Yeti, The (2026)

[bunniefuu]

[wind whistling]

[guttural growling]

[clicks]

[wind whistling]

-[gulls squawking]

-[ship horn honking]

[foreboding music]

[ominous music]

[wind rushing]

[door opens, closes]

[mysterious music]

[loud growling]

[man laughing]

Now, won't you listen

Honey

While I say

How could you tell me

That you're going away?

Don't say that we must part

Your deal.

Don't break

Your baby's heart

You know I've loved you

For these many years

Oh, I see.

[music continues]

-Let's see what you got.

-[man 2 chuckles]

[indistinct conversation]

[man 1] Let's go.

Me?

-[chuckles]

-Before I change my mind.

Hey. Who gets your chips?

Whoever's gonna

re-patch the hole.

[men murmur]

That'll be me.

Great. [grunts]

Say, this is nice.

Mm, best you don't

get used to it.

You better turn that down.

You'll wake Sunday.

Not until we finish our dance.

-Mm-hm.

-[man 1] You remember last time?

"Murderation.

You turn that racket down,

or I will buy

your family home and raze it."

[mockingly] "My name ain't..."

[all] "Merriell Sunday."

[loud growling]

[recorded music continues]

[ominous music]

[man 1] Feed it today?

[man 2]

Threw its food in the box.

You think I stuck around

to check?

[grunts]

That's it for me, fellas.

[music continues]

You'll feel sad...

[snoring]

[wind whistling]

[faint thumping]

[ominous music]

[hammering]

Sorry.

It's just me.

Did I wake you?

No. [exhales]

Thanks.

[hammer tapping]

[shuddering]

[roof creaking]

-[crashing]

-[man 2 yells]

[low growling]

[screams]

[dramatic music]

[screaming continues]

[reporter 1] This just in:

Merriell Sunday Jr.,

son of missing oil tycoon

Merriell Sunday Sr.,

holds an emergency

press conference.

Uh...

Howdy. Uh...

Two weeks ago,

Father and his herd

missed their exit deadline.

Then, um, across the wire,

a distress signal.

We're officially

declaring them missing.

But we ain't... we ain't

just gonna let the face

and founder of Sunday Oil

disappear like that.

Don't worry.

I have handpicked

some of the toughest,

smartest sons of b*tches

God ever strung a gut through.

[reporter 1]

Junior wasn't kidding.

Leander Coates,

the team's watchdog.

He fought the Great w*r

against the Kaiser in '17

and then went back

for more in '44.

Dr. Margaret Lamb.

She's a real whiz

with animals.

And her twin sis,

one of the missing,

will sure be glad

she came along.

Booker Marchmont,

radio communications man.

He flew on the Enola g*y

in '45,

dropping the b*mb

on the Japanese.

Impressed yet?

Certified demolition expert

"Dynamite" Daniel Hewitt.

It's hard out there,

and sometimes

the only way through

is with a fistful of powder.

[bell rings]

The men who made the first maps.

These were titans

who sailed the seven seas

and explored the globe,

cutting their way

through jungles with machetes,

burning through cobweb-filled

caves with torches

with almost certainly

insufferable egos.

Cartography and exploration

are not synonymous.

You've never heard

of most mapmakers.

They do their exploring

at night, in the dark

with a candle.

Their torch, a pen.

Their ship, a book.

Florence Kelley

created a new method

for visualizing data

when... when she mapped out

the Chicago slums, and...

she did it without trekking

to some far-off distant land.

My point is this...

You don't have to leave home

to be a pioneer.

-[student coughs]

-[chair rattles]

Yes?

Is it true that your dad

got trapped in a pyramid?

[bell rings]

[student] Ma'am.

Would you sign this?

[sighs]

[student]

Your father is my hero.

[woman] Miss Bannister

has a meeting now.

Thank you.

Thanks. I, uh...

I'm your next meeting.

Sorry for the ambush.

My name's Belle Parker.

I represent for

Mr. Merriell Sunday Jr.

[Parker]

Do you know why I'm here?

I could take a guess.

It's about your father.

[Ellie laughs] Theme of the day.

I'm afraid it's serious,

Miss Bannister.

I'm sure it is. [sighs]

Did he step on a trapdoor

and fall into a snake pit?

Are you aware of his expedition

to the Alaskan territory?

Being roasted on a spit

by a group of local natives?

He and the Sunday team

are missing.

Hollis has been missing

since I was 15.

He's not missing.

He's... right

where he intends to be.

The boat left,

and they missed it.

And the last word the boat got

was an SOS.

What am I supposed

to do about it?

Mr. Merriell Sunday Jr. is

putting together a rescue team.

Save his daddy and yours, too.

And he wants you

to lead his search.

You're good at something,

but you never got

to do anything with it.

Don't you think it's time?

[pensive music]

If something happened up there,

and Hollis really is in trouble,

how do you think

you're all gonna fare?

Better with you.

Hey, wait.

It's the last thing

Hollis gave me.

You're gonna need it.

[melancholy music]

-[door closes]

-[footsteps fade]

[melancholy music continues]

[soft piano music]

[slams drawer]

[determined music]

[Sunday Jr.]

I went ahead and hired

the best navigator

left in the South.

She's gonna make things

easier for us.

[reporter 2] Wait, "she"?

Did you just say "she"?

[reporter 3] Who is it?

[dramatic music]

[Sunday Jr.]

Let me present our navigator,

-Miss Ellie Bannister.

-[clamoring]

[Sunday Jr.] No more questions,

or I'll have Coates exit you

through the door by your head.

We are done here.

Let's take a flashlight, though.

[shutter snaps]

[wind whistling]

[trees creaking]

Erebus. This is Ellie.

I need a ping on our location.

Do you copy?

[garbled radio static]

[Erebus] ...an anchor...

Can you read me? Over.

Erebus. Come in.

Storm's going over the boat.

Say... say again.

When will you return?

Sorry, Miss Bannister.

This cloudburst

has got us jammed

the last few days.

[Dan] Damn ground's harder

than Uncle Tommy.

[tapping]

[exhales]

Consarn it.

[Lamb] You're gonna need

more than a shovel.

That top layer is permafrost.

Rock solid until mid-summer.

It's like trying to punch

through an anvil.

-[Sunday Jr.] Hey. Hey.

-Try to--

[Sunday Jr.] You figure out

where we're heading?

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Get up.

Get up, get up, y'all.

Gather around. Come on.

Go on. Tell us.

We made contact with the Erebus.

But the storm...

The signal wasn't--

-I ain't hearing a solution.

-I don't know.

With the storm, I can't...

[Ellie sighs]

We have to just stay put

until the storm passes through.

Then we can keep moving.

[Dan] Oh, heck.

Stay put? In... in what?

A can of soup?

We've been chasing our tails

following after girly here

for three days!

[Parker] It's the storm.

-Nobody knows where we are.

-We're fixing to die out here

-if we stay any longer.

-That's enough.

[Dan] Sir. I'm awful sorry,

but, uh...

More than likely,

your pop is dead.

And even if we knew

where they were,

we can't find them

with "Slow Walk" here

-leading the way.

-[Coates] I'll shut him up.

Try it, old boy.

The boat couldn't stay anchored

in the chop.

They had no choice

but to leave us.

Anything the ice gets,

the ice keeps.

Maybe we catch it

before they get real far out.

I... I swim creeks

faster than that boat.

Ice? It ain't even fast.

It's just floating there.

-I think if we can just--

-[Sunday Jr.] No more thinking.

Anymore!

[Dan] sh*t. This here's all bad.

Just one great g*dd*mn

big rhubarb b*stard.

We can't even blow it up.

Why can't we?

A bivouac. Hollis used to do--

Only God Almighty's got a higher

command than me out here,

and He's quieter than Ellie.

Can't pick the ground.

Right?

So I say we blow it open!

Wide open.

All the way down to hell.

Yeah.

Ma'am.

[tense music builds]

[tense music continues]

All right.

Mama said ladies come first.

[tense music rises]

Debris!

[expl*si*n]

[static crackling]

They say you're supposed

to get a clean k*ll shot

on an animal, but...

tsk...

I always find

you just hit 'em anywhere.

And you get 'em limping.

And they can't run so good,

and then...

Just... bam.

[Parker] When I was little,

my dad used to take me

to the VFW.

Some of the guys had faces.

Masks.

[Coates]

Your father was in the w*r?

[Parker] Mm-hm.

Paderborn.

I had a daughter that was

a field nurse in the w*r.

She said if I had to be there,

she ought to be there, too.

Would have been about your age.

[Lamb] Such a loss.

And the fossils destroyed.

More bombs,

more bones destroyed.

[sighs]

[Lamb] Animals and rocks

we'll never have a chance

to learn about.

Hey.

Didn't mean to...

dig my heel

into your toe so hard.

The storm didn't make me

lose the way.

Look at this.

It's going every direction.

-Huh.

-[Ellie] Been causing me trouble

ever since we got here.

[inhales]

I can't wrap my head around it.

Hey, look.

You can't always get it right.

Hey.

Boots get sh*t on 'em

sometimes.

[Dan] What's an animal expert

doing out here

on a rescue mission, Lamb Chop?

I mean, sh**t,

they already got Dynamite Dan.

I blowed up

just about everything

could be blowed up.

My sister is the chef

for the expedition team.

I'll keep an eye out for her.

Why'd you bring me here?

How you mean?

[Ellie] I'm not the person

you've been selling

to the papers.

Fifteen years since I've been

near a damn mountain.

It's like something

out of one of them

grand American novels.

But better.

You and me.

Parents and children.

Why was Hollis here?

I can damn sure tell you

he doesn't care about oil.

I mean,

Father probably promised him

a building full of money, too.

[scoffs]

He'd care less about that.

[Sunday Jr.]

Father would eat the dirt.

Said he could taste

the minerals

if oil was in the ground.

[pensive music]

[spits]

I don't taste nothing.

Yeah.

[Lamb] We're adjacent

to the magnetic north.

Chaotic spinning could be

from the magnetites.

Magnetic poles can be blamed

for all sorts of things.

Monsters, myths,

signs from the gods.

[Parker] Monsters?

sh**t! Now I know monsters.

Jersey Devil, Old Ned,

Devil's Triangle--

[Ellie] We need monsters.

Keep us from going places

we don't belong.

[distant thumping]

You hear that?

[Coates] That's enough.

[distant thumping]

No, seriously. Like, listen.

[distant thumping]

You see?

[Coates] Grizzly, maybe.

A big one.

[Lamb] There are no grizzlies

this isolated.

Polar bear, potentially.

Next man who brings up monsters

will sleep outside.

That's enough.

[Sunday Jr.] Good night.

[thumping echoes]

[Dan] Bobcat and mountain lions.

Muskrats.

One time, I put a quarter stick

in a vole burrow.

Sunday.

Baby vole burrow.

Guts everywhere. My eyelids.

Jeepers, I done

a lot in this life.

I blowed up...

about everything

could be blowed up.

[whispering] I wonder

if animals believe in God.

[sighs]

[breathes heavily]

Sheesh, I gotta piss.

Hey.

Take this so you can

find your way back.

It's a system we used

in the mountains.

Baby, can't nobody put

a collar on Dynamite Dan.

[Dan] Baby vole burrow guts

up in my eyelids.

Gotta find that baby vole.

Baby vole.

Forgive me.

[sighs]

It's Inuit with a French accent.

Inuktitut.

Near Nunavut, that's the--

Northwest Territories.

Oh, yeah. You've been

around the map, huh?

-Yeah, around... around the map.

-[chuckles].

I don't get out much.

[Dan] Farmer in the Dell...

Farmer in the...

Oh.

[Ellie] I... I was supposed

to be a famous explorer

like my folks.

There was a polio outbreak

when I was 15.

[deep inhales] I was bedridden.

Barely survived.

Left with this.

What...

What happened to your mom?

[tense music]

[garbled radio static]

Your friends.

Try and get some rest.

[sighs]

[ominous music]

Dan?

[distant thumping]

[low creaking]

Who's that?

Who is that?

[thumping grows louder]

[branches rustling]

[heavy snorting]

Oh, shitfire.

[creature snarling]

Dan!

[foreboding music]

[branches rustling]

[distant creaking]

[rustling]

[rope straining]

[Ellie grunts]

sh*t!

[trees creaking]

What am I doing?

[thumping]

[creaking]

[rustling]

[lighter flicking]

[soft whistling]

[footsteps approaching]

[whistling]

[whistling]

Jesus Christ.

What are you doing?

[ominous tone]

Slow Walk.

I just seen

what's-her-name's sister.

She sure is pretty.

Oh, my God.

[eerie music]

[Dan] Danny went to hell

Danny went to hell

Hi-h*, the derry-o

Danny went to hell

[creature growling]

[Dan whistling]

[guttural breaths]

[thumping]

[low snarling]

[snarling]

[loud growling]

[roaring]

[guttural breathing]

[Coates] Ellie!

[Booker] Ellie?

[Coates] Ellie, where are you?

-[gasps]

-[Coates] Ellie!

[panting]

[quietly] I'm here.

I'm here.

[Parker] Ellie!

Ellie, are you...

[Sunday Jr.] Wait, wait, wait.

Hey! Where's Dan?

[Coates] Half-eaten in a pile

about a kilometer from here.

He was attacked.

Why didn't you wake me up?

You could have got

yourself k*lled.

I'm not out here to babysit

a bunch of blowhard cowboys.

Dan's dead?

Attacked by what?

Something big enough

to halve a man.

Ellie, did you see the animal?

I'm gonna find the body.

[Sunday Jr.] Wait, wait, wait,

wait, wait, wait.

We ain't going off the plan

right now 'cause Dan ran off.

He could have been

going after the boat.

Maybe he just wandered

drunk into a hole. Come on.

-Mr. Sunday, if there's--

-The Sundays are not

funding a rescue mission

for Dan. That's it.

[Booker] Dan can't be rescued.

The Sundays are gonna

save money on his pay.

But don't you ever insult

the dead in front of us.

I may not have served

in the w*r, all right?

But out here, what I say goes.

[Coates]

It's not the front lines.

We'll retrieve his body,

whatever's left of it.

But we don't leave

the fallen behind.

Are you out of your mind?

That... that souse is not

more important than my father.

We need to keep moving. Come on!

Find that outpost.

Our fathers.

[Sunday Jr.] Okay.

Okay.

Our fathers.

After we find our fathers,

we'll pick up Dan's body

on the way back.

We'll give him

a proper burial back home.

That's the word.

[Lamb] Let me look at you.

We can't stay here.

[Sunday Jr.]

Stay together, y'all!

[Parker] Do bears hunt people?

[Coates]

Most likely scared of people.

Or just curious.

[Lamb]

Bears are diurnal.

Hunting at night

must have meant it was starving

or trying to feed cubs.

If it was a bear.

If?

[eerie music]

What did you find with Dan?

Butterflied from the back

of his head to his rear,

and his organs

flowing out behind him

like they were looking

for some kind of handout.

[sighs] I should have examined

the body.

Daniel Hewitt's body, Doctor.

Just because we work for him

doesn't mean we have

to act like him.

We honor the fallen.

Daniel Hewitt's body.

I hope you don't have any more

opportunities for examinations.

[Sunday Jr.] Keep it moving.

We should be right there.

The outpost... a couple

of kilometers ahead.

What do you mean, "should be"?

Uh-uh, no.

My... my gut's telling me

we need to go that way,

where there's less trees.

That's where they'd put

an outpost.

With all due respect,

you go off more than just gut.

[Coates] Hey.

Where's the kid?

[dramatic music sting]

[Sunday Jr.] Parker.

Oh, sh*t.

Parker!

God damn it!

She couldn't be too far.

Fan out. We'll sweep the woods.

We go spreading out,

we're more likely

to lose somebody else.

You keep going.

I'll track you once I find her.

Nobody should move alone

after Dan.

I spent many nights alone

sweeping for mines.

I'm faster that way, trust me.

Besides, it's what my daughter

would expect me to do.

[Lamb] Coates won't be alone.

I'm going with him.

[Coates] The hell you will.

She might be injured.

I'm not afraid of the dark.

Try to keep up.

[Sunday Jr.] Go, go!

Quick, quick!

This way. I'm telling you.

Right up in here.

[Sunday Jr.]

We're close.

[Lamb] Parker!

[Coates] Kid, where are you?

Parker!

[foreboding music]

[distant yell]

Kid! Kid, keep making noise!

[Parker screaming]

Oh, hell.

Where in the hell?

We're going the wrong way.

How would you know?

You ain't got a working compass.

[sighs] The moon is there.

Which means northwest

is that direction.

[Sunday Jr.]

The moon?

The moon? Are you

out of your damn--

Say "Yes, ma'am."

[tense music]

[Sunday Jr.] Lead the way.

[muffled screaming]

[distant snarling]

[guttural breaths]

[distant snarling]

[distant screaming]

[Parker] Help!

Help!

[Parker screaming]

[thumping]

[heavy thumping]

[thumping echoes]

[Parker screaming]

[woods creaking]

[gasps]

[Coates] Christ!

[Lamb] I have to see it.

Are you out of your--

[Parker screaming]

[Parker] Help!

Over here!

[groaning]

[creature growling]

[low, guttural growling]

[Parker whimpering]

[screams]

[screaming]

[screaming]

[ripping, tearing]

[intense ominous music]

[heavy footsteps recede]

[creature growls]

[gasps]

[Parker whimpering]

[sobbing]

[exhales]

[groaning]

[ragged breathing]

Easy.

Easy.

[shuddering]

I'm here now.

-I'm here now.

-[groans]

[ragged breathing]

[shuddering]

Daddy...

[sorrowful music]

[sobbing]

[Parker thumping, gasping]

[Ellie]

Should be straight ahead.

Keep pushing.

[Sunday Jr.] That's it.

We found it! We found it!

[door opens]

[tense music]

[Sunday Jr.] Father?

Are you in here?

[gasps] Sunday Oil.

This... this is it.

Father was here.

Damn.

Where did he go to?

Where's he gone?

[gasping]

Dr. Lamb?

[rumbling]

[Ellie] Dr. Lamb!

Booker, get a fire started.

Where's Parker and Coates?

[Lamb] Coates left.

[indistinct mumbling]

Coates is still out hunting.

Raced... back.

[ominous music]

[door bangs]

[wind howling]

Coates.

[Ellie] Are you hurt?

Coates?

What happened

to Parker, Coates?

[Coates] It k*lled her.

Did you see it?

[Coates] I saw the shape of it.

It walked like a man on two legs

and has matted fur and fangs,

and the hands were

four times the size of mine,

and it just, it... it...

tore her apart.

It threw her like a doll.

[Sunday Jr.]

And you didn't do nothing?

You were there to protect her.

You took the job,

and the job is for finishing.

And you just...

[dishes clattering]

What kind of man

doesn't do his job?

Especially protecting

somebody like Parker?

Huh?

What?

What, you wanna be

tough now? Huh?

When it don't matter? Huh?

Easy.

He's civilian. Stand down.

You k*lled her

bringing her out here.

I am gonna hunt it

before it hunts us.

And I am gonna

k*ll it for Parker.

No.

No, you are not.

You're gonna stay

right here and protect us!

Coates.

[Sunday Jr.] What?

This is mutiny, y'all!

Mut... One of y'all

say something, please!

Coates.

You are going to stay here,

or so help me God--

[Lamb] Gigantopithecus.

[dramatic music stings]

Ape.

Great ape.

Prehistoric animal

that went extinct.

Or so we thought.

That was in Parker's leg.

[Lamb] Twenty thousand years

of primal evolution

migrating across

the Bering land bridge

during the Pleistocene era.

A 20,000-year-old monster?

A 20,000-year-old

Gigantopithecus? No.

But its ancestor

might be stalking us.

It might be

the most significant find

of the millennium.

Do you think there are more?

[Lamb] I don't know.

Coates.

We need to stick together.

If it is...

this ape,

it's gonna take

all of us to k*ll it.

[Sunday Jr.] k*ll it?

Are you out of your mind?

[scoffs]

We can't k*ll it.

We gotta... we gotta

call in reinforcements, y'all.

The National Guard.

Texas Rangers, somebody! Booker!

Get... get the boat on the horn!

Right now, come on!

That's an order.

[creature snarling]

Too late for orders now, son.

Everybody away from the window.

[rustling]

[creature snorting]

[tense music]

[creaking]

[roof creaking]

[thumps]

[radio static crackles]

Erebus! Erebus!

[Sunday Jr.] Erebus!

Can you hear me? Erebus!

-[glass shatters]

-[Coates groaning]

[Coates groaning]

[squelching]

[glass shatters]

[gasps] No.

[Ellie gasping]

No, no! Stay with me!

No!

No.

[Coates screams]

[Ellie screams]

[gasps]

[distant growling]

[Ellie stammering]

-[Ellie] I have to--

-No, Ellie.

He's gone.

Come on.

Oh, God.

[tense music]

That thing will be back.

Come on.

[hammer tapping]

[foreboding music]

[hammer tapping]

It seems the expedition team

was asleep in their bunks.

Never made it out of bed.

[Lamb] My sister is...

but if your fathers were here,

you might be able

to find some traces.

Now won't you listen, honey

While I say

How would you tell me

That you're going away?

Don't say that

We must part

Don't break

Your baby's heart

You know I've loved you

All these many--

-[gramophone clicks]

-[music stops]

My antenna is broken.

We're gonna have

to find something else

to bounce the signal off of.

Ellie?

One for the storybooks.

-What's that?

-[scoffs]

Sunday Jr. brought me here

for the story.

He never even considered me

outside of the pulp magazines.

He knew I wasn't fit.

All the dead.

Dan, Parker, Coates, they...

they'd still be alive

if he chose someone

with the right stuff.

[Booker sighs]

[scoffs]

Worst of all is

that I believed him.

I should have said no,

but I... I...

I wanted

to make things right.

Ellie, if you weren't here,

we'd be out lost in the Arctic,

following the whims

of Little Sunday.

The last time I was lost,

it k*lled my mother.

We were ascending the south wall

of Mount McKinley

when the storm hit.

My leg seized, so my father

carried me on his back, and...

we lost my mom in the fog.

He went back for her,

but he couldn't find her.

Couldn't look me

in the eye after that.

I can...

hardly look myself in the eye.

Maps became my way

to see the world.

I should have kept it at that.

[Booker] Miss Bannister,

when we dropped the b*mb,

we were excited.

It's gonna end the w*r.

We didn't know

how powerful it would be.

They didn't tell us.

It's so bright,

you close your eyes

and you can see

the bones in your fingers.

I can still see 'em.

Dust in the streets.

Why do you keep that?

As a reminder,

anytime I get

too complacent or proud.

That's me in the middle.

What happened on that mountain

wasn't your fault.

It's the mountain's fault.

You never get

comfortable with it.

I agree with Junior

about one thing.

Your story will be one

for the history books.

Whenever you find the courage

to write it.

Parker said they got an SOS

from the outpost.

They built a radio tower.

We find it

and we contact the ship.

Yes, ma'am.

Pop that into your shoulder.

Aim it at his chest.

Pull the trigger.

Reload. Pull the trigger.

Reload. Pull the trigger.

This is going around you.

Oh, if you see the thing, run!

Don't try and fight it.

Only fight as the last resort.

[Ellie] Is that a challenge

for Slow Walk?

I don't think

you're as slow as people say.

I'm entrusting you

with my radio.

Please don't lose her.

I got her in boot camp,

and she's all I've got left.

Does she have a name?

You bet.

You hear the signal,

shine the flashlight up.

We'll be fine.

It's all fine.

Okay.

Hey.

Are you gonna tell me her name?

[Booker] I don't kiss and tell.

[wind howling]

[electricity buzzing]

[radio static buzzing]

Hey, Booker!

Booker, we got a signal!

[radio music plays]

[distant thumping]

[thumps]

[music on radio]

No one can come between us

-[Booker] Hey!

- I'm his Sheba

Ellie, it's coming! Ellie, run!

-[yells] Run!

-Everybody loves my baby

But my baby don't love...

Ellie, run! Ellie!

-Nobody...

-[Booker yells] Run!

It's coming! It's here!

Ellie!

-[music on radio continues]

-Ellie! Ellie, run!

Run! Ellie!

It's coming! Ellie!

Ellie! Run!

[snaps]

Booker!

Booker!

Booker!

[creature growling]

[rustling]

[grunting]

[yelps]

[gasps]

[groans]

[creature breathing heavily]

[guttural growling]

[mournful music]

[creature breathing heavily]

[slow footsteps]

[menacing music]

[coughs]

[screaming]

[somber music]

[door creaks]

Dad? Hollis?

Dad. Dad, is that you?

[Merriell] Where is it?

[panting]

Where...

is it?

[yelling] Where is it?

[panting]

[Ellie] You must be Sunday.

Your son's been looking for you.

[clangs]

Morphine tartrate.

[tense music]

He's out in the damn cold.

Wrists chained, left there

to die like a...

like a trophy animal

in that cage.

Ellie, I need

to get Father home.

First thing in the morning

I'm taking him to the boat.

With or without you.

Please don't make it be

without you.

Their expedition.

It's got something to do with

the cage your daddy was in.

And... and the creature

that's been k*lling us.

I knew Hollis

wouldn't come here for oil.

Now, Ellie, there's...

there's a very, very sick--

Look at these.

[Ellie] You don't bring a cage

all this way out here

unless you're planning

to trap something.

What did Hollis have

to do with all of this?

[thumps]

I'm not leaving here without it.

The girl is correct.

Hollis lives.

It was he that chained me

to that frozen bastille.

Get in here.

Both of you.

Junior.

[sighs]

There's no oil.

Never was.

Hollis never gave a damn

about any of that.

Plans to dig a well

were for the shareholders.

I came to hunt.

-[dramatic music stings]

-Hunt what?

A living fossil.

A monster that's...

been around since

'fore the birth of Christ.

[Merriell] Oh, years ago,

I did plan to dig a few wells,

sent a ground team to survey.

Last wire told word

of something...

biblical.

Twenty feet tall.

Five thousand pounds.

Eat a man whole.

[chuckles] I stopped caring

about the crew and oil.

I wanted to know

about this beast.

And I went to Hollis.

There's anyone who'd know

about such things,

it was him.

He told me a story.

Alexander the Great

and how he hunted an ape

that k*lled hordes of troops.

Your daddy told me

that ape, that beast,

could be one and the same.

So...

you made him join up?

[Merriell] Made him?

[scoffs] I begged him.

He's the only living man

worthy of my expedition.

He is better than them

who created all the first maps.

[Merriell]

When we got down here,

that ape k*lled

all of our hunters.

It was left up to

Hollis and me to capture it.

To drag it back here.

Instead...

we find something different.

Cries from deep in that shaft.

A babe.

Birth of the beast.

Hollis saw the...

beauty.

The humanity.

The humanity

only a father could see.

Except he stole that babe

'fore I could use it.

Left me in that cage

to catch a freeze.

Got all the...

rest of the team k*lled

when the mama come back.

Offspring.

That means there's a mate.

That's right.

I never seen

hide nor hair of it.

Why go through so much

for this animal?

[Merriell] I have my reasons.

Your daddy had his.

We can't fight it.

We just can't.

We won't.

[thumps]

That's good.

No time for reverie, boy.

You know, my whole life...

you told me

I needed to have sand...

any sort of spine or backbone.

And now this.

I'm saying it ain't right.

I'm putting it down.

My foot.

We need to go home.

I will bury you

with your grandfather.

[dramatic music stings]

-[ominous music]

-[sighs]

[Sunday Jr. grunts]

[grunts]

[Merriell] Go on.

More than the other one.

Keep pouring.

-Knock the beast out clean.

[Sunday Jr. groans]

That's good.

[tense music]

Go ahead. Pull!

[grunts]

That's it. Harder!

Put some back into it.

[Sunday Jr. grunts]

[heaving]

[dramatic music]

[music rises, fades out]

[Merriell]

Hey, come here. Give me that.

You never met

your granddaddy.

Made sure of that.

He died a sniveling husk

of himself.

Time did away

with his entire legacy.

Wasn't worth a straw coin

in the end.

Couldn't even bury him

in the family plot.

[sighs]

A man who doesn't go

to the ends of the earth

for what he want--

[distant thumping]

Shh.

All right.

She's here.

[creaking]

That's it. Get out there.

Light it up.

[ominous, rhythmic music]

[music stops]

[branches breaking]

[creature growling]

[growling]

[heavy footsteps shuffling]

[snarling]

[guttural breathing]

-[creature growling]

-[Lamb screaming]

[bones crunching]

[Merriell] All right.

She's here.

[creature growling loudly]

[thumps]

[Ellie gasps]

[thumping]

[creature snarling]

[cage rattling]

[screaming]

[intense, dramatic music]

[whimpering]

[Ellie] No!

[gasping]

[intense, pulsing music]

-[creature snarling]

-[grunts]

[loud snarling]

[music intensifies]

[Ellie yelps]

[growling]

-[creature snarling]

-Oh, my God.

[intense music]

[Merriell]

Yeah, that's your kennel.

Go on.

[creaks]

[crashing]

[ears ringing]

[muffled growls]

[whimpering]

[screaming]

[intense snarling]

[Ellie] Oh, my God!

[screams]

[growling]

[creature breathing]

[gasping]

[Merriell] She's out.

She's out, she's out.

Now, I want you

to go over there.

I want you to get a rope.

And I want you to tie it up.

Hands, feet, neck.

I'm gonna get more tranquilizer.

-Go.

-Okay. You--

-Go!

-All right, all right!

[breathing heavily]

[Sunday Jr.] Ellie?

Where'd they go?

Ellie?

Ellie?

-[grunts]

-[struggling]

[yelps]

[clanks]

[grunting]

[dramatic music]

[gasping]

[panting]

[grunts]

[Merriell] Well, well, well.

You do that to my boy?

[Ellie groans]

[Merriell] Yeah.

-[grunts]

-[gasps]

And you're still with us.

Please don't.

[Ellie] Please don't.

Now you sound

like the stock men.

[Ellie grunts]

[Ellie groans]

The shareholder

ain't never right.

[Hollis] Merriell!

[Ellie groans]

You bring my babe?

I came back to steel my heart

and do what

the cold couldn't.

I'll make you a trade.

The beast child...

for yours.

[Ellie groans softly]

My son... is dead.

And your daughter is--

[groans]

-[Ellie grunts]

-[groans]

[angry grunting]

[guttural scream]

[Merriell panting]

Bannister.

You... you k*lled them all.

[Merriell] Yeah.

The cook, the men.

All of your little girl's

friend... friends.

[breathing heavily]

Taking its child

sent it into a k*lling frenzy.

Two animals for a score of men.

Well...

was it worth it?

[tense music]

[faint trickling]

[Ellie] Dad?

Daddy?

[tense music]

[Hollis laughs softly]

[baby creature cooing]

[soft rumbling]

[soft groan]

Dad?

Ellie.

[Ellie] Where...

What happened?

You shouldn't have come here.

Somebody had to bring you home.

What, and that somebody

was you, was it?

Yeah. Who else was it

gonna be?

I tried to say no,

but... I don't know.

I thought maybe I'd...

find...

God. What the hell am I doing?

You left me when I was just

a kid, and nothing's changed.

[Hollis]

Ellie, we found the child.

And...

it made these little cries.

And they sounded human.

And it reminded me of you

when you were little.

[chuckles] And...

and Sunday, he just...

he just wanted a trophy.

That's all he wanted.

He was gonna

k*ll the mother, too.

I couldn't bring myself

to let that happen.

So I stole it.

And I've been sitting here

thinking ever si...

ever since, thinking about you.

Thinking about all the things

that I would say to you.

[sighs]

But I wasn't never supposed

to see you again. [sniffles]

And then here you are, right...

right back on the summit,

aren't you?

-[sighs]

-[infant cries]

[Hollis] Here you go.

Here you go.

[grunts]

Yes.

[chuckles]

Is that good?

All right. No fingers.

There we are.

Attaboy.

Attaboy.

Okay.

[gasps]

[coughing]

[gasping]

[distant growling]

[creature growling]

She found her baby.

-[infant creature cooing]

-[Hollis shushing]

Here we go.

No. What are you doing?

You can't...

You can't bring that with us.

She'll follow us.

We're not coming with you.

I'm going to run,

and the mother's

gonna follow me.

-No. No, you're not--

-Listen to me.

You don't need me.

You're not lost.

You're a Bannister.

Now plant your flag.

[soft jazzy music]

I don't know

What day it is

- Or if it's dark out there

-[distant growling]

Somehow that's

Just the way it is

And I don't really care

I go to this or that place

I seem alive and well

My head is just a hat place

My breast an empty shell

And I've a faded dream

To sell...

All alone and all at sea

Why does nobody

Care for me?

When there's no love

To hold my love

Why is my heart so frail?

-[groans]

- Like a ship

Without a sail

Out on the ocean

[heavy footsteps approaching]

Sailors can use a chart

[creature guttural growling]

I'm on the ocean

Guided by just

A lonely heart

Still alone

Still at sea

Still, there's no one

To care for me

When there's no hand

To hold my hand

Life is a loveless tale

Like a ship

Without a sail

[slow jazz music]

Still alone

Still at sea

Still, there's no one

To care for me

When there's no hand

To hold my hand

Life is a loveless tale

For a ship

Without a sail