“The Devil’s Window” Directed by: Les Landau Written by: David J. Burke & Hans Tobeason Summary: While investigating the secrets of bacteria living in “Black Smokers,” Darwin becomes sick, and Westphalen cannot help him. Distraught, Bridger contacts his old friend Malcolm Landsdowne, a dolphin specialist. He suggests letting Darwin go free with his pod. After this is done, Dr. Raleigh Young can finally finish his work, but not before Darwin returns, cured. Guest Starring: Roscoe Lee Browne as Dr. Raleigh Young Richard Herd as Admiral William Noyce Robert Engels as Malcolm Landsdowne Co-Starring: Sushil Tyagi as Helmsman Featuring: none The twenty first century ... Mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on Earth -- the ocean. As Captain of the seaQuest and its crew, we are its guardians; for beneath the surface, lies the future. - Equatorial Mid-Atlantic, depth 400 feet, seaQuest DSV, sea deck - Raleigh Young: Beneath the crust of the Earth is an unimaginable heat, so hot, rock melts and seeps through the ground in a liquefied state. It’s a mile and a half beneath us, a place where no life should be able to exist. It is where we are about to go. We are about to reach into the birth canal of Mother Earth. There they are, look at them son, Black Smokers, tube worms. I’m a hungry man. Don’t blink, they’re rare sights. (looks through some drawers, pulls out a frozen lobster) Ah, can you eat this? Kristin Westphalen: There’s a thought. Lucas Wolenczak: This is a hydrothermal vent, an underwater volcano; seawater … lava … smoke. Raleigh Young: Yes. Lucas Wolenczak: So what? Raleigh Young: That smoke is laced with the Earth’s most carcinogenic minerals. When a factory dumps them in a river, the river dies. But here, here they’re dumped in their most concentrated form, yet around them grows life. Why? Is it the seawater, two tons per square inch of pressure, or is it something in the vent? Kristin Westphalen: What’s in the vent are hundreds of species of bacteria we know nothing about. Raleigh Young: They’re living creatures. Kristin Westphalen: They’re deadly organisms. Raleigh Young: Surviving organisms. We’re about to open the door to the how and why of their survival. Kristin Westphalen: Or we’re about to open Pandora’s box. Raleigh Young: Show me my platform, Nathan. (screen changes from bottom of ocean to platform under seaQuest) Beautiful, isn’t it? Once the platform is anchored over the vent, the heat emanating from the Smoker will be transformed into energy, powering the platform’s survey systems. Spectral analysis, immunochemistry, thermal evaluations … an absolute dissection of a yet unexplored habitat. Nathan Bridger: It is exciting. I mean, if this thing works, we’ll know in weeks what normally would have taken years. Raleigh Young: Exactly. Nathan Bridger: On the other hand, we could end up at the bottom of the ocean in little bits. SeaQuest wasn’t designed to haul around your fantasies, Raleigh. (looks at screen) Is that Darwin? Lucas Wolenczak: I don’t know. I let him out to eat, he’s been roaming around since we got here. Nathan Bridger: Call him back in, Lucas. (Lucas leaves) Raleigh Young: We’re going where stone roils and shrieks defiance as it’s delivered into a gelatinous ooze swarming with the elements that cause life. Kristin Westphalen: You can get off your soapbox now, Raleigh, the boy’s gone. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the moon pool - Lucas Wolenczak: (into vo-chorder) Darwin, Darwin, Darwin, Darwin . . . - outside the seaQuest - Crewman #1: (on radio) SeaQuest, this is sea crab one, container has ruptured, leaking core samples. Crewman #2: (on radio) That’s poisonous, jettison the container. Crewman #1: (on radio) Affirmative. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Jonathan Ford: Boat stands ready, Captain. Nathan Bridger: Take her down, Commander. Jonathan Ford: Begin descent. Nathan Bridger: Ya know, it’s aggravating enough diving through a thermocline without your platform attached to us, Raleigh. I don’t know how seaQuest is going to handle this. Raleigh Young: Oh, she’ll rise to the occasion. Nathan Bridger: One of our sea trucks was rising through that layer and ruptured the only sample container we had ready. I don’t think we should underestimate the severity of the temperature changes. Raleigh Young: Are you losing your enthusiasm, Nathan? Nathan Bridger: Not at all, just being realistic, that’s all. Miguel Ortiz: Two hundred meters above the thermocline. Tim O’Neill: Report, mount points positive. Miguel Ortiz: WSKR telemetry optimal. Jonathan Ford: Position us at alpha point. Lateral strain? Katie Hitchcock: Within tolerance. Jonathan Ford: Mr. Ortiz? Miguel Ortiz: Attitude trim and level. Helmsman: Three hundred fifty meters; four hundred. Miguel Ortiz: Shear force is increasing. Jonathan Ford: Commander Hitchcock? Katie Hitchcock: Within tolerance. (ship rocks, Darwin’s tank overflows) Nathan Bridger: Close that tank. Katie Hitchcock: Hydrodynamic stress overload. Helmsman: The helm is fighting, sir. Jonathan Ford: Mr. Ortiz. Miguel Ortiz: Shear is in tolerable limits. Katie Hitchcock: Captain, structural stress ninety-five percent. Nathan Bridger: If you need to drop that platform, Commander — Raleigh Young: You can’t drop my platform. Kristin Westphalen: Raleigh. (restrains Young) Nathan Bridger: Drop it if you need to. Helmsman: Helm can’t hold depth, losing attitude control. Miguel Ortiz: Rolling back through, yaw increasing. Nathan Bridger: You wanna back off? Jonathan Ford: Not yet, sir. Commander Hitchcock, would you join me at the helm? Nathan Bridger: Go ahead, I’ll take it. Katie Hitchcock: Thank you, sir. Jonathan Ford: Clear first seats, please. (Ford and Hitchcock sit down) OK, forward planes neutral. Katie Hitchcock: Planes neutral. Come two degrees starboard. Jonathan Ford: Midships’ planes, five degrees up. Katie Hitchcock: OK, five degrees. Jonathan Ford: Countersteer rudder. Miguel Ortiz: I’m getting green indicators. Helmsman: Descending, five hundred fifty meters. Miguel Ortiz: Stabilizing, boat is clear and level. Tim O’Neill: All indicators are green. Helmsman: Six hundred meters, seaQuest is in position at alpha, Commander. Jonathan Ford: (to Hitchcock) Way to go. Nice work. Raleigh Young: Magnificent performance. Nathan Bridger: Yes, but don’t expect an encore. - seaQuest DSV, bridge, a little later - Kristin Westphalen: Nathan, are you all right? Nathan Bridger: I’m fine. A little warm. Tim O’Neill: Captain! Nathan Bridger: Something’s wrong. (sees Darwin, opens tank and gets in) Kristin! Kristin Westphalen: Get him to sea deck, I’ll prep diagnostics. Jonathan Ford: Quick, grab that rebreather. (O’Neill gets in tank, Ford and Hitchcock put rebreathers on Bridger and O’Neill) Let’s go. Raleigh Young: Nathan! My platform! (follows Westphalen) Kristin, you can’t leave, you’re the senior science officer. Kristin Westphalen: I’m also the chief physician. - seaQuest DSV, Darwin’s tubes - Tim O’Neill: I think Darwin talked to me, in my head, on the bridge. Nathan Bridger: I heard it too, but it wasn’t clear. Tim O’Neill: It scared me. (distraught) Where are we? Nathan Bridger: I don’t know, I failed to put directions down here. Must be a design flaw. Tim O’Neill: Well, what are we gonna do? Nathan Bridger: It’s all right, we’re gonna dive down, below the wall. The light is the continuation of the tunnel, all right? Tim O’Neill: OK. Nathan Bridger: All right, now Darwin, you’re gonna do the same thing. Gonna dive down, underneath the wall, and follow the tunnel to the end, to the end, all right? I think you better take a nice big breath. Here we go. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the moon pool - Kristin Westphalen: Saline drips? Hypodermics? Good. Where are they? - seaQuest DSV, Darwin’s tubes - Tim O’Neill: It’s not working. Nathan Bridger: Calm down, take it easy, take it easy. We’ve got ten minutes of air left. Breathe slower. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the moon pool - Kristin Westphalen: OK, lower the net, boys. Crewman: That’s it, Mike, that’s it. Bring it around. Lucas Wolenczak: (into vo-chorder) Darwin! Crewman: Elevate it slowly, let’s keep him level. Kristin Westphalen: Pull it around, this end to me. Over. Get that cradle up. Where’s that hypodermic? Thank you. Hold still. (gives Darwin a shot) Lucas Wolenczak: (into vo-chorder) Darwin. Darwin. Nathan Bridger: It’ll be all right, my friend. Lucas Wolenczak: What’s wrong? Nathan Bridger: You’re gonna be all right. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck - Nathan Bridger: What’s the diagnosis? Kristin Westphalen: We don’t have one, so I’m pumping him full of antibiotics and monitoring his vital systems. Shouldn’t you be on the bridge? Nathan Bridger: Ford can handle that. Kristin Westphalen: And Raleigh? Nathan Bridger: Ford can handle him too. Thanks. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by moon pool - Nathan Bridger: How you doing? Lucas Wolenczak: I can’t get this to work. Nathan Bridger: Let’s see. (into vo-chorder) Darwin, what’s wrong? Darwin: Darwin sick. Nathan Bridger: Seems all right. What kind of sickness? Darwin: Dark. Nathan Bridger: What’s dark? Darwin: Light is dark and one. Lucas Wolenczak: He keeps saying that light is dark and one. I have no idea what he’s talking about. Nathan Bridger: Is it the computer, or is he really saying that? Lucas Wolenczak: I don’t know. It’s beta software, and it’s not finished. I’m sorry, I’m just past the edge of what I understand here. Nathan Bridger: That’s OK, come on, come on, you’re doing fine. Tim O’Neill: (walking in) How is he? Nathan Bridger: He’s sick, how ‘bout you? Tim O’Neill: Um, can, can I pet him? Nathan Bridger: Sure. Tim O’Neill: I’m fluent in six languages, OK in a dozen more. But when Darwin talks or thinks at me, I feel like it’s coming at right angles. We have to let him go. Nathan Bridger: Light is dark and one. Tim O’Neill: Yes. - seaQuest DSV, Bridger’s room - Nathan Bridger: (enters, looks in address book, changes his mind) I can’t call this man, he’s crazy. (comlink buzzes) Kristin Westphalen: (on comlink as Young enters) Nathan, Darwin’s white cell count is extremely high and rising. I don’t know if I can stabilize him. Nathan Bridger: Well, what’s the matter with him? Kristin Westphalen: (on comlink) It may be viral, it may be bacterial, I don’t know. Nathan Bridger: Thank you. Raleigh Young: Nathan, this project is much larger than tube worms and Black Smokers. We’re reaching into the very skeletal system of the Earth. This (holds out thing) is a model of a magma buoy. It’s a ceramic alloy designed to withstand extreme levels of heat, common in the subsurface river of lava. This is the most essential element of our mission. Nathan Bridger: Why didn’t I know about this? Raleigh Young: Has to remain classified until we get it in the magma flow, because we don’t know where or when it will spit out. Oh, Nathan, think of it, if this works … Nathan Bridger: It can anticipate volcanic stresses, earthquakes. Raleigh Young: Exactly. Nathan Bridger: It’s brilliant, but it’s going to have to wait a few days. Raleigh Young: But Nathan! Nathan Bridger: A member of my crew is sick and that comes first. (walks out) - seaQuest DSV, ward room - Nathan Bridger: Come on, Downy, come on, come on. (screen shows kitchen) Malcolm, hello, Malcolm Landsdowne? Malcolm Landsdowne: (voice on screen) Uh, I don’t know, he owe you money? Nathan Bridger: It’s Nathan Bridger, you clown. Malcolm Landsdowne: (appears on screen) Good heavens, Nathan, where have you been? You in jail? Nathan Bridger: I’m on a submarine. Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen) Oh, yeah, right, right, I heard, seaQuest. Hey, I want ya to meet my mom. Mom. (pulls older lady into view on screen) Nathan, this is mom. Nathan Bridger: Hi, mom. Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen, pulling two other men into view on the screen) Emile, Bill, don’t be shy, don’t be shy. Emile, Bill, meet Nathan. Nathan Bridger: Hello, how are you? Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen) Family barbecue. Once a year sort of thing. Mom blimps over, stays the week, brings the cousins, enjoys the sunshine. Nathan Bridger: Malcolm, listen to me, Darwin is very sick. I think he may be dying. Malcolm Landsdowne: (seriously, on screen) Let me get this in the other room. (leaves screen, everyone stands looking uncomfortable; screen changes) Symptoms? Nathan Bridger: Elevated white blood cell count, his color is off, fever. My medical chief thinks it’s bacterial or viral. Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen) Usually takes an postmortem to tell. Where’s he been? Nathan Bridger: On seaQuest mainly. Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen) Contact with other dolphins? Nathan Bridger: No, not that I’m aware of. Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen) Exactly what parts of what oceans have you been in recently? There was a red tide off the Yucatan. Nathan Bridger: No, nowhere near that. Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen) Bad oil spill in Bahrain. Nathan Bridger: No, we’ve been in the Equatorial Mid-Atlantic. Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen) I need to see him, Nathan. Nathan Bridger: Well can’t you — Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen) You’re just around the corner. I need to see him. Nathan Bridger: I’ll get back to you. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Nathan Bridger: (entering) Where are we? Jonathan Ford: Twenty meters off the sea bed, two hours to get the platform down, make the tenants to secure it. Nathan Bridger: Can we release the platform now? Jonathan Ford: I suppose so. Raleigh Young: Are you mad? We can’t drop it, the placement’s critical. Nathan Bridger: It’s right over the Black Smoker, exactly where it’s supposed to be. Let it go. Raleigh Young: Nathan. Nathan Bridger: It’s not going anywhere, Raleigh. Raleigh Young: No, you will not. (Ford stops him, Bridger hits button, dropping platform) Nathan Bridger: Set course for Caicos Key. (leaves) Raleigh Young: (follows Bridger) Nathan! Who gave you the authority? You can’t play God! (both enter Mag-lev) I’ve invested years, teams of scientists, millions of dollars, the UEO, for what? So you can toss it away for what, a dolphin. Nathan Bridger: A member of my crew. Raleigh Young: In some parts of the world, that crew member is an ingredient in bouillabaisse. (follows Bridger as he enters sea deck) You’re not a scientist. You’re a self-absorbed, ego-maniacal dictator. This boat isn’t your personal fiefdom. Nathan Bridger: Look him in the eye. Raleigh Young: I’ll do no such thing. Nathan Bridger: Look him in the eye. (Young looks) Darwin: Light is dark and one. (Young thinks, and leaves) - seaQuest DSV, ward room - Raleigh Young: Relieve him of command. He’s … irrational. William Noyce: (on screen) Commander Ford? Jonathan Ford: I don’t agree, Admiral. William Noyce: (on screen) Doctor Westphalen? Kristin Westphalen: He’s distraught, withdrawn, even belligerent, but he’s not irrational. William Noyce: (on screen) Doctor Young, I, I promise, your project won’t suffer for a few days’ wait. Raleigh Young: I can’t be snowed with promises, Admiral. I’ll go to Secretary General Dre. I’ll not be given the run-around by a flock of vapid lackeys. William Noyce: (on screen) I’ll wait for your apology, Doctor. Raleigh Young: (looks around) Very well, I’m sorry. William Noyce: (on screen) Thank you. I share your concern, but Captain Bridger must have a good reason for his actions. Raleigh Young: He most certainly does — he’s lost his mind. Driving all over the ocean searching for spiritual dolphin healing. I’m sorry I didn’t bring my own personal astrologer along. William Noyce: (on screen) Doctor Young, Captain Bridger retains my full confidence. Until I see good reason to think otherwise, his decisions are final aboard seaQuest. Thank you, and good day. (screen goes blank) Raleigh Young: (angrily, while pushing buttons) Get me the Secretary General. I want to speak to Secretary Dre. Which one of these buttons … Kristin Westphalen: (trying to restrain him and taking his pulse at the same time) You had better lie down, you’re going to give yourself a heart attack. Miguel Ortiz: (over loudspeaker) Commander Ford. Jonathan Ford: Ford here. Miguel Ortiz: (over loudspeaker) We’re at Caicos Key’s outer sonar ring, sir. Kristin Westphalen: Commander, could Chief Ortiz please send the WSKR to give us something tranquil to look at? Jonathan Ford: Chief? Miguel Ortiz: (over loudspeaker) I have one near a reef right now, channel seven bravo. Jonathan Ford: Thank you. Kristin Westphalen: Come on, let’s sit down for a while, come on, (moves Young to chair in corner) there, there we are. I am going to dial up an outside view, soft music, lay back. Raleigh Young: Everyone’s abandoned me. My whole life, whatever it was, if I didn’t clutch on like a drowning man I’d lose it. Kristin Westphalen: You’ve accomplished a great deal, don’t go popping a vessel now. You won’t be around to enjoy it. Raleigh Young: How can I stop struggling now? Kristin Westphalen: (whispering) Just relax, relax. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, moon pool - Nathan Bridger: Be strong, my friend. Darwin: Darwin understand. Nathan Bridger: Understands what? Darwin: Darwin sick, Bridger hurt. Nathan Bridger: Yes. Darwin: Why? Nathan Bridger: I want you to be well. Darwin: Light is dark except … Nathan Bridger: Except, what does that mean, except? Darwin: Bridger is family. Nathan Bridger: You’re family too. You really are. Darwin: Darwin loves Bridger. Nathan Bridger: I love you too. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the moon pool - Kristin Westphalen: OK, let’s go. Nice and gently. Can you take the IV, please? Stop … and lower. - Caicos Key Dolphin Research Center - Malcolm Landsdowne: My, don’t you look terrible. A little elbow room here please, nothing you haven’t seen before. (looks in Darwin’s blowhole) Well, the breath’s not bad, it’s not respiratory. Kristin Westphalen: I’ve done a complete blood history. Malcolm Landsdowne: And you’ve got him on antibiotics. Kristin Westphalen: Including cyclines, and sulfas … Malcolm Landsdowne: And you got no response from white cell count or T-cells. Kristin Westphalen: That’s right. Malcolm Landsdowne: Well, doesn’t make my life any easier. Watch out, watch out. Get a urine sample. Marine veterinary medicine is about as sophisticated as voodoo. (Westphalen laughs) Nathan, why don’t you all get a bite to eat in the kitchen. I’ll find you later. Nathan Bridger: Thanks, Downy. (all go to leave) Malcolm Landsdowne: (stops Westphalen) Doctor Westphalen, I could use your help. - seaQuest DSV, ward room - Raleigh Young: (knock on door) Come in. Jonathan Ford: (entering) You all right, Doctor? Raleigh Young: Just fine, thank you. Jonathan Ford: I thought you might like some lunch. Raleigh Young: That would be nice. Jonathan Ford: You’re sure you’re all right? Raleigh Young: Commander, I assure you, I’m just fine. (Ford leaves) - Caicos Key Dolphin Research Center - Malcolm Landsdowne: Nathan, (Bridger walks over) come walk with me. (Bridger and Landsdowne go to beach) Nathan Bridger: He’s going to die. Malcolm Landsdowne: I think so. I looked at Doctor Westphalen’s results. I’ll know more in a few hours, but, I wouldn’t expect much. It’s just that we’ve learned so little about how they heal themselves. I wish I could tell you otherwise. (they reach a shack) So, you want a beer? Nathan Bridger: Sure. Malcolm Landsdowne: (enters shack and reappears with two beers; looks down the beach) Is that Raleigh Young? Nathan Bridger: He’s aboard the seaQuest running a project for a couple of weeks. I really feel sorry for Lucas. Darwin’s the closest thing he’s had to a pal, it’s going to be very hard on him. Raleigh, you know Malcolm Landsdowne. (shake hands) Lucas Wolenczak: Well I guess I’ll be heading back. Malcolm Landsdowne: Why don’t you ask him to stay, Nathan? Nathan Bridger: Lucas, stick around. Malcolm Landsdowne: Yeah, sure, sit down. I’ll get ya a beer. Nathan Bridger: He’s only sixteen, Downy. Malcolm Landsdowne: I’ll get him two. (goes inside) Raleigh Young: (sitting down) Nathan, I understand why you’ve done what you’ve done. I don’t agree with it, but I understand it. I’ll suffer the wait. Nathan Bridger: Thanks, Raleigh. Raleigh Young: How long? Nathan Bridger: Raleigh. Malcolm Landsdowne: (reappears in doorway of shack) So, what would we like to hear … blues, New Orleans jazz, zydeco … I haven’t bought anything new since they stopped making CD’s. Raleigh Young: Not to be rhetorical, but where are we? Don’t you have island music? Malcolm Landsdowne: Tourist. (comes out of shack and over to the table, giving each person a bottle) Jamaican ginger beer, no alcohol, plenty of bite. Raleigh Young: Thank you. Is your dolphin going to die? Nathan Bridger: (looks at Lucas) Probably. Raleigh Young: How long? Nathan Bridger: I don’t know. Death doesn’t punch a clock. Tim O’Neill: Can’t you feel anything when you look at Darwin? Don’t you know he’s a thinking, and feeling creature that’s scared? Raleigh Young: The importance of my work — Tim O’Neill: Your work is an inanimate object. You selfish old man. Malcolm Landsdowne: Boys, boys. You strip away the education, billions of dollars worth of machinery, what do ya got? Us, couple of bucks worth of chemicals. Who understands any of it? Raleigh Young: To life. Nathan Bridger: And death. Malcolm Landsdowne: Beer. (O’Neill gives him a strange look) Lucas Wolenczak: The light is dark, and one. Malcolm Landsdowne: What? Nathan Bridger: Lucas is our computer whiz. He’s designed a program that translates Darwin’s clicks and whistles. Malcolm Landsdowne: You mean he can speak and understand English? Lucas Wolenczak: A little bit, sometimes, it’s experimental. Malcolm Landsdowne: Amazing. What does he say? Nathan Bridger: Since he’s been sick, all he says is light is dark and one. Malcolm Landsdowne: Incredible, knowledge is light. Nathan Bridger: Than darkness is the absence of knowledge. He’s faced with losing everything he knows. Malcolm Landsdowne: And one? Nathan Bridger: And one is alone. Light is dark and one. He doesn’t want to die alone. (Landsdowne nods his head in agreement) Tim O’Neill: We have to let him go. Lucas Wolenczak: He’s too weak to swim. Malcolm Landsdowne: No, no, no, dolphins will support a member of their pod if they’re hurt. You can find Darwin’s pod, his community, and return him to it. You didn’t find him far from here. Lucas Wolenczak: His pod could be anywhere within hundreds of miles from here. Malcolm Landsdowne: Find the signature whistles, you’ve got Darwin’s recorded. Search for familial similarities. Tim O’Neill: We could configure the sonar. Lucas Wolenczak: I could program the computers. Raleigh Young: Try, Nathan, you must. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Nathan Bridger: Status, Mr. Ortiz. Miguel Ortiz: Feeding acoustical data directly into Communications. Nathan Bridger: Lieutenant? Tim O’Neill: We’re getting responses, Captain, but there’s nothing even close. There’s a pod out there, but it’s not Darwin’s. Lucas Wolenczak: Amazing, when dolphins bear their young, the females usually stay with their mother; their signature whistles change slightly so they can tell each other apart. The males usually leave; their whistles don’t change so they can find their way back home. Nathan Bridger: (into comlink) How’s he doing? Kristin Westphalen: (on sea deck, in moon pool with Darwin, into PAL) He hears the whistles, but, he doesn’t seem to care. Miguel Ortiz: WSKR five is at the limit of its range Captain. Nathan Bridger: Send it west. Kristin Westphalen: (on sea deck, in moon pool with Darwin, PAL) Nathan, Nathan something’s happening. Nathan Bridger: Repeat Darwin’s call. Kristin Westphalen: (on sea deck, in moon pool with Darwin, who starts fighting) Oh, oh careful, careful, oh, quick, get him. Tim O’Neill: It has to be his pod, it has to be. (compares data with Lucas) Captain, I think we found Darwin’s mother. Nathan Bridger: Darwin’s mother for sure? Tim O’Neill: According to the text. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, in the moon pool - Kristin Westphalen: Oh! Scientist: Steady. Kristin Westphalen: Oh! Careful, careful. Oh, quick, get him, get him. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Miguel Ortiz: The dolphin pod’s moving towards us, Captain. Nathan Bridger: Let’s meet ‘em half way. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, in the moon pool - Scientist #1: Underneath, underneath. Scientist #2: I’ve got him. Kristin Westphalen: Stay still, stay still. Scientist #1: Watch out! Kristin Westphalen: Darwin. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Kristin Westphalen: (on comlink) Nathan, get down here. Nathan Bridger: (into comlink) What’s wrong? Kristin Westphalen: (on comlink) Darwin’s having a seizure. We can’t restrain him, he’s going to hurt himself, or us. Nathan Bridger: (into comlink) On my way. Tim O’Neill: Uh, Captain? Nathan Bridger: Come on. (leaves with Lucas and O’Neill) - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by moon pool - Scientist: Let’s go, watch his head. Nathan Bridger: (running in as group struggles with Darwin) All right we can let him go, let him go. Everyone out, everyone get out. Open the pressure door, and turn off the sonar relay. Darwin: Bridger, Bridger. Nathan Bridger: Just go, go. (Darwin swims away) Shut the door, pressurize the moon pool. Jonathan Ford: (over loudspeaker) Captain, we’re approaching the pod. Nathan Bridger: Thank you, Commander. Open the hull doors, let him out of the boat. (all go to screen and watch sadly as Darwin swims out) Tim O’Neill: (as Bridger turns to go) Captain, it’s the WSKR that followed the pod. Lucas Wolenczak: That’s Darwin, where are they taking him? Nathan Bridger: I don’t know. Tim O’Neill: Shall I have the WSKRS follow them, Captain? Nathan Bridger: No, no, we’ve delayed Doctor Young long enough. Commander? Jonathan Ford: (over loudspeaker) Captain? Nathan Bridger: Set a course for the Black Smoker. Jonathan Ford: (over loudspeaker) Aye, sir. Lucas Wolenczak: You think they can help him? Nathan Bridger: I couldn’t even guess. But at least he’s going home. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck - Kristin Westphalen: We must test the sample containers again; I will not risk a repeat performance of the rupture during the initial phase. Raleigh Young: That was an aberration I tell you. Kristin Westphalen: Not a single sample comes up until I am satisfied with the tests. Raleigh Young: Another day’s delay, what does it matter after all these years? Kristin Westphalen: Raleigh, go … eat. Fill your mouth with something other than words. Raleigh Young: (walking away) Don’t worry, I’ll survive. - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Jonathan Ford: We just completed the final check for the platform system. The first new set of sample containers from the Smoker will be coming aboard shortly. (pauses) Sir, you are really depressing everybody. Nathan Bridger: (melancholic) Very good. Thank you. (gets up out of chair) I’ll go down to the moon pool, maybe some heavy lifting will be good for me. (leaves) - seaQuest DSV, sea deck - Kristin Westphalen: (comlink buzzes, into comlink) Dr. Westphalen. Tim O’Neill: (on comlink) Doctor, you have a call from Malcolm Landsdowne in the ward room. - seaQuest DSV, ward room - Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen) What are you doing out there? Kristin Westphalen: What do you mean? Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen) I mean I’ve identified some of the bacterial agents in Darwin’s blood. You’re working a Black Smoker. (on sea deck, Bridger enters and helps try to open the sample container) I don’t care if it’s classified, what do you want … a letter from my mom? (on sea deck, Bridger is still trying to open the sample container) The bacteria I can identify have only been found living around Black Smokers. There’s probably a dozen species in here no one’s ever seen. (on sea deck, Bridger is still trying to open the sample container) You saw what it did to your dolphin, you got anyone else out there playing with the stuff? (on sea deck, Bridger is still trying to open the sample container) Kristin Westphalen: They’re bringing up the first containers of it now. Malcolm Landsdowne: (on screen) I’d say you got a problem, Doctor. Kristin Westphalen: (twirls to comlink) This is Doctor Westphalen … can you hear me? (on sea deck, Bridger is still trying to open sample container, pauses, goes back to work, dolphin leaps and knocks Bridger into water) Don’t touch the sample containers. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, in moon pool - Nathan Bridger: (to Darwin) Well, nice to have you back. (sees another dolphin swimming toward him with seaweed) Well, hello, mama. (takes seaweed) Thank you. - seaQuest DSV, sea deck - Nathan Bridger: (looking into a microscope) OK, it’s, uh, seaweed. Kristin Westphalen: Mostly, but there are indications of anti-bacterial properties, and do you see hints that it grew near a Black Smoker? Nathan Bridger: But dolphins can’t dive down that deep. Kristin Westphalen: Ah, if we knew all the answers we wouldn’t be scientists, we’d be gods. You know, I think it may be some kind of dolphin medicine. Nathan Bridger: And Darwin’s mama’s brought it to us like chicken soup. Kristin Westphalen: Yes. Nathan Bridger: Listen, Raleigh’s about to send his magma buoy into a Smoker, wanna come along? Kristin Westphalen: I think I’ll carry on working. I don’t think Raleigh or his ceramic suppository will mind my absence. Nathan Bridger: Uuuuu. (leaves) - seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by moon pool - Lucas Wolenczak: (into vo-chorder) Why did you bring us the seaweed, Darwin? Darwin: Swim. Nathan Bridger: (entering) Anything yet? Lucas Wolenczak: He wants to swim I guess. Darwin: Swim Lucas, swim Bridger. Nathan Bridger: Lucas will swim with you, I’ll swim with you later. What’s the seaweed for? Darwin: Open dark. Tim O’Neill: Don’t look at me, why doesn’t that thing work better? Lucas Wolenczak: I guess Darwin doesn’t think like us. The program can only translate what it understands. Nathan Bridger: Objects and material things are easy; this is a red box, swim through the tunnel. It’s the irrational, the abstract that’s confusing. How do you explain joy? “Open dark” is the computer’s way of trying to attach meaning to something that we feel, but don’t really understand. Lieutenant. Tim O’Neill: (walking out) You know, I haven’t felt anything from Darwin since the bridge. I, uh, I feel like I … glimpsed at something wonderful but had it taken away. (enters Mag-lev with Bridger) - seaQuest DSV, bridge - Jonathan Ford: Stand by. Doctor Young? Raleigh Young: Release the magma buoy. God speed on its quest.