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Doc, Doc, you won't believe what I just discovered.

Hmm, sit down.

I can't, Susan's waiting for us.

What's this all about anyway?

No time to explain. Come on Doc, you gotta see this.

I wish you'd start making your discoveries

in the daytime for a change.

You're always bugging me at all hours of the night.

Oh, come on.

Can't we do this some other time?

It's too important Doc, come on.

Doc, I was hoping you could come.

Is this gonna take long?

Just get in here, would you?

Doc, you know, this was an Indian cavern

long before it was never mined.

And now we've broken into a new tunnel

which I believe will confirm all

the legends we've ever heard about this place.

How much farther do we have to go?

We're almost there, Doc.

Well, here it is.

Here is what?

Look! Take a look.

Well, I'll be damned.

Cave drawings.

How old do you figure they are?

We think they're at least several thousand years old.

No kidding.

Couldn't this have waited until the morning?

Uh-huh, but that's not all, look at this.

I don't get it.

All I see are men fighting with some large animal.

A dinosaur?

Exactly right.

But dinosaurs were extinct before man ever appear-

That's what we've always thought.

But this is proof positive

that at least some survived all the way into the age of man.

One hell of a big ball of fire

just hit somewhere in the vicinity of the lake.

I don't know what it is,

but I think you better notify the Division of Forestry.

"10-4 Steve.

"We'll get right on it".

10-4.

What was that?

Get out. Get out!

Station 8, Unit 4 calling.

"Go ahead Unit 4".

Sorry to wake you up, Jesse,

but I was getting concerned about that requisition I sent you

about a month ago.

"Sorry about that, Steve.

"But you're not exactly just around the corner, old buddy.

"Copper's in dry dock right now with a bad case of the hiccups.

"We'll get her back on the line

"and get it up to you by next week, OK?"

10-4 Jess.

Not that you guys ever need me for anything,

but I'm gonna be 10-7

at the Pine Grove Cafe for a while.

"10-4, catch you later".

Morning Dora.

Hey, Steve. Fill that up for me, will you?

Give me a cup too.

Hey, Steve.

Hi, Doc.

Come on over.

What do you say, boys?

Sheriff.

- How you doing? - Pretty good.

See you had your breakfast? Uh-huh.

First time I've seen you out of uniform in weeks.

D'you finally take a day off?

Nah, no such luck.

I promised Dan and Susan I'd take them out on my boat.

They're gonna dive down and try to locate that meteor.

- Doc? - Yeah, please.

Say when.

That's good, that's good, thanks.

Seems like a lot of trouble for hunk of rock.

To a palaeontologist, it's better than finding a pot gold

at the end of a rainbow.

Well, personally, I wish it had picked some place else to come down.

Just be glad it landed where it did.

If it had come down in the woods,

we'd have had one hell of a forest fire around here.

Oh, that's true.

Did you actually see it?

Oh, did I?

I was over on east rim of the lake.

For a minute I thought a 747 had crashed.

Gotta run, Doc.

Hey, why don't you come with me? Ah no.

Come on, you never do anything anyway.

OK.

Pay for the coffee? As usual.

- Here you go, Steve. - Thank you.

Bye-bye darling.

Bye-bye, Doc.

Hi, Steve.

Morning, Susan.

Hi, Dan. Let me take this.

I got it.

There we go, Dan.

Atta boy.

You got it? Yeah.

Dan, you think there's anything left of that rock?

Come on, Steve.

This meteor is important to them, Steve.

I'm worried about the cave.

The university could withdraw its support.

Do you really think they'd close us down,

with such an important discovery at stake?

Well not if they realise what a field-day for science this has been.

Two rare finds in 24 hours.

That should satisfy the foundation for months.

I'm just glad nobody got hurt last night, that's all.

Come on, let's go, huh?

Doc, throw me that bowline would you please?

Yeah.

We can work our way to it from here.

Doc, can you give me a hand?

Yeah.

Doc tells me it's a pretty unusual occurrence?

Usually, meteors break up in the earth's atmosphere,

with very few fragments surviving,

if anything at all.

What do you estimate the depth here?

Between 40 and 60 feet.

We should be down about 15 minutes.

OK.

Good, you oughta see my freezer,

place looks like a fish market.

You'll have to come over some night.

Bass, trout, name your poison.

Speaking of poison, Dan looks like he swallowed some.

Yeah, he's still pretty upset about last night.

See, he uncovered some old cave drawings

and I'm afraid this meteor robbed him of his discovery.

But he still has to try to get back into the cave.

It's too damned important not to.

Why doesn't he just give up?

Dedication.

Almost every museum in the country has one of his artefacts.

I know he may seem a bit zealous,

but he has reason to be.

Well, I still can't figure what Susan sees in him.

Apparently a great deal.

Their work is important

and if they can get back into that cave

and salvage what I saw last night,

the scientific community is gonna have a lot of theories to change.

How so?

Well, Steve, I think Dan would rather enjoy

telling you about that himself.

There they are.

It's right below us,

about 50 feet down and still hotter than hell.

Water must be 90 degrees all over this area.

Nearly roasted in these wetsuits.

What now?

All we can do is let it cool off.

Could be weeks before we can get it out of the lake.

Sheriff's office, Hanson.

You saw what?

Where did you see it?

In the lake?

Mh-hm.

Well, I'm sure there's some logical explanation.

Why don't you leave me your name and a number where I can reach you

and I'll look into it and I'll get back to you.

Yeah, I've got it, yes, yep, right.

Thank you for calling, goodbye.

Next it'll be little green men.

Sheriff's Office, Hanson.

Mr Ferguson, how are you, sir?

What?

How many head?

I'll be right over.

Yes, sir. Goodbye.

This is where I kept it.

You can take a look around,

but I don't know what you're gonna find.

I've looked everywhere,

that bull just ain't anywhere on this ranch.

Say you were in town when it happened?

Well, it had to have happened then, Steve.

I'd have heard him if it happened while I was here.

I mean that bull would've put up a hell of a fuss

if anybody tried to get him outta here.

Is that all that's missing, is the bull?

Is that all?

Do you have any idea what I paid for that bull?

You figure maybe it could be rustlers?

Well, it could be.

I'll put a call into Crescent City

and have them keep an eye on the road leading down off the mountain.

As you and the cattlemen's association know, Mr Ferguson,

rustling is still a problem in some parts of the country,

but I can't figure why anybody'd

come all the way up here just to steal your bull.

Well, I hope you can help me out.

Say, are these boats still for rent?

That's what the sign says, don't it?

How much?

Well, let me see now.

Be 15 for the boat, another 5 for a motor if you don't wanna row.

Arnie, we don't have any motors,

they're all busted.

Hmm.

20 bucks for the boat, in advance.

20 bucks? What are you trying to pull?

Mister, you can take it or leave it.

But as you can see, our competition ain't doing much business today.

I'll take it.

Thank you, thank you.

Hey Mitch, shake a leg, we just rented us a boat.

Yeah, this little baby right here is all set to go.

She's the pick of the litter, Mister.

Many big stripers have been caught in this little baby.

Yeah, one too many if you ask me,

but I don't seem to have too much choice.

That's about the size of it.

Kind of touchy ain't he?

Ah you know them city fellers,

everything gotta be just so-so.

Probably one of those executive types,

likes to boss folks around.

Hey Arnie, how come you didn't tell that fella

there ain't been a fish caught outta here

in the past two months?

Now look, stupid.

That dude's got more money than he's got pockets to put it in,

I can spot them a mile off.

And I know a couple of fellas is gonna go broke

unless they start renting some boats.

He don't know the fishing ain't been worth a damn.

He'll just figure it's a bad day if we don't say nothing.

You starting to get the picture, dummy?

Well, I don't like it, Arnie.

Just don't seem right to me.

Well, you just keep them boats in repair and let me do the thinking.

Hey, don't forget to have my boat back by six o'clock.

Our boat!

Hey, Mitch, tie me up.

Listen, if you don't get them motors fixed

you and me is going round and round.

My arms are about ready to fall off.

You see this oar?

You're lucky I'm too pooped out to beat you over the head with it.

Hey Arnie?

That fella sure has been gone a long time.

Ah, he's so damn bull-headed he'll probably stay out til dark.

Besides, if he don't get in by six

it'll cost him an extra five bucks.

Should have charged him double anyhow.

What the hell time is it?

She's right on 5:30 now.

30 more minutes and there's extra beer for us tonight.

Hey, get to work.

Do I have to do everything around here?

Oh hell, when do you ever do anything?

I'm tired, I'll fix the motors tomorrow.

Hey, Arnie look.

Well, that's that boat we rented to that fella this morning.

Only, it don't look like he's in it.

Oh, what the hell's happened?

I don't know.

I got a feeling we better hightail it up to Doc's place.

I think we're gonna be needing him if it ain't too late already.

I think I'm gonna be sick.

Hi, Doc, got here as soon as I could. What's going on?

Well, they've apparently lost a fisherman out on the lake.

Yeah?

Look at this.

Seems like an awful lot for just falling overboard, doesn't it?

Sure does.

What's Arnie and Mitch have to say about this?

Well, he said he spotted the boat just drifting.

Went out to bring it in and... this.

Yeah Doc, can you figure it?

Is this exactly the way you found it?

No sign of the man anywhere?

That's the truth, Sheriff.

She just come drifting in like a homing pigeon.

Wind was coming from the east this afternoon

so it ain't no mystery about that,

there she sits just like we found her.

You didn't see her hear anything?

Sheriff this is one big lake,

he could have gone over the side miles from here.

Well, we better start searching the lake.

I'll go get my boat. I'll pick you guys up here in a few, all right?

What do you figure happened to the fella, Sheriff?

I wish I knew.

Well, there's one possible answer.

A scalp wound can bleed quite badly.

He could have fallen over the side,

hit his head and bled enough while trying to get back in.

I'm sure of one thing though.

What's that, Doc?

Our chances of finding him alive are...

Not very good.

Hey, we stayed up half the night looking for the guy.

It's a big lake, Jesse.

We'll keep looking.

Sooner or later, he'll float up.

All right.

Talk to you later.

Goodbye.

We'll make it in about three hours to Vegas.

Great.

Something wrong?

No, I... I'm just tired.

Is that so?

Come on my love, out with it, what's wrong?

I was thinking about our gig in Las Vegas.

I hope you're not going to repeat the performance in Los Angeles.

Oh that.

Yes, that.

Coming on stage drunk.

Ross, that's just not...

Professional or healthy, I know, I know.

I said I'd dry out and I meant it.

I might be a bit moist for a while,

but I'll do better.

As a matter of fact, I've been doing some work on our act.

Not the sword box.

I won't do that when you're still drinking.

Yeah, what's this?

Don't quit on me now.

Come on.

You know, if this were English

this wouldn't have happened.

Come on now.

It's not a big problem.

There must be a service station nearby.

Arnie?

You're one mighty fine sign painter.

But you know something?

You sure can't spell worth a damn.

I mean, look at that.

Everybody knows bait is spelled B-A-T-E.

Hmm, suppose anybody will notice?

Nah. Nah.

Looks to me like your thermostat's gone out.

And you overheated your engine.

I probably can't get to it for a couple of hours.

Oh no.

Is there some place we can stay while we're waiting?

There's not much going on in a place like this.

There's a cafe up at Summers Grove.

Of course, there's no way getting up there.

My wife's got the truck.

It's too damn far to walk.

Why don't you walk down to the lake

and rent yourself a boat?

The lake's mighty pretty on a moonlit night.

Thanks, that sounds like a good idea.

Come on darling, you heard what the man said.

Thank you.

Mitch, tonight's the night.

I can feel it.

I'm gonna ask Dora to dance.

Oh yeah.

She sure is pretty, Arnie.

Prettiest woman I ever saw.

I see you got your dancing shoes on.

I wouldn't miss this hoedown for nothing.

You get that motor fixed?

Oh yeah I fixed it, Arnie.

Except...

Except I can't figure out where this thing goes.

She still run?

Oh yeah.

Nah don't worry about it.

Let's go to the dance.

All ready? Ready.

It works, Arnie.

I hear you.

All right.

Let's just go back to the car.

I'm all right.

There!

All I got to say is the next time you take a motor apart,

you better know what you're doing.

It's not my fault you threw the dumb piece in the water.

You said it wasn't any good.

Well, it started without it.

Couldn't help if you can't start the motor.

It just better run when I take Dora out tonight.

Hello, I'd like to rent a boat for an hour or so,

take my wife for a cruise.

Well, I don't know.

I'll give you 25 dollars.

Arnie, I don't think it's...

25 dollars?

Mister, you just rented yourself a boat.

What about Dora?

Good.

You know how to run it?

Of course I do.

Good. Good.

Arnie, my shoes hurt.

Of all the dumb things to do.

Dumb, dumb!

Them people are probably long gone by now,

got themselves a free boat ride into the park.

You know, you know, if you don't shut your yap,

I'm gonna bust you right in the chops.

Always yapping at me like some ugly little dog.

Agh!

So that's the way you wanna play?

Fine, you big wind bag.

I've just been aching to take the hot air outta you.

You're always so smart, aren't you?

Think you know it all?

You're always making fun of me,

but you ain't got the brains of a clam.

What?

Why, you little shrimp.

I'm gonna bust you wide open.

Clam, eh?

OK, OK.

Let's just talk this over.

Let's talk this over.

Oh my God.

Arnie, what the hell's the matter with you?

Look.

Oh Lord.

It's that, it's that fella we rented the boat to this morning.

Or what's left of him.

Now look, I want you two to go back to your cabin and stay there.

And don't go out on the lake, do you understand?

I'm gonna take this over to Doc

and I want you two where I know where you're at.

You understand?

Sure. And get the hell outta that water.

Sure.

Now mind your boat and don't rent any boats till you hear from me.

Uh-oh.

Uh-oh is right.

What about them two out in the lake?

We got big trouble.

We better go get the other skiff and go get them.

Damn it, Arnie, didn't you hear what the sheriff just said,

don't go out on the lake.

You trying to get us in trouble again?

I heard him, I heard him,

but you want to try to explain it to Steve?

He comes back before they do,

he'll throw us so far back in the jug

they'll have to shoot our breakfast to us with a cannon.

Now come on.

You know, Paula, this is quite a change.

Moonlight on a gorgeous lake.

No manufactured illusions here.

It's beautiful.

So peaceful.

Look at all the stars.

I've never seen so many.

They're beautiful.

What is that?

I don't know, just a bird, or fish, or something.

What was that?

Damned if I know, I intend to find out.

What?

What happened? Where...?

Oh, Ross, thank God.

Are you all right?

You've been out for the longest time

and I didn't dare move.

There is something.

I couldn't see it, but there's a sound.

Oh, Ross, I've been so frightened.

All right, darling.

Try to stay calm.

At least we're safe, for the moment.

Ross!

Look!

Get out, quick!

# I'm leaving on a railroad train

# Gonna take all that I own

# I love you, but your mind won't change

# Yes, I'll make it on my own

# You had your chance and now I'm gone

# Don't turn your head around

# I want to stay #

Here's your receipt.

Thank you. Have a nice evening.

Yeah, you too, good night.

Will that be all?

4.75, tax for the gov.

Oh hey, come on now.

Third time this month.

Can't your guys get a nice fat bank?

Well, what's the answer?

What happened to him?

It's gonna sound crazy,

but those wounds were made by some sort of teeth.

Teeth?

You saying a bear or a mountain lion got him?

That's the crazy part about it.

There are no animals that fit this pattern.

I've never seen anything like it before.

You sure he didn't just wash up

and then somehow a bear got to him?

I'm positive.

Whatever it was, was in the lake.

In the lake?

That's right.

I took a sample of fluid from one of the wounds,

swarming with a type of bacteria that I've never seen before.

Well, you're the doctor, what's it add up to?

I don't know.

You know, Doc, first it was Ferguson's cattle and now this.

What's going on in that lake?

I wish I knew.

I suggest, until we know exactly what we're up against,

you notify everyone around here to stay off the lake.

How long ago was it that, that meteor came down?

About six months ago.

Why, you think there could be a connection?

It's possible, everything seemed to have started around that time.

Fishing's been bad, the animals, birds,

we haven't seen any around the lake for weeks now.

Whatever's in that lake, Steve, has been eating the fish.

The wildlife, they sense something is wrong.

That has to be it.

I don't know.

I'm sure it has something to do with that meteor.

Steve,

I think for the present,

we should keep this to ourselves.

All right, but you know, Doc, that's putting my neck out a country mile.

I'll start notifying everyone around the lake

and I hope you're wrong.

I hope so too.

Damn,

those idiots burned up my boat.

Just after we got it in condition.

Mister, you're going to pay through the nose for this.

Hey, ease off on him.

I think they might be hurt.

What happened? You people all right?

Arnie, bring me that jug.

Don't drink it all.

What's going on?

You folks all right?

Arnie we better get back.

Mister, what happened?

Hey, hey, come on. No!

Come on, let's go.

It's gonna be all right. It's all right.

I can hardly wait to hear your explanation of this one.

Honest Sheriff, we don't know what happened.

They was like that when we found them huh, Mitch?

Yeah, that's the truth, Steve. They was out of it,

couldn't even give us a hint. Mhmm.

Whose boat were they in?

It was my boat. Our boat.

Did they steal it?

Well, no but...

Then you must have rented it to them.

Yeah, but...

Evidently there was a total lack of communication between us

the last time we spoke a boat...

Mitch, look at me when I talk to you.

So I'm gonna say it to you one more time

and I'm gonna say it very carefully so you both understand me.

Don't rent any boats, don't go out on the lake,

don't go out on the dock.

If I catch you within 10...

Arnie, if I catch you within 10 feet of the shore,

I'm gonna send you off this mountain in handcuffs.

Now, do you understand that?

Sure, Steve.

What do you figure's happened, anyhow?

If I knew what was going on

I wouldn't be arguing with a couple of idiots,

I'd be out on that lake taking care of it.

Well, I ain't never seen him so steamed.

We better cool it a while.

Told you not to rent the boats out.

No, you always know better, don't you?

Dummy!

Oh!

Arnie is that all you ever think about, the next drink?

Nope.

Sometimes I think about the one after the next.

Look, we're up to our eyeballs in debt

and all you can ever think about is beer and wine.

Arnie, we gotta do something

or we're gonna lose the boat business.

Hell, we ain't made enough money in the past

couple of months to even pay the rent.

Now with all this stuff happening,

hell we'll be lucky if anybody ever rents a boat from us now.

Come on, this is serious.

Arnie, we gotta think of something.

I've been stuffing my shoes with newspapers

for so long my feet know more about what's going on than my head.

You heard what the man said,

he gave us an official order to shut down,

close my boat, take them out of the water.

Our boats.

"Our boats".

Anyhow, if you wanna go and change his mind,

you go right ahead.

Meanwhile, I plan to get a lot drunker.

Ah, you're hopeless.

Nope, I'm just drunk at present.

Now tomorrow I'll probably be hopeless.

Things always look hopeless when I'm sober.

So, I think I'll just stay drunk.

All right, now you get the idea.

Come on, you need a walk.

Now don't this beat worrying about the boat business?

Yeah.

Can I have another sip?

Sure.

Hey, Arnie?

You know where we're at?

Sure.

In the woods.

I sure hope we can get home.

Oh, don't worry about it.

I know where we're at.

Home's that way.

No, wait a minute.

Oh, just follow me.

You sure we're going in the right direction?

I got it.

More drink?

Hey, Arnie?

What do you suppose has been happening to all those people?

I don't wanna think about it.

What if something happens to us?

You just cut that out.

Hey, Arnie?

I think I'm scared.

What the hell do you mean you think you're scared?

Well, what if there's something around the lake that eats people?

Like what?

Well, like some kind of monster.

Monster?

"12TL55 ON A FOLLOW UP.

"6013..."

Hold it.

Hello, Doc, it's Steve.

Listen, I had the damnedest experience this afternoon.

Some punk tried to turn me into a hood ornament.

I haven't the slightest idea why.

But that isn't the strange part.

I ran him down to the lake

and we exchanged some fire

and I hit him and knocked him into the water.

When I got over to where he went in

there was no trace of him.

Just a very large pool of blood.

That's right.

You know, Doc, I'm about ready to believe

there's something in what you've been telling me.

I wanna cover that lake with a fine-tooth comb

and I wanna do it now.

I know it's almost dark,

but I need some answers and I need them quick.

Thanks, Doc.

I'll be over as soon as I can.

Right. Goodbye.

Come on, come on.

Doc, I saw it. You won't believe it.

I've never seen anything like it in all my life.

It's like a huge alligator, but it's got flippers instead of feet.

Where was it? Down on east rim,

near where we found Fuller's head.

Christ, I'm shaking like a leaf.

Take it easy...

Take it easy? The thing almost ate me.

Doc, get in the car.

I need a witness and you're it.

OK.

Right here, Doc, big as a house.

Look at this.

Holy cow.

Whatever it was, it's apparently gone back into the lake.

You think you might have hit it?

Doc, I was in such a hurry to get away I can't be certain of that.

Steve, we're up against something here

that goes against every natural law.

You carry a camera in your car, don't you?

Sure do.

You better get it.

Take some pictures of this.

OK.

You'll be all right? Yeah, thanks.

OK, I'll be right back.

Wow, would you look at this.

Yeah, but what is it?

I mean, who's gonna believe me when I can hardly believe it myself?

Dan might.

And he would know what made this impression.

Well, we better find out quick 'cause I tell you, Doc,

it made a hell of a big impression on me.

Well, what do you make of it, Dan?

You guys putting me on?

You gotta be kidding.

Well, this is some kind of joke, isn't it?

I only wish it were.

That impression is real,

and whatever made it is very much alive.

Alive?

You're saying the thing that made this impression is alive?

Well, if it wasn't then I pumped five rounds

in the most solid mirage I've ever seen.

Tell me exactly what you did see.

I was down by the lake and I heard some noise

so I stopped the car to get out and take a look around.

I walked down by the water and

this thing comes charging outta the lake at me.

Had a long neck...

Damn it, Dan, teeth and eyes is mostly what I saw.

Easy, Stevie.

And feet, but...

it had flippers.

They were like feet, but not quite feet.

It was sort of dragging itself across the ground, like a seal,

But it looked more like a lizard.

Just how big would you say it was?

Dan, I really didn't take time to measure it.

It was 50, 60 feet long.

Anyway, I emptied my revolver into it,

but it didn't have any effect that I could see,

it just kept coming at me,

and, Dan, I've never been so afraid in all my life.

If I hadn't made it back to my car when I did

I sure as hell wouldn't be here now.

It's incredible.

But what you've described to me sounds like an aquatic dinosaur.

Dinosaur?

Oh come on, would one of you mind telling me

just what the hell we're up against?

It looks like we're up against a living dinosaur.

I found fossil remains of this type of creature

right here around the lake.

Doc, this is fantastic.

Do you know what this means?

Those cave drawings could be a true accounting

of the existence of this type of creature

during the time of early man.

But your creature would've had to come from a fertile egg.

Dan, I don't know what the connection is,

but I think it has something to do with that meteorite

that fell in the lake several months ago.

That's what almost had me for dinner.

Steve, this is so incredible.

But you know, down in the near-freezing mud of the lake,

there could have been a fertile egg.

The meteorite crashed into the lake,

warming the mud and water, creating a natural incubator.

Dan, I think it's possible.

A living plesiosaurus hatched from a dormant egg

by some incredible freak accident.

Well, whatever it is, it's a menace.

Now how are we gonna kill it?

Hey, wait a minute. Why do you have to kill it?

Dan, the county coroner's asking

some very tetchy questions about Fuller.

Did you know the guy was a U.S Senator?

They dunno what the hell he was doing up here.

The next thing I'll have is the FBI knocking on my door.

I got missing cattle, missing persons,

my phone's been ringing off the hook.

I've been quiet about this thing too long.

I'm gonna call in some outside help.

Now hold on, Steve.

Let's think about this before we go off half-cocked.

Now, I believe we should keep a lid on it.

Do you realise how many people we'd have up here once the word got out?

Why, everybody in the state would be here

and then you'd really have a problem on your hands.

He's right, Steve, we can't risk it.

Well, what are we gonna do, Doc, walk up and ask it to hold still

while we put a leash on it?

Listen, we can clear the lake.

This creature can't harm anyone

if they stay a reasonable distance from the water.

That'll give us a chance to figure out a way to capture it.

Capture it?

Are you out of your mind?

You want to try and take this thing alive?

Steve,

this is a living creature from the pre-historic past.

Do you realise the impact this would have on the scientific community?

I don't give a damn about the scientific community.

Well I do, and you can't just kill it!

It's too important a find.

I don't believe I'm hearing this.

We've got a monster on our hands,

eating everything and everyone in sight

and you wanna try and take it alive.

Look, Steve,

I know you're thinking about the safety of the people.

You bet I am.

And rightly so, but Dan's right too.

We can ensure the safety of everyone

and still keep alive a great scientific discovery.

And just how do you plan on pulling that little trick off?

Well?

Susan?

I don't know.

We'll just have to figure out a way to contain it.

Oh, that's terrific.

I'll tell you what, I got a nice big fish bowl over at my place,

you're more than welcome to use that.

A fishbowl container, what about bass bay?

It's a natural container,

high walls all around with just one narrow entrance

leading in and out.

Now the creature has probably eaten all the available food in the lake.

Well, I can name you a couple things it's already added to its menu.

If we could just capture it inside.

We could lure it in there with a couple of dead steers

and then dynamite the entrance once it's in.

You know, it might work.

Steve, it's worth a try.

Doc, just whose side are you on?

All right.

I'll give you 24 hours.

Then I am gonna call in some outside help

because my first responsibility is to save human lives,

not sea serpents.

We'll get everybody together in the cafe,

and Dan, you better hope I can keep a lid on it.

Folks, please, please listen to me for a minute.

Now I know what you've heard so far today

is rather difficult to believe.

I wouldn't believe it myself

if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes,

but Doc and Dan have got a plan

to try and trap this thing.

Trap it?

You're gonna let this thing set up housekeeping in the lake?

I say, kill it.

Get rid of it right now,

that's what we should do now, you hear?

Oh God.

But if you try to kill it

more lives are going to be lost in the process.

Give Dan and I a chance.

Now look.

Let's hear what he has to say.

This creature can only move short distances from the lake.

All you people are perfectly safe.

Now just a minute.

You folks are talking about killing the goose

that laid the golden egg.

Now I may be wrong,

but I ain't never heard of anybody what's got a for sure dinosaur

in their own private swimming hole.

Just think of all them dollars folks would pay to see it.

I say let the sheriff and Dan try to catch it.

Arnie's right.

This thing's already ruined our fishing business.

It's only fair it help put some money back in our pockets.

Sheriff! Sheriff!

Step aside, please.

Come on, let me through, please.

Let me through, please.

There, you all right?

Nancy, my bag's in the car, get it for me, hurry.

Sure, doctor.

What happened?

Sheriff, there's some kind of monster down at the ski lift,

the likes I've never seen before.

I think we better haul our butts outta here

before our meal-ticket gets shot.

All right, come on, Dan.

Good God. Oh, Dan.

What are we gonna do?

We gotta figure out a way to kill it.

Hey, you can't do that.

Why, that thing's worth a fortune.

He's right. Steve, we can't allow it to be killed.

You're crazy.

All of you stay put.

Well, I don't know about you fellas,

but I'm going to protect my interests.

Arnie, you damn fool.

Get back here.

Mitch, for God's sakes use your head,

you go out there, you're gonna get hurt.

Steve, now you just hold on.

That there monster's a gold mine

and I ain't about to see it killed.

You idiot. Can't you see, nothing's gonna save it now?

Either get in or get outta here.

Lord almighty, what have I gotten myself in to?

I'm getting the hell outta here.

Arnie!

Arnie!

Our boats, Arnie.

Our boats.

Damn you, Arnie.