LAURA: Previously on Surface.
KADEE: Oh, my God!
(SCREAMING)
AP's reporting that the Iake coIIapsed into a sinkhoIe.
This footage was shot Iast night inside the sinkhoIe in Texas.
The Navy robot was outfitted to withstand heat up to 800 degrees.
How far did it get?
Forty-three, forty-four miIes.
CIRKO: This aIIows them to survive such a hostiIe environment.
My brother is trying to taIk to me.
TRACY: Dr. Davey thinks you might have post-traumatic stress syndrome or...
MAN: Rich!
I can see by your interest that you've had an encounter.
So, how Iong were you a prisoner?
What?
A prisoner in the Aquatic City.
PIanning on teIIing me that you Iost your job?
GirIs, in the car, right now.
Hey, baby. Honey, pIease, I'm right here.
Move! What're you gonna do? You gonna run me over?
PHIL: Dude, it's not even pIugged in.
MILES: Whoa.
(EXPLOSION)
What?
My pet,
Nimrod, he can be kinda jumpy.
That's okay.
We don't have to take him for a waIk or anything.
(SQUEALING)
(SCREAMING)
Kutchy!
(ALL SCREAMING)
Three paragraphs of your thesis were Iifted verbatim.
That's absurd.
PIagiarism. UntiI it's resoIved, there's not much I can do.
LEE: I have some experience with whistIe-bIowers.
So you ruined her career?
Come on, this is serious. They framed me, CaroIyn.
The government doesn't want peopIe to know about it
and they don't fight fair.
So why shouId you?
(LOW GROWLING)
(GASPING) Oh!
LAURA: Do you know what this means?
We can track its feeding patterns,
dive time range, Iung capacity.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
(COMPUTERS BEEPING)
(BEEPING)
Excuse me, sir. You need to see this.
So this couId get you your oId job back?
No. It couId get me a better one.
Just because you know where a whaIe is?
No, I toId you. It's not a whaIe.
Oh, right, it's an uncIassified marine vertebrate.
That's right. One that's moving at over 100 knots.
Over 1 15 miIes an hour.
That's faster than anything in the water.
And you discovered it?
WeII, yeah. I mean, I was the first to see it and record it.
UntiI they screwed you out of everything.
Whoa, hey, we don't use Ianguage Iike that.
Except when it's accurate.
LEE: Do you know what this is?
This is a GPS signaI picked up off NSA Carnivore.
Someone's tagged a Iive one.
Who?
It's a mystery, Iike the crew of the Topeka.
A hundred and eIeven men gone without a trace.
BUG: You can't Ieave.
You got responsibiIities.
Poker night, duck season...
I'm honoring my responsibiIities by doing this.
Tracy and the kids are here, man.
Hey, it's aII right. I ain't going forever.
What about my porch?
Come on, man. We'II finish the dang porch when I get back.
Figure out what it is I'm supposed to do.
Like you figured out your decor in the Iiving room?
(SIGHING) Look,
I'm going to taIk to the onIy person I know that saw the same thing I did.
Man, I gotta find somebody,
anybody eIse who's going through what I am.
I'm dying here.
Does she know you're coming?
Not exactIy. No.
Look after her, aII right?
Yeah.
PHIL: He shocked me and knocked me on my butt.
He's a menace, man.
No, he's not.
He just ate Amber Lu's dog, dude.
That's bad.
''If found, pIease caII.''
We don't need to caII.
PeopIe are gonna find out.
Like your parents.
Yeah.
Hey, maybe I'II come cIean.
You know, maybe they'II just Iet me keep him.
Don't be a sucker.
There's onIy one way to go in a situation Iike this.
What?
FuII and totaI deniaI.
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
(BOAT HORN BLOWING)
HeIIo?
Hey. Hey, it's Rich.
Oh, my God, Rich.
Hi. Hey, how are you?
Oh, I'm aII right, I'm aII right. How about yourseIf?
LAURA: Good, great.
I tagged one.
Get outta here.
Yeah, just this past weekend, right off the FaraIIones.
(LAUGHING)
How about that? What, did you get it from the boat?
No, no, I was in the water. It was crazy, I...
Wow. Them mothers are big, ain't they?
Yeah, you could say that. They're huge.
Where are you?
Oh, I'm actuaIIy in CaIifornia.
I had some business out here. A IittIe conference.
How far are you from SausaIito?
Uh, a coupIe hours.
(CLEARING THROAT)
We're so dead. Amber is, Iike, mortified.
ReaIIy? Duh.
I'm sure she's teIIing her mom that your thing ate her dog.
(SHUSHING)
Do you honestIy think no one is gonna find out?
Find out what?
Honey, are you okay?
Yeah. I'm fine.
(PHONE RINGING)
Don't say anything.
SYLVIA: Hi, Cathy.
Amber's mom. You're such a goner.
SYLVIA: Oh, of course I'm Iistening. It just sounds so...
Oh, Cathy, I've never aIIowed MiIes to have a pet,
Iet aIone...
WeII, if something happened next door,
shouIdn't you be caIIing them?
Okay, then. I'II taIk to him.
That was Amber's mother.
Is she on some kind of medication?
No, she's fine. Why?
WeII, Amber's dog's missing and I guess they're very upset.
Hey, there!
Boy, it sure beats the Iast boat we were on, huh?
Hey, nice to see you. Come on.
Hi there.
(LAUGHING)
Mmm-hmm.
GoIIy, I thought I'd gone overboard.
(SIGHING)
And that's onIy some of it.
Here you go.
Oh, thank you.
Sure.
LAURA: You see this?
I've got a friend at the Weather Tracking Service
and she took sateIIite photos of my tagging trip.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
This is a whoIe pod of them.
Yeah. Maybe even a schooI.
Look at that.
Huh.
Now, that is amazing.
But I saved the best for Iast.
Check it out.
Listen.
(BEEPING)
That's him? Yeah.
Yeah, he's at 34 North, 1 1 7 West,
heading down to the north end of Baja.
See? Yeah.
You can see the history of his route,
track his movement over time, right here.
Look at that.
WeII, they're out there.
He's out there.
Hi.
Got a present for you.
I don't take the SAT for two more years.
Never too earIy to start. It's how your sister got a 1 450.
I couId study for 50 years and I wouIdn't make a 1 450.
Now, what kind of attitude is that to have, hmm?
The truth?
(DOORBELL RINGING)
Read.
Oh, no. Oh, no.
Hey, PhiI, it's me. SYLVIA: MiIes!
Yeah, just a second! PHIL: Yeah, what do you want?
You gotta move Nim. Now.
It's Iike I toId the girI's mother, we don't have any pets.
WeII, a Iot of parents think that, ma'am, then find out different.
BeIieve me, I know what my chiIdren are up to.
I'm a very invoIved parent.
MiIes!
WeII, these exotic deaIers, they don't need a note from your parents,
not as Iong as you got the cash.
Yeah?
Mr. FureIIa is here from AnimaI ControI.
Howdy.
Did you find Amber's dog?
I sure am gIad I came out here.
Yeah, me, too.
It's nice to have someone to taIk to.
Hmm. My neighbors think I'm crazy.
Listen, there's something I've been meaning to taIk to you about.
And I apoIogize if I get too personaI on you here.
(SIGHING)
WeII,
I've been having some issues
since the accident and,
weII, I was wondering if you'd had anything, Iike
a daydream or a...
Like a fIashback, you know?
Oh, man, it's Iike a strong daydream.
Like a Iight at the end of the tunneI type of deaI.
No, man, I'm sorry. I haven't.
WeII, that's okay.
(COMPUTER BEEPING)
That's weird.
Huh? What's weird?
It's never come that cIose to Iand before.
This couId be our chance to get it on tape.
Do you understand what this means?
If I can get a videotape of the animaI in the wiId,
goodbye pIagiarism, heIIo tenure.
AII right. WeII, how far to the Russian River?
Like, three hours. Make it two.
(GASPING)
Jesse, come on! We don't have time for this, baby. Come on!
I'm sorry, peanut. Here we go.
Okay. We're gonna go see Daddy. It's gonna be great.
Good boy, Jesse. Hey, buddy!
There we go.
Hey. We were just checking to see...
Yeah, that's a good boy. Put on your seatbeIt.
(BUZZING)
This Amber
toId me it Iooked Iike a reptiIe with a head fin.
CouId be a Cayman or a Iand iguana.
KiIIers.
Gut a sheep right through.
It shocked Amber's dog.
To death.
Then ate it.
It was horribIe. It was Iike an eIectrocution.
I hope I'm not insane when I'm your age.
You'II be in jaiI when you're my age.
Okay, I don't know what's going on here,
but if it keeps up, I'm gonna caII your father.
(WATER SPLASHING)
(SCREAMING)
AII right, get back. I'II get it.
SAVANNAH: Ew! Oh, my God!
Stay caIm, stay caIm.
(SCREAMING)
SYLVIA: Savannah! Savannah, move!
FURELLA: Oh, I didn't do that.
Oh, Mom! Oh!
SAVANNAH: MiIes!
SYLVIA: What am I gonna teII Cathy?
Look at this mess! I can't beIieve it.
Look what you did!
FURELLA: I didn't poke it that hard, ma'am.
That pooI is just oId. It's just oId.
(NIM GROWLING)
Come on, dude.
Come on, Nim.
Be a good boy, pIease?
I wanna know what happened to Amber's dog
and I wanna know now.
I toId you, I don't know. Savannah?
No, Mom. He's Iying. He does know.
He's been hiding that Iizard thing in PhiI's backyard. What?
Yeah, Mom, a Iizard that executed Amber's dog with a baII of Iightning.
I don't appreciate the sarcasm, MiIes.
Look, me? What about her?
WeII, Savannah doesn't have some pet I don't know about.
I don't know what happened to her dog, okay?
Maybe it woke up, got a Ioad of Amber, and ran off.
When you're ready to teII me the truth, young man,
you come taIk to me.
And don't be Iate for schooI.
How does everything around here get to be my fauIt?
ChiII, homey.
It's aII cooI.
No, PhiI, it's not cooI.
(CAR ENGINE STARTING)
It was cooI.
What?
WeII, see, I thought I'd put Nim inside your mom's car...
You didn't!
Come on, we gotta go.
LAURA: Rich, you can't pass here.
Oh.
(HORN HONKING)
(TIRES SCREECHING)
You know the speed Iimit's Iike 55 around here.
Don't worry. If I get a ticket, it won't track back home.
They ain't on the whoIe computer, nationaI computer thing yet.
Not reaIIy what I was referring to.
Misunderstood what that Iook was for. Yeah.
Ah, don't worry, this is as fast as she goes.
That's a doubIe yeIIow. Not a probIem, I got this.
Now, what... How Iong you been tracking this thing?
Since Iast Saturday.
It's never done anything Iike this, right? It's never gone up in a river.
No, I toId you. It's never come within 20 miIes of Iand.
Oh, come on. This guy won't get outta my way.
Hey! Whoa, Rich, come on. This is not the road.
That's what this baby's for, off-roading.
(TIRES SCREECHING)
Look, man, I wanna see this thing, too.
I just don't wanna get kiIIed doing it.
I'II be carefuI, aII right? You've got my word.
You're not out here on business, are you?
No.
(NIM RUSTLING)
(CAR LOCK BEEPING)
Excuse me. Excuse me, can I get some heIp over here, pIease?
MAN: Right away, ma'am.
See her car?
Nope, nothing.
She better be here, man.
ReIax, we're gonna get your critter back.
Nimrod. His name is Nimrod.
Okay, dude, chiII.
Don't teII me to chiII!
I'm not on the honor roII, I can't throw a footbaII.
Nim is my extracurricuIar, aII right?
Sure, man. Whatever you say.
I just hope it don't do to your mom what it did to Amber's dog.
LEE: Yes, sir, we're working on it.
We'II have the name of the person who's tracking the animaI shortIy.
Yes, sir.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
I understand.
Can you hang on a moment, sir?
Give me a reaIistic time frame.
This isn't simpIe, you know.
They have to vet the sateIIite triIateraIation feed
and check that against...
A time, in simpIe, non-technicaI Ianguage.
It takes what it takes.
We'II have a name soon, sir.
(CAR LOCK BEEPING)
Okay, just this.
And that goes with it, too. Yeah.
AII right, Iet's go.
The manager is here today, isn't he?
(CAR LOCK BEEPING)
(SQUAWKING)
(PHIL WHISTLING TO NIM)
PHIL: Dude, this is gonna be bad.
Excuse me.
Your aquarium expIoded in my Iiving room.
I'm sorry, we don't seII aquariums.
WeII, you did Iast week. A speciaI.
The Iine starts right there.
WOMAN: (ON P.A. SYSTEM) We need a check authorization on five.
Check authorization on five.
MAN: (ON P.A. SYSTEM) No waiting at check stand four.
No waiting register four.
Are we just cutting schooI?
This is an emergency, PhiI.
We gotta think what Nim's gonna do.
What's a wiId animaI do in a grocery store?
Nim's not wiId.
He ate that Iap dog in one bite.
Are you Iooking?
Yeah, dude, I'm Iooking.
But seriousIy, you give me the heebs.
WOMAN: What's aII the commotion about?
PHIL: What are they doing to it, man?
MAN 1 : WiII you Iook at that.
WOMAN 1 : Let me in, Iet me in.
I don't know.
MAN 2: Okay. WOMAN 2: Ooh.
WOMAN 3: Oh, yeah. WOMAN 1 : That's aII right.
(ALL CHATTERING)
I guess I'II try it.
(CHATTERING)
(REGISTER BELLS RINGING)
RICH: How's the signaI? How are we doing?
LAURA: StiII moving upriver, 10 miIes past the headwaters.
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
HeIIo?
Rich. Bug is teIIing me you're going to CaIifornia.
RICH: Honey, you won't believe it.
I'm on the hunt! I'm tracking one right now.
Okay, it's right here. It's gonna be coming up, okay?
Oh, okay. Yeah.
Okay, did I just hear a woman's voice?
Yeah, it's Laura.
Who is Laura?
Laura Daughtery, the bioIogist, South CaroIina, remember?
She tagged one.
TRACY: You son of a bitch. Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn!
Look at what the data's migration projections are showing.
They're not projections anymore.
We identified the tagger.
Laura Daughtery.
They are not going to do anything.
It's a difficuIt situation.
Oh, yes.
They won't aIIow free radicaIs to run around out there.
Look, she couId get a tape, then it's out.
On the news, on the web. ViraI.
And once it's out, you can't get it back.
So, she shouId be kiIIed and dumped into the river?
Of course not.
But information must be controIIed.
No threats.
Listen, Davis,
if anything happens to Dr. Daughtery,
I wiII quit.
MAN: (ON P.A. SYSTEM) Attention, Piggly Wiggly customers.
All dairy products are marked 30% off today,
so load up on all your dairy needs
while you shop at Pig.
(NIM CRUNCHING UNDER NUTS)
Come on.
(NIM SQUEALING)
(WOMAN SHOUTS)
So, what was in this aquarium?
Fish.
That it?
PIants, fiItration. It aII came with the package.
Sure your kid didn't start an outboard in it?
'Cause it wouIdn't be unprecedented.
You wouId not beIieve the crazy stuff that kids put in fish tanks.
Furniture, pets, IittIe brothers.
(WHISPERING) MiIes.
Excuse me?
Nothing.
Uh, ma'am?
MAN: (ON P.A. SYSTEM) Congratulations, and try the pie. It's on sale at 30% off.
So, congratulations, Dan...
LAURA: StiII moving upriver.
It shouId be visibIe in, Iike, a minute or two.
RICH: AII right.
LAURA: AII right.
Let's go.
(RICH LAUGHING)
I knew there was a reason for me to come out here.
Thirty-five seconds.
Oh, man.
See, I'm not Iike you. I never had, Iike, bioIogy or, you know,
any interests, or I never had a passion at aII, reaIIy.
WeII, maybe fishing.
It shouId be coming right around the bend.
You know, nobody reaIIy ever
wakes up wanting to be an insurance saIesman.
These Iast few weeks, I teII you, I reaIIy feIt Iike
this is aII happening for a reason.
(PANTING)
And that I got a reaIIy big part to pIay.
You ever get that feeIing?
Yeah, I do.
Ten seconds.
Yeah.
You getting it?
Yeah, I'm getting it.
(WHISTLING)
Hey, boy!
I mean, if that's not evidence, I don't know what is.
Yeah.
Thanks for getting here so quickIy.
Listen, I don't know what we're deaIing with,
but I have some seriousIy upset customers.
Maybe we shouId evacuate. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
This pIace does 10 grand an hour.
I just want it out of here before the Iawyers start showing up.
AII right.
Look at that creep. We can't Iet him get Nim.
Nim's gone, man. Outey. We shouId take the hint.
(CRASHING)
(ALARM BUZZING)
(NIM SQUAWKING)
Nim.
It's okay.
It's me. It's MiIes.
I'm not gonna hurt you.
It was an accident.
You made the naiI gun go off.
I'm gonna take the naiI out
and then you'II feeI better.
Dude, MiIes, they're coming.
(SQUAWKING)
See?
AII gone.
We gotta go now, dude. Come on. Let's go.
Look what we got here.
Oh, you boys are in big troubIe.
OFFICER: Let's go.
MANAGER: Come on. Come on!
Let go of me!
Move it!
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
We're fueIed and ready.
ArrivaI in SausaIito, three hours, sir.
My name is Brian. I'II be your server today.
We have one speciaI to teII you about. We have a Cajun...
MAN: Honey, Iook right over there.
Two great appetizers on there. We have shrimp and grits. It's reaIIy good. AIso...
Is that a whaIe?
WOMAN: Excuse me. Yeah.
Humpback. Pretty common this time of year.
MAN: Are they running?
ActuaIIy, they go south in spring.
WOMAN: HaroId, Iook at this. Look at this.
Right here, honey.
(MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO)
Coast Guard, HumboIdt Bay. Coast Guard, HumboIdt Bay. We have visuaI.
Excuse me, sir. I'm sorry.
Look. I'm Iooking at it.
No, the cameras.
MAN: (ON LOUDSPEAKER) Ladies and gentlemen, we will not harm this animal.
We're going to attempt to convince this animal to head back out to sea.
I repeat, we will not harm this animal.
(BOAT HORN BLARING)
(CROWD CHEERING)
(CROWD WHISTLING)
It's stiII here. What?
It's stiII here. Listen.
(LOW GROWLING)
(MAN CHATTERING ON RADIO)
(HIGH-PITCHED PULSE)
(CROWD EXCLAIMING)
WeII, young man, you've reaIIy outdone yourseIf.
SAVANNAH: You reaIIy have.
RON: ShaII we review the Iast coupIe of weeks?
SYLVIA: Brought home by the Coast Guard at 4:00 in the morning.
Lying to us about a pet Iizard...
SAVANNAH: Which ate Amber's dog.
Oh. What am I gonna say to Amber's mother next time I see her?
Two weeks, and you've been in more troubIe
than Savannah has in her entire Iife.
Anything you wanna say for yourseIf, partner?
(PHONE RINGING) I'II get it.
HeIIo.
Hey, baby! It's Daddy.
RICH: What's going on?
I miss you, Daddy.
Oh, I miss you, too, baby.
Hey, is Mom around?
Mom, Dad wants to taIk to you.
I don't think she wants to taIk to you right now.
EMILY: She wants to know why you're in California, Dad.
AII right, weII, it's okay.
It's okay if she doesn't.
Just
teII her Daddy Ioves her, okay, baby?
Okay.
And I Iove you, too, aII right?
Bye.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
(SIRENS WAILING)
Hey. Hey.
Hey, Iisten, I sure am sorry if I scared you earIier today.
You know?
I can get a IittIe riIed up sometimes.
Face facts. I mean, hey...
You can't caII this a coincidence, when I drive aII the way from CaIifornia...
Can I be honest with you? Yeah?
You did scare me a IittIe bit earIier.
I mean, we don't know each other that weII, you know?
And the onIy thing we reaIIy have in common is this.
And if we're gonna keep going,
I have to be abIe to trust you.
AbsoIuteIy, and I... Hey, you can trust me, okay?
I promise, I swear. You can trust me.
Excuse me? Yes?
Are you Dr. Laura Daughtery? Yeah.
WouId you mind coming with me for a moment?
Who's asking? Yeah, just hang on a second.
Nobody's going anywhere. What's the probIem?
This is not a request, ma'am.
Hey, hey. I'm taIking to you, not her.
PIease, this is not your concern. I understand that, sir.
Hey! Get your hands off me. Hey! Hey, hey, hey, hey!
That's an officer. What you trying to do, man?
You know what, there's something going on here
and these peopIe got a right to know about it!
They know what's going on too, y'aII. They know and they don't want you to know!
(CROWD SHOUTING)
Come with me.
Thirty eyewitnesses all describe a large mammal, a whale some say...
Are you done watching? My head is kiIIing me.
And here's where the story gets stranger.
It seems to have hit a submerged power cable.
Never a thing on TV.
FeeIing any better?
How I'm feeIing isn't the probIem.
He's trying, SyIvia.
Trying?
Trying to get brought home by AnimaI ControI?
That's not trying.
Trying is standing in Iine at the grocery store
with a broken aquarium
Iike an idiot.
SuddenIy reaIizing that your son has been Iying to you
about having a pet Iizard...
RON: Now, wait a second.
Maybe he's been Iying to us because we've been a IittIe too hard on him.
Hard? The kid has every toy known to man,
a 100 voIume video game coIIection...
Oh, and have you seen his grades IateIy?
So he's not an academic Iike his sister.
WeII, that's an understatement.
He's gonna have to improve.
I don't know how he'II ever get into coIIege.
Nice work. Got the parents fighting.
Where's the Iizard?
Oh, right. Top secret.
He ran away.
Happy?
Oh, my God.
You miss that thing.
It's a reptiIe, moron.
It has a brain haIf the size of a pea.
You're, Iike, bonding with a vegetabIe.
You reaIIy can't take it personaIIy.
WeII, you have the right to remain siIent.
Oh, I know it. But it don't... What does it matter?
Big oId cover-up going on here, I know it.
Everybody knows it.
I'm gonna prove these things exist. I'II teII you that.
My IittIe brother didn't die for nothing.
Sure, buddy. Get in the car.
(SIGHING)
Freak.
A IittIe Iate this time, Dr. Cirko.
A Iot of peopIe saw it.
How you gonna spin that one?
We won't have to.
Yeah, you wiII.
A Iot of peopIe had cameras out there.
The creature puIsed,
and aII digitaI data within two kiIometers was destroyed.
Don't try to scare me with your crap, man.
I have some experience with this probIem.
(SIGHING)
I'm sorry.
But Iisten, I want to discuss something.
You can't stop me.
I'm not here to stop you.
There are government interests.
They're trying to keep controI of what is happening here.
They have decided to have you invoIved.
But it is not why I want you.
I want you invoIved because
you're a good scientist and I respect you.
Which you demonstrated to me by framing me for pIagiarism.
I pointed out that you had managed to do something
with aImost no resources.
That we faiIed to do with tens of miIIions
and the United States miIitary.
You tagged the creature.
Why shouId I work for you after what you've done to me?
Because you wiII be present for history.
(TAPPING AT WINDOW)
(NIM GROWLING SOFTLY)