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Well, I'm almost ready if I didn't have to stop what I was doing to answer the phone.

I can't believe that such a drastic step is completely necessary.

I was able to find three I don't know what happened to the four oh it's alright it doesn't

Well, I'll keep looking. I can send it to you.

I'll try.

Taking them out on the road. I'm on him.

I don't know if he's on to me or not, but he's speeding up.

I'm losing sight of him on the curve.

Yeah, okay, I'll try.

I'm losing sight of him on the curve.

I got him again, but he must have seen me 'cause he's speeding up.

How fast can you make that rendezvous?

You ran him off the road?

No, I didn't.

I don't know what happened.

Fool.

Your orders were to follow him discreetly.

I know what my orders were.

He was ahead of me when this happened.

I was just trying to keep up with him.

He was driving like a maniac.

Maybe it was you driving like a maniac.

You know, control is not going to be pleased with our reports.

There's three years of work in flames down there.

Carly, here.

There's a telegram for you, Lou, line six.

Thank you, Noreen.

Carly.

We have a telegram for you from the Ocean World Institute, Mr. Carly.

Uh-huh.

Dr. Harrington's lecture tonight on the language-like behavior in a "dolphinated" species?

That can't be, right?

No, it's alright. It means "dolphin."

Really?

Yeah.

Has been cancelled. Stop.

We regret the inconvenience. Stop.

We will notify you when the lecture has been rescheduled. Stop.

What's going on here? That's twice this week.

I'm sorry, sir. I didn't hear that. Will there be a reply?

Uh, no. No reply.

- Shall we mail you a printed copy?

- No, that won't be necessary.

Thanks a lot.

- Thank you.

- Parker, if you squirt me with that hose.

- Yeah.

- Shitter!

Thanks.

- Aw, Richie, you blew the whole thing.

- I think the danger's over, Parley.

- Richie, what do you know

about the Marine Biology Computer Network?

- Nothing, I've never heard of them.

- Well, take a look at these.

How can we find out where a message came from

if there's no return address?

- Strange.

I think I think of one more.

- Oh, we're asking that one.

- Right, it says M bios near 1612 at the top.

So that's all.

Hey, thanks very much.

Why are 1612s at Ocean World a museum park?

Why would someone at Ocean World be sending out stupid messages like those?

I don't know.

Can we go to Magic Mountain too?

Oh, okay, but I don't know.

Let's not go today, all right?

Listen, we can split up here.

We're looking for computer terminals

hooked into Enviotab, all right?

So ask around, knock on doors, but don't get in any trouble.

Remember, you're working for the Gazette.

All right, let's split up, all right?

We'll see you later.

- All right, hey. - Hey, friend.

Hello?

Check it out.

This could be it.

Send out messages from here?

I guess so.

You can use this by a terminal for electronic mail as long as you have a phone line.

I don't have a phone line.

I've never seen anything like this before. Not even a magazine.

I don't get this at all, Farley. The system won't take input from the keyboard.

on the keyboard. I don't think I'm going to be myself.

Dot, sort, variant, type.

-What was that? -Computer-generated speech.

-Yeah, but what'd you do to get it? -Nothing, I wasn't even touching the keyboard.

-Hello? -Hello.

I thought so. He has a voice-activated system in here you can talk to.

I'm doing research on dolphins, not computers.

Well, you can buy systems like this now.

Watch.

Directory.

System.

Do.

Stop.

Communications, programs.

Come on, Farley.

It's confusing. It doesn't know my voice.

Do you have any idea how silly you look trying to talk to that machine?

See?

Maybe you like my voice better.

Well, come on. We'll try.

Okay.

What do you say to a computer?

What do you tell it to do something?

Right.

Right.

Okay, talk.

Talk.

Talk.

I don't think we're getting anywhere.

Don't keep trying.

Play.

Yes, play.

Play game.

Play game.

Talk.

You talk.

secret second no don't stop nevermind it's too late she's gone she is wait a

- Wait a minute, who's gone?

- Dolphins, Doofy.

- What, you mean we've been talking to a dolphin?

- Yes, what did you think?

- That is an incredible fact.

- Come on, Doofy, you promised.

- Hey, just a minute, child.

- Doofy's been very upset ever since

Buck and I had come and went away.

This is the first time she's even tried to make contact.

She won't even talk to me.

And she talked to Richie?

Mm-hmm.

There must be some sort of mistake.

I mean, she couldn't have done it on porpoise.

Get it? Porpoise?

Did you see that clip?

They were just highly intuitive.

She was so close to Dr. Herring that she could read his body language.

She really wanted to communicate with him.

And for some reason, she wanted to communicate with you.

It's amazing.

We were actually talking with an alien intelligence.

It's so amazing about that.

Wow, Richie's an alien intelligence.

Of course we just begun, Ms. Doofy.

Our mutual vocabulary is still pretty small.

And that's why she only responds to certain words.

Okay, I promise you she can go on a water slide.

Yeah!

Bye.

Wait up.

See you later.

Are they always like that?

Yeah, pretty much.

Well, I should be getting back to you.

Huh.

When is Dr. Angel's due to return?

I don't know.

You wouldn't tell me where he was going and I can't reach him anywhere.

Suppy's behind.

Do you think that Suppy could have sent these?

She must have.

Yeah, these are some of the work we succeeded in translating to Supper.

Well, if Suppy really wants to communicate with Richie,

can we come back and use the lab?

Ah, yes. Oh, yes, any time, day or night, whenever Supi's here, of course.

Isn't she always here?

No, she is. She comes when she wants to.

Dr. Harrington had a schedule, but since he's been gone, she hasn't been keeping to it.

But she comes when she wants to?

Mm-hmm.

Now where?

From the ocean.

What, that ocean?

Uh-huh. Suzie's not a domesticated dolphin. She's wild.

She's free.

Carson, maybe I'm not being clear. This is an incredible breakthrough.

Is it?

Yes it is. He's programmed a computer to translate human speech into

dolphinic clicks and whistles and vice versa. You see, dolphins communicate ten

times faster and at a higher pitch than humans do. So some humans do. Well I

wouldn't have to talk so fast. You would sit down for a minute and listen to me.

When you get to my age there's no time to sit. Keep talking. Okay, this is actual

communication with a non-human intelligence that's older than us and

might be smarter. Now that's something the Athena Society has got to be

interested in and now Harrington has disappeared. Really? Really? And he can't

a boat is speaking engagements by telegram anybody could send a telegram

here it is good Charset would you help me with this you communicate with free

swimming dolphins in the oceans yes that would be something to break through

wonders now who would be interested in that the Navy for starters secretary of

The Navy is not a member of the Penis Society.

How about the CIA?

They're trying to use ESP to locate submarines.

I wouldn't put it past them.

How about it, Carson?

Yes or no?

Very well, as well as an inquiry along the network.

If someone in the society responds, I'll get in touch.

And Washington.

I can just feel the government in this.

You can just feel the government in everything these days.

Good day.

- Goodbye. - Goodbye.

Now you realize you're going to have to wait.

There's no way you're called.

Hey, she swims by the porthole when she sees you at the terminal, then she'll announce herself.

And she wants you.

It's fine with me. I can always call up her after working on my factorial algorithm.

So you're sure you don't mind?

I don't mind.

Neat in here. I collect fish for hours.

Great. What are we supposed to do for hours? Arm wrestle?

Why not? You still won't beat me.

Alright, alright. Okay.

I'll be checking in on you guys, and if something comes up, you can reach me through the gazette.

Fine.

Alright, alright.

I'd like to find out where Dr. Harrington went when he left here.

He drives an XKE. He lives in Redondo, and I just assumed he was going home.

I didn't see any bags in the back of the car.

Okay, well, there's two ways to Redondo, the long way around the peninsula and over the mountain.

Um, we would have taken the mountain drive.

Dr. Harrington loved to drive fast.

Did you say loved?

I did, didn't I?

You're afraid something's happened to him, aren't you?

It's hard not to be.

Well, until the conclusion.

Yeah.

You can tell, control, he's just turned into the mountain road, and he's going to see that

Rex he looks hard enough so control yourself what I'm sure to stay well

behind them I don't want him to see good so perhaps we'll find out why there's

been no official mention of Harrington's death it was a remote area of the can

Not much traffic, but you didn't actually see Harrington's body. Nobody could have survived the car crashed and burned the car

Not necessarily the driver a remote area as you say little traffic and get a truck pulled out of that tunnel at exactly

the right moment

coincidence

Why should we delay any longer Harrington's dead and you can't communicate with the dolphin yourself?

so let's take the animal with us. The pens are finished off the coast of Cuba.

You can recreate the experiment there.

What brings you here?

Well, let's just say when I heard a certain reporter I'm almost related to called it an

accident report from the middle of nowhere, I got curious.

I think I'm flattered.

Don't be.

What are you working on? The disappearance of a world-renowned marine

biologist. Really? Who's that? I didn't see anything on that. Dr. David Harrington.

He's got a lab over there in Ocean World. Been missing for about a week now. I would

have gone down to see if it was his car. That's okay. You got close enough, Farley.

We don't want your size 12 getting all over the evidence now, do we? Assuming

there is any evidence. Did you get the registration? Not a chance. Fire burned

to the middle. Damn. Was there a body? I couldn't tell, lieutenant. I left to ask the forensics

guys. I got the license plate, though. Got ripped off on the way down. Wasn't in the

way at all. Thanks. Yes, Suzy, talk.

418 Central. This is 418. You've got a match on your license plate, Lieutenant. This is registered to a David Harrington, address 611, Oceanfront, Redondo Beach.

Okay, Central, I copy, thanks. Have you got a Llewellyn Farley with you there, Lieutenant?

Llewellyn? 10-4 Central, why?

There's a phone call for him. Okay to patch it through go ahead

Marley here. Well, I think you and Richie should drop by this afternoon. Would that be possible say about four o'clock? Yeah. Why I

Think that will be a parent when you arrive

Goodbye

Thanks

Who was that?

Nobody.

Marley! Hi! I was just going to call you to see if you're hurting.

Marcy.

What's the matter?

That's some bad news. They found Dr. Harrington's car.

Just his car?

Well, it'll be a while before they know for sure. But it looks like he's dead, Marcy. I'm real sorry.

He's dead.

How?

The car went too fast. The car went off the road.

Crashed and burned.

Oh my god. Oh my god.

Dr. Terry is out here.

Not here.

So he talked.

amazing i am richie richie helped soupy talk

richie helps soupy talk

try friend

richie is soupy friend

Farley, Doopie came back.

Yeah, and we're really getting someone with us.

We worked out 12 new words.

Come and see.

What's the matter with her?

She looks like she's scared.

Sufi talk.

Richie's friend.

Maybe there's too many people.

- I think it's me.

It's just he doesn't seem to like me.

- Why not?

- I don't know.

But it really doesn't matter right now.

How is it Dr. Harrington's gone?

- Gone?

What do you mean?

- I'll explain it later, you guys.

There's some place we gotta go.

- Where? - Where?

- I'll tell you later on.

Come on, let's just go.

- Go where?

- Oh, come on, Jerry.

- I'm just having a good 12 new words.

- I know, out.

Come on.

- All right, I'll talk to you about it later.

Thank you, Ricky.

Harley. He was...

Harley.

You gonna be alright?

Thank you. I'll be fine.

I'll call you when I get the final police report.

Okay.

Okay, guys. Come on. I'll talk to you in the car.

Where are we going?

Alright, alright. Come on, come on.

Harley, where are we going?

I've reached a decision. We've waited long enough, Herrington's dead. There's nothing more we can accomplish here. Make the arrangements. We'll take Sissy with us.

Do you have to bring them all?

They're all involved.

Yes, whether we like it or not.

Anyway, the summoner I'd like you to meet, since you seem so interested in his work.

This is Dr. David Harrington.

Oh, Dr. Harrington.

Yes, I saw your car.

Happily, I wasn't in it.

The idea was to make certain people think that Dr. Harrington was dead.

Certain people?

Dr. Harrington's work is labeled educational research.

You were right, Llewellyn.

Some might feel it has military implications.

The CIA got word that certain foreign powers were interested in Dr. Harrington and in Sufi.

Apparently I was targeted for abduction.

So our spooks decided to remove Dr. Harrington from the picture.

Wait and see what crawled out of the woodwork.

Needless to say they weren't expecting a newspaper reporter and four teenagers.

Hope Llewellyn that your concerns about dr. Harrington have been laid to rest I

was asked

If they could expect you to remain out of the picture from now on

You

The teenagers they gotta be kidding. It's an incredible story Charlie. I gave them your word

I gave them your word.

Hey, hey, come on now. It's over.

I tell you, I appreciate your help, but let go of it.

Why does he always have to be so mean to us?

Well, he's not being mean.

Yeah, that's just the way he is.

Yeah, mean.

Yeah, we've helped him out a couple of times.

He's never even said thank you.

Well, I can tell you that he likes you.

Sure.

He does.

Just... doesn't like too much of you.

Thanks, boss.

Okay, say hi to your mom.

Okay, well, bye.

We'll get back on it soon.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

What's wrong?

Hello, Ricky.

Hi.

Could I talk to you for a minute?

Sure.

It's about Sufi.

He did respond to you and asked him to cut your hair and do his hair.

It seems like such a shame to let all that research go to waste.

I wondered if maybe you'd like to spend some more time working with him.

Well, I don't know. I'm sure everything's gonna be all right.

Oh, oh, yes, I'm sure it will, too, if you look me to help.

Well, maybe I could come back.

I'm not right now.

Oh, I couldn't this morning. I'm going to the beach.

Wait a minute. Why did you drive here to talk to me about this instead of calling me on the phone?

I didn't have your number.

- You didn't have your number.

- Then how'd you get my address?

- Richie.

You wanna help Suzy or not?

Will you come with me?

- No, not now, how am I supposed to?

- Rich, what?

Make sure the gate is open.

Now, Regine, you have a choice to make.

We're going to take Suzy away from here today, and there is nothing you can do to stop her.

One way we can do that is to tie you to the chair and gag you again.

When Susie comes, she won't notice anything wrong.

And while she's trying to talk to you, we'll shoot her with a tranquilizer.

Now the problem with this is that it's dangerous.

Susie could get hurt the other way, she won't.

What other way?

We don't tie you up, we don't gag you.

And when Susie comes, you tell her to go through the gate into the tank.

Once she's in the tank, we can take her without tranquilizing her.

Believe me, Richie, it'll be much safer for her.

Where are you taking her?

That's not important for you to know.

But I can promise you that she will not be harmed unless you make us take her by force.

All right.

- Mr. Zadler, could you tell Richie we're ready to go?

- I don't think he's up yet, Ham.

Let me go check, okay?

- Not up yet.

That's odd. He's not up in his room.

Oh, of course. The newspaper was in the house when I got up this morning. He must be out

running. Oh, is it okay if we wait for him?

Of course. Why don't you guys go on upstairs and make yourself comfortable, okay?

Thanks, thanks. He knew we were going to the beach this morning.

He'll be here.

Make sure the truck is ready.

And get the stretcher, but don't let Suzy see it.

We've got to be out of here before the park opens for the day.

Hey, what are you doing?

Nothing, just what you told her to do. See?

Farley, you're...

Hello, Farley? Richie's in trouble.

What kind of trouble? What do you mean?

We were supposed to go to the beach today, and he went out running, and he hasn't come back.

And now this message just came into route.

Oh, what message?

Ocean World kidnapped Sufi. Richie helped.

Maybe the people who think that Dr. Harrington's dead know that he made contact with Sufi yesterday.

Okay, Jeremy, I'm on it.

Oh, we're going out there.

No, do you remember what Parsons said? You stay put.

I'll handle this, you just stay there.

Okay, bye Farley.

Told her to stay away.

Yeah, uh, give me Lieutenant Quentin's emergency.

Hey, Ocean World's on the way to the beach.

She's here.

Tell her to go through the gate, into the palace.

Sufi, gate go.

Sufi gate go, Sufi gate go, Sufi gate go, Sufi gate go.

she's in way better very good richie now come with me

come on richie don't think i'd leave someone as smart as you are alone with a computer and a phone

i do

I could get us inside, but something tells me they already left.

Probably headed the ocean, a boat.

Can you call a coast guard?

Why do I tell him?

I mean, there are hundreds of boats out every day around here.

Well, we gotta do something.

We're past the dirt road back here.

Okay, let's check it out.

You know, best deal.

You guys stay here and make sure nobody leaves.

You got it, Lieutenant.

Alright, let's get the Dolphins.

Run.

Wait a minute.

We can't.

Let's get out of here.

Get to the boat.

Hey!

Go back there, you fool, what are you doing?

Mark, what the hell are you doing?

Drop the gun, let him go.

Hey, go back there, what are you doing? Turn around, you fool!

I guess it's my move.

Yeah, so...

Let's eat the gun, man.

Thanks a minute. Any time.

You all right?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Are you okay?

What's going on with you?

Hey, I feel people in here.

We have to get out of the water.

Oh, we do.

Hurry up, Jimmy.

Get back.

The water is heavy.

Oh, God.

Okay, Tooby. Here you go!

Oh, yeah! Hi, Tooby!

Great. You at least think you should say thanks.

Well, goodbye.