The Yeti (2026) Movie Script
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[wind whistling]
[guttural growling]
[clicks]
[wind whistling]
-[gulls squawking]
-[ship horn honking]
[foreboding music]
[ominous music]
[wind rushing]
[door opens, closes]
[mysterious music]
[loud growling]
[man laughing]
Now, won't you listen
Honey
While I say
How could you tell me
That you're going away?
Don't say that we must part
Your deal.
Don't break
Your baby's heart
You know I've loved you
For these many years
Oh, I see.
[music continues]
-Let's see what you got.
-[man 2 chuckles]
[indistinct conversation]
[man 1] Let's go.
Me?
-[chuckles]
-Before I change my mind.
Hey. Who gets your chips?
Whoever's gonna
re-patch the hole.
[men murmur]
That'll be me.
Great. [grunts]
Say, this is nice.
Mm, best you don't
get used to it.
You better turn that down.
You'll wake Sunday.
Not until we finish our dance.
-Mm-hm.
-[man 1] You remember last time?
"Murderation.
You turn that racket down,
or I will buy
your family home and raze it."
[mockingly] "My name ain't..."
[all] "Merriell Sunday."
[loud growling]
[recorded music continues]
[ominous music]
[man 1] Feed it today?
[man 2]
Threw its food in the box.
You think I stuck around
to check?
[grunts]
That's it for me, fellas.
[music continues]
You'll feel sad...
[snoring]
[wind whistling]
[faint thumping]
[ominous music]
[hammering]
Sorry.
It's just me.
Did I wake you?
No. [exhales]
Thanks.
[hammer tapping]
[shuddering]
[roof creaking]
-[crashing]
-[man 2 yells]
[low growling]
[screams]
[dramatic music]
[screaming continues]
[reporter 1] This just in:
Merriell Sunday Jr.,
son of missing oil tycoon
Merriell Sunday Sr.,
holds an emergency
press conference.
Uh...
Howdy. Uh...
Two weeks ago,
Father and his herd
missed their exit deadline.
Then, um, across the wire,
a distress signal.
We're officially
declaring them missing.
But we ain't... we ain't
just gonna let the face
and founder of Sunday Oil
disappear like that.
Don't worry.
I have handpicked
some of the toughest,
smartest sons of bitches
God ever strung a gut through.
[reporter 1]
Junior wasn't kidding.
Leander Coates,
the team's watchdog.
He fought the Great War
against the Kaiser in '17
and then went back
for more in '44.
Dr. Margaret Lamb.
She's a real whiz
with animals.
And her twin sis,
one of the missing,
will sure be glad
she came along.
Booker Marchmont,
radio communications man.
He flew on the Enola Gay
in '45,
dropping the bomb
on the Japanese.
Impressed yet?
Certified demolition expert
"Dynamite" Daniel Hewitt.
It's hard out there,
and sometimes
the only way through
is with a fistful of powder.
[bell rings]
The men who made the first maps.
These were titans
who sailed the seven seas
and explored the globe,
cutting their way
through jungles with machetes,
burning through cobweb-filled
caves with torches
with almost certainly
insufferable egos.
Cartography and exploration
are not synonymous.
You've never heard
of most mapmakers.
They do their exploring
at night, in the dark
with a candle.
Their torch, a pen.
Their ship, a book.
Florence Kelley
created a new method
for visualizing data
when... when she mapped out
the Chicago slums, and...
she did it without trekking
to some far-off distant land.
My point is this...
You don't have to leave home
to be a pioneer.
-[student coughs]
-[chair rattles]
Yes?
Is it true that your dad
got trapped in a pyramid?
[bell rings]
[student] Ma'am.
Would you sign this?
[sighs]
[student]
Your father is my hero.
[woman] Miss Bannister
has a meeting now.
Thank you.
Thanks. I, uh...
I'm your next meeting.
Sorry for the ambush.
My name's Belle Parker.
I represent for
Mr. Merriell Sunday Jr.
[Parker]
Do you know why I'm here?
I could take a guess.
It's about your father.
[Ellie laughs] Theme of the day.
I'm afraid it's serious,
Miss Bannister.
I'm sure it is. [sighs]
Did he step on a trapdoor
and fall into a snake pit?
Are you aware of his expedition
to the Alaskan territory?
Being roasted on a spit
by a group of local natives?
He and the Sunday team
are missing.
Hollis has been missing
since I was 15.
He's not missing.
He's... right
where he intends to be.
The boat left,
and they missed it.
And the last word the boat got
was an SOS.
What am I supposed
to do about it?
Mr. Merriell Sunday Jr. is
putting together a rescue team.
Save his daddy and yours, too.
And he wants you
to lead his search.
You're good at something,
but you never got
to do anything with it.
Don't you think it's time?
[pensive music]
If something happened up there,
and Hollis really is in trouble,
how do you think
you're all gonna fare?
Better with you.
Hey, wait.
It's the last thing
Hollis gave me.
You're gonna need it.
[melancholy music]
-[door closes]
-[footsteps fade]
[melancholy music continues]
[soft piano music]
[slams drawer]
[determined music]
[Sunday Jr.]
I went ahead and hired
the best navigator
left in the South.
She's gonna make things
easier for us.
[reporter 2] Wait, "she"?
Did you just say "she"?
[reporter 3] Who is it?
[dramatic music]
[Sunday Jr.]
Let me present our navigator,
-Miss Ellie Bannister.
-[clamoring]
[Sunday Jr.] No more questions,
or I'll have Coates exit you
through the door by your head.
We are done here.
Let's take a flashlight, though.
[shutter snaps]
[wind whistling]
[trees creaking]
Erebus. This is Ellie.
I need a ping on our location.
Do you copy?
[garbled radio static]
[Erebus] ...an anchor...
Can you read me? Over.
Erebus. Come in.
Storm's going over the boat.
Say... say again.
When will you return?
Sorry, Miss Bannister.
This cloudburst
has got us jammed
the last few days.
[Dan] Damn ground's harder
than Uncle Tommy.
[tapping]
[exhales]
Consarn it.
[Lamb] You're gonna need
more than a shovel.
That top layer is permafrost.
Rock solid until mid-summer.
It's like trying to punch
through an anvil.
-[Sunday Jr.] Hey. Hey.
-Try to--
[Sunday Jr.] You figure out
where we're heading?
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Get up.
Get up, get up, y'all.
Gather around. Come on.
Go on. Tell us.
We made contact with the Erebus.
But the storm...
The signal wasn't--
-I ain't hearing a solution.
-I don't know.
With the storm, I can't...
[Ellie sighs]
We have to just stay put
until the storm passes through.
Then we can keep moving.
[Dan] Oh, heck.
Stay put? In... in what?
A can of soup?
We've been chasing our tails
following after girly here
for three days!
[Parker] It's the storm.
-Nobody knows where we are.
-We're fixing to die out here
-if we stay any longer.
-That's enough.
[Dan] Sir. I'm awful sorry,
but, uh...
More than likely,
your pop is dead.
And even if we knew
where they were,
we can't find them
with "Slow Walk" here
-leading the way.
-[Coates] I'll shut him up.
Try it, old boy.
The boat couldn't stay anchored
in the chop.
They had no choice
but to leave us.
Anything the ice gets,
the ice keeps.
Maybe we catch it
before they get real far out.
I... I swim creeks
faster than that boat.
Ice? It ain't even fast.
It's just floating there.
-I think if we can just--
-[Sunday Jr.] No more thinking.
Anymore!
[Dan] Shit. This here's all bad.
Just one great goddamn
big rhubarb bastard.
We can't even blow it up.
Why can't we?
A bivouac. Hollis used to do--
Only God Almighty's got a higher
command than me out here,
and He's quieter than Ellie.
Can't pick the ground.
Right?
So I say we blow it open!
Wide open.
All the way down to hell.
Yeah.
Ma'am.
[tense music builds]
[tense music continues]
All right.
Mama said ladies come first.
[tense music rises]
Debris!
[explosion]
[static crackling]
They say you're supposed
to get a clean kill shot
on an animal, but...
tsk...
I always find
you just hit 'em anywhere.
And you get 'em limping.
And they can't run so good,
and then...
Just... bam.
[Parker] When I was little,
my dad used to take me
to the VFW.
Some of the guys had faces.
Masks.
[Coates]
Your father was in the war?
[Parker] Mm-hm.
Paderborn.
I had a daughter that was
a field nurse in the war.
She said if I had to be there,
she ought to be there, too.
Would have been about your age.
[Lamb] Such a loss.
And the fossils destroyed.
More bombs,
more bones destroyed.
[sighs]
[Lamb] Animals and rocks
we'll never have a chance
to learn about.
Hey.
Didn't mean to...
dig my heel
into your toe so hard.
The storm didn't make me
lose the way.
Look at this.
It's going every direction.
-Huh.
-[Ellie] Been causing me trouble
ever since we got here.
[inhales]
I can't wrap my head around it.
Hey, look.
You can't always get it right.
Hey.
Boots get shit on 'em
sometimes.
[Dan] What's an animal expert
doing out here
on a rescue mission, Lamb Chop?
I mean, shoot,
they already got Dynamite Dan.
I blowed up
just about everything
could be blowed up.
My sister is the chef
for the expedition team.
I'll keep an eye out for her.
Why'd you bring me here?
How you mean?
[Ellie] I'm not the person
you've been selling
to the papers.
Fifteen years since I've been
near a damn mountain.
It's like something
out of one of them
grand American novels.
But better.
You and me.
Parents and children.
Why was Hollis here?
I can damn sure tell you
he doesn't care about oil.
I mean,
Father probably promised him
a building full of money, too.
[scoffs]
He'd care less about that.
[Sunday Jr.]
Father would eat the dirt.
Said he could taste
the minerals
if oil was in the ground.
[pensive music]
[spits]
I don't taste nothing.
Yeah.
[Lamb] We're adjacent
to the magnetic north.
Chaotic spinning could be
from the magnetites.
Magnetic poles can be blamed
for all sorts of things.
Monsters, myths,
signs from the gods.
[Parker] Monsters?
Shoot! Now I know monsters.
Jersey Devil, Old Ned,
Devil's Triangle--
[Ellie] We need monsters.
Keep us from going places
we don't belong.
[distant thumping]
You hear that?
[Coates] That's enough.
[distant thumping]
No, seriously. Like, listen.
[distant thumping]
You see?
[Coates] Grizzly, maybe.
A big one.
[Lamb] There are no grizzlies
this isolated.
Polar bear, potentially.
Next man who brings up monsters
will sleep outside.
That's enough.
[Sunday Jr.] Good night.
[thumping echoes]
[Dan] Bobcat and mountain lions.
Muskrats.
One time, I put a quarter stick
in a vole burrow.
Sunday.
Baby vole burrow.
Guts everywhere. My eyelids.
Jeepers, I done
a lot in this life.
I blowed up...
about everything
could be blowed up.
[whispering] I wonder
if animals believe in God.
[sighs]
[breathes heavily]
Sheesh, I gotta piss.
Hey.
Take this so you can
find your way back.
It's a system we used
in the mountains.
Baby, can't nobody put
a collar on Dynamite Dan.
[Dan] Baby vole burrow guts
up in my eyelids.
Gotta find that baby vole.
Baby vole.
Forgive me.
[sighs]
It's Inuit with a French accent.
Inuktitut.
Near Nunavut, that's the--
Northwest Territories.
Oh, yeah. You've been
around the map, huh?
-Yeah, around... around the map.
-[chuckles].
I don't get out much.
[Dan] Farmer in the Dell...
Farmer in the...
Oh.
[Ellie] I... I was supposed
to be a famous explorer
like my folks.
There was a polio outbreak
when I was 15.
[deep inhales] I was bedridden.
Barely survived.
Left with this.
What...
What happened to your mom?
[tense music]
[garbled radio static]
Your friends.
Try and get some rest.
[sighs]
[ominous music]
Dan?
[distant thumping]
[low creaking]
Who's that?
Who is that?
[thumping grows louder]
[branches rustling]
[heavy snorting]
Oh, shitfire.
[creature snarling]
Dan!
[foreboding music]
[branches rustling]
[distant creaking]
[rustling]
[rope straining]
[Ellie grunts]
Shit!
[trees creaking]
What am I doing?
[thumping]
[creaking]
[rustling]
[lighter flicking]
[soft whistling]
[footsteps approaching]
[whistling]
[whistling]
Jesus Christ.
What are you doing?
[ominous tone]
Slow Walk.
I just seen
what's-her-name's sister.
She sure is pretty.
Oh, my God.
[eerie music]
[Dan] Danny went to hell
Danny went to hell
Hi-ho, the derry-o
Danny went to hell
[creature growling]
[Dan whistling]
[guttural breaths]
[thumping]
[low snarling]
[snarling]
[loud growling]
[roaring]
[guttural breathing]
[Coates] Ellie!
[Booker] Ellie?
[Coates] Ellie, where are you?
-[gasps]
-[Coates] Ellie!
[panting]
[quietly] I'm here.
I'm here.
[Parker] Ellie!
Ellie, are you...
[Sunday Jr.] Wait, wait, wait.
Hey! Where's Dan?
[Coates] Half-eaten in a pile
about a kilometer from here.
He was attacked.
Why didn't you wake me up?
You could have got
yourself killed.
I'm not out here to babysit
a bunch of blowhard cowboys.
Dan's dead?
Attacked by what?
Something big enough
to halve a man.
Ellie, did you see the animal?
I'm gonna find the body.
[Sunday Jr.] Wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait.
We ain't going off the plan
right now 'cause Dan ran off.
He could have been
going after the boat.
Maybe he just wandered
drunk into a hole. Come on.
-Mr. Sunday, if there's--
-The Sundays are not
funding a rescue mission
for Dan. That's it.
[Booker] Dan can't be rescued.
The Sundays are gonna
save money on his pay.
But don't you ever insult
the dead in front of us.
I may not have served
in the war, all right?
But out here, what I say goes.
[Coates]
It's not the front lines.
We'll retrieve his body,
whatever's left of it.
But we don't leave
the fallen behind.
Are you out of your mind?
That... that souse is not
more important than my father.
We need to keep moving. Come on!
Find that outpost.
Our fathers.
[Sunday Jr.] Okay.
Okay.
Our fathers.
After we find our fathers,
we'll pick up Dan's body
on the way back.
We'll give him
a proper burial back home.
That's the word.
[Lamb] Let me look at you.
We can't stay here.
[Sunday Jr.]
Stay together, y'all!
[Parker] Do bears hunt people?
[Coates]
Most likely scared of people.
Or just curious.
[Lamb]
Bears are diurnal.
Hunting at night
must have meant it was starving
or trying to feed cubs.
If it was a bear.
If?
[eerie music]
What did you find with Dan?
Butterflied from the back
of his head to his rear,
and his organs
flowing out behind him
like they were looking
for some kind of handout.
[sighs] I should have examined
the body.
Daniel Hewitt's body, Doctor.
Just because we work for him
doesn't mean we have
to act like him.
We honor the fallen.
Daniel Hewitt's body.
I hope you don't have any more
opportunities for examinations.
[Sunday Jr.] Keep it moving.
We should be right there.
The outpost... a couple
of kilometers ahead.
What do you mean, "should be"?
Uh-uh, no.
My... my gut's telling me
we need to go that way,
where there's less trees.
That's where they'd put
an outpost.
With all due respect,
you go off more than just gut.
[Coates] Hey.
Where's the kid?
[dramatic music sting]
[Sunday Jr.] Parker.
Oh, shit.
Parker!
God damn it!
She couldn't be too far.
Fan out. We'll sweep the woods.
We go spreading out,
we're more likely
to lose somebody else.
You keep going.
I'll track you once I find her.
Nobody should move alone
after Dan.
I spent many nights alone
sweeping for mines.
I'm faster that way, trust me.
Besides, it's what my daughter
would expect me to do.
[Lamb] Coates won't be alone.
I'm going with him.
[Coates] The hell you will.
She might be injured.
I'm not afraid of the dark.
Try to keep up.
[Sunday Jr.] Go, go!
Quick, quick!
This way. I'm telling you.
Right up in here.
[Sunday Jr.]
We're close.
[Lamb] Parker!
[Coates] Kid, where are you?
Parker!
[foreboding music]
[distant yell]
Kid! Kid, keep making noise!
[Parker screaming]
Oh, hell.
Where in the hell?
We're going the wrong way.
How would you know?
You ain't got a working compass.
[sighs] The moon is there.
Which means northwest
is that direction.
[Sunday Jr.]
The moon?
The moon? Are you
out of your damn--
Say "Yes, ma'am."
[tense music]
[Sunday Jr.] Lead the way.
[muffled screaming]
[distant snarling]
[guttural breaths]
[distant snarling]
[distant screaming]
[Parker] Help!
Help!
[Parker screaming]
[thumping]
[heavy thumping]
[thumping echoes]
[Parker screaming]
[woods creaking]
[gasps]
[Coates] Christ!
[Lamb] I have to see it.
Are you out of your--
[Parker screaming]
[Parker] Help!
Over here!
[groaning]
[creature growling]
[low, guttural growling]
[Parker whimpering]
[screams]
[screaming]
[screaming]
[ripping, tearing]
[intense ominous music]
[heavy footsteps recede]
[creature growls]
[gasps]
[Parker whimpering]
[sobbing]
[exhales]
[groaning]
[ragged breathing]
Easy.
Easy.
[shuddering]
I'm here now.
-I'm here now.
-[groans]
[ragged breathing]
[shuddering]
Daddy...
[sorrowful music]
[sobbing]
[Parker thumping, gasping]
[Ellie]
Should be straight ahead.
Keep pushing.
[Sunday Jr.] That's it.
We found it! We found it!
[door opens]
[tense music]
[Sunday Jr.] Father?
Are you in here?
[gasps] Sunday Oil.
This... this is it.
Father was here.
Damn.
Where did he go to?
Where's he gone?
[gasping]
Dr. Lamb?
[rumbling]
[Ellie] Dr. Lamb!
Booker, get a fire started.
Where's Parker and Coates?
[Lamb] Coates left.
[indistinct mumbling]
Coates is still out hunting.
Raced... back.
[ominous music]
[door bangs]
[wind howling]
Coates.
[Ellie] Are you hurt?
Coates?
What happened
to Parker, Coates?
[Coates] It killed her.
Did you see it?
[Coates] I saw the shape of it.
It walked like a man on two legs
and has matted fur and fangs,
and the hands were
four times the size of mine,
and it just, it... it...
tore her apart.
It threw her like a doll.
[Sunday Jr.]
And you didn't do nothing?
You were there to protect her.
You took the job,
and the job is for finishing.
And you just...
[dishes clattering]
What kind of man
doesn't do his job?
Especially protecting
somebody like Parker?
Huh?
What?
What, you wanna be
tough now? Huh?
When it don't matter? Huh?
Easy.
He's civilian. Stand down.
You killed her
bringing her out here.
I am gonna hunt it
before it hunts us.
And I am gonna
kill it for Parker.
No.
No, you are not.
You're gonna stay
right here and protect us!
Coates.
[Sunday Jr.] What?
This is mutiny, y'all!
Mut... One of y'all
say something, please!
Coates.
You are going to stay here,
or so help me God--
[Lamb] Gigantopithecus.
[dramatic music stings]
Ape.
Great ape.
Prehistoric animal
that went extinct.
Or so we thought.
That was in Parker's leg.
[Lamb] Twenty thousand years
of primal evolution
migrating across
the Bering land bridge
during the Pleistocene era.
A 20,000-year-old monster?
A 20,000-year-old
Gigantopithecus? No.
But its ancestor
might be stalking us.
It might be
the most significant find
of the millennium.
Do you think there are more?
[Lamb] I don't know.
Coates.
We need to stick together.
If it is...
this ape,
it's gonna take
all of us to kill it.
[Sunday Jr.] Kill it?
Are you out of your mind?
[scoffs]
We can't kill it.
We gotta... we gotta
call in reinforcements, y'all.
The National Guard.
Texas Rangers, somebody! Booker!
Get... get the boat on the horn!
Right now, come on!
That's an order.
[creature snarling]
Too late for orders now, son.
Everybody away from the window.
[rustling]
[creature snorting]
[tense music]
[creaking]
[roof creaking]
[thumps]
[radio static crackles]
Erebus! Erebus!
[Sunday Jr.] Erebus!
Can you hear me? Erebus!
-[glass shatters]
-[Coates groaning]
[Coates groaning]
[squelching]
[glass shatters]
[gasps] No.
[Ellie gasping]
No, no! Stay with me!
No!
No.
[Coates screams]
[Ellie screams]
[gasps]
[distant growling]
[Ellie stammering]
-[Ellie] I have to--
-No, Ellie.
He's gone.
Come on.
Oh, God.
[tense music]
That thing will be back.
Come on.
[hammer tapping]
[foreboding music]
[hammer tapping]
It seems the expedition team
was asleep in their bunks.
Never made it out of bed.
[Lamb] My sister is...
but if your fathers were here,
you might be able
to find some traces.
Now won't you listen, honey
While I say
How would you tell me
That you're going away?
Don't say that
We must part
Don't break
Your baby's heart
You know I've loved you
All these many--
-[gramophone clicks]
-[music stops]
My antenna is broken.
We're gonna have
to find something else
to bounce the signal off of.
Ellie?
One for the storybooks.
-What's that?
-[scoffs]
Sunday Jr. brought me here
for the story.
He never even considered me
outside of the pulp magazines.
He knew I wasn't fit.
All the dead.
Dan, Parker, Coates, they...
they'd still be alive
if he chose someone
with the right stuff.
[Booker sighs]
[scoffs]
Worst of all is
that I believed him.
I should have said no,
but I... I...
I wanted
to make things right.
Ellie, if you weren't here,
we'd be out lost in the Arctic,
following the whims
of Little Sunday.
The last time I was lost,
it killed my mother.
We were ascending the south wall
of Mount McKinley
when the storm hit.
My leg seized, so my father
carried me on his back, and...
we lost my mom in the fog.
He went back for her,
but he couldn't find her.
Couldn't look me
in the eye after that.
I can...
hardly look myself in the eye.
Maps became my way
to see the world.
I should have kept it at that.
[Booker] Miss Bannister,
when we dropped the bomb,
we were excited.
It's gonna end the war.
We didn't know
how powerful it would be.
They didn't tell us.
It's so bright,
you close your eyes
and you can see
the bones in your fingers.
I can still see 'em.
Dust in the streets.
Why do you keep that?
As a reminder,
anytime I get
too complacent or proud.
That's me in the middle.
What happened on that mountain
wasn't your fault.
It's the mountain's fault.
You never get
comfortable with it.
I agree with Junior
about one thing.
Your story will be one
for the history books.
Whenever you find the courage
to write it.
Parker said they got an SOS
from the outpost.
They built a radio tower.
We find it
and we contact the ship.
Yes, ma'am.
Pop that into your shoulder.
Aim it at his chest.
Pull the trigger.
Reload. Pull the trigger.
Reload. Pull the trigger.
This is going around you.
Oh, if you see the thing, run!
Don't try and fight it.
Only fight as the last resort.
[Ellie] Is that a challenge
for Slow Walk?
I don't think
you're as slow as people say.
I'm entrusting you
with my radio.
Please don't lose her.
I got her in boot camp,
and she's all I've got left.
Does she have a name?
You bet.
You hear the signal,
shine the flashlight up.
We'll be fine.
It's all fine.
Okay.
Hey.
Are you gonna tell me her name?
[Booker] I don't kiss and tell.
[wind howling]
[electricity buzzing]
[radio static buzzing]
Hey, Booker!
Booker, we got a signal!
[radio music plays]
[distant thumping]
[thumps]
[music on radio]
No one can come between us
-[Booker] Hey!
- I'm his Sheba
Ellie, it's coming! Ellie, run!
-[yells] Run!
-Everybody loves my baby
But my baby don't love...
Ellie, run! Ellie!
-Nobody...
-[Booker yells] Run!
It's coming! It's here!
Ellie!
-[music on radio continues]
-Ellie! Ellie, run!
Run! Ellie!
It's coming! Ellie!
Ellie! Run!
[snaps]
Booker!
Booker!
Booker!
[creature growling]
[rustling]
[grunting]
[yelps]
[gasps]
[groans]
[creature breathing heavily]
[guttural growling]
[mournful music]
[creature breathing heavily]
[slow footsteps]
[menacing music]
[coughs]
[screaming]
[somber music]
[door creaks]
Dad? Hollis?
Dad. Dad, is that you?
[Merriell] Where is it?
[panting]
Where...
is it?
[yelling] Where is it?
[panting]
[Ellie] You must be Sunday.
Your son's been looking for you.
[clangs]
Morphine tartrate.
[tense music]
He's out in the damn cold.
Wrists chained, left there
to die like a...
like a trophy animal
in that cage.
Ellie, I need
to get Father home.
First thing in the morning
I'm taking him to the boat.
With or without you.
Please don't make it be
without you.
Their expedition.
It's got something to do with
the cage your daddy was in.
And... and the creature
that's been killing us.
I knew Hollis
wouldn't come here for oil.
Now, Ellie, there's...
there's a very, very sick--
Look at these.
[Ellie] You don't bring a cage
all this way out here
unless you're planning
to trap something.
What did Hollis have
to do with all of this?
[thumps]
I'm not leaving here without it.
The girl is correct.
Hollis lives.
It was he that chained me
to that frozen bastille.
Get in here.
Both of you.
Junior.
[sighs]
There's no oil.
Never was.
Hollis never gave a damn
about any of that.
Plans to dig a well
were for the shareholders.
I came to hunt.
-[dramatic music stings]
-Hunt what?
A living fossil.
A monster that's...
been around since
'fore the birth of Christ.
[Merriell] Oh, years ago,
I did plan to dig a few wells,
sent a ground team to survey.
Last wire told word
of something...
biblical.
Twenty feet tall.
Five thousand pounds.
Eat a man whole.
[chuckles] I stopped caring
about the crew and oil.
I wanted to know
about this beast.
And I went to Hollis.
There's anyone who'd know
about such things,
it was him.
He told me a story.
Alexander the Great
and how he hunted an ape
that killed hordes of troops.
Your daddy told me
that ape, that beast,
could be one and the same.
So...
you made him join up?
[Merriell] Made him?
[scoffs] I begged him.
He's the only living man
worthy of my expedition.
He is better than them
who created all the first maps.
[Merriell]
When we got down here,
that ape killed
all of our hunters.
It was left up to
Hollis and me to capture it.
To drag it back here.
Instead...
we find something different.
Cries from deep in that shaft.
A babe.
Birth of the beast.
Hollis saw the...
beauty.
The humanity.
The humanity
only a father could see.
Except he stole that babe
'fore I could use it.
Left me in that cage
to catch a freeze.
Got all the...
rest of the team killed
when the mama come back.
Offspring.
That means there's a mate.
That's right.
I never seen
hide nor hair of it.
Why go through so much
for this animal?
[Merriell] I have my reasons.
Your daddy had his.
We can't fight it.
We just can't.
We won't.
[thumps]
That's good.
No time for reverie, boy.
You know, my whole life...
you told me
I needed to have sand...
any sort of spine or backbone.
And now this.
I'm saying it ain't right.
I'm putting it down.
My foot.
We need to go home.
I will bury you
with your grandfather.
[dramatic music stings]
-[ominous music]
-[sighs]
[Sunday Jr. grunts]
[grunts]
[Merriell] Go on.
More than the other one.
Keep pouring.
-Knock the beast out clean.
[Sunday Jr. groans]
That's good.
[tense music]
Go ahead. Pull!
[grunts]
That's it. Harder!
Put some back into it.
[Sunday Jr. grunts]
[heaving]
[dramatic music]
[music rises, fades out]
[Merriell]
Hey, come here. Give me that.
You never met
your granddaddy.
Made sure of that.
He died a sniveling husk
of himself.
Time did away
with his entire legacy.
Wasn't worth a straw coin
in the end.
Couldn't even bury him
in the family plot.
[sighs]
A man who doesn't go
to the ends of the earth
for what he want--
[distant thumping]
Shh.
All right.
She's here.
[creaking]
That's it. Get out there.
Light it up.
[ominous, rhythmic music]
[music stops]
[branches breaking]
[creature growling]
[growling]
[heavy footsteps shuffling]
[snarling]
[guttural breathing]
-[creature growling]
-[Lamb screaming]
[bones crunching]
[Merriell] All right.
She's here.
[creature growling loudly]
[thumps]
[Ellie gasps]
[thumping]
[creature snarling]
[cage rattling]
[screaming]
[intense, dramatic music]
[whimpering]
[Ellie] No!
[gasping]
[intense, pulsing music]
-[creature snarling]
-[grunts]
[loud snarling]
[music intensifies]
[Ellie yelps]
[growling]
-[creature snarling]
-Oh, my God.
[intense music]
[Merriell]
Yeah, that's your kennel.
Go on.
[creaks]
[crashing]
[ears ringing]
[muffled growls]
[whimpering]
[screaming]
[intense snarling]
[Ellie] Oh, my God!
[screams]
[growling]
[creature breathing]
[gasping]
[Merriell] She's out.
She's out, she's out.
Now, I want you
to go over there.
I want you to get a rope.
And I want you to tie it up.
Hands, feet, neck.
I'm gonna get more tranquilizer.
-Go.
-Okay. You--
-Go!
-All right, all right!
[breathing heavily]
[Sunday Jr.] Ellie?
Where'd they go?
Ellie?
Ellie?
-[grunts]
-[struggling]
[yelps]
[clanks]
[grunting]
[dramatic music]
[gasping]
[panting]
[grunts]
[Merriell] Well, well, well.
You do that to my boy?
[Ellie groans]
[Merriell] Yeah.
-[grunts]
-[gasps]
And you're still with us.
Please don't.
[Ellie] Please don't.
Now you sound
like the stock men.
[Ellie grunts]
[Ellie groans]
The shareholder
ain't never right.
[Hollis] Merriell!
[Ellie groans]
You bring my babe?
I came back to steel my heart
and do what
the cold couldn't.
I'll make you a trade.
The beast child...
for yours.
[Ellie groans softly]
My son... is dead.
And your daughter is--
[groans]
-[Ellie grunts]
-[groans]
[angry grunting]
[guttural scream]
[Merriell panting]
Bannister.
You... you killed them all.
[Merriell] Yeah.
The cook, the men.
All of your little girl's
friend... friends.
[breathing heavily]
Taking its child
sent it into a killing frenzy.
Two animals for a score of men.
Well...
was it worth it?
[tense music]
[faint trickling]
[Ellie] Dad?
Daddy?
[tense music]
[Hollis laughs softly]
[baby creature cooing]
[soft rumbling]
[soft groan]
Dad?
Ellie.
[Ellie] Where...
What happened?
You shouldn't have come here.
Somebody had to bring you home.
What, and that somebody
was you, was it?
Yeah. Who else was it
gonna be?
I tried to say no,
but... I don't know.
I thought maybe I'd...
find...
God. What the hell am I doing?
You left me when I was just
a kid, and nothing's changed.
[Hollis]
Ellie, we found the child.
And...
it made these little cries.
And they sounded human.
And it reminded me of you
when you were little.
[chuckles] And...
and Sunday, he just...
he just wanted a trophy.
That's all he wanted.
He was gonna
kill the mother, too.
I couldn't bring myself
to let that happen.
So I stole it.
And I've been sitting here
thinking ever si...
ever since, thinking about you.
Thinking about all the things
that I would say to you.
[sighs]
But I wasn't never supposed
to see you again. [sniffles]
And then here you are, right...
right back on the summit,
aren't you?
-[sighs]
-[infant cries]
[Hollis] Here you go.
Here you go.
[grunts]
Yes.
[chuckles]
Is that good?
All right. No fingers.
There we are.
Attaboy.
Attaboy.
Okay.
[gasps]
[coughing]
[gasping]
[distant growling]
[creature growling]
She found her baby.
-[infant creature cooing]
-[Hollis shushing]
Here we go.
No. What are you doing?
You can't...
You can't bring that with us.
She'll follow us.
We're not coming with you.
I'm going to run,
and the mother's
gonna follow me.
-No. No, you're not--
-Listen to me.
You don't need me.
You're not lost.
You're a Bannister.
Now plant your flag.
[soft jazzy music]
I don't know
What day it is
- Or if it's dark out there
-[distant growling]
Somehow that's
Just the way it is
And I don't really care
I go to this or that place
I seem alive and well
My head is just a hat place
My breast an empty shell
And I've a faded dream
To sell...
All alone and all at sea
Why does nobody
Care for me?
When there's no love
To hold my love
Why is my heart so frail?
-[groans]
- Like a ship
Without a sail
Out on the ocean
[heavy footsteps approaching]
Sailors can use a chart
[creature guttural growling]
I'm on the ocean
Guided by just
A lonely heart
Still alone
Still at sea
Still, there's no one
To care for me
When there's no hand
To hold my hand
Life is a loveless tale
Like a ship
Without a sail
[slow jazz music]
Still alone
Still at sea
Still, there's no one
To care for me
When there's no hand
To hold my hand
Life is a loveless tale
For a ship
Without a sail
[wind whistling]
[guttural growling]
[clicks]
[wind whistling]
-[gulls squawking]
-[ship horn honking]
[foreboding music]
[ominous music]
[wind rushing]
[door opens, closes]
[mysterious music]
[loud growling]
[man laughing]
Now, won't you listen
Honey
While I say
How could you tell me
That you're going away?
Don't say that we must part
Your deal.
Don't break
Your baby's heart
You know I've loved you
For these many years
Oh, I see.
[music continues]
-Let's see what you got.
-[man 2 chuckles]
[indistinct conversation]
[man 1] Let's go.
Me?
-[chuckles]
-Before I change my mind.
Hey. Who gets your chips?
Whoever's gonna
re-patch the hole.
[men murmur]
That'll be me.
Great. [grunts]
Say, this is nice.
Mm, best you don't
get used to it.
You better turn that down.
You'll wake Sunday.
Not until we finish our dance.
-Mm-hm.
-[man 1] You remember last time?
"Murderation.
You turn that racket down,
or I will buy
your family home and raze it."
[mockingly] "My name ain't..."
[all] "Merriell Sunday."
[loud growling]
[recorded music continues]
[ominous music]
[man 1] Feed it today?
[man 2]
Threw its food in the box.
You think I stuck around
to check?
[grunts]
That's it for me, fellas.
[music continues]
You'll feel sad...
[snoring]
[wind whistling]
[faint thumping]
[ominous music]
[hammering]
Sorry.
It's just me.
Did I wake you?
No. [exhales]
Thanks.
[hammer tapping]
[shuddering]
[roof creaking]
-[crashing]
-[man 2 yells]
[low growling]
[screams]
[dramatic music]
[screaming continues]
[reporter 1] This just in:
Merriell Sunday Jr.,
son of missing oil tycoon
Merriell Sunday Sr.,
holds an emergency
press conference.
Uh...
Howdy. Uh...
Two weeks ago,
Father and his herd
missed their exit deadline.
Then, um, across the wire,
a distress signal.
We're officially
declaring them missing.
But we ain't... we ain't
just gonna let the face
and founder of Sunday Oil
disappear like that.
Don't worry.
I have handpicked
some of the toughest,
smartest sons of bitches
God ever strung a gut through.
[reporter 1]
Junior wasn't kidding.
Leander Coates,
the team's watchdog.
He fought the Great War
against the Kaiser in '17
and then went back
for more in '44.
Dr. Margaret Lamb.
She's a real whiz
with animals.
And her twin sis,
one of the missing,
will sure be glad
she came along.
Booker Marchmont,
radio communications man.
He flew on the Enola Gay
in '45,
dropping the bomb
on the Japanese.
Impressed yet?
Certified demolition expert
"Dynamite" Daniel Hewitt.
It's hard out there,
and sometimes
the only way through
is with a fistful of powder.
[bell rings]
The men who made the first maps.
These were titans
who sailed the seven seas
and explored the globe,
cutting their way
through jungles with machetes,
burning through cobweb-filled
caves with torches
with almost certainly
insufferable egos.
Cartography and exploration
are not synonymous.
You've never heard
of most mapmakers.
They do their exploring
at night, in the dark
with a candle.
Their torch, a pen.
Their ship, a book.
Florence Kelley
created a new method
for visualizing data
when... when she mapped out
the Chicago slums, and...
she did it without trekking
to some far-off distant land.
My point is this...
You don't have to leave home
to be a pioneer.
-[student coughs]
-[chair rattles]
Yes?
Is it true that your dad
got trapped in a pyramid?
[bell rings]
[student] Ma'am.
Would you sign this?
[sighs]
[student]
Your father is my hero.
[woman] Miss Bannister
has a meeting now.
Thank you.
Thanks. I, uh...
I'm your next meeting.
Sorry for the ambush.
My name's Belle Parker.
I represent for
Mr. Merriell Sunday Jr.
[Parker]
Do you know why I'm here?
I could take a guess.
It's about your father.
[Ellie laughs] Theme of the day.
I'm afraid it's serious,
Miss Bannister.
I'm sure it is. [sighs]
Did he step on a trapdoor
and fall into a snake pit?
Are you aware of his expedition
to the Alaskan territory?
Being roasted on a spit
by a group of local natives?
He and the Sunday team
are missing.
Hollis has been missing
since I was 15.
He's not missing.
He's... right
where he intends to be.
The boat left,
and they missed it.
And the last word the boat got
was an SOS.
What am I supposed
to do about it?
Mr. Merriell Sunday Jr. is
putting together a rescue team.
Save his daddy and yours, too.
And he wants you
to lead his search.
You're good at something,
but you never got
to do anything with it.
Don't you think it's time?
[pensive music]
If something happened up there,
and Hollis really is in trouble,
how do you think
you're all gonna fare?
Better with you.
Hey, wait.
It's the last thing
Hollis gave me.
You're gonna need it.
[melancholy music]
-[door closes]
-[footsteps fade]
[melancholy music continues]
[soft piano music]
[slams drawer]
[determined music]
[Sunday Jr.]
I went ahead and hired
the best navigator
left in the South.
She's gonna make things
easier for us.
[reporter 2] Wait, "she"?
Did you just say "she"?
[reporter 3] Who is it?
[dramatic music]
[Sunday Jr.]
Let me present our navigator,
-Miss Ellie Bannister.
-[clamoring]
[Sunday Jr.] No more questions,
or I'll have Coates exit you
through the door by your head.
We are done here.
Let's take a flashlight, though.
[shutter snaps]
[wind whistling]
[trees creaking]
Erebus. This is Ellie.
I need a ping on our location.
Do you copy?
[garbled radio static]
[Erebus] ...an anchor...
Can you read me? Over.
Erebus. Come in.
Storm's going over the boat.
Say... say again.
When will you return?
Sorry, Miss Bannister.
This cloudburst
has got us jammed
the last few days.
[Dan] Damn ground's harder
than Uncle Tommy.
[tapping]
[exhales]
Consarn it.
[Lamb] You're gonna need
more than a shovel.
That top layer is permafrost.
Rock solid until mid-summer.
It's like trying to punch
through an anvil.
-[Sunday Jr.] Hey. Hey.
-Try to--
[Sunday Jr.] You figure out
where we're heading?
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Get up.
Get up, get up, y'all.
Gather around. Come on.
Go on. Tell us.
We made contact with the Erebus.
But the storm...
The signal wasn't--
-I ain't hearing a solution.
-I don't know.
With the storm, I can't...
[Ellie sighs]
We have to just stay put
until the storm passes through.
Then we can keep moving.
[Dan] Oh, heck.
Stay put? In... in what?
A can of soup?
We've been chasing our tails
following after girly here
for three days!
[Parker] It's the storm.
-Nobody knows where we are.
-We're fixing to die out here
-if we stay any longer.
-That's enough.
[Dan] Sir. I'm awful sorry,
but, uh...
More than likely,
your pop is dead.
And even if we knew
where they were,
we can't find them
with "Slow Walk" here
-leading the way.
-[Coates] I'll shut him up.
Try it, old boy.
The boat couldn't stay anchored
in the chop.
They had no choice
but to leave us.
Anything the ice gets,
the ice keeps.
Maybe we catch it
before they get real far out.
I... I swim creeks
faster than that boat.
Ice? It ain't even fast.
It's just floating there.
-I think if we can just--
-[Sunday Jr.] No more thinking.
Anymore!
[Dan] Shit. This here's all bad.
Just one great goddamn
big rhubarb bastard.
We can't even blow it up.
Why can't we?
A bivouac. Hollis used to do--
Only God Almighty's got a higher
command than me out here,
and He's quieter than Ellie.
Can't pick the ground.
Right?
So I say we blow it open!
Wide open.
All the way down to hell.
Yeah.
Ma'am.
[tense music builds]
[tense music continues]
All right.
Mama said ladies come first.
[tense music rises]
Debris!
[explosion]
[static crackling]
They say you're supposed
to get a clean kill shot
on an animal, but...
tsk...
I always find
you just hit 'em anywhere.
And you get 'em limping.
And they can't run so good,
and then...
Just... bam.
[Parker] When I was little,
my dad used to take me
to the VFW.
Some of the guys had faces.
Masks.
[Coates]
Your father was in the war?
[Parker] Mm-hm.
Paderborn.
I had a daughter that was
a field nurse in the war.
She said if I had to be there,
she ought to be there, too.
Would have been about your age.
[Lamb] Such a loss.
And the fossils destroyed.
More bombs,
more bones destroyed.
[sighs]
[Lamb] Animals and rocks
we'll never have a chance
to learn about.
Hey.
Didn't mean to...
dig my heel
into your toe so hard.
The storm didn't make me
lose the way.
Look at this.
It's going every direction.
-Huh.
-[Ellie] Been causing me trouble
ever since we got here.
[inhales]
I can't wrap my head around it.
Hey, look.
You can't always get it right.
Hey.
Boots get shit on 'em
sometimes.
[Dan] What's an animal expert
doing out here
on a rescue mission, Lamb Chop?
I mean, shoot,
they already got Dynamite Dan.
I blowed up
just about everything
could be blowed up.
My sister is the chef
for the expedition team.
I'll keep an eye out for her.
Why'd you bring me here?
How you mean?
[Ellie] I'm not the person
you've been selling
to the papers.
Fifteen years since I've been
near a damn mountain.
It's like something
out of one of them
grand American novels.
But better.
You and me.
Parents and children.
Why was Hollis here?
I can damn sure tell you
he doesn't care about oil.
I mean,
Father probably promised him
a building full of money, too.
[scoffs]
He'd care less about that.
[Sunday Jr.]
Father would eat the dirt.
Said he could taste
the minerals
if oil was in the ground.
[pensive music]
[spits]
I don't taste nothing.
Yeah.
[Lamb] We're adjacent
to the magnetic north.
Chaotic spinning could be
from the magnetites.
Magnetic poles can be blamed
for all sorts of things.
Monsters, myths,
signs from the gods.
[Parker] Monsters?
Shoot! Now I know monsters.
Jersey Devil, Old Ned,
Devil's Triangle--
[Ellie] We need monsters.
Keep us from going places
we don't belong.
[distant thumping]
You hear that?
[Coates] That's enough.
[distant thumping]
No, seriously. Like, listen.
[distant thumping]
You see?
[Coates] Grizzly, maybe.
A big one.
[Lamb] There are no grizzlies
this isolated.
Polar bear, potentially.
Next man who brings up monsters
will sleep outside.
That's enough.
[Sunday Jr.] Good night.
[thumping echoes]
[Dan] Bobcat and mountain lions.
Muskrats.
One time, I put a quarter stick
in a vole burrow.
Sunday.
Baby vole burrow.
Guts everywhere. My eyelids.
Jeepers, I done
a lot in this life.
I blowed up...
about everything
could be blowed up.
[whispering] I wonder
if animals believe in God.
[sighs]
[breathes heavily]
Sheesh, I gotta piss.
Hey.
Take this so you can
find your way back.
It's a system we used
in the mountains.
Baby, can't nobody put
a collar on Dynamite Dan.
[Dan] Baby vole burrow guts
up in my eyelids.
Gotta find that baby vole.
Baby vole.
Forgive me.
[sighs]
It's Inuit with a French accent.
Inuktitut.
Near Nunavut, that's the--
Northwest Territories.
Oh, yeah. You've been
around the map, huh?
-Yeah, around... around the map.
-[chuckles].
I don't get out much.
[Dan] Farmer in the Dell...
Farmer in the...
Oh.
[Ellie] I... I was supposed
to be a famous explorer
like my folks.
There was a polio outbreak
when I was 15.
[deep inhales] I was bedridden.
Barely survived.
Left with this.
What...
What happened to your mom?
[tense music]
[garbled radio static]
Your friends.
Try and get some rest.
[sighs]
[ominous music]
Dan?
[distant thumping]
[low creaking]
Who's that?
Who is that?
[thumping grows louder]
[branches rustling]
[heavy snorting]
Oh, shitfire.
[creature snarling]
Dan!
[foreboding music]
[branches rustling]
[distant creaking]
[rustling]
[rope straining]
[Ellie grunts]
Shit!
[trees creaking]
What am I doing?
[thumping]
[creaking]
[rustling]
[lighter flicking]
[soft whistling]
[footsteps approaching]
[whistling]
[whistling]
Jesus Christ.
What are you doing?
[ominous tone]
Slow Walk.
I just seen
what's-her-name's sister.
She sure is pretty.
Oh, my God.
[eerie music]
[Dan] Danny went to hell
Danny went to hell
Hi-ho, the derry-o
Danny went to hell
[creature growling]
[Dan whistling]
[guttural breaths]
[thumping]
[low snarling]
[snarling]
[loud growling]
[roaring]
[guttural breathing]
[Coates] Ellie!
[Booker] Ellie?
[Coates] Ellie, where are you?
-[gasps]
-[Coates] Ellie!
[panting]
[quietly] I'm here.
I'm here.
[Parker] Ellie!
Ellie, are you...
[Sunday Jr.] Wait, wait, wait.
Hey! Where's Dan?
[Coates] Half-eaten in a pile
about a kilometer from here.
He was attacked.
Why didn't you wake me up?
You could have got
yourself killed.
I'm not out here to babysit
a bunch of blowhard cowboys.
Dan's dead?
Attacked by what?
Something big enough
to halve a man.
Ellie, did you see the animal?
I'm gonna find the body.
[Sunday Jr.] Wait, wait, wait,
wait, wait, wait.
We ain't going off the plan
right now 'cause Dan ran off.
He could have been
going after the boat.
Maybe he just wandered
drunk into a hole. Come on.
-Mr. Sunday, if there's--
-The Sundays are not
funding a rescue mission
for Dan. That's it.
[Booker] Dan can't be rescued.
The Sundays are gonna
save money on his pay.
But don't you ever insult
the dead in front of us.
I may not have served
in the war, all right?
But out here, what I say goes.
[Coates]
It's not the front lines.
We'll retrieve his body,
whatever's left of it.
But we don't leave
the fallen behind.
Are you out of your mind?
That... that souse is not
more important than my father.
We need to keep moving. Come on!
Find that outpost.
Our fathers.
[Sunday Jr.] Okay.
Okay.
Our fathers.
After we find our fathers,
we'll pick up Dan's body
on the way back.
We'll give him
a proper burial back home.
That's the word.
[Lamb] Let me look at you.
We can't stay here.
[Sunday Jr.]
Stay together, y'all!
[Parker] Do bears hunt people?
[Coates]
Most likely scared of people.
Or just curious.
[Lamb]
Bears are diurnal.
Hunting at night
must have meant it was starving
or trying to feed cubs.
If it was a bear.
If?
[eerie music]
What did you find with Dan?
Butterflied from the back
of his head to his rear,
and his organs
flowing out behind him
like they were looking
for some kind of handout.
[sighs] I should have examined
the body.
Daniel Hewitt's body, Doctor.
Just because we work for him
doesn't mean we have
to act like him.
We honor the fallen.
Daniel Hewitt's body.
I hope you don't have any more
opportunities for examinations.
[Sunday Jr.] Keep it moving.
We should be right there.
The outpost... a couple
of kilometers ahead.
What do you mean, "should be"?
Uh-uh, no.
My... my gut's telling me
we need to go that way,
where there's less trees.
That's where they'd put
an outpost.
With all due respect,
you go off more than just gut.
[Coates] Hey.
Where's the kid?
[dramatic music sting]
[Sunday Jr.] Parker.
Oh, shit.
Parker!
God damn it!
She couldn't be too far.
Fan out. We'll sweep the woods.
We go spreading out,
we're more likely
to lose somebody else.
You keep going.
I'll track you once I find her.
Nobody should move alone
after Dan.
I spent many nights alone
sweeping for mines.
I'm faster that way, trust me.
Besides, it's what my daughter
would expect me to do.
[Lamb] Coates won't be alone.
I'm going with him.
[Coates] The hell you will.
She might be injured.
I'm not afraid of the dark.
Try to keep up.
[Sunday Jr.] Go, go!
Quick, quick!
This way. I'm telling you.
Right up in here.
[Sunday Jr.]
We're close.
[Lamb] Parker!
[Coates] Kid, where are you?
Parker!
[foreboding music]
[distant yell]
Kid! Kid, keep making noise!
[Parker screaming]
Oh, hell.
Where in the hell?
We're going the wrong way.
How would you know?
You ain't got a working compass.
[sighs] The moon is there.
Which means northwest
is that direction.
[Sunday Jr.]
The moon?
The moon? Are you
out of your damn--
Say "Yes, ma'am."
[tense music]
[Sunday Jr.] Lead the way.
[muffled screaming]
[distant snarling]
[guttural breaths]
[distant snarling]
[distant screaming]
[Parker] Help!
Help!
[Parker screaming]
[thumping]
[heavy thumping]
[thumping echoes]
[Parker screaming]
[woods creaking]
[gasps]
[Coates] Christ!
[Lamb] I have to see it.
Are you out of your--
[Parker screaming]
[Parker] Help!
Over here!
[groaning]
[creature growling]
[low, guttural growling]
[Parker whimpering]
[screams]
[screaming]
[screaming]
[ripping, tearing]
[intense ominous music]
[heavy footsteps recede]
[creature growls]
[gasps]
[Parker whimpering]
[sobbing]
[exhales]
[groaning]
[ragged breathing]
Easy.
Easy.
[shuddering]
I'm here now.
-I'm here now.
-[groans]
[ragged breathing]
[shuddering]
Daddy...
[sorrowful music]
[sobbing]
[Parker thumping, gasping]
[Ellie]
Should be straight ahead.
Keep pushing.
[Sunday Jr.] That's it.
We found it! We found it!
[door opens]
[tense music]
[Sunday Jr.] Father?
Are you in here?
[gasps] Sunday Oil.
This... this is it.
Father was here.
Damn.
Where did he go to?
Where's he gone?
[gasping]
Dr. Lamb?
[rumbling]
[Ellie] Dr. Lamb!
Booker, get a fire started.
Where's Parker and Coates?
[Lamb] Coates left.
[indistinct mumbling]
Coates is still out hunting.
Raced... back.
[ominous music]
[door bangs]
[wind howling]
Coates.
[Ellie] Are you hurt?
Coates?
What happened
to Parker, Coates?
[Coates] It killed her.
Did you see it?
[Coates] I saw the shape of it.
It walked like a man on two legs
and has matted fur and fangs,
and the hands were
four times the size of mine,
and it just, it... it...
tore her apart.
It threw her like a doll.
[Sunday Jr.]
And you didn't do nothing?
You were there to protect her.
You took the job,
and the job is for finishing.
And you just...
[dishes clattering]
What kind of man
doesn't do his job?
Especially protecting
somebody like Parker?
Huh?
What?
What, you wanna be
tough now? Huh?
When it don't matter? Huh?
Easy.
He's civilian. Stand down.
You killed her
bringing her out here.
I am gonna hunt it
before it hunts us.
And I am gonna
kill it for Parker.
No.
No, you are not.
You're gonna stay
right here and protect us!
Coates.
[Sunday Jr.] What?
This is mutiny, y'all!
Mut... One of y'all
say something, please!
Coates.
You are going to stay here,
or so help me God--
[Lamb] Gigantopithecus.
[dramatic music stings]
Ape.
Great ape.
Prehistoric animal
that went extinct.
Or so we thought.
That was in Parker's leg.
[Lamb] Twenty thousand years
of primal evolution
migrating across
the Bering land bridge
during the Pleistocene era.
A 20,000-year-old monster?
A 20,000-year-old
Gigantopithecus? No.
But its ancestor
might be stalking us.
It might be
the most significant find
of the millennium.
Do you think there are more?
[Lamb] I don't know.
Coates.
We need to stick together.
If it is...
this ape,
it's gonna take
all of us to kill it.
[Sunday Jr.] Kill it?
Are you out of your mind?
[scoffs]
We can't kill it.
We gotta... we gotta
call in reinforcements, y'all.
The National Guard.
Texas Rangers, somebody! Booker!
Get... get the boat on the horn!
Right now, come on!
That's an order.
[creature snarling]
Too late for orders now, son.
Everybody away from the window.
[rustling]
[creature snorting]
[tense music]
[creaking]
[roof creaking]
[thumps]
[radio static crackles]
Erebus! Erebus!
[Sunday Jr.] Erebus!
Can you hear me? Erebus!
-[glass shatters]
-[Coates groaning]
[Coates groaning]
[squelching]
[glass shatters]
[gasps] No.
[Ellie gasping]
No, no! Stay with me!
No!
No.
[Coates screams]
[Ellie screams]
[gasps]
[distant growling]
[Ellie stammering]
-[Ellie] I have to--
-No, Ellie.
He's gone.
Come on.
Oh, God.
[tense music]
That thing will be back.
Come on.
[hammer tapping]
[foreboding music]
[hammer tapping]
It seems the expedition team
was asleep in their bunks.
Never made it out of bed.
[Lamb] My sister is...
but if your fathers were here,
you might be able
to find some traces.
Now won't you listen, honey
While I say
How would you tell me
That you're going away?
Don't say that
We must part
Don't break
Your baby's heart
You know I've loved you
All these many--
-[gramophone clicks]
-[music stops]
My antenna is broken.
We're gonna have
to find something else
to bounce the signal off of.
Ellie?
One for the storybooks.
-What's that?
-[scoffs]
Sunday Jr. brought me here
for the story.
He never even considered me
outside of the pulp magazines.
He knew I wasn't fit.
All the dead.
Dan, Parker, Coates, they...
they'd still be alive
if he chose someone
with the right stuff.
[Booker sighs]
[scoffs]
Worst of all is
that I believed him.
I should have said no,
but I... I...
I wanted
to make things right.
Ellie, if you weren't here,
we'd be out lost in the Arctic,
following the whims
of Little Sunday.
The last time I was lost,
it killed my mother.
We were ascending the south wall
of Mount McKinley
when the storm hit.
My leg seized, so my father
carried me on his back, and...
we lost my mom in the fog.
He went back for her,
but he couldn't find her.
Couldn't look me
in the eye after that.
I can...
hardly look myself in the eye.
Maps became my way
to see the world.
I should have kept it at that.
[Booker] Miss Bannister,
when we dropped the bomb,
we were excited.
It's gonna end the war.
We didn't know
how powerful it would be.
They didn't tell us.
It's so bright,
you close your eyes
and you can see
the bones in your fingers.
I can still see 'em.
Dust in the streets.
Why do you keep that?
As a reminder,
anytime I get
too complacent or proud.
That's me in the middle.
What happened on that mountain
wasn't your fault.
It's the mountain's fault.
You never get
comfortable with it.
I agree with Junior
about one thing.
Your story will be one
for the history books.
Whenever you find the courage
to write it.
Parker said they got an SOS
from the outpost.
They built a radio tower.
We find it
and we contact the ship.
Yes, ma'am.
Pop that into your shoulder.
Aim it at his chest.
Pull the trigger.
Reload. Pull the trigger.
Reload. Pull the trigger.
This is going around you.
Oh, if you see the thing, run!
Don't try and fight it.
Only fight as the last resort.
[Ellie] Is that a challenge
for Slow Walk?
I don't think
you're as slow as people say.
I'm entrusting you
with my radio.
Please don't lose her.
I got her in boot camp,
and she's all I've got left.
Does she have a name?
You bet.
You hear the signal,
shine the flashlight up.
We'll be fine.
It's all fine.
Okay.
Hey.
Are you gonna tell me her name?
[Booker] I don't kiss and tell.
[wind howling]
[electricity buzzing]
[radio static buzzing]
Hey, Booker!
Booker, we got a signal!
[radio music plays]
[distant thumping]
[thumps]
[music on radio]
No one can come between us
-[Booker] Hey!
- I'm his Sheba
Ellie, it's coming! Ellie, run!
-[yells] Run!
-Everybody loves my baby
But my baby don't love...
Ellie, run! Ellie!
-Nobody...
-[Booker yells] Run!
It's coming! It's here!
Ellie!
-[music on radio continues]
-Ellie! Ellie, run!
Run! Ellie!
It's coming! Ellie!
Ellie! Run!
[snaps]
Booker!
Booker!
Booker!
[creature growling]
[rustling]
[grunting]
[yelps]
[gasps]
[groans]
[creature breathing heavily]
[guttural growling]
[mournful music]
[creature breathing heavily]
[slow footsteps]
[menacing music]
[coughs]
[screaming]
[somber music]
[door creaks]
Dad? Hollis?
Dad. Dad, is that you?
[Merriell] Where is it?
[panting]
Where...
is it?
[yelling] Where is it?
[panting]
[Ellie] You must be Sunday.
Your son's been looking for you.
[clangs]
Morphine tartrate.
[tense music]
He's out in the damn cold.
Wrists chained, left there
to die like a...
like a trophy animal
in that cage.
Ellie, I need
to get Father home.
First thing in the morning
I'm taking him to the boat.
With or without you.
Please don't make it be
without you.
Their expedition.
It's got something to do with
the cage your daddy was in.
And... and the creature
that's been killing us.
I knew Hollis
wouldn't come here for oil.
Now, Ellie, there's...
there's a very, very sick--
Look at these.
[Ellie] You don't bring a cage
all this way out here
unless you're planning
to trap something.
What did Hollis have
to do with all of this?
[thumps]
I'm not leaving here without it.
The girl is correct.
Hollis lives.
It was he that chained me
to that frozen bastille.
Get in here.
Both of you.
Junior.
[sighs]
There's no oil.
Never was.
Hollis never gave a damn
about any of that.
Plans to dig a well
were for the shareholders.
I came to hunt.
-[dramatic music stings]
-Hunt what?
A living fossil.
A monster that's...
been around since
'fore the birth of Christ.
[Merriell] Oh, years ago,
I did plan to dig a few wells,
sent a ground team to survey.
Last wire told word
of something...
biblical.
Twenty feet tall.
Five thousand pounds.
Eat a man whole.
[chuckles] I stopped caring
about the crew and oil.
I wanted to know
about this beast.
And I went to Hollis.
There's anyone who'd know
about such things,
it was him.
He told me a story.
Alexander the Great
and how he hunted an ape
that killed hordes of troops.
Your daddy told me
that ape, that beast,
could be one and the same.
So...
you made him join up?
[Merriell] Made him?
[scoffs] I begged him.
He's the only living man
worthy of my expedition.
He is better than them
who created all the first maps.
[Merriell]
When we got down here,
that ape killed
all of our hunters.
It was left up to
Hollis and me to capture it.
To drag it back here.
Instead...
we find something different.
Cries from deep in that shaft.
A babe.
Birth of the beast.
Hollis saw the...
beauty.
The humanity.
The humanity
only a father could see.
Except he stole that babe
'fore I could use it.
Left me in that cage
to catch a freeze.
Got all the...
rest of the team killed
when the mama come back.
Offspring.
That means there's a mate.
That's right.
I never seen
hide nor hair of it.
Why go through so much
for this animal?
[Merriell] I have my reasons.
Your daddy had his.
We can't fight it.
We just can't.
We won't.
[thumps]
That's good.
No time for reverie, boy.
You know, my whole life...
you told me
I needed to have sand...
any sort of spine or backbone.
And now this.
I'm saying it ain't right.
I'm putting it down.
My foot.
We need to go home.
I will bury you
with your grandfather.
[dramatic music stings]
-[ominous music]
-[sighs]
[Sunday Jr. grunts]
[grunts]
[Merriell] Go on.
More than the other one.
Keep pouring.
-Knock the beast out clean.
[Sunday Jr. groans]
That's good.
[tense music]
Go ahead. Pull!
[grunts]
That's it. Harder!
Put some back into it.
[Sunday Jr. grunts]
[heaving]
[dramatic music]
[music rises, fades out]
[Merriell]
Hey, come here. Give me that.
You never met
your granddaddy.
Made sure of that.
He died a sniveling husk
of himself.
Time did away
with his entire legacy.
Wasn't worth a straw coin
in the end.
Couldn't even bury him
in the family plot.
[sighs]
A man who doesn't go
to the ends of the earth
for what he want--
[distant thumping]
Shh.
All right.
She's here.
[creaking]
That's it. Get out there.
Light it up.
[ominous, rhythmic music]
[music stops]
[branches breaking]
[creature growling]
[growling]
[heavy footsteps shuffling]
[snarling]
[guttural breathing]
-[creature growling]
-[Lamb screaming]
[bones crunching]
[Merriell] All right.
She's here.
[creature growling loudly]
[thumps]
[Ellie gasps]
[thumping]
[creature snarling]
[cage rattling]
[screaming]
[intense, dramatic music]
[whimpering]
[Ellie] No!
[gasping]
[intense, pulsing music]
-[creature snarling]
-[grunts]
[loud snarling]
[music intensifies]
[Ellie yelps]
[growling]
-[creature snarling]
-Oh, my God.
[intense music]
[Merriell]
Yeah, that's your kennel.
Go on.
[creaks]
[crashing]
[ears ringing]
[muffled growls]
[whimpering]
[screaming]
[intense snarling]
[Ellie] Oh, my God!
[screams]
[growling]
[creature breathing]
[gasping]
[Merriell] She's out.
She's out, she's out.
Now, I want you
to go over there.
I want you to get a rope.
And I want you to tie it up.
Hands, feet, neck.
I'm gonna get more tranquilizer.
-Go.
-Okay. You--
-Go!
-All right, all right!
[breathing heavily]
[Sunday Jr.] Ellie?
Where'd they go?
Ellie?
Ellie?
-[grunts]
-[struggling]
[yelps]
[clanks]
[grunting]
[dramatic music]
[gasping]
[panting]
[grunts]
[Merriell] Well, well, well.
You do that to my boy?
[Ellie groans]
[Merriell] Yeah.
-[grunts]
-[gasps]
And you're still with us.
Please don't.
[Ellie] Please don't.
Now you sound
like the stock men.
[Ellie grunts]
[Ellie groans]
The shareholder
ain't never right.
[Hollis] Merriell!
[Ellie groans]
You bring my babe?
I came back to steel my heart
and do what
the cold couldn't.
I'll make you a trade.
The beast child...
for yours.
[Ellie groans softly]
My son... is dead.
And your daughter is--
[groans]
-[Ellie grunts]
-[groans]
[angry grunting]
[guttural scream]
[Merriell panting]
Bannister.
You... you killed them all.
[Merriell] Yeah.
The cook, the men.
All of your little girl's
friend... friends.
[breathing heavily]
Taking its child
sent it into a killing frenzy.
Two animals for a score of men.
Well...
was it worth it?
[tense music]
[faint trickling]
[Ellie] Dad?
Daddy?
[tense music]
[Hollis laughs softly]
[baby creature cooing]
[soft rumbling]
[soft groan]
Dad?
Ellie.
[Ellie] Where...
What happened?
You shouldn't have come here.
Somebody had to bring you home.
What, and that somebody
was you, was it?
Yeah. Who else was it
gonna be?
I tried to say no,
but... I don't know.
I thought maybe I'd...
find...
God. What the hell am I doing?
You left me when I was just
a kid, and nothing's changed.
[Hollis]
Ellie, we found the child.
And...
it made these little cries.
And they sounded human.
And it reminded me of you
when you were little.
[chuckles] And...
and Sunday, he just...
he just wanted a trophy.
That's all he wanted.
He was gonna
kill the mother, too.
I couldn't bring myself
to let that happen.
So I stole it.
And I've been sitting here
thinking ever si...
ever since, thinking about you.
Thinking about all the things
that I would say to you.
[sighs]
But I wasn't never supposed
to see you again. [sniffles]
And then here you are, right...
right back on the summit,
aren't you?
-[sighs]
-[infant cries]
[Hollis] Here you go.
Here you go.
[grunts]
Yes.
[chuckles]
Is that good?
All right. No fingers.
There we are.
Attaboy.
Attaboy.
Okay.
[gasps]
[coughing]
[gasping]
[distant growling]
[creature growling]
She found her baby.
-[infant creature cooing]
-[Hollis shushing]
Here we go.
No. What are you doing?
You can't...
You can't bring that with us.
She'll follow us.
We're not coming with you.
I'm going to run,
and the mother's
gonna follow me.
-No. No, you're not--
-Listen to me.
You don't need me.
You're not lost.
You're a Bannister.
Now plant your flag.
[soft jazzy music]
I don't know
What day it is
- Or if it's dark out there
-[distant growling]
Somehow that's
Just the way it is
And I don't really care
I go to this or that place
I seem alive and well
My head is just a hat place
My breast an empty shell
And I've a faded dream
To sell...
All alone and all at sea
Why does nobody
Care for me?
When there's no love
To hold my love
Why is my heart so frail?
-[groans]
- Like a ship
Without a sail
Out on the ocean
[heavy footsteps approaching]
Sailors can use a chart
[creature guttural growling]
I'm on the ocean
Guided by just
A lonely heart
Still alone
Still at sea
Still, there's no one
To care for me
When there's no hand
To hold my hand
Life is a loveless tale
Like a ship
Without a sail
[slow jazz music]
Still alone
Still at sea
Still, there's no one
To care for me
When there's no hand
To hold my hand
Life is a loveless tale
For a ship
Without a sail