Creature from the Black Lagoon Page #2

Wait till we find out what's going on.

Luis!

What could have happened?

I don't understand.

There's only one explanation.

The country is full of wild animals.

I think maybe jaguar.

Jaguar's claws, they rip like this.

Where's Kay?

Kay!

- What happened?

- There's been trouble.

Let's go back on board, Kay.

A world-shaking find, all right.

Eight days, and all we dig up

are enough stones to pave a road.

Had enough, Mark,

or do we keep on digging?

I'll tell you when I've had enough.

We failed.

That's all people will understand.

Carl, have you any idea

what this tributary empties into?

My boys used to tell me

there's a lagoon at the end of it.

What are you getting at?

I was just thinking.

It could be that at some time in the past,

part of this bank broke away

and fell into the river here.

Over hundreds of years, perhaps

thousands, the current would break it up.

If there is a dead end to this tributary,

that's where we'll find the fragments.

We might even find the rest of your fossil.

- It's a theory.

- What's wrong with that?

Even if David's theory is correct, the

chances of finding anything are remote.

But science always

takes remote chances. Why not try it?

- We might still turn failure into success.

- There's just one thing, Mark.

Going into unexplored territory

with a woman.

I'm not afraid, David,

and we've come this far.

I know, but... I keep remembering

what happened to Carl's men.

That doesn't sound like

the dedicated scientist talking.

Dedication doesn't mean

risking the lives of others.

I've always found

Kay was able to take care of herself.

We know nothing

about this lagoon.

I can tell you something about this place.

My boys call it the Black Lagoon -

a paradise.

Only, they say, nobody has ever

come back to prove it.

We'll do it.

Oh!

- Oh, David.

- I didn't mean to startle you.

I don't know what made me do that.

- That howling out there doesn't help any.

- Ah, those are Guariba monkeys.

Are you sorry now that we came?

You don't understand the species

very well, Doctor.

Give me time. I thought I was doing well,

considering that we've only

been together for six months.

How much time do you think you'll need?

From where I'm sitting, I'd say...

a lifetime.

That's the right answer.

We may not even have a lifetime.

In that case...

You mean this thing really works?

Oh, yes.

It's a very positive weapon,

the spear gun, Lucas, and easy to use.

All you do is aim it and squeeze.

What are you gonna shoot at?

Make any difference?

Hey!

- Can you take it any slower?

- Ease her off, a little bit. Not too much.

- Give me that hook.

- We may just make it on this side.

It's tight over here.

Is impossible!

But I, Lucas, will do it! Eh?

The Black Lagoon.

Beautiful lagoon.

Another world.

A little farther.

Then get the net over the side.

You expect to catch a fish?

We might as well see

what species are here.

We're not interested in fish.

We're after the rest of that fossil.

I need rocks

from the bottom of the lagoon to test.

- But we just got here.

- Why waste time?

If any of the wall that contained the fossil

is here, the rock test should prove it.

- I'll get the aqualungs.

- Be careful, David.

We don't know what's down there.

- I hope you're afraid for me too, Kay.

- Of course, Mark.

A little faster! Come on!

Faster! All right! Let it down!

All the way! Come on! Down, down!

All the way!

All right, hold it!

Here we go.

- We got the net down, David.

- Good.

This is crazy kind of fishing.

Who eats rocks?

I do, in a manner of speaking.

I crush them, and they tell me things.

Now you be careful.

What these rocks tell you, anyway?

How old they are.

It's called the uranium-lead test.

What do you wanna know that for?

So we can match 'em against the sample

in which the fossil was found.

Hey, they're up.

- How long they have to wait there?

- It depends how far down they went.

- Well, how was it down there?

- Oh, fine.

- I'll help you off with this equipment.

- Good.

- Carl? I got your samples.

- Good.

- Let me have them.

- Here they are.

- Thank you, David.

- And this, something for you.

Oh! Well, thank you! They're very pretty.

Let's test 'em right away.

- Will you help me, Doctor?

- Be glad to.

Thank you.

Come on, David.

You can play house later.

David...

About Mark.

- Well? What about him?

- Try to understand.

I've been trying. Somebody oughta

tell him his ambition is showing.

It won't do any good. I know.

Long before you came to work with us,

I tried.

But there's this to say for him:

He's produced some important findings.

He's also taken credit

for some important findings.

- Well, coming below?

- No. I'll wait up here.

Hey, what was it like down there?

Like another world.

I'd like to see it.

Crazy kind of fishing - for rocks.

Miss Lawrence!

Miss Lawrence!

You too far out, Miss Lawrence!

Hey, Zee. Start the motor.

Chico! Pull up the anchor.

Kay! What are you doing out there?

Come on back!

Look, you take it easy! We get you!

Drop the anchor.

Thanks, Lucas.

- Kay, that wasn't a very smart thing to do.

- But wonderful.

- What was that?

- Something's in the net.

Pull up your net!

- Hurry up!

- Take it away!

Pull it up! Come on!

Pull it up!

- Pull it up!

- Come on!

Yeah!

- Did it fall against the side?

- No, no movement here.

Pull it up!

Hey, the boom's cracking!

Slack off your winch!

- Slack off!

- He can't hear you.

Hey! What kind of fish do this?

Who says it was a fish? The net could've

hooked onto some underwater rock.

Wait.

It was no rock that left this in the net.

It's amazing.

I just finished a rock analysis.

And you were right, David.

Some of the limestone deposit

where I found the fossil

is on the bottom of this lagoon.

Lucas, put that over the side for me,

will you?

Whatever the species might be,

if you let it alone, it won't bother you.

Maybe. But if you're wrong,

this harpoon will correct any mistakes.

Mark, we're out for photographs for study,

not trophies.

This... this thing alive and

in its natural habitat is valuable to us.

Why settle for a photo

when we can get the real thing?

You don't sound like a scientist, but

like some big-game hunter out for the kill.

We may not be back home, David,

but you're still working for me.

You didn't wait long enough

before coming up.

- Why'd you shoot? You weren't attacked.

- You sound as if I'd harpooned you.

And why should we play tag

with this thing?

We can learn more from it if it's alive.

- Please! What is it you've found?

- I don't know what you'd call it.

It sounds incredible, but...

it appeared to be human.

I tell you, if it's what I think I saw,

it's the greatest find yet.

- Nothing compares to it.

- And I've got the proof here in my lens.

Many years ago

I heard this legend on the river.

A very old native tell me

of a man who live underwater.

But she was crazy.

Crazy Goole, everybody call her.

The unknown

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