02x21 - Splashdown

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UEO OFFICIAL:
Security changeover
for Sector Two

has been changed
to hours.

(MOANING)

Hey.

Close that deal up there
before I hop up
and close it for you.

(MOANING CONTINUES)

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,

, feet in the air.
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 thr*aten your life?

Worse than that, sir.
He saved it.

(VIDEO GAME BEEPING)

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 , 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.

WOMAN ON P. A:
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 sh*t 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 sh*t at.

There's nothing down there
but swamps and freedom,
my friend.

Come on, let's go!

TONY: 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 , feet
and descending fast.

We're crashing! I knew
this was gonna happen.

MCGATH: 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 m*llitary 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.

(COUGHING)

Hey.

Hey.

Eddie!

(GROANING)

(HISSING)

(GASPS)

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 sh**t 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.

(COUGHS)

Come on.

If we get found by Colon
and his death squad,

prison is gonna seem
like a walk in the park.

(TWIG SNAPPING)

You hear that?

I didn't hear anything.

(SHUSHING) 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.

EDDIE: 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 sh**t
and I could plea out,

do 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.

(SCREAMING)

Eddie!

Help me! Tony!

Get this thing off me!

Tony! sh**t it!

Tony, come on, sh**t it!

(SCREAMING)

(g*ns COCKING)

(SOLDIERS CHATTERING)

Give us your name.

Seaman Anthony Piccolo,
, seaQuest DSV

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
m*llitary 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.

NATHAN: 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 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 w*r 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 b*mb

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.

(SIGHS) 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.

(SIGHS)

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?

ESTEROS: Stand up.

Why?

COLON: How long
have you had these?

TONY: 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 w*r 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!

(GUARDS CHATTERING)

Hey, I found this
in the clearing.

That's standard UEO issue.

Where's the owner?

MIGUEL: Where's anyone?

It looks like
the entire village
disappeared.

There must be
a m*llitary outpost
in this area.

(CLATTERING)

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?

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

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.

(BIRDS CALLING)

Looks like some
heavy equipment

has been through
here recently.

Excuse me.

m*llitary 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.

(MAN SCREAMING)

What is that thing?

Hell if I know.

Fire!

Invisible?

FORD: 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 r*fles discharge
electromagnetic waves.

f*ring 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.

NATHAN: The time to think
is over, Commander.

Let's get in and get out.

Aye, sir.

Let's move.

(RATTLING)

(CELL DOOR OPENING)

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.

LONNIE: Good luck.

FORD: Miguel, we're in.

(SOLDIERS CHATTERING)

I'll take the first one.

Go, go.

LONNIE: Tony?

Tony? Tony, come on,
we gotta fly.

Tony?

(GUARDS CHATTERING
IN SPANISH)

I think we got company.

Miguel!

We gotta book.
Tony's gone.

What?

Look, he escaped.

Damn. Come on.

(GUARDS CLAMORING)

COLON: 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.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

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.

(GUARDS CHATTERING IN SPANISH)

Damn.

Hey, guys, at least
let me take a shower

before you put me
back in the joint.

Hey, guys.

(WHISTLING)

Hey.

This is weird.

Project Scarab?

TONY: 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'll 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 k*lled.

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.

ESTEROS:
The search wasn't easy.

COLON: 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.

(SCOFFS)

What is his condition?

SURGEON: 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 att*ck.

COLON: Where is he now?

SURGEON: 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 sh**t them,

I want it to be
in accordance to
UEO regulations.

(LAUGHING)

Sorry, man.
I got this trick elbow.

It acts up
from time to time.

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

(MAN SPEAKING
IN SPANISH ON PHONE)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

It wouldn't take much
to go through this door.
Especially unguarded.

No, wait.
Something ain't right.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

They want us to escape.

Why?

So they can sh**t us
when we do.

Who is that?
Who's coming?

I still have the fuse.

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

(GROANING)

TONY: 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'll see you back on the boat.

No, Tony, wait.
Wait, Tony!

(SPEAKING IN SPANISH)

Scalpel.

Scalpel.

(EXCLAIMING)

(SHOUTING IN SPANISH)

Hello.

(EXCLAIMING)

TONY: 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.

MIGUEL: Commander, look.
TONY: 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.

EDDIE: 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.

(WOMEN CHATTERING)

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.

WOMAN: That was wonderful.

(HUMMING)

Hey, Tony.

Glad to see you made it back.

Hi.

(STAMMERING)
Well, you know, the...

Everybody got enough soap?

I can explain this.

I really doubt that.
Get him!

(WOMEN LAUGHING)

Hmm.

Hi, I'm Don Franklin,
and these are lionfish,

one of the ocean's
most beautiful and
more deadly inhabitants.

The lionfish is a member
of the scorpion-fish family,

which includes
the stone and toadfish.

All have one common attribute,
venomous spines.

Although they can be
deadly to humans,

these venomous spines
are not only a lifesaver
to the lionfish,

but used to corner
and k*ll smaller fish.

These exotic predators
are native to shallow
Indo-Pacific waters,

but are popular in many
salt water aquariums.

See you on
the next adventure
of seaQuest.