River Monsters S09E06 Malaysian Lake Monster

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00:00I'm Jeremy Wade, biologist and underwater detective.

00:10Her body was eventually found, the attacker's identity unknown.

00:17In seas and rivers around the world, I've gotten hands-on

00:23with some of the planet's most nightmarish creatures.

00:29Beasts that have often been blamed for mysterious deaths.

00:38But this time, it's different.

00:41In a forest as old as the dinosaurs,

00:44I'm on a mission to hunt down a monster from my past,

00:49in a place I've never been.

00:52My target is a freshwater giant with a gruesome rap sheet.

00:57This is a very serious injury.

01:00And I'm not letting up till I've settled an old score.

01:05It's fish, it's fish.

01:06And it pulled a cow, it pulled a cow into the water.

01:09Here we go, here we go.

01:10Here we go, here we go.

01:14From a remote lake in Malaysia, South East Asia, comes a disturbing report of a

01:39From the remote lake in Malaysia, Southeast Asia, comes a disturbing report of a double tragedy.

01:49The sun is out and the water is calm.

01:54But something isn't right.

01:57When the empty boat is eventually spotted, no one can find any sign of its missing owner.

02:19A dive team is called in, fully equipped to scour the depths.

02:27Within hours though, one of the search party has also vanished.

02:44It takes another day to locate both victims.

02:57In each case, the simple explanation is accidental drowning.

03:02But this is where things get interesting.

03:08Almost immediately, people start blaming the two deaths on a creature that lives in the lake.

03:14Previous strange sightings of something that produces bubbles at the surface suggest to some at least that what happened was no accident.

03:24Even more surprising though, is the proposed identity of the killer.

03:28Arapaima are not native to Malaysia.

03:33They are predatory fish from South America.

03:36Yet according to this report, one of them could have ended up in the lake after it was released as an unwanted pet many years ago.

03:44The idea of a deadly arapaima is certainly intriguing.

03:51I know from painful experience that this fish can blast out of the water like a missile.

03:57A big one could potentially knock a man out of a boat or ram a diver.

04:11On the other hand, descriptions of the supposed arapaima are pretty sketchy.

04:15Ranging from dark brown to silver in colour, and anything from 4 feet to 15 feet in length.

04:24Then there's this internet photo, claiming to show the captured beast.

04:30Sitting here thousands of miles away, it's hard to judge it.

04:34But I have to say, I'm sceptical.

04:36So is there really a rogue arapaima on the loose?

04:45And if so, did it have anything to do with the two deaths?

04:51I think there could be more to this mystery than meets the eye.

04:55So I'm heading to the scene of the tragedy.

05:07Created some 30 years ago to provide hydropower,

05:12Malaysia's Lake Kenyir is said to be deeper than Loch Ness.

05:19Entombed within it are the remains of 13 flooded villages.

05:27I often get vital clues from villagers.

05:31But out here, there doesn't appear to be a living soul.

05:36One really odd thing about this lake is just how few people there are.

05:50Apart from a few scattered tourist attractions, it's pretty well deserted.

05:56And even these modern resorts look as if they've almost been left to the jungle.

06:02It's really, it's really quite spooky.

06:11In their native Amazon, arapaima stick to shallow lakes and slow-moving rivers.

06:17So my immediate instinct is to check out the quiet backwaters.

06:20Just like the day when the men went missing, the lake is dead calm.

06:36And I'm itching to interrogate it.

06:41The way I know best.

06:42Arapaima give themselves away when they surface to gulp air.

06:48But for several hours, there isn't so much as a ripple.

06:52Have I perhaps bitten off more than I can chew?

06:53With hundreds of islands and hidden coves,

07:09Kenyir is more labyrinth than lake.

07:10Searching it thoroughly could take a lifetime.

07:15But my boat driver, Arman, reckons he knows someone who might have a lead.

07:19Kairul Abu Bakar is a wildlife guide who spent 10 years recording everything that lives in and around the lake.

07:32Elephants.

07:33Elephants.

07:34Black painter.

07:35Tiger.

07:36Tiger.

07:37Tiger.

07:38Are there many tigers here?

07:39Uh, no.

07:40No.

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08:03No.

08:06I think so, bğiniplus we found a lot of footprints.

08:08This me, I mean, this, whow are they?

08:09Yeah, uh, the batek tribe.

08:11They live in the forest?

08:12They don't live in the towns and in the villages,kien?

08:13No, they stay in the forest, but they migrate from the one place to one place, looking for food.

08:22I'm intrigued by these batek, but it's a big fish I need to focus on.

08:28I'm wondering about what's under the water, have you ever seen ayrapaema?

08:31seen an arapaima? I heard rumours about arapaima a few years ago, but I've never seen it.

08:38So all the time you've seen the story, but I've never seen it.

08:44What Kairul tells me next, however, completely blows open my investigation.

08:50When I was young, we go to picnic. We saw a group of cows go to the edge of the water

08:57and get some drink, and suddenly something big, like a crocodile, come up from the water

09:04and catch the baby cow and pull it into the water. But it's no crocodile.

09:10You don't have a crocodile? No crocodiles here? No crocodile.

09:12So he's taking it to fish? It's fish, it's fish.

09:14And it pulled a cow into the water? Yeah.

09:17Your whole family saw it? Yeah.

09:19Do you have any idea what it was?

09:22We call it a tapa. It's a very big fish.

09:29The tapa is the only fish that's ever beaten me.

09:35In India, where human limbs have been found in its stomach, it's known as the serang.

09:42Many Hindus regard it as sacred and say you must leave it alone.

09:47Is it still there? I can feel it.

09:50Whoa!

09:51It's off, it's off, it's off.

09:53Perhaps I should have listened.

09:56Ah!

09:59The more I tried to catch it, the more I seemed to be cursed.

10:04Oh!

10:05Right to the bitter end, I was left empty-handed.

10:09That could be the net result of my return to India, a broken line.

10:17Capable of growing as long as a man, the tapa is Malaysia's biggest freshwater fish.

10:24Unusually for a catfish, it's known to gulp air.

10:28And despite its size, it's surprisingly agile.

10:36After Chirul's story, I'm wondering if the tapper could be the culprit.

10:40Like the arapaima, the tapa is carnivorous.

10:48And it, too, can launch itself out of the water.

10:55But which, if either of these two predators, arapaima or tapa, is actually stalking this lake?

11:02There's something on here.

11:07There's something on here.

11:25A double tragedy on Malaysia's Lake Kenyer

11:28has stirred up speculation about a giant fish.

11:34And I'm on the trail of two possible culprits.

11:40Rumour has it that a South American fish called an arapaima is on the loose.

11:45On the wrong side of the world.

11:48But maybe the mysterious lake monster is a native tapa.

11:53The only fish that's ever defeated me.

11:55Is that the one here?

11:57Is that the one here?

12:10I'm going to swing it in the boat.

12:14I've hooked a third predator for my list.

12:18Quite a feisty thing.

12:19What it lacks in size, a snake head more than makes up for with aggression.

12:26Those teeth are a bit like daggers, really.

12:30They are capable of actually sawing pieces of flesh out of another fish.

12:36It's a bit like the teeth on a saw blade.

12:39If they shake the head side to side like that, they can actually rip a piece of flesh out.

12:43Very aggressive when it comes to protecting their young.

12:47They've even been known to go for people.

12:53But despite its attitude, this fish is not one of my suspects.

12:59Although it's called the giant snake head, these grow to a maximum size of about 40 pounds, something like that.

13:04And at that size, there's no way that a snake head could jump out of the water and pull somebody from a boat.

13:11It's encouraging to have caught something.

13:22But I'm no closer to finding the alleged lake monster.

13:31Any kind of lead would be welcome.

13:33I'm hoping that whoever lives in this floating houseboat might have some information.

13:43The owner is a fisherman named Mok San, who tells me he's lived here since the lake was created.

13:53You ever see anything strange in the water?

13:55People say that there's arapaima in here. You ever seen arapaima?

13:58Like Kairul, he's heard the rumours about an arapaima, but hasn't seen it himself.

14:11He says that even though there's a large bounty on its head, no one has ever cashed in.

14:16Another fish I'm interested in is the tapa. Have you ever seen or heard stories about them taking fish or animals from the surface of the water?

14:36Before the valleys here were flooded, there were apparently many tapa in the rivers.

14:41Mok San recounts stories of them grabbing dogs and wild pigs.

14:46Mok San recounts stories of them grabbing dogs and wild pigs.

14:50Mok San recounts stories of them grabbing dogs and wild pigs.

14:56But it sounds like the lake could also be harboring a very different kind of killer.

15:03And this one is no fish.

15:08Wow, we were just talking about tapa attacking things on the surface.

15:17And he's just said to me, what you've got to worry about here is something else.

15:22And at first I thought he was talking about a whirlpool.

15:24Apparently it's not a whirlpool, the water isn't turning.

15:27It actually bubbles up and it starts fairly small.

15:30But it spreads to cover an area about 40 feet across.

15:33That's actually wider than the width of this boat here.

15:35And he says you get sediment and air and all sorts coming up from the bottom.

15:41Certain deep lakes are known to belch deadly gases.

15:46He says it's very scary, it's very spooky.

15:49Particularly if you're on a small boat, you don't want to be anywhere near it.

15:52Could this strange phenomenon explain the missing boatman?

15:59One thing that's becoming clear to me is that this lake is even more mysterious than I thought it was.

16:08Mok San's warning has put me on edge.

16:12The more I get to know this place, the more sinister it feels.

16:17But maybe at last I'm about to get a breakthrough.

16:22Tipped off about my investigation, a witness has come forward.

16:27Someone who claims to have seen and photographed the elusive lake monster.

16:35Two mysterious deaths have drawn me to Malaysia's Lake Kenyir, where my suspect list is growing.

16:40There are rumours of a rogue arapaima, but so far I've failed to find a witness.

16:47Now, I've been contacted by a man who claims to have seen and photographed this lake phantom.

16:54All I know about him is that he's a fisherman who goes by the name of Matt Rambo.

17:01Hello.

17:02Hello.

17:03Hello.

17:04Are you Matt Rambo?

17:05Hello.

17:06Are you Matt Rambo?

17:07Yeah, yeah, yeah.

17:08Hello.

17:09I'm Jeremy.

17:10You saw the arapaima in the lake.

17:11Can you tell me exactly how that happened?

17:12Hello.

17:13and photographed this lake phantom.

17:18All I know about him is that he's a fisherman

17:20who goes by the name of Matt Rambo.

17:23Hello.

17:24Hello, are you Matt?

17:26Yeah, yeah, yeah.

17:27Hello, my name, I'm Jeremy.

17:29You saw the arapaima in the lake.

17:32Can you tell me exactly how that happened?

17:43One evening, he was out fishing on the lake.

17:46He's in his boat, it's just him in the boat.

17:52He saw this fish about six foot down in the water

17:56and the thing is, the boat was approaching it.

18:02Ah, so you surprised it.

18:04The fish is there, the boat comes and it goes away.

18:07He says it was pale gray and about six feet long,

18:12which does fit with an arapaima.

18:17But his story comes with a twist.

18:26So you had it on your phone,

18:28but since then the phone has fallen in the lake.

18:32He'd heard the stories about arapaima,

18:34so he says he's absolutely sure it was arapaima.

18:36He did get a picture on the phone and he says

18:39it wasn't that clear, but you could identify it from it.

18:41Since then, unfortunately, he's dropped the phone in the lake

18:44so that the lake has taken back the evidence of this sighting.

18:49But he's certain that it was an arapaima.

18:57Arapaima or not, at least I now have a possible location.

19:01And I'm curious to revisit the one photo that does exist.

19:08The photo that was posted online.

19:12I think the key detail for me is the soil here, the color of it.

19:16If you look at anywhere on the lake here, it's this sort of red-y-orange color,

19:21whereas here it's almost white or gray.

19:25Then there is this house in the background.

19:28That doesn't look like any of the buildings I've seen on the lake here.

19:31So although this is a genuine picture of a big arapaima,

19:35I am pretty certain that it wasn't taken here.

19:38If some kind of creature really is to blame for what happened,

19:48then I'm almost certain that it's not the fish everyone's been talking about.

19:55It is possible that somewhere on this lake

19:59there is an escaped arapaima on the loose.

20:02But even if there is, do I believe that it could have knocked somebody out of a boat

20:09and rammed a diver?

20:12There are two very specific circumstances when arapaima will go for people.

20:17The first one is when you've got one cornered in a net.

20:22The second circumstance is when the arapaima are defending their nests.

20:26Now, here, nobody tries to net arapaima.

20:30And in order to have a nest,

20:33you have to have two individuals which find each other somehow

20:37and form a breeding pair.

20:40Which brings me to the biggest factor, really, which is just the math.

20:45In order to fall foul of an arapaima on this huge lake,

20:51it would be an absolute million-to-one freak accident.

20:56I don't think an arapaima can be the culprit.

21:06And that leaves me to focus on my second suspect.

21:12The only river monster that's ever eluded me.

21:16Tapa can certainly grow big.

21:30But do they deliberately attack people?

21:35The grisly human remains reported from their stomachs in India

21:45could just have been scavenged from the dead.

21:47Before I can accuse this fish, I'm going to need proof of intent.

21:58Prompted by stories of aggressive tapa in another part of Malaysia,

22:03I'm heading to Sarawak on the island of Borneo.

22:06Tapa also live here.

22:14Not in empty backwaters,

22:16but in busy rivers where people live, work and play.

22:25In the village of Pandan,

22:27I'm told that many parents keep their children out of the water

22:30for fear of them being snatched by one of these fish.

22:38A few inquiries lead me to a man named Madahi,

22:42who still remembers the day someone was attacked

22:44right in front of his house.

22:46So this was a young boy, three, four years old.

22:56He was with his mother and father on a platform.

23:07Both parents are busy with their daily chores.

23:10They don't let kids here bathe on their own.

23:21They're always sort of supervised to some extent.

23:29Madahi describes bubbles at the surface.

23:35This is a key detail for me,

23:37since tapa are thought to control their buoyancy

23:40by gulping and then releasing air.

23:47There's a splash.

23:49Something's grabbed him by the leg.

23:53The boy could easily have vanished.

23:58But his quick-thinking father pulls him to safety.

24:03If he hadn't done that,

24:04the child could well have disappeared.

24:06And this definitely wasn't a crocodile?

24:11No.

24:12So this was a fish?

24:13This was ikan tapa?

24:14Yes, yes.

24:15It was ikan tapa.

24:18There were marks on his leg.

24:21This was a fish that they estimate

24:23would have been 60, 70 pounds in weight or something.

24:25And this happened just a couple of hundred yards

24:27down the river from here.

24:31Madahi's account adds to other reports

24:33from along this river

24:35of a fish that attacks ducks,

24:38dogs,

24:38and even boat propellers.

24:44But what I discover next

24:46is in a different league.

24:48I'm in Malaysia,

25:01on the trail of a freshwater giant

25:04that could be responsible

25:06for two mysterious deaths.

25:08The tapa is a fish

25:15that's cut through my line before.

25:18Oh!

25:19It's off, it's off, it's off.

25:21And I'm determined

25:22not to let it get away

25:24a second time.

25:25On a busy river in Borneo,

25:30I've already heard stories

25:31of tapa attacking boat propellers

25:33and even children.

25:38Now I'm trying to find out

25:40if it's bold enough

25:40to target a full-grown person.

25:45People say that you have a story

25:46about somebody in the water.

25:48Nia Leng, a village elder,

25:50tells me that with this fish,

25:52even adults are fair game.

25:54In the incident he recounts,

26:01the victim is in water

26:02up to his chest.

26:04This was actually a man

26:06bathing in the river here,

26:07completely naked.

26:17And a tapa bit him

26:19in the groin.

26:24This is a real step up.

26:26This is something more serious.

26:27With nothing to protect his skin,

26:32what happened?

26:33He actually had one testicle removed.

26:36This is a very serious injury.

26:39though the man survived,

26:45it seems that a big tapa

26:46will go for pretty much anything.

26:51Even if it occasionally ends up

26:53with more than it can swallow.

26:58The tapa is now my prime suspect,

27:01but I know from bitter experience

27:03that catching it won't be easy.

27:09In theory,

27:10a lure that mimics a small fish

27:12should trigger a predatory response.

27:17And by towing it behind the boat,

27:19I can cover large stretches of river.

27:21But the hours slip by

27:41without a take.

27:47I'm starting to wonder

27:48if I might have gotten here too late.

27:51This river is the first place

28:02where I've heard stories of tapa

28:03actually going for people.

28:06So it's clearly a fish with attitude.

28:08But what's equally clear

28:09traveling along the river

28:10is the sheer amount of fishing pressure.

28:13Everywhere you look,

28:14there's lines going into the water,

28:16there's nets.

28:17So the question facing me

28:19is whether the big ones

28:21are still actually here.

28:26Sticking around on this heavily fished river

28:29feels futile.

28:30But where on earth do I go next?

28:35The tapa is the only fish

28:37that's ever defeated me.

28:40And to put that right,

28:41I'm ready to take a gamble.

28:43Yeah, the batik tribe.

28:48Doubling back,

28:49I return to the mainland

28:51where I've obtained special permission

28:54to visit a tribe of hunter-gatherers

28:56who live deep in the forests

28:58of Taman Nigara.

29:04The batik I've discovered

29:06do hunt fish.

29:09I'm hoping they'll know

29:10about the tapa

29:11and where I can find one.

29:15But I've no idea

29:16if they'll welcome

29:17an outsider.

29:30In the heart of the Malay Peninsula,

29:32I'm about to meet

29:33an isolated tribe

29:35of hunter-gatherers.

29:36The batik are a remnant population

29:44with ancient African roots.

29:49At Kampung Au,

29:51they seem friendly enough.

29:54And our conversation

29:55soon turns to the tapa.

29:58So it's a very long fish,

29:59a big one.

30:00Could be the length of this table.

30:02Yeah.

30:02Before long,

30:09my guide Roslan and I

30:10are hearing all kinds

30:11of hair-raising,

30:12first-hand accounts.

30:18So you were chased

30:19but it didn't eat you?

30:20Yeah.

30:26So this is not a log

30:28or a tree.

30:29Something hit the boat.

30:30It's easy to warm

30:32to these fellow fishermen

30:33who are positively eager

30:35to share their knowledge.

30:38If I want to catch one,

30:40can you suggest

30:40a good river?

30:46I'm soon cramming

30:48my notebook with suggestions

30:49and by all accounts,

30:52I've come to the right place.

30:54They're definitely talking

30:55a big fish,

30:57an aggressive fish,

30:58one that they respect.

30:59so if I want to catch one,

31:02they say,

31:03strong tackle,

31:04get off the main river,

31:05go up a side tributary.

31:11Taking the Batek's advice,

31:13I head deeper

31:14into the forest.

31:16The water looks perfect

31:18for fishing,

31:19but I know

31:20this can change quickly

31:21if it rains heavily.

31:23according to Roslan,

31:32a tupper likes nothing better

31:34than live meat.

31:36It's about three foot.

31:38He tells me

31:39he once saw a big one

31:40grab a monkey

31:41off an overhanging branch.

31:43So the tupper came right out?

31:44It came right down,

31:45like that grab,

31:46just disappeared.

31:47And you saw that?

31:48I saw that.

31:51The boatman, meanwhile,

31:53says he's seen a tupper

31:54trying to swallow

31:55a still thrashing

31:56six foot monitor lizard.

31:59How big was this tupper?

32:0460, 70 kilos,

32:06so it's 150 pounds.

32:07Yeah.

32:08By any measure,

32:10that's a big fish.

32:13Roslan has come prepared.

32:15local legend has it

32:18that this small

32:19kelly catfish

32:20is just what you need

32:22to rile a tupper.

32:24It doesn't look

32:25very appetizing,

32:26but there's a story

32:27the locals say

32:28that the tupper

32:29is jealous of

32:30these rather luxuriant

32:31whiskers on the chin.

32:32The tupper has

32:33rather pathetic ones.

32:34They're very short

32:35like that.

32:35So the tupper

32:36is jealous of this fish.

32:38When it sees it,

32:38it makes it angry.

32:40Sounds like the tupper

32:40has serious

32:41anger management issues.

32:43Let's hope it works.

32:45I decide to fish

32:53over a deep pocket

32:54in the river.

33:10And within minutes,

33:12something powerful

33:12has hit the bait.

33:14once we've got

33:21under the boat.

33:26And

33:27now

33:28we've got a snakehead.

33:35The float just vanished

33:37and I thought

33:37it's got to be a tupper.

33:39I was using a large bait

33:40that engulfed

33:42a three-pound catfish.

33:44And it just reminds you

33:45that fish are not like us.

33:46We cut things

33:47into bite-sized lumps

33:48and chew them.

33:50Fish very often

33:51just swallow something whole.

33:55Powerful, muscular fish.

33:56And you can see why

33:58they call them snakehead.

33:59That head is just like a snake's.

34:02I'm pleased with that.

34:03Very pleased with that.

34:12I feel sort of warmed up

34:14ready for a tupper now.

34:15Clearly, there are predators

34:21on the move.

34:26But after a promising

34:28curtain raiser,

34:29I'm failing to draw

34:31the main act

34:32out of the shadows.

34:37It looks like I could be in

34:38for a long night.

34:43Local fishermen

34:44like Rosland

34:45simply tie their lines

34:46to flexible branches

34:47and don't come back

34:49until dawn.

34:52But that's not my style.

34:55If I hook a tupper,

34:56I want to bring it in quickly,

34:58get a good look at it,

35:00then release it unharmed.

35:04So I'm placing my baits

35:05carefully on the edge

35:06of deep water.

35:08And then running the lines

35:10back to my rods

35:11on a small, clear space

35:12on the opposite bank.

35:14A little bit.

35:15That's it.

35:15That's good.

35:16Live there.

35:17What will happen

35:18is that the weak line

35:19there will break

35:20and I'll be into a fish.

35:22That's the theory anyway.

35:36This is the deepest pool

35:37in the deepest jungle.

35:40I can almost smell them.

35:43Maybe this is going

35:44to be tonight.

35:57But as the night wears on,

35:59I'm tortured by bad memories.

36:02Daylight brings a mixed result.

36:25The whole night here,

36:3012 hours,

36:31with nothing taking

36:33either of the baits.

36:35But Roslyn has just brought me this.

36:39The messy raking bite

36:42is as good as a calling card.

36:45Definitely a tupper.

36:47And that was close.

36:51It shows very graphically

36:52what those teeth

36:53are capable of.

36:59Almost certainly,

37:00the beast that mauled

37:01Roslyn's bait

37:02will now be too wary

37:04to bite again.

37:06Which leaves me

37:07with no option

37:08but to move on.

37:09Has the curse of this fish

37:14come back to haunt me?

37:16This does all look like

37:21the beginnings of the monsoon.

37:23And the thing is,

37:23if the monsoon really hits

37:24and the rain starts tipping down,

37:27the water starts coming up,

37:28I've been told

37:29that is it

37:30as far as my fishing goes,

37:31as far as my chances

37:32of a big tapper go.

37:34So,

37:35it's true to say

37:38that time is running out.

37:45As I race

37:46to find a new fishing spot,

37:49the monsoon launches

37:50its first big salvo.

38:04After a huge storm,

38:09I'm worried

38:09that the rivers

38:10could swell

38:11and become unfishable,

38:13potentially in a matter

38:14of hours.

38:20Setting up on the bank

38:21as before

38:22would eat precious time.

38:25So I decide to moor up

38:27and fish from the boat.

38:28All I can do now

38:35is wait

38:35and hope

38:36that the fishing gods

38:38will see fit

38:39to lift their curse.

38:52We've got to fish.

38:54But there's work to do.

38:56It's on a tree.

38:58Let's go above it.

38:58It's around a tree,

39:01I think.

39:04Okay,

39:05keep in the middle.

39:06Out in the middle, please.

39:11It's coming up.

39:17All right.

39:18Ready?

39:19I'm ready.

39:20Here we go.

39:21Here we go.

39:22It's clear.

39:26Lift.

39:27Lift, lift, lift, lift.

39:28Now!

39:29Now!

39:33We have it.

39:35We have it.

39:36Tapper, we have it.

39:38Let's go to the bank.

39:39At long last,

39:53my tapper curse

39:54has lifted.

39:55All right, let's have a look at this beast.

40:03Lengthwise,

40:04it just goes on and on.

40:05This is a fish with eyes bigger than its stomach.

40:14Dogs, huge lizards, a cow, and even humans.

40:21I've heard enough about its feeding habits to know that this is a beast that means business.

40:26So what about the boatman and the diver on Lake Kenyere?

40:35Did they, in fact, fall foul of a tapper?

40:38The one thing that's actually bothering me is the teeth.

40:47They're very sharp.

40:48They're very numerous.

40:50If one of these jumped out of the water and grabbed you,

40:52your arm or your leg is going to look basically like hamburger meat.

40:55And yet,

40:59neither of those corpses at Lake Kenyere had so much as a scratch.

41:06For so long,

41:08this creature has been my nemesis.

41:11But that doesn't make it guilty

41:12of homicide.

41:16Maybe for once,

41:17the real culprit

41:18isn't an animal.

41:19But even if the two deaths on Kenyere

41:26remain a mystery,

41:28it hasn't all been in vain.

41:32At long last,

41:33I've finally caught it.

41:37The tapper

41:38is no longer

41:39the one that got away.

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