seaQuest DSV (1993) s02e15 Episode Script
Alone
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Sea Deck.
Thank you for riding Mag-Lev.
Hello? Darwin.
I was told there was a medical emergency in here.
No.
No, emergency.
Darwin wants to talk to Wendy.
Is it just me, or are you behaving more strangely than usual, hmm? No.
Darwin just wants to say Surprise! You look really surprised! We did it! Oh, wow! Oh, thank you.
Happy birthday, Wendy.
I didn't have any real ones.
Oh, Dagwood, thank you.
These are much better than real flowers.
Thank you.
Didn't you know? Didn't you Didn't you sense we were planning a party? No? No, of course not.
You know I don't scan anybody's thoughts without their consent.
Well, in that case, we need to tell you what we've been thinking out loud.
On behalf of the officers and crew of seaQuest, I have been requested to give a very long speech so that they'll have time to prepare the refreshments.
Good stuff.
Here we are.
Happy birthday, Wendy.
Wendy? What was that? What was what? Wendy, what is it? What's happened? Did you sense something? Well, stand back, stand back, everybody stand back.
Give her some air.
It felt like a psychic power entering the world, a thousand times more profound than anything I've ever felt before.
Will the Security Committee please come to order? Section Seven has something important to bring to our attention.
General Reed.
Yes.
Oh, something's happening! You think you can stop me? You think you can plot against me and survive? I am the Avatar of your dreams.
I am your beginning and your end.
You have tortured me and mine for many a year, and now your time has come.
Your sins shall be avenged.
Join me in hell! Get a medic! Captain Bridger and staff to see the Secretary General.
He'll see you in just a minute.
Naval operation meeting scheduled for 0900 hours has been postponed until 1300 hours.
Why is everyone staring at us? They know she's a Spyer.
A what? A psychic.
Someone who can spy on your mind.
They're afraid.
They're afraid.
There have been at least five attacks in the past two days.
He always calls himself the Avatar.
Apparently it's some sort of Hindu name.
It means a god who appears as a man.
Especially a god who is the destroyer or rebuilder of worlds.
And all the victims end up in comas? Yes.
It's as though their conscious minds have been erased.
The press is calling them psychic assassinations.
This can't be the work of a psychic.
I mean, part of what makes us psychic is the empathy we feel for other people.
I mean, to cause this much terror would torture a psychic doing it.
We don't even know where these powers come from.
All that we know is that since the late 1990s, people of psychic power have been growing more numerous and more dangerous.
Dangerous? That's absurd.
I know that you would never harm anyone.
I couldn't if I wanted to.
All I can do is scan conscious thoughts, and maybe bend a spoon if I really have my concentration.
That's all any psychic I've ever met can do.
Not anymore.
You should have seen what happened here.
He was obviously a psychic, and he sure as hell was after us.
And we have got to stop this Avatar now.
And how do you propose to do that? I ordered you to come directly from seaQuest so you wouldn't hear the news, because I wanted to assure you it does not apply to you.
Oh, boy, here it comes.
The Security Committee has asked all known psychics to report to Camp Arnold for internment.
They will be tranquilized with drugs known to suppress psionic powers until the crisis is resolved.
You can't do this.
It's against civil rights.
It's like interring the Japanese in World War ll.
We're fighting for our lives here.
And it's not just the UEO.
The non-member states are doing it as well.
Oh, man, this stinks.
But I wanted to assure you, I wanted you to know, that the order does not apply to psychics with UEO security classifications, and that includes you.
Why? Because you're hoping I can help you? You sensed his power.
Only briefly, but you sensed it, and that is more than anyone else has been able to do.
If you want the roundup to stop, help us catch him while there is still time.
I'll need all the information that you have.
I'll meet you at the guest house this afternoon.
And, please, work as quickly as you can, for your sake as well as mine.
Good boy! Come on! Great.
I want to check up at the house.
Come on.
Here, boy.
Come on, buddy! Come on! Come on, boy, come on.
Come on.
"UEO rounds up Spyers.
" You know, from the time we were kids, we've dreaded that the day would come that people's fear of psychics would turn into rage, and now it has.
Well, people are always afraid of what they don't understand.
I don't even understand it myself.
All I know is I've always felt like a freak.
Please.
You're not a freak.
You know how they discovered I had powers? I was eight years old, and I was scoring perfectly in my spelling tests.
But then they started testing me with nonsense words, and I got all those right, too, because I was reading the answers right out of their minds.
And once they realized what was happening, I could also read their fear.
And their repulsion.
There's a poem by Edgar Allan Poe that could have been written by a psychic.
"From childhood's hour I have not been "As others were "I have not seen As others saw "I could not bring My passions from a common spring.
"From the same source I have not taken "My sorrow, I could not awaken "My heart to joy at the same tone "And all I loved, I loved alone.
" Wendy, have you taken a look at our crew lately? Lucas, technological genius.
Darwin, a dolphin who'd rather live with humans.
Piccolo has gills.
Every one of us, a stranger, alone.
Captain, the Secretary General has arrived.
Thank you.
We'll be right there.
You ready? Yeah.
What is it? Oh, I just feel strange.
I don't want this! What's happening? I think there's an energy flow entering the building, and because I'm sensitive, I'm able to rechannel it.
It has to be the Avatar.
It wants McGath.
Come on! Get Commander Ford.
It's happening again.
McGath! I warned you not to try and stop me.
You think your puny friends with their tiny little powers could ever hold me back? No! Get out of my way.
Join me in hell! Secure the room.
Look out, it's a Spyer! Stop her! Take the left! You, follow me! Move, move, move! Hey! What do you think you're doing? Let go.
Let go! That Spyer attacked McGath.
The hell she did! Maybe she's taken control of your mind, Captain, but she hasn't taken control of mine.
I know what I saw, and I'm issuing a warrant for her arrest.
Move out! Wendy.
Professor Bingham.
I was hoping you would come.
Has the UEO been here? Oh, yes.
All day.
But I think they finally gave up on me.
So they told you what's happening.
Oh, in great detail.
Inaccurate detail, perhaps.
Frightened detail, certainly.
But detail, for sure.
And? I couldn't help them.
When I was growing up, after my time in the institute convinced me that nobody but ourselves would ever understand us, you changed my life.
You're not a psychic, but you could talk to me better than any psychic could because you weren't confused by my conscious mind, you were reading my heart.
You give me more credit than I deserve.
You were frightened, but very honest.
All I had to do was listen.
You understand us better than we understand ourselves.
You must have an idea who's doing this.
No psychic I've ever met, that's for sure.
Psychics are perfectly normal people.
They even commit crimes.
But not ones involving this much fear and suffering.
And yet, I saw an attack happen.
I mean, except for its enormous power, it felt exactly like a psychic projection.
Are you sure? Yes.
Then it's obvious, isn't it? There's been an artificial intervention.
What do you mean? This psychic, this Avatar, as the UEO has been calling him, isn't really there, just his image is.
If he isn't feeling his victim's terror, that means all that's projecting is his telekinetic powers, his ability to manipulate objects and energy, but not his empathy.
So you think something's amplifying the one power, but not the rest.
It has to be.
I mean, my God, Wendy, maybe he's not naturally psychic at all.
You were researching this years ago, weren't you? The purpose of my research was to create a device that would give normal people psychic powers.
Then there wouldn't be any difference between them and natural psychics.
And the fear, the persecutions that's happening now would never occur.
But I failed.
You're holding something back.
Oh, Wendy, please.
Professor, too many lives depend on this.
You have to tell me what happened.
I fashioned a device, a crude device that did amplify psychic powers.
But it only worked for people who already had those powers.
Can you imagine the fear normal people would have had if this had become known? Well, is it possible that the Avatar has this device? Oh, no, no, no.
It was far too dangerous, and the energy drain could destroy the mind of the person who wears it.
I had to destroy it.
Oh, no, you couldn't have.
Not after that much work.
I know you're trying to protect me, Professor, but you have to give me this device.
Wendy! Tell me who you are.
What do you want? I am the Avatar of your dreams, and I've come for you.
Why? In all the world, you're my only opponent of power, and yet your eyes are filled with kindness.
I followed your energies across the city, and I'll follow them across the planet if I must.
Come to me.
Join with me.
Tell me where you are.
Let me see you as a person.
I am everywhere and nowhere.
I am the Avatar of your dreams.
Join with me.
Merge with me.
This isn't the way.
Let me see you as a person.
Tell me where you really are.
My powers are growing by the hour.
Mankind has turned against us.
Once you turn against mankind, you'll see me with new eyes.
I got to get out of here.
No, Wendy, wait! You don't know what you're facing! Wendy! Wendy! It's okay, it's us, it's us! How'd you guys find me? Well, the computer said you'd done your advanced training here, so we figured it was our best shot.
We were on our way when the report about the Avatar came in.
If there's been a report, then Section Seven's gonna be here any minute.
I've gotta go.
Wendy! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Do you know where you're going? Yeah, I got an image from the Avatar's mind.
It's enough for me to find him.
Well, we're going with you, then, Wendy.
No! I can't protect you.
Would you just wait a second, Wendy? Wendy! Come on! She's taken a shuttle.
I got Commander Ford on Tac One, sir.
I hope you've got good news.
All depends on how you look at it.
We found her, but she ran.
She took a university shuttle craft.
Are you tracking anything? Got a shuttle bearing off the port bow at 27 degrees.
That's gotta be from the university.
Plot an interception course.
Jonathan, where are you? We're in a Sea Speeder, heading out from Fort Gore.
Good.
See if you can catch her.
Put her on the screen.
Got her on Tac Two, sir.
Wendy, what do you think you're doing in that shuttle? Are you going to let us help you? I want to know what your heading is right now.
I can't draw you into this.
How fast do you think you're going to go in that thing? We could overhaul you in a matter of minutes.
I think I know where the Avatar is.
If I can take him by surprise, maybe I can defeat him.
Seeing seaQuest would be too big a tip-off.
You've gotta think this through.
If you take the Avatar on one-on-one, he's going to be more powerful in person.
Well, that!s all the more reason for me to slip in by surprise, and all the more reason for me not to risk your lives.
Out.
Lucas, you got a course projection on her? Yeah, but it doesn't make much sense because it looks like she's heading towards the Aleph Colony.
The welfare colony? Yeah, only the government!s sending medical cases to it now.
A private company tries to make a profit by having the able-bodied patients care for the chronic cases.
Why would the Avatar choose to stay in a place like that? I don't know, but we're gonna find out.
Jonathan, keep a close tail on Wendy, but not too close.
She may be right.
We!Il give her as much support as possible, but try not to tip him off.
Captain, I've got Colonel Manheim on a secured link from Section Seven.
Let's put him on all the screens.
I may need witnesses for this.
Bridger, where the hell are you? I don't think I should tell you.
You don!t understand.
We!ve got a situation developing here.
A situation? General Reed was responsible for security at all of our fusion power sites.
Apparently when the Avatar attacked him, he also accessed his knowledge of the reactors.
Now they!re going out of control, one by one.
We!re nearing a meltdown outside some very major population centers.
All right, listen, here's what I think you need to do.
I think you have to stop rounding up all the psychics.
I think you have to ask them to help you shield your reactor sites.
Maybe with their combined power, you might stand a chance.
And what makes you think they!d help us now? Because in my experience, they're a hell of a lot more humane than most people I know.
I know they would do anything to help.
And in the meantime, we're going to try and get to the bottom of this.
Bridger out.
All right, people, we're going to have to risk going in hard and fast.
O'Neill, warn Commander Ford and sound general quarters.
Aye-aye, sir.
General quarters, general quarters.
All hands, man your battle stations.
General quarters, general quarters.
All hands, man your battle stations.
Wendy, things have changed now.
The Avatar has started to attack reactor sites.
Well, it doesn't change what I have to do.
Yes, it does.
I've got Ford's team following you.
They're going in with you, and we're following right behind.
Okay, but it doesn't really matter.
I'm almost there.
Captain, I!m picking up what looks like fire-control sensors dead ahead.
Arm weapons.
Ready countermeasures.
Aye-aye, sir.
Ortiz, what do you see? Looks like the colony!s armed.
Mark 12 point defense systems.
But we aren't picking up any communications from the colony.
Doesn't matter.
Mark even if they're unmanned.
And they are.
Launch warning, launch warning.
Torpedoes in the water.
Hope you ate a light lunch.
Wendy, break off.
You're being fired on.
Full ahead emergency.
Weapons free.
Countermeasures now.
Aye-aye.
Intercepts and decoys away.
Torpedoes away! Target, target! Torpedoes in her wake! Steer for us! Head towards the countermeasures.
I!m trying! They!re still on her tail.
All right, on my mark, pull up.
Okay, I'm ready, but I'm running out of room.
Intercepts in range in five, in four, in three Pull up now! One! Contact! We got them.
How's our run? Going in.
Impact verified.
Yes! Target's destroyed.
Approach lanes open, sir.
You okay? Yes.
Thank you.
Bring her in, Jonathan.
Okay, Wendy, we!re getting the biggest concentration of energy from the docking port near the top.
So, here we go.
Oh, my God.
Is he No, he's in a coma.
Just like the UEO officials up-world, and just like the patients here.
What is this place? This is a chronic care ward where they pack off coma patients to vegetate.
Okay, fan out and reconnoiter.
Steady now.
Be ready for anything.
How about to run? Commander Ford! Team, over here.
It's him.
It's the Avatar.
You mean, he's unconscious? He's a coma patient himself? Charles Ross.
Injured in a car accident.
He was working on a degree in Asian Studies while interning at UEO Headquarters.
He met all those people.
This is why his victims aren't dead.
He meant it when he said, "Join me in hell.
" How could he be doing anything? He's dreaming.
I don't think he even knows what he's doing is real.
He has critical pathway damage.
A normal patient, this would have killed them, but because he has psychic powers.
He's found another way to stay alive.
Okay, so these are neural pathways that sustain consciousness.
Yes.
They were destroyed by his head injury.
He's been growing an alternative path.
Inside his brain, his psychic energy, his soul, has been trying to heal.
I mean, they could have helped him, but instead, they've been experimenting on him to try and find out how he's doing it.
And somehow they've just unleashed his powers.
All his energies are focused up-world.
He doesn't even know we're here.
I could shoot him and end it all.
You could do that? No.
Not if there's another way.
Well, maybe there is.
I'm going to try and stop him dreaming until I can get him to an AutoDock.
Can I have your injector, Henderson? Wendy, his base rates are climbing.
Look out! Who are you? Why are you attacking me? We're trying to help you.
Like all the other torturers? What harm have I ever done to you? Why are you trying to kill me? Your end has come! No! What was that? Felt like we hit something.
The sensors don't show anything.
Captain, something weird's going on here.
Every computer in the boat's going on-line.
All right, go to manual.
Shut them down.
I can't.
The circuits are welded shut! Look out! Look out, Captain! The boat's sinking by the bow! We haven't lost her yet.
Blow all ballasts! You think you can stop me? You think you have the power? You can't even shield your friends.
Okay, then, I'll join you instead.
What? You want me? You've got me.
Wendy.
Wendy.
Oh, God.
Do something.
Do something! Who are you? I'm Wendy Smith.
I'm a medical doctor, and a psychic, like yourself.
I don't know what you're talking about.
How did you get in here? I entered your mind.
We're inside your psyche, in a dream state.
You've been trapped in here.
Get away from me.
I've seen you in my dreams.
You're with the torturers.
You're here to hurt me.
I understand what happened to you.
They experimented on you instead of treating you.
But I'm here to help.
Don't touch me! I found I found the fire.
The source.
Nobody can hurt me ever again.
Charlie, you can't surrender to that power.
We're not ready for it.
It would destroy your world.
It's already gone.
Everyone's dead.
I was driving to work, suddenly a truck was veering into my lane, and when I woke up, the world was gone.
Except for the pain.
I mean, you aren't even real.
You're just a A nightmare, like the rest.
You're wrong.
Everything you think is a dream is real.
The monster you unleashed in your nightmares, the Avatar, he's stalking the planet while you sleep.
And this room which you think is all that's left of the real world, this is a dream.
You're trapped in a coma, in a bed, in the back ward of the Aleph Colony.
But I can help you.
No! No! I am the Avatar.
I cannot be destroyed and I will rebuild the world! It isn't working! The computers are venting the reserve! Pull up, pull up! All thrusters on lift! Nothing's working! Do something! I'm trying, but I don't know how.
I've never been cross-trained in anything like this.
Code One.
Vital signs have fallen below acceptable limits.
All I know is she's dying.
Leave me alone! Go back to the abyss or die.
You're afraid.
I am not afraid.
You have to be.
Fear grows out of loneliness, and no one's ever been more alone than you.
But we can bridge it.
We can escape from here.
No, you're trying to trick me.
You're gonna take away my powers, and then you're gonna leave me trapped here forever.
I'll kill you first.
You've never killed before.
Not even in your dreams.
You won't do it now.
You've You've let down your shield.
Do what you want.
But first, remember this.
My name is Wendy Smith, and in your dreams you begged for me to join you because you said I had gentle eyes.
I'm real, Charlie.
The world still exists beyond this nightmare.
Now, if you take my hand, maybe I can lead you there.
What if it's a trick? Better to take that chance than to risk loneliness here forever.
Take my hand, Charlie.
Take it.
It's okay.
You see that light? That's your consciousness.
That's the real world.
I'll fall.
No, there are steps.
You're building them.
I saw the pathway on your scan.
You just have to believe that they're there.
Come on.
Come on.
We're losing her! Help me.
Come back to us! Fight it! I'm sorry.
I'm too weak.
I can't do it for you.
I can't do it.
You're the only one that can.
This is your pathway, Charlie.
You have to build it yourself.
Come on, come on, come on! Come on, Wendy, don't leave us! Get it off her! What's happening? The computers are rebooting.
We've got power, sir.
Steady as she goes.
Steady as she goes.
Captain, I've got Colonel Manheim.
Let's see him.
Bridger, what did you do? Our reactors are stabilizing, and the hospital reports people are coming out of their comas.
I'm not exactly sure.
But one thing I do know is you're going to owe Dr.
Smith a very large apology.
Can I touch him? Yeah, yeah.
How's he doing? He's doing very well.
He's lost all his powers.
And the odd this is, he doesn't remember anything that happened.
Well, at least the UEO has a better memory than that.
They were so embarrassed by the number of psychics that showed up to defend their sites, that they've not only released them, but offered apologies and compensation.
I think it's over.
Well, not until Bingham's amplifier is destroyed.
Well, it's in the reactor stream now.
On screen, please.
Watch your eyes.
Thank you.
Hey, Wendy.
Come on, come on.
Oh, man.
I'm sorry, Wendy, I didn't know there was going to be a second party, and I ate some cake.
Oh, that's all right, Dagwood.
Hi, I'm Edward Kerr.
The tigers of the sea, torpedoes with teeth, terrors of the deep, are all names given to this fish, the great barracuda.
With lightning reflexes and a slender form, this tropical fish finds squid and smaller fish easy prey.
Barracudas can grow six feet, and can swim up to and with dozens of enormous teeth, look meaner than most sharks.
But like sharks, attacks on humans are rare, and often the barracuda is simply mistaking a flash of jewelry as a fish.
See you on the next adventure of seaQuest.
Sea Deck.
Thank you for riding Mag-Lev.
Hello? Darwin.
I was told there was a medical emergency in here.
No.
No, emergency.
Darwin wants to talk to Wendy.
Is it just me, or are you behaving more strangely than usual, hmm? No.
Darwin just wants to say Surprise! You look really surprised! We did it! Oh, wow! Oh, thank you.
Happy birthday, Wendy.
I didn't have any real ones.
Oh, Dagwood, thank you.
These are much better than real flowers.
Thank you.
Didn't you know? Didn't you Didn't you sense we were planning a party? No? No, of course not.
You know I don't scan anybody's thoughts without their consent.
Well, in that case, we need to tell you what we've been thinking out loud.
On behalf of the officers and crew of seaQuest, I have been requested to give a very long speech so that they'll have time to prepare the refreshments.
Good stuff.
Here we are.
Happy birthday, Wendy.
Wendy? What was that? What was what? Wendy, what is it? What's happened? Did you sense something? Well, stand back, stand back, everybody stand back.
Give her some air.
It felt like a psychic power entering the world, a thousand times more profound than anything I've ever felt before.
Will the Security Committee please come to order? Section Seven has something important to bring to our attention.
General Reed.
Yes.
Oh, something's happening! You think you can stop me? You think you can plot against me and survive? I am the Avatar of your dreams.
I am your beginning and your end.
You have tortured me and mine for many a year, and now your time has come.
Your sins shall be avenged.
Join me in hell! Get a medic! Captain Bridger and staff to see the Secretary General.
He'll see you in just a minute.
Naval operation meeting scheduled for 0900 hours has been postponed until 1300 hours.
Why is everyone staring at us? They know she's a Spyer.
A what? A psychic.
Someone who can spy on your mind.
They're afraid.
They're afraid.
There have been at least five attacks in the past two days.
He always calls himself the Avatar.
Apparently it's some sort of Hindu name.
It means a god who appears as a man.
Especially a god who is the destroyer or rebuilder of worlds.
And all the victims end up in comas? Yes.
It's as though their conscious minds have been erased.
The press is calling them psychic assassinations.
This can't be the work of a psychic.
I mean, part of what makes us psychic is the empathy we feel for other people.
I mean, to cause this much terror would torture a psychic doing it.
We don't even know where these powers come from.
All that we know is that since the late 1990s, people of psychic power have been growing more numerous and more dangerous.
Dangerous? That's absurd.
I know that you would never harm anyone.
I couldn't if I wanted to.
All I can do is scan conscious thoughts, and maybe bend a spoon if I really have my concentration.
That's all any psychic I've ever met can do.
Not anymore.
You should have seen what happened here.
He was obviously a psychic, and he sure as hell was after us.
And we have got to stop this Avatar now.
And how do you propose to do that? I ordered you to come directly from seaQuest so you wouldn't hear the news, because I wanted to assure you it does not apply to you.
Oh, boy, here it comes.
The Security Committee has asked all known psychics to report to Camp Arnold for internment.
They will be tranquilized with drugs known to suppress psionic powers until the crisis is resolved.
You can't do this.
It's against civil rights.
It's like interring the Japanese in World War ll.
We're fighting for our lives here.
And it's not just the UEO.
The non-member states are doing it as well.
Oh, man, this stinks.
But I wanted to assure you, I wanted you to know, that the order does not apply to psychics with UEO security classifications, and that includes you.
Why? Because you're hoping I can help you? You sensed his power.
Only briefly, but you sensed it, and that is more than anyone else has been able to do.
If you want the roundup to stop, help us catch him while there is still time.
I'll need all the information that you have.
I'll meet you at the guest house this afternoon.
And, please, work as quickly as you can, for your sake as well as mine.
Good boy! Come on! Great.
I want to check up at the house.
Come on.
Here, boy.
Come on, buddy! Come on! Come on, boy, come on.
Come on.
"UEO rounds up Spyers.
" You know, from the time we were kids, we've dreaded that the day would come that people's fear of psychics would turn into rage, and now it has.
Well, people are always afraid of what they don't understand.
I don't even understand it myself.
All I know is I've always felt like a freak.
Please.
You're not a freak.
You know how they discovered I had powers? I was eight years old, and I was scoring perfectly in my spelling tests.
But then they started testing me with nonsense words, and I got all those right, too, because I was reading the answers right out of their minds.
And once they realized what was happening, I could also read their fear.
And their repulsion.
There's a poem by Edgar Allan Poe that could have been written by a psychic.
"From childhood's hour I have not been "As others were "I have not seen As others saw "I could not bring My passions from a common spring.
"From the same source I have not taken "My sorrow, I could not awaken "My heart to joy at the same tone "And all I loved, I loved alone.
" Wendy, have you taken a look at our crew lately? Lucas, technological genius.
Darwin, a dolphin who'd rather live with humans.
Piccolo has gills.
Every one of us, a stranger, alone.
Captain, the Secretary General has arrived.
Thank you.
We'll be right there.
You ready? Yeah.
What is it? Oh, I just feel strange.
I don't want this! What's happening? I think there's an energy flow entering the building, and because I'm sensitive, I'm able to rechannel it.
It has to be the Avatar.
It wants McGath.
Come on! Get Commander Ford.
It's happening again.
McGath! I warned you not to try and stop me.
You think your puny friends with their tiny little powers could ever hold me back? No! Get out of my way.
Join me in hell! Secure the room.
Look out, it's a Spyer! Stop her! Take the left! You, follow me! Move, move, move! Hey! What do you think you're doing? Let go.
Let go! That Spyer attacked McGath.
The hell she did! Maybe she's taken control of your mind, Captain, but she hasn't taken control of mine.
I know what I saw, and I'm issuing a warrant for her arrest.
Move out! Wendy.
Professor Bingham.
I was hoping you would come.
Has the UEO been here? Oh, yes.
All day.
But I think they finally gave up on me.
So they told you what's happening.
Oh, in great detail.
Inaccurate detail, perhaps.
Frightened detail, certainly.
But detail, for sure.
And? I couldn't help them.
When I was growing up, after my time in the institute convinced me that nobody but ourselves would ever understand us, you changed my life.
You're not a psychic, but you could talk to me better than any psychic could because you weren't confused by my conscious mind, you were reading my heart.
You give me more credit than I deserve.
You were frightened, but very honest.
All I had to do was listen.
You understand us better than we understand ourselves.
You must have an idea who's doing this.
No psychic I've ever met, that's for sure.
Psychics are perfectly normal people.
They even commit crimes.
But not ones involving this much fear and suffering.
And yet, I saw an attack happen.
I mean, except for its enormous power, it felt exactly like a psychic projection.
Are you sure? Yes.
Then it's obvious, isn't it? There's been an artificial intervention.
What do you mean? This psychic, this Avatar, as the UEO has been calling him, isn't really there, just his image is.
If he isn't feeling his victim's terror, that means all that's projecting is his telekinetic powers, his ability to manipulate objects and energy, but not his empathy.
So you think something's amplifying the one power, but not the rest.
It has to be.
I mean, my God, Wendy, maybe he's not naturally psychic at all.
You were researching this years ago, weren't you? The purpose of my research was to create a device that would give normal people psychic powers.
Then there wouldn't be any difference between them and natural psychics.
And the fear, the persecutions that's happening now would never occur.
But I failed.
You're holding something back.
Oh, Wendy, please.
Professor, too many lives depend on this.
You have to tell me what happened.
I fashioned a device, a crude device that did amplify psychic powers.
But it only worked for people who already had those powers.
Can you imagine the fear normal people would have had if this had become known? Well, is it possible that the Avatar has this device? Oh, no, no, no.
It was far too dangerous, and the energy drain could destroy the mind of the person who wears it.
I had to destroy it.
Oh, no, you couldn't have.
Not after that much work.
I know you're trying to protect me, Professor, but you have to give me this device.
Wendy! Tell me who you are.
What do you want? I am the Avatar of your dreams, and I've come for you.
Why? In all the world, you're my only opponent of power, and yet your eyes are filled with kindness.
I followed your energies across the city, and I'll follow them across the planet if I must.
Come to me.
Join with me.
Tell me where you are.
Let me see you as a person.
I am everywhere and nowhere.
I am the Avatar of your dreams.
Join with me.
Merge with me.
This isn't the way.
Let me see you as a person.
Tell me where you really are.
My powers are growing by the hour.
Mankind has turned against us.
Once you turn against mankind, you'll see me with new eyes.
I got to get out of here.
No, Wendy, wait! You don't know what you're facing! Wendy! Wendy! It's okay, it's us, it's us! How'd you guys find me? Well, the computer said you'd done your advanced training here, so we figured it was our best shot.
We were on our way when the report about the Avatar came in.
If there's been a report, then Section Seven's gonna be here any minute.
I've gotta go.
Wendy! Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Do you know where you're going? Yeah, I got an image from the Avatar's mind.
It's enough for me to find him.
Well, we're going with you, then, Wendy.
No! I can't protect you.
Would you just wait a second, Wendy? Wendy! Come on! She's taken a shuttle.
I got Commander Ford on Tac One, sir.
I hope you've got good news.
All depends on how you look at it.
We found her, but she ran.
She took a university shuttle craft.
Are you tracking anything? Got a shuttle bearing off the port bow at 27 degrees.
That's gotta be from the university.
Plot an interception course.
Jonathan, where are you? We're in a Sea Speeder, heading out from Fort Gore.
Good.
See if you can catch her.
Put her on the screen.
Got her on Tac Two, sir.
Wendy, what do you think you're doing in that shuttle? Are you going to let us help you? I want to know what your heading is right now.
I can't draw you into this.
How fast do you think you're going to go in that thing? We could overhaul you in a matter of minutes.
I think I know where the Avatar is.
If I can take him by surprise, maybe I can defeat him.
Seeing seaQuest would be too big a tip-off.
You've gotta think this through.
If you take the Avatar on one-on-one, he's going to be more powerful in person.
Well, that!s all the more reason for me to slip in by surprise, and all the more reason for me not to risk your lives.
Out.
Lucas, you got a course projection on her? Yeah, but it doesn't make much sense because it looks like she's heading towards the Aleph Colony.
The welfare colony? Yeah, only the government!s sending medical cases to it now.
A private company tries to make a profit by having the able-bodied patients care for the chronic cases.
Why would the Avatar choose to stay in a place like that? I don't know, but we're gonna find out.
Jonathan, keep a close tail on Wendy, but not too close.
She may be right.
We!Il give her as much support as possible, but try not to tip him off.
Captain, I've got Colonel Manheim on a secured link from Section Seven.
Let's put him on all the screens.
I may need witnesses for this.
Bridger, where the hell are you? I don't think I should tell you.
You don!t understand.
We!ve got a situation developing here.
A situation? General Reed was responsible for security at all of our fusion power sites.
Apparently when the Avatar attacked him, he also accessed his knowledge of the reactors.
Now they!re going out of control, one by one.
We!re nearing a meltdown outside some very major population centers.
All right, listen, here's what I think you need to do.
I think you have to stop rounding up all the psychics.
I think you have to ask them to help you shield your reactor sites.
Maybe with their combined power, you might stand a chance.
And what makes you think they!d help us now? Because in my experience, they're a hell of a lot more humane than most people I know.
I know they would do anything to help.
And in the meantime, we're going to try and get to the bottom of this.
Bridger out.
All right, people, we're going to have to risk going in hard and fast.
O'Neill, warn Commander Ford and sound general quarters.
Aye-aye, sir.
General quarters, general quarters.
All hands, man your battle stations.
General quarters, general quarters.
All hands, man your battle stations.
Wendy, things have changed now.
The Avatar has started to attack reactor sites.
Well, it doesn't change what I have to do.
Yes, it does.
I've got Ford's team following you.
They're going in with you, and we're following right behind.
Okay, but it doesn't really matter.
I'm almost there.
Captain, I!m picking up what looks like fire-control sensors dead ahead.
Arm weapons.
Ready countermeasures.
Aye-aye, sir.
Ortiz, what do you see? Looks like the colony!s armed.
Mark 12 point defense systems.
But we aren't picking up any communications from the colony.
Doesn't matter.
Mark even if they're unmanned.
And they are.
Launch warning, launch warning.
Torpedoes in the water.
Hope you ate a light lunch.
Wendy, break off.
You're being fired on.
Full ahead emergency.
Weapons free.
Countermeasures now.
Aye-aye.
Intercepts and decoys away.
Torpedoes away! Target, target! Torpedoes in her wake! Steer for us! Head towards the countermeasures.
I!m trying! They!re still on her tail.
All right, on my mark, pull up.
Okay, I'm ready, but I'm running out of room.
Intercepts in range in five, in four, in three Pull up now! One! Contact! We got them.
How's our run? Going in.
Impact verified.
Yes! Target's destroyed.
Approach lanes open, sir.
You okay? Yes.
Thank you.
Bring her in, Jonathan.
Okay, Wendy, we!re getting the biggest concentration of energy from the docking port near the top.
So, here we go.
Oh, my God.
Is he No, he's in a coma.
Just like the UEO officials up-world, and just like the patients here.
What is this place? This is a chronic care ward where they pack off coma patients to vegetate.
Okay, fan out and reconnoiter.
Steady now.
Be ready for anything.
How about to run? Commander Ford! Team, over here.
It's him.
It's the Avatar.
You mean, he's unconscious? He's a coma patient himself? Charles Ross.
Injured in a car accident.
He was working on a degree in Asian Studies while interning at UEO Headquarters.
He met all those people.
This is why his victims aren't dead.
He meant it when he said, "Join me in hell.
" How could he be doing anything? He's dreaming.
I don't think he even knows what he's doing is real.
He has critical pathway damage.
A normal patient, this would have killed them, but because he has psychic powers.
He's found another way to stay alive.
Okay, so these are neural pathways that sustain consciousness.
Yes.
They were destroyed by his head injury.
He's been growing an alternative path.
Inside his brain, his psychic energy, his soul, has been trying to heal.
I mean, they could have helped him, but instead, they've been experimenting on him to try and find out how he's doing it.
And somehow they've just unleashed his powers.
All his energies are focused up-world.
He doesn't even know we're here.
I could shoot him and end it all.
You could do that? No.
Not if there's another way.
Well, maybe there is.
I'm going to try and stop him dreaming until I can get him to an AutoDock.
Can I have your injector, Henderson? Wendy, his base rates are climbing.
Look out! Who are you? Why are you attacking me? We're trying to help you.
Like all the other torturers? What harm have I ever done to you? Why are you trying to kill me? Your end has come! No! What was that? Felt like we hit something.
The sensors don't show anything.
Captain, something weird's going on here.
Every computer in the boat's going on-line.
All right, go to manual.
Shut them down.
I can't.
The circuits are welded shut! Look out! Look out, Captain! The boat's sinking by the bow! We haven't lost her yet.
Blow all ballasts! You think you can stop me? You think you have the power? You can't even shield your friends.
Okay, then, I'll join you instead.
What? You want me? You've got me.
Wendy.
Wendy.
Oh, God.
Do something.
Do something! Who are you? I'm Wendy Smith.
I'm a medical doctor, and a psychic, like yourself.
I don't know what you're talking about.
How did you get in here? I entered your mind.
We're inside your psyche, in a dream state.
You've been trapped in here.
Get away from me.
I've seen you in my dreams.
You're with the torturers.
You're here to hurt me.
I understand what happened to you.
They experimented on you instead of treating you.
But I'm here to help.
Don't touch me! I found I found the fire.
The source.
Nobody can hurt me ever again.
Charlie, you can't surrender to that power.
We're not ready for it.
It would destroy your world.
It's already gone.
Everyone's dead.
I was driving to work, suddenly a truck was veering into my lane, and when I woke up, the world was gone.
Except for the pain.
I mean, you aren't even real.
You're just a A nightmare, like the rest.
You're wrong.
Everything you think is a dream is real.
The monster you unleashed in your nightmares, the Avatar, he's stalking the planet while you sleep.
And this room which you think is all that's left of the real world, this is a dream.
You're trapped in a coma, in a bed, in the back ward of the Aleph Colony.
But I can help you.
No! No! I am the Avatar.
I cannot be destroyed and I will rebuild the world! It isn't working! The computers are venting the reserve! Pull up, pull up! All thrusters on lift! Nothing's working! Do something! I'm trying, but I don't know how.
I've never been cross-trained in anything like this.
Code One.
Vital signs have fallen below acceptable limits.
All I know is she's dying.
Leave me alone! Go back to the abyss or die.
You're afraid.
I am not afraid.
You have to be.
Fear grows out of loneliness, and no one's ever been more alone than you.
But we can bridge it.
We can escape from here.
No, you're trying to trick me.
You're gonna take away my powers, and then you're gonna leave me trapped here forever.
I'll kill you first.
You've never killed before.
Not even in your dreams.
You won't do it now.
You've You've let down your shield.
Do what you want.
But first, remember this.
My name is Wendy Smith, and in your dreams you begged for me to join you because you said I had gentle eyes.
I'm real, Charlie.
The world still exists beyond this nightmare.
Now, if you take my hand, maybe I can lead you there.
What if it's a trick? Better to take that chance than to risk loneliness here forever.
Take my hand, Charlie.
Take it.
It's okay.
You see that light? That's your consciousness.
That's the real world.
I'll fall.
No, there are steps.
You're building them.
I saw the pathway on your scan.
You just have to believe that they're there.
Come on.
Come on.
We're losing her! Help me.
Come back to us! Fight it! I'm sorry.
I'm too weak.
I can't do it for you.
I can't do it.
You're the only one that can.
This is your pathway, Charlie.
You have to build it yourself.
Come on, come on, come on! Come on, Wendy, don't leave us! Get it off her! What's happening? The computers are rebooting.
We've got power, sir.
Steady as she goes.
Steady as she goes.
Captain, I've got Colonel Manheim.
Let's see him.
Bridger, what did you do? Our reactors are stabilizing, and the hospital reports people are coming out of their comas.
I'm not exactly sure.
But one thing I do know is you're going to owe Dr.
Smith a very large apology.
Can I touch him? Yeah, yeah.
How's he doing? He's doing very well.
He's lost all his powers.
And the odd this is, he doesn't remember anything that happened.
Well, at least the UEO has a better memory than that.
They were so embarrassed by the number of psychics that showed up to defend their sites, that they've not only released them, but offered apologies and compensation.
I think it's over.
Well, not until Bingham's amplifier is destroyed.
Well, it's in the reactor stream now.
On screen, please.
Watch your eyes.
Thank you.
Hey, Wendy.
Come on, come on.
Oh, man.
I'm sorry, Wendy, I didn't know there was going to be a second party, and I ate some cake.
Oh, that's all right, Dagwood.
Hi, I'm Edward Kerr.
The tigers of the sea, torpedoes with teeth, terrors of the deep, are all names given to this fish, the great barracuda.
With lightning reflexes and a slender form, this tropical fish finds squid and smaller fish easy prey.
Barracudas can grow six feet, and can swim up to and with dozens of enormous teeth, look meaner than most sharks.
But like sharks, attacks on humans are rare, and often the barracuda is simply mistaking a flash of jewelry as a fish.
See you on the next adventure of seaQuest.