- Celeste Whitman: Are you going to kiss me now?
- Captain Mike Turner: No.
- Celeste Whitman: Well then let's get the hell out of here.
- Captain Mike Turner: In times of real trouble, the one thing man can depend on is the sympathy of the bank.
- Castorp: Why is Crate 16 so important?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Only one other person knew the answer to that, and that's why she had to die.
- Captain Mike Turner: [after discovering Svevo and his men gathering plutonium] You can take whatever you want from this ship, but these people have come a long way and all they want to do right now is get the hell out of here alive!
- Captain Stefan Svevo: I never intended to harm anyone Captain, as you must realize, I can't let you go now.
- Celeste Whitman: [having to jump over a hole that's 6 feet long] You know... I have the shortest legs of anybody here.
- Captain Mike Turner: Do it!
- Celeste Whitman: Okay!
- Captain Stefan Svevo: [as the crews are inspecting the upside-down stern] I hope you are a religilous man, Captain. I've taken the liberty of saying a small prayer for us.
- Captain Mike Turner: All of us?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Well, it is my feeling that... from this time on, our faiths are necessarily intertwined.
- Captain Mike Turner: Good. Then you won't be offended if I remind you of that from time to time.
- Wilbur Hubbard: Take a look up there. Copper right?
- [the Rescue helicopter carrying the 6 survivors flies overhead]
- Captain Mike Turner: French Coastguard.
- [looks at the helicopter through his binoculars]
- Captain Mike Turner: For them to out this far, some ship must be in big trouble.
- Celeste Whitman: That prayer you did up there... what religion would that be?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Greek Orthodox.
- Celeste Whitman: No kidding? I'm Greek Orthodox... suddenly!
- Captain Mike Turner: [after boarding the Poseidon] That fire must've been started by the last explosion. More could come anytime.
- Wilbur Hubbard: I'm telling ya it's a floating time bomb!
- Captain Mike Turner: [during the first inspection of the upside-down hull] This hole must've been cut by the rescue team from the chopper.
- Wilbur Hubbard: [looking in] It seems quiet enough now.
- [Mike climbs through the hole]
- Wilbur Hubbard: You know if we can work our way down to the purser's office, blow the safe and then work our way back out, let's see... out the side...
- Captain Mike Turner: I told you... you don't have to come along old man.
- Wilbur Hubbard: I know I don't *have* to.
- Captain Mike Turner: I could use you.
- Wilbur Hubbard: Yeah I know that too.
- Captain Mike Turner: Thank you.
- Wilbur Hubbard: You don't have to thank an old man.
- Suzanne Constantine: Please can we just get out of here as quickly as possible?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: It took two years to put this thing together. You really believe I can get off, *without* it?
- Suzanne Constantine: I've done everything you wanted. Now I just want to get out!
- Captain Stefan Svevo: I understand, but I've got the bullet, if I could've avoided it. But since I'm here, since we're *both* here, we've got to see this thing through!
- Captain Mike Turner: [after jumping over a hole that's 6 feet long] Coming Doctor?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: [on the other side of the hole with his men] Well I've been thinking Captain, we're separated at two cabins. We'll go left, and you and your folly continue forward.
- Captain Mike Turner: Is that an order?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Hopefully it's a constructive suggestion.
- Captain Mike Turner: All right Doctor. We'll play it your way.
- Larry Simpson: Theresa, your father... has he always had a one-track mind?
- Theresa Mazzetti: Well... you know his bark is worse than his bite. He means well.
- Larry Simpson: Yeah well... I guess if I had a daughter as pretty as you are, I'd probably act the same way.
- [Theresa looks at Larry lovingly and smiles]
- Theresa Mazzetti: Oh thank you.
- Captain Stefan Svevo: [as his boat moves alongside Mike's boat] I'm Doctor Stefan Svevo and this the Medical Rescue Ship Irene. That must be the Poseidon. We heard her S.O.S. last night.
- Captain Mike Turner: Clear off. I have the salvage rights here. Captain Michael Turner.
- Captain Stefan Svevo: A capsized ship is like a giant air bubble Captain and there may be survivors. My paramedics and I could be instrumental and try and get them off, give medical attention if needed.
- Captain Mike Turner: I think the survivors have been taken out, but you can look and take out any you find. But only survivors. I will take out anything else that I find. Is that understood.?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Well that was my original proposition to you Captain.
- Captain Mike Turner: Good. Then we will start getting our gear together, and I suggest you do the same.
- Captain Stefan Svevo: We're prepared to go aboard right now but don't worry Captain, we'll wait.
- [an explosion causes the safe in the Purser's office to fall through the floor and open]
- Captain Mike Turner: [looking at the gold coins and cash] Well what do you know?
- Celeste Whitman: Well that's one way to crack a safe.
- [Celeste starts climb down into the room below]
- Captain Mike Turner: Where do you think you're going?
- Celeste Whitman: Let's not wait around for the cash arrive.
- [Mike and Wilbur climd down into the room below with Celeste and look at the contents of the safe]
- Captain Mike Turner: [picks up a gold coin] 1796.
- Wilbur Hubbard: How much do you think they're worth?
- Captain Mike Turner: 100 times its weight in gold.
- Celeste Whitman: Bort?
- Captain Mike Turner: What?
- Wilbur Hubbard: Bort.
- Captain Mike Turner: What's that?
- Celeste Whitman: Industrial diamonds.
- Captain Mike Turner: How much are they worth?
- Celeste Whitman: Oh I think, 3 or $400,000 worth.
- [Mike looks amazed]
- Celeste Whitman: Now wait a minute, tell me the truth, is this really ours?
- Captain Mike Turner: Yeah it's Salvage. Pack up and let's get out of here.
- Wilbur Hubbard: [excited] Can see it now Mike? Along the Riviera? We're rich! You know what? We don't need a bank anymore do we?
- [laughs]
- [the tugboat Jenny is sailing into the Sunset with the survivors]
- Celeste Whitman: [joins Mike on the bridge] Poor Wilbur. Why did he do it?
- Captain Mike Turner: We only had 2 air tanks. He knew we never had a chance so, gave whatever life he had left.
- Celeste Whitman: I really loved that old man.
- Captain Mike Turner: What are you going to do now? Go back to your chateau?
- Celeste Whitman: There is no chateau.
- Captain Mike Turner: Some place must be home.
- Celeste Whitman: I'm open to suggestions.
- Captain Mike Turner: Well I... I'll sign you on the journey, but the bank's going to take boat away as soon as we reach port.
- Celeste Whitman: Maybe not.
- [Celeste takes out an industrial diamond which she salvaged from the Poseidon]
- Celeste Whitman: Gonna to kiss me now?
- Captain Mike Turner: I was gonna kiss you anyway.
- [they kiss and the tugboat Jenny sails into the Sunset]
- Frank Mazzetti: [looking at the cargo of plutonium] There's enough here to start a war!
- Captain Stefan Svevo: [appearing with his men behind a stack of crates] Well that's a slight exaggeration. I'm sorry about this Captain. I had hoped that we would never meet again.
- Harold Meredith: Who is that? What's he want?
- Celeste Whitman: It's your basic guard variety terroist. I think he wants to kill us.
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Well however accurate the second part of your statement may be, please don't confuse me with some politically... impotent bomb thrower. The truth is I came aboard this ship with a purer motive than Captain Turner: to recover a piece of property which was *already* mine.
- Captain Mike Turner: You can take *whatever* you want from this ship. I'm welcome to it, but these people have come a long way, and all they want right now is get the hell out of here alive!
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: As one man says this to another...
- [Svevo's men point their guns at Tex]
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Now hold on just hear me out son.
- [They lower their rifles slightly]
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Tell you what, I'll, I'll write a check for the whole shabbang here. If you just lay down your little rifles, we'll all haul ass out of here together. What do you say?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Take a look at that open crate behind me Captain. I sincerly doubt that your friend over there reimburse me for *that*.
- Captain Mike Turner: OK. Open it. Let's see.
- Captain Stefan Svevo: You open that barrel Captain and we all die. And I have every reasonable hope of wanting to watch the sunset tonight.
- Frank Mazzetti: [annoyed] This crap you're dishing out here, you trying to tell us you've got some kind of doomsday machine in there or something?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: With the information commonly available today, any enterprising... science student could build a nuclear device.
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Uranium?
- Captain Stefan Svevo: [proudly] Plutonium. And as the American Govenment is painfully aware, this isn't the first shipment to go astray.
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Ah, son? Now listen to me. If I was to tell you that I've got certain connections at the Peenee Gon...
- Captain Stefan Svevo: Then I would have to tell you that my connection are more powerful than yours. I never intended to harm anyone Captain. But as you must realize... I can't let you go now.
- [another explosion occurs]
- Wilbur Hubbard: I don't know, she could go down any moment now.
- Captain Mike Turner: The Andrea Doria stayed up for more than ten hours.
- Celeste Whitman: Well, I stayed up for a week once. So what?
- Celeste Whitman: If I'd known I was gonna be sailing with Captain Bligh I'd have stayed put up in my chateau in the Riviera.
- Captain Mike Turner: Chateau? Is that what the other girls called it?
- Celeste Whitman: Oh, come off it, Turner. I know you're a terrifically tough guy, but you're not a son of a bitch - no matter how bad you want me to think you are! Are you?
- Captain Mike Turner: Wilbur, make ready the skiff. Get the monkey to help you.
- Celeste Whitman: Monkey? I didn't know you guys had a monkey aboard. Gee, I didn't see one down - - - wonderful.
- Captain Mike Turner: You're looking at a four-star passenger liner carrying hundreds of wealthy people on a European cruise. The only kind of salvage I want out of there is the kind I can carry on my back.
- Celeste Whitman: And end up with what? A bagful of credit cards and gold fillings? Charming.
- Larry Simpson: Theresa, what your father is trying to tell you is he's a little bit concerned that maybe I'll tear your clothes off and make love to you here in front of him.
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Frank, so help me, you keep runnin' off at the head, you ain't gettin' one dang sip of this wine.
- Frank Mazzetti: Hey, Tex, take that wine and shove it sideways!
- Frank Mazzetti: I run a bar in Morristown, New Jersey. I know what goes on. This guy's got one thing on his mind! I've seen old guys in there with kids as young as my daughter.
- Larry Simpson: Well, then thank goodness I'm only 22 years old, right, Daddy?
- Frank Mazzetti: Listen, kid, if we get out of here alive, I'm gonna kill you!
- Celeste Whitman: I came to France a year and a half ago with my boyfriend from Cincinnati.
- Captain Mike Turner: Where's your boyfriend now?
- Celeste Whitman: Cincinnati.
- Celeste Whitman: God, this is not a good day for me! Honestly, you just don't understand me at all.
- Captain Mike Turner: Understand you? I don't even know who you are.
- Suzanne Constantine: My dress. I don't think I can make it.
- Captain Mike Turner: Take it off.
- Suzanne Constantine: I beg your pardon?
- Captain Mike Turner, Suzanne Constantine: Take it off!
- Celeste Whitman: He's got a real way with words, doesn't he?
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Well, as one man of substance to another, let's go right to the mat. I mean, let's not pussyfoot around.
- Nurse Gina Rowe: [about the exit the Poseidon through an underwater side door] None of us are experienced divers Captain.
- Captain Mike Turner: It's our only way out. I'm going to turn you all into frogmen. No one has a choice.
- [puts down 2 scuba tanks]
- Captain Mike Turner: There should be 2 more Wilbur. I counted 4.
- Wilbur Hubbard: One's empty. The one I'm getting is half full.
- Dewey 'Tex' Hopkins: Who's going in the scuba?
- Captain Mike Turner: Everyone.
- Celeste Whitman: Last time I went to school, 3 didn't go into 8.
- Larry Simpson: What you say?
- Celeste Whitman: 3 doesn't go into 8.
- Wilbur Hubbard: With him, it's possible.
- [meaning Mike]
- Captain Mike Turner: You mean Jack Custo never taught buddy breathing?
- Celeste Whitman: What's buddy...?
- Captain Mike Turner: That's more than one diver on a single tank. Wilbur and I have done it before so we'll use the least air.