Zoo

A year ago, the animals started acting strangely,

but no one noticed...

until they began attacking,

coordinating,

evolving.

The animals were mutating,

and it was happening faster than anyone expected.

The government came up with a plan.

Thanks to the Noah Objective,

in six to ten years, the world's animal population

will be thriving once again.

You cannot exterminate every animal on the planet,

and then re-populate it.

But messing with Mother Nature

could be catastrophic,

so a group of us are trying to save the animals.

Jackson Oz and Abraham Kenyatta,

animal experts.

Dariela Marzan, Army Ranger.

Jamie Campbell,

a reporter who's been following this story, found me,

Mitch Morgan, a veterinary pathologist.

Together, we're going to find a cure

for the animals.

Time is running out.

Previously on Zoo...

Hold your fire.

Who the hell are you?

My name is Allison Shaw,

I'm the Deputy Secretary of Defense,

and yes, yes, I was married to Mitch's father.

When I was saying good-bye to Chloe,

I started crying black tears.

You're displaying the same symptomology as Kovacs.

So I'm evolving.

We finally have the means to stop these animals... TX-14.

Every animal with the mutation will be destroyed.

General Davies, you cannot

exterminate every animal on the planet.

It's madness.

I respect that coming from you.

The son of Robert Oz

lecturing me about madness.

I'm glad you're gonna stay with us.

You want me here to put a bullet in your head

- if you end up like Kovacs. - That's right.

You go sideways, I won't hesitate.

That's a promise.

- Okay? - Yeah.

I brought you to Caraquet, and I'm gonna get you out.

Go!

Oh, my God.

No one's talking about Chloe.

Really not much to say.

She's gone.

No one will tell me how.

Your old pals at Reiden Global.

What?

They weren't prosecuted?

No, and as a matter of fact,

the No Objtive gave them a government contract

to develop this splendid new gas called TX-14,

that will effectively wipe out all the evil animals...

oh, and about 2.2 million human beings.

You missed a lot.

Chloe...

Please.

They were gonna do a demonstration

on a bunch of animals using the gas,

but Chloe stole it.

Tried to stop them.

She got shot at by a bunch of General Davies' men.

She managed to make her way

to the room where the gas was, but the canister cracked,

and gas started leaking out,

and we all would've died, but...

But what?

Dariela. She, uh, sealed the door.

Trapped the gas inside.

Well...

The gas and Chloe.

So this Dariela killed my friend?

I don't like it either.

Okay, but she did what she thought she had to do.

Could I...

What?

Could I be alone?

Yeah.

Uh, yeah, sure.

General Davies confirms that the Noah Objective

is moving forward according to plan.

What's The Courier?

Just give me a minute.

You don't have a minute, okay?

We had a deal.

We saved your orchard.

Now tell me what Chloe's last words meant.

Okay.

Um... a few months ago, we found something.

At first it sounded like a hoax,

but then Chloe sent in her report from Patagonia,

and the connection was undeniable.

- Patagonia. - Mm-hmm.

And she didn't tell me.

She wanted to, I advised her against it.

Until we knew more... about this.

What is “this”?

This is a newspaper called The Worldwide Courier.

- Never heard of it. - Not many people have.

So what about it?

Well, these are a few of the headlines,

“Blood Rain Decimates Crops."

“Ants Create Lightning.”

“Earthquakes Caused by Sloths.”

Sound familiar?

Yeah, those are the events

created by the Triple-Helix animals, so what?

Look at the date.

- Is this some sort of joke? - No.

These were written in 1895.

Are you saying...

that all of this has happened before?

All right, we've seen

a lot of weird stuff, but this?

We verified their authenticity.

These articles are very real.

The animals also did this in 1895?

Only the animals causing environmental changes,

the Triple-Helix animals.

The same ones we need for the cure.

- We? - For the cure, we need

the genomic fossils of seven specific animals.

If Triple-Helix animals have been around

over a hundred years,

why are we just hearing about them now?

The Worldwide Courier was viewed like a tabloid.

The “I Saw Big Foot on a Date with Elvi”"

of its day, people thought they were fiction.

Gee, I wonder why.

Bigger problem is,

there's nobody alive to verify this.

No eyewitness.

- These articles tell us nothing. - Actually,

they do show us something.

All right, these articles

they show all the animals so far

that have caused environmental changes, right?

The sloth, electric ants, snakes.

You guys have come across all of that?

Yeah, like I said, you missed a lot.

Yeah, but we haven't heard anything

about the jellyfish, right?

Especially jellyfish that causes hurricanes.

So what we're saying is that at the very least,

these papers show us what animal we're looking for next.

Can I ask a dumb question?

How can jellyfish cause hurricanes?

There are no dumb questions, Lionel,

only dumb people.

- It's Logan. - Logan.

Jellyfish can effect the climate by generating heat.

You get enough of them together, they can,

they can raise the water temperature,

cause a pretty powerful surface wind.

I may have found something.

Global radar currently shows five hurricanes,

one of which hasn't moved in 48 hours.

Storms aren't stationary.

Looks like we're heading to Portugal.

Hang on a minute.

We might have an eyewitness.

There are a lot of different species of jellyfish

in the North Atlantic near Portugal,

one of which is the Turritopsis dohrnii.

It's also known as the immortal jellyfish.

As in it lives forever?

It can regenerate its cells over and over,

so it has the ability to revert back to adolescence

whenever it's injured.

A chicken going back into its egg.

So if can find this jellyfish

from 1895, maybe we can figure out

how it caused these environmental changes

and figure out how to stop it.

I think we're forgetting something.

Jellyfish have a very poisonous sting.

And if mass quantities

are causing hurricanes,

it won't be as simple as just fishing one out.

I may have a way to help with that.

I'll, uh, make some calls.

Mitch, would you tell Trotter to change course to Portugal,

then come see me?

Whatever you say, boss.

Actually, I'm not the boss.

You are.

N-never, not in a million years,

would I ever want that job.

Are you finished?

Look, these people aren't just my work buddies, okay?