“Nothing but the Truth”

Directed by: Les Sheldon

Written by: David Kemper

Summary: The seaQuest is conducting an experiment using hull siphons to stop the ship from sinking when she is boarded by a group of commandos. These commandos are trying to get shutdown codes for industrial polluters, in an attempt to clean up the oceans. But what the commandos do not plan on is Commander Ford being loose on the boat trying to stop them.

Guest Starring:

John Finn as Colonel Schraeder

W. Morgan Sheppard as Professor Martinson

Tim Kelleher as Bowman

Bradford Tatum as Jackson

Co-Starring:

Brent Hinkley as Commando #1

Al Rodrigo as Commando #2

Iilana B’Tiste as Commando #6

Michael Reilly Burke as Commando #7

Philip Tan as Commando #9

Featuring:

Thom Sherman as Ensign Sheppard

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.

- South China Sea, west of the Philippines, seaQuest DSV, hallway -

Katie Hitchcock: Come on, Jonathan, don’t do this to me. How often do you get offered your own submarine?

Jonathan Ford: It’s just Bruno class. It’s a sausage with a propeller.

Katie Hitchcock: It’s your own command.

Jonathan Ford: Well, I’m thinkin’ about it.

Katie Hitchcock: Misgivings?

Jonathan Ford: Yeah. I mean, where else am I gonna get the opportunities that I have here? Bridger allows me to be Captain a lot. And whenever anything happens, we’re always the first vessel called.

Katie Hitchcock: OK, well that’s the argument for staying. But what about the other side?

Jonathan Ford: It’s my own command.

Ben Krieg: (over loudspeaker) Commanders Ford and Hitchcock to the bridge, please.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Ben Krieg: (as Hitchcock and Ford enter) Captain Bridger for you.

Jonathan Ford: Your experiment’s ready to go, sir. Only seven of us left on board, we’ll join you in the aircraft carrier’s control room shortly.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) All right, very good. But first, there’s a vessel from the University of the Philippines just radioed us for assistance. They’ve lost rudder control about a mile and a half off your port bow. Rendezvous, and bring those scientists up to the surface when you come up.

Jonathan Ford: We can do that. There’s room in the last launch.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) If you’re going to leave us, Commander, at least you’re going out in style. You’ll be remembered as the only man who got a chance to sink the seaQuest.

Jonathan Ford: (to Hitchcock) You maneuver this beast by yourself?

Katie Hitchcock: I’ve been waiting two years to try.

Ben Krieg: If you stay, you’re not going to sign my officer review, are you?

Jonathan Ford: I’m not trying to get you drummed off seaQuest, if that’s what you think.

Ben Krieg: But that’s what’s going to happen.

Jonathan Ford: I have the right to chose my own executive staff, Krieg. It’s nothing personal.

Ben Krieg: How else am I supposed to take it. I mean, I know you can’t fault my work, so it’s got to be my style, right?

Jonathan Ford: Character, Krieg. You’re supposed to have it, not be it.

- seaQuest DSV, hallway -

Jonathan Ford: Why aren’t you in launch bay with the others?

Darwin: Lucas and Darwin stay on seaQuest.

Jonathan Ford: Lucas, we can’t do anything to jeopardize Bridger’s experiment. Now, if he’s right, and these hull siphons can automatically refloat a sinking ship, imagine how many lives can be saved, not to mention cargo.

Lucas Wolenczak: Yeah, but you’re only flooding the passageways, right? The rooms will stay dry. If I stay inside the record–

Jonathan Ford: Did Bridger ask you to stay on board?

Lucas Wolenczak: Actually, he didn’t ask me for anything.

Jonathan Ford: Who cracked the program that allows us to understand fish-face here?

Lucas Wolenczak: I did.

Jonathan Ford: You, and who else?

Lucas Wolenczak: This is the reason Bridger came back here in the first place. You heard him, fish-face, we have to leave the ship.

- seaQuest DSV, launch bay -

Manilow Crocker: (into PAL) We got ‘em, Commander. The, uh, University vessel is secure.

Jonathan Ford: (in hallway, into PAL) Bring ‘em aboard and we are outta here. Nice driving, Katie.

Katie Hitchcock: (on bridge) I’ll re-engage autopilot and meet you in launch bay.

Manilow Crocker: Welcome aboard, sir.

Colonel Schraeder: Thank you, thank you.

Manilow Crocker: Are you all right?

Colonel Schraeder: Well, we had a bit of a scare back there but we’re fine, I think. There is just one thing. (Crocker turns to be hit by gun, falls down steps, pushes button setting off alarm)

Ben Krieg: (rushing Lucas out of launch bay) Just drop the bag and go. Go!

Colonel Schraeder: Let’s move it. Disable communications.

Commando #1: Communications dead, Colonel.

Jonathan Ford: (in hallway, into PAL) Launch bay? Bridge?

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Katie Hitchcock: Launch bay? Jonathan? Surface cruiser Quayle, if you can hear me, this is seaQuest, Lieutenant Commander Hitchcock. I have an unidentified security alarm. I am locking down all weapons, staring with sea-to-air missiles.

- seaQuest DSV, launch bay -

Colonel Schraeder: (picks up bag) Wolenczak, find him. (to Krieg) How many others are still loose?

Ben Krieg: No one else.

Colonel Schraeder: He’s lying. Deck by deck search. If anyone else approaches this room, I want them held for interrogation. No killing. Bridge, keep schedule.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck -

Jonathan Ford: (into PAL) Katie, can you hear me? Katie, if you can hear me, rev auxiliary engines. (sees Darwin) Darwin, have you seen the others?

Darwin: Not free.

Jonathan Ford: What?

Darwin: New people, attack with guns.

Jonathan Ford: Where are they now?

Darwin: All places.

Commando #1: (from hallway) Down this way, move! (Ford grabs rebreather and enters moon pool as commandos enter and then leave)

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Katie Hitchcock: Scrambling reactor control. All systems disabled, seaQuest is now dead in the water. (turns to see commandos forcing doors open) Bridge is compromised. I have no time for emergency surfacing procedures.

Colonel Schraeder: (commandos enter, turn off alarm) She shut everything down.

Jackson: (walks over to Hitchcock) She’ll work with us.

Bowman: Don’t need it. Long as there’s power to make an outward link.

Colonel Schraeder: And you are?

Katie Hitchcock: Lieutenant Commander Hitchcock, UEO, N77-38656.

Colonel Schraeder: Beyond name, rank, and serial number, Commander, what surprises have you laid into the controls? (no response) My friend can make you talk.

Katie Hitchcock: I’ll lie.

Colonel Schraeder: He can make you tell the truth.

Bowman: Routing past fused com-circuit. We’ll have a secure satellite hookup in ten minutes. (commando puts Hitchcock by the moon pool)

Jonathan Ford: (grabs Hitchcock’s hand) Are you OK?

Katie Hitchcock: Yeah. Is anyone else free?

Jonathan Ford: I don’t know.

Katie Hitchcock: Soon as I get a chance, I’m in the water.

Jonathan Ford: No, stay here. I want to control what they know. No matter what I do, no matter what happens, I want you to tell them the truth.

Katie Hitchcock: Jonathan.

Jonathan Ford: Even if it’s classified. I need to know you won’t lie, Katie.

Jackson: Hey! (starts shooting into moon pool)

Colonel Schraeder: I said no killing. (to Hitchcock) Who was that?

Katie Hitchcock: C-Commander Ford.

Bowman: She told the truth.

Colonel Schraeder: For now, but later on, when she thinks we’re starting to trust her, she’ll lie

- seaQuest DSV, galley supply -

Ben Krieg: How you doin’ over here, Shep?

Sheppard: I think it might be broken.

Ben Krieg: All right, hang in there, will ya? You know, Chief, there was even money you didn’t have any blood vessels up there. Looks like the bleeding’s stopped.

Manilow Crocker: I’m seeing double, Ben.

Ben Krieg: All right, keep an ear to the door. I’m gonna try and get us the hell outta here.

Manilow Crocker: It’d take you hours to wiggle through that air duct to the filtration housing, and even if you’d make it through, the turbine blades would just chop you to pieces.

Ben Krieg: Last dry dock, all galley vents were routed to refrigeration.

Manilow Crocker: How the hell do you know that?

Ben Krieg: Studied up for my officer review.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by moon pool -

Commando #1: (sees Darwin) Hey, buddy. (bends down, Ford pulls him in

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Bowman: I’m through. UEO central computer recognized our inquiry. It thinks it’s talking to seaQuest.

Colonel Schraeder: It is talking to seaQuest, she just has a different captain, that’s all.

Jackson: Nothing. She shut down all direct controls. This bridge is useless.

Colonel Schraeder: Just like the manual says. But what about detection capabilities? If someone tinkers in the bowels of the ship, will it still show up here?

Katie Hitchcock: Systems check is still active.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by moon pool -

Jonathan Ford: I want you to follow these men, tell me where they go.

Darwin: Men hurt seaQuest?

Jonathan Ford: Not if we can help it. (puts commando in hyperbaric chamber)

Lucas Wolenczak: Commander? (Ford looks around) Down here. Commander.

Jonathan Ford: Lucas! (helps Lucas up) Did anybody else get away?

Lucas Wolenczak: No, no, just me.

Jonathan Ford: If we get back to your quarters, can you contact Bridger on the surface?

Lucas Wolenczak: It depends on what they’ve done to the ship.

Jonathan Ford: OK, let’s go.

- seaQuest DSV, hallway -

Jonathan Ford: You all right?

Lucas Wolenczak: Yeah.

Jonathan Ford: Let the fear work for you, Lucas, use it.

Lucas Wolenczak: How?

Jonathan Ford: Fear makes us alert, it pumps adrenaline, slows down time.

Lucas Wolenczak: When I was under the grate, I, I just shut my eyes. I don’t want to let you down.

Jonathan Ford: You came out on your own. I’m not worried about you letting us down.

Lucas Wolenczak: Come on.

Commando #2: There are two of them, heading your way.

Commando #3: (on radio) Roger, I got ‘em.

- seaQuest DSV, hallway, one deck lower -

Lucas Wolenczak: He’s right behind us. (Ford stops) What? He’s coming.

Jonathan Ford: No, he wants us to think he is. He’s pushing us forward. This way. (enters room)

Commando #3: (on radio) Still haven’t come past me.

Commando #2: What do you mean they didn’t come past you? Work back toward me, room by room. They’re here somewhere.

Commando #3: (on radio) Got it.

Commando #2: (enters room) Come out. Hands up, or I shoot. (Lucas stands up) Where’s you friend? (Ford hits commando from behind, they fight)

- seaQuest DSV, room, later -

Commando #2: (tied up on bed) Hey, hey, kid, hey, listen to me.

Lucas Wolenczak: (puts tape on commando’s mouth) Oh, I’m sorry, is it too tight? (pulls tape off)

Commando #2: Thank you– (Lucas reapplies tape)

Lucas Wolenczak: There, is that better?

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Jackson: Two of my men haven’t checked in.

Colonel Schraeder: I thought you hand-picked the best, Jackson. They’re panicking. Where are you going?

Jackson: Hunting.

Katie Hitchcock: What are you doing here?

Colonel Schraeder: You’re in a submarine all your professional life, Commander. Do you ever sample the substance around you?

Katie Hitchcock: Water? All the time.

Colonel Schraeder: And what do you find? The slow death of our planet – pollution. Be good, stay alive, reap the benefits of our efforts.

Bowman: All nuclear reactors and chemical plants accounted for, Colonel. Moving on to fertilizer and paint manufacturers.

Colonel Schraeder: How long ‘till you’re finished?

Bowman: Half hour, max. Right on schedule.

- seaQuest DSV, galley supply -

Ben Krieg: Ugh! Damn it! There are conduit cables I can’t tear out. I’m gonna need something to saw with. Chief?

Manilow Crocker: Sorry, Lieutenant. I, I keep going in and out.

Ben Krieg: All right. Just relax, all right. Just relax.

- seaQuest DSV, Lucas’s room -

Lucas Wolenczak: I’ve reprogrammed the WSKR for laser communications. If I’ve routed it right, the satellite over Panama should microwave us through to Captain Bridger.

Jonathan Ford: Will the commandos know about it on the bridge?

Lucas Wolenczak: Lasers don’t make acoustic noise. They’ll have to be paying very close attention.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Colonel Schraeder: What is that?

Katie Hitchcock: Someone is using a WSKR to make contact outside the ship.

Colonel Schraeder: Bowman!

Bowman: Got all paper mills and lumber manufacturers. Security codes from waste plants starting to come in.

Colonel Schraeder: Trace down the source of this laser, now.

- seaQuest DSV, Lucas’s room -

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) We’ve been trying to contact you.

Jonathan Ford: That wasn’t a research submersible, sir. We’ve been taken over by commandos of some kind.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) What? Who are they? What do they want?

Jonathan Ford: I don’t know. Lucas and I are the only ones free. So far, they control the bridge.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) All right, Commander, basics.

Jonathan Ford: Identify the enemy, determine his objectives, counter his plan.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) Good. Now, I’ll have some aerial sub destroyers sent to you as soon as possible, but you realize, if they try to activate any of our long-range weapons...

Jonathan Ford: Understood. Lucas says I can call you from anywhere on the boat with this. I’ll keep you apprised.

Lucas Wolenczak: I’m all right, Captain.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) You stay in your cabin, and lock the hatch. (screen goes blank)

Jonathan Ford: Darwin, go to the bridge, watch Hitchcock.

Lucas Wolenczak: What did he mean, if they activate our weapons?

Jonathan Ford: He’ll have to destroy seaQuest. See if you can tap into the security cameras, but don’t do anything they can trace.

Lucas Wolenczak: Where are you going?

Jonathan Ford: I’m gonna need some help. I’ve got to find Krieg and Crocker.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Bowman: Got it. Laser communication originated from a WSKR hovering outside something called “mammal engineering.” It’s listed under the name, Wolenczak.

Katie Hitchcock: He’s just a boy.

Colonel Schraeder: Jackson, are you there? This Wolenczak is on port side of sea deck number four. Go get him. Alive.

- seaQuest DSV, galley supply -

Manilow Crocker: Someone’s coming.

Ben Krieg: I’m stuck.

Manilow Crocker: (door opens, trips person entering) No, it’s the Commander. It’s the Commander.

Ben Krieg: I couldn’t get past the electrical conduit.

Jonathan Ford: Your efforts showed up on engineering’s diagnostics. That’s how I found you. I’ve disabled three of their men. Get his uniform, tie him up. How are you guys for travel?

Ben Krieg: Broken ribs, may be internal bleeding; compound leg fracture; Crocker’s got a concussion. How’s Katie?

Jonathan Ford: She’s all right. Take this weapon, get to med bay, lock yourselves in until I send for you.

- seaQuest DSV, ward room -

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) Let me tell you what we found out. They’re using the seaQuest to raid security codes to sensitive industrial plants throughout the confederations. There’s no telling what damage they can do.

Jonathan Ford: Captain, I’m going to carry out the original plan -- flood the boat and send it to the bottom.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) Go on.

Jonathan Ford: Well, I figure if we can throw them off their game, get ‘em runnin’ scared, maybe we can regain control.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) Good plan. Do it.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Colonel Schraeder: They’ve ended communications with the surface. Find that kid. Where are we?

Bowman: I’ve got the whole wish list, Colonel. As soon as I use seaQuest’s computer to unscramble these security codes, we’re outta here.

Colonel Schraeder: (Hitchcock plays with computer) What’s happening?

Bowman: She’s erasing the computer’s memory.

Colonel Schraeder: How bad?

Bowman: She got the cipher file’s automatic mode. We’re gonna have to do all these codes manually. That’s going to add another half an hour at least.

Colonel Schraeder: Start with the nukes and the chems, work back. Chain her to the rail. (to Hitchcock) Stupid. Stupid.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck -

Jonathan Ford: These guys didn’t just pick this day by accident, they knew we’d be a skeleton crew.

Ben Krieg: They looked pretty damn professional coming through the launch bay.

Manilow Crocker: They aren’t going to panic that easy, I can tell you that much.

Jonathan Ford: Unless they’re submariners, when water starts flooding in, they’ll freak.

Ben Krieg: Won’t the hull siphons kick in and refloat the ship?

Jonathan Ford: Not if we disable them.

Jackson: Freeze!

Lucas Wolenczak: Hey!

Jackson: Don’t move!

Lucas Wolenczak: Somebody help! Stop it, I’m not doing anything, come on.

Jackson: Take him to the bridge, find out what he knows, what he’s done.

Lucas Wolenczak: (dragged off) Let go of me. (Jackson shoots up room)

- seaQuest DSV, Lucas’s room -

Ben Krieg: What are we looking for?

Jonathan Ford: I don’t know, message from Lucas. (picks up screen)

- seaQuest DSV, Bridger’s room -

Jonathan Ford: That code on Lucas’s monitor was the old man’s circuitry ID number.

Ben Krieg: Oh, this thing always gives me the willies.

Professor Martinson: Commander Ford, as the ranking officer aboard seaQuest, I recognize your authority to access my program.

Jonathan Ford: Captain, Lucas left a message for us with Professor Martinson, I thought you should see it with us.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) Where is Lucas now?

Jonathan Ford: He’s on the bridge with Hitchcock.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) Proceed.

Professor Martinson: Before Lucas was interrupted, he was feeding images from the bridge into my video enhancer. I direct you to the other monitor. UEO personnel scan, active search. Colonel Schraeder, recently retired from the UEO’s environmental enforcement division.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) All of the security codes that they’ve stolen are from industrial polluters, grade six and above.

Jonathan Ford: Blackmail?

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) We don’t know yet. Check in on intervals. (screen goes black)

Ben Krieg: Woah, Chief.

Manilow Crocker: Yeah, ready, ready.

Ben Krieg: We gotta get him to med bay.

Manilow Crocker: No, I, I go with you guys.

Jonathan Ford: I won’t turn it down. Are you strong enough to get up into the electrical wiring?

Manilow Crocker: Just tell me what you need, Commander.

Jonathan Ford: Scramble launch bay, but good. When they think they’re opening the pressure seal, I want the toilets to flush.

Manilow Crocker: Got it. Make the toilets flush. (leaves)

Jonathan Ford: We won’t count on him. You up for some trouble?

Ben Krieg: Always.

Jonathan Ford: I’ve got to shut down the hull siphons, then open the Mag-lev sea valve. I need some time.

Ben Krieg: I can play fox to the hounds. (Ford leaves, Krieg turns to Martinson) So, uh, can I ask you a favor?

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Colonel Schraeder: Where’s this signal coming from?

Lucas Wolenczak: Looks like somewhere in the science section.

Katie Hitchcock: The Captain’s quarters.

Lucas Wolenczak: Commander.

Colonel Schraeder: Move aft, B deck, starboard side.

- seaQuest DSV, hallway outside Bridger’s room -

Professor Martinson: (commando walks by and into room) . . . this is one of the major reasons why I’ll end by saying, I don’t think so, young man. (Krieg closes and locks door)

- seaQuest DSV, ventilation shaft -

(Crocker grunts as he tries to pull himself along with only one arm)

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Bowman: Colonel, there’s an incoming message. Someone’s trying to contact us from the surface fleet.

Colonel Schraeder: Put them on, but don’t let them see me.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) Camera-shy, Colonel Schraeder? If anything happens to my crew, I’m holding you personally responsible. And if any of your gunfire ruptures any bulkheads, you won’t even feel the explosion that kills you. You know, you’re losing every bit of credibility you had with the green movement. I can’t believe that you’ve convinced other environmentalists to do this. It’s too radical.

Colonel Schraeder: Unfortunately, I did have to hire a few mercenaries. It’s not often seaQuest is without her crew.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) I’m cutting off your access to the UEO computers.

Colonel Schraeder: I have what I need, the shut down codes to polluters all over the world.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) You know, the Crystal Water Act of 2006 (twenty-six) –

Colonel Schraeder: Is useless, Captain. I was in environmental enforcement, I saw the bribes, the payoffs. There’s always some reason to let the sludge keep flowing.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) If you use those shut down codes, you might as well bomb those plants. I’ll take years to put them back on-line.

Colonel Schraeder: How many years will it take for the Earth’s water system to come back on-line, Captain, two billion? Ninety percent of our drinking water is all ready tainted.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) I agree with your principles.

Colonel Schraeder: But not my tactics?

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) No! What’s going to happen to cities without electricity? What’s going to happen in the wintertime when people freeze to death when there’s no heating oil? Who’s going to feed them when agriculture fails?

Colonel Schraeder: What else can we do? Corporations have no soul. Earth must find a new way to use her water, Captain, but nobody changes until they’re forced to.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) Oh, and you’re that self-appointed force, is that it?

Colonel Schraeder: Why not? You’ve had this ship for some time, and done nothing. Now it’s my turn. (screen goes blank)

Bowman: We have enough codes if you think we should leave.

Colonel Schraeder: Keep working. I want them all.

- seaQuest DSV, ventilation shaft -

(Crocker works with electrical wiring)

- seaQuest DSV, hallway -

(Ford disconnects a hull siphon and then is chased down nearby stairs by Jackson)

- seaQuest DSV, ventilation shaft -

(Crocker is still working on the wiring, which sparks as he connects two wires)

- seaQuest DSV, room -

Jonathan Ford: (enters, ducks behind table when Jackson enters and leaves) I can’t take long, I think they track my location when we talk.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) Whatever you do, don’t let Schraeder get off with what he’s stolen. I’ll stall him as long as I can.

Jonathan Ford: The hull siphons are disconnected. When I flood seaQuest, she will go down. I don’t know what to do about Lucas and the others.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) There’s nothing you can do, Commander. I know that. Good luck, Jonathan.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Katie Hitchcock: There are UEO ships all over the surface, and your vessel isn’t rated beyond five thousand feet. Where can you go?

Colonel Schraeder: Seven thousand Philippine islands packed closely together. I invite anyone to find me. How far away is the nearest UEO sub that could track us?

Katie Hitchcock: Three hundred miles. (Schraeder walks away)

Lucas Wolenczak: Why are you telling him the truth?

Katie Hitchcock: Because Commander Ford gave me an order.

Lucas Wolenczak: He could be dead, and you’re helping him anyway.

Katie Hitchcock: I don’t, I don’t expect you to understand, Lucas. I have to follow orders until I know for sure.

Lucas Wolenczak: Do you want me to tell the truth, too?

Katie Hitchcock: You do what comes naturally. Give him a hard time.

Colonel Schraeder: (screen beeps with incoming message, Schraeder nods for Bowman to answer it) What is it now, Captain?

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) I want to show you something.

Colonel Schraeder: Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River. It was so polluted it actually caught fire in the 1960s.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) That was a half century ago, Colonel. There’s been progress since then. Thousands of waterways have been reclaimed. The fact that industrial shut down codes even exist is evidence of that.

Colonel Schraeder: Is that supposed to convince me to quit today, Captain?

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) I was hoping you’d find another way to accomplish your goals.

Colonel Schraeder: Carbon tetrachlorides cause cancer; lead oxide deforms the unborn. There’s only one way to deal with that kind of madness.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) You’re not going to be seen as a savior, you’re going to be seen as some kind of a zealous nut. They’ll just rebuild on the ruins.

Colonel Schraeder: You think I’m worried about my reputation? What is the point? Wait a minute, you’re stalling me. Your Commander is doing something down there and you’re stalling me. Uncuff them, get ready to move.

Nathan Bridger: (on screen) They stay on the boat.

Colonel Schraeder: They’ll be fine, if you don’t do anything.

- seaQuest DSV, hallway, by Mag-lev sea valve -

Jonathan Ford: What are you doing here?

Ben Krieg: I came to open that sea valve.

Jonathan Ford: That’s my job Krieg. Climb a ladder out of here, that’s an order.

Ben Krieg: The senior officer in charge shall not put his life at risk when there is a capable substitute.

Jonathan Ford: I appreciate your volunteering, Ben, but I can’t let you take my place.

Ben Krieg: I got a few more reasons, Katie, Lucas -- if you die here, I don’t have the expertise to rescue them and save this ship.

Jonathan Ford: (shakes hands with Krieg, ducks down) It’s a laser sight, they found us. Stay put 'till I can cover you. (gun fight with Jackson) Krieg, go! (loses gun) Krieg, get out of here! Ben! (Krieg opens valve, water rushes in) Ben! (grabs Krieg’s hand, can’t hold on)

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Colonel Schraeder: (hears Darwin chatter) What the hell was that? (Lucas grabs vo-chorder)

Darwin: SeaQuest sinking. Water inside. Lucas, leave.

Katie Hitchcock: Get out of my way. We’re taking on water. E deck is completely submerged.

Colonel Schraeder: Wasn’t that the whole point of Bridger’s experiment? Shouldn’t those siphon things pump it dry?

Katie Hitchcock: Well they are not working. Somebody’s disabled them.

Colonel Schraeder: We’re out of here, now!

Lucas Wolenczak: Darwin, go, go free! Get off this ship!

- seaQuest DSV, hallway -

Colonel Schraeder: Jackson ... come in, Jackson. (goes down stairs) What are you doing here? Why aren’t you down in the launch bay?

Commando #7: I went to see what the noise was about. I almost got swept away. Everything below us is under water.

Colonel Schraeder: Come on.

- seaQuest DSV, launch bay -

Colonel Schraeder: Commander Ford, I have six men unaccounted for.

Jonathan Ford: It’s a big ship.

Colonel Schraeder: I don’t have time to explain, but I am not your enemy.

Jonathan Ford: Well, I can’t let you leave seaQuest.

Colonel Schraeder: I’m afraid that’s not your choice. (Crocker enters, collapses) Open the pressure hatch. (doesn't work, light flicker)

Commando #7: So