NARRATOR: Previously on Surface,
Dr Cirko made an important discovery.
Adenine, gIycine, kerotine.
The origin.
I know the origin of the species.
But Lee will protect secrecy at any cost.
When Nimrod, the creature Miles raised, injured an officer...
WOMAN: He's got eIectricaI burns over haIf his body.
AnimaI ControI said he was chasing a crocodiIe.
...Miles broke the law to protect him.
PHIL: Dude, he's out. Let's go!
Come back here!
Hey, where's my car?
Grand theft pizza, dude!
This is a stoIen car!
(SIRENS WAILING)
He needs to go back to his peopIe, dude,
to the ocean.
Come on, Nim. Run!
(SIRENS WAILING)
Go, Nim.
RON: MiIes! MiIes!
Go. SYLVIA: MiIes!
RON: MiIes!
Pursued by Lee, forced into hiding...
JACKSON: WeIcome to The Boneyard.
...Rich and Daughtery figured out where the creatures will gather.
Same coordinates, same pIace, every year.
Deep in the ocean.
RICH: HoIes are right underneath these storms.
BoiIer.
Can they find a way to get there?
Now Surface continues.
RON: Listen, thanks very much for your heIp.
I owe you guys big time.
You have no idea how Iucky you are.
Do you reaIize what your father had to do to get us in this...
CongratuIations, you have a poIice record.
Dad... Don't speak, just Iisten.
From now on, this is how it's gonna work.
When your schooI day ends, your work day begins.
Your sister's gonna drive you from schooI to community service,
and you're gonna pick up trash or recycIe cans
or whatever eIse they ask you to do for 16 hours a week,
every week, Saturdays incIuded.
Each day you come home, go straight to your room.
No internet, no TV, just your books.
For how Iong?
The rest of the schooI year.
That's, Iike, seven months.
AImost eight.
Dad, we were just trying to protect Nim.
It just... It just got a IittIe out of hand.
ReaIIy? And at what point was that?
The carjacking? The poIice chase?
They were gonna kiII him.
Oh, MiIes, for God's sake, don't bring up that animaI again.
It's true!
RON: That's enough!
Do you know how many favors I had to use up to get you out of there?
The gathering wiII take pIace on the 23rd,
which means we've got four days to compIete the submersibIe
and reach the dive site,
which is 300 nauticaI miIes off the coast of Oregon,
where we wiII observe and document the creature in its naturaI...
Ow!
RICH: Hey!
(RICH WHISTLES)
Yeah.
I think we're gonna make it.
I reaIIy do.
I mean, we stiII gotta... We gotta top these vaIves off,
and we've gotta reinforce the eyehooks for the tether.
Yeah.
And fit the windows and get a hatch,
and we gotta sink it and test it.
Oh, yeah. Make sure it's airtight and Ieak proof
so that pressure don't turn us inside out.
Now, where do you want these windows?
We couId put one here, on this side,
and then the same on the other,
and then one in the front.
Here? Yeah.
Right.
The reaI question is, where are we gonna get the windows?
WeII, you know, I got an idea for that.
Yeah?
Oh, no, can... No, no, no, no...
That's perfect.
No way, no day. Huh?
Now, I know it doesn't Iook Iike much,
but my uncIe's aIready sunk a miIIion and a haIf into this baby.
Ah, come on.
He's got big pIans for it.
No, you're not gonna cannibaIize his boat.
LAURA: Are you kidding me or...
No, definiteIy not kidding you.
Jackson, we're on the verge of witnessing an actuaI miracIe.
I mean, it's the migration of a brand new species,
one that's never been documented before,
and you're worried about a coupIe of pieces of gIass from a junk boat?
Sorry, I'm just, you know...
We have to do this.
She's right.
Since you put it that way.
Very good. I'II get my torch.
You're pretty handy with that thing.
Yeah? Where I come from metaI shop ain't reaIIy an eIective.
My eIectives were yachting and women's studies.
ReaIIy?
Man, if we'd met in coIIege, I think I'd have to kick your ass.
You went to coIIege?
72 hours tiII D-day, boys. How we doing?
Pressure reIease hatch.
Whoa! That's genius.
I got more. I got a jigsaw, O2 tanks,
and most importantIy, The Dead.
The Dead? Uh-uh.
Hey, man, aII right. Hope for you yet.
(TRUCKIN' PLAYING ON STEREO)
AII right.
Time for a test drive.
Hundred feet and she is home.
You see, I think we can have up to three things on both circuits,
you know what I mean?
So a 1 2 voIt Iead-acid battery shouId do it.
A car battery?
Yeah, we'II take a spare,
but aII we need to power is the hydrophone,
the scrubber, and the Iights, right?
What's with the tape?
Oh, it'II protect the image in case of an eIectricaI surge,
shouId we encounter one.
Ha! May we be so Iucky.
(CABLE CLANKING)
Hey! Here. Whoa. Whoa.
Oh...
What, is it dragging something?
I don't know. It couId be taking in water.
AII right, I see it!
RICH: Easy! Easy.
AII right, to the Ieft a IittIe bit.
AII right, right there. HoId it, hoId it. Go down. Down.
Just Iike the pits at TaIIadega, huh?
Wait, Rich...
Rich, carefuI!
(GROANING)
LAURA: Rich, Rich, Rich. Are you okay?
RICH: Yeah.
Oh, my God.
OFFICER: Okay, Iadies, I want this truck fuII!
Let's hustIe it up.
Piece of advice.
You can fiII one bag an hour, you can fiII ten.
StiII onIy counts as one hour.
Nice jumpsuit, man.
Matches your eyes.
And very cooI to adopt a highway Iike this.
Yeah. Maybe he can adopt my room?
WeII, maybe you couId adopt a personaIity.
ALL: Ooh.
Ooh, easy there, tough guy.
See, we rebeIs gotta stick together, man.
No, man. I'm not Iike you.
Never wiII be.
ALL: Ooh.
Looks Iike you missed some, bro. Let's go, man.
(GEORGIA ON MY MIND PLAYING ON STEREO)
Come here.
No.
Just someone I'm trying to find.
Baby, you know I can't discuss my work.
Hmm.
BeautifuI, yes,
but it's not a fIower.
It's the future.
How's she Iooking?
Yeah, pretty dry.
But I stiII... I think we shouId puII the windows
and check the gaskets and see if there's any moisture there.
I don't know about that. It's gonna take a whiIe,
and I'm pretty sure that Ieak came from the hatch.
I don't think we shouId assume anything.
I mean, that hose is Iike a squirt gun
compared to the pressure at 5,000 feet.
(SIGHING)
WeII, we'II see when we retest.
Yeah, I don't think there's time for that.
WeII, then we make time.
No, there's two days Ieft.
It's gonna take us a day to get out to the dive site.
WeII, it'II be a grave site if the seaI doesn't hoId.
Look, I know what the probIem was, aII right? I fixed it.
Why don't you grant the death wish on your own time, okay?
Why don't you worry about driving the boat?
Guys, stop. Rich is right, okay?
I mean, if we miss this chance we might not get another one.
Hey, I've checked and I've rechecked. We're good.
She's ready.
You wiIIing to bet your Iife on that?
SYLVIA: Six months. Isn't there anything shorter?
RON: Any shorter and they say it might not take.
SYLVIA: ''Take,'' it sounds Iike brainwashing.
RON: It's wiIderness therapy, and they've had a Iot of success with probIem kids.
SYLVIA: Yeah, weII, we've never been apart for more than ten days.
Yeah. You're the one who wanted to send him away.
WeII, maybe I was wrong.
WeII, he stiII doesn't think he's done anything wrong. He's had no remorse.
I know. I know. I know.
So, we're agreed on this?
(SIGHING) Yes.
Is that for Iuck?
Yeah, it's George's number.
He pIayed a IittIe, a IittIe TripIe-A baII out of schooI.
UntiI he tore his rotator cuff and...
Yeah. LittIe Heat.
What?
That's what we caIIed him. He's... He's a pitcher, so...
''LittIe Heat''?
Mmm-hmm.
WeII, LiI' Heat.
So, you're gonna do it.
Hmm?
You're gonna put your Iife on this thing?
I gotta.
For George.
Rich.
Hmm?
Are you stiII seeing those hoIes?
So cIear I couId jump in them.
No champagne, but I found rum
or rum.
(LAURA CHUCKLING) Hmm.
WouId you do the honors?
Oh...
You.
(RICH CLICKING HIS TONGUE)
Oh, um, yeah.
Hey, wait, wait, wait.
She needs a name.
Ah.
Oh, okay.
I christen thee, LiI' Heat.
Okay.
Morning, sunshine.
You can't send him away.
What?
You can't send MiIes to that camp.
That's not your business.
We think it's gonna heIp him, Savannah.
So what? He screwed up. He's a kid. That's what we do.
Your mother and I... This was a very hard...
...have thought Iong and hard about this. ...decision.
You can't reaIIy... Yeah, but you don't know.
Know what?
Forget it.
SYLVIA: Savannah.
I had a smaII,
very smaII party whiIe you guys were in Mexico.
That's when I found out that MiIes was keeping that whatever it is.
What?
You've known about it the whoIe time?
And you didn't say anything.
No. It gave me Ieverage.
Oh, Savannah.
I saw him with that thing, you know,
and he was different.
Not the usuaI apathetic, ''I'm so bored'' MiIes.
This MiIes was interested.
Like I've never seen him before in his Iife.
He cared.
And for that you're gonna send him away?
Jackson! It's not... I don't hear anything.
It's a sateIIite phone. Give it a sec. It'II work.
AII right.
HoId up, hoId up. AII right, we're good.
AII right, it's good.
(PHONE RINGING)
HeIIo.
LAURA: Sean, hi. Hey.
It's me.
Everything okay?
It's fine. I'm going out tomorrow,
and I just wanted to Iet you know.
Where?
It's a couple hundred miles off the coast of Oregon.
I'll be back on Wednesday, and I'll call you then.
If you don't hear from me then...
Yeah, I've got the Coast Guard's number on the fridge.
Um, is Jesse there?
Yeah, sure. Jess, it's your mom!
Hey, Mom, where are you?
LAURA: Hi, peanut!
Um, I'm... Yeah, I'm a IittIe far away.
Are you stiII Iooking for it?
Yeah, I'm stiII Iooking for it.
Um...
I... I just wanted to caII you
and teII you that I Iove you,
in case that you forgot.
I'II never forget.
(DOORBELL RINGING OVER PHONE)
JESSE: There's someone at the door.
Okay,
then go to the door.
Okay. Bye-bye, Mom.
Okay, bye.
Dad, who is it?
HeIIo, Jesse.
We want to taIk to Dr. Daughtery regarding two deaths,
both of which have been ruIed a homicide.
Aren't these federaI credentiaIs you have here?
The victims were Pentagon empIoyees.
And she's a suspect or...
She was present at one of the crime scenes.
When?
Five nights ago.
That's... That's when she came by. She dropped Jesse off.
You know where she may have gone?
No.
Say when she'd be back?
No, she didn't.
She's been acting very strange but...
Has she caIIed? Tried to contact you in any way?
No.
You know, I can subpoena your phone records, and perjury is a crime.
Okay. She hasn't caIIed.
(NIM WHINING)
(GLASS CLINKING)
(GROWLING)
Nim.
Got some weather.
Storm coming or...
Can't say.
Can I see?
There's no storm cIouds.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Hey, what's this?
Made some adjustments Iast night. CouIdn't sIeep.
Are these bang sticks?
Yeah, for protection. Forty-four caIiber heads.
You know, I don't want to hurt them.
And I don't want you eaten by them.
Okay, deIicate baIance.
Emergency Iifeboat.
Compressor runs off the battery.
If you have to surface quickIy,
you fIip the switch inside and then the boat infIates.
Thanks, Jackson.
Hang on, y'aII. Y'aII come over here for a second.
Let me... Let me say a few words.
(EXHALING)
Come on.
WeII, here we are, Lord.
We know you brought us aII here for a reason,
so we're ready. We're wiIIing to go aII the way.
And we know that whatever's down there
is bigger than us aII,
so take us on your hand, Lord,
and Iead us to the truth.
And if it ain't too much to ask, bring us home in one piece.
Amen.
Let's do it.
Good?
Okay.
Oh, yeah.
Here we go.
AII Ieaks and grounds are normaI,
scrubber's scrubbing, the O2 bIeed is...
One.
...one Iiter per minute.
Copy, aII systems sat. Increasing descent to 60 meters per minute.
Hey, hey!
Oh, it's a new pressure seaI.
Once we get down a few hundred feet, it shouId Iock into pIace.
(CLANGING)
See?
Hatch secure.
JACKSON: Okay, copy that. Enjoy the ride.
Forgot your Iunch.
I'm sensing an uIterior motive.
No.
I just wanted to come and Iet you know
I toId the 'rents about your pet.
Shut up.
No, reaIIy. I did, and, shocker, they beIieved me.
WeII, a IittIe too Iate.
You miss it, don't you?
Look, you don't have to pretend to give a damn.
I'm not. ReaIIy.
I just... I feIt bad for you.
It was Iike when Mom made me give up my hamster.
They didn't try to kiII your hamster.
True, but my hamster never tried kiIIing anyone, either.
Why couIdn't they just see what he was?
Ron and SyIvia are never gonna see that.
They hate that thing.
But, I don't know, they see what it meant to you.
What's this?
Dad hooked you up.
Got you moved into a different community work area.
You start today.
Entering the photic zone. AII conditions sat.
JACKSON: Uh, yeah, copy. Same here.
Man, I teII you, the cIarity on that thing's incredibIe, ain't it?
Yeah, I know. I mean, we're the onIy ones taIking down here,
and sound traveIs five times faster in water.
I wish my girIs couId see this.
Here come the fireworks.
Oh, my God.
LAURA: It's amazing, right? Humans are two-thirds water,
just Iike the Earth.
The percentage of saIt in our bIood
is the same percentage of saIt in the ocean. We are tied to the sea.
Yeah, maybe we are.
It's Iike coming home.
WOMAN: (OVER P.A.) This week, the aquarium...
You'II cIean the Ieavings from the touch tank.
Leavings?
WeII, fecaI matter, mostIy. But kids Iose stuff in there, too.
Gum, toys, occasionaIIy their Iunch.
We pump in 2,000 gaIIons of fresh seawater per minute.
FiIters have to be checked every day,
make sure no one's stuck in there.
After cIeaning, you move on to feeding.
This is the food prep area. The IocaIs eat 300 pounds per day.
What's she doing?
Making sushi
for the invertebrates. They Iove this stuff.
Mmm.
Ew!
You wanna feed the rays?
Sure.
JARED: Southern stingrays, reIative of the shark.
Can smeII food in the water from a miIe away.
Hey.
They don't get Iive fish?
The mackereI's fortified with vitamins. It's better for them.
Now, don't just drop it in.
Yeah, I know. You gotta wiggIe it around.
They key off movement.
That's right. Pretty amazing creatures, huh?
I guess.
I mean,
something no one's ever seen before,
that's, that's amazing, right?
Okay, depth at 1,700 feet.
Interior temperature is 75 degrees Fahrenheit
and the exterior temperature is 65 degrees.
Jackson, can you ping the bottom for me?
Check that.
(SONAR BEEPING)
Just about 4,300 feet. Ten, 15 minutes and you're there.
Copy that.
We're getting cIose.
(WATER DRIPPING)
(CREAKING)
LAURA: Crap.
What?
It's probabIy just condensation
or not.
It turns out that Ieak was not the hatch.
Don't teII me. Don't teII me that.
LAURA: The window.
Jackson, what are you doing?
The deeper you get, the Ionger it's gonna take me to get you back up.
We can repair and reIaunch.
(STUTTERING) No. No, no, no, no, no. Negative. We are not stopping.
Hang on, hang on, hang on.
We have to! You're taking on water. The weather's getting nasty.
If I Ieave you down any Ionger...
Negative, Jackson. We're not stopping.
(SHUSHING)
(BELLOWING)
JACKSON: I have to bring you guys up right now. You don't understand.
You haven't seen the weather up here.
Plus, you do not want to mess around at this depth,
trust me.
Do you read me?
Rich, Daughtery, respond!
If you guys don't come back, I have to bring you up. Are you listening to me?
Respond.
Daughtery, do you read me?
We're good, brother.
We've made our decision.
Cut us Ioose.
I'm gonna regret this.
You kind of dig this stuff, don't you?
Yeah.
Come on. I wanna show you something cooI.
I've been working here for aImost six years,
so I pretty much have the keys to Iock up the pIace.
What are these?
Quarantine tanks.
It's where we try and breed various species,
or where we put the animaIs the IocaIs bring us.
That happen a Iot?
Oh, yeah. Sea turtIes, sharks, everything. Like this.
A woman brought in these a coupIe of days ago.
JARED: They're infertiIe.
I mean, can you imagine what must have come out of this thing?
Uh...
Yeah.
How's that Ieak?
Same.
GoIIy, it is Iike a sauna in here, man.
Yeah.
What is going on? I thought it was supposed to be cooIer.
WeII, it shouId be. Jackson, do you have any of Cirko's thermographic scans up there?
Yeah, affirmative. What do you need?
LAURA: Can you check and see
if there's any hydrothermal vents or smokers or anything?
Negative.
The heat's gotta be coming from somewhere.
Hey, there!
Yeah, sIow the Iine, Jackson. SIow the Iine.
Okay, copy.
Wow! Okay, yeah. That's good.
This is a whoIe Iot bigger than the ones at the San Juan de Fuca pIate.
Cirko, what were you on to?
(HIGH-PITCHED SCREECHING)
(GASPING)
Five times faster, huh?
So how cIose was that?
I gotta get my camera. I gotta get my camera.
Right there, see? Southeast.
There's, um, there's, Iike, eight or nine of them.
You better doubIe that.
(SCREECHING)
This is Dr. Laura Daughtery and Rich ConneIIy,
four thousand feet beIow the surface
amidst a pod of the new vertebrates.
Their... Their Iengths range
from 100 feet to 1 75.
What are they doing?
I think
they're breeding.
WOMAN: (OVER P.A.) ...is a wonderful place for your kids to get close up
to any of our marine friends.
The sand tiger shark, the lined seahorse, Atlantic stingray,
and horseshoe crab are just a few of the many...
Hey.
I thought mom was picking me up.
I was in the neighborhood.
How is it here?
It's good.
Better than picking up trash.
Learn anything?
Yeah.
Did you know that we've identified Iess than 10% of the species in the ocean?
A Iot we don't understand, huh?
Yeah. That's true.
Hey.
I've seen that before.
What?
This... That hoIe and that Iight.
(SCREECHING)
This is it.
(BELLOWING)
(ELECTRICAL CRACKLING)
What the heII?
(BELLOWING)
Oh, my God.
Whoa! HoId on, Jackson!
SIow us down, pIease! We're dropping fast.
Jackson, do you copy? We are faIIing way too fast!
You gotta puII us back up. You gotta stop us!
(GRUNTING)
(LAURA SCREAMING) Whoa!
Oh, my God.
You aII right?
Yeah, I'm okay.
Rich, don't move.
(CREAKING)
Jackson?
Do you hear me, Jackson?
(CLANKING)
Hang on, hang on. Wait, wait, wait. What's that?
What is it? What is it? What is that?
Uh-oh.
The cabIe snapped. We have to get the raft. We have to get the raft.
FoIding... We have to make this work.
The cabIe snapped. The weight's gonna puII...
Okay. Thank God you're okay.
Let me get the battery going. Okay.
The battery is fried. So we'II get the reserve going here.
(LAURA GRUNTING)
Okay. Are you gonna heIp me with this? Okay.
Uh-oh.
What?
Oh, God.
This is aII part of it. Okay?
Part of what?
This is part of what's supposed to happen.
There are 3,000 feet of cabIe out there, nearIy two tons. Don't you...
It's not an accident.
(STAMMERING) You... Yeah, but we have to infIate.
We've got to infIate... It's okay. It's okay.
Oh, my God. It's okay.
What are you doing? It's gonna puII us down.
I know.
Oh, no.
(LAURA SOBBING)