Flipper (1964–1967): Season 2, Episode 28 - Deep Waters - full transcript
Porter and Ulla are are in 'deep water' when the submarine they are in breaks on the bottom of the ocean floor 250 feet down. They only have one hour of oxygen.
- Hi Flipper.
Porter!
Porter!
- On the way!
- You sure you want to come with me?
- Well, here I am.
- Well I thought that,
since it's so seldom
that you have a day off,
maybe there are millions
of things you'd rather do.
- Ulla, there's nothing
I'd rather do on my day off
than survey the bottom of
the ocean floor with you.
- Okay, let's go then.
. Okay-
Flipper, you wanna go too?
Well I guess it's all right.
The boys won't be home until after school.
Come on.
That's a girl.
- A little less ballast.
- Look, Ulla.
- We've hit a strong current!
I can hardly keep her in line.
- Want me to take over?
- No, I think I can handle it.
- That's strange.
I never heard of a current this strong
at 250 feet in this area.
Ulla, you all right?
- Yes, yes, I am.
We hit a coral head.
♫ They call him Flipper,
Flipper, faster than lightning
♫ No one you see, is smarter than he
♫ And we know Flipper, lives
in a world full of wonder
♫ Lying there-under, under the sea
- Power's gone.
- Try the emergency lights.
All right, now try and start the engine.
- There's no use.
- I'm gonna have to check for damage.
Hand me that face plate.
- Oh, there's air coming
out the ballast tanks!
- We gotta save that air, we may need it.
- Flipper!
Oh, he's got a piece of the propellor.
- He sure does.
- We're really in trouble, aren't we?
- Well there's a way out of here.
- Do you mean, pre-ascent?
- That's right, the escape hatch.
It'll be risky, but it can be done.
All right, the pressure's up.
It's jammed!
The impact must have jammed it.
- Oh no!
- Now wait a minute.
I've got an idea.
If we can decrease the
pressure inside the hull,
maybe the water pressure outside
will force the hatch open.
Anyway, it's worth a try.
Let's both try.
Come on.
All right, here we go.
That's it, it won't open any farther.
It won't work.
- There is no other way out.
- I know.
We've gotta get this
submarine to the surface.
Ulla, try calling the
Coast Guard on the radio.
- Oh, they'll never pick up our signal
on the auxiliary power.
- Try anyway.
- This is WO-8147, calling Coast Guard.
WO-8147, calling Coast Guard.
Come in, Coast Guard.
This is WO-8147, calling Coast Guard.
Come in, Coast Guard.
There is no answer.
- I know.
- How much air do
we have left in the tanks?
- Little less than an hour.
The only way we're gonna get out of this
is to send someone for help.
- Send for help?
- Right.
Flipper.
- Flipper?
You mean, Flipper's going to
explain that we have no power
and that we're stuck 250
feet under the ocean.
- He doesn't have to.
All he has to do is get someone to help.
You know, he's pretty good at
getting his message across.
- I'm frightened.
- Flipper, go for help!
Flipper!
Flipper, go for help!
Well, there's nothing to do now but wait.
Come on Ulla, smile.
You know if you do, I might even ask you
to go dancing with me
tonight at the Flamingo.
- Hey Sandy!
Sandy, come here.
I told Shorty Meyers that you could dive
three times as deep as
his brother could any day.
So we made a bet on it.
Now, if you win those tests on Saturday,
I get to keep his transistor radio.
- What do you mean, if I win on Saturday?
On Saturday I'm going on an all-day hike
with Gary Prentiss.
- But listen, you can't!
Quiet, Flipper.
- What do you mean, I can't?
Gary and I agreed on it
about three weeks ago.
What's eating him?
- I don't know.
Sandy, you can go on that
hike any time you want.
But how often is it that I
get to win a transistor radio?
- What's the matter Flipper?
What's wrong boy?
- Oh Sandy, can't you go
on that hike next Saturday?
- Bud, something's bothering him.
- He probably just wants to play.
Now listen, this is important.
- Okay, give it to me again.
You and Shorty want to
go diving on Saturday.
- We only got 30 minutes of air left.
- I know.
- Isn't there something we can do?
It is so, so awful just sitting
here waiting to suffocate.
- Now look, Ulla.
Maybe Flipper's having trouble finding
someone to bring help.
- You have an awful lot of faith
in that dolphin, haven't you?
- We have to have faith in that dolphin,
it's the only thing we've got.
Now I want you to relax,
sit back and stop talking.
We're using up too much air.
Go on.
- Now look, Sandy, this is what we can do.
Wake up at four o'clock in the morning,
go dive with Shorty's brother,
go home, eat breakfast,
and you can still make your hike at six.
- Once and for all Bud, no.
What's wrong, Flipper?
- You know, something's bothering him.
- That's what I've been
trying to tell you.
- Maybe someone's in trouble.
We better tell Dad.
- Dad said he was going out with Ulla
in the sub this afternoon.
- Hey, you don't suppose
he's trying to tell us
there's something wrong
with Dad and Ulla, do you?
- Well, we better take
a look and follow him.
There's something here.
- I don't see anything.
Maybe it's Dad and Ulla, in the sub.
That's what Flipper's trying to tell us.
- I'll see if I can
reach him on the radio.
WD-9508 to WO-8147.
Come in, WO-8147.
- Porter.
It's getting hard to breathe.
- There's something.
Ulla.
Maybe if I cut the ballast lines,
that might give us some more air.
Breathe this.
Breathe it.
Better?
- Yeah.
- Come in, WO-8147.
Well, they're not here.
As a matter of fact, the sub
can't be anywhere near here.
They're even out of range with the radio.
- Now what's Flipper so excited about?
- I don't know.
Since he is, I'd better take a look.
Hold the boat.
- Find anything?
- Nothing, I went down as far as I could.
I started to feel dizzy or something.
I guess I got rapture of the
deep or whatever you call it,
and Flipper helped me back up.
- How far down did you go about?
- I don't know, more than 150 feet.
- Shorty Meyers' brother could never come
anywhere near that depth.
' Who?
- Shorty Meyers' brother.
Remember, you were gonna dive with him,
so you could win that
transistor radio for me?
- Guess Flipper here is a bad steer, huh?
- He's never done that before.
- We'd better get the launch
home before Dad gets home.
- Look!
- I tell you, I told you he'd be back.
- But I don't see anyone with him.
- He's got somebody
with him, I know he has!
Probably top side.
If there was only some way
we could let them know where we are,
a signal, a buoy, something!
Now wait a minute, look!
- The propellor!
- Forgot to pull up the ladder.
- Sandy, I don't understand it.
- What?
- Why would Flipper bring us
all the way out here for nothing?
There must be something wrong.
Sandy, look!
- What's he got?
- It looks like a, a piece
of metal or something.
That's part of a propellor!
- From the sub.
That's why he brought us out here.
Dad and Ulla are down there
and they're in trouble!
- Well what are we gonna do?
- I'm going back down,
you call the Coast Guard.
- What do I tell him?
- Tell him exactly what happened,
and give him our position.
- Sandy, be careful.
- Sandy!
Sandy!
Sandy.
The power's gone!
We're almost out of air.
Send a helicopter with a cable.
Send a helicopter with a cable!
- There isn't time to wait for a diver.
They've only got a few
minutes of air left.
I'll take the cable down myself.
After I'm in the water, lower the cable.
Over and out.
- Sandy listen, you just can't
go down there a third time,
you'll get the bends!
- I've got to, Bud, we
can't wait any longer.
- Sandy, listen.
Flipper can take down the cable,
and he swims much faster than you.
Please!
- He could take it down faster.
I'll give him the cable
and hope he knows what to do with it.
I'll follow him down a ways to make sure.
- Good luck, Sandy.
- Tell them to pull it up!
- Porter, we're moving!
♫ Everyone loves the king of the sea
♫ Ever so kind and gentle is he
♫ Tricks he will do when children appear
♫ 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
♫ Lying there-under, under the sea
Porter!
Porter!
- On the way!
- You sure you want to come with me?
- Well, here I am.
- Well I thought that,
since it's so seldom
that you have a day off,
maybe there are millions
of things you'd rather do.
- Ulla, there's nothing
I'd rather do on my day off
than survey the bottom of
the ocean floor with you.
- Okay, let's go then.
. Okay-
Flipper, you wanna go too?
Well I guess it's all right.
The boys won't be home until after school.
Come on.
That's a girl.
- A little less ballast.
- Look, Ulla.
- We've hit a strong current!
I can hardly keep her in line.
- Want me to take over?
- No, I think I can handle it.
- That's strange.
I never heard of a current this strong
at 250 feet in this area.
Ulla, you all right?
- Yes, yes, I am.
We hit a coral head.
♫ They call him Flipper,
Flipper, faster than lightning
♫ No one you see, is smarter than he
♫ And we know Flipper, lives
in a world full of wonder
♫ Lying there-under, under the sea
- Power's gone.
- Try the emergency lights.
All right, now try and start the engine.
- There's no use.
- I'm gonna have to check for damage.
Hand me that face plate.
- Oh, there's air coming
out the ballast tanks!
- We gotta save that air, we may need it.
- Flipper!
Oh, he's got a piece of the propellor.
- He sure does.
- We're really in trouble, aren't we?
- Well there's a way out of here.
- Do you mean, pre-ascent?
- That's right, the escape hatch.
It'll be risky, but it can be done.
All right, the pressure's up.
It's jammed!
The impact must have jammed it.
- Oh no!
- Now wait a minute.
I've got an idea.
If we can decrease the
pressure inside the hull,
maybe the water pressure outside
will force the hatch open.
Anyway, it's worth a try.
Let's both try.
Come on.
All right, here we go.
That's it, it won't open any farther.
It won't work.
- There is no other way out.
- I know.
We've gotta get this
submarine to the surface.
Ulla, try calling the
Coast Guard on the radio.
- Oh, they'll never pick up our signal
on the auxiliary power.
- Try anyway.
- This is WO-8147, calling Coast Guard.
WO-8147, calling Coast Guard.
Come in, Coast Guard.
This is WO-8147, calling Coast Guard.
Come in, Coast Guard.
There is no answer.
- I know.
- How much air do
we have left in the tanks?
- Little less than an hour.
The only way we're gonna get out of this
is to send someone for help.
- Send for help?
- Right.
Flipper.
- Flipper?
You mean, Flipper's going to
explain that we have no power
and that we're stuck 250
feet under the ocean.
- He doesn't have to.
All he has to do is get someone to help.
You know, he's pretty good at
getting his message across.
- I'm frightened.
- Flipper, go for help!
Flipper!
Flipper, go for help!
Well, there's nothing to do now but wait.
Come on Ulla, smile.
You know if you do, I might even ask you
to go dancing with me
tonight at the Flamingo.
- Hey Sandy!
Sandy, come here.
I told Shorty Meyers that you could dive
three times as deep as
his brother could any day.
So we made a bet on it.
Now, if you win those tests on Saturday,
I get to keep his transistor radio.
- What do you mean, if I win on Saturday?
On Saturday I'm going on an all-day hike
with Gary Prentiss.
- But listen, you can't!
Quiet, Flipper.
- What do you mean, I can't?
Gary and I agreed on it
about three weeks ago.
What's eating him?
- I don't know.
Sandy, you can go on that
hike any time you want.
But how often is it that I
get to win a transistor radio?
- What's the matter Flipper?
What's wrong boy?
- Oh Sandy, can't you go
on that hike next Saturday?
- Bud, something's bothering him.
- He probably just wants to play.
Now listen, this is important.
- Okay, give it to me again.
You and Shorty want to
go diving on Saturday.
- We only got 30 minutes of air left.
- I know.
- Isn't there something we can do?
It is so, so awful just sitting
here waiting to suffocate.
- Now look, Ulla.
Maybe Flipper's having trouble finding
someone to bring help.
- You have an awful lot of faith
in that dolphin, haven't you?
- We have to have faith in that dolphin,
it's the only thing we've got.
Now I want you to relax,
sit back and stop talking.
We're using up too much air.
Go on.
- Now look, Sandy, this is what we can do.
Wake up at four o'clock in the morning,
go dive with Shorty's brother,
go home, eat breakfast,
and you can still make your hike at six.
- Once and for all Bud, no.
What's wrong, Flipper?
- You know, something's bothering him.
- That's what I've been
trying to tell you.
- Maybe someone's in trouble.
We better tell Dad.
- Dad said he was going out with Ulla
in the sub this afternoon.
- Hey, you don't suppose
he's trying to tell us
there's something wrong
with Dad and Ulla, do you?
- Well, we better take
a look and follow him.
There's something here.
- I don't see anything.
Maybe it's Dad and Ulla, in the sub.
That's what Flipper's trying to tell us.
- I'll see if I can
reach him on the radio.
WD-9508 to WO-8147.
Come in, WO-8147.
- Porter.
It's getting hard to breathe.
- There's something.
Ulla.
Maybe if I cut the ballast lines,
that might give us some more air.
Breathe this.
Breathe it.
Better?
- Yeah.
- Come in, WO-8147.
Well, they're not here.
As a matter of fact, the sub
can't be anywhere near here.
They're even out of range with the radio.
- Now what's Flipper so excited about?
- I don't know.
Since he is, I'd better take a look.
Hold the boat.
- Find anything?
- Nothing, I went down as far as I could.
I started to feel dizzy or something.
I guess I got rapture of the
deep or whatever you call it,
and Flipper helped me back up.
- How far down did you go about?
- I don't know, more than 150 feet.
- Shorty Meyers' brother could never come
anywhere near that depth.
' Who?
- Shorty Meyers' brother.
Remember, you were gonna dive with him,
so you could win that
transistor radio for me?
- Guess Flipper here is a bad steer, huh?
- He's never done that before.
- We'd better get the launch
home before Dad gets home.
- Look!
- I tell you, I told you he'd be back.
- But I don't see anyone with him.
- He's got somebody
with him, I know he has!
Probably top side.
If there was only some way
we could let them know where we are,
a signal, a buoy, something!
Now wait a minute, look!
- The propellor!
- Forgot to pull up the ladder.
- Sandy, I don't understand it.
- What?
- Why would Flipper bring us
all the way out here for nothing?
There must be something wrong.
Sandy, look!
- What's he got?
- It looks like a, a piece
of metal or something.
That's part of a propellor!
- From the sub.
That's why he brought us out here.
Dad and Ulla are down there
and they're in trouble!
- Well what are we gonna do?
- I'm going back down,
you call the Coast Guard.
- What do I tell him?
- Tell him exactly what happened,
and give him our position.
- Sandy, be careful.
- Sandy!
Sandy!
Sandy.
The power's gone!
We're almost out of air.
Send a helicopter with a cable.
Send a helicopter with a cable!
- There isn't time to wait for a diver.
They've only got a few
minutes of air left.
I'll take the cable down myself.
After I'm in the water, lower the cable.
Over and out.
- Sandy listen, you just can't
go down there a third time,
you'll get the bends!
- I've got to, Bud, we
can't wait any longer.
- Sandy, listen.
Flipper can take down the cable,
and he swims much faster than you.
Please!
- He could take it down faster.
I'll give him the cable
and hope he knows what to do with it.
I'll follow him down a ways to make sure.
- Good luck, Sandy.
- Tell them to pull it up!
- Porter, we're moving!
♫ Everyone loves the king of the sea
♫ Ever so kind and gentle is he
♫ Tricks he will do when children appear
♫ 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
♫ Lying there-under, under the sea