The future...
The polar ice caps have melted,
covering the earth with water.
Those who survived have adapted
to a new world.
Bad luck, English.
But the Slavers are producing a good grade of poxy these days.
Cost you a handful of dirt or maybe that wind chime.
What are you doing here?
Just waiting.
Take your hand off the sail.
Take it off!
I've seen your boat before. Haven't seen you.
Took it legal.
Previous owner was dead on the tiller when I found it.
You had another hour before I traded up again.
Just improving my means.
Well, I owe you then.
No, thanks.
I got all the supplies I need. Just came from an atoll.
Eight days east, if you're interested.
Two Drifters meet, something needs to be exchanged.
I know the code. But I'll give you this one for free.
Nothing's free in Waterworld.
Yeah.
Smokers.
Just enough wind to get away clean.
Forget the bag.
It's not worth it. You'll never make it with your sails down.
Hey!
What can I say?
Joe, he's going for it.
What the hell?
Never seen that before.
Here we go! Go! Drive! Drive!
Faster! Faster!
Come on! He's gonna get it! He's gonna get it!
Go! Get him! Get him!
No! No!
No!
How many ways can I say it? Go on, hit the swells.
What do you think? He does have a bush on him.
Cut a side barter if you want, but don't open the gates.
lnbound! Straight out.
English.
Flag's down, Drifter. We got enough traders.
What does he have?
Dirt.
Open the gates!
Bones to berries. Veins to vine.
These tendons to trees. This blood to brine.
Too old she was.
This woman does leave us, recycled and enshrined
in the presence of him who leads us.
What is that?
You know me?
I know what you are.
Good.
Then you know if you look for trouble while you're here,
you'll find more than you can handle.
You got two hours.
I'll only need one.
He's coming over here.
Me. You each get one
if everything's here when I get back.
Pure dirt.
3.2 kilos.
How'd you come by so much of it?
Another atoll 30 horizons west of here.
Where'd they get it?
They didn't say.
We heard about that place, that they was all killed.
That's why they didn't say. Smokers?
Maybe Smokers, maybe Slavers.
So what's the word? We trading or not?
We'll tally it like pure hydro.
Works out to 62 chits.
I want twice that.
You drive a hard bargain.
Dirt?
I have never seen purer.
I just want one sip of hydro!
No,not till you tell me.
She got inkings on her back. I seen her.
They say if you read the marks on the child,
they'll lead you all the way to Dryland.
Dryland's a myth.
Some still believe.
They say the Smokers even got an eye out for her.
Well, then, we'd better keep it to ourselves.
Help you? Yeah.
Where's the store? You found it.
You don't have much.
You the man with the dirt?
I'll take a hydro. All six G's.
Got any canvas? Line?
Well, we've got line. lt's hair. No canvas.
I'll take the line.
Any seeds? Nope.
Wood? Nope.
Magazines?
lf I had a magazine, l'd retire.
Something to drink?
Cup of hydro.
Pure.
Skoal.
One more. Make it two.
A man this rich will buy for a fellow outwater,I'm sure.
One.
That's an interesting pair of boots you got.
Trade?
No.
So, how long you been out there, man?
Don't hurt asking. Talking costs you nothing.
Depends. What lunar is it?
Well, let's see. Abbo, Farch, June... It's August.
It's August? Yep.
So, how long?
Fifteen.
Fifteen lunars?
That's her.
Enola. Hey, what are you doing?
No, you can't do that.
I need another piece. I want to draw some more.
I'll give it to you. Just stay in the back.
With all those chits, you could order up a bath.
Have you ever had a freshwater bath? Why are you talking to me?
Just being friendly.
ls that a tomato plant?
Yeah.
You have a keen eye.
Saw one in a picture. How much?
Half your chits.
I'll take them, too.
Take what?
You bought everything.
I'll take them shelves.
So, what did you see out there in your 15 months?
Such as? An end to all this water.
Asking the wrong person.
Where did he come from?
The one they buried today? Uh-huh.
She found the only end there is.
I've got a proposition for you, Mariner.
I'm not bargaining, I'm leaving.
But you haven't even heard anything yet, or seen it.
You may have noticed us burying a citizen today.
That makes room for one more.
I'm not staying.
We're not asking you to. All we want is your seed.
We can look to our own for impregnation,
but too much of that sort of thing gets undesirable.
When she's pregnant,
you go on your way with all the supplies you need.
You don't have anything. You're dying.
No man stays out that long and turns down a woman.
He's hiding something.
Maybe he's a Smoker spy.
When the elders say so, you can leave, and not before.
Gills.
Mutation!
He's a mutant!
My hand!
Don't let him get in the water!
Throw the nets!
He's a murderer!
By what right...
You pay me to keep the peace.
This isn't it. No!
He has killed one of ours.
He was defending himself.
He needs to be destroyed!
Kill him. Let's kill him. That may be,
but not here and not like this.
What is it?
Damn.
They're too tight. I can't get it off.
Open the gate.
This is another device we found on the boat.
A garrote cord, for strangulation!
We don't know what this is all about,
but we believe it to be some sort of torturing device!
And this...
And this is a spy tool, for listening to the unsuspecting.
The evidence speaks for itself.
I move that we dispense with the mute-o as soon as possible,
and in no way... Why?
Why not use him?
Because he is a threat to the safety and the purity of this atoll.
He is not a threat, he's in a cage.
He killed one of ours, however.
ls he dangerous or not?
l'd say he is now.
Well, but he came in here with all this dirt,
the likes of which we haven't seen in years,
not since Enola came.
Oh, what about it?
So it had to come from somewhere.
What if it came from Dryland?
Oh, don't start!
He came from the west, I can tell you that.
Locusts come from there. I've been told that. From the west.
But if he is a spy, this ichthyo-man
will give away our position, our weaknesses.
And if he isn't?
But he's still a mute-o, and he can contaminate our community.
And others! What others?
We haven't seen or heard from another atoll in over a year.
Let's keep to the issue at hand.
No, this is the issue at hand.
Every year, every month, it gets worse.
There are fewer atollers, fewer traders. Dead gardens,
these windmills that don't work,
desalinators that can't be fixed.
This place, this whole way of living, it's ending.
Doesn't anyone else see that?
When I was a boy, there were lots of atolls.
You keep on praying for help, and now one man comes here
who might actually be able to save us...He's not a man!
It doesn't matter what he is!
I say, if he knows the way to Dryland, make him show us where it is!
People have looked for centuries, and death is all they found!
Well, at least they died trying!
lt's a hoax, and the sooner you realize that, Helen,
the better off we're all going to be!
We'd be better off if we got rid of that girl of hers, too!
- Right! - Yeah!
The Smokers are looking for her! I heard it from a trader!
One matter at a time!
I say get rid of both of them!
The mute-o and the girl!
Yes! Yes!
Order! Order! Quiet down!
You'd like this, wouldn't you?
Stick him. Sure is quiet
from the shark that he was this afternoon.
Maybe we hurt him. Come on, let's go.
No! Stick him again.
I know you want it.
I know. Maybe he don't need his own kind.
That's it!
Don't move, my dear!
And from Aries to Taurus, I forgot Taurus, the bull,
and in the shoulder of the bull, the Pleiades, the Six Sisters.
Well, Seven Sisters, but you can only see six.
But at the beginning of each lunar,
one of the sisters is perpendicularly lined up with Scorpius.
And the Scorpius has a tail just like the arrow,
and that arrow bisects the circle, like on the back of the child.
Now, if I take into account the seventh sister,
and I give the seventh sister a lunar,
well, then that lunar,it will run perpendicular to Scorpius,
creating against the dawn horizon a straight line that would run directly...
Directly toward...
Dryland!
No.
Is it a map?
Is it a calendar?
Is it symbols? Is it language?
You'd tell me if you knew, wouldn't you, Enola?
Mmm-hmm.
What are you drawing?
I don't know.
Helen, look. Look at the prodigal child's latest vision.
We've got to get out of here.
I take it the meeting didn't go well.
They're putting us adrift, Gregor. I can feel it.
No, no, they're not going to hurt you.
I'd turn their lights off if they did.
How soon before we can go?
Another week, ideally.
We don't have a week.
Helen, I don't have any idea yet where we can go.
Try your books again.
The books? There's...
There's nothing in them. There's nothing there.
I've been through the books. There's nothing in these books.
She is the Annunciation. I know it.
I just don't know how.
I'm a stupid man. The answer's right there.
lt's just beyond me.
Maybe he knows.
Yes, I see. They are webbed.
One, two, three, four, five,six, seven, eight, nine,ten digits. That's wonderful.
They tell me, too, that you have gills. Isotropic gills.
Are they merely vestigial or are they functional?
My name is Gregor. I've just come to pay you a little...
Oh, my God.
I'm sorry. I'm not laughing at you. I'm excited.
Your gills, they're functional.
Ichthyus sapien. You can breathe in the water.
How deep can you go?
Look, I'm only here because I want to learn more about you.
You don't like humans very much, do you?
I can't say that I blame you.
But tell me, are all of your kind as bad-tempered as you are?
I have no kind. Oh, fish rot.
l'd be surprised if there weren't others, and if there aren't,
there will be eventually.
Anyway, I've come here because I need to ask you a question.
Where did your dirt come from?
ls it from Dryland?
Do you know what this is?
The ancients, they did something terrible, didn't they?
To cause all this water. Hundreds, hundreds of years ago.
lf I tell you, will you open this lock?
I haven't a key.
There's a mooring cleat down there.
What?
Good as any key.
A mooring cleat?
I won't hurt anyone. I'll just leave.
I'll be right back.
MAN: Gregor!
What's your business there? Move along!
I'm not a brave man.
lf you know anything about Dryland,please tell me. Please!
Don't let it die with you.
No, no, no, no. Stop!
Gregor! Move along!
Get out of the way!
After considerable deliberation of the evidence at hand,
it is our decision that this mute-o does, indeed, constitute a threat.
Therefore, in the interest of public safety,
he is hereby sentenced to be recycled
in the customary fashion.
Proceed.
I'm sorry.
Bones to berries. Veins to vines.
These tendons to trees. This blood to brine.
Too strange for life he was.
This mute-o now does leave us,
recycled and entombed,
in the presence of him who leads us.
Smokers! Get out of the sun!
To your posts!
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
Kill!
There!
We are safe behind this wall.
Aren't we?
Let me out!
Let me out! I'll fight!
Help me!
I can't find my dad!
He's probably on the wall.
Now, go in there, get a weapon and fight. Go! Go now. Go!
Go, go!
Come on, boys!
I said move it! Come on! Go! Go! Go!
Give me the key to the city now.
Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!
Floor it! Floor it! Come on!
Swab it! Swab it!
More ammo!
SMOKER: Break down the door!
My God!
Go to work now!
We'll have this atoll in no time.
Crank it! Crank it!
Look!
Look out!
Oh, no!
Oh, my...
Helen!
Keep that gas going! Fill them up!
lt's the girl they want!
Give them Enola and they leave!
Come quickly! Helen! Helen!
You're not supposed to go yet!
lnfernal machine!
Damn you!
lnfernal machine!
Gregor. Gregor, wait!
Helen, I tried. There was an accident. I couldn't make it stop. Hurry!
You can make it if you try. Run! Please, stop!
Up those stairs. Run! Quickly!
Wait! Wait! I'll throw you a rope. Run quickly!
Throw the rope now. Run, Enola.
Slow down! Wait!
No! No! Wait!
Gregor, don't leave us! Oh, no!
I'm sorry! lt was an accident!
Helen! Enola! Helen, I'm sorry!
Shoot him. Shoot him.
lf I let you out of here, you're taking us with you.
Sure.
HELEN: Enola, get down.
Here. Get over here. Get down.
Hurry! Come on!
Get the gate.
Hurry up!
Kamikaze! Come on!
That made a hole.
Find her! Get the girl!
There!
Go get that guy! Go! Kill him!
Wow! Enola!
You're too slow! Run to the other side.
Come on!
Grab on! Hold on, hold on.
lt's stuck! I can't make it through!
Let her go!
Just drop her!
Turn the wheel. The wheel! Turn it!
That! Come on! Push it!
I am! Hurry! Now pull!
Push it! Push it hard! Push it!
Okay, okay! Now pull this! Pull this! Go! Go!
Pull it! Pull!
Enola, jump.
Jump! Look at me. Jump! Now!
Okay!
Well, excuse me!
Did I say anybody could leave before the battle was over? Did I?
No! No!
Well, do something. I hate sails.
Hey! Can you steer?
Can I trust you?
Answer me this, somebody. Why is that boat still firing?
What's that cousin's name? Chuck.
Hey, Chuck! He's pulling him right into us.
Maybe he doesn't answer to Chuck. Call him Charles. Charles!
Stop him! Stop him!
Charles!
Adios, cousins.
Put me down! Put me down!
She's here somewhere. Keep looking.
Yes, I'll... 660 G's of hydro, three-quarter grade or better,
120 keys of assorted edibles, jerk fish and plankton cakes,
60 keys lamp oil, 44 old-growth grape vines,
10 assorted fruit trees, zero reloads,
no animal storage on this particular atoll,
zero go-juice, no refining capability.
Primitive savages!
How about smokes?
Zero. Zero smokes.
I remember when this used to be fun.
How long's it been since we had a really good crusade?
I know, I know.
Tell me, how long?
I don't know. l...
Remember, there used to be atolls on every horizon?
Mmm-hmm.
Where the hell are they all going?
Well, we sunk a few.
Found this.
Nord?
Oh, now that's warmer. Hey, all right. And the girl?
She's not here. She might have gotten away.
That's why we came here!
We didn't come here to practice! We don't need practice!
lt's too late now! Never mind!
What you got?
Couple of heartbeats over there.Aren't saying much.
lf you'll notice the arterial nature of the blood coming from the hole in my head,
you can assume that we're all having a real lousy day.
So here it is,I need to know about that tattooed girl.
First one that tells me lives.
I saw a girl. I saw...
lt was... She had a big tattoo on her.
I saw a girl.
I'm not sure, but I think she got on that boat with three hulls.
The boat that cost me 1,000 G's of go-juice?
Yeah, the mute-o's boat.
Mute-o? Yeah. He got these slits here.
Like fish gills.
He wasn't really a man.
A fluke of evolution.
Oh, I'm sorry. A fluke of...
Evolution. I know!
Let's have an intelligent conversation here.
I'll talk, and you listen.
ln the beginning,the provider said, ''Let there be water,''
and the seas came forth.
He created everything that we know.
Hey! Hey! Get in here!
The sun, the air that we breathe!
He made, also,both man and fish, and no combination thereof.
He does not abide the notion of evolution.
- Amen! - Amen!
No! No, you said you wouldn't kill me!
Did I say that? Witnesses, anybody, did l?
Yes, yes, yes! You said...
You said it. Oh, I may have.
I may have.
No, no, no, you said you wouldn't...
We get to the 'Deez,
tank up that sky boat, send it out on patrol.
We gotta keep an eye out for that ichthy-freak.
I know what you're thinking.
Thinking how much longer that hydro'd last if there weren't three of us on this boat.
Well, Enola won't drink much.
And I won't...
I won't drink at all.
Not till we get there.
Get where?
I don't know, wherever you're going.
Wherever you got your dirt.
Told you before,I salvaged it off an atoll the Smokers hit.
Smokers don't leave anything after a raid,
especially dirt.
You been there, haven't you?
Dryland?
You know where it is.
Yeah, I know where it is.
And... And we're going?
You and I are.
The kid we gotta pitch over the side.
What?
My boat's tore up.
I'm taking on water.
l'd be lucky to get half a hydro ration out of that.
You know... I said I won't drink.
For 1 2 days?
No. lt's better one of you dies now than both of you die slow.
Wait. Wait.
We saved your life. We got you out.
No, you got me out so you could get out. We're even.
She can cook. She can fish.
So can l. Then take my necklace. Take my necklace.
I got better ones below. No, look!
After what you went through back there on the atoll,
I can understand why you would want to.
But she's a child.
ls there something else, then?
Enola! Go below.
Enola.
Yeah.
You said so yourself.
Been out there a long time.
Couple hours ago, I was potential dirt to you.
We're not like that.
You all are.
Know what I was really thinking?
Why I don't drop both of you in my wake right now.
You got nothing I need.
You're taking us to Dryland.
Killing's a hard thing to do well.
Believe me. I'm not the one to start on.
Both of us!
How long you plan to hold that on me?
As long as it takes.
Okay.
No!
Let me out of here!
Where the hell are you? Don't you touch my child.
Come here!
No. Don't hurt...
Okay, now, don't move, okay? There.
Oh, looking real good, yeah.
There. There.
All done.
Now, there may be some small problem in depth perception.
Well, it better not screw up my short game.
Well?
Looks good. I like it. Yeah.
I like it better than your real eye.
Much better.
What do you say, Toby? The truth.
Looks like slime.
That's why I love children. No guile.
lt does look like slime.
And it feels like cold slime!
Deacon? What...
I'm sorry. lt's just that there's a problem in the pit.
Maybe you should come.
Let's drive.
The pit. Don't bother with the scenic route.
Drive!
Hey, it's driving better.
Get off!
Get off. Get out of the way.
All right, all right, all right. Okay, okay.
Bless you, cousins. Bless you. Bless all you cousins over there.
Keep up the good work.
Growth is progress. Growth is progress.
Somebody! Hey, up there!
Take it off!
Yes. Your Deaconship.
Hello. Good morning.
Or night, whichever the case may be.
What is it? I'm a busy man.
I thought you should know.
We're down to exactly four feet, nine inches
of black stuff.
Thank you, sir.
How many G's is that after refining?
Maybe three refuelers.
We'll burn through that in two lunars. Sweet Joe!
Will somebody please tell me what's happening to this place?
We outgrowed it.
All right, the only thing that is important is the tattooed girl.
We don't spare any go-juice finding her.
We don't waste it anywhere else.
You cancel all those tractor pulls and all that stuff until later.
You got it?
Dryland is the mother lode.
On your toes.
Why don't you use sea hydro?
Salt's harder on the filters.
Can we have some?
lt's for her, not me.
Here, come on.
ls he going to take use to Dryland?
Sure he is. Yeah.
All of it. All of it. All of it.
Good. Good, good. Come on.
Thanks for not killing us.
Just stay away from him.
Hi. Move.
Enola! Enola, come here!
Come on!
Enola, come over here.
Hey!
What are you doing?
Decorating your boat. lt's ugly.
Where did you get this? From down below.
This is mine! You don't touch anything of mine.
I drew it for you.
You don't draw on anything. You understand?
This is my boat. I got it the way I like it.
You take up space and you slow me down.
You know, she's just a little girl.
She doesn't know your rules.
You wanna stay?
You teach her.
Enola, what'd I tell you?
You're not so tough. You know that?
How many people have you killed?
Ten? Twenty?
You talk a lot.
I talk a lot 'cause you don't talk at all.
Now, how many?
lncluding little girls?
I'm not afraid of you.
I told Helen you wouldn't be so ugly if you cut your hair.
ln fact, you talk all the time.
-It's like a storm when you're around. -Enola!
Hey! What are you doing?
Helen!
You butcher! She can't swim!
Help me! Helen!
Helen, help me!
Helen!
Helen, help me!
Helen! Helen!
Hold on!
Look at me. Look at me. Look at me.
Oh, please, come back. Please!
Please! Oh, please!
Hey!
Hold on. Okay, almost...
Thanks. I swear,if you ever touch her again...
Look at me.
You will go to bed that night and you will never wake up.
Shut up. What?
Smokers? Yeah.
Can't we outrun them?
Not with my sail down.
What are you thinking about?
That's a nice touch.
That's them.
Don't hit the kid.
Hey!
Coward!
Oh, come on!
No!
Joe!
Cut it!
Come on! Come on!
All right. Okay.
Oh, I'm really sorry.
I'm sorry. But you didn't give me much choice.
Oh, I know.
But you ran away. l... What?
What are you... No! Please, no! No!
Don't ever touch anything on my boat again.
She said she was sorry!
That means you're supposed to say something back!
Did you say something?
Mmm-mmm.
Fore!
Nice putt.
lt wasn't a putt.That was a drive. And I wasn't even using my good eye.
Damn it!
You got an ashtray or something?
Oh, man.
Damn thing never did work right.
You said to bring the pilot. Yes, I did.
Well, he's here.
Well, why didn't you tell me?
Come on, Nord. Come on, tell me about it.
The child. Did he have the girl with him?
Yeah, and some atoll witch!
They killed Ed.
Now, now, don't you fret yourself.
Plenty more where Ed came from.
Heading west-southwest?
From here.
Seems to me if we launch now, we can cut him down just about here.
lf he doesn't change course. lt's not likely.
He's a wily one, that ichthy-demon.
DRlFTER: Hello!
Drifter?
Mmm-hmm.
Are we gonna stop?
Look at the flag! His flag's up.
I thought you all stopped for each other.
Well, maybe he has some food!
Don't find many who follow the rules anymore.
Well, make it quick. What's your business?
Trade.
You got any resin?
Resin? He's gotta be out of his mind. He's out of his mind. I don't have any resin.
You been outwater a long time, haven't you?