With Bridger back in command of the "seaQuest", Hudson tells him that the past decade has been very difficult for humanity and that Bridger's attitude of "treating "seaQuest" as some kind of scientific holy grail was not only arrogant, it was dangerous." Bridger asks if Hudson thinks he can beat Bourne with "seaQuest", to which Hudson believes he can. While watching Darwin swim through the hydropressure swim tunnels, Hudson tells Bridger that every underwater colony now uses the same kind of system. With that in mind, Bridger orders Ford and Brody to sneak into the colony through the hydropressure system and get to Bourne.