Lake Placid

In Maine, the diver Walt Lawson is researching beavers in the Black Lake with Sheriff Hank Keough when a creature attacks him. Hank pulls him to the boat, but Lawson lower members have been severed by the creature and are missing. His fellow Officer Jack Wells comes to the town to investigate what happened to Lawson. Meanwhile, in New York, the paleontologist Kelly Scott from the Museum of Natural History learns that her friend and co-worker Myra Okubo is having an affair with her boss and lover Kevin. He sends Kelly to the Maine to investigate a tooth retrieved from the rest of Lawson's body. Initially she has friction with Hank and Jack, but they agree to let her go with them to the lake. Out of the blue, the wealthy mythology professor Hector Cyr, who is an expert in crocodiles, arrives in a hydroplane and convinces to join the trio in the investigation. When Deputy Burke has his head ripped off by the creature, Hank does not believe that a crocodile could have done it. Until he sees the reptile fighting a huge bear. Now he brings several deputies to help them to hunt down the 10 meters crocodile.