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Surface: Episode 101

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People all over the world experience bizarre encounters involving strange new creatures in the oceans. Among those people are Laura Daughtery, a marine biologist and single mother working in California, Rich Connelly, a Louisiana family man fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, and Miles Barnett, a North Carolina teen who finds one of the creatures' eggs. Read full recap »

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Writers:: Josh Pate Jonas Pate

Director:: Josh Pate Jonas Pate

Stars:: Jay R. Ferguson (Rich Connelly); Lake Bell (Laura Daughtery); Eddie Hassell (Phil Nance); Leighton Meester (Savannah Barnett); Carter Jenkins (Miles Barnett)

Recurring Role:: Ric Reitz (Ron Barnett); Jason Davis (Sean Daughtery); Kelly Collins (Tracy Connelly); Rade Serbedzija (Dr. Aleksander Cirko); Shishir Kurup (Dr. Krishna Singh); Bobby Coleman (Jesse Daughtery)

Guest Star:: Conor O'Farrell (Barry); Jose Isordia (Boy); Eric Ladin (George Connelly); Court Young (Barry Cobb); Michael Charles Roman (Greg Butler); Connor Ross (Zack); Sean McGowan (Clean Room Communications Technician); Brent Sexton (Bud); Travis Brorsen (Navy Guard Officer); Brian Patrick Wade (Navy Commander); Bill Bolender (Old Man); Randy Oglesby (John Clisson); Grant Garrison (Government Panel Suit); Anson Scoville (Medic); Ramon Chavez (Grandfather); Austin Tichenor (Government Panel Admiral); Donn Swaby (Andy Cline); Eric Pierpoint (Admiral Philip Geary); Kristen Ariza (Marilyn Prickett); Stephanie Siemiller (Lady); Johanna Braddy (Lisa); Don Tai (Navy Guard); Susan Merson (Government Panel Suit); John Aylward (Unknown)

Miles' middle name is James you hear his mother calling him just after the tank explodes "Miles James" and his last name is Barnett so you know it has to be his middle name. edit »
When Rich and his brother are diving and the creature pulls Rich's brother down to the depths. Rich looks at his depth gauge and it reads 218/219 ft. First off that depth is insane recreational dive limits you to less than 135 ft and second he goes down and at no point did Rich equalize the pressure in his ears which would cause his ears to rupture. Not to mention that he just drifted up to the surface unconscious at least the show did say that he was put in a decompression chamber (even though when you see him he is in a plastic quarantine tent where a decompression chamber is a metal chamber that looks like a sub) edit »
Not exactly a goof but... the egg that Miles rescues from the sea is floating on the surface. When he puts it in his home fish tank it sinks to the bottom of the tank. More dramatic that way but otherwise unexplained. edit »
The scene between the young kid and his grandfather was shot in a studio and was one of the few "outdoor" scenes not actually shot on location. edit »
Most of the series will be filmed in and around Wrightsville Beach and Wilmington, NC, even for scenes that are not supposed to take place in North Carolina. edit »

Music:

Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down edit »
International Airdates:
Denmark: April 2, 2008 on TV3+
The Netherlands: June 2, 2008 on Veronica edit »
During the final preview test screenings of the pilot episode held at Universal Studios, the audiences got very emotional during the scenes featuring locations set in Lousianna as Hurricane Katrina had just hit the area days before. edit »
Shows that NBC put on Monday nights at 8:00pm have historically plummeted in the ratings because of powerhouse competitors like Monday Night Football and 7th Heaven but Surface managed to become a surprise hit with ratings steadily climbing each week. edit »
Surface was the most over-saturated new series premiere of the fall 2005 season, due to mass re-airing of the pilot during the first week on the Sci Fi Channel. edit »

Laura: I worked my ass off to get here and I deserve to be part of this.
Cirko: Endangered species don't deserve to be on the brink of extinction. But they are. You are a marine biologist. You of all people must know that life is not fair. edit »
Laura: (while in a submarine) Something's coming up. edit »
Miles: There's something in the water. edit »
Laura: I was the one that saw it. Alone, at 5,000 feet! I was the one that saw it in a disabled submersible. A new vertebrate! edit »

The computer program Miles uses to wake himself up features The Incredible Hulk, a popular comic book character from Marvel Comics created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The Hulk's story is about a man named Bruce Banner who, due to radiation, would turn into a large green monster whenever he got angry. The comic book was turned into a popular show in the 1970s starring Bill Bixby (as Banner) and Lou Ferrigno (as the Hulk) and later adapted into a film by Ang Lee in 2003. edit »
Miles reads a book that contains a passage about a "six-headed sea serpent". This is probably Charybdis, in Greek mythology the child of the sea god Poseidon and earth mother Gaia. Charybdis guarded a narrow sea passage, and reached down from its lair when ships passed to devour six crewmen, one for each mouth. The penalty for failing to make a swift passage was repeated loss of crew members in multiples of six. edit »

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Episode 101
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Intriguing premise. Not just the finding of a new lifeform under the sea, but the fight between scientists and the military of intellectual property. ...Continue »
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