The trawl lines finally catch the turtle, which is so large it begins to tear through the net. Eric does not remember her, and dismisses her as an imaginary friend. Magnus tells Eric he had been with Jennie the night before on the beach, and how she was his friend from when he was young. He shoots at a form he can see only vaguely. Taking a small harpoon gun, Eric dives to try to save the net. After some trawling, they again find something dragging on the line. Eric collects Magnus and heads out in the boat. Paulis, aghast at the idea, withdraws his support for the expedition. Eric wants to use the Horror, a harpoon-firing bazooka. Magnus asks him if he remembers the turtle from his childhood, and describes how he carved initials on the shell, for himself and Jennie. Paulis explains that Lionel was conducting tests regarding mutation in sea life when he was attacked and apparently eaten. In the evening, Magnus again confronts Dr. Again the boat lurches uncontrollably, forcing Eric to cut the cable to the trawling net. Then Eric calls him away to go out on a boat with Dr. He tells her some of his memories from childhood, while she describes the quadrilles her father would hold in their great hall. Finally remembering her as his young playmate, he takes her to his father's wrecked house. Magnus goes down to the beach and meets Jennie.
The next morning, the police brings in Eric to examine enormous tracks on the beach.
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But Delia later tells him the full legend Jennie Haniver was a beautiful but vain woman who bargained with a mysterious god to save her from a violent storm at sea, and was granted eternal life at the cost of becoming a sea creature who can never again live on land. Dr Paulis tells him the woman must have been joking with him, as "Jennie Haniver" is the name given to a sea creature of local folklore. She returns to the ocean, telling him her name is Jennie Haniver. He jumps into the water to follow her, but he is saved from drowning and revived on the beach by the woman, whom he does not recognize. He again sees Jennie swimming by the boat. Magnus is intrigued by the necklace she wears, which resembles his own.Īfter dinner, upon not getting answers to his question about his father's death from Dr. Paulis calls out to Delia to hurry up with dinner. He explains that he and Eric are doing teratology. That evening, the three men are joined by Eric's wife, Doshan, for dinner at Dr. Suddenly, the boat lists violently to one side and the net they pulled up has been shredded by something very large and strong. Paulis, whom Eric is working for to finish his master's degree in marine biology. When Eric asks him where he has been, he admits he has been drifting for a few years. He meets his childhood friend, Eric, at the docks. The scene then shifts to young Magnus on the beach spotting Jennie riding the turtle, heading out to open sea and disappearing beneath the water as he calls after her, then shifts again to his nightmare of the night his father, Lionel, was knocked into the water by an unseen horror in the cave beneath the house and part of his house on a cliff crumbling down to the beach as the storm rages on.įinally awakening and groggily gathering his things to go to town, Magnus sees a woman swimming in the ocean. Jumping a few years later, both are playing with a grown turtle, Magnus carves "J+M" inside a heart on the turtle's shell while Jennie makes a cowrie shell necklace for Magnus. In the meantime, Magnus is dreaming of his childhood, playing on the same beach, watching a turtle egg hatch with his friend Jennie. On a Bermuda beach, a sleeping Magnus Dens is approached by a beautiful but mysterious woman, Jennie Haniver, who seems to recognize him.
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