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you okay yeah i'm good sure you don't want to go out there no

don't believe it's been over a year crazy yeah some

food yeah let's get some food where should we go coffee

Does it look any different?

The mission's still there.

There's a lot that's still here.

Yeah.

you thank you very much yes number two cheers cheers honey oh wait do you

remember go fish oh my god okay

wait so it was like when we had pigtails and a ponytail, and dad

had just hurt his back. Right, he had just slipped on his phone.

And so he would lay on his back and he would wait for us to dangle our hair

over his mouth. Yeah, and we would try to avoid his bite.

Are you okay, Randy? Yeah, I'm good. Uh, yeah.

I don't know. No, I just, I don't remember that, uh, memory.

I didn't have pigtails.

I like your hair. I know. Yeah, it looks great. It looks bad. It could be a lot

better. You know what I mean?

Yeah, get extensions or something. Yes!

I believe so many people remember.

Well, he's hard to forget.

Well, but they're not just for him. No, they're for mom.

What?

They are. They're for mom.

Yeah. But if they're also for mom, then they're also for us. Yeah, but

they're... They're also for his children. No, yeah, I know. Okay. Yeah,

okay. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Cool.

You really didn't go sober today?

Uh, no, I don't know. I wasn't feeling great.

Still haven't opened the letter?

What about the letter?

Dude, of course we know about the letter.

We all got letters, you know? And what else could he do, except write you a

letter? What else? He wasn't a subtle guy. He told me what he thought about me

all the time. I don't need... Shh, okay, we can all shh.

I know.

He did ask for you.

Yeah, all right.

I know that whatever happened on his boat... You don't! You don't, no.

Dude. Sorry.

Sorry.

Sorry, I just... I tried to be there and just, you know...

Didn't make things better, just made things worse.

Do you guys, um... Do you guys ever think about how this casket is empty?

Like it's just a wooden box.

Sleepers rise!

It's what I came back for.

You know, he saved my life once.

Yeah.

Went too deep at a Carmel River beach.

Got nitrogen narcosis.

It was a pretty classic case.

Started acting drunk.

I was hearing voices, trying to get rockfish to use my hair.

And this guy swims up out of nowhere.

Guides me up like an angel.

Saved my life.

Probably saved a lot of lives.

Did you know him?

Jay?

Hey. Hey, you. I knew it was you. Come here.

Hey, man.

Come here.

I didn't know you were back.

Yeah, yeah. Just, you know, a few days from mom and sister. That's great. I got

a job. I got to get back to you. Look at you. College boy, working man.

Should be good for an hour.

Thanks. Your old favorite tank.

Bet you don't need that in Iowa.

I thought you hated diving.

Wasn't diving a hit?

Well, hey, what are you thinking of taking it around? Maybe we can... I'm

going straight from here.

You know,

funny thing. Drove past the beach on the way in, crawling with coast guards.

Something must have happened overnight.

Or it was near the shore, maybe.

They might not be letting folks in the water.

Hey.

How about you and me?

Sunday, we grab some grub, take the boat out. I leave on Sunday. I can pull

Saturday. I don't want to be on that boat.

Sorry.

But thanks.

You know what?

I'll just have to steal someone else's boat. How about that?

It's the J I know. Come on.

It's your first time?

Since I left for school, yeah. First time back.

Come to your training, breathe sleepy, all that shit. Yeah, I know. I know your

dad was rough on you, but he knew what he was talking about, especially down

there. Don't forget.

I won't.

A year.

A whole year.

Yeah.

All right.

There we go.

Good, huh? Yeah, good. Great, yeah.

You better.

You know I still want to see you, even if it's a landlocked lunch.

Yeah, I know.

Hey, Jay. Yeah?

He, uh... He made sure we were near the edge of the canyon at Monastery.

He was just never gonna go out on the hospital bed.

I think he just wanted to be close enough to everyone, you know?

If you don't listen to me, you'll die. You understand?

Yes, sir.

This is a favor tank.

It's yours now.

If there's something wrong with your regulator, use your backup.

The yellow one.

It's called an octopus.

It's okay.

Hey, don't be laughing when you're suffocating.

Air comes from the first stage?

One, two, three.

three chances to save your life, and you missed all three, you're dead.

Dead.

Dead.

something that will keep your scrawny ass down otherwise take that shit off so

you can't use it

Thank you.

foreign

Oh.

I love you

The more levers we take out, the more boats. The more boats, the more noise.

All this sonar is driving whales mad.

Then they don't know where to shit.

And if they don't shit right, they don't fertilize the water with the plankton.

Plankton makes more CO2 than rainforest.

Did you know that?

Yeah. Without it, we die.

All because of tourists?

Also, they can post a selfie with a whale?

Come on.

You okay?

Dad,

I was, um...

I was looking up mesothelioma treatments.

No, no, no, no, no.

Treatments. I'd be poked like a voodoo doll, the rest of my life. There's

something called immunotherapy that really is supposed to help a lot. Oh,

my. Dead.

I'm never going to dive again.

Ah!

Oh, what I wouldn't give to dive.

Even for golf balls again.

Mm-hmm. Water hazards at the country club, diving through all that goo shit,

all that flammable methane. Yeah.

We have to blow up this piece of shit.

Why not?

I mean, you don't want it.

Iowa.

I don't want to talk about it. It's a good school.

It's tuition.

We got oily rags in the engine room. We can sky high, Jake. Come on.

Blow this sucker up together.

Come on.

No, you can still use it. You can still move around.

It's good for you. You hate it, but you can still run some tours, Dad. It'll be

good for you.

Iowa. Dad.

Iowa will have to wait. I don't want to talk about Iowa, Dad. It's a good

school. They're paying for my tuition.

Yeah, that's it.

Get a last look at your precious lamb.

This is home now.

We're going to drink until we soften up into something that the whales can slurp

down easily.

We own that much, don't you think?

And respecting whale isn't about gaping at it from a charter boat. It's about

living with it. It's about dying with it.

I mean, you know, it's new that.

They built a whole society around the whale. One whale fed a whole village.

Every piece of that whale became a part of them.

Every whale they killed, they got a new tattoo.

When an Inuit died, they mummified him and took him on the next hunt.

Will you do that for me?

Huh?

Drag my dead ass back onto a boat so I can be home forever,

huh?

No, you headed off soon, alone.

I'm gonna fix you.

Inuit tattoos.

Your turn.

Come on.

Inuit tattoo on your face.

Gotta remember the whales need to drink.

Dad,

come here.

Drink. A little nick, a little nick like this. That's how it is.

Look,

we just use a little nick and then the whale I recognize you. Hey, hey, hey,

put that down. I don't respect you. Put it down.

Put it down.

Stop it.

Give me that.

What's wrong with you? A knife?

I failed you. You're not ready for the world.

You're not ready.

I'm done.

Where are you going? I'm going home.

Cancer's not going to change how you treat me. I'm done. You can't go out

there. That's not for us anymore.

Get off me.

Come on. Wait.

Wait. You won't make it. You've got soft lungs.

Better than lungs that are dead.

you

Thank you.

I don't see a sign for the eventual derelict.

Breathe like you're asleep.

Feel the belly.

Long breaths out.

Total calm.

Make your air last longer.

Thank you.

Oh.

Ugh.

Ugh.

I love you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You got to remember to flush out your mouthpiece. You get a pebble in there,

you won't be able to breathe. Oh, sorry. I did.

All right.

Now we're ready for that old magic ratio.

79% nitrogen, 21%. Oxygen. There you go.

Dad,

I forgot to mention, it's Daniel's birthday, and he wants to go to Ocean

World. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

I forgot that we were doing, like, both these things. What about Diablo

Pinnacles?

Well, I mean, like, well, I mean, you'd mentioned it, but we didn't really,

like, say, like, 100% yes to it. Oh, no, we 100% confirm, yeah.

But you're gonna go to Ocean World?

Fake Ocean?

I mean, it's his birthday, and it's just, you know, just fun.

Fun. Yeah, just fun. Hey, it's your birthday?

You're gonna go to... ocean world yeah yeah you're gonna play with the

jellyfish that's fun happy birthday come

on you know there's more to existence and fun

like understanding nature being a part of the world not just being

a cog in the industrial commercial complex

I don't even know what that means. Think.

Think.

Sorry, hon.

Hey, kid.

You got you that gauge we talked about?

Thanks. Not that you're going to need it.

What? The gauge.

You've already developed your internal clock. You can time your safety stops on

instinct. Huh?

Hell, you can navigate by currents, position of the sun. You got it all

figured out already.

Right, son?

Huh? See you later.

Hey, enjoy the orcas.

It sounds like a lot of fun.

I'll be back for dinner, thanks.

Russian always provides.

For you.

30 minutes.

Thank you.

Hey, buddy.

Let me get his phone, okay?

He needs some help, all right?

Just need a little bit of light.

They're just going to hop on a bit softly for me, okay?

We're going to go home, all right? I'm okay.

I broke my rib earlier.

Thank you for having me.

We're going to get home.

We're going to have a good time.

We're going to get out of here.

We're going to look.

Wake up with all the pain.

Good job.

Thanks for coming with me.

Go to the beach.

There you go.

You're getting tired.

I'm tired, too.

You got kids?

That's close.

Don't giggle, too.

Hold on, okay?

You gotta hold on, all right?

Hey, hey, what's going on? You okay?

You're gonna stay awake, all right?

Okay? No, no, no, no, no, no. Come on, stay awake.

Buddy, I need you.

Buddy? Buddy?

I'm sorry.

Buddy, did I hurt you?

So the sperm whales have a vocal form.

Very strange.

They're very ones that baby whales use it to cry out to their mommies.

You know, the day you were born, you cried so hard you popped a little hole

in your lung.

Anyway, baby sperm whales, they cry when they grow up, just like you.

They still have that hole in their larynx, totally asymmetrical, so they

can... eat squid all day long, but really, they could be making the loudest

scream in the sea.

That would give those lovers attention, don't you think?

Kids giving you a hard time?

You know why?

Because they're predators.

Okay? Now, in the ocean, predators have all the advantages.

They're faster.

They can track you. They can get at you from any angle.

So what options does that leave prey like you?

Mm-hmm.

Just accept your fate like a codfish.

Born to be a goner.

No, that's not the Gardner way. You want to know what the Gardner way is?

Yes, sir.

The prey becomes so dangerous that the predators can't help but let him go.

You say it.

The prey becomes so dangerous that the predators can't help but let him go.

I'll make you puke me out.

Son of a bitch.

I'll make you double me up.

Oh my God!

Thank you.

You don't want anything like it.

We should have learned to speak.

Found us.

Orson is Horkner.

Rainer and... Wolf back to the sea.

By sailing.

You know better than that.

Survivor survive.

Yeah, but that's a terrible way to die.

Fast death, slow death.

Hard to know which is better.

One thing a whale can do is save itself.

Yeah, it's that.

Wouldn't it be the greatest thing of all?

How's the time to visit him?

I'm not visiting him. It's not about him. It's about you.

Okay? I just don't want you to have breakfast.

Um, please.

Your viper rate is 10%. I love you.

Jay. I love you. I gotta go. I'm sorry. All he talks about is you.

I just turned on a call.

Like you had me.

We wanted a son.

You can act like it.

We wanted to pass on things we knew.

Teach you things.

So then one day you can do whatever you want.

Anything you want.

I will be sure.

So,

when it matters.

My sweet little son.

Are they still here?

Yes.

They are leaving.

We're 12.

I'm not leaving.

Do you

have

a girlfriend

I don't know how to call that.

A boyfriend.

I appreciate that, but

no.

Do you like it?

Iowa?

Yeah, I like it. You know, it's... I don't really feel like it's my home,

but...

to get away from you.

Now here we are.

What did you want to be when you grow up?

I always felt bad you kids never had a dog.

That was the least of her problems.

You read this?

I don't.

I lied.

I know.

Because I knew it was your favorite book.

I don't want to like anything that you liked.

Steinbeck is God.

You know my favorite part?

What?

When the prostitutes made a quilt out of lingerie. What?

I gave it to Doc.

That's my favorite part too.

I'm sorry we didn't ask more of these questions.

Why didn't you?

We wanted to know.

What did it say?

The letter from you, I never read it.

But I made so many mistakes.

I always wanted you to escape me.

But only, I forgot.

I'm sorry you never read it.

I'm sorry I didn't find your remains.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry I didn't.

Jay, you are my remains.

Remember that night.

I don't want to remember.

I never saw you again.

Remember.

basket of oily rags in the engine room. Sky high, Jay.

Blow it up.

Blow it up.

We could die.

We could die.

at the country club? Mm-hmm. Diving through all that goose shit and all

that. I have a little message.

What do I need to eat?

Nine volt?

Yep.

That's sharp.

A little touch of metal.

Battery.

Battery! Yes, please.

We'll see you next time.

All right, we are ready. The old magic ratio, 79% nitrogen, 21

% oxygen.

No fire without oxygen.

I can't do it here.

I'm going to get that lover and kill myself.

Probably won't even make it to the start of this.

That was like something.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

No. No.

No. No.

You know, when whales die, they create whole ecosystems.

Centuries of life bloom from them.

And this one whale is a single spark.

You know what they call it?

Thank you.

What's your name?

You can do it, come on.

Jay.

Jay?

Good.

You're gonna be fine.

You're gonna be fine.

Okay.

I'm gonna be right back.

Be right back, okay?

Told you I'd get you back on the boat, huh?

You good?

Mm-hmm.

Hey. Hey.

How's the vino?

Excellent. Good stuff, huh? Good, yeah.

All right, we should have a sip of that.

Pop it.

Honey. I need to go home.