In this weeks episode of The SeaQuest Rewatch, Cory and Tom face spooks and save kids as they discuss season 1 episode 8 & 9 "Knight of Shadows" and "Bad Water."
Knight of Shadows:
Bridger finds himself perplexed when his holographic projector first begins speaking coordinates on its own and then shows him a vision of a woman, which is then interrupted by a man who reaches out and throws the Captain across the room. The Seaquest heads to the coordinates and finds an old ship from 1913 that had mysteriously sunk, yet all the passengers and crew were saved except for the captain and chief engineer. Some investigation reveals an old home video made at the launching of the ship which shows the woman Bridger saw, along with the owners of the ship, and the captain, and engineer as well.
Bridger leads a boarding party to the ship and immediately begin seeing unsettling surroundings, including the skeleton of the captain who shows signs of suicide given a gunshot wound to his skull, and a group of skeletons in another part of the ship they determine to be stowaways trapped by the sinking. They also discover that the woman Bridger saw, Lillian, the captain, and engineer survived for a year after the initial sinking through modifications of the ship's generator and engines.
The group is separated from Doctor Westphalen when she is pulled into a room by the spirit of the captain who warns her to leave and flings her across the room, knocking over some furniture, and revealing a diary that says on one page, "I hate him." After seeing that text, the ghost quickly vanishes, allowing Bridger and company to get into the room. However, Westphalen begins exhibiting signs of being possessed by the spirit of Lillian. As they peruse the fallen diary, they learn that Lillian was in love with the engineer, her fiance, while the captain was in love with Lillian. After finding the engineer's remains they reveal that Lillian blamed the captain for his death, having been fueled by jealousy for a woman who would not love him back.
Westphalen, still under the ghostly influence of Lillian, leads the crew to the Captain's quarters where she collapses, and where they find the door bleeding. Just as before, the crew cannot get through the door, but Lucas, technically a child still and thus possibly immune to spiritual influence, is able to open the door, and enters into what appears to be a raging fire. The Captain's ghost appears and admits his mistakes and wrongdoings, clearly feeling the guilt of his actions, while Lucas convinces him to ask Lillian's ghost for forgiveness so that he may leave the ship and move on to the afterlife.
Meanwhile, Possessed Westphalen has moved to the ballroom and is dancing to the music from the days of the ship while Lillian's skeletal corpse lies nearby. She tells Bridger her spirit is trapped her because of the pain she feels from the loss of her great love and her anger at the captain.
The captain then appears and addresses Lillian, asking for forgiveness and releasing her to be with her love. The spirit of Lillian arises and forgives the captain, walking to join the engineer who welcomes her to the afterlife, but not before both of them beckon to the captain to join them.
Back on board the Seaquest, Bridger reads the captain's log, a confession which reveals the captain caused the ship to sink to try and force Lillian to see her lover as a fraud who designs for the ship were flawed, and also to get back at the owner for forcing him to precede over Lililian's wedding, knowing how much it would hurt him due to his unrequited love. As Bridger bids his wife's now working holographic image goodnight, an unsettling laugh appears out of nowhere as a bad air sensor suddenly turns on (making absolutely no sense whatsoever in the context of the overall story other than as a callback to an earlier scene).
Send Out the WSKRS:
This is the first episode to show the episode title
We’ve seen this episodes director, Helaine Head, before. She direct the Sliders episode “Mother & Child.” (A woman escapes the Kromags with a half human/Kromag child).
The captain was played by John Saint Ryan. He’s had a number to roles over the years, mostly guest spots and supporting actor, working up through 2017. His longest role seems to be a show called Roar, a show featuring Heath Ledger as a young Irish chieftain fighting against Roman encroachment (1997).
Lillian was played by Leslie Hardy who was credited as Beautiful Woman, rather than Lillian. She starred in The Mummy Liveswith Tony Curtis, a low budget PG13 flick from 1993 which was direct to video (this was about the time he was guest starring in Lois and Clark). She’s had a small handful of guest appearances here and there as well.
Both W. Morgan Sheppard and Dick Miller (Gremlins, L&C, Flash '90) died in January of this year.
We found this interesting series of posts. Check out The Deep sea Ecologist Watches Seaquest.
Bad Water:
In an attempt to rescue a downed French submarine filled with children, Westphalen, Ford, Krieg, and Lucas find their craft being destroyed and themselves trapped in a life raft at sea in the eye of an oncoming hurricane. The Seaquest makes the tough decision to try and rescue the downed sub themselves, counting on Ford and company's ingenuity and training to keep themselves safe.
The task of finding the sub is difficult due to a tremendous amount of interference in the area as well as the location of the sub, a freshwater sinkhole in the sea. Due to the nature and weight of freshwater vs seawater, any ship going in for a rescue runs the risk of being pulled down into the hole itself.
Meanwhile, Ford and the others in the raft work out various ways to send out their location so that they can be found and rescued. Deep below, the Seaquest sends out a signal amplifier to the surface to try and help their search, but the storm hits it with a bolt of lightning, knocking out not just the amplifier, but all of Seaquest's systems as well leaving the crew to jury rig a work around, giving all of the major stations power for just 30 seconds at a time while they seek out the down sub.
Eventually the location of the sub is found, but in trying to pull the ship up, the surrounding rocks begin to cave in. Bridger comes up with the idea of purposely breaking the rocks so that seawater will rush in on top of the freshwater and thus give them a bounce upward, allowing them to save themselves and the downed sub from the sinkhole. As the crew celebrates, Officer O'Neill finds Ford's signal and they rush to their rescue, saving the day.
Send Out the WSKRS:
Deep Sea Ecologist: Cargo ships transition from the salty Atlantic to the Great Lakes all the time. That can't sink a sub.
Whats Next?
Next up, we'll be discussing the episodes "Knight of Shadows" and "Bad Water" which originally aired as episodes 8 & 9.
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