seaQuest DSV (1993) s02e21 Episode Script
Splashdown (1)
Previously on seaQuest.
What do you think of my comet now, Tobias? I think you better keep an eye on it.
This one who!s after me is a Stormer, not overly bright but damn good at his work.
The only ones in danger are the people standing in the way of my execution.
You're a criminal? In my world, yes, I guess I am.
Hyperion is a planet of conquests, forever at war with itself and those around it.
My teachings in tolerance and anti-expansion branded me a traitor, for which I was sentenced to death.
Thank God you're all so stupid.
You mean, how will I see to get there? I was kind of hoping you'd drive, Scott.
Come with me, my friend.
Let's go in search of other worlds.
I wonder if he'll come back.
It depends on what he finds out there.
Okay, what about this one? Moldy sneeze.
Moldy sneeze? Yes, moldy sneeze.
This guy's got names for 50 types of fish we haven't even classified, and the only problem is there's no way to translate them.
Fascinating, Lucas.
I'll try to remember that next time I date an ickyologist.
That's ichthyologist, Tony.
Ha! Not where I'm from.
Am I seeing things? Yes, you're seeing Commander Keller.
I need your help.
If you can hear this transmission, if any part of this message is getting through, meet me at the Christmas tree as fast as you can.
I!m sorry I have to ask you.
Please, don!t forget Organa Watt.
It!s our only chance, Nathan.
Our lives depend on it.
Bridger.
Captain, we just saw something on the bridge.
We!re getting reports from around the boat.
Did it look like Scott Keller? You saw it, too? Oh, I'd say so.
He!s appeared to everybody who knew him.
Assemble the crew on the double.
He said meet him at a Christmas tree? Yeah, after we recovered him from the Mars probe last year, I showed him a chart of where we'd found him and told him that we'd nicknamed the canyon Christmas tree because it had so many branches.
So only you know that.
All right, so we'll meet him there.
Yeah, but what's an Organa Watt? Oh yeah, Organa Watt.
She was the woman who ran the women's dorm at the Academy.
One night, Scott had to eat about a dozen and a half of her terrible cookies to keep her busy while I snuck a girl out the back way.
He said I owed him big time for that, and he was going to wait for a life-or-death situation to hand in his chip.
I guess this is it, huh? We're nearing the Christmas tree trench, sir.
Are we picking up anything? Just static.
It's almost like we're being jammed.
Could we punch out a message if we had to? No.
Damn! What's that? Feels like an energy pulse coming from overhead.
Get me a WSKRS view.
I can't.
We're losing power.
Emergency power.
WSKRS view.
Onscreen.
Oh, my God! What is that? Captain, I can't control her.
We're rising.
Take her back.
Take her back.
I can't.
Oxygen regeneration's failing.
We're running out of air.
Henderson, sound off.
Two hundred meters.
One hundred.
We're on the surface.
I don't believe it.
What's doing this? I think we're making a hyperspace jump.
A what? It's the only thing that makes sense, Commander.
Captain, I think I'm getting a signal.
Put it on the screen.
Aye, aye, sir.
What is it? I don't know how or why, Dagwood, but that's another planet, okay? Just hang on.
We're going in.
All right, get ready, ready for anything.
What? Our power's coming back on.
We've got oxygen.
We're wet, Captain.
Dive.
Take her down.
Lay her along the bottom.
Captain, I'm picking up something dead ahead.
What the hell is that? Somebody's idea of a submarine.
And it's docking with our launch bay.
Come on.
Ah, Nathan.
Tobias.
Thank you for coming, my friends.
You didn't give us much choice.
Where's Scott? Didn't you get his message? I thought that's why you were here.
He didn't say anything about being transported to another planet.
Oh yes.
I'm sorry, but we didn't have two-way communication equipment to reach you, and there was very little time.
Wendy, is there something wrong? I just realized you can see.
Yes, well, it's amazing what a little travel can do for your health, particularly when there's no longer a need to pretend you're fully human, but I will answer all your questions.
First, allow me to present the leaders of, well, half our nation.
The better half.
On behalf of the people of Hyperion, thank you for coming and hearing our plea.
Plea? For your help.
Because without it, both our worlds are going to be destroyed.
Yours as well as ours.
After Scott and I left you, we debated where to go, what new vistas to see.
I wanted to explore the heart of the galaxy, but Scott wanted to come here.
I'd been a member of the resistance movement on Hyperion, which is why I fled to earth and why our rulers, the KrayTaks, sent that Stormer after me.
Scott said that, if the KrayTaks were so afraid of me, maybe there was a reason.
Was there? Our culture had become too advanced to submit to tyranny any longer.
A civil war had broken out.
The only problem was the resistance couldn't reach the space stations.
Because they were purely military, they remained in the hands of the KrayTaks, and they counter-attacked by flooding the planet.
Flooding it? How? They bombarded it with comets torn from their orbits around our sun.
Not only did the explosions melt the polar caps, but the comets themselves consisted mostly of ice, which added to the flooding.
In less than a year, most of our planet was submerged, which is why we need your help.
There's no way our technology can match yours.
Don't underrate yourselves.
Hyperion is far less advanced than you might think.
Remember, most of our space technology was developed after Tobias left us.
We're not even 40 years ahead of you.
That's true.
Our ship is the only one on Hyperion that's even capable of interstellar travel, and we only have that because the scientists who were building it joined us when the revolution came.
All the same, we have nothing to match it.
Oh, but you do.
Hyperion was a desert world.
We never had any underwater science at all, and now that it's flooded, seaQuest represents to us a technology as powerful and alien as our space craft is to you.
If you could defend our spacecraft's base against underwater attack, we might have a chance of winning this war.
Wait a minute.
I don't really think that this is our fight.
Are you so sure? Yes, I am.
Well, think it through.
The KrayTaks and Stormers have destroyed our world.
Even if they win, it's flooded for good.
What are you saying? They only want it now as a base to build more ships like ours.
Once they do, they'll conquer Earth.
Suppose we choose to make our stand on Earth, build our defenses there? It's your choice.
All we ask is that you examine the evidence.
If you want to record it to prove to your leaders you haven't lost your minds, all the better.
Why hasn't Scott already done that? Yes, Tobias, where is Scott right now? I'm sorry, my friend.
The KrayTaks have taken him hostage.
Hostage? He was captured while leading a raid on one of the space stations.
Nathan, I brought you here because if you help us, perhaps we'll be able to free him and end this war.
We'll have to think about this one.
All right, what do we know about our surroundings? Seems to be like Tobias and his friends said.
We're resting on a sandy bottom that's only recently been flooded.
What about their base? Definitely looks improvised, and their technology seems to be more primitive than our own.
So they were telling the truth.
Maybe, are you sensing anything? All I get is static from all three of them, but, remember, not even Tobias is really human.
O'Neill, I want you to try and figure out some way to monitor all communications, this side, the enemy's side.
I don't want us getting into a fight without a talk.
Aye, aye, sir.
In the meantime, keep the boat in condition one, easy.
All men at battle stations, but rotate them so they get some sleep.
Restrict Darwin to the boat.
Very good, sir.
Where will you be? In my quarters, trying to make some sense of all this.
Come in.
Hi.
You're worried about Scott.
And everything else.
They tell me you've known him since the Academy.
It's true.
They tell you we used to be in submarines together? We were, after we graduated.
Then he He opted for outer space.
I opted for inner space.
He had this fabulous career.
Martian probe, you know, all that.
Now he's in this cockamamie war that he A hostage.
It doesn't make any sense, does it? No, not our understanding of it, anyway.
Are you all right? You reading me? It's hard not to.
If you're reading me, you know I'm very confused.
I haven't the foggiest idea which way to turn.
Well, how could you? None of us know anything about this place.
But I'll tell you one thing.
No matter what decision you make, none of us are gonna feel like you let us down.
Bridger.
Captain, you better come to the bridge.
What's up? I!m not sure, but I think we!re under attack.
Where's Tobias? Coming from sea deck.
His delegation just left for their mothership.
Captain, I think I've got a WSKRS view of the contact.
A warship? It's got to be a warship.
What is that? A KaTen, the best underseas weapon the KrayTaks have.
O'Neill, any answer to our call? Negative, sir.
Eleven thousand meters and closing.
It's accelerating.
Captain, I need an order.
Full ahead.
Declare the contact hostile.
Declaring contact hostile.
Torpedoes up.
Lasers up.
Target locked.
We have a firing solution.
Seven thousand meters and closing.
Six thousand.
It's turning toward us.
Captain, it's firing.
Fire intercepts.
Fire torpedoes.
Torpedoes away.
Intercepts away.
Left hard rudder.
All ahead emergency.
Interception in five, in four, three, two, one Interception.
Torpedoes closing on target.
Impact.
All targets destroyed.
Contact board is clear.
No bogies, no bandits.
Sir, I'm getting a signal.
It's coming from right above us.
Let's see it.
Aye, sir.
What's he saying? Because you have chosen to come from Earth today and fight with us, we have a gift for you.
I!m sorry, Nathan.
I should have never got you into this.
The Stormer says to say goodbye.
No, no, no, tell them we want to talk.
I'm so sorry, Nathan.
I thought with you here they'd never dare to kill him.
Mr.
Piccolo.
Sir.
Ready my shuttle, please.
Time to meet their war council.
These charts represent all that's left of Hyperion.
That's it? One colony? It doesn't seem that big.
The tunnels run for thousands of meters into the bedrock.
They're large enough to hold most of our population, 500,000 people.
Five hundred? Out of how many? Four billion.
Nothing's worth that many lives.
You don't understand.
We've never had the choice to surrender.
Our species is more specialized than yours.
You've met our Stormer form.
Yeah, all appetite and bad moods.
And totally dedicated to killing.
That's all that's left on the KrayTak side, and that's all they want left.
They slaughter anybody else they get their hands on.
That's why we've retreated beneath the sea.
What is she saying? She's thanking you for saving us today.
Those KaTens are searching for this colony.
Did you make this yourself? Yes, it shows her favorite oasis before the land was flooded.
She wants you to have it.
Thank you.
You know what, honey? Water really isn't that deep.
Maybe after the war is over, we can rebuild some land for you.
How does that sound? This is why we brought you here.
It's the largest comet in our planetary system.
So large, in fact, you can see it for years at a time from the planet's surface.
Its impact will be well more than enough to destroy our last colony.
The KrayTaks are using tractor beams mounted on their space stations to maneuver it into place for months.
It should strike us in less than a day.
I don't understand what it is we can do.
Our ship is virtually unarmed, but it does have one advantage.
Its tractor beams.
Yes, and? Well, if they're strong enough to lift seaQuest, they may be strong enough to overcome the tractor beams the KrayTaks are using to control the comet.
I wish you'd been one of my students at university.
You're exactly right.
The KrayTaks have no one ship as powerful as ours.
The problem is, to use our beams at full strength requires enormous reaction mass.
Far more than the ship can carry.
We have to stay moored to this base and draw our energy from the planet itself, or we have no chance at all.
So we protect you from an underwater attack while you what? Crash it into the other side? Nathan, there is no other side, at least not on the surface of this planet.
Remember, there are no civilian KrayTaks, only generals and Stormers.
No, we plan to use our tractor beams to tear the comet apart.
And the fragments will sweep the KrayTaks and their space stations out of orbit like a giant meteor shower.
Then perhaps that little girl will see the daylight again.
And your children will never have to live like this.
Sir.
Will you show Doctor LeConte to the guests quarters? He's gonna be staying for a while.
Okay.
You'll be available for dinner? Of course.
Well, what do we think? Well, it seems pretty straight forward, sir.
Really, it's just a peace-keeping mission.
We defend the civilians while they resolve their war.
Is that what you think? I don't know.
They're still blocking me from their minds.
Just like communications.
There's nothing on our wavelength, Captain.
Oh, I don't know.
That child came through pretty loud and clear.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Lucas, what are you saying? I was just thinking how everything is a kludge.
A kludge? Improvised but not quite fitting together.
They're at war, Lucas.
There's hardly anything left.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I can't explain it.
I just feel that things are a bit more alien than they appear.
Well, that may be, but maybe we'll get lucky and find a communications module on that KaTen.
Do you still want to talk to the other side? Oh, yeah, I do.
You can't talk to or reason with someone who destroyed a planet.
I mean, my God, Captain, you saw what they did to Scott.
All the same, I've got to believe that there's some people among them who want out.
Piccolo.
Sir? I want you and Darwin to make a sweep of that KaTen that we torpedoed.
See if there's anything there that resembles a communications module, and then let me know.
Aye, aye.
Darwin, I think I found it.
Over here.
Oh, yeah, look at that.
Wow.
We!Il start in the front, okay? Just be careful.
What do we hear from Piccolo? Well, they've finished with the forward part of the hunter-killer, but they haven't found anything like a radio yet.
That's funny.
What's funny? I had a WSKRS view a second ago.
Darwin was sniffing out the back part of the wreckage.
Now they're gone.
Well, break radio silence.
I want to hear where they are.
Aye, aye, sir.
Tony? Tony? Come in.
Where are you, guy? Tony? Captain, the indicators are showing they're entering the aqua tubes, headed for sea deck.
Tony, do you read? What did you find out? We found something in the wreckage, Cap.
What? Not what.
Who.
Okay, Darwin, the coast is clear.
All right, easy, easy.
Scott.
Nathan, listen to me.
In case you guys haven't figured it out yet, you've been fighting for the wrong side.
I don't know whether to give all of you a hug or a good, swift kick.
Good to see you, too.
Luckily, you're not a better shot.
You guys take a wrong turn.
Join the Navy This is Scott, isn't it? I did a deep scan.
It is him, and no Stormer's controlling him.
The execution tape was a complete fake.
Listen, you guys never were under attack.
We didn't even know the seaQuest was here.
We were trying to take out the mothership while there was still time.
Time? Yeah.
They told you about the comet, didn't they? Well, they told us they were trying to ward it off.
I'll bet they said a lot of things.
Did they tell you the planet's underwater because of a civil war, that soon the resistance will be wiped out and all that will be left are the KrayTaks? Yes, they said that.
Well, most of that's true.
Only they left out one thing.
They're the KrayTaks.
They don't look like Stormers.
Of course not.
The Stormers are the foot soldiers.
They're bred for courage and ferocity.
You were talking to the KrayTaks themselves.
They're not fighters.
They're politicians and looters.
And I thought we weren't in Kansas anymore.
What's this about looters? Everything they've got has been stolen from other planets.
Their technology, this mothership.
They got it the same way they got seaQuest.
You mean they didn't build that ship? No, how could they? They've killed most of their scientists.
No, they hatched a Stormer Pod and then they brought it here from another planet.
So that's why everything looked like a kludge.
Oh, wait a second.
What about that colony over there? There's no colony under the mothership.
That's just the docking station so that they can refuel it from the planet's core.
But we met ordinary people, a child.
Yeah, slaves brought down from a space station for the day to fool all of you.
The only colony left on Hyperion is on the other side of the planet.
It's being held by the resistance.
Well, it is the smartest way to lie.
Just tell the truth except for the parts that really matter.
But why did Tobias go over to them? He didn't.
He was captured trying to seize the mothership.
They're holding him on it now while they drain his memory dry.
Listen, you were never talking to Tobias, Nathan.
You were talking to a Stormer.
I want to talk to this Tobias-clone now.
No, Nathan, that comet is incoming.
If we don't stop them, they're gonna crash on the far side of the planet and wipe out what's left of the resistance.
Then they're coming after Earth.
Did Tobias have a plan before he made his launch? He saw a similar ship on Tau Ceti before he came to Earth.
He thinks he can fly it.
You have any idea what part of the ship they're keeping him in? Defectors from the KrayTaks think he's being held in the lower part of the ship.
Tobias, come in.
The Captain will be here in just a minute.
I can't tell you how excited our leadership is.
This is the first good news they've had in months.
I'm delighted to hear that.
I think our other guest will be, too.
Scott! I thought you were dead.
You ought to know.
Who are you? Klowklaxiton? Trazil? You've got to be somebody from counter intelligence.
You're the one that's been taken.
He's got a Stormer inside him.
What if I said you were lying? Then I'd say you're gonna die with me.
Fire! Check him! Check him! He's out cold.
What's this? Personal communicator.
He's been using it every 70 minutes or so.
Corresponds to a Hyperion hour.
He's probably been checking in.
We haven't got much time.
Let's put him on ice.
The arming key.
The new unlock code is 8-2-6-2-4-2.
Whatever you do, don't surrender the seaQuest.
Aye, aye, sir.
Brody, commence operations.
Alpha team, Bravo team, by the numbers! Man your assault craft! Let's go! Move it! Move it! Move it! Move it! Move it! The board's green, sir.
You're clear to launch! Launching now! Five hundred meters and closing.
Lock and load.
Three hundred.
Arming laser dock.
Brace for docking.
Port sealed.
Go! Go! Go! Bravo team, secure the corridors.
Alpha team, follow me.
You two hold position.
You're with me.
Look out.
Captain, over here! Blow it.
Fire in the hole.
Tobias! You're alive.
Nathan.
Check him out.
Who am I? No, no, don't say it.
Focus on your memories of us.
Let me hear the human side of your brain.
Tell me if you're free.
Yes, I can read his mind.
He's clear.
How did you get here? Never mind that.
How do we get control of this ship? You can't.
They've armored the command decks.
There's no way through anymore.
There's got to be something we can do.
There is.
Destroy it.
Destroy it completely before they steer the comet in.
This ship's the only thing keeping them in power.
Blow the plasma core.
But that means we bought a one-way ticket here.
There's no way to get back home.
You have any better idea? What, are you putting it to a vote? In the Navy? You're not in the Navy now.
What the hell.
Yeah.
Let's do it.
Take him out.
Move it.
Move it.
Double time.
Move it.
Bravo team, we're pulling out in two minutes.
That's music to my ears, Lieutenant.
Two minutes.
We'll need charges there, there, and there.
Sir, this is the detonator.
The charges are on a fail-safe switch.
You touch them, and they'll blow.
Let's go.
Piccolo, we're clear.
Repeat, we are clear.
Head for the shuttle.
Come on, let's go.
Let's go.
Coming your way.
Oh, man, am I happy to see you! Come on! Let's go.
Let's move! They're right behind us.
Move it! Faster! Faster! Look out! Behind you! Take cover! Take cover! Watch the left! You must get down! I need some help here.
It's Ariel.
Lonnie, watch it! Come on! James, watch your back! Get out of the hole! Let's go! The shuttle! I can't hold them back! They're everywhere! Watch out! Watch out! I got three in one hit.
I got 'em.
They torched the shuttle! Watch out up ahead! This is it, isn't it? It looks that way.
Down! Down! Watch the enemy! I don't know where they're coming from! Commander, listen, we are completely cut off.
We're coming in.
No! No, you can't! There's nothing you can do for us.
You gotta stop this mothership any way you can.
Do you hear me? Anyway you can.
Know what they said at the Academy, Captain? Always kill two birds with one stone.
All ahead emergency.
Darwin, leave the boat.
Follow Lucas away from here.
What? Wait a minute.
Listen, take the Stinger and go.
There's a tiny point of land bearing south-southwest of here.
I'm going to stay here, Commander.
I'm gonna fight.
No, you're not.
Dagwood, get him in the Stinger.
Aye, aye, sir.
No.
No, Dagwood, don't do this.
I'm sorry, Lucas.
Captain told me if Commander Ford said for you to go, you go.
Commander.
Lucas, just go.
Dagwood.
Miguel! He's hit.
Come on.
Get up.
Tony, take them to the right.
Now everybody fall back! Get through here.
Come on.
Come on! Stinger!s clear! Aim us for where they docked on the mothership.
On our way.
Computer.
Computer on.
Arm all weapons.
Unlock code 8-2-6-2-4-2.
Permissive action link confirmed.
Conventional weapons armed.
Nuclear weapons armed.
Pulse energy weapons armed.
All weapons armed.
Target the mothership above our people's heads.
We're going to try and flood out the Stormers.
Aye, aye, sir.
Lasers up.
Torpedoes up.
Commander, what's that? A barrier mine.
Huh! I guess they had some underwater technology after all.
Oh, my God.
They're coming in through the wall! Reload! I can't! I'm losing charge.
We don't have enough to hold them! All right, watch it.
Good shot, Keller! Hey, I got you.
Too many of them! Come on, Ortiz.
Jonathan? Jonathan! We're lifting off.
It's a terminal maneuver to bring the comet in.
Lucas? Lucas? Can you hear me? I hear you, Captain.
I'm coming back.
No, no.
No, there's nothing you can do for us.
What's happened to the seaQuest? She's down, Captain.
She's been hulled.
We've had it, kiddo.
You're on your own now, Lucas.
Just don!t let them take away what you believe.
You understand me? Not what you believe! And tell them what's happened here today.
They're coming through.
Behind you! Captain? Another one down! Piccolo, watch the left.
We got nowhere left to go, Cap.
It's time.
Well, at least Darwin's okay.
And our friends? Well, the comet passed without hitting us, so If Scott was right, that means we've won.
So So we have to find fuel for the Stinger, and then we'll go looking for survivors.
They can't all be dead, Dagwood, all right? They can't be dead.
We'll find them.
I swear to God, we'll find them.
And if we don't? Then we'll rebuild here.
Someday we'll carry their story back to Earth.
Hi, I'm Ted Raimi, and these are Asian otters.
A hundred years ago, cousins of these, the sea otters, were hunted nearly to extinction for their fur.
Native to the northern Pacific Ocean, sea otters rely solely on their fur for warmth, and with more than a half million hairs per square inch, they spend about grooming themselves, much like actors.
Sea otters are still considered threatened with their greatest dangers being oil-spills and other human activities.
See you on the next adventure of seaQuest DSV.
What do you think of my comet now, Tobias? I think you better keep an eye on it.
This one who!s after me is a Stormer, not overly bright but damn good at his work.
The only ones in danger are the people standing in the way of my execution.
You're a criminal? In my world, yes, I guess I am.
Hyperion is a planet of conquests, forever at war with itself and those around it.
My teachings in tolerance and anti-expansion branded me a traitor, for which I was sentenced to death.
Thank God you're all so stupid.
You mean, how will I see to get there? I was kind of hoping you'd drive, Scott.
Come with me, my friend.
Let's go in search of other worlds.
I wonder if he'll come back.
It depends on what he finds out there.
Okay, what about this one? Moldy sneeze.
Moldy sneeze? Yes, moldy sneeze.
This guy's got names for 50 types of fish we haven't even classified, and the only problem is there's no way to translate them.
Fascinating, Lucas.
I'll try to remember that next time I date an ickyologist.
That's ichthyologist, Tony.
Ha! Not where I'm from.
Am I seeing things? Yes, you're seeing Commander Keller.
I need your help.
If you can hear this transmission, if any part of this message is getting through, meet me at the Christmas tree as fast as you can.
I!m sorry I have to ask you.
Please, don!t forget Organa Watt.
It!s our only chance, Nathan.
Our lives depend on it.
Bridger.
Captain, we just saw something on the bridge.
We!re getting reports from around the boat.
Did it look like Scott Keller? You saw it, too? Oh, I'd say so.
He!s appeared to everybody who knew him.
Assemble the crew on the double.
He said meet him at a Christmas tree? Yeah, after we recovered him from the Mars probe last year, I showed him a chart of where we'd found him and told him that we'd nicknamed the canyon Christmas tree because it had so many branches.
So only you know that.
All right, so we'll meet him there.
Yeah, but what's an Organa Watt? Oh yeah, Organa Watt.
She was the woman who ran the women's dorm at the Academy.
One night, Scott had to eat about a dozen and a half of her terrible cookies to keep her busy while I snuck a girl out the back way.
He said I owed him big time for that, and he was going to wait for a life-or-death situation to hand in his chip.
I guess this is it, huh? We're nearing the Christmas tree trench, sir.
Are we picking up anything? Just static.
It's almost like we're being jammed.
Could we punch out a message if we had to? No.
Damn! What's that? Feels like an energy pulse coming from overhead.
Get me a WSKRS view.
I can't.
We're losing power.
Emergency power.
WSKRS view.
Onscreen.
Oh, my God! What is that? Captain, I can't control her.
We're rising.
Take her back.
Take her back.
I can't.
Oxygen regeneration's failing.
We're running out of air.
Henderson, sound off.
Two hundred meters.
One hundred.
We're on the surface.
I don't believe it.
What's doing this? I think we're making a hyperspace jump.
A what? It's the only thing that makes sense, Commander.
Captain, I think I'm getting a signal.
Put it on the screen.
Aye, aye, sir.
What is it? I don't know how or why, Dagwood, but that's another planet, okay? Just hang on.
We're going in.
All right, get ready, ready for anything.
What? Our power's coming back on.
We've got oxygen.
We're wet, Captain.
Dive.
Take her down.
Lay her along the bottom.
Captain, I'm picking up something dead ahead.
What the hell is that? Somebody's idea of a submarine.
And it's docking with our launch bay.
Come on.
Ah, Nathan.
Tobias.
Thank you for coming, my friends.
You didn't give us much choice.
Where's Scott? Didn't you get his message? I thought that's why you were here.
He didn't say anything about being transported to another planet.
Oh yes.
I'm sorry, but we didn't have two-way communication equipment to reach you, and there was very little time.
Wendy, is there something wrong? I just realized you can see.
Yes, well, it's amazing what a little travel can do for your health, particularly when there's no longer a need to pretend you're fully human, but I will answer all your questions.
First, allow me to present the leaders of, well, half our nation.
The better half.
On behalf of the people of Hyperion, thank you for coming and hearing our plea.
Plea? For your help.
Because without it, both our worlds are going to be destroyed.
Yours as well as ours.
After Scott and I left you, we debated where to go, what new vistas to see.
I wanted to explore the heart of the galaxy, but Scott wanted to come here.
I'd been a member of the resistance movement on Hyperion, which is why I fled to earth and why our rulers, the KrayTaks, sent that Stormer after me.
Scott said that, if the KrayTaks were so afraid of me, maybe there was a reason.
Was there? Our culture had become too advanced to submit to tyranny any longer.
A civil war had broken out.
The only problem was the resistance couldn't reach the space stations.
Because they were purely military, they remained in the hands of the KrayTaks, and they counter-attacked by flooding the planet.
Flooding it? How? They bombarded it with comets torn from their orbits around our sun.
Not only did the explosions melt the polar caps, but the comets themselves consisted mostly of ice, which added to the flooding.
In less than a year, most of our planet was submerged, which is why we need your help.
There's no way our technology can match yours.
Don't underrate yourselves.
Hyperion is far less advanced than you might think.
Remember, most of our space technology was developed after Tobias left us.
We're not even 40 years ahead of you.
That's true.
Our ship is the only one on Hyperion that's even capable of interstellar travel, and we only have that because the scientists who were building it joined us when the revolution came.
All the same, we have nothing to match it.
Oh, but you do.
Hyperion was a desert world.
We never had any underwater science at all, and now that it's flooded, seaQuest represents to us a technology as powerful and alien as our space craft is to you.
If you could defend our spacecraft's base against underwater attack, we might have a chance of winning this war.
Wait a minute.
I don't really think that this is our fight.
Are you so sure? Yes, I am.
Well, think it through.
The KrayTaks and Stormers have destroyed our world.
Even if they win, it's flooded for good.
What are you saying? They only want it now as a base to build more ships like ours.
Once they do, they'll conquer Earth.
Suppose we choose to make our stand on Earth, build our defenses there? It's your choice.
All we ask is that you examine the evidence.
If you want to record it to prove to your leaders you haven't lost your minds, all the better.
Why hasn't Scott already done that? Yes, Tobias, where is Scott right now? I'm sorry, my friend.
The KrayTaks have taken him hostage.
Hostage? He was captured while leading a raid on one of the space stations.
Nathan, I brought you here because if you help us, perhaps we'll be able to free him and end this war.
We'll have to think about this one.
All right, what do we know about our surroundings? Seems to be like Tobias and his friends said.
We're resting on a sandy bottom that's only recently been flooded.
What about their base? Definitely looks improvised, and their technology seems to be more primitive than our own.
So they were telling the truth.
Maybe, are you sensing anything? All I get is static from all three of them, but, remember, not even Tobias is really human.
O'Neill, I want you to try and figure out some way to monitor all communications, this side, the enemy's side.
I don't want us getting into a fight without a talk.
Aye, aye, sir.
In the meantime, keep the boat in condition one, easy.
All men at battle stations, but rotate them so they get some sleep.
Restrict Darwin to the boat.
Very good, sir.
Where will you be? In my quarters, trying to make some sense of all this.
Come in.
Hi.
You're worried about Scott.
And everything else.
They tell me you've known him since the Academy.
It's true.
They tell you we used to be in submarines together? We were, after we graduated.
Then he He opted for outer space.
I opted for inner space.
He had this fabulous career.
Martian probe, you know, all that.
Now he's in this cockamamie war that he A hostage.
It doesn't make any sense, does it? No, not our understanding of it, anyway.
Are you all right? You reading me? It's hard not to.
If you're reading me, you know I'm very confused.
I haven't the foggiest idea which way to turn.
Well, how could you? None of us know anything about this place.
But I'll tell you one thing.
No matter what decision you make, none of us are gonna feel like you let us down.
Bridger.
Captain, you better come to the bridge.
What's up? I!m not sure, but I think we!re under attack.
Where's Tobias? Coming from sea deck.
His delegation just left for their mothership.
Captain, I think I've got a WSKRS view of the contact.
A warship? It's got to be a warship.
What is that? A KaTen, the best underseas weapon the KrayTaks have.
O'Neill, any answer to our call? Negative, sir.
Eleven thousand meters and closing.
It's accelerating.
Captain, I need an order.
Full ahead.
Declare the contact hostile.
Declaring contact hostile.
Torpedoes up.
Lasers up.
Target locked.
We have a firing solution.
Seven thousand meters and closing.
Six thousand.
It's turning toward us.
Captain, it's firing.
Fire intercepts.
Fire torpedoes.
Torpedoes away.
Intercepts away.
Left hard rudder.
All ahead emergency.
Interception in five, in four, three, two, one Interception.
Torpedoes closing on target.
Impact.
All targets destroyed.
Contact board is clear.
No bogies, no bandits.
Sir, I'm getting a signal.
It's coming from right above us.
Let's see it.
Aye, sir.
What's he saying? Because you have chosen to come from Earth today and fight with us, we have a gift for you.
I!m sorry, Nathan.
I should have never got you into this.
The Stormer says to say goodbye.
No, no, no, tell them we want to talk.
I'm so sorry, Nathan.
I thought with you here they'd never dare to kill him.
Mr.
Piccolo.
Sir.
Ready my shuttle, please.
Time to meet their war council.
These charts represent all that's left of Hyperion.
That's it? One colony? It doesn't seem that big.
The tunnels run for thousands of meters into the bedrock.
They're large enough to hold most of our population, 500,000 people.
Five hundred? Out of how many? Four billion.
Nothing's worth that many lives.
You don't understand.
We've never had the choice to surrender.
Our species is more specialized than yours.
You've met our Stormer form.
Yeah, all appetite and bad moods.
And totally dedicated to killing.
That's all that's left on the KrayTak side, and that's all they want left.
They slaughter anybody else they get their hands on.
That's why we've retreated beneath the sea.
What is she saying? She's thanking you for saving us today.
Those KaTens are searching for this colony.
Did you make this yourself? Yes, it shows her favorite oasis before the land was flooded.
She wants you to have it.
Thank you.
You know what, honey? Water really isn't that deep.
Maybe after the war is over, we can rebuild some land for you.
How does that sound? This is why we brought you here.
It's the largest comet in our planetary system.
So large, in fact, you can see it for years at a time from the planet's surface.
Its impact will be well more than enough to destroy our last colony.
The KrayTaks are using tractor beams mounted on their space stations to maneuver it into place for months.
It should strike us in less than a day.
I don't understand what it is we can do.
Our ship is virtually unarmed, but it does have one advantage.
Its tractor beams.
Yes, and? Well, if they're strong enough to lift seaQuest, they may be strong enough to overcome the tractor beams the KrayTaks are using to control the comet.
I wish you'd been one of my students at university.
You're exactly right.
The KrayTaks have no one ship as powerful as ours.
The problem is, to use our beams at full strength requires enormous reaction mass.
Far more than the ship can carry.
We have to stay moored to this base and draw our energy from the planet itself, or we have no chance at all.
So we protect you from an underwater attack while you what? Crash it into the other side? Nathan, there is no other side, at least not on the surface of this planet.
Remember, there are no civilian KrayTaks, only generals and Stormers.
No, we plan to use our tractor beams to tear the comet apart.
And the fragments will sweep the KrayTaks and their space stations out of orbit like a giant meteor shower.
Then perhaps that little girl will see the daylight again.
And your children will never have to live like this.
Sir.
Will you show Doctor LeConte to the guests quarters? He's gonna be staying for a while.
Okay.
You'll be available for dinner? Of course.
Well, what do we think? Well, it seems pretty straight forward, sir.
Really, it's just a peace-keeping mission.
We defend the civilians while they resolve their war.
Is that what you think? I don't know.
They're still blocking me from their minds.
Just like communications.
There's nothing on our wavelength, Captain.
Oh, I don't know.
That child came through pretty loud and clear.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Lucas, what are you saying? I was just thinking how everything is a kludge.
A kludge? Improvised but not quite fitting together.
They're at war, Lucas.
There's hardly anything left.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I can't explain it.
I just feel that things are a bit more alien than they appear.
Well, that may be, but maybe we'll get lucky and find a communications module on that KaTen.
Do you still want to talk to the other side? Oh, yeah, I do.
You can't talk to or reason with someone who destroyed a planet.
I mean, my God, Captain, you saw what they did to Scott.
All the same, I've got to believe that there's some people among them who want out.
Piccolo.
Sir? I want you and Darwin to make a sweep of that KaTen that we torpedoed.
See if there's anything there that resembles a communications module, and then let me know.
Aye, aye.
Darwin, I think I found it.
Over here.
Oh, yeah, look at that.
Wow.
We!Il start in the front, okay? Just be careful.
What do we hear from Piccolo? Well, they've finished with the forward part of the hunter-killer, but they haven't found anything like a radio yet.
That's funny.
What's funny? I had a WSKRS view a second ago.
Darwin was sniffing out the back part of the wreckage.
Now they're gone.
Well, break radio silence.
I want to hear where they are.
Aye, aye, sir.
Tony? Tony? Come in.
Where are you, guy? Tony? Captain, the indicators are showing they're entering the aqua tubes, headed for sea deck.
Tony, do you read? What did you find out? We found something in the wreckage, Cap.
What? Not what.
Who.
Okay, Darwin, the coast is clear.
All right, easy, easy.
Scott.
Nathan, listen to me.
In case you guys haven't figured it out yet, you've been fighting for the wrong side.
I don't know whether to give all of you a hug or a good, swift kick.
Good to see you, too.
Luckily, you're not a better shot.
You guys take a wrong turn.
Join the Navy This is Scott, isn't it? I did a deep scan.
It is him, and no Stormer's controlling him.
The execution tape was a complete fake.
Listen, you guys never were under attack.
We didn't even know the seaQuest was here.
We were trying to take out the mothership while there was still time.
Time? Yeah.
They told you about the comet, didn't they? Well, they told us they were trying to ward it off.
I'll bet they said a lot of things.
Did they tell you the planet's underwater because of a civil war, that soon the resistance will be wiped out and all that will be left are the KrayTaks? Yes, they said that.
Well, most of that's true.
Only they left out one thing.
They're the KrayTaks.
They don't look like Stormers.
Of course not.
The Stormers are the foot soldiers.
They're bred for courage and ferocity.
You were talking to the KrayTaks themselves.
They're not fighters.
They're politicians and looters.
And I thought we weren't in Kansas anymore.
What's this about looters? Everything they've got has been stolen from other planets.
Their technology, this mothership.
They got it the same way they got seaQuest.
You mean they didn't build that ship? No, how could they? They've killed most of their scientists.
No, they hatched a Stormer Pod and then they brought it here from another planet.
So that's why everything looked like a kludge.
Oh, wait a second.
What about that colony over there? There's no colony under the mothership.
That's just the docking station so that they can refuel it from the planet's core.
But we met ordinary people, a child.
Yeah, slaves brought down from a space station for the day to fool all of you.
The only colony left on Hyperion is on the other side of the planet.
It's being held by the resistance.
Well, it is the smartest way to lie.
Just tell the truth except for the parts that really matter.
But why did Tobias go over to them? He didn't.
He was captured trying to seize the mothership.
They're holding him on it now while they drain his memory dry.
Listen, you were never talking to Tobias, Nathan.
You were talking to a Stormer.
I want to talk to this Tobias-clone now.
No, Nathan, that comet is incoming.
If we don't stop them, they're gonna crash on the far side of the planet and wipe out what's left of the resistance.
Then they're coming after Earth.
Did Tobias have a plan before he made his launch? He saw a similar ship on Tau Ceti before he came to Earth.
He thinks he can fly it.
You have any idea what part of the ship they're keeping him in? Defectors from the KrayTaks think he's being held in the lower part of the ship.
Tobias, come in.
The Captain will be here in just a minute.
I can't tell you how excited our leadership is.
This is the first good news they've had in months.
I'm delighted to hear that.
I think our other guest will be, too.
Scott! I thought you were dead.
You ought to know.
Who are you? Klowklaxiton? Trazil? You've got to be somebody from counter intelligence.
You're the one that's been taken.
He's got a Stormer inside him.
What if I said you were lying? Then I'd say you're gonna die with me.
Fire! Check him! Check him! He's out cold.
What's this? Personal communicator.
He's been using it every 70 minutes or so.
Corresponds to a Hyperion hour.
He's probably been checking in.
We haven't got much time.
Let's put him on ice.
The arming key.
The new unlock code is 8-2-6-2-4-2.
Whatever you do, don't surrender the seaQuest.
Aye, aye, sir.
Brody, commence operations.
Alpha team, Bravo team, by the numbers! Man your assault craft! Let's go! Move it! Move it! Move it! Move it! Move it! The board's green, sir.
You're clear to launch! Launching now! Five hundred meters and closing.
Lock and load.
Three hundred.
Arming laser dock.
Brace for docking.
Port sealed.
Go! Go! Go! Bravo team, secure the corridors.
Alpha team, follow me.
You two hold position.
You're with me.
Look out.
Captain, over here! Blow it.
Fire in the hole.
Tobias! You're alive.
Nathan.
Check him out.
Who am I? No, no, don't say it.
Focus on your memories of us.
Let me hear the human side of your brain.
Tell me if you're free.
Yes, I can read his mind.
He's clear.
How did you get here? Never mind that.
How do we get control of this ship? You can't.
They've armored the command decks.
There's no way through anymore.
There's got to be something we can do.
There is.
Destroy it.
Destroy it completely before they steer the comet in.
This ship's the only thing keeping them in power.
Blow the plasma core.
But that means we bought a one-way ticket here.
There's no way to get back home.
You have any better idea? What, are you putting it to a vote? In the Navy? You're not in the Navy now.
What the hell.
Yeah.
Let's do it.
Take him out.
Move it.
Move it.
Double time.
Move it.
Bravo team, we're pulling out in two minutes.
That's music to my ears, Lieutenant.
Two minutes.
We'll need charges there, there, and there.
Sir, this is the detonator.
The charges are on a fail-safe switch.
You touch them, and they'll blow.
Let's go.
Piccolo, we're clear.
Repeat, we are clear.
Head for the shuttle.
Come on, let's go.
Let's go.
Coming your way.
Oh, man, am I happy to see you! Come on! Let's go.
Let's move! They're right behind us.
Move it! Faster! Faster! Look out! Behind you! Take cover! Take cover! Watch the left! You must get down! I need some help here.
It's Ariel.
Lonnie, watch it! Come on! James, watch your back! Get out of the hole! Let's go! The shuttle! I can't hold them back! They're everywhere! Watch out! Watch out! I got three in one hit.
I got 'em.
They torched the shuttle! Watch out up ahead! This is it, isn't it? It looks that way.
Down! Down! Watch the enemy! I don't know where they're coming from! Commander, listen, we are completely cut off.
We're coming in.
No! No, you can't! There's nothing you can do for us.
You gotta stop this mothership any way you can.
Do you hear me? Anyway you can.
Know what they said at the Academy, Captain? Always kill two birds with one stone.
All ahead emergency.
Darwin, leave the boat.
Follow Lucas away from here.
What? Wait a minute.
Listen, take the Stinger and go.
There's a tiny point of land bearing south-southwest of here.
I'm going to stay here, Commander.
I'm gonna fight.
No, you're not.
Dagwood, get him in the Stinger.
Aye, aye, sir.
No.
No, Dagwood, don't do this.
I'm sorry, Lucas.
Captain told me if Commander Ford said for you to go, you go.
Commander.
Lucas, just go.
Dagwood.
Miguel! He's hit.
Come on.
Get up.
Tony, take them to the right.
Now everybody fall back! Get through here.
Come on.
Come on! Stinger!s clear! Aim us for where they docked on the mothership.
On our way.
Computer.
Computer on.
Arm all weapons.
Unlock code 8-2-6-2-4-2.
Permissive action link confirmed.
Conventional weapons armed.
Nuclear weapons armed.
Pulse energy weapons armed.
All weapons armed.
Target the mothership above our people's heads.
We're going to try and flood out the Stormers.
Aye, aye, sir.
Lasers up.
Torpedoes up.
Commander, what's that? A barrier mine.
Huh! I guess they had some underwater technology after all.
Oh, my God.
They're coming in through the wall! Reload! I can't! I'm losing charge.
We don't have enough to hold them! All right, watch it.
Good shot, Keller! Hey, I got you.
Too many of them! Come on, Ortiz.
Jonathan? Jonathan! We're lifting off.
It's a terminal maneuver to bring the comet in.
Lucas? Lucas? Can you hear me? I hear you, Captain.
I'm coming back.
No, no.
No, there's nothing you can do for us.
What's happened to the seaQuest? She's down, Captain.
She's been hulled.
We've had it, kiddo.
You're on your own now, Lucas.
Just don!t let them take away what you believe.
You understand me? Not what you believe! And tell them what's happened here today.
They're coming through.
Behind you! Captain? Another one down! Piccolo, watch the left.
We got nowhere left to go, Cap.
It's time.
Well, at least Darwin's okay.
And our friends? Well, the comet passed without hitting us, so If Scott was right, that means we've won.
So So we have to find fuel for the Stinger, and then we'll go looking for survivors.
They can't all be dead, Dagwood, all right? They can't be dead.
We'll find them.
I swear to God, we'll find them.
And if we don't? Then we'll rebuild here.
Someday we'll carry their story back to Earth.
Hi, I'm Ted Raimi, and these are Asian otters.
A hundred years ago, cousins of these, the sea otters, were hunted nearly to extinction for their fur.
Native to the northern Pacific Ocean, sea otters rely solely on their fur for warmth, and with more than a half million hairs per square inch, they spend about grooming themselves, much like actors.
Sea otters are still considered threatened with their greatest dangers being oil-spills and other human activities.
See you on the next adventure of seaQuest DSV.