01x06 - The Unfathering Deep

[bunniefuu]

[motor whirring faintly]

[birds calling]

[Calvin] I appreciates
what you did back there.

I know that girl meant something to you.

-Maggie.
-Right, Maggie.

Look, you and me have had a hard go of it
since your brother and your sister left.

And your mother before that.

But I did me best,
and Lord knows I made mistakes.

I should never have kept you
off them boats.

You'd've made a fine hand.

I can see that now.

[gentle music playing]

-[music becomes tense]
-[air-raid siren blaring]

For your own safety,
everyone must evacuate immediately.

Please follow the evacuation route,
and proceed in an orderly manner.

Everyone must evacuate immediately.
This is for your own safety.

For your own safety,
everyone must evacuate.

[man] Mr. Crocker.

Lieutenant.

Have you met my daughter, Janet?

I have not,
but we appreciate all your help on this.

-[Jan] Oh, it's nothing.
-Oh, it's not nothing.

Those helicopters are a big help.

As usual, we're spread too thin
with the wildfires out west.

Well, whatever you need,
Lieutenant, just say the word.

The Crocker Group
and all of its resources are here for you.

You got it.

What happened here last night?

It went on a rampage after we tried
to force it out of the harbor.

Tore up the marina,

Injured five coast-guard personnel
and two of my guys.

One's in a coma,
the other's gonna lose both their legs.

In all my years,
I've never seen anything like it.

Where is it now?

[eerie music playing]

Cut the engine.

Keep movin'.

Quietly now.

There's somethin' wrong with her.

[helicopter blades whirring]

Folks, we're just…
we're trying to get you out safely.

If I could ask
that you please keep it movin'.

That would be appreciated. Thank--

Sir, if you're not part of the evacuation,
we need you to exit the zone.

No, I, uh… it's okay.
I'm Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

[man] I understand that, sir,
but you need to clear this area.

Sir, move now.

[grunts] Yeah.

Hey, you're coming. Right?

As soon as I hear anything
about Calvin and Wade.

I promise.

Yeah. Okay.

[somber string music playing]

[Ruth] It's them.

-It's them!
-[Jay] What?

[Ruth] It's them!

[Mary] What?

[Ruth] Calvin!

You had us frightened half to death.

[Jay] Dad.

Wade, old man!

-How you feeling?
-Oh, you know, like a smacked arse.

-[Jay] Whose f*cking boat is that?
-[Wade] Oh, that's a long story.

-[Jay] What the f*ck are you wearing?
-[Wade] You like it?

[Mary sobbing]

What's up?

Oh, don't worry. He's best kind.

Come on, we gotta move.
They're clearing everybody out.

Are they now?

The Crockers are saying
it's not safe, Dad.

Of course they're sayin' that.
They've been lying for years.

They're lying about the giant squid,
are they?

The giant squid
is the last thing we needs to worry about.

[man] Hey! Get away from the water!

-Now!
-[Mary] We're going! Jesus!

This whole area is an evacuation zone,
ma'am.

Everyone needs to be gone
by the end of the day.

Grab one bag of personal items,
and proceed to the evacuation site.

-[Ruth] Okay.
-Now.

[Jan] Ma'am!

Ma'am, we need you to come with us!

There she is.

Dad, this is Dr. Fonda Howander.

She works at the Ocean Science Center
down in Seal Cove.

A pleasure at last.

I've heard only great things
about you, Doctor.

-Oh.
-Jim Crocker.

Oh. Okay.

[wistful music playing]

So what are we dealing with here, Doctor?

Uh… it's a cephalopod.

Um…

Deep water origin. Highly intelligent.

She's… doesn't match anything
on the known taxonomic records.

How do you know it's a she?

Uh, we know because her egg sac
is frozen inside that iceberg out there.

Her egg sac?

Yeah, that's right.

That's, um… that's why
she's been acting so aggressively.

These waters are too warm for her.

Her eggs won't survive,
and, um… well, she knows it.

All right, egg's a soft spot.
We can use that.

Locks down the location. Gives us options.

I'm sorry. What… Options for what?

You understand we have to consider
every possible scenario.

Yep. Confirming our strike package
is hot and standing by.

-Roger that.
-Now, first things first.

We need to make sure that all
the residents have been safely evacuated.

Wait, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on.

This is an extraordinary creature.

I mean, maybe the only one of her kind.

She deserves to be… studied,
not bombed from the sky. I'm sorry.

Respectfully, this thing
has downed three vessels

and k*lled 19 people so far.

We have a duty to eliminate the threat.

But I mean,
there's still gotta be another way.

Doctor.

Once this matter is dealt with,

I will see to it
that you receive the remains

for your research exclusively.

This could be a very good thing
for the institute.

And for you, professionally.

Like you said,

she may be the last of her kind.

[suspenseful string music playing]

Right.

-[man] We appreciate your insight, Doctor.
-[Jan] Truly.

Thank you.

When Phonse was in the clinic,
Jan dropped off a tray of lemon squares.

Said they were homemade,
but they were chalky as all hell.

Store bought. Can you believe that?
I shoulda known right then and there.

She's been here what? Four years now?

Mm, five. [sighs]

She moved here
just after the last resettlement vote.

[Jay] And turns out she's been a Crocker
the whole friggin' time.

-[Mary] Manipulating the g*dd*mn vote.
-[Mo] sh*t is diabolical.

-She pulled the wool clean over us.
-Mm, plenty more than wool.

-Stop it.
-I don't get it.

All that effort just to move people
to a different town?

-I mean, what do they care?
-It's not us they care about.

It's what we're leaving behind.

[Mary] Mining rights.

What the f*ck?

Snooks Arm has been sitting
on a fortune this whole time.

Crockers knew it.
Only thing standing in the way was us.

Jesus.

All my life, I thought we was cursed.

Like there was something in our blood,
boiled in our bones.

Blaming myself for every little thing
that went wrong.

Can't fish, can't make a livin',

can't keep this family together.

Turns out there is no curse.

There's only the Crockers.

They've had this Jesus thing rigged
from the get-go.

[banging on door]

[man] This is
a mandatory evacuation order.

For your own safety, you must leave now.

-So what the f*ck we gonna do now?
-[Mary] What do we do? We leave now.

-Let them get away with it?
-[Mary] They already got away with it.

It's over, okay?
It's been over for a very long time.

[banging on door]

[man] This is a mandatory evacuation
order. Come to the door right now.

Shag it. Let's go.

What the f*ck?
Dude, you're wearing my ring.

What? This ring?

-What are you talkin' about?
-That is my grandmother's ring.

-I was gonna f*ck' propose with that.
-This?

-[Noah] Yeah. Give it back.
-No, you weren't.

-Give it back.
-[Wade] Come on!

-Your grandmother? My missus gave me this.
-[Jay] Missus? What friggin' missus?

Everybody out! Now!

Let's go.

Clear it.

["The Endless Sea" by Iggy Pop playing]

♪ Oh, baby, what a place to be ♪

-♪ In the service… ♪
-[man] These are the last of them.

♪ …of the bourgeoisie ♪

[man] Let's go. Keep it moving.

♪ Where can my believers be? ♪

Go ahead.

♪ I wanna jump into the endless sea ♪

♪ Oh, oh, the endless sea… ♪

[Mary] Dad!

Seatbelt.

♪ Oh, oh… ♪

Calvin.

You go on. All of ye.

Dad.
Dad, can we please not do this right now?

It's okay, my love. Really, it's okay.

I'll be fine.

Dad, if you haven't noticed,
it's the friggin' Army.

It's okay, Jay. You go. Be safe.

I love all of ya,
but I can't just roll over.

I just needs to stay
and see this thing through!

-Me too!
-Oh, for the love of Jesus.

Buddy, we got no choice.
We needs to evacuate.

Well… well, if he's staying,
then I'm staying too.

Dad, can you tell Wade that he can't stay?

[Jay] f*ck's sake, Wade!

Wade's his own man.
He can do what he likes.

Thanks, Father.

If we get split up,
meet at the old packing plant, yeah?

-[Wade] Yeah.
-[Ruth] Sweet blue baby Jesus.

Hey! Hey!

[man over radio] Ground team, be advised

two civilians seen leaving
the extraction point on foot.

-I can't do this.
-Oh, don't you start now.

-We can't leave. Not like this.
-Jay, don't be an idiot right now.

-He's right.
-What?

-No, he's not.
-I think you should stay.

Noah, stop. You're delirious.

-You needs to go to hospital.
-Mary, I think you belong here.

Have you all gone out
of your friggin' minds or what? Honestly.

I'm with you, so I'm down for whatever.

f*ck it. Count of three?

No.

-One.
-Jay.

-Two.
-[Mary] Jay!

Three.

Well, I suppose I should stay.
Make sure nobody gets hurt.

-Ruth!
-You go. Be safe.

[person, softly] Sh.

-Whoa! Jesus Christ.
-Act natural. Buddy's got his eye on you.

-[Fonda] You're alive.
-Yeah, for the moment. Yeah.

Well, what… what the hell happened to you?

-[Calvin] Wheel us out, I'll tell you.
-Nice and easy.

[Fonda] Okay.

[mysterious orchestral music playing]

[Calvin] She's supposed to be gone by now.

Not if she's nesting.

-Nesting?
-Yeah.

That's her egg sac
frozen in that iceberg there.

Go on. What, she's having babies?

[Fonda] Well, she's trying to,

but her eggs don't stand a chance
in water this warm.

All this time, she's just trying
to protect her youngsters.

Mm-hmm. Not a behavior easily unlearned.

[claps] But none of that matters now.

Why not?

Because they're calling in an air strike.

As soon as this place is evacuated,
it's bombs away.

They do that,
they'll blow up the whole f*ck' harbor.

Probably
that's what the Crockers are counting on.

So we never comes back,

and they can gut this place
for all it's worth.

-What if we moves her?
-What?

If we moves the nest,
she goes with it, right?

[Fonda] Well,
she won't abandon her eggs so…

So we moves her outta the harbor
before they bombs it. Simple.

Calvin,

that ice weighs over 100,000 tons.

Hundred and fifty, probably,
but it still floats, though.

Whoa, wait, wait, wait.
What are you doing here?

-If you're staying, we're staying too.
-[Calvin] No!

It's too dangerous. They're about to
drop bombs on our heads here.

-You have to go.
-Hey. No arguments, brother.

[gentle yet determined music playing]

No, no, no, no, no!

God dammit!

Now you wanna stay?

["The Passenger"
by Siouxsie and the Banshees playing]

[Wade] f*ck yeah!

♪ I am the passenger ♪

♪ And I ride… ♪

[Fonda] So the iceberg is wedged
into the seabed at about 20 meters below.

Oh, b'ys! Found 'em.

[Jay] All right, Wade.

♪ Stars come out of the sky… ♪

[Fonda] You see the way it's dug in?
You're never gonna pull that thing free.

[Calvin] Yeah, well, the trick is to break
it down into something manageable.

Oh, that's it, b'ys.

Yeah. Loops and knots, loops and knots.

-Loops and knots.
-Get a rhythm going.

You'll be surprised
how much it comes once you learn it.

We only got a few hours, b'ys, right?
Go, go, go.

Looks like your bad b'y's got
a little bayman in him, after all.

Let's not go crazy now.

Not bad. Yeah.

Not bad, young fella.

♪ La la la la la-la-la-la ♪

♪ La la la la la-la-la-la ♪

♪ La la la la la-la-la-la ♪

♪ La-la-la ♪

-[song ends]
-[knocking on door]

[foreboding music playing]

Hello?

Hello?

Calvin?

Where'd you find this?

Calvin Penney's kitchen.

And where is he now?

He slipped the evacuation zone.

-Don't worry. I'm handling it.
-Mm.

Like you handled the resettlement vote?

Come. Come.

Luckily, we've been given a gift.

That thing in the harbor,
that is providence.

That is manna from heaven.

Thanks to her, we have the cover we need
to clear this place without a fight.

But what about Calvin?

What about him?

Clearly, he's a liability.

You see that, don't you?

[Wade] That's the weak spot there.

[exhales slowly]

Here.

You sure?

Yeah.

Wasn't meant for me, anyway.

-Oh.
-Oh God.

All right, there. Come on.

[Mary] Let's do this.

Shagger.

-[Mary] f*ck.
-[Wade grunts]

[Mary] sh*t.

-Come on, Wade. Come on.
-God dammit!

[Mary] Oh my God.

-Give me that.
-sh*t. sh*t. sh*t.

[Wade] God dammit!

Whoo-hoo-hoo!

[tense music playing]

[man 1] Raven Flight,
this is Ground Command.

Be ready to strike on my mark.

-Sir!
-[man 1] Stand by, Raven Flight.

What is it?

[man 2] We have a problem.

[ice crashing]

[music becomes determined]

[air-raid siren blaring]

[man over megaphone] Stop immediately!
Do not approach the iceberg.

Go around! That way!

[man] Do not approach the iceberg!

Do not approach the iceberg!

[Wade] Oh sh*t.

That boat does not leave this harbor.
You understand me?

[siren wailing]

[man] Let's go!

[Calvin] Yes!

Go on there, b'y! Get clear.

Come on, b'y. Come on, b'y.

[engine spluttering]

Harbormaster, come in.

[Ruth] Harbormaster here.

Harbormaster, you need
to stop that vessel right now.

Harbormaster.

[Ruth] No can do, fellas.

You take care, now.

[man] Harbormaster, come in.

Do you copy?

Come on! Come on!

Come on, come on, come on,
come on, come on, come on, come on!

Yeah!

Yes!

[music becomes triumphant]

[cackling]

Whoo!

Yeah! Yeah!

[cackling]

Have at it!

[music fades]

[Jan] Hey! What do you think you're doing?

It's okay. It's okay, it's okay.

They're… they're relocating her
to deeper waters,

and she won't be a bother to anyone,
I promise you.

Doctor, you are interfering
with a military operation.

And risking people's lives.

No, no, actually.
I'm… I'm doing the opposite.

Then get Calvin Penney on the radio,
and stop him before it's too late.

That iceberg can't leave the harbor.

Oh. [chuckles]

Sorry, no. I'm… I'm not doing that.

Doctor.

You are crossing a line
you can't easily come back from.

-I understand.
-No, I don't think you do.

[chilling music playing]

You wouldn't be here
if it wasn't for my family.

We built your institute.

We created the endowment
that pays your salary.

Now, all of that goes away
right here and now.

Good. I don't want anything to do
with your money.

After all we've done for you
and for this community.

Please!

You're not saving the world.

You're… you're stripping it for parts
and then patting yourselves on the back.

-Give me that radio. I'll call them.
-No.

-Give it to me.
-Oh!

[Fonda gasps]

I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

Oh sh*t. Ah!

[eerie music playing]

[melancholy violin tune playing]

[Calvin] All right. How's this?

Best I could do under the circumstances.

She's nice and deep.
About 2,000 meters to the bottom.

And not a soul around
to give you or your youngsters any grief.

Most of my life,
you had me scared half to death.

But I dare say we're more alike
than I ever expected, you and me.

All right.

[music becomes wistful]

[helicopter blades whirring]

[music becomes dramatic]

What the Jesus f*ck?

[man 1 over speaker]
Attention, this is a military operation.

Clear the strike zone immediately.

Stay back!

-Vacate the strike zone.
-Hey! Stay back!

I repeat, vacate the strike zone.

[man 2] Command, be advised we've got
a civilian inside the strike zone.

Looks like a local fisherman.

You need to make the call
before anyone else gets hurt.

[man 3] It's one thing to make that call
when the threat was in the harbor,

but now you want me to authorize
a strike on a civilian vessel.

That's what you're asking me to do?
Just so I'm clear when they come asking.

I'm asking you
to do what you said you were going to do,

which is eliminate that g*dd*mn creature.

[man 1] For your own safety, you must
leave the strike zone immediately.

-I repeat, leave the strike zone.
-What are you doing?

[man 2] Please advise. Command? Command?

We are weapons hot.

We're running out of road here,
Lieutenant. Now make the call.

This is command. What's your position?

[man 2] Five klicks northeast
of Snooks Arm and holding.

Raven Flight,

you can stand down. Thank you.

Thanks to that fisherman,
the harbor is no longer under threat.

Residents can return home.

[indistinct radio chatter]

[music becomes triumphant]

[music becomes wistful]

[squid lowing]

[sighs]

[sighs]

[Fonda] The thing is

most cephalopods only mate once
in their life.

After they spawn, they die.

When the eggs are ready to hatch,

the mother stops hunting.

She stops eating.

She starves herself,

giving all of her bodily nutrients
over to her eggs.

Then she uses the last of her oxygen

to blow her hatchlings out of the den.

And then,

her long ordeal is finally over.

So none of them made it?

Oh no.

Water's too warm.

Huh. That's really sad.

Mm-hmm.

And it's just getting warmer.

Then who knows what's next.

[music becomes hopeful]

[Mary] So when are you townies
coming home to visit?

[Ruth] Soon. We got another meeting
with the lawyers next week.

What for?
I thought the vote got tossed out.

It was, but the Crockers are pushing
for another one, of course.

-You knows what they're like.
-Yeah, well.

At least we now know
what everybody's worth.

["Fisherman's Blues"
by the Waterboys playing]

[woman] What are you having, my love?

♪ Whoo! ♪

[Fonda laughing]

Congratulations.

[Calvin] Not bad for a foolish bit of ice.

I mean… Wow, it's very impressive.

-And I'm happy you get your cut.
-Oh yes, well, good.

It's the only thing
keeping the, uh, lights on now.

♪ Castin' out my sweet line ♪

♪ With abandonment and love ♪

♪ No ceiling bearin' down on me… ♪

-Well, I should get going.
-Oh!

-Got somebody waiting for me.
-Yeah, okay, yeah, good.

Will you be around later?
I can give you the grand tour.

Yeah. Yes, I'll be here.

Okay, then.

Okay.

Cod stocks are up again this year,
and they're big as dogs, me son. Look!

Mind now, Paddy.

Noseworthy.

♪ On a hurtlin' fevered train ♪

♪ Crashing a-headlong into the heartland ♪

♪ Like a cannon in the rain… ♪

Come on.

♪ With the beating of the sleepers ♪

♪ And the burnin' of the coal ♪

♪ Counting the towns flashing by ♪

♪ In a night that's full of soul ♪

♪ With light in my head ♪

♪ You in my arms ♪

♪ Whoo! ♪

-[song fades out]
-[foreboding music playing]

[music builds, fades]

♪ Oh, this is the place
Where the fishermen gather ♪

♪ With oilskins and boots
And Cape Anns battened down ♪

♪ All sizes of figures
With squid lines and jiggers ♪

♪ They congregate here
On the squid jiggin' ground ♪

♪ Some are working their jiggers
While others are yarnin' ♪

♪ There's some standin' up
And there's more lyin' down ♪

♪ While all kinds of fun
Jokes and tricks are begun ♪

♪ As they wait for the squid
On the squid jiggin' ground ♪

♪ There's men from the Harbor
There's men from the Tickle ♪

♪ In all kinds of motorboats
Green, gray, and brown ♪

♪ There's a redheaded Tory
Out there in a dory ♪

♪ A-running down Squires
On the squid jiggin' ground ♪

♪ There's men of all ages
And boys in the bargain ♪

♪ There's old Billy Chafe
And there's young Raymond Brown ♪

♪ Right yonder is Nobby
And with him is Bobby ♪

♪ He's chawing hard tack
On the squid jiggin' ground ♪

♪ The man with the whiskers is
Old Jacob Steele ♪

♪ He's a-gettin' well up
But he's still pretty sound ♪

♪ While Uncle Bob Hawkins wears
Six pairs of stockings ♪

♪ Whenever he's out
On the squid jiggin' ground ♪