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Fishing with Tom Gilbert is a Finger Lakes Unplugged Channel, featuring the local fishing legend, Sharkpony guitarist, and former Donna The Buffalo drummer, Tom Gilbert. Tom has guests from the local music scene, including Jeff Claus (the Horse Flies), and Sim Redmond, on various fishing expeditions. The following unedited transcript describes a rather ill-fated day of fishing in 2010 when our guest, Jeb Puryear, couldn't make it. Undaunted, with cameras rolling, we set sail anyway. What starts as a slow troll in the inlet, explodes into a madcap misadventure complete with fire and police boats, and Tom Gilbert firmly at the center of his troubled craft, screaming "HELP! WE NEED HELP!" I shot two episodes, including this one, and there are two more episodes directed by Michael O'Connell. For info contact Finger Lakes Unplugged. Even if we never get the funding to edit this show, this transcript makes a good read.
TRANSCRIPT August 8, 2010 Fishing With Tom Gilbert: |
INT. BOAT HOUSE, PENN YAN FISHING BOAT - MORNING wild sound Bryan explains 24p vs 30fps. LUIGI (O.S.) These are the keys, right? Luigi starts the boat.( Clean SFX) INT. BOAT HOUSE, PENN YAN FISHING BOAT - MORNING Seen from the aft deck of the Penn Yan, Tom, in a black sutton spoons t-shirt, and smoking a cigarette, is preparing to leave. TOM (O.S.) Thanks Steve. Thanks Guys. He runs down the dock and adroitly unhitches the stern line. TOM (CONT'D) Better get the stern line. BELA is fending off in the stern with the boat hook. He and JEFF, the camera man, are talking Tech. BRYAN I'm rolling. TOM OK, boat hook master. We'll leave the bumpers out it'll be fine. Tom steps into the boat and checks port stern as the Penn Yan moves out of the slip. TOM (CONT'D) Feel free to run up front whenever you see a point that needs to be pushed. EXT. ITHACA INLET - MORNING As the camera man adjusts the aperture BRYAN So who's our guest today? TOM Our guest today is I guess a ravenous small mouth bass I just talked to someone
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. TOM (MORE) in the restaurant Hi, we're here with fishing with Tom. And, um, I'll be your host today. The boat drifts slowly out into the inlet with the "Spirit of Ithaca" in the background. TOM (CONT'D) Tom. And I don't usually go for small mouth bass but there's been some reports of some pretty jumbos chewing in here right now. So, instead of chasing lakers all day we're gonna, uh, try to get some smallies right here in the inlet, perhaps in front of the farmer's market, Ithaca Farmer's Market TOM (CONT'D) the Ithaca Farmer's Market. See what the fishing is like there. As the boat turns the camera pans away from Tom to keep the destination in view. (Nice and cinematic) TOM (CONT'D) And uh, maybe, maybe we'll go out trolling for some rainbows or some lakers or salmon or some kind of salmonid. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) Brown trout perhaps. But just everyone knows lake trout are my favorite Whip pan as the boat continues maneuvering out of slip TOM (CONT'D) So, Luigi, today's troll is going to be a little different. We're going to be going like four miles an hour out in front of the um farmers market Ithaca Farmer's Market TOM (CONT'D) with rapalas which I've got all hooked up and there might be times... Tom looks up. TOM (CONT'D) That motor's so loud. How do you feel about, when we're out doing that, killing the motor? And turning it back on? We can't hear Luigi's response.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. TOM (CONT'D) OK. MS of Luigi Driving the boat up the inlet. TOM (CONT'D) Let me just do a test... Luigi cuts the engine TOM (CONT'D) No keep going. I'm going to do a test with these rapalas to see what they like to run at. The boats gotta be sorta slow Tom casts off the stern as the Penn Yan motors slowly up the inlet. Tom smokes. And trolls. TOM (CONT'D) So, basically, this is kinda like what we're gonna do... Tom takes a long drag on his filterless, looks at the camera and waves it, exhaling through his words. TOM (CONT'D) We can edit this out right? BRYAN (O.S.) Yeah. Tom drops the cigarette. TOM So basically what we're going to be doing is this trolling rapalas around kayakers today. Tom Trolls. Nice shot off the stern. MUSIC. Tom casts off starboard stern, near Johnson's Boat Yard. LUIGI (O.S.) Where are we going? TOM Um, straight out in front of the white and red place. Basically out by the Farmer's Market for a while until we get a smally or a pike. Tom Trolls.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. He turns to camera. BRYAN (O.S.) So who was why don't we have a guest today? Luigi cuts the engine. Tom thinks. TOM Jeb Per Year was going to be our guest - of Donna the Buffalo, but he had to go golfing today. Tom casts. TOM (CONT'D) I feel OK about it, well not OK I feel... I feel alright about it. Camera pans away from him to to a couple rowers in one man sculls who are watching Tom with some trepidation. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) Alright so Luigi, basically I'm going set this troll up now. I'm going to let out rods behind us and we're going to go right past the farmer's market and then when it's time to turn around I'm probably going to uh, The camera crew is talking about sounds. TOM (CONT'D) What sounds is he talking about? LUIGI (O.S.) As soon as I go over five miles an hour it's going to be a pain in the ass. TOM It's just the boat. Tom goes back to fishing. TOM (CONT'D) Oh, now we got a kayaker. Watch this. Tom pulls up on his pole visciously. TOM (CONT'D) Just kidding. Tom set his pole in the holder and goes for another one.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. TOM (CONT'D) Alright I'm going to need to get that, right where you are. CUT. EXT. PENN YAN, ITHACA INLET - MORNING Tom has two lines in the water, puttering toward the lake. TOM Alright go a little faster, you can go faster. These smallies will chase something fast. BRYAN I'm rolling. What take. JEFF Take 2 Tom claps his hands together. BRYAN We're rollin TOM Trying to get something to chew on one of these, our motor might be a little loud, um, but we'll probably end up doing some drifting along this shoreline there's big small mouth that hang out in here, big pike that hang out in here. We'll see if we can get one today. Taking a little break from the Lakers until Friday. Uh, Friday we know for sure we can fish all day and all night. Today (casting a look at the clouds) The weather might be questionable in a couple hours so we really don't want to be getting into too much trolling The cameraman scratches his nose and the camera strays. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) And all of that business. TOM (CONT'D) Let me figure out what we're going to be using here for a minute. Cut:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. EXT. PENN YAN, ITHACA INLET - MORNING Tom is pulling up on his rod. There is only one camera here and the sound is bad, but it's a nice moment. BELA What just happened? Explain it again. PAN LEFT off Port Bow to Motor Boat. Back to Tom who is looking very cross. TOM A fuckin' boat went over our shit. Tom rigs another reel. LUIGI (O.S.) Tom, you sure you don't want to go out? TOM Yeah (annoyed) We're gonna do this. Camera pans to the offending motor boat then back to Tom. BELA You want to try and explain to the camera what just happened? I thought it was pretty funny. TOM I'm just focusing. BELA Sorry. Tom focuses for a beat then comes right in to CU and delivers. TOM Everyone thinks that fishing is instantaneous. It takes some time. Cut: EXT. PENN YAN, ITHACA INLET - MORNING WILD SOUND. TOM So they're getting into some big smallies between three and five pounds.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. BRYAN I'm not rolling yet Tom. Wait a second. TOM The camera looked like you were. EXT. PENN YAN, ITHACA INLET - MORNING Tom has lines out. Woods drift by over Starboard Stern. JEFF Take three. Jeff claps a slate. TOM We're back. Still trying to get some of these small mouth to chew. I've got the lines probably... at least a hundred yards back from the boat. I have a feeling I have some foliage on this one. He pulls up on the rod. TOM (CONT'D) We reel this one in we're gonna leave that one out. Tom reels in. TOM (CONT'D) I'll be casting toward shore. All in here and in front of those boats down by the farmer's market this time of year there's BIG small mouth and there's pike and you can catch them on the fly He turns astern, away from Bryan's camera, we're looking at the back of Tom's head. (For creative sound editing) The camera roves nicely alone the wooded shoreline. Bela has a nice CU profile and Tom is talking to him. TOM (CONT'D) Or any stick bait any sort of minnow-like bug something that represents the size of what they're used to eating. Which I've oftentimes had good with these two colors, this size to the rapala F-11. Well, this one got a little fouled... Bryan's camera gets I nice tilt down from the bending rod in the holder to a CU of Tom with his mouth open, tasting the wind.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. TOM (CONT'D) So... (to himself) What time is it? (under his breath) Figure out what to make of the most of the day. Tom pulls back and reels in. BRYAN Cut. CU Tom putting the rapala rig in the holder. Bad sound, no coverage TOM (O.S.) So, uh, how long did it take us to get out the deep water before? It's not too long, right? Can't hear a response. CU Tom. TOM (CONT'D) Head out until we get this thing a hundred and some feet. [Garble] Yes. Bela sees Bryan. The blaze-orange tape on his camera leaping against the blue sky. Bryan is grinning into his eyepiece and getting a great ECU of Tom as he pulls a rod out of the forward pole holder. TOM (CONT'D) And grab this jumbotron. LUIGI Everybody hold on. BRYAN Roll camera A. Roll camera B. TOM Excuse Me. BRYAN It's doing that again. Jeff gets up and sticks a dead cat on Bryan's Microphone. EXT. PENN YAN, FISHING BOAT, CAYUGA LAKE - DAY Bela is shooting from the bow at Tom smiling and speeding out into deep water. CUT to a moment later.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. TOM Get a distress s... Camera ZOOMS out. TOM (CONT'D) HELLO! Tom steps forward. TOM (CONT'D) Holy shit. BELA Yeah. The camera yaws out over the starboard at the lake. TOM Life jackets, c'mon, life jackets it's under that seat. Spray that fuckin extinguisher now. The camera is swinging around looking through the hatch into the cabin. TOM (CONT'D) C'mon! LUIGI Wait wait wait, you're losing balance! To Bryan's camera: Smoke is billowing out from the open engine compartment, TOM, the host of the show is holding a small white fire extinguisher from the forecastle and hollering. TOM Put this fucking on that fire now! LUIGI TOM! Tom, Tom, relax. TOM We have to get towed back in, (to a sailboat passing nearby) HEY! WE NEED HELP! LUIGI Tom... TOM WE NEED HELP!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. BRYAN (O.S.) Tom it's alright. Tom calms down for a second and tosses the fire extinguisher to JEFF, the camera operator. Jeff catches it expertly. LUIGI Just put it out. JEFF I don't see anything here. TOM Come On. Jeff tentatively points the extinguisher at the smoking engine. TOM (CONT'D) Put that fuckin fire out now. Jeff fires a brief burst with the extinguisher at the right side of the engine. LUIGI There's no fire TOM Spray that down there it doesn't matter. LUIGI There's no fire. JEFF Yeah, no, I'm not.. I'm not seeing anything. LUIGI There's no fire If anything the fire extinguisher has made the smoke worse. Tom is standing on the forecastle, BELA, the B camera operator, IS STANDING HOLDING HIS CANON 7D IN THE BOW WITH TOM ABAFT OF HIM. LUIGI (CONT'D) There's no fire let me turn the batteries. JEFF It's smoking.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. TOM Hey it's there's it's fire. LUIGI Hold this please TOM There's fire over there. Damn it. Tom walks starboard across the forecastle and points down near the water line. TOM (CONT'D) There is a fuckin fire there's smoke coming out. Jeff, still wearing his safari hat and headphones, crosses starboard on the poop deck (crossing camera, left to right) to look at what Tom is pointing at. The boat lurches to starboard. TOM (CONT'D) Now Damn it, get the life jackets. Jeff blasts the engine again with the extinguisher. (Off camera) Tom crosses the forecastle to port and slides abaft to point out the blue bench which is right under him. TOM (CONT'D) Luigi, under that bench. Right now open that blue thing. Jeff gives another, longer blast with the extinguisher (off camera) Luigi, in his bright white shirt, moves foreward to open the bench. TOM (CONT'D) Open the blue the blue goddamn thing. Right here, THIS SEAT! Tom, with his orange hat on, is hanging into the cabin from the roof pointing at the bench and Luigi get a hold of it. The sailboat, Tom called to is 70 yards off the starboard bow sailing with only and white jib. LUIGI Hold on. TOM Open the fucking SEAT! Tom stands up and walks forward toward Bela (away from camera)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12. LUIGI Where's the how do you open this? BELA Tom It's alright, we're just getting the life jackets. TOM Come on! The camera tilts down to the engine, which is smoking more than ever, while Luigi struggles with the fucking seat. TOM (CONT'D) Come on! LUIGI (O.S.) How do you open this? BELA (O.S.) No, man, they're coming over. I guess calling nine one one. The crew coughs in the stern. Bela's camera, the only one rolling, swings all over the place. Occasionally landing on Tom. BELA (O.S.) (CONT'D) It's gonna be fine. I don't smell anything up here. TOM Hey, there's a latch. There's a latch like the forward hatch on the back of it. LUIGI (O.S.) Man, if you're fucking freakin' out like that... TOM Well, I just wanted you to get the life jackets. I was trying to alert the boat up here. Supposed to know where the life jackets are. Throw my life jacket over here. Luigi, having gotten the bench seat open, hands Tom a life jacket over the cabin roof. TOM (CONT'D) Now go and get a life jacket. Crew members continue coughing.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13. TOM (CONT'D) (to Luigi) Thank you. Luigi grumpily tosses another jacket over the roof for Bela. Tom is conciliatory now. TOM (CONT'D) Well, time to call Paul. LUIGI Throw the anchor out. Bela is still rolling his camera, but mostly he's having to stay out of Tom's way as he reaches for the anchor. BELA Yo. yo. If the pitching boat doesn't get you seasick the camera movement will. There is an excellent shot of Tom's butt crack. A cacophony of chains and pops and a camera tilt to the still mildly smoking engine. Single camera coverage starting here for a long time. Corrupted files on 7d. From the engine Bryan does a TU to the rescue ship, a white sailboat, passing off the starboard. SAILBOAT CAPTAIN I've already called for help. They're on their way. BELA I think the fire might be out. TOM No, we need to get towed in. LUIGI There was not fire. Something was burning. Tom is working the anchor line in the bow with Bela. TOM There's still smoke up here you guys. LUIGI What do you mean up there? BELA Yeah, there's smoke coming out of there. TOM There's fucking smoke up here.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. Luigi climbs onto the roof and goes forward to see. SAILBOAT CAPTAIN (O.S.) Does anybody want to be on here? LUIGI (O.S.) The smoke is coming... TOM (O.S.) It's nothing to joke about. BRYAN (O.S.) I think we're alright. (to sailboat captain) That would be really helpful, thanks. Bela has walked astern and looks into the engine compartment. BELA Yeah, somehting's hot. Tom and Luigi are up in the bow. TOM Making sure we're getting anchor on the bottom. Bela frames up Tom. Unsteady single camera coverage. TOM (CONT'D) Smelled like oil, right? Oil burning is what that was. BELA I didn't smell it but I saw LUIGI Yeah, it's blue. TOM Anymore smoke back there? JEFF (O.S.) No. TOM Leave that hatch open. Luigi zips up his life vest. LUIGI Hatch open.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15. TOM I told you all we shouldn't have come out today. Fuck. LUIGI Hey, easy. TOM I knew it. Oh me, I'm having a great time. Hauling on the bow line he smiles with relief. Bela is in frame shooting with his (sadly malfunctioning) camera. TOM (CONT'D) I'm just glad the fire's out. I got my slight... Me and Bela, we got our life jackets on, we had a little fire there. Tom takes a few calming breaths, then sings. TOM (CONT'D) Getting towed back innnn. Someone says something unintelligible. TOM (CONT'D) Well, then hand me that one with the rapala on it. We'll see if we get anything around here. Tom, still high on adrenaline, leaps right back into fishing. He comes to get the rod. TOM (CONT'D) (under his breath) Hand me this one. Let's see if we get some action. As Tom carries the rod back to the bow, Bela sits on the starboard rail. BELA You're trying to catch fish right now? TOM Yeah. Tom looks over his shoulder at Bryan's camera. TOM (CONT'D) You got this? Tom prepares to cast.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16. TOM (CONT'D) Let's see if we have any small mouth attracted to the smell of burning oil. The rescue ship passes our port bow, having made a complete circle around us. TOM (CONT'D) Would you guys mind sticking around in case we see a fireworks display? The Sailboat Captain asks him something unintelligible. Tom picks up the bow line and tugs it. TOM (CONT'D) We got it to the cleat. (pulling in the line) Looks like we're holding. (turning back to camera) That sucks. (he casts) That was a nice cast. Let me guess, nothing. Camera continues to be bumpy. SAILBOAT CAPTAIN (O.S.) This might be your rescue right behind you here. Tom Looks to starboard. Pulling his rapala back out of the water. TOM Oh the Haendel! This is Dennis Montgomery. He's going to be a guest on my show. Hopefully still. Uh, he runs the Haendel and it looks like they're steamin' towards us. Bryan adjusts the aperture of his camera. TOM (CONT'D) That was oil burning. BRYAN (O.S.) Yep. LUIGI (O.S.) I was saying to somebody to change the oil. Yeah, it's still smoking. TOM Yeah that's probably not good.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17. LUIGI It's alright. The camera pans off of Tom to the Engine. TOM (O.S.) We at least have to get a fish on this boat before they fuckin' come rescue us. TU from Engine to Luigi and Jeff on the stern. LUIGI You guys keep the balance. BRYAN (O.S.) You rolling sound? Jeff nods. A kayak watches from 30 yards off the stern. Tom huffs and puffs O.S. Luigi turns astern to Jeff. LUIGI I wonder if they got some caught up back there. [Off mic] I smelt it right after... TOM (O.S.) (casting, desperate) Come on, give me a pike or something in these weeds. I've never fished these weeds like this. The Sound of the Haendel's engines grows louder. Bryan is totally fired from camera operating. LUIGI (O.S.) Yo, you got the anchor down, right? TOM Oh yeah. Zoom in on the Haendel (floating classroom) approaching and passing off the Port Stern. The boat is laden with people. Some of them are waving. She cuts her engines and a guy in a blue t-shirt calls out. CAPTAIN OF HAENDEL You guys all set? TOM (O.S.) No, we need to get towed. LUIGI No, Tom.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18. CAPTAIN OF HAENDEL Were you the ones who called Mayday? LUIGI (O.S.) Those guys called it in already. TOM (O.S.) Um, LUIGI (O.S.) (with growing concern) Let them go they got the tourists. BRYAN (O.S.) Say yes. TOM (O.S.) We still have some smoke. It seems... BRYAN (O.S.) Say yes. LUIGI (O.S.) Yeah, we're fine! Tom turns on his mutinous crew angrily. TOM What the fuck? BRYAN (O.S.) We're good. We're good. CAPTAIN OF HAENDEL (O.S.) You're still fishing, so it must not be that bad. TOM I hope we're getting towed in because we can't start again. LUIGI (O.S.) We're gonna paddle like Doggies in a boat TOM (waving off Luigi) Hold on. We just need a tow I guess, back to the ... The Haendel is now almost out of earshot directly off the bow. BRYAN (O.S.) You rolling Bela?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19. BELA Yeah. Sadly, this footage is lost. BRYAN You be on Tom, OK. Tom comes aft and puts his rod into the holder. And addresses his life jacket. TOM OK now you've all seen me rockin' this like this. You probably want to have this zipped. Tom zips up. And looks over the cabin roof at the still smoking engine. BRYAN (O.S.) I think we got a fire. TOM There IS a fire in there. Um... Tom laughs nervously and addresses Bela's camera in the bow. LUIGI (O.S.) It's oil smoking. Tom comes back and looks over the cabin. This is a nice shot. TOM Oil. Something happened. Maybe a hose an oil hose came undone or broke that's what it smells like when oil does that. LUIGI (O.S.) Yeah. TOM Um. LUIGI (O.S.) Here comes those guys. TOM The flames next to those, when those tanks get hot those are two Vietnam-style, you know, boat bombs. While we're smoking, could you hand me that cigarette and that hat. I am trying to quit smoking on this show.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20. TOM (MORE) They're going to be here in about... OK, here they come. Sweet. Can you hand me that fuckin' cigarette please? LUIGI (O.S.) Just hold on. I wouldn't be smoking. TOM Just GIVE ME the fucking cigarette! LUIGI Relax Tommy. Luigi gives him his cigarette and Tom lumbers across the roof, causing the boat the camera and the whole world to do a dutch angle with him. He lights up. The radio makes little piping sounds. ZI on the police boat as it approaches off port bow. TOM (O.S.) You guys should all have PDFs on too that's kind of a but what? you're good. There are Three Policemen on the boat, which is about the same size and shape as the Penn Yan. The driver, MARCHENKOFF, calls out. MARCHENKOFF You guys got the fire out? LUIGI Yeah. TOM I think so there's still traces of smoke it smells like oil we'll definitely need a tow. Back to. We're at the boat house. If someone wants to hop on and check that fire, help us check that fire. Too. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) You got a fire extinguisher onboard? TOM We put a white on on it some (demonstrating with hand) Yeah. We have two. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) You want to get those poles out?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21. TOM Yeah. (still smoking) Grab that pole. The camera lurches. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) Pass it this way. Here. BRYAN (O.S.) We're shooting a fishing show. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) Oh, OK. BRYAN (O.S.) Is it OK if I film you guys? TOM (O.S.) Please! Please! BRYAN (O.S.) This is good cinema. The camera is looking at water. BRYAN (O.S.) (CONT'D) Is it alright? OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) How bout you do us a favor and just stow that for a moment? Until we get everything set. TOM (O.S.) Alrighty. The camera stays on the ground. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) Yeah it's still smoking. But it's I don't see any flames. You should open the back. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) Your batteries are disconnected? LUIGI (O.S.) Yeah. They're turned off. TOM (O.S.) They're not disconnected they're turned off.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22. Camera rests for a bit on a fish ruler that's taped to the deck. (As close to a fish as we'll get in this episode.) Tom Smokes Loudly, Off Screen. LUIGI (O.S.) They're just kind of Oil kind of smoke. Someone hollers something unintelligible. Tivas and deck shoes. Snatches of the open engine compartment. Radio noise. Police chatter. Camera CUT: JEFF (O.S.) Here let me take this out of here. TOM We have a stern li... ignu. You probably have a ropes yourself. MCU Tom on port gunwale TOM (CONT'D) We have lines that we can tow with. OFFICER ANONYMOUS Right there? A big short-haired officer, OFFICER ANONYMOUS, (who has his face pixeled out because he expressly asked not to appear in the show) is helping Tom get the boats lashed together. Officer Anonymous looks around. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (CONT'D) Who's captain of this vessel? TOM (O.S.) (apologetically) Uh, Me. OFFICER ANONYMOUS OK. TOM (O.S.) I wasn't driving I was I'm the host of the fishing show our helmsman was Luigi. Um... and then suddenly, Camera CUTS:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) Yeah, we picked it up to speed go out and then dropped down while we still had time today weather-wise drop down for some lakers. We were going to stay in the channel and fish for smallies (laughing nervously) All day because the weather was coming we didn't want to go to the deep basin... OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) Right. TOM (O.S.) Take our chances what do you know... It smelled like oil. But any flames next to those two twenty five gallon aluminum tanks those things get hot there's a pressure cooker (taking a few quick breaths) Thanks a lot you guys were here, like instantaneously, thank you so much. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) We were in the right place at the right time. TOM (O.S.) Thank you. Tom laughs. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) Who is the vessel registered to? TOM (O.S.) Uh, the vessel is registered to... Camera Tilts up from engine to Officer Anonymous and Tom, still on the port gunwale. TOM (CONT'D) You, right? We don't hear Luigi's response. TOM (CONT'D) Yep. GONZALEZ (O.S.) (on the radio) The fire is out and we'll be towing them in.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24. TOM Alright. (unzipping his life jacket) Can probably take this thing off. RADIO CHATTER. Camera pans off of Tom and across the whole crew of the police boat. OFFICER GONZALEZ, a balding man with glasses, looks to Officer Anonymous. GONZALEZ What do you want to do? OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) Tie em up and throw em astern or aside? OFFICER MARCHENKOFF, tan, with short blond hair, stands in the stern. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (CONT'D) You're out of the launch or you've got a slip in there. TOM We have a slip in there. GONZALEZ Ithaca? Where? Boat house? TOM (O.S.) Yeah. Right next to the city boat. Um right by the like a mechanic's station in there. It's right, you know, where the "Spirit of Ithaca" is? We're right, our slip is right in front of "of." Across from "Of." Officer Anonymous give Tom a look. Tom turns up his hand. TOM (CONT'D) "Spirit of Ithaca." OFFICER ANONYMOUS OK, we should probably get towing. So we an take them all the way in and put them on their dock. TOM Or if you want to tow us over the deep basin where we can troll for some lakers,
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25. LUIGI (O.S.) It's starting to smoke again. You see that? TOM That'd be great too. We can't make out Officer Anonymous's reaction. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) Hold on I gotta turn this off so we can get to our [lost in general clamor] TOM This is a no no. (giggling) With you guys. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) Where are your batteries? Tom stands up, walking aft on the gunwale carrying the shot to a MCU of Marchenkoff. TOM They are in MARCHENKOFF Are they easily accessible, because you might want to uh, uh... TOM Disengage em'. MARCHENKOFF Yeah, disconnect em'. GONZALEZ They may be providing more power than... TOM (O.S.) Yeah because they still do operate the automatic bilge even with both batteries killed the float, the second bilge the float will uh, activate so... MARCHENKOFF And also you could be getting a short down there that could be part of the problem so... TOM (O.S.) Oh, no kidding?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26. MARCHENKOFF Yeah. LUIGI (O.S.) How do you get to this battery? TOM Um, it's just uh, iv uh, undo em' through that clip. LUIGI (O.S.) Get over here. To steps down into the cabin behind Luigi. TOM Here look out. Luigi steps over the engine to the stern, carrying the shot back to Marchenkoff, who is lashing the sterns together. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) That fucker is hotter than it's ever been. Pan back to Tom, reaching into the engine compartment. TOM (CONT'D) OK there's one. Here's the other one. You guys got tools? Camera aperture adjustments. Tom is on camera, but we don't see his lips. (Creative sound editing) TOM (CONT'D) This one's not fucking coming undone. That's kind of suspicious. Tom shakes the battery. Someone's cell phone goes off playing a dumb ring tone. TOM (CONT'D) God damn it. Pan Left to Marchenkoff, leaning over the port gunwale to watch. Luigi answers the phone. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) This battery is. LUIGI Yo.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 27. TOM (O.S.) Maybe that one got hot. Cuz' that bad boy is not. LUIGI Oh man, we got a little problem. Oh, the boat it started burning Tom got the uh, what are you guys, Coast Guard? We can barely make out their response, They all answer at once. OFFICER ANONYMOUS State Park Police. LUIGI StateParkPolice anyway we're trying to figure it out. TOM Alright. LUIGI Yeah. Luigi Laughs into his phone. Tom gets up and jumps over the engine to the stern. LUIGI (CONT'D) So let me call you back when it's all said and done. TOM Looks like we'll need a... LUIGI Alright, Ciao. Luigi hangs up. TOM Yeah, (mopping his forehead) I got a MARCHENKOFF A couple wrenches or a pair of pliers? TOM Yeah, I got that um, I think the wrench for our...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28. GONZALEZ Yeah, just get a wrench. We left our tools we just grabbed the boat and took off. So... Officer Anonymous addresses Luigi with a sentance that gets lost in general chatter. OFFICER ANONYMOUS Captain ... BRYAN (O.S.) I have a wrench, I think. LUIGI (to Officer Anonymous) Yeah. BELA (O.S.) I also have my Gerber. Somewhere. In my box. LUIGI Hey, where's the registration? The camera rocks. BRYAN (O.S.) Here, can you run this? TOM Registration's in the top (pointing into cabin) Drawer. (pointing back at engine) There's uh... that's just heat. LUIGI Can you please get it for me? Tom goes into the cabin. Bryan follows. Jeff runs camera. BRYAN I got uh... Tom comes out of the cabin. TOM Get out of my way. Tom jumps over the engine. And gives an envelope to Luigi. Luigi opens the envelope.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 29. TOM (CONT'D) Alright, let me get a tool out of here. Tom pulls his Gerber tool out of his tackle box. BRYAN (O.S.) Tom. TOM (O.S.) Should I take red off first or... Battery cables Bryan, coming out of the cabin, hands Tom a wrench. TOM (CONT'D) Does it matter? MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) Always take the black off first. TOM Always take the BLACK off first. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) Always take the negative off first. LUIGI (O.S.) Always take the black off. TOM (under breath) I'm feeling a little funny about... MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) And you don't want to hit it because it can still ground out. LUIGI (O.S.) Yeah, you want me to to it or... TOM Go for it, yeah. I've never done batteries. Tom puts the wrench down. Luigi maneuvers into position. TOM (CONT'D) I'm going to man the fire extinguisher. Just in case. Tom jumps over the engine. LUIGI Where's the wrench?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 30. TOM Just uh I right here. Tom hands him the wrench. Bryan comes back out of the cabin, spueezing past Luigi. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) Registration... blowing in the water. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) You got PFD onboard for everybody right? TOM Yeah. Yeah we just had them all on. Tom reaches of his. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) OK, Well, when we take you in tow, we'd prefer you wear them. TOM Absolutely Tom puts on his PFD. BRYAN (O.S.) I can take that now. If you want to get your PFD. Camera giggles as Bryan takes it back. GONZALEZ (O.S.) Were you guys ever in the water? TOM (O.S.) Yep. GONZALEZ (O.S.) All of you? Were in the water? You know, did you abandon the boat and... MIC NOISE. Camera is all over the place GONZALEZ (CONT'D) Get in the water? LUIGI (O.S.) No, No, No, No. Bryan TU to Gonzalez and Tom and Officer Anonymous, who's writing in a small pad on his lap.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 31. GONZALEZ Cuz' we got the call, we got was that there was a fire and you guys were all in the water. JEFF (O.S.) No. LUIGI (O.S.) Somebody was freaking out. Officer Gonzalez nods, understanding. TOM I was like, "Hey, we need help" to the nearest boat (looking to Gonzalez for support -- gets none) Which is what you're supposed to do Apertures adj. TOM (CONT'D) After you call but there was so much here getting to the CB there was a sailboat right there it seemed easier to flag someone. Gonzalez rubs his forehead on his wrist. Tom opens his mouth and tastes the air, which is thick. No one talks. POLICE RADIO (O.S.) Alright thanks. Pan Left off Tom to Marchenkoff. Luigi mumbles while he works off-screen. TOM (O.S.) There's one done. Sweet. They said BLACK first. Tom still holding the white fire extinguisher, leans down. TOM (CONT'D) You want me to hold that up? LUIGI You gonna hold it up. TOM Yeah. Luigi pulls his hand away and shakes it.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 32. LUIGI Ow, it's hot. Tom looks for a place to set down the extinguisher. TOM Holy snay, that motor gets hotter and hotter and fuckin' hotter. BRYAN (O.S.) Do you think I could get you guys to sign some release forms so I can put you on our show? Would that be alright? GONZALEZ What show? OFFICER ANONYMOUS You won't get one from me. Luigi laughs nervously. LUIGI (O.S.) Come on! Tom picks up the extinguisher again and points it at the engine. TOM Luigi, (tense) it's getting hot here Haus, come on. GONZALEZ I'd have to get that cleared with Albany. LUIGI (O.S.) Yeah, I know, hold on. We're working on it Tom. TOM Can this stay can this get lashed somehow? BRYAN (O.S.) Uh, it's um let me just I'm gonna say (framing up on Officer Anonymous) This gentleman right here does NOT want to be on film. Officer Anonymous, a handsome devil, smiles good naturelike.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 33. BRYAN (O.S.) (CONT'D) I wish you'd change your mind, cuz' you look great. Everybody LAUGHS. TOM (O.S.) Wait, WHO doesn't want to be on HE doesn't want You? Aaw. GONZALEZ What are you saying about the rest of us? BRYAN (O.S.) Oh, well you guys look great too. Gonzalez acts annoyed. Everybody talks at once. GONZALEZ Leave him out here by himself. Here come's the fire department. They'll take a look at your engine. TOM Oh, nice. There's a moment of quiet as everyone recognizes the Fire Dept zooming toward us off post bow. With the three police in the background, Tom looks into the camera. LUIGI (O.S.) Oww. TOM As Local As It Gets. FINGERLAKES UNPLUGGED The camera seeks a good shot of the oncoming Ithaca Fire and Rescue (IFR) boat. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) These guys were here in one minute. I think. GONZALEZ (O.S.) Well, luckily we were coming down the road and I monitor channel sixteen and I heard your mayday call. Luigi struggles with the the hot battery terminals offscreen.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 34. LUIGI (O.S.) Ahhh! TOM (O.S.) Right on, Oh some one did grab the radio. GONZALEZ (O.S.) Could've been the Haendel, but somebody put out a mayday call, a boat on fire. TOM (O.S.) Luigi, did you grab the radio? LUIGI (O.S.) (with a loud thump) UH! MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) Gotcha. You alright? TOM (O.S.) Yeah. A moment of silence. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) Yeah, look at what those mufflers they they were like The IFR boat comes in around and behind the Police boat. Gonzalez waves to them. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) Looks like someone almost slashed those things. There wasn't holes, that was just from heat. Yeah, it got really hot. That motor is hotter than it's ever been I mean we ... GONZALEZ Did you gauge your ah... water gauge. Did it go over? The sound of the fire dept boat is drowning out his voice but you can just make out Luigi reply. LUIGI (O.S.) Everything was fine, just... TOM (O.S.) I know what happened. I think I know what happened. HAGIN, a IFR man in the bow of the IFR boat calls out
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 35. HAGIN You said we got nobody hurt right? GENERAL affirmation. HAGIN (O.S.) (CONT'D) OK I'm going to release Bang's Ambulance and they can go home. The camera swings around, all over the place TOM (O.S.) I know what happened. OFFICER ANONYMOUS They're just past they're just disconnecting their battery cuz' they had a little smoke coming up again but... HAGIN (O.S.) Alright. The IFR comes around to the starboard side of the Penn Yan. BRYAN (O.S.) Do you guys mind being on a fishing show? Some Laughs. Camera, politely down at the water. BRYAN (O.S.) (CONT'D) We haven't caught a single fish but we got great stuff here. If I could If I could I'll put you on if you could just sign a little photo release after. We'd have something for our show. LUIGI (O.S.) We didn't plan this. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) You sure? TOM (O.S.) That's weird, that thing was fine. BRYAN (O.S.) I just cut by accident. TOM (O.S.) Um BRYAN (O.S.) Um
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 36. TOM (O.S.) Shall we close sea water if we're just being towed back in that would be fine right? CHATTER. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) Yeah, No, should we close it now? Just leave it open right? MARCHENKOFF Just leave it open. TOM OK. BRYAN (O.S.) You shootin' them? CHATTER. BRYAN (O.S.) (CONT'D) Shoot Tom. The camera careens around looking for a shot. A fuzz fire boat draws up along the starboard side. The camera is out of focus and swinging all over the place. TOM (O.S.) We gotta check that I saw some stuff in that water intake. This morning. But uh... A YOUNG FIREMAN with a big steel watch and brown hair leans out and grabs the Penn Yan's gunwale. YOUNG FIREMAN Got it. HAGIN Good Jay. Good job. TOM (O.S.) Yeah. I think maybe out seawater got plugged? Hagin comes out the the bow of the IFR boat carrying his radio and he and another young fireman, FIREMAN 3, inspect the contact point of the two boats carefully. TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) It's the fourth time we've had the boat out?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 37. Officer Anonymous says something off screen/mic about "vessel for hire." TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) Oh no it's not for hire. We're just filming. A fireman with a handlebar mustache, FIREMAN 4, prepares to board. POLICE RADIO (O.S.) 85 go ahead.. Â POLICE RADIO (O.S.) (CONT'D) We're still with the boat, we're having a little battery problem we're gonna be here for a bit. TOM (O.S.) Do you think this motor can come back to life? FIREMAN 4 You got the front, clip-in wheels. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) Hard to say. GONZALEZ If the motor was overheating, it just depends. TOM If it was just an overheat you think it might just be... Fireman 4 lashes the sterns together. MARCHENKOFF As long as you cut it off. TOM We cut it off quick. Luigi, the gauges, were we over heating? Hagin leans into the Penn Yan to look at the motor. TOM (CONT'D) you weren't you didn't see the gauge last minute...
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 38. LUIGI (O.S.) No, man, everything has been going as normal you know. TOM (O.S.) Right. LUIGI (O.S.) just heading out... POLICE RADIO drowns out Luigi. Camera pans off of Hagin to Luigi and TOm, talking to Officer Anonymous. LUIGI (CONT'D) I opened the hatch and TOM Yeah, no, them, the tempature gauge is LUIGI But there's no fire. TOM Looked normal when we started. It usually starts around one ten. Hundred and ten degrees. HAGIN (O.S.) So you had no fire? LUIGI No, no fire. Just a lot of smoke coming (pointing at exhaust pipes) from this part, these two. This one especially. POLICE RADIO CHATTER TOM I don't know what happened. Bad oil. I think I Hagin climbs aboard and squats by the open engine compartment. TOM (CONT'D) I opened up that sea valve this morning cause I close it at night. and just making sure that it's all the way to the left right now. CHATTER
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 39. LUIGI Blue smoke. GONZALEZ (O.S.) How long were you out here? TOM Oh my god. Ten minutes. Fifteen. Gonzalez leans over his windshield with his hand resting on his starboard rail. GONZALEZ Just enough to heat it up if that valve wasn't opened up all the way. POLICE RADIO (O.S.) Roger that. No hurry. GONZALEZ You weren't getting any water in the engine to cool it out. You know? HAGIN (O.S.) That'll do it. Tom shoots a look at the tall, imposing figure of Hagin and moves up the gunwale to the bow. TOM I don't know how to check that unless it's open. It's running fine. Frame up on Gonzalez. HAGIN Are you guys going to tow them in? Or what's the story? OFFICER ANONYMOUS We weren't going to. BUt if you want to you can tow em' in. Pan to CU Hagin. HAGIN My problem is I got two engines out of service for the city so, if I stay out here too long, that I ... I mean. GONZALEZ (O.S.) OK. Laughs. Pan off Hagin to Fireman 4.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40. HAGIN OK. Camera Cuts. WILD Sound (Tom's Mic). GONZALEZ (O.S.) If they aren't going to start again, we don't have a problem. HAGIN (O.S.) As long as nobody's hurt I'm gonna .... LUIGI (O.S.) No, nobody jumped in the water. HAGIN (O.S.) OK, we heard "somebody in the water" this and that... LUIGI (O.S.) Someone was freaking out HAGIN Yeah, I bet, I would be too. TOM (O.S.) Yeah, right, there you go. Tom Snorts. Bryan tries to get the firemen to sign release forms. (I'm not going to transcribe all this). TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) I can't believe this. Well, Our Enging Overheated. Probably do that twenty minutes faster than I can. HAGIN (O.S.) We'll take care of that once we get back to shore. Tom Laughs. TOM (O.S.) We're gonna need THEM to sign a release for Us. HAGIN (O.S.) Well, you can stop by central fire station. Thompson (one of the fireman's names) Like the water seal. Laughs.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41. TOM (O.S.) Perhaps our seawater intake was clogged. I wonder how we would check a sea water intake? What could possibly be in there? HAGIN (O.S.) Alright, good luck gentlemen. TOM (O.S.) Thank you. Tom flicks his LIGHTER. (SFX only) TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) So that was an overheating. Would we all agree? Tom shuts some door (SFX) Bryan tries to get Officer Anonymous to change his mind. OFFICER ANONYMOUS I end up going to Albany when I get on film. LAUGHS. TOM (O.S.) (to himself) Man, this is garbage. We should call Paul. I think we have to check our bilge hoses. Or our intake. The sea water take. But there's no way to check that under you know, at the dock. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) You guys don't have anymore bumpers? TOM (O.S.) Yeah, we do. we got one over here. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) You might want to put something CLUNK MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) (CONT'D) else over here. General chatter centered around bumper placement. Lot's of mic handling noise. Camera rolls. Jeff with Sound gear to Luigi schlepping bumpers.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 42. BRYAN (O.S.) Alright, this is a continuation of take five. LUIGI Here I got this one here. Ah, look, the same color. How bout' that. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) what do you want. LUIGI There in front? CHATTER. Luigi on the port gunwale. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) We're not going to need it up front. LUIGI You're not? Well... OK. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) Well, try it off that cleat. LUIGI Right here? MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) I think we're OK down here. TOM (O.S.) Hold on a second. More chatter. Tom pulls a bumper off the starboard bow and carries it over toward port. Bela shoots Tom from the bow. (No file) TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) Is there anything other than opening sea water to check to make sure you're not going to overheat? I mean it seems like we've done the same procedure every time. TOM lights his cigarette. Bryan is all over the place. There is no shot. GONZALEZ You're going to want to snug em' up a little tighter than that John. POLICE RADIO CHATTER. Nice MCU Low angle of Tom tying off to bow cleat.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 43. TOM (O.S.) Bowline and dump two half hitches? HUFF PUFF. Bryan TU to a low MCU of Tom on the bow. He addresses the camera: TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) How's that? What could have been in the bilge? Or in the sea water? intake. Seems like I turned the bilge on, turned it off. That has nothing to do with it. The sea water was opened up. The land hose was closed but that would just give us more water. and sink us. Perhaps a frog. A bowfin. yellow perch swam in there. A duck I I just don't know. But once we get back I think that we should try and start it up again. and do this again. um. Is that white stuff we sprayed poisonous? If it gets hot, like, if we started it again for, say, we're gonna try to fire it up again. BRYAN (O.S.) Shoot something besides Tom, I got a great shot of him. TOM I'm just wondering. I'd like to try to start it again, maybe. We'll go back and talk to that boat mechanic at the boathouse and uh... THis is great. We'll go back and talk to a boat mechanic and um, I want to get this thing fired up. Especially if this weather (looking at the nice white clouds) stays with us like this. BRYAN (O.S.) Hey, Tom, explain what we're doing here. Like how we're towing the boat and THUMP crash. A quick PL to Officer Anonymous shaking the other end of the rope that Tom is on. OFFICER ANONYMOUS Go ahead and know that. Whip Right to Tom. BRYAN (O.S.) Explain it as you do it. Go ahead.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 44. TOM (talking around his cigarette) Right now I'm just giving him his line back. OFFICER ANONYMOUS Do us a favor, and when you film, get us with our PFD's on ... CHuckles. (He's not wearing one). BRYAN (O.S.) So what's going on? TOM Right now we being towed by the New York State (reading the side of the boat) Park Police. The vessel, they have a volvo penta in it. Very nice motor. What kind of boat is this? OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) Sea Swirl TOM Sea Sqirrel? OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) Sea Swirl. TOM Sea Swirl. Which is what we were in for a minute. I should probably grab our anchor. Tom goes forward and starts pulling the anchor line. The camera makes a nice move out into the water. Then back again to Tom, still smoking and hauling the line. BRYAN (O.S.) So why don't you put it all together for me Tom. What were we doing and what a what did we end up doing? FALSE START. BRYAN (O.S.) (CONT'D) On three. Tom sets down his cigarette. And pulls the anchor line half-heartedly while he talks.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 45. TU from anchor to Tom TOM Well, we were going to go out first up the channel and fish for smallies then the clouds didn't look like they were going to do what they were going to do so we were gonna head out for some lakers and somehow our .... I don't understand what happened. OUr motor seems to have maybe overheated or uh (putting a cigarette in his mouth) smelled like oil. It really sucks BRYAN (O.S.) Let's try that again. put it all together. Get me from what we were fishing for right up to what we're doing right this second. In twenty seconds. On three. Tom Puts down his cigarette. and once again pulls the anchor line for real. TOM Well, we were leaving. we were going to go fish for uh we were gonna go put a downrigger down about a hundred and thirty feet, you know, we lost a giant fish over a hundred and forty six feet the other day and uh, coming up on my anchor. Tom pulls straight up on the anchor line. TOM (CONT'D) Wow, there's a lot of weeds on that bad boy. Ok we're going over... (pulling hard) fuck me. Tom pulls weeds off the line. TOM (CONT'D) Watch your feet. BRYAN (O.S.) Whenever you get a chance to describe this shit. as you go that would be great. TOM (exerting himself) Ugh. Right now I'm pulling about an extra seventy pounds of fucking seaweed and anchor.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 46. Bryan frame's a MCU TOM (CONT'D) OK, there's our chain. There's our bleeding anchor. Tom lifts the weed encrusted thing under the rail and sets it down. TOM (CONT'D) Oh yeah. Bela's camera is back. Luigi stands on the stern rail visiting with Gonzalez and Marchenkoff. LUIGI Oh I was down four years in Park Slope a real estate broker in Manhattan. GONZALEZ (O.S.) I grew up in the Bronx. Camera pans to Gonzalez. LUIGI (O.S.) Oh yeah? That's pretty cool. TD to engine. Sound is not great (7d sound) LUIGI (O.S.) (CONT'D) Yeah and came up here. Lived one year in Ithaca and the rest is history. GONZALEZ (O.S.) It's nice. Tom is pulling mud and weeds off the anchor and cursing under his breath. BRYAN (O.S.) So tell me what happened Tom. TOM (tired of answering questions) I don't know, we over heated. Started smelling oil. All I could imagine were those tanks blowing up. Then I imagined us in these weeds being tangled near a burning boat. That's pretty much what happened right now. The camera pans across Tom's butt crack (another thing to obscure in aftereffects) to the police boat.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 47. LUIGI (O.S.) It's different, you know? GONZALEZ (O.S.) Nice if you want to raise kids. GONZALEZ (O.S.) (CONT'D) Better than the city. LUIGI (O.S.) Yeah, that's why I left the city. Have a daughter. The exposure and focus are off. Maybe salvageable. Pan from the bow, filthy with sand and weeds, across Tom's butt crack to the Police boat and the Penn Yan lashed together. Pan back to Tom, flinging mud off his hands into the water. TOM Let's hope she runs again by Friday. Tom moodily coils muddy rope. BRYAN (O.S.) I'm cutting. BRyan cuts. Tom breaths heavily. BRYAN (O.S.) (CONT'D) I'm gonna close this hatch not Tom. TOM (O.S.) Whatever you want to do I'm sorta fuckin' bent. B-Roll on the seaweed-strewn deck, and Tom cleaning the anchor line. B-Roll camera is jerky TOM (O.S.) (CONT'D) What do you think about firing it back up? OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) Oh I wouldn't do that. A long patch of no talk and no picture. TOM (O.S.) Yeah. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) You got your wheel straight?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48. Tom Zips his PFD (SFX) TOM (O.S.) PFDs. zipped, yeah buckle em' up. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) Put PFDs on. TOM (O.S.) Luigi. Luigi. Life Jacket. Here's one. I'm trying to smoke as much as the boat did. It's the only ethical thing to do. BELA (O.S.) As if you hadn't said it yet. BRYAN (O.S.) I saw an orange one BELA (O.S.) Same way. BRYAN (O.S.) Somewhere. Luigi's phone rings. Bela, sitting on the roof of the cabin, claps his hands and gives the thumbs up. BRYAN (O.S.) (CONT'D) You on Tom there, Bela? TOM Hey, Bryan, can I see your phone for Forrest's number? BRYAN (O.S.) Yeah. Bryan's camera lurches over the police boat and Marchenkoff and the open engine compartment (may be a way to introduce the police) as he gets his phone. BRYAN (O.S.) (CONT'D) Alright I'm cutting. He cuts. TOM (O.S.) Thank you. Is Forrest on there? BRYAN (O.S.) Uh, McGuire. I'll get it for you. Bryan directs (NOT TRANSCRIBED)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 49. Bela rolls. LUIGI Tom. TOM What what do you want me to do? BRYAN (O.S.) OK it's rolling. LUIGI ... stuff over here for the boat, fire, what do you call that? GONZALEZ we're doing a, we're doing an inspection as we go along... OFFICER ANONYMOUS A vessel inspection. TOM Oh. As we move along? GONZALEZ Yeah, as we're going along, that's what they're doing they're checking all your equipment. To make sure you got all your legal equipment. TOM OK, yeah we got Lake Ontario stuff. Luigi stands on the port stern in his bright white shirt looking alert and speaking forcefully. The Police officers are visible in the boat behind him. OFFICER ANONYMOUS We need to see it. (off mic) Not just your word. TOM Oh, I know. Yeah, No c'mon whenever you guys want to come on. LUIGI (motioning with his hands) Yo. Get off the phone and get over here. They want to see it now. The boats creak against one another.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 50. TOM (O.S.) Mingia. BELA (O.S.) This stuff? You want to see the equipment and stuff? OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) Yep. LUIGI Oh, not that stuff. Not camera gear. BELA (O.S.) What kind of gear? LUIGI (O.S.) Flares and stuff that we have. BRYAN (O.S.) Safety gear. LUIGI (O.S.) Safety gear. TOM (O.S.) Alrighty? BRYAN (O.S.) Nautical TOM (O.S.) We have enough PDFs for everyone. There's life jackets in the cutty. Camera pans to Tom looking over the roof of the cabin, a cigarette cradled in his mud-caked hand. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) We need to see one more for this gentleman. TOM (O.S.) OK, underneath you there should be another life jacket. If not there is an orange uh, intercoastal ... LUIGI (O.S.) Tom, just get over there. Tom gives Luigi the stink-eye. TOM Where the fuck.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 51. TOM (MORE) Where do you want me Luigi? Tell me exactly. I mean, down there? Their bickering overlaps. TOM (CONT'D) Not that one the orange one. I know we don't need a flare gun on this lake, but we have a flare gun. Officer Anonymous is all business. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) I don't care what kind of flaregun you have but you gotta show me three day/night flares. TOM OK. And that are not expired we got all that. (to his crew) In the, Bryan, while you're down there, in that um underneath where the sink is on these drawers on on your on your left side other way other side to the left that orange thing take that out hand it to me. Tom takes it and hands it to Luigi. TOM (CONT'D) Hand this to them. Luigi passes it to Officer Anonymous, who opens up the orange canister and scrupulously inspects it. Tom is still lying on his stomach, looking down over the deck with his cigarette in hand. OFFICER ANONYMOUS And I also need to see a type 4 throwable. PFD. LUIGI (O.S.) What? TOM A throwable. OFFICER ANONYMOUS Or a cushion.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 52. TOM Um, I know that there was a couple in there. There may be a couple of those um like a seat. That might be a bad spot for you. Cuz' we got to get in there. The camera goes sideways. Luigi moves in to help. TOM (CONT'D) You can take the helm seat. And open that up. Watch that clipboard. And the hat and the wrench and the registration. I mean, I can jump down into there whenever LUIGI That's what I asked you please. TOM Although there was someone sitting there, Luigi and you were standing there and there's people... Luigi picks up a steel rod off the bench, the perfect weight and size for braining someone, and hefts it in his hand. LUIGI Hey Tom, just cut it out man, just please. TOM Down there where the stuff is. Bryan helps pull back the bench seat. Jeff operates camera. LUIGI I'm trying to comply with these guys over here. Luigi throws the steel rod onto the dash and looks under the bench. LUIGI (CONT'D) There's nothing in there. They close up the bench. Camera goes for the CU of Officer Anonymous replacing the contents of the flare cannister and putting the lid on. TOM Alright, let me look in the um. Cutty. Cuz' there's stuff up here Luigi what they want is up here too.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 53. Tom opens the forward hatch and climbs head first, cigarette and all, into it, so his ass is sticking out on the deck amid the muddy ropes and anchor chains. Bryan helps him from inside, there's a crash as c-stands tumble. TOM (CONT'D) Oh fuck me. BRYAN Let's look under this one. TOM Yeah yeah yeah. Bryan moves stuff off of the seat. TOM (CONT'D) Nothing. Tom comes out of the hatch. TOM (CONT'D) Alright, we do not have a throwable floatation device. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) Does it say approved by blah on the back of it? Tom reaches back in and pulls the seat cushion out and reads the back. BRYAN Hang on. Mumble. TOM We haven't seen that. They look further. Tom replaces the seat cushion. TOM (CONT'D) God damn son of a bitch. Luigi, relaxing, stands beside Marchenkoff. They are looking off the port bow. LUIGI That's a lot of smoke for that boat isn't it? Is that normal? LAUGHS. Tom stands up and relights his cigarette.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 54. MARCHENKOFF Is that what your boat looked like a while ago? LUIGI Not really. BELA (O.S.) It was the same kind of smoke. But not that much. LUIGI No, not that much. It was just all contained on that thing as soon as we opened it An old wooden boat off the port bow is making a big cloud of blue smoke. TOM Smelled like engine oil for sure. BELA (O.S.) Attack of the boats. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) I've never towed two boats. Tom smiles, not quite sure what the rest of them are laughing at. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) (CONT'D) Keep em' both in front of our stern. Tom looks at the smoking boat. TOM They're putting out. That's what we looked like ... yeah. I guess you guys were just talking about that. BELA (O.S.) Maybe there's something in the water. TOM It's probably from us. BELA (O.S.) No way is that from us. TOM That's not right. He's turning around too. This is like the day of this.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 55. LUIGI (O.S.) Hey Tom. What he's asking? OFFICER ANONYMOUS No type four throwable onboard? TOM Yeah, I mentioned to him, we don't have the floatation. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) How long is the boat? TOM Twenty Three. Repositioning camera. Tom, standing on the bow smoking, turns to the Police. TOM (CONT'D) So, if it was just an overheat and we killed it quick enough, it'll be fine? GONZALEZ (O.S.) Well... TOM Oh, I know but I MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) You better check it out you mighta TOM Melted some stuff? Don't want to start an engine that's overheated. GONZALEZ (O.S.) You don't want to go from a little bit of damage to a whole lot of damage. TRANSCRIPTION is taking too long. I'm starting to skip what I don't think is useful, right here. BELA Oh, they smell bad. TOM They stink now right? GONZALEZ (O.S.) He's going back in now. TOM Yeah. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) That's kinda what the smell was, right?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56. TOM Yeah, burning oil. CHATTER ABOUT burning oil. BRYAN (O.S.) Tom, if you could put it all together for me now. Tom squats down if front of the windshield looking forward and addressing the camera. Bela is in bg along with the towing vessel and her crew. TOM We were going out out engine overheated lots of smoke some panic ensued I grabbed out white fire extinguisher for the engine and ah... started spraying stuff people were yelling at me not to um. I think the engine will be fine. Agh, it got hot, it smoked, we shut it right off immediately. Shouldn't be that much damage. I think it's gonna work out. Luigi and the Police discuss how to dock the boat. B-Roll of engine shaft rotating. Tom from behind. Tom squats quietly. Camera PR to Police boat. Water laps. Camera pans back. ZI to MCU Tom. BRYAN (O.S.) What were we hoping to accomplish again today? TOM Penis. LUIGI Hey, yo, Tom. TOM Yes. LUIGI Fishing license. Tom gets up and pulls his licence out of it's sleeve. TOM You want me to hand it back? He hands it to Bela, Bela passes it to Officer Anonymous. Tom stands on the deck gesticulating and talking to Gonzalez. Pre-trip checklist and things getting caught in the intake
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 57. TOM (CONT'D) I don't understand a quadruple checked the blower, I ran the blower for twenty minutes Tom talks about blower while Bryan directs Bela. TOM (CONT'D) I don't what else to do except smell for fumes I always open it up too. GONZALEZ (O.S.) You got a blower? You turned your blower on? TOM I do it for ten to twenty minutes. Every time. And Uh, sea valve is next on the list. GONZALEZ You could have sucked up a bag or some seaweed, it happens all the time. TOM Yeah, going in there was a lot of seaweed. GONZALEZ You got a water gauge in there? A heat gauge? TOM Yes. GONZALEZ Did you look at that? TOM He was at the helm, I was filming. It looked, for a second while we were leaving, it read one ten which is usually as soon as you turn it on it's one ten. So I'm not sure if we sucked something in today in the inlet or it was in there waiting for us. GONZALEZ A plastic bag will do it a lot of seaweed. BRYAN (O.S.) Would you guys mind repeating that? Bryan frames up Gonzalez.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58. GONZALEZ You could have sucked a plastic bag up into your intake or you could have sucked up seaweed that clogged up your intake Officer Anonymous hands Luigi the flare cannister. GONZALEZ (CONT'D) And that would have overheated your engine. Would have caused it to smoke. My suggestion is you take it in have it looked at before to turn it back on. TOM Absolutely. I just have to keep thanking you guys. GONZALEZ That's what we get paid for. You're just lucky that we had people that were where they were at the time. To come out and get you. MARCHENKOFF Yeah, we happened to be in the right place at the right time. TOM As usual. GONZALEZ And we monitor channel 16 so that's how we heard your mayday or somebody called a mayday. LUIGI (O.S.) That was the sailboat. TOM That was me the other day, who called. I saw a sailboat go over in front of the yacht club. Did anyone hear that? GONZALEZ I don't know if we, did we come out for that? TOM No, actually they got it back up. It was straight capsized but it was smaller when we got up close to it. It looked it had a huge sail.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 59. Officer Gonzalez regards him closely with his mirror shades giving back nothing. TOM (CONT'D) It looked like they were going to be on tack and then just failed. The Fail Boat. GONZALEZ Yeah, it happens all the time. Gonzalez gestures to a boat that's coming of the inlet we are about to enter. GONZALEZ (CONT'D) Beginners. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (shouting to the other boat) That's a no wake zone coming out of there. Camera TU to catch the beginners going by. TOM Lucky they got a boat tied to em' "drop anchor we'll be right back!" The boats creak against each other with the wake. TOM (CONT'D) (gesturingi to the smoky boat) Looks like the Elsa Gee turned around today too. Seems like the fish want to just eat each other today and not Sutton Spoons. Sutton Spoons TOM (CONT'D) So, what the way to check the sea water? A long, boring conversation between Tom and Gonzalez about checking sea water. Nice MCU of both of them. I think that the best bit will be a pause in their conversation. A cop driving his charge to shore. In silence. LUIGI (O.S.) Are they going to be able to look at it there at the boat center? TOM Yeah.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 60. LUIGI (O.S.) Lift it up and everything? GONZALEZ (O.S.) Where do you want to go, Johnson's or... TOM Um, GONZALEZ (O.S.) Or Ithaca, uh, the boathouse. Ithaca Boat House TOM The boathouse has all the equipment and mechanics we'll probably just go back to the slip. LUIGI You should probably call Steve. TOM I'll talk to Dennis was the guy on the Haendel, he's a friend of mine and you know, he's a mechanic and he has a two CHATTER TOM (CONT'D) I usually don't smoke this much. No pun intended. GONZALEZ (O.S.) What was that? TOM I usually don't smoke this much. No pun intended. LAUGHS. TOM (CONT'D) A real time for jokes. Fun. GONZALEZ (O.S.) I've been known to make a few. LAUGHS. Tom smiles. Bryan hands the clip board to Marchenoff. MARCHENKOFF John, you're not signing one huh?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61. OFFICER ANONYMOUS No. BRYAN Oh Come On. MARCHENKOFF (O.S.) Hey are you signing one? GONZALEZ (O.S.) Yeah. TOM (O.S.) Hey, I think we got a killer episode. OFFICER ANONYMOUS (O.S.) I hope so. TOM (O.S.) No pun intended. I'm Mr Pun. Camera Rolls on Tom MCU TOM (CONT'D) Luigi that did not overheat for long. We're going to be sailing Friday. Steamin'. (looking into the camera) There we are again. We'll leave that one. "We'll be Steaming Friday." What a good doay on the water. Thank God these guys were here. Uh, yeah. Man. Tom's smile kind of freezes on as he attempts some uncharacteristic optimism. PL to Bryan and Marchenkoff, signing release form. Marchenkoff checks the date on his watch. Bad sound of Bryan, Marchenkoff and Officer Anonymous OFFICER ANONYMOUS Do me a favor. (to Tom) Why don't you just sit down, that would be the best thing. We don't need you to fall overboard. Tom lights up and sits down, looking out over the bow. He closes the forward hatch door. The Elsa Gee is still steaming toward the slip ahead of us. He turns back to camera.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62. TOM You know what would be hilarious? If we had a smallie chew on one of those rapalas behind us right now. Tom Laughs at a response we can't hear. There is a long patch of bad sound and Tom looking over the bow. TOM (CONT'D) This is really happening. BELA (O.S.) That boat up there is a little bit luckier than us. Bela and Tom discuss it. (Not transcribed) Bryan rolls some ambient sound of sloshing water inside the cabin. Random Short B Roll. Nice MCU Tom with the moving shoreline behind him. Wind noise but salvageable. TOM When there's smoke on a boat and you don't know what it is grab the fire extinquisher and you start going off and you call for help. It's what you do. It's what we did. And we're all still here. Um. We've got two twenty five gallon tanks of... gasoline inches from something very hot. Hot enough to burns oil. Chances are it would burn gasoline too or ignite it, better yet and it would look like a scene from Apocalypse Now. I think I think they blew up boats in that movie. They do have a hose at the boat house where we're going in the Ithaca Boat House Ithaca Boat House Boat Yard Grill TOM (CONT'D) Down here. Right next to the Boat Yard Grill. Fine Dining. (deadpan) The best service in town. Uh, we love the Boat Yard Grill. My wife and I, we go there whenever we get a chance. It's delicious. The wait staff is just impecable. There's just absolutely nothing you could ever say wrong about the service at the Boat Yard. Ever. The Park Police and Coast Guard Auxiliary
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63. TOM (CONT'D) And the park police and the coast guard auxiliary, the volunteer, are just top-notch around here they really are. The movement of the boat echoes great tidal movements within Tom's troubled soul. We get a glimpse here of the tempest within for a moment. Camera Cuts. Bela talks about Walter Murch for a minute. (CONT'D) (CONT'D) (CONT'D)
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