The Deep (2015–…): Season 2, Episode 12 - Thunder and Lighting - full transcript

[Ant] Two-seventy-seven,
two-seventy-eight,

two-seventy-nine.

Oh, isn't there an app for this?

If there were an app
for monitoring endangered species,

trust me, I'd use it.

Apps don't complain.

Mum! Come on!
Even you must find this boring.

Good science needs good discipline, Ant.

Hey, what spooked them?

What is that?

It's gotta be...



A mutated mollusk!

Nektons!

Found you!

Nereus?

[chuckles]

You're not a mutated mollusk.

Er... No. Not the last time I checked.

Now, quickly, we need to go to Venezuela!

Venezuela?

What are we looking at, Nereus?

The most unstable weather
system on the planet.

[gasp]

That's the Catatumbo Storm!

Cool!



A weather system is "cool"?

It's an electrical storm
that's been going on

for hundreds of years!

[Nereus] Actually, thousands.

They call it "The Everlasting Storm"!

See? Even cooler!

Er, right.

The problem is, the storm has
started rapidly expanding.

It's tripled in size
over the last two weeks.

How is that possible?

No idea.

That's why I need your help.

Well, we were resuming our
search for Lemuria...

But, a huge lightning storm
off the coast of Venezuela

sounds like a bigger priority.

Not to mention totally awesome!

I'll plot a course for Venezuela.

[sighs]

Great.

We're going to a huge, never-ending,
electrical storm in a giant metal tube.

What could possibly go wrong?

[Ant]
My family are explorers,

we have been for generations.

While others
look up to the stars,

we know there are
an infinite number of things

that shine
in the darkness below.

There are things
lurking in the seas

that long ago
vanished into myth.

My family are the Nektons

and we explore the deep.

[opening theme music playing]

[upbeat music playing]

[Ant imitating airline pilot]
We're approaching Catatumbo...

If you could please stow
your tray table and uh...

...return to your allocated seat.

[laughs nervously]

[thunderclap]

Wow! Beautiful!

[chuckles] Told ya.

[Nereus] The energy is still building.

The lightning is almost continuous now.

So something is turning up the power here?

We'll soon find out.

This weather balloon will give
us a better read on the storm.

Let's dive.

The Aronnax
is like a lightning rod up here.

[Ant] So, silly question, but...

we're safe down here, right?

[Will] Much safer than above.

Lightning tends to dissipate horizontally
when it hits the sea.

So just to clarify,
the charge doesn't penetrate

downwards anywhere near me?

Maybe just a bit.

[gasps]

[Kaiko] Relax, Nereus.

This is so awesome!

You're right, Jeffrey.

This will get millions of likes.

[beeping]

[groans]

No. Dead battery!

Sweet.

[Kaiko] Moving further
under the storm now.

Everyone stay alert.

[scoffs] Check it out, Jeffrey.

I can make lightning move
slower than the speed of light.

No way!

This lightning, it's backwards!

Look!

That's how lightning always works.

What?

Lightning starts from the sky
and goes to the ground,

but, that part is negatively
charged, so it's invisible.

But, I see it.

No. You see the reverse
charge, which is positive.

It actually travels up.

But, it's so fast
we don't see it that way.

That is outrageously amazing.

This is the data from the weather balloon?

Wind speed, temperature,
barometric pressure

and lightning strike distribution.

What's wrong?

This storm is becoming
incredibly dangerous.

How dangerous?

It could disable electricity grids,

take out power to Venezuela and
knock planes out of the sky.

That sounds incredibly dangerous.

Hey! You moved my tablet off
the charging mat!

Yes I did. I apologize
for having the audacity

to use my own charging mat.

Ten percent charge?

Fontaine, I was using it for research!

Good science requires good discipline!

Then be disciplined and use your own mat.

Okay.

How about we put all
this energy to good use?

Sure!

[groans]

Good. Because we've just arrived
at the center of the storm.

[thunderclap]

[rattled grunting]

[metal vibrating]

Is this gonna be worth
rattling all my teeth for?

[chuckles] This seabed sample
will allow us to analyze

weather changes here over
the last few centuries.

[powers down]

Okay, I'm at maximum depth.

Analyzing the core-sample now.

I wonder what was happening around here
a thousand years ago?

Well, they discovered oil here in...

Hey! [grunts] Not again!

[Will] Okay. Back to the lab.

[buzzing]

What is that?

They're electric rays.

But, I've never seen rays emit
visible electricity before.

[Fontaine] Plasma arcs?

That shouldn't be possible underwater.

[Will] Stay very still.

They're just curious.

[grunts] It zapped me!

Our Knights are shielded,
but, I still felt a little tingle!

And it just recharged my tablet!

They must be emitting
a stable positive current.

But, that doesn't make any sense.

Thank you, chargers of the sea!

Where are they going in such a hurry?

[buzzing]

[Ant] Wow.

That's not normal.

[Will] Kaiko?

You're gonna wanna take a look at this.

Awesome!

[all shouting]

[gasps] You said lightning
couldn't get down this far!

It can't!

It's impossible!

There was no negative charge from above,
just a massive positive surge...

...from below!

[beeping]

Nektons! You're not safe out there.

Okay. Let's just make our way back
to the Aronnax slowly, calmly.

[gasps in fear]

Okay. Forget slowly!

Out of here! Now!

[all shouting]

[Kaiko] Will! Kids!

Whoa! That was too close.

That's it. I'm coming in for a pickup.

Let's keep moving!

[shouting]

Is everyone on-board?

-[Will] Yes!
-Getting out of here now!

[Kaiko] Hold on!

Whoa!

[Kaiko sighs]

Kaiko? Nereus? Are you okay?

Nothing's responding.

The computers, the engines,
they're all dead!

I've never been fond of electrical storms.

Even less so now.

[screams]

We need to get away from here.

Come on.

To the engine room.

The lightning boiled the sulfur dioxide.

We can restore the anodes,
but, we'll need to recharge.

What's really happening here, Nereus?

Why are you asking me?

Because you always know
more than you let on.

This is not one of those times!

[thunderclap]

[gasps]

Really?

I'm afraid of lightning.

If I knew there was underwater lightning,
do you think I'd have come here?

Oh, no.

I thought Jeffrey needed extra protection.

Really?

It makes total sense, Fontaine.

If you say so.

How are we doing?

We're dead in the water unless
we can recharge the battery.

[rumbling]

What is that?

[thuds]

Phosphorescence?

Radiation?

It's coming from that
formation on the ocean floor.

And it's moving!

Wait a minute.

Antaeus, turn on the ephemychron.

I'm on it!

We are here.

Which means...

What is this?

[gasps]

Now it makes sense.

What is it?

We're right on top of a symbol.

A symbol for...

What? A symbol for what?

...a Monumential!

But, that's...

[Kaiko] An electric ray the size
of ten football fields.

Do you think this Monumential
is feeding the storm while it sleeps?

I think that's exactly what's happening.

[screams]

Brace yourselves!

[shouting]

That's the air ballast!

Leaking everywhere.

[Will] We're sinking!

We could go out in a Knight
and maybe block the valve.

It's too late.

[Ant] But, if we land
on that Monumential...

It will awaken.

And then?

Picture an enormous electrical
storm moving at will

across the whole world!

[Fontaine] That can't be good.

[Kaiko] We're going down.

[Will] What are our options?

[Kaiko] Without ballast, we sink.

[Will] The bow thrusters?

[Kaiko] They need power.
Without power, we sink.

It sounds like all our options
involve a lot of sinking.

I need to find a way
to charge the battery.

Will? We could use a backup plan.

Kids? Ready the knights.

We're gonna push.

Jeffrey? Stay.

[Fontaine] Dad, is it even
possible to push?

We have to try.

Come on.
We'll try to make it to that ledge.

[Fontaine] Alright. Piece of cake.

Okay, jets to full... on three.

One, two... three!

[groaning]

Push harder.

If that ray wakes up...

We know! Devastation.

[grunts]

Come on, Fontaine.

Imagine you're pushing
me into an open sewer.

Good idea.

[grunts]

We're moving!

[Will] Of course we are.

Keep pushing!

[Kaiko] I don't think
we're going to make it.

[Will] Yes... we... are!

[all grunts]

That's it. [laughs]

We did it!

See kids?

You can accomplish
anything if you... you...

[all] Oh, no!

[Will] Spoke too soon.

Lift!

Will? Are we safe?

The Aronnax isn't stable.

If we did, somehow, accidentally wake it,
is there a way to put it to sleep again?

The ancient Lemurians managed
to do it six thousand years ago.

They created a device
that saved the world.

The Monumentials were placed
in a timeless slumber.

Maybe not timeless.

[Fontaine] Is this device handy?

Alas no. It's in Lemuria.

Ever notice that with you,
there's always a catch?

Deep down, she likes me.

[grunts]

Will?

We can do this.

[Fontaine] Forever?

We need power.

Hey!

What if we let the Aronnax
fall on the Monumential?

World-wide chaos!

I thought we'd covered that.

That small electric ray
recharged my tablet.

This ray is a thousand times bigger,
maybe it could recharge the Aronnax.

Like jump starting a car?

Hmm. That just might be
crazy enough to work.

We'd need to reverse our
polarity and put the Aronnax

battery in a parallel
circuit with the Monumential

and let the current flow through.

So that means it could work?

It could also blow it up!

[thunderclap]

[Fontaine] I don't like those odds.

Me neither, but, they're
the best we've got.

Nereus? Come with me.
You too, Jeffrey.

[Will] Keep pushing!

[grunts]

Come on, harder!

[grunts]

Thinking super-positive!

[shouts]

We can't hold it!

[Will] Move!

[Ant] There's no way we can stop it!

No!

Kaiko, you need to get out
while there's still time.

[Kaiko] Just working on
something right now.

You don't understand the
Aronnax is in free fall.

[Fontaine] Look!

[Will] Kaiko!

[Ant] Nereus!

[Nereus] Whoa! [laughs]

Sorry, Will.

Had to re-route some
circuits before I left.

Mom! You're gonna use the cable
to get a charge from the Monumential?

We're gonna try.

Come on!

We have to be quick.

It's going to fire up again.

It's going to miss!

The cable has to touch the dorsal mound.

I'm going to try and guide it.

[loud groan]

He's not going to make it alone.

This is going to take all of us together.
Come on.

Push!

[all grunts]

I think it's working, Dad.

[grunts]

[Will] That's enough. Everyone back.

Hurry!

Jeffrey!

I gotcha, little buddy.

[explosion]

[all scream]

[rumbling]

Is everyone okay?

We're fine.

Did we do it?

Over there!

[Ant] The Aronnax has power!

[Fontaine] But, it's still falling.

Hang on, Nereus.

[screaming]

This day has been an
unending procession of peril!

[nervous whining]

[Will] Come on, Kaiko...

Come on.

[grunts]

Oh, no.

Come on.

[whimper]

Woohoo!

Way to go, Mom!

I can't believe your crazy idea worked!

Yeah. My crazy good idea!

It was blind, crazy luck, Ant!

Its eyes are open!

It's woken up!

It's okay, Ant.

Electric rays don't have eyelids.

Their eyes are always open.

That doesn't mean it's awake.

[sighs] Mom, have I ever told
you how glad I am

that you're a marine biologist?

Remember that the next time
I get you to count fish.

Isn't there an app for that?

The frequency of lightning
has returned to normal.

It looks like the
Monumential has been drained

of its excess electricity.

And the relationship between the
Monumential and the storm above

seems to have balanced.

For now.

What do you mean?

Things are stirring.

And not just me.

The oceans are changing.

The balance is shifting
all over the world.

[sighs]

He's gone all cryptic
and mysterious again.

I think if you grow a beard like
that, you have to be mysterious.

I'm so growing a mystery
beard when I'm older.

This is why we have to locate Lemuria.

We need to find the device
that controls the Monumentials.

Dad's right.

And sooner rather than later.

Why?

What's bugging you now?

See this symbol that marked the
location of that Monumential?

[Fontaine] Yeah.

Look how many more there are out there.

Every single one.

A Monumential.

[Ant] Awesome!

[Fontaine] Oh, no, here we go again.

[Ant] Oh, Fontaine, always the skeptic.

[Fontaine groans]

[closing theme music playing]