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Previously on Surface.

AP's reporting that the lake collapsed into a sinkhole. This footage was shot

last night inside the sinkhole in Texas.

The Navy robot was outfitted to withstand heat up to 800 degrees.

How far did it get?

43, 44 miles.

This allows them to survive in such a hostile environment.

My brother is trying to talk to me. Dr. Davey thinks you might have post

-traumatic stress syndrome.

Rich!

I can see by your interest that you've had an encounter.

So how long were you a prisoner?

What?

Prisoner in the aquatic city.

Planning on telling me that you lost your job?

We're all in the car right now. Honey, please, I'm right here. What are you

going to do? Are you going to run me over?

Dude, it's not even plugged in. My

pet.

Nimrod. He can be kind of jumpy. That's okay.

We don't have to take him for a walk or anything.

Three paragraphs of your thesis were lifted verbatim.

That's absurd.

Plagiarism.

Until it's resolved, there's not much I can do.

I have some experience with whistleblowers.

So, you ruined her career.

Come on, this is serious. They framed me, Carolyn.

The government doesn't want people to know about it. And they don't fly fair.

So why should you?

Do you know what this means?

We can track its feeding patterns, dive time, range.

Lung capacity.

Jack, excuse me, sir.

You need to see this.

So this could get your old job back.

No, it could get me a better one.

Just because you know where a whale is?

No, I told you, it's not a whale.

Oh, right, it's an unclassified marine vertebrate. That's right, one that's

moving at over 100 knots.

Over 115 miles an hour.

That's faster than anything in the water.

And you discovered it.

Well, yeah, I mean, I was the first to see it and record it.

Until they screwed you out of everything.

Whoa, hey, we don't use language like that.

Except when it's our.

Do you know what this is?

This is a GPS signal picked up off NSA Carnivore.

Someone's tagged a live one.

Who?

It's a mystery. Like the crew of the Topeka.

111 men.

Gone. Without a trace.

You can't leave.

You got responsibilities.

Poker night, Dutch season.

I'm honoring my responsibilities by doing this.

Tracy and the kids are here, man. Hey, it's alright. I ain't going forever.

I want my porch.

Come on, man. We'll finish the dang porch when I get back. Figure out what

it is I'm supposed to do.

Is that like you figured out your decor in the living room?

Look, I'm going to talk to the only person I know that saw the same thing I

did. Man, I gotta find somebody.

Anybody else who's going through what I am I'm dying here.

She know you're coming not exactly Look after all right

He

shocked

me and knocked me on my butt he's a menace man No, he's not.

He just ate Amber Lou's dog, dude. That's bad.

If found, please call.

I don't need to call.

People are going to find out.

Like your parents?

Yeah.

Hey, maybe I'll come clean.

Maybe they'll just let me keep him. Don't be a sucker.

There's only one way to go in a situation like this.

What? Full and total denial.

Oh my god, Rich!

Hi, hey!

How are you?

Oh, I'm alright, I'm alright. How about yourself?

Good, great.

I tagged one.

Get out of here.

Yeah, just this past weekend, right off the Farallons.

How about that? What'd you get it from, the boat? No, no, I was in the water. It

was crazy.

Wow. Them mothers are big, ain't they?

Yeah, you could say that.

They're huge.

Oh, I'm actually in California.

Had some business out here, a little conference.

How far are you from Sausalito?

A couple hours.

We're so dead. Amber is like mortified.

Really? Duh. I'm sure she's telling her mom that your thing ate her dog.

Do you honestly think no one is going to find out? Find out what?

Honey, are you okay?

Yeah. I'm fine.

Don't say anything.

Hi, Kathy.

Amber's mom?

You're such a goner. Oh, of course I'm listening. It just sounds so... Oh,

Kathy, I've never allowed Miles to have a pet, let alone... Well, if something

happened next door, shouldn't you be calling them?

Okay, then.

I'll talk to them.

That was Amber's mother.

Is she on some kind of medication?

No. She's fine. Why?

Well, Amber's dog's missing, and I guess they're very upset.

Hey there!

Watch your beach the last boat we were on, huh?

Hey, nice to see you.

Yeah, I thought I'd gone overboard.

Man, that's only some of it.

Here you go.

Oh, thank you. Sure.

You see this?

I've got a friend at the weather tracking service, and she took satellite

photos of my tagging trip.

Oh, wow.

Yeah. This is a whole pot of them. Yeah.

Maybe even a school.

Look at that.

Huh.

That is amazing.

But I saved the best for last.

Check it out.

Listen.

That's him? Yeah.

Yeah, he is 34 north, 117 west.

Heading down to the north end of Baja.

See? Yeah.

You can see the history of his route.

Track his movement over time. Right here.

Look at that.

Well, they're out there.

He's out there.

Hi.

Got a present for you.

I don't take the SAT for two more years.

Never too early to start. It's how your sister got a 1450.

I could study for 50 years and I wouldn't make a 1450.

Now what kind of attitude is that to have, hmm?

The truth?

Read.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Hey, Phil, it's me.

Just a second.

Yeah, what do you want? You gotta move them now.

It's like I told the girl's mother. We don't have any pets.

Well, a lot of parents think that, ma'am.

Then find out different.

Believe me, I know what my children are up to. I'm a very involved parent.

Miles!

Well, these exotic dealers, they don't need a note from your parents, not as

long as you've got the cash.

Yeah? Mr. Farrell is here from Animal Control.

Howdy.

Did you find Amber's dog?

Huh.

Sure am glad I came out here.

Yeah, me too.

Nice to have someone to talk to.

My neighbors think I'm crazy.

Listen, there's something I've been meaning to talk to you about.

And I apologize if I get too personal on you here.

Well... I've been having some

issues since the accident.

And, well, I was wondering if you'd had anything like a daydream

or like a flashback, you know? Oh, man. It's

like a strong daydream. Like a light at the end of the tunnel type

of deal.

Not yet. Sorry.

I haven't.

Well, that's okay.

That's weird.

Huh? What's weird?

It's, um, it's never come that close to land before.

This could be our chance to get it on tape.

Do you understand what this means? If I can get a videotape of the animal in the

wild, goodbye plagiarism, hello tenure.

All right.

Well, how far to the Russian River? Like three hours. Make it two.

I'm sorry, Pina. Here we go. Okay, we're going to go see Daddy, right?

Here we go.

Good boy. Hey, buddy.

There we go. Hey.

We were just checking the seat.

Yeah, that's a good boy. Put on your seatbelt.

It's Amber.

Told me you look like a reptile.

With a head pin.

Could be a caiman.

A landing one.

Killer.

Got a sheep right through.

It shocked Amber's dog.

To death.

Then ate it.

It was horrible.

It was like an electrocution.

I hope I'm not insane when I'm your age.

You'll be in jail when you're my age.

Okay. I don't know what's going on here, but if it keeps up, I'm going to call

your father.

All right, step back.

I'll get him. Ow!

Stay calm.

Stay calm.

I didn't poke it that hard, man.

That pool's just old. It's just old.

Come on, dude.

Come on, Nim.

Be a good boy, please.

I want to know what happened to Amber's dog, and I want to know now.

I told you, I don't know. Savannah?

No, Mom, he's lying. He does know. He's been hiding that lizard thing in Phil's

backyard. Yeah, Mom, a lizard that executed Amber's dog with a ball of

lightning. I don't appreciate the sarcasm, Miles.

Look, me? What about her?

Well, Savannah doesn't have some pet I don't know about.

I don't know what happened to her dog.

Okay, maybe it woke up, got a load of amber, and ran off.

When you're ready to tell me the truth, young man, you come talk to me.

And don't be late for school.

How does everything around here get to be my fault?

Chill, homie.

It's all cool.

No, Phil, it's not cool.

It was cool.

What?

We'll see. I thought I'd put Nim inside your car. You didn't.

Come

on,

we gotta go.

You can't pass here.

You know the speed limit's like 55 around here.

Don't worry. If I get a ticket, it won't track back home. They ain't on the whole

computer, national computer thing yet.

Not really what I was referring to.

Misunderstood what that looks for.

Yeah. Don't worry. This is as fast as she goes.

That's a double yellow. No problem. I got this.

How long have you been tracking this thing?

Since last Saturday.

It's never done anything like this, right? It's never gone up in a rear

view. No, I told you. It's never come within 20 miles of land. Oh, come on.

This guy won't get out of my way.

Hey, whoa, Rich. Come on. This is not...

Look man, I'm gonna see this thing too. I just don't want to get killed doing

it. I'll be careful. All right, we got my words

You're not out here on business are you?

No

Excuse me.

Excuse me. Can I get some help up here, please?

Right away, ma'am.

You see her car?

Nope. Nothing.

She better be here, man.

Relax. We're going to get your critter back.

Nimrod. His name is Nimrod.

Okay, dude. Chill.

Don't tell me to chill.

I'm not on the honor roll. I can't throw a football.

Nim is my extracurricular, all right?

Sure, man. Whatever you say.

I just hope I don't do to your mom what they damn best thought.

Yes, sir. We're working on it.

We'll have a name of the person who's tracking the animal shortly.

Yes, sir.

Yeah. I understand.

Can you hang on a moment, sir?

Give me a realistic time frame.

This isn't simple, you know. They have to vet the satellite trilateral relation

feed and check that against... A time. It's simple, non-technical language.

It takes what it takes.

We'll have a name soon, sir.

Okay, just hit this.

And that goes with this, too.

Yeah.

All right, let's go.

The manager is here.

Dude, this is gonna be bad.

Excuse me?

Your aquarium exploded in my living room?

I'm sorry, we don't sell aquariums. Well, you did last week.

A special?

Line starts right there.

Are

we

just cutting school? This is an emergency, Phil.

We gotta think what Nim's gonna do.

What's a wild animal do in a grocery store?

Jim's not wild.

He ate that lapdog in one bite.

Are you looking?

Yeah, dude, I'm looking. But seriously, give me the heebs.

What's all the commotion about?

What are they doing to him, man?

Let me in, let me in.

Oh, no.

Ooh.

Oh, yeah. That's all right.

Can I get one?

Let me see, let me see.

Ooh. I guess I'll try it.

Wow, I love that.

Yeah, sure.

How's the signal? How we doing?

Still moving upriver, ten miles past the headwaters.

Bella?

Rich, Bug is telling me you are going to California.

I'm tracking one right now.

Okay, it's right here. It's going to be coming up, okay? Okay.

Okay, did I just hear a woman's voice?

Yeah, it's Laura.

Who is Laura?

Laura Daugherty, the biologist, South Carolina. Remember, she tagged one.

You son of a bitch. Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn.

Look at what the data's migration projections are showing.

Not projections anymore.

We identified the tagger.

Laura Daughtry?

They are not going to do anything. It's a difficult situation.

Oh, yes.

They won't allow free radicals to run around out there.

She could get a tape. Then it's out on the news, on the web, viral.

And once it's out, you can't get it back.

So she should be killed and dumped into the river? Of course not.

But... Information must be controlled.

No threats.

Listen, Davis.

If anything happens to Dr. Daughtry, I will quit.

So if something is with the eggplant...

because all dairy products are minus 30% off today.

So load up on all your dairy while you shop.

So, what was in the aquarium?

Fish. That it?

Plants, filtration, it all came with the package.

I'm sure your kid didn't start an outboard in it.

Because it wouldn't be unprecedented.

You would not believe the crazy stuff the kids put in fish tanks.

Furniture, pets, little brothers.

Miles. Excuse me?

Nothing.

Uh, ma'am?

Still moving upriver.

Should be visible in like a minute or two.

All right.

All right.

Let's go.

I knew there was a reason for me to come out here.

35 seconds.

See, I'm not like you. I never had, like, biology or, you know, any interest

or... Never had a passion at all, really.

Maybe fishing.

You should be coming right around the bend.

You know, nobody really ever wakes up wanting to be an insurance salesman.

These last few weeks, I tell you, I really felt like this is all happening

for a reason.

And then I got a really big part to play.

You ever get that feeling?

Yeah, I do.

Ten seconds.

You getting it?

I mean, if that's not evidence, I don't know what is.

Thanks for getting here so quickly.

Listen, I don't know what we're dealing with, but I had some seriously upset

customers. Maybe we should evacuate.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

This place has 10 grand an hour. I just want it out of here before the lawyers

start showing up.

Look at that creep.

Can't let him get Nim.

Nim's gone, man.

Outtie. We should take the hint.

It's me.

It's Miles.

I'm not going to hurt you.

It was an accident.

You made the nail gun go off.

I'm going to take the nail out.

And then you'll feel better.

Dude,

Miles. They're coming.

See?

All gone.

We gotta go now, dude. Come on.

Let's go. Look what we got here.

Oh, you boys are in big trouble.

Let's go.

Come on. Come on. Move it.

We're fueled and ready.

Arrival in Sausalito. Three hours, sir.

Is that a whale?

Yeah,

compact. Pretty common this time of year.

Um, actually they go south in spring.

Coast Guard Humboldt Bay Coast Guard Humboldt Bay we have visual

Look.

I'm looking at it. No, the cameras.

It's still here.

It's still here, listen.

Well, young man, you've really outdone yourself.

You really have.

Shall we review the last couple of weeks?

Brought home by the Coast Guard at 4 o'clock in the morning, lying to us

about a pet lizard.

Which ate Amber's dog.

Oh, what am I going to say to Amber's mother next time I see her?

Two weeks, and you've been in more trouble than Savannah has in her entire

life.

Anything you want to say for yourself, partner?

Hey, baby, it's Daddy.

What's going on?

I miss you, Daddy.

Oh, I miss you too, baby.

Hey, is Mom around?

Mom, Dad wants to talk to you.

I don't think she wants to talk to you right now.

She wants to know why you're in California, Dad.

All right, well, it's okay.

It's okay if she doesn't.

Just, uh...

Tell her daddy loves her, okay, baby?

Okay. And I love you too, all right? Bye.

Bye.

Hey, listen, I sure am sorry if I scared you earlier today, you know?

I can get a little riled up sometimes.

Face facts, man.

You can't call this a coincidence when I drive all the way from California. Can I

be honest with you? You did scare me a little bit earlier.

We don't know each other that well, you know?

And the only thing we really have in common is...

This.

And if we're going to keep going, I have to be able to trust you.

Absolutely. Hey, you can trust me, okay?

I promise. I swear you can trust me.

Excuse me.

Yes? Are you Dr. Lara Daughtry? Yeah.

Would you mind coming with me for a moment?

Who's asking? Yeah, just hang on a second. Nobody's going anywhere. What's

the problem?

This is not a request, man. Hey, hey, I'm talking to you, not her. Please,

this is not your concern.

I understand that, sir, but you can't get your hands on me. Hey, hey, hey,

hey, hey!

What you trying to do, man?

You know what? There's something going on here, and these people have a right

to know about it!

Are you done watching? My head is killing me.

Never a thing on TV.

Feeling any better?

How I'm feeling isn't the problem.

He's trying, Sylvia.

Trying? Trying to get brought home by animal control?

That's not trying.

Trying is standing in line at the grocery store with a broken aquarium

like an idiot.

suddenly realizing that your son has been lying to you about having a pet

lizard. Now, wait a second. Maybe he's been lying to us because we've been a

little too hard on him.

Hard? The kid has every toy known to man, a hundred-volume video game

collection. Oh, and have you seen his grades lately? So he's not an academic

like his sister. Well, that's an understatement.

He's gonna have to improve.

I don't know how he'll ever get into college.

Nice work.

Got the parents fighting.

Where's the lizard?

Oh, right.

Top secret.

He ran away.

Happy?

Oh my god.

You missed that thing.

It's a reptile, moron. It has a brain half the size of a pea.

You're like bonding with a vegetable.

You really can't take it personally.

You have the right to remain silent. Oh, I know it, but it don't really matter.

Big old cover-up going on here. I know it. Everybody knows it.

I'm going to prove these things exist, I'll tell you that.

My little brother didn't die for nothing.

Sure, buddy.

Get in the car.

Freak.

A little

late this

time, Dr. Serko.

A lot of people saw it.

How are you going to spin that one?

We won't have to. Um, yeah, you will. A lot of people have cameras out there.

The creature pulsed, and all digital data within two kilometers was

destroyed. Don't try to scare me with your crap, man.

I have some experience with this problem.

I'm sorry.

But listen, I want to discuss something.

You can't stop me.

I'm not here to stop you.

There are government interests that want to keep control of what is happening

here.

They have decided to have you involved.

But it is not why I want you.

I want you to evolve because you're a good scientist and I respect you. Would

you demonstrate it to me by framing me for plagiarism?

I pointed out that you had managed to do something with almost no

resources that we failed to do with tens of millions and the United States

military.

You...

I work for you after what you've done to me.

Because you will be present for history.