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Lieutenant Henderson.

Uh, commander.

At ease, Henderson.

Thank you, sir.

No. Don't be at ease.

Just relax.

One of us should, sir.

Yeah. Uh...

Henderson?

Yes?

About our mission.

"Our" mission?

Yes. seaquest is basing in San Francisco

for the Omni pacific's maiden run.

I'm assigning furloughs to some of the crew.

I'm on leave. Great!

Well, yeah, you are, but...

I have two tickets to the Omni pacific.

They weren't easy to get.

I was wondering if you'd be interested

in taking a ride.

I mean, I'd like for you to use your shore leave

to ride on the Omni pacific.

With you, sir?

Yes, Henderson, with me.

Is this an order?

No...

Of course not.

So, it's a date?

Well, no. I mean...

It's an official ueo function.

It's a date.

Yeah.

O.k. It's sort of a date.

O.k.

Then I sort of get to think about it, commander, and...

You're going to have to call me Lonnie.

Welcome to Omni terminal.

Please report to customs before boarding.

What's your opinion, ensign?

I'm not sure yet, sir.

You'd better be sure soon.

The international engineering committee

seems to think the Omni pacific is ready.

I'm not asking them.

I'm asking you.

In your considered opinion,

should we put 50 vips on the Omni pacific

and rocket them through a vacuum tunnel

between San Francisco and Beijing

at 2,000 miles an hour?

Depends. How much do we like these people?

[Clears throat]

I've only had a day and a half

to review the production manifest.

It's very hard to say.

Answer me.

[Female voice] Warning. Beta modulator is off-line.

This way.

[Beeping]

I need a beta power modulator right now!

Back-tracking inventory, sir.

Now, or do I have to get it myself?

With all due respect, Mr. Dumont,

cool heads must prevail.

The Omni project-- cool heads?

Who am I talking to?

I'm new to the project.

I'll need a name so I can tell the Omni committee

why we've hit another delay!

The beta modulator is on the way, Mr. Dumont.

Name?

I need a name!

[Disconnects]

Hey!

Uh, captain Hudson, Bradley dumont...

Chief engineer.

Take it easy, chief.

It's not free advice day, captain.

You're here to give the Omni pacific

her undersea clearance.

Wrong. I'm just here for the punch and bright lights.

My science officer will give clearance.

Oh, no.

Not Lucas wolenczak, please.

Do we know each other?

Not personally.

But every Stanford student's

tried to crack your grade point average

since you bailed on your Ph.D.

Have they done it?

Not yet. But genius is a bore, isn't it?

Uh, no...

Not for me.

Then you're impressed with the Omni pacific?

Well, I'm impressed with some of the great work--

some?

[Machinery noise]

We intentionally overstressed beta and power modulators

as part of our shakedown.

Anything else?

No... Nothing specific.

Oh, boy, you are a genius.

And apparently they come two to a room now.

Captain, the Omni pacific

is the fastest, most sophisticated piece of technology

under the sea.

I should know. I designed it.

I read the press kit.

Seaquest is the most sophisticated piece of technology

under the sea.

But I am generally pleased

with the work I've seen.

Generally pleased enough to give me clearance?

Gentlemen, put your pants back on.

Mr. Dumont is the one

that couldn't break my average, sir.

Ensign,

do you have an opinion?

Yeah, actually, I do.

Actually, it's more of a feeling--

a feeling! Maybe we should flip a coin!

Maybe I should put you both on a wrestling mat.

I understand the ueo's need to sanction this voyage,

but you can't abort the Omni's maiden run because of a...

Feeling.

Your call...

Mr. Wolenczak.

I have my concerns,

but I can't justify the ueo closing down

a 100-billion-dollar project on the 11th hour.

Then it comes down to a simple question...

Would you take a ride on the Omni pacific?

Uh, yes, I would, sir.

Good.

Enjoy Beijing.

Uh...

Sir, I...

I'm going to be riding on the Omni.

That's the part that goes with saying yes.

Enjoy the journey.

Is that the upgraded relay modulator?

Uh, who are you, sir? We haven't met.

I'm the one asking you the question.

Yes. We're going to second generation beta throughout the system.

Good.

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Ladies and gentlemen, your attention, please.

The Omni pacific will board in 20 minutes.

Martin majors reporting for world news network.

This is a ticket to the hottest ride in town.

The Omni pacific's an underwater train

capable of traveling at more than three times the speed of sound.

Here's Lawrence Deon, president and chief operating officer

of Deon international.

What do you think of all this?

The Omni pacific's a technological wonder,

a fine example of what we can accomplish

if we work together.

Didn't Deon international pull funding early on?

Deon's only a minority partner.

I'm trying to keep our profile low.

Competition is the blood of free enterprise.

Deon tends to overwhelm its partnerships.

I'd like to give the other guys a chance sometimes.

Wall street thinks you're betting on air travel.

We've restructured Deon's position in air travel,

conglomerated with several airlines

to serve the world traveler.

Won't Omni pacific be competing directly with your western hub?

Of course. It's a healthy market.

That's why Deon's participating in a limited way.

I love trains.

They're old-fashioned and fun.

So, you'll be going along?

Unfortunately, no.

I've purchased the world basketball champions,

renaming them the Deon demons.

I'm meeting with the city fathers later to assure them

that I will not triple the price of tickets.

You won't be tripling ticket prices?

Uh-uh. Thank you.

Belt up.

That's the best seat your captain promoted you into.

My expertise promoted me to this seat, Bradley.

You talk to fish, Lucas.

I turn technological dreams

into working, turning pieces of steel...

And wonder.

Hello, zirus, how we doing today?

[Female voice] Hello, Bradley.

My sensors tell me we're about ready.

Yes, sweetheart.

Secure the cockpit and begin a systems cross-check.

Shall I initiate preliminaries?

Please.

I, uh...

Wrote the program myself.

And does she sing you to sleep, too?

Mm-hmm.

Oh!

Oh, I'm so sorry.

Are you all right?

Just late. The Omni hasn't left, has it?

Plenty of time.

You guys are everywhere.

Miss?

Deon international.

Just a part-timer

while putting myself through night school.

And you had to get a tattoo?

Mr. Deon's a tad anal.

That's a polite word.

So they say.

I don't even know the man.

Welcome aboard the Omni pacific.

Activating passive restraint system.

Travel time to Beijing is three hours, seven minutes.

Speed velocity 1,900 miles per hour.

I was starting to think you wouldn't show.

Who am I to miss an official function?

You look beautiful.

[Chuckles]

This, uh...

Man, this is very impressive, Bradley.

Yeah, it is.

You minored in humility at Stanford, am I right?

I try not to burden myself

with the opinions of others, Lucas.

Ah.

Ladies and gentlemen,

we are traveling at 1,000 miles per hour.

That's pretty amazing, huh, Henderson?

It's kind of like we're astronauts or something.

Astronauts don't wear tuxedos,

and I told you about the Henderson thing.

It's your call, commander.

Official function or date.

We have to set the ground rules.

What if it's a date?

We get to eat, dance, and laugh--see what happens.

And if it's an official function?

Polite small talk and awkward silences.

Then, Henderson, it's definitely a date.

Then, commander, it's definitely Lonnie.

We have to keep this from the crew.

Is it against regulations for officers to date?

No, but it should be.

Please feel free to move about the cabin.

We don't have to start dancing, do we?

Like you can even dance, right?

Relax. This dress is killing me.

I'll bet you wear pajamas, right?

Shorties in the summer.

Long sleeves, wool pants in the winter.

Very few people are privileged to that information, hender--

Lonnie.

What do you wear?

I don't wear pajamas.

[Buzzing]

Overload in beta modulator 1-9-7-5.

Disengaging display.

I hate to burden you, Brad,

but I'm becoming less impressed.

The Omni's very complex.

A glitch or two is to be expected.

[Beep] Don't touch that! O.K.

Heads-up display. Back on-line, Bradley,

your reputation as fair-haired, handsome, and curious

reaches far and wide.

But this is my work.

I've been following you for two days.

I'm not curious anymore. I'm here to observe.

Then observe. It's fully automated.

No disgruntled oilmen or engineers.

She doesn't need your help,

and I don't need your input!

[Music plays]

Come on! Who's going to know?

Me.

Why do men take dancing so seriously?

I don't. I just don't do it.

Unless I want it to rain

or I'm celebrating a lion hunt.

You're chicken.

Yeah, right. You are.

You equate dancing with femininity,

afraid it'll reduce your masculinity.

This is a date, not a therapy session?

Some of the best dancers in history were men.

Fred Astaire, baryshnikov, Michael Jackson...

I guess they were more comfortable with their feminine side.

I'm very comfortable with my feminine side.

Women have them. I don't.

I didn't mean to insult your manhood.

Save it for the lion hunt.

My manhood?

Yeah. But never mind.

What about my manhood?

Just drop it, o.K.?

No, let's not.

How's the food?

I'm not on board for the food, Larry.

Can you do it?

Of course.

But this has to read like a natural disaster.

Make sure you discredit the technology.

The railroads won't start competing with Deon international air.

I can't have that.

And you won't, sir.

Keep that a secret, would you?

Who am I going to tell?

Doesn't matter...

But it would make your mommy and daddy very sad.

[Violin plays]

Ahh!

[Beep]

[Female voice] Niccolo paganini program terminated.

The door is open.

Captain.

Stand easy, piccolo.

Thank you, sir.

Speak your mind.

You play the fiddle, sir?

It's a violin.

Oh.

You know the difference

between a violin and an onion?

Nobody cries if you chop up a violin.

I just heard that.

It's not my personal opinion, sir.

For a man whose name is piccolo,

you show very little music appreciation.

Um...

I--i read this, sir.

Ahem.

Th-that book.

The red badge of courage?

What did you think?

It's pretty good, sir. It's...

Thanks.

Pretty good?

Stephen crane is one hell of an author.

Hey, maybe I'll, um...

I'll e-mail him a fan letter.

This book was written in 1895.

Oh.

You know,

I thought that part about the flag was--was cool and...

Those guys-- full on warriors, huh?

That's the kind of war I would have liked to have been in.

This book isn't about war.

It's about personal courage.

Now, you read it again.

Yes, sir.

And this time...

Try it with these.

Pink glasses?

They're special.

They're made for dyslexics--

keep the letters from flopping around.

They make it easier to read.

This is the Omni pacific

requesting local reference and technical counsel.

I repeat, this is the Omni pacific--

can anybody read me?

We can't get lost. We're on railroad tracks.

Our communications protocol is malfunctioning.

You mean the radio.

It's not a radio.

The Omni's undersea aqua wave transmission

is state-of-the-art.

O.k. All right.

But you do have a backup, right?

Redundant systems are unnecessary.

That's what captain Smith said.

Captain who?

E. J. Smith...

Of the Titanic?

We're going a little fast.

We don't limp around the ocean

like you might be used to.

[Buzzing]

My dad had a TV like that.

He had to bang it to get the news.

Why don't you get yourself a drink?

I don't drink.

Then get me one...

Please.

All right.

Here you are, sir.

Commander.

I didn't know you were going to be on board.

Oh, yeah. Well...

I am.

What are you doing here?

Captain Hudson sent me to observe.

Doesn't surprise you, does it?

No, no, not at all.

Welcome aboard.

Thank you.

Two at a time?

I'm with a friend.

Ahh.

A he-friend or a she-friend?

I'm escorting the nairobian ambassador.

Oh.

An official gig-- handshakes, cheese dip...

Yeah.

Maybe I'll see you around, huh?

Yeah.

Oh, um...

Vodka Martini, shaken not stirred.

Mr. Bond, welcome aboard.

Who?

I.d.

Yeah. Uh...

Next time q makes up one of these for you,

don't tell him you're 29.

Say 20...

Maybe.

Yeah, but I am 29, sir.

So am I.

[Beeping]

Where'd you go for my drink?

I'm afraid I didn't bring you one.

Who are you? Mason Freeman.

Passengers aren't allowed on this side.

I represent one of the investors.

Lawrence Deon pulled his funding and almost bankrupted--

Mr. Deon's a traditionalist.

He still believes in the future of air travel.

Now, open the accelerator control panel.

No.

This computer ran my entire train.

I know.

Now, perhaps you didn't hear me.

Open the accelerator control panel!

I thought you got cold feet and jumped off the train.

Lucas is here.

What'd you tell him?

I told him you were the nairobian ambassador.

What'd you want me to tell him?

The truth--

that this is an official function,

and that we're... You're...

O.k. You're right.

I'm the nairobian ambassador.

Hey, Bradley?

Bradley, what's going on?

What's the problem?

Open up the door. Come on.

I can't raise the Omni, Jim.

When was the last time you talked with Lucas?

When the Omni departed.

He's supposed to check in every hour.

That was 15 minutes ago.

All I'm getting is "carrier failed."

It's brand new. We can expect some glitches.

The Omni is traveling at 2,300 miles an hour.

That's 200 miles an hour faster than it was engineered to travel.

Captain Hudson, would you come to the bridge, sir?

Bradley!

Oh, my god.

Commander, what is going on?

I was about to ask you the same thing.

They skipped that part in bartender school.

We've got to tell these people something.

What do you suggest?

Anything. Tell them it's a power surge,

a broken compass, a faulty modulator.

Broken compass?

Tell them we don't know what's going on,

but it's not what they need to hear.

Excuse me, everybody.

Can I have your attention, please?

I'm commander Ford and this is lieutenant Henderson of seaquest.

I just wanted to explain

that what we're experiencing here is a...

Uh...

An overload in the accelerator modules.

But it's being fixed.

There's no reason to panic.

We're not panicking.

We just want to go back to San Francisco.

The worst case scenario is we reach Beijing

an hour ahead of schedule.

When's the last time that happened, huh?

That's good. That would be great.

Put on a movie.

Keep their minds off things.

I don't have enough power for my blender.

Then open the bar.

On whose tab?

Just do it.

Try and calm down the other passengers.

I'll find Lucas.

Jonathan?

Be careful.

You, too.

Bradley?

Bradley's not here. I'm sorry.

I don't understand.

Damn!

Yeah, neither do I.

Bradley, I want to help.

Lucas, how fast are we going?

2,600 miles an hour and climbing.

He's dead.

We've been sabotaged.

By who?

Someone with a good right hook

and a better understanding of the Omni computer.

I can't stop the train.

Have you contacted seaquest?

No. Communications is also down.

We're inside a vacuum

driven by the electromagnetic polarity

of a frictionless environment,

and we're not slowing down.

Our speed is increasing.

Any fail-safe system?

The Omni's programmed to 2,800 miles an hour.

Anything past that, the polarity turns down

to the Omni's maximum safe speed.

But someone sabotaged the computer,

so I can't get into the fail-safe system.

They've killed the only person on board that could.

Someone's gone through a lot of trouble

to make this look like a natural disaster.

3,300 miles an hour?

Yes, sir. 900 miles an hour over spec.

Captain Hudson, I thought wolenczak walked this through.

Mr. Secretary, there's a big difference

between a 24-hour walk-through

and a complete systems analysis.

Wolenczak could pull the plug if something went wrong.

Authority you gave him yesterday

with the entire world watching.

There are eight years of international engineering fingerprints

all over this project,

and not one belongs to Lucas wolenczak.

I suggest you find another scapegoat.

Sir, what can we do?

I don't know, piccolo.

How they doing?

They're hanging in there.

This is all my fault.

I didn't have to say yes.

I didn't have to ask.

O.k.

Maybe I am a little sorry I said yes,

but I'm definitely not sorry you asked.

Look, it's not exactly how I pictured our first date, either,

but it's all we got.

Miss ambassador.

Ensign.

Lieutenant.

Lucas, this is...

None of my business.

Thank you, Lucas.

You're welcome.

This was found in Bradley's duffel.

Thought you might want it.

So much for Omni security and weapons check.

Any luck with the computer?

Yeah.

I was able to get zirus back on-line,

but only to minimum diagnostics.

As far the fail-safe system,

I've isolated the macros to control the polarity,

but without the code, it's worthless.

Temperature forward cabin, 72 degrees.

Thanks, zirus.

I want to help, Bradley.

I'm beginning to hate that voice.

Decoupling aft cabin.

Me, too.

Sequence initiated.

Zirus, who's uncoupling?

I want to help, Bradley.

Someone's uncoupling the rear car.

I'll check it out.

Jury-rig some kind of radio.

All right.

Decoupling sequence initiated.

Working freelance, Mr. Freeman,

or does Larry Deon have you on retainer?

I'm not at Liberty to divulge the nature of my employ.

Mr. Deon's funny about talk outside the company.

How's he feel about death within the company?

That depends upon who dies

and whether or not it's his idea.

But you know what?

You won't kill me because only I can stop this train.

Then stop it.

I don't think so.

This train will crash into the Beijing terminal

at 3,500 miles an hour.

I guarantee you it won't be very pretty.

Standing by to decouple.

But me and you can get off this train.

Give me the code.

You'd rather die?

Would you?

Oh, I'm not going to.

By the way, I emptied Mr. Dumont's gun.

Decoupling sequence complete.

Lucas, are we on-line?

I'm trying.

What happened? Are you o.K.?

Yeah, but it's Deon.

Mason Freeman was on the train.

The man with the tattoo. I should've known.

It doesn't matter now. Come on, Lucas.

There it is. We're up.

O.k. Patch me into seaquest.

Do the best you can, commander.

Deon.

Your opinion of Larry Deon, captain Hudson,

is irrelevant.

If you've got reasons to arrest him--

there is no time!

The Omni pacific is careening towards Beijing

at over 3,000 miles an hour.

This isn't the wild west. We have procedures.

To hell with procedures when my people are involved!

Don't do this, captain!

The alleged dignity of sport

has been a main staple of tavern and cocktail talk

ever since some poor peasant

kicked the skull of his enemy around an ancient cow pasture.

The purity of the game, the honorable loser, the humble Victor.

It's not how hard you toss the ball, but how hard you try.

That's all a lie, really.

Sport has been about money.

We bet on it,

we sell it,

and we pay to watch it when we're too old or lazy.

It is our way of participating

from our stuffed couches and comfortable slippers

in the last arena of hope and drama.

I purchased the Deon demons to make money...

For you,

the city of San Francisco,

and certainly, of course, for me.

Ladies and gentlemen,

the ticket price will triple,

and the fans will come...

Because they're afraid to play the game on their own.

I'm not afraid to play, Larry!

Captain Hudson, you have an appointment, I trust?

I don't need one.

Get this tin soldier out of here.

You and I have to talk.

Talk about terminating a mediocre career

with extreme prejudice.

Watch it, Larry. I live for my work.

Not anymore. After that stunt,

I'll have the ueo fry you up

for a diplomatic feeding frenzy.

You should've pulled completely out of the Omni pacific.

Mason Freeman never got off the train.

Three of my best officers are on board.

I know nothing.

Yes, you do.

Freeman doesn't know how to stop the Omni,

and it's gonna crash.

But before it does,

my officers will make sure

that he broadcasts a complete confession.

You're ruined, Larry.

I wanted to tell you.

I'll talk to him.

There's no time.

I was an early investor on the Omni.

If dumont didn't change the original design,

cross-connecting the secondary induction system

through the b-buss

may give you enough power to control the train.

You were bluffing.

Hey, file a grievance with the ueo.

Cross-connect the secondary induction system

through the b-buss

for power to control the train.

Don't tell anybody I did this.

Using a hair pin?

You got a number 12 wire on you?

No.

Then shut up.

And hang on.

We got power!

Can you slow her down?

Yeah. O.K. I'm trying.

Computer won't boot.

Surge must have fried her.

You've got a whole new set of parameters, ensign.

Work through all your ideas.

If it doesn't work, turn them upside down and try again.

I'm working on it, but this isn't the college boards.

At least there there's a right answer.

There wasn't when I got there.

How do you think I ended up in the Navy?

Do the best you can.

I'll inform Beijing to evacuate the terminal.

We've got a lot more power.

We can go twice as fast now,

but we still can't slow down.

Maybe that's it. Think about it.

Turn it upside down.

What if we do go faster?

We fly off the levitation rails,

the train breaks in two, we lose oxygen, and die.

So there isn't a right answer.

Maybe.

What if faster's the answer?

With enough speed, we could break through this tube

like a straw driven through a telephone pole

during a tornado.

Get me a tunnel schematic.

When you're taking a test

and you're sure there's no right answer,

it's usually because you're making a subconscious assumption

that isn't really stated in the question.

Yeah. The turn at the honshu Ridge.

We can break out there and the water might cushion us.

Cut the passenger car loose.

Without their drag, we can maximize acceleration.

If the tube bursts, the water flooding in

will decelerate the uncoupled cars.

What about us?

We're astronauts. Straw through the telephone pole.

Or spam in a can.

Tighten your seat belts

and brace your heads between your knees.

If you have pillows, use them to cover your faces.

You, too, Lonnie.

Someone has to lead the passengers.

That's an excuse to try to save me.

No, it's an order, lieutenant.

Date's over.

Commander.

Yeah.

I'm planning on seeing you

on the other side.

Beijing terminal, Beijing terminal.

This is seaquest dsv.

Evacuate the facility. Repeat. Evacuate the facility.

Disconnect circuits are armed.

Coming up on the honshu Ridge in 30 seconds.

Give me a Mark.

Countdown in 5,

4,

3, 2,

1!

Decouple now!

Full energy...

Now!

Are you guys all right?

Jonathan. Lucas, can you hear me?

Jonathan.

Lucas?

Jonathan, Lucas, can you hear me?

Yeah, we made it.

I can't believe this radio still works.

Well, when I fix something,

it stays fixed.

I went to Stanford, remember?

You are one lucky captain, captain.

Luck had nothing to do with it, sir.

It did for Larry Deon.

Your actions violated ueo's evidentiary procedures, and our--

my actions saved lives.

And our courts cannot bring charges against him again.

But they can against me, right?

Not anymore.

Why not?

Because in some... Odd way, captain Hudson,

I like you.

You mean... That in some odd way

I'm usually right, right?

Don't push me, captain.

Can't help myself, sir.

Hi.

Hi.

Commander,

welcome back.

Thank you, sir.

Please attend to lieutenant Henderson.

Sir?

Debrief her. Whatever.

Yes, sir.

You're a very lucky young man, ensign.

Wasn't luck, sir.

Bradley dumont built a hell of a train.

Debrief me.

Yes.

And I think it was an order.

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