Later, in a cornfield in Iowa, a farmer carelessly tends to his crops when he suddenly stops his tractor and rushes to what he sees appear in front of him—the "seaQuest DSV" lying in the middle of his field. The UEO is notified and Captain Hudson, Ford, O'Neill, Brody and Dr. Perry quickly arrive on the scene. Perry informs Hudson that there is no medical explanation for any of the crew's memory loss, but reveals that a biopsy scar on O'Neill from a cyst he had removed three days before the ship disappeared has only healed a week, suggesting that perhaps the reason the crew doesn't remember the last ten years is because it hasn't been ten years for them. Hudson orders Ford to shake down the "seaQuest" in two hours, but Ford protests, saying it would take four to six months to do so. Hudson has no time to waste and tells Ford that as the new captain of the boat, he demands expediency, just as helicopters arrive to move the "seaQuest" to the ocean. O'Neill suggests that they might be able to get the "seaQuest" back in operational capacity quicker if they had Lucas' help. However, at the same time, Lucas breaks from UEO custody and steals a naval vessel.