seaQuest DSV (1993) s02e03 Episode Script
Sympathy for the Deep
Welcome to Miranda Colony.
A community dedicated to the unity of our natural environment and all humankind.
During your stay, we hope you will celebrate with us the joy of non-violence and mutual support as you experience a cooperative society dedicated to the harmony of all life.
Of all life Of all life Of all life Of all life Of all life Laura, open the door! Laura! What's happening? They're burning the Government Center.
And now they're after me.
What is that? It's a laser drill.
I've modified it so we can use it as a pulse rifle.
You mean, it's a weapon? My God, Laura, you know how I feel, but we don't have a choice.
Yes, we do have a choice.
You can fight this insanity.
You can shut it out of your mind.
And be torn apart alive? I don't think so.
Now get out of my way.
No! You, too? Well, you need to sleep.
Oh, God, you need to sleep.
Of all life Of all life Mom, what's happening? I want you to go and lock yourselves in your rooms.
And don't open the door to anyone, not anyone, not even me, okay? You go.
There you go, Captain.
Real coffee.
I don't suppose the refill is free? Not since beans hit $250 a kilo.
I'll run a tab.
Captain, have a coffee.
Oh, thanks.
Bridger.
Ah, I!m sorry to interrupt your leave, sir.
It's all right.
How's the re-supply going? Fine.
We!Il be ready to sail in an hour, but that!s not why I!m calling, sir.
I!m receiving a priority transmission for you, only they!re using a code that!s 10 years out of date.
Who's it from? Laura Huxley, she!s the Chief Medical Officer of Miranda Colony.
Put her through.
Aye, sir.
Nathan? Laura, is that really you? I!m not sure.
I don!t know whether I!m hallucinating or Or whether it!s really you.
But if you can hear me Please, you!ve got to come and help us, before we all die.
Sir, I have the colony bearing zero-zero degrees at 10,000 meters.
Any answer to our hail? WSKRS are detecting human activity, but no one's picking up the phone.
Yeah, looks like their comm system's fried.
Lieutenant, I want you to form a boarding party.
But brief them carefully.
I don't want anyone getting trigger-happy.
All due respect, sir, but the biggest crisis Miranda Colony's ever had was running out of herbal tea.
All the same, I don't want to take any chances.
Yes, sir.
Captain, are you sure you want to go in there blind? I don't think we have any choice.
You see, years ago, I knew Laura Huxley.
In fact, I asked her to marry me before I met Carol.
She turned me down flat.
But I think I know her well enough to know that she wasn't exaggerating when she made that call.
Very well.
Henderson, land us on their collar.
Aye, aye, sir.
O'Neill, set condition two.
All hands, crew all stations.
Secure all hatches.
Condition two.
Security detail Bravo, report to Docking Bay 3.
Get back to me as soon as you can, all right? Captain.
Excuse me.
Sorry.
I'm going to go in.
Why? Are you sensing something from the colony? Fear.
Despair.
A lot of rage.
Kind of like a Canucks hockey game without a referee.
Docking now.
Docking collar pressurized.
Of all life Of all life If this is the nonviolent community, I'd hate to see boot camp.
You got to get us out of here! You got to get me aboard.
Form a perimeter.
Seal off the air lock! Nathan? Oh, thank God you're here.
You don't know what we've been going through.
I think I have some idea.
This is Royce Shelton, chairman of the colony.
Captain.
Can we go someplace and talk? The medical complex.
We can show you further problems.
About 10 years ago, during the last solar flare crisis Mommy.
several of us in the scientific community started talking.
You remember, there were fears about food rationing at the time, and another wave of greed was sweeping through the financial markets.
And the Cold War, that was about the time I quit the service and went to the island with my wife.
Right.
So we decided to move here.
We only had one rule, everyone had to pledge to cooperate in creating a nonviolent and sustainable community.
Did that work? Well, you can see for yourself.
These are the rates for criminal activity and psychological disorders since the founding of the colony.
Mommy, where are you? Must not be much to do here on a Saturday night.
Until four weeks ago.
And then the rates took off.
This all happened in four weeks? We first started to see it as domestic abuse cases.
Then it escalated, muggings, shop looting, rioting.
And now a quarter of the colony is confined as psychiatric cases or criminals.
But why? I don't know.
I've tested everything.
At first I thought it was some bizarre case of mass psychosis, but then the mutations started to happen.
What kind of mutations? I'll show you.
These were our earliest patients, the most violent ones.
And now look at them.
Laura, this patient looks normal.
He does? No signs of transformation? None.
I was afraid of that.
We can't tell anymore whether we're hallucinating or not, and we're the sanest people in the colony.
I'm declaring a state of martial law, and I want guards put in these corridors right away.
Yes, sir.
Stun batons and riot gear only.
Pair up and move out.
Brody, can I help? Guard the oxygen valves in C-12.
Anyone goes near them, you call for help.
Anyone got a theory on this, I'd like to hear about it.
We've seen violent colonies before.
Are we sure they're not just cracking under the pressure of dealing with a crime wave? Oh, I don't think so.
I mean, maybe Dr.
Huxley's patients aren't mutating into demons, but I'm still getting incredibly violent feelings off them.
Oh, sure, but how do you know that's due to an illness? I mean, if we keep giving people excuses for their actions, they'll never change.
But what if there is a medical reason these people are going crazy? We can do something about it.
What we need is a complete analysis of the colony, pathogens, radiation.
And we need it yesterday.
I'll get right on it.
You wanted to see me, sir? Yes.
Will your gills work at this depth? If it means me getting out of night duty, you bet they will, sir.
I want you to make sure that no one's sabotaging the colony's outside environmental systems.
Yes, sir, Captain, sir.
Right away.
And you check into their data banks.
You got it.
Dr.
Shelton You know, I studied your work on Utopian societies in school.
I thought you might have.
Something bothered me today.
Yeah? What's that? The rates of public order you showed us with the colony, historically only happen in police states.
Maybe you've been living too much in the past, Dr.
Smith, instead of the future.
You see, we selected good people for the colony.
And then we worked very hard to help them give up their fears and anger.
But if you'll forgive me now, I've got to go back and try to save that dream.
May I come in? Nathan, I was just thinking about us.
You were? Remember how you almost got court-martialed because you snuck me into the restricted area at Annapolis? Yes, I remember that very well.
So did my commanding officer.
But you're Commander here now, and we can do anything we want.
What are you doing? I'm in love with you.
I can't help it, Nathan.
I make a mistake, a big mistake.
I should have said yes when you asked me to marry you.
Oh, I wanted to, I wanted to.
No, no, no, no.
You were very angry, you made that perfectly clear.
I lied.
There's something wrong here.
Nathan.
You feel something? Yeah, now that you mention it, I'm feeling great.
Help me, they're looting my store! SeaQuest security! Freeze! Okay! Okay! No! Please.
Not sincere enough.
Come on, Nick, run! Yeah, run! Catch you later.
You're just letting them go? Why? You got a problem with that? No.
I We just risked our butts here.
Attractive girl like you ought to take that into account, don't you think? What are you talking about? I think you know what we mean.
No, get off of me! Help! Tyler? Ricky? What are you doing? Get out of here, you stinking dagger.
You don't even know about women.
Hey, Dagwood.
Don't! Area C-12, I need help.
Everybody's going crazy.
My God.
What have I done? Tony? Anything? Everything!s on-line, in line and straight down the line.
And just what the hell did your men think they were doing with that shop girl? So my guys are a little stressed out.
You ever stop to think maybe she was asking for it? Asking for it? What is that supposed to mean? Are you some kind of barbarian? Barbarian? You know, I don't have to take that from you! As a matter of fact, I don't have to take that from anybody! Arrest him! No, Captain, wait! There's something going on here.
You're damn right there is.
His career is coming to a spectacular close.
No, no, you don't understand.
What don't I understand? I've been analyzing the ocular dilation readings and the voice stress profiles from the crew.
You're not authorized to do that.
I know that.
I couldn't help it.
You're invading everyone's privacy! What I'm trying to tell you is, this is my greatest weakness, and I gave into it.
We're all giving into it.
Giving into what? Look.
Look at these readings.
They're the same profiles you get from criminal psychopaths.
But I'm finding it in our own crew.
I mean, whatever's infecting the colony's infecting us.
It's making us behave this way.
And you haven't found any source of contamination for the colony? No.
That's what's so frightening.
I mean, look at yourself.
Your agitation's what you always hold back, yet you're expressing it blindly.
Agitation? I'm not agitated.
No, you're just practically out of your mind.
That's it! You're on the first boat out of here.
You can't do that! Oh, yes, I can.
I'm the captain.
What do you want? I!m scared.
People bad.
Yes.
They are, aren't they? That's something to be scared of, isn't it? No.
Bridger scare Darwin.
Bridger mad, say angry things.
Captain, it is happening to you.
Did you take any of those readings on me? Yes, all of us.
Including me.
We're all at dangerous levels.
Oh, we've got to take a breath here.
We've really got to take a breath.
Brody, come here.
I think we have to look at each other and remind each other what we mean to each other.
Now, look, take care of your men.
Disarm them if you have to.
We'll stay docked to the colony in case you need reinforcements.
Yes, sir.
Right away.
I'm sorry, sir.
That's all right.
Anyone heard from Piccolo? Coming in.
You may not believe this, but I!m getting thirsty.
We've got one chilling for you, Tony.
Whoa.
What was that? Tony? What's going on? The power plant's fritzing out your transmissions.
Tony? Can you hear us? What the hell are you doing? No! Let go of me! You don't understand.
Hey, Ortiz! Can you read me? Somebody!s trying to tap our power! Ortiz? Oh, no! Tony? What's going on, Tony? My gills are gone! I!m drowning! Tony.
Tony, where are you? Speak to us.
Captain, we've lost Piccolo.
Listen, Piccolo's missing someplace out there.
Go find him.
Go find him.
Darwin, go to port bow.
That's where he would have drifted.
He's got him.
Medical team to sea deck.
Captain, you better see this.
Where is this coming from? WSKRS number three.
I positioned it where Tony was when he started yelling.
Whatever it is, it's so tightly polarized, you can't even see it unless you're directly aligned with the source.
That's because it's a chaos path.
A what? Shock waves passing through the water are actually causing the molecules to luminesce.
But we aren't detecting any shock waves.
We aren't detecting anything at all.
Except with our minds.
Dr.
Smith, what's your status? How!s Piccolo doing? He's unconscious, but he's breathing.
All right, detach from the colony.
Follow the path.
And sound general quarters.
General quarters.
General quarters.
All hands man your battle stations.
General quarters.
General quarters.
All hands man your battle stations.
Captain? What, are you leaving? You promised to back me up! I know, I know, but I think we're on to something here.
Well, hey, I!m glad for you.
But we!re crashing and burning here.
I mean Oh, God, I don!t know what I mean.
Look, whatever you say, I'll probably forget it tomorrow.
So just hold on.
I!Il try, Captain.
But things are getting dicey.
Brody? We've just passed through some sort of energy barrier.
There's a trench ahead.
It must be a mile deep.
My head.
It's inside my head! Prepare lasers and torpedoes! We're over the trench.
In 10 In five It's the face of God.
No.
It looks like a chaos cloud.
The total reversal of all physical laws, only they're not supposed to exist.
It's drawing us in.
Our speed is accelerating.
Are you tracking your target? Negative.
The sensors say there's nothing there.
Veer off.
Help! It's just an illusion, now hold on! Close the main ballast.
I'm trying, but we don't have the buoyancy.
It's just a trick.
Just close your mind and do it! Okay, it's working.
We're rising.
The distance is opening.
We've passed through the energy barrier.
Systems are on-line.
We're back to normal.
I don't think so.
What do you think that is? Evil, and it's growing.
All divisions have reported the damage has been contained, sir.
Does Piccolo remember anything? No, he's got total amnesia about it.
His short-term memories never fixated.
Our data banks aren't going to be any help, either.
I mean, look at these charts.
It's a completely featureless trench.
I think it's way past time we notified U.
E.
O.
Oh, you know what their first impulse will be.
Send a nuclear fleet.
I don't think we want that.
No, you're right.
It's featureless.
It's just too featureless.
What are you saying? You think somebody altered the charts? Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.
I mean, look at the repeating patterns.
Somebody has erased what's really there.
Well, can we backtrack it to see what they're hiding? Yeah, it's going to take me a while.
Captain, I've got Lieutenant Brody on TAC one.
Cleanse yourselves with fire! We're getting near the edge here, Captain.
If somebody doesn't get these people back on decaf real soon, we're all going to be history.
How much longer do you think you can hold out? I don't know.
Somebody just tried to torch us with a homemade flamethrower.
A lot of my people are down, injured or just crazy.
Well, I don't think we're thinking any clearer than you are.
Has it affected your model K? No, not in the slightest.
This might be off the wall, but try asking him for advice.
Maybe that cloud!s not affecting him.
All right, I'll give it a shot.
Out, Captain.
Hey, you heard him? Yeah.
So, what would you do? Me? I would get everyone together in the same place.
And tell stories, and sing songs.
Well, that would make me feel better.
Well, kind of like church, huh? What's church? You're about to find out.
Hey, you, you heard the man.
Make it happen.
Get everybody into the town meeting hall right away.
Go! Go! Wait.
Brody? Can I ask you a question? Yeah, what? This thing that I'm not feeling, it means I'm not human, doesn't it? No wonder they didn't make any more of you.
You're not even close to being a soldier.
I try to be.
No, Dagwood, it's not what I meant.
Look, when they put you together, they didn't include a mean bone in your body.
If someone could figure out how to do that for the rest of us, we'd all be a lot better off.
No mean bones.
Yeah, you got it.
Come on, we've got to hurry, let's go! You're a telepath, aren't you? Yes.
I know the privacy laws won't allow you to probe someone without prior consent.
But if it'll help you figure out what's happening to us, I want you to probe me.
Relax, breathe.
All right, let me in.
Nathan? All I want to say is All I want to say is Yes.
Everything all right? Oh, Laura found out I'm a telepath.
She asked me to do a probe.
And? And, she doesn't know what's in the trench.
Is there something you're not telling me? I shouldn't.
But I don't know if any of us are gonna be alive tomorrow.
Well, then tell me.
Laura was raised in a very violent family.
It made her afraid of marriage, so when you asked her, she pushed you away.
But what she was telling you today was the truth.
She was always very much in love with you.
She still is.
All right.
I think we should find Dr.
Shelton.
It's time you submitted him to a probe, too.
I'm on it.
The more I work at this, the more I wonder if I'm not even supposed to figure this out at all.
Maybe none of this is even real.
No, that's what that thing is doing to you.
It's making you doubt yourself.
How do you know that? Maybe this is just virtual reality and I'm a program told to believe I exist, when nothing exists at all.
No, Lucas.
Believe me.
I'm real.
And so are you.
Come here.
Darwin.
Darwin, what do you say about Lucas? Lucas friend.
Play with Darwin.
Okay, I get the picture.
Virtual reality wouldn't be this wet.
But you know what? Maybe you're feeling so uncertain because you're getting close and that thing is trying to stop you.
That's crazy.
Is it? What's the opposite of what you've been doing? A frontal assault.
I've been looking for service entrances.
But a frontal assault is way too easy.
Who says? Show me.
How would you do it? Okay Yeah, normally I'd try all the simple passwords first and then shoot the dictionary at it at high speed.
Mmm-hmm.
With adjustments, of course.
I don't know why I didn't do this before.
This could work.
It's working, it's working.
Yeah.
Captain, I'm getting a database! Ten years ago, there was a research facility at the bottom of that canyon.
The Deepfire Project.
It was secretly funded out of the same account that set up the colony.
Who's name was on the account? You're not going to believe this.
Dr.
Shelton was the sole owner and project director.
Where is he? Nobody can find him.
But Brody's team did find something else.
What? The airlock in the colony's power dome was used in the past couple of hours.
Somebody tried to divert the power we were feeding the colony into an undersea line.
It's got to be Shelton.
How far could he get in a DSL suit? The nearest land is Hamilton Island, 60 kilometers.
We're taking a shuttle.
You going somewhere? Hold it! I was hoping to sail as far away as possible from the cloud.
And then? Blow myself to kingdom come.
Why? Because I made a pact with the devil.
And now there's nowhere to hide.
These are the plans for Deepfire lab.
A parapsychology center? Yes.
As you know, telepathic powers barely work on the surface.
Too much human static.
So you isolated your lab in the deepest canyon you could find.
And made great strides, until my staff started killing each other.
What were you building down there? A sort of transceiver.
We were trying to beam thoughts of cooperation and nonviolence into the colony.
And in a way, we did.
This machine actually worked? Yes, though not exactly as planned.
It couldn't beam anything into the colony.
But it was able to draw something away from it.
What? Call if what you want.
The dark side of the force.
Evil.
Those energies that feed our fears and angers.
About 100 years ago, Freud and Jung warned us that if we separate the shadow side from the self, that would destroy you.
True enough.
But I told myself they didn't have my technology.
But you had the arrogance to try and separate them? And why not? We know about matter and anti-matter.
Why not life and anti-life? How do you explain genocide? Or religious wars fought by fanatics pledging their lives to a loving God who then commit every atrocity imaginable in his name? No, there's a power that despises life.
And for 10 years I drew that power away from the colony.
And for 10 years, the colony enjoyed unparalleled peace.
So what went wrong? Containing those forces required increasing amounts of electric power.
Four weeks ago, the power failed.
Then you tapped into our power.
So you could regain control.
At least long enough to destroy the transceiver.
But I failed.
And now that energy's coming alive.
And it's going to keep growing until it consumes everything.
No, no, it's not.
We've been inside that cloud.
We can fight it, you can fight it, too.
You don't know what the center of it's like.
Well, there's only one way to find out.
I'm not that brave.
You have any children? Grandchildren? Yes.
You really think you have a choice? All right.
But prepare yourself, Captain.
You're about to meet the devil.
And believe me, we're all going to die in the attempt.
Ignore it! Ignore it, and sing.
Anybody, come on.
Somebody sing.
Amazing grace How sweet the sound That saved a wretch Like me I once was lost But now I!m found Was blind But now, I see This is an opportunity for each of you to decide whether you want to stay with seaQuest, or leave before we enter this energy field.
If you decide to stay, I want you to remember this.
If we believe that the core of our being is good and life-affirming, we will not fail each other.
And we will be able to oppose whatever it is out there that we're facing.
All right, this is your chance.
We've already discussed it, Captain.
We're all going to stay.
We want to fight this thing together.
All right, take us through the cloud.
Set course two-two-nine.
Take us to 20,000 feet.
All ahead emergency, now.
Switch all systems to isolated power.
Cut all connections to the hull.
Sea's growing colder.
Much too cold.
It should be frozen solid at these temperatures.
Hull fittings are separating.
We can't take this turbulence.
The angel of death is coming! The angel of death is coming! Don't let her hurt herself.
The angel of death Stay calm! You're gonna be fine.
Hold on to your loved ones and pray.
It's growing stronger.
It's like a psychic black hole.
The more chaos it draws in, the more powerful it becomes.
Dad! Dad! You!ve gotta turn back.
I need you.
You're not You're not there.
No, my son's not there, is he? I can't hold it.
We're going in.
It's reaching critical mass.
It's becoming conscious.
We're losing power.
No, we've still got momentum.
Ram the lab.
Our skin will regenerate.
Bow planes, full down emergency.
Brace for collision.
All hands Dive to the bottom of your tank.
We're going to crash.
Let's go.
All right, blow this lock and seal it after us.
Where is it? Beyond the containment wall.
All right.
Hold on! Hold on! Bridger! We go in there, we'll burn alive! No, no, it's an illusion! Come on! We have to break the connection.
Smash the rod.
No, Dad! Don't do it! It's the only way I can stay alive! Don't! It's real! My hand! It's dying.
We've got full power.
Captain, get out of there, the dome's giving way.
Get him to Sickbay! Seal this lock.
All back emergency.
Blow all tanks.
Fire the lasers.
Fire everything.
Break down the magma bed.
I want this thing destroyed forever.
All right, Commander, take us back to the colony.
It's not an illusion.
Dr.
Shelton really did age 20 years.
Why not me? Because your soul wasn't the seed at the heart of that thing.
Mine was.
But at least I won it back.
Thank you for not letting me make a fool of myself.
I want you to know that before all the years passed, before my marriage, my family, I did love you, Nathan, more than I can tell you.
I loved you, too, Laura.
We'll always have that.
The boat's secured, sir, all are present and accounted for.
Take us home, Commander.
Aye, sir.
Hi, I'm Jonathan Brandis.
On seaQuest, I talk to Darwin using this vocoder.
But in reality, humans communicate with dolphins by using hand signals.
Dolphins also use sound to see underwater by sending out clicks through this part of their head, called the melon.
When the click sounds hit objects or land formations, they bounce back to the dolphin like an echo or sonar.
In this way, dolphins are aware of the world around them, even in the darkest water.
See you on the next adventure of seaQuest.
A community dedicated to the unity of our natural environment and all humankind.
During your stay, we hope you will celebrate with us the joy of non-violence and mutual support as you experience a cooperative society dedicated to the harmony of all life.
Of all life Of all life Of all life Of all life Of all life Laura, open the door! Laura! What's happening? They're burning the Government Center.
And now they're after me.
What is that? It's a laser drill.
I've modified it so we can use it as a pulse rifle.
You mean, it's a weapon? My God, Laura, you know how I feel, but we don't have a choice.
Yes, we do have a choice.
You can fight this insanity.
You can shut it out of your mind.
And be torn apart alive? I don't think so.
Now get out of my way.
No! You, too? Well, you need to sleep.
Oh, God, you need to sleep.
Of all life Of all life Mom, what's happening? I want you to go and lock yourselves in your rooms.
And don't open the door to anyone, not anyone, not even me, okay? You go.
There you go, Captain.
Real coffee.
I don't suppose the refill is free? Not since beans hit $250 a kilo.
I'll run a tab.
Captain, have a coffee.
Oh, thanks.
Bridger.
Ah, I!m sorry to interrupt your leave, sir.
It's all right.
How's the re-supply going? Fine.
We!Il be ready to sail in an hour, but that!s not why I!m calling, sir.
I!m receiving a priority transmission for you, only they!re using a code that!s 10 years out of date.
Who's it from? Laura Huxley, she!s the Chief Medical Officer of Miranda Colony.
Put her through.
Aye, sir.
Nathan? Laura, is that really you? I!m not sure.
I don!t know whether I!m hallucinating or Or whether it!s really you.
But if you can hear me Please, you!ve got to come and help us, before we all die.
Sir, I have the colony bearing zero-zero degrees at 10,000 meters.
Any answer to our hail? WSKRS are detecting human activity, but no one's picking up the phone.
Yeah, looks like their comm system's fried.
Lieutenant, I want you to form a boarding party.
But brief them carefully.
I don't want anyone getting trigger-happy.
All due respect, sir, but the biggest crisis Miranda Colony's ever had was running out of herbal tea.
All the same, I don't want to take any chances.
Yes, sir.
Captain, are you sure you want to go in there blind? I don't think we have any choice.
You see, years ago, I knew Laura Huxley.
In fact, I asked her to marry me before I met Carol.
She turned me down flat.
But I think I know her well enough to know that she wasn't exaggerating when she made that call.
Very well.
Henderson, land us on their collar.
Aye, aye, sir.
O'Neill, set condition two.
All hands, crew all stations.
Secure all hatches.
Condition two.
Security detail Bravo, report to Docking Bay 3.
Get back to me as soon as you can, all right? Captain.
Excuse me.
Sorry.
I'm going to go in.
Why? Are you sensing something from the colony? Fear.
Despair.
A lot of rage.
Kind of like a Canucks hockey game without a referee.
Docking now.
Docking collar pressurized.
Of all life Of all life If this is the nonviolent community, I'd hate to see boot camp.
You got to get us out of here! You got to get me aboard.
Form a perimeter.
Seal off the air lock! Nathan? Oh, thank God you're here.
You don't know what we've been going through.
I think I have some idea.
This is Royce Shelton, chairman of the colony.
Captain.
Can we go someplace and talk? The medical complex.
We can show you further problems.
About 10 years ago, during the last solar flare crisis Mommy.
several of us in the scientific community started talking.
You remember, there were fears about food rationing at the time, and another wave of greed was sweeping through the financial markets.
And the Cold War, that was about the time I quit the service and went to the island with my wife.
Right.
So we decided to move here.
We only had one rule, everyone had to pledge to cooperate in creating a nonviolent and sustainable community.
Did that work? Well, you can see for yourself.
These are the rates for criminal activity and psychological disorders since the founding of the colony.
Mommy, where are you? Must not be much to do here on a Saturday night.
Until four weeks ago.
And then the rates took off.
This all happened in four weeks? We first started to see it as domestic abuse cases.
Then it escalated, muggings, shop looting, rioting.
And now a quarter of the colony is confined as psychiatric cases or criminals.
But why? I don't know.
I've tested everything.
At first I thought it was some bizarre case of mass psychosis, but then the mutations started to happen.
What kind of mutations? I'll show you.
These were our earliest patients, the most violent ones.
And now look at them.
Laura, this patient looks normal.
He does? No signs of transformation? None.
I was afraid of that.
We can't tell anymore whether we're hallucinating or not, and we're the sanest people in the colony.
I'm declaring a state of martial law, and I want guards put in these corridors right away.
Yes, sir.
Stun batons and riot gear only.
Pair up and move out.
Brody, can I help? Guard the oxygen valves in C-12.
Anyone goes near them, you call for help.
Anyone got a theory on this, I'd like to hear about it.
We've seen violent colonies before.
Are we sure they're not just cracking under the pressure of dealing with a crime wave? Oh, I don't think so.
I mean, maybe Dr.
Huxley's patients aren't mutating into demons, but I'm still getting incredibly violent feelings off them.
Oh, sure, but how do you know that's due to an illness? I mean, if we keep giving people excuses for their actions, they'll never change.
But what if there is a medical reason these people are going crazy? We can do something about it.
What we need is a complete analysis of the colony, pathogens, radiation.
And we need it yesterday.
I'll get right on it.
You wanted to see me, sir? Yes.
Will your gills work at this depth? If it means me getting out of night duty, you bet they will, sir.
I want you to make sure that no one's sabotaging the colony's outside environmental systems.
Yes, sir, Captain, sir.
Right away.
And you check into their data banks.
You got it.
Dr.
Shelton You know, I studied your work on Utopian societies in school.
I thought you might have.
Something bothered me today.
Yeah? What's that? The rates of public order you showed us with the colony, historically only happen in police states.
Maybe you've been living too much in the past, Dr.
Smith, instead of the future.
You see, we selected good people for the colony.
And then we worked very hard to help them give up their fears and anger.
But if you'll forgive me now, I've got to go back and try to save that dream.
May I come in? Nathan, I was just thinking about us.
You were? Remember how you almost got court-martialed because you snuck me into the restricted area at Annapolis? Yes, I remember that very well.
So did my commanding officer.
But you're Commander here now, and we can do anything we want.
What are you doing? I'm in love with you.
I can't help it, Nathan.
I make a mistake, a big mistake.
I should have said yes when you asked me to marry you.
Oh, I wanted to, I wanted to.
No, no, no, no.
You were very angry, you made that perfectly clear.
I lied.
There's something wrong here.
Nathan.
You feel something? Yeah, now that you mention it, I'm feeling great.
Help me, they're looting my store! SeaQuest security! Freeze! Okay! Okay! No! Please.
Not sincere enough.
Come on, Nick, run! Yeah, run! Catch you later.
You're just letting them go? Why? You got a problem with that? No.
I We just risked our butts here.
Attractive girl like you ought to take that into account, don't you think? What are you talking about? I think you know what we mean.
No, get off of me! Help! Tyler? Ricky? What are you doing? Get out of here, you stinking dagger.
You don't even know about women.
Hey, Dagwood.
Don't! Area C-12, I need help.
Everybody's going crazy.
My God.
What have I done? Tony? Anything? Everything!s on-line, in line and straight down the line.
And just what the hell did your men think they were doing with that shop girl? So my guys are a little stressed out.
You ever stop to think maybe she was asking for it? Asking for it? What is that supposed to mean? Are you some kind of barbarian? Barbarian? You know, I don't have to take that from you! As a matter of fact, I don't have to take that from anybody! Arrest him! No, Captain, wait! There's something going on here.
You're damn right there is.
His career is coming to a spectacular close.
No, no, you don't understand.
What don't I understand? I've been analyzing the ocular dilation readings and the voice stress profiles from the crew.
You're not authorized to do that.
I know that.
I couldn't help it.
You're invading everyone's privacy! What I'm trying to tell you is, this is my greatest weakness, and I gave into it.
We're all giving into it.
Giving into what? Look.
Look at these readings.
They're the same profiles you get from criminal psychopaths.
But I'm finding it in our own crew.
I mean, whatever's infecting the colony's infecting us.
It's making us behave this way.
And you haven't found any source of contamination for the colony? No.
That's what's so frightening.
I mean, look at yourself.
Your agitation's what you always hold back, yet you're expressing it blindly.
Agitation? I'm not agitated.
No, you're just practically out of your mind.
That's it! You're on the first boat out of here.
You can't do that! Oh, yes, I can.
I'm the captain.
What do you want? I!m scared.
People bad.
Yes.
They are, aren't they? That's something to be scared of, isn't it? No.
Bridger scare Darwin.
Bridger mad, say angry things.
Captain, it is happening to you.
Did you take any of those readings on me? Yes, all of us.
Including me.
We're all at dangerous levels.
Oh, we've got to take a breath here.
We've really got to take a breath.
Brody, come here.
I think we have to look at each other and remind each other what we mean to each other.
Now, look, take care of your men.
Disarm them if you have to.
We'll stay docked to the colony in case you need reinforcements.
Yes, sir.
Right away.
I'm sorry, sir.
That's all right.
Anyone heard from Piccolo? Coming in.
You may not believe this, but I!m getting thirsty.
We've got one chilling for you, Tony.
Whoa.
What was that? Tony? What's going on? The power plant's fritzing out your transmissions.
Tony? Can you hear us? What the hell are you doing? No! Let go of me! You don't understand.
Hey, Ortiz! Can you read me? Somebody!s trying to tap our power! Ortiz? Oh, no! Tony? What's going on, Tony? My gills are gone! I!m drowning! Tony.
Tony, where are you? Speak to us.
Captain, we've lost Piccolo.
Listen, Piccolo's missing someplace out there.
Go find him.
Go find him.
Darwin, go to port bow.
That's where he would have drifted.
He's got him.
Medical team to sea deck.
Captain, you better see this.
Where is this coming from? WSKRS number three.
I positioned it where Tony was when he started yelling.
Whatever it is, it's so tightly polarized, you can't even see it unless you're directly aligned with the source.
That's because it's a chaos path.
A what? Shock waves passing through the water are actually causing the molecules to luminesce.
But we aren't detecting any shock waves.
We aren't detecting anything at all.
Except with our minds.
Dr.
Smith, what's your status? How!s Piccolo doing? He's unconscious, but he's breathing.
All right, detach from the colony.
Follow the path.
And sound general quarters.
General quarters.
General quarters.
All hands man your battle stations.
General quarters.
General quarters.
All hands man your battle stations.
Captain? What, are you leaving? You promised to back me up! I know, I know, but I think we're on to something here.
Well, hey, I!m glad for you.
But we!re crashing and burning here.
I mean Oh, God, I don!t know what I mean.
Look, whatever you say, I'll probably forget it tomorrow.
So just hold on.
I!Il try, Captain.
But things are getting dicey.
Brody? We've just passed through some sort of energy barrier.
There's a trench ahead.
It must be a mile deep.
My head.
It's inside my head! Prepare lasers and torpedoes! We're over the trench.
In 10 In five It's the face of God.
No.
It looks like a chaos cloud.
The total reversal of all physical laws, only they're not supposed to exist.
It's drawing us in.
Our speed is accelerating.
Are you tracking your target? Negative.
The sensors say there's nothing there.
Veer off.
Help! It's just an illusion, now hold on! Close the main ballast.
I'm trying, but we don't have the buoyancy.
It's just a trick.
Just close your mind and do it! Okay, it's working.
We're rising.
The distance is opening.
We've passed through the energy barrier.
Systems are on-line.
We're back to normal.
I don't think so.
What do you think that is? Evil, and it's growing.
All divisions have reported the damage has been contained, sir.
Does Piccolo remember anything? No, he's got total amnesia about it.
His short-term memories never fixated.
Our data banks aren't going to be any help, either.
I mean, look at these charts.
It's a completely featureless trench.
I think it's way past time we notified U.
E.
O.
Oh, you know what their first impulse will be.
Send a nuclear fleet.
I don't think we want that.
No, you're right.
It's featureless.
It's just too featureless.
What are you saying? You think somebody altered the charts? Yeah, yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.
I mean, look at the repeating patterns.
Somebody has erased what's really there.
Well, can we backtrack it to see what they're hiding? Yeah, it's going to take me a while.
Captain, I've got Lieutenant Brody on TAC one.
Cleanse yourselves with fire! We're getting near the edge here, Captain.
If somebody doesn't get these people back on decaf real soon, we're all going to be history.
How much longer do you think you can hold out? I don't know.
Somebody just tried to torch us with a homemade flamethrower.
A lot of my people are down, injured or just crazy.
Well, I don't think we're thinking any clearer than you are.
Has it affected your model K? No, not in the slightest.
This might be off the wall, but try asking him for advice.
Maybe that cloud!s not affecting him.
All right, I'll give it a shot.
Out, Captain.
Hey, you heard him? Yeah.
So, what would you do? Me? I would get everyone together in the same place.
And tell stories, and sing songs.
Well, that would make me feel better.
Well, kind of like church, huh? What's church? You're about to find out.
Hey, you, you heard the man.
Make it happen.
Get everybody into the town meeting hall right away.
Go! Go! Wait.
Brody? Can I ask you a question? Yeah, what? This thing that I'm not feeling, it means I'm not human, doesn't it? No wonder they didn't make any more of you.
You're not even close to being a soldier.
I try to be.
No, Dagwood, it's not what I meant.
Look, when they put you together, they didn't include a mean bone in your body.
If someone could figure out how to do that for the rest of us, we'd all be a lot better off.
No mean bones.
Yeah, you got it.
Come on, we've got to hurry, let's go! You're a telepath, aren't you? Yes.
I know the privacy laws won't allow you to probe someone without prior consent.
But if it'll help you figure out what's happening to us, I want you to probe me.
Relax, breathe.
All right, let me in.
Nathan? All I want to say is All I want to say is Yes.
Everything all right? Oh, Laura found out I'm a telepath.
She asked me to do a probe.
And? And, she doesn't know what's in the trench.
Is there something you're not telling me? I shouldn't.
But I don't know if any of us are gonna be alive tomorrow.
Well, then tell me.
Laura was raised in a very violent family.
It made her afraid of marriage, so when you asked her, she pushed you away.
But what she was telling you today was the truth.
She was always very much in love with you.
She still is.
All right.
I think we should find Dr.
Shelton.
It's time you submitted him to a probe, too.
I'm on it.
The more I work at this, the more I wonder if I'm not even supposed to figure this out at all.
Maybe none of this is even real.
No, that's what that thing is doing to you.
It's making you doubt yourself.
How do you know that? Maybe this is just virtual reality and I'm a program told to believe I exist, when nothing exists at all.
No, Lucas.
Believe me.
I'm real.
And so are you.
Come here.
Darwin.
Darwin, what do you say about Lucas? Lucas friend.
Play with Darwin.
Okay, I get the picture.
Virtual reality wouldn't be this wet.
But you know what? Maybe you're feeling so uncertain because you're getting close and that thing is trying to stop you.
That's crazy.
Is it? What's the opposite of what you've been doing? A frontal assault.
I've been looking for service entrances.
But a frontal assault is way too easy.
Who says? Show me.
How would you do it? Okay Yeah, normally I'd try all the simple passwords first and then shoot the dictionary at it at high speed.
Mmm-hmm.
With adjustments, of course.
I don't know why I didn't do this before.
This could work.
It's working, it's working.
Yeah.
Captain, I'm getting a database! Ten years ago, there was a research facility at the bottom of that canyon.
The Deepfire Project.
It was secretly funded out of the same account that set up the colony.
Who's name was on the account? You're not going to believe this.
Dr.
Shelton was the sole owner and project director.
Where is he? Nobody can find him.
But Brody's team did find something else.
What? The airlock in the colony's power dome was used in the past couple of hours.
Somebody tried to divert the power we were feeding the colony into an undersea line.
It's got to be Shelton.
How far could he get in a DSL suit? The nearest land is Hamilton Island, 60 kilometers.
We're taking a shuttle.
You going somewhere? Hold it! I was hoping to sail as far away as possible from the cloud.
And then? Blow myself to kingdom come.
Why? Because I made a pact with the devil.
And now there's nowhere to hide.
These are the plans for Deepfire lab.
A parapsychology center? Yes.
As you know, telepathic powers barely work on the surface.
Too much human static.
So you isolated your lab in the deepest canyon you could find.
And made great strides, until my staff started killing each other.
What were you building down there? A sort of transceiver.
We were trying to beam thoughts of cooperation and nonviolence into the colony.
And in a way, we did.
This machine actually worked? Yes, though not exactly as planned.
It couldn't beam anything into the colony.
But it was able to draw something away from it.
What? Call if what you want.
The dark side of the force.
Evil.
Those energies that feed our fears and angers.
About 100 years ago, Freud and Jung warned us that if we separate the shadow side from the self, that would destroy you.
True enough.
But I told myself they didn't have my technology.
But you had the arrogance to try and separate them? And why not? We know about matter and anti-matter.
Why not life and anti-life? How do you explain genocide? Or religious wars fought by fanatics pledging their lives to a loving God who then commit every atrocity imaginable in his name? No, there's a power that despises life.
And for 10 years I drew that power away from the colony.
And for 10 years, the colony enjoyed unparalleled peace.
So what went wrong? Containing those forces required increasing amounts of electric power.
Four weeks ago, the power failed.
Then you tapped into our power.
So you could regain control.
At least long enough to destroy the transceiver.
But I failed.
And now that energy's coming alive.
And it's going to keep growing until it consumes everything.
No, no, it's not.
We've been inside that cloud.
We can fight it, you can fight it, too.
You don't know what the center of it's like.
Well, there's only one way to find out.
I'm not that brave.
You have any children? Grandchildren? Yes.
You really think you have a choice? All right.
But prepare yourself, Captain.
You're about to meet the devil.
And believe me, we're all going to die in the attempt.
Ignore it! Ignore it, and sing.
Anybody, come on.
Somebody sing.
Amazing grace How sweet the sound That saved a wretch Like me I once was lost But now I!m found Was blind But now, I see This is an opportunity for each of you to decide whether you want to stay with seaQuest, or leave before we enter this energy field.
If you decide to stay, I want you to remember this.
If we believe that the core of our being is good and life-affirming, we will not fail each other.
And we will be able to oppose whatever it is out there that we're facing.
All right, this is your chance.
We've already discussed it, Captain.
We're all going to stay.
We want to fight this thing together.
All right, take us through the cloud.
Set course two-two-nine.
Take us to 20,000 feet.
All ahead emergency, now.
Switch all systems to isolated power.
Cut all connections to the hull.
Sea's growing colder.
Much too cold.
It should be frozen solid at these temperatures.
Hull fittings are separating.
We can't take this turbulence.
The angel of death is coming! The angel of death is coming! Don't let her hurt herself.
The angel of death Stay calm! You're gonna be fine.
Hold on to your loved ones and pray.
It's growing stronger.
It's like a psychic black hole.
The more chaos it draws in, the more powerful it becomes.
Dad! Dad! You!ve gotta turn back.
I need you.
You're not You're not there.
No, my son's not there, is he? I can't hold it.
We're going in.
It's reaching critical mass.
It's becoming conscious.
We're losing power.
No, we've still got momentum.
Ram the lab.
Our skin will regenerate.
Bow planes, full down emergency.
Brace for collision.
All hands Dive to the bottom of your tank.
We're going to crash.
Let's go.
All right, blow this lock and seal it after us.
Where is it? Beyond the containment wall.
All right.
Hold on! Hold on! Bridger! We go in there, we'll burn alive! No, no, it's an illusion! Come on! We have to break the connection.
Smash the rod.
No, Dad! Don't do it! It's the only way I can stay alive! Don't! It's real! My hand! It's dying.
We've got full power.
Captain, get out of there, the dome's giving way.
Get him to Sickbay! Seal this lock.
All back emergency.
Blow all tanks.
Fire the lasers.
Fire everything.
Break down the magma bed.
I want this thing destroyed forever.
All right, Commander, take us back to the colony.
It's not an illusion.
Dr.
Shelton really did age 20 years.
Why not me? Because your soul wasn't the seed at the heart of that thing.
Mine was.
But at least I won it back.
Thank you for not letting me make a fool of myself.
I want you to know that before all the years passed, before my marriage, my family, I did love you, Nathan, more than I can tell you.
I loved you, too, Laura.
We'll always have that.
The boat's secured, sir, all are present and accounted for.
Take us home, Commander.
Aye, sir.
Hi, I'm Jonathan Brandis.
On seaQuest, I talk to Darwin using this vocoder.
But in reality, humans communicate with dolphins by using hand signals.
Dolphins also use sound to see underwater by sending out clicks through this part of their head, called the melon.
When the click sounds hit objects or land formations, they bounce back to the dolphin like an echo or sonar.
In this way, dolphins are aware of the world around them, even in the darkest water.
See you on the next adventure of seaQuest.