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8[birds screeching]

[boat engine rumbling]

[horn honking]

[light orchestral music]

[horn honking]

[light orchestral music]

[boat engine humming]

[dramatic music]

- Hey.

[phone buzzing]

[lights clicking]

[dramatic music]

[metal clanking]

[engine roaring]

[speaking in foreign language]

[dramatic music]

Why this sudden promotion?

For refurbishment.

- This ship's Chinese registered.

- You have problem with that?

- It's impossible, I can't captain a Chinese ship.

- This is new China.

Everything is impossible, but all things are possible.

[tense music]

I will double this when you finish the mission.

- Mission?

[tense music]

[thudding]

- Captain.

[metal creaking]

[upbeat Cuban music]

[tense music]

Good luck.

- [Group] Good luck.

[boat engine roaring]

- We sail at dawn.

Your orders.

- We know the way to China.

[bell ringing]

[singing in foreign language]

[grunting]

[man speaking foreign language on radio]

[machines rumbling]

[bell ringing]

[cheering]

[men chanting]

[metal thudding]

[switch clicking] [engine whirring]

[metal creaking]

[splashing]

[woman gasping]

- Call captain please.

[tense music]

- I am the captain.

Wait!

[woman grunting]

What are you doing here?

- Let me rest.

Please.

[dramatic music]

Hide me.

[dramatic music]

[heavy breathing]

- What trouble are you in?

If you don't tell me, I can't help you.

[Li sobbing]

[metal clanging]

[engine rumbling]

- Who are you?

Oh, you are captain.

- Who gave you permission to board my ship?

- We are looking for a woman.

- Aren't we all?

- A murderer.

- In my cabin.

Captain to captain.

[thunder roaring]

- You wanted to speak to me, captain to captain.

- You know what we Chinese say about women onboard ships?

Well, it's brought me a great misfortune.

- So, who did this woman murder?

My first mate,

son of an important government official.

- I see, a murderer, you say.

- She's here somewhere, I know her.

- [Konrad] A murderer?

- That's what my crew believe.

- And what do you believe?

[thunder roaring]

[melancholy music]

- You see, this woman, Li, is my wife.

- [Konrad] You want your wife to face the death penalty?

But do you know the penalty for--

- The penalty for harboring a murderer?

- What if she drowned?

It's a long way to swim to shore.

Go ahead.

- I must confess.

- Yes?

- From everything you've told me Captain Wang.

Her trying to swim to shore seems like suicide.

- You see.

I thought I could save her.

[engine whirring]

[grunting]

- I trusted you, and you betray me!

- I just saved your life.

- Only by chance!

- You can jump off my ship now.

I'm not stopping you.

- Do you believe his story?

- Be quiet, my crew might hear you.

- Well do you?

Or I'll give you up.

- We know what you are up to.

- With what?

- Why do you think the Boss gave you this bad job?

- Why did you come back then?

I don't want drunks on my ship!

[engine rumbling]

- What do we do now, Mrs. Wang?

- Don't call me that.

[shushing]

I'm no longer anybody's wife.

You must let me go.

- Don't you understand?

We're twelve miles off the coast

because I can't risk sailing

through Chinese territorial waters.

- Hm.

- So I should let you drown?

- Out there, you're a murderer.

In here, you don't exist.

[waves roaring]

Echo sounder?

- Not working.

Very old.

Umi, your girlfriend?

- Maybe.

- Me, no girlfriend.

No wife.

Very lonely job.

- Yeah.

[dramatic music]

[horn honking]

- [Man On Loudspeaker] Pacific, change course.

Pacific, change course immediately.

[horn honking]

- Worried I might murder you?

Don't ever try to lock me in!

[sighing]

- What was I thinking?

I should've never taken this job.

So badly wanted to be a captain.

Was it murder?

- Only I know what I'm guilty of.

- But you did kill a man?

- A man died because of what I did.

- Not just any man, an official which--

[bottles clinking]

- Listen to me.

- So you did the right thing?

[dramatic music]

[knocking on door]

I must go now, show myself on deck.

Hope you like Cuban music.

[upbeat Cuban music]

[singing in a foreign language]

[speaks foreign language]

[dramatic music]

- Why did you marry Wang?

- It was my duty.

- Your duty?

- You obviously don't understand family ties.

- That's right, I left them all behind,

like my father, Poland.

- You care only for yourself?

- That's what makes me a free man.

My father had too many principles.

He even forbade Communist music at home,

Cuban, Russian, Chinese.

And I, well.

- Just ran away to the sea.

- Better than swimming away.

- Why do you care if I live or die?

- Look, the crew will do anything

to frustrate my sailing to Shanghai.

If they see you trying to escape, they'll alert the police.

I'll be jailed and you executed.

Is that what you want?

[grunting]

[dramatic music]

[dramatic music]

- Huh?

- So you know where your cabin is?

[upbeat Spanish music]

- Don't you have Polish music?

- No.

- No music from your own country?

- No.

[singing in a foreign language]

You've been through my things?

- I wanted to know more about you.

Why did you leave home?

- Old Europe, new China.

I wanted to go to Cuba, but got on the wrong ship.

This is my first command.

It's what I always dreamed of and--

- So, all your dreams came true.

I haven't been laid yet.

- You're like a boy, only think of one thing.

[singing in foreign language]

[upbeat Cuban music]

[sighing]

- Spend time with them.

Good excuse to drink with the crew.

- Not on my ship.

- And stop wearing a captain's outfit.

The crew knows who you are.

- Drunk and in charge of a ship.

- Pretend drunk then.

Like you're pretend captain.

[upbeat Cuban music]

[singing in foreign language]

[singing in foreign language]

[laughing]

[speaks foreign language]

- Our ship, our home.

[laughing]

[siren blaring]

[dramatic music]

- Turns out the drunk next door is the old captain.

We must be even more careful now.

[dramatic music]

It's from my boss.

Instructions on where, when, and how to sink the ship.

- And if you don't?

- He's paying me a lot of money.

- What will you do?

- It's not a request, it's an order.

[melancholy music]

[knocking on door]

[grunting]

[wood thudding]

[coughing]

[soft groaning]

[metal ringing]

[sobbing]

- [Li] I can never come back to life again.

- You could come to life in another country.

- You'd do that for me?

- Yeah.

- [Li] And risk everything?

- [Konrad] What is it you want?

- [Li] All I want, is that you understand me.

[dramatic music]

[speaking in foreign language]

[laughing]

- What do you care?

- He seems to care, for some reason.

[grunting]

[water splashing]

[electronic beeping]

- It's no captain's duty to sink his ship.

- Didn't stop you taking the Boss's money as well.

- Do the right thing.

[dramatic music]

[engine rumbling]

[bell ringing]

[dramatic music]

[metal clanking]

[intense, aggressive music]

- Yang Shu, Yang Shu!

[heavy breathing]

[intense music]

[heavy breathing]

[dramatic music]

[coughing]

[groaning]

[grunting]

[dramatic music]

[grunting]

[shouting in foreign language]

[engine roaring]

- Man overboard!

Man overboard, port side!

- Port side?

- Couldn't see.

- It is his choice.

Better for him, better for us.

[dramatic music]

[splashing]

- You'll live.

I don't want you to stop wanting me.

- But you don't want me.

- We all want to be loved,

but few want to love.

[dramatic music]

[accordion music]

- You can play, can't you?

- Of course.

- Let the crew know you can.

[accordion music]

- One of my father's patriotic songs.

[dramatic music]

[knocking]

- I loved to dance,

before I married Wang.

- I haven't sung that since I left home.

[dramatic music]

My father always told me that a man without principles

becomes a slave to other men's limits.

And he asked me, "what do you want?

"Limits or horizons?"

I want horizons.

And so do you.

[upbeat jazz music]

[singing in a foreign language]

[wind roaring]

- I'll stay.

Not so lonely here.

- Let's get closer to the coast.

- Into territorial waters?

- I'll take that risk.

[dramatic music]

We're here.

- [Li] This is where the Boss ordered you to wreck the ship.

The sea is much calmer in this channel.

Wang was always taking short cuts through here,

and I was his navigator.

You can shelter from the storm.

It's a very dangerous passage,

there are some submerged rocks.

- We will take this shorter course.

- Impossible, too many small islands.

- That's what navigation is about.

- Still planning to sink us?

- Trust me.

[storm roaring]

- Have you thought how to get me off without being seen?

- I have.

[dramatic music]

Half speed.

- [Chang] Half speed!

- [Konrad] Thirty to port!

- [Chang] Thirty to port.

[dramatic music]

Hard to port!

- I take no responsibility for this.

- Now!

- Hard to port!

[dramatic music]

[metal creaking]

[splashing]

- Can't.

- I'll call you.

Must know you're safe.

- Quick, cut my hair.

[dramatic music]

Shorter, like yours.

[dramatic music]

- Go now.

And don't look back.

[dramatic music]

- Map.

[radio static crackling]

Mong Lin, slow ahead, over.

- Slow ahead!

[engine roaring]

[dramatic music]

[thunder roaring]

- Hard to port, over.

[engine humming]

All clear for now, over.

- Yes, captain.

[triumphant music]

- [Boss] You disobeyed my orders!

- I used it as a deposit for the refurbishment.

- What?

The money you gave me and Mong Lin...

to sink the ship.

[dramatic music]

[crowd softly chattering]

[woman speaking foreign language]

[light orchestral music]

[upbeat Cuban music]

♪ Havana

♪ This is Cuba

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana at night

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana night

♪ You have to look into the faces ♪

♪ You have to feel the island spirit ♪

♪ Dance with me

♪ That is the key

♪ We're Cubans and we're proud to be ♪

♪ Havana, this is Cuba

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana at night

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana night

♪ We are what our ancestors taught us, oh oh ♪

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is Cuba

♪ Havana, this is us

♪ Havana, this is us

♪ Havana, this is Cuba

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is us

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is Cuba

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is us

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is Cuba

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is us

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is Cuba

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is us

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is Cuba

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is us

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is Cuba

[singing in foreign language]

♪ Havana, this is us

♪ Cuba

[dramatic orchestral music]