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Journals: Book 1, Entry 07 “Lungfish” Quatrain 32, Century 9: "The fish that travels land and sea will be cast up on shore by a great wave / And pestilence from the sky will drive multitudes into the ocean" I seek them. I hunt them. I will stop them. Since my crusade began, I’ve destroyed an alien cloning lab, ruined their disinformation campaign to discredit alien existence, and taken down a cult that sought an alien salvation. But the trail was growing cold. For three weeks, Crazy Eddie had been studying Nostradamus quatrains to lead us to the aliens. The only lead he found was a newspaper clip about a farm in Indiana claiming to have a large mouth bass that breathed on land. It seemed to fit with the quatrain. Eddie thought I was wasting my time going after a fish, but I had him make up some snappy credentials for me as a tabloid reporter for the World Standard News anyway. I thought it was time to go fishing. I met Esther and her little brother Cody on their farm and inquired about the fish. Esther gave me a cool reception. Her farm was going into foreclosure and she wasn’t interested in getting Cody’s hopes up that a little tabloid money would keep the farm from going under. Cody, however, secretly agreed to show me the fish. I met him later at the pond. Using peas as a lure, he coaxed a bass out of the water, walking on its fins. Can’t say I’d seen anything like it in Fish & Wildlife. I told Eddie about the bass, and he asked me to get a water sample for analysis, too. I went back to the pond that night. The water was quiet, that is…until a female form emerged from deep under the water. It was Esther. She had been under the water for awhile. I took the fish and the water sample to a scientist that Eddie put me in touch with. She said that the fish was mutating into a mammal at an amazing rate of speed. Looking at a map, we determined that the place where I had caught the bass was only two miles away from a fish farm called Aquaculture. My next stop. That night, I let myself onto the grounds at Aquaculture. I surveyed the vast breeding tanks. In one particular dark pool, I discovered the piece that filled in the puzzle: two scaly, webbed hands reached out of the water – humanoid hands. Were the aliens genetically mutating people so they could survive under the water? Had they gotten to Esther, too? I’m seeking them. I’m hunting them. I will drive the great pestilence from the sky back from where they came – or die trying. 'Til next time… “Lungfish” Writer: Daniel Cerone Director: Brenton Spencer Executive Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Larry Sugar Created by: Chris Brancato Guest Stars: Dana Brooks as Colonel Grace, Eric Pospisil as Cody, Emanuelle Vaugier as Esther, Lorena Gale as Alice Gundry. |
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