Flipper (1995)

Dr. Keith Ricks (Brian Wimmer) returns to Bal Harbor in the Florida Keys to lead a dolphin research team. Dr. Pam Blondel (Colleen Flynn), a naval officer, joins the team, but her son (Payton Haas) isn't happy about his new living situation.

A band of pirates attacks the yacht of Andre Slater, a wealthy lawyer. The pirates destroy it with an explosion. Keith grows suspicious when a salvage boat arrives in the wake of the blast and later learns the yacht was carrying mysterious cargo.

After blowing up a shrimp trawler, a psychotic environmental activist also known as the "Green Freak" sets his sights on the Institute and plants a bomb in one of its computers. At the Institute, Keith and Pam decide to go to a seminar on bat sonar.

Keith and his friend Alan, a tuna fisherman, spend the day diving. A doctored videotape is broadcast showing Alan brutalizing a dolphin caught in his net. Keith later discovers that his friend was unjustly framed by his wife and her scheming lover.

A shady hotel owner offers Keith $10,000 to buy one of the Institute's dolphins to star in the aquatic show at his new Cuban resort. When Keith refuses, Flipper is kidnapped. Keith attempts to sneak into Cuba to rescue Flipper but is soon captured.

In part two, Flipper refuses to perform for the grand opening of a Cuban hotel resort. With the help of a beautiful local woman, Keith breaks out of jail and plots to rescue Flipper before the vengeful resort owner can hurt the reluctant dolphin.

When Flipper helps Keith, Pam and Alex discover an illegal shark-finning line, the team find several sharks hooked, bleeding and finless. They immediately file a report with the marine patrol, which sends older brother Sandy to investigate.

Mike and Maya take the Institute's new submersible out to sea to try to photograph a mermaid they think they saw. Mike's inexperience piloting the boat places them in deadly peril when they get trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean surface.

Pam's ex-husband, Scott, unexpectedly shows up at the Institute. Mike sees it as a chance to reunite his parents with the help of Maya's magic charm. But tensions rise when it becomes clear the former couple does not seem to be made for each other.

Keith and Mike are on a diving exercise with Flipper when they inadvertently disrupt a photographer during an underwater photo shoot. Eager to show there are no hard feelings, the photographer invites Keith and Mike to her exhibition.

A young teenager is rescued from a raft at sea and is oblivious to her surroundings and the attentions of Flipper. Her condition is monitored by Dr. Hanson and Commander Tolliver who soon become concerned at their patient's lack of progress.

Keith brings Pam to an exotic, secluded coral reef, only to be captured by two thugs. A shadowy figure interrogates them, pressing them as to what they are doing there. Not believing they are scientists, the thugs dump Keith and Pam overboard.

Maya gets annoyed with Mike for procrastinating on the work they have to do for a school project. Meanwhile, international criminals force Keith and his friend Garcia to help them locate a Cuban nuclear missile submerged in Florida coastal waters.

A hurricane rips into the coastline just as Aphrodite the dolphin is about to give birth. Mike leaves the shelter and braves the storm when he can't reach his mother, Pam, who has decided to stay at the Institute to help Aphrodite, on the phone.

While Keith and Pam try to persuade a wealthy patron to donate to the Marine Institute, Mike and Maya meet a local surfer, Jinx, who promises to teach them to surf but, in the process, gets them mixed up with a gang of hip, young hoodlums.

Monkey Island is a forbidden place, marked with warning signs prohibiting entry. Naturally, Mike and Maya pay the island a visit and unknowingly bring home a stowaway monkey. They agree to keep their little adventure a secret.

After being rammed during a swim, a spoiled teen wakes up in the hospital with broken bones and points to Flipper as his attacker. Things look worse for the dolphin when Keith's satellite tracking device confirms that Flipper was in the area.

Maya entrusts Mike with a family secret, but a surprise visitor from her past threatens to reveal all. Meanwhile, the Institute is turned upside down when a self-important benefactor moves in and attempts to reorganize its operations.

Flipper's pal falls sick after coming into contact with a toxic substance and beaches herself near the Institute. While Keith and Pam desperately seek to locate the pollution's source, more dolphins wash up with the same life-threatening symptoms.

Dangerous mishaps start occurring after Bal Harbor University gets a new student, an ex-con whose brother Keith helped put in jail. The sociopath is seeking vengeance not just on Keith alone. He is determined to hurt Keith's friends as well.

Reports of shark attacks crop up at a beach property that is slated for a new resort hotel. Further complications arise as a hotelier plans to sabotage the building of his competitor's resort by transferring endangered species of fish to its waters.

Keith invents an echo-location transmitting device to emit clicks and whistles to Aphrodite, and then translates her responses into audible speech. A rival scientist, Dr. Albert Vanhoff, dismisses Keith's innovation as an absurd fairy tale.