Apollo 13 Monologue
| Apollo 13 by William Broyles Jr. & Al Reinert | |
| Character: | Jim |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age (range): | 18 - 55 |
| Style: | Drama |
| Length: | 2 minutes |
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Jim: Uh, well, I tell ya, I remember this one time--I'm in a Banshee
at night in combat conditions, so there's no running lights on the carrier.
It was the Shangri-La, and we were in the Sea of Japan, and my, my radar had
jammed, and my homing signal was gone...because somebody in Japan was actually
using the same frequency. And so it was -- it was leading me away from where
I was supposed to be. And I'm lookin' down at a big, black ocean, so, I flip
on my map light, and then suddenly: zap. Everything shorts out right there
in my cockpit. All my instruments are gone. My lights are gone. And I can't
even tell now what my altitude is. I know I'm running out of fuel, so I'm
thinking about ditching in the ocean. And I, I look down there, and then,
in, in the darkness, there's this, uh, there's this green trail. It's like
a long carpet that's just laid out right beneath me. And it was the algae,
right? It was that phosphorescent stuff that gets churned up in the wake of
a big ship. And it was, it was, it was just leading me home. You know? If
my cockpit lights hadn't shorted out, there's no way I'd have ever been able
to see that. So, uh, you, uh, you never know...what...what events are going
to transpire to get you home.
