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January 12, 1945

Today. It's 15:15 hours, You better contact approach control.

Rick. Shouldn't we have the landfall by now?

Oh, great. Now what's wrong with the compass?

Lauderdale, this is the Navy training flight 128. Do you read?

Navy 128, this is Lauderdale.

We seen to be lost, Lauderdale.

You should be right underneath under our nose.

But all we've got is ocean.

We can't get fix on you, 128.

The gyro and the compass are malfunctioning.

Everything's all wrong down there. Even the ocean looks different.

Lauderdale, now we're lost.

Compasses is inoperative.

128, we are unable to vector you.

Lauderdale, Lauderdale!

We have an emergency situation.

I repeat, 128. We do not read you at all.

This is Lauderdale calling Navy 128,

please respond.

June 19, 1976

DEPARTMENT OF MARINE BIOLOGY

- Taking of now? - We'll see you at the airport.

You guard that equipment with your lives.

We will, professor.

I wish you were going with us.

I know. That house is gonna seem awful lonesome without you.

Well, how long will be before Grandpa gets out the hospital, Mom?

Oh, I think it'll only be a week.

And I can guarantee, as soon as he's okay,

I'm goona be the first plane to Great Inagua Island.

Have a god trip, Doc.

Thanks for the lift, you guys, bye-bye.

Flight 716 now departing for Miami. at gate number six.

Hell, another hour, we lose the wind.

Cut it, Carl. We were born too late.

You know, people understood the tides, the winds

100 hundred years ago.

So maybe I ought to sell this Yonder and get myself a diesel stinkpot.

Sure. Sell you're right arm first.

Yeah, all that equipment they sent from L.A., you get it stowed?

Everything's stowed.

Stowed since yesterday.

Never seen a man get so edgy on land as you do.

Ben, I hope we didn't make a mistake

tracking a bunch of eggheads around the Caribbean all summer.

That's a big fat fee, my friend.

Besides, I'd rather have Paul Jordan and his eggheads...

than a boatload of flabby vacationers any day.

Well, they finally showed. Come on.

Paul, how are you?

You only get them. `Carl

Hi, Jill. How do you do? Get your stuff on board.

FANTASTIC JOURNEY Vortex - 01x01

Scottie, what are you doing with these charts?

Oh, I was just seeing something. Ben.

Hey, Carl. Unless I miss my guess,

we've got us a Bermuda Triangle freak on board.

We'll be kind of be going right through it.

So?

So a lot of ships went in and never came out again.

Hmm, but not this one.

You know. I've been sailing these waters most of my life, Scottie.

If a ship goes down, there's always a good reason,

not just because of some funny place on the charts.

I've never lost a ship, and I'm not gonna start with my own.

This is whiskey-Zulu-November- eight-four-niner-seven.

The Yonder. The Yonder.

Radio check from any vessel on this frequency. `Come in.

Uh-huh Zifano4 `Cololemturants.

- Take a look. - Okay.

All right. We should raise Great Inagua

by I'd say around midnight.

Did you notice that over there, Ben?

What?

Oh, you mean that coloration?

That might be a reflection of some kind. I don't know.

Ah, just some atmospheric trick.

Well, the A.M. satellite report showed this area clear

300 miles around the compass.

You better Miami take another look. Those clouds are coming this way.

What, against a three-knot wind?

Nah, it's not likely, but I'll give 'em a call.

Whiskey-Zulu-November- eight-four-niner-seven.

The Yonder-Yonder calling Miami Coast Guard

- What on earth is it? - Squall, maybe.

Whiskey-Zulu-November eight-four-niner-seven.

The Yonder-Yonder calling Miami Coast Guard.

I'm gonna go put something warmer on.

I think I'll join you.

Carl, see what you can do with this thing.

Paul, you take the wheel for a minute?

What's with the weather?

- We're heading into a storm? - Yeah, looks like it.

Will you give me a hand here and get these sails down?

You take up on the topping lift. I'll get the jib.

Carl!

Should be working, Ben. I can't find a thing wrong with it.

Well, never mind the radio. Fire up the engines and head her up.

Scottie, you go stick with your dad in the main cabin.

You go give George a hand and furl the main.

Aye-aye, sir.

Wherever we go, that thing keeps hanging out there.

Ben, what is it?

I don't know...

It might be a bad squall.

I don't know.

Movin' in pretty fast.

Now I want everybody in warm clothes and life jackets.

They're under the cushions in the fantail.

Everybody, move!

Think of that, will you? It's just like the end of the world.

- I never saw anything like this. - What is it?

I don't know, but that cloud has a color I've never seen.

- It's a squall. - It's no squall.

Ben, engines have gone dead. Won't turn over.

- I'll check them. - What can I do, Ben?

You watch after your boy.

- What was that? - Sounds like a boat.

Off the port.

What in the devil is going on here?

`Can't you keep he on course?

It's too rough, Ben. I can't hold her.

Hang on.

The cable's busted.

What in the devil keeps her turning?

Look at the gyro and the compass. It's going crazy.

Oh, God.

What? Listen to it.

Ah, my ears!

Oh no.

Ben!

- Carl! - Fred!

I can't hold it. I can't hold it!

Scott!

Scott!

Scott.

- My left arm. - Easy, easy.

Scott. Scottie..

It's all right?

Looks like he's broken the humerus bone.

Sit still. and I'll find something to splint it with.

Where's Carl?

Carl' uh... Carl's gone, Ben.

Sorry.

Let's get out there and salvage all we can.

I'll go up and see what's on the other side of the cliff.

It goes on forever.

Ben, we couldn't find any sign of people or habitation of any kind.

Well, lot of the small islands are uninhabited.

This isn't small, Ben. We couldn't see the end of it.

If you're asking me where we are.

I don't know.

Come on. It could be anywhere in the Bahamas group.

No, not on our last course.

There was nothing between us and Inagua.

Are you telling us then that the island doesn't belong here?

OI don't know.

What's it look like from up there, Paul?

Well, it's not Great Inagua.

It's not like anything you'd expect to see.

There's a mountain inland.

Mountain?

Look. The main thing is we're on something solid.

I mean. Wherever we are, it exists. right?

They must have started looking for us hours ago.

So we build a search fire.

- Take shifts as lookouts. - Of course I had another idea.

Go ahead.

Ben, how far out to sea that dingy could a couple this get?

We figure that there' enough gas left for 75.

- Maybe 100 miles. - That's about right.

It ought to be enough to get us out shipping lanes

Or at least until the coast guard can find us.

It's too much of a risk.

It's not too far from the shipping lanes.

Two or three hours?

- No, no, it's too much of a gamble. - We already lost Carl.

and I don't want anybody else risking their lives

for no good reason.

We'll never get out of here. What's happened to us?

Those bells. Those awful sounding voices.

Jill, we have only been here for one day.

How will we know? How do we know how long it's been?

- Jill, stop it. - Maybe those bells were a warning.

Now, Jill, we all heard them.

It could have been anything.

Imagination, hallucination, anything at all.

I'm sorry.

Can't sleep?

Dad, look at the sky.

Last night at sea there was a full moon.

And now there is no moon. Not even any stars.

Just that funny glow.

- Why? - I don't know.

Well, what about Mom?

I wonder what she thinks happened to us.

Oh, she probably thinks we're having the time of our lives.

Diving for sunken treasure.

Oh. I'm sorry, Scott.

You deserve a better answer than that.

- She's worried, isn't she? - Yes, I'm sure she his.

But she's a good lady. She'll be able to handle it.

You know, I know we're going get out of here at all.

Of course we are.

It's just that... when I think of Mom now...

It is like...

It's like we're not even in the same world with her anymore.

You idiots come back!

We'll be back tomorrow with the coast guard.

- Well, what's the matter, Dad? - Thought I saw something.

Let's get some sleep, Scott.

Paul!

Why do I have the feeling that I'm in the world's biggest zoo?

That's what I was thinking.

Well, if there's a zoo, there must be a keeper.

It's a TBM Avenger. The navy used them during World War II.

I remember.

In 1945, six of them disappeared into thin air,

inside the Bermuda Triangle.

Now look, Scott,

I'd like to give you a nice logical explanation,

but the problem is I don't have one.

Get out of here. Get out of here, I'm warning you.

Hold him. Grab him.

Quiet!

- Where'd he come from? - You tell me, buddy.

- Are you all right, Ben? - Yeah.

My arm, it doesn't hurt anymore.

He was pointing that gizmo at me. I...

I don't think he means to harm us.

You speak English?

Espanol?

Thank you. Thank you very much.

I looked up. He was pointing this gizmo at me.

Now the next thing I know, I was seeing,

even hearing these fantastic colors like a...

like a kaleidoscope. And then the pain just faded away.

- I tell you it was weird. - You don't feel that?

No, I don't feel a thing. It's fine.

I'll tell you something else that's weird. Your fever's gone.

Hey, hey, Dad. Come here quick.

What is it, Scottie?

Look at those eyes and the cuneiform writing.

- It looks Egyptian. - No Scott predates the Egyptians.

I've seen that writings before.

Let me see that.

Look at this.

Look at these paintings. That's incredible.

I don't know much about it, but that paint looks new to me.

Listen, nothing around here makes any sense.

You know those plants and animals we saw today?

They're not only foreign to the Caribbean but to each other.

And that Indian, he dresses like a Caribbean Arawak,

except the Arawaks have been extinct since the 17th and...

And now these paintings and that mummy...

Atlantis, here we come.

Maybe. Just maybe you're right.

It seems, Scott, you are as perceptive.

as you are curious and intelligent.

Walk straight ahead. Don't be afraid.

It's nothing more than passing through a doorway into another room.

I promise that you'll be safe.

That tingling sensation will diminish in a few more seconds.

All right. I'm not dead and you're no Indian.

Quite correct.

Well, who are you? And what was that doorway all about?

And why did you pretend you couldn't understand us or talk to us?

I believe you'll have to see the answers rather than hear them.

Come with me.

Scott!

- Scottie! - Scottie!

- Orange juice. - That's wild orange juice.

I collect the oranges myself right here on this island.

These are travel plans.

Now each one of these is preset for a specific destination.

Main and alternative routes out and back.

If I wanted to visit a friend,

I'd insert this route card.

In the receiving plate, and I could sit back...

and relax and sleep or read.

Do whatever I want.

and this craft takes care of the rest.

What do all these switches do?

Most of these do nothing now.

The accident has destroyed all the capabilities.

Well, then you're stranded here just like we are.

Yes I am.

Where are you from? Another planet?

That's wonderfully imaginative. That's even possible.

But it's not true.

- Where then? - Look at that wall.

That's Earth!

Yes, in the year 2230.

What's wrong?

I believe that your father is looking for you.

I don't understand him leaving without telling me.

Scottie! Scottie!

Dad?

Over here, Dad.

I'm not hiding. You just can't see me.

Walk toward my voice.

Dad, do you hear a weird sort of ringing yet?

Yeah!

Yeah. It's okay. Just walk right through it.

Dad, Eve, this is Varian.

He's gonna help us get off the island.

Where are your friends?

Back through there.

Well, then we'd better go after them.

Pray that it's not already too late.

Scottie!

I don't see any sign of him.

- Was that a shot? - It was in my book.

Oh, my God!

What... What is this, some kind of joke?

There's nothing we can do now, Dr. Jordan.

- We've got to do something. - We must wait until dark.

Dar-L, zone B.

The candidates are in my vision.

Load scan.

Please, come with me.

- Scan completed. - Return at once.

Earth from the year 2230.

I've been asking the wrong question.

I've been wondering where we are instead of when.

We are in some kind of time lock.

A space-time continuum.

Past, present and future exist together.

Each on their own terms.

But the continuum is just a theory.

Nevertheless I believe that Dr. Jordan is correct.

You see, as earth men, we're each locked in our own time.

We've had to live by the calendar.

But here on this island, you begin to understand.

Even as the first man walked upright

in his Neanderthal cave,

man has also taken his first step on the moon.

And there's only a thin tissue of consciousness

separating one event from another.

And that threshold we crossed?

That's one of many. They are invisible.

They are separating zones of time like a giant honeycomb, if you will.

And who were those men on horseback?

They are English, They re privateers, actually,

and they exist in the 16th century.

Their captain carries a jeweled glove

which was given him by Elizabeth herself,

11 years ago.

Yes.

Even the superior physics of my own time could not prepare me for it.

My first assumption was death.

Then the realization that my five senses were still intact

led me to think I was hallucinating.

In my case, I was captured by these privateers

and I was entertained, shall we say,

By the captain. I escaped,

but I was forced to admit that hallucinations do not

cause cuts and bruises, and floggings do.

So you dressed as an Arawak to hide from them.

Yes, I did. That was a small but useful charade.

You see... I couldn't reveal myself to you

until I was absolutely sure.

This is an excellent year. It's French.

1986.

All right, listen to me.

This is the first fair-skinned woman we've seen in 11 years, right?

And I tell you.

And I tell you that she's worth more than all

the treasure in the hold of the Madre de Deus, right?

- Right? - Right!

And I also say that we stand by the article.

The article says that Camden gets 30 shares of any treasure that may be found.

Right?

No! No! No!

Let her go.

And the men with her.

Untie them.

We're not done with her yet, Camden.

Oh, is it the woman you want, Paget?

Or have you finally found the courage to oppose me?

The winner to take the prize, My Lord.

Agreed.

These people are my guests.

If there are any others who would make a challenge,

speak Now.

My sincere apologies, lady. My name is Sir James Camden.

I'm all right, thank you.

We are very grateful to you.

You speak English, but an odd dialect.

- Are you countrymen? - Oh, yes. You... You might say that.

Does Elizabeth still rule?

Yes.

Thank God, and the war with Spain?

The Armada that Philip was building when we left.

It was defeated, in the Channel by the English lead

under Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake.

Gods, death. That's one fight I would have given anything to be in.

Instead I rot on this infernal island and Drake reaps all the glory.

I'm grateful for this information and there is much more I would know.

Simon will show you to your quarters where you may rest,

and I see the lady, she'll require some more suitable clothing.

Come.

Oh, and your slave can accompany mine to the kitchen stores.

Uh, I'm... I'm not a slave.

Uh, you see. He saved my life and uh, I... I gave him his freedom.

You will give me the honor of dining at my table tonight.

My name is Varian. And in the year 2230...

I was a musician.

An my work was very important to me.

because in my century, musicians do nearly all the healing.

We use music to relieve pain,

to restore harmony and balance to the mind, to emotions.

Well, what's Earth like in 2230?

How can I capsulize two and a half centuries away.

In 2230, man on Earth has...

unlimited resources.

Because he's tapped the greatest resource of all

which is his mind.

Our machines are efficient and silent.

Our cities built miles up high.

So that the land outside is free for growing food,

and sustaining wildlife.

And the five races are melded into one.

There's no more war and no more countries.

It's just Earth.

We are a productive, non-aggressive people.

We waste nothing,

Time, imagination, energy, effort.

Because we believe that these things are...

the very essence of life.

Thank you.

Yes indeed.

Thank you.

What can you tell us about this English camp?

That is quite a weapon.

It's hardly a weapon.

I may not have the strength to use it again.

If I didn't know better, I'd swear all of this isn't for real.

Now, I've never seen anything to touch it.

I'll tell you that.

That sword fighting, him calling me a slave.

Yeah. He meant that, you know.

Yeah, I know, and he doesn't seem to have much sense of humor either.

You're come with me.

Uh, where's... Where's the lady?

She's having a dinner. You re to join her.

In here, if you please.

Hey, wait. Hey, man!

Goodnight.

Yeah, good night.

I've been trapped on this island for

nearly 12 years flying the flag of England...

in a place that sometimes reminds me of some small corner of hell.

Twelve years watching for sails that never arrive.

I build boats. I send men out

in them to search, but they never come back,

except carcasses on the beach.

Others disappear into some kind of limbo.

- Where are my friends. - In a limbo, dear lady.

Neither here nor there.

Until you decide to confide in me, to help me.

How can I help you?

We were shipwrecked here the same as you were.

Gun powder and wicks, enough to make a few bombs.

Well, we've made a couple of good old-fashioned Molotov cocktails.

Great! We'll create a diversion and blow up a few of their buildings here and there.

You'll have to do all this without me, Dr. Jordan.

The destruction of anything,

whether it's life or property, is wasteful.

It conflicts with everything that I believe.

Varian, there are two men and a woman being held prisoner in there.

I know that, and I also know where they are.

And I believe that it will be easier for me to find them and free them.

But if...

If you wish to create a diversion in the meantime.

Thanks, Scottie.

Do I disappoint you, Scott?

No. I guess I understand how you feel.

There sure is a lot I don't understand.

Like how can those Englishmen be alive?

You said they're 300 years old?

Scott, If you had a twin,

he'd be the same age as you. Within minutes.

Sure.

And if you were in New York and he was New York in Tokyo,

and you spoke together on the phone,

he'd be a day older than you, even as you spoke.

Yeah, I guess Tokyo is a day ahead of us.

But when he got back, we'd still be the same age.

Yes, because he'd be living in the same time.

Now you simply have to imagine...

the longest phone call ever made.

That sure is a long call.

The treasure of Madre de Dios.

Oh, Bess.

Bess is a most trustworthy guard,

and cannot be bribed.

I fought the Spanish for nearly 17 hours.

Nearly 1,600 tons with a crew of almost 500.

I barely got the treasure off before she sank.

What happened to the crew?

Well, we could hardly carry the treasure and the Spaniards.

Have you any idea what it's like to see a woman,

a white woman...

Especially one as beautiful as you after nearly 12 years?

As you came from the Holy Land by way of Walsingham,

did you meet my true love as she came?

Dear lady, an illiterate peasant would know more...

of his own country than you and

a spy would be overly informed, which I.

Half this treasure to you and your friends

if you tell me how you got here

and how I can escape this cursed island.

Where is your ship?

I told you there is no ship.

I will take you back with me. To England.

I'll establish you in court if you'd like,

if you will only tell me!

Why are you playing these awful games?

Why are you pretending?

You know as well as I do this is 1976.

The England you talk about hasn't existed for nearly 400 years.

Please let us go.

All we want to do is to leave this place.

Now I have been patient. I've showed you hospitality.

I have shown you courtesy,

and you repay me with lies and trickery.

No, no, please.

- Scar, take her! - No! No!

She is a witch. Burn her.

Cut her down.

We'll have you lose in a second.

Ben, hold on. I'll come to you.

Here. Now get out there and get after them.

- Ben, let's go. - You'd better get out of here, Paul.

It's no good, it's no good.

Ben.

Over here. Come on, quick.

Come on, get them out. Come on, go on, get out of here.

You are long in coming. He is not pleased.

I returned with all possible speed.

There is no way to please him these days.

He grows anxious as he grows weaker.

Look around, Atar.

The Source's energies control all of Atlantium

while you live in paradise with little effort,

and you would criticize him?

He is deteriorating.

The energy drain is beyond calculation.

This regeneration is critical.

One of the candidates I have seen should please him.

Atar, Rhea, Dar-L.

Proceed.

You have done well, Dar-L.

I am encouraged by the scans from these four.

Excellent physical reads. Good health.

Passable intelligence.

Only passable?

Not so highly evolved as yours.

Primitive emotional structure.

Extremely distressed.

Concern for their companions.

They plan a rescue and are in the greatest peril.

The premise must be that some will survive.

That among them, one will be suitable for my purpose.

We can simply terminate the others.

Terminate? There are all other ways of killing.

Enough! I will say when is to be.

The direction of their travel will bring them into our zone.

You will bring them here.

I will attend to their every comfort...

Until I chose,

none shall want for anything.

None shall be ill at ease until it is time.

The Arawaks tell about a time zone.

It lies far to the rising sun,

and there they say that

any man can find a doorway back to his own time.

See, Dad? We'll find a way back. I know we will.

Don't you ever let us forget that.

What do you suppose is down there?

Who knows.

But it can't be any worse than what we're leaving behind.

Right on. Give me the unknown any day.

The travelers have entered our time zone.

They have separated into two groups.

The guide will bring these three to us first.

Be rid of them..

Surely the transfer generator would be more appropriate.

The knowledge that they're alive and among their own people...

will make the deception much easier.

Atar's analysis is correct.

But your energy?

We know that my energy will be restored with one of the others.

Rhea will bring them to us.

I think the boy is the most likely candidate.

Being the youngest, his capacities are largely intact.

And what difference if one so young is terminated.

The more you live, Dar-L,

the less regard you have for life.

You had better examine where lies your allegiance, Atar.

It is to the Source. You know that.

The city is on the brink of disaster.

The Source our only hope.

Unless you feel the life of the boy...

more important than our own survival.

Dad, Dad!

Scott!

Your companions have already gone ahead.

Do not be afraid, my name is Rhea.

You are Varian and Fred.

Your father said you would return soon.

I am an emissary sent from the Source to escort you to Atlantium.

Atlantium?

Come.

She seems a lot more polite than the some people we just left.

Rhea, my father is here?

Awaiting for you.

It's strange you know, we're nowhere near the ocean and I smell the sea.

I would've said it was a pine tree.

You guys are gonna think I've flipped,

but so help me, I can taste vanilla ice cream.

- The sensations please you? - Yes, they do.

This place reminds me of Christmas.

The atmosphere of Atlantium can be all things to please all men.

The Source controls it.

It is his way of saying welcome.

Welcome. Welcome to Atlantium.

We have quarters prepared for all of you.

I'm Dar-L, this is Atar.

He, Rhea, and I are a triumvirate, the guardians of the city.

It is our duty to welcome the strangers who pass through this land.

Yeah, well, we'd like to see our friends now.

We thought they'd be here to meet us.

They are no longer here.

What do you mean they're not here?

- Yeah, where's my dad? - What about Jill and Eve?

Please, I do not wish to alarm you.

I assure you they are quite safe and happy.

Just cut the games and just tell us where they are.

They are back in their own time.