[00:00.51] Part two.
[00:02.97] Chapter three.
[00:05.99] The Fish of Steel.
[00:11.71] We were pulled down a metal ladder.
[00:15.80] And before we had time to look around, we were shoved along a corridor and into a prison cell.
[00:25.83] Two men followed us in.
[00:31.30] One of them had a broad back and big muscles.
[00:37.86] The other one was taller, with cold, staring eyes.
[00:44.61] He looked like the one in charge.
[00:49.77] I explained to them who we were.
[00:53.43] I spoke in French, but they didn't reply.
[00:59.16] I tried speaking in English, German, and Italian, but they still didn't answer me.
[01:09.09] Perhaps actions speak louder than words, Ned said.
[01:14.56] And before I could stop him, he threw the broad-shouldered man to the floor and pinned him down.
[01:26.16] Careful, gentlemen, the tall man said.
[01:31.40] He spoke in French, so he had understood me after all.
[01:38.71] Don't make me angry.
[01:41.79] I know who you are.
[01:46.29] We aren't on land now, and I don't have to live by your laws.
[01:55.36] He was deadly serious.
[01:58.99] Nobody else had a submarine like his.
[02:03.75] He was all powerful on the sea, safe to do whatever he wanted, and nobody could stop him.
[02:14.45] Professor Arronax, he said.
[02:20.22] You're in my world now, and here you will stay until you die.
[02:28.24] What?
[02:29.86] Ned cried, ready to hit him.
[02:33.85] You mean we'll never see our friends and families again?
[02:41.22] You are prisoners of war, the tall man said.
[02:48.92] You're lucky I didn't let you drown.
[02:54.81] And now that you know the secret of my submarine, I cannot let you go.
[03:07.40] Ned raised a fist, but I held him back.
[03:12.50] Even if we could fight our way out of the cell, how would we escape the submarine without drowning?
[03:23.51] Who are you?
[03:25.55] I asked the tall man.
[03:33.05] My name is Captain Nemo, he said.
[03:38.52] And you are aboard the Nautilus, the most powerful ship in all the oceans.
[03:52.00] It was hard to believe that we were really prisoners.
[03:58.81] Before taking us to our cabins, Captain Nemo showed us round the ship.
[04:07.22] I could only think that he wanted to show it off.
[04:14.91] First, we went into a huge room that Nemo called the saloon.
[04:23.50] The walls were covered with shelves, full of hundreds of books.
[04:32.48] Amongst these books, you will find yours, professor.
[04:39.37] Mysteries of the underwater world, Nemo said calmly.
[04:47.50] I was strangely pleased to think that he had already heard of me.
[04:57.92] But that book is just the beginning, Nemo said.
[05:04.74] You will learn a lot more about the underwater world on board the Nautilus.
[05:17.53] Apart from books, there were many other treasures in the saloon.
[05:24.60] It was like being in a museum, full of things that lived in the sea or were lost at sea.
[05:34.41] There were glass cases of fossils and shells, and aquariums full of coral, seaweed, and multicolored fish.
[05:49.06] There were broken stone pillars from the Lost City of Atlantis, bronze fittings from the Greek ships that attacked Troy, Viking helmets, pieces of Roman armor, and a dagger that had belonged to Christopher Columbus.
[06:10.44] This was the greatest kind of treasure for a scientist and a historian like myself.
[06:19.14] I could write another book on the study of these finds alone.
[06:26.97] But Ned was not interested in treasure like this.
[06:34.36] His eyes were on the chests of gold coins, rescued from sunken Spanish gallions, and the piles of rubies and diamonds wrapped in a skull and crossbones pirate flag, brought up from the seabed of the Caribbean.
[06:54.07] Against one wall, there was a large piano.
[06:59.56] Nemo played a few dramatic chords on it as we looked around.
[07:07.44] There was more science, history, and wealth in this one room than in all the museums and banks of Europe put together.
[07:20.62] I can tell you like the sea, captain, Conseil said, half joking.
[07:27.72] The sea is everything to me, Nemo said seriously.
[07:35.93] It's a pure and clean place.
[07:40.85] The sea does not belong to evil rulers.
[07:47.55] Here, I am free.
[07:57.49] A few moments later, we passed an iron ladder.
[08:02.38] Ned asked what it was for.
[08:07.18] It leads to a small boat on the upper part of the Nautilus, Nemo said.
[08:17.98] There's a manhole from the Nautilus to an airtight compartment in the small boat.
[08:26.20] When the small boat is set loose, the airtight compartment lets us breathe until we get to the surface.
[08:38.25] Worth remembering, Ned whispered to me under his breath, for when we make our escape.
[08:48.19] I said nothing.
[08:52.67] After seeing the library of books and the treasures, I couldn't think of escape.
[08:59.54] I could only think of getting to look at them again.
[09:06.44] Nemo was showing us the engine room.
[09:12.97] My new technology gives my engines endless power, he explained.
[09:21.42] You saw the jets of water from my pumps that burst over the Abraham Lincoln.
[09:29.39] Of course, I said.
[09:34.13] We thought they were the blow holes of a whale.
[09:41.32] But how did you build the nautilus without anybody knowing?
[09:46.53] Conseil asked.
[09:50.67] Each section was made in a different part of the world.
[09:56.54] They were then sent to a secret workshop where they were all put together, Nemo said.
[10:06.33] We returned to the saloon, and Nemo left us alone to get used to our new home.
[10:15.96] Well, Ned said.
[10:20.45] Any ideas about how we are going to escape?
[10:26.16] I want to forget escaping for the time being, I answered.
[10:32.85] Forget about escaping, Ned said.
[10:39.10] Are you mad?
[10:43.41] This is my great chance, I said.
[10:49.51] I could write the best book of my life on this ship.
[10:57.54] Isn't your freedom worth more than a book?
[11:02.71] Ned asked.
[11:06.85] The professor is giving up his freedom for the greater good of science, Conseil said in my defense.
[11:17.15] Don't you understand, Ned?
[11:21.05] I said.
[11:22.63] I've got to see more of this underwater world.
[11:27.16] I need to learn about it.
[11:31.69] See?
[11:33.92] Ned scoffed.
[11:36.70] But we can't see anything in this steel box.
[11:43.97] A sliding noise interrupted him.
[11:47.45] Light burst into the saloon.
[11:53.04] Part of the wall opened to show a window that looked out under the surface of the sea.
[12:03.68] The water was lit up for a mile in all directions.
[12:12.70] Sea creatures of all kinds swam before me.
[12:21.92] There were mackerel with blue bodies and silvery heads, Japanese salamanders, jellyfish with violet spots, and serpents with sharp teeth.
[12:35.26] It was like looking into a giant fish tank.
[12:40.49] Well, now we can see what we want, Ned, I said.
[12:51.12] Yes.
[12:53.43] I can see that they're free, and we're not, Ned said sourly, pointing at all the fish.
[13:03.96] I said nothing.
[13:07.53] I didn't want to admit it, but I admired Nemo.
[13:14.48] There was something in his steely determination that made me want to trust him.
[13:22.02] He loved the sea as I did, and I was happy to be a prisoner if I could learn more than any other scientist in the whole world.