Tom Atkins credited as playing...
Nick Castle
- Elizabeth Solley: Listen, I never hitchhiked before. I just really want to be careful. Can I ask you something?
- Nick Castle: Sure
- Elizabeth Solley: Are you weird?
- Nick Castle: Yes, I am. Yes, I am weird.
- Elizabeth Solley: You are weird. Thank God you're weird. The last one was so normal, it was disgusting.
- Nick Castle: Do you feel that?
- Dr. Phibes: I'll tell you what happened...
- Nick Castle: It just got cold in here.
- Elizabeth Solley: [Nick and Elizabeth are on board The Sea Grass] Things seem to happen to me. I'm bad luck.
- Nick Castle: I don't believe in luck, good or bad. I don't believe in anything much. Something did happen once. My father was a fisherman. He ran a trawler out of Whitley Reef. One night, late, he was coming back in. He was out beyond the reef, out near Spivey Point. He looked to windward and saw a brig under shortsail, heading right for him. And he radioed, there was no reply. Nothing moved on deck, but she held her course. My dad and two of his hands, they boarded the brig, the Risa Jane. No one was on board. There was food on the table, and a hot, steaming cup of coffee. But underneath, the tin cup was rusted to the table. And then something caught my father's eye. It was a gold dubloon, minted in Spain, 1867. My dad picked up the coin, put it in his breast pocket of his jacket, and zippered it up. He came home, told us the story, and he unzippered the pocket to give me the coin. It was gone.
- [a locker door opens, spilling charts]
- Elizabeth Solley: I think I'll go to Vancouver now.
- Dr. Phibes: You see the water acts like ice. A whole body would take a year to decompose, longer if it was down far enough, cold enough.
- Nick Castle: But he was on the boat. He was below decks.
- Dr. Phibes: No. Dick Baxter died in the ocean. Remember last October those three kids that went diving for that old boat off the point? We got to 'em, they'd been down a week, maybe ten days. I swear to you right now, he's been down longer.
- [the pathologist, Dr. Phibes, has just examined the body of Dick Baxter]
- Dr. Phibes: What the hell happened out there?
- Nick Castle: There was rust all over everything. It was like the boat had been out there a long time, taking on water. He was down below, near the bunks.
- Dr. Phibes: Nick, his wounds are covered with algae, his lungs are full, and there's silt under his fingernails. I tell ya, I saw Dick Baxter three days ago in Salinas. Now he's lying there on the table looking like he's been underwater for a month!