Creature (1998): Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode #1.1 - full transcript
CHASE: People are being killed,
and I think Navy research knows why.
PENIS TON: Grab that wheel!
CHASE: They tried to stop this creature
25 years ago.
(YELLING)
(SHOUTING)
I may have the only evidence
that this creature existed.
(SCREAMING)
(THUDDING)
(MAN SCREAMING)
Welcome to Shark's Tooth Island, sir.
Whatever you got me down
from Washington to see
better blow my mind, Ensign,
or your ass is grass.
Yes, sir.
How long you been on this island
babysitting this project, Ensign?
- Nine months, sir.
- Nine months?
You could have popped
a baby out in that time.
- Look at the size of this place.
- The Navy spared no expense, sir.
I can see that.
(ENGINE HUMMING)
What's that noise?
Recompression chamber generator, sir.
Why don't you take
some of our $10 million
and get the damn thing fixed?
(MAN YELLING)
- Lieutenant.
- Sir!
RICHLAND: What the hell is
all this equipment for, Ensign?
That's what you're here to see, isn't it, sir?
BISHOP: Bring them in.
Bring them further.
Dr. Bishop, Lieutenant Richland.
I'm your project oversight officer.
I ask Washington for more money
and they send a boy down here.
Your little dolphin experiment is already
into the United States Navy
for several million dollars.
Now you're asking for more
for added security and safety?
What exactly isn't secure, Doctor?
What isn't safe?
Open it.
(CREATURE ROARING)
What the hell?
I wouldn't if I were you, sir.
Tursiops carcharias, Lieutenant.
Yes, dolphins. So what?
What's so dangerous?
Listen again. Tursiops carcharias.
(CREATURE ROARS)
A dolphin and a shark.
You've actually done it. How?
Through a process
not unlike hybridization, Lieutenant.
Taking the cuttings of two distinct plants
and joining them together
to create an entirely new plant.
But this is a special kind of hybrid.
- Peniston!
- Yes, sir!
- Bring them in!
- Right, sir.
They are highly sensitive to sound.
(BEEPING)
We've trained them
with these signal responders.
(ROARING)
Good God!
They respond
to specific electronic stimulation.
On average, they retain 41%
of their dolphin intellect,
which makes them immanently trainable.
Their instinct to savage their prey,
that is pure shark.
Let these hybrids loose
in the rice paddies of Nam
and the VC won't know what hit them.
If only we'd had them
a year and a half ago on Delta Patrol,
I'd still have my two best friends
in the whole world.
Have we blown your mind, sir?
(CREATURE ROARS)
What's behind there? Another hybrid?
The sound of the attack beacon,
it has overstimulated him.
Overstimulated who? What?
PENISTON: That, sir,
is a special experiment.
That is why we called you down here.
That is why we need the extra money
for safety and security, sir.
Lieutenant,
are you familiar with the theory
that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny?
- What?
- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
All organisms repeat
their evolutionary steps in gestation.
(CREATURE ROARING)
Dr. Bishop.
- He is doing it. He is learning.
- Lock that wheel.
Yes, sir! I can't, sir!
(ROARING)
Grab that wheel!
Peniston, what the hell is going on?
(ROARING)
- Get the prods!
- SEAMAN: Yes, sir!
PENISTON: Fire! Move out! Fire! Fire!
Move out!
Quick! Get the prods!
BISHOP: Peniston!
It's killing all the hybrids.
(YELLS)
- Get him out!
- No! Stop!
(SCREAMS)
Dr. Bishop!
RICHLAND: Peniston, what is this thing?
(EXCLAIMS)
PENISTON: Dr. Bishop!
SEAMAN: Coming down! Coming down!
(MEN YELLING)
(ROARING)
MAN: Somebody lock it down! Now!
- It's headed out to sea.
- Out to sea?
Peniston!
(CREATURE ROARS)
Peniston, what are you doing?
Kill it, Peniston!
Whatever it is, destroy it now!
Do you hear me, Peniston? Kill it!
(CREATURE ROARS)
(ROARING)
RICHLAND ON RADIO: Peniston?
Peniston, do you read me?
Do you read me?
Penistan, do you read me?
This is Rich/and. Kill it now!
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!
(CREATURE ROARING)
CHASE: Great white.
Ascending.
Phew!
(BEEPING)
CHASE: How we doing, Tall Man?
Hey, the great whites
seem to be behaving themselves, man.
They're staying in the current
between the two points.
Yeah, you're right.
We can reduce the area in the zone
by nearly halfa mile.
- That'll make the locals happy.
- Yah, man.
TALL MAN: What's that?
- Delta Four's got a problem.
- What's the matter with her?
Looks like she's fouled on something.
TALL MAN: What do you think it is?
CHASE: A striker. Zero-three-five.
Who the hell is that?
That's Ben Madiera's boat.
Now, Chase, I'm thinking you may not
wanna dance with him, man.
Excuse me just a sec. Hang on, Tall Man.
(GRUNTING)
Whoa, Captain.
I damn near just came out of the chair!
Bobby. Hey, Bobby. Are you brain dead?
Take that stupid headset off
and help the man.
(BOAT APPROACHING)
Mr. Madiera.
- Hey, Ben.
- Don't "Hey, Ben" me, Chase.
- Get the hell out of here.
- What do you got going here?
Biggest damn great white you ever saw.
(WHOOPS)
You boys look like a healthy lot.
Any of your friends or relatives
die of cancer yet?
- Chase.
- Sharks don't die of cancer.
I'm trying to find out why.
Steady, Chase.
Back away, Chase.
Now. I'm warning you.
My name is Dr. Simon Chase.
I run a shark research institute.
You see those dual peaks there?
That's my place.
That great white that you're torturing
to death is a pregnant female.
We've tagged her
and we've been studying her.
Pregnant?
You do this and you're not only killing her
but you're killing the young in her belly.
Is this your idea of sport, gentlemen?
Hey, this is not Bambi down there, boys.
It's one big, mean shark.
You give her the same chance at you,
and she'd gulp you down in two bites,
you screaming all the way.
You keep cranking, Frank.
Hey, chief, we're paying
two grand a day to go fishing here.
You go hug your whales somewhere else.
Yeah, you keep cranking, Frank. Great hat.
No hard feelings there, Chase.
Hey, I'll send you some of the soup.
(LAUGHS)
I've been working for you,
what, five months now?
I answer your ad for a first mate
and general assistant
when nobody else in the islands
will give you the time of day, man.
Are you getting to a point here?
Yeah. Yeah.
I believe you know me well enough
to listen to me when I say,
whatever you're planning to do,
think about it twice, and then don't do it!
That shark is so worn out,
the last thing on her mind
is eating something.
Would you get me the wire cutters,
please?
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
It's your funeral.
Son of a...
Don't even think about it, Ben.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
Son of a bitch!
It didn't come out. He cut the line.
MAN: Come on.
- You tell your boss...
- Can he do that?
...he just stepped
into one big pile of Madiera.
(CHUCKLES)
Tall Man,
you should've seen her. She was beautiful.
Hopefully she finds her way out of here.
Unbelievable, man.
Now, of course, once word gets around
you messed with a local charter,
it won't be your picture going up
on the tavern wall.
No, it gonna be your head.
What time is it?
Almost 9:00, man.
The plane should be landing about now.
Damn it! One of us has gotta get a watch.
You.
KYRSTYN: Adam, I thought we were
gonna go treasure hunting.
Yeah, yeah.
- Who's that?
- Chase.
Boom.
PUCKETT: Prepare to get rich.
Adam!
Adam!
Hang on. We're hooked on something,
something big.
Here, take the wheel.
Whatever it is, I don't want to lose it.
- What do I do?
- Hold it steady.
Don't yell at me.
- KYRSTYN: What is that?
- A cage.
(CREATURE GROWLING)
MADIERA: Hey, Bobby,
keep that freaking chum line going, huh?
That white is still down there,
and we are gonna bring her in.
- Damn it, boy! Why did you stop?
- MAN: What's going on?
Bobby, what the hell is going on?
Mr. Madiera, I lost my headset.
Oh, get out of there.
You afraid this shark is gonna come up
and take a big bite out of you?
Chicken.
How many times I gotta tell you, Bobby?
All right.
It's the last time
I fish this thing out for you, Bobby.
You gotta...
Mr. Madiera!
(SCREAMS)
Somebody. Somebody!
Mr. Madiera!
Mr. Madiera.
Do I look okay to you?
You look good, man.
(LAUGHING)
Watch that hydrating tank.
(SEALS BARKING)
Max!
Come here. Oh, God. You're getting heavy.
- It's been 10 months.
- Well, I'm getting weaker.
Max, Tall Man.
Tall Man, this is my son, Max.
Hey, Amanda.
Chase.
Tall Man, this is Amanda,
Amanda Mayson.
Dr. Amanda Mayson.
- It's a pleasure.
- All mine, ma'am.
Yeah, excuse me,
I just gotta take care of this.
So, you're the famous Maxwell, huh?
Just Max.
Hey, what do you mean, famous?
Well, it's been pretty much
just me and your dad
out there on that island of his.
As much as I've heard about you,
you're famous.
Hey.
TALL MAN: Come on, famous Max.
(SEA LION BARKS)
So, this your new guy?
Yeah, this is Robin Hood.
That's a cute name.
(MAN YELLING)
AMANDA: Chase, here he comes.
Can you help me with this?
MAX: Cool.
AMANDA: If you don't mind,
I'd like to get my sea lion
into some water
before the Phenobarbital wears off.
- Okay, be sure to secure this.
- Yeah, I know, I know.
Let me down here. You got this stupid
sea lion crap all over the boat.
I gotta clean it.
I got some terrific video
of the killer whales' migration.
Stuff you couldn't get from
a boat-mounted camera or submersible?
No way. Only Robin can do that.
He gets so close.
I've never seen footage like it.
- I want to get him out into the open sea.
- Yeah.
Do some preliminary behavioral tests
this afternoon.
That's great. Right after I check out
those hammerheads I've been charting.
Of course, your research ahead of mine.
No. No, no, that's not it.
I've been tracking
those hammerheads for weeks.
- The research is very important.
- Well, what about mine?
Do you think that's something
I just do to kill the boredom?
HEY. guys.
I'm gonna go exploring.
(MAN HOWLING)
(HOWLING)
- Werewolf.
- Werewolf?
- Yeah.
- Max, you're not going anywhere.
- What?
- Oh, the town's safe. You'll be fine.
- Safe?
- Don't sweat it, Mom.
Later.
Well, he's not five years old anymore,
Amanda.
Yeah, well, you're not his buddy,
Chase, you're his father.
WOMAN: You got the money?
Baby, get out of the street.
MAN: What you watching, man?
What you doing, boy?
What you looking at, man?
What you looking at, boy?
What you watching, man? You no islander.
He'; , wicha y.
Planning on staying on the island long?
Yeah, maybe for a while.
You wanna be a real islander,
you have to take the test of bravery.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Test of bravery?
Leave him alone, Kimo. He just got here.
You want to fit in,
you have to jump the cliff.
- We've all done it.
- ALL: Yeah!
(SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
All right, well, the limited fishing plan
that I propose is gonna be good for you,
good for your children.
It's gonna be good for everyone. Okay.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
All right, I got it.
Are those friends of yours?
The one with the rock
is the lady I was dating for...
Oh, I see. I got to hand it to you, Chase.
I mean, you've been down here, what,
for 10 months now,
and already these people
know you as well as I do.
Chase, we're only gonna be here
for seven weeks.
Yeah, well, Max likes them.
I like them, too.
- How much?
- Fifteen, please.
- Fifteen?
- Fifteen. Yeah.
- I got it.
- Great.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Thank you. Amanda, I was thinking,
when you take off for New Guinea,
Max can stay with me.
Well, maybe staying with you.
That's what we're down here to see.
So, how did school in California go?
Oh, extremely well.
Much better than I expected.
Of course, we finished most
of our training before we left Hawaii.
No, I meant Max's school.
Well, As and Bs.
More Bs than As.
I think it's all the different schools.
Chase,
look, I've been talking to my father
about Max staying
with him while I'm gone.
- I just feel he needs...
- Come on, Amanda. Come on.
-...stability, okay?
- I mean, what's he gonna...
Stability is something
that we can't provide for him.
What is he gonna learn up there?
He's gonna learn how to clear cut
1000 acres.
He's gonna learn how to renegotiate
with the government
to plant less than 100.
Well, Max could learn how to
balance his checkbook
and run a company for profit.
That's quite a concept,
don't you think, Chase?
GIBSON: Chase.
Excuse me, ma'am.
We just had an incident off Point's Head.
Ben Madiera's dead.
I hear you've got a great white out there.
You better take a look at what it's done.
Bernard. Bernard.
AMANDA: Who is this Ben Madiera?
He's a local charter who hires out his boat
to tourists looking to bag the big one.
- Chase.
- Hey, Doc.
You're the shark expert.
What do you think of it?
Bobby here saw the whole thing.
Shark grabbed him, pulled him right in.
Pulled him off the boat?
A shark wouldn't do that.
Bite formations are right for a shark.
The way the flesh is torn.
I don't know.
There's still too much of him here.
Too much? Too much here?
He looks more like
six feet of raw hamburger than a man
I play cards with every Friday.
Hey, you asked the man his opinion.
Why would a shark attack,
mangle his prey, and then not eat it?
Normally, a shark wouldn't do that.
So what about it, Chase?
You got a great white out there
you ain't telling nobody about?
Yeah, I got a great white out there.
She's a pregnant female.
She wouldn't do this.
Chief, you gotta listen to me.
You can't let this get out of hand
or every yahoo
with a boat's gonna be out there
hunting her down.
- There's 100...
- Yahoos?
- Listen, there's 100 species...
- Yahoos!
Is that how you think of us islanders, Doc?
Yahoos?
(SCOFFS)
AMANDA: If that wasn't a shark attack,
what was it?
Good question.
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
What, then? What the meaning?
That's a rog.
She's tagged Delta Four at 70 megs.
Let me know if anybody nets her.
MAN: Will do. Lerner out.
Right now.
Damn it, I was hoping she left the area.
You see,
this is what I've been talking about.
Great whites should be
designated endangered.
The only reason they're not is...
I know, because they're not mammals
and they're not cute.
Chase, I gotta get him into some water
as quickly as possible.
Yeah, just let me try one more time.
Please.
I like it when you come home for lunch.
Too bad I didn't have time to eat.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
- Hey, so what's in here?
- I'm not saying.
Ham shank?
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Smells like ham shank.
You got extra sauce?
You gotta have extra sauce, you know?
Hey, what about dessert?
Dessert? You?
What? I got no belly on me.
No, it's not your belly on you
that I'm thinking about.
It's your belly on me.
- Oh, you like that though, don't you?
- Yes, I like that.
Hey, sis.
Nathan! What happening?
- Why the hammer rod?
- There's a great white out there.
It got Ben Madiera this morning.
It's been out there for days,
and that shark doctor knew all about it.
Tall Man, that is true?
If Ben Madiera is dead,
it's because he was messing with
something he shouldn't have been.
Says who?
The shark doctor's mousse boy?
Nathan!
Come.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
HARPER: Hey, Puckett,
what do you got for me today?
No way. This thing's got dents in it.
PUCKETT: Come on, screw the dents.
It's still a good solid cage.
Please, come on.
Look, give me 400 for it.
- I wouldn't give you 100.
- Okay, 350.
Are you kidding?
Harper, you know it's worth
more than that.
It's not worth 100, man.
All right, look, give me 300 bucks,
and I'll throw in a half dozen fantails
from my next lobster run, okay?
-(LAUGHS) Get out of here.
- That's totally fair.
KYRSTYN: Adam, didn't you see
all the shells and stuff in that cage?
I mean, maybe something was living in it?
PUCKETT: Don't you have to get back
to your parents or something?
KYRSTYN: Whatever, Adam.
PUCKETT: Come on, Harper,
work with me, here.
The cage is in perfect condition.
Adam.
Hey! Hey, get out of there!
(PANTING)
Listen, headcase,
I told you to stay away from my stuff.
Here. It's here. It's here.
Come on, Mom.
Max, I just don't think
it's a good idea, all right?
What's the big deal?
You know, Elizabeth here,
she just wants to show me
around the island.
It's broad daylight, I'm 15 years old.
Nothing is gonna happen. Right, Dad?
She's the Chiefs daughter.
What could be safer than that?
Hey, we'll have dinner together.
Be back by 6:00.
6:00 sharp.
Absolutely.
Let's go.
Max, keep yourself safe.
PUCKETT: Yeah, be safe, fellow.
Especially around that island
of your daddy's.
Hey, Puckett, where are you headed?
You wouldn't be going out poaching,
would you?
What I do on my boat's
none of your business, Doc.
It's my business if I find any of those
damn traps of yours out by my island.
Okay, Doc.
You know, I just might go out looking
for that great white
everybody's talking about.
Do you have any idea how much
a set of those jaws would go for?
He's right, you know?
Now Puckett may be a fool,
but even a fool can be cool.
Chase.
I don't know. I know, I know. No, no, no.
Got it? Got it?
Don't go. Don't...
Let sleeping dogfish lie.
Let sleeping dogfish lie.
Got it? You got it?
Oh!
Aunt Jenny. Aunt Jenny.
Do you know Aunt Jenny?
Aunt Jenny ruminates.
Aunt Jenny, Aunt Jenny, Aunt Jenny.
Watch out.
AMANDA: Chase, could you stop around
here? I'd like to get Robin into the water.
CHASE: You got it.
(SEA LION BARKING)
He sure seems happy here.
Well, after an eight hour plane ride,
he's happy to be anywhere.
You had to find an island 2000 miles away
from the nearest civilization, didn't you?
Sometimes 2000 miles isn't far enough.
You said that you're here for the research,
but I happen to think
that you are really here
for that kind of fantasy tropical lifestyle
where you don't have to listen
to anyone but yourself.
I wish.
(BARKING)
You know, you've let a trained seal loose
in the open ocean.
I know that.
One of these days,
you're gonna blow that whistle,
and he's not gonna come back, Amanda.
That already happened.
(swans)
I'm telling you,
he disappeared for almost a week once.
I finally found him
with a pod of wild sea lions.
He was sunning himself
in San Francisco Bay
with a very satisfied look on his face.
Everyone's gotta cut loose once in a while.
So you say.
Okay, Robin. Let's go to work.
(BARKS)
(BARKING)
She's tagged Alpha Four.
Let me know if anyone nets a signal.
- MAN ON RADIO: Copy.
- Triton out.
Roger that.
It's the best waters in the world
for shark research.
Opportunity of a lifetime.
Couldn't pass it up.
I really appreciate you
bringing your research down here.
I came so Max could see his dad.
TALL MAN: I'll secure the boat, Chase.
AMANDA: Some place.
Eleven other institutions
went after the lease. I got it.
I bet you just wouldn't take no
for an answer.
Used to be an old Navy research base
from the Vietnam War.
CHASE: Tie it up.
(SEA LION BARKING)
Hey, boy. Yes.
There you go, there you go. Good boy.
Yes. Yes.
Whoa! Robin, that's it.
Good boy. Target. Yes. You're hungry.
One. That's all you get. Target.
Kiss. Kiss. Oh. Come on.
(METALLIC CLANKING)
His brother.
That's all he'd ever tell me.
That's Brian.
Chase's younger brother and best friend.
He was a great guy.
We had a good time together.
When Brian got sick,
Chase became obsessed
with this shark-cancer connection.
And when Brian died,
it became everything to him.
My father told me
all men are born to the hunt.
You see, if we don't have a target
to where we can aim our lives,
then we are not men.
Chase's target is as strong in him
as any man I've ever met.
Tall Man, I need your help down here.
Yeah. He's a good man.
I understand what he's trying to do here,
you know.
But the people won't listen.
(swans)
Okay. Start her up.
(MOTOR SPUTTERING)
All right!
We got the recompression chamber
up and running again.
That's great.
I'm sorry for those comments
I made about your father.
Oh, forget it.
Any need to apologize
for saying crappy things to each other,
we abdicated that two years ago.
- Chase?
- Yeah?
Exactly how much did the Navy tell you
about this place?
Well, what they told me
was that during the Vietnam War
they were doing some highly classified
dolphin research.
They were teaching them how to place
mines on ships.
(YELLING)
(ALL CHEERING)
Yes!
(LAUGHING)
Wichay, you see how it's done.
You let good old papa rock
take you down as long as you can stand.
Thirty feet, 50, 100. Yes.
(BLOWS KISS)
Oh, God, boy.
- Kimo, what's that?
- It's a good luck charm.
Obeah. A kind of voodoo.
Here you go, wichay.
You gonna need it more than me,
especially living up on that island
with all that bad magic.
Hey, Elizabeth. What's the wichaything
he keeps calling me?
It's a name some islanders have
for mainlanders,
because some mainlanders
come down here,
take what they want,
and give nothing in return.
Wichay blanc, it means white shark.
You next, wichay.
And I better see you down there.
You have 20 seconds.
(CREATURE GROWLING)
(YELLING)
(ALL CHEERING)
(APPLAUDING)
Max, you really don't have to.
(ALL CHEERING)
(ALL CHEERING)
Oh, my God!
(SCREAMING)
Max!
Kimo!
Oh, my God! Kimo.
Mom.
- You all right?
- Yeah.
It's really safe here, all right.
GIBSON: That's two dead now, Chase.
- Still think your shark needs protecting?
- I'm okay, Mom. Really.
Maybe it wasn't the white.
Dad, it was the great white.
- What?
- Except it wasn't normal.
(STAMMERS) Its body,
it wasn't perfectly smooth.
It had ripples.
Ripples?
Look, it was a great white, but...
- But what?
-It wasn't.
BASTIEN: Hey, Chase.
I thought you should know.
I found this in the dead boy's arm.
Now, I may not be any shark expert,
but that sure looks like
a shark's tooth to me.
Hey, Chase, word is you knew about
this shark all along, even had it tagged.
When were you planning on
telling the rest of us, huh?
How many locals
were you gonna let it snack on
before you let us know
there's a man-eater in our waters?
(ALL CLAMORING)
I got it. You can go.
Thanks for showing up tonight.
What? Me not show? Hell, I work here.
Besides, everybody else is wrong,
and you are right. Simple as that.
Hey, I heard that.
(LAUGHING)
Famous Max, huh? You crisp?
(LAUGHS)
What do you think Max
really saw out there?
I don't know.
I don't know,
but I know the first thing we gotta do is
get you and Max back to the island,
and Tall Man and I
are gonna go out there again tonight.
What, tonight? Are you crazy?
Well, if I can find the great white,
if I can bait her,
then maybe I can get her out of the area
before Puckett and his posse show up.
You know, Chase, sometimes you just
gotta let nature take its course.
Son of a bitch.
- What?
- It's got roots.
A great white's teeth don't have roots.
Let me see that.
A shark's tooth with roots, impossible.
- It's mammalian.
- The root, maybe.
The tooth is definitely shark.
TALL MAN: We're getting close.
(BEEPING)
What's this?
Chase, you better get up here, man.
ION RADIO) There's something
on the radar. Come quick.
CHASE: Keep an eye on the monitor for me.
- What's up?
- There's the white.
Dad, there's something else
down there with it.
CHASE ON RADIO: Do you see
anything, Amanda?
Chase.
Chase.
Throttle back.
Chase, come see this.
Watch.
Look what the camera's picked up.
This must be what Max saw.
CHASE: What is that thing?
Look at the size of it.
Look at the body contours.
Anomalous musculature of some kind.
Whatever it is, it's circling the boat.
What the hell is that?
I'm losing the image.
Let me zoom in.
- AMANDA: What... What is that?
- Oh, I'm losing it.
Where did it go?
It's going after the white.
Chase!
(THUDDING)
- It's under the boat.
- AMANDA: Chase!
(SCREAMS)
Dad!
(CREATURE ROARS)
Where did it go?
PUCKETT: That's right, folks.
Puckett caught the shark.
I caught the shark.
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
Yeah. Yeah.
CHASE: It's some sort of aberration.
Superficially, it resembles a shark,
but there's differences, major differences.
It has a musculature
that's totally inconsistent
with any genus of shark currently known,
with any genus of aquatic life
currently known.
Chief, it attacked my boat. I've seen it.
This came off it.
Just what are you trying to pull here,
Chase?
(PUCKETT WHOOPING)
PUCKETT: Yeah!
(ALL CHEERING)
Hey, Chief.
You sure did a number on it, Puckett.
You know what this is?
Yeah, well, you don't outwrestle
a serious hunk of fish flesh like this
without making a few holes.
Come on, Puckett,
all you did was find a carcass.
Those wounds were already there.
Hey, Chase,
why don't you just walk away?
Chief, she didn't kill those people.
There's something a hell of a lot
more deadly than this great white,
and it's still out there.
We've got our killer, mister,
and it's right here.
Hey, Chief,
why don't you just cut the shark open?
(ALL CLAMORING)
That way you can see what
it's been eating the last couple of days.
ALL: No! No! No! No! No! No!
No way.
I'll be damned if I'm gonna let you
mutilate my trophy on their say-so.
It's already mutilated.
Hey. my boat, my property. Right, Chief?
Take it away.
- Rollie, listen to me, okay?
- Tall Man, it's over.
And I want all of you out of here now!
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
And you, go home now.
- Good work, Puckett.
- Thanks, Chief.
PUCKETT: Hey, hey!
Make room for the shark killer.
MAN: Way to go, Puckett.
Frank, this is different than anything
you're doing with tiger sharks.
It's completely different.
You've got to see it for yourself.
I'll tell you what,
you come down here and help me out,
I promise you, if it's something new,
I'll name it after you.
Yes, operator, I'd like to place a call to...
(ALL CHATTERING)
I have something to say.
Wait, wait, everybody.
Everybody, shut up for a second.
Werewolfs got something to say.
I wonder what it could possibly be.
What are you gonna say, Werewolf?
Would it maybe be "Aunt Jenny"?
Aunt Jenny, Aunt Jenny, Aunt Jenny?
No! No, it is not Aunt Jenny. It's...
Oh, no, no, it's Anthony, isn't it?
Puckett!
That's enough.
If I had to describe this to you
over the phone,
I'm telling you,
you would put me in a straitjacket
and have me put in a rubber cell.
Yeah.
I've read about these sharks,
they live really deep
and have little lights in their mouths.
Megamouths. No, this isn't a megamouth.
A megamouth doesn't even look
like a great white.
They're filter feeders.
They don't even attack.
- Besides...
- They don't have claws.
Exactly.
Mammals have claws,
reptiles have claws, birds have claws.
Sharks do not have claws.
What if it's some sort of
pollution monster?
Yeah, but mutation from toxic exposure
doesn't work like that.
It can't make something
that doesn't have the genetic coding
for arms suddenly grow arms,
or its teeth grow roots.
Well, nobody's coming.
Not without documentation.
GIBSON: Elizabeth.
Outside. Now.
- Daddy.
- Bini.
CHASE: Chase. Chase. Dr. Simon Chase.
Shark's Tooth Island, Lower Antilles.
Yes, sir. Dr. Simon Chase.
Shark's Tooth Island, Lower Antilles.
We'll get back to you, sir.
Get back to me, my ass.
Hey, I've been doing some checking.
The Navy's going to get back to me.
Well, we have
the Freedom of Information Act
to thank for even these.
This is all they've released
on Shark's Tooth Island?
Let me save you the trouble.
The Navy bought the island
from the Provincial Governor in 1923.
Did nothing with it till World War ll,
when it was used
as a submarine staging base.
Then, the Office of Naval Research
took over in the '50s.
They did some hull design studies.
Wave impact, that sort of thing.
Now, look at this.
In 1972, this guy,
a Dr. Ernest Bishop, arrived.
And that's where the information stops.
This is nothing.
Come on, Amanda,
we need the whole report.
Chase, I don't know where else to go.
It just looks to me
like somebody shut them down.
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
OFFICER: Admiral Richland, sir.
What is it?
Just received a message
from Shark's Tooth Island, sir.
Chase, telephone call.
Thanks, Marie.
Yeah?
Dr. Simon Chase?
Yes.
This is Admiral Aaron Richland,
Office of Naval Research, Washington D.C.
You telephoned
regarding Sharks Tooth Island?
Yes, I did. Thank you for calling back.
Why are you calling the Navy, Dr. Chase?
Well, I was calling, Admiral,
because something is going on here.
People are being killed, and I think
you guys at the ONR may know why.
Exactly what is happening down there,
Dr. Chase?
Well, that's rather difficult.
Something is in the water down here
and that something
has killed two people already.
It sounds as if you have a shark problem.
No. No, I think the problem has to do
with a Dr. Ernest Bishop
and some research or experiments
that the US Navy conducted down here
25 years ago.
Listen, Dr. Chase. Listen very carefully.
Do nothing. Do not try to capture it.
Do not try to kill it.
Tell no one else.
We will take care of it.
It?
Nice talking to you.
They know.
Yeah.
Hey, I thought we should celebrate
the killing of the great white.
There's nothing to celebrate.
I was out there last night.
I saw what Chase saw.
It was no great white.
Then it was some other shark,
and our people will kill it, too.
I do not understand your loyalty
to this man Chase.
My loyalty is not only to Chase.
It is to the truth.
- The truth?
- Yeah.
Yeah.
Tauna! Tauna!
Tauna, come up now!
Tauna!
- Tauna!
- Ha! Tall Man.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Jump in.
Tauna, no more funny business.
We're leaving. Come on.
It's not safe.
- No. No.
- No.
- No.
(TALL MAN LAUGHS)
(HORN BLOWING)
What was that?
It was a boat horn.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Max.
What do you got there?
Kimo gave it to me right before he died.
You know, that's just superstition.
It's not real.
I know.
(HORN BLOWING)
Dad, what's that noise?
It's a boat horn.
(GROWLING)
Tie it up, Max.
Hey!
Werewolf! Hey, what are you doing?
WEREWOLF: It's my fault. It's all my fault.
Hey!
CHASE: What are you doing? Come here!
(BLOWING HORN)
He's gone under.
- Chase!
- Dad!
Oh, come on, Chase, for God's sake.
- Dad, what are you doing?
- What are you doing?
Come on, Dad, get out of the water.
- Werewolf, come on.
- No, no.
- Come on.
- No, no. No, I can't live anymore.
(CREATURE GROWLS)
Chase!
Chase, come on!
Come on, Chase! Come on, Chase, swim!
- Come on, Dad, hurry up.
- Come on, damn it. Come on, go!
MAX: Dad, it's coming after you.
Get on the dock. Hurry up!
Tick, took.
Tick, took.
Tick, took. Tick, took.
What the hell were you doing out there?
Were you calling it or warning it?
It's all right.
No! No, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, God. Oh, God.
(BARKS)
Good night.
Dad, I'll see you in the morning.
All right.
Max.
Yeah?
Some pretty weird stuff going on
around here, huh?
Supremely weird.
It's gonna be all right.
Good night.
Hey.
(BARKS)
How's Robin doing?
He's as nervous
as everyone else around here.
Werewolf finally fell asleep.
I think he knows
what went on here before.
Sir, would you mind telling us
exactly what we're going after here?
We're going after a shark, Lieutenant.
Just a shark.
It's been trashed.
Chase.
(MOTOR STARTS)
(BEEPING)
Last buoy's set.
This is the range he's been attacking.
This is where we saw him last night.
- I think we should start here.
- Yah, man.
Yah, man?
Nah, man.
Nah, man.
- Yes, man.
- Yes, man.
- All right.
- Yah, man.
Tall Man, come look at this.
Boating systems are hot. What's wrong?
Well, look at this.
- See the position of my hand?
- Yeah.
Well, look at my thumb. It almost fits.
This thing is close to having
an opposable thumb.
What the hell?
Traps, Puckett's traps.
They've been torn apart.
The prop really chewed those things up.
No, man. Not chewed up.
Look.
You see that screw?
It's been taken apart.
My God, how did it work
these screws out?
Do you think it used its claw?
It doesn't make any sense,
unless he wanted to study it, to look at it.
I think this thing is learning.
Learning what?
Learning how to survive.
How to fight against the shark's
only natural enemy, us.
What did Kimo mean when he said
all that bad magic on my father's island?
Something bad happened there
many years ago.
It's the one place
even adults won't talk about.
What I don't understand is why your father
is not willing to help my dad.
I mean, how can anyone be so pigheaded?
I'm sorry.
You have to understand my father.
He's always had a hard time
being accepted.
He wasn't born here.
He's always fighting this attitude
certain islanders have towards outsiders.
Getting elected Chief Constable
was a big thing for him.
And keeping the job
and doing what he thinks
other islanders want him to do,
that's more important to him
than anything.
More important than you?
WEREWOLF: Aunt Jenny. Aunt Jenny.
Aunt Jenny. Aunt Jenny. Stupid.
(METALLIC CLANKING)
Aunt Jenny.
CHASE: Stop it. It's rusted shut. Stop it!
Just stop it.
Aunt Jenny ruminates.
Aunt... Ruminates...
What are you saying? "Aunt Jenny."
That means something, doesn't it?
MAX: What's he doing?
What's he saying?
That Aunt Jenny is through this hatch?
Whatever Aunt Jenny is.
(THUDDING)
MAX: It smells.
Max, give me a flashlight.
Chase.
Max, get two of them!
WEREWOLF: Gone, but not gone.
Gone.
Not gone.
Not gone.
Max, stay close to the radio.
Okay.
Power's on.
It must be tied to the main generator
in my lab.
Yeah.
There's another switch over here.
Look at this.
The Navy sure didn't build this.
No, this is smugglers and pirates.
Used this as a stronghold.
Let me just see what's down here.
It's just a short hall to
a rusty door. Nothing.
Totem.
(WEREWOLF MUMBLING)
That turns into an empty storage room.
Okay.
You're not serious.
Come on.
(AMANDA EXCLAIMS)
It's volcanic rock.
Gets some seismic activity,
moves through here,
fills the passageways with water.
Seawater.
It's a bunker.
What's this?
CHASE: It's a lab.
Any of this salvageable?
No, it's soaked.
They just left it.
What the hell did they do here?
I don't recognize any of this equipment.
Bishop's handwritten notes.
They're still good.
Amanda!
Amanda!
Amanda!
- Amanda!
- Chase, watch that
drop-off.
There's all sorts of stuff over here.
Most of it's pretty old. Look at this.
Where do you think it came from?
(MOTOR WHIRRING)
Listen.
That's the sound of the generator
in my lab.
Wait a minute. These are Puckett's traps.
Chase.
(ROARS)
(SCREAMS)
(GRUNTING)
(CREATURE ROARING)
(CHASE YELLS)
Go! Go! Go!
Chase.
All right, all right. Let me have a look.
Dad!
(CREATURE GROWLING)
It's suffocating.
AMANDA: Max.
Mom, are you okay?
We have to take care of your mom.
Let's go.
WEREWOLF: Come on.
(GROWLING)
(LAMP SHATTERING)
- CHASE: Max?
- Dad!
Max!
(ROARING)
Go. Go, go, go!
Come on, Dad.
(YELLING)
(THUDDING)
It's walking. Walking.
and I think Navy research knows why.
PENIS TON: Grab that wheel!
CHASE: They tried to stop this creature
25 years ago.
(YELLING)
(SHOUTING)
I may have the only evidence
that this creature existed.
(SCREAMING)
(THUDDING)
(MAN SCREAMING)
Welcome to Shark's Tooth Island, sir.
Whatever you got me down
from Washington to see
better blow my mind, Ensign,
or your ass is grass.
Yes, sir.
How long you been on this island
babysitting this project, Ensign?
- Nine months, sir.
- Nine months?
You could have popped
a baby out in that time.
- Look at the size of this place.
- The Navy spared no expense, sir.
I can see that.
(ENGINE HUMMING)
What's that noise?
Recompression chamber generator, sir.
Why don't you take
some of our $10 million
and get the damn thing fixed?
(MAN YELLING)
- Lieutenant.
- Sir!
RICHLAND: What the hell is
all this equipment for, Ensign?
That's what you're here to see, isn't it, sir?
BISHOP: Bring them in.
Bring them further.
Dr. Bishop, Lieutenant Richland.
I'm your project oversight officer.
I ask Washington for more money
and they send a boy down here.
Your little dolphin experiment is already
into the United States Navy
for several million dollars.
Now you're asking for more
for added security and safety?
What exactly isn't secure, Doctor?
What isn't safe?
Open it.
(CREATURE ROARING)
What the hell?
I wouldn't if I were you, sir.
Tursiops carcharias, Lieutenant.
Yes, dolphins. So what?
What's so dangerous?
Listen again. Tursiops carcharias.
(CREATURE ROARS)
A dolphin and a shark.
You've actually done it. How?
Through a process
not unlike hybridization, Lieutenant.
Taking the cuttings of two distinct plants
and joining them together
to create an entirely new plant.
But this is a special kind of hybrid.
- Peniston!
- Yes, sir!
- Bring them in!
- Right, sir.
They are highly sensitive to sound.
(BEEPING)
We've trained them
with these signal responders.
(ROARING)
Good God!
They respond
to specific electronic stimulation.
On average, they retain 41%
of their dolphin intellect,
which makes them immanently trainable.
Their instinct to savage their prey,
that is pure shark.
Let these hybrids loose
in the rice paddies of Nam
and the VC won't know what hit them.
If only we'd had them
a year and a half ago on Delta Patrol,
I'd still have my two best friends
in the whole world.
Have we blown your mind, sir?
(CREATURE ROARS)
What's behind there? Another hybrid?
The sound of the attack beacon,
it has overstimulated him.
Overstimulated who? What?
PENISTON: That, sir,
is a special experiment.
That is why we called you down here.
That is why we need the extra money
for safety and security, sir.
Lieutenant,
are you familiar with the theory
that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny?
- What?
- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
All organisms repeat
their evolutionary steps in gestation.
(CREATURE ROARING)
Dr. Bishop.
- He is doing it. He is learning.
- Lock that wheel.
Yes, sir! I can't, sir!
(ROARING)
Grab that wheel!
Peniston, what the hell is going on?
(ROARING)
- Get the prods!
- SEAMAN: Yes, sir!
PENISTON: Fire! Move out! Fire! Fire!
Move out!
Quick! Get the prods!
BISHOP: Peniston!
It's killing all the hybrids.
(YELLS)
- Get him out!
- No! Stop!
(SCREAMS)
Dr. Bishop!
RICHLAND: Peniston, what is this thing?
(EXCLAIMS)
PENISTON: Dr. Bishop!
SEAMAN: Coming down! Coming down!
(MEN YELLING)
(ROARING)
MAN: Somebody lock it down! Now!
- It's headed out to sea.
- Out to sea?
Peniston!
(CREATURE ROARS)
Peniston, what are you doing?
Kill it, Peniston!
Whatever it is, destroy it now!
Do you hear me, Peniston? Kill it!
(CREATURE ROARS)
(ROARING)
RICHLAND ON RADIO: Peniston?
Peniston, do you read me?
Do you read me?
Penistan, do you read me?
This is Rich/and. Kill it now!
I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!
(CREATURE ROARING)
CHASE: Great white.
Ascending.
Phew!
(BEEPING)
CHASE: How we doing, Tall Man?
Hey, the great whites
seem to be behaving themselves, man.
They're staying in the current
between the two points.
Yeah, you're right.
We can reduce the area in the zone
by nearly halfa mile.
- That'll make the locals happy.
- Yah, man.
TALL MAN: What's that?
- Delta Four's got a problem.
- What's the matter with her?
Looks like she's fouled on something.
TALL MAN: What do you think it is?
CHASE: A striker. Zero-three-five.
Who the hell is that?
That's Ben Madiera's boat.
Now, Chase, I'm thinking you may not
wanna dance with him, man.
Excuse me just a sec. Hang on, Tall Man.
(GRUNTING)
Whoa, Captain.
I damn near just came out of the chair!
Bobby. Hey, Bobby. Are you brain dead?
Take that stupid headset off
and help the man.
(BOAT APPROACHING)
Mr. Madiera.
- Hey, Ben.
- Don't "Hey, Ben" me, Chase.
- Get the hell out of here.
- What do you got going here?
Biggest damn great white you ever saw.
(WHOOPS)
You boys look like a healthy lot.
Any of your friends or relatives
die of cancer yet?
- Chase.
- Sharks don't die of cancer.
I'm trying to find out why.
Steady, Chase.
Back away, Chase.
Now. I'm warning you.
My name is Dr. Simon Chase.
I run a shark research institute.
You see those dual peaks there?
That's my place.
That great white that you're torturing
to death is a pregnant female.
We've tagged her
and we've been studying her.
Pregnant?
You do this and you're not only killing her
but you're killing the young in her belly.
Is this your idea of sport, gentlemen?
Hey, this is not Bambi down there, boys.
It's one big, mean shark.
You give her the same chance at you,
and she'd gulp you down in two bites,
you screaming all the way.
You keep cranking, Frank.
Hey, chief, we're paying
two grand a day to go fishing here.
You go hug your whales somewhere else.
Yeah, you keep cranking, Frank. Great hat.
No hard feelings there, Chase.
Hey, I'll send you some of the soup.
(LAUGHS)
I've been working for you,
what, five months now?
I answer your ad for a first mate
and general assistant
when nobody else in the islands
will give you the time of day, man.
Are you getting to a point here?
Yeah. Yeah.
I believe you know me well enough
to listen to me when I say,
whatever you're planning to do,
think about it twice, and then don't do it!
That shark is so worn out,
the last thing on her mind
is eating something.
Would you get me the wire cutters,
please?
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
It's your funeral.
Son of a...
Don't even think about it, Ben.
(ALL EXCLAIM)
Son of a bitch!
It didn't come out. He cut the line.
MAN: Come on.
- You tell your boss...
- Can he do that?
...he just stepped
into one big pile of Madiera.
(CHUCKLES)
Tall Man,
you should've seen her. She was beautiful.
Hopefully she finds her way out of here.
Unbelievable, man.
Now, of course, once word gets around
you messed with a local charter,
it won't be your picture going up
on the tavern wall.
No, it gonna be your head.
What time is it?
Almost 9:00, man.
The plane should be landing about now.
Damn it! One of us has gotta get a watch.
You.
KYRSTYN: Adam, I thought we were
gonna go treasure hunting.
Yeah, yeah.
- Who's that?
- Chase.
Boom.
PUCKETT: Prepare to get rich.
Adam!
Adam!
Hang on. We're hooked on something,
something big.
Here, take the wheel.
Whatever it is, I don't want to lose it.
- What do I do?
- Hold it steady.
Don't yell at me.
- KYRSTYN: What is that?
- A cage.
(CREATURE GROWLING)
MADIERA: Hey, Bobby,
keep that freaking chum line going, huh?
That white is still down there,
and we are gonna bring her in.
- Damn it, boy! Why did you stop?
- MAN: What's going on?
Bobby, what the hell is going on?
Mr. Madiera, I lost my headset.
Oh, get out of there.
You afraid this shark is gonna come up
and take a big bite out of you?
Chicken.
How many times I gotta tell you, Bobby?
All right.
It's the last time
I fish this thing out for you, Bobby.
You gotta...
Mr. Madiera!
(SCREAMS)
Somebody. Somebody!
Mr. Madiera!
Mr. Madiera.
Do I look okay to you?
You look good, man.
(LAUGHING)
Watch that hydrating tank.
(SEALS BARKING)
Max!
Come here. Oh, God. You're getting heavy.
- It's been 10 months.
- Well, I'm getting weaker.
Max, Tall Man.
Tall Man, this is my son, Max.
Hey, Amanda.
Chase.
Tall Man, this is Amanda,
Amanda Mayson.
Dr. Amanda Mayson.
- It's a pleasure.
- All mine, ma'am.
Yeah, excuse me,
I just gotta take care of this.
So, you're the famous Maxwell, huh?
Just Max.
Hey, what do you mean, famous?
Well, it's been pretty much
just me and your dad
out there on that island of his.
As much as I've heard about you,
you're famous.
Hey.
TALL MAN: Come on, famous Max.
(SEA LION BARKS)
So, this your new guy?
Yeah, this is Robin Hood.
That's a cute name.
(MAN YELLING)
AMANDA: Chase, here he comes.
Can you help me with this?
MAX: Cool.
AMANDA: If you don't mind,
I'd like to get my sea lion
into some water
before the Phenobarbital wears off.
- Okay, be sure to secure this.
- Yeah, I know, I know.
Let me down here. You got this stupid
sea lion crap all over the boat.
I gotta clean it.
I got some terrific video
of the killer whales' migration.
Stuff you couldn't get from
a boat-mounted camera or submersible?
No way. Only Robin can do that.
He gets so close.
I've never seen footage like it.
- I want to get him out into the open sea.
- Yeah.
Do some preliminary behavioral tests
this afternoon.
That's great. Right after I check out
those hammerheads I've been charting.
Of course, your research ahead of mine.
No. No, no, that's not it.
I've been tracking
those hammerheads for weeks.
- The research is very important.
- Well, what about mine?
Do you think that's something
I just do to kill the boredom?
HEY. guys.
I'm gonna go exploring.
(MAN HOWLING)
(HOWLING)
- Werewolf.
- Werewolf?
- Yeah.
- Max, you're not going anywhere.
- What?
- Oh, the town's safe. You'll be fine.
- Safe?
- Don't sweat it, Mom.
Later.
Well, he's not five years old anymore,
Amanda.
Yeah, well, you're not his buddy,
Chase, you're his father.
WOMAN: You got the money?
Baby, get out of the street.
MAN: What you watching, man?
What you doing, boy?
What you looking at, man?
What you looking at, boy?
What you watching, man? You no islander.
He'; , wicha y.
Planning on staying on the island long?
Yeah, maybe for a while.
You wanna be a real islander,
you have to take the test of bravery.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Test of bravery?
Leave him alone, Kimo. He just got here.
You want to fit in,
you have to jump the cliff.
- We've all done it.
- ALL: Yeah!
(SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
All right, well, the limited fishing plan
that I propose is gonna be good for you,
good for your children.
It's gonna be good for everyone. Okay.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
All right, I got it.
Are those friends of yours?
The one with the rock
is the lady I was dating for...
Oh, I see. I got to hand it to you, Chase.
I mean, you've been down here, what,
for 10 months now,
and already these people
know you as well as I do.
Chase, we're only gonna be here
for seven weeks.
Yeah, well, Max likes them.
I like them, too.
- How much?
- Fifteen, please.
- Fifteen?
- Fifteen. Yeah.
- I got it.
- Great.
- Thank you.
- You're welcome.
Thank you. Amanda, I was thinking,
when you take off for New Guinea,
Max can stay with me.
Well, maybe staying with you.
That's what we're down here to see.
So, how did school in California go?
Oh, extremely well.
Much better than I expected.
Of course, we finished most
of our training before we left Hawaii.
No, I meant Max's school.
Well, As and Bs.
More Bs than As.
I think it's all the different schools.
Chase,
look, I've been talking to my father
about Max staying
with him while I'm gone.
- I just feel he needs...
- Come on, Amanda. Come on.
-...stability, okay?
- I mean, what's he gonna...
Stability is something
that we can't provide for him.
What is he gonna learn up there?
He's gonna learn how to clear cut
1000 acres.
He's gonna learn how to renegotiate
with the government
to plant less than 100.
Well, Max could learn how to
balance his checkbook
and run a company for profit.
That's quite a concept,
don't you think, Chase?
GIBSON: Chase.
Excuse me, ma'am.
We just had an incident off Point's Head.
Ben Madiera's dead.
I hear you've got a great white out there.
You better take a look at what it's done.
Bernard. Bernard.
AMANDA: Who is this Ben Madiera?
He's a local charter who hires out his boat
to tourists looking to bag the big one.
- Chase.
- Hey, Doc.
You're the shark expert.
What do you think of it?
Bobby here saw the whole thing.
Shark grabbed him, pulled him right in.
Pulled him off the boat?
A shark wouldn't do that.
Bite formations are right for a shark.
The way the flesh is torn.
I don't know.
There's still too much of him here.
Too much? Too much here?
He looks more like
six feet of raw hamburger than a man
I play cards with every Friday.
Hey, you asked the man his opinion.
Why would a shark attack,
mangle his prey, and then not eat it?
Normally, a shark wouldn't do that.
So what about it, Chase?
You got a great white out there
you ain't telling nobody about?
Yeah, I got a great white out there.
She's a pregnant female.
She wouldn't do this.
Chief, you gotta listen to me.
You can't let this get out of hand
or every yahoo
with a boat's gonna be out there
hunting her down.
- There's 100...
- Yahoos?
- Listen, there's 100 species...
- Yahoos!
Is that how you think of us islanders, Doc?
Yahoos?
(SCOFFS)
AMANDA: If that wasn't a shark attack,
what was it?
Good question.
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
What, then? What the meaning?
That's a rog.
She's tagged Delta Four at 70 megs.
Let me know if anybody nets her.
MAN: Will do. Lerner out.
Right now.
Damn it, I was hoping she left the area.
You see,
this is what I've been talking about.
Great whites should be
designated endangered.
The only reason they're not is...
I know, because they're not mammals
and they're not cute.
Chase, I gotta get him into some water
as quickly as possible.
Yeah, just let me try one more time.
Please.
I like it when you come home for lunch.
Too bad I didn't have time to eat.
(BOTH LAUGHING)
- Hey, so what's in here?
- I'm not saying.
Ham shank?
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Smells like ham shank.
You got extra sauce?
You gotta have extra sauce, you know?
Hey, what about dessert?
Dessert? You?
What? I got no belly on me.
No, it's not your belly on you
that I'm thinking about.
It's your belly on me.
- Oh, you like that though, don't you?
- Yes, I like that.
Hey, sis.
Nathan! What happening?
- Why the hammer rod?
- There's a great white out there.
It got Ben Madiera this morning.
It's been out there for days,
and that shark doctor knew all about it.
Tall Man, that is true?
If Ben Madiera is dead,
it's because he was messing with
something he shouldn't have been.
Says who?
The shark doctor's mousse boy?
Nathan!
Come.
(PEOPLE CHATTERING)
HARPER: Hey, Puckett,
what do you got for me today?
No way. This thing's got dents in it.
PUCKETT: Come on, screw the dents.
It's still a good solid cage.
Please, come on.
Look, give me 400 for it.
- I wouldn't give you 100.
- Okay, 350.
Are you kidding?
Harper, you know it's worth
more than that.
It's not worth 100, man.
All right, look, give me 300 bucks,
and I'll throw in a half dozen fantails
from my next lobster run, okay?
-(LAUGHS) Get out of here.
- That's totally fair.
KYRSTYN: Adam, didn't you see
all the shells and stuff in that cage?
I mean, maybe something was living in it?
PUCKETT: Don't you have to get back
to your parents or something?
KYRSTYN: Whatever, Adam.
PUCKETT: Come on, Harper,
work with me, here.
The cage is in perfect condition.
Adam.
Hey! Hey, get out of there!
(PANTING)
Listen, headcase,
I told you to stay away from my stuff.
Here. It's here. It's here.
Come on, Mom.
Max, I just don't think
it's a good idea, all right?
What's the big deal?
You know, Elizabeth here,
she just wants to show me
around the island.
It's broad daylight, I'm 15 years old.
Nothing is gonna happen. Right, Dad?
She's the Chiefs daughter.
What could be safer than that?
Hey, we'll have dinner together.
Be back by 6:00.
6:00 sharp.
Absolutely.
Let's go.
Max, keep yourself safe.
PUCKETT: Yeah, be safe, fellow.
Especially around that island
of your daddy's.
Hey, Puckett, where are you headed?
You wouldn't be going out poaching,
would you?
What I do on my boat's
none of your business, Doc.
It's my business if I find any of those
damn traps of yours out by my island.
Okay, Doc.
You know, I just might go out looking
for that great white
everybody's talking about.
Do you have any idea how much
a set of those jaws would go for?
He's right, you know?
Now Puckett may be a fool,
but even a fool can be cool.
Chase.
I don't know. I know, I know. No, no, no.
Got it? Got it?
Don't go. Don't...
Let sleeping dogfish lie.
Let sleeping dogfish lie.
Got it? You got it?
Oh!
Aunt Jenny. Aunt Jenny.
Do you know Aunt Jenny?
Aunt Jenny ruminates.
Aunt Jenny, Aunt Jenny, Aunt Jenny.
Watch out.
AMANDA: Chase, could you stop around
here? I'd like to get Robin into the water.
CHASE: You got it.
(SEA LION BARKING)
He sure seems happy here.
Well, after an eight hour plane ride,
he's happy to be anywhere.
You had to find an island 2000 miles away
from the nearest civilization, didn't you?
Sometimes 2000 miles isn't far enough.
You said that you're here for the research,
but I happen to think
that you are really here
for that kind of fantasy tropical lifestyle
where you don't have to listen
to anyone but yourself.
I wish.
(BARKING)
You know, you've let a trained seal loose
in the open ocean.
I know that.
One of these days,
you're gonna blow that whistle,
and he's not gonna come back, Amanda.
That already happened.
(swans)
I'm telling you,
he disappeared for almost a week once.
I finally found him
with a pod of wild sea lions.
He was sunning himself
in San Francisco Bay
with a very satisfied look on his face.
Everyone's gotta cut loose once in a while.
So you say.
Okay, Robin. Let's go to work.
(BARKS)
(BARKING)
She's tagged Alpha Four.
Let me know if anyone nets a signal.
- MAN ON RADIO: Copy.
- Triton out.
Roger that.
It's the best waters in the world
for shark research.
Opportunity of a lifetime.
Couldn't pass it up.
I really appreciate you
bringing your research down here.
I came so Max could see his dad.
TALL MAN: I'll secure the boat, Chase.
AMANDA: Some place.
Eleven other institutions
went after the lease. I got it.
I bet you just wouldn't take no
for an answer.
Used to be an old Navy research base
from the Vietnam War.
CHASE: Tie it up.
(SEA LION BARKING)
Hey, boy. Yes.
There you go, there you go. Good boy.
Yes. Yes.
Whoa! Robin, that's it.
Good boy. Target. Yes. You're hungry.
One. That's all you get. Target.
Kiss. Kiss. Oh. Come on.
(METALLIC CLANKING)
His brother.
That's all he'd ever tell me.
That's Brian.
Chase's younger brother and best friend.
He was a great guy.
We had a good time together.
When Brian got sick,
Chase became obsessed
with this shark-cancer connection.
And when Brian died,
it became everything to him.
My father told me
all men are born to the hunt.
You see, if we don't have a target
to where we can aim our lives,
then we are not men.
Chase's target is as strong in him
as any man I've ever met.
Tall Man, I need your help down here.
Yeah. He's a good man.
I understand what he's trying to do here,
you know.
But the people won't listen.
(swans)
Okay. Start her up.
(MOTOR SPUTTERING)
All right!
We got the recompression chamber
up and running again.
That's great.
I'm sorry for those comments
I made about your father.
Oh, forget it.
Any need to apologize
for saying crappy things to each other,
we abdicated that two years ago.
- Chase?
- Yeah?
Exactly how much did the Navy tell you
about this place?
Well, what they told me
was that during the Vietnam War
they were doing some highly classified
dolphin research.
They were teaching them how to place
mines on ships.
(YELLING)
(ALL CHEERING)
Yes!
(LAUGHING)
Wichay, you see how it's done.
You let good old papa rock
take you down as long as you can stand.
Thirty feet, 50, 100. Yes.
(BLOWS KISS)
Oh, God, boy.
- Kimo, what's that?
- It's a good luck charm.
Obeah. A kind of voodoo.
Here you go, wichay.
You gonna need it more than me,
especially living up on that island
with all that bad magic.
Hey, Elizabeth. What's the wichaything
he keeps calling me?
It's a name some islanders have
for mainlanders,
because some mainlanders
come down here,
take what they want,
and give nothing in return.
Wichay blanc, it means white shark.
You next, wichay.
And I better see you down there.
You have 20 seconds.
(CREATURE GROWLING)
(YELLING)
(ALL CHEERING)
(APPLAUDING)
Max, you really don't have to.
(ALL CHEERING)
(ALL CHEERING)
Oh, my God!
(SCREAMING)
Max!
Kimo!
Oh, my God! Kimo.
Mom.
- You all right?
- Yeah.
It's really safe here, all right.
GIBSON: That's two dead now, Chase.
- Still think your shark needs protecting?
- I'm okay, Mom. Really.
Maybe it wasn't the white.
Dad, it was the great white.
- What?
- Except it wasn't normal.
(STAMMERS) Its body,
it wasn't perfectly smooth.
It had ripples.
Ripples?
Look, it was a great white, but...
- But what?
-It wasn't.
BASTIEN: Hey, Chase.
I thought you should know.
I found this in the dead boy's arm.
Now, I may not be any shark expert,
but that sure looks like
a shark's tooth to me.
Hey, Chase, word is you knew about
this shark all along, even had it tagged.
When were you planning on
telling the rest of us, huh?
How many locals
were you gonna let it snack on
before you let us know
there's a man-eater in our waters?
(ALL CLAMORING)
I got it. You can go.
Thanks for showing up tonight.
What? Me not show? Hell, I work here.
Besides, everybody else is wrong,
and you are right. Simple as that.
Hey, I heard that.
(LAUGHING)
Famous Max, huh? You crisp?
(LAUGHS)
What do you think Max
really saw out there?
I don't know.
I don't know,
but I know the first thing we gotta do is
get you and Max back to the island,
and Tall Man and I
are gonna go out there again tonight.
What, tonight? Are you crazy?
Well, if I can find the great white,
if I can bait her,
then maybe I can get her out of the area
before Puckett and his posse show up.
You know, Chase, sometimes you just
gotta let nature take its course.
Son of a bitch.
- What?
- It's got roots.
A great white's teeth don't have roots.
Let me see that.
A shark's tooth with roots, impossible.
- It's mammalian.
- The root, maybe.
The tooth is definitely shark.
TALL MAN: We're getting close.
(BEEPING)
What's this?
Chase, you better get up here, man.
ION RADIO) There's something
on the radar. Come quick.
CHASE: Keep an eye on the monitor for me.
- What's up?
- There's the white.
Dad, there's something else
down there with it.
CHASE ON RADIO: Do you see
anything, Amanda?
Chase.
Chase.
Throttle back.
Chase, come see this.
Watch.
Look what the camera's picked up.
This must be what Max saw.
CHASE: What is that thing?
Look at the size of it.
Look at the body contours.
Anomalous musculature of some kind.
Whatever it is, it's circling the boat.
What the hell is that?
I'm losing the image.
Let me zoom in.
- AMANDA: What... What is that?
- Oh, I'm losing it.
Where did it go?
It's going after the white.
Chase!
(THUDDING)
- It's under the boat.
- AMANDA: Chase!
(SCREAMS)
Dad!
(CREATURE ROARS)
Where did it go?
PUCKETT: That's right, folks.
Puckett caught the shark.
I caught the shark.
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
Yeah. Yeah.
CHASE: It's some sort of aberration.
Superficially, it resembles a shark,
but there's differences, major differences.
It has a musculature
that's totally inconsistent
with any genus of shark currently known,
with any genus of aquatic life
currently known.
Chief, it attacked my boat. I've seen it.
This came off it.
Just what are you trying to pull here,
Chase?
(PUCKETT WHOOPING)
PUCKETT: Yeah!
(ALL CHEERING)
Hey, Chief.
You sure did a number on it, Puckett.
You know what this is?
Yeah, well, you don't outwrestle
a serious hunk of fish flesh like this
without making a few holes.
Come on, Puckett,
all you did was find a carcass.
Those wounds were already there.
Hey, Chase,
why don't you just walk away?
Chief, she didn't kill those people.
There's something a hell of a lot
more deadly than this great white,
and it's still out there.
We've got our killer, mister,
and it's right here.
Hey, Chief,
why don't you just cut the shark open?
(ALL CLAMORING)
That way you can see what
it's been eating the last couple of days.
ALL: No! No! No! No! No! No!
No way.
I'll be damned if I'm gonna let you
mutilate my trophy on their say-so.
It's already mutilated.
Hey. my boat, my property. Right, Chief?
Take it away.
- Rollie, listen to me, okay?
- Tall Man, it's over.
And I want all of you out of here now!
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
And you, go home now.
- Good work, Puckett.
- Thanks, Chief.
PUCKETT: Hey, hey!
Make room for the shark killer.
MAN: Way to go, Puckett.
Frank, this is different than anything
you're doing with tiger sharks.
It's completely different.
You've got to see it for yourself.
I'll tell you what,
you come down here and help me out,
I promise you, if it's something new,
I'll name it after you.
Yes, operator, I'd like to place a call to...
(ALL CHATTERING)
I have something to say.
Wait, wait, everybody.
Everybody, shut up for a second.
Werewolfs got something to say.
I wonder what it could possibly be.
What are you gonna say, Werewolf?
Would it maybe be "Aunt Jenny"?
Aunt Jenny, Aunt Jenny, Aunt Jenny?
No! No, it is not Aunt Jenny. It's...
Oh, no, no, it's Anthony, isn't it?
Puckett!
That's enough.
If I had to describe this to you
over the phone,
I'm telling you,
you would put me in a straitjacket
and have me put in a rubber cell.
Yeah.
I've read about these sharks,
they live really deep
and have little lights in their mouths.
Megamouths. No, this isn't a megamouth.
A megamouth doesn't even look
like a great white.
They're filter feeders.
They don't even attack.
- Besides...
- They don't have claws.
Exactly.
Mammals have claws,
reptiles have claws, birds have claws.
Sharks do not have claws.
What if it's some sort of
pollution monster?
Yeah, but mutation from toxic exposure
doesn't work like that.
It can't make something
that doesn't have the genetic coding
for arms suddenly grow arms,
or its teeth grow roots.
Well, nobody's coming.
Not without documentation.
GIBSON: Elizabeth.
Outside. Now.
- Daddy.
- Bini.
CHASE: Chase. Chase. Dr. Simon Chase.
Shark's Tooth Island, Lower Antilles.
Yes, sir. Dr. Simon Chase.
Shark's Tooth Island, Lower Antilles.
We'll get back to you, sir.
Get back to me, my ass.
Hey, I've been doing some checking.
The Navy's going to get back to me.
Well, we have
the Freedom of Information Act
to thank for even these.
This is all they've released
on Shark's Tooth Island?
Let me save you the trouble.
The Navy bought the island
from the Provincial Governor in 1923.
Did nothing with it till World War ll,
when it was used
as a submarine staging base.
Then, the Office of Naval Research
took over in the '50s.
They did some hull design studies.
Wave impact, that sort of thing.
Now, look at this.
In 1972, this guy,
a Dr. Ernest Bishop, arrived.
And that's where the information stops.
This is nothing.
Come on, Amanda,
we need the whole report.
Chase, I don't know where else to go.
It just looks to me
like somebody shut them down.
(WHISTLE BLOWS)
OFFICER: Admiral Richland, sir.
What is it?
Just received a message
from Shark's Tooth Island, sir.
Chase, telephone call.
Thanks, Marie.
Yeah?
Dr. Simon Chase?
Yes.
This is Admiral Aaron Richland,
Office of Naval Research, Washington D.C.
You telephoned
regarding Sharks Tooth Island?
Yes, I did. Thank you for calling back.
Why are you calling the Navy, Dr. Chase?
Well, I was calling, Admiral,
because something is going on here.
People are being killed, and I think
you guys at the ONR may know why.
Exactly what is happening down there,
Dr. Chase?
Well, that's rather difficult.
Something is in the water down here
and that something
has killed two people already.
It sounds as if you have a shark problem.
No. No, I think the problem has to do
with a Dr. Ernest Bishop
and some research or experiments
that the US Navy conducted down here
25 years ago.
Listen, Dr. Chase. Listen very carefully.
Do nothing. Do not try to capture it.
Do not try to kill it.
Tell no one else.
We will take care of it.
It?
Nice talking to you.
They know.
Yeah.
Hey, I thought we should celebrate
the killing of the great white.
There's nothing to celebrate.
I was out there last night.
I saw what Chase saw.
It was no great white.
Then it was some other shark,
and our people will kill it, too.
I do not understand your loyalty
to this man Chase.
My loyalty is not only to Chase.
It is to the truth.
- The truth?
- Yeah.
Yeah.
Tauna! Tauna!
Tauna, come up now!
Tauna!
- Tauna!
- Ha! Tall Man.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Jump in.
Tauna, no more funny business.
We're leaving. Come on.
It's not safe.
- No. No.
- No.
- No.
(TALL MAN LAUGHS)
(HORN BLOWING)
What was that?
It was a boat horn.
(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
Max.
What do you got there?
Kimo gave it to me right before he died.
You know, that's just superstition.
It's not real.
I know.
(HORN BLOWING)
Dad, what's that noise?
It's a boat horn.
(GROWLING)
Tie it up, Max.
Hey!
Werewolf! Hey, what are you doing?
WEREWOLF: It's my fault. It's all my fault.
Hey!
CHASE: What are you doing? Come here!
(BLOWING HORN)
He's gone under.
- Chase!
- Dad!
Oh, come on, Chase, for God's sake.
- Dad, what are you doing?
- What are you doing?
Come on, Dad, get out of the water.
- Werewolf, come on.
- No, no.
- Come on.
- No, no. No, I can't live anymore.
(CREATURE GROWLS)
Chase!
Chase, come on!
Come on, Chase! Come on, Chase, swim!
- Come on, Dad, hurry up.
- Come on, damn it. Come on, go!
MAX: Dad, it's coming after you.
Get on the dock. Hurry up!
Tick, took.
Tick, took.
Tick, took. Tick, took.
What the hell were you doing out there?
Were you calling it or warning it?
It's all right.
No! No, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, God. Oh, God.
(BARKS)
Good night.
Dad, I'll see you in the morning.
All right.
Max.
Yeah?
Some pretty weird stuff going on
around here, huh?
Supremely weird.
It's gonna be all right.
Good night.
Hey.
(BARKS)
How's Robin doing?
He's as nervous
as everyone else around here.
Werewolf finally fell asleep.
I think he knows
what went on here before.
Sir, would you mind telling us
exactly what we're going after here?
We're going after a shark, Lieutenant.
Just a shark.
It's been trashed.
Chase.
(MOTOR STARTS)
(BEEPING)
Last buoy's set.
This is the range he's been attacking.
This is where we saw him last night.
- I think we should start here.
- Yah, man.
Yah, man?
Nah, man.
Nah, man.
- Yes, man.
- Yes, man.
- All right.
- Yah, man.
Tall Man, come look at this.
Boating systems are hot. What's wrong?
Well, look at this.
- See the position of my hand?
- Yeah.
Well, look at my thumb. It almost fits.
This thing is close to having
an opposable thumb.
What the hell?
Traps, Puckett's traps.
They've been torn apart.
The prop really chewed those things up.
No, man. Not chewed up.
Look.
You see that screw?
It's been taken apart.
My God, how did it work
these screws out?
Do you think it used its claw?
It doesn't make any sense,
unless he wanted to study it, to look at it.
I think this thing is learning.
Learning what?
Learning how to survive.
How to fight against the shark's
only natural enemy, us.
What did Kimo mean when he said
all that bad magic on my father's island?
Something bad happened there
many years ago.
It's the one place
even adults won't talk about.
What I don't understand is why your father
is not willing to help my dad.
I mean, how can anyone be so pigheaded?
I'm sorry.
You have to understand my father.
He's always had a hard time
being accepted.
He wasn't born here.
He's always fighting this attitude
certain islanders have towards outsiders.
Getting elected Chief Constable
was a big thing for him.
And keeping the job
and doing what he thinks
other islanders want him to do,
that's more important to him
than anything.
More important than you?
WEREWOLF: Aunt Jenny. Aunt Jenny.
Aunt Jenny. Aunt Jenny. Stupid.
(METALLIC CLANKING)
Aunt Jenny.
CHASE: Stop it. It's rusted shut. Stop it!
Just stop it.
Aunt Jenny ruminates.
Aunt... Ruminates...
What are you saying? "Aunt Jenny."
That means something, doesn't it?
MAX: What's he doing?
What's he saying?
That Aunt Jenny is through this hatch?
Whatever Aunt Jenny is.
(THUDDING)
MAX: It smells.
Max, give me a flashlight.
Chase.
Max, get two of them!
WEREWOLF: Gone, but not gone.
Gone.
Not gone.
Not gone.
Max, stay close to the radio.
Okay.
Power's on.
It must be tied to the main generator
in my lab.
Yeah.
There's another switch over here.
Look at this.
The Navy sure didn't build this.
No, this is smugglers and pirates.
Used this as a stronghold.
Let me just see what's down here.
It's just a short hall to
a rusty door. Nothing.
Totem.
(WEREWOLF MUMBLING)
That turns into an empty storage room.
Okay.
You're not serious.
Come on.
(AMANDA EXCLAIMS)
It's volcanic rock.
Gets some seismic activity,
moves through here,
fills the passageways with water.
Seawater.
It's a bunker.
What's this?
CHASE: It's a lab.
Any of this salvageable?
No, it's soaked.
They just left it.
What the hell did they do here?
I don't recognize any of this equipment.
Bishop's handwritten notes.
They're still good.
Amanda!
Amanda!
Amanda!
- Amanda!
- Chase, watch that
drop-off.
There's all sorts of stuff over here.
Most of it's pretty old. Look at this.
Where do you think it came from?
(MOTOR WHIRRING)
Listen.
That's the sound of the generator
in my lab.
Wait a minute. These are Puckett's traps.
Chase.
(ROARS)
(SCREAMS)
(GRUNTING)
(CREATURE ROARING)
(CHASE YELLS)
Go! Go! Go!
Chase.
All right, all right. Let me have a look.
Dad!
(CREATURE GROWLING)
It's suffocating.
AMANDA: Max.
Mom, are you okay?
We have to take care of your mom.
Let's go.
WEREWOLF: Come on.
(GROWLING)
(LAMP SHATTERING)
- CHASE: Max?
- Dad!
Max!
(ROARING)
Go. Go, go, go!
Come on, Dad.
(YELLING)
(THUDDING)
It's walking. Walking.