seaQuest DSV (1993) s02e08 Episode Script

I have an unscheduled system shut down in the quad.
What happened, somebody's insurance run out? Calling up patient.
Entry date, 10-10-1999.
Ident code classified.
Now I'm getting an override on the ident code.
See if you can lift it from your end.
October 10, 1999.
Searching.
You have accessed a UEO classified file.
Enter your UEO clearance code now.
Sir, is there a problem? When did the system shut down? Three days ago.
Human tissue damage starts after two.
I pity the guy at Evac who's gotta hose this thing down.
Open it.
Excuse me? I said open it.
Now! Sir, there's no body.
DHARAVl: Yes, that was my patient.
But I don't see what my activities have to do with the UEO.
I'm sorry, Doctor.
Due to reasons of national security, I can't disclose any specific details.
But let's just say there are certain individuals who didn't want your patient re-animated.
The decision to re-animate belongs to the patient, not with certain individuals.
People in the cryonics industry make a mockery of life.
Turning people into popsicles when we should be putting our efforts into improving the lives that we have.
Not fleeing to some distant time, leaving the burden of change to future generations.
Re-animation requires signatures, Doctor.
My signature.
Now tell me where your patient is.
Even if I knew, I would not tell you.
Thank you, Doctor.
I appreciate your time.
Where's the strawberry? Strawberries are out of season.
Out of season? Strawberries haven't been out of season since the turn of the century.
Donny, they're hydroponic.
We make them.
I got some frozen ones down in the freezer I can chip out for you.
Fine, fine.
Forget the strawberry.
Make it Make it a beer.
Yeah, right.
I really wanna lose my license serving you alcohol.
Come on, I've had beer before.
Oh.
It's all right.
I can handle it.
Right, guys? Can't I? No way.
Forget about it.
Not a chance.
Thank you.
We gotta get out of here.
When you guys shipping out? Midnight.
Who's gonna tell the birthday boy? We offer to buy Brody a drink for his birthday and he blows us off for some girl.
It's in very bad form.
I thought all the women around here were on to him by now.
Yeah.
She's new.
Been in here a couple of times, same thing every time.
Sits by herself, every guy in the bar trying to buy her a drink.
Brody's the first guy she's ever paid any attention to, though.
Where's your vidphone? It's right behind you.
My commission to seaQuest came after the G.
E.
L.
F.
crisis.
I swore I'd never get stuck on a boat, but the Navy offered me a commission of a lifetime.
Stole my freedom away.
I must sound like a jerk.
All I've been doing is talking about myself.
I asked.
So, tell me about you.
Let's dance.
Yeah.
I found Brody, but the place is pretty crowded.
That's it.
He's on his own.
Well, wait a minute, we can't just leave.
Why not? Well, he's got the keys to the transport.
Oh, I thought you had a good reason.
Sorry, Lieutenant, can't afford to go A.
W.
O.
L.
We got a boat to catch.
Well, I guess I've got a boat to catch.
Well, it was really nice meeting you, James.
It's Jim.
And do you have any idea of the grief I'm gonna get if I don't at least get a kiss out of you? I should go.
Wait a minute.
I'll give you a lift.
Sure.
Just give me a minute, okay? Crash and burn, eh, Lieutenant? What are you kidding me? She practically begged me to take her home.
Yeah.
Does she know that? You guys are late.
It's my fault, Commander.
The guys bought me a drink for my birthday.
Is that supposed to be an acceptable excuse? Relax, you guys got a reprieve.
We're waiting for a UEO research team.
They're gonna hitch a ride with us to the Delphi.
New departure time, What was the name of that cab she hopped in? Jimmy, she blew you off.
She's playing hard to get.
She's playing impossible to get.
Never could turn my back on a challenge.
You ever have someone disappear on you before? It's a very creepy feeling.
You start to wonder what the hell's wrong with you.
I thought we were getting to know each other.
We did.
And then we said goodbye.
So what is it? I'm a lousy dancer? I talk about myself too much? I smell bad? I smell bad? You smell nice.
There, see? Now, that's something we can build on.
Look, it's never gonna work.
My life is just too complicated right now.
Come on.
Even I don't use that line.
Look, this isn't a conquest thing if that's what you think.
That's not what I think.
All right, then marry me.
Okay, don't marry me.
But tell me why I can't stop thinking about you.
Hey, come on, ease up on me, would you? Look, I'm new at this.
You're my first obsession.
You don't want my problems.
Can't I decide that for myself? Not this time, Jimmy.
Oh, no! Don't move, all right? Don't move! You all right? I guess that was some of this trouble you were talking about, huh? I don't know what that was.
I'm sorry! I had no right.
I Had no right to what? Who are you? It's me, Jimmy.
My little man.
It's me.
Mom? This is my screw-up, Nathan.
You know the grief I!m gonna take for holding up seaQuest in order to transport Undersecretary Meyers and her crew to Delphi? I mean, this relocation was supposed to be down and dirty.
Frank, you don't begrudge a few underpaid scientists a first class ticket, do you? No? Listen, Nathan.
If you could find a way to take the hit on this delay from your end, I might be able to get you those magma research funds you were asking for.
Now that sounds like a bribe.
It!s not a bribe.
It!s a favor.
Stop being so damn smug.
I just love the irony of you furthering science.
Easy, now.
Easy with that.
Dr.
Meyers, we agreed to give you guys a lift, not move your entire operation.
Okay, so who's who here? Oh, Dr.
Wong Fay Hung China.
Hopkins.
Bettendorf, Iowa.
Claudine Meyers.
Sorry for the last-minute change up.
Whoa! Guys, we are way too loaded down here.
Claudine, how are you? Nathan.
Thanks for the lift.
Oh, forget it.
Who else should be taxiing around the scientific community? Excuse me.
Captain, you want to help me out here, please? Jonathan, I got the general to open the purse strings on the magma project.
You're kidding.
How? Hey, guys, can we get some hands up here, please? Dagwood, give Dr.
Meyers and her crew a hand with their equipment.
Take us out, Commander.
Aye, sir.
Taking in laundry, Lieutenant? Oh, I just found these things and I was just, you know That's blood.
Did you get hurt? This is from the guy who took a shot at you.
I'm gonna run this strain through DNA and find out who's trying to kill you.
Jimmy, I don't want you to waste time playing detective.
Just be with me.
How long do you have? I don't know.
Dr.
Dharavi said the virus that killed me would re-animate the moment I came out of cryonic-suspension.
They hardly knew anything about the Picor-A strand.
And they couldn't keep me alive long enough to do a pattern blood grouping.
Why didn't you tell anybody you were gonna come out? Because I didn't wanna be talked out of it.
And I didn't want to wake up in I told the doctor no matter what that I wanted to come back.
I wanted to see what kind of a man my little boy grew into.
My little man.
You have no idea how guilty I felt leaving you alone in the world.
Oh, Mom, come on.
I mean, you died.
When I saw you tonight, I saw how happy you were, all that you'd accomplished, I realized I had no business dropping back into your life like that.
So I ran.
Did Mom and Dad take good care of you? Well, they're grandparents.
I got away with murder.
I miss the hell out of them.
I went by the old house, left some yellow roses on the porch.
They were Mom's favorite.
You know, they never told me about my father.
They never met him.
Neither did I.
I'm sorry.
I thought they would've told you.
They did.
I always thought they told me I came from a bank because they were protecting your reputation.
Jimmy, I wanted a child.
I wanted you.
Insemination gave me options.
What happened? I mean, what did you see? What do you know that could make someone want to kill you? I don't know.
I mean, I really don't remember much of anything.
Maybe later, huh? Why don't you go take that shower? That's blood.
I need you to run a DNA test for me.
A DNA test? Why? You know that woman I met last night? Then proceeded to stalk.
Yeah.
Well, she's sort of in my cabin.
How sort of, Jim? Pretty much entirely.
'Cause someone sort of tried to kill her.
Hey! Save some ions for someone else, would you? What's the matter? Never taken a waterless shower before? I like to take a real one myself, every now and then.
I'm Lonnie Henderson, Fort Smith, Wyoming.
Alison Brody, Dover, Delaware.
Any relation to the lieutenant? Well, talk to the commander.
He'll assign you a water ration code.
Thanks.
The river! The Saint John's River.
We were partying, me and my friend, Anita Sawyer Wait Slow down.
Slow down.
Relax.
What's going on? I can't.
I've gotta get it out while I can still remember it.
We had just crammed three weeks straight for a physics final and we took a bottle of Dom to the Saint John's River and What? What happened? What? Damn.
Commander, I can explain this.
Opposite gender non-coms, even dry ones, are pretty much restricted from officer's quarters, as I recall, Mr.
Brody.
She's not a non-com, Commander.
She's my mom.
I need a med unit.
Stat! And she has no idea why somebody's trying to kill her? Well, it's sort of coming back to her in pieces.
She was swimming in this river where she picked up a virus and then went into a coma.
She died two days later.
All she remembers about that day is she was with a friend.
Have you contacted this friend? Lucas is thumbing through the Internet trying to find her.
How is she? Her fever is way up, but she's resting.
Her re-animation is fine.
There's some expectant tissue damage, but nothing substantial.
She's a tough lady.
What about the Picor-A virus? Well, I've retarded it as much as I can, but I can't keep her anesthetized for long.
Her body needs to regenerate and it can't while she's under anesthesia.
You know, there's been a lot of advancement in RNA suspect animation.
But an anti-virus still doesn't exist.
And if we don't return her to cryogenic suspension soon, she's going to die.
When did you have your last meal? You read stomachs, too? Your mother's asleep and she's resting comfortably, Jim.
You need to keep your strength up.
Come on.
Go.
I wonder if she's always been this strong or if somewhere in that frozen deep sleep the soul marches on.
I thought you were under doctor's orders to get something to eat? Oh.
You know, except for a few photos, I'd almost completely written her out of my life.
How big a jerk does that make me? Jim, you hadn't seen her since you were three years old.
The chances of ever seeing her alive again were virtually non-existent.
You did what you had to do.
I don't have a dad and my mom looks like she's 12 years old.
Well, the Navy's been family to a lot of people.
I gotta get her to go back under, John.
She's the only family I got.
Doctor feels happy.
Eager to learn.
Obsessed is more like it.
We can't all be born brilliant, Doctor.
Some of us have to work at it.
Nathan must've flipped the first time he heard his buddy talk.
Well, the captain never flips, but, yeah, he thought it was pretty cool.
Dr.
Meyers, the Bridge has begun its vector sequence into Delphi.
ETA in 52 minutes.
Thank you, sailor.
Oh, Dr.
Hopkins, yeah, whatever happened to the Delphi Hadron conductor? I have a friend with a thing for exotic particle R and D who wanted to get into the program.
Yeah.
The conductor program, it's back in service again.
Tell your friend to try again.
What? What's wrong? The conductor can't be back in service.
It never went on-line.
Man not honest.
Wants to hurt.
Yeah.
Move away from the bed.
Do it! He shot at me.
Go get him! Go! Go! Everybody down! Move out of the way! Hey! Come on, let's move! Security detail, code four.
Repeat, code four on Docking Bay 3.
Security detail, code four on Docking Bay 3.
Now you ready me a launch! Now! Now! Stay there! Let me go, damn it.
Damn it! Oh.
What are you doing to Lucas? Shut up, you freak.
I'm not a freak.
I'm a prototype.
All right, come on.
Damn.
Damn it.
Did I hit anybody? You expect us to believe you don't even know who hired you? What I expect is due recognition of my civil rights.
I know a psychic probe when I feel one, Doctor.
Trust me.
He doesn't know anything.
And you don't know Jonathan Packard at all? Never seen the man before in my life.
You're willing to go to prison for someone you've never even met? I don't do prison, hot shot.
Whatever she knows, someone's going to a lot of trouble to make sure that it doesn't get out.
That blood sample you gave O'Neill is full of synthetic nucleotides which give false DNA readings.
I mean, forensically speaking, neither your friend at the pier, or the guy in the holding cell exist.
But I thought the UEO banned plasma additives with the global crime bill initiative.
That only works for people who play by the rules.
Why can't she remember? Is there too much damage from her being under? Well, there's some residual memory loss.
But following re-animation, the connective brain tissue quickly regenerates and memory is generally restored.
How long does that usually take? Well, that varies.
But usually within a few weeks.
She doesn't have a few weeks.
And whoever's behind these attacks knows that.
They're in a race with her memory.
A mind scan? Trust me, they don't hurt.
In fact, they feel kind of neat.
Neat, huh? It's important that we find out what you know, Mom.
Good luck.
It's a mess in there.
This neutron-rich drink should spark electrolyte cell recreation.
Which will stimulate neuron activity, so I can lift an image while Dr.
Smith is in there.
And I thought the shower was weird.
Okay.
Ready when you are.
This is fun.
Alison! Jimmy, where's that smile? Smile.
Oh, give me some! No.
No! Don't look in his eyes! Whose eyes, Mom? Whose eyes? Don't look at him! Who, Mom? Who? It's okay.
He killed her, Jimmy.
It's okay.
It's over.
It's over.
It's all right.
It's all right.
Nathan, it!s a police matter.
Now I can!t have you running an illegal investigation.
I can't have professional killers sneaking aboard my boat.
Lieutenant, what makes you think that this is some kind of covert action? Well, for one thing, sir, the Saint James Police Department has nothing on file, and even less interest in pursuing it.
What the hell did your mother see? Sir, that's the problem.
She doesn't remember.
Or it's all scrambled up inside.
Sorting it out takes time she may not have.
Especially when people are trying to kill her.
Well, this Packard person from the cryonics facility, where!s he now? In thin air.
Sir, my mother is willing to endure dying a second time because she wants to remember what happened that night.
But she needs our help.
Well, wrapping her in military circumstance is no picnic either, Lieutenant.
I mean, we!re not in the protective custody business.
Yes, sir.
I understand.
All right.
I!Il take over the Packard search.
Lieutenant, you transfer your mother to a UEO safe house and get her the medical attention she needs.
Thank you, sir.
That's it.
Let's go.
Okay.
Coming out.
Watch the bottom.
Ready.
Watch it, please.
Okay.
Sides up.
Let's go.
Any luck? Hey, what's that? Looks like one of them shrink pictures.
That's Rorschach test.
Hey, Tony, don't Come on.
Take your food someplace else, all right? It's not for me, it's for you.
So that's what the inside of his mom's head looks like, huh? I like the outside better.
You know, I would expect a little more compassion from a guy whose had friends hitting on his own mother.
This from the friend who hit on her.
Now, wait a minute.
I didn't exactly hit on her.
It was a misunderstanding.
Aren't they all? This is useless.
The image values are too weak.
There's nothing here to enhance.
I gotta tell you, this freezing people thing is Sounds a little ghoulish to me.
Messing with fate is bad business.
It's not fate, Tony, it's science.
Tell that to Robert Darby.
A big nobody until they thawed him out and he became king of the talk show circuit.
Wait a minute, Robert Darby was the first.
He was a hero.
Some hero.
Ended up getting hit on the head when an air conditioner dropped from the heavens.
It fell from a building.
Fate is fate, Wolenczak.
Cardiology intern on four south report to OR Two.
Cardiology intern on four south report to OR Two.
Hey.
How's she doing? She's young.
Why isn't she old? Well, actually, she is, Dagwood.
She'll be 46 in April.
Forty-six what? Well, Captain thought you should have that.
You know, I have an aunt in a cryo-chamber down in Hialeah, so I sort of know what you're going through.
It's pretty weird, huh? Tell me about it.
It's like a never-ending wake.
If you think Irish wakes are something, you ought to see a roomful of Cubans when we lose somebody.
Big family, huh? Yeah.
Yeah, big and tight-knit.
You don't dare leave a Cuban family unless you absolutely have to.
Cryo is major business down there.
Any luck talking her into going back in? No.
No.
None.
She's as stubborn as I am.
Or I'm as stubborn as she is.
I don't know which.
Well, you get some rest, huh? Thanks.
Why does everybody keep telling you what to do? Well, I think it's probably because they care, Dag.
Well, then, you get a lot of rest.
Damn it.
Dagwood? The flowers? Those are for her.
Okay.
All right.
This is my last computation.
Captain.
That's General Thomas.
This is the man she saw that night.
The man who killed her friend.
Lucas, secure this screen.
Done, sir.
Lieutenant, where's your mother? What? She's asleep.
Lieutenant? Jim? Relax, Frank.
The worst is over.
Over? It's not over.
It'll never be over.
What have we done, Jonathan? I'll take care of it.
It's not going through, sir.
The lieutenant must have his PAL turned off for some reason.
Keep trying, O'Neill.
Frank, it's under control.
You wanted this thing gone, I made that happen for you.
And I've paid for it every day of my life for the last 22 years.
I should've called the police that night instead of you.
Why didn't you? I'll tell you why you didn't.
Because your father had visions of the White House, once upon a time.
But you were the spoiled, blue-blooded son who tripped him up at every turn.
Look, you leave my family out of this.
That's exactly what I'm doing, Frank.
Out of the media and out of the scandal videos.
And extorting me in the process.
It was an accident.
I was drunk.
I didn't mean to hurt anybody.
I've tried to do what I can.
Pave the way for her son.
Don't take credit for Brody.
He got your number the first time he laid eyes on you.
Yeah? Well, how long till she remembers the understanding stranger who just happened by that night? How long till she puts it together that the eye drops you gave her, gave her the virus that put her in a coma? Well, that's the beauty of the Picor-A virus, Frank.
It comes with a lifetime guarantee.
I'll take this in for re-fitting.
All right.
Lieutenant? Lieutenant Brody, do you copy? Jim? Well, have you got him? I think so.
For a minute I had him.
But it's off again.
Long enough for a tracer? Maybe.
Get me a coordinate.
On it, sir.
What's going on out there? He's on the roof.
What are you doing? He's one man.
He's a lieutenant in my army.
I won't kill him.
Why not? He came here to kill you.
Go check on her.
No! Get up.
Get up.
No, please.
No! Packard's in the east wing.
Go.
Go.
Easy now.
We're done here.
No.
Please.
Lieutenant.
Put the weapon down, General.
Lieutenant, don't come any closer.
Lieutenant! Jim, we can talk about this.
It was an accident.
Don't make me do this, sir.
I never meant to hurt anybody.
It was Jonathan.
It was all a big mistake.
Listen, son, I was just a kid.
I was your age.
Now we can talk about this.
I can make it up to you.
Come on! I will not be hunted down and cornered like some trapped animal.
Now I am your commanding officer, so I will be heard.
I've got you.
I've got you.
Okay, Jimmy.
Come on.
Let me get you out of here.
We're gonna get you out.
We've got the general, Captain.
Oh.
Thank you, Commander.
I can't make any promises about when.
But with the breakthroughs we've had in RNA analysis in the last 15 years, I'm confident an anti-virus is within our reach.
And not in 800 years.
No.
Sometimes something so horrible happens, so unspeakable, but the next day, the sun comes up, the air feels good and you're alive.
Thanks for going back in.
I know you didn't want to.
That's before I knew what I had to come back to.
I am so proud of you.
I love you, Mom.
You'll be here? Yeah.
I'll be here.
I'll see you around, my little man.
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