Lights Out
Updated 2005-10-03 17:00:00
Sheriff Tom declares a quarantine of Homestead, and is also in charge of the whole relief effort. Dave is still in the hospital. Russell finds an injured military scuba diver at the ranger station, and the diver has injuries that look a whole lot like the ones Dave got in the swamp from the mysterious non-gator creature. Mariel finds a weird pod-like thing that seems to be living in the scuba diver's head wound. Jesse and Rose are creeped out by their pod mother, so they sneak out and go to Russell's house. Mariel gives the pod-like thing to Russell for testing, and reveals that she didn't even notice that her kids left her house. Mariel confesses to Sheriff Tom that she hasn't been feeling herself lately, and Sheriff Tom blames it on overwork. Dave and Russell go back to check out the skeleton they found, but it's...gone! Larkin goes to interview the diver's wife, and it turns out that she thought her husband was still stationed overseas and didn't know he was in the hospital. Sheriff Tom and Mariel take the kids back, like, is the whole episode going to be about the kids going back and forth between their parents? Larkin wants to do a big news report about the military diver, but her boss informs her that the diver is dead. Mariel lost her wedding ring while she was out in the hurricane overnight, and Russell and Dave find a wedding ring in the trunk of the car where the skeleton once was. Gasp! Rose confides in Sheriff Tom that she saw the lights, and Sheriff Tom says that he saw them, too.