Planet of the Sharks

Binoculars.

Go down. Go down now.

Go down.

Get to shelter.

Get to the boat, get to the boat!

Salvation, come in.

I'm spotting a flare from Junk City.

- Sending up flares. - Flares? How many?

- Just one. - Okay, thank you.

This is Salvation to Junk City. Come in.

Salvation to Junk City. Do you read?

It's gone. I don't see Junk City at all.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Say again. What you see?

Nothing.

Nothing? What you mean, you see nothing?

- I can't see the city. - Wait.

- You can't see the city? - That's what I said, I can't see it.

- Well, where are you looking? - I'm looking east.

- Look west. - I looked west, there's nothing there.

Well, if you don't see anythi... Do you see part of the city or all of the city?

I don't see the city at all.

He's drunk. Could somebody get up there? He's had too much of the home brew.

This is the Osprey. I am heading for Junk City.

Uh, this is Salvation to Barrick. Come in.

- Yeah, go for Barrick. - We need some eyes on Junk City.

I can do that. I'm heading right by there.

Let me know what you see.

Barrick, out.

Vestron Research Station calling for the Osprey.

- Yeah. Go for Barrick. - Barrick, what's your 20?

Uh, I'm about 20 nautical miles out.

I've got your rebar, and I got some mint copper for you.

Outstanding. What's your E.T.A.?

The boys are itching to hitch that scrubber to the rocket.

Yeah, I'll get there when I can.

We'll have some home brew waiting for you when you get here.

- Did you make it? - Not this time.

- In that case, I will take some. - Over and out.

What's our status, Nichols?

You want the good or the bad?

- Surprise me. - Okay.

The rocket's nearly ready.

Atmospheric conditions are lining up quite nicely for launch.

Starting this week, optimal conditions for the CO2 scrubbers

will dominate this region for a 62-hour window.

And the bad news?

Even if the parts Barrick bring work, we still need more chassis components

to weld the scrubber unit to the craft properly.

We can get those from Salvation.

Even so, we won't be able to test the scrubbers before launch.

- You mean a dry run? - Exactly.

The scrubbers rocked the simulations.

We were able to get CO2 levels down to pre-flood levels and then some,

but as you know, there's no substitute for actual testing.

Why can't we test it?

We only have enough materials to run the scrubbers once.

I thought we were making two sets of scrubbers.

Once we got into it, we realized we only had enough material to make one.

Okay, so we've only got one shot at this.

Better make it perfect.

And we'll do our best to make that happen, but that takes time,

and I'm afraid if we wait too long, we lose our launch window.

Temperatures are increasing.

We're getting close to the point where the device may not have an impact,

no matter how powerful it is.

The sooner that we can get the scrubbers into the atmosphere,

the better chance we have of reversing the warming trend.

We didn't come this far to fail, Dr. Nichols.

I understand that,

but we have to consider the possibility of error caused by working too quickly.

My team is worn out.

You push them too much, and an error could be catastrophic.

What do you need?

I'd ask for a miracle, but I will settle for more time for Munro and Ishi

to check and double-check the launch parameters.

- You've got 48 hours. - Thank you.

Micro-light's juiced up. I can be there in 20.

Can you transmit video back from that range?

No. I clock out at a mile. I've gotta get the video booster from Vestron.

Okay, then you radio back when you got a visual then, yeah?

Yeah. Got it.

- Salvation to Junk City. - (STATIC)

Salvation to Junk City! Come in!

We can put extra men on the wall, but I need to know what we're dealing with.

Well, Nathan's on it. We should know something within the hour.

Yields from the greenhouse are low.

It's been too hot, and it's gonna keep getting hotter.

The solar stills ain't making enough fresh water to keep us on survival rations.

My guys on edge...

from the linesmen all the way down to the fish crew.

Everyone's itching for a fight.

Report to me when you got news from Junk City, hmm?

I find out they wasted a flare, I'll personally go down there...

I don't think they would do that. I really don't...

Uh, on another note, I got another request from Oceanic, yeah.

They want more bits for their rocket.

- Can we spare 'em? - Yeah. (LAUGHS)

Then let's see what they're willing to barter.

- We got a survivor, rainwater docks. - Copy that. I am on it.

Get in the boat!

Hold on to something! Come on!

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Barrick, Barrick, you need to get the hell out of there.

Come on.

What the hell was that?

I don't know. I've never seen anything like it.

You okay?

Come on.

Barrick. You're in the clear. I'm gonna go to Salvation and tell them what happened.

Yeah, I'll do the same when I get to Vestron.

Okay. Radio me if you need anything.

Yeah, copy that. You do the same. Over.

Are you thirsty?

It's rainwater from the monsoon 18 clicks away from here. Try it.

Try it.

All right, easy, easy, easy, easy.

Hey, come have a look over here. I want to show you something.

Come here. Come over here. It's okay.

That's where we're going, right?

Focus on where we're going.

Look at me. Okay?

Man, there were thousands. Now we've all seen superpods of dolphins.

This was like that, except they were sharks,

a magnitude larger than anything I've ever seen.

And in the middle, there was one. Man, it was massive.

You're asking me to believe in something

we ain't never seen in our years on the ocean?

Well, the ocean is adapting.

Okay, okay, but isn't it more realistic to say that the sharks were attracted

to the destruction of the city, rather than being the cause of it?

We've seen disasters before where they've shown up, like capsizing at Sharna, right?

Man, you want to know what happened, you gotta speak to Barrick.

He pulled a survivor.

- Come on, kid. - No.

Do you know what this place is, kid? It's Vestron Station.

This is where they survived the great flood. It's the safest place in the entire world.

They got rockets here.

- Right, Doc? Rockets? - We do, actually. Just one.

It won't help.

What?

Rockets won't stop them when they come.

When who comes?

Sharks.

- Listen. Um... - Bea.

Bea. Hi.

I'm Dr. Nichols. If you don't want to get off this boat, you don't have to.

- You can stay right here. - Uh, no.

What do you mean she can stay here? No, she can't stay here.

It's all the same. As soon as you unload your cargo, you're taking her to Salvation.

- I got another run to do. - You do, and it's to Salvation.

We're all going there. Last I checked, you're on a contract with Oceanic.

We give you fuel and supplies for your services.

Yeah, but it's limited to deep-sea recovery and salvage.

Well, it would be a salvage of sorts.

Salvation has agreed to supply us with some iridium casings

for our electrical contacts,

so I need to check the stability of the iridium.

So we all gotta go?

Yes.

We need to powwow with D'Amato. They want to talk to you and your passenger.

So whatever new trouble this is, we need to sort it out quickly.

We're running out of time for the launch.

Hi. I'm Dr. Shaw.

- Bea. - Nice to meet you, Bea.

I want to show you something. Can you come here? Come on.

- See that rocket right there? - Uh-huh.

We're going to attach a device to that rocket called the CO2 scrubber.

CO2 is what caused the poles to melt

and the entire planet to be covered with water.

So our team, which is headed up by Dr. Nichols,

has created this device.

They're gonna put this device on the rocket and fire it up high into the atmosphere,

hoping with the right conditions

that this will actually reverse the effect.

- Do you know what means? - No more water?

Yeah. Dry land.

- Sounds crazy, doesn't it? - Very.

I know, but we have some of the best minds on the planet working on it.

So...

we need everybody's help, including yours.

Will you help us?

- Yeah. - Okay.

Now, if we could just get this thing unloaded, we could leave.

Barrick...

this should help you grow some.

What's that for?

It's for radio tagging the sharks.

You want to tag sharks, do it on your own time.

I don't know what your problem is with me, but I suggest you deep-six it.

I don't have a problem with you, Doc. I think you have a...

a great personality.

But after what I saw at Junk City, I see a shark, I'm out of there.

So what's your take on this?

When the poles melted, we saw the fish population explode.

More nutrients in the water meant more fish, and it grew exponentially.

But what we're seeing now is a population collapse

due to the excessive temperatures.

Now, plankton are the base of the food chain.

The smaller fish eat the plankton, which in turn feed the larger fish

and all the way on up to the top with sharks.