Captain Nemo and the Underwater City attempts this but only manages to flood the machine’s control room killing Lomax in the process. During this episode, the Bath brothers sneak into the Forbidden Area where they discover a second submarine, the Nautilus II, and see it as a means of escape. Enlisting Fraser to aid them, Fraser learns how to operate the submarine. During training they ram and kill a vast Manta Ray-like creature accidentally created during the building of the city. Fraser tells Nemo he should leave as he is attempting to cut off the supply of weapons to the American Civil War. Nemo refuses but
Captain Nemo Phileas Fogg". "Nemo" is Latin for "no one". "Nemo" is, moreover, the Latin rendering of Ancient Greek "Outis" ("Nobody"), the pseudonym adopted by Odysseus, in Greek mythology—a ruse employed to outwit the cyclops Polyphemus. This appears to be the intended meaning, since in "The Mysterious Island", when addressed by Cyrus Harding as Captain Nemo, he replies, "I have no name!" Nothing concerning his past is revealed in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", except his dislike of imperialism (and of British imperial society more generally) and the apparent loss of his family in the past. In "The Mysterious Island", Captain