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Mar 28, 2003 · Feeding Frenzy: Directed by Bradford May. With Victor Browne, Gladise Jiminez, Marcia Strassman, Lela Lee. Burt and the others struggle to find out what is wrong with El Blanco, who is behaving unusually aggressive.
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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- Bradford May
- 2003-03-28
Season 1 Episode 1 - Feeding Frenzy. Tremors activists must stop El Blanco feeding frenzy before it claims the lives of all the townspeople.
- Bradford May
- 44 min
- January 1, 2003
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Feeding Frenzy is the first episode of Tremors: The Series. Melvin sets up a generator that emits a loud noise that agitates El Blanco. Also someone driving around on a motorcycle is causing disruptions with the seismographs.
From the Survival Journal of Burt Gummer:
When my geo-phone net sounded the alarm, I deployed to the entrance of Perfection Valley and found our local Graboid, El Blanco, menacing an adult Caucasian male named Tyler Reed. Mr. Reed informed me that El Blanco had just snagged himself a backpacker. (Damn it, how many times do we have to warn tourists not to wander around the valley without safety equipment?) One concussion grenade later, El Blanco had vamoosed and our newest neighbor was hitching a ride into town with me.
At Chang's Market, Tyler told us he'd bought Desert Jack's Tours. Jodi Chang and I gave him the normal safety briefing and Graboid-detection gear. Then El Blanco arrived to give him a training exercise.
El Blanco's unusually aggressive behavior was triggering my brain's early-warning system. Next morning, doing recon, I found one dirt-bike track and seven dead, half-eaten burros. They couldn't talk, but they didn't have to. Those burros told me our not-so-friendly neighborhood Graboid was in an unnatural feeding frenzy.
Then Rosalita radioed in, screaming that El Blanco was attacking her ranch. Jodi and Tyler extracted her safely, and Tyler brought her to my place. As they arrived, I saw a metallic gleam in the distance, and my equipment went on the fritz. When El Blanco charged us, we had to fall back to my bunker.
After that incident, we headed to Chang's Market for a war council. We were all there, even our blustering compadre Agent Twitchell, when El Blanco burst through the floor and commenced wreaking more havoc.
A man drives into Perfection Valley and notices a sign informing him to stay on the road because of "extreme wildlife danger". Not caring about what the sign says, the man parks on the side of the road to have his picture taken with the sign. He then hears a cry for help and turns to see a backpacker running through the desert. The backpacker is pulled halfway into the ground as the man tries to help him out. However, the backpacker is pulled away and sucked underground as El Blanco chases after the man, now on top his car for safety. However, El Blanco begins to pull it under (he left the radio on) and the man retreats to a small rock for safety. El Blanco tries to grab him, but a small explosion causes him to flee. The man turns to the road to see Burt Gummer standing behind him with his jeep full of armaments.
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Burt informs him that he has been "greeted" by El Blanco and that he is unable to kill El Blanco due to him being an endangered species. (Burt is forced to use loud non-lethal concussion grenades to drive El Blanco away) The man informs Burt of the hiker being eaten, which reminds Burt of the time he was eaten (and barely survived escaping) by a Graboid. Burt informs him that there is nothing they can do and then wonders if the car front sticking out of the ground belongs to him, but then goes on about how the sign causes more trouble than saving lives. The man boards Burt's jeep after Burt's sysmographic watch informs him that EL Blanco is returning. Burt then says he knew where he was because he set up sysmos throughout the valley to keep track of El Blanco.
Back in Perfection, Melvin is pitching his latest idea to Jodi and fails completely when Nancy interrupts them. Nancy then informs Melvin that Burt's approaching, prompting Melvin to flee. Burt informs the "tourist" who Melvin is then tells Jodi and Nancy of El Blanco's latest kill. Burt then complains how tourists think Perfection is like "Pirates of the damn Caribbean!" The newcomer the tells Burt that he bought Desert Jack's Graboid Tour after meeting with Jack in Vegas. Jodi then informs him that he is now in charge of paying off Jack's debts (he got suckered) while explaining that they can have a good business relationship. Jodi shows him the garage Jack's truck is kept to find Rosalita taking out the engine battery. Jodi then takes him to the store, where Nancy asks him to help fill out a damages report. Introducing himself as Tyler Reed, the newcomer earns one of Burt's "distrust in the government" lines. An alarm goes off an everyone shuts off noise-making electronics and hold up uneven shelves. El Blanco tunnels past them as Burt keeps Tyler quiet. Once El Blanco is a safe distance away, everyone turns the electronics back on. Jodi then hands Tyler a video (starring Burt) for tips on how to live in Perfection and survive attacks from Graboids, Shriekers and Ass Blasters. Tyler then wonders why everyone is so calm about El Blanco being there and is handed a "wrist sysmo" watch to keep him informed of when El Blanco is incoming.
Later, Burt is going over his sysmo data on El Blanco's tunneling of that day at home only to notice something messing with his equipment when he goes over it.
The next day, Tyler is jumpy about El Blanco being in the valley until Jodi tells him that El Blanco is only near town when the sysmos go off. Elsewhere, Nancy shows Burt a figurine of himself that she made to go with the Graboid merchandise. Burt drives off, leaving Nancy miffed that he didn't say anything.
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