

As she leaves, something rams her boat, killing the engine again. Worried for her safety, Novak tries to call the Coast Guard, but fails to make contact.

She eventually reaches the boat, only to find it unoccupied and covered in blood. Novak dives underwater to investigate and emerges with a chunk of assumed whale flesh that was stuck to her motor. Using her boat's engine, she travels to the location, but her boat hits something underwater, killing the engine. However, she receives a partial distress call from another boat at the Monterey Canyon. Journalist and outdoor enthusiast Sharon Novak enters the final day of her solo global sailing trip, with several cameras broadcasting her journey live over the Internet and facilitating contact with her boyfriend Charles. With this, black bear populations begin to rise, though no confirmation of unusual or new species emerge. She later discovers the poacher was killed by an unknown creature. In her study's final hours, Glen hears the poacher trying to break in, followed by cries for help and unnerving screams and growls. She requests help, but has to wait 48 hours due to her outpost's remoteness. Suddenly, she hears someone call out to her and finds a sign reading "WHO'S WATCHING YOU?" on her door. She sends the hair to the game warden, who tells her it belongs to an unknown species of primate.

Growing suspicious over her cameras' findings, Glen later discovers a den with strange hair. While she disables several other illegal traps, the poacher responds by destroying her cameras, some of which capture glimpses of an unidentified hairy creature. After setting up a camera trap, she hears a strange wailing sound and tracks it, but gets snared by a poacher's trap. Over the course of her study, she reports strange noises and the feeling of being watched. In the Pacific Northwest, forest ranger Rachel Glen studies the declining black bear population and records her findings on various cameras. Their official report states Ava's parents died of unknown causes and makes no mention of the creature while Ava is returned to Nogales, plagued by nightmares of the creature. After taking her to their car, the agents confront and open fire on a strange creature before backup arrives. When they arrive, they find Carlos and Maritza's exsanguinated corpses and a terrified yet unhurt Ava. Meanwhile, United States Border Patrol agents, Tom Valentine and Martin Santino, receive a report about the Ramirezes' illegal crossing attempt and move to apprehend them. As they reach the border, they are suddenly attacked by a large dog-like predator. Seeing no other choice, the Ramirezes continue on foot. However, he stops two hours from the border, forces them out at gunpoint and abandons them, taking their possessions and supplies with him. Two days later, the Ramirezes hire a smuggler to take them to America. Despite Maritza and grandmother, Rosa's, concerns, Carlos is excited. In Nogales, Mexico, while celebrating their daughter Ava's birthday, Carlos and Maritza Ramirez receive a letter saying that they will be brought across the border into Arizona from a relative in the United States.
