Watergate (cont.)
(Sea Deck)
(Lucas pours a sample of the horse into an analyzing machine.)
Lucas: Well the particle breakdown is pretty standard. It's marble. I'm searching for a type, a quarry location, but it appears to be your basic pulverized marble.
Bridger: That was the horse.
Ford: Well it could have been a hallucination, Captain. I mean that bug seems to be going around here on seaQuest.
Bridger: Yeah, the horse, maybe. But where'd the marble come from?
Ford: Well that's a pretty common stone.
Lucas: Not this one. This type of marble is what sculptors used for statues…
Ford: Exactly. That's what I meant by common, Lucas.
Lucas: …in Ancient Greece. According to my initial read out the marble was mined from a quarry 26 miles south of Athens a thousand years ago.
Bridger: Marathon.
Lucas: Uh, yeah. 26 miles, 385 yards. A messenger named Phidipadees ran that distance with the news that the Greek army was victorious over the Persians. And that was the first marathon. It was the beginning of the Olympics.
Ford: Okay, so the Greeks were responsible for more than democracy. But the freeze-dried horse? Why don't we just add water and follow it back to the barn.
Bridger: Skepticism can be a tool, Commander. Don't hide behind it. This one's got me scared.
(Bridge)
O'Neil: Take WSKRS down to 25,000.
(Brody does so.)
O'Neil: WSKR status?
Brody: Ah, 5000…at 10.
O'Neil: Alright, Piccolo ahead full. Take seaQuest to the base of Solitaire. I want to get a closer look at this island.
Piccolo: Aye aye.
Brody: Ah, O'Neil, it's a mountain.
O'Neil: I know, Jim.
Brody: I'm just saying…
O'Neil: Tony, ahead full.
Piccolo: Ah, why?
O'Neil: Because the Captain put me in charge, that's why. So, do it, please.
Piccolo: I'm gonna do it, I'm just asking why.
O'Neil: Because I'm getting seismic readings that are going off the chart here, that's why.
Piccolo: You know, I always hate when it's a reason like that.
Brody: It's gonna raise hell with the USO show.
O'Neil: There won't be a USO show.
Brody: You know I wonder if they give refunds when the entertainer gets possessed.
Piccolo: Ladies and Gentlemen, Ms. Tonin has left the auditorium, permanently. (Piccolo and Brody laugh.) What does she do for an encore…burst into flames?
O'Neil: I wish. It looks like this island is just about to break apart.
Computer: Warning! Seismic indicators have exceeded normal limits.
O'Neil: You better get the Captain.
(Hallway)
Henderson: So, you've really become a fan, huh?
Ortiz: Well I guess. I kinda like her music now.
Henderson: No you don't.
Ortiz: Okay, I don't.
Henderson: But you think she's pretty.
Ortiz: She's okay. She's not that pretty.
Henderson: Do you think she's prettier than me?
Ortiz: What do you mean?
Henderson: It's a simple question. Is the Sara, that girl in the Med Bay prettier than me, your friend and crewmate?
Ortiz: I don't know.
Henderson: She's not. I'm prettier.
Ortiz: Okay.
Henderson: I am.
Ortiz: That's fine. I really don't have an opinion.
Henderson: Yes, you do.
Ortiz: What is this? I mean you're both gorgeous. I can't sleep at night I'm surrounded by so many gorgeous women.
Henderson: No. Tell me I'm prettier.
Ortiz: Hold on. This is getting a little stupid, don't you think?
Henderson: Oh, so now I'm stupid.
Ortiz: That's not what I meant.
Henderson: Then say it.
Ortiz: What?
Henderson: That I'm prettier.
Ortiz: Okay, you're prettier.
Henderson: Do you want to come in?
Ortiz: No, not really.
Henderson: Why not?
Ortiz: Because this conversation's getting a little strange.
(Henderson kisses him.)
Ortiz: (pulls back) That's against regulation.
Henderson: So, confine me to my quarters. (she goes to kiss him again.)
Ortiz: Hey, stop it. I said I don't want to kiss you. (he walks off.)
(An undersea earthquake begins.)
(seaQuest, Bridge)
Bridger: Brody, contact Solitaire. They have to evacuate the entire island immediately.
Brody: Aye, aye, Captain. (into radio)This is seaQuest, we have an emergency alert. Evacuate Solitaire, eminent earthquake. I repeat, evacuate Solitaire, earthquake eminent.
(Solitaire is evacuated.)
(The earthquake reveals a door in the side of the Solitaire pyramid.)
(seaQuest, Bridge)
Bridger: Let's get out of here. Full port rudder.
(Piccolo complies.)
(The door in the pyramid opens.)
(seaQuest, Bridge)
Bridger: Full ahead.
(The seaQuest is being sucked into the Pyramid.)
Ford: Captain, we're losing ground.
Bridger: Blast all ballasts.
Ford: Ballasts away. It's no help, Captain. It's still drawing us in.
Bridger: Brace yourselves people.
(seaQuest is sucked into the Pyramid.)
(seaQuest, Bridge)
Dagwood: This is a very big room.
Lucas: Very cool.
Piccolo: Personally I like my very cool a little smaller.
Ortiz: What do we do, Captain?
Bridger: I don't know.
O'Neil: I'm gonna say a prayer.
Brody: You got one for me, O'Neil?
O'Neil: Sure.
Ford: Me too, Tim.
Bridger: (to Wendi) Any thoughts?
Wendi: Not a one.
Henderson: I'm sorry, Miguel. I don't know what came over me.
(Ortiz holds her hand.)
(They pass by a very large statue with an inscription on the base and the WSKRS check it out. It is a statue of a woman.)
Bridger: O'Neil, can you read that inscription?
O'Neil: Working on it, sir.
(Ortiz sees the face of the statue and realizes something.)
Ortiz: Oh my God.
Bridger: What?
Ortiz: It's Sara.
Wendi: Oh my God, it is.
O'Neil: I've got it, Captain. It's the tomb of Minerva.
Ortiz: Minerva?
O'Neil: She was an ancient Greek Goddess. She was in love with Neptune. But after Neptune ravished Medusa in Minerva's temple, Minerva got revenge by turning Medusa's hair into a bed of snakes. Anyone who looked and Medusa after that was turned to stone. The inscription is a warning, to keep Minerva's tomb undisturbed for all eternity.
Piccolo: I think we can do that. Let's go, huh? Put it in reverse and floor it. Right?
(Suddenly Neptune shows up.)
Piccolo: Uh oh, too late.
Dagwood: Who is that man?
Lucas: That's Neptune. God of the Undersea.
Dagwood: I hope he's nice.
Piccolo: I hope he's not hungry.
Brody: So what does he want?
(Sara enters the Bridge.)
Sara: He wants me. It's why I'm here. (to Henderson) He thinks your Medusa.
Henderson: Ah, tell him I'm not.
Sara: It's why you were jealous of Miguel and me. That part of you thought he was Neptune. Medusa was in love with him too.
Ortiz: Neptune? I'm Cuban!
Bridger: Why do you think that Sara?
Sara: I just know it. (to Henderson) He wants us to come home.
Henderson: I don't wanna go.
Sara: I don't think we have a choice.
Bridger: I think we do. O'Neil, let's go Red Alert.
O'Neil: Aye, aye, sir.
Bridger: Commander, battle stations. Half ahead.
Ford: Aye, Captain. Where to?
Bridger: We're going right at that tomb.
Ford: We can't take on a God, Captain.
Bridger: I don't think we have to. If he wants Minerva let's see what happens when we give her to him.
(They try to head for the tomb, but Neptune shoots at them with his trident. He tries to grab the seaQuest and misses.)
Bridger: Fix coordinates, Commander.
Ford: Coordinates fixed.
Bridger: Arm first barrage. Stand by second barrage. Warheads at maximum.
(Neptune manages to catch seaQuest with his hand, but the ship squeezes through again.)
Bridger: All engines at full ahead. Fire first barrage.
(The first barrage is fired. Neptune catches them, pinning the seaQuest with his trident.)
Bridger: Fire second barrage.
(Second barrage away. The warheads blow up the tomb of Minerva and she wakes up. Neptune turns and sees her. She sees Neptune and smiles. They move towards each other. They gaze into each other's eyes and they kiss.)
Piccolo: Okay, so now we can get outta here, right?
Bridger: Rudders to port. Engines full ahead.
(seaQuest leaves the pyramid. The door leading to the inside is being blocked off by rocks and boulders.)
(The Next Day)
(Hallway)
Ford: Captain, I really think you should give this some more thought.
Bridger: I've given it some thought.
Ford: A lot more though.
Bridger: I'm filing the report, Commander.
Ford: What's it gonna say?
Bridger: It's gonna say that on a routine mission seaQuest encountered what was obviously an apparition of Neptune.
Ford: You're not really gonna say that are you, Captain?
Bridger: Wait a minute, it's the truth.
Ford: I know, but in the wrong hands, the truth can be like a hammer. Does my name have to go on it?
Bridger: My name's going on it. What's the problem?
Ford: Something like this goes on our records. Say in 20 years I want to run for President…
(Bridger laughs.)
Ford: What? The press is gonna make me look like a lunatic.
Bridger: How come I always knew you wanted to run for President?
Ford: Why can't we say it was an apparition of unknown origin?
Bridger: It was Neptune, Commander.
Ford: All right, the guy who invented the horse.
Bridger: That's the guy. Look, don't worry, Jonathan, I'll vote for you.
(Performance Room)
(Sara is singing again.)
Sara: To ease her grief with comfort, to say something. To turn her hurt and pain away, sighs often.
Henderson: She really is beautiful, isn't she?
Ortiz: She's okay.
Henderson: Thanks, Miguel.
(Ortiz kisses her forehead.)
Bridger: Hey, you two, how about watching the show?
Sara: (singing) He obeys them, he goes back to his fleece, to his fleece. By night, by day, the portals of darkness stand open…
(END)