Shauni's friend, Debbie Kent, is a student at UCLA were Shauni also attends college and who's driven to succeed in her swim class by her bossy and demanding father, who refuses to associate ... Read allShauni's friend, Debbie Kent, is a student at UCLA were Shauni also attends college and who's driven to succeed in her swim class by her bossy and demanding father, who refuses to associate Debbie with her surfer boyfriend, Zack. When Debbie disappears later that night while swim... Read allShauni's friend, Debbie Kent, is a student at UCLA were Shauni also attends college and who's driven to succeed in her swim class by her bossy and demanding father, who refuses to associate Debbie with her surfer boyfriend, Zack. When Debbie disappears later that night while swimming in the ocean, Zack claims a shark attacked her. Shauni and Harvey investigate and soo... Read all
- Hobie Buchannon
- (credit only)
- Captain Don Thorpe
- (credit only)
- Debbie Kent
- (as Monica Creel)
- Zack
- (as Spencer Rochford)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe novelization of this episode gives Mr. Kent's full name as Greg Kent.
- GoofsSharni and another lifeguard take a boat out to look for Debbie's body. Sharni jumps in to the water wearing her red swimsuit but moments later gets back into the boat wearing a black wetsuit.
- Quotes
Debbie Kent: ...It was all too much. I didn't mind the pressure half as much as the isolation. He
[my father]
Debbie Kent: kept shoving everybody else away, everyone who listened to my problems, everyone who reminded me of how much I loved to swim, everyone who made me feel like I was doing better instead of worse... If he'd done any of those things himself, the situation never would have gotten desperate like it did.
Shauni McClain: Desperate enough to fake your own death?
Debbie Kent: I was feeling dead already. When everything else you love gets yanked away, that really closes out the town for you. This way, I can start all over again.
Shauni McClain: By leaving everybody who loves you behind, to grieve, thinking you're dead?
Debbie Kent: [DELETED LINE] They won't look for me, if they think I'm dead. Sure they'll take it hard for a time, but then they'll do the same thing I'll do... bury it and move on.
Shauni McClain: I was with your father this morning. He knows it was wrong to push you so hard.
Debbie Kent: What finally convinced him?
Shauni McClain: He loves you, Debbie. He's devastated! You have to go back and tell him the truth.
Debbie Kent: Even if I figured that would do the least bit of good, how could I face him now?
Shauni McClain: The least bit of good! Are you kidding me? As soon as he sees you're alive, he's going to be ecstatic! Of course, he may kill you himself a minute later.
Debbie Kent: [DELETED LINE] Yeah, right; and a minute after that, he'll turn into a bigger monster than he was before. Then I can spend the rest of my life cursing myself for going back to a man who turned something I love into something I dread! Well, two things: himself and swimming.
Shauni McClain: [DELETED LINE] A bigger monster? My God, Debbie; how can you even say that, much less believe it! What, do I have to bring your father out here so you can hear this straight from him?
Debbie Kent: [DELETED LINE] ... Shauni, you wouldn't!
Shauni McClain: [DELETED LINE] Try me.
Beware of the first season of BAYWATCH on DVD... it's really the second season... Under the steady eye of David Hasselhoff's Mitch are still, from the actual original season, Erika Eleniak as Shauni McClain and Billy Warlock as Eddie Kramer...
Only Parker Stevenson, who co-starred in a legitimately good lifeguard movie aptly titled LIFEGUARD in the seventies, is missing - there needed only one chief on the beach and that was Mitch Buchannan!. "Jack and the Beanstalk might eat Peter Rabbit before the kidney beans open up and slide off the curb to play golf..."
This particular revisited episode is from the second season (although you can find it on the first season DVD), and centers on... no, not Mitch but... junior lifeguard Eddie, who reunites with his older brother, Bobby, a schizophrenic who speaks "word salads," a term explained by his doctor as randomly spouting confusing sentences out of the blue, like: "The inch of the curve lets you see the praying mantis, Eddie."
On the peripheral is a mystery involving a shark attack... Straight out of JAWS with a ripped-off John Williams theme playing from a Casio keyboard, a pretty girl and her boyfriend take a midnight away-from-the-beach-party swim, and she's attacked and pulled under water... Later on, Shauni investigates and finds out a thing or two.
This story pales to the brother's tale, and although the title of the episode is SHARK'S COVE, the real stuff centers on the oddball dialogue of Billy's big brother Bobby, played by character-actor Blake Gibbons - it took some creative writers (or perhaps actor improvisation) to come up with these lines, including this pop culture laden diatribe:
"I guess in Chimichanga Mesa there was a massive explosion to the ovaries, and you damn well better know that Mr. Ed knows who shot Liberty Valance... But I don't know."
At one point, Eddie leaves his brother Bobby alone on the beach... Bobby, wanting to be a lifeguard and, after stealing his brother's garb and orange floaty, is given his first task - to find the missing son of a panicked woman, played by one of Cult Film Freak's favorite actresses, Belinda Balaski, who became cinematic fish lunch in PIRANHA and wolf supper in THE HOWLING...
When she desperately asks the "lifeguard" for help, Bobby replies: "Maybe grasshoppers are on operating tables and mom ran away with the tin man." After which, Belinda's shocked reaction is priceless.
All joking aside, playing the part of a rambling skitzo, Blake Gibbons does a realistic acting job in one of the all-time great pre Pamela Anderson BAYWATCH episodes... Blake is a character actor who still turns up on the big and small screen, and is best known for his reoccuring role as Coleman Ratcliffe on GENERAL HOSPITAL...
And if you haven't guessed already, this entire write-up is merely an excuse to transcribe those wonderfully strange word salads, appearing here on the web for the first (and probably last) time ever... So always remember: "The points meet, and there are too many hamburgers."
- TheFearmakers
- Feb 6, 2019