"How come you always give me this kind of duty?" "Because I'm your commanding officer." "Come on." "When I signed on to seaQuest," "I thought it was gonna be about science, not entertainment." "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." "My father was a television repairman." "Besides, the USO show?" "Come on, seaQuest isn't a tour bus, I'm not a tour guide." "Why doesn't she take a plane?" "Well, Miss Toenin believes the air space is the sovereign domain of birds." "She's an environmentalist." "She's a nut, Commander." "Last year she married a tree." "Well, you get to do stuff like that when you're a big rock star." "You ever hear her music?" "That cutesy, New Agey," "I'm-your-buddy-hug-me kind of thing with that milkshake voice of hers?" "Comes with a warning from the Surgeon General." "The troops stationed on Solitaire Island deserve a little R and R, Miguel." "They're surrounded by white sand and palm trees." "Give it up." "You might even like her." "She's cute." "Fat chance." "I'm a meat-eater." "LUCAS:" "Solitaire's weight should be consistent with our projections, given the traditional Mediterranean land masses, but I've been running the numbers," "I still haven't gotten a figure that makes any sense yet." "Hey, what difference does it make how much an island weighs?" "I mean, doesn't that kind of fall into the category of how many strippers can dance on a barroom table?" "That's angels on the head of a pin, Tony." "Actually, you know, Solitaire is not an island, Tony, it's a mountain." "It's one of the tallest in the world." "I mean, if you put it next to Mount Everest, it'd be almost twice the size." "That's high, right?" "For most of us, yeah." "But why weigh it?" "Because it's sinking." "Three meters every hundred years." "The land mass is too heavy to be supported by the earth's superstructure, and the whole region is becoming seismically unstable." "So in about a million years, the whole place is gonna be under water." "There goes the real estate market." "Hey, guys, come on." "The universe is expanding, too." "One day..." "Bang!" "Lt'll break apart." "The big 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 distant future dawn." "Yeah, I tried using that one to get out of doing my science homework." "No one bought it back then, either." "Tony, could you go lie down, or something?" "So, O'Neill, why..." "What are we gonna do about it?" "Oh, well, seaQuest is going to core through the mountain like an apple." "We're going to start digging at the base, we're going to laser-scrub the interior, dredge it out, lighten it up." "I thought it was going to be something hard." "Like spelling." "Oh, relax." "It'll take at least a hundred years." "SeaQuest's job is just to start the first step." "MAN 1 ON RADIO:" "SeaQuest, this is UEO VIP Shuttle 2." "We're at approach speed." "Request clearance for a final docking." "MAN 2:" "Affirmative, Shuttle 2." "You're cleared to Docking Bay 3." "WOMAN ON PA:" "VIP Shuttle 2 has arrived at Docking Bay 3." "VIP Shuttle 2 has arrived, Docking Bay 3." "Miss Toenin?" "Sarah." "Hi." "Hi." "Sensor Chief Ortiz." "Don't tell me I have to call you Sensor?" "No." "Miguel, Mike, Teez." "Whatever." "Where's the rest of your entourage?" "This is it." "Thanks for giving me a lift, though." "Sure." "Here, let me get that for you." "I've got it." "Thanks." "You know, I've recently become a very big fan of yours." "Well, that's nice." "Thank you." "Yeah, I really love that one song you do." "(STUTTERING) The one they're playing, which one is it?" "Power Love?" "No, the one with the guitar in the middle, the guitar thing." "Oh." "Keeper of the Flame?" "No." "You know, the one about the people who don't know each other, but fall in love anyway." "Sleepless Nights." "Yeah, that's it." "It's not my song." "Nice try, though." "Hey, took a shot." "I'm still not getting a weight estimate consistent with the data." "Did you try rotating the composites?" "Yeah." "This can't be right." "What?" "Well, you see these figures?" "Yeah." "They support that it's hollow." "The island?" "It's a mountain, Homer." "Lucas, this data doesn't suggest it's volcanic." "No, no, it suggests that it's man-made." "I mean, it's got predictable geometry, the computer's been extrapolating the form." "It looks like a pyramid." "Mmm-hmm." "What do you mean, like in Egypt?" "Yeah." "Encrusted with millions of years of soil and rock, but that's what it appears to be." "Is that good?" "It depends on who built it." "A pyramid?" "Well, yeah, sort of." "I mean, that's what it looks like." "Well, that is its mathematical shape, Captain." "This thing is the size of Manhattan." "That's a little preposterous, don't you think?" "It's very preposterous." "And it's the size of Ohio." "Yes." "And the sun is pulled across the sky by a chariot, and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone." "Okay, look, we don't know it's man-made, exactly, but its mathematical values are correct." "You don't find that in nature." "I mean, the pyramid is perfect, Captain." "I ran the measurements all the way to the end of my computer, and they come as close as I can get to infinity." "Perfect math?" "In theory, yeah." "But we don't have the capabilities yet, so I can only speculate." "How old do you think it is?" "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," "(STUTTERING) Well, I'd say that it pre-dates time, sir." "Yeah." "The first thing before the very beginning of the very first thing." "I got the concept, Lieutenant." "Aye, sir." "(SINGING) To ease her grief with comfort" "To say" "Something" "To turn her hurt and pain away" "(KNOCKING AT DOOR) Sighs..." "Come on in." "Hi." "Hi." "I didn't see you at mess, so I thought you might be hungry." "Thank you." "Just let me finish this, okay?" "Oh, I'll leave." "No, stay, please." "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" "That was beautiful." "Thank you." "It's a little new yet, but, we'll see." "No, I mean it." "It was." "Did you just write that?" "Like just now?" "Sort of, yeah." "Sometimes they just kind of come out." "But this one, God knows where it's coming from." "It feels really old." "Like Pearl Jam." "Almost ancient." "But I feel as if I have to write it, you know?" "Like it's the reason I'm taking seaQuest to Solitaire instead of a plane." "I thought you didn't fly because of the birds." "I don't fly because it makes me throw up." "You..." "You're not really a fan, are you?" "What, are you kidding?" "Huge." "Actually, I'm a bit of a banger." "You know, like if your ears aren't bleeding, it isn't music." "But I think it's really nice what you're doing, performing for the troops, and all." "Well, it'd be nicer if we didn't need them." "But until then, I guess someone has to sing for the soldiers." "Yeah." "You know, if anyone wants to hear me rehearse, that's fine with me." "I enjoy playing in front of people." "It keeps me honest." "Well, that'd be nice." "I'll spread it around." "Thanks." "Did you really marry a tree?" "No." "That was just a one-night stand." "I don't know what the big deal is." "I mean, Sarah Toenin?" "Please." "Well, maybe Nora Pinnefrin was already taken." "You know, the media gets a hold of some kid, hands them a guitar, gives them some name cooler than cool ever was, and we're supposed to think she has all the answers to life." "She's not even that pretty." "And I think she's older than she says." "Twenty-three?" "No way." "Ooh, don't sugarcoat it for me." "Tell me how you really feel." "Do you like her music?" "Yeah, I do." "Why?" "It comes from the heart." "I think it's honest." "It comes from a team of songwriters locked in some room somewhere, who write exactly the stuff everyone wants to listen to, and then they say she wrote it." "Come on, Wendy, it's all colored lights and hype." "What's up with you?" "What?" "You're not like this." "You don't even know this lady, and you've done nothing but trash her since you heard she was coming aboard." "I have not." "I'm just not a fan." "I think you're jealous." "Come on." "I do." "Hardly." "Then stop pounding on her, okay?" "THE PROFESSOR:" "Maybe it's about God, Captain." "You don't mean the old bearded guy with the big golden book?" "How else could one explain such a phenomenon?" "A pyramid that size, apparently ageless, it's incomprehensible." "Well, I usually like to save the God answer for the last resort." "But we all believe in him, don't we?" "I mean, in our own way, perhaps, but we do." "And even if we are scientists, an argument can be made that science is God." "Or God is science." "I've never asked you this before, but are you religious?" "Well, in that I have faith, you could say so, yes." "I always find it amusing that there are such specific differences." "The same God wearing so many hats." "A thousand religions confusing the same man." "Which religion are you, Nathan?" "My own, I guess." "I believe in a unity and purpose in the cosmos, and on occasion, I call that God." "LUCAS:" "Seismic activity is arising in the southwest quadrant." "The region is unusually unstable, given preexisting data." "COMPUTER VOICE:" "Seismic indicators have increased 347%." "Looks like we've got an undersea earthquake on our hands." "(SINGING) To ease her grief with comfort" "To say" "Something" "To turn her hurt and pain away" "Sighs often" "Is this lady great or what?" "Sure, if you like that cutesy hug-your-buddy-love-me kind of thing, yeah." "I'm just listening to it from a different perspective now." "I didn't know that perspective had ears." "Lady's a genius." "With great legs." "Hey, everybody's gotta stand on something, Tim." "Sit, sit." "He obeys them" "He goes back" "To his fleet" "To his fleet" "Is this is the part where we clap?" "I hope so." "I'm falling asleep here." "Thank you." "Come on, lady, rock the house!" "(GUITAR CLATTERING)" "(SARAH GROWLING)" "(SPEAKING HOARSELY IN ANCIENT GREEK)" "I haven't heard this one." "What album is it off of?" "You don't want to know." "No, no." "No, please." "I don't want to go." "No, I don't want to." "No." "It's okay, it's okay." "You're fine." "What happened?" "You fainted." "I did?" "I never faint." "Well, you did." "Right in the middle of your performance." "What language was that?" "The words you were chanting, it was in another language." "It sounded almost like a man's voice." "It's quite a range." "Is it new?" "But I only sing with my voice." "Well, then you have a hell of a baritone." "I think you're suffering from exhaustion." "How's your diet?" "It's awful." "Don't start." "Roots and berries?" "What she needs is a cattle fanny sandwich." "(CHUCKLES)" "How you feeling?" "A little spooky, but I'll be okay." "You two know each other?" "Yeah." "I'm running for president of Sarah's fan club." "You know, love the singer, hate the song." "You scared the bananas out of Piccolo." "He was waiting for your head to start spinning around." "But, hey, I'm a banger." "I loved 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." "Yeah, yeah, maybe." "But that weird voice spewing out that language, it sounded like the Devil." "Come on, one of those rock guys used to bite chicken's heads off on stage." "TIMOTHY:" "I recognized the language." "Yeah, and the translation is" ""Buy my album, send me money."" "That's not exactly the translation." "It's obviously Greek, but the language is ancient." "It's over 1,000 years old." "It's the language of the Greek myths." "You know, Apollo's tongue, so to speak." "That is, if you believe in Apollo." "Do you?" "I'm Catholic, Captain." "I believe in anything that makes me nervous." "What was she saying?" "Well..." "Okay." ""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."" "That's it?" "It's all I could get." "What do you think it means?" "I'm not sure." "Well, maybe we have to play it backwards." "You know, I mean, bands do backward masking all the time." "Sing a bunch of satanic stuff to freak out everybody's parents." "Lucas, Neptune isn't about Satan, he was a Greek god of the sea." "He wasn't a bad god." "Anyway, Neptune predates the Devil and Christianity." "He also invented the horse." "He invented the horse?" "Hey, I didn't write it, I just read it in high school." "He's also the god of earthquakes." "He'd stick his trident in the ground and shake it." "Oh, that's very scientific." "Let's hope he doesn't flush the toilet." "Captain, I've been monitoring the Solitaire." "The seismic activity is increasing." "Guys, come on." "A lady fainted." "Or she was channeling." "Communicating to us from somewhere far beyond." "Far beyond what?" "I don't know." "Time, space, another dimension." "I don't know." "This is getting ridiculous." "What's next, the Headless Horseman?" "It's not so ridiculous, Commander." "There have been many instances of channeling that people can't disprove." "I remember one time seeing a guy who claimed he could communicate with Abraham Lincoln's wife." "Really?" "How did she enjoy the play?" "You know, people have been wondering that for years." "(HORSE NEIGHING)" "(HORSE SNORTING)" "(NEIGHING)" "Hello, horsey." "(BEEPING)" "(HORSE NEIGHING)" "(CLANGING)" "Lucas, you awake?" "No." "Well, get up." "Why?" "Because I want to tell you a story about somebody knocking at your door." "(CLANGING CONTINUES)" "Since when is it my door?" "Since technically I'm still a guest here." "Yeah." "And like fish, they start to smell after three days." "I should have stayed in the brig." "At least there you can get some sleep and nobody insults you." "What?" "Wha..." "Were you sleeping?" "Yeah." "It's an odd habit I had since birth." "Dagwood saw a horse." "Huh?" "That's good, Dagwood." "Thank you." "It was running in the hallway." "The hallway?" "Mmm-hmm." "A white one." "When did seaQuest get a horse?" "SeaQuest doesn't have a horse." "We have a dolphin." "Yeah, but not a horse." "A horse is a horse." "Of course, of course." "It was running down the hallway?" "Mmm-hmm." "It was very fast." "Did it have a jockey?" "Tony..." "Maybe I want to put down a bet." "Look, Dagwood, go to sleep, all right?" "There aren't any horses on seaQuest." "At least, not a whole one." "(HORSE NEIGHING)" "I think that was it again." "(NEIGHING)" "(SCREAMING)" "Are you okay?" "What the hell happened?" "There was a horse in my room." "See, I told you." "I bet it was a big white one." "And I had snakes growing out of my head." "You had what?" "Snakes growing out of my head." "Out of your head?" "Yeah." "Did it hurt?" "No." "(STUTTERING) It felt like I was dead." "DAGWOOD:" "Oh." "What's this?" "Next time, you open the door." "(ALARM BEEPING)" "COMPUTER VOICE:" "Warning, Code 1." "Vital signs have fallen below acceptable limits." "Double stat alert in Med Bay 12!" "Double stat alert in Med Bay 12!" "(EXPLOSION)" "Blood pressure 50 over 10." "Pulse is still less than 20." "She's been like this for too long." "I think we're losing her." "WENDY:" "Or she's in some kind of stasis." "(SARAH SPEAKING IN ANCIENT GREEK)" "(SPEAKING HOARSELY IN ANCIENT GREEK)" "Oh, man, I hate this part." "That's it, Sarah, hang on." "What the hell happened?" "I think Sarah was dead." "Dead?" "Yeah." "LONNIE:" "That's unbelievable." "Yeah, but now she's not." "Her stats are normal." "Thank God." "I'm glad." "Are you?" "Wendy, of course." "I mean, so I'm not nuts about this lady's music, but I am human." "You said you had snakes growing out of your head." "(LONNIE SIGHING)" "I had a nightmare." "Big deal." "And the horse?" "It was a big nightmare." "Look, I want to go, okay?" "I feel fine." "You sure?" "Yeah." "Okay, Ortiz, would you walk her back to her quarters?" "Sure." "I'd like that." "Thanks." "(SIGHING)" "Well, the particle breakdown is pretty standard." "It's marble." "I'm searching for a type, a quarry location, but it appears to be your basic pulverized marble." "NATHAN:" "That was the horse." "Well, it could have been a hallucination, Captain." "I mean, that bug seems to be going around here on seaQuest." "Yeah, the horse, maybe." "But where'd the marble come from?" "Well, that's a pretty common stone." "Not this one." "This type of marble is what sculptors use for statues." "Exactly." "That's what I meant by common, Lucas." "In ancient Greece." "According to my initial readout, the marble was mined from a quarry 26 miles south of Athens," "1,000 years ago." "Marathon." "Yeah. 26 miles, 385 yards." "A messenger named Pheidippides ran that distance with the news that the Greek army was victorious over the Persians, and that was the first marathon." "It was the beginning of the Olympics." "Okay, so the Greeks were responsible for more than democracy." "But the freeze-dried horse?" "Why don't we just add water and follow it back to the barn?" "Skepticism could be a tool, Commander." "Don't hide behind it." "This one's got me scared." "Take WSKRS down to 25,000." "WSKRS status?" "At 5,000, at 10." "All right." "Piccolo, ahead full." "Take seaQuest to the base of Solitaire." "I want to get a close look at this island." "Aye, aye." "O'Neill, it's a mountain." "I know, Jim." "I'm just saying." "Tony, ahead full." "Why?" "Because the Captain put me in charge, that's why." "So do it, please." "I'm gonna do it." "I'm just asking why." "Because I'm getting seismic readings that are going off the chart here, that's why." "You know, I always hate when it's a reason like that." "Gonna raise hell with the USO show." "There won't be a USO show." "You know, I wonder if they give refunds when the entertainer gets possessed." "Ladies and gentlemen," "Miss Toenin has left the auditorium permanently." "(CHUCKLING)" "What does she do for an encore, burst into flames?" "TIMOTHY:" "I wish." "Looks like this island is just about to break apart." "COMPUTER VOICE:" "Warning, seismic indicators have exceeded normal limits." "You better get the Captain." "LONNIE:" "So, you've really become a fan, huh?" "Yeah, well, I guess." "I kind of like her music now." "No, you don't." "Okay, I don't." "But you think she's pretty." "She's okay." "She's not that pretty." "Do you think she's prettier than me?" "What do you mean?" "It's a simple question." "Is Sarah, that girl in the Med Bay, prettier than me, your friend and crewmate?" "I don't know." "She's not." "I'm prettier." "Okay." "I am." "That's fine." "I really don't have an opinion." "Yes, you do." "What is this?" "I mean, you're both gorgeous, okay?" "I can't sleep at night, I'm surrounded by so many gorgeous women." "No, tell me I'm prettier." "Hold on, this is getting a little stupid, don't you think?" "Oh, so now I'm stupid?" "That's not what I meant." "Then say it." "What?" "That I'm prettier." "Okay, you're prettier." "Do you want to come in?" "No, not really." "Why not?" "Because this conversation's getting a little strange." "That's against regulation." "So confine me to my quarters." "Hey, stop it, okay?" "I don't want to kiss you." "Brody, contact Solitaire." "They have to evacuate the entire island immediately." "Aye, aye, Captain." "This is seaQuest." "We have an emergency alert." "Evacuate Solitaire." "Imminent earthquake." "Repeat, evacuate Solitaire." "Earthquake imminent." "(ALARM BLARING)" "MAN ON PA:" "All personnel execute Evac Plan Bravo." "All personnel execute Evac Plan Bravo." "Let's get out of here." "Full port rudder." "Full ahead." "Captain, we're losing ground." "Blast all ballast." "Ballast away." "It's no help, Captain." "It's still drawing us in." "Brace yourselves, people." "This is a very big room." "Very cool." "Personally, I like my very cool a little smaller." "What do we do, Captain?" "I don't know." "I'm gonna say a prayer." "You got one for me, O'Neill?" "Sure." "Me, too, Tim." "Any thoughts?" "Not a one." "I'm sorry, Miguel." "I don't know what came over me." "O'Neill, can you read that inscription?" "Working on it, sir." "Oh, my God." "What?" "It's Sarah." "Oh, my God, it is." "I've got it, Captain." "It's the tomb of Minerva." "Minerva?" "Yeah." "She was an ancient Greek goddess." "She was in love with Neptune, but after Neptune ravaged Medusa in Minerva's temple," "Minerva got revenge by turning Medusa's hair into a bed of snakes." "Anyone who looked at Medusa after that was turned to stone." "The inscription's a warning, to keep Minerva's tomb undisturbed for eternity." "I think we can do that." "Let's go, huh?" "Put it in reverse and floor it, right?" "Uh-oh, too late." "Who is that man?" "That's Neptune." "God of the undersea." "I hope he's nice." "I hope he's not hungry." "JAMES:" "So what does he want?" "SARAH:" "He wants me." "It's why I'm here." "He thinks you're Medusa." "Tell him I'm not." "It's why you were jealous about Miguel and me." "That part of you thought he was Neptune." "Medusa was in love with him, too." "Neptune?" "I'm Cuban." "Why do you think that, 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." "I think we do." "O'Neill, let's go red alert." "Aye, aye, sir." "(ALARM BLARING)" "Commander, battle stations." "Half ahead." "Aye, Captain." "Where to?" "We're going right at that tomb." "We can't take on a god, Captain." "I don't think we have to." "If he wants Minerva, let's see what happens if we give her to him." "Fix coordinates, Commander." "Coordinates fixed." "Arm first barrage." "Stand by second barrage." "Warheads at maximum." "(SHUDDERING)" "All engines at full ahead." "Fire first barrage." "(CREW SCREAMING)" "Fire second barrage!" "Okay, so now we can get out of here, right?" "Rudders to port." "Engines full ahead." "FORD:" "Captain, I really think you should give this some more thought." "I've given it some thought." "A lot more thought." "I'm filing the report, Commander." "What's it going to say?" "It's going to say on a routine mission, seaQuest encountered what was obviously an apparition of Neptune." "You're not really going to say that, are you, Captain?" "Wait a minute." "It's the truth." "I know." "But in the wrong hands, the truth can be like a hammer." "Does my name have to go on it?" "My name's going on it." "What's the problem?" "Something like this goes on our record, say in 20 years, I want to run for President..." "What?" "The press is going to make me look like a lunatic." "How come I always knew you wanted to run for President?" "Why can't we say it was an apparition of undefined origin, or something?" "It was Neptune, Commander." "You're right, the guy who invented the horse." "That's the guy." "Look, don't worry, Jonathan." "I'll vote for you." "(SINGING) To ease her grief with comfort" "To say" "Something" "To turn her hurt and pain away" "Sighs often" "She really is beautiful, isn't she?" "She's okay." "Thanks, Miguel." "Being moved by his great love, most deeply" "(WHISPERING) Hey, you two, how about watching the show?" "And still the gods give orders" "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 to all the news" "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" "Hi, I'm Don Franklin, and these are lionfish, one of the ocean's most beautiful and more deadly inhabitants." "The lionfish is a member of the scorpion fish family, which includes the stone and toadfish." "All have one common attribute, venomous spines." "Although they can be deadly to humans, these venomous spines are not only a life-saver to the lion fish, but used to corner and kill smaller fish." "These exotic predators are native to shallow Indo-Pacific waters, but are popular in many saltwater aquariums." "See you on the next adventure of seaQuest."