Titanic Scenes 1-5 Summary

Scene 1

The film opens on what looks like historical footage of the Titanic leaving port. Then we simply get the title over dark ocean water.

Some exploratory ocean craft are descending through the ocean with their search beams in full force.
Back in the control room for the sea craft, a crew member is monitoring a search. The craft approach a ship.
Whoa, we bet this is the wreck of the Titanic—wild guess, we know, given the title of the film.
The craft go exploring the ship, and the dude leading this search is photographing his observations.
They end up in the former bedroom of someone named Cal Hockley, and the crew leader has the man at the controls look under some debris.
They find a safe, and everyone is very excited.
"It's payday, boys," he says with a smile.

Now we're up above on the ship's deck, where the crew of explorers has just lifted up the safe and are preparing to open it.
Everyone is super-excited and in a celebratory mood.
However, when the safe is opened, the search leader doesn't seem to find what he's looking for in all the gunky, watery mess inside the safe.
"No diamonds," says one of the crewmembers.

The crew head, Mr. Lovett, is talking to someone named Dave about his failure to find "It."
In the background, some techs are washing the contents of the safe.
Mr. Lovett stops when he sees one of the techs cleaning off a drawing of a nude woman featuring a large diamond necklace, which is similar to one in a photo that Lovett has up on the wall.
Hmm, we guess this diamond is what he's looking for.

An older woman and her daughter are having a peaceful day.
The older woman hears Lovett on TV talking about the diamond, and she gets up from her pottery wheel to go look.
She sees the drawing of the nude woman and it seems to mean something to her.