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(male announcer) Previously on Surface...

Get out of there, man!

(announcer) Miles was bitten by a creature.

And now, he's changing.

[yelling]

(announcer) The creatures have attacked others...

Aren't you coming?

I know what they've found.

[woman crying]

(announcer) And killed.

Rich and Daughtery presented their evidence to the world...

Partly. Explain that.

I was able to...

The genuine article, huh?

Very similar to something called a Liopleuridon.

I need a signature, ma'am.

Since when do you need a signature for a fax?

(announcer) And had to run...

Keep going! Keep going!

Get out of here, go!

Rich, that's the one that was in Cirko's office. That's a flower.

(announcer) Until a mysterious scientist contacted them.

(deep computer voice) If I wanted to harm you,

I could find easier ways.

What the hell is that?

It's us.

(announcer) Who is she?

Does she have the answers?

All ready?

Ready as we're ever gonna be.

We thought it was understood,

the invitation was for Dr. Daughtery only.

(announcer) And now, Surface continues.

Hey.

Listen, honey, I'm really sorry I didn't call.

But it just--

I didn't think it'd be very safe.

So good to see you.

Did you--did you see us on MSNBC?

Yeah. You and the other woman.

Now, honey, I told you it wasn't like that.

You went down into a submarine with her.

Submersible.

I'm not stupid.

Honey.

These things are incredible, okay?

The size of 'em.

I mean, you couldn't imagine it.

But you saw the program, right?

You saw them. They were on there.

Who are you?

Ed Blagman.

Who's he?

I'm not trying--

I'm not talking to you.

What is he doing here?

This is my house.

Your house?

My house.

Your family.

You just left us.

I didn't leave anybody.

I told you exactly--

Who is this guy?!

He's my divorce lawyer.

We're offering a reward. $10,000.

$10,000.

They killed my son.

We're offering a reward.

Thanks. Are you all right?

10,000 bucks in the off-season?

It's gonna be a war zone.

Caitlin's saving me a seat.

Unless you want it.

No. I'm fine here.

(man) Everybody take your seats, please!

[bangs on table]

Come on, people.

Well, it's good to see

so many concerned citizens here today.

Yeah, well, I'm concerned.

I'm concerned

I'm going to get my ass bit off

every time I check my crab traps.

It's not a joke, Burt.

You see me laughing?

Sit down, Burt, let him talk!

We hear you got one at the aquarium.

[murmuring]

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 level with us.

You got one or not?

[crowd murmuring]

We have a specimen.

Whether it's the same species we're looking for,

we can't be sure at this point.

A week ago,

we lost a son there.

My wife and I.

He was swimming at that beach just like I do

and just--just like you do

and just like all our children do.

And what have they done?

Nothing!

[crowd shouting angrily]

Now I don't know about you.

But I'm not going to sit around here

and wait for more of these things

to wash into town and hatch--

[feedback]

(man) Turn that off!

(woman) Can't somebody fix that?

The gifted few.

What? I'm sorry.

Most scientists are "narrow-minded,

"dull,

and just plain stupid."

Uh, James Watson, right?

Of Watson-Crick.

Mm-hmm. He was right.

Then there are the gifted few,

those who despite their hubris

and contempt for received opinion

do the heavy lifting, make the real breakthroughs.

Do you take sugar?

Um, uh, yes.

Thank you.

I was going to be one of those.

I was going to save the world.

Instead...

How did it happen?

Money, of course.

And they appealed to my vanity.

That was my mistake.

They--who?

They gave my everything I wanted.

Funds, freedom, unlimited resources.

Yeah, but who's the "they"?

I received my doctorate in 2000.

Arguably 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.

"Congratulations on conferral of your doctorate.

"We would like to discuss your academic research

"and propose an extraordinary

employment opportunity."

First in your class.

Magna. Published two articles in Nature.

Impressive.

But let's be frank.

There are a lot of impressive people

in laboratories all over the world.

At our firm,

we're interested in the level beyond.

Men and women with the capacity

of becoming a Kepler,

a Heisenberg,

an Einstein.

I'm flattered.

But what firm do you represent?

We are primarily a genomics firm

made up of like-minded scientists

willing to work beyond the commonly accepted frontiers

of genetics.

What do you mean by frontiers?

Frontiers of knowledge, of technique,

of societal conceptions of morality.

Your graduate thesis

on stimulating the neurotransmitters

was just the kind of work we admire.

Only lacked one thing.

And what was that?

The opportunity to test your theories

on a thousand test subjects.

That would've taken money.

Unlimited resources

and unwavering support.

We provide both.

This is Dolly.

The sheep that was supposedly cloned

in 1996.

An impressive first

if it had been first.

We cloned our first sheep in the early 1960s.

You cloned a sheep in the 1960s.

And gibbons and pandas.

And the infamous Archaeopteryx.

The Archaeopteryx is extinct.

[screeches]

We've assumed a kind of custodial attitude

toward the biosphere.

Now I know this is a lot to process.

I don't--

Um, I don't understand.

Who, um,

who pays for all this?

The firm has a vast library of patents--

mostly medical--that funds a substantial endowment.

We'd like to make you part of the firm.

Our only two requirements

are confidentiality

and a permanent commitment.

Permanent?

Employees commit for a lifetime.

In exchange,

we offer whatever salary

you require.

I--

I require a lot.

Fine.

I should've added a zero.

I went to work the next day.

Everything I'd been promised was true.

But there were other drawbacks.

The corporation is extremely private.

Employees work alone.

There's no last names.

Socializing is forbidden.

There's frequent rotation

to other facilities around the world.

I mean, that sounds like a terrorist cell.

Infinitely more cautious than that.

And all this for the money.

This isn't about the money.

That's not their agenda.

Uh, and what is the-- what is the agenda?

Well, there's the rub.

Each scientist

is given their own

specific focus.

One that precludes a larger sense of the whole.

So I built the carburetor.

But I never saw the car.

You must...

had some idea.

Over time, I had my theories.

That's why I contacted you.

"When the stars threw down their spears

"and water'd heaven with their tears,

"did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the lamb make thee?"

[gasping]

[vehicle traffic]

You all right?

She said what?

She said the species are manmade.

Manmade?

Yeah. Genetically engineered, like mold-resistant wheat.

Hang on a second now.

You telling me a person created these things?

Who?

Deja vu all over again.

You and your friend pulling an egg out of the water.

That's how this all started, right?

Yeah, that's how it started.

(man) Dr. Blum!

Take a look.

Creep show.

Looks contagious.

(Dr. Blum) Miles, get me a cooler, will you?

Miles, what are you doing?

Killing them.

They take over everything.

Do you--do you realize how incredible this is?

I mean, there's maybe, maybe two dozen people

in the entire world who understand

the true possibilities of genomics.

And clearly this firm knows how to recombine DNA.

It's mind-blowing.

What?

It just kills me.

All this time I thought it was something holy.

And here it is.

It's just some egghead in a lab somewhere.

Boy, I thought I was chosen, you know.

So did she.

Yeah, but see,

she didn't lose her family over it and that's the thing.

While you were out there, I went home.

Saw Tracy.

[clears throat]

[sighs]

She wants a divorce.

Rich, man, I'm sorry. I really am.

Do you need to go back?

No. No.

If I quit now, then it'd really be for nothing.

So let's just keep going, all right?

So let's talk about this. Figure it out.

You said that--she said that every member

of this outfit had a part to play, right?

Yeah.

Okay.

But that none of them knew the entire design?

But that's ridiculous.

Somebody had to know the entire design, right?

No. I don't know. I don't think she knew.

But, I mean, someone designed it.

Oh, gosh, I can figure this out.

How? That's the first rule of the insurance biz, man.

You follow the money.

Okay, she said they funded medical patents, right?

(Daughtery) Try oxidase inhibitor.

(Rich) Mm-hmm, okay...

(Daughtery) The woman said that this secret corporation

worked on it in the '60s.

(Rich) SSRI's.

Which are...what?

(Daughtery) Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors.

Like--like anti-depressants. You know, happy pills.

(Rich) Got it. Okay.

Well, it's asking for an active ingredient.

All right, try--try, uh, try phenchloramine.

(Rich) Phenchloramine.

Which is?

The actual name for Nortide.

The anti-depressant?

The anti-depressant is right.

The corporation developed it.

Okay, the original patent

was filed December, '63.

Time line's right.

By who?

What?

It's been redacted.

How's a source patent for an anti-depressant classified?

When someone with sway

doesn't want to get traced.

All right, well, hey,

that means we're on the right track, right?

So, uh...

who makes Nortide?

Lorentech.

As in the world's biggest pharmaceutical company?

Yeah.

Go ahead. Spill it.

What?

A week ago, you're all hot and heavy with Caitlin,

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. Psychology 101.

You can't keep things all bottled up.

You gotta talk it out.

Okay. But, dude, it's a total secret.

She's pregnant.

No, no. Nothing like that.

It--it's me and Nim.

Observation.

I'm asking you about a woman

and you're talking about an unclassified

marine vertebrate, which is in itself a warning sign.

But go ahead.

Okay. Um...

You know how Nim zaps things,

like, electrically?

Admittedly, that's weird.

Yeah, well...

I do it too.

You zap things.

Yeah.

Something very strange is happening to me.

It's called puberty, dude.

No. No, no. That's not it.

I-I-I zap things, man.

I can't control it.

It just happens sometimes.

It's like I'm--I'm connected.

Not only to Nim,

but to the other ones.

Like--like I'm part of them.

And sometimes

it's like I c--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 Caitlin thinks you're a little odd, bro.

(male voice over P.A.) Lorentech--we see the future and make it happen today.

Lorentech is the leading

scientific discovery corporation in the world.

Hi.

Annie Boertz. Media relations.

Hey, Andy "Dick" Yarbourough.

Pleasure to meet you.

This is Sue Truftin.

Hi.

Now, Sue's my fact checker.

So if I get anything wrong, you blame her, okay?

Don't worry, we will.

So...

So.

We really appreciate you taking the time.

We, um, we're really interested

in finding out a little bit more history

about one of your products, Nortide.

The anti-depressant.

That's right.

One of our biggest sellers.

Oh, we know it.

And Nortide's just meant so much

to so many people

that we were really curious

to find out a little bit more

about the man who's responsible--

Or woman. That's right, Sue. Thanks.

She keeps me honest, doesn't she?

Or the person

who is responsible

for developing the drug initially.

Who led 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.

Why did you do that?

What?

You're killing me with the lines here.

I mean, I'm trying to stick to my lines.

No, no, no. I was just trying to look at it--

Don't--don't improvise. That is killing me.

She thinks--

Should we get out of here?

Should we get out of here?

Hi.

This is Bill Wolf,

one of our in-house counsels.

Hey, Bill. How are you?

Mr. Yarbourough. Ms. Truftin. Hi, how are you?

You know, we called Scientific Explorer

and they said you didn't actually work there.

No. That's, uh, not technically.

But that's just because we're--

Because we're freelance.

And actually, uh, Scientific Explorer

is really interested in the piece.

And it wouldn't take us very long

to--to go through the archives.

I'm sorry,

but our archives are private.

Do you need validation?

That is what I call getting stonewalled.

Yeah, but we ain't giving up that easy.

What, you going to go like hack into their archives?

No, it's only one clue.

That's our only clue.

You know, you would've made

a lousy insurance investigator.

I'll take that as a compliment.

Hey, wait a minute.

What?

Look at all these small biotech firms

Lorentech acquired.

So?

So you don't get to be

the world's biggest pharmaceutical company

by making everything in-house.

You get big by acquisitions.

So any one of these firms

could've been the one that made Nortide initially.

This is a domesticated specimen.

There's absolutely no guarantee

he'll survive in the wild.

So what if he doesn't?

It's still the most likely way to get

a handle on the problem.

You saw how many eggs were out there.

So you want to risk losing the one specimen we have

that we can actually study

to understand the species.

This is a domestic safety issue.

I got three deaths in under a week

and no sense of what we're dealing with.

(Miles) What's going on?

They want to tag Nim.

If we tag and release it here,

he'll lead us back to the school.

And what are you going to do if you find them?

We're going to protect this community, son.

What else?

Will you help us?

[Nim bleating]

Nim.

Nim.

[Nim purring]

(Rich) So Lorentech bought this place to get Nortide?

(Daughtery) You saw the plaque at Lorentech.

They bought everyone that had a good idea.

(Rich) Yeah, well, knowledge is power.

Hello.

Hello.

Hey, Rich,

what you doing?

Told you I ain't quitting.

Ho, hey, whoa.

It might be electrified.

Hey.

This is weird.

Wow, there is nobody here.

Like a ghost town.

I think we should split up.

Nah, that's a terrible idea.

Yeah, but look how big this place is.

I think we should split up and we can cover it faster.

All right, here.

You take this then, all right?

It's a hair trigger. Be careful.

What are you going to use?

I'll use my mind. That's my best weapon.

Here. Like I said, what are you going to use?

Ha ha. Funny. Die, then.

Oh, Rich, stop. I was kidding. Come on.

I'll do it. I'll do it.

Just how do you-- how do you cock it?

It's ready to go.

You just take the safety off, all right? Okay.

You got it?

(sheriff) Where's it going?

Back to the intercoastal again.

Seems lost. Is that possible?

He'll find them.

[door opens]

Caitlin.

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 wanna understand.

I do understand. I'm changing.

And you want to be normal?

Is that so weird?

Besides, Caitlin,

these things are killing people.

Nim isn't.

Everyone I know is worried

that there's nothing special about them.

That they'll never find what their life is about.

But you... you find something

that no one on this planet has ever seen before, ever.

Something you claimed you loved.

And you're destroying it.

That's it. Let's go.

All right, let's do it, boys.

Where's everyone going?

Compton Marsh.

Nim has settled in the waterway there.

It's begun.

Yeah, there's no one over here.

It's like it's abandoned.

Yeah, this place is definitely cleared out.

Pretty recently too.

I got nothin' down here.

I'm in a room with a bunch of big machines,

and, I don't know...

I found a computer here.

All right, well, get on it.

See if you can find something.

Hey, you got anything?

Yeah, it's locked with a password, so...

I just need a name.

Anything, just who's behind Nortide.

Yeah, there's just some envelopes,

some old invoices.

Not a whole hell of a lot.

Rich.

Rich.

Rich.

I'm all right. I'm all right.

Sorry.

Don't--don't--don't go silent like that.

It sorta freaked me out.

Don't you wish you had that gun now?

[equipment falls]

[child cries]

Who's over there? Somebody in here?

Huh?

I think I found something here.

[child cries]

Have you seen my mother?

Hey.

What are you doing back here, huh?

[child cries]

[tears out page]

Somebody leave you here?

Huh?

Why don't you come on from back there?

Come on.

Come on. Give me a hand.

It's all right, I won't hurt you.

Give me your hand.

You're not my--

(demonic voice) Mother.

[shrieking]

[Rich struggling on walkie talkie]

Rich?

[struggling]

Rich, I'm coming.

I'm coming!

Help me!

Help me.

Shoot him!

Shoot him!

[gunshots]

[shrieking]

[alarm buzzing]

(Captain) Well, we got 'em on the move here.

We're driving 'em into the Marsh.

Just keep driving them this way.

We got a little something for them.

(man) All right, everybody spread out!

Keep bringing 'em down on the right!

(man) Get ready.

Everybody get ready!

Here they come!

Take aim!

Fire!

Miles.

I just...

I want...

Caitlin,

something terrible is gonna happen.

[creatures wailing]

[wailing]

Hey, Joe.

Like fish in a barrel, man.

(Joe) That's a keeper, huh?

Ow.

Sorry.

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

Sorry.

I'll tell you what,

you go to the bottom of the ocean,

you see that thing,

and you think you've seen it all.

Hold still.

Mm.

Sorry, Rich.

I thought it was going to kill me.

I really did.

It spoke.

Sounded like a little girl.

I know.

[phone rings]

(computer voice) That was a mistake.

Well, it probably was.

But, um,

we had an encounter.

It's not just Liopleurodon DNA

that they're manipulating.

Listen, I have a list

of the board of directors of Iderdex.

Okay.

I'm sorry, I can't.

Okay.

All you have to do

is say yes or no.

Daniel Beecher.

No.

Harvey Pierce.

No.

Alger Koestler.

[inhales]

Alger Koestler.

Did you hear what I said?

You are opening a door

that cannot be closed.

Alger Koestler.

Yes or no.

Special Collections Library,

Berkeley.

Good-bye, doctor.

Hang in, Jim. Hang on there.

Hang on there, buddy. Hang in there.

[hollers]

[screams]

Get back. Get back!

Everybody out of here!

[creatures growling]

Aaaaah!

[growling]

(Miles) Nim, stop.

[whimpers]

I'm sorry.

[bleating]

I'm so sorry.

Dr. Morris.

Hello.

Do you know who I am?

I can guess.

I believe you violated company policy.

Yes, I did.

I'd like to e-mail my family.

To say good-bye.

Of course.

[bleating]

(Caitlin) Miles?

Caitlin.

Take my hand.

I can't.

Hey, look at me.

Take my hand.

They won't hurt us.

It's okay.

Take my hand.

I've got to go.

You're so beautiful right now.

(man) What kind of freak is this kid?

The Koestler archive.

Yeah.

Alger Koestler.

Yes.

I-I-I heard that he was actually a professor here

at one point.

For almost 30 years, up until the early '50s.

We don't get a lot of requests for this collection.

No? Well, thank you very much.

Happy hunting.

I believe this is what you're looking for.

Yes, thank you.

Rich.

It's labeled "The Discovery, 1957."

Obviously, they found something.

What in the world do you think they're looking for?

(Daughtery) I don't know, but whatever it is,

I hope they got it on film.

You think that's Koestler?

(Rich) Maybe.

(Daughtery) It's a good sized expedition party.

Hey, look.

Look, look, look at this.

There you go. Looks like they found something. Yeah.

(Daughtery) It looks like a crater or something.

(Rich) Hey.

Is that Cirko's flower?

I-I don't understand.

What--what does that have to do with...

I know him.

I know--I know that guy.

He was there.

He was there when the creatures breached

at Bolinas Bay with Cirko.

He--that guy was there.

That's the same guy

that got my blood taken at Sullivan's Island.

That's not possible.

Yes, he's gotta be 50 years old.

I mean that...guy'd have to be 80.