LAURA: Previously on Surface.
PHIL: You sure your parents won't notice?
(SCREAMING)
(SQUAWKING)
PHIL: Whoa!
I think he Iikes them aIive.
LEE: Looks Iike you caught your fish.
Shut it down now!
SURGEON: The damage to his face was extensive.
DOCTOR: I was about to pronounce
when the nurse found an extremely faint pulse.
Mr. Singh?
The Institute's research programs
have been suspended indefiniteIy.
I was the one that saw it
AIone, at 5,000 feet. A new vertebrate!
RICH: George did not drown!
TRACY: Hon, I don't think you were in your right mind.
That thing took my brother and I ain't Ieaving untiI I get a Iook at it.
JESSE: Mom, what kind of snakes are they?
LAURA: They're not snakes, baby, they're hagfish.
LAURA: These hagfish fed on the carcass.
Daughtery, you can't be here.
I have a right to my own work,
and a right to my own research,
and a right to know what's down there.
This is gonna heIp me.
I met someone eIse who saw it.
''It''? Yeah.
The sea monster GodziIIa thing. Yes.
Come on, now, this is a good thing. It means I'm not crazy!
(KADEE WHOOPING)
KADEE: Let's see. Over there.
Somewhere over there is Austin.
That's where I go to schooI.
(MALLORY WHOOPING) And down there on the boat,
that is MaIIory and Garth.
Great job, Kadee!
Just Iook at her!
Good job!
You know, I cannot beIieve you guys taIked me into this.
I can't beIieve she did it. I'd wet my pants.
(KADEE WHOOPING)
Let's see. Over there is...
What is that?
KADEE: What...
GARTH: You're doing great!
MaIIory, turn around!
Turn around! Look out!
Oh, my God! Turn around!
(EXCLAIMING)
Go that way.
Look at her. She is scared to death!
Guys, Iook out! Look out!
(WHOOPING)
(SCREAMING)
KADEE: Oh, my God!
(ALL SCREAMING)
KADEE: Look out!
Oh, my God!
(LOW GROWLING)
(NIM GRUNTING)
(MAN CHATTERING ON TV)
SYLVIA: Is that age-appropriate behavior? RON: Hmm?
AII that time in a pIayhouse.
They're making a fort. Boys make forts.
(WATER SPLASHING)
You ready, Nim?
(NIM GRUNTING)
(NIM SCREECHING)
PHIL: What do you think of your new home?
He digs it.
(NIM PURRING)
(BELLS RINGING)
You reaIize this is a misappropriation of university funds.
I wouId have gone somepIace eIse,
but I don't know that many peopIe who can barcode DNA.
WeII, there's that. Yeah.
So where'd you get the sampIe?
Intestines of a hagfish.
A hagfish is a primitive vertebrate.
It feeds on carrion.
ReaIIy? So what is it?
WeII, it's 90% junk DNA, 10% LiopIeurodon.
What's that? Kind of a prehistoric eeI.
Is that a species that exists near the rift?
WeII, it did. LiopIeurodon is extinct.
It has been for 100 miIIion years.
Honey, honey! What?
I found the perfect thing for us to do as a famiIy.
Oh, that wouId be good. Hey! Hey, girIs! Who wants to go on an adventure?
BOTH: We do! We do!
What kind of adventure?
It's gonna be the type of adventure where we Iearn aII about new animaIs
that are just now being discovered.
What kind of animaIs, Daddy? Like the ones you saw in the ocean?
''Southeastern CryptozooIogy Conference''. Yeah, yeah! In Houston!
Today! Today! Isn't that cooI? CryptozooIogy?
(CHUCKLING) Yeah, yeah. It's the...
It's the study of undocumented animaIs. Mmm-hmm.
Oh! And guess what, girIs?
They're gonna teach us how to make a pIaster casting track.
You know, that's the thing you put... PIaster casting track.
And then they're gonna have fieId photography
I can't beIieve we're having this conversation, actuaIIy. Baby, come on.
At the very Ieast, it's a famiIy outing, right? Yeah.
Come on, girIs! We gotta go, go, go!
(RICH WHOOPING)
This is gonna be a baII. Awesome!
Great.
Nim?
Got you some goIdfish, Nim.
(NIM PURRING)
You know it's dinner time, don't you, Nim?
Here you go.
(NIM SQUAWKING)
I hate it when he does that.
That is so sick.
MAN: I'II take one.
WOMAN: Here you go. MAN: Thank you.
WOMAN 2: Hi, how you doing?
RICH: Get one of these.
MAN 2: You can see it's amphibian in nature.
EMILY: Hey, Iet's go over here!
GirIs, stay where I can see you.
MAN 3: OddIy enough, this specimen has eIeven Iegs.
WOMAN 3: I myseIf saw a marine humanoid off the Keys
swim paraIIeI to our boat for over 90 minutes.
She's the most rationaI woman you've ever met.
TiII this day she's got a weekend that she just can't account for.
MAN 4: Hundred and eIeven men on the USS Topeka are stiII unaccounted for,
despite the government cover-up that they Iost the sub.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
Did you take that?
May 1 7th, 2002.
Twenty miIes off MobiIe.
It made a sound I do not want to hear twice in my Iife.
I can see by your interest that you've had an encounter.
(CLEARS THROAT)
As a matter of fact... Late May, maybe June?
Late May. How Iong were you in contact?
One, maybe two minutes.
Did you see the Iights?
Dozens. You know, that's a first.
Do you mind if I make a record of your experience?
I absoIuteIy mind.
Any side effects since the encounter?
Yeah, I mean, I've been having some
episodes, you know, Iike panic attacks.
Of course you have. It's the onIy sane response to the insane.
EMILY: Mom? What is it, honey?
There are dinosaurs in the BibIe.
You know, I've had simiIar panic attacks.
I've had some recurring nightmares. Rich.
Do you hear voices? Baby, hang on a second.
I'm taIking about something reaI important here. We are Ieaving.
Honey, we just got here. Now.
So how Iong were you a prisoner?
What?
A prisoner in the Aquatic City.
CIRKO: You're in perfect heaIth.
Recovery's totaI, best we can teII.
When can I see my kids?
Lee's okayed a phone caII in time,
but I want to keep you under observation for a few more weeks.
Never thought I'd be the one under the microscope.
Excuse me for interrupting.
There's been a new citing, in Texas.
In the GuIf? No.
Three hundred miIes inIand.
(SIREN WAILING)
Fourteen confirmed casuaIties.
AP's reporting that the Iake coIIapsed into a sinkhoIe.
So far it's getting traction. For now.
ReIax.
Containment's my speciaIty.
Have we sent anyone beIow?
The heat is too intense to send someone down.
But we are working on an ROV.
This extends the range estimate.
Yeah, to Iand.
This message is for AIeksander Cirko.
I am in the possession of some very compeIIing evidence
that I feeI certain he wiII be interested in discussing.
PIease caII me before 5:00 p.m.
or my next caII wiII be the Berrong Institute.
Let's see if that gets a reaction.
What's a ''finaI notice''?
Oh!
(PHONE RINGING)
HeIIo?
It's Aleksander Cirko.
Meet me at the Sausalito waterfront tomorrow at 9.:00.
Is that the reaction?
Yeah.
(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
One-handing it again, kiddo? Huh?
(LAUGHING)
What you doing?
EeIs? Some bioIogy paper?
WeII, they have these speciaI ceIIs
that aII poIarize at the same time
and, weII, the eeI becomes Iike a battery, which is...
Sounds pretty interesting.
Do you know of any other animaIs
besides the eIectric eeI that shock?
Other than your mother, no.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
(SIGHING)
I Iove you, Son.
I Iove you, too.
WeII,
off drugs, out of prison, that's aII I ask.
Anybody pregnant? Just kidding.
What about firefIies? FirefIies?
Other eIectric animaIs. They gIow, right?
(CHUCKLING)
Good night.
FirefIies?
You know what, hon?
I Iearned a Iot more about cryptozooIogy
than I ever thought I was gonna.
Amen.
Yeah, it couId have been a Iot worse, though, you know?
How is that?
WeII, I couId have been a prisoner in the Aquatic City.
Oh, man. Those peopIe were crazy, weren't they?
Hey, you know what I was thinking?
Maybe we shouId take the girIs to the GuIf this weekend.
You know...
It'd be good for them to get out and have some fun.
I don't know if I'm ready to go back in the water just yet, baby.
Do you think we shouId go see someone?
No. That won't heIp.
Don't be so hard-headed.
I am hard-headed.
Then heIp me understand.
I don't understand.
That's the probIem.
Okay.
Come on, Cirko.
You teII me 9:00, I get a sitter for 9:00, I'm here at 9:00.
(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)
CIRKO: I was surprised to hear from you.
Yeah, well, I guess I took a chance and assumed
that underneath all the hardware
you still might be dedicated to open science.
Where would you get an idea like that?
I have a dog-eared copy of Sudden EvoIution on my bookshelf.
Here's a sample of the extinct genetic material.
And yet here it is.
It suggests to me that this animal is anything but what, extinct.
The sea contains many mysteries, Doctor.
An underwater volcano.
A big one, I think.
Enough to annihilate all marine life for 100 miles.
This is where you first encountered it. The exact latitude.
But that can't be a coincidence. I'm sure it isn't.
I wanted you to see this.
To see that there are consequences here
beyond any you may have imagined.
Consequences that make
the normal method of collaborations impossible.
Is that a threat?
I wish it weren't.
(MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)
Hey, Frodo.
What are you gonna do about my jeweIry box you broke?
Nothing.
I don't think SyIvia's gonna be down with your IittIe gobIin guIag.
If you teII Mom about Nim, it'II be war.
Don't threaten me.
The party, Greg, VaIentine's?
Yeah. It's aII on the tabIe.
Why do you care about that disgusting thing so much?
Why do you care about your pom-pom squad?
Because it's meaningfuI, because it represents accompIishment.
Yeah? So wiII Nim.
Yeah? I'd Iike to see that on an appIication to Duke.
ExtracurricuIars, ''Raised big Iizard''. You're a Iock, buddy.
Not everyone cares about going to Duke.
Yeah, and what do you care about, MiIes?
Komodo dragons, wizards, creatures from another pIanet?
What do you have against komodo dragons? You are hopeIess.
Why don't you just fiIe for unempIoyment now and get a jump on it.
You know what your probIem is?
PIease, enIighten me.
You don't have a sense of wonder.
You get that off a greeting card?
WeII, at Ieast I stiII have some kid in me.
Yeah, I can see that.
You're heading towards the pIayhouse!
(NIM GRUNTING)
PIease, Doctor, Iisten to me. A new vertebrate has emerged
and Cirko and his peopIe are denying access.
AIex Cirko? Yeah, AIex Cirko.
Nobody's heard from him in 15 years.
WeII, now he's back and he's confiscated my research.
So, you had an encounter with a species?
Yes, and it aImost destroyed a 50 ton submersibIe.
And where's the submersibIe?
I toId you, the Mystic is confiscated.
They probabIy took it down to the San Juan de Fuca... They confiscated it?
Wait, hang on a second. Look, here's a sampIe.
Look, go ahead, Iook at it, you prove me wrong.
You know, I want to heIp you. I reaIIy do.
But it's just gonna be tough in Iight of this whoIe pIagiarism thing.
You don't know?
Know what?
I got a phone caII this morning from Bessemet in Hawaii.
And according to him, three paragraphs of your thesis
were Iifted verbatim.
That's absurd.
He made it sound pretty airtight.
Your degree's under review.
PIagiarism, untiI it's resoIved, there's not much I can do.
This is aII part of it.
Part of what?
Hon.
Hi.
You're gonna be Iate on your first day back.
Oh, gosh. Go, go.
So I don't Iike to fraternize with pIagiarists, so I have to ask.
Yeah, I did it. I Iifted it aII.
Hey, I understand. I wrote my thesis
on caffeine piIIs and white wine. I get the temptation.
Come on, this is serious. They framed me, CaroIyn.
Okay, I know. ReIax.
This is past due, you know.
Yeah, that's what happens when you get a divorce and Iose your job.
So get a new one.
Who's gonna hire me?
It doesn't even matter that I'm innocent.
Right now, I'm unempIoyabIe. I have rent to pay...
Okay, okay. Let's just assume that everything you've toId me is true.
That there's an extinct sea monster in the ocean.
The government doesn't want peopIe to know about it,
and they're gonna do what they have to, to keep a Iid on it.
And they don't fight fair.
So why shouId you?
Sometimes.... If she doesn't wanna do something, she won't do it.
MAN: (ON TV) She's generally not aggressive towards people,
but if they have a dog...
(DOGS HOWLING)
MAN 2: (ON TV) She's a powerful breed.
You have to learn a technique which allows the brain to snap out of it.
Hey, there. What are you watching?
A show about training dogs.
We don't have a dog, MiIes.
Mom, I'm trying to watch here.
It doesn't mean you have to live like that forever.
Owners change.
The dog is not going to be able to change on his own.
Whoever is around Emily have to represent authority figure.
That's the only way we can correct the problem
when she makes a mistake.
Good to see you again, Rich.
Rich, I'm so sorry. Hi.
MAN: Hey, Rich.
WeIcome back.
I'm so sorry about your brother.
Sorry, Rich.
WOMAN: If there's anything I can do.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
MAN 2: Miss WiIson, you're stiII there?
MAN 3: Hi. I'm sorry to put you on hoId.
(NIM SNORTING)
Dude, he's gonna spark, knock you out and eat your face.
Not if I don't chaIIenge him. He thinks we're his pack
and there's a pecking order.
If he thinks he's higher than me, then he'II chaIIenge me
with aggressive behavior.
Oh.
(NIM WHINING)
(MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)
Savannah, do you know where MiIes hid my tooIs?
I think I saw him out by the pIayhouse.
With tooIs come responsibiIity.
MiIes, how many times have we been through this, huh?
He's a proud breed.
You just have to teach him who's the master.
Yeah.
(NIM SCREECHING)
(DISTORTED VOICE CHATTERING ON TV)
(NIM SCREECHING)
Whoa.
MiIes.
Hi, PhiI. Hey.
There it is.
(STUTTERING) There what is, Dad?
My tooIbox.
When we borrow things, we put them back.
Sorry, Pop.
I want to see my tooIs back in their proper Iocation from now on, okay?
No probIem.
(SIGHING)
(PHONE RINGING) MAN: Yes, ma'am.
We'd be more than happy to take care of that for you.
Mmm-hmm. Your poIicy is definiteIy strong right now
and the deductibIe is very high, so that's good.
Yes, ma'am, I can Iook at it right now. Give me just a second, okay?
Okay.
GEORGE: Hey, Rich.
Rich.
MAN: Rich!
(PHONE RINGING)
You're spiIIing, man.
(SIGHING)
RICH: Huge.
Where did you see it?
What are you doing up?
MILES: Nothing.
(SIGHING)
How did you respond to Daughtery?
She's been contained.
Your speciaIty.
I have some experience with whistIe bIowers.
TaIk wouId onIy make her more determined.
So you ruin her career.
She has a son, you know?
Let's get to the debrief.
This footage was shot Iast night
inside the sinkhoIe in Texas.
A Navy robot was outfitted
to withstand heat up to 800 degrees.
How far did it get?
Forty-three, 44 miIes
aII the way to the magma.
That's when the ROV meIted.
But not before it sent back this.
Why don't they burn up in the heat?
Perhaps its home.
You mean that this is their habitat?
Maybe the species isn't a sudden evoIutionary mutation.
Maybe they've been down there, in the earth, the whoIe time.
CIRKO: The secretion's abiIity to recuperate is remarkabIe.
In addition to faciIitating Dr. Singh's recovery,
we've documented it
restoring diseased ceIIs
at a nucIear IeveI.
No matter how we reguIated the temperature, we were Iosing the sampIe.
Yeah. This image has been sIowed down
so you can see the deterioration.
MiIIions of ceIIs per second.
It wouId have been gone by dawn.
We had no choice but to freeze it.
Imagine the possibiIities, Davis.
A new era of medicine,
maybe the end of disease.
(SCOFFING)
You know your probIem, Doctor?
You're an optimist.
Hi. I'm Iooking for a Wayne Johnson.
You got him. Hi, I'm Dr. Laura Daughtery.
Hi. AffiIiation? Monterey Oceanographic.
Look, I was interested in getting a recording
from one of your hydrophones a week or so back. Yeah, what for?
I was on a dive the other weekend sponsored by the Institute
and we came across an animaI that, quite frankIy, I couIdn't identify.
(SIGHING)
WeII, I got over 500 hydrophones
from Reykjavik aII the way to the Cape of Good Hope.
Without specific coordinates...
46, 15 North, 1 29, 53 West.
That's near the San Juan de Fuca. Yes, sir. Yes, it is.
What day? September 19th.
September 19th?
Two guys came in here yesterday
Iooking for the exact same thing.
You shouId be dead.
Extensive faciaI contusions,
massive bIood Ioss and Iook at you.
I'm a miracIe.
There are no miracIes in science.
Somehow this species produces
a coIIagen-binding membrane Iike obratzin.
This aIIows them to survive in such a hostiIe environment.
AIex?
What are you doing?
Nothing.
LAURA: Who are the... Who are these guys?
Both of them are civiIians,
but they had DOD credentiaIs
and a subpoena to confiscate the materiaI.
So they seized the sound fiIe?
From the mike you're taIking about, yeah.
So what's the range on these mikes?
500 miIes, give or take.
So, couId I puII the sound fiIe from the next mike up the chain,
say, Iike that one?
Do you know how Ioud an animaI wouId have to be in order to be audibIe
underwater from 100 miIes away?
You haven't heard the animaI I'm Iooking for.
(WATER RUNNING)
(JESSE CHATTERING)
It's Iike a needIe in a haystack.
You're eating my head!
Did you hear it? No.
What's it matter, anyways?
A wiId recording means
Mommy couId get a grant or a job or...
JESSE: Pay the power biII?
Today's gonna be a good day.
No hearing voices,
just a reguIar day for us reguIar foIks.
Yep, just a day in the Iife.
Okay. Go make yourseIf usefuI.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(DOOR BELL TINKLES)
Looks Iike we're in for one, huh?
(MUSIC PLAYING)
Hi. I heard you were hiring?
WILLIS: You have some restaurant experience?
It's how I paid my way through graduate schooI.
Yes, I see, Dr. Daughtery. You certainIy are quaIified.
It's $4.25 an hour pIus tips.
When do I start?
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
(SIGHING)
(CASH REGISTER PRINTING)
(BELL TINKLING)
(THUNDER CLAPPING)
GEORGE: Rich.
Rich.
SYLVIA: AII right, MiIes, it's your turn to say grace.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
HeavenIy Father, pIease bIess this food
to the nourishment of our bodies. Amen.
I think it wouId be nice if you said
something meaningfuI during the bIessing.
Dear God, thank you for giving me the opportunities that you have.
Thank you for my Ioved one.
Ones.
I'm trying not to get frustrated even though
I know most kids wouId have given up by now.
I know that through consistency and repetition,
through positive reinforcement and not rewarding bad behavior
that you'II take care of everything.
Because deep down I know that there's something good
in everybody and it just has to be given a chance.
Amen.
SYLVIA: Amen.
Thank you, MiIes.
Okay, that was creepy.
Savannah. What?
Hey, I appIaud the effort.
(GLASS SHATTERING)
MiIes! MiIes!
(DOG BARKING)
MiIes!
Jeez!
SAVANNAH: Oh, my God, the pIayhouse.
Everyone get back inside. Just get back inside!
RON: MiIes! SAVANNAH: Get away!
MiIes, come here. MiIes.
RON: MiIes, we've gotta get back inside, buddy.
MiIes, come on.
Let's get inside before we get struck. Come on! Come on!
MiIes!
Get back inside! Come on!
Oh, Rich.
Rich, honey?
Honey? What happened?
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
Something
wonderfuI.
What? Rich?
Honey, Iook at me. Look at me.
My brother, George,
he's stiII aIive and he's taIking to me.
Hey, you went for the heat.
It's okay.
(NIM PURRING)
It's okay, IittIe buddy.
Did you do it?
Did you make the Iightning fIatten Savannah's pIayhouse?
Did you?
Good boy.
(SIGHING)
TweIve hours, $68.
(WATER RUNNING)
So much for my thesis.
(SPEAKER JARRING)
(LOW GROWLING)
Wrong bandwidth.
I have you on the wrong bandwidth.
(LOW GROWLING)
Cirko, it's Laura Daughtery.
I need you to Iisten to this.
Okay, hear this.
(GROWLING)
Do you hear that sound?
That is the species. I have it on tape.
LEE: You shouldn't be calling.
Who is this?
I beIieve Dr. Cirko gave you some advice
about pursuing this, Dr. Daughtery.
Is that what you caII it? ''Advice''?
Is that what you caII framing someone for pIagiarism,
taking their career away from them?
When are you guys gonna reaIize that I am in it?
I'm not going anywhere. I have proof!
I have evidence of a new Iife form, on tape. I have proof!
(DIAL TONE)
(CREATURE GRUNTING)
Imagine a perfectIy evoIved animaI, Mr. Lee.
One that has abiIity to heaI itseIf instantaneousIy.
And you've repIicated the resuIts under controIIed conditions?
Wasn't this proof enough? Nothing, not a scratch.
Such a species might weII be invincibIe.
Impervious to physicaI harm.
Quite fascinating.
LEE: I'm not sure I share your enthusiasm.
Wadham's report came in.
A compIete thermogram of the entire San Juan de Fuca pIate.
''Significant thermohaIine deterioration across the northern Pacific.''
The ocean's heating up.
Yes. They dig, they reIease heat.
The question, Mr. Lee, is how much?
OId FaithfuI erupts more frequentIy than any of the other big geysers,
aIthough it's not the Iargest
or the most reguIar geyser in the park.
(RUMBLING) The average intervaI between eruptions
is 91 minutes.
Each eruption wiII expeI between 3,700 and 8,400 gaIIons
of boiIing water and reach heights of 106 to 184 feet.
(RUMBLING)
AIthough, the intervaI between eruptions has Iengthened
due to vandaIism and earthquakes.
OId FaithfuI is stiII as predictabIe as it was a century ago.
(ALL SCREAMING)