"200 bucks missing from my wallet." " Owen?" " No elves." "I saw him about an hour ago." "He was flying." " On what?" " Meth." "I'm..." "I'm sick, man..." " I want to get better." " Okay, so here's what's going down." "You're going to enroll in a program that's going to get you off the drugs." "You're going to get a job and you're going to live your life like..." "You know, a relatively normal human being." "The increase in suicides started in New Orleans, then spread up through here, and as high as Arkansas." " Suicides don't spread." " The results are the same across all demographics." "Even kids." "I found a phorbol." "I found it in all the samples of the suicide victims." "Brains and all the other organs." "Fuck!" "P.K.C." " Phorbols don't occur naturally in humans." " So where did they come from?" "We have no idea." "And there's something else." "This is a new one." "It's never been seen before." "This chick called last night, said, uh..." "Harlan died." "They had a lawyer from the company come over here last night asking for..." "Harlan's laptop and all of his files." "I think Harlan left us something." "Actually I think these genes have something to do with sexual reproduction." "Well, according to these labels, they're all boys." "So does the world really need a cure for homosexuality?" "Is it a disease?" "Lowy have filed an injunction that we, NorBAC, are not releasing research that belongs to them." "Where is it?" "No one has any idea what happened to it." "Thank you, sir." "David and Carlos left for Arkansas this morning." "Yes, they're on the suicides." "What?" "Where are you hearing this?" "No!" "If somebody is telling you I'm not responding to a court order," "I want you to know that's bullshit." "Yes, the research is still missing." "Come up here for what?" "I'll have something for you by the end of the week." "Yeah, you have a great day too." "Wes!" "I don't want excuses." "I don't want theories." "I want to know what happened to that research." "I think we should sit down and talk to David." "I think that Connor McGuinn would like that." "I just wanted to let you know that Carlos" " and David made it to Arkansas." " Thank you, Mayko." "Wes." "You need to find Harlan Sendack's research" "I could find it, if you were here." "But I think your senior scientist" "Because that's your job." "And McGuinn is my job." " You got that?" " Yes!" "2.10" " The Wild  Innocent" "The State beverage is milk, the State bird is the mockingbird, the flower is the apple blossom, and Arkansas' dance is the square dance." "Doing some heavy reading?" "No." "I had dinner with Bob last night." "So what time is your appointment with the Mayor?" "He's dedicated his entire day to me." "He says he's excited to have a "hot shot" scientist looking into this." "How many patients you looking at today?" "Five, I think." "Unless another one walked off the deep end since yesterday." "Nice welcoming committee." "Let's see if we can find out why." "From New Orleans, all the way up the Mississippi to Greanville there's been a 50% increase in suicides." "How many people are we talking about?" "Almost 2,000 over the last year." "Well, all I know is it's tearing this place apart." "I understand you've had six suicides so far." "Well, six officially, but I'm saying seven." "Milton Butterworth... he has a place out there next to mine." "His little daughter, Sarah, found him in the corn crib, busted neck." "The Medical Examiner ruled accidental, but" "Milt was all torn up inside for the last month or two." "Torn up how?" "Just moping' around." "Couldn't seem to get himself going." "I've talked to him but he just couldn't say what it was." " And the other six?" " Oh, I knew 'em all real well." "There's the Arnolds' boy, and... the Nelsons' little girl, Katy." "Goddamn it." "That was a hard one." "She's just ten years old and she took her daddy's hunting rifle." "Look, I can get you the autopsy reports on all the others if that'll help." " Everything'll help." " Where do you want to start?" "I need to get samples." "Water." "Soil." "Air." "And I'm going to need to see where these people lived." "Not a problem." " Listen, Mayor..." " Oh, Ed." " Please." "Mayor's not a paying' job." " Okay, Ed." "What do you think is going on around here?" "What do I think?" "Well, Doc, I'll tell you." "This is the Middle America." "Folks around here don't get the big city blues." "We worry about the price of corn, not terrorist attacks." "But I've got to tell you that there's been a lot of talk about something like that happening around here." " Terrorism?" " Isn't that why you're here?" "Isn't that what you people deal with up there" " in that hot shot biological lab of yours?" " Sometimes." "So what do you think?" "You got a notion of what it is?" "We think it has something to do with these things called phorbols." "They're plant esters." "We use them all the time in the lab as experimental tumor promoters." "They act by directly stimulating that protein kinase C, by bypassing its normal calcium" " Oh, I had to ask." " Sorry, my point is they're not supposed to be in us, and that's where we're finding them." "All right, we got all day and I'm all ears." "Lead on." "Nice welcoming committee." "Let's see if we can find out why." "Hello..." "My name is Dr. Carlos Serrano." "I'm here to help you." "I'd like to check things out." "Can you open your mouth for me?" "Your tongue is still there." "Can't talk?" "Can you tell me how you feel?" "Like I want to go to bed and sleep forever." "You look sad." "How sad?" "I can't, uh..." "From a scale of one to ten, ten being the saddest." "About a thousand." "I just want it to go away." "I want..." "I want to make it go away." "Gotta give you credit, Doc." "You are one thorough son-of-a-gun." "Yeah, well, that's what science is all about." "Looking at every little detail, and putting all the pieces of the puzzle together." " You think the water might be poisoned?" " Could be." " You think that's what killed the deer?" " What deer?" "Aah, shit!" "One of them details you might have missed." "Yeah, thanks for pointing it out." "Looks like it drowned Something dragged it out." "Raccoons'll do that." "You get a lot of this down here?" "Dead animals?" "After a tough winter." "Pheasant." "Rabbits." "Deer been on the rise." "Too many of 'em." "Overpopulated the area." "Think that's what's making 'em so skittish." " Skittish?" " Oh, they been running around." "Mike Davis runs the hardware store, found one in his pool the other day." "Got a freezer full of venison out of it." " Suicidal animals?" " I know." "I know." "It's out there." "Animals don't commit suicide." "Neither did anybody else in this town for the last 30 years, so who's to say that whatever's cutting through here isn't affecting the animal population as well?" " It's possible." " Yeah." "You know, a virus or a bacteria in the deer or whatever the fuck they hunt for down here." "Maybe that's how the victims got the phorbols into their system." "Well, it's certainly worth a look." " How'd you make out?" " No common links on the surface." "I'm hoping that the blood chemistry will tell us something." "Oh, and that ambulance we saw this morning." " Yeah?" " It was another suicide." "Oh shit." "Well, Greanville... it's been depressing." "Yeah." "Yeah, we're just getting back to the lab now." "How ya doing?" " Good." " Where are you?" "I'm just at the center." "I got out of this seriously intense counselling session." "Oh yeah?" "So, it's good?" "Yeah, totally good." "Thanks, David." "No man, you're the one who's doing it." "Listen, you keep with this program, you stay clean and I'll take you to Montreal for graduation." "Good food." "Beautiful women." "Awesome." "I gotta go." "Oh, alright." "Well..." "I'll see you later tonight." " David." " Oh, not now, Wes." "I'm busy." " I'll see you up there." " I need to talk to you." "The only thing I want to talk to you about is Harlan Sendak's missing research." " I don't know where it is." " Yeah." "That makes two of us." "I'll find it." "Yeah, you get right on that, Wes." "One question." "Why was the research in the back of your car?" "Like I said, Wes, I'm busy." "Don't ever touch me again." "David!" "Welcome back." " I have some really good news." " I want you guys to drop everything and take a look at this water sample every way you can." " Okay." " Viruses, bacteria," " toxins, anything that doesn't belong." " Got it." "I need some answers and get Bob on this too, today." " David." " Yeah, what?" "Well, the needle in the haystack?" "I found it." " You found the retrovirus?" " Yeah!" "Check it against all the databases of viral genome sequences?" "I did." "No match." " It's definitely an original." " And it's definitely a retrovirus?" " Well what took you so long?" " Funny." "All right, let's keep this quiet." "Do you know if this is in the Korean stem cell line or is it everywhere?" " Don't know yet." " Okay, keep working." " Doctor." " Doctor." "Okay, Jona..." "I know you." " What?" " We met." "No." "Yeah." "At the club, in the East Village." "In New York?" "No!" "You must have been wasted." "You're insane." "I've never met you." " And you're not from New York." " Hey." "True shit." "I got off at the wrong subway... stop." "Uh..." "Where'd you get the coffee?" "There." " Where?" " Just over there!" " Over where?" " Oh my God!" "Right where it says fucking coffee." " Can't you read?" " No, I'm..." " I'm blind." " Great." "Can you help me find it?" "Please?" "Ow!" "My knee!" "I did a comparative LC-MS report on the two brain samples you brought back." "Both victims had phorbols." "The samples were fresher, so I was able to detect higher levels." " What levels?" " MacDonald had 4.85" " and Deer had 6.7." " You know that guy, Deer?" " Yeah." " Is a deer." " An animal deer?" " Yep." "So the same phorbols that are causing suicide and depression in humans" " are in the deer too?" " Maybe." "Where are you at with that water sample?" "Normal viruses and bacteria." "Nothing out of the ordinary." " I'll have a toxicology report in a little while." " Okay, good." "Wait a minute." "I thought you said phorbols" " came from plants?" " Well, they do." "Okay, what about the food source?" "Well, it would have to be in plants that animals eat." "Or breathe." "Could it be in pollen?" "We'll make a scientist out of you yet." "What about disease?" "Yeah, it could be a disease we share with other mammals." "Carlos, where are you at with those samples you brought back from Arkansas?" "Running tests on blood tissue and urine." "Well." "We got our marching orders." "Let's go." "Okay, so I'm gonna have my own TV show." "And it's gonna start 5 minutes late because everybody's 5 minutes late anyway, right?" "Yeah, that's cool." "Okay, so it's going to be a reality show about me meeting superstars." "And then, like, the movie stars, they're going to act like rock stars, and the rock stars they're going to act like supermodels and the supermodels like movie stars." "So, are we gonna smoke?" "I have crystal." "No..." "I'm clean these days." " Do you mind if I do?" " No, go ahead." " FIN PARTIE 1" "There's no connection whatsoever..." "Okay, thanks, Paul." "So there is nothing in the lungs of the dead or the patients that indicates pollen, other than what you'd expect to find in a farming community." "We'll keep pursuing it, but plants seem unlikely." "I just got a call from Paul Nixon down at the CDC." "He says they got no record of diseases between humans and animals that involve phorbols." "So..." "I guess that leaves water." "My show's going to be called Ramona's Revenge." " Oh, is that your name?" " Yeah." "Yeah." " I'm Owen." " Hey." "So anyways..." "In my show, right." "I'm going to come to your house, and I'm going to make it uglier." "And I'm going to give people makeovers to what they really should look like." "So assholes, they're going to look like giant assholes, and bitches are going to look like big bitches." "Do you think I'm beautiful?" " Yeah." " Yeah?" "Yeah." "Beautiful enough to fuck me?" "No, no." "You've got to do this." "You've got to do this." "You've got to do it." "You've got to do it." "Do it." "Fucking so beautiful." "Fuck, I knew we'd find something in the water." "We're not sure what kind of eggs but they're definitely eggs." "Cute little bastards, aren't they?" "Those are from the pond." "But I also found them in the tap water sample from Greanville." "Shit, so it's in the water table." "I'm trying to grow the eggs." "Not easy." "I'm sure Jill will give you a hand, won't you, Jill?" "You are, after all, the brilliant scientist who discovered a previously unknown retrovirus." "Right you are." "Very good." "Good work, guys." "PARASITE" "It's gotta be." "²I gotta stay beautiful." "You're fucking crazy." "What did you say?" "You think I'm crazy?" "Ah!" "I don't give a fuck what you think, okay?" "'cause they're the crazy ones!" "I think I'm gonna kill her." "I think I'm going to push her down the stairs." " Who?" " I'm going to push... my sister down the stairs." " What?" " My fucking therapist says the firstborns are supposed to be achievers, suckups... and that the youngest is supposed to be the rebel, but..." "My fucking sister stole my fucking job!" "Ramona!" "Come on." "Come on, get up!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "You gotta walk around." "You've got to walk around!" "Come on!" "You've got to walk around!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Ramona, you've got to breathe!" "You've got to breathe!" "Come on!" "Wake up!" "Breathe!" "Come on!" " Sir, Caroline is up in her office." " Thank you." " Everything all right?" " Just fine." "I know." "I know." "I..." "I've got to go, Audrey." "Yeah, I appreciate your patience." "You too." "Bye." "So you just couldn't stay away." "Audrey Graves?" "Have you found that research?" "Not yet." "That'll get you in anywhere you want to go." "Even down to where we throw out the rat crap." "If you find what you're looking for, let me know." " You sound a little upset." " I am upset." "Hey." "I'm just doing my job." "Really?" "Maybe someday you can tell me what that job is." "I'm not the enemy." "He's just over here." "What kind of worms?" "Yeah?" "Well, look." "Just send me everything you've got." " Right." " David." "Hang on." "Not now, Wes." "Sorry." " There's somebody here you need to talk to." " Not now, Wes." " David." " Hang on." "There's a police officer who would like to speak to you." "Jimmy, I'm going to have to call you back." "Hi." "David Sandstrom." "Monica Milovsky." "Juvenile Task Force." "Oh fuck." "Owen." "What did he do?" " You are his uncle, right?" " Is that what he said?" "No." "The kid's just latched onto me." "I don't know why..." "I'm just trying to help him out." "What happened?" "According to Owen he was with a girl, 14." "Ramona Capobianco." "They smoked crystal meth." "She started to turn blue." "He took a vehicle registered to you." "Drove Ramona to hospital emergency." "He panicked and left her on the sidewalk." "He drove away and into a TTC bus." " He's fine." " Good." "The girl died." "Oh." "Let me get my coat." "What's the charge?" "We're asking for Criminal Negligence Causing Death." "You know, he helped bust up this marijuana grow up in the subways of New York." "It was making a lot of people really sick." "I mean, is that going to count for anything?" " Is everything okay?" " I'll talk to you later." "It's all right." " I fucked up." " No shit." "I'm sorry." "I'm not the one you need to say sorry to, Owen." "I tried mouth-to-mouth." "I got her to the hospital." "You left her on the fucking sidewalk." "Why didn't you take her into emergency?" "They could have saved her life, maybe." " She died in the car." " Oh, you're a doctor, now?" "I've been there." "She was dead." "Did you give her the shit?" "No." "It was hers." "I swear, David." "Did you smoke it with her?" "Yeah, I did." "Fuck." "Why, Owen?" "Why?" "You ever been there?" "Where you can see everything so fucking... intensely." "And every fucking minute without it... everything's just nothing, you know and... it's not so hard to go there." "Well that's it." "I've got to call your parents." "You can't." "You're in jail, Owen." "In a foreign country." "With no passport." "I've got to call your parents." "I don't know where they are." "My dad's a drunk, my mom was, until she found Jesus, and now blames me for putting the fucking devil in her life." "Spare me, all right?" "My dad's an asshole." "I'm an asshole, too." "But at least I try to be a better asshole, okay?" "It's in our DNA to improve the species." "So when you're ready to join the rest of us..." "I've tried." "I tried 50 fucking times." "I've been in plenty of drug programs." "I was in a summer camp for 2 months." "I was straight as a fucking line of coke." "I got out and I cracked, okay?" "I'm..." "My life's fucked." "It's looking a lot brighter than Ramona's." "I'm sorry." "I am." "I know she's dead." "I just met her." "I was clean." "I didn't want to smoke that shit." " I fucked up." " Yeah, you did, Owen." "You really did." " FIN PARTIE A" "I heard about the police." "Is everything" "It's fine, Bob." "Don't worry about it." "How's it going with the suicides?" "Jill's growing the eggs." " Hey." " Hey." "I spoke with the medical examiners who did the postmortems." "A lot of skepticism about the parasite theory." "No one's ever heard of a parasite that produces phorbols." "Why don't you quit?" "Cigarettes." "Ah, uh..." " Nobody likes a quitter." " Seriously." "I've tried quitting a hundred times." "It's an addiction." " You don't have any addictions?" " Just booze, cigars, hockey and sex." " How long you been at it?" " Um... since I'm 14." "So you figure it's pretty much part of your biochemistry now, eh?" "Yeah..." "I have an addiction to nicotine." "But do you consider yourself an addict?" "I suppose..." " Did your parents smoke?" " No, actually..." " David!" " Gotta go." " Hey." " Hi." "Come on in." " Close the door." " Okay." " What's up?" " Did you get my message?" "About Owen?" "Yeah." "Shit." " Yeah." " He's doing okay?" "Well bail's gonna be tough because he's a pretty good candidate" " for running away." " No kidding." "The deal is if he doesn't get bail, they could lock him up for two years before he gets a chance to go to trial." "Might be good for him." "Yeah, I hear there's a lot of good role models in prison." "It would be harsh, David, but he'd get clean." "I don't want him going to jail!" "Okay?" "What did you want to see me about?" "Genetics as a defence." " It isn't." " No, work wh me here, okay." " You say you're an addict, right?" " Yeah." "What about your parents?" " They were both alcoholics." " Okay, so there you go." "I mean, what about a genetic predisposition to addiction?" "I mean, did you ever look into it for yourself?" "You can't cure him, David." " A genetic treatment is at least 10 years off." " Ah, okay." "So you have looked into it." "What'd you find out?" " You're opening a can of worms here." " That wasn't my question." "We're not just genes!" "Why don't we let a judge decide that?" "We'd like an adjournment of 24 hours, as my client is undergoing medical testing." "The Crown sees the request as reasonable." "So does the judge." "Let me see..." "Tomorrow, 2 PM." "I'll see you all then." "Court is adjourned." "Owen, I want you to spit your gum into that." "If this is a drug test, I'm clean." "Let's let the judge decide." "See you tomorrow." "Okay, let's go." "Bob!" "Bob." "There are 36 genes linked to addictive personalities, right?" "38, I believe as of the most recent analysis." "Here's Owen's DNA." "I want you to run it against them." "See if you get any hits." "Bob... the eggs." "Anything hatch yet?" " Nope, they're still growing." " Okay." " Hi, Carlos." " Hi, Bob." "After you do Owen's, can you do mine?" "Because if I don't have addiction genes maybe then I can quit." "That meth is carving a pathway through your veins trying to get to your brain." "Look, I know I fucked up." "All right, I will see your four dollars and then I will raise you..." " a hundred bucks." " You're bluffing." " Try me." " I'm out." "He's out." "And he knows how to play." "You guys should have seen Caroline and Wes arguing in her office." "Man, she was mad and he wasn't backing down." " About what?" " I don't know." "I did hear a mention of Connor McGuinn." "That guy gives me the creeps." "." "I'm out." " I thought I was bluffing?" "You are, I just can't afford to prove it." " Okay, me too." "I fold." " You in, or you out, Bob?" " Owen's test results from the lab." " Oh!" "Good, I asked them to email them to you as soon as the analysis came in." "Thanks, Bob." "Holy shit!" "32 out of 38 gene samples match for addiction." "Call." "What are you holding, David?" " Pair of 2s." " I knew you were bluffing." "Only at cards." " Pair of Jacks." " Nice!" "Very good!" "Outstanding!" "Again!" " Who is CS?" " I asked Bob to test my genes as well." "Well, my friend... 6 out of 38 matches." "Below average." "Well, I just quit smoking!" " Attaboy!" " Outstanding." "I don't believe it. // FIN PARTIE 2" "I checked with the parasitology guys." "Nobody's ever seen this before." "We find these guys in the humans or the deer?" "Nothing yet." "No eggs either." "The worms produce phorbols?" "David, it doesn't matter." "We still haven't found the worms in any of the victims." "In any of the dead victims." "In the dead." "We need to look for these guys in the living." "David, another victim." "A little girl, twelve, about fifteen miles north of Greanville." " So it's spreading." " What is?" "Parasitic worms." " We think." " In the goddamn water." "There may be a connection with the suicides." "Do we know how the worms got in the water?" "First case of suicide, associated with depression was about 20 kilometres up the Mississippi from New Orleans around the same time Hurricane Katrina made landfall." "That's probably it, it blew in on the tail of a hurricane." " From where?" " We got plenty of time to figure that out." "Right now we have to confirm that this is the parasite." "So Bob, get to work on the worm, find out if it produces phorbols." " I'll get on the worms." " Okay, Carlos, go back to Greanville." "See if you can find worms in the... depressed people." "And Jill, I want you to turn these worms inside out." "Find out what they eat, what they shit..." " What their favorite TV show is." " Where are you going?" "Court." "Court?" "Owen is a kid who has a history of drug and alcohol abuse." "But so do his parents." "And the relevance of that is that recent research is building a very strong argument to suggest the connection between addiction and genetics." "There are 38 genes that we know of right now associated with addictive behavior." "In an average person, about 30 of those would be normal, or the yellow dots." "Maybe a few red dots, which could suggest addictive traits." "For example, let's say you had a gene that gave you low levels of adrenalin." "Well, your body craves a certain amount of adrenalin, so anybody who had that gene might become a thrill-seeker." "Or let's say you had a gene that made you very easily stressed out." "That could lead to addictive behavior, because you might take up smoking." "Or if you had a gene that gave you low serotonin." "Well, drugs actually raise your serotonin levels..." "So... or you could..." "No, okay..." "The theory is that if you have enough of these genes lined up you're more likely to become an addict." " Okay." " Okay." " And Owen has...?" " Oh!" "This is Owen." "32 out of 38." "32 out of 38, how unusual is that?" "The average person could pretty easily overcome eight red dots." "So 32 would be like drawing 4 aces 4 times in a row." "I mean, in my opinion, Owen had a genetic destiny to become an addict." "His... his free will barely had a chance." "Thank you." "I won't argue the science, though it is new and experimental." "I'm more concerned about the legal ramifications." "I understand." "If we don't punish him?" "What's going to stop him from re-offending?" "Yeah, but putting him in a juvenile detention centre for 2 years is like putting him in a criminal school." "Are you an expert on criminology?" "No..." "Where should we put him then?" "That's what I'm saying." "AA or... counselling centres." "I mean, these are all great ideas, but if..." " If addiction is in the genes..." " That wouldn't help?" "No." "If you had genes telling you that you had red hair and then you went and dyed it black." " Your hair would be red." " Exactly." "Owen is, what you might call, a classic case of genetic predisposition." "Wouldn't it be better to put him in a hospital?" "And check his genetic coding?" "Study it." "Find a way to help him, instead of just throwing him away." "Court is adjourned while I consider your arguments." "There." "I was able to collect some of that liquid." "Trace of phorbols, David." "Good work, Bob." " Jill helped too." " Fuck!" "Fucking shit!" "Bob wait!" " What is that?" " David?" "What is it?" "Concentrated retrovirus in medium." " Shower now." " Fuck!" "I don't know what happened." "It just blew up." "Let's get you to the hospital and have you checked out." "The chances of getting infected" "It's listed as Full Precaution." "You know that." "Yeah, for viruses like Ebola." "Look, you've sequenced the retrovirus but you don't know if it can give you a headache or some kind of new immunodeficiency." "It looks like the vortex might have been off kilter." "What?" "That's bullshit." "That doesn't just happen." "Jill, let's just..." "get you to the hospital." "How are you feeling today, Jackson?" "Have you ever had an ultrasound?" "Just relax." "This is called a transducer and what it does, is it transmits an image to the screen of what's going on inside." "Let's see..." "Clear image now." " It's okay, sit back down." " That's in me?" "!" "Jackson, sit down please." "Lie back." "Just relax." "It's going to be fine." "Okay?" "So far her health is excellent and the doctors think..." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "What about your investigation?" "My conclusion is that the accident was caused by her negligence." "Oh, bullshit!" "You're supposed to check the vortex before you use it." "Whatever." "What caused the malfunction, Wes?" " We're working on it." " Swell." "I feel so much better now." "Thank you, Wes." "What the fuck is going on around here, Caroline?" "I don't know." "You don't know or you're not going to tell me?" "I don't know, David." "I don't know." "Yeah." "Research doesn't just vanish and Jill doesn't just fuck up." "Hello..." "David, you said you wanted the news right away." "Well, we have it." "About the parasites you brought back?" "The mature worms release about 3 micrograms of phorbols per hour." "The boy I examined: 62 worms." " Jesus." " That's 4.464 milligrams per day." "Enough to raise your PKC, so you're suicidally depressed." " Where are the worms coming from?" " They lay their eggs in the water." "That's where their life cycle begins." " Exactly." "They're mimicking Nematomorph hairworms." "What?" "Oh." "I just finished reading about them." "They're these creepy little bastards." "See, they develop in grasshoppers until they need to reproduce." "And then they brainwash the grasshopper host by releasing all these proteins." "The proteins tell the grasshopper to jump in the water." "It does and drowns." "Okay, so they need to get to the water to breed." " Yes!" " See, the worms are inside you." "But they need to get out and spread to other people in order to avoid extinction." "So they make you confused and depressed until you take your own life." "Then they get out." "They mate." "They lay eggs in the water and they wait for the next victim to come along and drink up the eggs." "We think that the human brain cannot be as easily controlled as smaller animals, that's why all of our victims did not end up in the water." "Can we treat it?" "Kill the parasite?" "There can be up to a hundred different parasites living in the human body." "A roundworm is quite common." "It can lay up to 200,000 eggs a day." "Hookworm larvae go through the skin." "Pinworm can infect one in five children" "Okay Bob, your point is?" "They're all treatable as long as you know they're there." "In other words." "Yeah, we have a chance." "Okay, I'll alert the Governor of Arkansas." "You better alert the governor of Missouri, Iowa and Illinois while you're at it." "We don't know how far this has spread up the Mississippi." "Guys..." "Good work." "Whenever you want to talk." "Come in." " Hi." " Caroline." "Honey, you don't really need the mask." "I mean, I've been working with the retrovirus for over a month." "If it were contagious, it won't be airborne." "I knew that, I did." "It's nice of you to come down." " So, what brings you here?" " Oh..." "This." "Organic dark chocolate." "I love dark chocolate." " Thank you." " You're welcome." "They're saying a week quarantine." "Oh." "It's a waste of time, man." "I'm not going to get it." "Let's hope not." "But we have to watch and see what develops." "Okay." "What do you think happened with that equipment?" " I don't know." " Wes said it was loose." "No." "It's not possible." "Jona checks it at least once a week." "Okay, well... tell me everything there is to know about your retrovirus." "Everything." "The widening gap between the enshrined rules of law and the evolutionary rules of science is something that's always bothered me." "I recently read that the teenage brain isn't even fully formed." "So how are they supposed to make complex moral decisions?" "Owen, you are a citizen of another country." "And we share with that country a border that is 5,000 kilometres long." "That's 3,000 miles." "And if you disappear, Owen," "Dr. Sandstrom's important argument won't be heard in court." "So I have decided that I'm going to deny your motion of bail, in order that science will have its day in court." "You're amended to the custody of the youth justice services of this province." "Thank you." "Hang on a sec." "Hang on a sec." "Owen..." "I'm sorry." "Me too." "I keep seeing her." "That... that..." "That stuff you were saying, about my genes, can you fix it?" "In ten years." "Maybe." "Just a second." "Just a second." " That's a fucking long time." " Yeah." "Well, at least I'm not a complete fuckup." "I mean..." " Some of it was how I was born." " Sure, and how you were raised and..." "And some of it is me." "Whichever part wins is... up to you." " Yeah." " And you're not alone." "You need anything, you call me." "Thanks, Doc." "See ya." "What?" "David?" "Dad." "You're all right?" " Yeah, I'm fine." "I'm fine." " Where are you?" "David..." "I got a problem." "Dans le prochain épisode : *" "You could have been killed in that fire." "Yes." "And for that one mistake, I will die here." " Surrounded by ugliness." " Oh..." "Jesus." "You don't even know the effects of GMO foods on the average person." "GMOs are here to stay, they're the future." "What you're not considering is that this technology invariably goes where it wasn't meant to." "We're like guinea pigs in the biggest science experiment ever." "Jesus Christ!" "You're the head guy on that panel." "Advised the government." "Told them that genetically modified fish was safe for human consumption." "That's my boy, Dr. Sandstrom." "One day he's running in the yard, next day his whole body's paralyzed." "Mayko, see if you can dig up any recent public health studies of GMO fish, all right?" "Why, you think there's something fishy with the fish?" "Basically we've got a group of kids with muscle development problems." "We're looking into their family histories, DNA samples." "Bob, are you saying that something was dumped there?" "Well who do we go after?" "Who are the biggest shits in the nuclear world?" "Russians?" "Americans?" "No..." "The French." " It wasn't an accident." " Jill, I need you to sign these forms that NorBAC is not legally responsible." "I'll tell you what, I'll sign those papers as soon as you start" " doing your job around here." " And what is that supposed to mean?" "That means, figure out why things are going missing." "Find out who's fucking around with my lab equipment." "These are troops ramping up for Iraq." "They all came down with the same symptoms." "Double vision, upper body weakness, muscle pain." " They're not responding to any treatment." " Hey, David." "There's a military plane waiting for you at Downsview." "Get there as soon as possible." "Where am I going?" "I can't tell you." "I'm concerned about Jill." "I've asked Wes to bring you in on this." "You've surprised me in the past, and it's not too late to join in." "So remember:" "only you know the whole story." "Transcript:" "Raceman" "Subtitles: kubilai, Lama, Teuteu42"