You're an amateur, Mr. Havergal, you're fired.
Now the rest of you, listen to me.
Nobody's listening to you from here on in, fat man.
I pay your salary.
Mark, are you telling me there are water-breathing people
like yourself?
No, they breathe air.
Imagine what will happen to broadcasting
all over the world once I get those crystals into a satellite.
What I have told you is true.
Prophet says, lie!
♪
Good afternoon gentlemen.
I'm glad to see you all looking so happy and anxious.
Mr. Havergal, what's our position?
15 degrees 40 north, 120 degrees west, Mr. Schubert.
Any signs of the crystals yet?
A mountain of crystals under the water?
No, sir, no sign at all.
You're beginning to sound dubious, Mr. Havergal.
Even after all the research I've had my people do
on this place, that's a pity.
That's a pity.
I guess I'm just a skeptic.
But if there were something so sparkling,
someone else would have found it by now.
I wonder how often Columbus heard that.
Conrad, what's the readout on the crystal locator?
Up 14 millibars.
You see, all those technatic crystals in one place.
How's our communications holding up?
Almost out.
Getting worse and worse.
Isn't that splendid?
Imagine what will happen to broadcasting
all over the world once I get those crystals into a satellite.
Look at this, the crystal locator is going off
the end of the dial.
All ahead full!
You all right, Mr. Schubert?
I'm fine.
I just want to know what we ran into.
Just a moment, sir, I'll check.
It's a force field of some kind.
Isn't that interesting?
You wanted to know why no one has beat
us here before, now you know.
It still doesn't get us through.
No, it doesn't.
Apparently, we'll have to depend on our old
friend Mark Harris, once again.
Call that babysitting, he could be halfway
to Hawaii by this time.
His flipper's not yet fully healed.
Even Elizabeth thought a break like that'd mean
he'd lose that flipper.
Mark, that's incredible.
Thank you, c.W.
But you did not come down here just to check on Baxter and me.
15 degrees 40 north, 120 degrees west.
Do those coordinates mean anything to you?
Mid-pacific, southwest of the Hawaiian chain.
Something significant going on there?
Elizabeth just picked up a report of some
Unusual phenomenon.
It might be nothing, she thinks it could be
a magnetic storm or some kind of seismic disturbance.
What was she doing checking that area in the first place?
I asked her to.
That is not your usual function, c.W.
Unless, of course Washington asked you to.
Intelligence thinks an old friend of yours
is in that neighborhood.
Schubert.
I see.
And they want to know if he's responsible
for those disturbances you mentioned.
In a nutshell.
Since you are not referring to the almond
or any other such tree, I can assume you are
using an idiomatic expression which can be
translated out to mean, exactly.
Exactly.
We must activate the cetacean.
Elizabeth's already down there waiting for you.
This is complete, run it through the computer.
Channels.
Now you operate on your own level.
- It must be the same down there. - How?
Well, the head shark would never think of...
There is no such thing as the head shark.
Well give 'em time.
- Hi Elizabeth. - Take care of things, c.W.
Count on it.
Now fill her in on what I told you about channels.
She can use it too.
Don't worry about Baxter, I'll take care of him.
I'll get him a job at the Pentagon.
Are we ready to depart?
Yes, we're all stations ready.
Hatch is secured, proceed.
Cetacean to seabase.
Beginning departure procedure.
Roger, cetacean, disengaging walk through.
Verification seabase, walk through disengaged.
Inaugurating computer control.
Stand by to activate gantry.
All systems green, cetacean.
Seagate opening.
We have landing lights and monitor.
Bow lights on.
Gantry into out position.
Locked in seabase.
Gantry release, 10 seconds.
Amber lights.
Five, four.
♪
Release, releasing.
♪
Gantry unlocked, seabase.
Confirmed cetacean, set your engines
for all ahead, slow.
All ahead, slow.
♪
Seagate closing procedure.
You're on your own.
Good luck, people.
See you back at basehouse.
Computer ready for course insert.
Yes, destination is 15 degrees 40 north, 120 degrees west.
15 by 40 by 120, yes, sir.
One of these days, I'm going to have someone finish this piece,
matter of fact, I may do it myself, what is it?
We picked up a blip, deep.
- How deep? - Over 3,500 feet.
Too deep for a whale.
But not for the cetacean.
Right on time, aren't they?
♪
We'll need the scanners from here on.
Extending scanners.
Pick up anything?
Nothing.
Continue cautiously.
All ahead, slow.
Well, maybe intelligence was wrong.
Maybe schubert isn't in this sector after all.
Reef ahead.
Looks like we take the long way around.
Heat sensors.
Online.
To the right.
No sign of entry.
- Wind. - I see it.
To the right again.
♪
Ahead slowly.
It's pretty narrow.
Clearance calculation two and a half feet, either side.
♪
See something?
Scanners aren't picking up anything unusual.
Wait a minute, my master control looks like
it's doing a Mexican hat dance!
Listen to this interference I'm getting.
Not your usual static is it?
It's coming through on all frequencies.
Please stop the ship.
Stopping.
Mark?
I would like to send out a probe.
Set probe for launch.
Probe set, sir.
Activate.
Launching probe.
Chart on screen.
Probe on screen.
Starboard deflection.
Calculating.
It must be a pretty solid mass out there.
The equivalent of a brick wall.
And an object the size of the cetacean cannot get through.
- Activate. - Activating.
♪
He found a way in.
Elizabeth, do you read?
- Do you hear that? - Turn up the gain more.
There isn't any more.
Get those coordinates.
Already down.
All right, we're on our way at last,
thanks to our web fingered friend.
We'll need the deep sea scuba equipment I had
the science department come up with.
Standing by.
♪
Something's approaching the barrier.
♪
Schubert.
♪
This whole thing is beginning to look like schubert
set us up.
And there's no way I can warn Mark.
No way I can get through.
Wait, I will not harm you, please!
I will not hurt you!
♪
I mean you no harm.
♪
Some think atlantian.
♪
It is not needed.
It is not necessary, I will go where you tell me!
♪
You are looking at an intuitive genius
you know that, Mr. Havergal?
Had you anticipated this bubble would be occupied?
No but I put it down as a contingency.
Who do you suppose keeps that water up there, Mr. Havergal?
Have you given that any thought?
Plastic dome?
Balance of power more like,
water presses in with x amount of force,
and is met by an equal or greater force.
What do you suppose is the source of all that power?
You think it's the crystals?
Indeed I do.
That makes them a million times more valuable
than even I anticipated.
All the money in the universe, all the power.
And you think these creatures are just going
to let you come in and take them, huh?
Someone hasn't been listening to what I've been saying.
Observe.
Flashlight?
The armament in case the contingency I mentioned turned
out to be fact.
Doesn't look like a weapon, what does it do?
Turns heroes into a cheap source of labor.
Elizabeth?
Elizabeth, can you hear me?
What the heck is wrong with this connection?
Same thing that's keeping us from contacting Mark.
Heavy interference around here, c.W.
We think it has something to do with a force field
we almost ran into.
I can hardly hear you, what, what, force field?
The government doesn't have some secret project going
on out here does it?
If it does they didn't mention it to me.
Listen, Elizabeth, this transmission worries me.
Washington thinks schubert's working on some scheme
to blackout world broadcasts.
Now this could be the first evidence of that.
Any idea what schubert's using to do it?
You're closer to finding that out there than we are here.
♪
I will not try to run.
♪
I am called Mark Harris.
You are come, why?
To find an evil man named schubert.
Evil?
Schubert.
His presence will bring great sadness and pain.
You will bring sadness and pain.
Truth...
Test.
Truth be told.
I am not afraid of the truth.
Taking him inside.
What would you call that building?
Looks like some sort of a meeting hall.
I think it's a church, or shrine.
Whatever it is it sure seems to be packing them in.
♪
The prophet is told.
♪
We are proceed.
♪
Stay.
From sky you come?
From the water.
Ship yours?
The cetacean.
Reason.
In search of a man named schubert, as I told you.
In search of crystal.
No, what I have told you is truth.
Prophet says lies.
That is what schubert is after, the crystals.
Do yourself the favor of suppressing any cry of alarm.
It is you who would take.
You, Mark Harris.
I'm right again.
People in this place would be susceptible to light.
Direct, intense, concentrated light with an accent
on the ultraviolet side of the spectrum.
I think it'd be a good idea if she took us in there now.
No, shrine.
It's a shrine.
However, I can conceive of no place where Mark Harris
may be admitted and I may not.
Introduce us to your people, my dear.
The name is schubert.
Schubert could be here now.
Do you scan your skies?
Do you watch your mountains?
Sound advice, but too late.
♪
Cooperation is not a request, it's an absolute necessity.
I thought so.
Any creature of the water
would naturally react badly to light as concentrated as this.
Shall I dehydrate your body, Mark?
Turn you back into dust?
I can with this.
I can blind you too.
You already have.
♪
Mark, they let you food.
You see!
It is a membrane in my inner eye I did not know was there.
You do something soon, Mark please?
The way to the sea is being watched, is there another way?
If Mark leave, he'll burrow deep, how can he help?
I must get some of these crystals back to my submersible
for analysis.
We have to know what these stones mean to schubert
so we can counteract his intentions.
Hey, what's going on down there?
He can feed himself.
Just stick a spoon in his fist and get going.
Go to beneath shrine behind statue.
Descend in grotto,
find pool to sea.
Hey, I said get up here, now!
Next time I give you an order you don't jump,
you're going to be in serious trouble, you understand?
Mr. Havergal.
Mr. Havergal, there's no profit in gratuitous cruelty.
These people give me the creeps.
They must envision the opposite.
Obviously we give them the creeps too.
Which leads me to wonder how many men we've managed
to sneak through the force field.
Last thing we need at this point is a slave rebellion.
We can get a new bunch through easier now.
It's nowhere near as hard to get through as it was before.
How do you know?
Did Conrad set up that interference override?
He just got it working a couple of minutes ago.
You can talk directly to the ship now.
Remind me to give Conrad a bonus.
What are you looking at?
Sky looking like that makes me nervous.
With reason.
The more crystals we remove the less power there is to keep
the water from pouring in on top of us.
We're not taking that many are we?
To do what I want to do to control the airwaves
all around this planet,
yeah I'm going to cut it as close as I can.
Don't worry, Mr. Havergal, the crew will make the last runs.
The two of us will be supervising from the sub.
Whatever Mark is doing in there it sure hasn't helped
the signal any.
We don't know what he's doing in there, c.W.
We don't even know what "In there" Is.
Did you do a heat scan?
Um-hmm, three of them.
I know the temperature of the force field.
Interested?
If it's germane.
The point, c.W. Schubert's people have been
funneling through for twenty minutes now.
Elizabeth, schubert's mothership sounds like
the prospero pacific.
Do you have any idea how many men that holds?
I still say they can get through, we can get through.
The Navy wants no one else to leave the cetacean.
Is that clear?
Then they're on their way?
Yes, but they won't commit to a definite rendezvous time.
- Hey. - What?
Am I just getting used to all this interference or is it,
is the transmission clearing up a little?
It does seem somewhat better now, doesn't it?
Stop, stop him!
Get him!
♪
- He's not here! - Well, look for him!
♪
Mr. Schubert.
There's some kind of a tunnel down there.
It's a tunnel, search!
♪
Get down there.
You two guys check that tunnel.
Can't find him, maybe he went in there.
No maybe about it.
Feel free to get in there and find out.
♪
What is it?
Can't you feel it?
It's power.
Enough raw power to defy the weight of the pacific ocean.
♪
There he goes.
We lost him.
We lost him but look what we've gained.
♪
Dr. Merrill, I'm getting a blip coming this way.
Squelch it up.
Camera six.
♪
It's Mark.
Radio up room.
♪
What's that?
This is what schubert is after.
You will need to analyze it.
What'd you do that for?
I need some at schubert's submarine.
I need a fix on schubert's ship.
Squelching up.
Main monitor.
I must get to it at once.
Schubert's got fifty armed men in scuba gear
going back and forth from that vessel.
I must get this to the people of killsborough deep.
Where?
It is called killsborough deep.
The people there are in mortal danger, thanks to Mr. Schubert.
Mark are you telling me there are water breathing people like
yourself living on the bottom of the sea?
No, they breathe air.
Wait a minute.
They do not have a minute.
♪
Mark is...
Mark betrayed us.
Break it up.
♪
Mark!
♪
Will you kids stop gawking and get to work?
♪
Spunk like that ought to be rewarded.
I could use some help in the grotto.
Hasn't that place collapsed yet?
It's on its way.
You have a new job.
♪
Conrad calculates we have a little less than half
an hour's worth of excavation left before the bubble
becomes too dangerous for essential personnel.
I'm telling you I don't like it.
♪
Yes, Mr. Schubert?
Everything's ready for receiving the crystals.
All right Conrad, I'll contact you as soon as we're
ready to begin transporting the lot.
Aye, aye, sir, standing by.
♪
There, take a look at that.
Whoa, it's incredible.
Remember those little crystal radio sets?
That's like comparing a stone age ax to an atomic bomb.
You're right about that.
I'll patch it through to c.W.
All right, let's move it down there, people.
Let's move it.
Get them moving down there, hurry it up now.
Come on, come on, hurry it up.
Yes, Mr. Havergal?
Don't you think we're cutting it a little close?
Wasn't risk taking implied in our agreement?
Risk is one thing, stupidity is another.
Mr. Havergal,
we have eleven minutes left.
Don't you have confidence in Conrad?
Anybody can make a mistake, don't you see
what's happening here?
Ok, I'll double check his calculations.
This is schubert, Conrad, come in.
What happened to that override?
One wonders.
Conrad, do you read?
Let's get out of here, you got double the number
of crystals you're ever gonna need.
This is schubert, Conrad, I would appreciate a reply.
He cannot hear you, Mr. Schubert.
It is foolish to try and communicate.
And you, of course, are going to tell me why.
I should think that would be obvious.
He sabotaged the sub.
Or just it's ability to communicate.
Are you willing to stake your life on that?
An individual with your kind of scruples wouldn't
destroy a submarine with 150 men on it.
It was not necessary to destroy the vessel.
I'll get the truth out of him.
Would you like to tell him how long that would take?
More time than we have.
This is a bluff isn't it?
Either the ship is there, or it is gone.
We still have our scuba equipment.
With enough air to cover the distance?
Who knows?
Might appeal to the gambler in me.
I wonder what your crew would think about gambling.
Give him the crystals.
Don't be ridiculous.
He wouldn't leave us here with no refuge.
I know him too well.
I'm not going to take that chance, give him the crystals.
I don't like people who whimper.
You're an amateur, Mr. Havergal, you're fired.
Now the rest of you, listen to me.
Nobody's listening to you from here on in fat man!
I pay your salary.
What good is a salary if you can't live to spend it?
We're putting those things back, it's the only way
we're going to get out of here alive.
You fools!
You know what kind of a fortune
you're letting this alien bluff you out of?
The kind of power you could have if you don't abandon me now?
Make yourself useful captain nobody.
Remind me never to play poker with you.
Grotto is completely caved in by now.
If that's where you think you're going you'll never make it.
All I have to do is get the crystals to the dynamo.
The rest will follow.
I don't get it, why would you rather take
your chances in the water?
It's very difficult to dominate the world from an island
at the bottom of the ocean.
♪
We have words for Mark.
Apologies.
And thanks.
We both thank.
We all thank you.
I, too, have apologies.
You were right, not knowing,
I brought schubert and his men to your land.
We listen next time.
♪
C.w. Was on the line with Elizabeth.
He said he wanted to talk to you as soon
as you got on board.
Mark's here, c.W.
Mark, about those crystals.
They are the exclusive property of the people
of killsborough deep.
Oh fine, fine.
Have you any idea what crystals like that could mean
to our defense effort?
It is impossible to get through the force field to get any more.
Well, Elizabeth could come up with something.
Oh, well, maybe not, c.W.
My instruments indicate that the crystals themselves are
the power behind the force and wow, we have nothing
that comes close to counter-acting it.
Now, come on, you guys. The government is very
interested in this discovery and...
It is getting hard to maintain contact, c.W.
This will have to wait until we get back to the foundation.
Now wait a minute Mark, if you think I'm going to buy
radio interference this convenient, you...
Will you tell him what I just did when we get back?
- I didn't see you do anything. - Did you?
No, ma'am.
Not me.
Lay in a course for home, full power.