Surface 4

Episode 4
Season 1 Episode 4

Anguilla, Caribbean Ocean, a woman talks on the phone as her daughter plays on the beach, as the little question her mommy about keeping a pet calamari, when the mom realize what the daughter is hold she questions her to where she got and she points down the beach. Along the coast of the beach, there is thousands of calamari washed ashore. In Wilmington, NC Miles rides his bike to his friend Phil’s house when his keeping Nimrod in the above ground pool that is not used. Miles show Phil a new trick he’s taught Nimrod, to retrieve food from Miles’s hand like the whales at Sea World. When Phil tries it, Nimrod shocks him.

In Washington, DC, Dr. Aleksander Cirko and David Lee discuss the invasiveness of the species on the population. Lee tells Cirko not to give theory but stick to facts that they know about the species. In the meeting with the Pentagon official, Cirko demonstrates and explains the effects the Chinese head snake’s accidental introduction to the Potomac river’s ecosystem Is the same effect the new species would have on the planet. While asleep Rich relives his brother death by the species. Rich and his wife, Tracey, go to the doctor; she tells the doctor that he is suffering from posttraumatic stress syndrome. Rich believes that is brother; George is trying to communicate with him. Out of her element as a blue-collar worker, Laura is waitressing at a seafood place, where she notices all the boxes of calamari. After work, she goes to she her friend Jackson and convinces him to go out looking for whales. Savannah, Miles’s sister, is searching his room for money, we she finds his stash, he comes in with Phil. She tells him that he owns her eighty dollars for the jewelry box Nimrod broke, miles agrees to give her the money and give her and envelope with comprising pictures of her and her boy friend, which he threat to give to their parents. She gives Miles back his money and tells him is war. Rich’s obsession with the black whole is pushing his marriage to the breaking point. Cirko gets information of global climate changes from a colleague that tells him that it changes like this can only come from the bottom of the ocean.

Savannah and her friend are lounging by the pool. At Phil’s, Miles is having trouble feeding Nimrod. Phil tries to hit on Amber, who shows interest in Miles. Rich goes to inspect a woman’s insurance claim about her water pipe. Rich thinks he hears his brother talking to him and starts ripping the pipe, to hear his brother’s message clearer. Laura and Jackson are out to see when they come across a dead whale torn in half. Miles goes out to the sound to find Nimrod some food. Phil tells him about Amber and Miles is more concerned with feeding Nimrod, than chasing after girls. Daughtery plans to go into the to get a sample when she sees on of the creatures. Laura videotapes the chase of the creature.

The creature disables the ship by setting off an electrical pulse. Laura is unconscious because she was holding a video camera. Cirko and Lee discuss the ecological impact of the species on the way to the lab. Rich comes home early with fireworks for the girls. Tracey gets a phone called that Rich has been put on medical leave and that is the straw that breaks the camels back, she leaves Rich. Jackson and Daughtery are stuck on the boat in the middle of the ocean, in the middle of the night. Miles is in the kitchen looking for food to feed Nimrod, when Amber comes in. Amber convinces Miles to let see Nimrod. In the morning, Jackson has to go into the water to fix the boat. He finds the problem but his hands are too big to replace the rotor and Laura has to do it. While fixing the rotor, the creature swims under the boat.

Frighten Daughtery tries to get our of the water, when the creatures wake throws her back into the water she has Jackson get her GPS gun and she tags the creature. Kenny comes by to check on Rich for Tracey. Kenny tells Rich he needs to get himself together for his family. Rich decide that to go back our to the Rig to hear George. Miles bring Amber, who brings her pet poodle, to the pool, and gives her some ground rules about being around Nimrod. She is leading him on as a practical joke, when his sister and her friends come to laugh at him. Nimrod eats Amber's poodle, to the horror of the girls and amazement of Phil and Miles.
Rich goes out into the ocean near the rig in the middle of the night. Jackson and Laura track the creature. George comes back in the morning disappoint that he did not get a message resolved that he was delusional. Kenny is there with his paper check on Rich again. Rich takes down all of his drawing and calls his wife when he reads about the sinkhole in the middle of the lake.