“Give Me Liberté”

Directed by: Bill L. Norton

Written by: John J. Sakmar & Kerry Lenhart

Summary: When Commander Ford and other crew members are contaminated with a deadly virus from the crashed space station Liberté, discovered on the ocean floor, Captain Bridger finds himself fighting against the clock to save them. The cure lies with a French genetic scientist, Guy Peche, who is the only surviving astronaut from the space station, but he turns out to be a troubled man. Meanwhile, things heat up as Ford begins to lose it and a warship arrives to destroy the space station.

Guest Starring:

Udo Kier as Guy Peche

Co-Starring:

Timothy Omundson as Joshua Levin

Bruce Klassen as Bacher

Featuring:

Mark Fauser as Weapons Officer Matthew Phillips

Diana Frank as Mademoiselle

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.

- sea launch docking at Aqua-Sphere 7, Romanche Fracture Zone, depth 7,404 feet -

Jonathan Ford: (into PAL) Docking procedures completed sir. And still no acknowledgment from Aqua-Sphere 7. It’s very strange.

Nathan Bridger: (on bridge of seaQuest, into radio) We did call ahead didn’t we? We’re sure someone’s home.

Jonathan Ford: (into PAL) Oh, Captain, you know these Aqua-Sphere scientists. They work in virtual isolation, sixty-day rotations; decent food lasts about a month, decent conversation even less. Believe me, when we show up with replacements they’re usually rolling out the red carpet.

Tim O’Neill: (on bridge of seaQuest) Could be their com-net’s down. It’s happened before.

Nathan Bridger: (on bridge of seaQuest, into radio) Don’t suppose you looked under the mat for the spare key?

Jonathan Ford: (into PAL) No, no, sir, but the replacement team tells me they have an emergency access code for the pressure lock. It should work from our side.

Nathan Bridger: (on bridge of seaQuest, into radio) All right, Commander, etiquette be damned. If we catch somebody in the shower we can apologize later.

Jonathan Ford: (into Aqua-Sphere 7) Hello, this is Commander Jonathan Ford of the seaQuest. We have your replacements and supplies. (no reply) Seaman. (enters)

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Jonathan Ford: (on loudspeaker) Anyone here? Hello.

Manilow Crocker: (walks over) Captain.

Jonathan Ford: (on loudspeaker) You two, check the other rooms.

Man #1: (on loudspeaker) Aye, sir.

Man #2: Dinks are probably playing hide and seek with us.

Jonathan Ford: (on loudspeaker) I don’t know, Captain.

Scientist: (on loudspeaker) What’s that smell? Something in here must have...

Jonathan Ford: (on loudspeaker) This – this is pretty weird. Place is pretty torn up.

Scientist: (on loudspeaker) Commander, in here.

Jonathan Ford: (on loudspeaker) Wait, wait, I think we might have something.

Nathan Bridger: (into radio) What is it, Commander?

Jonathan Ford: (on loudspeaker) What the hell?

Scientist: (on loudspeaker) Dear God.

Joshua Levin: (on loudspeaker) Commander, you better see this. (all start talking at once)

Man #3: What happened here?

Woman: I don’t know. Somebody do something.

Man #4: This is odd.

Man #5: No. I’ve never seen–

Jonathan Ford: (on loudspeaker) OK, everybody, calm down, calm down. I said quiet!

Nathan Bridger: (into radio) Play by play, Commander, just call it.

Jonathan Ford: (on loudspeaker) Captain, there’s, uh, there’s been some kind of incident here, sir. The entire Aqua-Sphere 7 research team is, well, we have six bodies, sir, no survivors. Something has turned this place into a tomb.

- seaQuest DSV, hallway -

Nathan Bridger: They’re here?

Kristin Westphalen: The bodies arrived ten minutes ago.

Nathan Bridger: All right, what do we know so far?

Kristin Westphalen: So far? Three male, three female, all dead, so far. All right, there are signs of trauma, but nothing that should have caused death, so if the autopsies don’t tell me anything I’ll, uh, run CGI’s for chromosomal and genetic abnormalities. Don’t worry, dead can tell us plenty, we just have to know how to listen.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the hyperbaric chamber -

Ben Krieg: (knocks on glass) Anybody home? Just kidding. Commander Ford, may I speak to you for a minute?

Jonathan Ford: Hey.

Ben Krieg: Captain sent my down to see if you needed anything.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Good.

Ben Krieg: You know, I think you’re looking at this thing all wrong. Don’t think isolation, think paid vacation.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) I don’t want a vacation. I just wanna get outta here.

Ben Krieg: Yeah, sorry, I can’t provide that one for you, but anything else? Hey, you like puzzles?

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) No, Krieg, I don’t like puzzles. And I want you out.

Ben Krieg: OK, let me know if you change your mind. (leaves, Bridger and Westphalen walk over)

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Captain, you mind explaining to me why we’re being quarantined?

Kristin Westphalen: It’s necessary until we find out what killed the Aqua-Sphere team. They may have picked up a virus or a bacteria.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Picked it up where? They spent the last sixty days at seven thousand feet, alone, by themselves.

Kristin Westphalen: I think I’ll get started on the autopsies. (leaves)

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Captain, six people are dead, we don’t have a clue how or why.

Nathan Bridger: Yes, and I’ve got six families to notify too. I’d appreciate anything from you I didn’t all ready know.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) So get me out of here. Let me take a team back to Aqua-Sphere 7 and figure out what happened. Captain, if you had seen the way we found them, I mean their faces, they died so hard.

Nathan Bridger: Commander, no one likes to feel helpless, I can understand that. But until Doctor Westphalen says otherwise, you’re quarantined. Is that clear?

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) This isn’t an experiment, OK? We’re not a bunch of lab rats.

Nathan Bridger: (walks over to next pane of glass) Mr. Levin.

Joshua Levin: (inside chamber) Yes.

Nathan Bridger: Commander Ford here doesn’t think that this quarantine is necessary. As head of the replacement team, uh, do you agree with that assessment?

Joshua Levin: (inside chamber) I might have if you’d asked me five minutes ago.

Nathan Bridger: And that means what?

Joshua Levin: (inside chamber) I’ve been trying to identify a canister I saw over on Aqua-Sphere 7. It didn’t mean anything until I reviewed their data discs. One work log in particular, from three days ago, is very interesting. They went outside the sphere to map a new fault line, a pretty routine process generally, but the log says they found something which doesn’t exactly belong down here.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Katie Hitchcock: (operating the H.R. Probe) I’m on the fault line, Captain; I’m coming up on the coordinates from the Aqua-Sphere 7 work log that Doctor Levin found. OK, I’m on the mark. Terrains pretty rugged, lots of fractures but nothing that looks like – wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. This – this could be it.

Nathan Bridger: Well? (reading from screen) Liberté Space Station.

Miguel Ortiz: (whistles) Didn’t that thing crash its orbit almost a decade ago?

Manilow Crocker: October nineteenth, twenty and nine, seventh game of the World Series. Seattle was chasing Havana with two on in the bottom of the ninth, down by one, and then this, this space scow takes a bath and we get the dive order. Missed the end of the game and we never did find her.

Nathan Bridger: You didn’t find the Liberté, but somebody else did. I remember hearing about the salvaging, but now, that doesn’t make sense. As long as we’re here, let’s go inside. Lieutenant Commander, take us in. (H.R. Probe enters space station and they see dead body)

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the hyperbaric chamber -

Lucas Wolenczak: (running in) The Liberté was the North Sea Confederation’s baby. They lit the candle on her in twenty and three. That’s, uh, PL.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) PL?

Lucas Wolenczak: Pre-Lucas.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Would you mind getting to the point?

Lucas Wolenczak: The point is, the North Sea Confederation is hiding something.

Nathan Bridger: You’re sure of that.

Lucas Wolenczak: I jacked into their Internet, everything there was too clean. Mission’s purpose: peace and exploration. Yeah, right. Said the Liberté had a four-man crew and all four got pulled before the big splash. Not exactly, at least not according to their autonomous zone.

Nathan Bridger: Autonomous zone?

Lucas Wolenczak: Electronic file where corporate weasels stash their dirty laundry.

Nathan Bridger: Cover up?

Lucas Wolenczak: Without a doubt. The zone only confirms one round trip, not four. Some old doc by the name of, uh, Guy Pesh.

Nathan Bridger: (surprised) Guy Peche?

Lucas Wolenczak: Yeah, Guy ... yeah, I guess so. You know him?

Nathan Bridger: Sure, I met him years ago at a futurists conference. He’s one of the great genetic physicists in the world. He’s a man who really made a difference in my life. Where is he?

Lucas Wolenczak: I don’t know. After the Liberté it’s like he disappeared or something.

Nathan Bridger: Can we find him?

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Who cares? Man goes into space, man comes out of space, right? Is that pretty much it, because if it is I’d like to know how that’s gonna get us out of here, so I can figure out what the hell– (Lucas turns of speaker)

Lucas Wolenczak: Oh, sound the alert, man overboard.

Nathan Bridger: Turn that on. (angrily Lucas does and leaves) You forgetting we’re on the same side here? I mean the game still goes on whether you’re on the bench or not. Now, I’ll speak to Doctor Westphalen about the quarantine, but I suggest you have a little more confidence in your teammates. (leaves)

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, later -

Kristin Westphalen: It seems to be a virus that primarily attacks the central nervous system. It could be synthetic or maybe a genetic alteration. The only thing we know for certain is that it’s fatal.

Nathan Bridger: And where does it come from?

Kristin Westphalen: Oh, well you tell me. I mean someone finds a space station at the bottom of the ocean, they go in and three days later they’re all dead from a virus no one’s ever seen.

Nathan Bridger: The canister Levin found on the Liberté. That means Jonathan, all of them, they all have it.

Kristin Westphalen: Yes!

Nathan Bridger: Well how do you plan to attack this?

Kristin Westphalen: Plan! I’m not even certain what it is! (walks away)

Nathan Bridger: Well you better be certain, or we’re all dead.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the hyperbaric chamber, a little later -

Scientist: You wanted to see me?

Joshua Levin: (inside chamber) I need the results of our blood tests ASAP. And don’t forget to cross-reference all the data I’ve sent through. All right?

Kristin Westphalen: (approaches chamber) Um, I’ve conferred with the NORPAC surgeon general and the chief of genetic medicine at the Mayo Clinic and the dean of neurology at Johns Hopkins, and it’s been decided that, for the time being, you will remain in isolation aboard the seaQuest.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) What, are they afraid they’re gonna catch something?

Kristin Westphalen: Please, listen, if the solution to this crisis lies either within the Aqua-Sphere 7 or the Liberté Space Station, than the best place for treatment will be right here. Remember that.

Bacher: (inside chamber) Sir?

Nathan Bridger: Sailor.

Bacher: (inside chamber) Uh, my wife, sir, in case I don’t, uh, that is, is there any way I could, uh ... Captain, request permission to contact my wife. She’s upworld with her family.

Nathan Bridger: Permission granted. We’ll bring her up to a depth where you can make a call. And that goes for all the rest of you, too. All of you here are here by choice. You volunteered and you qualified to serve. You’re here because of your excellence ... Military ... Science ... We’ve come through a lot of rough scrapes together and we’re gonna get through this one. I want you to have faith in Doctor Westphalen and me. We do not intend to quit, and I’d be very surprised if any of you would either. Thank you.

- seaQuest DSV, hallway -

Lucas Wolenczak: (Bridger exits room and closes door, Lucas walks over) Oh, Captain, Doc Peche’s address. It was buried in their autonomous zone.

Nathan Bridger: (takes paper) Thanks.

Lucas Wolenczak: Oh, and they, uh, tagged my computer search.

Nathan Bridger: Who tagged you?

Lucas Wolenczak: Someone at the North Sea Confederation I guess. A tracer dogged my link all the way home.

Nathan Bridger: Dogged your link?

Lucas Wolenczak: They know where we are.

Nathan Bridger: But do they know what we have?

Lucas Wolenczak: I doubt it. You know, probably gonna find out sooner or later.

Nathan Bridger: Well I hope it’s later. Oh, nice work. (goes down stairs)

Kristin Westphalen: (coming up stairs) ...There are to be no lapses. I want those gloves worn at all times and then destroyed. Oh, Captain, I’ve written out a list of questions for you to ask Dr. Peche to help me understand this virus, or whatever it is.

Nathan Bridger: Oh, thanks, but I, I don’t think I’ll need them.

Kristin Westphalen: Really, and did you get a degree in advanced genetics on that island of yours?

Nathan Bridger: If I find this Dr. Peche, and if he knows anything about what’s killing my crew, I don’t think I’ll be asking him the questions. You will be.

Kristin Westphalen: Well, since I’m not going anywhere–

Nathan Bridger: Just put out the good towels. We may be having company.

- seaQuest DSV, launch bay -

Katie Hitchcock: (Bridger enters) Captain, your launch is ready and there’s a shuttle jump waiting for you on the surface.

Nathan Bridger: Thank you. ... As long as Commander Ford is in charge, I expect you to be his eyes and ears on the bridge.

Katie Hitchcock: Uh, yes, sir.

Nathan Bridger: I’m about to put you in a very awkward position.

Katie Hitchcock: Sir?

Nathan Bridger: You know him as well as anyone does, don’t you?

Katie Hitchcock: We’re friends.

Nathan Bridger: He wouldn’t enjoy relinquishing his command, would he?

Katie Hitchcock: Relinquishing to whom?

Nathan Bridger: To you. If his health in any way compromises his performance, I expect you to relieve him immediately. Is that understood?

Katie Hitchcock: Yes, sir.

Nathan Bridger: Thank you.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the hyperbaric chamber -

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) What is happening to us?

Kristin Westphalen: Let me see your hand, open your fingers. There’s loss of motor control, could be ALS, could be an accelerated form of Bulbar palsy.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Hey, look at me, talk to me. You gotta do something, Doc, you gotta do something quick. You weren’t there, you don’t know. I mean, those people, they, they, they looked like they lost control, like they just went ... their scratches, their bruises; they did it to themselves, they, they did it to each other.

Kristin Westphalen: I am trying, Commander, but you are going to have to help me. You’ve got to fight this. (walks away)

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Miguel Ortiz: Holding at four thousand yards off the bow.

Katie Hitchcock: How ‘bout it, O’Neill, anyone pick up over there?

Tim O’Neill: She’s identified herself as the Lafayette.

Katie Hitchcock: Her registry?

Tim O’Neill: North Sea Confederation.

Miguel Ortiz: WSKRS are picking up all kinds of sonar activity, directed mostly at the floor.

Katie Hitchcock: You suppose they’d mind tellin’ us what they’re lookin’ for?

Tim O’Neill: No harm in asking. (into radio) Lafayette, this is the seaQuest, request to identify your mission, over.

Frenchman: (on radio) SeaQuest, this is the Lafayette, (continues in French)

Tim O’Neill: They’ve come for their space station. They want the Liberté.

- Montbard, France, North Sea Confederation, 131 Rue Dijon -

Manilow Crocker: (pulls up in car, gets out) Well, it’s the right address, but I don’t know, I was kinda expecting something a little more, uh...

Nathan Bridger: Romantic?

Manilow Crocker: Well, at least uptown. I mean, the man’s an astrophysicist. This is a pretty earthy neighborhood.

Nathan Bridger: Let me go up and check. (goes up stairs)

Manilow Crocker: (girl walks by) Salut beauté. (continues in French, girl responds angrily, in French, slaps Crocker, and walks away) Adieu, adieu, adieu.

Nathan Bridger: (coming down stairs) What was that all about?

Manilow Crocker: Oh, what, that, Cap? I was just asking her for some directions, she, she didn’t have any. So, nobody home up there? (Bridger shakes his head) What now?

Nathan Bridger: We wait.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the hyperbaric chamber -

Katie Hitchcock: I gotta be honest, I don’t like their attitude. They say they won’t leave until we back off and give them the Liberté.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) What’s the Captain think?

Katie Hitchcock: The Captain isn’t here, remember. It’s your call.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Right, right, right. OK, OK. (thinks) Blast ‘em out of the water.

Katie Hitchcock: (confused) What?

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Is that a problem?

Katie Hitchcock: Yes, it is. They’re UEO, North Sea Confederation. I mean, technically they do own the Liberté.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber, angrily) Than give it to them. Tell them, we’ll leave the area.

Katie Hitchcock: Jonathan, there may be something very dangerous aboard the Liberté. It, it might be unwise to–

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Damnit, Lieutenant Commander, I gave you an order.

Katie Hitchcock: Actually, you’ve given me two.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber, opens hand, sees blood where nails dug into skin) What’s the Captain think?

Katie Hitchcock: I, I don’t know. I’ll ask him. OK?

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Miguel Ortiz: (on PA) Position, forty degrees north, thirty-six degrees west, depth five hundred meters.

Katie Hitchcock: (enters) Your attention please. On Captain Bridger’s orders I will be relieving Mr. Ford of command. Get me the Captain of the Lafayette.

Tim O’Neill: Aye, aye.

Miguel Ortiz: As you were.

Tim O’Neill: Captain Longet, Commander.

Katie Hitchcock: (into radio) Captain Longet, this is Lieutenant Commander Hitchcock, commander of the seaQuest. These are not your territory waters, please back off at once.

Longet: (on radio) Please understand that this is not personal, but I have my orders. If you do not allow me access to the Liberté I will have to–

Katie Hitchcock: (into radio) Have to what? Attack? Come on, Captain, we could blast you right out of the water.

Longet: (on radio) SeaQuest, it is my understanding that you are a peacekeeping vessel.

Miguel Ortiz: Lafayette’s torpedo tubes are flooded, they’re on it.

Katie Hitchcock: (into radio) Understand this, Captain, you are not to go anywhere near the Liberté, over.

Miguel Ortiz: Torpedo doors closing. They’re backing off.

- Montbard, France, North Sea Confederation, 131 Rue Dijon -

Guy Peche: (walks up) Pardon.

Manilow Crocker: Oh, sorry partner, you’re gonna have to find some place else to curl up tonight. (Peche replies in French)

Nathan Bridger: Doctor Peche?

Guy Peche: No. (goes up stairs, Bridger and Crocker follow, Peche opens door)

Nathan Bridger: Je suis Captain Nathan Bridger and my friend Mr. Crocker.

Guy Peche: Get out of here. (tries to close door, Bridger forces it open)

Nathan Bridger: Please, we’ve met before, don’t you remember?

Guy Peche: I don’t remember anything.

Nathan Bridger: Brussels, the futurist conference. I’m here to ask for your help. This is about the Liberté.

Guy Peche: You’ve got the wrong man. (Crocker points to picture)

Nathan Bridger: No, Doctor, I remember you very well.

Guy Peche: Please go, there is nothing more to say about the Liberté. (takes picture)

Nathan Bridger: We found it.

Guy Peche: Impossible, there is no more Liberté.

Nathan Bridger: Oh, not as you remember it. Now it’s at the bottom of the ocean.

Guy Peche: Lie. This is a trick, why are you doing this to me?

Nathan Bridger: Because something from the Liberté is killing my crew, and you may know about it.

Guy Peche: Please go, I have to write, a book to finish.

Nathan Bridger: Doctor, I’m sure your book is very important, but people are dying.

Guy Peche: That’s what people do, they die. The only things that survive are pain and guilt. (goes to window, pours drink) Maybe one day you will read about it.

Nathan Bridger: (goes to window) What was it like up there, on the moon?

Guy Peche: I’m still affected by it.

Nathan Bridger: What did you see when you looked down at the Earth?

Guy Peche: It was like, like a magnificent blue marble.

Nathan Bridger: A blue marble ... that’s the color of my world. Two scientists in two different worlds. I’m offering you a chance to see mine.

Guy Peche: Tell me, Captain, is your world really wonderful?

Nathan Bridger: Come with me, see for yourself.

- sea launch -

Guy Peche: The ocean, it is very much like space. Dark, mysterious...

Nathan Bridger: Yes, full of mysteries. But that’s what attracts us, isn’t it?

Guy Peche: Look, Captain, I’m not so sure, anymore, if I can help you. I really shouldn’t have come.

Nathan Bridger: What happened aboard the Liberté? What was your Confederation trying to hide?

Guy Peche: The North Sea Confederation put me into space to conduct research, genetics; very experimental, very wrong.

Manilow Crocker: Why were you the only one that made it back?

Guy Peche: It was an ... an accident, an onboard contamination. I was in the safe room, that’s why I was the only one allowed to return.

Manilow Crocker: What happened to the Liberté?

Guy Peche: The self-destruct system was fired.

Manilow Crocker: Musta just blown it out of orbit.

Nathan Bridger: Crashed to the bottom, lost, until now.

- seaQuest DSV, launch bay -

Katie Hitchcock: Welcome back, Captain.

Nathan Bridger: How is he?

Katie Hitchcock: Not good. He’s starting to fall apart. Now, there’s another problem. The North Sea Confederation sent over a warrior sub to take the Liberté. Now, I’ve managed to scare them off for the time being.

Nathan Bridger: How are things at the Liberté?

Katie Hitchcock: Reclamation detail has her pumped dry and pressurized.

Nathan Bridger: Good. Uh, Doctor Peche, this is Lieutenant Commander Hitchcock. She’ll get you to Doctor Westphalen.

Guy Peche: Enchanté.

Nathan Bridger: And I’ll be with you in a moment, Commander. (leaves)

Katie Hitchcock: Aye, aye, sir. Uh, come right this way. (all leave)

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck -

Guy Peche: (hesitatingly) We were working on the DNA, of the twenty-first chromosome, or is it the twenty-second? It’s so long ago, I’m not sure.

Kristin Westphalen: That’s all right, that’s all right. We’ll work through this together. Now, if I knew the exact purpose of your research, I could help you pinpoint the affected chromosome. You said that you exposed your test subjects to sprays?

Guy Peche: In the test chamber. They created a disease.

Kristin Westphalen: As a biological weapon?

Guy Peche: Yes, a new strain of meningitis.

Lucas Wolenczak: (walking past) Sounds like somebody was playing God.

Kristin Westphalen: Than you must have been working on the antidote. Perhaps if you could just tell me–

Guy Peche: No.

Kristin Westphalen: No antidote. How could you create a disease and not the cure?

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber, angrily) What are you looking at? This isn’t a zoo.

Lucas Wolenczak: Sorry. So, Doctor Peche, how long did your friends live?

Guy Peche: It took two days for the rescue shuttle to reach me. They were still alive then, but...

Kristin Westphalen: Doctor Peche, please.

Guy Peche: It was the twenty-first chromosome. And the DNA strand code was G-T-A-G.

Kristin Westphalen: Are you certain?

Guy Peche: No.

Lucas Wolenczak: Look Doc, this is no time for guessing games. This is your fault, you’ll have to fix it.

Guy Peche: (picks up vials, shakes) I can’t do this, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. (leaves)

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the hyperbaric chamber, later -

Ben Krieg: (entering the chamber) Hey, hey, good tidings from your local friendly morale officer. How about some goodies everybody, pick that chin up, huh. Magazines, spread ‘em around. Commander, what do you say about a little interactive video, huh? Actually, I pulled something from my personal, and private, collection.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Not interested,

Ben Krieg: (inside chamber) Not interested, what are you, nuts? Oh, uh, look Commander, I – I know you don’t like me. You think I’m cocky and arrogant, and, uh, hell you may be right. But I wanna help you, all right, I wanna help. So why don’t you give this thing a try, huh. I have a feeling it’s really gonna really work for you. Just ease it on–

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) Leave me alone. I’m tired of everybody’s pity, I’m tired of being watched, and I’m tired of you.

Nathan Bridger: (entering) Commander.

Ben Krieg: (inside chamber) Let go of this thing, come on let go.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) So just leave me alone.

Ben Krieg: (inside chamber) Let go, come on. You hear me?

Nathan Bridger: (angrily) That’ll be enough.

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) I asked you to stop.

Ben Krieg: (inside chamber) Stop it, you’re gonna tear the – (suit rips) What the hell’d you do that for?

Jonathan Ford: (inside chamber) I’m sorry, I’m sorry.

Ben Krieg: (inside chamber) Oh, no, no, no. This didn’t happen. This did not happen. Can you please step aside, I gotta get outta here. (goes to leave chamber)

Nathan Bridger: Lieutenant. (Krieg stops) You’re not going anywhere. I’m sorry.

Ben Krieg: (inside chamber) No, no, Captain, Captain. It’s just a very small tear, I really don’t think it affected anything, Captain.

Nathan Bridger: (walks away and over to Westphalen and Wolenczak) Where’s Doctor Peche?

Kristin Westphalen: Does it matter?

Nathan Bridger: What does that mean?

Kristin Westphalen: I’m sorry, he left. He seems to be keener on drinking than thinking these days.

Nathan Bridger: I didn’t bring him this far for drinking. (leaves)

- seaQuest DSV, mess -

Nathan Bridger: (enters, pushes bottle off table) What the hell do you think you’re doing? Now you can quit on yourself if you like, but I’ll be damned if you’re gonna quit on me and my crew. You can’t hide yourself in a bottle, people are dying here. I need you, you can help us.

Guy Peche: But I don’t know what to do.

Nathan Bridger: What is it? What aren’t you telling me? What’s changed you from the man I used to admire?

Guy Peche: There were two survivors.

Nathan Bridger: Not in the records.

Guy Peche: I know the record shows that I was the only one to leave the space station, but there was another, who didn’t.

Nathan Bridger: Who? Who didn’t?

Guy Peche: Pierre, his name was Pierre. He was in the test chamber like everybody else, but for some reason he did not get sick. I waited two days for the rescue shuttle, two days I watched them suffer, listened to their screams and curses. Pierre’s suffering only came at the hands of the others. He begged me, begged me to let him out, begged until his voice was not more than a whisper. But I wouldn’t, I was scared to be contaminated, so I let him die. It was as if I would have pulled the trigger with my own hands. You understand? I was responsible for his death.

Nathan Bridger: A moment’s weakness Doctor, a moment. I mean Pierre ... Pierre, he may be the antidote.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Kristin Westphalen: (getting of Mag-lev) Yes, it’s possible. If Pierre was unaffected he must have had a natural immunity. But we’ll need a sample of his DNA to find the resistant coding. (enters bridge)

Nathan Bridger: (following) But you’re sure it’s still good, after all these years.

Kristin Westphalen: Well the low water temperature in his space suit should have protected what we need. It is worth going for, a small amount of his bone marrow could be enough to create an antidote.

Nathan Bridger: And you’d identify the remains, Doctor?

Guy Peche: Yes.

Nathan Bridger: All right, excuse me. Lieutenant Commander, get us a launch, we’re going aboard the Liberté.

Katie Hitchcock: Aye, aye, Captain.

Nathan Bridger: (hears sonar pings) Something I should be aware of, Mr. Ortiz?

Miguel Ortiz: High altitude tracking signal sir. Gotta be a satellite.

Nathan Bridger: Target?

Tim O’Neill: Captain, we’ve just received a transmission from the North Sea Confederation. They advise we clear the area immediately. They say they’re going to destroy the Liberté whether we like it or not.

Miguel Ortiz: Targeting radius one thousand meters and closing,

Nathan Bridger: They’re covering their tracks. They’re afraid we might have proof that they were using the Liberté to test biological weapons. Mr. Ortiz, how well can that satellite see?

Miguel Ortiz: Well it’s probably a little nearsighted.

Nathan Bridger: How nearsighted?

Miguel Ortiz: I doubt it will be able to tell the difference between us and the Liberté.

Manilow Crocker: Well, that’s certainly comforting.

Nathan Bridger: Once it’s locked on, how long before it could fire a missile?

Miguel Ortiz: No more than a couple minutes.

Nathan Bridger: If there’s a cure down below that doesn’t give us much time to find it.

Katie Hitchcock: Captain, request permission–

Nathan Bridger: Uh, uh, uh, oh no, I need you here. I’ll feel a helluva lot better down there knowing that you’re up here.

Katie Hitchcock: What about the missiles?

Nathan Bridger: Well, if they’re launched, I’ll trust that you’ll keep them from hitting either of us. Ready, Chief?

Manilow Crocker: Right with you, Cap.

Nathan Bridger: Doctor, are you still up for this (exiting bridge)

Guy Peche: Yes, I want to go.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge, later -

Tim O’Neill: Just decrypted this message, Lieutenant. I intercepted it from the North Sea Confederation.

Katie Hitchcock: Read it to me.

Tim O’Neill: Confirmation of targeting lock on the Liberté. Aircraft awaiting missile launch command.

Miguel Ortiz: Commander, sensors picking up water entry of missile-like object.

Katie Hitchcock: Weapons, launch countermeasures. Let me see the WSKRS, Mr. Ortiz.

Miguel Ortiz: Putting it up.

Matthew Phillips: Countermeasure has been launched.

Miguel Ortiz: WSKRS shutting down to avoid interference with countermeasures, going to audio only. Weapon has locked onto our countermeasure and is homing.

- Liberté space station -

Nathan Bridger: (ship rocks from missile explosion) This seal won’t take many more like that.

Manilow Crocker: We’d better get our hunk of bone and get out of here, Cap. (enters Liberté) Which one?

Guy Peche: This one here, this is Pierre. I know his watch, it was a gift from his wife.

Manilow Crocker: (to Bridger) Do you wanna carve?

Nathan Bridger: Shh. Do it.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Miguel Ortiz: Second missile in the water.

Katie Hitchcock: Launch countermeasures.

Matthew Phillips: Countermeasure has been launched.

- Liberté Space Station -

Nathan Bridger: What’s that?