A jellyfish killed a great white shark?
And ate it.
I have met king Neptune.
You know who he is?
Where he is?
Poo, poo.
♪
You fiend.
Get a fire axe.
- The fire axe? - Fire axe, fire axe!
Do you realize how fast that creature can swim
through the water? - You're faster.
♪
Poobah.
Chateaubriand for one.
Poo?
♪
Isn't he graceful?
Credit where credit is due, Mr. Schubert.
No one but you could have bred a jelly fish to this size.
♪
Months of genetic engineering, cellular reconstruction,
protoplasmic augmentation, and lo.
- Lo? - Lo.
An itsy bitsy, teeny weeny little jellyfish
is transformed into a slathering carnivore.
The cause of basic scientific research
will long be indebted to you, sir.
You are a genius, Mr.. Schubert.
You got half of that right.
Do you really think I'm doing this for the cause
of basic scientific research?
What other purpose could you have?
What other purpose?
To replenish my depleted coffers, that's what purpose.
Are you saying you're running short of money?
Even the wealthiest of men can find his cash flow
reduced to a trickle upon occasion.
And poobah is going to correct that, sir?
With any kind of luck, yeah.
It's a petty scheme of extortion,
quite beneath the high level of my usual earthshaking deeds.
But then mothers and necessity and all of that.
Extortion?
You're going to sic poobah
on some unsuspecting beachfront?
That unsuspecting beachfront community.
Borrom's landing.
Quaint, isn't it?
Sail boats, surf and white sand.
Excuse me, Mr. Schubert but if you're going to extort
money from the resort,
wouldn't a shark be more appropriate?
It's been done, Brent.
It's been done.
What the city fathers here at borrom's landing
hope will be the first in an annual completion,
the 38 mile long distance swim, to Alonzo island and back,
will begin this weekend.
Oh, I've done it again.
Just a minute, I've gotta check the book here.
All right.
I think I did it again, let's see.
It's international after annual, isn't it?
Okay, I'm sorry.
Let's take it again from the top.
And, by the way,
I want to get with Crawford over there because if those
third world athletes have some hocus pocus...
I know that it was all agreed to beforehand, Mr.. Crawford.
Good morning, good morning.
But that was before we replaced Jim buckey with burkham warey.
Mr. Dashi, if I shift your country's position
in the starting line-up,
then I have to shuffle everybody.
Now I think we're a little beyond
that now, don't you?
Yes, but you see, unlike Jim buckey,
burkham warey is left-handed.
Therefore it becomes essential for him to be on the right side
of everyone else if he is to perform at his best.
And, need I remind you sir, your state department has given
us their promise complete cooperation.
Um, just let me see... uh,
now maybe, just maybe,
George yen would trade starting positions with you.
How would that be?
Uh, that would be most appreciated sir, if he agrees.
Otherwise, sahib, there will be trouble
and trouble is the last thing you need
at such a complex international undertaking.
Is it not?
♪
Oww, oww, oww, help!
♪
Help! Help me!
Oww, oww!
♪
Mr. Crawford, something is happening to that boat!
Look, I think it is a shark!
Now that's impossible, there are no sharks here.
Well something is attacking that boat from under the water.
Help, help, help!
Well, I think we got their attention now.
You'd better call poobah back before he gets too rambunctious.
Yes sir.
♪
I thought you were at borrom's landing, c.W.,
the long-distance swimming competition.
Which might be having shark problems.
Cw said something attacked one of the pleasure boats
in the basin.
Something?
Well, it could not have been a shark cw.
They're not comfortable in the water at borrom's landing.
It had to be a shark, a stray maybe.
Or a killer whale.
Excuse me, but why does it have to be a shark
or a killer whale?
Because the alternative is too incredible to be plausible.
The girl whose boat was wrecked claims that it was torn apart
by a giant jellyfish.
Well, some of them can grow to be quite large.
There is one almost six feet around.
Mm-hmm, the cyanea.
But it's not native here.
And she insists the creature was ten feet in diameter,
at least.
Perhaps what she saw was a school of jellyfish.
Or a Portuguese man o' war.
That's it!
Now the next thing we need are the newspapers
I asked you to get. - Newspapers, yes.
Ten copies of the st Louis sentinel,
the news of London, the wall street dispatch.
And the scissors?
Scissors, mucilage.
You could have cut up the local daily
to make your extortion note Mr. Schubert.
It would have been much less expensive in view of your
current financial situation.
Show a little class Brent, just a little?
All I was doing was thinking of you, Mr. Schubert.
♪
Give me a "D" Brent.
♪
As in, "Dear gentlemen."
oh, right.
♪
Wow.
A ten foot jellyfish.
What I said to you c.W. Does not mean that one
could not exist.
You're a real friend.
Mark, I have swimmers
from 42 different countries out there.
Triple the number of diplomats and flunkies,
not to mention the representatives
with the state department who are out to make
foreign policy points on this contest.
And I'd like to know if it's safe to send swimmers
into the water.
Excuse me, Mr. Crawford?
The people at the contest sent this letter over for you.
It's marked urgent.
Well, thank you.
If it's from one of those diplomats again.
They're coming out of the woodwork
already on this thing.
Did they say who sent this over?
No sir.
Look at this, will you?
What does that sign in the corner
of the letter mean, Elizabeth?
A trident?
Instead of Napoleon, this guy
thinks that he's king Neptune.
"no further encroachment on my kingdom
without due tribute will be tolerated."
maybe it's a crank?
Or maybe it's somebody out to wreck the contest.
Do you know how long it took to get
these countries to agree to this?
Can you imagine the repercussions
if something happens to any of their people here?
Do you think it's something to do with
whatever wrecked that girl's boat?
I do not think it is a coincidence Elizabeth.
The answer is out there.
I will see what I can find.
♪
Unfortunately, you caught the last chateaubriand
this morning.
We're working on it.
The first note was just delivered.
I imagine they're still recovering from the shock.
Not that they'll pay of course.
Not without further demonstration
of what will happen if they don't
come up with my money.
But by this time tomorrow after...
Brent, I was just suggesting
that poo dine on fish this afternoon.
Yes, sea life does not live
on chateaubriand alone.
You used to love smelts, remember?
Aargh, we can do without the back talk.
Do you want to take your constitutional, or not?
Introduce a jellyfish to the finer things
and this is the thanks you get.
Go on, find yourself a snack.
But don't go too far.
Hey, I don't really enjoy using this thing on ya,
you know?
♪
Mark?
No sign of anything yet, Elizabeth.
No clues at all?
No, I am going to head up the coast.
We can't get past the reefs there on the station.
You are fine where you are.
Well within audible range.
♪
Poobah seems to have strayed beyond
his outer limit again.
I mean, he doesn't pay attention, does he?
As I told you, jellyfish have absolutely
no sense of responsibility.
Although he can't ignore this.
♪
Do you hear that noise, Elizabeth?
Noise?
♪
Yes, it's registering now.
Very high frequency, not very intense.
I am going to try and track it to its source.
♪
No sign of him.
He's resisting the device.
He is defying me because he's...
I want him back here now
and I don't care how much power you have to put out
- on that thing to do it! - It's borderline red now!
Do you think...
♪
Yes, sir, as you want.
♪
I had Jane boost the sound for this tape.
It comes out at well over a 100 kilocycles per second.
That is in the sonar range of most
audio active undersea creatures.
It's not an animal Mark.
My guess is it's electronic.
You believe it's king Neptune?
Well, what are we supposed to do?
Keep the swimmers out of the water?
Delay the opening gun?
It's supposed to go off at seven tomorrow morning.
And there are 38 miles of open water
for them to get through.
I believe we will see the sea creature
before then Elizabeth.
Yeah, heh.
Capital "T."
oh yeah, isn't that a fine sans-serif?
Here.
Because, now it won't exactly compliment the italic "A"
you've already got there.
But notes like this should
be a jumble of type styles, shouldn't they?
Does it really make them harder to trace?
Have you given poobah his treat yet?
Yes sir.
The next thing we arrange
is the washing up on the beach.
We can't send this till they get that.
Now, can we?
No sir.
Mark out there patrolling the cove,
I know I ought to feel secure.
But I don't.
The diplomats are really on you, aren't they?
The diplomats, the state department,
the local people.
My lord, Elizabeth, I feel
like I'm under the blade of a guillotine.
"tribute, " The note said.
Extortion more like it, hmm?
Next time I'm going to stick to my nice little foundation.
Undersea volcanoes don't seem half as irrational
as human beings do right now.
I am terribly sorry.
You cannot come into this establishment sans tie.
It is an urgent matter.
You have a Dr... Elizabeth merrill dining with a c w Crawford.
- And I must speak to them. - Just a moment!
It's true we do give ties but those
are the gentlemen who have shirts to wear them with.
Aside from that, we do insist on shoes,
not to mention socks.
Excuse me Leo, the gentleman is with us.
We'll talk with him outside.
I heard the word urgent and I got a bad feeling
in the pit of my stomach.
It struck again? - I think so.
- You think so? - From what I can tell,
the attack occurred somewhere outside the bay,
the body just washed up on shore.
A body, which beach?
Fortunately, not the one of the contest.
The far side.
I think you'd better take a look.
♪
My worst fear, my nightmare.
I killed somebody.
Oh, you thought I meant...
No, I meant this.
♪
A fish!
A shark.
A fish?
Not a person?
A shark.
Not just any shark either, a great white.
A jellyfish killed a great white shark?
And ate it.
Mr. Crawford?
This just came for you.
From who, where?
A, a speedboat.
There was this little wimpy man.
He came up, threw it on the beach
and then sped away.
A note in a bottle, how cute.
"take heed.
My due tribute in the sum of $1 million
must be received by the onset of the competition
or the competition will be prohibited."
newspaper letters.
Five and dime sort of stationery, that's cute.
We can't mess around with this any more.
I've gotta call Washington.
The alphabet boys are going to insist.
Thank you.
♪
They got the note all right.
This balding man in charge?
He wears a suit on the beach.
Can you imagine, heh?
It was very exciting.
I've never been involved in intrigue and danger
like this before.
I think I'm what they call a natural at it.
Brent!
Oh, there's something you should know about
the man in charge though.
I mean who his assistants are.
What do I care whom he's working with?
On the way home stop off at
chin wah szechuan Chinese restaurant.
I think the credit's still good there.
Get two orders of chicken bumbum...
It's Mark Harris
and Dr... merrill, Mr. Schubert.
A pork in hoisin sauce and...
What about Mark Harris?
Well, this c w Crawford in, in charge
of the competition?
He's with the foundation for oceanic research.
That's the same outfit Mark Harris works for.
And if...
He haunts me,
hounds me.
What did I ever do to him?
What?
Well, I've got to get him out of the picture.
The trick is getting him here.
A lure.
Poo.
♪
One egg?
It's all there was in the refrigerator.
One egg?
Oh, Dieu.
Well, couldn't you dress it up a little
with some caviar garnish around the...
No more beluga?
Or lumpfish roe?
Surely we can afford a little lumpfish roe?
Anchovy?
Anything?
Ooh!
The landlord is threatening me with eviction
for non payment of rent.
Can you imagine that?
He had the temerity to threaten me
with a midnight knock on the door
from the sheriff.
Me?
It pains me to see you so down and out sir.
I want you to know that.
There's something else I want you to know sir.
I'm with you all the way, come heck or high water.
Never have I been so privileged
to work with such a brilliant man!
Brent...
You can stuff that guava jelly.
I'm not destroying the oxnard motel
negatives, no matter what.
Oh, hm.
Now, has poobah picked up that green-eyed shadow
in his wake yet?
Let's see.
Hm.
There's our jellyfish.
And, yes, something's coming up behind him.
The Mark Harris I know and love.
Prepare a welcome for him Brent.
Something, something he can't bust out of.
♪
Is everything on schedule?
That boy is like an alarm clock.
Is everything ready?
Yes sir.
The outer gate will close
behind him as soon as he passes
the trigger mechanism.
Hmm-mm.
♪
Mark.
Nice to see you again.
Mr. Schubert.
I suppose I should have known.
Not really.
A small affair like this?
If I were a writer, I'd use a pseudonym.
Yay.
Nasty little thing, isn't he?
I would get out of that water if I were you.
We have trained him to be exceedingly unreasonable.
He does not seem hostile now.
No, of course not.
Now that he knows you're my friend.
Where you going?
I've seen what I have come to see.
Now I will notify the authorities.
Don't be absurd!
You're remaining here as my guest.
Do not try and stop me, Mr. Schubert.
I won't stop you.
Brent will.
♪
Comfy?
No, no, no.
You're too dry for that now.
Relax, Mark, close your eyes,
get rid of all that tension, and give
your blood pressure a break.
Two or three days of rest, you'll leave here looking
the picture of health.
Hmm?
Come along Brent.
I think this is the propitious moment to open that last bottle
of perigaud '59.
I am asking you to let me go, Mr. Schubert.
I will, Mark.
Thursday or Friday of next week.
All right, what are you doing
Mark?
Mark, it's childish for you to sit
there and bemoan your fate.
You have to accept things as they are.
Ask him what he's doing.
Tell him this childish petulance is going
to get him nowhere.
Mr. Harris?
Mr. Schubert says that, um...
Hmm-mm.
Mr. Harris.
Stay here and you argue it out with him Brent.
I will be out on the patio.
We've been hit by a truck.
At the end of a pier?
Go see what it is
yes, sir.
♪
Remember what I told you about tension?
Well, look at the cords in your neck
standing out like that.
You keep this up, you know what's going
to happen to your cardiovascular system?
It's monstrous Mr. Schubert.
I've never seen anything like it before.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it before.
Like what?
I don't know like what.
All I know is it's big and it's very hostile.
He's called some kind of sea creature.
Now you stop that!
You stop that, do you hear me?
You stop it!
♪
Now look here.
Vengeance demeans everybody.
♪
It's mindless, it's below your high standards.
Brent?
♪
Well, I guess that's a wrap, isn't it, Mr. Schubert?
No, that is not a wrap!
Might even work out in our favor.
Ahh, Mr. Crawford, sir.
I do not wish to be rude but this is top priority.
If it's about your substitute swimmer, um...
No, it is about these nervous making rumors
which are circulating about this carnivore.
Rumors?
Rumors to the effect that these waters are dangerous.
That there is some kind of vicious fish out there,
lurking about with malice aforethought.
Sir, if you think
that one of the great sports heroes
of our country is going to be put off by,
by rumors that are just fabrication designed
to upset the faint hearted, well, I've got...
Mr. Dashki, this country would not
consider putting anyone in danger.
Why do you think we delayed the opening gun
for the entire competition?
There will be a caucus of our allies about this.
That young man approaching has been
double-checking the bay for us.
You could do us all a great favor
by telling your caucus that.
You look like you know something.
I hope it's good news.
The diplomats are showing withdrawal symptoms,
if you know what I mean?
I have met king Neptune.
You know who he is, where he is?
He is Mr. Schubert.
You're putting me on?
Putting you on what?
This seems so petty, a $1 million is just
a, a drop in the ocean to him.
Apparently he is in debt.
Grandiose schemes, the type of which Mr. Schubert involves
himself in, cost a great deal of money, do they not?
Well, the Washington people will be here in a moment.
Looks like you're going to be leading an armada today.
♪
These are Mr. Schubert's quarters.
The creature is in the tank.
I want to see that animal.
If schubert's had it bred up to the size
you described, if he's trained it like some kind of doberman,
I wanna know how it was done.
Mr. Harris, Dr... merrill, Mr. Crawford,
I've heard about you sir.
Welcome to my home.
We are here with a legal search warrant Mr. Schubert.
These men are from Washington.
They have come to see your jellyfish.
My jellyfish?
Mmm-hm.
Yes we do keep jellyfish here, of course.
Uh, Portuguese men o' war.
I keep them in a tank over here.
Being as interested in sea-life as I am, I find it...
We are not speaking of many jellyfish
Mr. Schubert, only one.
One?
Ten feet in diameter.
Well, isn't that... my, my a ten foot jellyfish.
What'll you think of next?
Gentlemen, and ladies...
There was a tank.
Oh, there is a tank right there.
Gentlemen?
A large tank, in the floor, right where this carpet is.
In this floor?
Concrete beneath parquet beneath
my carracota carpets, huh?
X-ray it!
Hey, do a heat scan.
It had an opening leading directly to the sea.
That is how he released the creature.
Mmm-hmm, that's slander.
Scurrilous at that.
Are you really going to take the word of this
obviously disturbed young man?
It's a waste of time.
What have we got to hold him on?
Nothing.
So we're just gonna forget about the whole thing?
Afraid so, Elizabeth.
There's nothing else we can do at the moment.
Except keep a very close watch on you sir.
You are entirely welcome to do that sir.
Schubert enterprises and its management
have nothing to hide.
Ask the sec to send you our latest report
if you don't believe me.
Come again!
Yes, Brent.
Is it copasetic to send poobah home now Mr. Schubert?
No.
No, leave him in the holding tank
on the other side of the bay.
Why let them know which direction he's gonna
be coming from.
What do you mean you'll just find somebody to replace me?
I'm telling you, we have a threat
on our hands here.
Of course I'd feel better if my foundation people
stayed on the job.
I am trying to point out that you cannot take
a man like schubert at his word.
We would be best served if we postponed or cancelled...
Yes sir, we will keep our eyes open.
Yes sir!
He would not put it off?
Well, it's gone too far for that.
The diplomats are already here.
I told you that before I put the call in, right?
Well, maybe schubert will be the one
who pulls back, I mean, now that he knows that we're onto him...
That would not be like Mr. Schubert, would it?
No.
What we need is an early warning system of some kind.
Mark in the water, and you on the pier by schubert's place.
See to it that you have a bullhorn.
Mark spots the thing,
you call the swimmers out of the water fast.
And I can keep an eye out for any
unusual activity over there too.
Cw, do you realize how fast that creature
can swim through the water?
You're faster.
Now what do you think?
Would shark repellent work against this monster?
I don't know but it's worth a try.
Crawford!
Thank you.
I just got a final note from Neptune.
He either gets his $1 million by midnight or...
He left the alternative implicit.
And, since we're not paying...
♪
Blaise mullen here, bringing you the start of the first
international long-distance swimming meet
ever to be held in the continental United States,
ladies and gentlemen.
We are waiting Mr. Crawford.
The TV people are broadcasting.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it appears
as though the long delay is now over.
They're about to give the starting signal.
And they're off, there they go!
In starting position right now in first place, burkham warey.
Apparently, the management intends
to test the resolve of king Neptune.
They're challenging the king of the sea.
You are certain no appropriately bulging
envelope was found at the drop at the appointed time?
It was as empty a trash basket as I've ever seen.
Then I think it's time to release our angel of doom.
♪
Looks just like an ordinary radio, doesn't it?
♪
Gents.
It certainly doesn't look like a device
for activating a giant coelentera.
♪
That's the phylum that jellyfish are members of.
♪
Mark Harris is out there.
I think he's going to warn them
the minute he catches sight of poobah.
He won't have a chance to open his mouth.
Not at the speed at which our lethal little creature's
been trained to move.
Poobah is going to go right through him.
♪
Go get him you vicious little devil!
I'll teach him the consequences
of ignoring the demands of Poseidon.
♪
Elizabeth, it is here!
Get the contestants out of the water immediately!
♪
Clear the water!
Danger alert, clear the water immediately!
You are in grave danger.
Danger alert!
Clear the water immediately!
♪
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if all these incoming swimmers
set new speed records today.
Come along, Brent.
I think we finally convinced them
king Neptune means business.
♪
We're trying to find out, ladies and gentlemen,
who the woman on the pier is, and why she ordered
the contestants out of the water like that.
We're also trying to get a ruling from the judges on this.
I hope that run is legal, ladies and gentlemen,
because never, never, in all of my years,
have I witnessed a better send-off or a run like that.
It's phenomenal, the speed that some of these guys...
Uh, uh fellas, fellas!
An alert during the trial heats,
well, that is one thing Mr. Crawford,
but to interfere with those young men
out there, and their concentration,
especially after you made such a fuss
over them putting on that shark repellent...
Which you refused for your men wearing...
That is neither here nor there sahib.
Elizabeth merrill is the finest marine biologist
in this vicinity.
Mark Harris is to the water born,
and, if they say there is danger out there,
you can bet your life on it!
♪
Call poobah back!
♪
One more missive from king Neptune,
and our problems will be solved.
They will?
Didn't I order a new set of Boston bay monitors?
Mr. Schubert, something's wrong with the control.
Poobah is resisting recall.
Jiggle it.
Turn the dial all the way over to the end,
the way we did before.
If I didn't know better, I'd say the signal was being overridden.
What kind of signal are we talking about here?
A garage door opener?
I don't know, it's interference though.
I'll stake my professional reputation on it.
You're staking your professional nose on it Brent, look...
What, what is he doing?
I don't know.
It's very out of character.
Poo?
Let go, you sea-hugging garter!
He's not responding!
Brent!
I'll burn the negatives!
I'll save you Mr. Schubert!
Stop, hurry!
He's stronger than he looks!
Poobah will not release you Mr. Schubert.
Not until the authorities arrive.
What did you do to my jellyfish?
Undone what you have done.
You fiend!
We'll forget this!
- Get a fire axe! - The fire axe?
Fire axe, fire axe, fire axe!
That will not be necessary!
The surrender of the controlling device will free you.
I can't be intimidated.
The fire axe!
You see?
The controlling device, Mr. Schubert?
I will not ask again.
Control, that's it!
Override his override.
Override.
I've got it on full right now!
Put it on Fuller!
That's it, that's it Brent!
That's shown him.
So you just took him out to sea and turned him loose
and isn't that dangerous?
He's no longer under Mr. Schubert's control c.W.
So he is no longer dangerous.
I tracked him on sonar 10,000 feet down and not stopping.
I think we've seen the last of poobah.
Poobah.
Why aren't you over at the beach?
The competition's supposed to run till this evening isn't it?
The competition is over.
Fantastic, who won?
Officially?
What happened?
Burkham warey won.
Officially.
Unofficially?
Well, we had this unexpected challenger.
Mark?
Dr. Merrill.
S j dashki.
He doesn't sound happy.
♪