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And so you see my friend, it is all so simple.
When Atlantis was submerged at the time of the flood,
some life continued in air pockets in the mountain's caves,
thanks to the natural air shaft provided by the extinct volcano.
You, uh, like my laboratory, yes? You find all this very impressive, no?
No. Not a bit, not a bit.
What do you mean?
I expected nothing less from the great Professor Zara.
The lights are playing up again.
Go and see what's wrong.
No, wait.
I'd better go myself. Zara might listen to me.
Look after the girl for me.
Yes, we have come a long way in our research.
And luckily, the riches of Atlantis have provided ample means.
Ah, so you are hungry today.
Did I forget to feed you? He's beautiful, no?
Zoroff! Not now, Damon. Can't you see I'm talking with my friend here?
This won't wait. If I'm to operate on the girl, I must have light.
One operation on girl, you are making an unnecessary fuss.
I know what's going on.
You're using so much voltage on the project that all civil use is curtailed.
Ridiculous. I will show you.
You follow me. Open the panel.
Ridiculous.
There's nothing wrong with the civil supply. There's never anything wrong.
Look, the supply to your clinic is always adequate
and cannot be affected by demands elsewhere.
Zoroff!
The fault must lie at your own intake. It's easy to make excuses.
Excuses? Who taught you, Damon?
Everything you know, I've taught you.
As I made you so I can break you.
So Zoroff will listen to him.
You better go and get some light from somewhere.
You'll find some in the old quarters.
Don't worry, prisoner. We won't keep you waiting long.
You girl, come here.
Keep watch on the prisoner while I search for the fuses.
And don't try any tricks, understand?
Or it'll be the worst for you.
I understand.
Girl?
What?
Don't speak. Just follow me.
I can't see anything.
Hold my hand. I'm used to the dark. Hurry, before they get back.
I can't think how I came to be so clumsy. I must have bumped into it.
You're not clumsy, doctor. You did it on purpose.
But you won't save the girl.
Oh no, doctor. You're staying here with me.
As your prisoner. Let us see as my guest.
It's all clear. Come on.
I can still have run a hundred miles.
What now?
I know where to hide you. Come on.
Bayman?
Ah, he's just an Atlantean. A primitive.
Clever, but no vision.
Professor, you have offered these people a very big sugar-coated pill to make them accept you, yes?
I turned their dreams and prophecies to my own means.
The dreams of a people living on a drowned continent must be...
To lift Atlantis from the ocean. Make it dry land again.
Exactly. But...
Now, how are you going to do it?
Even a genius like you...
Look, Atlantis underwater.
Very large mass to lift.
If I can't lift it, then I must lower the water level.
You see the valves there?
Yes, may I?
Please.
Simple, isn't it?
Yes, but you haven't got a drain big enough to take an ocean.
Then I will make one.
Forgive me, I'm a little lost.
The crust of the earth is more than a hundred miles thick.
Below that is believed to be a quite hot molten core.
Now, where is your ocean going to go?
That is my secret.
Now you're making fun of me, Professor.
No, no. Even supposing you could drill to the depth of a hundred miles.
There is a place where a fish shell reduces the distance to less than 15 miles.
It's still an enormous obstacle.
But not insurmountable.
We have been working on it for many years.
Excuse me, I have been interrupted.
But Professor.
Yes?
Even supposing you succeeded.
You know what will happen, don't you?
You tell me, Doctor.
When the water will be converted into superheated steam,
the pressure will grow and crack the crust of the earth.
Destroy all life, maybe even blow the planet apart.
Yes, and I shall have redeemed my promise to lift Atlantis from the sea.
Lift it to the sky.
It will be magnificent.
Yes.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Like so.
Yes.
Just one small question.
Why do you want to blow up the world?
Why?
You, a scientist, ask me why?
The achievement, my dear Doctor.
The destruction of the world.
The scientists' dream of supreme power.
Only four loads today.
You will have to increase output or you'll be joining our fish friends.
All right, get on with it.
I've another two for you.
All right, this way, follow me.
What's this?
Slacking?
Oh, I'm sorry, I can't hear a word you're saying.
Splitting with the noise.
What have you got there?
Who, me?
Guard.
Search that man.
Nothing here.
Search the other.
Nothing on this one either.
All right, this time you're lucky.
These two have just joined us.
Teach them to be useful.
That was close.
What is it?
What's the secret about a compass?
It's as important as eyes down here.
Thanks, chum.
If they'd found that on us, we'd have been for the high jump, I tell you.
But, Prince, it passed it on to me, though.
Suppose he caught me with it.
Well, they didn't, did they?
Are you planning something, then?
That's our business.
Look, what's the matter with you?
Are we not all in the same boat?
That's right, Jock, and we don't want no one to rock it.
The name happens to be Jamie, and I'll just...
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Take...
No, no, he's a bit high-factor, sir.
Hey, watch it.
That guard's looking his way.
Oh, well, make out for what he's trying.
Your calculations cannot be correct.
Let me see.
Professor.
Not now, Damon.
Come with me.
Oh, Mr. Damon, you're back.
Did your operation go well?
The girl escaped.
Oh, dear.
How very frustrating for you.
We'll get her back.
Oh, yes, yes, of course you will.
It's very important to you, isn't it?
I mean, you want all the human labor you can get, don't you?
Yes, but it's cheap and plentiful.
We pick up survivors from shipwrecks,
who would otherwise be corpses,
and convert them to fish people.
Amazing.
The professor leads the field in scientific discovery.
What a fantastic conception.
To control the world from a test tube.
That's right.
Well, two can play at that game.
Have you ever seen this?
Oh, stop him.
Stop him.
Don't let him get away.
You understand, you must hide on and don't wait until I can fetch you.
But don't be worried.
Yes, but...
And don't make a sound.
I know, all right.
Don't you ever get sick of this seafood?
You learn to live with it.
Just watch her, though.
They haven't found any way of keeping it fresh,
and if you are, just put through it.
Tell me, why do you need a compass?
There's no point in making a break with that one, is there?
Why don't you shout it out to the guard?
Look, mate, do yourself a favor and stop treating us as if we're one of them.
Look, Jamie and I don't intend to stop here, either.
See, I told you.
Now, come on, boys, let's cheer up.
All right, all right.
Well, how do you intend going about it?
I have the guards all over.
Well, come on, Dave.
All right.
Well, while I was mining a shaft,
it came along the entrance to a little underground tunnel like this, you see?
That's it.
Where does it lead, though?
Well, we haven't been able to explore it.
We just have to take a chance.
Now, if we go, there'll be no turning back.
You understand?
We make it or we don't.
Are you with us, then?
Yeah, count me in.
All right, when do we go?
When the chance comes.
And we jump fast, you hear me?
They need extra labour up at the project.
You two join the line up for selection.
Right, now's our chance.
We're off.
Right, Christopher, you're right.
If we disappear now, I don't think we're going to the project work, gang.
OK, Jacko?
Oh, it'll give us a start anyway.
Right, now, look.
You go first, Jacko.
That'll show Jamie and me where the entrance is.
Then you go, Sean.
Then you, then me.
Scatter.
Right, you.
You.
How about me, sir?
You're too new.
Get out of my way.
You.
I volunteer, sir.
Too new.
But, sir, I...
Go and join your friend.
You.
What?
I thought I told you to get out of my way.
Oh, I said I'm just going, sir.
Thanks, boys.
Come on, man.
We haven't got all day.
You're taking a long time, ain't you?
Yeah.
Is that you?
Aye.
Come on, hurry up.
All right?
That's the way.
Look, suppose this don't lead anyplace, and we want to come back.
You warned me.
The kill run of the workers on site.
We'd better try the small chamber.
Nothing here.
The compression chamber next.
Seen any strangers, girl?
No, sir, nobody.
No, wait, Hara.
It's me.
Oh, it's you.
Where's Polly?
Safe.
I'm taking her some food and clothes.
Good girl.
Well done.
Hara, where can I find your chief of state?
In the council chamber.
Why?
I want to talk to him.
Can you take me to him?
Yes, but he'll hand you over.
I'll have to take that risk.
Stay outside.
Keep your eyes skinned for escaped prisoners.
Now, where are the others now?
The two young men are at the mine.
The girl is still at large.
And so is the doctor.
But we'll find them.
They cannot get away.
And what does Zara think about it all?
Oh, he's furious, of course.
Could upset his plans.
He should not have interfered with the temple sacrifice.
You've always hated him, Rembrandt.
Why?
He's a destroyer.
He appeals to all that is base in our people.
He should never have come to Atlantis.
But without him, Atlantis will never rise again from the sea.
Hara, can you get Damon away?
I want to talk to the priest alone.
I'll try.
If you please.
Oh, but not to the same extent.
Master!
Yes?
I believe I've seen the girl you're looking for.
Where?
Down by the market.
Show me.
Can I have a word with you, Ramo?
Doctor, I...
Wait.
We're both on the same side, Ramo.
You distrust Zara out of instinct.
I distrust him because I know the truth.
Why should I trust you?
That's a very good question.
I wish I could think of a good answer.
All right, tell me what you know.
Can we talk here?
I know a place where we shall be interrupted.
Yeah, which way now?
This-a-way or that-a-way?
Oh, one is as good as the other.
Well, let's try 50 paces up each tunnel, then turn back.
Yeah.
Jacko, I suppose I'll go with you.
We'll take the high road.
Oh, let's go, then.
Which leaves us with the low road.
Come this way.
We shall not be interrupted here.
Now, tell me what you found out about Zara.
He says that he's going to raise Atlantis, yes?
That's not quite true.
He intends to destroy Atlantis.
A difficult task.
It's easier than raising it.
How will he destroy it?
He intends to drill a hole through the Earth's crust and drain away the ocean, yes?
Yes.
Have you any idea what will happen if he does that?
I'll show you.
May I?
This pot is the Earth.
This is the ocean.
The ocean drains into the Earth.
Now, but the centre of the Earth is hot, far hotter than this fire.
So what happens?
But this is child's play.
What has this to do with Zara's project?
But this pot is Zara's project.
Watch.
Now, the pot begins to boil.
But the steam can't get out.
And so, I think we better stand a little further back.
Be gone!
This is what will happen.
Zara intends to raise Atlantis, but in little pieces.
You swear this is true?
Well, I thought I might mention it, of course, if you don't mind me being blown up.
Can you stop me?
But I...
I'm not the ruler of Atlantis.
If I took you to our ruler, Phaos, could you convince him?
I might.
We can.
Thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty.
Well, it what beats me is, Wildlanders hasn't been discovered before.
Oh, maybe it has, but nobody got back home to tell the tale.
Yeah, yeah, could be.
Hey.
Hey, it's me.
I'm sorry, they can't be too careful these days.
Yeah, but where's Jaime?
He went with you.
Oh, he's gone on.
I came back to collect you and Sean.
Now, what do we do?
We're not even to the end of this one yet.
I think the best thing to do is you go back to Jaime, and I'll go on and meet you in ten minutes.
Oh, yeah, but where?
Where?
At the, uh, at the fork, okay?
Right.
Put this on, could you?
Oh, could I?
These robes, no one will challenge you.
How do I look?
What?
Never mind.
Hey, here.
Jaime, down here.
Okay, mate, we're with you.
Are you hurt?
No, but watch it, there's a rock, slippery.
Yeah, well, don't worry about us, just cling on.
How far down is it?
About ten feet, I'd say.
What's underneath it?
We have to get further along there.
Can you reach it?
Try again.
Like that, my man.
I think I've got a foothold now.
You needn't think I'm afraid of you, you stupid thing.
Come on, come on.
Blimey, look where we are.
Back at the temple.
There's somebody down there.
Who?
It's Barley, right.
You know her?
Yeah, of course I do, she's one of our lot.
What happened to you?
Well, we found a tunnel in the mines that led into this idol.
So here we are.
But what's this rig out in aid of?
You're going to turn me into a fish.
Into a fish?
We have friends with us.
I'm Sean, and this is Gaggle.
Have you seen the doctor?
Well, I've heard since he went off with Pippa.
Sauron, why haven't you?
No, but I'd love to know what he's up to.
Rallo, this ruler of yours, is he...
His name is Thans.
He believes Zareth to be the deliverer of Atlantis.
Good evening, brothers of the temple.
Please be seated.
What is this important business you want to tell me about?
Most excellent, Thans.
This is a matter of life and death.
Under no other circumstances would I have brought a stranger to you in temple guard.
A stranger?
Who are you?
A man of science.
Science?
Ah, I see.
One of Professor Zareth's colleagues.
Perhaps we should ask him to join us.
Oh, no, no, I wouldn't do that if I were you.
In fact, I wanted to speak to you alone, excellency.
Well, speak.
Excellency, the professor is a wonderful man.
Wonderful?
A worker of miracles.
Indeed, you speak the truth.
But have you noticed his eyes lately?
No.
When he talks of his project, have you noticed his eyes, they light up like this?
What does this mean?
The professor is as mad as a hatter.
Mad?
Zareth?
Completely.
No answer.
Sad.
I do not understand.
We, uh...
We believe Zareth to be working towards the destruction of Atlantis, not its resurrection.
I have heard such words from you before, Ramo.
This man has proved it to me.
Tharos' plan will split the world in two.
This is not the action of a sane man.
But your own priests proclaimed him to be the prophet who would raise us above the sea.
Lolan, he is old and superstitious.
And your superior, Ramo.
Remember that.
So you will not listen to us?
I did not say that.
I have heard your arguments.
We've only just begun.
I have heard enough.
Now leave me.
And I will consider what you have said.
I know you will choose well, for all our sake.
Oh, I'm sorry I was so long.
Here's some food.
Ah, food.
And clothing.
Super.
Thanks, Zareth.
Look at this.
Listen, why are you doing all this for us?
You were kind to me.
And I hate Zareth.
Hate Zareth?
We are not all his slaves.
You will find out one day.
Let's hope we find out soon.
Do you want all that food for yourself then?
Come on.
Oh, sorry.
Look, Ara, have you seen anything of the doctor?
Yes, I'll take you to him later.
What's that?
Oh, quickly, you must hide.
They're coming.
Back where we came from, Ben.
Right, let's hide this place in the hole in the ground.
There's no need to be afraid.
Go.
Aren't you coming with us, Ara?
No.
I must stay here.
I'll be missed.
You're not going to remain here all night, come on.
I have given much thought to your words, and I have come to a decision.
There is your answer.
Do with them what you will.
Are you sufficient with them?