Now, easy, thark.
Why did you do that?
You steal from thark? You ruin his work?
You have placed my world in danger.
That is the only reason I am here.
I've done nothing to harm your kind.
You are draining our oceans dry.
Whoa!
Muldoon!
[Theme music]
[Instrumental music]
[Thark growling]
[Grunts]
[Thark growling]
[Screams]
C.w. On the line, Dr. Merrill.
Well, Elizabeth, did you find that leak in the ocean yet?
(Dr. Merrill) 'Mark's outside exploring now.'
'all we know at this point is that'
'we've got a water loss rate of 7.34.'
you're talking about millions of gallons of sea water
just going down the drain.
(Dr. Merrill) 'It's gotta be going down something, c.W.'
'water doesn't evaporate at this rate.'
if it is just disappearing down some kind of a hole..
No, Elizabeth, that's mind boggling.
Where on this earth could so much water just vanish to?
- Elizabeth. - Gotta go, c.W.
I'll fill you in as soon as we hear something definite.
Right.
There is a great whirlpool here, Elizabeth.
Monitor it on camera four.
Punching in, camera four.
(Dr. Merrill) 'That's where the water must be going, Mark.'
'is there a fissure in there of some sort?'
I cannot see from here.
Mark, don't get any closer before I can calculate
the speed of that current.
The sooner I confirm this as our problem, Elizabeth
the better.
[Dramatic music]
(Dr. Merrill) Here he comes.
- Elizabeth, this disturbance.. - Yes?
I think it might be artificial.
Man-made?
(Mark) Whoever made it.
The flow of water is too uniform to be natural.
As if the sea were being siphoned off.
The only place the sea could be siphoned off
would be at the center of the earth.
That's a physical impossibility.
(Mark) 'But it is happening.'
and if it continues to happen
this planet will be nothing but desert.
(Dr. Merrill) 'Mark?'
someone is out there, in trouble.
- Scan. - Scanning.
There is someone or something.
A person this far down?
(Jane) 'I can't get anything with the nose camera.'
let's try camera five.
Long lens.
[Instrumental music]
- 'It's a scuba diver.' - He looks dead.
At this depth, what else would he be?
(Dr. Merrill) 'Mark.'
I have him, Elizabeth.
- Alive? - 'Yes, but just barely.'
Get the sick bay ready.
Flushing vent.
- They're clear. - Open it.
(Mark) Help me, please.
- Compression chamber? - I do not think so.
Is he alive?
Yes, I think he will be alright.
(Dr. Merrill) Skin tone, good.
Pulse good too.
His will to live seems quite strong.
According to my medical knowledge
this man should be wide awake now.
(Dr. Merrill) 'What was he doing out there, anyway?'
probably diving off akemi reef
although it is very far to drift.
[Coughs]
Convulsions.
I'm gonna need a sedative, hurry it.
This is the first sign of pain.
I don't know what else to do for him.
There could be internal injuries.
I'm gonna have to transport him to a hospital.
There's a weather station at akemi reef.
They can take him by helicopter from there.
Medusa bay.
I'm dying.
Lungs ruptured.
Medusa bay.
My mother, she's there.
'She never wanted me to go to the sea.'
[coughs]
Who are you? What's your name?
What were you doing diving this far out to sea?
[Gasps]
He's in a coma.
Well, do we set a course for medusa bay
'or bring the investigation to a dead stop for 48 hours?'
the man is dying, Elizabeth.
[Door shuts]
Muldoon, you brilliant devil, you.
This is absolutely the greatest caper yet.
Complete, with chauffeured submarine
and pretty lady doctor.
[Chuckles]
Look, Elizabeth, if these calculations are on target
we have a problem of major proportions.
We know it, c.W., and that's why we've changed course.
'We're dropping our guest off at akemi reef.'
they'll transfer him from there
and we can get back to the vortex by nightfall.
I've alerted the meteorological stations along the coast.
This thing could create tides, the likes of which..
(C.w.) 'Well, I don't have to tell you.'
computer readout puts the leak in geometric context.
Give it five days, c.W.
'And it isn't just the tides that we're gonna be facing.'
it's a total alteration in the orbit of the earth.
[Intense music]
[Beeping]
Cards. Everybody plays cards, don't they?
I have seen the crew on occasion
but I have never participated.
By the time I'm through with you there won't be a casino
between here and Singapore you won't feel right at home in.
- Five cards, right? - I have five, yes.
Oh, don't show 'em to me. This is a game of bluff.
And another thing..
You don't like the hand I dealt you
'you can replace up to three cards. Savvy?'
how many cards you need?
Well, these will do quite fine, thank you.
What do we do now?
- We bet. - Bet what?
Well, that your hand's better than my hand.
What else? How much bread you got on ya?
Bread? That is slang for something?
Right.
- Money. - Oh.
In lieu of which, uh, some folks would take a marker
or some item of value.
Like, uh, say that snazzy jacket you got there.
This is an official foundation jacket. It is not mine.
Oh.
Too precious to, uh, gamble with, huh?
Yeah, alright.
We could talk about taking me to medusa bay.
Nah! Next hand.
Couple of hands down the line, maybe.
'You sure you don't want a new card?'
for myself? One, methinks.
- Did you get something good? - Uh-huh.
You wanna see it?
You gotta pay for it.
You were talking about this jacket.
Right, into the pot with it, old buddy.
It'll be your jacket against my, uh..
My lucky rabbit's foot.
Huh?
Is there supposed to be some correlation between
the dismembered paw of a lagomorph and luck?
Two pair.
(Muldoon) 'Sorry, old buddy.'
(Mark) Is this better?
Well, uh..
No.
Kings and queens have a way of cancelling each other out.
You see, uh, too many faces in one hand.
Now that makes sense, doesn't it?
- If that is the rule, yes. - Mm-hmm.
(Dr. Merrill) And if you don't know anything about playing poker
and you're being taken by a shark.
Elizabeth!
(Muldoon) 'Lovely vision of the deep.'
forget it, muldoon.
Hey, I was just tryin' to keep the kid
from gettin' that nasty card-playin' habit.
How very noble.
Does this mean I've won the game?
Hmm.
You are now the proud possessor
of one lucky rabbit's foot.
Somewhat mothy, hmm, but you can't have everything, can you?
Does that mean you're not taking me to medusa bay?
(Muldoon) 'Can't blame a feller for tryin'.'
[beeping]
But he's back out of the vortex now?
Yes. He thinks he can pinpoint
the center of the whirlpool for us.
Maybe even catch a glimpse of what's on the other side.
(C.w.) 'Wait a minute, Elizabeth, you yourself told me how deadly'
'the flow rate alone in there was, and... '
look, Dr. Merrill!
[Intense music]
Elizabeth?
Mark, get out of there, fast!
[Intense music]
We must contact c.W., Elizabeth.
Muldoon must not be allowed to leave the weather station.
Muldoon? What's he got to do with anything?
He was not diving off the akemi reef.
Well, where else could he have come from?
From the other side of the vortex.
That's impossible.
You know the rate flow through that hole?
A salmon couldn't get through that swimming upstream.
Perhaps he did not come from that passageway.
- Perhaps another entryway. - Entryway? To where?
That is what we must find out.
Muldoon?
Now what is so important about that reprobate?
Where he was when I found him, c.W.
We had assumed he'd drifted down from akemi reef
but now I see that could not have been the case.
Well, come on, Mark. What other case could it have been?
Muldoon has been wherever it is the water is going to.
Which means he knows the way in.
I wish you'd figured that out before.
He has left the weather station?
After fleecing half the meteorological staff
of their paychecks.
Jomo, lay in a course for medusa bay.
[Beeping]
(Muldoon) 'And it was nip and tuck'
'all the way, let me tell you, ladies.'
that abominable snowman had me up by the ears
dangling me out over that glacier. And me?
'I didn't have so much as a jackknife'
'to protect myself with.'
can hardly wait to hear how you got out of that.
What I did was, I untied my boot
and I strangled the cuss with a boot string.
[Laughing]
Oh, Joseph! We are parched.
We have run up a bloody big tab since noon, haven't we, muldoon?
And I still haven't seen, I didn't hear of anything green.
Now, Joseph..
Didn't I tell you?
I have enough legal tender
to buy this stinking pesthole of an island ten times over.
You said a lot of crazy things since you walked in here.
But people who don't cough me up the green find themselves
playing footsie with the, uh, sharks.
And there's a lot more where that came from.
The essar's flying in special, first thing in the morning.
After which, yours truly becomes
'the richest man from here to Fiji.'
'now, Joseph. How about those drinks?'
(Joseph) 'Yes, sir.'
now, ladies, as I was saying..
Ah, Mark, laddybuck, what a pleasant surprise.
Let me buy you a drink.
I must speak with you urgently, muldoon.
Now, what could be so urgent?
- Debbie, Irene. - Later perhaps.
Oh. Excuse us, ladies. My friend wants some privacy.
Uh, he's a responsibility I've taken on.
You see, I saved his neck once in Fiji, and, uh, you know..
Responsibility.
Mark, after you.
Terrific chicks, both of 'em.
They come from the sandwich islands, you know?
Get my meaning?
You don't get my meaning?
Alright, uh, talk to me.
The place I rescued you, we must return.
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea?
You gotta be kidding, sweetheart.
You have to show me the way beyond the disturbance.
Disturbance?
I-I don't know what you're talkin' about.
Muldoon, the world is in danger.
The oceans are being bled dry.
I got deals to attend to.
Mark, amigo..
It-it means that much to you, does it?
It means that much to everyone.
Can't we just keep it one to one, alright?
You and me. I owe you, and you got it comin'.
Now, as soon as I say goodbye to my friend Dexter..
We can shove off, okay?
I'm glad you have a sense of responsibility.
Responsibility? Why, that's my middle name.
What'll ya have?
Uh, water.
Water.
Hey, be careful of that. It's mighty potent.
Is it true what he said?
I beg your pardon?
Why did you do that?
Hey! Knock it off!
- You started this! - Ah!
[Woman screams]
Hey!
Stop that!
Muldoon!
(Mark) 'Muldoon!'
[chuckling]
[Heavy breathing]
Easy, thark.
Now, easy, thark.
Be cool.
[Grunts]
[Shouting] Look what you've done to my place!
It's all your fault.
Cease or I fire.
Ask this guy, look at this place! I...
Hey, Joe. Easy.
Now, officer, I'm a victim of circumstance.
He'll vouch for me.
(Muldoon) Mark?
Amigo?
- Come on. - I've been framed!
(Muldoon) I admit it, I have been on the other side of that hole.
But if you think I'm crazy enough to go back there..
(Mark) Perhaps it is dangerous, but once through..
Unless there is some further danger you have not told me of.
Hmm, nothin'.
Nothin' I'd be afraid of anyway.
Besides, the whole place is probably
'evaporated now and gone away.'
- yes. Probably. - There you go.
The bill for damages to the bar add up to $6,000.
That will not evaporate and go away.
Joseph.
He's a bloomin' bill padder, that one.
(Mark) 'If it were $6, muldoon, you could not pay it.'
'your pouch is gone.'
I noticed that when you came in through the window.
Yeah, well, uh..
These waters are full of thieves.
Doesn't mean I'm not good for it, buddy.
Besides, it'd be a good investment for ya.
You are asking me to pay your bill?
Hey, I know a good ol' boy when I see one.
And that, my friend, is you.
It would not be necessary for you to repay me.
Good ol' boy.
Now can I pick 'em or can I pick 'em?
Not in cash, anyway.
Oh, no.
No, sir.
You go through that funnel all
by your pretty little lonesome.
You hear me?
Goodbye, Jake.
I trust Joseph, the bartender
will not be too hard on you when you are released.
Released? What released?
Alright, this is a 60-day offense.
Maybe even 120.
Two hours.
It is the least I could do for you. Goodbye.
You can't do this to me.
Why, they'll scout me out there.
'I wanna stay in jail, do you hear me?'
(muldoon) 'Hey, we really don't need no buddy line, now, do we?'
hey, you guys don't trust me, now, do you?
'Now, if that don't beat all.'
and my word's my bond.
Everybody in the islands knows that.
Sure would appreciate the opportunity
'to demonstrate that to ya.'
you've got a way about you, Jake muldoon.
Too bad you're dealing with a cynic like myself.
Cynic, are ya?
Pretty big challenge for an enthusiastic
young buckaroo, I'd say.
Don't wear a tank, amigo?
- I do not use one. - Right.
Wait a minute, you weren't wearing a tank
'when you pulled me out of the water, were ya?'
I mean, I don't remember any air tanks.
Oxygen starvation will do weird things to your mind.
You know that.
Well then, give him a tank, okay?
- Your tank. - Thank you.
So long, pretty lady.
'Keep a candle burnin' in the window.'
[Instrumental music]
It is not natural. I knew it could not be natural.
(Muldoon) You wanted to get to the other side.
[Chuckles] Here you are.
Exactly as it was the first time I saw it.
Now, you can imagine my surprise and discombobulation.
I mean, being in here instead of out there.
That was, of course, before I went up the rope.
And as you can see, there is no rope.
I'll be seeing ya.
There it is.
Yeah, looks just like a rope.
[Chuckles]
Will you give me a leg up?
[Grunting]
Whoa!
Muldoon!
Mark!
Mark?
(Muldoon) 'You can't leave me just dangling here.'
[intense music]
(Muldoon) 'Mark, hombre.'
Mark, ol' buddy.
Can you get me out of this?
(Mark) You were supposed to know about things like this, muldoon.
(Muldoon) 'Sorry, things just have a way'
'of movin' on you sometimes, lad, they certainly do.'
I think it's tearin' my leg out of the socket.
It's really startin' to hurt. Can you come on up?
[Mark grunting]
Mark, ol' buddy, could you get me out of here?
(Mark) Sure, okay.
Come on over here. Around the side.
Okay.
(Mark) Okay.
[Muldoon grunting]
Over there.
Now, that's what I call your basic close shave.
- The rope was tampered with. - Booby trapped, huh?
Just because I've been in this place before
doesn't mean I've seen it all.
Perhaps.
It is another world, I think.
(Muldoon) 'Quiet and peaceful, you think, huh?'
quiet and peaceful, just like that well was.
Well, you want some advice from a man
who's had experience in this place?
Hey, where do you think you're going?
- 'Those beauts.' - 'Why there?'
this world touches ours somewhere up there.
We find the channel the water is flowing through, we cut it off.
Hey!
Now, you're not gonna find any water up here.
I will admit that the land is arid, muldoon.
[Water splashing]
See, I told ya.
(Mark) It is water.
There is water here, but you cannot see it.
That's right, amigo, you can't see it.
It's a crazy place. Different rules apply here.
And one of 'em is going up to those beauts is a no-no.
You don't know what kind of monster lives up there.
Then we will have to be careful.
Hey! Hey.
I warn you of certain danger, and you wanna go on anyway?
What are you, man? Some kinda martyr?
Unless we break the connection between the worlds
and cut off the flow of sea water...
Now you listen to me, boy.
I'm your guide here, and if I say it's dangerous
you can believe it's dangerous.
You have fulfilled your obligation to me.
There's no need for you to go any farther.
Oh, no, you don't.
If you think I'm gonna let you walk ignorant
into all sorts of unimaginable terror
you got another thing comin'.
You wanna go up there, and see it for yourself, alright.
But it's my bet
you're gonna lead us back down here so fast
it's gonna make your head swim.
Come on.
[Beeping]
How are we coming with the scan?
Not good.
Once Mark followed muldoon under that rock..
Our heat sensor should have been able to
penetrate that rock.
We should have been able to get
an outline at least
fifty yards in, instead..
[Beeps]
(Jomo) 'Just goes into nothing.'
maybe what, ten yards in?
(Jomo) Ten, no more than twelve.
Impossible, right?
You know, Mark..
This, uh, this foundation you work for, ocean research.
What is it? Funded by a Grant?
Uh, government stuff or private industry?
Lot of bucks there, huh?
(Mark) Muldoon, there are intelligent beings in this world.
Well, that depends on your definition
of intelligent, now, doesn't it?
Architectural wonder, it ain't, friend.
Point is I can speak with whoever made it
and explain our problem.
Thark'd sooner split you like a wish bone
than listen to your problem, believe me.
[Footsteps approaching]
We gotta hide.
We must try and talk with him.
You wanna get a good look at the man
you're gonna speak with upfront, right?
'I'm not exaggerating the deep dip we're in.'
we gotta hide, believe me.
[Intense music]
- 'Flour?' - yep.
(Muldoon) Used this one to get myself out of a tight one
like this back in one of them kona coast hotels.
(Mark) 'By sprinkling flour on the floor?'
(muldoon) By putting my footprint in it.
Aim in a general direction
of the window, amigo.
[Water gurgling]
Well, comprende? Was that fearful?
Most new and strange things are fearful to humans it seems.
Well, with good right with that walking skyscraper.
- He's a menace. - He's a miner.
- I don't care how old he is. - A prospector.
Did you not see his tools in this cabin?
That's why he had all those shiny, little...
Those shiny, little what, muldoon?
[Clears throat]
The bartender at medusa bay
mentioned nuggets.
'Is this where you got them?'
now, what does that have to do with anything?
Miners use water, water flowing through a narrow channel.
Oh, you mean a sluice.
It is somewhere near here.
Come on, how could you know that?
'Can you not hear it?'
no.
I can.
You know who's likely to be over there, don't ya?
I know something else that is likely to be over there as well.
- What? - More golden nuggets.
Got a good point there.
[Water gushing]
Just as I thought.
There's no sign of the big kid. That's good.
The water's coming from that gate.
Look, every third stone is pure gold.
Now, why didn't somebody tell me
about this the first time I was here?
Do not touch it. It is dangerous.
Come on, mate.
There's enough momentum in this current
to tear a man to pieces.
Yeah, well, now there's a little pile, don't look too dangerous.
Muldoon, I need your help to close this water gate.
You think this is the water that's escaping from our ocean?
'Yes.'
'we have to find a way to close the gate'
'so it will never open again.'
[footsteps thumping]
Would you look at the size of that nugget, paisano?
Any idea what that's worth on the open market?
Muldoon, help me with this wheel.
I've had it with you, you hear me?
'Go on off and save the world by yourself. My debt's paid.'
'if thark doesn't get you first.'
muldoon!
Adios, sucker.
[Dramatic music]
[Footsteps approaching]
You steal from thark?
You ruin his work?
I am not a thief.
Go back to the well you crawled from, thief.
Not until I finish what I've come to do.
To steal.
You are with the other one.
The other one is a thief, you are a thief.
Go, before I lose control and destroy you completely.
Where is muldoon? The other one?
Told to leave.
If he's smart, he has left. If not...
It was necessary for me
to use him as a guide.
Just leave.
You have placed my world in danger.
That is the only reason I'm here.
I've done nothing to harm your kind.
You are draining our oceans dry.
That is not harmless.
Riddles to confuse me.
The water you use for mining..
Where do you think it comes from?
The rock, the underground stream.
Before, perhaps. But now our worlds overlap.
The water is from our oceans.
We need it. We cannot survive without it.
This is the truth?
It is the only reason I'm here.
Atta baby, Mark, keep the big kid distracted.
I did not mean any harm.
This is a great sadness to me.
Then help me. Together we can stop the flow.
Yes, it's necessary for us both.
- Why for us both? - 'The water is out of control.'
if the gate is not closed, the sluice will collapse.
And I'll be unable to mine the ore.
Why is mining so important to you?
It is what I do.
Are there not other things to do here?
Other people do other things, I mine.
That is the way it is. I am content.
Elizabeth, is your position safe now or not?
We're like spectators watching
the fire burn our corn crop.
'We're not gonna get burned, but we'll'
'sure as heck starve to death.'
- Elizabeth. - C.W.
Nobody's position is safe.
All readings confirm that.
'Now, assuming that the rate of closure'
is anywhere near the rate of increase
effects of the water loss are irreversible.
How much time have we got?
We're out of time.
If you're looking for initial effects
'you can expect the first tides in a matter of hours.'
Elizabeth, you're talking doomsday.
A rock is wedged in the gate.
It's knocked it off its runners.
Can it be fixed?
If the sluice were dry, perhaps.
'But the running water will tear my arm off.'
let me try.
You're less than half my strength.
Thark, trust me.
I can withstand the pressure
and the current for a time.
One moment.
The water loss is up to 1,500 gallons per second.
Well, if they're gonna do something
they'd better do it fast.
Look what's happened to those rocks at the edge of the vortex.
Crumbling away.
Not exactly unexpected.
We'd better calculate widening.
We're getting an undercurrent.
Maintain steady.
- No! All engines reverse. - 'Reverse?'
(Dr. Merrill) 'Vortex is gaining on us, jomo. We gotta get out of here fast.'
but Mark, muldoon?
[Beeping]
All engines reversed. Hang on.
[Water gushing]
[Panting]
The gate is still off the runners.
We must try again. We need your strength.
You push from the top, I will push from the bottom.
The sluice is collapsing.
Damage control.
- 'All stations ready.' - 'All engines rolling.'
Dr. Merrill, I'm fighting control.
We're being sucked back.
'It's like looking down the bottom of a ski run.'
it's the vortex. Something punched it wide open.
We're slipping away.
More power.
Here goes nothing.
You've got it all.
Jomo?
Unh-unh.
The engines can't take the strain for too long.
Suppose we moved laterally?
Underwater tacking. Good thought.
Easing right rudder. Thirty degrees.
(Jomo) Forty.
We're making a little headway. Fifty.
- Reverse direction. - 'Right rudder.'
'thirty degrees.'
we're... beating it!
(Jomo) Now all we gotta worry about is for that thing to stop
before we run out of water to sail home to.
More!
[Laughing]
Muldoon, you're gonna hate yourself for this.
- More! - I cannot.
A little more. It is almost there.
I'm trying.
You want the wheel turned now, do you?
Now, muldoon, now!
[Laughs]
You guys can't condone me for anything, can you?
Not even to let you down.
Why did you come back?
(Muldoon) 'I hate to admit it'
but I think I got a conscience or something.
'I mean, the farther away from here I got'
the more guilty I felt.
Strange place you got here, mister.
Plays havoc with a man's self-esteem.
[Instrumental music]
(Airlock officer) 'Current, zero. Wider outflow, zero.'
there's nothing out there but normal everyday ocean.
- Mark's done it. - How?
They turned that thing around so fast, I..
Well, he'll tell us
if he ever gets out of there.
(Mark) 'Is something wrong?'
gold. An entirely new vein.
It runs directly underneath the sluice.
Some dudes have all the luck.
I'll no longer need water to mine.
'A pick will do the job.'
and it will no longer be necessary
for anyone to trespass on your land.
The well. My friends, you must return to the well now.
What's this? The bum's rush?
Now that the water's shut off, all connections
to the outside world will cease to exist.
If you remain here, you'll be trapped here forever.
No offence to you, old buddy
but I don't think I could handle that.
You have barely enough time.
Thank you, for everything.
Good fortune.
Whoa! Wait just a minute. I forgot something.
Muldoon, where are you going?
Gold! I almost forgot the gold.
Leave it. There is no time.
No problem. It's in these bushes.
It'll take just a second.
It's not here.
It's gotta be here.
- Muldoon. - 'Wait a minute.'
muldoon!
(Muldoon) 'Ah, there's my gold.'
be right with you, amigo.
Gotta have something to show for all this trouble.
Mark!
Mark.
Mark, wait.
You can't just leave me here, Mark.
Thark, old buddy, you can bring it back.
Bring it back.
There's nothing I can do.
Then I've lost everything.
If there was something I could do, I would do it.
I got nothing left to live for.
There's no people. There's no civilization.
No cold beer.
No taxes, no laws, no cops, no jails
no bunco squads, no none of that.
[Laughs]
Thark..
You know what this is?
No.
Thark, my friend, I'm about to show you
the greatest game ever invented by me.
- Now this is a deck of cards. - Cards?
Yes. Here.
Pick a card.
Any card.
[Instrumental music]
Mark, what happened in there?
You know muldoon.
A term you use in poker, I believe.
He stayed "Pat" A few seconds too long.
Is he..
- Dead? - Yeah.
No, Elizabeth, he's not dead.
I expect in time he will become quite comfortable there.
Where? Where?
- Excuse me? - Mark, where is there?
Our instrument showed something on the other side of the vortex.
'What was it? What was it like?'
I do not have the technical words to explain it, Elizabeth.
Perhaps thark could.
'Who?'
but of course, there's no way to reach him.
- Mark... - Elizabeth, pick a card.
Any card.
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