[ominous music playing]
[growling]
[screeches]
Huh?
[growling]
What?
[roars]
[chattering over police radio]
[growling]
[theme music playing]
-[cop 1] Where'd he go? -[cop 2] Gotta be here somewhere.
[Hank] I don't know what to say.
I'm so sorry about this.
It was bound to happen eventually.
-What do you mean? -What was it last time?
You attended a drive-in movie, I believe. Hidden in the bed of a pickup truck.
I was a fool to think I could ever leave these walls.
Don't be hard on yourself, Hank. Your need to be out in the world is natural.
But I don't belong there anymore.
I can still create a holowatch for you. Like Kurt's.
All the same, it's still hiding. Besides,
if you'd seen how my rage got the better of me...
I really can't be trusted out there.
[chattering]
[yawns]
I was up half the night working on a stinking earth-science report.
-What do you know about redwoods? -Only that they make great hot tubs.
[Hank] I never asked to be a mutant.
-Why me? -In order to find that answer,
each of us is faced with a unique journey of discovery.
Journey? Where do you go when you can't be seen by the public?
Professor, did you ask him yet?
Uh, ask him?
What are you up to, Kitty?
[Kitty] Well, maybe he can take some of us to the redwood forest. Just to get away.
Ah, yes! Hank, we were thinking
perhaps you'd like to lead a field trip to the California redwoods. Up for it?
What? No. I'm sorry, I can't.
It's a marvelous idea. You can choose which students you feel would benefit--
Someone else should do it.
Please, Hank. Just imagine what you could teach them
in a natural environment like the redwoods.
Untouched by man. Miles away from another human being.
It's a nature-study sojourn for those students
who are falling behind in their earth-science studies.
[chuckles]
Me? But my grades are improving!
Uh-huh. With the speed of a glacier.
-You too, Evan. -Come on, teach.
Can't I bring my grade up some other way? Like going to the park.
There's green stuff there.
Does this forest have any sidewalks?
[birds twittering]
It's fine the way it is, Roberto.
Yeah, you're missing all the fun.
-It was plenty camouflaged. -Few more branches couldn't hurt.
I smell overachiever issues.
-These things weigh a ton. -This gear is nothing.
Ah, just feel that sun, man.
It totally juices me. Yeah!
You don't look so good.
I'm going through pavement withdrawal, man. This is cruel and unusual, teach!
[Hank] Send me an e-mail, and I'll take your complaint under advisement.
[pensive music playing]
[Kitty shrieks]
Whoo-hoo!
Yes!
[both shouting]
Is anything wrong, Mr. McCoy?
Oh, no, Kitty. Everything's fine.
Out here, in this place,
I'm enjoying the animal I've become.
But I don't want to. This is not who I am.
Well, then maybe it's who you were meant to be.
We should head back to camp.
-Round up the others, okay? -Sure thing, Mr. McCoy.
You can't go back either, huh?
Huh?
[chattering and laughter]
Best day of my life! I can't believe it!
-Man, look at it! -This is great.
So much stuff. This is incredible!
This hair matches no known species.
Look at the size of this footprint.
My motion-activated infrared camera shot a photo of him in a cave.
-You see there? That's a shoulder. -No, that's a wing.
Looks like a flipper to me. Or a nose.
-What do you think, Dr. Patronete? -This is all very interesting, but it's hardly proof.
-Come on! What do you need? -It's a shoulder.
[man 1] Here's your proof!
I give you Bigfoot.
[dramatic music playing]
Is he wearing trunks?
-Maybe he stole them from a campsite. -[man 2] Could he be that intelligent?
It obviously lives on fish, but lacks the manual dexterity to hold on to them.
[man 3] Where'd you get this?
-Look at the detail. -Look, look.
[guns cocking]
Let's bag us an apeman.
Your first assignment is to locate five different mineral samples on your own.
[all groaning]
-All dirt's the same. -Come on, man.
Come on. There's plenty of time for fun later.
It shouldn't take you more than an hour. So we'll meet here in...
four hours.
-Yeah! All right! -All right!
All right!
If you need me, I'll be in the teacher's lounge.
-Uh... Where's that? -I haven't decided yet.
See you later.
Five mineral samples.
I guess that means a go-getter like you will bring back 10.
Maybe 12. See, the first five is like a cake.
Everything after that is like icing.
-And I like icing. -Hmm. I thought you'd put on a little weight.
[mimicking bull bellowing]
Come on, I'm serious. Bigfoot is a brown yeti.
No way! Then what's a Sasquatch?
[bellowing nearby]
Where can I get me one of those?
The Bigfoot Trading Post on Route 5.
Ask for Mulder.
[snarls, then roars]
[all chattering]
-Come on! -You see him?
[all shouting indistinctly]
[Patronete] His expressions are so human.
I can hardly wait to study him.
[grunts]
He's still standing! Again!
[roars]
[dramatic music playing]
[grunting]
[yells]
Without that fancy contraption, we'd never be able to hold him.
Tell me again how it works, doc.
Well, you see, the bars emit magnetic energy to repel the specimen.
Much like two magnets with opposing polarities.
Well, whatever.
Looks like we caught us the real McCoy, anyway.
[groaning]
It was almost like he understood that.
Yeah, right. No more celebrating for the doc.
And I know just the taxidermist to handle this size of game too.
That's outrageous!
This is a wonder of nature. It's our duty to respect it.
What? It's not like we're making a rug out of it.
A coat maybe, but not a rug. [chuckles]
What was I thinking when I let them join this expedition?
-Mr. McCoy! -Mr. McCoy!
-Hey, Mr. McCoy!
-[Kitty] Mr. McCoy! -Mr. McCoy!
-Hello!
Mr. McCoy!
Rahne, you think you can track Mr. McCoy's scent?
Um, I guess so. I never tried anything like that.
Go for it. We'll keep up.
We better hurry. It's about to rain.
[sniffing]
-[Hank] Hey. -[gasps]
Did you say that?
Human.
-Hu-- -I have to admit, this cage is brilliant.
I'm guessing some kind of convex polarity reversal?
Oh! Oh! Good heavens.
You can speak.
-Am I right? -Uh... Oh, uh...
Yes! Convex polarity rev--
How do you know of such things?
They'll give anybody a degree these days.
-You are not Bigfoot, are you? -Now we're on the same page.
But then who--?
Hey, I'll even quote Shakespeare if you let me out.
Oh, absolutely!
-[hunter] What do you think you're doing? -It's the most amazing thing! He can-- Uh...
He's able to, um--
To respond to sounds.
Pack him up! We're leaving.
By now, there are others looking for me.
There are more like you?
Not exactly.
We're all special in a different way.
But you can see why we need to hide ourselves from the world.
Well, don't worry. We'll find a way to release you.
[thunder rumbling]
[dramatic music playing]
I think he's just over this ridge.
Under these conditions, we need to stay on higher ground.
Relax. I know how to handle this kind of terrain.
Look out!
That was close.
We're not out of the woods yet.
[dramatic music playing]
[all shouting]
[yells]
There he is!
Let's go!
[gasping]
[Kitty] No!
Come on, give me some sun!
Now we're talking!
[coughing]
Are you all right, Mr. McCoy?
Yes.
Thanks to you.
But there are people trapped upstream. Let's go! Go!
Hurry! Take our hands!
Let's get him!
No. Let him go!
Fast, but not fast enough.
You're going down.
[growling]
[Bobby] Bad idea.
[Evan] Yo, here's the word.
Bigfoot's got friends. Get the point?
[shrieks]
Looking for something?
-[growling] -[both whimpering]
What do you want to do with them?
[Hank growls]
I'm thinking.
If I were you, I'd start running before he makes up his mind.
Totally awesome!
-All right! -Yeah!
Fascinating group. I'd love to know more.
Someday, you will.
I'm telling you, he talked. And those kids weren't human.
One of them shot spikes from his body!
And one froze the gun in my hands!
Listen, we may be obsessed Bigfooters, but we ain't stupid.
You saw what happened! Tell them!
It's all very interesting,
but, uh, it's hardly proof.
Boy, Mr. McCoy, without you, that flash flood could have been a real disaster.
As a wise young girl once told me,
we are who we're meant to be.
So I guess the students aren't the only ones who learned something on this class trip.
[theme music playing]