Behemoth the Sea Monster

Steve Karnes:
I feel Admiral, what we're facing is a marine animal of tremendous size and strength.

Admiral Summers:
Do you mean to believe that a whale could've smashed through steel plates so high above the water line?

Steve Karnes:
I didn't say a whale.

Professor James Bickford:
Behemoth?

Steve Karnes:
That's as good a name as any for now.

Dr. Sampson, the Paleontologist:
Oh, it's heading for the Thames. They always made for the freshwater rivers to die. That's where their skeletons have been found - some irrestible instinct to die in the shallows that gave them birth. You know, all my life I hoped this would happen. Ever since childhood I expected it. I knew these creatures were alive somewhere, but I had no proof, scientific proof, and I had to keep it to myself, or my colleagues would have all laughed at me. See, no form of life ceases abruptly, and all those reports of sea serpents - well, what can they be?... The tall, graceful neck of paleosaurus. He can stay underneath the surface for an age, and now he comes to the top.

Steve Karnes:
[solemnly] One thing is sure. Something has happened here that isn't in the book. Something came out of the ocean and now has gone back into.

[Jean finds her father badly burned]

John:
What happened, man? Can - Can you talk to us? Can you hear us, Tom?

Jean Trevethan:
Dad? Dad?

Tom Trevethan:
From the sea... burning, like fire!

John:
What was it?

Tom Trevethan:
Behemoth!

Steve Karnes:
[looking at the instrument plate] This is very impressive, but I'm not going to perform surgery... I'm going to cut a fish.