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Josh?

Your old man let you come up for air? You're kidding, right?

You're gonna be in the shit!

Fuck it! I wanted to be here.

So here she is.

Yeah, reinforcements.

Hey babe, come meet Josh.

Frank McGuire's boy.

Josh McGuire. I've heard all about you.

Its so cool, your dad brings you on these expeditions.

Yeah, yeah, I am stoked.

How are things at Forward Base?

They still haven't found a way through. Everyone is tired, getting pissed off at Dad.

Just the usual, really.

Soon as I leave the whole thing turns into a Mongolian clusterfuck.

So, Carl says you're a climber. I've done a little.

Yes, she's strong like bull, smart like tractor.

Oh, original..

Hey, Eddie, I'll take right seat. Josh, jump of front.

Oh, sweet!

The last primeval wilderness.

We go down out here, Even god won't know where we are.

Some mud man will be using our skulls for a soup bowl.

That wasn't in the brochure, honey. Yeah, well, we're living large now, baby.

I have control.

Why do we cave, Josh?

Well, I don't... voluntarily.

Nope, wrong answer.

And why do you cave, Carl?

Because...

Let me show you.

Espiritu Esa'ala.

The mother of all caves.

My god, Carl. It's... Yeah, it is.

Focus on the dive.

Focus on the dive.

High oxygen.

Diluent flush.

Engage manual mode.

Low oxygen.

Oh, bloody Josh.

Got any coffee on the boil, George?

Hey Judes, I want you on those pre-dive checks please.

Now.

Righto, George. Ok.

All good, Frank?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Hey, JD, you ginger bastard.

Come over here and give Judes a hand with the gear, will you?

Yep.

George, did we hear from Josh yet?

Load this for me? No, no. Not yet.

Check it out!

Where's Liz?

She's still decompressing.

The comms up yet? Comms are good.

How was the dive, J.D?

Good visibility. Yeah?

Yeah? It's a bit cold.

Can you give a hand with the rebreather. My legs are stuffed.

You are getting old!

Off you go Virgil.

All set? Now lean forward for me a little bit.

That's it.

That's the third time you checked that gauge

George. I'm fine.

Been a while since you saw daylight.

17 days.

Anyone can call the dive at any time for any reason, yep?

You all set?

Sure.

So what else new, Luko?

Luko.

Carl! You're back!

Why is that gear coming up?

Well, there a big storm building right off the coast.

Frank said to haul out whatever gear we're not using.

Oh, he did, did he?

Hey Jim.

This cave not gonna beat me.

You're in the dog house, kid.

Yeah, whatever. I'm surprised Dad even noticed I was gone.

When he and Judes had to climb up to Camp 3 for those bailout tanks.

You were supposed to bring down, he noticed.

Oh, Shit! Yep.

Suck to be you.

Bailout?

Emergency tanks.

You see they dive with re-breathers but if something goes wrong, you need backup.

What could possibly go wrong diving in caves?

Look at her. She's teasing.

No, she goes.

Here. I can feel it.

No.

No. Virgil scanned that whole section. There's bugger all.

A machine can't feel the cave, George.

Well, Obi Wan,

think you can find a way through, you'd best do it fast.

Two days, three at most,

this whole place will be flooded like a blocked dunny.

Topside will give us plenty of warning.

You guys from the National Geographic, right?

Yeah, good to see you.

Hey Victoria!

Hey, you gotta meet this guy.

Hey, Dex.

I hope you're awake bro, you've got a visitor.

Hey, man.

Josh, man, you are in the shit.

Yeah, thanks.

This is Victoria, she's new, so give her the grand tour.

Hi. Hi.

For you, only one dollar.

Esa'ala Cave.

The largest unexplored cave system in the world.

A million years of rainwater dissolving it's way down through the rock,

trying to find its way to the sea.

Which is of course why we're here.

For no other reason than to explore and find that hidden pathway.

That's incredible. How far in have they got?

A tour for the lady is it.

16 caving personnel and 50 porters have hand-carried nearly a ton of equipment,

almost two vertical kilometers into the Earth's

crust over a period of five weeks.

Now I know what Carl's been spending all his cash on.

Yep. Kicks for billionaires.

That's so cool.

It's pretty basic, I...

I haven't finished yet, but you get the general idea.

Dex, you've been working on this for five years.

Four years. Yeah. Four.

I mean the 3Ds is a bit of problem that all and obviously it hasn't

rendered properly yet, and the connection speeds up here are just atrocious.

That's not a wizard.

And finally here we are,

Forward base.

And somewhere,

under there...

she goes.

You need to talk to Judes. Her heart's not in the dive.

You're kidding me...

now?

I'm just telling you what I see, she's tired.

Rain? No, no, we're good a few days yet.

Put Frank on. Yeah, I'll just get him.

It's Carl.

We're save! Thank God!

Frank, how you doing, buddy?

Nice of you to drop by, Carl.

You know some little bird told me you are shutting up shop.

Nice of you to ask the boss.

You must have found a way through.

Wait, can you ask me after the dive.

Yeah. Don't pull that soft to shit on me, Frank.

We are running out of time here.

Exactly,

and some of us have been hauling equipment down here for weeks,

while you piss out to back to America

and pick up your girlfriend.

You know that's bullshit on so many levels I not even gonna address it.

I've given you every piece of equipment you asked for.

Spared no expense.

I guess the cave doesn't understand that, Carl.

Frank!

You know what?

Check this out.

Porfidio.

And I am gonna haul this sucker down 2000

vertical meters just to give you a shot,

because your ass is so tight,

when you fart.

Only dogs can hear it.

All right.

Can you put Josh on?

Josh, you're up buddy.

Nice work,

biting the hand that feeds us.

If that soft-cock wants his name on this cave,

he should be down here getting his hands dirty.

What?

You're on my shit list.

We needed those Bailout tanks down here, Josh.

All right, we rely on you to do your job.

No. A job is something you choose to do, something you get paid to do.

Stop treating me like I'm five years old!

Then stop acting like you are five years old!

Do you think this some downhill ride, that you can just party...

Frank, he was due for a break.

Everybody's due for a break.

You want me to give him special treatment?

You need to go easy on him.

That's exactly what I don't need to do.

This cave can kill you in a heartbeat.

He's a good kid, Frank.

Cut him some slack.

All right, listen.

I want you to stay here,

I'm gonna do this push on my own.

No. No one dives alone. Let's go, J.D!

Judes, I'm serious.

Frank, I did not came all this way to sit here on the sideline and watch.

No!

Come on.

Come on are we gonna do this...

or we just gonna talk about it?

Look, will you just relax?

You gotta be kidding.

I can't even see the bottom. Trust me, you're gonna love this.

What next?

Would you just relax, I'm signing for you right now.

Oi, Carl, are we doing this thing or what?

You're gonna get it in five minutes. just two seconds, thanks.

I swear they'd still manage to find him on the moon.

I don't understand what the problem is.

I won't be back till the 13th.

Look deal with them, will you? Tell them I'm off for good till further notice.

Below.

Dealt with!

Now Josh, promise me you won't let me fall.

I promise just, just feed it through the rack,

slow and steady like I showed you, ok?

Ok. Sure.

Here we go. Here we go.

I met her on my Everest expedition.

Great. So she's, she's even crazier than you are.

Yeah. I'm gonna marry her one day.

Life is not a dress rehearsal Josh.

You gotta seize the day.

50 bucks says I'll reach the bottom before you.

You are so about to get spanked.

Unbelievable!

Yes, it's pretty cool.

Yeah! Amazing.

Carl! Rowlingson again.

Tell him he can kiss my ass!

Wanker.

Son of a bitch.

Carl likes to play by his own rules.

You're ok? Yep, all good.

Ok.

Push it.

Good to go?

Yeah, let's do it.

See you later.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

Where Alph, the sacred river ran.

Through caverns measureless to man.

Down to a sunless sea.

There once was a man from Nantucket.

Whose head was the shape of a bucket.

How are you traveling George, you with us?

Roger that.

I'm all over you, Judes.

Yeah, you wish.

Settle down you two.

Just keep the comms clear.

Yeah, well let's keep the poetry to a minimum then, Frank.

You good, Liz? How long to decompress?

All good. About 10 minutes.

Well, I'll see you in a couple of hours.

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill

I think that's 50 bucks you owe me, buddy.

Saddle up.

ok dokey.

Let's do it.

You with me Judes?

I'm on your six, Red Dog Leader..

What? I can't see it.

Don't worry about it. We're about 5 meters from the bottom.

Just follow Josh's light.

You're quite the repel rat.

Yeah, dad gets me every summer for a month.

Lucky you.

I've been dragged along on these stupid expeditions all my life.

See, it never occurs to him to ask if I actually like caving.

Yep, Josh is his own man.

Doesn't take after his dad much.

Oh, what? You mean I'm not an emotionally shutdown Nazi asshole?

That true, but he is also the most determined cave diver in the world.

Yeah. That's because he got nothing else.

Are you warm?

Where about are they?

The Devil's Restriction,

and let there be light.

Let's put down here and head on.

Roger that.

Hey. Hey. Oh hey! Shit! My accelerator's stuck.

Careful, Judes. Oh shit!

Call the scuba police.

Drinks are on you tonight, Judes.

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.

She gonna pissed off about that.

Hang on Judes, look at this. What is it?

This silt pulling through here pretty fast.

Looks interesting.

Could be a squeeze.

You getting this, George?

Roger that. I'm all good.

What you got there, Frank?

I do not know. Let's take a peek.

Hey Vic?

Get some B-roll for the National Geographic, would you?

Sure.

So. Josh.

Do you like caving?

My Old man is... is obsessed with torture, right.

All cavers are. It's like... It's their thing.

Check out what he got me, for my birthday.

It's from a wild boar that he killed by hand and ate on his expedition in Borneo.

That's... pretty cool, right?

Wrong, he modified it.

Kills this wild boar, eats it, and then turns it into a torch.

Oh, that's so Cool!

No. It's not cool that...

that is a caver for you.

They're all like: Whoa, I could be the first person to check out some awesome bit of rock.

That looks just like the last 10 miles of pointless rock.

It's so lame. Josh.

You just don't get it, do you?

Your Old man he's...

he's the most respected explorer of our time.

He's like, Columbus or...

Neil Armstrong.

And these rocks, these caves.

Ah man, his is it.

There's nowhere else left on the planet to explore...

I mean, where else you can shine a light where no humans have been before.

You wanna shine a light where no human's ever been before?

Here you go?

I haven't done this for a while.

Finally, some excitement.

He's going in without bailout.

His keen.

Jesus, Frank, just leave it.

That hole's tighter than a nun's nasty.

Are you sure you're up for this, Frank?

You don't have to come, Judes. Yeah, Right.

Plan to dive and dive to plan, Judes.

Go fuck yourself, George.

That hole looks pretty tight, Judes. Hope that diet is working for you.

I'm going in after them.

Jesus, Frank.

This is starting to get sporting. Sporting, my shit.

My breather's stuck.

My hose is caught.

I'm wedged. Frank. Frank, I'm wedged.

It's stuck. Judes, stay cool.

Deep and slow, Judes.

Panics the vulture sits on your shoulder.

There's always slack somewhere.

It's cool. I've got it.

Roger.

Good girl.

My God! Will you look at that!

He did it. He finally fucking did it!

Frank, you are one stubborn son of a bitch.

Bravo.

Since the beginning of time,

no human being has ever seen this.

Look at it.

It's like a cathedral.

Saint Judes' cathedral.

Damn right.

There's the air bell up there.

About a hundred feet up.

A big air bell.

George. You've gotta see this.

There's gonna be a whole new cave system up there.

I can feel it.

You want to go up and have a look?

You want to spend two hours decompressing?

Let's leave something for Carl.

ok.

All right George, we're winding it up. Roger that!

You done really good.

We'll have a nice a hot cup of tea ready for you when you get back.

Aye! You got a bit of a leak. Let me take a look.

What do you mean? Where?

God! Shit!

Judes!.Judes! Hold still! Find the bailout, find.!

Hold still! I got you, I got you.

Frank, my bailout!

Stay with me. Give me time to look.

Get me to the air bell, Frank. Get me to the air bell!

Judes, it's too far. We'll never make it. You'll get bends..

Come on Frank, Come on Frank, Get me to the air bell.

Judes, is too far. Jesus!, fuck!

She's got no bailout!

I'm flooding. Stay calm.

We're gonna buddy-breathe.

We're gonna buddy breathe, all right?

Mask off.

Frank, don't do it. We're gonna lose you both!

No, no, Frank, no.

No Frank, no, no, no.

Oh, man.

Fuck.

See?

He just fucking yanks the mask away from her.

I don't see it that way, Josh.

Josh. Hey, hey Josh.

You've got no fucking idea,

what you're taking about. No. He killed her!

That's bullshit. She is dead, and it's because of him.

Listen to me! Listen to me! Listen to me! Oh. Fuck off!

Buddy breathing with a full face mask.

Is the most radical thing you can possibly do underwater.

He was insane to even try it.

It's the most heroic goddamn thing I've ever seen.

No, that's bullshit!

Listen to me! That's bullshit.

It wasn't the case of him or her Josh,

this was about there being one body down there or two.

Once the Judes lost it, it was. She was gone.

She wasn't coming home.

Frank had no right taking her through there without bailout tanks.

Surely that was her choice.

Every fiber... This is bullshit.

Of Judes being was driven to explore.

Frank didn't force her to do anything.

No. No.

He always pushes too hard.

Josh, no.

He made this happen.

Does somebody want to give me a hand here?

Get her wrapped up and ready to haul out of here.

Forward base. Forward base, do you copy?

If you can hear me, the storm is right on the top of us.

Now. It's blown straight in from the coast.

Goddamn it, Frank. Pick up.

Frank, can you hear me?

You got through to Jim on the surface yet?

The... the comms are down.

It's probably the fiber connector at Camp 3.

This is Camp 4 to Surface Base. Come in.

What would you do?

On the mountain?

Camp 4 to Surface Base, come in.

Jim, do you read me?

There's nothing can be done for the dead at altitude.

If I were on the mountain,

I'd keep going.

Damn it!

Judes knew the risks better than anyone.

You drag everyone along on your big dream.

And they listen to you and they believe you, and then they wind up down here fucking dead.

God. It's a sphincter of rock, Dad. Nobody cares.

People care. No, they don't.

Judes cared.

Nobody out there in the world gives two shits about this, this fucking cave.

Those bailout tanks you were supposed to bring down.

Judes and I, had to climb back up and get them.

Judes started the dive heavily fatigued with a couple of hours sleep under her belt.

Now maybe that didn't make any difference,

but maybe it did.

Wanna think about that?

All right the comms are down.

J.D, Liz, I want you to head back up.

Let everyone know, we're coming out.

We're gonna need all hands down here in the morning to haul the rest of the gear out.

Ok, J.D I'll prep the rigs...

I'm going with them. Yeah, that's right, you go!

And when you get up there, find that chopper and keep out!

Fine!

Jesus Christ, Frank, give the kid a break, will you?

I suggest you keep out of this.

All right.

Yeah, ok.

You go. Thank you.

Don't worry about it now, I got this. He needs to respect you. You're his boss.

Stop!

Listen.

What the hell was?

We'd better keep moving..

Wonder where it leads.

We could always go and check it out first thing in the morning.

Just you and me, Frank. What do you say?

Liz, get up there! Ok.

I'm gonna call Surface Base.

Liz, get up there! I'm coming.

What the fuck is that?

The river. Surface Base. It's returning.

Surface Base, do you copy?

Get on the ropes. Liz. Can you hear me!

Hello. Do you hear me? Hang on.

Forward Base! Dad! Dad!

Do you hear me? Josh. Not good. Down bad.

Surface Base, do you copy?

Surface Base, come in? Hello. Can you hear me?

Shit!

Josh, is that you?

Jim!

Jim! We're at Junction 3. What going on?

Oh, thank Christ!

Look, you've gotta pull the team out now.

The storm has turned into a cyclone!

No, no, no. The others are still down there, the comms are down.

Josh, get out of there now!

Repeat. Get out, mate. Get out now.

Fuck!

Josh! Do you copy? There's no time.

What the hell is happening? Hurry up!

What about dad and the others?

We can't help them from here.

We've gotta get back to the surface, organize a rescue.

A rescue? No! We can't just leave them down there.

Help! Help!

Liz!

I think it's stopping!

Liz, are you all right?

I'm ok!

There is a break in the flow,

we have to get out of here. Now!

Where's Carl?

What is going on?

We gotta get out of here. Yeah.

Where's Carl?

Come on, Josh! What the hell is going on?

Hurry! Josh, what the fuck are you doing?

Get up here! Come on!

Get on the rope

I can't.

Josh. Come here.

I can't leave them.

Hurry Josh.

Oh Shit!

Josh, get up here! Now!

They're gone! Let's go!

Man that was great.

What?

We'll never make it.

Frank!

Get Victoria on that ladder!

Coming up behind you, Frank.

Watch yourself!

Frank!

Who's there?

Dad?

Joshua, what the fuck are you doing here?

Dad!

The cave is flooding!

Do you think?

Listen me!

We need a belay. Can you do that?

Yeah, yeah.

Secure? Yeah.

Wait! I got a line! Clip it on!

Make it tight. Now take your sticks and go. Go!

Ok. Pull it!

Hook them. That's it. One step at the time. You got it.

She's climbing!

Nice and easy.

Go baby, go.

You're doing great!

Keep climbing. Come on!

Take the weight.

Keep coming! Come on!

Keep moving!

That's it, you got it!

Victoria. Victoria. You gonna take a big hit now!

Ready yourself! You'll be alright.

Keep going, baby.

That's it! Keep going!

That's it! You're doing great.

Stop! Stop, It's moving!

Go back down!

Fuck that!

You all right? Yeah.

Can you hold on ok?

Dad.

Josh!

Joshua! Where are you?

Oh my god! Vic!

You did great, Vic! You good?

No!

God! No!

Josh. Joshua. Luko.

Get Luko!

Luko. Luko.

Vic, talk to me!

Are you good? Are you good? Yeah, I'm all right.

Luko?

George, let's go.

Watch that current.

Carl.

Josh. Josh. Get him out of there!

Josh! Let go!

Leave him!

You did everything you could, all right?

Frank. The exit. Shit.

We're heading back down to Forward Base.

We're gonna find another way out.

Through the restriction.

Grab anything you see that's useful.

I said useful.

Ropes, batteries, re-breathers.

We got a few hours before this place is underwater.

Frank, what if the air bell through the restriction is flooded?

Maybe you should send the ROV through to check it out.

I won't be flooded.

Jesus George, what if he's wrong?

Then we should all start growing gills, mate.

This isn't my mask. Where's my mask?

Goddamn it!

Bring those two re-breathers over here.

George, give me a hand!

What the fuck are you doing?

Without a suit, you'll go hypothermic.

This is the only one that will fit you.

Fuck that! I can't even dive.

I can't do this, any of this.

You can do this because you have to do this, all right?

You can swim, can't you?

You can breathe, then you can dive.

George will be with you all the way.

You'll be all right.

I thought George couldn't dive anymore.

We're taking him out of retirement.

OK. Ok, well...

Prioritize Frank.

There's no time to take off her suit. You have to...

show me how to use the rebreather.

Listen to me! No, you listen to me Frank!

I'd rather be cold and alive than warm and dead.

So, show me what to do!

You'll need this.

I'm fine in this Frank.

Show me what to do,

because I am not wearing the wet suit of a dead person.

Get her a mask.

The first rule of diving.

Never hold your breath.

You've were bent before bad in Mexico, right?

Mexico?

Fucking Malaysia.

Mexico is where I got the Clap.

Dad! Dad!

Bring your medical kit. It's Luko.

I'll get it Frank. You go.

He is still alive.

George, we have morphine?

No. Nothing.

How bad is he?

George, take Josh a way.

What you gonna do? There's nothing we can do.

What do you mean? You have to do something.

Josh, he's broken every bone in his body.

Alright? He can't hold a reg in his mouth.

You can't just leave him here to die. I don't intend to.

No, no, no.

You have no... You have no right to do this.

You people have no idea, do you?

You have no idea!

You spend your lives wrapped in cotton wool,

you want to play at being adventurers.

Well this is it.

Ok, come on Vic. Come on.

George.

Come on, mate. It's all right.

It's all right, my friend.

How's it look down there?

Walk in the park.

I'm closing the valve now, right?

When you take it off, it stays closed, yes.

Come here you.

You ok? You'll do fine.

You stay on the guide line, all right?

And don't let go of it.

Remember how to clear your mask?

Yeah, yeah, Carl was taking me through this all again.

Good. Now you get to hear it twice.

Keep the mouthpiece in or close the valve.

If you flood the breathing loop, it's all over.

We'll have over an hour of decompression stops before we can surface.

Remember what Frank told you about decompression sickness?

The bends, right.

If you get bends down there it's gonna ruin your whole day, believe me.

Green light is good, red light is bad.

I'll monitor your PPO2 Dad, I get it. Ok.

All right.

Stay at the same depth as me.

Or your blood is gonna fizz up like a dropped can of beer.

Nice.

All right, listen up!

Visibility's gonna be stirred to shit.

So stay on the guide line at all times.

I'll bring up the rear.

Victoria is the last one through that restriction.

What?

If you panic in that squeeze,

anyone behind you is dead.

You'll be fine.

I'll see you on the other side.

He could've picked better choice of words.

Fuck!

Where's Carl?

Where's Carl?

We gonna raise your body temperature. She's hypothermic.

Josh, get the space blanket. Yeah.

Cross your arms, cross your arms!

Carl! Get here and get your kit off. You're gonna be under here with her.

Come on, get a move on!

George, get on oxygen.

No, I'm fine. Get on oxygen!

It's ok, babe. I'm coming. Josh, wheres that blanket?

Got it. Got it. Here we go.

Ok. Here it comes. Put your head down.

I got it

There you go, Oh baby.

You're gonna be ok.

Any chance you get, hey baby?

Come here you.

You are no use to me If you fizz up again.

All right, If we run out of light, we run out of time.

Conserve your batteries,

and get some rest.

I still can't feel my feet.

I told you we'd take care of you, babe.

Yeah, fun times.

Dad!

I should have worn her suit.

Hey, you did great.

You're alive.

You understand no matter what happens,

you never, ever give up.

Hey, Frank?

We should explore this section while we're waiting.

Might be a way out.

Waiting for what?

Waiting for the rescue party.

There is no rescues down here,

only body recoveries.

Everyone up there already thinks we're dead.

Don't worry about it. It's fine.

You all right?

I'm right. Yeah?

Just taking a leak.

And there she goes.

Now I'm right.

I still think we should sit and wait.

Yeah, we've got enough food for the next couple of days.

A couple of days, this cave's gonna be underwater.

Understood?

We follow the river and get to the ocean.

OK, this way!

Are you sure? Nope.

Come on!

Hey, George, you all right?

I'm fine!

You go on up ahead! God.

George!

You all right?

Hey.

Did I ever told you about the time your dad really fucked up.

No.

We were checking out this cave on the Nullarbor we'd found.

Now there's nothing out there as far as the eye can see.

Just this bloody great big hole in the arse end of nowhere.

So, Frank backs the truck up,

to the edge of it, so we can tie off the guideline.

Right! Right.

So...

we do the dive,

we're swimming back out,

and suddenly there's a vehicle blocking the entrance.

60 feet under water!

I'm thinking...

Shit!

That license plate looks familiar.

He'd gone and left the hand brake off.

Dumb son of a bitch.

We pulled his truck back into the cave with us.

We had to smash open the back window just so we could swim out.

Then...

the poor bastard, had to walk 20 miles in the desert.

20 mile just to go get some help.

He's a hell of a fellow, your old man,

once you get to know him.

Here...

haul this thing for me a little while.

I just need to catch my breath.

Go on.

Go.

Fuck!

How are you holding up?

Hot bath and a brandy and I'll be fine.

Carl! We'll take a break once we hit the top, all right?

Sounds good!

Where's George?

He's...

he's back there somewhere, taking a break.

He said he'd catch up with us.

George!

George!

George!

Dad, what's going on? Where did you see him last?

What, I do not know. We followed... Jesus, where?

He's got the bends. He doesn't want to slow us down.

There. His rebreather.

George?

I know what you're doing!

George, where are you?

George!

Oh Jesus!

Dad.

Oh, Christ.

George, where are you?

Damn it!

George!

You don't have to do this!

George!

George, where are you?

Turn that light off.

Come on, Josh.

We will make the cover of National Geographic, yet!

Hey. Hey. What the fuck are you...

Dad.

When they pull our bodies out of this place, there's not gonna be any tourist shots.

Not of me and not of my boy!

Understood?

Back off, Frank.

God.

You ok, baby? Christ!

You're actually enjoying this, aren't you Frank?

Making life or death decisions, playing God.

There is no God down here.

This place doesn't give a rat's ass about you or me,

or any of us.

We're a bits of dust passing through.

Carl.

George is gone.

Oh, what do you mean gone?

He... He fizzed up.

Decompression sickness.

He's gone.

Oh, Jesus. I'm sorry, Frank.

I'm sorry. Oh Shit!

Shit!

Come on, keep up! Josh, Victoria!

That's a meat grinder down there.

Shit!

Maybe we missed something.

One of those tunnels back there.

No, we follow the river.

All the way to the ocean.

Maybe we should head back,

wait for the water to subside, so we can find another way out.

Carl, you can do whatever you like.

Josh and I going down here.

Can't we least take a vote on it?

All right, let's vote on it.

Two against two.

Now what do we do?

Come on, enough of this bullshit!

Let's go back, check on those tunnels.

No! Wait!

No, no, no.

It's best to stick together. Ok.

You better be right, Frank.

There's a ledge below us.

I can get a cam in there.

But I am gonna need an anchor,

so I can traverse around the other side.

Frank, I can hardly feel my fingers.

Dad, it looks pretty tricky, you should let me do it.

No. Absolutely not.

Let him do it, Frank.

Your son is the best climber we have.

Right.

You be careful. Please.

I have control.

You clipping in? Roger that!

All right, give me some slack.

I'm gonna have to improvise this last bit.

Yes!

Are you good?

Yeah. Yeah. I'm good.

Good.

Good boy!

Are you ok?

Get that light off her!

My Hair!

Jesus Christ!

Hang on, honey!

Victoria! Try not to move! What going on?

Her hair caught in a rack!

Jesus Christ!

Hang on there, honey!

Hang on!

Joshua, go back!

Get off that line!

It won't take the weight.

Help me!

Hang on there Vic! We're coming! Victoria, listen to me!

Try and transfer your weight. Try and get a foothold.

I can't get a hold!

Jesus Christ, Frank. She has to do something.

All right, I'm Coming up! You're not!

You're Staying here until we work out a plan.

Victoria, Do not panic!

Hang on, Victoria!

Victoria, Listen to me!

I know you in a lot of pain!

But you have to stay there! Help me!

Do nothing until we can get a rope up to you, you understand?

I'm gonna cut my hair free!

No! Do not use your knife!

Put your knife away?

Keep that knife away from the rope.

I can get up to her!

Christ!

Put your knife away, Victoria!

I can climb up there and I can get her!

Do you understand me?

I can get up to her!

Victoria!

Christ! Jesus Christ!

No. Fuck.

We should get going.

Josh.

Victoria made her own choices.

All right! She chose to come down here without experience.

She chose to dive without a wet suit.

She chose to use her knife.

That's three big mistakes.

In a place you're lucky get away with one.

Now we've only got one rebreather left.

You heartless bastard.

Have you no decency?

Who the hell do you think you are?

We can mourn her in the daylight.

We gotta get on.

How did you become like this?

Look.

Josh.

I know I haven't been anything of a father to you.

All right.

I'm not much good up there, full stop, mate.

That's just a fact.

Cities and cars and mortgages.

I could never be what your mother needed,

or probably what you needed.

Why?

Why caves?

Down here, I can make sense of this.

Do you know what I mean? I can...

It's like my church.

I can hold a mirror up and say, this is who I am.

I don't wanna die, Dad.

I don't wanna die down here.

It's alright.

It's alright.

It's alright.

It's alright.

It's alright, mate!

We're not gonna die.

Come on. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

We're gonna get out of here, all right.

Good.

Let's keep moving.

Oh, Christ! Dead end again.

All right, we'll rest up here for a while.

Then I'll take the last rebreather,

run through see if she goes.

Then I'll come back to get you, Josh.

And later you, Carl, yep?

Sure, Frank. Whatever what say.

Dad! Carl is taking the rebreather!

What is he doing?

He's not gonna come back.

That son of a bitch.

Fuck!

Come on!

Dad! Dad!

Is it dead?

Yep.

Well the tunnel could choke,

then he'd have to come back.

If the tunnel chokes, we're dead anyway.

So what do we do now?

I do not know.

I'm tired. I need to rest.

What are you talking about?

We have to go back. We will find another way out.

What's wrong with you?

You remind me of me.

Shit!

Bat Shit!

Do you think there's a way out?

Well...

I'm guessing the bats didn't swim down here.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

What's that?

Coleridge.

Very hippy-Skippy.

Well he was on drugs when he wrote it.

I did know you're into poetry.

I'm not.

Your mother was.

Teach it to me.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran.

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran.

Through caverns measureless to man.

Through caverns measureless to man.

Get up there. Climb over me.

Here. Give me your hand!

Motherfucker.

Good boy. Yes.

Good boy.

Oh, my gosh. I've got no light.

Right.

Shit!

Ok.

We should rest up.

Wind. Dad, I can see you.

Well, we're not climbing out of here.

Now that's something you don't see every day.

A tank?

A bloody tank.

Japanese, they were all over this place during the war.

Amphibious.

We must be pretty near the coast.

The cave must have collapsed underneath them.

Do you think anyone survived?

Doesn't look like it.

Well, there you go.

I told you!

We could stay here, you know.

Hope that someone finds us.

Assuming they are looking for us.

Assumption is the mother of all fuck ups.

That sounds familiar.

And we're so close.

Now she's teasing us.

Oh, don't take it personally.

We're here now,

that's the main thing.

So what do we do?

Do we stay here or do we push on?

You decide.

Hey Dad, I found the river!

Lost my grip.

Well, you should... you should be more careful.

Carl.

Nah, empty.

Dead.

The river's flushed everything through here like a sewer.

Yeah.

It stinks in here.

Josh?

Josh? Frank?

Is that you guys?

Oh, thank God!

Thank God!

Carl.

What the fuck?

What the hell were you thinking?

Well, I was gonna come back for you guys.

I would have come back.

I would've, you know.

I just ran out of air.

Please!

Have you got any food?

Yeah, of course.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Frank. Frank please.

Please do not go over there, Frank!

Frank!

Please.

Please don't!

Don't.

The river dumped her here, Josh.

Like a piece of garbage.

God, Josh, I'm sorry, buddy.

I missed up, you know!

I admit it, I missed up, ok!

I panicked you know, it was a moment of madness.

I don't know what you want from me.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, Josh. Good girl, Jules.

Josh, let's go.

Wait! What?

Josh?

Josh?

No! No! No! You're not gonna leave me here! No way!

You can do whatever you like.

Frank!

Well fuck you, Frank!

She goes.

There is a tight squeeze. Yeah.

But once you get through it, it's crystal clear.

Well, we'll buddy breathe through the sump.

One breath each, nice shallow breathe.

What about Carl?

I'll go get him.

I can't breathe. It's...

It's my back. It's in my...

Oh, no. No, Josh. No. Josh.

Josh.

You, you trust the cave, all right? Trust the cave,

and follow the river, it'll lead you out.

What.

No, no. We can still make it.

Dad, we can buddy breathe like you said.

You'll be fine.

He killed Victoria, Josh!

Luko. He'll kill all of us!

You take one step closer and I'll fucking kill you!

The only reason we're still breathing is because of him.

Josh, could you...

could you get me into the water, it could help me.

Into the water.

Oh God, oh God.

You've got better instincts than me.

So listen to them, all right?

You keep going.

Don't you give up or you will be back on my shit list.

No. Dad, I'm not leaving you here.

Can you...

Can you help me?

Help me.

I don't want this to take too long.

No! No! No! No!

No!

That's all right.

That's all right.

I'll stay. I'll stay with you.

I will stay.

You'll be fine.

Hey no, you stay and you'll die.

No.

Just help me.

I'm so proud of you, Josh.

Please help me.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan.

A stately pleasure-dome decree.

Where Alph, the sacred river ran.

Through caverns measureless to man.

Down to a sunless sea.

Joshua.

Josh!

It's time to go.

Are we home yet?

Nearly.

George was right.

I never knew my father,

but I've found him in that cave.

He was a hell of a fellow,

once you got to know him.

LESAIGNEUR Sync & corrections July 2016 lesaigneur@hotmail.com