- Ryan McBride: Mitch, the beach is deserted.
- Mitch Buchannon: It's that time of year.
- Ryan McBride: So, what are you gonna do all day?
- Mitch Buchannon: Like I always do. Sit, and watch.
- Ryan McBride: Watch what? There's nothing here. It's empty.
- Mitch Buchannon: Look again, grasshopper. We got the clouds, we got the waves, we got the surf, we got the sand.
- Ryan McBride: Oh yeah. Wouldn't wanna forget about the sand.
- Diamont Teague: About two weeks ago, something very dangerous arrived in Los Angeles. A killer. Of children. But not just any child. Street kids. Or runaways. The vulnerable.
- Mitch Buchannon: Ryan thinks it might be some kind of a wolf.
- Diamont Teague: It is.
- Mitch Buchannon: It is?
- Diamont Teague: Partly. We believe the killer to be a zargtha.
- Mitch Buchannon: A what?
- Diamont Teague: A canine creature, believed to inhabit the remote southwestern mountains of Yugoslavia. Considered mythic for centuries. The subject of scary stories that parents use to keep their children in line. Don't go out at night, or the zargtha will get you.
- Mitch Buchannon: And this, uh, zargtha, just goes after kids, huh?
- Diamont Teague: Yes.
- Mitch Buchannon: And he came in from the remote mountains of Yugoslavia all the way to downtown Santa Monica.