1 00:02:11,531 --> 00:02:13,761 [Man Narrating] It cost Commander Robert Reary... 2 00:02:13,833 --> 00:02:16,358 20 years of unremitting hardship and misery... 3 00:02:16,436 --> 00:02:19,997 to reach the North Role finally in 1909. 4 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:25,977 It would have astounded Reary to learn that by the late 1 950s and early '60s... 5 00:02:26,045 --> 00:02:29,412 the vast, frozen top of the world he pioneered... 6 00:02:29,482 --> 00:02:33,213 had become a vital highway for world travel and commerce. 7 00:02:33,286 --> 00:02:35,311 Not just in the skies... 8 00:02:35,388 --> 00:02:37,788 but also deep under the ice... 9 00:02:37,857 --> 00:02:41,987 in the frigid five-million-square-mile depths of the Arctic Ocean. 10 00:02:43,763 --> 00:02:48,291 Here, great passenger-and cargo-carrying atomic submarines... 11 00:02:48,368 --> 00:02:52,202 glided by the dozens back and forth across the Role... 12 00:02:52,272 --> 00:02:55,901 until a series of mysterious undersea disasters... 13 00:02:55,975 --> 00:02:58,739 threatened to close the Arctic route forever. 14 00:02:59,846 --> 00:03:05,307 The decisive moment came May 3 at 13 15 hours... 15 00:03:05,385 --> 00:03:09,412 when the undersea atomic liner, Sturgeon, largest of them all... 16 00:03:09,489 --> 00:03:12,617 reached 87 degrees, 10 minutes north latitude... 17 00:03:12,692 --> 00:03:16,219 only a few miles from the North Role itself. 18 00:03:46,059 --> 00:03:48,050 [Electricity Crackling] 19 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:35,967 [Narrator] According to the official reports... 20 00:04:36,042 --> 00:04:38,340 the next phase of the life-and-death drama... 21 00:04:38,411 --> 00:04:41,244 occurred May 1 0 in Washington... 22 00:04:41,314 --> 00:04:43,714 at a hush-hush supersecret meeting... 23 00:04:43,783 --> 00:04:45,910 of the Arctic theater war room. 24 00:04:48,521 --> 00:04:51,718 Gentlemen, this is the man we've been waiting for. 25 00:04:51,791 --> 00:04:54,589 The skipper of the atom killer sub, Tiger Shark. 26 00:04:54,661 --> 00:04:56,629 Commander Dan Wendover. 27 00:04:56,696 --> 00:04:58,857 This is Justin Murdock, secretary of defense. 28 00:04:58,931 --> 00:05:00,865 - Mr. Murdock. - Commander. 29 00:05:00,933 --> 00:05:04,596 And I know you've heard a lot of Dr. Clifford Kent, Dan. 30 00:05:04,671 --> 00:05:06,662 - Doctor. - Commander. 31 00:05:06,739 --> 00:05:10,197 Dr. Kent had a lot to do with the development and design of your boat. 32 00:05:10,276 --> 00:05:13,040 Sir Ian Hunt just flew in from London. 33 00:05:13,112 --> 00:05:16,240 The Dr. Hunt, winner of the Nobel Prize for oceanography? 34 00:05:16,316 --> 00:05:21,219 Oh, let's just say I took the bow for a team of very brilliant associates. 35 00:05:21,287 --> 00:05:23,278 Uh, sit down. 36 00:05:26,859 --> 00:05:30,022 Gentlemen, to begin, let me read you just one line... 37 00:05:30,096 --> 00:05:33,759 from a detailed staff study prepared for theJoint Chiefs. 38 00:05:34,767 --> 00:05:37,327 ''In our judgment, these Arctic disasters... 39 00:05:37,403 --> 00:05:40,770 may prove the gravest emergency in all history.'' 40 00:05:42,241 --> 00:05:44,232 Any comments on that statement? 41 00:05:45,712 --> 00:05:48,010 A bit fanciful, isn't it, sir? 42 00:05:48,081 --> 00:05:50,072 Possibly. 43 00:05:51,117 --> 00:05:54,814 Let me read you, uh, a partial list of observed phenomena. 44 00:05:55,822 --> 00:05:59,588 ''Destruction of four surface vessels. Largest, 1 0,000 tons. 45 00:05:59,659 --> 00:06:04,596 ''Radioactivity in Arctic waters, flow ice and bergs. 46 00:06:04,664 --> 00:06:09,101 ''Reculiar television images preceding each distress call. 47 00:06:09,168 --> 00:06:11,159 ''Seven polar atom subs... 48 00:06:11,237 --> 00:06:13,205 vanished without a trace. '' 49 00:06:15,007 --> 00:06:17,100 ''Fanciful,'' did you say, uh, Sir Ian? 50 00:06:17,176 --> 00:06:19,110 [Chuckles] 51 00:06:20,813 --> 00:06:22,804 And now, Dan, we come to you. 52 00:06:22,882 --> 00:06:25,009 You skipper the Tiger Shark... 53 00:06:25,084 --> 00:06:28,576 the most advanced, the deadliest killer sub in the fleet. 54 00:06:28,654 --> 00:06:32,351 Right now she's undergoing emergency around-the-clock modification... 55 00:06:32,425 --> 00:06:34,689 in the Bremerton Navy Yard. 56 00:06:34,761 --> 00:06:38,754 The orders call for special observation and testing instruments here... 57 00:06:39,866 --> 00:06:43,302 removal of all but two atomic torpedoes... 58 00:06:43,369 --> 00:06:48,602 special launching equipment for water-to-air ballistic missiles... 59 00:06:48,674 --> 00:06:52,633 and a special escape hatch in the keel for the Lungfish. 60 00:06:52,712 --> 00:06:54,680 The Lungfish? 61 00:06:54,747 --> 00:06:58,945 Yes. Uh, a deep exploration device, sort of an animated diving bell. 62 00:06:59,018 --> 00:07:01,077 The mission of the Tiger Shark... 63 00:07:01,154 --> 00:07:05,818 is to hunt down and identify the cause of these Arctic disasters. 64 00:07:05,892 --> 00:07:08,918 If humanly possible... 65 00:07:08,995 --> 00:07:10,986 you will remove it. 66 00:07:18,404 --> 00:07:20,998 [Man] Not that I don't think Lieutenant Commander Holloway... 67 00:07:21,073 --> 00:07:25,339 is the finest exec in the entire sub fleet,Julie... 68 00:07:25,411 --> 00:07:29,177 and not that he isn't the best friend that I have - 69 00:07:29,248 --> 00:07:31,182 Come on, Dave. You talk too much. 70 00:07:31,250 --> 00:07:35,744 Now be quiet, little mother. I - I feel behooved to warn you... 71 00:07:35,822 --> 00:07:41,454 our friend Reef is no less than the number one howl in the entire sub wolf pack. 72 00:07:41,527 --> 00:07:43,461 Nuclear powered. 73 00:07:43,529 --> 00:07:45,963 And when it comes to women- Well... 74 00:07:46,032 --> 00:07:49,195 he has got a built-in sonar detector that - 75 00:07:49,268 --> 00:07:52,704 Dave, you know you're exaggerating, old buddy-buddy. You know it. Yes, you are. 76 00:07:52,772 --> 00:07:55,240 You know, on most boats, a certain loyalty exists... 77 00:07:55,308 --> 00:07:58,709 between the exec and his navigation and firing officer... 78 00:07:58,778 --> 00:08:02,236 but in the case of Lieutenant David Milburn of the Tiger Shark and myself- 79 00:08:02,315 --> 00:08:04,647 But su - She's a nice girl. 80 00:08:04,717 --> 00:08:06,651 Uh, I've seen you work. 81 00:08:06,719 --> 00:08:08,687 I think she deserves a fighting chance. 82 00:08:08,754 --> 00:08:10,688 Helen, I appeal to you. 83 00:08:10,756 --> 00:08:13,589 Dave, look at me. I'm the mother of your three children. 84 00:08:13,659 --> 00:08:15,854 Will you please take me home to them at once? 85 00:08:15,928 --> 00:08:17,862 There you are. Just drop in anytime. 86 00:08:17,930 --> 00:08:21,229 Don't bother to call.Just -Just drop in. That's my way of life. 87 00:08:23,169 --> 00:08:25,160 [Sighs] 88 00:08:36,516 --> 00:08:38,541 Dave is exaggerating, you know. 89 00:08:38,618 --> 00:08:41,348 I mean, a man spends three months in a deep freeze... 90 00:08:41,420 --> 00:08:43,752 it'll take his whole leave just to thaw him out. 91 00:08:43,823 --> 00:08:46,053 By that time, he's ready to report back. 92 00:08:46,125 --> 00:08:49,925 It won't take me long to defrost. Not around you. 93 00:09:05,077 --> 00:09:09,411 What was I saying about thawing out icebergs? 94 00:09:09,482 --> 00:09:13,475 Yeah, you, uh - You never can tell about icebergs. 95 00:09:14,487 --> 00:09:16,682 Only show one-ninth above water. 96 00:09:18,257 --> 00:09:21,192 After that kiss, I'd say that's about right. 97 00:09:22,528 --> 00:09:25,964 - Do you feel anything? - Are you kidding? 98 00:09:26,032 --> 00:09:28,728 No, I mean that this is just the beginning of something. 99 00:09:28,801 --> 00:09:31,031 That we didn't just meet accidentally. 100 00:09:31,103 --> 00:09:33,594 Oh, that's original. 101 00:09:33,673 --> 00:09:36,233 Doesn't the next chorus go something like... 102 00:09:36,309 --> 00:09:38,834 ''Let's not waste one precious golden moment. 103 00:09:38,911 --> 00:09:41,277 Any second there could be a knock on the door and -'' 104 00:09:41,347 --> 00:09:43,338 Well, I've seen stranger things happen. 105 00:09:43,416 --> 00:09:47,648 It happens all the time to heroes on television, plays, motion pictures. 106 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,280 The hero gets his leave canceled, and he's - 107 00:09:50,356 --> 00:09:52,916 And she spends the rest of her life wishing that she'd - 108 00:09:52,992 --> 00:09:54,926 Oh, honey. 109 00:09:54,994 --> 00:09:57,986 Let's not waste one precious moment then. 110 00:10:01,701 --> 00:10:03,692 [Knocking On Door] 111 00:10:05,104 --> 00:10:07,299 What's that pounding? 112 00:10:09,075 --> 00:10:11,100 Need I say more? 113 00:10:11,177 --> 00:10:13,111 Mmm. 114 00:10:17,183 --> 00:10:19,174 Reef, look. 115 00:10:38,604 --> 00:10:40,595 - Oh, no. - What's wrong? 116 00:10:44,443 --> 00:10:46,434 What is it? 117 00:10:48,814 --> 00:10:50,805 Oh, no. 118 00:11:10,469 --> 00:11:12,460 [Dave] Reef. 119 00:11:14,573 --> 00:11:17,633 - They caught you too, huh? - At the worst possible moment. 120 00:11:17,710 --> 00:11:19,644 Tomorrow's Janie's birthday. 121 00:11:19,712 --> 00:11:23,204 Poor little kid's been looking forward two whole months to having her daddy home. 122 00:11:23,282 --> 00:11:26,547 - Now - - That's the worst possible moment? 123 00:11:26,619 --> 00:11:30,055 What could be worse than disappointing a little girl? 124 00:11:30,122 --> 00:11:32,215 Disappointing a big girl. 125 00:11:33,325 --> 00:11:35,259 Julie? 126 00:11:35,327 --> 00:11:37,693 [Laughing] 127 00:11:37,763 --> 00:11:41,028 Really tough, old buddy. [Laughing] 128 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:43,591 Oh, really tough. [Laughing] 129 00:12:12,064 --> 00:12:14,089 Skipper, I thought you were going to Washington. 130 00:12:14,166 --> 00:12:17,863 I did.Just got back. Reef, I want you to meet a couple of our passengers. 131 00:12:17,937 --> 00:12:21,168 Sir Ian Hunt and Dr. Clifford Kent. My exec, Commander Richard Holloway. 132 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:23,174 - Glad to know you, sir. - How do you do? 133 00:12:23,242 --> 00:12:25,938 - Dr. Kent. Met you before. - Yes indeed, Commander. 134 00:12:26,011 --> 00:12:29,003 You gentlemen are going with us. What for? 135 00:12:30,216 --> 00:12:32,514 We'll discuss that later. Roberts. 136 00:12:34,353 --> 00:12:38,016 - Have Chief Griffin report to me as soon as the crew's aboard. - Yes, sir. 137 00:12:38,090 --> 00:12:40,058 - Watkins. - Yes, sir. 138 00:12:40,126 --> 00:12:44,028 - Will you show these gentlemen to their quarters? - Aye, aye, sir. This way. 139 00:12:44,096 --> 00:12:47,554 Well. Sorry we had to cut your leave short. 140 00:12:47,633 --> 00:12:51,364 - Yeah. - Come at the wrong time? 141 00:12:51,437 --> 00:12:53,428 Yeah. 142 00:12:54,707 --> 00:12:56,698 Will do. 143 00:13:00,279 --> 00:13:02,213 - Oh, it's you. - Yeah. 144 00:13:02,281 --> 00:13:05,842 Griff, what's the scoop? Hauled out in the middle of the night, all leaves canceled. 145 00:13:05,918 --> 00:13:07,852 We going to war, or what? 146 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:13,085 Don't you worry, Chester. When the skipper wants you to know what's going on, he'll tell ya. Okay? 147 00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:16,890 - I don't like it. I mean, this is all mighty funny. - Ah, isn't it, though? 148 00:13:16,962 --> 00:13:18,896 Suppose you get aboard anyway. 149 00:13:18,964 --> 00:13:21,956 - I don't like it. - What did you say? 150 00:13:22,034 --> 00:13:23,968 I like it. I like it. 151 00:13:24,036 --> 00:13:25,970 Hey. 152 00:13:26,038 --> 00:13:28,438 Well, skipper, I think I'll stow my gear. 153 00:13:28,507 --> 00:13:31,101 - Well, Reef, I got some bad news for ya. - Oh, yeah? 154 00:13:31,177 --> 00:13:33,668 - You're gonna have to share quarters this trip. - Who with? 155 00:13:33,746 --> 00:13:37,512 - Dr. Neilsen. - Dr. Neilsen? When did that happen? 156 00:13:38,517 --> 00:13:40,917 - Huh? - Oh, it's all right. We're old friends. 157 00:13:48,327 --> 00:13:51,592 Dave, stand by to shove off as soon as Griff reports the crew aboard. 158 00:13:51,664 --> 00:13:53,598 Right, skipper. 159 00:13:55,134 --> 00:13:57,432 Well, looks like we're gonna share quarters, skipper. 160 00:13:57,503 --> 00:13:59,437 Been a long - 161 00:13:59,505 --> 00:14:01,439 Carl. 162 00:14:01,507 --> 00:14:04,203 You? 163 00:14:05,578 --> 00:14:09,105 Oh, of course. I should have suspected when I heard that ''doctor.'' 164 00:14:10,115 --> 00:14:13,676 - I thought it was your father. - It was supposed to be. 165 00:14:13,752 --> 00:14:16,448 - Dad had a heart attack two days ago. - He what? 166 00:14:16,522 --> 00:14:20,356 It was mild. He'll be all right. But it was out of the question his coming along. 167 00:14:20,426 --> 00:14:23,122 And they thought you could replace the skipper, huh? 168 00:14:23,195 --> 00:14:25,129 There was no choice. 169 00:14:25,197 --> 00:14:27,427 Dad and I developed the Lungfish together. 170 00:14:27,499 --> 00:14:30,263 Except for him, I'm the only one qualified to dive in it. 171 00:14:30,336 --> 00:14:33,305 - You could have trained somebody else. - Not in two days. 172 00:14:34,707 --> 00:14:36,641 Look, do you think I wanted to come? 173 00:14:36,709 --> 00:14:41,612 If it didn't mean so much to Dad, proving his depth explorer, I certainly wouldn't be here. 174 00:14:42,681 --> 00:14:44,672 That I can believe. 175 00:14:49,788 --> 00:14:54,282 [Narrator] The Tiger Shark left her dock at Bremerton at 0335 hours... 176 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,453 the morning of May 1 1... 177 00:14:56,528 --> 00:15:02,057 on what was to prove the strangest, most fearful voyage ever made by a submarine... 178 00:15:02,134 --> 00:15:04,762 atomic or otherwise. 179 00:15:11,577 --> 00:15:13,772 Simultaneously with the Shark's departure... 180 00:15:13,846 --> 00:15:17,475 and with his crew still in the dark concerning their secret, fateful mission... 181 00:15:17,549 --> 00:15:22,350 Skipper Wendover made the first notation in the log. 182 00:15:23,555 --> 00:15:26,149 The men would remain unbriefed for two hours... 183 00:15:26,225 --> 00:15:28,955 until the Tiger Shark cleared Ruget Sound... 184 00:15:29,028 --> 00:15:31,826 and was headed for open sea. 185 00:15:41,907 --> 00:15:44,467 Who the devil belongs to this gear? 186 00:15:44,543 --> 00:15:46,534 [Man] Uh, we do, Chief. 187 00:15:49,949 --> 00:15:52,850 Oh. You two guys, huh? 188 00:15:53,852 --> 00:15:55,877 And just what do you do around here? 189 00:15:55,955 --> 00:15:59,516 Underwater demolition. Seaman First Class Powell, and I'm Carney. 190 00:15:59,591 --> 00:16:03,186 Yeah, I know. So you're frogmen. 191 00:16:03,262 --> 00:16:05,196 Yeah, we're off tin cans. 192 00:16:05,264 --> 00:16:08,199 We've, uh, looked the pigboat over from, uh, fore to aft... 193 00:16:08,267 --> 00:16:11,668 but can't seem to find an empty locker, uh, to store our stuff in. 194 00:16:11,737 --> 00:16:15,173 An empty locker? In a sub? 195 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,174 Are you kiddin'? 196 00:16:17,242 --> 00:16:19,676 This whole deal is makin' less and less sense to me. 197 00:16:19,745 --> 00:16:23,579 What are frogmen doin'aboard the Tiger Shark? 198 00:16:23,649 --> 00:16:25,913 Following orders, like everyone else in the navy. 199 00:16:31,890 --> 00:16:35,291 Beats me. But orders are orders. 200 00:16:35,361 --> 00:16:39,991 Yeah, well, uh, in the meantime, where do you want us to stash these gizmos? 201 00:16:40,065 --> 00:16:42,056 Come on. 202 00:17:03,088 --> 00:17:05,022 [Narrator] Shortly before dawn... 203 00:17:05,090 --> 00:17:08,582 the Tiger Shark, running submerged at better than 30 knots... 204 00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:10,594 had left the sound behind... 205 00:17:10,662 --> 00:17:13,130 and was headed for open sea. 206 00:17:17,503 --> 00:17:19,437 Here are our orders, Reef. 207 00:17:19,505 --> 00:17:21,598 Look 'em over while I fill in the crew. 208 00:17:25,244 --> 00:17:28,907 Now hear this. This is the captain speaking. 209 00:17:28,981 --> 00:17:31,040 I know you're wondering about all the mystery. 210 00:17:32,117 --> 00:17:35,314 [Wendover On P.A.] Well, our job had to be kept absolutely secret. 211 00:17:35,387 --> 00:17:39,756 Our mission is to find out what caused the disasters under the Arctic ice. 212 00:17:39,825 --> 00:17:44,285 Once we cross the Arctic Circle, any command you hear will be the real thing. 213 00:17:44,363 --> 00:17:46,297 Rlease remember it. 214 00:17:46,365 --> 00:17:48,595 That's about it. 215 00:17:48,667 --> 00:17:52,398 Now you know as much as I or anybody else does, for that matter. 216 00:17:52,471 --> 00:17:54,962 Oh, incidentally, I assured Washington... 217 00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:57,099 that this was the best sub crew in the fleet. 218 00:17:57,176 --> 00:17:59,235 I know you won't make a liar out of me. 219 00:17:59,311 --> 00:18:01,302 Carry on. 220 00:18:06,752 --> 00:18:08,743 That's it. 221 00:18:15,727 --> 00:18:17,661 What do you think? 222 00:18:18,664 --> 00:18:21,132 I think I should have joined the air force. 223 00:18:27,172 --> 00:18:32,132 [Narrator] A week later, the Tiger Shark was still running due north at cruising speed. 224 00:18:32,211 --> 00:18:35,738 So far, the voyage was routine, uneventful. 225 00:18:35,814 --> 00:18:38,442 But the nearer they came to the Arctic Circle... 226 00:18:38,517 --> 00:18:40,451 the more the tension increased... 227 00:18:40,519 --> 00:18:45,149 the more tiny irritations were magnified into bitter feuds... 228 00:18:45,224 --> 00:18:48,990 the more the crewmen pondered their possible fate. 229 00:18:50,028 --> 00:18:51,962 On the morning of May 20... 230 00:18:52,030 --> 00:18:56,296 the Tiger Shark crossed the Arctic Circle into the critical area. 231 00:19:32,671 --> 00:19:35,265 You're always asking me why I stay a bachelor. 232 00:19:35,340 --> 00:19:37,968 There goes one of the best reasons I can think of. 233 00:19:38,043 --> 00:19:41,877 - Huh? - Yeah. I might have a son like that. 234 00:19:42,948 --> 00:19:45,781 I don't get it. What goes with you two? 235 00:19:45,851 --> 00:19:50,083 I guess his father, Skipper Neilsen, retired before you enrolled at the academy, didn't he? 236 00:19:50,155 --> 00:19:52,089 I guess. 237 00:19:52,157 --> 00:19:55,149 One of the finest men and officers alive. 238 00:19:55,227 --> 00:19:57,559 A real hero in the best sense of the word. 239 00:19:57,629 --> 00:19:59,563 World War II. 240 00:19:59,631 --> 00:20:02,361 Taught engineering and design at the academy. 241 00:20:02,434 --> 00:20:06,097 - Fought like a demon for atomic subs. - So? 242 00:20:07,973 --> 00:20:12,171 So, when his only son dropped out of school, began making statements... 243 00:20:12,244 --> 00:20:14,838 all sounding like borrowed propaganda - 244 00:20:14,913 --> 00:20:17,882 ''Ban the atomic test.'' ''Junk the nuclear subs.'' 245 00:20:17,950 --> 00:20:20,510 ''Spend the military budget for peace.'' 246 00:20:20,586 --> 00:20:23,316 Well, it just about broke the old man's heart. 247 00:20:23,388 --> 00:20:25,322 Then when the newspapers picked it up... 248 00:20:25,390 --> 00:20:30,453 called Carl the honest, sincere son of a warmongering father... 249 00:20:32,097 --> 00:20:35,794 well, Captain Neilsen resigned from the navy. 250 00:20:35,867 --> 00:20:40,531 Oh, he still keeps his hand in with projects like the Lungfish... 251 00:20:40,606 --> 00:20:42,574 but it broke him all the same. 252 00:20:43,675 --> 00:20:46,269 Have, uh - Have you talked to Carl? 253 00:20:46,345 --> 00:20:48,279 Tried to get his side? 254 00:20:49,748 --> 00:20:51,682 His side? 255 00:20:51,750 --> 00:20:53,945 He's all front with no back. 256 00:20:54,019 --> 00:20:56,010 How can he have a side? 257 00:21:02,427 --> 00:21:05,089 Either of you men seen Dr. Neilsen? 258 00:21:06,098 --> 00:21:08,089 He's in here, sir. 259 00:21:12,037 --> 00:21:15,666 Oh, uh, Tuttle, Powell, would you men mind leaving us alone for a few minutes? 260 00:21:15,741 --> 00:21:17,675 Sure, Mr. Holloway. 261 00:21:18,677 --> 00:21:20,668 Dr. Neilsen. 262 00:21:27,219 --> 00:21:29,153 What is it? 263 00:21:29,221 --> 00:21:31,155 You are out. 264 00:21:31,223 --> 00:21:33,691 This came for you. 265 00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:36,091 - My father? - Dead? 266 00:21:36,161 --> 00:21:38,561 No. As a matter of fact, he's a lot better. 267 00:21:38,630 --> 00:21:40,621 Just got out of the hospital. 268 00:21:47,172 --> 00:21:52,200 - What did you mean I'm out? - Your father can be in Nome, Alaska tomorrow. We have two choices. 269 00:21:52,277 --> 00:21:55,769 We can ask them to bring him out by helicopter and take you off... 270 00:21:55,847 --> 00:21:58,111 or we can put the Shark back into Nome. 271 00:22:00,218 --> 00:22:02,550 You trade school boys are all alike, aren't you? 272 00:22:02,621 --> 00:22:07,354 Anybody who doesn't think like a little gold-braided puppet is ipso facto a coward. 273 00:22:07,426 --> 00:22:09,360 You said it. I didn't. 274 00:22:09,428 --> 00:22:13,797 Well, wearing a uniform doesn't bestow an automatic monopoly on courage, Commander. 275 00:22:13,865 --> 00:22:16,663 It just so happens I'm not a coward - physical or mental. 276 00:22:16,735 --> 00:22:18,794 And before I'd risk my father's life - 277 00:22:18,870 --> 00:22:21,236 - We're all risking our lives. - That may be... 278 00:22:21,306 --> 00:22:24,298 but Dad stays where he is, and I'm staying here. 279 00:22:24,376 --> 00:22:27,277 Oh, you are a mixed-up oddball, aren't you? 280 00:22:28,313 --> 00:22:32,215 Well, perhaps. But the idea of willingly going to school... 281 00:22:32,284 --> 00:22:36,948 to spend my life at a Paleozoic pastime that should have disappeared with the thunder lizards - 282 00:22:37,022 --> 00:22:39,320 I'm referring to war- 283 00:22:39,391 --> 00:22:43,054 that strikes me as the worst cowardice of all - being spiritually yellow. 284 00:22:43,128 --> 00:22:45,824 - You mean nothing's worth fighting for? - Peace. 285 00:22:45,897 --> 00:22:48,365 The dignity of man, destiny of human spirit. 286 00:22:48,433 --> 00:22:52,870 Now, you show me a man who says you win these fighting wars, and I'll show you an idiot. 287 00:22:52,938 --> 00:22:57,102 Oh, Carl, you talk like so many young men I've - I've known. 288 00:22:58,110 --> 00:23:01,671 You talk well. Literately, intelligently- 289 00:23:01,747 --> 00:23:03,681 even brilliantly sometimes. 290 00:23:03,749 --> 00:23:07,651 But you're all talk. What do you do about your ideas... 291 00:23:07,719 --> 00:23:09,710 your ideals? 292 00:23:09,788 --> 00:23:13,519 You mentioned my uniform. These are my work clothes. 293 00:23:13,592 --> 00:23:15,583 They represent what I'm willing to do... 294 00:23:15,660 --> 00:23:18,629 how hard I'm willing to work for what I believe in. 295 00:23:18,697 --> 00:23:20,824 I doubt your willingness for anything... 296 00:23:20,899 --> 00:23:23,094 except talk about what you're against. 297 00:23:23,168 --> 00:23:26,069 That talk darn near killed your father. 298 00:23:30,909 --> 00:23:33,537 [Loud Bang] 299 00:23:33,612 --> 00:23:37,810 - [Man On R.A.] Mr. Holloway to the conn, please. - [Alarm Blaring] 300 00:23:58,336 --> 00:24:01,863 [Dave] The instruments have all gone crazy, and take a look at the screen. 301 00:24:01,940 --> 00:24:04,602 Incredible. Absolutely incredible. 302 00:24:10,682 --> 00:24:13,412 - What hit us? - It doesn't seem possible... 303 00:24:13,485 --> 00:24:15,715 but could it be an electric storm center? 304 00:24:15,787 --> 00:24:17,721 Underwater? 305 00:24:17,789 --> 00:24:21,247 [Dr. Kent] High-intensity arcs will burn submerged... 306 00:24:21,326 --> 00:24:25,490 and millions of volts discharged in random directions. 307 00:24:25,564 --> 00:24:27,532 Is there any way out of this? 308 00:24:27,599 --> 00:24:29,829 Seems all around. 309 00:24:29,901 --> 00:24:32,199 What about down? 310 00:24:32,270 --> 00:24:34,295 - I don't know. - Take her down. 311 00:24:34,372 --> 00:24:36,533 - Maximum angle, maximum depth. - Aye, aye, sir. 312 00:24:38,310 --> 00:24:41,006 Take her down. Maximum angle, maximum depth. 313 00:24:52,357 --> 00:24:54,723 Sir Ian has evolved a theory. 314 00:24:54,793 --> 00:24:57,125 At first I wasn't about to buy it... 315 00:24:57,195 --> 00:25:01,996 but we have eliminated one by one every other logical explanation. 316 00:25:02,067 --> 00:25:04,763 Mmm. It is rather fantastic. 317 00:25:06,037 --> 00:25:08,801 But, uh... 318 00:25:08,874 --> 00:25:10,865 here... 319 00:25:13,578 --> 00:25:15,842 is a chart of the Arctic region. 320 00:25:15,914 --> 00:25:20,214 On it I've plotted every instant of these peculiar phenomena... 321 00:25:20,285 --> 00:25:24,016 the sinkings, electrical storms... 322 00:25:24,089 --> 00:25:26,080 our own experiences. 323 00:25:27,192 --> 00:25:29,183 Now, uh... 324 00:25:30,195 --> 00:25:35,292 here is where we encountered the electrical storm. 325 00:25:36,368 --> 00:25:38,962 The Sturgeon was lost about here. 326 00:25:39,971 --> 00:25:43,873 The others here, here... 327 00:25:43,942 --> 00:25:45,876 and here. 328 00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:49,772 - Do you see it? - See what? 329 00:25:49,848 --> 00:25:52,544 The pattern. The pattern. 330 00:25:54,085 --> 00:26:00,046 Each incident occurred almost precisely 1 ,000 statute miles from the Pole. 331 00:26:00,125 --> 00:26:03,356 A line drawn through the points of occurrence... 332 00:26:03,428 --> 00:26:06,056 makes almost a complete circle around the Pole. 333 00:26:06,131 --> 00:26:08,429 Which adds up to what, Sir Ian? 334 00:26:11,036 --> 00:26:14,767 I cannot accept the idea that these phenomena were... 335 00:26:14,839 --> 00:26:18,002 either random or natural. 336 00:26:18,076 --> 00:26:21,068 I believe they were motivated by... 337 00:26:21,146 --> 00:26:23,307 some sort of intelligence. 338 00:26:23,381 --> 00:26:25,144 Do you mean that somebody is - 339 00:26:25,216 --> 00:26:28,413 I didn't mean to imply a human intelligence. 340 00:26:29,921 --> 00:26:32,617 Well, what on earth kind of intelligence is it, Sir Ian? 341 00:26:34,059 --> 00:26:37,551 Oh, perhaps... it's not an intelligence on Earth. 342 00:26:37,629 --> 00:26:41,565 Perhaps it's an intelligence from beyond the Earth. 343 00:26:41,633 --> 00:26:44,101 What can we do about it, sir? 344 00:26:44,169 --> 00:26:46,194 I've been thinking about that. 345 00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:50,731 As you see, these occurrences were on this line... 346 00:26:50,809 --> 00:26:53,403 almost a perfect circle around the Pole. 347 00:26:56,081 --> 00:27:01,018 However, there may be a significant break in that ring... 348 00:27:01,086 --> 00:27:06,217 here in the area of the Queen Victoria Sea near FranzJosef Land... 349 00:27:06,291 --> 00:27:09,021 north of Murmansk and Finland. 350 00:27:09,094 --> 00:27:11,119 Supposing your theorizing is correct... 351 00:27:11,196 --> 00:27:14,029 then this could be the next danger point. 352 00:27:14,099 --> 00:27:16,192 Yes. Yes. 353 00:27:18,770 --> 00:27:22,171 But supposing we, uh, anticipated a little. 354 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,208 Supposing... 355 00:27:24,275 --> 00:27:28,143 the Tiger Shark was lurking there, waiting. 356 00:27:29,981 --> 00:27:31,972 He could be right. 357 00:27:33,752 --> 00:27:38,382 We'll chart our course right straight across the Pole and bring us here. 358 00:27:38,456 --> 00:27:40,447 The Queen Victoria Sea. 359 00:27:44,429 --> 00:27:46,897 [Narrator] So, swiftly, implacably... 360 00:27:46,965 --> 00:27:50,025 the Tiger Shark moved across the top of the world... 361 00:27:50,101 --> 00:27:53,332 toward a rendezvous with what? 362 00:28:03,314 --> 00:28:06,909 We've been running due south along the 30th degree of longitude. 363 00:28:06,985 --> 00:28:11,479 By my reckoning we should be about here, just short of our planned position. 364 00:28:11,556 --> 00:28:15,322 - And that should be - -Just about the critical point, if we're on the right track. 365 00:28:15,393 --> 00:28:17,827 - Prepare to surface. Flank speed. - Aye. 366 00:28:20,532 --> 00:28:23,467 Prepare to surface. Flank speed. 367 00:28:31,876 --> 00:28:34,310 Mr. Milburn. Quick, look at this. 368 00:28:43,655 --> 00:28:46,215 Skipper, Reef! 369 00:28:58,903 --> 00:29:02,464 Those chunks of ice are coming right at us. Dive! Dive! 370 00:29:03,975 --> 00:29:06,068 Dive! Dive! 371 00:29:20,692 --> 00:29:24,594 - Determine extent of damage. - Aft to torpedo room, report. 372 00:29:29,734 --> 00:29:31,668 This is Griff, Captain. 373 00:29:31,736 --> 00:29:35,672 Moderate leak in overhead plates. Damage to main driveshaft housing. 374 00:29:35,740 --> 00:29:38,072 Forced to full stop. 375 00:29:38,143 --> 00:29:41,806 - We're dead in the water. - [Dave] Captain. 376 00:29:49,287 --> 00:29:52,381 [Reef] Whatever it is, it certainly can travel. 377 00:29:54,092 --> 00:29:56,492 Course and speed. 378 00:29:56,561 --> 00:29:59,621 Speed, about 22 knots. 379 00:29:59,697 --> 00:30:01,688 Course, due north. 380 00:30:02,967 --> 00:30:04,958 Directly toward the Pole. 381 00:30:07,672 --> 00:30:11,233 - Are you two flounders about set? - We're ready. 382 00:30:11,309 --> 00:30:15,211 Now, try and remember, you're not going out to rehearse a water ballet. 383 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:19,011 - We need a damage report. - I never should have volunteered. 384 00:30:19,083 --> 00:30:21,142 If I had enough sense, I would have - 385 00:30:21,219 --> 00:30:24,086 Hey, uh, look out for the sharks, huh? 386 00:30:40,338 --> 00:30:42,306 A pure oval shape... 387 00:30:42,373 --> 00:30:47,174 with this cyclops-like eye, or turret, on top. 388 00:30:47,245 --> 00:30:52,148 I'd estimate its diameter at, oh, 300 feet. 389 00:30:52,217 --> 00:30:54,208 No discernible orifices. 390 00:30:58,556 --> 00:31:00,547 The eye of Cyclops. 391 00:31:02,060 --> 00:31:04,756 What did you say, Sir Ian? 392 00:31:04,829 --> 00:31:07,525 Just musing about our one-eyed adversary... 393 00:31:07,599 --> 00:31:09,931 and the Homer legend. 394 00:31:10,001 --> 00:31:11,935 The Cyclopes were the sons of heaven... 395 00:31:12,003 --> 00:31:15,029 who forged the thunderbolts thrown by Zeus. 396 00:31:15,106 --> 00:31:18,633 Our own cyclops throws quite a thunderbolt itself. 397 00:31:26,050 --> 00:31:28,848 I knew there was something familiar. 398 00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,911 Take a look. 399 00:31:30,989 --> 00:31:35,426 This picture was taken by an amateur astronomer over New Mexico. 400 00:31:35,493 --> 00:31:39,429 I've had it since I served on the Air Force Evaluation Board... 401 00:31:39,497 --> 00:31:41,431 for U.F.O. Reports. 402 00:31:41,499 --> 00:31:43,433 ''Unidentified flying objects.'' 403 00:31:43,501 --> 00:31:45,765 Then this is a flying saucer. 404 00:31:47,472 --> 00:31:50,930 That was the popular designation, yes. 405 00:31:52,610 --> 00:31:56,637 Weren't all the sightings in the sky, not underwater? 406 00:31:56,714 --> 00:32:00,616 This would explain why there were never any reports of landings. 407 00:32:00,685 --> 00:32:03,950 It's quite possible that whoever or... 408 00:32:04,022 --> 00:32:06,252 whatever inhabits this craft... 409 00:32:06,324 --> 00:32:08,417 is not a land creature at all... 410 00:32:08,493 --> 00:32:10,427 but some form of marine life. 411 00:32:11,496 --> 00:32:15,193 That would make our little green men actually little green fish. 412 00:32:15,266 --> 00:32:18,360 Undersea flying saucers. 413 00:32:21,072 --> 00:32:23,006 - Excuse me, skipper. - Yeah, Griff? 414 00:32:23,074 --> 00:32:27,010 All internal repairs completed, and frogmen report exterior damage minor. 415 00:32:27,078 --> 00:32:29,046 - Good. - Then we can get under way, huh? 416 00:32:29,113 --> 00:32:31,547 - Right, sir. - Dave, you plotted the course of Cyclops? 417 00:32:33,284 --> 00:32:35,582 Then that's our course. 418 00:32:35,653 --> 00:32:38,144 Where he goes, we go until we get him. 419 00:32:38,222 --> 00:32:41,385 Or perhaps until he gets us. 420 00:32:44,228 --> 00:32:48,392 [Narrator] So the Tiger Shark began relentlessly stalking her space enemy. 421 00:32:48,466 --> 00:32:52,800 Up to the Role, back to the Arctic Circle, again and again. 422 00:32:52,870 --> 00:32:56,328 A week, a fortnight, a month. 423 00:33:13,591 --> 00:33:17,152 [Narrator] Never a glimpse of their enemy, but there were reports. 424 00:33:17,228 --> 00:33:20,664 New disasters, new ships and lives lost. 425 00:33:34,779 --> 00:33:37,839 Invariably, the Tiger Shark made for the scene... 426 00:33:37,915 --> 00:33:40,645 only to arrive after Cyclops had left. 427 00:33:40,718 --> 00:33:44,518 For all its desperation, the pursuit seemed fruitless. 428 00:33:47,025 --> 00:33:50,256 And then on July 3, Dr. Kent and Sir Ian... 429 00:33:50,328 --> 00:33:53,729 held an urgent discussion with Reef and the skipper. 430 00:33:56,034 --> 00:34:00,266 Why does Cyclops invariably turn to the Pole between attacks? 431 00:34:00,338 --> 00:34:02,272 Never two in succession. 432 00:34:02,340 --> 00:34:05,707 Always away and back, away and back. 433 00:34:05,777 --> 00:34:09,235 We've asked ourselves that over and over a thousand times. 434 00:34:09,313 --> 00:34:12,077 But answers are what we need, not more questions. 435 00:34:12,150 --> 00:34:14,448 We think now we have them. 436 00:34:15,453 --> 00:34:19,549 We took for granted his source of energy was nuclear. 437 00:34:19,624 --> 00:34:21,592 But suppose it isn't at all. 438 00:34:22,593 --> 00:34:25,084 What if it is magnetic? 439 00:34:25,163 --> 00:34:28,758 Yes. Yes. 440 00:34:28,833 --> 00:34:34,135 We harness energy on a small scale by cutting magnetic lines of force. 441 00:34:34,205 --> 00:34:37,299 Supposing Cyclops does it on a superscale? 442 00:34:37,375 --> 00:34:42,244 The North Pole is the positive end of the biggest magnet of all: the Earth itself. 443 00:34:43,314 --> 00:34:45,908 What you're getting at is that you think our saucer friend... 444 00:34:45,983 --> 00:34:49,316 must return to the Pole regularly to recharge his batteries. 445 00:34:49,387 --> 00:34:52,686 That may be oversimplifying it. But, uh - 446 00:34:52,757 --> 00:34:57,717 Now, uh, our present tactics are useless. 447 00:34:57,795 --> 00:35:02,755 But suppose we place ourselves between Cyclops and the Pole. 448 00:35:02,834 --> 00:35:06,463 In such a way as to prevent him returning to the Pole to... 449 00:35:06,537 --> 00:35:08,562 as you put it, recharge his batteries. 450 00:35:08,639 --> 00:35:11,836 If we are lucky enough to catch him with his power depleted. 451 00:35:11,909 --> 00:35:14,309 Then we polish him off with an atomic fish. 452 00:35:14,378 --> 00:35:17,905 We wait till the next report of trouble, and then we lie in wait for him... 453 00:35:17,982 --> 00:35:20,212 right in his path, and bushwhack him. 454 00:35:21,285 --> 00:35:25,722 - ''Bushwhack''? - Yes, it's an American tactical expression. 455 00:35:25,790 --> 00:35:27,781 Oh. 456 00:35:29,327 --> 00:35:31,887 [Narrator] So, a change of tactics. 457 00:35:31,963 --> 00:35:35,057 Now the Tiger Shark cruised almost over the North Role... 458 00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:39,570 waiting for the radio report that would put the plan into effect. 459 00:35:39,637 --> 00:35:44,370 On July 1 3, at 1 600 hours, it came. 460 00:35:45,443 --> 00:35:47,377 - We got it, Reef. - Cyclops? 461 00:35:47,445 --> 00:35:51,074 Sounds like a distress signal from a small freighter between Ellesmere Island and Greenland. 462 00:35:51,149 --> 00:35:53,208 - One Mayday, then nothing. - Where's the skipper? 463 00:35:53,284 --> 00:35:55,218 Already in the conn. 464 00:36:05,663 --> 00:36:08,325 - [Dave] We're here. -[Wendover] All right. 465 00:36:08,399 --> 00:36:10,993 This is where Cyclops knocked off the freighter. 466 00:36:11,068 --> 00:36:13,866 This is the way he has to head for home - the Pole. 467 00:36:13,938 --> 00:36:17,305 Here we are, right in his path. 468 00:36:17,375 --> 00:36:21,072 Sonar and TV-scan the bottom. Find a good place to hide and lie in wait for him... 469 00:36:21,145 --> 00:36:23,545 maybe a cave or a valley. 470 00:36:23,614 --> 00:36:25,673 Rig for silent running. 471 00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:28,412 As soon as we're on the bottom, secure everything that hums or buzzes. 472 00:36:28,486 --> 00:36:31,387 - I want absolute silence. - Very well. 473 00:36:32,890 --> 00:36:34,824 Rig for silent running. 474 00:37:10,361 --> 00:37:15,128 [Narrator] Hour upon hour, the Tiger Shark lay in its deep-six ambush. 475 00:37:15,199 --> 00:37:19,966 The Arctic depths were as still and silent as an uninhabited world. 476 00:37:20,037 --> 00:37:22,972 And then at 0600 hours - 477 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,372 [Clicking] 478 00:37:55,873 --> 00:37:58,273 Skipper, Dr. Kent. 479 00:38:01,078 --> 00:38:03,706 - What is it? - That's him. 480 00:38:03,781 --> 00:38:05,942 It has to be. 481 00:38:08,552 --> 00:38:10,952 Range: 22 miles. 482 00:38:11,022 --> 00:38:13,855 Speed: I give it 1 4 knots. 483 00:38:13,924 --> 00:38:16,415 His radiation level is very low. 484 00:38:16,494 --> 00:38:20,453 That would confirm our theory about having to return to the Pole. 485 00:38:20,531 --> 00:38:23,193 It better be correct. 486 00:38:23,267 --> 00:38:26,794 Get me a setup on the T.D.C. Range: about seven miles. 487 00:38:31,275 --> 00:38:36,338 Reef, arm atomic warheads. Load Tubes 1 and 2, and report to the conn. 488 00:38:36,414 --> 00:38:38,905 - Sounds like we mean business. - Yeah. 489 00:38:38,983 --> 00:38:41,679 Griff, you arm number two. I'll handle number one. 490 00:38:45,723 --> 00:38:48,658 [Machinery Whirring, Beeping] 491 00:38:50,895 --> 00:38:54,058 Load one and two. Open outer doors. 492 00:38:54,131 --> 00:38:56,065 Stand by for action. 493 00:39:29,533 --> 00:39:31,626 Range: now 1 5 miles. 494 00:39:31,702 --> 00:39:33,932 - You sure it's Cyclops? - Take a look. 495 00:39:46,283 --> 00:39:49,844 Range: 1 4.5 miles. 496 00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:52,753 Griff to skipper. Tubes 1 and 2 loaded. 497 00:39:52,823 --> 00:39:55,314 Outer doors open. Ready to fire. 498 00:39:59,864 --> 00:40:01,798 Stand by. 499 00:40:01,866 --> 00:40:04,767 [Beeping] 500 00:40:05,970 --> 00:40:08,234 Range: eight miles. 501 00:40:13,210 --> 00:40:15,974 Range: 7 3/ 4 miles. 502 00:40:27,892 --> 00:40:30,224 Zero minus 1 0... 503 00:40:32,296 --> 00:40:35,231 nine, eight... 504 00:40:36,500 --> 00:40:41,199 seven, six, five... 505 00:40:42,406 --> 00:40:46,843 four, three, two... 506 00:40:48,679 --> 00:40:52,206 one, target zero. 507 00:40:53,284 --> 00:40:55,548 Fire 1 . 508 00:41:00,624 --> 00:41:03,684 - Number one, fired. - Fire 2. 509 00:41:08,532 --> 00:41:10,727 Number two, fired. 510 00:41:24,648 --> 00:41:27,310 - How are they running? - Hot, straight and normal. 511 00:41:29,453 --> 00:41:31,944 Number one missed. 512 00:41:32,022 --> 00:41:35,719 How could it? We're dead on the target with the homing first. 513 00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:47,694 - What's that? - A mass of jelly-like stuff came out of the thing and caught our torpedo. 514 00:41:47,771 --> 00:41:50,262 It must function like a degaussing field. 515 00:41:50,341 --> 00:41:52,707 We'll never get a torpedo through that. 516 00:41:52,776 --> 00:41:54,903 Maybe not a torpedo. 517 00:41:57,348 --> 00:42:00,545 Blow all main ballast tanks. Reactor room, stand by. 518 00:42:00,618 --> 00:42:03,451 As soon as we're off the bottom, I want all ahead, flank. 519 00:42:05,523 --> 00:42:09,118 -[Dave] What course, skipper? - Right at our one-eyed friend. 520 00:42:17,768 --> 00:42:20,293 - Right at him? - That's what I said. 521 00:42:20,371 --> 00:42:22,896 - But what can we accomplish? - We can ram him. 522 00:42:22,973 --> 00:42:25,737 You've weighed the consequences, Captain, the lives involved? 523 00:42:25,809 --> 00:42:29,245 Doctor, I've weighed the destruction that the Cyclops has done already... 524 00:42:29,313 --> 00:42:32,043 and what he'll do in the future unless we stop him right now. 525 00:42:32,116 --> 00:42:35,449 - There must be some other means. - What other means? 526 00:42:35,519 --> 00:42:39,114 If the Tiger Shark can't stop him, no power on Earth can. 527 00:42:47,364 --> 00:42:49,389 Now brace yourselves. 528 00:42:50,734 --> 00:42:52,668 Sound the collision alarm. 529 00:42:52,736 --> 00:42:55,296 [Siren Blaring] 530 00:43:21,599 --> 00:43:24,090 [Rumbling] 531 00:43:26,537 --> 00:43:28,903 We got him, skipper. Drove right into him. 532 00:43:34,445 --> 00:43:36,606 Look at that. Speared him like a fish. 533 00:43:41,118 --> 00:43:43,951 We did it, boys. Dove right through the saucer's side. 534 00:43:46,123 --> 00:43:49,058 Reactor room, give me all reverse, full. 535 00:44:10,648 --> 00:44:12,639 We're stuck tight. 536 00:44:14,918 --> 00:44:17,648 Skipper, take a look at this depth gauge. 537 00:44:19,323 --> 00:44:21,951 1 80 fathoms? We can't be sinking that fast. 538 00:44:22,026 --> 00:44:25,985 It's our screws, skipper. At our declination angle, running in reverse... 539 00:44:26,063 --> 00:44:29,123 they're pulling the shark and cyclops right to the bottom. 540 00:44:31,635 --> 00:44:34,297 And we're at safe maximum depth already. 541 00:44:34,371 --> 00:44:38,432 - Full stop. - Full stop. 542 00:44:53,023 --> 00:44:54,957 [Thuds] 543 00:45:01,365 --> 00:45:05,495 [Narrator] Hours later, the two titanic craft were still locked together... 544 00:45:05,569 --> 00:45:08,037 in an apparent death grip... 545 00:45:08,105 --> 00:45:10,232 on the bottom of the Arctic Ocean... 546 00:45:10,307 --> 00:45:13,936 nearly 1 200 feet below the surface. 547 00:45:24,388 --> 00:45:26,879 Well, anybody got any ideas? 548 00:45:26,957 --> 00:45:29,152 Anything's better than lying here. 549 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:33,891 Suppose there's some kind of atmosphere inside the Cyclops. 550 00:45:33,964 --> 00:45:36,194 What do you mean? 551 00:45:36,266 --> 00:45:39,429 Well, maybe we could get inside the saucer. We could use our torches... 552 00:45:39,503 --> 00:45:43,064 - to cut the Shark loose. - That's all very well, young man. 553 00:45:43,140 --> 00:45:46,632 How would one go about getting inside Cyclops? 554 00:45:46,710 --> 00:45:49,770 Through the eye using the depth explorer. 555 00:45:49,847 --> 00:45:53,578 Yes. The explorer was built to operate at even greater depths. 556 00:45:54,585 --> 00:45:58,180 Yeah, but suppose there isn't any atmosphere inside the saucer. 557 00:45:59,223 --> 00:46:02,715 Well, then the idea's no good. But we're no worse off than we are now. 558 00:46:02,793 --> 00:46:05,159 -[Dave] You've gotta let us try, skipper. - Us? 559 00:46:05,229 --> 00:46:08,562 Reef and I could take the explorer down, clamp it onto the eye - 560 00:46:08,632 --> 00:46:10,759 [Neilsen] No. You can't, but I can. 561 00:46:10,834 --> 00:46:13,564 I can deliver you to the eye. Then you - 562 00:46:13,637 --> 00:46:17,300 A little out of your line, isn't it? Why don't you stay aboard and make a speech? 563 00:46:17,374 --> 00:46:19,968 Maybe you could get them to ban flying saucers. 564 00:46:20,043 --> 00:46:24,673 Listen, Holloway. However our ideas disagree, I've said before, I'm not a coward. 565 00:46:24,748 --> 00:46:27,683 And it happens you have no choice. Either I take you down there in the Lungfish... 566 00:46:27,751 --> 00:46:29,685 - or you don't get there. - I'd sooner swim. 567 00:46:29,753 --> 00:46:33,120 - That's enough, both of you. - Very well, sir. 568 00:46:33,190 --> 00:46:35,249 No use making the odds any longer than they are. 569 00:46:35,325 --> 00:46:38,089 It so happens that Dr. Neilsen's right. 570 00:46:38,162 --> 00:46:40,562 Get the explorer in the air lock and prepare for launching. 571 00:46:43,567 --> 00:46:46,695 - Better take Carney and Powell with you. - The frogmen? 572 00:46:46,770 --> 00:46:50,433 That's right. Their underwater experience might make them invaluable. 573 00:46:50,507 --> 00:46:54,671 - You'll need sidearms. - Sidearms? The saucer's dead. 574 00:46:54,745 --> 00:46:57,407 - You hope. - We better get ready. 575 00:47:11,161 --> 00:47:13,129 Girls, you go everywhere I go. 576 00:47:15,465 --> 00:47:17,660 All right, Carl. There's still time. 577 00:47:17,734 --> 00:47:21,192 - You wanna show me how? - Get in. 578 00:47:57,007 --> 00:47:59,703 [Griff On R.A.] Ready to open air lock door, Captain. 579 00:48:03,547 --> 00:48:05,481 Go ahead, Griff. 580 00:50:01,398 --> 00:50:03,525 - What now? - What do you say, Doctor? 581 00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:07,127 - Shall we take a chance? - That's what we came for. 582 00:50:07,204 --> 00:50:09,138 You all stay here. I'm gonna take a look inside. 583 00:50:09,206 --> 00:50:11,140 Not alone, you're not. 584 00:50:20,817 --> 00:50:23,479 Better breathe your oxygen, just in case. 585 00:50:42,706 --> 00:50:47,040 - Air, pure air, under pressure. - That's a relief. 586 00:50:47,110 --> 00:50:49,908 Well, we won't need these tanks. 587 00:50:50,914 --> 00:50:53,178 Good luck, men. 588 00:50:53,250 --> 00:50:55,741 All right, let's go. 589 00:51:36,660 --> 00:51:39,993 The bow drilled through her, but she sealed herself right up. 590 00:51:40,063 --> 00:51:42,998 Yeah, there's our problem. 591 00:51:43,066 --> 00:51:45,728 The sawteeth of the ram are caught in the break. 592 00:51:45,802 --> 00:51:49,329 Now, if we can cut it away, the Shark can pull herself loose. 593 00:51:49,406 --> 00:51:53,570 - I think you're right. - Powell, go back to Dr. Neilsen. 594 00:51:53,643 --> 00:51:56,134 Tell him to report to the skipper. 595 00:51:56,213 --> 00:51:58,738 All right, let's get to work. 596 00:52:27,077 --> 00:52:29,272 We read you, Doctor. Go ahead. 597 00:52:32,782 --> 00:52:35,342 They're inside the Cyclops. It's full of breathable air. 598 00:52:35,418 --> 00:52:38,353 - Wonderful. - That's great, Doctor. 599 00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:44,059 Reef thinks that he can clear the Shark's bow so we can pull ourselves loose. 600 00:52:44,127 --> 00:52:48,530 What's it like inside the Cyclops? This is a priceless opportunity to - 601 00:52:50,367 --> 00:52:55,236 Doctor, tell Reef to make sure that you're in the clear before we make another move. 602 00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,031 Right. Over. 603 00:53:00,877 --> 00:53:03,004 - We may get out of this yet. -Skipper. 604 00:53:03,079 --> 00:53:06,344 - Could you take a look here? - What's wrong, Griff? 605 00:53:06,416 --> 00:53:09,908 The inertial navigation system must've been knocked out in the crash. 606 00:53:09,986 --> 00:53:12,318 We're dead in the water, but it indicates we're moving. 607 00:53:12,389 --> 00:53:16,883 - That's impossible. - The radiation level from the saucer is rising. 608 00:53:16,960 --> 00:53:19,053 What direction does the system indicate? 609 00:53:19,129 --> 00:53:21,461 Due north at five knots. 610 00:53:21,531 --> 00:53:24,364 No, six. 611 00:53:24,434 --> 00:53:26,766 Toward the Pole. 612 00:53:26,836 --> 00:53:30,863 But that Cyclops is dead. We killed it, didn't we? 613 00:53:30,941 --> 00:53:32,875 Beats me. 614 00:53:44,888 --> 00:53:48,187 - Dave. - Yeah? 615 00:53:49,693 --> 00:53:51,684 Do you hear anything? 616 00:53:53,363 --> 00:53:57,026 I don't hear anything. You've been down here too long. 617 00:53:57,100 --> 00:53:59,227 You better go topside and rest. 618 00:54:00,570 --> 00:54:02,697 Strange you don't hear it. 619 00:54:25,595 --> 00:54:28,587 - Reef. - Huh? 620 00:54:28,665 --> 00:54:31,566 You know something? I think it's getting lighter in here. 621 00:54:32,602 --> 00:54:35,093 Yeah. Yeah, it is. 622 00:54:35,171 --> 00:54:37,401 If I didn't know better... 623 00:54:37,474 --> 00:54:39,408 I'd swear we were moving. 624 00:54:40,577 --> 00:54:43,341 Well, let's get back to work, and maybe we will be soon. 625 00:54:56,126 --> 00:55:00,062 I'm getting an impression of movement, Captain. Is that possible? 626 00:55:00,130 --> 00:55:02,257 We get the same reaction up here. 627 00:55:04,434 --> 00:55:06,368 Now they're feeling it down below. 628 00:55:07,370 --> 00:55:10,703 The radiation level, constantly rising. 629 00:55:10,774 --> 00:55:12,708 As we near the Pole. 630 00:55:12,776 --> 00:55:14,710 There's got to be an explanation. 631 00:55:14,778 --> 00:55:17,110 I think there is. 632 00:55:17,180 --> 00:55:20,274 I believe our friend Cyclops is returning to life. 633 00:55:27,824 --> 00:55:31,157 [Male Voice] Commander Holloway, listen. 634 00:55:33,663 --> 00:55:38,965 - Dave. - Commander Holloway, make no resistance. 635 00:55:40,804 --> 00:55:42,738 Did you hear it? 636 00:55:42,806 --> 00:55:44,740 That sound again? 637 00:55:48,345 --> 00:55:50,836 This time it was a voice. It called my name. 638 00:55:50,914 --> 00:55:53,109 Look, why don't you go topside? 639 00:55:57,354 --> 00:56:00,846 [Voice] You will see- that avails nothing. 640 00:56:05,528 --> 00:56:08,053 Where do you think the sound was coming from? 641 00:56:10,567 --> 00:56:12,501 Down there somewhere. 642 00:56:24,381 --> 00:56:27,873 [Low-pitched Hum] 643 00:56:32,455 --> 00:56:34,616 [Hum Continues] 644 00:56:42,832 --> 00:56:45,198 [High-pitched Hum] 645 00:56:46,202 --> 00:56:48,727 [Loud Hum] 646 00:56:55,612 --> 00:56:58,672 Carney! Carney, help me! 647 00:57:02,018 --> 00:57:05,351 CarneyI Help me, CarneyI Help meI 648 00:57:10,226 --> 00:57:12,820 [Hum Increases] 649 00:57:12,896 --> 00:57:15,364 CarneyI Carney, helpI 650 00:57:37,053 --> 00:57:39,317 [Hum Continues] 651 00:57:48,364 --> 00:57:51,026 [Grunting] 652 00:57:51,100 --> 00:57:53,762 - [Cracking] - [Gasping] 653 00:57:53,837 --> 00:57:55,998 [Retching] 654 00:58:07,650 --> 00:58:09,584 [Voice] Remove your weapons, Commander. 655 00:58:09,652 --> 00:58:12,177 And come here below. 656 00:58:18,495 --> 00:58:21,487 - Come where? - To me, here. 657 00:58:21,564 --> 00:58:23,532 That voice again? 658 00:58:24,868 --> 00:58:26,802 It wants me to go alone. 659 00:58:26,870 --> 00:58:28,804 Oh, it does, does it? 660 00:58:28,872 --> 00:58:30,806 You better stay here. 661 00:58:58,501 --> 00:59:03,404 So, Commander Holloway, as you Earth inhabitants would express it... 662 00:59:03,473 --> 00:59:05,964 we meet, face-to-face. 663 00:59:08,044 --> 00:59:09,978 That's a face? 664 00:59:11,548 --> 00:59:13,482 Roint of view is everything. 665 00:59:13,550 --> 00:59:16,747 To us, your form of life is ugly... 666 00:59:16,819 --> 00:59:18,753 as we appear to you. 667 00:59:23,059 --> 00:59:24,993 Tell me something. 668 00:59:25,061 --> 00:59:27,962 Why is it that I can hear you and the others can't? 669 00:59:30,166 --> 00:59:32,100 You do not hear me. 670 00:59:32,168 --> 00:59:35,729 Our individual brain frequencies are now attuned... 671 00:59:35,805 --> 00:59:38,968 and we exchange wave-thoughts. 672 00:59:40,910 --> 00:59:43,777 You mean, extrasensory perception? 673 00:59:44,847 --> 00:59:48,010 Whatever your Earth term may be... 674 00:59:48,084 --> 00:59:52,180 the principle is ancient and very simple. 675 00:59:53,856 --> 00:59:56,882 It is not necessary for you to speak. 676 00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:00,919 Your thought response will suffice. 677 01:00:02,065 --> 01:00:06,559 My mission is to study various solar systems and planets. 678 01:00:06,636 --> 01:00:09,901 Select the most suitable for colonization. 679 01:00:13,610 --> 01:00:16,306 [Thinking] For horrors like yourself? 680 01:00:17,380 --> 01:00:22,875 Of course. It may interest you to know I have visited hundreds of other worlds... 681 01:00:22,952 --> 01:00:28,356 and of all of them, your Earth seems most suitable. 682 01:00:32,295 --> 01:00:34,229 [Thinking] Swell. 683 01:00:45,141 --> 01:00:48,201 [Creature] Your friend was to remain where he was. 684 01:00:50,113 --> 01:00:53,605 - [Thinking] He did. -I am afraid not. 685 01:00:54,684 --> 01:00:58,848 - Dave. - What's going on in here, lad? What - 686 01:01:00,189 --> 01:01:03,681 Stand away from him, Commander. 687 01:01:05,361 --> 01:01:07,295 He wants you back. 688 01:01:07,363 --> 01:01:10,992 So this is your headquarters. Well, you've sunk your last ship, you - 689 01:01:13,803 --> 01:01:16,772 [High-pitched Hum] 690 01:01:17,774 --> 01:01:20,038 [Low Hum] 691 01:01:23,046 --> 01:01:25,810 [Screaming] 692 01:01:28,785 --> 01:01:32,619 [Thinking] Why not me? What am I, the closing act? 693 01:01:32,689 --> 01:01:37,353 On the contrary. I want you unharmed, perfect. 694 01:01:37,427 --> 01:01:39,793 [Thinking] Why? 695 01:01:39,862 --> 01:01:42,353 I have selected you to return with me... 696 01:01:42,432 --> 01:01:45,697 along with several other specimens for study. 697 01:01:45,768 --> 01:01:47,861 We will examine you and the others... 698 01:01:47,937 --> 01:01:53,170 discover desirable features to incorporate in our Earth colonizers. 699 01:01:54,177 --> 01:01:57,442 [Thinking] And you just build them in, huh? 700 01:01:58,948 --> 01:02:04,580 Of course. Evolution is much too slow a process. 701 01:02:07,590 --> 01:02:10,821 On Earth, you build with inanimate material. 702 01:02:10,893 --> 01:02:13,760 We employ living tissue. 703 01:02:13,830 --> 01:02:16,663 This space vehicle, for example. 704 01:02:18,668 --> 01:02:20,602 It is a living thing. 705 01:02:20,670 --> 01:02:23,798 When damaged- you would say ''wounded''- 706 01:02:23,873 --> 01:02:26,569 it immediately heals itself. 707 01:02:28,578 --> 01:02:32,912 [Thinking] Oh, that's why no water leaked inside when we rammed you. 708 01:02:32,982 --> 01:02:38,181 Of course. But it is time to begin the return voyage. 709 01:02:39,188 --> 01:02:42,680 [Thinking] To navigate, won't you have to see your way? 710 01:02:42,759 --> 01:02:45,660 Obviously. 711 01:02:48,231 --> 01:02:50,825 It'll be rough! 712 01:03:02,111 --> 01:03:04,045 [Clicks] 713 01:03:04,113 --> 01:03:06,047 [Clicks] 714 01:03:32,308 --> 01:03:34,640 - Back to the Shark, right now. - What about Dave and the others? 715 01:03:34,710 --> 01:03:36,644 Fortunes of war. 716 01:03:43,586 --> 01:03:45,679 Skipper, this is Reef from the depth explorer. 717 01:03:45,755 --> 01:03:48,656 - Rull looseI - Right, Reef. 718 01:03:50,993 --> 01:03:53,018 Reactor room, get me all back. Emergency. 719 01:05:07,904 --> 01:05:10,839 - Well, what about the - - Skipper, we didn't kill it. 720 01:05:10,907 --> 01:05:13,569 And if that thing ever gets back to where it came from... 721 01:05:13,643 --> 01:05:17,272 - the Earth is doomed and everybody on it. - [Rumbling] 722 01:05:26,322 --> 01:05:28,882 [Man On R.A.] We've pulled loose, Captain. We're freeI 723 01:05:48,044 --> 01:05:49,978 [Reef] There it goes. 724 01:05:51,847 --> 01:05:54,475 Headed straight for the Role, 50 knots. 725 01:05:54,550 --> 01:05:56,643 Nothing we can do. 726 01:05:57,653 --> 01:06:01,714 Excuse me, Captain. There may be one last desperate chance. 727 01:06:01,791 --> 01:06:03,725 What's that? 728 01:06:03,793 --> 01:06:09,732 It's possible I could adapt one of the torpedo guidance systems to the I.C.B.M.... 729 01:06:09,799 --> 01:06:12,734 so it would home on the saucer when he rises from the Pole. 730 01:06:14,236 --> 01:06:16,227 What about the time? 731 01:06:16,305 --> 01:06:20,002 The Cyclops will have to linger at the Pole to recharge its power banks. 732 01:06:21,677 --> 01:06:23,872 Well, it's worth a chance. 733 01:06:23,946 --> 01:06:26,915 Reef, take over as navigator and see if you can find us an air hole in the ice. 734 01:06:26,983 --> 01:06:28,974 - Let's go. - Very well. 735 01:06:33,155 --> 01:06:38,115 [Narrator] Adapt a complicated guidance system to a huge ballistic rocket. 736 01:06:38,194 --> 01:06:42,528 Convert it to a water-to-air interceptor missile. 737 01:06:42,598 --> 01:06:47,433 It was foolish. It was insane. It was fantastic. 738 01:06:47,503 --> 01:06:49,994 But it was their only hope... 739 01:06:50,072 --> 01:06:52,905 and the Earth's only hope. 740 01:06:52,975 --> 01:06:57,639 - Ready? - As ready as we can be. 741 01:06:57,713 --> 01:07:00,443 I'll report to the skipper. 742 01:07:45,728 --> 01:07:48,219 Skipper... 743 01:07:48,297 --> 01:07:50,857 we found our hole in the ice. 744 01:07:50,933 --> 01:07:52,901 What's the corrected bearing to the magnetic pole? 745 01:07:52,968 --> 01:07:54,993 3 57 degrees. 746 01:07:59,842 --> 01:08:01,776 Prepare the I.C.B.M. for firing. 747 01:08:13,422 --> 01:08:17,153 Well, that's about all we can do until our space friend decides to blast off. 748 01:08:59,969 --> 01:09:02,563 Skipper, I think it's - 749 01:09:11,147 --> 01:09:13,274 [Rumbling] 750 01:09:15,284 --> 01:09:17,218 [Buzzing] 751 01:09:34,837 --> 01:09:37,032 Fire! Fire! 752 01:10:35,864 --> 01:10:39,027 [Explosion Continues] 753 01:10:49,878 --> 01:10:52,711 Attention, all hands. 754 01:10:52,781 --> 01:10:54,715 We got him. 755 01:11:03,459 --> 01:11:05,393 Cigarette? 756 01:11:07,029 --> 01:11:08,963 Ah, they're so remote, the stars. 757 01:11:09,031 --> 01:11:12,194 -[Reef] Hmm. - Cold and beautiful. 758 01:11:13,535 --> 01:11:16,732 - Now I wonder. - Yeah? 759 01:11:16,805 --> 01:11:20,036 Which is the one? The one we have to worry about? 760 01:11:21,377 --> 01:11:24,039 Well, we have enough ills here to worry about. 761 01:11:24,113 --> 01:11:26,138 But maybe,just maybe... 762 01:11:27,149 --> 01:11:30,312 when their ship doesn't return, they'll decide not to come here after all. 763 01:11:30,386 --> 01:11:32,377 But if they do? 764 01:11:32,454 --> 01:11:35,946 - Well. - Oh, I wouldn't worry. 765 01:11:36,025 --> 01:11:38,391 Knowing we have boats like the Tiger Shark... 766 01:11:38,460 --> 01:11:40,485 men like you, skipper... 767 01:11:40,562 --> 01:11:44,396 Dave, Sir Ian, Kent, and my father- 768 01:11:44,466 --> 01:11:47,435 And his egghead son. We'll give 'em a rough reception, won't we? 769 01:11:50,606 --> 01:11:54,337 You know, I think I lost my little black book on that lousy thing.