Surface 11

Episode 11
Season 1 Episode 11

In Seaside, Oregon, Paramedics attend to Daughtery and Rich as they are being transported to the hospital. One of the paramedics offers to hold the tape for Laura and she refuses. News crews are waiting for them when they arrive at the hospital. Rich tries to tell them about the tape and Laura tells him that they have to be smart about releasing the tape or the world could see them as crazy. A.S.I. Headquarters in San Francisco, CA, Lee gets information on Laura and Rich’s rescue and sends FBI to collect them from the hospital. He wants to be interrogating them within the hour. At the Aquarium of the Carolinas in Wilmington, NC Miles goes to visit a dead Nimrod. Technicians are putting the body on ice when Dr. Blum tells the technicians to give Miles sometime alone with Nimrod. Alone Nimrod sneezes, another technician comes in and Miles tells him that Nim sneeze. The tech tells him that Nim is dead until Nim sneezes again and starts to move. He warns the technician not to touch Nimrod. Then Nimrod jumps and hides in a dark corner. Miles watches Nimrod with amazement.

Miles tries to comfort Nimrod by feeding him a fish. Alerted to Nimrod being alive Dr. Blum tells Miles to get him in the tank. Miles tells that they will take him and Dr. Blum tells Miles that he would never let anyone take Nimrod away from him. Daughtery as a nurse if he has heard anything on a Jackson Holden, the nurse tells her no and that she should concentrate on getting better. When he leaves, she sees two suspicious looking men in the reflection of a monitor. She gets out of bed to find Rich. She finds Rich hiding in a bathroom and they realize that they have to leave. They wander the hospital for an unlocked from to duck into to. They find one and it is the doctor lounge. They steal a sleeping doctors, phone, clothes and ATM card. Once out of the hospital Daughtery starts to call her son and Rich stops her; telling her that they will trace the call. While Rich is using the ATM, Laura calls her ex-husband to find out Jesse and he tells her that men are looking for her and that it’s not safe for her to come. Dr. Blum congratulates Miles’s mother on her terrific son. Then introduces them to David Howell from North Carolina Oceanographic University and Dr. Hammaker, from the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. Rich and Daughtery go to Copy City, to upload the film on the Internet and make DVD copies of the tape. Keith the associates, tells them about uploading the tape to StrangeFilms.com. He is amazed at what he’s looking at.

Miles explains how Nimrod was born, how Phil named him, that he trained Nimrod to do tricks, and that he likes electricity and salt. He takes his mom and David in to see Nimrod, Miles gives them ground rules about being around Nimrod, and they watch Nimrod feed on a fish. Lee is informed that Daughtery and Rich have skipped the hospital and have trace Daughtery’s phone call; the agent plays the call back for Lee. Keith uploaded the tape to StrangeFilms.com, made the 15 DVD copies and e-mailed the link to the entire OSU history department. As Laura and Rich leave Copy City the find a McDonald’s. While eating, Laura calls information for a number to a reporter friend. Daughtery and Rich have trouble hitchhiking and they decide to go old school; the lonely female on the side of the road and they are picked up. They are studying Nimrod and kick Miles out. Miles goes to the gift shop after being kicked out the lab; he meets a cashier named Caitlin. She tells him that its revisionist history, and that he does not know Dr. Blum as well as he thinks. Rich and Laura make it to San Francisco and make contact with Ann, Laura’s reporter friend. At the television station, they tell their story to Ann and ask her to find out about Rich, she looks at the tape. Ann shows it to some of her colleagues and tells Rich and Laura they will get back to them. Miles goes back to the lab, where he finds they have drugged Nimrod and are about to perform an evasive procedure on him. Dr. Blum kicks miles out a second time and tells him that it is not a time to be selfish.

Caitlin finds Miles sitting on the pier. She shows him her scare from a jellyfish sting and he shows her his scare from the attack but tells her it a dog bite. She invites Miles to go surfing, but he turns her down. Laura and Rich are eating and waiting to hear from Ann at the hotel. She shows up and tells them that the station is running the piece. They ask for a change of clothes and a laptop; Ann informs them that the coast guard found Jackson boat on the coast of Long Beach, Ca with sign of a struggle but no Jackson. Caitlin comes to Miles’ house and they sneak out. They stop for gas for her motorbike; she tells him they are going to see Nimrod. As they are leaving, she tells Miles to hold on tighter and pulls his arms around her waist. Daughtery gets ready for the interview and tells Rich that it would be more credibility to the tape if the only she did the interview.

Rich and Laura watch the piece; it makes Daughtery seem more of an unreliable source. Lee is alerted to the interview. Laura’s ex and Tracey, Rich’s wife, both watch the piece with amazement. Rich and Laura get discouraged after watching the piece.

Caitlin and Miles change to go swimming in the big take. She makes another pass at Miles. Dr. Blum catches Miles, Caitlin and Nimrod swimming in the big tank; who turns out to be Caitlin’s father. He tells Miles that it would be better if he did not return to the Aquarium.
Laura and Rich get drunk; Rich checks the MSNC site counter and finds out 61000 people have download the video. Miles, walking home, declines Caitlin’s offer for a run home, but does accept her apology. As Miles is walking, alone he notices his affect the electrical light outside a brown stone. In Rich and Laura’s hotel, room there is a knock at the door. The man identifies himself has having a fax to Laura. She asks Rich, who is in the shower, if he is expecting a fax, She goes to the door and is about to open it when we seen the man at the door and two others hiding out side of Laura’s view.