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SeaQuest - season 2

Scene 1

Commander Ford skipping steps down a staircase, apparently in a good mood, Miguel Ortiz waylaids him, Ford grins as if he knows why and he's pleased with himself over it.

Miguel: Why do you always give me this kind of duty?

Ford: Because I'm your commanding officer.

Miguel: When I signed on seaQuest, I thought it would be about science, not entertainment.

Ford (chuckling): Well, when it's not about science, it can be very entertaining. Besides, you come from a show biz family, Miguel. Your dad was in television.

Miguel: My dad was a television repair man. Besides, the USO show? Come on, the seaQuest isn't a tour bus. I'm not a tour guide. Why doesn't she just take a plane?

Ford: Well, Miss Toenin believes that the air space is the sovereign domain of the birds. She's an environmentalist.

Miguel: She's a nut, Commander. Last year, she married a tree.

Ford: Well, you get to do stuff like that when you're a big rock star.

Miguel: Ever hear her music? That cutesy, newagey, 'I'm your buddy, hug me' kind of thing with the milkshake voice of hers? Comes with a warning from the Surgeon General.

Ford: The troops stationed at Solitaire Island deserve a little R&R, Miguel.

Miguel: They're surrounded by white sand and palm trees.

Ford: Give it up. You might even like her. She's cute.

Miguel: Fat chance, I'm a meat eater.

Scene 2

In one of the seaQuest Lab Stations, wet chem lab bench on an loft type upper platform, several computers below. Lucas Wolenczak and Tim O'Neill at the computers, Tony Piccolo on a stool at the lat bench proper, Jim Brody standing behind Lucas watching.

Lucas: Solitaire's weight should be consistant with our projections given traditional Mediterranean land masses. But I've been running the numbers and I still haven't gotten one that makes any sense yet.

Piccolo: What difference does it make how much an island weighs? Isn't that sort of fall into the category of how many strippers can dance on a barroom table? (comes down to the lower level)

Brody: That's how many angels on the head of a pin.

Lucas: Actually, Solitaire isn't an island, it's a mountain. One of the tallest in the world. If you put it next to Mt. Everest, it would be almost twice the size.

Piccolo: That's high, huh?

Lucas: For most of us, yeah.

Brody: But ... Why weigh it?

Tim: Because it's sinking. Three meters every hundred years. The land mass is too heavy to be supported by the area's superstructure and the whole region's becoming seismically unstable. So in about a million years, the whole thing will be under water.

Piccolo: There goes the real estate market. Hey, guys! Come on! The universe is expanding, too. One day, BANG! (slaps hands together in Lucas' face). It'll break apart. The bit Bye Bye. Our planet host cosmic toast. So what's the point of living, right? Life is senseless. Fool's Folly. A moment's sunlight fading on the grass, a biological coincidence failing in some future distant dawn. (the other three stare at the ex-con with expressions of stunned disbelief and strained patience. He shruggs) Yeah, I tried to use that one to get out of doing my science homework. No one bought it then either.

Tim: Tony, could you go lie down or something?

Brody: So, O'Neill, why a... What are we going to do about it?

Tim: Oh, seaQuest is going to core through the mountain like an apple. We're going to start digging at the base, laser scrub the interior, dredge it out and lighten it up.

Piccolo: I thought it was going to be something hard, like spelling.

Tim: No. Relax. It's going to take a hundred years. SeaQuest's task is just to start the first step.

Scene 3

Shuttle outside seaQuest.

Shuttle pilot: This is UEO VIP shuttle 2. We are at approach speed and request clearance for final docking.

sQ: Affirmative shuttle 2. You're cleared to docking Bay 3.

Corridor outside landing bay, Intercom blaring as Miguel heads toward the bay, disgusted expression on his face

Loudspeaker: VIP shuttle 2 has arrived docking Bay 3. VIP shuttle 2 has arrived docking Bay 3.

Miguel starts up steps, looks up sees Sara at the top of the steps in a white crop top, jeans, red/orange pattern shirt open and on arms, shoulder bag over her left arm and holding guitar in her right. His eyes open and he looks stunned.

Miguel: Miss Toenin? (Smiles welcome, laughs, starts to run up the steps, trips and recovers himself, holding out a hand.)

Sarah: (brightly): Hi.

Miguel: Sensor chief Ortiz.

Sarah: Dont tell me I have to call you sensor?

Miguel: Miguel, Mike, Tease he laughs nervously whatever. (Pointing behind her to the bay) Where's the rest of your entourage?

Sarah: This is it. Thanks for giving me a lift, though.

Miguel: Sure. Here let me get that for you. He reaches for the guitar.

Sarah: I've got it, thanks

Miguel: Oh, Ah, you know, I've recently become a very big fan of yours.

Sarah: Well that's nice. Thank you.

Miguel: I really love that one song of yours. the one they're playing, ah, which one is it, ahhh?

Sarah: Power Love?

Miguel: No, ah the one w/ the, ah, the guitar in the middle.

Sarah: Ah. Keeper of the Flame?

Miguel: Nah, the one about the people who don't know each other but fall in love anyway?

Sarah (laughs politely): Sleepless Nights.

Miguel (pointing at her with a smug smile on his face) : That's it

Sarah: That's not my song. Nice try, though.

Miguel: Hey, I took a shot.

Scene 4

Back in the lab. Piccol and Brody are standing below the wet lab station, looking up at something (?). Lucas looks weary and disgusted, sitting in front of computer, has pen behind right ear, runs both hands down face.

Lucas: I'm still not getting a weight that's consistant with the data. (Tim leans over his left shoulder, types on keyboard with his left hand, the other is on the back of Lucas' seat. Lucas pulls the pen from behind his ear and starts twisting it.

Tim: Sure you're not getting the composites?

Lucas (looking perplexed): This can't be right! (puts pen to right side of computer and starts typing. Piccolo and Brody approach on his right side, Brody leans over to see screen, has his right hand on table, left on Lucas' chair back)

Tim: What?

Lucas: These figures.

Tim: Yeah?

Lucas: They support that it's hollow

Tony:( incredulous) The island?

Brody (superior): It's a mountain, Homer

Tim: Lucas, there's nothing there to suggest that it's volcanic.

Lucas: No no, it suggests that it's manmade. It's got a predictable geometry, the computer's been extrapolating the form. It looks like a pyramid.

Brody: A pyramid? You mean like in Egypt?

Lucas: Yeah. Incrusted with a millions of years of soil and rock, that's what it appears to be. (they all stare at the screen with stunned expressions)

Tony (looking lost and worried): Is that good?

Lucas: depends on who built it.

>station break for id

Scene 5

Ward Room (?) Lucas is seated, chewing on his pen, Tim is seated along other side of table on his left side, Captain is pacing around behind them, playing w/ his beard.

Bridger: A pyramid?

Tim: Well,yeah, sort of, I mean, that's what it looks like.

Lucas: That is it's mathematical shape, Captain (he gestures with the pen)

Bridger (facing him challengingly with his arms akimbo): You say it's the size of manhattan, that's a little preposterous, don't you think?

Lucas: It's very preposterous, and it's the size of Ohio.

Bridger (pacing): Yes, and the sun is pulled across the sky by a chariot and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.

Lucas (pen at temple): Ok. we we we don't know that it's manmade exactly, but it's mathematical values are correct. you don't find that in nature (pointing with pencil). I mean, the pyramid is perfect, capt, I ran the measurements all the way to end of my computer and they come as close as I could get to infinity.

Bridger: Perfect math?

Lucas: In theory, yes. But we don't have the capabilities yet, so I can only speculate. (he half stands, leaning forward on table)

Bridger (challenging): How old do you think it is.

Lucas: Old! I've been trying to carbon date our lab samples but the data keeps coming up goose-eggs. If I had to put a date on it, ah, I'd say that it predates time, sir.

Tim (getting up and approaching the captain): Yeah. The first thing before the ver beginning of the very first thing.

Bridger (looking directly at him): I've got the concept, lieutenant.

Tim (smiling nervously): Right.

Scene 6

Music playing

Guest quarters, Sarah Toenin playing guitar seated on couch

Sarah (singing): "To ease her grief with comfort to say something (stops and writes) to turn her hurt and pain away (knock at door) sighs ,," (music stops, looks up) Come on in.

Miguel (bent forward at waist, peering around door, carrying a tray in his right hand and smiling broadly): Hi

Sarah: Hi

Miguel: I didn't see you at lunch, so I thought you might be hungry.

Sarah: Thank you. just let me finish this, ok? (writes something)

Miguel (putting tray down on table over by wall behind couch, near door): I'll leave. (runs up the steps to door way)

Sarah: No, no, stay. (Miguel backs down steps again, shutting door. As Sarah starts to sing, he moves forward and sits in a chair across from her) "His heart being moved by his great love most deeply and still the gods give orders he obeys them he goes back to his fleet ," (she stops, gives a small grimace and looks over at Miguel)

Miguel: That was beautiful

Sarah: Thank you. It's sort of new, yet, (putting guitar down) but we'll see.

Miguel (shaking head earnestly): No, I mean, it was. (leans forward) Did you, did you just right that like right now?

Sarah: Yeah, sort of Sometimes (rocks forward and back, pushes hair back w/ left hand) they just sort of come out. But this one, god knows where it's coming from. It feel really old.

Miguel: Like, like pearl jam?

Sarah (serious expression): Almost ancient but I feel as thought I have to write it. Like its the reason I'm taking seaQuest to Solitaire instead of flying.

Miguel (putting left hand up to his cheek and leaning on it, right hand under left elbow): I thought you didn't fly because of the birds

Sarah (amused expression): I don't fly because it makes me throw up.

(Miguel laughs)

Sarah: You're not really a fan are you?

Miguel (dropping hand): What? Are you kidding? Huge. (Sarah rolls her eyes) Actually, I'm a bit of a banger. (gestures toward ear with left hand) You know, if your ears aren't bleeding it isn't music. But I think it's truely nice what you're doing, performing for the troops and all.

Sarah: Well, it would be nicer if we didn't need them, but until then I guess someone has to sing for the soldiers.

Miguel: (stands, preparing to leave): Yeah. (heads toward door, turns around to face her when she adds)

Sarah: You know, if anyone wants to hear me rehearse, that's fine with me. I like performing in front of people, it keeps me honest.

Miguel: That would be nice, I'll spread it around. (jerks thumb toward door)

Sarah: Thanks.

Miguel: (stops at door, halfway out, left hand in pocket, right on the door handle, looks back) Did you really marry a tree?

Sarah (gives short laugh, old question, she tired of it): Naw, it was just a one night stand. (she laughs to self softly, as she watches him leaving, eyes dreamy)

Scene 7

Ladies shower room, ion head engaged. Lonnie Henderson and Dr. Wendy Smith are in adjacent cubicles, wiping themselves clean with wash cloths)

Lonnie: I don't know what the big deal is I mean Sarah Toenin, please

Smith: Well, maybe Laura Pinifferin was already taken.

Lonnie: The media gets hold of some kid, hands him a guitar, gives him a name (strikes a pose) cooler than cool ever was and we're supposed to think that she has all the answers to life. She's not even that pretty. And I think she's older than she says she is. (pointing finger) I mean, 23? No way.

Smith (jocular): Don't sugar coat it, tell how you really feel.

Lonnie (challenge): Do you like her music?

Smith: Yeah, yeah I do

Lonnie (scoffs): why?

Smith: Because it comes from the heart, I think it's honest.

Lonnie: It comes from a team of songwriters locked in some room somewhere who write exactly the stuff that everyone wants to listen to and then they say that she wrote it. (Wendy is starting to get upset, looks worried) Come on Wendy, It's all bright lights and hype.

Smith: What's up with you?

Lo: What?

Smith: You're not like this. Yyou don't even know this lady and you've done nothing but trash her since you heard she was coming onboard.

Lonnie: I have not. I'm just not a fan

Smith: I think you're jealous. (starts to pull robe on)

Lonnie: Come on.

Smith: I do.

Lonnie: Hardly. (Dr. Smith steps out of cubicle, starts to go out, stops, leans over door of Lonnies shower stall)

Smith: Then stop pounding on her, ok? (Leaves shower room)

Scene 8

(Location??) Dark room, Captain Bridger is seated talking to a computer holographic projection of an older man wearing a religious dog collar)

HoloPreacher: Maybe it's about God, Captain.

Bridger: You don't mean the old bearded man with the big golden book?

HoloPreacher: How else would one explain such a phenomenon? a pyramid that size, apparently ageless, it's incomprehensible

Bridger: I like to save the god answer for a last resort

HoloPreacher: But we all believe in him, don't we, I mean in our own way perhaps what we do and even if we are scientists, an argument can be made that science is god

Bridger: Or god is science.

HoloPreacher: I never asked you this before but are you religious?

Bridger: Well, in that I have faith, you could say so, yes.

HoloPreacher (chuckling): I always find it amusing that there are such specific differences. The same god wearing so many hats. (Captain looks very thoughtful) A 1000 religions confusing the same man. Which religion are you?

Bridger: My own I guess I believe in a unity and purpose in the cosmos and on occasion I call that god.

Scene 9

Lab again? Lucas looking at the computer image of Solitaire Island w/ surrounding seafloor, talking into a hand held recording device in left hand.

Lucas: Seismic activity is rising in the sw quadrant. Region is unusually unstable given pre-existing data. (puts the device down and starts to write. wipes at mouth with his left hand as computer starts speaking)

Computer voice: seismic indicators have increased 347 %

Lucas: Looks like we have an undersea earthquake on our hands. (types)

Scene 10

(music playing)
In one of the seaQuest Rec rooms, stage set up, piano silhouette behind, with blue back light, folding chairs in front of stage, filled w/ crewmembers in uniform. Sarah sits on a stool on stage wearing a red. white and grey(?) plaid shirt & jeans.

Sarah (singing): "To ease her grief with comfort to say, something To turn her hurt and pain away, sighs often, ..." (singing continues under dialogue)

Miguel (leaning towards Ford, eyes focused on stage. Ford sits, arms crossed on chest, looking amused and pleased): Is this lady great or what?

(Tim, enjoying the show, rocking a little with the beat, leans forward to listen to the exchange, he gives a snerk at what Ford says)

Ford (grinning and teasing gently): if you like that cutesy, hug your buddy and love me thing, yeah. (Lonnie is watching the audience from beside the door, looking mildly disgusted)

Miguel: I'm just listening to it from a different perspective. (Tim raises his eyebrows in slight surprise)

Smith (leaning forward to join in): I didn't know that perspective had ears.

Miguel: The lady's a genius.

Tim: (lunges forward to put his head between the two men and enthusiastically add): With great legs!

Miguel (can barely tear his eyes off Sarah): hey, everybody's got to stand on something, Tim.

Smith (laughing and smacking Tim's bottom twice) : Wit, sit! (Lonnie leaves in disgust)

Sarah (singing): ..."He obeys them he goes back to his fleet, to his fleet"

Dagwood: is this the part where we clap

Brody: I sure hope so, i've falling asleep (Tony starts to seal clap and whistle. all join in)

Sarah (bobbing head): thank you.

Tony: Come on lady, rock the house! (Sarah drops guitar and growls, everyone quiets, her eyes turn serpentine point sources and she starts speaking in Greek using a man's voice. Miguel starts to get up, to go to her, but settles back down, unsure)

Sarah: Asayn day tationta tatisomina prontayonta toro positominas toequay etay otwo paylay petos dainus phocas

Tony (looking thoroughly scared): I've never heard this one. Which album is it off of?

Tim (looking even more worried, turned to ward Tim): You don't want to know.

seating arrangement

tim - smith - - aisle - brody - dagwood
ford - miguel - aisle - tony - empty seat

Station Break

Scene 11

Med Bay 3, Sarah is lying on a bed, her eyes are closed, shaking her head in distress. Dr. Smith runs a hand-held diagnostic device over in front of her face and neck.

Sarah: no no no please I dont want to go no I don't want to, no (she puts her hands up in a warding gesture, Smith moves device out of way, puts her right hand on Sarah's left shoulder)

Smith: ok it's ok, your fine

Sarah: what happened?

Smith: you fainted

Sarah (shaking head): I did? I never faint

Smith:well you did in the middle of a performance. what language was that (Sarah looks puzzled) the words you were chant ing in another language it almost sounded almost like a man's voice. that's quite a range Is it new?

Sarah (even more worried, hand at throat wonderingly): but I only sing with my voice

Smith: well then you have a hell of a baritone. (picks up a clipboard, starts lifting the pages, pen in hand) I think you're suffering from exhaustion. How's your diet?

Miguel (entering Med Bay): Horrible

Sarah (small laugh, grateful for the weak joke): don't start

Miguel: Fruits and nuts. (he leans over the bed, hands on either side of Sarah's body) What she needs is a cattle fanny sandwich. How are you feeling?

Sarah: A little spooky but I'll be ok.

Smith: You two know each other?

Miguel: Hey, i'm running for pres of Sarah's fan club. You know, love the singer, hate the song (he mugs it up for Sarah). You scared the bananas out of Piccolo (seriously). He was waiting for your head to start spinning around. But , hey (with a smile), I'm a banger, I loved it. (She smiles weakly back)

Scene 12

Captain's quarters, Ford is pacing in front of the bunk, a painting of a wind driven ship on the wall behind it.

Ford: Let's not get carried away here, guys. I mean, she's a rock star, they stay up all night, they pierce themselves with safety pins, they get tattoos, they trash hotel rooms. I mean the lady fainted, big deal. (moves over towards others. Captain stands with hands on hips, Lucas slightly behind him, hands behind his head, both standing)

Lucas: yeah, yeah, maybe, but that wierd voice spewing out that language? It sounded like the devil. (Tim is standing behind the table, leaning over it, a pad of paper on the surface in front of him.)

Ford: Come on, one of those rock guys used to bite chicken's heads off on stage.

Tim: I recognize the language.

Ford: Yeah, the translation is buy my albums, send me money. (Lucas looks nervously at the Captain who scratches his beard)

Tim: (looking earnest and nervous): That's not exactly the translation., it's obviously greek but the language is ancient, it's over a 1000 years old(er than christianity). It's the language of the Greek myths. (swallows heavily) Apollo's tongue so to speak. That is, if you believe in Apollo.

Bridger (curiously): Do you?

Tim (eyes downward, looks up with raised eyebrows): I'm Catholic, Captain. I believe in anything that makes me nervous.

Bridger (moving around table to stand next to Tim and look down at the paper): What was she saying?

Tim (pinching nose as he looks over what he has written) well, ok. (picks pad up and angles it toward the captain, pointing at the words with a pen) that is that has been and all that is about to be knows all by the god Neptune's grace whose herd of monsters and hideous seals he pastures in meadows submarine.

Ford: That's it?

Tim (leaning forward again): That's all I could get.

Bridger: What do you think it means?

Tim: I'm not sure

Lucas (starts moving forward, to stand at Ford's left shoulder and leans onto table, both palms flat down): Well, maybe we should play it backwards. You know, bands do backward masking all the time. Sing a lot of satanic stuff to freak out everyone's parents.

Tim (gesturing with his open palm upward): Lucas, Neptune isn't about the devil, he was the greek god of the sea. he wasn't a bad guy anyway, he predates the devil and christianity. He also invented the horse.

Ford (looking increasing dubious): He invented the horse?

Tim (hands apart, disclaiming responsibility): Hey! I didn't write it. I just read it in high school. He was also the god of earthquakes. He'd stick his trident in the ground and shake it.

Ford (mocking): Oh, that's very scientific. Let's hope that he doesn't flush the toilet.

Lucas: I've been monitoring Solitaire, the, ah, seismic activity is increasing.

Ford (can't believe they're taking this so seriously): Guys! Come on! The lady fainted.

Tim (reluctantly): Or she was channeling, communicating to us from somewhere far beyond.

Ford: Far beyond what?

Tim: I don't know. (looks around at the ceiling, at the other two, focuses earnestly on Ford) Time, space, another dimension.

Ford: this is ridiculous. What next, the headless horseman?

Bridger: Not so ridiculous, commander. (moves away further away from the others) There have been many incidents of channeling that people can't disprove. (stops, turns, facing them) I remember one time seeing a man who claimed to be channeling Abe Lincoln's wife.

Ford: Really? (approaches captain, stands beside him, facing others with a jollying look of someone trumping another's ace) How did she enjoy the play? you know, People have been wondering that for years.

Scene 13

Dagwood mopping up a hallway, humming tunelessly to himself, hears a whinny, looks up slowly, looks down one way, then the other and sees a horse appear, follows it with his eyes as it gallops by

Dagwood: Hello, horsey.

Horse goes through wall into med bay (we see it in the reflection of the monitor screen), wakes up Sarah who looks wide-eyed and terrified. It rises on back legs before going through another wall.

heavy knocking on cabin door,

Piccolo (half asleep, pulling blanket up over shoulders) : Lucas, you awake?

Lucas (unchanging): No.

Tony (putting hand under cheek on pillow): Well, get up.

Lucas (no change): Why?

Tony: 'Cause I want to tell you a story about somebody knocking at your door.

Lucas: since when is it my door.

Tony: Since technically, I'm still a guest here

Lucas: yeah and like fish they start to smell after 3 days

Tony (pushes covers off, and gets up grumbling to answer door, zombie walking with face looking up, eyes closed) I shoulda stayed in the brig, at least there you can get some sleep and no one insults you. (leans up steps and opens door) What?

Dagwood: What? (turns on light switch, starts down steps, leaning heavily on the handrail) Were you sleeping?

Tony (leading way to bunks): Yeah, it's a odd habit i've had since birth.

Dagwood: Dagwood saw a horse.

Tony (turns to face him): Huh?

Lucas (pushing himself up on his left hand and right elbow): That's good, Dagwood. Thank you.

Dagwood: it was running in the hallway.

Tony: The hallway?

Dagwood: mm-mm, a white one. When did seaQuest get a horse

Lucas (more on his back and right arm now): seaQuest doesn't have a horse.

Dagwood: We have a dolphin

Lucas (lifting left hand to forhead, pushing back hair): Yeah but not a horse.

Dagwood: A horse is a horse

Tony: Of course, of course. (looking at Dagwood closely) It was running down the hallway?

Dagwood (nodding head and pointing over his shoulder toward the door, half turning in that direction): mm-mm, it was very fast.

Tony: Did it have a jockey? (Dagwood shakes his head fast and hard)

Lucas: Tony!

Tony: Hey, I might want to put down a bet.

Lucas: Look, Dagwood, go to sleep. There aren't any horses on seaQuest, (significant pause while he looks at Tony, looks away with disgust) at least, not a whole one. (Tony points to himself with expression of surprise and query combined. A horse's whinny sounds from the corridor)

Dagwood: I think that was it again ( Piccolo hurries to the door, Lucas jumps off the bunk, the three run through corridors, Lucas in the lead, he and Tony hopping on bare feet over the railing on some corridor floors. Lucas wipes his eye with his left hand, trying to wake himselp up)

The horse comes through the wall into Lonnies cabin, wakes her up, she sits up, raises her hand up over her head protectively, staring at it and starts to changes, her hair growing long and curly with snakes in it, her skin turning green. She looks over toward the mirror and screams, looks at the horse, it rises on its hind legs, turns to stone and dissolves into sand. The guys break through door.

Lucas (running in, kneeling beside her bunk, she is still sitting up, protectively pushed as far toward the wall as possible) : Are you ok?

Tony: What the hell happened?

Lonnie: There was a horse, in my room

Dagwood: See I told you, I bet it was a big white one (he indicates the height with his right hand)

Lonnie (hands to either side of her head, fingers splayed upward): And there were snakes growing out of my head

Lucas: You had what?

Dagwood (mimicking gesture): Snakes growing out of my head.

Tony: Out of your head!

Lonnie (tugging at the back of her hair): Yeah

Dagwood (curiously): Did it hurt?

Lonnie (wonderingly): No. It felt like I was dead.

Dagwood: ooohhh

Tony (walking over, bends down and picks up a fistful of sand): What's this. (lets the sand trickle out of his fist, looking at it with a worried expression) Next time, you open the door.

Scene 14

Med Bay 3, monitoring flatlining

computer voice: warning code nine. vital signs have all fallen below acceptable limits. (Miguel runs in, hits buttons on the monitor, taps code in the wall comm)

Miguel: Double stat alert in med bay 12. double stat alert in med bay 12.

Scene 15

(shifting sands, uncovering tree, flower filled field, space walk that swirls away, faster now, Vietnam helicopter evac, parade "We Shall Overcome", Kennedy speach, cheering soldiers, Hitler, four men, biplane, wagons west, sailing ship, castle, acropolis, pyramid, Stonehenge, ice floes, dinosaurs, volcano, cosmic swirl)

Sarah dressed in the Greek chiton, standing on the water, her eyes are closed.

back in Medbay, Dr. Smith is giving Sarah an injection, MIguel is leaning over her body anxiously, reading numbers off the monitor. Lonnie is standing well back, a blanket over her shoulders like a shawl.

Miguel: Blood pressure 50 over 10. Pulse is still less than 20. She's been like this for too long. I think we're loosing her.

Smith: Or she's in some kind of stasis.

Back to Sarah standing on the water.

sarah's voice speaking greek (echoing): Pus ayn day, tationta tatisominar protay anya doro prosay domos two kiton kay anton bellay (her eyes open) Kitas damos phokos pholomos damos seelay demanos ahri. (she starts to repeat the incantation)

a white haired, white bearded Miguel wearing a greek robe rises out of the water and towers over her, gigantic, w/ a trident in hand.

Back in Med Bay, Sarah's eyes snap open, serpentine point sources, in deep voice she intones the same incantation as before. Pus ayn day tationta tatisominar ... (continues through dialogue)

Miguel (in a falling voice): Oh well. I hate this part.

Smith: Hang on

Miguel: What is is?

Smith: I think Sarah was dead.

Miguel: Dead?

Sarah: ... daminamos ahri

Lonnie: That's unbelievable.

Smith: But now she's not. Her stats are normal.

Lonnie: Thank god, I'm glad.

Smith (giving the younger woman a dubious, hard stare and holding it, challenges) : Are you?

Lonnie: Wendy, I'm not crazy about this woman's music but I'm human.

Smith (looking down at Sarah): You said you had snakes growing out of your head. (Miguel gives Lonnie an odd look)

Lonnie (hugging blanket around self): I had a nightmare, big deal

Smith: And the horse?

Lonnie: It was a big nightmare. Look I want to go. I feel fine

Smith: You sure?

Lonnie: Yeah

Smith: Ortiz, will you walk her back to her quarters.

Miguel: Sure.

Lonnie (with a shy, pleased smile): I'd like that thanks. (Wendy watches them leave with a look of worry on her face.)

Scene 16

Back at the lab, Lucas is pouring sand sample into a test tube using a small plastic funnel. The tube slides into the analytical instrument, apparently a combination mass spectrometer and scanning electron microscope. He blows the remaining sand out of the funnel (not good lab technique)

Lucas (seated in front of the instrument screen panel): Well, particle break down is pretty standard. It's marble. I'm searching for a type, a quarry location, but it appears to be your basic pulverized marble.

Bridger (at Lucas' left shoulder): That was the horse?

Ford (on Lucas' right): Or it could have been a hallucination, Captain. I mean, that bug seems to be going around the seaQuest.

Bridger: yeah, the horse, maybe. But where'd the marble come from?

Ford: Well, it's a pretty common stone.

Lucas (fingers laced together, looks up at Ford): Not this one. This type of marble is what sculptors use for statues.

Ford: Exactly, that's what I mean by common, Lucas.

Lucas (as if continuing his previous statement): ... in ancient Greece. According to my initial readout, this marble was mined in a quarry 26 miles south of athens a thousand years ago.

Bridger (nods head in recognition): Marathon.

Lucas (showing off): Yeah, 26 miles 385 yards. A messenger named Phiddipides ran that distance with the news that the Greek army was victorious over the Persians and that was the first Marathon and the beginning of the Olympics. (leans back in chair)

Ford (feeling a bit put upon): Ok, so the Greeks were responsible for more than democracy. But the freeze-dried horse? (smiles slightly and jokes) Why don't we just add water and follow it back to the stable.

Bridger (leaning forward, left hand on table): Skepticism can be a tool, cmdr. Don't hide behind it. This one has me scared. (Ford looks thoughtful.)

Scene 17

Bridge, Tim is at WSKRS station, typing in commands.

Tim: Take the WSKRS down to 25000. (he comes down to the lower level, sits in the captain's command chair) WSKR status?

Brody (at Tim's usual station) : 5000 ... at 10

Tim: Fine. Piccolo ahead full. Take seaQuest to the base of Solitaire. I want to get a close look at this island.

Tony: aye aye

Brody (correcting): O'Neill, it's a mountain.

Tim (patiently): I know, jim.

Brody: I'm just saying

Tim: Tony, ahead full

Tony (taking a cue from Brody): Ahh, why?

Tim: Because the captain put me in charge, that's why. So do it, please.
(sounding increasingly aggrieved)

Tony (whining): I'm gonna do it. I'm just askin' why.

Tim: Because I'm getting seismic readings that are going off the chart, that's why.

Tony (making adjustments): You know, I always hate when it's a reason like that.

Brody (grinning): It'll raise hell with the USO show.

Tim (shortly): There won't be a USO show.

Brody: I wonder if they give refunds when the entertainer gets possessed.

Tony (in an announcer's voice): ' Ladies and gentlemen, Miss Toenin has left the auditorium, permanently.' (in his own voice) What 's she does for an encore, burst into flames?

Tim (bitterly): I wish! Looks like this island is just about to break apart.

computer voice: warning, seismic indicators have exceeded normal limits.

Tim (looking at Brody and raising his eyebrows, compressing his lips): You'd better get the captain.

Scene 18

Miguel and Lonnie walking through the corridors. Lonnie is wearing a blue denim undress uniform shirt, unbuttoned over a white tank style t-shirt. Miguel's hands are in his pants pockets, Lonnie's are behind her back.

Lonnie: So, you've really become a "fan", huh? (hard emphasis on the word fan)

Miguel: Oh, well, I guess. I kinda like her music, now.

Lonnie (flat contradiction): No you don't.

Miguel (easily): Ok, I don't

Lonnie: But you think she's pretty. (they turn a corner to the right)

Miguel (humouring her): She's ok. She's not that pretty

Lonnie: Do you think she's prettier than me?

Miguel: What do you mean?

Lonnie (gesturing with both hands) : It's a simple question. Is sarah that girl in that bay prettier than me, your friend and crewmate. (hands back behind)

Miguel: I dunno

Lonnie: She's not. I'm prettier.

Miguel (equably): Ok.

Lonnie (insistantly): I am

Miguel (beginning to be really bothered by the conversation, this is beyond humouring): That's fine. I really don't have an opinion

Lonnie: Yes, you do.

Miguel (removes right hand from pocket and gestures with it, exaggerating in the hopes that Lonnie will snap out of it): You're both gorgeous, I can't sleep at night, I'm surrounded by so many gorgeous women. (replaces hand in pocket)

Lonnie (demanding): Well, tell me I'm prettier.

Miguel: This is getting a little stupid don't you think

Lonnie: Oh! Now I'm stupid?

Miguel: That's not what I meant.

Lonnie (pressing): Then say it.

Miguel: What?

Lonnie: That I'm prettier.

Miguel (neutral tone of voice): Ok, you're prettier .

Lonnie (gesturing toward her quarters with her eyes): Do you want to come in?

Miguel: No, not really.

Lonnie (little girl voice): Why not?

Miguel (exasperated): Because this conversation is getting a little strange (she kisses him, he pulls away in surprise) That's against regulations

Lonnie (with a suggestive smile): So confine me to my quarters. (tries again)

Miguel (looking disgusted): Hey stop it, ok? I don't want to kiss you. (He stalks away)

Scene 19

Lava rift opening on the ocean floor, underwater stone pillars fall. Captain Bridger and Commander Ford rush on bridge, Captain goes to his command seat, Ford to the weapons station beside Tim's comm station, Brody stands beside the Captain

Bridger: Brody, contact Solitaire. we have to evacuate the entire island immediately.

Brody (leaning forward, one hand on the captain's console, the other tapping buttons on the space between Ford and Tim) : aye aye, Captain. This is seaQuest. We have an emergency alert. Evacuate Solitaire. Imminent earthquake. Repeat. Evacuate Solitaire. Earthquake imminent.

Scene 20

on the island, evac scenes ----

Siren sounding, loudspeaker calling: All personnel. Execute evac plan bravo. All personnel. Execute evac plan bravo.

Scene 21

More underwater pillars fall, revealing the screaming features of a gigantic Medusa, decorating enormous underwater doors.

On the Bridge of the seaQuest

Bridger: Let's get out of here. Full Port rudder. (the doors begin to open) Full ahead.

Ford: Capt, we're losing ground.

Bridger: Blast all ballasts

Ford: Ballasts away. (seaQuest starts to pull away.) It's no help, Captain It's still drawing us in.

Bridger (hands gripping the console tightly): Brace yourselves, people. (seaQuest bow lifts up and she's pulled backward into the opening, standing almost on her tail at first.)

Large area, classical arch front, a big statue Most of the crew look stunned, wondering & awestricken, Tim and Piccolo look afraid.

Dagwood: This is a very big room.

Lucas: Very cool.

Tony: Personally, I like my very cool a little smaller.

Miguel (worried, eyes on screen): What do we do now, capt?

Bridger: I don't know.

Tim (self deprecating grimace): I'm going to say a prayer

Brody: You got one for me, O'Neill?

Tim: Sure

Ford: Me too, Tim.

Bridger (leaning toward the doctor): Any thoughts?

Smith (shakes head slightly): Not a one.

Lonnie (left hand on his shoulder, right on the back of his seat): I'm sorry Miguel. I don't know what came over me. (he covers her hand with his own and holds it, squeezing slightly. Later, Lonnie comes down steps to lower level and stands in back)

An enormous inscription, Greek alphabets

Bridger: O'Neill, can you read that inscription?

Tim: working on it sir.

WSKRS lights travel up the statue. Miguel watches with interest, looks at it with shocked recognition.

Miguel: Oh, my God!

Bridger (worried): What?

Miguel: It's sarah!

Smith (agreeing): My God, it is!

Tim: I've got it Capt. It's ah, the tomb of minerva.

Miguel: Minerva?

Tim: She was an ancient Greek goddess. She was in love with Neptune. Right after Neptune ravished Medusa in Minerva's temple, Minerva got revenge by turning Medusa's hair into a bed of snakes. Anyone looking at Medusa after that was turned to stone. The inscription's a warning to keep Minerva's temple undisturbed for an eternity.

Tony: I think we can do that. Let's go, huh? (looks over toward the planesman) Put into reverse and floor it, huh? (a swirl of light appears outside, becoming the enormous figure of Neptune, looking down at seaQuest with an unhappy expression on his face) Uh-oh. Too late.

Dagwood: Who is that man?

Lucas (stunned, serious, not too pleased anymore): That's Neptune, god of the undersea.

Dagwood: I hope he's nice

Tony: I hope he's not hungry.

Brody: So what does he want?

Sarah (walking onto bridge, stopping next to Lonnie): He wants me. It's why I'm here. (looking at Lonnie) He thinks you're Medusa.

Lonnie: Ahhh, (left hand touching hair in back) tell him I'm not.

Sarah: It's why you were jealous about Miguel and me. (Miguel looks unsure of this) That part of you thought that he was Neptune. Medusa was in love with him too.

Miguel (incredulous): Neptune? I'm Cuban!

Bridger: Wwhy do you think that, Sarah?

Sarah: I just know it. He wants us to come home.

Lonnie: I don't want to go.

Sarah: I don't think we have a choice.

Bridger: I think we do. O'Neill, let's go red alert.

Tim ( putting on headset): Aye aye sir.

Bridger (bracing self with hands on both sides of his console): Commamder, battle stations. Half ahead.

Ford: Aye Captain. Where to?

Bridger: Right at that tomb.

Ford (worried): We can't take on a god!

Bridger: I don't think we have to. He wants Minerva. Let's see what happens if we give her to him. (Ford is none too happy with this, but obeys. Neptune aims and shooks a bolt from his trident, hits seaQuest and shakes her up, grabs at her and misses. Tim lookes around checking things) Fix coordinates, commander.

Ford: Coordinates fixed.

Bridger: Arm first barrage, (Tim looks back to check Captain). Stand by second barrage. Warheads at maximum. (Neptune grabs again and gets her last 1/3 in his fist) All engines at full ahead. (she slips free of his grasp) Fire first barrage. (she fires, Neptuned staps at her with his trident and captures seaQuest between a couple of the tines) Fire second barrage. (missiles hit the statue with a blast of light, light grows swirls and becomes Minerva, looking like Sarah but with her hair curled and high, wearing a crown and Greek robe. She sees Neptune, smiles slightly, he sees her, abandons the trident and goes toward her as she approaches him. They embrace, staring into one another's eyes, then kiss)

Tony: Ok, so now can we get out of here, right?

Bridger: Rudders to port, engines full ahead. (rocks begin to fall, the gigantic doors start to close, seaQuest slips out as the face of Medusa is covered up)

Scene 22

Coming down stairs in the corridor, Captain in advance, Ford behind, both dressed casually. Captain is wearing blue jeans and a white button up shirt. Ford, black jeans, black tee-shirt, khaki coloured button-up shirt, half undone, sleeves rolled up to the elbows. Both have hands in pants pockets.

Ford: Captain, I really think you should give it some more thought.

Bridger: I've given it some thought.

Ford: A lot more thought.

Bridger: I'm filing the report, commander.

Ford: What's it going to say?

Bridger: It's going to say while on a routine mission seaQuest encountered what was obviously an apparition of Neptune.

Ford (pleading, shaking head): You aren't really going to say that are you capt

Bridger: Wait a minute, it's the truth. (they stop and face one another)

Ford: I know, but in the wrong hands, the truth can be like a hammer. (pause) Does my name have to go on it

Bridger (left hand on chest): My name's going on it. What's the problem? (drops hand)

Ford (looks around uneasily to see who's around, puts his left hand on his chest) : Something like this goes on our record, say in 20 years I want to run for president ... (spreading hand out palm up. Captain looks away, hiding smile) What? (Captain starts laughing, Ford's voice rising as he continues) The press is going to make me look like a lunatic.

Bridger: How come I always knew you wanted to run for president?

Ford (gesturing with left hand): Why can't you say, it was an apparition of unknown origin?

Bridger (no question tone of voice): It was neptune, commamder. (starts walking along corridor again)

Ford: Yeah, right. The guy who invented the horse

Bridger: That's the one. (gesturing with his left hand) Look don't worry Jonathan, (puts hand on Ford's back) I'll vote for you

Scene 23

In the rec room, same set up as before. Sarah is wearing a tight bodice, and blue jeans.

Sarah (singing) : "To ease her grief with comfort to say something
to turn her hurt and her pain away sighs often"

Miguel is wearing a pink, henley style shirt, Lonnie has on a blue short sleeve shirt with a darker blue vest on top. She is leaning close to Miguel, her arm behind his back, whispering into his ear.

Lonnie: She really is beautiful, isn't she?

Miguel (cautiously, doesn't want to get into this again) : She's ok.

Lonnie: Thanks, Miguel. (he looks at her, smiles and kisses her temple. Captain leans forward, tapping Lonnie on the shoulder)

Bridger: Hey, you two. (they turn and look at him) How about watching the show? (sharing a smile, Miguel and Lonnie turn back to the stage.)

(Brody is looking bored, Tim looks disapproving, the Captain has his arm draped over the doctor's shoulder, Dagwood is rocking out of beat, Ford moves to the music)

he obeys them he goes back to his fleet, to his fleet
By night by day the portals of darkness, stand open
It' is easy by descending , down the avenues

his heart being moved by his great love
most deeply and still the gods give orders
he obeys them he goes back to his fleet, to his fleet.

Seating arrangement

a row of ? aisle dagwood empty -
piccolo on aisle smith captain
brody tim ford aisle miguel lonnie