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
30,000 Leagues Under the Sea Lt. Cmdr. Conceil (his ex-wife) who is presented as a "ball-buster" in contrast to Arronaux's confident but laid-back temperament. She and her assistant Blackwell are both administrative theoretical-techie types and end up stripping the "Aquanaut" of equipment that leave the "Aquanaut" in trouble as they descend to the level the "Scotia" is wrecked at. The equipment loss leads to the crew passing out for lack of oxygen. They come to on board the "Nautilus" and meet an apparently charming Captain Nemo. It soon becomes clear that the good captain is a bit unhinged and tending towards megalomania. The "Aquanaut"'s crew