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Sure you don't want to go out there? No.

I can't believe it's been over a year. Crazy.

Yeah. That's crazy.

Let's get some food. Yeah, let's get some food.

Where should we go?

Coffee house?

Yeah.

Does it look any different?

The ocean's still there.

There's a lot that's still here.

Yeah.

you thank you very much yes number two cheers cheers honey oh wait do you

remember go fish oh my god okay

wait so it was like when we had pigtails right ponytail and and dad had

just hurt his back right he had just slipped on his phone

and he would wait for us to dangle our hair over his mouth. Yeah, and we would

try to avoid his bite.

Look, that is scary.

Oh, yeah, you know what?

You're slow.

You lose.

It was funny. He loved it. I know, he loved it. He loved it. Remember when you

laughed? Oh, you would laugh. Yes.

Oh, I miss his laugh. Is this okay, Jaybird?

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

You okay?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm good. Are you okay, Randy? Yeah, I'm good.

I don't know. No, I just, I don't remember that memory.

I didn't have pigtails.

I like your hair. I know. Yeah, it looks great. It looks bad. It could be a lot

better. You know what I mean?

Yeah, get extensions or something. Yes!

I believe so many people remember.

Well, he's hard to forget.

Wow, but they're not just for him now, they're for mom.

What?

They are, they're for mom.

Yeah. But if they're also for mom, then they're also for us. Yeah, but

they're... They're also for his children. No, yeah, I know. Okay.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, okay.

Yeah. Cool.

You really didn't go sit with her today?

Uh, no, I don't know. I wasn't feeling great.

Still haven't opened the letter?

You know about the letter?

Dude, of course we know about the letter.

We all got letters, you know? And what else could he do, except write you a

letter? He wasn't a subtle guy. He told me what he thought about me all the

time. I don't need to... Shh, okay, we can all shh.

I know.

He did ask for you.

Yeah, I know.

I know that... whatever happened on his boat. You don't. You don't, no.

Dude. Sorry.

Sorry.

Sorry, I just... I tried to... to be there and just, you know...

didn't make things better, just... made things worse.

Do you guys, um...

Do you guys ever think about how his casket is empty?

Like it's just a wooden box.

Sleepers arise!

That's what I came back for.

You know, he saved my life once.

Yeah.

Went too deep at a Carmel River beach.

Got nitrogen narcosis.

It was a pretty classic case.

Started acting drunk.

I was hearing voices, trying to get rockfish to use my hair.

And this guy swims up out of nowhere, guides me up like an angel.

Saved my life.

Probably saved a lot of lives.

Did you know him?

Jay?

Hey. Hey, you. I knew it was you. Come here.

Hey, man.

Come here.

I didn't know you were back.

Yeah, yeah. Just, you know, a few days from mom and sister. That's great. I got

a job. I got to get back to you. Look at you. College boy. Working man.

Should be good for an hour.

Thanks. Your old favorite tank.

Bet you don't need that in Iowa.

I thought you hated diving.

Wasn't diving a hit?

Well, hey, what do you think I'm taking around? Maybe we can... I'm going

straight from here.

You know,

funny thing. Drove past the beach on the way in, crawling with coast guards.

Something must have happened overnight.

Or it was near the shore, maybe.

They might not be letting folks in the water.

Hey!

How about you and me?

Sunday, we grab some grub, take the boat out. I leave on Sunday. I can pull

Saturday. I don't want to be on that boat.

Sorry.

But thanks.

You know what?

We'll just have to steal someone else's boat. How about that?

It's the J I know. Come on.

So. It's your first time?

Since I left for school, yeah. First time back.

Remember your training, being sleepy, all that stuff. Yeah, I know. Yeah, I

know your dad was rough on you, but he knew what he was talking about,

especially down there.

Don't forget.

I won.

A year.

A whole year.

Yeah.

All right.

There we go.

Good, huh? Yeah, good. Great, yeah.

It's good to see you. You better.

You know I still want to see you, even if it's a landlocked lunch.

Yeah, I know.

Hey, Jay. Yeah?

He, uh... He made sure we were near the edge of the canyon at Monastery.

He was just never going to go out on the hospital bed.

I think he just wanted to be close enough to everyone, you know?

If you don't listen to me, you'll die. You understand?

Yes, sir.

This is a favor tank.

It's yours now.

If there's something wrong with your regulator, use your backup.

The yellow one. It's called an octopus.

Hey,

don't be laughing when you're suffocating.

Air comes from the first stage?

One, two, three.

three chances to save your life, and you missed all three, you're dead.

Dead.

Dead.

who will keep your scrawny ass down.

Otherwise, take that shit off.

I'm not sure.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Bye.

The more levers we take out, the more boats. The more boats, the more noise.

All this sonar is driving whales mad.

Then they don't know where to shit.

And if they don't shit right, they don't fertilize the water with the plankton.

Plankton takes more CO2 than rainforest.

Did you know that?

Yeah. Without it, we die.

All because of tourists?

Also, they can post a selfie with a whale?

Come on.

You okay?

Dad,

I was, um...

I was looking up mesothelioma treatments.

No, no, no, no, no.

Treatments. I'd be poked like a voodoo doll, the rest of my life. There's

something called immunotherapy that really is supposed to help a lot. Oh,

my. Dad.

I'm never going to dive again.

Ah!

Oh, what I wouldn't give to dive.

Even for golf balls again.

You remember that?

Water hazards at the country club, diving through all that goo shit, all

that flammable methane.

We have to blow up this piece of shit.

Why not?

I mean, you don't want it.

I don't want to talk about it. It's a good school.

It's tuition.

We got oily rags in the engine room. Sky high, Jay.

Come on.

Blow this sucker up together.

Come on.

No, you can still use it. You can still move around.

It's good for you. Not that you hate it, but you can still run some tours, Dad.

It'll be good for you.

Iowa. Dad.

Iowa will have to wait. I don't want to talk about Iowa, Dad. It's a good

school. They're paying for my tuition.

That's it.

Get a last look at your precious land.

This is home now.

We're going to drink until we soften up into something that the whales can slurp

down easily.

We own that much. Don't you think?

And respecting whale isn't about gaping at it from a charter boat. It's about

living with it. It's about dying with it.

I mean, you know, it's new that.

They built a whole society around the whale. One whale fed a whole village.

Every piece of that whale became a part of them.

Every whale they killed, they got a new tattoo.

When an Inuit died, they mummified him and took him on the next hunt.

Will you do that for me?

drag my dead ass back onto a boat so I can be home forever

huh no you headed off soon

alone

tattoos. Your turn. Come on. Be an Inuit tattoo on your face.

Gotta remember the whales need to drink.

Dad,

come here.

Drink. A little nick, a little nick like this.

Look,

but just use a little nick and then the whale will recognize you. Hey, hey, hey,

put that down.

I don't respect you. Put it down.

I don't protect you. Put it down.

That's like a knife.

Stop. Stop it. Give me that.

What's wrong with you? A knife?

I failed you. You're not ready for the world.

You just can't treat me like this. I'm done.

I'm done.

Where are you going? I'm going home.

Cancer's not going to change how you treat me. I'm done. You can't go out

there. That's not for us anymore.

Get off me.

Come on. Wait.

Wait. You won't make it. You've got soft lungs.

Better than lungs that are dead.

you

Nineteen hundred and fifty-five.

Forty minutes of air left.

Breathe like you're asleep.

Feel the belly.

Long breaths out.

Total calm.

Make your air last longer.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I love you.

Ugh.

Ugh.

you

Oh.

Oh.

Remember to flush out your mouthpiece. Get a pebble in there. You won't be able

to breathe. Oh, sorry. I did.

All right.

Now we're ready for that old magic ratio.

79% nitrogen, 21%. Oxygen. There you go.

Dad,

I forgot to mention, it's Daniel's birthday, and he wants to go to Ocean

World. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

I forgot that we were doing, like, both these things. What about Diablo

Pinnacles?

Well, I mean, like, well, I mean, you mentioned it, but we didn't really,

like, say, like, 100% yes to it. Oh, no, we 100% confirm, yeah.

But you're gonna go to Ocean World?

Fake Ocean?

I mean, it's his birthday, and it's just, you know, just fun.

Fun. Yeah, just fun. Hey, it's your birthday?

You're gonna go to... ocean world yeah yeah you're gonna play with the

jellyfish that's fun happy birthday come

on you know there's more to existence and fun

like understanding nature being a part of the world not just being

a cog in the industrial commercial complex

I don't even know what that means. Think.

Think.

Sorry, hon.

Hey, kid.

Got you that gauge we talked about?

Thanks. Not that you're going to need it.

What? The gauge.

You've already developed your internal clock. You can time your safety stops on

instinct. Huh?

Hell, you can navigate by currents, position of the sun. You got it all

figured out already.

Right, son?

Huh? See you later.

Hey, enjoy the orcas.

It sounds like a lot of fun.

I'll be back for dinner, thanks.

Russian always provides.

For you.

Oh, God.

30 minutes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

you

Hey, buddy.

I'm gonna get a phone, okay?

I just need some help, all right?

Just need a little bit of light.

Okay, make it sound.

They're just gonna help all of us out here for me, okay?

I am, too.

I'm going to go home, all right?

You're going first, all right?

Oh,

I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't.

I can't. I can't.

I can't.

I can't.

I'm looking for my rib earlier.

Thank you for asking.

I'm going to get home.

I'm going to have a good time.

I'm going to get out of here.

I'm going to look.

I'm going to get home.

I'm going to have a good time.

I'm not going to let him.

He's a genie.

I'm not.

I'm not.

Oh!

I'm tired, too.

Hey, hey, what's going on?

Are you okay?

You're going to stay awake, all right?

Okay?

No, no, no.

No, no, no.

Come on.

Stay awake.

So the sperm whales have a vocal hole.

Very strange.

They're very ones that baby whales use it to cry out to their mommies.

You know, the day you were born, you cried so hard you popped a little hole

in your lung.

Anyway, baby sperm whales, they cry when they grow up, just like you.

They still have that hole in their larynx, totally asymmetrical, so they

can... eat squid all day long, but really, they could be making the loudest

scream in the sea.

That would give those lovers attention, don't you think?

You know why?

Because they're predators.

Okay? Now, in the ocean, predators have all the advantages.

They're faster.

They can track you. They can get at you from any angle.

So what options does that leave prey like you?

Mm-hmm.

Just accept your fate like a codfish.

Born to be a goner.

No, that's not the Gardner way. You want to know what the Gardner way is?

Yes, sir.

The prey becomes so dangerous that the predators can't help but let him go.

You say it.

The prey becomes so dangerous that the predators can't help but let him go.

I'll make you puke me out.

Son of a bitch.

I'll make you double me up.

I love you.

you don't like anything like it

Yes.

Yes.

We should have learned to speak.

Ooh!

Horse and his horde.

Reindeer and wolf back to the sea.

By sailing.

You know better than that.

Survivor survive.

Yeah, but that's a terrible way to die.

Fast death, slow death.

Hard to know which is better.

One thing a whale can do that's in itself.

Yeah, what's that?

When did the greatest thing go?

He's not doing well. He's going to be fine. Just think now is the time to

visit him. I'm not visiting him.

It's not about him. It's about you.

Okay? I just don't want you to repress this. Please.

Your viper rate is 10%. I love you.

Jay. I love you. I gotta go. I'm sorry. All he talks about is you.

The show will come.

Like you had me.

We wanted a son.

You can act like it.

We wanted to pass on things we knew.

I can teach you things.

So then one day you can do whatever you want.

Anything you want.

I will be sure to give you all the tools.

So, when it matters, let's wake up the sun.

Are they still here?

Yeah.

They're leaving.

Well, I'm not leaving.

Do you

have

a girlfriend?

I don't know how to call that.

A boyfriend.

I appreciate that, but

no.

Do you like it, Iowa?

Yeah, I like it, you know. I don't really feel like it's my home, but...

To get away from you.

Now here we are.

What did you want to be when you grow up?

Well, I don't know.

Something with nature maybe.

Like a park ranger.

Something where I could just be free.

It's never hurt a dog.

That was the least of her problems.

You ever read this?

No.

Good book.

I lied.

I know.

Because I knew it was your favorite book.

I don't want to like anything that you liked.

Steinbeck is God.

You know my favorite part?

What?

When the prostitutes made a quilt out of lingerie. I gave it to Doc.

That's my favorite part too.

I'm sorry we didn't ask more of these questions.

Why didn't you?

What did it say?

The letter from you, I never read it.

But I made so many mistakes.

I always wanted you to escape me.

Only, I forgot.

I'm sorry you never read it.

I'm sorry I didn't find your remains.

Sorry, I didn't.

Jay, you are my remains.

Remember that night.

I don't want to remember.

I never saw you again.

Remember. I got a basket of oily rags in the engine room.

Sky high, Jay.

Blow it up.

Blow it up.

We could die.

We could die.

hazards at the country club.

Diving through all that goose shit and all that. A

little touch

of metal.

All right, we are ready. The old magic ratio, 79% nitrogen, 21

% oxygen.

No fire without oxygen.

I can't do it here.

I don't even get that blubber to kill myself.

My lungs probably won't even make it to the surface.

Then we will rise for you.

You ready?

And when whales die, they create whole ecosystems.

Centuries of life bloom from them.

And this one whale is a single spark.

You know what they call it?

Thank you.

What's your name?

You can do it. Come on.

Jay.

Jay.

Good.

You're going to be fine.

You're going to be fine.

Okay.

I'm going to be right back.

Be right back, okay?

We'll be able to get you back on the boat.

Huh?

You good?

Hey.

How's the vino?

Excellent. Good stuff, huh? Good, yeah.

I wish I had some of that.

Top pick.

Can I have a little bit while you're back?

Oh, yeah.

Honey.

I need to go home.