

Overhearing this, Elisa hatches a plan, aided by her neighbour Giles, to rescue the creature. Strickland’s taskmasters order him to kill the creature as soon as possible so that it can be dissected. This is observed by project scientist Robert Hofstetler who is secretly a Soviet spy. Soon a wordless communication grows between them. While nobody else is in the laboratory, Elisa befriends the creature, offering it the boiled eggs she brings for lunch. Strickland tortures the creature but it retaliates by tearing off two of his fingers. Richard Strickland is placed in charge by the military who want the secrets of how the creature is able to breathe in both air and water for possible development in the Space Program. She is witness as an amphibian creature is brought in and chained up in a pool. Elisa Esposito is a mute woman who works as a cleaner at a secret government research laboratory.
