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BENJAMIN:
A close friend... I wanted to show
her the River.
CAPT. MIKE
I’m not supposed to be joy-ridin’
with civilians... I could lose my
license.
That notion stops him for about a nanosecond.
CAPT. MIKE (CONT’D)
(grabbing a bottle)
What you standin’ there for!

EXT. MURMANSK STREET, RUSSIA - NIGHT, 1941 112
Snow covers the street outside of a turn-of-the Century
hotel... a front window looks into its lobby... ”The
Winter Palace Hotel.”
113 INT. “WINTER PALACE,” RUSSIA - NIGHT, 1941 113
There’s a packed BAR off the lobby... We see Benjamin
sitting with Captain Mike, their crew, and a mixture of
other seamen, Russians and other ethnics, all speaking
different languages, sitting and standing around tables
cluttered with bottles and glasses... Captain Mike,
drunk, his shirt off, is telling a Russian sailor,
another interpreting for him -- about a tattoo he has
over his heart... an upside down hummingbird...
CAPT. MIKE
I saws this tattoo puts on a man’s
back in Singapore by Sakumoro, the
greatest tattoo artist ever lived.
I puts it on myself from mem’ry.
And now we know why it’s upside down...
CAPT. MIKE (CONT’D)
This idn’t just anoter bird! Its
heart rate’s twelve hunerd beats a
minute...! Its wings beats eighty
times a second...! If you was to
stop their wings from beatin, they
would be dyin’ in less than ten
seconds...This is no ordinary
bird, this is a frikkin’ miracle!
They slowed down the wings
74A.
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
wit’ movin’ pictures, you know
what it showed, they wing tips are
doin’ dis...
And he draws on a napkin a FIGURE EIGHT...
CAPT. MIKE (CONT’D)
Does you know what the figureeight
is the mathematical symbol
of...?!
Pointing at the symbol...
CAPT. MIKE (CONT’D)
Infinity!
And for some drunken reason, no matter what language they
might speak, they all laugh...