hi, i'm rhonda. rhonda lebeck. i'm up here for the semester.
right, geology. and you have to be val and earl. i've heard all about you.
listen, got a question for you. do you know if anybody is doing any blasting or drilling or anything like that?
well, i'm supposed monitor these seismographs. you know, they measure vibrations.
yeah, well, i'm getting what i refer to scientifically as "weird vibes." every sensor i've got is giving me strange readings. i mean, the school has had these machines up here three years and they've never recorded anything like this.
thanks. god, i hope they're not screwed up. i might have to bag the whole semester. anyway, sorry to bother you.
hi, guys, how're you doing? look, can i ask you something? did you just notice something weird? vibrations? you know, some kind of earth tremor?
i don't see any eyes. must be totally subterranean. and those tentacles.
yeah, i'm lucky it didn't find me. this is important, you know. this is like, well, let's say it, it's probably the biggest zoological discovery of the century. the century? forget it. history.
hey, hey, shut up! the way i figure it. there are five more of these things!
yeah, darn it, look. i've got seismographs all over the valley. if you compare the different readings, there have to be five. here's one at two o'clock yesterday, but here's another one three miles away at the same time. so that's two. now, here.
the other side of that dome.
probably couldn't move too easily on the surface.
there's nothing like them in the fossil record, i'm sure. okay, so they predate the fossil record.  that'd make them a couple of billion years old. and we've just never seen one till now. right.
well, we've got to do something.
of course! it can sense the slightest seismic vibration. hear every move we make. especially on this rock. it's a perfect conductor.
same here.
darn it!
yeah. but i'll tell you, if you ever wanted proof god is a man, this is it.
thanks.
i might have an idea.
well, i was wondering if we could.
you guys know how to pole vault?
let's assume that it is.
ready?
well, i'm scared, but i'm not sorry.
if you've got a radio, why aren't you calling somebody in bixby? the police or.
huh? i don't know.
look, these things are absolutely unprecedented!
where'd they come from? okay, worms, probably in the jurassic period. cosmic radiation was much higher then. so they mutated. and they got so big they just sank right into the ground and fell asleep.  but now continental drift has brought them to the surface, ready to be harvested by the ancient alien meat growers who planted them here.
no no no, they listen! they can sense the slightest vibration through the ground. that's how they see! that's how they hunt!
yes, see, they move very easily through the pleistocene alluvials.  . the dirt. the loose soil that makes up the valley floor. but they can't move through solid rock. i think we should travel west to the mountains.
the mountains are solid granite. we'd be safe there, and we could hike along them. all the way to bixby if we have to.
quiet! quiet!!
remember. no noise. no vibration.
look out!
it does.
oh, thank you.
well, we can take my truck then.
oh my god.
hey, guys! they're up to something.
why do you all keep asking me?
yeah, they're confused. they can feel our vibrations, but they can't find us.
you guys do all the odd jobs.
look, the situation hasn't changed. we still have to get to solid rock. there must be some way!
listen, they only respond to vibration, right? couldn't we.  distract them somehow?
wait! how are you going to know they're all following it?
val, stop! they're coming! don't move!
they're not trying to lift it!
we're not going over there, right?
there they are!
no, there's still four of them. see. there's like four different dust trails.
here they come! they're coming back!
wait, wait, listen. burt do you have any more of those things?
well, what is you throw one that way, the way we want to go.  then, when the explosion happens.  if it drives them away again. we all run like goddamn bastards! pardon my french.
i don't think it does scare them! it hurts them! they're so sensitive to sound, they have to run! it hurts too much!
it worked! there they go!
could we make it to the mountains?
they'll just wait out there till we're dead. that's what they do.
come on. come on.
nope, there! that's one.
hi, guys. burt loaned me his camera.
you're really leaving, huh?
well, yeah! there's going to be major research up here. first thing is to get some pictures of that one we dug up.
well. see ya.