When Sandy, Bud and Flipper take a fun dive around wrecked cars, Bud finds a car with bullet holes. His constant agitating to push to the outer edge of Porter's rules leaves Sandy skeptical thus establishing a familiar pattern through the whole TV series - that of Bud being irresponsible and immature and Sandy being the more responsible mature older brother. Porter sums it up after Bud's protest "Bud it's not that we don't believe you, it's just we don't always believe your vivid imagination".
Despite Sandy appearing to offer to help, Porter lays down the law and forbids the boys to dive around the cars. Even Sandy is now curious and so he and Bud talk to their 20 something friend Johnny about this suspicious car with the bullet holes because Porter had helped him dump some cars. Turns out Johnny was paid $500 to dump the car Bud found as it had been used in a crime and the criminal who ordered the job orders the car to be blown up. The boys can't resist and use searching for conch shells as an excuse to head in the vicinity of the car. As you can guess Johnny arrives to plant the bomb right when Sandy and Bud are exploring the bullet ridden car and he shuts them in and drops the bomb in his haste to get away.
Porter is suspicious as he finds no boys or Flipper at home and searches in the skiff meanwhile Flipper moves the bomb as far from the boys as possible. Time is running out as the air runs out in Bud's bottle. Flipper guides Porter to the boys and with nothing more than a face mask he opens the car door. They all surface gasping for air and Porter is not happy.
Porter's about to give the boys a good lickin until the police pull up with Johnny and the whole story comes out including shooting the criminal. Bud's first instinct is to ask Porter if he can see the shot up car! Sandy can't believe Johnny would do something so bad and he advises the boys to obey their father. Porter decides the life lesson was enough punishment. It was a 'boys will be boys' episode. I love the old fashioned values that were so evident in this series. Today's parents would take away their cell phones and put them in therapy!
Despite Sandy appearing to offer to help, Porter lays down the law and forbids the boys to dive around the cars. Even Sandy is now curious and so he and Bud talk to their 20 something friend Johnny about this suspicious car with the bullet holes because Porter had helped him dump some cars. Turns out Johnny was paid $500 to dump the car Bud found as it had been used in a crime and the criminal who ordered the job orders the car to be blown up. The boys can't resist and use searching for conch shells as an excuse to head in the vicinity of the car. As you can guess Johnny arrives to plant the bomb right when Sandy and Bud are exploring the bullet ridden car and he shuts them in and drops the bomb in his haste to get away.
Porter is suspicious as he finds no boys or Flipper at home and searches in the skiff meanwhile Flipper moves the bomb as far from the boys as possible. Time is running out as the air runs out in Bud's bottle. Flipper guides Porter to the boys and with nothing more than a face mask he opens the car door. They all surface gasping for air and Porter is not happy.
Porter's about to give the boys a good lickin until the police pull up with Johnny and the whole story comes out including shooting the criminal. Bud's first instinct is to ask Porter if he can see the shot up car! Sandy can't believe Johnny would do something so bad and he advises the boys to obey their father. Porter decides the life lesson was enough punishment. It was a 'boys will be boys' episode. I love the old fashioned values that were so evident in this series. Today's parents would take away their cell phones and put them in therapy!
