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RUDD:
Dr. Orson Rudd, lead scientist,

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Ice Shelf Depletion
Investigation

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and Antarctic New Species
Project.

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NyBy Science Station,
month four of six.

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23rd day. 1725 hours.

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(wind whistling)

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Preliminary results of our
research here is confirming

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the thinning of marginal ice

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is allowing increases
of sunlight to penetrate

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subsurface ocean levels.

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This creates an increase

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of shallow water sea life
population which causes

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migration of deep-sea predators
in search of food.

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Most have never
been seen by humans.

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Until this crew.

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What I'm doing here...

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...is gonna save
a million lives.

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(music playing over TV)

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ROD SERLING (over TV):
The day is April 2nd.

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17 miles
off the southwest coast

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-of Papua New Guinea...
-(buzzing)

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Where the hell is it?

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SERLING:
But the launch

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of the ship's scientific
submersible Cthulhu

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is delayed by the appearance
of a school of 50 squid.

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This is the first time the crew
have encountered squid

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since departing from the
coastal waters of Australia.

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More and more,
the explorers become accustomed

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to the unexpected developments
of oceanic life.

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(water bubbling)

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(speaking in Mandarin)

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AUTOMATED VOICE:
Have they found
any new species today?

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We don't know yet.

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Skua and Colvin aren't
back from their dive.

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(automated Mandarin
over headphones)

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SERLING:
Seizing the opportunity
to explore

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this swarm of mollusks,
the crew prepare for a dive.

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Divers enter the...

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Do you know when Kasper
and Doug due back?

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...swim amongst a form
of alien life.

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The explorers are frail
strangers to this domain.

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Soon the presence of the dives

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calls the attention
of prowling sharks.

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(wind whistling)

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(muffled shouting)

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ROTIFER:
Kasper!

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Unaware of the predators'
dangerous presence,

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the unpredictable occurs.

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A ten-foot blue shark moves
directly toward the diver.

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(muffled screaming)

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(both grunting)

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...from the environment
which took our ancestors

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billions of years to explore..

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(yells)

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(Skua screaming)

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As the divers ascend
through the darkness

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to their first
decompression level,

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they are intuitively aware
of the murky presence

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of death.

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(water sloshes)

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(soft, wet slapping)

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♪ ♪

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(creaking)

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(thudding)

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NARRATOR:
At the bottom of the world,

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a group of scientists
is about to encounter

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an entity of vast intelligence.

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What they are about to learn
will go further and deeper

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than anything
they hoped to learn.

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Beyond science, beyond fear,

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beyond humanity...

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in The Twilight Zone.

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(The Twilight Zone theme
playing)

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NARRATOR: You're traveling
through another dimension,

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a dimension not only of
sight and sound but of mind.

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It is the middle ground
between light and shadow,

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between science
and superstition.

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And it lies between
the pit of one's fears

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and the summit
of one's knowledge.

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You are now traveling through
a dimension of imagination.

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You've just crossed over
into The Twilight Zone.

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(wind whistling)

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RUDD (over radio):
Everyone to the diving hut now!

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(TV playing indistinctly)

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-FISCH: What the hell happened?
-CARP: Where is Amy?

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RUDD:
I don't know. S-She's gone.

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Her suit's over there.

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Kasper? Douglas?

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RUDD:
There's no sign of them.

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Should've both been up
ten minutes ago.

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Janik, no. You're the only
trained diver we have left.

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You can't go down there alone.

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FISCH: Somebody's got to go down
there and find them.

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RUDD:
And you're high.

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That thing's tether's
only good for 150 meters.

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Skua and Colvin were diving to
the ice wall, 450 meters away.

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RUDD:
You can't go in the water

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until we know
what happened to them.

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How will we find out
what happened to them

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without going in the water?

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(thudding, sloshing)

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That octopus.
It's, like, 40 kilos.

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You don't think...?

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WEREWOLF LARRY:
You know what?

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Let's tip over this cooler over
and dump it back in the ocean.

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(speaking Mandarin)

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AUTOMATED VOICE:
Don't harm it.

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-Take it to the lab.
-She's right.

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Help her take it
back to the lab.

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Fuck the octopus.

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It-it could be
the only one of its kind.

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Who cares?

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We're wasting time.
Let's go find them.

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RUDD: Janik, we don't know
what we're dealing with.

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It's insane to go
back down there alone.

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Even with double tanks
and seven-millimeter dry gloves,

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at that depth and temperature,
they got an hour

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before their hands and feet
become numb and useless.

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They've been down there
that long already.

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(device pinging)

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Visibility's bad.

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15 meters.

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(speaking Mandarin)

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-Help me get this specimen
to the lab.
-Help her take it to the lab.

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-(grumbles)
-RUDD: Janik.

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Channing and I will support you
from the surface.

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(device pinging)

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RUDD:
Channing, as soon as we can,

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we need to examine
that octopus.

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-CARP: I agree.
-It's strange.

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Even though Ling
is just an observer

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from the Chinese
Antarctic Administration,

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did you see how protective
she got of the octopus?

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Maybe because she actually cares
about the work?

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Hmm.

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Maybe.
I think she knows about us.

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I hate it down here.
What we're doing.

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Channing, you can't say
anything to anyone.

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I'm not gonna say
anything to anyone.

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What the fuck was that?

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RUDD:
What? What is it?

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-Jesus.
-(exhales)

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(both grunting)

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(gasps)

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(grunting, straining)

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(both panting)

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FISCH:
Both shoulders dislocated.

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(speaking indistinctly)

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Lungs filled with water.

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His respirator
was ripped off of him.

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He was deep below
sunlight levels.

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I only found him
because I saw his headlamp.

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And, yeah,
he was caught just, um,

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bobbing against
the base of the ice shelf.

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I saw no evidence of Doug.
No light, nothing.

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(exhales) If Amy fell
in the water without a suit on,

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she would have died
within ten minutes.

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RUDD:
What the hell
could have done that?

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(distant whale song, groaning)

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Those seals and whales
down there?

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They know what happened.

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They know that's what
killed them.

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WEREWOLF LARRY:
That's right. That's right.

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How'd that thing get back
in the cooler

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after it killed
Amy, Doug and Kasp?

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Do you know how?

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'Cause it's that fucking smart.

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These things have been around
for millions of years.

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(speaking indistinctly)

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They don't got bones or a skull.

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-There's nothing like them.
-RUDD: Look,

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once the satellite's in range,
we can contact McMurdo,

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send an emergency response team.

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They'll pick up the body,
help us with any search.

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TDR satellite will be
at 8.7 degrees.

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(speaking Mandarin)

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AUTOMATED VOICE:
This is not
Megaleledone setebos.

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CARP:
Okay. Go ahead.

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(Hai speaking indistinctly)

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(speaking Mandarin)

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AUTOMATED VOICE:
This is another new species.

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(Hai speaking Mandarin)

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AUTOMATED VOICE:
The radula is not chitinous.

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(Hai speaking Mandarin)

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It is made
of a harder substance.

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This is why we came down here.

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To save a species
affected by our behavior.

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Living in this water and dept,

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it likely has never
encountered a human.

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We are the first.

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FISCH:
I don't care
if it's that thing's

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first encounter with anyone.

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It'll be his fucking only.

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-RUDD: Look out!
-(gasping)

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WEREWOLF LARRY:
What the fuck?

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Yo. Don't tell me it didn't know
what was going on.

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Let's, uh...

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(sighs) ...secure Kasper
in the diving hut.

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Turn the heater off.

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He'll remain preserved
until USAP

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can reach us in...
probably three days.

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Larry.

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Can you fix the lights
and keep an eye on him?

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I like animals, okay?

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Even the ones I eat,
I'm cool with, yeah?

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But I do not want to be in
a room with that motherfucker!

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RUDD:
I hear you, Larry. I do.

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(speaking Mandarin)

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AUTOMATED VOICE:
700 million years ago...

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...humans and octopuses were
both an underwater flatworm...

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...but evolution
took them their way.

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We know that it did.
They don't.

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Human minds own this world.

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They can feel human...

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but they are not.

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Just stay away
from its beak and tentacles

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and it can't do a thing to you.

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Channing? Can you, uh,

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print out those USAP emergency
response forms off that e-mail?

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RUDD (whispering):
Channing, this is the octopus
we've been looking for.

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Dr. Hai was right.

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The radula is not chitinous.

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The chromatophores
are reflective.

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This is the new species

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(over phone):
Troxell sent us here to find.

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The chemicals we can extract
from it will revolutionize

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pain management, anesthesia,
you name it.

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Once the satellite is up,

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let's send a message

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that we have secured
the specimen.

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(speaking indistinctly)

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(keyboard clicking)

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(keyboard clicking)

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CARP (over phone):
Orson, I did not sign up
for this.

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RUDD:
You're not thinking
about the big picture.

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Let's just put
this goddamn thing

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back in the water and walk away.

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No.

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(upbeat music playing)

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(thudding)

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(muffled music playing)

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What if we just let Janik
or Larry kill it?

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You know, we could say,
"What could we do?"

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(automated voice
speaking Mandarin)

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(whales singing, groaning)

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(upbeat music continues playing)

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♪ ♪

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♪ ♪

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♪ ♪

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♪ ♪

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(whales singing, groaning)

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Satellite's up
in a few minutes.

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It's time to go to work.

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(upbeat music playing)

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Hey, Larry, you don't see this?

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The pipe's busted.

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Larry.

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♪ ♪

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(Fisch gasping)

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(groaning)

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(straining)

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♪ ♪

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RUDD (over phone):
As soon as the satellite's
over the horizon

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and the Internet's live,
I'll contact McMurdo Station

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to send a rescue party.

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Then you alert Troxell.

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(beeps, chimes)

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Shit.

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I need that two-step
verification code,

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and the app is on my phone.

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CARP:
Have you seen my phone?

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RUDD:
You had it in the lab.

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(exhales)

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Hey, have you seen my phone?

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CARP:
Larry?

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(gasps)

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(squishes)

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(panting)

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RUDD:
Channing, w-what's wrong?

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CARP:
Janik. Larry...

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-Shit.
-(speaking Mandarin)

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AUTOMATED VOICE:
Oh, my God.

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♪ ♪

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(nearby clattering)

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RUDD:
They're all gone.

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Do you see anything?

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In the tanks or on the floor?

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CARP:
If we see one?

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We kill it.

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00:24:25,088 --> 00:24:27,088
No!
(speaking Mandarin)

291
00:24:27,174 --> 00:24:29,014
Five are dead.
Why wouldn't we kill it?

292
00:24:29,092 --> 00:24:31,552
I heard my phone in her room.

293
00:24:31,636 --> 00:24:33,806
She overheard everything
we were saying.

294
00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:37,519
She knows we're not really here
studying the ice.

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(speaking Mandarin)

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AUTOMATED VOICE:
We knew of Troxell's interest

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in this species of octopus

298
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three months before
you even arrived here.

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(gasps)

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It has my phone.

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(creaking)

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00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:05,920
Orson, the projector, the laptop

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00:25:06,004 --> 00:25:07,884
are both controlled by my phone.

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00:25:07,964 --> 00:25:10,094
It's tapping into
Ling's computer.

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00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:13,085
-RUDD: The octopus?
-It figured it out.

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00:25:13,178 --> 00:25:16,138
-It's broken into her research.
-RUDD: What is this?

307
00:25:16,223 --> 00:25:19,023
What do you need
all this data for?

308
00:25:21,937 --> 00:25:25,607
An animal,
three hours out of the ocean,

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is running
my fucking cell phone?

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Tell us what you know.

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Chinese military?

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00:25:34,866 --> 00:25:37,446
So, it also wants to know.

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00:25:37,535 --> 00:25:39,865
What you're really doing here
is, let's see...

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00:25:43,041 --> 00:25:44,751
You're investigating
the physical mechanisms

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of this octopus?

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00:25:46,753 --> 00:25:50,133
Artificial skin? Soft robots?

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00:25:50,215 --> 00:25:52,125
Invisibility cloaking?

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(speaking Mandarin)

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AUTOMATED VOICE:
You always think so small.

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We will use this animal

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to change
what a human being can be.

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What we're after
is no different than you.

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00:26:06,564 --> 00:26:09,574
We're trying to develop it
to save lives, not take them.

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00:26:10,944 --> 00:26:12,654
AUTOMATED VOICE:
This octopus is unique.

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We've both been
searching for it.

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00:26:17,242 --> 00:26:19,702
You want to exploit
the neurological properties

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of this octopus species?

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00:26:23,581 --> 00:26:26,171
-Gene edit into a human egg...
-(gasps)

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00:26:26,251 --> 00:26:27,671
...giving human beings
the best traits

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of vertebrates and cephalopods.

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00:26:29,296 --> 00:26:33,256
So, if you bioengineer
this gene...

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...you would create
a new species of human.

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00:26:38,722 --> 00:26:41,142
Our arms and skin would have
the ability to taste,

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see and react without reporting
to a centralized brain.

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00:26:44,769 --> 00:26:46,899
To camouflage
to its surroundings.

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00:26:46,980 --> 00:26:49,900
We'd be able to live
in the oceans

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00:26:49,983 --> 00:26:52,033
while controlling the land.

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00:26:53,069 --> 00:26:54,529
(metal creaking)

339
00:26:54,612 --> 00:26:56,202
Let's be honest with ourselves.

340
00:26:56,281 --> 00:26:59,201
We're both trying to take from
this animal what we don't have.

341
00:27:00,952 --> 00:27:02,162
That's what human beings do.

342
00:27:03,246 --> 00:27:05,826
It's what we've always done.

343
00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:07,535
I was wrong.

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00:27:07,625 --> 00:27:11,795
We put it back in the sea,
and we go home.

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00:27:15,008 --> 00:27:16,628
(gasps)

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00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:23,926
(muffled groaning)

347
00:27:32,150 --> 00:27:33,650
RUDD:
Come on.

348
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,740
(panting)

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00:27:40,825 --> 00:27:43,155
-RUDD: You okay?
-Yeah.

350
00:27:52,837 --> 00:27:54,757
(creaking)

351
00:28:16,027 --> 00:28:18,607
(panting)

352
00:28:18,696 --> 00:28:21,066
CARP:
What the hell is happening?

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00:28:21,157 --> 00:28:25,037
RUDD: Oh, my God.
It changed the sequence.

354
00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:35,337
It figured out that if somehow,

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00:28:35,422 --> 00:28:37,802
during this operation,
there were to occur

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00:28:37,882 --> 00:28:41,302
a mutation or sabotage
of genetic material,

357
00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:45,006
and this same gene
is manipulated for octopus DNA,

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the opposite would occur.

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00:28:47,892 --> 00:28:52,812
Sea life could rise out of the
ocean and stop life on land.

360
00:28:52,897 --> 00:28:56,817
It would do what evolution
didn't 700 million years ago:

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put an end to the human species.

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♪ ♪

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♪ ♪

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NARRATOR:
What if our role has always been
not to rule this world,

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but to prime it?

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To lay the foundation for the
true inheritors of the Earth?

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00:29:47,285 --> 00:29:51,825
The reign of humankind
has come to a close today,

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here in the dark, icy waters

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of The Twilight Zone.

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