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Scandinavian whaler.

300 meters off port.

We've got her.

She's in range.

Fire when ready.

Oh, my god.

We just hit a cruise ship.

[Sonar pinging]

Look at the reef, gentlemen.

What do you see?

Nothing.

Exactly. Five years ago, that was among the only

macrocystis pyrifera beds

on the ocean floor.

That was before the mining company scraped away the kelp.

And before anyone realized...

It was the only source of pyrifera alginate,

the best treatment for glaucoma.

Hmm...surprised you didn't bomb

the mining companies.

Their actions rape the earth.

They're dooming future generations.

Clearly, something dramatic has to be done.

Like when you torpedoed a boatload of tourists?

A terrible accident.

The torpedo was meant for the whaler.

You may not distinguish, but the ueo does.

Why do you think they pardoned me?

Because they couldn't Grant ueo membership to a murderer.

O'Neill, that is enough.

I can't believe we're escorting this guy.

He should go to prison.

Ambassador Scully is the founder

of the first ecologically-pure undersea colony...

As well as the newest member-state of the ueo.

We have to put our personal feelings aside.

300 people died on that ocean liner.

How can they pardon that?

Kill one person, you're a murderer.

Kill a hundred?

You're a statesman.

[Alarm beeping]

Plasma laser hit, aft impeller.

We've come for Max Scully.

Prepare to be boarded, or we'll sink you.

You're letting them on-board?

We're within seaquest sensor range, ambassador.

[Captain] Fire grapnel torpedo.

Reel them in, Mr. Piccolo,

launch bay three.

Have a security team meet me there.

Docking collar pressurized.

Clear main door flap.

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Have them taken to the brig.

Ambassador Scully.

Ensign wolenczak will show you to your quarters.

I'd like to take the long way.

It's not every day I get to ride on seaquest.

By all means.

Mr. Ford.

Have constable morse escorted to my cabin.

How can you possibly allow

Scully to walk free on this ship?

Ambassador Scully

is an official guest aboard this ship,

while you tried to hijack a ueo shuttle.

The only reason why I'm not charging you

with piracy or kidnapping

is to avoid an international incident.

I have a warrant for his arrest.

It's worthless. The ueo pardoned him.

Japan hasn't.

They don't have a ueo treaty,

but they have long memories.

Scully killed 50 Japanese citizens aboard that ship.

That's outside the jurisdiction of ueo law enforcement.

Not anymore. I quit.

I won't be part of an organization

that embraces a murderer.

I'm now a consultant

to the Japanese foreign office.

You mean you're a bounty hunter.

At least I'm not hiding behind a uniform.

I took an oath when I put this on.

I'm committed, no matter how difficult the job.

Don't you lecture me on commitments!

I'm the one you left standing at the altar twice,

remember?

This isn't personal.

Yes, it is.

The next attempt upon his safety

will be met with appropriate force.

Mr. Ford, Ms. Morse is leaving.

See that she does.

[Lucas] These swim tubes give Darwin access

to every corner of seaquest.

Captain Bridger believed

that if Darwin lets us explore his world,

we should let him explore ours.

[Scully] Ah.

Ah.

Elaine.

No hard feelings,

you were just doing your job.

Fascinating, ensign wolenczak.

Pardon me.

You don't like me much, do you?

I don't know you.

Sure you do.

You were on seaquest

when Nathan Bridger chased me down.

And for the last three weeks

you've been downloading every byte of information

you could find on ecotopia.

For the record, sir,

I think that ecotopia could be a model

for all future colonies.

Above and below the sea.

Really.

But that's not an answer.

No, sir, it isn't.

Elaine morse's ship is clear of launch bay.

I am writing to offer my condolences

at the loss of your grandson

lieutenant James Brody.

It was a privilege and an honor

to have the lieutenant serve my command.

Ohh.

[Knock on door]

End dictation.

Come in.

Mr. Piccolo.

What can I do for you?

I heard they announced the list of new...

Lieutenant postings.

How'd I do?

You didn't make it.

Oh.

You were up against the academy's best.

You'll do better next time.

Next time?

I gave it everything I had.

But you learned in the process.

Obviously, not enough.

That's debatable.

I'm giving you a field commission

as warrant officer.

Warrant officer?

That's correct.

I'd like you to clear

lieutenant Brody's quarters.

Sort through his personal effects

before they're sent to his family.

That's all.

Sir.

Thank you.

[Scully] Nathan Bridger built a remarkable boat.

Well, his dream was to create

the ultimate deep submergence vehicle

for ocean exploration.

Saving the whales was mine.

Sad how two peaceful dreams

can bring about so much death.

Captain Bridger didn't murder anyone.

So these torpedoes haven't been fired

since they were used against me?

Only when it was necessary to protect lives.

Oh, I see.

That's what I used to tell myself.

Always made it easier to press the--

[beep]

Buttons.

Ambassador.

We get your point.

Oh, you do?

So you've looked up and wondered

who was on the end of your torpedoes?

Did you?

I thought faking my death

would help me escape my punishment.

I was wrong.

The ueo pardoned you.

They can't silence the 300 screams

I hear every night.

[Captain] You've spent time with ambassador Scully.

What's your impression?

I think ecotopia

is a great influence to city building.

I'm also very impressed

with the recycling matrix

and the plasma energy array.

I meant about the ambassador.

Speak your mind, ensign.

I think that what he did was unforgivable.

That's what I think.

But I do feel

that what he's doing right now is very noble.

Noble.

Few arrive at nobility

by killing hundreds of people.

I think if you look closely,

you'll see the fanatic he is.

Because he cares about the environment?

Then I'm a fanatic, too.

Really?

Yes, sir.

Then you should spend a week on ecotopia.

Take a close look.

I'll be curious to hear your observations.

Yes, sir.

[Scully] Welcome to ecotopia.

Completely self-sustaining

and 100% ecologically friendly.

[Lucas] Isn't what I expected.

That's because you were born too late.

This is what agricultural communities looked like,

before science replaced nature.

Ah, the artificial sunlight's

the best I've ever seen.

But the dirt farming?

Isn't that hopelessly inefficient

in comparison to modern hydroponic techniques?

Only if you're trying to feed the world.

From what I read,

I thought that was the point.

Ecotopia wasn't created to sell ecologically-pure tomatoes

so people on seven continents

could feel morally superior

when they eat their salads.

Teaching the world to feed itself?

Global thinking brought us to the brink of ecological disaster.

Grow a carrot in the kalahari,

then sell it in Beijing tomorrow.

Nobody has to face the real cost.

Production is so far removed from consumption,

a child has no idea apples come from trees.

So if people eat

the food that they produce,

and if their homes and clothes

come from their own resources,

they'll value a healthy environment.

You're only trying to reverse 800 years of history.

What were trying to prove is...

Man can leave his concrete jungles

and return to the soil.

And hopefully, by our example,

the people of every nation will realize

their future lay not in empire, but in community.

You're going to lay the blueprints.

No, god will provide the blueprints,

I'm just helping with the distribution.

You still don't like me much, do you?

I have a hard time reconciling this with your past.

I was a good man once.

Until the evils of this world drove me to the unspeakable.

Now, I can't change that act,

but I am trying to change the world.

Will that silence the screams, ambassador?

Whatever drives me...

I sleep knowing I've spent the day

trying to make the world better.

Can you say the same thing?

Captain Hudson?

Captain here.

Sensors have detected a radiation leak

at the freedom point seamount global nuclear weapons dump.

Thank you, Mr. O'Neill. We will investigate.

Chart a course to freedom point.

Aye, sir.

This is hauler 7404 with a shipment of fertilizer.

Requesting clearance.

Clearance granted. Welcome to ecotopia.

[Coughs]

[Crackling]

I transmitted the shipment's arrival confirmation

to your dispatcher.

That concludes our business.

Where can a lady take a shower here?

The hotel down main street.

Thanks.

Get the orange in the cage.

Get the orange in the cage.

Then you yank straight down. Yank.

That way, you don't hurt the tree

or bruise the fruit.

Walk slowly towards the hatch.

And if I don't?

Everyone else will see through you the way I do.

Constable morse?

O'Neill, eta to freedom point?

4 hours, 16 minutes, sir.

If we continue at this speed,

we risk destabilizing the magnetic containment of our fusion core.

And if we don't get there on time,

the world will be eating tuna with a geiger counter.

Maintain speed.

If memory serves me, after the global disarmament of 2009,

the ueo assured the world that a radiation leak could never happen.

Freedom point is encased

in a mountain of vitrified silicon cement.

The ueo guaranteed it's absolutely safe.

Just goes to prove there are no absolutes.

And you never trust a politician.

Hear, hear.

There's an incoming message from ecotopia.

It's ambassador Scully.

Put it on a secure channel.

Aye, aye, sir.

Sorry to trouble you. We have a problem.

Which is, sir?

Elaine morse tried to kidnap me...Again...

In yet another blatant violation of my ueo protections.

I have her in custody. I'm waiting for your instructions.

We will be there presently.

I'll go, sir.

I appreciate the gesture, commander,

but Elaine morse is my responsibility...

Seemingly forever.

Officially, you leave me with no other choice.

You're under arrest for attempted kidnapping.

Just once I'd like to hear your voice and not the uniform.

You can come peacefully or in restraints. The choice is yours.

That won't be necessary. I'm not pressing charges, captain.

I don't need any favors from a murderer.

This isn't about justice. This is about rejection, isn't it, Elaine?

How many ex-lovers are you stalking?

I can't possibly be the only one.

You know, passion is a tricky thing, captain.

You should consider yourself lucky

you were never involved with her.

Wait till you see this, lieutenant.

You must be surprised to hear from me

after all this time.

What is this?

A disc I found in Brody's quarters.

I thought maybe he told you something about it.

When we broke up, neither of us felt like talking.

Then you disappeared for 10 years.

What a way to end a relationship. But...

My mother died last month,

and it got me thinking about family.

This is your son, Jim...

Our son.

Did Brody ever mention this?

This isn't a trick, Jim.

I don't want money.

I chose to raise our boy by myself.

I just thought if you're ever in town,

you could stop and say hello.

We'd like that.

Brody was a father.

Does she...

Know what happened to him?

I'll send the disc to the ueo with his other stuff.

Maybe they can figure out how to find her.

Why didn't we know about this?

I thought I was his friend.

You were.

We all were.

I thought.

Makes you wonder how much we know about anybody, you know?

Mr. O'Neill.

Full sensor scan.

It's bad, sir. Wskrs are detecting a diffused radiation leak

about 70% above normal background levels.

Can you pinpoint the source?

With time.

I need it now.

Seaquest has arrived at freedom point.

Right on time.

Decrypting datalinks

and synchronizing transmission codes.

Reading datalinks.

Transmission synchronized.

We have control of seaquest.

Very good. Begin diverting energy

and realigning the power grid.

[Beeping]

Report!

I'm getting enormous energy fluctuations throughout the ship.

Is it the radiation?

No. Our hull's designed to absorb far more radiation than this.

Then what's causing this?

I don't know. I've never seen anything like this.

Shut down communication.

Helm full stop.

I've lost helm control. We're at full stop.

Warning. Life support minimal. Oxygen levels dropping.

Initiating emergency override.

Shifting helm control to--

my console is dead!

Mr. O'Neill, send an emergency distress call.

I can't, sir. Communications are down.

Only wskrs are responding.

All decks are reporting every system failing including life support.

Where's my power going?

I don't know. My console isn't getting any more reading.

Get to engineering and figure out the problem.

Yes, sir.

Hand it over.

The plasma pistol you always keep in the boot.

When we're back to seaquest, you're going right in the brig.

While a killer goes free.

I haven't noticed you invading macronesia.

Maybe I'll get there.

And maybe some private agenda is clouding your judgment.

Oh, that's it! You're right!

I attempted a capital crime

in a fit of rage over an ex-lover.

[Sighs]

Oliver.

Come on!

I've risked my career, my freedom,

my life to bring this man down.

Do you think I'd do all that for nothing?

I'm listening.

I was a kid.

I was passionately looking for something to believe in.

Scully gave that to me.

When he joined the green brigade, I went in, too.

We were going to stop a chemical plant

from polluting half the eastern seaboard.

Scully started making demands.

He said we should target the directors of the company...

Kill them...

And keep killing them until we got what we wanted.

I saw the look in his eyes when he talked about murder.

He meant it.

I packed up and ran away.

I got as far away from him as I could.

He has not spent 10 years underground

trying to build a better garden.

If ecotopia is paradise...

Scully is the serpent.

I don't know if it's any comfort to you,

but my gut reaction to Scully is the same as yours.

But I'm a ueo officer.

Without hard evidence, there's nothing I can do.

What's happening to our power?

I still don't know.

I need answers. Tell me what you know, not what you don't.

The fusion engines are generating power, but for some reason,

energy is being diverted from essential systems.

Get life support back on line. Oxygen levels

are nearly critical.

That's the least of our problems.

These power fluctuations are destabilizing the magnetic field containment

around the fusion core.

If we can't contain the fusion core,

seaquest will blow and take half of freedom point with it.

[Thud]

Ford to bridge. What was that?

Forward plasma lasers have engaged.

We're firing on freedom point.

Data from the wskrs indicates the plasma layers

are 300% stronger than normal and increasing in intensity.

That's the power drain.

Stop them.

I can't.

Status?

Firing sequence initiated.

Vitrification shell breached.

Anticipating contact with plutonium...

In 43 minutes.

43 minutes, gentlemen.

43 minutes, and the second age of man begins.

Maybe this time, we'll get it right.

Henderson?

The lasers are drawing all our power,

eroding the containment field around the engine's fusion core.

Can we do anything?

The Maglev system operates on an independent power grid.

I'm redirecting the fusion core stabilizers through it.

That should provide an uninterrupted flow of energy

to the containment field... Until the grid overloads.

Good work, Henderson. You've bought us some time.

An hour, at best. By then, we'll all be unconscious

from oxygen deprivation, anyway.

So what's the good news?

There isn't any.

Seaquest is obviously under someone else's control.

My guess is that we're being used

to initiate a massive fission reaction

within the nuclear waste.

Seaquest is turning freedom point

into a gigantic nuclear bomb.

A 200,000 megaton bomb that could plunge earth into a nuclear winter

and a second ice age.

The entire surface of the earth will be devastated.

There is one way to stop the lasers. Let seaquest blow.

Our explosion could create critical mass.

I can't take that chance.

You told me if I got you the datalinks,

that you could control seaquest.

I thought I could.

But diverting power to lasers

has eroded seaquest's fusion core containment field.

Fix it.

I can't.

What you're telling me is

that everything that we worked a decade to achieve

is going to be lost

due to one man's staggering incompetence!

[Breathing heavily]

There's one person here who can save seaquest...

And he's picking oranges.

Now...

You shut down the datalinks...

Or do you need a control manual to flip a switch?

I can handle it, sir.

Yeah.

Good.

Seaquest, this is captain Hudson. Respond.

[Static]

Seaquest, respond, please.

Radiation must be interfering with communication.

What radiation?

From freedom point.

Seaquest is there investigating a leak.

Scully's behind this.

Yeah, right... Along with global warming,

nearsightedness,

and every sock you ever lost.

When I was at ecotopia, I saw some of Scully's men

scanning a drillsub for radiation.

A drillsub?

I don't believe in coincidences.

Nah, it's just a hunch.

Think about it. What's paradise doing with radiation?

So don't listen to me. Listen to yourself.

What's your gut telling you?

I never liked the son of a bitch. Let's go.

[Alarm]

Warning-- life support critical.

Oxygen levels minimal.

We haven't been able to contact seaquest

since it arrived at freedom point seamount.

We have to assume our worst fears are true

and they're facing a catastrophic situation.

I might be able to take over seaquest

using classified remote codes.

I'll need your authorization.

You have it.

Take whatever measures are necessary

to prevent a fusion core failure.

Yes, sir.

Establishing datalink.

On-line with seaquest now.

There was a sudden massive redirection of energy

that fried the power conduits to the pulse generators.

All systems running on less than 10%, including life support.

Enough to keep the crew alive?

Barely.

The energy burst crippled the containment field.

It's going to collapse within 10 minutes.

Is there anything you can do about it?

Not alone, sir.

[Beeping]

Seaquest, this is Lucas. Respond.

Lucas?

Dagwood.

Thank god.

I am the only one awake.

I know.

They need more oxygen than you do.

That's why you must listen to me carefully.

O.k.

Dagwood, I need you to open the guidance systems hatch

of the e.M.P. Torpedoes.

V.o.x.

What do I do now?

Open the round casing.

O.k.

See the silver sphere?

Remove it. Take it to engineering.

Removing.

I'm in engineering.

Inside the sphere is the detonator.

It's designed to release

a massive electromagnetic pulse.

We can use that to restore the containment field.

O.k.

Remove the detonator carefully,

but leave it on the blue rod.

If you don't, the torpedo's going to blow.

I got it.

Done.

Bring the detonator close to the fusion core.

O.k.

O.k.!

Press the red button on the detonator.

You have five seconds to get out.

Pushing!

Dagwood!

The pulse killed his pal.

And stabilized the fusion core.

I'm restoring life support and environmental systems

back to normal levels.

What about the dagger?

Well, I've transmitted the coordinates back to the helm,

initiated autopilot.

Seaquest should be here within a few hours.

Lucas...

You did a good thing today.

I'm not the one that deserves the credit, sir.

You saved a ship and a crew

that tried to sink you.

I'm impressed, ambassador.

I am.

Bring seaquest back into position.

Re-engage plasma lasers.

What about life support?

Maintain at minimal levels.

Better to be vaporized in an instant

than endure suffocation.

What's going on?

Why couldn't you talk to me over the pal?

Scully's responsible for the radiation leak at freedom point.

He just helped save seaquest

from a containment field collapse.

Seaquest is very important to me.

I didn't know plasma rifles were part of a balanced ecosystem.

We live according to ecological principles, but we're not defenseless.

Should have pulled the trigger.

If you had the courage of your convictions,

you wouldn't have left me.

What do you plan with seaquest?

I'm going to explode the largest nuclear bomb in the world,

and your seaquest is the trigger.

I did have hope for mankind once.

I thought we finally realized

we were destroying the earth.

How can you have faith in a people

who are so spiritually bankrupt

they appoint a mass murderer as their savior?

Elaine, you and I did see the world the same way.

I had the courage to act on what I saw.

Ambassador, do you realize

what a nuclear explosion of this size will do?

Well, I suppose it will rattle a few windows,

disturb a few antiques,

send a cloud of dirt into the air so high

that the sun's rays won't be able to penetrate,

thus thrusting us into a new ice age,

and eliminating mankind from the earth.

Except for a chosen few, right?

When the ice recedes,

the descendants of the original ecotopians

will return to the surface

and repopulate.

They will have been taught for generations

to respect their planet

and not to rape it.

Hard to see how global genocide

fits into the ecotopian ideal.

I have no doubt when my fellow colonists

discover what I've done,

I fully expect them to banish me from this place.

So you'll die with the rest of the world.

Stop this insanity, ambassador,

before freedom point reaches critical mass.

Lucas, Lucas...

Don't you think

that Moses knew he'd never see the promised land,

that he thought, "give it up. Party with the heathens

down at the golden calf"?

He pledged his life to a higher cause.

He had to see it through,

no matter what the cost.

Wake up.

Wake up. I fixed seaquest.

Commander?

Open your eyes.

Tony...

Tony...

Please don't leave me alone.

[Darwin] Dagwood not alone.

Dagwood have Darwin.

I'm scared.

Darwin scared, too.

Not so much now.

Me, too.

Report?

We're nearly at critical mass.

Excellent.

Prepare to seal the colony.

So this is how you plan on silencing

the 300 screams in your head...

By drowning them out with 100 billion more.

My conscience is not your concern.

Maybe.

But aren't we ecotopians

supposed to care about our brothers,

I mean, the ones that we aren't murdering?

Mankind is dying a slow death already,

strangling by pollution, poison, and greed.

I'm ending the torture

and saving the planet before it's too late.

I'm sure that's going to comfort the millions of dying children

that have to scrape in the dirt

for one tiny crumb of food.

That is enough!

O.k., shutting down plasma lasers,

restoring life support now.

[Beeping]

Oh, my god.

What is it?

We're too late.

I can't reverse the damage.

We're reaching critical mass.

We have to stop it.

There's never been a disaster like this before.

There aren't any proven methods for this.

Make some new ones up.

Um...

O.k.

We may be able to treat it

the same way the nuclear reactor does,

and shoot graphite into the core.

It'll absorb the neutrons, cool down the system.

We'll need a lot of graphite.

That's why fate stuck me on the persid mining colony for years.

I can access the travel logs to every hauler in the sea.

There's a hauler on the tilimer Ridge bound for Shanghai

with 400 tons of graphite.

Tell them to hold their position.

We'll rendezvous with them, take the hauler.

Hauler 7-7-2-3,

this is captain Oliver Hudson of seaquest.

How can we help you, captain?

We're commandeering your hauler

under article 16-7 of the ueo charter.

Prepare to relinquish control

and evacuate into our shuttle.

Understood, captain. Will comply.

Life-support systems back on-line.

Oxygen levels restored.

You o.K.?

I'm alive.

It's a start.

[Electronic systems hum in activation]

Back on-line... At full stop.

Lasers disengaged.

Fusion-core reaction field stable.

My god.

No kidding. There's something out there.

A sub--hauler class, 3,000 meters astern.

[Beep] They're hailing us.

Commander,

get seaquest away!

Captain, you're headed into a massive fission reaction.

Well aware of that, Mr. Ford. You have your orders.

Captain...

We have no intentions of dying here.

Piccolo, you heard the captain.

Yes, sir.

What is it?

I'm trying to engage the autopilot.

Autopilot failed.

We'll have to steer this straight in ourselves.

Seaquest, be alert for our escape pod.

We're cutting it very close.

[Explosion]

[Beep beep]

Fission reaction neutralizing, commander.

Detecting an escape pod at 7,000 meters and closing.

Prepare grapnel torpedo.

Piccolo, plot intercept course.

Aye, sir.

[Explosions]

[Knocking]

It's open.

Mcgath says this belongs to you.

Not anymore. But thank you.

They're offering a second chance.

I don't want it.

You're a stubborn ass, Elaine.

And that's why you love me, Oliver.

That's why I couldn't live with you.

You do look good in a uniform.

Can't imagine you in anything else.

[Knocking]

Henderson...

Tony.

It's piccolo.

Warrant officer piccolo.

Oh ho ho!

Congratulations.

We should celebrate.

No time. There's something i--i have to tell you.

My father worked in a tiny doughnut shop in Brooklyn.

When I was little,

he was in that store every morning by 3:00,

but he'd always come home at 7:00 and wake me up,

smelling of sugar and grease.

Even though he left home when I was 8,

I still can't pass a bakery without thinking he's there.

Tony, why are you telling me this?

'Cause one day I may fly off in a specter and never come back.

Brody died among strangers.

I don't want to.

Commander, how are we doing?

Radiation levels holding steady at .8 grays.

A containment team from the ueo

is on their way to revitrify the dump.

Very good.

Mr. Wolenczak.

I'm reshielding the datalinks

so this can't happen again.

So do you still find maximillian Scully noble?

His behavior was totally unacceptable.

He did some terrible things.

I just hope ecotopia is his legacy,

not his insanity.

Let's hope you're right.

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