Creature (1998): Season 1, Episode 2 - Episode #1.2 - full transcript
It was never meant to do that.
It was never meant to do that.
Just keep her headed toward those lights.
All right, Dad.
- Is Mom gonna be okay?
- Yeah, she'll be fine.
Watch for it. You hear me?
Watch for it.
Chase, this is impossible.
- Easy, easy.
- Listen to me.
We got to get on a plane
back to the United States.
We got to get Bill to see this.
We got to do it now.
No, I'm not leaving.
This isn't some new species
that we've discovered.
This is an aberration, do you understand?
We've seen the damn thing.
Right here.
We've got the evidence.
Dad!
Come on, let's go.
- You all right?
- I'm okay.
Come on.
Max, tie her off.
- All right?
- Just go slow.
Dad!
- Oh, my God, Max!
- Max!
Dad, help me.
Here.
Dad, help me. I can't get out of the water.
Max.
Hang on, Dad.
Max.
I'm sorry. Almost finished.
How does this thing learn to walk?
How does it grow arms?
You gonna tell me what did this to her?
These are claw wounds.
Hey, Chief.
I got me a patient here.
Well, I got a crowd
gathering down at the dock.
- What happened?
- She was attacked.
She was attacked out of the water.
She was attacked on land, Rollie.
Those wounds, they were definitely
caused by claws of some sort.
No animal on this island
has claws like this.
Rollie?
Chief, listen to me. Listen to me.
I don't know what this thing is,
but I know
it's not some mindless killing machine.
It innovates. It makes choices.
It anticipates. It remembers.
It could've killed Max last night. It didn't.
It seems to me, Chase, you and Werewolf
been drinking from the same glass.
- Hey, Mom.
- I'll be fine.
Chase.
So what do we do now?
We?
The first thing we do
is get you guys safely out of here.
Look, you're not going to get
anybody else down here.
Not without more data.
So, hell, I'm gonna stick around
a little while longer.
All right, Max,
you're on the next flight out of here.
- Dad!
- Discussion over.
Your mom and me will take care of this.
Hey, Elizabeth.
There you are.
It didn't take them long. It never does.
What are they doing?
They're taking dirt from the graves
and making tokens,
to ward off the jumbies.
Bad spirits.
Word of attack on your mother
last night must be spreading.
Obeah?
Tall Man.
How does the patch look? Is it holding?
Yah, man.
Then we're out of here.
Do you really wanna do this?
We got to get this thing
before it gets too smart for us to kill.
You're bar: fou.
Chase!
Looks like maybe you weren't lying
about that creature out there.
You know, its head's gonna look nice
hanging on the wall of my trophy room.
See you, buddy.
You know,
that man's dumber than an idiot.
Yah, man. Yah, man.
Max. Now, here's your ticket, all right?
The plane leaves in 20 minutes.
You should be safe until then.
Now, Gretchen and Tom are gonna
meet you at the...
Mom, how can you
make me leave like this?
Max, I can't send the entire island away,
but I can send you.
Now, listen to me.
Elizabeth is going to be fine.
Mom, this isn't right.
Max, this is the most right thing
that I can possibly do. All right?
Cavalry's arrived.
Chase.
You all right?
Yep. Always an adventure
with you, Chase.
Chase.
He knows something.
I thought he could be useful.
Ah.
Throttle up, Tall Man.
How we doing, Tall Man?
It's caught.
Whoa, there, cowboy.
You are trespassing on US Navy property.
Morning, Dr. Chase.
Tell me. Richland.
Admiral Richland, actually.
I suggest you and your wife...
Ex-wife.
Ex-wife and your friend
just turn around and head back to
Arise La Raye. Captain.
Ochoa, Nash, Gray!
- Sir!
- Come on, folks, let's go.
Come on.
All right.
It's amphibious. It can walk on land.
Are you prepared for that, Richland?
They know what they need to know
in order to kill it.
Is there something
under discussion here, sir,
that me and my team should be privy to?
It's a shark, Captain.
A mean, great white shark,
and I want it dead.
Do you have a problem with that?
- No, sir.
- This is no ordinary great white.
It has intelligence.
How much intelligence, we don't know.
We do know that it was probably
bred by the Navy
as some sort of sea-going killing machine.
It is more than a shark.
It has arms and clawed hands.
It has both gills and lungs.
Don't expect it to stop at the water's edge.
Arms, legs, land, water.
The only question I got is,
when I shoot this thing in the head,
how dead is it gonna get?
- Max.
- Elizabeth.
- I'm so glad I found you.
- What's the matter?
- My cousin Alana's missing.
- Missing?
The only place she could be is with
her boyfriend near the old rum factory.
The place where kids go.
Boyfriends, girlfriends to, you know.
- Let's go find her.
- You're sure?
Come on.
You set up?
The equipment is operational
and ready to go, sir.
Hello, Peniston.
Remember me?
Sure you do.
I'm the only thing that stands between
you and a stateside court-martial
for dereliction of duty.
I've cleaned up after you
for 25 years, Ensign.
And I think I know
why you didn't finish the job that night.
But your secret is safe with me.
It better be safe with you.
It's just for them.
So, I say we just look for Alana,
find her, and head back to town.
Okay?
What is this place?
This is a shortcut.
It's the old rum factory.
They're finally tearing it down.
It's so noisy.
Yeah, you're right about that.
Wild.
We're almost there.
It's right down this path.
- Alana.
- Alana.
Alana.
Alana.
The tunnels
are empty, sir, and long.
We're proceeding with caution.
All right, let's keep it tight, group.
Nash, cover the left. Ochoa, right.
Captain, status.
We are coming up on some water now, sir.
God, man, what is this crap?
Whoa, man,
smells like something died in here.
Gray, motion reading.
Flatline, Captain. Zero motion.
Ochoa, take point.
Hey, sharkie, I hope you like Mexican food.
Stow it, Nash.
We're moving through, sir.
It is time.
Admiral, we're coming up on
a series of half-submerged tunnels here.
Standby.
Number five, you see them?
- We 're probing.
- What the hell?
You didn't know
that chamber was down there, did you?
Still looking, sir.
Did your boys screw up 25 years ago, too?
Admiral, we're entering
another area here. Standby.
What are they doing?
They're doing what
the Navy has trained them to do.
So is the creature.
Continuing, no observation.
Talk to me, Gray.
Clean, Cap. Only movement
under the glass is Nash and Ochoa.
Underwater team reports
negative contact, sir.
Negative signs.
They say there are underwater
passageways, sir.
Back...
They don't know how far they extend.
- Must run all the way to the sea.
- That's how it must have gotten in.
And how it got out. All right, Captain,
it's clearly not there now.
Set your traps and button it up.
Roger that, sir.
Gray, let's wrap it up.
Alana! Hey, Alana!
This is the place
where kids come to get away?
Mmm-hmm.
Have you ever
been out here with anybody?
You know, someone.
No. Well,
unless you count now.
What was that noise?
Come on, there's an ancient burial site.
Sometimes islanders come out here.
What's she saying?
She says to go away.
You have a good heart.
Go away.
Let's go.
Alana!
Careful. This whole area's marsh.
Alana!
Alana, you guys out here?
Alana!
Alana!
Alana, where are you?
Alana!
No.
Oh, my God, it's Puckett. Wait up.
_Run!
.oh, my God.
Setting motion detectors.
Ochoa and Nash are on their way up, sir.
Motion sensors are in place,
strobes deployed.
All right, Captain.
Keep your people alert.
Tomorrow morning,
we'll start our concentric ocean search.
Roger that, sir.
Gray!
Keep running, Elizabeth.
Max!
Go!
Quicker.
Keep going.
This is a transgenic patterning chart.
My God.
How was Bishop
doing this back then?
This entire journal was devoted
to genetics.
The shark immune system,
including cancer.
I wish I'd had this five years ago.
Chase.
Look at this.
What do you think that is?
This is it. This is the beginning.
Yeah, Bishop did it.
This is in embryonic state.
- Rudimentary appendages.
- Yeah.
Hands and feet.
But it has the mouth of a shark.
You should both just walk away right now.
This is all the property of
the United States Navy. Captain.
- Yes, sir.
- H-7s.
I want Ochoa and Nash
down here on the double.
Bring your H-'Is .
The material in this notebook,
if it were made available,
it could save millions of lives.
Don't do this.
What Bishop was doing down here
was never sanctioned by the Navy.
It doesn't exist.
You can't.
- Captain.
- Yes, sir.
You can't do this.
Watch me.
Torch it, Captain.
- That's an order.
- Yes, sir.
It's only paper, Doc.
They respond
to specific electronic stimulation.
A dolphin and a shark.
Good God.
That is pure shark.
Have we blown your mind, sir?
Grab that wheel!
Dr. Bishop!
It's headed out to sea.
Peniston!
I'm sorry.
Light!
Let's go!
Go right there.
- Help!
- Tauna!
Help! Come on.
- Tauna, please.
- Let us in.
- Coming.
- Go!
- Elizabeth, what is going on here?
- It's after us.
Through the jungle.
The creature came after us
through the jungle.
Yes, I have heard
about the Anglo doctor's story
about this thing that walks on land.
Tauna, it's real. I've seen it, too.
Sit down.
I will let your families know
that you are here.
ION RADIO) Tall Man, are you there?
It's Tauna.
Tall Man. Tall Man.
Tauna, it's me.
Tauna called me on the radio.
Elizabeth and Max are at my house now.
Max is supposed to be on a plane.
They've seen it.
When the Chief gets back,
could you let him know
that his daughter is here with me?
Will do, Tauna.
You act like you don't believe us. Why?
We saw you at that ceremony.
I know what you were doing
with those people. I know.
You believe in this thing
probably more than anybody.
Why won't you believe my father
about this creature?
- Why should I believe what he says?
- It's the truth.
All he's been trying to do
is get your people to understand
what they're really up against.
Look, Tauna, all he's trying to do is help.
Did you hear that?
Tauna? Tauna, are you there?
Tauna, are you there?
Tauna, are you there?
Tall Man?
Tauna, are you okay?
Tall Man.
Tauna, can you hear me?
- Tall Man!
- Tauna!
Oh, God, Chase,
we've got to do something.
Max, turn everything on.
Turn everything electric on. The lights,
the radio, anything electric.
Elizabeth.
Max!
Chase!
Chase, wait for us!
Max!
Max!
Max!
Max!
Chase!
My God.
Chase, we're too late.
It's too late.
No, no, there's no blood. Amanda, look.
Look! There's no blood.
Dad, it worked! I turned on everything
electrical like you said.
It worked.
We're okay.
It did not harm us.
CHASE". What's it gonna take, Rome?
When are you gonna...
Amanda, you tell him.
Look, they were attacked.
They were attacked in Tall Man's house.
This thing is no longer just in the water,
it's on land.
We were looking for Alana.
Near the old rum factory.
- In the marshes.
- Max, he's not listening to you.
We found Puckett's head in a trap.
Don't you understand? It chased us, Rollie.
You know, it chased us to Tall Man's
house and came through the floor.
Where exactly are these marshes?
Who the hell are you?
He's here to kill it.
Just tell me where the marsh is.
I'll show you.
- Let's go.
- Right.
Don't you understand?
Tall Man, I saw it. It was in our house.
It was in our house.
I know, I know. Shh.
Chase and I will take care of everything.
Stay with Nathan.
Okay? Okay? You will be safe.
Don't cry, please.
My little shabbay. It will be okay.
.0kaV-
.0kaV-
Okay.
Chase, what are you doing?
I'm going to the marsh with Gibson.
What are you gonna do,
take snapshots of this thing
while it's ripping your guts out?
You don't have to do this.
Richland is gonna kill this thing.
The photographs are gonna be
the only proof the creature existed.
I don't want you to go.
My God, what happened to us?
You're obsessive and I'm compulsive.
We're both insane.
I don't know why we're not still married.
Werewolf.
Short hair, no beard.
Do you think that's Bishop?
Where did you find this?
It was stuffed in the back of
one of the diagrams.
What do you think they're celebrating?
A birth.
What was he saying?
Aunt Jenny, Aunt Jenny, re-compensates...
Philanthropy.
Aunt Jenny rue-compensates...
Philanthropy... Aunt Jenny...
OntogeflV
recapitulates phylogeny.
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
My God.
The theory that the embryo,
the human embryo
as it's developing in the womb,
revisits every stage of its evolution
in the entire species.
A single cell becomes
a multicellular organism.
There's the gills first, then the tail,
then on and on,
all the way up to becoming a human fetus.
So, what if Bishop was able to microinject
a portion of the human genome
into the early stages of a shark fetus?
No, no, no. He could never
get the DNA to incorporate or replicate.
But what if he could?
- Let's go, then, people.
- Go!
Move!
- Mom.
- Oh, Max. Are you all right?
Yeah.
Can Elizabeth stay with us
until Chief Gibson and Dad get back?
Of course.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Get some sleep.
Thanks, Mom.
Chase came with me.
Ochoa, go right. Gray, Nash, left. Move!
What's that?
Liana Dane.
It's the name of a boat.
She was shipwrecked about 100 years ago.
She went down. The rest of her is in
the cove on the west side of my island.
This is more than a shark you're
dealing with. This thing is part human.
You knew about it, didn't you, Richland?
The experiments, Bishop, human DNA.
It doesn't matter what I knew.
It changes nothing, Dr. Chase.
It's still an aberration
that has killed and will keep killing
until we destroy it.
You tried to kill this thing 25 years ago.
It'll be all over soon. Finally and forever.
Oh, my God.
Mom, what is it?
Bishop had all this data about
the shark's reproductive systems,
and we didn't know why.
The costs of these experiments
must have been enormous.
Bishop knew that the Navy wouldn't
want to keep paying to create
more of the hybrids,
so he built into the hybrids' genetics
the ability to breed.
Not just with each other,
but with a common great white female.
But this isn't a hybrid.
Hybrids are sterile. This...
This is a completely new species.
We've got to kill this now.
We've got to kill it
before that mating urge kicks in,
and it leaves these waters
in search of a mate.
All it needs to do out there is breed once.
Just once.
Chase, I just want to apologize for...
It's okay, Rollie.
What's he doing?
Why is he making this
his above-ground lair?
Ochoa!
Richland!
Get your people out of here now!
Chase!
- Chase! Chase!
- Come here, Rollie, come here.
- Give me your hand.
- Chase, help me!
Chase!
Chase!
Kill it! Kill it! Kill it!
My brother says that we can stay with him
as long as we need to.
I already packed your bag.
No, Tall Man. Tall Man, you are not
going back to that island.
Not after this,
after this thing came into our house.
I have to.
Because of some promise?
This stubborn loyalty of yours.
You owe that man nothing.
This is not about him.
What, then?
It is not about me.
If you want to do something for me,
Tall Man,
you will go with me to my brother's
and let all of these rawliblancs,
these outsiders, solve their own problem.
And if they don't solve it?
If they are killed?
Then what?
And since when is it your responsibility
to worry about such thing?
You would risk your life for this man?
You would die?
Why?
You are going to do whatever you want to
do no matter what I say.
- I...
- Aren't you?
I have to.
Sometimes I do not understand you,
Tall Man.
Tauna.
I remember when I gave this to you.
You were still in your wedding dress.
I thought, "What kind of wedding gift
is this crazy man giving me?"
And then we came here.
It was no more than a patch of jungle.
Do you remember what I said?
You promised to build me a house
that would fit this key.
And I kept that promise.
Now,
I promise you,
you will come back to this house again,
but not until that creature is killed.
Not until you are safe.
No.
No, Papa.
What?
Mom, Mom, it's Dad. He's back.
He's over there. Look!
I'm going to get you to a doctor, Rollie.
No, Chase. Just go and find it.
Chase!
I'm all right, Amanda.
Papa.
What happened out there?
The men from the Navy, they died.
You saw it, then?
That thing that attacked us.
I've spent my life
trying to convince the islanders
there's no need for black magic.
That Obeah and hammer rods
are things of the past.
But, Elizabeth,
what I saw in that marsh...
All the stories about the island are true.
The monster I've been trying to convince
people isn't real,
I saw it.
And I didn't believe you.
- It's all right.
- No.
No, it's not all right.
I didn't believe you and people died.
Deaths I maybe could have stopped.
I'm sorry, sweetheart.
Thank you, Papa.
You get my gear together?
Whoa!
We gotta get these charged.
Grab the other two.
Chase, I know you when you get like this.
Max, when you're finished there,
meet me inside.
- All right.
- Chase.
Chase, if you put those on,
and you go into that water,
and you go after that thing, you're insane.
The trap,
the trap that thing set for Puckett,
well, some of the wood came from
a shipwreck in a cove on this island.
And you're gonna go down there
and look for it.
Not just look for it.
Whatever I have to do,
I'm going to put an end to it.
Chase.
Chase.
Chase.
You were here 25 years ago, weren't you?
You were part of it all.
You helped to create that thing out there.
It killed then, didn't it?
Yes, it did, just like it's killing now.
- More people.
- No, no.
Why didn't you kill it then?
Why?
Why?
My blood.
It's part of me.
No.
I know, Robin.
You want to get out there in that water.
It's not safe yet. It's not. It's not safe.
That's a good boy. Let me check this.
Let me check this. Easy.
One.
Three. It's 147 pounds per square inch.
Ten atmospheres.
All right, we're okay, Max.
Now what?
We check and see
if the seals will hold. No!
I wasn't gonna open that.
The chamber's under 10 atmospheres.
You release that lever,
that door will blow open so fast
it'll take your head off.
Point taken.
So, what happens if one of these valves
fails when someone's in there?
You see, the chambers are built
to bring the pressures
up to the level that the divers dove to
and then slowly equalize them
back to normal.
The keyword is slowly.
If the pressure's released too quickly...
- Ugly, huh?
- Barometric pressures in the body...
English, Dad.
The air in the body, in your head
and your chest will hyper-expand.
So, in other words, you blow apart.
There's a reason it's called
explosive decompression.
Chase.
I'm coming with you, so don't argue.
There's not going to be any argument.
I need someone to stay here
and take care of my family.
Chase.
There is another way.
Yes. Let's go for it.
That's a good boy.
Let's go. Yeah.
That's it. Great. It's okay.
Nice and slow, Robin.
Hey, Maxwell.
Hey.
I just needed a quiet place.
So much for your vacation, huh?
Oh, yeah.
I can hardly wait to get
the photos back from this one.
Actually, this trip isn't too far off
from my other ones.
When I was growing up,
other kids would spend
their summer vacations going to
Disneyland or the Grand Canyon.
My parents would
take me to the other side of the world,
to places I could barely pronounce.
Aitape, Tenerife. Vanuatu.
Remote islands in the middle of nowhere.
My friends would come back
with pictures of Donald and Mickey,
and I came back with tiger sharks
and chum-filled water.
But I wouldn't change it for the world.
- It's never boring with your dad.
- Or my mom.
You should try spending time with her.
They work well together.
When they're not driving each other crazy.
No, because they drive each other crazy.
They care about each other.
I don't know.
Not too much anymore.
Oh, don't be so sure.
Your dad is bullheaded,
but he's got a good heart, you know?
I remember when he first came here.
Nobody wanted him.
Nobody would work for him, including me.
So what happened?
What made you change your mind?
I saw him stand up at a meeting
and face down
half the people of this town.
See, the people wanted to extend
our dock further out into the harbor.
He said, "No, bad for reef life."
People screaming at him for an hour,
he never backed down.
That sounds like him.
Impressed me.
It must have impressed other people, too,
because our dock is still the same.
He's driven here.
Your mom, too.
You see?
They're gonna be all right, aren't they?
If anybody can beat this thing,
it is your dad.
He'll be okay.
Yeah.
Rollie, we found Puckett's boat.
Storm's coming in fast.
Robin's on the move.
That's the shipwreck.
That's the Liana Dane.
He's getting close.
Yes, he is.
That's a cave. That's a natural cave.
I've never seen that before.
- Can you get him to go in there?
- Yeah, watch this.
The first one's "go,"
the second one's "hold
And he'll do it because I asked him to.
He's going in.
What's that noise?
I don't know. It sounds mechanical.
It's the generator.
It's the power generator at the institute.
How can we hear it here?
The cave must run through
the whole island.
No, no, no, those underwater caves,
they don't go that far.
The damn thing's found another way in.
Get Robin out of there!
Robin!
Max!
Tall Man, do you read me?
Max! Get out now.
Get them out.
Max, get out now! Get out!
Max, do you read me? Max?
Dad, we can't read you.
You're really breaking up. Say it again.
Repeat, say it again.
Dad, come on.
Chase, the storm is building fast.
You got to come back in, man.
Chase, do you read me?
Chase, Robin isn't responding.
The creature.
That generator must sound
like a heartbeat to him.
He's heard it ever since he was born.
Look at that.
Look, that's the lab under the institute.
Robin!
Amanda, I'm so sorry.
Tall Man, this is really stupid.
Why don't we just leave the hatch sealed?
This may be our only chance to kill it.
Then, you shouldn't go alone.
You know, someone should go with you.
Let me.
I will go.
I will help.
Come on, fish.
Come on, fishy.
Come on, fish.
Come out where I can get
a good look at you.
Don't!
Tall Man!
- Max!
- Mom!
Max.
- Max, are you all right?
- Yeah.
Close the hatch. Close it now!
Behind you!
Get the gun! Get the gun!
Now! Shoot him!
Shoot him.
Shoot him!
Over here!
Got it. Got it.
Come on, let's go!
Come on, come on.
Max, Amanda! Help!
Chase. Oh, my God.
Give me your hand. Easy. Come on.
Let's get Tall Man out of here.
Oh, my God.
Jump, jump!
Leave it open.
Max.
Come on, we've got to hide.
Yes. Right here.
- What? What?
- This way.
Come on.
Stay down.
Hey!
Hey!
Max.
Up here.
Up here, you serious piece of...
Noise.
Hey! Come over here!
Leave him alone. Come get me!
Max, get to the crane!
Dad!
No, Max! The other way!
- The other way, Max!
- I'm trying.
Take me higher, Max. Higher!
I'm trying.
God.
The chamber, Max!
The chamber!
Down, take it down.
Inside. Get him inside!
Come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Hey.
Hey, you!
You remember me, don't you?
'Cause I remember you.
Peniston.
- Don't.
- I have to.
I can't let him die alone.
Go! Go now!
Go.
Tall Man!
- Start the generator!
- Yah, man!
Come on.
It was never meant to do that.
Just keep her headed toward those lights.
All right, Dad.
- Is Mom gonna be okay?
- Yeah, she'll be fine.
Watch for it. You hear me?
Watch for it.
Chase, this is impossible.
- Easy, easy.
- Listen to me.
We got to get on a plane
back to the United States.
We got to get Bill to see this.
We got to do it now.
No, I'm not leaving.
This isn't some new species
that we've discovered.
This is an aberration, do you understand?
We've seen the damn thing.
Right here.
We've got the evidence.
Dad!
Come on, let's go.
- You all right?
- I'm okay.
Come on.
Max, tie her off.
- All right?
- Just go slow.
Dad!
- Oh, my God, Max!
- Max!
Dad, help me.
Here.
Dad, help me. I can't get out of the water.
Max.
Hang on, Dad.
Max.
I'm sorry. Almost finished.
How does this thing learn to walk?
How does it grow arms?
You gonna tell me what did this to her?
These are claw wounds.
Hey, Chief.
I got me a patient here.
Well, I got a crowd
gathering down at the dock.
- What happened?
- She was attacked.
She was attacked out of the water.
She was attacked on land, Rollie.
Those wounds, they were definitely
caused by claws of some sort.
No animal on this island
has claws like this.
Rollie?
Chief, listen to me. Listen to me.
I don't know what this thing is,
but I know
it's not some mindless killing machine.
It innovates. It makes choices.
It anticipates. It remembers.
It could've killed Max last night. It didn't.
It seems to me, Chase, you and Werewolf
been drinking from the same glass.
- Hey, Mom.
- I'll be fine.
Chase.
So what do we do now?
We?
The first thing we do
is get you guys safely out of here.
Look, you're not going to get
anybody else down here.
Not without more data.
So, hell, I'm gonna stick around
a little while longer.
All right, Max,
you're on the next flight out of here.
- Dad!
- Discussion over.
Your mom and me will take care of this.
Hey, Elizabeth.
There you are.
It didn't take them long. It never does.
What are they doing?
They're taking dirt from the graves
and making tokens,
to ward off the jumbies.
Bad spirits.
Word of attack on your mother
last night must be spreading.
Obeah?
Tall Man.
How does the patch look? Is it holding?
Yah, man.
Then we're out of here.
Do you really wanna do this?
We got to get this thing
before it gets too smart for us to kill.
You're bar: fou.
Chase!
Looks like maybe you weren't lying
about that creature out there.
You know, its head's gonna look nice
hanging on the wall of my trophy room.
See you, buddy.
You know,
that man's dumber than an idiot.
Yah, man. Yah, man.
Max. Now, here's your ticket, all right?
The plane leaves in 20 minutes.
You should be safe until then.
Now, Gretchen and Tom are gonna
meet you at the...
Mom, how can you
make me leave like this?
Max, I can't send the entire island away,
but I can send you.
Now, listen to me.
Elizabeth is going to be fine.
Mom, this isn't right.
Max, this is the most right thing
that I can possibly do. All right?
Cavalry's arrived.
Chase.
You all right?
Yep. Always an adventure
with you, Chase.
Chase.
He knows something.
I thought he could be useful.
Ah.
Throttle up, Tall Man.
How we doing, Tall Man?
It's caught.
Whoa, there, cowboy.
You are trespassing on US Navy property.
Morning, Dr. Chase.
Tell me. Richland.
Admiral Richland, actually.
I suggest you and your wife...
Ex-wife.
Ex-wife and your friend
just turn around and head back to
Arise La Raye. Captain.
Ochoa, Nash, Gray!
- Sir!
- Come on, folks, let's go.
Come on.
All right.
It's amphibious. It can walk on land.
Are you prepared for that, Richland?
They know what they need to know
in order to kill it.
Is there something
under discussion here, sir,
that me and my team should be privy to?
It's a shark, Captain.
A mean, great white shark,
and I want it dead.
Do you have a problem with that?
- No, sir.
- This is no ordinary great white.
It has intelligence.
How much intelligence, we don't know.
We do know that it was probably
bred by the Navy
as some sort of sea-going killing machine.
It is more than a shark.
It has arms and clawed hands.
It has both gills and lungs.
Don't expect it to stop at the water's edge.
Arms, legs, land, water.
The only question I got is,
when I shoot this thing in the head,
how dead is it gonna get?
- Max.
- Elizabeth.
- I'm so glad I found you.
- What's the matter?
- My cousin Alana's missing.
- Missing?
The only place she could be is with
her boyfriend near the old rum factory.
The place where kids go.
Boyfriends, girlfriends to, you know.
- Let's go find her.
- You're sure?
Come on.
You set up?
The equipment is operational
and ready to go, sir.
Hello, Peniston.
Remember me?
Sure you do.
I'm the only thing that stands between
you and a stateside court-martial
for dereliction of duty.
I've cleaned up after you
for 25 years, Ensign.
And I think I know
why you didn't finish the job that night.
But your secret is safe with me.
It better be safe with you.
It's just for them.
So, I say we just look for Alana,
find her, and head back to town.
Okay?
What is this place?
This is a shortcut.
It's the old rum factory.
They're finally tearing it down.
It's so noisy.
Yeah, you're right about that.
Wild.
We're almost there.
It's right down this path.
- Alana.
- Alana.
Alana.
Alana.
The tunnels
are empty, sir, and long.
We're proceeding with caution.
All right, let's keep it tight, group.
Nash, cover the left. Ochoa, right.
Captain, status.
We are coming up on some water now, sir.
God, man, what is this crap?
Whoa, man,
smells like something died in here.
Gray, motion reading.
Flatline, Captain. Zero motion.
Ochoa, take point.
Hey, sharkie, I hope you like Mexican food.
Stow it, Nash.
We're moving through, sir.
It is time.
Admiral, we're coming up on
a series of half-submerged tunnels here.
Standby.
Number five, you see them?
- We 're probing.
- What the hell?
You didn't know
that chamber was down there, did you?
Still looking, sir.
Did your boys screw up 25 years ago, too?
Admiral, we're entering
another area here. Standby.
What are they doing?
They're doing what
the Navy has trained them to do.
So is the creature.
Continuing, no observation.
Talk to me, Gray.
Clean, Cap. Only movement
under the glass is Nash and Ochoa.
Underwater team reports
negative contact, sir.
Negative signs.
They say there are underwater
passageways, sir.
Back...
They don't know how far they extend.
- Must run all the way to the sea.
- That's how it must have gotten in.
And how it got out. All right, Captain,
it's clearly not there now.
Set your traps and button it up.
Roger that, sir.
Gray, let's wrap it up.
Alana! Hey, Alana!
This is the place
where kids come to get away?
Mmm-hmm.
Have you ever
been out here with anybody?
You know, someone.
No. Well,
unless you count now.
What was that noise?
Come on, there's an ancient burial site.
Sometimes islanders come out here.
What's she saying?
She says to go away.
You have a good heart.
Go away.
Let's go.
Alana!
Careful. This whole area's marsh.
Alana!
Alana, you guys out here?
Alana!
Alana!
Alana, where are you?
Alana!
No.
Oh, my God, it's Puckett. Wait up.
_Run!
.oh, my God.
Setting motion detectors.
Ochoa and Nash are on their way up, sir.
Motion sensors are in place,
strobes deployed.
All right, Captain.
Keep your people alert.
Tomorrow morning,
we'll start our concentric ocean search.
Roger that, sir.
Gray!
Keep running, Elizabeth.
Max!
Go!
Quicker.
Keep going.
This is a transgenic patterning chart.
My God.
How was Bishop
doing this back then?
This entire journal was devoted
to genetics.
The shark immune system,
including cancer.
I wish I'd had this five years ago.
Chase.
Look at this.
What do you think that is?
This is it. This is the beginning.
Yeah, Bishop did it.
This is in embryonic state.
- Rudimentary appendages.
- Yeah.
Hands and feet.
But it has the mouth of a shark.
You should both just walk away right now.
This is all the property of
the United States Navy. Captain.
- Yes, sir.
- H-7s.
I want Ochoa and Nash
down here on the double.
Bring your H-'Is .
The material in this notebook,
if it were made available,
it could save millions of lives.
Don't do this.
What Bishop was doing down here
was never sanctioned by the Navy.
It doesn't exist.
You can't.
- Captain.
- Yes, sir.
You can't do this.
Watch me.
Torch it, Captain.
- That's an order.
- Yes, sir.
It's only paper, Doc.
They respond
to specific electronic stimulation.
A dolphin and a shark.
Good God.
That is pure shark.
Have we blown your mind, sir?
Grab that wheel!
Dr. Bishop!
It's headed out to sea.
Peniston!
I'm sorry.
Light!
Let's go!
Go right there.
- Help!
- Tauna!
Help! Come on.
- Tauna, please.
- Let us in.
- Coming.
- Go!
- Elizabeth, what is going on here?
- It's after us.
Through the jungle.
The creature came after us
through the jungle.
Yes, I have heard
about the Anglo doctor's story
about this thing that walks on land.
Tauna, it's real. I've seen it, too.
Sit down.
I will let your families know
that you are here.
ION RADIO) Tall Man, are you there?
It's Tauna.
Tall Man. Tall Man.
Tauna, it's me.
Tauna called me on the radio.
Elizabeth and Max are at my house now.
Max is supposed to be on a plane.
They've seen it.
When the Chief gets back,
could you let him know
that his daughter is here with me?
Will do, Tauna.
You act like you don't believe us. Why?
We saw you at that ceremony.
I know what you were doing
with those people. I know.
You believe in this thing
probably more than anybody.
Why won't you believe my father
about this creature?
- Why should I believe what he says?
- It's the truth.
All he's been trying to do
is get your people to understand
what they're really up against.
Look, Tauna, all he's trying to do is help.
Did you hear that?
Tauna? Tauna, are you there?
Tauna, are you there?
Tauna, are you there?
Tall Man?
Tauna, are you okay?
Tall Man.
Tauna, can you hear me?
- Tall Man!
- Tauna!
Oh, God, Chase,
we've got to do something.
Max, turn everything on.
Turn everything electric on. The lights,
the radio, anything electric.
Elizabeth.
Max!
Chase!
Chase, wait for us!
Max!
Max!
Max!
Max!
Chase!
My God.
Chase, we're too late.
It's too late.
No, no, there's no blood. Amanda, look.
Look! There's no blood.
Dad, it worked! I turned on everything
electrical like you said.
It worked.
We're okay.
It did not harm us.
CHASE". What's it gonna take, Rome?
When are you gonna...
Amanda, you tell him.
Look, they were attacked.
They were attacked in Tall Man's house.
This thing is no longer just in the water,
it's on land.
We were looking for Alana.
Near the old rum factory.
- In the marshes.
- Max, he's not listening to you.
We found Puckett's head in a trap.
Don't you understand? It chased us, Rollie.
You know, it chased us to Tall Man's
house and came through the floor.
Where exactly are these marshes?
Who the hell are you?
He's here to kill it.
Just tell me where the marsh is.
I'll show you.
- Let's go.
- Right.
Don't you understand?
Tall Man, I saw it. It was in our house.
It was in our house.
I know, I know. Shh.
Chase and I will take care of everything.
Stay with Nathan.
Okay? Okay? You will be safe.
Don't cry, please.
My little shabbay. It will be okay.
.0kaV-
.0kaV-
Okay.
Chase, what are you doing?
I'm going to the marsh with Gibson.
What are you gonna do,
take snapshots of this thing
while it's ripping your guts out?
You don't have to do this.
Richland is gonna kill this thing.
The photographs are gonna be
the only proof the creature existed.
I don't want you to go.
My God, what happened to us?
You're obsessive and I'm compulsive.
We're both insane.
I don't know why we're not still married.
Werewolf.
Short hair, no beard.
Do you think that's Bishop?
Where did you find this?
It was stuffed in the back of
one of the diagrams.
What do you think they're celebrating?
A birth.
What was he saying?
Aunt Jenny, Aunt Jenny, re-compensates...
Philanthropy.
Aunt Jenny rue-compensates...
Philanthropy... Aunt Jenny...
OntogeflV
recapitulates phylogeny.
Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
My God.
The theory that the embryo,
the human embryo
as it's developing in the womb,
revisits every stage of its evolution
in the entire species.
A single cell becomes
a multicellular organism.
There's the gills first, then the tail,
then on and on,
all the way up to becoming a human fetus.
So, what if Bishop was able to microinject
a portion of the human genome
into the early stages of a shark fetus?
No, no, no. He could never
get the DNA to incorporate or replicate.
But what if he could?
- Let's go, then, people.
- Go!
Move!
- Mom.
- Oh, Max. Are you all right?
Yeah.
Can Elizabeth stay with us
until Chief Gibson and Dad get back?
Of course.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Get some sleep.
Thanks, Mom.
Chase came with me.
Ochoa, go right. Gray, Nash, left. Move!
What's that?
Liana Dane.
It's the name of a boat.
She was shipwrecked about 100 years ago.
She went down. The rest of her is in
the cove on the west side of my island.
This is more than a shark you're
dealing with. This thing is part human.
You knew about it, didn't you, Richland?
The experiments, Bishop, human DNA.
It doesn't matter what I knew.
It changes nothing, Dr. Chase.
It's still an aberration
that has killed and will keep killing
until we destroy it.
You tried to kill this thing 25 years ago.
It'll be all over soon. Finally and forever.
Oh, my God.
Mom, what is it?
Bishop had all this data about
the shark's reproductive systems,
and we didn't know why.
The costs of these experiments
must have been enormous.
Bishop knew that the Navy wouldn't
want to keep paying to create
more of the hybrids,
so he built into the hybrids' genetics
the ability to breed.
Not just with each other,
but with a common great white female.
But this isn't a hybrid.
Hybrids are sterile. This...
This is a completely new species.
We've got to kill this now.
We've got to kill it
before that mating urge kicks in,
and it leaves these waters
in search of a mate.
All it needs to do out there is breed once.
Just once.
Chase, I just want to apologize for...
It's okay, Rollie.
What's he doing?
Why is he making this
his above-ground lair?
Ochoa!
Richland!
Get your people out of here now!
Chase!
- Chase! Chase!
- Come here, Rollie, come here.
- Give me your hand.
- Chase, help me!
Chase!
Chase!
Kill it! Kill it! Kill it!
My brother says that we can stay with him
as long as we need to.
I already packed your bag.
No, Tall Man. Tall Man, you are not
going back to that island.
Not after this,
after this thing came into our house.
I have to.
Because of some promise?
This stubborn loyalty of yours.
You owe that man nothing.
This is not about him.
What, then?
It is not about me.
If you want to do something for me,
Tall Man,
you will go with me to my brother's
and let all of these rawliblancs,
these outsiders, solve their own problem.
And if they don't solve it?
If they are killed?
Then what?
And since when is it your responsibility
to worry about such thing?
You would risk your life for this man?
You would die?
Why?
You are going to do whatever you want to
do no matter what I say.
- I...
- Aren't you?
I have to.
Sometimes I do not understand you,
Tall Man.
Tauna.
I remember when I gave this to you.
You were still in your wedding dress.
I thought, "What kind of wedding gift
is this crazy man giving me?"
And then we came here.
It was no more than a patch of jungle.
Do you remember what I said?
You promised to build me a house
that would fit this key.
And I kept that promise.
Now,
I promise you,
you will come back to this house again,
but not until that creature is killed.
Not until you are safe.
No.
No, Papa.
What?
Mom, Mom, it's Dad. He's back.
He's over there. Look!
I'm going to get you to a doctor, Rollie.
No, Chase. Just go and find it.
Chase!
I'm all right, Amanda.
Papa.
What happened out there?
The men from the Navy, they died.
You saw it, then?
That thing that attacked us.
I've spent my life
trying to convince the islanders
there's no need for black magic.
That Obeah and hammer rods
are things of the past.
But, Elizabeth,
what I saw in that marsh...
All the stories about the island are true.
The monster I've been trying to convince
people isn't real,
I saw it.
And I didn't believe you.
- It's all right.
- No.
No, it's not all right.
I didn't believe you and people died.
Deaths I maybe could have stopped.
I'm sorry, sweetheart.
Thank you, Papa.
You get my gear together?
Whoa!
We gotta get these charged.
Grab the other two.
Chase, I know you when you get like this.
Max, when you're finished there,
meet me inside.
- All right.
- Chase.
Chase, if you put those on,
and you go into that water,
and you go after that thing, you're insane.
The trap,
the trap that thing set for Puckett,
well, some of the wood came from
a shipwreck in a cove on this island.
And you're gonna go down there
and look for it.
Not just look for it.
Whatever I have to do,
I'm going to put an end to it.
Chase.
Chase.
Chase.
You were here 25 years ago, weren't you?
You were part of it all.
You helped to create that thing out there.
It killed then, didn't it?
Yes, it did, just like it's killing now.
- More people.
- No, no.
Why didn't you kill it then?
Why?
Why?
My blood.
It's part of me.
No.
I know, Robin.
You want to get out there in that water.
It's not safe yet. It's not. It's not safe.
That's a good boy. Let me check this.
Let me check this. Easy.
One.
Three. It's 147 pounds per square inch.
Ten atmospheres.
All right, we're okay, Max.
Now what?
We check and see
if the seals will hold. No!
I wasn't gonna open that.
The chamber's under 10 atmospheres.
You release that lever,
that door will blow open so fast
it'll take your head off.
Point taken.
So, what happens if one of these valves
fails when someone's in there?
You see, the chambers are built
to bring the pressures
up to the level that the divers dove to
and then slowly equalize them
back to normal.
The keyword is slowly.
If the pressure's released too quickly...
- Ugly, huh?
- Barometric pressures in the body...
English, Dad.
The air in the body, in your head
and your chest will hyper-expand.
So, in other words, you blow apart.
There's a reason it's called
explosive decompression.
Chase.
I'm coming with you, so don't argue.
There's not going to be any argument.
I need someone to stay here
and take care of my family.
Chase.
There is another way.
Yes. Let's go for it.
That's a good boy.
Let's go. Yeah.
That's it. Great. It's okay.
Nice and slow, Robin.
Hey, Maxwell.
Hey.
I just needed a quiet place.
So much for your vacation, huh?
Oh, yeah.
I can hardly wait to get
the photos back from this one.
Actually, this trip isn't too far off
from my other ones.
When I was growing up,
other kids would spend
their summer vacations going to
Disneyland or the Grand Canyon.
My parents would
take me to the other side of the world,
to places I could barely pronounce.
Aitape, Tenerife. Vanuatu.
Remote islands in the middle of nowhere.
My friends would come back
with pictures of Donald and Mickey,
and I came back with tiger sharks
and chum-filled water.
But I wouldn't change it for the world.
- It's never boring with your dad.
- Or my mom.
You should try spending time with her.
They work well together.
When they're not driving each other crazy.
No, because they drive each other crazy.
They care about each other.
I don't know.
Not too much anymore.
Oh, don't be so sure.
Your dad is bullheaded,
but he's got a good heart, you know?
I remember when he first came here.
Nobody wanted him.
Nobody would work for him, including me.
So what happened?
What made you change your mind?
I saw him stand up at a meeting
and face down
half the people of this town.
See, the people wanted to extend
our dock further out into the harbor.
He said, "No, bad for reef life."
People screaming at him for an hour,
he never backed down.
That sounds like him.
Impressed me.
It must have impressed other people, too,
because our dock is still the same.
He's driven here.
Your mom, too.
You see?
They're gonna be all right, aren't they?
If anybody can beat this thing,
it is your dad.
He'll be okay.
Yeah.
Rollie, we found Puckett's boat.
Storm's coming in fast.
Robin's on the move.
That's the shipwreck.
That's the Liana Dane.
He's getting close.
Yes, he is.
That's a cave. That's a natural cave.
I've never seen that before.
- Can you get him to go in there?
- Yeah, watch this.
The first one's "go,"
the second one's "hold
And he'll do it because I asked him to.
He's going in.
What's that noise?
I don't know. It sounds mechanical.
It's the generator.
It's the power generator at the institute.
How can we hear it here?
The cave must run through
the whole island.
No, no, no, those underwater caves,
they don't go that far.
The damn thing's found another way in.
Get Robin out of there!
Robin!
Max!
Tall Man, do you read me?
Max! Get out now.
Get them out.
Max, get out now! Get out!
Max, do you read me? Max?
Dad, we can't read you.
You're really breaking up. Say it again.
Repeat, say it again.
Dad, come on.
Chase, the storm is building fast.
You got to come back in, man.
Chase, do you read me?
Chase, Robin isn't responding.
The creature.
That generator must sound
like a heartbeat to him.
He's heard it ever since he was born.
Look at that.
Look, that's the lab under the institute.
Robin!
Amanda, I'm so sorry.
Tall Man, this is really stupid.
Why don't we just leave the hatch sealed?
This may be our only chance to kill it.
Then, you shouldn't go alone.
You know, someone should go with you.
Let me.
I will go.
I will help.
Come on, fish.
Come on, fishy.
Come on, fish.
Come out where I can get
a good look at you.
Don't!
Tall Man!
- Max!
- Mom!
Max.
- Max, are you all right?
- Yeah.
Close the hatch. Close it now!
Behind you!
Get the gun! Get the gun!
Now! Shoot him!
Shoot him.
Shoot him!
Over here!
Got it. Got it.
Come on, let's go!
Come on, come on.
Max, Amanda! Help!
Chase. Oh, my God.
Give me your hand. Easy. Come on.
Let's get Tall Man out of here.
Oh, my God.
Jump, jump!
Leave it open.
Max.
Come on, we've got to hide.
Yes. Right here.
- What? What?
- This way.
Come on.
Stay down.
Hey!
Hey!
Max.
Up here.
Up here, you serious piece of...
Noise.
Hey! Come over here!
Leave him alone. Come get me!
Max, get to the crane!
Dad!
No, Max! The other way!
- The other way, Max!
- I'm trying.
Take me higher, Max. Higher!
I'm trying.
God.
The chamber, Max!
The chamber!
Down, take it down.
Inside. Get him inside!
Come on.
Come on, come on, come on.
Come on.
Come on.
Hey.
Hey, you!
You remember me, don't you?
'Cause I remember you.
Peniston.
- Don't.
- I have to.
I can't let him die alone.
Go! Go now!
Go.
Tall Man!
- Start the generator!
- Yah, man!
Come on.