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- Morning.

- Morning was an hour

ago. It's nearly lunch.

- What's all this?

- Well, the mayor

came in for his 9:00,

he wanted you to know that

he waited for 20 minutes,

which was 19 minutes

longer than he wanted to.

I told him you were sick

and we would follow

up to reschedule.

Fish and Game called twice.

Seems they need someone

to draft a policy

on the definition

of a buck deer.

You got a call from

Nolan Holt this morning,

and your sponsor

left another message.

He wants you to call him back.

- What'd Nolan want?

- He didn't say.

It sounded important, though.

- How so?

- When I told him you

were otherwise indisposed,

he asked that you hurry

every chance you get.

- Call the mayor, reschedule

for lunch tomorrow.

- Mm-hmm.

- What's the name

of that seafood place he likes?

- Oceaner?

- That's the one.

- Make sure they bring

out those hush puppies.

- Mm-hmm.

- He likes those.

After that, call Fish and

Game, tell them anything

with a hard antler

protruding through the skin

is a buck deer,

same as last season

and the hundreds of

seasons before that.

- And your sponsor?

- Forget it.

- You sure?

- I'm busy.

- Mm-hmm.

And Nolan?

- I'll handle that one myself.

You gonna get that?

- You know, one of these days,

that thermos is going

to catch up with you.

- Well, lucky for

you, you'll be here

to tell me I told you so.

- The worst time to

hear I told you so

is when you ended up

saying it to yourself.

- Thanks, Reema.

- Hello? Yes.

- What's up, partner?

- Hey, Nolan.

So, what'd you wanna show me?

What's the phone call about?

- Check it out.

Whoo-whee.

- Nolan, why is there a shark

in the back of your truck?

- Isn't she a beauty?

- That's not what I asked.

Where'd you get this?

- Went and got it in Surf City,

me and my buddy

were out fishing.

Got 'em something big.

It's crazy.

- Why do you have it?

- Why do I have it?

Why do you think I have it, son?

I'm gonna sell it.

- You're going to sell it?

- Yeah.

You know, the teeth, jawbone.

Sometimes people like

to eat the fin and sh*t.

I'll make a k*lling.

Great.

- It's f*cking bloated.

Are you sure it's-

- Stop stirring sh*t,

don't worry about it.

- All right, all right.

Cut that sh*t out.

You gotta get this

thing out of here.

Take it back where it came from.

- Why?

- Because this is a

small town, Nolan.

Once word gets out, you got

a dead shark near the lake?

People are going to

equate all this to sharks

being in the water.

- That don't make any sense.

Everybody knows that no

sharks swim in freshwater.

- It's the perception, Nolan.

I don't need to explain that

to you. Just do what I ask.

I want this thing back

in Surf City today.

You got it?

- g*dd*mn, man.

Well, can I keep a fin at least?

- Get your ass on the road now.

- A tooth?

- Do it!

You piss me off.

- g*dd*mn it.

I knew I shouldn't have brought

it here in the first place.

- Hey! What the hell you doing?

You can't just come in

here unannounced, Gary.

- Unannounced?

I call your cell,

you don't answer.

Your office, no call back.

I mean, seriously, do

you even get my messages?

Besides, you always

leave key outside

in case you go AWOL.

- Did it ever occur to

you I might just be busy?

- Don't bullshit a

bullshitter, man.

You were coming up on 100 days.

- I had sh*t with work,

Gary, Dottie and the kid.

- And this is how

you get them back?

They don't have

room for an addict.

And from what you've told me,

they've made that

pretty damn clear.

When's the last time you

actually ate something?

You know, if you keep facing

in the right direction,

this thing's really

pretty simple,

but you've gotta keep walking.

- I'm trying, Gary.

I should've called you.

- Well, have you

seen her? The kiddo?

- It's been three weeks.

I don't know.

I drove by the house

the other night.

- Well, look, I'm here to help,

and I'm a hell of

a good listener.

I'll put on some coffee.

- Thanks, Gary.

- Catching anything?

- Not a damn thing.

What's in it?

- Coffee.

- Ah, sh*t.

- You got a license

to fish out here?

- That's none of your

damn business, Gary.

Just worry about

taking care of me.

- That's a full-time job.

- I bet it is.

I appreciate you either way.

- You can do

this deal, brother.

One day at a time.

- Did you ever slip up?

- I did, several times.

Hey, you know what?

I wouldn't trade

this way of life,

and I wouldn't trade my sobriety

for anything in the world.

You'll get there.

- Yeah.

- Oh, I sh*t my pants.

If he thinks I'm

driving back down south,

he got another thing

coming.

Whoo.

Man, you're a heavy

son of a bitch.

Here you go, Betsy,

into the water.

There.

8:30.

Here.

There.

- It's just coffee today, Reema.

Lunch with the mayor went well.

What's that look? What?

What?

- The sheriff's here to see you.

- Send him in.

- Oh.

- Wilson.

- Spencer.

- What can I do for?

- You hadn't heard?

- Heard what?

- Got a dead girl on the lake.

- Where's the body?

- What's left of it,

coroner's office.

There's a bunch of

boats in the water

a couple of miles up the coast

from where we found the girl,

I sent a couple of my guys

up there to bring them in.

- What'd you tell them?

- Lake water tests.

Figure that'd give us

some time to figure out

what we're going to say.

- We?

- We hadn't had a m*rder

in this town in 60 years

and now, in a g*dd*mn

election year?

You're the warden.

I deal with criminals.

You deal with animals.

- Well, Sheriff, I think

I deal with more criminals

in this town than you do.

What makes you think

it's an animal?

- They pulled that out of

the middle of her back,

lodged into her spine.

Yeah, that's a shark tooth.

- Impossible.

- Listen, I don't

wanna cause a panic

in town with the locals.

Word gets out we got

a shark in the lake,

you can forget all

about tourists.

- Sheriff, if there were

a shark in these waters,

as rare as that would be,

the chances of attacking

and k*lling a swimmer

like that doesn't add up.

They don't come into freshwater.

We don't have reefs.

Slaughterhouses? No.

Nothing here to keep

them interested.

- All right, then.

Game warden,

how'd a shark end up in my lake?

- Nolan!

- Warden?

- Warden, my ass. What'd you do?

- About what?

- The other day, a little

package in the back

of your truck, what did you do?

- sh*t, man, I didn't

know you meant it.

- What'd you do with it, Nolan?

- I dumped it by the lake.

By the campground. Why?

- You dumped it in the lake.

- Yeah.

I'm sorry, I just didn't

wanna make another trip.

That's all.

Damn.

- You told me it

was dead, Nolan.

You swore to me.

- It was dead.

I even poked it with a stick.

You saw it.

Wait.

What you trying

to say here, huh?

- A young girl's dead, Nolan.

- Huh?

- The shark was alive

when you put it back-

- There's no way.

It didn't move for 10 hours.

- What about the

one inside it, hmm?

I told you it looked

f*cking bloated.

- Get the f*ck outta here, man.

You telling me it

was knocked up?

- You got a better suggestion?

- What you want me to do?

I mean, I didn't do anything.

I mean...

I didn't do anything, man.

You saw it was dead. You saw it.

I poked it with a

stick. You saw it, man.

Right?

- Save it for the

sheriff, Nolan.

- It was dead.

I poked it with a stick.

Right, with a stick.

I need a beer.

- So do you even have

to go to the academy

to be a game warden?

- About 31 weeks, assh*le.

- Hmm.

- Right on time, fellas.

We're in the middle

of my lunch hour.

So.

At first, I thought that

a shark in lake water

didn't make any sense,

but I did my research.

Come to find out, it's not as

uncommon as you might think.

Louisiana, Mississippi, even

parts of the Texas coast,

but never this far up, though.

- Is it dead?

- Excuse me?

- The

shark. Is it dead?

- Hmm. Which one?

- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What do you mean, which one?

- Look here.

You see the bite ratio

here on her lower back?

I called a friend of mine

down at the Ocean Institute

and I had them take a

look at the measurements.

Come to find out

those teeth markings

are from a younger shark.

You know the tooth

you found in her back?

It broke off like that

because the shark's jawline

is still developing.

- What am I supposed to

tell that girl's family?

- Nevermind that.

So what you're

saying is not one,

but two sharks in our lake?

- Well, unless this adolescent

shark got lost at sea,

I can almost bet the mama

shark's out there with him.

- Son of a bitch.

- Look, gentlemen, you're

interrupting my lunch,

and at the end of the

day, I need to be honest

with my cause of death here.

This girl was k*lled

by a shark att*ck.

And how that happened, that's

your jobs to figure out.

- How long can we

keep this quiet?

- A few days, if we're lucky.

- This friend of yours

at the Institute,

you have his number, in

case I have any questions?

- Right there.

Good luck.

- No, no, no, that's

not what I said.

No, what I said

was I didn't wanna

make a comment at this time,

and legally that's

all you can print.

Harry, hold on a second.

Hey, you got the

mayor on the line?

Harry, yeah, it's

the mayor's office.

I gotta call you back.

Don't print anything.

You hear me?

Mr. Mayor.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir, I have a call into

the Ocean Institute as well.

When?

All right.

I should be getting a

call any minute now.

Reema.

Reema!

That the

guy from Port Aransas?

- Line 2.

- Mr. Mayor?

Yes, my assistant just let

me know our guy's on hold.

Will do. You got my word.

If you could keep the paper

off my back, I'd appreciate it

till we figure this

whole thing out.

Yes, sir. Talk to you soon.

What line's the guy from Port A?

- Line 2.

- g*dd*mn it,

there's nobody there.

- Well, he hung up.

Should I call him back?

- Yeah. Right now, please.

If the paper calls

back, tell Harry to call

the mayor's office. If he

wants a statement, okay?

- Okay.

- g*dd*mn it.

Gary, now's not a

good time, my friend.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, it's not that.

I appreciate you

checking in on me.

I just got a lot going

on at work right now

and I gotta call you back.

This is Timms.

Yes, yes, thank you for

calling me back so quickly.

Great, so you understand

our situation up here.

Okay. Wait, wait.

Say that last part again.

How could you possibly

know all that?

All right, I'll

be there tonight.

Thank you.

- Nolan Holt is on line 1.

- Go f*ck yourself, Nolan.

- Now was that necessary?

Where do you think you're going?

- Port Aransas.

- Now?

That's a seven hour drive.

- It's important.

Have the sheriff meet me at

the north dock at 7:00 AM.

Anybody else calls, send

them to the mayor's office

till I get back and

keep your cell phone on.

- Are you gonna tell me what

the hell is going on here?

- Not right now.

How the hell's everybody

have a key to this place?

- 'Cause you're not

answering your phone.

- Got a lot going on.

- I can see that.

- It's not like that.

- Okay.

- What's this?

- You know what it is, Spencer.

- I'm not signing that.

- You don't really

have a choice.

- You come into my house

with divorce papers

and you won't even

let me see him?

- And whose fault is that?

You remember your little

episode at the courthouse.

- He's my son, too.

And you, you are holding

him hostage from me.

- How dare you?

I have done nothing

but give you chances

to have some sort of

relationship with him

and you've done nothing

but sh*t all over it.

How many times have you

shown up drunk or hungover?

How many times can

you cancel on him

before he starts to think

you don't give a sh*t?

Just don't

put that on me.

- All right, fine.

But I'm not signing

this, not yet.

You are still my wife.

We're gonna work

through all of this.

We're gonna be a family again.

- When you were young,

I loved who you were.

Now, I don't know this guy.

And that,

that hurts the worst.

Sign the papers.

It's what's best

for all three of us.

Enjoy your drink.

- It's not what's best.

Can we talk about this?

g*dd*mn it, Spencer.

- That's a

good one right there.

- Frankfort, Michigan

three years ago,

and that's not the first one

I've heard about in freshwater.

I know.

The chances of winning a lottery

or a meteorite

falling from the sky

seem more likely than finding

a shark in the Great Lakes,

but there are more than

100 eyewitness accounts

of sharks swimming

up the Mississippi

as far up as Illinois.

Given the distance

between the Gulf of Mexico

and Lake Michigan, I have

to suggest that if a shark

with an extreme case of

wanderlust could make it

up to the Illinois River,

it could surely make it

a third of the way and

end up in your backyard.

See, the unique trick is

that bull sharks have kidneys

that recycle the salt

vital to the animal cells.

Normally, a different freshwater

would dilute the salt,

causing the cells

to rupture, k*ll it.

Not the bull shark.

- Great.

- I see this a lot.

When people read magazine

articles on shark att*cks,

or they turn on the History

Channel for one week a year,

suddenly, everyone becomes

an expert, but Warden,

Texas, Michigan,

Mississippi, the Amazon.

When Hamlin called me, I

took a look at what she had.

See this?

The size and depth of

these wounds matches that

of only one species.

This isn't a trick of the sun

or waves or too much alcohol.

What you're dealing

with is a shark,

and from the looks

of it, a hungry one.

Now there is some good news.

With the lack of any salt

water or appropriate food,

and with the colder

temperatures coming,

I think this shark problem

is not gonna last

you too much longer.

As long as you've closed the

lake, I think the shark thing

is gonna go away pretty quickly.

You did close the lake, right?

Mr. Mayor.

- Mr. Harper, glad

I could catch you.

Is this a bad time?

- Who's this?

- She's with me. Legal counsel.

May I?

About this problem, this

little problem we've got

with our lake up

north, Coroner Hamlin,

she was up here to speak

with you, was she not?

- She did.

- And the game warden,

he came down here

and paid you a visit.

- That's right.

He left just about an hour ago.

Look, Mr. Mayor,

whatever you wanna know,

I can assure you that I've

briefed your game warden.

- You know what? I love to fish.

I once caught a marlin

off the Florida Keys.

Came in at eight feet

long, 200 pounds.

Took me two hours

to reel him in.

Now I know you told Spencer

we got a shark in our waters.

Personally, if it was

the family of marlins

that wanted to populate the

lake, I'd say, bring them on.

I want a rematch.

- But we're not

talking about marlins.

That would be impossible.

We're talking about a shark.

- A bull shark.

- That's right.

I've given the game

warden the report.

Amputated arms and legs, the

bites aren't hard to find.

Take a look at this.

- Whoo!

- This is six months ago,

three states north

of where you are.

- Watch out, watch out.

- Whoa, hold on.

- Whoo.

- Watch out.

- Whoo. My gosh.

Hold on to that thing.

Whoo!

- Bail some water here.

- Oh my gosh.

Look at his paw, look

at his paw, oh my gosh.

Dude, that's like a

nine or 10 footer.

That is not like seven.

That's huge!

Oh geez.

Do you see that?

I don't know.

He att*cked us.

He literally att*cked us.

- What you're dealing here

is a very real possibility.

- Watch out.

Whoo. Oh my gosh.

Oh, hold on.

- I wonder, does the board

at the Ocean Institute

share your conviction on

this bull shark theory?

- It's not a

theory, it's a fact.

- I doubt they'd be very

happy to have a major hit

in their funding because

one of their mad scientists

was spouting erroneous

rumors about sharks

in freshwater lakes.

- I'm sorry. What

are you getting at?

- We are very powerful

people, Mr. Harper.

Would you do me a favor?

Would you give us the room?

So.

- Could be a problem.

- I am not paying you

to state the obvious.

What do we have

in place for this?

- Containment.

13 men have run against you.

They all thought

they had a chance.

They lost.

We didn't get here by

forgetting how we pay our rent.

- And now I'm running up

against a f*cking shark.

- Don't twist my words.

I'm not saying we win.

I'm saying we take out the

story's legs, then its heart.

- And how do we do that?

- Who else knows?

- The game warden.

- The alcoholic?

- What's that matter?

- He's the easiest to discredit.

The sheriff?

- He's not a problem. Trust me.

He wants this quiet

as much as I do.

- Okay.

We keep the victims' families

quiet a little bit longer

until we can draft

something up on our side.

Anyone talks, we know

the weakest link.

All we have to do is cut him

loose and you look like a hero.

- Okay.

- All right then.

The pieces are all on the board

unless there's anyone else

who knows about your problem?

- Mm.

- Don't turn around, stay calm.

This is simply

two civil servants

having a friendly conversation.

There are so many kinds

of bravery in this world.

Sometimes, bravery means

laying down your life

for something bigger than

yourself or for someone else.

Sometimes, it means giving up

everything you've ever known,

everything you've ever loved

for the sake of

something greater.

Sometimes, it doesn't.

Sometimes bravery simply

means gritting your teeth

through the pain, everyday work,

slow walk to a better life,

and doing what

you're asked to do

whether or not

you agree with it.

- Okay?

Mr. Mayor.

- I don't need you to

say anything right now,

but that last kind of

bravery I talked about,

that's the kind of bravery

you're gonna need right now.

We'll be in touch.

Y'all enjoy the

rest of your lunch.

- This is Hamlin.

- Don't

think, just listen.

You're gonna go back to

your office this afternoon,

and you're gonna file

that dead girl's report.

Only difference is, this

time, when you file it,

you're gonna leave the

cause of death blank.

Understood?

Hamlin.

- Yes, I understand.

f*ck.

- You're late.

Have you even slept?

You look like sh*t.

- It's a bull shark. We

need to close the lake down.

- Bull shark? What

makes you so sure?

- Did you hear what I just said?

- I heard you.

But close down the lake?

With the tourists coming in?

You can't just wash

those tax dollars away.

I'm up for reelection in

two and a half months.

Can't handle that

kind of action.

- No, what you can't

handle, Wilson,

is a kid getting

eaten by a shark.

Can't afford that.

- What are you not telling me?

- The guy at the Ocean

Institute, I went and saw him.

Good news is mother sharks

don't allow their young

to hunt on their own.

That, plus the size of the

bite radius on the dead girl

says we're looking at

one shark, not two.

- So what happened

to the mother shark?

- His best guess? Didn't

survive the birth.

So we've got one dead

shark under water

and another one

looking for more meals

and it's f*cking hungry.

- Did you run this

past the mayor?

- Just got in, Pete.

First face I've seen.

We need divers to confirm it.

Otherwise, we trust

the expert and assume

if the shark is feeding, that

it's got no other choice.

Mother's dead.

- We need to get on the boat.

I can't keep that little girl's

mother quiet much longer.

- No, what you need to do

is shut down the damn lake.

Cut off its food supply.

- We don't have to do that if

we k*ll the damn thing first.

Now I'm still the f*cking

sheriff in this town.

Last time I checked,

you answer to me.

- Right.

- All right.

So go find us a boat

and we'll go out there

and k*ll this f*cking thing.

But we're gonna be real

quiet about it, right?

Nobody's gotta know

about this but us.

In the meantime, we'll stick

with the whole

water testing story.

Hey, I do not want

mass hysteria.

You got me?

- I got you.

- The mayor is here to see you.

- Send him in.

- Morbid, terrible shame.

He's a good man.

Gonna be hard to replace.

- Thanks for coming.

Have a seat.

- Where'd you get that?

- Deputy brought it in.

He didn't know what

else to do with it.

- The lake is 31 miles long.

- I understand that.

If you allow me to

call the harbor patrol.

- No harbor patrol.

Too much negative attention.

You know, anybody can

take the wheel of a ship

in calm waters, but the

waves get rough, not so easy.

We can't just sit back

and enjoy the good times.

We've gotta stand

tough through it all.

- I appreciate the

pep talk, but sir.

- Not a pep talk, warden.

That is a promise.

This town has not seen a m*rder

in more than half a century.

A shark in these waters?

That's unheard of.

Sheriff Wilson's dead.

I can deal with that

end of the mess,

but you gotta get a

handle on this disaster

and live up to your

end of the deal.

- Deal?

- Do your f*cking job

so I can save mine.

I need to know what

you're gonna do

about this shark problem.

- I got a charter coming in.

I asked Wilson to shut down

the lake, but he refused.

- We can shut down the lake

without shutting down the lake.

I'll have my office

put out a statement.

Work being performed on the dam.

Sheriff Wilson's another story,

but the coroner's exam is

gonna take a couple of days,

maybe enough time

for us to come up

with some sort of response.

- There is no response.

We got two people dead.

Now the two options I

see is that we cut off

the shark's food

supply or wait it out,

and see if it starves

itself to death.

That's it.

- And you are the

authority on this?

- I spoke to the experts.

I drove down to the

Ocean Institute.

- This town can survive

anything on two feet.

Wild cats, sharks.

There's only one

person around here

who's gonna take the fall

for that sort of thing.

Always nice to see you, Reema.

- See if you're hungry

now, you son of a bitch.

Yeah?

Yeah, no, I know.

I just didn't look at

the damn calendar is all.

Yeah, no, that's fine.

It's work. What do

you want me to do?

No, we're not done talking

about the paper signing.

No, I gotta go.

Already?

- Yes, already.

You forget, didn't you?

- No, I just thought

it was gonna be

later in the day, that's all.

Hey, what I'd tell you about

bringing the g*n in the house?

- I'm sorry, Dad.

- It's all right.

Apologies won't get

you anywhere faster.

- Yes, sir.

- Hey, listen.

I will be back to

pick you up Sunday.

You call me if you

need anything, okay?

Well, have a good weekend.

- Yeah.

- She's still mad, huh?

- Yeah, you're screwed.

- Yeah, I thought so.

You keeping it clean

like I showed you?

- Yeah.

- Good.

Responsibility, it'll teach you

how to do things for yourself.

- There's no TV

in the guest room.

- Oh yeah, about that, yeah.

Take my room.

I gotta work this

weekend anyway.

Hey, don't pout.

We'll call up Uncle

Gary, come over here

and keep you company

until I get back.

- I'm 13. I don't

need a babysitter.

Besides, he's not

even a real uncle.

He's just some guy

from your AA meetings.

Seriously?

- I deserve that.

But I need you to

stay by the house.

- Mom said you were

working on the lake?

- Yeah, it's nothing.

We're just looking for

something, but it reminds me.

You stay out of the

water this weekend, too.

I don't want you down

there with your buddies,

flirting with girls, all right?

Stay outta the water.

Hey, I need to hear you say it.

- I'll stay out of the lake.

- Stay

out of the lake.

You promise?

- Promise.

- All right, you promised me.

You hungry?

- I can eat.

- We might have to order out.

But let's see.

- That's fine.

Your cooking sucks anyways.

- Yeah, I know.

- I love you, son.

All right, you son of a bitch.

What?

Gary, I don't have

time for it now, buddy.

Kinda busy here.

Have Grant duty,

he's at the house.

What do you mean he's

not at the house?

The lake? I'm on the way.

f*ck.

f*cking perfect.

Grant!

Oh, f*ck, boy.

Grant!

Grant!

g*dd*mn it, son.

Grant!

g*dd*mn it, son.

sh*t.

Grant!

Get outta the water!

Grant!

Grant!

Get outta the water.

- What?

- Get outta the water.

Oh my God. sh*t.

Grant.

Get on my back, son.

Listen to me.

Listen to me, there's

a shark in the lake.

I need you to get on my back

and hang on till

we get to shore.

Right.

Don't look back, son.

Ah!

Come on, come on.

It's okay.

Come on.

Gotta move, boy.

We're almost there.

We're almost there.

We're almost there.

Lay down, buddy.

Yeah, you're all right.

Hey, look at me.

Stay with with me.

Oh.

Hey, hey, listen to me.

I gotta move you.

I gotta get you

patched up, all right?

You gotta be brave

for me, all right?

Grab hold of my neck.

Grab hold of my neck, you ready?

One, two, three.

- What in the hell

were you thinking?

Spencer.

- Stitches, all right?

He's gonna be fine.

- I'm not talking about that.

The whole ride over here,

he's telling me he was

att*cked by a shark.

Is that true?

Oh my God. And you

didn't tell me?

- Would it have

done any good? No.

- I wouldn't have brought

him here if I knew that.

You know he loves the water.

- Hey, I told him, stay

outta the lake, okay?

He lied to me too.

- Okay, I can stay here tonight.

I'll drive him home

in the morning.

But Spencer, what

the hell is going on?

- There's a shark in the lake.

Don't ask me how,

but it survived.

It's k*lled three people.

- And this isn't on the news?

And somehow you're

in charge of this?

- They need a fall guy.

You're looking at him.

- Spencer, I know you.

Whatever this is, you

cannot serve two masters.

- I'm clean.

On our son, I am clean.

- What are you gonna do?

- Mayor doesn't want me

to bring attention to it,

can't hire a guy

to k*ll the shark.

It's gotta be me.

- Spencer, they're

just looking for an out

when this thing blows

up in their faces.

What?

- What'd you just say?

I said, they're gonna

blame you for this.

- No, no, after that.

It'll blow up in their faces.

- I can help.

- Let's go.

Nolan Holt.

Get your ass out here.

- Oh, hell.

What'd you come all the way

over here to arrest my ass?

- No, I came to help you.

- Help me?

- Yeah.

- Who's she?

- It's my wife.

- Ex-wife.

- Nothing's been signed yet.

- So you two need to

get on the same page.

- Nevermind all that, Nolan.

It's not why I'm here.

I'm here because I need

you as much as you need me.

All right?

- Oh yeah?

What do you want from me?

- You wanna make this

shark thing disappear?

Save your sorry

ass in the process?

I need you to do

something for me.

- All right, what do you want?

- Do you have anything

that explodes?

Now think, dynamite,

gunpowder, anything.

- C-4.

- What?

- What?

- C-4.

You want something

that explodes, right?

Well, that's the

ticket right there.

What you want it for?

- Where in the hell

did you get C-4?

- What, we gonna ask

20 questions here?

Or do you want the damn stuff?

- What do you want for it?

- Get the sheriff off my ass.

- Deal.

Thanks, Nolan.

- Be sure you poke

it with a stick.

Right, Macho Man?

- Here, take over up front.

Anything breaks the

surface, you sh**t it.

If he's in the shallow waters,

all I gotta get him to

do now is swallow this.

- Okay, then what?

- Then we blow it

to pieces with this.

- All right.

- That should get his attention.

- Now what?

- Now?

Now we wait.

I don't get it.

Damn thing should've

been here by now.

I'm almost out of bait.

- Maybe we should move

to a different spot.

- Deeper waters won't work, in

case one of us has to get in.

- Get in?

As in get in the

water with the shark?

- How else do you expect

it to swallow the C-4?

- I don't know.

I thought it would come close

enough we could just toss it

in its mouth.

- Really? Yeah, that'd

be easier, for sure.

- You're not seriously

considering this, are you?

- Oh, what? What's this?

Huh?

All of a sudden, you give a

sh*t about what happens to me?

I needed this person

before, not now.

- So did I.

- f*ck.

This ain't working.

I'm getting in.

- Just make it a clean sh*t.

- No!

Come on, come on,

come on, come on.

- Come on.

Oh, come on, oh come on.

sh**t it!

- Come here.

We did it.

- I'm glad you're starting over.

All of you.

Gonna miss you

around here, Warden.

- Nah, the new

guy'll do just fine.

Besides, quitting while

you're still good at something

ain't the same as quitting.

- I can't seem to find that

thermos of yours anywhere.

- No, it's gone.

I don't need it anymore.

- Well, if you ever wanna

stop and pay a visit,

there will always be a

pot of coffee on for you.

- I believe it.

Thanks, Reema.

- Yeah, I'm working on

my book right now, Bubba.

Well, it ain't finished yet.

I mean, I'm working

on it as we speak.

Yeah, it'll be out

soon.

First I'm gonna go

out on the lake,

I'm gonna get me some dinner.

Get me some of that

poontang fish fin,

you know what I mean?

Shark fin, if I can.

All right, I'll call you back.

All right, all right, all right.

Whoo!

g*dd*mn, it's cold.

Whoo!

Whoo-whee.

Yeah.

I'll get you tonight, boy.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

Oh yeah!

There we go.

Chapter 1.

"Terror in the Water."

Today's October 3rd, 2021.

It's been three weeks

since this sleepy town

been ravaged by...

The lake shark.

Ah.

It's been three weeks

since this town...

Been ravaged the

silent predator known

as the lake monster.

It's been three weeks

since this sleepy town

been ravaged the

Lone Star Shark.

Yeah! Got a best-seller,

you know it, boy.

Whoo! Good stuff.

Oh, ooh, ooh, ooh.

Oh boy.

g*dd*mn it, son of a bitch!

Dumb piece of sh*t.

Am I stuck on

something? What is that?

g*dd*mn it.

Where's it at?

Oh, sh*t!

This is Nolan Holt,

confirming the worst fears:

the Lone Star Shark lives on.

Stay tuned.
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