(Woman) It's got to Iead somewhere.
WeII, we'II stop and make camp pretty soon. Got your breath?
Yeah. Let's go.
What is this?
It doesn't Iook Iike anyone's been here for a whiIe. Let's go inside and check it out.
- Think we shouId? - Barbara, who'd know the difference?
OK.
Besides, a IittIe Iawbreaking'II do you good.
(Barbara) Wonder why this pIace wasn't on your map.
(man) Maybe it's supposed to be a secret.
Maybe.
Hey!
Far out!
It feeIs great.
Come on, Iet's wash off, so it won't be so funky in that sIeeping bag.
What if somebody catches us?
Who's gonna catch us?
There's nobody here.
Let's get wet.
- Last one in is a rotten egg. - That's reaIIy originaI.
- Wait a minute. - What?
What if this is some kind of a sewage treatment pIant?
Idiot.
Now you're gonna get it.
How is it?
Here I come.
- That's not funny. - What?
You bit me. I can't beIieve you actuaIIy bit me.
What do I Iook Iike? A creature from the bIack Iagoon?
You are paranoid, kid. Listen, I'II race you to the deep end.
Barbara! There's something in here!
David!
God damn!
David!
David?
David!
David! David!
(Barbara screams)
(screaming)
- Rent a Jeep? - She'II be on unpaved mountain roads...
AII right. Where do I sign?
We're aII set. At Indian Springs you'II get a Jeep. The roads are very rough there.
No sweat.
- I can handIe it. - I know.
I wouIdn't send you if I didn't think you couId.
Wait. Got ya.
- I found the bigamist. - Right.
- And the bad-cheque Iady? - Right.
- And Mo Schneider. - Three times, but those were aII in town.
You're a city kid. These kids are out in the boon...
I can find anything, EarI. I'm two-thirds bIoodhound.
I toId you that when you hired me.
Oh, my gosh. My ticket. I couId have sworn I put it in my pocket.
Where's my ticket?
- I can manage it. - Of course you can.
- It's money in the bank. - My money.
HeIIo, Brandy. How are you, huh?
This hike from town is gettin' Ionger every week.
- You oughta get a car, Jack. - I got a car.
It's up on bIocks. That's where it beIongs.
Scotch.
Gin.
Bourbon.
(laughs)
TequiIa!
You're the 7th CavaIry, Jack.
You know, I just ran dry today.
Your corn meaI is down there, but I ain't gonna waIk down and get it.
Man cannot Iive by booze aIone.
In Iieu of rent. What's up in town?
- Same as usuaI. - I bet you miss it, Jack, huh?
I bet you miss seIIin' whatever it was. That pIastic fruit.
No.
Got the river.
It wakes me up in the morning.
Gives me a bath.
Does the Iaundry.
Gives me my dinner. Puts me to sIeep reaI gentIe.
I got my river.
I got Brandy.
PauI.
What have you got up here?
I got scotch, gin, bourbon, and tequiIa.
- What's it to you, anyhow? - OK.
OK, buddy. I'II see you.
Come on.
Take it easy, Brandy.
Ow!
Hm.
(knock at door)
It's open.
PauI Grogan?
Hi. I'm Maggie McKeown. I work for a skip-tracing company.
- What's that? - We find missing peopIe.
Did my ex-wife send you?
No.
Um...
I'm Iooking for a pair of teenage kids.
Some friends said they might be backpacking up here.
I haven't seen 'em. Did you taIk to the sheriff's peopIe?
- They said it was a big mountain. - They're right. It is.
I figured they may have foIIowed the river. Are there any pIaces to swim near here?
WeII, if they'd drowned, they'd be swept down to the dam.
So you're startin' at the wrong end.
Boy, you're the wrong end aII right.
Look, am I interrupting something? This is kind of important.
Hey,
you cooI your jets, Iady.
I didn't axe-murder your young coupIe. I can't heIp you. I haven't seen 'em.
Are there any other shacks up here?
Cabins. This is a cabin.
Are there any more of them? Any pIaces where they might be hoIed up?
There's an oId feIIa named Jack, has a pIace down the river a bit,
but he's not with them.
And there was some kind of army test site way up the mountain.
- That cIosed down five or six years ago. - Come on. Let's go.
- Go where? - You're taking me up there.
Oh, no, I'm not.
You think I'm wasting my time, don't you?
No. I think you're wastin' my time.
- Find anything yet? - Not yet, but it's stiII earIy in the day.
David!
Barbara!
- What were they testing here? - Who knows?
I hiked up here once with my ex-wife. They had guard dogs out.
The fence was eIectrified. The works.
''BR.'' Barbara RandoIph.
Hm.
Man, that is coId.
Their parents said they were exceIIent swimmers.
WouIdn't they be fIoatin' up on top by now?
It takes a whiIe for the body to bIoat with gas.
Nice business you're in.
You think there's a way to puII the pIug on this?
- TropicaI fish? - Looks Iike it's for Iaboratory rats.
You know, where they had to get through an obstacIe course to get a reward.
Hm.
StiII warm.
Come here. Take a Iook at this.
Yeuch.
Let's get outta here. This pIace gives me the creeps.
Hey! What are you...
WeII, they've been here aII right.
And they never Ieft.
- I say we drain the pond. - WeII, now. Now, wait a minute.
You can't do that without gettin' somebody's permission, you know.
If it works it's the quickest way to know if they're down there.
What are you doing?
(alarm ringing)
Are you aII right?
- He's breathing. - No thanks to you.
- What was I supposed to do? - I wouId have got Ioose in a second.
- Look at this. You put a dent in it. - CouId I have a sip of that, pIease?
It's not water.
- What is it? - The water's saIty.
Where does this drain to?
It was a fish hatchery before the army took it over.
It probabIy drains underground into the river.
Uh-oh.
I think it's a dog. I don't suppose they wouId have fit through here.
Not in one piece.
You think he's aII right up there?
(engine)
Oh, shit.
Oh, my God.
(engine noise fades)
I guess I must have Ieft the keys in it. Huh?
- He's aIive. - He's indestructibIe.
(shouts)
Easy. Easy, now. Easy. Easy.
- Razorteeth. - What's ''razorteeth''?
- You drained the pond? - Yes...
- You Iet them out? - Let who out?
What's he doin'?
You don't know what you've done. Untie me.
The question is, what you've done, mister.
You don't know.
They breed Iike fIies. There'II be no way to stop them.
WouId you taIk sense, dammit? What about those kids?
I can't teII you. Mother of God, they'II kiII us. They'II kiII aII of us.
OK, mister, Iisten. They're gonna sweat it out of you in town.
They'II kiII us.
What have we done?
Oh, my God.
- He thinks someone's going to kiII him. - He's right.
I am, if he steps out of Iine.
- Do you have any cigarettes? - No.
I quit a year ago. It interfered with my drinking.
Do you mind if I come in for a minute?
Sure.
So, did you start drinking before or after?
- Before or after what? - Your wife Ieft you.
- What the heII kind of question is that? - Look, I'm sorry. I was just interested.
Um,
do you mind if I sit here?
Go ahead.
- How Iong were you married? - Huh?
Um,
ten years.
She was just 1 7 when we eIoped in her father's car.
Man, we thought we had the worId by the baIIs.
Where did you Iive?
In town. I worked in a smeItin' operation downriver.
The government cIosed us down. Said we kiIIed too many fish.
They gave it to the army, and the army soId it to some resort ouftit.
So you know that somebody's makin' bundIes somewheres aIong the Iine.
How do you make a Iiving now?
Back pay. UnempIoyment.
Gonna have to go to work come September.
Keep my daughter in saddIe shoes.
- Does your daughter Iive with you? - Yeah.
- What's wrong? - Hm?
- You're so tense. - Hm?
I don't know. I guess I'm not used to bein' around peopIe.
That's obvious. I've been trying to hint my way under the covers for five minutes.
(Paul) You are reaIIy somethin'.
(Paul) There's no way we're gonna get this guy down to town without your Jeep.
We have to do something. He might have fractured his skuII.
We gotta get him to the dam. There's usuaIIy a ranger there.
- How do we get there? - On a raft.
- Stop kidding. How do we get there? - You'II see.
I read my daughter Huckleberry Finn Iast summer.
We wanted to Iight out for the territories so we settIed on this as a compromise.
- It Iooks authentic. - Yeah. We cut aII the Iogs ourseIves.
Not a singIe naiI in her. It's aII Iashing.
- Where's your daughter now? - Summer camp, other side of the dam.
Just how sturdy is this thing?
I think it'II hoId three peopIe.
To teII you the truth, we never tried it. My daughter's afraid of the river.
(girls singing) Boys are made of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
Little dirty birdie feet
Sneezed-up snail snot
Bashed-in beetles' brains
All in a bottle of blood
Suzie? Suzie, honey, don't be scared.
You just have to swim out to the marker and back.
You've probabIy swum twice that far in a pooI.
If you don't pass your soIo swim you can't get your water badge.
I don't care.
What is it that you're afraid of, honey?
- Things. - You mean Iike sea monsters?
There's just a few IittIe fish in here.
They eat pIants at the bottom of the river.
They're not interested in IittIe girIs' fingers and toes.
- Dickinson! - Over here, Mr Dumont.
Letter for you, Dickinson. That same boy.
Oh, thank you.
StiII haven't tackIed your soIo swim, Grogan?
No, sir.
She's kind of afraid of things in the water.
Things? What things? Fish? PeopIe eat fish, Grogan. Fish don't eat peopIe.
Do you wanna be the one to Iose the camp competition for the Minnows?
Course you don't.
- She's doing reaIIy weII on handicrafts. - Handicrafts don't take any nerve.
Any intestinaI fortitude. You know what that means, Grogan?
- Yes, sir. Guts. - Right.
Is there any maiI for her?
Nope. Skunked again, Grogan.
Grogan.
Guts.
Uh...
Come on, Iet's go. We'II pIay some MonopoIy.
Why don't we try it in an inner tube tomorrow? Huh?
Come on.
Hey, Brandy.
Did I ever teII you about that other dog of mine caIIed PhiIip?
PhiIip grew up in BaItimore with me.
He was a good dog.
He...
He run across the street one day,
and he waIked right in front of a troIIey car.
It ran over his taiI. It surprised him.
He turned around and the troIIey car...
I'm teIIin' you a story. The troIIey car ran over his head.
It's what you caII Iosin' your head over a IittIe piece of taiI. Pretty funny, huh?
(laughs)
(dog Whines)
What's the matter with you?
You didn't Iike the story? Want me to teII another? Maybe you didn't get it.
(dog Whines)
Are you soft in the head?
OK, my friend.
Number one: what happened to those kids?
AII right, then, try number two: what were you doin' up at the army site?
- Stop that! - Oh, he speaks.
Hey.
- Keep your hand out of the water. - What's wrong with the water?
Since you're taIkin' this morning, buddy, how about a name?
Hoak. Dr Robert Hoak.
- What's wrong with the water? - The water is fiIIed with carnivorous fish.
Piranha.
(Paul) Oh, Christ.
In here? How did they get in?
You Iet them in when you drained the pond at the test site.
- PauI... - Piranha are tropicaI fish.
This is coId mountain water. They wouIdn't Iast in here for a minute.
What about that skeIeton?
OK. What wouId piranha be doin' up in that pond?
Huh?
- Untie me. - Hey...
What if I dipped you in the water a IittIe bit first, Doc?
See if you're makin' the whoIe thing up or not. Huh?
(dog barking)
Brandy.
That's Jack's dog.
Is he aIways so ferocious?
(Paul) I don't think I ever heard him do more than roII over and beg for food.
We'd better take a Iook.
(dog Whines)
Easy, boy. Easy.
He must have dragged himseIf this far. BIed to death.
I'm sorry.
I'II get a shoveI.
He wouIdn't wanna be buried in town.
- Even in an inner tube, huh? - Uh-huh.
- It's aImost impossibIe to faII in. - But they can stiII get you.
They, huh?
OK. If that's reaIIy the way you feeI about it, I'II try and heIp you get out of the race.
But we've got to come up with an excuse. Do not Iie.
- I got poison ivy. - So does everybody eIse in the camp.
Hey, maybe you couId just be getting your... No, you're too young for that.
Huh?
Wait a minute. I have an idea. Come with me.
Come here. Sit down here.
Let's see what we have in our magic box. Give me your knee.
OK. Get DarIene to take your pIace in the race. OK?
And if Dumont squawks, Iimp a Iot.
And, uh, I'II get you a huge bandage for this.
FeeIs Iike this thing's snagged on the bottom.
- Got myseIf tangIed in it too. - Want me to heIp?
No, you better stay there. You might tip the canoe.
I thought you knew aII about this kind of fishing, from when you were a boy.
Listen, when I was a boy we made our own nets and made 'em right.
Jesus. It feeIs Iike something's snagged in here. Ow!
- Did you get bit? - Ouch!
- Ow! - Dad!
- Stay back! Stay back! - Dad! Dad!
Dad!
- The government paid you? - Of course they paid.
Where there's germ warfare, the bomb, chemicaI warfare,
there's pIenty of money. SpeciaI agencies.
They pay. They pay a Iot better than they do in private research.
For raisin' fish.
Oh, no. It's a matter of genetics.
Radiation. SeIective breeding.
They caIIed it Operation Razorteeth.
What was it aII for?
To destroy the river systems of the North Vietnamese.
Our goaI was to deveIop a strain of this kiIIer fish that couId survive in coId water
and then breed at an acceIerated rate.
We had everything. BIank cheque.
And then the war ended.
You sound disappointed.
They poisoned the water.
After aII that work, they poisoned the water.
But some survived.
We deveIoped a Iot of mutants and a few of them were abIe to resist the poison.
They ate their own. Their own dead.
And then began to breed Iike some wiId species.
SuddenIy there were hundreds. Maybe thousands.
- Our tax doIIars at work, huh? - That's science in the service of defence.
Sure. Spreadin' strains of bacteria in the subway system.
You put them in the river where they couId kiII peopIe. IncIuding civiIians.
- And kids swimming in the rivers. - I never kiIIed anybody.
If you wanna taIk about kiIIing, taIk to your poIiticians, the miIitary.
No, no. I'm a scientist.
- Kids in the water. - What?
The dam.
They Iet water through every few days to keep the IeveI steady on the new Iake.
The resort's down there. Summer camp. AII those kids. Come on.
(children scream)
(boy) Hey, stop spIashin'!
It was pure research. No scrounging for grant money.
No academic poIitics. You don't know what that means to a scientist.
You fed them. You kept them aIive.
I continued the experiment.
There was so much more I couId do with the species.
So much further I couId take them.
You're not hoIding me responsibIe?
I think you are. You puIIed the pIug and you're hoIding me responsibIe. IncredibIe.
You're bIaming me.
I think if you open your mouth again I'II stick this poIe in it.
- You think they've opened the dam yet? - I don't know. We can onIy hope not.
(boy) Daddy.
(Paul) Let's move it.
- It's sinking, PauI. The canoe is sinking. - Yeah.
Daddy?
Daddy! Daddy! It's going under.
(Paul) Don't do it! Get outta there!
Come on, Maggie.
(Hoak yells)
HoId it here. HoId it.
(Maggie) Come on! Come on! Come here!
Come on! Give me your hand.
Get the doctor. OK, now the doctor.
Easy, Doc.
Here. Here you go.
What do we do? What do we do? How do we stop them?
Oh, Christ.
(Whistle)
Campers. No swinging after Iunch.
(Paul) So far we know that they can Iive in coId water.
(Maggie) They seem to be moving downstream.
Gotta find someone who knows how to deaI with these things.
There'II be a phone at the dam. We can caII on ahead.
- Hey. - What?
I don't know. It seems Iike the Iashing's workin' Ioose.
PauI... there's something under us.
His bIood. It's the doc's bIood.
It's seepin' through. They're eatin' away at the Iashing to get to it.
- Daddy! - Let go, son. No. We gotta get rid of him.
No. That's what happened to my daddy.
- (Maggie) Let go. - (boy) They're eating him.
They're eating him!
- Come here. - They got my daddy!
You OK, boy? How about you?
- I'm aII right. - You gotta stay here.
I'm gonna try to get to the dam before they Iet 'em through with the water.
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Don't open it! Whatever you do, don't open it.
(man) AII right, men, off your butts. FaII in. Move it!
Forgive our scepticism, but we don't come across stories Iike yours every day.
Piranha are warm-water fish. This is hardIy the Amazon.
But I toId you, these are mutations. They've aIready kiIIed five peopIe.
- Science fiction. - You ready with that bait, soIdier?
- Yes, sir. - Let her go, son.
ActuaIIy, a piranha was caught once in a pond in Miami, in '72, I beIieve.
But the Fish and Game Commission poisoned the water, and that was that.
- That was that, huh? - The rumours persisted, you know, but...
PuII it in, son.
Sergeant, teII the major to start the pumps.
We shouId be abIe to contain them in this area.
Piranha traveI in schooIs, and we've brought heavy doses of rotenone 235.
- Came weII-prepared, didn't you? - Won't it ruin the river?
Sometimes you need to destroy in order to save.
What if they reaIise they're bein' sIaughtered and Ieave?
We're taIking about fish, Mr Grogan.
- They don't reaIise much of anything. - Who are you trying to kid?
You must've known aII aIong they were here.
OK. You and Miss McKeown are the onIy two civiIians who know about this project.
What the coIoneI means is that he'd Iike you to join us. Become one of our team.
It figures.
ImpossibIe.
Look, you're a fuII coIoneI, right? I assume you can read a map. Here.
We are here at the dam, OK?
Over here you'II see there's a stream that feeds into it.
FoIIow the stream back for an eighth of a miIe and you see there's a fork.
Take this branch, foIIow it downstream,
and you'II see it empties into the river on the other side of the dam.
In other words, the piranha have a way to get around the obstacIe.
Even if there's a chance he's right, don't you think you shouId do something?
No. If a bypass exists, piranha haven't the inteIIigence or the motivation to find it.
But you know Hoak was breeding them for endurance and inteIIigence and...
- WeII, Bob was a dreamer. He, er... - Bob?
Dr Hoak?
You knew him?
Fish genetics is a very smaII fieId.
You were friends?
Let's say we were a great deaI more than that.
You're covering up.
Is it Waxman? Are you afraid of what the army might do to you if you...
No, I'm not afraid. I'm a scientist. I'm head of my department.
It's just that there are priorities, and...
some things are more important than a few Iives.
That's not how Dr Hoak feIt. Not at the end.
As I said, he was a dreamer.
- (Waxman) The situation is under controI. - (Paul) HoId on. What is this?
Why won't you Iisten to me?
WouId you excuse us for a moment, pIease?
As far as you're concerned, this project does not exist.
The piranha do not exist.
- And if I make a squawk? - PauI...
The interests of nationaI security permit extreme measures.
Oh, come on! The war's over, dammit!
There'II be other wars, Mr Grogan.
I think for your own protection we'd better secure your tent for the night.
- Look who's here. - What's goin' on?
Nothin'.
Psst! Is he stiII out there?
Yep.
- Then you'II have to distract him. - Why?
- So I can get away. - So you can get away? What about me?
- Suit yourseIf. But first you distract him. - How?
How wouId I know? Just get him with his back to the opening. Come on to him.
What if he's gay?
Then I'II distract him. Let's go.
Hi.
Uh...
Nice night, huh?
- Listen, are you gay? - What?
Oh...
WeII, I was just reading this articIe in this magazine, and...
- What did you ask me before? - Look! Up in the sky!
It's Superman!
Oh, shit!
- What's wrong? - Have you got a dime?
(phone)
HeIIo?
What? What piranhas? What are you taIking about?
What?
Are you crazy? Who is this?
Oh, Grogan. Yeah, I remember you. You're not crazy, you're drunk.
No, I don't wanna taIk to her. I'm sure she's as drunk as you are.
You wake me up again, I'II have the cops on you.
What? No, you can't taIk to your daughter.
Sober up, Grogan, and fIy right!
Piranhas!
- AsshoIe! - He didn't beIieve you.
- He thinks I'm drunk. - Can you get through to your daughter?
No way. We gotta get down there.
(siren)
PauI, behind us.
I know. No way we can outrun him in this thing.
Maybe we can taIk to him. Maybe he'II beIieve us.
Piranha, huh? And where did they come from?
From an army test site up on the mountain.
That's posted. There's no trespassing.
Two peopIe were kiIIed up there, and more aIong the river.
You've gotta beIieve us.
Now wait. Say, aren't you Grogan?
- Yeah, that's right. - Uh-huh. I remember.
We had you in on a drunk and disorderIy Iast month.
I am not drunk! You give me a breath test, whatever you want, onIy Iisten to me!
I think I'm gonna take you up on that, buddy. Back to the station.
And you can expIain why you're in an army staff car.
And don't you get any notion, man, cos I got my gun in my other hand here.
OK?
Okey-dokey. Let's go.
Yes. We've got a situation up here.
A very deIicate situation. And you can heIp us controI it by hoIding them for us.
Yes, CoIoneI. Yes, yes. I understand. We'II do it.
Make sure they don't communicate with the outside.
We're tryin' to avoid unnecessary panic.
CertainIy.
Their best interests, I agree.
WeII, you're weIcome, CoIoneI. Uh...
See you in the mornin'.
WeII, you best make yourseIf comfortabIe, foIks. You'II be spending the night.
- What about a phone caII? - I don't wanna hear it.
I don't wanna hear it.
I gotta get back on that road now.
So you foIks, you just behave yourseIves.
No, wait a minute. You can't just Ieave!
My daughter's down there!
There are kids down there, and the piranhas are in the river!
PIease!
The witch and the demons of the forest scoured every corner of the church,
venom dripping from their fangs.
''Where is he?'' hissed the witch.
The demons peeIed their heavy eyeIids back.
There he is!
(Waxman) There's absoIuteIy no cause for aIarm. It's a compIete hoax, beIieve me.
Yeah.
I just wanted to warn you in case they were abIe to get a caII through.
GroundIess panic wouIdn't heIp our grand opening any.
Uh-huh. I reaIIy appreciate the warning. I'II brief my staff. We'II take care of it.
Yeah. Don't worry.
Uh-huh. By the way, are you comin' down tomorrow?
Ah, good. Your presence wiII Iend a certain prestige to the opening.
Mm-hm.
Huh?
No. No, CoIoneI. Nobody knows about your investment.
With me, a siIent partner's privacy is sacred.
I swear to you on my honour as a Texan, nobody knows.
Yes, CoIoneI.
Good night. Good night.
Schmuck!
Come on, you guys! WiII you hauI ass? This stuff's gotta be set by ten o'cIock.
What are you doing back there?
Hide, that's aII they do. Drink beer and hide.
- Hi. - Hi.
I aIways Iike it at night.
Yeah, me too.
It's Iike it's resting.
- Hey, wanna race me across? - To the isIand?
Yeah. Ever since I got here, I haven't been abIe to just swim by myseIf.
I've aIways had haIf a dozen campers hangin' on to me.
I don't know. I don't feeI Iike swimming. But go ahead, I'II watch you.
- What's the matter? - I don't know.
Something... Something's wrong.
Come on, come with me. It'II do you some good.
- You're probabIy right. - Good. OK.
Grogan, turn off that fIashIight!
Don't be aIarmed - it's onIy me.
There's a rumour some campers are coming for a midnight swim.
If I catch them swimming, they'II be in pretty hot water, I can teII you.
- What are you doing out here? - Oh, weII, we...
I thought I heard some campers swimming. We came down to Iook.
- Swimming? Where? - Over by the waterfaII.
The waterfaII? Is that where they're doing it?
- (splash) - What was that?
It sounded Iike campers on the other side of the Iake.
The other side of the Iake?
Thank you. Kim BurreII, is that you?
WeII, there's aIways tomorrow for that swim.
Yeah. Let's do it tomorrow.
(banging on pipe)
- What are you doin'? - Did I teII you about Mo Schneider?
- Who's that? - This guy they sent me to find one time.
He was a pIumber. He kept running off and getting busted for indecent exposure.
What are you doin' there?
Mo was in the poky so many times that he deveIoped a reguIar escape routine.
Being a pIumber, he used what he knew best.
(crash)
What the heII was that?
What are you doing? Are you aII right?
Christ, Iisten.
This, uh, this pIan, whatever it is, did it ever work?
No. But he came pretty cIose a coupIe of times.
Pretty damn cIose.
What's aII that racket? Sounds Iike the roof feII in. What's aII this water from?
Something's Ieaking, and I'II catch pneumonia if it doesn't stop.
- What's the matter with that sink trap? - I've tried,
but I'm just not strong enough to put the pipes back together.
AII right. Stand back, I'II take a Iook at it.
What the heII did you do to this thing? Tryin' to crawI through the drainpipe?
- What's happenin'? - He's knocked out, but he's aIive.
Get his keys. Can you get his keys?
- They're chained to his pants! - WeII, take his pants off, then.
Come on. I'd have thought you couId get a man's pants off quicker than that.
Got 'em! I got 'em!
Come on. Let's go.
- What did you hit him with? - A piece of the toiIet Iid.
- Maybe I shouId have tried bribery first. - Thank you, Mo Schneider.
Don't suppose one of those keys wouId fit a patroI car?
I wouIdn't be surprised.
(applause)
Howdy, foIks. I'm Buck Gardner.
Thank you.
(cheering)
Thank you. I appreciate that.
On behaIf of Buck Gardner's Aquarena DeveIopment Corporation,
it gives me great pIeasure to invite you here to our opening-day festivities.
If you have any questions about purchasing Iand up here,
our peopIe wiII be mingIing in the crowd to answer your questions.
You got no obIigation to buy anything, onIy to enjoy yourseIves. Annie?
Right there.
Try again.
Nice try, kid.
That's it!
Don't forget, free barbecue this afternoon at one o'cIock.
Enjoy yourseIves.
We got 'em.
No comics! No comics. No discipIine.
(Whistle)
Water competition. Muster up. Water competition.
Put the arrows away. Put the bows in the tep...
That isn't funny.
(Whistle)
Minnows, over here!
Come on, kids.
Come on, you guys.
Guppies! Come on, Iet's go! Come on, Iine up. That's right. Come on.
Standing in Iine. Straight Iine.
Straighten up. OK. We're gonna have a tube race. Who's gonna win?
- Minnows! - (all) We are!
We are!
AII right. OK, you guys.
You cannot swim with your gIasses on.
Let's turn this way now. Buddy system. Arms up.
There we go. Stand up straight. Come on.
- Stand up straight. - Come on, be proud you're a Guppy.
That's good. That's good. HoId your stomach in.
(Dumont) Morning, campers. FaII in back here and buddy up.
Mr Dumont, we're ready for you, sir.
(Whistle)
Arms down!
AII right now. This is where we separate the tortoises from the hares,
the wheat from the chaff, and the sinkers from the swimmers.
SaIt water.
- What? - I just remembered. It was saIt water.
- What was? - In the pond at the test site.
- I thought it was strange, then I forgot. - So?
Piranha are freshwater fish. Hoak must have deveIoped a strain
that can Iive both in fresh and saIt. Like saImon.
- That's why they headed downstream. - And if they get to the ocean?
There'II be no way to contain 'em. They'II be abIe to swim up every river system.
(shrieking)
What are you doing? You shouId be in that race.
- But Betsy toId me... - I don't want to hear any excuses.
- Get a tube and get out there. - But I hurt my knee.
On the doubIe, camper!
(Whistle)
Listen up, you kids!
We're gonna start the tube race in a minute.
Kathryn! McCarthy! MacBride!
AII you campers, come in here. You're too far out.
Goddamn Sunday driver.
(Whistle)
Ready?
(bang)
(Dumont) Come on! This is a race, peopIe!
Jacobson, put a IittIe muscIe in it! Parkinson, a IittIe effort!
Kids, Iet's get a IittIe Ieg action!
(screams)
What's the matter?
What is that?
(screams)
- Suzie! Suzie, no. Go back! Go back! - Get on the boat.
Betsy!
Suzie!
Daddy!
There's a phone in there. CaII the resort and warn 'em. I'II get the kids out.
Operator, get me the number of the Aquarena Springs Resort.
Look in the phone book.
Enjoy yourseIf. Enjoy yourseIf. Everything's free today. Enjoy yourseIf.
Keep 'em moving, Terry.
Wrong away, kid. This is the exit.
- Hey, baby. - Mr Gardner? Mr Gardner?
- What is it? - ReaI important.
- Buck Gardner. - Now Iisten to me.
This is not a crank caII. I am compIeteIy serious.
Emergency?
Easy. Easy.
I got you. I got you.
AII right.
PIease. PIease, you've gotta beIieve me.
- Thank you. - Listen to me! PIease, before it's...
Thank you. Piranha.
- They're sending an ambuIance. - We gotta drive to the resort ourseIves.
- Can you handIe this? - Uh, yeah. I think so.
Honey, I'II be back for you reaI soon, I promise.
So you be brave, huh? HeIp out here?
That's my girI.
It's OK, Suzie.
He'II be back.
We got pIenty of targets. Yes, sir. Right over there.
By the way, sir, they've noticed.
One woman recognised the submarine ride from FIorida.
Of course she did. I picked it up second-hand.
Skyway's from Redondo Beach. Boathouse is army surpIus.
Dancing chickens? From a carnivaI in Idaho.
RaIph the Swimming Swine? From AtIantic City.
They're saying, for a new resort, nothing's Iooking very new.
What do they know? RaIph the Swimming Swine's practicaIIy a nationaI monument.
He's been swimming for more years than I can remember.
The other stuff they just don't make. That submarine ride is a piece of Americana.
Yes, sir.
- Maybe they never heard of recycIing. - I don't know.
SmiIe, we're goin' pubIic. HeIIo, Senator. How are you?
(siren)
If they get to the media, we're both screwed.
CoIoneI Waxman. Dr Mengers. What a pIeasant surprise.
They busted jaiI.
- They aIready caIIed. - Is your staff ready?
- They're aII set. - CaII your IocaI newspaper.
Warn 'em they might get some crank caIIs.
- WouIdn't it be better... - You got your orders. Hop to it.
CooI it with the miIitary crap. I'II take care of it.
Whitney? Let's hop to it.
- GeneraI Waxman, it's been so Iong. - It's CoIoneI, ma'am.
CoIoneI, stiII? Oh, I can't imagine why.
PoIitics, ma'am. PoIitics.
Stupid cow.
- Ready? - (Water-skier) OK.
Hey, he reaIIy does ski great.
- He's such a show-off. - He thinks he's such hot shit.
- Maybe we're not going fast enough. - I can fix that.
HoId it! There's something back here!
Take it in! Now!
- I think something's wrong. - Yeah, we haven't dumped him yet.
Stop!
Take me in! There's something in here! Come on! Get me outta here!
SIow down. Stop!
Faster! Don't stop!
- Wait. He says... - No!
Speed up. Speed up!
Stop!
(siren)
(screams)
Argh! Argh! Argh!
(screams)
Dammit!
No, Bob. It's compIeteIy faIse.
There's not a word of truth to it, beIieve me.
- Sir? - I'm on the phone!
(Whispers) Piranhas.
- Don't even say that word! - But the piranhas...
- What about the piranhas? - They're eating the guests, sir.
Uh...
Bob, I'm gonna have to get back to you on this. We've got a... a situation down here.
(screams)
(everybody screaming)
Come on. Get off! You'II tip us over.
Get off!
Dammit, get off!
Where are we going?
The Iake narrows where the outIet for the refinery was.
They'II be bunched tight when they come through there.
What then?
If it isn't tapped off, there might be enough waste Ieft in the smeIting tanks.
- It'II kiII the fish? - It'II kiII anything.
We'II poIIute the bastards to death.
Oh, Lord. No.
- What's wrong? - It's aII fIooded.
The controI booth is underwater.
- What can we do? - WeII, we gotta do somethin'.
- Where's that towIine? - It's in the back.
So I want you to start counting sIowIy up to 100.
Then, whether I'm up to the surface or not, hit that throttIe and get outta here.
If I'm not up by then, I'm in troubIe, cos that's as Iong as I can hoId my breath.
So, Iet's count it down together.
- OK? - Yeah.
- One. - One.
Two.
- Three. - Three.
- Four. - Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
48.
49.
63.
64.
82.
83.
98.
99.
100.
PauI!
Lost River Lake. Terror, horror, death. FiIm at 1 1 .
- (man) Medic! - (Woman) HeIp!
What the heII are you fiIming? What the heII are you fiIming?!
Try and take some.
Where do we go from here, Dr Mengers?
I'm personaIIy going to head a fuII-scaIe investigation into this incident,
to discover who was responsibIe, and to ensure this couId never happen again.
As an expert in tropicaI species, what danger is there
in the possibiIity of the piranha reaching the ocean?
Oh, none. Most of them Will have been destroyed by pollution at the lake.
lf any did get through, there's no Way they could survive the salt Water.
There's nothing Ieft to fear.
SubRip by Renshaw