00:03Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the Luster.
00:08This giant cephalopod-like sea creature, half octopus, half shark, is, many believe,
00:15stuff of fantasy, the kind of fictional monster Jules Verne might dream up.
00:21But then, there are those more open-minded souls, like myself, who believe this gigantic
00:27cryptid to be as real as you or I.
00:30I will present to you the evidence I have collated, proving this animal is no mere figment of the imagination.
00:35And it all begins with the first sighting, off the coast of St. Marie in 1823, by this man,
00:44a pirate by the name of Pierre Lafitte.
00:54Yeah, Lafitte was my great-great-great-grandfather.
00:57I tell you no lies.
00:59Still got the journey he had when he was pirating away.
01:02Passed on from generation to generation.
01:04And that's why this is the only boat trip where you can experience the exact place my ancestor witnessed.
01:12The Luska.
01:14Roll up, roll up!
01:16You know you want to.
01:17And I promise you guys, you will not be disappointed.
01:22So how was it?
01:24Are you a believer now?
01:26To be honest, I think I'm even less of a believer than I was before.
01:31I don't know why you bothered.
01:33Because I want to be prepared.
01:36I'm afraid nothing can prepare you for my ex-husband.
01:43Hello.
01:44Either that's him, or we've come to a soup kitchen by mistake.
01:52Hello, Charles.
01:53Cara.
01:54It's been a while, hasn't it?
01:56Oh.
01:59Stop it.
02:05This is Rory.
02:08Ah, yes.
02:09Didn't realise you were bringing him.
02:11Nice to meet you, Rory.
02:13It's great to finally meet you, Giles.
02:15Can't wait to hear all your stories about the Luska.
02:17Absolutely fascinated about it.
02:19Ah.
02:21Would you like a glass of wine?
02:23Just a cup of coffee will do, Rita.
02:26Let me see if I can find a waiter.
02:29Sit down.
02:35So how are you?
02:37I mean, you know, the...
02:39the anniversary.
02:41Feels strange to be back.
02:44Looks like it was only yesterday.
02:47I'm taking the boat out later, to...
02:49to where it happened.
02:50Fancy joining.
02:51You remember him together?
02:52No, I'd rather stay here.
02:54With Rory.
02:55with Rory.
03:13Poor guy.
03:14I'm sorry.
03:23All right, Meletta?
03:49It's just a bad dream.
03:58How have you been?
04:00Just went for a walk.
04:01That's all.
04:04Thanks.
04:30Morning, sir.
04:32You good?
04:33No.
04:34I am not good.
04:35What's wrong?
04:37Turns out I'm an uncle.
04:39Yes, mom.
04:40Yes, sir.
04:41I understand.
04:41What, I came to visit Uncle Merv anyway?
04:45That's Eloise.
04:46The niece I didn't know I had.
04:47So you're her Uncle Merv.
04:49No, I'm not.
04:51I mean, yes, I am her uncle, but not Merv.
04:53Never Merv.
04:54Understood?
04:55Okay.
04:56Clearly touched a nerve there.
04:59Well, I kind of miss him.
05:00So she's Solomon's daughter?
05:02I don't know why he couldn't just tell me that in the first place.
05:04He could have just said, well, as it happens, I do have a daughter.
05:07Are he and her mother together?
05:09Yeah, not for some time, apparently.
05:10She's supposed to be staying with her auntie Vondra.
05:12Well, she doesn't like it there, so she ran away and came here.
05:16We've got a case, I assume.
05:18Oh, my God.
05:19It's not a murder case, is it?
05:21Please let me come on a ride along, Uncle Merv.
05:24Please.
05:25Right.
05:26So firstly, you're not coming on any ride along.
05:29And secondly, it's not Uncle Merv.
05:31It's Mervyn, remember?
05:34Hi.
05:35I'm Naomi, by the way.
05:37I work with your Uncle Merv.
05:41Right.
05:41Go pack your stuff, young lady.
05:43You've got a boat to catch.
05:45I'm sending you back home to Antigua.
05:47What have you say, Uncle Merv?
05:49And it's not...
05:52I like her.
05:58Victim's name's Giles Parry, 58 years of age.
06:01Body was found floating six miles out at sea.
06:04Sergeant Fletchers with the postcard now.
06:06A couple of fishermen going out early this morning came across the body.
06:09But paramedics reckon he'd been in the water since last night.
06:13Thing is, this is already causing a stir on the heart.
06:17Why is that?
06:18Because of those marks on his body.
06:21They're all over his front and his back.
06:24And the bruising here.
06:26Some people are saying it was caused by the Luska.
06:29And that's what killed him.
06:31Sorry, what?
06:32It's a sea monster.
06:33A sea monster?
06:34Like a local legend kind of thing.
06:37Half shark, half octopus wraps its tentacles around you and drags you under.
06:41Hence...
06:42A sea monster?
06:43Not everybody believes in this thing.
06:45Most people don't.
06:46Do you?
06:48No, but it's still part of our history.
06:51Part of our culture.
06:52Right.
06:53Well, we can knock that theory on the head as a possible cause of death, alright?
06:56Except there's a little more to it than that, sir.
06:59That's why he's here.
07:07I've always wondered whether this will come back to haunt me.
07:11Seven years ago yesterday,
07:13Giles Parry's 16-year-old son, Benjamin,
07:17drowned that seal
07:19in the exact same location
07:22as Giles' body was found this morning.
07:25A local fisherman told me that
07:28Mr. Parry had sailed out to that swamp yesterday
07:31to pay his respects.
07:34Then he ended up dead himself.
07:38Was he stormy yesterday?
07:40Called the harbour master.
07:42It was come for the last 24 hours.
07:44Do we know what time he left the harbour?
07:46Just before 7 o'clock,
07:47according to the GPS.
07:49Also, there's a boat mechanic
07:51who's been fixing Mr. Parry's engine.
07:53So I'm leaving.
07:54He says there was definitely
07:55nobody else on the boat with him.
07:57It's arrived at the final destination
07:59and half an hour later,
08:00radar shows no other boat near it at any point.
08:03So what happened to him?
08:05How did he end up dead
08:06with all those weird markings on him?
08:09Unless, you know,
08:11it was the lost girl.
08:14I need to break it to you, Officer Rose,
08:16but sea monsters don't exist?
08:17No, yeah, I know.
08:20But it'd be cool if they did do alright.
08:23What's that?
08:32It's a bullet.
08:33Our victim wasn't shot, right?
08:36No.
08:37And there was no gun found on the boat?
08:39Not that I've found so far.
08:45So what is that doing here?
08:55I don't know what happened on that boat,
08:57but the fact that we found this on it
08:59means it's suspicious.
09:01I think someone else was there, you know?
09:08I'm going to talk to Catherine.
09:10In what I know,
09:12James Parry was an isolated finger,
09:14but he did drink at her bar
09:16and he would talk to her.
09:18I'm also going to contact the Guadalupe police
09:21and request the Benjamin Parry case files.
09:25Well, so the search back then
09:26wasn't led by the St. Marie team?
09:28As it was,
09:29the Guadalupe Coast Guard
09:30who was first contacted
09:32when the empty boat was discovered,
09:34they stayed there late.
09:37I bet that ran cool.
09:38I did push for us to have a role,
09:40but the senior investigating officer
09:43wasn't interested.
09:48There's some people on St. Marie
09:50who think I should have pressed harder,
09:54especially when they ran into a dead end early on.
09:58It's always been felt
09:59more could have been done
10:02than by me.
10:08Considering I am already
10:11persona non grata,
10:12I would like to do my bit
10:14to try and solve this case now
10:17and win back the community's trust.
10:20I've located the victim's ex-wife.
10:23She and her partner
10:24are staying at a hotel
10:25just outside Tom.
10:34We arrived here two days ago
10:36to mark the anniversary
10:37of Kara's son's passing.
10:40I'm sorry to ask,
10:41Ms. Smart,
10:42was your son Benjamin.
10:44Why did he take the boat out
10:45on his own?
10:47Giles had always been into
10:50UFOs and aliens,
10:51that kind of thing.
10:53Our holidays were spent
10:54visiting Loch Ness
10:55or the Bermuda Triangle.
10:57The Losca
10:58here on St. Marie.
10:59Ben was getting
11:00even more fanatical
11:01than he stood.
11:02That's why he snuck out
11:04on his own
11:04and he took the boat
11:06we'd hired out
11:06for a last-ditch
11:08sighting of the Losca.
11:10The weather turned bad.
11:12The sea was rough.
11:14He never came back.
11:19I kept hoping they'd find him alive
11:22with a life jacket on
11:23just floating somewhere.
11:24As time passed,
11:25you have to
11:26accept that
11:27he's not coming back.
11:30So you returned
11:31to England?
11:33After ten months,
11:34Giles and I were
11:35arguing non-stop
11:36by then.
11:37I just needed
11:38some space,
11:39some time
11:40to process it all.
11:42Where is
11:42he?
11:46Giles was convinced
11:47the Losca
11:48took their son.
11:49He became obsessed.
11:50That's why he stayed
11:52on here
11:52when I left
11:54to try and prove
11:55the Losca exists.
11:57And he really
11:58truly believed in it.
12:02And yesterday,
12:03did you see Giles
12:04at all?
12:05We had an early dinner
12:06at five.
12:08It's great to finally
12:08meet you, Giles.
12:10And how was that?
12:11How was Giles then?
12:12It was fine.
12:14You know,
12:14quiet.
12:15Giles was Giles
12:17still as delusional
12:18as he ever was.
12:20Did Giles ever
12:21own a gun?
12:21That's all.
12:22Not why we were
12:23together.
12:24And I struggled
12:25to leave.
12:26He bought one
12:26while he was out here.
12:27What exactly
12:28happened to Giles?
12:29You said that
12:30he was found
12:31dead at sea.
12:32I assumed it was
12:32an accident,
12:33but is there
12:34more to it than that?
12:36Well,
12:36we're not sure yet.
12:38We're still
12:39working on that one.
12:41I don't know.
12:44I don't know.
12:44I don't know.
12:45I don't know.
12:48I don't know.
12:48Yeah,
12:49my friend's dad swears
12:50he saw the lost go
12:51one time.
12:52Okay,
12:52son,
12:53come on.
12:53There's never
12:54to see him
12:54afterwards.
12:57Let's keep our
12:57focus on the keys.
13:24Auntie Vondra.
13:25I mean,
13:26Vondra.
13:32Vondra,
13:33Vondra,
13:33it's alright.
13:34She's back at my
13:35place.
13:35She's safe.
13:36Thanks.
13:36Okay,
13:37look,
13:37I'll call you
13:37back in a bit.
13:41Hey,
13:42Uncle Merv.
13:43Hope you're
13:43hungry.
13:44I ordered
13:44lots.
13:46Which reminds
13:46me,
13:47I borrowed
13:47your credit
13:48card this
13:48morning.
13:49Needed it
13:49to pay
13:49for the
13:50boat to
13:50get back
13:50to St.
13:50Marie.
13:51And dinner.
13:52You really
13:53are your
13:53father's
13:53daughter,
13:53aren't you?
13:54I know,
13:55right?
13:56What's going
13:56on,
13:57Eloise?
13:57Why are you
13:58back here?
14:00Because
14:00we need
14:01to talk
14:02about
14:02Dad.
14:03We could
14:03have done
14:03that this
14:04morning.
14:05Why didn't
14:05you mention
14:05it then?
14:06I was
14:06waiting
14:07for the
14:07right
14:07moment.
14:08And
14:08before I
14:09know
14:09it,
14:09you're
14:10shoving
14:10me
14:10on
14:10her
14:10boat
14:11back
14:11home.
14:13Alright.
14:15What
14:15about
14:15you,
14:15Dad?
14:17We need
14:17to work
14:18out a
14:18plan,
14:18Uncle
14:18Merv.
14:19A plan
14:20for what?
14:20To get
14:21him out
14:21of prison.
14:22To find
14:23evidence
14:23that proves
14:24he's
14:24innocent.
14:25Okay,
14:26um,
14:27what exactly
14:28did your
14:28dad tell
14:29you about
14:30him being
14:30arrested?
14:31Just
14:31that he
14:31was set
14:32up and
14:33shouldn't
14:33be in
14:33jail.
14:34That
14:35it's
14:36miscarriage.
14:37A
14:37miscarriage
14:38of justice.
14:40So,
14:41you need
14:41to help
14:42him,
14:42right?
14:46Why don't
14:46you go
14:47and get
14:47some
14:47plates
14:48and
14:48cotlery,
14:48yeah?
14:56So,
14:56you
14:57idiots.
15:16Solomon
15:16clearly
15:17hasn't
15:17told
15:17her
15:17about
15:17the
15:18scam
15:18he
15:18got
15:18caught
15:18up
15:19in.
15:19That
15:20he
15:20is
15:20good
15:20as
15:20shot
15:20someone.
15:22And
15:23held me
15:23hostage.
15:25He's
15:25dressed it
15:26up like
15:26he
15:26was
15:26the
15:26victim.
15:28And
15:28she
15:28obviously
15:29idolizes
15:29him.
15:30What
15:30are you
15:31going
15:31to
15:31do?
15:32I
15:32should
15:32just
15:33tell her
15:33the
15:33truth,
15:33right?
15:35Just
15:37tell her
15:37in a
15:38nice
15:38way.
15:39Not
15:39in
15:39a
15:41your
15:41kind
15:41of
15:42way.
15:43What
15:43isn't
15:44my
15:44kind
15:44of
15:44way?
15:45You
15:45know,
15:45sometimes
15:46you
15:46can
15:46be
15:46a
15:47tiny
15:48bit
15:48insensitive.
15:50Insensitive?
15:52Me?
15:53Insensitive?
15:53That
15:54is
15:54rubbish.
15:55I
15:55mean,
15:55if
15:55anything,
15:55it's
15:56everyone
15:56else
15:56who
15:57is
15:57too
15:57sensitive.
15:58Sure.
15:59That's
16:00totally
16:00what
16:00it is.
16:04Eloise.
16:07Right,
16:08um,
16:09I'm
16:09off to
16:09work
16:10now.
16:10So
16:11we
16:11can
16:11have
16:12dinner
16:12later,
16:13yeah?
16:14And
16:14we'll,
16:14um,
16:16we'll
16:16talk.
16:17Okay,
16:17Uncle
16:18Mark.
16:21Old
16:21school.
16:22I
16:22like
16:23it.
16:28Right,
16:29where we
16:29at with
16:30the case?
16:30Anything
16:31from the
16:31lab yet?
16:33Post
16:33mortem's
16:34estimating
16:34time of
16:35death
16:35between
16:357.30
16:36and
16:368.00
16:37So,
16:38the victim
16:39leaves the
16:40harbour
16:40at 7.00,
16:42dies between
16:427.30 and
16:438.00,
16:43out at sea
16:44just after
16:45he drops
16:46anchor.
16:46And
16:47cause of
16:48death
16:48was
16:48internal
16:49bleeding
16:49due to
16:50a ruptured
16:51spleen,
16:51which,
16:52in theory,
16:53could have
16:54been caused
16:54by something
16:55gripping him
16:56tightly,
16:57like
16:57the tentacles
16:59of the
16:59Lusk.
17:00Or,
17:01more likely,
17:03something else.
17:05same with
17:05the red
17:06markings,
17:07kinda like
17:07friction burns,
17:08but there's
17:09nothing at
17:10the scene
17:10to suggest
17:10what might
17:11have caused
17:12it.
17:12What about
17:13the search
17:13at the
17:14victim's
17:14house?
17:15Matty and
17:15Seb are
17:16just starting.
17:32Sarge,
17:32you have
17:33to see
17:33this
17:34ten-year-old
17:35Seb will
17:35be losing
17:35his mind
17:36right now.
17:39Like
17:39sea monster
17:40central in
17:40here.
17:44This is
17:45gonna be
17:45the best
17:45search ever.
17:46Alright,
17:47so Rose,
17:48you start
17:48on the
17:48computer,
17:49I'll hit
17:49the cabinets.
17:50Ah,
17:50cool.
17:57You alright,
17:58Sarge?
17:59Yeah,
18:00it's just
18:00my old
18:00boss from
18:01Jamaica
18:01I'll call
18:01him once
18:02we're
18:02done with
18:02this.
18:13So what
18:14do we know
18:14about our
18:14victim?
18:15Giles Parry
18:16worked as a
18:17paramedic back
18:17in the UK
18:18until he moved
18:19out here seven
18:20years ago,
18:21spent all his
18:22savings buying a
18:22boat and earned
18:23a small income
18:24giving talks about
18:25the legend of the
18:26Luska.
18:27What about these
18:27two?
18:28Any sniff of
18:28motive yet?
18:29We're still
18:30waiting on
18:31Mr.
18:31Lyons'
18:32background and
18:32financial checks,
18:33but he and
18:34Cara have been
18:34together just
18:35over a year,
18:36met on a
18:36dating app.
18:37Now,
18:38as he only
18:38met the
18:39victim for
18:39the first
18:40time yesterday,
18:40I'm struggling
18:41to find a
18:42reason for him
18:42wanting Mr.
18:43Parry dead,
18:44but she's a
18:45different story.
18:46Miss Smart
18:47previously worked
18:48as a teacher
18:48before giving
18:49that up to
18:50write a book
18:50a few years
18:51ago,
18:51a memoir
18:52about losing
18:53her son.
18:54I skim read
18:55it and she's
18:56very honest
18:57about how hurt
18:58and angry she
18:59felt about
19:00Joust's behavior.
19:01When I needed
19:02my husband's
19:03love the most,
19:04he disappeared
19:04down the rabbit
19:05hole of fantasy,
19:06casting me aside
19:07for his futile
19:08belief in a
19:09mythical beast.
19:10I mean,
19:11the guy had
19:11gone full on
19:12Looney Tunes,
19:12didn't he?
19:13What was that
19:14you said earlier
19:15about not being
19:16insensitive?
19:18Where it gets
19:19interesting is the
19:20books no
19:21longer bringing
19:21in any money.
19:22She's basically
19:23broke.
19:24I spoke to her
19:25literary agent
19:26in the UK
19:26and apparently
19:27a US TV
19:28production company
19:29has offered
19:30to make a
19:30documentary about
19:31her and Joust's
19:32son going
19:33missing.
19:34It's worth a
19:34quarter of a
19:36million dollars.
19:37Oh, I'm
19:38sensing a but.
19:39It going ahead
19:40was dependent
19:41on Mr.
19:43Parry agreeing
19:43to appear in
19:44the documentary
19:45too.
19:45Don't tell me.
19:47He didn't
19:47want to.
19:54So we
19:54spoke to the
19:55staff here.
19:56Well, that
19:56dinner you
19:57had with
19:57Giles, it
19:58wasn't as
19:58sedate as
19:59you said it
19:59was.
20:00According to
20:01them, you
20:01got quite
20:02worked up,
20:03Mr.
20:03Mart, angry
20:04that your
20:04ex-husband was
20:05refusing to
20:06agree to the
20:07documentary.
20:08Well, that's
20:08an exaggeration
20:09if ever I
20:09heard one.
20:10No, it's
20:10not.
20:10It's the
20:10truth.
20:11Giles, please,
20:12I need this.
20:13Why are you being
20:13so stubborn?
20:14Because I know
20:15what they'll do.
20:16Make me have to
20:16look like some
20:17mad conspiracy
20:17theorists.
20:18I hate you,
20:19Charles, so
20:20much.
20:23I didn't just
20:24lose a son
20:25seven years ago.
20:26I lost my
20:27husband as well.
20:28He never once
20:29thought of me
20:29that maybe he
20:31needed to be
20:31there for me.
20:33And even now,
20:34years later, I
20:35ask for his
20:35help because,
20:37yes, I need
20:37the money.
20:38I thought at
20:39least he owed
20:39me that one
20:40favour, but
20:42no, not even
20:43that.
20:44Thing is, Miss
20:44Mark, we
20:45checked with the
20:45production company.
20:46And that
20:47documentary's
20:47officially got
20:48the go-ahead.
20:48So now with
20:49Giles dying in
20:50suspicious
20:51circumstances,
20:52and he's
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