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Beast of the Black Lagoon is a classic horror film set in a mysterious swamp filled with tension and lurking terror. The story follows a group of researchers who accidentally awaken a giant creature from the depths of the dark lagoon. As the beast begins to hunt them down one by one, a desperate fight for survival unfolds — between science, greed, and the primal fear that hides beneath the surface. With chilling atmosphere and practical effects typical of its era, this film delivers a nostalgic yet thrilling monster-horror experience.
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00:02:52Well, you won't now.
00:03:05You gotta play that thing so loud.
00:03:08Why don't you come out like this for?
00:03:11Oh, don't bother me.
00:03:13Liz.
00:03:18Someday I'm gonna give that she can't
00:03:20the weapon she's been asking for.
00:03:22Sure you will, dearie.
00:03:23Bring a little down to her.
00:03:25Let her know who wears the pants around here.
00:03:29I'll be back in a minute.
00:03:33Any whoopens done back there,
00:03:34I'll lay you a jug.
00:03:36She'll be doing it.
00:03:39Come on now, Lamb,
00:03:40and tell us about that thing
00:03:41you killed out there at the swamp.
00:03:43Yeah, Liv, let's hear the rest of that.
00:03:45Like I was saying,
00:03:46I put five slugs into that critter
00:03:49before it went under.
00:03:50Don't go on this thing I've ever seen.
00:03:53Had regular arms on it like a man.
00:03:56It was sort of different looking.
00:03:59Had suckers on them.
00:04:02Like one of them, uh,
00:04:04like one of them octopuses things.
00:04:07Oh, it was plum off look.
00:04:10Lim, you sure that critter wasn't pink?
00:04:12Oh, I told you before,
00:04:16it was sort of gray looking.
00:04:20You'll laugh if you want.
00:04:22But that thing weren't nothing nature put out there.
00:04:25Oh, sure.
00:04:26And it weren't no freak gator neither.
00:04:30I've been poaching this country for 40 years,
00:04:32and I ain't never seen nothing like it.
00:04:36Well, too bad you didn't bring it back.
00:04:37Steve Benton probably paid a fair bounty for him,
00:04:40whatever it was.
00:04:41Bounty?
00:04:42I wouldn't touch that critter
00:04:45for all the money ever made.
00:04:47And if you seen it,
00:04:49you wouldn't either.
00:04:50You better take it easy on this stuff.
00:04:52You're looking kind of peaked.
00:04:55No.
00:04:55I'm going to clean my otter lines out before morning.
00:05:00Lim, I think that critter's a ghost
00:05:03of one of those otters
00:05:04you've been poaching all these years,
00:05:05coming back to haunt you.
00:05:09Well, if that's so,
00:05:11you fellas will see it right quick yourselves.
00:05:19Come in.
00:05:20Come in.
00:05:50Look, it's not like I want to be mean or anything like that, Liz Baby, but I 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 I know, they'll be laughing at me, and they'll be telling all the rest of them.
00:06:11Won't you please listen to me, Liz Baby?
00:06:15Liz?
00:06:20Liz Baby, let's go.
00:06:50I'll look at you any way I want. You're my wife.
00:07:08Don't touch me.
00:07:09Who do you think you're talking to?
00:07:11Don't touch me. You're my wife. I'll touch you any time I feel like it.
00:07:14Where are you going?
00:07:27Where are you going?
00:07:30I'm going out.
00:07:33Maybe I'll be back.
00:07:35Maybe I won't.
00:07:36Liz Baby, I don't mean nothing.
00:07:38I don't mean nothing.
00:08:06I don't mean anything.
00:08:06Well, there was a young one in that last trap.
00:08:10They had to kill it.
00:08:10Oh, poor thing.
00:08:12Told you you shouldn't have come along.
00:08:20Well, I can understand hunting an animal,
00:08:22but making it suffer in those traps, it's horrible.
00:08:26Well, these poachers know the swamp's like the back of their hands.
00:08:29But I'll catch one of them in the axe some night
00:08:30and put him away for six months.
00:08:33In the meantime, I'll have to be satisfied
00:08:34confiscating their trap lines.
00:08:36If you 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.
00:09:06Oh, Steve, I love you.
00:09:11I love you so much.
00:09:17What was that?
00:09:19I don't know.
00:09:19You get in the truck and lock it up.
00:09:21You get in the train.
00:09:48Listen, Benton, the coroner ruled that Sawyer died by misadventure.
00:10:04Now, as far as this officer's concerned, that's the end of it.
00:10:07But, Sheriff, I can't see why the...
00:10:08Look, if Lem was killed by anything human, I wouldn't need you to tell me my job.
00:10:13But I'm not about to go tromping through the swamp looking for an overgrown gator.
00:10:17Sawyer wasn't killed by an alligator.
00:10:20Is that so?
00:10:21Did you hear that, Morton?
00:10:22Game Warden Benton says there wasn't a gator who killed Lem.
00:10:26Well, Lem, what was it?
00:10:27You know so much.
00:10:28Go on, tell me.
00:10:29What killed him?
00:10:30Doc Grayson said the wounds were the kind of squid or a large octopus might cause.
00:10:35Oh, sure.
00:10:36And did Grayson explain how a saltwater creature happened to be 30 miles inland living in clear water?
00:10:41Stranger things have happened.
00:10:43I know that...
00:10:43Look here, Benton.
00:10:44You work for the state.
00:10:45Now, 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.
00:10:57What was that you said?
00:10:59I said go soak your fat head.
00:11:00Oh, that boy's looking for bad trouble.
00:11:10And he's sure going to get it.
00:11:12You can bet on that.
00:11:14So, you see, the octopi uses its suction discs to hold its prey.
00:11:27Now, in itself, the disc will not inflict a wound.
00:11:30Same is true of the squid.
00:11:31Now, both creatures have a parrot-like beak as their primary offensive and defensive weapon.
00:11:36Well, maybe the sheriff was right, Dad.
00:11:38Could be a freak or a malformed alligator.
00:11:44No.
00:11:45No, I'm afraid it wasn't.
00:11:48Well, where does that leave us, Doc?
00:11:50I wish I knew.
00:11:52You know, I'm beginning to think Lem was telling the truth in Walker's store.
00:11:57He did see something that night.
00:11:59Something that had intelligence enough to seek him out and destroy him later.
00:12:03But Sawyer claims to have killed the thing he saw.
00:12:05Put 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.
00:12:13Well, concede the possibility of one such creature.
00:12:18We must also concede the possibility of others.
00:12:22Now, there's one sure way of finding out.
00:12:25Go in and search every backwater, channel, and wet spot in the swamp.
00:12:29If it's there, I'll find it.
00:12:59I'm sure it's bright around here.
00:13:19I'm sure it's bright.
00:13:49Did you hear something?
00:13:54Yes.
00:14:00Well, whatever it was, it's not here anymore.
00:14:07Do you want some coffee?
00:14:11Yeah, thanks, son.
00:14:15An army could hide in here and never be noticed.
00:14:18No one did.
00:14:19What?
00:14:21The Seminoles under Osceola in the 1830s.
00:14:24Took the U.S. Army two years to round them up.
00:14:27I remember reading about Osceola in high school.
00:14:30Two years.
00:14:33You've only been out of two days and I feel worn out.
00:14:36Well, we might as well keep on looking around.
00:14:39I'm sure it's good.
00:14:40I've been out of two days.
00:14:44Yeah, I feel.
00:14:47Yeah.
00:14:47Yeah.
00:14:50Yeah.
00:14:50Yeah.
00:14:51Yeah.
00:14:52Yeah.
00:14:52Yeah.
00:14:53Yeah.
00:14:54Yeah.
00:14:55Yeah.
00:14:55Yeah.
00:14:56Yeah.
00:14:56Yeah.
00:14:57Yeah.
00:14:57Well, I guess we may as well give up for today.
00:15:12Well, you won't get any argument from me.
00:15:27Well, I guess we may as well.
00:15:58I'm asking you for the last time, Dave Walker.
00:16:02You asking 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 Miss Chauvey.
00:16:16She's one of my better customers.
00:16:18Can't keep her waiting.
00:16:22I love you, Liz, baby.
00:16:25Get out.
00:16:27Get out, you fat pig!
00:16:45You, um, have some trouble, Dave?
00:16:48You don't live in, Cal.
00:16:51Gotta get the hair down every now and then.
00:16:54You sure do know an awful lot about females.
00:16:57I gotta hand it to you.
00:16:59I can't stand here, John, Cal.
00:17:02Gotta get this order over to Miss Chauvey.
00:17:04What's she letting her hair down about this time?
00:17:08Well, ever since Lynn got herself killed, she wants me to sell out and move into town.
00:17:15Don't you let her bamboozle you, Dave.
00:17:18You keep her right here in the store.
00:17:19After all, the place wouldn't be seen without you around.
00:17:25Thanks, Cal.
00:17:26I better get going.
00:17:27See when I get back.
00:17:29Yeah, I'll be around.
00:17:30Liz, baby.
00:17:50It's Cal, honey.
00:17:51You want something, Cal?
00:18:06I sure do, honey.
00:18:08Quiet.
00:18:27Oh, I'm dead.
00:18:29Me too.
00:18:31Come on over here.
00:18:38Well, it seems kind of silly knocking ourselves out looking for something we aren't even sure exists.
00:18:47What do you mean?
00:18:49You know, we've covered miles of back channel and haven't come across anything to support your father's theory of an alien creature.
00:18:57Not 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?
00:19:05Well, I, I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:12With all respect to your father's ideas.
00:19:17Dad seems so sure.
00:19:35You're some woman, Liz.
00:20:00I reckon I haven't met a woman like you before.
00:20:07You really like me, Cal?
00:20:11You're kidding.
00:20:13No, it didn't hurt you now, did I?
00:20:17It's just, it's just so strong.
00:20:20I, I like him and it's strong.
00:20:24Well, you sure picked a doozy then, man, Dave.
00:20:29I don't think he's got a muscle in him.
00:20:32Just a big piece of flab.
00:20:36Oh, honey, I didn't mean anything against you.
00:20:41Just that I can't see a, a real woman like you tying in with a tub of rod like him.
00:20:46You wouldn't understand, Cal.
00:20:53You know, I, I've wanted to tell you.
00:20:59You just wouldn't understand.
00:21:01You try me.
00:21:03Come on, you tell me on Cal all about it.
00:21:05You wouldn't think they're ahead of me.
00:21:14Crazy.
00:21:17He'd tell me you killed your pa and your ma and your whole family.
00:21:21I fight to protect you.
00:21:29What?
00:21:30I fight to protect you.
00:21:54My first husband was a no-good bum.
00:22:09Couldn't keep a job more than a week.
00:22:13Used to get lushed up, come home beat up on me.
00:22:17You must have been a prize, pig.
00:22:21One night he tried to hold up a gas station.
00:22:24He's so drunk he couldn't even run.
00:22:28He caught him less than a mile away.
00:22:31Got sent up.
00:22:33I got a divorce.
00:22:37That's rough.
00:22:40After three years working in a lousy bino, I was waiting for the first guy to say a nice word to me.
00:22:47It's Dave.
00:22:49That's it.
00:22:51I wish it had been me.
00:22:52I don't know how to take care of a woman like you, Liz.
00:22:56Maybe they're too late, Cal.
00:23:07You're wrong, woman.
00:23:09It's too late for the both of you.
00:23:10Get 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 before I pull the trigger.
00:23:26No point getting riled, Dave.
00:23:33It wasn't my fault, but...
00:23:35She's been testing 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 up.
00:23:48Come on, get up.
00:23:50No, Cal, no.
00:23:51No, he killed me.
00:23:52He killed me.
00:23:53Jumping.
00:23:54Well, your husband wants to take a look at you.
00:24:00You, uh, you walk all the way, Dave?
00:24:03One more step and I'll blow your plumbing, too.
00:24:06Get over there.
00:24:08Now, now, Dave, it ain't as bad as you think.
00:24:11Shut up!
00:24:13Triangle.
00:24:15What are you gonna do?
00:24:16You'll find out soon enough.
00:24:20Dave, you put down that gun before I get mad and make you eat it!
00:24:24You go ahead and try it, Cal.
00:24:26Go right ahead and try it.
00:24:29Move!
00:24:30Move!
00:24:31Move!
00:24:31Move!
00:24:31Move!
00:24:31Move!
00:24:31Move!
00:24:31Move!
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00:24:53Move!
00:25:01Move!
00:25:08Move!
00:25:09Move!
00:25:10Move!
00:25:10Come on.
00:25:12Come on.
00:25:13I can't go hardly for that.
00:25:15No.
00:25:16Come on.
00:25:17No.
00:25:18Come on.
00:25:40Come on.
00:25:41Run.
00:25:42Run.
00:25:43Run till you drop.
00:26:10Come on.
00:26:11I can't go anymore.
00:26:13I can't.
00:26:14You've got to let me stop.
00:26:15Shut it.
00:26:16You keep moving like a food child.
00:26:19I can't go.
00:26:21I can't.
00:26:40Come on.
00:26:41Keep going.
00:26:42Dave.
00:26:43Please, you've got to listen.
00:26:44It wasn't my fault, Arnest.
00:26:45She kept playing up to me every time you turned your back.
00:26:47It wasn't my fault.
00:26:48You call yourself a man.
00:26:49You and your muscles.
00:26:50Shut up, you.
00:26:51Shut up.
00:26:52If it wasn't you, I wouldn't do it.
00:26:53Shut up.
00:26:54Shut up.
00:26:55Shut up.
00:26:56Shut up.
00:26:57Shut up.
00:26:58Shut up.
00:26:59Shut up.
00:27:00Shut up.
00:27:01Shut up.
00:27:02Shut up.
00:27:03Shut up.
00:27:04Shut up.
00:27:05Shut up.
00:27:06Shut up.
00:27:07Shut up.
00:27:08Shut up.
00:27:09If it wasn't you, I wouldn't be in this fix.
00:27:11And my old friend Dave wouldn't be doing this thing to me.
00:27:14It's all your fault.
00:27:16Get going.
00:27:18But Dave, Dave, we've been friends.
00:27:21We've been friends a long time, Dave.
00:27:24You wouldn't kill an old friend, Dave.
00:27:27If you don't move, I'll kill you where you stand.
00:27:30But Dave.
00:27:33Pray, big man.
00:27:35I'm sorry.
00:27:36No.
00:27:37I didn't mean it, Dave.
00:27:38Dave, I didn't mean it.
00:27:39Dave.
00:27:40Dave, the kid is out here.
00:27:42Please, Dave.
00:27:43I'm sorry.
00:27:44I'm sorry.
00:27:45I'm sorry.
00:27:46I'm sorry.
00:27:47I'm sorry, honey.
00:27:48I'm sorry, Dave.
00:27:49I'm sorry.
00:27:50Please, Dave!
00:27:52I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
00:28:00I'm sorry! I'm sorry, Dave!
00:28:03I'm sorry! I didn't mean it!
00:28:13You think you learned enough to stay away from a woman, Carol?
00:28:16Anything, Dave!
00:28:19I'm over there! I'm over there!
00:28:21I'll do anything you say, Dave!
00:28:23Anything!
00:28:25All right.
00:28:26Come on out of there.
00:28:28Oh, Dave!
00:28:31Give me a hand!
00:28:33How'd you go?
00:28:35Dave!
00:28:37Oh, my God!
00:28:39I'm not!
00:28:41Behind you!
00:28:43Oh, my God!
00:28:45There ain't nothin' down here, Sheriff.
00:28:49Well, I'm gettin' tired of this.
00:28:51Come on in, boys!
00:28:54There ain't nothin' down here, Sheriff.
00:28:55Well, I'm gettin' tired of this.
00:28:56Come on in, boys!
00:28:58There ain't nothin' down here, Sheriff.
00:29:00Well, I'm gettin' tired of this.
00:29:02Come on in, boys!
00:29:03Well, if there was any bodies out there, we'd have found them.
00:29:04I want some straight answers, Walker.
00:29:05And don't give me any more of that crud about monsters, either.
00:29:07Where'd you hide them after you killed them?
00:29:08I told you the truth, Sheriff.
00:29:09I didn't kill them.
00:29:10I just wanted to scare them good.
00:29:11I'd love to kill them.
00:29:13I'd love to tell you.
00:29:14Do you know what's right, Sheriff?
00:29:15Don't you know what's right, Sheriff?
00:29:16Well, if there was any bodies out there, we'd have found them.
00:29:17I want some straight answers, Walker.
00:29:20And don't give me any more of that crud about monsters, either.
00:29:21Where'd you hide them after you killed them?
00:29:23I told you the truth, Sheriff.
00:29:28I didn't kill them.
00:29:31I just wanted to scare them good.
00:29:34I love to kill them.
00:29:36I loved my Liz.
00:29:39I wouldn't do anything to hide her.
00:29:42I loved her.
00:29:44Sure.
00:29:45You loved her.
00:29:47That's why you chased her through the swamp with a shotgun.
00:29:51Come on, Walker.
00:29:52Where'd you hide the bodies?
00:29:55Won't you believe me?
00:29:56There were some monsters.
00:29:58Take him out of here before I lose my temper.
00:30:03My little...
00:30:04Can't it pay a reward if someone finds a body share?
00:30:14Fifty dollars.
00:30:17Each?
00:30:20Yeah.
00:30:24You know, I never thought that of old Dave.
00:30:28Of course, everybody knows that Carol and Liz had a hankering for each other.
00:30:31Everybody but old Dave.
00:30:34Stern, fools.
00:30:36Grappling out there in the middle of the water.
00:30:39If them bodies are still in there,
00:30:41you can bet some old bull gator's got them stuffed in his cave under the bank,
00:30:47letting them ripen up for a few days.
00:30:51Yeah, well,
00:30:52what we need now is some long cypress poles to go in there and probe them gator caves.
00:30:57I'm sorry, Doc.
00:31:13I can't do it.
00:31:15I'll have to do it myself.
00:31:17Wouldn't want to have to arrest you, Doc,
00:31:18but I will if I find you near the preserve with any explosives.
00:31:21Steve.
00:31:21I'm sorry, Nan.
00:31:23That's the way it's got to be.
00:31:25Steve's right, Nan.
00:31:26It's his job to protect wildlife.
00:31:28What about human life?
00:31:31Three people have been killed in that game preserve.
00:31:33Doesn't that mean anything to you?
00:31:35Nan, try to understand.
00:31:37If I could be sure something in the swamp was responsible for those deaths,
00:31:40I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
00:31:42We've been together the last three days.
00:31:45We didn't see a trace of anything unusual.
00:31:47Not so much as a suggestion of any form of life unknown to us.
00:31:51Steve, something killed those people.
00:31:54All right.
00:31:55I'll admit Sawyer's death left a lot of questions unanswered.
00:31:58But you can bet your bottom dollar the other two died from Dave Walker's shotgun.
00:32:02Do you really believe that?
00:32:03Figure it out, Nan.
00:32:05Walker admitted chasing his wife and cow into the swamps after he found them together.
00:32:08He shot them and he tried to place the blame on Sawyer's DTs.
00:32:13If Sawyer had told us seeing purple giraffes with polka dot tails,
00:32:17Walker would have claimed they did it.
00:32:18There'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.
00:32:26I talked with Dave less than an hour before he killed himself.
00:32:29That man was in a state of shock.
00:32:31I've seen frightened men before, terrified men.
00:32:34But I've never seen anything to compare with the horror and the fear in Walker's eyes.
00:32:38Well, he realized what he'd done.
00:32:40He killed two people.
00:32:41One his wife.
00:32:43Oh, look, Doc.
00:32:44Nan and I were all over that swamp.
00:32:45Now, why didn't these monsters attack us?
00:32:48I've been thinking about that.
00:32:50They're probably night creatures.
00:32:51They can't stand the light.
00:32:52They stay down near the bottom during the day.
00:32:55A small charge would stun them, bring them to the surface.
00:32:59Can't buy it, Doc.
00:33:01You're pig-headed, Steve Benton.
00:33:04Stubborn and pig-headed.
00:33:05You just don't understand, do you?
00:33:08No.
00:33:16Good night, Doc.
00:33:17Good night, Doc.
00:33:17Good night.
00:33:47Right over there in them reeds.
00:34:10Well, man, just can't figure old Dave out.
00:34:14If you was caught like Cal, what would you do?
00:34:19I hadn't thought of that.
00:34:22Right over there in them reeds is where that digging used to be.
00:34:26Yeah.
00:34:28What's a great catfish in that hole?
00:34:44Boy, this is sure a hot one.
00:34:56Right unseasonable.
00:35:00Sure is funny.
00:35:02Huh?
00:35:03Don't you notice anything?
00:35:05About what?
00:35:06We've been prodding around you all morning.
00:35:09Ain't run across a single gator.
00:35:12By rights, this pool should be crawling with him.
00:35:17Sure funny.
00:35:18Yeah, that is funny.
00:35:20I don't like the looks of things.
00:35:22Let's call it a day.
00:35:24Well, now, wait a minute.
00:35:25We ain't pulled the gator holes around the bin yet.
00:35:27You do what you want to do, boy.
00:35:29Just get me on dry land and right quick.
00:35:32All right.
00:35:33Now, ain't no use getting all head up.
00:35:35Let's go.
00:35:39You've got to quit drinking that moonshine.
00:35:43That's why you're so wrinkled and ugly.
00:35:49We're going all the way out here.
00:35:51Wild goose chasing.
00:36:03Wild goose chasing.
00:36:22Wild goose chasing.
00:36:27Wild goose chasing.
00:36:29Let's go.
00:36:59Let's go.
00:37:29We've been calling, but there's been no answer.
00:37:43Oh, I just got back. What seems to be the trouble?
00:37:45Well, haven't you heard?
00:37:47Old Sam Peters and Porty Reed have disappeared.
00:37:50Come on inside.
00:37:51You know, Covis, nothing would please him more than to have all the swamp people disappear.
00:38:03Swamp trash, he calls them.
00:38:05I know.
00:38:06They have about as much regard for him as he has for them.
00:38:10When they're worried enough to go to him, you know something's wrong.
00:38:15Mrs. Reed said the men went searching for Cal and Mrs. Walker's bodies, and they never returned.
00:38:20Covis says he'll get up a search party if they don't show up in a couple of days.
00:38:25Doc, you and Ann take your car and get as many volunteers as you can.
00:38:29Tell them to meet me at the old wagon road.
00:38:32I'll call Doak Evans and have him bring his dogs.
00:38:35Either they're lost or they've had an accident.
00:38:38I hope to heaven you're right.
00:38:39I hope to heaven you're right.
00:39:07I hope to heaven you're right.
00:39:10Come on.
00:39:26I hope to heaven you're right.
00:39:30Come on.
00:39:33I hope to heaven you're right.
00:39:35Well, they picked up the ship.
00:40:05They sent, anyway.
00:40:06Ted, do you think they'll find them?
00:40:10Only the good Lord can answer that.
00:40:29Well, at least we know they got this far.
00:40:31All right, let's spit up into two parties and circle the lake.
00:40:35Keep your eyes open.
00:40:37Let's move out.
00:40:38Let's move out.
00:40:50Oh, no!
00:41:20It's all clear!
00:41:24It's clear over here!
00:41:50All right, let's keep moving.
00:42:20Well, we can't do anything more tonight. Might as well start back.
00:42:36I reckon it ain't no use hurrying now, Mr. Benton.
00:42:39Reed and old Sam was alive. They'd let us know him with a holler or something.
00:42:44Yeah, it kind of looks that way.
00:42:46You fellas notice anything about this lake? I 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.
00:42:56A whole lot of little ones.
00:42:58It's real unnatural.
00:43:00Well, maybe our torches scared them away.
00:43:02Nothing scares gators.
00:43:04It's nothing. Animal or human.
00:43:10Well, we might as well get out of here.
00:43:16You got something in mind, Steve?
00:43:23I keep thinking what Evan said about the gators.
00:43:27Nothing scares them, animal or human.
00:43:30And yet something made them leave. Maybe a...
00:43:33Maybe a mineral contamination.
00:43:35Guess I better run some water samples.
00:43:37Come on, you two. Drink your coffee.
00:43:41And supposing there is no contamination?
00:43:44Well, then I'll send over to Eastport for a diving rig and go down to look for this monster of yours.
00:43:49No, Steve. Don't even joke like that.
00:43:51I'm not joking, man. I had some training with an aqualung while I was in the Navy.
00:43:55But Steve...
00:43:56Look, there are two bodies we know for sure down there.
00:43:59Maybe four. They've got to be brought up.
00:44:01Wait 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, that goes your argument about setting off a dynamite charge underwater.
00:44:16You'd 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.
00:44:27I'll tell you why.
00:44:29Number one, there's bound to be some Aquarian life in that section, even if the bigger forms have abandoned it.
00:44:35Explosion underwater would destroy every living thing and 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?
00:44:53Finish up, Dad. I want to go home.
00:44:58Uh, Steve, uh...
00:45:00How long would it take to get this diving equipment from Eastport?
00:45:03Hmm, couple days. Why?
00:45:06Oh, nothing.
00:45:11Hey, carry yourself, Steve.
00:45:20Well, here's hoping.
00:45:21Dad.
00:45:22Can't you throw the dynamite in from here?
00:45:24No, I want to get it out into the middle.
00:45:26In the deepest part.
00:45:33All right.
00:45:34All right?
00:45:35Yeah.
00:45:36Thank you, sir.
00:45:37Now, we're gonna get to the bottom.
00:45:38Now, let's go.
00:45:39Ah!
00:45:40Ah!
00:45:41Ah!
00:45:42Ah!
00:45:43Ah!
00:45:44Ah!
00:45:45Ah!
00:45:46Ah!
00:45:47Ah!
00:45:48Ah!
00:45:49Ah!
00:45:50Ah!
00:45:51Ah!
00:45:52Ah!
00:45:53Ah!
00:45:54Ah!
00:45:55Ah!
00:45:56Ah!
00:45:57Ah!
00:45:58Ah!
00:45:59Ah!
00:46:00Ah!
00:46:01Ah!
00:46:02Ah!
00:46:03No!
00:46:33Let you go any minute.
00:47:03Let's go any minute.
00:47:33I 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.
00:48:00I think I'd better walk over to the coroner's office.
00:48:06What's the matter, Mr. Benton?
00:48:08Do 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.
00:48:15Well, 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?
00:48:32Sure.
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.
00:48:51Dave Walker didn't shoot Cal.
00:48:53I just come from the autopsies.
00:48:58Covers tried to keep me out.
00:49:00I told him I'd raise a stink they'd smell all the way to the Capitol if he did.
00:49:04Well, what killed them, Doc?
00:49:06Not drowning.
00:49:08And Cal wasn't shot, either.
00:49:09Every drop of blood was drained out of their bodies.
00:49:15And they had wounds on their throats.
00:49:17Suction wounds.
00:49:19Like a gigantic leech might make.
00:49:23And there's something even more incredible.
00:49:25Now, Cal was supposed to have been killed several days ago.
00:49:29Sam and Reed had been missing a matter of 48 hours.
00:49:32All three of them, as far as we know, were in that lake a minimum of two days.
00:49:37Now, I'd state my reputation as a doctor.
00:49:40That Cal hadn't been dead more than two or three hours when we found him.
00:49:44And the other two less than that.
00:49:46First stage rigor mortis started in during the autopsy.
00:49:49But how could that be, Doc?
00:49:50It's impossible.
00:49:52The coroner will confirm it.
00:49:54Whatever killed him is still in that lake.
00:49:56And it's going to take more than dynamite to get it out.
00:50:01Concussion from those charges would have killed a full-grown whale.
00:50:06That explains how Cal and the others lived after they were supposed to be drowned.
00:50:11What do you mean?
00:50:13Well, this whole region is riddled by caves and caverns cut out by the ocean thousands of years ago.
00:50:18If there are caves above the water, then there must be caves under the water.
00:50:22Go on.
00:50:24Mike and I had a chance to pull around with some frogman equipment captured from the Italian Navy.
00:50:28We sort of prowled through a sunken transport off Salerno.
00:50:34When the ship went down, it trapped some air inside the hull.
00:50:38We'd go down, come up inside the officer's lounge, take off her face mask,
00:50:42and sort of sample some of the bottles floating around.
00:50:46We'd drive the guys crazy trying to figure out how we were getting the stuff.
00:50:48You mean you think that there's an air pocket or a cave underneath the lake?
00:50:54Right, got to be.
00:50:55How else could those people have lived down there?
00:50:57Not only that explains how whatever it is down there lived through the concussions.
00:51:01Steve.
00:51:04Liz Walker.
00:51:06She might still be down there.
00:51:10Alive.
00:51:10No, no, no!
00:51:33No!
00:51:34No!
00:51:35No!
00:51:36No!
00:51:37No!
00:51:38No!
00:51:40No!
00:52:07Comfortable?
00:52:08Yeah.
00:52:10You sure you don't want me to go out for you, Mike?
00:52:12You haven't had one of these things on for a long time,
00:52:14while for 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.
00:52:25Well, I'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.
00:52:35Just wait till I get on the phone at the Capitol.
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.
00:52:44Let's go, Mike.
00:52:45Let's go.
00:52:46Let's go.
00:52:47Let's go.
00:52:48Let's go.
00:52:49Let's go.
00:52:50Let's go.
00:52:51Let's go.
00:52:52Whoa.
00:52:53Steve!
00:52:54Be careful, please.
00:52:55Don't worry.
00:52:56Mike will be ready if anything goes wrong.
00:52:57Don't worry about Steve.
00:52:58Now, if you were going after Barracuda, you might have a tiny bit to worry about.
00:53:03Ready, Mike?
00:53:04You're ready, Mike?
00:53:05Let's let go.
00:53:06Let's go.
00:53:07Get ready.
00:53:26Get ready.
00:53:27Go ahead.
00:53:28No, no, please, stay awake.
00:53:55Please.
00:53:56It's not exactly inviting, is it?
00:54:03It sure isn't.
00:54:05Hold a steady, Mike.
00:54:26It'll stop anything up to a tiger shot, but you've got to hit, and this is don't count.
00:54:33If anything goes wrong, just yank on the line, and I'll be down in a hurry.
00:54:56Oh, my God.
00:55:26Oh, my God.
00:55:56You sure you don't want me to go down and finish it off for you, Steve?
00:56:11No, thanks, Mike.
00:56:12I think I hurt it pretty bad.
00:56:15Careful now.
00:56:16Anything that hurts ten times as dangerous.
00:56:17He's wounded it.
00:56:24He's going to finish it off.
00:56:27Does he have to go under again?
00:56:29He's got to make sure, honey.
00:56:31Where 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?
00:56:44Well, they use atomic energy in their first stages of launching.
00:56:47Not all of them have been successful.
00:56:48You think that if some animal life was close by, not close enough to be killed, but close enough to feel the effects of a radioactive energy that's...
00:56:57A mutation.
00:56:58A type of gigantism of some common animal.
00:57:02Whatever it is, I hope he's able to bring it up.
00:57:05I hope he's able to bring it up.
00:57:30Oh, my God.
00:58:00That can't be Liz.
00:58:12What could have done that?
00:58:15Look at her face.
00:58:30Oh, my God.
00:59:00Oh, my God.
00:59:30Look at that thing.
00:59:44I've been around here for years.
00:59:46I never saw nothing like that before.
00:59:48I never saw nothing like that before.
01:00:04THE END
01:00:34There was no sign of them this time
01:00:54They must be licking their wounds
01:00:56You sure you used enough stuff to do the job, Mike?
01:01:00I used 100 sticks to 40%
01:01:02Ought to blow the bottom right out
01:01:03All right, let her go
01:01:05Oh, no
01:01:06I've done enough of your dirty work
01:01:08Help yourself
01:01:09I've done enough of your dirty work
01:01:14I've done enough of your dirty work
01:01:17I've done enough of your dirty work
01:01:19I've done enough of your dirty work
01:01:21I've done enough of your dirty work
01:01:26THE END
01:01:56THE END
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