02x15 - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

[bunniefuu]

♪ Look at what's
happened to me ♪

♪ I can't believe it myself ♪

♪ Suddenly I'm up
on top of the world ♪

♪ It should have
been somebody else ♪

♪ Believe it or not
I'm walking on air ♪

♪ I never thought I
could feel so free ♪

♪ Flying away on a
wing and a prayer ♪

♪ Who could it be ♪

♪ Believe it or
not it's just me ♪

♪ Just like the
light of a new day ♪

♪ It hit me from
out of the blue ♪

♪ Breaking me out
of the spell I was in ♪

♪ Making all of my
wishes come true ♪

♪ Believe it or not
I'm walking on air ♪

♪ I never thought I
could feel so free ♪

♪ Flying away on a
wing and a prayer ♪

♪ Who could it be ♪

♪ Believe it or
not it's just me ♪

♪ Who could it be ♪

♪ Believe it or
not it's just me ♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

Devereaux! Devereaux,
this is Keever. Come in!

We just lost
contact with Keever.

They had taken the boat and were
about to bring it back when he got cut off.

- Should I send a patrol?
- No. Let's give him
a chance to get back.

If they don't, contact Le Clerc.

♪♪

♪ All of my life I've been
lookin' for something ♪

♪ Searchin' for the final clue ♪

♪ That would lead me to
something I could believe in ♪

♪ Maybe you've
been lookin' too Oh ♪

♪ All of my life I've been
waitin' for someone ♪

♪ Someone who's a lot like you ♪

♪ I could be wrong but
this feelin' is strong ♪

♪ Maybe you can feel it too ♪

♪ It's a regular rainbow
A slice of the moon ♪

♪ A shimmer of the stars above ♪

♪ Ooooo ♪ ♪ No one knows
where it comes from or goes ♪

♪ That's the
everlasting mystery ♪

♪ Of love ♪

♪♪ Waiter! Two
more, s'il vous plaît.

You know, Ralph, it's so beautiful
here, I wish we didn't have to go back.

Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't it be nice to
spend the rest of our lives on the beach?

Flowing white sands.
Listening to the surf.

Lying in the sun.

Getting beautiful tans.

Servants can be fanning us while they're
pouring mai tais from a hollowed-out pineapple.

Yo. Hey, hey, hey.

Aah! Aw, come on!

Oh. Don't worry.
Don't... Don't worry.

- I'm fine. I'm fine.
- Well, I'm not!

Don't worry. Don't worry
about it. Don't worry about it.

Come on. You spill a drink, the
hotel gives you one on the house.

I'm surprised they're not out of business
already. You've been on the job over a week.

Don't remind me. If this
ever gets back to L.A...

Big rock producer waitin' on
tables for his room and board.

When you were booking the group, you should have
made a provision for yourself in the contract.

Would have been a better
deal for you and the hotel.

This is definitely not
your line of work, Tony.

♪♪ ♪ No one knows
where it comes from or goes ♪

♪ That's the
everlasting mystery ♪

♪ Of love ♪ I know somebody's
lap I'd like to use as a sponge.

- What's the matter?
- Big shot over there thinks
he's the prince of the whales.

That's the Prince of Wales.

Are you kidding me? Is he? No.

♪♪ Never mind. Go on.

♪♪ Here's this guy
there every day, sittin' there,

cruisin' Rhonda,
sendin' little notes.

- "I want you to meet my record
producer friends in London."
- Maybe the guy's legitimate.

Hey, one thing I know is people.

Hey, you know, Rhonda's a nice girl,
right? She's a little "nave", but, uh...

Hey, I can't let that
guy walk all over her.

Well, you'd better move fast,
Tony. Looks like the duke sure is.

Waiter?

I'll fix that bum. Yeah?
Looks like you're up, Tony.

Hey, hey, hey. Red wine
on white slacks is hellacious.

Red wine? Yeah!
Red wine. All right.

Wanna take a
little stroll, my dear?

Ralph, that was terrible.
What? I'm just kidding.

What kind of example are you setting
for your students? I am just kidding.

You were? I were.

♪♪
Hey! What are you doing?

Don't touch me!
Get away from me!

Well, I was just kidding.

- Tony!
- Okay, pal. Later.

Over a week without Bill
Maxwell kicking in the door,

yelling, "Come on, kid!
Air Force One is missing!"

Help! Did you hear that?

Help me, please!

Help!

Help me!

Help me! Help!

Please! Help!

You all right?

Ralph, are you all right?

Hang on!

All right. Ralph, are you okay?

A contrail?

I can't get it, Ralph. You
mean like a jet plane leaves?

No, Bill. That's the name
of the pleasure yacht.

Now look. I... I can't really talk right
now because this is an open line,

and you never
know who's listening.

But just take my
word for it. This is it.

"It"? What "it"?

"It" it! The kind of thing that the
you-know-whos must have been thinking of...

when they gave us
the you-know-what.

Now just swing by my place,

pick up my jammies, and
meet me down here right away.

Well, uh... I don't have
any vacation comin'.

What am I gonna tell Carlisle
why I'm goin' down to the islands?

I don't know. Just
tell him anything!

You're sure, now. This is... it.

Bill, believe me when
I tell you that this is it.

Okay, I'll be down on
the next available flight.

All right.

Wow. It. T-H-E it!

Did you have any trouble getting
away, Bill? No. How could I have trouble?

I just told Carlisle
I had a hot tip.

Yeah. I had... Well, actually,
he wouldn't let me go.

But when I went to
District Chief Atkinson...

Bill! You went over
your supervisor's head.

I hope you're not gonna get
into trouble. Are you kiddin'?

When I come back with a new
tan and the case of the century,

Carlisle's gonna personally
recommend I take over his desk.

"Case of the century."
Is that what Ralph said?

He said this was I-T, it. It.

The case of all cases. The one
that they, uh, built the suit for.

Mary Celeste. Mary
Celeste. Here we go.

Mary Celeste, November 16, 1979.
Three passengers, a captain, one mate.

Last sighting off the coast of
Saint Croix by a local fisherman.

I knew it. I knew it! I knew it.

All right, baby. Boy, you'd
make a terrific sleuth, Hinkley.

Okay. Sixteen degrees,
13 minutes north.

That's about right there.

And 73 degrees, one
minute west. Right about here.

Okay, Ralph. Have no fear.

The head coach is here with
magic jammies, air express.

Hey, hey! Gee
Louise. Lookit. Lookit.

We got some kind
of command post.

Okay, Ralph, what's new from
G.H.Q.? When do we blow the bridge?

- Oh, you didn't tell him?
- Oh, I really thought that
should come from you, Ralph.

Oh. Well, lookit.

Lookit here. You're
gonna love this, Bill.

Now, you see these.
Each one of these...

represents a ship or a boat that has
come up missing in the last decade.

Whoa! We got piracy on
the high seas, right? I knew it!

Oh, no. It's much bigger
than that, Bill. Huh?

Bigger than that? Mm-hmm.
Much bigger. No comparison.

Now.

Except for one or two
random cases, here and here,

all of these disappearances
have taken place...

within the same body of
water in the Caribbean Sea,

known as the Devil's Triangle.

Then you were right about
the boats, Ralph? All of them?

Yep. Right. Yes.

He was right. About
what? Ralph, come on.

I came all the way down here on the basis
of, uh, "We can't talk on an open line."

Now, bigger than piracy...
Come on. Let me up.

Oh, come on, Bill. It
doesn't even compare to that.

- Huh... White sl*very.
- Still cold.

Drug runnin'. No.

Communist cell. A secret
m*ssile complex. Dr. Mengele.

Goldilocks, the three bears. Come
on, Ralph. What is it? Okay. Voilà!

Surprised, aren't you, Bill?

Uh... This is it?

The "it" it? The it that you
were... talking to me about.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Course, I'm
only working from theory here, Bill.

But that's why I wanted you
to bring the suit down here,

so that you and I could go
out and dig up positive proof...

that this beast does exist.

Bill, you know the discovery
of an animal thought extinct...

for several million years
is not without precedence.

Do you know that in 1938,

a coelacanth, a fish extinct for 70 million
years, was caught off the coast of Madagascar,

and another specimen was caught off
the Comoro Islands in December of '52.

What's wrong, Bill? You look
kinda ill. I think he's hyperventilating.

You see... I think... I think Bill thought
you were talking about something else.

Something more in the
lines of a big federal case.

Oh, but this is big. Do you know
what this will mean to the world, Bill,

if we prove that there
is Carrie out there?

Carrie? That's
what he calls her.

Oh, yeah. I... Kind
of a nickname.

You know, short for "Caribbean Sea,"
like "Nessie" and the Loch Ness monster.

- Is there a bathroom anywhere?
- Right through there.

You know, Bill, for years, people
have been trying to explain away...

these strange shipping disasters
as supernatural phenomenon...

Windows into the fourth
dimension, alien spaceships...

When all along, it's simply been
an existing life-form thought extinct.

All very logical. Oh, yeah, comin'
down hard. Mayday, Mayday.

You know that yesterday I actually
pulled a girl out of the ocean...

who saw Plesiosaurus
androphilia with her own two eyes?

Carrie. Oh, boy.

Well, maybe I can make
this... The piracy thing f-float.

Maybe coupled with
the white sl*very.

Oh, cheer up, Bill. It could
have been a lot worse.

Oh? Worse?

Bill, do you actually grasp
what I am trying to tell you?

Ralph, I went over
Carlisle's head...

to my district supervisor, telling him
that this was the case of the century.

I come down here and I find you
starring in "The Beany and Cecil Hour."

Bill, when we find Carrie,

it is going to be the gold
star on your marquee.

I promise you that!

You know, you go
through your life...

trying to motivate other people
in their pursuit of knowledge.

And as gratifying
as that can be,

what you really dream about is making giant
strides in your own field of endeavor,

to make a difference, and
this may be my chance.

They're gonna kick
me so far downstairs,

I'm gonna need a rocket
to get up to the basement.

I jumped my supervisor's
authority to go monster-hunting.

Well, we prefer not to
think of her as a monster.

Oh. I am going
to take my suit...

and go down to the hospital and
see if I can holograph off this girl.

You're welcome to
come with me if you'd like.

Sea monsters! Gee whiz!

- That's it, all right.
- You're positive?

Well... I mean...

I only saw the
head... and the neck.

But yeah, if I had to swear,
I'd say it looked like that.

See, we felt it first. Like,
the water was really calm,

and it was a beautiful day.

And then the boat
pitched, you know?

And we heard this loud noise,
like, uh... like a whale blowing.

Like I seen in the movies,
or... or in Pinocchio.

Yeah, like in Pinocchio.
Right. Bill, please.

You don't have to believe me. If you
don't, there's nothing I can do about it.

But I saw it. And
so did the others.

Even the men in the
black who came aboard.

Uh... Men in black who came aboard... You
didn't mention anything about them before.

Oh, well, I told the police. See, just
before everything started going crazy,

we were, uh... We
were partying, you know?

So we really never
heard 'em coming.

We barely had time to realize what
was goin' on when somethin' hit the boat.

And... water started
sprayin' over the gunwales,

and before I knew it, I was bein'
thrown over the side with a life preserver.

Now you try and get some rest.
We're gonna send in the doctor.

I can't thank you enough,
Mr. Hinkley, for saving me...

and for believing my story.

Right off, the cops just chalked it
up as another junkie's hallucination.

Yeah, but you don't use
any of that dope stuff, do ya?

Oh, nothin' that's harmful to
the body. I can't get into that.

But getting
mellow's a part of life.

I mean, without it, we'd
have nothing. Right?

Okay. Ralph, can I see you in
my office for a minute, please?

Linda, you get well. Okay.

"Getting mellow is a part
of life. Oh, wow, the bees."

What a fruitcake.
Bill's right, hon.

I wouldn't want any case of mine to rest
on her testimony. Yeah. It's too bad, too.

Because that business about hijackin' a
boat, those guys in the black duds, you know?

That had a lot of potential, but if only you
could believe she was telling you the truth.

Bill, she was telling the truth. I was
holding her hand while she was talking,

and I was holographing, and I
saw everything she was saying.

You mean, you saw the...
No, I didn't see Carrie.

No, he didn't see Carrie.
But you saw the hijacking?

No, I didn't see Carrie. How come
you're willing to believe her story...

all the way up to the
part about the plesiosaur?

Because it suits you? Yeah.

Well, at least he's honest.

Okay, now you
holographed on the hijacking,

then all we gotta do is find
out where they took the yacht.

Well, I got a location off
the chart and holograph.

That's dynamite. Then
all we need is a boat.

A boat? Oh, Bill, we can't go searching
around in the middle of the ocean on our own.

What do any of us
know about boats?

Counselor, this is Captain Ahab
Maxwell you're talking to here.

What I don't know about
boats isn't worth knowin'.

I'll meet you down at the
marina. Avast there, me hearties!

You invited him, hon. Oy.

That I did, didn't I?

This is Le Clerc. Let
me speak to Devereaux.

We've got trouble.
Man, I say we got trouble!

Okay, slow this boat down now. We're
taking in too much water. We're sinking!

We are not sinking! Every boat
takes on a little bit of water, that's all.

Ralph, how we doing up there?

Uh... Little bit to
port. No, belay that.

- What? Belay that... Gee...
- Uh, let's bring her around
starboard a little bit.

We are gonna spend the rest of
our days drifting in circles, aren't we?

We are not drifting
in circles, counselor.

Ralph... you do have
the suit on, don't you?

Would you stop panicking, please? Gee whiz.
Ralph, you got the suit on, don't you?

Yes, I have the suit on. This is the
exact heading that I got off the holograph.

Okay, okay. Ah... How
does it look? Familiar?

Well, I don't know, Bill.
Whitecaps all look the same to me.

We're lost, aren't we?

We are not lost! We are
not lost! Gee whiz! Come on!

Ralph, change places with
me. Give me the compass.

Hold on. Give me the compass.

Hold it, hold it, hold
it! We are gonna tip!

Don't lose the compass! Man!
Why don't I put the suit on, all right?

Well, you could put the suit on and maybe
get some vibes or something off of this.

You're rocking the boat,
Ralph! I am not rocking the boat!

I'm not rocking the boat.

Wait a minute.

- Look at that! Look at that!
- What? What is it?

This is exactly how
Linda described it before...

We could be riding on... swells
caused by... By what? By what?

Okay, let's not panic. I feel like
panicking. I can panic if I want to panic.

- We could be in
Carrie's stomping ground.
- Or feeding ground.

I don't think so. Not unless sea monsters
this year are runnin' on twin diesel inboards.

Look.

Hey, that looks
like the Contrail!

We found it! We must be
the only people in history...

that have found a boat
from the Devil's Triangle.

Well, unless you
wanna lose it again,

I, uh, suggest you start that engine there,
because we're driftin' right across her bow.

Yeah. Yeah, I'll get it.

Geez, Ralph.

Abandon ship!

Devereaux! Devereaux,
this is Keever! Come in!

Ralph! Ralph, man
overboard here!

Ralph, woman overboard! Uh,
yeah. Woman overboard also.

Geezer first, Ralph.

Okay.

Whoa! Huh!

Careful. Looks like it
was caught in a storm.

Nope. This boat was
definitely not in any storm.

Who was it? Who ran us down?

Bill, there was no
one on board. Huh?

There was no one
piloting this boat.

What are you talking
about? That's impossible.

She was here. Who?

She was here. What are
you talkin' about, please?

Ralph, you don't
mean Carrie. Oh, golly.

Ralph, will you give me a
break with that nonsense?

Well, Bill, do you have an
explanation? There is nothin' to explain.

Nothing to explain? Bill, we were
almost run down by an unmanned boat.

A boat that hasn't been picked
up by radar in almost 20 hours.

All we need is for Rod
Serling to walk out of the cabin.

Well, there's a perfectly normal and natural
Smithsonian-type explanation to all this junk.

Uh, we'll find it eventually.

Uh, you guys dry off. I'll take us
in and call the cops at Saint Croix.

Wonder what the police will
say about all this. Extraordinary!

Here we have been looking for this
boat by air and by sea for almost 20 hours.

You come along,
Mr., uh, Maxwell,

go out for a dinghy ride,
and voilà, the missing yacht.

How do you explain
that, do ya think?

Well, I don't know what to
tell you, Captain Le Clerc.

I spoke with Miss Linda Harrod in
the hospital room right after you left.

She said you were most inquisitive
about the yacht and its passengers.

More so than just the good samaritan
who helped save a young girl from drowning.

Well, I must say I was, uh, curious
about the recent uncommon occurrences.

Or I should say common
occurrences, shouldn't I?

- I beg your pardon?
- Well, being
the head of police,

you must realize the inordinate
amount of boats and vessels...

that have turned up missing
in this area in recent months.

Oh, I see. I see.
The Devil's Triangle!

Now, tell me, Mr. Hinkley.

Are you one of those writers we get so often
who are searching for the supernatural...

to explain some very
common occurrences at sea?

Well, I'll tell you. I wouldn't
call 70 ships and boats...

missing in a 30-mile radius
in three years very common.

Really, Mr. Hinkley.
You are a true romantic.

A harbor half as busy as this
would lose as many as 20 or better.

Another five or 10 due to
hijackings. Yes, used for drug running.

A very bothersome but also quite common
matter between here and South America.

Well, that only accounts for
about half the missing vessels.

How come there are never
any survivors or wreckage?

No. You brought in a survivor just
yesterday yourself. You saw her condition.

Her survival was a miracle! Surely exposure
would have k*lled the strongest of men.

Wreckage? We are
located just off a deep shelf.

A ship going down there would
be lost to the seas virtually forever.

But it's so more exciting to say
that they vanished in the Triangle.

Legends are
wonderful, are they not?

Well, Captain Le Clerc, I
happen to agree with you,

'cause I don't think legends
aim 38-footers at dinghys,

and shove throttles full
open and run folks down.

But it happened. Who
do you think did it?

Ah. I have absolutely
no idea, I assure you.

I do not have all of the
answers to all of the questions.

But I tell you this. You were obviously
in the wrong place at the wrong moment.

I'll say.

Well, I hope that when your men
are finished going over the boat,

that I'll get a chance
to examine it myself.

Ha! A courtesy I would love
to extend to you, Mr. Maxwell,

but you are out
of your jurisdiction.

We did find that boat adrift in
open waters, and we did bring it in.

Now, any abandoned ship that can
be considered a danger to shipping,

which this definitely was,

becomes the rightful property of
the person or persons who salvaged it.

Is that not right?
Yeah. It is right!

Well, I do hope that you will appreciate
that this is an ongoing police investigation.

Oh, yeah. And as a
professional courtesy,

I want you to feel free to take the whole
rest of the day to finish your examination.

Uh, I have one more
question, if you don't mind.

Uh, Captain, have you ever heard of a man
around these parts by the name of Devereaux?

Oh, yeah? What does he do?

You got that name from
the lady at the hospital.

No, no. I just, uh, heard
the name around and, uh...

Devereaux... is the
name of the warden...

at the penal institution
on one of the islands.

Oh, penal colony, huh?

Uh, if Mr. Devereaux should
know something of this matter,

perhaps I shall
speak with him myself.

Okay. Yeah, ask him if
he's missing any boats.

Look. I'm sorry to come,
but I feel it is important.

Sit down.

It is about that federal
officer I told you about.

He found the Contrail.
I think he knows. I see.

He did not believe any of that
nonsense about the Devil's Triangle.

We must do
something immediately.

He's bound to find out that I have been
selecting the boats that you have been hijacking.

Most of them have been
United States registry.

You realize the trouble that I
will be in, that we will both be in.

There is absolutely no
way they can tie me to you,

unless you've alerted them by coming
here so stupidly in broad daylight.

But I think they know.
They mentioned your name.

You were very useful to me, Le Clerc.
Unfortunately, you are A: spineless,

and B: too much of a risk...

for me to continue
with our transactions.

I-I just feel that we must
be cautious right now.

Indeed.

Mr. Collins, there is a man, a
federal agent, needs attending to.

His name is Maxwell.

And nobody knows you are here.

No, absolutely not. Believe
me, Devereaux. No one.

Good.

Devereaux. Devereaux! Devereaux!

Devereaux, no!

♪♪

Hi.

Gee whiz, I never
would have guessed...

how much noise you can get
out of a couple of garbage cans.

But I think we got us a definite
maybe somethin' brewin' here, Ralph.

We need to rent us another
boat. If anyone will rent us one.

And get out there and see
what's cookin' on the high seas.

Well, you guys can count
me out, if you don't mind.

I've had my share of sea serpent
hunting to last me a while, thank you.

Bill, I'm glad to hear you're
in the mood for the hunt.

Yeah. 'Cause that drug-runnin' angle that Le
Clerc was talkin' about, that's a hot one.

Drug running. Come on. Why don't you admit to
the fact that I have evidence of a plesiosaur?

What evidence? Couple of fuzzy
snapshots taken by a blind newsie.

Looks like somebody's fist against a wet
wall at the bottom of a coal mine. Get real.

You know what I'm
sayin' here? It's ridiculous.

No, it isn't. It's ridiculous.

Totally ridiculous. Come on. You can
just think whatever you want about it.

You can just make anything
you want out of it, Tony. All right.

You gonna let this count or duke or whatever
he says he is make braciola of your brain?

- Fine. Go ahead, all right?
- What's goin' on here, huh?

Nothin'. Villicana's
just jealous again.

Jealous, I'm not. You're just
jealous of Dickie, that's all.

Dickie? Yeah,
Richard Wainwright.

He's royalty. He's a duke,
right? Yeah, somethin'.

Sure. He's a duke like I'm a count.
Count Dracula. Get a load of this get-up.

- Look at that!
- I think she looks
pretty terrific.

Yeah, she looks great.
Thank you very much.

She isn't dressin' for me. She's
dressin' for some other dude.

Come on, Tony. She's doin'
it for us. Now you know that.

I mean, if this guy can get us next to a
big record producer in London... Huh?

This guy couldn't put you
next to Bozo the Clown.

And besides, I'm the manager.
I'm supposed to do the negotiating.

Oh yeah, man, like you, uh,
negotiated this job for yourself,

spillin' drinks
in people's laps.

All right. All right.

Rhonda did such a good
job, you can have it. I quit.

All right? And I ain't
waitin' on tables either.

Tony, you give up your job, you give up
your room. Where are you gonna sleep?

Yeah. That boat you pulled in,
right? I can crash there, right?

Oh, no. No, no, no. I don't like
the idea of you stayin' there alone.

- I ain't gonna
rip nothin' off.
- Very funny.

- Come on.
- All right, all right. You can stay down there.

- I'll check with you later.
- All right.

Enjoy your cruise, Rhonda,
and uh, watch out for sea wolves.

Aw, Tony, come on.
You're being ridiculous.

Can you believe this
dude? Hi, Rhonda.

Hey, Villicana, man.
What are you doing?

Swim, Dickie!

See Dickie take a dunkie.

You know, there are times when I could
almost change my mind about Villicana.

You got a guest
appearance to make, old cop.

You can make it with or
without your pants. Oh.

Old Devereaux can spin on a dime
and give you nine cents, I guess, huh?

- So you do know.
- No peeking now, girls!

Ralph, isn't it time to
give up? It's almost 1:30.

No, no. Just a little bit
longer, honey. All right?

Now, I saw this map in my holograph, and
I know it's gonna give me something here,

so just keep your
horses together.

Aren't you getting
a little carried away?

Ralph, I wanted to go to that
restaurant on the marina tonight.

Well... I'll make it
up to you some...

Wait a minute. I'm
getting something now.

Oh, yeah. I feel the
vibes. Here we go. What?

Bill!

Is this, uh, the third
floor? Yes! Yes!

I didn't think so.

Listen. Could I...

Forget Maxwell.
Let's get out of here.

- Hey, mister! Watch me! I can fly too!
- Ralph?

Would you like to meet my wife?

What would they
want with the Contrail?

I don't know, but everything
keeps coming back to this tub.

As quick as we brought it in,
Devereaux's monkeys were up my tree.

You must be right, because the only way he
could have found out is through Le Clerc.

Le Clerc spooked when he saw my badge.
They're running scared from something.

- Somebody's on board.
- Oh, that's just Tony.

Oh, yeah. Right.

Hold it. Hold it,
kid. It's Maxwell.

Rhonda. Rhonda,
what happened here?

I don't know, Miss Davidson. See, I
was just coming back here to see Tony.

A-After the show, I went to
Dickie's yacht, and Tony was right.

He wasn't interested
in my singin' voice.

All of a sudden, it was fightin'
for my life with Dr. Octopus.

So I come back here after the show, and...
and it's just like you see. It's in shambles.

And I got scared. What's
goin' on, Mr. Maxwell? Mr. H.?

Bill? Well, Ralph, it
is not a sea serpent.

Take a peek. Somebody
tore it to pieces.

Look. I just wanna know
what happened to Tony.

All right. Don't worry, Rhonda.
We're gonna find that out.

I have a contestant
in the balcony, Doctor,

who can answer all of our
questions for 10 silver dollars.

What's his name?

- Devereaux.
- Devereaux.

Look, Jack. I don't know
nothin' about your missin' boat.

I don't know nothin' about
nothin'... You don't? Don't worry.

You'll have plenty of time
to think it over, won't you?

Hey, you can't leave me in
here! I'm an American citizen!

All we have to do is drift into the general
vicinity and Devereaux will pick us up.

That's the idea, right? Right.

But if Devereaux is
behind the missing boats,

it still doesn't explain why there
was seaweed all over this one...

and why we found it floating
around out there all alone.

Yeah, and if
Devereaux didn't have it,

then where was it during
the time it was missing?

And what about Devereaux's men?

They had boarded her the
day that she disappeared, Bill.

Well, I don't know
the answers to that,

but we're gonna get it
once we find Devereaux.

Tsk. I was just so sure that
Linda was telling the truth...

when she was talkin'
about seein' Carrie.

Ralph, she probably was,
as far as she was concerned.

They were out there
partying and drinking and...

Yeah. You know kids today.
They're all a bunch of dopers.

So she probably thought she saw
what she said she thought she saw.

Yeah, but the
images were so vivid.

Well, just too much Saturday
morning programming.

You know how disgusting that
is. Abbott and Costello movies.

Get down!

Well, what do we do now, Abbott?

Ahoy there, Contrail!

Fall in astern of this vessel,
and follow it at three boat lengths.

If you change course
and attempt to get away,

we will sink you.

I repeat, we will sink you.

You want I should
use my... my suit?

No. No, no. We're doin' fine.

We're out here to find out what
happened and where's Villicana. I...

No, we're doin' fine.
Let 'em take the bait.

Well, Ralph, how's this for a
little slam dunk back into reality?

Here's your sea serpent.

The black hole all your ships
fell into is a chop shop for boats.

Hot Yachts, Inc.

But, Bill, how much of a market
can there be for stolen boats?

Some of these babies are
goin' at half a mil or better.

You don't have to sell too many of
those to keep this operation afloat.

Bad pun, Bill.

New hull numbers, new
engine numbers, new registries.

Resell 'em for a hefty
profit. Beautiful. I love it.

Maxwell! Miss Davidson,
Mr. H. What's goin' on?

- Tony, you all right?
- Yeah. I feel like
the Birdman of Alcatraz.

Other than that, I'm just fine.

Can't wait to see the
rest of the facilities.

Bet the rack in the
dungeon is just lovely.

Well, what do you think? Should I kick
the door down and get us out of here?

Nah. Villicana's okay. We
came here to meet the big guy.

Let's let him make his move.
Probably leave us here for a while.

Soften us up, try to
break the old spirit.

In here? Why on earth
would he think that?

Let's go, lads.

We got a date for lunch.

Just the lads. Ralph.

Don't worry, honey. I'll
come back and get you.

Oh, don't worry about me, Ralph.
I can always tear up my outfit.

It'll make a lovely
pair of curtains.

Boy, look at this. Little
bit different world, isn't it?

Oh, I'm not surprised. Guy goes to
all the trouble to hijack these boats.

He's forced to live on
this godforsaken island.

He's gotta put his
dough into something.

From the size of his operation over there, he's
puttin' a crimp in Chris-Craft's annual sales.

Thank you.

Although business
is rather good,

I'm afraid it's not
quite up to that.

You like fish?

Oh, yes. Yes. Very nice.

So beautiful and graceful.

Would you like some coffee?
Something to eat, perhaps?

Okay, Devereaux. You don't have
to dance around the edge of the pool.

Come on in. The water's fine.

I have a few questions which
I think you can answer for me.

I have a few questions of my
own, starting with what is all this?

Well, Ralph, I think it's real simple.
What we got here is a warden...

who spent so much time
rehabilitating hard-case morons,

he just sort of turned
into one himself.

Let's see, now. Le Clerc spots a
worthy candidate and he, uh, radios you.

Your guys zip in,
commandeer the boat.

And anybody that's
found on board, uh,

they get a free vacation here
in your hotel of many doors.

Right? We used to have a
rather happy arrangement.

Unfortunately, Le Clerc and
me have gone our separate ways.

Let me ask you something.

When you lock somebody up in this hellhole
of yours, how long do you keep them there?

Well, if you grab
somebody on the high seas...

and detain them
illegally, that's kidnapping.

That's punishable by death in
certain parts of the world to this day.

I imagine, Ralph, that the minimum
sentence around here is life.

- Sounds pretty sick to me.
- Quite profitable, however.

Now, I want to know...

what happened to my boat
and what happened to my men.

- The men that hijacked
the Contrail.
- Hijacked is not quite the word.

My men set out for the boat, but
they never came back with the boat.

In fact, they never came
back at all. It just vanished.

Well, sounds like your... your hex has
kind of come back to visit you, Devereaux.

I mean, it... it just walked
into a black hole, huh?

Rather as you suggested
to Le Clerc, Mr. Maxwell.

The Devil's Triangle is here.

A convenient legend
easily capitalized upon...

to help hide the hijack
and the resale of boats.

But now, I want to know
what happened to my men.

I guess you do, all right.

Yeah, you can't have a bunch of
yum-yums wandering around out there.

Could go belly-up
on you any time.

They'd barf up what they know
about your operation over here.

You could win a free
trip on the Titanic yourself.

- We have come up with
a possible theory, however.
- Ralph.

You see, the Contrail may prove to be
the first link in establishing the fact...

that there is a form of sea life out there
somewhere that we don't even know about.

See, the ship was covered
with... with seaweed,

which I surmised came
from the bottom of the ocean.

It doesn't seem to me that
there's any other explanation.

What my egghead friend here is
trying to explain to you, Mr. Devereaux,

is that he thinks your
guys ran into Connie.

Carrie. Well, whatever.
A sea serpent.

You mean my men were...
eaten by a sea serpent?

Yeah.

Yeah. See, what we're talkin' about
here is verifiable scientific evidence...

which proves that there
is undiscovered species...

swimmin' around out there in the
ocean that we don't know about.

He's not buying it. In this case,
it's a Plesiosaurus rex! Hey! Hey!

When you're ready for a chat, old
scout, let us know by waving your arms.

Most guys try to call out. They
wind up with a mouthful of the Atlantic,

and that's the last
thing they ever say.

How am I supposed to wave if
my hands are tied? This is crazy.

Who do you think you
are? Captain Bligh?

The right word from you, young
man, and you're off the hook.

Nobody's been
keelhauled for centuries.

Mr. Devereaux can do almost
anything he wants, Ralph.

This is his own private Devil's
Island. Now, you know what to do.

This is not too tough for you.

Just take a deep breath and
concentrate. Don't stay down too long.

Now wait a minute. I have
something to say-aaay! Not too tough.

Come on, partner! Come on.

Boy, oh, boy! Gentlemen, could I have your
attention, please? Yeah, listen up now.

Little good advice. Will you take
the g*ns and put them on the ground?

Okay. Well, I was
just trying to help out.

Right. Okay. Now, another
piece of friendly advice.

Some people see
things that are not there.

And when they do, other people
tend to put them in a rubber room.

You know what a rubber
room is? It's terrible.

You won't like it.

♪♪

♪ Sometimes you
just need a change ♪

♪ It's time to hit the road ♪

♪ Pack up You know
we gotta sail away ♪

♪ It's time to hit the road ♪

♪ Well, we are not
stayin' one more day ♪

She listens to me, she's
gonna go really far, this girl.

If she listens to you. So
here's to management.

♪ Bum bum bum Yeah ♪

♪♪

All right.

Sweet.

Rhonda, that was wonderful.
Thanks, Miss Davidson.

Aw, thank you. Come on,
Tony. Dickie wants to meet you.

No, I can't go and
talk to that guy now.

sh**t, how was I supposed to know
he was who he was? I feel like an idiot.

Oh, come on, Tony. He feels
just as embarrassed as you do.

He wants to make up
for the way he acted.

Come on, Tony. You can't
avoid him the whole cruise.

Yeah, I can. Come on.

Aw, Rhonda. All right.

Whoa! Oh!

Hey, man. I'm
sorry. I'm really sorry.

You like that? Look at
the mess you get me into.

Ralph, you can
stare out there all day.

I don't think you're
gonna see her.

Are we back on that again?

Ralph, there is nothin' out there
gobblin' up boats except Devereaux.

Now, why can't you
accept that? Carlisle did.

Only bit three holes in
his tongue, they tell me.

Can you imagine? I really
got a file with my number on it,

says, "Devil's Triangle",
dot dot, "Solved."

Boy! Well, what really
happened to the Contrail?

And Devereaux's men.
They never came back.

The police lab, they verified that
that kelp came from... the sea bottom.

3,000 feet below, Bill.

Well, Ralph, they're gonna
keep the yacht down here.

They're gonna keep going over it
and over it until they find the answers.

But you got to remember, salt water
obliterates an awful lot of evidence.

Come on. Let's go
have a drink on Carrie.

I was just so sure.

I hate to be the
one to tell you,

but you're old enough now to
learn the birds and the bees, Ralph.

There ain't any such thing
as sea monsters. Really.

Oh, boy.