Are we dealing with academic?
Whatever the carrier we know it's not from water.
We don't believe that it's airborne.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
Strickler's Disease was first diagnosed two years ago.
We're no better off now.
I needed you to see this for yourself, Doctor Tyler.
It's the same at every hospital in the city.
For the lucky ones it's a lifetime in leg braces.
Most of these kids won't make it.
We need your help.
Strickler's Disease came to New York like a thief in the night.
Threatening to steal an our children from before our eyes.
Deputy Director of the Centers for Disease Control.
The illness was cunning. The killer was a kind, it's deadly
Neither a cure nor a vaccine could be found.
We at the CDC had to contain it before it could spread Island.
So we went after its carrier the common cockroach.
Or rather, she did.
Doctor Tyler stop a case of Strickler's for six months.
Doctor Susan Tyler.
Professor of Entomology at the New York State University.
Thank you, Peter.
I don't think I need to tell you New Yorkers
just how resilient the common cockroach is.
Since it has proven to be virtually immune to chemical control.
We had to find a new avenue of attack.
So, with the aid of genetics labs across the country.
We recombined termite and mantid DNA to create a counter agent
a new species to be our six-legged ally
in wiping out the roach population.
We call it the "Judas" breed.
Once in contact with the Judas' secretions.
The common roaches were infected with an enzyme.
- Come on, Susan. You're missing it. - The common roaches ate,
every last member of the nest starved to death within hours.
Hope someone's taping this.
This announcement's been a long time coming,
ladies and gentlemen.
The Strickler's outbreak has officially been contained.
The epidemic is over.
Hey, Susan. Honey?
Doctor Mann? What did this victory mean to you personally?
Our fifteen minutes are gone.
And personally, it's where I met my wife.
What is this? Is this some kind of Catholic guilt thing?
We don't even know what the impact is of what we did
The impact is.
There are gonna be a lot of kids next year because of you.
A lot of kids. Maybe we get lucky.
Maybe a couple of them'll be ours someday.
Oh, a couple, huh?
Oh, okay? We're not.
I didn't want to overtax you. It's been a hard year.
It's been a great year.
Oxfords. 7 and half. Black. Leather soles.
Funny, funny shoes.
C.D.C.
Hey, boss, welcome to disease land.
Tuck it in.
All right. All right.
You sure this is yellow fever?
What, are you ignorin' your pages now?
Listen, I'm.
These two cops saw the scaf-fold and the paint mess here.
And then they looked through that cellar window.
Go ahead. Take a look.
Pleasant, isn't it?
Couldn't let 'em out until you gave me the okay, so.
Roughly, there were three dozen people trapped in here.
We've got bacterial sample reading off the scale, though.
- Nothing's airborne. - We've got a Rev-erend Harry Ping.
Preacher, if you can imagine that He ran this place.
There's no sign of him.
Have you had lunch?
Try to keep it down when you see this, okay?
Piece of shit on the ceiling. Figure that one out.
Here you go, Josh.
The subway?
You know what? This is what I love about my job.
I get to travel, see the world and meet new exotic cultures.
It's it's all bacterial, but hey what the fuck. Right?
Thanks a lot, Miguel Board up every exit.
If this leads to the subways I don't want anything to spread.
Quarantine everything.
What's going on, Remy?
Oh, I'm just commemorating my sad moments.
So we’re at this great restaurant
I'm thinking, finally a fucking gentlemen.
I go to the ladies' room I come back.
I catch the schmuck slipping sedatives into my drink.
What a pervert.
This city is full of perverts.
You don't know who anybody is anymore.
Jesus, I look like shit.
Hey, guys.
You the bug lady right?
We're here to deal.
When you pick them up,
you should pick 'em up vein, 'cause it's the strongest part.
See, that way you don't break it.
Now, let's see what else you have in here.
Look. What do we have here?
Swallowtail?
Excellent.
How come you like bugs so much?
Just imagine that you're one of them.
What, eating furniture and stuff? That's gotta suck.
No, no, no. Now don't judge them too quickly.
These guys were building castles
when dinosaurs were still wimpy little lizards.
Now, say you're him. We call it soldier
Now, there is no way that you would ever quit fighting,
no matter how badly injured you were.
Its would be a battle to the death
But, most insects don't kill unless their territory is invaded.
You just stun your prey up here.
And then you drag it all the way down through here to there.
Into what's kind of like a pantry
We eat it alive?
Yeah. You're not really squeamish about those kind of things.
This is the nest It's the heart of the colony.
The big enchilada.
Why?
Well, if anything were to happen, the entire colony would die out.
I'd just bail and start my own.
Well, you couldn't do that.
See that big guy there? Next to the queen?
Look over there.
He's the king.
And out of all the nest he's the only fertile male.
He got a good deal.
Yeah.
It's a simple structure designed for their survival.
It's perfectly balanced and it's very beautiful.
Whatever peels your banana, lady.
Do you wanna buy the butterflies or what?
You know what? You guys have done a really good job.
So, how about five bucks?
- That's your best? - I'm gonna show her the weird bug.
Costs a dollar just to look.
It's a really great bug We got him in the sub-way.
We kind of broke it a little.
Okay. My best offer ten bucks for everything.
Plus a specimen jar some tweezers, and some mounts.
Deal.
Are you crazy? This is the best This is our meal ticket.
Come on Bug's almost dead, anyway.
It's yours.
You gave 'em ten bucks.
They're from Alphabet City. The worse thing is selling.
Oh, no! Your papers.
Help me get the window. Susan.
Push. Ah, come on. Oh, I hate this window.
Okay. On three.
One, two, three.
Who do you think you are, puttin' my two officers on quarantine?
Listen to me, Captain.
Those two, they kiss their wives they kiss their kids.
And I'm the one with a full-blown epidemic.
Come on, Chuy We have to make dinner.
- Okay, Dad. - I don't care.
Well, I do care! Jesus! I hate cops. They make the worst coffee.
Shiny wire.
Don't stare People look back if you stare.
I can't believe this.
What?
I spend an hour in the field. I get a weekend's worth of crap.
Oh, speaking of that That turd that I took to the lab?
They found these in it.
What are they?
Buttons.
Buttons?
Maybe they needed fiber.
Sorry.
Oh, my God. You're just a baby.
Oh, my God.
Judas breed
The transfer of recombinant genetic material
from termites and mantids into Judas breed.
Will allow rapid enzymatic change.
Insuring one hundred percent sterility in all Judas females.
Utilization of a suicide gene.
Leading to lifes of one hundred twenty to one hundred eighty days.
Not too little and not too much.
You rub it in. Around and around.
Like this, huh?
Funny Shoes. Mister Funny Shoes.
No one is there. It's empty.
Chuy listen to me.
They have Jesus on the cross but that is not a holy place.
Can you call me back tonight? Thanks, Officer.
Cops are on it.
Good.
Uh, th-they said.
Can you do me a favor and hold off working at night for a while?
I can't do that. I was thinking I had to get back.
Susan, someone broke in-to your office, okay?
Sorry about you losing your specimen but let's.
This is not a specimen, Peter.
I did a test and there're only two species that match what I found.
Now, one of them is a leaf cutter ant in the Amazon.
The other one we re-leassed here three years ago.
You said that.
You said the ones we released only had a life span of six months.
We engineered them to be sterile adults.
The Judases were not supposed to last past one generation.
So what happened?
The one I ex-amined today was a baby.
They were designed to die They are breeding.
I shine them good.
Chuy Black Lincoln. Chuy? Black Lincoln. This one.
Chuy pay attention, please.
This is where you found the bug?
Yeah, man But they changed the lock.
You sure you haven't seen one of those?
No. What is it?
It's an Oo-theca.
It's kind of a fancy name for an egg case.
There's probably more, like weird bugs in-side of it.
No way I see one of those, I'd puke.
Here you go.
Here.
Hold on.
Is there money to be made on this egg thing?
Sorry.
Dealing days are over. Va-manos.
These egg things look nasty.
Thought you liked to find new nasty things.
Well, what if we go find these things?
She'll pay us, right?
Is that all you think about?
Come on.
This bug. What does it look like?
Do you hear that?
How deep does this go?
Let's see.
Let's take a look.
You see anything?
Not yet.
Shit.
I dropped it.
I can't reach it.
Let me try. My hands are smaller.
Just leave it.
Well, no. Wait. I think I'm almost there.
How much you think the bug lady will give us for this egg thing?
At least a twenty spot.
Jesus!
Fuckin' moles.
Hey! Got any change?
Get a job, scag.
Hey kid! Get the hell off the tracks!
That's where he is. Long John!
Hey! Slow down, hot shot!
Don't be talking to the moles They messed up.
Hey, mole! Eat my Long John!
Look, I already told you this is CDC business.
And I'm telling you that those lockers are MTA business.
Okay. We'll pay for the lock that we broke, Officer.
I mean, whatever we can do.
Lady, who am I talking to now? You or him?
You're talking to me Okay? You're talking to me.
All we want to see is.
See what? That's the old maintenance bridge, buddy.
This insect that we are looking.
Look, man your lady want a bug or its eggs, or whatever she wants.
That's fine by me.
But it's like Swiss cheese down there.
Tunnels in. Tunnels out. Old tracks.
You go mess-ing around break you neck, and it's my ass on the line.
Lace-up shoes. Black. Nine West.
Chuy, finish your sandwich It's good. It's chicken.
Penny loafers. Double E.
He's really good at that.
Oh, yes. He imitates anything.
Don't he go to school?
He doesn't need school He's special.
What you making, there? Is that a super-hero?
Mister Funny Shoes.
- He knows everything about shoes. - Hey! I'm talking to you.
No, you talking at me, partner.
You come back with the proper permits.
Maybe we'll have a conversation.
Yeah. I look forward to it.
Uptown.
What happened?
Napoleon is alive and well and working for the MTA.
We have to get down there.
He wants a permit? I'll give him a real special one.
Ah, what's that?
Is that the egg thing?
Give me a hand.
Oh, man. That smells.
I can hear the bugs inside.
Come on. Cut it. She gonna give us at least forty bucks.
What's up?
I think there's a guy down there.
Shit. Oh, shit.
Oh, shit.
Help! Oh, God please! Please help me!
A philosopher named Hobbes once wrote
that life, by its very nature. Is nasty, brutish, and short.
An ant would put it more succinctly.
Can I eat it or will it eat me?
It's this kind of simplicity that governs the phylum Insecta.
- Hello? - They live in a world.
It's me. I got the permits.
You did?
We're going down first thing tomorrow.
Okay. That's great.
Listen, honey, I gotta go right now. I'll call you later.
Or of cellular phones. As my colleague can tell you.
So you think your little Frankensteins got the better of you?
I as hoping you could tell me.
I really need to find some answers, Walter.
Dear Susan.
Is it answers you want from me or is it absolution?
You still think making the Judases was wrong?
Three years ago I would have called it unforgivable.
But I have two grandchildren who are alive today because of you.
It would be a tad hypocritical for me to pass judgment.
That's not an answer, Walter.
It's not an easy question. But as to the Judases.
I think it's likely some survived
Evolution has a way of keeping things alive.
But they all died in the lab.
Yes, Susan. But you let them out into the world.
The world's a much bigger lab.
Funny shoes.
Yeah.
Hi, Peter. It's Remy.
Yeah. Hi.
Is Susan there? I need to talk to her.
How you doing?
Fine. It's really important.
Yeah. Sure.
What are you doing?
What do you got there?
- Where? - Right down there. In your hand.
Nothing, nothing.
Are we testing it?
Maybe.
Are we testing it?
Maybe. I don't know. Could be.
It's Remy.
Oh, good. Okay. So give me the phone.
Give me the phone.
Are we testing it?
Yes.
Can you hold on a minute?
Hey. What's up?
They found what?
What's going on?
Okay, I'll be there in, in about twenty minutes. Okay.
Bye.
How long you got?
Patience.
Just try again.
Try again.
You know, sometimes these things can be wrong.
It's okay. I gotta go, okay? Bye.
Susan we got the subway thing today.
Yeah, I know. I'm just gonna to meet you there when I'm done.
Wait.
When you're done from what?
Boots, toys, uh, beer bottles
Body parts, cocaine-filled condoms
Uh, little baby alligators.
Shit, you wouldn't believe the stuff I'd seen.
Yep. They flush 'em down. We fish 'em out.
But this thing. We didn't know what this was.
We were thinking about throwing it, but then I remembered Remy.
Jeremy plays bass in my band.
Anyway so, uh.
Yep. I remember Remy says to me.
"If it's got more than four legs it's not a mammal."
It's a lobster. Right?
My father saw me stay in bed.
He'd go get the pitcher cold water and whoosh!
Brr! I tell you that's some alarm clock.
How big did you say these bugs are?
Come on. Hurry up. You know my shift's almost over.
I need my beauty sleep.
Man, if I'm blowing off my Saturday then so are you.
Yeah. It looks like somebody requested you for overtime.
Come on. Hurry up. Let's find these things.
We've got a long way to go.
All right, watch your step there.
We got burrows going down seven stories here.
No shit?
Oh, yeah.
It's five stories down, partner.
You fall, I don't wanna come back and pick you up.
Okay. It's all yours. Go ahead.
- It's forty-eight hours anyway. - I can't wait that long.
It's forty-eight hours. You got something to write with?
Yes. Yes. I write it.
Come on, here's the case number it's two-seven.
What you say? Two-seven? Yes. Two-seven.
Eight-three.
All right. You got that?
What does this mean? Case number?
It means I deal with you in forty-eight hours. Okay?
Mister Funny Shoes.
Chuy!
Hi, Doc. Susan sent you some homework.
Chuy? Chuy?
Chuy?
Chuy? Chuy?
People actually do live down here?
Yeah, man. The mold people.
This section was pretty popular all the way to Fulton Street.
Tweaked-out crackheads, dopeheads shitheads. Mental cases.
Then suddenly poof! All gone.
Rumors got started. Someone found a couple of stiff s.
Yeah, they make up a killer. Overcoat Slim, Long John.
Now, down here is the land of talk.
The wildest version goes the farthest.
Hold it right here. You got it? I see.
What this? Look! The organ's perfectly form
They were functional.
I'm guessing here, they don't have a complete specimen though.
What do you think it is?
This thing is not just some random mutation.
It's a highly evolved soldier caste formidable killer.
It couldn't have developed in a vacuum.
It's part of a colony.
This way. This way.
Should have stayed at the office.
How much longer do we have to go?
Keep looking around. The size of your palm.
Man, looks like shit.
Aw, amn, take a whiff.
God, it smells like acid.
No, it's ammonia.
Hey, guys.
There's some weird shit here.
What kind of weird shit?
Lots of it.
God!
Man!
Go ahead. Ask him. Ask him.
What the heck. You seen anything like this before?
Why're you asking me if I've ever seen some shit like this before?
Do I look like I've seen some shit like this before?
Hell, no, I ain't never seen no shit like this before.
Who the fuck would want to climb up these walls and hand one?
Must have been a big elephant-ass motherfucker.
I don't know the fuck.
The Delancey Street station will be closing in five minutes.
Please find alternate routes to your destination.
Oh, come on, Peter. Hurry up.
Do you have the time?
Sir, the time?
You know, my father always wanted me to become a dentist.
And I said, "No way."
I'm not gonna spend my life looking into people's open mouths.
What could be worse than that, right?
Oh, I've never been this deep. This is the old Armory Station.
Hey, they built it around the turn of the century.
It's been closed for decades.
I guess we covered everything.
Hey, look you got your shit. I'm happy for you.
Let's get the hell out-ta here.
Josh, I want a full team in here by six tonight.
All right.
- Oh, shit! What the fuck? - Don't.
Hey, look what the fuck you did, man!
You see the size of that thing?!
Peter, are you all right!
It's okay, Josh. It's okay. I think I'm okay.
Get the hell off me.
Yeah, I think he's okay, too.
How am I gonna get you back up?!
I don't know.
See a way up?
No.
Shit.
There is no way up.
Man, that's gonna work.
Do you know a better way up?!
Hey show that to the station manager.
Tell him, Leonard said he's gonna have his bubble-butt
if he don't have someone down here in ten.
Wait a second. I can't find my way back alone.
Look look, look. Just go back the same way we came.
Wait!
- All right. - Take the first tunnel to the left
Then go to the fourth. Right? Then, right, right left. Right?
Left, four Peter, can I just stay here and help you guys back up?
Toss th glow-sticks down and just go, Josh. Please.
Just keep headin' up. You're gonna get there.
- All right. - Hurry!
I got it.
Help me! Help! Please, help! Help! Please!
Please! Somebody, please help me.
Piece of shit.
This is really weird. We should of seen some track bunnies.
What are they?
Track bunnies. Rats. They're usually around.
They big?
You damn right.
I Get telegram this morning.
Saying my wife was dead.
I dropped out of the work.
Crying out to red.
You know I loved that woman and now she's gone
Could you just knock it off. Please? Knock it off.
Hey, I sing when I'm nervous.
Turn these lights back on.
What?
You said the cables are still alive. Maybe we could rewire them.
There you go again.
What?
How you gonna rewire all this? You need a crew down here.
What is your problem, man?
Do we need a memo every time we take a shit?
- Oh, don't go there. - Hm?
You better be careful how you speak to people.
Josh?
He wouldn't be coming from there.
Manny, what the hell are you doing here?
Hurry! The lady needs help!
Hey, honey, we're coming!
Oh, Jesus please hurry. Please. Come on.
Dam!
Oh, no!
What the fuck is that? Just hold out. Come on get her man!
Down! What the fuck is that? What the Fucking monster!
Look! There! There! There! The car! The car!
Push the door! Push the fucking door!
What the fuck was that?!
Come on. Here Here! Here! Here!
Just wait a minute!
Fuck it1 You wait a minute! I'm gonna make sure!
It's not dead.
Yeah, well it's gonna be! Very soon, lady!
There it is.
Drag it out.
- There it is! - Drag it out!
You better tell me what the hell's going on around here.
Oh, man.
Okay, Leonard. Okay. It's gonna be fine.
You'll be fine.
Okay, You stay calm.
Oh, Christ.
Okay, there we go. Everything's gonna be okay.
Christ.
Yeah.
Do you feel better?
Josh will be here soon
He'll Oh, man...
You're dreaming, man. You're dreaming, man.
If your boy was coming back he would been here by now.
They got his ass, man. They ate his ass, man.
We don't know that.
What has been putting that shit all over the walls?
Listen Leonard, if you keep on screaming like that
we're gonna meet the rest of its family.
Manny? Manny, be careful.
It-it's dead.
No, no, no. I emptied two clips into that thing and it kept coming.
Wait. Wait a second. It Help me turn it over.
Peter, these are lungs.
What the hell is she talking about?
Shit. Biology one-oh-one. You know, insects don't have lungs.
It's what limits their size.
Secretions are the same.
Oh, God.
When I increased the Judas's metabolism
I must have sped up its breeding cycle.
We're talking tens hundreds of thousands of generations.
I mean, who knows how many mutations.
Listen, I just don't know if I can get this. How could the?
How could the Judas evolve into this?
Think generations. Not years, okay?
It took forty thousand generations for apes to turn into humans.
So?
We changed its DNA, Peter! I mean, we don't know what we did!
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute! Hold on.
If that thing has been around, How come nobody's ever seen it?
I think we have.
Sometimes an insect will evolve to mimic its predator.
A fly can look like a spider. A caterpillar can look like a snake.
The Judas evolved to mimic its predator.
Us.
Nobody up there knows about this?
Nobody would. Not until it's too late.
These things can imitate us. They can infiltrate us.
And breed a legion before anyone would even notice.
How? How could you do this? How? How could you do this?!
You... you take something and you make it like a man.
A man who's not a man, Manny he's he's thing!
Manny!
- Steal my child. - Now, you tell here Manny.
You tell her, 'cause she don't give a goddamn. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey.
Your kid's gone. My leg's Shut up.
Shut up
Shut the fuck up.
Oh, shit! They're everywhere!
Manny, get over here!
It's the blood!
The smell of the blood is driving them crazy!
Oh, shit!
We have to cover the smell!
Manny, give me your razor! Give me the razor!
Here. Taking to the windows, any one crack.
Just do it!
Ow! What is it?
Scent glands. Insects use them to identify themselves.
Here. Rub it all over yourself.
They won't attack you if they think you're one of them!
It worked.
Do you mind if?
No. Go ahead.
Manny, give me your lighter.
Look this is where we are.
Now, these tunnels may lead to the surface. Yeah.
If we can get this car moving, we might be able to make it.
What? What you mean?
I mean, probably.
But even if they do.
This thing's been down here rotting for half a century.
How do you know it'll move? Listen.
This car is a C.R. -seventeen from Coney Island.
Believe me. It was made to last.
Now, Manny there is a track relay switch in this room here.
You switch the tracks. That'll get us going.
Yes, I'll try. I'll try. Do.
There's a fuse box down the tracks
If I can rewire it I can juice up the whole system.
Leonard, man, look at yourself.
I'll do it. Hey, if you talk me through it I'll go out there.
- All you've gotta do is. - No, no, no, n-no, I'll go. I'll go.
Why? I know much more about what's out there than you do.
You're right.
You understand the creature and, Leonard knows the subway so...
So this is the way. Whatever happens, it's Manny and me.
Why?
You two have gotta stay on this car.
You gotta get back up.
You gotta undo this.
So, I'll go.
We'll go.
I have to put this on you now.
They mimic us. We mimic them.
Ah, Peter Peter. Peter, look.
You'll find two wires.
One green, the other blue.
Okay.
Man, this, this shit can't be sanitary.
Take it off.
No, man. L-L-Leave it on. Leave it on.
Don't touch it.
Try not to sweat. They sense chemical changes.
Okay. Okay, I'll, I'll try not to sweat.
Chuy!
Susan! He's in. He just needs to find the switch.
Green. Blue. Green. Blue. Green. Blue.
Shit!
Oh, shit. A-A-Ah, shit.
Chuy! Chuy!
Chuy! It's me!
Come on, Manny. What's taking you so long?
Do these subway tracks lead to the Grand Central and Penn Station?
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, they'll use them and migrate out of the city.
After that they'll set up colonies anywhere they can. Oh!
Now every specimen we've seen has been female.
Because a male would be a lighter color and it would have no wings.
And if they're holding true to the Judas's spawning pattern,
the nests will have only one fertile male.
Now, if we could catch that male and kill him.
Then the females won't be able to breed
and the whole generation could die out.
Where the hell is the male?
Chuy, come here. Come here.
Friends.
Come here. Please?
Oh, goddamn it, he must be in trouble.
He must be in trouble.
Wait! Listen!
- Oh, Jesus! - I'm going out there.
You stay here.
Listen! If the car starts I'll meet you at the end of the platform.
Chuy?
Oh, my God.
Oh, Manny.
Chuy.
Yes! Yes! C.R. -seventeen from Coney Island, goddamn it.
Goddamn it! Damn it!
God!
Leonard!
Get away! Get away! I'm bleeding.
Found a way out. By the dumbwaiter.
Peter, I'm bleeding. Go away. I can't stop it.
I can't stop it. They'll be here soon.
Where's my wife? Where's Susan?
She went to get Manny.
Susan! Sh!
They haven't seen us yet. Don't move.
Oh God.
No.
Leonard?
You see my health feel bleach, I haven't got too much time
- Come on, Chuy. - Hurry!
All right. Come on in. That's all right.
That's a good boy. Come on.
No. No, it's all right. Sh! Stop. Stop it.
It's okay. It's okay. Good boy.
All right, Pete. Come on. Get in. Get in, Peter. Come on.
Chuy, shh! Stop it. Stop it. Shh! What is?
Get in. Peter, get in.
Peter! What are you doing?
I gotta stop them here.
No! Peter, don't do this! Peter! No! No!
Oh, Jesus! Don't!
Chuy! Chuy! Stop! Stop it!
Train!
We're here! Help!
Watch it. Go on. Go on! Get out! Hurry! Go!
Fuck you!
Watch out!
Chuy? Chuy? Chuy?
Chuy?
Oh, God.
It's the male.
No! You will not hurt him! No! Turn around!
Come on.
Police and emergency crews continue their work
in the aftermath of tonight's explosions on the Lower East Side.
We wept the area twice. It's burned.
Nothing could have survived down there.
What about one of us?
I'm sorry, Susan.
I really am.
Shiny wire.
Mountain boots. Ten. Brown.
Ripped by: SkyFury