To Be or Not To Be (Finale)
(Hallway)
O'Neill: (over loudspeaker) Captain to the bridge, Captain to the bridge. Westridge Farming Community is under attack, repeat, Farming Community is under attack.
(Bridge)
O'Neill: Renegade sub is attacking. The colonists are trying to fight it off with their mini-subs. It doesn't sound good.
Bridger: Propulsion?
Hitchcock: One-quarter normal.
Bridger: Weapons?
Phillips: Still no weapons or targeting.
Bridger: Send coordinates to navigation and plot a course. Speak to me Mr. O'Neill.
O'Neill: The colonists' munitions have been depleted, Captain. They're helpless.
Ortiz: Delta 4 has fired. Four torpedoes away. Two passed, two direct strikes.
(Ward Room)
Bridger: (entering) It's gotten too easy. We fire torpedoes, we shoot missiles, extinguish lives without even thinking. Well I'm gonna remind her that her targets are people, living and breathing, with names and faces.
Ford: I don't think she'll care.
Bridger: You think it's possible for someone to change that much?
O'Neill: (over loudspeaker) Captain, the Delta 4's receiving an outside transmission. With your permission I'll piggyback the signal and get us through.
Bridger: Proceed, Lieutenant.
Stark: (on screen) Nathan Bridger, where are you?
Bridger: I'm disappointed in you, Marilyn. Four torpedoes fired and only two hits, I thought I taught you better than that.
Stark: (on screen) I'll do better next time. I promise.Bridger: There won't be a next time, we both know that. Too many innocent people have died already.
Stark: (on screen) What world are you living in, Nathan? There are no innocent people, everybody's guilty of something.
Bridger: Maybe, but don't you think we deserve a second chance? To change, to live peacefully.
Stark: (on screen) I don't want to change. You didn't teach change at the Academy, or peace, you taught war, Nathan, war. And I intend to use what I learned.
Bridger: I taught something else
never take on an opponent unless you expect to win.
Stark: (on screen) You're on the seaQuest.
Bridger: Give up, Marilyn.
Stark: (on screen) I made that mistake once, I won't make it again. You are as impotent as your boat, Captain.
Bridger: I'm warning you right now, if you don't surrender, I'm going to use every resource on this boat to bring you down, and I'll succeed. Oh, we found your virus, it's over.
Stark: (on screen) You want to kill me, don't you? The warrior in you wants to taste a little blood. Isn't it funny, I kill for power, you kill for peace. We're just different sides of the same coin. Each heroes to our own causes. Let's see who gets the parade. (screen goes fuzzy)
(Bridge)
Bridger: Status, Commander.
Ford: Minimal weapons control, tube one, manual firing capability only.
Bridger: Targeting?
Ford: Still down.
Bridger: So, we may be able to fire one torpedo, but we have no way to tell it where to go. Terrific. (sees Darwin) Do our torpedoes have tracking options?
Ford: Sir?
Bridger: Can they be locked into a designated frequency?
Ford: If we need to.
Bridger: Keep me in the loop. Open the door. (leaves)
(Sea Deck - Moon Pool)
Darwin: (swims to Bridger) Darwin play.
Bridger: Yes, play, not like other games. Now, I need your help.
Darwin: Darwin help.
Bridger: You might hear what it is first.
Darwin: Trust Bridger.
Westphalen: We're at six hundred feet, that's the limit of a dolphin's tolerance.
Bridger: But he's gone deeper than five hundred before. I know his tolerance.
Westphalen: You're taking a chance with his life.
Bridger: You have a better idea?
Westphalen: What about air?
Darwin: Need air.
Bridger: With this, (points to Dolphin Rebreather) he won't have to come to the surface to breathe.
Darwin: Need air.
Bridger: Yes, you'll get air. Just try it, try it. (to crewman) Flood the tube.
Crewman: Aye, sir.
Westphalen: I don't like it.
Bridger: Don't like what?
Westphalen: You are going to fire him out of a torpedo tube!
Bridger: No, he is going to swim out of a torpedo tube.
Westphalen: I still don't like it.
Darwin: Darwin breathe.
Bridger: Now, what you do is swim out and tag the marker.
Darwin: Darwin play.
Bridger: Just like on the island. You swim down, you tag the marker, tag the metal boat. Understand?
Darwin: Metal boat.
Westphalen: Darwin, you don't have to do this.
Darwin: Swim like Bridger.
Bridger: Me?
Darwin: No suit, skin. (swims off)
Westphalen: What was that all about?
Bridger: Inside joke.
Westphalen: (dryly) Ha, ha.
(Bridge)
Ortiz: WSKRS are picking up the Delta 4, two thousand yards off our starboard bow.
Bridger: Punch up forward screens. Commander, status please.
Ford: Tube one locked and loaded, torpedo is fully charged.
Bridger: Negative, twenty percent. I want to stop them, not destroy them.
Ford: You heard the man, twenty percent charge.
Phillips: Yes, sir.
(Delta 4 Pirate Submarine)
Maxwell: Captain, seaQuest is back.
Stark: Relax, she's a shark without teeth. Come to zero six zero and reload all tubes.
Maxwell: Reload all tubes and prepare to fire.
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge)
Ortiz: Delta 4 is bringing her barrels around.
Bridger: Heading?
Ortiz: Zero six zero, she's moving straight at us.
Bridger: (sits down) Open the lo-band, all the frequencies. I want everybody out there to hear me.
O'Neill: Yes, sir. Lo-band open and transmitting.
Bridger: (into speaker) People of the Westridge Farm, this is Nathan Bridger, Captain of the seaQuest, representing the United Oce
Uni
(to Crocker) What the hell is it?
Crocker: United Earth/Oceans Organization.
Bridger: (into speaker) We are here to protect you and your facility. Please move to safe ground immediately, move clear immediately. Attention Delta 4, we are prepared and willing to accept your immediate and unconditional surrender. Otherwise, we shall be forced to fire on you. Repeat, we are prepared to accept your unconditional surrender. (they wait) Weapons control, open all outer torpedo tube doors.
Phillips: Yes, sir.
Crocker: Uh, Captain, only tube one is armed.
Bridger: I know that, but they don't.
(Delta 4 Pirate Submarine)
Sensor Chief: SeaQuest is opening all torpedo tubes.
Stark: Any targeting sweeps detected?
Sensor Chief: None.
Stark: Bridger used to drum it into us, first thing you do is targeting sweeps. If he's not targeting, he's bluffing. Mr. Maxwell, initiate firing sequence, open all six tubes.
Maxwell: All tubes, that'll take almost a minute to initiate.
Stark: I know that, I want to blast her out of the water. It's time the student became the teacher.
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge)
Ford: Delta 4 is settling into an attack position sir.
Bridger: OK, Mr. Phillips, let him go.
Ortiz: Delta 4 is targeting.
Ford: Sir, our torpedo doors are open and ready to fire.
Ortiz: Delta 4 is flooding all her torpedo tubes.
Bridger: All her tubes?
Ortiz: Yes, sir.
Bridger: She never did know when to quit. It's all yours, Darwin.
(Delta 4 Pirate Submarine)
(Darwin tags the underside of the submarine then swims away.)
Maxwell: What the hell is that?
Stark: (incredulously) He tagged us.
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge)
Hitchcock: We have a targeting signal.
Phillips: Tracking system searching for target. Residual acoustical interference, still searching for target. Acoustical noise dissipating, targeting system acquiring tag signal. Captain, we have torpedo lock.
Bridger: Fire.
(Delta 4 Pirate Submarine)
Stark: Why aren't we firing?
Maxwell: Launching sequence ready in thirteen, twelve
Sensor Chief: SeaQuest has fired.
Maxwell: Nine
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge)
Phillips: Torpedo has lost lock, we do not have lock.
(Delta 4 Pirate Submarine)
Sensor Chief: She's hunting, the torpedo is hunting for us.
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge)
Phillips: Torpedo has reacquired target.
(Delta 4 Pirate Submarine)
Crewman #1: Get to the mini-sub!
Crewman #2: The mini-sub!
Stark: Stop! Get back! We've got to attack! That is a direct command!
Maxwell: We're going down.
Stark: No! This is all your fault, you cheapskate! We can still beat them! You cowards!
(seaQuest DSV - Bridge)
Ortiz: We have a direct hit on the Delta 4, Captain. She's going down, Captain.
(Jamaica, Le Chein's house)
Guard: Sir.
Le Chein: Ja.
Guard: We've lost contact with the Delta 4. Our surface ships confirm the sounds of a torpedo strike and a sub breaking up.
Le Chein: My son?
Guard: We don't know.
Le Chein: Bitte.
(seaQuest DSV - Hallway)
Ensign: Captain, sir, well done sir.
Bridger: Thank you.
Ford: (walking up) Captain, the recon party's just returned from the downed Delta 4.
Bridger: Survivors?
Ford: They're being brought aboard.
Bridger: Stark?
Ford: She wasn't listed, and the boat's mini-sub was gone. Captain, I want to apologize for not being honest with you. It was wrong, and I regret it. It's just
I don't know
I
Bridger: Obeying orders.
Ford: Yes, sir.
Bridger: I suppose somebody has to. But I just want you to remember that this little underwater shoot-out is not my idea of keeping the peace.
Ford: Understood.
Bridger: If the recon party's ready, we can get underway.
Ford: Would the Captain like to take the helm?
Bridger: Oh, I think you can handle that, Commander.
Ford: Thank you, sir. (walks off)
Bridger: (notices Darwin) Hey, Darwin boy. (gives him a thumbs up)
(Sea Deck)
Westphalen: (to Darwin) Well done, clever Darwin. Yes, well done, well done. (looks up and sees Bridger, who nods and leaves)
(Bridger's Room)
Lucas: The door was open.
Bridger: Come on in.
Lucas: (looks at hologram) I'm still trying to improve it. (sits down next to Bridger) She's pretty.
Bridger: Yes, she was.
Lucas: Well, I just came by to tell you I thought it was very
effective the way you handled the situation.
Bridger: Effective? Thanks.
Lucas: You gonna stay, or what?
Bridger: It's not that simple.
Lucas: Why not? Come on, you like it here, don't you? I mean, it is your boat.
Bridger: I made a promise.
Lucas: To her?
Bridger: (sadly) Her name's Carol.
Lucas: Were you two happy?
Bridger: (sadly) Yes, we were.
Lucas: Well my parents, huh, they were never happy. I mean, they can't even stand to be in the same room together. I remember wishing they would just get a divorce and get it over with.
Bridger: (bothered) Why didn't they?
Lucas: Well, they said that when they got married, that they made a promise to stay together forever. I guess they didn't count on things changing.
O'Neill: (over loudspeaker) Captain, you're wanted on the bridge.
Bridger: I think that's me. (turns off hologram, pauses to look at nameplate on door, and leaves)