"All right!" "Yeah, I know." "Let's have more." "God, chill out." "Maybe I should stop." "Yeah, you think?" "Stupid girl." "Sharks like to feed at night, you know." "Yeah, well, don't tell Miles." "The kid's already freaked about being here." "Whoa!" "Man down, homes." "Let's wait to go get him." "Yeah." "Let's mess with him some." "So lame." "Zack." "Awesome." "Hold your..." "Okay." "Help!" "You guys!" "This isn't funny!" "Chill out, dude." "He's faking." "Help!" "I think we should go." "Help!" "Zack, come on." "Let's go, man." "Help!" "What are you screaming about?" "The board, you little bitch!" "Screw the board!" "You get it." "That board costs me $150." "Swim out and get it yourself." "Dude, what is your problem?" "There was something in the water, okay." "This is the Coast Guard." "We're pulling alongside." "Pour out the beer." "Party's over." "Do you know what "zero tolerance" means?" "Means you can take my boat." "No, it means I can take your dad's boat." "I'm dead." "You okay, dude?" "On the flight deck, let's stand well clear..." "Clear." "Okay." "...zero." "Clear to disengage." "Flight deck..." "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Let's go!" "Here we go." "Cold enough for you, sir?" "just listing in the waves." "It was sheer luck, really, that we found her at all." "A storm had blown it east." "You haven't tried to board it, have you?" "We were under orders to wait until you arrived." "I'm not one to question orders, Dr. Cirko, but it seemed ridiculous not to board." "Those men have got to be half-starved." "I understand your concern, Admiral." "This is a special case." "You're damn right it's a special case!" "Lose track of a nuclear sub for 46 hours and boom!" "It shows up 5,000 miles from where it went missing." "Then Glisson sends me a civilian biologist." "Evolutionary biologist, Admiral." "You can take up any command issues with the White House." "I want those corpsmen ready!" "All right, I want a compartment search." "Please stay alert, this is not a drill." "Repeat, this is not a drill." "Copy, sir." "We're entering the trench at D-deck." "Clear, sir." "Check that." "We're in the missile room." "I copy that." "You should be on..." "The place is absolutely deserted." "There's nobody here." "We checked the reactor compartment and engineering spaces." "Nothing." "Horsecrap." "We checked twice, sir." "Top to bottom with infrared." "What about main control?" "That's what I was gonna tell you about, sir." "Nav system's fried." "Silicon in the chips melted." "Major electrical shorts in every system." "Like she was struck by lightning." "No one touches anything." "I want an accurate record." "Beijing, maybe." "Moscow doesn't have its act together to pull off a stunt like this." "You don't look too surprised." "I'm not." "I've been expecting it." "Paleontologists report that they have found what they believe to be tracks..." "Jesse!" "...of a wormlike animal that lived more than a million years ago." "Jesse, I don't hear the shower." "Come on!" "I'm not going." "We've already been through this, Jesse." "I don't see why you have to dive now." "Sweetie, I told you." "This is the only time I can dive this year." "But Dad puts me to bed on time." "What?" "Are you saying that I don't put you to bed on time?" "I'm just gonna stay here." "I'll be fine." "You can bribe me all you want!" "I'm not gonna bribe you." "I'm gonna break you." "If you don't get ready for your dad's," "Melvin will lose an ear." "You wouldn't." "Okay, okay." "You win." "Thank you." "This time." "I love you." "And while you're there, go get my silk blouse." "I don't have time to go to the dry cleaners." "Nice work, butthole." "You and your slack friends." "Leave me alone, cow." "Two words." "Community college." "Savannah, leave your brother alone." "He was harassing me, Mother." "Straight home after school." "You are in the doghouse, my friend." "Today begins a new regime." "What do you say, big guy?" "Keep your girlfriend away from me." "She's not my mom." "I didn't teach him to say that." "He's a lot like you, D." "I like to think he got his bad habits from you." "Look, I'm not gonna start, okay?" "No claws, see?" "Okay." "I'll be back on Wednesday." "If he doesn't feel like eating, try some of those microwavable pizza pockets." "His bedtime's been upped by 15 minutes." "I'm sorry, he conned me." "Look, I've got him, D." "Don't worry." "Have a great trip." "I'll see you next week." "Yep." "Be safe." "Always." "All right, y'all." "Here we go." "All part of a day's work." "Hey!" "Yeah." "Look, we got a little lemon butter and garlic to go with it." "If you need it, we got some tartar sauce, okay?" "You wouldn't think three guys could kill eight cases in nine hours, huh?" "Huh, well, shoot, not when one of them's Bug." "I heard that!" "Hey, to my little bro's first rig dive, huh?" "Cheers." "We're gonna have a good time tomorrow, buddy." "Yep!" "To slaying 'em tomorrow." "What?" "It's my Cajun wetsuit!" "You see, I get in the water and I'm invisible." "They never see me coming." "Come on, bubba." "Okay, I got the benthic spectrometer, extra syringes, dry ice, blank tapes for the video feed, an extra sweater..." "Andy, what would I do without you?" "So, you nervous, D?" "Nervous?" "Why would I be nervous?" "I mean, more people have been to the moon than the Hot Vents." "You're a genius." "Ah, Andy." "Make sure that your shoes are tied." "You sound like my mother." "Hiya, Doc." "Good to see you." "Four years." "You ready?" "I better be." "Come on, I'll walk you up." "Okay." "That what it looked like, dude?" "Kind of." "Not really." "Was it like an otter?" "Like a lizard?" "No, it wasn't an otter." "It had a blowhole." "Look, Savannah, the halfling can read." "I read when it's interesting." "Heard about your little stunt, by the way." "Yeah, Dad really threw the book at him." "Six weeks no phone, no IM, straight home after school." "At least your parents care enough to ground you." "That is so sad." "I'm trying to make him feel better, idiot." "Don't you two have Glee Club or something?" "We just wanted to see what was so interesting." "Nothing, Spezmorph." "Hey, give it!" ""1734." "Off the south coast of Greenland." ""A six-headed sea serpent was spotted."" "Give it back!" "You whack, you are deranged." "Look, you wanna read about the Sasquatch, that's fine, but remember, we're brother and sister." "You reflect on me." "All right, so pay attention." "I was born paying attention." "Just watch out for thermal drafts." "Don't get in their way and watch the vents." "Got it, Barry, like the first 50 times in the simulator." "It pays for me to be remedial with you." "Now don't get cocky down there." "Healthy fear." "I know." "It's your funeral." "It belongs to the Navy, you know." "You break it, you bought it." "Got it." "Stand by on the loading dock." "Stand by on the loading dock." "Mystic descending and we are at 500 feet." "We are now at 2,300 feet." "3,000 feet." "All right, let's get into the intro." "Ready when you are, D." "This is Doctor Laura Daughtery onboard the Mystic submersible ...to the San Juan..." "She's gonna do fine." "I know." "...will collect biological samples to support the theory that the Hot Vent Ecosystem is the origin of life on the planet." "Okay, we're at 5,000 feet." "All right, keep on that heading." "It's nice up close." "Okay, bottom sighted." "It's the Hot Vent Ecosystem." "Look at that thing." "It's flourishing down here." "I mean, there's tubeworms and Pompeiis and spider crabs." "Water temperature's up to 417." "And it's rising as we near the vents." "You guys getting anything weird on radar?" "Uh, negative, Mystic." "We..." "Wait, check that." "We're picking up a blip off starboard." "Wait, uncheck that." "Screen's clear." "What's going on?" "Mystic, camera two is picking up some kind of feedback." "Everything checking out down there?" "Did you see that?" "Did you guys see that?" "See what, Mystic?" "I saw light." "Um..." "No, Mystic, that's a negative on the light." "Something just swam by the aft porthole." "Something with a light." "Well, Mystic, we're not seeing anything up here, so..." "What do you say, we get back to the program?" "Are you seeing this?" "Better." "I'm recording this." "Craters, a field of them." "The depth gauge is falling off the chart." "8,000... 8,500..." "Wait." "Wait, something's wrong." "It's fluctuating, it's..." "It's..." "It's, um..." "Something's coming up." "Mystic, come again." "We didn't copy that." "I said something's coming up." "Chouest, something's coming up." "What was that?" "Oh, my God." "Mystic, we've lost video." "Come in, Mystic." "Do you copy?" "Come in, Mystic!" "I repeat." "Mystic, this is Chouest." "Do you copy?" "This is Mystic to Kellie Chouest!" "Copy?" "1:00." "Oh, my God." "It came out..." "It came out of this hole and it was huge, and it made..." "It made this noise." "It was..." "Russians." "A new class of boats." "No, it wasn't a submarine." "It was..." "Barry, listen..." "Methane gas." "What light was refracted?" "I was at 5,000 feet." "Tectonic shift, maybe." "It was like a jet but it was deeper." "It was just so loud." "Describe the anatomy." "Big." "How big?" "Bigger than the throw from the spots." "Giant squid?" "I saw a pectoral fin." "Living fossil, like the coelacanth." "Eocene whale?" "No coelacanth." "No Eocene." "This wasn't part of any phylum or any sub-grouping..." "Barry, seriously, this could be what we've been working for." "A higher mammalian species, come on." "Wait, wait." "Let..." "Let me just say this out loud and just see how it plays." "This morning you saw a sea monster." "Yeah." "ID, please." "...biological." "Bearing one niner zero..." "These were the last recorded moments from the box." "Copy." "Object accelerating, sir. 2,000 yards and counting." "What is it?" "...object 1,000 yards." "Alek?" "You gotta see this." "Symmetrical scarring on the hull." "A bite mark." "Hey, man, where did you put my tackle box?" "It's over there by the bilge well." "Why's a tackle box by the bilge well for?" "Where is it?" "Huh?" "What?" "Holy..." "Wow." "A cross-grain muzzle, too." "Man, you didn't." "I did." "Shoot, man." "How'd you know what to get?" "Well, Trace helped me out a bit." "Man, I didn't know you had that type of disposable income, bro." "I don't." "Oh, little brother." "Really, thank you, bro." "Thank you, brother." "You got it." "You little jackass." "You just put the heat on for Christmas, huh?" "You got that right, brother." "Wake up." "Wake up." "It's 3.:00 am." "Get out of bed, you puny human." "Spotlight?" "Check." "Fish finder?" "Yep." "Bait?" "Oh, yeah." "How far do you think the bay is?" "A couple miles." "Scene of the crime." "So badass." "If my parents find out, I'm grounded 'till I'm 50." "They won't find out because we're stealth, dude." "...shocked when like, all of these like like a dinosaur, like, left over." "You ever read about the Jersey Devil?" "It was this pseudopod that, like, absorbed three people in Teaneck, New Jersey." "No bodies ever recovered." "Maybe it likes whole wheat..." "Dude, it's a bird." "Yeah, I'm gonna help it." "It's..." "It's stuck in something, dude." "Free bird, dude." "What was that junk he was in?" "Weirdness." "Eggs?" "You sure your parents won't notice?" "They don't notice me half the time." "Just try and get it near the coliseum." "Total creature, dude." "I'll tell you what, little brother." "I've been diving all over the world, but when it comes to quantity and size, nothing compares to the rigs." "100-pound AJ's." "300-pound jewfish." "Oh, yeah." "Commonplace." "Say, what kind of diving you said you done?" "Oh, I did some snorkeling on my honeymoon." "Oh!" "Well, then, buddy, you're a regular expert." "All right, buddy." "Now when you get down there, and you see that trophy grouper 50 feet below you, don't forget to check your depth." "Don't get all excited and forget how deep you are." "We don't want you going all warm and fuzzy on us, all right?" "How long you say we're gonna be down there?" "Three beers." "I crack the fourth one, I know to send the search party." "That's right." "All right, buddy." "You ready?" "We gonna do this, man!" "You pumped?" "All right, let's do it." "You pumped?" "Yeah!" "We coming, baby!" "Richie, what are you doing?" "Richie?" "What the hell you doing?" "Rich!" "Earth to Elrod." "We're gonna be late." "What's going on here?" "Oh, jeez." "Hi, there." "Ma'am, this is a restricted area." "No, I work here." "We'll need an ID, ma'am." "Sir, we have an ID number, Ivan 000207." "Where are they taking the Mystic?" "It's being confiscated as part of the inquiry." "What inquiry?" "That's classified, ma'am." "Andy, what's going on?" "I don't know what the hell's going on, D. Barry's inside." "Is security cleared?" "Why don't you get him outside and..." "Barry, what's going on?" "US Ocean and Atmo." "One guy said he was from the Pentagon." "I've been here since 6:00 and I still don't know a damn thing." "But they've got warrants and subpoenas." "Daughtery, and Aleksander Cirko is here." "Berkeley Alek Cirko?" ""Recluse" Alek Cirko." "Is he all right?" "He will be, he will be." "They got him in the deco chamber now, okay?" "He was pretty narked up." "Okay, I want to see him." "Okay." "Girls, stay right there, okay?" "Hey." "Hey." "Lockey came down, he's doing runs in a Cessna." "Bug's got half the boats in the marina out on the Gulf." "Everybody's doing everything they can." "Something got him, Trace." "I should've done something." "No." "Oh, no, hon." "You can't do that to yourself." "I should've done something." "Any headaches since the encounter?" "No." "Numbness on the left side of your face or torso?" "No." "After you encountered these mysterious holes..." "I've been answering your questions for three hours." "...did you see any brightly colored lights?" "Yes." "My turn." "Who are you people?" "Scientists." "Like you." "You know, I know who you are." "Aleksander Cirko, from Berkeley." "That was a long time ago." "They kicked you off the faculty because..." "I found working in academia to be counterproductive." "Ah, and who pays the bills now?" "A mix of private and public concerns." "If we could continue?" "No." "No more." "Not until you tell me what you know and then, like scientists, we collaborate." "That's impossible, Doctor." "Why is that?" "Because the Institute's research programs have been suspended indefinitely." "What?" "The facility is now under jurisdiction of the US Armed Forces." "We'll need you to sign some things before you go." "I'm not signing anything." "I was the one that saw it." "Alone." "At 5,000 feet." "I was the one that saw it in a disabled submersible." "A new vertebrate." "If I could have a word alone, please?" "I empathize with your position." "I recognize that you had a profound experience." "You have kids, Doctor?" "No." "I had one at 21." "You put yourself through school?" "I won a series of fellowships." "I worked my way through." "You wanna know how?" "I waited tables four nights a week to pay for tuition and daycare." "We are not on the same planet." "So don't try to empathize with me." "I worked my ass off to get here and I deserve to be a part of this." "Endangered species don't deserve to be on the brink of extinction." "But they are." "You are a marine biologist." "You of all people must know that life isn't fair." "Call Kayla, she's a gas." "She just got married, too, and I hear he's Scottish or Irish, or something." "Where are all the fish?" "Yes." "Yes, I'll bring wine." "Red or white?" "Mantz residence." "It hatched." "Get over here." "Miles, can you come here for a second, please?" "I'm gonna have to call you back." "How many times have I told you not to eat in the living room?" "What's going on?" "Rosie!" "We got a mess in here!" "Stop barking!" "Make yourself useful." "Go get Miles." "Miles?" "What do you want?" "It's kind of embarrassing." "Dad's hogging the downstairs." "You are disgusting, you know that?" "Hey." "It's okay." "Elrod." "Elrod?" "Is everything moving okay in there?" "I feel sick." "I didn't say you could use that." "I hate it when you use my stuff." "What is going on in there?" "You are disgusting, do you know that?" "Just a second!" "I'm gonna go get Mom." "I've had it with you." "That's it." "One... two... three." "Mom!" "He's using my hair dryer and he's hogging the bathroom!" "You're late!" "I know, I know." "I'm sorry." "Something happened." "Something amazing." "You're late!" "I didn't teach him to do that." "Dad, this is..." "You're not..." "You're not listening to me." "This isn't some sort of setback, okay?" "I don't even know when or if I can get back into the Institute." "They've completely confiscated all of my research, Dad." "That means all of the dive tapes and everything." "Mom, I'm bored." "Sweetie, I'm talking to Grandpa." "Can you just go inside and watch TV or something?" "Dad, listen." "I'm not being unreasonable." "But you have to understand that..." "Teach men to adapt themselves to some new world." "Leonard first saw the carcass while walking his dog on a predawn stroll, Friday morning." "And since then, local and state health officials are wondering what to do with the estimated..." "Mom!" "Mom." "Mom!" "What?" "Jesse, what?" "What?" "There it was, just lolling in the water." "It gave me quite a shock." "Frankly a whale carcass is a public health hazard." "Something of this size could contaminate the water table, kick start a red tide." "We've taken precautionary measures, cordoned off the beach until the carcass can be dealt with, shut down US 17, cut down on the lookie-loos." "We've got to look out for the interest of the public at large, you know?" "Authorities claim that the decomposed carcass is a sperm whale that died at sea and drifted to shore." "Dad, I'm gonna call you back." "However, some locals are less sure." "So what do you think it is?" "Well, isn't that obvious?" "It's Moby Dick!" "Whatever it is, whew, it stinks." "In Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, I'm Marilyn Prickett." "You believe me, right?" "Of course I do." "I just..." "I'm trying to understand." "Honey, I'm trying to understand too, you know?" "You're gonna wake up the kids." "Screw waking up the kids, baby." "Something happened to me." "I know you believe that." "You know, don't treat me like I'm crazy." "No, no." "I didn't say you were crazy." "I..." "Honey, you were narked." "No!" "I was clear as a bell!" "You were unconscious when Bug found you." "Hon, I don't think you were in your right mind when..." "What?" "When what?" "When George drowned." "George did not drown!" "Something happened and you were narked and he drowned." "No." "That's it." "That's all that happened." "It was an accident." "You know, I don't know how else to put this." "I'm just asking you to believe me." "I am trying." "I just don't understand why you're driving to South Carolina." "So I can convince myself that it wasn't my fault." "Okay." "Charleston, South Carolina, that's right." "As early as possible." "Do you have anything tonight?" "Um, you better make that two tickets." "Ladies and gentlemen." "There is some evidence that this is simply a natural phenomenon." "This was recovered near the sighting in South Carolina." "The tooth has no known antecedent in the fossil record." "It is as if it just fell from the sky."