Hell Hole (2024)

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[ Eerie music fades in ]

[ Birds squawk ]

[ Rustling ]

[ Birds squawk ]

[ Branches snapping,

footsteps approach ]

[ Horse whinnying ]

[ Eerie music continues ]

[ Fire crackling,

horse whinnies ]

[ Birds squawk ]

[ Rock music plays ]

[ Creature screams ]

[ Creature screaming ]

[ Groans ]

[ Screams ]

[ Heavy rock music plays ]

- Hey, guys.

- DANKO: 'Sup, boss?

Hey, Emily. Cig?

I'm good.

Thanks... Voila.

It's... It's, uh, Cavalla, boss.

- Voila.

- DANKO: Cavalla.

- Valla?

- Yeah.

Yeah. Better.

Well, how do you say

"get off your lazy asses

and get back to work"?

[ Chuckles ]

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Get off... your...

Lazy asses...

Lazy asses

Yeah.

And get to work.

Right.

Ridiculous

This is bullshit.

[ Speaking English ] All our

boosters run off the satellite.

Bud, you're sh*t out of luck.

John, how's the road?

Road.

River.

Road under river.

Very bad.

I told you we shouldn't

drill in Siberia.

[ Groans ]

John, it's Serbia.

JOHN: Yeah, whatever.

Seriously,

what's the situation?

No, really,

the roads are under the river,

and we're not getting

out of here

for a while,

and no one's coming in.

- f*ck.

- What's your ETA now

- for breaking ground, Emily?

- Well, you tell us, Nikola.

You're the one who's got

to sign that permit.

But if we could get started

on a rat or mouse hole,

we'd be grateful.

There's no evidence

of Koslov's pika here.

I will sign off. Really.

I'll bet you none

of them roughnecks

have ever seen one of those

cute, cuddly things.

- Seeing means nothing, man.

- SOFIJA: It's true.

There's a whole world under

the ground we can only imagine.

Imagine that.

And the pika are

notoriously secretive.

Shh.

Thankfully...

new technologies,

like portable DNA sequencing,

make it possible

to identify their habitats

simply from their feces

and hairs in the dirt.

Oh, fun fact.

Did you know that

the pika's soft green feces

- are coveted for folk medicine?

- JOHN: You know what?

If you find one of

my greasy shits out there,

you can covet it

for medicine, too.

EMILY: John.

You choose to drill here,

man, not me.

I didn't choose to drill here.

She didn't choose to drill here.

We were told to drill here.

If I'd have chose, I'd have

chose something like...

Florida.

- Alabama?

- Oh, yes. [ Chuckles ]

And if you find nothing

of value, what?

Oh, we'll find

something down there.

Then, the fracking begins.

Bravo.

Actually, the really

neat thing about pikas

is that they're

an indicator species.

They let us know how we are

doing environmentally,

which can be really good news...

or bad.

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Morons, let's get to work.

Yes, Professor.

[ Door opens ]

- [ Speaking English ] John.

- [ Door closes ]

These guys already

got us by the t*ts.

You tugging on him

isn't helping.

Look, we're standing around

like a bunch

of cigar store Indians

doing nothing

while Count Ranger "Rikola"

and his sidekick

look for a f*cking

glorified bunny rabbit.

- [ Chuckles ]

- [ Door opens ]

Hey, it's

the Galloping Gourmet.

What's the good word, Pops?

JOHN: Same sh*t. Different day.

What's up with you?

Uh, cooking up a storm,

Johnny boy.

- Hey, Moms.

- Ted, if you call me that again,

I'll turn your lights out.

- Okay, boss.

- Hey, crew's bored to death

waiting to drop

that f*cking drill.

You got something good

on the menu tonight, I hope?

Chicken tagine for the win.

- JOHN: Oh, great.

- EMILY: Why?

- Because it's good.

- Teddy.

The crew doesn't want

some fancy chicken thing.

They want

a not fancy chicken thing.

You liked it when I made it

for you back home?

Yeah. I like soft toilet paper.

Doesn't mean I bring it with me.

Wet wipes. I brought wet wipes.

I got a tender heinie hole.

Awesome. Well, it's too late.

Okay. The tagine's done.

And they're going to love it.

It's got raisins for sweetness,

a ton of ras el hanout

that I brought from home.

Like, super authentic.

Sounds like a recipe

for diarrhea.

You mean a recipe

for a clean digestive tract?

That's what I said.

A recipe for diarrhea.

Hey, can I bum

some of those wet wipes?

- No.

- EMILY: Just make chicken salad

- tomorrow, please.

- Aye-aye, Auntie Em.

Hey, um, what's the deal

with those conservation guys?

- Are they sticking around or...?

- Don't even think about it.

What?

No. I'm just, you know.

She's way too smart

for you, buddy.

- [ Sighs ] Love you, Em.

- JOHN: Where's my love?

- Your hand.

- [ Laughs ]

- He's a good kid.

- [ Door closes ]

- EMILY: Yeah.

- Must have been a handful.

Eh, that's the beauty

of being an aunt.

You get to give him back

at the end of the day.

Which is just how I like it.

Waste of them

great udders you got.

- Thank you.

- JOHN: [ Chuckles ]

Mary Ann's the same way.

She never wanted kids.

She said it's like

growing a monster

inside of her for 9 months.

To me, it's like the beauty

of being a woman.

You get to do something

magic like that.

EMILY: [ Chuckles ]

[ Rock music plays ]



[ Speaking Serbian ]

Hey, bro.

Are those clowns

really looking for bunnies?

Yeah. In a toxic coal mine, nonetheless.

Somebody must've tipped it off.

Said they saw an endangered

rabbit or some sh*t.

Liberal pussies

always breakin' ba*ls.

I like rabbits.

Must've been one of those guys.

Which one?

- [ Speaking English ] Teddy.

- Teddy?

- Teddy.

- Teddy.

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Guy's on a field trip.

Here for a good time.

He doesn't give a sh*t.

Or maybe one of our guys.

These lazy f*ck.

You think?

Wanted a little more down time

to look at porn.

Wait, you get Internet?

Nah, I don't get internet.

Nobody does.

Then how are

they lookin' at porn?

Buddy, it was a joke.

[ Whispering in Serbian ]

[ Exhales sharply ]

EMILY: [ Speaking English ]

We good?

- Thank you.

- Yeah, and the road?

Oh, give the road another day.

I got a convoy of trucks

and equipment myself

piling up the other side

of that flood.

It's okay. We don't need

the Internet for the sequencing.

You prefer the company of wolves

to the convention in Copenhagen?

No?

- Thank you for the beds.

- Sure thing.

But, hey, if you get

sick tonight, don't blame us.

Teddy's cooking tagine.

- Oh, I love tagine.

- [ Door opens ]

Excuse me, Emily.

I just wanted to say thanks.

- For what?

- The chance to come out here.

EMILY: Did we have a choice?

I'm just an intern

in New World Conservation.

But I'm also a student

in Slovenia.

Watching you all work,

it's been very educational.

[ Scoffs ] What work?

Well, I love to cook,

and since I've got the downtime,

you think the chef...

Teddy.

He's your son, right?

Oh, not my son.

Oh, well, um...

Do you think he needs

a hand in the kitchen?

I'm sure he would love

a hand, Sofija.

Okay. Cool.

Thanks.

[ Rock music plays ]



[ Man shouting indistinctly ]



[ Speaking Serbian ]

[ Speaking English ]

Is it methane?

No, no. It smells organic.

Smells like bad a*s.

Give it another go?

[ Machine whirring loudly ]

[ Shouting ]

[ Creature shrieking ]

- Do you hear that?

- I do.

Can you believe this crap?

Our first rat hole

and our pants hit our ankles.

- Do you think it's jasperite?

- There's no jasperite here.

And it wouldn't

give off that smell.

Do I gotta do everything

around here?

Look at you bums

scratching a*s,

doing nothing.

- What is that?

- NIKOLA: Emily?

- We're here to protect...

- Wildlife.

I know you signed off on that.

Yeah, we did,

but now this gas.

No chemicals here, Nikola.

It smells organic, actually.

Whatever you found,

I want to know.

- Shut it down, please.

- Do you hear the drill?

We're on the same page, bud.

- TEDDY: Hey, Em.

- What?

TEDDY:

The garbage is piling up.

We need to dispose of it.

Like, it stinks

worse than whatever

you guys just poked.

Hey, Danko, get the backhoe.

Dig Teddy a garbage pit.

No, that's not what I mean.

Like, we need to dispose

of it properly.

There's recyclables

mixed in with organics.

Like, feel like a bunch

of rednecks.

Teddy.

It wouldn't be difficult

to set up a station.

I'll be happy to help.

Thank you, Sofija.

EMILY: I'm gonna explain

something

to you guys, all right?

That's going to be a waste pit.

Where we're standing

right here,

it's gonna be a big a*s derrick

goes "whoosh"

right up to the sky,

because this is gonna be

a fracking site.

I know it goes against

everything you guys believe in,

but here we are,

doing a job

we are legally permitted

and obligated to do.

So, when you're on my time,

on my job, Teddy,

you will go dig a garbage pit

and bury the f*cking trash.

I'm still happy to help.

All right.

Frackus interruptus.

Luka! Pull out!

[ Eerie music plays ]

TEDDY: [ Sighs ] You know,

Emily's not the bad guy.

- SOFIJA: Never said she was.

- TEDDY: Actually, back home,

she's like a big,

pot-smoking hippie.

Even lived off the grid

for a couple of years.

Oh, my God, she used to make me

pick potatoes and lug water

- from the spring, it sucked.

- [ Birds squawk ]

- SOFIJA: Sounds romantic.

- Oh, yeah. Yeah.

- I loved it. Yeah.

- So how'd you start with...

Fracking?

Well, she had a solar business,

but it went bankrupt,

and, uh, I don't know,

drilling buys the pizza,

I guess.

Now with the international biz,

it's, like,

really off the charts.

- I like pizza.

- [ Both chuckle ]

Me, too.

So, you're a full-time chef

back in the city?

No, no, I'm more of, like,

a full-time f*ck-off.

I needed the dough,

and my aunt hooked me up.

Tell you the truth,

what I really want to do is...

settle down, have some kids,

like, be a stay-at-home dad.

So, how is that

working out for you?

TEDDY: [ Chuckles ]

I'm working on it.

Hey, Danko.

Yo, you gonna dig this pit?

What's up?

Smoke break.

[ Eerie music plays ]



EMILY: Looks like we hit

the bunny mother lode.

I don't think

these are bunnies.



So, it was, uh, biology and

animal studies, double major?

Yeah.

And Nikola is my professor.

That's how I got my in

with New World.

He's their lead scientist.

I bet it'll be nicer working

with animals more than people.

Oh, I'm not going

to be a veterinarian.

Oh, no. What's the degree for?

Parasitology.

Oh, like, um [Clears throat]

bugs and worms and sh*t

that eat you from the inside?

We are eating bugs all the

time without even knowing it.

Did you know that parasites

make up more than half

of all-known species on Earth?

It's actually

pretty fascinating,

an oddly human field of study,

because it's all

about relationships,

ones that are

mutually beneficial

or ones that are in

a mutual struggle for survival.

I'm telling you,

it's better than fiction.

Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

Stop! Stop!

Man. What the f*ck?

Holy sh*t.

[ Rock music plays ]



- [ Teddy sniffs ]

- The earth

wasn't disturbed

when I dug up, boss.

It stinks like

the drill stinks.

Yeah. It does.

[ Groaning ]



[ Speaking French ]

- That language, it sounds...

- It sounds like French.

Great.

[ Crying, speaking French ]

What's he saying, Teddy?

"Help me."

I think he's saying "help me."

[ Shouting in French ]

God damn it.

We need some f*cking help here.

Em, what do you want

to do now, though?

EMILY:

What can we do, John?

Road's out. No signal.

We keep the guy

- warm and safe.

- Safe?

Why don't we keep

ourselves safe

and lock this guy

in one of these buildings?

John, he's not a prisoner.

We kind of don't know

what he is.

He survived all that time

in the dirt by himself.

He can spend a little time

in a room by himself.

All right.

What do you want me to do?

First thing in the morning,

get Danko and Filip

to drive down to where

the road's blown out.

You want me to tell them

to build a bridge?

No, John, but maybe someone

will be working

on the other side

and get a little authority

out here...

Serbian authority.

Don't need our company

getting involved

in some international

cultural clusterfuck.

All right.

- This is f*cked.

- It's so f*cked.

[ Electronic music plays ]

[ Sighs ]



Um...

[ Speaking French ]

[ Speaking French ]

[ Wind whistling ]

[ Eerie music plays ]



[ Breathing heavily ]

[ Speaking French ]

[ Speaking French ]

What's he saying?

[ Speaking French ]

[ Speaking French ]

It sounds like

he's saying, like,

"Please, you, me"?

NIKOLA:

What's that supposed to mean?

How the f*ck would I know?

I took English.

- Ask him to explain himself.

- TEDDY: Okay.

Um...

Uh, Monsieur...

[ Speaking French ]

[ Speaking French ]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

whoa, whoa.

Easy, easy, easy, easy, easy.

Easy. It's okay.

Okay. Take it easy. Okay.

[ Gasps ]

[ Speaking Serbian ]

What the hell was THAT?!?

[ Speaking English ]

Did you see that?

SOFIJA: See what?

Something came out

from his nose.

What? Like snot?

No, no, no, no, not like snot.

[ Speaking French ]

[ Speaking French ]

What'd he say?

Something about...

...inside of him.

- What?

- EMILY: How's it going?

[ Speaking French ]

[ Speaking French ]

[ Speaking French ]

- Teddy.

- "Please. You are me."

He's saying it different

this time.

[ Man speaking French ]

Yeah. There, formal.

Uh, like, maybe

because you're old.

[ Speaking French ]

"Please. You are me."

- It doesn't make any sense.

- Em, I don't speak French.

You came back from college

saying you spoke fluent French.

I might have exaggerated.

- You took it?

- One semester.

Yeah, at Dartmouth.

So, start using

that Ivy League education

I helped pay for and translate

some f*cking French.

[ Man speaking French ]

[ Speaking French ]

[ Speaking French ]

[ Speaking French ]

I need to speak

with you outside.

Sofija. You too.

[ Water dripping,

wind whistling ]

- [ Electricity buzzing ]

- I saw something.

Saw what?

Something was coming out

from his nose.

He's filled with dirt,

mucus is a natural way...

It wasn't mucus.

It wasn't mucus.

- What did it look like?

- I don't know.

It looked like...

[ Speaking Siberian ]

- [ Speaking English ] Like meat?

- Yes.

Like meat, but alive.

Could it be a tumor?

- Does a tumor move?

- SOFIJA: Maybe it's a worm.

That makes perfect sense.

- Maybe.

- Shall we grab some samples?

Blood and skin,

compare it to the samples

from the drill site, yeah?

- NIKOLA: Yes. Thank you, Sofija.

- Okay.

Wait. What does that

have to do with anything?

The fact they have the same

odor can't be a coincidence.

I'll get the kit.

- Hey, we're gonna need

- another hand, grab John.

- Sure.

This world...

This world is f*cking amazing.

Yeah.

This is so messed up.

Can we please let this guy

get some rest?

He's had plenty of time

to rest in that dirt.

Sooner we know what we're

dealing with here, the better.

Still as possible, please.

[ Eerie music plays ]

[ Groans ]



- JOHN: Whoa!

- EMILY: John! Get back!

- What? What happened?

- See it?

- Yep.

- See what?

Something protruding

from his ear.

- Wonderful.

- TEDDY: I didn't see anything.

Can we please get this guy

something to eat?

Yeah. Yeah. Uh, thank you.

TEDDY: Manger.

Eat. Manger, buddy. Eat.

Manger. Manger, buddy.

- You guys get what you need?

- Yes.

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Sofija, let's take a look.

[ Speaking English ] John.

John, why don't

you get something to eat, too?

I'll babysit.

- You sure, Em?

- EMILY: Yeah.

[ Water dripping,

wind whistling ]

[ Speaking French ]



You know, American cheese would

taste a lot better on that.

We just found this guy in

a f*cking ditch in the ground.

Frenchman deserves

some Gruyere.

[ Chuckles ] Yes, ma'am.

Why do we gotta keep this guy

in a gulag?

He's clearly not a threat.

JOHN:

Well, obviously he's French.

TEDDY: [ Scoffs ]

JOHN:

But, look, this guy's off.

Some kind of f*cking cooties,

you know?

I think he was asking us

to k*ll him.

Maybe we should.

If Em and the science guys

saw something coming

out of his nose.

Probably just some

kind of parasite.

Yeah, but I don't want some

kind of parasite crawling in

and out of my holes.

We're eating bugs all the time

without even really knowing it.

Says the guy

cooking the sandwich.

Give me that thing,

so I can relieve Em,

and maybe get through

to this guy.

- Oh, you speak French now?

- JOHN: No, but I speak,

"I'm going to kick your a*s

if you don't behave."

[ Door opens ]

Just give me

the f*cking sandwich. Punk!

I think he prefers

the company of women.

JOHN:

You want me to get Sofija?

No. He should be good

now that you're here.

[ Both chuckle ]

JOHN: Em, why don't you take 5,

and I'll feed the guy?

No, I don't think so.

JOHN: I'll behave.

I promise.

[ Eerie music plays ]



Grilled cheese sandwich.

Very American.

You're gonna love it.

[ Wind whistling ]



Not gonna happen, amigo.



My friend, if there's

any k*lling done today,

I'm gonna be the one doing it.



As much as I'd love to cut

all this international

diplomacy bullshit

and move the f*ck on, I can't.

So, could you please

just eat your sandwich?

[ Speaking French ]

I understand,

you want to k*ll yourself.

Oui. Oui.

JOHN: There's no we about it.

If you're gonna k*ll yourself,

you're gonna have to do it

all on your own.

- [ Door opens ]

- [ Man breathing heavily ]

[ Door closes ]

- Ah! You d*ck!

- [ Shouting ]

- [ Speaking French ]

- Be cool.

- [ Speaking French ]

- No parte.

Put the f*cking knife down!

Hey!

What the f*ck are you doing?

Be cool.

[ Man groans ]



JOHN: f*ck.

Ah, you m*therf*cker.

[ Choking ]



[ Choking continues ]



[ Whimpers ]



[ Gasps ]

[ Breathing heavily ]

[ Burps ]



This feels wrong, Em.

Keeping the crew safe

is my job, Ted.

- And John was right.

- [ Door opens ]

We ought to be careful

of this guy.

Hey.

- All good?

- TEDDY: Whoa.

Nice beef there, Johnny boy.

- You okay, big guy?

- I-I don't know, I don't know.

Did something happen?

Yeah. Something happened.

Was it my sandwich?

- EMILY: Jesus.

- TEDDY: f*cking Christ.

It's a mummy.

[ Stuttering ]

I-I just don't understand

how it could be this person

one moment,

and then, a dried-up

bag of bones the next.

You found him like this?

That's what I said, isn't it?

TEDDY: Hey!

- Isn't this yours?

- Yeah.

EMILY: Well, how'd your knife

enter the picture?

I don't know.

EMILY: Okay.

Well...

John, did you touch it?

No. I gave him the sandwich.

I stepped out to take a piss,

and when I came back,

this is what he looked like.

EMILY: Because it's weird,

John, that...

...that smell, it...

It's not coming from the corpse.

It's...

- coming from you.

- Emily.

EMILY:

Okay, here's the question.

[ Sighs ] Do we put it back

where we found it?

- Yes.

- TEDDY: No.

- Yes.

- No.

Do not forget...

Everyone at this camp

saw a living, breathing man

pulled from a ditch

in the ground today.

Look, everyone in this camp

saw a living, breathing man

pulled from a ditch today.

It was f*cking weird.

He disappears.

It's f*cking weird.

I think Teddy's right.

Look, we're going to wait

for the authorities.

In the meantime,

everybody just pay attention

to how you're feeling, okay?

TEDDY: Maybe hit the shower

too there, bud.



[ Wind whistling ]



Guys...

we have found something.

It's pretty incredible, actually.

What? What'd you find?

That smell.

Are you okay, man?

- f*ck you.

- NIKOLA: Oh.

- What'd you f*cking find?

- EMILY: John.

Call it a night.

I'll fill you in tomorrow.

Okay.

We need to see the subject.

It's very important

we keep him warm and safe.

Until we transfer him

for further tests, and...

EMILY:

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

And we will need to quarantine

that room, please, so we can

- check his vitals and...

- EMILY: Hold your horses, folks.

No, no holding horses.

This is our business now.

Open the door.

[ Electricity buzzing ]

Thank you.

[ Door opens ]

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Oh, my God!

But this isn't possible!

[ Rock music plays ]



[ Speaking English ] You, uh,

going a little far there, buddy?

Hey. You want some coffee?

I mean, it's

it's old, but I like old coffee.

You know, it's got

more oomph to it.

I also like your wife's t*ts.

- What?

- Hm?

[ Speaking Serbian ]

[ Exhales sharply ]

[ Speaking English ]

What's up with you, man?

What... What, you have a...

an ingrown hair or something?

No.

CHRISTIAN: Well, you keep

staring at that mirror

like something's

going to change.

That's your face,

and you're stuck with it.

- I love this lady.

- Mm-hmm.

I could...

hug her right now.

Listen, man, this... this

whole thing with the guy you...

the guy we dug up, it's, uh...

...it's f*cking with my head

as well, man. I...

I get it, okay?

[ Chuckles ]

I think he's...

I think he's old.

Guy's, like, my age.

I think he's...

from-another-century old.

Well...

I guess someone got some

bad acid up in Belgrade.

Jesus, John.

He was...

infected with something.

What do you mean, infected?

Like, contagious?

I don't know.

He had something in him.

[ Whispering ]

And now I think it's in me.

NIKOLA: We tested the subject's

blood sample.

TEDDY:

Can we please call him a man?

- Of course. The man.

- Whatever. Go on.

We looked at the cells

and the DNA.

And aside from

severe malnutrition,

it's clear he is or was indeed

your average human.

But the biopsy of his skin...

Sofi.

When I looked

at his skin's micrograph,

aside from his

own epidermal cells,

I found something entirely...

foreign.

Also eukaryotic,

but decisively not human.

- You carry what?

- TEDDY: Well, eukaryotic.

Like, plants, animals, right?

Keep going.

Fungi, protists.

- Their cells all have...

- A nucleus.

- Bungo.

- God, can you just...

Uh. Sorry.

The foreign entity, the protist.

We have identified it

as a kind of algae, uh,

from a group of dinoflagellates

called zooxanthellae.

They live inside the tissue

of other organisms

in a definite, symbiotic,

mutually beneficial,

scratch-each-other's-back

relationship,

most commonly

in the giant clam.

Yup, the protist nourishes

the clam in environments

that are less than ideal

for thriving.

And in turn,

the protist is sheltered

within the clam's shell.

And you think that's how

the man was kept alive

under the ground?

In a nutshell.

But this is beyond anything

mankind has ever witnessed.

Just groundbreaking.

But this isn't

exactly the ocean. Like...

Oh, but it once was. Underneath

the surface of the Earth...

the Earth you're invading...

there are billions of years

of silent geographical

and biological history,

you know?

So, you're saying there's

evidence of some giant clam

under our feet?

- Could be.

- SOFIJA: Or another mollusk.

- NIKOLA: Yeah.

- Their phylum is vast

as the ocean itself.

They're snails,

cephalopods,

like squids and octopus.

DNA-wise, there are similarities

across the board.

- Go on.

- NIKOLA: We looked

at the sample

taken from the drill head.

It's organic.

Living tissue.

Wait. What's...

What's in you?

I don't know.

It was coming out of...

his nose and out of his mouth.

CHRISTIAN: You saw what?

Something long.

[ Speaking Serbian ]

[ Speaking English ]

You think, uh...

You think

you still have some of that acid

for your buddy, Christian?

Like, a... Like, a tiny bit.

You know, I don't want

to trip ba*ls, like, well...

When I strangled him...

As one does with the French.

...whatever was in him...

went into me.

I saw that.

In a porno.

Can you smell me?

Well, I wasn't

gonna say anything,

but since you've mentioned it,

and we're in this huge

f*cking room together...

That's the...

That's what's in me.

I can taste it.

I don't know what to do.

Okay, so this French guy,

he had this...

What? An escargot coming out

of his nose and his mouth?

No. Like, tentacles.

Of course.

What about his a*s?

Did it, like, "wah!"

through the pants

or, like,

slid down the jeans?

Come on, John.

So, the slime from the drill

head is living tissue from what?

It's not a perfect match,

by any means,

but it appears to share DNA

with a cephalopod

called the Argonaut,

which is a really cool

and fascinating octopus.

NIKOLA:

And here's the thing.

The telltale sign.

Sofi tested the thin casing,

the shell, the man was found in.

And whereas most shells

are made of aragonite,

this shell was made of calcite

and a high proportion

of magnesium carbonate,

which is more like an egg case.

- Did you say...

- Egg case?

Mm-hmm. Like a brood chamber.

[ Eerie music plays ]



So, let me see

if I'm getting this.

You and French fry over there,

you got into a fight,

and a spaghetti

and meatballs monster

just starts

flying out of his face?

When I was choking him...

whatever was inside of him

knew I was gonna win.

And it jumped teams.

CHRISTIAN:

Tell you what, old man.

I'll arm wrestle you.

How about that?

And once this meat monster

sees my superiority,

it can jump up my a*s.

And you can stop

acting f*cking weird.

How about that?

Then, maybe you can get,

like, a...

...tomato bath or something.

Don't worry.

I'll go easy on you.

[ Grunts ]

So, this is pregnancy.

Can't believe my mom

guilt-tripped me over this sh*t

- for so many years.

- f*ck you, dude.

CHRISTIAN: Yeah, I'm gonna go

hit the sack, Jack.

You could go hit the showers.

[ Rock music plays ]



[ Grunts, groans ]



The female Argonaut creates

a thin encasing, a shell,

where she keeps her eggs safe

until the sperm

is stored there by a male.

The male has this little

extra tentacle,

like a p*nis, that breaks off

inside the egg case,

and then the female

hangs on to it until she's good

and ready to fertilize.

I mean, talk about autonomy.

So, this man was basically

inside an egg case?

- We think so.

- Then, where are the eggs?

And whose sperm?

[ John grunts, groans ]

Ah! [ Groans ]

[ Speaking Serbian ]

What? You want more?

Smelly c**t.

[ Coughs, gasps ]



[ Speaking English ]

Whoa. Hey, hey, hey, hey!

[ Breathing heavily ]

[ Groaning ]



Oh.

What the f*ck?

[ Sighs ] You really think

this guy was hosting

some kind of juvenile...

NIKOLA: Hosting would suggest

that the man

was simply a housing unit

for the eggs.

Which would typically lead

to a brutal end.

But finish what

you were saying.

So, if this man

wasn't hosting this...

whatever the f*ck it is,

then, that would mean...

- That's not possible.

- NIKOLA: [ Exhales sharply ]

It's a wild shot.

But nature

is the mother of invention.

Slow down a second.

You really think this is

some kind of man mollusk?

Until we can get our hands

on further evidence...

...we can only speculate.

But...

we all saw that thing

hiding in his nose.

- I never saw it.

- I saw it.

- Tell me it didn't look like...

- A tentacle.

- A really small one.

- Okay, but our guy's dead.

I mean, can't we just assume

it's a done deal?

Absolutely not. We are looking

at a highly-evolved species here

that was living in the Earth

inside a preserved man.

And his corpse

is no longer sheltering it.

EMILY: [ Sighs ]

[ Eerie music plays ]



[ Radio chatter ]

[ Radio tuning ]

[ Sighs, mumbles in Serbian ]

[ Speaking Serbian ]

[ Radio tuning ]

[ Speaking Serbian ]

How do people live out here?

People don't live out here, dipshit.

That's why we can f*ck

the place up.

No radio. No TV. No internet.

No nothing.

City boy.

D'you bring any weed?

[ Speaking English ] Huh?

[ Laughs ]

[ Speaking Serbian ] Plenty.

Spark a joint for breakfast!

Hey.

[ Birds chirping ]

[ Speaking English ] Hm.

[ Speaking Serbian ] What?

My grandma came here to pick

herbs and treat herself.

Seriously?

All this magnetic energy

in the ground.

Nikola Tesla sh*t.

Can you stop babysitting?

C'mon, give it.

Give it.

Hold up.

Didn't your grandma die

of cancer?

Oh, yes.

Let's get rolling.

Hey, brother...

I brought my g*n

so we could sh**t some cans.

Dear god.

[ Rock music plays ]



JOHN: [ Breathing heavily ]

[ Gasps ]



[ Speaking English ]

What are you guys doing here?

Well, didn't you tell us

to check out the road, right?

- Yeah, yeah, I did.

- Yeah.

Well, let me know

how it goes.

- Okay.

- Boss, boss, boss, uh,

you got, um...

Is that blood on you?

Are you okay?

Is that...?

BOTH: Christian?

Hey.

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Whoah. Careful!

Back the f*ck up!

[ Breathing heavily ]

[ Screams ]



[ Creature shrieking ]



[ Door opens ]



[ Creature shrieks ]

[ Birds squawk ]



[ Whimpers ]



[ Speaking English ] Can you

load the g*n and k*ll me?

Please!

Danko, you got blood

on your feet.

DANKO: Oh, yeah.

That's...

That's John's blood.

John?

W-Where is he?

He blew into tiny pieces.

I think there's... There...

There's Filip's blood. too.

What? Filip's blood?

And...

Christian is also dead.

But that one wasn't me.

I swear. It was John.

John k*lled him.

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Where is Filip?

And where's Christian?

The truck.

[ Eerie music plays ]



[ Speaking English ]

I just don't believe it,

John would never...

It was Danko.

He's f*cking crazy.

Yeah, because of the man

you dig up, Danko...

Danko gonna make us all sick.

This is blunt force, Luka,

and Filip was shot in the head.

And what about John, huh?

He just [Imitates expl*si*n]

Listen up.

I need you both

to go back to the base,

get two crates

from the storage room,

put Christian's body in one,

and Filip's in the other,

and keep them in the hangar,

do you understand?

What about John?

I'll f*cking take

care of John! Go!

[ Birds squawk ]



I don't understand.

DANKO:

John was hiding Christian.

Filip had a g*n.

He wanted to sh**t John.

I tried to stop him,

but I-I accidentally...

I-I shot Filip,

and I know you won't

f*cking believe me, but...

...a monster sh*t started

coming out of John's face.

I try to sh**t John.

But even before I pulled

the trigger, he... he just...

Meat everywhere.

But why were you trying

to k*ll yourself?

Because...

when John exploded,

I heard something

under the car.

It was like a...

Like a ball of jelly.

Or a squid.

And then, like an umbrella,

it just jumped on me,

arms and slimy sh*t

all over me and...

and in me.

It is now in me.

Can you smell me?

Can you smell me?

It is now in me.

Smell me, smell me!

[ Electric guitar notes play ]

SOFIJA: Did you see that?

I saw it.

It's...

- inside him now.

- No sh*t.

Did you see what happened?

Yeah. You kicked his a*s

with a f*cking monster in him.

- I didn't lift a finger.

- It's true.

Whatever's inside him has

very little interest in me.

Or you.

Emily.

Please k*ll me.

It's okay, bud.

We're gonna help you.

[ Scoffs ] No, you're not.

Yeah. We're gonna

get it out of you.

In me. Out of me.

I'm a dead man.

[ Eerie music plays ]



SOFIJA:

I'm sorry about your friend.

[ Birds chirping ]



TEDDY:

If two of us leave by foot,

we can make it to the main camp

in, like, 2 days.

EMILY: No, I don't

trust the floor hands.

They won't split up, and I

won't be separated from you.

TEDDY: Okay, fine. Well,

then we need to tell them

about Danko.

EMILY: I think the cat's out

of the bag, Teddy.

TEDDY: No, I mean

about what's in Danko.

Oh, hell no.

sh*t's about to snap as it is.

Okay, well, he's not some

f*cking medical experiment

that Nikola gets to play with.

Like, I feel for the guy.

And your little friend?

Em, all I'm saying is, let's

give him some humanity, okay?

EMILY: Teddy...

...the best thing

we can do for Danko and us

is to keep the crew

in the dark

and let the science heads

do their thing.

Who knows if the rest of us

aren't already...

Impregnated?

Infected.

I was gonna say "infected."

You take care of the bodies?

Yes, boss.

- EMILY: Thank you.

- No problem.

Uh, now we deal with Danko. Hm?

- Danko's not going anywhere.

- I know.

You see, we're going to...

How... How do you say, to give

him mental pill to feel better?

- Hm?

- EMILY: It's not gonna happen.

No, no, no, you see, he was

trying... [ Speaking Serbian ]

[ Speaking English ]

To k*ll himself.

k*ll.

He was trying to k*ll himself.

Yes?

And now we help him.

Give him mental pill.

He feels better. All happy, huh?

Not going to happen, Luka.

LUKA: No, no, no, Emily.

You see, what I'm trying

to say is...

that it's going to happen.

And French guy...

...he can eat pill, too.

French guy's already dead.

- Oh.

- John k*lled him.

Good. Now we do...

for Danko.

Okay, well,

who's going to do it?

You, Bosko?

Hey, Petar. How 'bout you?

And do we tell him first,

or do we just walk in and...

We...

[Speaking Serbian]

[Speaking English]

snake.

No, no. Sneak.

EMILY: Ah.

Sneak up on him. Great idea.

Let's sh**t him

in the back of the head.

And when the policija arrive?

We hide the body, bury it.

Please do not start digging

any more f*cking holes.

You gonna trust

each other with that secret?

You gonna trust me?

What you trying to say,

Emily?

You don't cover for

your own men, huh?

Yeah. Danko's our man, too.

Period.

Yes, yes, I see.

You're on yours, huh?

Luka, don't be a d*ck.

And I haven't soaked

a tampon in years.

Now I just use 'em

to plug my nose

when I got to deal

with turds like you.

LUKA: Emily.

You got 1 hour...

...1 hour to come up

with a better plan,

and then we go.

Okay?

[ Wind whistling ]

Bozo wouldn't know

a period from a comma.

[ Eerie music plays ]



You comfortable, Danko?

Sure.

Living the dream.

TEDDY: Is that a joke?

Em, look where we are.

No one is comfortable

right now.

It's a little tense

on the base, Teddy.

You're safer here for now.

I get it.

How big is it?

It's small.

It's like...

like an apple in my stomach.

But...

when I'm stressed,

it kind of gets bigger.

It's like...

like it's trying to fill out

all the spaces it can find.

Jesus Christ.

Have you seen a video

of an octopus

trying to squeeze

into a tiny, uh, hole?

Well, just like that.

But here I'm the tiny hole.

[ Breathing heavily ]

I'm so f*cked, boss.

Well...

tell me.

Do you think it can hear us?

I think...

it can feel you.

Why do you think that?

Because when I shot at John,

even before I pulled

the trigger,

this m*therf*cker just

busted out of him like a piata.

And...

when it was out...

that b*tch wasn't happy at all.

b*tch?

[ Speaking Serbian ] Nothing.

Only boring human tissue.

[ Sofija gasps ]

What?



Oh my god.

What?



Give me the book.



What have you found?



[ Speaking English ]

Listen, we know this thing

- responds to aggression, right?

- Okay.

But have you noticed it

only reacts to Nikola,

to you, to...

to everyone except...

- Sofija.

- And me.

- TEDDY: Right.

- Why?

Because Sofija's a woman.

- And?

- Sorry. You're both women.

Mazel tov.

And women tend

to be peaceful and nurturing.

I don't... I don't know.

Sofija, that makes sense.

She's very compassionate,

but I don't know, Em.

You're not the most maternal.

You can be kind of intimidating.

- f*ck off.

- See?

I'm a woman,

and Sofija is a woman.

Okay, but then why

doesn't it want women?

You guys literally have wombs.

Maybe we're

physically useless to it.

That doesn't mean

you can't k*ll it,

but that's usually when it

tends to jump ship.

Yeah, but if it jumps ship,

and I'm useless,

then, it's...

it's out in the open.

It's vulnerable.

Maybe it's big MO is...

...you.

Not women.

Men. This thing needs men

to survive, to feed off of.

I don't f*cking know, to...

to incubate.

TEDDY: Hm...

- Welcome to the club.

- [ Door opens ]

NIKOLA: Emily.

Am I f*cked? I'm f*cked, right?

I know I'm f*cked.

You, my good man,

are going to be legendary.

'Cause I'm so f*cked.

It's beyond any kind of

f*cked ever known before, huh?

- You're blessed.

- DANKO: Trust me, man, I'm not.

But you are. You're carrying

a living, growing organism.

No sh*t.

- Take it out of me!

- But it's a miracle.

Okay. I'm not liking

where this is going.

Sofija.

Hey, can somebody fill me

in here, huh?

Okay, we examined tissue

from the wounded organism

- that was hiding inside, uh...

- John?

Yes, John.

And the DNA doesn't lie.

Wait, you're...

You're not saying

what I think you're saying?

Oh, it's bad. It's bad. Huh?

I don't even want to know.

Just k*ll me, okay?

Please, k*ll me.

NIKOLA: No, no, no, no, no,

you will not harm yourself.

Nor the life of this creature.

- No.

- I don't want it!

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Understand?

[ Speaking English ] The mother,

wherever she may be,

chose that man you dug up

to fertilize her egg.

- Egg?

- NIKOLA: Yeah.

To... To what the egg?

Uh, fertilize.

[ Speaks Serbian ]

[ Speaking English ]

You know?

[ Speaking Serbian ] Fertilize?

- [ Speaking English ] Fertilize.

- And she succeeded.

So, mama monster

f*cked the French guy.

He fertilized her egg. Yes.

[ Chuckles ]

And the premature infant,

their baby...

...the one you saw,

grew within that man.

And now it needs shelter

within you to continue growing,

to survive.

Otherwise, it would have fled.

f*ck that thing.

What about me? Hm?

Your job is to keep it safe

and nourish it

until it's ready

to live outside the womb.

There is no way

under the f*cking sun

we can make him keep it.

[ Speaking Serbian ] Nikola.

There's got to be a way.

And watch it die?

DANKO:

[ Speaking English ] Look...

if all you care about

is this baby monster...

...I'm telling you, just k*ll

me, and it's all yours.

f*ck that.

Why would he have to die?

Because it's not gonna leave

me until you make it leave me.

No!

Nikola, it's an anomaly.

It's a parasite.

[ Exhales sharply ]

You disappoint me, Sofija.

You are an insult

to all we work to protect.

Go. Go join these pirates and

drill a nasty hole in the Earth.

- Go.

- TEDDY: Hey!

Shh.

You know what, Nikola?

This thing is sucking off

of this poor guy.

Just like this fracking site

is gonna suck off the Earth.

You know...

if anyone touches hair

on this man's head,

they'll have to go through me.

[ Water dripping ]

[ Eerie music plays ]



[ Exhales sharply ]

What a f*cking sh*t show.

[ Wind whistling ]

Here comes the peanut gallery.

LUKA: Emily.

- We make a deal?

- Let's hear it.

Me and Tim.

We are walking out of here.

- That's a good idea.

- LUKA: Okay?

We walk to woods.

There is about, uh,

30 kilometers

from here, village.

- EMILY: Okay.

- Okay.

- We're taking Danko.

- Smart.

We're gonna take him

to policija for you? Hm?

[ Speaking Serbian ] Isn't that right, guys?

Taking him to the police.

EMILY: [ Speaking English ]

Thank you.

- LUKA: Okay?

- Okay.

- LUKA: Okay.

- Hey. There's one thing, though.

Nikola, the professor...

Danko's his new lab rat.

Oh. Oh. Don't worry.

We take care of Nikola.

[ Speaking Serbian ]

[ Emily speaking Serbian ]

[ Speaking Serbian ]

You're welcome.

[ Speaking English ] Hey, Teddy.

Can you make us something for takeaway?

EMILY: He can.

Tagine.

That would be [Smooches]

if you have it.

What the f*ck, Emily?

Teddy, do you think

they were here to negotiate?

Let me see your g*n.

- TEDDY: What?

- Give me your g*n.

- You know I don't have a g*n.

- Exactly.

Sofija, what about you?

I like my violence up close.

EMILY: Yeah, well,

good luck with that.

These guys all have g*ns and

magazines to k*ll a small city.

Teddy, you saw

what happened to John.

Danko is a lost cause.

You all know it.

So, you're just going to send

these guys into the woods

to k*ll Danko

and not tell them

that he's a f*cking time b*mb?

EMILY: Yeah, because

if they k*ll him here,

then that thing just jumps

into another man,

and it's a whole new sh*t show.

What if it's your time

to get knocked up?

You ready for that?

At least they'll be

in the wilderness.

Do you think

that Nikola's right?

- This thing will die on its own?

- I do.

Let's hope to f*cking God

that they keep their distance

and it ends here.

It just feels wrong.

Hey.

You are my priority, okay?

You're the only family I got.

I'm not making them

jack sh*t, though.

EMILY:

It wasn't a request, Ted.

Do you need a hand

with that couscous?



EMILY: My hands are tied

on this, Danko.

Actually, mine are.

[ Chuckles ]

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Stay the f*ck away!

You want the virus, too?

Ain't no virus, Ivan.

EMILY: [ Speaking English ]

What can I do, Danko?

You're doing it, or he is.

I don't care, just...

Just do it fast, okay?

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Now you're infected!

[ Speaking English ] A virus

sounds so good right now.



Danko.

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Time to go.

Hey, scumbag! Get the f*ck off!

I'm wearing gloves. It's fine.

Don't be an idiot!

Don't worry about it.

Let's go, Danko.

- [ Speaking English ] Emily.

- EMILY: Yeah.

You're taking him

to the authorities, I got it.

But, Luka, when you do,

make sure you give him

some space.

- Okay, boss.

- EMILY: No.

I mean, like, a big-a*s space.





Do you think Nikola is right?



Are we...



...k*lling an innocent

creature? I mean...



It's not this thing's fault, right?

No, it's... it's not its fault.



And Nikola is right.

Life perpetuates itself.

It creates intricate wonders...

and brutal things.

And...

many need our protection, sure.

But I just can't accept that...

this one deserves

more protection than Danko.

Or John.

Or you.

Even if it one day grew

to look like me?



[ Speaking Serbian ]

Let me breathe. f*ck.

Whine or walk. Come on.

Okay, guys.

Just give me a little space.

If you keep bullshitting,

I'll k*ll you.

Good!

Just do it from over there.

Ain't gonna catch what you got

from here.

Your funeral.

Come on. Let's do this.

Do we sh**t him all at once?

So we all got equal skin

in the game?

Great idea, Petar!

Let's all get in a circle

and just talk it out.

f*ck off. You know what I mean.

Like a firing squad, yeah?

What are we waiting for?!

Danko. See that tree over there?

Go on.

Start walking over there.

Fine. But give me more space.

Maybe it won't see you.

Talking crazy, crazy man.

A virus can't see you.

This ain't a virus! It's...

It's a f*cking monster.

[ Laughter ]

Good one.

Let's get moving, monster.

Towards the tree.

I'm telling you.

I've got a g*dd*mn bun

in the oven and it ain't fun.

Very funny. Now walk.

Shut up!

This is bullshit.

Ivan. Don't be so angry, brother.

Angry makes you miss.

Danko.

It's time.

Go. Go!

Wait, bro.

[ g*nsh*t ]

[ Speaking English ]

Oh, please please, please,

please, please tell me...

tell me those g*ns

were not for him.

Where is he?

The team took Danko

to get proper care.



[ Speaking Serbian ]

You f*cking missed!

Missed my a*s.

He exploded like a tomato!



[ Groaning ]



[ Laughs ]

You scared the sh*t out of me.

I don't even know what the hell

we're looking for!

[ Chirping ]

[ Shrieks ]

[ Screaming ]



[ Speaking English ] No.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Don't you see?

Nature,

the world we know,

Earth is always finding ways

to renew itself.

To better itself...

...despite humans k*lling it.

And we are... We are ungrateful.

We are terrible.

We are selfish.

We are the monsters.

Believe it or not,

I voted for Bernie Sanders.

And this...

...this gift of nature,

this miracle of evolution...

...this is our future.

Our salvation.

Can't you see?

Two highly intelligent beings

merged into one.

And you?

You want to extinguish it

before it even reaches

its full potential.

I think we've seen

its full potential, Nikola.

It's not looking very good

for the father.

[ Chuckles ]

Did you know that...

a mother octopus...

stops feeding once

when she laid her eggs?

She'll stay

and watch over them,

even eating herself until

she slowly starves to death

by the time they hatch.

Such dedication.

Sacrifice.

What a mother.

I would be honored...

...if I were in that position.

Man.

How many eggs

does the octopus lay?

[ Chuckles ]

Thousands.

Thousands.



[ High-pitched tone ]

[ Speaking Serbian ] What the f*ck was that?

- That's a big f*cking virus!

- LUKA: Psst.



[ Breathing heavily ]



- [ Shrieking ]

- Aaaah!





[ Gasping ]



[ Whimpering ]



[ Speaking English ]

You got enough water?

Honestly, I'm sure

we'll get there tonight,

but, yeah,

I'm ready for a f*ck fest.

Don't worry.

Guys.

NIKOLA: Danko?

Danko... dead.

This is on you.

[ Speaking Serbian ] c**t.

[ Speaking English ]

Guys, time to get rolling.

Hey, man. Hey.

And the living being

inside him?



Are you hungry?

I have some nuts.

How are you feeling?

Are you warm enough?

Can you tell me?

Did you see it first?

Does it have features?

Don't worry, don't worry,

I won't tell.

I'll be quiet as a mouse.

Trust me.



LUKA: What was your name?

NIKOLA: I'm Nikola,

Dr. Nikola Klesic.

I can help you.

These others will hurt you.

I'll protect you.

[ Speaking Serbian ]

f*ck you! Give it a rest, huh?

[ Speaking English ]

Emily, he tried to say to us

to keep distance.

Danko tried so hard, but

no, no, we didn't listen.

So, now the others

are all dead.

And now I'm a monster.

Let me help you,

I know people.

Yes.

And now... now I know you.

I cannot go home.

I got five kids.

I'm like a b*mb.

Doctor cuts me.

Boom!

NIKOLA: No, no, no, my friend,

no one will cut you.

You just have to wait a little.

Let it grow.

And when it's ready,

it will surely leave the womb.

- All babies do.

- Oh.

Oh, yeah.

Nikola, are you stupid now?

Huh?

[ Speaking Serbian ]

Stupid. He's stupid.

[ Speaking English ] Please.

I saw this monster.

And I know what

he can do to me or to you.

And I know that violence...

violence is something

that this guy really don't like.

Violence cannot

k*ll this monster.

I heard that water

is nice way to die.

NIKOLA: No!

- LUKA: Yes.

- No, no, no.

LUKA: Emily.

Tell my wife...

[ Sighs ]

Tell her I'm drowned...

...because I was never

a good swimmer.

- No.

- Yes, she'll believe that.

Mm?



Mm?



[ Sighs ]

NIKOLA: Please, no.



No.





SOFIJA: [ Whispering ] Nikola.

Nikola.

[ Speaking Serbian ] Let's go!

[ Speaking English ] Let's go.



Sofija, please, help me.

Sofija. Sofija, help me!

k*ll it!

Sofija, k*ll it!

Sofija, help me!

Help me, Sofija!

k*ll it! k*ll it!

k*ll it!

[ Gasps ]

Get it gone.

Get it out of me.

f*cking run!

[ In Serbian ] 10 PEOPLE DIE IN

MYSTERIOUS OIL RIG INCIDEN