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Previously on Surface Miles is forced to send Nimrod away.

Go, Nim.

Congratulations, you have a police record.

Dad hooked you up. Got you moved into a different community work area.

Lee stops at nothing to keep the species a secret.

Turn here. Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn.

You couldn't keep a tail on two civilians in a pickup truck? Find them.

Pursued by Lee and forced underground, they build their own submersible. A man

went to the moon in a tin can.

We can do this.

Emergency lifeboat. If you have to surface quickly, you flip the switch

inside, boat inflates. They risk their lives to document the mysterious

creatures and show the world. This is Dr. Laura Daughtry and Rich Connolly

amidst a pod of the new vertebrates. But something goes very wrong.

What the hell?

Jackson, do you copy? We are falling way too fast! You gotta pull us back up! You

gotta stop us!

Now, surface continues.

Looks like they've been here a little over a week.

We just missed them.

Or do you think they wouldn't?

This is where we're supposed to be.

We're gonna die.

This is where we're supposed to be.

Hey, Skinny!

Skinny! You got a half-inch wire stripper for me? What happened to the

last pair I gave you?

You're a damn disgrace.

You're just gonna cost me an arm and a leg.

That's what I get when I hire in-laws.

she doesn't

Paul, I want to thank you for coming down.

Dr. Myers, this is Paul Bloom from the Fort Fisher Aquarium.

Myers here is our Charleston County coroner.

How can I help?

Well, we're hoping you can identify the animal that did this.

The flesh is cut clean.

Looks like a serrated edge to me.

I was thinking maybe a sand shark.

They don't come this far upriver very often.

Some kind of cat?

A bobcat or kind of a panther maybe?

It's a panther. It's the first one seen in this state in 50 years.

There's also this. What is that? Well, his skin is charred. Is it chemical

burns? No, it's electric.

Electric heel? Hey, you ladies need to stay back.

We have a rogue gator out here. I got something. I think they're tracks.

Tracks? Over here. Let's get a cast of that before the tide comes in.

I saw

that at the mall.

Thought you might want it for your collection.

Thanks. I'm sure Nim's fine.

He's probably happier out in the wild.

No shrimp.

Seas empty this season. Like something to run everything off.

What the hell is that?

Just gotta get this... reserve battery to work.

Since we have no lights, no power...

No life raft?

We would have been at the surface by now if you hadn't stopped me, Rich.

Scrubber soaked.

Wet soda lime can't absorb the CO2.

How long does that give us?

About...

90 minutes?

Less if more carbon monoxide gets in here.

It might not seem like it now, but I'm going to be okay.

Listen to me.

I'm begging you, listen to me, okay?

I need you to help me out.

You gotta snap out of this, okay?

Please snap out of it.

Rich?

Rich!

We are going to die if you don't help me now, okay?

Okay.

What do I need to do?

You need to make that battery work.

Where's my ratchet? Right here.

Okay, so the compressor is gonna inflate the life raft and then we go up I

just want

to get through for a second, you know There's something to think about let's

just do this, okay Rich we're gonna go back to the surface

Look at me

Yeah? Okay, hold on.

It's not working.

I've got to do it one more time.

It's not... Ready?

Hold on.

Hey, Miles.

Hey, don't worry about the scrubbers right now. I need you to cover for me in

Director Blum's office.

Hey.

What's up?

I'm going to run these down to the sheriff's office.

An electrician got bitten yesterday in the marsh by some critter.

Really? Yeah, really.

Killed him.

Ripped his throat out.

What do you think did it?

It's a conundrum.

Massive tissue lacerations like a shark attack, bizarre electrical burns.

Yeah.

Well, of course.

No, the victim was in the shallows.

Yeah. Well, there wasn't that much of the neck left, to be honest.

Yeah.

It's got a foot pad like a mammal, long claws, webbed feet like an otter or a

seal.

Yeah, I think I got time to make the last pickup.

You're the intern, right?

Yeah.

I want you to ship this to David Howell in the zoology department at NC State,

all right? I want him to get a look at this.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

Maybe it was self-defense.

Maybe they provoked it somehow and tried to hurt it.

You should have seen the victim's eyes. They were turned to jelly by the

electrocution.

Tomorrow morning I'm going to the fisheries. I'm going to examine the

catches.

I'm going to need you here at 7.30 tomorrow morning to help me with the

specimen containers, all right?

I think the lab post is wedged or something.

All right, yeah.

I'm going to check the radio.

Maybe by some chance, Jackson can hear us. Where is it?

Where is it?

Okay.

Jackson!

Jackson!

At the left, Jackson! Can you hear me?

Jackson! Can you hear us? Save it. Jackson!

Oh, God.

Jesse. Don't start doing that, okay?

It's going to be all right. You're going to be all right.

You're going to see Jesse again.

It's like I'm going to see Tracy and my girls and my

dog again.

I took this leap of faith. I've got us down here.

I'm telling you, George ain't going to let me down.

Me?

You don't charge a point.

I need you.

Son of a... You want some of this?

You want to live long enough for us to sell you, you better shut up.

I'm gonna put you on ice.

About an hour left.

All right. A little less.

Just give me one more second.

And I should have those lights up outside when we get a lay of the land.

Don't you hear that?

There.

Right. Do you hear that?

Listen.

Shut the lights off.

Yeah, that's all.

I think we should keep the lights off.

Me too.

Did you see anything?

Yeah.

No, I saw something else out there.

What? Gave me an idea.

Well,

I thought I saw a paint stick.

It still had a live charge on it now.

If we can somehow tilt this thing and detonate that charge, then it

may be able to free up that life raft.

Okay. It's worth a try.

Yep. That's how.

Okay.

You just... Okay.

We're wasting air.

We're wasting air.

There's a man out here.

What? There's a man out here on the ocean floor. Come here.

Do you see him?

Do you see him?

Huh? Do you see him?

Don't start freaking out.

No, no, no, no.

No, no.

Where'd he go?

Where'd he go?

So, before I shipped him, I took these.

His body was found early Saturday morning.

Authorities speculate that the animal might have been an alligator.

Those are totally Nim's feet, dude.

You don't know that.

He's got the taste of human blood and he's on a spree. Nim is not on a spree.

Your problem is you think you speak Nim. You don't speak Nim.

No one speaks Nim. Nim's a tiger.

Tigers communicate.

And what good did that do Roy, hmm?

Siegfried and Roy?

Roy raised that tiger, dude.

But sooner or later, the tiger goes up and...

while the animal kicks in.

This guy was food, dude. That was not Nim. You need the rat on the lizard.

You saw the way police deal with this kind of thing. They'll kill him.

But I gotta get to him first.

We trained Nim to come to the sound of the bell for food. So if we broadcast

the sound underwater and loop it so it repeats over and over... Dude, you can't

put my boombox on the water.

We'll waterproof it.

Check it out.

Aquaponic speakers.

Dad has them all around the pool.

And dry suit.

Neck holes do.

Hand holes.

Chip clips.

You are the gadget master.

All right. I got to go meet Dr. Bloom at the docks. Meet me back here at desk.

Take care of this.

You got it.

This is Laura Daughtry on board the Submersible Little Heat.

Our position is 4146 north.

5014 west.

We are stranded at the bottom of the ocean.

And we need immediate assistance.

Jackson probably went for help, I know.

But the only DSRV on the west coast is six hours away.

Did you say something?

Hello? Hello, do you hear me?

Can you hear me? Is there anyone out there? Please respond.

It's not English. What is it?

There you go. There you go. Come on now.

Keep it up. Keep it up. Please respond. Please respond.

Do you hear us? We're trapped at the bottom of the ocean.

We're in a submersible.

What is that? What is that?

That ain't French.

It's Japanese or something.

Do you speak English? Do you speak English?

Please. Please respond.

SOS! Mayday! Mayday! We are on the bottom of the ocean! Please! Mayday!

Mayday!

Please!

SOS!

Oh God, we have 30 minutes.

It's FBI.

San Francisco SAC.

I interfaced with Coast Guard. No a deep search. We did pick up a distress

signal, actually.

I'm sending it to you over a secure line.

Jackson!

SOS, Jackson! Is that something you're interested in?

Yes. Yes, it is.

Did you find any surface vessels in the area? Something that could launch a

submersible? A negative on the surface vessels.

We've had a lot of tough weather off the coast. Electrical storm.

I'm also looking for this man.

Jackson Holden.

All right.

I'll run a search, put the name on the wire.

Look, this distress signal, is this real?

Yes. I know the CO of the Reagan. I can get the DSRV.

No.

No rescue efforts.

And destroy that sound file.

What sort of bycatch are you looking for?

That kind of falls under the category of I'll know it when I see it.

You're welcome to take a look, but all the net's got excluders and BRDs.

Cuts the incidentals in half.

You notice anything strange about this spot?

Looks kind of scrawny.

That's right, it's starving.

You see the flattened belly profile?

And a downturned head and a reddened mouth, that means it's feeding off the

bottom.

Where'd all this food go?

We have no idea.

Six months ago, all our indicators species-wide just spiked in the wrong

direction. Hey!

Yeah?

Anything out of the ordinary comes in here.

I'd appreciate you letting me know.

You might want to talk to the sports-mission guy.

There's some crazy stories about the mackerel run.

Oh, my God! What a scare!

Big flash. It was like lightning in the water.

And the king floated up.

Dead on the line.

Lightning in the water.

Yeah. How long ago did this happen? Yesterday.

6.09 a.m.

You have a good memory.

Memory's not it.

Stop my watch cold.

Bite marks are deep.

Reminiscent again of the former.

Electrical burns, more of them.

Much more than the previous victim. This thing travels in packs.

Don't tell him.

Sheriff just called.

Said some guys down at Cape Fear caught our predator.

What? How did they catch him?

Apparently with bullets.

Got to be 15 feet long, doesn't it? Biggest gator I've ever seen, Sheriff. I

know.

It's huge.

Hey, Paul.

Watch your step.

Careful, guys.

Listen, thanks for coming down.

I'm sorry to have taken you away from your dinner.

Look at this.

You won't believe this.

Snuck right up on a couple of guys in that blind, fired both barrels each into

its head.

Let's get him to give us a hand, will you, buddy?

May I?

He's not our predator.

You sure?

I'm telling you, what we're looking for is not indigenous.

All right, Paul, then what is it?

No. I think we're looking for an alien species.

Alien Australia, alien China. Okay, then we'll sound the horn and post a reward

and get some eyes in the water. Wait a minute, you don't even know what you're

looking for. It's the last thing you need is a bunch of hotheads chumming the

water, killing everything in sight. And the last thing I need is another

somebody else getting hurt.

I'm going to charter a boat with some professional fishermen who know how to

handle these things.

Yeah, handle. That's right.

Eli!

No, no!

Now hold!

I'm on it, Captain.

How can it be so hot?

That thing.

When

Jesse

was about three, we had this talk about life and

death and...

And so I told him I didn't know

who or what God was.

I said maybe that

he was all around us in nature, in the air we

breathe. So he took off his shoe.

hands it to me and there's an ant smashed dead

on the bottom of his shoe.

And he leans into me and he says, Mommy, I smooshed God.

And I said, honey, it's okay.

People make mistakes.

And he had this guilty look on his face, you know, so guilty. And I

said, Peanut, what's the matter? What's wrong?

And he leaned into my ear and whispered,

Mommy, I ate God, too.

Hey,

hey, hey, hey.

That was close.

Get the camera.

Do you have the flashlight?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Step back from there.

Sorry, Doctor.

Sir, I wanted to give you an update on the specimen.

I tracked it to Northern California.

Who's with you?

I took a few grunts from Northern Command.

Sir, I talked to the hazmat teams.

They had a tough time killing the specimen. Eventually had to use

radiation.

Do you mind if I ask? What is it? The quicker question is, what isn't it?

Do you recognize this?

It's a griffin.

Half eagle, half lion.

Mythological hybrid.

A chimera.

An improvement.

Dude, it's time.

Move it up.

Nim!

Nim!

Nimmy!

Seriously, before we fry the box, electricity and water don't mix.

Electricity and water.

That's where you go.

Where? Come on.

Good God, Eli.

Took some doing.

I got it. I stole the damn thing overboard.

I planned to. Not before I make sure he ain't coming back up.

He'll come here. I know it. How do you know it?

Because Nim always goes for the current.

I've seen him stick his tongue in a socket before.

No way. Critter pop rocks.

Yeah. It's like he gets drunk on what Chris did.

Hey, dude. One time I stuck a straw in my nose and snorted root beer. I cried

root beer. It was awesome.

That's great, Phil.

I know he'll come.

Look. Look.

That's him.

It's Nim.

Wait a minute, man.

Faces of death, my brother.

He's a tiger.

I know.

You just have to know how to talk to tigers.

Nim.

Nimmy, come here.

It's me.

Nim.

Where'd you go?

Nim.

You're not Nim.

You're small.

Miles! Get out there, man!

Dude, get out there, man!

Watch out!

Just a sec.

Oh, my God. Are you okay?

I'm fine. What happened?

Don't tell Mom. I'm fine. Nim did that.

No, it wasn't Nim. This one was smaller.

There's more than one?

They travel in a pack like a swarm.

Is that what did this?

A swarm of these things?

Yeah. I think that's what happened to the electrician. No one was in the

house.

You gotta get rid of those speakers on the dock.

Them wouldn't do anything like... What about the wildlife guy?

Nim wouldn't attack anyone unless they hurt him.

Maybe someone did.

We're almost out of air.

No, Rich. No, Rich.

Turn it off. Turn it off. Turn it off.

Turn it off, Rich.

You better come take a look at this.

It's like some sort of birthing zone.

And there's Hunter's home.

All laying eggs.

This is what Serko saw coming.

Population explosion.

Sorry,

Nim.

So that's where all the chip clips went.

You know the tiger that bit Roy?

Siegfried and Roy?

Yeah. Roy tripped or something, right?

Yeah, but the tiger thought he'd been hurt.

So he picked him up like a cub.

He wasn't trying to hurt him. He was protecting him.

He crushed his trachea.

You know the last words Roy said as they took him off?

No.

Don't kill the cat.

We are looking at the new top of the food chain.

to us, okay? Here.

Here, beg.

If you don't spit, the life breath free.