"[mùan on radio] Six forty-five AM, here on North Port." "And the temùperature on the island is a bracing 62 degrees." "You're listening to WNPT, serving up a non-stop mùenu of light rock, news, and white lavender." "For all you-- uh, for all you mùorning coffee achievers." "Seemù to be having somùe technical difficulties." "Always good for a light laugh, in mùy book." "However, our intrepid engineer-- [broadcast breaks up]" "Please, stand-- [beeping]" "[femùale] Hold, please." "[femùale talking on radio] [femùale on phone] North Port Police." "You beep me, Millie?" " You mùean woke you." "Listen, Richard, mùy switchboard's been buzzing with strange calls." "ltemù one, Roger Gordon didn't comùe homùe last night." "And" " Let me guess, uh, tourist girl is missing?" "That old lighthouse does it every timùe, doesn't it?" "Anyway, I told his mùomù you'd check up there." "ltemù two, that dog at the Intec trailer is still barking." "Here's a thought-- send the dog after the Gordon kid." "ltemùs three, four, and five-- Mrs. Pennington, three timùes she calls about pages falling out of her books." "Richard!" "Are you still with mùe?" "Yeah, Millie, I'm here, I'm here." "Yeah, I'm on my way to the lighthouse, okay?" "That's it for now." " Oh, bite mùy tongue." " What is it?" "The mùayor's birthday is Sunday and there's somùebody, a vip, comùing in on the mùorning plane." "You know, a surprise." "I take it that mùeans you'll head out there." "I'm on it, Millie." "Homer?" "Hey, you want to go huntin' today, Homer?" "I'm always on the hunt, Jake." "Oh, yeah. [laughs]" "Homer?" "You got pests, Chief?" "Yep." "Why, I know about pests." "If you wanna stop 'em, you gotta do one thing" "What's that?" "You gotta" "Uh." "Don't leave food out." "Thanks, Jake." "Mornin'." " Hey, Richard." " Fair Lillian." "Chief's got pests." "Now, you leave him be, Dad." "Betcha it's bugs." "At the store, if it's not rats, it's bugs." "Rats is the worst and don't you tell me no different." "North Port's a damn floating' cesspool, you ask me." "Do you mind, we're eating here." "[cook] Oh, sorry." "I went over to the mainland yesterday." "I wondered where you were." "I got you somethin'." " Oh, yeah?" "Yeah." "Hmm." "Ooh." "Eh?" "You're one mean piece a law enforcement, sheriff." "You bet I am." "Drop by later?" "After I tame these mean streets." "Hi." "Hi." " So, thanks a lot" " So, if I was" "After you." "No, I don't know what to say, it's been so long." " [sighs]" " How 'bout, "l missed you?"" "I missed you." "You look good." "Thanks, so do you." "So, you sheriff now?" "." "Mm-hm." "Your dad retire?" "He died." "I'm sorry." "It was a while ago." "What happened to Dan's Bar?" "Oh, they tore it down." "[Beth] Everything's changed." "[Richard] lt's four years, Beth." "[femùale] Richard, Richard!" "Yoo hoo!" "[siren wails]" " Over here." "[womùan] I'mù pleased that you are comùing." "It certainly took you long enough." "Doesn't that Millie pass on emùergency calls?" "Richard, look at this, just look at this." "Kids, no respect for property." "Hi, Mrs. Pennington." "Hi, Beth." "Every single, solitary page--torn out." "That's just mice or insects, Mrs. Pennington, they eat the glue out of the binding." "Not in every book in the library, overnight?" "Who's she-- how'd she get a ride?" "Oh, my niece--working with Mr. Perkins this summer." "So, I'll check it out." "Oh!" "Hell to pay with the library committee, Richard." "Hell to pay." "Oh, say hello to your father for mùe, Beth." "The improvements that you and the city council asked me to make are almost done." "But time's runnin' out." "The tourists are almost here." "They're gonna be crawlin' all over this island before we know it." "And I need capital." "Now you and Intec both promùised mùe that mùoney." "Loan." "Yeah, yeah, loan, mùoney-- whatever." "I needed it three weeks ago if I was gonna be ready for the season." "Listen, Mayor, the bottomù line is this" "Without it, I gotta raise mùy prices." "No, you're not gonna raise your prices and you will get the loan when Intec wants to give it to you, and not before." "Now, look, I'm going to tell you something-- l'm gonna take the time to do this." "Intec is going to take this backward little island into the 20th century." "And I will not allow any narrow-minded, provincial, greedy little merchant to drive away the tourists." "You're gonna miss your lunch." "You know, Mayor, you can't control everything on this island." "Go away, Sy." "How long are you staying?" "I don't know yet." "I need to spend some time with my dad." "Want to get together tonight?" " 566 - 2728?" "Okay. [sighs]" "Tell your dad happy birthday." "[bass singing opera]" "Dad?" "Uh, I was looking for a book on the legal precedent-- precedent about a" "bunch of attorneys on this damned island." "You look older, Dad." "Well, you're what I wanted for my birthday." "I'm glad." "[seagulls squawking]" "Millie, no sign of Roger at the lighthouse." "Well, I'll be dipped." "Listen, I've got five mùore dog comùplaints." "You want to check it out or should I just explain that he's part of nature's never-ending wonder." "You know, like tripe?" "On my way." "[buzzing]" "[laughing]" "Damn it, Jake!" "What if I had my gun out?" "Polio sneaks up on ya, Chief." "[laughs]" "You gotta keep one eye open." "How'd you get out here so fast?" "Ah, never swim in a public pool." "Only kiss a woman you trust." "Jake, we gotta talk." "Uh, yeah." "We had this discussion about other people's property, Jake." "[Jake] Uh, yeah, [babbles]" "All right, look, this is what I want you to do-- l want you to take the boat back today." "I won't say another word about it, okay?" "Today, I'll take it back today." "Thanks, Jake." "You gonna marry my daughter, Chief?" "I like her, Jake." "What happened to Mom's shell collection?" "I... put everything in the basement afterthe funeral." "I mean, you-- a little while later, you know." "Beth, I am sorry-- l'm sorry that I couldn't help you more." "Listen to me, please." "I knew you were hurting." "I couldn't even help myself." "Beth," "I guess I just-- l guess I just don't want to lose you again, all right?" "[sighs] I know." "[growling and barking]" "[femùale] So, the gorilla looks at Lady Di and says," ""Richard, are you on your way to Intec yet?"" "[whimpers] [buzzing]" "Hm." "Since when?" "[buzzing]" "[growling]" "[dog howls] [moaning]" "[gasps]" "Oh, God, Richard." "Who could have done that?" "It's okay, you'll be all right." "[sighs] Yeah, Richard." "Mayor, I just dropped by to see if Elizabeth's all right." "Uh, she's all right." "What the hell do you think happened?" "[sighs] I don't know." "I already talked to Simpson about going out there." "He used to hunt mountain lions." "Mountain--why, you think it's an animal?" "I hope so." " Dad?" " Uh, good night, Richard." "Elizabeth, hi." "Hi." "Well, Richard, I would hold off on Simpson." "It's Intec's land, they'll probably want to take care of it themselves, yes?" "Seems to me, this is everybody's problem." "Yeah, I'll call 'em first thing in the morning." "Wanna get some fresh air?" " Mm-hm." "You know, the whole time I was growing up, all I could think about was moving to the city." "Then when I moved to the city, all I could think about was coming back here." "Why didn't you?" "So, why is your old hideout all fenced off?" "Intec's building condos up there." "Yourfather made a deal with them to develop the island." "North Port, the new yuppie heaven." "Well, Elias is just trying to give people a reason to stay here." "[Elias] No, don't try to stall mùe on this." "No, I don't know for certain what it was." "But I'mù sure we both understand the imùplications, huh?" "I worked on this newspaper." "I wrote about traffic accidents and smog levels." "Mark, my editor, always says that the only people who truly like L.A." "have never lived anywhere else." "You quit?" "It's, um, open-ended." "Mark's a friend." "Better go." "Richard, I'm sorry." "I never knew why you left, Beth." "I left because... because I'd always been treated like I was 17 here." "And..." "I left because I needed to feel separate from the island." "And I needed... to feel separate from my dad." "Separate from me?" "No, Richard, not from you." "My dad was ruining that too." "Richard, don't be angry with me." "Glad you're home." "[gunshot] [gun cocks]" "Take your last poison rat breath!" "Ha-ha!" "[laughs] [squeaks]" "Ahh-hh." "[squeaking]" "Show yourself!" "[laughs]" "Death comes slow to those who run. [laughs]" "[squeaking]" "[buzzing]" "[babbling]" "Just leave mùe alone!" "[yells]" "[screamùing]" "[screamùing]" "Homer?" "Whoa!" "[chuckles] Hi, sheriff." "Yeah, Homer, look" "Geez, you know, I was reading the darnedest thing last night, sheriff." "How long you reckon a man could last in Alaska, middle a summer, buck naked?" "I'm not too good at riddles, Homer." "Oh, this ain't no riddle, I read this in Amùerican Entomùologist." " Three days." " [chuckles] Uh-uh." "I give up." " Twenty minutes." " That's swell, Homer." "You know why he's only gonna last 20 minutes?" "Huh, huh, huh?" "I don't know, Homer!" "'Cause after 20 minutes, mosquitos woulda sucked out every pint of blood in him." "Wow!" "Listen, Homer, will you spray my place?" "Well, not today, sheriff, I gotta go spray the cabins." "I'll tell you what I'll do, though" "[recites poisons inventory]" "Ah, Kruptonetta." "Here." "You take this, and you call me in the morning, okay?" "Okay, like to stay, but gotta go sheriff!" "It was stripped to the bone." "That dog was dead before it knew it." "Bone?" "Fouryears is a long time." "So, how'd the sheriff take it?" "Don't let me interrupt you boys." "Hello." "Awfully quiet in here this morning." "Mornin' sheriff." "Say, I hear Elizabeth's back." "Now, how long has it been sin" "Denver omelet." "Yesterday!" "[bang]" "Sure, well, right away." "[beeping]" "Gotta go." "MayorJohnson." "Oh, no, pleasejust call me Elias." "We're not very formal here, on the island." "Dr. Hubbard." "Of course, we could change that." "Allow me." "Somebody else supply these units?" "No, they're ordered by me." "So, what's up, Elias?" "Dr. Hubbard, this is Richard Tarbell." " Coffee, Mayor?" " Richard is our" "No, thank you." "He's a new sheriff, he sort of inherited thejob from his father." "Dr. Hubbard is here to check on the animal bites on the dog." "The carcass." "Well, Simpson is getting ready to go up and hunt fortracks." "Richard... that's private property, and I'm sure that Intec would preferthat Dr. Hubbard continue the investigation from here on in." "Have you ever hunted, doctor?" "Often." "[flies buzz]" "Thank you." "Did you ever have a dog, Dr. Hubbard?" "Not until now." "[beeping]" "Let me know what she finds." "[Millie] Richard, I know you're there, I can hear you breathing." "Listen, Jenny Pennington called, you know the ditz working at Perkins mùarket?" "She's got somùe kinda problemù in the mùeat departmùent." "Millie, get on the horn to Intec Corp." "Find out the official capacity of a Dr. Morgan Hubbard." "Morgan Hubbard, that's a real namùe?" "What the heck you got out there, Richard?" "It's an itch I gotta scratch." "is it them?" "When I came in this morning, you know, it was alljust like this." "Weird, huh?" "Where's Perkins, Jen?" "Boss is fishing, I'm watching the store by myself." "God, he's gonna be so pissed." "Do you think this is ajoke, or something?" "I mean, in my dorm at school, they used to play pranks." "And, you know." "Well, some of these tourists have a strange sense of humor." "Perkins has mice, doesn't he, Jen?" "Uh-huh, I thought of that too." "But you know what?" "Bizarre." "Ooh." "Yuck!" "What the heck's goin'on around here, sheriff." "We have ourselves a trap." "Place the resonator in the ground while I initiate the homing cycle." "Okay." "[thumping]" "That's adequate." "Now we'll get some bait." "[mùeow]" "Kitty?" "[sighs] ls this going to be much longer?" "I hope not." "[buzzing] lf you'd like to, there's one good restaurant on the island." "Jesus Christ." "[screeching]" "I need a place to work." "[bell rings] [bell rings]" "Very brave, very strange creatures." "The way they don't run from the light as one would expect them to." "Yeah." "Doctor..." "let's not get off the track." "The point is, can we contain them, right?" "The way they collect on the carcass, they're-- they're belligerent." "Almùost warlike." "You done yet, Mr. Exterminator?" "Lillian, I keep tellin' ya, I'm not an exterminator." "I'm a pest control agent." "It's kinda hard to exterminate a species that's been around for 25 million years, when the only natural predators it's got is me, yourfoot, and some sticky paper." "And I'm sure they'll all be at the beach sunbathing long after humanity blows us all up." "Uh" "Finish thejob, Homer." "Yeah." "Hi." "Long time no see." "Hi." "[Lillian] Heard you were back." "[Beth] Yeah." "Are you staying?" "I don't know yet." "Try to decide whether to move back." "Well, honey, I'm on the forty side of thirty." "I make a living serving broken eggs to yokels." "My dad spends his leisure hours in a garbage dumùp." "And when you're not around, the one man in town worth walking across the street for comes to see me." "So, you decide." "Uh" "You done, Homer?" "Yeah, yeah." "Yeah, yeah." "You open, Lilly?" "Yeah." "Coffee?" "Yes, please." "[buzzing]" "Hand me my scalpel, will you?" "It's in the case." "I so admire these nymph cockroaches-- their ability to reproduce without the contribution of their male counterpart." "[buzzing continues]" "What is it?" "My hand." "They're biting my hand." "Take your hand out." "Take your hand out!" "Jesus." "It's unbelievable." "[buzzing]" "Uh!" "[sighs] Stop screwing around and kill them right now, please." "That's precisely what I intend to do." "Good, do it." "[motor whirs] [buzzing]" "What exactly is this?" "It's called Retenone." "All right, you tell me when." "Now." "Hm, I'll have to try a higher concentration." "[sighs] Do you have enough with ya to gas all of them?" "Retenone in the dosage that I just used, is lethal to human beings." "My God." "God almighty." "Why the hell did I listen to them?" "All right, why did I listen to them?" "We can-- we can control it." "It's" "All right, I'm going to evacuate the island." "No, there's another way!" "Give me 24 hours." "Don't-- don't lie to me!" "Twenty-four hours, that's all I'm asking." "[buzzing]" "All right." "[buzzing]" "[buzzing] [siren wails]" "What seems to be the problem, sheriff?" "Homer?" "Yeah." "Sheriff!" "Homer!" "Yeah?" "Got somethin' I want you to look at." "Yeah, yeah." "You gonna tell me what it is?" "Periplaneta." "They're big periplaneta, but periplaneta just the same." "And what might that be in plain English?" "Cockroach droppings." "Come here." "Could roaches do that?" "Yeah, if they have a knife and fork." "[Millie] Sheriff?" "Sheriff Tarbell?" "Yeah, Millie." "Got the scoop on Dr. Morgan Hubbard." "Couldn't get anything fromù lntec-- very unpleasant people." "So I had Mrs. Pennington take a gander at the Who's Who of Medicine," "Guess the pages didn't fall out of that one, eh?" "Anyway, seemùs Hubbard was a hotshot in genetics at MlTa few years back, until they kicked her out." "For what?" "Illegal experimùents." "Geez, what kind of experiments are illegal?" "You find this sheriff as much of a pest as I do?" "[buzzing]" "[buzzing]" "[screams]" "[buzzing]" "I've had enough of your patronizing, Elias." "Bringing in outsiders is not the solution." "All right, tomorrow, dawn, I'm taking a search party into those caves and I'm gonna put a stop to this!" "No, you're not." "The situation is under control and you're gonna leave it alone." "It doesn't look under control to me." "Stay out of those damn caves until I tell you different, all right?" "I wasn't thrown out of mit, sheriff." "I left voluntarily." "I found the whole situation there rather... stifling." "You know there will comùe a day when there will be no need for pesticides or chemicals." "All these things that harm us." "Genetic engineering is part of our future." "Now, it is true that I have done some experiments here, at North Port." "Of course, I can't tell you the exact nature of the experiments." "But I can assure you that I've got everything completely under control and that by tomorrow, it'll all be over." "Dad, are you going to come clean with us, or not?" "Elias, I don't think there's any point" "Doctor, shut up!" "Look, if you don't think there's anything unusual going on up in those caves, why don't we go take a look right now?" "." " No." " Dad, look at me!" "It was awful!" "I don't know what's up in those caves, I don't know what those things were, but something chased me out of those caves!" "Baby, baby, look, I'm sorry." "I'm sorry, but you'rejust going to have to trust me." "I wish I could." "Tarbell, you stay the hell out of those caves!" "My dad always said this day would come." "And he hoped I'd be up to it... thanks." "[country song playing]" "All right, Church shoots a fall away jumper from the top of the key." "All right!" "Church, don't play with the garbage." "You're not a raccoon." "Yeah, right, Lillian." "Shit, oh well." "[sings] Ow!" "[buzzing]" "Jesus H!" " [moans] [gasping]" "[groaning]" "[femùale] Intec lndustries." "Yeah, it's Johnson." " Johnston." "No, no T." " Uh, well, Mr. Johnson," "Yes." "I'mù sorry, but Mr. Hauser is unavailable at the mùomùent." "Yes-- now, you lis-- listen to me." "You tell Mr. Hauser he is to call me immediately." "It's a matter of life and death." "Richard, do you have a shirt l could put on?" "Uh, one sec." "Knock-knock." "Thanks." "Feeling better?" "I'm good." "You know, your dad's a pain in the ass, but I can't believe he'd do anything to endanger North Port." "You don't know my dad very well." "After my mother's funeral," "I just wanted somebody to comfort me and to hold." "I went up to mùy dad's roomù and he wasn't there." "But there was a letter on his desk." "It was from my mother." "It was her suicide note." "Beth, it was an accident." "She knew how many pills to take." "He lied, Richard." "He lied to me and he lied to the town." "Because for him, suicide's an embarrassment." "[sighs] I did miss you, Richard." "[whispers] I missed you." "[buzzing]" "Yeah." "Jake?" "Ready or not, here I come!" "Jake?" "Send the women home, it's time for checkers." "[owl hoots]" "Wish you'd quit moving' stuff on me, Jake." "Jake?" "Hey, Jake?" "Dead to the world, huh?" "Lillian sent the good stuff." "Wakey, wakey, Jakey, Jakey." "[buzzing]" "[buzzing]" "All right, Hauser, you just try concentrating." "You're not grasping this-- if this gets to the mainland, we'll never stop it." "is it possible you're overreacting, Elias?" "If Retenone is lethal to humùan beings, that mùeans evacuation, that mùeans official scrutiny." "Hauser, scrutiny is nothing compared to the alternative." "Don't go back to Los Angeles." "Come back with me." "[Beth] Mm." "You do still owe me, you know." "I'll show ya." "I appreciate that you're under stress, but I need a clear head out there." "All right, you try this-- see if this is clear enough." "If you don't take immediate action, my next call will be to The New York Timùes, is that clear?" "That would be a mùistake, Elias." "There are mùany heads on the chopping block here." "Oh, you try me." "Elias, now look, I prefer spraying at night." "I'll get on it now." "Stay close." "Yeah." "Come to L.A., we'll call it even." "You'll love it out there." "There's sunshine everywhere and health clubs every three blocks and palm trees everywhere and a real beach without rocks." "Just wanna be where you are." "[buzzing]" "Ooh, Richard!" "Millie?" "Mil?" "Richard, I was just trying to reach you." "Millie, get a hold of Homer." "Richard, hold on." "Perkins was fishing down near the beach." "He thinks he found the Gordon kid and that mùissing tourist girl." "Dead." "Shoot, I forgot the-- oh, no, no biggie, okay." "Uch!" "[sings]" "[TVdialog] [snores]" "Oh." "Oh, you didn't." "Yes, I did." "Oh, you shouldn't." "Did you mùake a mùess?" "Well, you know if I did, I'd clean it up." "Oh, well, I doubt that." "Come on, Aunt Clara, I'm not always that bad." "[chuckles] Oh, you're a piece of work, Jenny." "Oh, I know I've been a pain since I came to stay." "But I hope this makes it up to you." "Well, you don't get to bed too late, now." "Huh?" "That daggone thing's gonna deafen you!" "What?" "Oh, stop-- [groans]" "[pop music plays]" "Hee, hee." "[buzzing]" "[chuckles]" "Oh." "Oh." "Oh, no." "No, scatter!" "Scatter, scatter!" "Scatter, scatter, ow, ow!" "Jenny!" "Jenny!" "Jenny, no!" "[mùoaning]" "Oh, ow, Jenny!" "[yells]" "[moans]" "Entry number 127." "Hybrid periplaneta unstable." "No, correction, correction." "It's advanced." "Highly superior to the original hybrid." "Now let's look at the magnification of the egg capsules." "The egg capsules, having survived the Retenone, have hatched." "They're immune." "[grunts]" "Easy, easy, now, I'm losin' his head." "All right." "Uh!" "What do you want mùe to do with themù?" "Take 'em to Doc Bimstein's." "All right, I'll see you in town." "What a mess." "Richard, I have to go back to my dad's." "I gotta force him to tell me what's going on." "Subject's DNA proves a remarkable capacity for adaptation." "[chuckles] I did it." "Hello?" "... want us to spray." "Hello, Hauser?" "... five o'clock tomùorrow mùorning." "Right, 5 AM." "Listen, can-- can you hear me?" "This line is going." "[buzzing] [broken dialog] ...you understand?" "[Elias] Hauser, if I can't evacuate everyone..." "Listen, listen to me, Hauser, if I can't get everyone off the island, we will turn on the lighthouse beam." "Confirm!" "...do not spray if lighthouse lit up." "Yes, if the helicopters see a beam from the lighthouse, then don't spray!" "You've got it?" "[buzzing]" "Ow!" "[screaming]" "No, I cannot change a hundred." "["La Cucaracha"plays on juke box]" "God!" "Dessert, anybody?" "Refill on that coffee, sir?" "What are you staring at?" "No, lady, yourtime is up." "I'mù going to evacuate the island." "They're spraying at 5 AM." "The roaches are immune to Retenone." "Spray if you want, Elias." "But the results, when the eggs hatch, will be a species of roaches that no known chemùical can kill." "What do you m-- l saw them die!" "Yes, but their eggs became immunized." "The lighthouse." "The lighthouse, light the light." "They won't spray if they see the beam." "Quaint, Elias." "Elias... don't do anything else." "[Homùer] Right, it's party timùe, bugs." "And I'mù mùakin' the cocktails." "And I'm gonna give you the good shit." "There we go." "I killed your father, I killed your grandfather." "Now, by God, I'm gonna kill you." "Eh?" "[zapping]" "[whispers] Damn!" "Hubbard, where's the beam?" "Dad, what's going on on this island?" "You go upstairs and pack." "Right now." "I've gotta know what the hell's going on on this island?" "Hubbard!" "Dad?" "Comùe in, this is Richard." "Comùe in, this is Richard." "Millie." "Millie?" "Millie?" "Mil." "Where the" "Oh, oh, Jesus!" "Lillian?" "[whispers] Oh." "Lillian... sleep in peace." "I'm sorry, baby." "[yells]" "Sheriff, sheriff, they killed Jake." "They blew-- they blew up my house." "The roaches did it, they're everywhere." "The whole town's dead, Sheriff." "Lillian's dead." "Oh, God." "What are we gonna do, sheriff, huh?" "What are we gonna do?" "[Dr. Hubbard] Elias, there's a mùalfunction in the lighthouse beamù." "Elias, comùe in." "I repeat, there's a mùalfunction in the lighthouse beamù." "Elias, comùe in." "Damùn it, Elias!" "Beth, I loved your mother, you've got to knowthat." "I know that, Dad." "I know you did." "Dad, what are you running from?" "It's a mistake." "It wasn't supposed to hurt the island, it was just supposed to help." "It was supposed to help everyone." "What was?" "I wish you were a man." "Since you're not, why are the roaches killing people and how do we stop them?" "You can put that gun away, sheriff." "It was a normal Intec research study." "It took a turn that I didn't anticipate." "I was trying to find an alternative to the pesticides." "But over time, roaches become immune to the spraying." "She's right about that, sheriff." "So, you invented something." "A roach that eats other roaches." "Then it was supposed to die out after one generation." "It just kept getting hungrier." "See, their molecular structures are starting to evolve." "Each host becomes a new species with the ability to act together." "They're starting to develop real social instincts." "It's quite lovely, actually." "Gee, are you trying to say they're becoming intelligent?" "Possibly." " Or" " Orthere's a queen." "Which means there's a nest." "Homer P. Birum, independent Pest Control Agent." "Why experiment here?" "Because if I let them test here, they would invest in the island." "Beth, look, don't look at me like that." "I wasn't-- l wasn't starting World War lll, for God's sake." "That wasn't a nuclear plant." "This was supposed to be a boon to mankind." "It was a chance to rid the world of a pest, an ancient, ancient" "You've done to North Port what you did to my mother." "You destroyed them both." "[lights buzz]" "Oh, my God." "Now, let me get this right-- Intec's gonna spray the island in a couple hours unless the lighthouse is lit." "And if they do spray, the bugs are dead, but so are we." "You're saying that the unhatched roaches, which Beth saw in the nest, will not only survive the spraying, but be immune to the only spray that works on it now?" "." " Great." " Great." "Let's light this candle." "[mùotor starts]" "Comùe on." "[buzzing]" "[buzzing]" "They're here." "I got it, Dad!" "[buzzing] I'm gonna call Richard." "Richard Tarbell, Richard Tar-- sheriff Tarbell, comùe in, please." "This is an emùergency." "Sheriff Tarbell, comùe in, please!" "Yes, what is it?" "Gimme Tarbell." "I'd like to do that, Elias, but it's very important that we get the light on." "...the hell do you think you're doing?" "We need some help here, get me Tarbell!" "Fire extinguishers" "CO2 freezes the roaches." "Oh!" "Okay, try that." "[buzzes] Whoop!" "Turn it off, okay." "Just keep tryin'." "I'm gonna check in with Beth." "I just spoke to Elias on the radio." "He and Elizabeth are just fine." "And she says that she loves you, and that they're counting on you." "And we're running out of time, Pal." "Hey, this ain't no toaster, sheriff." "Okay, okay, okay, that's it." "Give it a go." "[buzzes] Whoops." "Dad?" "Wait, wait!" "The rug, Dad, the rug!" "There's another extinguisher in the cabinet, get it!" " Caught." "All right." "Ow, shit." "Get away!" " Too many of them." " Dad, let me help you." "Get back, get out, get the hell out!" "Get out!" "Save yourself." "Dad!" "Open up!" "No!" "No, Dad!" "Hubbard, I said throw the circuit breaker!" "Maybe she got lost." "[crash] [yelling] [groan]" "Hubbard?" "Sh-hhh." "Meow." "[purring]" "[whispering] lt's still here." "[purring]" "[screeching]" "[purring]" "[screeching]" "Homer, go upstairs and get my gun." " Uh." " No, don't kill it." "What do you want me to do, make friends with it, doctor?" "Homùer?" "That's incredible, it's a hybrid of a hybrid." "Whatever they ingest, they becomùe." "Homer?" "[growls]" "Homer, when I count to three, go upstairs and get the gun." "I'll keep it occupied." " Ready?" " No." "One, two, three!" "Dr. Hubbard, extinguisher!" "[screeching]" "Hubbard!" "Spray it!" "[crying]" "[cries]" "[yells]" "No bug too big, huh?" "[sighs] [buzzing]" "[gasps]" "Ow!" "Never changes." "Yourface has no emotion." "I could be dyin'." "It wouldn't make any difference." "Perhaps we'll get the chance to find out." "[clunk] Hey, hey!" "Four o'clock, beat the choppers by an hour." "[Richard] All right, Hubbard, timùe to show us your God damùn nest." "[Richard on radio] Elizabeth, Elias, comùe in." "Elizabeth?" "Elizabeth, Elias, comùe in, please." " Richard?" " Elizabeth, Elias, come in." "Richard..." "I'mù here." "Beth... is that you?" "[Beth] Yes, please comùe in." "You're breaking up, Beth." "Switch to channel two." "Can you hear me better?" "Beth, are you all right?" "Richard, mùy dad's dead." "I'm sorry, Beth." "Are you safe?" "Yes." "Richard, I need you." "You sure you're safe?" "Roaches are gone?" "Beth, confirmù, please." "[whispering] Beth." "Dad." "Oh, my God." "No, don't!" "No!" "[yells]" "[screamùs]" "Elizabeth, can you hear me?" "Uh-oh." "Hey, sheriff." "Lighthouse is out." "Shit!" "Wait, Homer, Homer, I want you to go to the lighthouse." "I want you to work your magic." "You got better than 20 minutes." "Yeah, uh, hey, sheriff," "Right" " Beth, I want you to go with Homer." "No, she knows the caves, she has to show me the caves." "I know the caves!" "Yes, but she's seen the nests." "She knows where it is." "Who is in charge here, sheriff?" "Right now, I'm going in!" "Uh, sheriff, I don't know how to drive a car." "Sorry." " Okay, just take this key." "Yeah." "[car starts]" "Hey, hey!" "Hey!" "Women, huh?" "Move it in the car, move!" "I'll move." "Men." "Turn right." "Time?" "Fifteen minutes." "[buzzing]" "Shit, shit, where the hell did they come from?" "It's okay." "It's okay, they can't get us in here." "I can't get the back window up." "Got it!" " Homer?" " Yeah." "Give me the extinguisher in the back." "Yeah." "Shit, come on!" "[tires screech]" "Uh!" "[yells]" "Where is the nest?" "Just up ahead." " l'll meet you there." "What?" "Hey, hey!" "Homer, would you go easy on the spray." "And we can't get any more air in here." "Fine, I'll tell the roaches to attack more slowly." " Roach!" "Ah!" "Uh!" "We got it!" "Where'd they go?" "I was hoping you could tell me that!" "They were right here." "[growling] I say we set charges right now and we get out of here." "We don't have to get the exact spot." "Destroy the caves, we destroy the nest." "Okay, actual controls intact." "Set timer." "Oh-oh." "Blah!" "[stereo plays opera]" "[engine stalls]" "What?" "[opera continues]" " Oh, mùy." " Where are they all going?" "There's a God damn queen." "See the thing about a queen, Rich, is that she sends out some kinda signals and they pick up on it and the roaches return to her." "[shoots radio] lt's kind of-- kind of like the collective unconscious." "You know, people have it too-- the feeling deep inside that they know what is God and the devil and what's good and evil." "What the hell are you talking about?" "I didn'tjust make this up, this is Jung's basic theory." "Where will we find this queen?" "The nest." "[whispering] Where Elizabeth is." "[beeping]" "Okay, Hubbard, I've set the timer forfive minutes, starting right... [loud beep]" "Hubbard?" "Hubbard!" "Homer, you should do whateveryou have to do to get that thing lit, okay?" "Hey, where are you goin'?" "Bye, Rich." "[sloshing]" "Which of these-- okay." "Do somethin' for me, baby." "Please?" "[growling]" "Uh!" "Hubbard?" "[yells]" "Hubbard?" "[screams]" "[helicopter whirring]" "Oh, great, they're early." "Oh, God, I hate bugs!" "[screaming]" "Elizabeth!" "Richard?" "[yells]" "Come on!" "If I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go down swingin'." "Huh." "Homer P. Birum, exterminator." "[whirring continues]" "[buzzing] [buzzing]"