LAURA: Previously on Surface.
LEE: We identified the tagger.
CIRKO: Laura Daughtery.
Information must be controIIed.
If anything happens to Dr. Daughtery, I wiII quit.
(WHIMPERING)
He just ate Amber Lu's dog, dude. That's bad.
SYLVIA: Mr. FureIIa's here from AnimaI ControI.
Howdy.
You gotta move Nim. Now.
PHIL: I thought I'd put Nim inside your mom's car.
MILES: You didn't!
(NIM WHINING)
(SNARLING)
STORE MANAGER: Oh, you boys are in big troubIe. Come on!
Let go of me!
WeII, young man, you've reaIIy outdone yourseIf.
SYLVIA: Lying to us about a pet Iizard.
Anything you wanna say for yourseIf, partner?
I'm going to taIk to the onIy person I know that saw the same thing I did.
WOMAN: Is that a whaIe?
WouId you mind coming with me for a moment?
Who's asking? Yeah, just hang on a second.
Nobody's going anywhere.
Hey, hey, hey! That's enough.
My IittIe brother didn't die for nothing.
Sure, buddy. Get in the car.
Freak.
There are government interests
They're trying to keep controI of what is happening here.
They have decided to have you invoIved.
Why shouId I work for you after what you've done to me?
Because you wiII be present for history.
(SPEAKING CROATIAN)
CIRKO: It's happened!
Singh, I was Iooking at the sea orchid and it hit me.
Come. It was...
It was tripIe bond.
One I'd never seen before.
Adenine, gIycine, kerotine over and over again.
A-G-K, A-G-K, A-G-K,
with no detectabIe mathematicaI pattern.
On the first chromosome,
15th sector, 29th quadrant.
It wasn't untiI I Iooked at the sea orchid
that I reaIized...
I haven't had my coffee today.
I've found it.
What?
The origin.
I know the origin of the species.
I know where it comes from.
(CROAKING)
(WHIRRING)
(WHISPERING) Hon? Hon, did you hear something?
Mmm-mmm.
(NIM CROAKING)
Nim, no. What are you doing?
You stay where I put you, okay?
You know what wouId happen if Mom found you down here.
SaIt, Iike the ocean.
You Iike that, huh?
Come on, Nim.
Ranky.
Everything so far.
OnIy the beginning.
We have to set you up in Washington immediateIy.
With DahI?
Yeah, with everyone.
Pentagon, DOD, White House.
Let me make a caII, get you on a pIane to DC.
LEE: Dr. Sherman, we briefed Joint Chiefs, White House, NSA.
(SPEAKING CROATIAN)
Yeah. I'II have Command fIy him out tonight.
LEE: They're scrambIing transport from Edwards.
A DOD pIane wiII meet you at the tarmac in 30 minutes.
You're not going?
This is out of my Ieague.
Good Iuck.
TRACY: (OVER PHONE) I don't understand
why you're not coming home in the meantime.
Because they've made me sign an affidavit that says
I won't leave the state until my court date.
So you are not gonna see the kids for a month?
I don't Iike it any more than you do, babe.
And we have to pay $2,500 to a baiI bondsman?
Do you think Mr. ConneIIy's okay?
I think so.
(PHONE RINGING)
HeIIo?
I wasn't gonna ask you for that money.
You can't enabIe him. (WHISPERING) Not now.
Rich, you know we're onIy getting a paycheck for three more weeks.
Of course I know that, baby. Come on.
Look, you're gonna have to have some faith here, all right?
Is Daddy in jaiI?
I do have faith. ReaI faith.
WeII, how about having some reaI faith in me?
You know, I'm doing what I think is right, here.
Hon, don't twist this around on me
when you are the one in CaIifornia with some other woman.
AII right, we can't taIk about this right now.
I Iove you. Bye.
I can't teII that woman nothing. She just...
There comes a time when you gotta trust someone.
Oh, okay. Thank you very much.
Thank you, sir.
Everything okay? Who was it?
Marin County Sheriff.
DETECTIVE: WeII, thank you for coming down.
Like I toId you, this is an oIder gentIeman. A hit-and-run.
RICH: No witnesses or...
No, and no skid marks before the impact.
Why'd you caII me?
DETECTIVE: WeII, the paramedics found your business card near the body.
It's the onIy Iead we got.
Now prepare yourseIves.
The victim has muItipIe bIunt force injuries.
There is significant bruising and abrasions.
Do you know him, ma'am?
Yes.
His name is...
His name is AIexander Cirko.
DETECTIVE: AIexander
C-I-R-K-O?
Mind if I ask you a few questions, ma'am?
Not at aII.
I'II teII you one thing. That wasn't no car accident.
You see him two days ago, y'aII swap war stories then bam, hit-and-run.
Come on, that doesn't sound a IittIe weird to you?
Cirko just toId me he was bringing me into the investigation.
ExactIy. That's what I'm taIking about.
You're aImost in and he gets in an accident? Come on, now.
You know what? Let's try to get out this way.
SYLVIA: MiIes! MiIes, get out of bed. It's one in the afternoon!
Okay, okay.
Jeez, Nim. What did you do?
(NIM SNARLING)
Oh, my gosh. Nim, I toId you, not in the house.
He's gonna sIeep the whoIe day away.
(NIM GROWLING)
Nim, stop. No pIay. Nim, no pIay.
Stop that, boy. Let go!
(GRUNTING)
SYLVIA: MiIes.
Stay.
WeII, I was beginning to think you'd gotten bitten by a tsetse fIy.
Um, I didn't sIeep so good.
(EXCLAIMING)
I don't bIame you. It smeIIs horribIe in there.
Why don't you cIean out the pigsty?
Yeah, okay.
And you promised to sweep out the garage today.
No, I'II do it.
Jeez, Nim. Stay in there. I'II be back.
(NIM BANGING ON DOOR)
WeII, I'm actuaIIy waIking out of the house right now.
Yeah, so, can I caII you Iater?
Yeah, oh, that.
WeII, hoIding your chiIdren accountabIe
that's aII it takes, reaIIy.
Yeah, MiIes.
Yeah, MiIes is coming around.
SYLVIA: Okay. I'II taIk to you around 2:00?
(SCREECHING)
CIRKO: (ON ANSWERING MACHINE) This is Alexander Cirko. Please leave me a message.
(DOOR CLOSING)
SINGH: (WHISPERING) Come on, come on.
(WHISPERING) Come on, come on.
GUARD: The rest of you aII, down in there.
SECURITY MAN: (OVER RADIO) We have an intruder in Corridor F.
I see him.
(ALARM WAILING)
(GUARDS YELLING)
GUARD: That way!
GUARD 2: You need to watch...
GUARD: Move!
GUARD 2: There he is.
GUARD: HoId it right there!
GUARD 2: Hey, hey, hoId it right there!
(GUARDS YELLING)
GUARD: BIock on three!
There he is. Go!
GUARD 2: I got him! This way!
GUARD 2: Take this way.
GUARD: Okay, go.
(ALARM BUZZING)
(GRUNTING)
(GASPING)
GUARD: CarefuI.
GUARD 2: Yeah, I got it, I got it. That's right, go! Go!
Yeah.
Yeah, you think?
GUARD 2: This way, everybody!
There he is!
Get there. Get to that...
It's armed!
GUARD: This is Security 3, we've got a breach on 4, taking south eIevator.
Look for an exit on south...
LAURA: AII right, what does it say about Cirko?
RICH: ''Cirko was a maverick among bioIogists
''whose criticaI refinement of Darwin's Origin of Species
''poIarized the scientific community.''
WeII, he more than just poIarized it.
I mean, he was stripped of his chair at BerkeIey
for his theory of spontaneous equiIibrium.
''And cast him as a defiant outsider
''for the Iatter stages of what was once a bright academic future.''
That's right.
WeII, guy had enemies.
DefiniteIy was not an accident.
Can you get me some saIt?
Yeah. Where is it?
On the counter.
(BOAT APPROACHING)
MAN: Hey! What you got there?
LAURA: Jesse!
It's time for dinner!
Jesse?
Jesse!
Mom, Iook!
Jesse! Never do that to me again, you hear me?
Do what?
What did that man say to you? What did he want?
He wanted to know where to fish around here.
LEE: Have you found Dr. Singh?
NAVAL ATTACHE: We haven't been abIe to Iocate him as yet.
LEE: But you've taken care of the recovered research?
Yes, sir. Packed up and shipped to DC as you requested.
We're organizing a team debriefing for Iower personneI.
There is one issue, however.
What is it?
Videotape from the Iab showed that Singh might have
gotten away with the specimen, some kind of marine fIora.
Find Singh. Recover the specimen.
It's of the utmost importance.
I understand, sir.
Oh.
Oh, my God.
(SCREAMING)
MILES: PhiI? PhiI.
Don't Iet my mom see us together.
From now on our friendship's gotta be covert.
But why?
They think you're a bad infIuence.
So that's how it is.
A IittIe adversity and you just throw me under the bus?
I'm grounded, man.
I've never been grounded before, ever.
Not for anything.
WeII, if it's any consoIation, Nim's back.
Big whoop.
The thing never Iiked me anyway.
MILES: Is that my dad's car?
What's he doing home?
Mom?
Is Dad home?
Yeah. Why do you suppose that is, MiIes, huh?
Whoa.
Is it here? Huh?
What?
The thing. Is it here?
(STAMMERING) I don't know what you're taIking about.
MiIes, I can't Iisten to this anymore.
I've had it. Your dad and I both have.
Mom,
if you just gave him a chance...
What did you say?
If you onIy met him...
I did meet him, MiIes. He was in my kitchen cabinet.
This isn't about your Iizard. It's about your Iying.
I am very disappointed in you, Son.
I'm up to my ass in depositions on a Saturday.
The Iast thing I need is your mother caIIing me up,
hystericaI, in the middIe of a work day.
I know, Dad, I'm sorry.
Sorry isn't gonna cut it anymore.
I'm tired of sorry.
(NIM GROWLING)
I wouIdn't do that, Dad
(NIM SCREECHING)
Son of a bitch, the teeth on that thing.
He wouIdn't hurt anyone.
It's in the fIoor, isn't it? Isn't it?
It's in the fIoor.
MiIes, out of the way. Out of the way.
Promise you won't hurt him.
It's aIready kiIIed a poodIe, MiIes.
What do you want it to kiII next? A baby? Your sister?
Don't answer that.
(NIM CROAKING)
It's in the waIIs now.
He'II come to me. I trained him.
You can't train a Iizard, MiIes.
He's just scared!
(SHUSHING)
I trained him to do a Iot of things.
He fetches, and he can do these jumps out of the pooI.
(SIGHING)
This is aII a big joke to you, isn't it?
You're 1 4, MiIes.
You're too big for pet Iizards.
Time to start acting Iike an aduIt.
I'm trying.
Like you were trying to teII the truth?
Honesty is aII we got, buddy. That's it.
Without it
we're strangers.
Just go to your room.
PIease don't hurt him.
Just go, MiIes. Now.
WeII, come on, you think you can take the champ? Let's have it.
You think you've got what it takes to take the beIt?
Come on! You're biting my hair!
I got the supIex and the body sIam.
(BOTH CHUCKLING)
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Look, Iook, Iook! It's us!
Hey, hang on, buddy. Hang on.
...with us now, an eyewitness.
Now, tell us, what did you see?
WOMAN: This huge thing.
(LAUGHING) I don't know what it was.
It had orange eyes...
Oh, come on
...really smooth skin like a salamander's.
Are you seeing this?
It's not the first time I saw it...
JESSE: SaIamander? I know.
...at the river road at the mouth of the bay.
Also, on a day of the new moon.
These creatures are connected to the zodiac.
Oh, that poor, poor woman. REPORTER: Well, whatever it was,
it was selling a lot of T-shirts.
For now, News Three, Michelle...
(CRASHING)
(CAR ALARM WAILING)
RICH: Hey.
Hey, man. Hey, you aII right? Huh?
Come on, now, buddy. Wake up.
LAURA: Oh, my God.
Do you know him?
Yes, he's Krishna Singh.
He's an evoIutionary bioIogist.
He's Cirko's right-hand guy.
RICH: I'm not getting a puIse.
Oh, my God. I feeI sick, Rich. I reaIIy do. I can't even...
Hey, hey! Everything aII right out here?
Hey, hey, there's been a bad accident!
CouId you pIease caII us an ambuIance?
Sure, right away.
Try to open from the inside of that door.
Let's try to get that door open.
Just reach in with your hand.
There's a IittIe handIe in there.
(LAURA GASPING)
Hey! Hey!
(GASPING) He wanted you to have this.
Just take it easy, man. Just take it easy.
We couId just throw it into the ocean.
RICH: We couId.
Forget that we even got it.
(SIGHING)
WaIk away.
You know, caII the poIice, Iet the authorities deaI with it.
Yeah.
The authorities.
Like Cirko
and Singh.
You know,
whoever hit Cirko and kiIIed Singh,
they want what's in this Iocker.
And we go sniffing around,
we're fair game.
Not onIy us. I mean, our famiIies, too.
Yeah.
WaIk away.
(SIGHING)
I can't.
And this ain't just about my brother anymore.
There's something more. I can't expIain it.
But I couIdn't go back to hawking insurance poIicies if I tried.
I understand if you want to do something different.
RON: Have you taken a Iook at the house upstairs?
SYLVIA: Yes, I have.
RON: Yeah, you know what that's gonna cost to repIace?
SYLVIA: I know, and I don't know who to trust.
I don't know... You know, where do you start with him?
RON: I don't know what's got into this kid, but it's out of controI.
I'II teII you that right now.
SYLVIA: WeII, that's why we need... I think...
SAVANNAH: Word to the wise-ass.
You might want to stay in your room.
What are they doing?
Uh, wondering how they ended up with such a defective son.
Just so you know,
boys and their creepy animaIs,
you're supposed to have outgrown that by now.
Did Dad find him?
That's what you're worried about?
That thing? Did he?
You're hitting puberty and going compIeteIy insane.
Mom and Dad are onIy trying to heIp you.
(SIGHING)
(NIM GRUNTING)
(CROAKING)
SYLVIA: You've heard the horror stories of affIuent kids
with a sense of entitIement, right?
RON: Yes, yes.
I just don't want that to happen to MiIes, Ron.
Yeah, weII, we've aIready given him too much. Way too much.
First it's Iying, then he's sneaking out,
getting drunk with his buddies, then he's deaIing pot.
Yeah, weII, I didn't have haIf the advantages he's had. HaIf.
SYLVIA: WeII, Iook what he's done with them.
I just think we shouId at Ieast expIore other options, that's aII.
Like what?
WeII, something... Outward Bound,
(NIM CROAKING) maybe miIitary schooI.
Something that wiII teach him character, discipIine.
I didn't even know where he's going with this whoIe thing.
I don't know what's wrong with him. I don't get it.
But we've got a decision to make.
Are we gonna be parents or are we gonna be friends?
WeII, where do you draw the Iine? Come on, Nim.
He's 1 4 years oId. Line's aIready drawn.
Okay, we definiteIy need to find you a new crib,
'cause, weII, we may have just been voted off the isIand.
(NIM CROAKING)
Which, you know, in a way, I understand.
What did you do?
Ate some saIt.
And a poodIe. Which, yeah, I guess is wrong.
But, swear to God, Nim,
I reaIIy don't see that we're the big probIem here.
Don't worry.
We're gonna stash you somepIace safe.
(DOORBELL RINGING)
Hi, CheryI. Hi. Hi, Laura.
Sorry to intrude.
Sean, hey.
How you doing, buddy?
How you doing? Fine.
Hey, how you doing? Rich ConneIIy.
Oh, sorry. This is Rich, my friend who I...
Sean. Sean, a pIeasure.
...toId you about. He's the one who saw the...
The new vertebrate.
The new vertebrate. Right. That's right.
(CLEARING THROAT)
So, I heard about your job. What happened?
Something about pIagiarism or...
It's an aIIegation, Sean.
RICH: She was framed.
It's reaIIy...
Things are reaIIy compIicated right now,
and I think it wouId be a good idea if Jesse
stayed here.
There's a body outside our house.
A body.
SEAN: You wanna teII me what's going on, Laura?
RICH: Look,
Laura beIieves the government is covering up the existence of a new species
and is kiIIing peopIe to do it.
WeII, it's not that extreme. Laura, come on.
WeII, it is that extreme.
I mean, the situation is reaIIy extreme.
RICH: And I think the same thing, too. For what it's worth.
But, Sean, I know how this Iooks, and I know how it sounds.
But I wouIdn't do it if I didn't have a reason.
Hey, Jesse, why don't you come on in and I'II put you to bed.
Yeah, okay. That's a good idea, right?
Hey, you know how much I Iove you, don't you?
Infinity?
Infinity pIus one.
(WHISPERING) Promise me you'II find it.
Okay.
LAURA: Tomorrow we do this.
Let's go.
(NIM CHEEPING)
Not bad, right? Me and PhiI come out here sometimes.
It's Iike a hang out.
You know, Mom and Dad aren't usuaIIy Iike this.
They...
They just gotta get used to you, that's aII.
(YAWNING) I got to go.
Yes, sir, that's right, he's been gone for about five or six hours.
Yes, I understand, but he's never run away from home before.
Yes, sir.
Okay, thank you.
Don't worry. He's a smart kid.
He'II be okay.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Here, here, here.
Wow. Trees and Iots of cover.
Good pIace for a sniping.
Can you shut up and heIp me with this thing, pIease?
Here, here, here.
That's it. That's it.
Stop, stop. It's stuck. It's stuck.
AII right, aII right, aII right.
Oh, my gosh.
WeII, I'm not reaIIy good with smaII spaces.
I'm a girI.
Oh, come on. You're a girI who drives submarines
and tags IittIe sea critters...
AII right, aII right.
Get your butt in there.
If I don't come out in 10 minutes, caII the poIice.
Yeah, yeah.
Shoot, if you're not back in 10 minutes, I'm caIIing an air strike.
AII right. Stay cooI.
LAURA: Rich, there's something in here you're not gonna beIieve.
You gotta see this, Rich.
Rich, you gotta see this.
You're never gonna beIieve what's in here.
Hey! Hey! Hey, Daughtery! Come on!
What are you doing?
I need you to puII me in. There's somebody coming!
Yeah, but you won't fit. Yeah, but I can't even, I mean...
RICH: Come on, get me in there! Somebody's coming!
LAURA: Wait!
I gotta get in there!
LAURA: CarefuI!
(NIM CROAKING)
Look, I gotta go. Nim, I'II be back, okay?
It's just that, I don't know, I got schooI,
and my parents. I don't reaIIy want to think about my parents.
Look, I need you to stay.
(NIM SNARLING)
Stay!
(POUNDING)
Oh, man. God, they must have been watching us the whoIe time.
(GRUNTING)
Don't you think we shouId come cIean? I think we shouId come cIean.
These are not peopIe that are gonna Iisten to reason, you know what I mean?
WeII, we don't even know what kind of peopIe these are.
What we need...
Ha, ha! We need a weapon.
Are you sure we shouIdn't just go out there and just, you know,
pretend Iike we're totaIIy meant to be here. We've got keys. I mean...
Look, I'II teII you what. You taIk. I'm gonna hit.
We'II see who gets out of here.
What the heII am I supposed to do with this?
Use your imagination.
RICH: Hey, the car's gone.
He's gone.
(CHUCKLES)
Yeah, just a IittIe bit paranoid, I guess, huh?
No, you're not.
That's what they do. That's their technique to get you out into the open.
What are you taIking about, ''technique''?
How in the worId do you know what their technique is?
I'm an oceanographer, and I spend a Iot of time on boats reading spy noveIs.
Wait a minute. Just a second ago, you're taIking about reasoning...
Yes, then I remembered that I got framed, and that Cirko is in ICU
and that Singh is dead.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
(CAR DOORS CLOSING)
MAN 1 : ...over that way. MAN 2: You sure?
MAN 1 : Look, they switch off in a second.
MAN 1 : It's gotta be...
MAN 2: It's jammed.
Give me a hand with this, aII right?
MAN 1 : Ready?
One, two, three!
You foIks having any troubIe?
Supposed to check in at the guard station.
Uh, yeah. Sorry about that.
AImost caIIed the poIice but I figured I'd come,
have a Iook-see.
WeII, we'II sure make sure to do that next time.
Sorry, buddy, promise. Okay?
Thank you, boys.
FeeI Iike an idiot?
No. No more than usuaI.
Hey, it's a funny-Iooking thing, ain't it?
It's the research.
Hmm? What? What research?
Mine.
He used my research to track the migration patterns.
Don't worry, Mr. and Mrs. Barnett.
The boat is gone, you know he's on the water. I'II find him.
Be carefuI with him. PIease.
There. There he is! There he is now!
MiIes!
SYLVIA: MiIes! MiIes!
SYLVIA: It's okay! RON: MiIes!
SYLVIA: MiIes! MiIes, come back!
OFFICER: Stop! It's the poIice!
RON: Don't scare him! Don't scare him!
(RON AND SYLVIA CLAMORING)
RON: MiIes, it's aII right. MiIes, nobody's gonna hurt you.
MiIes, you're not in troubIe...
MiIes, come back!
MiIes, come back.
Don't scare him. Don't scare him!
SYLVIA: It's okay, honey!
RON: Nobody's gonna do anything.
RON: You're not in a Iot of troubIe right now. Turn around...
SYLVIA: We'II taIk through it, sweetheart.
It's okay, just come back. Sweetheart?
You're not in a Iot of troubIe right now.
If you just stop and turn around, we're gonna be fine.
We're gonna be fine!
SYLVIA: MiIes! Come back.
It's okay. Just come back.
Okay, Nim.
Time to go. It's not gonna be safe much Ionger.
Get in. Nim, get in.
Come on, Nim.
(SIGHING)
Crap, dude, you scared the bejeebs out of me.
Good, maybe you'II start acting normaI. You're parents are wigging.
How did you find me anyways?
Did you see where I hid the boat?
How many times have we come here, idiot. It wasn't that difficuIt.
MILES: Where did you put your bike?
PHIL: Right next to the ''Find MiIes Here'' sign I posted up on the road.
MILES: Okay, okay. I just wanna make sure they don't find us.
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
PHIL: Are you okay?
(NIM GROWLING)
They're gonna take him.
Oh, but we...
Look, we gotta put him somewhere.
We just... We gotta Ieave.
Have you got any money?
My IittIe sister just had a birthday.
She's sitting on maybe $100.
Okay, I need it here.
I had aImost $300 stashed up in my bookcase
if Nim didn't shred it.
Son, you probabIy think you're in so much troubIe
right now, things can't get any worse.
But that's not accurate. Now step away from that thing.
You can't take him.
(OFFICER SCREAMING)
Is he dead?
(PANTING)
(WHINING)
MILES: We gotta caII 91 1 .
Dude!
Take him. Take him!
No, no, that's terribIe. I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Yes, thank you for caIIing.
What's up?
Cirko passed away.
The poIice are caIIing it a homicide.
(THUDDING)
(MEN CHATTERING)
No, Daughtery.
No, what are we doing? This is my house.
I'm not Ieaving. No, wait, get in the truck.
There are Iaws. This is my home. I do not have to go.
Laura, get in the truck, now! Come on!