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00:02:59Do you hear me, girl?
00:03:11Well, you won't now.
00:03:13You can't play that thing so loud.
00:03:20Why don't you come out like this for her?
00:03:23Oh, don't bother me.
00:03:25Liz, someday I'm going to give that she-cat the weapon she's been asking for.
00:03:35Sure you will, Dave.
00:03:36Lay the law down to her.
00:03:37Let her know who wears the pants around here.
00:03:39I'll be back in a minute.
00:03:45Any whoopens done back there, I'll lay you a jug.
00:03:49She'll be doing it.
00:03:50Come on now, Liv, and tell us about that thing you killed out there at the swamp, will you?
00:03:56Yeah, Liv, let's share the rest of that.
00:03:58Like I was thinking, I put five slugs into that critter before and went under.
00:04:03It's like a critter.
00:04:03It's not the hottest thing I ever seen.
00:04:05Don't go on the sting I ever seen.
00:04:05It had regular arms on it like a man.
00:04:08It was sort of different looking.
00:04:11Had suckers on them.
00:04:13Like one of them, uh, like one of them octipuses' things.
00:04:20Oh, it was plum off-looking.
00:04:23Lim, you sure that critter wasn't pink?
00:04:26Oh, I told you before, it was sort of gray-looking.
00:04:32Well, laugh if you want.
00:04:35But that thing weren't nothing nature put out there.
00:04:38Oh, sir, and it weren't no freak gator neither.
00:04:42I've been poaching this country for 40 years, and I ain't never seen nothing like it.
00:04:48Well, too bad you didn't bring it back.
00:04:50Steve Benton probably paid a fair bounty for whatever it was.
00:04:54Bounty?
00:04:55I wouldn't touch that critter for all the money ever made.
00:05:00And if you'd seen it, you wouldn't either.
00:05:03You better take it easy on this stuff.
00:05:04You're looking kind of peaked.
00:05:05No, I'm going to clean my otter lines out before morning.
00:05:13Lim, I think that critter's a ghost.
00:05:16One of those otters you've been poaching all these years, coming back to haunt you.
00:05:22Well, if that's so, you fellers will see it right quick yourselves.
00:05:28Oh, boy, it's all right.
00:05:43Oh, boy, it's all right.
00:05:49Oh, boy.
00:05:51Oh, boy.
00:05:53Oh, boy.
00:05:54Look, it's not like I want to be mean or anything like that, Liz, baby.
00:06:13I got a reputation around here.
00:06:15These folks have no respect for a man who lets his woman boss him.
00:06:19Well, next thing they know, they'll be laughing at me.
00:06:21And they'll be telling all the rest of them.
00:06:23Won't you please listen to me, Liz, baby?
00:06:27Liz?
00:06:51Don't be looking at me like that.
00:07:03I'll look at you any way I want, you my wife.
00:07:05Don't touch me.
00:07:21You think you're talking to me?
00:07:23Don't touch me.
00:07:24You're my wife.
00:07:25I'll touch you any time I feel like it.
00:07:27Where are you going?
00:07:41Where are you going?
00:07:43I'm going out.
00:07:46Maybe I'll be back.
00:07:48Maybe I won't.
00:07:49Liz, baby.
00:07:50I didn't mean nothing.
00:07:57I know there was a young one at the last trap.
00:08:22I had to kill it.
00:08:23Oh, poor thing.
00:08:25Told you you shouldn't have come along.
00:08:27Well, I can understand hunting an animal, but making it suffer in those traps, it's horrible.
00:08:39Well, these poachers know the swamps like the back of their hands.
00:08:42But I'll catch one of them in the axe some night and put him away for six months.
00:08:46In the meantime, I'll have to be satisfied confiscating their trap lines.
00:08:49If they lose enough traps, it won't pay them to keep trying.
00:08:51Well, be careful, darling.
00:08:53These people aren't like other folks.
00:08:54You know, they'll try and get back at you.
00:08:56Let them try.
00:08:58Steve, you're a stranger here.
00:09:00They've lived this way for generations.
00:09:03One man isn't going to change them overnight.
00:09:05You're a real worrywart.
00:09:07Oh, I'm serious, Steve.
00:09:08They can be dangerous.
00:09:10Okay, I'll be careful.
00:09:13You just stop worrying.
00:09:14Oh, Steve, I love you.
00:09:23I love you so much.
00:09:30What was that?
00:09:31I don't know.
00:09:32You get in the truck and lock it up.
00:09:33I love you.
00:09:51I love you.
00:09:52Listen, Benton, the corner rule that Sawyer died in a misadventure.
00:10:17Now, as far as this office is concerned, that's the end of it.
00:10:19But, Sheriff, I can't see why the...
00:10:21If Lem was killed by anything human, I wouldn't need you to tell me my job.
00:10:25But I'm not about to go tromping through the swamp looking for an overgrown gator.
00:10:30Sawyer wasn't killed by an alligator.
00:10:32Is that so?
00:10:33Did you hear that, Morton?
00:10:35Game Warden Benton says it wasn't a gator killing Lem.
00:10:38Well, then, what was it? You know so much. Go on, tell me. What killed him?
00:10:42Dr. Grayson said the wounds were the kind of squid or a large octopus might cause.
00:10:47Oh, sure. And did Grayson explain how a saltwater creature happened to be 30 miles inland living in clear water?
00:10:54Stranger things have happened. I know that...
00:10:56Look here, Benton. You work for the state.
00:10:59Now, why don't you keep your nose out of county business? Is that clear enough for you?
00:11:04Oh, go soak your fat head.
00:11:09What was that you said?
00:11:11I said, go soak your fat head.
00:11:19Oh, that boy's looking for bad trouble.
00:11:22And he's sure gonna get it.
00:11:24You can bet on that.
00:11:26So, you see, the octopi uses its suction discs to hold its prey.
00:11:39Now, in itself, the disc will not inflict a wound.
00:11:42The same is true of the squid.
00:11:44Now, both creatures have a parrot-like beak as their primary offensive and defensive weapon.
00:11:49Well, maybe the sheriff was right, Dad.
00:11:51Could be a freak or a malformed alligator.
00:11:56No.
00:11:57No, I'm afraid it wasn't.
00:12:00Well, where does that leave us, Doc?
00:12:02I wish I knew.
00:12:04You know, I'm beginning to think Lem was telling the truth in Walker's store.
00:12:08He did see something that night.
00:12:11Something that had intelligence enough to seek him out and destroy him later.
00:12:15But Sawyer claims to have killed the thing he saw, put a half a dozen rifle bullets into it.
00:12:20I've seen that old 4440 used.
00:12:22Nothing could live after being hit with those slugs.
00:12:25Well, conceding the possibility of one such creature,
00:12:29we must also concede the possibility of others.
00:12:34Well, there's one sure way of finding out.
00:12:37Go in and search every backwater, channel, and wet spot in the swamp.
00:12:41If it's there, I'll find it.
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00:13:14It sure is quiet around here.
00:13:44Did you hear something?
00:14:06Yes.
00:14:12Well, whatever it was, it's not here anymore.
00:14:22Do you want some coffee?
00:14:24Yeah, thanks, son.
00:14:28An army could hide in here and never be noticed.
00:14:31Well, one did.
00:14:32What?
00:14:34Seminoles under Osceola in the 1830s.
00:14:37Took the US Army two years to round them up.
00:14:39I remember reading about Osceola in high school.
00:14:42Two years.
00:14:44I've only been at it two days and I feel worn out.
00:14:48Well, we might as well keep on looking around.
00:14:51Come on, looking around.
00:14:58Well, I guess we may as well give up for today.
00:14:59Well, you won't get any argument from me.
00:15:03Well, you won't get any argument from me.
00:15:22Well, you won't get any argument from me.
00:15:27You won't get any argument from me.
00:15:28What?
00:15:29I'll get to them before.
00:15:30I'll get some fun stuff.
00:15:31Well, I'll be honest with you.
00:15:32Well, you won't get a break.
00:15:33You won't get any argument from me.
00:15:34Let's go.
00:16:04I'm asking you for the last time, Dave Walker.
00:16:14You answer me, you dirty old man.
00:16:18I ain't dirty, Liz, baby.
00:16:21Liz, baby.
00:16:22Liz, honey.
00:16:24Can't you think of anything else they're stupid?
00:16:26I've got to get this order over to Miss Chauvey.
00:16:28She's one of my better customers.
00:16:31Can't keep her waiting.
00:16:34I love you, Liz, baby.
00:16:38Get out.
00:16:39Get out, you fat pig!
00:16:41You, um, have some trouble, Dave?
00:17:00You know women, Cal.
00:17:03Got to get the hair down every now and then.
00:17:06You sure do know an awful lot about females.
00:17:09I've got to hand it to you.
00:17:12I can't stand here at John, Cal.
00:17:14Got to get this order over to Miss Chauvey.
00:17:16What's she letting her hair down about this time?
00:17:20Well, ever since Lim got herself killed, she wants me to sell out and move into town.
00:17:28Don't you let her bamboozle you, Dave.
00:17:30You keep her right here in the store.
00:17:32After all, the place wouldn't be seen without you around.
00:17:37Thanks, Cal.
00:17:38I better get going.
00:17:40See when I get back.
00:17:41Yeah, I'll be around.
00:17:58Liz, baby.
00:17:59It's Cal, honey.
00:18:13You want something, Cal?
00:18:19I sure do, honey.
00:18:29I'm tired.
00:18:39Oh, I'm dead.
00:18:41Me too.
00:18:44Come on over here.
00:18:45It seems kind of silly knocking ourselves out looking for something we aren't even sure exists.
00:18:59What do you mean?
00:19:00You know, we've covered miles of back channel and haven't come across anything to support your father's theory of an alien creature.
00:19:09Not so much as a mud print we couldn't identify.
00:19:11I know.
00:19:12You're not going to give up, are you, Steve?
00:19:19Well, I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:24With all respect to your father's ideas.
00:19:29Dad seems so sure.
00:19:31I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:32I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:33I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:34I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:35I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:36I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:37I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:38I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:39I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:40I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:41I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:42I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:43I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:44I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:46There's some woman, Liz.
00:20:13I reckon I haven't met a woman like you before.
00:20:19You really like me, Cal?
00:20:23You're kidding me.
00:20:26No, I didn't hurt you now, did I?
00:20:29It's just so strong.
00:20:33I like a man that's strong.
00:20:37You sure picked a doozy then, man, Dave.
00:20:42I don't think he's going to muscle in him.
00:20:45Just a big piece of flab.
00:20:48Oh, honey, I didn't mean anything against you.
00:20:53Just that I can't see a real woman like you tied in with a tub of lard like him.
00:21:03You wouldn't understand, Cal.
00:21:06You know, I've wanted to tell you.
00:21:11You just wouldn't understand.
00:21:13You're trying to.
00:21:15Come on, you tell old Cal about it.
00:21:18You wouldn't think bad of me.
00:21:25Crazy.
00:21:26You tell me you killed your pa, your ma, and your whole family.
00:21:31I'll fight to protect you.
00:21:33I'll fight to protect you.
00:22:03My first husband was a no-good bum.
00:22:21Couldn't keep a job more than a week.
00:22:25Used to get lushed up, come home beat up on me.
00:22:28You must have been a prize pig.
00:22:33One night he tried to hold up a gas station.
00:22:37He was so drunk he couldn't even run.
00:22:40I thought I'm less than a mile away.
00:22:43Got sent up.
00:22:46I got a divorce.
00:22:49That's rough.
00:22:52After three years working on our lousy beanery, I was ready for the first guy that sent a nice wood to me.
00:22:59It was Dave.
00:23:01That's it.
00:23:03I wish it had been me.
00:23:05I don't know how to take care of a woman like you, Liz.
00:23:08Maybe it ain't too late, Cal.
00:23:11You're wrong, woman.
00:23:21It's too late for the both of you.
00:23:25Get up.
00:23:28Come on, get up.
00:23:30Now look, Dave, I know what you're thinking, but...
00:23:33I got double-nord shot in this here thing.
00:23:36You got two seconds before I'm pulling the trigger.
00:23:40No point getting riled, Dave.
00:23:45It wasn't my fault.
00:23:47She's been testing me for months to take her out.
00:23:50Sure, Cal.
00:23:52I understand.
00:23:54Get her up so I can get a better look at the line, little tramp.
00:23:58Come on, get her up.
00:24:01Come on, get up.
00:24:02No, Cal, no.
00:24:03He killed me.
00:24:04He killed me.
00:24:05Jiltum.
00:24:06And your husband wants to take a look at you.
00:24:09You, uh, you walk all the way, Dave?
00:24:15One more step and I'll blow your plumbing, too.
00:24:18Get over there!
00:24:20Now, Dave, it ain't as bad as you think.
00:24:23Shut up!
00:24:25Train.
00:24:27What are you gonna do?
00:24:29You'll find out soon enough.
00:24:33Dave, you put down that gun before I get mad and make you eat it!
00:24:36You go ahead and try, Cal.
00:24:38Go right ahead and try.
00:24:40Move!
00:24:41Move!
00:24:42Move!
00:24:43Move!
00:24:44Move!
00:24:45Move!
00:24:46Move!
00:24:48Move!
00:24:49Move...
00:24:50Move!
00:25:04Move!
00:25:06Move!
00:25:07Move!
00:25:09Come on.
00:25:25Come on.
00:25:27I can't go any further.
00:25:29No.
00:25:30Come on.
00:25:31No.
00:25:32Come on.
00:25:39Come on, run.
00:25:46Run till you drop.
00:26:01Come on.
00:26:06Come on.
00:26:13Come on.
00:26:18Come on.
00:26:22Come on.
00:26:24I can't go anymore.
00:26:26I can't.
00:26:27You've got to live.
00:26:28Stop.
00:26:29I can't go.
00:26:30You keep over it like a fool child.
00:26:33I can't go.
00:26:35Come here.
00:26:38Come on, keep going.
00:27:05Dave, please, you've got to listen.
00:27:09It wasn't my fault, Ernest.
00:27:11She'd complain up to me every time you'd turn your back.
00:27:13It wasn't my fault.
00:27:15You call yourself a man.
00:27:18You and your muscles.
00:27:20Shut up, you trapped!
00:27:22If it wasn't you, I wouldn't be in this place.
00:27:24And my old friend Dave wouldn't be doing this thing to me.
00:27:27It's all your fault!
00:27:29Don't!
00:27:30Get going.
00:27:32But Dave, Dave, we've been friends a long time, Dave.
00:27:37You wouldn't kill an old friend, Dave.
00:27:40If you don't move, I'll kill you where you stand.
00:27:43But Dave!
00:27:45Pray, big man.
00:27:48Don't!
00:27:49Don't!
00:27:50Don't!
00:27:51Don't!
00:27:52Don't!
00:27:53I didn't mean it, Dave!
00:27:55I didn't mean it!
00:27:57Dave, the kid is out here!
00:28:01Please, Dave!
00:28:04Oh, I'm sorry!
00:28:07I'm sorry!
00:28:09I'm sorry, honey. I'm sorry, Dave.
00:28:16I'm sorry. I didn't mean it.
00:28:19I'm sorry.
00:28:26You think you learned enough to stay away from a woman, Carol?
00:28:29Oh, anything, Dave.
00:28:32I'm moving to the other way out of the county.
00:28:34I'll do anything you say, Dave. Anything.
00:28:37All right. Come on out of there.
00:28:40Oh, Dave. Dave.
00:28:42Get in the head. Oh, how'd you go?
00:28:44Oh, my God.
00:28:47Oh, my God.
00:28:49Oh, my God.
00:28:51Look out. Look out.
00:28:52Behind you.
00:28:56Oh, shit.
00:28:58Oh, shit.
00:29:00Oh, shit.
00:29:02Oh, shit.
00:29:04Oh, shit.
00:29:07Oh, shit.
00:29:14Ain't nothing down here, Sheriff.
00:29:18Well, I'm getting tired of this.
00:29:21Come on in, boys.
00:29:22Well, if there was any bodies out there, we'd have found them.
00:29:31I want some straight answers, Walter.
00:29:34And don't give me any more of that crud about monsters, either.
00:29:37Where'd you hide them after you killed them?
00:29:41I told you the truth, Sheriff.
00:29:44I didn't kill them.
00:29:47I just wanted to scare them good.
00:29:52I loved my Liz.
00:29:54I wouldn't do anything to hurt her.
00:29:56I loved her.
00:29:57I loved her.
00:29:59Sure.
00:30:01You loved her.
00:30:02That's why you chased her through the swamp with a shotgun.
00:30:06Come on, Walker.
00:30:07Where'd you hide the bodies?
00:30:09Oh, would you believe me?
00:30:11There were some monsters.
00:30:13They...
00:30:14Take him out of here before I lose my temper.
00:30:18My...
00:30:20Really?
00:30:25County pay a reward if someone finds a body, Sheriff.
00:30:29Fifty dollars.
00:30:32Each?
00:30:34Yeah.
00:30:40You know, I never thought that of old Dave.
00:30:43Of course, everybody knowed that Cal and Liz had a hankering for each other.
00:30:47Everybody but old Dave.
00:30:50Stern fools.
00:30:52Grappling out there in the middle of the water.
00:30:54If them bodies are still in there,
00:30:57you can bet some old bull gator's got him stuffed in his cave under the bank,
00:31:01letting them ripen up for a few days.
00:31:06Yeah, well...
00:31:08What we need now is some long cypress poles to go in there and probe them gator caves.
00:31:12Yeah.
00:31:28I'm sorry, Doc. I can't do it.
00:31:31I have to do it myself.
00:31:33Wouldn't want to have to arrest you, Doc, but I will if I find you near the preserve with any explosives.
00:31:37Steve.
00:31:38I'm sorry, Nan. That's the way it's got to be.
00:31:41Steve's right, Nan. It's his job to protect wildlife.
00:31:44What about human life?
00:31:46Three people have been killed in that game preserve.
00:31:49Doesn't that mean anything to you?
00:31:51Nan, try to understand.
00:31:53If I could be sure something in the swamp was responsible for those deaths, I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
00:31:58We've been together the last three days.
00:32:00We didn't see a trace of anything unusual.
00:32:02Not so much as a suggestion of any form of life unknown to us.
00:32:07Steve, something killed those people.
00:32:10All right. I'll admit Sawyer's death left a lot of questions unanswered.
00:32:14But you can bet your bottom dollar the other two died from Dave Walker's shotgun.
00:32:18Do you really believe that?
00:32:19Figure it out, Nan.
00:32:21Walker admitted chasing his wife and cow into the swamps after he found them together.
00:32:24He shot them and he tried to place the blame on Sawyer's DTs.
00:32:28If Sawyer had told of seeing purple giraffes with polka dot tails, Walker would have claimed they did it.
00:32:34There's one argument against that, Steve.
00:32:37Dave Walker wasn't the kind of a man to hang himself.
00:32:39Not even with two murder charges against him.
00:32:42I talked with Dave less than an hour before he killed himself.
00:32:45That man was in a state of shock.
00:32:47I've seen frightened men before, terrified men.
00:32:49But I've never seen anything to compare with the horror and the fear in Walker's eyes.
00:32:54Well, he realized what he'd done and he killed two people.
00:32:57And one his wife.
00:32:59Look, Doc, Nan and I were all over that swamp.
00:33:02Why didn't these monsters attack us?
00:33:04I've been thinking about that.
00:33:06They're probably night creatures.
00:33:08They can't stand the light and they stay down near the bottom during the day.
00:33:11A small charge would stun them, bring them to the surface.
00:33:15Can't buy it, Doc.
00:33:17You're pig-headed Steve Benton.
00:33:20Stovern and pig-headed.
00:33:22You just don't understand, do you?
00:33:32Good night, Doc.
00:33:46Right over there in them reeds.
00:34:11Right over there in them reeds.
00:34:16is where that big'un used to be.
00:34:17Yeah.
00:34:18caught some good catfish in that hole.
00:34:19Yeah.
00:34:20Yeah.
00:34:21Yeah.
00:34:22Yeah.
00:34:23I'm sorry.
00:34:24I'm sorry.
00:34:26I'm sorry.
00:34:27I'm sorry.
00:34:28Hey.
00:34:29Hey.
00:34:30Hey.
00:34:31If you was caught like Cal, what would you do?
00:34:35I hadn't thought of that.
00:34:38Right over there in them reeds is where that big one used to be.
00:34:42Yeah.
00:34:44Caught some good catfish in that hole.
00:35:01Boy, that's a sure hot one.
00:35:12Right unseasonable.
00:35:16Sure is funny.
00:35:18Huh?
00:35:20Noticed anything?
00:35:21About what?
00:35:22We've been prodding around you all morning.
00:35:24Ain't run across a single gator.
00:35:27By rights, this pool should be crawling with them.
00:35:33Sure funny.
00:35:34Yeah, that is funny.
00:35:36I don't like the looks of things.
00:35:38Let's call it a day.
00:35:40Well, now, wait a minute.
00:35:41We ain't pulled the gator holes around the bin yet.
00:35:43You do what you want to do, boy.
00:35:45Just get me on dry land.
00:35:47And right quick.
00:35:48All right.
00:35:49Now, ain't no use getting all head up.
00:35:51Let's go.
00:35:55You gotta quit drinking that moonshine.
00:35:56Yeah.
00:35:59That's why you're so wrinkled and ugly.
00:36:05You know where we are here.
00:36:07Wild goose chasing.
00:36:08Wild goose chasing.
00:36:16Ahhhh.
00:36:18Ehhh.
00:36:27The End
00:36:57The End
00:37:27The End
00:37:57You've been calling but there's been no answer
00:37:58Oh, I just got back. What seems to be the trouble?
00:38:01Haven't you heard?
00:38:03Old Sam Peters and Porky Reed have disappeared
00:38:05Come on inside
00:38:08You know, Covis
00:38:14Nothing would please him more than to have all the swamp people disappear
00:38:18Swamp trash, he calls them
00:38:20I know
00:38:22They have about as much regard for him as he has for them
00:38:25When they're worried enough to go to him
00:38:28You know something's wrong
00:38:30Mrs. Reed said the men went searching for Cal and Mrs. Walker's bodies
00:38:34And they never returned
00:38:35Covis says he'll get up a search party if they don't show up in a couple of days
00:38:40Doc, you and Nan take your car and get as many volunteers as you can
00:38:45Tell them to meet me at the old wagon road
00:38:47I'll call Doak Evans and have him bring his dogs
00:38:50Either they're lost or they've had an accident
00:38:53I hope to heaven you're right
00:38:55I hope to heaven you're right
00:38:55I hope to heaven you're right
00:39:13Save a little
00:39:16Doak Evans
00:39:18Doak Evans
00:39:20Doak Evans
00:39:21Doak Evans
00:39:24Let's go.
00:39:54Well, they picked up the scent anyway.
00:40:24Dad, do you think they'll find them?
00:40:28Only the good Lord can answer that.
00:40:29Well, at least we know they got this far.
00:40:49All right, let's split up into two parties and circle the lake.
00:40:53Keep your eyes open.
00:40:55Let's move out.
00:40:55Let's go.
00:41:02Let's go.
00:41:04Let's go.
00:41:05Let's go.
00:41:07Let's go.
00:41:09Let's go.
00:41:10Let's go.
00:41:11Let's go.
00:41:12Let's go.
00:41:13Let's go.
00:41:14Let's go.
00:41:15Let's go.
00:41:17Let's go.
00:41:18Let's go.
00:41:19Let's go.
00:41:20Let's go.
00:41:21Let's go.
00:41:22All clear.
00:41:23It's clear over here.
00:41:29It's all clear.
00:41:42It's clear over here.
00:41:59All right, let's keep moving.
00:42:27We can't do anything more tonight. Might as well start back.
00:42:53I reckon it ain't no use hurrying now, Mr. Benton.
00:42:56And Reed and old Sam was alive.
00:42:59They let us know him with a hollow or something.
00:43:01Yeah, it kind of looks that way.
00:43:03You fellas notice anything about this lake?
00:43:06I mean the gators.
00:43:07What about them?
00:43:08They ain't.
00:43:09They ain't.
00:43:10A piece of water this size usually has maybe 50, 60 big ones around.
00:43:14A whole lot of little ones.
00:43:16It's real unnatural.
00:43:18Well, maybe our torches scared them away.
00:43:20Nothing scares gators.
00:43:22Nothing.
00:43:23And we're all human.
00:43:27Well, we might as well get out of here.
00:43:29I'll tell you.
00:43:39You got something in mind, Steve?
00:43:42I keep thinking what Evan said about the gators.
00:43:45Nothing scares them, animal or human.
00:43:47And yet something made them leave.
00:43:50Maybe a mineral contamination.
00:43:53I guess I better run some water samples.
00:43:55Come on, you two.
00:43:56Drink your coffee.
00:43:59And supposing there is no contamination?
00:44:02Then I'll send over to Eastport for a diving rig and go down to look for this monster of yours.
00:44:07No, Steve.
00:44:08Don't even joke like that.
00:44:10I'm not joking, man.
00:44:11I had some training with an aqualung while I was in the Navy.
00:44:14But, Steve.
00:44:15Look, there are two bodies we know for sure down there.
00:44:17Maybe four.
00:44:18They've got to be brought up.
00:44:20Wait a minute.
00:44:21There are no alligators in that part of the swamp, right?
00:44:24So?
00:44:25No sign of any fish or snakes?
00:44:28No.
00:44:29What are you getting at, Doc?
00:44:31Well, that goes your argument about setting off a dynamite charge underwater.
00:44:34You need to bring the bodies to the surface.
00:44:37Get it out of your mind, Doc.
00:44:38I'm not using any explosives as long as there's another way.
00:44:41Why must you be such a...
00:44:43Stubborn pig head?
00:44:44Exactly.
00:44:46I'll tell you why.
00:44:47Number one, there's bound to be some Aquarian life in that section, even if the bigger forms have abandoned it.
00:44:53Explosion underwater would destroy every living thing and wreck what nature took years to build up.
00:44:59Number two, I'm paid to prevent the useless slaughter of wildlife.
00:45:03Number three, I'd have to get authorization.
00:45:05To get that authorization, I'd have to come up with a heck of a good reason.
00:45:10Satisfied?
00:45:13Finish up, Dad. I want to go home.
00:45:16Steve, how long will it take to get this diving equipment from Eastport?
00:45:21A couple of days. Why?
00:45:24Oh, nothing.
00:45:25Take care of yourself, Steve.
00:45:38Well, here's hoping.
00:45:40Dad, can't you throw the dynamite in from here?
00:45:44No, I want to get it out into the middle, in the deepest part.
00:45:46All right.
00:45:52All right.
00:45:53All right.
00:45:54All right.
00:45:55Ah!
00:45:58Ah!
00:46:00Ah!
00:46:01Ah!
00:46:02Ah!
00:46:06Stop!
00:46:12Ah!
00:46:14The other one is going to get a chance to escape the storm.
00:46:17Ah!
00:46:18Oh, oh!
00:46:19Oh!
00:46:20Oh, oh!
00:46:21Stop!
00:46:24Oh, my God.
00:46:54Don't you go any minute.
00:47:24Don't you go any minute.
00:47:54I just can't figure it out.
00:48:16Walker's wife, why didn't her body come to the surface?
00:48:19I don't know.
00:48:20I think I'd better walk over to the coroner's office.
00:48:26What's the matter, Mr. Benton?
00:48:28Do you feel awkward about arresting my father in his own home?
00:48:31I warned him I'd arrest him if he used dynamite.
00:48:34That's nice of you.
00:48:37Well, the autopsy should be over by now.
00:48:42Oh, Steve.
00:48:44I thought you'd be here.
00:48:46I don't like to have to do this, doctor.
00:48:49Do we have time for a cup of coffee first?
00:48:52Sure.
00:48:53You mind, honey?
00:48:54No, I'll make some sandwiches.
00:48:56One thing is certain, for all the good it'll do now.
00:49:11Dave Walker didn't shoot Cal.
00:49:13I just come from the autopsies.
00:49:18Covers tried to keep me out.
00:49:20If I told him I'd raise a stink, they'd smell all the way to the Capitol if he did.
00:49:24Well, what killed them, Doc?
00:49:26Not drowning.
00:49:28And Cal wasn't shot, either.
00:49:29Every drop of blood was drained out of their bodies.
00:49:35And they had wounds on their throats.
00:49:37Suction wounds.
00:49:39Like a gigantic leech might make.
00:49:43And there's something even more incredible.
00:49:45Now, Cal was supposed to have been killed several days ago.
00:49:49Sam and Reed had been missing a matter of 48 hours.
00:49:52All three of them, as far as we know, were in that lake a minimum of two days.
00:49:58Now, I'd state my reputation as a doctor.
00:50:00That Cal hadn't been dead more than two or three hours when we found him.
00:50:04And the other two less than that.
00:50:06First stage rigor mortis started in during the autopsy.
00:50:09But how could that be, Doc?
00:50:10It's impossible.
00:50:12The coroner will confirm it.
00:50:15Whatever killed him is still in that lake.
00:50:17And it's going to take more than dynamite to get it out.
00:50:21A concussion from those charges would have killed a full-grown whale.
00:50:27That explains how Cal and the others lived after they were supposed to be drowned.
00:50:31What do you mean?
00:50:33Well, this whole region is riddled by caves and caverns cut out by the ocean thousands of years ago.
00:50:38If there are caves above the water, then there must be caves under the water.
00:50:42Go on.
00:50:44Mike and I had a chance to pull around with some frogman equipment captured from the Italian Navy.
00:50:48We sort of prowled through a sunken transport off Salerno.
00:50:54When the ship went down, it trapped some air inside the hull.
00:50:58We'd go down, come up inside the officer's lounge, take off her face mask,
00:51:02and sort of sample some of the bottles floating around.
00:51:06We'd drive the guys crazy trying to figure out how we were getting the stuff.
00:51:08You mean you think that there's an ale pocket or a cave underneath the lake?
00:51:14Right, gotta be.
00:51:15How else could those people have lived down there?
00:51:17Not only that explains how whatever it is down there lived through the concussions.
00:51:21Steve.
00:51:24Liz Walker.
00:51:27She might still be down there.
00:51:30Alive.
00:51:30No, no, no.
00:51:51No.
00:52:00No, no, no.
00:52:30You sure you don't want me to go down for you, Mike?
00:52:34You haven't had one of these things on for a long time,
00:52:36while for me, every other day, I've been playing fish.
00:52:40Not this time, Mike.
00:52:43If you ask me, they ought to have their heads examined.
00:52:46Giant leeches.
00:52:49I'm willing to bet a month's pay.
00:52:51They don't come up with nothing more than excuses.
00:52:54He's crazy.
00:52:55Him, the doc, and his brat, too.
00:52:58Just wait till I get on the phone to the Capitol.
00:53:01I'll guarantee somebody will wish they'd kept their nose out of other people's business.
00:53:05I'll guarantee that.
00:53:15Steve.
00:53:16Be careful, please.
00:53:20Don't worry.
00:53:20Mike will be ready if anything goes wrong.
00:53:22Don't worry about Steve.
00:53:23Now, if you were going after Barracuda, you might have a tiny bit to worry about.
00:53:28Ready, Mike?
00:53:53No, no, please stay away.
00:54:19Please.
00:54:20It's not exactly inviting, is it?
00:54:24It sure isn't.
00:54:26Hold her steady, Mike.
00:54:28It'll stop anything up to a tiger shot.
00:54:52But you've got to hit, and misses don't count.
00:54:55If anything goes wrong, just yank on the line and I'll be down in a hurry.
00:54:58I'll be down in a hurry.
00:55:10Ohhhh, ohhhhhhhhhh.
00:55:16Ahh, ahhhhh.
00:55:19I'm...
00:55:22...it's so good.
00:55:25I'm, I'm...
00:55:28...aah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.
00:55:32I'm a...
00:55:33I'm a...
00:55:36Let's go.
00:56:06You sure you don't want me to go down and finish it off for you, Steve?
00:56:32No, thanks, Mike.
00:56:33I think I hurt a pretty bad.
00:56:37Careful now.
00:56:38Anything hurts ten times as dangerous.
00:56:45He's wounded it.
00:56:46He's going to finish it off.
00:56:48Does he have to go under again?
00:56:51He's got to make sure, honey.
00:56:54Where could it have come from?
00:56:57I wish I knew.
00:56:59We'll have to make some tests.
00:57:01Maybe the proximity of Cape Canaveral's got something to do with it.
00:57:04The rocket station?
00:57:05Well, they use atomic energy in their first stages of launching.
00:57:09Not all of them have been successful.
00:57:11You think that if some animal life is close by, not close enough to be killed, but close
00:57:16enough to feel the effects of a radioactive energy that's...
00:57:18a mutation, a type of gigantism of some common animal.
00:57:24Whatever it is, I hope he's able to bring it up.
00:57:27zähl!
00:57:28Oh, yeah.
00:57:29It can't be you.
00:57:30I will leave today!
00:57:31Oh.
00:57:31Oh.
00:57:40Oh, my God!
00:57:45Oh, my God!
00:57:45Oh, my God.
00:58:15That can't be Liz.
00:58:34What could have done that?
00:58:37Look at her face.
00:58:45Oh, my God.
00:59:15The End
00:59:45What is that? Look at that thing.
01:00:06I've been around here for years. I never saw nothing like that.
01:00:15I never saw nothing like that.
01:00:45I never saw nothing.
01:00:47I never saw nothing like that.
01:00:52I never saw nothing like that.
01:00:55There's no sign of them this time.
01:01:17They must be licking their wounds.
01:01:20You sure you used enough stuff to do the job, Mike?
01:01:22I used 100 sticks of 40%.
01:01:24I ought to blow the bottom right out.
01:01:25All right, let her go.
01:01:27Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:30Help yourself.
01:01:55Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:02:01Oh, no. I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:02:02I've done enough of your dirty work.
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