attack of the giant leeches

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ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES | Horror, Sci-Fi | Year |   Plot: A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.  Crew:  • Directed by: Bernard L. Kowalski • Written by: Leo Gordon • Starring: Ken Clark, Yvette Vickers, Jan Shepard, Michael Emmet • Produced by: Gene Corman • Music by: Alexander Laszlo • Cinematography: John M. Nickolaus Jr.  • Edited by: Carlo Lodato  About TRENDEST MOVIES - ENGLISH:  Welcome to TRENDEST MOVIES - ENGLISH, your ultimate destination for timeless Hollywood classics, thrilling blockbusters, and hidden gems from the world of English cinema. Dive into a vast collection of iconic films spanning genres like action, drama, romance, comedy, sci-fi, and more. Whether you’re a fan of vintage masterpieces or the latest hits, our channel brings you the best of English-language movies, carefully curated to entertain and inspire. Subscribe now and join our community of movie lovers to enjoy cinematic experiences that will keep you on the edge of your seat. At TRENDEST MOVIES - ENGLISH, the magic of movies never fades!  Subscribe now: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_MOVIES_ENGLISH  Follow Trendest Media:  • YouTube:  1. TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_KIDS1 2. TRENDEST KIDS: www.youtube.com/@TRENDEST_INFOTAINMENT  • Instagram:  TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.instagram.com/trendestinfotainment/  • Facebook: TRENDEST INFOTAINMENT: https://www.facebook.com/TrendestInfotainment/   COPYRIGHT  We hold the proper licenses for all movies published on YouTube. For any questions, please contact: mail@trendest.in  AYA Media Private Limited & TRENDEST Media Private Limited are companies registered under the laws of India and located in the state of Kerala, India.

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00:02:30Hey!

00:02:35Wait a minute! Wait a minute!

00:02:39Hold on, hold on, hold on!

00:02:44Just hold it a second, will you?

00:02:46Miss!

00:02:48You hear me girl?

00:02:49Oh, you won't now.

00:02:59Can't play that thing so loud.

00:03:06Would you come out like this for a minute?

00:03:11Oh, don't bother me.

00:03:13Liz.

00:03:17Someday, I'm going to give that she-cat a whopping she's been asking for.

00:03:22Sure you will, Dave.

00:03:23Leave it all down to her.

00:03:24Let her know who wears the pants around here.

00:03:28I'll be back in a minute.

00:03:32Any whoopings done back there, I'll lay you a jug.

00:03:35She'll be doing it.

00:03:39Come on now, Lemon.

00:03:40Tell us about that thing you killed out there at the swamp, will you?

00:03:43Yeah, let's hear the rest of that.

00:03:44Like I was saying, I put five slugs into that critter before it went under.

00:03:51Don't call this thing I ever seen.

00:03:53Had regular arms on it like a man.

00:03:56It was sort of different looking.

00:03:58Had suckers on them.

00:04:01Like one of them, uh...

00:04:03Like one of them octopuses things.

00:04:06Oh, it was plumb off-looking.

00:04:09Lem, you sure that critter wasn't pink?

00:04:13Oh, I told you before it was sort of gray-looking.

00:04:19You can laugh if you want.

00:04:22But that thing weren't nothing nature put out there.

00:04:25No, sir.

00:04:26And it weren't no freak gator either.

00:04:29I've been poaching this country for 40 years and I ain't never seen nothing like it.

00:04:35Well, too bad you didn't bring it back.

00:04:37Steve Benton probably paid a fair bounty for him.

00:04:39Whatever it was.

00:04:41Bounty?

00:04:42I wouldn't touch that critter for all the money he ever made.

00:04:47And if you'd seen it, you wouldn't either.

00:04:50You better take it easy on this stuff.

00:04:51You're looking kind of peaking.

00:04:54No.

00:04:56I'm going to clean my otter lines out before morning.

00:05:00Lem, I think that critter's a ghost of one of those otters you've been poaching all these years,

00:05:04coming back to haunt you.

00:05:09Well, if that's so, you fellas will see it right quick yourselves.

00:05:29Morning, son.

00:05:39Morning.

00:05:55Well, look.

00:05:56It's not like I want to be mean or anything like that, Liz, baby.

00:06:00But I got a reputation around here.

00:06:02These folks have no respect for a man who lets his woman boss him.

00:06:06Well, next thing you know, they'll be laughing at me.

00:06:08And they'll be telling all the rest of the...

00:06:10Won't you please listen to me, Liz, baby?

00:06:14Liz?

00:06:36Stop looking at me like that.

00:06:50I'll look at you the way I want you, my wife.

00:07:07Don't touch me.

00:07:09Who do you think you're talking to?

00:07:11Don't touch me.

00:07:12You're my wife.

00:07:13I'll touch you any time I feel like it.

00:07:22Where you going?

00:07:27Where you going?

00:07:30I'm going out.

00:07:33Maybe I'll be back.

00:07:35Maybe I won't.

00:07:36Liz, baby.

00:07:37I didn't mean nothing.

00:08:04Well, there was the young one in that last trap.

00:08:06I had to kill it.

00:08:07Oh, poor thing.

00:08:09Told you you shouldn't have come along.

00:08:16Well, I can understand hunting an animal,

00:08:18but making it suffer in those traps, it's horrible.

00:08:22Well, these poachers know the swamp's like the back of their hands.

00:08:25But I'll catch one of them in the act some night

00:08:27and put him away for six months.

00:08:29In the meantime, I'll have to be satisfied confiscating their trap lines.

00:08:32If you lose enough traps, it won't pay them to keep trying.

00:08:34Well, be careful, darling.

00:08:36These people aren't like other folks.

00:08:38You know, they'll try and get back at you.

00:08:40Let them try.

00:08:42Steve, you're a stranger here.

00:08:44They've lived this way for generations.

00:08:46One man isn't going to change them overnight.

00:08:48You're a real worrywart.

00:08:50Oh, I'm serious, Steve.

00:08:52They can be dangerous.

00:08:54Okay, I'll be careful.

00:08:56You just stop worrying.

00:09:04Oh, Steve, I love you.

00:09:07I love you so much.

00:09:13What was that?

00:09:15I don't know. You get in that truck and lock it up.

00:09:27Oh, Steve!

00:09:40Hey!

00:09:57Listen, Benton.

00:09:59The coroner ruled that Sawyer died of a misadventure.

00:10:02Now, as far as this office is concerned, that's the end of it.

00:10:05But, Sheriff, I can't see why the...

00:10:07Look, if Lem was killed by anything human,

00:10:09I wouldn't need you to tell me my job.

00:10:11But I'm not about to go tromping through the swamp

00:10:13looking for an overgrown gator.

00:10:15Sawyer wasn't killed by an alligator.

00:10:17Is that so?

00:10:19Did you hear that, Morton?

00:10:21Game warden Benton says it wasn't a gator killed Lem.

00:10:23Well, then, what was it?

00:10:25If you know so much, go on, tell me.

00:10:27What killed him?

00:10:29Doc Grayson said the wounds were the kind of squid

00:10:31or a large octopus might cause.

00:10:33Oh, sure.

00:10:35And did Grayson explain how a saltwater creature

00:10:37happened to be 30 miles inland living in clear water?

00:10:39Stranger things have happened. I know it.

00:10:41Look here, Benton.

00:10:43You work for the state.

00:10:45Now, why don't you keep your nose out of county business?

00:10:47Is that clear enough for you?

00:10:49Oh, go soak your fat head.

00:10:51Oh, go soak your fat head.

00:10:57What was that you said?

00:10:59I said go soak your fat head.

00:11:07That boy's looking for bad trouble.

00:11:09And he's sure going to get it.

00:11:11You can bet on that.

00:11:21So you see,

00:11:23the octopi uses its suction discs

00:11:25to hold its prey.

00:11:27Now, in itself, the disc will not inflict a wound.

00:11:29Same is true of the squid.

00:11:31Now, both creatures have a parrot-like beak

00:11:33as their primary offensive and defensive weapon.

00:11:35Well, maybe the sheriff was right, Dad.

00:11:39Could be a freak

00:11:41or a malformed alligator.

00:11:43No.

00:11:45No, I'm afraid it wasn't.

00:11:47Well, where does that leave us, Doc?

00:11:49I wish I knew.

00:11:51You know, I'm beginning to think

00:11:53Lem was telling the truth in Walker's store.

00:11:55He did see something that night.

00:11:57Something that had intelligence

00:11:59enough to seek him out

00:12:01and destroy him later.

00:12:03But Sawyer claims to have killed the thing he saw

00:12:05and put a half a dozen rifle bullets into it.

00:12:07I've seen that old .44-40 he used.

00:12:09Nothing could live after being hit with those slugs.

00:12:11Well,

00:12:13conceding the possibility

00:12:15of one such creature,

00:12:17we must also concede the possibility

00:12:19of others.

00:12:21Well, there's one sure way

00:12:23of finding out.

00:12:25Go in and search every backwater channel

00:12:27and wet spot in the swamp.

00:12:29If it's there, I'll find it.

00:12:47♪

00:13:16It sure is quiet around here.

00:13:46♪

00:13:52Did you hear something?

00:13:54Yes.

00:13:56♪

00:13:59Well, whatever it was, it's not here anymore.

00:14:02♪

00:14:09Do you want some coffee?

00:14:11Yeah, thanks, hon.

00:14:13♪

00:14:15An army could hide in here and never be noticed.

00:14:17No one did.

00:14:19What?

00:14:21The Seminoles under Osceola in the 1830s

00:14:23took the U.S. Army two years

00:14:25to round them up.

00:14:27Oh, I remember reading about Osceola in high school.

00:14:29Two years.

00:14:33You've only been out of two days and I feel worn out.

00:14:35Well,

00:14:37you might as well keep on looking around.

00:14:45♪

00:15:10Well, I guess we might as well give up for today.

00:15:12You won't get any argument from me.

00:15:42♪

00:15:58I'm asking you for the last time, Dave Walker.

00:16:02You answer me, you dirty old man!

00:16:06I ain't dirty, Liz, baby.

00:16:08Liz, baby.

00:16:10Honey!

00:16:12Can't you think of anything else to say, stupid?

00:16:14I gotta get this order over to Miss Chauvet.

00:16:16She's one of my better customers.

00:16:18Can't keep her waiting.

00:16:22I love you, Liz, baby.

00:16:25Get out.

00:16:27Get out, you fat pig!

00:16:41You, uh,

00:16:43have some trouble, Dave?

00:16:45You know women, Cal.

00:16:47Gotta get the hair down every now and then.

00:16:50You sure do know an awful lot about females.

00:16:53I gotta hand it to you.

00:16:55I can't stand here adjaunting, Cal.

00:16:58Gotta get this order over to Miss Chauvet.

00:17:01What's she letting her hair down about this time?

00:17:03Well,

00:17:05ever since I got married,

00:17:07well,

00:17:09ever since Lynn got herself killed,

00:17:11she wants me to sell out and move into town.

00:17:14Don't you let her bamboozle you, Dave.

00:17:17Keep her right here in the store.

00:17:20After all, place wouldn't be the same without you around.

00:17:24Thanks, Cal.

00:17:26I better get going. See you when I get back.

00:17:28Yeah, I'll be around.

00:17:37Liz, baby.

00:17:41It's Cal, honey.

00:17:51You want something, Cal?

00:17:57I got you something.

00:17:59I got you something.

00:18:01I got you something.

00:18:03I got you something.

00:18:06I sure do, honey.

00:18:24Tired?

00:18:26Oh, I'm dead.

00:18:28Me too.

00:18:30Come on over here.

00:18:36Oh.

00:18:41It seems kind of silly knocking ourselves out

00:18:43looking for something we aren't even sure exists.

00:18:46What do you mean?

00:18:49You know, we've covered miles of back channel

00:18:51and haven't come across anything to support your

00:18:53father's theory of an alien creature.

00:18:56Not so much as a mud print we couldn't identify.

00:19:00I know.

00:19:03You're not going to give up, are you, Steve?

00:19:06Well, I can't waste any more time

00:19:08on a wild goose chase.

00:19:11With all respect to your father's ideas.

00:19:16Dad seems so sure.

00:19:33Dad seems so sure.

00:19:59Yes, someone is.

00:20:02I reckon I never met a woman like you before.

00:20:06You really like me, Cal?

00:20:10You're kidding.

00:20:12No, I didn't hurt you now, did I?

00:20:16It's just that you're so strong.

00:20:20I like a man that's strong.

00:20:26You sure picked a doozy, that man Dave.

00:20:29I don't think he's got a muscle in him.

00:20:32He's just a big piece of flab.

00:20:36Oh, honey, I didn't mean anything against you.

00:20:41It's just that I can't see a real woman like you

00:20:44turning with a tub of lard like him.

00:20:50You wouldn't understand, Cal.

00:20:53You know, I've wanted to tell you.

00:20:58You just wouldn't understand.

00:21:00Keep trying, then.

00:21:03Come on, you tell old Cal all about it.

00:21:11You wouldn't think bad of me?

00:21:14Crazy.

00:21:17You tell him you killed your pa and your ma and your whole family.

00:21:21I'd fight to protect you.

00:21:30I'd fight to protect you.

00:22:01My first husband was a no-good bum.

00:22:05Couldn't keep a job more than a week.

00:22:09He used to get lushed up, come home beat up on me.

00:22:13He must have been a prize pig.

00:22:17One night he tried to hold up a gas station.

00:22:21He was so drunk he couldn't even run.

00:22:24They caught him less than a mile away.

00:22:27They caught him less than a mile away.

00:22:30Got set up.

00:22:33I got a divorce.

00:22:37That's rough.

00:22:39After three years working in a lousy beanery,

00:22:42I was ready for the first guy to say the last word to me.

00:22:46It was Dave.

00:22:49That's it.

00:22:51I wish it had been me.

00:22:53I'd know how to take care of a woman like you, Liz.

00:22:56Maybe it ain't too late, Cal.

00:23:07You're wrong, woman.

00:23:09It's too late for the both of you.

00:23:12Get up.

00:23:15Come on, get up.

00:23:17Now look, Dave, I know what you're thinking, but...

00:23:20I got double large shot in this here thing.

00:23:22You...

00:23:24You got two seconds or four, I'll pull the trigger.

00:23:31No point getting riled, Dave.

00:23:33It wasn't my fault.

00:23:35You've been pestering me for months to take her out.

00:23:38Sure, Cal.

00:23:40I understand.

00:23:42Get her up so I can get a better look at the line, little tramp.

00:23:45Come on, get her up.

00:23:48Come on, get up.

00:23:50No, Cal, no.

00:23:51Kill me, kill me.

00:23:53Jump him.

00:23:55When your husband wants to take a look at you.

00:24:00You, uh, you walk all the way, Dave?

00:24:03One more step and I'll blow your plum in two.

00:24:06Get over there.

00:24:08Now, Dave, it ain't as bad as you think.

00:24:11Shut up!

00:24:13Tramp.

00:24:15What are you gonna do?

00:24:17You'll find out soon enough.

00:24:19Dave, you put down that gun before I get mad and make you eat it.

00:24:23Go ahead and try it, Cal.

00:24:26Go right ahead and try it.

00:24:28Move.

00:24:30Move!

00:24:48Come on.

00:25:11Come on.

00:25:13Come on!

00:25:15I can't go any further.

00:25:16No.

00:25:18Come on.

00:25:19Come on.

00:25:45Go on, run!

00:25:47Run till you drop!

00:25:50Stop!

00:26:11I can't go on anymore, I can't.

00:26:13You've got to let me stop.

00:26:15Shut up!

00:26:17You keep moving like a fool child.

00:26:19I can't go on.

00:26:21Cal!

00:26:50Come on, keep going.

00:26:52Dave, please, you've got to listen.

00:26:55It wasn't my fault, honest.

00:26:57She kept playing up to me every time you turned your back.

00:27:00It wasn't my fault.

00:27:02You call yourself a man?

00:27:04You and your muscles.

00:27:07Shut up, you tramp!

00:27:09If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be in this fix.

00:27:11And my old friend Dave wouldn't be doing this thing to me.

00:27:14It's all your fault.

00:27:17Get going.

00:27:19But Dave, Dave, we've been friends, we've been friends a long time, Dave.

00:27:24You wouldn't, you wouldn't kill an old friend, Dave.

00:27:27If you don't move, I'll kill you where you stand.

00:27:30But Dave!

00:27:33Be brave, big man.

00:27:40I didn't mean it, Dave.

00:27:42Dave, I didn't mean it.

00:27:46Dave, my kid is out here.

00:27:50Dave, please, Dave.

00:27:53I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

00:28:01I'm sorry, honey, I'm sorry, Dave.

00:28:04I'm sorry, I didn't mean it.

00:28:08I'm sorry.

00:28:14You think you've learned enough to stay away from a woman, Cal?

00:28:17Anything, Dave!

00:28:19I'm moving here, I'm moving out of the county.

00:28:21I'll do anything you say, Dave.

00:28:23Anything.

00:28:25All right.

00:28:27Come on out of there.

00:28:30Dave, Dave.

00:28:32Give me a hand.

00:28:40Behind you!

00:28:47Move!

00:28:58There ain't nothing down here, sir.

00:29:02Well, I'm getting tired of this.

00:29:05Come on in, boys.

00:29:11Well, if there was any bodies out there, we'd have found them.

00:29:16I want some straight answers, Walter.

00:29:18And don't give me any more of that crud about monsters, either.

00:29:22Where'd you hide them after you killed them?

00:29:26I told you the truth, Sharon.

00:29:29I didn't kill them.

00:29:32I just wanted to scare them good.

00:29:36I loved my Liz.

00:29:39I wouldn't do anything to hurt her.

00:29:42I loved her.

00:29:44Sure.

00:29:46That's why you chased her through the swamp with a shotgun.

00:29:50Come on, Walter.

00:29:52Where'd you hide the bodies?

00:29:54Won't you believe me?

00:29:56It was some monsters, they...

00:29:58Take him out of here before I lose my temper.

00:30:09Can't you pay a reward if someone finds a body, Sheriff?

00:30:13Fifty dollars.

00:30:16Each?

00:30:19Yeah.

00:30:24You know, I never thought that of old Dave.

00:30:27Of course, everybody knows that Cal and Liz had a hankering for each other.

00:30:31Everybody but old Dave.

00:30:34Durn fools.

00:30:36Grappling out there in the middle of the water.

00:30:38If in them bodies you're still in there,

00:30:41you can bet some old bull gator's got him stuffed in his cave under the bank

00:30:46letting him ripen up for a few days.

00:30:50Yeah, well...

00:30:52What we need now is some long cypress poles to go in there and probe them gator caves.

00:31:12I'm sorry, Doc. I can't do it.

00:31:13I have to do it myself.

00:31:15Wouldn't want to have to arrest you, Doc, but I will

00:31:17if I find you near the preserve with any explosives.

00:31:19Steve.

00:31:21Sorry, Nan, that's the way it's gotta be.

00:31:23Steve's right, Nan.

00:31:25It's his job to protect wildlife.

00:31:27What about human life?

00:31:29Three people have been killed in that game preserve.

00:31:32Doesn't that mean anything to you?

00:31:34Nan, try to understand.

00:31:36If I could be sure something in the swamp was responsible for those deaths,

00:31:39I wouldn't hesitate a minute.

00:31:40We've been together the last three days.

00:31:42We didn't see a trace of anything unusual.

00:31:44Not so much as a suggestion of any form of life unknown to us.

00:31:48Steve.

00:31:50Shot and killed those people.

00:31:52All right, I'll admit Sawyer's death left a lot of questions unanswered.

00:31:55But you can bet your bottom dollar

00:31:57the other two died from Dave Walker's shotgun.

00:31:59Do you really believe that?

00:32:01Figure it out, Nan.

00:32:03Walker admitted chasing his wife and cow into the swamps

00:32:05after he found them together.

00:32:07He shot them and he tried to pull them out.

00:32:08He shot them and he tried to place the blame on Sawyer's DTs.

00:32:11If Sawyer had told of seeing

00:32:13a purple giraffe with polka dot tails,

00:32:15Walker would have claimed they did it.

00:32:17There's one argument against that, Steve.

00:32:19Dave Walker wasn't the kind of a man to hang himself,

00:32:22not even with two murder charges against him.

00:32:24I talked with Dave less than an hour before he killed himself.

00:32:27That man was in a state of shock.

00:32:29I've seen frightened men before, terrified men.

00:32:32But I've never seen anything to compare

00:32:34with the horror and the fear in Walker's eyes.

00:32:36Well, he realized what he'd done

00:32:38and he killed two people, one his wife.

00:32:40Oh, look, Doc, Nan and I were all over that swamp.

00:32:43And why didn't these monsters attack us?

00:32:46I've been thinking about that.

00:32:48They're probably night creatures.

00:32:50They can't stand the light

00:32:52and they stay down near the bottom during the day.

00:32:54A small charge would stun them,

00:32:56bring them to the surface.

00:32:58Can't buy it, Doc.

00:33:00You're pig-headed, Steve Benton.

00:33:02Stubborn and pig-headed.

00:33:03You just don't understand, do you?

00:33:13Good night, Doc.

00:33:33Right over there in the middle of the reeds.

00:34:04Just can't figure old Dave out.

00:34:06Yeah, if he was caught like Cal, what would you do?

00:34:10I hadn't thought of that.

00:34:13Right over there in them reeds

00:34:15is where that big one used to be.

00:34:17Yeah.

00:34:19Caught some good catfish in that hole.

00:34:25I don't know.

00:34:27I don't know.

00:34:29I don't know.

00:34:30I don't know.

00:34:49Boy, this is sure a hot one.

00:34:56Right on seasonable.

00:35:00Sure is funny.

00:35:01Huh?

00:35:03Ain't you noticed anything?

00:35:05About what?

00:35:06We've been prodding around here all morning.

00:35:08Ain't run across a single gator.

00:35:12By rights, this fool should be crawling with them.

00:35:16Sure funny.

00:35:18Yeah, that is funny.

00:35:20I don't like the looks of things.

00:35:22Let's call it a day.

00:35:24Well, now, wait a minute.

00:35:25We ain't pulled the gator holes around the bend yet.

00:35:27You do what you want to do, boy.

00:35:28Just get me on dry land.

00:35:30And right quick.

00:35:31All right.

00:35:32Now, I ain't no use getting all head up.

00:35:34Let's go.

00:35:38You better quit drinking that hand shank.

00:35:40Yeah.

00:35:42That's why you're just a rankling thug.

00:35:48No way out here.

00:35:50It's a wild goose chasing.

00:35:58Ah!

00:36:28Ah!

00:36:58Ah!

00:37:08Ah!

00:37:09Ah!

00:37:10Ah!

00:37:11Ah!

00:37:26Ah!

00:37:28Ah!

00:37:31Ah!

00:37:33Ah!

00:37:35Ah!

00:37:38Ah!

00:37:40We've been calling, but there's been no answer.

00:37:42Oh, I just got back.

00:37:43What seems to be the trouble?

00:37:45Haven't you heard?

00:37:47Old Sam Peters and Porky Reed have disappeared.

00:37:50Come on inside.

00:37:51You know, Covis,

00:37:53nothing would please him more

00:37:55than to have all the swamp people disappear.

00:37:57Swamp trash, he calls them.

00:37:59I know.

00:38:01They have about as much regard for him

00:38:03as he has for them.

00:38:05When they're worried enough to go to him,

00:38:07you know something's wrong.

00:38:09Mrs. Reed said the men went searching

00:38:11for Cal and Mrs. Walker's bodies,

00:38:13and they never returned.

00:38:15Covis says he'll get up a search party

00:38:17to look for them.

00:38:18Doc, you and Nan take your car

00:38:20and get as many volunteers as you can.

00:38:22Tell them to meet me at the old wagon road.

00:38:24I'll call Doc Evans and have him bring his dogs.

00:38:27Either they're lost or they've had an accident.

00:38:29I hope to heaven you're right.

00:38:48I hope to heaven you're right.

00:39:18I hope to heaven you're right.

00:39:49Well, they picked up the scent anyway.

00:39:51Well, they picked up the scent anyway.

00:39:53Dad, do you think they'll find them?

00:39:54Dad, do you think they'll find them?

00:39:56Only the good Lord can answer that.

00:39:57Only the good Lord can answer that.

00:39:59Well, they picked up the scent anyway.

00:40:01Well, they picked up the scent anyway.

00:40:03Dad, do you think they'll find them?

00:40:06Only the good Lord can answer that.

00:40:08Only the good Lord can answer that.

00:40:29Well, at least we know they got this far.

00:40:32All right, let's split up into two parties

00:40:34and circle the lake.

00:40:35Keep your eyes open.

00:40:37Let's move out.

00:40:59Let's go.

00:41:22It's all clear.

00:41:25It's clear over here.

00:41:28Oh, no.

00:41:29Oh, no.

00:41:30Oh, no.

00:41:31Oh, no.

00:41:32Oh, no.

00:41:33Oh, no.

00:41:34Oh, no.

00:41:35Oh, no.

00:41:36Oh, no.

00:41:37Oh, no.

00:41:38Oh, no.

00:41:39Oh, no.

00:41:40Oh, no.

00:41:41Oh, no.

00:41:42Oh, no.

00:41:43Oh, no.

00:41:44Oh, no.

00:41:45Oh, no.

00:41:46Oh, no.

00:41:47Oh, no.

00:41:48Oh, no.

00:41:49Oh, no.

00:41:50Oh, no.

00:41:51Oh, no.

00:41:52Oh, no.

00:41:53Oh, no.

00:41:54Oh, no.

00:41:55Oh, no.

00:41:56Oh, no.

00:41:57Oh, no.

00:41:58Oh, no.

00:41:59Oh, no.

00:42:00Oh, no.

00:42:01Oh, no.

00:42:02Oh, no.

00:42:03Oh, no.

00:42:04Oh, no.

00:42:05Oh, no.

00:42:06Oh, no.

00:42:07Oh, no.

00:42:08Oh, no.

00:42:09Oh, no.

00:42:10Oh, no.

00:42:11Oh, no.

00:42:12Oh, no.

00:42:13Oh, no.

00:42:14Oh, no.

00:42:15Oh, no.

00:42:16Oh, no.

00:42:17Oh, no.

00:42:18Oh, no.

00:42:19Oh, no.

00:42:20Oh, no.

00:42:21Oh, no.

00:42:22Oh, no.

00:42:23Oh, no.

00:42:24Oh, no.

00:42:25Oh, no.

00:42:26Well, we can't do anything more tonight. Might as well start back.

00:42:36I reckon ain't no use hurrying now, Mr. Benton. Reed and old Sam was alive. They let us know

00:42:42with a holler or something. Yeah, it kind of looks that way.

00:42:47You fellas notice anything about this lake? I mean the gators.

00:42:50What about them? They ain't. A piece of water this size usually

00:42:54has maybe 50, 60 big ones around. A whole lot of little ones. It's real unnatural.

00:43:00Well, maybe our torches scared them away. Nothing scares gators. Nothing. Animal or

00:43:07human. Well, we might as well get out of here.

00:43:22You got something in mind, Steve? I keep thinking what Evan said about the gators.

00:43:28Nothing scares them. Animal or human. And yet something made them leave. Maybe a, maybe

00:43:34a mineral contamination. Guess I better run some water samples.

00:43:38Come on, you two. Drink your coffee. And supposing there is no contamination?

00:43:44Well, then I'll send over to Eastport for a diving rig and go down to look for this

00:43:49monster of yours. No, Steve, don't even joke like that.

00:43:52I'm not joking, man. I had some training with an aqualung while I was in the Navy.

00:43:56But Steve... Look, there are two bodies we know for sure

00:43:59down there. Maybe four. They've got to be brought up.

00:44:02Wait a minute. There are no alligators in that part of the swamp, right?

00:44:06So? No sign of any fish or snakes?

00:44:10No. What are you getting at, Doc? Well, that goes your argument about setting

00:44:15off a dynamite charge underwater. It'd bring the bodies to the surface.

00:44:20Get it out of your mind, Doc. I'm not using any explosives as long as there's another

00:44:23way. Why must you be such a...

00:44:26Stubborn pig-head? Exactly.

00:44:28I'll tell you why. Number one, there's bound to be some aquarium life in that section,

00:44:32even if the bigger forms have abandoned it. Explosion underwater would destroy every living

00:44:38thing and wreck what nature took years to build up.

00:44:41Number two, I'm paid to prevent the useless slaughter of wildlife.

00:44:46Number three, I'd have to get authorization. And to get that authorization, I'd have to

00:44:49come up with a heck of a good reason. Satisfied?

00:44:54Finish up, Dad. I want to go home. Steve, how long will it take to get this diving

00:45:02equipment from Eastport? A couple of days. Why?

00:45:07Oh, nothing. Take care of yourself, Steve.

00:45:20Well, here's hoping. Dad, can't you throw the dynamite in from

00:45:25here? No, I want to get it out in the middle, in

00:45:27the deepest part. All right.

00:45:37Dad! Stop!

00:46:07Dad! Dad!

00:46:37It should go any minute.

00:47:07Dad! Dad!

00:47:38I just can't figure it out. Walker's wife, why didn't her body come to

00:47:58the surface? I don't know.

00:48:03I think I'd better walk over to the coroner's office.

00:48:06What's the matter, Mr. Benton? Do you feel awkward about arresting my father in his own

00:48:11home? I warned him I'd arrest him if he used dynamite.

00:48:14That's nice of you. Well, the autopsy should be over by now.

00:48:22Oh, Steve. I thought you'd be here. I don't like to have to do this, Doctor.

00:48:29Do we have time for a cup of coffee first? Sure.

00:48:33Do you mind, honey? No, I'll make some sandwiches.

00:48:47One thing is certain for all the good it'll do now.

00:48:51Dave Walker didn't shoot Cal. I'd just come from the autopsies.

00:48:58Covis tried to keep me out. I told him I'd raise the stink they'd smell

00:49:02all the way to the Capitol if he did. Well, what killed them, Doc?

00:49:06Not drowning. And Cal wasn't shot either.

00:49:11Every drop of blood was drained out of their bodies.

00:49:15And they had wounds on their throats. Suction wounds.

00:49:19Like a, like a gigantic leech might make. And there's something even more incredible.

00:49:25Now, Cal was supposed to have been killed several days ago.

00:49:28Sam and Reed have been missing a matter of 48 hours.

00:49:32All three of them, as far as we know, were in that lake a minimum of two days.

00:49:37Now, I'd stake my reputation as a doctor that Cal hadn't been dead more than

00:49:41two or three hours when we found him. And the other two, less than that.

00:49:46First stage rigor mortis started in during the autopsy.

00:49:49But how could that be, Doc? It's impossible.

00:49:52The coroner will confirm it. Whatever killed him is still in that lake.

00:49:57And it's going to take more than dynamite to get it out.

00:50:01Concussion from those charges would have killed a full-grown whale.

00:50:07That explains how Cal and the others lived after they were supposed to be drowned.

00:50:11What do you mean? Well, this whole region is riddled by caves and caverns

00:50:15cut out by the ocean thousands of years ago.

00:50:18If there are caves above the water, then there must be caves under the water.

00:50:22Go on.

00:50:24Mike and I had a chance to fool around with some frogman equipment

00:50:27captured from the Italian Navy.

00:50:29We sort of prowled through a sunken transport off Salerno.

00:50:34When the ship went down, it trapped some air inside the hull.

00:50:38We'd go down, come up inside the officer's lounge, take off her face masks

00:50:42and sort of sample some of the bottles floating around.

00:50:46We drive the guys crazy trying to figure out how we were getting the stuff.

00:50:50You mean you think that there's an air pocket or a cave underneath the lake?

00:50:54Right. Gotta be. How else could those people have lived down there?

00:50:57Not only that, it explains how whatever it is down there lived through the concussions.

00:51:01Steve.

00:51:04Liz Walker.

00:51:07She might still be down there.

00:51:09Alive.

00:51:16Ah.

00:51:19Ah.

00:51:22Ah.

00:51:26No. No.

00:51:28No!

00:51:45No.

00:52:08Comfortable?

00:52:09Yeah.

00:52:11You sure you don't want me to go down for you, Mike?

00:52:13I've been keeping one of these things on for a long time,

00:52:15while me, every other day, I've been playing fish.

00:52:19Not this time, Mike.

00:52:22If you ask me, they ought to have their heads examined.

00:52:25Giant leeches.

00:52:28I'm willing to bet a month's pay they don't come up with nothing more than excuses.

00:52:32He's crazy.

00:52:34Him, the doc, and his brat, too.

00:52:37Just wait till I get on the phone with the capital.

00:52:40He's somebody I wish they'd kept their nose out of other people's business.

00:52:44I'll guarantee that.

00:52:49Let's go, Mike.

00:52:54Steve.

00:52:57Be careful, please.

00:52:58Oh, boy, Mike will be ready if anything goes wrong.

00:53:00Don't worry about Steve.

00:53:02Now, if you were going after Barracuda, you might have a tiny bit to worry about.

00:53:06Ready, Mike?

00:53:10Let's go.

00:53:40Oh, no.

00:53:53No, no, please, stay away.

00:53:57Please.

00:54:00Not exactly inviting, is it?

00:54:03That sure isn't.

00:54:06Hold it steady, Mike.

00:54:10Hold it steady.

00:54:29It'll stop anything up to a tiger shark.

00:54:31But you gotta hit.

00:54:32And this is don't count.

00:54:33Now, if anything goes wrong, just yank on the line and I'll be down in a hurry.

00:54:40No.

00:55:11No.

00:55:16No.

00:55:24No.

00:55:30No.

00:55:32No.

00:55:40No.

00:55:42No.

00:55:44No.

00:56:08You sure you don't want me to go down and finish it off for you, Steve?

00:56:11No, thanks, Mike.

00:56:12I think I hurt her pretty bad.

00:56:15Careful, now.

00:56:16Anything that hurts ten times is dangerous.

00:56:23He's wounded it.

00:56:24He's gonna finish it off.

00:56:27Does he have to go under again?

00:56:30He's got to make sure, honey.

00:56:33Where could it have come from?

00:56:35I wish I knew.

00:56:37We'll have to make some tests.

00:56:39Maybe the proximity of Cape Canaveral's got something to do with it.

00:56:42The rocket station?

00:56:44Well, they use atomic energy in the first stages of launching.

00:56:47Not all of them have been successful.

00:56:49You think that if some animal life was close by, not close enough to be killed,

00:56:53but close enough to feel the effects of a radioactive energy, that's...

00:56:56A mutation.

00:56:58A type of gigantism of some common animal.

00:57:02Whatever it is, I hope he's able to bring it up.

00:57:08Come on.

00:57:38Come on.

00:57:39Come on.

00:58:07That can't be Liz.

00:58:10What could have done that?

00:58:12Look at her face.

00:58:39Shit!

00:59:09Shit!

00:59:40What is that? Look at that thing.

00:59:44I've been around here for years. I never saw nothing like that before.

01:00:09Come on.

01:00:40There was no sign of them this time.

01:00:42They must be licking their wounds.

01:00:45You sure you used enough stuff to do the job, Mike?

01:00:47I used 100 sticks to 40%.

01:00:49Ought to blow the bottom right out.

01:00:51All right. Let her go.

01:00:52Oh, no.

01:00:53I've done enough of your dirty work.

01:00:55I'll be back.

01:00:57I'll be back.

01:00:59I'm sure you'll be back.

01:01:01I'll be back.

01:01:02I'll be back.

01:01:04I'm sure you'll be back.

01:01:06I'll be back.

01:01:07I've done enough of your dirty work.

01:01:09Help yourself.

01:01:37I'm sure you'll be back.

01:02:07I'm sure you'll be back.

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