- seaQuest DSV, bridge - Nathan Bridger: You called? Jonathan Ford: Yes, there’s been a distress call coming in. Nathan Bridger: Why you telling me? Jonathan Ford: The UEO regulations require me to inform the ranking officer on board of any emergency situation. That would be you, sir. Nathan Bridger: What’s the source of the call? Jonathan Ford: Gedric Power Station, it’s under attack, aggressor unknown. Tim O’Neill: The signal’s getting weaker. The station’s minimal defenses have been blown to hell and they’re reporting numerous casualties. Katie Hitchcock: Maybe we should contact UEO. Jonathan Ford: How far is the nearest communications buoy? Tim O’Neill: Hundred kilometers, due east. Jonathan Ford: We’re the only boat within a half day’s sail. Nathan Bridger: What’s our proximity to the station? Tim O’Neill: Uh, it’s on the border, the Gedric territory. Distance, forty-eight kilometers, depth, forty-nine hundred. Nathan Bridger: Well, at these currents, we should be there in about, uh, twenty minutes. Jonathan Ford: Captain, I’m prepared to offer you command of the seaQuest at this time. Nathan Bridger: Come again. Jonathan Ford: Would the Captain care to assume command at this time? Nathan Bridger: I don’t think you’re the kind of officer who turns his back on a command decision. Are you? I’m just along for the ride, remember? Jonathan Ford: Feed spatial coordinates for the power station to navigation. Prepare for incoming change of course and speed. Carlton: Course and speed adjusted. Jonathan Ford: Bring her around to zero nine zero, all ahead full. Carlton: Gedric Power Station, bearing zero nine zero, one hundred kilometers, all ahead full. - seaQuest DSV, bridge, a little later - Miguel Ortiz: WSKRS are kicking back data. One typhoon class Delta 4. Tim O’Neill: Power station communication reporting major structural damage, life support’s nominal. Survivors are gathering in the main complex. Miguel Ortiz: Delta 4 is on the move, heading two zero seven degrees, thirty knots. She’s moving away from the station. Jonathan Ford: Give me eyes, Mr. Ortiz. Helm, bring us around two zero seven, intercept course. Carlton: Coming around, intercept course. Helmsman: Aye, sir. Jonathan Ford: Sound battle stations. Computer: All hands battle stations, all hands battle stations. Crewman #1: Securing the bridge, sir. Crewman #2: Coming through. (runs in) Jonathan Ford: Targeting profile up. Miguel Ortiz: Target grid locked. Jonathan Ford: All ahead full. Carlton: All ahead full. Jonathan Ford: I want this one. Nathan Bridger: Commander, a moment please. Jonathan Ford: I’m busy. Nathan Bridger: Now. There might be a few other things you want to consider here. Jonathan Ford: Such as? Nathan Bridger: Such as the lives of the people in that power plant. Jonathan Ford: I’m aware of that, but if that sub gets loose it’ll be free to attack somewhere else. Nathan Bridger: If. You’re talking hypothetical, I’m talking reality. This boat is a thousand foot long Swiss Army Knife. Use your options: have one of your WSKRS tag the renegade, you can deal with it later. Jonathan Ford: No, the manual said — Nathan Bridger: Forget the manual! Use your instincts, use your guts — that’s what you’ve got them for. Manilow Crocker: Say, if anyone’s interested, that boomer’s making a turn. Miguel Ortiz: She’s moving into an attack posture. Jonathan Ford: Weapons. Matthew Phillips: Sir. Jonathan Ford: Flood forward tubes, prepare E plasma torpedoes, sixty percent charge. Matthew Phillips: Loading, sixty percent charge. Jonathan Ford: Helm, reverse engines one-quarter, six degrees down angle. Carlton: Reverse, one-quarter, down six degrees. Nathan Bridger: Eight degrees. Jonathan Ford: Six degrees. Miguel Ortiz: Delta 4’s forward tubes are flooded and opening. Preparing to fire. - Delta 4 Pirate Submarine - Sensor Chief: SeaQuest is coming around. Should we initiate a firing solution? Marilyn Stark: Negative. Impressive, isn’t she? Maxwell: Captain, we have the advantage. We should fire before it’s too late. Marilyn Stark: Not yet. I want them to sweat a little first. Maxwell: She’ll blow us out of the water. Marilyn Stark: I don’t think so. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Jonathan Ford: What do you mean, not responding? Carlton: Helm control is frozen. She won’t let me take the reins. Jonathan Ford: Lieutenant Commander. Katie Hitchcock: On it. Miguel Ortiz: Delta 4 is eight hundred meters and closing. Jonathan Ford: Open forward torpedo tubes. Matthew Phillips: Can’t sir. Control isn’t accepting our commands. Jonathan Ford: Go to redundance. Katie Hitchcock: They won’t engage. Jonathan Ford: Great. What else can go wrong? Miguel Ortiz: Target ship has just fired. One electrostatic torpedo away. Homing … she’s locked and headed in. Jonathan Ford: Countermeasures. Katie Hitchcock: Countermeasures aren’t responding, sir. Jonathan Ford: Sound collision. Computer: All hands brace for collision. All hands brace for collision. Jonathan Ford: Everybody hold tight. Miguel Ortiz: Torpedo at one hundred meters and closing. Fifty meters. (torpedo hits) Jonathan Ford: Damage report. Katie Hitchcock: Port side strike. We’re taking on water. Jonathan Ford: Damn it, where are my battle systems? Katie Hitchcock: Inoperative, sir. Miguel Ortiz: Delta 4 is flooding tubes, preparing to fire a second strike. Your orders, Commander? (Ford hesitates) Nathan Bridger: Commander? Flood the ballast tanks fore and aft. Katie Hitchcock: Sir? Nathan Bridger: Do it! How deep is that rift? Miguel Ortiz: Twenty, … twenty two thousand feet. Katie Hitchcock: (to Ford) Are you OK? Jonathan Ford: I’m fine. Katie Hitchcock: Are you sure? Jonathan Ford: I’m fine. Nathan Bridger: Helmsman. Carlton: Sir. Nathan Bridger: Dive into Pacific Plate rift at (checks over shoulder) six zero four two. Carlton: Aye, sir. - Delta 4 Pirate Submarine - Maxwell: Captain, seaQuest is heading down into a canyon. Marilyn Stark: I don’t care where she goes, stay with her. Maxwell: We should fire now. Marilyn Stark: Not yet. Maintain pursuit, get me closer. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Miguel Ortiz: Eight thousand feet and dropping. Katie Hitchcock: Flood systems crashing. Nathan Bridger: Delta 4’s position? Miguel Ortiz: Still pursuing. Nathan Bridger: Let’s see how bad they want us. Take her to the bottom. Jonathan Ford: Captain, this ship wasn’t designed for a crash dive. Nathan Bridger: If you have any better ideas, I’m wide open. Manilow Crocker: Does this mean you’re captain now? Nathan Bridger: No, no, no, Chief, just trying to save our necks. - Delta 4 Pirate Submarine - Maxwell: Ten thousand feet. Captain, we can’t go any deeper. Marilyn Stark: Maintain pursuit. Maxwell: We’re approaching collapse depth. If we let ourselves get crushed, seaQuest wins. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Miguel Ortiz: Fifteen thousand feet. Delta 4 is breaking off, she’s moving away. Nathan Bridger: Don’t let her out of our sights, we don’t want her to double back on us. (to Carlton) Level her off; we can’t drop any more. Jonathan Ford: Captain, we need to talk. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck - Nathan Bridger: And Admiral Noyce knew about the rebel sub the whole time. Jonathan Ford: Well, the Admiral figured you’d never come back if you knew the real reason Nathan Bridger: You’re damn right I wouldn’t have. And how long have you known? Jonathan Ford: Almost two months. We tracked her from up in the Aleutians. Been making its way along the sea mount chain, raiding outposts for valuables, supplies. They never took any lives. Nathan Bridger: Up till now. You knew we were gonna run across her, and then what? You were going to give up the command, I’d subdue her with the supership, and then bingo, I’d be back on the team, right? Jonathan Ford: I’m not in a position to judge the merits of the Admiral’s plan, but he couldn’t have foreseen our current situation. I recommend you take command for the duration of the mission. Nathan Bridger: Mission! Oh, oh, now it’s a mission. Let me tell you, six years ago I walked away from all this, I erased all of it. And I did it for a reason. Jonathan Ford: Your son. Nathan Bridger: What about him? Jonathan Ford: Well, I know he was in the Navy, that he was killed in action somewhere in the North Atlantic. Nathan Bridger: That’s right. And I made a promise to my wife, and myself, that I would never have anything to do with the military again. Jonathan Ford: With all due respect, sir, I’ve got hundreds of people aboard this boat who wouldn’t give a damn about your promise. - Delta 4 Pirate Submarine - Maxwell: We’re only a few kilometers away. We could go back and wait for her to come back up. Marilyn Stark: Come up? She never has to come up, even in her crippled state she could stay down there for months. No, we’re going to have to draw her out. There, Westridge Farming Community. Maxwell: That’s nothing but a bunch of homesteaders. Marilyn Stark: Exactly. Maxwell: Yes, mam. - Pacific Basin, depth 22,000 feet, seaQuest DSV, launch bay - Nathan Bridger: How’s she doing? Kristin Westphalen: She’s in shock. She’ll be fine. OK, bed five, let’s go. (leaves with woman on stretcher) Nathan Bridger: (walks across launch bay) How’s she holding up? Jonathan Ford: (coming down ladder) Hull integrity isn’t great; outer pliant skin re-sealed itself as designed; we still don’t have full engines. Lieutenant Hitchcock reports eleven other systems have crashed. Among them, weapons and propulsion. Nathan Bridger: Source? Jonathan Ford: Unknown. Nathan Bridger: Has anyone checked out the warranty on this thing? Well, we should be glad about these people anyway. Jonathan Ford: Captain, I have Lieutenant Commander Hitchcock doing a thermal trace of the power station. Nathan Bridger: Hyper-reality Probe? Jonathan Ford: Yes, sir. Nathan Bridger: Good. - seaQuest DSV, ward room - Kristin Westphalen: As you can see from the data Lieutenant Hitchcock got back from the probe, the power station is built over a volcanic vent. Jonathan Ford: Why? Nathan Bridger: Energy. They use the trapped heat to run their turbines. Kristin Westphalen: Thank you. Nathan Bridger: You’re welcome. Kristin Westphalen: According to the probe data, the venting cap, at the base of the station, is in the process of tearing. Katie Hitchcock: What happens if it breaks? Kristin Westphalen: A nightmare. The poisonous gases, which are usually captured and disposed of, will spill out across the ocean floor. Jonathan Ford: How big a spread? Kristin Westphalen: With the thermal currents in this area, it could be hundreds of miles. Every living organism, plant and animal, will be destroyed. Nathan Bridger: Could it be fixed? Kristin Westphalen: Given the proper equipment. Jonathan Ford: You mean military equipment. Nathan Bridger: Who cares who’s equipment it is? Jonathan Ford: Wait a second, Captain. This ship is operating under very unusual and dangerous circumstances. I’m not sure we should divert our efforts. We still have an armed rebel sub out there. Nathan Bridger: If I read your UEO mandate correctly, this boat can not sail away from an ecological disaster if it can do something about it. Jonathan Ford: Yes, sir. (leaves) Scientist: We’re ready to proceed, Doctor Westphalen. Kristin Westphalen: We’ll need precise specifications of the venting cap assembly. Nathan Bridger: (taps Westphalen on the shoulder) I think we need a trouble shooter. Kristin Westphalen: A what? Nathan Bridger: I don’t think what’s happening on this boat is an accident. I think we need someone to go down into the guts of the computer and dig around a bit. Kristin Westphalen: Well, what about Lieutenant Commander Hitchcock? Nathan Bridger: No, she’s working with the repair team. I was thinking of someone from your section. Kristin Westphalen: It’s the wrong technology. Well, there is one person who might be able to help. Nathan Bridger: Who? - seaQuest DSV, Lucas’s room - Lucas Wolenczak: It’s dying. Nathan Bridger: What’s dying? Lucas Wolenczak: The core of the main computer has a virus. That’s what’s been gnawing away at the systems. Kristin Westphalen: But if it’s in the core, why isn’t it affecting the whole ship? Lucas Wolenczak: Oh, it will. It just started with weapons and propulsion. Kristin Westphalen: But wouldn’t diagnostics have found it in a routine check? Nathan Bridger: No, artificial Intelligence just makes a quick pass, unless you fixed that too. Lucas Wolenczak: Well as a matter of fact, I have some parts on order. Kristin Westphalen: I still don’t see how it could have been missed. Lucas Wolenczak: Well, this sucker is buried so deep that the diagnostics sweep couldn’t even find it. It’s pretty cool, I mean, whoever planted this thing really knew what they were doing. Nathan Bridger: Than it’s not organic. Lucas Wolenczak: No way. No, it’s too specific. Nathan Bridger: Is there any way we can tell how long it’s been in there? Lucas Wolenczak: Not until I peel back the layers of data between me and him. (screen begins to bark and flash) Woah. Kristin Westphalen: Woah what? Lucas Wolenczak: It’s got dogs. Kristin Westphalen: Dogs? Lucas Wolenczak: Watchdogs. Sub-programs to protect the virus. If I mess with any of them, the whole ship could crash and burn. Life support, navigation, defense, the works. Tim O‘Neill: (over loudspeaker) Captain to the bridge. Captain to the bridge. Lucas Wolenczak: I think that’s you. Nathan Bridger: Just keep doing what you’re doing. Hey, kid, good work. (leaves) Kristin Westphalen: Don’t get cocky. (leaves) Lucas Wolenczak: (notices Darwin with fish in his mouth) Thank you, Darwin. I’ve already had lunch. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Jonathan Ford: (Bridger enters) We have a Sat-link video transmission, distress call. Nathan Bridger: From where? Jonathan Ford: A small farming outpost. Katie Hitchcock: It’s a pretty weak signal. Nathan Bridger: Try it on the main screen. Katie Hitchcock: Yes, sir. Raymond Brenner: (on screen) My name is Raymond Brenner. I’m the territorial governor of the Westridge Farm Community. We’ve been attacked, without provocation, by a renegade craft. We’re in trouble; we need help. If there’s any ship out there within the sound of my voice, please help us. We need help. Jonathan Ford: Why would they attack an unarmed housing community? Nathan Bridger: They’re baiting us. Jonathan Ford: But we’ve got to stop them, they’ll slaughter those people. Nathan Bridger: We can’t do anything until we get this boat running. Don’t worry, this isn’t over yet. - seaQuest DSV, Bridger’s room - Nathan Bridger: Are you familiar with the boat’s mainframe? Professor Martinson: Nathan, I am the mainframe. Nathan Bridger: That’s right. So you should be able to detect a virus that’s affecting it. Professor Martinson: No, my capacities are limited to the data fed into my memory unit. Nathan Bridger: Oh … right. Professor Martinson: This information upsets you? Nathan Bridger: If you’re a computer, how do you know I’m upset? Professor Martinson: Your vocal patterns are in severe deviation from the norm. Has your family come aboard with you? Nathan Bridger: Your data banks are a little behind, my family’s dead. Professor Martinson: I see. Is that the reason you left the service before finishing seaQuest? Nathan Bridger: Partly. I went to this island, I thought I’d be safe. But I knew coming back here I’d have to let people in again. Professor Martinson: And risk losing them. Nathan Bridger: Yeah. Professor Martinson: You must have missed your work. Nathan Bridger: Nah, I had plenty. I missed this, I missed the ocean, I missed what it does to me. My pulse slows down, my metabolism … why am I telling you this? Professor Martinson: Perhaps because I’m listening. Nathan Bridger: There wasn’t a day went by I didn’t think about all this, I can’t seem to get it out of my mind. Professor Martinson: Why should you? It’s a part of you, Nathan, the best part. Nathan Bridger: Ya know, I’m really pleased that you’ve come aboard. - seaQuest DSV, launch bay - Nathan Bridger: (as Bridger passes, Crocker laughs) You never saw a uniform before? (they both laugh as Bridger walks away) - Delta 4 Pirate Submarine - Maxwell: Captain, long range sonar still shows nothing, they’re not coming after us. Marilyn Stark: They will. Maxwell: I don’t mean to question you, but the crew, they don’t understand why you’re provoking this fight. I understand, but I think you should explain it to them. Marilyn Stark: (picks up picture) This crew, as you call it, isn’t the first crew to question me, but it will be the last. (drops picture on desk, cracking the glass) - seaQuest DSV, near launch bay - Nathan Bridger: What have you found? Lucas Wolenczak: Well, I’m still trying to get to the virus, but I was able to nail the time of entry. Nathan Bridger: And? Lucas Wolenczak: Judging by the layers of data between us and him, I’d say it was planted a little over a year ago. Thirteen months to be exact. Nathan Bridger: Keep at it. - launch outside seaQuest - Crewman #1: (on radio) SeaQuest, this is EVA repair team one, power station vent cap is in place and sealed. Crewman #2: (on radio) Roger that, return to base. - seaQuest DSV, hallway - Jonathan Ford: (PAL buzzes, into comlink) Ford here. Crewman: (on PAL) Commander, repair team has just returned. Venting cap is sealed and locked. Jonathan Ford: (into PAL) Good job. Tim O’Neill: (on loudspeaker) Commander Ford to the bridge. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Jonathan Ford: (enters) You wanted to see me, sir. Nathan Bridger: I think I found it. Jonathan Ford: The virus? Nathan Bridger: No, the saboteur. - seaQuest DSV, ward room - Nathan Bridger: I went back through the boat’s service logs for the past year, nothing unusual. Then I checked the personnel manifest for the same time. The seaQuest was in dock with a minimum crew at the same time too. Jonathan Ford: So? Nathan Bridger: So, the log shows there was one senior officer in charge the whole time. (screen behind him shows bio and picture) Jonathan Ford: Stark. Nathan Bridger: And you served under her, right? Jonathan Ford: I was her XO at Livingston Trench. She was relieved of command. NORPAC recommended psychiatric evaluation. She refused, she just disappeared. She’s good. Nathan Bridger: She should be, I taught her. Kristin Westphalen: Oh dear. Nathan Bridger: I sponsored her when she went up for her officer’s bars. Katie Hitchcock: She’s after you? Nathan Bridger: No, I’m just the icing on the cake. She’s after the seaQuest. Jonathan Ford: I can’t believe she’d deliberately destroy her own ship. Nathan Bridger: Well, if she can’t have it, than no one else can. And if there’s no seaQuest, rebels run the sea. What she didn’t count on was this old tourist aboard, whose knowledge of the ship’s systems predates hers. Now listen, we may be going about this the wrong way. Instead of attacking the virus head on, what if we just went around it? Katie Hitchcock: It might work. You probably won’t have full weapons and propulsions. Nathan Bridger: Anything is better than what we’ve got now. Kristin Westphalen: (disgusted) Weapons, that’s what this is really about, isn’t it? (gets up to leave) Nathan Bridger: Just a minute. (Westphalen stops and turns around with disgusted look on her face) No, it’s not, Doctor, it’s about saving lives. Kristin Westphalen: I hope so. Nathan Bridger: Now let’s get to work. - seaQuest DSV, hallway - Tim O’Neill: (over loudspeaker) Captain to the bridge, Captain to the bridge. Westridge Farming Community is under attack, repeat, Farming Community is under attack. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Tim O’Neill: Renegade sub is attacking. The colonists are trying to fight it off with their mini-subs. It doesn’t sound good. Nathan Bridger: Propulsion? Katie Hitchcock: One-quarter normal. Nathan Bridger: Weapons? Matthew Phillips: Still no weapons or targeting. Nathan Bridger: Send coordinates to navigation and plot a course. Speak to me Mr. O’Neill. Tim O’Neill: The colonists’ munitions have been depleted, Captain. They’re helpless. Miguel Ortiz: Delta 4 has fired. Four torpedoes away. Two passed, two direct strikes. - seaQuest DSV, ward room - Nathan Bridger: (entering) It’s gotten too easy. We fire torpedoes, we shoot missiles, extinguish lives without even thinking. Well I’m gonna remind her that her targets are people, living and breathing, with names and faces. Jonathan Ford: I don’t think she’ll care. Nathan Bridger: You think it’s possible for someone to change that much? Tim O’Neill: (over loudspeaker) Captain, the Delta 4’s receiving an outside transmission. With your permission I’ll piggyback the signal and get us through. Nathan Bridger: Proceed, Lieutenant. Marilyn Stark: (on screen) Nathan Bridger, where are you? Nathan Bridger: I’m disappointed in you, Marilyn. Four torpedoes fired and only two hits, I thought I taught you better than that. Marilyn Stark: (on screen) I’ll do better next time. I promise. Nathan Bridger: There won’t be a next time, we both know that. Too many innocent people have died already. Marilyn Stark: (on screen) What world are you living in, Nathan? There are no innocent people, everybody’s guilty of something. Nathan Bridger: Maybe, but don’t you think we deserve a second chance? To change, to live peacefully. Marilyn Stark: (on screen) I don’t want to change. You didn’t teach change at the Academy, or peace, you taught war, Nathan, war. And I intend to use what I learned. Nathan Bridger: I taught something else … never take on an opponent unless you expect to win. Marilyn Stark: (on screen) You’re on the seaQuest. Nathan Bridger: Give up, Marilyn. Marilyn Stark: (on screen) I made that mistake once, I won’t make it again. You are as impotent as your boat, Captain. Nathan Bridger: I’m warning you right now, if you don’t surrender, I’m going to use every resource on this boat to bring you down, and I’ll succeed. Oh, we found your virus, it’s over. Marilyn Stark: (on screen) You want to kill me, don’t you? The warrior in you wants to taste a little blood. Isn’t it funny, I kill for power, you kill for peace. We’re just different sides of the same coin. Each heroes to our own causes. Let’s see who gets the parade. (screen goes fuzzy) - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Nathan Bridger: Status, Commander. Jonathan Ford: Minimal weapons control, tube one, manual firing capability only. Nathan Bridger: Targeting? Jonathan Ford: Still down. Nathan Bridger: So, we may be able to fire one torpedo, but we have no way to tell it where to go. Terrific. (sees Darwin) Do our torpedoes have tracking options? Jonathan Ford: Sir? Nathan Bridger: Can they be locked into a designated frequency? Jonathan Ford: If we need to. Nathan Bridger: Keep me in the loop. Open the door. (leaves) - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the moon pool - Darwin: (swims to Bridger) Darwin play. Nathan Bridger: Yes, play, not like other games. Now, I need your help. Darwin: Darwin help. Nathan Bridger: You might hear what it is first. Darwin: Trust Bridger. Kristin Westphalen: We’re at six hundred feet, that’s the limit of a dolphin’s tolerance. Nathan Bridger: But he’s gone deeper than five hundred before. I know his tolerance. Kristin Westphalen: You’re taking a chance with his life. Nathan Bridger: You have a better idea? Kristin Westphalen: What about air? Darwin: Need air. Nathan Bridger: With this, (points to Dolphin Rebreather) he won’t have to come to the surface to breathe. Darwin: Need air. Nathan Bridger: Yes, you’ll get air. Just try it, try it. (to crewman) Flood the tube. Crewman: Aye, sir. Kristin Westphalen: I don’t like it. Nathan Bridger: Don’t like what? Kristin Westphalen: You are going to fire him out of a torpedo tube! Nathan Bridger: No, he is going to swim out of a torpedo tube. Kristin Westphalen: I still don’t like it. Darwin: Darwin breathe. Nathan Bridger: Now, what you do is swim out and tag the marker. Darwin: Darwin play. Nathan Bridger: Just like on the island. You swim down, you tag the marker, tag the metal boat. Understand? Darwin: Metal boat. Kristin Westphalen: Darwin, you don’t have to do this. Darwin: Swim like Bridger. Nathan Bridger: Me? Darwin: No suit, skin. (swims off) Kristin Westphalen: What was that all about? Nathan Bridger: Inside joke. Kristin Westphalen: (dryly) Ha, ha. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Miguel Ortiz: WSKRS are picking up the Delta 4, two thousand yards off our starboard bow. Nathan Bridger: Punch up forward screens. Commander, status please. Jonathan Ford: Tube one locked and loaded, torpedo is fully charged. Nathan Bridger: Negative, twenty percent. I want to stop them, not destroy them. Jonathan Ford: You heard the man, twenty percent charge. Matthew Phillips: Yes, sir. - Delta 4 Pirate Submarine - Maxwell: Captain, seaQuest is back. Marilyn Stark: Relax, she’s a shark without teeth. Come to zero six zero and reload all tubes. Maxwell: Reload all tubes and prepare to fire. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Miguel Ortiz: Delta 4 is bringing her barrels around. Nathan Bridger: Heading? Miguel Ortiz: Zero six zero, she’s moving straight at us. Nathan Bridger: (sits down) Open the lo-band, all the frequencies. I want everybody out there to hear me. Tim O’Neill: Yes, sir. Lo-band open and transmitting. Nathan Bridger: (into speaker) People of the Westridge Farm, this is Nathan Bridger, Captain of the seaQuest, representing the United Oce … Uni … (to Crocker) What the hell is it? Manilow Crocker: United Earth/Oceans Organization. Nathan Bridger: (into speaker) We are here to protect you and your facility. Please move to safe ground immediately, move clear immediately. Attention Delta 4, we are prepared and willing to accept your immediate and unconditional surrender. Otherwise, we shall be forced to fire on you. Repeat, we are prepared to accept your unconditional surrender. (they wait) Weapons control, open all outer torpedo tube doors. Matthew Phillips: Yes, sir. Manilow Crocker: Uh, Captain, only tube one is armed. Nathan Bridger: I know that, but they don’t. - Delta 4 Pirate Submarine - Sensor Chief: SeaQuest is opening all torpedo tubes. Marilyn Stark: Any targeting sweeps detected? Sensor Chief: None. Marilyn Stark: Bridger used to drum it into us, first thing you do is targeting sweeps. If he’s not targeting, he’s bluffing. Mr. Maxwell, initiate firing sequence, open all six tubes. Maxwell: All tubes, that’ll take almost a minute to initiate. Marilyn Stark: I know that, I want to blast her out of the water. It’s time the student became the teacher. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Jonathan Ford: Delta 4 is settling into an attack position sir. Nathan Bridger: OK, Mr. Phillips, let him go. Miguel Ortiz: Delta 4 is targeting. Jonathan Ford: Sir, our torpedo doors are open and ready to fire. Miguel Ortiz: Delta 4 is flooding all her torpedo tubes. Nathan Bridger: All her tubes? Miguel Ortiz: Yes, sir. Nathan Bridger: She never did know when to quit. It’s all yours, Darwin. - Delta 4 Pirate Submarine - Maxwell: What the hell is that? Marilyn Stark: (incredulously) He tagged us. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Katie Hitchcock: We have a targeting signal. Matthew Phillips: Tracking system searching for target. Residual acoustical interference, still searching for target. Acoustical noise dissipating, targeting system acquiring tag signal. Captain, we have torpedo lock. Nathan Bridger: Fire. - Delta 4 Pirate Submarine - Marilyn Stark: Why aren’t we firing? Maxwell: Launching sequence ready in thirteen, twelve … Sensor Chief: SeaQuest has fired. Maxwell: Nine … - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Matthew Phillips: Torpedo has lost lock, we do not have lock. - Delta 4 Pirate Submarine - Sensor Chief: She’s hunting, the torpedo is hunting for us. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Matthew Phillips: Torpedo has reacquired target. - Delta 4 Pirate Submarine - Crewman #1: Get to the mini-sub! Crewman #2: The mini-sub! Marilyn Stark: Stop! Get back! We’ve got to attack! That is a direct command! Maxwell: We’re going down. Marilyn Stark: No! This is all your fault, you cheapskate! We can still beat them! You cowards! - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Miguel Ortiz: We have a direct hit on the Delta 4, Captain. She’s going down, Captain. - Jamaica, Le Chein’s house - Guard: Sir. George Le Chein: Ja. Guard: We’ve lost contact with the Delta 4. Our surface ships confirm the sounds of a torpedo strike and a sub breaking up. George Le Chein: My son? Guard: We don’t know. George Le Chein: Bitte. - seaQuest DSV, hallway - Ensign: Captain, sir, well done sir. Nathan Bridger: Thank you. Jonathan Ford: (walking up) Captain, the recon party’s just returned from the downed Delta 4. Nathan Bridger: Survivors? Jonathan Ford: They’re being brought aboard. Nathan Bridger: Stark? Jonathan Ford: She wasn’t listed, and the boat’s mini-sub was gone. Captain, I want to apologize for not being honest with you. It was wrong, and I regret it. It’s just … I don’t know … I … Nathan Bridger: Obeying orders. Jonathan Ford: Yes, sir. Nathan Bridger: I suppose somebody has to. But I just want you to remember that this little underwater shoot-out is not my idea of keeping the peace. Jonathan Ford: Understood. Nathan Bridger: If the recon party’s ready, we can get underway. Jonathan Ford: Would the Captain like to take the helm? Nathan Bridger: Oh, I think you can handle that, Commander. Jonathan Ford: Thank you, sir. (walks off) Nathan Bridger: (notices Darwin) Hey, Darwin boy. (gives him a thumbs up) - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by moon pool - Kristin Westphalen: (to Darwin) Well done, clever Darwin. Yes, well done, well done. (looks up and sees Bridger, who nods and leaves) - seaQuest DSV, Bridger’s room - Lucas Wolenczak: The door was open. Nathan Bridger: Come on in. Lucas Wolenczak: (looks at hologram) I’m still trying to improve it. (sits down next to Bridger) She’s pretty. Nathan Bridger: Yes, she was. Lucas Wolenczak: Well, I just came by to tell you I thought it was very … effective the way you handled the situation. Nathan Bridger: Effective? Thanks. Lucas Wolenczak: You gonna stay, or what? Nathan Bridger: It’s not that simple. Lucas Wolenczak: Why not? Come on, you like it here, don’t you? I mean, it is your boat. Nathan Bridger: I made a promise. Lucas Wolenczak: To her? Nathan Bridger: (sadly) Her name’s Carol. Lucas Wolenczak: Were you two happy? Nathan Bridger: (sadly) Yes, we were. Lucas Wolenczak: Well my parents, huh, they were never happy. I mean, they can’t even stand to be in the same room together. I remember wishing they would just get a divorce and get it over with. Nathan Bridger: (bothered) Why didn’t they? Lucas Wolenczak: Well, they said that when they got married, that they made a promise to stay together forever. I guess they didn’t count on things changing. Tim O’Neill: (over loudspeaker) Captain, you’re wanted on the bridge. Nathan Bridger: I think that’s me. (turns off hologram, pauses to look at nameplate on door, and leaves)