1
00:00:11,344 --> 00:00:14,931
Dr. Orson Rudd, lead scientist,

2
00:00:15,014 --> 00:00:17,267
Ice Shelf Depletion
Investigation

3
00:00:17,350 --> 00:00:19,978
and Antarctic New Species
Project.

4
00:00:20,061 --> 00:00:23,606
NyBy Science Station,
month four of six.

5
00:00:23,690 --> 00:00:27,277
23rd day. 1725 hours.

6
00:00:31,531 --> 00:00:34,617
Preliminary results of our
research here is confirming

7
00:00:34,701 --> 00:00:37,370
the thinning of marginal ice

8
00:00:37,454 --> 00:00:39,622
is allowing increases
of sunlight to penetrate

9
00:00:39,706 --> 00:00:42,125
subsurface ocean levels.

10
00:00:42,208 --> 00:00:43,626
This creates an increase

11
00:00:43,710 --> 00:00:46,296
of shallow water sea life
population which causes

12
00:00:46,379 --> 00:00:50,467
migration of deep-sea predators
in search of food.

13
00:00:50,550 --> 00:00:53,595
Most have never
been seen by humans.

14
00:00:56,264 --> 00:00:58,308
Until this crew.

15
00:01:06,399 --> 00:01:08,234
What I'm doing here

16
00:01:13,448 --> 00:01:16,367
is gonna save a million lives.

17
00:01:25,502 --> 00:01:27,504
The day is April 2nd.

18
00:01:27,587 --> 00:01:30,006
17 miles off the southwest coast

19
00:01:30,089 --> 00:01:31,674
of Papua New Guinea...

20
00:01:31,758 --> 00:01:34,177
Where the hell is it?

21
00:01:34,260 --> 00:01:36,179
But the launch

22
00:01:36,262 --> 00:01:38,473
of the ship's scientific
submersible Cthulhu

23
00:01:38,556 --> 00:01:41,226
is delayed by the appearance
of a school of 50 squid.

24
00:01:41,309 --> 00:01:44,687
This is the first time the crew
have encountered squid

25
00:01:44,771 --> 00:01:48,650
since departing from the
coastal waters of Australia.

26
00:01:48,733 --> 00:01:51,361
More and more,
the explorers become accustomed

27
00:01:51,444 --> 00:01:54,447
to the unexpected developments
of oceanic life.

28
00:01:58,451 --> 00:02:00,596
Have
they found any new species today?

29
00:02:00,620 --> 00:02:02,205
We don't know yet.

30
00:02:02,288 --> 00:02:04,707
Skua and Colvin aren't
back from their dive.

31
00:02:12,131 --> 00:02:14,217
Seizing the
opportunity to explore

32
00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:17,220
this swarm of mollusks,
the crew prepare for a dive.

33
00:02:17,303 --> 00:02:19,347
Divers enter the...

34
00:02:19,430 --> 00:02:22,058
Do you know when Kasper
and Doug due back?

35
00:02:22,141 --> 00:02:24,561
Swim amongst a form
of alien life.

36
00:02:24,644 --> 00:02:28,231
The explorers are frail
strangers to this domain.

37
00:02:28,314 --> 00:02:30,233
Soon the presence of the dives

38
00:02:30,316 --> 00:02:32,694
calls the attention
of prowling sharks.

39
00:03:01,514 --> 00:03:03,808
Kasper!

40
00:03:06,394 --> 00:03:08,313
Unaware of the predators'
dangerous presence,

41
00:03:08,396 --> 00:03:10,273
the unpredictable occurs.

42
00:03:10,356 --> 00:03:14,193
A ten-foot blue shark moves
directly toward the diver.

43
00:03:24,370 --> 00:03:26,289
From the environment
which took our ancestors

44
00:03:26,372 --> 00:03:27,707
billions of years to explore..

45
00:03:47,393 --> 00:03:49,646
As the divers ascend
through the darkness

46
00:03:49,729 --> 00:03:51,648
to their first
decompression level,

47
00:03:51,731 --> 00:03:54,484
they are intuitively aware
of the murky presence

48
00:03:54,567 --> 00:03:55,777
of death.

49
00:04:33,940 --> 00:04:36,317
At the bottom of the world,

50
00:04:36,401 --> 00:04:38,528
a group of scientists
is about to encounter

51
00:04:38,611 --> 00:04:41,406
an entity of vast intelligence.

52
00:04:41,489 --> 00:04:44,909
What they are about to learn
will go further and deeper

53
00:04:44,993 --> 00:04:48,204
than anything
they hoped to learn.

54
00:04:48,287 --> 00:04:51,874
Beyond science, beyond fear,

55
00:04:51,958 --> 00:04:55,712
beyond humanity

56
00:04:55,795 --> 00:04:57,964
in The Twilight Zone.

57
00:05:00,633 --> 00:05:02,277
You're traveling
through another dimension,

58
00:05:02,301 --> 00:05:05,722
a dimension not only of
sight and sound but of mind.

59
00:05:05,805 --> 00:05:08,891
It is the middle ground
between light and shadow,

60
00:05:08,975 --> 00:05:11,728
between science
and superstition.

61
00:05:11,811 --> 00:05:14,397
And it lies between
the pit of one's fears

62
00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:17,233
and the summit
of one's knowledge.

63
00:05:17,316 --> 00:05:20,403
You are now traveling through
a dimension of imagination.

64
00:05:20,486 --> 00:05:24,365
You've just crossed over
into The Twilight Zone.

65
00:05:58,816 --> 00:06:01,444
Everyone to the diving hut now!

66
00:06:11,913 --> 00:06:14,033
- What the hell happened?
- Where is Amy?

67
00:06:14,082 --> 00:06:15,625
I don't know. S-She's gone.

68
00:06:15,708 --> 00:06:17,293
Her suit's over there.

69
00:06:17,376 --> 00:06:18,961
Kasper? Douglas?

70
00:06:19,045 --> 00:06:20,671
There's no sign of them.

71
00:06:20,755 --> 00:06:22,548
Should've both been up
ten minutes ago.

72
00:06:25,718 --> 00:06:27,529
Janik, no. You're the only
trained diver we have left.

73
00:06:27,553 --> 00:06:29,305
You can't go down there alone.

74
00:06:29,388 --> 00:06:30,699
Somebody's got to go down
there and find them.

75
00:06:30,723 --> 00:06:31,723
And you're high.

76
00:06:31,766 --> 00:06:34,811
That thing's tether's
only good for 150 meters.

77
00:06:34,894 --> 00:06:37,688
Skua and Colvin were diving to
the ice wall, 450 meters away.

78
00:06:37,772 --> 00:06:39,012
You can't go in the water

79
00:06:39,065 --> 00:06:40,483
until we know
what happened to them.

80
00:06:40,566 --> 00:06:41,710
How will we find out
what happened to them

81
00:06:41,734 --> 00:06:42,814
without going in the water?

82
00:07:16,769 --> 00:07:19,856
That octopus.
It's, like, 40 kilos.

83
00:07:19,939 --> 00:07:21,691
You don't think...?

84
00:07:21,774 --> 00:07:23,359
You know what?

85
00:07:23,442 --> 00:07:25,882
Let's tip over this cooler over
and dump it back in the ocean.

86
00:07:31,576 --> 00:07:33,369
Don't harm it.

87
00:07:33,452 --> 00:07:35,371
- Take it to the lab.
- She's right.

88
00:07:35,454 --> 00:07:36,873
Help her take it
back to the lab.

89
00:07:36,956 --> 00:07:38,374
Fuck the octopus.

90
00:07:38,457 --> 00:07:39,601
It-it could be
the only one of its kind.

91
00:07:39,625 --> 00:07:40,877
Who cares?

92
00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,588
We're wasting time.
Let's go find them.

93
00:07:43,671 --> 00:07:45,840
Janik, we don't know
what we're dealing with.

94
00:07:45,923 --> 00:07:47,884
It's insane to go
back down there alone.

95
00:07:47,967 --> 00:07:51,053
Even with double tanks
and seven-millimeter dry gloves,

96
00:07:51,137 --> 00:07:52,948
at that depth and temperature,
they got an hour

97
00:07:52,972 --> 00:07:55,725
before their hands and feet
become numb and useless.

98
00:07:55,808 --> 00:07:57,448
They've been down there
that long already.

99
00:08:00,479 --> 00:08:01,564
Visibility's bad.

100
00:08:01,647 --> 00:08:03,983
15 meters.

101
00:08:07,612 --> 00:08:09,131
- Help me get this specimen
to the lab.
- Help her take it to the lab.

102
00:08:09,155 --> 00:08:10,698
Janik.

103
00:08:10,781 --> 00:08:13,201
Channing and I will support you
from the surface.

104
00:09:05,211 --> 00:09:07,672
Channing, as soon as we can,

105
00:09:07,755 --> 00:09:09,674
we need to examine that octopus.

106
00:09:09,757 --> 00:09:12,468
- I agree.
- It's strange.

107
00:09:12,551 --> 00:09:14,470
Even though Ling
is just an observer

108
00:09:14,553 --> 00:09:15,989
from the Chinese
Antarctic Administration,

109
00:09:16,013 --> 00:09:19,642
did you see how protective
she got of the octopus?

110
00:09:19,725 --> 00:09:22,478
Maybe because she actually cares
about the work?

111
00:09:22,562 --> 00:09:23,980
Hmm.

112
00:09:24,063 --> 00:09:27,567
Maybe.
I think she knows about us.

113
00:09:46,294 --> 00:09:49,297
I hate it down here.
What we're doing.

114
00:09:51,591 --> 00:09:57,179
Channing, you can't say
anything to anyone.

115
00:09:57,263 --> 00:10:01,183
I'm not gonna say
anything to anyone.

116
00:10:03,644 --> 00:10:05,771
What the fuck was that?

117
00:10:06,772 --> 00:10:08,816
What? What is it?

118
00:10:14,822 --> 00:10:16,866
Jesus.

119
00:10:53,986 --> 00:10:56,781
Both shoulders dislocated.

120
00:11:01,327 --> 00:11:04,080
Lungs filled with water.

121
00:11:04,163 --> 00:11:07,583
His respirator
was ripped off of him.

122
00:11:07,666 --> 00:11:09,126
He was deep below
sunlight levels.

123
00:11:09,210 --> 00:11:12,922
I only found him
because I saw his headlamp.

124
00:11:13,005 --> 00:11:16,592
And, yeah,
he was caught just, um,

125
00:11:16,675 --> 00:11:19,845
bobbing against
the base of the ice shelf.

126
00:11:22,848 --> 00:11:25,810
I saw no evidence of Doug.
No light, nothing.

127
00:11:25,893 --> 00:11:29,605
If Amy fell
in the water without a suit on,

128
00:11:29,688 --> 00:11:31,166
she would have died
within ten minutes.

129
00:11:31,190 --> 00:11:33,234
What the hell
could have done that?

130
00:11:58,884 --> 00:12:00,761
Those seals and whales
down there?

131
00:12:00,845 --> 00:12:02,638
They know what happened.

132
00:12:02,721 --> 00:12:04,140
They know that's what
killed them.

133
00:12:04,223 --> 00:12:06,767
That's right. That's right.

134
00:12:06,851 --> 00:12:08,644
How'd that thing get back
in the cooler

135
00:12:08,727 --> 00:12:10,312
after it killed
Amy, Doug and Kasp?

136
00:12:10,396 --> 00:12:12,648
Do you know how?

137
00:12:12,731 --> 00:12:15,192
'Cause it's that fucking smart.

138
00:12:15,276 --> 00:12:18,696
These things have been around
for millions of years.

139
00:12:27,079 --> 00:12:30,166
They don't got bones or a skull.

140
00:12:30,249 --> 00:12:32,668
- There's nothing like them.
- Look,

141
00:12:32,751 --> 00:12:35,671
once the satellite's in range,
we can contact McMurdo,

142
00:12:35,754 --> 00:12:37,673
send an emergency response team.

143
00:12:37,756 --> 00:12:40,676
They'll pick up the body,
help us with any search.

144
00:12:40,759 --> 00:12:42,386
TDR satellite will be
at 8.7 degrees.

145
00:12:44,763 --> 00:12:48,100
This
is not Megaleledone setebos.

146
00:12:50,060 --> 00:12:51,854
Okay. Go ahead.

147
00:12:58,152 --> 00:13:00,154
This is another new species.

148
00:13:03,324 --> 00:13:05,910
The radula is not chitinous.

149
00:13:08,454 --> 00:13:10,289
It is made
of a harder substance.

150
00:13:13,125 --> 00:13:15,794
This is why we came down here.

151
00:13:17,963 --> 00:13:22,092
To save a species
affected by our behavior.

152
00:13:24,136 --> 00:13:26,013
Living in this water and dept,

153
00:13:26,096 --> 00:13:28,974
it likely has never
encountered a human.

154
00:13:30,142 --> 00:13:32,102
We are the first.

155
00:13:32,186 --> 00:13:33,330
I don't care
if it's that thing's

156
00:13:33,354 --> 00:13:35,064
first encounter with anyone.

157
00:13:35,147 --> 00:13:37,191
It'll be his fucking only.

158
00:13:38,359 --> 00:13:40,819
Look out!

159
00:13:45,282 --> 00:13:46,825
What the fuck?

160
00:13:57,002 --> 00:14:01,215
Yo. Don't tell me it didn't know
what was going on.

161
00:14:01,298 --> 00:14:03,092
Let's, uh.

162
00:14:03,175 --> 00:14:04,969
Secure Kasper in the diving hut.

163
00:14:05,052 --> 00:14:07,930
Turn the heater off.

164
00:14:08,013 --> 00:14:09,431
He'll remain preserved
until USAP

165
00:14:09,515 --> 00:14:12,268
can reach us in...
probably three days.

166
00:14:12,351 --> 00:14:14,270
Larry.

167
00:14:14,353 --> 00:14:17,481
Can you fix the lights
and keep an eye on him?

168
00:14:19,483 --> 00:14:22,278
I like animals, okay?

169
00:14:22,361 --> 00:14:25,447
Even the ones I eat,
I'm cool with, yeah?

170
00:14:25,531 --> 00:14:29,952
But I do not want to be in
a room with that motherfucker!

171
00:14:30,035 --> 00:14:33,038
I hear you, Larry. I do.

172
00:14:36,208 --> 00:14:38,877
700 million years ago

173
00:14:41,547 --> 00:14:45,050
humans and octopuses were
both an underwater flatworm,

174
00:14:49,555 --> 00:14:52,433
but evolution
took them their way.

175
00:14:54,018 --> 00:14:56,895
We know that it did. They don't.

176
00:15:00,065 --> 00:15:03,235
Human minds own this world.

177
00:15:03,319 --> 00:15:07,156
They can feel human,

178
00:15:07,239 --> 00:15:09,325
but they are not.

179
00:15:15,164 --> 00:15:17,041
Just stay away
from its beak and tentacles

180
00:15:17,124 --> 00:15:18,226
and it can't do a thing to you.

181
00:15:18,250 --> 00:15:20,252
Channing? Can you, uh,

182
00:15:20,336 --> 00:15:23,339
print out those USAP emergency
response forms off that e-mail?

183
00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,092
Channing,
this is the octopus we've been looking for.

184
00:15:51,116 --> 00:15:53,369
Dr. Hai was right.

185
00:15:53,452 --> 00:15:56,163
The radula is not chitinous.

186
00:15:58,123 --> 00:16:00,209
The chromatophores
are reflective.

187
00:16:00,292 --> 00:16:02,002
This is the new species.

188
00:16:02,086 --> 00:16:03,271
Troxell sent us here to find.

189
00:16:03,295 --> 00:16:05,440
The chemicals we can extract
from it will revolutionize

190
00:16:05,464 --> 00:16:09,051
pain management, anesthesia,
you name it.

191
00:16:10,386 --> 00:16:11,387
Once the satellite is up,

192
00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:12,888
let's send a message

193
00:16:12,971 --> 00:16:15,015
that we have secured
the specimen.

194
00:17:25,377 --> 00:17:27,963
Orson,
I did not sign up for this.

195
00:17:28,047 --> 00:17:30,507
You're not thinking
about the big picture.

196
00:17:30,591 --> 00:17:32,301
Let's just put
this goddamn thing

197
00:17:32,384 --> 00:17:33,969
back in the water and walk away.

198
00:17:34,052 --> 00:17:36,346
No.

199
00:18:30,192 --> 00:18:32,402
What if we just let Janik
or Larry kill it?

200
00:18:32,486 --> 00:18:35,656
You know, we could say,
"What could we do?"

201
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,242
Satellite's up in a few minutes.

202
00:20:48,538 --> 00:20:50,666
It's time to go to work.

203
00:20:57,965 --> 00:20:59,883
Hey, Larry, you don't see this?

204
00:20:59,967 --> 00:21:02,010
The pipe's busted.

205
00:21:04,596 --> 00:21:05,847
Larry.

206
00:22:09,494 --> 00:22:12,414
As soon
as the satellite's over the horizon

207
00:22:12,497 --> 00:22:14,583
and the Internet's live,
I'll contact McMurdo Station

208
00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:16,668
to send a rescue party.

209
00:22:16,752 --> 00:22:18,045
Then you alert Troxell.

210
00:22:30,849 --> 00:22:33,518
Shit.

211
00:22:33,602 --> 00:22:36,438
I need that two-step
verification code,

212
00:22:36,521 --> 00:22:38,774
and the app is on my phone.

213
00:22:38,857 --> 00:22:40,442
Have you seen my phone?

214
00:22:40,525 --> 00:22:41,943
You had it in the lab.

215
00:23:02,547 --> 00:23:05,008
Hey, have you seen my phone?

216
00:23:05,092 --> 00:23:07,844
Larry?

217
00:23:21,399 --> 00:23:23,318
Channing, w-what's wrong?

218
00:23:23,401 --> 00:23:25,570
Janik. Larry...

219
00:23:37,082 --> 00:23:39,501
Shit.

220
00:23:39,584 --> 00:23:42,170
Oh, my God.

221
00:24:16,454 --> 00:24:18,874
They're all gone.

222
00:24:18,957 --> 00:24:20,375
Do you see anything?

223
00:24:20,458 --> 00:24:21,877
In the tanks or on the floor?

224
00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:23,044
If we see one?

225
00:24:23,128 --> 00:24:25,005
We kill it.

226
00:24:25,088 --> 00:24:27,090
No!

227
00:24:27,174 --> 00:24:29,009
Five are dead.
Why wouldn't we kill it?

228
00:24:29,092 --> 00:24:31,553
I heard my phone in her room.

229
00:24:31,636 --> 00:24:33,805
She overheard everything
we were saying.

230
00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:37,517
She knows we're not really here
studying the ice.

231
00:24:39,811 --> 00:24:41,730
We knew of Troxell's interest

232
00:24:41,813 --> 00:24:43,440
in this species of octopus

233
00:24:43,523 --> 00:24:46,401
three months before
you even arrived here.

234
00:24:47,777 --> 00:24:49,654
It has my phone.

235
00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:05,921
Orson, the projector, the laptop

236
00:25:06,004 --> 00:25:07,881
are both controlled by my phone.

237
00:25:07,964 --> 00:25:10,091
It's tapping into
Ling's computer.

238
00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:13,094
- The octopus?
- It figured it out.

239
00:25:13,178 --> 00:25:16,139
- It's broken into her research.
- What is this?

240
00:25:16,223 --> 00:25:19,017
What do you need
all this data for?

241
00:25:21,937 --> 00:25:25,607
An animal,
three hours out of the ocean,

242
00:25:25,690 --> 00:25:28,109
is running
my fucking cell phone?

243
00:25:28,193 --> 00:25:30,111
Tell us what you know.

244
00:25:30,195 --> 00:25:32,530
Chinese military?

245
00:25:34,866 --> 00:25:37,452
So, it also wants to know.

246
00:25:37,535 --> 00:25:39,871
What you're really doing here
is, let's see...

247
00:25:43,041 --> 00:25:44,761
You're investigating
the physical mechanisms

248
00:25:44,834 --> 00:25:46,670
of this octopus?

249
00:25:46,753 --> 00:25:50,131
Artificial skin? Soft robots?

250
00:25:50,215 --> 00:25:52,133
Invisibility cloaking?

251
00:25:54,010 --> 00:25:55,804
You always think so small.

252
00:25:57,222 --> 00:25:58,807
We will use this animal

253
00:25:58,890 --> 00:26:01,017
to change
what a human being can be.

254
00:26:03,603 --> 00:26:06,481
What we're after
is no different than you.

255
00:26:06,564 --> 00:26:09,567
We're trying to develop it
to save lives, not take them.

256
00:26:10,944 --> 00:26:12,654
This octopus is unique.

257
00:26:12,737 --> 00:26:15,573
We've both been
searching for it.

258
00:26:17,242 --> 00:26:19,703
You want to exploit
the neurological properties

259
00:26:19,786 --> 00:26:21,830
of this octopus species?

260
00:26:23,581 --> 00:26:26,167
Gene edit into a human egg...

261
00:26:26,251 --> 00:26:27,728
Giving human beings
the best traits

262
00:26:27,752 --> 00:26:29,212
of vertebrates and cephalopods.

263
00:26:29,296 --> 00:26:33,258
So, if you bioengineer this gene

264
00:26:34,926 --> 00:26:38,638
you would create
a new species of human.

265
00:26:38,722 --> 00:26:41,141
Our arms and skin would have
the ability to taste,

266
00:26:41,224 --> 00:26:44,686
see and react without reporting
to a centralized brain.

267
00:26:44,769 --> 00:26:46,896
To camouflage
to its surroundings.

268
00:26:46,980 --> 00:26:49,899
We'd be able to live
in the oceans

269
00:26:49,983 --> 00:26:52,027
while controlling the land.

270
00:26:54,612 --> 00:26:56,197
Let's be honest with ourselves.

271
00:26:56,281 --> 00:26:59,200
We're both trying to take from
this animal what we don't have.

272
00:27:00,952 --> 00:27:02,162
That's what human beings do.

273
00:27:03,246 --> 00:27:05,832
It's what we've always done.

274
00:27:05,915 --> 00:27:07,542
I was wrong.

275
00:27:07,625 --> 00:27:11,796
We put it back in the sea,
and we go home.

276
00:27:32,150 --> 00:27:33,651
Come on.

277
00:27:40,825 --> 00:27:43,161
- You okay?
- Yeah.

278
00:28:18,696 --> 00:28:21,074
What the hell is happening?

279
00:28:21,157 --> 00:28:25,036
Oh, my God.
It changed the sequence.

280
00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:35,338
It figured out that if somehow,

281
00:28:35,422 --> 00:28:37,799
during this operation,
there were to occur

282
00:28:37,882 --> 00:28:41,302
a mutation or sabotage
of genetic material,

283
00:28:41,386 --> 00:28:45,014
and this same gene
is manipulated for octopus DNA,

284
00:28:45,098 --> 00:28:47,809
the opposite would occur.

285
00:28:47,892 --> 00:28:52,814
Sea life could rise out of the
ocean and stop life on land.

286
00:28:52,897 --> 00:28:56,818
It would do what evolution
didn't 700 million years ago:

287
00:28:56,901 --> 00:28:59,404
Put an end to the human species.

288
00:29:36,107 --> 00:29:40,361
What if our role has
always been not to rule this world,

289
00:29:40,445 --> 00:29:42,238
but to prime it?

290
00:29:42,322 --> 00:29:47,202
To lay the foundation for the
true inheritors of the Earth?

291
00:29:47,285 --> 00:29:51,831
The reign of humankind
has come to a close today,

292
00:29:51,915 --> 00:29:55,877
here in the dark, icy waters

293
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,962
of The Twilight Zone.

294
00:30:01,841 --> 00:30:03,760
Captioning sponsored by CBS

295
00:30:03,843 --> 00:30:06,003
Captioned by Media Access
Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org