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Tim?

What?

Hey, Tim...

Huh?

You want to slow down?

What is it, Tony?

We're getting a poker game together.

We need another player to watch Lucas.

Ford thinks he's counting cards.

No. I got a chat session.

It's kimura.

The girl from the farming colony?

I got to go.

Maybe you should spend more time playing poker with friends

and less in front of that computer.

I'll remind you you said that

when you meet a girl like her.

Jah. Jah--no! Nein! Nein! Nein!

Uh, not on our first date.

Don't tell me you have other plans.

Well, I was kind of hoping to meet your parents,

have them show me those videos you keep mentioning.

That's like me asking for a crash course with captain bligh.

I'd trade your parents for Hudson any day.

Ha ha! Are you going to tell me about your dream or not?

Well...

What do you want to know?

That you won't be disappointed

when you finally see me.

I don't think you have it in you to disappoint me.

You could let me see what you look like now.

We made a deal.

When we meet, it's going to be face-to-face.

I can't wait to meet you.

Don't worry. It's only, uh...

Oh, yeah. 2 hours, 8 minutes, 24 seconds left.

Attention, bridge officers to their stations!

This is not a drill.

Oh.

Tim? Tim, what's going on?

I can't talk. I got to go.

Tim, are you going to make it tonight?

I couldn't survive it if I didn't.

Au revoir.

[Turns off computer]

Mr. O'Neill, we have a priority transmission

on the ueo distress band.

Get it on the screen.

Aye, sir.

Locking in.

On screen.

Mayday! Mayday!

Requiring immediate assistance

if anyone can hear me.

This is captain Oliver Hudson of seaquest.

What's your status?

This is commander vargas

of the ueo nicobar rise outpost.

We are under attack!

Our defense perimeter has been compromised!

Unknown forces. Heavy casualties.

Mr. Ford, set our course for the nicobar rise, emergency speed.

All stations rig for emergency speed.

Diverting all power to impellers.

Opening secondary intakes.

We need immediate assistance!

Turbo heaters engaged.

Control surfaces modified.

Proceed.

Can you assist us, seaquest?

Can you--

get them back, Mr. O'Neill.

I can't, sir. I've lost them.

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Scan for enemy vessels.

There's nothing, sir.

Whoever did this is long gone by now.

Mr. O'Neill?

I'm not picking up chatter.

Sensors show no sign of survivors.

They didn't have a chance

to jettison the escape pods.

This is weird.

Commander?

O'Neill, get me full magnification

on the w.S.K.R.S., please.

Aye, aye, sir.

The station's defense perimeter is totally intact.

Whoever did this

knew exactly how to countermand their defenses.

That station was destroyed

in the time it took to make the distress call.

Thank you.

Commander wolenczak...

I want a full tactical analysis of this attack on the double.

Stand up from red alert.

Subfighters on recon.

All stations battle ready, standard rotation.

Mr. O'Neill, drop a communications grid

over this whole sector.

Scan any and all signals.

We're not leaving here

until we find out who's responsible for this.

Aye, aye, sir.

Lieutenant Henderson, you have the bridge.

I don't believe it, Tony.

It's the first date I get in 11 years,

and I stand her up.

I'm sure the guys in that outpost

are feeling your pain.

The presence of a unique plasma laser signature

in the absence of particle subduction

leads me to believe that this was not a macronesian attack.

I was afraid of that.

We believe the attack

may have been the work of the chaodai.

The chaodai haven't been seen or heard from

since they destroyed the montagnard confederation

and sealed off the andaman sea.

Even the macronesians dare not move in on them.

Why would the chaodai break 15 years of isolation

in an unprovoked attack on a ueo base?

They attack may not have been unprovoked.

The nicobar station functioned

as a covert surveillance outpost.

We used it to listen in

on transmissions along the macronesian border.

Six months ago, a section 7 agent

was assassinated in the free zone

after he delivered a report that the chaodai

were testing a new stealth technology

beyond the most advanced designs

of either the ueo or macronesia.

The kind of subfighter

that could defeat the station's automated defense perimeter, right?

Possibly. For six months, nicobar station

has been actively scanning chaodai movements along the andaman basin.

Destroying a base of ueo officers

is their way of saying, "mind your own business"?

I hope that's the only thing

they have to tell us.

What are we going to do about this?

Well, the 90 east Ridge borders ueo/chaodai/ macronesian territory.

It's the only place in the Indian ocean

where a semblance of commerce goes on

without the threat of war breaking out.

Until the ueo produces an official response to this attack,

I expect seaquest to protect our interest in the area.

Tim, I couldn't wait until the next time to see you.

We'll always have the internex.

It's not enough.

I don't deserve this kind of luck.

What do you mean?

No one's ever been this eager to see me.

Maybe no one's ever been this eager to see me.

I guess we're made for each other, huh?

I think so, too.

That's why I stole the shuttle.

You what?

When you didn't come,

I took a colony shuttle.

If you give me your location,

I'll come meet you.

Are you crazy?

I'm in a military vessel.

You can't just drop in.

Why not? I bet i'm pretty close already.

Where are you, exactly?

Just shy of the nicobar rise.

Why?

Oh, my god!

Do you know how close you are to the chaodai border?

So?

You have to go back!

I don't have a lot of fuel left.

You have to tell me where you are.

O.k., kimura.

Transmit your coordinates,

plant your ship somewhere safe,

and don't come out into the open no matter what.

How many more of these recon missions do we do?

I could do that patrol in my sleep.

Be thankful for the training hours you're logging.

I'll remember to put that in my prayers tonight.

I'll catch up with you in a second.

Hey...

What are you doing?

I'm off-duty. I'm using my shuttle pass.

You have a pass for shore leave.

We're still at yellow alert.

I know what you're doing, Tim.

She's not worth torpedoing your career like this.

Tony, I can't explain it.

She's in serious trouble, o.K.?

If it's that serious,

you go straight to captain Hudson.

He's not going to help me.

I have to do this alone.

You're going awol.

Technically, that's not true.

Do you know what captain Hudson's technically going to do to you?

You'll risk a court-martial offense for a date?

This is ridiculous.

You know what's ridiculous, Tony?

I didn't have a life before seaquest vanished.

Now, 10 years later,

none of the people I had know me.

I don't remember why I joined this boat anymore.

Kimura is the only thing

that comes close to making me happy,

the only thing real to me.

If something happens to her because of me,

I could never forgive myself.

Now, I'm pulling the docking clamp, Tony.

I'm not moving.

[Pulls clamp]

Commander, I'm reading an automatic running beacon transmission.

Looks like somebody took one of our shuttles.

Are you sure?

It's confirmed.

Shuttle mr7 is headed for the chaodai border.

Captain to the bridge.

Shuttle mr7, this is commander Ford.

Acknowledge.

Repeat. This is commander Ford.

Return to seaquest immediately.

This had better be the prettiest woman alive.

You going to answer?

Keep scanning for a shuttle.

[Beeping]

What's that?

Proximity alert.

Something's coming right at us.

An unidentified contact on our long range

is moving to intercept our shuttle.

What's our shuttle doing out there?

We don't know.

Set an intercept course. Get them back now!

Is that her?

I can't get a fix on it.

You see how fast that thing's going?

It blips all over the place.

Unless she's piloting a hypervelocity torpedo,

I suggest we get the hell out of here.

Fredricks is ready to launch,

but piccolo's still unaccounted for.

It's on our tail.

The shuttle's not going any faster.

That was its wake.

They passed us by.

[Beeping] Oh, my god.

It's coming right at us.

I'm intercepting a message across the hailing frequency.

On screen. Now.

This is lieutenant commander heiko kimura

of the chaodai submarine assault force.

I'm hereby requesting an escort back to your ship

and asylum in the united earth oceans organization.

Mr. Ford says you were lured

into this gross dereliction of duty for a date.

My behavior's inexcusable--

you're damn right!

200 years ago, you would have been keelhauled for this.

We had reason to believe--

I'd belay that if I was you.

You're close to having

your field commission rescinded.

Until ueo does an investigation,

you're both suspended from active duty

and confined to quarters.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

Get them out of my sight.

She checks negative for mininukes, skip tracers, and radioactive isotopes.

She has a complex electronic web

wired straight through her cerebral cortex,

but it scans negative as explosive

or even a tracking device.

If she's bugged, it's certainly not one I can detect.

Full analysis of the sub, wolenczak.

Yes, sir.

Lieutenant commander, you have a lot of explaining to do.

You must be captain Hudson.

Tim told me a lot about you.

Charming.

Mr. Ford, get her out of here.

In the last six months,

I've conducted an on-line relationship with lieutenant O'Neill

with the intent of gathering intelligence

pertinent to my defection.

At no time was he aware of my origin or intentions.

How could he not be aware?

I routed all my transmissions

through a sequence of anonymous repeaters around the globe.

There's no way he could have known.

You have more important issues here

than protecting lieutenant O'Neill.

I'm here to trade a chaodai shayu class subfighter

as well as information

on chaodai military structure,

technology, and future plans.

In exchange for what?

Immediate passage out of the free zone

into ueo territory.

As long as the chaodai believe I'm here,

they'll do anything to retrieve me and their subfighter.

They'd go to war with the ueo over a defection?

Six months ago, I made contact with an operative

from your section 7.

Chaodai counter-insurgence traced my transmissions to him.

And killed him.

Precisely.

I made my escape approximately eight hours ago.

I'm certain that the attack on the nicobar outpost

was an attempt to recover chaodai property.

I'm sure captain Hudson

can guarantee your safety onboard seaquest

until you can be transferred.

That is not what I am asking for.

Mr. Ford?

Take the lieutenant commander to her quarters,

full guard at all times.

I have to be taken out of this area immediately.

Duly noted.

Mr. Ford.

All we know about her

is that she compelled two of my officers

to endanger seaquest and its crew.

Even if her story checks out,

I don't feel comfortable having her onboard.

Seaquest is on a mission in the trade zone.

Once we are sure the zone is stable,

we will arrange for her transfer.

Yes, sir.

This subfighter doesn't have a single macronesian

or ueo component in it.

As far as I can tell, it's 100% made in chaodai.

The power plant, weapons, and stealth capacities

are far superior to the lysander class or specter demon.

Our advantage is that it's much more lightly armored than our subfighters.

It makes it harder to hit.

That depends on the pilot, sir.

The pilot's helmet is lined up with her neural interfaces,

similar to fredricks' psych chip,

but much more advanced. No offense.

None taken.

The ship's rudder and weapons--

they're controlled directly by the mind of the pilot.

The ueo chased after this technology for years,

but they abandoned it

because the neural implantation procedures

raised too many human rights issues.

Is there any good news?

Well, it, uh...

Doesn't have an escape pod.

Apparently, chaodai pilots aren't expected to come back without their vessels.

[Electronic chirp]

Yes?

Captain, we're reading huge amounts of flash traffic

along the macronesian border.

Long range scanners confirm signs of battle.

I think the chaodai

just attacked a macronesian listening post.

Are we within range to assist?

Negative, but the macronesian alliance

is sending forces across the border.

Those bastards are going to take us all to war.

Do you have an order, sir?

Hold position, commander.

Yes, sir.

[Door buzzes]

What are your people up to?

This ship hasn't moved.

I made it clear I would not divulge any further information

until I was certain of my safety.

Your safety depends on just how much information

you're willing to share with us.

Are you familiar with chaodai diplomacy?

Make your point.

There isn't any.

Destroying covert listening posts across a trade zone

is a chaodai way of politely asking for my return.

We have a mission to protect the trade zone.

Then let me go before the chaodai destroy you to get me.

Taking on the ueo flagship would be more difficult

than attacking a defenseless subpost.

It takes six days

to wire the mind of a shayu class pilot

to interface with their ship.

The pilot is conscious

while the surgeon cuts in the base of the spine

to the skull to implant the hardware.

Every touch of the surgeon's hand

feels like a lifetime of pain.

Only 3 out of every 10 pilots survive the procedure,

and still, every pilot in the corps volunteers.

It is considered the highest honor

of a military career.

Life...

And death...

Are the coin of the chaodai.

I wouldn't make any assumptions

about the price they're willing to pay

to get what they want, captain.

[Door buzzes]

Is he in there?

As you requested, sir.

A word with you, sir?

Speak your mind.

I have been lieutenant O'Neill's superior officer

since seaquest was commissioned.

While Tim may not be the most military-minded officer we've got,

I'd stake my reputation and my command on him.

He would never voluntarily betray seaquest or the ueo

for any reason.

Thank you, commander.

At ease.

What is that?

My resignation. I assume that's why we're here.

Get it off my desk.

Now.

Comscan has reported heightened activity

along the macronesian border.

The chaodai may still have ships hiding in the free zone.

I have 12 trading settlements

demanding protection in 12 different languages.

I need your language and communications skills on the bridge.

Therefore, I'm putting you back on active duty immediately.

I thought I was up on charges, sir.

Make no mistake about this, lieutenant.

You put yourself and this ship in jeopardy.

Suitable disciplinary action will be enforced,

but your skills are an essential part of this mission.

I expect you to do your duty

to the best of your ability.

Do we understand each other?

Yes, sir!

You have your orders. Dismissed.

[Beep beep]

[Beeping]

I'll take it.

Open up.

Security, we have an alert on deck five.

Weapons fire's been reported.

All decks checked in.

She seems to have vanished.

Launch bay, this is the captain.

What's your status?

Yeah, chaodai subfighter secure, sir.

Mr. Wolenczak?

Open the bay doors.

He's alive.

Dr. Perry to launch bay.

This is an emergency.

Launch bay doors are opening, sir.

Override it.

We're too late.

Her subfighter's already wet.

You wanted to test yourself against the chaodai.

Bring her back.

I only have sporadic short-range readings, sir.

She must be jamming my sensors.

Transmit your location. We're standing by to attack.

Plotting possible course

along her last confirmed contact.

Captain, she's heading for the macronesian border.

Mr. O'Neill, open a hailing frequency.

Channel open.

Lieutenant commander kimura,

this is captain Oliver Hudson

of seaquest.

Acknowledge.

No response, sir.

Mr. O'Neill, I'm told you have a relationship with this person.

I suggest you talk her down now

before we blow her out of the water.

Aye, sir.

Save your breath, Tim.

Get a fix on that location.

Transmit it to fredricks.

If your captain wants to sign a death warrant

for your ship, that's his choice.

I'm taking my trade to someone who'll protect me.

You're jeopardizing peace in this region.

If you do not return,

I'll be forced to destroy you.

I didn't risk my life escaping the chaodai

to lose it aboard your ship, captain.

She cut us off, sir.

Fredricks.

Move into position to intercept.

I have visual contact, captain.

Attempt to disable

and capture first.

Understood, sir.

Arming emps.

Damn.

We've lost sensor contact with the enemy subfighter, sir.

Give me tracking on that specter.

It won't be long before they enter macronesian territory.

Mr. Piccolo, bring us into position to intercept.

Plotting a course, sir.

Fredricks.

She's moving too fast for hypervelocity torpedoes.

Set your plasma lasers to 70%.

See if you can slow her down.

I can't hold the angle.

Captain, I've lost her.

Disengage...

Or be destroyed.

Unbelievable.

Captain, I have a macronesian centaur class patrol ship.

Must've been hiding on the sea floor.

Got six emp torpedoes bearing down on the subfighters.

Freddie, get out of there!

She's down. I'm coming about

and firing a grapnel torpedo.

Macronesian ship is hailing us, captain.

On screen.

I'm captain Oliver Hudson of seaquest.

What is your business?

This is captain John Corey

of the macronesian alliance.

Before I ask the same question,

let me say it's an honor

to stand face to face with the hero of nexus.

I can't say the feeling's mutual.

They said you weren't much of a diplomat.

But even you must know

that deploying war weapons along a free trade zone

is a violation of treaty.

Don't lecture me on treaty violations.

Stand down and release my subfighters now.

I count one ueo subfighter.

Perhaps the other one needs protection

from your provocative incursion

into the trade zone.

Excuse me, sir.

We are within firing range.

Very good, commander.

Flood all tubes, arm all weapons.

Target their bridge.

Yes, sir.

Captain, I'm sure we both

have more pressing issues to deal with

than to stand around quibbling over a couple of subfighters.

Captain, tubes are flooded. We're hot.

Thank you, commander.

I see your point.

I trust we will both

deal with these matters presently, captain.

Thank you, sir.

And thank you, Mr. Ford.

She flipped her subfighter over the surface.

Nobody flips a subfighter over the surface.

Nobody.

We were lucky today.

Study those mission tapes

because you're the best we've got,

and she smoked you.

It's only round one, sir.

What's wrong with her?

The emp warhead overloaded her neural implants.

I need to take her to sick bay.

Go right ahead.

Kimura, it's me, Tim.

Let me go, for god's sake!

[Coughing]

What's wrong with you?

You shouldn't have brought me back.

The chaodai will destroy your ship and everybody in it.

Why'd you come here?

I had no choice.

You had no choice but to put everything I care about

in danger?

I trusted you, and you used me.

You did it to yourself, Tim.

You wanted a naive farm girl

who spoke eight languages and had a genius IQ,

someone who'd laugh at your jokes,

give you sympathy every time captain Hudson pushed you around?

Yeah, well,

I gave her to you.

Be thankful you had your fantasy

for as long as you did.

Everything about you is a lie.

My parents tried to escape the chaodai

when I was 5.

The chaodai injected nanoexplosives

into their bloodstream,

put them on display,

and blew the charges one at a time.

More than anything else...

I remember the look on my mother's face

when she finally gave up.

Lies are the only reason

I survived the chaodai long enough to escape.

Don't expect me to feel sorry

about what I did to you.

These people represent a horror

you can't even begin to understand.

I began to understand the moment you decided

my life was worth sacrificing

to save your own.

Red alert.

Crew to battle stations.

They've come for me.

This is where it ends.

How are you feeling, ensign?

Ready for battle, sir.

Report.

Macronesian warships

running back in our direction.

This is a distress call.

Our defenses have been compromised.

Long-range scanners confirm weapons fire

but not the number of hostile contacts.

Plot a course to intercept full ahead.

Piccolo, fredricks, to your subfighters.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

[Kimura] There's still a chance

to get out alive, captain.

Don't engage the chaodai.

This crew doesn't run away from a fight.

I have visual contact-- three shayu class subfighters.

They're jamming our sensors, sir. Target lock is down.

Specters in the water.

How many shayu class in an assault group?

Captain, that macronesian ship

is as good as dead.

We can still--

just answer me.

Four.

Including mine.

Mr. Ford.

Piccolo, fredricks,

take them out.

Henderson, ready the assault craft.

Rescue any survivors.

Our fusion core is compromised!

Piccolo, are you all right?

Never better.

The chaodai are regrouping. Let's cut them off.

They're falling into attack formation.

They're coming in for attack.

Direct hit to rear impellers.

They're here.

Arm lasers,

close range, target manually.

Aye, sir. Firing all lasers.

Hull breached, sir. Deck five.

It's in my sight.

Firing.

I got one!

I got one!

I'm hit. I've got to bail.

Bring him in, Mr. Ford.

Firing grapnel torpedoes.

Shayu subfighter's coming about.

It's headed for the bridge.

He'll try to take us with him.

Fire everything dead ahead.

Scratch one chaodai.

Oh, god, no.

Uh, they're coming around for another pass, captain.

Helm, take evasive action,

maximum speed.

We've lost propulsion control.

I'm trying to bypass the--

Hull integrity critical.

Flood all tubes. Rig torpedoes.

Short-range maximum detonation.

You'll sink your ship, captain.

Then we'll take them with us.

Captain, the chaodai are hailing us.

Commander Ford, stand by to fire

on my Mark.

Yes, sir.

Put them on.

[Speaking Chinese]

Chaodai nation demands the immediate surrender

of their pilot and property.

Respond.

Lieutenant commander kimura

has formally requested asylum

with the ueo.

This ship, under no circumstances,

will surrender a refugee.

No, captain.

I've done what I set out to do.

You now know enough about the chaodai

to prepare for the next time they try this.

My life isn't worth your sacrifice.

[Speaking Chinese]

Demanding our answer, sir.

I can't allow this to happen.

Let me make the choice.

Tim, open a comlink on a t6-band frequency.

[Speaking Chinese]

This is lieutenant commander heiko kimura

of the chaodai submarine assault force.

I'm hereby offering my unconditional surrender.

[Speaking Chinese]

Chaodai nation accepts her terms, sir.

Go.

Captain,

requesting permission to escort the lieutenant

to her subfighter.

Permission granted.

Kimura.

I hope you aren't here to talk me out of this.

No, I'm not.

[Buzz]

Captain, lieutenant commander kimura's ship

has cleared the docking bay.

Chaodai diplomacy.

Captain, I've lost w.S.K.R. Contact

with the shayu.

They're gone, sir.

Hmm.

They got what they came for.

Lieutenant Henderson,

I'll need an assessment of damages.

Yes, sir.

We'll make our repairs and go home.

Captain.

I've got a priority message from launch bay.

Lieutenant commander kimura never got on her ship.

Sir, I'm getting a strange motion signal

in the hydro tubes.

It's moving from launch bay to seadeck.

The bridge is yours, Mr. Ford.

Mr. Wolenczak, you're with me.

Mr. O'Neill,

just what the hell do you think you're doing?

Well, sir,

I figured...

[Cough cough]

Autopilot wasn't that much different to operate

than a w.S.K.R.

Lieutenant,

if you insist on indulging in this behavior...

You just might get promoted.

That is one possibility.

The macronesians have decided

to write this off

as an unfortunate misunderstanding.

And the chaodai--

still haven't acknowledged your attempts at communication.

So it would seem

that you're free to become a citizen of the ueo.

And I thank you for that.

But I want something more.

I'm a soldier.

My defection doesn't make me

any less of what I am.

You want to enlist?

You appear to be in need of a subfighter pilot.

The best pilots in the ueo

wait years to serve on seaquest.

You know you wouldn't find

a better replacement,

and my knowledge and expertise on the chaodai

will prove invaluable.

You need that expertise.

I need the opportunity to put it into practice.

The person you're suggesting replacing

was my best student.

Flying that ship was her whole life.

She dedicated everything she had to honoring that duty.

That's an extremely large hole for you to fill.

Lieutenant commander...

Would you excuse us for a moment?

You're in.

Commander Ford, draw up the appropriate papers.

Yes, sir.

I don't spend nearly enough time

playing poker with my friends.

I never learned to play.

Maybe someday you could teach me.

Maybe.

Should thank you for saving my life.

Don't.

I had no choice.

There's something you should know.

I couldn't have deceived you as well as I did

for as long as I did

unless somewhere within me...

I had those feelings.

Nobody's that good a liar.

You are.

Mr. Piccolo.

About fredricks, sir. I...

I thought you might like a hand.

Actually...

I'm more or less finished here.

Thank you.

Yes, sir.

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