seaQuest DSV (1993) s02e10 Episode Script

Singing, do wah diddy diddy dum diddy do She looked good Looked good She looked fine Looked fine Hey, hey, hey! If you guys don't come up with another song real soon, I'm gonna fly us into a cliff.
Feeling hostile, are we, because we only got a 62 on our final exam? It had to be a mistake.
How can you flunk a woman in a sexual harassment seminar? Oh, I don't know, maybe, "Been there, done that.
"I know where to kick them next time," was a bit too brief of an answer for the essay part of the exam.
Yeah, well, if the bureau of personnel thinks I'm gonna spend another week away from the boat retaking that stupid course, they're out of their minds.
Hey.
Hey, hey, hey.
You guys hear that? Hear what? Sounds like a distress beacon.
I think the battery's dying.
Yeah.
It's malfunctioning.
They're broadcasting coordinates from halfway around the planet.
What's the identifier? UEO Endeavor.
The Endeavor? Isn't that Marcus Rawlings' ship? Yeah.
You mean the guy that discovered the Hemingway Trench? Yeah.
Only, if he's in trouble, then that signal's right.
Because he is halfway around the world.
Well, tell it to the signal, because it's coming from right below us.
Lucas, pinpoint the source.
Tim, you better call it in.
This is UEO Shuttle 4600-2 calling seaQuest DSV, over.
UEO Shuttle 4600-2 calling seaQuest DSV, over.
Tim, is that you? You're breaking up.
Tim? SeaQuest DSV Tim, say again? One, two Tim? Can you read me? We're getting close to that signal.
We better strap in.
The thermal's getting a little turbulent.
Jeez! A little turbulent? You ever see it like this before? Not exactly.
Lucas, can you help with the throttles? How strong is the downflow? Twenty-two meters and increasing.
Twenty-two a minute? No.
A second.
You've gotta break off! What do you think I'm trying to do? I've got thrusters on full lift, and we're still corkscrewing in.
Oh, man, pressure hull's stressing! Go to emergency oxygen! I can't reach my mask! Jim? You're cool.
You're cool.
I got you covered.
Mayday, mayday! This is UEO Shuttle 4600-2.
We've an uncontrolled descent at GPS block 1-2-0-0-9.
Does anyone read? Over.
Oh, my God.
What is that? Mayday! Mayday! We've an uncontrolled descent at GPS block 1-2-0-0-9.
Does anyone read? Over.
The sea floor's giving way! It's drawing us in! Hang on! I can't stop it! Into your hands, O Lord, I commit my soul.
Give me full power to the bow thrusters! You got it! Pressure hull's gonna blow! Keep it off the walls! You've got to keep it off the walls! I'm trying! Give me everything you've got! We're entering a cavern.
It's widening out.
Steer for the ledge! Can you see it? I'm on it.
Hang on! We're gonna crash! The water's draining away.
Test the air.
Secure your systems.
We can breathe the air.
Everyone else okay? Yeah, I think so.
I think I broke my leg.
What? Something's on the roof.
Come on.
You're a man.
Yes.
Marcus Rawlings.
I'm sorry to make your acquaintance.
Where are we? Ten miles beneath the mantle of the earth, though exactly where, I'm not too sure.
That's what remains of my dive pod over there.
Why are you so sorry to meet us? Because judging from the condition of your submersible, I'd say we're all gonna die down here together.
They were too far away and too deep to pinpoint where they were transmitting from.
They could be anywhere along Any chance of your picking something up? I've been trying.
But they must be out of range, assuming Assuming what? Well, it's just that I haven't been able to pick up anything at all.
I mean, unless they're in a lead-lined isolation chamber, I should at least be sensing they're alive.
Captain I'm not entertaining the idea that they could be dead.
The crew wants you to know that we've already rigged a rescue pack to the stinger.
That's right, Cap.
You find them, we'll bring them in, no matter what it takes.
Thank you.
I intend to bring them in.
Ortiz, spread your WSKRS out in as broad a plane as possible.
McKay, you better come down here and replace Henderson at the helm.
Piccolo, you assist.
We're gonna follow the center line of their course, and, people, we'd better do it quickly because they're running out of air.
Okay.
There you go.
Okay.
Easy, easy.
Take it easy.
Okay, come on.
Good.
It's around here all the way.
One, two, three.
Down! Easy, easy, easy, easy.
Let's go.
Ready? Okay.
I'll try and get the radio working.
How did you end up down here? Too much curiosity and not enough common sense.
I had a theory that there were tunnel ways penetrating the earth's mantle.
It was the only explanation for some of the tectonic action I was mapping and some of the anomalies in sea life I'd found.
And that's why you were charting the Hemingway Trench? Yes.
I was looking for a way in.
Only, when I finally found it, I didn't have any warning.
I was at 10,000 meters approaching the epicenter of some local seismic activity and suddenly I was being sucked in.
Just like us? Except, I had a longer ride.
I've been stuck down here for three days.
Fortunately, my pod was armored, but I've lost everything mounted on it, including my propulsion units.
The water seems to surge back and forth down here, just like Old Faithful.
Well, that would make sense.
Debris is sucked off the ocean floor until it clogs up the tunnel opening, shutting off the water flow.
And then when the water is super-heated down in the lower layer of the mantle, it comes blasting up again.
Could be.
It certainly matches what I've seen.
So what you're saying is that on the last blast to the surface you launched your distress buoy.
Yeah.
Even though you knew the water flow was going to reverse and anyone who answered your signal was going to be sucked in just like you? What was I supposed to do? Die down here in silence? Well, you could have reprogrammed the buoy to include some sort of a warning signal.
I didn't have the time.
Oh, is that so? Or were you afraid that someone maybe wouldn't reach you? Hey, hey, hey.
Can we calm down here? I'm perfectly calm.
Well, I'm not! How long is it gonna be till that water comes back? Ten, maybe 15 hours.
We can try surviving it in my pod, but But what? I'm out of oxygen, and each time the water sweeps through, it carries my pod even deeper underground.
Then we better get moving.
Let's see what we can do about that shuttle.
Dr.
Rawlings, you didn't mention one thing.
What created these caverns? Believe me, if I knew, I'd tell you.
I'm pretty sure about one thing, though.
What's that? They weren't caused by any natural geological process.
Right here, yeah.
Sir, we're approaching the outer boundary of where they might have disappeared.
Okay.
Let's double the crew on all the communications and sensor stations.
Right away.
If anybody picks up anything, anything at all, call it out.
Or senses anything.
Okay, don't be shy, don't be embarrassed to be wrong.
You got it, sir.
Okay, people.
Do something.
Tell me where you are.
The radio signal's bouncing right off the walls.
We're in the ultimate isolation chamber.
You wouldn't happen to have any more of those distress buoys up your sleeve, would you? I don't even have a bottle to stuff a message in.
Believe me, I've looked.
Not that it would do any good.
The only way to get a buoy out of here is to wait till the water comes back in and that's going to be too late.
Unless we ride it out of here.
What? Well, think about it.
Guys, I mean, he's got this armored pod we can cram into.
I mean There's just no way to steer it.
Or an oxygen supply.
No, but we do! We do! I mean, the shuttle's busted, but the oxygen generator's still working.
We have the shuttle's thrusters.
You think you can work out a way to attach the thrusters to the pod? Why not? I mean, if Henderson has the tools, we can put this thing together.
There wasn't anything on my dad's solar farm that wasn't jury-rigged.
You work out a design, Lucas, I'll bang it together.
Oh, man! I knew there was a reason I asked you to be my roommate at the seminar.
All right, people! Let's get moving, huh? Hey.
Hey, do you guys hear that? You getting something on the radio? No.
No, it's not on the radio.
I can feel it.
It's something low-pitched.
It's too soon for the water.
It's gotta be.
We've got to get in the pod.
No, no, no.
Wait.
Something's coming.
What do you mean? I mean, something's coming.
Look! What is it? What is it? It's a giant worm! Fall back! Fall back! Grab what you can and get in the dive pod! Henderson, help O'Neill! Brody! Help me! What are you doing? Fighting fire with fire! Come on! It's working! It's backing up! Look out! You did it, Brody! Nice thinking.
Yeah, I guess it was.
So, that's where the tunnels came from? I'd say we're in the running for the Nobel Prize.
Too bad it's not awarded posthumously.
Brody? Brody? How did we come through? I'm not sure.
The electrical and propulsion units are okay, but the oxygen generator's toast.
And there's no air left in the tanks.
You mean, all we have left is the oxygen in the emergency units? Yeah.
About five minutes apiece.
When that water comes roaring back in here, we're history.
We're at the end of the search path.
We should at least have spotted some wreckage.
No, no, no, no, that may be the good news.
If there's no wreckage, that means the shuttle may be intact.
We could have just passed by and not sensed anything, right? Well, it happens, especially when my emotions are involved.
Ortiz, you said it sounded like they were trying to send out an urgent message, right? Yes, sir.
All right.
Let's do this.
We'll correlate every call in the area.
Emergency, disappearing ships, renegade submarines, anything.
You got it.
And then, McKay, in the meantime, I want you to take us back to the search zone very slowly.
We're gonna go over every centimeter of the ocean floor.
See if we can find any impact zone, any kind of cliff that they could be sheltered under, anything at all.
You're right.
The oxygen's out.
Totally dry.
So we're all gonna die.
Well, maybe not.
I mean, we've still got the propulsion units from the shuttle, and Henderson's tools.
So, I mean, with a little luck, we can have that pod ready to sail before the water comes back again.
Except we won't have any oxygen.
Well, we do.
We still have the four emergency masks.
Which kind of makes sense because there's really only room for four people in the pod.
And what do we do about the fifth person? Well, we hope they're still alive when the rescue party returns.
They won't be.
Now that creature's trashed it, there's no way the shuttle will survive the next flooding.
Well, that doesn't change the mathematics any, because there's really no way to get five people out of here alive.
So who stays? Look, why don't we just get this thing ready and then figure that out later? No, no.
We can't work on rebuilding the pod with that hanging over our heads.
We've got to decide that now.
Guys! Whatever happened to all for one and one for all? It just isn't in the math.
I mean, look at our body masses and the travel time up to the surface.
The oxygen just isn't there.
So We have to make a choice.
I can think of one way of making the cut.
How's that? Well, the guy who got us into this could get us out.
He had a right to call for help.
I don't think we're objective enough to decide that he should have done it any differently.
Besides, we're gonna be using his pod anyway.
Jim, under maritime law, we have to save the civilians first.
Let me make this easier on you.
I'm no more of a civilian in that sense than Lucas is.
I'm not going to claim any special status.
So there's only one thing left to do.
We have to ask for a volunteer.
And, no offense intended, but, besides the fact that I'm injured, I also happen to believe in an afterlife.
With more faith, I think, than any of you.
So It ought to be me.
No.
No, no, no.
Look, Tim, we're not going to take advantage of your faith.
If we need a volunteer, then Then I'm the senior guy.
You know, the shuttle is not a ship.
You don't have to go down with it.
Now, there's only one way to do this that's fair and mathematical.
What's that? A lottery.
First we work together to get this thing going, and then we hold the drawing.
Is that fair enough? Yeah.
Fair enough.
Good.
Let's get this thing working.
And in the meantime, you can pray that they find us so we never have to pick a name.
Bridger searching for Darwin!s friends? Yes, we are.
You got any bright ideas? Let Darwin search.
Give Darwin air pack.
No, no, no, no.
We're going much too fast for that.
You come back later.
I will eat fish.
You believe this guy? I said it wasn't a very good idea.
Wait a minute.
Are you sure it's not? What do you mean? Well, maybe Darwin could spot something.
I mean, he's better equipped than any of our WSKRS.
Or are you afraid of losing him, too? No.
It's not that.
It's not? Captain, we don't know what happened to that shuttle.
It makes sense that it could happen to Darwin, too.
I wouldn't blame you for fearing that.
Listen, my friend.
You know how dangerous this is? Huh? Darwin not afraid.
Darwin famous shark fighter.
I know you're a famous shark fighter.
But I'm not afraid of sharks, I'm afraid of humans.
Darwin not afraid.
Darwin find friends.
Give me air pack, Bridger.
Give me air pack! Okay.
You got it.
But I want you to remember something, smart guy, you better be careful.
I want you to bring them and yourself back alive.
How much torque is this designed to take? Good enough.
Can you give me a hand? Sure.
What were you thinking when you were trapped down there all alone? That with any luck, there'd be a woman on the rescue team as beautiful as you.
Give me a break.
You ever try that line before? Yeah, actually, once, on top of Everest.
Did it work? I think so.
Of course, it was 50 below and we didn't have a tent, so it was a little hard to tell.
In fact, I'm not even sure if it was a woman.
How can you be so calm at a time like this? Well Practice makes perfect.
I don't know.
What is it? Are you one of those guys who thinks his number's never gonna be up? I wish I was.
I'd sleep better at night.
So What do you believe? That life's an illusion.
If it has any meaning at all.
Is that Is that something you thought up on top of Everest, too? No.
My Sherpa guide did.
Are you okay? No.
I can't believe I'm getting an anxiety attack.
I always thought I'd be the last person on earth to feel I've never been this scared before.
Look Would you just hold me for a second? Huh? Until the shakes go away? Hey.
Ever design a submarine before? Oh, sure, 10 or 15 times.
Of course, it was always on the back of place mats in a restaurant.
Where's Henderson? She's attaching the last thruster with Rawlings.
Oh.
You know, maybe this would be a good time to tell her.
I mean, it might be your last chance.
Tell her what? That you have a crush on her.
What makes you think I do? Instinct.
So what do you say? Well, if they're attaching those thrusters, I think it may be a good time to test that pod before that dragon worm or the water comes back.
It's gonna be morning soon.
If they're near us, they're probably sleeping.
Sometimes it's easier to break through then.
I'm going to try another scan.
Here you go.
So, what do you think? Did the government really need to pay all those thousands of engineers to build these things for us? Or could we really have done it ourselves? Well, I guess there's only one way to find out.
Powering up now.
Okay.
Stand clear! Firing! They're working! They're working! They're working perfectly! We'll enjoy the ride! Yes! Good work, man.
Oh, great job, man! You did it! Well, there's only one more thing to do before the water comes.
We've gotta hold the lottery.
Oh, boy.
Five wires.
One of them is short.
So who wants to go first? Hey, with my luck, I'll save you all a lot of trouble and just draw the short one now.
That's a long one.
Congratulations.
Okay, Lucas, I'll take my try.
Why am I never this lucky at cards? You want to take your shot? Ladies first.
It's better odds.
Actually, the odds are the same for everybody.
The short wire could have turned up first as easily as last.
Yeah, but somehow it never seems that way.
Does it? What? Another long one? What is this, Lucas? Come on! Is this some kind of a joke? No.
Like I said, there was just as much of a chance that the last wire would be the short one as the first one.
It's just the mathematics.
But, I mean, this isn't fair, man.
It's It's not fair? Why not? I worked out the system, and it nailed me.
So what could be more fair than that? Come on.
Let's just do two out of three No! It's done.
It's finished.
I've picked the short wire.
Just Just leave me alone.
Okay.
Let me hear them.
Let me find them.
You sure you want to be alone? I was just thinking that this is gonna be okay.
I mean, this is the ultimate experiment, isn't it? But I'm sure something'll happen and I'll get out okay.
But if it doesn't, at least it'll answer all my questions about death.
You and I have the two lightest body masses here.
We could share a breather, Lucas.
We'd still have a chance.
No.
I know my mathematics, and you'll be trapped in that pod with too little oxygen as it is.
To make it to the surface would be a miracle.
If we share a breather, we'll just both die.
I don't like this mathematics stuff.
I know.
It's like a curse.
But the numbers always tell the truth.
Isn't there anything you want, Lucas? Something from the supplies? Everyone's dessert from the survival rations? Or Or me to be with you? Be with me.
Just hold me.
Just help me get to sleep.
O!Neill? Brody? Henderson? Come on, call out to me.
Tell me where you are! Lucas? Just hold me.
Lucas, I can hear you! Lucas? Just help me get to sleep.
Listen to me! Tell me where you are, Lucas! Lucas? Lucas? They're alive.
They're alive! Wake up! Wake up! The water's coming! Come on! Are you sure? Yes.
I could feel Lucas even though he couldn't hear me.
We have to be near them.
Stop all engines.
What are you getting on your sensors? Nothing, sir.
Darwin, we're getting close to our friends.
Have you heard anything? Seen anything? No.
But water taste strange.
Tastes strange? What do you mean? Wrong ocean.
Too much salt.
What do you think he means? Beats me.
But Marcus Rawlings was reported lost in the Hemingway Trench three days ago, and the trench has a much higher salt content.
That's 5,000 miles away, too.
Where are you, Darwin, exactly? Toward the rising sun.
Hour swim.
Water strange.
You think there's any connection between these disappearances? I don't know.
It's outside the search area.
Yeah, but something took the shuttle outside the search area, too.
I'm putting my money on Darwin and Smith.
Let's go to condition three, Ortiz.
Condition three! Condition three! All hands man your stations! Stand by rescue and assistance detail! Now! Let's go! Bearing 0-9-0.
All ahead full.
Where's Rawlings? Wasn't he with you? No! Quick! Get in! Get in! No! Where are you going? Come on! To find him.
Lucas? Lucas? Are you there? Lucas? What are you doing? Contemplating the meaning of life in the shuttle.
What? Take my place, Lucas.
You won it, Rawlings, fair and square.
Yes, well, I prefer free will to mathematics.
You!re younger than I am, Lucas.
And you!re going to be a better scientist and probably a better man, because the truth is, I did panic and lure all of you here.
Look, we'll send a rescue party for you! You do that.
And, hey, will you give a moving speech to the media about how self-sacrificing I was? It!Il drive all my ex-girlfriends crazy.
Come on! Button it up! Seal it! Rawlings? Rawlings? Rawlings? Sit down! Come on! Buckle it in! All right! Launching now! We've got to take the tunnel square on or we're gonna crash! I'm on it! Now! Hang on! Here we go! Captain, I'm picking up a strange noise dead ahead.
It almost sounds like a volcano.
Head for the source of that sound.
Darwin, come back inside, right now.
How's my fuel? Running low! Throttle me back, Lucas! Make it last! Tim, are you all right? His air's run out! How far to the surface? Well, we've got to be near! Breathe this! Take it in! Breathe it in! We've lost a thruster! Oh, God! What do I do now? Just hold on! Contact! Contact dead ahead! An eruption from the sea floor! Any sign of the shuttle? I'm scanning.
I can't control it! We're not gonna make the surface! I'm out of air! Here, breathe this! Just breathe it! All right? Damn it! We came so close! Target! Metal sphere bearing to port, 2,000 yards.
It looks like a dive pod breaking up.
All ahead emergency.
Prepare the grapnels.
Range, 1,200 meters, Target in range.
Grapnels, fire.
What's that? Here! It's a grapnel! It's a magnetic grapnel! SeaQuest has got us! Just hold on! We've got them hooked.
No one's answering our hail.
Reel them in as fast as you can.
Let's go! Come on, Piccolo.
All right.
Clear the Med Bay.
We're on our way.
Yes! They're home! We were so worried about you.
You all right? I think so.
Okay? I got you.
All right, watch his leg.
We gotta get you back to Med Bay, all right? What about you? I'm fine.
Okay.
What's docked at the second port? The stinger with a rescue pack.
The stinger! That could make it.
The stinger could make it.
What do you mean? What is he talking about? We left somebody behind.
Who? Marcus Rawlings.
Rawlings? Lucas, wait a minute.
Stop him! All hands, secure access to Dive Port 2! All hands, secure access to Dive Port 2! Lucas, what are you doing? I've got a friend that's trapped down there.
Come on, Dagwood, you've got to let me go! No.
Friends are important.
And I'm you're friend, so I will go with you.
No.
No, Dagwood.
You're just gonna die with me down there! Better than dying alone.
Okay.
Come on.
Let's go.
Lucas! Wait! Come on.
Get it open! I can't! He's cycled the outer doors! Lucas, don't do this.
I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna let Rawlings die.
Launching Now.
You can't help him.
I!ve just got to give it a try.
Now will you give me the telemetry to the tunnel so I have a chance? Please.
Ortiz, guide him in.
Okay, Lucas.
Turn right 21 degrees.
Steady.
You're on course.
Okay, the mouth of the tunnel is coming up in 500 meters.
Okay.
Hold on, Dagwood.
Here we go! Okay.
I've got it.
I've got it.
I've just gotta keep off the walls.
I wouldn't hit the rocks, either, Lucas, if I were you.
What? Okay, Captain, we!ve got a lot of debris in here.
We!re three clicks into the tunnel coming up on four.
Everything!s holding together.
What happened? The stinger's in too deep.
We lost the signal.
Okay, brace yourself.
I'm gonna make a hard dock! Rawlings? Where are you? Oh, God.
Here.
Get out of here, Lucas! Come on! Help me! Come on! The dragon worm's back in the bottom of the cave! Gotta get him back into the stinger! Come on! Lucas? Lucas? Can you read me? Lucas? Yeah.
We!re going with the flow, Captain, but we've got company! What is that? Target lasers.
Lucas, when you clear the tunnel break to port.
Laser's up! Break now! Fire! Yes! Yes, it worked! He's clear! Lucas, can you read me? Are you okay? We're all right.
And we're coming home.
Shuttle MR-4 is clear for departure.
The shuttle's ready to take you home.
Thank you, Captain.
Thank you for everything.
You're welcome.
Before I go and give all these interviews to the media, I'd like to ask you just one thing.
Yeah? Why'd you come back for me? Well, some people say that what you send around comes around.
I just wanted to prove that was true.
You ever need anything, just ask.
There is one thing, actually.
When you give all those interviews to the media Yeah? You can tell them how self-sacrificing I was.
Maybe it'll get me a girlfriend.
Everybody okay? Everything's fine.
Right back to normal.
Glad to hear it.
Your orders, sir? Move us out, Commander.
Move us out.
Hi, I'm Marco Sanchez.
Question.
What's the difference between a sea lion and a seal? Although they!re from the same family called pinnipeds, there!s some big differences.
The most obvious distinction is in their flippers.
A sea lion has flippers that are long and wing-like.
The sea lions are considered more social and more vocal.
In fact, it's their long, almost fierce roars that have given them the name sea lions.
See you on the next adventure of seaQuest.