- 11 years ago
Horror / Sci-Fi (1959) 62 minutes ~Black & White
In a community nearby a swamp, a local dweller sees a couple of giant monsters but nobody believes him. Dave Walker finds his wife Liz Walker cheating on him with his friend Cal Moulton. He chases the couple through the swamp and forces them to jump into the water. The leeches attack them and the shocked Dave is arrested, accused of murder. Two other locals decide to look for the bodies of Liz and Cal to collect a prize and also vanish in the swamp. Finally, game warden Steve Benton organizes a patrol to investigate the caves under the swamp, finding the lethal giant leeches.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writers: Leo Gordon (original story), Leo Gordon (screenplay)
Stars: Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard, Michael Emmet
In a community nearby a swamp, a local dweller sees a couple of giant monsters but nobody believes him. Dave Walker finds his wife Liz Walker cheating on him with his friend Cal Moulton. He chases the couple through the swamp and forces them to jump into the water. The leeches attack them and the shocked Dave is arrested, accused of murder. Two other locals decide to look for the bodies of Liz and Cal to collect a prize and also vanish in the swamp. Finally, game warden Steve Benton organizes a patrol to investigate the caves under the swamp, finding the lethal giant leeches.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writers: Leo Gordon (original story), Leo Gordon (screenplay)
Stars: Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard, Michael Emmet
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00:02:30Wait a minute, wait a minute! Hold on, hold on, hold on. Just hold a second, will you? Liz? You hear me gal?
00:02:51Well, you won't now.
00:03:00You can't play that thing so loud.
00:03:07Would you come out like this for a minute?
00:03:11Oh, don't bother me.
00:03:13Liz.
00:03:14Someday I'm going to give a she-cat a whoopin' she's been asking for.
00:03:21Sure you will, Dave.
00:03:22Leave it all down to her.
00:03:23Let her know who wears the pants around here.
00:03:27I'll be back in a minute.
00:03:31Any whoopin's done back there, I'll lay you a jug.
00:03:35She'll be doing it.
00:03:38Come on now, Lemon.
00:03:39Tell us about that thing you killed out there at the swamp, will you?
00:03:42Yeah, Lem, let's hear the rest of that.
00:03:44Like I was saying, I put five slugs into that critter before it went under.
00:03:50Don't call this thing I ever seen.
00:03:53Ain't regular arms on it like a man.
00:03:56It was sort of different looking.
00:03:58Had suckers on them.
00:04:01Like one of them, uh...
00:04:03Like one of them octopuses things.
00:04:06Oh, I was plumb off, look.
00:04:10Lem, you sure that critter wasn't pink?
00:04:14Oh, I told you before, it was sort of gray looking.
00:04:20You can laugh if you want.
00:04:22But that thing weren't nothing like you put out there.
00:04:26No, sir.
00:04:27And it weren't no freak gator, neither.
00:04:30I've been poaching this country for 40 years, and I ain't never seen nothing like it.
00:04:36Well, too bad you didn't bring it back.
00:04:38Steve Benton probably paid a fair bounty for him, whatever it was.
00:04:42Bounty?
00:04:43I wouldn't touch that critter for all the money he ever made.
00:04:48And if you seen it, you wouldn't either.
00:04:51You better take it easy on the stuff.
00:04:52You're looking kind of peaked.
00:04:55No.
00:04:57I'm going to clean my otter lines out before morning.
00:05:01Lem, I think that critter's a ghost of one of those otters you've been poaching all these years,
00:05:05coming back to haunt you.
00:05:07Well, if that's so, you fellas will see it right quick yourselves.
00:05:37Well, look.
00:05:57It's not like I want to be mean or anything like that, Liz, baby.
00:06:00I got a reputation around here.
00:06:03These folks have no respect for a man who lets his woman boss him.
00:06:06Well, next thing you know, they'll be laughing at me,
00:06:09and they'll be telling all the rest of the...
00:06:11Won't you please listen to me, Liz, baby?
00:06:15Liz?
00:06:36Stop looking at me like that.
00:06:50I'll look at you the way I want you, my wife.
00:07:07Don't touch me.
00:07:09Who do you think you're talking to?
00:07:11Don't touch me.
00:07:12You're my wife.
00:07:13I'll touch you any time I feel like it.
00:07:22Where you going?
00:07:28Where you going?
00:07:31I'm going out.
00:07:33Maybe I'll be back.
00:07:35Maybe I won't.
00:07:36Liz, baby, I didn't mean nothing.
00:08:06Well, there was a young one in that last trap.
00:08:08I had to kill it.
00:08:09Oh, poor thing.
00:08:11Told you you shouldn't have come along.
00:08:18Well, I can understand hunting an animal,
00:08:20but making it suffer in those traps, it's horrible.
00:08:24Well, these poachers know the swamp's like the back of their hands.
00:08:27But I'll catch one of them in the act some night
00:08:29and put him away for six months.
00:08:31In the meantime, I'll have to be satisfied
00:08:34confiscating their trap lines.
00:08:36If we lose enough traps, it won't pay them to keep trying.
00:08:38Well, be careful, darling.
00:08:40These people aren't like other folks.
00:08:42You know, they'll try and get back at you.
00:08:44Let them try.
00:08:46Steve, you're a stranger here.
00:08:48They've lived this way for generations.
00:08:50One man isn't going to change them overnight.
00:08:52You're a real worrywart.
00:08:54I'm serious, Steve.
00:08:56They can be dangerous.
00:08:58Okay, I'll be careful.
00:09:00You just stop worrying.
00:09:08Oh, Steve, I love you.
00:09:11I love you so much.
00:09:17What was that?
00:09:19I don't know. You get in that truck and lock it up.
00:09:30Steve!
00:10:00Listen, Benton.
00:10:02The coroner ruled that Sawyer died of a misadventure.
00:10:04Now, as far as this office is concerned, that's the end of it.
00:10:07But, Sheriff, I can't see why they're...
00:10:09Look, if Lem was killed by anything human,
00:10:11I wouldn't need you to tell me my job.
00:10:13But I'm not about to go tromping through the swamp
00:10:15looking for an overgrown gator.
00:10:17Sawyer wasn't killed by an alligator.
00:10:19Is that so?
00:10:21Did you hear that, Morton?
00:10:23Game warden Benton says it wasn't a gator killed Lem.
00:10:25Well, then, what was it?
00:10:27You know so much, go on, tell me.
00:10:29What killed him?
00:10:31Doc Grayson said the wounds were the kind of squid
00:10:33or a large octopus might cause.
00:10:35Oh, sure, and did Grayson explain
00:10:37how a saltwater creature happened to be
00:10:3930 miles inland living in clear water?
00:10:41Stranger things have happened, I know it.
00:10:43Look here, Benton.
00:10:45You work for the state.
00:10:47Now, why don't you keep your nose out of county business?
00:10:49Is that clear enough for you?
00:10:52Oh, go soak your fat head.
00:10:55What was that you said?
00:10:57I said go soak your fat head.
00:11:05Oh, that boy's looking for bad trouble.
00:11:08And he's sure going to get it.
00:11:11You can bet on that.
00:11:14So, you see, the octopi uses its suction discs
00:11:16to hold its prey.
00:11:18Now, in itself, the disc will not inflict a wound.
00:11:20Same is true of the squid.
00:11:22Now, both creatures have a parrot-like beak
00:11:24as their primary offensive and defensive weapon.
00:11:26Well, maybe the sheriff was right, Dad.
00:11:30Could be a freak or a malformed alligator.
00:11:32Well, I don't know.
00:11:34I don't know.
00:11:36I don't know.
00:11:38I don't know.
00:11:40I don't know.
00:11:42Could be a freak or a malformed alligator.
00:11:44No.
00:11:46No, I'm afraid it wasn't.
00:11:49Well, where does that leave us, Doc?
00:11:51I wish I knew.
00:11:53You know, I'm beginning to think
00:11:55Lem was telling the truth in Walker's store.
00:11:57He did see something that night.
00:12:00Something that had intelligence enough
00:12:02to seek him out and destroy him later.
00:12:04But Sawyer claims to have killed the thing he saw,
00:12:06put a half a dozen rifle bullets into it.
00:12:08I've seen that old .44-40 he used.
00:12:10Nothing could live after being hit with those slugs.
00:12:12Well,
00:12:14conceding the possibility
00:12:16of one such creature,
00:12:18we must also concede the possibility
00:12:20of others.
00:12:22Well, there's one sure way
00:12:24of finding out.
00:12:26Go in and search every backwater channel
00:12:28and wet spot in the swamp.
00:12:30If it's there, I'll find it.
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00:13:52Did you hear something?
00:13:54Yes.
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00:14:00Well, whatever it was, it's not here anymore.
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00:14:08Do you want some coffee?
00:14:10Yeah, thanks, hon.
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00:14:16An army could hide in here and never be noticed.
00:14:18Well, one did.
00:14:20What?
00:14:22The Seminoles under Osceola in the 1830s.
00:14:24Took the U.S. Army two years
00:14:26to round them up.
00:14:28I remember reading about Osceola in high school.
00:14:30Two years.
00:14:34I've only been at it two days and I feel worn out.
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00:14:38you might as well keep on looking around.
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00:15:10Well, I guess we might as well give up for the day.
00:15:12You won't get any argument from me.
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00:15:58I'm asking you for the last time, Dave Walker.
00:16:02You answer me, you dirty old man!
00:16:06I ain't dirty, Liz, baby.
00:16:08Liz, baby.
00:16:10Liz, honey!
00:16:12Can't you think of anything else to say, stupid?
00:16:14I gotta get this order over to Miss Chauvet.
00:16:16She's one of my better customers.
00:16:18Can't keep her waiting.
00:16:22I love you, Liz, baby.
00:16:26Get out.
00:16:28Get out, you fat pig!
00:16:40You, uh...
00:16:42have some trouble, Dave?
00:16:44You know women, Cal.
00:16:46Gotta get the hair down every now and then.
00:16:50You sure do know an awful lot about females.
00:16:52I gotta hand it to you.
00:16:54I can't stand here adjaunting, Cal.
00:16:56Gotta get this order over to Miss Chauvet.
00:17:00What's she letting her hair down about this time?
00:17:02Well...
00:17:04Ever since Lynn got herself killed,
00:17:06she wants me to sell out and move into town.
00:17:08Don't you let her bamboozle you, Dave.
00:17:10You keep her right here in the store.
00:17:14After all, the place wouldn't be the same without you around.
00:17:18Thanks, Cal.
00:17:20I better get going.
00:17:22See you when I get back.
00:17:24Yeah, I'll be around.
00:17:26I'll be around.
00:17:28See you when I get back.
00:17:30Yeah, I'll be around.
00:17:46Liz, baby.
00:17:50It's Cal, honey.
00:17:58Come on.
00:18:02You want something, Cal?
00:18:08I sure do, honey.
00:18:10Come on.
00:18:26Tired?
00:18:28Oh, I'm dead.
00:18:30Me too.
00:18:32Come on over here.
00:18:41It seems kind of silly
00:18:43knocking ourselves out looking for something
00:18:45we aren't even sure exists.
00:18:47What do you mean?
00:18:49You know, we've covered miles of back channel
00:18:52and haven't come across anything to support your father's theory
00:18:55of an alien creature.
00:18:57Not so much as a mud print we couldn't identify.
00:19:01I know.
00:19:04You're not going to give up, are you, Steve?
00:19:06Well, I...
00:19:08I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:13With all respect to your father's ideas.
00:19:18Dad seems so sure.
00:19:38I'm sure.
00:20:00You're some woman, Liz.
00:20:03I reckon I've never met a woman like you before.
00:20:08You like me, Cal?
00:20:12You're kidding.
00:20:14No, I didn't hurt you, now, did I?
00:20:18It's just that you're so strong.
00:20:22I like a man that's strong.
00:20:27You sure picked a doozy, that man Dave.
00:20:31I don't think he's got a muscle in him.
00:20:33Just a big piece of flab.
00:20:36Oh, honey.
00:20:38I didn't mean anything against you.
00:20:41Just that I can't see a...
00:20:43a real woman like you tied in with a tub of lard like him.
00:20:50You wouldn't understand, Cal.
00:20:54You know, I...
00:20:55I've wanted to tell you.
00:20:59You just wouldn't understand.
00:21:01Keep trying me.
00:21:03Come on, you tell old Cal all about it.
00:21:12You wouldn't think better of me?
00:21:14Crazy.
00:21:17You tell him you killed your pa and your ma and your whole family.
00:21:22I'd fight to protect you.
00:21:33I'll do whatever it takes.
00:22:04My first husband was a no-good bum.
00:22:08Couldn't keep a job more than a week.
00:22:12He used to get lushed up, come home beat up on me.
00:22:16He must have been a prowess, Peggy.
00:22:20One night he tried to hold up a gas station.
00:22:23He was so drunk he couldn't even run.
00:22:27They caught him less than a mile away.
00:22:29Got sent up.
00:22:32I got a divorce.
00:22:36That's rough.
00:22:38After three years working in a lousy beanery,
00:22:41I was ready for the first guy to say the last word to me.
00:22:45It was Dave.
00:22:47That's it.
00:22:49I wish it had been me.
00:22:51I'd know how to take care of a woman like you, Liz.
00:22:54Maybe it ain't too late, Cal.
00:22:56Maybe it ain't too late, Cal.
00:23:07You're wrong, woman.
00:23:09It's too late for the both of you.
00:23:13Get up.
00:23:15Come on, get up.
00:23:17Now look, Dave, I know what you're thinking, but...
00:23:20I got double large shot in this here thing.
00:23:24You got two seconds or four, I'll pull the trigger.
00:23:31No point getting riled, Dave.
00:23:33It wasn't my fault.
00:23:35You've been pestering me for months to take her out.
00:23:38Sure, Cal.
00:23:40I understand.
00:23:42Get her up so I can get a better look at the line, little tramp.
00:23:45Come on, get her up.
00:23:49Come on, get up.
00:23:50No, Cal, no.
00:23:51No, he'll kill me, he'll kill me.
00:23:53Jump him.
00:23:55When your husband wants to take a look at you.
00:24:01You walk all the way, Dave?
00:24:03One more step and I'll blow your plum in two.
00:24:06Get over there.
00:24:08Now, Dave, it ain't as bad as you think.
00:24:11Shut up.
00:24:13Tramp.
00:24:15What are you gonna do?
00:24:17You'll find out soon enough.
00:24:20Dave, you put down that gun before I get mad and make you eat it.
00:24:24Go ahead and try it, Cal.
00:24:26Go right ahead and try it.
00:24:29Move.
00:24:30Move!
00:24:49Come on.
00:25:12Come on.
00:25:14Come on.
00:25:15I can't go on any further.
00:25:17No.
00:25:18Come on.
00:25:20Come on.
00:25:46Go on, run.
00:25:47Run till you drop.
00:25:51Stop.
00:26:12I can't go on anymore.
00:26:14Hey, you've got to let me stop for a minute.
00:26:18You came over like a fool child.
00:26:20I can't go on.
00:26:22Cal.
00:26:48Come on, keep going.
00:26:50Dave, please, you've got to listen.
00:26:53It wasn't my fault, honest.
00:26:55She kept playing up to me every time you turned your back.
00:26:58It wasn't my fault.
00:27:00You call yourself a man?
00:27:03You and your muscles.
00:27:05Son of a tramp.
00:27:07If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be in this fix.
00:27:09And my old friend Dave wouldn't be doing this thing to me.
00:27:12It's all your fault.
00:27:14Get going.
00:27:16But Dave, Dave, we've been friends a long time, Dave.
00:27:21You wouldn't kill an old friend, Dave.
00:27:24If you don't move, I'll kill you where you stand.
00:27:27But Dave.
00:27:30Great big man.
00:27:38That didn't mean a thing.
00:27:40Dave, that didn't mean a thing.
00:27:42Dave, Dave, that didn't mean a thing.
00:27:46Dave, Dave, get us out of here.
00:27:51Please, Dave.
00:27:53I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
00:28:01I'm sorry, honey, I'm sorry, Dave.
00:28:04I'm sorry, I didn't mean it.
00:28:08I'm sorry.
00:28:13You think you've learned enough to stay away from a woman, Carol?
00:28:17Anything, Dave.
00:28:19I'm a man of the county.
00:28:21I'll do anything you say, Dave.
00:28:23Anything.
00:28:25All right.
00:28:26Come on out of there.
00:28:29Dave, Dave.
00:28:31Give me a hand.
00:28:33What have you got?
00:28:35Dave.
00:28:37For God's sake.
00:28:39For God's sake.
00:28:40Behind you.
00:28:59There ain't nothing down here, sir.
00:29:03Well, I'm getting tired of this.
00:29:06Come on in, boys.
00:29:11Well, if there was any bodies out there, we'd have found them.
00:29:15I want some straight answers, Walter.
00:29:18And don't give me any more of that crud about monsters, either.
00:29:22Where'd you hide them after you killed them?
00:29:26I told you the truth, Sheriff.
00:29:28I didn't kill them.
00:29:31I just wanted to scare them good.
00:29:36I loved my Liz.
00:29:38I wouldn't do anything to hurt her.
00:29:41I loved her.
00:29:43Sure.
00:29:44You loved her.
00:29:46That's why you chased her through the swamp with a shotgun.
00:29:49Come on, Walker.
00:29:51Where'd you hide the bodies?
00:29:53Won't you believe me?
00:29:55It was some monsters.
00:29:57Take him out of here before I lose my temper.
00:30:01Can't you pay a reward if someone finds a body, Sheriff?
00:30:06Fifty dollars.
00:30:09Each?
00:30:11Yeah.
00:30:16You know, I never thought that of old Dave.
00:30:19Of course, everybody knows that Carol and Liz are dead.
00:30:23But I never thought that of old Dave.
00:30:26I never thought that of old Dave.
00:30:29I never thought that of old Dave.
00:30:32I never thought that of old Dave.
00:30:35Idiots.
00:30:37They're out there in the middle of the water.
00:30:40If they're still in there,
00:30:42you can bet that some old gator
00:30:44put them in his cave under the bank
00:30:47and let them ripen for a few days.
00:30:51Yeah, well...
00:30:53What we need now is some long cypress poles
00:30:55to go in there and dig those gator caves.
00:30:59Yeah.
00:31:13I'm sorry, Doc, I can't do it.
00:31:15I'll have to do it myself.
00:31:17I wouldn't want to have to arrest you, Doc,
00:31:19but I will if I find you near the preserve with any explosives.
00:31:22Steve.
00:31:23Sorry, Nan, that's the way it's got to be.
00:31:25Steve's right, Nan.
00:31:27It's our job to protect wildlife.
00:31:29What about human life?
00:31:31Three people have been killed in that game preserve.
00:31:34Doesn't that mean anything to you?
00:31:36Nan, try to understand.
00:31:38If I could be sure something in the swamp
00:31:40was responsible for those deaths,
00:31:42I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
00:31:44We've been together the last three days.
00:31:46We didn't see a trace of anything unusual.
00:31:48Not so much as a suggestion
00:31:50of any form of life unknown to us.
00:31:52Steve, something killed those people.
00:31:55I'll admit Sawyer's death left a lot of questions unanswered.
00:31:58But you can bet your bottom dollar
00:32:00the other two died from Dave Walker's shotgun.
00:32:02Do you really believe that?
00:32:04Figure it out, Nan.
00:32:05Walker admitted chasing his wife and cow
00:32:07into the swamps after he found them together.
00:32:09He shot them, and he tried to place the blame
00:32:11on Sawyer's DTs.
00:32:13If Sawyer had told us he'd seen
00:32:15a purple giraffe with polka dot tails,
00:32:17Walker would have claimed they did it.
00:32:19There's one argument against that, Steve.
00:32:21Dave Walker wasn't the kind of a man to hang himself,
00:32:23not even with two murder charges against him.
00:32:25I talked with Dave less than an hour
00:32:27before he killed himself.
00:32:29That man was in a state of shock.
00:32:31I've seen frightened men before, terrified men.
00:32:33But I've never seen anything to compare
00:32:35with the horror and the fear in Walker's eyes.
00:32:38Well, he realized what he'd done,
00:32:40and he killed two people, and one his wife.
00:32:42Look, Doc, Nan and I were all over that swamp.
00:32:45Why didn't these monsters attack us?
00:32:48I've been thinking about that.
00:32:50They're probably night creatures.
00:32:52They can't stand the light, and they stay down
00:32:54near the bottom during the day.
00:32:56A small charge would stun them,
00:32:58bring them to the surface.
00:33:00Can't buy it, Doc.
00:33:02You're pig-headed, Steve Benton.
00:33:04Stubborn and pig-headed.
00:33:07You just don't understand, do you?
00:33:09No.
00:33:17Good night, Doc.
00:33:22Good night.
00:33:53Right over there in the middle of the reeds.
00:34:10Well, just can't figure old Dave out.
00:34:14If he was caught like Cal, what would you do?
00:34:17I hadn't thought of that.
00:34:23Right over there in them reeds
00:34:25is where that digging used to be.
00:34:27Yeah.
00:34:29Caught some good catfish in that hole.
00:34:33Oh.
00:34:49Boy, this is sure a hot one.
00:34:56Right on seasonable.
00:35:00Sure is funny.
00:35:02Huh?
00:35:04Ain't you noticed anything?
00:35:06About what?
00:35:07We've been prodding around until the morning.
00:35:09Ain't run across a single gator.
00:35:12By rights, this pool should be crawling with them.
00:35:17Sure funny.
00:35:19Yeah, that is funny.
00:35:21I don't like the looks of things.
00:35:23Let's call it a day.
00:35:25Well, now, wait a minute.
00:35:26We ain't pulled the gator holes around the bend yet.
00:35:28Do what you want to do, boy.
00:35:30Just get me on dry land, and right quick.
00:35:33All right.
00:35:34Now, ain't no use getting all head up.
00:35:35Let's go.
00:35:39You better quit drinking that hand shank.
00:35:42Yeah.
00:35:44That's why you're so rank and ugly.
00:35:50No way out here.
00:35:52It's a wild goose chasing.
00:35:58Oh, no.
00:36:28Oh, no.
00:36:58Oh, no.
00:37:28Oh!
00:37:31Oh!
00:37:40We've been calling, but there's been no answer.
00:37:43Oh, I just got back.
00:37:44What seems to be the trouble?
00:37:45Well, haven't you heard?
00:37:47Old Sam Peters and Porky Reed have disappeared.
00:37:51Come on inside.
00:37:54You know, Covis,
00:37:56nothing would please him more than to have all the swamp people disappear.
00:38:00Swamp trash, he calls them.
00:38:02I know.
00:38:04They have about as much regard for him as he has for them.
00:38:07When they're worried enough to go to him,
00:38:10you know something's wrong.
00:38:12Mrs. Reed said the men went searching for Cal and Mrs. Walker's bodies,
00:38:16and they never returned.
00:38:18Covis says he'll get up a search party if they don't show up in a couple of days.
00:38:23Doc, you and Nan take your car and get as many volunteers as you can.
00:38:27Tell them to meet me at the old wagon road.
00:38:29I'll call Doke Evans and have him bring his dogs.
00:38:32Either they're lost or they've had an accident.
00:38:35I hope to heaven you're right.
00:38:52I hope to heaven you're right.
00:39:22I hope to heaven you're right.
00:39:53Dog! Dog! Dog! Dog! Dog! Dog! Dog!
00:40:05Well, they picked up the scent anyway.
00:40:08Dad, do you think they'll find them?
00:40:11Only the good Lord can answer that.
00:40:14Well, at least we know they got this far.
00:40:31All right, let's split up into two parties and circle the lake.
00:40:35Keep your eyes open.
00:40:36Let's move out.
00:40:37Move out.
00:41:08All clear.
00:41:22It's clear over here.
00:41:37All right, let's go.
00:42:03All right, let's keep moving.
00:42:34Well, we can't do anything more tonight.
00:42:35Might as well start back.
00:42:36I reckon ain't no use hurrying now, Mr. Benton.
00:42:39If Reed and old Sam was alive, they'd have let us know with a holler or something.
00:42:44Yeah, it kind of looks that way.
00:42:46You fellas notice anything about this lake?
00:42:49I mean the gators.
00:42:50What about them?
00:42:51They ain't.
00:42:52A piece of water this size usually has maybe 50, 60 big ones around.
00:42:57A whole lot of little ones.
00:42:59It's real unnatural.
00:43:01Maybe our torture scared them away.
00:43:03Nothing scares gators.
00:43:05Nothing.
00:43:06Animal or human.
00:43:10Well, we might as well get out of here.
00:43:22You got something in mind, Steve?
00:43:25I keep thinking what Evans said about the gators.
00:43:28Nothing scares them, animal or human.
00:43:31And yet something made them leave, maybe a mineral contamination.
00:43:36Guess I better run some water samples.
00:43:38Come on, you two, drink your coffee.
00:43:42And supposing there is no contamination?
00:43:45Well, then I'll send over to Eastport for a diving rig and go down to look for this monster of yours.
00:43:50No, Steve, don't even joke like that.
00:43:53I'm not joking, Nan.
00:43:54I had some training with an aqualung while I was in the Navy.
00:43:56But, Steve...
00:43:57Look, there are two bodies we know for sure down there.
00:43:59Maybe four.
00:44:00They've got to be brought up.
00:44:02Wait a minute.
00:44:03There are no alligators in that part of the swamp, right?
00:44:06So?
00:44:07No sign of any fish or snakes?
00:44:09No.
00:44:10Well, what are you getting at, Doc?
00:44:13Well, there goes your argument about setting off a dynamite charge underwater.
00:44:16It'll bring the bodies to the surface.
00:44:19Get it out of your mind, Doc.
00:44:20I'm not using any explosives as long as there's another way.
00:44:23Why must you be such a...
00:44:25stubborn pig-head?
00:44:26Exactly.
00:44:28I'll tell you why.
00:44:29Number one, there's bound to be some aquarium life in that section,
00:44:32even if the bigger forms have abandoned it.
00:44:35Explosion underwater would destroy every living thing
00:44:38and wreck what nature took years to build up.
00:44:41Number two, I'm paid to prevent the useless slaughter of wildlife.
00:44:45Number three, I'd have to get authorization.
00:44:47And to get that authorization, I'd have to come up with a heck of a good reason.
00:44:52Satisfied?
00:44:55Finish up, Dad. I want to go home.
00:44:58Uh, Steve, uh,
00:45:00how long will it take to get this diving equipment from East Park?
00:45:03Oh, a couple of days. Why?
00:45:06Oh, nothing.
00:45:11Take care of yourself, Steve.
00:45:20Well, here's hoping.
00:45:21Dad.
00:45:23Can't you throw the dynamite in from here?
00:45:25No, I want to get it out in the middle, in the deepest part.
00:45:34All right.
00:45:37All right.
00:45:50Dad.
00:46:01Stop!
00:46:06Stop!
00:46:36Stop!
00:46:54It should go any minute.
00:47:06It should go any minute.
00:47:36It should go any minute.
00:47:51I just can't figure it out.
00:47:56Walker's wife, why didn't her body come to the surface?
00:47:59I don't know.
00:48:02I think I'd better walk over to the coroner's office.
00:48:05What's the matter, Mr. Benton?
00:48:07Do you feel awkward about arresting my father in his own home?
00:48:11I warned him I'd arrest him if he used dynamite.
00:48:14That's nice of you.
00:48:17Well, the autopsy should be over by now.
00:48:22Oh, Steve.
00:48:24I thought you'd be here.
00:48:26I don't like to have to do this, Doctor.
00:48:29Do we have time for a cup of coffee first?
00:48:31Sure.
00:48:33Do you mind, honey?
00:48:34No, I'll make some sandwiches.
00:48:47One thing is certain for all the good it'll do now.
00:48:50Dave Walker didn't shoot Cal.
00:48:55I just come from the autopsies.
00:48:57Coover's tried to keep me out.
00:48:59I told him I'd raise a stink they'd smell all the way to the Capitol if he did.
00:49:03Well, what killed them, Doc?
00:49:05Not drowning.
00:49:07And Cal wasn't shot either.
00:49:10Every drop of blood was drained out of their bodies.
00:49:14And they had wounds on their throats.
00:49:16Suction wounds.
00:49:18Like a...
00:49:19Like a gigantic leech might make.
00:49:22And there's something even more incredible.
00:49:24Now, Cal was supposed to have been killed several days ago.
00:49:27Sam and Reed have been missing a matter of 48 hours.
00:49:31All three of them, as far as we know, were in that lake a minimum of two days.
00:49:36Now, I'd stake my reputation as a doctor
00:49:38that Cal hadn't been dead more than two or three hours when we found him.
00:49:42And the other two, less than that.
00:49:44First stage rigor mortis started in during the autopsy.
00:49:47But how could that be, Doc? It's impossible.
00:49:50The coroner will confirm it.
00:49:52Whatever killed them is still in that lake.
00:49:54And it's going to take more than dynamite to get it out.
00:49:59A concussion from those charges would have killed a full-grown whale.
00:50:04That explains how Cal and the others lived after they were supposed to be drowned.
00:50:08What do you mean?
00:50:10Well, this whole region is riddled by caves and caverns
00:50:13cut out by the ocean thousands of years ago.
00:50:15If there are caves above the water, then there must be caves under the water.
00:50:19Go on.
00:50:20Mike and I had a chance to fool around with some frogman equipment
00:50:23captured from the Italian Navy.
00:50:26We sort of prowled through a sunken transport off Salerno.
00:50:30When the ship went down, it trapped some air inside the hull.
00:50:34We'd go down, come up inside the officer's lounge,
00:50:37take off her face mask and sort of sample some of the bottles floating around.
00:50:42We'd drive the guys crazy trying to figure out how we were getting the stuff.
00:50:46You mean you were the only one who knew how to do it?
00:50:49You mean you think that there's an air pocket or a cave underneath the lake?
00:50:53Right. Gotta be.
00:50:54How else could those people have lived down there?
00:50:56Not only that, it explains how whatever it is down there lived through the concussions.
00:51:00Steve.
00:51:03Liz Walker.
00:51:06She might still be down there.
00:51:09Alive.
00:51:20Oh.
00:51:22Oh.
00:51:26No. No.
00:51:28No!
00:51:49No.
00:52:07Comfortable?
00:52:08Yeah.
00:52:10You sure you don't want me to go down for you, Mike?
00:52:12You haven't had one of these things on for a long time,
00:52:14while me, every other day I've been playing fish.
00:52:18Not this time, Mike.
00:52:21If you ask me, they ought to have their heads examined.
00:52:24Giant leeches.
00:52:27I'm willing to bet a month's pay they don't come up with nothing more than excuses.
00:52:31He's crazy.
00:52:33Him, the doc, and his brat too.
00:52:36Just wait till I get on the phone with the capital.
00:52:39I'll guarantee somebody will wish they'd kept their nose out of other people's business.
00:52:43I'll guarantee that.
00:52:48Let's go, Mike.
00:52:53Steve.
00:52:56Be careful, please.
00:52:58Don't worry, Mike will be ready if anything goes wrong.
00:53:00Don't worry about Steve.
00:53:01Now, if you were going after Barracuda, you might have a tiny bit to worry about.
00:53:06Ready, Mike?
00:53:17Come on.
00:53:47No, no, please stay away.
00:53:52Please.
00:53:55Not exactly inviting, is it?
00:53:58That sure isn't.
00:54:01Overstudy, Mike.
00:54:18It'll stop anything up to a tiger shark.
00:54:20But you gotta hit, and this is don't count.
00:54:22Now, if anything goes wrong, just yank on the line and I'll be down in a hurry.
00:55:18Mike.
00:55:31Mike.
00:55:47Mike.
00:56:08You sure you don't want me to go down and finish it off for you, Steve?
00:56:10No, thanks, Mike.
00:56:12I think I hurt her pretty bad.
00:56:15Careful now, anything that hurts ten times is dangerous.
00:56:23He's wounded it.
00:56:24He's gonna finish it off.
00:56:27Does he have to go under again?
00:56:29He's got to make sure, honey.
00:56:33Where could it have come from?
00:56:35I wish I knew.
00:56:37We'll have to make some tests.
00:56:39Maybe the proximity of Cape Canaveral's got something to do with it.
00:56:42The rocket station?
00:56:43Well, they use atomic energy in the first stages of launching.
00:56:46Not all of them have been successful.
00:56:49You think that if some animal life was close by,
00:56:51not close enough to be killed, but close enough to feel the effects of a radioactive energy, that's...
00:56:56A mutation.
00:56:57A type of gigantism of some common animal.
00:57:02Whatever it is, I hope he's able to bring it up.
00:57:13Oh, my God!
00:57:43Oh, my God!
00:58:06That can't be Liz.
00:58:13What could have done that?
00:58:15Look at her face.
00:58:43Oh, my God!
00:59:13Oh, my God!
00:59:15Oh, my God!
00:59:40Look at that. Look at that thing.
00:59:44I've been around here for years. I never saw nothing like that before.
01:00:14Oh, my God!
01:00:45There was no sign of them this time.
01:00:47They must be licking their wounds.
01:00:50You sure you used enough stuff to do the job, Mike?
01:00:52I used a hundred sticks to forty percent.
01:00:54Ought to blow the bottom right out.
01:00:56All right, let her go.
01:00:57Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:00Help yourself.
01:01:08Oh, my God!
01:01:09Oh, my God!
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