Island Zero Page #4

to turn around and come back?

They must be half way to

the mainland by now.

They need to know

what happened to Arthur.

We don't know

what happened to Arthur.

Lars, are you there? Over.

[radio back-feed]

[on radio] This is Anya.

What's up, Val? Over.

Lars, it's Sam. You folks

alright out there?

[on radio] Yeah, we just

passed Burdock. No problems.

What about Reuben?

[on radio] His boat's

right behind me.

And here's the good news; there's

plenty of fish out here.

My sonar just lit

up like Vegas.

What do you

see on sonar?

[on radio] It looks like

a giant shoal of fish.

Movin' right beneath us.

About 30 meters down.

Big ass echoes.

Could be blue fin.

Are you sure they're fish?

[on radio] What else

would they be?

Lars, listen to me.

Get to the shore

as soon as you can.

Just head for the closest

landfall, even if it's just

a pile of rocks. Just get

the folks off the boat.

[on radio] Why?

Just get off the water!

[on radio] Jesus Christ.

What the hell is that?

Lars?

[on radio] Hey. Hold on!

And don't let them go over.

[screams over radio]

- [on radio] Hold on.

[muffled speech]

Lars?

[radio feedback]

Lars!

[generator dies]

[strikes match]

That's it. That's the

last of our diesel.

From now on, we're in the dark.

What happened out there, Sam?

I don't know.

You told them to get

off the water, you must

have known something

was going to happen.

Well, I was guessing.

After what happened to Emmett

and then to Arthur.

What did happen to Arthur?

You looked at the remains,

what did you see?

It looks like he was ripped

apart by some sort of animal.

But this happened aboard

his boat. On the water.

This is straight out

of your research paper.

What paper?

I wrote it four years ago on

the collapse of fisheries.

Tell them the rest, Sam.

Rachel and I first saw

it happen here.

It was December, four years

ago in Cape Hatteras.

A sudden and drastic

drop off in catches.

We tried to hunt down reasons.

We tested for toxins,

temperature shifts, and

dinoflagellates.

Dino what?

Red tide. We found nothing

to explain it, but it was

clear there was some sort of

marine catastrophe,

everything vanished from

crab to fish to dolphins-

You said that was the first

time you saw it happen, so

it's happened since then?

A year later, a colleague in

Dover observed the same thing.

And a year after that,

it happened in Nantucket.

So, we thought it might be

the Gulf stream Phenomenon.

Maine isn't on the

Gulf stream.

No, but the Gulf stream and

the Labrador current collide

to create one the richest

fishing grounds in the world,

the gulf of Maine.

And I predicted this is

where it would happen next,

and I was right.

'Cause something's changing.

Something that's causing the

fish population to collapse.

Like in Delaware

and Nantucket.

And it turned out

in other places, too.

There've been reports from

the Azores and Cape Verde.

And the pattern

is always the same;

a sudden disappearance of fish,

local economic devastation,

and then the fishermen

start to die.

From what?

Everyone assumed the deaths

were accidents or suicide, but

the bodies were never

found because

it always happened at sea.

Look, you said you had a

theory for what's causing this?

Rachel believed that there is

a marine predator that we

haven't identified, yet.

It's an apex predator

that migrates with the fish.

And it kills the fishermen?

[laughs]

Wouldn't somebody

have reported this?

That's why no one took it

seriously, but Rachel did.

Because she spotted it

on sonar, something that she

couldn't identify. And the day

that she disappeared, she was

out on the water

looking for it.

Lars saw something

on sonar, too.

He said it looked like

a giant shoal of fish.

Which means there's

more than one.

[soft chuckle]

Or it's really f***ing big.

[laughs] Oh, my God.

[ominous music]

Not so boring

here, after all.

[soft laugh]

Maybe you should stay

and cover the story.

Like any good journalist.

Maybe I should.

For the sake of the story.

It just turned out to

be right under my nose.

Captain Aha and

the White Whale.

What?

It's what you called me once,

Captain Ahab, chasing a monster

that would drag me

under the waves.

And it did.

Cost me my job,

brought us to this rock.

When I heard you

explain everything tonight,

I finally understood

the obsession.

It's still about Rachel,

isn't it?

You're on this island

because of her.

Because you are compelled

to find this thing

that she was searching for.

This thing that killed her.

I was never really

quite sure it existed.

But now I know she was right.

I believe her.

So do I.

[waves crashing]

I always despised beans.

Better learn to like 'em,

Titus, 'cause we're running

out of everything else.

Do you mind if we bring some

of our supplies over to Nina's?

She told me this morning that

she's running low on food.

Sure. She can move in

here if she wants.

Ruth and Alvis, too.

It might be smart for us to pull

our resources while we figure

out what the hell is goin' on.

If this were one

of your novels,

how would you explain it?

[soft chuckle]

We all wake up and find

out it just was a nightmare.

Pretty lame for a writer.

Even with that fire goin',

it's gonna get cold in here.

We're gonna need

more blankets.

I'll get 'em.

I just hope this story

has a happy ending.

There's no such thing

as a happy ending.

You're full of sunshine

and light, doctor.

Well, I've seen too

many endings.

some are painful,

some are tragic.

None of them are happy.

That's why I prefer fiction.

Why come all the

way out here to write?

'Cause-

My book takes place

on and island,

and I wanted authenticity.

Pulled out a map, searched

the Maine cost for the most

remote island I could find,

and this was it.

Island Zero.

It's uh...

It's my title.

What does it mean?

The island where all

things can be rebooted.

New lives, new relationships.

New possibilities.

[music plays]

[closes truck of car]

Nina?

I got about a weeks worth

of pork and beans for you.

[muffled] Nina?

[music on radio]

Nina?

I brought a weeks worth

of pork and beans for you.

Nina?

[gasp]

[cries]

[pants]

[tires screech]

[cries]

What did that? What the

hell did that to her?

Ruth and Alvis.

Dad?

- Stay in the car!

- But, Dad.

Stay with Jesse. Both of

you just stay in the car.

But, Dad.

[ominous music]

[creature growls]

Well you could've

knocked, first.

Are you okay?

Alvis ain't up to speed

but I'm doin' fine, considering.

Sounds like a bear hibernating.

[Al snores]

82 degrees in here and

he needs all them blankets.

Ruth! You can't stay here.

You and Alvis need to leave

the house right now.

Why? Where we goin'?

To the inn. Everyone on the

island needs to stay together.

- Dad?

- Go back to the truck, Ellie!

Ruth, Nina's dead.

Something got into her house,

smashed through the window.

Dad, I need to show

you something.

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