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The Atomic Submarine 1959 Remastered
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00:00:28Satsang with Mooji
00:02:00It would have astounded Perry to learn that by the late 1950s and early 60s, the vast
00:02:06frozen top of the world he pioneered had become a vital highway for world travel and commerce,
00:02:12not just in the skies, but also deep under the ice in the frigid five million square
00:02:19mile depths of the Arctic Ocean.
00:02:23Here, great passenger and cargo-carrying atomic submarines glided by the dozens back and
00:02:29forth across the pole until a series of mysterious undersea disasters threatened to close the
00:02:36Arctic route forever.
00:02:39The decisive moment came May 3rd at 1315 hours when the undersea atomic liner Sturgeon, largest
00:02:47of them all, reached 87 degrees 10 minutes north latitude, only a few miles from the North Pole
00:02:54itself.
00:04:12According to the official reports,
00:04:15the next phase of the life-and-death drama occurred May 10th in Washington
00:04:20at a hush-hush super-secret meeting of the Arctic Theater War Room.
00:04:27Gentlemen, this is the man we've been waiting for,
00:04:30the skipper of the atom-killer sub Tiger Shark,
00:04:34Commander Dan Windover.
00:04:36This is Justin Murdoch, Secretary of Defense.
00:04:38Mr. Murdoch.
00:04:39Commander.
00:04:41And I know you've heard a lot of Dr. Clifford Kent, Dan.
00:04:44Doctor.
00:04:45Commander.
00:04:46Dr. Kent had a lot to do with the development and design of your boat.
00:04:50Syrian Hunt just flew in from London.
00:04:52The Dr. Hunt, winner of the Nobel Prize for Oceanography?
00:04:56Oh, let's just say I took the bow for a team of very brilliant associates.
00:05:01Yes, sit down.
00:05:05Gentlemen, to begin, let me read you just one line from a detailed staff study prepared for the Joint Chiefs.
00:05:14In our judgment, these Arctic disasters may prove the gravest emergency in all history.
00:05:21Any comments on that statement?
00:05:24A bit fanciful, isn't it, sir?
00:05:28Possibly.
00:05:29Let me read you a partial list of observed phenomena.
00:05:34Destruction of four surface vessels, largest 10,000 tons.
00:05:39Radioactivity in Arctic waters, flow ice, and bergs.
00:05:44Peculiar television images preceding each distress call.
00:05:48Seven polar atom subs vanished without a trace.
00:05:54Fanciful, did you say, sir Ian?
00:06:00And now, Dan, we come to you.
00:06:02You skipper the Tiger Shark, the most advanced, the deadliest killer sub in the fleet.
00:06:08Right now she's undergoing emergency, around-the-clock modification in the Bremerton Navy Yard.
00:06:13The orders call for special observation and testing instruments here, removal of all but two atomic torpedoes, special launching equipment
00:06:25for water-to-air ballistic missiles, and a special escape hatch in the keel for the lungfish.
00:06:32The lungfish?
00:06:33Yes, a deep exploration device, sort of an animated diving bell.
00:06:38The mission of the Tiger Shark is to hunt down and identify the cause of these Arctic disasters.
00:06:45If humanly possible, you will remove it.
00:06:57Not that I don't think Lieutenant Commander Holloway is the finest exec in the entire sub-fleet, Julie.
00:07:04And not that he isn't the best friend that I have.
00:07:08Come on, Dave, you talk too much.
00:07:10Now, be quiet, little mother.
00:07:12I feel behoved to warn you, our friend Reef is no less than the number one howl in the entire
00:07:19sub-wolf pack, nuclear-powered.
00:07:22And when it comes to women, well, he has got a built-in sonar detector that...
00:07:28Dave, you know you're exaggerating, old buddy, buddy.
00:07:31You know it?
00:07:31Yes, you are.
00:07:32You know, on most boats, a certain loyalty exists between the exec and his navigation and firing officer.
00:07:38But in the case of Lieutenant David Milburn of the Tiger Shark and myself...
00:07:41But she's a nice girl.
00:07:44I've seen you work.
00:07:45I think she deserves a fighting chance.
00:07:48Helen, I appeal to you.
00:07:50Babe, look at me.
00:07:51I'm the mother of your three children.
00:07:53Will you please take me home to them at once?
00:07:55There you are.
00:07:56Just drop in any time.
00:07:57Don't bother to call.
00:07:58Just drop in.
00:07:59That's my way of life.
00:08:02Whew.
00:08:15Dave is exaggerating, you know.
00:08:18I mean, a man spends three months in a deep freeze to take his whole leave just to thaw him
00:08:22out.
00:08:23By that time, he's ready to report back.
00:08:25It won't take me long to defrost.
00:08:27Not around you.
00:08:44What was I saying about thawing out icebergs?
00:08:48Yeah, you, uh...
00:08:50You never can tell about icebergs.
00:08:53Only show one ninth above water.
00:08:57After that kiss, I'd say that's about right.
00:09:01Do you feel anything?
00:09:03Are you kidding?
00:09:05No, I mean that this is just the beginning of something.
00:09:07That we didn't just meet accidentally.
00:09:10Oh, that's original.
00:09:13Doesn't the next chorus go something like,
00:09:15let's not waste one precious golden moment.
00:09:18Any second there could be a knock on the door and...
00:09:21Well, I've seen stranger things happen.
00:09:23Happens all the time to heroes on television, plays, motion pictures.
00:09:27The hero gets his leave canceled and he's...
00:09:29She spends the rest of her life wishing that she'd...
00:09:32Oh, honey.
00:09:33Let's not waste one precious moment, then.
00:09:44What's that pounding?
00:09:48Need I say more?
00:09:56Reef, look.
00:10:17Oh, no.
00:10:18What's wrong?
00:10:23What is it?
00:10:28Oh, no.
00:10:50Reef!
00:10:54They caught you too, huh?
00:10:55At the worst possible moment.
00:10:57Tomorrow's Janie's birthday.
00:10:59Poor little kid's been looking forward two whole months having her daddy home.
00:11:02Now, that's the worst possible moment.
00:11:05What could be worse than disappointing a little girl?
00:11:09Disappointing a big girl.
00:11:12Julie?
00:11:16Really tough, old buddy.
00:11:20Oh, really tough.
00:11:22Really tough.
00:11:22Ha, ha, ha.
00:11:23Okay.
00:11:28Good look.
00:11:29Good look.
00:11:30Good look.
00:11:31Good look.
00:11:32Good up.
00:11:39Good look.
00:11:47So let's do it again.
00:11:51I thought you were going to Washington.
00:11:53I did. Just got back.
00:11:55Reap, I want you to meet a couple of our passengers.
00:11:57Sir Ian Hunt and Dr. Clifford Kent.
00:11:59My exec, Commander Richard Holloway.
00:12:01Right early, sir. Dr. Kent, I met you before.
00:12:04Yes, indeed, Commander.
00:12:05You gentlemen are going with us.
00:12:07What for?
00:12:09We'll discuss that later.
00:12:11Roberts.
00:12:14Have Chief Griffin report to me as soon as the crew's aboard.
00:12:16Yes, sir.
00:12:17Watkins.
00:12:18Yes, sir.
00:12:19Will you show these gentlemen of their quarters?
00:12:20Aye, aye, sir. This way.
00:12:24Well, sorry I had to cut your leaves short.
00:12:27Yeah.
00:12:28Come at the wrong time?
00:12:30Yeah.
00:12:34Will do.
00:12:39Oh, it's you.
00:12:41Yeah.
00:12:42Hey, Griff, what's the scoop about, huh?
00:12:43I mean, hauled out in the middle of the night, all leaves canceled, we going to war or what?
00:12:47Now, don't you worry, Chester.
00:12:48When the Skipper wants you to know what's going on, he'll tell you, okay?
00:12:52I don't like it.
00:12:53I mean, this is all mighty funny.
00:12:54Yeah, isn't it, though?
00:12:56Suppose you get aboard anyway.
00:12:58I don't like it.
00:13:00What did you say?
00:13:01I like it.
00:13:02I like it.
00:13:04Hey.
00:13:05Well, Skipper, I think I'll stole my gear.
00:13:08Well, Reef, I got some bad news for you.
00:13:09Oh, yeah?
00:13:10You're going to have to share quarters this trip.
00:13:12Who with?
00:13:13Dr. Nielsen.
00:13:14Dr. Nielsen?
00:13:15Well, when did that happen?
00:13:17Huh?
00:13:18Oh, it's all right.
00:13:19We're all friends.
00:13:27Dave, stand by to shove off as soon as Griff reports to the crew aboard.
00:13:31Right, Skipper.
00:13:34Well, it looks like we're going to share quarters, Skipper.
00:13:37Been along.
00:13:40Carl.
00:13:42You?
00:13:44Oh, of course.
00:13:45I should have suspected when I heard that doctor.
00:13:49I thought it was your father.
00:13:51He was supposed to be.
00:13:53Dad had a heart attack two days ago.
00:13:55He what?
00:13:56It was mild.
00:13:56It'll be all right.
00:13:57But it was out of the question.
00:13:58He's coming along.
00:13:59And they thought you could replace the Skipper, huh?
00:14:03Well, there was no choice.
00:14:04Dad and I developed the lungfish together.
00:14:07Except for him, I'm the only one qualified to dive in it.
00:14:09You could have trained somebody else.
00:14:11Not in two days.
00:14:13Look, do you think I wanted to come?
00:14:16If it didn't mean so much to Dad proving his depth explorer,
00:14:18I certainly wouldn't be here.
00:14:22That I can believe.
00:14:29The Tiger Shark left her dock at Bremerton
00:14:31at 0.335 hours, the morning of May 11th,
00:14:35on what was to prove the strangest, most fearful voyage ever made
00:14:40by a submarine, atomic or otherwise.
00:14:51Simultaneously with the shark's departure
00:14:53and with his crew still in the dark
00:14:55concerning their secret, fateful mission,
00:14:57Skipper Wendover made the first notation in the log.
00:15:02The men would remain unbriefed for two hours
00:15:05until the Tiger Shark cleared Puget Sound
00:15:08and was headed for open sea.
00:15:21Who the devil belongs to this gear?
00:15:24We do, Chief.
00:15:30You two guys, huh?
00:15:33And just what do you do around here?
00:15:35Underwater demolition.
00:15:36Seeming first class pal and I'm corny.
00:15:39Yeah, I know.
00:15:40So you're frog men.
00:15:43Yeah, we're off tin cans.
00:15:44We've looked the pig boat over from four to aft
00:15:47but can't seem to find an empty locker
00:15:49to store our stuff in.
00:15:51An empty locker?
00:15:52In a sub?
00:15:54Are you kidding?
00:15:56This whole deal is making less and less sense to me.
00:15:59What are frog men doing aboard the Tiger Shark?
00:16:02Following orders.
00:16:04Like everyone else in the Navy.
00:16:11Beats me.
00:16:12But orders are orders.
00:16:14Yeah, well, uh, in the meantime
00:16:17where do you want us to stage these gizmos?
00:16:20Come on.
00:16:42Shortly before dawn
00:16:44the Tiger Shark running submerged
00:16:46at better than 30 knots
00:16:47had left the sound behind
00:16:49and was headed for open sea.
00:16:56Here are orders, Reef.
00:16:58Look them over while I fill in the crew.
00:17:04Now hear this.
00:17:06This is the captain speaking.
00:17:08I know you're wondering about all the mystery.
00:17:11Well, our job had to be kept absolutely secret.
00:17:14Our mission is to find out
00:17:16what caused the disasters under the Arctic ice.
00:17:19Once we cross the Arctic Circle
00:17:21any command you hear will be the real thing.
00:17:24Please remember.
00:17:26That's about it.
00:17:28Now you know as much as I
00:17:29or anybody else does for that matter.
00:17:31Well, incidentally, I assured Washington
00:17:34that this was the best sub crew in the fleet.
00:17:36I know you won't make a liar out of me.
00:17:39Carry on.
00:17:46That's it.
00:17:55What do you think?
00:17:57I think I should have joined the Air Force.
00:18:06A week later, the Tiger Shark was still running
00:18:09due north at cruising speed.
00:18:11So far, the voyage was routine, uneventful.
00:18:14But the nearer they came to the Arctic Circle,
00:18:17the more the tension increased,
00:18:19the more tiny irritations were magnified
00:18:23into bitter views,
00:18:24the more the crewmen pondered their possible fate.
00:18:28On the morning of May 20th,
00:18:31the Tiger Shark crossed the Arctic Circle
00:18:33into the critical area.
00:19:04The Tiger Shark
00:19:11You're always asking me why I stay a bachelor.
00:19:14There goes one of the best reasons I can think of.
00:19:17Huh?
00:19:18Yeah.
00:19:19I might have a son like that.
00:19:22I don't get it.
00:19:23What goes with you two?
00:19:25I guess his father, Skipper Nielsen,
00:19:27retired before you enrolled at the academy, didn't he?
00:19:29I guess.
00:19:31One of the finest men and officers alive.
00:19:33A real hero in the best sense of the word.
00:19:37World War II.
00:19:39Taught engineering and design at the academy.
00:19:41Fought like a demon for atomic subs.
00:19:44So?
00:19:47So when his only son dropped out of school,
00:19:49began making statements,
00:19:51all sounding like borrowed propaganda,
00:19:54ban the atomic test,
00:19:55junk the nuclear subs,
00:19:57spend the military budget for peace,
00:20:00well, it just about broke the old man's heart.
00:20:02Then when the newspapers picked it up,
00:20:04called Carl the honest, sincere son
00:20:08of a warmongering father.
00:20:11Well,
00:20:12Captain Nielsen resigned from the Navy.
00:20:15Though he still keeps his hand in
00:20:17with projects like the lungfish,
00:20:19but it broke him all the same.
00:20:23Have, uh,
00:20:24have you talked to Carl
00:20:26to try to get his side?
00:20:29His side?
00:20:31He's all front with no back.
00:20:33How can he have a side?
00:20:42Either of you men seen Dr. Nielsen?
00:20:45He's in here, sir.
00:20:51Oh, uh,
00:20:52Tuttle Powell,
00:20:52would you men mind
00:20:53leaving us alone for a few minutes?
00:20:55Sure, Mr. Holloway.
00:20:58Dr. Nielsen.
00:21:06What is it?
00:21:08You are out.
00:21:10This came for you.
00:21:12My father?
00:21:14Dead?
00:21:15No, as a matter of fact,
00:21:16he's a lot better.
00:21:18Let's get out of the hospital.
00:21:26What did you mean I'm out?
00:21:27Your father can be
00:21:28in Nome, Alaska tomorrow.
00:21:29We have two choices.
00:21:31We can ask them
00:21:32to bring him out
00:21:33by helicopter
00:21:33and take you off,
00:21:34or we can put the shark
00:21:36back into Nome.
00:21:39You trade school boys
00:21:40are all alike, aren't you?
00:21:42Anybody who doesn't think
00:21:43like a little gold-braided puppet
00:21:45is ipso facto a coward.
00:21:47You said it,
00:21:48I didn't.
00:21:48Well, wearing a uniform
00:21:49doesn't bestow
00:21:50an automatic monopoly
00:21:51on courage, commander.
00:21:53It just so happens
00:21:54I'm not a coward,
00:21:55physical or mental.
00:21:56And before I'd risk
00:21:57my father's life...
00:21:58We're all risking our lives.
00:21:59That may be.
00:22:00But Dad stays where he is
00:22:02and I'm staying here.
00:22:03So you are a mixed up oddball,
00:22:06aren't you?
00:22:07Well, perhaps.
00:22:09But the idea of willingly
00:22:10going to school
00:22:11to spend my life
00:22:12at a Paleozoic pastime
00:22:14that should have disappeared
00:22:15with the thunder lizards,
00:22:16I'm referring to war.
00:22:18That strikes me
00:22:19as the worst cowardice of all.
00:22:20Being spiritually yellow.
00:22:22You mean nothing's
00:22:23worth fighting for?
00:22:24Peace.
00:22:25The dignity of man,
00:22:26destiny of human spirit.
00:22:28Now you show me a man
00:22:29who says you win
00:22:30these fighting wars
00:22:31and I'll show you an idiot.
00:22:33Oh, God, you talk
00:22:34like so many young men
00:22:35I've known.
00:22:37You talk well.
00:22:39Literately, intelligently,
00:22:40even brilliantly sometimes.
00:22:42But you're all talk.
00:22:44What do you do
00:22:45about your ideas?
00:22:47Your ideals?
00:22:49You mentioned my uniform.
00:22:50These are my work clothes.
00:22:53They represent
00:22:53what I'm willing to do.
00:22:55How hard I'm willing
00:22:56to work for what I believe in.
00:22:58I doubt your willingness
00:22:59for anything
00:23:00except talk about
00:23:01what you're against.
00:23:02That talk darn near
00:23:04killed your father.
00:23:13Mr. Holloway
00:23:13to the con, please.
00:23:37The instruments
00:23:38have all gone crazy.
00:23:39and take a look
00:23:39at the screen.
00:23:41Incredible.
00:23:42Absolutely incredible.
00:23:50What hit is?
00:23:51It doesn't seem possible,
00:23:52but could it be
00:23:53an electric storm center?
00:23:55Underwater?
00:23:57High-intensity arcs
00:23:59will burn,
00:24:00submerged,
00:24:00and millions of holes
00:24:01discharged in
00:24:02random directions.
00:24:05Is there any way
00:24:06out of this?
00:24:06Seems all around.
00:24:09What about down?
00:24:11I don't know.
00:24:13Take her down.
00:24:13Maximum angle,
00:24:14maximum depth.
00:24:15Oh, yes.
00:24:17Take her down.
00:24:18Maximum angle,
00:24:19maximum depth.
00:24:31Sir Ian has evolved
00:24:33a theory.
00:24:33At first,
00:24:34I wasn't about to buy it,
00:24:36but we have eliminated
00:24:37one by one
00:24:38every other
00:24:39logical explanation.
00:24:41It is
00:24:42rather fantastic.
00:24:45But,
00:24:47here
00:24:52is a chart
00:24:53of the Arctic region.
00:24:55On it,
00:24:55I've plotted
00:24:56every incident
00:24:57of these
00:24:58peculiar phenomena,
00:24:59the sinkings,
00:25:01electrical storms,
00:25:03our own experiences.
00:25:06Now,
00:25:09here
00:25:11is where
00:25:12we encountered
00:25:13the electrical storm.
00:25:15The sturgeon
00:25:16was lost
00:25:17about here.
00:25:18The others,
00:25:20here,
00:25:21here,
00:25:22and here.
00:25:26Do you see it?
00:25:28See what?
00:25:29The pattern.
00:25:31The pattern.
00:25:33Each incident
00:25:34occurred
00:25:34almost precisely
00:25:361,000 statute miles
00:25:37from the pole.
00:25:39A line drawn
00:25:40through the points
00:25:41of occurrence
00:25:42makes almost
00:25:43a complete circle
00:25:44around the pole.
00:25:45which adds up
00:25:46to what,
00:25:47Sir Ian?
00:25:49I cannot accept
00:25:51the idea
00:25:52that these phenomena
00:25:53were either
00:25:54random
00:25:55or natural.
00:25:57I believe
00:25:58they were motivated
00:25:59by
00:26:00some sort
00:26:01of intelligence.
00:26:03Do you mean
00:26:04that somebody is...
00:26:05I didn't mean
00:26:06to imply
00:26:06human intelligence.
00:26:07intelligence?
00:26:09Well,
00:26:10what on earth
00:26:10kind of intelligence
00:26:11is it,
00:26:11Sir Ian?
00:26:13Perhaps
00:26:15it's not
00:26:15an intelligence
00:26:16on earth.
00:26:17Perhaps it's
00:26:17an intelligence
00:26:18from beyond
00:26:20the earth.
00:26:20What can we do
00:26:21about it,
00:26:22Sir?
00:26:23I've been thinking
00:26:24about that.
00:26:25As you see,
00:26:26these occurrences
00:26:28were on this line
00:26:29almost a perfect
00:26:31circle around
00:26:32the pole.
00:26:35However,
00:26:37there may be
00:26:38a significant
00:26:39break in that ring
00:26:40here in the area
00:26:42of the Queen Victoria
00:26:44Sea near
00:26:44France-Joseph Land,
00:26:46north of Mermits,
00:26:47in Finland.
00:26:48Supposing
00:26:49your theorizing
00:26:50is correct,
00:26:50then this could be
00:26:51the next danger point.
00:26:53Yes,
00:26:54yes.
00:26:57But supposing
00:26:59we anticipated
00:27:01a little,
00:27:01supposing
00:27:03the tiger shark
00:27:05was lurking there,
00:27:06waiting.
00:27:09He could be right.
00:27:12We'll chart our course
00:27:14right straight
00:27:14across the pole
00:27:15to bring us here,
00:27:17the Queen Victoria
00:27:18Sea.
00:27:23So swiftly,
00:27:25implacably,
00:27:26the tiger shark
00:27:27moved across
00:27:28the top of the world
00:27:29toward a rendezvous
00:27:30with what?
00:27:43We've been running
00:27:44due south
00:27:44along the 30th degree
00:27:45of longitude.
00:27:46By my reckoning,
00:27:47we should be about here,
00:27:48just short of our
00:27:49planned position.
00:27:50And that should be...
00:27:52Just about the critical
00:27:53point if we're
00:27:53on the right track.
00:27:54Prepare to service,
00:27:55flank speed.
00:28:00Prepare to surface,
00:28:02flank speed.
00:28:11Mr. Milford,
00:28:12quick, look at this.
00:28:24Skipper, breathe.
00:28:38Those chunks of ice
00:28:39are coming right at us.
00:28:40Dive, dive.
00:28:43Dive, dive.
00:28:44Dive, dive.
00:28:44Dive, dive.
00:29:12Dive, dive.
00:29:14Drive shaft housing. Forced to full stop.
00:29:17We're dead in the water. Captain.
00:29:29Whatever it is, it certainly can't travel.
00:29:33Course and speed.
00:29:35Speed about 22 knots.
00:29:38Course due north.
00:29:42Directly toward the pole.
00:29:46Are you two flounders about, Seth?
00:29:49We're ready.
00:29:50Now try and remember you're not going out to rehearse a water ballet.
00:29:54We need a damage report.
00:29:56I never should have volunteered. If I had enough sense I would have...
00:30:00Hey, look out for the sharks, huh?
00:30:19A pure oval shape with this cyclops-like eye or turret on top.
00:30:26I'd estimate its diameter at, oh, 300 feet. No discernible orifices.
00:30:37The eye of cyclops.
00:30:40What did you say, Sir Ian?
00:30:44Just musing about our one-eyed adversary and the Homer legend.
00:30:49The cyclops were the sons of heaven who forged the thunderbolts thrown by Zeus.
00:30:55Our own cyclops throws quite a thunderbolt itself.
00:31:05I knew there was something familiar. Take a look.
00:31:10This picture was taken by an amateur astronomer over New Mexico.
00:31:14I have had it since I served on the Air Force evaluation board for UFO reports.
00:31:21Unidentified flying objects.
00:31:23Then this is a flying saucer.
00:31:27That was the popular designation, yes.
00:31:31Weren't all the sightings in the sky, not underwater?
00:31:36This would explain why there were never any reports of landings.
00:31:40It's quite possible that whoever or whatever inhabits this craft is not a land creature at all,
00:31:47but some form of marine life.
00:31:50That would make our little green men actually little green fish.
00:31:55Under sea flying saucers.
00:32:00Excuse me, Skipper.
00:32:01Air grip.
00:32:02All internal repairs completed.
00:32:04And frogmen report exterior damage minor.
00:32:06Then we can get underway, huh?
00:32:08Right, sir.
00:32:09Nave, you plotted the course of cyclops?
00:32:13Then that's our course.
00:32:14Where he goes, we go until we get him.
00:32:17Or perhaps until he gets us.
00:32:23So the tiger shark began relentlessly stalking her space enemy.
00:32:27Up to the pole, back to the Arctic Circle, again and again.
00:32:32A week, a fortnight, a month.
00:32:52Never a glimpse of their enemy, but there were reports, new disasters, new ships and lives lost.
00:33:14Invariably, the tiger shark made for the scene, only to arrive after Cyclops had left.
00:33:19For all its desperation, the pursuit seemed fruitless.
00:33:26And then on July 3rd, Dr. Kent and Sir Ian held an urgent discussion with Reef and the Skipper.
00:33:35Why does Cyclops invariably return to the pole between attacks?
00:33:40Never too in succession.
00:33:42Always away and back, away and back.
00:33:45We've asked ourselves that over and over a thousand times.
00:33:48But answers are what we need, not more questions.
00:33:51We think now we have them.
00:33:54We took for granted that his source of energy was nuclear.
00:33:58But suppose it isn't at all.
00:34:01What if it is magnetic?
00:34:04Yes.
00:34:06Yes.
00:34:07We harness energy on a small scale by cutting magnetic lines of force.
00:34:13Supposing Cyclops does it on a super scale.
00:34:16The North Pole is the positive end of the biggest magnet of all, the Earth itself.
00:34:22What you're getting at is that you think our saucer friend must return to the pole regularly to recharge his
00:34:27batteries.
00:34:28That may be oversimplifying it.
00:34:31But now our present tactics are useless.
00:34:36But suppose we place ourselves between Cyclops and the pole.
00:34:42In such a way as to prevent him returning to the pole to, as you put it, recharge his batteries.
00:34:47If we are lucky enough to catch him with his power depleted.
00:34:51Then we polish him off with an atomic fish.
00:34:54We wait till the next report of trouble and then we lie in wait for him.
00:34:57Right in his path.
00:34:58And bush wag him.
00:35:01Bush wag?
00:35:02Yes, it's an American tactical expression.
00:35:05Rude.
00:35:08So, a change of tactics.
00:35:11Now the tiger shark cruised almost over the North Pole waiting for the radio report that would put the plan
00:35:17into effect.
00:35:18On July 13th, at 1600 hours, it came.
00:35:24I got it, Reef.
00:35:26Cyclops?
00:35:27Sounds like a distress signal from a small freighter between Ellsbury Island and Greenland.
00:35:30One Mayday, then nothing.
00:35:31Where's the skipper?
00:35:32Already in the car.
00:35:33Come on.
00:35:44We're here.
00:35:46Right.
00:35:47This is where Cyclops knocked off the freighter.
00:35:50This is the way he has to head for home, the pole.
00:35:53Here we are, right in his path.
00:35:56Sonar and TV scan the bottom.
00:35:58Find a good place to hide and lie in wait for him.
00:36:01Maybe a cave or a valley.
00:36:03Break for silent running.
00:36:05As soon as we're on the bottom, secure everything that hums or buzzes.
00:36:08I want absolute silence.
00:36:09Very well.
00:36:12Break for silent running.
00:36:26Time.
00:36:26Time.
00:36:40Time.
00:36:43Time.
00:36:45Time.
00:36:46Time.
00:36:49Hour upon hour, the tiger shark lay in its deep six ambush.
00:36:53The Arctic depths were as still and silent as an uninhabited world.
00:36:59And then, at 0600 hours...
00:37:35Skipper, Dr. Kent.
00:37:40What is it?
00:37:42That's him. It has to be.
00:37:48Range, 22 miles. Speed, I give it 14 knots.
00:37:52His radiation level is very low.
00:37:55That would confirm our theory about having to return to the pole.
00:37:59Better be correct.
00:38:02Give me a set-up on the TDC. Range about seven miles.
00:38:11Reef, arm atomic warheads. Load tubes one and two. Report to the Khan.
00:38:15Sounds like we mean business.
00:38:18Griff, you arm number two. I'll handle number one.
00:38:30Load one and two. Open outer doors. Stand by for action.
00:39:09Range now 15 miles. You're sure it's Cyclops?
00:39:12Take a look.
00:39:25Range 14.5 miles.
00:39:29Griff to skipper. Tubes one and two loaded. Outer doors open. Ready to fire.
00:39:39Stand by.
00:39:45Range, eight miles.
00:39:52Range, seven and three quarter miles.
00:40:06Zero minus ten.
00:40:10Nine.
00:40:13Eight.
00:40:15Seven.
00:40:17Six.
00:40:18Five.
00:40:21Four.
00:40:23Three.
00:40:25Two.
00:40:27One.
00:40:29Target.
00:40:30Zero.
00:40:32Fire one.
00:40:39Number one fired.
00:40:42Fire two.
00:40:47Number two fired.
00:41:04How are they running?
00:41:05Hot, straight and normal.
00:41:09Number one fired.
00:41:11How could it?
00:41:12We're dead on the target with the homing fish.
00:41:22What's that?
00:41:23The mass of jelly-like stuff came out of the thing and caught our torpedo.
00:41:26It must function like a degaussing field. We never get a torpedo through that.
00:41:32Maybe not a torpedo.
00:41:36Blow all main ballast tanks. Reactor room, stand by.
00:41:40As soon as we're off the bottom, I went all ahead, flank.
00:41:44What course, Skipper?
00:41:46Right at our one-eyed friend.
00:41:57Right at him?
00:41:58That's what I said.
00:41:59But what can we accomplish?
00:42:01We can ram him.
00:42:02You've weighed the consequences, Captain. The lives involved.
00:42:05Doctor, I've weighed the destruction that the Cyclops has done already and what it'll do in the future unless we
00:42:10stop him right now.
00:42:11There must be some other means.
00:42:13What other means?
00:42:14If the tiger shark can't stop him, no power on earth can.
00:42:26Now brace yourselves.
00:42:29Sound the collision alarm.
00:43:06We got him, Skipper. Drove right into him.
00:43:13Look at that. Speared him like a fish.
00:43:20We did it, boys. Drove right through the saucer's side.
00:43:25Reactor room. Give me all reverse, full.
00:43:49We're stuck tight.
00:43:54Skipper, take a look at this depth gauge.
00:43:58180 fathoms. We can't be singing that fast.
00:44:01It's our screw, Skipper.
00:44:02At our declination angle, running in reverse, they're pulling the shark and Cyclops right to the bottom.
00:44:10And we're at safe maximum depth already.
00:44:13Full stop.
00:44:16Full stop.
00:44:40Hours later, the two Titanic craft were still locked together in an apparent death grip, on the bottom of the
00:44:48Arctic Ocean, nearly 1,200 feet below the surface.
00:45:03Well, anybody got any ideas?
00:45:06Anything's better than lying here.
00:45:09Suppose there's some kind of atmosphere inside the Cyclops.
00:45:13What do you mean?
00:45:15Well, maybe we could get inside the saucer. We could use our torches to cut the shark loose.
00:45:20That's all very well, young man.
00:45:22How would one go about getting inside Cyclops?
00:45:26Through the eye.
00:45:27Using the depth explorer.
00:45:29Yes.
00:45:30The explorer was built to operate at even greater depths.
00:45:34Yeah.
00:45:34But suppose there isn't any atmosphere inside the saucer.
00:45:38Well, then the idea's no good, but we're no worse off than we are now.
00:45:42You've got to let us try, Skipper.
00:45:44Us?
00:45:45Reef and I could take the explorer down, clamp it out of the eye...
00:45:48No.
00:45:48You can't, but I can.
00:45:50I can deliver you to the eye.
00:45:52Then you and...
00:45:53It's a little out of your line, isn't it?
00:45:54Why don't you stay aboard and make a speech?
00:45:56Maybe you could get them to ban flying saucers.
00:45:59Listen, Holloway.
00:46:01However our ideas disagree, I've said before I'm not a coward.
00:46:04And it happens you have no choice.
00:46:05Either I take you down there in the Lungfish or you don't get them.
00:46:08I'd sooner swim.
00:46:09That's enough, both of you.
00:46:10Very well, sir.
00:46:12No use making the odds any longer than they are.
00:46:14So happens if Dr. Nielsen's right.
00:46:17Get the explorer in the airlock and prepare for launching.
00:46:23Better take Carney and Powell with you.
00:46:24The frogmen?
00:46:26That's right.
00:46:27Their underwater experience might make them unvalued.
00:46:29You'll need sidearms.
00:46:31Sidearms?
00:46:32The saucer's dead.
00:46:33You hope.
00:46:35You better get ready.
00:46:50Girls, you go everywhere I go.
00:46:54All right, Carl, there's still time.
00:46:56You want to show me how?
00:46:58Get in.
00:47:36I'm ready to open airlock door, Captain.
00:47:43Go ahead, Griff.
00:47:52I'm ready to open airlock door, Captain.
00:47:58I'm ready to open airlock door.
00:48:01Ding...
00:48:08... man Muhammad!
00:48:10Oh, ow, 시� meu...
00:48:13STEM!
00:48:14Oh, I see if he can.
00:49:40What now?
00:49:42What do you say, doctor?
00:49:43Shall we take a chance?
00:49:44That's what we came for.
00:49:46Well, you all stay here.
00:49:47I'm going to take a look inside.
00:49:48Not alone, you're not.
00:50:00Better breathe your oxygen just in case.
00:50:02All right.
00:50:03All right.
00:50:04Oh, come with it.
00:50:21Here.
00:50:22Pure air.
00:50:23Under pressure.
00:50:25That's relieving.
00:50:26But we won't need these tanks.
00:50:29Good luck, man.
00:50:32All right.
00:50:33Let's go.
00:50:49Good luck.
00:50:51Good luck.
00:50:54Good luck.
00:50:56Good luck.
00:50:57Good luck.
00:50:59Good luck.
00:51:00Good luck.
00:51:01Good luck.
00:51:02Good luck.
00:51:03Good luck.
00:51:03Good luck.
00:51:03Good luck.
00:51:15The bow drove through her, but she sealed herself right up.
00:51:20Yeah, there's our problem.
00:51:22The saw teeth of the ram are caught in the break.
00:51:25Now, if we can cut it away, the shark can pull herself loose.
00:51:28I think you're right.
00:51:30Powell, go back to Dr. Nielsen.
00:51:32Tell him to report to the skipper.
00:51:35All right, let's get to work.
00:52:06We read you, Doctor.
00:52:07Go ahead.
00:52:12They're inside the Cyclops.
00:52:13It's full of breathable air.
00:52:15Wonderful.
00:52:16That's great, Doctor.
00:52:20Reef thinks that he can clear the shark's bow so we can pull ourselves loose.
00:52:24What's it like inside the Cyclops?
00:52:26This is a priceless opportunity to do.
00:52:30Doctor, tell Reef to make sure that you're in the clear before we make another move.
00:52:36Right.
00:52:37Over.
00:52:40We may get out of this yet.
00:52:41Skipper, could you take a look here?
00:52:44What's wrong, Griff?
00:52:45The inertial navigation system must have been knocked out in the crash.
00:52:49We're dead in the water, but it indicates we're moving.
00:52:51That's impossible.
00:52:53The radiation level from the saucer, it's rising.
00:52:56What direction does the system indicate?
00:52:59Due north at five knots.
00:53:01How?
00:53:02Six.
00:53:03Toward the pole.
00:53:05But that Cyclops is dead.
00:53:07We killed it, didn't we?
00:53:10It beats me.
00:53:24Dave.
00:53:26Yeah?
00:53:29Do you hear anything?
00:53:32I don't hear anything.
00:53:34You've been down here too long.
00:53:36You better go topside and rest.
00:53:39Strange you don't hear it.
00:53:50Strange you don't hear it.
00:54:04Reef?
00:54:06Huh?
00:54:08You know something?
00:54:09I think it's getting lighter in here.
00:54:12yeah yeah it is i didn't know better i'd swear we were moving
00:54:19now let's get back to work and maybe we will be soon
00:54:35i'm getting an impression of movement captain is that possible
00:54:38we got the same reaction up here
00:54:43now they're feeling it down below the radiation level constantly rising
00:54:50as we near the pole it's got to be an exploration i think there is
00:54:56i believe our friend cyclops is returning to life
00:55:06commander holloway listen
00:55:12dave
00:55:13commander holloway make no resistance
00:55:20did you hear it that sound again
00:55:27this time there was a voice it called my name
00:55:30look why don't you go topside
00:55:36you will see that avails nothing
00:55:44where do you think the sound was coming from
00:55:49down there somewhere
00:56:35Tony!
00:56:36Tony, help me!
00:56:41Tony!
00:56:42Help me, Tony!
00:56:44Help me!
00:56:51Tony!
00:56:53Tony, help!
00:57:26Tony!
00:57:28Tony, help me!
00:57:32Help me, Tony!
00:57:35Take it!
00:57:46Remove your weapons, Commander, and come here alone.
00:57:57Come where?
00:57:59To me, here.
00:58:01That voice again?
00:58:03It wants me to go alone.
00:58:06Oh, it does, does it?
00:58:08You'd better stay here.
00:58:37So, Commander Holloway, as you Earth inhabitants would express it, we meet face to face.
00:58:47That's a face?
00:58:50Point of view is everything.
00:58:53To us, your form of life is ugly, as we appear to you.
00:59:02Tell me something.
00:59:04Why is it that I can hear you when the others can't?
00:59:08You do not hear me.
00:59:11Our individual brain frequencies are now attuned, and we exchange wave thoughts.
00:59:19You mean extrasensory perception?
00:59:23Whatever your Earth term may be, the principle is ancient and very simple.
00:59:32It is not necessary for you to speak.
00:59:36Your thought response will suffice.
00:59:40My mission is to study various solar systems and planets.
00:59:46Select the most suitable for colonization.
00:59:52For horrors like yourself?
00:59:56Of course.
00:59:58It may interest you to know I have visited hundreds of other worlds.
01:00:02And of all of them, your Earth seems most suitable.
01:00:11Swell.
01:00:24Your friend was to remain where he was.
01:00:29He did.
01:00:31I am afraid not.
01:00:33Dave.
01:00:35What's going on in here, lad?
01:00:36What?
01:00:39Stand away from him, Commander.
01:00:44You want your back?
01:00:46This is your headquarters.
01:00:48Well, you have sunk your last ship, you...
01:01:07Why not me?
01:01:09What am I, the closing act?
01:01:11On the contrary.
01:01:13I want you unharmed.
01:01:16Perfect.
01:01:17Why?
01:01:18I have selected you to return with me along with several other specimens for study.
01:01:25We will examine you and the others.
01:01:27Discover desirable features to incorporate in our Earth colonizers.
01:01:32And you just build them in, huh?
01:01:37Of course.
01:01:39Evolution is much too slow a process.
01:01:46On Earth, you build with inanimate material.
01:01:50We employ living tissue.
01:01:53This space vehicle, for example.
01:01:57It is a living thing.
01:01:59When damaged, you would say wounded.
01:02:03It immediately heals itself.
01:02:07Oh, that's why no water leaked inside when we ran to it.
01:02:12Of course.
01:02:14Of course.
01:02:14But it is time to begin the return voyage.
01:02:18To navigate, won't you have to see your way?
01:02:22Obviously.
01:02:27Kill me, Russ.
01:02:28Yeah.
01:02:53I don t comment.
01:02:54jot down theette where you were thrown.
01:02:54The you would eat your хват.
01:02:55Watch thisle.
01:02:56Do you think this ouke?
01:02:56What a pretty good dicey.
01:02:56Heck no.
01:02:56No.po
01:02:58220. And
01:03:11Back to the shark.
01:03:12Right now.
01:03:13What about Dave and the others?
01:03:14Fortunes of war.
01:03:23Skipper, this is Reeve from the Depth Explorer.
01:03:25Pull loose.
01:03:27Right, Reeve.
01:03:30Reactor room.
01:03:31Get me all back.
01:03:32Emergency.
01:04:50And if that thing ever gets back to where it came from, the earth is doomed and everybody
01:04:54on it.
01:05:27There it goes.
01:05:31Headed straight for the pole.
01:05:32Fifty knots.
01:05:34Nothing we can do.
01:05:36Excuse me, Captain.
01:05:38There may be one last desperate chance.
01:05:41What's that?
01:05:43It's possible I could adapt one of the torpedo guidance systems to the ICBM,
01:05:49so it would home on the saucer when he rises from the pole.
01:05:53What about the time?
01:05:56Cyclops will have to linger at the pole to recharge its power banks.
01:06:01That's worth a chance.
01:06:03Reef, take over his navigator and see if he can find us an air hole in the ice.
01:06:06Let's go.
01:06:07Very well.
01:06:24Thank you, sir.
01:06:37Thank you, sir.
01:06:37I'll walk through the skipper.
01:07:25Skipper.
01:07:27We found our hole in the ice.
01:07:30what's the corrected bearing of the magnetic pole
01:07:32357 degrees
01:07:39prepare the ICBM for firing
01:07:52well that's about all we can do
01:07:54until our space friend decides to blast off
01:08:01so
01:08:09the
01:08:10the
01:08:11the
01:08:39Skipper, I think it's...
01:09:02Skipper, I think it's...
01:09:14Fire! Fire!
01:09:43Fire!
01:09:47Fire!
01:09:51Fire!
01:09:54Fire!
01:09:55Fire!
01:10:03THE END
01:10:28ATTENTION, ALL HANDS
01:10:31WE GOT HIM
01:10:42CIGARETTE
01:10:46THEY'RE SO REMOTE, THE STARS
01:10:49COLD AND BEAUTIFUL
01:10:52NOW I WONDER
01:10:53YEAH
01:10:56WHICH IS THE ONE?
01:10:57THE ONE WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
01:11:00WELL, WE HAVE ENOUGH
01:11:01ILS HERE TO WORRY ABOUT
01:11:03BUT MAYBE, JUST MAYBE
01:11:06WHEN THEIR SHIP DOESN'T RETURN
01:11:07THEY'LL DECIDE NOT TO COME HERE AFTER ALL
01:11:09BUT IF THEY DO
01:11:11I DON'T KNOW
01:11:13NO, I WOULDN'T WORRY
01:11:15DON'T WE HAVE BOATS LIKE THE TIGER SHARK
01:11:17MEN LIKE YOU, THE SKIPPER
01:11:20DAVE
01:11:21SERIAN, KENT, AND MY FATHER
01:11:23AND HIS EGGHEAD SON
01:11:24WILL GIVE HIM A ROUGH
01:11:25RECEPTION, WILL WE?
01:11:29YOU KNOW, I THINK I LOST MY LITTLE BLACK BOOK ON THAT LOSY THING
01:11:47THAT LOSY THING
01:11:47THAT LOSY THING
01:11:51THAT LOSY THING
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