Thank you.
Mom.
Lucas.
(SIGHING) It's so cold in here.
It's not cold, Mom.
Don't move.
Mom? Mom, what's wrong?
I need some antibiotics. Look in the cupboard.
Oh, God.
I can't read the labels. They're all in Thai.
There's got to be some English. Look...
Look on the sides. Look carefully, Lucas.
(DOOR OPENING)
(SPEAKING IN THAI)
Thank God. Please.
See that boy?
I'm all he's got in the world. Do you understand?
I'm a doctor, too. I've got a lot of bleeding.
You've got to stop it, please.
I need some antibiotics. Please help.
(DOCTOR SPEAKING THAI)
(CRYING OUT IN PAIN)
MALE DOCTOR: Are you okay?
I lost my husband and two children.
If anything happens to me...
(RIPPING CLOTHES)
(WOMAN COUGHING)
(INDISTINCT TALKING)
What color is it?
- What? - My leg.
Is it still red?
Yeah. It's still red.
(MOANS) - What does that mean?
It's good. As long as it doesn't turn black.
Here.
You need to eat something. Eat it.
You're so bossy.
I wonder who I take after.
MARIA: Hello.
What's your name?
My name's Maria. And this is my son, Lucas.
What's your name?
Hey.
Give her some tangerine.
She must be starving.
Be careful.
(CHOKING) - Be careful, Lucas.
Turn your head to the side, please.
You'll choke if you don't.
Please, please, she needs help. Turn her head.
Help her, Lucas. Help her. Turn her head.
(NURSE SPEAKING THAI)
- You okay? (RETCHING)
(COUGHING) - You okay?
- Mom, are you okay? (GASPING)
Mom? Mom? Are you okay? What are you doing?
- Mom, are you okay? (SPEAKING THAI)
Stop it, Mom! That's enough! Mom, stop it!
- Mom... (GASPING)
Mom, stop it!
(GASPING) (RETCHING)
(GROANING)
Mom? Mom?
(GAGGING)
(BUZZING)
MAN: Francesca!
Francesca!
WOMAN: I need to go to the toilet.
Please...
(COUGHING)
WOMAN: Please...
Please.
- Lucas. WOMAN: - Somebody help me!
Look at this place. It's so busy in here.
You've got to go and do something.
Go and help people. You're good at it.
LUCAS: What do you want me to do?
Something.
Anything.
Will you be all right?
Come on, Lucas. I'm...
(CHUCKLING WEAKLY) I'm not going anywhere.
- I promise. - Okay.
(WOMAN COUGHING)
Bernström!
Three! Bernström!
Hello? Help me.
Bernström! Bernström. From Sweden.
- Your family? - Agda. Josef. Mårten.
You're looking for your family.
Have you seen them? Bernström!
Okay! Calm down. I will help you. Okay?
(STAMMERING) Agda. Mårten. Josef.
I'll try and help you. Okay.
Okay.
Agda Bernström?
Excuse me. Are you Josef Bernström?
- Or Mårten Bernström? - No.
Mårten Bernström?
Excuse me? Excuse me.
I'm looking for my son.
Your son?
Peter Berry. Yes. He'll be wondering where I am.
Okay.
Peter Berry?
Mårten Bernström? No? Agda Bernström?
Peter Berry? Josef...
Anna Marie?
(SPEAKING GERMAN) Anna Marie DeBrauwn.
I'm sorry. What's your name again?
Anna Marie DeBrauwn, anyone?
Renata Castorini.
Tatiana. Tatiana Cherneshova.
Pah Chu Lihn.
Josef Bernström, anyone?
Sang Sak is...
Agda Bernström? Renata Castorini?
Gunnar Diehl!
Anna Marie DeBrauwn?
Mårten Bernström?
Ja.
Mårten Bernström from Sweden?
Ja.
I know your dad.
Pappa?
Yeah, your pappa. He's here.
- I'll bring him here, okay? - Yes.
No, no, no! You need to stay here.
Okay.
I will bring your pappa here. Okay?
No! No, you have to stay here.
You have to stay here because it's a very long way,
and you have to rest. Okay?
- Okay. - Okay.
(CHUCKLES)
Bernström!
(SOBBING)
Where's my mom?
Mom?
(YELLS) Mom!
Mom!
No. No! What are you doing?
No, this is my mom's bed! Get off! No!
- Get off! Get off! - It's all right.
It's okay. Take it easy, boy.
No! My mom was here, and she took her file.
(SPEAKING THAI)
Look, you have to come with me.
I will help you. Okay?
Okay?
Okay. Okay.
(INDISTINCT)
What's your name?
Lucas Bennett.
Where were you staying?
In the, uh, the Orchid...
The Orchid Beach Resort in Khao Lak.
Was somebody else traveling with you?
(STAMMERS)
Lucas?
My dad and my two little brothers.
Do you know what happened to them?
Is there somebody we could call?
Um...
My granddad.
What's his name?
Brian. But I don't remember his number.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
Lucas?
Lucas!
Maria!
Lucas!
Maria!
Lucas!
Maria!
(INDISTINCT YELLING)
(YELLING CONTINUES)
MAN ON PA: Hotel, we have prepared transport for you.
We have to move to the Sangdee camp.
Move, everyone, please. You can't just stay here.
(GRUNTING)
Hey, man!
You all right?
I just need to lie here a minute.
I'll be up in a second.
Don't even bother. They're sending trucks
to drive us all up to the mountains.
Just hang on tight, all right? They'll be here soon.
Yeah, I know. Can you tell them I'm back?
Yeah, sure. Hold on.
Hey, boys! Your daddy's back!
THOMAS AND SIMON: Dad! Dad! Dad!
Dad! Dad!
Hey.
Dad, a whole lot of helicopters just flew by!
- Did they? - Yeah.
Mom and Lucas?
Why don't you come down here a minute, Thomas.
What about me?
You stay and see if you can see
any more helicopters. Okay?
- Okay. - Good boy.
MAN: You're almost there, buddy. You got it?
I still haven't found them.
Did you see a lot of dead people?
What happened was very serious, Thomas.
Not Mom and Lucas, right?
No, I didn't see them.
I burnt my feet on the roof.
It was really hot, and everyone was leaving.
Oh.
Can we leave yet?
I need you to, um...
I need you to do me a favor, Thomas.
I've heard that everyone's going to the mountains, you see,
to a shelter where it's really safe.
But I can't go with you.
You can't leave us alone again, Dad.
I have to keep looking for them, you see.
You have to look after Simon...
No! No, stay with us. I can't look...
I've never looked after someone before. I'm scared.
I know. I know. I'm scared, too.
But do you know the most scary bit for me?
When the water hit?
No. After that.
When I came up, and I was all on my own.
That was the scariest part.
And then I saw the two of you clinging to the tree, and I...
I didn't feel so scared anymore,
because I knew I wasn't on my own, you see?
What if Mommy and Lucas are on their own right now?
Hmm?
Imagine how scared they'll be.
We'll look for them together.
No. Thomas, you have to look after Simon.
And I'm going to keep looking for them.
Okay?
I know you understand.
MAN ON PA: Everyone move out. You can't stand here.
There might be another wave coming soon. Move out.
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
(PHONE RINGING)
Hello? Yeah, I can hear you.
Nobody knows what's going on.
Are you all right? Have you lost someone?
We're fine. We just want to get out of here.
I'll call you back. Okay? Bye.
Uh, excuse me.
I've been trying to place a call back home all day.
I wondered, could I use your phone?
- It would be really quick. - Look around you, man.
Everybody's needing something right now.
But our battery is almost dead.
We need the phone.
FEMALE EMPLOYEE: Yes, as I said,
we are trying to clear the road, but...
WOMAN: I understand, but I'd like to talk
to somebody in charge who knows a little bit more.
(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENTS OVER PA)
(TAILGATE CLOSES)
HENRY: I'll see you in the morning, okay?
You're not coming?
I'm not coming, wee man, no.
Thomas will take care of you, all right?
Listen to me. You're gonna behave yourselves, okay?
And you stay with this group,
and I'm gonna be with you just as soon as I can, okay?
(TRUCK ENGINE STARTING)
You're gonna behave yourselves, okay?
(KISSING)
I love you.
Okay.
Will you look out for my boys for me, please?
Come with us.
You know it's useless.
I can't stop looking.
(MAN SPEAKING THAI)
(BANGING ON TRUCK) - I love you.
I'll be with you tomorrow, I promise.
I love you.
HENRY: Maria!
Lucas!
Maria!
(OBJECTS RATTLING)
(HENRY GROANING)
(WOOD BREAKING) - Oh!
(GROANING)
Oh, no. No.
MAN: Hey, man, are you okay?
Get in the car.
We'll drive you somewhere safer.
KARL: My wife didn't want to come to Thailand
for Christmas holidays,
because of my leg.
I insisted. My little girl, Gina,
she's just two.
The noise woke me up.
I was alone in the room.
I went out to the terrace and saw the sea coming inland.
It took me five seconds to reach the stairs,
but the water was already there.
It was not more than five seconds.
(SNIFFLING) On the bed, I found a note from my wife,
saying that they were at the beach.
(KARL SOBBING)
MAN: You were at the Orchid, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, my whole family were in
the swimming pool when the water hit.
I found my middle son first, Thomas. He was...
He was at the top of this really tall tree.
Took me ages to convince him to come down
because he was so scared, you know?
And then I found my little one, Simon.
He was holding onto a palm tree.
He's only five.
I sent them to the mountains.
You know?
So that I could keep looking for my wife and my elder son.
Toughest choice I ever made.
- Have you called home yet? - I can't find a phone.
KARL: I'm saving my battery. Just in case my family calls.
Please.
Thank you. I'll be very quick, I promise.
- Yes? - Brian?
Yes, Henry, thank God. How are you guys?
Did you hear from anyone yet?
No, Henry, you're the first to call.
Is everybody all right?
- Henry? - Maria and Lucas are not here.
What do you mean, "not there"?
The water came and swept everyone away.
And I found... I found Thomas and Simon,
but I don't know where Maria and Lucas are.
Henry? Don't do that.
And I don't know what to do,
I don't know where to look for them. (SOBS)
BRIAN: Henry. Henry, calm down. Henry? Henry?
Brian, I have to go.
Lots of people need to use this phone, okay?
- I'll just call you later. - Henry?
(SOBBING)
Sorry. I'm sorry, sorry.
Thank you.
What do you want me to do?
You can't leave it like that. Go on!
- Come on! WOMAN: - Go on.
MAN 1: - Come on, man. MAN 2: - Come on.
I should call him back.
- Yes, Henry? - Brian, it's me again.
Look, I promise you that I won't stop looking
- until I find them. Okay? - Okay.
HENRY: I don't know what I'm gonna do
because it's nighttime now, but I'll...
I'll look in all the hospitals.
BRIAN: - Okay. - And I'll look
in all the shelters and everything, okay?
I will find them, I promise you that.
- I'll call you when I do. - Okay.
- Okay. Okay. - Okay.
HENRY: Thanks.
Can I go with you?
SIMON: I'm scared.
Close your eyes. Think of something nice.
WOMAN: May I sit with you?
How old are you?
Almost 74. And you?
Seven and a half.
Get these ants off me.
- Is he all right? - Yeah, he's asleep. He's fine.
He's got a bit of ant bites on him.
He's all right.
WOMAN: You like looking at stars, don't you?
I do. At home I can find most of the constellations.
But here in the sky, it's different.
Some of those stars
have been burnt out for a long, long time.
Did you know that?
They're dead, aren't they?
They're dead.
But once they were so bright
that their light is still traveling through space.
We can still see them.
How can you tell which ones are dead
and which ones are not?
Oh, you can't. It's impossible.
It's a beautiful mystery, isn't it?
Mmm.
NURSE: Lucas Bennett? Can you come with me?
Sit here.
(INDISTINCT CHANTING)
(SPEAKING THAI)
Your name is Lucas Bennett, is that right?
Yeah.
And your mother's name is Maria Bennett.
- Is that correct? - Uh-huh.
We'd like you to look at these things, please,
and see if you recognize any of them.
Have a good look.
Take your time.
(BABY CRYING)
WOMAN: Does anything look familiar?
I don't know.
You don't know?
LUCAS: I...
WOMAN: Do you recognize anything?
- I don't think so. - You don't think so?
NURSE: Lucas...
Could you please come with us?
(INDISTINCT TALKING)
LUCAS: Mom.
(WEAKLY) Where the hell have you been?
Where the hell have I been?
Where the hell were you?
You promised me you weren't going anywhere.
You weren't there.
I thought you were dead, Mom.
I'm sorry.
I thought you were dead.
(MARIA MOANING)
NURSE: We're so sorry.
Someone must have changed her records during surgery.
How is she?
She's had surgery on her chest.
But she lost a lot of blood.
She was too weak to have her leg operated on.
She has to go back to surgery when she recovers.
But she'll be okay, right?
(ALL CLAMORING)
Nothing. What next?
We should, uh...
We should try and get a ride to Takuapa Hospital.
(CHILDREN SINGING IN THAI)
(INAUDIBLE)
- Where are my kids? - They're taking them away.
They wouldn't let me go with them. I'm sorry.
- Where? - I don't know.
I need to pee.
You have to wait, Simon.
(WHEEZING)
(LAUGHING)
(GIGGLES)
Mom. Mom.
- Lucas... - Wake up.
Mom, guess who I just saw outside?
My leg. What color is my leg?
It's still red.
Please. My mom.
Her wounds are looking really bad.
We are doing the best we can.
We are taking your mom to surgery right away.
(SPEAKING THAI)
DRIVER: No more sick here since yesterday.
It's full. We move out.
No, no, no! Five minutes. Give me five minutes, please.
Please.
I don't want you to slow down.
These are the names of my little girl, Gina, and Kathy,
my wife. She's American.
Would you check the list for me?
HENRY: Of course. WOMAN: Please.
They told us our daughter could be in Surat Thani.
And we've already been to this hospital.
We have checked all hospitals but this one. Please.
HENRY: Five minutes, please. Just only five minutes.
Okay.
I won't be long. I'll be right back.
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(WEAKLY) Lucas.
Lucas.
Anything left in the can?
Don't worry. I'll get you something.
Dad?
Dad!
I need to pee!
- Can you hold it? - No.
(SPEAKING THAI)
Simon! What are you doing?
WOMAN: Boys! Get back on the bus right now!
(HORN HONKING)
Hurry up! They're gonna leave us here!
What are you doing?
(URINATING)
No luck.
Sorry.
Sorry. And thanks for waiting.
DRIVER: Okay. We go now.
(ENGINE SPUTTERING)
(CHILDREN LAUGHING)
THOMAS: Coming!
- We're coming! WOMAN: - We have to go now!
Dad!
It's Lucas.
- Lucas! - Lucas!
Simon! Thomas!
Lucas! Lucas!
Lucas!
Thomas! Simon!
Lucas! Lucas!
Lucas! Lucas! Lucas!
- Lucas! - Simon!
Searched everywhere...
(SOBBING)
Simon.
Thomas.
Are you okay?
Lucas!
Dad! Dad...
Dad. Dad?
Lucas!
- Dad! - Lucas!
Dad!
THOMAS AND SIMON: Dad! Dad! Dad! Dad!
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry I left you both.
Dad, we did it.
(SOBBING)
Let's go. No need to wait.
Are you okay? Are you okay?
LUCAS: - Mom is here. - What?
She's really weak. She says some weird stuff sometimes.
The nurse says they're gonna try and operate on her
as soon as they can.
I think it's serious.
Mom? Mom.
Look who's here.
(WHEEZES)
Hey.
Hey, my darling.
Hey.
SIMON: Mom.
I thought you were all dead.
HENRY: We're all okay.
Am I dead?
No.
It's okay to take this off?
Here, here, here. I've got it.
- You came back. - Yes.
- You came back. - Yeah.
Oh, thank God.
I can rest now.
(MURMURS)
Maria, what? What? What, darling?
I'm dying.
No. No.
You're going to be fine.
Take care of our babies.
Hey, that's not what I came here for.
You're gonna be fine.
They're gonna take good care of you, okay?
I promise you, we're gonna be fine.
Oh, Henry, I'm scared.
We're gonna be fine.
Henry...
Sweetheart, I promise you're gonna be okay.
We're taking her to surgery. We need to take her now.
HENRY: Okay.
I love you.
You're gonna be okay.
I love you so much. I love you.
I love you, Maria. You know that, don't you?
I'm sorry if I let you down in any way.
(SOBBING)
HENRY: Lucas.
Thanks for taking care of Mom.
We took care of each other.
LUCAS: Dad?
HENRY: Yeah.
LUCAS: There's something I didn't tell Mom.
And I really need her to know.
I have a family, too.
I've been saving my strength
because I want to see them
one more time.
(GAS HISSING)
Oh. Do you have to?
We don't want you to feel any pain.
I'm afraid to go to sleep.
Shh. You're in good hands.
Close your eyes and think of something nice.
(SHUSHING)
Think of something nice.
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
HENRY: Lucas!
LUCAS: Dad!
(SCREAMS)
(MUFFLED BEEPING)
(CLANGING)
(BRANCHES BREAKING)
(SCREAMING)
(THUDDING)
(SCREAMING)
(GASPS)
Mom's okay, Lucas.
We're going home.
HENRY: Be careful. You okay?
TUDPOLE: Mr. Bennett! Mr. Bennett!
I'm Oliver Tudpole from Zurich Insurance.
They sent me to take care of your family.
You have nothing to worry about now.
In a few hours, you'll be at Singapore General Hospital,
where your wife will receive
the best treatment in all of Asia.
(WOMAN SOBBING)
These people will take you onto the plane.
I'll see you once you get there.
Have a safe flight.
Okay.
MARIA: Where are we going?
They'll take us to Singapore. You'll be safe there, okay?
(LOUD THUD)
Please take your seat. We'll be taking off shortly.
Okay.
- Can I just... - Yeah. Okay. One minute.
MARIA: (SOFTLY) Hey.
How are you?
Here. With you.
Mom.
(SNIFFS)
Guess what?
I saw Daniel again.
He was so happy.
He was in somebody's arms.
I bet it was his dad, Mom.
I love you.
(SOBBING) Lucas, I love you so much.
Thank you. Thank you.
NURSE: I'm sorry, but you have to go back to your seat now.
Fasten your seatbelts, please.
I don't want to.
HENRY: Why not? You have to do your seatbelts up in a plane.
(AIRPLANE TAXIING)
(RUMBLING)
It's okay. It's only the plane.
(SOBBING)
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