Hide and Seek
(seaQuest DSV – Bridger’s Room)
(Bridger is sleeping, having a dream about Darwin. He wakes and pulls out a journal and writes down: “Dream #3 Darwin is carrying something”.)
Bridger: Oh, Darwin, what are you trying to do to me?
(Bridge)
(O’Neill is dozing in his chair. Ortiz gets up from his station and goes to the other side of the bridge to wake O’Neill up.)
Ortiz: Hey. Hey.
O’Neill: (muttering to self while asleep) Darwin. Darwin.
Ortiz: Hey.
O’Neill: Oh, woah, thanks. I really dipped below the surface there for a second.
Ortiz: Were you dreamin’? You looked like you were really out of it.
O’Neill: Yeah, I was. I was dreamin’.
Ortiz: You were dreamin’ about him.
O’Neill: Not the same thing as you.
Ortiz: The same thing. You had the same dream.
O’Neill: Bull.
Ortiz: Look, I’ve had it for a week, and now you’ve started.
O’Neill: It’s not the same thing.
Ortiz: You say you’re not dreamin’ of Darwin?
O’Neill: No, I’m —
Ortiz: Who’s, who’s with him?
O’Neill: I don’t wanna talk about it anymore.
Ortiz: Come on.
O’Neill: I don’t wanna talk about it anymore. Where is Darwin?
Computer: UEO Emergency communiqué broadcasting in ten seconds.
O’Neill: Communiqué comin’ in.
Ortiz: Must be urgent.
O’Neill: Yeah, Secretary Noyce’s grandson probably lost his canoe.
UEO Official: (on screen) This is a security alert, highest priority for seaQuest. Milos Tezlof has escaped UEO Security forces. Tezlof has been convicted of multiple war crimes by the UEO and his countrymen. This is to be considered an extremely lethal and dangerous situation. He is believed to be traveling in one of two fugitive helicopters, attempting to allude identification using extreme and evasive tactics. Their destination is unknown. Repeat, destination unknown. We are ordering seaQuest to intercept and incarcerate. UEO intelligence suggests they may be trying to reach a destination on or near the eastern coast of the United States. I repeat …
Ortiz: There they are. I think that’s them.
UEO Official: (on screen) … two helicopters with destination unknown …
Ortiz: I’ll wake the Captain.
UEO Official: (on screen) … are refusing to …
(Caicos Key Dolphin Research Center)
(Dr. Westphalen is sitting in a Virtual Reality Chair. She’s wearing gloves and a visor that are connected to the chair. On a nearby TV we can see dolphins swimming underwater.)
Dr. Westphalen: They’re pulling me. (laughs) It really feels like these dolphins are pulling me through the water.
Malcolm Landsdowne: (laughs) Quite a ride, isn’t it? I’m gonna blend in the music score.
Dr. Westphalen: Oh, oh, I don’t believe it. I really think that I’m swimming with the dolphins. (laughs)
Landsdowne: Virtual reality, skin to fin without ever leaving your bed. This is only the beginning of what I’ve got to show you.
Dr. Westphalen: I don’t even know what it’s meant to be, but it’s wonderful. (As Landsdowne leans down to kiss her they hear helicopters and shooting.) What the heck is going on?
Landsdowne: What are you talking about? That’s machine gun fire.
(He pulls her out of the chair and they hide under a table as people come down stairs.)
Dr. Westphalen: Who is it?
Landsdowne: I’ve had a lot of trouble with my neighbors lately.
Dr. Westphalen: Oh my God! That’s Milos Tezlof, the dictator! He sees us. (they stand up)
Landsdowne: If I’m going to be shot, I’d like to be standing up.
Dr. Westphalen: Oh, Malcolm.
Milos Tezlof: This is wrong. This is not the place I dreamed of.
Landsdowne: No kidding.
Tezlof: I need to announce my entrances, need to know if someone is there, someone waiting for me, someone who could return the fire. Is there someone in the house?
Landsdowne: No.
Tezlof: Keep them here. (walks off)
Landsdowne: We are in deep, deep trouble.
(seaQuest DSV – Ward Room)
Tezlof: (on screen) Awake, awake. Accident, chance, fate — they’re all the same, aren’t they? I have accepted that. I have accepted my ability to act, kill, if not me than it will be someone else. If you kill me, so what? I have killed millions of you. My religion is despair, that is where I worship. You only have to close your eyes to understand what is going to happen. Dream dreams. No matter how bewilderingly futile they may be. Dream dreams, dreams.
Bridger: All right, shut it off, that’s enough.
Ford: Hypnotic, isn’t he. Let me show you something else. (screen changes) The nightmare that is Milos Tezlof.
Bridger: What is he doing out here in the middle of the Atlantic?
Hitchcock: He’s been on the run for six months since his escape from the UEO Security forces.
Ford: Serbia, Croatia, they’ve been at this for centuries, killing each other off. Muslims, Catholics, Communists; and with the rise of Tezlof and his followers — anarchists. One big soup.
Bridger: When does it stop?
Crocker: Well that’s why the UEO took Tezlof in custody in the first place, Cap.
Ford: Unfortunately, rumor has it that his escape was aided by certain factions within the UEO. Everybody’s got an opinion on this one.
Krieg: Yeah, and since his escape the Eastern European Alliance has finally agreed on something — their singular hatred for this guy. Their plan is to hunt him down, and execute him.
Ford: He’s been scrambling from continent to continent. His plan seems to be to stay free long enough to marshal an army to retaliate against those hunting him down.
Bridger: What is it?
Ford: It’s his policy of ethnic cleansing. The color of your skin is a birthright.
Bridger: And what if we meet up with him and he resists?
Ford: I’d like to see him come after the seaQuest.
Bridger: That’s not an answer.
Ford: Yeah, well the UEO should have finished the job when they had him in custody.
(Caicos Key Dolphin Research Center)
Tezlof: This stretch of water, between Albania and Italy is crucial to me. It is my enemy’s stronghold. The Strait of Otranto between Albania and Italy, I shall put a spur in the boot. I shall control the straits with your dolphins. I shall return to power.
Landsdowne: That’s insane. Of course, I’m not telling you anything you haven’t heard before.
Tezlof: The dolphins will guard the straits. Nothing shall pass through without my permission.
Dr. Westphalen: You can’t train dolphins to do that.
Tezlof: In the war between the United States and Vietnam, dolphins were trained to hunt, to kill, to help in the slaughter. A dart gun with a CO2 cartridge strapped to the head of a dolphin, plunged into the body of a human, and ignited. Very painful death by asphyxiation. Your dolphins will be trained to do this, and more. Bloodshed follows me like a wedding train. This is not where I should be. If you do not help you will be killed.
Landsdowne: I’m sorry, I don’t think I can do this.
Tezlof: (notices boy with dolphin) No. (runs over) No, no, my little boy. His name is Caesar, he is my son, my heir. My heir and my curse.
Dr. Westphalen: (coming over) He’s not a curse. He’s a small child and … he’s terrified.
Tezlof: A son to rule after me, to keep the peace. And then my curse came in a dream. I’m in a place I’ve never been before, a dolphin is swimming toward me carrying somebody, something. I can’t tell what it is but it feels like a chimera, a harbinger of disaster. (Westphalen bends down to the boy) Don’t touch him.
Dr. Westphalen: Let him come to me. (takes boy’s hand, touches dolphin, laughs with boy)
Tezlof: Did he say something? Did he say something?
Dr. Westphalen: We could fight your curse. We could help you understand it.
Tezlof: He speaks only in his sleep.
Dr. Westphalen: If you could understand your son, if you could reach him, would that make a difference?
Tezlof: All the difference in the world.
Dr. Westphalen: We can make a deal. You spare this man’s life, and I’ll help your son. Trade.
(seaQuest DSV – Sea Deck)
Dr. Westphalen: (on screen) I am sorry, Nathan. I had no choice but to make this call.
Bridger: What’s wrong?
(Dr. Westphalen leaves the screen, Tezlof enters.)
Tezlof: (on screen) Hello.
(Bridger’s Room)
Noyce: (on screen) Well it seems simple to me, Nathan, he’s playing right into the UEO’s hands.
Bridger: I gave him my word. I guaranteed him safe passage in return for Westphalen and Landsdowne.
Noyce: (on screen) So what? Tell that to the millions of homeless in his land. Tell that to the countless orphans, the doctors struggling for vital medicine. Terrorism is terrorism, Nathan, you can’t reason with it.
Bridger: The UEO embargo didn’t work. And then the UEO let him go.
Noyce: (on screen) Nathan, we are the UEO. You don’t think you can teach him something? All right then, when he comes on board you turn him over to us. We’ll have a launch waiting directly above you.
Bridger: I can’t do that.
Noyce: (on screen, angrily) Damnit, Nathan, follow orders for once. (calmly) What else is going on, Nathan? I’m asking you as a friend, what else?
Bridger: Bill, I don’t know yet, I’m sorry. (screen goes blank)
(Sea Deck – By the Moon Pool)
Lucas: We know Darwin doesn’t have a linear language. He doesn’t talk in sentences, he doesn’t have words. The software in the vo-chorder just makes it seem that way but in reality, Darwin is talking in concepts, in images.
O’Neill: We think we found a way to receive those images.
Ortiz: Well clearly when Darwin moves through the water, when he’s trying to communicate, he’s sending out not only sound waves, but electricity. There possibly could be images being sent out through the water.
Bridger: You little rascals certainly sound convincing.
Lucas: The fatty tissue in his head focuses sound waves but the rest of his activity could generate enough electricity to communicate.
Bridger: How do you know you’re not gonna electrocute him? Those wires’ll be hot.
O’Neill: They’re only from the wall to the hologram. They’re nowhere near the water.
Lucas: Yeah, this is gonna work the same way the Professor’s hologram works in your quarters. Only this way, Darwin is sending the image.
Bridger: What image?
Lucas: Electronic disturbances in the water. Thrashing of his tail creates a disturbance and created in that disturbance is an image.
Ortiz: It’s sorta like a connect the dots drawing.
Bridger: How does Darwin feel about this? It’s just conjecture. isn’t it?
Lucas: Yeah, sure, it’s just theory.
Bridger: What are you going to ask him?
O’Neill: Well, if it works, he’ll be able to tell us stories.
Ortiz: He could tell us everything.
Lucas: Captain, what we’re looking for is that one breakthrough, that single blue light into inter-species communication. It would be like discovering why dolphins can enter our dreams. Captain, can I ask you something?
Bridger: Sure.
Lucas: Have you dreamed of Darwin this week?
Bridger: Yes, I have.
O’Neill: Last night?
Bridger: You too?
O’Neill: Yeah.
Lucas: He was, uh, carrying something, bringing something.
(Bridger’s Room)
Hitchcock: (on bridge) The shuttle from Mr. Landsdowne’s landing should be arriving soon.
Bridger: I’ll be there, thank you. (knock on door) Come in.
Ford: (enters, salutes) Permission to address the Captain, on the record, to be entered into the Captain’s log.
Bridger: At ease, Commander. Is this a mutiny?
Ford: (closes door) As second in command I’d like to voice our opinion on the pending arrival of Milos Tezlof, recently deposed head of the Serbo-Croatian Alliance.
Bridger: Go ahead.
Ford: You’re putting the boat into the middle of this conflict without the slightest attempt to negotiate, with no plan beyond him arriving in our midst.
Bridger: How can I negotiate with a man who holds Westphalen hostage?
Ford: You well know, sir, there is always room to negotiate. To bring someone like this on board is a soulless choice. It’s like inviting the Albatross of the Ancient Mariner.
Bridger: You’re afraid of this man.
Ford: Call it an instinct, a premonition. This guy is a nightmare we should not be near, he’s just too evil.
Bridger: We can’t handle him?
Ford: Unnecessary risk is the phrase I choose.
Bridger: All right, Commander, I’ll enter all of this into the log. But before you go, I’d like to read you something. (reading) He prayeth best who loveth best. All things both great and small. For the dear God who loveth us, he made and loveth all.
Ford: (incredulously) That’s —
Bridger: Yes, it is, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
(Launch Bay)
Crocker: (Tezlof exits launch, followed by Westphalen and Landsdowne) I’ll take that.
Tezlof: I think not. (takes clip out of gun, gives both to Bridger)
Bridger: Thank you.
Tezlof: This place, I have dreamed of this place. (walks off, security follows)
Bridger: (Westphalen comes over with boy) His son, of course.
Dr. Westphalen: The boy won’t talk. He’s suffering some kind of trauma. No human being can live as terrified as he is.
Bridger: Terrified of what? Where’s his mother?
(Hallway)
O’Neill: (over loudspeaker) Attention all hands, level seven security guest in transit. Please take precautions.
Bridger: You’re OK?
Dr. Westphalen: Yes, yes, but there’s something peculiar about all this.
Bridger: You been dreaming about Darwin?
Dr. Westphalen: Yes, have you?
Bridger: Yes. Is there anyone on this boat who hasn’t been dreaming about Darwin? (enters room)
(Room)
Tezlof: (Crocker puts on ankle bracelet) From one UEO prison to another.
Crocker: Well we need to know where you are all the time. Captain. (leaves)
Tezlof: You going to turn me over to the UEO?
Bridger: Not yet.
Tezlof: There never has been a multiethnic country, has there, Captain? It’s the way of the world, despite the mythological dreams of the UEO. It’s as old as the world itself.
Bridger: For some strange reason or another, you and I have been having the same dream. Some images in that dream I don’t understand, I think you do. And I need you to tell me what they mean.
Tezlof: Your dolphin has put things in my head.
Bridger: Maybe so, Mr. Tezlof, but why? Why?
(Sea Deck)
Dr. Westphalen: Hello.
Bridger: I suppose you’re worried about having this guy aboard the boat too.
Dr. Westphalen: No, it was my idea. Look, are you upset with me?
Bridger: Damn it! Why did you have to go to Malcolm’s in the first place?
Dr. Westphalen: What? I have every right to go wherever I want to.
Bridger: You certainly do have every right to go where you want to go.
Dr. Westphalen: And it was my time.
Bridger: I’m not saying it’s not your time.
Dr. Westphalen: And I took it, thank you.
Bridger: There wasn’t enough for you to do aboard this boat?
Dr. Westphalen: Look, if you don’t want me working with him . . .
Bridger: I didn’t say I didn’t want you working with him. I didn’t say that. Did I say that?
Dr. Westphalen: Nathan, if you don’t want me seeing him, maybe we should talk about it.
Bridger: He’s a little crazy, you know what I mean.
Dr. Westphalen: Yeah, he’s a friend of yours. (pauses) I think you’re jealous.
(Bridger thinks, and walks away)
(Sea Deck – By the Moon Pool)
Dr. Westphalen: This will collect base-line data. (to Caesar) Swimming with Darwin will help you relax. It’ll eliminate fear. This is a neurological imaging system. Malcolm and I have been perfecting it.
Landsdowne: It’s really just a forty-one channel electroencephalographic preamplifier.
Dr. Westphalen: The breakthrough in this area could be mind-boggling. It would teach us about healing, about developing immunities, in a nutshell, Nathan, it would prove that dolphins can communicate directly into one’s neurological system.
Bridger: In our dreams.
Landsdowne: Oh, that’s just kid’s stuff, but sure. What did they used to say? In the future, everybody’s gonna be wired. (laughs)
Darwin: Play. Play.
Tezlof: It talks.
Dr. Westphalen: (puts Caesar into water with Lucas, they swim with Darwin) Look at this, he’s calm, he’s happy.
Landsdowne: I would not let anyone drive a car after this.
Bridger: What’s it saying?
Dr. Westphalen: The beta activity is as calm as possible. Swimming with Darwin is literally changing the boy’s neurological state. He’s ecstatic.
Tezlof: (gets in water and swims with Caesar) In my dreams, it was he who was carrying.
Landsdowne: Don’t look at me. I’m just a crazy kid with a crush on your medical officer.
Bridger: Just don’t think you’re gonna stay aboard this boat.
Landsdowne: I didn’t say anything.
Bridger: I’ve got the oppressor of Eastern Europe swimming with my dolphin. How do you talk me into these things?
Landsdowne: Don’t ask me, I’m just working here.
Bridger: Yeah, I know. (ship rocks, into speaker) What the hell is that?
Hitchcock: (on bridge) I’m not sure, sir.
(Bridge)
Bridger: (enters with Crocker, Ford, and Krieg) What’s going on?
Noyce: (on screen) Tezlof’s enemies have found you. They want you to give him up for execution.
Bridger: How’d they find us?
Noyce: The communication super-highway’s got lots of hitchhikers.
Bridger: (ship rocks) Dive. What is it?
Ortiz: Any number of crafts directly above us, sir. They range from gunboats, to small recon vessels, to fishing trawlers. They used some primitive jamming system on our communications buoy.
Bridger: Well who’s doing it?
Hitchcock: (operating H.R. Probe) Captain, they’ve apparently lowered what looks to be a wrecking ball.
Bridger: Wrecking ball?
Hitchcock: (operating H.R. Probe) Check that, sir, it’s not a wrecking ball, it’s a nuclear warhead.
Bridger: Get us outta here.
(Bridge – Later)
O’Neill: (on screen, Serbian official says something in Serbian) For the reckless use of the treasures of the people (on screen, Serbian official says something in Serbian) Yugoslavian court of Serbs condemns you, Milos Tezlof, to death. (on screen, Serbian official says something in Serbian) For the murder of five thousand in the city of Split, (on screen, Serbian official says something in Serbian) you, Milos Tezlof, are condemned to death. (on screen, Serbian official says something in Serbian) For the firebombing of the city of Tuzla, (on screen, Serbian official says something in Serbian) the Yugoslavian court of Serbs condemns you, Milos Tezlof, to death.
Bridger: Who are these people?
Tezlof: My enemies. They have found me.
O’Neill: What should I say, sir?
Bridger: Tell them we need more time.
Tezlof: Tell them to go ahead.
Bridger: Tell them we need more time. (O’Neill says something in Serbian, on screen, Serbian official responds in Serbian) What?
O’Neill: They say they’re going to give us twelve hours.
Bridger: Tell them that the man they’re looking for on this boat is a guest, and we don’t intend to give him up. (O’Neill says something in Serbian, on screen, Serbian official responds in Serbian) What did she say?
O’Neill: Five hours.
Bridger: Get me Noyce. A nuclear warhead on a chain, a yo-yo. You think they can detonate this thing?
Crocker: It’s hard to say, Cap. You know, since the, uh, ban on nuclear weapons the black market’s gone crazy with this sort of thing. I’ll say this much though, if they can’t detonate, it’s still one damn fine bluff.
(Sea Deck – By the Moon Pool)
Lucas: Darwin, do you understand what we’re trying to do here?
Darwin: Yes.
Lucas: Are we on the right track? (Darwin swims off)
Ortiz: Apparently not.
Landsdowne: Well, perception fuels consciousness.
Lucas: You mean, we’ve got an interesting theory, but it’s not gonna work.
Landsdowne: I mean, we all make it up as we go along.
O’Neill: That, sometimes, is the truth.
Landsdowne: That is always the truth.
O’Neill: I wonder what Darwin will tell us. I mean, his inner thoughts are what we’re really talking about.
Landsdowne: I think he’d complain about how the monkeys messed everything up. (all laugh) When you first tried this, what do you mean he just said “no”?
Lucas: That’s it, no.
O’Neill: Yeah, his version of “get lost.”
Landsdowne: Not exactly.
Lucas: What?
Landsdowne: You guys have been dreaming about him, haven’t you?
Ortiz: The same dream.
Lucas: Then O’Neill started having the same one.
O’Neill: No, I didn’t, um, yeah.
Landsdowne: Well, maybe Darwin just wants to leave it at that. I can tell you one thing, if he chooses to use this machine, and put an image up there, I would really like to see it.
(Bridge)
O’Neill: (on screen, Serbian official says something in Serbian) They say we’re running out of time.
Ford: Sir, this is more than we should manage. We should turn Tezlof over, it’s not our fight anymore. They have every right to him.
Bridger: Not yet. How far do we have to go down Mr. Ortiz?
Ortiz: They’re a little more sophisticated than most. I’d recommend deep submergence to be safe.
Bridger: OK, Commander, let’s take her down below twenty-thousand feet.
Ford: Roger that. Chief Crocker, gather everyone into the center of the boat and notify me when you’re done.
Crocker: Aye, Commander. Lieutenant Krieg. (leaves with Krieg)
Ford: Sound deep submergence alarm, everyone to their appointed stations. Ortiz, if you can give me a schematic on that I can check the progress. I do not want to die because of this man.
Bridger: Let’s go down five thousand more right now.
Ford: Diving, sir.
Lucas: (on sea deck, with Caesar by moon pool) I’ll go see what’s going on, OK? Stay right there.
Ortiz: Regrouping almost complete, ready to commence flooding the seaQuest. to match outside pressure in less than five minutes.
Ford: Close the moon pools.
Ortiz: (on loudspeaker) All crew to secure quarters, main passageways will be flooding in thirty seconds.
Lucas: (on sea deck) We’re flooding the boat, you better come with me, all right. (doors to moon pool start to close) Darwin, keep him safe, I’m gonna go get some help.
Ford: Everyone’s assembled and accounted for. Ready to commence flooding of outer compartments.
Lucas: (entering) Captain, the boy is gone. Caesar’s gone.
Bridger: No.
Lucas: It was an accident, the door on the moon pool closed on him and Darwin.
Bridger: Well, they may be in a flooded area. We’ll have to go to the surface. Commander, stop the flooding and let’s take us up.
Ford: Ortiz, cancel deep submergence.
(Hallway)
Tezlof: (everyone searches ship for both Tezlof and Caesar, Tezlof jumps seaman, takes gun, finds boy in hallway looking at Darwin) He understands you? (hears others coming, leaves toward engine room, Bridger and Lucas find Caesar, Bridger hears Tezlof entering engine room)
(Engine Room)
Tezlof: (Bridger and Ford enter, Tezlof steps out with gun) I want your dolphin and your vo-chorder. I want to heal my son. I have a solution for you. I will give up claims to my country, in return you’ll give me the vo-chorder and the dolphin. and safe passage from this boat.
Bridger: I can’t do that.
Tezlof: Millions of lives are less important than your pet?
Bridger: I don’t trust you.
Tezlof: It takes a strong man to kill, an even stronger one to stop. (hands gun to Bridger)
Bridger: No deal.
Tezlof: In the chaos of the search for my son, there are so many things I could have done to your boat. And you have to keep asking yourself, Captain, how much time did I have during the search? How much time do you have now?
Bridger: You’re bluffing.
Tezlof: Am I? I’m a direct descendant of Vlad the Impaler, King of Romania. They tell a story of an Arab messenger who came to court. The messenger was asked to remove his turban, he refused, Vlad nailed the turban to his skull. Oh, yes, in the confusion, I found things.
Bridger: I need proof.
Tezlof: All that is required in a bluff is some validation of what I am claiming to be true. I could destroy your boat, Captain, and I will do so, unless you make my son whole.
Bridger: I can’t do that.
Tezlof: Than ask your dolphin.
Bridger: Ask him yourself.
(Bridge)
Ford: (entering) Take us back down, now. Dive, dive. Get us away from that bomb. Get us out of here. Code four, battle stations. (on screen, Serbian official says something in Serbian) What, what is she saying?
O’Neill: She’s going so fast. Um, they want Tezlof immediately, they say they’re going to attack.
Ford: Tell them to check their passive radar.
O’Neill: (says something in Serbian, on screen, Serbian official responds in Serbian) They know we’re locked on. They know we’ve got them in our sights.
Ford: Tell her this, he who strikes first, strikes last. SeaQuest will interpret any movement of yours as provocative. We will respond forcibly. We will give your Tezlof at our discretion.
(Sea Deck – By the Moon Pool)
Bridger: (enters with Tezlof and Caesar) Don’t think that Darwin and the vo-chorder are going to be a quick cure.
Tezlof: And what of the son I have now? What happens without the vo-chorder? What is he then? A life in hell?
Bridger: All right, than who or what is the dolphin carrying? What are you hiding from me?
Tezlof: Too late. I would like to spend time with my boy, and the dolphin.
Bridger: All right. (leaves)
Tezlof: I would like to ask you a question. My dear mammal, can you heal my son? Please, please.
Darwin: Follow. (swims over to machine, image of dolphin, Tezlof, canon, woman)
Caesar Tezlof: Mama, mama. (runs toward machine, Tezlof stops him) Help?
Tezlof: Yes, you talked. (Bridger enters) In my escape from my enemies, Caesar was cut off from his mother. I had to choose between my boy and his mother. I had to sacrifice his mother. I left his mother. Thank you, I’m sorry, forgive me, I’m sorry. This is my boy, my Caesar.
Bridger: We’ll take care of him.
Tezlof: I have the strength to make amends for his mother to save my son. Tell my enemies up above I am coming to them. My son.
Bridger: It’s why you came to us. It’s what the dream was about.
(Bridge)
Ford: Milos Tezlof has surrendered. We’re handing Tezlof over to you now. When you receive him, you are to vacate the waters above us immediately.
Serbian Official: (O’Neill says something in Serbian, on screen) Thank you.
Ford: (surprised) You’re welcome.
(Mess)
Landsdowne: I don’t know about you, but I could use a nap.
Dr. Westphalen: What? That’s your response to all this?
Landsdowne: Well what should be my response?
Dr. Westphalen: (disgustedly) Oh.
Landsdowne: I mean, Nathan’s got this guy in hand. Everything is gonna be fine.
Dr. Westphalen: That’s it?
Landsdowne: OK, here’s what I’m thinking —
Dr. Westphalen: I’m not leaving this boat.
Landsdowne: (surprised) What?
Dr. Westphalen: But I think you and the boy should.
Landsdowne: (shocked, surprised, incredulous, uncomprehending) What?
Dr. Westphalen: Malcolm, take the boy with you. You have the time, you have the dolphins, Lucas could adapt a vo-chorder program for you. Hm?
Landsdowne: What?
Dr. Westphalen: Oh, Malcolm, you are, you are as charming as the day is long, but maybe that’s not enough. My work’s here. I’d probably last about two months on your island. (they kiss) You use that charm to raise a child.
(Galley)
Dr. Westphalen: Couldn’t sleep?
Bridger: Wasn’t really anxious to. What is that, chocolate?
Dr. Westphalen: Yes.
Bridger: It looks good. You, uh, all finished with your work at Malcolm’s now?
Dr. Westphalen: I’m not sure.
Bridger: Not sure?
Dr. Westphalen: Well, I really enjoyed being with him, but, um, there has to be more to my life.
Bridger: Something else you need on the boat?
Dr. Westphalen: I don’t know. I’ll have to check.
Bridger: What does that mean?
Dr. Westphalen: It may take a little while, but I’m checking. I’m checking. (walks away)