You let go?and I’m gonna have to jump in there after you
On deck.Rose is crying?and runs past Jack?who is lying on a bench?smoking.She climbs over the ship’s railings?and hangs on with her back to the ship?about to jump into the sea.)
JACK:Don't do it!
ROSE:Stay back!Don't come any closer!
JACK:Come on!Just give me your hand and I'll pull you back over.
ROSE:No,stay where you are!I mean it!I'll let go!JACK:No,you won't!
ROSE:What do you mean,No I won't?Don't presume to tell me what I will and will not do.You don't know me.
JACK:Well,you would have done it already.
ROSE:You're distracting me.Go away!
JACK:I can't.I'm involved now.You let go,and I'm gonna have to jump in there after you.
(Jack starts taking off his shoes.)
ROSE:Don't be absurd.You'd be killed.
JACK:I'm a good swimmer.
ROSE:The fall alone would kill you.
JACK:It would hurt; I'm not saying it wouldn't.To tell you the truth,I'm a lot more concerned about that water being so cold.
ROSE:How cold?
JACK:Freezing.Maybe a couple of degrees over.Have you ever,uh,ever been to Wisconsin?
ROSE:What?
JACK:Well,they have some of the coldest winters around.I grew up there,near Chippewa Falls.I remember when I was a kid,me and my father,we went ice-fishing out on Lake Wisota.Ice-fishing is,you know,when you...
ROSE:I know what ice-fishing is!
JACK:Sorry.You just seemed like,you know,kind of an indoor girl.Anyway,I uh,fell through some thin ice,and I'm telling ya,water that cold,like right down there,it hits you like a thousand knives stabbing you all over your body.You can't breathe,you can't think,at least not about anything but the pain.Which is why I'm not looking forward to jumping in there after you.Like I said,I don't have a choice.I guess I'm kind of hoping that you'll come back over the railing and get me off the hook here.(He starts to take off his coat).
ROSE:You're crazy!
JACK:That's what everybody says,but with all due respect,miss,I'm not the one hanging off the back of a ship here.Come on!Come on,give me your hand.You don't want to do this.
(She takes his hand?and turns around.They are facing each other?but Rose is on the other side of the railing.)
JACK:Whew.I'm Jack Dawson.
ROSE:I'm Rose Dewitt Buchater.
You must do me this honor.You must promise me that you will survive
ROSE:I love you,Jack.
JACK:No...Don't you do that.Don't say your good-byes.Not yet.Do you understand me?
ROSE:I'm so cold.
JACK:Listen,Rose.You're going to get out of here.You're going to go on and you're going to make lots of babies and you're going to watch them grow and you're going to die an old,an old lady,warm in your bed.Not here.Not this night.Not like this.Do you understand me?
ROSE:I can't feel my body.
JACK:Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me.It brought me to you.And I'm thankful for that,Rose,I'm thankful.You must do me this honor.You must promise me that you will survive...that you won't give up...no matter what happens...no matter how hopeless.Promise me now,Rose,and never let go of that promise.
ROSE:I promise.
JACK:Never let go.
ROSE:I will never let go,Jack,I'll never let go.