On the final day of her solo global sailing trip, Sharon Novak experiences strange phenomena over the Monterey Canyon, and soon finds herself being hunted by a prehistoric monster.
This episode contains examples of:
- Adaptational Villainy: On top of being portrayed as a Nessie-like plesiosaur that doesn't look remotely the way he's described in the original accounts of his sightings and quite frankly has far more in common with the dead alleged plesiosaur caught in the fishing nets of the Zuiyo-maru, Bobo the Monterey Bay monster is depicted as more than willing to eat humans that sail into his territory despite having usually been described in accounts of his sightings to have never tried to harm any people he encounters.
- Artistic License – Paleontology: It's highly unlikely that any species of plesiosaur would develop an appetite for humans, as their jaws and necks simply weren't built to handle large prey.
- Downer Ending: Ultimately, Sharon ends up not only arriving at the location of the distressed vessel Kahuna far too late to provide any assistance, but also getting knocked off her own vessel and into the ocean water in time to be eaten by the monster after a desperate last ditch attempt to get back aboard ends up failing.
- Hope Spot: Twice it looks as if Sharon might perhaps be able to get away to safety, with the first time being when she wisely chooses to get the Hell out of dodge upon realizing how in over her head she'd be to try to stick around the site of the vessel Kahuna's attack and starts to spread the sails on her boat so as to negate the need to go into the water and risk falling victim to the creature responsible for the attack on the Kahuna to try to unjam her boat's motor a second time, and the second being when (after getting successfully knocked off her boat and into the water by sheer rotten luck) it looks as if she just might successfully reach her boat's stern ladder and climb back aboard after being forced to undo her safety tether in order to be able to reach said ladder. Both times her hopes (and that of the viewers and her boyfriend Charles) are dashed brutally (first via Bobo managing to successfully knock her into the water after an inconveniently timed jamming of her halyard sail forces her to be in a disadvantageous position when he rams the boat for the third and final time while she's working to undo the jamming, and then via the wind picking up and filling her sails in time to cause the boat to start floating away faster than she can swim before she can reach the ladder and climb back aboard).
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Sharon's well-intentioned effort to travel to the location of the in-distress vessel Kahuna after receiving the distress call from the vessel's captain ultimately ends with Sharon herself falling victim to the same creature that attacked the Kahuna and necessitated the Kahuna's captain making the distress signal in the first place.
- No Name Given: The titular monster is never once actually referred to by any name (complete with its Real Life moniker of 'Bobo' never once even being mentioned).
- Prehistoric Monster: The titular creature is presented as a plesiosaur that proves more than willing to attack and eat any and all humans that happen to come sailing into its territory of Monterey Bay.
- Stock Ness Monster: The ocean going Californian cryptid Bobo (a name that it's never actually referred to by in this episode) is portrayed here as a living plesiosaur presumably related to Nessie.
