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B E L O W Darren Aronofsky & Lucas Sussman Revisions by David Twohy BLUE REVISED November 6, 2000 EXT. OCEAN - DAY We're flying under the wing of a submarine attack plane, circa 1940.Below us lies an infinite ocean.CREDITS PLAY over this unrelenting waterscape until we spy... A sequin of light. INT. ATTACK PLANE - DAY The PROP ROAR is deafening.A Navy LOOK-OUT mimes to his PILOT, "Go down, go down." EXT. OCEAN - DAY Circling, we descend on the water.Soon "whitecaps" resolve into scattered wreckage.One scrap winks at us again.It's a small boat. EXT. LIFEBOAT - OCEAN - DAY An empty tin is being rocked back and forth, its bottom catching sunlight.We're so CLOSE that we can't see who does the signaling. INT. ATTACK PLANE - DAY The look-out pencils "HELP IS COMING." The note goes inside a coffee thermos. The thermos goes out the window. EXT. ATTACK PLANE - DAY As the attack plane peels away. INT. MANTA - DECRYPTING MONTAGE CONTINUE CREDITS.A radio message is being decrypted.We see CLOSEUPS of cipher wheels being turned on E.C.M. gear...new letters appearing...each letter dutifully retyped on a jagged typewriter.A double "X" ends the message. EXT. MANTA BRIDGE - PRE-DAWN SURVIVORS SPOTTED X LONG 13 31W LAT 46 7N X LEND ALL POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE XX Finished reading, Lt. RICHARD BRICE passes the message on to Lt. PAUL LOOMIS.If this were today, we might intro these two 30- year-olds playing beach volleyball or working the Nasdaq exchange.