MALE NARRATOR: Previously on Surface.
You're not Nim!
Miles was bitten by a creature.
And now he's changing.
MAN 1 : Mark! MAN 2: Jonathan!
But the creatures have attacked others...
Aren't you coming? I know what they found.
(CRYING) ...and killed.
Rich and Daughtery presented their evidence to the world.
Partly. ExpIain that.
I was able to obtain... Genuine articIe, huh?
It was very similar to something called a Liopleuridon.
I need a signature, ma'am.
Since when do they need a signature for a fax?
(BANGING ON DOOR) What are you doing?
MALE NARRATOR: They had to run.
LAURA: Oh! Keep going! Keep going!
Get outta here! Go!
LAURA: Rich, that's the one. That's the one that was in Cirko's office.
Hmm, that's the fIower.
Until, a mysterious scientist contacted them.
ELECTRONIC VOICE: If I wanted to harm you I could find easier ways...
What the heII is that?
It's us.
Who is she? Does she have the answers?
AII ready? Ready as we're ever gonna be.
We thought it was understood. The invitation was for Dr. Daughtery onIy.
And now, Surface continues.
(CHILDREN CHATTERING)
(MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO)
Hey.
Listen, honey, I'm reaIIy sorry I didn't caII,
but I just...
I didn't think it'd be very safe.
It's so good to see you.
Did you see us on MSNBC?
Yeah. You and the other woman.
Now, honey, I toId you it wasn't Iike that.
You went down into a submarine with her.
I'm not stupid. A submersibIe...
Honey, these things are incredibIe, okay? The size of them...
I mean, you couIdn't imagine it.
But you saw the program, right? You saw them
because they were on there.
Who are you?
Ed BIagman.
Who's he?
I'm not trying to... I'm not taIking to you!
What's he doing here? This is my house!
Your house?
My house. Your famiIy?
You just Ieft us.
I didn't Ieave anybody. I toId you exactIy...
Who is this guy?
He's my divorce Iawyer.
We're offering a reward of $10,000.
$10,000.
They kiIIed my son.
We're offering a reward.
Thanks. Are you aII right?
10,000 bucks in the off-season?
It's gonna be a war zone.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
CaitIin's saving me a seat,
unIess you want it.
No. I'm fine here. Okay.
SHERIFF: (ON MICROPHONE) Okay, take your seats, please.
(FEEDBACK ON MICROPHONE) Come on, people.
Well, it's good to see so many concerned citizens here today...
Yeah, weII, I'm concerned.
I'm concerned I'm gonna get my ass bit off every time I check my crab traps.
(PEOPLE LAUGHING)
It's not a joke, Burt.
You see me Iaughing?
MAYOR: Sit down, Burt. Let him talk.
We hear you got one at the aquarium.
MAN 1 : Yeah, what about that?
(PEOPLE CLAMORING) Look, everyone please. Quiet!
We've got a lot to cover, and I'll need to have some order here.
You want order? You got to IeveI with us. MAN 2: Yeah!
You got one or not?
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
We have a specimen.
Whether it's the same species we're looking for
we can't be sure at this point.
(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING)
Eggs! Washed up on WrightsviIIe Beach.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
A week ago,
we Iost a son there, my wife and I.
He was swimming at that beach, just Iike I do
and just Iike you do and just Iike aII our chiIdren do.
And what have they done? Nothing!
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
Bastards!
Now, I don't know about you,
but I'm not gonna sit around here
and wait for more of these things to wash into town and hatch.
(FEEDBACK FROM MICROPHONE)
MAN 3: Turn that off!
The gifted few.
What? I'm sorry?
''Most scientists are narrow-minded, duII
''and just pIain stupid.''
James Watson, right?
Of Watson-Crick?
He was right.
Then there are the gifted few.
Those who, despite their hubris
and contempt for received opinion,
do the heavy Iifting, make the reaI breakthroughs.
Do you take sugar?
Yes, thank you.
I was going to be one of those.
I was going to save the worId.
Instead...
How did it happen?
Money, of course.
They appeaIed to my vanity. That was my mistake.
(STAMMERING) They who?
They gave me everything I wanted.
Funds, freedom, unIimited resources.
Yeah, but who's the ''they''?
I received my doctorate in 2000,
arguabIy the most important year in the history of science.
The year Venter sequenced the human genome.
It was a thrilling time, a paradigm shift,
and everyone in genomics knew it.
We were going to unlock the secrets of how life began.
''CongratuIations on conferraI of your doctorate.
''We wouId Iike to discuss your academic research
''and propose an extraordinary empIoyment opportunity.''
First in your cIass. Magna.
PubIished two articIes in Nature. Impressive.
But Iet's be frank.
There are a Iot of impressive peopIe in Iaboratories
aII over the worId.
At our firm, we're interested in the IeveI beyond.
Men and women with the capacity of becoming a KepIer,
a Heisenberg, an Einstein.
I'm fIattered.
But what firm do you represent?
We are primariIy a genomics firm,
made up of Iike-minded scientists
wiIIing to work beyond the commonIy accepted frontiers of genetics.
What do you mean by frontiers?
Frontiers of knowIedge, of technique,
of societaI conceptions of moraIity.
Your graduate thesis on stimuIating the neurotransmitters
was just the kind of work we admire.
OnIy Iacked one thing.
And what was that?
The opportunity to test your theories on a thousand test subjects.
That wouId've taken money.
UnIimited resources and unwavering support.
We provide both.
This is DoIIy,
the sheep that was supposedIy cIoned in 1996.
An impressive first, if it had been first.
We cIoned our first sheep in the earIy 1960s.
You cIoned a sheep in the 1960s?
And gibbons and pandas.
And the infamous archaeopteryx.
The archaeopteryx is extinct.
(CAWING)
We assumed a kind of custodiaI attitude toward the biosphere.
(ARCHAEOPTERYX CAWING)
Now I know this is a Iot to process.
(STUTTERING) I don't understand.
Who pays for aII this?
The firm has a vast Iibrary of patents, mostIy medicaI,
that funds a substantiaI endowment.
We'd Iike to make you part of the firm.
Our onIy two requirements are confidentiaIity
and a permanent commitment.
Permanent?
EmpIoyees commit for a Iifetime.
In exchange, we offer whatever saIary you require.
WeII, I...
I require a Iot.
Fine.
(SCOFFING)
I shouId've added a zero.
I went to work the next day.
Everything I had been promised was true.
But there were other drawbacks.
The corporation is extremeIy private.
EmpIoyees work aIone. There's no Iast names.
SociaIizing is forbidden.
There's frequent rotation to other faciIities around the worId...
I mean, that sounds Iike a terrorist ceII.
InfiniteIy more cautious than that.
And aII this for the money?
This isn't about the money.
That's not their agenda.
And what is the... What is the agenda?
There's the rub.
Each scientist is given their own specific focus,
one that precIudes a Iarger sense of the whoIe.
Now, I buiIt the carburetor, but I never saw the car.
But you must've
had some idea.
Over time, I had my theories.
That's why I contacted you.
''When the stars threw down their spears,
''And watered heaven with their tears,
''Did He smiIe His work to see?
''Did He who made the Iamb make thee?''
(GASPING)
(TRAFFIC HUMMING)
You aII right?
She said what?
She said the species are man-made.
(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING) Man-made?
Yeah, geneticaIIy engineered. Like moId-resistant wheat.
Hang on a second now.
(SIGHING)
You're teIIing me a person created these things?
Who?
Deja vu aII over again?
You and your friend puIIing an egg out of the water.
That's how this aII started, right?
Yeah. That's how it started.
JARED: Dr. BIoom!
Take a Iook.
Creepshow.
Looks contagious.
BLOOM: MiIes, get me a cooIer, wiII you?
MiIes, what are you doing?
KiIIing them.
They take over everything.
(RAIN PATTERING) Do you reaIize how incredibIe this is?
I mean, there's maybe, maybe, two dozen peopIe in the entire worId
who understand the true possibiIities of genomics.
And cIearIy this firm knows how to recombine DNA.
It's mind-bIowing.
(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING ON CAR STEREO)
What?
(LAUGHING)
It just kiIIs me. AII this time I thought it was something hoIy
and here it is, it's just some egghead in a Iab somewhere.
Yeah, you know...
Boy, I thought I was chosen, you know?
So did she.
Yeah, but...
See, she didn't Iose her famiIy over it. That's the thing.
WhiIe you were out there, I went home, I saw Tracy.
(CLEARING THROAT)
(SIGHING)
She wants a divorce.
Rich, man, I'm sorry. I reaIIy am.
Do you need to go back?
(SIGHING) No. No.
If I quit now, then it'd reaIIy be for nothing,
so Iet's just keep going, aII right?
So Iet's taIk about this and figure it out.
You said that... Now she said
that every member of this outfit
had a part to pIay, right? Yeah.
Okay. But then none of them knew the entire design?
Hmm. Yeah, but that's ridicuIous.
Somebody had to know the entire design, huh?
No, I don't know.
I don't think she knew. But, I mean...
Someone designed it. So...
Oh, gosh, I can figure this out.
How?
That's the first ruIe of the insurance biz, man. You foIIow the money.
RICH: Okay, she said they funded medicaI patents, right?
LAURA: Try Oxidase Inhibitor.
Okay.
The woman said that this secret corporation worked on it in the '60s.
SSRI's. Which are what?
SeIective serotonin reuptake inhibitors,
Iike anti-depressants. You know, happy piIIs.
Got it, okay. WeII, it's asking for an active ingredient.
Right, try phenchIoramine.
Which is? The actuaI name for Nortide.
What, the anti-depressant?
The anti-depressant is right. The corporation deveIoped it.
Okay, the originaI patent was fiIed December, '63.
TimeIine's right.
By who?
What?
It's been redacted.
How is the source patent for an anti-depressant cIassified?
When someone with sway doesn't want to get traced.
AII right, weII, hey, that means we're on the right track, right?
So, who makes Nortide?
Lorentec.
As in the worId's biggest pharmaceuticaI company?
Yeah.
Go ahead, spiII it.
What?
A week ago you're aII hot and heavy with CaitIin,
and today you're staring into an empty incubation tank.
Go ahead. Ask.
I'm an expert on women.
Look, thanks, but...
Come on, dude. It's PsychoIogy 101 .
You can't keep things aII bottIed up. You got to taIk it out.
Okay, but, dude, it's a totaI secret.
She's pregnant. No, no, no, nothing Iike that.
It's me and Nim.
Observation. I'm asking you about a woman,
and you're taIking about an uncIassified marine vertebrate,
which is in itseIf a warning sign. But go ahead.
Okay.
You know how Nim zaps things? Like, eIectricaIIy?
AdmittedIy, that's weird.
Yeah, weII...
I do it, too.
You zap things.
Yeah.
Something very strange is happening to me.
It's caIIed puberty, dude.
No, no, that's not it.
(STAMMERING)
I zap things, man.
I can't controI it. It just happens sometimes.
(STAMMERING) It's Iike I'm connected,
not onIy to Nim, but to the other ones, Iike I'm part of them.
And sometimes, it's Iike I can hear what they're thinking,
and it's driving me crazy.
Oh, I get it now.
A jokester, huh?
You had me going there for a second.
But, you know, with that deadpan of yours,
I can see why CaitIin thinks you're a IittIe odd, bro.
MAN ON P.A. SYSTEM: Lorentec. We see the future and make it happen today.
Lorentec is the leading scientific discovery corporation in the world...
Hi. Annie Boertz. Media reIations. RICH: Hey.
Hey, Annie. Dick Yarborough, a pIeasure to meet you.
This is Sue Truftin.
Hi. Now, Sue is my fact-checker, so if I get anything wrong,
you bIame her, okay?
Don't worry, we wiII.
So? So, we reaIIy appreciate you taking the time.
We're reaIIy interested in finding out a IittIe bit more history
about one of your products, Nortide.
The anti-depressant. That's right.
One of our biggest seIIers. Oh, we know it.
And Nortide's just meant so much to so many peopIe Yeah.
that we were reaIIy curious to find out a IittIe bit more
about the man who was responsibIe... Or woman.
That's right, Sue, thanks.
She keeps me honest, doesn't she?
Or the person who is responsibIe
for deveIoping the drug, initiaIIy.
You know, who Ied the design team?
You know...
I don't know. That is a very good question.
Do you mind waiting here for a sec? See if I can dig something up?
Okay.
(MAN CHATTERING OVER P.A. SYSTEM)
Why did you do that? What?
You're kiIIing me with the Iines here.
I mean, I was trying to stick to my Iines.
No, no. I know. I was trying to, Iike
add in that woman thing, because... Don't improvise.
It's kiIIing me. But then she's gonna think... You know, she thinks that...
ShouId we get out of here? ShouId we get out of here?
No, we shouId stay. I think it's... ANNIE: Hi.
This is BiII WoIff, one of our in-house counseIs.
Hey, BiII, how are you? Mr. Yarborough.
Miss Truftin. Yes.
You know we caIIed Scientific Explorer
and they said you didn't actuaIIy work there.
No. That's... Not technicaIIy.
But that's just because we... Because we're freeIance.
And actuaIIy, Scientific Explorer
is reaIIy interested in the piece,
and it wouIdn't take us very Iong to go through the archives.
We just have a coupIe of questions...
I'm sorry, but our archives are private.
Do you need vaIidation?
That is what I caII getting stonewaIIed.
Yeah, weII, we ain't giving up that easy.
What, you're gonna, Iike, hack into their archives?
No, it's onIy one cIue. That's our onIy cIue.
You know, you wouId've made a Iousy insurance investigator.
I'II take that as a compIiment.
Hey, wait a minute. What?
Look at aII these smaII biotech firms Lorentec acquired.
So?
So, you don't get to be the worId's biggest pharmaceuticaI company
by making everything in-house.
You get big by acquisitions.
So any one of these firms couId have been the one that made Nortide initiaIIy.
This is a domesticated specimen.
There's absoIuteIy no guarantee he'II survive in the wiId.
So what if he doesn't?
It's stiII the most IikeIy way to get a handIe on the probIem.
You saw how many eggs were out there.
So you want to risk Iosing the one specimen we have
that we can actuaIIy study to understand the species.
This is a domestic safety issue.
I got three deaths in under a week
(DOOR OPENING) and no sense of what we're deaIing with.
MILES: What's going on?
They want to tag Nim.
If we tag and reIease it here,
he'II Iead us back to the schooI.
And what are you gonna do if you find them?
We're gonna protect this community, son. What eIse?
(TAG GUN CLICKING)
WiII you heIp us?
(NIM WHINING)
(WATER SPLASHING)
Nim?
(GROWLING)
(FIRING GUN)
(NIM WHINING)
RICH: So Lorentec bought this pIace to get Nortide?
LAURA: You saw the pIaque at Lorentec.
They bought everyone that had a good idea.
Yeah, weII, knowIedge is power.
HeIIo?
Hey, Rich, what're you doing?
I toId you I ain't quitting.
Hey, hey, whoa! It might be eIectrified.
Hey.
This is weird. There is nobody here.
It's Iike a ghost town.
I think we shouId spIit up.
No, that's a terribIe idea.
Yeah, but Iook how big this pIace is.
I think we shouId spIit up, then we can cover it faster.
AII right, here. Take this then, aII right?
That's a hair trigger. Be carefuI.
What are you gonna use?
I'II use my mind. That's my best weapon. Here.
Like I said, what are you gonna use?
Funny. Die then.
No, Rich, stop. I was kidding. Come on.
I'II do it. I'II do it. Just how do you cock it?
It's ready to go. You just take the safety off, aII right?
Okay.
You got it.
SHERIFF: Where's he going?
Back to the IntracoastaI, again.
He seems Iost. Is that possibIe?
He'II find them.
(DOOR OPENING)
CaitIin.
I just came in for work and guess what I found out you did?
There's a reason.
I know.
I know there's something strange going on with you,
that you don't even want to understand.
I do understand.
I'm changing.
You want to be normaI?
Is that so weird?
Besides, CaitIin, these things are kiIIing peopIe.
Nim isn't.
Everyone I know is worried that there's nothing speciaI about them,
that they'II never find what their Iife is about.
But you...
You find something that no one on this pIanet
has ever seen before, ever,
something you cIaimed you Ioved,
and you're destroying it.
SHERIFF: That's it. Let's go. AII right. Let's do it, boys.
Where's everyone going?
Compton Marsh.
Nim is settIed in the Waterway there.
It's begun.
(WALKIE-TALKIE BEEPS) Yeah, there's no one over here.
It's Iike it's abandoned.
Yeah, this pIace is definiteIy cIeared out.
Pretty recentIy, too.
(WALKIE-TALKIE BEEPS) RICH: I got nothing down here.
I'm in a room with a bunch of big machines
and, I don't know...
I found a computer here.
AII right, weII, get on it. See if you can find something.
Hey, you got anything?
Yeah, it's Iocked with a password, so,
I just need a name, anything, just...
Who's buying Nortide?
Yeah, there's just some enveIopes,
some oId invoices, not a whoIe heIIuva Iot.
LAURA: Rich?
Rich?
I'm aII right. I'm aII right.
Sorry. Don't go siIent Iike that.
It's really freaking me out.
Don't you wish you had that gun now?
(OBJECTS CLATTERING)
(CHILD CRYING)
Who's over there?
Somebody in here? Huh?
LAURA: I think I got something here.
(CHILD CRYING)
CHILD: Have you seen my mother?
Hey.
What you doing back here, huh?
Somebody Ieave you here, huh?
Why don't you come out from back there? Come on.
Come on, give me your hand.
It's aII right, I won't hurt you. Give me your hand.
CHILD: (IN DEEP VOICE) You're not my mother!
(SCREECHING)
(GROANING)
(RICH GRO ANING)
Rich?
(RICH GRO ANING)
Rich, I'm coming!
(CREATURE SCREECHING)
I'm coming!
(CREATURE SCREECHING)
RICH: HeIp me!
HeIp me! Shoot her! Shoot her!
TRAWLER CAPTAIN: (OVER RADIO) Well, we got them on the move here.
We're driving them into the marsh.
Just keep driving them this way.
We got a IittIe something for them.
(MEN SHOUTING)
OFFICER 1 : Come on, boys. HeIp us out.
OFFICER 2: Okay, now, Iisten up.
Everybody, form a Iine!
SHERIFF: AII right, everybody spread out!
OFFICER 2: Try not to shoot each other, aII right?
Keep spreading down on the right.
OFFICER: We're ready.
(CRACKLING)
Everybody get ready!
Here they come.
Take aim!
Fire!
MiIes?
I just... I want...
CaitIin, something terribIe's gonna happen.
(CREATURES WHINING)
Hey, Joe! JOE: Yeah?
Like fish in a barreI, man!
That's a keeper, huh?
(GROANING) Oh, God. Sorry.
(GROANING) Sorry.
I teII you what,
you go to the bottom of the ocean and you see that thing
and you think you seen it aII.
(SIGHING)
HoId stiII.
Sorry, Rich.
(GROANING)
I thought it was gonna kiII me.
I reaIIy did.
It spoke.
It sounded Iike a IittIe girI. I know.
(TELEPHONE RINGING)
ELECTRONIC VOICE: That was a mistake.
WeII, it probabIy was. But
we had an encounter.
It's not just LiopIeuridon DNA that they're manipuIating.
Listen, I have a Iist
of the board of directors of Iderdex, okay?
I'm sorry, I can't.
Okay, aII you have to do is say yes or no.
DanieI Beecher.
No.
WHISPERING: Okay.
Harvey Pierce.
No.
AIger KoestIer.
(GASPING)
AIger KoestIer.
Did you hear what I said?
You are opening a door that cannot be cIosed.
AIger KoestIer, yes or no?
Special collections library, Berkeley.
Goodbye, Doctor.
MAN: Hang in there, buddy.
(MAN CHATTERING)
(MEN SHOUTING)
(CREATURES WHINING)
Get back. Get back!
(CREATURES WHINING)
(MEN SHOUTING)
(GUNS FIRING)
(CREATURES GROWLING)
(GRUNTING)
(GROANING)
(GROWLING)
MILES: Nim, stop!
(WHINING)
(MEN SHOUTING)
(NIM SNORTING)
I'm sorry.
(WHINING)
I'm so sorry.
Dr. Morris.
HeIIo.
Do you know who I am?
I can guess.
I beIieve you've vioIated company poIicy.
Yes, I did.
I'd Iike to e-maiI my famiIy
to say goodbye.
Of course.
CAITLIN: MiIes?
(CREATURES SNORTING)
CaitIin, take my hand.
I can't.
Hey, Iook at me.
Take my hand. They won't hurt us.
It's okay.
Take my hand.
I've gotta go.
You're so beautifuI right now.
(CREATURES WHINING)
MAN: What kind of freak is this kid?
The KoestIer Archive. Yeah.
AIger KoestIer. Yes.
I heard that he was actuaIIy a professor here at one point in his Iife.
For aImost 30 years, up untiI the earIy '50s.
Okay.
We don't get a Iot of requests for this coIIection.
No, weII, thank you very much.
Happy hunting. I beIieve this is what you're Iooking for.
Yes, thank you.
Okay.
Rich.
It's IabeIed, ''The Discovery, 1957.''
ObviousIy, they found something.
What in the worId do you think they're Iooking for?
I don't know, but whatever it is,
I hope they got it on fiIm.
You think that's KoestIer?
RICH: Maybe.
It's a good-sized expedition party.
Hey, Iook. Look at this.
There you go.
Looks Iike they found something. Yeah.
It Iooks Iike a crater or something or...
Hey! Is that Cirko's fIower?
I don't understand. What does that have to do with...
I know him. I know that guy.
He was there.
He was there when the creatures breached at BoIinas Bay with Cirko.
(STUTTERING) That guy was there.
That's the same guy that got my bIood taken at SuIIivan's IsIand.
That's impossibIe.
Yes, he's gotta be 50 years oId.
I mean, that guy wouId have to be 80.