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(BEEPING)

LEE: Radiation impulse.

It's hitting us from right here in the Irish Sea.

Sounds like trouble with the X-17.

Hmm. Chief.

Sir?

Activate diving unit number four for an immediate inspection tour.

Aye, aye, sir.

What's the fix on that radiation leakage?

Bearing 075, sir. Range, 1,000 yards.

Well, that checks.

Here's our position in the Irish Sea.

And here, here and here is what we've come to inspect.

The X-17, the most powerful nuclear counter-weapon ever devised.

How powerful, sir?

There's 17 satellite weapons as well as the main installation.

We didn't get here any too soon.

That leak must be coming from one of the satellite weapons.

There's no doubt about it.

The idea of the Irish Sea exploding in our faces is not exactly appealing.

(BEEPING INTENSIFIES)

Swenson, Kruger, Lopez, Yamaro...

Chief, what's eating you?

Did you hear those names, Kowalski?

Yeah, I heard them. So what?

So what? Swenson, Kruger, Lopez...

What kind of guys are those to be sending out off the coast of Ireland?

Trained nuclear divers, that's what kind.

What kind of training do they have in the handling of the little people?

The what?

Ski, the leprechauns, the leprechauns.

The... Hey, now, come off it.

(SIGHS)

I wouldn't expect a knot head called Kowalski to know what I'm talking about.

But these waters belong to the little people,

and they're not gonna take too kindly to all this messing about in them.

Yeah, sure, sure. Well, the Admiral's not gonna take too kindly

to not getting a report on Unit 4.

And what do you think I was just going to do?

Well, I thought maybe you're about to inspect the Missile Room,

for some little green men or something.

(SCOFFS)

Missile Room to Control. Unit 4 is on its way.

(INAUDIBLE)

(EXPLOSION)

(NARRATOR READING)

NARRATOR: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

(LAUGHING)

I've not seen such glorious fireworks

since I set blaze to the peat bogs of Killarney.

NELSON: Get the fire on those panels on the double.

LEE: All hands, resume your stations. Check the controls. Move.

And that was 400...

No, 500 years ago, on the eve of All Saints'.

(CONTINUES LAUGHING)

Unit 4, Unit 4, this is the Admiral.

Report.

Unit 4, what's your situation? Report.

Activate nose and sail camera, see if we can find those divers.

Well, now, that'll keep you all busy for a while,

and I be seeing about collecting me fortune in gold.

Nothing. There's no sign of them.

The satellite weapon's destroyed.

But we're still here. If that weapon had really blown, we wouldn't be.

No, not the weapon. The ignition system.

Something went wrong, powerful enough to destroy that part of the installation

without setting off the nuclear blast.

What effect will it have on the main installation?

That's what we have to find out.

Patterson, prepare the Flying Sub for immediate launch.

Yes, sir. Lee.

You better get out there.

As you know, the Flying Sub is equipped with remote control devices

to handle the main installation, in case anything goes wrong.

Right.

(BEEPING RAPIDLY)

Got a little work ahead of you.

Check out the remote control operation.

Aye, sir.

Everything A-OK, sir.

We can correct any malfunction without leaving the Flying Sub.

How's the radiation count?

Still building, sir.

Building, is it? Now, I wonder how that could possibly be.

Surely, you not be thinking I had anything to do with it, would you?

Something wrong, sir?

(SIGHS) I don't know.

I just have...

I got the feeling that something may be out of kilter.

Everything green, sir.

Must be my imagination.

You go right on thinking that, Captain,

for you will not be seeing me unless it's my wish that you do.

But right now, I'd best be planning how you can serve me purpose.

In there it is.

All I need to know about destroying those weapons out there

and getting the gold.

'Tis a pretty puny effort if it's meant to be stopping the likes of me.

That's interesting.

Very interesting.

(LAUGHS) Just as I thought.

Right under the center of that nonsensical thing in the sea

lies the mother lode of the leprechaun's gold.

♪ The gold, the gold the leprechaun's gold ♪

Before the moon sets tonight, it will all be mine.

And death to any dirty spalpeen that tries to stand in me way.

There it is.

Doesn't look very dangerous from here, sir.

That's the main installation of the defense system.

There's enough power buried under there

to blow off the top of the Northern Hemisphere.

FS-1 to Seaview.

FS-1 to Seaview, come in, please.

I read you, Lee, go ahead.

We've sighted the main installation, Admiral.

There's no indication of any malfunction.

But our radiation count is rising pretty rapidly.

We're at 25 milliroentgen over the norm.

That checks with our reading here.

Now, listen carefully.

There's a fermeture control inside the complex

that governs the radioactivity.

You've got to bring it back to normal.

Check the fermeture control.

Aye, sir.

How delicate is the interior control system?

It's very delicate.

Any sudden change of radioactivity,

either up or down,

can set off the entire complex.

All right, sir. We'll close it down.

Gently.

Over and out.

Here we go, Pat.

Easy does it.

Easy does it, sir.

Do you think he can make it, sir?

He has to. Otherwise, this part of the world can blow up.

Including the entire kit and caboodle of the little people.

Mmm. What? What was that?

Hmm? I was just thinking out loud, sir.

I'm sure the skipper will do fine, just fine.

But... But what?

I don't think the leprechauns are taking too kindly

to what's going on out there.

That is, of course, if there are such things.

Let's keep our minds on reality, Chief.

We got enough trouble here as it is.

Aye, sir.

Leprechauns.

Easy, easy.

Aye, sir.

Keep it up, we're getting there.

Hold it.

(SIGHING)

I'd say well done, sir.

At least we controlled the radiation count.

Now, if we...

Look.

(EXPLOSIVE RUMBLING)

There, you see? I did it, I did it.

It is gold that's buried out there.

Gold. My gold!

(LAUGHING)

Damage Control. MAN ON RADIO: Damage Control, aye.

All secure, sir.

Any injuries to personnel? No injuries, sir.

All right, check the hull and report if necessary.

Aye, sir.

Flying Sub, this is Seaview. What's it look like, Lee?

Lee, do you read me? What's your situation?

It is bad, Admiral, very bad, indeed.

Before I'm through with the lot of you, it will be a great deal worse.

NELSON: If you hear me, report, over.

We read you, Admiral.

(GRUNTING)

Looks like the nuclear pressure blew the cap open.

It keeps running wild like this,

the whole complex will blow within the hour.

Can you close the cap?

As far as I can tell, it's still held together by the interlocking hinges.

It's wide open, but telemetry controls might close it.

We'll give it a try.

Try to activate the closure controls.

Aye, sir.

All right, now try the closure switch.

Yes, sir.

What caused that, sir?

I don't know.

The telemetry impulses must have hit a force field and bounced back at us.

FS-1 to Seaview.

FS-1 to Seaview, come in.

What's the trouble, Lee?

The explosion must have set up some kind of a force field, Admiral.

Our remote control impulses can't get through.

Any ideas?

Yes, sir. Fire a torpedo into the force field.

Not an explosive charge. The shock might break the field.

Right.

Chief. Sir?

Prepare forward torpedo number one for firing. No explosive charge.

Aye, sir.

Missile Room to Control.

Number one forward torpedo ready for firing, sir.

Stand by. Aye, sir.

Firing coordinates? Locked in, sir.

All right. Fire.

What happened, sir?

I don't know.

Maybe the torpedo disintegrated, broke up in the force field.

Lee? Lee, are you okay?

Lee, do you read me?

Admiral, there's a big shock wave approaching.

All hands, brace for collision.

All hands, brace for collision.

Check Damage Control.

Seaview to Flying Sub. Seaview to Flying Sub.

Report, Flying Sub, report. What's your status?

(COUGHING)

I wouldn't know.

It looks like we've been thrown to the bottom.

One thing's for sure, Admiral, we can't raise enough power to get out.

Better make repairs and report back.

LEE: Affirmative.

They're okay.

We need a reading on the strength of that force field.

Let's see what the AMRAC can show us.

Come on, let's go.

All right, soldier. Let's see if we can get you up on your feet.

What happened there, Chief?

I suppose we'll let the doc decide what happened to you.

Can you make it to Sick Bay?

Yeah, yeah, I guess. All right, on your way.

I'll check things out here.

Better report to the Admiral. Maybe he...

Oh!

It is in great trouble you are, me lad.

Would you care to be having a nice glass of milk?

It's good and nourishing.

The cow is one of me more reliable neighbors.

Who are you?

My name is Patrick Moore O'Shaughnessy,

leprechaun and shoemaker.

All leprechauns are shoemakers.

Oh, I know, I know, I know.

Leprechauns do not exist, except, of course, that we do.

You would not be seeing me at all, except that me brother Mickey

is aboard with his evil and all.

What are you talking about?

Me brother Mickey, all the power that's in him,

what with his evil pipe and his devilish greed for gold.

Oh, man.

What a knock on the head I got.

But don't be getting the wrong idea, leprechauns are good.

Yes, we sing and play with the little children,

and we make the rain to come to sweeten the crops.

That is, all except me brother Mickey.

He's a bad seed that turns up once every 1,000 years,

and now he's after the gold.

Gold?

Aye. Spouting and spewing out in the sea, and he'll be taking it all.

Yeah.

Oh, Francis, you gotta get a hold of yourself.

This is some sort of a dream.

Well, it could be a dream, but I'm hoping it won't turn into a nightmare.

Look, it's starting now.

I know what you're wondering, but never mind how I did it, just watch.

According to this, it would take a nuclear blast to destroy that force field.

NELSON: We do that and we destroy the Flying Sub as well.

This calls for some other answer.

It calls for nothing at all, not even a wasted thought.

What? What did you say, sir?

I didn't say anything. He did.

Who?

The man in red. He's the one who said...

Now, now, Admiral. Surely you'd not be wanting them

to be seeing things meant only for your eyes,

or hearing things meant only for your ears?

What man in red, sir?

You really can't see him?

Of course not.

Not being one whose ancestors came from the old sod.

But he is interfering with the conversation betwixt us,

so I'll put a stop to that.

Chip, Chip.

I don't know who you are, how you got here or how you managed this,

but I want an answer, fast.

It is enough that I'm somebody who says you'll never be closing that shaft?

I won't permit it.

You won't permit it.

Aye, indeed.

For I'm Michael Moore O'Shaughnessy, leprechaun.

Leprechaun? What kind of nonsense...

And I am here to collect the gold.

What gold? There's no gold here.

It's there in the shaft, bubbling up.

You think I don't know it? It was meself that blew the cap.

Soon, it'll blossom like a flower.

More gold than you can shake a shillelagh at,

and I'll be king of all the leprechauns in Ireland.

Master at Arms. Aye, sir.

Send a security detail to the Control Room.

Aye, sir.

There's a...

There's a somebody here who...

So, you be closing the shaft, would you,

and stopping me from getting to me gold?

You'll be stopping nothing, now, or ever again.

(LAUGHING)

That should be holding you for a while, me brave boy.

I gotta be flipping my lid.

Who is that we just saw in there?

It's me brother Mickey, I already told you that.

Oh, the evil power that's his and the powerful evil of it.

Now, look, you leprechaun or whatever you are,

I wanna know what's going on here and I wanna know right now.

No, no, no, you shouldn't do that. Not to me beard.

You should never pull a leprechaun's beard.

I gotta get to Sick Bay.

Maybe Doc's got some answers for me.

Somebody's gotta have some answers for me.

Such a fine broth of a lad.

'Tis a terrible pity the evil brother of mine

is plotting such dreadful things against him

and this fine ship of his.

There must be something I can do to help him.

Him and the good Captain out there where the fountain of gold is.

If I could just lend a hand.

That's it, Patrick, go and help the good Captain.

Doc? Chief.

Where's the doc?

Well, he's out, Chief. What's the trouble?

Give me something quick.

What's the matter, you see a ghost or something?

No, it was a leprechaun.

A leprechaun?

Yeah.

Sounds to me as if you had a bad dream, Chief.

No, it was no dream. I saw him and I spoke to him. He was green.

Sure. Sure. There's nothing strange about that.

All leprechauns are green.

No, no, they're not. His brother is red.

How about that? Red and green leprechauns.

Yeah.

They weren't riding pink elephants, were they?

Now, you belay that, sailor. I know what I saw.

Right, Chief, you're...

Oh, forget it. I'll wait for the doc.

When's he due back?

Now, I asked you a question, sailor, when's the doc...

Now, now. You do not want to be waiting here for the doctor.

It will be a long, long time.

No, no, no, you can't be real. I just refuse to believe it.

Oh, do you, now?

Well, maybe when I send you to join the good doctor...

No, you don't, Michael Moore O'Shaughnessy.

(EXCLAIMS) Brother Patrick Moore O'Shaughnessy.

Indeed, it is.

Now, I saw what you're up to before I left the submarine.

And is it you, you measly mite, that'll be stopping me?

Indeed, it is.

'Tis evil things that you're doing, Michael.

Leave this lad and this ship.

Oh, no, never. Not without the gold.

There's no gold aboard.

You don't understand, me boy.

Mickey here is a bad one, and he wants to free the gold that's down below.

He's gotta be out of his mind, there's no gold out there.

It's just a nuclear defense weapon.

It's a nuclear defense weapon.

Oh, is it now? And when it explodes...

It'll blow up half a world.

And release a fountain of gold. Beautiful, yellow gold

that will make me the most powerful leprechaun in the world.

PATRICK: Oh, terrible, terrible.

He's evil incarnate.

Well, the likes of you will never be stopping me.

But enough of this talk. I am sending this man on his way.

No, you don't. I protect him.

Don't cross me, Patrick. Stand aside.

(GRUNTING)

My magic will stop you now.

Not for long, it won't. You can both stay here. Forever.

What's forever?

(THUDS)

Oh, the evil that's in him, he's put up a leprechaun shield.

How do I get out?

Mortals can never get out, me boy.

You mean I'm trapped here forever?

Well, you would have been if my brother Mickey

had remembered to separate us.

But maybe, me cobbler's hammer will break the spell.

(CLANGING)

(CLANGING)

(SHIELD SHATTERS SOFTLY)

Aha!

Here it is.

A weakness. Now, stand back.

(SHIELD SHATTERS)

We're free, me boy.

You go to the Admiral,

and I'll be on me way again to help the Captain.

How does it look, skipper?

Not good.

There's no telling for me how soon that thing will blow up.

There must be some other way we can bypass the damaged area

and get this craft moving.

(EXPLOSIONS)

Oh, the poor lads. What a woeful waste of time.

When me brother Mickey does an evil thing,

sure it is the evilest that can be done.

Well, there's the real heart of the trouble.

If I had my brother Mickey's powers, I could fix it.

But having spent the last 1,000 years mending shoes, I...

Maybe the cobbler should stick to his last.

But the situation being what it is and all,

I'll just have to be giving it a whirl.

Darn it.

Line's hot, skipper.

Let's hit the switch.

That's it. Let's see if we can get out of here.

PATTERSON: Right.

Activate full power.

Activated, sir.

Aye. Here we go.

Not pulling loose, sir.

I'll give her auxiliary power.

All right, Pat, keep your fingers crossed.

It's working. We're pulling free.

Good, lads. Good, lads. Everything should be all right now.

Or should it?

I best be seeing what me brother Mickey is about.

So, you want to see what I am about, do you, Patrick?

Well, it is very simple, indeed.

I am going to see that me gold is brought to the surface

when that thing explodes out there.

Get ready to activate the remote control system.

I'll try to break through the force field.

We've gotta close that defense system.

So, close it, would you?

And deprive me of me rightful gains in gold, would you?

Oh, no. Not today, me buckos.

Look at it now, look at it. All me beautiful, beautiful gold.

(LAUGHING)

In a wee bit more than an hour now,

the whole thing out there explodes,

and there'll be nothing left except Mickey himself with all that gorgeous gold.

(CONTINUES LAUGHING)

Francis, lad, you've got to be taking leave of your senses.

Sick Bay empty.

Control Room empty.

(INHALES SHARPLY)

If I didn't know better, I'd say I was aboard all by myself.

PATRICK: But you do know better than that, me boy.

Who? Who's that?

PATRICK: You know that I'm aboard with you.

And I'm here to be helping you out

the terrible disaster my brother Mickey has got all of you into.

Oh, no. Not you again.

And why not, me lad?

It is in desperate need you are of somebody to help the lot of you.

All right, now, look, maybe you're a leprechaun or maybe you're not.

But whatever you are, if you want to help, locate the Admiral.

Now, that's just what I was intending to do all along.

Whilst I don't have the magic powers of me brother Mickey, that evil one,

I do have the answer to his little disappearing trick.

Now, hold it! What's that?

Some carefully prepared shamrock dust

with just a wee pinch of four-leafed clover to suit the taste.

Well, at least I think that's what it is.

All right, all right. What has that got to do with the Admiral?

Patience, me boy, patience. We'll know in a moment.

Let me see now, do I remember the magic formula?

What do you know, it worked.

PATRICK: It worked!

Admiral.

Are you all right? What?

Of course I'm all right. Why shouldn't I be...

Where is everyone?

They're gone.

Doesn't seem to be anyone else aboard except you and me.

There was someone else, there was a man in red.

Yes, sir. You saw him?

Yes, sir. I think I did, sir. Yes. And the green man, too.

The green man.

He calls himself Patrick Moore O'Shaughnessy.

And, sir, he's a leprechaun.

(MUMBLES)

(SIGHS)

I don't know. I don't know what's going on around here.

We may be the victims of some kind of hallucination

or alien influence, I don't know.

There's one thing I do know,

that that's the problem we've got to solve, and if I'm right,

we've just a little over an hour to do it.

Seaview to Flying Sub. Seaview, to Flying Sub. Come in.

Lee, you hear me? This is Nelson. Come in.

There's gotta be some way to shut down the nuclear device.

But with the force field out there and Flying Sub, apparently, helpless...

Wait. Wait. Wait a minute.

The construction caves. Sir?

There's a series of construction caves beyond the complex

that were used to build it and then they were abandoned.

Yes, sir, but I still don't see...

If we send a couple of divers in there

to set an explosive charge against the wall,

they might be able to blast an opening through to the complex.

Admiral, there's nobody else aboard ship.

Then we'll do it ourselves. Come on.

The poor lads, it is a terrible worry they have on their shoulders.

Aha!

But I do have about three pinches of me mixture left.

And if it is help they'll be needing, it's help they'll be getting.

What the...

What's going on?

I mean, I guess we were ordered here, but...

Man, I don't remember a thing.

Neither do I. The last I remember, I was in the Control Room.

Chip...

What are you doing here?

I don't know, sir, we just seemed to appear here.

Well,

really doesn't matter. You have an MZ mine package equipped for a diving mission,

so that's exactly where you're going.

Where, sir?

Do you remember the subterranean cave area behind the nuclear complex?

Yes, sir.

Well, go there.

Blast open a hole between the cave and the complex,

then go in there and stop that thing from going off.

Aye, aye. How much time do we have?

Have one hour, 23 minutes.

Let's go.

What's this now?

What foul banshee is working against me

in the waters outside the cave of gold?

Entering there, are they?

They're moving into the area where me gold is buried.

(RUMBLING)

If it's more of me curse they want,

then it's more of me curse they'll get.

(TIMER TICKING)

Mr. Morton, my fall started the detonating timer.

Can you shut it off, sir?

No, it takes a fuse extractor.

Sir, the timer was set to detonate an hour after the fuse was activated.

It gives us an hour to get back to Seaview.

We still have plenty of time. Let's get this thing put together.

Yes, sir.

Will they never stop, now?

By the bearded king,

aren't they the stubbornest mortals that ever did be?

Why...

Without a doubt, they are mortals.

Which means that they can all die.

(SHOUTS)

He's gone.

(TIMER TICKING)

We're trapped with those bombs getting ready to go off.

We've still got time.

Morton calling Seaview. Morton calling Seaview.

Come in, please, Admiral.

I read you, Chip, go ahead.

We're trapped. Jensen's dead.

(SIGHS)

What about you and Kowalski?

CHIP: Unhurt, but there's something else. One of the mines is activated.

We're not close enough to the complex wall to ensure

its breaking open if the bomb explodes here.

(SIGHS)

Do what you can, Chip.

Aye, aye, sir.

What can we do to help, Admiral?

They're immobilized.

I have no idea what happened to the Captain and Patterson, and look out there.

Nuclear complex, it's due to blow within an hour.

I wish I knew just who is behind all that.

I'd like to push my fist right through them.

But through what, Chief? Leprechaun?

A banshee? A fantasy? A force...

Force field.

What, sir?

We are going to try to ram Seaview right through that force field.

Now, let's see if we can push it through together, come on.

Automatic control set?

Will do in a minute, sir.

All set.

Move the flank speed on the course directly towards the force field.

All right. Now, hang on.

Full flank speed, sir. Hmm.

Distance from force field? Eight hundred yards.

Count it off. Aye, sir.

Five hundred.

Four hundred.

Three hundred.

Two hundred.

One hundred.

Impact.

The blaggards.

Still trying to work their dirty tricks on me, are they?

Well, I'll show them what it is to be crossing himself.

We're not moving, sir.

I thought we were going to try to break through that force field.

We were.

But look at the telemetry controls, they're all green.

Something must have dissipated the force field.

Then we've still got a chance to close down the complex.

Yeah, just a chance.

I don't know what's happened to time,

but we've only got a few minutes left.

Activate the remote control system.

Aye, sir. We're moving in.

So, you're the evil ones that's trying to thwart the schemes

of Mickey Moore O'Shaughnessy.

Well, now, you see what it's got you.

And lookie here, if you're able, 60 seconds.

That's all that's left now.

Sixty seconds, before the whole complex goes.

And all the lovely, lovely gold in the sea

that's buried beneath it becomes mine.

Yeah, but you two will be well dead by then,

I'll see to that right now.

PATRICK: No, you'll not, Mickey.

You'll not be seeing to the dying of anyone.

Well, it will be no sniveling, weak-livered coward

the like of yourself that's stopping me.

Well, my magic may not be as powerful as yours, Mickey,

but the right is on my side,

and I'll stake that against all the black magic of your pipe.

Oh, will you, now?

Well, let's see if it's stopping me from sending this man's soul

to the perdition it deserves.

No, you won't. I'll not be letting you.

Oh!

Magic to magic is it, Patrick?

Well, then, so be it.

But yours is weakening even now.

Your arm that's starting to shake.

Your finger that's starting to tremble.

Why, you'll not last till the complex out there explodes.

And then you'll all be dead.

It's only seconds to go. Only seconds, Patrick.

And then all the gold that's buried in the Irish Sea will be mine.

(LAUGHING)

Activate those controls. What's wrong?

I'm trying, sir. There's no response.

Then throw full auxiliary power into it.

It won't take it, skipper.

The controls are too delicate.

I told you you'd weaken first, Patrick.

Me pipe. You can't do that to me.

Give me back me pipe.

LEE: FS-1 to Seaview. FS-1 to Seaview. Come in, please.

You okay, Lee?

Fine, Admiral, fine.

We're a little shaken up, but we're fine.

What happened?

Well, the complex didn't blow, if that's what you're worried about.

We managed to close it with the help of the explosion, whatever that was.

It came from some rock formations on the other side.

Chip must have managed to set the MZ mines in time.

What mines were those?

I'll explain it to you later. Just get back aboard as quick as you can.

Are you all right, Chief?

Well, I don't think I'll ever be all right again.

Not while he's still around.

Let you not be worrying about me, me lad.

Not about Patrick Moore O'Shaughnessy.

I'm not worrying about you, Patrick.

It's the state of my own mind that bothers me.

I know. I'd not worry about that, either.

With me brother Mickey gone to rest his evil soul for another 1,000 years,

I be going back to me shoemaking.

No, no, no, wait. Don't leave us now. Where's the rest of our men?

Now, who's to say that they've not been here all the while.

Perhaps you're thinking you've been living a nightmare,

but a nightmare's only a dream.

A dream is just a fancy, and a fancy is no more than an illusion.

And illusions, that's a leprechaun stock in trade.

Well, perhaps we'll be meeting again,

but for the nonce I bid you farewell.

Well, Chief? Don't ask me, sir.

If it wasn't for the fact that Commander Morton and Kowalski are still missing,

I'd say nothing ever happened.

(OVER RADIO) Seaview, this is Morton.

Special diving party is returning,

request permission to come aboard.

Permission granted.

Agreed. Now, nothing ever happened, Chief.

(CHUCKLES) No.

I'd hate to think of what would happen

if we ever tried to tell this story to anyone.

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