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1 :01x01 - Episode 1
Writer: Jonas Pate, Josh Pate
Director: Josh Pate, Jonas Pate
Guest star: Ric Reitz (Ron Bennett), Johanna Braddy (Lisa), Brent Sexton (Bud), Jason Davis (Sean), Sean McGowan (Clean Room Comm. Tech.), Jose Isordia (Boy), Conor O'Farrell (Barry), Connor Ross (Zack), Eric Ladin (George Owen), Michael Charles Roman (Greg), Court Young (Barry Cobb), Stephanie Siemiller (Lady #2), Kristen Ariza (Marilyn Prickett), Don Tai (Navy Guard), Susan Merson (Gov't Panel Suit #3), John Aylward (Unknown), Shishir Kurup (Dr. Krishna Singh), Kelly Collins (Tracy Connelly), Austin Tichenor (Gov't Panel Admiral), Ramon Chavez (Grandfather), Anson Scoville (Medic), Grant Garrison (Suit #1), Randy Oglesby (John Clisson), Eric Pierpoint (Admiral Philip Geary), Donn Swaby (Andy Cline), Travis Brorsen (Navy Guard Officer #2), Brian Patrick Wade (O.D. Commander), Bill Bolender (Old Man)
Incredible sightings and events, all revolving around the sea, begin to pour in from all over the world. It would appear that there is a strange , powerful new type of sea creature appearing all over the globe. Oceanographers all over are studying this new creature. These oceanographers and researchers include Laura Daughtery, David Lee, a Pentagon official and Dr. Aleksander Cirko, a government scientist. Richard Connelly, an insurance salesman, is also interested in the creatures, and his interest leads him to Laura.
Meanwhile, a young boy, Miles, discovers an odd egg near the ocean, and, excited, decides to care from it and wait for it to hatch.
2 :01x02 - Episode 2
Writer: Josh Pate
Director: Jeffrey Reiner
Guest star: Victoria Staley (Heather Connelly), Stephen Delaney (Officer), Dan Cox (Bystander), Darrell Vanterpool (Boy), Chandler McIntyre (Nurse), Allen Fortier (Guard), Brent Sexton (Bud), James Middleton (National Guardsman), Leslea Fisher (Amber), Jason Davis (Sean), Sam Robson (Cutter Tech), Daniel Newman (Greg), Bobby Coleman (Jesse), Ian Anthony Dale (Davis Lee), Caroline Kent (Emily Connelly), Ric Reitz (Ron Bennett), Shishir Kurup (Dr. Krishna Singh), Kelly Collins (Tracy Connelly), Louanne Cooper (Mrs. Bennett), Dwayne Boyd (Cutter Tech), Melinda M. Jackson (Quincy Freeman), Conor O'Farrell (Barry), Scott Kirkpatrick (Pentagon Official), Peners Griffin (National Guardsmen)
The oceanologists, Rich and Laura, see the dead body of a new, groundbreaking sea creature washed up on the beach. A team of researchers meet up with the creature and the same time as them, and Rich and Laura, along with the dead creature, are brought to a lab. Rich and Laura face an interrogation and questioning, while the researchers prepare for a possible autopsy on the creature, which is clearly a new breed.
Meanwhile, Miles tries to control Nimrod at a big party thrown by his sister. Nimrod just wants to get in on the action, but unfortunately, that's out of the question.
3 :01x03 - Episode 3
Writer: Jonas Pate
Director: Aaron Lipstadt
Guest star: Ben Jones (Grocery Clerk), Fred Maske (Reed Johnson), Carver Johns (Chester), Rob Trevelier (Hector Falk), Eric Paisley (Conf. Goer #3), Billy White (Conf. Goer #2), Monica Williamson (Conf. Goer #1), Lucinda Carmichael (Secretary), Victoria Staley (Heather Connelly), Bobby Coleman (Jesse), Jennifer Gatti (Carolyn Pizzoli), Thomas Craig Elliott (Co-Worker), Kate Leahey (Park Ranger), Caroline Kent (Emily Connelly), Louanne Cooper (Mrs. Bennett), Shishir Kurup (Dr. Krishna Singh), Kelly Collins (Tracy Connelly), Ric Reitz (Ron Bennett), Jennifer Badger (Kadee), David Sherrill (Wayne Johnson), Emily Labelle (Mallory), Adam Heffernan (Lab Tech), Max Darby (Conf. Goer #4), Denise Bass Dayahtry (Annie Parker)
A new, troubling problem arises - it seems likely that the new sea creature is, in some way, causing the rapid global warming occurring over the world. Laura and Rich have problems of their own - Laura is falsely accused of plagiarism at her job and fired, and Rich, somehow, begins to hear his late brother's voice... but only when he goes near water.
Meanwhile, Miles attempts to keep Nimrod in the unused, backyard playhouse, but, unfortunately, he encounters difficulties.
4 :01x04 - Episode 4
Writer: David Greenwalt
Director: Felix Enriquez Alcala
Guest star: Deacon Dawson (Customer #1), Sarah Sullivan (Lisa), Michael Harding (Doctor Davey), Sharon Graci (Sharon), Bill Roberson (Manager), E. Roger Mitchell (Kenny), Keeley Locke (Chloe), Victoria Staley (Heather Connelly), Leslea Fisher (Amber), Mimmye Goode (Baucom), Stephanie Siemiller (Lady #2), Caroline Kent (Emily Connelly), Kelly Collins (Tracy Connelly), Brent Sexton (Bud), Austin Nichols (Jackson), David Silverhorn (Senator), Samuel Elliotte Whisnant (Pitcher), Taylor Kowalski (Catcher), Calvin Brown (Chef), Brenda Lo (Lady #1)
Laura manages to fire a tracking device into one of the mystery creatures, allowing the researchers to track it on a radar. Rich, who has taken a break to deal with his brother's death and the voice he keeps hearing, finds that letting go is harder than he thought.
Meanwhile, Aleksander Cirko attempts to convince the Pentagon and the government that the new creatures are predatory, extremely dangerous, and must not be approached by civilians.
5 :01x05 - Episode 5
Writer: Jason Cahill
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Guest star: Joe Inscoe (Young Boy), Joe Chrest (Unknown), Bobby Coleman (Jesse), Jackson Sowell (Pilot), Jason Saucier (Cop #1), Dan Morris (Mr. Prichett), Craig Calloway (Security Guard), David Andrews (Animal Control Officer), Ann Pierce (Mrs. Prichett), Chris Jarman (Waiter), Shishir Kurup (Dr. Krishna Singh), Louanne Cooper (Mrs. Bennett), Caroline Kent (Emily Connelly), Ric Reitz (Ron Bennett), Kelly Collins (Tracy Connelly), Victoria Staley (Heather Connelly), Lori Beth Edgeman (Sharon), Maggie Alexander (News Anchor)
Laura and Richard continue to track the sea creature tagged by Laura via the GPS device. All is going well until, oddly, a massive blackout darkens the city, destroyed much of the data Laura and Richard had amassed. Cirko and Lee, who have been following the pair for a while, decide the time might be right to extend an invitation...
Miles and his buddy Phil are questioned by the suspicious Animal Control officers and need to keep quiet about Nimrod through the interrogation. However, the officers suspect Miles is hiding something, and aren't going to give up easily.
6 :01x06 - Episode 6
Writer: Josh Pate
Director: Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
Guest star: Lori Beth Edgeman (Sharon), Michael Burgess (Detective), Carl McIntyre (Doctor), Maggie Alexander (Michelle), Chuck Carrington (Naval Attache), Jason Davis (Sean), David Andrews (Animal Control Officer), Bobby Coleman (Jesse), Richard Fullerton (Elderly Gentleman), Ashlee Payne (Cheryl), Ian Anthony Dale (Davis Lee), Louanne Cooper (Mrs. Bennett), Caroline Kent (Emily Connelly), Ric Reitz (Ron Bennett), Shishir Kurup (Dr. Krishna Singh), Kelly Collins (Tracy Connelly), Dexter Tillis (Officer), Rebecca Koon (Libbie)
While researching a sea orchid, Aleksander Cirko has an unexpected breakthrough and discoveries the mystery sea species' origins. However, he only has time to tell Lee before he is mysteriously hit by a car. The sea orchid is taken, and Ciko, badly injured, is left abandoned by the roadside.
Singh, Cirko's assistant, attempts to continue the work by reclaiming the orchid from a government warehouse. Singh needs to infiltrate a warehouse, grab the orchid and other important items, and leave. Will he be successful? Or will the mission fail?
Meanwhile, Rich and Laura both face problems of their own. Evidence says that Laura's house was ransacked, and she believes it was done by none other than the government itself.
7 :01x07 - Episode 7
Writer: Chip Johannessen
Director: Rick Wallace
Guest star: Brett Gentile (Saunders), Barbara Weetman (Paramedic), Mark Joy (Thomas Dahl), Austin Nichols (Jackson), Dexter Tillis (Police Officer #1), Vaughn Wilson (Pizza Boy), Dikran Tulaine (Gardener), Pete Burris (Police Officer #2), Louanne Cooper (Mrs. Bennett), Mike Pniewski (Deputy), Ric Reitz (Ron Bennett), David Andrews (Officer Furella), Jon Stafford (Unknown)
Dr. Lee gives a small account of Cirko's death to his superiors, concluding that it was a necessity in the long run, before revealing a new and budding clue in this investigation. Laura and Rich enlist the help of Jackson (Austin Nichols) when her home is mysteriously ransacked by strangers, sending the trio under the radar and up the coast. Meanwhile, Nim's uncontrollable behavior forces Miles and Phil to steal a pizza delivery car and lead the police on a chase to the beach where Miles lets Nim go in the ocean. Nim reluctantly swims away and Miles turns back to the shore where his parents and the police are waiting for him. Leighton Meester also stars
8 :01x08 - Episode 8
Writer: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin
Director: John Behring
Guest star: Jack Landry (Jared), Renneker Jenkins (Carl), Leslea Fisher (Amber), Annie Maleski (Lee's Woman), Daniel Newman (Greg), Ashlee Payne (Cheryl), Bobby Coleman (Jesse), Ric Reitz (Ron Bennett), Jason Davis (Sean), Austin Nichols (Jackson)
Laura, Rich and Jackson race to finish the submersible they are building, and despite several setbacks during a test run, take it out to the spawning site. As Rich and Daughtery begin their descent, they spot the creatures spawning, and prepare to gather their data. However, something goes wrong, and, due to a technical failure, the submersible begins to freefall down to the ocean floor, leaving the two oceanographers trapped on the seafloor with the air supply running low.
Elsewhere, Miles' parents consider sending him to a boot camp for problem children, hoping he'lll begin to straighten out what they believe is a crooked lifepath. Miles knows that if he is sent away, he will be seperated from Nimrod, who in turn will be lost without his caretaker. Miles can't allow that to happen.
9 :01x09 - Episode 9
Writer: Thomas Wheeler
Director: Bill Eagles
Guest star: Tim Parati (Skinny), Mark Jeffrey Miller (Owner), Jack Landry (Jared), Eli Harris (Deputy Church), Ric Reitz (Ron Bennett), Stephen Michael Ayers (Dr. Paul Blum), R. Keith Harris (Dr. Myers - Coroner)
It's a race against time as Laura and Rich race against time in a submersible they realize the "unidentified species" are laying thousands of eggs on the ocean floor. Meanwhile, Miles hears a report of a vicious attack on a electrician working on a marine dock, and suspects that Nimrod may be the culprit. Elsewhere, Phil stakes out an underwater power cable in hopes of finding Nimrod only to discover Nimrod now has a lot of underwater friends.
10 :01x10 - Episode 10
Writer: Darcy Meyers
Director: Jeffrey Reiner
Guest star: Louanne Cooper (Mrs. Bennett), Greg Thompson (Teacher #1), Daniel Newman (Greg), Jennifer Massey (Dr. Kellino), Leslea Fisher (Amber), Ric Reitz (Ron Bennett), Stephen Michael Ayers (Dr. Paul Blum)
When Laura and Rich return to the surface from the ocean floor, they realize the boat that took them to this location is nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Miles is taken to the hospital after suspiciously passing out in class. Elsewhere, Miles' sister Savannah comes to the realization that her brothers sudden admittance to the hospital may have be a result of a bite mark on his body caused by his former pet Nimrod.
11 :01x11 - Episode 11
Writer: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin, W. G. 'Snuffy' Walden
Director: Michael Robison
Guest star: Noah Michael Levine (Bret Scher), Linsey Godfrey (Caitlin Blum), Kelly Collins (Tracy Connelly (as Kelly Collins Lintz)), Louanne Cooper (Mrs. Bennett), David Temple (Bill Withrow), Jack Landry (Jared), Jason Horgan (Larry - Paramedic), Melissa Ponzio (Ann Tracy), Neil Brown, Jr. (Keith), Dwayne Boyd (E.R. Doctor), Jason Davis (Sean), Stephen Michael Ayers (Dr. Paul Blum)
Rich and Laura sneak out of the hospital with the creature footage before Lee and his men can get to them. Upon their successful escape Rich and Laura take the exclusive footage to tape to a copying service company in an effort to upload it onto the internet and convince a news station to run a piece about the footage.
Meanwhile, Miles is sad and defeated while he watches doctors preparing to perform an autopsy on Nim but that all changes when Nim sneezes and they realize he is still alive.
12 :01x12 - Episode 12
Writer: Chip Johannessen
Director: Marita Grabiak
Guest star: Louanne Cooper (Mrs. Bennett), Linsey Godfrey (Caitlin Blum), Melissa Ponzio (Ann Tracy), Martha Plimpton ("Mr. Big"), Jason Davis (Sean), Stephen Michael Ayers (Dr. Paul Blum)
Laura and Rich become fugitives and are being pursued by Lee and his legion of secret agents. While hiding out, Laura has a bizarre Internet exchange with a mysterious person who claims to have information about the origin of the creatures.
Meanwhile, Miles and Caitlin go to a bonfire party at the beach and are stunned when two of her friends mysteriously disappear after a late-night swim. The next day the Coast Guard makes a grisly discovery.
13 :01x13 - Episode 13
Writer: Jonas Pate
Director: Brad Anderson
Guest star: Ian Anthony Dale (Davis Lee), Martha Plimpton (Dr Samantha Morris), Kelly Collins (Tracy Connelly), Linsey Godfrey (Caitlin Blum), Jack Landry (Jared), Stephen Michael Ayers (Dr. Paul Blum)
After it's revealed to Laura that a cadre of top scientists created this new species, she wakes up in a field after being drugged and Rich comes to her rescue. Fearing the end of the world, Laura and Rich are determined to find the mysterious corporation that funded this experiment gone awry, but nothing could prepare them for what they discover in an abandoned laboratory along the way.
Meanwhile, Miles joins Blum and his crew of aquarium workers on a boat excursion to find the egg field containing millions of unhatched creatures. Surprisingly, Miles later agrees to help law enforcement find Nim.
14 :01x14 - Episode 14
Writer: Jay Beattie, Dan Dworkin
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Guest star: Linsey Godfrey (Caitlin Blum), Bobby Coleman (Jesse), Kelly Collins (Tracy Connelly), Louanne Cooper (Mrs. Bennett), Jason Davis (Sean), Ric Reitz (Ron Barnett), Daniel Newman (Greg Butler)
Rich and Laura go to see Lee for answers, and Lee winds up learning more than he would have ever expected. Concerned about the escalating violence she sees in Rich, Laura decides to pack it in and return home to see her son.
The townspeople grow increasingly fearful as Miles behaves more and more like Nim. After being attacked by a bully at school, Miles brutally retaliates, and an angry mob calls for him to be arrested.
15 :01x15 - Episode 15
With a tsunami approaching the coast, the residents of Wilmington find themselves under a mandatory evacuation. Among the mass exodus of people leaving for safety, Miles and his family scramble to make it off the island.
Meanwhile, Laura travels to North Carolina to find Rich, who has been arrested by military police at the mysterious laboratory. As employees hurriedly vacate the building, Rich is locked up in a cell and left to die.