Over the Pacific Ocean, a Twin Beech soars high in the air as Niko looks out a window. And the plane begins to descend.
GOLFO DE SAN MIGEUL - PANAMA
The Twin Beech soon flies overhead of a village as a military colonel saw it fly by.
"That's affirmative!" He said named Major Colonel Hicks answering a phone.
At the pier of a dock, a military man carries Niko's things as they got out of the plane. And the Wild Kratts that recently arriving came out of their plane as a few military men carried their things. And a number of people were gathered on the dock.
"Hey. Where are you goin' with my stuff?" Niko asked following them. "Hello? Hey. Hello? That's very delicate." He grabs a case from one. "Thank you."
"Excuse me, excuse me?" Aviva said grabbing her M.I.K. "I'm rather attract to this, thank you."
"Dr. Niko Topodopeless?" Hicks asked as they met up with him and several soldiers. "Chris and Martin Kratt?"
"Uh, yes." Martin answered.
"It's Tatopoulos." Niko corrected.
"Whatever." Hicks said as they head off. "Come on! Get these people off the pier!"
"Excuse me." A reporter said hoping to answer some questions.
"Excuse me, sir." Niko said. "Do you mind telling me what I'm doing here?"
"Yeah, we're still confused why we're assigned with the military." Chris said confused.
"Watch your step, and don't talk to anybody." Hicks said. "Come on! Get 'em off the damn pier!" He shouted.
A man held a device scanning by a fence as it made a clicking sound checking for radiation levels.
"What happened here exactly?" Aviva asked as they wandered through a damaged village.
"What is all this, some kind of spill?" Niko asked.
"Yeah, something like that." Hicks said.
"Look, I work for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but accidents and spills are not my field!" Niko said.
"And we're not nuclear experts ourselves." Chris said.
"We know!" Hicks said turning to them as 2 helicopters flew overhead.
"Do you know you've interrupted a 3-year study of the Chernobyl Earthworm?" Niko said.
"Yeah, you're the worm guy, right?" Hicks inquired.
"What kind of study you do?" Martin asked.
"The radioactive contamination in that area has mutated the Earthworm's DNA." Niko explained. "You know what that means?"
"No, but I got a feeling I'm about to find out." Hicks said.
"It means that because of manmade accident the Chernobyl Earthworms are now 17% larger than they were before." Niko explained.
"17%, huh?" Hicks inquired. "Sounds pretty big."
"It actually does, even by worm standards." Martin said impressed. "That's like, what, a few inches longer?"
"They're enormous." Niko said. "That's what I'm tryin' to say. I'm a biologist. I take radioactive samples, and I study them."
"Yeah, and we learn and study animals worldwide." Chris said.
"That's great." Hicks said getting to some steps. "Here's your sample. Study it."
"I'm sorry?" Aviva frowned.
"What sample?" Niko asked.
Hicks turns back to them. "You're standing in it."
"Huh?" Jimmy frowned.
Niko looks down at his feet seeing nothing. "I don't see it." He said and looks around. "Where is it? I don't see it!"
"What are we looking at?" Koki wondered.
Aviva then brought out a FlyCam and her CreaturePod out, and the FlyCam flew 20 feet above them as they looked at the CreaturePod screen. And then saw they were standing inside of a large footprint as if it was made by a 20-story high T. Rex.
The footprint was so well detailed they even saw the depressions left by the heel of the foot.
And Niko and the Wild Kratts were soon shocked of what they were seeing.
"Oh... My..." Koki said both bewildered and shock.
They then quickly got up with Hicks.
"Colonel! Colonel!" Niko said as they caught up to them. "That was a footprint! I was standing inside of a footprint."
"That was an actually giant footprint!" Chris said shocked as they got to a tent.
"That's right." Hicks said.
"But there's no animal in the world that makes footprints like that, is there?" Niko said still stunned.
"Until now that is." Martin said. "I mean, not even the biggest dinosaurs come close to leaving footprints that big."
A woman near them with red hair then sighed lightly shaking her head. "I told them this is not your field, but they never listen to genius."
"Nick, Kratts, this is Elise Chapman of the National Institute of Paleontology." Hicks introduced them to the redhead. "She's your boss."
"Uh, hi." Aviva greeted shaking her head.
"Oh." Nick said and shook her hand. "Uh, those were footprints, right?"
"Yes, they were." Elise confirmed.
"Unbelievable." Chris said.
"Anybody see what made 'em?" Nick asked.
"Uh, actually... no such, uh, luck." Elise said finally turning to him and found rather attractive.
And Nick did notice that.
"Did anyone even get a look of what was here?" Martin asked.
"It all happened so fast that nobody knew what hit 'em till it was over." Hicks said.
Outside the tent, a man named Mendel Craven came out of a Jeep with a tape in his hand.
"Elise!" Craven called.
"Yeah?" Elise said.
"Tape's in." Craven said rushing in the tent. "The French finally released it."
He placed the tape in the TV and it turns on with a static and shows footage of a damaged ship.
"This is a Japanese cannery ship that was attacked and sunk near French Polynesia." Hicks explained.
"We believe it's connected." Elise said. "By the way, Dr. Craven, have you met the worm guy?"
Craven suddenly sneeze covering his mouth and held his hand as Nick stared.
"Oh, sorry." Craven apologized and sniffles. "Summer cold."
They turn back to the video as it showed the hospital and the sole survivor as a French man held a device as it was heard clicking.
"Gojira. Gojira. Gojira." He said.
"What is he saying?" Jimmy wondered.
"I'm not sure." Aviva said. "Almost sounds like Japanese."
Outside, 2 helicopters flew over the village as they followed giant footprints as they formed a trackway.
Thousands of miles up north, the skies were gray over New York City as it rains.
At a building, the woman in the photo named Audrey Timmonds steps out of a cab with groceries.
"Hey, come on! Come on!" A woman impatiently said as she got up. "Hurry up!"
"Have a nice day." Audrey said.
She then heads inside the building as an elevator bell dings.
"Oh!" Audrey quickens her pace. "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait!"
She soon heads to the office room she works in as chattering fills the floor level.
"They're saying it's supposed to rain this all week." She said a friend of her named Lucy Palotti placing the things down at her desk.
"What's with the bags, huh?" Lucky asked.
"Caiman's groceries." Audrey said removing her coat.
"It's stupid!" A man said in the background.
"Oh, girl!" Lucy said as Audrey sat down.
"It makes me look like Mickey Rodney standing in a hole." A man said.
"Speak of the Devil." Lucy said.
"What?" Audrey frowned.
Lucy gestured her head and Audrey looked back seeing her boss, Charles Caiman. At the moment, he was going over some things with other co-workers with what to show next.
"This one is the midget version." Caiman complained. "This one makes me look like a trained professional. Can we put this on the 5:00, please?"
Audrey turns back to Lucy.
"You think I should ask him?" She asked.
"No!" Lucy protested.
"I'm gonna ask him." Audrey said.
"No." Lucy whispered.
"I will." Audrey insisted and stood up.
"Audrey." Lucy whispered trying to stop her.
"The eye line's been set up." A woman said.
Audrey went over to Caiman as a phone was heard ringing.
"Did you talk with Humphries?" Audrey hopefully asked.
"This is not the place." Caiman said.
"Just tell me." Audrey said. "Did you talk to him?"
"He said he'd consider it." Caiman said not fully promising it. "It's between you and Rodriguez."
"You serious?" Audrey got excited. "He's gonna consider me for the job? What else did he say?"
"Oh, uh, why don't we talk about it over dinner tonight?" Caiman suggested. "Um, your place."
"Mr. Caiman, you're married." Audrey said.
"Yes, and you're very beautiful." Caiman commented. "Have I ever told you that before?"
"Mr. Caiman!" Audrey said offended.
"3 minutes!" A man announced.
"I've been doing research for you afterhours and weekends for over 3 years." Audrey said. "This is a very important job to me. I'm too old to be your assistant anymore. I need to know this job is going someplace."
"So, have dinner with me tonight." Caiman said.
"I can't." Audrey denied.
"It's your choice." Caiman said.
He then had a pout face and heads into the studio.
"Where's that 50-second feed?" A woman asked.
"Okay, let's go!" Caiman announced to the room.
"Charlie!" A man said.
"Yeah?" Caiman said turning to him.
"Say hello to your new co-anchor, Ms. Desireé Pon." The man said.
"Hello, Desireé. Welcome aboard." Caiman greeted.
He then sits down, but found his chair wasn't high enough.
"Mark?" Caiman said.
"All right." A man said.
"Can I have a pillow, phone book, something?" Caiman asked.
"3, 2-" A cameraman counted.
Caiman quickly hoisted himself up holding onto the chair's armrests.
"Hello, New York." Caiman greeted. "Today at 5:00, we'll ask Fat Pat, "When will the rain end"?"
Audrey brought out a chewed piece of gum from her mouth and sticks it a billboard of Caiman on the nose.
Thousands of miles back down south, the military followed a trail on the island of Jamaica.
GREAT PEDRO BLUFF - JAMAICA
"So, 3 years digging up worms in, uh, Chernobyl, was it?" Elise asked. "How did Mrs. Tata-polis handle that?"
"It's Tatopoulos." Nick corrected. "I'm actually not married."
"Really?" Elise said. "A girlfriend or..."
"Uh, no." Nick said. "Perhaps I work too much."
"So do you mean to tell me there's no one who holds a special place in your heart?" Elise inquired.
"No." Nick shook his head. "Not for a long time now."
"Well, you may be the wrong man for the job, but I think you're cute." Elise said.
"Oh." Nick said flattered. "Thank you."
"Mmm." Elise smiled and turns away.
Craven turns to Nick.
"She thinks I'm cute." Nick said.
Then 2 Loach helicopters approached as they looked back and watched them flew over head. And ahead of them, they made it to the coast as there was a crowd of Jamaicans and other military people at the beach as a large cargo ship stood on the shoreline. And it's hull carries large gash marks as if claws made them.
Chattering fills the beach as Hicks, Nick, Elise, Craven, and the Wild Kratts got out of the Jeeps and went over to the scene and saw the damaged ship. And they were truly shocked of the damage from whatever attacked it.
And Nick looked at 3 large gash marks on the side of the ship as they go straight through the hull.
"Who they hell are they?" Hicks demanded seeing some people.
2 French were busy documenting the scene.
"Donne-moi cinq pour cent." One said in French.
"Sergeant, get these people outta here." Hicks said said the Sergeant heads off.
"They're with me." The lead French man said appearing next to him.
"Is that right?" Hicks said. "Who are you?"
"La Roache Casuality and Property Insurance." Roache introduced and brought out a business card. "We're preparing to report."
"And you're pretty damn fast." Hicks mentioned.
"That's our job." Roache said.
"Well, your people are getting in the way of my job." Hicks said.
"Colonel, what do you think could have done this?" Roache asked.
"Listen, Mr. Roache, you get your people outta here or I will." Hicks demanded and walks off.
Roache turns back to the damaged ship.
Nearby, Nick grabs a food can and brushed some sand off seeing it was a fish can.
"Hmm?" Chris pondering examining another can. "Interesting."
Nick then noticed something on the side of the gash on the ship.
"Termine, on pile." Roache called to his men as they gathered their things.
Nick using a pair of forceps, grabs what looks like a piece of tissue flesh.
"On Y va. C'est termine. On pile, termine." Roache called out to his crew.
Nick placed the sample in a capsule, and saw Roache close by and walks off.
"Yes, sir, right now." A man said.
"On those crates right now!" Another said.
The Wild Kratts examine another slash mark and were truly stunned by the size of it.
"What kind of creature are we dealing with?" Martin wondered.
Late at night, a fishing trawler was sailing through the Atlantic as a storm pours down as 2 others were close by.
EASTERN SEABOARD - UNITED STATES
Inside one of the boats, crew members were enjoying themselves after a long day having some drinks.
"The captain's gettin' a cup of coffee." A crew member said.
"Don't take too long." Another said. "Then he's gonna come and kick your asses."
"Yeah, well, I'm in for a buck." A third said.
Outside, the 3 trawlers suddenly and abruptly stopped as metal creaking and groaning as if the nets below got heavy. In the driving cabin, the driver felt that they stopped.
In the cabin below, the 3 crew members noticed as well.
"What the hell is that dope-head doin'?" One said annoyed.
In the driving cabin, the driver works the throttle as the engine speed increases but the boat wasn't moving.
The captain then steps outside.
"Artie! Artie! What the hell's wrong?" The captain demanded. "Why are we slowin' down?"
"I don't know! She's up full throttle." Artie said unsure. "Maybe she's heavy in the net."
The captain heads to the back of the ship and down at the water.
"Yo!" A man called out from another trawler. "How come we stopped? Are the nets full?"
"I don't think so!" The captain said. "We must be caught on somethin'!"
"Bring in the nets." A man said on another boat. "Bring 'em up. Pull 'em in now."
"What's goin' on?" A man yelled from another trawler.
"We're bringin' 'em in!" The captain yelled.
Artie then stepped outside.
"Lenny, the engines are heatin' up!" He said. "Should I shut 'em down?"
"No! Keep pullin'!" Lenny said.
Then suddenly a sound was heard as then pounding on metal followed.
"Whoa! Bring 'em in!" Lenny yelled. "Come on! Bring 'em!"
Then suddenly the trawler was pulled back as if something below was pulling it.
"I'm tryin'!" A crew member yelled.
He grunts as he tries to pull the nets up.
"Cut 'em loose!" A crew member yelled. "Cut 'em loose! Cut the looses!"
The 3 trawlers continued being pulled back from whatever was underwater. Then a tower on one of them snapped loose and tips over.
"Look out!" Lenny yelled.
The tower hits the deck as the crew desperately worked trying to chop the ropes loose with axes. And soon the other towers on the trawlers tipped over as well.
"Cut loose now!" Lenny yelled grabbing an axe.
He begins to try and chop the rope loose.
"Hurry! Hurry!" A crew member yelled.
A trawler begins to be pulled under.
"Jump! Jump! Jump!" A crew member yelled. "Abandon ship!"
"Go! Go!" Lenny yelled.
"She's going down!" A crew member yelled.
"Let her go!" A man yelled.
The trawler continued being dragged down as the crew were forced to jump in the water. And soon the trawler vanished underwater along with the other trawlers.
Soon members from the 2 crews surfaced gasping and shouting as they cling onto any floating debris from the boats.
Unsure what to do, they then heard a strange sound as if there was a creature groaning.
"Do you hear that?" One said.
The groaning continues as it sounded like there was something below them and they looked around knowing they aren't alone here.
Then suddenly, something large popped out of the water as they saw the 3 trawlers rising up and then fell back down hitting the water.
Author's Note:
Getting closer before you know who shows up.
Meantime, the recent new trailer of Prehistoric Planet 2 was truly amazing. First showing off a shot of the sun rising over the Cretaceous Mongolian desert region as the 2 Tarchia brothers are seen. Then the female Hatzegopteryx flying overhead in Europe, then the introduction of Pachycephalosaurus. Then the return of Nanuqsaurus stalking as it hunts. A herd of Titanosaurs migrating, which I strongly believe may be Alamosaurus.
And then the return of Triceratops as 2 males clashed horns for the right to mate. Yet one of them was well known in the fossil record as Yoshi's Trike, and I have to say his horns are amazing. He must've been an old male that is still going strong.
Have studies determined how old exactly he might have been?
Other new dinosaurs are Isisaurus from India as a herd used a volcanic crater as a natural incubator for their eggs to develop. And hatchlings were also seen, then a small species of Mosasaur which could be a species I never heard of called Phosphorosaurus. Then Elasmosaurs corralling fish, the return of Velociraptors.
Then one Raptor dinosaur roaring, seems to be a Dromaeosaurid. Then a newcomer of small Pachycephalosaurids confronting a Tarchia which doesn't look friendly towards them as it slams it's club on the ground. Then the return of Hoffmann's Mosasaur lunging out of the water with a small Plesiosaur in it's jaws.
Then the return of Beelzebufo hissing at a nosy Rapetosaurus at a mud wallow as the series returns to Madagascar. Then 2 small predatory dinosaurs chasing a plant eater across a frozen lake. Then a Nanuqsaurus chasing a flock of Ornithomimus and shows it just about to catch one.
Then a herd of Sauropods migrating through a ravine, the return of the Mongolian Titan and Nemegtosaurus. The return of Edmontosaurus, a small dinosaur catching flies which I heard could be Pectinodon, another species that I never heard of. Then the introduction of another species I never heard of, A Hadrosaur with a shovel-shaped billed called Tethyshadro. Then a Plesiosaur mother and her baby surfacing at a hole in the ice like how whales do today. A Velociraptor bringing a stolen egg to her babies, an Isisaurus climbing the side of a hill. A Zalmoxes on a natural raft in a river, and lastly, the return of Tyrannosaurus Rex being confronted by a pair of Queztalcoatlus for the rights of an Alamosaurus corpse.
Hands down I know who will win that confrontation.
And here's the episode list: Islands, Badlands, Swamps, Oceans and North America.
Since Beelzebufo and Rapetosaurus will appear in Islands, one questions goes through my head.
Could Prehistoric Planet 2 introduce Madagascar's top predator: Majungasaurus?