Original subtitles

- Sorry, Flipper

We got something very important going on.

- Pop, does this sign mean

for the underwater part of the park too?

- Everything.

- But why are they closing the park, Pop?

- Well, if Dr. Simmons had shown up, I could answer that.

Right now, I don't know son.

It was an emergency order, right out of Washington.

- Then it must be something serious.

- It's real serious.

- You think it has anything to do

with the man you're meeting at the lagoon?

Well, I don't know.

Could be.

It's part of the same emergency order.

♫ We know that Flipper, Flipper

♫ Lives in a world full of wonder

♫ Flying there under

♫ Under the sea

Pa!

- There's not a sign of a boat anywhere.

- Pa, can we go in the water?

- Well, Sandy, you know the park's closed.

- But you're out here with us.

- Alright, but stay inside the lagoon.

- Pa said we can go swimming.

- Oh boy!

Come on, hurry up.

- Hi, Pete.

Call Flipper.

- Flipper!

Flipper!

Come on, boy.

Come on, Flipper.

Come here, give me a kiss.

Pa, pa!

I saw a sub!

The biggest, biggest sub.

I found it.

- Easy now, Bud.

Easy.

But we did see a sub, Pa.

- A nuclear sub!

- A sub? Here?

You boys must be...

You're Dr. Rothwell?

- What are these kids doing here?

These waters are supposed to be closed to everybody.

They're not park visitors, they're my sons.

- I don't care whose sons they are.

The quicker you get them out of here

the better it'll be for you.

- Doctor, where I go, my boys go.

Now right now, that means right here.

- Do you have a carton for me?

- Get it for him, Sandy.

- Where's Dr. Simmons?

You were supposed to bring him with you.

- Plane trouble, he won't be in until tomorrow.

Here you are, Doctor.

Just sign this and I can get on about my business

and you can get on about yours.

- Now, just a minute.

If I see those two boys in the water again,

Chief Ranger or not, you'll be on suspension

by the end of the day.

- Doctor, some very good advice.

You just climb back into that sardine can of yours

and roll up the lid.

- You mean to say you're deliberately exposing

your own boys to...

- Exposing them to what?

- To what?

You don't know?

- No, I don't know.

Doctor Simmons was supposed to brief me.

- I'm sorry.

I'm an ichthyo-toxicologist.

Big word, do you know what it means?

- Yes, it's a specialist in poisonous fish.

- You had a death here last week.

A fella who was brought up unconscious

when he was diving in the underwater part of the park.

- That's true.

What about it.

- The autopsy indicated that he pricked his finger

on one of the spines of a scorpion fish.

- Scorpion fish?

- Spines that are like hypodermic needles,

filled with venom.

Deadly as a cobra.

- I know.

Well, no wonder you blew up when you saw my boys.

There haven't been any scorpion fish in this area for years.

- Well, if they have come back, we can get rid of them.

But first we have to be sure.

- Now wait a minute.

This is a two-man sub.

You're one man short.

- I'll manage.

- You'll be back when?

Back here by 1:30.

Alright, you've got to exactly 1:30.

No more swimming today boys.

Sorry Flipper.

Maybe you ought to come out of the water too.

- Go away, will you.

Go away.

- Grandma Hadley, Grandma Hadley!

You've got to leave, the park is closed.

- Oh, but the light is just perfect.

- Emergency order, no exceptions.

That's pretty good.

Come on boys, let's give Grandma a hand.

- Help yourself, Bud.

You too, Sandy.

There's some for everybody but your dad.

- Then we won't have any either.

- Well, I've been trying for weeks

to get him to come to dinner,

and if he won't come to dinner, he can't have lunch.

- Well, it's only because I've been busy.

Come on boys, you can nibble on the way down.

- Pa, why do you call her Grandma?

She doesn't look like a grandma to me.

- Thank you, Sandy.

- Well, she's the nearest thing I know to Grandma Moses.

- Who's that?

- Don't you know that?

She parted the Red Sea.

- Hey, Bud!

Pa wants you in.

- Coming!

- First, I'm gonna take a thorough look around out there.

Now if I decide to call for a full-scale search,

I want Coast Guard helicopters in a hurry.

You put them on standby right now.

- On standby, sir.

- Correct.

If he is in trouble, he hasn't got much time left.

- We'll get on it, sir.

- Roger and out.

- You're all set, Pop.

- Thanks, Sandy.

You stay by the radio, alright?

. Okay-

- Pa, can't I help too?

- Yes, Bud.

You go up and down the beach a way.

If you see anything unusual, come back and tell Sandy, okay?

. Okay-

Come on, Spray, come on.

Sorry, Flipper. I can't play with you now.

I didn't see anything.

- Pa hasn't either.

Not now, Flipper, I'm busy.

Bud!

Bud, this bottle is from the sub.

How did it get here?

- I don't know, Flipper had it.

- Pa better see this right away.

Pa!

Hey, Pa!

- Pa! Come here, father! - Hey, Pa!

- We got to show you something!

Pa!

Pa!

- Pa! Come on, Pa!

Pa!

- We got to show you something!

- Yes, Bud, this really could mean something.

If we knew where Flipper found it.

- Flipper can take us there, Pa.

I know it.

- Now, Bud, there isn't enough time...

- But I talked to Flipper, Pa.

- Pop, Flipper saw that sub right here.

I think he does understand.

- Sandy.

- Look, Pa!

He's telling us to come.

- Alright, we'll follow, but just for a few minutes.

If we don't see something real quick.

- Straight away, Pa.

He's gone.

Just gone.

- He isn't anywhere.

- I'm sorry, boys.

We're just not getting anywhere.

- But, Pa.

- Now neither of you can be sure that Flipper isn't just,

well, just playing in the sea.

Isn't that true?

- Yes, Pa, but...

- I'm sorry, but we're going back.

- There, Pa! Over there!

- Rothwell.

Rothwell.

. Yippie! Yay!

- You know what you said about me being

the reason that you're alive today?

That wasn't true.

- It wasn't?

- The real lifeguard on this beach is right out there.

♫ Everyone loves the king of the sea

♫ Ever so kind and gentle is he

♫ Tricks he will do

♫ When children are near

♫ And how they laugh when he's near

♫ They call him Flipper, Flipper

♫ Faster than lightning

♫ No one you see

♫ ls smarter than he

♫ And we know Flipper, Flipper

♫ Lives in a world full of wonder

♫ Flying there under, under the sea