JONAS: (ON RADIO) Look at the sonar. Let me know what you find.
D'ANGELO: So far nothing new, my friend. It just keeps getting worse.
(PANTING)
D'Angelo, Marks, talk to me.
D'ANGELO: We've moved to the sonar room.
Just nine rescues so far.
It's a mess, man. This is the worst I've ever seen.
SAILOR: Help!
Help!
Somebody help me!
Help! Who's there?
(GROANING)
JONAS: I got one more survivor.
Heading back to the rescue vehicle now.
- (RUMBLING) - (JONAS GRUNTS)
Marks. D'Angelo.
JONAS: What the hell was that?
I have no idea.
- (METALLIC CREAKING) - Listen.
(RUMBLING)
D'ANGELO: Jonas, that's something outside the ship.
There's something out there.
- (CRASHES) - (ALL GROAN)
Here.
You okay, pal?
(THUDDING)
Oh, my God.
Something's crushing the hull. Get back to the rescue vehicle.
- Now. - We're right behind you.
- (ALARM BLARING) - You guys, move!
- Got him. Slide him up. - (GROANING)
Marks. D'Angelo. Report.
You almost here?
D'ANGELO: Jonas, listen to me. We're trapped!
What?
The impact jammed the hatch!
Coming back.
MARKS: The sub is starting to collapse.
- Marks! - MARKS: Jonas!
We need you down here before it's too late.
- (THUDS) - (ALL GRUNT)
(GASPS) The sub's been breached.
There's water everywhere.
MARKS: Jonas, the room is flooding.
D'ANGELO: Marks, we gotta get this hatch open.
MARKS: Come on, Jonas. Where are you?
- It's not gonna work! - D'ANGELO: Let us out!
MARKS: Hurry, please! D'ANGELO: Wejust need more time!
- MARKS: Jonas! - (BEEPING)
D'ANGELO: Let us know when you're here!
Don't give up!
MARKS: Jonas, please!
D'ANGELO: Come down here, now! Where are you?
MARKS: Jonas!
(JONAS GRUNTS)
(BEEPS)
You've lost your mind!
JONAS: Back off, Heller.
If we go back, everyone dies.
Everyone.
What have you done?
Are we living the dream here or what? (LAUGHS)
Welcome to Mana One, Mr. Morris.
Get that thing away from me.
What are you doing?
Come on, bring it in. There we go.
- Good to see you again, Mr. Morris. - Yeah.
This way, please.
Hey, you always smell so nice. What is that? Sandalwood?
It's impressive so far, I'll say.
Oh, here they are.
Do you remember my daughter Suyin? Our chief marine biologist.
Hi.
(MORRIS CLEARS THROAT)
(SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)
(IN ENGLISH) Sorry, what was that?
I didn't catch it.
BOTH: Uh...
She says she likes your hat.
- Oh, yeah. - Yeah.
- Let's go. - Why don't we go? Yeah.
(BEEPS)
MORRIS: Your granddaughter's a pistol. (CHUCKLES)
Okay.
What have we here?
This is, um...
Really ugly.
You know, I realize that we're under construction and everything,
but I really think that a world-class research institute
deserves a world-class entrance.
Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
AUTOMATED VOICE: O-Level.
(AUTOMATED VOICE SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)
MORRIS: Whoa.
Welcome to the O-Level.
(CHUCKLES) Nice.
ZHANG: This is our central hub
from which researchers will access all five labs once it's finished.
MORRIS: Wow!
(WHALES CALLING)
MORRIS: Oh, look at that.
That's not something you see every day.
(WHALES CALLING)
MORRIS: Did you have those whales here on cue?
I might have lured them with some whale songs.
(MORRIS CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
This is Lucy and her daughter Gracie.
Incredible.
- (WHALES CALLING) - (MORRIS CHUCKLES)
Wow!
AUTOMATED VOICE: Dive control level.
- Here we are. - Please.
Follow me quickly. I hope we are on time.
Come on in.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) - (CHUCKLES) Oh.
Oh, man.
I'd like you to meet our engineer and sub designer, Jaxx.
Hey, Doc.
- Hello. - Hi.
Dr. Heller. Our medical officer.
MORRIS: Nice to meet you.
You're like Bones, huh? (CHUCKLES)
DJ here pilots our remote explorer.
How's it going?
You're my first billionaire.
(LAUGHS)
And of course, Mac, our station chief.
- Mr. Morris, just in time. - So I keep hearing.
Try that.
Just in time for what?
LORI: Good morning, Mr. Morris.
MAC: Lori Taylor, our mission pilot.
Hi, Mr. Morris.
Welcome on board. It's good to have you.
MORRIS: Hey.
How's it going down there?
Where'd you learn how to pilot a sub?
I spent 10 years with a certain
whale-saving environmental group
that shall remain unnamed for legal reasons.
Yeah, ask her if she ever blew up a whaling ship with a homemade torpedo.
- Hey. - No.
(LAUGHS)
That is a good hire.
TOSHI: Eleven in two.
THE WALL: Water temperature is at six degrees.
LORI: Mac, we are through the thermocline.
We are approaching 11,000 meters.
One hundred meters from the bottom.
Maybe.
Maybe from the bottom.
"Maybe"? What does he mean, "maybe"?
Come on. Look at this.
Since 1875
we've all believed the Mariana Trench was the deepest place on Earth.
I've had a theory that what we think is the bottom
might actually be a layer of hydrogen sulfide.
Beneath that cloud, and a freezing cold thermocline
- there could be a completely new world. - (SOFTLY) Wow!
The Origin is about to see if my father is right.
If there is warm water below,
that means we're going to be the first to see it.
And what if you're wrong?
Then you have wasted $1 .3 billion.
You're kidding.
He's kidding, right?
Copy that.
- Wait. What? - (CLEARS THROAT)
Ten meters. Approaching boundary.
Hovering at five meters. Full stop.
MAC: Final checks.
- Jaxx? - Good to go.
- Doc? - Crew are go.
- MAC: DJ? - Sub and rover are go.
MAC: Origin crew,
we are go for insertion.
- Insertion. - (THE WALL LAUGHING)
Is everything sexual with you guys?
Sex, food, power and...
BOTH: Money.
- Blow it up now. - (BOTH IMITATE EXPLOSION)
- (CHUCKLES) - LORI: Dive control,
we are a go for insertion.
(BOTH CHUCKLE)
LORI: We're in.
You guys, we're in.
It's a cloud. It is not the bottom.
MAC: Lori, be careful. We don't know the depth
on the other side of this.
The sea floor could come right up on you.
LORI: Copy that, Mac. We're ready.
You guys, we are through!
TOSHI: I have multiple small sonar contacts.
- There is life down here. - (ALL CHEERING)
TOSHI: Congratulations!
Deploying the lights.
Lights deployed. I'm gonna come around.
- Whoa! - (TOSHI GASPS)
Oh, my goodness.
- Wow! - THE WALL: Whoa!
Mac, tell me you're getting this.
MAC: We're getting all of it, Lori.
Got a lot of smiling faces up here.
DJ, we got positive terrain to launch the rover.
Copy.
Launch is all yours.
Okay.
Rover is
free.
Copy.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Water temperature below three degrees Celsius.
How is this possible?
ZHANG: This ecosystem is completely cut off
from the rest of the ocean by the freezing cold thermocline.
We should find all sorts of species completely unknown to science.
Sounds like a good investment.
(ALARM BEEPING)
TOSHI: Lori, I have a contact.
Bearing zero eight zero.
Huh. It's big.
Oh, it's huge.
And it's moving fast.
LORI: DJ, is the rover seeing this?
Negative. Let me try and bring up some more lights.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Rover One, signal interrupted.
Whoa, I just lost telemetry.
What the hell?
Origin, recommend an immediate right turn to three-five-zero.
This could be a landslide.
Last time I checked, landslides don't make 90-degree turns.
It's right on us! It's right on us!
(THUDDING)
LORI: What the hell was that?
(BEEPING)
Lori, what's going on down there?
You guys...
- What? - Come look at this.
THE WALL: Whoa!
What could do that to the rover?
LORI: I don't think I wanna know.
(BEEPING)
It's coming back.
(CRASHING)
Oh, my God!
Let's get out of here. Blow the tanks.
LORI: I'm trying. It's not working!
TOSHI: It's not starting! LORI: Mac, help!
- TOSHI: Whole system's down! - Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. DJ, Mac. There's something down here.
Jonas was right.
Jonas was right! Do you...
(STATIC)
Lori, come in.
Origin, can you hear me?
Origin, please respond.
- Come on. - Lori, come in.
Wall, can you hear me?
(STATIC)
MAC: Toshi?
Gather around, people. Options.
- (SIGHS) Not great. - HELLER: We know they're alive.
I've still got telemetry on their vitals.
How long do they have?
Maybe 18 hours.
Ballast valves are jammed, which means it can't rise by itself.
If we attempt to tow it,
it's fifty-fifty that the tanks will explode, and breach the capsule.
- Can't we go hatch-to-hatch? - Not a chance.
The external camera's showing severe hatch damage.
We have to try something.
They're six miles down and no one has ever attempted a rescue at that depth.
Well, that's not exactly true.
No. No way.
We can handle this.
Not at 11,000 meters, you can't.
We've gone 5,000 meters, 8,000 meters.
At some point, it just becomes a number.
Why don't you try this number?
Three.
That's how many people have actually attempted a rescue below 10,000 meters.
And the number one.
That's how many are left alive to talk about it.
One man. Jonas Taylor.
And look what happened to that one man the last time he went to these depths.
He saved 11 people including you, Heller.
- That's what happened. - He left our friends to die,
because he had pressure-induced psychosis.
Come on, Heller. That was your diagnosis.
Jonas said something attacked them.
Something big enough to take out a nuclear submarine.
- He's a drunk. - MAC: You're not listening!
- He's washed up on a beach in Thailand. - MAC: You're not listening!
- Did you hear what Lori said? - I'm listening. I heard it.
- Were you there? - ZHANG: That's enough.
We all heard Lori's last transmission.
We have to consider that Origin may have encountered
something similar to what Jonas Taylor described.
Something he was able to escape from.
Ba! Please.
(SIGHS)
ZHANG: Prep the helicopter.
We must go to Thailand.
(HEY M/CKEY PLAYING IN THAI)
(BOAT HORN BLARING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(SHOUTS IN THAI)
(IN ENGLISH) Your boat, she's killing me.
Number one engine slips out of the gear
and there's some leak in the hydraulics.
Hey, I'll take a look at it tonight.
That's what you said last night and the night before that
- and the night before that. - (LAUGHS)
- Hey, I'm working up to it. - CAPTAIN: You drink too much.
JONAS: Hey, now you're only saying that
because I literally have a beer in my hand.
You always have beer in your hand.
You know why?
Because I drink too much?
(CHILDREN CHATTERING)
Now this is shaping up to be an eventful Tuesday evening.
You know I like to make an entrance.
Hell, Mac, after five years, just showing up is making an entrance.
What? You're living above a bar? Really?
Figured it was the only way to get you to come visit.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
Jonas, allow me to introduce...
It's an honor to meet you, Dr. Zhang.
Always had a tremendous respect for your work.
You're too kind, Mr. Taylor.
Yeah, no, I'm not. You're a good man.
Hey, can I offer either of you two a beer?
'Cause I'm gonna have a beer.
It's not a social call, Jonas.
You mean you didn't helicopter in just to say hi?
- (BOTTLES CLINKING) - You wound me, Mac.
- We have a serious... - Problem?
Thought so.
Just like you know...
I don't dive anymore.
- Done being responsible for people, Mac. - Mr. Taylor...
Hey, I mean no offense, Dr. Zhang.
I mean, if there was two people on this planet
that could get me back into the water,
it's probably you two. (CHUCKLES)
But you can't.
You're gonna tell me your problem and I'll say no.
You're gonna offer me money.
I'll still say no.
You're gonna appeal to my better nature
and I'm gonna say no.
Because I don't have one.
So I say, why don't we sit down,
we'll enjoy a couple of beers, and then we can get you on your way.
(CAP CLATTERS)
MAC: Jonas.
This happened this morning.
THE WALL: Let's get out ofhere. Blow the tanks.
LORI: I'm trying. It's not working!
TOSHI: It's not starting! LORI: Mac, help!
TOSHI: Whole system's down! LORI: Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. DJ, Mac. There's something down here.
Jonas was right.
- Jonas was right! Do you... - (STATIC)
MAC: It's Lori.
Your ex-wife and her crew are trapped below 11,000 meters.
I fear they may have encountered the same species you did down there.
I have divers with less experience willing to go.
But I feel I owe it to my crew
to give this rescue the best chance of success.
Please.
(SIGHS)
THE WALL: Lori, hand me that hexa key.
Thanks.
Oh. (SHIVERING)
Okay.
If we can short out the firewall, I can probably reboot the computers.
Okay. Try it now.
(BOTH SIGH IN RELIEF)
LORI: Auxiliary power's back.
Heaters are online.
There's no way that we'll get the engine started,
but we might be able to get the ballast tanks back.
(BLOWING)
THE WALL: What are you doing? Taking notes?
Letter to my wife.
Just in case.
THE WALL: Hey.
We got this.
Step by step.
Come on. Give me that fighting octopus.
(IMITATES OCTOPUS)
(CHUCKLES WEAKLY)
(POWERING UP)
- (SIGHS) - THE WALL: See?
Works every time.
No.
- What? - We gotta can the lights.
- (RUMBLING) - (ALL GASP)
(ALL GROAN)
(ALARM BEEPING)
(ALL GROANING)
Turn out the lights.
JONAS: (ON VIDEO)There was something down there with us.
INTERROGATOR: How can you be sure
if there were no observation windows on your craft?
'Cause whatever it was
caved in the entire starboard side of a nuclear submarine.
That wasn't my imagination.
HELLER: Is that why you blew the hatch mid-rescue?
Hey, look, I brought 11 men back safe and sound.
HELLER: You left eight more to die because you panicked.
If I hadn't blown the hatch,
we all would have been killed by that thing.
HELLER: There was no thing. There was no evidence of anything.
JONAS: Because it was destroyed in the explosion, Heller.
Look, there was no time left!
So I made the call!
HELLER: And you left our friends there to die in an act of cowardice!
What do you think happened down there?
He lost it.
And now we're about to send him into the exact same situation.
(DOOR OPENS)
DJ: Excuse me, Suyin.
I'm sorry to interrupt you, but we need you.
It's an emergency.
What's wrong, Jaxx?
Now they're leaking oxygen.
They've got a couple of hours. Maybe more.
- I'm going. - No.
- Wait, what? - I'll take one of the gliders,
grab the Origin and tow her up.
Wait! If the Origin's ballast tanks blow you're gonna die, too.
We have to try.
MEIYING: Mummy?
Meiying.
(SPEAKING MANDARIN)
Uh...
(ALARM BLARING)
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT ON PA)
MAN: (IN ENGLISH) Communications check!
Good to go.
Suyin, you are go for launch.
FEMALE AUTOMATED VOICE: Richard Byrd.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Auto descent sequence initiated.
- MAN: Hey, Meiying. - Hi.
(SIGHS)
- Sir, we've got a new problem. - It's your daughter.
She took a glider to try and save them.
ZHANG: Why did you let her go?
Trust me, I didn't let her do anything.
I was sort of under the impression you're supposed to
try to save people who are dying on the bottom of the ocean.
- JONAS: Who's he? - I'm the guy who paid for all this.
Uh-huh.
You know, he looks heroic and he walks fast,
but he's kind of got a negative attitude.
- What's the window? - JAXX: It'll be close.
Who are you?
I'm the one that designed all this.
So my life's in your hands?
Pretty much. That a problem?
Nah.
You look like you might actually know what you're doing.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Dive control level.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Mac, have Dr. Heller meet us in the medical bay.
Heller?
Did I not mention that?
You mother...
He's in perfect shape.
Just like the last time you examined me.
(DOOR OPENS)
Suyin took a glider 15 minutes ago.
She's planning on taking the Origin back up.
- Take me to the sub. - We're not done here.
Yeah, we are. Lori's running out of air and we're in international waters,
which means legally I can beat the ever-loving shit out of you
and get away with it.
It's true.
Legally, I mean.
Good thing he doesn't hold a grudge.
Jonas, you do know that this sub is rated for 12,000 meters, right?
JONAS: Like the one leaking on the ocean floor?
MAC: Ah. Good point.
- We good? - MAN: Yep.
MAC: Once you strip back the safeties
and go full manual, like I know you're gonna do,
the system's gonna have problems
trying to keep up with your pressure changes.
Try not to blow your ears out, brother.
Thanks, mate.
Hello, skipper.
You must be the crazy guy.
- Now who called me that? - My mom. Dr. Heller.
Yeah, well, I'm not crazy.
I've just seen things no one else has.
That's the definition of crazy.
(CHUCKLES)
Backup power. Backup power...
(POWERING UP)
So where are your parents?
My mom's trying to bring our friends back
from the bottom of the ocean.
My dad's with a Pilates instructor in Taipei.
Granddad says Mom needs to move on,
but Mom says she needs more time because she was married to an a-hole.
Sounds like your mom's got a point.
You know a lot.
Eight-year-olds hear everything.
(CHUCKLES)
Mind if I give it a try?
MEIYING: Bye.
Hey, Crazy.
Is my mom gonna die?
I'll have Captain Bubbles and your mom back in no time.
I promise.
Thank you, Emma.
WOMAN: (ON PA) Evolution launch in T-minus 15 seconds.
- MAC: DJ? - Yeah.
MAC: Jaxx, we good?
Doc?
Evolution,
we are go for dive.
JONAS: Fancy.
(INDISTINCT COUNTDOWN ON PA)
AUTOMATED VOICE: System go for descent.
System go for descent.
MAC: Hey, brother.
We're good to go.
AUTOMATED VOICE: System go for descent.
System go for descent.
(ANNOUNCEMENT ON PA IN MANDARIN)
Jonas.
AUTOMATED VOICE: System go for descent.
Evolution successful launch.
(ANNOUNCEMENT ON PA IN MANDARIN)
AUTOMATED VOICE: (IN ENGLISH) Evolution now passing 1,000 meters.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Caution. Evolution secondary systems offline.
How is he descending so fast?
Looks like he's diverted all nonessential power,
like heat and life support, to the motors.
- He's gonna black out. - (COMPUTER BEEPING)
(ANNOUNCEMENT ON PA IN MANDARIN)
HELLER: His blood gases are dropping.
(BEEPING)
Jonas.
Tell Heller I'm not slowing down.
MAC: Suyin, be advised. Evolution is now en route.
Request you return to Mana One immediately.
Negative. He can give us an escort on our way up.
Tell her to get out of the way, Mac.
More people means more risk and she's in way over her head.
Jonas, you just told her yourself.
What?
The little green button on your intercom,
that's for single channel communication.
Brilliant.
Entering thermocline.
(GROANS)
SUYIN: Okay, Mac. I am through.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Warning. Pressure load approaching 16,000 psi.
At this speed, I'm gonna have to divert power from the heaters
and shut down anything that could ice over.
Call you from the other side.
You got Wi-Fi here?
THE WALL: All right.
- Okay. - (LORI GROANS)
Just keep pressure on that.
- Toshi, is it still out there? - TOSHI: I can't tell.
I can't see anything right now.
Oh. (SIGHS)
There it is.
I've got visual on the Origin.
I can see most of it.
Okay. They're alive.
I'm going to set up to tow.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Range to target, six meters. Four meters.
Target locked.
Firing magnetic hook.
Three, two...
- (THUDDING) - (SCREAMS)
(ALARM BLARING)
MAC: Suyin? Are you okay? What's happening?
SUYIN: There is something down here.
Something just hit my ship.
- (THUDDING) - (GASPS)
MAC: Suyin, what's happening? SUYIN: It's a huge squid.
It's got the glider.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Warning. Capsule pressure.
SUYIN: Mac, it's crushing me.
It's crushing me! I don't think the glider can take it.
- (ALARMS BLARING) - It's not gonna hold.
MAC: Suyin, engage the pressure compensator.
SUYIN: Compensator will not engage.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Capsule breach in 10 seconds.
(ALARM BEEPING)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Capsule breach in five...
My God!
It's a shark.
It's like 20, 25 meters.
It's a megalodon.
Impossible.
So glad I'm not crazy.
JONAS: Suyin, power down.
It's drawn to the light.
Shut everything down and stay dark.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Shutdown in 30 seconds.
SUYIN: Shutting off everything but comms.
It's circling back. Here it comes, Suyin.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Shutdown in 25 seconds.
JONAS: Suyin, there's no time. Turn off your lights.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Shutdown in 20 seconds.
JONAS: Turn them off. Now.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Shutdown in 15 seconds.
SUYIN: Mac, I have no control.
(BEEPING)
- JONAS: Hurry. - AUTOMATED VOICE: Ten, nine,
eight, seven, six, five...
Now's your chance. Blow your tanks.
No. I can help you save the crew.
JONAS: Your glider's damaged. There's nothing you can do.
Blow your tanks now.
SUYIN: Damn it.
JONAS: Dr. Zhang, your daughter's clear.
I'm heading for the Origin now.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Range to target, three meters.
(AUTOMATED VOICE SPEAKING IN MANDARIN)
(THUDS)
(WATER FLUSHING)
AUTOMATED VOICE: Water extraction complete.
Let's do this, sweetheart.
(PUMP HISSING)
(TAPPING)
(PANTING)
- (CHUCKLES) - (GROANS)
Tell me this isn't the world's best "I told you so."
You came all the way here just to tell me that, didn't you?
Pretty much.
- Give me your hand. - (GROANING)
That doesn't look good. Ready? One, two, three.
- (GROANS) - (ALARM BLARING)
She's coming.
Let's move.
If that thing hits us while we're still attached...
Then we're all gonna die.
(BEEPING)
Come on, I've got you.
It's gonna be close.
Come on, move, move!
Go! Go! Go!
THE WALL: We're not gonna make it.
JONAS: Come on. THE WALL: Toshi, hurry!
Toshi, no!
(GROANS)
(SPEAKING MANDARIN)
(SCREAMING)
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
MAC: Come in, Evolution.
Jonas, come in.
Are you all okay?
Dr. Heller has vitals on Lori and The Wall, but we don't have Toshi.
Is Toshi okay?
- Jonas, is Toshi okay? - (SNIFFLES)
PARAMEDIC: All right. HELLER: Nice and easy.
PARAMEDIC: Yeah. Yep.
HELLER: Don't move her neck. PARAMEDIC: Careful.
HELLER: That's good. Grab a hold. We got her.
(PANTING)