paula and jason archinaco's house is something of a local landmark-- not just for the killer view of los angeles, but also for an encounter a workman had one day in the crawl space under the house. he was doing some wiring when he saw something scary. >> jason archinaco: he comes into my office terrified. and he says, "bro, you have a mountain lion in your house, bro." and so i said to him, "a mountain lion?" and he goes, "yeah, man, a mountain lion, face to face, eye to eye. it came eye to eye with me." and he was, like, terrified. >> whitaker: he had been eye to eye with p-22, so named by the park service-- "p" for "puma"; studied, photographed here with a small camera on a very long stick. p-22 wears a park service tracking collar that sends gps signals on his location, signals that were blocked this day because he was under the house. >> paula archinaco: he was just laying there, trying to snooze, completely just like we woke him from a nap. >> whitaker: soon, the house was packed with cameras and reporters. p-22 was already a local celebrity because of this "national geographic"