Previously on Surface...
Come on, Nim.
...Miles is forced to send Nimrod away.
Go, Nim.
Congratulations, you have a police record.
Dad hooked you up, got you moved into a different community work area.
Lee stops at nothing to keep the species a secret.
Turn here. Turn, turn, turn, turn.
You couldn't keep a tail on two civilians in a pickup truck? Find them!
Pursued by Lee and forced underground,
they build their own submersible.
If man went to the moon in a tin can, we can do this.
Emergency lifeboat.
If you have to surface quickly,
flip the switch inside, the boat inflates.
They risked their lives
to document the mysterious creatures and show the world.
This is Dr. Laura Daughtery
and Rich Connelly amidst a pod of the new vertebrates.
But something goes very wrong.
What the hell?
Jackson, do you copy? We are falling way too fast!
You got to pull us back up! You got to stop us!
Now, Surface continues.
Looks like they've been here a little over a week.
We just missed them.
Where do you think they went?
Down.
Laura, hang on to something!
Oh, God.
Rich.
You're bleeding.
Where the hell are we?
This is where we're supposed to be.
We're gonna die.
This is where we're supposed to be.
Hey, Skinny! Skinny!
You got a half inch wire stripper for me?
What happened to the last pair I gave you?
You're a damn disgrace. You is gonna cost me an arm and a leg.
Well, that's what I get when I hire in-laws.
Where'd you go?
Whoa.
Terrance.
Terrance!
Terrance?
Terrance!
Oh, my God.
Paul, I wanna thank you for coming down.
Dr. Meyers,
this is Paul Bloom from the Fort Fisher Aquarium.
Myers, here, is our Charleston County coroner.
So, how can I help?
Well, we're hoping you can identify the animal that did this.
The flesh is cut clean.
Looks like a serrated edge to me.
I was thinking, maybe a sand shark?
They don't come this far upriver very often.
Some kind of cat, a bobcat or Carolina panther, maybe.
Well, if it's a panther, it's the first one seen in this state in 50 years.
There's also this...
Yeah, what is that?
Well, the skin is charred.
Is it chemical burns? No, it's electrical.
Electric eel?
Hey, you ladies need to stay back!
We have a rogue gator out here.
I got something. I think they're tracks.
Tracks. Over here.
Hey, let's get a cast of that before the tide comes in.
I saw that at the mall.
Thought you might want it for your collection.
Thanks.
I'm sure Nim's fine.
He's probably happy out in the wild.
Yeah.
No shrimp.
The sea's empty this season.
Like something's run everything off.
What the hell is that?
I've just gotta get this
reserve battery to work.
Since we have no lights,
no power,
no life raft...
We would have been at the surface by now if you hadn't stopped me, Rich.
Scrubber's soaked.
Wet, so the line can't absorb the CO2.
How long does that give us?
About 90 minutes.
Less, if more carbon monoxide gets in here.
It might not seem like it now, but...
We're gonna be okay.
Rich.
Rich. Hey, listen to me.
I'm begging you, listen to me, okay?
I need you to help me out.
You got to snap out of this, okay?
Please snap out of this.
Rich?
Rich!
We are going to die if you don't help me now, okay?
Okay.
What do I need to do?
You need to make that battery work.
Where's my ratchet? It's right here. Look, look here.
All right.
Power's good. Power's on.
Okay.
Okay, so the compressor is gonna inflate the life raft
and then we go up.
Wait! Hang on, hang on! Wait! Hold on to something.
Just wait, wait, wait. Wait for what?
'Cause, 'cause, this is it. What are we waiting for?
Wait.
I just want to think it through for a sec, 'cause, you know...
Rich, there's nothing to think about. Let's just do this, okay?
Please?
Rich, we're gonna go back to the surface.
Okay? Look at me.
Okay?
Okay.
Yeah? Okay, hold on.
It's not working.
We gotta do it one more time.
It's not...
You ready? Hold on.
Yeah, it's not working.
Hey, Miles?
Hey, don't worry about the scrubbers right now,
I need you to cover for me in Director Bloom's office.
Okay.
What's up?
I've gotta run these down to the Sheriff's office.
An electrician got bitten yesterday in the marsh by some critter.
Really? Yeah, really. Killed him.
Ripped his throat out.
What do they think did it?
It's a conundrum.
Massive tissue lacerations like a shark attack, bizarre electrical burns.
Yeah.
Well, of course.
No, the victim was in the shallows.
Yeah. Well, there wasn't that much of the neck left, to be honest.
Yeah.
It's got a foot pad like a mammal,
long claws, webbed feet, like an otter or a seal.
Yeah, I think I got time to make the last pick up.
You're the intern, right?
Yeah.
I want you to ship this
to David Howell in the zoology department at N. C. State, all right?
I want him to get a look at this.
Oh, man. Yeah.
Maybe it was self-defense.
Mmm-hmm.
Maybe they provoked it somehow, and tried to hurt it.
Oh, yeah. You should have seen the victim's eyes.
They were turned to jelly by the electrocution.
Yeah.
Tomorrow morning I'm going to the fisheries. I'm gonna examine the catches.
I'm gonna need you here at 7:30 tomorrow morning
to help me with the specimen containers, all right?
The life boat's just wedged on something.
All right, maybe I'II... I'll check the radio.
Maybe by some chance Jackson can hear us.
Where is it?
Okay.
Jackson!
SOS, Jackson, can you hear me?
Jackson! Can you hear us?
Save it, Laura. Jackson!
Okay, we just have to think.
Oh, God.
Jesse.
Don't start doing that, okay? It's gonna be all right.
You're gonna be all right.
You're gonna see Jesse again.
Just like I'm gonna see Tracy,
and my girls,
and my dog
again.
I took this leap of faith, I got us down here,
and I'm telling you, George ain't gonna let me down, okay?
Are you there, Georgie boy?
I need you.
Shut it!
You son of a... You want some of this?
You wanna live long enough for us to sell you,
you better shut up.
I'm gonna put you on ice.
About an hour left.
All right.
A little less.
Just give me one more second,
and I should have those lights up outside.
We can get the lay of the land.
Rich, you hear that?
Almost there.
Rich, do you hear that?
Listen.
Got it!
No, no, no, no, no!
Shut the lights off.
Yeah, let's go. Off, off...
I think we should keep the lights off.
Me, too.
Did you see how many there were?
Yeah.
You know, I also saw something else out there.
What? It gave me an idea.
If...
Well...
I thought... I thought I saw a bang stick
that still had a live charge on it. Now,
if we can somehow tilt this thing
and detonate that charge.
Then maybe it'II... Maybe it'll free up the life raft.
Okay.
It's worth a try.
Watch out.
Okay.
Push. Okay.
Come on! Come on! Come on!
Rich, stop! Rich, stop! We're wasting air.
We're wasting air.
The air is running out.
We have 37 minutes left.
Oh, what the hell?
What?
There's a man out here.
What?
There's a man out here on the ocean floor!
Look! Come here!
Do you see him?
Huh? Do you see him?
Don't start freaking out on me, Rich.
No, no, no, no.
No, no. Where'd he go?
Where'd he go?
So, before I shipped them, I took these.
"...whose body was found early Saturday morning.
"Authorities speculate that the animal might have been an alligator."
Those are totally Nim's feet, dude.
You don't know that.
He's got the taste of human blood and he's on a spree.
Nim is not on a "spree."
Your problem is you think you speak Nim.
You don't speak Nim.
No one speaks Nim. Nim's a tiger.
Tigers communicate.
And what good did that do Roy, hmm?
Siegfried and Roy?
Roy raised that tiger, dude.
But sooner or later, the tiger grows up and the wild animal kicks in.
This guy was food, dude.
That was not Nim.
You need to rat on the lizard!
Dude, you saw the way police deal with this kind of thing. They'll kill him.
But I gotta get to him first.
We trained Nim to come to the sound of the bell for food.
So, if we broadcast the sound underwater
and loop it, so it repeats over and over.
Dude, you can't put my boom box in the water.
We'll waterproof it.
Check it out.
Aquaphonic speakers.
Dad has them all around the pool.
And a dry suit.
Neck holes, doof? Hand holes?
Chip clips.
You are the gadget master.
All right, I got to go meet Dr. Bloom at the docks.
Meet me back here at dusk.
And take care of this. You got it.
I can't see a damn thing out there.
This is Laura Daughtery onboard the submersible, Little Heat.
Our position is 41-46 North,
50-14 West.
We are stranded at the bottom of the ocean.
We need immediate assistance.
Jackson probably went for help by now.
But the only DSRV on the West Coast is six hours away.
Did you say something?
Hello? Hello, do you hear me?
Can you hear me? Is there anyone out there? Please respond.
It's not English. What is it?
There you go, there you go. Come on, now.
Keep it up! Keep it up!
Please respond. Please respond.
Do you hear us? We're trapped at the bottom of the ocean!
We're in a submersible!
What is that? What did he say?
That ain't French. It's...
It's Japanese or something.
Do you speak English?
Please, please respond.
SOS, mayday! Mayday!
We are on the bottom of the ocean.
Please, mayday! Mayday!
Please!
SOS!
Oh, God, we have 30 minutes.
It's FBI. San Francisco SAC.
I interfaced with the Coast Guard, NO AA deep search.
We did pick up a distress signal actually.
I'm sending it to you over a secure line.
Jackson!
SOS, Jackson, can you hear me?
Is that something you're interested in?
Yes. Yes, it is.
Did you find any surface vessels in the area,
something that could launch a submersible?
Negative on the surface vessels.
We've had a lot of tough weather off the coast. Electrical storm.
I'm also looking for this man.
Jackson Holden.
All right. I'll run a search, put the name on the wire.
Look, this distress signal, is this real?
Yes.
Well, I know the C. O. of the Reagan. I could get the DSRV.
No.
No rescue efforts.
And destroy that sound file.
What sort of bycatch are you looking for?
That kind of falls under the category of, "I'll know it when I see it."
You're welcome to take a look, but all the nets got excluders and BRDs.
Cuts the incidentals in half.
You notice anything strange about this spot?
It looks kind of scrawny.
That's right. It's starving.
You see the flattened belly profile,
and the down-turned head, and the reddened mouth?
That means it's feeding off the bottom.
Where'd all its food go?
I have no idea.
Six months ago,
all of our indicators species-wide just spiked in the wrong direction.
Hey!
Yeah?
Anything out of the ordinary comes in here,
I'd appreciate you letting me know.
You might want to talk to the sports-fishing guy.
Heard some crazy stories about the mackerel run.
Big flash, it was like lightning in the water,
and the king floated up.
Dead on the line.
Lightning in the water? Yeah.
How long ago did this happen?
Yesterday, 6:09 a. m.
You have a good memory.
Memory's not it.
It stopped my watch cold.
Bite marks are deep,
reminiscent again of the former.
Electrical burns, more of them.
Much more than the previous victim.
This thing travels in packs.
I'll tell him.
Sheriff just called. Said some guys down at Cape Fear
caught our predator.
What? How did they catch him?
Apparently with bullets.
Got to be 15 feet long if it's an inch.
Biggest gator I've ever seen, Sheriff.
I know. It's huge.
Hey, Paul!
Watch your step.
Careful, guys.
Listen, thanks for coming down.
I'm sorry to have taken you away from your dinner.
Look at this.
You won't believe this.
Snuck right up on a couple guys in that blind,
fired both barrels each into its head.
Just get over here and give us a hand, would you, buddy?
May I?
This gator hadn't eaten in three days.
He's not our predator.
You sure?
Now I'm telling you, what we're looking for is not indigenous.
All right, Paul, then what is it?
I don't know. I think we're looking for an alien species.
Alien-Australia. Alien-China.
Okay, then, we'll sound the horn, post a reward,
and get some eyes in the water.
Wait a minute. You don't even know what you're looking for.
The last thing you need is a bunch of hotheads
chumming the water, killing everything in sight.
And the last thing I need is another somebody else getting hurt.
I'm gonna charter a boat
with some professional fishermen,
who know how to handle these things.
Yeah, "Handle it."
That's right!
Eli! Lalo!
The hold!
I'm on it, Captain.
Lalo! Hold, now!
Yeah.
Fucking crap.
Hey, how can it be so hot?
That thing.
When Jesse was about three,
we had this talk about
life and death and
God.
And
so, I told him,
I didn't know who or what God was, or...
I said, maybe that
he was all around us,
in nature, in the air we breathe.
So, he took off his shoe, hands it to me,
and there's an ant
smashed,
dead on the bottom of his shoe.
And he leans into me and he says,
"Mommy, I smushed God."
And I said, "Honey, that's okay. People make mistakes."
And he had this guilty look on his face,
you know, so guilty.
And I said, "Peanut, what's the matter, what's wrong?"
And he leaned into my ear and whispered,
"Mommy, I ate God, too."
Yeah.
Hey, hey, hey, hey!
That was close. Get the camera.
And a flashlight. Do you have the flashlight?
Yeah, yeah. Here, here.
Where?
What's he doing?
Laying eggs.
Step back from there.
Sorry, Doctor.
Sir, I wanted to give you an update on the specimen.
Mmm-hmm?
I tracked it to Northern California.
Who was with you?
I took a few grunts from Northern Command.
Sir, I talked to the HASMAT teams.
They had a tough time killing the specimen.
Eventually had to use radiation.
Do you mind if I ask, what is it?
The quicker question is, "What isn't it?"
Do you recognize this?
It's a griffon.
Half eagle, half lion.
A mythological hybrid.
A chimera.
An improvement.
Dude, it's time.
Give it up.
Nim!
Nimmy!
Seriously, before we fry the box.
Electricity and water don't mix.
Electricity and water...
That's where he'd go.
Where?
Come on!
Good God, Eli.
It took some doing, but I got him.
Just throw the damn thing overboard.
I plan to, but not before I make sure he ain't coming back up.
He'll come here. I know it.
How do you know it?
Because Nim always goes for the current.
I've seen him stick his tongue in a socket before.
No way. Critter Pop Rocks.
Yeah, it's like he gets drunk on electricity.
Hey, dude, one time I stuck a straw in my nose and snorted root beer.
I cried root beer. It was awesome.
That's great, Phil.
I know he'll come.
Look, look.
That's him.
It's Nim.
Wait a minute, man!
Faces of Death, my brother. He's a tiger.
I know.
You just have to know how to talk to tigers.
Nim.
Nimmy, come here.
It's me.
Nim?
Where did you go?
Nim?
You're not Nim.
You're smaller.
Miles, get out of there, man!
Ow!
Dude, get out of there, man! Watch out!
Miles?
Just a sec.
Hey, Miles, if you borrow my CDs...
Oh, my God. Are you okay?
I'm fine. What happened?
Don't tell Mom. I'm fine. Nim did that.
No, it wasn't Nim. This one was smaller.
There's more than one?
They travel in a pack, like a swarm.
Is that what did this? A swarm of these things?
Yeah. I think that's what happened to the electrician.
No one was in the house.
You got to get rid of those speakers on the dock.
Nim wouldn't do anything like...
What about the wildlife guy?
Nim wouldn't attack anyone unless they hurt him.
Well, maybe someone did.
We're almost out of air.
Georgie?
George.
No, Rich. No, Rich, turn it off.
Rich, turn it off, turn it off.
Turn it off, Rich.
You better come take a look at this.
It's like some sort of birthing zone.
There's hundreds of them.
All laying eggs.
This is what Cirko saw coming.
Population explosion.
Sorry, Nim.
So that's where all the chip clips went.
You know the tiger that bit Roy? Siegfried and Roy?
Yeah, Roy tripped or something, right?
Yeah.
But the tiger thought he'd been hurt.
So he picked him up, like a cub.
He wasn't trying to hurt him. He was protecting him.
It crushed his trachea.
You know the last words Roy said as they took him off?
No.
"Don't kill the cat."
Nim.
You've grown.
We are looking at the new top of the food chain.
No, leave it, leave it! Huh?
If he attacks us maybe it can knock us free or something.
Yeah, or swallow us whole!
Yeah, but, Rich, we're already dead!
The light's gonna draw them to us, okay? Here, just...
Here, bang.
If it'll set the life raft free.
That's enough! Now, come on!
Bang it! Bang it hard! Come on! Come and get us!
Hang on, hang on!
Hit the ballast! Hit the ballast, it'll free the life raft!
We're going up. We're going up. We're going up, Rich.
We're on our way up, Rich.
Okay, all right, hang in there.
You okay, Rich? Come on. Stay with me. We're going up!
Oh, my God!
Oh, God!
Just hang in there, Rich, okay?
Okay? Just one more time, Rich.
Hang on, okay?
I can't open it!
You gotta turn it! You gotta turn it!
I am turning it! I can't open it!
Why don't you just kick it? Kick the damn thing!
Kick it! Kick it! Come on, kick it!
We got it.
Oh, my God!
Come on, I got you!
I got you! I got you!
I can't!
Hang on! Hang on!