The Six Million Dollar Man (1974–1978): Season 5, Episode 2 - Sharks: Part 2 - full transcript
GRAYLAND: Come to me, Stingray!
Oh, she's beautiful, isn't she?
Just like she's answering
the command you gave her, Dad.
She is.
She had to come to
repair the warning system.
Now.
OSCAR (VO): Here are some
scenes from Part One of "Sharks".
The Stingray's in trouble.
Ten... five.
I think I'm gonna get back
into that sub now.
(CABLE SNAPS)
Hold it!
You think I'm afraid
to use this gun?
Lady, anybody with sharks
as swimming companions...
isn't afraid of anything
as far as I'm concerned.
Is that another one of your pets?
That one's my best work.
It has a brain implant, which means
that I can control him electronically.
Remember that if you're
considering an escape attempt.
The FBI has picked up a suspect...
who may have planted an
explosive device on the Stingray.
He worked at the Boston
Navy Yard last year...
when torpedoes and nuclear
missiles were stolen.
Are you suggesting the
possibility that that theft...
has something to do with
what's going on out here?
I'm only guessing,
and I may be wrong.
The Stingray is in enemy hands,
Gentlemen.
It's piracy.
It's an ancient, sometimes honorable,
always profitable profession.
I thought this caper was designed
to prove you can handle sharks.
I was gonna sail the Stingray
into New York Harbor...
to show them what I can do with my
sharks, but this proved to be too good.
And once the torpedoes are loaded
and we're off, nothing's gonna stop us.
Cynthia, use the special shark
to eliminate the bathysphere problem.
(ELECTRONIC TONES)
(CABLE SNAPS)
Austin's loose. He's taken
scuba gear out of Room 3.
I told you he should
have been killed.
He'll get in the sub.
GRAYLAND: Cynthia, bring him back.
(ELECTRONIC TONES)
I know that Rudy's alive
in that bathysphere...
and I feel it in my bones
that Steve's alive, too.
I'm ordering the Stingray to be
depth charged and destroyed.
OSCAR (VO).' In a moment,
the conclusion of "Sharks".
FLIGHT COM:
It looks good at NASA One.
B- 52 >PILOT:
Roger.
BCS Arm switch is on.
FLIGHT COM:
Okay, Victor.
B-52 PILOT:
Landing Rocket Arm switch is on.
Here comes the throttle.
Circuit breakers in.
STEVE:
We have separation.
B-52 PILOT:
Inboard and outboards are on.
I'm comin' forward with the side stick.
FLIGHT COM:
Looks good.
PILOT:
Ah, Roger.
STEVE:
I've got a blowout in damper three.
SR-71 PILOT:
Get your pitch to zero.
STEVE:
Pitch is out. I can't hold altitude!
B-52 PILOT: Correction. Alpha Hold is all“.
Threat selector is emergency.
STEVE: Flight Com. I can't hold it!
She's breaking up! She's breaking...
ANNOUNCER:
Steve Austin. Astronaut.
A man barely alive.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
We have the technology.
We have the capability
to make the world's first bionic man.
Steve Austin will be that man.
Better than he was before.
Better, stronger, faster.
(MAIN TITLE THEME)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Steve.
Are you all right?
I'm sorry.
You're sorry. That wipes out
everything, right?
Look, I'm not making excuses.
Just an apology to make chopping
down the bathysphere okay...
leaving a man helpless
on the bottom on the ocean...
using sharks to risk the lives of...
My sharks can kill.
Now, so far I've kept them
from harming anyone.
You should be grateful.
What do you want?
My vote of thanks?
That man in the bathysphere...
he's sending a message
in Morse Code!
He's gotta be stopped.
Parker, wait.
You are reacting
before thinking.
Now what could he possibly say
to a surface party that can hurt us?
I don't know, but I don't see why we
should risk his tellin' them anything.
Parker, you're a very valuable man
when you act under orders.
Otherwise, you have the
finesse of an outraged bull.
Now, they know the
man's alive down here...
so the Navy is gonna be far less
eager to do anything drastic...
to stop the Stingray if there's
a possibility he could be harmed.
That limits their action against us.
What about Austin?
Well, what about him?
Look, Captain...
when you gave the order that
no one was to be hurt, it made sense.
In the beginning, but no more.
Not with him.
He's shown how dangerous he is.
His escape was our own fault.
It won't happen again.
Now, get over to the Stingray,
check out the work, and report back to me.
I wanna know when
it can get underway.
Adams, I want two men guarding him.
He's a time bomb ready to explode.
What have you got?
Dr. Wells, sir.
He rapped a message he's okay.
He saw Colonel Austin.
Thanks.
Sir?
I'm also getting sounds
of pounding and hammering.
Somebody's working in the sub.
Stay on those phones.
Admiral, sir, back up
destroyers coming up fast.
(NAVAL SIRENS WAIL)
Steve and Rudy are definitely
alive down there, Josh.
I know. I got the report.
But work is apparently
in progress on the Stingray.
If she's repaired and moves out,
she'll be virtually impossible to locate.
You can't bomb that submarine, Josh.
You'll virtually seal the death
warrant on two men.
Oscar, I don't want to harm
Steve and Rudy...
but I have a national
security obligation.
I cannot allow a nuclear sub in some
enemy's hands to become operational.
There's got to be another way.
When I was in underwater
demolition during World War II...
we had to block a harbor
entrance quickly.
We used the NPB 427s.
Magnetic picket mines?
Oscar, you may have just
come up with something.
You get points for bringing this thing off
without getting anybody hurt so far.
How long do you think
you can run it out?
All the way.
You said yourself those ships
up there can destroy you.
They destroy me,
they destroy you.
It's a perfect stand-off until
I can get the Stingray ready...
and shipped out of here.
Perfect.
This is the latest version of
the NPB 427 picket bomb.
The Stingray will be surrounded by
magnetic bombs anchored to the sea bed.
An explosive picket fence.
Place these bombs at 30 foot intervals
so the Stingray can't slip through.
All right.
There's just one problem.
What?
The sub could be made
ready and slip away...
during the 30 minutes or so it'll take
to drop those bombs into position.
If I could prevent them from doing
repairs the next 30 minutes...
we'll have them blocked.
How?
Got an idea.
The steering assembly is about set.
We'll have it installed in about
a half an hour and that should do it.
What about the missile tubes?
Beautiful. They'll be ready
by the time we shove off...
Shhh.
(ELECTRONIC MORSE CODE)
That's an S.O.S.
So? We're in no trouble.
Why care if they are?
Don't be stupid.
It doesn't hurt to find out what
the other side is thinking, or offering.
Go ahead.
There are three naval vessels in the area.
Either you stop work
on the Stingray immediately...
or we'll blast you out of the water.
You could have dropped
depth charges at any time.
We have two of your men down here.
You want them to get killed?
No, but unless you stop work,
we have no choice.
Oh, I see.
Our choice is to wait down here like
sitting ducks, or pop up and surrender.
No thanks.
You haven't got a chance.
None. Zero.
You stop work or we bomb.
It's as simple as that.
What kind of deal
will you make if we accept?
We might offer you leniency at the trial.
Hold the work.
Well, I can't make that kind of a decision.
I'll have to contact my commander.
He'll talk to you.
Is there a chance of finishing up
quietly so they can't hear?
OSCAR: Stop all work immediately
and then we can talk.
I'll give you 30 minutes.
I'll get back to you.
Maybe he thought I was bluffing.
We'll find out
if we hear any pounding.
OSCAR: The destroyers are
dropping bombs right on target.
PARKER: They're dropping them
in a circle about 30 feet apart. 30 feet.
If the Stingray tries to move,
she's blasted out of the water!
Can you get the engines going?
Move her out before
the bombs are in place?
Even if she was ready,
they'd hear the engines.
They sent word down,
turn the engines over...
or even work on the sub, and they start
dropping depth charges immediately!
This can't happen!
I won't let it.
I planned too well
for things to go wrong.
Oh, I'll find a way out.
No, you won't.
No, you won't.
You are so locked into your own plans,
you can never think your way out of them.
How could I improvise something?
(GROANS)
Dad!
I'm all right. I'm all right.
I'm just unrealistic.
Parker is right.
There is no way.
I should have learned how
to accept defeat by now.
You came so close.
Nobody could have done any better.
In this game,
there are no prizes for second place.
GRAYLAND: We've lost.
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
It's not over.
It's not over.
We can move the Stingray silently,
out of range of the hydrophones.
That's impossible.
You're a very lucky accident.
First, you stumble into us
and second, you didn't get killed.
You're gonna push the sub.
Wrong.
How can he?
It's simple. First, we empty some
ballast to establish neutral buoyancy.
Once the sub is off the ocean floor,
he'll be able to move it.
Your friend in the bathysphere.
I saw how you reacted
the first time you saw him.
Wanna take a look?
He's still there.
Right on the very bottom.
He's helpless.
You do as you're told...
or I'll send a swimmer over to the
bathysphere to open the hatch...
and it's goodbye
to whoever's inside.
You can't do that.
Yes, I can, Mister.
Because this is go for broke.
Like the man says, there are
no prizes for second place...
but for first, there is a jackpot.
And believe me,
I will do what is necessary!
Control to Stingray.
Control to Stingray.
This is Parker.
Now listen.
I want a man to swim over to the
bathysphere and open the hatch.
Do it now.
This is the Captain.
Now scrub that order.
Don't... I repeat... don't open the hatch.
I will not have a killing!
I knew it.
I knew it all along.
You don't have what
it takes to carry this job off.
I knew I'd have to take over.
Okay, Williams.
I'll watch him.
You swim over to
the bathysphere...
and you know what to do.
Williams, I'm in command here!
Now you take orders from me!
Don't listen to him!
I say you take or...
Dad! Dad!
He needs First Aid.
Do we open the hatch?
Steve, please!
We don't have much time!
Hurry.
He needs oxygen.
Suppose Grayland lives.
Your friend in the bathysphere
has had it unless you follow orders.
Cynthia!
Stop it! Let me go!
It won't do any good!
You don't care about
anything or anybody.
The only thing that matters
to you is money.
Well, let me tell you something,
I've never wanted to hurt anybody...
but you've taught me a good lesson, and
if I had a gun in my hands right now...
You'd do nothing.
Now look after your father.
Come on.
Congratulations.
You probably saved his life
which will last another 18 minutes.
That's when they start
dropping depth charges.
That's when we all go.
But your friend in the bathysphere,
he has even less time.
Because Williams will open
the hatch in a couple of minutes.
That's a lot of dead people, Austin.
And you can save 'em all.
All you have to do is push the sub
out of range of their hydrophones...
so we can finish repairs
and get out of here. That's all.
If I agree to push the sub, how do you figure
to get it by the picket bombs?
That's my problem.
Your problem is a simple yes or no.
Now.
Seven minutes.
Not a sound.
If they could have started that sub,
believe me, they would have done it by now.
Oscar, I'm not in
the mind-reading business.
You gave them 30 minutes.
That's what they get.
I want the bathysphere
moved out of the area...
so that guy can't report
what we're doing.
Get ready, lady.
You're coming with us.
I'm staying with my father.
I'm all right.
Don't worry about me.
I need you.
And as long as he's being taken care of
down here, you'll cooperate, won't you?
And you, Austin.
We know that
you'll try something.
But it wouldn't be wise
when everybody's watching.
A noise, just a noise...
and they start dropping depth
charges from up there.
A wrong move down here,
we take care of you and the bathysphere.
Do you understand?
Right.
Leave the special shark,
but bring the others.
They're gonna do guard duty
while we push the sub.
In case somebody gets curious
and comes down for a look.
All right.
Let's go.
PARKER: Stingray to Control.
Stingray to Control.
We're cutting the phone line
from the sub to the tender.
We are hooking it into Ed's helmet.
Once it's hooked, they'll think
they are talking to the Stingray.
They'll never know the difference.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Oscar, I think you've pulled it off.
All the picket bombs are in place
with three minutes to go...
and not a sound from the Stingray.
(INTERCOM BUZZER)
Stingray.
This is Oscar Goldman speaking.
30 minutes aren't up yet.
I'm calling to warn you.
You are completely surrounded
by magnetic bombs.
Approach one and you'll be
blasted out of the water.
Okay. Keep your hair on.
I'll tell the Captain.
I want to speak to the Captain.
He's not aboard.
He'll get back to you.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Are you sure there's nothing, no engine,
no propeller, no work crew?
Zero sound, sir.
Come on, Oscar,
what's bugging you?
The phone on the Stingray,
it has a different sound to it.
Like what?
It's not as full. Strange.
Hollow. I don't like it.
Oscar, she's loaded with
sophisticated hardware.
They've blocked out sonar.
Maybe they're trying something
that's affecting the phone.
Now what could they do?
We got 'em locked.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Time's up. I wanna
talk with your Captain.
He's on his way.
He should be here any second.
I've got a gut feeling
something's wrong down there.
I could take a chance
and send down some frogmen.
If there are any sharks,
don't take any risks.
Send them back up.
I'll keep whoever's on the other end
of this phone occupied.
Stingray, I wanna know what's
holding up your captain.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(METAL CREAKING)
How was the Stingray moved?
Powered by Pixies.
With luck, you'll get ten years
for stealing government property.
If anything happens to Rudy Wells
or Steve Austin, the charge is murder.
Now if you wanna cooperate,
we might be able to make a deal.
I already made my deal.
Get him out of here.
Oscar, I've ordered
hunter-killer submarines.
They should be on the scene
in about an hour.
I don't know if they can find the Stingray,
powered by Pixies...
but if they do, they'll let go
with everything they have.
It's all my fault, Josh.
I talked you out of those depth charges
when we could have blasted the Stingray.
It doesn't matter whose fault it is.
We've lost the sub.
And the two men I hoped to save.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Hold it, Austin.
Now I've seen what you can do.
I'm a believer.
It makes my trigger
finger very dancey.
One other thing: If you're even
better than I think you are...
and you do manage
to take my gun away...
her father won't be alive
when you get in to see him.
That's guaranteed.
Steve, I've got no right,
but please.
The gun's enough of a problem.
Let's go.
PARKER: You're out of range
of the hydrophones.
Get this boat ready fast.
I want missiles top priority.
(AIR HISSING)
It was just a crazy dream,
wasn't it?
Dad, don't. Don't take it that way.
You deserved...
It was, wasn't it?
Maybe if I'd had the courage to say so...
I owe you an apology, Austin.
Not that it's worth much.
A man lets his frustration get tangled up
with his pride, he's asking for trouble.
Is there a chance the men on the Stingray
will reject Parker's orders?
No.
He hired 'em.
I trusted him.
Austin...
forget me if you can
save Cynthia and yourself.
No whispering!
Say it loud enough
for me to hear or be quiet.
Well, I was just explaining that
I'm an old man with a weak heart...
and couldn't possibly disarm
three guards single handed.
At least, I don't think I can.
It's very funny.
The three of us will be
moving back to the sub.
Get the charts packed,
then follow Williams.
I'll follow along.
WILLIAMS: What happens to them?
You'd really rather not know,
wouldn't you?
Well, Captain, you planned it.
I'll give you credit for that...
even though you didn't have
the backbone to finish the job.
Well, I guess that's your epitaph.
No backbone.
Are you going to add murder to piracy?
They've always gone hand in hand,
haven't they?
Murdering us isn't going
to accomplish anything.
Control to Stingray.
Control to Stingray.
Stingray.
This is Parker. Now listen.
I want to know the minute
you're ready to turn the engines over.
Right.
Now we wait...
but not for long.
Planes are en route, and we're covering
the area with detection devices...
but I'm not optimistic.
Rudy doesn't have much
more oxygen, Josh.
Sir, there's an oil slick
off the port bow.
OSCAR: It's spreading slowly.
That's got Steve's signature.
The Stingray.
That gives us a bead on her.
Oscar, this time
I've got no choice.
Direct the ASW aircraft
to that area...
and order the destroyers
to ready depth charges.
Aye, aye, sir.
(SIRENS WAIL)
Missile tubes are okay and loaded.
Control to Stingray.
Control to Stingray!
Stingray.
Any damage?
Not yet, but the bombs are moving closer.
Look, there's a back-up
emergency buoy.
Release it. I'm coming over.
Will do.
Now look, you watch those two.
Tom and I will take Austin to the sub.
Why?
Just do as you're told!
Now move!
Now look, Austin,
your friend in the bathysphere...
I kept him alive just in case
you got stubborn again.
Buoy! Ten points off starboard bow.
Tell them to cease fire.
Cease fire! Cease fire!
This is Oscar Goldman speaking.
Mr. Goldman, the Stingray is now
armed with nuclear missiles.
The first one is aimed at
Charleston, South Carolina.
It's ready to fire.
He says the Stingray is armed with
nuclear weapons and ready to fire.
Try to find out who he is.
I wanna know who I'm dealing with.
I'm authorized to speak for the new
commander of the Stingray...
Captain Morgan Grayland.
Captain Morgan Grayland.
Grayland? I've known him for years.
He's brilliant!
He's unstable, but I'm sure
he wouldn't use a nuclear missile.
Call his bluff.
Either you and your men surface
immediately, or we'll resume bombing.
That's final.
I don't think so.
I'll let you speak to someone
who may change your mind.
Oscar, this is Steve.
Steve, are you all right?
Never mind. But I've seen the nuke and
it's in firing mode exactly as described.
Admiral Prescott says he knows
Morgan Grayland...
and that Morgan Grayland wouldn't fire,
Well, the man down here
with his finger on the button will.
I'm sure of it.
Mr. Goldman, the first missile's
aimed at Charleston.
That will demonstrate
that I mean business.
The second is aimed at a larger city.
What do you want?
Just move all your ships
out of the area. Right now.
Any delay and that will...
Well, you know what that'll mean.
Steve says the Stingray is armed.
Armed with nuclear missiles.
Missiles ready to fire unless you
clear all these vessels out of here.
We can't! He'd hold the whole
world as a hostage.
But he'll destroy a city with tens
of thousands of people now...
if we try to stop him.
I am not a patient man, Mr. Goldman.
At least we'll buy time.
I accept your terms.
Well?
Engines rewing.
They're leaving the area.
What happened?
He's got nuclear missiles on board the
Stingray and he's prepared to use them.
I never knew that.
Radio all other ships to continue at flank
speed away from the area of the Stingray.
If we go any further, we won't have
any hope of stopping that sub.
Stop engines.
It's all clear.
All right. Let's wrap it up.
Finish collecting the charts
and don't waste any time.
I probably won't be needing
the sharks any more.
Although if you were a different kind of
woman, you could come with us...
and use them in emergency.
I'd agree if you were
the emergency.
(CHUCKLES)
She's so unfriendly,
but understandable.
It's a shame to waste such
a talent as yours, but...
The sub seems to be making a run for it.
We gotta take our best shot.
Those ASW planes will unload
everything they've got...
and we hope we blast them before
they can release their missile.
Stingray to Control.
Charts ready to go.
Stingray to Control.
Control here.
Repairs completed.
Ready to move out.
Great! I'll be right over.
Now look.
There's an easy way to do what has
to be done. Get some blasting powder.
Plant it around the cave entrance
and we'll set it off as we leave.
They'll never get out of here.
I'd give anything not to get out of here,
but to get my hands on you!
I've made so many mistakes, but there's one
thing that's driving me out of my mind.
You! I trusted you!
Rave on, old man.
Rave on.
You won't get away with it.
I'm gonna stop you
with my own hands!
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Steve.
Can we get him out of here?
We can float him out
and up to the surface.
There'd be no exertion and he'd be
breathing a rich oxygen mixture.
Come on.
We'll take him up, but I gotta make sure that
my friend in the bath ysphere is all right.
What about Parker?
He might get free and come after us.
Okay. I know how to handle that.
I'll take care of it now.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Let me out of this thing.
PARKER: They sealed us in the cave!
If we can stop Austin,
we might dig our way out.
The men in the sub, they'd come
looking for us, they'd help us!
Stop Austin?
You gotta be kidding.
We've got a chance!
Can you control that shark?
No. But a shark is a shark.
But I can tear him loose.
He can do what comes naturally.
(ELECTRONIC TONES)
CYNTHIA: Steve! Look!
Have I got a chance against that shark?
Maybe. He doesn't have
a human intelligence controlling him now.
Try to keep the bath ysphere
between you and the shark.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Cynthia, swim to the surface
with your father.
What about you?
Just go. And I'll join you
as soon as I check Rudy.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
I don't believe it.
Of course not.
Because you don't really
know Steve Austin.
The man in the bathysphere?
He'll be fine.
There's only one thing left to say.
Bless you.
OSCAR: Well, all decompressed?
Finally.
Steve, I think you cut it a little close.
Next time, if you don't mind, I'd rather
be rescued before I'm gasping for air.
I had my hands full
with a big fish.
(ALL LAUGH)
We've got frogmen down
checking the surveillance system.
The crew on the Stingray are in custody...
and the two in the cave will be
brought up and put in the brig.
Well, they came close to pullin' it off.
You got your people to clean up
that oil slick, didn't you, Josh?
Yeah.
How's your father?
Doctor says he has a good
chance of recovering.
The fact that he has a chance
at all is because of you.
I really don't know how to thank you.
Don't try.
When he does recover,
he'll face charges.
So will I.
That's the way it should be.
Afraid so.
You've tried just about everything else.
Have you ever considered
rehabilitating an ex-con?
Well, not yet.
Well, I'm not an ex-con yet.
But when I am, and if you will.
We'll talk about it.
(END THEME MUSIC)
Oh, she's beautiful, isn't she?
Just like she's answering
the command you gave her, Dad.
She is.
She had to come to
repair the warning system.
Now.
OSCAR (VO): Here are some
scenes from Part One of "Sharks".
The Stingray's in trouble.
Ten... five.
I think I'm gonna get back
into that sub now.
(CABLE SNAPS)
Hold it!
You think I'm afraid
to use this gun?
Lady, anybody with sharks
as swimming companions...
isn't afraid of anything
as far as I'm concerned.
Is that another one of your pets?
That one's my best work.
It has a brain implant, which means
that I can control him electronically.
Remember that if you're
considering an escape attempt.
The FBI has picked up a suspect...
who may have planted an
explosive device on the Stingray.
He worked at the Boston
Navy Yard last year...
when torpedoes and nuclear
missiles were stolen.
Are you suggesting the
possibility that that theft...
has something to do with
what's going on out here?
I'm only guessing,
and I may be wrong.
The Stingray is in enemy hands,
Gentlemen.
It's piracy.
It's an ancient, sometimes honorable,
always profitable profession.
I thought this caper was designed
to prove you can handle sharks.
I was gonna sail the Stingray
into New York Harbor...
to show them what I can do with my
sharks, but this proved to be too good.
And once the torpedoes are loaded
and we're off, nothing's gonna stop us.
Cynthia, use the special shark
to eliminate the bathysphere problem.
(ELECTRONIC TONES)
(CABLE SNAPS)
Austin's loose. He's taken
scuba gear out of Room 3.
I told you he should
have been killed.
He'll get in the sub.
GRAYLAND: Cynthia, bring him back.
(ELECTRONIC TONES)
I know that Rudy's alive
in that bathysphere...
and I feel it in my bones
that Steve's alive, too.
I'm ordering the Stingray to be
depth charged and destroyed.
OSCAR (VO).' In a moment,
the conclusion of "Sharks".
FLIGHT COM:
It looks good at NASA One.
B- 52 >PILOT:
Roger.
BCS Arm switch is on.
FLIGHT COM:
Okay, Victor.
B-52 PILOT:
Landing Rocket Arm switch is on.
Here comes the throttle.
Circuit breakers in.
STEVE:
We have separation.
B-52 PILOT:
Inboard and outboards are on.
I'm comin' forward with the side stick.
FLIGHT COM:
Looks good.
PILOT:
Ah, Roger.
STEVE:
I've got a blowout in damper three.
SR-71 PILOT:
Get your pitch to zero.
STEVE:
Pitch is out. I can't hold altitude!
B-52 PILOT: Correction. Alpha Hold is all“.
Threat selector is emergency.
STEVE: Flight Com. I can't hold it!
She's breaking up! She's breaking...
ANNOUNCER:
Steve Austin. Astronaut.
A man barely alive.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.
We have the technology.
We have the capability
to make the world's first bionic man.
Steve Austin will be that man.
Better than he was before.
Better, stronger, faster.
(MAIN TITLE THEME)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Steve.
Are you all right?
I'm sorry.
You're sorry. That wipes out
everything, right?
Look, I'm not making excuses.
Just an apology to make chopping
down the bathysphere okay...
leaving a man helpless
on the bottom on the ocean...
using sharks to risk the lives of...
My sharks can kill.
Now, so far I've kept them
from harming anyone.
You should be grateful.
What do you want?
My vote of thanks?
That man in the bathysphere...
he's sending a message
in Morse Code!
He's gotta be stopped.
Parker, wait.
You are reacting
before thinking.
Now what could he possibly say
to a surface party that can hurt us?
I don't know, but I don't see why we
should risk his tellin' them anything.
Parker, you're a very valuable man
when you act under orders.
Otherwise, you have the
finesse of an outraged bull.
Now, they know the
man's alive down here...
so the Navy is gonna be far less
eager to do anything drastic...
to stop the Stingray if there's
a possibility he could be harmed.
That limits their action against us.
What about Austin?
Well, what about him?
Look, Captain...
when you gave the order that
no one was to be hurt, it made sense.
In the beginning, but no more.
Not with him.
He's shown how dangerous he is.
His escape was our own fault.
It won't happen again.
Now, get over to the Stingray,
check out the work, and report back to me.
I wanna know when
it can get underway.
Adams, I want two men guarding him.
He's a time bomb ready to explode.
What have you got?
Dr. Wells, sir.
He rapped a message he's okay.
He saw Colonel Austin.
Thanks.
Sir?
I'm also getting sounds
of pounding and hammering.
Somebody's working in the sub.
Stay on those phones.
Admiral, sir, back up
destroyers coming up fast.
(NAVAL SIRENS WAIL)
Steve and Rudy are definitely
alive down there, Josh.
I know. I got the report.
But work is apparently
in progress on the Stingray.
If she's repaired and moves out,
she'll be virtually impossible to locate.
You can't bomb that submarine, Josh.
You'll virtually seal the death
warrant on two men.
Oscar, I don't want to harm
Steve and Rudy...
but I have a national
security obligation.
I cannot allow a nuclear sub in some
enemy's hands to become operational.
There's got to be another way.
When I was in underwater
demolition during World War II...
we had to block a harbor
entrance quickly.
We used the NPB 427s.
Magnetic picket mines?
Oscar, you may have just
come up with something.
You get points for bringing this thing off
without getting anybody hurt so far.
How long do you think
you can run it out?
All the way.
You said yourself those ships
up there can destroy you.
They destroy me,
they destroy you.
It's a perfect stand-off until
I can get the Stingray ready...
and shipped out of here.
Perfect.
This is the latest version of
the NPB 427 picket bomb.
The Stingray will be surrounded by
magnetic bombs anchored to the sea bed.
An explosive picket fence.
Place these bombs at 30 foot intervals
so the Stingray can't slip through.
All right.
There's just one problem.
What?
The sub could be made
ready and slip away...
during the 30 minutes or so it'll take
to drop those bombs into position.
If I could prevent them from doing
repairs the next 30 minutes...
we'll have them blocked.
How?
Got an idea.
The steering assembly is about set.
We'll have it installed in about
a half an hour and that should do it.
What about the missile tubes?
Beautiful. They'll be ready
by the time we shove off...
Shhh.
(ELECTRONIC MORSE CODE)
That's an S.O.S.
So? We're in no trouble.
Why care if they are?
Don't be stupid.
It doesn't hurt to find out what
the other side is thinking, or offering.
Go ahead.
There are three naval vessels in the area.
Either you stop work
on the Stingray immediately...
or we'll blast you out of the water.
You could have dropped
depth charges at any time.
We have two of your men down here.
You want them to get killed?
No, but unless you stop work,
we have no choice.
Oh, I see.
Our choice is to wait down here like
sitting ducks, or pop up and surrender.
No thanks.
You haven't got a chance.
None. Zero.
You stop work or we bomb.
It's as simple as that.
What kind of deal
will you make if we accept?
We might offer you leniency at the trial.
Hold the work.
Well, I can't make that kind of a decision.
I'll have to contact my commander.
He'll talk to you.
Is there a chance of finishing up
quietly so they can't hear?
OSCAR: Stop all work immediately
and then we can talk.
I'll give you 30 minutes.
I'll get back to you.
Maybe he thought I was bluffing.
We'll find out
if we hear any pounding.
OSCAR: The destroyers are
dropping bombs right on target.
PARKER: They're dropping them
in a circle about 30 feet apart. 30 feet.
If the Stingray tries to move,
she's blasted out of the water!
Can you get the engines going?
Move her out before
the bombs are in place?
Even if she was ready,
they'd hear the engines.
They sent word down,
turn the engines over...
or even work on the sub, and they start
dropping depth charges immediately!
This can't happen!
I won't let it.
I planned too well
for things to go wrong.
Oh, I'll find a way out.
No, you won't.
No, you won't.
You are so locked into your own plans,
you can never think your way out of them.
How could I improvise something?
(GROANS)
Dad!
I'm all right. I'm all right.
I'm just unrealistic.
Parker is right.
There is no way.
I should have learned how
to accept defeat by now.
You came so close.
Nobody could have done any better.
In this game,
there are no prizes for second place.
GRAYLAND: We've lost.
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
It's not over.
It's not over.
We can move the Stingray silently,
out of range of the hydrophones.
That's impossible.
You're a very lucky accident.
First, you stumble into us
and second, you didn't get killed.
You're gonna push the sub.
Wrong.
How can he?
It's simple. First, we empty some
ballast to establish neutral buoyancy.
Once the sub is off the ocean floor,
he'll be able to move it.
Your friend in the bathysphere.
I saw how you reacted
the first time you saw him.
Wanna take a look?
He's still there.
Right on the very bottom.
He's helpless.
You do as you're told...
or I'll send a swimmer over to the
bathysphere to open the hatch...
and it's goodbye
to whoever's inside.
You can't do that.
Yes, I can, Mister.
Because this is go for broke.
Like the man says, there are
no prizes for second place...
but for first, there is a jackpot.
And believe me,
I will do what is necessary!
Control to Stingray.
Control to Stingray.
This is Parker.
Now listen.
I want a man to swim over to the
bathysphere and open the hatch.
Do it now.
This is the Captain.
Now scrub that order.
Don't... I repeat... don't open the hatch.
I will not have a killing!
I knew it.
I knew it all along.
You don't have what
it takes to carry this job off.
I knew I'd have to take over.
Okay, Williams.
I'll watch him.
You swim over to
the bathysphere...
and you know what to do.
Williams, I'm in command here!
Now you take orders from me!
Don't listen to him!
I say you take or...
Dad! Dad!
He needs First Aid.
Do we open the hatch?
Steve, please!
We don't have much time!
Hurry.
He needs oxygen.
Suppose Grayland lives.
Your friend in the bathysphere
has had it unless you follow orders.
Cynthia!
Stop it! Let me go!
It won't do any good!
You don't care about
anything or anybody.
The only thing that matters
to you is money.
Well, let me tell you something,
I've never wanted to hurt anybody...
but you've taught me a good lesson, and
if I had a gun in my hands right now...
You'd do nothing.
Now look after your father.
Come on.
Congratulations.
You probably saved his life
which will last another 18 minutes.
That's when they start
dropping depth charges.
That's when we all go.
But your friend in the bathysphere,
he has even less time.
Because Williams will open
the hatch in a couple of minutes.
That's a lot of dead people, Austin.
And you can save 'em all.
All you have to do is push the sub
out of range of their hydrophones...
so we can finish repairs
and get out of here. That's all.
If I agree to push the sub, how do you figure
to get it by the picket bombs?
That's my problem.
Your problem is a simple yes or no.
Now.
Seven minutes.
Not a sound.
If they could have started that sub,
believe me, they would have done it by now.
Oscar, I'm not in
the mind-reading business.
You gave them 30 minutes.
That's what they get.
I want the bathysphere
moved out of the area...
so that guy can't report
what we're doing.
Get ready, lady.
You're coming with us.
I'm staying with my father.
I'm all right.
Don't worry about me.
I need you.
And as long as he's being taken care of
down here, you'll cooperate, won't you?
And you, Austin.
We know that
you'll try something.
But it wouldn't be wise
when everybody's watching.
A noise, just a noise...
and they start dropping depth
charges from up there.
A wrong move down here,
we take care of you and the bathysphere.
Do you understand?
Right.
Leave the special shark,
but bring the others.
They're gonna do guard duty
while we push the sub.
In case somebody gets curious
and comes down for a look.
All right.
Let's go.
PARKER: Stingray to Control.
Stingray to Control.
We're cutting the phone line
from the sub to the tender.
We are hooking it into Ed's helmet.
Once it's hooked, they'll think
they are talking to the Stingray.
They'll never know the difference.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Oscar, I think you've pulled it off.
All the picket bombs are in place
with three minutes to go...
and not a sound from the Stingray.
(INTERCOM BUZZER)
Stingray.
This is Oscar Goldman speaking.
30 minutes aren't up yet.
I'm calling to warn you.
You are completely surrounded
by magnetic bombs.
Approach one and you'll be
blasted out of the water.
Okay. Keep your hair on.
I'll tell the Captain.
I want to speak to the Captain.
He's not aboard.
He'll get back to you.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Are you sure there's nothing, no engine,
no propeller, no work crew?
Zero sound, sir.
Come on, Oscar,
what's bugging you?
The phone on the Stingray,
it has a different sound to it.
Like what?
It's not as full. Strange.
Hollow. I don't like it.
Oscar, she's loaded with
sophisticated hardware.
They've blocked out sonar.
Maybe they're trying something
that's affecting the phone.
Now what could they do?
We got 'em locked.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Time's up. I wanna
talk with your Captain.
He's on his way.
He should be here any second.
I've got a gut feeling
something's wrong down there.
I could take a chance
and send down some frogmen.
If there are any sharks,
don't take any risks.
Send them back up.
I'll keep whoever's on the other end
of this phone occupied.
Stingray, I wanna know what's
holding up your captain.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(METAL CREAKING)
How was the Stingray moved?
Powered by Pixies.
With luck, you'll get ten years
for stealing government property.
If anything happens to Rudy Wells
or Steve Austin, the charge is murder.
Now if you wanna cooperate,
we might be able to make a deal.
I already made my deal.
Get him out of here.
Oscar, I've ordered
hunter-killer submarines.
They should be on the scene
in about an hour.
I don't know if they can find the Stingray,
powered by Pixies...
but if they do, they'll let go
with everything they have.
It's all my fault, Josh.
I talked you out of those depth charges
when we could have blasted the Stingray.
It doesn't matter whose fault it is.
We've lost the sub.
And the two men I hoped to save.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Hold it, Austin.
Now I've seen what you can do.
I'm a believer.
It makes my trigger
finger very dancey.
One other thing: If you're even
better than I think you are...
and you do manage
to take my gun away...
her father won't be alive
when you get in to see him.
That's guaranteed.
Steve, I've got no right,
but please.
The gun's enough of a problem.
Let's go.
PARKER: You're out of range
of the hydrophones.
Get this boat ready fast.
I want missiles top priority.
(AIR HISSING)
It was just a crazy dream,
wasn't it?
Dad, don't. Don't take it that way.
You deserved...
It was, wasn't it?
Maybe if I'd had the courage to say so...
I owe you an apology, Austin.
Not that it's worth much.
A man lets his frustration get tangled up
with his pride, he's asking for trouble.
Is there a chance the men on the Stingray
will reject Parker's orders?
No.
He hired 'em.
I trusted him.
Austin...
forget me if you can
save Cynthia and yourself.
No whispering!
Say it loud enough
for me to hear or be quiet.
Well, I was just explaining that
I'm an old man with a weak heart...
and couldn't possibly disarm
three guards single handed.
At least, I don't think I can.
It's very funny.
The three of us will be
moving back to the sub.
Get the charts packed,
then follow Williams.
I'll follow along.
WILLIAMS: What happens to them?
You'd really rather not know,
wouldn't you?
Well, Captain, you planned it.
I'll give you credit for that...
even though you didn't have
the backbone to finish the job.
Well, I guess that's your epitaph.
No backbone.
Are you going to add murder to piracy?
They've always gone hand in hand,
haven't they?
Murdering us isn't going
to accomplish anything.
Control to Stingray.
Control to Stingray.
Stingray.
This is Parker. Now listen.
I want to know the minute
you're ready to turn the engines over.
Right.
Now we wait...
but not for long.
Planes are en route, and we're covering
the area with detection devices...
but I'm not optimistic.
Rudy doesn't have much
more oxygen, Josh.
Sir, there's an oil slick
off the port bow.
OSCAR: It's spreading slowly.
That's got Steve's signature.
The Stingray.
That gives us a bead on her.
Oscar, this time
I've got no choice.
Direct the ASW aircraft
to that area...
and order the destroyers
to ready depth charges.
Aye, aye, sir.
(SIRENS WAIL)
Missile tubes are okay and loaded.
Control to Stingray.
Control to Stingray!
Stingray.
Any damage?
Not yet, but the bombs are moving closer.
Look, there's a back-up
emergency buoy.
Release it. I'm coming over.
Will do.
Now look, you watch those two.
Tom and I will take Austin to the sub.
Why?
Just do as you're told!
Now move!
Now look, Austin,
your friend in the bathysphere...
I kept him alive just in case
you got stubborn again.
Buoy! Ten points off starboard bow.
Tell them to cease fire.
Cease fire! Cease fire!
This is Oscar Goldman speaking.
Mr. Goldman, the Stingray is now
armed with nuclear missiles.
The first one is aimed at
Charleston, South Carolina.
It's ready to fire.
He says the Stingray is armed with
nuclear weapons and ready to fire.
Try to find out who he is.
I wanna know who I'm dealing with.
I'm authorized to speak for the new
commander of the Stingray...
Captain Morgan Grayland.
Captain Morgan Grayland.
Grayland? I've known him for years.
He's brilliant!
He's unstable, but I'm sure
he wouldn't use a nuclear missile.
Call his bluff.
Either you and your men surface
immediately, or we'll resume bombing.
That's final.
I don't think so.
I'll let you speak to someone
who may change your mind.
Oscar, this is Steve.
Steve, are you all right?
Never mind. But I've seen the nuke and
it's in firing mode exactly as described.
Admiral Prescott says he knows
Morgan Grayland...
and that Morgan Grayland wouldn't fire,
Well, the man down here
with his finger on the button will.
I'm sure of it.
Mr. Goldman, the first missile's
aimed at Charleston.
That will demonstrate
that I mean business.
The second is aimed at a larger city.
What do you want?
Just move all your ships
out of the area. Right now.
Any delay and that will...
Well, you know what that'll mean.
Steve says the Stingray is armed.
Armed with nuclear missiles.
Missiles ready to fire unless you
clear all these vessels out of here.
We can't! He'd hold the whole
world as a hostage.
But he'll destroy a city with tens
of thousands of people now...
if we try to stop him.
I am not a patient man, Mr. Goldman.
At least we'll buy time.
I accept your terms.
Well?
Engines rewing.
They're leaving the area.
What happened?
He's got nuclear missiles on board the
Stingray and he's prepared to use them.
I never knew that.
Radio all other ships to continue at flank
speed away from the area of the Stingray.
If we go any further, we won't have
any hope of stopping that sub.
Stop engines.
It's all clear.
All right. Let's wrap it up.
Finish collecting the charts
and don't waste any time.
I probably won't be needing
the sharks any more.
Although if you were a different kind of
woman, you could come with us...
and use them in emergency.
I'd agree if you were
the emergency.
(CHUCKLES)
She's so unfriendly,
but understandable.
It's a shame to waste such
a talent as yours, but...
The sub seems to be making a run for it.
We gotta take our best shot.
Those ASW planes will unload
everything they've got...
and we hope we blast them before
they can release their missile.
Stingray to Control.
Charts ready to go.
Stingray to Control.
Control here.
Repairs completed.
Ready to move out.
Great! I'll be right over.
Now look.
There's an easy way to do what has
to be done. Get some blasting powder.
Plant it around the cave entrance
and we'll set it off as we leave.
They'll never get out of here.
I'd give anything not to get out of here,
but to get my hands on you!
I've made so many mistakes, but there's one
thing that's driving me out of my mind.
You! I trusted you!
Rave on, old man.
Rave on.
You won't get away with it.
I'm gonna stop you
with my own hands!
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Steve.
Can we get him out of here?
We can float him out
and up to the surface.
There'd be no exertion and he'd be
breathing a rich oxygen mixture.
Come on.
We'll take him up, but I gotta make sure that
my friend in the bath ysphere is all right.
What about Parker?
He might get free and come after us.
Okay. I know how to handle that.
I'll take care of it now.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Let me out of this thing.
PARKER: They sealed us in the cave!
If we can stop Austin,
we might dig our way out.
The men in the sub, they'd come
looking for us, they'd help us!
Stop Austin?
You gotta be kidding.
We've got a chance!
Can you control that shark?
No. But a shark is a shark.
But I can tear him loose.
He can do what comes naturally.
(ELECTRONIC TONES)
CYNTHIA: Steve! Look!
Have I got a chance against that shark?
Maybe. He doesn't have
a human intelligence controlling him now.
Try to keep the bath ysphere
between you and the shark.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
Cynthia, swim to the surface
with your father.
What about you?
Just go. And I'll join you
as soon as I check Rudy.
(BIONIC SOUND EFFECT)
I don't believe it.
Of course not.
Because you don't really
know Steve Austin.
The man in the bathysphere?
He'll be fine.
There's only one thing left to say.
Bless you.
OSCAR: Well, all decompressed?
Finally.
Steve, I think you cut it a little close.
Next time, if you don't mind, I'd rather
be rescued before I'm gasping for air.
I had my hands full
with a big fish.
(ALL LAUGH)
We've got frogmen down
checking the surveillance system.
The crew on the Stingray are in custody...
and the two in the cave will be
brought up and put in the brig.
Well, they came close to pullin' it off.
You got your people to clean up
that oil slick, didn't you, Josh?
Yeah.
How's your father?
Doctor says he has a good
chance of recovering.
The fact that he has a chance
at all is because of you.
I really don't know how to thank you.
Don't try.
When he does recover,
he'll face charges.
So will I.
That's the way it should be.
Afraid so.
You've tried just about everything else.
Have you ever considered
rehabilitating an ex-con?
Well, not yet.
Well, I'm not an ex-con yet.
But when I am, and if you will.
We'll talk about it.
(END THEME MUSIC)