Season 2

Okay, I'll take a crack at it.

But first a recap, bare with me...

In 1957, professor Alger Kessler while on expedition in the mountains of Tibet uncovers an orchid within a crater. What appears to be a non-terrestrial flower, much like a jellyfish. "The Discovery" changes his life and later effects the world.

Within that flower was the secrets to life itself. Kessler organized like minded scientists from across the globe to exploit the knowledge - and formed a secret society. This group registered a greater truth and plotted to mend it. Humanity can not exist with the current growing numbers. Their solution is genocide, a controlled burn.

We learn from Laura's visit with Mr. Big/Dr. Samantha Morris (Martha Plimpton) that the sea creatures were not aliens nor indigenous, they in fact were engineered for an unknown purpose. The project was highly compartmentalized, she only worked on altering RNA enzymes.

During Rich's interrogation with cabal agent Davis Lee (Ian Anthony Dale), he reveals that Lee is in fact a clone, a member of that 1957 trek. Lee confides that the whole mess was not an accident. The creatures were deliberately released.

The unknown amphibians (varied sizes up to 200 feet) have been digging up the ocean floor, both for spawning and releasing heat, exposed magma. Which is partly why Daughtery (Lake Bell) was there in the first place, thermal vents. The animals are causing quakes and have drained a lake in Texas by digging too near the surface, formed a sink hole. They are also devastating the world's ocean ecosystems, consuming EVERYTHING.

This murdering of humanity is not speculation. During Dr. Morris' recap - her recruitment to the organization, she said of her interviewer

We assumed a kind of custodial attitude towards the biosphere.

and

We are primarily a genomics firm, made up of like-minded scientists willing to work beyond the commonly accepted frontiers of genetics. Frontiers of knowledge, of technique, of societal conceptions of morality.

Ethics need not apply to them.

We know some kind of experimentation was conducted on one of the crew members from the lost submarine, the U.S.S. Topeka; the corpse washed ashore on Madagascar, his body covered in symmetrical scarring and bruises. It is unknown if the man died while escaping or if his body was discarded.

We know they have created an ape person and abandoned it when they evacuated the Iderdex Pharmaceuticals' production facility in San Jose, California. This happened BEFORE the tsunami. They know it was coming. While the impact area is not the West Coast, it is important to recognize they were closing shop and it happened quick.

Real, not fiction - Thomas Robert Malthus. In 1798 Malthus published his famous "Essay On Population". Two important quotes from his work:

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of the first power in comparison of the second.

and

Population cannot increase without the means of subsistence, is a proposition so evident, that it needs no illustration.

Too many people results in suffering over shrinking resources, a planetary reboot is needed = Lorentec (the Firm's main business name).

During Laura's rescue of Rich (Jay R. Ferguson) from Wilmington, North Carolina; Iderdex Systems' "Central Crygenics Facility"; we see that they've created an immense tunnel complex connecting it to the bottom of the ocean, the Mariana Trench. Rich had discovered before becoming captured that the Firm has in cryogenic canisters two of every creature on Earth. All to be moved to the undisclosed location deep below the sea. A modern Noah's Ark. For... the coming flood.

It should be noted that when Rich and his family was at the Southeastern Cryptozoology Conference in Texas, the man who had a creature encounter asked Richard...

How long were you a prisoner of the aquatic city?

It wasn't the talk of a loon. There IS an unseen aquatic city!

Also important to note, the image the convention man (Max Darby) took is NOT the same creature we see in the series. When Daughtery took her sample from the carcass found in South Carolina - Sullivan's Island. It's was found with ten percent DNA from a Liopleurodon. The very same creature the picture is of.

Mentioned above, Lorentec has created original creatures. It also resurrects extinct ones, such as the archaeopteryx shown during Dr. Morris' interview. If the new vertebrate is based on a dinosaur, then it stands to reason that Firm has ALSO brought back that ancient sea beast. If only to use it a basic template. And the convention man happened to witness the creature and was later abducted to the Mariana Trench.

After being attacked by a pod of baby creatures, Miles (Carter Jenkins) become infected and altered - possessing attributes like Nim, causing electrical spikes and sparks when agitated or stressed. The need for salt, his morphing eyes and mucus secretions. And something else...

There are two massive things to note about Miles' new capabilities. First is his unrecognized ability to breath underwater. He demonstrated it twice. Once while walking into the sea with the pod of baby creatures, saving the citizen posse. Mile does not recall what happened to him after he got into the water, waking up in the next morning on the beach. And later when he jumped off the ferry to rush to Caitlin's aid. That transport boat was NOWHERE near his home; less than an hour until the tsunami hit. The kid swam fast.

The other item is his ability to control the pod. Once he got on scene the babies stopped attacking. He unknowingly willed the creatures to follow him back to the sea.

This confirms Rich's sighting in the bathysphere of a man on the ocean floor, which he thought was his brother, George. The Firm created the animals and it makes sense that they would've created genes for an amphibious person which explains the lack of oxygen tank on the man Richard saw outside. Also what happened at that locale was a spawning.

The powers that be would have a vested interest to make sure it all went well. Plus the idea of control. Every circus has a ring master. Someone to dominate the beasts. The tsunami was targeted, the creatures digging in a specific spot to trigger that quake. Someone had to order them to dig there. The same with the taking of the Topeka. Taken away by them to some underwater base and its crew abducted... and experimented on.

Sidetracking. The same designer genes responsible for the vertebrate also has their extinction. Fact. The creatures possess incredible healing abilities, nearly immortal. What happened in Sullivan's Island, South Carolina? One of the leviathan washed on the surf. Not possible unless it was truly dead. A defective gene sped up its life expectancy. Remember, the project's long term goal was going to reintroduce the species killed by the floods, the cryogenic canisters. You can't do that with the beasts screwing with the ecosystem eating everything. No. They need to die before the seeds of life are replanted.

Jackson Holden (Austin Nichols) helped Rich and Laura with shelter and building the bathysphere. During the launch he saw something. Or rather something found him. A later Coast Guard report says a fire fight occurred on the boat, shell casing on the deck. And blood on a window.

For every action there is an equal opposite reaction. The Firm may have decided that depopulating is the best answer. Another group, perhaps made up of former members feel that mass murder is not the best response. Just before being locked up in the Central Crygenics Facility, Richard saw Jackson's image on a monitor. Rich mistakenly believed Holden was held captive too. But a closer look reveals that Jackson is in fact a Sector Evacuation Chief for the Firm. Why?

I think Jackson is part of group B, a double agent. Davis helped Daughtery and Connelly as a means to expose the truth to the world. What happened? Who was shooting at who? An unresolved mystery. Bigger yet is the fact that Lee wasn't aware that Jackson worked for the Firm; quote from Davis' laptop - open file on Holden: "Suspected in series of altercations in 1995 involving shipping fraud". Did that event result in Jackson's recruitment? There is another possibility - we know from Daughtery remark when asking for his help, Jackson is rich. Most likely from a wealthily family. A family that may very well have ties to the Firm.

The orchid. While at his superiors' home in the greenhouse, Lee picks up some papers with foreign, enigmatic text, somewhat hieroglyphic. We know Alger Kessler is alive, but is he a clone, an immortal? Another unresolved mystery; whether the creatures are sexual or asexual.

What of the meteors that fell into the ocean in the first episode? I suspect that they are part of the plan. As mentioned the creatures are engineered, various Firm scientists working towards an objective. Perhaps a Zero G environment is needed to combine the various genes; once incorporate the canisters are ejected into the sea from some unseen satellite. I have no answer for the tunnel lights the creatures give off when they swim to the bottom? Though I don't suspect it's an ID (Inner-Dimensional) portal.

Here we go, season two:

Speculation. The flood waters receded, our gang rescued. The death toll is incredible. The people demand to know what our government will do about it. Since her face was attached to it (the camcorder footage), Daughtery is given Dr. Cirko's old position, it would be very public - a double edge sword for her.

It is not very probably that Miles' family, minus Savannah (Leighton Meester) reached safety. The ferry only goes so fast and should it reach the other side before the wave hit, the roads and streets would be crowded. I believe they were swept away. The same goes for Caitlin's dad, Dr. Paul Bloom (Stephen Michael Ayers).

Richard would get his wife back, but only momentary. He will have to choose between continuing to help Laura or return to his old life. He will choose Daughtery. Tracy (Kelly Lintz) will claim infidelity, but the truth is the opposite, he is making the sacrifice to save his family - giving them a future.

The major problem is paranoia at Daughtery's workplace. This on going menace will cause Miles to run with Caitlin (Linsey Godfrey) and Nimrod (lesson learned from Dr. Bloom). Rich would go after to them to help, eventually finding them and too running. Why? The reason is obvious. Miles is the greater threat to the Firm far more than Laura and Rich combined. As mentioned, Miles can command the beasts. He MUST be eliminated.

I envision Caitlin and Miles playing house in some motel. In the middle of the night they're in the pool. The young couple becoming closer and Nimrod jumping about the water like a little kid trying to get his parents attention.

The main issue would be discovering that the tsunami wasn't the main event, but rather a test run. Those cryogenic canisters were moved to the Mariana Trench because something world shattering is coming - all of the pieces are coming together. Our hope lies in a kid and his sea monster pet.

Can you tell I'm a fan?

It was sexy watching Lake Bell in shorts and a tee shirt crawling on all fours towards a stereo speaker; her character finding the audio recording she was looking for.

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