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This one being an apparent homage/retelling of Clive Cussler's novel, "Raise the Titanic".

The prologue atarts as a black and white flashback of Skips experiencing the Titanic disaster. The sinking depicted will not resemble the modern day sinking theories and would be based on several Titanic movies namely, "A night to Remember" (1958), "Titanic" (The 1953 and 1943 german film), and the cut sinking sequence from the 1980 film adaptation for "Raise the Titanic".(which was a poor film but had an excellent 55 foot model of the Titanic). The flashback ends with a shot of the titanics hulk drifting to the bottom,

The Opening titles would be the same as the title for "The Real Thomas" except that only the word "Titanic" turns into a russian translation of the word though outlined in red and in a jumpscare-ish fashion, a photo negative image of bruce ismay followed by the flag of the white star line appears suddenly and everything goes black.

The episode begins with on an uninhabited island belonging to the fictional country to druznia. A us agent is being pursued by a guard and his dog, when the agent is wounded and about to be cornered, the guard and the dog is shot by a mysterious assailant. The same mysterious figure picks up the agent's unconscious body and brings him to his skiff.

Meanwhile at the park, everyone is doing their usual shenanigans up until several government people apporach them and recruit them as "volunteers". It is later revealed that they were selected as recruits for phase 2 of a defense project known as the sicillian project. The sicillian project's main goal is to build an effective laser defense system to protect America and the entire world from potential nuclear strikes. unfortunately it needed to be powered by a rare and nearly nonexistent mineral known as byzanium. According to an agent (the same one seen in the beginning) who was looking for the stuff on the island were it was supposedly mined, the Byzanium seemed to have already been mined out, though based on what he saw in the mine, it as already mined out a long time ago. Mordecai, Rigby, and the gang are further brief, in which they explain to the group that the government did a little research on the whereabouts of the Byzanium. It turns out, the ineral was taken aboard the RMS Titanic and is possibly still down there, inside it's wreck. Because ROV's in the military are too bulky to go inside, the only alternative left is to raise the whole vessel and open it on the surface.

Upon arriving to the wreck. The Gang's first task is to affix a beacon onto the ship, however they would be awestruck at the evel of preservation the ship is in.

The wreck would actually be based on old speculations on what the titanic's wreck looked like prior to the discovery of the true wreck. Though it wont be entirely pristine and bits of damage would be present on the wreck.

Everything, even the wood and cloth is still preserved. even the pain remains intact.

only the third funnel remains standing. The damage from the 1st, 2nd, and 4th funnels collapses are evident (dent on the gymnasium roof, part of the bridge's wooden structure knocked inward, etc). An all respects, she would look like this: http://i.imgur.com/pHaTR8g.jpg

part of the upper portion of the formast has broken off and is hanging from the tangled rigging. the aft mast is just a stump that only towers over the 2nd class entrance, which has partially colapsed when the 4th funnel fell aft. Thus the overhead telegraph wires are not present and submarines can freely operate in the vicinity.

The dome of the grans stair case is a hole surrounded by jagged wrought iron bars.

the wreck lists to port.

After tying the beacon to the Wreck's foremast, the work begins.

Though the Russians and the druznians were aware of this and began their plans to take the Shi once she surfaces.

(montage with Celine Dione's "My Heart will Go in" plays")

First, underwater lamps are lowered to illumitate the wreck and the work area. The ship is re-oriented to an uright position from it's list to port. Acradle fitted with lift bages is fitted along the hull, Lift bags connected to cables are tied to the ship next. air pumps are installed, and at last the iceberg damaged is sealed.

One one of the nights, a mysterious transmission is broadcasted from one of the salvage ships, however a mysterious figure intercepts them and then quickly vanishes.

in the final steps of the operation, Mordecai and rigby are caught by an unexpected current which jams their sub into the grand staircase's skylight. Since the oxygen in their sub is limited, The rest of the park workers in the other subs are ordered to place blasting charges around the mud surrounding the wreck in an attempt to finally jar her loose.

Once the charges do detonate, the ships begins to ascend rapidly to the surface. The sub, mordo and rigs are trapped in finally breaks free, though appears to descend back down into the depths.

Titanic finally breaks the surface bow first and begins to settle on her waterline, everyone holds their breatha s the ship suddenly lists sharply to starboard before settling on an even keel. Everyone celebrates the success though pops and skips share a moment of silence.

Mordecai and rigby's sub finally surfaces and the two celebrate for surviving.

Meanwhile on a cruise ship that happened to be nearby at the moment, amid the crowd of bewildered passengers taking snapshots of the event, CJ is jsut staring, jaw on the floor.

A Russian ship watches in the distance and slowly begins to make it's moves.

Margaret happened to be sent to the salvage area to cover the news of the ship's ascent however she does not see the titanic right away, since a mishap on the helicopter causes her to hit her head against the wall and blackout. when she regains consciousness she finds herself in the company of the park workers aboard the newly surfaced Titanic after the news chopper managed to and on a makeshift platform hastily constructed over the stump of the 2nd funnel.

The excitement suddenly changes when weather reports state that a storm is on it's way. for the time being the salvage ships are forced to clear the area leaving the titanic and a few small military ships alone to ride out the storm.

Throughout the night, The military ships with the powerless Titanic in tow struggle to ride out the storm. during this time the russian ship appraches and a small dinghy carrying an assault team nears the giant ship. Mordecai and the park workers seek shelter in the dry yet waterlogged remains of the D-deck dining saloon, when suddenly out of nowhere, the russian/druznian assault team ambushes them and suddenly a shootout ensues.

At the same time, the mysterious figure appears riding a gyrocopter and heading for the titanic. unfortunately the gyrocopter gets caught by the titanic and hangs precariously from a railing on the side fo the ship, the mysterious figure luckily manages to get aboard before the gyrocopter falls into the ocean.

Meanwhile the park workers and the news crew are just about to surrender to the russian assault team revealed to be led by none other than agent natalia, whom has survived the events of "The real thomas" and is preparing to excecute them by pointing a gun to their heads. Suddenly a gunshot is heard and a speeding bullet knocks natalias guns off her hand. The mysterious figure arrives and reveals himself to be Thomas/Nicolai who has come to stop the russians from using the byzanum to make a super bomb. At first a fight between him and natalia ensues aboard the Titanic before suddenly transferring to thr russians ship which has moved alongisde the titanic. The Russians ship drifts way from the titanic in the fight and the park workers lose sight of it.

on the ship Natalia and Generl romanoff prepare to finish off Nicolai with a bullet to the head, when suddenly the Titanic's massive bow appears amid the storm. The Russian ship hass drifted into the liner's path. The Russian ship tries to steer clear but the Titanic suddenly drops down on them and slices the ship in half sinking it and killing natalia and romanoff int he process. Thomas/nicolai managed to disengage a life raft and disappears.

The next morning the tugs arrive and the Titanic finally makes her way to New york city. as people and onlookers watch the ship arriving into the harbor, a small group of activists yell in outrage at this atrocious act of grave robbing. When the vaults in the ships hold is opened, to their disappointmont only a human corpse and a box of pebbles remain. It seems the Titanic was raised for nothing and the government fell for a "gotcha dude" prank instigated by a man nearly a century ago. However as the ark workers prepare to return to the park a museum curator approaches them and offers to buy the ship from them. The park workers look at each other and faintly smile.

Back at the park mordecai and rigby are cleaning the old cemetery when they notice something shimmering in one of the graves. when they unearth it, it is revealed to be the cache of Byzanium that the Governemnt was looking for. Rigby wants to show it to the governemnt but mordecai advises him to hide it here to which he agrees for the two know what power the government would wield if they got their hands on it. They rebury the byzanum and the episode ends.

This story would explore into the many salvage efforts and plans for the Titanic that cropped up throughout the 1980's most notably, the 1987 french expedition to the Titanic wreck to recover artifacts. There would be concern over wether the salvage oeration is graverobbing or not, which would be expressed from Skips and Pops who were alive back in 1912 and respect the event more.

and of course titanic has a place in the 80's since the ship herself was discovered in 1985. 