The camera drifts to her sleeping face – then sinks through the ocean, into the wreck, through a doorway, into the grand staircase of the Titanic. The clock turns backward. The ship is whole. People applaud.
Reluctantly, Cal invites Jack to a first-class dinner the next night as a reward. The next day, Jack finds Rose on the deck. He is unpolished, funny, and utterly free. He spits over the railing. She is horrified – then laughs. He shows her his drawings. She shows him her engagement ring – a shackle.
“Stay back! I’ll let go.”
Jack, sleeping on a bench below, hears her sob. He approaches slowly.
Jack asks: “Are you ready to be a penniless artist’s wife, sleeping on park benches?” Titanic -1997-
“Don’t do it,” he says.
On the sloping stern, Jack and Rose hold each other. The ship breaks in two. Hundreds fall into the 28°F water. The camera drifts to her sleeping face –
“Don’t you do that. Don’t say your goodbyes. You will survive. You will have a long life, marry a man you love, die warm in your bed.”
They escape. Cal, defeated, wraps his coat around him – forgetting the Heart of the Ocean in the pocket – and bribes his way onto a collapsible boat by holding a lost child. People applaud
In the black Atlantic, Jack finds a floating wooden panel – but it supports only one. He puts Rose on it, his hands gripping the edge, his body freezing in the water.