Daggars, Finale
(Break)
Mariah: (on vid-screen) Destroy us, Mr. Bridger, but we'll have plenty of time to destroy the last of your needed air supply.
Bridger: And destroy yourself as well?
Mariah: (on vid-screen) I'm willing to die. My people will live on.
Wendi: No they won't. You see this baby? This baby is human, like us. She needs to breathe the same way we do.
Mariah: (on vid-screen) You're lying.
Wendi: No, I'm not. But it's up to you to believe that. Look at this child. Can you take that risk? I'm telling you the truth, Mariah.
Mariah: (on vid-screen) They only risk would be in trusting any of you. I've never heard the truth from your kind before.
(Dagwood looks like he wants to step forward, he looks at O'Neil and O'Neil nods for him to go ahead. So he steps forward and takes the baby from Wendi. Mariah looks surprised to see a GELF onboard the seaQuest.)
Dagwood: It's true. These people have never lied to me before. And I should know, I'm almost her Uncle.
Mariah: (on vid-screen) But you're my brother.
Dagwood: Then, believe me?
Mariah: (on vid-screen) I do.
(GELF Colony)
(Bridger is standing with Sara and Mathew looking at the baby. Joseph walks up.)
Joseph: Captain Bridger. What will happen to Mariah and our brothers?
Bridger: Well they've broken our laws and they'll have to live by that. You'll have to live by those laws as well. Now you have your freedom. Congratulations.
Joseph: But, what will we do now?
Bridger: That's a question that free men have been asking themselves since time in memorial. I can only wish you good luck.
(He walks back over to Sara and Mathew. He looks at the baby, then points at her.)
Bridger: She looks just like him. (Meaning Mathew)
(Mathew and Sara laugh)
(seaQuest, Hallway)
(Dagwood is cleaning. Bridger comes up to him.)
Bridger: Excuse me. I think we owe you something.
Dagwood: You do?
Bridger: We do.
Dagwood: Why?
Bridger: You told the truth.
Dagwood: I didn't know what else to tell.
Bridger: I know that. That's why I want to thank you.
Dagwood: Um, I better go back to work. (Bridger takes his mop away.) You don't want Dagwood to work here anymore?
Bridger: Yes, just forget that. (He pulls a seaQuest baseball cap out of his back pocket and sets it on Dagwood's head.) Welcome aboard. (leaves)
(Dagwood checks out his reflection and then smiles)
(Laundry Room)
(O'Neil is sorting his clothing by the day.)
O'Neil: Thursday, Tuesday, (pulls out red pair of underwear) Friday!
(Just then Henderson walks in. She goes and begins looking in all the dryers. O'Neil hides the underwear under some other clothing. He reaches back into the dryer and pulls out Addison.)
O'Neil: I was hoping you were Saturday.
(Henderson sees that he has Addison.)
Henderson: Thank God, you found Addison.
O'Neil: Addison?
Henderson: I've been looking all over for him.
O'Neil: Who?
Henderson: I can't sleep without him.
O'Neil: Oh, the bear. Some guys have all the luck.
Henderson: You think that's weird, don't you?
O'Neil: You're talking to a guy who organizes his underwear by the day. (she smiles) Um, you did really well up there, Add…uh…Henderson. For your first time and everything, I mean.
Henderson: I was afraid.
O'Neil: Who wasn't.
Henderson: You know, I think I'm gonna like it here. (checks out his clothing piles) Ah, you've got your Thursdays in your Tuesday pile. I hate it when that happens. (she moves to leave)
O'Neil: Ah, you do this too?
Henderson: Doesn't everybody? (smiles and leaves)
O'Neil: Friday.
(Room)
(Piccolo, Ortiz, Wendi, and Lucas are playing cards. Piccolo is dealing and smoking a cigar.)
Ortiz: Come on, Piccolo. Stop showing off and just deal.
Piccolo: I like showing off. It's what I'm good at.
Wendi: Is there anything that you're not good at?
Piccolo: Not lately. Okay, here we go. The game is Black Mariah, Chicago style. Spade boat, but it's only alive when it's under. One-eyed jack is wild, first red two showing gets an automatic card, suicide king cancels the hand. (unintelligible)…four flush beats a pair, high card only wins with the dealer. Any questions?
Ortiz: Is this the guy who invented crazy eights?
Piccolo: A simple game for a simple mind, Ortiz.
Lucas: Yeah, I agree with that.
Piccolo: All right, who's in?
Lucas: Ah, yeah.
Ortiz: Me too.
Wendi: Oh, yeah yeah.
Piccolo: Okay, dealer's in. He has all the power so he's raising 'em. (He gives everyone another card. Ortiz gets the suicidal king.) History Ortiz! Killed by the dead king. Tough luck.
Ortiz: I'm out.
Piccolo: And I'm still in. Here we go, and I raise everybody.
Wendi: I'm gone.
Ortiz: Don't fold, he's bluffing!
Wendi: I know, but I can't breathe.
Piccolo: All right then, bet's to you Luke. Whadda ya say?
(Lucas looks at Wendi who glances at Piccolo and then nods her head.)
Lucas: I get the top bunk.
Piccolo: Pretty gutsy, cuz.
Lucas: Yeah, well I've got a large lung capacity.
Piccolo: To bad, killer. (turns over his cards) Trip sixes with a spade queen covered. You shouldn't play with the big boys.
Lucas: (turns over his cards) Full boat. Jacks, high ace under. I'm sorry. (laughs) You're gonna have to dream on, from the bottom bunk.
(Piccolo is stumped.)
(Ward Room)
(Ford is reading a book and Brody walks in with his dinner)
Brody: (looks at the book cover) I read that.
Ford: Oh yeah?
Brody: First half is okay, but the ending…(he sits down)..the Police Captain is the murderer. Pretty predictable, huh?
Ford: (closes the book and sets it aside) Yeah, it is now.
Brody: Hey, nothing worse that reading a whole book and realizing that the ending stinks, right?
Ford: Well, I can think of a few things actually, like not being given the opportunity to make that determination on my own.
Brody: Waste of time, and from what I hear the crew of this tug has wasted enough of it. (Ford looks at him) Oh, come on, Commander. You guys sank a $10 billion dollar boat last year.
Ford: It was for a higher good.
Brody: Doesn't matter. So, the Captain wants me to sign on to make sure that doesn't happen again.
Ford: You're kidding, right?
Brody: Would I kid about a thing like that?
Ford: I hope so.
Brody: You know, we can be friends.
Ford: It's a long tour, Jim. Why don't we just think about that?
Brody: Don't have time. Bridger told me I'm rooming with you until they finish remodeling my quarters.
Ford: (can't believe this) What's wrong with your quarters?
Brody: No place to put the pool table.
(Ford sighs in resignation and Brody grins)
(END)