Something is attacking and killing people on the beach. David and Mariana, old friends, search for clues where they played as kids to uncover the mysterious ...
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00:00:00.
00:00:30Oh, my God.
00:01:00Oh, my God.
00:01:30Oh, my God.
00:02:00Oh, my God.
00:02:29Oh, my God.
00:02:31Oh, my God.
00:02:33Hello.
00:02:35How you doing?
00:02:37Morning, Kelly.
00:02:39Morning, Ruth.
00:02:41Didn't see you yesterday.
00:02:43Hope you're not getting lazy.
00:02:45I got treated to a day off.
00:02:47I figured I may as well sleep in.
00:02:49Oh, that's the way it always begins.
00:02:51This one day and it's the beginning of the end.
00:02:53Tell you what.
00:02:55I'll do your way to make it up, okay?
00:02:57There's only one way for you to do that.
00:03:01You're the only man I know who can swim to work.
00:03:03You might as well be the only one who swims back home.
00:03:07So long.
00:03:09Oh, my God.
00:03:19Oh, my God.
00:03:33Somebody help me.
00:03:35No.
00:03:37No.
00:03:39No.
00:03:41No.
00:03:43No.
00:03:45No.
00:03:47Somebody help me.
00:03:49No.
00:04:07No.
00:04:09No.
00:04:11I'm sorry.
00:04:12I don't know what you're gonna do.
00:04:15I'm sorry.
00:04:16I'm sorry.
00:04:17I'm sorry.
00:04:18I'm sorry.
00:04:19I have to give out a good idea.
00:04:21I'm sorry.
00:04:22I'm sorry.
00:04:23I'm sorry.
00:04:24I'm sorry.
00:04:25I didn't know.
00:04:26I didn't know.
00:04:27I didn't know.
00:04:28I didn't know.
00:04:29Moose, I don't know how you stand this place.
00:04:31The armpit of Southern California.
00:04:34Look at the humanity you got hanging around here.
00:04:39It's up to me I'd level the whole joint.
00:04:41Now, if this was in Chicago, we know how to do it.
00:04:45What do you mean, we?
00:04:46We.
00:04:47Hey.
00:04:48Me.
00:04:49What's the difference?
00:04:51It's all in the doing.
00:04:52It's a know-how.
00:04:54Do me a favor, will you, Roy Coe?
00:04:56Do us all a favor.
00:04:57Clam up, huh?
00:04:59It'd be appreciated more than you'd ever know.
00:05:01Yeah.
00:05:02But not talking about it don't make it go away.
00:05:04What happened this morning is gonna happen again and again and again.
00:05:08Until someone does something about it.
00:05:11Don, maybe you'll listen.
00:05:13What do you think, Harry?
00:05:14Got any ideas?
00:05:15Maybe the old lady just took off for the day.
00:05:17I heard her scream.
00:05:18You were a long ways off.
00:05:20Could've come from someplace else.
00:05:22Sound travel's dipping around here, doesn't it?
00:05:24The water, the pier.
00:05:25Not without the dog.
00:05:27Ruthie never would've gone nowhere without that dog.
00:05:30Harry, it's almost noon.
00:05:32I've had four men sniffing around here for almost five hours.
00:05:35We've been through a house.
00:05:36Between the two of us, we called every telephone number in a book.
00:05:39I've personally talked to a lady friend of hers in Brawley, no less.
00:05:42She claims she hadn't talked to the lady in 17 years.
00:05:45Give me a break.
00:05:47I'm not Superman.
00:05:48I don't have x-ray vision.
00:05:50What am I supposed to do?
00:05:51I don't know if I know, except keep looking.
00:05:55You knew the lady a long time, huh?
00:05:57Yeah.
00:05:58There was a time I almost married your daughter.
00:06:00Oh, shit.
00:06:01Liar!
00:06:02Liar!
00:06:03Wow, he's a liar!
00:06:05He's a liar!
00:06:36Oh, nice to meet you.
00:06:42Hello, Cap.
00:06:43Hello, Harry.
00:06:51Hi, Hoagie.
00:06:53Still singing?
00:06:55For anybody that'll listen.
00:06:59Sorry about your mother.
00:07:06You look different, Cap.
00:07:14You don't.
00:07:20Are the drawings coming along?
00:07:21Selling any?
00:07:24A few.
00:07:24I saw a couple of the new ones at your mother's house.
00:07:29I like them a lot.
00:07:32Thanks.
00:07:32I'm glad.
00:07:41What happened, Harry?
00:07:43What did you see?
00:07:43I didn't see much of anything, Cap.
00:07:47I just heard.
00:07:48You heard a scream.
00:07:51I'd just been talking with her, and then I was swimming out here about 50 yards offshore,
00:07:56and I heard her.
00:07:58And I heard Pfeiffer.
00:08:00Sparking in a way I'd never heard him before.
00:08:03And then?
00:08:03I swam back.
00:08:06She was gone.
00:08:08It wasn't anything.
00:08:09Not a trace.
00:08:11Pfeiffer laying there on the beach.
00:08:15He didn't want to leave.
00:08:20You're going to take him back with you to San Francisco?
00:08:23When I leave.
00:08:24How long do you plan on staying?
00:08:29As long as it takes until I find her.
00:08:40She may be dead, Cap.
00:08:43It's a possibility.
00:08:54She may be dead, Cap.
00:09:24Hey, remember me?
00:09:43No.
00:09:45Oh, yes.
00:09:46Mrs. Selden.
00:09:47What did they tell you?
00:09:48Who?
00:09:48The police about your mother.
00:09:50Nothing.
00:09:51They don't know anything, not yet.
00:09:52They're lying.
00:09:53Dopey, stupid girl.
00:09:54Your mother was raped and murdered.
00:09:57That's not true.
00:09:58It is true.
00:09:58It happens every day.
00:10:00They lie about it to keep their job on,
00:10:01and they're not fooling me.
00:10:02Look, look, look.
00:10:03That's where she is.
00:10:04They're caught up in very deep,
00:10:05so deep that nobody will ever find her.
00:10:09You better go home and take him with you if you care.
00:10:12Just remember who warned you.
00:10:13Just remember who warned you.
00:10:14You just remember who warned you.
00:10:16You just remember.
00:10:17Hey, get him away.
00:10:19You just remember who warned me.
00:10:21I bet you don't have to come to.
00:10:31Oh, my God.
00:10:32You just remember, you Stra answers your head.
00:10:37You'll still be believed.
00:10:37It's heavy.
00:10:40I'll never know.
00:10:40I love you.
00:10:41I love you.
00:10:42It's heavy.
00:10:43I love you.
00:10:44We'll still be loving you.
00:10:46Did you ever get your clock fixed or should I have someone call me?
00:10:51Which time do you have to get up?
00:10:545.30.
00:10:59Going to London?
00:11:01And Paris.
00:11:05But I'll be back first tonight.
00:11:08Early.
00:11:10I'll bring you a present.
00:11:16Are you okay?
00:11:20Yeah, fine.
00:11:24I heard about a lady on the beach this morning.
00:11:27You knew her, didn't you?
00:11:31Long time.
00:11:38She'll probably turn up.
00:11:40Probably turn out to be some kind of mix-up then, so...
00:11:47Now.
00:11:49What was it you were saying?
00:11:52Did I get what fixed?
00:11:54Your clock.
00:11:59Clock.
00:12:03Yeah.
00:12:05That's working too.
00:12:16Yeah.
00:12:17Yeah.
00:12:18I'm so tired.
00:12:19Yeah.
00:12:21Yeah.
00:12:22Yeah.
00:12:25Yeah.
00:12:27I'm so tired.
00:12:28Let's go.
00:12:31I'm so Musa and I see theATE.
00:12:33To the side of my head, please.
00:12:34I'm so tired.
00:12:35I'm so tired.
00:12:36I'm so tired.
00:12:37It's been a very challenging case.
00:12:38I don't know.
00:12:39I'm so tired.
00:12:40I'm so tired.
00:12:41I'm so tired.
00:12:42Pfeiffer?
00:12:59Pfeiffer?
00:13:12Pfeiffer?
00:13:19Pfeiffer?
00:13:42Pfeiffer?
00:13:53Pfeiffer?
00:13:55Pfeiffer?
00:13:56Pfeiffer?
00:14:12Pfeiffer?
00:14:27Pfeiffer?
00:14:28Pfeiffer?
00:14:29Pfeiffer?
00:14:30Pfeiffer?
00:14:31Pfeiffer?
00:14:32Pfeiffer?
00:14:33Pfeiffer?
00:14:34Pfeiffer?
00:14:35Pfeiffer?
00:14:36Pfeiffer?
00:14:37Pfeiffer?
00:14:38Pfeiffer?
00:14:39Pfeiffer?
00:14:40Pfeiffer?
00:14:41Pfeiffer?
00:14:42Harry Calder, Ms. Catherine Hutton, this is Dr. Dimitri.
00:15:05How do you do?
00:15:07Well, Doc, what's the word?
00:15:11The verdict, I'm afraid, is that I have no verdict.
00:15:16Do you want to run that bias once more, Doc?
00:15:20The dog was killed. Brutally, savagely killed.
00:15:25If I were to make an educated guess, I would say that the killer was a large man,
00:15:34or an average-sized man with unusually large hands with very strong, very long, very sharp fingernails.
00:15:45Well, you're telling us that somebody just took the little doggy and, what, ripped his head off?
00:15:51Well, plainly speaking, yes. But, uh, it's only a guess, mind you. No hard evidence.
00:16:01Uh, no human skin caught him with a wound. No hair.
00:16:07Even a hangnail?
00:16:08For God's sakes, Royco.
00:16:10Oh, come on. We're not talking about somebody's kid. We're talking about a dead dog.
00:16:14I gotta dance around on tippy-toes to keep from offending anybody around here.
00:16:18Excuse me, Miss Hunt. You know, you're an ass, Royco.
00:16:21What?
00:16:22You heard me. Now, you go outside and wait in the car.
00:16:26Now, go on, Sergeant. You go out and wait in the car.
00:16:29No sense of humor around here.
00:16:33That's what's the matter with this world.
00:16:38Excuse me, excuse me, Miss Hunt. Listen, do you have anything else to tell us about?
00:16:42I don't know. It's all guesswork, Lieutenant.
00:16:46Uh, I've told you just about everything I know.
00:16:48Do you want to ask him anything out of me?
00:16:49Yes.
00:16:50Yes. What are you going to do next?
00:16:52I really don't know. But we'll keep in touch, okay?
00:16:55Yeah.
00:16:56Come on, Doc. I'll walk you back up to the office.
00:16:59It was a peculiar case.
00:17:01I don't know, Doc. The road's usually on my business, you know what I mean?
00:17:05Want to go for a ride?
00:17:09Remember the last time we were on this boat together?
00:17:12No.
00:17:14Hey, you?
00:17:15We're just getting out of the Navy.
00:17:171973.
00:17:19I don't remember the month.
00:17:21But it was the day before you left.
00:17:24September?
00:17:25Uh-huh.
00:17:28September.
00:17:32Right, September.
00:17:34It was my last stage effort to get you to change your mind.
00:17:39I kept wanting to sail us straight out to nowhere.
00:17:41Just as far as we could go until we ran out again.
00:17:46Why do you suppose you didn't?
00:17:49You didn't want me to.
00:17:51Probably not.
00:17:53Not then.
00:17:55Maybe before.
00:17:57Or after.
00:18:12Cigarette?
00:18:13Yeah.
00:18:14Would you ride one up for me?
00:18:15Want a joint?
00:18:16Oh, no.
00:18:17I'm laughing.
00:18:18I didn't even care.
00:18:20Ow!
00:18:22Oh, come on.
00:18:23Look in around.
00:18:24No, no, no!
00:18:25No, no, no!
00:18:3754-year-old, a native of Los Angeles.
00:18:42old woman native of los angeles disappeared some 36 hours ago from our beach in our territory
00:18:51and is now presumed dead then as if to intentionally add insult to injury
00:18:56with dog which i understand weighed something less than 10 pounds and i'm quite sure wasn't
00:19:02considered a mortal threat to anyone had its head been off some 18 hours later last but not least
00:19:13lovely blonde 16 year old girl from beverly hills no less than slumming i presume
00:19:19suffered massive damage to both her once pretty legs maybe crippled for life had her mind blown
00:19:28halfway to the moon simply because she was foolish enough to lie down on this particular beach
00:19:34never would happen chicago yeah one more remark like that i'd be not chicago's where you're gonna be
00:19:42you think i'm a little on it well let me tell you who i've got on my back
00:19:50i got the daughter of the missing woman i've got a friend of the daughter's harry caller from the
00:19:53harbor patrol i got the pairs of the beverly hills slum maiden who just so happened to have contributed
00:19:59heavily to the campaign of the present mayor of this city i got the chamber of commerce i got harriet
00:20:05crab city councilwoman from the 34th district i got the pc i got the da i got the lg and this
00:20:15telegram from the los angeles headquarters of the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals who
00:20:20want to know what we're doing to investigate capture and punish the villain responsible for the murder
00:20:31of pfeiffer the dog
00:20:36let's say fuck the spca and i got two dogs of my own but this goes especially for you pia as long as they
00:20:42stay on my back and they'll be crawling all over yours is that understood yes sir and the rest of you
00:20:47yes sir any questions yes captain what the hell are we looking for i don't know but maybe if we dig deep
00:20:53enough we'll find out
00:21:24piano when are you going to start listening to me listening to you about what about what i've been
00:21:31telling you since we've always been talking about and that is when somebody does a crime like this
00:21:38there's only one place to look and it ain't under no beach no then where in the headquarters of the
00:21:47americans go to hell nazi party
00:22:01good morning morning you're up kind of early yeah i couldn't sleep
00:22:23still swimming to work huh now my major distinction your mother suggested i swim home as well
00:22:35sounds like something she'd say
00:22:39yeah well gotta go be careful huh
00:22:53what do you want
00:23:23i'm todd bell channel 10 news york mark mark and don't want to
00:23:39oh care about cheviot hill sue hardy cheviot hill david belton mom hi mom uh any of you out here
00:23:46yesterday are you kidding all of us were and you still came back again today why is that still the best
00:23:51still the best beach even though a young girl was terribly injured just 24 hours not more than
00:23:57not more than 50 yards where you're sitting right now we were here last night man cops all over the
00:24:02place bulldozers uh cats dug a whole beach apart from one end to the other we couldn't find nothing
00:24:07then she goes i'm not going back there no way so i go you know some place better she goes well no but i don't
00:24:13want to get chewed up by some creature or something so i go well i'm going even if you don't so guess what i did
00:24:19i'm interested in something that you just said maybe even inadvertently but you said creature
00:24:24why did you use that word i don't know what would you call it blood beach man yeah right on
00:24:34anything happening
00:24:38those news people just left
00:24:39who's working the night shift you or cardenas me why i put in a request for a gun
00:24:52you what yeah i know she's already okayed it i'll be bringing it by sometime this afternoon
00:24:58along with a lot more papers to sign what the hell am i going to do with the gun shoot holes in the pier
00:25:03i also talked with the lapd they're trying to get together with the county for night patrol
00:25:12so you ought to have plenty of company god's sakes don't shoot any of them
00:25:17it's okay with me as long as they don't keep me awake
00:25:20because i'm playing the booty tomorrow night i haven't slept in a week
00:25:33so
00:25:38so
00:25:46so
00:25:52so
00:25:58Don't make any stops on your way home, okay?
00:26:20Okay.
00:26:21Promise?
00:26:21I promise.
00:26:23Tomorrow night we will, okay?
00:26:25Yep.
00:26:25I'll be waiting.
00:26:26I'll be waiting for you.
00:26:31Okay.
00:26:34Who walked out when the times got hard, when the truck broke down, and the whole front yard wasn't me.
00:26:41It wasn't you who, who shot pool all night long, wound up betting on the crack of dawn.
00:26:49Oh, that was you, Doug, and that was me.
00:26:53We are just fools for each other, me and you.
00:26:58We are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers.
00:27:09For each lover, we are lovers, in fact.
00:27:17We are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers, we are lovers
00:27:47Oh, my God.
00:28:17Oh, my God.
00:28:47Oh, my God.
00:29:17Oh, my God.
00:29:47Oh, my God.
00:29:54Hey, Lieutenant, you going to give us a statement?
00:29:56No, nothing.
00:29:57How about off the record?
00:29:58We'll have to talk to Captain Pearson.
00:30:00Nah, that's no good.
00:30:01He's got nothing to say either.
00:30:02I can't do nothing for you.
00:30:03How come nobody don't talk to me?
00:30:05Because you don't have anything to say.
00:30:07No?
00:30:07That's right.
00:30:09Hey, how about having the guts to call it as it is?
00:30:11What would that be?
00:30:13Keep your mouth shut, Sergeant.
00:30:14What's the harm, huh?
00:30:16The stupid rapist gets his tool ripped off for himself to be unhappy?
00:30:20I'm supposed to feel sad for this creep?
00:30:22I don't.
00:30:23You don't.
00:30:24No one around here don't.
00:30:26So why are we kidding around here, this institution of ours?
00:30:30You're going to print that?
00:30:32What?
00:30:32In the B'nai B'riff messenger?
00:30:34Hey, Sergeant, it's between you and me.
00:30:37Power to the people.
00:30:38Oh, Piano, look.
00:30:41Somebody has some regard for what I have to say around here.
00:30:50You got any opinions, huh?
00:30:53None that I care to say out loud.
00:30:56You and me both.
00:30:59I said, I'm going to need some cooperation.
00:31:01But more than that, I'm going to need your support.
00:31:05You got it?
00:31:07Jesus Christ.
00:31:09What did I do to deserve this?
00:31:12I, uh, I put in a request for more people starting in the morning.
00:31:17Yeah, I've done that, too.
00:31:18I've got some geologists going to show up.
00:31:21A mess.
00:31:23Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the water,
00:31:25you can't get to it.
00:31:26I'll do it.
00:31:44We found him!
00:31:45We found him!
00:31:45We found him!
00:31:46We found the guy's wiener!
00:31:48What we must try to do is try to define some kind of living thing that's either a mutated species or perhaps a creature currently in a state of evolution.
00:32:12Having recently come from the sea and now lives subterraneanly in moist, probably dark places, but will one day venture out into the light and perhaps may even learn to walk just as we do.
00:32:42On the Earth.
00:32:44That's a lovely thing to look forward to.
00:32:46When one is asked to speculate on the unknown, one should not anticipate pragmatic answers.
00:32:57Yeah, it's just that this isn't going anywhere.
00:33:00I mean, either you have ideas that I can understand and act on, or you've got a lot of scientific mumbo-jumbo, which is as useless as whiskers on a sausage.
00:33:10So, what's the other thing?
00:33:16Mumbo-jumbo.
00:33:18All right, get the hell out of here.
00:33:40I'm the one who spilled the drink down your dress.
00:33:44Yeah.
00:33:45Just a minute.
00:33:47It's your steward's friend.
00:33:51Hello, Marie.
00:33:52Where are you coming from?
00:33:53The airport?
00:33:55Terrific.
00:33:57How was the flight?
00:33:59You did?
00:34:02What is it?
00:34:03What, will you tell me if I guess?
00:34:04What time?
00:34:11Should I make that dinner?
00:34:14Terrific.
00:34:14I'll see you at eight.
00:34:15With bells on.
00:34:17Bye-bye.
00:34:20Hi.
00:34:23I thought maybe you would have left.
00:34:25How's your friend?
00:34:28Is she okay?
00:34:29She'll be okay.
00:34:33I, um, I came to ask you to dinner tonight.
00:34:37Tonight?
00:34:38Yeah.
00:34:43Um, you already made plans.
00:34:45Just two seconds before you walk through that door.
00:34:48Well, maybe tomorrow.
00:34:51It's a date.
00:34:53Good.
00:34:53Good.
00:34:53Well, I'll see you then.
00:34:57What time?
00:34:58What's happening?
00:34:59I'll be there.
00:35:00Okay.
00:35:00Bye-bye.
00:35:02Bye.
00:35:02Bye, Marie.
00:35:07You never did get over her, did you?
00:35:11She still expects to see her mother come walking through that door, doesn't she?
00:35:17What else can't you think?
00:35:19I don't know.
00:35:20It's just that with all the crazy things happening around here, I'm afraid she's setting herself up for a big fall.
00:35:25Put them in the oven.
00:35:55Let's go.
00:36:25Let's go.
00:36:55Let's go.
00:36:57Help me.
00:36:59Help me.
00:37:01Help me.
00:37:03Help me.
00:37:05Help me.
00:37:09Help me.
00:37:13Help me.
00:37:15Help me.
00:37:17Help me.
00:37:19Help me.
00:37:27Help me.
00:37:29Hi.
00:37:30Got stood up.
00:37:31Hi.
00:37:35I brought.
00:37:36Oh.
00:37:39And that's the best California has to offer.
00:37:41Yeah.
00:37:42I brought my own dinner.
00:37:43Is that right?
00:37:44Sure.
00:37:45Is this a bad time for you?
00:37:46No.
00:37:47I can go home.
00:37:48I can eat it out here.
00:37:49No, it's all right.
00:37:50Don't be silly.
00:37:51Come on in.
00:37:52Are you sure now?
00:37:53Yeah, yeah, I'm sure.
00:37:54Well, would you take the bread then?
00:37:55Yeah, oh, yeah.
00:37:56Maybe the flowers too.
00:37:57Oh, my God.
00:38:05I wish I was hungry.
00:38:07What'd you eat?
00:38:08I went out for a cheeseburger.
00:38:10Uh, Moose's Place?
00:38:12Yeah.
00:38:13I suppose I'll live to regret it.
00:38:14For Moose's Place?
00:38:15No.
00:38:16No.
00:38:17Now, Tommy and Teddy's down the block.
00:38:18Now, that's another story all together.
00:38:28Hmm?
00:38:29Hmm?
00:38:30Hmm?
00:38:31Hmm?
00:38:32I'd worry about her if she hadn't done it before.
00:38:34Stood you up?
00:38:35Mm-hmm.
00:38:36Yeah, stewardess on polar flights.
00:38:39Long hours.
00:38:41No sleep.
00:38:42All that food out of the radar ranges.
00:38:45Probably gets to you after a while.
00:38:47Probably get a little loopy.
00:38:51And now?
00:38:55That's right.
00:38:56Your husband works for the airlines, doesn't he?
00:38:59Yes.
00:39:01Only he's not my husband anymore.
00:39:07We've been separated for five months and we're getting a divorce.
00:39:10Oh.
00:39:11Did your mother know about it?
00:39:23No.
00:39:24Well, when were you planning on telling her?
00:39:27I had to, I guess.
00:39:28You know, I just didn't want her to worry.
00:39:29You know how it is.
00:39:30A daughter, suddenly single, tainted by a failed marriage, destined to become a bitter divorcee,
00:39:44despising all men.
00:39:45Doesn't much sound like the way your mother would think.
00:39:47No.
00:39:48It doesn't.
00:39:49I guess I would.
00:39:50I was afraid that's how I would think.
00:39:51Well.
00:39:52Who's sober?
00:39:53Yours or mine?
00:39:54Well, mine's closer.
00:39:55That a girl.
00:39:57Thanks for the company.
00:40:15I enjoyed it.
00:40:16Are we still on for tomorrow night?
00:40:17Sure.
00:40:22Terrific.
00:40:23Are we still on for tomorrow night?
00:40:24Sure.
00:40:26You want to come to my place?
00:40:28You haven't seen it in a long time.
00:40:30It's been seven years.
00:40:34It's undergone a lot of changes.
00:40:45Good night.
00:40:47Good night, Harry.
00:40:53Good night.
00:41:23Good night.
00:41:53Good night.
00:41:55Good night.
00:41:59Good night.
00:42:01Good night.
00:42:06I don't know.
00:42:36Harry, ma'am, oh, find anything down there, oh, any buried treasure, oh,
00:42:56you're out, you're out, on fire, you're out, Cancel, you're out, you're out, you're out,
00:43:20Hey, Harry, what kind of eyes a stewardess has?
00:43:29Ed.
00:43:35If I'm not mistaken, Captain, you have been spending the taxpayers' money rather freely
00:43:40on an investigation that has taken the better part of a week.
00:43:44And, unless you're withholding some information, you've yet to come up with anything that might
00:43:52even remotely justify your time and our money.
00:43:55And, you know, if I'm not mistaken, Councilwoman, you were one of the loudest supporters of
00:44:02our wonderful Proposition 13, our glorious taxpayers' revolt, which, while assuring you another
00:44:08term in office, just about cut the twigs and berries off the police department.
00:44:12Captain is merely showing us the stuff of which he's truly made.
00:44:18You grandstanding twelch.
00:44:19Now, just a minute here.
00:44:21You snot-nosed, scissor-billed probate.
00:44:24You can't talk like that.
00:44:25Oh, no?
00:44:26Watch me.
00:44:28Every one of you miserable suck-ups is the same.
00:44:31You want what you want, but when it comes to paying for it, all of a sudden you go deaf,
00:44:36dumb, and blind.
00:44:38But like the man said, you get what you pay for.
00:44:40So if any of you crouched bunnies thinks for a minute that me and my men are going to
00:44:43go on protecting and serving the interests of a bunch of amen-snorters like you, you better
00:44:49start fulking over the coin.
00:44:50And I mean now.
00:44:52Let us know what you decide.
00:44:54You know where to find us.
00:44:55Come on, Pion.
00:44:56All right, come on.
00:44:57Let's get out of here before we get what they've got.
00:45:03Chicago, they give them a medal.
00:45:04Sorry about your friend.
00:45:26Well, I tell you, Kat, somebody better do some fast thinking and start coming up with
00:45:30some answers to a lot of hard questions.
00:45:33Like, are we looking for a person or a thing?
00:45:37Is it real?
00:45:37Is it unreal?
00:45:41Maybe it's nothing like that.
00:45:43Maybe there's a perfectly logical...
00:45:46Answer the phone, Cardenas!
00:45:47It's just that nobody has found out the answer to it yet, that's all.
00:46:01If it's human, or even if it's animal, it's got to have a place to go back to.
00:46:09Almost every living thing does, right?
00:46:12Every living thing within our imagination, yeah.
00:46:14You've got to be grounded to something.
00:46:19Perfect.
00:46:20Reality and imagination.
00:46:25There haven't been any patterns, though, have there?
00:46:29Nothing.
00:46:30That anybody's been able to figure out.
00:46:32Hit and run.
00:46:33Here, there, anywhere.
00:46:37Not anywhere.
00:46:38Never above the ground.
00:46:43No.
00:46:44Not above the ground.
00:46:48So, if you're right, if there is a place where this, this lives,
00:46:53well, then chances are it's below sea level.
00:46:56Where?
00:46:59Below what?
00:47:01Well, we dug up the beach.
00:47:02Under what?
00:47:04The canals?
00:47:05The sewers?
00:47:06Somebody's wine cellar?
00:47:07I mean, where the hell do you begin?
00:47:08Maybe by looking in places where no one else is gone.
00:47:15Where no one else is thought to look.
00:47:17Hide and seek, right?
00:47:19I guess so.
00:47:22Well, it wasn't too good a doubt even when we were kids.
00:47:24What are you thinking about, Harry?
00:47:39Harry?
00:47:39I don't know.
00:47:43Nothing.
00:47:43You want to, uh, leave for a drink tonight?
00:47:51The boathouse?
00:47:52Sure.
00:47:57I'm sorry.
00:47:59I'm sorry.
00:48:00Uh, I hope you'll be there.
00:48:02Joe?
00:48:05Might do so some good.
00:48:06I hope you'll be there.
00:48:36I hope you'll be there.
00:49:06I hope you'll be there.
00:49:36I hope you'll be there.
00:49:37I hope you'll be there.
00:50:06Oh, my God.
00:50:36Oh, my God.
00:51:06Oh, my God.
00:51:36Oh, my God.
00:52:06Oh, my God.
00:52:36Oh, my God.
00:53:06Oh, my God.
00:53:36Oh, my God.
00:54:06Oh, my God.
00:54:36Oh, my God.
00:55:05Oh, my God.
00:55:35Oh, my God.
00:56:05Oh, my God.
00:56:35Oh, my God.
00:56:37Oh, my God.
00:57:07Oh, my God.
00:57:37Oh, my God.
00:57:39Oh, my God.
00:58:07Oh, my God.
00:58:09Oh, my God.
00:58:11Oh, my God.
00:58:13Oh, my God.
00:58:15Oh, my God.
00:58:17Oh, my God.
00:58:47Oh, my God.
00:58:49Oh, my God.
00:58:51Oh, my God.
00:58:53Oh, my God.
00:59:23Oh, my God.
00:59:25Oh, my God.
00:59:27Oh, my God.
00:59:29Oh, my God.
00:59:31Oh, my God.
00:59:33Oh, my God.
00:59:35Oh, my God.
00:59:37Oh, my God.
00:59:41The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
00:59:45Now, our favorite coroner, Dr. Demetrius,
00:59:48who probably phoned in all these descriptions himself,
00:59:51informs me that we are indeed looking for something non-human.
00:59:58Which really narrows things down considerably,
01:00:00because now all we have to do is to direct our attention
01:00:02to something that might be invisible.
01:00:04Or as big as a house, or as small as a microbe,
01:00:07or slippery as a greasepig, or as far away from the moon.
01:00:10No sweat, right, folks?
01:00:11Yes, sir.
01:00:12Okay.
01:00:13Now, go for it.
01:00:14Yeah.
01:00:15Now, for the good news.
01:00:17Our beloved councilwoman from the infamous 34th District,
01:00:22the lovely Harriet Graham, has had a spiritual awakening
01:00:24and decided in all her wisdom to throw a considerable wave
01:00:28in the direction of our very own coroner.
01:00:31Now, fellas, what that means is that starting this afternoon,
01:00:34we'll probably get a few extra men assigned for this investigation.
01:00:37Good work.
01:00:38What that means is that unless we produce some results quick,
01:00:42all our asses are going to be in a sling.
01:00:45You understand?
01:00:46Yes, sir.
01:00:47Now, what I want is some creative thinking around here.
01:00:51Come on, stretch your minds, tickle your brains,
01:00:53eat a lot of fish, get stoned.
01:00:55I don't care what it takes,
01:00:56but just bring me something I can build on.
01:00:59Bring me a notion.
01:01:00Bring me a theory that makes sense.
01:01:02Talk to your friends, talk to your kids,
01:01:04talk to your wives if you have to.
01:01:06I don't care what you have to do.
01:01:07Just bring me a gift.
01:01:09Because I'm hanging on by my fingernails,
01:01:11and I'm sliding fast.
01:01:14So, if you ever loved me,
01:01:16now's the time to prove it.
01:01:19Hey, Moose, tell the truth.
01:01:21How bad is all this shit hurt?
01:01:22Ah, I figured it'd be 50% off yesterday, today.
01:01:27And yesterday, I was 50% off the day before.
01:01:31No kidding.
01:01:32It's not bad, eh?
01:01:33That bad?
01:01:35Yesterday, 50% today.
01:01:36You know, I tell the truth.
01:01:38I don't know how you're going to hang in there.
01:01:39Give my point?
01:01:41What is the point, Royko?
01:01:42Or are you just trying to cheer Moose up?
01:01:44Don't making me heartless.
01:01:46I'm just interested in the economics of this thing.
01:01:48That's all.
01:01:49You know, a small business person like this, Moose over here,
01:01:53should have some sort of pension fund or something, so...
01:01:56When a killing thing like this happens,
01:01:58they can thread water a little bit.
01:02:01We do that in Chicago.
01:02:02We've got associations to handle any contingencies.
01:02:05Old people,
01:02:07ship captains,
01:02:08bricklayers,
01:02:10milk deliveries,
01:02:11anything you want, we've got.
01:02:13Queers, perverts.
01:02:15And that's what you need.
01:02:16Maybe it's time for the greasy spoon guys
01:02:18to get together
01:02:19and walk around and make a little slush fund.
01:02:22That way they're able to...
01:02:24You don't have to stand tall
01:02:25when a whacker runs up and down the sand
01:02:27slicing people away.
01:02:29At least you don't have to roll over
01:02:30and put up rent signs.
01:02:33And maybe you become the hero of the boardwalk, Moose.
01:02:35You just walk around and get a catchy name.
01:02:37Maybe like Murder Insurance, Inc.
01:02:39Get out of the way, Chico.
01:02:47You too.
01:02:49Hey, it's the C.P.A.
01:02:56Hey, it's the C.P.A.
01:03:14Billy, Kent.
01:03:16He's got a chance to talk to the man, Royco.
01:03:17What do you say?
01:03:17Come on.
01:03:18Is his wife upstairs?
01:03:19Come on, give us a play, McCaptain.
01:03:20Yeah, hold it down.
01:03:21There's going to be a medical report issued in 30 minutes.
01:03:24In the meantime, yes,
01:03:25the man is alive and is resting comfortably.
01:03:27And yes, it is Alan Hensch.
01:03:28But why, where, when, how, why,
01:03:30we don't know.
01:03:31And that's the story.
01:03:32Yeah, I don't know.
01:03:33Well, now, he's under heavy sedation.
01:03:35Is he going to live?
01:03:37You ain't helping.
01:03:38Thank you, sir.
01:03:39Well, I thought it was a broken bone.
01:03:41Who's his loss of blood?
01:03:42You name it, Henschel.
01:03:43Captain, you've got to see the question.
01:03:44We're going to find out in half an hour, Captain.
01:03:46You might as well tell him what's the difference.
01:03:49Doctors figure that there's been considerable brain damage.
01:03:52How considerable?
01:03:54Vegetable soup.
01:03:56And a better enough to keep him from killing us,
01:03:58and everything.
01:03:59They're the submers.
01:03:59What's that, Royco?
01:04:01Somebody ripped his tongue out.
01:04:12Mrs. Seldon!
01:04:36You're beating his claws, Mrs. Seldon!
01:04:42You really shouldn't be down here, you know.
01:04:45Come on, I'll drive you back up to the Strand.
01:04:51Mrs. Seldon, come on now.
01:04:53It's dangerous under there.
01:04:54It's kind of sad the way things have changed.
01:05:10I'm a Seldon.
01:05:12You and me can still remember when all this was wide open down here.
01:05:17No fences, no trash, no whiskey bottles.
01:05:22Remember that?
01:05:23It wasn't too long ago.
01:05:28I used to come down here all the time.
01:05:30Right here under the pier.
01:05:32Just to sit and watch.
01:05:34Listen to the waves pounding against those timbers.
01:05:38Watch the light come through here when the sun went down.
01:05:41Shadows stretching way out across the beach.
01:05:47What do you say, Mrs. Seldon?
01:05:49Bet you never went for a ride in the Harbor Patrol Bronco.
01:05:53What do you say, Mrs. Seldon?
01:05:54What do you say, Mrs. Seldon?
01:05:56What do you say, Mrs. Seldon?
01:05:57Help me.
01:05:58Help me.
01:06:01Don't you!
01:06:10Please?
01:06:14Help me!
01:06:14Help!
01:06:15Help me!
01:06:15Help me!
01:06:17Help!
01:06:17Help me!
01:06:19Come on!
01:06:49Hey, Harry. What brings you down here?
01:07:07Questions.
01:07:08But no answer, son.
01:07:10I was hoping maybe you had some.
01:07:12Sorry. I need help. Lord, do I need help.
01:07:18People I'm responsible for are dying, and I can't do a damn thing about it.
01:07:24You're not alone there, Piano.
01:07:26How come I feel that way?
01:07:28Why do I feel like I'm carrying the weight of this whole damn community around on my back?
01:07:33But does that help?
01:07:34Hell no.
01:07:35Then drop it.
01:07:36On who? Where?
01:07:38I can't drop it, man.
01:07:40Because it's mine to carry.
01:07:42But I need something. Some more brains.
01:07:46Maybe yours.
01:07:48So talk to me.
01:07:50Come on, Harry.
01:07:52Tell me anything.
01:07:58Did I tell you that Catherine and I grew up together? Did I tell you that?
01:08:02Yeah, you told me. What about it?
01:08:04Well, we were talking the other day, and I remembered a place we used to hide out when we were kids.
01:08:10A place burned down maybe 20, 30 years ago.
01:08:14Nobody ever got around to digging up the basement.
01:08:16That was our favorite place.
01:08:18A secret place.
01:08:20Yeah?
01:08:21Well, I went back there, thinking that whatever it is we were looking for, maybe I'd find it there.
01:08:26Find a clue.
01:08:27And what?
01:08:28You found what?
01:08:30Spiders, cockroaches, cobwebs, 20 years of dust.
01:08:34Enough memories to last me another 20 years.
01:08:36That's all?
01:08:38Yeah.
01:08:42Kept a feeling I didn't want to stay down there too long.
01:08:44Scared?
01:08:49I was shaking.
01:08:52When's the last time anything gave you the shakes, Harry?
01:09:14I was shaking James.
01:09:15Careful.
01:09:16Hey, let's take your home.
01:09:17You can see me when I was hurt.
01:09:18I was waiting for it.
01:09:19Come on.
01:09:20I will see you.
01:09:21Oh, man, I will take your home.
01:09:22Come on.
01:09:23Come on, Harry, Harry.
01:09:24Come on, Harry.
01:09:25You're on my way.
01:09:26But never to get any of your thoughts.
01:09:27You're crazy here.
01:09:28You are on my way.
01:09:30You're on your way.
01:09:31I'm having to leave.
01:09:32You're on my way.
01:09:33Or you're going.
01:09:34Can't be my dream.
01:09:36You're on a way.
01:09:37I'm going.
01:09:38You're on your way.
01:09:39I'm going.
01:09:40I'll see you too.
01:09:41My book.
01:09:42You're on my phone.
01:10:13I didn't even close this when I left here.
01:10:43Jesus, you played down here when you were kids?
01:10:58Well, it wasn't my plea to them.
01:11:28Jesus, you played down here when you were kids.
01:11:58Is this place still here?
01:12:27somebody want to tell me that why in the hell is this place still here it shouldn't have to be
01:12:32here much longer i'll tell you something captain if someone don't fill it in i swear on the grave of
01:12:37richard j daley i'll get a shovel and i'll do it myself like this is where it lay
01:12:44if you stare at this area for a while begins to take on the shape where it slept
01:12:57i expect it will be back and i also imagine it will leave just as quickly when it realizes that
01:13:06its home has been invaded what do you want to do captain what the hell question is that piano
01:13:11you blow the thing the kingdom come that's how you handle monsters please we must wait he's right
01:13:20i'll tell you what i want to do piano i want you to work it out so fast that we get a couple of
01:13:24cameras down here tape cameras infrared i want to be able to monitor this place from upstairs
01:13:29not on the strand okay but if the doc's right it does come back what do we do then all right i want
01:13:35some demolition men down here i want the place wired within an hour i want to be able to push one plunger
01:13:41when i want to and if i need to that'll blow the hell out of anything that's down here now you're
01:13:46what the fuck we told me captain
01:13:54joe coffee okay
01:14:00the vigil continues it's been almost five hours since the grisly discovery the basement of a
01:14:16building which no longer exists a structure condemned and torn down more than a quarter
01:14:21of a century ago here at the entrance to southern california's most famous pier the putrefied remains
01:14:27of 16 bodies have been found so far and removed but only three have been formally identified
01:14:34some of the big questions tonight why did these people die who or what killed them at this point
01:14:41no one seems ready to say and it's very possible that no one will ever know still we watch and wait
01:14:48time is passing slowly here but there's one thing of which we can be certain
01:14:53no resident of this community will sleep before this night has ended
01:15:05so
01:15:12The key we're down.
01:15:40You're talking to me, Doc?
01:15:45Did you know, Sergeant, that there are quite a variety of creatures on and particularly below God's green earth,
01:15:59each and every one of which is innately capable of a remarkable act commonly known as a regenerative process.
01:16:16Yeah, yeah, fascinating.
01:16:21My main concern, which I'm sure is not shared by you, Sergeant, is our creature here, this fellow that we're waiting for.
01:16:37What if he possesses these similar abilities?
01:16:46Yeah, so?
01:16:49So just think about it for a minute, Sergeant.
01:16:57What if I'm right?
01:17:00What will happen after we've pushed the plunger and blown this poor creature into smithereens?
01:17:11What might become of each smithereen?
01:17:41You know something, Piano?
01:17:42What's that, Captain?
01:17:43No men don't believe in monsters.
01:17:44No, sir.
01:17:45They don't.
01:17:46Hey!
01:17:47Champ!
01:17:48Hey!
01:17:49Champ!
01:17:50Hey!
01:17:51Champ!
01:17:52Hey!
01:17:53Champ!
01:17:54Hey!
01:17:55Champ!
01:17:56Hey!
01:17:57Champ!
01:17:58Champ!
01:17:59Champ!
01:18:00Champ!
01:18:01Champ!
01:18:02Champ!
01:18:03Champ!
01:18:04Champ!
01:18:06Champ!
01:18:07Champ!
01:18:08Champ!
01:18:09Champ!
01:18:10Champ!
01:18:11Champ!
01:18:12Champ!
01:18:13Champ!
01:18:14Champ!
01:18:15Champ!
01:18:16Champ!
01:18:17Champ!
01:18:18Champ!
01:18:19Champ!
01:18:20Champ!
01:18:21Champ!
01:18:22Champ!
01:18:23Champ!
01:18:24Champ!
01:18:25Champ!
01:18:26Champ!
01:18:27Champ!
01:18:28Champ!
01:18:29Champ!
01:18:30Champ!
01:18:31Champ!
01:18:32Champ!
01:18:33Champ!
01:18:34Champ!
01:18:35Champ!
01:18:36Champ!
01:18:37Champ!
01:18:38Champ!
01:18:39Champ!
01:18:40Champ!
01:18:41You'd better come in here.
01:18:54You got something?
01:18:56Where's Paris?
01:18:57He's up on the pier getting a call.
01:18:59Suggest you give him a call, Sergeant.
01:19:01What for?
01:19:02You want to tell him something?
01:19:05Look!
01:19:06Jesus Christ!
01:19:08Sergeant, call your captain.
01:19:10Now, call him!
01:19:12What is it?
01:19:13What the hell is it?
01:19:14Scratch him.
01:19:15Who the fuck cares what it is?
01:19:17I care.
01:19:18We care.
01:19:40Mr.
01:19:47beat me up.
01:19:53That dead?
01:19:59What are you going to do?
01:20:00Holy shit.
01:20:01The ship's on you.
01:20:03What the hell is that?
01:20:05Stop him!
01:20:07Stop him!
01:20:11Stop him!
01:20:33Stop him!
01:20:35Stop him!
01:20:39Stop him!
01:21:03Stop him!
01:21:07Stop him!
01:21:13Stop him!
01:21:18Stop him!
01:21:33Come on, I'll take you home.
01:22:03Sean, are you hungry?
01:22:12Sean, would you answer me?
01:22:22Sean, would you answer me?
01:22:24Do you want a sandwich or not?
01:22:28Sean?
01:22:30Sean!
01:22:31Sean!
01:22:32Sean!
01:22:33Sean!
01:22:35Sean!
01:22:36Sean!
01:22:37Sean!
01:23:01Sean!
01:23:03Sean!
01:23:07Sean!
01:23:09Sean!
01:23:11Sean!
01:23:12Sean!
01:23:13Sean!
01:23:18Sean!
01:23:22Sean!
01:23:24Sean!