“Treasure of the Mind”

Directed by: Bryan Spicer

Written by: David Kemper

Summary: While on a mission in the Mediterranean Sea, the crew discovers a preserved annex of the great Library of Alexandria. After pulling ancient artifacts from the annex, someone leaks the discovery to the outside world and the nations lay claim to them, sending their military forces to secure their recovery. The UEO sends in a team of parapsychologists with the double purpose of helping at the negotiations and finding the leak.

Guest Starring:

Topol as Rafik Hassan

Turhan Bey as Dimitri Rossovich

Gene Ross as Louis Jacobi

Lindsay Frost as Savannah Rossovich

Richard Herd as Admiral William Noyce

Co-Starring:

Erick Avari as Libyan Representative

Vachik Mangassarian as Tunisian Representative

Featuring:

Bruce Klassen as Ensign Bacher

Sam Armato as Papal Emissary

Sandra Kinder as Italian Representative

Patricia Herd as Janet Noyce

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.

- Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, seaQuest DSV, sea deck -

Scientist #1: Careful as you come up, that’s it, keep it level. Loosen your grip there on the starboard side.

Scientist #2: Yes, sir.

Scientist #1: All right, two people can pass off. That thing, grab on to it, easy now. Three feet, two feet...

Scientist #2: Secure on top, sir.

Scientist #1: All right, keep it rolling. Keep it level.

Kristin Westphalen: (looking at artifacts retrieved from the bottom of the sea) This is completely remarkable.

Nathan Bridger: What do you say we find out what’s really down there?

- sea crab, outside seaQuest DSV -

Jonathan Ford: Still swinging into position, Captain. This hose is a lot heavier than it looks. I need a few more minutes before we start blowing away the sand.

Nathan Bridger: (over radio) Just keep me informed.

- seaQuest DSV, sea deck -

Nathan Bridger: Dr. Hassan.

Rafik Hassan: Yes.

Nathan Bridger: What do you think?

Rafik Hassan: Well, this is fifth century BC, Phoenician, the inscription could be Punic. Now that glass perfume jar looks first century AD, Roman. And here we have–

Nathan Bridger: Clay tablet.

Rafik Hassan: Yes, just like Moses and the Ten Commandments, only these are probably Sumerian, they were the first to write in cuneiform. (Bridger picks up an artifact) Remarkable, isn’t it? A menorah from ancient Judea. And here, thousands of years before Christianity, Isis, the goddess who promised an afterlife richer than this one.

Nathan Bridger: She was the patron of sailors, too.

Rafik Hassan: Leave it to a sailor to know that. However, all these cross too many centuries, too many cultures.

Kristin Westphalen: Mm hmm, yes, it’s unlikely that this is just the spilled guts of an ancient trading ship.

Nathan Bridger: Either of you care to take a guess?

Jonathan Ford: (over loudspeaker) In position, Captain.

Nathan Bridger: (walks over to comlink) Bridge?

Katie Hitchcock: (on bridge) We’re good to go, sir.

Nathan Bridger: All right, let’s see how this contraption of yours works. (looking at screen) Commander Ford?

Jonathan Ford: (in sea crab, ecstatically) Yee ha!

Nathan Bridger: Yee ha?

Jonathan Ford: (in sea crab, excitedly) Give me more, Katie, give me more.

Katie Hitchcock: (on bridge) OK.

Nathan Bridger: Commander, switch to your WSKRS view.

Kristin Westphalen: (amazed) My God, it’s ... but, but this was presumed to have been completely destroyed.

Nathan Bridger: Is that what we think it is?

Rafik Hassan: It’s the song of my ancestors, singing out across the centuries. That’s the Great Library of Alexandria.

- seaQuest DSV, ward room -

Rafik Hassan: The Great Library was actually a series of structures, each with a specialized function.

Kristin Westphalen: It appears that this was their receiving facility, their customs office if you will. Even antiquity had its red tape.

Rafik Hassan: In forty-seven BC, while Cleopatra ruled the Nile, Julius Caesar, mad with conquest, besieged our city, and set fire to the Library. But it was rebuilt and flourished for another two hundred years. Then, in one hundred fifty-one AD a gigantic earthquake shook the area.

Jonathan Ford: And you think a quake could put an entire building thirty feet beneath the sea, totally intact?

Kristin Westphalen: Mm hmm. Liquefaction, a cataclysmic event can momentarily turn sand into quicksand.

Nathan Bridger: And nothing we’ve recovered carbon-dates beyond that time?

Rafik Hassan: Though the main library was actually intact for another century and a half until it was destroyed by my own people in a civil war, this time capsule has been patiently awaiting for our arrival.

Kristin Westphalen: And when word gets out, Eqyptologists will descend from all over the globe.

Nathan Bridger: They’re already here, claiming artifacts for their own museums.

Jonathan Ford: Ships from Italy, Greece, Syria arrived this morning, with at least seven other nations on their way.

Kristin Westphalen: How did they find out so fast?

Nathan Bridger: Well, we’re, uh, looking into that.

Rafik Hassan: Captain, think of the great excavations of our time. Pompeii, Chichen Itza, the great buildings at Baalbek; each deals with one era, one civilization. They are but slices of history

Nathan Bridger: Your point, Doctor?

Rafik Hassan: This discovery encompasses history. Use your ship to preserve it, chase away the looting hordes, please.

Nathan Bridger: But it’s your government that’s given these ships passage.

Rafik Hassan: Politicians would carve this treasure for so many hungry mouths. These are the children of artists, of poets, don’t orphan them again.

Nathan Bridger: Put Stingers and speeders on twenty-four hour alert. No unauthorized visitors.

Rafik Hassan: Thank you.

Tim O’Neill: (over loudspeaker) Captain, Admiral Noyce on the line.

Nathan Bridger: May I take this in private, please?

Rafik Hassan: Sure. (to Westphalen as they leave) And you thought I would bore him.

Kristin Westphalen: He was just being polite.

William Noyce: (on screen) How are things in the eye of the hurricane, Nathan?

Nathan Bridger: Well, we still can’t find the leak, Bill, and I don’t know how the information’s getting off the boat.

William Noyce: (on screen) There isn’t a confederation out there that didn’t know seaQuest was going to Alexandria. You might as well issue orders by press conference.

Nathan Bridger: We’ve screened everybody aboard the seaQuest twice.

William Noyce: (on screen) All right, we’ll run another check at headquarters. In the meantime, Egypt has agreed to host a conference on the Library. You’re to remain and mediate.

Nathan Bridger: I know more about dentistry than I know about mediation.

William Noyce: (on screen) I’m sending a specialized negotiations team.

Nathan Bridger: Good, who are they?

William Noyce: (on screen) Gifted assets, trust their judgment.

Nathan Bridger: So what does that mean?

William Noyce: (on screen) You’re not gonna like it, Nathan, but believe me, they’ve, uh, proven their worth, many times over.

Nathan Bridger: So who are they?

William Noyce: (on screen) Parapsychologists, ESP.

Nathan Bridger: Oh.

- seaQuest DSV, launch bay -

Ensign Bacher: Mmmm. (pounding head)

Manilow Crocker: Seaman, what are you doing?

Ensign Bacher: Um, I don’t want my mind read, sir.

Manilow Crocker: I don’t think you’ve got a thing to worry about. Now why don’t you get back to work on your duties, huh? Right now. (Bacher walks off, another crewman walks by humming) Hey. (follows crewman)

- seaQuest DSV, Lucas’s room -

Lucas Wolenczak: (swimming behind Hitchcock, sits up in bed) Oh wow.

- seaQuest DSV, launch bay -

man on PA: Sea launch MR-7 arriving, docking bay three. Sea launch MR-7...

Manilow Crocker: Mr. Rossovich, Chief Crocker. (shakes hands) Nice to have you aboard, sir. Miss Rossovich, (shakes hands) my pleasure.

Louis Jacobi: Hey, stop pushing. (appears by stairs leading to launch)

Manilow Crocker: Are you all right, sir?

Louis Jacobi: I’m just taking a break is all. (looks at Rossovich) And I’m happy with my weight so get off my back will you.

Dimitri Rossovich: Did I say anything, Louis?

Louis Jacobi: You didn’t have to.

Manilow Crocker: Can I give you a hand, sir?

Louis Jacobi: You read my mind.

- seaQuest DSV, hallway -

Manilow Crocker: The seaQuest is over a thousand feet long, we support a complement of around two hundred twenty crew members, course that could be doubled if–

Savannah Rossovich: Hey, Papa, look.

Manilow Crocker: Yes, ma’am, that’s Darwin.

Dimitri Rossovich: The talking dolphin, we’ve been fully briefed before boarding, Chief. I know many classified secrets.

Manilow Crocker: Oh, of course, sir. Why don’t we cut through here on our way to the, uh–

Louis Jacobi: The ward room? (looks up)

Manilow Crocker: (looks up as well) Yes, the, uh, ward room. This way.

- seaQuest DSV, gym -

Manilow Crocker: (entering) Now, while you’re on board, Captain Bridger wants you to have total access to all of our facilities. This of course is our gym, and through this door over here is the officers’ mess where you’ll have full privileges also. (exits)

Savannah Rossovich: (to Lucas) Naked Hitchcock?

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Katie Hitchcock: (operating the HR Probe) Tell me I’m seeing this. Look at these columns, everything is so well preserved.

Nathan Bridger: What’s that over there?

Katie Hitchcock: (operating the HR Probe) What? Where?

Jonathan Ford: I think I saw it too. Here, back up a little.

Katie Hitchcock: (operating the HR Probe) It’s a crack in the wall.

Jonathan Ford: What is that?

Katie Hitchcock: (operating the HR Probe) Air.

Nathan Bridger: The dome has formed an air pocket. It’s possible the room upstairs is preserved.

Katie Hitchcock: (operating the HR Probe) I can’t get a clear image, my lenses are only designed to see through water.

Jonathan Ford: Sir, request permission to ... un–unless of course you prefer to be the first one over there.

Nathan Bridger: That’s exactly what I’d like, but I’ve got to greet our friends from the UEO. Why don’t you take Doctor Westphalen, follow archaeological procedures, and treat this as a wreck dive for safety purposes.

Jonathan Ford: Aye, sir. Thank you, sir.

Tim O’Neill: Israeli patrol boat, this is the seaQuest, please bear heading...

Nathan Bridger: Nice to see the boy so excited about exploration.

Tim O’Neill: Captain, a Lebanese warship has just arrived claiming all Phoenician artifacts. It’s like a parking lot up there.

Nathan Bridger: Do the best you can, Lieutenant.

Tim O’Neill: (into radio) This is a no anchorage zone. Please stay in formation to the ship in front of you. SeaQuest out.

- seaQuest DSV, ward room -

Nathan Bridger: Well, everyone’s blindly staking claims to archaeological treasure based on archaic ties. Greece wants everything that’s Macedonian; Tunisia wants what’s Carthaginian; Algeria, Numidian.

Dimitri Rossovich: Excuse me, Captain, we are not here for a history lesson.

Savannah Rossovich: Papa.

Dimitri Rossovich: I need to know the politics.

Nathan Bridger: These are the politics. And you’ve been around long enough to know that national pride is not an ingredient in compromise. That’s why I accepted your help.

Dimitri Rossovich: I was not under the impression that you had a choice.

Nathan Bridger: Do I look like a man who doesn’t have choices? You are aware that your presence creates uneasiness.

Dimitri Rossovich: We are not a parlor act, Captain, our discipline takes too much effort to waste.

Louis Jacobi: And even then it’s potluck.

Nathan Bridger: Is there anything special that I can do to make your people comfortable?

Dimitri Rossovich: A quiet place to prepare, we’ve been traveling since yesterday morning.

Nathan Bridger: Chief Crocker will show you to your quarters. (all get up to leave)

Dimitri Rossovich: Savannah.

Savannah Rossovich: I’ll be right along, papa.

Dimitri Rossovich: This is where she apologizes for her father’s behavior.

Manilow Crocker: Gentlemen, this way. (all leave except Savannah and Bridger)

Savannah Rossovich: I would say he’s usually not so rude, but I’d be lying.

Nathan Bridger: I’ll try and cut him some slack. I suppose you still encounter some fear around your special abilities.

Savannah Rossovich: Some people think we’re going to steal their minds. Usually we don’t say anything at all about the psi factor – that’s our word for ESP.

Nathan Bridger: Anything beyond the five senses?

Savannah Rossovich: Do we make you nervous Captain? I can’t tell.

Nathan Bridger: I don’t get nervous any more.

Savannah Rossovich: Do you believe in what we do?

Nathan Bridger: I’m not sure what you do.

Savannah Rossovich: Well, won’t you be surprised. (walks away)

- Library of Alexandria -

Jonathan Ford: Well the air is stale, but breathable.

Kristin Westphalen: After two millennia.

Jonathan Ford: We could pump fresh oxygen in.

Kristin Westphalen: Slowly, everything could deteriorate if we don’t stabilize for humidity.

Jonathan Ford: What’s in all these pots?

Kristin Westphalen: Books, that’s how they stored their scrolls for transport.

Jonathan Ford: (laughs) I’ve never discovered anything before.

Kristin Westphalen: Well you certainly started at the top, Commander.

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

Jonathan Ford: Be careful with it now.

Nathan Bridger: I think I’m on the verge of losing my executive officer.

Kristin Westphalen: (swimming toward Bridger) You gave him to me.

Nathan Bridger: As a loan, not as a gift.

Kristin Westphalen: Well that’s a pity, the brainwash’s almost complete, he’s forgotten he’s in the military, he thinks he’s Jacques Cousteau.

Jonathan Ford: Captain, look at this, a two thousand year old library book.

Rafik Hassan: I expect we’ll find a papyrus scroll inside written with vegetable dye ink. It could be anything from and early version of the Bible to a treatise by Aristotle.

Nathan Bridger: I think it’s important that some of these go to the conference.

Jonathan Ford: Don’t they have to be treated or something first?

Kristin Westphalen: Well, anything that’s been in seawater needs to be desalinated, but these things were taken from the dome. They were never wet, and they are fragile, but they could travel.

Nathan Bridger: Why don’t we prepare a sample of what we have?

Kristin Westphalen: Right. (swims off with others leaving Bridger alone)

Nathan Bridger: (Darwin swims over, Bridger looks up to see Savannah) Miss Rossovich, have you met Ensign Darwin?

Savannah Rossovich: Not officially. And it’s Savannah.

Nathan Bridger: Savannah, like Georgia?

Savannah Rossovich: (walking over to moon pool) My father was born in Soviet Georgia, he liked the symmetry. Well, hello, Darwin.

Darwin: Melon lady.

Savannah Rossovich: Would that be cantaloupe or honeydew?

Nathan Bridger: Melon is what we call this part of a dolphin’s head. It’s a very sensitive transmitting station. You and he just made a connection.

Savannah Rossovich: Can I ask you a question?

Nathan Bridger: Sure.

Savannah Rossovich: Did you call him down here?

Nathan Bridger: No, he comes when he wants to.

Savannah Rossovich: Well, I couldn’t help but notice, it seemed like you were expecting him.

Nathan Bridger: Well, he always finds me when I’m in the water; he either hears me or picks me up on his sonar.

Savannah Rossovich: Can’t you just ask him?

Nathan Bridger: Well, our thought processes are a little different. The words are there but sometimes the meaning is elusive.

Darwin: Bridger rub.

Nathan Bridger: (laughs) And sometimes it isn’t.

Lucas Wolenczak: (coming over) Hey, Darwin, wanna go for a swim outside?

Nathan Bridger: Exploring, alone?

Lucas Wolenczak: Well, yeah, I... (leans over to Bridger) maybe I could catch a ride with an excavation detail, you know, kinda go under their supervision.

Nathan Bridger: Asking permission would be a good idea, you may be surprised and get what you want.

Lucas Wolenczak: May I go to the library, please?

Nathan Bridger: Yeah.

Lucas Wolenczak: Thanks. (leaves)

Nathan Bridger: What can we expect from your team at the conference today?

Savannah Rossovich: Well, we’re not mind readers, we have extrasensory perception. It’s like really good intuition. We’ll offer insights and feelings, sometimes best guesses, but you’ll be surprised how often we’re right.

Nathan Bridger: What happens when you’re wrong?

- secure compound, Alexandria, Egypt, conference -

Nathan Bridger: Ladies and gentlemen, please. Thank you. The purpose of negotiation is to discuss what’s fair for everyone.

Libyan Representative: Then return my forefathers’ possessions.

Nathan Bridger: Mr. Kaakos, I promise you, that no one will leave here empty handed.

Libyan Representative: Don’t offer me tokens when Egypt has a major tourist attraction on her soil.

Rafik Hassan: We’ve already said we’ll split the profits. Please, don’t make this about money.

Tunisian Representative: It is about imperialism, how Egypt has raped our flourishing culture of its art.

Rafik Hassan: Read your history, it was the Romans who homogenized the region.

Italian Representative: That’s ancient, let’s focus on today.

Libyan Representative: Oh, that’s a good idea. (all start talking at once)

Nathan Bridger: (turns to his group) If we can’t get a consensus from the moderates, we may as well go home now.

Savannah Rossovich: The Italians are only interested in scientific access.

Dimitri Rossovich: All I get from the Algerian is a sense of traveling over and over.

Kristin Westphalen: Traveling collection? It’s how museums spread their wealth.

Nathan Bridger: Something bothering you, Louis?

Louis Jacobi: Is anyone else hot? The Moroccan, he just got married. He’ll agree to anything as long as he gets to go home.

Nathan Bridger: Whenever you’re finished. (all quiet down) Thank you. Let’s try to keep this informal, but progressive.

Tunisian Representative: What business does UEO have here anyway? The books in that library come from our forefathers’ hands, our ancestors.

Nathan Bridger: This is a heritage that can be passed on to the whole planet.

Libyan Representative: And what about Libya’s heritage, how do we pass on that which is in Egyptian hands?

Nathan Bridger: Nothing is going to be confiscated. Qualified scholars from all nations will be accredited to the site.

Italian Representative: I’ll second that.

Nathan Bridger: We should also try to reach a consensus about traveling museum collections.

Savannah Rossovich: Greeks know much of what’s found will be theirs, they demand restitution.

Dimitri Rossovich: Same with the Israelis.

Nathan Bridger: We should also be open to the possibility of paying for artifacts left on display. (to Dimitri) You’ve got me feeling a little omnipotent.

Dimitri Rossovich: Caution, we are not infallible.

Nathan Bridger: Any word on the Tunisian?

Dimitri Rossovich: Blind hatred; if he can’t have the Library for himself, he’d rather see it destroyed.

Libyan Representative: We have not received a thing, not a thing, sir. And I’m tired of your meddling.

Nathan Bridger: (sees Hassan and Libyan fighting) Sit down! There’s more history buried at the bottom of the ocean than all the museums of the world combined. We have got to realize that we can either be nurtured by it, or cannibalize it.

Libyan Representative: Transparent conspiracy.

Rafik Hassan: Why must you continue demanding that the library be broken up? We are so close to agreement.

Libyan Representative: No, we are nowhere near agreement. You hammer out details till I want to vomit, but you don’t deal with my problems.

Nathan Bridger: We tried, but you weren’t willing to compromise.

Libyan Representative: Who said compromise is the solution?

Nathan Bridger: The consensus is to hold the Library together.

Italian Representative: Art should be for everyone, Mr. Kaakos.

Rafik Hassan: Trust us, we’ll take care of this as if it were our own.

Libyan Representative: I thank Egypt for preserving my people’s treasures under their seabed, but we would have them returned. Either that, or you may continue without me.

Dimitri Rossovich: He’s bluffing.

Nathan Bridger: He’s got me convinced he’s gonna walk. Uh, Mr. Kaakos, the artifacts in this library have been together since before the Christian calendar, I’m sorry, but it doesn’t make any sense to break them up now.

Libyan Representative: Well I do not recognize your authority in this matter, Captain. My country will take whatever action is necessary to recover what is ours. Good day. (gets up and leaves)

Nathan Bridger: Mr. Crocker, alert Commander Ford, have him double our surveillance.

Manilow Crocker: Aye, aye, Cap.

Nathan Bridger: (getting up) Doctor.

- seaQuest DSV, Savannah’s room -

Dimitri Rossovich: (entering) You cannot go to Bridger.

Savannah Rossovich: You knew the Libyan would leave the tent. Why did you lie, papa?

Dimitri Rossovich: I won’t be around forever, Savannah.

Savannah Rossovich: Don’t give me a life lesson now, answer my question.

Dimitri Rossovich: I’m trying to. When your mother and I fled the old Soviet Union before you were born, circumstances forced us into desperate action. I have reached such a point in my life again.

Savannah Rossovich: Why did–

Dimitri Rossovich: It’s for your own good I do not tell you.

Savannah Rossovich: Bridger will know that you lied to him. He has a strong psi factor, I’ve seen him use it.

Dimitri Rossovich: But he doesn’t know he has it, so it doesn’t exist. Forget about the conference, concentrate on what we were really sent here to do. You’ve got to get inside Captain Bridger’s mind, and you’ve got to do it tonight.

- seaQuest DSV, Savannah’s room, later -

Nathan Bridger: (bursting into room) I saw you in my sleep. What are you doing in my head?

- seaQuest DSV, ward room -

Nathan Bridger: You know your ability can scare the hell out of people, and used this way, it’s a, it’s a violation of human dignity.

Dimitri Rossovich: Sometimes it is as you describe.

Nathan Bridger: You can’t rummage around in a person’s soul.

Dimitri Rossovich: This morality didn’t disturb you yesterday at the conference.

Nathan Bridger: Yes it did, but I let myself believe it was a means to an end.

Dimitri Rossovich: As it is.

Nathan Bridger: No, it isn’t, it’s an intrusion.

Dimitri Rossovich: You think I haven’t been wrestling a lifetime with the virtue of what I do. It’s only an intrusion if you know we’re there. Without your strong psi factor, Savannah would have come and gone without you being aware. The others had no idea.

Nathan Bridger: The representatives at the conference.

Dimitri Rossovich: And the officers on your ship. Your submarine has a leak much more dangerous than the kind that lets water in.

Nathan Bridger: So Noyce sent you, to find out who’s giving away our location.

Dimitri Rossovich: My authorization comes from much higher than Admiral Noyce.

Nathan Bridger: Oh, so who is it? Who’s the leak?

Dimitri Rossovich: Your crew checks out clean. We’ll have to do another scan.

Nathan Bridger: Oh no you won’t, you’ll be off my boat within an hour.

Dimitri Rossovich: What about the conference?

Nathan Bridger: You killed that off yesterday.

Dimitri Rossovich: I gave you the best information I had, Captain.

Nathan Bridger: Savannah, tell your father that I know that he knows that I know he’s lying.

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

Savannah Rossovich: I wanted to apologize.

Nathan Bridger: In a bathing suit?

Savannah Rossovich: The UEO jet copter comes for us in a few hours, I was hoping I could see the Library before I left. (pauses) I’m embarrassed to say I was just following orders, but they told us it was important we find that leak.

Nathan Bridger: I don’t doubt your motives.

Savannah Rossovich: I’ve debated the morality of it with myself so many times I know all the arguments by heart.

Nathan Bridger: But you go right on doing it.

Savannah Rossovich: One morning a few years ago, they woke me up and took me to a plane in my nightgown. A man had kidnapped a young boy in Wyoming. When he went to pick up the ransom, he was critically wounded in a shoot out with the police. Even in a coma his mind was so tortured, it hurt to come into contact with him, but the police said that without my help, that little boy would have died, chained to a bed in a remote mountain cabin. I know it’s a violation to enter someone’s thoughts, but I have to weigh the good against the evil, and make choices.

Nathan Bridger: If you still like, I’ll take you to the Library.

- Library of Alexandria -

Rafik Hassan: (studying figurine, looks up to see Savannah) Do you know who this is?

Nathan Bridger: No, I don’t.

Rafik Hassan: Gelon, ruler of Siracusa. This sculpter’s maquette proves that Doctor Anna McCann was absolutely right – the Riace Bronzes did come from Sicily, possibly headed for Rome.

Nathan Bridger: Rome?

Rafik Hassan: Yes.

Nathan Bridger: I draw the line at negotiating with the Pope.

Rafik Hassan: This single building will clear up so many mysteries. History, art, religion; it’s a treasure trove time capsule. Beyond priceless.

Nathan Bridger: We’re doing everything we can to preserve it, Doctor.

Rafik Hassan: Thank you. (Bridger and Savannah walk over to Lucas)

Lucas Wolenczak: The cork stoppers rotted away if there wasn’t enough pine pitch to protect them. Take a look at this, it’s in Greek. (pulls a scroll out of urn) Doctor Hassan said this may actually be Homer’s handwriting.

Nathan Bridger: Is it the Iliad or the Odyssey?

Lucas Wolenczak: It’s a first edition.

Nathan Bridger: Really.

Katie Hitchcock: (walking over) Captain, I checked the other rooms, the structure’s basically sound. We can seal and pump it dry whenever you’d like.

Nathan Bridger: If they let us, Commander. If they let us.

Katie Hitchcock: Hey Lucas. (walks off)

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Miguel Ortiz: Ahh! Oh.

Jonathan Ford: Mr. Ortiz?

Miguel Ortiz: The French and Israeli ships just collided overhead sir.

Jonathan Ford: I suggest you turn your volume down.

Miguel Ortiz: I was trying to pick up a sound in the water.

Jonathan Ford: What kind of sound?

Miguel Ortiz: I think divers.

Jonathan Ford: Well, let’s hope they’re just treasure hunters. (thinks for a second) Turn your volume back up, Mr. Ortiz, find them.

Miguel Ortiz: Aye, sir.

- Library of Alexandria -

Nathan Bridger: Having you inside my head was intriguing, but–

Savannah Rossovich: In all the years I’ve been doing this, you’re the first person who ever knew. That deserves to be explored.

Nathan Bridger: I think I’d rather not be explored. I have enough trouble processing what I’m thinking.

Savannah Rossovich: I’m not joking. You could come back with us, the UEO has an amazing research facility.

Nathan Bridger: And what would I do there?

Savannah Rossovich: Learn how to isolate the functions of your brain.

Nathan Bridger: You know what happens if I overanalyze this statue? I get to see that it’s made of earth molecules, water molecules, dyes, but then I don’t get to see that it’s really something quite beautiful in itself. Something to be appreciated for more than the sum of its parts.

Savannah Rossovich: I know. Can’t say I didn’t try.

Nathan Bridger: Thanks, I don’t think nature intended me to be analyzed into little bits.

Savannah Rossovich: Before I go, will you do me a favor?

Nathan Bridger: Sure.

Savannah Rossovich: Will you open yourself to me? Don’t resist ... just let it happen ... relax. It’s incredible, isn’t it?

Nathan Bridger: Hard to describe.

Savannah Rossovich: What?

Nathan Bridger: That’s extraordinary.

Savannah Rossovich: The feeling?

Nathan Bridger: Yes.

Savannah Rossovich: That’s what it’s like. What was the feeling?

Nathan Bridger: Danger. (hears drilling noise and water begins pouring in) Lucas, where’s everyone else?

Lucas Wolenczak: They all left.

Nathan Bridger: (pulls PAL out of pocket) Commander?

Jonathan Ford: (on bridge of seaQuest) We see it, Captain. The Libyans slipped a diving team through security. Chief Crocker caught them drilling a hole for a dynamite charge, they were going to blast their way in.

Nathan Bridger: (into PAL) They punched a hole in our air pocket.

Jonathan Ford: (on bridge of seaQuest) Do you need assistance?

Nathan Bridger: (into PAL) No, but we’ve got to plug up this hole, it’s going to destroy everything down here.

Miguel Ortiz: (on bridge of seaQuest) Commander, the Libyan ship has launched an attack on seaQuest, depth charge, sir.

Nathan Bridger: Depth char– Lucas, take cover.

- seaQuest DSV, bridge -

Jonathan Ford: Darwin, stay in the boat. Seal outer doors, rig for collision.

Computer: All hands, brace for collision. All hands, brace for collision.

Jonathan Ford: (depth charge explodes) Plot target solution on the Libyan. Mr. O’Neill?

Tim O’Neill: No response, sir, they’re ignoring us.

Jonathan Ford: Captain?

Nathan Bridger: (at Library, into PAL) We’re OK, Commander, take care of business.