POURING DRINK]

News travels fast.

Only if you're in the
right place to listen.

Your own money,
wasn't it?

Must have hurt.

Still, life is
a vale of tears,

and by the sweat of
our brow must we earn
our bread.

Except it's...

I have a better idea.

Anything like that
idea of yours

I read about
in the newspaper
a few years back?

Something about, um...

You and your Skipper
scuttling a coaster for
the insurance money?

Anyway, when did you
get out of prison?

A few months ago.

GEOFFREY: Courts must
be slipping. I thought
they got you for life.

Oh, the evidence was
only circumstantial.

Besides, they took
my war record into
consideration.

Don't forget my record
was honorable...

At least as honorable
as yours, Commander.

You mean
they never caught you.

Oh, you've been in the
newspapers too, Davey.

I suppose that's what
sent you scuttling back
to Papa here.

It must have
been very unpleasant for that
distinguished family of yours,

all that scandal.

What a nasty thing,
a wife like that.

That's enough, Harry.

You know, uh... I wasn't
too surprised to learn
what you were doing now.

For some of us,
the war is never over.

We become addicted,
it's uh, a way of life...

GEOFFREY: What do
you want, Harry?

I want to make you
a rich man, Skipper,
a very rich man.

There, it's yours.
A token of good faith.

About what you must have
paid for that unfortunate
cargo of yours.

GEOFFREY: I never knew
you to be so thoughtful.

Nothings more important
than an old friend, Skipper.

Besides, I'll get most of it
back from Malta for having
informed on you.

So, it was you!

You bastard![BOTTLE SHATTERS]

[BOTH GRUNT]

Please, don't consider it.

[DAVID GROANS]

Johann, my associate.

You've acquired some
charming companions
since the war.

Johann is a man
of many talents.

You'd be surprised how
often he comes in handy.

Oh, it's not like you,
Davey, losing your
temper like that.

There was
no reason for it.

You didn't really think
I sent you to quod to...

No, I knew they'd never
catch you, Skipper,

not peacetime Navy.

You knew
we'd have to dump
our cargo there?

That's right.

I wanted you to need
the money enough to listen
to what I have to say.

All right, Johann,
put the knife away,
we're amongst friends.

Well, how much
did you lose today?

Five, six thousand pounds?

I'm here to talk about
half a million pounds
for each of us.

Half a million quid,
Skipper, just think
about it.

Go on.

All you have to do is
take this ship down
to South-West Africa,

and into the
Skeleton Coast.

Nothing you haven't
done before.

You never knew that's
where we went on the Trout's
last mission, did you, Davey?

No one was
supposed to know.

I didn't know then,
not till much later.

But, uh, that doesn't
matter now.

All that matter now
is that you are the
only man alive

who knows how
to get ashore inside
the Skeleton Coast.

For what purpose?

A pursuit of a
very large tin can...

Filled with diamonds.

Where'd you get these?

They, uh, they
belonged to a geologist
named Eric Sorel.

He worked for a
mining syndicate in
South-West Africa,

searching for new diggings
northwest of Damara.

They, uh, they take rather
elaborate precautions

to keep the stones
from being slipped out
of the diamond area.

Electric fences...

X-rays, land and
air patrols, but...

Because of his work,
Sorel had complete
freedom of movement

inside the areas,
so every time he left
an operating field,

he took a few
stones with him.

After a couple of years
he had quite a collection.

The problem was
getting them out.

The first time he tried,
he was lucky.

The second time,
five years in prison.

GEOFFREY: Well,
have you met him?

Well, as luck
would have it...

We, uh, formed
a partnership to get
the diamonds out.

Where's he now?

Dead.

No, not what
you think, David.

Bad bump.

Glad to see
you're taking it so well.

There.

The diamonds are on the
edge of the Kaokoveld,

that's 200 miles
south of Ventnor Bay.

Nothing but uninhabited
desert barren mountains

and the diamond
security patrols cover
the whole area.

No one can get in or out,
except by sea.

But surely they must
patrol the coast.

The Skeleton Coast
polices itself.

Five hundred miles
of reefs and shoals.

No ship has
ever survived it,
expect for the Trout.

That was
a long time ago.

And no reason why
you shouldn't do it again.

And this time
for half a million pounds.

Unless, uh...

Unless you have
some private reasons
for not going back.

Where exactly
is this tin can?

HARRY:
One step at a time.

You made me
sweat for that one.

[ENGINE REVVING]

Slow ahead both engines.

I'll take her
out of the harbor
from up top.

Ah, she's all
yours, Skipper.

[LAUGHING]

GEOFFREY: What the hell
are you doing here?

Captain Geoffrey Peace?

Who the hell
are you?

Julie Chambois.

Perhaps we should
meet again when you
are in a better mood.

This is my better mood.

Then I suppose
I shall have to
get used to it.

Don't worry,
you're not staying.

I see you two
have met.

Forget it, Harry,
you're not bringing
your home comforts.

There's a bit more
to it than that.

I'm not having
your bloody woman
on my ship!

I'm not his
woman, Captain.

Worse luck.

I don't know
what the game is,
but it's not on.

Told you
he wouldn't like it.

JULIE: I'm your
partner, Captain.

And as I had
no choice about you,

you have no choice
about me.

We'll see about that.

I'm afraid you have
no alternative, Skipper.

You see, Sorel never
told me the exact
location of the diamonds.

She's the only one who knows
and she's not telling.

Not until we get there.

Sorel's woman.

JULIE: Sorel is dead.

HARRY: I tried to
persuade her to stay behind
and wait for her share,

but for some reason
she doesn't
seem to trust me.

Maybe she'll trust you.

The only one who knows
where the diamonds are,

and the only one
who knows how to
get near them.

[LAUGHING]

I'm a smashing
matchmaker, I am.

[GEAR CLICKS]

Get out!

[SHIP ALARM RINGING]

Steer 3-4-O.

Aye, aye, Skipper.
3-4-O.

Steady she goes.

HARRY: Just like old times.

GEOFFREY: Old times...

Five fathoms...

Four and a half.

Steer 3-4-O.MAN: Steer Three-Four-O, Sir.

[GRUNTS]

Engine room to Captain...

Damage repaired, Sir.

If these currents
keep hitting...Give me a sounding.

Sweep all around, please.

Three.

Thirty.

Take her down,
number one.

Half ahead
both engines.

Half astern
both engines.

MAN: Half astern
both engines.

Stop engines.

MAN: Stop engines.

Assume silent routine.

ELTON: Blimey...

Well, how long's
he gonna sit down here.

And for what?
I mean, what are we after?

Shut up, Elton.

[DOOR OPENS]Sonar report,
Skipper?

That happens to be
against regulations.

I'm supposed to be
your navigating officer.

You can report me
when we get to the Cape.

If we get to
the Cape. Mmm?

You're supposed to be
giving me a sonar report.

We're practically
surrounded by echoes,
none of them moving.

That is what we're waiting
for down here, isn't it?
Something moving.

I'm waiting for a target,
number one.

I didn't mind your
past tendencies towards
glory hunting.

At least at the other times
I knew where we were and what
you were risking my life for.

Sir, we're going to have
to surface to recharge
the batteries soon.

How soon?An hour, no more.

We'll wait till then?For what?

That'll be all.

Well, Geoff, I'm sure
you know what
you're doing, but...

GEOFFREY: That's right.

A hydrophone effect
bearing 108 degrees, Sir.
Closing fast.

Action stations.

MAN: Fast hydrophone effect
closing bearing 205.

What is it?

Very fast H.E, Sir.

350 revs and engine noises.

Could it be
a surface ship?

No, Sir, she's at
about 180 feet.

I've never heard
of anything like it.

She's doing
about 20 knots.

Could be a whale
with a belly-ache?

Switch off all auxiliaries.

Absolute silence.

No movement in boat.

Anybody drops anything,
he'll be in my report.

Stand by to surface.

Check main vents.

[THUD]MAN: All main vents
checked up, Sir.

Surface.

Blow twos and fours.

[ENGINE REVVING]

All right, number one.

Switch off echo sounders,

and call up
continuous soundings.

I'll take over
from the bridge.

Alone, Sir?

MAN: Thirty five.

Hard a' port.MAN: Hard a' port, Sir.
Thirty.

MAN: Twenty seven.

Group down.Group down, Sir.

Slow ahead together.

Slow ahead together, Sir.

Twenty one.Starboard 10 degrees.

Starboard 10 degrees, Sir.

MAN: Fifteen.

Fourteen.

Ten.Stand by three
and four tubes.

MAN: Eight. Three and four
tubes ready, Sir.

GEOFFREY: Set 10 and 12
depth settings.

MAN: Ay, ay, Sir,

MAN: Five.

Fire three.

[TORPEDO FIRED]

Fire four.

[EXPLOSION]

[GEAR CLICKS]

MAN: Was ist das?

[EXPLOSION]

[MEN SCREAMING]

[MAN SCREAMING]

[MAN SCREAMING]

Put us down!
Both engines.

You should have
gone back years ago.

If that's where
your ghost lives.

[POURING DRINK]

I haven't got
any ghosts.

We all have ghosts.

Of one shape
or another.

You never told me
what happened.

God bless.

Nothing happened.

You're an early riser.

The sea disrupted
my schedule.

I suppose you know
the odds against...

Two years if we're caught
in the prohibited area.

Five, if we're found
with the diamonds.

I mean the odds
against surviving.

Captain Peace,
I know why it is called
the Skeleton Coast,

but you have
been there before
and you survived.

It doesn't mean to say
I can do it again.

I think you can,
if you want to.

Why shouldn't I want to?

I don't know.

You know the risks.

You didn't have to come.

I prefer to take the risks.

Why?

Life belongs to those
who can pay for it.

Or find somebody
to pay for them.

Perhaps.

Like Sorel?

Sorel is dead, Captain.
And dead men are history.

Nothing more?

Nothing more,

and sometimes history
is best forgotten.

You seem
to forget easily.

Do I?

And what about you,
Lieutenant Commander Peace?

[DOOR OPENS]

HARRY: Ah!

Glad to see you two
in such fine spirits.

Why shouldn't you be
with £1,500,000 worth of
diamonds waiting for us?

[ENGINE REVVING]

DAVID: Is that intake
valve tight?

Any leakage?

Okay.

Now fix the other one.

Johann, here...

Hey, Joh...Ah!

What the hell's
the matter with you?

Johann!

Now back off!

You bloody great idiot!

Now then... Now, you come
one step nearer and
I'll bash your head in!

[ALARM BUZZING]

Having a nice chat?

DAVID: It's a bit
one sided.

HARRY: Put the knife
away, Johann.

Very funny, Harry.

Aren't you happy
with your crew?

What? That lunatic?

Who needs him?

HARRY: As a matter
of fact, we do.

Apart from the fact
he's a first rate mechanic,

he's spent years
in South-West Africa.

Knows the country
like the back of his hand,
or so he says.

You should hear some
of the stories he told

in the bars
around Cape town.

Stories? What stories?

Ask him.

DAVID: Ask him?
That lunatic never talks!

Good morning.

Inspector Seekert.

Diamond Security Police.

Oh, what's the problem?

A slight confusion, Captain,
about your intentions.

The harbor master's
got my papers.

Yes.

Well?

I thought, perhaps
you might be unaware

that you're on the
edge of the Kaokoveld
prohibited area.

Yes, I know.

So?

Your papers say that
you are taking
a passenger to Cape Town.

But your first mate
tells me that you're
going there for cargo.

Well, if we get some,
it'll help pay
for the return trip.

And if not?Have to come back
empty, won't we?

Then I shall look
forward to see you
again, Captain,

should you stop here
on your return.

Of course I shall
notify Cape Town
of your arrival.

They will be
expecting you.

Thank you.

Not at all, Captain.

Good day.

Uh-huh.

You've really
done it this time, Harry.

Why the hell did you
say we're going to
Cape Town for cargo?

We're supposed to be
carrying passengers!

Well, how the hell was
I to know what you put
in your damn papers!

Well, if you don't know,
why don't you keep your
mouth shut?

He probably thinks
he's scared us off anyway.

You better hope so!

You better bloody well
hope so, Harry!

Lousy Cape Brandy.

[WHISTLING A TUNE]

[SINGING IN GERMAN]

[CHUCKLES]

That's right, Johann,
you remember.

Pretty soon you'll
remember everything.

[DRUMS PLAYING IN BACKGROUND]

[CHILDREN LAUGHING]

[LAUGHING]

May I talk to you?

Under a flag of truce?

Why not?

[INDISTINCT LAUGHTER]

Tell me,
if Sorel had lived

how was he going to get
the diamonds out?

He didn't know.

Probably in his pocket,
that's how he was caught.

Not very clever.

Not clever at all.

He was a foolish man,
I suppose.

With expensive dreams.

Cost him his life.

The dreams didn't
kill him, Captain,

that was my privilege.

Riker said
he died in prison.

[MAN PLAYING FLUTE]

Sorel used to talk
about being rich.

It was like
a game we played.

He was going to buy
a villa in Capri,

with a terrace
overlooking the sea.

The walls would be white
to catch the sunset

and glazed with
Vietri tiles on the floor.

Oh, he described it often,

and that was only
the beginning.

Did you believe him?

No.

I knew nothing
about the diamonds

until he brought
the first ones out.

Soon there would be
millions, he said,

and everything he promised
would come true.

But, unlike us, Captain,

he was
much too innocent
to be a thief.

He had no guile,
and so he was caught.

In prison,
he knew he was dying,

so he made
his deal with Riker.

Then how are you
responsible?

Because he only
stole for me,

and because
I didn't stop him.

Did you love him?

He was my husband.

Where we are going,
is it very dangerous?

Yes.

You and me,

David and Johann,
even Riker.

It would solve a great
many problems if we
all drowned, wouldn't it?

[ENGINE REVVING]

Not very friendly...

Your Skeleton Coast.

GEOFFREY: This is
only the beginning.

It gets a damn sight worse.

I'll consider
myself forewarned.

Sorel once told me
this may be the oldest
coast in the world.

That perhaps it was
here that earth first
emerged from chaos.

We'll probably return it
to its original condition
one of these days.

The first time you
were here, it was
a long time ago?

Oh, have I broken
the truce, Captain?

Four years ago
a trawler broke
on the shoals.

You can still see it.

In land about 500 yards.

That's where
it went aground.

The shoreline's
shifted since then.

JULIE: The coast
that walks.

Do you think the sand
will cover it?

Maybe, someday.

Does it worry you?

Why should it?

Any number of wrecks
along this coast...

One more or less
wouldn't make
any difference.

Unless it happened to be
the one we were looking for.

My compliments,
Captain.

No, not deserved.

Nowhere else Sorel could
have hidden the diamonds.

Not if he wanted
to find them again?

The wreck is about
three miles in land.

The question is,
where inside the wreck?

And the answer?

I'm almost tempted
to tell you.

[CHUCKLES]

GEOFFREY: We start in here,
the Swallow Breakers,

an opening
in the reefs.

The HMS Swallow
found a passage
in 1879 and then,

she broke her back
on these shoals here.

All hands lost.

Hmm, that's encouraging.

In uh, 1891,

the British whaler,
Clan Alpine

found the Swallow's path
through the Breakers

and slipped past
the shoals.

Then doing
21 and a half feet,

she was finally ripped open
by a projecting ridge here.

We have to get through
these two rows

of exposed reefs and
into the lagoon there.

[WAVES SPLASHING]

Well, I suppose
that getting there
is half the fun.

Good morning.

Has it been
like this all night?

Just for the
past few hours.

It shouldn't last
much longer.

I hope not, I prefer
to see where I'm going.

You'll get used to it.

You can get
used to anything,

but it's not always
an improvement.

One way to stay alive.

Adapt or die.

Is that your
motto, Captain?

Survive.

Except, one can
adapt too well.

Like a species of beetle
Sorel once told me about.

This species of
beetle is blind.

Oh, it once had eyes
like any other beetle,

until one day the wind
blew it into the desert.

In order to survive,
it had to burrow deep under
the sand, out of the sun.

It now has completely
adapted to its environment.

But it is quite blind
as a result.

Not a very
interesting story.

Then why tell me?

Purely in the
interests of science.

[HARRY YAWNS]

My watch.

Your watch
20 minutes ago.

Put it on my
reports, Sir.

Oh, bloody fog!

HARRY: How long
have we been sailing
this close to shore?

Three hours.

We're in the
down coast current.

Oh, 30 fathoms under us,
that's some comfort.

Steer 1-0-5 degrees.1-0-5.

A few minutes
before noon,

fog ought to have
lifted enough for us
to get a sight

of a high hill
on the shore line.

Pretty soon after that
we ought to see some
white water ahead.

Not exactly
a reliable bearing.

That's the best
I've got.

I knew you two
would get along.

Cigarette?

Any minute now,
by dead reckoning.

Dead being
the operative word.

Skipper!

There's your hill.

How much water
under this?

Uh, 12 and a half
and shoaling.

The Swallow Breakers.

Have we really got
to go through that?

Stand by the engine
room telegraph.

Full ahead,
both engines!

[ALARM RINGING]

[ENGINE REVVING]

[GEOFFREY MUTTERS]

Soundings.

HARRY: Fifteen...

18 and a half.

Twenty.

Thirty one.

[ALARM RINGING]

Full ahead,
both engines!

Five...

Fifteen.

18 and a half...

Twenty.

Full astern, port engine,
full ahead starboard engine.

[JULIE SCREAMS]Get out!

Oh!

[CRASHING]

Find out what
the hell happened!

HARRY: The lifeboat's
hanging by one davit!

Well, cut the bloody thing
loose before it drives us
on the rocks!

[CRASHING]

[JULIE SCREAMS]

[PANTING]

Half ahead
both engines.

[ENGINE SWITCHES OFF]

Curva dos Dunas.

The Twist of Sand.

That's right, Skipper,
I saw your chart
in the Trout,only...

I didn't know where
we were then.

And now it's just
a 24 hour walk
to the diamonds.

Ever hear of a better way
to annihilate a submarine?

Just turn it into an oven
and cook everyone inside.

[MEN SCREAMING]

[GUNFIRE]

Now he's shooting.

Well, he's crazy,
that's what he is.

[GUNFIRE CONTINUES]

What did we get?

Nothing.

Then what were
you firing at?

ELTON: I tell you,
he's bleeding crazy!

I tell you,
he'll kill the lot of us.

[ELTON GROANS]

ELTON: No, Sir!

Herr Kapitan!

Well, he'll be okay.

That's right, Skipper.

Johann survived.

God knows how.

The stories he told
were so wild,
no one believed him.

But I did
because of one thing
he remembered.

The cocked fist on
the Trout'sconning tower.

Once I believed him,
I knew where you'd taken
the Troutand why.

[YELLS] Then why the hell
did you bring him back here?

He's the only one
who knows what
it's like in there.

The only one alive,
at any rate.

Come on, Davey,
give us a hand.

We don't have to
take him with us.

Sorel told me exactly
where it is.

Maybe he did.

But Johann's the only one
whose seen the wreck,

and he's the only one
whose got a chance
of leading us there.

Davey.

Don't worry, Skipper.

He doesn't know
who you are.

Riker never told me
about Johann,

or about what
happened here.

I want you
to know that.

Why?
Make any difference?

No, not to me.

Not to me either.
So you can spare
yourself the concern.

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

Feeling better?

You're not alone
this time, Johann.

I'll take care of you.

Come on,
get your things.

[INDISTINCT CLANKING]

Oh!

[WHISTLING A TUNE]

[JOHANN HUMMING]

If he finds out who you are,
he'll try to kill you.

[CHUCKLES]

Well, I tried to kill him.

[GUNSHOT]

[BIRD SCREECHING]

[COCKS RIFLE]

[SIGHS]

Ah, these dunes
are like quick sand.

Even if we start at dawn,
we're not gonna make it
before noon.

If the wind gets up,
we may not make it at all.

[CHUCKLES]

[JOHANN CHUCKLES]

[PANTING]

Well, right now
I'd trade my share
for a large Scotch...

On the rocks.

Where is it?

In the rope locker
of the bow anchor.

What a bloody good
that's going to do us!

JULIE: It's where Sorel
told me to look.

Take months
to shift this lot!

DAVID: When Sorel planted
the diamonds here,

the whole ship must
have been uncovered.

Or maybe...

But the winds had
six years to cover it up.

We might be able
to work our way forward,
from the inside.

[WOOD CREAKING]

[SCREAMS]

The whole ship
is about to crack.

[GROANS][RATTLING]

HARRY: Let's try in there!

Careful, careful.

[WOOD CREAKING]

[SAND TRICKLING]

David.

[WOOD CREAKING]

[CRASHING]

It looks like, uh...

The rope locker
must be under this lot.

The bow is all
twisted out of shape.

After coming
this far...

Ah, you give up
too easily.

Get out!

[CREAKING]

[EXHALES]

David, go on.

HARRY: I hope
that all that timber
doesn't come through.

[STRAINING]

[CRASHING]

[RATTLING]

[PANTING]

Well, I hope that
Sorel didn't have
a sense of humor.

[SIGHS]

[SAND TRICKLING]

DAVID: Hey, let's have
the bloody light.

HARRY: Oh, sorry.

[DAVID PANTING]

[METALLIC THUD]

[METAL CLINKING]

[CRASHING]

Look out!

[JOHANN SCREAMS]

GEOFFREY: Johann!

[HEAVY BREATHING]

I was just about to
bring it through and...

Everything collapsed.

Where's David?

[JOHANN GROANS]Give me that!

[JOHANN GROANS]

GEOFFREY: David?

It's funny.

I expected to feel
excited or something.

Ah, you lack
imagination.

Here, just loot at 'em,
Skipper, look at 'em.

We'd better get started.

Sorry about Davey,
Skipper.

Lousy break.

In a couple of seconds,
he'd have been out of there.

Oh, dammit,
stop acting as if
I killed him!

Did you?

If I say no,
you won't believe me.

HARRY:
Time to go, Johann.

Hey...

Come on.

He'll never make it.

We can't
leave him here.

What do you suggest?

We can't
carry him back.

Johann!

Johann!

Look at me.

Look at me!

And do you
remember me?

I burned your U-boat.

I shot your friends.
The water was on fire.

I left you all alone to die,
don't you remember?

[GROANS]

Yes...

I remember you, Johann.

You were on your knees
begging me to take you
with me.

[PANTING]

[GROANS]

Now, if you want
to kill me, you've got
to catch me.

You've picked
one hell of a time
to become a saint.

Go on then!

You haven't
got a chance.

GEOFFREY:
Come on, Johann!

Come on!
Catch me!

[JOHANN PANTING]

GEOFFREY: If you
want to kill me,
you've got to catch me.

Come on!

Come on!
Catch me!

Come on, Johann!

Come on, Johann!

Catch me!

[JOHANN PANTING]

[GROANS]

GEOFFREY: Johann!

Johann!

HARRY: Hey, come along.

Leave him
or we'll all die!

You've exorcised
your ghost, you've...

Atoned or whatever
the hell it is
you're trying to do...

Get out of it!

Come on!

[JOHANN GROANING]

You're not
gonna die now.

Come on! Get up!

Damn you!

Come on!
Come on!

[JOHANN GROANS]

[WIND HOWLING]

The whole pocket's
gonna fill up soon.
We've got to keep going.

GEOFFREY: Soon.

No, now.

Are you coming?

Johann!

Come on!

Come on!

There it is! [LAUGHS]

There it is!

[LAUGHS]

We're here!

I knew I wasn't
going to die.

I knew it.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph...

[COUGHS]

[CHUCKLES]

So close now.

Give me a hand.

Ah, might as well
carry a corpse!

[HARRY LAUGHING]

I did it, Skipper!

Me!

If it hadn't been
for me you'd have
still been in there!

I led you out,
remember?

Help me get him down.

HARRY: I don't want him.

He's all yours.

[HARRY CHUCKLES]

[STRAINING]

Come on,
the last effort.

Well, the diamonds
are here all right,
don't worry.

You don't think
I was going to lose them.

[GASPING]

You wasted your
noble gesture.

All for nothing.

Look at him.

He's dying.He'll live.

For a few hours.

No point in taking him with
us just to bury him at sea.

Why don't you, er...

Put him out
of his misery?Put that thing away!

[JOHANN GASPS][GUNSHOT]

[SCREAMS]

You were a great
teacher, Skipper,

but you forgot
your own first lesson.

The strong survive,
the weak die.

Cling to the weak
and you'll die with them.

[GASPS]

Johann!

TRINGHAM: There can be
no survivors, Commander.

No survivors!

GEOFFREY: Fire three![GUNFIRE]

Fire four![GUNFIRE]

ELTON: I tell you,
he'll kill the lot of us!

[MUFFLED SCREAMS]

Herr Kapitan!

[GUNFIRE]

[SPEAKING IN GERMAN]

[SHRIEKS] No!

Oh!

Johann!

Gone!

[MUTTERS]

It's over now.

[SOBS]

They're gone.

[SOBS]