Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

In the 19th century...

...Jules Verne wrote some of the greatest adventure stories ever told.

Novels such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea...

...Journey to the Center of the Earth...

...and The Mysterious Island.

Most consider these works of science fiction.

Vernians know otherwise.

Not good!

Whoa!

Ha-ha-ha. Aah!

Whoa! Good boy!

Seriously?

Okay.

Here we...

...go!

Evening, officers. Anyone up for a late night swim?

Hey, buddy. Missed you at poker this week.

Thanks for the call. What's going on?

We didn't want this going out over the radio.

Kid broke into a satellite facility.

Then he drove...

...his dirt bike into...

...the McGillicuttys' pool. I talked them out of pressing charges.

Anderson!

Your stepfather's here for you.

No. Legal guardian.

If it weren't for me, you'd be in juvie for the next six months.

Rather do the time.

Do you want to explain to me...

...why you were breaking into a satellite facility in the middle of nowhere?

Don't worry about it, Mom. It's nothing, really.

The police calling in the middle of the night is nothing?

Sean?

What was he doing there? What was he looking for?

Honey, I don't know. All we can do is ask him.

Hey. Sean, we gotta talk about this.

I'm confused. Who gave him a speaking part?

-Hey. -Without my speaking part, we'd visit you...

-...in jail right now. -I'm already in jail.

What is that supposed to mean? Sean?

I didn't ask to be taken away from my school and friends, and dragged all the way to Dayton.

-It's okay, Liz. -No, it's not.

Sean!

-Sean! It's gotta be tough on him...

...with his father gone. That still doesn't excuse his behavior.

Okay.

Now that I got you, I just gotta figure out what you mean.

[CROCODILES' "SLEEP FOREVER" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]

Not here.

Hey, it's me. You busy?

Yes.

I was looking to talk to you.

You know, very concerned adult to somewhat troubled youth.

Which one am I in that equation?

Cracked up the walkway to my door

Brought you as a--

Hey, buddy.

What's all this?

Nothing.

That's a cryptogram, right? Looks like Morse code.

Mm-hm.

Yeah, look.

One syllable words, dots. Two syllable words, dashes.

I learned that in the Navy.

Okay, then. What's it say?

What's it for?

It's complicated.

So is the code.

Okay. Here's the deal.

A few nights ago, a radio signal got sent out.

Could've been anywhere. It was these words on a loop.

"Pip, Zorn, Strux."

All characters from the books of Verne. The message was by a Vernian.

And my equipment wasn't powerful enough to receive the whole message, so...

So you broke into that satellite facility to boost your signal.

Someone sent this message and I'm gonna be the person to solve it.

This is really important to me.

Hey, you know what? Why don't we solve this together?

Fine.

Okay.

The first part of the message reads, "The...

...I-S-I."

Island.

"Is..."

R-E. "Real. The island is real."

You're serious? You're not messing with me?

No. That's what it says. "The island is real."

I can't believe it. I can't believe somebody actually found the island.

What island?

The Mysterious Island. Vernians have been looking for this for years.

What's the rest say?

"Child of Steve, born...

...eighteen...

...eight-three."

"Born 1883."

Child of Steve. Child of Steve.

Maybe "son of Steve"?

Steven's son. Stevenson.

-Robert Louis Stevenson. -The author.

He was born way before 1883. Gotta be somebody else.

Maybe it's not a somebody.

Maybe it's a something.

What are we looking for?

Come on.

Aha!

Treasure Island, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883.

-What's the next part of the riddle? -All right.

"The name that's last is going fast.

-He hitched his tale to Lemuel's mast." -Okay, so his...

-...last name is going fast. A runner? -What if his last name...

...is fast?

Fleet or Quick. Swift.

Swift. Jonathan Swift.

Another author.

Writing about another island.

So "Lemuel" must be...

Nice. Lemuel Gulliver.

-We have three different books. -By three different authors.

About three different islands.

Maybe...

Maybe all three books are about the same island.

Maybe that's why nobody else has ever found it...

...because they haven't used the other two books.

Treasure Island's got a map.

Yeah, Swift has one too.

These are different than Verne's. I don't get it.

What are you doing?

You know what I did in the Navy, Sean?

No.

I won the esteemed...

...Rochefort Award...

...three years in a row...

...for code-breaking.

Incredible.

We found your Mysterious Island.

Uh, what are those?

Coordinates.

Longitude and latitude.

And that'll put us right about...

...here.

That's 100 miles off the coast of Palau, in the middle of the South Pacific.

What are you doing?

-I gotta go. -Go where?

To Mysterious Island.

All right, cool. Hey, can you stop by the moon and grab me a Slurpee?

Joke all you want.

Yeah, I will, and you're gonna be here to listen to it. You're not going to Palau, Sean.

Why not?

Number one, you're grounded. On top of that, you got school.

I'm a straight-A student. I can afford to miss a couple days. This is Mysterious Island.

Slow down. Okay?

You think you'll travel...

...around the world...

...meet up with some lunatic...

-...messing around on a ham radio? -It's not some lunatic.

It's Alexander Anderson, my grandfather.

How would you know he sent that?

Makes sense. He's the original Vernian in the family...

...he's been looking for the island half his life and nobody's heard from him in two years.

-I think he's in trouble. I'm gonna find him. -Sean, stop. Sean.

Stop!

I'm not letting you go on a rescue mission by yourself. Whether you like it or not...

...you're still a kid.

Look, I understand your situation, okay?

You wanna make my mom happy and I appreciate that. I really do.

But you need to just focus on running your construction company...

...and paying the mortgage and asking her how her day was...

...because I'm okay.

And like it or not, this is bigger than you.

Apparently the message was sent by his grandfather.

Sean said he's been missing for a couple years.

It's hard to be missing if you were never around.

I wouldn't trust one word from Alexander Anderson.

Sean seems really convinced.

Oh, it's always convincing from Alexander.

I see. So in Sean's mind, Alexander's this glamorous adventurer.

When in reality...

...he was a man that wasn't there when his family needed him the most.

That's why we need to let Sean...

-...go on this trip. -Why?

Sean needs a man in his life.

Somebody who'll be there for him and connect with him.

We were cracking that code, that was the first time...

...that we were on the same page.

Then bond with him on some non-mysterious island, like Hawaii.

Ah, Hawaii. Our honeymoon.

Aloha oe

Yes, but I'm serious, babe.

I'm serious too.

We'll fly down to Palau.

When Sean realizes the island's not real, his grandfather's not there...

...I'll be there to cushion the blow, and done will be done.

Good morning, buddy. 0700 hours.

I'm busy.

I don't think you're gonna be too busy for this.

I'm going to Palau?

Ha, ha. Close.

We're going to Palau.

What?

I know you've won the esteemed Rochefort Award...