Thunder and Lightening The Deep

ANT: 277, 278, 279...

Ugh!

Isn't there an app for this?

If there were an app for monitoring endangered species, trust me,

I'd use it. Apps don't complain!

Mom, come on, even you must find this boring.

Good science needs good discipline, Ant.

Hey, what spooked them?

What is that?

It's got to be...

..a mutated mollusc!

Nektons, found you!

Nereus?

You're not a mutated mollusc.

No, not the last time I checked.

Now, quickly, we need to go to Venezuela.

-Venezuela?

-Venezuela?

-FONTAINE:

-What are we looking at, Nereus?

The most unstable weather system on the planet.

That's the Catatumbo storm! Cool!

A weather system is cool?

It's an electrical storm that's been going on for hundreds of years.

Actually, thousands.

They call it the everlasting storm.

See, even cooler!

Uh, right. The problem is, the storm has started rapidly expanding.

It's tripled in size over the last two weeks.

How is that possible?

No idea.

That's why I need your help.

Well, we were resuming our search for Lemuria -

but a huge lightning storm off the coast of Venezuela

sounds like a bigger priority.

Not to mention totally awesome!

I'll plot a course for Venezuela.

Ugh, great.

We're going to a huge never-ending electrical storm

in a giant metal tube.

What could possibly go wrong?

My family are explorers.

We have been for generations.

While others look up to the stars, we know there are an infinite number

of things that shine in the darkness below.

There are things lurking in the seas that long ago vanished into myth.

My family are the Nektons

and we explore The Deep.

We're approaching Catatumbo.

If you could please stow your tray table and...

Return to your allocated seat?

Wow!

Beautiful.

Told you.

The energy is still building.

The lightning is almost continuous now.

So, something is turning up the power here?

We'll soon find out.

This weather balloon will give us a better read on the storm.

Let's dive.

The Aronnax is like a lightning rod up here.

So, silly question, but we're safe down here, right?

Much safer than above.

Lightning tends to dissipate horizontally when it hits the sea.

So, just to clarify,

the charge doesn't penetrate downwards anywhere near me?

Maybe just a bit.

Relax, Nereus.

This is so awesome!

You're right, Jeffrey. This will get millions of likes.

BEEPING

Oh, no! Dead battery.

Sweet!

We're moving further under the storm now.

Everyone stay alert.

Check it out, Jeffrey.

I can make lightning move slower than the speed of light.

No way. This lightning, it's backwards!

-Look!

-That's how lightning always works.

What?

Lightning starts from the sky and goes to the ground,

but that part is negatively charged, so it's invisible.

But I see it.

No, you see the reverse charge, which is positive.

It actually travels up but it's so fast, we don't see it that way.

That is outrageously amazing.

This is the data from the weather balloon?

Wind speed, temperature,

barometric pressure and lightning strike distribution.

-What's wrong?

-This storm is becoming incredibly dangerous.

How dangerous?

It could disable electricity grids,

take out power to Venezuela and knock planes out of the sky.

That sounds incredibly dangerous.

Hey, you moved my tablet off the charging mat.

Yes, I did.

I apologise for having the audacity to use my OWN charging mat.

10% charge?

Fontaine, I was using it for research.

Good science requires good discipline.

Then be disciplined and use your own mat.

OK, how about we put all this energy to good use?

-Sure.

-Ugh...

Good, because we've just arrived at the centre of the storm.

ANT'S VOICE SHAKES FROM THE DRILLING

Is this going to be worth rattling all my teeth for?

This sea-bed sample will allow us to analyse weather changes here

over the last few centuries.

OK, I'm at a maximum depth.

Analysing core sample now.

I wonder what was happening around here a thousand years ago!

Well, they discovered oil here, and...

Hey!

Ugh, not again.

OK. Back to the lab.

What is that?

They're electric rays -

but I've never seen rays emit visible electricity before.

Plasma arcs?

That shouldn't be possible underwater.

Stay very still.

They're just curious.

It zapped me.

Our Knights are shielded, but I still felt a little tingle.

BEEPING

And it just recharged my tablet!

They must be emitting a stable, positive current,

but that doesn't make any sense.

Thank you, chargers of the sea!

Where are they going in such a hurry?

Wow!

That's not normal.

Kaiko, you're going to want to take a look at this.

Awesome!

You said lightning couldn't get down this far.

It can't. It's impossible!

There was no negative charge from above.

Just a massive positive surge from below.

ALARM

Nektons, you're not safe out there.

OK, let's just made our way back to the Aronnax. Slowly, calmly...

OK, forget slowly. Out of here, now!

Will! Kids!

That was too close.

That's it. I'm coming in for a pick-up.

Let's keep moving.

-Is everyone on board?

-Yes.

Getting out of here now.

Hold on!

Kaiko, Nereus? Are you OK?

Nothing's responding.

The computers, the engines, they're all dead.

I've never been fond of electrical storms.

Even less so now.

We need to get away from here.

Come on, to the engine room.

Hmm, the lightning boiled the sulphur dioxide.

We can restore the anodes, but we'll need to recharge.

What's really happening here, Nereus?

Why are you asking me?

Because you always know more than you let on.

This is not one of those times.

-Really?

-I'm afraid of lightning.

If I knew there was underwater lightning,

do you think I'd have come here?

Oh, no!

I thought Jeffrey needed extra protection.

-Really?

-It makes total sense, Fontaine.

If you say so.

DOOR OPENS

How we doing?

We're dead in the water unless we can recharge the battery.

What is that?

Phosphorescence?

Radiation?

It's coming from that formation on the ocean floor.

And it's moving!

Wait a minute - Anteus, turn on the Ephemychron.

I'm on it.

We are here, which means...

What is this?

Now it makes sense.

What is it?

We're right on top of a symbol.

A symbol for...

What? A symbol for what?

A Monumential.

-But that's...

-An electric ray the size of ten football fields.

Do you think this Monumential is feeding the storm while it sleeps?

I think that's exactly what's happening.

-Aargh!

-Brace yourselves.

That's the air ballast, leaking everywhere.

-We're sinking.

-We could go in a Knight and maybe block the valve.

It's too late.

But, if we land on that Monumential...

It will awaken.

And then?

Picture an enormous electrical storm,

moving at will across the whole world.

That can't be good.

We're going down.

What are our options?

Without ballast, we sink.

-The bow thrusters?

-They need power. Without power, we sink.

It sounds like all our options involve a lot of sinking.

I need to find a way to charge the battery.

Will, we could use a backup plan.

Kids, ready the Knights.

We're going to push.

Jeffrey, stay.

Dad, is it even possible to push?

We have to try. Come on.

We'll try to make it to that ledge.

All right. Piece of cake.

OK, jets to full.

On three.

One, two, three.

Push harder.

If that ray wakes up...

We know, devastation!

Come on, Fontaine. Imagine you're pushing me into an open sewer.

Good idea.

We're moving.

Of course we are.

Keep pushing.

I don't think we're going to make it.

Yes...we...are!

That's it.

We did it!

See, kids, you can accomplish anything if you...you....

ARONNAX CREAKS

-Oh, no!

-Spoke too soon.

Lift!

Will, are we safe?

The Aronnax isn't stable.

If we did somehow accidentally wake it,

is there a way to put it to sleep again?

The ancient Lemurians managed to do it 6,000 years ago.

They created a device that saved the world.

The Monumentials were placed in a timeless slumber.

Maybe not "timeless".

Is this device handy?

Alas, no.

It's in Lemuria.

Ever noticed that with you, there's always a catch?

Deep down, she likes me.

-Will!

-We can do this.

For ever? We need power.

Hey, what if we let the Aronnax fall on the Monumential?

Worldwide chaos.

I thought we'd covered that?

That's small electric ray recharged my tablet.

This ray is 1,000 times bigger.

Maybe it can recharge the Aronnax.

Like jump-starting a car.

Hmm. That just might be crazy enough to work.

We'd need to reverse our polarity and put the Aronnax battery

in a parallel circuit with the Monumential

and let the current flow through.

So that means it could work?

It could also blow it up.

I don't like those odds.

Me neither, but they're the best we've got.

Nereus, come with me. You too, Jeffrey.

Keep pushing.

Come on. Harder!

Thinking super positive...

We can't hold it!

Move!

There's no way we can stop it.

No!

Kaiko, you need to get out while there's still time.

Just working on something right now.

You don't understand, the Aronnax is in freefall.

Look!

-Kaiko!

-Nereus!

Sorry, had to reroute some circuits before I left.

Mom, you're going to use the cable

to get a charge from the Monumential?

We're going to try. Come on.

We have to be quick.

It's going to flare up again.

It's going to miss!

The cable has to touch the dorsal mount.

I'm going to try and guide it.

He's not going to make it alone.

This is going to take all of us together. Come on.

Push.

I think it's working, Dad.

That's enough. Everyone back.

Hurry!

Jeffrey!

I've got you, little buddy!

Is everyone OK?

We're... We're fine.

Did we do it?

Over there!

The Aronnax has power.

It's still falling.

Hang on, Nereus.

Whooooaa!

This day has been then an unending procession of peril!

Whoa!

Come on, Kaiko...

Come on!

-Oh, no!

-Come on, come on.

Woohoo!

Way to go, Mom!

I can't believe your crazy idea worked.

Yeah, my crazy-good idea!

KAIKO LAUGHS

It was blind, crazy luck, Ant.

Its eyes are open!

It's woken up!

It's OK, Ant.

Electric rays don't have eyelids.

Their eyes are always open. That doesn't mean it's awake.

Mom, have I ever told you how glad I am that you're a marine biologist?

Remember that the next time I get you to count fish.

Isn't there an app for that?

Frequency of lightning has returned to normal.

It looks like the Monumential has been drained

of its excess electricity.

And the relationship between the Monumential and the storm above

-seems to have balanced.

-For now.

What do you mean?

Things are stirring.

And not just me.

The oceans are changing.

The balance is shifting, all over the world.

Ugh, he's gone all cryptic and mysterious again.

I think if you grow a beard like that, you have to be mysterious.

I'm SO growing a mystery beard when I'm older.

This is why we have to locate Lemuria.

We need to find the device that controls the Monumentials.

Dad's right. And sooner rather than later.

Why? What's bugging you now?

See this symbol that marked the location of the Monumential?

Yeah?

Look how many more there are out there.

Every single one a Monumential.

-Awesome!

-Oh, no.

Here we go again!

Oh, Fontaine, always the sceptic!

Ugh!