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00:02:37Wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:02:39Hold on, hold on, hold on.
00:02:43Just hold it a second, Lamb.
00:02:45Liz!
00:02:48You hear me, girl?
00:02:58Well, you won't now.
00:03:05You can't play that thing so loud.
00:03:07Why don't you come out like this for her?
00:03:11Oh, don't bother me.
00:03:13Liz.
00:03:18Someday I'm going to give that she-cat the weapon she's been asking for.
00:03:22Sure you will, Derry.
00:03:23Bring the law down to her.
00:03:25Let her know who wears the pants around here.
00:03:28I'll be back in a minute.
00:03:33If any whoopens done back there, I'll lay a jug.
00:03:36She'll be doing it.
00:03:39Come on now, Lamb, and tell us about that thing you killed out there at the swamp, will you?
00:03:43Yeah, Liv, let's share the rest of that.
00:03:45Like I was saying, I put five slugs into that critter before it went under.
00:03:51Don't go on the sting I ever seen.
00:03:53And regular arms on it, like a man.
00:03:56It was sort of different looking.
00:03:59Had suckers on them.
00:04:01Like one of them, uh, like one of them octopuses things.
00:04:07Oh, it was plumb awful.
00:04:10Lamb, you sure that critter wasn't pink?
00:04:13Oh, I told you before, it was sort of gray looking.
00:04:19Well, laugh if you want.
00:04:21But that thing weren't nothing nature put out there.
00:04:25Oh, sir.
00:04:26And it weren't no freak gator neither.
00:04:29I've been poaching this country for 40 years, and I ain't never seen nothing like it.
00:04:35Well, too bad you didn't bring it back.
00:04:37Steve Benton probably paid a fair bounty for him, whatever it was.
00:04:41Bounty?
00:04:42I wouldn't touch that critter for all the money ever made.
00:04:47And if you seen it, you wouldn't either.
00:04:50You better take it easy on this stuff.
00:04:52You're looking kind of peaked.
00:04:54No.
00:04:56I'm going to clean my otter lines out before morning.
00:05:00Lamb, I think that critter's a ghost of one of those otters you've been poaching all these years,
00:05:05coming back to haunt you.
00:05:08Well, if that's so, you fellas will see it right quick yourselves.
00:05:27Oh, my boy's heart.
00:05:30Oh, my boy's heart.
00:05:56Look, it's not like I want to be mean or anything like that, Liz, baby.
00:06:00But I got a reputation around here.
00:06:02These folks have no respect for a man who lets his woman boss him.
00:06:06Well, next thing I know, they've been laughing at me.
00:06:08And they'll be telling all the rest of them.
00:06:11Won't you please listen to me, Liz, baby?
00:06:14Liz?
00:06:18Liz?
00:06:48Stop looking at me like that.
00:06:50I'll look at you any way I want, you my wife.
00:07:07Don't touch me.
00:07:09Who do you think you're talking to?
00:07:10Don't touch me.
00:07:12You're my wife.
00:07:13I'll touch you any time I feel like it.
00:07:22Where are you going?
00:07:27Where are you going?
00:07:30I'm going out.
00:07:33Maybe I'll be back.
00:07:34Maybe I won't.
00:07:36Liz, baby.
00:07:37I don't mean nothing.
00:07:39I don't.
00:07:40I don't.
00:07:40I don't.
00:07:42I don't.
00:07:42I don't.
00:07:43I don't.
00:07:43I don't.
00:08:08Well, there was a young one in that last trap.
00:08:09I had to kill it.
00:08:10Oh, poor thing.
00:08:12Told you you shouldn't have come along.
00:08:19Well, I can understand hunting an animal, but 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 and put him away for six months.
00:08:33In the meantime, I'll have to be satisfied confiscating their trap lines.
00:08:36If you lose enough traps, it won't pay them to keep trying.
00:08:38Well, be careful, darling.
00:08:39These people aren't like other folks.
00:08:42You know, they'll try and get back at you.
00:08:44Let them try.
00:08:45Steve, you're a stranger here.
00:08:47They'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.
00:08:55They can be dangerous.
00:08:57Okay.
00:08:58I'll be careful.
00:09:00You just stop worrying.
00:09:08Oh, Steve, I love you.
00:09:10I love you so much.
00:09:17What was that?
00:09:18I don't know.
00:09:19You get in the truck and lock it up.
00:09:35You get in the truck.
00:09:41I don't know.
00:09:41I don't know.
00:09:41I don't know.
00:09:41You get in the truck.
00:10:00Listen, Benton, the coroner ruled that Sawyer died by misadvention.
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.
00:10:12But I'm not about to go tromping through the swamp looking for an overgrown gator.
00:10:17Sawyer wasn't killed by an alligator.
00:10:19Is that so?
00:10:21Did you hear that, Morton?
00:10:22Game Warden Benton says there wasn't a gator who killed Lem.
00:10:25Well, then, what was it?
00:10:27You know so much.
00:10:28Go on, tell me.
00:10:28What killed him?
00:10:30Doc Grayson said the wounds were the kind of squid or a large octopus might cause.
00:10:34Oh, sure.
00:10:35And did Grayson explain how a saltwater creature happened to be 30 miles inland living in clear water?
00:10:41Stranger things have happened.
00:10:42I know that...
00:10:43Look here, Benton.
00:10:44You work for the state.
00:10:46Now, why don't you keep your nose out of county business?
00:10:49Is that clear enough for you?
00:10:51Oh, go soak your fat head.
00:10:57What was that you said?
00:10:58I said go soak your fat head.
00:11:06Oh, that boy's looking for bad trouble.
00:11:10And he's sure going to get it.
00:11:12You can bet on that.
00:11:22So, you see, the octopi uses its suction discs to hold its prey.
00:11:26Now, in itself, the disc will not inflict a wound.
00:11:29Same 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.
00:11:39It could be a freak or a malformed alligator.
00:11:43No.
00:11:45No, I'm afraid it wasn't.
00:11:47Well, 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.
00:11:56He 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.
00:12:07I've seen that old .44-40 you used.
00:12:10Nothing could live after being hit with those slugs.
00:12:14Well, conceiving the possibility of one such creature,
00:12:17we must also concede the possibility of others.
00:12:22Well, there's one sure way of finding out.
00:12:24Go in and search every backwater, channel, and wet spot in the swamp.
00:12:29If it's there, I'll find it.
00:12:57Well, sure, what's going on.
00:12:58That's it.
00:12:58Well, there's one- Title Gulf.
00:12:59Well, I'll check it out.
00:13:16It sure is bright around here.
00:13:52Did you hear something?
00:13:53Yes.
00:13:59Well, whatever it was, it's not here anymore.
00:14:09Do you want some coffee?
00:14:11Yeah, thanks, son.
00:14:15An army could hide in here and never be noticed.
00:14:18Well, 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.
00:14:26I 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.
00:14:37Well, we might as well keep on looking around.
00:15:10Well, I guess we may as well give up for today.
00:15:12Well, you won't get any argument from me.
00:15:43THANKS.
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. Liz, honey.
00:16:12Can't you think of anything else to say, stupid?
00:16:14I've got to get this order over to 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?
00:16:49You don't live in, Cal.
00:16:50Gotta get the hair down every now and then.
00:16:53You sure don't 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.
00:17:05What's she letting her hair down about this time?
00:17:07Well,
00:17:09ever since Lynn got herself killed,
00:17:12she wants me to sell out and move into town.
00:17:15Don't you let her bamboozle you, Dave.
00:17:17You keep her right here in the store.
00:17:21After all, the place wouldn't be the same 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.
00:17:44Liz, baby.
00:17:50It's Cal, honey.
00:17:56It's Cal, honey.
00:18:00You want something, Cal?
00:18:06I sure do, honey.
00:18:24Quiet.
00:18:27Oh, I'm dead.
00:18:29Me too.
00:18:31Come on over here.
00:18:36Well, it seems kind of silly knocking ourselves out
00:18:43looking for something we aren't even sure exists.
00:18:46What do you mean?
00:18:49You know, we've covered miles of back channel
00:18:52and haven't come across anything to support your father's theory
00:18:55of 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?
00:19:06Well, I can't waste any more time on a wild goose chase.
00:19:11With all respect to your father's ideas.
00:19:17Dad seems so sure.
00:19:25Mr.
00:19:33You know, we're doing that.
00:19:36You're lost.
00:19:59Yes, some woman, Liz.
00:20:02I reckon I haven't met a woman like you before.
00:20:07You really like me, Cal?
00:20:11Are you kidding me?
00:20:13No, it didn't hurt you now, did I?
00:20:17It's just so strong.
00:20:21I like him in it strong.
00:20:23Well, you sure picked a doozy than man, Dave.
00:20:30I 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 real woman like you tying in with a tub of lard like him.
00:20:50You wouldn't understand, Cal.
00:20:53You know, I've wanted to tell you.
00:20:58You just wouldn't understand.
00:21:01Be trying there.
00:21:03Come on, you tell old Carol about it.
00:21:12You wouldn't think better than me.
00:21:14Crazy.
00:21:17He'd tell me you killed your pa and your ma and your whole family.
00:21:21I'd fight to protect you.
00:21:33He'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say
00:21:40he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say
00:21:40he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say
00:21:40he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say
00:21:40he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say
00:21:40he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say
00:21:41he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd say
00:21:43he'd say he'd say he'd say he'd
00:22:05My first husband was a no-good bum.
00:22:09Couldn't keep a job more than a week.
00:22:13Used to get lusht up, come home beat up on me.
00:22:17Must have been a prize pig.
00:22:20One night, he tried to hold up a gas station.
00:22:24He was so drunk, he couldn't even run.
00:22:28He got 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,
00:22:42I was ready for the first guy to say a nice word to me.
00:22:46It was Dave.
00:22:49That's it.
00:22:51I wish it had been me.
00:22:53I 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.
00:23:08It's too late for the both of you.
00:23:12Get 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.
00:23:30No 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.
00:23:39I understand.
00:23:41Get her up so I can get a better look at the line, little triumph.
00:23:45Come on, get up.
00:23:48Come on, get up.
00:23:49No, Cal, no.
00:23:51No, he killed me.
00:23:52He killed me.
00:23:53Jump him.
00:23:54When your husband wants to take a look at you.
00:24:00You, uh, you walk all the way, Dave?
00:24:02One 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 going to 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, Cal.
00:24:26Go right ahead and try.
00:24:29Move!
00:24:30Move!
00:24:43Move!
00:24:46Move!
00:24:49Move!
00:25:14I can't go hardly, Father.
00:25:17No.
00:25:17Come on.
00:25:17No.
00:25:18Come on.
00:25:43Come on, run.
00:25:46Run till you drop.
00:26:09Come on.
00:26:14Declare.
00:26:14Come on.
00:26:17I can't go.
00:26:18You're moving like a full child.
00:26:20I can't go.
00:26:22I can't.
00:26:50Come on.
00:26:51Keep going.
00:26:53Dave.
00:26:54Please, you've got to listen.
00:26:56It wasn't my fault, Honest.
00:26:58She kept playing up to me every time you turned your back.
00:27:00It wasn't my fault.
00:27:02You call yourself a man.
00:27:05You're in your muscles.
00:27:07Shut up, you trap.
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.
00:27:17Get going.
00:27:19But Dave, we'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.
00:27:38Dave.
00:27:40I didn't mean it, Dave.
00:27:42Dave, I didn't mean it.
00:27:45Dave, Dave, the kid is out here.
00:27:50Please, Dave.
00:27:53Oh, I'm sorry.
00:27:54I'm sorry.
00:27:56Please.
00:28:00I'm sorry, honey.
00:28:02I'm sorry, Dave.
00:28:04I'm sorry.
00:28:05I didn't mean it.
00:28:07Please.
00:28:08I'm sorry.
00:28:09I'm sorry.
00:28:14I'm sorry.
00:28:15Get away from a woman, Cal.
00:28:17Oh, anything, Dave.
00:28:19I'm over there.
00:28:21I'm over there.
00:28:21I'll do anything you say, Dave.
00:28:23Anything.
00:28:25All right.
00:28:27Come on out of there.
00:28:30Dave.
00:28:31Dave.
00:28:32Get in the head.
00:28:33How'd you go?
00:28:35Dave.
00:28:37Oh, my God.
00:28:40Behind you.
00:28:58There ain't nothing down here, Sheriff.
00:29:02Well, I'm getting tired of this.
00:29:06Come on in, boys.
00:29:09Come on.
00:29:10Come on.
00:29:12Well, if there was any bodies out there, we'd have found them.
00:29:16I want some straight answers, Walker.
00:29:18And don't give me any more of that crud about monsters, either.
00:29:22Where'd you hide them after you killed them?
00:29:26I told you the truth, Sheriff.
00:29:29I didn't kill them.
00:29:32I just wanted to scare them good.
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.
00:29:46That's why you chased her through the swamp with a shotgun.
00:29:50Come on, Walker.
00:29:52Where'd you hide the bodies?
00:29:54Won't you believe me?
00:29:56There were some monsters.
00:29:58They...
00:29:58Take him out of here before I lose my temper.
00:30:08County pay a reward if someone finds a body, Sheriff.
00:30:13Fifty dollars.
00:30:16Each?
00:30:19Yeah.
00:30:24You know, I never thought that of old Dave.
00:30:27Of course, ever they knowed that Cal 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,
00:30:46letting them ripen up for a few days.
00:30:50Yeah, well,
00:30:52what we need now is some long cypress poles to go in there and pull them gator caves.
00:31:12I'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.
00:31:22Sorry, Nan.
00:31:23That's the way it's got to be.
00:31:25Steve's right, man.
00:31:25It's his job to protect wildlife.
00:31:28What about human life?
00:31:30Three people have been killed in that game preserve.
00:31:33Doesn't that mean anything to you?
00:31:35Nan, try to understand.
00:31:36If 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.
00:31:44We 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.
00:31:54I'll admit Sawyer's death left a lot of questions unanswered.
00:31:57But you can bet your bottom dollar the other two died from Dave Walker's shotgun.
00:32:01Do you really believe that?
00:32:03Figure it out, Nan.
00:32:04Walker admitted chasing his wife and cow into the swamps after he found them together.
00:32:09He shot them and he tried to place the blame on Sawyer's DTs.
00:32:12If Sawyer had been told of seeing purple giraffes with polka dot tails, Walker 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, not even with two murder charges against him.
00:32:25I 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 and he'd killed two people.
00:32:41And one his wife.
00:32:42Oh, look, Doc.
00:32:43Nan 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.
00:32:49They'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.
00:33:00Doc, you're pig-headed, Steve Benton.
00:33:04Stoggered and pig-headed.
00:33:06You just don't understand, do you?
00:33:08No.
00:33:16Good night, Doc.
00:33:54Right over there in them reeds.
00:33:56Right over there in them reeds.
00:34:22It's where that big one used to be.
00:34:26Yeah.
00:34:28There's a good catfish in that hole.
00:34:48Boy, 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?
00:35:05No.
00:35:05What?
00:35:06We've been prodding around till all morning.
00:35:08Ain't run across a single gator.
00:35:11By rights, this pool should be crawling with him.
00:35:16Sure 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 pulling 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.
00:35:31And right quick.
00:35:32All right.
00:35:33Now, ain't no use getting all head up.
00:35:34Let's go.
00:35:38You've got to quit drinking that moonshine.
00:35:40Yeah.
00:35:43That's why it's just wrinkled and ugly.
00:35:49We're going all the way out here.
00:35:51Wild goose chasing.
00:35:53Wild goose chasing.
00:36:30Wild goose chasing.
00:36:52Wild goose chasing.
00:36:53Wild goose chasing.
00:37:01Wild goose chasing.
00:37:05Wild goose chasing.
00:37:07Wild goose chasing.
00:37:08Wild goose chasing.
00:37:09Wild goose chasing.
00:37:10Wild goose chasing.
00:37:10Wild goose chasing.
00:37:11Wild goose chasing.
00:37:11Wild goose chasing.
00:37:11Wild goose chasing.
00:37:12Wild goose chasing.
00:37:12Wild goose chasing.
00:37:12Wild goose chasing.
00:37:12Wild goose chasing.
00:37:13Wild goose chasing.
00:37:14Wild goose chasing.
00:37:15Wild goose chasing.
00:37:19Wild goose chasing.
00:37:40We've been calling, but there's been no answer.
00:37:42Oh, I just got back.
00:37:43What seems to be the trouble?
00:37:45Well, haven't you heard?
00:37:46Old Sam Peters and Porky Reed have disappeared.
00:37:50Come on inside.
00:37:57You 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.
00:38:09When they're worried enough to go to him, you know something's wrong.
00:38:14Mrs. Reed said the men went searching for Carol and Mrs. Walker's bodies, and they never returned.
00:38:19Covis 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.
00:38:31I'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.
00:38:39All right.
00:40:03Well, they've picked up the scent 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.
00:40:32All right, let's spit up into two parties and circle the lake.
00:40:35Keep your eyes open.
00:40:36Let's move on.
00:41:20All clear.
00:41:24It's clear over here.
00:41:26Let's go.
00:41:27Let's go.
00:41:39Let's go.
00:41:42Let's go.
00:41:52Let's go.
00:42:08All right, let's keep moving.
00:42:33Well, we can't do anything more tonight.
00:42:35Might 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.
00:42:41They let us know him with a hollow or something.
00:42:44Yeah, it kind of looks that way.
00:42:46You fellas notice anything about this lake?
00:42:49I 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.
00:42:59It's real unnatural.
00:43:00Well, maybe our torches scared them away.
00:43:03Nothing scares gators.
00:43:04Nothing.
00:43:06Animal or human.
00:43:10Well, we might as well get out of here.
00:43:21You got something in mind, Steve?
00:43:24I keep thinking what Evan said about the gators.
00:43:27Nothing scares them, animal or human.
00:43:31And yet something made them leave.
00:43:32Maybe a mineral contamination.
00:43:35Guess I better run some water samples.
00:43:38Come on, you two.
00:43:39Drink your coffee.
00:43:42And supposing there is no contamination?
00:43:45Well, then I'll send over to Eastport for a diving rig
00:43:48and go down to look for this monster of yours.
00:43:50No, Steve.
00:43:50Don't even joke like that.
00:43:52I'm not joking, man.
00:43:53I had some training with an aqualung while I was in the Navy.
00:43:56But, Steve.
00:43:57Look, there are two bodies we know for sure down there.
00:44:00Maybe four.
00:44:00They've got to be brought up.
00:44:02Wait a minute.
00:44:04There are no alligators in that part of the swamp, right?
00:44:06So?
00:44:07No sign of any fish or snakes?
00:44:10No.
00:44:11What are you getting at, Doc?
00:44:13Well, that goes your argument about setting off a dynamite charge underwater.
00:44:17You'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.
00:44:24Why must you be such a...
00:44:25Stubborn pig head?
00:44:27Exactly.
00:44:28I'll tell you why.
00:44:30Number 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.
00:44:47To get that authorization, I'd have to come up with a heck of a good reason.
00:44:52Satisfied?
00:44:55Finish up, Dad.
00:44:56I want to go home.
00:44:58Uh, Steve, uh...
00:45:00How long would it take to get this diving equipment from East Park?
00:45:03Hmm, a couple of days.
00:45:04Why?
00:45:06Oh, nothing.
00:45:11Take care of yourself, Steve.
00:45:20Well, here's hoping.
00:45:21Dad.
00:45:23Can't you throw the dynamite in from here?
00:45:25No, I want to get it out into the middle.
00:45:27In the deepest part.
00:45:34All right.
00:45:35Please, please.
00:45:37Please, please.
00:45:38Please, please, please.
00:45:39Please, please.
00:45:40Please, please, please, please.
00:45:41Please, please, please.
00:45:42Please, please, please, please.
00:45:48Please, please, please, please.
00:45:50Please, please, please, please, please.
00:46:00Please, please, please, please, please, please.
00:46:04Oh, my God.
00:46:54Let you go any minute.
00:47:10Oh, my God.
00:47:50I just can't figure it out.
00:47:55Well, Walker's wife, why didn't her body come to the surface?
00:47:59I don't know.
00:48:02Well, I 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.
00:48:17Well, 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.
00:48:33You 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.
00:48:55Well, I'd just come from the autopsies.
00:48:58Covers tried to keep me out.
00:49:00But I told them I'd raise a stink they'd smell all the way to the Capitol if he did.
00:49:04Well, what killed them, Doc?
00:49:05Not drowning.
00:49:07And Cal wasn't shot, either.
00:49:11Every drop of blood was drained out of their bodies.
00:49:14And they had wounds on their throats.
00:49:17Suction wounds.
00:49:18Like a gigantic leech might make.
00:49:22And there's something even more incredible.
00:49:25Now, Cal was supposed to have been killed several days ago.
00:49:28Sam 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.
00:49:39That Cal hadn't been dead more than two or three hours when we found him.
00:49:43And the other two less than that.
00:49:46First stage rigor mortis started in during the autopsy.
00:49:48But how could that be, Doc?
00:49:50It's impossible.
00:49:51The 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.
00:50:07That explains how Cal and the others lived after they were supposed to be drowned.
00:50:11What do you mean?
00:50:12Well, 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.
00:50:29We 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, and sort of sample some of
00:50:43the bottles floating around.
00:50:45We'd drive the guys crazy trying to figure out how we were getting the stuff.
00:50:49You mean you think that there's an air pocket or a cave underneath a lake?
00:50:54Right, gotta 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.
00:51:09Alive.
00:51:25No, no, no.
00:51:29No!
00:51:30No!
00:51:40No, no, no, no.
00:52:10You sure you don't want me to go down for you, Mike?
00:52:12You haven't had one of these things on for a long time, while for me, every other day, I've been
00:52:15playing fish.
00:52:18Not this time, Mike.
00:52:21If you ask me, they ought to have their heads examined.
00:52:24Giant leeches.
00:52:27I'm willing to bet a month's pay.
00:52:29They don't come up with nothing more than excuses.
00:52:32He's crazy.
00:52:33Him, the doc, and his brat, too.
00:52:36Just wait till I get on the phone at the Capitol.
00:52:38I'll guarantee somebody will wish they'd kept their nose out of other people's business.
00:52:43I'll guarantee that.
00:52:48Let's go, Mike.
00:52:53Steve.
00:52:56Be careful, please.
00:52:58Don't worry.
00:52:58Mike will be ready if anything goes wrong.
00:53:00Don't worry about Steve.
00:53:01Now, if you were going after Barracuda, you might have a tiny bit to worry about.
00:53:06Ready, Mike?
00:53:08Mike.
00:53:08Well, let's go.
00:53:52No, no, please, stay away.
00:53:57Please.
00:54:00Not exactly inviting, is it?
00:54:03That sure isn't.
00:54:05Hold it steady, Mike.
00:54:28It'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.
00:54:38Let's go.
00:54:40Let's go.
00:54:51Let's go.
00:54:55Let's go.
00:54:56Let's go.
00:55:08Let's go.
00:55:12Let's go.
00:55:17Let's go.
00:55:25Let's go.
00:55:31Let's go.
00:55:32Let's go.
00:55:34Let's go.
00:55:37Let's go.
00:55:39Let's go.
00:55:40Let's go.
00:56:05Let's go.
00:56:09Let's go.
00:56:13Let's go.
00:56:22Let's go.
00:56:25Let's go.
00:56:27Let's go.
00:56:27Let's go.
00:56:33Let's go.
00:56:55Let's go.
00:56:59Let's go.
00:57:02Let's go.
00:57:03Whatever it is, I hope he's able to bring it up.
00:57:05Let's go.
00:57:06Let's go.
00:57:17Let's go.
00:57:22Let's go.
00:57:30Let's go.
00:57:33Let's go.
00:58:06That can't be Liz.
00:58:12What could have done that?
00:58:15Look at her face.
00:58:38What could have done that?
00:59:03What could have done that?
00:59:41Look at that thing.
00:59:44I've been around here for years.
00:59:46I never saw nothing like that.
01:00:32I never saw nothing like that.
01:00:53There was no sign of them this time.
01:00:55They must be licking their wounds.
01:00:57You sure used enough stuff to do the job, Mike?
01:01:00I used 100 sticks to 40%.
01:01:02I ought to blow the bottom right out.
01:01:04All right.
01:01:05Let her go.
01:01:05Oh, no.
01:01:06I've done enough of your dirty work.
01:01:08Help yourself.
01:01:36Let her go.
01:01:43THE END
01:02:12THE END
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