1st Officer Petersen:
[enters a room]
Gloria:
[behind a curtain]
Is anybody there?
1st Officer Petersen:
Yes, Petersen. Please put on your life jackets and go on deck immediately.
Gloria:
Oh deck? Why?
1st Officer Petersen:
I'm not authorized to give passangers audditional information.
Sir Bruce Ismay:
[comes behind the curtain]
One moment. But you will give ME information.
1st Officer Petersen:
To you, as the president responsible for this, I WILL give information: The Titanic is sinking.
Gloria:
The Titanic is sinking?
Sir Bruce Ismay:
What are you saying?
1st Officer Petersen:
The Titanic is sinking.
Sir Bruce Ismay:
[laughs]
1st Officer Petersen:
We collidition with an iceberg. The Titanic is ripped open from the bow till under the bridge.
Sir Bruce Ismay:
Don't tell nonsense.
1st Officer Petersen:
You'll soon see, thatever it's nonsense. In jsut a few hours it's all over and a few thousand will be on the bottom because of you
Gloria:
But we have lifeboats.
1st Officer Petersen:
The lifeboats will hold almost a third of the passengers.
Sir Bruce Ismay:
I order you to secure a lifeboat for me immediately.
1st Officer Petersen:
First: You can't give me orders, Second: according to the law: women and children go first and third I'll give you the advice to go in you cabin and get your life jacket
[about to leave the room]
1st Officer Petersen:
.
Sir Bruce Ismay:
Stay here!
1st Officer Petersen:
What else do you want?
Sir Bruce Ismay:
Please lets talk as man to man. Forget about the earlier momant this evening. I was nervous it was a momental excitement. I beg you: get me a lifeboat.
1st Officer Petersen:
YOU should have been got the lifeboats.
Sir Bruce Ismay:
No. Be reasonable. I'll give you five - I'll give you $10 000,-. Save me a place.
1st Officer Petersen:
[pushs Ismay away and leaves]
Sir Bruce Ismay:
We'll see if I'll come along.
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