01x01 - The Darkest Fathoms

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Fire! Come on, lads!

Let's go now.

There you go, there.

Yeah! Look out, there!

Fire at will.

Run out the cannon.

Stand your ground!
Run out, run out.

Strike your colors,
black jack lee.

Surrender your ship.

Never. Alive or dead,
what is mine is mine.

What you call yours belongs
rightly

To his britannic majesty.

You must pay the price
for your treason and piracy.

But at least spare your crew
this carnage.

If you give my men
the choice of dying here...

...or dancing at the end
of your yardarm, horatio...

...i believe they will stand
fast with me.

Board her.

Give no quarter
and take no prisoners.

Stand by to repel boarders.

Axes and pikes.
All hands, cut her free.

By zeus...

...i will not sink
with that murderous villain.

-Abandon ship!
-Over the side!

How could a man with the
learning, the record...

...and the courage of jack lee
become so monstrous a renegade?

In life or death,
no one shall have

What is black jack lee's.

Easy does it. Keep it coming.

Take it easy.
Nice and easy now.

It gives me the creeps,
working in murky water.

You're in the wrong job,
ain't you?

Gotta be an easier way
to make a living.

Quit moaning.
You're in bermuda.

May be bermuda up there
on the oil endeavor...

But it's iceland down here.

He's right, lacey.
It's freezing.

Can't you jack up the heat?

-More heat, charlie.
-More heat it is, boss.

Now, get those transponders
in place, ladies.

We're paid to find oil,
not blow bubbles down there.

All right, I'll work north.

Right, mate. I'll go east.

Boss, you ever seen fog like
that in these waters?

-Can't say I have.
-I'll be gobsmacked.

-What's the problem, mills?
-Unbelievable.

James, margaret and jefferson.

You wanna let me in
on the secret?

Yeah. Topside, we found a ship
down here.

Old, real old.

The ivory web.

What in the sam hill
is going on out there?

Topside, what was that?

We got to get back to the bell.
Topside, oil endeavor.

Hot water's gone.
We'll freeze to death.

We gotta get up now.

Over waves of blood
sailed the ivory web

Filling all hearts
with fear and dread

Though time has passed
since I ravished these seas

No one shall have
what was black jack lee's

Topside, mills is going
hypothermic.

Get us out of here, man.

And when I regained
consciousness,

The oil endeavor was deserted.

You were lucky to survive.

I lost two good men, dr. Quest.

There is nothing to be gained
by blaming yourself, lacey.

Well, who else can I blame?

Some ghost?
A pirate who died 200 years ago?

The ivory web?

The ivory web?
That sounds familiar.

Search british admiralty
records,



Identify ivory web.

The ivory web, a 22-g*n frigate
commissioned as a privateer...

...and commanded
by john milton lee.

The wealthy son of an
aristocrat...

...he was once a rising star
in the british navy.

He became notorious
for his cruelty,

Both to his men and his enemies.

That's him.

He was stripped of his rank
and dismissed the service.

He bought his old ship and
became the infamous pirate...

...black jack lee.

Well, lacey,

I doubt it was black jack's
ghost

Who attacked the oil endeavor,

But something abnormal
happened out there

And the wreck of the ivory web

Would be an historic find.

So does that mean
you'll investigate?

It's a fascinating story.

And some tropical sun
wouldn't go amiss.

Bend your body
to your mind, jonny.

It's impossible...

Unless you're an octopus, maybe.

Or a yogi.

Oh, man,
I'm never gonna get it.

Even a thousand-mile journey
begins with the first step.

Oh, great.
That's very helpful, hadji,

Thanks.

Come in.

How do you feel
about a trip to bermuda?

When you locate the ivory web,

Start with an extensive
photographic survey.

You got it, dad.

And I suppose
it's useless to add:

No heroics.

A quite hopeless exhortation,
dr. Quest.

It was your own great poet,
emerson, who said:

"Heroism always feels
and never reasons."

I can't shake the feeling

That this expedition is not
entirely within our control.

Underwater operations
are tough, benton.

You know that.

And we're adding the
supernatural to this one.

-Take care, dad.
-I will.

All systems up and running,
jessie.

Stand by.

Ready to uncouple, dr. Quest.

Go ahead, jessie.

Uncouple sea slug.

I have you at 160 feet.

Ready to switch over
from air to helium oxygen?

Now we get to sound
like indian cartoon characters.

I'd rather have a squeaky
voice than a case of the bends.

Switching to heliox now.

Give me a test count, jonny.

Testing, one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

Full heliox. Descent continues.

I think we're nearing
the bottom.

Main winch,
all stop, dr. Quest.

All stop.

Time to get wet, jonny.

What's the water temperature?

An entirely toasty


Better keep that hot water
coming, topside.

I thought you yogis
could control

Your body temperature.

You yogis can,
but I am a wee yogi in training.

This is not the time
to put it to the test.

Any sign of the ivory web?

Not yet,
but it's dark as two yards

Up a chimney down here, jessie.

Tough to see anything.

According to lacey's data, they
ought to be right on top of it.

There it is.

This is awesome, race.

It's the ivory web, all right.

She's sitting
right on the edge of a canyon.

We're moving in
to take a closer look.

Come on, as long as we've got
our feet wet,

Let's begin the survey.

Follow my umbilical
and keep your eyes peeled.

We're inside the hull.

You don't really believe
in the ghost of black jack lee,

Do you, dr. Quest?

I'm not certain what I believe.

Except that I can't think
of the ghost

That would get the better
of your father.

On the other hand, I do worry
about a wreck that old

Perched on the edge of a gorge.

You never know what could cause
it to shift or break up.

And you never know
what might be inside it.

-Jonny.
-Dad.

Jonny, hadji, race, do you read?

Though time has passed
since I ravished these seas

No one shall have
what was black jack lee's

Hadji, do you read? Hadji.

I'm still here, race.

I fear something terrible
has happened topside.

Surface support systems
are crashing.

Hot water's gone.

We gotta get topside, now.

Come on, come on.

In 90 seconds,
you'll go hypothermic.

-I heard that, hadji.
-Oh, sorry.

Race, I'm stuck.

Stay calm, jonny. Keep still.

Keep still. I'll swim up.

Race.

Jonny, what is going on?

Race is unconscious.

We've gotta get him back now.

I can't get....

I'm so cold, hadji.

No, keep going, jonny.
Forget about the cold.

Concentrate.
I'll drop the recovery hook.

Attach it to race's harness
and I'll winch him in.

If I learned anything,
let me have learned it well.

Okay.

Haul...haul him in, hadji.

This is not good.

This is very bad.

Come on, jonny. Wake up.

Dr. Quest. Jessie.

Hadji, where is everyone?

Where's my dad?

I think we've got big problems,
my friend.

It seems whatever fate overtook
the oil endeavor and her people

Has overtaken us.

You know, this might be a good
time to change your position

On the possible existence
of the ghost of black jack lee.

An 18th-century ghost
that knows how

To sabotage 20th-century
electronics,

But is too dumb
to ice this outboard?

I don't think so, hadji.

You just keep an eye on race.

I'll get help from the weather
station on goblin cay.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Over here. Help. Ahoy.

Over here.

-Where's the kid?
-Where'd he go?

Look.

There.

Help, help, over here.

I'm drowning.

Please help me. Save me.

Come on, over here.

Come on.

If those were ghosts,
I'll eat my sneakers.

Black jack lee?

Bend your body to your mind,
jonny.

It's impossible,

Unless you're an octopus, maybe.

Or a yogi.

Oh, man, I'm never gonna get it.

Even a thousand-mile journey
begins with the first step.

I don't know, boss.

I'm sick of this.

All this waiting is making me
antsy.

Yeah, I don't get
why we're wasting our time.

Yeah, wasting our time is right.

Yeah, wasting our time
with prisoners

When we should be trying
to get the rest of the treasure.

What are you? Impeded?

Those science dweebs
are our ticket

To getting all the treasure.

We can use their subs
to keep the ivory web

From slipping over the cliff.

I get it.

They show us how to use
their fancy equipment.

And then you turn them
into shark bait.

Hey, dad, jessie.

I was going to say
I was glad to see you.

How did you get here?

It's a long story, dad,
but not a ghost story.

This is the machine
our so-called ghosts use

To generate their mysterious fog

And project an image
of the ivory web.

So, dad, what's the plan?

Perhaps we may be able
to hoist our pirate friends

With their own petard.

No.

Jonny, jessie, get out of here.

There's a phrase for this:

Abandon ship.

Jump.

Over waves of blood sailed
the ivory web

Filling all hearts
with fear and dread

Though time has passed
since I ravished these seas

No one shall have
what was black jack lee's

There it is.

The wreck of the ivory web.

Now that they're actually
down there,

This does not seem
like such a good idea, race.

Relax, benton.

Jessie, jonny and hadji
can take care of themselves.

I think we've laid
black jack lee's ghost to rest.

It's a miracle those crooks
didn't

Get here first and take
everything.

Not for want of trying, jess.

Must be one of the most
elaborate schemes

Anyone dreamed up
to protect a treasure find.

Come on. Let's see if
the treasure's still onboard.

Look.

Is that...?

Whoever it is,
I guess he made his point.

No one will ever, ever find
black jack lee's treasure.

In life or death,

No one shall have
what is black jack lee's.