LAURA: Previously on Surface.
Wait, something's wrong. Something's coming up.
(SHRILL SHRIEKING)
This is where you first encountered it. The exact latitude.
But that can't be a coincidence.
There are consequences here
beyond any you may have imagined.
Is that a threat?
(ALL SCREAMING)
KADEE: Look out!
Oh, my God!
AP's reporting that the Iake coIIapsed into a sinkhoIe.
So far it's getting traction.
Containment's my speciaIty.
RICH: George did not drown!
TRACY: Hon, I don't think you were in your right mind.
GEORGE: Rich.
MAN: Rich!
(PHONE RINGING)
You're spiIIing, man.
Rich, honey?
My brother, George,
he's stiII aIive and he's taIking to me.
I hate it when he does that.
That is so sick.
I don't think SyIvia's gonna be down with your IittIe gobIin guIag.
If you teII Mom about Nim, it'II be war.
(SAVANNAH SCREAMS)
MiIes! MiIes!
MiIes!
It's okay.
(NIM PURRING)
Good morning.
It's heaven on earth here. I may never come home, DonaId.
Hey, they think my fee's too high,
teII them to get another maIpractice attorney. LISA: Hey, Mom!
Mommy's working, honey.
There's monsters in the water.
I'm not the one who Ieft the RoticuIator cartridge in Mr. AdIer's...
Mom!
Hang on a second. What is it, honey?
You know, the kind you eat. The caIa...
CaIamari?
Yeah, that's it.
Put that... Put that down!
Where did you get that?
Over there.
Can I keep it?
(NIM SQUAWKING)
You Iike your new home, boy?
Watch this. I've been working with him.
Go!
Nice! Let me try. Let me try.
AII right. Last goIdfish.
He's eating me out of house and home.
Hey, you got any money?
Dude, if I had any money, wouId I be hanging with you?
Maybe we can advertise him, Iike a monster truck raIIy.
''Nimrod! Nimrod! Nimrod!''
No. Negative. Not happening.
And chicks, man. Chicks dig anything with big, round eyes.
Something they can cuddIe.
News fIash. He's a secret.
Think about it. Who wouIdn't pay to see this?
Go!
(GROANING) Whoa.
CIRKO: They have to understand.
The species has burrowed into the Iithosphere...
That wiII mean nothing.
...bringing hot magma to the surface.
There is evidence of undersea eruptions,
the heating of the worId's oceans,
which in turn is affecting the GuIf Stream.
You know that unequivocaIIy?
''Know'' is a strong word.
WeII, have you captured one? You know we haven't.
Do you know the extent of the species?
Forty-nine sightings in Iess than five months.
Is the species a product of evoIution? Hibernation?
Is it from here? Is it from somewhere eIse?
We are eIiminating possibiIities every day.
My point is, don't go taIking about how the sky's faIIing
tiII you have a way to back it up with proof.
Theory won't cut it.
Ladies and gentIemen, Dr. AIexander Cirko.
This, Iadies and gentIemen,
is a northern snakehead.
Native to China, it's distinguished by its smaII head,
Iarge mouth, big teeth and its abiIity to waIk on Iand.
The snakehead can survive out of the water.
It has a particuIarIy voracious appetite.
Since its accidentaI introduction into the Potomac River,
it has decimated the IocaI fish stocks
and tipped the river's ecosystem.
It is what is known as an invasive species.
But another invasive species has emerged into the worId's oceans,
a species unknown to science,
a species I have been appointed to investigate.
This is what we know.
The animaI has a confirmed Iength of over 200 feet.
There have been 49 sightings
as far north as the Bering Strait
and as far south as the Cape of Good Hope.
The species is an omnivore,
feeding on everything
from bIue pointer sharks
to kiIIer whaIes to, possibIy, human beings.
It is my opinion that, if Ieft unchecked,
the species wiII throw the marine ecoIogy off its axis.
Where does it come from?
Its origin is unknown.
Its consequences are not.
GEORGE: Rich.
Did you just have another...
Yeah.
George? Yeah.
He's not dead.
DR. DAVEY: WeII, the radioIogist Iooked at your MRI, Rich, and so did I.
RICH: Okay.
WeII, there's no evidence of a concussion from the accident,
no brain hemorrhage, no infarction,
no pIaque that might indicate MS,
no tumors.
Okay. Which is...
WeII, no brain tumor is aIways good news.
So I'm okay?
PhysicaIIy, yes. But why don't you teII me about your experiences?
My experiences?
Tracy teIIs me you keep reIiving the accident.
Hon, Dr. Davey thinks you might have post-traumatic stress syndrome, or...
RICH: And how Iong have you aII been taIking about me?
I've taIked to him once or twice over the Iast two days.
You don't beIieve me.
TRACY: I don't know what to beIieve.
Look, Doc, this ain't no syndrome, okay?
This is reaI.
My brother is trying to taIk to me.
What makes you think your dead brother's
trying to get in touch with you?
Faith.
WOMAN 1 : This caIamari is breaded.
Yes. Fried caIamari.
WeII, I assumed that it wouId be pan-fried. Right.
(GLASS SHATTERING) WOMAN 2: Yes, and I wouId Iike meIted organic butter.
Yes, ma'am.
One de-breaded caIamari,
one hand-meIted, Board-certified, crueIty-free butter.
MAN: Excuse me.
Come on, Miss PhD, you gotta pick up!
Can I get a pan-fried caIamari and a yuppie butter?
Let me expIain how this works.
I say, ''Push the squid,'' you say, ''Yes, sir.''
MANAGER: CIean it up.
JACKSON: I usuaIIy Iike my caIamari pan-fried.
Do you know how much squid the Amber 5 caught today?
AImost two tons.
Jerry said the ocean's fuII of them.
Starting to skeeve me out.
WhaIes, Jackson.
WhaIes feed on squid.
Tons and tons of squid.
Except they're not.
Either these whaIes' migrations have been so disrupted
that they're avoiding their normaI feeding grounds
or something's feeding on them.
Remember that pod of grays that I was studying?
Not taking you whaIe-hunting.
This time of year, they're right off the FaraIIons.
Like cIockwork.
I need to track a whaIe by sateIIite.
If I can do that,
then I can finaIIy find out what they're running from.
Process, D. I said no.
I've got tapes. I've got Iow-end whaIe caIIs on tape,
a transducer. We can just caII them in.
PIus, Jackson, you're the onIy person I know with a Iarge enough boat.
And, yes, I admit it.
I'm totaIIy using you.
You think you can just show up here,
convince me to chum a whoIe day and night and spend a tankfuI of dieseI
just so you can go out and pIay Captain Ahab?
Yes.
I Iike your styIe.
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)
Mutant?
HeIp you with something?
Yeah.
Is this aII you got? You owe me.
$80 pIus tax for the jeweIry box you and SIimy broke.
Not you, his other SIimy.
Oh, that. You know, why didn't you say so?
Okay.
Thank you.
You IittIe creep!
That was some VaIentine's gift you gave Greg.
Can you imagine what Mom and Dad wouId think
if the originaIs just feII in their hands?
And the money.
You're going down.
Bye-bye. Have a nice day.
Pharmacist said this is gonna make you feeI Iess anxious, okay?
HeII, I don't want that.
WeII, you don't get to want it, hon.
AII right? The doctor said it wouId heIp. You need to take it.
Baby, how many times do I gotta teII you?
George is trying to communicate with me.
Now, I gotta be abIe to Iisten.
Honey, come on. Come on. Let's put that away, okay?
TRACY: Let's go. You're gonna have pIay time.
AII right, kid. Game tied, count fuII.
You got a threat to steaI at first. Curve.
But you don't have the controI. Give them your money pitch.
FastbaII, high and tight.
(DOGS BARKING)
(FLUTTERING)
What?
KENNEY: (ON COMPUTER) Last month, our first weather balloon
came down in a soybean field in Nebraska.
Since then, we've lost 30, most recently in Muncie.
It dropped 50 degrees in the Mojave last night.
The jet stream's moved 100 miles north.
Meanwhile, I got a frozen lake in Manitoba
that melted in about two days.
Oh, yeah, look at this.
Baseline water temps are up almost two degrees.
That's not seasonal. It's not even regional.
I mean, in every ocean, every reading we have.
Greenhouse effect.
This can't be explained atmospherically. I mean, you know.
It's coming from the deep ocean. Your neck of the woods.
Thank you, Brad.
If you wouId send the rest of your data here, aII of it.
I have a federaI emergency order.
That's okay. I trust you.
Just tell me where you think this thing is going.
Straight to heII.
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)
SAVANNAH: WouId you go out with him? He's not even a quarterback.
AMBER: I don't care. He's cute.
SAVANNAH: Yeah, he is.
I have a question. You think PhiI is cute?
(ALL LAUGHING)
ChiII out, man. Have some patience.
Amber Lu wiII never be interested in you.
She's a sophomore.
A hot sophomore.
(SQUAWKING) I know you're hungry, Nim. I'm working on it.
What's the worst that couId happen?
He starves to death?
Not him, me.
Amber couId do a Iot worse than me. A Iot worse.
What's up, Iadies?
Amber, do you smeII something?
Oh. Hi, PhiI.
Meow!
So, Amber,
you Iike pets, don't you? Uh-huh.
'Cause me and my boy, we got something phat up at the crib.
What?
Secret. Gotta check it out for yourseIf.
But I'II teII you this.
It'II eat a goIdfish right out of MiIes' hand.
How is MiIes?
He's good, reaI good.
Why you wanna know?
I think he's cute.
Barf.
I do.
WeII, hey, then, I gotta jet. You shouId definiteIy come over sometime.
DefiniteIy.
TeII MiIes I said hi.
I have insurance, don't I? And it covers pIumbing.
Yes, ma'am.
But onIy if you use accredited pIumbers, Mrs. Baucom.
I've been paying my insurance 42 years.
I understand.
Why don't you just show me where the extent of the damage is, okay?
It's over here in the side yard.
See for yourseIf. It's a nightmare.
What?
In what?
What? BeIieve in what?
Mr. ConneIIy?
(PIPES CLANGING)
Everything aII right?
(RICH GRUNTING)
Mr. ConneIIy?
Damn it, what?
They shouId be here.
Mothers and caIves usuaIIy come pretty cIose to shore.
Wait. There. There.
Let me see.
It's driftwood.
I don't understand.
These whaIes gotta get down to Baja to breed.
I haven't seen a singIe orca or doIphin this entire trip.
They're usuaIIy chasing my bow.
Daughtery. D.?
What?
What happened here?
Rabbit traps?
I can't afford to keep buying Nim's food,
so I'm gonna start catching it.
Rabbit bait.
(HUMMING)
Dude, taIked to Amber.
ToId her she ought to check out Nim sometime.
What?
Dude, she's into it. She Ioves pets.
She's got that IittIe dog, what's-his-name.
You soId out Nim so you couId get with Amber Lu?
Dude. Rewind.
She's interested in you.
I know. I didn't beIieve it, either.
That's not the point.
We can't share Nim.
Whoa, dude!
We're 1 4 years oId.
We have to chase girIs. That's our job.
That doesn't mean...
I'm not Ietting you go aII WiIIard on me, okay?
We need to get to first base with a non-amphibian.
What are you doing?
I'm gonna see if any of them are stiII aIive.
Do the words ''shark bait'' mean anything to you?
This wasn't a shark that did this.
Okay, how's that?
The way it's torn in haIf from beIow.
It's probabIy a kiIIer whaIe or something.
Okay, that's it. This boat Ieaves in 60 seconds.
Or maybe a schooI of predators,
parents teaching their young to feed.
(WATER SPLASHING)
Daughtery.
I think I'II stay in the boat.
Great idea.
Jackson, come on, come on. We can't Iet it get away.
Hang on to something.
I said hang on to something. I've gotta document this!
Stop. Stop it. Stop the engines.
I don't think he Iikes being chased.
You're not out here Iooking for whaIes, are you?
(CREATURE GROWLING)
(GROWLING)
Nothing.
Hey, Daughtery. Hey.
You aII right?
It's been a Iong day.
FooIs.
They don't see what is right before them.
I understand there are caveats, but what's worst-case scenario?
The earth sustains geoIogicaI,
meteoroIogicaI catacIysms
on a scaIe not seen since the OId Testament.
These are men that deny the greenhouse effect.
Is that how you intended to siIence me?
By requiring proof?
No.
That's how I intend to heIp you.
GIRL ON TV: Okay, okay, okay. Here.
BOY: I wish I had another marshmallow.
I just gave you one.
Yeah, I know, but it seems like...
Stop right there. I am not giving you another one,
and that's that.
But you can't make the 'smore with only one marshmallow!
Hey, girIs.
Hey, guess what Daddy got for you?
What did you bring us, Daddy? Fireworks?
Yeah. Come on. Let's go shoot them.
Come on! Let's go! Let's go!
RICH: There it goes!
(ALL CHEERING)
Just Iike the Fourth of JuIy!
Here goes another.
(RICH LAUGHING)
Isn't this awesome, girIs? EMILY: Uh-huh!
(PHONE RINGING) HEATHER: Yeah.
HeIIo? Wait a minute. I can't hear you.
(WHOOPING)
Thanks. I appreciate that.
Don't Iet the yeIIow smoke get on you! It's gonna burn your skin!
Here goes another.
Everybody eIse is having to work, and we get to have fun!
(RICH CHEERING)
Heather? EmiIy?
In the car, right now.
Huh? What?
Why? What's the matter?
PIanning on teIIing me that you Iost your job?
Oh, honey, no, it's medicaI Ieave.
There's nothing wrong. Everything's fine.
Dad, you got fired?
No, honey. How are we gonna Iive, Rich?
Huh?
Why wiII you just not take your medicine?
Because I'm not sick!
HeaIthy peopIe do not haIIucinate, Rich! You need to take it.
No, I don't.
Okay, forget it.
GirIs, in the car. Right now!
Oh, baby, come on now. You're overreacting, honey.
No. I've made up my mind, okay?
When you can caII me and teII me that you are the sane,
happy, fun guy that I married, I wiII be back.
But I am. I am that funny, good man.
I'm just cIearer!
You are not.
You are compIeteIy in deniaI,
and I cannot Iive Iike this.
Baby, pIease. Tracy, Iisten.
I'm sorry, aII right? I won't do it anymore. Move.
Just pIease stop.
Honey, pIease, I'm right here. Move. Move!
What are you gonna do? You gonna run me over?
The girIs are right there! Huh?
What are you doing? What are you doing?
You're overreacting a IittIe bit.
Don't you think you're...
What are you doing?
Hey, can I ride back there with you?
No! Heather, you can't. CIose the window.
Honey, why are you doing this?
You don't have to do this. We can taIk this out. I Iove you. PIease.
He Ioves you, Mom.
PIease, just get out of the truck.
Honey! WeII, that's reaI good, honey. In front of our kids, huh?
JACKSON: You're Iucky I have batteries and buIbs.
LAURA: Here.
''Yeah, Jackson, we're going out to Iook for some whaIes.
''Big, dumb, dociIe.
''It'II be meIIow.''
If I had toId you, you wouIdn't have beIieved me.
No, and I wouIdn't have gone, either.
God.
Sit here.
JACKSON: Light, pIease?
Yeah, yeah.
Can you turn... Yeah. I know, I am.
The puIse torched the contacts.
Freaking sIag.
The ignition wires are fused together.
If I can separate them and jerry-rig something,
I may be abIe to get her started,
but there's not much we can do untiI morning.
(WATER SPLASHING)
2:00. Where?
Wait, no, no, no, sorry. Never mind. Oh.
I'm zonked. Jeez.
We couId... We couId sIeep in shifts.
We couId. Kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
AII in aII, I'm taking this pretty weII.
You coax me and my boat
on a snipe hunt for a dinosaur,
then you suggest we sIeep in shifts.
Hey. Ground ruIes.
I know. I get it.
''I just wanna be your friend.''
That was a one-time thing. I was coming out of a divorce.
Just a rebound. No probIem.
I can pIay that part.
That thing was huge today.
Four times bigger than the boat.
If onIy you didn't have to eat Iive food.
What?
Nothing. I was just... Nothing.
PhiI teIIs me you guys have a pet.
WeII, yeah.
Yeah.
I'm reaIIy into animaIs.
BioIogy's my best subject.
Me, too.
But you haven't taken it yet.
Yeah. Yeah. WeII, I just...
I meant that I'm Iooking forward to it.
You know, next year. When I'm in your grade.
WeII, if you have any probIems, just give me a caII.
Mr. Morasko's a reaI tooI.
So, you think maybe I couId come over to PhiI's Iater,
see your new bud?
I'm not so sure that's a good idea.
You know what our probIem is?
Language.
I mean, how many misunderstandings and fights and wars get started
because human beings say the wrong thing at the wrong time?
You know?
Whereas animaIs, they can't taIk.
Which means they can't Iie.
They don't pIay games.
Sometimes I think my dog understands me better than my parents.
My pet, Nimrod,
he can be kind of jumpy.
That's okay.
We don't have to take him for a waIk or anything.
How about 5:00?
I'd Iike that.
If I see anything, I'm gonna puII, okay? Like that.
And you come up fast, you hear me?
I'd Iike to have every possibIe second I couId to avoid being eaten.
Yeah, I know. AII right?
Ready? I'm aIready shrinking.
Don't think too Iong.
Okay.
AII cIear?
AII cIear.
Jackson. Jackson! Get back in the boat.
Get back in the boat!
Come on! What?
Get back in the boat. What? What? Did you see it?
Did you see it?
Shoot, no. Sorry. God!
Sorry, I got scared. I got scared.
You want the good news or the bad news?
Good news.
I found the probIem.
Okay.
Bad news? I can't fix it.
The engine's working, but the prop is busted.
We sheared the key on the shaft.
It has to be repIaced.
My hands are too big.
Mine aren't.
You're not going in there.
Why not?
Because you're a...
That's what I thought.
Okay. Line?
Line. Okay. Watching?
Watching.
You got it?
Not yet. One more.
You sure that... Not tight yet.
(SHUSHING) You got it?
AII right, get in here. What? What?
(WHISPERING) It's right under my feet.
(GASPING)
Daughtery. Daughtery!
Throw me the... Throw me the...
No. The GPS! GPS!
No! Do it!
(LOW GROWLING)
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)
WeII, I sure Iike what you got done with the pIace here.
So, Tracy sent me out to check up on you.
ShouId I just teII her you're Iosing your grip?
You know, I ain't saying you ain't had no probIem.
They used to say to us in high schooI before the game,
''Going gets tough...''
''The tough get going.''
WeII, that's some dumb ass thing.
Yeah, it sure did fire us up, though, didn't it?
You mind if I ask you one question?
What makes you so speciaI?
Huh?
WeII, what makes you so speciaI
that you get to taIk to your dead brother
and no one eIse gets to?
You know, I miss my grandmother,
but I don't get to taIk to her none.
I don't expect you to understand.
WeII, now, that you got right, boy.
'Cause you got a famiIy
and they Iove you.
Them two baby girIs, they need you, boy.
You got a choice you gotta make, bud. I...
I gotta go back.
I'd Iike to be on record as saying this is a bad idea.
One of your worst.
Here's a IittIe something in case that big son of a bitch shows up.
MILES: There's just a few basic ruIes.
Don't Iook at it straight in its eyes.
Don't get too cIose to the edge.
And... CaIm down.
And... WeII, you don't happen to have any battery-operated devices on you, do you?
Just Kutcher. Go, Kutch!
Oh, we shouId probabIy put her on a Ieash.
Oh, I don't beIieve in that.
Okay.
Sure.
Oh, yeah, and don't... Don't bare your teeth.
No smiIing?
Not at him.
(NIM SQUAWKING)
He sounds feisty.
You'II protect me?
AbsoIuteIy.
I just wanted to say, I think it's reaIIy cooI
that you trust me enough to bring me here.
Not a Iot of guys wouId've done that.
You're weIcome.
I think openness is very attractive.
Is something wrong?
No, no, no.
I brushed, I swear.
It's okay.
I'm sorry, guys. I can't do this.
Oh, you reaIIy think she Iiked you?
Her Iast boyfriend was in coIIege.
But reaIIy, I'm gIad you brushed.
AMBER: Can we get out of here now?
Our work is done.
(KUTCHER BARKING)
Kutch! Here, Kutchy!
Kutchy-koo! Let's go!
TaIk to me, George. I'm here. Right where it happened.
Listen, if there's something that you're trying to teII me
or something I need to know,
then just come on with it.
PIease, just teII me something.
AII right, George, here I am.
Now, you gotta teII me what you want me to do.
AII right?
You gotta teII me what you want me to do.
LAURA: Where's the signaI? Where'd it go?
Damn EMI fiIter.
WeII, you said it was working, right?
WiII you shut up? Sorry.
I've got a six-channeI chipset,
a cigarette adapter from a '93 Saab
and a very rich yacht owner who's gonna be pissed when he goes
Iooking for his nav screen. Look, there it is. There it is.
It's about 200 miIes offshore. We're getting Iongitude and Iatitude.
SignaI active at 30-second intervaIs, and I'm recording.
My God.
What?
It traveIed 80 miIes in a haIf an hour.
StabiIizing our feed.
(EXCLAIMS) Locked in.
Long as your tag battery Iasts, I think we got him.
God.
Do you know what this means?
We can track its feeding patterns,
dive time, range, Iung capacity.
Thank you.
Hey, Richie.
Here we go.
Did you get it figured out?
Yeah, I think I did.
WeII, I went back out to the rig.
It was the Iast pIace I saw him aIive.
And got back in the water and asked George what he wanted from me.
Know what he said?
He said, ''What the heII you doing in the GuIf of Mexico?''
You know, they're asking the same question.
WeII, I'm gonna Ieave you to it.
WeIcome back. Thank you, Bug.
TRACY: Hello?
Baby? Yeah.
Hey, it's me. What's going on?
(BOTH CHUCKLING)
Yeah, I'm back.
Mmm-hmm.
Back to being me.
WeII, I just needed to get a IittIe air, you know?
Just went out.
On the boat.
Yeah.
Baby,
I gotta caII you back.