Siren

Shine those lights!

- Let's go! Lock it down! - I got it!

Watch out! Brace! It's a big one!

Man! Oh, no!

We're getting hammered out here!

Everything up!

Nets coming up!

- Bring it in! - Steady!

Pull!

What the hell? -

Is there somethin' in there?

It's big! It... It's moving!

- Chris! - No! It's right there!

Chris! Let's take 'em out!

Shark?

That ain't no shark!

Xander? You see it? It's over there!

Come on, come on, where are you at?

Show yourself.

- Oh! - Chris! Watch out!

Comin' around!

Goin' your way, Cal! Calvin, head it off!

In the hold! Get it down there!

Get it down there!

What the hell is it?

- Oh, Xander! - Chris.

- God, Xander! - Chris!

Oh, God!

Come on!

He's lost a lot of blood, but...

Tamp it down. Get in there good and tight.

This is the North Star, vessel number 53422N.

I have a crew member in need of

immediate medical evacuation. Over.

- Nature of injury? - Bite to the abdomen,

severe blood loss. Over.

What bit him?

I...

I got no idea.

What is it?

Secure.

Let's see what you caught tonight, Captain.

What I caught is none of your business!

You're just here for my injured crewman.

Of course.

We'll be needing him as well.

Let's go!

Now then, Captain...

I'm entitled to that catch!

Let's go!

Look what we found!

Margaritas!

Whoo!

Do you want a pretzel?!

It was more than 150 years ago

when a local fishing captain,

Charles H. Pownall, fell in love with a mermaid

in these very waters,

enchanted by her beautiful Siren song.

I love you, fisherman.

I love you, mermaid.

But one day, he went to the bay,

and his mermaid was gone

back to her home in the sea,

never to return.

And that is how, thanks to Charles H. Pownall,

Bristol Cove became the Mermaid Capital of the World.

Wow. Thank you.

That was my great-great-great- grandfather depicted there,

so as you can see, our family goes back

a long ways in Bristol Cove.

Now please allow me to introduce my beautiful wife Elaine

and our two wonderful sons, Doug and Ben.

It seems, uh,

Ben may have been caught up in the parade traffic,

but I can assure you he is here in spirit.

So to all the good people of Bristol Cove,

it is our great honor to bestow this monument

to one of our town's founding fathers,

Charles H. Pownall.

Where the hell's Ben? Hmm?

Hola! How'd it go?

Rescued a Steller.

She's in pretty bad shape.

She's tagged. She's one of ours.

- Where'd you find her? - Out by Scott's Point.

That's pretty far.

Yeah, about 30 miles

outside her usual range.

Probably looking for food.

Don't worry, girl.

We're gonna take good care of you.

Come on.

She's starving out there.

It's a good thing we went out today.

Not sure your dad would agree with that.

Well, I'll add that to the list of things we don't agree on.

Like you and me being together?

Hey. Look,

if I did everything my dad told me,

well, I'd be my brother.

You want to come over later?

I promised my dad I'd make him dinner.

Third time this week?

- Lucky guy. - He needs me.

He'd be at the drive-thru every night if I didn't cook.

Seriously, it's disturbing.

I could come by after for dessert.

Spend the night?

If you want me to.

What do you think?

Hey, man. Thought you guys were out past Bowers Ridge.

- You're back early. - Yeah.

I need to talk to you about something.

All right.

Boys.

We said keep this between us. Don't tell anybody.

Ben knows about this stuff, all right?

He can help us.

- He's one of us. - He wasn't on the boat with us.

He doesn't fish with us no more.

We caught somethin' out there.

I mean, it's just somethin' we...

we ain't never seen before.

It attacked Chris.

He had to get airlifted out,

big-ass military commando helicopter.

Navy SEALs, the whole deal.

CG says they have no record of the evac,

like it never happened.

He's just gone.

What do you mean he's gone?

You really don't know what attacked him?

A mermaid?

It didn't look like that, okay?

This... this was a predator.

Okay, that was a good one.

Yeah, very, very well done.

You almost had me there.

Dude, this is real.

Hey, why else would they take it from us, huh?

Wait.

Here. Look.

Okay.

Xander, man, this could be anything.

I don't know what you call it,

but, trust me, it's not what you think it is.

We had a report six weeks ago.

Japanese fishermen claimed they saw a sea creature

off the Kuril Islands.

Then some carcasses washed ashore in Alaska

with strange bite marks all over them.

Then five days ago, our research vessel

picked up unidentified frequencies

coming from the Bering Strait.

We knew something was out there.

That's when I alerted your people.

And you're sure this is what you think it is?

Well, Admiral...

...why don't you judge for yourself?

Good morning, dear.

Your father is terribly angry with you.

Good morning to you, too.

Anthony?

I don't give a rat's ass if your father's angry.

A lot of things make him angry,

like the fact that a woman who can't walk

insists on buying $600 shoes.

You know what he called me the other day?

- What? - Bitch on wheels.

- That's actually pretty funny. - I thought so, too.

Do you know why it was okay?

Because it was behind closed doors.

Family rule...

You can say whatever the hell

awful thing you want in private,

but in public...

This is a face that keeps Mommy in nice shoes.

- I get it. - No, I don't think you do.

Because if you did, you'd show up.

You would flash that famous Pownall charm,

and you wouldn't leave your father up on stage

with his pants around his ankles.

You know what, Mom?

If you guys want to put a show on for the whole town,

that's your business, but I...

I don't want anything to do with it.

I got other things to worry about.

The spawning habits of a bunch of plankton

are more important than family.

That's not what I'm saying.

And I really don't want to have this conversation again.

Ben, I need this family to keep working.

And I'm not willing to suffer for nothing.

Okay, I hear you.

Doug tells me that you're hot and heavy with Maddie Bishop.

Yeah, we're dating.

You always had a thing for the wild girls.

I gotta get some stuff done.

Always had a thing for the wild girls, huh?