1-13 Bazooka Jarod
1-13 Bazooka Jarod
Bazooka Jarod
Great. Now Jarod is Moses.
Miss Parker
Bazooka Jarod
Great. Now Jarod is Moses.
Miss Parker
Original air date: February 8, 1997
Written by: Juan Carlos Coto
Directed by: James Whitmore, Jr.
While Jarod poses as a Navy Commander in order to investigate the death of a sailor on board the USS Monroe, Sydney delivers a warning to Miss Parker.
Jarod’s Discoveries: Bazooka Bubble Gum, Blowing Bubbles, Bazooka Joe Comics, REM
Jarod’s Occupations: Naval Commander, High School Guidance Counselor
Jarod’s Aliases: Jarod Forrester
Official Synopsis
Jarod goes undercover as a Naval commander to avenge the shipboard death of a young sailor.
As Miss Parker and Sydney check out Jarod’s last known job, as a sewer worker, they realize a manhole Jarod used is right in front of the orphanage where Miss Parker’s mother may have taken children rescued from the Centre. Meanwhile, on the U.S.S. Monroe, Jarod, as a U.S. Navy commander, works with Captain Nagle and Commander Nashton to guide their crew through a tense encounter with a rogue Russian submarine. The crew dodges the sub’s torpedoes, then scores a direct hit of their own. But as the sub explodes on the radar screen, we learn the whole encounter is just a training exercise. Later, Nagel says the crew still needs to improve its discipline, and Nashton leads the sailors on a rigorous run on a California beach. During the exercise, tensions escalate when one of the sailors, Dana Knox, accuses another man, Mike Baker, of negligence in a recent incident that caused the death of a fellow crew member, Scott Seaver. Later, Nashton tells Jarod that Seaver died during a leak of JX-5 gas in the ship’s pump room…and introduces Jarod to security officer Lieutenant Paula Pratt, who’s concerned about some gaps in Jarod’s personnel file. Meanwhile, Miss Parker visits the orphanage, but learns all records from the 1960s were destroyed in a fire in 1970, the same year her mother was killed. Back at the naval base, Jarod sees a teenage girl, Melina, running from a shore patrol officer after trying to hotwire an officer’s Jeep. Melina says she is Lieutenant Pratt’s daughter, and that her father is a navigator on another ship that has been at sea for four months. A bit later, Jarod visits the Monroe’s pump room, and finds Lieutenant Albert Danes doing some welding with an oxyacetylene torch. Nagel and Nashton find Jarod there, and tell him Seaver died because some retrofit work he did in the pump room was shoddy. A bit later, Jarod watches as Baker, who was Seaver’s best friend, tearfully delivers Seaver’s footlocker to Seaver’s parents.
Later, Jarod answers a summons from Pratt, who tries to call the admiral who signed Jarod’s orders…but the admiral is on vacation and can’t be reached. Just then, Melina barges in, angry that her mother hasn’t given her an answer about a concert she wants to go to. That night, Miss Parker goes through files of missing children in the Dover Hall of Records, but finds a note from Jarod, saying, “Sorry, I was here first.” Meanwhile, on a San Pedro street, Jarod sees Melina coming out of a tattoo parlor (where she has just received a tattoo of the letters “ILY”), and realizes she iss acting out to get her mother’s attention. Jarod tells Melina that her mother really does love her, even if she is very busy, but Melina doesn’t buy it. Later, Jarod breaks into Pratt’s office, and finds videotaped testimony from the investigation of Seaver’s death. The next day, Jarod talks to Baker, who insists Seaver didn’t botch the retrofit. Baker also says he was with Seaver during the gas leak, but while he escaped from the pump room, Nashton came in and sealed the hatch before Seaver could get out, too. That night, Jarod watches the videos and sees Nashton testify that closing the hatch was necessary to save the ship, even though he knew Seaver would die…but Jarod knows he’s lying.
That night, Sydney goes to Miss Parker’s house and warns her that if she is not careful, she could end up like her mother. Meanwhile, Jarod goes through photos from the Seaver investigation, and the next day, takes one of the pictures, showing the faulty weld Seaver supposedly made, to Danes. Jarod points out that the picture shows an oxyacetylene weld, when Seaver was only rated for gas tungsten welding, and says he has realized Nashton must have ordered Danes to frame Seaver. Danes finally admits this, saying Nashton was trying to preserve his own career, which could have ended if the ship had been put in mothballs for the more extensive repairs it really needed. That night, Jarod finds Melina in San Pedro again, and although she says she’s not going home, she admits to Jarod that she really misses her father (the “ILY” in her tattoo was his abbreviation for “I love you”), and Jarod comforts her as she cries. Later, Jarod drives Melina home, and her mother welcomes her back and thanks Jarod for his help. The next morning, Baker tells Jarod that he is resigning, but Jarod asks him if this is what Seaver would have wanted. Meanwhile, back at the Centre, Sydney and Miss Parker learn, thanks to Lieutenant Pratt’s inquiries, that Jarod is on the Monroe.
A few hours later, on the Monroe, Jarod takes Nashton to the pump room, and asks him to test the JX-5 gas valve. Nashton goes down the hatch and turns the handle, but as the gas begins to flow, Jarod locks him in, just as he did to Seaver. And as Nashton starts to panic, Jarod gets him to admit what he did, and broadcasts Nashton’s confession on the ship’s PA system. A few minutes later, as Nashton is led off in handcuffs, Pratt, Sydney and Miss Parker arrive. But just as Miss Parker gets a glimpse of Jarod, he drives away. Later, Pratt finds a note from Jarod, containing the concert tickets Melina wanted…Melina finally gets a note from her father…and we see Jarod, riding a camel in a vast desert, as far away from the ocean as he can get.
Season 1
- 1-01 Pilot
- 1-02 Every Picture Tells A Story
- 1-03 Flyer
- 1-04 Curious Jarod
- 1-05 The Paper Clock
- 1-06 To Protect And Serve
- 1-07 A Virus Among Us
- 1-08 Not Even a Mouse
- 1-09 Mirage
- 1-10 Better Part Of Valor
- 1-11 Bomb Squad
- 1-12 Prison Story
- 1-13 Bazooka Jarod
- 1-14 Ranger Jarod
- 1-15 Jaroldo!
- 1-16 Under The Reds
- 1-17 Keys
- 1-18 Unhappy Landings
- 1-19 Jarod’s Honor
- 1-20 Baby Love
- 1-21 Dragon House
- 1-22 Dragon House
Season 2
- 2-01 Back From the Dead Again
- 2-02 Scott Free
- 2-03 Over the Edge
- 2-04 Exposed
- 2-05 Nip and Tuck
- 2-06 Past Sim
- 2-07 Collateral Damage
- 2-08 Hazards
- 2-09 FX
- 2-10 Indy Show
- 2-11 Gigolo Jarod
- 2-12 Toy Surprise
- 2-13 A Stand Up Guy
- 2-14 Unforgotten
- 2-15 Bulletproof
- 2-16 Silence
- 2-17 Crash
- 2-18 Stolen
- 2-19 Red Rock Jarod
- 2-20 Bank
- 2-21 Bloodlines
- 2-22 Bloodlines
Season 3
- 3-01 Crazy
- 3-02 Hope & Prey
- 3-03 Once in a Blue Moon
- 3-04 Someone to Trust
- 3-05 Betrayal
- 3-06 Parole
- 3-07 Homefront
- 3-08 Flesh and Blood
- 3-09 Murder 101
- 3-10 Mr. Lee
- 3-11 The Assassin
- 3-12 Unsinkable
- 3-13 Pool
- 3-14 At The Hour Of Our Death
- 3-15 Countdown
- 3-16 P.T.B.
- 3-17 Ties That Bind
- 3-18 Wake Up
- 3-19 End Game
- 3-20 Qallupilluit
- 3-21 Donoterase
- 3-22 Donoterase
Season 4
- 4-01 The World’s Changing
- 4-02 Survival
- 4-03 Angel’s Flight
- 4-04 Risque Business
- 4-05 Road Trip
- 4-06 Extreme
- 4-07 Wild Child
- 4-08 Rules of Engagement
- 4-09 ‘Til Death Do Us Part
- 4-10 Spin Doctor
- 4-11 Cold Dick
- 4-12 Lifeline
- 4-13 Ghosts From the Past
- 4-14 The Agent of Year Zeroh
- 4-15 Junk
- 4-16 School Daze
- 4-17 Meltdown
- 4-18 Corn Man A Comin’
- 4-19 The Inner Sense
- 4-20 The Inner Sense
Bazooka Jarod Transcript
Dream | ||
Young Parker | Mama! Mama! | |
Young Jarod | They’re trying to hurt her! | |
Sydney | Stay here Jarod. | |
Young Parker | Mama, no! NO! No! Mama! | |
Miss Parker | What? | |
Sydney | We’ve got a hit. | |
Main Sewer Line Dover, Delaware | ||
Mr McElroy | Jarod’s the finest sewer rat I’ve had the pleasure to work with. I’ve never seen someone so excited about excrement in my life. A real aficionado. | |
Miss Parker | How charming. | |
Sydney | How long was Jarod here? | |
Mr McElroy | Couple of weeks. That’s all it took him to figure it out. | |
Miss Parker | Figure what out? | |
Mr McElroy | That we were digging into an aquifer. If we had hit that thing, it would have flushed 45 members of the International Brotherhood of Sewage Workers right into the jaws of oblivion. Just like that Egyptian army in the Ten Commandments. Whoosh! | |
Miss Parker | Great. Now Jarod is Moses. | |
Mr McElroy | Moses? | |
Sydney | Charlton Heston. | |
Mr McElroy | Right. | |
Sydney | Thanks. | |
Miss Parker | Mr McElroy, this is where Jarod always emerged? | |
Mr McElroy | Right in this spot. Something special about it, but he wouldn’t tell me. Said he had to ship out. | |
USS Monroe, somewhere in the Pacific | ||
Baker | cd Forrester, we have a situation here. | |
Jarod | Report. | |
Comm Officer | Bogey sir. Victor-class submarine, bearing one four eight. | |
Jarod | And closing. This could be the rogue we’re looking for. Relax sailor, this is the fun part. | |
Comm Officer | Why does the fun part have to happen on my watch? | |
Jarod | Alert the XO and the captain. | |
Baker | Aye, aye, sir. | |
Jarod | We’ve got a fight on our hands. | |
intro | ||
Sailor | As you were. | |
Jarod | Captain Nagel. Commander Nashton. It’s the Rostov sir. After she deployed from Odessa the Uzbeki captain declared independence from the Black Sea Fleet. He’s rogue. | |
Nashton | With a hip pocket full of nuclear warheads. | |
Jarod | And judging from the intel file, her first strike target… is Los Angeles. | |
Comm Officer | Something’s up sirs. | |
Marcus | They’ve opened the VLS doors. | |
Jarod | Those SLBM’s will be ready to fire in approximately two minutes. | |
Comm Officer | Torpedoes in the water, bearing one three seven and one four two. | |
Captain Nagel | Ready torpedo decoy. | |
Jarod | Ready decoy. | |
Baker | Ready decoy, aye. Something’s wrong with this relay sir. | |
Jarod | What’s the problem Baker? | |
Baker | Ahhh! | |
Marcus | We’ve lost the decoy signal. | |
Captain Nagel | Gentlemen, we got a torpedo on our ass. | |
Comm Officer | Torpedoes closing, 300 yards. | |
Marcus | The decoy signal’s still dead sir. | |
Comm Officer | 200 yards. | |
Marcus | Ninety seconds SLBM launch. Come on Baker. | |
Baker | Got it, decoy’s online sir. | |
Comm Officer | Torpedo number one jut took the bait. Number two is closing. It’s a miss. | |
Marcus | Rostov’s VLS system is still ready. | |
Jarod | Those nukes fly in one minute, sir. | |
Captain Nagel | Forty degrees starboard. | |
Sailor | Forty degrees starboard. | |
Captain Nagel | Steady on course… zero nine zero. | |
Sailor | Zero nine zero. | |
Nashton | Sir, I suggest we fire both torpedoes now, while he’s still in range. | |
Jarod | Sir. I recommend that we fire one now that we veer approximately 30 degrees starboard and then fire torpedo two. | |
Nashton | Veer? Why don’t we just… | |
Captain Nagel | Fire torpedo one. | |
Marcus | Fire one, Aye. Torpedo away. | |
Jarod | Thirty seconds until warhead launch. | |
Captain Nagel | Veer 30 degrees starboard. | |
Jarod | Right full rudder. Steady course one two zero. | |
Sailor | Right full rudder, one two zero. Aye. | |
Marcus | One is a miss sir. | |
Captain Nagel | Fire two. | |
Marcus | Fire two. Aye. Torpedo away. | |
Jarod | Twenty seconds until warhead launch. | |
Marcus | Those birds are hot. | |
Jarod | Ten seconds until warhead launch. | |
Marcus | Number two is a direct hit. She’s going down. | |
Captain Drucker | This is Captain Drucker of the Harrison. You’ve blown us out of water, you crazy Yankee pig. | |
Nashton | Acknowledged. Always a pleasure to run a simulation with you, Ted. | |
Captain Drucker | Never a cold war when you need one. Harrison out. | |
Captain Nagel | You’ve got nothing to smile about. Another three seconds… and LA’s a parking lot. | |
Marcus | Way to go Baker. | |
US Naval Station Long Beach, California | ||
Captain Nagel | Lieutenant Commander Forrester this crew is loose. The Monroe is a team, like links in a chain. If one of those links breaks under stress we slip that much closer to disaster. In one week we hit the big blue. It is imperative that your response times improve. After what happened on our last tour, I want this ship running like a damn Swiss watch. | |
Nashton | Alright. You just traded your day off for a rid on my personal highway to hell. Left, left, left! Come on people! It’s a highway to hell. We love it! Come on! Having fun yet? | |
Crew | Yes sir! | |
Nashton | Come on people! Do you love it? | |
Crew | Yes sir! | |
Nashton | I can’t hear you! | |
Crew | Yes sir! | |
Nashton | Let’s go. Let’s go. Come on. Let’s go. Come on. What are you waiting for? Let’s go. Move it. Move it out. Move it out. Move it out. | |
Jarod | Move it out! Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! | |
Marcus | I didn’t really want a day off. Did you Baker? | |
Baker | What? | |
Marcus | You can’t even handle a little circuit flare-up? I mean, if something goes wrong this tour, you’re gonna screw up on us like you did in the pump room with Seaver? | |
Knox | Seaver was a dumbass. | |
Marcus | Hey, get him! Get him! | |
Jarod | Break it up! Get up! Break it up! Knox! Marcus! Baker, you’ve got the highest rank here. If I even catch you looking at these sailors the wrong way I’m gonna have you in the scullery every day for a week! Understood, sailor? | |
Baker | Yes, sir! | |
Jarod | Fall out! | |
Sailor | Alright! Move out. | |
Baker | Sir. | |
Nashton | Well, you handled that little situation well. Just as well as manoeuvres this morning. | |
Jarod | Sir, I’m sorry about that. I didn’t mean to step out of line. | |
Nashton | Oh, yes, you did. You’re just lucky that you made the right call. | |
Jarod | I guess. Nagel seemed pretty steamed about the last tour. | |
Nashton | Yeah, well, that’s the only chink in his armour. We lost a sailor. There was a gas lead in the pump room. | |
Jarod | A gas leak? | |
Nashton | Yeah. JX-5. | |
Jarod | Whoa. A roomful of that could’ve set off the entire ship. | |
Nashton | Whoo. Tell me about it. I had the deck that night. It’s pretty intense. It’s not something I want to live through again. Hey, tell me something, will ya? How did you know that the Harrison was gonna cut and run? | |
Jarod | “Bulldog” Ted Drucker was at the conn. It’s his favourite evasive technique. | |
Nashton | Oh, you served with him? | |
Paula Pratt | Actually, Jarod’s from the Grant, sir. Lieutenant Paula Pratt. | |
Jarod | At ease. Security officer. Lieutenant Commander Jarod Forrester. | |
Paula Pratt | Yes, I just ran the required checks on your file. Your dates on the Grant don’t jibe with the Bureau of Personnel. | |
Nashton | So wy don’t you call the Grant and have ’em clear it up? | |
Paula Pratt | I will. As soon as she gets back from a silent escort in Antarctica. Next month. Come see me at PSD tomorrow. | |
Nashton | That woman needs a hobby. | |
Jarod | She reminds me of someone I used to know. | |
Miss Parker’s House | ||
Miss Parker | Go through the box from Jarod’s last lair. Call me with solid leads. | |
Sydney (on phone) | Where will you be Miss Parker? | |
Miss Parker | Out. | |
South Delaware Children’s Home Dover, Delaware | ||
Miss Parker | Well, there must be something you can tell me about my mother. | |
Orphanage Director | It’s been nearly 30 years, but I remember how much she loved the children here. | |
Miss Parker | I have reason to believe that she might have rescued some of them. | |
Orphanage Director | Rescued? | |
Miss Parker | It’s a long story. Did she… did she bring any children here? | |
Orphanage Director | No. We’ve always gotten our children the usual way, orphans, runaways, victims of child abuse. I’m afraid I wouldn’t know where to begin. | |
Miss Parker | I might. | |
Orphanage Director | I’m sorry. None of them ring a bell. | |
Miss Parker | That’s okay. You’ve been… you’ve been very helpful. | |
Orphanage Director | Who is this Jarod you’re asking about? | |
Miss Parker | An associate. I thought maybe he might have visited you. | |
Orphanage Director | No. It’s not a dead end, Miss Parker. | |
Miss Parker | Well, the person who gave this to me is the master of the dead end. | |
Orphanage Director | You could match these with our files, but you’d have to go down to the Hall of Records. All of these kids are pre-1970. Our files were destroyed in a fire that year. | |
Miss Parker | You had a fire in 1970? | |
Orphanage Director | Yes. | |
Miss Parker | April. | |
Orphanage Director | How did you know? | |
Miss Parker | That’s when my mother died. | |
USS Monroe | ||
Jarod | At ease. | |
Sailor | Good afternoon sir. | |
Jarod | Good afternoon. | |
Sailor | Just want to welcome you to the Monroe. | |
Jarod | At ease. | |
Sailor | Uh Bazooka. From my personal stash. | |
Jarod | This is interesting. Bubble gum named after a weapon. | |
Sailor | Well, it’s bee around a while. | |
Jarod | It’s very good. And it comes with its own personal story. Very clever. Well, thank you very much. As you were. | |
Melina | Get away from me! Leave me alone! I said get.. get away from me! Stop it! | |
Jarod | Are you going someplace? | |
Melina | Look, there’s two men chasing me. I think they’re some kind of perverts. You really gotta help me. That’s them! | |
Security Officer | Commander. | |
Jarod | Is there some kind of problem, Sergeant? | |
Security Officer 2 | Yes sir. We caught this bug trying to hot-wire an ensign’s jeep. | |
Melina | Oh, that’s a great big lie. Beside, I didn’t even know the jeep belonged to the ensign. | |
Security Officer 2 | It’s the third time this week we’ve had a run-in with this desperado, | |
Jarod | I see. I think I can handle it from here. My name’s Jarod. | |
Melina | Melina Pratt. | |
Jarod | Pratt? As in Security Officer Pratt? | |
Melina | As in her daughter. You’re gonna tell her about this, aren’t you? | |
Jarod | What about your father? | |
Melina | He’s the navigator on the Farragut. | |
Jarod | That’s on the Indian Ocean, on patrol? | |
Melina | Yeah. He’s been gone for about four months now. | |
Jarod | Four and a half. Must be pretty tough on you and your mother, your father being gone that long. | |
Melina | My mom just works more. To me, it’s no biggie. | |
Jarod | So your dad is gone, and your mom works all day. From what I understand, a teenager lives for that kind of freedom. Is that true? | |
Melina | If you’re so interested in teenagers, maybe you should become a school counsellor. | |
Jarod | I already tried that once. I mean, the hours were great, but… the food was terrible. | |
Melina | So, are you gonna tell my mom about this jeep thing or not? | |
Jarod | Melina. | |
Melina | What? | |
Jarod | Next time you go to so much trouble to get into trouble, hot-wire and admiral’s jeep. | |
PA | Communications watch officer and DDO please report to the quarterdeck. Comm watch officer and DDO, report to the quarterdeck. | |
Jarod | That’s nice work… for an oxyacetylene weld. | |
Danes | It’s old-school, I know, but it holds tighter than any of that newfangled stuff. Snipes are always getting on me. Danes, weld this, gas tungsten that. Got no respect for the old ways, you know. | |
Jarod | I guess not. Excuse me. | |
Captain Nagel | Problem, Jarod? As you were. | |
Jarod | Petty Officer Mike Baker. I pulled him out of a fight a couple of days ago. I have a good mind to go up there… | |
Captain Nagel | Whoa, whoa. I know that you’re eager to crack skulls, but, uh, don’t start on Baker. He lost his best friend in our last tour. | |
Nashton | Scott Seaver. I told you about it, Jarod. The, uh, JX-5 leak in the pump room. | |
Jarod | Oh, yes. Right. | |
Captain Nagel | Seaver botched the retrofit. | |
Nashton | Which gave the board of inquiry an excuse to try to mothball the ship again. Damn leeches came in here. They went over every piece of paperwork, every inspection record, tried to haul her out of the water. Finally, it took seven admirals to decide the problem was Seaver’s shoddy work. | |
Jarod | I see. Well, I guess I’ll ease off Baker then. | |
Captain Nagel | He does know that he’s on this ship for the next six months. | |
Jarod | Where his best friend died. | |
Jarod Simming | ||
Seaver’s Voice | Oh, my God! Baker, help me! | |
Danes | Surprise inspection, or are you stealing stock tips? | |
Jarod | I was just getting to know the territory. You play the stock market. | |
Danes | Hey, you want to put a kid through college on my salary, you gotta take some chances. Actually, my son picks out all my stocks. He wants to see his tuition coming, he better pick ’em right. | |
Jarod | Is he a business major? | |
Danes | He’s a tight end. Got a good brain. Average hands. No scholarship. But I’ll be damned he’s gonna spend his whole life sweating in a hole like this. You sure this ain’ t no inspection? | |
Jarod | Promise. | |
Danes | Good. I mean, nothing personal sire, but, uh… I’ve been turning wrenches down here since you and most of this crew were playing kick the can. | |
Jarod | And what can was I kicking? | |
Danes | All I’m saying is, uh, you don’t need to go wasting your time checking up on Lieutenant Albert Danes. | |
Jarod | As you were. | |
Danes | Thank you, sir. Thank you. | |
Personnel Support Detachment, Long Beach | ||
Jarod | They’re very funny. | |
Paula Pratt | They still make those? | |
Jarod | Yeah. But what I don’t understand is why does he wear the eye patch? | |
Paula Pratt | Matters of cosmic importance I’m not prepared to address. | |
Jarod | Huh. | |
Paula Pratt | I wanted you here when I call Admiral Mason. You remember Admiral Mason. He signed your recommendation. | |
Jarod | How could I forget? | |
Secretary | Admiral Mason’s office. | |
Paula Pratt | Lieutenant Paula Pratt calling from Long Beach Naval Station. | |
Secretary | I’m sorry. The admiral is on his annual fishing trip to Bimini. | |
Paula Pratt | It’s nice somebody has time for a vacation. How long will he be gone? | |
Secretary | Two weeks. And he left strict orders not to be disturbed… unless, of course, it’s urgent. | |
Paula Pratt | I’ll call back. | |
Jarod | Bummer. | |
Paula Pratt | Bummer? | |
Woman | Melina, she’s busy | |
Jarod | That’s what Joe would say. | |
Melina | I don’t care how buSy she is. I need to see her. | |
Paula Pratt | Melina, I’m in a meeting. | |
Melina | I know. But I can’t even get an appointment, and I need to know today if I can go see REM. | |
Jarod | Rapid eye movements? | |
Melina | No, it’s a band. | |
Jarod | Oh. | |
Melina | Tickets go on sale in an hour. | |
Paula Pratt | I told you. I don’t want you going alone. | |
Melina | I won’t be alone, Mom. There’ll be 40,000 other people there. | |
Paula Pratt | I am buSy We will talk about this later. | |
Melina | Yeah, what else is new? | |
Paula Pratt | My daughter. | |
Dover City Hall, Missing Children’s Archive | ||
Guy | Yo, what’s up? Why won’t you talk to me? | |
Jarod | How’d your tattoo come out? | |
Melina | What are you, stalking me? | |
Jarod | Not exactly. This police officer stopped by and, uh… left you this parking ticket. | |
Melina | Great. My mom’s gonna go ballistic when she sees this. | |
Jarod | Not to mention when she finds out you stole her car. But having her go ballistic… that’s the general idea, isn’t it? | |
Melina | Come on. You can do it. Try again. Wrap it around your tongue and… blow. | |
Jarod | Yes. | |
Melina | I can’t believe no one taught you how to blow bubble gum. | |
Jarod | I had a lonely childhood. | |
Melina | Yeah, join the club. | |
Jarod | I.L.Y. Is that another band? | |
Melina | No, just three letters I want to remember. That’s all. | |
Jarod | What are your parents going to say? | |
Melina | I don’t care. My mom hates me, and my dad’s never around. | |
Jarod | Your mom does not hate you. Parents love their children. | |
Melina | Oh, what sitcom are you living in? | |
Jarod listening to Seaver Investigation | ||
Man | In conclusion victim seaver expired after inhaling the JX-5 toxic gas from the ship’s coolant system Ice crystals formed in the lungs within 30 seconds, resulting in asphyxiation. Furthermore, additional trauma | |
Baker Flashback | ||
Seaver | Baker! Baker! Oh, my God! | |
Jarod | Can’t sleep? | |
Baker | Sir. | |
Jarod | At ease, sailor. Sit down. I have nightmares too. About family I’ve never seen, best friends I’ve lost. | |
Baker | Scott Seaver did not botch that retrofit sir. And just because some big panel of admirals says so… | |
Jarod | Doesn’t mean it’s true. | |
Baker | Right. Scott was edgy… the whole week before it happened. I think he knew there was something wrong with the Monroe… but he never would have let us deploy like that. Look… you don’t gotta worry about me getting tanked or getting into fights anymore, sir. | |
Jarod | What are you talking about? | |
Baker | I’m gonna talk to Lieutenant Pratt. I’m out of here. | |
Jarod | You’re going to resign. You think that’s going to solve anything? | |
Baker | I watched him die, sir. You know, uh, it hit us out of nowhere. The pipe burst, and the whole place was filling up with JX-5. Scott told me to get out of there. He said he could handle it. I could’ve saved him. But then Nashton sealed the hatch. | |
Jarod | Nashton. | |
Baker | I could see Scott… through the portal. The gas was starting to get to him. Well, first it makes you crazy. Fills up your lungs and freezes ’em. He couldn’t breathe. | |
Jarod | Wait. The XO was on deck that night. Now, why would Nashton come down here to seal the hatch? | |
Baker | He said the whole ship could’ve blown. He said he had to seal the hatch. Some best friend I turned out to be, huh? He didn’t have to die, sir. I should’ve stayed. It should’ve been me that died. | |
Jarod | It wasn’t your fault. | |
Video Recording of USN Investigation | ||
Nashton | There’s been a lot of talk about decommissioning her, but I’m here to tell you gentlemen that the USS Monroe is a long way from mothballs. This accident… this tragedy… happened because of substandard work by a young engineer named Scott Seaver. | |
Man | You believe that sealing that room was the correct course of action? | |
Nashton | JX-5 gas might have seeped to the rest of the ship. She was a powder keg, ready to blow. If I had the time to pull him out, I would have done so. As ranking officers, these are the kinds of calls that we’re expected to make. It’s one of the demons we have to live with. I did it to save the ship. | |
Jarod | You did it to save your job. | |
Miss Parker’s House | ||
Sydney | The door was open. | |
Miss Parker | Making house calls now, Syd? | |
Sydney | Where were you today? | |
Miss Parker | Last time I checked, that was a Raines question. | |
Sydney | What kind of game are you playing with Jarod? | |
Miss Parker | Game? | |
Sydney | Hall of Records. You’re starting to ask questions. The way your mother did. Her final session with me, before she got on the elevator… she was looking for answers. | |
Miss Parker | She didn’t have the means to find them. I do. | |
Sydney | Then you’ll end up like her. | |
Miss Parker | Is that a threat? | |
Sydney | A warning… from a friend. | |
Jarod | Mail call. These seem to have slipped through the cracks. | |
Danes | Hey, personal delivery from the ops officer. Thanks. Letter from my kid at college. Gonna be an engineer. | |
Jarod | Oh yeah? Cornell. Must be expensive. | |
Danes | How’d you know he was going there? | |
Jarod | Interesting. This is an oxyacetylene weld. Now, Scott Seaver… he was only rated for gas tungsten welding. If those admirals had known what to look for, they would have known that Seaver didn’t botch the retrofit. Nashton forced you to do the work after it ruptured and make it look like Seaver botched it. | |
Danes | Come on, that’s crazy. | |
Jarod | Tell that to Scott Seaver. I spoke to his best friend. He said Seaver was nervous the whole week before the deploy. He knew something was wrong, didn’t he? | |
Danes | With all due respect sir. You’ve lost it. | |
Jarod | Did Nashton threaten your career, or did he threaten your son’s education? | |
Danes | What’s the difference? Nashton said he was gonna turn the investigating panel on me. I’d have been kicked out on my ass. No pension, no nothing. And he forced Seaver and me to sign off on that inspection report even though the JX-5 line needed work. Brass never knew. | |
Jarod | And the extra work would have delay deployment. Or worse, put the Monroe in mothballs. No more Monroe… no more career for Nashton. So a 20 year old kid chokes to death. It could have been your shift. | |
Danes | Oh, come on. Nashton tried to save that poor kid. The pump room was gonna blow. There was no time. | |
Jarod | There was plenty of time, but Seaver knew the truth. Nashton made sure he died with it. | |
Jarod | Your mom’s going to miss you. | |
Melina | Yeah, well, you can’t miss something that’s not there to begin with. I’m not going back there… ever. | |
Jarod | Okay. You feel like you’re not very important, don’t you? You feel like you were forgotten… but you haven’t been. | |
Melina | Yeah, what do you know about it? | |
Jarod | I don’t even know who my parents are. I don’t know if they gave up up or I was taken from them. But I know they’re still out there. Somewhere. I know they love me. Deep down inside, I know they love me. Just like deep down inside you know your parents love you. | |
Melina | My mom just buries herself in work every time my dad’s out to sea. | |
Jarod | Your mom is responsible for a lot of people’s lives. Maybe in all that, she overlooks the life that’s most important to her, but I know… she loves you very much. | |
Melina | I really miss my dad. I love you. I.L.Y. My dad used to put it all on the satellite communications he’d send us from the subs. You know, they only give you, like, 40 words to say everything you can to each other, so you gotta abbreviate. I just wish he was here to say it in person. | |
Jarod | Shh, shh, shh. Shh. | |
Melina | Sorry Mama. | |
Paula Pratt | I’m sorry too, honey. We’ll talk inside. | |
Melina | I’m sorry. | |
Paula Pratt | It’s okay. | |
Jarod | You have a great kid. | |
Paula Pratt | Yeah. I think I should tell her that a little more often. Thanks. | |
Jarod | Are you sure that resigning is the right thing to do? | |
Baker | Made up my mind, sir. | |
Jarod | Did I say “at ease,” sailor? | |
Baker | No, sir! | |
Jarod | Are you sure it’s the right thing to do, sailor? | |
Baker | Yes, sir! | |
Jarod | Is that what Scott Seaver would have wanted? Hope to see you on board, sailor. | |
DSA | ||
Young Jarod | What’s that Sydney? | |
Sydney | I don’t know. | |
Young Parker | No! No! No. | |
Young Jarod | They’re trying to hurt her. | |
Sydney | Stay here, Jarod. | |
Young Parker | NO! | |
Sweeper | Get her on the elevator! Get the kid out of here! | |
Young Jarod | Stop! | |
Miss Parker | What? | |
Sydney | Jarod has them, doesn’t he? | |
Miss Parker | Has what? | |
Sydney | The answers you’re looking for. | |
Miss Parker | When I catch him, I’ll just have to find out. | |
Sydney | You may have that chance. Commander Jarod Forrester is currently serving aboard the destroyer USS Monroe. One of Broots’ routine scans caught it. However, Naval Intelligence may already be onto him. | |
Miss Parker | Naval Intelligence? | |
Sydney | That’s correct. | |
Miss Parker | Have my father call the secretary. | |
Sydney | Yes, Miss Parker. | |
Miss Parker | Mmm. | |
DSA | ||
Young Parker | Mama! | |
Sydney | No. Keep her back. Go back. | |
Young Jarod | Leave me alone! | |
Young Parker | Mama! | |
Jarod | Yes, I’d like to purchase some tickets, please. | |
Paula Pratt | From the secretary. I’m impressed. | |
Miss Parker | You should be. | |
Nashton | Hell of a day for a deployment. What’s the good word? | |
Jarod | Surprise. Your knack for discipline has inspired me. I put together one last surprise drill before we deploy. Here, crank it to maximum. | |
Nashton | The JX-5 main? That’ll overload the system | |
Jarod | Oh, relax. I’ve shut off the pressure. Only the alarm will sound. Think of it as my personal highway to hell. | |
Paula Pratt | What’s Jarod wanted for? | |
Miss Parker | You name it, he’s done it. | |
Jarod | After you. | |
Nashton | Pressure’s building up. Hey, where the hell is everybody. | |
Jarod | They’re in the mess. Which is sort of what you’re in now. | |
Nashton | Hey, o-open the hatch! Forrester! Open the hatch! Now! | |
Jarod | Are you starting to feel out of it? Are you starting to feel disoriented? | |
Nashton | Open the hatch! | |
Jarod | I can’t do that. It could blow the whole ship up. You’re just going to have to die… to save everybody else. Just like Scott Seaver did. It’s a horrible way to die. Your lungs, they fill up with toxic ice and then they freeze. No matter how hard you try you won’t be able to breathe. But this is just a judgment call I’m going to have to make. Think of it as just another demon you have to deal with when you’re an officer. Huh, Nashton? | |
Nashton | Open the hatch! That’s an order, Commander! | |
Jarod | That’s an order I can’t really follow. You see… I’m not an officer on this ship. Think of me as Naval Intelligence. | |
Nashton | You don’t have anything on me! | |
Jarod | I know that you forced Danes to tamper with the evidence after the accident to ruin Scott Seaver’s name. You had to preserver the Monroe to save your career so you let a 20 year old kid die! Didn’t you, Nashton? Didn’t you? Didn’t you? Didn’t you? | |
Nashton | Yes, yes. God, I’m sorry. I let him die. | |
Jarod | Now, did you really think that I would put this ship into danger? That was just laughing gas. So try to laugh a little. Take him straight to Captain Nagel. And that’s an order. | |
Baker | Yes, sir. Dismissed. | |
Paula Pratt | Sir, you have a man impersonating and officer on this ship. | |
Captain Nagel | I know that. At ease, Lieutenant. There he is. | |
Paula Pratt | We were talking about Commander Forrester. | |
Captain Nagel | Jarod? | |
Paula Pratt | Yes. | |
Captain Nagel | Jarod is Naval Intelligence. I plan to see to it he gets a medal. | |
Miss Parker | Where is he? | |
Captain Nagel | Well, he was just ordered back to Norfolk by the secretary no less. If you hurry, you might still catch him. | |
Jarod | The nearest ocean is 1,756 miles from here. That’s just the way I like it. |
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