“Knight of Shadows”

Directed by: Helaine Head

Written by: Melinda Snodgrass

Summary: A message from beyond the grave leads to the discovery of an early twentieth century sunken luxury liner, the RMS King George. Things get weirder when a light from a porthole is discovered. A team from seaQuest boards the ship in order to determine the cause of its demise, but find themselves trapped in a whirlwind of bizarre events, where Westphalen is possessed and the ghostly figure of the captain is determined to stop the seaQuest team.

Guest Starring:

John St. Ryan as Captain Phineas Wideman

W. Morgan Sheppard as Professor Martinson

Co-Starring:

Timothy Omundson as Joshua Levin

Leslie Hardy as Lillian Strathairn

Featuring:

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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, Bridger’s room -

Nathan Bridger: (looks through photo album, pulls out picture of Carol) I wonder if you have any idea how much I miss you. (puts picture in computer, starts hologram) I didn’t have anyone to tell this to. Well, that’s not really true. I think I wanted to share it with you because it’s a love story. What just happened to me, I don’t know, it may be something I ate or nitrogen narcosis or maybe I’ve been at sea too long. Anyway, I was reading in bed, last night...

- seaQuest DSV, Bridger’s room, previous night -

Professor Martinson: Come around to zero nine zero, take her up to two hundred feet, proceed at thirty knots. (repeats constantly in background, Bridger tries to turn it off)

Lucas Wolenczak: (in own room, wakes up to buzzing, into PAL) Yeah.

Nathan Bridger: (on PAL in Lucas’s room) Lucas, the hologram is babbling.

Lucas Wolenczak: (in own room, into PAL) Yeah, so?

Nathan Bridger: (into PAL) So I didn’t call anybody up.

Lucas Wolenczak: (in own room, into PAL) That’s not possible.

Nathan Bridger: (into PAL) Precisely.

Lucas Wolenczak: (into PAL) I didn’t do anything.

Nathan Bridger: (on PAL in Lucas’s room) I didn’t say you did, but I’d appreciate if you’d come over and take a look.

Lucas Wolenczak: (in own room, into PAL) Yeah, I'll be right up. (leaves)

Lillian Strathairn: (as Martinson still repeats, Bridger takes out book and as he looks in it a hand comes out of hologram) Help us.

Nathan Bridger: What?

Lucas Wolenczak: (entering) What? You called me up here, didn’t you?

Nathan Bridger: Yeah, take a look at this thing.

Lucas Wolenczak: Why’s it so cold in here? (pushes some buttons, hologram disappears) You had the repeat key locked. (turns off machine) Anything else?

Nathan Bridger: No, nothing. Thanks. Sorry I woke you up.

Lucas Wolenczak: Forget about it. You, uh, sure you’re OK? (exits room)

Nathan Bridger: Yeah, I’m fine.

Lucas Wolenczak: Good night.

Nathan Bridger: Thanks. (closes door)

Lillian Strathairn: (hologram comes back on, lady motioning) Help us.

Phineas Wideman: (appears) Get away! (Bridger flies across room)

- seaQuest DSV, Bridger’s room, a little later -

Nathan Bridger: Ouch.

Kristin Westphalen: I thought you said it didn’t hurt.

Nathan Bridger: I said I awoke strangely invigorated. I didn’t say it didn’t hurt. Well?

Kristin Westphalen: Well.

Nathan Bridger: Yes?

Kristin Westphalen: You were either hit by a small German sports car or you encountered a professional wrestler in the last twenty-four hours.

Nathan Bridger: I was hurled across my room by an apparition.

Kristin Westphalen: Or, you fell out of bed.

Nathan Bridger: Anyone on your staff study paranormal experiences.

Kristin Bridger: Um, Levin did a stint researching hypnotic regression at Cologne.

Nathan Bridger: Good, thank you. Have him come to the bridge. (leaves)

Kristin Westphalen: (yelling after him) Um, there are also a couple of crewmen in engineering who worship their warts.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Miguel Ortiz: WSKR tracking zero nine zero off our coordinates at zero hundred hours, we’re at fifty miles, traveling at thirty knots.

Jonathan Ford: Captain, can you tell me, exactly what are we looking for?

Nathan Bridger: I have no idea.

Joshua Levin: What about the corridor?

Nathan Bridger: It was a corridor.

Joshua Levin: Was it inside, or outside? Was there a light at the end of it?

Nathan Bridger; There was an exit sign. There were, there were doors.

Joshua Levin: Like, I mean, a hotel?

Nathan Bridger: Yes, yes.

Joshua Levin: Now, doors indicate choices. A corridor or a tunnel may mean anticipation of facing some desperate issues, maybe behind one of the doors.

Nathan Bridger: I wasn’t dreaming.

Tim O‘Neill: Captain, I’m getting music.

Nathan Bridger: Let’s hear it, Mr. O’Neill. (music comes on over loudspeaker) She was wearing an evening gown.

Joshua Levin: Could it have been a relative?

Nathan Bridger: No.

Joshua Levin: Your late wife?

Nathan Bridger: No.

Miguel Ortiz: I’m getting a big echo, real big.

Nathan Bridger: Sonar, forward screens. Now that’s what we’re looking for, Commander.

Miguel Ortiz: I have a WSKR view, Captain. (screen changes)

Nathan Bridger: Crocker to the bridge.

Tim O’Neill: (into comlink) Chief Crocker to the bridge.

Nathan Bridger: Mr. Ortiz, see if you can get me a name on that.

Miguel Ortiz: Aye, sir.

Nathan Bridger: Send the probe in for a closer look.

Katie Hitchcock: Aye, aye, sir.

Manilow Crocker: (enters, Bridger motions to the ship on the screen, WSKR scans hull, finding name, Crocker becomes nervous) Oh my God, it’s the George.

- seaQuest DSV, ward room -

Manilow Crocker: It was the, uh, summer of 1913. The, uh, George was on her maiden voyage from Southampton. Five days out of Lisbon she went down.

Jonathan Ford: I don’t remember this shipwreck.

Manilow Crocker: Well, it wasn’t actually a wreck, Commander, she just started sinking, very, very slowly sinking. There were nine hundred people on board and all of them survived except for the engineer and the captain.

Nathan Bridger: There was a woman.

Manilow Crocker: I’m afraid not, Cap. All the other passengers and crew were accounted for. Everybody had plenty of time to get on board the lifeboats. Two days later a fisherman out of the Canaries found them, guided them ashore.

Nathan Bridger: The George went down six hundred miles from the Canaries. There’s no way that a lifeboat could have traveled that far in two days.

Manilow Crocker: Well, maybe that’s why no one ever found her before, Cap. No one ever thought to look that far out. And then the war started and everybody just sorta forgot about her.

Nathan Bridger: There was a woman. (everyone looks skeptical)

Ben Krieg: Uh, if I may, Captain, I found some archival footage in the disc encyclopedia. It’s not much, just this home movie made for the ship’s owner, guess that’s him with his wife. (on screen, girl walks up with kids)

Kristin Westphalen: (looks at Bridger) That’s her isn’t it?

Nathan Bridger: (nods) That’s both of them. Who is she? (watches) Freeze it. (comlink beeps, into speaker) Yes.

Katie Hitchcock: (on loudspeaker) Captain, you’ve got to see what the H.R. Probe is sending back.

Nathan Bridger: (into comlink) Thank you. (to group in room) Shall we? (all leave except Bridger and Westphalen)

Kristin Westphalen: I think she’s the nanny.

Nathan Bridger: Why wasn’t she on the passenger manifest?

Kristin Westphalen: He's the owner of the boat. Maybe it was a last minute decision to bring her and she was left off the manifest. (gasps, Bridger turns to see Wideman’s head turn on the screen)

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Nathan Bridger: (as group enters) Commander?

Katie Hitchcock: (operating H.R. Probe) I’ve got it right here, sir.

Nathan Bridger: Put it on both screens.

Katie Hitchcock: (operating H.R. Probe) The stacks are sealed.

Manilow Crocker: That was an innovation of the George. Those are harbor covers, they’re supposed to retract once they’re at sea.

Katie Hitchcock: (operating H.R. Probe) Well, they’re closed here, which means the engine room may not be flooded. Than, there’s this, a light coming from this porthole.

Jonathan Ford: Not possible.

Nathan Bridger: And not a dream.

Katie Hitchcock: (operating H.R. Probe) The George is full of air pockets. This is amazing.

Manilow Crocker: It's more amazing than you know, Commander, the George has been sunk for a hundred and five years. (spits over his shoulder) That ship is haunted.

Kristin Westphalen: Captain, what did she say to you?

Nathan Bridger: She said “Help us.”

- seaQuest DSV, Lucas’s room -

Nathan Bridger: (outside the room) Lucas? (pounds on door)

Lucas Wolenczak: (from inside, in scary voice) Oooh, come in. (Bridger and Levin enter) Uuuhahh.

Nathan Bridger: Cut that out.

Lucas Wolenczak: Wahhh.

Nathan Bridger: Put the lights on. (lights go on) We’re about ready to go aboard the George, and Doctor Levin wants you to come with us.

Lucas Wolenczak: That’s great.

Nathan Bridger: Now look, we’re gonna need your cooperation. We don’t know what we’re going against, and I can’t really define it.

Joshua Levin: Now here’s the deal, logical scientific methodology doesn’t apply, we just take that with us. We’re entering into a realm which defies logic and all we have to depend on is myths and superstition.

Lucas Wolenczak: Very cool.

Nathan Bridger: Now, you’re going to come along as a bodyguard.

Joshua Levin: In many legends, children are immune to the effects of the paranormal.

Lucas Wolenczak: Well, I’m not a child.

Nathan Bridger: We know you’re not a child, but you’re the closest thing we have to one.

Lucas Wolenczak: You two, uh, really believe this boat is haunted?

Nathan Bridger: Yes, I mean I-I don’t really know what that means, but we feel we have to pursue it. Pursuit of what you don’t know but instinctively believe in is what science is all about.

Lucas Wolenczak: Let’s go.

Nathan Bridger: Good. (all leave)

- sea launch, next to the King George -

Katie Hitchcock: We got a seal, pressurized to one hundred and ninety feet.

Nathan Bridger: OK.

Kristin Westphalen: The air in the George is over a hundred years old. Oxygen under pressure transmits harmful levels of nitrogen to the body tissues.

Katie Hitchcock: We’re torching the cargo lock, we’ll be through in a minute.

Nathan Bridger: All right.

Kristin Westphalen: Watch out for signs of nitrogen narcosis.

Manilow Crocker: Rapture of the deep.

Kristin Westphalen: Mmm hmm. Wear these badges at all times, they’ll turn bright red if the air goes bad. And I want these larger ones posted every thirty feet once we’re on board. Look, if you do start getting heady, just stop what you’re doing, take a deep breath of purified oxygen and get out of that area immediately.

Katie Hitchcock: Captain, we’re through the lock.

Nathan Bridger: OK.

Joshua Levin: Remember, positive thoughts at all times. Keep imagining the white light of your aura around you.

Nathan Bridger: (enters George, takes readout) We can breath this. (re-enters launch) OK, let’s go.

Manilow Crocker: Captain. (Bridger stops, spits, Crocker stops, spits and enters, Hitchcock stops, spits and enters, Lucas stops, spits and enters, Westphalen looks disgusted, Bridger enters, turns, grabs Westphalen)

Nathan Bridger: Oh, come on. (enters with Westphalen, Levin spits and enters)

- RMS King George, engine room -

Katie Hitchcock: Captain, look at this.

Nathan Bridger: It’s ingenious.

Lucas Wolenczak: What?

Katie Hitchcock: It looks like the generator was converted to pull electricity from the currents running over the ship.

Lucas Wolenczak: Oh, that would explain the light.

Nathan Bridger: It would explain it if it worked.

Kristin Westphalen: This would explain how they replenished their atmosphere, osmotic membranes. Lucas, take a look at this. Um, think of a large sponge drawing oxygen out of the water molecules. (Bridger pushes lever, wheels turn, lights go on) Ahhh! Ohh.

Nathan Bridger: (rushes over to Westphalen) Give me some light. (sees gun in skeleton’s hand)

Manilow Crocker: Those are officer’s stripes.

Nathan Bridger: Captain. (picks up head, sees hole) Blew a hole right through his head, suicide.

Manilow Crocker: Shiver me timbers. (all look at him) I mean that seriously. There’s nothing more unlucky than a suicide on board a ship, unless of course it’s the captain committing suicide. We oughta get off of this barge before we know more than we want to know.

Nathan Bridger: I wanna know why this ship sank; I wanna know why the Captain committed suicide, Chief. You wanna wait in the launch?

Manilow Crocker: No, sir, if you’re here, I’m here.

Joshua Levin: The unhealthy dead. Many parapsychologists feel that spirits cling to the physical world out of confusion, or a need to deal with unresolved matters. There’s nothing more confused or unresolved than a suicide.

Nathan Bridger: This is who threw me across my room. Commander, take your engineering team down to the lowest deck, try to figure out what sank her.

Katie Hitchcock: Yes, sir. (leaves)

Nathan Bridger: Let’s go, come on. (all leave)

- RMS King George, hallway -

Kristin Westphalen: (all enter through door) We should get this over with before narcosis sets in.

Nathan Bridger: You feeling all right?

Kristin Westphalen: I don’t know what I’m feeling. (all go up stairs)

- RMS King George, hallway, two decks lower -

Katie Hitchcock: (looks into room, sees body, pulls out PAL) Captain.

Manilow Crocker: (hallway, two decks above, into PAL) This is Chief Crocker, Commander.

Katie Hitchcock: (into PAL) Chief, I found a water filled room, starboard side, on the engine level. Its porthole has been sealed with candle wax and there are three skeletons inside. One of them’s wearing an accordion. I think they were part of a band.

Manilow Crocker: (hallway, two decks above, into PAL) Everyone in the orchestra survived.

Katie Hitchcock: (into PAL) These guys didn’t.

- RMS King George, hallway -

Nathan Bridger: That’s four people who weren’t on the manifest.

Manilow Crocker: Counting that woman you saw, sir. (Bridger points to door, Crocker tries it, locked, door opens as Lucas walks by)

Lucas Wolenczak: Captain, this door’s open. (Westphalen looks in open door, is pulled in)

Nathan Bridger: Kristin, Kristin, Kristin. (inside room, Westphalen, sees Strathairn; outside room, Crocker touches handle pulls back)

Manilow Crocker: It’s fire. Careful.

Nathan Bridger: (tries handle, pulls back) It’s freezing.

- RMS King George, stateroom -

Phineas Wideman: (Westphalen moves toward Strathairn who disappears, Westphalen turns to door, Wideman appears) You are meddling with forces you cannot comprehend. (drawer flies across room)

Nathan Bridger: (outside room) Kristin.

Phineas Wideman: I am the Captain of the George. Its fate is mine. I want you off my ship. (mattress flies across room, knocking over Westphalen, who falls on diary open to “I hate him”)

Nathan Bridger: (outside room) Kristin.

Phineas Wideman: This is my torment, to which you have no right. (pulls up arm to hit Westphalen, stops, looks at diary) “I hate him.”

Nathan Bridger: (outside room) Kristin. (tries to force door open with Crocker)

Phineas Wideman: No, no, nooooo. (door flies open into Bridger and Crocker)

- RMS King George, stateroom, a little later -

Manilow Crocker: (picking up mattress) Is there any reason why we can’t just leave this place?

Nathan Bridger: (to Westphalen) Can you get up?

Kristin Westphalen: Yes. (gets up) Oh, my diary, there, my diary. I’m fine, I’m fine, really. (sitting down) I’d just – I’d just like to sit down for a minute.

Lucas Wolenczak: (Crocker sprinkles salt on doorway) What are you doing?

Manilow Crocker: It’s salt, keeps the devil from the door.

Lucas Wolenczak: Is that why you spit?

Manilow Crocker: No, Lucas, sailors spit for good luck in the face of adversity.

Nathan Bridger: What happened?

Kristin Westphalen: (pulls arm away, scared, almost crying) I can’t remember. I hate him.

Nathan Bridger: Hate who?

Kristin Westphalen: Who?

Joshua Levin: Why don’t you, uh, lie back, Doctor. (helping Westphalen lie down) Come on, lie back. That’s right, there you go. (to Bridger) I’m gonna run an EKG, maybe you could ask them to step outside.

Nathan Bridger: Sure. Let’s wait outside.

Manilow Crocker: But, Cap, I just put down the salt.

Nathan Bridger: Chief, please.

Manilow Crocker: (leaving) Well, thinking about my aura isn’t helping any.

Nathan Bridger: (following Crocker out) Well, let’s think about it out here.

Lucas Wolenczak: Hey, Captain, did she just say “I hate him”?

Nathan Bridger: Yes.

Lucas Wolenczak: That’s the last entry in this diary, August twenty-sixth, 1914.

Nathan Bridger: Nineteen fourteen? That’s a year and a half they survived down here. (reading from diary) “This is the personal diary of Lillian Strathairn. If you find it, please do not read it, but kindly return it to me, care of the Deegan family, eighteen Grosvenor’s Square, London.” That’s the woman I saw, Lilly.

Lucas Wolenczak: How can you know that?

Nathan Bridger: I know. (reading) “April one, 1913. I am bout to embark on my first journey outside of London, and it’s taking me around the world. What a day. I’ve been given first class accommodations by Lord and Lady Deegan, and I’ve met a man whose simple presence causes me to swoon.”

Joshua Levin: (exiting room) Captain. She’s running a very low heart rate. Even with her mood swinging from calm to crying she’s asking for medication.

Nathan Bridger: Shouldn’t she have it?

Joshua Levin: She’s asking for stimulants. I think she’s had this encounter–

Nathan Bridger: Well we know that, Joshua.

Joshua Levin: Yes, but what I’m saying is I think she may still be having it.

Katie Hitchcock: (in engine room, into PAL) Chief?

Manilow Crocker: (into PAL) Yes, Commander.

Katie Hitchcock: (in engine room, into PAL) All levels below engineering are flooded, and the intake valves are broken off in the open position. Somebody’s been through here with a sledgehammer. The George was sabotaged. What’s weird is that it must have taken days to sink by flooding it deck by deck through the intake system.

Nathan Bridger: (into PAL) Where are you, Commander?

Katie Hitchcock: (in engine room, into PAL) Engineering, level two.

Nathan Bridger: (into PAL) All right, I’ll be right down. (to group) I want you all to stay here with Doctor Westphalen, especially you, Lucas. Stay close to her. (enters room, doesn’t see Westphalen) Kristin? (looks around, door opens, Westphalen comes out) Kristin?

Kristin Westphalen: Can you hear the music? Would you do me up?

Nathan Bridger: (buttoning back of dress) The music?

Kristin Westphalen: From the ball room. Thank you.

Nathan Bridger: Stay with her, don’t leave the room. (goes to leave)

Manilow Crocker: Captain, you shouldn’t go out there wandering around by yourself.

Joshua Levin: He’s right.

Nathan Bridger: Don’t leave the room. (leaves)

Kristin Westphalen: Steward, fetch me a brandy.

- RMS King George, hallway -

Phineas Wideman: Get away!

Nathan Bridger: You’re not gonna stop me. (turns corner, sees mist, hears scream, walks down hall, sees Wideman)

Phineas Wideman: Get off my ship.

Nathan Bridger: No. (lights go on, mist and ghost disappear)

Phineas Wideman: Bridger, get off my ship. (laughs)

- RMS King George, two decks lower, hallway -

Katie Hitchcock: (Bridger walks over) Captain, it’s this way.

Nathan Bridger: Wait a minute, I don’t think so. (turns, walks other way)

Katie Hitchcock: I’ve already checked those doors, they’re all locked. (door opens, both enter, find body) An engineer’s insignia. Well we found the two people that went down with the ship, captain and the engineer. Who are the three people I saw through the porthole?

Nathan Bridger: Stowaways.

Katie Hitchcock: A dance card. (opens it) There’s one name written in it over and over again.

Nathan Bridger: Lillian?

Katie Hitchcock: How did you know?

Nathan Bridger: We have to find Lillian. (looks at paper) Here lies sweet Robert Fitzgerald, my fiancé and my unfulfilled love, engineer of the George. Taken to God’s bosom on May thirteenth, 1913. With him goes my heart.

Katie Hitchcock: I don’t understand.

- RMS King George, stateroom -

Nathan Bridger: (on PAL) Chief?

Manilow Crocker: (into PAL) Aye, Cap.

Nathan Bridger: (on PAL) You still have the diary?

Manilow Crocker: (into PAL) Uh, yes, sir.

Nathan Bridger: (two decks below, into PAL) Read me May thirteenth, 1913.

Manilow Crocker: (into PAL) “May thirteenth, 1913,” (Westphalen joins in) “Today my beloved Robert passed away. He contracted pneumonia while trying to fix the engine.” (Westphalen stands up) We’re on the move here, Cap.

Nathan Bridger: (on PAL) Where?

Kristin Westphalen: “Captain Wideman called it” (Crocker joins in) “a tragic circumstance.”

Nathan Bridger: (two decks below, into PAL) Where are you going? (leaves room) Crocker?

Manilow Crocker: (following Westphalen) Doctor, don’t do this.

Kristin Westphalen: “It is right to call it tragic, but more” (Crocker joins in) “honest to call it murder. I am trapped alone with him now. I have nothing in my heart but venom.” (looks at door, faints)

Nathan Bridger: (running through halls, into PAL) Where are you, Crocker?

Kristin Westphalen: I can’t go on. I can’t go on...

Manilow Crocker: (into PAL) We’re outside the Captain’s door ... and it’s bleeding.

- RMS King George, hallway, outside Captain’s stateroom -

Katie Hitchcock: (coming up with Bridger) My God, what is that?

Joshua Levin: It’s the door to the spirit’s Earth bound sanctuary. It’s where he feels he’s safe.

Katie Hitchcock: Whose spirit?

Nathan Bridger: The Captain.

Katie Hitchcock: It’s bleeding.

Joshua Levin: Not really, it’s just manifesting our subconscious fears, trying to keep us at bay.

Manilow Crocker: I’ll tell you what it is. It’s a cheap parlor trick by some desperate spook and I’ve just about had enough. (goes to open door, pulls back) Now that, that’s a much better trick.

Katie Hitchcock: Doctor? What is going on?

Lucas Wolenczak: I read some of Lillian’s diary.

Nathan Bridger: The Captain was in love with Lillian.

Lucas Wolenczak: But she was in love with Robert Fitzgerald, the engineer. This drove the Captain crazy. On the day they were supposed to be married, the ship sank. Listen to this. (reading from diary) “As God is my witness–”

Kristin Westphalen: “I believe the Captain has sunk the ship.” (Bridger helps Westphalen up)

Nathan Bridger: We need to get in this room. (tries handle, pulls back, tries again, same result)

Manilow Crocker: (looks at Lucas) Lucas.

Nathan Bridger: I think it’s safe for you, Lucas. We need the ship’s log. (Lucas opens door, enters, as Bridger goes to follow, flames shoot up, Lucas screams) Lucas.

Manilow Crocker: Lucas. (door closes)

Nathan Bridger: Lucas. (in room, Lucas looks around, Wideman appears)

Manilow Crocker: Lucas.

Nathan Bridger: Lucas.

Katie Hitchcock: (Westphalen turns to go) Captain.

Nathan Bridger: Kristin, Lillian.

Kristin Westphalen: I hear the music. (disappears down hall)

Nathan Bridger: Go with her. (to Crocker) You, too, go with her. (Crocker runs off) Lucas.

- RMS King George, Captain’s stateroom -

Lucas Wolenczak: Captain.

Nathan Bridger: (outside room) Are you all right? Are you all right?

Lucas Wolenczak: Yeah.

Nathan Bridger: (outside room) Is the log book there?

Lucas Wolenczak: (looks on desk) Yes.

Nathan Bridger: (outside room) Can you get it?

Lucas Wolenczak: (looks at Wideman, who looks down) Yes.

Phineas Wideman: Tell him to go to the ballroom, that’s what he’s looking for.

Lucas Wolenczak: Captain, go to the ballroom.

Nathan Bridger: (outside room) You all right?

Lucas Wolenczak: (fire dies down) Yes, I’m fine.

Nathan Bridger: (outside room) OK. (leaves)

Phineas Wideman: (Lucas turns to go) I didn’t know there were stowaways. I didn’t want to hurt anyone.

Lucas Wolenczak: What about Lillian and Robert? You kept them here, didn’t you? You didn’t let them leave.

Phineas Wideman: I love her.

Lucas Wolenczak: But she doesn’t love you. Where is Robert? Why isn’t he here?

Phineas Wideman: Robert died without guilt; his spirit was free to cross over to the other side. I doomed myself to this crypt.

Lucas Wolenczak: Why are you making Lillian stay?

Phineas Wideman: Her own guilt holds her here.

Lucas Wolenczak: Why is she guilty?

Phineas Wideman: I don’t know.

Lucas Wolenczak: There’s no way for you to get out of this place?

Phineas Wideman: I need to be forgiven.

Lucas Wolenczak: Have you asked her?

- RMS King George, ballroom -

Nathan Bridger: (enters, sees body and sees Westphalen dancing, walks over to body) Lillian. (turns around, goes over to Westphalen) Lillian, why are you still here?

Kristin Westphalen: I can’t leave. The pain is too great.

Nathan Bridger: In your diary you said “There is nothing in my heart but venom.” Is that what keeps you here?

Kristin Westphalen: He’s what keeps me here. (points, Bridger turns to see Wideman and Wolenczak entering, Westphalen faints into Bridger’s arms)

Phineas Wideman: (walks over to body, takes off hat) I never wanted it to be this way, to hold you here. I release you, go to Robert. (puts hand on body) Lillian, forgive me.

Lillian Strathairn: (spirit sits up) I forgive you.

Phineas Wideman: Thank you.

Lillian Strathairn: (light appears) Robert. (hugs Fitzgerald) Robert. (turn to Wideman, beckon for him, Wideman joins Fitzgerald and Strathairn, all disappear)

Kristin Westphalen: Oh, oh.

Nathan Bridger: You all right?

Kristin Westphalen: Oh, uh, I don’t know. (confused) Um, what? Oh– (seriously) Nathan, your badge.

Nathan Bridger: All right, back to the launch. The inhalers. (all put in inhalers, go toward door)

Lucas Wolenczak: I found the Captain’s log. (hands it to Bridger)

- seaQuest DSV, Bridger’s room -

Nathan Bridger: (reading from log book from George) “Lillian has died. I am alone. All I have left is my confession. I flooded the George to discredit Robert Fitzgerald, ship’s engineer, so the woman who loved him would see him as a fraud. I flooded the George to cause Lord Deegan to suffer for ordering me to preside over their wedding though he knew how much I loved her. I meant the ship to sink alone, but Robert could not leave without trying to save the ship, and Lillian could not leave without Robert. For him who finds this book and finds our bones, know that I, Captain Phineas Wideman, am solely responsible for the deaths of Lillian Strathairn, Robert Fitzgerald, and the three poor souls who stowed away out of Lisbon. No horror is unimaginable to the man who knows not love. I am going to the engine room.” (turns off hologram) Good night, sweetheart.