Original subtitles

(gentle music)

(Flipper grunting)

- Sorry, Flipper-

We got something very important going on.

- Pop, does this sign mean

for the underwater part of the park too?

- Everything.

- But why are they closing the park, Pop?

- Well, if Dr. Simmons had shown up, I could answer that.

Right now, I don't know son.

It was an emergency order, right out of Washington.

- Then it must be something serious.

- It's real serious.

- You think it has anything to do

with the man you're meeting at the lagoon?

Well, I don't know.

Could be.

It's part of the same emergency order.

("Flipper" by Henry Vars and William Dunham)

J1 We know that Flipper, Flipper

J1 Lives in a world full of wonder

J1 Flying there under

J1 Under the sea

(gentle music)

' Pa!

- There's not a sign of a boat anywhere.

- Pa, can we go in the water?

- Well, Sandy, you know the park's closed.

- But you're out here with us.

- Alright, but stay inside the lagoon.

- Pa said we can go swimming.

- Oh boy!

Come on, hurry up.

(bird squawking)

- Hi, Pete.

(mimicking dolphin squeaking)

(water splashing)

(Flipper cackling)

(bird squawkirfg) (Flipper squealing)

Call Flipper.

- Flipper!

Flipper!

(water splashing)

Come on, boy.

Come on, Flipper.

Come here, give me a kiss.

(bird squawking)

(dog barking)

(dramatic music)

' Pa, pa!

I saw a sub!

The biggest, biggest sub.

I found it.

- Easy now, Bud.

Easy.

But we did see a sub, Pa.

- A nuclear sub!

- A sub? Here?

You boys must be--

You're Dr. Rothwell?

- What are these kids doing here?

These waters are supposed to be closed to everybody.

They're not park visitors, they're my sons.

- I don't care whose sons they are.

The quicker you get them out of here

the better it'll be for you.

- Doctor, where I go, my boys go.

Now right now, that means right here.

- Do you have a carton for me?

- Get it for him, Sandy.

- Where's Dr. Simmons?

You were supposed to bring him with you.

- Plane trouble, he won't be in until tomorrow.

Here you are, Doctor.

Just sign this and I can get on about my business

and you can get on about yours.

- Now, just a minute.

If I see those two boys in the water again,

Chief Ranger or not, you'll be on suspension

by the end of the day.

- Doctor, some very good advice.

You just climb back into that sardine can of yours

and roll up the lid.

- You mean to say you're deliberately exposing

your own boys to--

- Exposing them to what?

- To what?

You don't know?

- No, I don't know.

Doctor Simmons was supposed to brief me.

- I'm sorry.

I'm an ichthyo-toxicologist.

Big word, do you know what it means?

- Yes, it's a specialist in poisonous fish.

- You had a death here last week.

A fella who was brought up unconscious

when he was diving in the underwater part of the park.

- That's true.

What about it.

- The autopsy indicated that he pricked his finger

on one of the spines of a scorpion fish.

- Scorpion fish?

- Spines that are like hypodermic needles,

filled with venom.

Deadly as a cobra.

- I know.

Well, no wonder you blew up when you saw my boys.

There haven't been any scorpion fish in this area for years.

- Well, if they have come back, we can get rid of them.

But first we have to be sure.

- Now wait a minute.

This is a two-man sub.

You're one man short.

- I'll manage.

- You'll be back when?

- Back here by 1:30.

- Alright, you've got to exactly 1:30.

No more swimming today boys.

(Flipper grunting)

Sorry Flipper.

Maybe you ought to come out of the water too.

(dramatic music)

- Go away, will you.

Go away.

(metal clanging)

(dramatic music)

(dramatic music)

(breathing heavily)

(dramatic music)

- Grandma Hadley, Grandma Hadley!

You've got to leave, the park is closed.

- Oh, but the light is just perfect.

- Emergency order, no exceptions.

That's pretty good.

Come on boys, let's give Grandma a hand.

- Help yourself, Bud.

You too, Sandy.

There's some for everybody but your dad.

- Then we won't have any either.

- Well, I've been trying for weeks

to get him to come to dinner,

and if he won't come to dinner, he can't have lunch.

- Well, it's only because I've been busy.

Come on boys, you can nibble on the way down.

- Pa, why do you call her Grandma?

She doesn't look like a grandma to me.

- Thank you, Sandy.

- Well, she's the nearest thing I know to Grandma Moses.

- Who's that?

- Don't you know that?

She parted the Red Sea.

(dog barking)

(Flipper cackling)

(Flipper squealing)

- Hey, Bud!

Pa wants you in.

- Coming!

- First, I'm gonna take a thorough look around out there.

Now if I decide to call for a full-scale search,

I want Coast Guard helicopters in a hurry.

You put them on standby right now.

- [Man On Radio] On standby, sir.

- Correct.

If he is in trouble, he hasn't got much time left.

- [Man On Radio] We'll get on it, sir.

- Roger and out.

- You're all set, Pop.

- Thanks, Sandy.

You stay by the radio, alright?

. Okay-

- Pa, can't I help too?

- Yes, Bud.

You go up and down the beach a way.

If you see anything unusual, come back and tell Sandy, okay?

. Okay-

Come on, Spray, come on.

(dog barking)

(Flipper grunting)

Sorry, Flipper. I can't play with you now.

(Flipper squealing)

(dog barking)

(Flipper squealing)

(dog barking)

(Flipper grunting)

(water splashing)

I didn't see anything.

- Pa hasn't either.

(Flipper grunting)

Not now, Flipper, I'm busy.

(Flipper grunting)

Bud!

Bud, this bottle is from the sub.

How did it get here?

- I don't know, Flipper had it.

- Pa better see this right away.

Pa!

Hey, Pa!

- Pa! Come here, father! - Hey, Pa!

- We got to show you something!

Pa!

' Pa!

- Pa! Come on, Pa!

' Pa!

- We got to show you something!

- Yes, Bud, this really could mean something.

If we knew where Flipper found it.

- Flipper can take us there, Pa.

I know it.

- Now, Bud, there isn't enough time--

- But I talked to Flipper, Pa.

- Pop, Flipper saw that sub right here.

I think he does understand.

- Sandy.

(Flipper cackling)

- Look, Pa!

He's telling us to come.

(Flipper squealing)

- Alright, we'll follow, but just for a few minutes.

If we don't see something real quick.

- Straight away, Pa.

He's gone.

Just gone.

- He isn't anywhere.

- I'm sorry, boys.

We're just not getting anywhere.

- But, Pa.

- Now neither of you can be sure that Flipper isn't just,

well, just playing in the sea.

Isn't that true?

- Yes, Pa, but--

- I'm sorry, but we're going back.

- There, Pa! Over there!

(Flipper cackling)

- Rothwell.

Rothwell.

. Yippie! Yay!

- You know what you said about me being

the reason that you're alive today?

That wasn't true.

- It wasn't?

(murmurs negatively)

- The real lifeguard on this beach is right out there.

(Flipper grunting)

J1 Everyone loves the king of the sea

J1 Ever so kind and gentle is he

J1 Tricks he will do

J1 When children are near

J1 And how they laugh when he's near

J1 They call him Flipper, Flipper

J1 Faster than lightning

J1 No one you see

J1 ls smarter than he

J1 And we know Flipper, Flipper

J1 Lives in a world full of wonder

J1 Flying there under, under the sea

(lion roaring)