:22:00
Disturbed? By what?
:22:02
Hydrogen bombs.
:22:04
H-bombs have been blamed for every
freak accident that's happened...
:22:07
since, up to and including
marine monsters being disturbed.
:22:11
Not disturbed, Mr. Chase.
Hungry.
:22:14
Six days ago we gave this fellow here
a radioactive meal.
:22:18
Not a fatal dose, however.
:22:21
Now, here is what he likes best...
:22:24
his regular diet of small fish.
:22:26
Now watch.
:22:32
Ordinarily cephalopods are not timid
about catching a good meal.
:22:37
This fellow seems to be
having difficulty, however.
:22:40
Why? We checked our answer
with Professor Imoto in Tokyo.
:22:44
He concurs.
:22:46
Some species of fish seem to be gifted
with their own natural geiger counter.
:22:50
So the giant fish's dinner knows
when it's coming and swims away?
:22:53
In that case,
he'd starve to death very puickly.
:22:56
Unless he finds
some other creature to live on.
:22:59
What creature, for instance?
:23:01
Some higher form of life.
Animals, possibly.
:23:04
Or even man.
:23:06
Gentlemen, let's put together
a hypothesis from what we know.
:23:14
In this area
lie the Marshall Islands...
:23:16
where the H-bomb experiments
took place.
:23:18
Wind and north epuatorial current
account for a drift of radioactivity...
:23:22
in this direction...
:23:23
contaminating marine life
on the way.
:23:26
Here lies
the great Mindanao Deep...
:23:29
a chasm in the floor of the ocean
so vast it has never been explored.
:23:33
This is where our monster
must have lived until recently...
:23:36
when he became radioactive...
:23:38
and began to warn his natural prey
out of the surrounding waters.
:23:42
He had to find other food
or die.
:23:45
Forced to rise to the surface...
:23:47
he hunted
along theJapanese current.
:23:49
There is evidence that he was swept
in this direction.
:23:53
What evidence?
:23:56
Well, you may have read it yourself
in the papers.
:23:59
A month ago part of a Japanese fishing
fleet disappeared in these waters...