“The Devil’s Window”

Directed by: Les Landau

Written by: David J. Burke & Hans Tobeason

Summary: While investigating the secrets of bacteria living in “Black Smokers,” Darwin becomes sick, and Westphalen cannot help him. Distraught, Bridger contacts his old friend Malcolm Lansdowne, a dolphin specialist. He suggests letting Darwin go free with his pod. After this is done, Dr. Raleigh Young can finally finish his work, but not before Darwin returns, cured.

Guest Starring:

Roscoe Lee Browne as Dr. Raleigh Young

Richard Herd as Admiral William Noyce

Co-Starring:

Robert Engels as Malcolm Lansdowne

Sushil Tyagi as Helmsman

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.

- Equatorial Mid-Atlantic, depth 400 feet, seaQuest DSV, sea deck -

Raleigh Young: Beneath the crust of the Earth is an unimaginable heat, so hot, rock melts and seeps through the ground in a liquefied state. It’s a mile and a half beneath us, in a place no life should be able to exist. This is where we are about to go. We are about to reach into the birth canal of Mother Earth. There they are, look at them son, Black Smokers, tube worms. I’m a hungry man. Don’t blink, they’re a rare sight. (looks through some drawers, pulls out a frozen lobster) Ah, can you eat this?

Kristin Westphalen: There’s a thought.

Lucas Wolenczak: This is a hydrothermal vent, an underwater volcano; seawater ... lava ... smoke.

Raleigh Young: Yes.

Lucas Wolenczak: So what?

Raleigh Young: That smoke is laced with the Earth’s most carcinogenic minerals. When a factory dumps them in a river, the river dies. But here, here they’re dumped in their most concentrated form, yet around them grows life. Why? Is it the seawater, two tons per square inch of pressure, or is it something in the vent?

Kristin Westphalen: What’s in the vent are hundreds of species of bacteria we know nothing about.

Raleigh Young: They’re living creatures.

Kristin Westphalen: They’re deadly organisms.

Raleigh Young: Surviving organisms. We’re about to open the door on the how and why of their survival.

Kristin Westphalen: Or we’re about to open Pandora’s box.

Raleigh Young: Show me my platform, Nathan. (screen changes from bottom of ocean to platform under seaQuest) Beautiful, isn’t she? Once the platform is anchored over the vent, the heat emanating from the Smoker is transformed into energy, powering the platform’s survey systems. Spectral analysis, immunochemistry, thermal evaluations ... an absolute dissection of a yet unexplored habitat.

Nathan Bridger: It is exciting. I mean, if this thing works, we’ll know in weeks what normally would have taken years.

Raleigh Young: Exactly.

Nathan Bridger: On the other hand, we could end up at the bottom of the ocean in little tiny bits. SeaQuest wasn’t designed to haul around your fantasies, Raleigh. (looks at screen) Is that Darwin?

Lucas Wolenczak: I don’t know. I let him out to eat, he’s been roaming around since we got here.

Nathan Bridger: Call him back in, Lucas. (Lucas leaves)

Raleigh Young: We’re going where stone roils and shrieks defiance as it’s delivered into a gelatinous ooze swarming with the elements that cause life.

Kristin Westphalen: You can get off your soapbox now, Raleigh, the boy is gone.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the moon pool -

Lucas Wolenczak: (into vo-chorder) Darwin, Darwin, Darwin, Darwin...

- outside the seaQuest -

Crewman #1: (on radio) SeaQuest, this is sea crab one, container is ruptured, leaking core samples.

Crewman #2: (on radio) That’s poison, jettison container.

Crewman #1: (on radio) Affirmative.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Jonathan Ford: Boat stands ready, Captain.

Nathan Bridger: Take her down, Commander.

Jonathan Ford: Begin descent.

Nathan Bridger: Ya know, it’s aggravating enough diving through a thermocline without your platform attached to us, Raleigh. I don’t know how seaQuest is going to handle this.

Raleigh Young: Oh, she’ll rise to the occasion.

Nathan Bridger: One of our sea trucks was rising through that layer and ruptured the only sample container we had ready. I don’t think we should underestimate the severity of the temperature changes.

Raleigh Young: Are you losing your enthusiasm, Nathan?

Nathan Bridger: Not at all, just being realistic, that’s all.

Miguel Ortiz: Two hundred meters above the thermocline.

Tim O’Neill: Report, mount points positive.

Miguel Ortiz: WSKRS telemetry optimal.

Jonathan Ford: Position us at alpha point. Lateral strain?

Katie Hitchcock: Within tolerance.

Jonathan Ford: Mr. Ortiz?

Miguel Ortiz: Attitude trim and level.

Helmsman: Three hundred fifty meters; four hundred.

Miguel Ortiz: Shear force is increasing.

Jonathan Ford: Commander Hitchcock?

Katie Hitchcock: Within tolerance. (ship rocks, Darwin’s tank overflows)

Nathan Bridger: Close that tank.

Crewman: Aye, sir.

Katie Hitchcock: Hydrodynamic stress overload.

Helmsman: The helm is fighting, sir.

Jonathan Ford: Mr. Ortiz?

Miguel Ortiz: Shear at tolerable limits.

Katie Hitchcock: Captain, structural stress ninety-five percent.

Nathan Bridger: If you need to drop that platform, Commander–

Raleigh Young: You can’t drop my platform.

Kristin Westphalen: Raleigh. (restrains Young)

Nathan Bridger: Drop it if you need to.

Helmsman: Helm can’t hold depth, losing attitude control.

Miguel Ortiz: Rolling back through, yaw increasing.

Nathan Bridger: You wanna back off?

Jonathan Ford: Not yet, sir. Commander Hitchcock, would you join me at the helm?

Nathan Bridger: Go ahead, I’ll take it.

Katie Hitchcock: Thank you, sir.

Jonathan Ford: Clear first seats, please. (Ford and Hitchcock sit down) OK, forward planes neutral.

Katie Hitchcock: Planes neutral. Roll two degrees starboard.

Jonathan Ford: Midships’ planes, five degrees climb.

Katie Hitchcock: OK, five degrees.

Jonathan Ford: Countersteer rudders.

Miguel Ortiz: I’m getting green indicators.

Helmsman: Descending, five hundred fifty meters.

Miguel Ortiz: Stabilizing, the boat is clear and level.

Tim O’Neill: All indicators are green.

Helmsman: Six hundred meters, seaQuest is in position at alpha, Commander.

Jonathan Ford: (to Hitchcock) Way to go. Nice work.

Raleigh Young: Magnificent performance.

Nathan Bridger: Yes, but don’t expect an encore.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge, a little later -

Kristin Westphalen: Nathan, are you all right?

Nathan Bridger: I’m fine. A little warm.

Tim O’Neill: Captain!

Nathan Bridger: Something’s wrong. (sees Darwin, opens tank and gets in) Kristin!

Kristin Westphalen: Get him to sea deck, I’ll prep diagnostics.

Jonathan Ford: Quick, grab that rebreather. (O’Neill gets in tank, Ford and Hitchcock put rebreathers on Bridger and O’Neill)

Nathan Bridger: Let’s go.

Raleigh Young: Nathan! My platform! (follows Westphalen) Kristin, you can’t leave, you’re the senior science officer.

Kristin Westphalen: I’m also the chief physician.

- seaQuest DSV, Darwin’s tubes -

Tim O’Neill: I think Darwin talked to me, in my head, on the bridge.

Nathan Bridger: I heard it too, but it wasn’t clear.

Tim O’Neill: It scared me. (distraught) Where are we?

Nathan Bridger: I don’t know, I failed to put directions down here. Must be a design flaw.

Tim O’Neill: Well, what are we gonna do?

Nathan Bridger: It’s all right, Tim. We’re gonna dive down, below the wall. And the light is the continuation of the tunnel, all right?

Tim O’Neill: OK.

Nathan Bridger: All right, now Darwin, you’re gonna do the same thing. Gonna dive down, underneath the wall, and follow the tunnel to the end, swim to the end, all right? I think you better take a nice big breath. Here we go.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the moon pool -

Kristin Westphalen: Saline drip? Hypodermics? Good. Where are they?

- seaQuest DSV, Darwin’s tubes -

Tim O’Neill: It’s not working.

Nathan Bridger: Calm down, take it easy, take it easy. We’ve got ten minutes of air left. Now just breathe slower.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the moon pool -

Kristin Westphalen: OK, lower the hoist.

Crewman: That’s it, Mike, that’s it. Bring it around.

Lucas Wolenczak: (into vo-chorder) Darwin!

Crewman: Elevate it slowly, let’s keep him level.

Kristin Westphalen: Flip around, this end to me. Get that cradle done up. Where’s that hypodermic? Thank you. OK, hold still. (gives Darwin a shot)

Lucas Wolenczak: (into vo-chorder) Darwin. Darwin.

Nathan Bridger: You’re going to be all right, my friend.

Lucas Wolenczak: What’s wrong?

Nathan Bridger: You’re gonna be all right.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck -

Nathan Bridger: What’s the diagnosis?

Kristin Westphalen: We don’t have one, so I’m pumping him full of antibiotics and monitoring his vital systems. Shouldn’t you be on the bridge?

Nathan Bridger: Ford can handle that.

Kristin Westphalen: And Raleigh?

Nathan Bridger: Ford can handle him too. Thanks.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by moon pool -

Nathan Bridger: How you doing?

Lucas Wolenczak: I can’t get this to work.

Nathan Bridger: Let me see. (into vo-chorder) Darwin, what’s wrong?

Darwin: Darwin sick.

Nathan Bridger: Seems all right. What kind of sickness?

Darwin: Dark.

Nathan Bridger: What’s dark?

Darwin: Light is dark and one.

Lucas Wolenczak: He keeps saying that, “light is dark and one.” I have no idea what he’s talking about.

Nathan Bridger: Is it the computer, or is he really saying that?

Lucas Wolenczak: I don’t know. It’s beta software, and it’s not finished. I’m sorry, I’m just past the edge of what I understand here.

Nathan Bridger: That’s OK, come on, come on, you’re doing fine.

Tim O’Neill: (walking in) How is he?

Nathan Bridger: He’s sick, how ‘bout you?

Tim O’Neill: Um, can I pet him?

Nathan Bridger: Sure.

Tim O’Neill: I’m fluent in six languages, OK in a dozen more. But when Darwin talks or thinks at me, I feel like it’s coming at right angles. We have to let him go.

Nathan Bridger: The light is dark and one.

Tim O’Neill: Yes, sir.

- seaQuest DSV, Bridger’s room -

Nathan Bridger: (enters, looks in address book, changes his mind) I can’t call this man, he’s crazy. (comlink buzzes) Yes?

Kristin Westphalen: (on comlink as Young enters) Nathan, Darwin’s white cell count is extremely high and climbing. I don’t know if I can stabilize him.

Nathan Bridger: Well, what’s the matter with him?

Kristin Westphalen: (on comlink) It may be viral, it may be bacterial, I don’t know.

Nathan Bridger: Thank you.

Raleigh Young: Nathan, this project is much larger than tubeworms and Black Smokers. We’re reaching into the very skeletal system of the Earth. This (holds out thing) is a model of a magma buoy. It’s a ceramic alloy designed to withstand extreme levels of heat found in the subsurface river of lava. This is the most essential element of our mission.

Nathan Bridger: Why didn’t I know about this?

Raleigh Young: Has to remain classified until we get it in the magma flow, because we don’t know where or when it will spit out. Oh, Nathan, think of it, if this works...

Nathan Bridger: It can anticipate volcanic stresses, earthquakes.

Raleigh Young: Exactly.

Nathan Bridger: It’s brilliant, but it’s going to have to wait a few days.

Raleigh Young: But Nathan!

Nathan Bridger: A member of my crew is sick and that comes first. (walks out)

- seaQuest DSV, ward room -

Nathan Bridger: Come on, Downy, come on, come on. (screen shows kitchen) Malcolm, hello, Malcolm Lansdowne?

Malcolm Lansdowne: (voice on screen) Uh, I don’t know, he owe you money?

Nathan Bridger: It’s Nathan Bridger, you clown.

Malcolm Lansdowne: (appears on screen) Good heavens, Nathan, where have you been? Are you in jail?

Nathan Bridger: I’m on a submarine.

Malcolm Lansdowne: (on screen) Oh, yeah, right, right, I heard, seaQuest. Hey, I want ya to meet my mom. Mom. (pulls older lady into view on screen) Nathan, this is mom.

Nathan Bridger: Hi, mom.

Malcolm Lansdowne: (on screen, pulling two other men into view on the screen) Emile, Bill, don’t be shy, don’t be shy. Emile, Bill, meet Nathan.

Nathan Bridger: Hello, how are you?

Malcolm Lansdowne: (on screen) Family barbecue. Once a year sort of thing. Mom blimps over, stays the week, brings the cousins, enjoys the sunshine.

Nathan Bridger: Malcolm, listen to me, Darwin is very sick. I think he may be dying.

Malcolm Lansdowne: (seriously, on screen) Let me get this in the other room. (leaves screen, everyone stands looking uncomfortable; screen changes) Symptoms?

Nathan Bridger: Elevated white cell count, his color is off, fever. My medical chief thinks it’s bacterial or viral.

Malcolm Lansdowne: (on screen) Usually takes a postmortem to tell. Where’s he been?

Nathan Bridger: On seaQuest mainly.

Malcolm Lansdowne: (on screen) Contact with other dolphins?

Nathan Bridger: No, not that I’m aware of.

Malcolm Lansdowne: (on screen) Exactly what part of what oceans have you been in recently? There was a red tide off the Yucatan.

Nathan Bridger: No, nowhere near that.

Malcolm Lansdowne: (on screen) Bad oil spill in Bahrain.

Nathan Bridger: No, we’ve been in the Equatorial Mid-Atlantic.

Malcolm Lansdowne: (on screen) I need to see him, Nathan.

Nathan Bridger: Well can’t you–

Malcolm Lansdowne: (on screen) You’re just around the corner. I need to see him.

Nathan Bridger: I’ll get back to you.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Nathan Bridger: (entering) Where are we?

Jonathan Ford: Twenty meters off the sea bed, two hours to get the platform down, eight to ten to secure it.

Nathan Bridger: Can we release the platform now?

Jonathan Ford: I suppose so.

Raleigh Young: Are you mad? We can’t drop it, the placement’s critical.

Nathan Bridger: It’s right over the Black Smoker, exactly where it’s supposed to be. Let it go.

Raleigh Young: Nathan.

Nathan Bridger: It’s not going anywhere, Raleigh.

Raleigh Young: No, you will not. (Ford stops him, Bridger hits button, dropping platform)

Nathan Bridger: Set course for Caicos Key. (leaves)

Raleigh Young: (follows Bridger) Nathan! Who gave you the authority? You can’t play God! (both enter Mag-lev) I’ve invested years, teams of scientists, billions of dollars, the UEO, for what? So that you could toss it away for a dolphin?

Nathan Bridger: A member of my crew.

Raleigh Young: In some parts of the world, that crewmember is an ingredient in bouillabaisse. (follows Bridger as he enters sea deck) You’re not a scientist. You’re a self-absorbed, egomaniacal dictator. This boat isn’t your personal fiefdom.

Nathan Bridger: Look him in the eye.

Raleigh Young: I’ll do no such thing.

Nathan Bridger: Look him in the eye. (Young looks)

Darwin: Light is dark and one. (Young thinks, and leaves)

- seaQuest DSV, ward room -

Raleigh Young: Relieve him of command. He’s ... irrational.

William Noyce: (on screen) Commander Ford?

Jonathan Ford: I don’t agree, Admiral.

William Noyce: (on screen) Doctor Westphalen?

Kristin Westphalen: He’s distraught, withdrawn, even belligerent, but not irrational.

William Noyce: (on screen) Doctor Young, I, I promise, your project won’t suffer for a few days’ wait.

Raleigh Young: I can’t be snowed with promises, Admiral. I’ll go to Secretary General Dre. I’ll not be given the run-around by a flock of vapid lackeys.

William Noyce: (on screen) I’ll wait for your apology, Doctor.

Raleigh Young: (looks around) Very well, I’m sorry.

William Noyce: (on screen) Thank you. I share your concerns, but Captain Bridger must have a good reason for his actions.

Raleigh Young: He most certainly does – he’s lost his mind. Driving all over the sea searching for spiritual dolphin healing. I’m sorry I didn’t bring my own personal astrologer along.

William Noyce: (on screen) Doctor Young, Captain Bridger retains my full confidence. Until I see good reason to think otherwise, his decisions are final aboard seaQuest. Thank you, and good day. (screen goes blank)

Raleigh Young: (angrily, while pushing buttons) Get me the Secretary General. I want to speak to Secretary Dre. Which one of these buttons...

Kristin Westphalen: (trying to restrain him and taking his pulse at the same time) You had better lie down, you’re going to give yourself a heart attack.

Miguel Ortiz: (over loudspeaker) Commander Ford.

Jonathan Ford: Ford here.

Miguel Ortiz: (over loudspeaker) We’re at the Caicos Key’s outer sonar ring, sir.

Kristin Westphalen: Commander, could Chief Ortiz please send the WSKRS to give us something tranquil to look at?

Jonathan Ford: Chief?

Miguel Ortiz: (over loudspeaker) I have one near a reef right now, channel seven bravo.

Jonathan Ford: Thank you.

Kristin Westphalen: Thanks. Come on, please sit down for a while. Come on. (moves Young to chair in corner) There we go. There we go. There we are. I am going to dial up an outside view, some soft music, that’s better.

Raleigh Young: Everyone’s abandoned me. My whole life, whatever it was, if I didn’t clutch on like a drowning man I’d lose it.

Kristin Westphalen: You’ve accomplished a great deal, don’t go popping a vessel now. You won’t be around to enjoy it.

Raleigh Young: How can I stop struggling now?

Kristin Westphalen: (whispering) You just relax, you just relax.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, moon pool -

Nathan Bridger: Be strong, my friend.

Darwin: Darwin understands.

Nathan Bridger: Understands what?

Darwin: Darwin sick, Bridger hurts.

Nathan Bridger: Yes.

Darwin: Why?

Nathan Bridger: I want you to be well.

Darwin: Light is dark except...

Nathan Bridger: Except, what does that mean, except?

Darwin: Bridger is family.

Nathan Bridger: You’re family too. You really are.

Darwin: Darwin loves Bridger.

Nathan Bridger: I love you too.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by the moon pool -

Kristin Westphalen: OK, let’s go. Nice and gently. Take the IV, please. Stop ... and lower.

- Caicos Key Dolphin Research Center -

Malcolm Lansdowne: My, don’t you look terrible. A little elbowroom here please, nothing you haven’t seen before. (looks in Darwin’s blowhole) Well, the breath’s not bad, it’s not respiratory.

Kristin Westphalen: I’ve done a complete blood history.

Malcolm Lansdowne: And you’ve got him on antibiotics.

Kristin Westphalen: Including cyclines, and sulfas...

Malcolm Lansdowne: And you got no response from white cell count or T-cells?

Kristin Westphalen: That’s right.

Malcolm Lansdowne: Well, it doesn’t make my life any easier. Watch out, watch out, watch out. Get a urine sample. Marine veterinary medicine is about as sophisticated as voodoo. (Westphalen laughs) Uh, Nathan, why don’t you all get a bite to eat in the kitchen. I’ll find you later.

Nathan Bridger: Thanks, Downy. (all go to leave)

Malcolm Lansdowne: (stops Westphalen) Doctor Westphalen, I could use your help.

- seaQuest DSV, ward room -

Raleigh Young: (knock on door) Come in.

Jonathan Ford: (entering) You all right, Doctor?

Raleigh Young: Just fine, thank you.

Jonathan Ford: I thought you might like some lunch.

Raleigh Young: That would be nice.

Jonathan Ford: You’re sure you’re all right?

Raleigh Young: Commander, I assure you, I’m just fine. (Ford leaves)

- Caicos Key Dolphin Research Center -

Malcolm Lansdowne: Nathan, (Bridger walks over) come walk with me. (Bridger and Lansdowne go to beach)

Nathan Bridger: He’s going to die, isn’t he?

Malcolm Lansdowne: I think so. I looked at, uh, Doctor Westphalen’s results. I’ll know more in a few hours, but, uh, I wouldn’t expect much. It’s just that we’ve learned so little about how they heal themselves. I wish I could tell you otherwise. (they reach a shack) So, you want a beer?

Nathan Bridger: Sure.

Malcolm Lansdowne: (enters shack and reappears with two beers; looks down the beach) Is that Raleigh Young?

Nathan Bridger: He’s been aboard the seaQuest running a project for a couple of weeks. I really feel sorry for Lucas. Darwin’s the closest thing he’s had to a pal, it’s going to be very hard on him. Raleigh, you know Malcolm Lansdowne. (shake hands)

Lucas Wolenczak: Well I guess I’ll be heading back.

Malcolm Lansdowne: Why don’t you ask him to stay, Nathan?

Nathan Bridger: Lucas, stick around.

Malcolm Lansdowne: Yeah, sure, sit down. I’ll get ya a beer.

Nathan Bridger: He’s only sixteen, Downy.

Malcolm Lansdowne: I’ll get him two. (goes inside)

Raleigh Young: (sitting down) Nathan, I understand why you’ve done what you’ve done. I don’t agree with it, but I understand it. I’ll suffer the wait.

Nathan Bridger: Thanks, Raleigh.

Raleigh Young: How long?

Nathan Bridger: Raleigh.

Malcolm Lansdowne: (reappears in doorway of shack) So, what would we like to hear ... blues, New Orleans jazz, zydeco ... I haven’t bought anything new since they stopped making CD’s.

Raleigh Young: Not to be rhetorical, but where are we? Don’t you have island music?

Malcolm Lansdowne: Tourist. (comes out of shack and over to the table, giving each person a bottle) Jamaican ginger beer, no alcohol, plenty of bite.

Raleigh Young: Thank you. Is your dolphin going to die?

Nathan Bridger: (looks at Lucas) Probably.

Raleigh Young: How long?

Nathan Bridger: I don’t know. Death doesn’t punch a clock.

Tim O’Neill: Can’t you feel anything when you look at Darwin? Don’t you know he’s a thinking, and feeling creature that’s hurt and scared?

Raleigh Young: The importance of my work–

Tim O’Neill: Your work is an inanimate object. You’re a selfish old man.

Malcolm Lansdowne: Boys, boys. You strip away the education, the billions of dollars worth of machinery, what do ya got? Us. A couple of bucks worth of chemicals. Who understands any of it?

Raleigh Young: To life.

Nathan Bridger: And death.

Malcolm Lansdowne: To beer. (O’Neill gives him a strange look)

Lucas Wolenczak: The light is dark, and one.

Malcolm Lansdowne: What?

Nathan Bridger: Lucas is our computer whiz. He’s designed a program to translate Darwin’s clicks and whistles.

Malcolm Lansdowne: You mean he can speak and understand English?

Lucas Wolenczak: A little bit, sometimes, it’s experimental.

Malcolm Lansdowne: Amazing. What does he say?

Nathan Bridger: Since he’s been sick, all he says is “light is dark and one.”

Malcolm Lansdowne: Incredible, knowledge is light.

Nathan Bridger: Than darkness is the absence of knowledge. He’s faced with losing everything he knows.

Malcolm Lansdowne: And one?

Nathan Bridger: And one is alone. “Light is dark and one.” He doesn’t want to die alone. (Lansdowne nods his head in agreement)

Tim O’Neill: We have to let him go.

Lucas Wolenczak: He’s too weak to swim.

Malcolm Lansdowne: No, no, no, dolphins will support a member of their pod if they’re hurt. You can find Darwin’s pod, his community, and return him to it. You didn’t find him far from here.

Lucas Wolenczak: His pod could be anywhere within hundreds of miles from here.

Malcolm Lansdowne: Find the signature whistles, you’ve got Darwin’s recorded. Search for familial similarities.

Tim O’Neill: We can configure the sonar.

Lucas Wolenczak: I could program the computers.

Raleigh Young: Try, Nathan, you must.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Nathan Bridger: Status, Mr. Ortiz?

Miguel Ortiz: Feeding acoustic data directly into Communications.

Nathan Bridger: Lieutenant?

Tim O’Neill: We’re getting responses, Captain, but there’s nothing even close. There’s a pod out there, but it’s not Darwin’s.

Lucas Wolenczak: This is amazing, when dolphins bear their young, the females usually stay with their mother; their signature whistles change slightly so they can tell each other apart. The males usually leave; their whistles don’t change so they can find their way back home again.

Nathan Bridger: (into comlink) How’s he doing?

Kristin Westphalen: (on sea deck, in moon pool with Darwin, into PAL) He hears the whistles, but he doesn’t seem to care.

Miguel Ortiz: WSKRS five at the limit of its range Captain.

Nathan Bridger: Send it west.

Kristin Westphalen: (on sea deck, in moon pool with Darwin, PAL) Nathan, Nathan something’s happening.

Nathan Bridger: Repeat Darwin’s call.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, in the moon pool -

Kristin Westphalen: Oh!

Scientist: Steady.

Kristin Westphalen: Oh! Careful, careful. Oh, quick, get him, get him.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Tim O’Neill: This has to be his pod, it has to be. (compares data with Lucas) Captain, I think we found Darwin’s mother.

Nathan Bridger: Darwin’s mother for sure?

Tim O’Neill: According to the text.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, in the moon pool -

Scientist #1: Underneath, underneath.

Scientist #2: Come on, let’s go.

Kristin Westphalen: Stay still, baby. Stay still.

Scientist #1: All right, I got him in the back here.

Kristin Westphalen: Darwin.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Miguel Ortiz: The dolphin pod is moving towards us, Captain.

Nathan Bridger: Let’s meet ‘em half way.

Kristin Westphalen: (on comlink) Nathan, get down here.

Nathan Bridger: (into comlink) What’s wrong?

Kristin Westphalen: (on comlink) Darwin’s having a seizure. We can’t restrain him, he’s going to hurt himself, or us.

Nathan Bridger: (into comlink) On my way.

Tim O’Neill: Uh, Captain?

Nathan Bridger: Come on. (leaves with Lucas and O’Neill)

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck, by moon pool -

Scientist: Let’s go, watch his head.

Nathan Bridger: (running in as group struggles with Darwin) All right we can let him go, let him go. Everyone out, everyone get out. Open the pressure door, and turn off the sonar relay.

Darwin: Bridger, Bridger.

Nathan Bridger: Just go, go. (Darwin swims away) Shut the door, pressurize the moon pool.

Jonathan Ford: (over loudspeaker) Captain, we’re approaching the pod.

Nathan Bridger: Thank you, Commander. Open the hull doors, let him out of the boat. (all go to screen and watch sadly as Darwin swims out)

Tim O’Neill: (as Bridger turns to go) Captain, it’s the WSKRS that followed the pod.

Lucas Wolenczak: That’s Darwin, where are they taking him?

Nathan Bridger: I don’t know.

Tim O’Neill: Should I have the WSKRS follow them, Captain?

Nathan Bridger: No, no, we’ve delayed Doctor Young long enough. Commander?

Jonathan Ford: (over loudspeaker) Captain?

Nathan Bridger: Set a course for the Black Smoker.

Jonathan Ford: (over loudspeaker) Aye, sir.

Lucas Wolenczak: Do you think they can help him?

Nathan Bridger: I couldn’t even guess. But at least he’s going home.

- seaQ