Sanctuary

Uh, Magnus...

I think I'm going to throw up!

This is ridiculous!

Hold on, I've lost lateral control!

Okay, this is really not going well!

I know!

No lift.

I can't get any altitude!

Bloody hell!

Try hitting it with more sedation!

Yeah, I'm already doing that!

What the hell is wrong with...

Magnus...

Magnus, pull up.

I can't!

Pull up now!

Dammit!

Oh, this is going to be nasty.

Just... just come on.

Just say it with me once...

Reykjavik.

I love that word.

Yes, you've told me a dozen times.

But I'm talking vodka, good food,

fresh-faced women

with names like "goodmansdottir..."

Stimulating conversation

under intricate ice sculptures...

Will, I've already told you,

you can't go to the conference.

Why?

Some things have come up.

Things? What things?

Well, for starters,

our sensors have picked up a very rare abnormal

in the Gulf of Mexico.

And?

Mutated vampyroteuthis infernalis,

a vampire squid,

incredibly shy.

I've only ever encountered one

once before,

60-odd years ago in French Polynesia.

Okay, so a shy vampire.

There's a first.

Actually, the name is misleading.

They're amazingly intelligent and very docile.

It's believed that they're called "vampire"

not because of a violent predilection,

but more because of their superior intellect.

You know, this is fascinating, it really is, but...

the beacon is coming from

an abandoned oil rig off the Louisiana coast.

Okay, so one of our retrieval teams

Will pick it up, bring it back, boom.

They're all in mission mode right now.

I'd rather not interrupt them

for something as simple as this.

We Will charter a helicopter in New Orleans

and fly out there.

Hey, take Kate.

Kate can't dive. I need you.

Okay, okay, so...

I'll miss the opening reception,

but I'll still be there to give my presentation.

Fine, I'll go.

Actually, no.

I need you here for the next few days.

Why?

I have a meeting in Berlin

with my un security council liaison.

Very time sensitive.

Henry.

He's in Tasmania surfing.

The big guy?

Is with him.

Kate.

Is not ready

for an extended period of being in charge.

No, no, no, no, no,

because I told you about this trip months ago, okay?

I'm a guest speaker.

They're giving me a nice hotel room.

I'm touring fjords.

There's always next year.

Which is next year.

I'm sorry, Will. This is not a request.

Magnus!

Magnus! Magnus!

Will? Will!

Hey...

Hey...

You all right?

I don't know.

My door kind of gave way when we, uh, you know, stopped.

What about you?

Well, you know,

any landing you can swim away from...

What is it with you and flying, anyway?

Two crashes in 158 years, that's not bad.

They only invented flying

110 years ago, so...

Oh, great.

We lost our air tanks

and half our scuba gear.

And our friend as well.

You think it's still around here?

I'm sure it's long gone.

This bore well leads to open water.

Well, another rare abnormal stays rare.

Dammit, and we had him.

I've never seen something so big

fit into such a small container.

Cephalopod.

Thankfully, a very passive one at that.

This one doesn't seem too pleased

that we captured it.

It's much safer with us, believe me.

These creatures are so passive,

they're often killed by other species

very early in their life cycle.

Yeah, well,

welcome to your new home...

Squidly.

We Will not be calling it that.

Well, there are far more inappropriate nicknames

I could give it.

I'm sure there are.

Good, there's still time.

For what?

Connecting through Halifax,

landing in the lovely city of Reykjavik,

the capital of Iceland.

Oh, come on, Magnus.

I mean, I know Kate is not your first choice,

but can't she just hold the fort down

for a couple days?

I mean, I'm not going to be gone that long.

I'm sure she can, Will.

Ah, see, that's the Magnus I know and love.

But the answer is still no.

Prep it for flight, please.

Mayday, mayday!

Mayday...

the radio's broken

or there's far too much concrete and steel in here

for us to get a transmission out.

Meaning nobody can pick up

the chopper's transponder signal, either.

How deep do you think this goes?

70 feet, maybe more.

Without scuba gear...

it's much too far for us to try to dive to the bottom.

Okay, here's what I think.

Once we don't check in for a while,

those lovely people we rented the chopper from

Will come looking for us, right?

I mean, isn't that how it's supposed to work?

And if they follow the bogus flight plan

that I filed,

they'll be loooing for us 200 Miles west of here.

It's how we keep our work private, Will.

Okay.

Well, then, according to the mission plan,

we're due back tomorrow night.

Once we don't show up, Kate's got to get suspicious,

she'll just probably...

Right, right, you're right.

We're totally screwed.

I'm sorry about your trip to greenland.

Iceland.

It's... it's Iceland.

I'm sorry your trip to Iceland was scuttled,

but obviously we have

a far more important problem on our hands.

Yeah...

We always do.

What's that supposed to mean?

What does it mean?

It means whatever you want it to...

whoa.

It's all right.

It just shifted position.

You think it'll hold?

If the crash didn't bring it down,

I doubt we can.

All I know is

the deposit you gave the rental company's

history.

You know, Magnus,

maybe everything you heard about this creature

is wrong.

Maybe they're not as docile as you think.

Nonsense.

We captured it easily enough.

It offered no resistance.

Yeah, well, something freaked it out.

Flying,

or the vibrations from the rotors,

different altitude.