Man from Atlantis (1977–1978): Season 1, Episode 1 - Man from Atlantis - full transcript
A water-breathing human, the sole survivor of an underwater civilization called Atlantis, emerges from the ocean and has to learn to deal with the air-breathers on the surface.
Mark. Good to see you again.
Oh, that's good to be solid
ice in a matter of a minute.
What do you want
from me, Mr. Schubert?
I want you studied.
Genetically studied.
'Welcome to your home, Mark.'
I have to report to you.
You must be waiting to
see the water receding
and all that, as promised.
Do something, Brent.
[Theme music]
[Music continues]
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
(Schubert) 'Oh, good show.'
'i just love the
simplicity of it.'
microwaves. Simple microwaves.
The same buzzy things
that make tuna melts
and ten minute takers.
But when do we
turn on the big ones?
We have already turned them
on, trubshawe, you overslept again.
I beg your pardon, sir,
but 4 A.M. is a bit early
even for a man in my position.
No hour is too early for success
especially for a
man in your position.
Yes, sir. It seems
to be working, sir.
Yes, it does.
I feel a celebration coming on.
Might I suggest that
nice 1896 cognac, sir?
Found it, did you?
That'll be just fine.
When will the effect be noticed?
Anytime, trubshawe.
'Anytime.'
[dramatic music]
[Music continues]
Ready for sea base approach.
And not a moment
too soon either.
I'm gonna sleep
for forty eight hours.
Docking light on.
Sea base, may we have our
homing beacon on, please?
(Male #1 on radio)
'Roger, cetacean.'
inaugurating computer control.
[Music continues]
I'm getting a power surge.
Power output, normal, level.
Something is wrong
with these controls.
Check your alignment
with the entry channel.
Camera one, please.
Come on. How many
times have I laid that in
since we started here?
[Music continues]
Right full rudder, now!
[Music continues]
I couldn't have made
a mistake this big.
I couldn't have.
Maybe you did not.
'Tell me what it felt like.'
the controls. Like,
like we were surfing.
'Twenty foot or at least.'
we're home. Sea base ahead.
Commence docking procedure.
Begin entry approach.
Twenty five
degree's, right rudder.
- Pull ahead slow.
- Activate sea gate.
Activating sea gate.
[Music continues]
Positioning gantry
for lock procedure.
[Music continues]
Ready to clamp.
[Music continues]
Gantry locked. All engines down.
Retract gantry.
[Music continues]
Gantry in. Locked.
Walk through, standby.
- 'On yellow, cetacean.'
- 'Closing sea gate.'
[music continues]
(Male #1) 'Extending
walkthrough.'
thank you, sea base.
- Walkthrough in place.
- 'Locked in.'
flotation secured.
You were indicating an
unusually strong undersea current.
Yes, it was cutting
across starboard.
Your course
readings were correct.
You did nothing wrong.
We have no current
like that in this area.
The whole reason we built
the cetacean entry in that part
of the water was because
it was protected there.
Well, something is
affecting navigation.
- Where are you going?
- Collect c.W., Elizabeth.
I may have something to
show you out of the jetty.
(Elizabeth) 'The jetty?'
[wind whooshing]
[Water gushing]
Looking for clams, are ya?
No.
There's something
under those rocks.
You've been at 'em
for twenty minutes now.
I'm with the foundation
for oceanic research.
Yeah? I'm with the shark.
Sharks are not
native to these waters.
[Chuckles] No, that
hot-dog stand over there.
Red and I are
calling it the shark.
First one to a chain.
- A chain?
- Of stands.
This one's gonna make it to our
first-made and then we expand.
Why would one want
a chain of stands here?
One seems to be sufficient.
You know, for somebody
with an ocean institute
you sure got a dry
sense of humor.
You, uh..
You know about water
and tides and stuff, right?
I never saw the water
come up this close before.
'This keeps up we're gonna lose'
all that good
traffic of the beach.
- If there is a beach.
- Oh, yeah. I know.
California is gonna slide
right into the ocean, right?
Brad says that, uh, high
tides are just something
people around here
gotta get used to.
Well, if you ever want
some great tacos..
I prefer plankton.
Yeah, don't we all.
You said, he wanted
us to meet him here?
Mm-hmm. There.
I don't think I like the
look on your face, Mark.
- Look at this.
- What's so special?
This plant grows only
at the water's edge.
So?
I had to reach down
almost half a foot to get it.
The water is rising.
A six inch rise?
Even more.
The current we were caught in.
Now look.
There is a new source of water
coming from... Somewhere.
We better get back. There are
few things I wanna check out.
[Instrumental music]
There's been a
drastic dehydrogenase
in the water level.
A what?
The rise of the
water level is constant
all the way up and
down the coast.
I knew I didn't like the
look I saw on Mark's face.
It's more serious
than I thought, c.W.
Much more serious.
[Violin music]
Good. Very good.
Thank you. Wait for my orders.
Our computers have
picked up the water rise
so any scientific
institution with a computer
must know something's up.
Lovely gentlemen, lovely.
Who's president these days?
- I...
- Never mind.
It's his chief scientific
advisor I'll be talking with.
I'll place the call, sir.
'Mm.'
Beluga, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, sir.
Hmm. Quite fresh.
But a might warm.
Hereafter serve it at
42.5 degrees fahrenheit.
Very good, sir.
Gentlemen, that passage
is marked "Andante con moto."
to play it in my
presence, any other way
but "Andante con moto" Is
to risk hideous consequences.
The white house,
doctor clems, sir.
Hello, Dr. Clems. Ha!
All over the world.
Venice, Italy,
port Arthur, Texas.
New Finland, not to
mention the coast here.
At first I thought
it was a rupture
in the lunar magnetic
pole but now..
Tides and currents do not
act the same way, Elizabeth.
I know and the moon hasn't
made a noise in over six months.
Perhaps sun spots.
Well, we have no evidence
that solar explosions
have any real correlation
with ocean movement.
If the temperature of
the sun has increased
the heat could be
affecting the polar ice caps.
I've been toying with that.
Might be something
we can check out
as soon as the citation
is working again.
You know we're up against
a potential disaster here.
I just got off the phone
with the white house
there's another factor
to put into the pot.
Another factor?
- Schubert.
- Schubert?
'The president's
top scientific advisor'
bill clems just got
a call from him.
Schubert's offering to do
whatever he can to help his end
what he calls
our little problem.
It's not like Mr. Schubert
to make an offer
without expecting
something in return.
Oh. He has a price alright.
Drop the other shoe, c.W.
He said he'd lower the
seas to their normal level
in exchange for Mark Harris.
[Instrumental music]
[Instrumental music]
Mark, anything to report?
I have been trying
to follow the current.
But it keeps disappearing.
I cannot find the core.
Scanners are reporting
exactly what's on these maps.
No fault activity.
No oceanic swells.
No mantle movement.
And no seismic slippage.
And now Mark says
the current is gone.
He must have some
idea where it was going.
Well, if Mark can't follow it
then it's not strong
enough to trace.
- 'Elizabeth'.
- Right here, Mark.
What have you got?
(Mark) 'Something unusual.'
I have never seen things like
these in these waters before.
- 'Things like what?'
- Plankton.
Water is full of it.
All around me.
Well, there's nothing
unusual about that.
You know how much
plankton there is in these parts.
This is different.
You must look at it.
I think it must have come
from the source of the flooding.
I will bring you
in a test sample.
(Elizabeth) 'Good.'
[music continues]
Cross check these
with the catalog.
Wonderful.
Elizabeth, there
is a difference.
These plankton are
much larger than normal.
Larger? Wait a minute.
The insufficient data.
That was only for
existing plankton. Right?
- Right?
- Sure, but...
Millions of years ago
plankton was much bigger.
'Punch that back up again.'
let's see if we
can coordinate that
with the sea growth
of the pliocene period.
That's it.
Fantastic.
Now, let's see if
we can pin point
the origin of that species.
The chukchi sea
is north of Alaska.
It's nothing but ice.
It was an open ocean
during the pliocene period.
And if I'm not mistaken,
position of that ocean
'hasn't changed since then.'
you're saying
schubert's melting the ice
of the chukchi sea.
It has to be.
Fossil plankton of this kind
only comes from there.
Then we must go there.
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
(Schubert) 'Yes, due for panic.'
flooded cities, mass hysteria
running people, traffic jams.
Brent..
All I'm getting from you
is slippage and mud slides.
As I've told you before
we're not melting a popsicle.
'These things take time.'
I want to see the
tops of high rises
peekabooing out of the waves.
Make the phase
shifters stronger.
Here are the
coordinates I worked up.
A time delay correction of 627?
That strong?
Anything alive within a
mile of the phase shifter will..
Well, will no longer be alive.
It's a frozen over sea.
What could possibly be
out there? What's that?
- What?
- That?
Someone in the perimeter
of the phase shifter.
- An animal?
- Too big.
I'll have it pin pointed
for you in a minute.
It's a vessel of
some kind. I think...
Cause, it's the citation.
Who else could've
found the source.
Ooh, they are good, aren't they?
It's a pity we're gonna
have to step on them.
[Dramatic music]
[Music continues]
Mark, how do you feel?
The temperature is not causing
me any problem, Elizabeth.
But I still do not see anything.
The device could be
anywhere around here.
What would it look like?
I don't know.
Schubert could be
using one of a hundred
different things
to melt the ice.
Whatever it is, can't
be too healthy for us.
Even at this distance.
Elizabeth, are you
picking that up?
Picking up what?
That sound, a sort of hum.
I don't hear anything.
Stop all engines.
All engines stopped.
We hear it now, Mark.
Can you trace it?
Maybe I can isolate
it on the audio coner.
It's microwaves.
That's what schubert's
been using to melt the ice.
Mark, there has to be
a microwave
transmitter in the vicinity.
Will I find it if I
follow the sound?
Let me warn you, those
rays could burn you alive
without you even feeling them.
[Music continues]
Elizabeth, can
you still hear me?
With difficulty but we can
see you on the monitor.
Rotate camera eight.
Good old schubert.
Trust him to have the
latest scientific equipment.
- What is it?
- 'A phase shifter.'
'we used to experiment
with models like it'
'in front of ice breaks.'
but I've never
seen one that large.
Elizabeth, I'm going
in for a closer look.
(Elizabeth) 'Mark,
wait a minute.'
we'll send out a
di-electric conducer.
You're gonna need
protection from that radiation.
Alan, you reading?
Reading.
[Instrumental music]
Shuttle activated.
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
[Music continues]
Mark, you're close
enough. Get back.
He can't hear you
through all that interference.
[Music continues]
[Beeping]
(Elizabeth) 'The
conducer's burned out.'
get out, Mark. Get out.
Request permission
to start engines.
Not yet.
'If we don't pick him up'
'he'll stand there and fry. '
He's gonna try something else.
What can he do?
Throw rocks at it?
[Music continues]
I think I know what he's up to.
[Music continues]
He's using his sonar to
block out the microwaves.
He's no opera singer and
that thing's no wine glass.
Elizabeth, it is done.
Oh, that was incredible.
We'll pick you up.
Elizabeth, I hear
something at the surface.
I'm going up to investigate.
All ahead, slow.
[Creaking]
Something's wrong.
- Bring power up.
- 9-8, bypass.
We're gonna burn the
engines out at this rate.
Turn them off!
Feels like some giant
hand's holding us back.
Something's holding us back.
Look at the monitor.
'Is something wrong
with our cameras?'
ice!
'Mark blew up the phase shifter'
and now the ocean's
freezing back up again.
Circuits open.
Mark?
(Mark) 'Yes, Elizabeth.'
the water's freezing up again
- we're coming to get you.
- No.
If you move in this direction
you'll be frozen in the ice.
But we can't just
leave you there.
Dive! Full power!
Mark!
The water will freeze
from the top down.
It is your only chance.
But, what about you?
(Mark) 'Just dive, quickly.'
Full power, dive.
Aye-aye.
[Creaking]
[Music continues]
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
Mark!
Mark-Mark, good
to see you again.
(Schubert) That
wouldn't be too bright.
It's toasty and cozy up in here
and all that's gonna be solid
ice in a matter of minutes.
I fly away and you become
a life-size snowman.
[Laughing]
'A frozen fish-stick in
yellow trunks. Come on.'
[laughing]
'I got me a water
breathing man.'
[laughing]
(Schubert) 'That's
it. Come on in, boy.'
[laughing]
Home.
The repository of love
where supporting
and supported friends
and dearest relatives
mingle into bliss.
Welcome to your home, Mark.
'I apologize for
the simplicity.'
'it's the best I could
do in short notice.'
trubshawe suggested
Louis xiv, he-he-he
which I, I knew
you'd find amusing.
You're concerned
about your friends.
I do so admire that in you.
They're quite safe.
It was clever of them to dive
below the ice when they did.
Any other maneuver
would have meant disaster.
Try it.
What do you want
from me, Mr. Schubert?
I want you studied.
Genetically studied.
I can have your DNA
structure duplicated.
Mark, imagine.
A world of superior
beings who can live in water
as well as air.
That's what I can
give to mankind.
And a reasonable profit
for you, Mr. Schubert?
I suppose, I don't know.
My people handle
monetary matters.
Now let's not stand on ceremony.
Try it.
- Will he do it?
- He'll have to.
(Mark) 'Why will I
have to, Mr. Schubert?'
beca...
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Yeah.
Isn't that amazing!
It really would have been easier
for you to have kidnapped me.
Kidnap?
I'm no gangster.
It's difficult enough conducting
an intricate experiment
without half the army
knocking at the door. No, no!
My acquisition of you must
be government approved
which is why I caused
that little meltdown.
First you gotta
get their attention.
Your meltdown is
over, Mr. Schubert.
I have destroyed your microwave.
Hm. Quite completely.
How did you ever
find it's location?
Of course.
A magician never
reveals his secrets.
I'm not a prisoner here?
Heavens! Whatever put
that thought in your head?
If you stay here,
you do it voluntarily.
With no threat to keep me here?
Well..
You really think I have
only one phase shifter?
I'm amazed by such naivety
in a man of your intelligence.
- There are more?
- Plenty of 'em.
All over this planet.
Enough to inundate the world
before you can find 'em
much less immobilize 'em.
- Trubshawe.
- Yes, sir.
Take Mr. Harris
wherever he wants to go.
Very good, sir.
[Instrumental music]
(Schubert) 'You're
free to leave.'
'sooner or later you'll return.'
this way, sir.
(Schubert) 'Go on. You're
dripping on the carpet.'
[instrumental music]
Alright, gentlemen.
Something festive I think.
Mm, of course.
The schubert quintet in c major.
And..
[Violin music]
Any word?
Got reports from the
Navy, from the coast guard.
I even talked the
Russians into letting their
trawlers take a
look. There's nothing.
[Phone ringing]
C.w.
No, not right now.
We'll be in to
look at those later.
That was Alan. He
wants us to take a look
at the flooding reports,
they've started coming in again.
The ocean level's rising
twice as fast as it was before
and nobody knows the source.
Well, what is so
funny about that?
- Mark.
- What?
Mark, what happened to you?
Schubert picked
me up in a helicopter.
But you escaped.
He let me go.
Just like that?
He wants me to
return voluntarily.
Of course, it's legal that way.
Why does he want
you? Did he say?
He wants to study me.
How I breathe underwater.
[Phone ringing]
C.w.
Alright, we'll be right out.
- The floodings?
- Worse and worse.
We better go look.
Dispatch said the
rise in oceanic level
was increasing geometrically.
And schubert does
have other phase shifters.
Computer estimates that
at the rate the water's rising
our coastal cities will
be totally submerged
within a matter of days.
Then there's only
one thing left to do.
I must return to Mr. Schubert.
- No!
- What?
Allow to cut you
up like a lab frog?
He said nothing of dissection.
If it were not for me the
world would not be in this crisis.
Mark, come outside.
I wanna talk with...
Please.
You're from another world, Mark
with different strengths
and different weaknesses.
I know about being
different, Elizabeth.
Well, I don't know.
I think you're catching up fast.
Yes. But can I catch up on
being a child in a playground
or having a mother and father?
Or learning things
that cannot be taught.
There are emotions
I have never felt.
(Elizabeth) 'Schubert's
doing this, not you.'
'there's no reason
for you to feel guilty.'
guilty?
You know when
we feel responsible
for something even
though it's not our own fault.
But I am responsible.
I can stop it.
We can find another way.
We stopped it once, didn't we?
(Female #1) 'Come on.'
'Round on the
other side, come on.'
'it will soon be
leaking through.'
hurry, please.
Hi. Thanks.
[Panting]
Oh, look at that water.
And these sandbags
aren't gonna keep it out
of the restaurant for...
More than 12 hours.
- Maybe less.
- Less.
Hey, um, aren't you
from that foundation
that-that ocean institute?
You know what's
causin' all this?
I don't know, we're tryin'
to come up with something.
Well, the coast
guard doesn't know.
Or they say they don't know.
And the department of
the Navy doesn't know
and the department
of beaches and..
[Panting]
Hey, I'm sorry. It's..
Just that I.. I got all our
savings in this place, you know.
'$1200 and..'
I know how you must feel.
I don't know what to say.
There is nothing
more anyone can say.
Mark?
[Sighing]
[Instrumental music]
I'm begging your pardon, sir.
Assassin!
Whatever it is, you
handle it yourself.
I'm busy.
I think you'd prefer to
handle this yourself, sir.
I am here of my own
free will, Mr. Schubert.
Gentlemen, that
is music to my ears.
A flood of worldwide proportions
now definitely receding.
Stricken areas are now beginning
the work of clean
up, rebuilding.
'And all over the world
reports are coming in'
'of the, ebbing of what has
been called "The second flood."'
in the midst of
disaster as always
there are things which
seem to bring people together.
Those who have little
sharing with those who lost all.
What do you think?
You're not stopping
the phase shifters.
Lowering the
level of the oceans.
[Laughing]
Well, if it fooled you, it'll
surely fool Mark Harris.
You're running a
tape you had made.
Right.
In return for those pictures
you'll discover
what he's made of.
I hope they convince him.
See that they do.
Set up your
preliminary experiments.
I'll go fetch our
reluctant Guinea pig.
[Instrumental music]
(Schubert) 'Mark!'
(Mark) 'Hello, Mr. Schubert.'
hello!
I've some reports that
you must be waiting to see.
The water receding
and all that, as promised.
After which we can begin
our work with Dr. Brent, yes?
I'm looking forward
to seeing them.
[Instrumental music]
From all over the world
reports are coming in
of the ebbing of what has
been called "The second flood."
'in the midst of
disaster as always'
'there are things which
seem to bring people together.
'Those who have little
sharing with those who lost all.'
(Elizabeth) 'I
can't understand it.'
'the water should have
stopped rising by now.'
schubert's double
crossed us. Everybody.
Not only aren't
the waters receding
but the reports indicate
the ocean level is rising
and faster than before.
But schubert's got what
he wants now, Mark.
I don't think that schubert
has any intension of stopping it.
(Brent) 'The dual polarization
receiver is giving us'
'an optic coverage
of minus .625.'
(schubert) '"dual polarization
receiver. Optic coverage."'
'today's scientific jargon is
tomorrow's hieroglyphics.'
'you know that, Brent?'
(Brent) 'Probably.'
'i think he's had enough.'
we've been at it
over four hours.
He had three breaks.
But a polarized
receiver at that range...
It's inhuman.
Switch to that DNA breakdown
test you were tellin' me about.
The chemo cytoplasmic scan. Yes.
Chemo cyto.. Love it.
No data. What's goin' on?
He's weakening. We
must stop for a while.
Brent informs me
that you're weakening.
Is that true?
- No.
- No.
There was something
wrong with those pictures.
- What pictures?
- On the monitor.
The floods receding,
they're not correct.
Really, Mr. Harris?
Are you insinuating...
There was nothing
wrong with those pictures.
You must have gone to
a considerable expense
to prepare them.
'But if you had remained
true to your word'
the best you could have
done was to stop the melting.
So?
That's not like pulling the plug
on a bath-tub, Mr. Schubert.
The high waters must remain
until they are evaporated.
Yeah..
[Sighing]
I told you. He was bright.
You are still
flooding everything.
Mm-hmm.
I plan to let the waters
rise for quite a while yet.
All those extra phase
shifters I told you about
they're under the
ice of Antarctica.
Everything gets melted
but the very top layer.
That is dishonorable.
Is it?
We were up to the
chemo cytoplasmic scan.
Mr. Schubert, you are
betraying millions of people.
I'll make it up to 'em.
You have lied to me.
Tricked me in to coming here
'and now I am held
against my will.'
now, don't fidget. We're comin'
up to important measurements.
[Dramatic music]
- Do something, brant.
- Me?
[Electricity crackling]
Brent, I order you
to do something.
Yes, sir. What?
Something.
[Grunting]
Where are the
controls, Mr. Schubert?
Mark, control yourself.
This is no way to behave
to a man who's
been a father to you.
- Where are they?
- I've taken you into my home.
I've been your friend. Mark,
I've been a father to you.
(Schubert) You talk to him.
[Instrumental music]
Gentlemen, I can't
tell you what a bore
this person has become.
Subdue him.
[Music continues]
'Get up! Tackle him.'
[music continues]
'He's headed for his room.
There's no way out of there.'
'he's trapped!'
'move!'
don't let him get
into the water.
'Everybody into the pool.'
[Coughing]
[Panting]
'Cornered like a carp!'
ha!
Alright, now you got
him where you want him.
Come on!
He can't hold out much longer.
'Don't let him do that to you.'
you big sissy, hit him.
That's right, get him.
[Grunting]
Oh!
- Ah!
- Oh!
[Grunting]
(Schubert) 'Where
are you going?'
'what are you doing?'
'cowards! Come back and fight!'
'afraid of a little
water? You won't melt.'
oh, it didn't hurt that much.
You're gonna pay for that
stuff. That's just one man...
[mumbling]
Where are the main
controls, Mr. Schubert?
The co-axial control
is permanently set.
Even I can't turn it off.
Where?
Uh.. Yeah.
I told you it's impervious
to human tampering.
[Whirring]
(Schubert) 'What
are you doing, Mark?'
don't do that!
'Mark, don't. I can
make you rich.'
'Mark.. Mark, listen to me.'
I can make you rich.
Bring me some money!
'You're being very
childish about this.'
not.. Not the polarization..
Mark, don't do it!
[Instrumental music]
'Think this finishes me?'
I'm a survivor.
[Music continues]
You could have had a future!
[Music continues]
Hm! Don't come
to me for a Grant.
That's all I can say.
[Music continues]
[Sighing]
Hey!
The whole foundation, right?
We were telling c.W
about your restaurant.
It's a great lookin' place.
Food as good as the promotion?
Oh! You like chili dogs?
Do I like chili dogs?
You are serving frozen dogs?
I-I did not think...
Oh, he's beautiful.
Uh, chili dog for you
then, huh? And you?
And we don't any plankton today.
You sorta have to call
ahead for that kinda stuff.
Seaweed would be fine.
Seaweed.
As a matter of fact, in the
clam broth with the steamers.
I told you this would be nice.
[Instrumental music]
[Theme music]
[Music continues]
Oh, that's good to be solid
ice in a matter of a minute.
What do you want
from me, Mr. Schubert?
I want you studied.
Genetically studied.
'Welcome to your home, Mark.'
I have to report to you.
You must be waiting to
see the water receding
and all that, as promised.
Do something, Brent.
[Theme music]
[Music continues]
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
(Schubert) 'Oh, good show.'
'i just love the
simplicity of it.'
microwaves. Simple microwaves.
The same buzzy things
that make tuna melts
and ten minute takers.
But when do we
turn on the big ones?
We have already turned them
on, trubshawe, you overslept again.
I beg your pardon, sir,
but 4 A.M. is a bit early
even for a man in my position.
No hour is too early for success
especially for a
man in your position.
Yes, sir. It seems
to be working, sir.
Yes, it does.
I feel a celebration coming on.
Might I suggest that
nice 1896 cognac, sir?
Found it, did you?
That'll be just fine.
When will the effect be noticed?
Anytime, trubshawe.
'Anytime.'
[dramatic music]
[Music continues]
Ready for sea base approach.
And not a moment
too soon either.
I'm gonna sleep
for forty eight hours.
Docking light on.
Sea base, may we have our
homing beacon on, please?
(Male #1 on radio)
'Roger, cetacean.'
inaugurating computer control.
[Music continues]
I'm getting a power surge.
Power output, normal, level.
Something is wrong
with these controls.
Check your alignment
with the entry channel.
Camera one, please.
Come on. How many
times have I laid that in
since we started here?
[Music continues]
Right full rudder, now!
[Music continues]
I couldn't have made
a mistake this big.
I couldn't have.
Maybe you did not.
'Tell me what it felt like.'
the controls. Like,
like we were surfing.
'Twenty foot or at least.'
we're home. Sea base ahead.
Commence docking procedure.
Begin entry approach.
Twenty five
degree's, right rudder.
- Pull ahead slow.
- Activate sea gate.
Activating sea gate.
[Music continues]
Positioning gantry
for lock procedure.
[Music continues]
Ready to clamp.
[Music continues]
Gantry locked. All engines down.
Retract gantry.
[Music continues]
Gantry in. Locked.
Walk through, standby.
- 'On yellow, cetacean.'
- 'Closing sea gate.'
[music continues]
(Male #1) 'Extending
walkthrough.'
thank you, sea base.
- Walkthrough in place.
- 'Locked in.'
flotation secured.
You were indicating an
unusually strong undersea current.
Yes, it was cutting
across starboard.
Your course
readings were correct.
You did nothing wrong.
We have no current
like that in this area.
The whole reason we built
the cetacean entry in that part
of the water was because
it was protected there.
Well, something is
affecting navigation.
- Where are you going?
- Collect c.W., Elizabeth.
I may have something to
show you out of the jetty.
(Elizabeth) 'The jetty?'
[wind whooshing]
[Water gushing]
Looking for clams, are ya?
No.
There's something
under those rocks.
You've been at 'em
for twenty minutes now.
I'm with the foundation
for oceanic research.
Yeah? I'm with the shark.
Sharks are not
native to these waters.
[Chuckles] No, that
hot-dog stand over there.
Red and I are
calling it the shark.
First one to a chain.
- A chain?
- Of stands.
This one's gonna make it to our
first-made and then we expand.
Why would one want
a chain of stands here?
One seems to be sufficient.
You know, for somebody
with an ocean institute
you sure got a dry
sense of humor.
You, uh..
You know about water
and tides and stuff, right?
I never saw the water
come up this close before.
'This keeps up we're gonna lose'
all that good
traffic of the beach.
- If there is a beach.
- Oh, yeah. I know.
California is gonna slide
right into the ocean, right?
Brad says that, uh, high
tides are just something
people around here
gotta get used to.
Well, if you ever want
some great tacos..
I prefer plankton.
Yeah, don't we all.
You said, he wanted
us to meet him here?
Mm-hmm. There.
I don't think I like the
look on your face, Mark.
- Look at this.
- What's so special?
This plant grows only
at the water's edge.
So?
I had to reach down
almost half a foot to get it.
The water is rising.
A six inch rise?
Even more.
The current we were caught in.
Now look.
There is a new source of water
coming from... Somewhere.
We better get back. There are
few things I wanna check out.
[Instrumental music]
There's been a
drastic dehydrogenase
in the water level.
A what?
The rise of the
water level is constant
all the way up and
down the coast.
I knew I didn't like the
look I saw on Mark's face.
It's more serious
than I thought, c.W.
Much more serious.
[Violin music]
Good. Very good.
Thank you. Wait for my orders.
Our computers have
picked up the water rise
so any scientific
institution with a computer
must know something's up.
Lovely gentlemen, lovely.
Who's president these days?
- I...
- Never mind.
It's his chief scientific
advisor I'll be talking with.
I'll place the call, sir.
'Mm.'
Beluga, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, sir.
Hmm. Quite fresh.
But a might warm.
Hereafter serve it at
42.5 degrees fahrenheit.
Very good, sir.
Gentlemen, that passage
is marked "Andante con moto."
to play it in my
presence, any other way
but "Andante con moto" Is
to risk hideous consequences.
The white house,
doctor clems, sir.
Hello, Dr. Clems. Ha!
All over the world.
Venice, Italy,
port Arthur, Texas.
New Finland, not to
mention the coast here.
At first I thought
it was a rupture
in the lunar magnetic
pole but now..
Tides and currents do not
act the same way, Elizabeth.
I know and the moon hasn't
made a noise in over six months.
Perhaps sun spots.
Well, we have no evidence
that solar explosions
have any real correlation
with ocean movement.
If the temperature of
the sun has increased
the heat could be
affecting the polar ice caps.
I've been toying with that.
Might be something
we can check out
as soon as the citation
is working again.
You know we're up against
a potential disaster here.
I just got off the phone
with the white house
there's another factor
to put into the pot.
Another factor?
- Schubert.
- Schubert?
'The president's
top scientific advisor'
bill clems just got
a call from him.
Schubert's offering to do
whatever he can to help his end
what he calls
our little problem.
It's not like Mr. Schubert
to make an offer
without expecting
something in return.
Oh. He has a price alright.
Drop the other shoe, c.W.
He said he'd lower the
seas to their normal level
in exchange for Mark Harris.
[Instrumental music]
[Instrumental music]
Mark, anything to report?
I have been trying
to follow the current.
But it keeps disappearing.
I cannot find the core.
Scanners are reporting
exactly what's on these maps.
No fault activity.
No oceanic swells.
No mantle movement.
And no seismic slippage.
And now Mark says
the current is gone.
He must have some
idea where it was going.
Well, if Mark can't follow it
then it's not strong
enough to trace.
- 'Elizabeth'.
- Right here, Mark.
What have you got?
(Mark) 'Something unusual.'
I have never seen things like
these in these waters before.
- 'Things like what?'
- Plankton.
Water is full of it.
All around me.
Well, there's nothing
unusual about that.
You know how much
plankton there is in these parts.
This is different.
You must look at it.
I think it must have come
from the source of the flooding.
I will bring you
in a test sample.
(Elizabeth) 'Good.'
[music continues]
Cross check these
with the catalog.
Wonderful.
Elizabeth, there
is a difference.
These plankton are
much larger than normal.
Larger? Wait a minute.
The insufficient data.
That was only for
existing plankton. Right?
- Right?
- Sure, but...
Millions of years ago
plankton was much bigger.
'Punch that back up again.'
let's see if we
can coordinate that
with the sea growth
of the pliocene period.
That's it.
Fantastic.
Now, let's see if
we can pin point
the origin of that species.
The chukchi sea
is north of Alaska.
It's nothing but ice.
It was an open ocean
during the pliocene period.
And if I'm not mistaken,
position of that ocean
'hasn't changed since then.'
you're saying
schubert's melting the ice
of the chukchi sea.
It has to be.
Fossil plankton of this kind
only comes from there.
Then we must go there.
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
(Schubert) 'Yes, due for panic.'
flooded cities, mass hysteria
running people, traffic jams.
Brent..
All I'm getting from you
is slippage and mud slides.
As I've told you before
we're not melting a popsicle.
'These things take time.'
I want to see the
tops of high rises
peekabooing out of the waves.
Make the phase
shifters stronger.
Here are the
coordinates I worked up.
A time delay correction of 627?
That strong?
Anything alive within a
mile of the phase shifter will..
Well, will no longer be alive.
It's a frozen over sea.
What could possibly be
out there? What's that?
- What?
- That?
Someone in the perimeter
of the phase shifter.
- An animal?
- Too big.
I'll have it pin pointed
for you in a minute.
It's a vessel of
some kind. I think...
Cause, it's the citation.
Who else could've
found the source.
Ooh, they are good, aren't they?
It's a pity we're gonna
have to step on them.
[Dramatic music]
[Music continues]
Mark, how do you feel?
The temperature is not causing
me any problem, Elizabeth.
But I still do not see anything.
The device could be
anywhere around here.
What would it look like?
I don't know.
Schubert could be
using one of a hundred
different things
to melt the ice.
Whatever it is, can't
be too healthy for us.
Even at this distance.
Elizabeth, are you
picking that up?
Picking up what?
That sound, a sort of hum.
I don't hear anything.
Stop all engines.
All engines stopped.
We hear it now, Mark.
Can you trace it?
Maybe I can isolate
it on the audio coner.
It's microwaves.
That's what schubert's
been using to melt the ice.
Mark, there has to be
a microwave
transmitter in the vicinity.
Will I find it if I
follow the sound?
Let me warn you, those
rays could burn you alive
without you even feeling them.
[Music continues]
Elizabeth, can
you still hear me?
With difficulty but we can
see you on the monitor.
Rotate camera eight.
Good old schubert.
Trust him to have the
latest scientific equipment.
- What is it?
- 'A phase shifter.'
'we used to experiment
with models like it'
'in front of ice breaks.'
but I've never
seen one that large.
Elizabeth, I'm going
in for a closer look.
(Elizabeth) 'Mark,
wait a minute.'
we'll send out a
di-electric conducer.
You're gonna need
protection from that radiation.
Alan, you reading?
Reading.
[Instrumental music]
Shuttle activated.
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
[Music continues]
Mark, you're close
enough. Get back.
He can't hear you
through all that interference.
[Music continues]
[Beeping]
(Elizabeth) 'The
conducer's burned out.'
get out, Mark. Get out.
Request permission
to start engines.
Not yet.
'If we don't pick him up'
'he'll stand there and fry. '
He's gonna try something else.
What can he do?
Throw rocks at it?
[Music continues]
I think I know what he's up to.
[Music continues]
He's using his sonar to
block out the microwaves.
He's no opera singer and
that thing's no wine glass.
Elizabeth, it is done.
Oh, that was incredible.
We'll pick you up.
Elizabeth, I hear
something at the surface.
I'm going up to investigate.
All ahead, slow.
[Creaking]
Something's wrong.
- Bring power up.
- 9-8, bypass.
We're gonna burn the
engines out at this rate.
Turn them off!
Feels like some giant
hand's holding us back.
Something's holding us back.
Look at the monitor.
'Is something wrong
with our cameras?'
ice!
'Mark blew up the phase shifter'
and now the ocean's
freezing back up again.
Circuits open.
Mark?
(Mark) 'Yes, Elizabeth.'
the water's freezing up again
- we're coming to get you.
- No.
If you move in this direction
you'll be frozen in the ice.
But we can't just
leave you there.
Dive! Full power!
Mark!
The water will freeze
from the top down.
It is your only chance.
But, what about you?
(Mark) 'Just dive, quickly.'
Full power, dive.
Aye-aye.
[Creaking]
[Music continues]
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
Mark!
Mark-Mark, good
to see you again.
(Schubert) That
wouldn't be too bright.
It's toasty and cozy up in here
and all that's gonna be solid
ice in a matter of minutes.
I fly away and you become
a life-size snowman.
[Laughing]
'A frozen fish-stick in
yellow trunks. Come on.'
[laughing]
'I got me a water
breathing man.'
[laughing]
(Schubert) 'That's
it. Come on in, boy.'
[laughing]
Home.
The repository of love
where supporting
and supported friends
and dearest relatives
mingle into bliss.
Welcome to your home, Mark.
'I apologize for
the simplicity.'
'it's the best I could
do in short notice.'
trubshawe suggested
Louis xiv, he-he-he
which I, I knew
you'd find amusing.
You're concerned
about your friends.
I do so admire that in you.
They're quite safe.
It was clever of them to dive
below the ice when they did.
Any other maneuver
would have meant disaster.
Try it.
What do you want
from me, Mr. Schubert?
I want you studied.
Genetically studied.
I can have your DNA
structure duplicated.
Mark, imagine.
A world of superior
beings who can live in water
as well as air.
That's what I can
give to mankind.
And a reasonable profit
for you, Mr. Schubert?
I suppose, I don't know.
My people handle
monetary matters.
Now let's not stand on ceremony.
Try it.
- Will he do it?
- He'll have to.
(Mark) 'Why will I
have to, Mr. Schubert?'
beca...
Can you hear me?
Can you hear me?
Yeah.
Isn't that amazing!
It really would have been easier
for you to have kidnapped me.
Kidnap?
I'm no gangster.
It's difficult enough conducting
an intricate experiment
without half the army
knocking at the door. No, no!
My acquisition of you must
be government approved
which is why I caused
that little meltdown.
First you gotta
get their attention.
Your meltdown is
over, Mr. Schubert.
I have destroyed your microwave.
Hm. Quite completely.
How did you ever
find it's location?
Of course.
A magician never
reveals his secrets.
I'm not a prisoner here?
Heavens! Whatever put
that thought in your head?
If you stay here,
you do it voluntarily.
With no threat to keep me here?
Well..
You really think I have
only one phase shifter?
I'm amazed by such naivety
in a man of your intelligence.
- There are more?
- Plenty of 'em.
All over this planet.
Enough to inundate the world
before you can find 'em
much less immobilize 'em.
- Trubshawe.
- Yes, sir.
Take Mr. Harris
wherever he wants to go.
Very good, sir.
[Instrumental music]
(Schubert) 'You're
free to leave.'
'sooner or later you'll return.'
this way, sir.
(Schubert) 'Go on. You're
dripping on the carpet.'
[instrumental music]
Alright, gentlemen.
Something festive I think.
Mm, of course.
The schubert quintet in c major.
And..
[Violin music]
Any word?
Got reports from the
Navy, from the coast guard.
I even talked the
Russians into letting their
trawlers take a
look. There's nothing.
[Phone ringing]
C.w.
No, not right now.
We'll be in to
look at those later.
That was Alan. He
wants us to take a look
at the flooding reports,
they've started coming in again.
The ocean level's rising
twice as fast as it was before
and nobody knows the source.
Well, what is so
funny about that?
- Mark.
- What?
Mark, what happened to you?
Schubert picked
me up in a helicopter.
But you escaped.
He let me go.
Just like that?
He wants me to
return voluntarily.
Of course, it's legal that way.
Why does he want
you? Did he say?
He wants to study me.
How I breathe underwater.
[Phone ringing]
C.w.
Alright, we'll be right out.
- The floodings?
- Worse and worse.
We better go look.
Dispatch said the
rise in oceanic level
was increasing geometrically.
And schubert does
have other phase shifters.
Computer estimates that
at the rate the water's rising
our coastal cities will
be totally submerged
within a matter of days.
Then there's only
one thing left to do.
I must return to Mr. Schubert.
- No!
- What?
Allow to cut you
up like a lab frog?
He said nothing of dissection.
If it were not for me the
world would not be in this crisis.
Mark, come outside.
I wanna talk with...
Please.
You're from another world, Mark
with different strengths
and different weaknesses.
I know about being
different, Elizabeth.
Well, I don't know.
I think you're catching up fast.
Yes. But can I catch up on
being a child in a playground
or having a mother and father?
Or learning things
that cannot be taught.
There are emotions
I have never felt.
(Elizabeth) 'Schubert's
doing this, not you.'
'there's no reason
for you to feel guilty.'
guilty?
You know when
we feel responsible
for something even
though it's not our own fault.
But I am responsible.
I can stop it.
We can find another way.
We stopped it once, didn't we?
(Female #1) 'Come on.'
'Round on the
other side, come on.'
'it will soon be
leaking through.'
hurry, please.
Hi. Thanks.
[Panting]
Oh, look at that water.
And these sandbags
aren't gonna keep it out
of the restaurant for...
More than 12 hours.
- Maybe less.
- Less.
Hey, um, aren't you
from that foundation
that-that ocean institute?
You know what's
causin' all this?
I don't know, we're tryin'
to come up with something.
Well, the coast
guard doesn't know.
Or they say they don't know.
And the department of
the Navy doesn't know
and the department
of beaches and..
[Panting]
Hey, I'm sorry. It's..
Just that I.. I got all our
savings in this place, you know.
'$1200 and..'
I know how you must feel.
I don't know what to say.
There is nothing
more anyone can say.
Mark?
[Sighing]
[Instrumental music]
I'm begging your pardon, sir.
Assassin!
Whatever it is, you
handle it yourself.
I'm busy.
I think you'd prefer to
handle this yourself, sir.
I am here of my own
free will, Mr. Schubert.
Gentlemen, that
is music to my ears.
A flood of worldwide proportions
now definitely receding.
Stricken areas are now beginning
the work of clean
up, rebuilding.
'And all over the world
reports are coming in'
'of the, ebbing of what has
been called "The second flood."'
in the midst of
disaster as always
there are things which
seem to bring people together.
Those who have little
sharing with those who lost all.
What do you think?
You're not stopping
the phase shifters.
Lowering the
level of the oceans.
[Laughing]
Well, if it fooled you, it'll
surely fool Mark Harris.
You're running a
tape you had made.
Right.
In return for those pictures
you'll discover
what he's made of.
I hope they convince him.
See that they do.
Set up your
preliminary experiments.
I'll go fetch our
reluctant Guinea pig.
[Instrumental music]
(Schubert) 'Mark!'
(Mark) 'Hello, Mr. Schubert.'
hello!
I've some reports that
you must be waiting to see.
The water receding
and all that, as promised.
After which we can begin
our work with Dr. Brent, yes?
I'm looking forward
to seeing them.
[Instrumental music]
From all over the world
reports are coming in
of the ebbing of what has
been called "The second flood."
'in the midst of
disaster as always'
'there are things which
seem to bring people together.
'Those who have little
sharing with those who lost all.'
(Elizabeth) 'I
can't understand it.'
'the water should have
stopped rising by now.'
schubert's double
crossed us. Everybody.
Not only aren't
the waters receding
but the reports indicate
the ocean level is rising
and faster than before.
But schubert's got what
he wants now, Mark.
I don't think that schubert
has any intension of stopping it.
(Brent) 'The dual polarization
receiver is giving us'
'an optic coverage
of minus .625.'
(schubert) '"dual polarization
receiver. Optic coverage."'
'today's scientific jargon is
tomorrow's hieroglyphics.'
'you know that, Brent?'
(Brent) 'Probably.'
'i think he's had enough.'
we've been at it
over four hours.
He had three breaks.
But a polarized
receiver at that range...
It's inhuman.
Switch to that DNA breakdown
test you were tellin' me about.
The chemo cytoplasmic scan. Yes.
Chemo cyto.. Love it.
No data. What's goin' on?
He's weakening. We
must stop for a while.
Brent informs me
that you're weakening.
Is that true?
- No.
- No.
There was something
wrong with those pictures.
- What pictures?
- On the monitor.
The floods receding,
they're not correct.
Really, Mr. Harris?
Are you insinuating...
There was nothing
wrong with those pictures.
You must have gone to
a considerable expense
to prepare them.
'But if you had remained
true to your word'
the best you could have
done was to stop the melting.
So?
That's not like pulling the plug
on a bath-tub, Mr. Schubert.
The high waters must remain
until they are evaporated.
Yeah..
[Sighing]
I told you. He was bright.
You are still
flooding everything.
Mm-hmm.
I plan to let the waters
rise for quite a while yet.
All those extra phase
shifters I told you about
they're under the
ice of Antarctica.
Everything gets melted
but the very top layer.
That is dishonorable.
Is it?
We were up to the
chemo cytoplasmic scan.
Mr. Schubert, you are
betraying millions of people.
I'll make it up to 'em.
You have lied to me.
Tricked me in to coming here
'and now I am held
against my will.'
now, don't fidget. We're comin'
up to important measurements.
[Dramatic music]
- Do something, brant.
- Me?
[Electricity crackling]
Brent, I order you
to do something.
Yes, sir. What?
Something.
[Grunting]
Where are the
controls, Mr. Schubert?
Mark, control yourself.
This is no way to behave
to a man who's
been a father to you.
- Where are they?
- I've taken you into my home.
I've been your friend. Mark,
I've been a father to you.
(Schubert) You talk to him.
[Instrumental music]
Gentlemen, I can't
tell you what a bore
this person has become.
Subdue him.
[Music continues]
'Get up! Tackle him.'
[music continues]
'He's headed for his room.
There's no way out of there.'
'he's trapped!'
'move!'
don't let him get
into the water.
'Everybody into the pool.'
[Coughing]
[Panting]
'Cornered like a carp!'
ha!
Alright, now you got
him where you want him.
Come on!
He can't hold out much longer.
'Don't let him do that to you.'
you big sissy, hit him.
That's right, get him.
[Grunting]
Oh!
- Ah!
- Oh!
[Grunting]
(Schubert) 'Where
are you going?'
'what are you doing?'
'cowards! Come back and fight!'
'afraid of a little
water? You won't melt.'
oh, it didn't hurt that much.
You're gonna pay for that
stuff. That's just one man...
[mumbling]
Where are the main
controls, Mr. Schubert?
The co-axial control
is permanently set.
Even I can't turn it off.
Where?
Uh.. Yeah.
I told you it's impervious
to human tampering.
[Whirring]
(Schubert) 'What
are you doing, Mark?'
don't do that!
'Mark, don't. I can
make you rich.'
'Mark.. Mark, listen to me.'
I can make you rich.
Bring me some money!
'You're being very
childish about this.'
not.. Not the polarization..
Mark, don't do it!
[Instrumental music]
'Think this finishes me?'
I'm a survivor.
[Music continues]
You could have had a future!
[Music continues]
Hm! Don't come
to me for a Grant.
That's all I can say.
[Music continues]
[Sighing]
Hey!
The whole foundation, right?
We were telling c.W
about your restaurant.
It's a great lookin' place.
Food as good as the promotion?
Oh! You like chili dogs?
Do I like chili dogs?
You are serving frozen dogs?
I-I did not think...
Oh, he's beautiful.
Uh, chili dog for you
then, huh? And you?
And we don't any plankton today.
You sorta have to call
ahead for that kinda stuff.
Seaweed would be fine.
Seaweed.
As a matter of fact, in the
clam broth with the steamers.
I told you this would be nice.
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