“Abalon”

Directed by: Les Sheldon

Written by: Patrick Hasburgh

Summary: While undergoing deep submergence tests, Ford encounters a mermaid-like woman. When he meets her again in a bar, he is subsequently captured and taken to an undersea community headed by a man who had given his family the ability to breathe underwater. Meanwhile, Lucas goes to a rave party and meets Julianna again, thus learning a lesson about going too far too fast.

Special Guest Star:

Charlton Heston as Abalon

Guest Starring:

Felicity Waterman as Mika

Sarah Koskoff as Julianna

Rob Youngblood as Kaman

Matt Sheehan as Shapra

Dustin Nguyen as Chief William Shan

Gary Eimiller as the bartender

Co-Starring:

Andrew Wasser as Biff Pickering

Michael Kelley as Julianna’s brother

Christopher Carroll as Policeman #1

Rick Fitts as Traffic policeman

Featuring:

Fitz Houston as Policeman #2

The twenty-first century ... Mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on Earth – the ocean. As Captain of the seaQuest and its crew, we are its guardians; for beneath the surface, lies the future.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck -

Nathan Bridger: Twenty-two hours, Commander. How does it feel?

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) Like I’m breathing through an old pair of socks. My air’s getting pretty foul, Captain. How deep am I?

Nathan Bridger: We’ve got you at thirty four thousand two hundred seventeen feet. You’re on the last level now. We’re almost home. What does it look like down there?

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) Looks like lonely. I’m starting to feel kinda weird, Captain.

Nathan Bridger: (to Westphalen) How’s he doing?

Kristin Westphalen: Pulse two ten, blood oxygen forty three percent of normal, CO₂ is on the rise. He, uh, could be feeling a bit drunk.

Nathan Bridger: Doc says you’re doing fine. Enjoy yourself, go for a walk.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) It’s a desert down here, Nathan.

Nathan Bridger: Take a camel.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) Funny stuff, Bridger. It’s starting to get a little creepy down here.

Nathan Bridger: Settle down. First stage is almost over.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) You settle down, pal. I want outta here.

Nathan Bridger: (to Westphalen) Captain to Nathan, Bridger to pal; what's next, insulting my parentage?

Kristin Westphalen: It's the CO₂ building up. He's probably starting to feel a little wiggy.

Nathan Bridger: This guy could do a crossword puzzle in a plane crash. He’s got the toughest psych profile on the boat.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) Oh my God!

Nathan Bridger: What is it? Commander, what is it?

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) This sucks. I’m gone.

Nathan Bridger: (to Westphalen) Override his DSL surfacing system.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) No way, Captain. I’m driving.

Nathan Bridger: Ford, you come up that fast and your head'll come apart like a pizza in a windstorm.

Kristin Westphalen: I’ve got him. OK, Commander, breathe deep and slow.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) OK, I’m better. I can make it, Captain. Sorry.

Nathan Bridger: Just remind me not to invite you to the office Christmas party, you're an ugly drunk. Take it slow now, he still has a little gas in his head. Halfway home, Commander, got you at twenty-one thousand feet.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, later -

Nathan Bridger: Easy, Commander. Slow down.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) Come on, Captain. This is a riot. I’m fine.

Kristin Westphalen: Amazing what a good night's sleep'll do, isn't it?

Nathan Bridger: I wouldn't know. All right, Commander, standardized tests now. Recess is over.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) You know, Captain, this thing is great. We oughtta get a couple dozen of them and start an underwater football league.

Nathan Bridger: There he goes again. Every time he gets close to the twenty hour barrier he turns into Mr. Potato Head.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) How deep am I, Captain?

Nathan Bridger: Deep enough. You’re coming up.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) Aw, come on, Captain. I wanna try a handstand in this thing.

Nathan Bridger: That’s it. Prepare for ascent.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL, singing) Sounds of the rude world heard in the day. Lovelight and moonlight have all passed away. Shoo be dop ba. Thank you.

Nathan Bridger: (to Westphalen) Bring him up before he decides to play Vegas. (to Ford) We’re bringing you home. Relax, enjoy the ride.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) No problemo.

Nathan Bridger: How you doing, Commander? Everything OK?

Kristin Westphalen: Commander? Commander?

Nathan Bridger: Are you there?

Kristin Westphalen: Commander Ford?

Nathan Bridger: Commander? Ford, what’s wrong?

Kristin Westphalen: Commander Ford, are you all right?

Nathan Ford: (to Westphalen) What the hell’s going on with this guy? Monitor these stats. I’m bringing him up at speed.

Jonathan Ford: (in DSL) Help me, Captain.

- seaQuest DSV, Lucas’s room -

Lucas Wolenczak: No. No. I can’t.

Biff Pickering: (on screen) Why not?

Lucas Wolenczak: Because.

Biff Pickering: (on screen) How old are you, two?

Lucas Wolenczak: Where is it?

Biff Pickering: (on screen) Sanger Institute. The janitor gave me the keys. He owes me.

Lucas Wolenczak: For what?

Biff Pickering: (on screen) IRS wanted some dough, so I broke in, tapped his file, and now he’s getting a refund.

Lucas Wolenczak: Oh, so you guys are felons?

Biff Pickering: (on screen) Give him a break, he’s a working stiff. Look, I told my old man I’m staying on seaQuest this weekend. You tell Bridger that you’re staying at my place, that we’re studying up for some grad school courses.

Lucas Wolenczak: Biff, that would be lying, and I always tell Captain Bridger the truth.

Biff Pickering: (on screen) Why?

Lucas Wolenczak: Because it’s the easiest thing to remember.

Biff Pickering: (on screen) Truth is a flexible perception based on need, Lucas. Julianna’s gonna be there, and Roberta told me that Julianna wants to go all the way with you. So don’t wimp out. OK?

Lucas Wolenczak: I can’t lie.

Biff Pickering: (on screen) So it’s a conference ... on the social phenomenon of post-adolescence.

Lucas Wolenczak: Julianna’s gonna be there?

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck -

Nathan Bridger: A mermaid?

Jonathan Ford: Yes, sir. It was a her, sir.

Nathan Bridger: It couldn’t be a mermaid, Jonathan, they don’t make them.

Jonathan Ford: It was a woman, sir. She was swimming unassisted at a depth of over thirty thousand feet. Now she didn’t have a tail or anything like that, but what would you call her?

Nathan Bridger: An hallucination. Why didn’t you report it, her, the first time?

Jonathan Ford: I don’t know. I was scared, I guess. This was a human being and she was down there just, just swimming around, breathing the water in and out like a, OK, OK, like an hallucination, but, Captain, I saw her. She was real. She even smiled at me.

Nathan Bridger: Did you get her phone number?

Kristin Westphalen: Jonathan, we’ve never exposed anybody to this level of depth stress.

Jonathan Ford: I know what I saw, Doctor.

Nathan Bridger: And that’s what you want in your report.

Jonathan Ford: It’s fact, sir.

Nathan Bridger: All right, Commander. It’s your report, thank you.

Kristin Westphalen: Don’t you think you were a little hard on him?

Nathan Bridger: He’s a career officer. That’s why we gave him the test.

Kristin Westphalen: So you don’t think it’s possible?

Nathan Bridger: Kristin, a mermaid?

Kristin Westphalen: Perhaps someone has moved ahead of our known technology. I mean Darwin, his speech. That’s a breakthrough.

Nathan Bridger: He's a dolphin whose sounds are translated through a computer. If he sits down to a piano and starts playing, that'll be a breakthrough.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Nathan Bridger: (walks over) What are you looking for?

Jonathan Ford: What do you think, sir?

Nathan Bridger: I think you need some time off, that’s what I think.

Jonathan Ford: I know what I saw.

Nathan Bridger: I’m going to pull you off these DSL tests, replace you with Hitchcock.

Jonathan Ford: I’ve never been taken off a project in my life, sir.

Nathan Bridger: It happens to everyone. I think you need some shore leave, (takes out beeper) and I want you to take this with you. If you need anything ... anybody, you just push this, and we’ll be there. I don’t want to see you for ... seventy-two hours.

Jonathan Ford: What am I gonna do up there?

Nathan Bridger: I don’t know. You’ll drink a few beers, look at some pretty girls, sleep in. Give it a try, it’s not so bad. OK?

- seaQuest DSV, hall -

Lucas Wolenczak: (to himself) The social phenomenon of post-adolescence ... the Sanger Institute this weekend ... the social phenomenon of ... post-adolescence. (runs into Bridger)

Nathan Bridger: You’re up kind of late.

Lucas Wolenczak: Yeah, I was up on the computer taking some grad school – uh, talking about taking some grad school courses with Biff Pickering.

Nathan Bridger: How is the Biffer?

Lucas Wolenczak: Still biffing. How’s it going with the DSL tests?

Nathan Bridger: Still classified.

Lucas Wolenczak: All the good stuff is.

Nathan Bridger: I’ll let you know as soon as I get clearance.

Lucas Wolenczak: No, it’s OK, I mean, big deal, right?

Nathan Bridger: Yeah, it is a big deal. Sorry, you’re just not in the loop.

Lucas Wolenczak: Captain, there is a conference at the Sanger Institute this weekend. I know a lot of the guys that are going.

Nathan Bridger: Uh huh.

Lucas Wolenczak: I’d really like to attend.

Nathan Bridger: What’s it on?

Lucas Wolenczak: Well, um, the, the social phenomenon of post-adolescence.

Nathan Bridger: Post-adolescence? I didn’t know you were interested. Yeah, sounds great. Leave me a number where you can be reached.

Lucas Wolenczak: Uh, well, could I take the Stinger? I, I know how to drive it.

Nathan Bridger: OK, just be careful. Good night. (enters room)

Lucas Wolenczak: Good night.

- seaQuest DSV, Krieg’s room -

Ben Krieg: (watching movie on headset, Lucas enters, startling Krieg) Hey, you don’t knock?

Lucas Wolenczak: Relax, Ben, I’ve seen it.

Ben Krieg: Seen what?

Lucas Wolenczak: (looks in headset) “Beach Girls of Barcelona.” You hide this in your closet in your cowboy boots.

Ben Krieg: What’s a guy gotta do to get a little privacy on this boat?

Lucas Wolenczak: Hide stuff like that in your sock drawer. Can I borrow some cologne? If you’ve got any.

Ben Krieg: What are you doing, running experiments on Darwin’s olefactory responses?

Lucas Wolenczak: I’m going to a conference at the Sanger Institute.

Ben Krieg: Wearing cologne? What kind of conference?

Lucas Wolenczak: It’s just a conference. Why the third degree? Can’t a guy just go to a conference on postadolescent phenomenons without getting interrogated about it? What, do you think this is going to be an orgy or something? Jeez.

Ben Krieg: Is that girlfriend of yours going to be there?

Lucas Wolenczak: I don’t have a girlfriend, Krieg. And if Julianna happens to be there, well, then it would just be a coincidence, because nobody is planning anything.

Ben Krieg: Oh. (crosses room, tosses bottle to Lucas) You be careful with that stuff. Last time I used it I almost had to get married again. So, uh, is it really a conference?

Lucas Wolenczak: OK, it’s a party. The janitor gave a friend of mine the keys.

Ben Krieg: Oh, Lucas, this doesn’t sound like a good idea.

Lucas Wolenczak: Ben, I’m already in. If, if I don’t go I’ll look like a wimp.... And Julianna’s gonna be there.

Ben Krieg: Oh, well, is there anything else you wanna borrow?

Lucas Wolenczak: Oh, uh, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, if you got any, sure. Sure, I’d appreciate it.

Ben Krieg: You’re not planning on doing anything stupid, are you?

Lucas Wolenczak: No, but in case I do something stupid, I wanna be prepared to do something stupid. Although I don’t think I’m ready.

Ben Krieg: Neither do I. And you have plenty of time to be stupid.

Lucas Wolenczak: Yeah, but in case stupid wins, I better be ready.

Ben Krieg: How old are you?

Lucas Wolenczak: Almost seventeen.

Ben Krieg: (gets out packet) You know how to use one of these?

Lucas Wolenczak: I’m not that stupid. Thanks. (turns to leave)

Ben Krieg: Hey, take it slow, OK? Growing up isn’t a race.

Lucas Wolenczak: That’s easy for you to say. You’ve already been stupid. (leaves)

- Sanger Institute -

Biff Pickering: There she is, and she wants you. I can tell.

Lucas Wolenczak: Come on, Biff, she’s not even looking at me.

Biff Pickering: You’ve got to go on instinct with these things. Hey, women are something I’m good at.

Lucas Wolenczak: She’s a girl, Biff. Not a hard drive.

Biff Pickering: Trust me.

Lucas Wolenczak: (goes toward Julianna, sees guy give Julianna drink and sees Julianna kiss the guy on the cheek, Lucas walks back to Biff) Who’s that?

Biff Pickering: (shrugs) But he’s taller than you are.

Lucas Wolenczak: Yeah, thanks.

- Abalon’s lair -

Kaman: We looked everywhere for her, Father. I’m sorry.

Abalon: Mika’s gone up top.

Kaman: But why?

Abalon: She wanted to see it. There’s nothing to see. I can’t let what’s happening up there happen down here. This is the new world. It’s alive, living; what’s left up there is dying. Find her, please.

Kaman: What if she won’t come home?

Abalon: Mika’s life is down here, with us, Kaman. Or, she can choose to have no life at all.

- Sanger Institute -

Julianna: You don’t own me, Lucas.

Lucas Wolenczak: There’s a concept that went out with flare pants.

Julianna: You don’t.

Lucas Wolenczak: Who said I did?

Julianna: You did.

Lucas Wolenczak: No, no, I just asked who that goon was with the perfect hair.

Julianna: He’s not a goon.

Lucas Wolenczak: Oh, OK, a geek.

Biff Pickering: (comes over) Hey, what do you guys think of the party? (looks at Lucas and Julianna’s faces) That bad, huh? (walks off)

Julianna: And you have the perfect hair.

Lucas Wolenczak: No, I don’t. You were all over him.

Julianna: I kissed him on the cheek.

Lucas Wolenczak: Yeah, well, what’s next?

Julianna: (kisses Lucas) He’s my older brother, Lucas. It was the only way my parents would let me come here for the weekend. And I wanted to be with you.

Lucas Wolenczak: Oh.

Julianna: So you don’t have to be jealous.

Lucas Wolenczak: I wasn’t jealous.

Julianna: Sure.

Lucas Wolenczak: I was, uh, I was disappointed.

Julianna: You won’t be, I promise. (they kiss)

- a bar -

Jonathan Ford: Give me another.

bartender: Another lime and soda?

Jonathan Ford: Yeah, but this time in a taller glass.

bartender: Tough week, huh?

Jonathan Ford: You don’t wanna hear about it. You guys got a ballet company in town?

bartender: Oh, sure, next to the opera house. This is a beach town, pal, we got surfer girls and sunblock.

Jonathan Ford: What the hell, make it a beer. (Mika enters, bartender returns with beer) You know her?

bartender: No, but you’re a sailor on leave, right? Take her to the ballet.

Jonathan Ford: (walks over to Mika) Hi. (no response) Hello.

Mika: Hello.

Jonathan Ford: You have no idea how happy I am to see you. I mean, for a while there I thought I was going nuts.

Mika: I don’t understand.

Jonathan Ford: The guys on the ship did, too. But I’m glad you’re you, you’re real, you’re not a hallucination. You don’t remember me.

Mika: No.

Jonathan Ford: We met.

Mika: I don’t know you.

Jonathan Ford: I mean, it was underwater at thirty thousand feet, but that was me down there. How did you do that?

Mika: I can’t, um, you don’t understand. This is just wrong. I have to go. (runs out)

Jonathan Ford: Wait, I was —

bartender: (whistles) That’s a hell of a technique.

Jonathan Ford: (runs out of bar and down beach after Mika) Would you wait a second, I just wanna talk to you. Wait! Come on, please! (two men come out of sea and grab Mika) Hey, leave her alone. (pulls out beeper)

Mika: (struggling with two men) No!

Jonathan Ford: Let her go. (Mika runs off as Ford fights with men, loses, and is carried into the ocean)

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Tim O’Neill: I’m picking up an emergency signal from Ford, sir, but I can’t make voice contact.

Nathan Bridger: Get me a location.

Tim O’Neill: Aye.

Nathan Bridger: All right, prepare the launch. Let’s go.

William Shan: Yes, sir.

Manilow Crocker: Vector us in, Lieutenant.

- a beach -

Nathan Bridger: (picks up beeper and shoe, looks inside shoe) That’s Ford.

Manilow Crocker: You sure it’s his, Cap?

Nathan Bridger: Who else would put the date in when they started to wear them? Why don’t you two start a search down current and I’ll stay here.

Manilow Crocker: Aye, Cap. (walks off with Shan)

Nathan Bridger: (sees Mika swimming, then disappear, then reappear a minute later coming out of the ocean) Where did you come from?

Mika: I live in the sea.

Nathan Bridger: It’s true.

Mika: Yes, it is.

Nathan Bridger: The man you saw, the man you saw in the ocean — he’s my friend. Will you help us find him? Will you help us?

Mika: But he’ll make me stay there.

Nathan Bridger: No, I don’t think so. I don’t think so.

- Abalon’s lair -

Abalon: Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s wonderful film about the future. You know it.

Jonathan Ford: Afraid I musta missed that one.

Abalon: Unfortunate, the man was a visionary. I’m sorry you found us.

Jonathan Ford: I think you’ve got that backwards. You found me.

Abalon: And you found Mika. (nods to Kaman and Shapra, who leave through pool)

Jonathan Ford: Do they balance beach balls on their noses too?

Abalon: The new breed of men. They’ve spent their lives in paradise while you charge about the oceans of the world in your wonderful boat trying to keep the peace and feed the starving. That’s not the way it was meant to be, Commander Ford.

Jonathan Ford: How do you know who I am?

Abalon: This is my world, I know everything. Water is so much more than you people think it is, Jonathan. It’s the natural conductor of life, information, and energy. Coursing through its currents are all the memories and futures of man. His poetry, his honor, and his loss. It is the life blood of this planet, just like the blood in your body, it knows everything about its own.

Jonathan Ford: Who are you?

Abalon: My children call me Abalon. When I lived above I was known as Franklin Wise.

Jonathan Ford: Doctor Franklin Wise?

Abalon: The same.

Jonathan Ford: I’ve studied your work.

Abalon: Well, I’m not surprised.

Jonathan Ford: You were trying to develop a way to breathe underwater. You had some success with rats, as I remember.

Abalon: And people.

Jonathan Ford: Well. two of them died from the experiments, there may have been more.

Abalon: And how many dead astronauts circle the globe?

Jonathan Ford: You tell me. You died in 1953.

Abalon: My work was outlawed. I had no choice.

Jonathan Ford: What are you going to do with me?

Abalon: You can leave if you like.

Jonathan Ford: (looks around) How?

Abalon: Well, we could turn you into a fish.

- Sanger Institute, a room -

Julianna: Is something the matter?

Lucas Wolenczak: No, nothing.

Julianna: Don’t you like it in here?

Lucas Wolenczak: I kinda feel like I’m getting a tooth pulled.

Julianna: Is this the first time?

Lucas Wolenczak: Oh no, no. I had a bicuspid yanked out when I got braces.

Julianna: No, I meant ... you know ... this?

Lucas Wolenczak: Is it yours? (Julianna nods) Me too. No offense, I ... I really like you, I’m a little nervous.

Julianna: Roberta says, you’re supposed to be nervous, that’s part of it. Nervous and scared, that’s why it’s so special.

Lucas Wolenczak: Oh. (they kiss) I think we just need to relax.

Julianna: Yeah. (they lay down on the bed)

- Sanger Institute, main party -

Policeman #1: OK, who’s the host? Who’s in charge here?

Biff Pickering: Is there a problem here, officer?

Policeman #1: Yeah.

Biff Pickering: Doctor Biff Pickering, how can I be of help?

Policeman #1: A doctor? Of what, pimples?

Biff Pickering: I’m conducting research on the phenomenon of postadolescence.

Policeman #1: We’re conducting research on breaking and entering and disturbing the peace, Doc. You got a dad?

Biff Pickering: (ashamed) Yeah.

Policeman #1: How ‘bout we call him?

Policeman #2: That’s it, party’s over.

- Sanger Institute, a room -

Lucas Wolenczak: Let’s not do this; we’re not ready.

Julianna: I know. Thank you, Lucas. (they kiss)

Julianna’s brother: (enters room, sees Lucas and Julianna on bed kissing) What the hell are you doing with my sister?

Lucas Wolenczak: (sits up) Wha– uh, nothing.

Julianna’s brother: Didn’t look like nothing.

Julianna: It’s true, we were doing nothing. I wanted to do something but Lucas wanted to do nothing.

Lucas Wolenczak: No, no, no, look it’s my fault. It was a mistake and we know that now and I’m sorry.

Julianna’s brother: Just get your coat, OK. I’m going to take you home. And if I was you I’d get the hell out of here before I twist your head off.

Lucas Wolenczak: I’m gone. (goes to leave, stops as Julianna comes back in) Look ... (goes to kiss Julianna)

Julianna’s brother: Don’t even think about it, Ace.

Lucas Wolenczak: (leaves room, from door) Bye.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck -

Kristin Westphalen: Primitive gills were grafted to their backs and then their body tissues were completely saturated in highly oxygenated water. They were able to survive for approximately twenty-four hours. Of course, these are just the initial experiments done in the 1940s, before animal experimentation was outlawed. This is Doctor Franklin Wise — genetically speaking, Mika’s father. He headed up the project originally, until his credentials were pulled. Apparently, he tried the experiment on humans, and there were some fatalities. According to our records, he committed suicide in 1953.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Nathan Bridger: Come left sixteen degrees, back off power.

Katie Hitchcock: Coming left sixteen degrees. (ship hits rocks)

Nathan Bridger: Reverse thrust. Go gentle, ten percent.

Katie Hitchcock: Reverse thrust ten percent.

Nathan Bridger: We don’t want to dent the fenders.

Katie Hitchcock: We can’t get off the rocks, sir.

Nathan Bridger: Full astern, fifty percent.

- Abalon’s lair -

Shapra: Metabolism has slowed to seventeen percent.

Abalon: Prepare the water, please. (alarm beeps, turns to see seaQuest on screen)

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Tim O’Neill: I’m picking up communications, sir.

Nathan Bridger: All right, put it up.

Abalon: (on screen) Welcome to Abalon.

Nathan Bridger: Thank you. I’m Captain Bridger of the seaQuest.

Abalon: (on screen) Oh, I know who you are, Captain Nathan Hale Bridger.

Nathan Bridger: We’ve come for our Commander.

Abalon: (on screen) And you have my daughter. Thank you for bringing her home. (screen goes blank)

Nathan Bridger: O’Neill, get him back.

Tim O’Neill: He’s got a communication block on, sir.

Nathan Bridger: (to Mika) Will you take us?

Mika: Yes.

- Abalon’s lair -

William Shan: (entering) This guy ought to fire his interior decorator.

Manilow Crocker: Yeah, tell me about it.

Abalon: (coming over) Please, this is my child. (hugs Mika) I was so worried about you, Mika. I think you know me, Captain, I’m still alive. Does that surprise you?

Nathan Bridger: All of this surprises me.

Abalon: Faking my suicide was a card trick.

Nathan Bridger: Makes you about a hundred thirty-five years old, doesn’t it?

Abalon: I expect to live another hundred years. I find the high ion content and the low temperatures at this depth prevent decay, possibly even death. It’s given me time to perfect my work, and, as you can see, I’ve created my own children. I've made them pure so they can thrive in the bounty of the oceans. This time they’ll take care of their world, respect it. This is the future, Nathan, you’re welcome to share it with us.

Nathan Bridger: Where is Commander Ford?

Abalon: Mika, you will stay with us?

Mika: No.

Abalon: But this is your home.

Nathan Bridger: I want my Commander. (Abalon pushes button on remote, revealing Ford immersed in a tank of water) Oh, God. (grabs chair and breaks open tank, Shan and Crocker fight Kaman and Shapra as Bridger retrieves Ford from the tank)

Kaman: (grabs gun) Hold it!

Abalon: Kaman, no, let them go. Mika’s made her choice. Good-bye, Mika

Nathan Bridger: It doesn’t have to be this way.

Abalon: Oh, yes, Captain, yes, it does. (Bridger, Shan, Crocker, Ford, and Mika leave, Abalon watches seaQuest on screen) I know you’ll be coming back, Captain Nathan Hale Bridger. Or others will.

- Stinger -

Lucas Wolenczak: (notices police vehicle following him) Oh, great.

- seaQuest DSV, Bridger’s room -

Nathan Bridger: (comlink buzzes) Yes, officer?

Traffic policeman: (on screen, checks card) Do you know a Lucas Wolenczak?

Nathan Bridger: Yes. What’s wrong?

Traffic policeman: (on screen) I just pulled him over for reckless operation of a sub-surface vehicle.

Nathan Bridger: The only Lucas Wolenczak I know is attending a conference at the Sanger Institute. (officer moves vid-link to view of Wolenczak)

Lucas Wolenczak: (on screen) It’s me, Captain.

- seaQuest DSV, med bay -

Mika: (Ford wakes to see Mika) How do you feel?

Jonathan Ford: Better. I know what you did for me, thank you.

Mika: You’re welcome.

Jonathan Ford: Any idea what you’re going to do next?

Mika: I’m not sure, I’ve never been a real person before. But Captain Bridger told me that if I needed any help, you would all be here for me.

Jonathan Ford: We will. Do you think, uh, there’s any chance that we might be able to go out some time?

Mika: I don’t think so.

Jonathan Ford: Why, why not? Is there something about me you don’t like?

Mika: Oh, no, I think I could like you a lot.

Jonathan Ford: What is it then? (Mika turns to reveal gills) Have you ever been to the ballet? What do you say I take you some time?

- seaQuest DSV, Bridger’s room -

Lucas Wolenczak: I’m sorry, Captain.