Impulsively, he snatches off his protective headgear and breathes deeply.It's completely safe. Ford is becoming convinced. Something is amiss here. They rummage through the house and Joe grabs his 3.5 inch floppy discs. He finds a picture of Sandy and turns to see Ford's birthday sign, still strung up after all these years.
Meanwhile, Ford finds an old Army toy that he pockets. The beating of helicopter blades shakes them from their reverie.
As they head outside, they're immediately scooped up by Japanese-speaking security guards and driven to the "abandoned nuclear plant." Serizawa and Graham are talking with some others. They are concerned about activity surrounding an odd cone-shaped organic structure protruding from the surface of the old reactor.
Someone interrupts them to say they need to come with him. They are taken to where Joe is being interrogated. He comes across as manic and a little loopy, but Graham confirms that his data is strikingly similar to what they're seeing now. He's the only one left who knows what happened 15 years ago.
Back in the main room, the readings confirm that EMP pulses are knocking out their electronics with alarming frequency... just like in 1999. Serizawa concedes that it's time to kill the program. A steel containment net is lowered and millions of watts of electricity are applied to the chrysalis except that it doesn't work at all.
Suddenly, a massive multi-legged creature cracks out of the shell and pounds it's clawed leg on the ground creating an EMP pulse that de-powers the facility. People screaming and running as the creature strains against its enclosure. Meanwhile Joe is still handcuffed in a security vehicle.
He watches helplessly as people are slaughtered around him. Suddenly, a support smashes his vehicle and he's free! Joe watches in horror from an elevated walkway as his son faces death. But his own safety is in jeopardy as the bridge is demolished and he tumbles in a horrible fall. The creature has escaped and lumbered of into the night.
The next day, Captain Russell Hampton (Richard T. Jones) informs Serizawa that the U.S. military is taking over. He asks who does Serizawa need on his team. He points to Joe, bandaged and on a stretcher.
They take Joe and Ford in a military transport. Unfortunately, Joe doesn't survive for long. Now all eyes are on Ford. What could he possibly remember from his conversations with his dad?
Ford is ashamed to admit that he thought his dad was nuts, but then remembers something about echolocation Serizawa clues into this discovery and brings Ford into a briefing room and explains to Ford that the recently hatched MUTO may be trying to communicate with another giant monster that was found roaming the Pacific a long long time ago.
Serizawa then loads up the same vintage nuclear test footage from 1954 that we see in the opening credits, but a few crucial details included, mainly a few frames of a familiar giant spiny creature. Serizawa explains that the nuclear tests weren't tests; they were attempts to kill this creature.
This creature has been named Godzilla, and Serizawa is convinced he is returning, a feeling that is soon confirmed when it is spotted soon thereafter. The naval fleet follows Godzilla.
Meanwhile, Elle is freaked out about the news coverage of the Japan damage and can't reach Ford. Since Ford doesn't have much to offer, he's put on a helo headed to Hawai'i for a flight back home. The Navy confirms that the "MUTO" Massive Unidentified Terrestrial Organism is headed across the Pacific.
The fleet heads in that direction, flanking Godzilla's spines which is heading in that same direction. Sirezawa posits that Godzilla is tracking the MUTO and wants to fight it to restore balance to nature.
In Honolulu, Ford is at the airport, waiting on the train to his terminal. He's playing with the toy soldier and a little Japanese boy becomes fascinated by it. As the boy wanders onto the train, the doors close. His parents aren't on it with him. They freak out, but Ford mouths that he will bring the kid back. He hopes that he won't miss his flight.
Back to the carrier ship, they've heard that the Russians are missing a nuclear sub. The MUTO eats radiation (which is why the nuclear plant was free of toxic waste). It may have taken the sub as a snack. They send a team into the forest near Honolulu to investigate.
The team finds the sub, covered in goopy slime and mounted in a tree. The MUTO is snacking on nuclear fuel canisters.
An airborne attack is launched, but the MUTO fires off its EMP, knocking out all navigation controls for the jets and sending them plummeting to earth. At the airport, power is knocked out, including to the train. Ford doesn't realize that the MUTO has caused the outage and assures the little boy that the power will come back soon.
At a hotel luau, a little girl sees the explosion of the planes in the far off hills. The crowd is becoming worried as the little girl notices that the sea water seems to be receding from the shore at a rapid pace. Something is displacing a lot of water. Very quickly, we see that the thing moving all that water is Godzilla. Honolulu is flooded as the beast reaches ground. The luau (and everything else downtown) is toast.
At the airport, power is restored, but reveals the MUTO right over the train tracks. The train is headed straight into its Jaws. The behemoth shreds the track sending passengers to their doom.
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