Flipper (1964–1967): Season 1, Episode 2 - The Red Hot Car - full transcript
After Bud sees a car at the bottom of the bay with bullet holes int he windshield, he asks his father to investigate. But Porter is used to Bud's exaggerated stories and vivid imagination and declares he doesn't have time. Before leaving for a meeting, he orders his sons to stay away from the car, but the boys soon find a pretext on which to once again go to that section of the bay. Unfortunately, they had already questioned several people about the car and one of them is responsible for that car. The boy soon learn a lesson in why it's very important to obey your parents!
- Those old cars are attracting
more and more fish every day!
- Yeah.
We'd better be heading home.
- Home?
We just got here!
- I told Dad we'd be home
before he left for his meeting.
- Just one more dive?
Me and Flipper, we're herding
the fish into their new homes.
- Oh, now you're a fish wrangler, huh?
Wild Bud Ricks and his trusty sea horse.
- Well, how are fish with
a brain the size of a pea
supposed to know those cars
were dumped down there for them?
- Don't worry.
When a big fish comes along,
they'll figure it out.
It's called survival of the fastest.
Let's go.
- Ah, just one more dive!
We're helping Dad's fish farm.
Just one more.
Last one, I promise.
- Bud, why is it Dad and I
can't get you out of the bay
but we can't get you
under a shower at home?
- Well why should a kid take a shower
who's got the whole ocean for a bath tub?
Yippee!
Bullet holes!
- What's the matter?
- Down there in that car!
Bullet holes in the windshield!
- Bullet holes in the windshield?
None of them have Windshields.
- That one does!
Ask Flipper!
They're real bullet holes!
- Ah, you two always stick together.
What would a car with bullet
holes in it be doing down here?
- I don't know, but I
gotta tell Dad quick!
- Yeah, I gotta tell Dad too.
That you and Flipper have flipped.
♫ They call him Flipper
♫ Flipper faster than lightning
♫ No one you see
♫ ls smarter than he
♫ And we know Flipper lives
in a world full of wonder
♫ Flying there under
♫ Under the sea
- Dad how can you, the park warden,
go off to a dumb old meeting
when there's a car down there
with bullet holes in the windshield?
- Sandy, did you see the bullet holes?
- Dad, I didn't even see the car.
Bud took off like a homing mud-head.
I was gonna check it out,
but you always told us not to swim alone.
- Good boy.
Well, see you both later.
- You mean you don't believe me?
Your own son?
You think I'm some kind of a liar?
- No, Bud, it isn't that
we don't believe you.
We don't always believe
your vivid imagination.
- What imagination?
I've got a bad imagination
but I'm very good at telling the truth.
- Look, you're both forgetting
that I supervised the
dumping of those old cars
and all the glass was taken out.
- So some gangster dumped this
one after you dumped yours.
Honest lnjun, Dad, there are
bullet holes in the windshield.
- Bud, why don't you
take off your flippers?
You're on dry ground now.
- I haven't got time.
That car should be
checked out and reported.
It's our duty as American citizens.
- All right.
This American citizen will
look into it tomorrow.
And if it is a red hot
car, it's a job for me,
the Coast Guard, and the police.
Sandy?
Sandy, what's with you?
- I was just thinking.
We've both grown up a lot.
Maybe we should help you
out more with the park,
especially me.
- Well, fine.
Like how?
- Well, maybe I should take the skiff out
and do a preliminary check for you,
save you some time.
- Yeah, keen!
Then I could go along too!
- Hold it.
Now neither of you has grown so much
that you don't fit on my knee
or over it.
So no taking the skiff out
and no diving down to those old cars!
That's my orders to the troops, get it?
- Got it.
Sandy?
- Dig, no dive.
- Bright boys.
Well, I'll see you both before dinner.
Goodbye, I'm late.
- You think he means it?
- What do you think?
- He means it.
Don't do this, don't do that.
After going all the way through school
the only word parents
know how to use is don't.
What a bad word.
- What year car would you say it was, Bud?
- Oh, I don't know.
- Then how many bullet holes were there?
- Oh, I don't... how many, I don't know.
Just a bunch of bullet holes.
- Boy, a fine detective you'd make.
- So who wants to be a detective?
The Coast Guard and the
Police would only take over.
I discover the car and
they get all the glory.
So why should I help them out?
Hey, a detective!
Sandy, how would a detective go about
getting information on a hot car?
- You tell me.
You're the guy who's about to be one.
- All day up and down
the bay asking questions
and what do we get?
Nothing.
Nothing but nothing.
- We really should have
come to you first, Johnny,
since you helped my dad dump
those cars with your barge.
- Yeah and maybe you can
help us and Dad, too,
to track down the criminal or criminals.
- Well, what makes you think
there's a crime involved?
Which one of you is Watson and
which one of you is Holmes?
- Well, Bud says this car
with the bullet hole in it
is newer than the others
and that it still has all the glass in it.
So it just about must've
been dumped by somebody else.
After you and dad put the others there.
- That makes sense.
What makes you think it's a
gangster's car down there?
You got a pretty good imagination, Bud.
I remember one time you saw
a flying saucer at night
and it ended up being the
lights from a Ferris wheel.
- Yeah, but that was a whole year ago
when I was a little kid.
But these are real bullet holes.
- So who else do you think
would look for the right spot
to dump a car?
- Well.
Well, the area is pretty
well marked with that buoy.
Most of the boats and fishermen
know what's down below.
It could be almost anyone.
- Yeah, but will you do us a favor?
If you see any suspicious
looking characters around,
let us know.
- I promise.
Well, if that is a hot car down there,
I'd say don't go near it.
That's what my dad said: don't.
- Your dad gave you pretty good advice.
- Dad says he'll look
into it in the morning.
These peanuts are making me hungry.
Let's go home and get something to eat.
- Yeah, might as well.
- Thanks a lot, Johnny.
- I'll see you.
Hey now, don't go nosing
around that car, hear?
- Don't, don't, don't!
I don't know why kids want to grow up!
All they do when they get big
is say "don't" to little guys!
- Tough break, Johnny.
I tried to throw a little money your way
and this has to happen.
- Yeah.
First time I ever stepped over the line.
- Don't let it bug you.
Besides, barge is paid for now, isn't it?
- Well now look, if you
want your money back
it'll take a little time, but I can do it.
- Look, Johnny, you're my pal.
You've been my hero
ever since high school,
the great athlete.
- Oh, knock it off, will you?
This is trouble.
- And it isn't my money.
I just spend it for
them on special projects
which they want done
right, once and for all.
- I know, I know.
- Because Johnny, pal,
if that car is recovered,
a lot of important people
are gonna be embarrassed,
asked questions, like about murder.
You knew that when you dumped it for me.
- Yeah.
- Well, what are we gonna
do about that car down there
before that warden starts nosing around.
- Well I can't just haul
it up out of the water.
The only thing to do is to go down there
with a time charge and blow it up.
- Well, let's get it done.
And Johnny...
Let's make it a big one.
- Here, Flipper!
But no swimming until a half
hour after you've eaten!
- Let's face it.
No matter how you look at it,
Dad told both of us not to
dive down and check that car.
- Yeah, I guess so.
I guess we better just
go for a dull old swim.
- Maybe look for some conch shells.
- Yeah.
What's the best place to look?
- Let's see.
Used to be out in the bay.
Pretty close to where that marker buoy is.
- Let's go.
- When does it say boom?
- Fifteen minutes.
You better make a few circles
so no one will suspect anything.
Pick me up in five.
- I'll pick you up in four
and a half, if you don't mind.
- What happened, did you plant it?
- There's a couple of kids down there.
- Kids!
Did you plant it?
- It's down there somewhere.
- Come on, let's get out of here!
- We gotta go back!
- And get blown up?
Are you nuts?
- Sandy!
Bud!
Flipper!
Come here, Flipper!
Well, what have you got in your mouth?
- No, no, Flipper, come with me!
Flipper, where are the boys?
Where are the boys, Flipper?
Where are they?
Where are the boys?
- Hi, Dad.
- Hi, Dad.
- Hi.
- All right, the meeting
will now come to order.
- What meeting?
- The meeting you're in.
Now, what were you guys
doing diving down in that car
when I told you not to go near it?
- Dad, would you believe me if I told you
we were diving for conch shells?
- No, I wouldn't.
And apparently you didn't believe me
when I told you that
neither of you were too big
to put over my knee.
Now who's first?
- You're alive!
Your boys, they're still alive!
- He stopped our car.
Gave himself up, Po.
Said we should come down here
and see if we could help.
The other guy tried to get away.
We had to put a few
bullet holes in his car
and one in him.
He'll live.
- Hey, Dad, can we go
down and see the car...
With the bullet holes in it.
Okay-
- Gosh, Johnny.
It's hard to realize you
had anything to do with
dumping that car down there.
I couldn't believe it.
- Yeah, I know.
You wanna know why I
shoved you into that car?
This may sound crazy,
but I did it because I
didn't want you to see me
do something wrong.
I'm sorry.
And I'm glad.
- Johnny, can we...
Can we do anything for you?
- Yeah, you can do something.
Next time you take your Dad's advice.
There's an awful lot of
bad advice kicking around.
Like how to make a quick
five hundred bucks.
When you get a little older,
you might run into temptation like that.
- We sort of ran into temptation already.
- See you later, Po.
- I'm sorry, Dad.
- Yeah, I'll take my licking first.
- Stay in line, little brother.
Let's get it over with, Dad.
- I think you both just grew up a little.
Maybe you are too big
to take over my knee.
Oh, I forgot, Flipper.
I'm sorry.
I give you full credit.
♫ 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 lives
in a world full of wonder
♫ Flying there under
♫ Under the sea
more and more fish every day!
- Yeah.
We'd better be heading home.
- Home?
We just got here!
- I told Dad we'd be home
before he left for his meeting.
- Just one more dive?
Me and Flipper, we're herding
the fish into their new homes.
- Oh, now you're a fish wrangler, huh?
Wild Bud Ricks and his trusty sea horse.
- Well, how are fish with
a brain the size of a pea
supposed to know those cars
were dumped down there for them?
- Don't worry.
When a big fish comes along,
they'll figure it out.
It's called survival of the fastest.
Let's go.
- Ah, just one more dive!
We're helping Dad's fish farm.
Just one more.
Last one, I promise.
- Bud, why is it Dad and I
can't get you out of the bay
but we can't get you
under a shower at home?
- Well why should a kid take a shower
who's got the whole ocean for a bath tub?
Yippee!
Bullet holes!
- What's the matter?
- Down there in that car!
Bullet holes in the windshield!
- Bullet holes in the windshield?
None of them have Windshields.
- That one does!
Ask Flipper!
They're real bullet holes!
- Ah, you two always stick together.
What would a car with bullet
holes in it be doing down here?
- I don't know, but I
gotta tell Dad quick!
- Yeah, I gotta tell Dad too.
That you and Flipper have flipped.
♫ They call him Flipper
♫ Flipper faster than lightning
♫ No one you see
♫ ls smarter than he
♫ And we know Flipper lives
in a world full of wonder
♫ Flying there under
♫ Under the sea
- Dad how can you, the park warden,
go off to a dumb old meeting
when there's a car down there
with bullet holes in the windshield?
- Sandy, did you see the bullet holes?
- Dad, I didn't even see the car.
Bud took off like a homing mud-head.
I was gonna check it out,
but you always told us not to swim alone.
- Good boy.
Well, see you both later.
- You mean you don't believe me?
Your own son?
You think I'm some kind of a liar?
- No, Bud, it isn't that
we don't believe you.
We don't always believe
your vivid imagination.
- What imagination?
I've got a bad imagination
but I'm very good at telling the truth.
- Look, you're both forgetting
that I supervised the
dumping of those old cars
and all the glass was taken out.
- So some gangster dumped this
one after you dumped yours.
Honest lnjun, Dad, there are
bullet holes in the windshield.
- Bud, why don't you
take off your flippers?
You're on dry ground now.
- I haven't got time.
That car should be
checked out and reported.
It's our duty as American citizens.
- All right.
This American citizen will
look into it tomorrow.
And if it is a red hot
car, it's a job for me,
the Coast Guard, and the police.
Sandy?
Sandy, what's with you?
- I was just thinking.
We've both grown up a lot.
Maybe we should help you
out more with the park,
especially me.
- Well, fine.
Like how?
- Well, maybe I should take the skiff out
and do a preliminary check for you,
save you some time.
- Yeah, keen!
Then I could go along too!
- Hold it.
Now neither of you has grown so much
that you don't fit on my knee
or over it.
So no taking the skiff out
and no diving down to those old cars!
That's my orders to the troops, get it?
- Got it.
Sandy?
- Dig, no dive.
- Bright boys.
Well, I'll see you both before dinner.
Goodbye, I'm late.
- You think he means it?
- What do you think?
- He means it.
Don't do this, don't do that.
After going all the way through school
the only word parents
know how to use is don't.
What a bad word.
- What year car would you say it was, Bud?
- Oh, I don't know.
- Then how many bullet holes were there?
- Oh, I don't... how many, I don't know.
Just a bunch of bullet holes.
- Boy, a fine detective you'd make.
- So who wants to be a detective?
The Coast Guard and the
Police would only take over.
I discover the car and
they get all the glory.
So why should I help them out?
Hey, a detective!
Sandy, how would a detective go about
getting information on a hot car?
- You tell me.
You're the guy who's about to be one.
- All day up and down
the bay asking questions
and what do we get?
Nothing.
Nothing but nothing.
- We really should have
come to you first, Johnny,
since you helped my dad dump
those cars with your barge.
- Yeah and maybe you can
help us and Dad, too,
to track down the criminal or criminals.
- Well, what makes you think
there's a crime involved?
Which one of you is Watson and
which one of you is Holmes?
- Well, Bud says this car
with the bullet hole in it
is newer than the others
and that it still has all the glass in it.
So it just about must've
been dumped by somebody else.
After you and dad put the others there.
- That makes sense.
What makes you think it's a
gangster's car down there?
You got a pretty good imagination, Bud.
I remember one time you saw
a flying saucer at night
and it ended up being the
lights from a Ferris wheel.
- Yeah, but that was a whole year ago
when I was a little kid.
But these are real bullet holes.
- So who else do you think
would look for the right spot
to dump a car?
- Well.
Well, the area is pretty
well marked with that buoy.
Most of the boats and fishermen
know what's down below.
It could be almost anyone.
- Yeah, but will you do us a favor?
If you see any suspicious
looking characters around,
let us know.
- I promise.
Well, if that is a hot car down there,
I'd say don't go near it.
That's what my dad said: don't.
- Your dad gave you pretty good advice.
- Dad says he'll look
into it in the morning.
These peanuts are making me hungry.
Let's go home and get something to eat.
- Yeah, might as well.
- Thanks a lot, Johnny.
- I'll see you.
Hey now, don't go nosing
around that car, hear?
- Don't, don't, don't!
I don't know why kids want to grow up!
All they do when they get big
is say "don't" to little guys!
- Tough break, Johnny.
I tried to throw a little money your way
and this has to happen.
- Yeah.
First time I ever stepped over the line.
- Don't let it bug you.
Besides, barge is paid for now, isn't it?
- Well now look, if you
want your money back
it'll take a little time, but I can do it.
- Look, Johnny, you're my pal.
You've been my hero
ever since high school,
the great athlete.
- Oh, knock it off, will you?
This is trouble.
- And it isn't my money.
I just spend it for
them on special projects
which they want done
right, once and for all.
- I know, I know.
- Because Johnny, pal,
if that car is recovered,
a lot of important people
are gonna be embarrassed,
asked questions, like about murder.
You knew that when you dumped it for me.
- Yeah.
- Well, what are we gonna
do about that car down there
before that warden starts nosing around.
- Well I can't just haul
it up out of the water.
The only thing to do is to go down there
with a time charge and blow it up.
- Well, let's get it done.
And Johnny...
Let's make it a big one.
- Here, Flipper!
But no swimming until a half
hour after you've eaten!
- Let's face it.
No matter how you look at it,
Dad told both of us not to
dive down and check that car.
- Yeah, I guess so.
I guess we better just
go for a dull old swim.
- Maybe look for some conch shells.
- Yeah.
What's the best place to look?
- Let's see.
Used to be out in the bay.
Pretty close to where that marker buoy is.
- Let's go.
- When does it say boom?
- Fifteen minutes.
You better make a few circles
so no one will suspect anything.
Pick me up in five.
- I'll pick you up in four
and a half, if you don't mind.
- What happened, did you plant it?
- There's a couple of kids down there.
- Kids!
Did you plant it?
- It's down there somewhere.
- Come on, let's get out of here!
- We gotta go back!
- And get blown up?
Are you nuts?
- Sandy!
Bud!
Flipper!
Come here, Flipper!
Well, what have you got in your mouth?
- No, no, Flipper, come with me!
Flipper, where are the boys?
Where are the boys, Flipper?
Where are they?
Where are the boys?
- Hi, Dad.
- Hi, Dad.
- Hi.
- All right, the meeting
will now come to order.
- What meeting?
- The meeting you're in.
Now, what were you guys
doing diving down in that car
when I told you not to go near it?
- Dad, would you believe me if I told you
we were diving for conch shells?
- No, I wouldn't.
And apparently you didn't believe me
when I told you that
neither of you were too big
to put over my knee.
Now who's first?
- You're alive!
Your boys, they're still alive!
- He stopped our car.
Gave himself up, Po.
Said we should come down here
and see if we could help.
The other guy tried to get away.
We had to put a few
bullet holes in his car
and one in him.
He'll live.
- Hey, Dad, can we go
down and see the car...
With the bullet holes in it.
Okay-
- Gosh, Johnny.
It's hard to realize you
had anything to do with
dumping that car down there.
I couldn't believe it.
- Yeah, I know.
You wanna know why I
shoved you into that car?
This may sound crazy,
but I did it because I
didn't want you to see me
do something wrong.
I'm sorry.
And I'm glad.
- Johnny, can we...
Can we do anything for you?
- Yeah, you can do something.
Next time you take your Dad's advice.
There's an awful lot of
bad advice kicking around.
Like how to make a quick
five hundred bucks.
When you get a little older,
you might run into temptation like that.
- We sort of ran into temptation already.
- See you later, Po.
- I'm sorry, Dad.
- Yeah, I'll take my licking first.
- Stay in line, little brother.
Let's get it over with, Dad.
- I think you both just grew up a little.
Maybe you are too big
to take over my knee.
Oh, I forgot, Flipper.
I'm sorry.
I give you full credit.
♫ 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 lives
in a world full of wonder
♫ Flying there under
♫ Under the sea