Nimrod the Lizard Creature - Small
lizard-like animal with the potential of growing into a huge sea
monster featured on the science fiction series SURFACE/2005-2006.
Nimrod ("Nim") lives with Miles Barnett (Carter Jenkins), a 14-year-old in
Wilmington, North Carolina. Miles found Nimrod (a.k.a. "Nim") when
he and his friend Phil found a nest of strange aquatic eggs while
exploring the coast line in the middle of the night. Miles
extracts one of the strange eggs from a cluster, brings it home
and places it in the family aquarium.
Unfortunately, the egg hatches, and the resulting creature eats
all the fish in the aquarium. It then breaks out of the aquarium
leaving the house filled with broken glass and water until Miles
recaptures the little creature in the bathroom.
With the help of his friend Phil, Miles hides the creature from
his mom, Sylvia and sister, Savannah in their backyard playhouse
by the pool.
Miles and Phil name the creature Nimrod and then try to feed the
baby reptile. After an unsuccessful try at feeding Nimrod sushi,
the boys learn that Nimrod prefers live food and so they begin to
feed him live goldfishes (on command from a bell).
All's well in the Barnett family until sister Savannah decides to
have a party after her parents leave. But when she and her
boyfriend Greg (Daniel Newman) go to the playhouse to make out,
Nimrod escapes and scares everybody.
The secret of Nimrod was safe for the moment because Miles makes a
deal with Savannah (blackmail each other) not to squeal about the
unauthorized party if she keeps her mouth shut about Nimrod.
The boys eventually move Nimrod to Phil's above-ground pool. But
then Phil who tells a local girl named Amber Lou about the
creature to impress her. She, however likes Miles and uses her
feminine wiles on Miles to let her see Nimrod. But all good plans
come to an end, when Nimrod, jumps out of the pool and eats
Amber's poodle for a snack.
Consequently, a guy from Animal Control visited Phil's house to
investigate the matter and he was zapped big time from an electric
current generated by Nimrod.
Fearful that the man was really hurt, Miles began to realize that
maybe he would have to release Nimrod to the ocean to be with his
own kind (which were reportedly laying eggs on the ocean floor in
Stealing a car, Phil and Miles headed to the beach, but they were
chased by the police. In the end, Miles reaches the beach and
tells Nimrod to go. The police, in turn, arrest the boys, place
hand cuffs on them and sentence the boys to Community Cleanup
While on probation, Miles travels to the beach at night in hopes
of finding Nim, only to stumble upon a breeding pool of other Nim
creatures, one of whom bites Miles. Injured, Miles is sent to the
hospital and low and behold Nim shows up and licks Miles wounds,
which miraculously heal within a day.
Unfortunately, a security guard shoots Nim, but luckily Nim
survives. But now Nim is taken from Miles and placed in a control
environment for observation and study.
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