Man from Atlantis (1977–1978): Season 1, Episode 6 - The Mudworm - full transcript
Ships are being damaged by an unknown agent hidden at a depth impossible for the Navy to reach, where the Cetacean finds an automated robot, the Mud Worm. It is programmed to crawl along the sea bottom collecting mineral samples, but was damaged, and now resists all efforts to approach it with deadly force. Mark manages to shut down the robot and haul it inside the Cetacean, but when it reactivates, it will destroy everything in its path in an effort to escape.
- Who are you?
- His brother.
Nobody said nothing 'bout him
having no twin brother.
As a matter of fact, we've come
to talk to you about a job.
You know one nice
thing about kicking off,
I don't have to look at
your ugly puss anymore.
Yeah!
Hey fellas, what's going on?
How did you know about me?
I mean that we
look so much alike.
I felt the pain where
you were stabbed.
Where have you been;
What did you find?
- Hey!
- Hold on.
♪
♪
Telling you Mr. Washburn,
you didn't see anything.
Don't you tell me
what I saw Billy Jones.
Luke Hollister gunned
down my Charlie.
Nothing you or Clint
Hollister can say
is ever gonna change that.
Now all I'm saying is it
was awful dark out there.
That's all.
I don't care how dark it was.
We do have a witness
say you were pretty well
into your cups last night.
Get off my land!
You pulling a gun on me artimus,
forcing me to defend myself?
Now, you'd like that
wouldn't you Billy?
Clint Hollister like it too
but that ain't the way it's
gonna happen, Billy boy.
I'm gonna testify against Luke.
Luke is gonna swing.
Look at them veins
stand out in your head.
Man like you's gotta be
careful one of them don't bust.
Well I'll bless...
Ain't ' worth it pa,
not on this scum.
You ain't ' got a chance.
That's what I've been trying
to tell your old man, bettina.
A man like him sees red all
the time ought to be careful,
liable to trip over something
and break his fool neck.
I think my father
invited you to leave.
Yes, he did.
You're looking right
pretty today, miss bettina.
Give somebody
a little free advice
and this is the thanks you get.
Get out of here.
For you darling, anything.
You know pa, there was
one thing he was right about.
This ain't the first time
that you flew off the handle.
Bettina look out!
♪
You let go of me!
♪
Ahh!
Mark?
♪
All that trouble
for one little kiss?
We got to do this
again sometime.
That's nice, very nice.
Oh, Billy, you...
Come on boy!
Whoo!
♪
Let him rest.
Mark, sit down.
Can you describe the pain?
A sharp, a tearing.
Like you were stabbed?
It throbs, Elizabeth,
more and more since we
started on this new heading.
The heading has nothing to
do with the way you're feeling.
Feel strong enough
to go to sick bay now?
It does have something
to do with it Elizabeth,
I'm sure of it.
Shift course.
West ninety degrees.
Mark.
Elizabeth, I want to
make the experiment.
Jomo, a new heading please.
Yes sir.
Mark.
The answer is out
there, Elizabeth, I know it.
There's nothing out there.
Water, nothing.
My instincts tell me otherwise.
Activate airlock please.
As medical officer
of this ship, I...
You can go.
I do not know for
sure but I must find out.
Thank you.
♪
C.w. On the line.
C.w.?
Elizabeth, Mark is ill?
We don't know that for sure.
Where is he, in sick bay?
Now look, that volcano
isn't going critical.
I have that from Charlie singer
at the maritime
research institute.
As far as I'm concerned,
you can turn the cetacean
a hundred and eight degrees
and come directly home.
Mark's not in sick bay, c.W.
He's out in the ocean.
Out of the ship?
Well, we're monitoring him.
Dr. Merrill, he's gone.
What do you mean, he's gone?
Well, one minute
there was a bleep
and the next
minute, well, it's like
he was snuffed out like a light.
Scan.
It's got to be an
electronic malfunction.
Double check the circuits
Elizabeth?
C.w., don't worry.
We'll pick him again.
It's just a
malfunction that's all.
♪
Billy!
Billy?
Why do you call me Billy?
Not one step closer,
you hear me, Billy.
Not one step closer.
I mean it.
My name is not Billy.
It's Mark.
Sure.
You mistake me for someone else.
Someone I look like.
Someone you look like.
Billy, I don't know what
you're trying to prove
coming here all naked like that
but it ain't just gonna
wor... Your shoulder?
It couldn't have healed
this quick, it just couldn't.
I did something to my shoulder?
It was sliced to the bone.
I did the slicing myself.
To Billy.
You're not him are you?
Well then who are you?
His brother.
Nobody said nothing about
him having no twin brother.
No one said anything
like that to me either.
It does makes sense,
explains why I'm here.
You know this Billy?
You can take me to him?
Take you to him?
I wouldn't take nothing
but a rattlesnake to him.
He has done something wrong?
Where have you been hiding boy?
I mean everybody's
heard of Billy Jones.
You haven't have you?
If he is my brother, then
tell me where I was born?
Where you were born?
Everybody knows where
they were born, at least.
Now you see why I
must talk to this Billy.
Yeah.
But he'll lie to you probably.
Come on.
Ranch house is over there.
You can't go to town
as naked as a Jay bird.
♪
I do not have any money.
Shoot boy, these ain't gonna be
the kind of clothes
you gonna pay for.
Told you what'd
happened next time
you come on this
property, Billy boy!
Pa, this ain't
Billy, this is Mark.
Don't make no difference
who's name is on the tombstone.
♪
Well one thing it isn't,
an equipment malfunction.
Well what else could it be?
Mark couldn't have just gone
poof in the middle of the ocean?
Scanners check out.
Sonar's working perfectly.
Coaxial grid systems in line.
Maybe he just went
out of our search area.
I could lay a spiral pattern
from the coordinates
we had him last fixed at.
No, I promised him
we'd maintain position.
That's exactly what
we're going to do.
If it ain't ' a trick,
if he ain't Billy...
Pa, no cut heals that fast.
What makes you think
any brother of Billy
Jones be less of skunk?
Mr. Washburn, I have
never met by brother.
I don't even know
if he is my brother.
That is what i'm
here to find out.
Look, let me give you
some advice stranger,
why don't you just go back
from where you come from?
Nobody wants Billy
Jones for a relative.
What has he done?
Everyone here says he's so evil.
Why is that so?
He's a hired gun.
Clint Hollister
brought him in to...
Intimidate people to let
that murdering kid of his go.
That's what.
Clint Hollister.
Big shot cattleman,
drives the herds
through here once a year.
This year he put Luke in charge.
That's Clint's son.
Yeah, Luke's one of
them spoiled rich kids.
Instead of walking
around somebody,
he'd rather walk right
straight through them.
Pa's talking about
my brother Charlie.
Luke shot him in the back.
You really don't know.
♪
Looks good.
Almost as good as it
used to look on Charlie.
Billy did not kill your brother.
Luke did.
I know that.
Look I ain't saying that Billy
ain't likeable but
he is a hired gun.
Clint Hollister wants
his son out of jail
and it's for Luke.
Billy ain't sunk that low yet.
♪
You really think you could
talk to him Billy Jones?
♪
When he discovers he
is not alone in the world,
when we see each other,
perhaps, for the first
time since birth, yes.
♪
I don't think reforming
a low life like Billy Jones
is going to be all that easy.
♪
Can you sit on a horse?
♪
Yeah.
Well, here you go Billy.
I mean Mark.
Virgil!
Oh now miss bettina,
you don't want to go messin'
with tradition now do you.
Tradition?
Yeah, just put your left
foot here in the stirrups easy.
That's what's hanging
down from the saddle.
Pa, you can't let him get...
Easy.
I said easy.
If he, easy fellow, if he
should go too fast for you,
you just pull back on the
reins and you holler whoa!
You got that?
- These are the reins?
- Yeah that's right.
- Yep.
- Thank you.
Whoo hoo!
Whoa boy!
Ride him cowboy!
Whoo hoo!
Pa!
Mark!
Mark you all right?
You all right son?
I think I understand what
you mean by tradition.
Nobody's ever stayed
up on old dark hide.
Virgil, go get old Sam for him.
That will not be necessary.
Mark, you don't have
to prove anything.
This is an excellent horse.
I am sure we will
be quite good friends
once we are
appropriately introduced.
♪
What's he saying to him?
Now, he thinks he's going to get
to anywhere talking
to animals, he's wrong.
♪
He ain't bucking no more!
What in the world did you
say to that animal, boy?
I suspected that what
would work on dolphins
would not be too
far wrong for a horse.
♪
With dolphins?
♪
Billy would be in a nearby town?
Land's end, down the road.
Thank you.
Hey, you watch out
he doesn't leave you
as naked as I found you.
♪
What's the matter Billy?
I thought you liked
dozing off in water.
Well, I do hon.
It makes feel good, sort
of, I don't know, soothes me.
How come you splashed
up all of sudden like that?
Well, I don't know.
A dream I guess.
Bad dream?
Naw, big fat stupid one,
me seeing me gallop into town.
Big deal, huh?
Well, now that you're
wide awake again Billy...
Not now Carla, please.
What's the matter?
I don't know, just
a feeling I guess.
Oh Billy, is it Clint looking
over your shoulder?
You're afraid he's going to
come busting through that door
all of a sudden, aren't you?
That I can handle.
No it ain't that.
I don't' know, maybe
I've been hiring
myself out too long that's all.
Oh, that's pretty sad talk for
a kid in the legend business.
Well, maybe all the
excitement's gettin' gone.
Maybe that's it.
I mean, I can predict
every move, every reaction
of someone from a young punk
kid out to make a name for himself
to big a big old fat sheriff
who just wants to be left alone.
For instance,
what do you want to
bet that Clint Hollister
is going to want me to burn out
the editor of this
paper tonight?
Carla, you in there?
Right there Clint.
You wouldn't be with somebody
n there would you Carla?
Now who would I be with, huh?
Not the window.
He's probably got Blake
watching from outside.
Then it's out the
same way I came in.
Right.
My gun!
Oh.
Carla, what's
taking you so long?
Girl's gotta get
decent doesn't she?
You ought to be
flattered sweetheart.
I'm attracted to you
enough to be jealous.
So.
So?
What's the matter, you have
headache, too tired or what?
Tonight, it'd be more romantic.
All right a drink then.
You know how much
I adore your company.
All right, down in five minutes.
You know you are a treasure.
♪
Billy, I kind of thought you
might be upstairs someplace.
Whatever gave me that idea?
Blake?
Billy just rode into
town Mr. Hollister.
Making 'em think
you're one of them
in these sod
buster clothes, huh.
Very heartwarming William.
It just so happens, I got work
for you to do in town tonight.
Mr. Hollister.
Mr. Hollister, formal.
A lot of character,
don't you think?
I do not think anyone in town
really knows my character.
Well, it's not really
your character
that concerns me, Billy.
You've got this newspaper
editor to take care of first.
In the office down the street?
Daily sentinel.
That's the boy, Dwayne metcalf.
He thinks he's the Horace
greeley of land's end.
He doesn't seem to care for me,
going around town
suggesting that
Luke might be getting a
raw deal if he got hanged.
You wish for me to speak
to this editor metcalf?
Wish to speak to... Billy boy,
I want to burn the man out.
Destroy his establishment?
Did you see the headlines
of this morning's edition
calling my only son
a vicious rabid animal,
telling everybody he ought
to be put out of his misery?
And I wonder if
metcalf has any kids.
Wonder if he ever held
them up over his shoulders
when they were
babies, set a broken arm
or told him what to
say with his first girl?
Look, I don't care if
metcalf is in his place
or not when you do it
Billy, I just want to see
the sky get orange tonight,
real bright orange.
♪
Lordy, lordy, lordy.
♪
Now, which one of us billies
is going to do that job on
editor metcalf, you or me?
♪
It's like looking in a mirror.
Who are you?
My name is Mark Harris.
You come looking for me you say?
Well, how did you know about me,
I mean that we
look so much alike?
I felt a pain where
you were stabbed.
Oh, yeah the pain.
Every now in then in odd places.
You feel it also?
Hey you talk funny.
You know that don't you?
English is not my
native language
nor is it yours is it?
Would you not like to
know about your past,
who you are, where
you come from,
why are you... Why are
we different from all the rest?
Who says I'm different?
We are.
You know we are.
Water people.
Water breathers.
Are we alone in the universe?
Somewhere, there
are others like us.
Where?
I do not know.
I was hoping you could tell me.
Do you have any
memory of your childhood,
of home, of growing
up, of your people?
What do you know of your past?
Waking up on beach, not
knowing where I was or who I was.
Later figuring out I'd been
beaten and rolled up there,
of picking the first
name that come to me
and learning how to use a gun.
Who cares about the past anyway?
I'm more interested in
what's happening in the future
and right now, do
you understand that?
This man you work for...
Clint Hollister?
He pays well.
You are not like him.
You can tell that by
looking at me, can ya?
Well, he's got no
holds on me, ok.
Something better comes
along, that's fine too.
That's right, there are
other things you can turn to.
Oh yeah, like what?
I'm associated with a
foundation to study the oceans.
We work off of a submersible.
Off a what?
A vessel that
travels underwater.
It brought me to land's end.
Oh yeah?
Well where is it now?
Less than a mile off the shore.
Well, marky boy that
covers a whole lot of territory.
It is not far off the beach
where the inlet runs.
Yeah, I know where that spot is.
Of course it is several
hundred feet underwater.
You said water breathers?
Without water we
can not survive.
Well, anyway, I'd sure like
to see that boat of yours.
You would be welcome.
I will take you.
Alone.
Why?
Because a man can get real tired
of places like this
and this line of work.
Webbed hands?
Now what good are webbed
hands to a gunfighter?
Now they took you for
Billy Jones in this town.
They'll sure take me for Mark
Harris on that boat of yours.
You didn't come ashore
dressed in duds like that did ya?
I have swimming trunks.
Well, I'd sure like to see
myself in them swim trunks.
Up in the loft, Billy Jones.
♪
Dr. Merrill.
Yes Jane.
I've got a man sized underwater
object approaching the ship.
It's a man all right.
Can you give us a visual?
Camera six on the monitor now.
Mark.
Voice channel operating.
Mark do you read?
Are you coming in?
Answer me please.
What is it; What's wrong?
Head for the airlock,
under the ship.
♪
Mark, what's wrong?
Are you all right?
Good to have you back.
Oh, Mark.
Where have you been?
What'd you find?
Why I almost forgot what
I was out there looking for.
What about your...
Oh, well,
we want to hear all about
it after you've had a rest.
Did you find what
you were looking for?
Um hmm?
Are you going tell us about it?
Yeah, sure.
♪
Hi.
Oh, I've been
looking for you Billy.
I kind of thought
you'd be out this way.
Get in.
Are you going passed the
washburn ranch, to the ocean?
You want to go there?
Sure any place you say.
We know each other
quite well it seems.
Well, well enough for me,
maybe too well for Clint.
♪
C.w., it's all very strange
ever since he came
the way he came back.
Elizabeth?
He hurt himself when
he was out there,
a gash on his shoulder?
Where he said he felt that pain.
Um hmm, it's all backwards,
the pain first and then a wound?
Hi there.
This is some underwater boat
you got lady but there is
not single gun on board.
Now what would you
do if you were attacked?
Who would attack us?
It don't matter who?
Mark, is that you?
Who said that?
C.w. On the radio phone.
I don't see nobody?
On the phone?
Mark, what's wrong with you?
Can he hear me?
Of course.
Well, hi c.W. Wherever you are,
who ever you are.
Mark, Elizabeth and I are
both concerned about you.
Well, I'm worried about you too
and her running around
here on a defenseless boat.
Mark.
Dr. Merrill.
What'd you do to him?
He's all shrunk up.
C.w.?
I think you better set
a course for home.
Now.
Setting course yes, sir.
Oh, no.
All right, how do
you work this thing?
You want me to
activate the airlock sir?
That's right red
and make it snappy.
Mark you can't go back outside.
Elizabeth, Mark
what's going on in there.
Pretty Dr. Merrill,
Mark Harris is a lucky man.
Dr. Merrill.
Elizabeth, will
somebody speak to me.
♪
Oh, night.
Whoo.
Oh night, I'd love to tell you
where I've just been
and what I just saw,
even you wouldn't believe it.
Whoo!
♪
Hey Clint, what are you
doing this far out here?
I didn't know you were
one for salt water baths.
Hey fellas.
What's going on?
I do not know if you
will ever see Billy again.
You should know, sir,
that whatever Billy is,
Clint Hollister is worse.
You saying Billy
held him down some?
Without Billy, there is no
telling what Clint might do.
I wish there was some
way I could help you.
This ain't your fight son.
No, but I do wish you well.
Good bye.
Bye Mark.
♪
Mark!
♪
I don't see no marks.
Sure ain't nothing better
for a pulled muscle
than some liniment.
Too bad it smells so awful.
It is not a pulled
muscle bettina.
Billy has been hurt.
You really think you can
feel everything that he does?
When we are in
the same area, yes.
It's Virgil.
Well, I can't say
Billy don't deserve it.
Deserve what, Mr. Washburn?
Well, I was out
rounding up strays
and they was at with
Billy out by the draw.
Hollister's turned on him,
thinks Billy's been sneaking up
to see miss Carla
behind his back.
They was whooping him something
fierce from what I could see.
Virg, you better tell them where
they said they was taking him.
Up the Ridge.
There's a big tree up there.
They gonna hang him?
Mark, there's more to it
than just hanging Billy.
Hollister was talking to
Blake slate about going
directly back to town afterwards
and busting Luke loose.
A jailbreak.
If he had to level the
whole town he said.
Oh pa.
Virg, watch the place.
You're going to have some
company up that Ridge.
♪
Honey, you and Mark get up
behind them rocks up there.
I'll get up here back
of these bushes.
♪
Well, a little surprise
necktie party just for me?
You shouldn't have, Clint.
Fell for her that hard, did ya?
You shut your mouth.
Oh, a man of your money,
guess it's true what people
say about class coming out.
All right, Billy boy,
this is for Carla
and for the job you didn't
do on that editor metcalf.
It's too late, if we rush in,
they'll slap the horse
out from underneath him.
If you really feel
everything he feels...
Are you a good shot bettina?
The rope?
You must try it; It's the
only chance we have.
♪
There'll be no
last words for you.
You've said enough already.
You know one nice
thing about kicking off,
I don't have to look at
your ugly puss anymore.
Give it up Hollister!
We've got you surrounded!
Put those guns down!
Where do you think they are?
It doesn't matter.
We're not going to be
trapped here for sure.
We've still got to
get my son out of jail.
♪
Dangummit, I could
have shot em all.
Where's Billy?
He's over there.
♪
My hands.
We've got to warn the
sheriff at land's end.
That poor boy's
got trouble coming.
You are in no condition.
Oh, gotta go brother Mark.
Ain't nobody tries to
make a dead giraffe
out of me and gets away with it.
Ought to be you.
Of course you ain't strong
enough after that whooping.
If there is water around?
I don't need no drink, brother.
A lot of water?
Easy boy, easy boy.
Here we go, here we go!
Well, at least we ain't
going to have worry
about bathing for about a week.
Congratulations,
brother, I'm wet.
Now what?
How do you feel?
I feel wet.
How do you expect...
Hey that's crazy.
That's wild.
No more pain?
No, no more.
We're ready to go to town.
All right!
♪
Thanks for the shower marky boy!
♪
Is it worth it to you?
I gotta look at it this
way, brother Mark,
you're going to be leaving.
I'm going to be sticking around.
I think it's a good idea to
make it legal from here on in.
Now don't sweat it friend.
We're on your side.
As a matter of fact, we've
come to talk to you about a job.
We're coming to get you, Luke!
We're gonna get you out!
Billy boy, I never
thought I'd see the day
and it's time we left.
♪
Well, after what you
did to the door of the jail,
I know you can make it
but not too sure about me.
You can make it.
This kind of thing go on a lot
from where you come from?
Come and see for yourself.
Oh no.
One look at that boat of
yours was enough for me.
But you're welcome to
stay here if you want?
Yeah.
After you.
♪
Wish I had your confidence.
You do?
How 'bout if we come
out of this in one piece,
we a team?
We are a team
with you in your
world and I in mine.
Yeah, that's what I figured.
♪
It is very quiet.
There's only one left.
Hollister.
And he's mine.
♪
All right Billy.
Hollister!
♪
Billy?
Are you sure?
I want you to try
that one more time.
And?
I'll help you.
It's a good thing you're
not sticking around, brother.
If she's not going to
be able to tell us apart...
♪
How's your shoulder?
Fine Elizabeth.
I found the cause of my pain
and it no longer disturbs me.
Mark, what happened
to you out there?
When you came back, you
were acting very strange.
That was not me.
You mean you were not
yourself; I can understand that.
No, that is not what I meant.
Maybe you just don't
remember how you were.
What did you find me like?
Well, not quite yourself,
typical symptom
of insipia dysteria
in which you actually
produced surface manifestations
of an inner pain
you were feeling.
We can talk more about
this later if you are willing.
♪
- His brother.
Nobody said nothing 'bout him
having no twin brother.
As a matter of fact, we've come
to talk to you about a job.
You know one nice
thing about kicking off,
I don't have to look at
your ugly puss anymore.
Yeah!
Hey fellas, what's going on?
How did you know about me?
I mean that we
look so much alike.
I felt the pain where
you were stabbed.
Where have you been;
What did you find?
- Hey!
- Hold on.
♪
♪
Telling you Mr. Washburn,
you didn't see anything.
Don't you tell me
what I saw Billy Jones.
Luke Hollister gunned
down my Charlie.
Nothing you or Clint
Hollister can say
is ever gonna change that.
Now all I'm saying is it
was awful dark out there.
That's all.
I don't care how dark it was.
We do have a witness
say you were pretty well
into your cups last night.
Get off my land!
You pulling a gun on me artimus,
forcing me to defend myself?
Now, you'd like that
wouldn't you Billy?
Clint Hollister like it too
but that ain't the way it's
gonna happen, Billy boy.
I'm gonna testify against Luke.
Luke is gonna swing.
Look at them veins
stand out in your head.
Man like you's gotta be
careful one of them don't bust.
Well I'll bless...
Ain't ' worth it pa,
not on this scum.
You ain't ' got a chance.
That's what I've been trying
to tell your old man, bettina.
A man like him sees red all
the time ought to be careful,
liable to trip over something
and break his fool neck.
I think my father
invited you to leave.
Yes, he did.
You're looking right
pretty today, miss bettina.
Give somebody
a little free advice
and this is the thanks you get.
Get out of here.
For you darling, anything.
You know pa, there was
one thing he was right about.
This ain't the first time
that you flew off the handle.
Bettina look out!
♪
You let go of me!
♪
Ahh!
Mark?
♪
All that trouble
for one little kiss?
We got to do this
again sometime.
That's nice, very nice.
Oh, Billy, you...
Come on boy!
Whoo!
♪
Let him rest.
Mark, sit down.
Can you describe the pain?
A sharp, a tearing.
Like you were stabbed?
It throbs, Elizabeth,
more and more since we
started on this new heading.
The heading has nothing to
do with the way you're feeling.
Feel strong enough
to go to sick bay now?
It does have something
to do with it Elizabeth,
I'm sure of it.
Shift course.
West ninety degrees.
Mark.
Elizabeth, I want to
make the experiment.
Jomo, a new heading please.
Yes sir.
Mark.
The answer is out
there, Elizabeth, I know it.
There's nothing out there.
Water, nothing.
My instincts tell me otherwise.
Activate airlock please.
As medical officer
of this ship, I...
You can go.
I do not know for
sure but I must find out.
Thank you.
♪
C.w. On the line.
C.w.?
Elizabeth, Mark is ill?
We don't know that for sure.
Where is he, in sick bay?
Now look, that volcano
isn't going critical.
I have that from Charlie singer
at the maritime
research institute.
As far as I'm concerned,
you can turn the cetacean
a hundred and eight degrees
and come directly home.
Mark's not in sick bay, c.W.
He's out in the ocean.
Out of the ship?
Well, we're monitoring him.
Dr. Merrill, he's gone.
What do you mean, he's gone?
Well, one minute
there was a bleep
and the next
minute, well, it's like
he was snuffed out like a light.
Scan.
It's got to be an
electronic malfunction.
Double check the circuits
Elizabeth?
C.w., don't worry.
We'll pick him again.
It's just a
malfunction that's all.
♪
Billy!
Billy?
Why do you call me Billy?
Not one step closer,
you hear me, Billy.
Not one step closer.
I mean it.
My name is not Billy.
It's Mark.
Sure.
You mistake me for someone else.
Someone I look like.
Someone you look like.
Billy, I don't know what
you're trying to prove
coming here all naked like that
but it ain't just gonna
wor... Your shoulder?
It couldn't have healed
this quick, it just couldn't.
I did something to my shoulder?
It was sliced to the bone.
I did the slicing myself.
To Billy.
You're not him are you?
Well then who are you?
His brother.
Nobody said nothing about
him having no twin brother.
No one said anything
like that to me either.
It does makes sense,
explains why I'm here.
You know this Billy?
You can take me to him?
Take you to him?
I wouldn't take nothing
but a rattlesnake to him.
He has done something wrong?
Where have you been hiding boy?
I mean everybody's
heard of Billy Jones.
You haven't have you?
If he is my brother, then
tell me where I was born?
Where you were born?
Everybody knows where
they were born, at least.
Now you see why I
must talk to this Billy.
Yeah.
But he'll lie to you probably.
Come on.
Ranch house is over there.
You can't go to town
as naked as a Jay bird.
♪
I do not have any money.
Shoot boy, these ain't gonna be
the kind of clothes
you gonna pay for.
Told you what'd
happened next time
you come on this
property, Billy boy!
Pa, this ain't
Billy, this is Mark.
Don't make no difference
who's name is on the tombstone.
♪
Well one thing it isn't,
an equipment malfunction.
Well what else could it be?
Mark couldn't have just gone
poof in the middle of the ocean?
Scanners check out.
Sonar's working perfectly.
Coaxial grid systems in line.
Maybe he just went
out of our search area.
I could lay a spiral pattern
from the coordinates
we had him last fixed at.
No, I promised him
we'd maintain position.
That's exactly what
we're going to do.
If it ain't ' a trick,
if he ain't Billy...
Pa, no cut heals that fast.
What makes you think
any brother of Billy
Jones be less of skunk?
Mr. Washburn, I have
never met by brother.
I don't even know
if he is my brother.
That is what i'm
here to find out.
Look, let me give you
some advice stranger,
why don't you just go back
from where you come from?
Nobody wants Billy
Jones for a relative.
What has he done?
Everyone here says he's so evil.
Why is that so?
He's a hired gun.
Clint Hollister
brought him in to...
Intimidate people to let
that murdering kid of his go.
That's what.
Clint Hollister.
Big shot cattleman,
drives the herds
through here once a year.
This year he put Luke in charge.
That's Clint's son.
Yeah, Luke's one of
them spoiled rich kids.
Instead of walking
around somebody,
he'd rather walk right
straight through them.
Pa's talking about
my brother Charlie.
Luke shot him in the back.
You really don't know.
♪
Looks good.
Almost as good as it
used to look on Charlie.
Billy did not kill your brother.
Luke did.
I know that.
Look I ain't saying that Billy
ain't likeable but
he is a hired gun.
Clint Hollister wants
his son out of jail
and it's for Luke.
Billy ain't sunk that low yet.
♪
You really think you could
talk to him Billy Jones?
♪
When he discovers he
is not alone in the world,
when we see each other,
perhaps, for the first
time since birth, yes.
♪
I don't think reforming
a low life like Billy Jones
is going to be all that easy.
♪
Can you sit on a horse?
♪
Yeah.
Well, here you go Billy.
I mean Mark.
Virgil!
Oh now miss bettina,
you don't want to go messin'
with tradition now do you.
Tradition?
Yeah, just put your left
foot here in the stirrups easy.
That's what's hanging
down from the saddle.
Pa, you can't let him get...
Easy.
I said easy.
If he, easy fellow, if he
should go too fast for you,
you just pull back on the
reins and you holler whoa!
You got that?
- These are the reins?
- Yeah that's right.
- Yep.
- Thank you.
Whoo hoo!
Whoa boy!
Ride him cowboy!
Whoo hoo!
Pa!
Mark!
Mark you all right?
You all right son?
I think I understand what
you mean by tradition.
Nobody's ever stayed
up on old dark hide.
Virgil, go get old Sam for him.
That will not be necessary.
Mark, you don't have
to prove anything.
This is an excellent horse.
I am sure we will
be quite good friends
once we are
appropriately introduced.
♪
What's he saying to him?
Now, he thinks he's going to get
to anywhere talking
to animals, he's wrong.
♪
He ain't bucking no more!
What in the world did you
say to that animal, boy?
I suspected that what
would work on dolphins
would not be too
far wrong for a horse.
♪
With dolphins?
♪
Billy would be in a nearby town?
Land's end, down the road.
Thank you.
Hey, you watch out
he doesn't leave you
as naked as I found you.
♪
What's the matter Billy?
I thought you liked
dozing off in water.
Well, I do hon.
It makes feel good, sort
of, I don't know, soothes me.
How come you splashed
up all of sudden like that?
Well, I don't know.
A dream I guess.
Bad dream?
Naw, big fat stupid one,
me seeing me gallop into town.
Big deal, huh?
Well, now that you're
wide awake again Billy...
Not now Carla, please.
What's the matter?
I don't know, just
a feeling I guess.
Oh Billy, is it Clint looking
over your shoulder?
You're afraid he's going to
come busting through that door
all of a sudden, aren't you?
That I can handle.
No it ain't that.
I don't' know, maybe
I've been hiring
myself out too long that's all.
Oh, that's pretty sad talk for
a kid in the legend business.
Well, maybe all the
excitement's gettin' gone.
Maybe that's it.
I mean, I can predict
every move, every reaction
of someone from a young punk
kid out to make a name for himself
to big a big old fat sheriff
who just wants to be left alone.
For instance,
what do you want to
bet that Clint Hollister
is going to want me to burn out
the editor of this
paper tonight?
Carla, you in there?
Right there Clint.
You wouldn't be with somebody
n there would you Carla?
Now who would I be with, huh?
Not the window.
He's probably got Blake
watching from outside.
Then it's out the
same way I came in.
Right.
My gun!
Oh.
Carla, what's
taking you so long?
Girl's gotta get
decent doesn't she?
You ought to be
flattered sweetheart.
I'm attracted to you
enough to be jealous.
So.
So?
What's the matter, you have
headache, too tired or what?
Tonight, it'd be more romantic.
All right a drink then.
You know how much
I adore your company.
All right, down in five minutes.
You know you are a treasure.
♪
Billy, I kind of thought you
might be upstairs someplace.
Whatever gave me that idea?
Blake?
Billy just rode into
town Mr. Hollister.
Making 'em think
you're one of them
in these sod
buster clothes, huh.
Very heartwarming William.
It just so happens, I got work
for you to do in town tonight.
Mr. Hollister.
Mr. Hollister, formal.
A lot of character,
don't you think?
I do not think anyone in town
really knows my character.
Well, it's not really
your character
that concerns me, Billy.
You've got this newspaper
editor to take care of first.
In the office down the street?
Daily sentinel.
That's the boy, Dwayne metcalf.
He thinks he's the Horace
greeley of land's end.
He doesn't seem to care for me,
going around town
suggesting that
Luke might be getting a
raw deal if he got hanged.
You wish for me to speak
to this editor metcalf?
Wish to speak to... Billy boy,
I want to burn the man out.
Destroy his establishment?
Did you see the headlines
of this morning's edition
calling my only son
a vicious rabid animal,
telling everybody he ought
to be put out of his misery?
And I wonder if
metcalf has any kids.
Wonder if he ever held
them up over his shoulders
when they were
babies, set a broken arm
or told him what to
say with his first girl?
Look, I don't care if
metcalf is in his place
or not when you do it
Billy, I just want to see
the sky get orange tonight,
real bright orange.
♪
Lordy, lordy, lordy.
♪
Now, which one of us billies
is going to do that job on
editor metcalf, you or me?
♪
It's like looking in a mirror.
Who are you?
My name is Mark Harris.
You come looking for me you say?
Well, how did you know about me,
I mean that we
look so much alike?
I felt a pain where
you were stabbed.
Oh, yeah the pain.
Every now in then in odd places.
You feel it also?
Hey you talk funny.
You know that don't you?
English is not my
native language
nor is it yours is it?
Would you not like to
know about your past,
who you are, where
you come from,
why are you... Why are
we different from all the rest?
Who says I'm different?
We are.
You know we are.
Water people.
Water breathers.
Are we alone in the universe?
Somewhere, there
are others like us.
Where?
I do not know.
I was hoping you could tell me.
Do you have any
memory of your childhood,
of home, of growing
up, of your people?
What do you know of your past?
Waking up on beach, not
knowing where I was or who I was.
Later figuring out I'd been
beaten and rolled up there,
of picking the first
name that come to me
and learning how to use a gun.
Who cares about the past anyway?
I'm more interested in
what's happening in the future
and right now, do
you understand that?
This man you work for...
Clint Hollister?
He pays well.
You are not like him.
You can tell that by
looking at me, can ya?
Well, he's got no
holds on me, ok.
Something better comes
along, that's fine too.
That's right, there are
other things you can turn to.
Oh yeah, like what?
I'm associated with a
foundation to study the oceans.
We work off of a submersible.
Off a what?
A vessel that
travels underwater.
It brought me to land's end.
Oh yeah?
Well where is it now?
Less than a mile off the shore.
Well, marky boy that
covers a whole lot of territory.
It is not far off the beach
where the inlet runs.
Yeah, I know where that spot is.
Of course it is several
hundred feet underwater.
You said water breathers?
Without water we
can not survive.
Well, anyway, I'd sure like
to see that boat of yours.
You would be welcome.
I will take you.
Alone.
Why?
Because a man can get real tired
of places like this
and this line of work.
Webbed hands?
Now what good are webbed
hands to a gunfighter?
Now they took you for
Billy Jones in this town.
They'll sure take me for Mark
Harris on that boat of yours.
You didn't come ashore
dressed in duds like that did ya?
I have swimming trunks.
Well, I'd sure like to see
myself in them swim trunks.
Up in the loft, Billy Jones.
♪
Dr. Merrill.
Yes Jane.
I've got a man sized underwater
object approaching the ship.
It's a man all right.
Can you give us a visual?
Camera six on the monitor now.
Mark.
Voice channel operating.
Mark do you read?
Are you coming in?
Answer me please.
What is it; What's wrong?
Head for the airlock,
under the ship.
♪
Mark, what's wrong?
Are you all right?
Good to have you back.
Oh, Mark.
Where have you been?
What'd you find?
Why I almost forgot what
I was out there looking for.
What about your...
Oh, well,
we want to hear all about
it after you've had a rest.
Did you find what
you were looking for?
Um hmm?
Are you going tell us about it?
Yeah, sure.
♪
Hi.
Oh, I've been
looking for you Billy.
I kind of thought
you'd be out this way.
Get in.
Are you going passed the
washburn ranch, to the ocean?
You want to go there?
Sure any place you say.
We know each other
quite well it seems.
Well, well enough for me,
maybe too well for Clint.
♪
C.w., it's all very strange
ever since he came
the way he came back.
Elizabeth?
He hurt himself when
he was out there,
a gash on his shoulder?
Where he said he felt that pain.
Um hmm, it's all backwards,
the pain first and then a wound?
Hi there.
This is some underwater boat
you got lady but there is
not single gun on board.
Now what would you
do if you were attacked?
Who would attack us?
It don't matter who?
Mark, is that you?
Who said that?
C.w. On the radio phone.
I don't see nobody?
On the phone?
Mark, what's wrong with you?
Can he hear me?
Of course.
Well, hi c.W. Wherever you are,
who ever you are.
Mark, Elizabeth and I are
both concerned about you.
Well, I'm worried about you too
and her running around
here on a defenseless boat.
Mark.
Dr. Merrill.
What'd you do to him?
He's all shrunk up.
C.w.?
I think you better set
a course for home.
Now.
Setting course yes, sir.
Oh, no.
All right, how do
you work this thing?
You want me to
activate the airlock sir?
That's right red
and make it snappy.
Mark you can't go back outside.
Elizabeth, Mark
what's going on in there.
Pretty Dr. Merrill,
Mark Harris is a lucky man.
Dr. Merrill.
Elizabeth, will
somebody speak to me.
♪
Oh, night.
Whoo.
Oh night, I'd love to tell you
where I've just been
and what I just saw,
even you wouldn't believe it.
Whoo!
♪
Hey Clint, what are you
doing this far out here?
I didn't know you were
one for salt water baths.
Hey fellas.
What's going on?
I do not know if you
will ever see Billy again.
You should know, sir,
that whatever Billy is,
Clint Hollister is worse.
You saying Billy
held him down some?
Without Billy, there is no
telling what Clint might do.
I wish there was some
way I could help you.
This ain't your fight son.
No, but I do wish you well.
Good bye.
Bye Mark.
♪
Mark!
♪
I don't see no marks.
Sure ain't nothing better
for a pulled muscle
than some liniment.
Too bad it smells so awful.
It is not a pulled
muscle bettina.
Billy has been hurt.
You really think you can
feel everything that he does?
When we are in
the same area, yes.
It's Virgil.
Well, I can't say
Billy don't deserve it.
Deserve what, Mr. Washburn?
Well, I was out
rounding up strays
and they was at with
Billy out by the draw.
Hollister's turned on him,
thinks Billy's been sneaking up
to see miss Carla
behind his back.
They was whooping him something
fierce from what I could see.
Virg, you better tell them where
they said they was taking him.
Up the Ridge.
There's a big tree up there.
They gonna hang him?
Mark, there's more to it
than just hanging Billy.
Hollister was talking to
Blake slate about going
directly back to town afterwards
and busting Luke loose.
A jailbreak.
If he had to level the
whole town he said.
Oh pa.
Virg, watch the place.
You're going to have some
company up that Ridge.
♪
Honey, you and Mark get up
behind them rocks up there.
I'll get up here back
of these bushes.
♪
Well, a little surprise
necktie party just for me?
You shouldn't have, Clint.
Fell for her that hard, did ya?
You shut your mouth.
Oh, a man of your money,
guess it's true what people
say about class coming out.
All right, Billy boy,
this is for Carla
and for the job you didn't
do on that editor metcalf.
It's too late, if we rush in,
they'll slap the horse
out from underneath him.
If you really feel
everything he feels...
Are you a good shot bettina?
The rope?
You must try it; It's the
only chance we have.
♪
There'll be no
last words for you.
You've said enough already.
You know one nice
thing about kicking off,
I don't have to look at
your ugly puss anymore.
Give it up Hollister!
We've got you surrounded!
Put those guns down!
Where do you think they are?
It doesn't matter.
We're not going to be
trapped here for sure.
We've still got to
get my son out of jail.
♪
Dangummit, I could
have shot em all.
Where's Billy?
He's over there.
♪
My hands.
We've got to warn the
sheriff at land's end.
That poor boy's
got trouble coming.
You are in no condition.
Oh, gotta go brother Mark.
Ain't nobody tries to
make a dead giraffe
out of me and gets away with it.
Ought to be you.
Of course you ain't strong
enough after that whooping.
If there is water around?
I don't need no drink, brother.
A lot of water?
Easy boy, easy boy.
Here we go, here we go!
Well, at least we ain't
going to have worry
about bathing for about a week.
Congratulations,
brother, I'm wet.
Now what?
How do you feel?
I feel wet.
How do you expect...
Hey that's crazy.
That's wild.
No more pain?
No, no more.
We're ready to go to town.
All right!
♪
Thanks for the shower marky boy!
♪
Is it worth it to you?
I gotta look at it this
way, brother Mark,
you're going to be leaving.
I'm going to be sticking around.
I think it's a good idea to
make it legal from here on in.
Now don't sweat it friend.
We're on your side.
As a matter of fact, we've
come to talk to you about a job.
We're coming to get you, Luke!
We're gonna get you out!
Billy boy, I never
thought I'd see the day
and it's time we left.
♪
Well, after what you
did to the door of the jail,
I know you can make it
but not too sure about me.
You can make it.
This kind of thing go on a lot
from where you come from?
Come and see for yourself.
Oh no.
One look at that boat of
yours was enough for me.
But you're welcome to
stay here if you want?
Yeah.
After you.
♪
Wish I had your confidence.
You do?
How 'bout if we come
out of this in one piece,
we a team?
We are a team
with you in your
world and I in mine.
Yeah, that's what I figured.
♪
It is very quiet.
There's only one left.
Hollister.
And he's mine.
♪
All right Billy.
Hollister!
♪
Billy?
Are you sure?
I want you to try
that one more time.
And?
I'll help you.
It's a good thing you're
not sticking around, brother.
If she's not going to
be able to tell us apart...
♪
How's your shoulder?
Fine Elizabeth.
I found the cause of my pain
and it no longer disturbs me.
Mark, what happened
to you out there?
When you came back, you
were acting very strange.
That was not me.
You mean you were not
yourself; I can understand that.
No, that is not what I meant.
Maybe you just don't
remember how you were.
What did you find me like?
Well, not quite yourself,
typical symptom
of insipia dysteria
in which you actually
produced surface manifestations
of an inner pain
you were feeling.
We can talk more about
this later if you are willing.
♪