Original subtitles

Once it gets dark the U-boats will try to get in amongst us.

If that happens, we can't fire for fear of hitting our own.

So we're gonna get them before.

We'll offer them a target and sneak up behind them.

Three of them! Got them, Mr Mercer! Action stations!

(BLAST)

- Fire! - Fire!

(CHAOS BUILDING)

(SILENCE)

(RUMBLING, METAL CLANKING)

(LOW RUMBLE)

(BUBBLING)

(SPLASHING) That was Alpha!

And fire at target Bravo!

Fire!

(LOUD BLASTS)

(WAVE SPLASHING)

Fire up a flare! Fire up a flare!

Firing! (SIZZLING)

(WAVE CRASHING, INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

Come on! Come on!

(WATER BLASTING)

Now that's done for Bravo.

Mercer, take the bridge.

Mr Walsh?

ASDIC's lost contact with Alpha and Bravo, sir.

I can confirm it with my own two eyes. Two down, one to go.

(CHEERING, BANGING ON TABLE)

Where's Charlie? Herr Zigzag, the one that sank the steamer.

Last known position of Charlie at 2-1-0, 1,700 yards.

It was sitting stationary. Mr Mercer? New course: 2-1-0.

(FAINT BEEPING)

(PANTING)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(FAINT BEEPING)

(FAINT BEEPING)

Charlie at 2-2-0, sir.

Mr Walsh? Charlie dead ahead, sir. 800 yards.

Hold course!

Gunnery ready to fire!

One, two, three, come on! Go, go, go!

Pick up the pace! Come on, go! Move it!

(RAPID BEEPING)

(BEEPING CONTINUES)

(BUBBLING)

(METAL CLANKING)

(RADAR BEEPING IN DISTANCE)

(METAL WHIRRING)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(RADAR BEEPING, WATCH TICKING)

(TENSE MUSIC BUILDING)

Ready Hedgehogs? (INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

There's 24 of the buggers, Commander. Each weigh 65 pounds.

We drilled firing in practise, not firing again and again!

Damn it!

(METAL CLICKING)

(RADAR BEEPING)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(PANTING)

(STRAINING, GRUNTING)

(PANTING)

(MECHANISM WHIRRING)

(EERIE INTRO MUSIC PLAYING)

(BEATS AND PIANO PLAYING)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(HEROIC MUSIC)

(DELICATE PIANO)

(TENSE MUSIC BUILDS UP)

(LOUD WHIRRING)

(GRUNTING, PANTING)

(METAL DOOR OPENING)

(METAL WHIRRING)

(METAL CLICKING)

(POWERING UP)

(WAVES CRASHING)

What is he up to? Jesus!

Go, go, go, go, go! And step back!

Move!

Loaded, sir!

Then fire, for the love of God!

Fire!

(METAL WHIRRING, LOUD BLASTS)

(BUBBLING)

(FOOTSTEPS ON METAL)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(BUBBLING)

(LIQUID THUD)

(INDISTINCT WHISPERING, RADAR BEEPING)

(PAPER RUSTLING)

Yes, sir? Bearing, Mr Walsh?

Charlie 0-8-0, 2,000 yards.

New course: 0-1-5... Sir, the convoy!

(WAVES CRASHING)

(SIGHING)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Radio message, Commander Kittridge.

HMS Lily to take over escort and main body command.

You told me to tell you...

Charlie is either a wounded animal, so we should finish him off quickly,

or he's the wiliest bastard of the lot of them.

In which case it's our duty to destroy him.

Either way...

..the hunters are now the hunted.

(OMINOUS MUSIC STOPS)

(SIREN BLASTING IN DISTANCE)

(INDISTINCT VOICES)

(BREATHING DEEPLY)

(INDISTINCT CHILD CHATTERING)

(STRUGGLING FOOTSTEPS)

(DOOR SQUEAKING)

(SIREN CONTINUES IN DISTANCE)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(FAINTLY CHUCKLES)

(LAUGHS)

(KNOCKING)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(DOOR OPENING)

(FOOTSTEPS IN DISTANCE)

(DOOR CLOSING)

(ENGINE RUNNING)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

(LEAVES RUSTLING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTERING)

(LIGHTER IGNITING)

(GUN CLICKING)

(CHILDREN CHATTERING)

Wh... What's this?

It doesn't matter to you what it is.

You just need to do what you've been told to do with it.

No, I need to know what this is about.

I don't know who I am helping.

But you do know what will happen to you if you do not do as I say.

(LIVELY CHATTER IN DISTANCE)

Don't open it.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(WAVES CRASHING)

(POURING)

(TICKING)

(FAINT COUGH)

(STRONG COUGH IN DISTANCE)

(HEAVY BREATHING)

(PANTING)

(FAINT COUGH)

(HEAVY BREATHING)

(COUGHING IN DISTANCE)

(LOW RUMBLING)

(RADAR BEEPING IN DISTANCE)

(MEN COUGHING)

(LOUD RUMBLE)

(METAL CLANKING)

(PANTS IN PAIN)

(ANXIOUS BREATHING)

(GRUNTING IN PAIN)

(HEAVY BREATHING)

(DOOR SQUEAKING)

(WAVES CRASHING)

Reload charges.

Reload charges! Repeat, reload charges!

The Mid-Atlantic gap.

He thinks he'll be safe there. Well, he'll have to think again.

Our long distance planes have closed that.

Number one? From NID.

Intercepted enemy communication.

Up to 40 U-boats traveling to form a stripe across convoy ONS185's path.

Stay on Charlie.

From my estimation the front of the convoy is traveling at seven knots.

(TENSE MUSIC)

Contact in four hours.

Cruising at 25 knots, we could do it in three and a half.

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(MAN COUGHING IN DISTANCE)

(INHALES)

(MOVEMENTS IN WATER)

Sir?

Charlie's up to something.

Sounds like he's going around in a circle.

(SCOFFS) Why on earth?

(BUBBLING WATER)

He's gone.

What do you mean "gone"? He can't just go!

I can't hear him.

(SIGHS)

Bubbles.

Turning in tight circles causes bubbles.

This U-boat is passing through its own bubbles,

the sound waves from the ASDIC can't locate it.

Maybe this fellow's smart after all.

The 40 U-boats are the main force.

Three were clearly sent out as a distraction, you fell for it.

There's still a U-boat, and it's right below us.

Our objective is to see the convoy safely to port, sir.

(CLICKS TONGUE) This ship can travel at 36.7 knots.

In ideal conditions. And that speed...

gives us the guts of an hour to finish him off.

THEN, Mercer, we shall re-join the convoy.

You have my word.

Stop ASDIC!

Stop ASDIC.

(LABOURED COUGH, RADAR BEEPING)

(RUMBLING)

(HEAVY BREATHING, STRONG COUGH)

(RUMBLING CONTINUES)

(COUGHING IN DISTANCE)

(PERSISTENT COUGH IN DISTANCE)

(ENGINE POWERING UP)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(CLICKING SOUND)

Radar has picked up his periscope in 3-1-0, 3,000 yards.

I knew it! First mistake you've made, Herr Zigzag.

Full speed, wheelhouse.

Starboard 15, new course: 3-1-0.

(MOVEMENTS IN WATER)

(TENSE MUSIC)

Gunnery, let's hit him with everything we've got.

Depth charges, Hedgehogs. Contact Charlie is lost.

There'll be no time to accept a surrender now, will there?

(BUBBLING)

(RUMBLING)

(LOUD RUMBLING)

(RADAR BEEPING)

(RADAR BEEPING)

(RADAR BEEPING, MEN WHISPERING)

(RADAR BEEPING)

(RADAR BEEPING)

(RADAR BEEPING)

(MOVEMENTS IN WATER)

(RUMBLING)

(LOUD BLAST)

(METAL CLANKING, WATER BURSTING)

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

(WATER SPLASHING, FIRE ROARS)

Oil, sir. They're hit.

Oil on the water, play dead. It's the oldest trick in the book.

A lot of oil, sir. There's no bodies.

I want bodies.

It's time, sir.

Even at 36 knots we'll struggle to meet the convoy.

You gave me your word.

Sir?

Your son died because the escort abandoned his convoy.

(WATER SIZZLING)

(MEN SHOUTING)

(WATER CRASHING)

(LOUD CLANK)

(WIND WHOOSHING)

(PAPER RUSTLING)

(MEN GASPING)

(HOPEFUL MUSIC)

(MAN LAUGHS)

(WHOOPING)

(WHOOPING)

(PANTING)

(CHEERING AND WHOOPING)

(SIZZLING)

Ah!

(SIZZLING)

(GRUNTING, RETCHING)

(COUGHING)

(ELECTRIC BUZZ) (MAN GRUNTING)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

Move back!

(METAL CLANKING)

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

(TELEPHONE RINGING)

(PHONE THUDDING)

(PHONE HANDSET THUDS)

(SIGHS DEEPLY)

(AIR HORN BLASTING)

Boarding is complete! The gates are closed!

Let me through! No, let me through!

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

(WOMAN SOBBING)

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

Move back! You all have to move back!

The gates are closed!

Go back!

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Please, please! Please give me money. I can't find my dad. Please!

(MUSIC SLOWLY ENDS)

(MOVEMENTS IN WATER)

(PANTING)

(EERIE MUSIC)

(PANTING)

(GASPS, PANTS)

(WATER SPLASHING)

(CAR APPROACHING)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(CAR PULLING UP)

(CAR DOOR CLOSES)

(CAR DOOR OPENS)

(SIGHS)

(CAR DOOR SHUTS)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(WAVES CRASHING)

Fine day's hunting. Fine to be part of such a battle.

What you mean is we nearly missed it.

I'm grateful to you, Mr Mercer.

You saved me from my obsession.

Like Captain Ahab, sir. (SCOFFS)

I'm sorry, sir. It's a book, "Moby Dick".

I know what it is. The whale.

He's obsessed with catching it and loses everything in the end.

Yes, sir.

Captain, sir. Radio message from HQ.

Our colleagues are having an equally enjoyable hunting day.

Twelve U-boat kills in the last 24 hours between us.

Maybe this is it. The turning point.

But we can only take credit for two last night.

There's no NID intercepts of a U-boat loss

at the coordinates where we left our friend, Herr Zigzag.

Nonetheless, sir. Of course.

Can't win them all.

(WAVES CRASHING)

(INDISTINCT VOICE IN DISTANCE)

(PAPER RUSTLING)

(MEN CHATTING IN DISTANCE)

(SIGHS) (MAN CHATTING IN DISTANCE)

(ENGINE RUNNING)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(INDISTINCT VOICES)

(INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE)

(ENGINE RUNNING)

(MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)

(FOOTSTEPS IN DISTANCE)

(KEYS JINGLING)

(LOCK CLICKING)

(DOOR CLOSING)

(FUMBLING THROUGH PAPER)

(PAGE UNSTICKING)

(DELICATE SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(PAPER RUSTLING)

(DEEPLY INHALES AND SIGHS)

(KNOCKING, DOOR OPENS)

(FOOTSTEPS ON WOOD)

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(DOOR OPENING)

(SHOWER RUNNING)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC)

(LIGHTER THUDS GENTLY)

(GUN CLICKING)

That novel I was going to write...

..looks like you'll be in it.

(WHIPPING THUD) (GRUNTS)

(THUD)

(TENSE MUSIC)

(TENSE MUSIC BUILDING)

(MUSIC STOPS)

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