seaQuest DSV (1993) s02e20 Episode Script

Security changeover for Sector Two has been changed to 2300 hours.
Hey.
Close that deal up there before I hop up and close it for you.
You hear what I said? I need a doctor.
Relax.
The UEO just wants to make sure you guys are all right.
I'm fine, I've never felt better.
Just cause one guy had a little backwash.
Nobody said having gills was gonna be a walk in the park.
Hey, what's the worst that can happen? You get a clean bill of health, then you lay back for a day and hit Rio.
Rio's been known to hit back.
It's kind of small, ain't it? I hate being cooped up.
You're trapped in a submarine for months at a time.
In a boat that can't sink cause it's already sunk.
What happens if we gotta fly over inclement weather and that cup thing pops out? What do I do, place it over my kidney and breathe normal? Tony, you'd rather take the chance of dying from complications? Come on, Tony, you're not afraid to fly.
What's the problem here? What? You two know each other? You could say that.
He was my cellmate.
Tony.
Eddie.
Good to see your ugly face, man.
Sorry it's just not under better circumstances.
What, are you kidding? Eddie Gaines in chains, What could be better? Good to see you, too, Tony.
Come on, let's go.
Tony.
What happened between you two? What's up with this guy? Did he threaten your life? Worse than that, sir.
He saved it.
Hey, it's a seven-hour flight, Tony.
Do we really need all this? It passes the time.
Pass it another way.
Hey, don't you have to lock him up to something? We're 63,000 feet in the air, Tony.
Where am I going? All right, Eddie, what's going on in that twisted head of yours? I don't know what you're talking about.
I've never had these symptoms, how'd you lash this up? Shampoo.
Irritates the lining, constricts the gills, smarts like hell, but very effective.
And now you think you're gonna cash in.
How am I gonna spend money in prison, genius? You're not, genius, you're just gonna get more time.
It's gonna take these guys about two seconds to figure out that other than that fresh herbal scent, your gills are as good as mine.
What's worse, you had to drag me into your stupid plan.
Don't flatter yourself, Piccolo.
You're just in it for the ride.
Passive assistance in forward cabin.
Please identify.
Eddie! Shut up, Tony.
I'm making an adjustment to our flight plans.
Come on, let's go! Look, this is gonna take us right into Confederation airspace.
Why don't you let me swing east a little so we don't end up getting our tail shot off? And draw the attention of UEO tracker planes? I don't think so.
Eddie, listen to the man, would you? That's a no-fly zone down there, we could get shot at.
There's nothing down there but swamps and freedom, my friend.
Come on, let's go! I'm not picking sides for you.
Nobody's asking you to.
You help me out in prison, you figure I owe you my life, is that it? No, I ain't going back to prison, Tony.
Verdome Is a very bad place, and there's a lot of desperate characters with nothing to live for.
We had to get out of there no matter what.
So as long as everybody stays cool and sticks to the game plan, nobody gets hurt.
I hope that includes the disappearing act of all times, 'cause the UEO ain't never gonna stop looking for you.
Your life is over.
Tell me something I don't know.
Mayday, mayday, this is flight Whatever we are.
We're at an altitude of 26,000 feet and descending fast.
We're crashing! I knew this was gonna happen.
The plane went down in some pretty dense swampland.
Vice-Minister Colon and the Confederation of South American Nations is controling the flow of information, and they are not letting much out.
Colon? He's the head of their defense.
Why aren't we talking with their embassy? Colon has them locked behind closed doors.
Undoubtedly to punch up another one of their inflammatory statements to feed to the press.
!Escaped convicts commanding UEO plane over illegal airspace.
! They!re gonna have a field day.
Mr.
Secretary, Tony's not a convict.
He was on a medical leave of absence, under UEO orders.
Any escape that Eddie and his friend had planned, I can assure you Tony had nothing to do with it.
Well, he did say he owed this guy for saving his life.
He could have been coerced into it.
This couldn!t have happened at a worse time, Nathan.
For years Colon has been engaging in a secret military build-up and he will use any excuse to keep the UEO out.
Commander, set a course for the southern Mejillones shelf.
Nathan, I don!t think that sending the most powerful boat in our fleet is the message we want to communicate.
I still haven!t given up on a diplomatic solution.
Well, neither have I, but if there's any indication that Piccolo is alive, I wanna be nearby.
We'll assume a neutral position until you arrive.
I!m on my way.
Captain, there's no way Piccolo is responsible for this.
We'll worry about placing blame later.
If there are any survivors, hope that Piccolo was of them.
Hey.
Hey.
Eddie! You scared the hell out of me.
I thought I was the only one that made it.
I guess irony wasn't on your side this time, huh? You all right? Yeah, I'm fine.
Are you sure? Yeah, I'm okay.
That's good.
Thanks.
You've done some really stupid things, Eddie, but this one takes the prize! Okay.
I guess I had that coming.
Nah, what you got coming I can't give you, 'cause I only got two hands.
Maybe we ought to bunk out here tonight.
Bad idea.
We're in the zone, where they shoot first and ask questions later.
That's what the guy with the pilot's license was trying to warn you about, only you were hijacking his plane! Well, none of this would've happened if you hadn't tried to stop me.
I had to.
Remember? I owe you for saving my life.
My life wasn't worth saving.
Now he tells me.
Come on.
If we get found by Colon and his death squad, prison is gonna seem like a walk in the park.
You hear that? I didn't hear anything.
No.
Listen.
You're hearing things.
I'll hang on to this.
Let!s get out of here.
Come on.
It's gonna be dark soon.
Weird, huh? It's like a bug out, only they got to take their stuff.
Fortunately, they forgot to take their dinner.
What do you think? I think they eat some weird stuff in this part of the world.
How weird? How hungry are you? I'll tell you one thing.
It doesn't taste like chicken.
You never asked me what I did to end up back in Verdome.
What did you think, I fell into a hole? Some genius was trying to make a little extra cash moving cloned GPS software from point A to point B.
Only this genius didn't count on the MP who thought differently.
That wasn't my fault, Tony.
'Course not.
When is it ever? I only said I could find a buyer.
They were in your car, Eddie.
Whether you were there or not, that MP lost his life and you should've given up this pal of yours.
Yeah, well, maybe it's not that easy giving up Admiral Overbeck's son, Tony.
You heard me.
Then you're a bigger dummy than I thought, Eddie.
A natural born victim.
Yeah, that!s easy for you to say.
Look where you landed.
I'd give my right arm to be on seaQuest.
Under Ford and Captain Bridger.
You know how lucky you are? I can't feel sorry for that, Eddie.
I got a break, maybe I deserved it, maybe I didn't, but the truth is, I still screw up sometimes.
Only now, I take responsibility for 'em and it's better in the long run.
Yeah, well, I can handle my screw-ups.
What I can't handle is how deep I got buried.
I got hammered into a plea, Tony.
They shuttled me between rooms for two days.
One guy was saying he'd make sure my mom would be a very old lady before she ever saw a dime of my Navy pension.
The other guys promised me the moon.
Just do the admiral this one favor, refuse to give up the shooter and I could plea out, do 18 months, max.
I was gonna do some time, Tony.
I figured better the Navy owe me, than me owe the Navy.
I never thought they'd hang the whole thing on me.
I just need a break like you got, Tony.
Just one.
One good thing, and I swear I could turn my whole life around just like you did.
I didn't mean to screw you up like this.
You dropped a marker on me once upon a time, Eddie, saved me from getting cut to pieces.
Let's just call it even.
Eddie! Help me! Tony! Get this thing off me! Tony! Shoot it! Tony, come on, shoot it! Give us your name.
Seaman Anthony Piccolo, under the command of Captain Nathan Bridger, out of Fort Gore.
Tell us what happened.
Under orders from Captain Bridger, me and my crew were sent into South America!s no-fly zone.
Our mission was to collect evidence for the UEO, proving that the Confederation was engaged in an illegal military build-up.
We were forced to abort out mission after an emergency landing caused the deaths of my fellow crew members.
As we were under orders from Captain Bridger, he should be charged with their murders under the UEO Wrongful Death Act.
Lucas? Captain, this hasn't been digitally altered.
It's the real thing.
Captain, Piccolo's obviously been forced into making this confession.
Beaten is more like it.
Why don't we leak the original flight plans to the press? Fight a little fire with fire.
Documents can say whatever we want them to.
The fact remains that we violated their no-fly zone, and they've got a prisoner to prove it.
Mr.
Secretary, what does Colon hope to gain by bashing Bridger and the UEO? Time.
Time for what? To finish whatever they don't want us to know about.
Or to fix some experiment gone awry.
Don't forget, these are the people that gave us 10 feet of snow in August, and UEO reconnaissance has just uncovered a new wrinkle.
These satellite photos are of Colon's conventional weaponry installations.
Supposedly, they had been refitted to productive mainstream technologies, but you would never know it by the conditions under which half the confederation lives.
Colon's war machine marches on while the people of his country live in virtual poverty.
But it's this complex here that bothers me.
The roof and walls have been painted with lead.
They're hiding something.
What do you think those white flares are? Well, white flares on satellite photos usually indicate electromagnetism.
That's harmless enough, isn't it? Well, by itself, yeah.
But a lot of it, enough to cause these flares, would seem to indicate experimentation.
Experiments in what? Everything from cold fusion to quantum mechanics.
Even gravity.
That's great.
That's all we need is for these people to invent a new bomb that'll suck us all into space.
Yeah.
Well, whatever they're up to, as long as they've got a hostage they hold all the cards.
Captain, you don't think that they'd try to experiment on Tony, do you? I mean, I never thought I'd hear myself say this, but his gills do make a pretty fascinating case study.
Well, with Colon's history of illegal testing I wouldn't be surprised.
Do you think you can get Piccolo out of there? Give us four hours.
They'll never know what hit 'em.
What do you think? It goes against my better judgment.
But I don't see that we have a choice.
Do you know who I am? Yeah.
You're the minister of death.
You work for that pudgy-faced guy who runs this swamp.
Where is your friend? I told you, something grabbed him.
Something invisible, right? The boogeyman.
You're lying to protect your friend, aren't you? You're just buying him time so that he can make it back to the others.
There are no others.
It isn't safe for your friend to be in our swamps.
If you really like him, why don't you tell the minister where he is? Stand up.
Why? How long have you had these? About two years.
How do they work? Same as regular gills.
Why do you have them? Believe me, I wish I didn't.
Why do you have them? It was part of an experiment.
Strictly voluntary.
I'm an experimental.
The Navy was messing with the idea of seeing if humans could adapt to underseas life.
For combat? Yeah, right.
Just in case a school of pompano declares war on us.
Do they hurt? Only when someone has their mitts shoved up there.
I'm forced to hold you over for questioning.
Take him back to his room.
Under the UEO Prisoner Act, I'm entitled to three hots and a cot.
Hey, there's something out there, right? You guys have seen it.
Tell me I'm not crazy.
I'm telling you, there's something out there! Hey, I found this in the clearing.
That's standard UEO issue.
Where's the owner? Where's anyone? It looks like the entire village disappeared.
There must be a military outpost in this area.
Don't hurt me! Don't hurt me! Don't hurt me.
It's okay, no one's gonna hurt you.
What happened here? Where did everybody go? Everybody go.
Don't want to die.
Die from what? The phantasma, it grab you fast, like that.
Took your friends.
Two of them? No, it grab one.
The soldier grab the other.
Which direction did the soldiers go? There.
I'll take you.
No, no.
You better let us go it alone.
No, no.
You safer with me.
I'm safer with you.
Come on, come on.
Looks like some heavy equipment has been through here recently.
Excuse me.
Military outpost this way? That direction.
Port, many boats, this direction.
Look, we don't want the port, we're looking for our friend.
No, no, don't go that direction.
Come.
Listen pal, we're a little busy to be pulling escort duty.
Now where the hell are you taking us? Don't want to go that direction! Hey, hey, hey, calm down.
Calm down, it's okay.
Don't go that direction.
Safer.
Much safer with me.
Come.
We have a purpose here, guys.
We can't leave him here.
He lives here, Miguel.
Look how scared he is.
He knows what he's doing.
What is that thing? Hell if I know.
Fire! Invisible? I don!t know what else to call it, Captain.
We pumped it full of pulse charges and it just radiated, like it was feeding off the energy.
Each hit just made it stronger.
And deadlier.
If there's any consolation, I doubt that poor old guy ever knew what hit him.
You think this has anything to do with those light flares we saw on the satellite photos? Yeah, maybe.
The pulse rifles discharge electromagnetic waves.
Firing it into a negative energy field would in theory make that energy field greater without increasing its mass.
Now the question is, why would anybody need all this secrecy to prove a theory that any first year physicist could prove? What do we hear about Piccolo? Well, from the satellite photos we think we have a fix on the position of the building he's being held in.
The time to think is over, Commander.
Let's get in and get out.
Aye, sir.
Let's move.
Thanks.
All right, there's a service elevator that runs all the way through to the basement.
Is it operational? Not anymore.
You're the man.
Okay, you and Henderson hold flank.
When we find Tony, we'll signal you guys in.
Got it.
Good luck.
Miguel, we!re in.
I'll take the first one.
Go, go.
Tony? Tony? Tony, come on, we gotta fly.
Tony? I think we got company.
Miguel! We gotta book.
Tony's gone.
What? Look, he escaped.
Damn.
Come on.
He was not a hostage, he was a prisoner.
You had no right to send in guerillas.
They will be released pending the outcome of our Investigation.
This is not an investigation, it's a travesty! I want my men and I want them now.
Nathan.
No! Now, listen.
No one obeys the laws of the UEO more than I do.
No one bleeds for them more than my crew does.
That's why we're here, that's why seaQuest exists.
We have significant cause to question your loyalties and adherence to the UEO peace accords.
If you're not in violation, you have nothing to hide.
Mr.
Secretary, are you taking sides? I would respectfully ask you to try and separate the two issues.
Now, look, this is nonsense.
I want my men, and I want them now.
And if I don't get them, I'm going to recommend that the UEO re-evaluate its need for on-site inspections of every one of your facilities every day of the week! In that case, Captain, I!m forced to re-evaluate my membership with your UEO Estero.
I want every available unit out there looking for the escaped prisoner.
Sir, ever since we lost control of the Scarab, it has become very difficult to get volunteers to go into our swamps.
The men are afraid.
I don't care if the men are afraid, Estero.
If the prisoner makes it back to the seaQuest, I'll give the men something to be afraid, more than the swamps.
The analysis.
Damn.
Hey, guys, at least let me take a shower before you put me back in the joint.
Hey, guys.
Hey.
This is weird.
Project Scarab? Hey, I didn!t name it, I!m just stealing it.
I am stealing it, aren't I? Yeah, yeah, your modem's coming through perfectly.
Tony, do you have any idea what you've found here? This is light-bending technology.
It!s the fourth dimension.
How can you bend light? We see things in three dimensions because of the way light bends around it.
Bend that light into a loop, and you can no longer see it.
It becomes invisible.
Did you get that, Dagwood? Yes.
No.
So that must have been what you saw or didn't see in the swamp.
The prototype.
Dagwood is the prototype.
Another prototype, Dagwood.
Tony, are the others active? No, they have a chip or something missing from their heads, I guess until they figure out how to get the prototype back under control.
They!Il never get this thing under control.
The Scarab is able to increase its own powers of artificial intelligence by pulling electromagnetic waves out of the atmosphere.
It's overriding their commands.
That's cool.
Tony, what you've stumbled upon could get you killed.
You have to get out of there.
Two problems with that.
One, the Commander and them are in the prison.
Two, I still got a friend out there I got to find.
Tony, Eddie!s dead.
I don't know that, Lucas.
Yeah, well, it's a pretty good guess, Tony.
You got to get out of there.
He's not your responsibility.
I got trouble.
The search wasn't easy.
No, I cannot be talked out of this.
He's one man alone lost in our swamps, and yet he managed to survive where our own soldiers have been afraid to go.
What is his condition? Very significant tissue damage, malnutrition, fever.
When we found the other experimental, he had been hiding underwater for more than two days.
Somehow he managed to survive the Scarab's attack.
Where is he now? He is sedated.
He's resting.
If the UEO Biological Research Institute abandoned gill technology, what makes you think we'll be more successful? Because they worry too much about their patient rate of survival.
I don't have that problem.
Senor Minister, I worry that too many people know about this already.
Eventually we're going to have to release the prisoners.
Maybe the UEO can help us bring the Scarab under control.
They'll never know about this.
We'll get the Scarab back under control, the project back on track.
As for the seaQuest prisoners, don't make it too difficult for them to escape.
When I shoot them, I want it to be in accordance to UEO regulations.
Sorry, man.
I got this trick elbow.
It acts up from time to time.
It wouldn't take much to go through this door.
Especially unguarded.
No, wait.
Something ain't right.
They want us to escape.
Why? So they can shoot us when we do.
Who is that? Who's coming? I still have the fuse.
Guys, relax.
It!s me.
Piccolo? Lucas figured out how to get it under control.
This thing's easier to use than a video game.
Hey, no offense, Tony, but if you can operate it, anyone can.
Tony, where are you? In a research lab.
Well, get out of there, now.
Meet us outside the building.
Commander, Eddie's alive.
We got to find him.
No, we got to get out of here, Tony.
Listen, taking out a few of their guards is one thing, but we're on their playing field with their entire army after us.
Fine.
You guys leave if you have to, but I'm staying.
Tony, what did this guy ever do for you but almost ruin your life? We all got our crosses to bear, Miguel.
This one's mine.
I!Il see you back on the boat.
No, Tony, wait.
Wait, Tony! Scalpel.
Scalpel.
Hello.
It!s about time you guys showed up.
Sit down! Think about it first, chief.
Okay, Tony, you've made your point.
This one's kind of small.
Should we throw him back? All right, all right, I!m on my way.
Just around the corner.
Commander, look.
I got him.
Look behind you.
Game over.
I win.
You two ruined my weekend.
Where do you want these two, Commander? Good work, sailor.
Situation's contained, sir.
The Scarabs down in the hold have been broken down and sealed as evidence.
But what are we gonna do about our prototype? The research institute at UEO Headquarters will evaluate its technologies, and then we will do what we do best.
Wrap our findings up in so much red tape and regulations that it'll take years for anyone to put their hands on it.
Good.
Nice piece of work, son.
Thank you, sir.
And it's Tony.
Tony.
Excuse me a second, sir.
Eddie, hey.
Hey, you all right? Yeah, I think so.
You're not gonna belt me again, are you? Why, what'd you do now? Thanks, Tony.
I guess now I owe you one.
You owe a lot of people, Eddie, me maybe least of all.
You hear what I'm saying? I'm gonna do it right this time, Tony.
Whatever it takes, okay? No excuses.
I'm done screwing up.
Yeah, well, you take care of yourself, all right? I'm afraid there's not a whole lot I can do for your friend, Tony.
What he did to help us disassemble this was good work.
But how he got us here was not.
How about how he got sent to Verdome in the first place? What do you mean? Nothing, just that Sometimes a guy makes a deal with very powerful people, say, like a plea, and then the very powerful people sort of disappear, and you get the whole thing hung around your neck.
And you think if the facts surrounding this deal were to come to light I think someone might want to reconsider the circumstances surrounding Eddie's plea.
That's all I'm saying.
Anyway, I just thought I'd say something.
Tony.
Do you believe him? Yes, sir, I do.
I'll look into it.
This time I!m getting a civilian lawyer to retry my case.
I just wanted to thank Tony again for his help.
I'll tell him if I see him.
It's his turn to clean the quarters, so of course he's nowhere to be found.
What happened to the technology? Well, the prototype was turned over to the UEO.
But of course I accidentally cloned it off my hard drive.
You know, I sort of used Tony for a guinea pig, but the suit kept fritzing in and out.
Yeah, well Just tell Tony I said thanks and I!m sorry I missed him.
Yeah, I will, Eddie.
Hi! When did you get off ship? Yeah? You know what? This stuff that you gave me yesterday really worked great.
Thank you so much.
That was wonderful.
Hey, Tony.
Glad to see you made it back.
Hi.
Well, you know, the Everybody got enough soap? I can explain this.
I really doubt that.
Get him! Hmm.
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