Flipper (1964–1967): Season 3, Episode 16 - The Most Expensive Sardine in the World - full transcript
A lobster is wearing an expensive diamond, but Flipper is accused of swallowing it. He's in danger of being cut open to retrieve the expensive bracelet by a court order.
- As
Mrs. Iris Sharp of New York
and Palm Beach said, she was
getting away from it all.
Now, that means she sailed
her yacht into Coral Key.
Here, watched over by her attorney,
she discovered the simple life.
And Flipper?
Well, Flipper discovered an
easy way to fish for sardines.
- It's marvelous.
Does he ever miss?
- Never.
- Well, hardly ever.
- It's truly marvelous.
You should see this charming dolphin.
You must see this.
He's almost human.
In fact, more human than
some people I could mention.
You must look at this.
Come on Flipper.
Here's a nice big sardine
for you this time.
Come on Flipper.
Oh!
- Mrs. Sharp's bracelet.
- Flipper, go get it.
Go get it.
♫ 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.
- Get it Flipper!
- That bracelet is made of
solid diamonds and emeralds.
It's priceless.
- 36 diamonds, 28 emeralds.
- Worth a fortune.
- Well, don't just sit there.
Do something.
- Flipper is doing something.
You got it Flipper?
- Do you know where it is?
- Tell him it has 36 diamonds.
- Tell him.
- Flipper, you've gotta
find that bracelet.
Come on, Bud.
- Why don't you do something?
- Huh? Oh.
Well, I'll call the park ranger.
Come on.
- Well, call the police, the FBI.
Call somebody.
- Well?
- Nothing, but we'll try again.
- Palm Beach wasn't good
enough for you was it Iris?
No. Oh no.
You had to have the simple life.
' Dad!
- Well, I got
here as quickly as I could.
- Ranger, there
are 36 diamonds down there.
- 28 emeralds.
- You simply must find my bracelet.
- We tried Dad, we really did.
- I know you did Bud.
Well, I'll do what I can.
- My Dad'll get your
bracelet back Mrs. Sharp.
Don't worry.
- I think I'd better warn you
that the governor is a
personal friend of mine.
- And the senators.
- I have witnesses Mr. Ricks.
That dolphin was creating a nuisance.
- He was not.
- Bud, please.
- You'd better work fast.
You'd better find that bracelet
for Mrs. Sharp, or else.
- Mrs. Sharp, Mr. Enley,
I'll do what I can for you
but I'll do nothing more than I would
for any other people in this park.
Do you understand that?
All right Sandy, get out the
underwater television camera.
We'll look for it with that.
- You mean to say you're going
to look for my bracelet on TV underwater?
- Do you have a better suggestion?
- Oh, no no.
You go right ahead.
- Thank you.
Ready Sandy?
All right, scan left.
More.
Scan right.
All right, look right
under the boat Sandy.
Bring it in.
I don't see it anywhere.
- Why don't you admit it Ricks?
This is getting us nowhere.
- Well, I will admit that I don't know
where that bracelet is.
- Well, I've been examining the evidence.
It's all very clear.
- You mean you know where it is?
- Of course.
That dolphin of yours swallowed it.
- He did not.
- Did you see exactly
where the bracelet went?
- No, but...
- Well, then you can't
make that statement.
- Mr. Enley.
- I'm cross examining the witness.
- Flipper wouldn't swallow
a diamond bracelet.
- Not unless he thought it was a sardine.
- The most expensive sardine in the world.
- Flipper didn't swallow that bracelet.
Right Flipper?
See, he said he didn't.
- Well, what else would
you expect him to say?
Besides, dolphins don't talk.
- Flipper does.
Right Flipper?
- Oh, I've had enough of this nonsense.
I'm taking the car and going into town.
Iris, I'm getting a court order.
- All right boys, get your diving gear.
We'll look for it ourselves.
- You've been looking such a long time.
No luck yet?
- I'm afraid not Mrs. Sharp.
- Oh dear.
That was made for me in Paris.
It took years to find the stones.
- Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.
As soon as we get warmed up we'll go down
and take another look.
All right?
- Iris, here is the paper we need.
Is your name Flipper?
- He knows his name and so do you.
- Pipe down.
- Well then, I have this court order
for Porter Ricks pertaining to you.
This court order says
that you will proceed
with said dolphin to the
nearest veterinarian.
When you reach the veterinarian...
- He can't make us take
Flipper there can he dad?
- Oh, you just bet we can.
He swallowed the bracelet
and this court order
gives us the power to
get the bracelet back.
- Well, it's a little late
to go into town today, Mr. Enley.
- I've already thought of that.
Paragraph five.
If said dolphin can not
be taken immediately
to a qualified veterinarian
then said dolphin will
undergo incarceration.
- Incarceration?
- Jail, Bud. Jail.
- Jail, for dolphins?
- You will pen him up.
- After we pen him up,
we take him to the vet
in the morning so you can cut him open?
- Well, I think we better
get Flipper home Bud.
- You have a pen to lock him up in?
- Yes, I have a pen.
- Well now, remember Ricks.
This is official.
- All right, I'll personally guarantee
that Flipper stays in his pen.
- The law is the law Mr. Ricks.
I'll be around to see the dolphin
goes into town the first
thing in the morning.
- Come on Flipper.
- All right, help
me with those lines please.
At a time like this,
I would have given a lot to be a lawyer
but it did look like
Mr. Nesbit knew his law
and he had that court order also.
About all we could do was go home.
- Sandy, put Flipper in his pen.
Come on Bud.
- Okay Flipper, you
heard what the man said.
Come on Flipper.
Good boy, it won't be for long.
Bud must have spent
a sleepless night worrying about Flipper.
I can only guess that during the night
he cooked up a plan to save his dolphin.
And now, he was putting
his plan into action.
. Hiya, Flipper.
Now listen, I know you didn't
swallow Mrs. Sharp's bracelet
and so do you but no one
else will believe us.
Now listen Flipper,
this is the only chance
you're gonna have to find her bracelet
before they come back for ya.
Now, do you think you can find it?
Shh.
Listen Flipper, if you go out
and you can't find it I'm in big trouble.
Are you positive you can find it?
Okay, I'll let you out.
Now, wait for me.
Flipper, Flipper, come back here!
Come back!
- Flipper!
- Flipper, come back!
- You sure you haven't seen
Bud anywhere around the house?
- Yes, sir.
I mean, I looked everywhere.
- All right, let's try the pen.
Well, they're both gone.
- You think Bud let him out?
- I'm afraid so and this
time Bud broke a court order.
He's in real trouble and so are we.
- Hey Dad, look who's coming.
- Mr. Enley, I'm sorry
to have to tell you this
but my son Bud's gone and the pen's open.
That means he probably took the dolphin
out to sea to look for your bracelet.
- If that dolphin is loose Mr. Ricks,
then you have violated a court order.
Your son is an accomplice.
The sheriff's the man to handle this now.
- Now, wait a minute.
Look, I might know where they are.
Why don't you give me
a chance to find them?
- Well, I don't know.
- Flipper?
Flipper!
Flipper must have realized
that time was short or he never
would have rushed off without Bud.
As close as I can figure it,
that's when Flipper realized
that to find that bracelet he needed help.
Evidently, the other
dolphin had seen the lobster
with the bracelet.
But where was he now?
Over head in the air,
Flipper had another
friend who was searching.
- Flipper!
Flipper, come here!
Flipper, come back!
Flipper, darn you.
Don't leave me.
Flipper, come back here!
- I should have gone
straight to the sheriff.
But if you're sure you can
find that dolphin well,
I'll give you just one last chance.
Well, I'll tell you what Mr. Enley,
I'll do what I can.
How's that?
- Well, remember I still
have that court order
and if we have to call in the authorities
I won't hesitate to insist
that we use direct means
to capture that dolphin.
- Yeah, I'm sure you won't.
Everybody ready?
Bud is always telling me
that animals can talk.
Well, maybe he's right.
I certainly can't say he's wrong.
He'll tell you that other animals,
Flipper's friends, were
out trying to help him.
I wasn't there so I'm only guessing
but Flipper must have found
someone who gave him a clue.
- Flipper?
Flipper, it's me.
You want me to follow ya?
Okay, I just gotta find
out where that bracelet is.
- We've been out here for hours Mr. Ricks.
I demand you return.
- If my boy Bud's out there somewhere
we're not going back 'til we find him,
bracelet or no bracelet.
Did
Flipper ask Pelican Pete?
Well if ever two animals
would help each other
it would be Flipper and
that pelican friend of his.
- Hurry Flipper, they're coming.
- Dad, there's Bud.
- Bud, you all right?
- Yeah, I'm all right dad.
I can explain.
- As well you should young man.
- Now, just a minute.
This time, I'm cross
examining the witness.
- Hop aboard Bud.
- Mr. Enley's decided
to go see the sheriff
and I think you know how
much trouble that's gonna be.
- But dad, you can't let
him cut Flipper open.
- Hey dad, look.
Flipper's got something.
- What is it?
A lobster.
- My bracelet!
- See Mrs. Sharp, I told you Flipper
didn't swallow your old bracelet.
- Unbelievable.
- Thank you Flipper.
- Now, who's that?
- Hurry Enley. Come on.
- Okay, okay.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- What's that?
- It's a present for Flipper.
- Will he like it?
- Well, we'll soon find out won't we?
- Where is Flipper?
- Flipper? Flipper?
- There he is.
- Oh.
- See what I've got you Flipper?
The most expensive caviar money can buy.
Now, isn't that a nice thank you present?
- I don't think he likes caviar.
Oops, he does too.
. Oh!
My bracelet!
- Oh no.
- She's done it again.
- "VS gone!
- No it isn't.
Look, Flipper's got it.
- He does have it.
Let me have that Flipper.
- Oh! Thank you again Flipper.
♫ 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, is smarter than he,
♫ And we know Flipper, lives
in a world full of wonder,
♫ Lying there under, under the sea!
Mrs. Iris Sharp of New York
and Palm Beach said, she was
getting away from it all.
Now, that means she sailed
her yacht into Coral Key.
Here, watched over by her attorney,
she discovered the simple life.
And Flipper?
Well, Flipper discovered an
easy way to fish for sardines.
- It's marvelous.
Does he ever miss?
- Never.
- Well, hardly ever.
- It's truly marvelous.
You should see this charming dolphin.
You must see this.
He's almost human.
In fact, more human than
some people I could mention.
You must look at this.
Come on Flipper.
Here's a nice big sardine
for you this time.
Come on Flipper.
Oh!
- Mrs. Sharp's bracelet.
- Flipper, go get it.
Go get it.
♫ 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.
- Get it Flipper!
- That bracelet is made of
solid diamonds and emeralds.
It's priceless.
- 36 diamonds, 28 emeralds.
- Worth a fortune.
- Well, don't just sit there.
Do something.
- Flipper is doing something.
You got it Flipper?
- Do you know where it is?
- Tell him it has 36 diamonds.
- Tell him.
- Flipper, you've gotta
find that bracelet.
Come on, Bud.
- Why don't you do something?
- Huh? Oh.
Well, I'll call the park ranger.
Come on.
- Well, call the police, the FBI.
Call somebody.
- Well?
- Nothing, but we'll try again.
- Palm Beach wasn't good
enough for you was it Iris?
No. Oh no.
You had to have the simple life.
' Dad!
- Well, I got
here as quickly as I could.
- Ranger, there
are 36 diamonds down there.
- 28 emeralds.
- You simply must find my bracelet.
- We tried Dad, we really did.
- I know you did Bud.
Well, I'll do what I can.
- My Dad'll get your
bracelet back Mrs. Sharp.
Don't worry.
- I think I'd better warn you
that the governor is a
personal friend of mine.
- And the senators.
- I have witnesses Mr. Ricks.
That dolphin was creating a nuisance.
- He was not.
- Bud, please.
- You'd better work fast.
You'd better find that bracelet
for Mrs. Sharp, or else.
- Mrs. Sharp, Mr. Enley,
I'll do what I can for you
but I'll do nothing more than I would
for any other people in this park.
Do you understand that?
All right Sandy, get out the
underwater television camera.
We'll look for it with that.
- You mean to say you're going
to look for my bracelet on TV underwater?
- Do you have a better suggestion?
- Oh, no no.
You go right ahead.
- Thank you.
Ready Sandy?
All right, scan left.
More.
Scan right.
All right, look right
under the boat Sandy.
Bring it in.
I don't see it anywhere.
- Why don't you admit it Ricks?
This is getting us nowhere.
- Well, I will admit that I don't know
where that bracelet is.
- Well, I've been examining the evidence.
It's all very clear.
- You mean you know where it is?
- Of course.
That dolphin of yours swallowed it.
- He did not.
- Did you see exactly
where the bracelet went?
- No, but...
- Well, then you can't
make that statement.
- Mr. Enley.
- I'm cross examining the witness.
- Flipper wouldn't swallow
a diamond bracelet.
- Not unless he thought it was a sardine.
- The most expensive sardine in the world.
- Flipper didn't swallow that bracelet.
Right Flipper?
See, he said he didn't.
- Well, what else would
you expect him to say?
Besides, dolphins don't talk.
- Flipper does.
Right Flipper?
- Oh, I've had enough of this nonsense.
I'm taking the car and going into town.
Iris, I'm getting a court order.
- All right boys, get your diving gear.
We'll look for it ourselves.
- You've been looking such a long time.
No luck yet?
- I'm afraid not Mrs. Sharp.
- Oh dear.
That was made for me in Paris.
It took years to find the stones.
- Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.
As soon as we get warmed up we'll go down
and take another look.
All right?
- Iris, here is the paper we need.
Is your name Flipper?
- He knows his name and so do you.
- Pipe down.
- Well then, I have this court order
for Porter Ricks pertaining to you.
This court order says
that you will proceed
with said dolphin to the
nearest veterinarian.
When you reach the veterinarian...
- He can't make us take
Flipper there can he dad?
- Oh, you just bet we can.
He swallowed the bracelet
and this court order
gives us the power to
get the bracelet back.
- Well, it's a little late
to go into town today, Mr. Enley.
- I've already thought of that.
Paragraph five.
If said dolphin can not
be taken immediately
to a qualified veterinarian
then said dolphin will
undergo incarceration.
- Incarceration?
- Jail, Bud. Jail.
- Jail, for dolphins?
- You will pen him up.
- After we pen him up,
we take him to the vet
in the morning so you can cut him open?
- Well, I think we better
get Flipper home Bud.
- You have a pen to lock him up in?
- Yes, I have a pen.
- Well now, remember Ricks.
This is official.
- All right, I'll personally guarantee
that Flipper stays in his pen.
- The law is the law Mr. Ricks.
I'll be around to see the dolphin
goes into town the first
thing in the morning.
- Come on Flipper.
- All right, help
me with those lines please.
At a time like this,
I would have given a lot to be a lawyer
but it did look like
Mr. Nesbit knew his law
and he had that court order also.
About all we could do was go home.
- Sandy, put Flipper in his pen.
Come on Bud.
- Okay Flipper, you
heard what the man said.
Come on Flipper.
Good boy, it won't be for long.
Bud must have spent
a sleepless night worrying about Flipper.
I can only guess that during the night
he cooked up a plan to save his dolphin.
And now, he was putting
his plan into action.
. Hiya, Flipper.
Now listen, I know you didn't
swallow Mrs. Sharp's bracelet
and so do you but no one
else will believe us.
Now listen Flipper,
this is the only chance
you're gonna have to find her bracelet
before they come back for ya.
Now, do you think you can find it?
Shh.
Listen Flipper, if you go out
and you can't find it I'm in big trouble.
Are you positive you can find it?
Okay, I'll let you out.
Now, wait for me.
Flipper, Flipper, come back here!
Come back!
- Flipper!
- Flipper, come back!
- You sure you haven't seen
Bud anywhere around the house?
- Yes, sir.
I mean, I looked everywhere.
- All right, let's try the pen.
Well, they're both gone.
- You think Bud let him out?
- I'm afraid so and this
time Bud broke a court order.
He's in real trouble and so are we.
- Hey Dad, look who's coming.
- Mr. Enley, I'm sorry
to have to tell you this
but my son Bud's gone and the pen's open.
That means he probably took the dolphin
out to sea to look for your bracelet.
- If that dolphin is loose Mr. Ricks,
then you have violated a court order.
Your son is an accomplice.
The sheriff's the man to handle this now.
- Now, wait a minute.
Look, I might know where they are.
Why don't you give me
a chance to find them?
- Well, I don't know.
- Flipper?
Flipper!
Flipper must have realized
that time was short or he never
would have rushed off without Bud.
As close as I can figure it,
that's when Flipper realized
that to find that bracelet he needed help.
Evidently, the other
dolphin had seen the lobster
with the bracelet.
But where was he now?
Over head in the air,
Flipper had another
friend who was searching.
- Flipper!
Flipper, come here!
Flipper, come back!
Flipper, darn you.
Don't leave me.
Flipper, come back here!
- I should have gone
straight to the sheriff.
But if you're sure you can
find that dolphin well,
I'll give you just one last chance.
Well, I'll tell you what Mr. Enley,
I'll do what I can.
How's that?
- Well, remember I still
have that court order
and if we have to call in the authorities
I won't hesitate to insist
that we use direct means
to capture that dolphin.
- Yeah, I'm sure you won't.
Everybody ready?
Bud is always telling me
that animals can talk.
Well, maybe he's right.
I certainly can't say he's wrong.
He'll tell you that other animals,
Flipper's friends, were
out trying to help him.
I wasn't there so I'm only guessing
but Flipper must have found
someone who gave him a clue.
- Flipper?
Flipper, it's me.
You want me to follow ya?
Okay, I just gotta find
out where that bracelet is.
- We've been out here for hours Mr. Ricks.
I demand you return.
- If my boy Bud's out there somewhere
we're not going back 'til we find him,
bracelet or no bracelet.
Did
Flipper ask Pelican Pete?
Well if ever two animals
would help each other
it would be Flipper and
that pelican friend of his.
- Hurry Flipper, they're coming.
- Dad, there's Bud.
- Bud, you all right?
- Yeah, I'm all right dad.
I can explain.
- As well you should young man.
- Now, just a minute.
This time, I'm cross
examining the witness.
- Hop aboard Bud.
- Mr. Enley's decided
to go see the sheriff
and I think you know how
much trouble that's gonna be.
- But dad, you can't let
him cut Flipper open.
- Hey dad, look.
Flipper's got something.
- What is it?
A lobster.
- My bracelet!
- See Mrs. Sharp, I told you Flipper
didn't swallow your old bracelet.
- Unbelievable.
- Thank you Flipper.
- Now, who's that?
- Hurry Enley. Come on.
- Okay, okay.
- Hello.
- Hello.
- What's that?
- It's a present for Flipper.
- Will he like it?
- Well, we'll soon find out won't we?
- Where is Flipper?
- Flipper? Flipper?
- There he is.
- Oh.
- See what I've got you Flipper?
The most expensive caviar money can buy.
Now, isn't that a nice thank you present?
- I don't think he likes caviar.
Oops, he does too.
. Oh!
My bracelet!
- Oh no.
- She's done it again.
- "VS gone!
- No it isn't.
Look, Flipper's got it.
- He does have it.
Let me have that Flipper.
- Oh! Thank you again Flipper.
♫ 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, is smarter than he,
♫ And we know Flipper, lives
in a world full of wonder,
♫ Lying there under, under the sea!