MALE NARRATOR: Previously on Surface.
You're not Nim!
NARRATOR: A swarm of creatures attacked Miles.
KELLINO: CIear!
NARRATOR: Miles recovered but something inside him changed.
Rich and Daughtery gathered evidence of the new species
and showed it to the world.
To the top of the Countdown now,
and we conclude with a wild tale of what lies beneath.
Do you think it could be a left over dinosaur? Partly.
Within six months, we wiII be on the brink of an ecoIogicaI disaster.
Want us to bring them in?
NARRATOR: But Lee will do anything to shut them down.
We're past that.
MAN: Front desk. I have a fax here for you.
NARRATOR: Now, Surface continues.
(KNOCKING)
RICH: Wait. LAURA: What?
Nobody knows we're here. So who's gonna send us a fax?
I don't know Ann or the network or something?
AII right, teII him to sIip it under the door though.
Yeah, can you sIip it under the door, pIease?
I need a signature, ma'am.
Since when do they need a signature for a fax?
That Iatch.
(BANGING ON DOOR)
Rich!
HoId it! I am!
What are you doing? I'm Ieaving.
It's tight, it's tight, it's tight.
Fourth fIoor. Room directIy beIow.
AII right. Okay, okay.
Check aII the stairweIIs!
I'm on it!
AII right. No one's in the haII.
But, you know, I think we shouId wait it out.
They ain't gonna be fooIed for Iong.
We're better off making a run for it.
I'm teIIing you. Come on, Iet's go.
Here.
(GRUNTING)
LAURA: Oh! Keep going!
Go downstairs, go! Wait! What?
Get outta here! Go! Get going! I'II catch up.
(MAN GRUNTING)
(GRUNTING)
(MAN GROANING)
(MAN SPEAKING ON WALKIE-TALKIE)
(PANTING)
What happened?
Let's go.
That one. That one.
Where to?
Anywhere. Just keep going. I'II teII you where in a second.
God, Rich, is that a gun? Yeah. Shush.
Is that bIood? Are you bIeeding?
It's aII right. It ain't my bIood.
AII right, Iet's see what we got here.
''Agency of Strategic InteIIigence.''
Agent John GiIman.
WeII, I guess it's officiaI.
Now we're fugitives.
SYLVIA: MiIes, come on! It's time to go!
AII right. I guess.
(WOMAN CHATTERING ON PA SYSTEM)
RemarkabIe. No indication of a bite wound at aII.
Temperature's normaI.
So, what was it, MitcheII?
You said you'd know better once the Iab resuIts were in.
FUO? What's that?
We're stiII caIIing it a ''fever of unknown origin''.
Meaning you have absoIuteIy no idea what happened.
You Iucked out.
WeII, forgive me, but that's not very reassuring.
Mom. CouId I just have a moment aIone with Dr. Ashton?
Oh, um, sure.
(MAN CHATTERING)
So I was just wondering about that ''unknown origin'' part.
Is it possibIe that my fever was caused by some physioIogicaI change?
Maybe a tissue anomaIy Iike a coIIagen vascuIar or granuIomatous disease?
You were just ''wondering'' this?
I Iooked some stuff up onIine.
MiIes, we had a pretty intense scare, you and I.
So just teII me. What's on your mind?
Is it possibIe that if some weird thing bites you,
that your body changes?
Like, you become Iike it in some way?
You're 1 4, MiIes, your body changes daiIy,
and some of those changes are pretty strange.
We don't need any granuIomatous disease
or anything eIse to expIain it, it's just Iife. Stand up.
You're fine. PerfectIy normaI.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
Hey, Laura! Where have you been?
I've been trying to get in touch with you aII morning.
I know. We couIdn't get to a phone.
WeII, the feedback from the show has been phenomenaI.
Countdown was bombarded with aII sorts of emaiIs and responses...
Oh, my God, Rich, are you okay?
Yeah.
Something's happened.
I don't understand why these peopIe wouId be after you?
No, not just peopIe, okay?
We're taIking about the Agency of Strategic InteIIigence.
Did they show a warrant or a subpoena?
(SCOFFS)
Uh, no, these guys are more Iike, uh, the mob.
WeII, what were they gonna do? I mean, the story's aIready out there.
They can discredit the story. We're the onIy Iiving witnesses.
That's right. And it's the ''Iiving'' part they got a probIem with.
Wow. Okay.
This is getting scary.
And interesting.
Let me go to the office, make some caIIs.
Jack Cooper at SOCOM.
Wait, wait. Jack Cooper? Who's that?
Uh, he's a Marine coIoneI, a friend I can trust,
someone who might be abIe to make some sense out of this.
But you don't teII him we're here.
No. You have my word. Okay.
And in the meantime, you guys make yourseIf at home.
Not much in the fridge, but it's aII yours, okay?
AII right? I'II caII you Iater. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, wait, we ain't answering your phone.
WeII, I'II ring once and then Iet it hang up and you pick it up after that.
Okay, that's good. AII right? Thank you, Ann. Thank you.
You reaIIy think they were gonna kiII us?
Damn right I do.
AII I can think about is just Jesse.
When am I gonna see Jesse again? That's aII I can think about.
Okay, we've been through this, aII right?
You wanna see Jesse, I want to see my IittIe girIs,
but we both know if we try to contact them,
we're onIy putting them at more risk.
I mean, they found us at a dang hoteI, for goodness' sakes.
Now, your friend, she's asking the right questions. Did they have a subpoena? No.
Did they give us a search warrant? Uh-uh.
I'm teIIing you right now those guys wouId've
thrown us off that baIcony if they'd had haIf a chance.
They probabIy kiIIed Jackson.
You don't know that.
WeII, where the heII is he, then?
Why hasn't he tried to contact us?
We are onto something big. Something bigger than my brother.
Something bigger than a new species. Okay?
So, Iet's think about that when we think about our kids.
(DOORBELL RINGING)
Hi. CaitIin, right?
Yeah. Is MiIes home?
Yeah, he's upstairs. I'II get him.
No. It's okay.
(DOOR OPENING)
CAITLIN: Caught you.
Pornography?
Um, aIgebra homework.
Want to see something cooI?
AII right. Sure. Okay.
What? Um, nothing, just...
My parents have this ruIe that we're not supposed to
keep the door cIosed if there's, Iike...
What?
Like, a girI over.
I mean, not that anything's gonna happen...
You never know.
Okay, check this out.
So, I know you've been missing your sea monster,
I hooked you up with your own personaI webcam at the aquarium.
So you can Iook in on him.
I feIt bad, 'cause, I mean, it's actuaIIy kind of my fauIt
that they're not Ietting you see him. So...
Thanks.
Oh!
There's this great party at WrightsviIIe tonight if you're up for it.
SchooI night.
My parents have aII these ruIes.
God, don't Iet ruIes stop you.
Hey, Mrs. Barnett.
Let me know.
Oh, my God. I have 81 new messages.
HoIy cow. I guess peopIe are starting to taIk.
Yeah, but what kind of peopIe?
''End of days'', ''Fear the quickening'', ''Creatures kiIIed Kennedy''?
Look at this one, ''North CaroIina KiIIing.''
Says a guy was attacked in WiImington,
his fingers bit off, his eyes fried out.
Oh, boy, here we go. What's this nut saying?
Wait. What's this?
''Have you seen this? PIausibiIity T. Figurehead''.
RICH: Hey.
Rich, that's the one. That's the one that was in Cirko's office.
Hmm, that's the fIower.
ShouId we repIy to that, or... What?
WeII, I...
I know you didn't just ask me that.
You shouId know by now, anything can be traced. Anything.
But you think...
So you think it's a trap?
No, but that doesn't matter.
We got to sit tight, okay? Just...
I feeI Iike the story's out there, you know, it's viraI, I mean,
you know, this person obviousIy knows something.
Doesn't matter.
I'm repIying.
Oh, come on.
Now, you see, you shouIdn't have done that. You shouIdn't have done that.
I'II teII you right now that wasn't a good idea. I guarantee it.
There's no SWAT teams coming through the window...
WeII, give 'em time. Shut it down, right now.
Come on, Iet's not be stupid, huh?
(RINGING)
Hey.
That's new.
Do not answer that.
(BUZZING)
Hey!
See, that's exactIy the type of hi-tech stuff I'm taIking about.
Now see... See what happens?
Rich, you don't know that.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: ...that's exactly the type of hi-tech stuff
I'm talking about. Now see... See what happens?
Rich, you don't know that.
AII right, that's a trace. That is a trace.
Shut it down, shut it down.
Answer. Adenine, Cytosine. Guanine, Thymine, and...
What is that?
Answer. Guanine, Thymine. And?
UraciI.
Correct.
(BEEPING)
Dr. Daughtery?
Hey.
Yes. Who is this?
I saw your story on MSNBC.
How are you... How are you doing this to my computer?
Not all technology is in the public domain.
I was very interested in your comments on liopleurodon.
How did you sequence the DNA?
I have tissue sampIes.
I would be very interested in examining the samples myself.
Would this be possible?
Uh, sorry, who is this?
A friend.
This is crazy, man.
I can't divulge my identity.
I have a need for anonymity.
Perhaps you have experienced a similar need.
No. No way, man. No deaI, buddy.
If I wanted to harm you I could find easier ways...
What the heII is that?
It's us.
I don't want to harm you.
LAURA: Okay.
What do we get out of it?
Answers.
I've left something, in the city, as a token of my goodwill.
Do not digitize this information.
100 Leary Street.
Get a pen, get a pen.
The code is 5-7-6
.0-1-6-2.
The code for what?
AR.
The code for what?
(BOY WHOOPING)
Hey! Hi.
How'd you get the haII pass?
ToId my mom we're study partners.
From different schooIs? That's a... That's a boId choice.
CaitIin. How you doing? Hey.
Are they your friends?
Yeah. They go to Eisenhower with me.
Must be fun. Eisenhower, I mean.
Like you don't have parties at DeI Mar?
WeII, not on Monday night, not so much.
LIONEL: CaitIin!
Hey! What's up?
MiIes, this is LioneI and Mark. LioneI and Mark, MiIes.
What's up, dude? Hey, you guys wanna puII?
Nah, I'm good.
Hey, wanna go swimming?
AbsoIuteIy not. It's freezing.
CaitIin, that's the point. No.
AII right, we'II check you guys Iater.
Bye.
They're the first two guys I met when I moved here.
CAITLIN: They're idiots but sweet idiots.
So, where're we going?
I don't reaIIy know how to saiI.
Don't worry. It's not Iike you need any speciaI training or anything.
So, are you coId?
Not reaIIy.
You're supposed to say yes.
(LAUGHS)
Damn! Oh! Damn.
Okay, that was weird.
I'm sorry.
No. Not your fauIt.
It was probabIy just the static off the mast or something.
Where are you going?
Ow!
Okay. What's going on?
MiIes, what's wrong?
LIONEL: Mark!
Mark, Jonathan! Where are you guys?
Something's wrong.
LIONEL: Jonathan!
Turn it off! Turn off the music!
Mark, where are you? Mark!
What happened?
Mark and Jonathan. They went under and never came up.
I tried to find them, I swear!
Mark!
Hey, don't go out there.
Oh. Something's in the water.
Mark!
Jonathan!
100 Leary Street.
Wait a minute. We're being given the gift of Iiteracy?
ExpIains the code.
Huh? How's that?
The Dewey decimaI system.
576. 576.
576 over here. Here you go. Here you go. Right here.
Where?
Here, right here. This... This shouId be it.
Right?
Yeah, this side. Yeah, this side here.
Ah, here it is.
The Origin of Species. Ah.
Okay, Iet's see. Anything inside? No.
Dammit. How's this supposed to heIp us out?
Rich, Rich, Rich.
Look at that.
Look, there's fake IDs. Fake...
What are these? Credit cards, and... Let me see those.
Look, it's got our photos on it and everything.
They must've taken stiIIs from the news piece.
Oh, this is a terribIe picture of me.
Wow, Iook at that phone. Look at this thing.
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
HeIIo? MAN: Dr. Daughtery, please.
Uh, okay.
It's for you.
HeIIo. Hello, Dr. Daughtery.
Why are you doing aII this?
I want to create good faith. It is a gift.
The phone you have in your hand is untraceable.
You will find debit cards wired to an unlimited bank account.
Quite helpful if you're a fugitive.
Listen, uh, we can't accept aII of this.
Please accept it as a token of appreciation for what you have done so far.
What have we done?
You've survived. That's an accomplishment.
If you've given us aII these things,
there's obviousIy something you want in return.
I told you. I would like to get a look at the DNA samples of the species.
Why?
They will enable me to answer certain lingering questions that I have.
Questions about what?
Questions of the agent who...
Who?
''Framed thy fearful symmetry. ''
I'm sorry. I just... I don't understand what you're taIking about.
I'd rather not discuss it this way. Face to face?
And perhaps you could bring the samples with you.
Would you be interested?
Uh, I, uh...
Good. Thank you.
I'll be in touch with arrangements within 24 hours.
Um...
What? What'd he say? What is it?
I have no idea.
BOY 1 : Jonathan!
BOY 2: Mark!
Jonathan! WOMAN: Where are you?
Mark!
WOMAN: Jonathan!
Jonathan!
MILES: What are they doing?
They're just trying to see if they didn't get drunk
and pass out in the dunes somewhere.
But they weren't in the dunes. They were in the water.
They're just trying to do something.
BOY: Mark!
Mark! Jonathan!
Hey, hey, hey...
MAN: Mark that spot over there, okay?
CAITLIN: Mark!
We found something!
No!
They found something. Come on. Aren't you coming?
I know what they found.
(WOMAN SOBBING)
PAUL: MiIes! Jared! I need you!
Thanks for coming back, MiIes.
I came in this morning at 7:00
and found a Iab tech coIIapsed near the door to the tank room.
Attacked Iast night. By Nim?
He's out of the tank, MiIes. TotaIIy out of controI.
What did you do to him? Nothing. No one can get near him.
Where is he?
(GROWLING)
Um, Sean, hi.
Uh, it's Daughtery.
Well, I guess you can see me. I'm not used to these. I'm sorry.
Uh, listen, um...
I, um, I'm sure you've seen the MSNBC thing by now.
I got a film of the new vertebrate...
The new vertebrate.
...and it was on TV.
And, as you know there is something
very strange about the way the government is responding to it,
and, um...
Sean, I need a huge favor.
You know, uh, Carolyn Pizzoli at Berkeley?
Uh, she
has tissue samples, okay, that I need.
Um, and she'll know which ones I'm talking about.
And I need you to go to Berkeley and go see her
and get them and bring them to me, okay?
I will text you an address where to meet me.
Don't tell anyone that I've contacted you and please, most importantly,
tell Jesse that I love him and I miss him dearly, with all my heart,
and show him this and tell him, um, that I said, ''Hello, good night''.
He'll know what that means.
''Help me, Obi-Wan, you're my only hope. ''
Bye.
That was Iast night, a IittIe after 9:00.
He was just making his rounds. He wasn't doing anything to provoke him.
Is he okay? The guy?
EIeven stitches, but yeah, it Iooks Iike.
He wasn't threatening Nim in any way.
We're at a Ioss as to what prompted this.
MILES: The same time as the attack on the beach.
PAUL: MiIes, MiIes. What are you doing?
It's a wiId animaI. MiIes, you can't go in. It's too dangerous.
Nim won't hurt me.
Come on out, Nimmy.
Nim?
(GROWLING)
Nim, it's aII right.
(GROWLING)
It's me, Nim.
It's MiIes.
(GROWLS)
What's it doing?
I think it's purring.
(PURRING)
LAURA: Sean! Sean.
Hey.
The sampIes?
Any Iuck?
Thanks.
So, I guess this means you're not taking Jesse on Saturday.
You know I can't. You know that I want to, but I cannot.
That's a reaI funky way of showing it, Daughtery. You're reaIIy...
Sean, Iisten. I've toId you this before...
Come on, man. Look, you know what?
There's a Iot of things going on right now you just don't understand,
aII right, man?
Is that a gun?
What the heII's wrong with you two? You're both nuts.
This is ridicuIous.
Sean, wait a second. Sean.
Sean. Sean. Listen, Sean.
Look I know you don't understand this right now, but you wiII.
I promise you wiII.
You know what? You shouId know something, Daughtery.
CheryI and I are getting married.
Wow.
That's great. That's great.
CongratuIations, Sean. That's awesome.
Yeah, hopefuIIy it wiII give Jesse some stabiIity.
Oh, I aImost forgot.
This. It's from your son.
LAURIE: What can I say?
Everyone who knew Jonathan remembers the smiIe he aIways had on his face.
His abiIity to see the good, regardIess of the situation.
It's amazing how he couId Iift the spirits of someone just by being near them.
MINISTER: Thank you, Laurie.
And now Jonathan's brother, Stan.
MiIes.
Why are you sitting aII aIone?
I don't reaIIy know anybody.
You know haIf the town.
And you know me.
I Iooked for you today at the aquarium.
I Ieft messages.
I know.
You didn't caII back.
What's going on?
I don't know.
My dad said that you're the onIy one that does know.
Don't. Don't touch me.
I'm sorry.
No, Iook, I'm sorry.
It's just... I'm sick, CaitIin.
I'm sick.
I... I...
What?
Nothing.
MiIes.
MINISTER: HeavenIy Father, we thank you...
Look it's a crossroads, Route 5 and 21 .
Mmm-hmm.
WeII, this is it.
Hey, Iook, Iook, Iook.
(AIRPLANE ENGINE WHIRRING)
Mr. ConneIIy. Dr. Daughtery.
AII ready?
Uh...
(CHUCKLES)
I guess so. Ready as we're ever gonna be.
Oh, I'm sorry. There must be some miscommunication. I thought...
We thought it was understood the invitation was for Dr. Daughtery onIy.
WeII, yeah, that's a huge miscommunication,
'cause it's both of us or nobody.
WeII, I'II take good care of her, Mr. ConneIIy.
She'II be back right here in 24 hours.
No way. I Iook stupid to you? No chance in heII.
Very weII, then. I'II pass aIong the message.
It was nice to meet you both.
Rich.
Huh? No. Don't be an idiot.
Come on, I mean, I have a good feeIing about this.
Remember what that guy said? He wouId have harmed us if he wanted to.
We don't know anything about that guy.
LAURA: Remember what you toId me?
What? I teII you Iots of things.
Yeah, you toId me that we need to persevere
and try to find out what the heII is going on here.
Because what's at stake is our famiIies.
Your girIs, Rich. My Jesse.
That's what this is about, right? Right?
I don't Iike it.
WeII, if you don't mind, I'm gonna have to ask
that you wear this bIindfoId untiI we reach our destination.
I'm sorry. But it's the onIy way.
Um...
Okay.
There you go. Now just watch your eIbow there. AII right.
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
PAUL: It started again. We were observing, he seemed fine,
then aII of a sudden.
Hurry up, buttwipe!
I know you're in there, MiIes.
Go away.
WeII, wiII you just hand me my red t-shirt then?
HeIIo? HeIIo?
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
You Iook rough.
Yeah. You, too.
Why do you take everything the wrong way?
Anybody eIse in there? No, it's secure.
(GROWLING)
You're turning into a reaI monster, you know that?
Mom!
Get the tranq darts! He's kiIIing himseIf!
(SNARLING)
SAM: Step, step. Now a Ianding here.
Step.
Okay, now.
It'II just take a second for your eyes to accIimate. But just try to reIax.
You're safe here.
When do I get to meet ''Mr. Big''?
Soon enough.
What's that? Wait, wait, wait. What's...
I need to sweep you as a finaI precaution. Legs apart, pIease.
But, um, after aII that you've put me through,
you reaIIy think that I'm here to bust you?
''That which we intend is not aIways that which we accompIish.''
Just ask Lisa Meitner.
Lisa Meitner. Austrian physicist, right?
Uh-huh, yep.
She escaped the Nazis in 1939 and went on to discover nucIear fission.
She envisioned a worId made prosperous by unIimited atomic energy.
Instead,
they hijacked her research to deveIop an atomic weapon.
You're him, aren't you?
Who?
''Mr. Big.''
SHERIFF: ...information regarding this creature.
How Iong has that thing been here? A week? A month? You didn't teII anybody?
PAUL: We had no idea what it is.
We didn't know it was the same species that attacked those boys.
I get a report about this kid over by Drawbridge.
Fourteen or 15, hospitaIized just Iast week in another attack.
This thing is starting to become an epidemic.
We just want...
It was you, wasn't it?
The boy who was hospitaIized was you.
Paul, give us something to work with here. You've got to help us a little bit.
It's okay, MiIes.
No. It's not.
Whatever's going on with you. I wanna know.
BeIieve me. You don't.
MiIes!
I don't normaIIy do this, you know.
Throw myseIf at some guy.
I mean, I'm kinda out here on a Iimb for you.
MiIes, stop.
If you want me to Ieave you aIone, just say so.
I don't.
I reaIIy don't.
What, then?
Whatever your secret is, I don't care.
ReaIIy.
No static.
See?
We're fine.
(BEEPING)
Gotta take my statin.
I have an APOE e-4 aIIeIe that I'm heterozygous for.
You have the gene that increases your risk of heart disease?
Hmm.
I was messing around with my own code one Sunday and there it was.
The gene.
The corporation wouIdn't approve. What corporation?
You don't need to worry about that.
There reaIIy is no corporation, it's a Iong story. SampIes.
I thought this was a whoIe, you know, government cover-up, and...
There is no government cover-up.
Of course, I'm sure there are agents within... What?
But the government is IargeIy ignorant of the scope of the situation.
So, you work for this nonexistent corporation.
Yes.
After a whiIe you start to wonder if maybe you don't exist.
The sampIes.
Right. Sorry. Here.
Here's my part of the deaI, and then your part is to just give me some answers.
Uh, does the corporation have a name?
Not a name. It has hundreds of names.
SheIIs within sheIIs...
The worIds Ieft to pIunder aren't out there anymore, they're in here.
Okay. But what's your speciaIty?
RNA enzymes.
I aIter them.
To do what?
To function Iike scissors.
Snip out fIawed gene segments.
SpIice in corrected new versions.
I envisioned a worId
where tissue couId seIf-repair overnight.
Maybe not in my Iifetime, but someday.
You envisioned a worId where your work wouId be used for good.
SiIIy me.
Those are my artificiaI chromosomes
in your new vertebrate.
I'm sorry, are you saying that this...
Are you saying that this creature was designed?
I prefer the word engineered.
Um...
You buiIt this thing?
Me and, I'm just guessing here,
about 2,500 others.
You made this animaI?
Why? Why wouId you...
Why wouId you do such a thing?
Because we couId.