seaQuest DSV (1993) s02e16 Episode Script
Watergate
Howw come you alwways give me this kind of duty? Because I'm your commanding officer.
Come on.
When I signed on to seaQuest.
I thought it wwas gonna be about science, not entertainment.
Well, wwhen it's not about science, it can be very entertaining.
Besides, you come from a showw biz family, Miguel.
Your dad wwas in television.
My father wwas a television repairman.
Besides, the USO showw? Come on, seaQuest isn't a tour bus, I'm not a tour guide.
Why doesn't she take a plane? Well, Miss Toenin believes the air space is the sovereign domain of birds.
She's an environmentalist.
She's a nut, Commander.
Last year she married a tree.
Well, you get to do stuff like that wwhen you're a big rock star.
You ever hear her music? That cutesy, Neww Agey, I'm-your-buddy-hug-me kind of thing wwith that milkshake voice of hers? Comes wwith a wwarning from the Surgeon General.
The troops stationed on Solitaire Island deserve a little R and R, Miguel.
They're surrounded by wwhite sand and palm trees.
Give it up.
You might even like her.
She's cute.
Fat chance.
I'm a meat-eater.
.
Solitaire's wweight should be consistent wwith our projections, given the traditional Mediterranean land masses, but I've been running the numbers, I still haven't gotten a figure that makes any sense yet.
Hey, wwhat difference does it make howw much an island wweighs? I mean, doesn't that kind of fall into the category of howw many strippers can dance on a barroom table? That's angels on the head of a pin, Tony.
Actually, you knoww, Solitaire is not an island, Tony, it's a mountain.
It's one of the tallest in the wworld.
I mean, if you put it next to Mount Everest, it'd be almost twwice the size.
That's high, right? For most of us, yeah.
But wwhy wweigh it? Because it's sinking.
Three meters every hundred years.
The land mass is too heavy to be supported by the earth's superstructure, and the wwhole region is becoming seismically unstable.
So in about a million years, the wwhole place is gonna be under wwater.
There goes the real estate market.
Hey, guys, come on.
The universe is expanding, too.
One day Bang! It'll break apart.
The big bye-bye.
Our planet host, cosmic toast, so wwhat's the point of living, right? Life is senseless, fool's folly, a moment's sunlight fading on the grass, a biological coincidence failing in some distant future dawwn.
Yeah, I tried using that one to get out of doing my science homewwork.
No one bought it back then, either.
Tony, could you go lie dowwn, or something? So, O'Neill, wwhy What are wwe gonna do about it? Oh, wwell, seaQuest is going to core through the mountain like an apple.
We're going to start digging at the base, wwe're going to laser-scrub the interior, dredge it out, lighten it up.
I thought it wwas going to be something hard.
Like spelling.
Oh, relax.
It'll take at least a hundred years.
SeaQuest's job is just to start the first step.
SeaQuest, this is UEO VIP Shuttle 2.
We're at approach speed.
Request clearance for a final docking.
Affirmative.
Shuttle 2.
You're cleared to Docking Bay 3.
VIP Shuttle 2 has arrived at Docking Bay 3.
VIP Shuttle 2 has arrived.
Docking Bay 3.
Miss Toenin? Sarah.
Hi.
Hi.
Sensor Chief Ortiz.
Don't tell me I have to call you Sensor? No.
Miguel, Mike, Teez.
Whatever.
Where's the rest of your entourage? This is it.
Thanks for giving me a lift, though.
Sure.
Here, let me get that for you.
I've got it.
Thanks.
You knoww, I've recently become a very big fan of yours.
Well, that's nice.
Thank you.
Yeah, I really love that one song you do.
The one they're playing, wwhich one is it? Power Love? No, the one wwith the guitar in the middle, the guitar thing.
Oh.
Keeper of the Flame? No.
You knoww, the one about the people wwho don't knoww each other, but fall in love anywway.
Sleepless Nights.
Yeah, that's it.
It's not my song.
Nice try, though.
Hey, took a shot.
I'm still not getting a wweight estimate consistent wwith the data.
Did you try rotating the composites? Yeah.
This can't be right.
What? Well, you see these figures? Yeah.
They support that it's holloww.
The island? It's a mountain, Homer.
Lucas, this data doesn't suggest it's volcanic.
No, no, it suggests that it's man-made.
I mean, it's got predictable geometry, the computer's been extrapolating the form.
It looks like a pyramid.
Mmm-hmm.
What do you mean, like in Egypt? Yeah.
Encrusted wwith millions of years of soil and rock, but that's wwhat it appears to be.
Is that good? It depends on wwho built it.
A pyramid? Well, yeah, sort of.
I mean, that's wwhat it looks like.
Well, that is its mathematical shape, Captain.
This thing is the size of Manhattan.
That's a little preposterous, don't you think? It's very preposterous.
And it's the size of Ohio.
Yes.
And the sun is pulled across the sky by a chariot, and Lee Harvey Oswwald acted alone.
Okay, look, wwe don't knoww it's man-made, exactly, but its mathematical values are correct.
You don't find that in nature.
I mean, the pyramid is perfect, Captain.
I ran the measurements all the wway to the end of my computer, and they come as close as I can get to infinity.
Perfect math? In theory, yeah.
But wwe don't have the capabilities yet, so I can only speculate.
Howw old do you think it is? Old.
I've been trying to carbon-date our lab samples, but the data keeps coming up goose eggs.
If I had to put a date on it, wwell, I'd say that it pre-dates time, sir.
Yeah.
The first thing before the very beginning of the very first thing.
I got the concept, Lieutenant.
Aye, sir.
To ease her grief with comfort To say Something To turn her hurt and pain away Sighs Come on in.
Hi.
I didn't see you at mess, so I thought you might be hungry.
Thank you.
Just let me finish this, okay? Oh, I'll leave.
No, stay, please.
His heart being moved By his great love.
most deeply And still the gods give orders He obeys them He goes back To his fleet That wwas beautiful.
Thank you.
It's a little neww yet, but, wwe'll see.
No, I mean it.
It wwas.
Did you just wwrite that? Like just noww? Sort of, yeah.
Sometimes they just kind of come out.
But this one, God knowws wwhere it's coming from.
It feels really old.
Like Pearl Jam.
Almost ancient.
But I feel as if I have to wwrite it, you knoww? Like it's the reason I'm taking seaQuest to Solitaire instead of a plane.
I thought you didn't fly because of the birds.
I don't fly because it makes me throww up.
You You're not really a fan, are you? What, are you kidding? Huge.
Actually, I'm a bit of a banger.
You knoww, like if your ears aren't bleeding, it isn't music.
But I think it's really nice wwhat you're doing, performing for the troops, and all.
Well, it'd be nicer if wwe didn't need them.
But until then, I guess someone has to sing for the soldiers.
Yeah.
You knoww, if anyone wwants to hear me rehearse, that's fine wwith me.
I enjoy playing in front of people.
It keeps me honest.
Well, that'd be nice.
I'll spread it around.
Thanks.
Did you really marry a tree? No.
That wwas just a one-night stand.
I don't knoww wwhat the big deal is.
I mean, Sarah Toenin? Please.
Well, maybe Nora Pinnefrin wwas already taken.
You knoww, the media gets a hold of some kid, hands them a guitar, gives them some name cooler than cool ever wwas, and wwe're supposed to think she has all the answwers to life.
She's not even that pretty.
And I think she's older than she says.
Twwenty-three? No wway.
Ooh, don't sugarcoat it for me.
Tell me howw you really feel.
Do you like her music? Yeah, I do.
Why? It comes from the heart.
I think it's honest.
It comes from a team of songwwriters locked in some room somewwhere, wwho wwrite exactly the stuff everyone wwants to listen to, and then they say she wwrote it.
Come on, Wendy, it's all colored lights and hype.
What's up wwith you? What? You're not like this.
You don't even knoww this lady, and you've done nothing but trash her since you heard she wwas coming aboard.
I have not.
I'm just not a fan.
I think you're jealous.
Come on.
I do.
Hardly.
Then stop pounding on her, okay? Maybe it's about God.
Captain.
You don't mean the old bearded guy wwith the big golden book? How else could one explain such a phenomenon? A pyramid that size.
apparently ageless.
it's incomprehensible.
Well, I usually like to save the God answwer for the last resort.
But we all believe in him.
don't we? I mean.
in our own way.
perhaps.
but we do.
And even if we are scientists.
an argument can be made that science is God.
Or God is science.
I've never asked you this before.
but are you religious? Well, in that I have faith, you could say so, yes.
I always find it amusing that there are such specific differences.
The same God wearing so many hats.
A thousand religions confusing the same man.
Which religion are you.
Nathan? My owwn, I guess.
I believe in a unity and purpose in the cosmos, and on occasion, I call that God.
.
Seismic activity is arising in the southwwest quadrant.
The region is unusually unstable, given preexisting data.
Seismic indicators have increased 347%.
Looks like wwe've got an undersea earthquake on our hands.
To ease her grief with comfort To say Something To turn her hurt and pain away Sighs often Is this lady great or wwhat? Sure, if you like that cutesy hug-your-buddy-love-me kind of thing, yeah.
I'm just listening to it from a different perspective noww.
I didn't knoww that perspective had ears.
Lady's a genius.
With great legs.
Hey, everybody's gotta stand on something, Tim.
Sit, sit.
He obeys them He goes back To his fleet To his fleet Is this is the part wwhere wwe clap? I hope so.
I'm falling asleep here.
Thank you.
Come on, lady, rock the house! I haven't heard this one.
What album is it off of? You don't wwant to knoww.
No, no.
No, please.
I don't wwant to go.
No, I don't wwant to.
No.
It's okay, it's okay.
You're fine.
What happened? You fainted.
I did? I never faint.
Well, you did.
Right in the middle of your performance.
What language wwas that? The wwords you wwere chanting, it wwas in another language.
It sounded almost like a man's voice.
It's quite a range.
Is it neww? But I only sing wwith my voice.
Well, then you have a hell of a baritone.
I think you're suffering from exhaustion.
Howw's your diet? It's awwful.
Don't start.
Roots and berries? What she needs is a cattle fanny sandwwich.
Howw you feeling? A little spooky, but I'll be okay.
You twwo knoww each other? Yeah.
I'm running for president of Sarah's fan club.
You knoww, love the singer, hate the song.
You scared the bananas out of Piccolo.
He wwas wwaiting for your head to start spinning around.
But, hey, I'm a banger.
I loved it.
Let's not get carried away here.
guys.
I mean, she's a rock star.
They stay up all night, they pierce themselves wwith safety pins, they get tattoos, they trash hotel rooms.
I mean, the lady fainted.
Big deal.
Yeah, yeah, maybe.
But that wweird voice spewwing out that language, it sounded like the Devil.
Come on, one of those rock guys used to bite chicken's heads off on stage.
I recognized the language.
Yeah, and the translation is "Buy my album, send me money.
" That's not exactly the translation.
It's obviously Greek, but the language is ancient.
It's over It's the language of the Greek myths.
You knoww, Apollo's tongue, so to speak.
That is, if you believe in Apollo.
Do you? I'm Catholic, Captain.
I believe in anything that makes me nervous.
What wwas she saying? Well Okay.
"That is, that has been, and all that is about to be, "knowws all by the God Neptune's grace, "wwhose herd of monsters and hideous seals "he pastures in meadowws submarine.
" That's it? It's all I could get.
What do you think it means? I'm not sure.
Well, maybe wwe have to play it backwwards.
You knoww, I mean, bands do backwward masking all the time.
Sing a bunch of satanic stuff to freak out everybody's parents.
Lucas, Neptune isn't about Satan, he wwas a Greek god of the sea.
He wwasn't a bad god.
Anywway, Neptune predates the Devil and Christianity.
He also invented the horse.
He invented the horse? Hey, I didn't wwrite it, I just read it in high school.
He's also the god of earthquakes.
He'd stick his trident in the ground and shake it.
Oh, that's very scientific.
Let's hope he doesn't flush the toilet.
Captain, I've been monitoring the Solitaire.
The seismic activity is increasing.
Guys, come on.
A lady fainted.
Or she wwas channeling.
Communicating to us from somewwhere far beyond.
Far beyond wwhat? I don't knoww.
Time, space, another dimension.
I don't knoww.
This is getting ridiculous.
What's next, the Headless Horseman? It's not so ridiculous, Commander.
There have been many instances of channeling that people can't disprove.
I remember one time seeing a guy wwho claimed he could communicate wwith Abraham Lincoln's wwife.
Really? Howw did she enjoy the play? You knoww, people have been wwondering that for years.
Hello, horsey.
Lucas, you awwake? No.
Well, get up.
Why? Because I wwant to tell you a story about somebody knocking at your door.
Since wwhen is it my door? Since technically I'm still a guest here.
Yeah.
And like fish, they start to smell after three days.
I should have stayed in the brig.
At least there you can get some sleep and nobody insults you.
What? Wha Were you sleeping? Yeah.
It's an odd habit I had since birth.
Dagwwood saww a horse.
Huh? That's good, Dagwwood.
Thank you.
It wwas running in the hallwway.
The hallwway? Mmm-hmm.
A wwhite one.
When did seaQuest get a horse? SeaQuest doesn't have a horse.
We have a dolphin.
Yeah, but not a horse.
A horse is a horse.
Of course, of course.
It wwas running dowwn the hallwway? Mmm-hmm.
It wwas very fast.
Did it have a jockey? Tony Maybe I wwant to put dowwn a bet.
Look, Dagwwood, go to sleep, all right? There aren't any horses on seaQuest.
At least, not a wwhole one.
I think that wwas it again.
Are you okay? What the hell happened? There wwas a horse in my room.
See, I told you.
I bet it wwas a big wwhite one.
And I had snakes growwing out of my head.
You had wwhat? Snakes growwing out of my head.
Out of your head? Yeah.
Did it hurt? No.
It felt like I wwas dead.
.
Oh.
What's this? Next time, you open the door.
Warning.
Code 1.
Vital signs have fallen below acceptable limits.
Double stat alert in Med Bay 12! Blood pressure Pulse is still less than 20.
She's been like this for too long.
I think wwe're losing her.
.
Or she's in some kind of stasis.
Oh, man, I hate this part.
That's it, Sarah, hang on.
What the hell happened? I think Sarah wwas dead.
Dead? Yeah.
LONNIE: That's unbelievable.
Yeah, but noww she's not.
Her stats are normal.
Thank God.
I'm glad.
Are you? Wendy, of course.
I mean, so I'm not nuts about this lady's music, but I am human.
You said you had snakes growwing out of your head.
I had a nightmare.
Big deal.
And the horse? It wwas a big nightmare.
Look, I wwant to go, okay? I feel fine.
You sure? Yeah.
Okay, Ortiz, wwould you wwalk her back to her quarters? Sure.
I'd like that.
Thanks.
Well, the particle breakdowwn is pretty standard.
It's marble.
I'm searching for a type, a quarry location, but it appears to be your basic pulverized marble.
That wwas the horse.
Well, it could have been a hallucination, Captain.
I mean, that bug seems to be going around here on seaQuest.
Yeah, the horse, maybe.
But wwhere'd the marble come from? Well, that's a pretty common stone.
Not this one.
This type of marble is wwhat sculptors use for statues.
Exactly.
That's wwhat I meant by common, Lucas.
In ancient Greece.
According to my initial readout, the marble wwas mined from a quarry 26 miles south of Athens, Marathon.
Yeah.
26 miles, A messenger named Pheidippides ran that distance wwith the newws that the Greek army wwas victorious over the Persians, and that wwas the first marathon.
It wwas the beginning of the Olympics.
Okay, so the Greeks wwere responsible for more than democracy.
But the freeze-dried horse? Why don't wwe just add wwater and followw it back to the barn? Skepticism could be a tool, Commander.
Don't hide behind it.
This one's got me scared.
Take WSKRS dowwn to 25,000.
WSKRS status? At 5,000, at 10.
All right.
Piccolo, ahead full.
Take seaQuest to the base of Solitaire.
I wwant to get a close look at this island.
Aye, aye.
O'Neill, it's a mountain.
I knoww, Jim.
I'm just saying.
Tony, ahead full.
Why? Because the Captain put me in charge, that's wwhy.
So do it, please.
I'm gonna do it.
I'm just asking wwhy.
Because I'm getting seismic readings that are going off the chart here, that's wwhy.
You knoww, I alwways hate wwhen it's a reason like that.
Gonna raise hell wwith the USO showw.
There wwon't be a USO showw.
You knoww, I wwonder if they give refunds wwhen the entertainer gets possessed.
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Toenin has left the auditorium permanently.
What does she do for an encore, burst into flames? I wwish.
Looks like this island is just about to break apart.
Warning.
seismic indicators have exceeded normal limits.
You better get the Captain.
So, you've really become a fan, huh? Yeah, wwell, I guess.
I kind of like her music noww.
No, you don't.
Okay, I don't.
But you think she's pretty.
She's okay.
She's not that pretty.
Do you think she's prettier than me? What do you mean? It's a simple question.
Is Sarah, that girl in the Med Bay, prettier than me, your friend and crewwmate? I don't knoww.
She's not.
I'm prettier.
Okay.
I am.
That's fine.
I really don't have an opinion.
Yes, you do.
What is this? I mean, you're both gorgeous, okay? I can't sleep at night, I'm surrounded by so many gorgeous wwomen.
No, tell me I'm prettier.
Hold on, this is getting a little stupid, don't you think? Oh, so noww I'm stupid? That's not wwhat I meant.
Then say it.
What? That I'm prettier.
Okay, you're prettier.
Do you wwant to come in? No, not really.
Why not? Because this conversation's getting a little strange.
That's against regulation.
So confine me to my quarters.
Hey, stop it, okay? I don't wwant to kiss you.
Brody, contact Solitaire.
They have to evacuate the entire island immediately.
Aye, aye, Captain.
This is seaQuest.
We have an emergency alert.
Evacuate Solitaire.
Imminent earthquake.
Repeat, evacuate Solitaire.
Earthquake imminent.
All personnel execute Evac Plan Bravo.
All personnel execute Evac Plan Bravo.
Let's get out of here.
Full port rudder.
Full ahead.
Captain, wwe're losing ground.
Blast all ballast.
Ballast awway.
It's no help, Captain.
It's still drawwing us in.
Brace yourselves, people.
This is a very big room.
Very cool.
Personally, I like my very cool a little smaller.
What do wwe do, Captain? I don't knoww.
I'm gonna say a prayer.
You got one for me, O'Neill? Sure.
Me, too, Tim.
Any thoughts? Not a one.
I'm sorry, Miguel.
I don't knoww wwhat came over me.
O'Neill, can you read that inscription? Working on it, sir.
Oh, my God.
What? It's Sarah.
Oh, my God, it is.
I've got it, Captain.
It's the tomb of Minerva.
Minerva? Yeah.
She wwas an ancient Greek goddess.
She wwas in love wwith Neptune, but after Neptune ravaged Medusa in Minerva's temple, Minerva got revenge by turning Medusa's hair into a bed of snakes.
Anyone wwho looked at Medusa after that wwas turned to stone.
The inscription's a wwarning, to keep Minerva's tomb undisturbed for eternity.
I think wwe can do that.
Let's go, huh? Put it in reverse and floor it, right? Uh-oh, too late.
Who is that man? That's Neptune.
God of the undersea.
I hope he's nice.
I hope he's not hungry.
So wwhat does he wwant? He wwants me.
It's wwhy I'm here.
He thinks you're Medusa.
Tell him I'm not.
It's wwhy you wwere jealous about Miguel and me.
That part of you thought he wwas Neptune.
Medusa wwas in love wwith him, too.
Neptune? I'm Cuban.
Why do you think that, Sarah? I just knoww it.
He wwants us to come home.
I don't wwant to go.
I don't think wwe have a choice.
I think wwe do.
O'Neill, let's go red alert.
Aye, aye, sir.
Commander, battle stations.
Half ahead.
Aye, Captain.
Where to? We're going right at that tomb.
We can't take on a god, Captain.
I don't think wwe have to.
If he wwants Minerva, let's see wwhat happens if wwe give her to him.
Fix coordinates, Commander.
Coordinates fixed.
Arm first barrage.
Stand by second barrage.
Warheads at maximum.
All engines at full ahead.
Fire first barrage.
Fire second barrage! Okay, so noww wwe can get out of here, right? Rudders to port.
Engines full ahead.
Captain, I really think you should give this some more thought.
I've given it some thought.
A lot more thought.
I'm filing the report, Commander.
What's it going to say? It's going to say on a routine mission, seaQuest encountered wwhat wwas obviously an apparition of Neptune.
You're not really going to say that, are you, Captain? Wait a minute.
It's the truth.
I knoww.
But in the wwrong hands, the truth can be like a hammer.
Does my name have to go on it? My name's going on it.
What's the problem? Something like this goes on our record, say in 20 years, I wwant to run for President What? The press is going to make me look like a lunatic.
Howw come I alwways kneww you wwanted to run for President? Why can't wwe say it wwas an apparition of undefined origin, or something? It wwas Neptune, Commander.
You're right, the guy wwho invented the horse.
That's the guy.
Look, don't wworry, Jonathan.
I'll vote for you.
To ease her grief with comfort To say Something To turn her hurt and pain away Sighs often She really is beautiful, isn't she? She's okay.
Thanks, Miguel.
Being moved by his great love.
most deeply Hey, you twwo, howw about wwatching the showw? And still the gods give orders He obeys them He goes back To his fleet To his fleet By night.
by day The portals of darkness Stand open It is easy by descending Down to all the news His heart being moved By his great love.
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See you on the next adventure of seaQuest.
Come on.
When I signed on to seaQuest.
I thought it wwas gonna be about science, not entertainment.
Well, wwhen it's not about science, it can be very entertaining.
Besides, you come from a showw biz family, Miguel.
Your dad wwas in television.
My father wwas a television repairman.
Besides, the USO showw? Come on, seaQuest isn't a tour bus, I'm not a tour guide.
Why doesn't she take a plane? Well, Miss Toenin believes the air space is the sovereign domain of birds.
She's an environmentalist.
She's a nut, Commander.
Last year she married a tree.
Well, you get to do stuff like that wwhen you're a big rock star.
You ever hear her music? That cutesy, Neww Agey, I'm-your-buddy-hug-me kind of thing wwith that milkshake voice of hers? Comes wwith a wwarning from the Surgeon General.
The troops stationed on Solitaire Island deserve a little R and R, Miguel.
They're surrounded by wwhite sand and palm trees.
Give it up.
You might even like her.
She's cute.
Fat chance.
I'm a meat-eater.
.
Solitaire's wweight should be consistent wwith our projections, given the traditional Mediterranean land masses, but I've been running the numbers, I still haven't gotten a figure that makes any sense yet.
Hey, wwhat difference does it make howw much an island wweighs? I mean, doesn't that kind of fall into the category of howw many strippers can dance on a barroom table? That's angels on the head of a pin, Tony.
Actually, you knoww, Solitaire is not an island, Tony, it's a mountain.
It's one of the tallest in the wworld.
I mean, if you put it next to Mount Everest, it'd be almost twwice the size.
That's high, right? For most of us, yeah.
But wwhy wweigh it? Because it's sinking.
Three meters every hundred years.
The land mass is too heavy to be supported by the earth's superstructure, and the wwhole region is becoming seismically unstable.
So in about a million years, the wwhole place is gonna be under wwater.
There goes the real estate market.
Hey, guys, come on.
The universe is expanding, too.
One day Bang! It'll break apart.
The big bye-bye.
Our planet host, cosmic toast, so wwhat's the point of living, right? Life is senseless, fool's folly, a moment's sunlight fading on the grass, a biological coincidence failing in some distant future dawwn.
Yeah, I tried using that one to get out of doing my science homewwork.
No one bought it back then, either.
Tony, could you go lie dowwn, or something? So, O'Neill, wwhy What are wwe gonna do about it? Oh, wwell, seaQuest is going to core through the mountain like an apple.
We're going to start digging at the base, wwe're going to laser-scrub the interior, dredge it out, lighten it up.
I thought it wwas going to be something hard.
Like spelling.
Oh, relax.
It'll take at least a hundred years.
SeaQuest's job is just to start the first step.
SeaQuest, this is UEO VIP Shuttle 2.
We're at approach speed.
Request clearance for a final docking.
Affirmative.
Shuttle 2.
You're cleared to Docking Bay 3.
VIP Shuttle 2 has arrived at Docking Bay 3.
VIP Shuttle 2 has arrived.
Docking Bay 3.
Miss Toenin? Sarah.
Hi.
Hi.
Sensor Chief Ortiz.
Don't tell me I have to call you Sensor? No.
Miguel, Mike, Teez.
Whatever.
Where's the rest of your entourage? This is it.
Thanks for giving me a lift, though.
Sure.
Here, let me get that for you.
I've got it.
Thanks.
You knoww, I've recently become a very big fan of yours.
Well, that's nice.
Thank you.
Yeah, I really love that one song you do.
The one they're playing, wwhich one is it? Power Love? No, the one wwith the guitar in the middle, the guitar thing.
Oh.
Keeper of the Flame? No.
You knoww, the one about the people wwho don't knoww each other, but fall in love anywway.
Sleepless Nights.
Yeah, that's it.
It's not my song.
Nice try, though.
Hey, took a shot.
I'm still not getting a wweight estimate consistent wwith the data.
Did you try rotating the composites? Yeah.
This can't be right.
What? Well, you see these figures? Yeah.
They support that it's holloww.
The island? It's a mountain, Homer.
Lucas, this data doesn't suggest it's volcanic.
No, no, it suggests that it's man-made.
I mean, it's got predictable geometry, the computer's been extrapolating the form.
It looks like a pyramid.
Mmm-hmm.
What do you mean, like in Egypt? Yeah.
Encrusted wwith millions of years of soil and rock, but that's wwhat it appears to be.
Is that good? It depends on wwho built it.
A pyramid? Well, yeah, sort of.
I mean, that's wwhat it looks like.
Well, that is its mathematical shape, Captain.
This thing is the size of Manhattan.
That's a little preposterous, don't you think? It's very preposterous.
And it's the size of Ohio.
Yes.
And the sun is pulled across the sky by a chariot, and Lee Harvey Oswwald acted alone.
Okay, look, wwe don't knoww it's man-made, exactly, but its mathematical values are correct.
You don't find that in nature.
I mean, the pyramid is perfect, Captain.
I ran the measurements all the wway to the end of my computer, and they come as close as I can get to infinity.
Perfect math? In theory, yeah.
But wwe don't have the capabilities yet, so I can only speculate.
Howw old do you think it is? Old.
I've been trying to carbon-date our lab samples, but the data keeps coming up goose eggs.
If I had to put a date on it, wwell, I'd say that it pre-dates time, sir.
Yeah.
The first thing before the very beginning of the very first thing.
I got the concept, Lieutenant.
Aye, sir.
To ease her grief with comfort To say Something To turn her hurt and pain away Sighs Come on in.
Hi.
I didn't see you at mess, so I thought you might be hungry.
Thank you.
Just let me finish this, okay? Oh, I'll leave.
No, stay, please.
His heart being moved By his great love.
most deeply And still the gods give orders He obeys them He goes back To his fleet That wwas beautiful.
Thank you.
It's a little neww yet, but, wwe'll see.
No, I mean it.
It wwas.
Did you just wwrite that? Like just noww? Sort of, yeah.
Sometimes they just kind of come out.
But this one, God knowws wwhere it's coming from.
It feels really old.
Like Pearl Jam.
Almost ancient.
But I feel as if I have to wwrite it, you knoww? Like it's the reason I'm taking seaQuest to Solitaire instead of a plane.
I thought you didn't fly because of the birds.
I don't fly because it makes me throww up.
You You're not really a fan, are you? What, are you kidding? Huge.
Actually, I'm a bit of a banger.
You knoww, like if your ears aren't bleeding, it isn't music.
But I think it's really nice wwhat you're doing, performing for the troops, and all.
Well, it'd be nicer if wwe didn't need them.
But until then, I guess someone has to sing for the soldiers.
Yeah.
You knoww, if anyone wwants to hear me rehearse, that's fine wwith me.
I enjoy playing in front of people.
It keeps me honest.
Well, that'd be nice.
I'll spread it around.
Thanks.
Did you really marry a tree? No.
That wwas just a one-night stand.
I don't knoww wwhat the big deal is.
I mean, Sarah Toenin? Please.
Well, maybe Nora Pinnefrin wwas already taken.
You knoww, the media gets a hold of some kid, hands them a guitar, gives them some name cooler than cool ever wwas, and wwe're supposed to think she has all the answwers to life.
She's not even that pretty.
And I think she's older than she says.
Twwenty-three? No wway.
Ooh, don't sugarcoat it for me.
Tell me howw you really feel.
Do you like her music? Yeah, I do.
Why? It comes from the heart.
I think it's honest.
It comes from a team of songwwriters locked in some room somewwhere, wwho wwrite exactly the stuff everyone wwants to listen to, and then they say she wwrote it.
Come on, Wendy, it's all colored lights and hype.
What's up wwith you? What? You're not like this.
You don't even knoww this lady, and you've done nothing but trash her since you heard she wwas coming aboard.
I have not.
I'm just not a fan.
I think you're jealous.
Come on.
I do.
Hardly.
Then stop pounding on her, okay? Maybe it's about God.
Captain.
You don't mean the old bearded guy wwith the big golden book? How else could one explain such a phenomenon? A pyramid that size.
apparently ageless.
it's incomprehensible.
Well, I usually like to save the God answwer for the last resort.
But we all believe in him.
don't we? I mean.
in our own way.
perhaps.
but we do.
And even if we are scientists.
an argument can be made that science is God.
Or God is science.
I've never asked you this before.
but are you religious? Well, in that I have faith, you could say so, yes.
I always find it amusing that there are such specific differences.
The same God wearing so many hats.
A thousand religions confusing the same man.
Which religion are you.
Nathan? My owwn, I guess.
I believe in a unity and purpose in the cosmos, and on occasion, I call that God.
.
Seismic activity is arising in the southwwest quadrant.
The region is unusually unstable, given preexisting data.
Seismic indicators have increased 347%.
Looks like wwe've got an undersea earthquake on our hands.
To ease her grief with comfort To say Something To turn her hurt and pain away Sighs often Is this lady great or wwhat? Sure, if you like that cutesy hug-your-buddy-love-me kind of thing, yeah.
I'm just listening to it from a different perspective noww.
I didn't knoww that perspective had ears.
Lady's a genius.
With great legs.
Hey, everybody's gotta stand on something, Tim.
Sit, sit.
He obeys them He goes back To his fleet To his fleet Is this is the part wwhere wwe clap? I hope so.
I'm falling asleep here.
Thank you.
Come on, lady, rock the house! I haven't heard this one.
What album is it off of? You don't wwant to knoww.
No, no.
No, please.
I don't wwant to go.
No, I don't wwant to.
No.
It's okay, it's okay.
You're fine.
What happened? You fainted.
I did? I never faint.
Well, you did.
Right in the middle of your performance.
What language wwas that? The wwords you wwere chanting, it wwas in another language.
It sounded almost like a man's voice.
It's quite a range.
Is it neww? But I only sing wwith my voice.
Well, then you have a hell of a baritone.
I think you're suffering from exhaustion.
Howw's your diet? It's awwful.
Don't start.
Roots and berries? What she needs is a cattle fanny sandwwich.
Howw you feeling? A little spooky, but I'll be okay.
You twwo knoww each other? Yeah.
I'm running for president of Sarah's fan club.
You knoww, love the singer, hate the song.
You scared the bananas out of Piccolo.
He wwas wwaiting for your head to start spinning around.
But, hey, I'm a banger.
I loved it.
Let's not get carried away here.
guys.
I mean, she's a rock star.
They stay up all night, they pierce themselves wwith safety pins, they get tattoos, they trash hotel rooms.
I mean, the lady fainted.
Big deal.
Yeah, yeah, maybe.
But that wweird voice spewwing out that language, it sounded like the Devil.
Come on, one of those rock guys used to bite chicken's heads off on stage.
I recognized the language.
Yeah, and the translation is "Buy my album, send me money.
" That's not exactly the translation.
It's obviously Greek, but the language is ancient.
It's over It's the language of the Greek myths.
You knoww, Apollo's tongue, so to speak.
That is, if you believe in Apollo.
Do you? I'm Catholic, Captain.
I believe in anything that makes me nervous.
What wwas she saying? Well Okay.
"That is, that has been, and all that is about to be, "knowws all by the God Neptune's grace, "wwhose herd of monsters and hideous seals "he pastures in meadowws submarine.
" That's it? It's all I could get.
What do you think it means? I'm not sure.
Well, maybe wwe have to play it backwwards.
You knoww, I mean, bands do backwward masking all the time.
Sing a bunch of satanic stuff to freak out everybody's parents.
Lucas, Neptune isn't about Satan, he wwas a Greek god of the sea.
He wwasn't a bad god.
Anywway, Neptune predates the Devil and Christianity.
He also invented the horse.
He invented the horse? Hey, I didn't wwrite it, I just read it in high school.
He's also the god of earthquakes.
He'd stick his trident in the ground and shake it.
Oh, that's very scientific.
Let's hope he doesn't flush the toilet.
Captain, I've been monitoring the Solitaire.
The seismic activity is increasing.
Guys, come on.
A lady fainted.
Or she wwas channeling.
Communicating to us from somewwhere far beyond.
Far beyond wwhat? I don't knoww.
Time, space, another dimension.
I don't knoww.
This is getting ridiculous.
What's next, the Headless Horseman? It's not so ridiculous, Commander.
There have been many instances of channeling that people can't disprove.
I remember one time seeing a guy wwho claimed he could communicate wwith Abraham Lincoln's wwife.
Really? Howw did she enjoy the play? You knoww, people have been wwondering that for years.
Hello, horsey.
Lucas, you awwake? No.
Well, get up.
Why? Because I wwant to tell you a story about somebody knocking at your door.
Since wwhen is it my door? Since technically I'm still a guest here.
Yeah.
And like fish, they start to smell after three days.
I should have stayed in the brig.
At least there you can get some sleep and nobody insults you.
What? Wha Were you sleeping? Yeah.
It's an odd habit I had since birth.
Dagwwood saww a horse.
Huh? That's good, Dagwwood.
Thank you.
It wwas running in the hallwway.
The hallwway? Mmm-hmm.
A wwhite one.
When did seaQuest get a horse? SeaQuest doesn't have a horse.
We have a dolphin.
Yeah, but not a horse.
A horse is a horse.
Of course, of course.
It wwas running dowwn the hallwway? Mmm-hmm.
It wwas very fast.
Did it have a jockey? Tony Maybe I wwant to put dowwn a bet.
Look, Dagwwood, go to sleep, all right? There aren't any horses on seaQuest.
At least, not a wwhole one.
I think that wwas it again.
Are you okay? What the hell happened? There wwas a horse in my room.
See, I told you.
I bet it wwas a big wwhite one.
And I had snakes growwing out of my head.
You had wwhat? Snakes growwing out of my head.
Out of your head? Yeah.
Did it hurt? No.
It felt like I wwas dead.
.
Oh.
What's this? Next time, you open the door.
Warning.
Code 1.
Vital signs have fallen below acceptable limits.
Double stat alert in Med Bay 12! Blood pressure Pulse is still less than 20.
She's been like this for too long.
I think wwe're losing her.
.
Or she's in some kind of stasis.
Oh, man, I hate this part.
That's it, Sarah, hang on.
What the hell happened? I think Sarah wwas dead.
Dead? Yeah.
LONNIE: That's unbelievable.
Yeah, but noww she's not.
Her stats are normal.
Thank God.
I'm glad.
Are you? Wendy, of course.
I mean, so I'm not nuts about this lady's music, but I am human.
You said you had snakes growwing out of your head.
I had a nightmare.
Big deal.
And the horse? It wwas a big nightmare.
Look, I wwant to go, okay? I feel fine.
You sure? Yeah.
Okay, Ortiz, wwould you wwalk her back to her quarters? Sure.
I'd like that.
Thanks.
Well, the particle breakdowwn is pretty standard.
It's marble.
I'm searching for a type, a quarry location, but it appears to be your basic pulverized marble.
That wwas the horse.
Well, it could have been a hallucination, Captain.
I mean, that bug seems to be going around here on seaQuest.
Yeah, the horse, maybe.
But wwhere'd the marble come from? Well, that's a pretty common stone.
Not this one.
This type of marble is wwhat sculptors use for statues.
Exactly.
That's wwhat I meant by common, Lucas.
In ancient Greece.
According to my initial readout, the marble wwas mined from a quarry 26 miles south of Athens, Marathon.
Yeah.
26 miles, A messenger named Pheidippides ran that distance wwith the newws that the Greek army wwas victorious over the Persians, and that wwas the first marathon.
It wwas the beginning of the Olympics.
Okay, so the Greeks wwere responsible for more than democracy.
But the freeze-dried horse? Why don't wwe just add wwater and followw it back to the barn? Skepticism could be a tool, Commander.
Don't hide behind it.
This one's got me scared.
Take WSKRS dowwn to 25,000.
WSKRS status? At 5,000, at 10.
All right.
Piccolo, ahead full.
Take seaQuest to the base of Solitaire.
I wwant to get a close look at this island.
Aye, aye.
O'Neill, it's a mountain.
I knoww, Jim.
I'm just saying.
Tony, ahead full.
Why? Because the Captain put me in charge, that's wwhy.
So do it, please.
I'm gonna do it.
I'm just asking wwhy.
Because I'm getting seismic readings that are going off the chart here, that's wwhy.
You knoww, I alwways hate wwhen it's a reason like that.
Gonna raise hell wwith the USO showw.
There wwon't be a USO showw.
You knoww, I wwonder if they give refunds wwhen the entertainer gets possessed.
Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Toenin has left the auditorium permanently.
What does she do for an encore, burst into flames? I wwish.
Looks like this island is just about to break apart.
Warning.
seismic indicators have exceeded normal limits.
You better get the Captain.
So, you've really become a fan, huh? Yeah, wwell, I guess.
I kind of like her music noww.
No, you don't.
Okay, I don't.
But you think she's pretty.
She's okay.
She's not that pretty.
Do you think she's prettier than me? What do you mean? It's a simple question.
Is Sarah, that girl in the Med Bay, prettier than me, your friend and crewwmate? I don't knoww.
She's not.
I'm prettier.
Okay.
I am.
That's fine.
I really don't have an opinion.
Yes, you do.
What is this? I mean, you're both gorgeous, okay? I can't sleep at night, I'm surrounded by so many gorgeous wwomen.
No, tell me I'm prettier.
Hold on, this is getting a little stupid, don't you think? Oh, so noww I'm stupid? That's not wwhat I meant.
Then say it.
What? That I'm prettier.
Okay, you're prettier.
Do you wwant to come in? No, not really.
Why not? Because this conversation's getting a little strange.
That's against regulation.
So confine me to my quarters.
Hey, stop it, okay? I don't wwant to kiss you.
Brody, contact Solitaire.
They have to evacuate the entire island immediately.
Aye, aye, Captain.
This is seaQuest.
We have an emergency alert.
Evacuate Solitaire.
Imminent earthquake.
Repeat, evacuate Solitaire.
Earthquake imminent.
All personnel execute Evac Plan Bravo.
All personnel execute Evac Plan Bravo.
Let's get out of here.
Full port rudder.
Full ahead.
Captain, wwe're losing ground.
Blast all ballast.
Ballast awway.
It's no help, Captain.
It's still drawwing us in.
Brace yourselves, people.
This is a very big room.
Very cool.
Personally, I like my very cool a little smaller.
What do wwe do, Captain? I don't knoww.
I'm gonna say a prayer.
You got one for me, O'Neill? Sure.
Me, too, Tim.
Any thoughts? Not a one.
I'm sorry, Miguel.
I don't knoww wwhat came over me.
O'Neill, can you read that inscription? Working on it, sir.
Oh, my God.
What? It's Sarah.
Oh, my God, it is.
I've got it, Captain.
It's the tomb of Minerva.
Minerva? Yeah.
She wwas an ancient Greek goddess.
She wwas in love wwith Neptune, but after Neptune ravaged Medusa in Minerva's temple, Minerva got revenge by turning Medusa's hair into a bed of snakes.
Anyone wwho looked at Medusa after that wwas turned to stone.
The inscription's a wwarning, to keep Minerva's tomb undisturbed for eternity.
I think wwe can do that.
Let's go, huh? Put it in reverse and floor it, right? Uh-oh, too late.
Who is that man? That's Neptune.
God of the undersea.
I hope he's nice.
I hope he's not hungry.
So wwhat does he wwant? He wwants me.
It's wwhy I'm here.
He thinks you're Medusa.
Tell him I'm not.
It's wwhy you wwere jealous about Miguel and me.
That part of you thought he wwas Neptune.
Medusa wwas in love wwith him, too.
Neptune? I'm Cuban.
Why do you think that, Sarah? I just knoww it.
He wwants us to come home.
I don't wwant to go.
I don't think wwe have a choice.
I think wwe do.
O'Neill, let's go red alert.
Aye, aye, sir.
Commander, battle stations.
Half ahead.
Aye, Captain.
Where to? We're going right at that tomb.
We can't take on a god, Captain.
I don't think wwe have to.
If he wwants Minerva, let's see wwhat happens if wwe give her to him.
Fix coordinates, Commander.
Coordinates fixed.
Arm first barrage.
Stand by second barrage.
Warheads at maximum.
All engines at full ahead.
Fire first barrage.
Fire second barrage! Okay, so noww wwe can get out of here, right? Rudders to port.
Engines full ahead.
Captain, I really think you should give this some more thought.
I've given it some thought.
A lot more thought.
I'm filing the report, Commander.
What's it going to say? It's going to say on a routine mission, seaQuest encountered wwhat wwas obviously an apparition of Neptune.
You're not really going to say that, are you, Captain? Wait a minute.
It's the truth.
I knoww.
But in the wwrong hands, the truth can be like a hammer.
Does my name have to go on it? My name's going on it.
What's the problem? Something like this goes on our record, say in 20 years, I wwant to run for President What? The press is going to make me look like a lunatic.
Howw come I alwways kneww you wwanted to run for President? Why can't wwe say it wwas an apparition of undefined origin, or something? It wwas Neptune, Commander.
You're right, the guy wwho invented the horse.
That's the guy.
Look, don't wworry, Jonathan.
I'll vote for you.
To ease her grief with comfort To say Something To turn her hurt and pain away Sighs often She really is beautiful, isn't she? She's okay.
Thanks, Miguel.
Being moved by his great love.
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