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EXT. LAUNCH AREA/KELDYSH DECK - DAY

As the big hydraulic jib swings one of the Mir subs out over the water. Lovett walks as he talks with Bobby Buell, the partners' rep. They weave among deck cranes, launch crew, sub maintenance guys.

BUELL
The partners are pissed.

BROCK
Bobby, buy me time. I need time.

BUELL
We're running thirty thousand a day, and we're six days over. I'm telling you what they're telling me. The hand is on the plug. It's starting to pull.

BROCK
Well you tell the hand I need another two days! Bobby, Bobby, Bobby... we're close! I smell it. I smell ice. She had the diamond on... now we just have to find out where it wound up. I just gotta work her a bit more. Okay?

Brock turns and sees Lizzy standing behind him. She has overheard the past part of his dialogue with Buell. He goes to her and hustles her away from Buell, toward a quite spot on the deck.

BROCK
Hey, Lizzy. I need to talk to you for a second.

LIZZY
Don't you mean work me?

BROCK
Look, I'm running out of time. I need your help.

LIZZY
I'm not going to help you browbeat my hundred and one year old grandmother. I came down here to tell you to back off.

BROCK
(with undisguised desperation)
Lizzy... you gotta understand something. I've bet it all to find the Heart of the Ocean. I've got all my dough tied up in this thing. My wife even divorced me over this hunt. I need what's locked inside your grandma's memory.
(he holds out his hand)
You see this? Right here?

She looks at his hand, palm up. Empty. Cupped, as if around an imaginary shape.

LIZZY
What?

BROCK
That's the shape my hand's gonna be when I hold that thing. You understand? I'm not leaving here without it.

LIZZY
Look, Brock, she's going to do this her way, in her own time. Don't forget, she contacted you. She's out here for her own reasons. God knows what they are.

LOVETT
Maybe she wants to make peace with the past.

LIZZY
What past? She has never once, not once, ever said a word about being on the Titanic until two days ago.
LOVETT
Then we're all meeting your grandmother for the first time.

LIZZY
(looks at him hard)
You think she was really there?

LOVETT
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm a believer. She was there.

Why the absence of this scene is important: Once it was decided to take out Brock expressing that he believed Rose was telling the truth, there wasn't enough of a reason to visit the present when the plot quickly returned to 1912 with Rose going to find Jack. This eliminated two morphs, Rose wearing the necklace transitioning to Old Rose and the wreck turning into the 1912 ship.