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Mining underwater. I don't know.

- What do you do if there's a cave-in? - You die.

Would make it a bit tough to send a distress signal, wouldn't it?

We stick together. Find out who's in charge.

See if they need any assistance.

I got a detail prepped and ready back on board seaQuest, just in case, Cap.

Welcome to Broken Ridge.

All arrivals please sign in at the supervisor's office.

- I said I'd meet him over here. - All right.

Must be the place up there, huh?

Not your typical sounds of distress, are they?

- Dad. - I see them, Gibby.

Take these. Go on home.

Tell your morn I'll be there as soon as I can. Go.

L don't think they'll bite.

Let's ask around.

- Hi. - What'll it be?

I'm looking for a Mr. Cobb.

I was told at the docking port that he was in charge here.

Haven't seen him yet. A little early for lunch.

Never too early for a drink, which is all you'll get out of me.

No, I think you might be right.

You wouldn't happen to know anyone who might be trying to send out

a distress signal?

Take a look around, pal. You see anyone who wouldn't?

Good point. So, what are you doing here?

- We're the entertainment. - We're singers.

How did you end up getting booked into Broken Ridge?

- We're not very good. - Oh, but they don't care.

And it's a good place to be bad.

- Practice and polish your act. - Good luck to you.

Excuse me, gents.

We picked up a distress signal coming across the Ceylon Plain.

- Oh, yeah? - It's pretty weak.

Disappeared before we could pinpoint it, but we think from here.

Can't help you. Only person in distress here is me.

Wait. I'll take that back.

False alarm.

I heard what you said about my wife.

Don't leave. Please help us.

Welcome to Broken Ridge. Frank Cobb's the name.

Something I can do for you?

The 21st century.

Mankind has colonized the last unexplored region on Earth: the ocean.

As captain of the seaQuest and its crew, we are its guardians.

For beneath the surface lies the future.

Duke. We're just a small town.

We're more a family, really.

With the good fortune to be sitting on a mountain of gold.

That makes us nervous around strangers.

- "Don't leave." What did you mean? - Especially when they wear uniforms.

Right, Lenny? Oh, almost forgot.

I've sent a couple of my men over to your place.

I thought we'd let your wife know not to worry.

At least until I decide what to do with you.

Joan. Lovely woman.

And your boy, Gibby? What's he now, seven?

Eight.

Family's important down here.

A man who has one does what he has to to protect it.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Far as I'm concerned, the matter's closed.

You're free to go back to your ship.

We still don't know who sent the signal.

I told you, if there'd been a signal, I'd have heard about it.

You guys are unbelievable.

For years we scratched away at this rock

trying to get enough out of her to stay alive.

And where were you? Nowhere.

Now all that miserable, hard work is paying off.

We're getting somewhere, ahead.

All of a sudden, the mighty UEO shows up wanting to help.

Kind of makes a man wonder.

- You don't understand. - You really care that much about us?

Or is your outfit just looking for somebody new to tax?

We just heard a call for help.

Yeah, well, your help's not needed.

Now, I think it better if you and your men moved on.

We're sorry you feel that way.

And we still have to find that distress signal.

Well, good luck to you, Captain.

Is it my imagination, or were we just told to get out of town by sundown?

That's a fair translation.

Captain, that man was asking for help. Hitting me was just a cover-up.

Yes, but this isn't the place to discuss it.

- We have to go back, Captain. - Maybe, maybe not.

This is an open territory, it's not UEO.

I don't think we can go back without an invitation.

- Did you hear that? - Yeah.

A stowaway.

"Please come back. Help us. I don't want them to hurt my daddy."

I don't know, Captain, but this sounds like an invitation to me.

Placer deposits are like rivers of gold pushed off

the continental shelves by glaciers during the great ice ages.

It wasn't until a few years ago that it made sense

cost-wise to mine underwater, though.

Broken Ridge is just one of dozens of mining camps

formed off the coast of Australia during the great oceanic land rush there.

- What do we know about it? - It's legitimate.

The probe found gold in the mineral samples.

Anything else?

The prospectors are wildcatters, don't report to anyone.

If they keep records, I haven't found any yet.

Well, keep digging. Who's next?

I've set up a perimeter with Whiskers. Haven't found anything unusual yet.

I'll run a communications sweep. We may get lucky and hear something.

Aren't we ignoring the obvious here?

We take a security detail down,

we find this kid or his dad and we ask what's up.

We gotta be careful. We're liable to hurt some people.

But you're right. It would be nice to have someone there to ask questions.

I don't think Mr Cobb's very open to strangers in his little town.

Maybe not strangers.

Krieg says there's a steady traffic on the shuttle from Australia.

Yes. Singers, musicians, comedians...

They rotate through Broken Ridge weekly.

You're a comedian. We could send you.

Yes. Thank you, Sir. But it's a spontaneous kind of thing.

I don't exactly have an act. Not that you need an act.

I spoke to my buddy, Murray. He books talent at small venues.

He told me that the miners at Broken Ridge are mostly single men

who'll pay a lot for female entertainers, no matter how bad.

I can be bad.

What? I can sing.

I'm not a pro, but I can sing well enough for Broken Ridge.

Katie, you sang in the shower.

Yes, are you saying you want me to shower for them?

No, I don't think you should go in there unprotected.

Cobb's a tough man. We don't want her putting herself at risk.

Somebody has to.

Look, I can't be a part of asking someone to do something I'm not willing to do.

Commander, you feel confident about this?

Yes, sir, I do.

OK, let's get some musical charts for our lounge act here

and tell Murray to book her into Broken Ridge immediately.

Nice to see you, girls.

Come on in. Nice of you to come.

Welcome to Broken Ridge, ma'am.

Can I help you with your bag?

- Thank you, mister... - Frank Cobb.

Mr. Cobb. Yes, that would be nice.

Gold. Should I be impressed?

There isn't a man here who has the same or more.

If I let you leave this table, more than one of them will try

to convince you to spend the rest of your life with him.

The thing is, I want you here with me.

Can slow things down a little?

When it comes to beautiful women, second chances are pretty rare here.

I'm not the only woman who just got off the boat.

- Why me? - Your eyes.

They're stunning. But they're hiding something.

- And that intrigues me. - What do you think they're hiding?

I haven't figured that out yet. Is it fear?

You're not afraid of me, are you?

Should I be?

My mother had eyes like yours.

Ma. She just kept doing

what needed to be done.

I see that same look in your eyes.

I'm afraid I didn't come here to get married.

Entertainer, eh?

So, how about you entertaining me?

You want a song? That's a cover charge and a two-drink minimum.

If you'll excuse me, I'll find out where I'm staying.

Hi, there.

What're you drawing?

Listen, maybe you can help me.

I have some friends, and they found this dog.

I told them I'd try to find out who he belongs to.

He seems like a great dog.

I know if he were mine, I'd sure hate to give him up.

His name's Banjo.

It wasn't easy to find.

They keep mapping and remapping the ocean floor.

What was part of one confederation is now part of another.

- But you found it? - Yeah, I found it.

"Department of Oceans, Fisheries, and Wildlife.

"New Ausland Confederation."

- That's him. - Who?

Commander Ford's sparring partner. His name is Sutter, Lenny Sutter.

Must be his dad. Harry.

They own all mineral rights at Broken Ridge.

Grabbed them in the oceanic land rush of 2013.

Doesn't that mean everyone at the mine works for the Sutters?

I guess so, yeah. Records don't show any change of ownership.

That doesn't make sense.

- Unless - Unless there was a mutiny?

Yes.

It all comes down to greed.

Cobb was just a hired hand until he convinced

the others they'd get a bigger cut if he was running things.

- He convinced all the miners? - Enough of them.

He can be pretty persuasive.

You have to remember that this was almost five years ago.

It was a much smaller operation then.

All the men brought in since have been Cobb's.

But there's gotta be something you can do.

Well,

I can't fight him.

Cobb says...

if I try anything, Joan and Gibby will be the ones that pay for it.

I know my son must think I'm a coward sometimes

but I've already lost my father to Cobb. I can't lose anybody else.

Why does Cobb keep you around? Just to torture you?

No, we're alive on a technicality.

The folks who started the land rush, weren't interested in speculators.

They wanted to settle the ocean.

In order to claim the land, you had to agree to work it

for five years.

The deed's in the Sutter name

so no gold can be sold without our signature.

Drives Cobb crazy.

- Five years, that - Yeah.

Time's about up.

And Cobb won't be needing us anymore.

We gotta get your family out of here.

Is there someplace we can go where this will work?

Yeah.

This shaft's pretty much mined out.

Doesn't get much traffic.

I come down here as often as it's safe to send out a distress signal.

I'm gonna call my captain. Would you mind keeping a lookout?

There you are. I've been looking for you.

- What do you want? - I heard you had company today.

One of the new ladies in town.

That's not like you, Lenny. Family man and all.

She likes kids.

We saw her talking to Gibby.

She visited for a bit. Had coffee. That's all.

- What did you talk about? - Nothing. Gibby.

I want to know what she's doing here.

Come on, Cobb. Why you think she's doing here?

She's like most women who come to Broken Ridge.

- She's looking for a husband. - I've met her, Lenny.

She's not at all like most women. Believe you and me.

Not by a long shot.

Please, Lenny. I need to know who she is.

She's nobody.

I'm not going away, Lenny.

Now tell me. Who is she?

She's nobody.

One more time, Lenny. Tell me who she is.

I told you. She's nobody.

I'd hate to have this conversation with your wife.

- Closed caves. - Tunnels?

- Mine shafts. - Hitchcock was right. Mr Ortiz?

I have a Whisker on Darwin's mark now.

Thanks, buddy. We gotta take care of Katie, don't we?

I owe you one.

What do you think? Some sort of back door?

Well, a complex as large as Broken Ridge

would have at least a dozen mine shafts.

I bet every one had a docking bay.

Makes sense. They can clear away the waste

without hauling it through the main facility.

If so, why can't we bring out Hitchcock and the Sutters the same way?

And avoid the main docking bay entirely?

I'll get a launch ready now.

- We got to go. Now. - How? Where?

The seaQuest is sending a launch for us in half an hour.

Will they come in firing?

That's the only way Cobb will let us near the docking bay.

They're not coming there.

They'll come in at Mine Shaft 7. Can you get there?

You better believe we can.

What if Cobb's watching us?

He can't keep an eye on you if he's got them both on me.

- Fourteen's here. - Clean that and replace it.

- Let's get loaded, Chief. - 20 minutes to rendezvous.

Right behind you, Commander.

I told you if Ford needed someone he'd take them from Security.

None of them have been down there. I have.

I know my way around. No.

Captain. Look, please.

Had I not opened my big mouth, Katie wouldn't be down there right now.

I know she can take care of herself,

but if something happens, and I'm not there...

OK, but be damn sure she doesn't have to take care of you, as well.

Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

Frank... What happened to your head?

It was a little accident in the mine.

Maybe some company would take away the pain.

Some other time. I've got a lot of paperwork to take care of.

That's just too bad.

I was thinking I may forget about

that two-drink minimum and cover charge tonight.

- Locked and ready, Commander. - In and out. Let's be invisible.

I hope she's got them ready.

Excuse me, I'm gonna go use the ladies' room.

You think I don't know what you're up to?

You're trying to sneak away without singing for me.

Patience, Frank. Some things are worth the wait.

I've waited long enough. You sing, now.

I mean that's what you're here for, isn't it?

OK.

I never tell my left hand

what my right hand is doing

I never know which old road

that I should be pursuing

That is why

it's so plain to see

- They're not here. - Don't worry. They're coming.

And when I should close my eyes

I always end up waiting

That is why

it's so plain to see

That is why

Easy.

Thank God you made it.

- Where's Katie? - I think she's with Cobb.

- Commander? - Chief, get them back to the launch.

Aye, sir. You folks come with me, please.

Ben, be careful.

I'm gonna stay here in case she shows up, OK?

Got it.

I never

fool nobody but me

I came, I saw

Well, I don't know why I should zig

or when I should be zagging

Even when my head's held high

my tail keeps right on dragging

That is why

It's so plain to see

That is why

I never, never

fool nobody but me

l never

fool nobody but me

Oh, I never

Fool nobody but me

Duke, they're getting away!

Better hurry. This wasn't exactly a clean getaway.

Right behind you.

I wanna make sure they can't get through.

So many shafts crisscrossing, connecting.

Kind of like a giant maze, eh, Commander?

- Let's fire this thing up. - Right away.

Where's Commander Ford?

Hitchcock.

You ran away before I could tell you how much I enjoyed your song.

It really was very nice.

Can I persuade you to bring the Sutters back for an encore?

Sorry. I'm retiring.

Well then,

we'll just have to see if this fellow can sing for us.

- Let him go, Cobb. - Trade. Your man for the Sutters.

This isn't a negotiation.

Get out of here, Commander! That's an order!

Well, what's it gonna be?

You heard the Commander. Let's get back to the seaQuest.

So, I either return the Sutters or Cobb does what he wants with Ford.

- You believe he might kill him? - Yes, I do.

What do you propose to do?

What is it, Nathan?

You've exceeded a good response time.

That's because I'm not comfortable. I'm angry.

Cobb doesn't care what damage he does.

The town is cowed into doing what he wants.

It makes you angry, that his values differ from your own?

No, that's not what makes me angry.

What makes me angry is he wants a fight. And I wanna give him one.

There's no shame in fighting for a cause, providing it's just.

But I want to hurt him badly, and that makes me no better than him.

Can Frank Cobb match the firepower of seaQuest?

- No. - So where does he get his power?

- The town. - And why do they support him?

Why do they give him the power?

Captain, we're on Broken Ridge approach. Docking bay is open.

Thank you.

Ease up, Lenny. It's gonna be all right.

Commander Ford risked his life for my family, Captain.

He didn't even know us. I can't ease up.

Not until this is over.

Not until we have Cobb and Mr Ford is safe.

I owe him that.

I can't guarantee that.

Joan and Gibby are safe.

That's all the guarantee we need.

Welcome to Broken Ridge.

Chief, no weapons.

But the odds aren't exactly in our favour out there.

Guns aren't going to change that. Leave them.

I'm sorry to put you in this position, Captain.

Where's my commander?

Go get him.

Officer, eh'? Can't say I'm surprised.

Tell me something. Did you like me just a little?

How's your head?

Well, this is all very embarrassing.

You brought back Lenny in such good shape.

- We want him now. - First I get Lenny.

- And then what? - And then? Well, you leave.

And we all get back down to business as usual.

No more business as usual.

There will be no business in Broken Ridge at all anymore. Period.

Broken Ridge has no ties with the UEO.

Like it or not, you have no authorization over what we do here.

That's right.

So you can dig all the gold you want out of this ridge.

But what will you do with it?

- Sell it and get rich, mate. - Who will you sell it to?

I've contacted the mineral dealers in Melbourne.

They tell me that they're responsible for 100%

of the gold bought in this part of the world, yours included.

This is a free-enterprise zone.

The UEO isn't authorized to interfere...

Unlike Mr Cobb, the people I spoke to are very happy with the UEO.

The new peace and our presence here is very good for business.

- This is blackmail. - No, not blackmail. A boycott.

It's very simple. You have no one to sell your gold to.

- Mister? Mister! - You won't rich with Mr Cobb around.

No, don't listen to him. He's lying.

It's the truth. And you know it.

Well, then, the Captain will just have

to find someone else to buy our gold.

Right, Captain?

Wrong.

That time I wasn't aiming. Next time I will be.

- Cobb! - Can we get out of here?

If there's a transport at a mine shaft.

Let's go.

I know these shafts better than you. I've spent more time in them.

You've won, Lenny. Broken Ridge is yours.

I just want out. That's all.

No, it's not that easy.

Not after what you put my family through.

I've beat you more than once. You let me pass, or I'll do it again.

Not this time. This time I'm fighting back.

All right, Lenny.

Where do you want it? You choose.

This is my fight, Captain.

Yes, and you want it to be a fair one, don't you?

My father's dead because of you.

No more.

No more.

Banjo?

There you are. We've been looking all over for you.

- Wow. - Yeah. His name's Darwin.

- I'll bet he'll talk to you. - He can't talk.

Yeah, sure he can.

- Can not. - Can, too.

Can not.

Yes, Darwin talk.

- He won't want to go home. - Yeah, sure he will.

It'll be a different place without Cobb. I think he knows it.

- Goodbye. - Goodbye.

Take care of that little boy of yours.

It's your town again. Take care of it.

- I don't know how to thank you. - It's our job, Lenny.

Well, I guess we better go.

- Gibby, come on. - Do I have to?

Darwin was gonna tell me how he holds his breath so long.

Well, tell him to hurry. Kids.

They got such imaginations at that age.

I'm Bob Ballard from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

As we enters the next century,

we'll rely upon the ocean for more of our mineral resources.

Before we begin to mine the hidden treasures of our planet

care must be taken to protect the creatures that live there.

The deep sea, until recently, has been untouched by the human hand,

but its future preservation is now at risk.

The challenge of our generation is to overcome self-interest

and work together in a spirit of cooperation

to resolve our differences using reason

instead of force, so that we can pass on to the next generation

an ocean habitat we all can enjoy.

Join us for the next exciting episode of seaQuest DSV.