A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.
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00:02:59Do you hear me, girl?
00:03:11Well, you won't now.
00:03:17You got to put that thing so loud?
00:03:20Why don't you come out like this first?
00:03:23Oh, don't bother me.
00:03:25Liz, someday I'm going to give that she-cat the weapon she's been asking for.
00:03:35Sure you will, Dave.
00:03:36Lay the load down to her.
00:03:37Let her overwears the plants around here.
00:03:41I'll be back in a minute.
00:03:45Any whoopings done back there, I'll lay you a jug.
00:03:49She'll be doing it.
00:03:49Come on now, Lamb, and tell us about that thing you killed out there at the swamp, will you?
00:03:56Yeah, Liv, let's share the rest of that.
00:03:58Like I was thinking, I put five slugs into that critter before it went under.
00:04:03You know what?
00:04:04I don't know you.
00:04:07Don't do it.
00:04:12Have you ever seen?
00:04:13like one of them uh like one of them octopuses things oh it was plum off look
00:04:21limb you sure that critter wasn't pink oh i told you before it was sort of gray looking
00:04:30you'll laugh if you want but that thing weren't nothing nature put out there
00:04:37oh sir and it weren't no freak gator neither i've been poaching this country for 40 years and i
00:04:45ain't never seen nothing like it not too bad you didn't bring it back steve benton probably
00:04:51paid fair bounty for whatever it was bounty i wouldn't touch that critter for all the money
00:04:58ever made and if you seen it you wouldn't either you better take it easy on this stuff you looking
00:05:05kind of peek it no i'm gonna clean my otter lines out before morning limb i think that critter's a
00:05:15ghost one of those otters you've been poaching all these years coming back to haunt you
00:05:22well if that's so you fellers will see it right quick yourselves
00:05:28oh
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00:05:58Look, it's not like I want to be mean or anything like that, Liz, baby.
00:06:13But I got a reputation around here.
00:06:15These folks have no respect for a man who lets his woman boss him.
00:06:19Well, next thing they know, they'll be laughing at me.
00:06:21And they'll be telling all the rest of the...
00:06:23Won't you please listen to me, Liz, baby?
00:06:25Liz?
00:06:55Don't be looking at me like that.
00:07:03I'll look at you any way I want, you're my wife.
00:07:05Don't touch me.
00:07:22You think you're talking to me?
00:07:24Don't touch me.
00:07:25You're my wife.
00:07:26I'll touch you any time I feel like it.
00:07:27Where are you going?
00:07:40Where are you going?
00:07:43I'm going out.
00:07:46Maybe I'll be back.
00:07:48Maybe I won't.
00:07:49Liz, baby.
00:07:50I don't mean nothing.
00:07:57There was a young one in that last trap.
00:08:22I had to kill it.
00:08:23Oh, poor thing.
00:08:25Told you you shouldn't have come along.
00:08:32Well, I can understand hunting an animal, but making it suffer in those traps, it's horrible.
00:08:39Well, these poachers know the swamp's like the back of their hands.
00:08:42But I'll catch one of them in the axe some night and put him away for six months.
00:08:46In the meantime, I'll have to be satisfied confiscating their trap lines.
00:08:49If they lose enough traps, it won't pay them to keep trying.
00:08:51Well, be careful, darling.
00:08:53These people aren't like other folks.
00:08:55You know, they'll try and get back at you.
00:08:57Let them try.
00:08:58Steve, you're a stranger here.
00:09:00They've lived this way for generations.
00:09:03One man isn't going to change them overnight.
00:09:05You're a real worrywart.
00:09:07Oh, I'm serious, Steve.
00:09:08They can be dangerous.
00:09:10Okay.
00:09:11I'll be careful.
00:09:13You just stop worrying.
00:09:14You.
00:09:14Oh, Steve, I love you.
00:09:23I love you so much.
00:09:30What was that?
00:09:31I don't know.
00:09:32You get in the truck and lock it up.
00:09:33Oh, Steve.
00:09:54Listen, Benton, the corner rule that Sawyer died by misadventure.
00:10:17Now, as far as this officer's concerned, that's the end of it.
00:10:20But, Sheriff, I can't see why the...
00:10:21If Lem was killed by anything human, I wouldn't need you to tell me my job.
00:10:26But I'm not about to go tromping through the swamp looking for an overgrown gator.
00:10:30Sawyer wasn't killed by an alligator.
00:10:32Is that so?
00:10:33Did you hear that, Morton?
00:10:35Game Warden Benton says it wasn't a gator who killed Lem.
00:10:38Well, then, what was it?
00:10:40You know so much.
00:10:40Go on, tell me.
00:10:41What killed him?
00:10:43Dr. Grayson said the wounds were the kind of squid or a large octopus might cause.
00:10:47Oh, sure.
00:10:48And did Grayson explain how a saltwater creature happened to be 30 miles inland living in clear water?
00:10:54Stranger things have happened.
00:10:55I know that...
00:10:56Look here, Benton.
00:10:57You work for the state.
00:10:59Now, why don't you keep your nose out of county business?
00:11:01Is that clear enough for you?
00:11:04Oh, go soak your fat head.
00:11:09What was that you said?
00:11:11I said, go soak your fat head.
00:11:19Oh, that boy's looking for bad trouble.
00:11:23And he's sure going to get it.
00:11:25You can bet on that.
00:11:26So, you see, the octopi uses its suction discs to hold its prey.
00:11:39Now, in itself, the disc will not inflict a wound.
00:11:42Same is true of the squid.
00:11:44Now, both creatures have a parrot-like beak as their primary offensive and defensive weapon.
00:11:49Well, maybe the sheriff was right, Dad.
00:11:52Could be a freak or a malformed alligator.
00:11:55No, no, I'm afraid it wasn't.
00:12:00Well, where does that leave us, Doc?
00:12:02I wish I knew.
00:12:05You know, I'm beginning to think Lem was telling the truth in Walker's store.
00:12:09He did see something that night.
00:12:11Something that had intelligence enough to seek him out and destroy him later.
00:12:15But Sawyer claims to have killed the thing he saw.
00:12:18Put a half a dozen rifle bullets into it.
00:12:20I've seen that old .44-40 he used.
00:12:22Nothing could live after being hit with those slugs.
00:12:25Well, conceding the possibility of one such creature, we must also concede the possibility of others.
00:12:34Now, there's one sure way of finding out.
00:12:37Go in and search every backwater, channel, and wet spot in the swamp.
00:12:40If it's there, I'll find it.
00:13:13It sure is quiet around here.
00:13:43Did you hear something?
00:14:06Yes?
00:14:12Well, whatever it was, it's not here anymore.
00:14:21Do you want some coffee?
00:14:23Yeah, thanks, son.
00:14:28An army could hide in here and never be noticed.
00:14:31Well, one did.
00:14:32What?
00:14:34Seminoles under Osceola in the 1830s.
00:14:37Took the U.S. Army two years to round them up.
00:14:39Oh, I remember reading about Osceola in high school.
00:14:42Two years.
00:14:45I've only been at it two days and I feel worn out.
00:14:49Well, we might as well keep on looking around.
00:15:09Well, I guess we may as well give up for the day.
00:15:25You won't get any argument from me.
00:15:27All right.
00:15:36Oh, my God.
00:16:06I'm asking you for the last time, Dave Walker.
00:16:14You answer me, you dirty old man.
00:16:18I ain't dirty, Liz, baby.
00:16:21Liz, baby.
00:16:22Liz, honey.
00:16:24Can't you think of anything else, stupid?
00:16:26I've got to get this order over to Ms. Chauvey.
00:16:28She's one of my better customers.
00:16:31Can't keep her waiting.
00:16:34I love you, Liz, baby.
00:16:36Get out.
00:16:39Get out, you fat pig!
00:16:58You have some trouble, Dave?
00:17:00You know women, Cal.
00:17:03Got to get the hair down every now and then.
00:17:06You sure do know an awful lot about females.
00:17:09I've got to hand it to you.
00:17:12I can't stand here at John, Cal.
00:17:14Got to get this order over to Ms. Chauvey.
00:17:16What's she letting her hair down about this time?
00:17:20Well, ever since Lynn got herself killed, she wants me to sell out and move into town.
00:17:28Don't you let her bamboozle you, Dave.
00:17:30You keep her right here in the store.
00:17:33After all, the place wouldn't be the same without you around.
00:17:36Thanks, Cal.
00:17:38I'd better get going.
00:17:40See when I get back.
00:17:41Yeah, I'll be around.
00:17:58Liz, baby.
00:18:03It's Cal, honey.
00:18:04You want something, Cal?
00:18:19I sure do, honey.
00:18:34I'm tired.
00:18:39Oh, I'm dead.
00:18:41Me too.
00:18:44Come on over here.
00:18:45It seems kind of silly knocking ourselves out looking for something we aren't even sure exists.
00:18:59What do you mean?
00:19:01You know, we've covered miles of back channel and haven't come across anything to support your father's theory of an alien creature.
00:19:08Not so much as a mud print we couldn't identify.
00:19:13I know.
00:19:16You're not going to give up, are you, Steve?
00:19:19Well, I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:24With all respect to your father's ideas.
00:19:26Dad seems so sure.
00:19:31Dad seems so sure.
00:19:31Dad seems so sure.
00:19:56Dad seems so sure.
00:19:58I don't know.
00:20:00Do you have any other people?
00:20:04Do you like me, Cal?
00:20:05I don't know.
00:20:06I don't know.
00:20:07Do you like me, Cal?
00:20:10Do you like me, Cal?
00:20:12I guess I don't know.
00:20:16I guess I've seen anyone like you before.
00:20:17I can't see you.
00:20:18I can't see you.
00:20:18Do you really like me, Cal?
00:20:22Are you kidding me?
00:20:25No, I didn't hurt you, did I?
00:20:28You're just so strong.
00:20:32I like him, and he's strong.
00:20:36You sure picked a doozy, that man, Dave.
00:20:41I don't think he's got a muscle in him.
00:20:44Just a big piece of flab.
00:20:47Oh, honey, I didn't mean anything against you.
00:20:53It's just that I can't see a real woman like you
00:20:57tying in with a tub of lard like him.
00:21:02You wouldn't understand, Cal.
00:21:05You know, I've wanted to tell you.
00:21:10You just wouldn't understand.
00:21:13You try me.
00:21:15Come on, you tell old Cal about it.
00:21:24You wouldn't think bad of me.
00:21:26Crazy.
00:21:28You tell me you killed your pa, and your ma, and your whole family.
00:21:33I fight to protect you.
00:21:37You see.
00:21:39Why?
00:21:41How about you?
00:21:43I've had to.
00:21:44Good.
00:21:46Good.
00:21:47Well.
00:21:48Let's see.
00:21:49Good.
00:21:50Good.
00:21:51Good.
00:21:52Good.
00:21:54Good.
00:21:55My first husband was a no-good bum.
00:22:21Couldn't keep a job more than a week.
00:22:25He used to get lushed up, come home beat up on me.
00:22:29He must have been a prize pig.
00:22:33One night he tried to hold up a gas station.
00:22:36He was so drunk he couldn't even run.
00:22:40I thought I'm less than a mile away.
00:22:43He got sent up.
00:22:46I got a divorce.
00:22:49That's rough.
00:22:51After three years working on our lousy beanery, I was ready for the first guy that sent a nice wood to me.
00:22:58It was Dave.
00:23:01That's it.
00:23:03I wish it had been me.
00:23:05I don't know how to take care of a woman like you, Liz.
00:23:08Maybe it ain't too late, pal.
00:23:11You're wrong, woman.
00:23:21It's too late for the both of you.
00:23:24Get up.
00:23:27Come on, get up.
00:23:29Now look, Dave, I know what you're thinking, but...
00:23:32I got double large shot in this here thing.
00:23:36I got two seconds before I'm pulling the trigger.
00:23:43No point getting riled, Dave.
00:23:45It wasn't my fault.
00:23:47She's been testing me for months to take her out.
00:23:50Sure, Cal.
00:23:51I understand.
00:23:53Get her up so I can get a better look at the line, little tramp.
00:23:57Come on, get her up.
00:24:01Come on, get up.
00:24:02Oh, Cal, no.
00:24:03No, he killed me.
00:24:04He killed me.
00:24:05Jump.
00:24:06Your husband wants to take a look at you.
00:24:13You walk all the way, Dave?
00:24:15One more step and I'll blow your plumbing too.
00:24:18Get over there.
00:24:20Now, Dave, it ain't as bad as you think.
00:24:23Shut up.
00:24:25What are you gonna do?
00:24:28You'll find out soon enough.
00:24:32Dave, you put down that gun before I get mad and make you eat it.
00:24:36You go ahead and try it, Cal.
00:24:38Go right ahead and try.
00:24:41Move.
00:24:42Move!
00:24:55Come on.
00:25:10Move up.
00:25:12Come on.
00:25:14Come on.
00:25:15Come on.
00:25:17Come on out.
00:25:19Come on.
00:25:20Come on.
00:25:21I can't go any further!
00:25:23No!
00:25:24No!
00:25:25Come on!
00:25:26Come on!
00:25:27I can't go any further!
00:25:28No!
00:25:29Come on!
00:25:30No!
00:25:31Come on!
00:25:51Go on!
00:25:52Run!
00:25:53Run till you drop!
00:26:21I can't go anymore. I can't. You've got to let me stop.
00:26:28Let's get it.
00:26:29I can't go. I can't go.
00:26:51Come on. Keep going.
00:27:06Dave, please, you've got to listen. It wasn't my fault, Ernest.
00:27:10She'd complain up to me every time you'd turn your back. It wasn't my fault.
00:27:15You call yourself a man. You're in your muscles.
00:27:19Shut up, you champ. If it wasn't you, I wouldn't be in this fix.
00:27:24And my old friend Dave wouldn't be doing this thing to me.
00:27:27It's all your fault.
00:27:29Get going.
00:27:32But Dave, we've been friends a long time, Dave.
00:27:37You wouldn't kill an old friend, Dave.
00:27:40If you don't move, I'll kill you where you stand.
00:27:43But Dave!
00:27:46Pray, big man.
00:27:49Oh, I didn't mean it, Dave.
00:27:55Dave, I didn't mean it.
00:27:58Dave, the kid is out here.
00:28:02Dave, please, Dave.
00:28:05Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
00:28:08I'm sorry.
00:28:12Please, I'm sorry, honey. I'm sorry, Dave.
00:28:16I'm sorry. I didn't mean it.
00:28:18I didn't mean it.
00:28:20I'm sorry.
00:28:22Please, I'm sorry.
00:28:26You think you'll learn enough to stay away from a woman, Carol?
00:28:29Oh, oh, anything, Dave.
00:28:32I'm moving here. I'm going out of the county.
00:28:34I'll do anything you say, Dave.
00:28:36Anything.
00:28:37All right. Come on out of there.
00:28:43Oh, Dave, Dave, get in the head off.
00:28:46Oh, what have you got?
00:28:48Oh, Dave.
00:28:49Oh, my God.
00:28:52Look out. Look out.
00:28:53Behind you.
00:28:55Oh, no.
00:28:56Oh, no.
00:28:57Oh, no.
00:28:58Oh, no.
00:28:58Oh, no.
00:28:59Oh, no.
00:29:00Oh, no.
00:29:01Oh, no.
00:29:02Oh, no.
00:29:03Oh, no.
00:29:04Oh, no.
00:29:05There ain't nothing down here, Sheriff.
00:29:17Well, I'm getting tired of this.
00:29:21Come on in, boys.
00:29:27Well, if there was any bodies out there, we'd have found them.
00:29:31I want some straight answers, Walter.
00:29:33And don't give me any more of that crud about monsters, either.
00:29:37Where'd you hide them after you killed them?
00:29:42I told you the truth, Sheriff.
00:29:44I didn't kill them.
00:29:47I just wanted to scare them good.
00:29:51I loved my Liz.
00:29:54I wouldn't do anything to hurt her.
00:29:57I loved her.
00:29:58Sure.
00:30:00You loved her.
00:30:02That's why you chased her through the swamp with a shotgun.
00:30:05Come on, Walker.
00:30:07Where'd you hide the bodies?
00:30:10Oh, would you believe me?
00:30:11There's some monsters.
00:30:13They...
00:30:13Take him out of here before I lose my temper.
00:30:15Oh, my God.
00:30:24Accountary payer reward if someone finds a body share.
00:30:29Fifty dollars.
00:30:32Each?
00:30:34Yeah.
00:30:35You know, I never thought that of old Dave.
00:30:42Of course, everybody knowed that Cal and Liz had a hankering for each other.
00:30:46Everybody but old Dave.
00:30:49Stern fools.
00:30:51Grappling out there in the middle of the water.
00:30:54If them bodies are still in there,
00:30:56you can bet some old bull gator's got him stuffed in his cave under the bank,
00:31:02letting him ripen up for a few days.
00:31:05Yeah, well, what we need now is some long cypress poles
00:31:10to go in there and probe them gator caves.
00:31:28I'm sorry, Doc. I can't do it.
00:31:31I'll have to do it myself.
00:31:32I wouldn't want to have to arrest you, Doc, but I will if I find you near the preserve with any explosives.
00:31:37Steve.
00:31:37I'm sorry, Nan. That's the way it's got to be.
00:31:41Steve's right, Nan. It's his job to protect wildlife.
00:31:44What about human life?
00:31:46Three people have been killed in that game preserve.
00:31:49Doesn't that mean anything to you?
00:31:51Nan, try to understand.
00:31:52If I could be sure something in the swamp was responsible for those deaths,
00:31:56I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
00:31:57We've been together the last three days.
00:32:00We didn't see a trace of anything unusual.
00:32:03Not so much as a suggestion of any form of life unknown to us.
00:32:07Steve, something killed those people.
00:32:09All right. I'll admit Sawyer's death left a lot of questions unanswered.
00:32:14But you can bet your bottom dollar the other two died from Dave Walker's shotgun.
00:32:17Do you really believe that?
00:32:19Figure it out, Nan.
00:32:20Walker admitted chasing his wife and cow into the swamps after he found them together.
00:32:25He shot them and he tried to place the blame on Sawyer's DTs.
00:32:29If Sawyer had told of seeing a purple giraffe with polka dot tails,
00:32:32Walker would have claimed they did it.
00:32:34There's one argument against that, Steve.
00:32:37Dave Walker wasn't the kind of a man to hang himself,
00:32:39not even with two murder charges against him.
00:32:41I talked with Dave less than an hour before he killed himself.
00:32:45That man was in a state of shock.
00:32:47I've seen frightened men before, terrified men.
00:32:49But I've never seen anything to compare with the horror and the fear in Walker's eyes.
00:32:54Well, he realized what he'd done and he killed two people.
00:32:57One his wife.
00:32:59Look, Doc, Nan and I were all over that swamp.
00:33:01Why didn't these monsters attack us?
00:33:04I've been thinking about that.
00:33:05They're probably night creatures.
00:33:07They can't stand the light and they stay down near the bottom during the day.
00:33:11A small charge would stun them, bring them to the surface.
00:33:15Can't buy, Doc.
00:33:16You're pig-headed Steve Benton.
00:33:20Stubborn and pig-headed.
00:33:22You just don't understand, do you?
00:33:32Good night, Doc.
00:33:33Good night.
00:33:48Good night.
00:33:49Go ahead.
00:33:58Right over there in them reeds.
00:34:12Right over there in them reeds is where that big one used to be.
00:34:42Yeah.
00:34:44Caught some good catfish in that hole.
00:35:05Boy, this is sure a hot one.
00:35:12Right unseasonable.
00:35:16Sure is funny.
00:35:17Huh?
00:35:19You noticed anything?
00:35:21About what?
00:35:22We've been prodding around you all morning.
00:35:24Ain't run across a single gator.
00:35:27By right, this pool should be crawling with them.
00:35:32Sure funny.
00:35:33Yeah, that is funny.
00:35:35I don't like the looks of things.
00:35:37Let's call it a day.
00:35:39Well, now wait a minute.
00:35:40We ain't pulled the gator holes around the bin yet.
00:35:42You do what you want to do, boy.
00:35:44Just get me on dry land.
00:35:46And right quick.
00:35:47All right.
00:35:48Now, ain't no use getting all head up.
00:35:50Let's go.
00:35:54You got to quit drinking that moonshine.
00:35:56That's why you're so wrinkled and ugly.
00:36:05Now we're out here.
00:36:06Wild goose chasing.
00:36:26We're out here, Mr.
00:36:48get up.
00:36:51Oh, my God.
00:37:21Oh
00:37:51Oh
00:37:56We've been calling there's been no answer. Oh, I just got back what seems to be the trouble. Haven't you heard? Oh, Sam Peters and Porky Reed have disappeared
00:38:06Come on inside
00:38:13You know covers
00:38:15Nothing would please him more than to have all the swamp people disappear
00:38:19Swamp trash he calls them
00:38:21I know they have about as much regard for him as he has for them
00:38:26When they're worried enough to go to him
00:38:28You know something's wrong
00:38:30Mrs. Reed said the men went searching for Cal and Mrs. Walker's bodies and they never returned
00:38:36Cobra says he'll get up a search party if they don't show up in a couple of days
00:38:41Doc you and Nan take your car and get as many volunteers as you can tell them to meet me at the old wagon road
00:38:47I'll call Doak Evans and have him bring his dogs
00:38:49Either they're lost or they've had an accident. I hope to heaven. You're right
00:38:55You're right
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00:39:21I'm
00:39:22I'm
00:39:23I'm
00:39:24Let's go.
00:39:54Well, they picked up the scent anyway.
00:40:24Dad, do you think they'll find them?
00:40:28Only the good Lord can answer that.
00:40:47Well, at least we know they got this far.
00:40:50All right, let's split up into two parties and circle the lake.
00:40:53Keep your eyes open.
00:40:54Let's move out.
00:41:23All clear.
00:41:24It's clear over here.
00:41:30All clear.
00:41:31It's clear over here.
00:41:37All clear.
00:41:38It's clear over here.
00:41:44All clear.
00:41:45All clear.
00:41:47All clear.
00:41:50Oh, my God.
00:42:20All right, let's keep moving.
00:42:50Well, we can't do anything more tonight. Might as well start back.
00:42:54I reckon it ain't no use hurrying now, Mr. Benton.
00:42:57Reed and old Sam was alive.
00:42:59They'd let us know him with a holler or something.
00:43:02Yeah, it kind of looks that way.
00:43:04You fellas notice anything about this lake?
00:43:06I mean, the gators.
00:43:08What about them?
00:43:09They ain't.
00:43:10A piece of water this size usually has maybe 50, 60 big ones around.
00:43:14A whole lot of little ones.
00:43:16It's real unnatural.
00:43:18Well, maybe our torches scared them away.
00:43:20Nothing scares gators.
00:43:22Nothing.
00:43:23Animal or human.
00:43:27Well, we might as well get out of here.
00:43:39You got something in mind, Steve?
00:43:42Keep thinking what Evan said about the gators.
00:43:45Nothing scares them, animal or human.
00:43:48And yet something made them leave.
00:43:50Maybe a mineral contamination.
00:43:53I guess I better run some water samples.
00:43:55Come on, you two. Drink your coffee.
00:43:59And supposing there is no contamination?
00:44:02Then I'll send over to Eastport for a diving rig and go down to look for this monster of yours.
00:44:07No, Steve. Don't even joke like that.
00:44:09I'm not joking, man. I had some training with an Aqualung while I was in the Navy.
00:44:13But Steve.
00:44:14Look, there are two bodies we know for sure down there.
00:44:17Maybe four.
00:44:18They've got to be brought up.
00:44:19Wait a minute.
00:44:21There are no alligators in that part of the swamp, right?
00:44:23So?
00:44:24No sign of any fish or snakes?
00:44:27No.
00:44:28What are you getting at, Doc?
00:44:31Well, that goes your argument about setting off a dynamite charge under water.
00:44:34You'd bring the bodies to the surface.
00:44:37Get it out of your mind, Doc.
00:44:38I'm not using any explosives as long as there's another way.
00:44:41Why must you be such a...
00:44:43Stubborn pig head?
00:44:44Exactly.
00:44:46I'll tell you why.
00:44:47Number one, there's bound to be some Aquarian life in that section, even if the bigger forms have abandoned it.
00:44:53Explosion under water would destroy every living thing and wreck what nature took years to build up.
00:44:59Number two, I'm paid to prevent the useless slaughter of wildlife.
00:45:03Number three, I'd have to get authorization.
00:45:05To get that authorization, I'd have to come up with a heck of a good reason.
00:45:10Satisfied?
00:45:13Finish up, Dad. I want to go home.
00:45:16Uh, Steve.
00:45:18How long would it take to get this diving equipment from East Park?
00:45:21A couple of days. Why?
00:45:24Oh, nothing.
00:45:29Take care of yourself, Steve.
00:45:35Well, here's hoping.
00:45:40Dad.
00:45:42Can't you throw the dynamite in from here?
00:45:44No, I want to get it out into the middle.
00:45:46In the deepest part.
00:45:53All right.
00:46:05We'll be there.
00:46:06We'll be there.
00:46:07Oh, no!
00:46:08No!
00:46:09Oh!
00:46:10Oh!
00:46:12Stop!
00:46:13Oh!
00:46:15Oh!
00:46:20Stop!
00:46:22Oh!
00:46:24Oh!
00:46:26Oh!
00:46:28Oh!
00:46:30Oh!
00:46:31Let's go.
00:47:01Don't you go any minute.
00:47:31Don't you go any minute.
00:48:01I just can't figure it out.
00:48:16Walker's wife, why didn't her body come to the surface?
00:48:19I don't know.
00:48:23I think I'd better walk over to the coroner's office.
00:48:26What's the matter, Mr. Benton?
00:48:28You feel awkward about arresting my father in his own home?
00:48:31I warned him I'd arrest him if he used dynamite.
00:48:34That's nice of you.
00:48:37Well, the autopsy should be over by now.
00:48:42Oh, Steve.
00:48:44I thought you'd be here.
00:48:46I don't like to have to do this, doctor.
00:48:49Do we have time for a cup of coffee first?
00:48:52Sure.
00:48:53Do you mind, honey?
00:48:54No, I'll make some sandwiches.
00:49:07One thing is certain, for all the good it'll do now.
00:49:11Dave Walker didn't shoot Cal.
00:49:13I just come from the autopsies.
00:49:18Covers tried to keep me out.
00:49:20If I told him I'd raise a stink, they'd smell all the way to the Capitol if he did.
00:49:24Well, what killed them, Doc?
00:49:26Not drowning.
00:49:28And Cal wasn't shot, either.
00:49:29Every drop of blood was drained out of their bodies.
00:49:35And they had wounds on their throats.
00:49:37Suction wounds.
00:49:39Like a gigantic leech might make.
00:49:43And there's something even more incredible.
00:49:45Now, Cal was supposed to have been killed several days ago.
00:49:49Sam and Reed had been missing a matter of 48 hours.
00:49:52All three of them, as far as we know, were in that lake a minimum of two days.
00:49:58Now, I'd stake my reputation as a doctor.
00:50:00That Cal hadn't been dead more than two or three hours when we found him.
00:50:04And the other two less than that.
00:50:06First stage rigor mortis started in during the autopsy.
00:50:09But how could that be, Doc?
00:50:10It's impossible.
00:50:12The coroner will confirm it.
00:50:15Whatever killed him is still in that lake.
00:50:17And it's going to take more than dynamite to get it out.
00:50:21A concussion from those charges would have killed a full-grown whale.
00:50:27That explains how Cal and the others lived after they were supposed to be drowned.
00:50:31What do you mean?
00:50:33This whole region is riddled by caves and caverns cut out by the ocean thousands of years ago.
00:50:38If there are caves above the water, then there must be caves under the water.
00:50:42Go on.
00:50:44Mike and I had a chance to fool around with some frogman equipment captured from the Italian Navy.
00:50:48We sort of prowled through a sunken transport off Salerno.
00:50:54When the ship went down, it trapped some air inside the hull.
00:50:58We'd go down, come up inside the officer's lounge, take off her face mask,
00:51:02and sort of sample some of the bottles floating around.
00:51:06We'd drive the guys crazy trying to figure out how we were getting the stuff.
00:51:09You mean you think that there's an ale pocket or a cave underneath the lake?
00:51:14Right, got to be.
00:51:15How else could those people have lived down there?
00:51:17Not only that explains how whatever it is down there lived through the concussions.
00:51:21Steve.
00:51:24Liz Walker.
00:51:27She might still be down there.
00:51:30Alive.
00:51:30No, no, no.
00:51:51No!
00:51:51No!
00:51:51No!
00:52:00No, no, no, no.
00:52:30You sure you don't want me to go down for you, Mike?
00:52:34You haven't had one of these things on for a long time,
00:52:36while for me, every other day, I've been playing fish.
00:52:40Not this time, Mike.
00:52:43If you ask me, they ought to have their heads examined.
00:52:46Giant leeches.
00:52:49I'm willing to put a month's pay.
00:52:51They don't come up with nothing more than excuses.
00:52:54He's crazy.
00:52:55Him, the doc, and his brat, too.
00:52:58Just wait till I get on the phone at the Capitol.
00:53:01I'll guarantee somebody will wish they'd kept their nose out of other people's business.
00:53:05I'll guarantee that.
00:53:15Steve!
00:53:18Be careful, please.
00:53:20Don't worry, Mike will be ready if anything goes wrong.
00:53:22Don't worry about Steve.
00:53:23Now, if you were going after Barracuda, you might have a tiny bit to worry about.
00:53:28Ready, Mike?
00:53:28Ready, Mike.
00:53:28Let's go.
00:53:58Let's go.
00:54:28Let's go.
00:54:58Let's go.
00:55:28Let's go.
00:55:58Let's go.
00:56:28You sure you don't want me to go down and finish it off for you, Steve?
00:56:32No, thanks, Mike.
00:56:33I think I hurt it pretty bad.
00:56:37Careful now.
00:56:38Anything hurts ten times as dangerous.
00:56:39He's wounded it.
00:56:40He's wounded it.
00:56:46He's got to finish it off.
00:56:49Does he have to go under again?
00:56:51He's got to make sure, honey.
00:56:53Where could it have come from?
00:56:54Where could it have come from?
00:56:56I wish I knew.
00:56:58We'll have to make some tests.
00:57:00Maybe the proximity of Cape Canaveral's got something to do with it.
00:57:04The rocket station?
00:57:05Well, they use atomic energy in their first stages of launching.
00:57:08Not all of them have been successful.
00:57:10You think that if some animal life was close by, not close enough to be killed, but close enough
00:57:16to feel the effects of a radioactive energy that's...
00:57:18A mutation.
00:57:20A type of gigantism of some common animal.
00:57:22Whatever it is, I hope he's able to bring it up.
00:57:52I swear to God...
00:57:57OH had an open bat.
00:57:59A desire can be that way.
00:58:01ģė¼!
00:58:03That if you think you have
00:58:05it must be tested.
00:58:06D estuv impressed.
00:58:07You don't know why he was
00:58:09and wasć Where did he have
00:58:10to find you?
00:58:12Oh...
00:58:15That are worse.
00:58:18Even if
00:58:19it ķ of an astronomical
00:58:20given picture.
00:58:21That can't be Liz.
00:58:35What could have done that?
00:58:37Look at her face.
00:58:51Look at her face.
00:59:21Look at her face.
00:59:51I've been around here for years.
01:00:08I never saw nothing like that.
01:00:21I never saw nothing.
01:00:51There's no sign of them this time.
01:01:17They must be licking their wounds.
01:01:18You sure you used enough stuff to do the job, Mike?
01:01:22I used a hundred sticks to 40%.
01:01:24I'll blow the bottom right out.
01:01:26All right.
01:01:27Let her go.
01:01:28Oh, no.
01:01:29I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:31Help yourself.
01:01:48I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:54I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:58I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:02:02I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:02:19I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:02:25THE END
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