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Die Art und Weise, wie Claudia gekleidet ist, ist angesichts des Anlasses irgendwie lächerlich.

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PAGE 72 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Claudia floating upright underwater, still in her clothes, here eyes closed.

SUBTITLE (1): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (1): Geborgenes Drohnenmaterial.

Panel 2: Almost exactly the same panel as before, except that here Claudia has opened her eyes.

CAPTION – FUZZY BOX INDICATING RECOVERED SPEECH (2): This is ridiculous zzzt…fwww!

Translation (2): Das ist Wahnsinn bzzzrt…fsch!

SUBTITLE (3): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (3): Geborgenes Drohnenmaterial.

Panel 3: Claudia kicking off her shoes. One should be shown sinking away from her.

SUBTITLE (4): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (4): Geborgenes Drohnenmaterial.

Panel 4: Claudia in the act of taking off her blouse, which she has unbuttoned.

SUBTITLE (5): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (5): Geborgenes Drohnenmaterial.

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Claudia macht den schicksalhaften Sprung.

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PAGE 71 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Close-up of Claudia’s glasses, “looking back” at Turpentine.

Panel 2: View from the deck of Claudia leaping into the sea. Note that she is still fully clothed as she does this.

Panel 3: A splash from the same P.O.V. as Panel 3 where Claudia has gone into the sea.

Panel 4: View, from behind and beneath of Claudia, still fully clothed, swimming through the ocean water.

SUBTITLE (1): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (1): Geborgenes Drohnenmaterial.

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Köder 069

Claudia geht entsprechend schlecht gelaunt aus.

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PAGE 69 (Four pages)

Panel 1: Claudia sitting back in her cabin writing a letter at a tiny desk.

CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (1): Within a few hours, the arrangements are made.

Translation (1): Innerhalb weniger Stunden sind alle Vorbereitungen getroffen.

CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (2): Claudia writes one last letter to her academic advisor, thanking her for her support.

Translation (2): Claudia schreibt einen letzten Brief an ihre akademische Beraterin und dankt ihr für ihre Unterstützung.

Panel 2: Claudia taking a capsule from Hiram in his shipboard lab.

Hiram (3): It has been recalibrated…

Translation (3): Sie wurde neu kalibriert…

Claudia (4): And if you got it wrong this time, I swear I will return from my watery grave and drag you back down with me.

Translation (4): Wenn Sie es dieses mal wieder versaut haben, dann schwöre ich Ihnen, stehe ich aus meinem Wassergrab auf und hole Sie zu mir nach unten.

Panel 3: Claudia walking down a narrow ship’s corridor, with Turpentine behind her.

Turpentine (5): We cannot emphasize enough how much your sacrifice is appreciated, Dr. Honeywood…

Translation (5): Wir können gar nicht genug betonen, wie sehr wir Ihr Opfer zu schätzen wissen, Dr. Honeywood…

Claudia (6): Kindly go fuck yourself, Eustace.

Translation (6): Ach, ficken Sie sich doch, Eustace.

Panel 4: Claudia walking out on deck. She’s fully clothed, wearing the same skirt and button-down blouse combination she was wearing when she came aboard the RV Seagoon. A few sailors with hang-dog expressions look on.

Claudia (7): You all are going to have to get your peep-show somewhere else today.

Translation (7): Ihr müsst euch eure Stripshow heute wohl irgendwo anders suchen, Jungs.

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Karrieren sind nur für Teamplayer.

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PAGE 68 (Four panels)

Panel 1: An imagined future panel showing Claudia carrying a cardboard box of her possessions out of an office building, escorted by a pair of security guards.

CAPTION – CLAUDIA NARRATING (1): I’ll be blackballed everywhere. My hard-earned career in science will be over.

Translation (1): Ich werde nicht mehr dazugehören. Meine hart erarbeitete Karriere in der Forschung wird vorbei sein.

CAPTION – CLAUDIA NARRATING (2): That’s how things work, especially since the advent of the latest…administration.

Comment (2): “Administration” here is a way of suggesting “presidential administration,” which is that the government of the United States is culturally retrograde, probably biased against the interests of professional women and in favor of those of the very rich.

Translation (2): So laufen die Dinge nunmal, vor allem seit dem Antritt der neuen…Regierung.

Panel 2: Claudia back in the galley, brushing a strand of hair our of her eyes.

Claudia (3): And while I might not have Daphne Bosselseg’s heroic attitude about such matters, just like her, I am sure I’d rather be dead than spend a lifetime eking out a living in the twenty first-century service economy.

Translation (3): Und auch wenn ich nicht über Daphne Bosselsegs heldenhafte Einstellung in dieser Angelegenheit verfüge, wäre ich doch lieber tot, als mein restliches Leben in der Dienstleistungsgesellschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts zu fristen.

Panel 3: Claudia taking a sip of coffee.

Unseen interviewer (out-of-panel balloon) (4): You’re not seriously thinking of giving in to them, are you?

Translation (4): Sie denken doch nicht wirklich darüber nach, nachzugeben, oder?

Claudia (5): Well, why not?

Translation (5): Naja, warum nicht?

Panel 4: Claudia making a forced smile.

Claudia (6): Feed lots of hungry children, buy lots of mosquito nets, get my name on an eldritch horror…

Translation (6): Hungernde Kinder ernähren, haufenweise Moskitonetze kaufen, mein Name in Verbindung mit diesem Horror…

Claudia (7): And go out with a real bang.

Translation (7): Und dann mein Abgang mit einem echten Knall.

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Wenn alles andere scheitert, gehen Sie ins Fernsehen.

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PAGE 67 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Claudia sitting alone in the ship’s galley with a cup of coffee, which she is staring at pensively.

CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (1): After a few days’ standoff, Claudia agrees to speak with us, but not with the ship’s crew.

Translation (1): Mit einigen Tagen Abstand hat Claudia zugestimmt, mit uns zu reden, aber ohne die Schiffscrew.

Panel 2: Closer-in on Claudia.

Claudia (2): The problem is that they’re right. Aside from their two volunteers, I’m the only one they can access in time. There are other women, but they don’t know the right protocols.

Translation (2): Das Problem ist, dass sie recht haben. Außer den beiden Freiwilligen bin ich die einzige, die geeignet ist. Es gibt andere Frauen, aber sie kennen den Ablauf nicht.

Panel 3: Claudia looking to one side, holding her cup of coffee between her two hands.

Claudia (3): It won’t be other people’s fuckups that anyone will remember. What everyone will remember will be that bitch who wouldn’t play ball and disappointed a very rich man.

Translation (3): Die Leute werden sich nicht an die Fehlschläge der anderen erinnern, sondern an diese Schlampe, die nicht den Mumm hatte, die Welt zu verändern.

Panel 4: Claudia looking down into her coffee cup.

Claudia (4): Like it or not, that’s how people will see it.

Translation (4): So werden es die Leute sehen, ob es mir gefällt oder nicht.

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Köder 066

Was ist mit der Wissenschaft? Liebst du die Wissenschaft nicht?

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PAGE 66 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Turpentine facing the door, speaking to it.

Turpentine (1): At this point, the expedition simply cannot succeed without you. There just isn’t anyone else with the right…attributes, and it will be nineteen more years before anyone has another chance.

Translation (1): An diesem Punkt kann die Expedition ohne Sie einfach kein Erfolg warden. Es ist sonst niemand hier mit den richtigen…Attributen, und wir müssen sonst wieder neunzehn Jahre warten, bis wir erneut eine Chance haben.

Panel 2: Turpentine still facing the door, with his hands up in a pleading gesture.

Turpentine (2): In recognition of what we’re asking of you, the species will be named after you. Gynophagos honeywoodiae. How does that sound?

Comment (2): The Linnean “species name” Gynophagos honeywoodiae should be left in the original Latin, unless it is the custom among professional biologists using your target language to render it otherwise.

Translation (2): In Anerkennung Ihrer Leistung, um die wir Sie bitten, wird die Spezies nach Ihnen benannt werden. Gynophagos honeywoodiae. Wie klingt das?

Panel 3: Claudia still on her bunk. This is another “surveillance video” panel. In this panel Claudia’s eyes are in an angry squint The precise nature of this squint should be drawn as distinctively as possible and noted (thus as the “Angry Squint”) as it will reappear in another context below.

Claudia (3): Fuck off!

Comment (3): “Fuck off” is a vulgar and rude way in English to tell someone to go away, but one perhaps appropriate under these circumstances.

Translation (3): Verpissen Sie sich!

SUBTITLE (4): Internal surveillance video.

Translation (4): Überwachungskamera.

Panel 4: Turpentine addressing the door.

Turpentine (5): Think about it.

Translation (5): Denken Sie darüber nach.

Turpentine (6): Please.

Translation (6): Bitte.

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Turpentine versucht, die wütende Claudia zu überzeugen.

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PAGE 65 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Turpentine, walking down a narrow ship’s corridor.

CAPTION – PSEUDO-NARRATION (1): Professor Turpentine, as expedition leader, attempts to deal with the crisis that has arisen.

Translation (1): Professor Turpentine versucht als Expeditionsleiter die aufgekommene Krise zu bewältigen.

Panel 2: Turpentine knocking on cabin door in the corridor.

SFX – TURPENTINE KNOCKING (2): Knock, knock.

Translation (2): Klopf, klopf.

Turpentine (3): Dr. Honeywood, can we speak?

Translation (3): Dr, Honeywood, können wir reden?

Panel 3: Turpentine talking to the door.

Turpentine (4): Listen, I’ve talked with the expedition sponsor via satellite phone. He understands how critical you’ve become to the success of this expedition, and he has said he’s willing to raise the charitable donation to five million dollars if you can…cooperate.

Translation (4): Hören Sie, ich habe per Satellitentelefon mit dem Sponsor der Expedition gesprochen. Er versteht, wie entscheidend Sie jetzt für den Erfolg der Expedition sind und hat zugestimmt, die wohltätige Spende auf fünf Millionen Dollar zu erhöhen, wenn Sie…kooperieren.

Panel 4: View of Claudia sitting on her bunk in her cabin. Her arms angrily folded over her chest, her face set. This panel is “surveillance video” so it should have a somewhat vaguer, grainer look to it than most panels.

CAPTION – TURPENTINE SPEAKING THROUGH THE DOOR (5): You can do a lot of good in the world with five million dollars, Claudia.

Translation (5): Mit fünf Millionen Dollar kann man viel Gutes tun, Claudia.

SUBTITLE (6): Internal surveillance video.

Translation (6): Überwachungskamera.

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Köder 064

Claudia stürmt rechtschaffen heraus.

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PAGE 64 (Four panels)

Panel 1: View of Claudia again, realization sinking in.

Claudia (1): No.

Translation (1): Nein.

Panel 2: Claudia in the act of standing up, her face enraged.

Claudia (2): No fucking way, do you understand?

Comment (2): “Fucking” in Claudia’s dialog line here shouldn’t be translated literally. In colloquial English, used in the way Claudia is using it here, it serves purely as an intensifier (generally used by someone who is angry) to stress the point.

Translation (2): Auf gar keinen Fall, kapiert?

Panel 3: Claudia in the midst of storming past Turpentine out of the room. Turpentine has reached out to grab her sleeve, and Claudia has a hand raised to swat it away.

Turpentine (3): Claudia, please.

Translation (3): Claudia, bitte.

Claudia (4): Let go of me!

Translation (4): Lassen Sie mich los!

Panel 4: View of Hiram, sitting back in his chair and rolling his eyes.

Hiram (5): Women!

Translation (5): Frauen!

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Eine Umarmung und ein Abstieg.

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PAGE 60 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Claudia embraces Daphne as she sits on the rail of the RV Seagoon.

Claudia (1): Good luck, Daphne.

Translation (1): Viel Glück, Daphne.

Daphne (2): Thanks.

Translation (2): Danke.

Panel 2: Daphne sitting on the rail, fitting her swimmer’s goggles in place.

Panel 3: Daphne in the middle of her jump off the ship, heading toward the water feet-first.

Panel 4: View of Daphne from the drone’s P.O.V. below and behind her as she swims through the water.

SUBTITLE (3): Recovered drone footage.

Translation (3): Geborgenes Drohnenmaterial.

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Es wird der Ritt ihres Lebens, und Eliza ist wild entschlossen

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PAGE 47 (Four panels)

Panel 1: Eliza, in her typical shirt and skirt getup, being interviewed in a cabin aboard the ship.

Eliza (1): Will I really go through with it? Of course I’m going through with it!

Translation (1): Werde ich das wirklich durchziehen? Natürlich werde ich das durchziehen!

Panel 2: Eliza in another part of the ship, lifting a glass of water to her lips, presumably to help her down the capsule which Hiram, who is standing off to the side and leering slightly, has just given to her.

CAPTION – ELIZA NARRATING (2): This is the ride of a lifetime. I’m not giving up that chance.

Translation (2): Das ist das Abenteuer meines Lebens, das werde ich mir nicht entgehen lassen.

Panel 3: Eliza getting an injection from Professor Turpentine.

CAPTION – ELIZA NARRATING (3): I get to be the first woman to tell the world what this experience feels like.

Translation (3): Ich werde die erste Frau sein, die der Welt berichten kann, wie sich die Erfahrung anfühlt.

Panel 4: Eliza and Claudia walking down a narrow ship’s corridor. Claudia is explaining something to Eliza.

Claudia (4): Use your inner voice when you’re under, just like we practiced in the tank. The recording drones will be with you, but not too near.

Translation (4): Nutze deine innere Stimme, wenn du da unten bist, so wie wir es trainiert haben. Die Aufzeichnungsdrohnen werden bei dir sein, aber in einigem Abstand.

Eliza (5): Got it.

Translation (5): Alles klar.

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