Titanic

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.