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- Rachel: Their sonar is like X-ray vision. If we could see in each other if someone was happy or sad, indifferent or aroused, healthy or suffering from a tumor, it would be meaningless to say, How are you? What we call language they might call unnecessary, or retarded.
- Captain Nolan: I brought this gun to shoot him. Yes, yes I did. But I knew when it came time to do it, I couldn't do it. So I got to thinking and I thought, Well if what-if what you say is right. That whales can communicate. Then I thought I'd look at him. Right in the eye. And I'd tell him the killing of his wife and his child was a terrible accident. That I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it. I'd tell him that I was sorry. I hope he'd forgive me.
- Rachel: [while listening to Orca's sounds through a hydrophone] What is he saying?
- Captain Nolan: You're me, he says... I'm you, he says... you're my... drunk driver... he says...
- [Captain Nolan has just seen the orca kill a member of his crew after the orca knocked the house into the ocean. He then looks out to the water & sees the killer whale leaping out of the water, breaching]
- Captain Nolan: You revengeful sonofabitch! You win!
- [the orca keeps breaching, as if taunting Captain Nolan]
- Captain Nolan: You want revenge? Well, you'll have it! I'll come out and fight you! You revengeful sonofabitch!
- [Nolan's boat, the 'Bumpo', steams out of the little harbor the next morning with the fishermen watching as he goes to fight the orca]
- Umilak: It is known that they have great memory and even after many years they will always remember the human being who has tried to harm them.
- Captain Nolan: Can you commit a sin against an animal?
- Priest: Why, you can commit a sin against a blade of grass. Sins are really against oneself.
- Rachel: You're planning to capture and sell a fellow creature! He's like you - he has warm blood, he breathes air, he's a mammal, but with intelligence!
- Rachel: Did I tell you that that animal has a right to be left alone?
- Captain Nolan: No, but I have a notion you're about to.
- Rachel: Their sonar is like X-ray vision. If we could see in each other if someone was happy or sad, indifferent or aroused, healthy or suffering from a tumor, it would be meaningless to say, How are you? What we call language they might call unnecessary, or retarded.
- Rachel: With the growing cold came a growing quiet. From the crew, from Nolan, everything.It was numbing like the chill, and palpable.
- Captain Nolan: Orcas. I can't stop thinking about them. Nature's greatest pricks, the end point of millions of years of evolutionary arseholery.
- Rachel: I'd insisted on leaving South Harbor with them. I told myself that somehow I was responsible for Nolan's state of mind. That I had filled his head with romantic notions about a whale capable not only of profound grief, which I believed, but also of calculated and vindictive actions, which I found hard to be believe, despite all that had happened.
- Captain Nolan: If you're so sure I can't catch a killer whale, why are you so upset?
- Rachel: Listen, you won't catch one, but you might butcher a couple dozen in the attempt!
- Captain Nolan: Oh, that's not my style at all.
- Rachel: [after Orca's mate washes ashore, dead with Nolan's harpoon in her, mockingly to Nolan] You won't kill one. Its not your *style*.
- Captain Nolan: Are you reading to the whale?
- Rachel: You'd never butcher a whale by accident. It's not your style.
- Captain Nolan: What can I do?
- Rachel: You can stop looking at me as if I'm the crazy one.
- Captain Nolan: Well I must say, I'm amazed that she swam up here against the wind, and the tide.
- Rachel: She didn't swim. Her mate pushed her.
- Captain Nolan: He what?
- Rachel: Didn't you anchor your boat in here last night?
- Captain Nolan: I did. Just out there.
- Rachel: He followed you.
- Captain Nolan: He what?
- Rachel: He followed you.
- Umilak: She speaks you the truth. She knows it from university, I know it from my ancestors.
- Captain Nolan: Well I'm delighted to hear that. Who the hell are you?
- Umilak: I'm Jakob Umilak. I teach at a travel school in the north.
- Captain Nolan: Aww.. nice to meet you.
- Umilak: You're the man who did this?
- Captain Nolan: Guilty... Well, I must be off now.
- Rachel: Nolan, please, listen to him.
- Captain Nolan: Why?
- Umilak: We know from our fathers that they once tried to kill a whale like that and hardly wounded it. It is known that the whale capsized the boat and chewed up both the hunters who manned it. It is known that these whales have great memory. And even after many numbers of years pass they always remember the human being who had tried to harm them.
- Captain Nolan: Ah ohhh.. rubbish!
- Rachel: He saw you, Nolan. He saw you on the deck of the boat.
- Umilak: If I were you, I would stay far from his territory.
- Captain Nolan: Ahh.. I might just do that.
- Rachel: You'll give up?
- Captain Nolan: I might just do that, too.
- Captain Nolan: Can I help you?
- Umilak: You know the men all meet, they talk of you, and they are angry.
- Captain Nolan: I understand.
- Umilak: They say you're a coward for not to go out and kill this whale.
- Captain Nolan: I have my reasons.
- Umilak: I believe you.
- Captain Nolan: You do? Why?
- Umilak: I see in your face, fear. But it is not anything alive, it is of some... spirit, I think. I come only to warn you, perhaps it is best you go hunt this devil, no matter what your reasons are. If there is any more harm done to this town by your whale..
- Captain Nolan: My whale? Look... Thank you for the warning.
- Umilak: I know what my ancestors would have done.
- Captain Nolan: What?
- Umilak: They have the Shaman sew a small skin whale and stuff it with the livers of birds. They make piss water on it, and throw it into the sea with some words. If all has been done right, the monster spirit flies out of his mouth and he is dead.
- Captain Nolan: [laughs] Well, maybe I should ask you to try that for me.
- Umilak: The world has changed, even our gods dance to a new song.
- Captain Nolan: I thank ya.
- Rachel: Hello?
- Captain Nolan: Hello, Rachel, I'm going after him.
- Rachel: After who? What time is it anyway?
- Captain Nolan: Him, Him, the whale. Are you awake?
- Rachel: Well I am now.
- Captain Nolan: I'm sorry.. I felt I wanted to tell you before I left. It's what the villagers want, it's what the whale wants.
- Rachel: What the whale wants?
- Captain Nolan: Yes, yes, that's what the whale wants.
- Rachel: Nolan, Nolan, I think I ought to explain something to you. I don't know what this creature wants. You don't know what he wants, the villagers don't know, nobody knows. But if he's anything like a human being.. whatever he wants isn't necessarily what he should have.
- Captain Nolan: Yes, but, you said that..
- Rachel: Forget what I said. I thought you were an insensitive bore, but I exaggerated to make a point. Well, I was wrong. You're a sensitive bore.
- Captain Nolan: I take that as a compliment.
- Rachel: Take it anyway you like.
- Captain Nolan: I'll take it as a compliment. Well, see you 'round, I'm off at dawn.
- Rachel: Nolan.. Nolan, don't you dare hang up on me!
- Captain Nolan: I wasn't going to.
- Rachel: Look, what about.. what about Paul? What about Annie's leg?
- Captain Nolan: Well, that's the point, don't you see, they're taking the truck and going on land.
- Rachel: You mean you're going alone?
- Captain Nolan: Well, if I don't.. I'm.. I'm afraid of what they might do to Paul and Ann. Besides, it's me that animal wants out there.
- Rachel: Nolan you're crazy!
- Captain Nolan: Ahh, maybe you're right.
- Rachel: Suppose you're right. If a human being were crazed with grief would you do anything he wanted?
- Captain Nolan: No.
- Rachel: No, you'd try to protect him against himself, wouldn't you?
- Captain Nolan: Yes.
- Rachel: And Nolan, who do you think you owe more to... the villagers or that animal?
- Captain Nolan: Well all right then, all right then I won't go.
- Rachel: You really mean that?
- Captain Nolan: I do.
- Rachel: You'll call me in the morning?
- Captain Nolan: I will, I will.
- Rachel: Promise?
- Captain Nolan: Promise.
- Rachel: Well good night then.
- Rachel: [Nolan is making a dummy of himself] it's a pretty good likeness, Nolan. Especially the head.
- Captain Nolan: What's the matter with the head? And what the hell are you doing down here?
- Rachel: I couldn't resist seeing what you wanted my camping gear for.
- Captain Nolan: Well, now you know. Scram.
- Rachel: Don't tell me that scarecrow is gonna keep him off!
- Captain Nolan: Hrrr... He's smarter than that, I hope to bring him in.
- Rachel: You hope it'll bring them in?
- Captain Nolan: Right, like last night.
- Rachel: [laughs] Nolan, you really are the dumbest, madest man I've ever met. That's what I get for putting you onto books! What're you gonna do now? You gonna hypnotize him?
- Captain Nolan: No, not exactly. I came down here to shoot him. Bang, Bang! One through each eye. But then, I put myself, into his position, and I thought...
- Rachel: He won't show.
- Captain Nolan: Why not?
- Rachel: Why do you think he sank the other boats in the harbor and not yours?
- Captain Nolan: Well now, I must admit that.. that rather puzzled me
- Rachel: He deliberately left you your boat, because he wants to fight you on the sea
- Captain Nolan: I won't do that, I refuse. In fact I won't fight him at all.
- Rachel: But you'll murder him. You'll stand here safe on the jetty and shoot him through the eye. But you're not a man, you're an animal! It's creatures like you science should be observing. Why don't you go somewhere else for your excitement?
- Captain Nolan: Excite...! Excitement! Is that all it means to you? I'm thinking more of that whale than you are.
- Rachel: With a gun?
- Captain Nolan: I brought this gun to shoot him, yes.. yes I did. But I knew when I came to do it, I couldn't do it. So I got to thinking, and I thought, well.. if what.. if what you say is right.. and whales can communicate.. well then I thought I'd.. I thought I'd look at him, right in the eye. I'd tell him that the killing of his wife and child. It was a terrible accident, but I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it! I'd tell him that I was sorry, I hoped he'd forgive me. I understand, what that whale is feelin'. Because.. the same thing happened to me. My wife was pregnant, she was driving to the hospital, alone.. drunken driver came down the wrong side of the road and hit her. He killed her.. and he killed my baby.
- Paul: Hey there, wanna fill her up and check the hood, I'll get the air.
- Gas Station Attendant: We're all out.
- Paul: Out of air?
- Gas Station Attendant: Air, gas, oil, anything.
- Paul: Ha-ha, look who're you foolin', I just saw you put some gas in that car, bud.
- Umilak: If you try the bus station, you'll find there are no tickets for you either.
- Paul: What's the idea?
- Umilak: Tell Nolan, that he must accept with his mind what he already knows in his heart. There is no way out but through the sea.
- Paul: The whale's gone, there is no whale.
- Umilak: He is not gone, he hides and waits in a sea cave. The monster's message to us is clear, we must send him Nolan or he will torment this village without mercy.
- Paul: Hoh-ho, this whole damn town's looney.
- Umilak: Please, tell your captain, I am not his enemy. I would sail as one of the crew, I could help him. With me or without me, he has no choice but to fight.
- Rachel: So, Nolan's effort to spare his crew had failed, both the town and the orca had seen to that. I'd insisted on leaving South Harbor with them. I told myself that somehow I was responsible for Nolan's state of mind that I had filled his head with romantic notions about a whale capable not only of profound grief, which I believed but also of calculated and vindictive actions which I found hard to believe despite all that happened. Maybe I hope the voyage would show me another way to interpret the animal. It seemed a peculiar kind of human perversity to assume, but because the whale had an intelligence close to ours it would also have our most primitive and ugly emotion: vengeance. At this point I was sure of one thing: that his grief had made the orca wildly unpredictable and I felt an obligation to protect both it and Nolan, from the consequences of that insanity. Nolan however seemed sure of what was going to happen next, and that frightened me more than anything else. He set our course for the exact locale where he had killed the whale's mate. Nolan was certain that the creature would want to catch up with him there.
- Rachel: [voice over] With the growing cold had come a growing quiet. From the crew, from Nolan, from everything. It was numbing like the chill in the air, and as palpable as the ice. And always the orca moved North, and always we followed. We didn't speak about Ken's death, or what we planned to do. All Nolan said, was we were hooked, the orca was reeling us in, and that was it. But we were low on fuel, and Nolan seemed to give no thought to fight, or flight, or anything. The creature led, Nolan followed. If there were any other purpose to what we were doing, only the Orca knew it.
- Paul: My god, engines astern, engines astern!
- [they crash against some ice Paul is getting into a lifeboat]
- Captain Nolan: What the hell are you doin'?
- Paul: What does it look like? I'm swinging this lifeboat out where it's ready.
- Captain Nolan: For an outboard, it can get carried away.
- Paul: Well we'll take that chance.
- Captain Nolan: Get up here behind that light, swing it around and find me a clear way
- Paul: Go on at night with these bergs around? Are you joking?
- Captain Nolan: I said, find me a passage!
- Umilak: Nolan. You're tired, get some sleep. I'll take care of him. Nolan was right, I think.
- Paul: About what?
- Umilak: The boat, it's more secure if it's inboard.
- Paul: Well that's what makes horse races.
- [the whale knocks Paul out of the boat and drags him down underwater]
- Rachel: [looks out the window and sees Paul's dead body come up] No! No!
- Rachel: Come, I'll warm you.
- Captain Nolan: Do you remember some time ago you asked me, how much I'd make from the whale, do you remember that? All I wanted was, enough money to pay out the mortgage on the boat go back to Ireland. America never suited me. Now look what I've done. Look what I've done. Three people dead, innocent girl maimed for life. God forgive me. Tomorrow will be the day. He loved his family more than I loved mine.
- [Referring to his rifle]
- Captain Nolan: I won't be needin' this. It's goin' to be a fair fight on equal terms.
- Captain Nolan: I won't fight him at all.
- Rachel: But you'll murder him - you'll sit here safe on the jetty, and shoot him through the eye? You're not a man, you're an animal! Its creatures like you science should be observing!
- Rachel: [voiceover] I didn't notice at first but my lectures suddenly gained a new and attentive member: Captain Nolan. He began to call on me after class at odd hours, asking about the orcas and occasionally, about me. I was surprised at his ignorance of the animals. To have fished here for so long and have learned so little about them amazed me. I was also intrigued by his curiosity. The combination made him seem vulnerable, and even attractive. It was that or I had been in Newfoundland for too long. In any case I should have known that fishermen are rarely curious about anything at sea unless they want to catch it, or kill it.
- [Nolan is putting up a net]
- Rachel: don't tell me you're building a holding pen? I should have known when you pumped me about killer whales it wasn't to improve your mind if any.
- Captain Nolan: Ha-ha. Now look, we're not going to harm him. The lucky lad will have a long, happy life, in some aquarium.
- Rachel: How much money do you think you're going to get for him?
- Captain Nolan: Enough, enough.
- Rachel: Nolan, there's a word for you.
- Captain Nolan: I know. And I've been called it many times.
- Rachel: Your plan to capture and sell a fellow creature. He's like you, he has warm blood, he breathes air, he's a mammal but with intelligence and he communicates.
- Captain Nolan: Ohh.. he communicates, does he?
- Rachel: Look at me. Tell me I'm pulling your leg and I'll give you a dollar.
- Captain Nolan: No, but I'll tell you this, you're one hell of a girl to be living in a tent sleeping with a tape recorder.
- Rachel: Did I tell you that animal has a right to be left alone?
- Captain Nolan: No you didn't, but I have a notion that you're about.
- Rachel: These animals are too big and too smart, and they're made to be in constant motion. They don't even sleep. It's much crueller than putting a lion in a cage. It's hardly something to screw around with.
- Captain Nolan: Now there's a very dangerous word to use around a fellow like me. I mean, I might get a notion or two.
- Rachel: You'll never catch a killer whale. Is there any way that I can make you give up?
- Captain Nolan: Well, there's one you might try. But I s'pose that's out of the question.
- Rachel: If that's what it'll take.
- Captain Nolan: If you are so sure I can't catch a killer whale, why're you so upset?
- Rachel: Listen, you won't catch one, but you might butcher a couple of dozen in the attempt.
- Captain Nolan: Ahh, that's not my style at all.
- Rachel: So you refuse to quit?
- Captain Nolan: That's not my style either. Especially when a pretty and intelligent girl like you tells me that I'm dumber than a fish.
- Rachel: Lots of bad luck.
- Annie: How many CC's of dope in the harpoons?
- Captain Nolan: Well, if a whale is twice the size of the shark, therefore we use twice as much.
- Annie: Nolan?
- Captain Nolan: What?
- Annie: You know, killer whales are monogamous.
- Captain Nolan: Monogamous, what does that mean?
- Annie: They stick with one mate all their life. Do you realise we could be busting up a happy family?
- Captain Nolan: You continue what you're doin' and bring it up when you're finished.
- [teaching lecture at university]
- Rachel: It is without challenge the most powerful animal on the globe. The killer whale. He is a mammal with warm blood, found in every sea. The ancient Romans called him Orca Orcinus Latin for "The Bringer of Death". His tapered form and muscular fin make the orca the fastest moving whale in all the oceans. The adult male measures around 30 feet and weighs six tons but there have been cases where he ran to 45 feet. Now here is a killer whale and what is probably his most familiar guise: Tamed, on exhibition. One captured as a pup and brought up with men. Treated with kindness, there is no creature that is a greater friend to man. But if not.. the orca's mouth has 48 teeth set in two impressive rows. As parents, killer whales are exemplary. Better than most human beings. And like human beings, they have a profound instinct for vengeance. Yet the most amazing thing about these creatures is neither their gentleness nor their violence, but their brains. Slides, please, Ken. Now these three brains are of a monkey, a human being, and this is the brain of a killer whale. We know very little about the nature of the whales intelligence except that it exists and is powerful and in some respects may even be superior to man. A four-month-old fetus, incredibly like that of a human baby. It even has two hands, with five fingers on each. Whales talk. They communicate by a combination of pure sound and sonar echolocation. The whale sounds you are now hearing contain wavelengths that can travel not just across one ocean basin, but around the entire world. This was recorded under water and analyzed by computers at CalTech. It was found to contain 15 million pieces of information. The Bible contains only 4 million. What are they saying? For that matter, do they have to say anything to communicate? Their sonar would be a little like our having X-ray vision. If we could look into one another and instantly know if someone else was happy or sad, indifferent or aroused, healthy or suffering from a tumor we could actually see then a human phrase like, "How are you?" would be meaningless. What we call language they might call unnecessary, or redundant, or retarded.
- Priest: [at Novak's funeral] Rest Eternal, grant him, O Lord. Let light perpetual shine upon him. Amen.
- Captain Nolan: That was nice, Reverend. Thanks. Now, would you... would you give this in his name to the Seamen's Fund? See he didn't have any family.
- Priest: I thank you.
- Captain Nolan: There's ah.. something I'd.. I'd like to ask you, Reverend.
- Priest: Yes?
- Captain Nolan: Would you wait for me outside, Paul?
- Priest: You're Irish?
- Captain Nolan: Aye.. can't lose the accent, I've been here 16 years, laborers are a dime-a-dozen at home, but I came over here and I worked for my uncle on his boat. And he died and he left me the boat, mortgaged, and he left me Gus. Dear old Gus. You know, he taught me everything I know, which is precious little.
- Priest: I can understand how badly you must feel about his death.
- Captain Nolan: Well, he was a fisherman and fisherman like to die at sea. He'd a fear of dying in an old home with pipes and tubes stuck out of him. You know what I mean? But, uh.. to die like this...
- Priest: Don't take it too much to heart, what's done is done.
- Captain Nolan: Right. Hah. Um.. Reverend. Wha.. wha.. What I was meaning to ask ya like... Can you commit a sin against an animal?
- Priest: Why, you can commit a sin against a blade of grass. Sins are really against oneself. You understand?
- Captain Nolan: I do. Thank you, Reverend.
- Captain Nolan: Took out for me? Um... Thanks
- [reads book cover]
- Captain Nolan: "Whales and dolphins in science and mythology in celebration of the world's least known intelligence." Must be a book about me. Herman Melville believed if God returns to this planet he'll come back as a whale. Haha. Ah c'mon, you can't really believe all this stuff, can you? Forgive me laugin' now, I'm not laughing at you, but all this stuff is a bit heavy for me to digest. But thanks for the book.
- Rachel: You're very welcome.
- Captain Nolan: When we're finished burying the old whale, I want to give a... a wake at my house. Can I buy you a drink, will you come?
- Rachel: Thanks.
- Al Swain: Nolan, you got a minute?
- Captain Nolan: Yes, whaddya you want.
- Al Swain: You're in a pretty big hurry to bury that whale there, aren't ya?
- Captain Nolan: I was.
- Al Swain: Well I've got some good news for you, the boatyard's given you priority. They're hauling your Bumpo to fix it first thing in the morning.
- Captain Nolan: Ahh. Would you like a drink? Well you didn't drive out all this way, just tell me that?
- Al Swain: We figured you'd wanna know.
- Captain Nolan: Well now that's... that's nice of you. But actually, I'm not in any great hurry to sail away from South Harbor at all.
- Al Swain: You mean you're staying around 'til you kill that whale?
- Captain Nolan: Kill the whale? Not at all. I'm staying around because I paid a month's rent on my house. Plus the fact I got a crew member with a busted foot. Ain't got nothing to do with the whale at all. Did I say somethin' wrong?
- Captain Nolan: First two boats are sunk, now the fish are vanishing from the fishing grounds. And it's all because of your whale.
- Captain Nolan: My whale?
- [laughs]
- Captain Nolan: And will you forget about the whale, I forgot and about him already. And I betcha, you'll never see him around here again.
- Al Swain: An hour ago a kids saw a fin off the North Point. A fin with a nick in it.. stationary. It's just waiting.
- Rachel: Don't go down to the North Point, Nolan.
- Captain Nolan: Why would I?
- Rachel: Just don't he's...
- Captain Nolan: Look I said, why would I? Now why would I? I'll see you tonight, right?
- Rachel: Wrong.
- Ken: Excuse me, well shouldn't somebody be up on the lookout?
- Captain Nolan: He's not ready.. yet.
- [to Rachel]
- Captain Nolan: That's your gun, oil the patch, you won't get through the barrel.
- Rachel: I don't actually shoot whales...
- Captain Nolan: If he should get me, then you'll have to shoot him. Self-defense like.
- Rachel: Since when have you seriously consider that he might, "get you"?
- Captain Nolan: I've never "seriously considered", I said "if."
- Paul: [the orca has bumped into their boat] it's him.
- Captain Nolan: Well it's not bloody Neptune. It's his first contact.
- Umilak: How should I steer?
- Captain Nolan: Alright.. this is exactly what I thought.
- Paul: [picks up shotgun] I've gone out to look out for a better angle if he comes up.
- Captain Nolan: Where you going with that gun?
- Paul: What are you talking about?
- Captain Nolan: It's me he wants to fight. Put down that gun.
- [Paul puts down the gun]
- Captain Nolan: Steady as she goes, stanby for a depth charge.
- Rachel: You can't let off dynamite!
- Captain Nolan: What do you want me to do? Climb overboard so you can record the sounds of my being swallowed
- Rachel: Don't, don't!
- Rachel: Get your hands off!
- [the whale knocks into the boat causing him to drop the dynamite and Rachel manages to throw it overboard she vomits over the side of the boat]
- Rachel: Will you get your head in!
- Paul: Jesus, here he comes!
- [the whale comes to the surface then motions Nolan with his tail to follow him]
- Captain Nolan: What the hell is he up to? He wants us to follow him. Umilak, change course! Starboard!
- [to Rachel]
- Captain Nolan: You alright?
- Rachel: Yes, I'm fine.
- Captain Nolan: Well, I don't know whether to scold ya, or to thank ya, but what's done is done.
- [the whale jumps up and grabs Ken and drags him overboard]
- Rachel: Ken!
- Rachel: [listening to whale recording] What's he telling you?
- Captain Nolan: Well now... "You and me," he said. "I knew", he said. "You're my.. drunk driver", he said.
- Rachel: You know they're going to want us to turn back, now?
- Captain Nolan: It's too late for me.
- Rachel: I'll take over from Paul.
- Rachel: Okay Paul, I'll take her.
- Paul: I wouldn't have believed it hadn't I seen it, but.. that course just, threaded us through the Cabot Strait to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.. like he had radar.
- Rachel: Sonar, actually.
- Paul: Did Nolan radio back what happened to Ken?
- Rachel: I don't know.
- Paul: I guess he didn't, because if he did we would have been ordered back to the port. You know, you're getting to be about as crazy as he is, Rachel.
- Rachel: Turn in now Paul. Try not to dream.
- Captain Nolan: It's dead on.
- Paul: Dead on what?
- Captain Nolan: The Strait of Pen Isle, open seas. He's taking us out of the Gulf, onto the coast of Labrador. I have a funny feeling in me bones this is the last lap, and there's no way out north.
- Umilak: Have you ever seen polar ice, Nolan? It can crush a boat like this in a second.
- Captain Nolan: Well ice cuts.. both ways. And he'll have to crash right up through it, to find air. Ah, this whale is not as smart as I thought he was.
- [They're approaching an iceberg]
- Paul: You god-damned crazy bitch, come back and ram us if you're gonna.
- Captain Nolan: Ohh, here, take it easy, take it easy! You're doing exactly what he wants you to do. You see he normally follows his victim for about.. week, two weeks, before he hits them.
- [tosses him book]
- Captain Nolan: Here, read it, page 77. He's trying to drive us crazy.
- Paul: Well he's already done a damn good job on you.
- Umilak: We've checked the fuel tanks, and done some calculations. There's not enough to take us home.
- Captain Nolan: Well, we could pull up at a gasoline station and get a coupla gallons. Ha-ha.
- Paul: Dammit, no more wisecracks. We don't have diesel oil to get home.
- Captain Nolan: Well now, there's a radar station north-west of Seahorse Point so when the time comes you can send an SOS. They'll send a helicopter, and lift you out.
- Umilak: Lift us out? What about you?
- Captain Nolan: Me?
- [He laughs]