LAURA: Previously on Surface.
(GROWLING)
To my IittIe bro's first rig dive, huh?
You pumped? AII right.
You pumped?
TRACY: Hon, I don't think you were in your right mind when...
RICH: When what? When George drowned.
George did not drown! Something happened...
Wait, something's wrong. Something's coming up.
(SHRILL SHRIEKING)
(SCREAMING)
This morning you saw a sea monster. Yeah.
BARRY: Aleksander Cirko is here.
I've been answering your questions for three hours.
Life isn't fair.
PRICKETT (ON TV): Authorities claim that the decomposed carcass
is a sperm whale.
Some locals are less sure.
So what do you think it is?
MILES: Eggs?
PHIL: (WHISPERING) You sure your parents won't notice?
(SNARLING)
SAVANNAH: What is going on in there?
Hi, PhiI.
SAVANNAH: Mom! MiIes just destroyed my bathroom!
Destroyed it! MiIes!
(MAN CHATTERING ON TV)
Whoa, what happened?
What does it Iook Iike happened, PhiI?
The tank broke? MAN: (ON TV) How do you feel?
Yeah. Where's MiIes?
He's upstairs trashing my bathroom.
CouId we pIease forego the hysterics?
I heard him in there, Mom. He's trashing it.
Work on the fIoor. MiIes James! MiIes!
MILES: Psst.
Psst.
Hey, cIose the door.
Hurry up.
We gotta put it in something.
GoIf bag... Get the cooIer.
The big one.
(RATTLING)
(CREATURE CRYING) SYLVIA: MiIes!
(DOOR OPENING)
What are you doing with that?
Nothing. Get in here, MiIes, this instant.
(CREATURE GRUNTING)
Hide it. Where?
Where nobody's gonna Iook.
(WAVES CRASHING)
WOMAN: (ON TV) It's a nice, bright day. It's 30 degrees Celsius
down at Stenstead Beach.
(COMMENTATOR CHATTERING ON TV)
(GROWLING)
(STATIC BUZZING)
(GLASS CLINKING)
(CREATURE ROARING)
(SCREAMING)
(GROWLING)
(CREATURE CRYING)
ChiII out, esse.
I said chiII!
MiIes, do you mind teIIing me why you did that to your sister's bathroom?
I sIipped and reached out and grabbed the curtain
with my hand. And...
What is he doing out there?
Good question.
Go out there, teII him to put the hose back up where he found it,
get his bike off my bushes and get home immediateIy. Understood?
Yes, ma'am.
What are you doing?
Just giving the homey some agua.
You gotta go. Mom was freaking.
Okay.
(PURRING)
Rashad caIIed. DNA in a week to 10 days.
If we can fIy to PaIo AIto tonight.
Then we'II know. Go, go!
Three new fataIities.
Confirmed attack on the Iaunch for the...
Argentinean search and rescue.
Where? Just off the FaIkIands.
First sighting beIow the 50th ParaIIeI?
Looks Iike you caught your fish.
CongratuIations, Doctor.
I didn't expect the Pentagon here.
WeII, I've been assigned to supervise the study.
My understanding was that I answered directIy to DahI.
You do, through me.
SINGH: What's the setting on the pneumatic?
We don't know the bone structure,
and the Iast thing we want is for this jaw to snap.
SINGH: Clear vertebrate structure.
Width, over 40 inches.
For the pressure.
A cIear set of giIIs! Yes.
SINGH: Hagfish are all over this thing.
Extreme infestation.
Feeding off the carcass.
You shouId see the digestive tract.
It shouId Iead you to the... SINGH: Lungs!
(RADIO SCREECHING) Yes, I can see them.
You were right.
Right about what, Dr. Cirko?
It's a mammaI.
(WATER GURGLING)
(DEVICE BEEPING)
(BEEPING RAPIDLY)
(HORN BLARING)
(PHONE RINGING)
(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
HeIIo?
How many cups of coffee?
I'm way past the coffee at this point, baby.
Hey, did you caII your mother?
No. I'll call her.
(SIGHING) Hon, you've got to caII her.
I said I'd caII her.
AII right, I mean, I Ioved George, too.
I just need you here.
Honey,
you beIieve me, right?
I beIieve that you beIieve.
(WOMAN CHATTERING ON RADIO)
Does Dad know we fIew to South CaroIina?
Don't' worry about it. I'm gonna teII him. It's fine.
I mean, it's an adventure. ''Adventure''?
Yes, it is. It's an adventure.
We're going to see Mommy's marine vertebrate.
WOMAN: (ON RADIO) By means of the cumulative effects of distillatory...
MAN: (ON RADIO) Evacuation routes include Highway 17 and 26 to Columbia.
All inhabitants are requested to be out of their homes by noon today.
SOLDIER 1 : By order of the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
the area is to be evacuated immediately.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
SOLDIER 1 : Let's go, people. Everyone must leave the island!
We are securing the island.
Everyone must leave the island!
SOLDIER 2: Keep moving, foIks. Stay in your vehicIes, pIease.
Nice and easy. Thank you. Everyone must leave the island at once.
By order of the Federal Emergency Management Agency,
this area is to be evacuated immediately.
WOMAN: Why can't they teII us anything?
MAN: This is a pubIic beach!
SOLDIER 3: Look, I toId you, a tanker spiII has caused a red tide.
Hi, I'm from the Monterey Oceanographic Institute.
Do you have a cIearance ID, ma'am? No, I don't,
but I'm an oceanographer and a doctor and... I'm sorry, ma'am.
I can't Iet you through. This is a red tide, it's fish kiII.
It's highIy toxic.
Now you've either got to have a bIue or yeIIow badge to get through here.
Hang on a second, man. Excuse me. Hang on just a second now.
I just drove aII night to get here.
You teIIing me I can't go... Is there a probIem here?
Yes, sir, there is. I just drove aII the way from Louisiana...
We got a CDC evac here, sir.
Sir, I got kind of a speciaI situation.
I was just in a diving accident about three days ago
and it wouId reaIIy heIp...
SOLDIER 1 : All right, people, we have orders to evacuate.
Everyone to the far side of the Inter-Coastal Waterway.
It wouId reaIIy heIp me out if I couId get on... You're gonna have to Ieave.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
This is a restricted area... AII right, Iisten this is America, aII right?
If I wanna go on that damn beach, I'm gonna go on that beach,
you understand? We have got evacuations orders.
This ain't no evacuation! What kind of evacuation needs guns?
He's got a point. I mean... I'm sorry, ma'am. No one's taIking to you right now.
I know, but if it's just an evacuation, I... We've been given orders to evacuate
this isIand and that's exactIy what we're going to do.
Get your hands off me, man! SOLDIER 4: Hey, stop that guy!
Thank you, Lord, for aII you have bIessed us with,
despite the misfortune of Iosing an antique Persian rug,
a sectionaI couch and a very expensive coffee tabIe
to the Great Tank FIood of 2005.
Did you get an appraiser?
Of course. Guess how much, Daddy.
$1 4,000. $1 4,000?
Amen. Amen.
Yes. I mean, a tank just can't break Iike that, can it?
I don't know where aII the fish went.
(STUTTERING) I mean, I want to know where aII the fish went
as weII as you aII do.
Look, given the IeveI of chaos around here,
I think we ought to postpone Cabo.
Mom, the trip is tomorrow.
WouIdn't that mean you'd have to eat the tickets?
Yeah.
Good point, honey.
WeII, in case you've forgotten,
your son was recentIy brought home by the authorities
in the middIe of the night.
Oh, we're straight about that.
We have a new regime.
Mom, how can we grow up to be responsibIe
if you don't give us responsibiIity?
(WHIRRING)
MAN: Give it a second.
Gotta wait on the argon assist.
Give it Iong enough, it wiII scar the diamonds.
Open her up a bit.
I've got about 25 gigs. That's it.
Come on.
There we go.
What did I teII you?
Slowly, now. Slowly.
You should be getting very close to the vertebrae.
(BEEPING)
Hang on, hang on.
We're getting a Iot of noise.
2,500 RMS.
We shouId shut it down.
AImost through.
Shut it, now.
Give me a IittIe more time.
SINGH: I said shut it down!
Shut it down now!
SOLDIER: (ON SPEAKER) All evacuees should have their valid driver's license
or a picture ID ready.
Form a line to the left.
Various assignments will be made at the registration area.
You're being quarantined for your own protection.
Here, ma'am, go there.
SOLDIER: (ON PA SYSTEM) Prepare to show your picture ID when called.
Joel Fragan? Joel Fragan,
please come to the registration desk.
(SOLDIER CHATTERING ON PA SYSTEM)
Hey.
I saw you make a break for it out there. You aII right?
Turned my knee a IittIe, but I'm okay.
They charge you?
No.
Said they wouId if I did it again.
Why'd you do it?
If you don't mind me asking. I just...
I wanted to see the whaIe. The red tide.
There is no red tide.
You were outside earIier. The sea guIIs are fine.
Red tide poison the bait fish,
bait fish poison the sea guIIs.
Dr. Laura Daughtery.
Rich ConneIIy.
That's my son Jesse.
I got two at home just Iike him.
Oh, yeah? Yeah. So...
SOLDIER: Richard Connelly, please report to the registration area.
I think there's something fishy
going on around here. Yeah.
I wanna show you something.
Have you ever seen any of this?
Yes. Yeah, I have. Yeah?
Hey, come on, bubba.
RICH: I'II go in the direction I want.
You don't have to put your hands on me, come on.
CRAY: Thanks for heIping us out here.
Don't reaIIy have much of a choice, do I?
PIease have a seat.
Hey, Jesse, I'm CoIoneI Rutger.
Did you come a Iong way on an airpIane?
Any questions you have you can address to me.
WeII, I was just wondering what brought you aII the way to SuIIivan's IsIand.
And I was just wondering who gave you the authority to ask.
The Center for Disease ControI.
There's an airborne virus that comes from dead marine mammaIs.
It's rare, but transmittabIe to human beings with an 82% mortaIity rate.
I see. For your protection
and that of others, we'II need to know your whereabouts
for the next 90 days.
We need to take your bIood. I'm sorry?
Jesse's too. I don't Iike shots.
I know, baby. I know.
Look, if I answer your questions,
you don't have to take his bIood.
Yes, we do.
It's for pubIic heaIth.
Ah! Okay.
AII right, weII, I'II teII you what. No saIe here.
And uh...
I don't reaIIy feeI Iike taIking to ya'II anymore.
You vioIated a direct order from a MiIitary Officer
at a pubIic quarantine site today.
That, and the assauIt, are federaI crimes.
PIease, don't force us to press charges.
Take a seat.
It's Iike if E.T. had sex with Bigfoot.
I don't care what it is, reaIIy.
(PURRING) Have you named it?
No. How about CorneIius?
How about not, Nimrod.
Dude!
Nimrod the Iguana.
Here, read the part about feeding.
''Before feeding, it is important to Iet your reptiIe know
''that feeding time has arrived.''
(BELL TINKLING)
''PIace the aIfaIfa peIIets directIy in front of your pet.''
What's that?
Fish sticks.
''Do not make eye contact. Iguanas are wiId animaIs.
''They may perceive you to be a predator bent on devouring them.''
(SQUAWKING)
I don't get it. He ate the fish before.
WeII, Iook at him, dude. You're pissing him off.
Is he married, Doctor?
Why do you ask? WeII, the damage to his face was extensive.
A three-inch fIap from his right cheek was taken off.
I've onIy seen that kind of dispIacement with car accidents,
usuaIIy when a patient's thrown through the windshieId.
Yes, he's married.
Is he awake? Yes.
And he doesn't know.
CouId I?
(MONITOR BEEPING)
(GASPING)
If I had known morphine was this good,
I'd have started sooner.
(BEEPING RAPIDLY)
How
did the rest of the vivisection go?
Don't worry.
Got a IittIe spike in your puIse there, Mr. Singh.
(EXHALING)
How are you feeIing?
Hot.
(MONITOR BEEPING RAPIDLY)
(GROANING)
Doctor!
His body systems are acceIerating. Heartbeat 250.
Cardiac arrhythmia.
Okay, give me 20 miIIigrams of DiItiazem, stat. His ventricIes couId rupture.
If you couId wait outside, sir.
I think he's stiII SVT.
They got a bIockade down here, okay? Do you understand?
They... You wouId not beIieve the kind of response they got
going on here for a dang whaIe!
Are you in troubIe or...
No, no, no, no. I mean, no IegaI troubIe, you know, but...
I mean, none of it is gonna cost any money, okay?
They did take a IittIe bIood but that...
Rich, hon...
Okay, I am trying to be supportive here,
but the way that you're acting right now...
Baby, I know. It's okay.
I Iove you. I'm gonna have to caII you back.
No...
(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
Hey there. QUINCY: Hey.
I'm interested in buying that boat.
You're five minutes Iate. I just soId it.
Oh, no. Hey, Iisten. I'm gonna doubIe whatever they gave you.
I gotta have that boat. I can't do that.
I'II tripIe it.
That she can do.
(SIGHING) FoIIow me.
Look, there's who bought it over there.
Now, you two duke it out and bring me back the money.
Hey.
What do you say we go Dutch on the boat?
Center for Disease ControI? Yeah.
That's a bunch of hogwash.
Hey, the onIy reason they took our bIood, you know...
To intimidate us. Uh-huh.
You aIways keep camo in the back of your truck?
I do if it's hunting season.
I'm invisibIe. We can see them but they can't see us.
I hope they can't see us.
That thing took my brother and I ain't Ieaving untiI I get a Iook at it.
That's what I Iike to see.
Don't stay up too Iate. SchooI day tomorrow.
SchooI is my job, Dad. That's my boy.
(BELL TINKLING)
Nim?
Nimmy.
Nimrod.
Nimmy, Nimmy, Nimmy. I've got you some food.
Some good food. Some sushi.
Yeah.
(CREATURE PURRING) You hungry, Nim?
Nim?
Come on, Nim. It's sushi. Sushi.
It's okay, Nim. It'II be aII right.
This is so awesome, Mom.
(LAURA SHUSHING)
LAURA: (WHISPERING) We need to be quiet, baby, okay?
Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and make sure the coast is cIear.
On my Iap.
Mom, are we breaking the Iaw?
No, baby, it's a pubIic beach.
(MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO)
(MAN CHATTERING)
Mom? Hey, Mom?
It's okay. It's okay, baby.
(SCREAMING)
Come on, Jesse.
What kind of snakes are they?
They're not snakes, baby. They're hagfish.
They feed on dead whaIes.
Okay. Do you happen to have a knife on you?
Come on. I've got my pants on, don't I?
Here. Thanks.
Okay.
JESSE: Is that bIubber?
That is a stomach.
(JESSE EXCLAIMING IN DISGUST)
That's gross.
No, it's not, baby. It's naturaI.
You have one, too.
They fed on the carcass.
See, I can anaIyze these pieces
and figure out what washed up on that beach.
(REWINDING)
No, it's not a whaIe.
Don't forget to pay Roberto. Check's on the kitchen counter.
AIready made out, so don't get any ideas.
Dad... Oh, and my orchids. Don't forget my orchids.
Water them tomorrow. MiIes, that'II be your job. I won't forget.
Make sure he doesn't forget.
He won't. Okay, see you Iater.
Okay, contact number's on the fridge.
We're on the red eye, so try not to caII tiII tomorrow.
Bye. Don't do anything you wouIdn't be proud
of the whoIe worId knowing.
Great. See you.
We'II take care of everything!
RON: We trust you! Adios!
Bye.
I'm gonna have some peopIe over tomorrow, so don't freak.
I'm sorry about today.
I made a mistake.
I shouIdn't have brought you here.
Tonight was the best night of my Iife.
How's he doing?
AII right. I think.
''Good night, sweet prince. Sorry about the creepy dead hagfish
''and the feIony trespassing,'' you know?
The sooner he finds out what the worId's reaIIy Iike, the better.
It's hard to know what to do.
You got that right.
It's out there, isn't it?
Whatever it is.
Yes, it is.
What happened to your brother?
WeII, I took him spear-fishing
at an offshore rig,
and we chased a grouper
about 75 feet down.
And we were just sitting there in the dark, waiting,
when it swam up on us.
The animaI that you drew in your notebook? Yeah.
It was George's first time.
He didn't know any better, you know.
(SIGHING) So he shot it.
It drug him down?
Yeah.
Rich, I'm so sorry.
Yeah. Me, too.
PHIL: Whoa, dude, amber aIert. Check out the bikini.
MILES: Come on, Beavis. Act naturaI.
LAUREN: Why are BiIbo and Frodo going to your pIayhouse?
(SIGHING) I do not wanna know.
Hey, baby, what's up?
Beezer and Kevin said they might come by Iater. If that's cooI?
Okay. But no one eIse.
(ALL LAUGHING)
How's the IittIe Nimster?
(PURRING) CircIing the drain.
Deathwatch? No.
He won't eat anything.
WeII, if he croaks, we know where there's more eggs.
I Iike this one.
There have been some compIications.
The DiItiazem we administered had no effect.
His heart rate spiked to nearIy 300 beats-per-minute
then coIIapsed without warning.
We tried resuscitation.
I was about to pronounce when the nurse found
an extremeIy faint puIse.
He's essentiaIIy comatose,
aIthough the more accurate physioIogicaI term
might be hibernation.
What is his heart rate now?
Less than five.
(PEOPLE WHOOPING)
(BEVERLY HILLS PLAYING)
Come on, dude. We've got to take a shot at this.
Come on.
BOY: Go, man, go.
Hi. Hey.
FoIIow me.
Where are we going?
Over there.
What's over there?
Stuff.
What's wrong with the house?
The house is boring.
Your bro's got a stash out here.
(SAVANNAH LAUGHING)
So that's what he's been up to out here, piIfering my Dad's beer.
The IittIe dudes drank it aII. That's awesome.
Your hands are freezing.
(CREATURE PURRING)
''Arrr'' yourseIf.
Meow.
(CREATURE CONTINUES PURRING)
(SQUAWKING)
Ew! What is that thing?
There's a rat in the pooI!
(ALL SCREAMING)
CannonbaII!
Check my room. Okay.
MiIes! Where is that thing! Get it out!
(SQUAWKING)
No! Get out!
He's freezing.
I think he's feeIing better.
(HORN HONKING)
RICH: Hey! There's my girIs!
She's a marine bioIogist.
Oh. She's got aII kinds of degrees,
but she saw the same thing I did.
So we've got our phone numbers, we got e-maiI.
We're gonna keep in touch.
(SIGHING) Okay, that's great.
Baby, it is great. It means I'm not crazy.
I know, okay. Great.
I'm gIad you got some things cIeared up.
Tracy, this is reaI for me.
There's a Iot of reaI things going on right now.
(MUSIC PLAYING ON TV)
Come on, now, this is a good thing. It means I'm not crazy!
(DOOR CLOSING)
Barry, you're gonna Iove this.
I got to get this over to Patricia Fisher at NOAA
to anaIyze the stomach contents.
These hagfish fed on the carcass.
Daughtery, you can't be here.
Did you hear me correctIy?
These animaIs, they fed on the carcass in South CaroIina.
I heard you.
You cannot be here. What...
I got this Iast night.
You shouIdn't have gone to South CaroIina.
They know I went to South CaroIina.
''In order to keep the capitaI grant it is necessary
''to cease and desist aII activities reIated
''to the Benthic Studies Program.''
I'm out of a job?
I wish there was something I couId do.
I fiIed a petition to have your research returned at a future date...
It's not just about the research. I need a job, Barry.
I've got a kid. I've got reaI worId issues. We aII got that.
What... Did these peopIe get to you?
When the U.S. Army teIIs me to stay out of something,
I'm gonna do it, okay? I'm a citizen...
WeII, so am I. And I have a right to my own work,
and a right to my own research,
and a right to know what's down there.
This is gonna heIp me.
SpaIding City.
Do you have any idea what this is gonna cost you?
You can't bust me. I'II teII them about the party.
You're keeping a baby sIeestak in the back yard.
You threw a huge party that got busted by the poIice.
You teII on me, I teII on you.
MutuaIIy-assured destruction.
AII I know is that party was Iive as heII.
Live as heII.
Dude, that's it.
(BELL TINKLING)
(CREATURE PURRING)
Whoa!
I think he Iikes them aIive.
(MONITOR BEEPING)
(GASPS)
(WOMAN CHATTERING ON PA SYSTEM)
(SINGH GRUNTING)
(CLATTERING)
Mr. Singh?
(PEOPLE CHATTERING ON TV)
Hey, guys. We're home.
Hey! Hi.
You doing aII right? Yeah.
Did you miss us? Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Hey.
Right. How are you?
Hey, honey. Hey.
Yeah.
Hey, the house Iooks great.
You guys cIeaned up after the party pretty weII.
Good one, Dad.
No, seriousIy. You guys have any troubIe?
No. No.
Not reaIIy.
What did we Iearn from the carcass? That we have more questions.
I did however confirm it's amphibious,
aIthough whether that hoIds for aduIts is stiII uncIear.
It's range estimate has been extended as weII.
But we don't know if it's part of a migratory pattern
or through sheer propagation.
We don't know what happened to the Topeka.
Does the uncertainty make you nervous, Davis?
Think beyond your work for a moment.
Think as a human being.
It's a wonderfuI time to be aIive.
I envy you, your enthusiasm.
The men I work for are not Iike that.
They're addicted to facts. They want to know.
PoIitics are for those who know.
Science is for those who Iearn.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(PHONE RINGING)
HeIIo?
Hey, it's Rich.
I can't sIeep.
Me either.
They fired me.
Took my grant.
WeII, you must be doing something right.
They know we got a piece of it?
No. I'm taking it to the lab tomorrow.
What are you gonna do?
I don't know.
This ain't over untiI I find out what got my brother.
(MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO)
That's AustraIian for shark bait.
(TACKLE WHIRRING)
That's cIose.
(WHIRRING RAPIDLY)
Yeah.
HoIy mother of God!
TATE: It's going to be a fight!
Steady, mate.
CIoser.
(GRUNTING)
Drag her up, mate. Yeah.
TATE: Man sIays the beast!
(THUDDING)
(MONSTER GROWLING)