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- Cassidy: What's your name again?
- Chrissie Watkins: Chrissie!
- Cassidy: Where are we going?
- Chrissie: Swimming!
- Cassidy: Slow up, slow down! I'm not drunk! Slow down! Wait I'm coming! I'm
- coming! I'm definitely
- coming! Wait, slow up! I can swim -- just can't walk or dress myself.
- Chrissie: Come on in the water!
- Cassidy: Take it easy. Take it easy.
- Chrissie: Oh! God help me! God! Argh! God help!
- Cassidy: I'm coming... I'm coming.
- Chrissie: It hurts! It hurts! Oh my god! God help me! God please help!
- Martin Brody: How come the sun didn't use to shine in here.
- Ellen Brody: We bought the house in the fall, this is summer.
- Ellen: Somebody feed the dogs, huh?
- Martin: Right.
- Ellen: See the kids?
- Martin: They must be in the backyard.
- Ellen: In Amity, you say: yahd.
- Martin: There in the yahd, not too fah from the cah. How's that?
- Ellen: Like your from New York.
- Michael Brody: Mom I got cut, I got bit by a vampire.
- Martin: You guys were playing on those swings. Weren't -[Phone rings] Stay
- off them, I haven't fixed them yet!
- Ellen: I think you're gonna live.
- Martin: Hello, yeah ---- what the hell do they usually do, wash up or float
- or what? Ah nah, nah, nah keep him there. Keep him there, I'll be out in
- about fifteen... fifteen, twenty minutes. All right. Okay. Gotta go, missing
- person. season hasn't started nobody's even here yet.
- Ellen: Listen chief, be careful will ya?
- Martin: In this town? --- Hey!
- Ellen: David, lemme get on. I want my cup back!
- Martin: You'll get it
- Ellen: Okay. Wave good-bye. Bye!
- Martin: Now nobody saw her go in the water?
- Cassidy: Somebody could have. I was so passed out.
- Martin: You mean she ran out on ya.
- Cassidy: No sir! She must have drowned. Look I reported it to ya didn't I?
- Martin: You live here?
- Cassidy: Nah, Hartford. I go to Trinity. My folks live in Grenich.
- Martin: Your folks were born here right?
- Cassidy: Yeah, I'm an islander. They moved off when my dad retired. You an
- islander?
- Martin: No, New York state. You here for the summer. [Whistle] Come on! ---
- Hold it. Oh Jesus.
- Polly: Well your up awful early. Is the chief in there? Well chief, what have
- you got on.
- Martin: Polly, if this filing system is gonna work, you gotta keep that
- outdated stuff off my desk - just depending, all right?
- Polly: Yes chief. Now we got a bunch of calls about that karate school. It
- seems the nine year olds from the school have been karateing the picket
- fences. [Phone rings] Chief Brody's office? It's the medical inspector.
- Martin: Yeah.
- Polly: Now the fire chief wants you to go over the fourth of July --
- Martin: Polly I want the list of all the water activities that the city
- fathers are planning for today. All right.
- Polly: Right away?
- Martin: Hendricks, where do we keep the beach closed signs.
- Hendricks: We never had any.
- Martin: No?
- Citizen: Hey chief, chief, chief! I was trying to find ya chief, there's a
- damn truck with New Hampshire plates on it smack in front of my store!
- Martin: Just have him fill out the form. Just fill it out.
- Harry: Hey, look what those kids did to my fence. 89 year old with glasses!
- Martin: With glasses.
- Harry: And look at this! They did it with their bare hands!
- Martin: I'll call you in the afternoon , look I promise.
- Customer: This stuff ain't gonna help me in August. The summer kings come
- down here in June! You haven't got one thing on here I ordered. Not a beach
- umbrella, not a sun lounger, no beach balls... If I can't get service from
- you I'll go and get service...
- Hendricks: Chief, chief! Polly sent me to find you to tell you that there's a
- bunch of boy scouts out on April bay doing their mile swim for their merit
- badges. I couldn't call them in there's no phones out there.
- Martin: Okay, c'mon, get out of there. Take this stuff back to the office and
- get to work on those signs: "Beaches Closed - No Swimming by order of the
- Amity PD". And let Polly do the printing.
- Hendricks: What's the matter with my printing?
- Martin: Let Polly do the printing.
- Vaughn: Hey! Chief! Chief Brody!
- Meadows: Listen we had a shark attack at South Beach this morning mayor!
- Mayor I ...
- Scout Leader: K Albert! C'mon you goof keep your arms up! [Continues to yell
- at kids]
- Martin: Charlie take me out to those kids will ya?
- Vaughn: Martin? Martin, you gonna shut down the beaches on your own authority?
- Martin: Well, what other authority do I need?
- Meadows: Well technically you need a civic ordinance or a resolution by a
- board of selectives -
- Vaughn: That's just going by the book. We're really a little anxious that
- you're, uh, you're rushing into something serious here. It's your first
- summer you know.
- Martin: What does that mean?
- Vaughn: I'm only trying to say that Amity is a summer town. We need summer
- dollars. If the people can't swim here they'll be glad to swim at the beaches
- of Cape Cod, Hampton, Long Island.
- Martin: That doesn't mean we have to serve them up a smorgasbord.
- Meadows: But we never had that kind of trouble in these waters.
- Martin: But what else could have done that to that girl?
- Vaughn: Boat propeller?
- Medical Examiner: Well, I think, uh, possibly, uh, yes a boating accident. A
- boat -
- Martin: That's not what you told me over the phone.
- Medical Examiner: I was wrong. We'll have to amend our reports.
- Martin: And you'll stand by that?
- Medical Examiner: I'll stand by it.
- Vaughn: Martin. A summer girl goes swimming. Swims out a little far. She
- tires. A fishing boat comes along...
- Meadows: It's happened before.
- Vaughn: I don't think you appreciate the gut reaction people have to these
- things.
- Martin: Harry, I appreciate it. I'm just reacting to what I was told!
- Vaughn: Martin, i-it's all psychological. You yell `barracuda!', everybody
- says `huh, what?'. You yell `shark!' and we've got a panic on our hands on
- the fourth of July. --- Okay you, you can take us back now.
- Alex Kintner: Mom, can I get my raft and go back out in the water?
- Mrs. Kintner: Lemme see your fingers. Alex Kintner they are beginning to
- prune.
- Alex: Just lemme go out a little longer?
- Mrs. Kintner: Just ten more minutes.
- Alex: Thanks.
- [Cuts in on conversation]
- Councilwoman: It's just a big bother. Listen to me --
- Ellen: All I want to know, I just want to know one simple thing. When do I
- get to become an islander?
- Councilwoman: Ellen, never! Never! You're not born here -- you're not an
- islander.
- Councilman: Hey, Marty. We got a lot of problems downtown but I got a lot of
- problems at the house I wish you could take care of. One, I've got some cats
- barking in front of the house, I can't get down to the office. And that
- garbage truck, next to the office, has got to be moved. So we're going to use
- a red zone, it's a simple thing you can take care of, you've done it before, k?
- Ellen: You okay?
- Martin: Yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine.
- Ellen: Listen, if the kids go in the water and it's wearing you out?
- Martin: No, no.
- Ellen: They can... they can play out here on the beach.
- Martin: All right, let'em go.
- Harry: It's cold! Huh huh, we know all about you chief. You don't go in the
- water at all do ya?
- Martin: That's some bad hat, Harry!
- Ellen: Chief Brody, you are uptight, that's good, that's it...
- Sean Brody: Oh do you know the muffin man, the muffin man, the muffin man.
- Pipit Owner: Pipit! C'mon Pipit, Pipit!
- Witness: Did you see that?
- Martin: Get everybody out! Get out! Get out!
- Sean: Michael! Get outta the water!
- Mrs. Kintner: Alex?! Alex?!
- Meadows: Alex Kintner is the kid who was missing at the beach. His mother
- says it was the sharks.
- Councilwoman: We don't even know that there's a shark around here. Look I
- can't argue with you; I can't talk to you! Larry! Larry! Do something here!
- Martin: We have to talk to Mrs. Kintner, because this is going to turn into a
- contest.
- Meadows: Look it's not just the Gazette, she's advertising in out of town
- papers. Now people are gonna be all over New England that are going to know
- about it!
- Vaughn: Let's go back to the counsel chambers where we're going to have more
- room.
- Martin: Not only that but I'm responsible for public safety around here.
- Vaughn: Then go out there tomorrow and see that no one gets hurt.
- Councilwoman: Martin! Martin! Do something here --
- Meadows: It's a small story, I'm going to bury it as deep as I can; the ad is
- going to run in the back along with the grocery ads.
- Vaughn: Right in here please. Move on in, please.
- Councilwoman: Look, I have a point of view and I think it speaks for many of
- the people here. Not only me because I have a motel, how do you feel?
- Vaughn: Please! Let's have some order! Let's have order please! Any special
- questions?
- Chairmember: Uh, is that 3000 dollar bounty on the shark in cash or check?
- Councilwoman: I don't think that's funny; I don't think that's funny at all.
- I'm sorry.
- Vaughn: All right! All right! That's private business between you fisherman
- and Mrs. Kintner. Martin... would you please? Chief Brody.
- Martin: Uh, I just... Uh, I just wanna tell you what we're planning so far...
- Town member: What about the beaches chief?
- Martin: We're gonna to put on the summer... the extra summer deputies as soon
- as possible. And then we're gonna try and use, uh, shark spotters on the
- beach.
- Councilwoman: Are you going to close the beaches?
- Martin: Yes we are. We're also planning to bring in some experts from the
- Oceanographic Institute on the mainland.
- Vaughn: Only 24 hours.
- Martin: I didn't agree to that?
- Vaughn: Only 24 hours.
- Town member: 24 hours is like 3 weeks!
- [Sound of nails scratching chalkboard]
- Quint: Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for ya,
- but it ain't gonna be easy... Bad fish. It's not like going down to pond
- chasin' blue gills or tommy cots. This shark - swallow ya hole. L'il shakin',
- l'il tenderizin', down ya go. Now we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back
- the tourists, that'll put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not
- gonna be pleasant! I value my neck a lot more than 3000 bucks chief! I'll
- find him for three, but I'll catch him... and kill him... for ten! Now you
- gotta make up your minds. Gonna stay alive and ante up? Or ya wanna play it
- cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers; I don't
- want no mates. There's too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars
- for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.
- Vaughn: Thank you very much Mr. Quint. We'll, uh, we'll take it under
- advisement.
- Quint: Mr. Mayor, chief, ladies and gentlemen.
- Ellen: Oh! Oh! Oh God! You scared me!
- Martin: Whoa! You know Ellen? People don't even know how old sharks are? And
- I mean that they live two, three thousand years? They don't know!
- Ellen: Martin, enough, enough. You not even going to be able to sleep tonight,
- here. C'mon.
- Martin: Thanks.
- Ellen: Wanna get drunk and fool around?
- Martin: Oh yeah.
- Ellen: Hey, Mikey really loves his present.
- Martin: Where is he?
- Ellen: Sitting in it.
- Martin: Good God! All right Michael out of the boat!
- Michael: It's tied up to the jetty, just sitting in the boat!
- Sean: Michael!
- Martin: Get outta that boat!
- Michael: C'mon dad! Just a little longer!
- Ellen: Martin! It's his birthday tomorrow!
- Martin: I don't want him on the ocean!
- Ellen: His not on the ocean, he's in a boat! He's not gonna go in the water!
- I don't think he'll ever go in the water again after what happened yesterday!
- Martin: All right, now don't say that. I don't want that to happen you know
- that. But I want him to read the boating regulations... the rules, you know,
- before he goes out on his own.
- Ellen: Michael! Did you hear your father? Out of the water now! Now!
- Charlie: I'm tired. Let's stop, before someone reports us.
- Jenwirder: Don't worry the chief lives on the other side of the island.
- Charlie: Am I coming in straight.
- Jenwirder: Don't worry just keep rowing.
- Charlie: Better catch something, this is my wife's holiday roast!
- Jenwirder: Don't worry about it. 3000 dollars buys an awful lot of roast.
- Charlie: Come and get it!
- Jenwirder: Tide's takin' it right out.
- Charlie: Can't we go home?
- [BACK AT BRODY'S DEN]
- Jenwirder: Hey!
- Charlie: Hey! Hey! He's takin' it! He's takin' it! He's takin' it! Hey! Go!
- Go! Go! Go! Go!
- Jenwirder: Go! Go! Go!
- Jenwirder: Charlie! Take my word for it! Don't look back! Swim Charlie! Swim!
- C'mon Charlie! Swim! Swim Charlie! C'mon! Come here boy! C'mon! C'mon Charlie,
- swim! Come here Charlie! C'mon Charlie, keep movin'! Keep movin' Charlie!
- C'mon a little more Charlie! Atta boy Charlie! Come here Charlie! Atta boy,
- atta boy, atta boy Charlie!
- Charlie: I can't get up! I can't get up! I can't!
- Jenwirder: Give me your hand Charlie! Just give me your hand!
- Charlie: I can't get up! I can't get up! Help me! Help me!
- Jenwirder: C'mon Charlie! C'mon Charlie! Get your feet outta the water! Get
- your feet out! Atta boy Charlie, atta boy.
- Charlie: Can we go home now?
- Hendricks: So then Jenwirder and Charlie sat there trying to catch their
- breath. And figure out how to tell Charlie's wife what happened to her
- freezer full of meat.
- Martin: That's not funny, that's not funny at all.
- Hendricks: Mrs. Kintner must have put her ad in Field and Stream.
- Martin: It looks more like the National Inquirer.
- [Fisherman bickering]
- Martin: All right, all right, hold it, hold it, hold it. Just, just, just,
- hold it!
- [Hooper disembarking]
- Hooper: Hello.
- Ben Gardner: Hello back... young feller. How are ya? Say I hope you not going
- out with those nuts are ya?
- Martin: Lady would ya? The weak top boat's gotta move out first. You have to
- move out or he can't get out at all!
- Hooper: Boys, boys. Don't raise sail, your just going to luff with it. Do you
- have a paddle on the boat?
- Fisherman: Yeah I got a paddle.
- Hooper: So scull outta here.
- Martin: Thanks.
- Hooper: Officer, officer! Wait a second, wait a second! Just --
- Martin: Hey! How many guys are you going to put aboard that boat!
- Fisherman:
- Martin: Yeah? Well that ain't safe!
- Hooper: Easy! Watch it, that's dynamite.
- Martin: Hey, what you gonna...what are you doing with that? Where are you
- going with that?!
- Fisherman: I going on the boat.
- Martin: Oh no, no, no! Please, please. Help get those guys out of the boat,
- will ya please?
- Hooper: Sure. Gentlemen, gentlemen?! The officer asked me to tell you that
- your overloading that boat.
- Fishermen: Ah, get outta here! You ain't going there, what do you care? Hold
- on there.
- Hooper: Well then, can you tell me if there's a good restaurant or hotel on
- the island?
- Fisherman: Yeah ya walk straight ahead! Ha ha!
- Hooper: Ha ha they're all gonna die.
- Martin: Polly, listen to me. We got some road block signs outside. Now you..
- you... you gotta get somebody to help us. Yeah get those, get those road
- block signs out on the highway. Because we got more people down here than we
- can handle.
- Hendricks: Ya?
- Martin: What are you doing out there? These are your people, go and talk to
- them!
- Hendricks: Those aren't my people! They're from all over the place! Did you
- see all the license plates out in the parking lot? Connecticut, Rhode Island,
- New Jersey. I'm all by myself out there! Um, what happened to the extra help
- we were supposed to be get?
- Martin: That's not until the fourth of July! Between now and then it's you
- and me!
- Hooper: Ah, you know those eight guys in the fan-tail launch out there?
- Martin: Yeah?
- Hooper: Well none of them are going to get out of the harbour alive.
- Martin: Lenny, that's what I'm talking about. You know their first names!
- Talk to those clowns!
- Hooper: Everybody seems to be having a really good time today.
- Martin: Tell me about it. Polly, I'll get back to you.
- Hooper: Listen, could you tell me how I could find chief Brody?
- Martin: Who are you?
- Hooper: Matt Hooper. I'm from the, uh, Oceanographic Institute.
- Martin: Oh for Christ's sakes! You're the guy we called. I'm Brody, I'm Brody!
- Hooper: Oh ho ho ho, very glad to meet you.
- Martin: Yea I'm glad to meet you too!
- Hooper: Listen, I know you got a lot on your hands right now but uh...
- Martin: What can we do for you?
- Hooper: Well I think the best thing for me to do is uh...see the remains of
- the first victim; the girl on the beach?
- Martin: Okay fine. Just bear with me will ya?
- Hooper: Sure.
- Martin: Thanks.
- Gardner: When we get them silly bastards down in that rock pile, it'll be
- some fun, they'll wish their fathers had never met their mothers; when they
- start takin' their bottoms out and slamming into them rocks boy! -- Get away
- from there ya God damn fool you! What's the matter with you? You wanna swamp
- us ya crazy son of a bitch!?
- Fishermen: What are you doing? What are these guys doing out here? What are
- they doin' back there man?! Tell us what in the hell are they doing back
- there then!? There chummin' right now. Chumming what in the hell's that?
- Their tricking the sharks out. Ten thousand dollars divided four ways is
- what? Watch your starboard! Jesus!
- Martin: Let's show Mr. Hooper our, uh, hex. Here.
- Hooper: Ah, victim identified as Christine Watkins. Female Caucasian.
- Martin: Yeah now, now here's where we have it.
- Hooper: Probable boating accident.
- Martin: Yeah.
- Hooper: The height and weight of the victim can only be estimated from the
- partial remains. The torso has been severed in mid-thorax. There are no major
- organs remaining. May I have a glass of water please? Right arm has been
- severed, above the elbow with massive tissue loss in the upper musculature.
- Thank you very much. Partially denuded bone remaining, this was no boat
- accident. Did you notify the coast guard about this?
- Martin: No. It was only local jurisdiction.
- Hooper: The left arm, head to shoulders, sternum and portions of the rib cage
- are intact. Do not smoke in here! Thank you very much. So this is what
- happens. Indicates the non-frenzy feeding of a large squalus possibly
- Unjumanus or Isurus Glaucous. Now, the enormous amount of tissue loss prevents
- any detailed analysis however the attacking squalus must be considerably
- larger than any normal squalus found in these waters. Didn't you get on the
- phone to check out these waters?
- Martin: No.
- Hooper: Well this is not a boat accident! It wasn't any propeller! It wasn't
- any coral reef! And it wasn't Jack the Ripper! It was a shark.
- Meadows: Listen Jenny, I wanna go AP and UPI. I wanna get on the state wire
- see if Boston will pick it up and go national. Call Dave Axlrod in New York,
- tell him he owes me a favour. Now this is the shot I want, with everybody and
- the fish in it. Guys could we please get organized?! I want to get a picture
- for the paper! Now can we just have the guys --
- Martin: Ben Gardner get this?
- Fisherman: Nah, nah, nah, nah, we caught it. We got it! We got him!
- Martin: Congratulations! That's swell! That's swell! Thanks a lot!
- Fisherman: We got it! It's a beauty, ain't it?
- Meadows: Okay guys! Please, I need a picture for the paper! Come on, clear
- out of the way please! Just the guys that caught the fish, could just, open
- it up a little bit please?! I want to get a picture with the guy with the
- fish?! Come on guys! Come on please?! I need a picture for the paper! Can we
- get the sign please? Beach closed sign! Please?! Come on I wanna take this
- shot! Kneel down, just like in high school. One row kneeling, one row
- standing. Come on just, just get out of the way!! Young fella could you step
- out of the picture?
- Fishermen: Hey! Take your with ya! Here we go, here we go, we're
- ready.
- Meadows: Thank you.
- Fisherman: We're ready.
- Meadows: Can you get that please? How's that?
- Martin: Larry! Larry you won't believe it!
- Fisherman: What kind of shark is it?
- Fisherman: I dunno, I think it's a mako.
- Fisherman: With a deep throat !
- Fisherman: Yeah but what kind? What kind of shark?
- Hooper: Tiger shark.
- Fisherman: A what?
- Vaughn: Hey, we can start breathing again! Ben getting plenty of pictures for
- the papers?
- Martin: Oh, you bet he is!
- Fisherman: What is this bite radius crap?!
- Fisherman: That is a big mouth! Look at it!
- Hooper: All I'm trying to tell you is --
- Fisherman: Why don't you stuff your friggin' head in there, man, and find out
- if it's a man-eater! All right?!
- Hooper: I'm not saying it's not the shark, I am saying is that it may not be
- the shark. It's just a slight difference in semantics but I don't want to get
- beaten up for it.
- Martin: Oh and I want you to meet, uh, Matt... Matt, this is Larry Vaughn our
- mayor.
- Hooper: Larry.
- Vaughn: Hi.
- Martin: Matt, from the Oceanographic Institute.
- Hooper: Nice to meet you. Can I talk to you for a second?
- Background: Terrific uh mayor?
- Hooper: Martin, there are all kinds of sharks in the waters you know? Hammer
- heads, white tips, blues, makos and the chances that these bozos got the
- exact shark --
- Martin: Oh! Now there's no other sharks like this in these waters!
- Hooper: Martin, Martin, it's a hundred to one. A hundred to one. Now I'm not
- saying that this not the shark --
- Martin: Come on!
- Hooper: It probably is Martin, it probably is! It's a man-eater, it's
- extremely rare for these waters, but the fact is the bite radius on this
- animal is different than the wounds on the victim. I just, I want to be sure.
- You want to be sure. We all want to be sure. Okay? Now what I want to do is
- very simple. This digestive system of this animal is very, very slow. Let's
- cut it open, what ever its eaten in the last 24 hours is bound to still be in
- there. And then we'll be sure.
- Martin: May be the only way to confirm it.
- Vaughn: Now look fellas. Let's be reasonable, huh? This is not the time or
- the place to perform some kind of a half ass autopsy on a fish! And I am not
- going to stand here and see that thing cut open and see that little Kintner
- boy spill out all over the dock!
- Mrs. Kintner: Chief Brody?
- Martin: Yes?
- Mrs. Kintner: I just found out, that the girl got killed here last week, and
- you knew it! You knew there was a shark out there! You knew it was dangerous!
- But you let people go swimming anyway?! You knew all those things! But still
- my boy is dead now. And there's nothing you can do about it. My boy is dead.
- I wanted you to know that.
- Vaughn: I'm sorry Martin, she's wrong.
- Martin: No she's not.
- Vaughn: All right fellas, let's cut this ugly son of a bitch down before it
- stinks up the whole island. Harv, you and Carl take it out tomorrow and dump
- it in the drink.
- Martin: Come here. Give us a kiss.
- Sean: Why?
- Martin: `Cause I need it. Get outta here.
- Ellen: Hello? Can I help you?
- Hooper: The door was open, mind if I come in? I'm Matt Hooper.
- Ellen: Oh! Hi! Ellen Brody.
- Hooper: Your husband's home.
- Ellen: Yes, he is.
- Hooper: I'd really like to talk to him.
- Ellen: Ah, yes. So would I. Ah, come in. Come in. Can I get you some coffee?
- Would you like something to drink?
- Hooper: No, no, nothing thank you, thank you.
- Ellen: Oh, wine. How nice.
- Hooper: So how was your day?
- Martin: Swell.
- Hooper: Yeah. I got, uh, red and white. I didn't know what you would be
- serving.
- Ellen: Oh, that's nice.
- Hooper: Is anyone eating this?
- Ellen: No... My husband tells me your in sharks.
- Hooper: Ahem, excuse me. Well yes I've, I've never heard it quite put that
- way. But, uh, yes I am. I love sharks.
- Ellen: You love sharks?
- Hooper: Yeah, I love them. When I was twelve years old my father got me this
- boat. And I went fishing off of cape cod, and I hooked a scup and as I was
- reeling it in I hooked a four and a half foot baby thrasher shark. Who
- proceeded to eat my boat. Heh, heh, he ate my uh, oar hooks and uh my seat
- cushions, he turned an inboard into an outboard scared me to death and I swam
- back to shore. And when I was on the beach, I turned around I actually saw my
- boat being taken apart and ever since then I, yes, I have been studying
- sharks and that's why I know that uh I'm gonna go to the institute tomorrow
- and tell them you still have a shark problem here.
- Martin: Why would have to tell them that?
- Hooper: Sorry.
- Ellen: I'm sorry, I thought uh, you told me the shark was caught, and I, I
- heard it on the news, I heard it on the Cape station.
- Hooper: They caught a shark, not the shark. Not the shark that killed
- Chrissie Watkins and probably not the shark that killed the little boy, which
- I wanted to prove today by cutting the shark open -- but you, you may want to
- let that breath for... nothing, nothing.
- Hooper: You know uh, you're going to be the only rational man left on this
- island after I leave tomorrow.
- Ellen: Where are you going?
- Hooper: I'm going on the Aurora.
- Ellen: The Aurora? What is that?
- Hooper: It's a floating asylum for uh, shark uh, . Pure research.
- Eighteen months at sea.
- Ellen: Martin hates the boats. Martin hates water, Martin, Martin sits in his
- car when we go on the ferry to the mainland. I guess it's a childhood thing,
- it's uh, there's a clinical name for it, isn't there?
- Martin: Drowning. Listen, is it true that most people that get attacked by
- sharks in three feet of water? About ten feet from the beach?
- Hooper: Yeah.
- Martin: And that, and that, and that before people started to swim for
- recreation, uh, I mean before sharks knew what they were missing, that a lot
- of these attacks weren't reported.
- Hooper: That's right.
- Martin: Now this shark that, that, that swims alone...
- Hooper: Rogue.
- Martin: What's it called?
- Hooper: Rogue.
- Martin: Rogue. Rogue. Yeah, now this guy, he, he keeps swimming around in a
- place where the feeding is good, until the food supply is gone, right?
- Hooper: Yeah, it's called territoriality. It's just a theory that I happen to
- agree with.
- Martin: Then why don't we have one more drink and go down and cut that shark
- open.
- Ellen: Martin? Can you do that?
- Martin: I can do anything. I'm the chief of police.
- Hooper: We start in the elementary canal... and open the digestive tract.
- Just like I thought --
- Martin: What?
- Hooper: He came up in the gulf stream... from southern waters.
- Martin: He didn't eat a car did he?
- Hooper: No, heh heh heh, a tiger shark's like a garbage can, they'll eat
- anything. Someone probably threw that in a river. Ah, hoo, that's it.
- Martin: Better close the beach, call the mayor.
- Hooper: You've got a bigger problem than that Martin, you still got a hell of
- a fish out there, with a mouth about this big.
- Martin: How do we confirm that by morning?
- Hooper: If he is a rogue and there's any truth to territoriality at all,
- we've got a good chance of spotting him between Cape Scott and South Beach.
- Martin: Where you going?
- Hooper: Were going to find him right now, he's a night feeder.
- Martin: On the water?
- Hooper: Well if we're looking for a shark, we're not going to him on the land.
- Martin: Yeah, but I'm not drunk enough to go out on a boat.
- Hooper: Yes, you are.
- Martin: No I'm not.
- Hooper: Yes, you are.
- Martin: I can't do that.
- Hooper: Yes, you can.
- ON BOAT
- Martin: I'm telling ya, the crime rate in New York will kill ya. There's so
- many problems, you never feel like your accomplishing anything. Violence,
- rip-offs, muggings, kids can't leave the house, you gotta walk `em to school.
- But in Amity, one man can make a difference. In twenty five years, there's
- never been a shooting or murder in this town.
- Hooper: do you want a pretzel?
- Martin: Where are we?
- Hooper: We're right in the stretch where he's been feeding.
- Martin: Do you get the late show on this thing?
- Hooper: No, it's a closed circuit t.v. system. I have underwater cameras fore
- and aft.
- Martin: Who pays for all this stuff? The government? The institute? This
- stuff costs a lot of money.
- Hooper: Well I, uh, I paid for this mostly myself actually.
- Martin: You're kidding.
- Hooper: No.
- Martin: You rich?
- Hooper: Yeah.
- Martin: Yeah? How much?
- Hooper: Well personally or the whole family?
- Martin: Doesn't make any sense? You mean they pay a guy like you to watch
- sharks?
- Hooper: Well, uh, it doesn't make much sense for a guy who hates the water to
- live on an island either.
- Martin: It's only an island if you look at it from the water.
- Hooper: That makes a lot of sense.
- Martin: What is that thing doing?
- Hooper: Well it's uh, it's a fish finder. It's probably just a school of
- mackerel or something all flocked together. Wait a minute. There's something
- else out there.
- Martin: What is it?
- Hooper: About a hundred yards, south south west.
- Martin: Ben Gardner's boat. That's Ben Gardner's boat.
- Hooper: You know him?
- Martin: It's all banged up. Sure I know him, he's a fisherman. What happened?
- Hooper: Look Martin, I gotta go down there and check their hull.
- Martin: Wait a minute, why don't we just tow it all in?
- Hooper: We will, we will! I just gotta check something out. Hit the lights
- for me.
- Martin: Let's tow it in.
- Hooper: Don't worry Martin, nothing's gonna happen.
- Martin: What am I suppose to do while your gone?
- Hooper: Nothing, absolutely nothing. Don't touch any of the equipment. I'll
- be back in two minutes.
- Martin: This is a Great White Larry, a big one! And any shark expert in the
- world will tell you it's a killer! It's a man-eater!
- Hooper: Look the situation, is that apparently a Great White shark has staked
- a claim in the waters off Amity Island. And he's going to continue to feed
- here as long as there is food in the water.
- Martin: And there's no limit to what he's gonna do! I mean we've already had
- three incidents, two people killed inside of a week. And it's gonna happen
- again, it happened before! The Jersey beach!
- Hooper: 1916. There were--
- Martin: 1916! Five people chewed up on the surf!
- Hooper: In one week!
- Martin: Tell him, tell him about the swimmers!
- Hooper: A shark is attracted to the exact kind of splashing and activity that
- occurs whenever human beings go in swimming. You cannot avoid it.
- Martin: If you open the beaches on the fourth of July, it's like ringing the
- dinner bell for Christ's sakes!
- Hooper: Look Mr. Vaughn. Mr. Vaughn. I pulled a tooth the size of a shot
- glass out of the wreck tow of a boat out there and it was the tooth of a
- Great White.
- Martin: It was Ben Gardner's boat, it was all chewed up. I helped tow it in,
- you sh-- you should have seen him!
- Vaughn: Where, where is that tooth. Did you see it Brody?
- Martin: No I didn't see it, he, he dropped it. We had a little accident on
- the way in.
- Hooper: I had an accident.
- Vaughn: And what did you say the name of this shark is?
- Hooper: It's a carcharodon carcharias. It's a Great White!
- Vaughn: But you, you don't have the tooth. Look we depend on the summer
- people here for our very lives.
- Hooper: You are not going to have a summer unless you deal with this problem!
- Vaughn: And if you close those beaches, we're finished!
- Martin: We're not only gonna have to close the beach, we're gonna have to
- hire somebody to kill the shark! I mean, we're gonna have to tell the coast
- guard. We're gonna have to get shark repellent!
- Hooper: Mr. you have to contract a shark research panel.
- Martin: We're gonna have to put extra deputies on because there ain't nothing
- in the world that's gonna come in here! We've gotta spend money to save what
- we've got!
- Hooper: You have to ring this entire harbour with 100 gauge--
- Vaughn: I don't think either one of you are familiar with our problems!
- Hooper: Uh, I think that I am familiar the fact that you are going to ignore
- this particular problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass! Now wait
- a second, wait a second!
- Vaughn: Chief? Hey Chief?
- Hooper: There are two ways to deal with this problem. You either gonna kill
- this animal or your gonna cut off its food supply.
- Martin: Larry we have to close the beaches.
- Vaughn: Brody? Sick vandalism. That is a deliberate mutilation of a public
- service message. Now I want those little paint-happy bastards caught and hung
- up by their Buster Browns!
- Hooper: That's it! Good-bye! I'm not going to waste my time arguing with a
- man who is lining up to be a hot lunch. I'm gonna see you later Brody.
- Martin: Aw, now please don't do this, he's not...
- Hooper: Mr. Vaughn, what we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, ah, an
- eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is
- swim and eat and make little sharks. And that's all. Now why don't you take a
- long close look at this sign. Those proportions are correct.
- Vaughn: Love to prove that wouldn't ya? Get your name into the National
- Geographic!
- Hooper: Ha ha ha ha ha.
- Martin: Larry, Larry, if we make an effort today, we might be able to save
- August.
- Vaughn: August? Heh, for Christ's sake tomorrow is the fourth of July! And we
- will be open for business. It's gonna be one of the best summer we ever had!
- Now if you fellas are concerned about the beaches, you do whatever you have
- to , to make them safe. But those beaches will be open for this weekend!
- Martin: Okay, now I want to know how many men you're gonna send me.
- Hooper: Doctor, doctor, there is no need for me to come to Grisbane when I
- have a Great White shark right here!
- Martin: I'm telling ya we need men to patrol the swimming area! We've gotta
- have help, anybody with a gun or a boat.
- Martin: Monday?! Listen is Chief Perkoserfilm in there?
- Hooper: Mishkin, Mishkin is the guy that feeds the white mice.
- Sean: Dad, dad?
- Martin: What?! He's the little guy with the crew cut.
- Hooper: Operator? Isn't there a phone on the island? Could you connect me
- please?
- Martin: How can you go up there when he's not in chambers?
- ON BEACH
- Meadows: That's the t.v. station on the mainland here.
- Martin: Oh, all right, I'll get to them later. Please --- Brody to Scup
- Bucket please come in. Okay. Brody to Daisy. do you read me? Come
- in over? What do you see?
- Hooper: Nothing here Martin. And nothing on sonar.
- Interviewer: Amity island has long been known for its clean air, clear water
- and beautiful white sand beaches. But in recent days, a cloud has appeared on
- the horizon of this beautiful resort community. A cloud in the shape of a
- killer shark.
- Old Man: Oh hi Larry.
- Vaughn: Why aren't you in the water?
- Old Man: Er, well er, I just put some sun tan lotion on and uh, I'm trying to
- absorb some of this sun.
- Vaughn: Nobody's going in! Please. Get in the water.
- Martin: Mike come here. Listen Mike. Do me a favour will ya?
- Michael: What?
- Martin: You and the other guys take the boat and put it in the pond instead?
- Michael: The pond's for old ladies!
- Martin: I know it's for the old ladies but just do it for the old man, huh?
- Will ya?
- Michael: All right.
- Martin: Thanks.
- Sean: Michael! Wait! Michael! Wait! Michael I don't want you to go in the
- water.
- Hendricks: Daisy? Daisy? This is Hendricks, anything? Thought I saw a shadow,
- over? False alarm. Must be this glare.
- Vaughn: I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have in fact, caught
- and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. But as you
- see it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open and people are having a
- wonderful time. Amity as you know means friendship.
- Bather: Oh my God!
- Spotter: Jesus Christ! Fad shark three-five-zero!!
- Hooper: Red one! Red one! Martin! Get the people out of the water!
- Martin: No whistles, no whistles!
- Hooper: Everybody please get out of the water. Everybody out of the water
- please.
- Announcer: Don't push! Everybody out of the water, please.
- Ellen: Michael!
- Prankster: He made me do it! He talked me into it!
- Martin: Please, please, move back. Let's move back please? Give these people
- some air. Please move back, move back.
- Hooper: Martin, it's just a hoax. There are two kids with a cardboard fin. Is
- everyone there okay? Did everyone get out of the water all right?
- Painter: Sh-- Shark! The shark! He's going into the pond! The shark's in the
- estuary!
- Martin: Now what!
- Ellen: Michael's in the pond!
- Painter: In the estuary! The shark's in the pond! He's going in the pond!
- Somebody do something! In the pond! In the pond! Shark! In the pond!
- Kid #1: Hurry up, get that done.
- Kid #2: I can't do a damn thing until we get this undone! I'm doin' it!
- Kid #1: Get that rope undone! You gotta untangle that up there!
- Scout Leader: Hey fellas! Fellas! the sheet. Make it fast.
- Painter: The shark's in the pond!
- Scout Leader: Guys? You guys o.k. over there?
- Painter: In the pond!
- Background: Somebody get a gun! Get a gun and shoot it! Does anybody have a
- gun?!
- Ellen: Michael! -- He's dead!
- Martin: No he's not. He's in shock.
- Ellen: Michael! Michael!
- Nurse: Doctor said he's o.k., mild shock. He can go home in the morning.
- Ellen: Thank you. Hey! How's my big kid?
- Michael: I'm all right.
- Ellen: You are. You gonna miss me tonight? You can watch television. Want me
- to bring anything from home?
- Michael: My cars.
- Ellen: Your cars! What about ice cream?
- Michael: Coffee.
- Ellen: Coffee!
- Martin: Do you want to take him home?
- Ellen: Back to New York?
- Martin: No. Home here.
- Vaughn: I'm sorry Martin. I'm sorry... I, I... I'm truly sorry.
- Martin: You got a pen Larry?
- Vaughn: Wh--?
- Martin: You got a pen!? You know?! `Cause your gonna do what you do best!
- Your gonna sign this voucher, so I can hire a contractor.
- Vaughn: I ca-- I don't, I don't know if I can do that without the clearance.
- Martin: You're gonna hire Quint to kill the shark.
- Vaughn: Aug-- August...
- Martin: What? What? What are you talking about? Larry, the summer is over!
- You're the mayor of shark city! These people think you want the beaches open!
- Vaughn: I was, I was, I was acting in the, in the town's best interest. I
- thought I was acting in the town's best interest.
- Martin: That's right you were acting in the town's best interest. And that's
- why your going to do the right thing! That's why you're gonna sign this and
- we're gonna pay that guy what he wants!
- Vaughn: Martin, Martin. My kids were on that beach too!
- Martin: Sign it Larry.
- Quint: Ten thousand dollars. Two hundred dollars a day, either I catch him or
- not.
- Martin: You got it.
- Quint: Get the mayor of my back! So I don't have any more of this zoning
- crap!
- Martin: You got that.
- Quint: One case of apricot brandy. You buy the lunch.
- Martin: Two cases. You get dinner when you get back.
- Quint: Champagne, , Uranian caviar, and don't forget the colour t.v.
- Hey chief! You try this, made it myself! Pretty good stuff!
- Martin: Thanks.
- Quint: Here's to swimmin' with bow legged women. Excuse me chief. Can't get a
- good man these days for under 60! They're all goin' at least 35 years! 45
- year olds with women!
- Martin: Don't drink that. Mr. Quint!
- Hooper: Mr. Quint! You're gonna need an extra hand.
- Martin: This is Matt Hooper.
- Quint: I know who he is.
- Hooper: I've crewed three transpacs.
- Quint: Transplants?
- Martin: No, no no he's from the Oceanographic Institute.
- Hooper: And an American's Cup trial.
- Quint: Mr. Hooper, I'm not talkin' about pleasure boatin' or daily sailin'.
- I'm talkin' about workin' for a livin'. I'm talkin' about sharkin'!
- Hooper: Well I'm not talkin' about hooking some poor dogfish or sandshark.
- I'm talking about finding a Great White!
- Quint: Porkers! Talkin' about porkers! Mr. Hooper. Just tie me a sheep shank.
- Hooper: I haven't had to pass basic seamanship in a long time. You didn't say
- how short you wanted it. How's that?!
- Quint: Give me your hands. Dogfish? When you got a 5000 dollars net, you got
- 2000 dollars worth of fisherman. And along comes Mr. Whitey, by the time he's
- finished with that net, it looks like a kiddy's scissor class has cut it up
- for a paper doll! You got city hands, Mr. Hooper. You've been counting money
- all your life.
- Hooper: All right! All right! Hey! I, I don't need this! I don't need this
- working class hero crap!
- Martin: You, you, you're not gonna do this aboard the ship are you, Mr. Quint?
- Quint: Maybe I should go alone.
- Martin: Well it's my party, it's my charter.
- Quint: Yeah, it's your charter, it's your party, it's my vessel! You're on
- board my vessel, mate, master, pilot and I'm captain. Take him for ballast
- chief.
- Martin: You got him.
- Quint: , straight-jet, killin' lance. pair of robi splice with M1
- with three-d clip, handy billy, pliers, lance...
- Aid: Haven't even assembled all these die markers, flares, safety flutes,
- temperature gauge, spear guns, SMG --
- Quint: What are ya, some kind of half-ass astronaut? Heh, heh, heh. Take that
- you latch it secure. ? Jesus-H Christ. When I was a boy,
- every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or a sword fisherman. Whatta ya
- got here. Portable shar or a monkey cage?
- Hooper: Anti-shark cage.
- Quint: Anti-shark cage. You go inside the cage? Cage goes in the water? You
- go in the water? Shark's in the water, our shark. Farewell and adieu to you
- fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain. For we've
- received orders for to sail back to Boston. And so nevermore shall we be
- seeing you again.
- Ellen: Did you take your Dramamine?
- Martin: Yes.
- [Quint rambling on in background]
- Ellen: I put an extra pair of glasses in your-- black socks and, and there's
- the stuff, your nose, the zinc oxide, the blistex is in the kit.
- Quint: -- Son of a bitch! God damn women today, they can't handle nothin'.
- Young girls just quite as smart, like their grandmother's...[Continues his
- ranting]
- Ellen: That's got to be Quint.
- Martin: Colourful ain't he.
- Ellen: He scares me.
- Martin: Don't use the fireplace in the den because I haven't fixed the flu
- yet.
- Ellen: What am I going to tell the kids?
- Martin: Tell them I'm going fishing.
- Quint: Break it up will ya chief! Daylight's wastin'! Front, bow, back, stern.
- You don't get it right, squirt, I throw your ass out the little round window
- on the side! Come on chief, this isn't no boy scout picnic! I see you got
- your rubbers! Ha ha ha! Here lies the fire Mary Lee, died at the age of a
- hundred and three, for fifteen years she kept her virginity. Not a bad record
- for this vicinity! All right commissioner, fasten your safety belts, ha ha
- ha! If you see a shark Hooper, swalla! Ha ha ha!
- [While driving away, Quint teases Brody]
- Quint: Keep that chum line going chief, we got five good miles on him.
- Martin: Who's drivin' this boat?
- Quint: Nobody, we're tied. One time I caught a sixteen footer off Montog.
- Had to stick two barrels in him. Two to wear him down and bring him up. Now a
- days, these kids, they bring everything. Radar, sonar, electric toothbrushes.
- Jesus-H Christ. Hey chief! Best drop another chum marker.
- Hooper: Watch it! Damn it, Martin! This is compressed air!
- Martin: Well what the hell kind of a knot was that!
- Hooper: You pulled the wrong one! You screw around with these tanks and
- they're going to blow up!
- Quint: Yeah, that's real fine expensive gear you brought out here, Mr.
- Hooper! `Course I don't know what that bastard shark's gonna do with it,
- might eat it I suppose. Seen one eat a rockin' chair one time. Hey chieffy,
- next time you just ask me which line to pull, right? -- Little brown eel
- comes out of the cave, swims into the hole, comes outta the hole and goes
- back into the cave again. It's not too good is it chief! Well nothin's easy
- is it? One more time.
- Martin: Little brown eel... comes out of the hole... goes back in again...
- [Continues trying]
- Martin: Hey! I got it! What?
- Quint: Get behind me! Hooper! Reverse her! Takin' a hell of a lotta line!
- Chief! Get the scooper out of the bucket! Wet the reel! Hooper! Reverse her!
- Duck your head down chief! We're swingin', get behind me again! No more
- water, it only'll drown me! Hooper, you idiot! Starboard! Ain't you watchin'
- it?! Hooper, neutral! Where'd he go now? And he ain't foolin' me! What's he
- makin' out now? Go on, try it! I don't know chief, I don't know. He's very
- smart or very dumb. Jesus Chr-- He's gone under. He's gone under the boat, I
- think he's gone under the boat. Yeah, it's too easy. He's a smart big fish!
- He's gone under the boat! Keep it steady now! I got something very big!
- Hooper: I don't think so.
- Quint: Chief... chief... put your gloves on! Hey, put your gloves on, both of
- ya! Gettin' ready to run at again.
- Hooper: Hey Quint, let it go.
- Quint: Hey Hooper? Maybe your a big yahoo on the land but out here your just
- supercargo. If you don't want to backstroke home, you get down here!
- Hooper: All right, you don't want to listen to me? Don't listen to me. It's
- not a shark.
- Martin: The wire's showing! The wire's showing!
- Quint: Unbuckle me! Get on the other side. Grab the reel Hooper.
- Hooper: Tuna or a swordfish. Wastin' our time!
- Quint: Okay, take this rod. Hooper? Give the chief a hand, will ya?
- Hooper: Right!
- Martin: Oh! Shit!
- Hooper: It might be a marlin or a stingray but it's definitely a game fish!
- Doh!
- Quint: Gamin' fish eh? Marlin? Stingray? Bit through this piano wire? Don't
- you tell me my business again! You get back on the bridge.
- Hooper: Quint, that doesn't prove a damn thing.
- Quint: Well it proves one thing Mr. Hooper. I proves that you wealthy college
- boys don't the education enough to admit when you're wrong.
- Martin: What's the point? Hooks and lines.
- Quint: Well, you lose one, you rig one. Hooper?! Twelve minutes south south
- east, now, full throttle!
- Hooper: Aye, aye sir! Arrghgeemoyarrgh!
- Quint: See what I do, chief, is I... trick him to the surface, then I jab at
- him! I'm not gonna... haul him up like a load of catfish. Hooper! Full
- throttle!
- Hooper: I don't have to take this abuse much longer!
- Martin: Hey, your head's bleedin'! First aid there.
- Quint: Brody?! Start that chum line again, will ya?!
- Martin: Let Hooper take a turn.
- Quint: Hooper drives the boat, chief. Stop playin' with yerself Hooper; slow
- ahead, if you please.
- Martin: You heard him, slow ahead! -- Slow ahead! I can go slow ahead! C'mon
- down and chum some of this shit! -- You're gonna need a bigger boat.
- Quint: Shut off that engine.
- Hooper: That's a twenty footer!
- Quint: Twenty five! And three tons of him!
- Martin: You're gonna need a bigger boat, right?
- Quint: Gotta get to work.
- Martin: How do we handle this? How do we handle this?
- Hooper: Martin, I need you. He's circling the boat! The size of
- him!
- CB Radio: Amity Point Life Station to Orca. This is Amity Point Life Station
- to Orca. Come in Orca?
- Quint: Orca, come in.
- CB Radio: I have Mrs. Martin Brody here.
- Quint: Put her on.
- Hooper: Come on Martin! Martin, move, move, move!
- Martin: I'm not goin' out there!
- Hooper: Beyond the edge of the barrels! Go to the end of the barrels! Further
- out!
- Martin: What?!
- Hooper: Further out!
- Martin: Why?!
- Hooper: Go further out!
- Martin: What for?!
- Hooper: Would you go to the end of the pulpit, please?!
- Martin: What?!
- Hooper: Would you, please, go to the end of the pulpit?!
- Martin: What for?!
- Hooper: I need to have something in the foreground to give it some scale!
- Martin: Foreground my ass!
- Quint: Your husband's all right, Mrs. Brody. He's fishin'. He's just caught a
- couple of stripers. We'll bring `em home for dinner, we won't be long, we
- ain't see anything yet, over and out!
- Hooper: I need... Martin, please!
- Martin: I'm staying here!
- Hooper: I'm begging you! Martin, God damn it! Come here darlin'! Come here
- darlin'! Beautiful!
- Quint: Chief. Want you to get up on the bridge, just take her forward steady.
- Martin: I've never steered a boat in my life!
- Quint: Just watch my hand and take her steady. Mr. Hooper? Attach the end of
- this line to the first keg.
- Better get a good shot at that porker's head! Coming. Hee hee hee! Coming!
- Hooper? You clearing the barrel? Hooper?! Tie it up will ya?!
- Hooper: Your turn, Quint.
- Quint: Hooper, where are you? Hooper, hurry it up now, tie it on. Hurry up,
- he's coming straight for us, don't screw it up now!
- Hooper: Don't wait for me!
- Quint: Come on Hooper! Come on! Hurry up! Tie it on!
- Martin: Now! Kill it Quint! Kill it! Now!
- Hooper: Shoot! Time!
- Quint: What were you doing?! You knew I had to get a clean shot, right in the
- head! All right! Let's see how long that barrel takes to bring him up!
- Hooper: Bring another barrel! I'm coming around again!
- Martin: Wh--what do we do now? We quittin' right?
- Quint: We've got one barrel on him. So we stay out here, till we find him
- again.
- Martin: Yeah but we can radio in and get a bigger boat --
- Quint: Chief. Don't you worry about it, chief. I won't be permanent. You
- wanna see somethin' permanent? Bababoom? Hey, Hoop? You wanna feel somethin'
- permanent? Just put your hand underneath my cap. You just feel that little
- lump? Knockanolum. St. Patty's day. Boston.
- Hooper: I got that beat. I got that beat. It's a moray eel. Bit right through
- my wetsuit.
- Quint: Well, Hoop, now, listen. I, I don't know about that but I ended an arm
- wrestling contest in an Oke bar in San Francisco. You see this? Now I can't
- extend that, do you know why? Get to the semi-final, celebrating my third
- wife Demise, big Chinese fella, he pulled me right over! Ha!
- Hooper: Look at that. It's a bull shark. He s--, he scraped me when I was
- taking samples.
- Quint: I got somethin' for ya. That's the thrasher. You see that? Chief,
- thrasher's tail. Scewp!
- Martin: Thrasher?
- Hooper: It's a shark!
- Quint: Do you want a drink? Drink to your leg?
- Hooper: I'll drink to your leg.
- Quint: Okay, so we drink to our legs! Ha ha ha!
- Hooper: I got the creme de la creme. Right here. Hold on. Yeah, you see that?
- Martin: You're wearing a sweater.
- Hooper: Right there. Mary Ellen Moffit. She broke my heart. [Collective
- laughs]
- Martin: What's that one?
- Quint: What?
- Martin: That one, there, on your arm?
- Quint: Ah, well. It's a tattoo. I got that removed.
- Hooper: Don't tell me. Don't tell me. Mother. Ha ha ha! What is it?
- Quint: Mr. Hooper, that's the U.S.S. Indianapolis.
- Hooper: You were on the Indianapolis?
- Martin: What happened?
- Quint: Japanese submarine slammed two torpedoes into our side, chief. It was
- comin' back, from the island of Tinian Delady, just delivered the bomb. The
- Hiroshima bomb. Eleven hundred men went into the water. Vessel went down in
- twelve minutes. Didn't see the first shark for about a half an hour. Tiger.
- Thirteen footer. You know, you know that when you're in the water, chief? You
- tell by lookin' from the dorsal to the tail. Well, we didn't know. `Cause our
- bomb mission had been so secret, no distress signal had been sent. Huh huh.
- They didn't even list us overdue for a week. Very first light, chief. The
- sharks come cruisin'. So we formed ourselves into tight groups. You know
- it's... kinda like `ol squares in battle like a, you see on a calendar, like
- the battle of Waterloo. And the idea was, the shark nearest man and then he'd
- start poundin' and hollerin' and screamin' and sometimes the shark would go
- away. Sometimes he wouldn't go away. Sometimes that shark, he looks right
- into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he's got...
- lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, doesn't
- seem to be livin'. Until he bites ya and those black eyes roll over white.
- And then, ah then you hear that terrible high pitch screamin' and the ocean
- turns red and spite of all the poundin' and the hollerin' they all come in
- and rip you to pieces. Y'know by the end of that first dawn, lost a hundred
- men! I don't know how many sharks, maybe a thousand! I don't know how many
- men, they averaged six an hour. On Thursday mornin' chief, I bumped into a
- friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player, bosom's
- mate. I thought he was asleep, reached over to wake him up. Bobbed up and
- down in the water, just like a kinda top. Up ended. Well... he'd been bitten
- in half below the waist. Noon the fifth day, Mr. Hooper, a Lockheed Ventura
- saw us, he swung in low and he saw us. He'd a young pilot, a lot younger than
- Mr. Hooper, anyway he saw us and come in low. And three hours later a big fat
- PBY comes down and start to pick us up. You know that was the time I was most
- frightened? Waitin' for my turn. I'll never put on a lifejacket again. So,
- eleven hundred men went in the water, three hundred and sixteen men come out,
- the sharks took the rest, June the 29, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.
- Martin: What's that?
- Hooper: It's a whale.
- Quint: . Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu to
- you ladies of Spain.
- Hooper: [Singing] Show me the way to go home. I'm tired and I want to go to
- bed. [Quint joins] I had a little drink about an hour ago and it's gone right
- to my head. Wherever I may roam, by land or sea or foam. You can always hear
- me singin' this song, show me the way to go home, bome bome bome. Show me the
- way to go home. Bome bome bome. I'm tired and I want to go to bed. [Brody
- joins] I had a little drink about an hour ago and it's gone right to my head.
- Wherever I may roam, by land or sea or foam. You can always hear me singin'
- this --
- Quint: Start the engines. Fire her up!
- Hooper: Busted a shaft!
- Quint: Chief. Put out the fire will ya? Pump around.
- Hooper: Done.
- Quint: Everybody on deck.
- Hooper: He ate the light.
- Martin: Hmm, terrific.
- Hooper: Excuse me. Quint, what are you doing? Don't waste your time, Quint!
- Come on!
- Quint: What's wrong with this sh-- Jesus Christ! Hooper, take the wheel!
- Brody forward deck watch for him!
- Hooper: You okay? Hey Martin! You okay?
- [Quint singing]
- Quint: Hey chief! Pull left rudder! Pull your left hand down!
- Hooper: I can't! It'll only go about three inches!
- Hooper: All the more injectors got scored by the saltwater in the fuel!
- Quint: Yeah, the housin's bent you can hear it. Start with that rudder again
- will ya? Pull it! Good! Once again now!
- Martin: Quint! Quint! Quint! There it is!
- Quint: Whatta ya say, chief?!
- Martin: The barrel is up! It's right in the stern!
- Quint: I think he's right under the keg. Grab the boat, Hoop.
- Hooper: Quint, if we can get close enough, I've got things on board that'll
- kill him.
- Quint: We just want to goose him up, come on. Okay... when he runs, you drop
- that rope or you lose your hands. I've seen fingers torn out at the knuckles.
- full of `em. Hey boy! Give it to me a minute! -- Start
- the engine! Where are you goin'?
- [ORCA'S CABIN]
- Martin: I'm gonna make a phone call. Hello? Hello? Hello, mayday Orca. Coast
- Guard? Coast Guard, this is the Orca do you read me? Coast Guard, this is the
- Orca do you?
- Quint: Excuse me chief.
- Martin: That's great! That's just great!! Now where the hell are we, huh??!!
- You're certifiable, Quint! You know that?! You're certifiable!!
- Quint: Yah! Yah! Yah!
- Martin: You're certifiable!! But I'll tell you this --
- Hooper: Boys... Oh, boys! I think he's come back for his noon feeding.
- [ON DECK]
- Quint: Hook me up another barrel! Bring it around after him! Full throttle!
- Get me right up along side of him!
- Hooper: I can't rev it up that high! It's not gonna take it!
- Quint: Five degrees port! All right, hold your course! Five degrees port
- now... hold your course!
- Hooper: Fast fish!
- Quint: Watch my arm! You see, watch my hand now! Follow me! Follow me! All
- right, you watch him now! Starboard! Starboard! Run him down, Hooper! Run
- him down! Run him down! Hold your port! Watch him! Starboard! He's too fast!
- Starboard!
- Martin: Don't believe it! Two barrels and he's going down again!
- Quint: It's incredible!
- Martin: They're up again!
- Hooper: Now what?!
- Martin: Well, why don't we start leading the shark into shore, instead of him
- leadin' us out to sea?
- Quint: Grab a couple of poles, k? Hang on now, we're goin' round! Get the
- starboard! Easy! We're gonna back her up now! You watch those barrels, boys!
- Watch `em! All right, get `em and snag `em. Now then, tie `em to the stern
- cleats. Brody! Bring it right around the cleat! That's right, it'll lock
- itself off! Give him room, Brody! Clear it!
- Hooper: Argh!!
- Quint: Get off the line!
- Martin: Watch it, stand clear.
- Quint: Stand away from those stern cleats! Back home, we get a taxidermy man,
- he's gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him! Ha ha ha!
- Hooper: Crawl back! You're losing a cleat! Look at that mother! My God, this
- one too, they're both going!
- Martin: He's eating his way right through that line!
- Hooper: Yeah! And he's workin' his way, right into us! Quint! C'mon Quint!
- Martin: Hey! Come on!
- Hooper: Hurry! Quint!
- Quint: Outta my way! Watch the tail! Untie us! He'll put out the --
- Make it fast! We got another line in him!
- Hooper: I can't! It's trying to run!
- Quint: We better get another line! Pull you son of a bitch! I hope your back
- breaks! Pull it! Rip your bloody heart out! Tie him off! Secure it, boy, tie
- it around!
- Hooper: It's impossible! It's impossible! Boys, it's too tight! He's pullin'
- us! You gotta cut him loose or he'll us again! We're breakin' up over here!
- Cut it man! It's all hung off!
- Martin: We need something to cut it!
- Hooper: Get the ax! Get the ax! Get it, get it! Hurry up! We're breakin' up!
- We're breakin' up! God! Cut it! Cut it!
- Martin: Watch your hands! Watch your hands! Come on hold it!
- Hooper: Get th-- Cut it Quint! I can't hold it!
- Martin: Cut that cleat!
- Hooper: Cut it! Cut it!
- Quint: He can't stay down with three barrels on him, not with three barrels
- he can't.
- Martin: What about us?
- Quint: Hooper, get the pump outta the locker in front of you, will you?
- Martin: We're gonna sink aren't we?
- Quint: Hooper, keep an eye on the barrels! Pump it out, chief!
- Hooper: He's gonna go under!
- Quint: I tell ya, he can't with three barrels on him! Not with three he
- can't!
- [BRIDGE]
- Hooper: You ever have one do this before?
- Quint: I don't know. -- Hold fast!
- Hooper: He's chasin' us, I don't believe it!
- Quint: We're gonna draw him into the shadows, draw him in the shallow water,
- gonna draw him in and drown him. We're headin' in, Brody!
- Martin: Thank Christ! Ever have a Great White do this?
- Hooper: No!
- Martin: How far do we have to go?!
- Hooper: Quint, don't put that much pressure on her! Quint, God damn it!
- Quint: Shaddap! Get back there! I break the engine--!
- Hooper: It's gonna tear up! Doh! Hold on!
- Quint: Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies. Farewell and adieu to
- you ladies of Spain! For we've received orders for to sail back to Boston.
- Hooper: You did it! You did it! You burned out the bearings! my
- gear!
- Quint: And so nevermore shall we be --
- Martin: All right! Stop the boat! Stop the boat! Stop it!
- Quint: Hooper! Chief. -- Hooper, what exactly can you do with these things of
- yours?
- Hooper: Well, I think I can pump twenty cc's of strychnine nitrate into him.
- If I can get close enough.
- Quint: You get this little needle through his skin?
- Hooper: No. I can't do that. But if I can get him close enough to this cage,
- I think I can get him in the mouth or --
- Martin: That shark will rip that cage to pieces!
- Hooper: You got any better suggestions?! -- Easy.
- Quint: Easy! All right, up! Up she goes! Ease her down!
- [HOOPER IN CAGE]
- Hooper: I got no spit. Try to keep him off of me until I'm lower. Okay, okay,
- I'm ready.
- Martin: Bring him up Quint! God damn it! Bring him up now! Pull it up! Pull
- it! What is in there?! Bring him up! Bring him up! What are you waiting--
- pull him up! C'mon Quint! Bring him in!
- Quint: It's giving way!
- Martin: Ah! -- C'mon rig somethin'. Rig something. Got it? All right. Bring
- him up. He's coming. Lower.
- Quint: Ahh! Argh!
- Martin: All right. All right. All right, come on! Show the tank. Show me the
- tank. Blow up! Blow up! Smile you son of a... BITCH!! -- Ah ha ha ha!!!
- Martin: Oh! Ha ha ha.
- Hooper: Huh huh huh. Quint?
- Martin: No. -- Can we get in on those? Hey, what day is this?
- Hooper: It's Wednesday, uh, it's Tuesday I think.
- Martin: I think the tide's with us.
- Hooper: Keep kicking.
- Martin: Huh huh, I used to hate the water.
- Hooper: Huh huh, I can't imagine why.
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