"In the Company of Ice and Profit" Tim: Hey, guys, wrap it up. You're 40 minutes past maximum exposure. You've got to be freezing down there. Lucas: It's not freezing enough, Tim. That's part of the problem. I'm seeing considerable erosion since our last scout. Tim: Been 10 years, Lucas. Lucas: Yeah, and I still can't grow a mustache. Glacier stability's deteriorating even faster than I projected. How's your data read? Tim: Shuttle data supports same, Lucas. Tony: Looks like the middle east is going to get a big iceberg for Christmas. Freeze the bells off Santa's camels. Lucas: I'm more concerned about flood disaster. You know, big iceberg-- big meltdown. - Tony starts messing with seabed debris - Lucas: Hey, Tony, put that down. Tony: Come on! This thing would look great hanging on my wall. Lucas: It's an artifact, Tony. You have to leave them undisturbed in the UEO waters. Tony: You're pulling rank on me? Lucas: Just put it back. Tony: Yes, sir, Officer Luke. Oof. He shoots... he scores! Lucas: And don't call me Luke. Tony: How about "duke?" The duke of seaQuest. Tim: How about the duke of sandwich? I'm starving. Lucas: It was the earl of sandwich and the duke of earl, guys. Come on! Tim: Who cares? Let's eat, O.K.? Tony: Yeah, but someplace nice. I'm sick of eating out of plastic squeeze tubes. This morning, I accidentally ate my toothpaste for breakfast. [Thundering roar] [credits roll; commercial break] [Dance music pulsates] What are you talking about? No, you're the one that had doubts. I told you we'd get in here. I told you it wouldn't be a problem. What? You know what I mean. Hi. And you would be... Um, Mr. Wolenczak, Mr. O'Neill, and Mr. Piccolo. I'm afraid you're not on our guest list. Tony: O.K., now would be the time to pull a little rank, Lucas. Lucas: Uh, Ensign Wolenczak. Tony: Yeah, me and my superior here used to hang out in this joint about 10 years ago. When he was 8. Lucas: Technically, I'm 28. Tony: He stays out of the sun a lot. Larry Deon founded Deon International only five years ago. Tony: Is Larry here? No. Excuse me. Lucas: We're from... seaQuest. And I'm afraid this is a private employees club. Lucas: You know? And this is an all-access UEO hall pass. Look at that. Welcome to Deon International. Who's the new talent? Easy, sarge. They're seaQuest scientists, not jarheads. I'll take the Navy over the Marines any day. They're not company. You know the rules. I'm off duty. Tony: You know, I got to get one of those. Lucas: You have to be an officer, Tony. Tony: Well, good thing I was with you, then, Mr. Ensign, or I'd have to wait in the car then. Lucas: You know, you should just be happy that I'm not making you salute me. Tony: When I'm an officer, I am not going to make you salute me. Lucas: When you're an officer, I'm going to be in a Navy rest home. As far as the world view should go, this is a simple humanitarian escort. Deon International is helping refugees, tragic victims of a Macronesian revolt. Just how's that going to sit with the new Macronesian President Alexander Bourne? Bourne is a buyer in a very limited seller's market. What is he going to do, purchase solar reactors from the UEO? [Laughter] He has to play nice, or we'll shut his lights off. Rescuing the refugees is great press. The UEO won't interfere in civil unrest, but Deon has a public conscience. It's the smart move. Crossing a UEO blockade? They engage us, and we would lose big. Deon: And attack a public gesture that might save lives? I doubt it. Everybody on this planet needs a place to live, Bill. We're the good guys on this. Just where are the refugees going to live, Larry? Deon: Let's move on, Bill. Can we? New business. Boeing has rejected our bid to manufacture the teflon turbine. That will impact significantly on Deon's heavy-industry index. Deon: Buy them. I, uh, don't think Boeing's for sale, sir. Deon: Every public company is for sale, sweetheart. That's how we get rich. We need to talk. Excuse us. seaQuest has a research team in the Wandel Sea. Deon: Why? Well, it's pretty obvious, Larry. Our mining operations have violated every UEO environmental regulation since we've opened our door. We caused a hell of an iceberg to break off that polar cap. Deon: Natural catastrophe with a profit motive. Don't underestimate the seaQuest, Larry. Deon: They've been in dry-dock for the past 10 years. We've got the technology now. Captain Hudson is no bandleader. Yeah? I've heard those stories. Global access initialized. Deon: Who's the kid? Apparently the officer in charge of the research team. Flashed his way into one of our employee clubs with a level eight UEO security clearance. Deon: Impressive. Leak the refugee rescue to him. He'll call it in like any new mid-level exec looking for an "attaboy." Captain Hudson will think he's out in front of us on this one. And pick up his dinner check. I may want to make this kid a job offer someday. Yes, sir, we can do that. Transmission completed. Tim: What do you think's holding those girls up? Tony: Their legs, Tim. I can't believe this. They got t-bones, tenderloins-- all kinds of beef been illegal for 20 years. You can probably get anything that is illegal in here. Tony: I wonder if I can get some California condor paté. Tim: Are you completely tasteless, Tony, or is it just an affectation? Lucas: Completely. Tony: I was just kidding. Tastes too much like baby seal anyway. Who ordered this? She did. Tony: I love a well-armed woman. Lucas: Uh, thank you, but we don't drink. Well, maybe the lady would like to join us for dinner. Tony: Uh, I'm not an officer, but she might feel like slumming. Lucas: I was kidding, Tony. Private army can't fraternize with anyone who doesn't have a Deon company tattoo. Is this a company or a cult? We're the largest free market conglomerate in the world. Tony: I could get a tattoo. Her squad ships out at dawn, sailor. Mr. Deon's going to rescue the Macronesian refugees. The UEO is applying the necessary sanctions. There's a naval blockade. He can't do that. Mr. Deon can do what he wants. At least he's nice enough to give those poor people a place to live. No, no. Lawrence Deon is a privateer, and his companies are turning the world's water supply into sewage. Well, our stock options have increased 1,700% in the last six months. It's going to be hard to drink stock options when the planet runs out of clean water, right? He'll fix it. Give him time. Comlink coming through, Wolenczak. Lucas: Ensign Wolenczak. Hudson: It's a privilege and a responsibility, Wolenczak. Don't strut it around like a new pair of shoes. Lucas: Sorry. Hudson: Another iceberg chipped off the Antarctic cap. Lucas: I'm not surprised. How big is it? Hudson: The size of New England, and it's hooked into the Somali current. Speculations, please. Lucas: Somali current will float iceberg to the Arabian Sea, lowering desert temperatures dramatically. Now. If the freshwater runoff is left unmanaged when the ice pack melts, continents will flood hundreds of miles past existing coastal flood plains. Hudson: Impact? Lucas: Well, you can expect global and regional famine due to undersea and traditionally based agricultural loss. Hudson: That's well thought, Wolenczak. Come on home. Lucas: Yes, sir. Um, could you put me on a secure channel, please? Hudson: Channel secure. Go. Lucas: Deon's private army is defying UEO policy in a rescue attempt to get some Macronesian refugees. Hudson: That doesn't surprise me. The man has been a grandstander since he sold IBM off in a yard sale when he was 23. Will the UEO assume a military posture, sir? Hudson: From your lips to god's ears. No, Deon will grow old and retire before those bureaucrats send us in. Over. Hudson: The bridge is all yours, Mr. Ford. Ford: Sir? With all due respect, seaQuest procedures specify an open vidcom. Hudson: Make your point. Ford: No secrets on the bridge, sir. At a time of crisis, the result could be contradiction or misinformation. Hudson: How do you know Wolenczak wasn't planning a surprise birthday party? Maybe even a party for you, Commander? Ford: I don't, sir, but he's my junior officer, an ensign. Hudson: He's my ensign. My commander, my boat. Do I make myself clear, Mr. Ford? Ford: Perfectly, sir. Hudson: Uh-huh. {Haltingly} Tony: "any persons as-aspiring...to a c-command at sea should study their off-I-cer... quali-lif-cation... qualification jackets and past a-ssign-ments. Any persons as-aspiring... to a c-command at sea should study their off-I-cer... quali-lif-cation ... qualification jackets and past a-ssign-ments." You're a stupid, stupid... stupid boy, Anthony Piccolo. Tim: He doesn't like me. Captain Hudson hasn't been around long enough to not like anybody yet. The guy thinks if you don't know George Washington wore wooden teeth, you can't command. We're different tribes-- he's analog, I'm digital. Henderson: What am I? You're an original, Henderson. The guy's always testing me, asking me questions he already knows the answers to. Maybe he wants to see what you already know the answers to. And you're so practical, too. Damned by faint praise again. Anyway, I wouldn't worry about it, sir. I would. Nah, 'cause I like you. Don't do this. Tim: She's very good, sir. Pretty, too. Hudson: She's a fighter, Lieutenant, not a flower. Tim: I meant the Spector sf/a-2, sir. But, uh... I did hear Lieutenant Fredricks has a, um... psych chip, sir. Hudson: You heard right. Freddie's a chippy. Do you have a problem with that, O'Neill? Tim: No, sir. Hudson: Good. She put a prototype spector into a reef at 300 knots, almost killed her. Had a little trouble climbing back in the saddle. We had a big investment in her training, so we programmed the scare out of her. Tim: I'll try to remember that, sir. Hudson: I would if I was you, O'Neill. Punch her in. Fredricks. Fredricks: Roger. Lieutenant Fredricks here. Hudson: Is Brody learning how to float that Spector without hurting himself? Fredricks: It's been a while since his last combat exercise, sir. But he'll do all right... for a man. Brody: Yeah, all we get to do is pay the mortgage and bring home the bacon. Fredricks: Boy, you have been away a long time. You know, pork's illegal. Brody: Yeah? Well, this little piggy's going to market right on your tail, Fredricks. Fredricks: Save it for prom night, Brody. Hudson: Fredricks, peel off for recon. Vector them in. Lieutenant. 18 Degrees, 54 minutes, south latitude. 44 Degrees, 11 minutes, east longitude. Roger and gone. Hudson: And, Freddie, don't hurt him. Fredricks: Can I scare him, sir? Hudson: Do you think he'll scare? Fredricks: I think he might. Hudson: Ladies' choice, Lieutenant. Brody: Whoa-uhh! Fredricks: You know, you want to be careful with these things, Brody. They're expensive as hell. [Deon] seaQuest ETA; 1300 Hours tomorrow. Sonar picked up a couple of sub fighters running point. Macronesian refugees. At the appropriate time, it will be revealed that they were tragically lost at sea--a courageous but misguided humanitarian effort. So we're prepared. Good. Dependent upon what seaQuest is planning to do. An iceberg of that size melting down in the Arabian Sea will be a disaster. Captain Hudson has no reason to think otherwise, so he'll have to destroy it before that happens. But he'll find his conscience won't let him. Assuming he has one. Oh, he has one. So it should be an easy sell then, gentlemen. Processing plants. Operational. Freshwater contamination have continued in the Middle East as expected. Deon: See if we can slow down those sub fighters. Be a good tester for our technology before we take it to market. - seaQuest, Lonnie's quarters - - Knock on door - Henderson: Hi, Tony. Tony: Hey. Henderson: What's up? Tony: Uh... you know. Henderson: You O.K., Tony? Tony: Not really. Henderson: What's the matter? Tony: I, uh... I ca-- I can't read. Henderson: You can't? Tony: Not-- not good anyway, or I-- I can't learn anything I don't already know, and-- and I have to if I want to get better, be-- be something m-more than I am, like Lucas has. Will you teach me? Henderson: Yeah. I'll try. Tony: Thanks. How long have the refugees been missing? We don't know. Our surveillance satellites have been jammed since UEO put up the blockade. President Bourne is playing tough. How do you know it's Bourne? Who else? Well, Larry Deon put this goodwill rescue effort together. He's not exactly known as a humanitarian. What does Deon want with 100 war refugees? Well, that depends on their value in the market he creates. What's the market? Maybe the UEO should've thought of that before they sat around debating policy. We should have gone in and rescued those people. That was not seaQuest's responsibility. But finding them now is? Captain Hudson, you were piloting a hauler until UEO found seaQuest. I suggest you join the team. Hudson: Not to put too fine a point on it, sir, but the hauler was my decision. And I have joined the team-- I'm the quarterback. Hudson: Fredricks, report. Fredricks: All's well here, Captain. Just a big piece of ice. Hudson: Any other vessels in the vicinity? Fredricks: Not a one, sir. You expecting visitors today? Hudson: There's a ship full of refugees out there somewhere. Stay alert. Fredricks: Roger. Will do. Brody, you copy? Brody: Roger. Copy here. Fredricks: Brody, bandit at 4:00. Brody: Who? Fredricks: You got a bandit hot and hard at 4:00! Evasive action now! Brody: Is this part of the combat exercise? Fredricks: No, damn it! Roll right now! Do it! - seaQuest bridge - Hudson: O'Neill! Tim: Sir? Hudson: Run some options, sailor. This is not a golf game. Tim: Brody and Fredricks appear to be under attack, sir. Hudson: Appear to be? - Hudson jerks Tim from his chair and shoves him away - Hudson: I want somebody in this chair now who can give me some answers. Come on! We got people up there. Let's go! Incident beyond W.S.K.R. range, sir. Lucas: Some unidentified hostile sub fighter. Hudson: That's a start, Wolenczak. Secure channel, combat scramble. Lucas: Channel secured and scrambled, sir. Hudson: Fredricks, what's going on? Fredricks: You tell me, Captain, but we've got company. Hudson: Identify and define. Let's go, let's go, come on. Outside current parameters. I can't make a match, but data suggest that the hostile sub fighters are drones, sir. Hudson: Donuts are unidentified. Assume hostile. Take necessary action. Fredricks: I'm out in front of you on that, sir. Put a number up on my scorecard. - seaQuest hallway; Ford sees Tony leaving Lonnie's quarters - Ford: Hey. What are you doing? Tony: It's a full alert, sir. Ford: No, no. I meant in Henderson's quarters. Tony: None of your business, sir. Ford: The hell it isn't, sailor. Tony: The hell it is, sir. It's personal. Ford: I am your superior, Piccolo. Henderson is an officer. You are enlisted crew. Tony: She was teaching me how to read... sir. - in their specters, Brody and Freddie continue fighting the drones - Brody: Whoa! Who are these guys? Fredricks: It's a couple of donuts, Brody, coming back at you. Brody: Donuts? Fredricks: Drones. Boy, are you new. - seaQuest bridge - Hudson: You always take this long to get to the bridge during a full alert, Commander? Ford: No, sir. Hudson: Good to know. Aquanautics compromised. I'm going in. Mayday! Mayday! Coming back at you! Eject! Eject! Whoo! Fredricks: So, you don't scare, huh, Brody? Brody: Scared to death, Freddie. What about you? Fredricks: I'm a chippy, Brody. I can't scare. Brody: So, tell me, why do you call those drones donuts? Fredricks: 'Cause there's nothing in the middle, genius. Brody: Makes sense. All right, Freddie, I'm coming in to pick you up. Hudson: Mr. O'Neill, you think you can set coordinates for the iceberg and ready the plasma torpedoes for target lock? Tim: Yes, sir. Hudson: Then proceed. {to Ford indicating Dagwood} Hudson: Commander, in the future, I do not want civilians on my bridge. Ford: Sir? Hudson: This is a military vessel. We wouldn't want misinformation or contradiction during a time of crisis. Now take the helm. Let's go get our people. Ford: Full ahead, Mr. Piccolo. Tony: Full ahead, sir. Ford: Let's go, people. Deon: $600 Million of R & D, and our D17 drone can't slow down a couple of 10-year-old sub fighters? The Spector SF/A-2 is state of the art, Larry. The seaQuest was outfitted with them when the UEO pressed her back into service. Deon: We've presold a dozen D1-7 drones to President Bourne. He's under the impression that they are state-of-the-art. seaQuest is going to continue to be a problem, Larry. We're one of the reasons she's back at sea. Deon: If we lose that iceberg, Mason, our freshwater deal with the Saudis goes south. Mason: That's a judgment call, Larry. You're betting on Hudson's humanity. Deon: What would you bet on? Mason: I don't bet. Deon: Can we get to him? Mason: He's not going to take money, if that's what you mean. Deon: That's not what I meant. Mason: I can try. - seaQuest, Captain's quarters; McGath on vidscreen - Hudson: Two of my spectors are attacked, and you expect me to do absolutely nothing? McGath: We don't know who's responsible, Captain. Hudson: Who else has that kind of technology? Larry Deon has been developing for the heavy-weapons market for the last three years now. But why would Deon run interference for an iceberg? McGath: We don't know. That's the whole point. And this isn't a debate. Hudson: I was playing to your strengths, sir. McGath: If you retaliate without further provocation, I'll put you up for review. - Connection closes - - knock on door - Hudson: It's open. - Dagwood enters - Dagwood: I am Dagwood. Hudson: Yes, I-- what can I do for you? Dagwood: Daggers are not human, so I cannot be a civilian. Hudson: Ha ha! That's an interesting argument. Dagwood: Lucas had to enlist in Navy. I want to enlist in Navy. Hudson: Really? Dagwood: Can I be in Navy if I am not a real man? Hudson: Well, that depends. What can you do? Dagwood: I... can do this. - beeping - Captain? Sensors just reported impact amidships. Is there a problem? Hudson: I'm with Dagwood. Very good, sir. - Hudson picks the fallen picture and shows it to Dagwood - Hudson: This is a genuine, personally autographed picture of President Colin Powell. You can't get these anymore. - Hudson gently hangs the picture back on the wall - Dagwood: Mm...Sorry. Hudson: Let me think about this enlistment thing, O.K.? Dagwood: You are the Captain. You have to think about it. Hudson: Just go. Ahead 1/3. Go right. Ahead 1/3, sir. Going right. Lock primary target sights. Prepare p-90 torpedoes-- forward tubes able-1 through able-5. Primary sights locked. Plasma-90 torpedoes ready. Able-1 through 5, sir. Stand by first torpedo. First torpedo standing by, sir. Lucas: Hold your fire! Ensign, that's not your command. Lucas: I'm sorry, sir, but I'm getting a life-form reading. Hudson: I do believe you have a torpedo standing by. Ford: Keep standing by, Mr. Brody. Brody: Standing by, sir. Ford: What is it, Lucas? Hudson: Mister Wolenczak. Lucas: I don't know, Commander. It may just be a herd of sea lions, but it's substantial. Ford: What's the procedure on sea lions, sir? Hudson: Center ring with the rest of the clowns, Mr. Ford. Brody, you're up! Put together a shore patrol using Fredricks and Wolenczak. Brody: Make them combat ready. We leave in three minutes. Hudson: Mr. Ford, ready me a launch. Ford: Captain, it's my place to go. Hudson: I need a chance to find out what these people are made of. Brody, we now leave in 2 minutes and 46 seconds. Hudson: Dagwood. Dagwood: I am not on the bridge. Hudson: I can see that. Get ready, sailor. You're going with us. - on iceberg - Lucas: It's over there, Captain, about 100 meters past that ridge. Hudson: Try not to shoot the sea lions, boys and girls. The environmentalists don't like it. - gunshots - Take cover! Surround them! Hudson: Brody, call it in! Brody: We're under heavy sniper fire! Repeat! Heavy sniper fire! Dagwood, get down! Get down! Dagwood! Hold your fire! Aggh! Hold your fire! Hold your fire! Cease fire! Who are you? Dagwood: Dagwood. The Macronesian refugees claim this iceberg in the name of freedom and hope. Go. Go. You all right? Hudson: You have 30 seconds to get off this iceberg, or we will commence fire. My name is Captain Hudson of the seaQuest. Krieg: Nathan Bridger is the Captain of seaQuest. She was lost at sea 10 years ago. Hudson: Nathan Bridger is retired. Krieg: That's a lie! And we will die here if we have to. Lucas: I know him. That's Lieutenant Benjamin Krieg. I served with him aboard seaQuest. [commercial break] Lucas: Benjamin Krieg was seaQuest's procurement officer. When I came aboard, he was my first friend. He was like an older brother to me. What happened to him? Lucas: Well, he finished his tour. seaQuest spent 10 years in outer space. He probably thinks we're dead. Ford: The world's a different place. Krieg always was a little close to the edge. Maybe all the insanity finally got to him. Hudson: Or maybe Deon finally got to him. 'Cause that's who put Krieg and his freedom fighters on that iceberg, Commander. But those people have been exploited as political pawns for years. To them, everybody's probably the enemy. Hudson: That's an explanation, but not an excuse for firing on us. So what do we do, destroy an iceberg homesteaded by hundreds of men, women, and children? Absolutely not. I think that was part of Deon's plan. - punching keyboard - Ford: Deon International's mining concerns have polluted the southern oceans, warming the temperatures, ostensibly causing that iceberg to break off. Hudson: What is your point, Commander? Ford: Deon knew the seaQuest would have to destroy it to prevent it from melting down in the Arabian Sea, but he also knew that Captain Hudson wouldn't do it if it was inhabited by Macronesian refugees. He's obviously well aware of your reputation as a humanitarian, sir. Hudson: I'm with you so far, Commander. Don't spoil it. Ford: Deon has got to make sure that iceberg rides the currents all the way to the Arabian Sea. Yeah, but why? He spent billions of dollars constructing solar reactors along the Saudi Arabian coast. UEO space satellites have verified that. They'd be destroyed along with everything else. Ford: Right, but what if they're not solar-fusion plants? What if they're water-processing plants? Deon plays the world markets-- oil, cybertechnologies, solar power. Maybe this time it's fresh water. His industrial pollution helped create the market in the first place. The iceberg naturally melts down, his plants safely process the runoff, and he corners the world's first freshwater market. Lucas: If you liked the oil shortage, you'll love the water shortage. Hudson: Exactly. Man's a genius. Ford: You don't create the largest mega-corporation in the world without brain power. Hudson: I was referring to you, Commander. That's one hell of a scenario, and I think you're absolutely right. Ford: Thank you. Hudson: The problem is, how do we get Krieg and his people off that iceberg and put Deon out of the fresh water business? Lucas: I think I can do that. Hudson: How? Lucas: Benjamin Krieg was my friend. - on iceberg - Lucas: Lieutenant Benjamin Krieg? Ben, it's me, Lucas. - gunshots - Lucas: I need to talk to you, Ben. Krieg: Hold your fire! Refugee: Don't. It's a trap. Lucas: Hello, Ben. Krieg: You can't be Lucas. Lucas: Yes. Krieg: But you're dead. They all are... Captain Bridger, Darwin, Commander Ford, everyone. The Lucas I know would be 28 years old. Lucas: I can't explain it to you right now, but I am Lucas, and we're alive. You're going to have to trust me. Krieg: No. I only trust my own now. Lucas: I can't let you die, Ben, not here, not like this. Krieg: What's it matter? The past has turned into the present, and everything now is a nightmare. Lucas: Deon... set you up. Come on, Ben. We can help you. Krieg: Help? The UEO abandoned us! Deon gave us a place to live. And even if it melts away tomorrow, today... it's a place to live. It's a start. Lucas: No, Ben. You're a pawn. Krieg: And maybe you're a pawn for the UEO. Lucas: Maybe I am, but Deon is only using you to keep seaQuest from destroying this iceberg. And once he does, he'll let you die. Krieg: There are children here, Lucas. Lucas: Yes. Yes, Ben, there are. You told me once that the world belongs to those who bring it the most hope. Do you still believe that, Ben? Well, seaQuest is part of that hope again. I love you, man. You're my friend. Let me take you home. - seaQuest - Shuttle 2 has arrived. Docking bay 3. Shuttle 2 has arrived. Docking bay 3. McGath: We can't put Larry Deon on trial in front of the world court if this is all you have. Hudson: All I have? McGath: Homeless revolutionaries make lousy witnesses. He's half your case. Hudson: Lieutenant Krieg was one of seaQuest's original crew members. McGath: And he has spent the last three years trying to climb into the basement windows of the White House. The guy's a nut. He ran for president on an "eat peace" platform. Whatever the hell that means. Hudson: Larry Deon's guilty on this one, sir. McGath: So what are we supposed to do? Embarrass him in front of the whole world? The last time we did that, he tripled the price of steel and nearly bankrupt the auto industry. Can't do it, Captain. Destroy the iceberg and come home. Hudson: Hey... I gave it a shot. Hudson: Mr. O'Neill, the rescue shuttle update. Tim: The last refugees are departing now, sir. She's all ours. Hudson: Mr. Brody, lock targets. Brody: Locking targets, sir. - by pool, Darwin nips at Krieg, cloth rips - {to Darwin} Krieg: Oh, that was you. You remember me? - Darwin chrips his reply - Lucas: How does it feel? Krieg: Kind of old and new at the same time... like I did the right thing. Lucas: Maybe you can stay. Krieg: We have different missions now, Lucas. Yours is to save the world. Mine is to change it. Lucas: We can do that together, Ben. Krieg: We're not on the same side anymore, Lucas. - seaQuest, Captain's quarters - Hudson: You're a little late. Mason: Let's go, Captain. Hudson: What you got, one of Larry's private yachts moored outside? Mason: To the bridge, Captain. You and I are going to hold order on that iceberg. Hudson: Then what? Mason: Then you and I are going to shuttle off to the Arabian Sea. When the iceberg gets there, you get to come home. Hudson: I can't do that. - Mason points a gun at Hudson - Hudson: Then again, why not? Mason: Move! Hudson: Let me mark my spot. This is pretty heavy stuff. Gets confusing if you don't read every page. - seaQuest bridge - Tim: The rescue shuttle out of range, sir. We can fire when ready. Ford: Piccolo, call the Captain. Tony: I have, sir. He hasn't answered. Ford: Has anybody seen the Captain? Brody: Maybe he's giving Darwin a lecture on seafaring etiquette. Ford: Stow the talk, Brody. He's our Captain. - Captain's quarters - - knocks on door - Ford: What happened, sir? Hudson: Son of a gun shot the president. Ford: Mason Freeman. Hudson: He wanted me to trade my life for the iceberg. Would you have made that deal, Mr. Ford? Ford: Negotiating with terrorists is against... UEO... UEO regulations. Hudson: Yes, I know. Ford: I'll have the shuttle take him back to UEO headquarters. Hudson: Don't bother. Larry Deon will just raise the price of cheese or something. Nah... send him right back to Deon International. I want Larry to know that he sent his best man... and we sent him right back. - seaQuest medbay, Hudson hangs a sQ uniform with Dagwood's name by the unconscious dagger's bed - Hudson: Good work, sailor. Welcome aboard. - exterior of seaQuest - {voice over} Tony: "analyze the car- eer patterns to date... of each of your off- if- cers." {voice over} Henderson: You're getting better, Tony. {voice over} Tony: Yeah, I am.