Mark. Good to see you again.
Oh, that's good to be solid ice in a matter of a minute.
What do you want from me, Mr. Schubert?
I want you studied. Genetically studied.
'Welcome to your home, Mark.'
I have to report to you.
You must be waiting to see the water receding
and all that, as promised.
Do something, Brent.
[Theme music]
[Music continues]
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
(Schubert) 'Oh, good show.'
'i just love the simplicity of it.'
microwaves. Simple microwaves.
The same buzzy things that make tuna melts
and ten minute takers.
But when do we turn on the big ones?
We have already turned them on, trubshawe, you overslept again.
I beg your pardon, sir, but 4 A.M. is a bit early
even for a man in my position.
No hour is too early for success
especially for a man in your position.
Yes, sir. It seems to be working, sir.
Yes, it does.
I feel a celebration coming on.
Might I suggest that nice 1896 cognac, sir?
Found it, did you?
That'll be just fine.
When will the effect be noticed?
Anytime, trubshawe.
'Anytime.'
[dramatic music]
[Music continues]
Ready for sea base approach.
And not a moment too soon either.
I'm gonna sleep for forty eight hours.
Docking light on.
Sea base, may we have our homing beacon on, please?
(Male #1 on radio) 'Roger, cetacean.'
inaugurating computer control.
[Music continues]
I'm getting a power surge.
Power output, normal, level.
Something is wrong with these controls.
Check your alignment with the entry channel.
Camera one, please.
Come on. How many times have I laid that in
since we started here?
[Music continues]
Right full rudder, now!
[Music continues]
I couldn't have made a mistake this big.
I couldn't have.
Maybe you did not.
'Tell me what it felt like.'
the controls. Like, like we were surfing.
'Twenty foot or at least.'
we're home. Sea base ahead.
Commence docking procedure.
Begin entry approach.
Twenty five degree's, right rudder.
- Pull ahead slow. - Activate sea gate.
Activating sea gate.
[Music continues]
Positioning gantry for lock procedure.
[Music continues]
Ready to clamp.
[Music continues]
Gantry locked. All engines down.
Retract gantry.
[Music continues]
Gantry in. Locked.
Walk through, standby.
- 'On yellow, cetacean.' - 'Closing sea gate.'
[music continues]
(Male #1) 'Extending walkthrough.'
thank you, sea base.
- Walkthrough in place. - 'Locked in.'
flotation secured.
You were indicating an unusually strong undersea current.
Yes, it was cutting across starboard.
Your course readings were correct.
You did nothing wrong.
We have no current like that in this area.
The whole reason we built the cetacean entry in that part
of the water was because it was protected there.
Well, something is affecting navigation.
- Where are you going? - Collect c.W., Elizabeth.
I may have something to show you out of the jetty.
(Elizabeth) 'The jetty?'
[wind whooshing]
[Water gushing]
Looking for clams, are ya?
No.
There's something under those rocks.
You've been at 'em for twenty minutes now.
I'm with the foundation for oceanic research.
Yeah? I'm with the shark.
Sharks are not native to these waters.
[Chuckles] No, that hot-dog stand over there.
Red and I are calling it the shark.
First one to a chain.
- A chain? - Of stands.
This one's gonna make it to our first-made and then we expand.
Why would one want a chain of stands here?
One seems to be sufficient.
You know, for somebody with an ocean institute
you sure got a dry sense of humor.
You, uh..
You know about water and tides and stuff, right?
I never saw the water come up this close before.
'This keeps up we're gonna lose'
all that good traffic of the beach.
- If there is a beach. - Oh, yeah. I know.
California is gonna slide right into the ocean, right?
Brad says that, uh, high tides are just something
people around here gotta get used to.
Well, if you ever want some great tacos..
I prefer plankton.
Yeah, don't we all.
You said, he wanted us to meet him here?
Mm-hmm. There.
I don't think I like the look on your face, Mark.
- Look at this. - What's so special?
This plant grows only at the water's edge.
So?
I had to reach down almost half a foot to get it.
The water is rising.
A six inch rise?
Even more.
The current we were caught in.
Now look.
There is a new source of water
coming from... Somewhere.
We better get back. There are few things I wanna check out.
[Instrumental music]
There's been a drastic dehydrogenase
in the water level.
A what?
The rise of the water level is constant
all the way up and down the coast.
I knew I didn't like the look I saw on Mark's face.
It's more serious than I thought, c.W.
Much more serious.
[Violin music]
Good. Very good.
Thank you. Wait for my orders.
Our computers have picked up the water rise
so any scientific institution with a computer
must know something's up.
Lovely gentlemen, lovely.
Who's president these days?
- I... - Never mind.
It's his chief scientific advisor I'll be talking with.
I'll place the call, sir.
'Mm.'
Beluga, if I'm not mistaken.
Yes, sir.
Hmm. Quite fresh.
But a might warm.
Hereafter serve it at 42.5 degrees fahrenheit.
Very good, sir.
Gentlemen, that passage
is marked "Andante con moto."
to play it in my presence, any other way
but "Andante con moto" Is to risk hideous consequences.
The white house, doctor clems, sir.
Hello, Dr. Clems. Ha!
All over the world.
Venice, Italy, port Arthur, Texas.
New Finland, not to mention the coast here.
At first I thought it was a rupture
in the lunar magnetic pole but now..
Tides and currents do not act the same way, Elizabeth.
I know and the moon hasn't made a noise in over six months.
Perhaps sun spots.
Well, we have no evidence that solar explosions
have any real correlation with ocean movement.
If the temperature of the sun has increased
the heat could be affecting the polar ice caps.
I've been toying with that.
Might be something we can check out
as soon as the citation is working again.
You know we're up against a potential disaster here.
I just got off the phone with the white house
there's another factor to put into the pot.
Another factor?
- Schubert. - Schubert?
'The president's top scientific advisor'
bill clems just got a call from him.
Schubert's offering to do whatever he can to help his end
what he calls our little problem.
It's not like Mr. Schubert to make an offer
without expecting something in return.
Oh. He has a price alright.
Drop the other shoe, c.W.
He said he'd lower the seas to their normal level
in exchange for Mark Harris.
[Instrumental music]
Mark, anything to report?
I have been trying to follow the current.
But it keeps disappearing. I cannot find the core.
Scanners are reporting exactly what's on these maps.
No fault activity. No oceanic swells.
No mantle movement.
And no seismic slippage.
And now Mark says the current is gone.
He must have some idea where it was going.
Well, if Mark can't follow it
then it's not strong enough to trace.
- 'Elizabeth'. - Right here, Mark.
What have you got?
(Mark) 'Something unusual.'
I have never seen things like these in these waters before.
- 'Things like what?' - Plankton.
Water is full of it.
All around me.
Well, there's nothing unusual about that.
You know how much plankton there is in these parts.
This is different. You must look at it.
I think it must have come from the source of the flooding.
I will bring you in a test sample.
(Elizabeth) 'Good.'
[music continues]
Cross check these with the catalog.
Wonderful.
Elizabeth, there is a difference.
These plankton are much larger than normal.
Larger? Wait a minute.
The insufficient data.
That was only for existing plankton. Right?
- Right? - Sure, but...
Millions of years ago
plankton was much bigger.
'Punch that back up again.'
let's see if we can coordinate that
with the sea growth of the pliocene period.
That's it.
Fantastic.
Now, let's see if we can pin point
the origin of that species.
The chukchi sea is north of Alaska.
It's nothing but ice.
It was an open ocean during the pliocene period.
And if I'm not mistaken, position of that ocean
'hasn't changed since then.'
you're saying schubert's melting the ice
of the chukchi sea.
It has to be.
Fossil plankton of this kind
only comes from there.
Then we must go there.
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
(Schubert) 'Yes, due for panic.'
flooded cities, mass hysteria
running people, traffic jams.
Brent..
All I'm getting from you
is slippage and mud slides.
As I've told you before we're not melting a popsicle.
'These things take time.'
I want to see the tops of high rises
peekabooing out of the waves.
Make the phase shifters stronger.
Here are the coordinates I worked up.
A time delay correction of 627?
That strong?
Anything alive within a mile of the phase shifter will..
Well, will no longer be alive.
It's a frozen over sea.
What could possibly be out there? What's that?
- What? - That?
Someone in the perimeter of the phase shifter.
- An animal? - Too big.
I'll have it pin pointed for you in a minute.
It's a vessel of some kind. I think...
Cause, it's the citation.
Who else could've found the source.
Ooh, they are good, aren't they?
It's a pity we're gonna have to step on them.
[Dramatic music]
[Music continues]
Mark, how do you feel?
The temperature is not causing me any problem, Elizabeth.
But I still do not see anything.
The device could be anywhere around here.
What would it look like?
I don't know.
Schubert could be using one of a hundred
different things to melt the ice.
Whatever it is, can't be too healthy for us.
Even at this distance.
Elizabeth, are you picking that up?
Picking up what?
That sound, a sort of hum.
I don't hear anything. Stop all engines.
All engines stopped.
We hear it now, Mark.
Can you trace it?
Maybe I can isolate it on the audio coner.
It's microwaves.
That's what schubert's been using to melt the ice.
Mark, there has to be
a microwave transmitter in the vicinity.
Will I find it if I follow the sound?
Let me warn you, those rays could burn you alive
without you even feeling them.
[Music continues]
Elizabeth, can you still hear me?
With difficulty but we can see you on the monitor.
Rotate camera eight.
Good old schubert.
Trust him to have the latest scientific equipment.
- What is it? - 'A phase shifter.'
'we used to experiment with models like it'
'in front of ice breaks.'
but I've never seen one that large.
Elizabeth, I'm going in for a closer look.
(Elizabeth) 'Mark, wait a minute.'
we'll send out a di-electric conducer.
You're gonna need protection from that radiation.
Alan, you reading?
Reading.
[Instrumental music]
Shuttle activated.
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
Mark, you're close enough. Get back.
He can't hear you through all that interference.
[Music continues]
[Beeping]
(Elizabeth) 'The conducer's burned out.'
get out, Mark. Get out.
Request permission to start engines.
Not yet.
'If we don't pick him up'
'he'll stand there and fry. '
He's gonna try something else.
What can he do? Throw rocks at it?
[Music continues]
I think I know what he's up to.
[Music continues]
He's using his sonar to block out the microwaves.
He's no opera singer and that thing's no wine glass.
Elizabeth, it is done.
Oh, that was incredible. We'll pick you up.
Elizabeth, I hear something at the surface.
I'm going up to investigate.
All ahead, slow.
[Creaking]
Something's wrong.
- Bring power up. - 9-8, bypass.
We're gonna burn the engines out at this rate.
Turn them off!
Feels like some giant hand's holding us back.
Something's holding us back.
Look at the monitor.
'Is something wrong with our cameras?'
ice!
'Mark blew up the phase shifter'
and now the ocean's freezing back up again.
Circuits open.
Mark?
(Mark) 'Yes, Elizabeth.'
the water's freezing up again
- we're coming to get you. - No.
If you move in this direction you'll be frozen in the ice.
But we can't just leave you there.
Dive! Full power!
Mark!
The water will freeze from the top down.
It is your only chance.
But, what about you?
(Mark) 'Just dive, quickly.'
Full power, dive.
Aye-aye.
[Creaking]
[Music continues]
[Instrumental music]
[Music continues]
Mark!
Mark-Mark, good to see you again.
(Schubert) That wouldn't be too bright.
It's toasty and cozy up in here
and all that's gonna be solid ice in a matter of minutes.
I fly away and you become a life-size snowman.
[Laughing]
'A frozen fish-stick in yellow trunks. Come on.'
[laughing]
'I got me a water breathing man.'
[laughing]
(Schubert) 'That's it. Come on in, boy.'
[laughing]
Home.
The repository of love
where supporting and supported friends
and dearest relatives mingle into bliss.
Welcome to your home, Mark.
'I apologize for the simplicity.'
'it's the best I could do in short notice.'
trubshawe suggested Louis xiv, he-he-he
which I, I knew you'd find amusing.
You're concerned about your friends.
I do so admire that in you.
They're quite safe.
It was clever of them to dive below the ice when they did.
Any other maneuver would have meant disaster.
Try it.
What do you want from me, Mr. Schubert?
I want you studied.
Genetically studied.
I can have your DNA structure duplicated.
Mark, imagine.
A world of superior beings who can live in water
as well as air.
That's what I can give to mankind.
And a reasonable profit for you, Mr. Schubert?
I suppose, I don't know.
My people handle monetary matters.
Now let's not stand on ceremony.
Try it.
- Will he do it? - He'll have to.
(Mark) 'Why will I have to, Mr. Schubert?'
beca...
Can you hear me?
Yeah.
Isn't that amazing!
It really would have been easier for you to have kidnapped me.
Kidnap?
I'm no gangster.
It's difficult enough conducting an intricate experiment
without half the army knocking at the door. No, no!
My acquisition of you must be government approved
which is why I caused that little meltdown.
First you gotta get their attention.
Your meltdown is over, Mr. Schubert.
I have destroyed your microwave.
Hm. Quite completely.
How did you ever find it's location?
Of course.
A magician never reveals his secrets.
I'm not a prisoner here?
Heavens! Whatever put that thought in your head?
If you stay here, you do it voluntarily.
With no threat to keep me here?
Well..
You really think I have only one phase shifter?
I'm amazed by such naivety in a man of your intelligence.
- There are more? - Plenty of 'em.
All over this planet.
Enough to inundate the world
before you can find 'em
much less immobilize 'em.
- Trubshawe. - Yes, sir.
Take Mr. Harris wherever he wants to go.
Very good, sir.
[Instrumental music]
(Schubert) 'You're free to leave.'
'sooner or later you'll return.'
this way, sir.
(Schubert) 'Go on. You're dripping on the carpet.'
[instrumental music]
Alright, gentlemen. Something festive I think.
Mm, of course.
The schubert quintet in c major.
And..
[Violin music]
Any word?
Got reports from the Navy, from the coast guard.
I even talked the Russians into letting their
trawlers take a look. There's nothing.
[Phone ringing]
C.w.
No, not right now.
We'll be in to look at those later.
That was Alan. He wants us to take a look
at the flooding reports, they've started coming in again.
The ocean level's rising twice as fast as it was before
and nobody knows the source.
Well, what is so funny about that?
- Mark. - What?
Mark, what happened to you?
Schubert picked me up in a helicopter.
But you escaped.
He let me go.
Just like that?
He wants me to return voluntarily.
Of course, it's legal that way.
Why does he want you? Did he say?
He wants to study me. How I breathe underwater.
[Phone ringing]
C.w.
Alright, we'll be right out.
- The floodings? - Worse and worse.
We better go look.
Dispatch said the rise in oceanic level
was increasing geometrically.
And schubert does have other phase shifters.
Computer estimates that at the rate the water's rising
our coastal cities will be totally submerged
within a matter of days.
Then there's only one thing left to do.
I must return to Mr. Schubert.
- No! - What?
Allow to cut you up like a lab frog?
He said nothing of dissection.
If it were not for me the world would not be in this crisis.
Mark, come outside. I wanna talk with...
Please.
You're from another world, Mark
with different strengths and different weaknesses.
I know about being different, Elizabeth.
Well, I don't know.
I think you're catching up fast.
Yes. But can I catch up on being a child in a playground
or having a mother and father?
Or learning things that cannot be taught.
There are emotions I have never felt.
(Elizabeth) 'Schubert's doing this, not you.'
'there's no reason for you to feel guilty.'
guilty?
You know when we feel responsible
for something even though it's not our own fault.
But I am responsible. I can stop it.
We can find another way.
We stopped it once, didn't we?
(Female #1) 'Come on.'
'Round on the other side, come on.'
'it will soon be leaking through.'
hurry, please.
Hi. Thanks.
[Panting]
Oh, look at that water.
And these sandbags aren't gonna keep it out
of the restaurant for... More than 12 hours.
- Maybe less. - Less.
Hey, um, aren't you from that foundation
that-that ocean institute?
You know what's causin' all this?
I don't know, we're tryin' to come up with something.
Well, the coast guard doesn't know.
Or they say they don't know.
And the department of the Navy doesn't know
and the department of beaches and..
[Panting]
Hey, I'm sorry. It's..
Just that I.. I got all our
savings in this place, you know.
'$1200 and..'
I know how you must feel. I don't know what to say.
There is nothing more anyone can say.
Mark?
[Sighing]
[Instrumental music]
I'm begging your pardon, sir.
Assassin!
Whatever it is, you handle it yourself.
I'm busy.
I think you'd prefer to handle this yourself, sir.
I am here of my own free will, Mr. Schubert.
Gentlemen, that is music to my ears.
A flood of worldwide proportions
now definitely receding.
Stricken areas are now beginning
the work of clean up, rebuilding.
'And all over the world reports are coming in'
'of the, ebbing of what has been called "The second flood."'
in the midst of disaster as always
there are things which seem to bring people together.
Those who have little sharing with those who lost all.
What do you think?
You're not stopping the phase shifters.
Lowering the level of the oceans.
[Laughing]
Well, if it fooled you, it'll surely fool Mark Harris.
You're running a tape you had made.
Right.
In return for those pictures
you'll discover what he's made of.
I hope they convince him.
See that they do.
Set up your preliminary experiments.
I'll go fetch our reluctant Guinea pig.
[Instrumental music]
(Schubert) 'Mark!'
(Mark) 'Hello, Mr. Schubert.'
hello!
I've some reports that you must be waiting to see.
The water receding and all that, as promised.
After which we can begin our work with Dr. Brent, yes?
I'm looking forward to seeing them.
[Instrumental music]
From all over the world reports are coming in
of the ebbing of what has been called "The second flood."
'in the midst of disaster as always'
'there are things which seem to bring people together.
'Those who have little sharing with those who lost all.'
(Elizabeth) 'I can't understand it.'
'the water should have stopped rising by now.'
schubert's double crossed us. Everybody.
Not only aren't the waters receding
but the reports indicate the ocean level is rising
and faster than before.
But schubert's got what he wants now, Mark.
I don't think that schubert has any intension of stopping it.
(Brent) 'The dual polarization receiver is giving us'
'an optic coverage of minus .625.'
(schubert) '"dual polarization receiver. Optic coverage."'
'today's scientific jargon is tomorrow's hieroglyphics.'
'you know that, Brent?'
(Brent) 'Probably.'
'i think he's had enough.'
we've been at it over four hours.
He had three breaks.
But a polarized receiver at that range...
It's inhuman.
Switch to that DNA breakdown test you were tellin' me about.
The chemo cytoplasmic scan. Yes.
Chemo cyto.. Love it.
No data. What's goin' on?
He's weakening. We must stop for a while.
Brent informs me that you're weakening.
Is that true?
- No. - No.
There was something wrong with those pictures.
- What pictures? - On the monitor.
The floods receding, they're not correct.
Really, Mr. Harris? Are you insinuating...
There was nothing wrong with those pictures.
You must have gone to a considerable expense
to prepare them.
'But if you had remained true to your word'
the best you could have done was to stop the melting.
So?
That's not like pulling the plug
on a bath-tub, Mr. Schubert.
The high waters must remain until they are evaporated.
Yeah..
[Sighing]
I told you. He was bright.
You are still flooding everything.
Mm-hmm.
I plan to let the waters rise for quite a while yet.
All those extra phase shifters I told you about
they're under the ice of Antarctica.
Everything gets melted but the very top layer.
That is dishonorable.
Is it?
We were up to the chemo cytoplasmic scan.
Mr. Schubert, you are betraying millions of people.
I'll make it up to 'em.
You have lied to me.
Tricked me in to coming here
'and now I am held against my will.'
now, don't fidget. We're comin' up to important measurements.
[Dramatic music]
- Do something, brant. - Me?
[Electricity crackling]
Brent, I order you to do something.
Yes, sir. What?
Something.
[Grunting]
Where are the controls, Mr. Schubert?
Mark, control yourself.
This is no way to behave
to a man who's been a father to you.
- Where are they? - I've taken you into my home.
I've been your friend. Mark, I've been a father to you.
(Schubert) You talk to him.
[Instrumental music]
Gentlemen, I can't tell you what a bore
this person has become.
Subdue him.
[Music continues]
'Get up! Tackle him.'
[music continues]
'He's headed for his room. There's no way out of there.'
'he's trapped!'
'move!'
don't let him get into the water.
'Everybody into the pool.'
[Coughing]
[Panting]
'Cornered like a carp!'
ha!
Alright, now you got him where you want him.
Come on!
He can't hold out much longer.
'Don't let him do that to you.'
you big sissy, hit him.
That's right, get him.
[Grunting]
Oh!
- Ah! - Oh!
[Grunting]
(Schubert) 'Where are you going?'
'what are you doing?'
'cowards! Come back and fight!'
'afraid of a little water? You won't melt.'
oh, it didn't hurt that much.
You're gonna pay for that stuff. That's just one man...
[mumbling]
Where are the main controls, Mr. Schubert?
The co-axial control is permanently set.
Even I can't turn it off.
Where?
Uh.. Yeah.
I told you it's impervious to human tampering.
[Whirring]
(Schubert) 'What are you doing, Mark?'
don't do that!
'Mark, don't. I can make you rich.'
'Mark.. Mark, listen to me.'
I can make you rich.
Bring me some money!
'You're being very childish about this.'
not.. Not the polarization..
Mark, don't do it!
[Instrumental music]
'Think this finishes me?'
I'm a survivor.
[Music continues]
You could have had a future!
[Music continues]
Hm! Don't come to me for a Grant.
That's all I can say.
[Music continues]
[Sighing]
Hey!
The whole foundation, right?
We were telling c.W about your restaurant.
It's a great lookin' place.
Food as good as the promotion?
Oh! You like chili dogs?
Do I like chili dogs?
You are serving frozen dogs?
I-I did not think...
Oh, he's beautiful.
Uh, chili dog for you then, huh? And you?
And we don't any plankton today.
You sorta have to call ahead for that kinda stuff.
Seaweed would be fine.
Seaweed.
As a matter of fact, in the clam broth with the steamers.
I told you this would be nice.
[Instrumental music]
[Theme music]
[Music continues]