NARRATOR: Previously on Surface...
Terrance!
Oh, my God.
The species turned hostile.
Hoping you can identify the animaI that did this.
An eIectrician got bitten yesterday in the marsh by some critter.
Was Nimrod the killer?
ReaIIy?
Miles rushed to find out.
Look, that's him.
You're not Nim. MiIes! Get out of there, man!
(YELLING)
Oh, my God. Are you okay?
Don't teII Mom. I'm fine.
Nim did that.
No, it wasn't Nim.
Rich and Daughtery built a submersible
to get proof of the species.
And they're breeding.
But on the surface, something went terribly wrong.
Oh, my God.
LAURA: Jackson, do you copy? We are faIIing way too fast!
You got to puII us back up! You got to stop us!
RICH: Laura, hang on to something.
(BOTH SHOUTING)
They were stranded on the sea floor,
until a miraculous recovery.
RICH: Hang on, hang on.
We're going up!
Now, Surface continues.
RICH: Hang onto something!
PuII yourseIf up! Come on! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!
(RICH GRUNTING)
You see Jackson?
LAURA: No, I can't see anything.
(RICH GROANING)
Here, take the bIack bag!
Come on, it's got the camera! Don't Iet go of it!
LAURA: Rich! Here, grab my hand!
We gotta reIease it or it's gonna puII us down!
Oh, God, it's puIIing us down!
Do you see him?
No!
Do you?
Huh-uh!
This isn't far from the Iaunch site!
Emergency beacon. Emergency beacon. Listen.
Now, come on! Hey, come on!
AII right, aII right.
(THUNDER CRACKING)
Damn it, the contacts are corroded!
So, what? It's not gonna work?
No, I don't think so. It's 1 21 .5 megahertz,
it's Iike, at Ieast 10 years oId.
It's okay, it's okay. Jackson wiII come.
And hey, hey, if he doesn't, it's okay.
It's not Iike he's the onIy one who knew we're out here.
OnIy Sean. He's the onIy one I toId.
Yeah, but that's good. He's a smart guy.
Sean's a smart guy. He'II figure it out.
Yeah, but it'II take four days for him
to even think that we're overdue.
And then another two days before rescue operations start, and that's...
Two... Six days.
(TEETH CHATTERING)
Did you hear that?
What? What?
Did you hear that, Rich? Look! Look! Look!
FIares! Get the fIares! Hey!
Over here! Hey!
Hey!
Did they see us?
They see it. They're gonna see it.
Hey!
They didn't see it. They didn't see it.
(RICH PANTING)
(HISSING)
Oh, no.
HeII, we got a Ieak.
What?
We got...
We got a Ieak.
There shouId be a repair kit in there. Okay! Okay!
Okay?
Something must have popped out off that fIare
and burned through the huII.
Okay. Okay, okay.
Oh, no! What?
Oh, the stupid thing's got dry rot!
What?
Oh, God. Here's another. Here.
Oh, no!
(SCREAMING)
This son of a bitch! No, don't go back in the water, Rich!
This is Northern Pacific in mid-November. It's... The boat is sinking.
Rich, I'm teIIing you, it's not worth it! No, you can't go in there.
You're gonna get hypothermia in there!
Rich, you've got to come back!
Rich!
The fIood's gonna puII you away, Rich.
Rich! Get back in the boat!
(GASPING)
Rich, get back here!
Come on! Keep swimming!
(CREATURE GROWLING)
(CREATURE SCREECHING)
Give me your hand, pIease.
HoId my hand. Come on. Come on.
You okay? Yeah.
Did you get it? No!
Why not?
It's okay. It's aII right.
It's aII right, it's okay.
(DON'T CHA PLAYING)
MiIes! You up?
Seven minute warning if you want a ride!
Better not be in bed!
Oh, great. Look, I know you've been puIIing aII-nighters
Iooking for Nim, Nod, or whatever
(SQUAWKING)
His name is Nimrod.
So when did he come back?
Last night.
You pIanning on teIIing Mom and Dad?
When the time's right.
My opinion? That's not today.
SYLVIA: Savannah!
I mean, Iet's not give them an excuse to stay, you know.
Hey, is your brother up yet?
Yeah. He even dressed himseIf.
Come on, we'II miss our pIane.
Okay.
You're the aduIt whiIe we're gone, understand?
Yes, of course.
Okay, you and MiIes have a second chance to prove you can be on your own here.
Okay, Iet's not bIow it.
We won't, Dad.
Good. We wouIdn't be taking off if, you know, we had a choice,
but you know how it is.
ReaIIy. PIease, you guys, just go have fun.
At a Iaw firm retreat?
Look, the hoteI doesn't have phones, it's that swanky,
so if you need to reach us, use our ceII phones.
What's wrong with your Ieg?
Nothing. It just feII asIeep.
WeII, you shouId put it to bed earIier.
Come on. I don't want to have to expIain why we're the onIy ones to miss the fIight.
So everybody okay? Yes, Mom.
Okay. AII right, don't be Iate for schooI.
We Iove you. SYLVIA: We'II be back soon, bye.
Bye.
Your Ieg's hurt, isn't it?
Where those things bit you.
I'm fine. ReaIIy.
Then why are you waIking Iike you're 80 years oId?
I'm practicing. For when I am.
You know he can't stay, right?
Sip?
No.
Don't be ridicuIous, Rich.
Where the heII is Jackson?
What's he gonna do?
That tether broke.
He'd have to assume we were dead.
He wouId never assume that.
Why not?
Because his ego's too big to think that he couIdn't save us.
Oh.
What you don't...
You don't think that he's going to come?
I don't know why he wouId if he thought we were dead.
I wouIdn't be surprised if he went on and caIIed up your ex and
toId him we didn't make it.
Then there'd be nobody to mount any kind of rescue operation.
Don't taIk Iike that.
Like what?
Like my Iife's in the past tense.
If it wasn't for you, I'd be at home picking up Jesse.
Oh, come on! Don't bIame this aII on me, now.
Why not? You're the one that brought us down to the bottom...
You knew exactIy what you were getting yourseIf into! Yeah, I did
and I'm gonna get myseIf out of it, too. So quit being such a baby
and take some responsibiIity!
You know, I have kids, too! AII right? I got a wife!
I know! You're not the onIy one Iosing something here!
(BELL RINGING)
BOY: SupposedIy the party's going to be off the hook.
Like, her parents are renting out the whoIe restaurant just for us.
Dude, you're gimping.
What did I teII you?
Does it hurt?
Maybe a IittIe.
It Iooks Iike more than a IittIe. It's from getting bit, isn't it?
I don't know.
What eIse couId it be? What if that thing had rabies?
What if?
Then you have to get shots in our stomach with a 10-inch needIe.
It's not rabies.
I don't know, you Iook kind of sweaty.
I don't have rabies, PhiI! Stop saying that!
WeII, something's definiteIy wrong, homes.
Dude, that's infected.
You got to put something on that.
He won't stop foIIowing me, Nim won't.
Something must have happened to him when he was gone.
Maybe he imprinted, Iike a duck?
No, no. It's way beyond that.
He wants to sIeep with me,
he foIIows me in the shower...
Dude, we're in a Iocker room. Make it cIear we're taIking about a Iizard.
Whoa, dude, that's so disgusting. Doesn't it hurt, bro?
Yeah.
But it's okay. Doctor PhiI on the case.
This'II kiII the germs.
Ready?
One, two, three.
(MILES SCREAMING)
RICH: We did the right thing.
I don't know. I guess.
We did.
I mean, hey, we got what we came for, right? Video of the species.
That definiteIy counts for something.
If we Iive.
Yeah, that's the catch, ain't it?
Yeah, that damn fine print.
Rich.
Hmm. Mmm.
Shark. Shark! Hmm?
Shark.
Where?
Shark.
White shark. A 20-footer.
He's circIing. Now that's just 'cause he's... He's just checking us out.
No. It's circIing because it's gonna strike in about 20 minutes.
We've got to scream. We've got to scream as Ioud as...
You scream. I'm gonna shoot the son of a bitch. What are you doing?
No, that's the Iast fIare we have. You can't.
Who cares if it's the Iast fIare if the shark's gonna eat us?
Listen to me! Listen to me!
It's your turn to have faith in me. Look at me.
SeriousIy, put it down.
Put it down. We can scream and scare it away. Okay?
Okay. Okay, okay, okay, okay. AII right, aII right. Let's just scream. Okay, okay.
What do we do? Scream. You ready?
(BOTH SCREAMING)
Mesopotamia, the cradIe of civiIization.
What does that mean?
What happened there 5,000 years ago
that changed the worId practicaIIy overnight?
Some sudden breakthrough in human inteIIigence?
AbsoIuteIy not. It was an animaI.
What animaI was it?
(WHISPERING) Dude, wake up. What aIIowed for the cuItivation
of vast acreage...
MiIes! ...creating food surpIuses
for the first time in history?
MiIes? Are you with us?
Guess an animaI, dude, any animaI.
Lizard.
Try an ox. MiIes, stand up.
Oh.
(MOANING)
What's that on your Ieg?
I don't know.
Come up here so I can get a Iook at it.
Now.
I'm fine.
ReaIIy. It's nothing.
TEACHER: MiIes, get up here now.
I want you to go to the infirmary.
(THUDDING)
So, when's the party?
What party?
There's no party.
With your parents out of town? Are you kidding me?
You know my house is not a frat for you and your NeanderthaI friends
every time my parents go out of town.
Yes, it is.
Oh, Savannah. They want you in the office. Something about your brother.
Shocker.
MiIes?
Savannah, thank God.
You Iook terribIe. Are you okay?
He's been trying to convince me that he is, but he's not.
I am okay. No, you're not.
BOTH: MiIes, sit down!
Put the thermometer back in your mouth.
I was beginning to worry that I wouIdn't get a famiIy member at aII.
I tried six different numbers for your parents and didn't get...
They're out of town.
Home aIone. So your brother said.
I'm aImost 18, Mrs. Bowen.
Fine, then you're in charge.
103.
You are not going anywhere, okay?
So, be the bigger sister and taIk some sense into him.
TeII him to Iie down and take it easy.
Let me see the fIesh wound.
Savannah, I...
Let me see it.
I don't think...
Show me.
AII right, here.
I reaIIy think it's not that big of a deaI. I mean...
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
It got bigger.
WouId someone Iike to teII me what caused this?
Savannah?
She doesn't know.
Let me taIk to my brother for a second.
Thank you.
MiIes.
I'm okay.
I cannot beIieve you did not teII Mom and Dad.
You were the one who said don't teII them.
Yeah, that Nim came back. I didn't know you had gangrene.
MiIes? MiIes?
Promise you won't teII anyone. MiIes, stop it.
MiIes?
Stop it! Stop it! MiIes! MiIes!
Mrs. Bowen! Come heIp!
Raymond. Raymond, caII an ambuIance!
RAYMOND: Right away! MiIes! MiIes!
You know, I think it's gone. I think the shark's gone.
I think we scared it away, you know?
WeII, that's good.
I just hope it was us that did it.
Yeah.
Hey.
Hey, don't spIash around Iike that with that thing in the water.
Hey!
What do you want with that? It's a bunch of seaweed.
No, it's Chondrus crispus. It's edibIe seaweed.
You want some?
No. Uh-uh. I'm aII right.
Why? It's reaIIy not that bad. You shouId eat.
I'm good. I ain't that hungry.
Hey, I thought Cajuns wouId eat anything.
I teII you, I think it's gonna be another coId one tonight.
26 hours! 26 hours, and stiII no Jackson!
This ocean shouId be crawIing with rescue vehicIes.
I think something happened to him.
It's tachypnea. His respirations are 40 and shaIIow.
BP's at 132 over 94.
What's his name?
MiIes Barnett. He's my brother.
MiIes? You wanna teII me how you're feeIing? MiIes?
What's his temperature?
We didn't get a read, our unit broke. But he's burning up.
MiIes! When did this start?
A coupIe hours ago, in schooI. PIease do something.
He's seizing. Let's get a Iumbar puncture. What's the temperature?
108.3.
DR. KELLINO: You ready? Get him in there. Okay, go, go, go, go, go!
Get set. One, two, three!
What is he doing? We've got to get his temperature down.
PIease, miss, just stay back. We're doing everything we can for your brother...
Stop it!
Just stay back! Get out of my way!
Nim? Nim?
Nim!
HeIp me!
HeIp. HeIp.
Hey, MiIes, MiIes. It's okay. It's okay, I'm here.
Somebody heIp me! Don't worry. It's okay, it's okay.
(SHUSHING)
(MAN CHATTERING OVER RADIO)
Dried bIood.
We got something here.
SheII casings. About a dozen.
Must've been a heII of a fight.
(THUNDER CRACKING)
(SHIVERING)
(WHIMPERING)
Hey. Hey.
You were having a nightmare.
Hmm.
It's so coId.
I know. It's kiIIing me.
(GROANING)
You know, there is something
that we couId be doing that wouId keep us a IittIe warmer.
What?
We... We couId spoon. What?
I think that under the circumstances,
my wife wouId understand.
Okay, yeah, that's good... Fine, under the circumstances...
Okay then.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(SIGHING)
Laura, Iook.
You see?
It kind of makes you feeI a IittIe smaII, don't it?
What do you think they're doing?
I don't know.
They're communicating?
It's sort of a migratory rituaI or something.
I don't know what the apocaIypse is supposed to Iook Iike,
but I imagine it to be something Iike that.
SAVANNAH: Mom? Dad?
I've been Ieaving messages everywhere I can think of.
MiIes is sick.
ReaIIy sick.
He's in the hospitaI and you have to come home.
I guess your ceIIs are off or whatever, but...
I just hope you get this.
So caII.
Okay? CaII.
Any Iuck?
No.
We're moving your brother to ICU.
What? What's wrong with him?
WeII, that's the probIem. We don't know exactIy.
The precise medicaI term is ''a fever of unknown origin.''
I toId you the origin, that bite on his Ieg.
The Iesions on his Ieg have none of the indicators of an animaI bite.
There's no tissue tearing, no punctures...
No, I toId you...
...and no infection.
His white counts are normaI. His Iabs are cIean.
Whatever's causing that fever is not a normaI infIammatory response.
The onIy diagnostic issue we've found is a severe eIectroIyte imbaIance.
I'm gonna be reaI honest with you. I'm at a Ioss here.
With a fever that high...
What?
Your brother's Iife is in danger.
Is there anything you can think of to give us some context?
What if I showed you one Iike the thing that bit MiIes?
WouId that heIp?
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
I hate the rain.
I hate it.
Yeah.
It's strange, but
it reminds me of my grandmother.
Every time I visited her, it was aIways raining out.
She was a horribIe woman. ActuaIIy, she was very vain and manipuIative.
I remember this one time she,
she was watching over me and it was raining,
and we went to the store right as it was cIosing,
you know, when the Iights were being turned off.
And we were rushing through the store
and aII of a sudden she started just trashing my mother,
saying that my mother wasn't worthy of my father.
(RICH SIGHING)
She was a horribIe woman to say that to such a IittIe kid,
and I didn't reaIIy understand at the time.
(CREATURE GROWLING)
(BOTH SCREAMING)
(GASPING)
(COUGHING)
(GAGGING)
Rich!
I'm here!
Rich! No, don't you move!
Come on, swim to me.
Get the bag!
The bag has the camera in it!
Rich, the camera bag.
(GRUNTING) I got it!
Come on.
Come on!
(CREATURE GROWLING)
Come on! Swim! Swim! It's coming!
Come on.
Grab on. Grab on.
(CREATURE GROWLING)
Nim?
Nim.
Nim? Nimmy?
Nim?
(THUDDING)
Nim, Nim, come back! Come back!
Nim.
Nim, come back! Nim!
(SCREAMING)
Who Iet you in?
I knocked.
How's MiIes?
Not good.
I gotta find Nimrod.
I didn't know you knew his name.
Nimmy?
So you know, MiIes doesn't reaIIy caII him Iike that.
Then why don't you teII me how, PhiI, huh?
I don't know, you gotta ask MiIes.
I thought you both reIated. No, that's MiIes.
He has the ESP.
I don't think he needs to caII him.
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
Find him.
Mom? Dad?
No, I'm sorry, this is PauI BIoom from over at the aquarium.
Is Miles there? No.
Well, he wasn't at work today.
I just wanted to check to see if everything was okay.
MiIes is in the hospitaI.
Why?
They don't have any idea. Something bit him when he was in the water.
Wait a minute. I'm, I'm sorry, I don't understand.
Are you teIIing me MiIes was bitten?
(WHIMPERING)
(NIM CRYING) Got him.
I gotta go.
What's going on?
Stay there. You stay there.
What're you doing? I'm just gonna redistribute the weight.
No, no. Don't get off of the raft.
I'm not getting off, I'm just redistributing.
Okay.
Get some more over here to you.
There you go. There you go.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(GASPING)
She was just protecting her eggs.
Let's get the heII out of here.
No, stay here, they work as a shieId. Huh?
They might keep us from getting kiIIed.
(GROANING)
(BEEPING)
Take it easy, we're right here.
Mom. No, honey, it's not your mother.
She'II be here soon.
TeII her...
TeII her that it wasn't Nim's fauIt.
Wasn't whose fauIt?
Nim.
It... It wasn't Nim's fauIt.
He's not the one who bit me.
Okay. Okay. Okay. He didn't... He didn't do it.
I'm gonna get you something so you can rest.
TeII her.
Okay, okay.
(NIM GRUNTING)
Excuse me. Can you pIease get Dr. KeIIino for me?
She's with a patient right now.
Okay. WeII, then, can you teII her that I have it?
I'm sorry. Who are you?
My name is Savannah Barnett. My brother is MiIes...
Savannah?
I'm PauI BIoom.
Mr. BIoom? PIease come with me quickIy.
I have one of the things that bit MiIes.
MiIes is keeping one of these things?
For weeks, he didn't want anyone
to know.
(SIGHING)
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
We're going to die.
Don't say that.
What are you doing? What are you doing?
Can you see that Iight?
Look at that. You see that?
Look at that Iight. See it?
The eggs! WeII, someone's gonna see us from the Iight from the eggs.
So this animaI thing, whatever it is, is now Ioose
in my hospitaI, is responsibIe for two attacks?
That's great.
Is there a reason why IocaI ERs weren't notified?
We were just beginning to investigate.
So what's the story with this other victim, that guy from Southport?
The attack was fataI.
Get security.
TeII them we've got an animaI Ioose in ICU.
NURSE: Yes, doctor.
(CARDIOGRAPH BEEPING)
(NIM GRUNTING)
Stay back.
(FLATLINING)
(SNARLING)
(SHUDDERS)
Get a crash cart in here! He's going fIatIine!
SAVANNAH: MiIes!
(NURSES CHATTERING)
SAVANNAH: MiIes!
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
(RICH EXCLAIMING)
Hey! Hey!
Hey!
VisibiIity's reaIIy Iimited. I...
Wait, hoId that. I got something. I got something. It's...
(EXCLAIMING)
Get here. Get up fast!
It's not a vesseI, it's some kind of green Iight.
Are you seeing this? It's hard to teII what I'm seeing.
Hey!
AII right, Command, I'm gonna take it down, get a cIoser Iook. Over.
He sees it! He's coming!
He's coming! He's coming here to get us!
(RICH LAUGHING)
AII right, I've got him. Look, there's two of them at Ieast, a guy and a girI.
CaII the radio, get the rescue gear out. Roger that.
(SHOUTING)
Over here!
Hey!
(LAUGHING)
(CRYING)
(GROWLING)
Hey! Get out of the way!
What the heII was that?
I don't know, but I am backing off. Backing off!
What? You can't Ieave us, pIease!
PIease, no! PIease! Hey!
DR. KELLINO: Charge to 200. NURSE: Charged.
CIear!
300.
So where is it? I don't know.
You don't know? It went this way.
Charged. CIear.
(FLATLINING)
360.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
No, no, no, no, no, gun.
I just want you to stand guard untiI I can get a tranq gun.
Charged.
CIear!
There it is. Now stay back. It's dangerous.
No, God. PIease, I'm asking you, don't.
You're worried about an animaI,
we've got a buiIding fuII of patients here. Now, stand back,
pIease.
(GRUNTING)
Where's that eppy? We need those meds!
SAVANNAH: Oh, pIease do something. HeIp him!
Stand back against the waII. Here she comes.
(GUN FIRES)
(CARDIOGRAPH BEEPING)
Where is he?
DR. KELLINO: What?
Where's Nim?
What's he doing? Where is he?
No, no, no. HoId him. Get him back. HoId him!
No, no! MiIes, MiIes, MiIes. He's okay.
Where is he?
HeIp! Somebody heIp, pIease?
Where is he?
No, no. It's okay. No.
No. No, no, no, no! No!
Don't go. Stay back.
DR. KELLINO: Stay back.
(CARDIOGRAPH BEEPING)
Oh, my God.
Your wound is heaIed.
Nim heaIed you, didn't he?
Daughtery. Hey, hey, hey! Wake up.
Come on! Get up! Come on, he's coming back!
He's coming back for us! Come on. You just gotta hang in there.
There he is! That's it. Come on. Hey! Come on! Get up there!
He's coming! There he is!
HeIp!
Hey, down here, you son of a bitch! What're you waiting for?
We're dying!
Hey!
Come on. Hey! You can't do that
or we're both going to die. Now wake up!
Fight! Kick.
Come on, this is it! This is it! Kick it! Kick!
Kick!
This is humidified air, it's gonna heIp reguIate your core temperature.
In the meantime, Iet me get this out of the way for you.
No!
We need to keep this with us.
We got it. We got the proof.
The camera's stiII dry.
I toId you we'd make it.
Just gotta have a IittIe faith.