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I think we should go back

to the hospital...

Admiral, have you ever seen

a Confederate gold dollar?

- Dear God, don't start this again.

- Of course not.

The Confederacy never made

a gold dollar.

The mint was destroyed

near the end of the war.

Dirk, I beg you on my hands

and knees. Don't.

But not before Jefferson Davis

had five samples made.

He gave four of those samples

to his top generals:

- Lee, Jackson, Stuart and Johnston.

- Every time we come to Africa,

out comes that stupid ship model.

Out come the old port journals.

We are leaving for Australia

tomorrow.

Four of those samples

have been found.

But the fifth never was.

That one was given to

an old family friend of Davis.

A brilliant young sea captain

named Mason Tombs.

Captain of the CSS ironclad Texas.

- Where in the hell did you get this?

- Frederick Oshodi.

And he got it from a man

named Indigwe.

But the important thing is that Indigwe

found this in Labbezanga, Mali.

Hey, my dad collects coins.

No, that coin and the Texas

were on the Niger River.

It's impossible. An ironclad

couldn't make it with her draft.

Let me take the Calliope

to Labbezanga, have a look around.

- You can't have my boat, Dirk.

- Three days, admiral.

Just three days. Imagine.

Imagine.

All right, if I strike out,

you'll never hear another word

about this.

You got 72 hours.

And not a nanosecond more.

You fellas just bought

yourself a boat trip.

You're a gentleman, admiral.

I don't care what they say about you.

I got a bottle says we never find it.

- Make it a case.

- All right. You're on.

- Okay, I'll see you later.

- See you later.

Hey, yo!

- You're late.

- Excuse me?

- I was told 8:
00 departure.

- Eight o'clock?

- I never said 8:00.

- I said 9.

- Nine.

- It's after 1 0.

Who said 8?

Admiral Sandecker.

Yeah, he said to give him a call

if you had any problems.

A problem? With what?

He wants you to take us

up the river to Mali.

- What?

- Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

- Taking you to Mali?

- Wait.

There's been an outbreak in Mali.

- It's going to become an epidemic.

- And you wanna hitch a ride, doctor?

What, WHO's making

budgetary cutbacks?

Please. It's important.

- You guys got enough gear?

- Probably not.

Small boat. No privacy.

I'm not shy.

Where do you call home?

I have a house in Monterey,

but I'm never there.

Monterey. There's great diving

in Monterey.

Is that all you ever think about?

Diving?

No. Sometimes I think about

Petricola pholadiformis.

The angel wing clam.

- Beautiful.

- Yeah.

This river's the only place

on earth they're found.

When they're underwater,

they glow in the dark.

Now, the amazing thing is that

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