Okay, body Just settle down, okay? We will be out of here, in just a minute
okay?
You know, we don't need that we got plenty at home
But we are on way out of here, okay
Just soon down, Troy
Okay
Daddy
What's the hell was it
Dude
I think you might have more than 10 items
We'll be out of here in just a minute, pal, okay?
Daddy
That's not the point here, is it?
- Daddy - Settle down, buddy
It's more about the principle of the thing, pal
Principle
You got to be kidding me
- Daddy - Guess manners
don't run in the family, do they
- Pal? - Daddy, Daddy, Daddy
Daddy, Daddy
So, you ready to try this?
Isn't this the kind of thing I have you for?
What if I'm not around?
Or what if you're in a situation you can't think your way out of?
You've been with the Bureau for over 2 years now
This is something you need to know
If you say so
Good
Okay
- Feet shoulder-width apart - Uh-huh
And remember align your front sight
with the rear sight
Gotcha
Focus on the front sight
That's it
Aim at the bad guys
and don't shoot any old ladies
Okay
Hood
That was a criminal
Could have been a misguided kid
Bad home life, not a lot of options
I mean, why can't people try talking to him?
Okay, okay
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm serious
Stop messing around
Oh, come on
Who doesn't hate a poodle?
What is it?
Looks like something or someone is messing with Texas
What do you mean?
An epidemic of sudden violent outbreaks in a small community
All committed by people who have no criminal record whatsoever
What turns upstanding citizens
Into violent criminals?
Season 1, Episode 10 H2O
Mommy
Hi
You this boy's mother?
- Sure I am - ID?
This is a release form for a minor into parental custody
Please sign here and here
Okay
- All right - Thanks
Time to go home, baby
You know, this is for the best, Troy
At least, you don't have to keep going back and forth to your daddy's place
I miss Daddy
Honey
Daddy keeps telling us that he's gonna change
But sometimes, people can't change
No matter how hard they try
Okay, let's go home
Sorry I'm late
Dr Hood, Agent Young
Gill Strickland I'm an epidemiologist with the Texas Center for Infectious Diseases
Well, so far, it seems that we have 23 cases of what you'd call
Aberrant behavior
Now, that's your folks, uh, disrobing in public, walking into traffic
Running around Costco saying they're the president
And the violent behavior?
9 cases that all started about the same time
So we're thinking they're related
- What's your hypothesis? - We got a group of unrelated people
behaving strangely for no apparent reason
They test negative for drugs
Their psych evals, come in fine just a few hours later
Best thing I can come up with is encephalitis
But you're not sure or we wouldn't be here
Encephalitis is a swelling of the brain caused by, well, lots of things
Viruses, bacteria, even parasites
It makes it hard to test for with any accuracy
But psychosis is one of the symptoms isn't it?
In extreme cases, I've seen it manifest with some odd behavior
Some confusion but we're talking about folks
violently attacking complete strangers
I've never seen that
Especially not in individuals with
No prior history of antisocial behavior
The worst part is
There's no pattern here
I mean, all these cases seem totally random
And you know that's the toughest sort of crime to prevent
Have you tested for
Rabies?
Distemper?
Yeah, no positives
And we're sure it's not drugs?
We tested them for everything we could think of, and we got zip
Plus, we got no history of substance abuse in any of the perpetrators
Actually, Gill, that's not the case any more
Says here you served 6 months in 2005
for buying Roxicodone with a fake scrip
No, I'm clean now
I haven't had so much as an aspirin in 16 months
I had to do it
For my wife and my baby boy
And I need to see them
Is Ashley here yet?
Can I see her?
Your wife came by, about an hour ago to pick up your son
She wouldn't see me
Guess not
I've been staying with my brother up in Cedar Park
I've been going to my meetings
I've been...
Making progress
Greg?
Why don't you just try telling us what happened?
It was like
it was like I was outside myself
It was like when I used to party but more intense
I don't know, that guy behind me in line was being such a jerk
And I I was so tired
And Troy was
he was grinding my last nerve
And I don't know I just, I just lost it
Mr Filmore, I've seen a lot of addicts like you
You get sober just long enough to work your way back into your family
And then you tear them apart all over again
That's not true
They tested me, and I'm clean
Right
Okay
The truth is, there have been other cases
Of unexplained behavior in the area and we don't know what caused it
When that doc came to take my blood
I heard him say, "Encephalitis"
That's fatal, right?
Right?
Yeah, it can be
But just because you test positive today
doesn't mean it won't come up negative in 1 or 2 days' time
Encephalitis is... it's basically a symptom
It can be caused by any number of underlying issues
Just be straight with me, man
Does me freaking out In that supermarket
Mean I'm gonna die?
We don't know yet
Rachel?
You okay?
Yeah
Why wouldn't I be?
Well, he's having a tough time
You could have cut him a little slack
Hood, in my experience addicts are all the same
For every one that breaks the cycle of dependency
There's 1,000 more out there
Ruining lives, destroying families committing murder
Okay
Well, the only thing our 32 victims / perpetrators have in common
Is they come from this area 3 of them from a 5-block radius
The answer's got to be here somewhere
Well, this environment is hot it's humid
Low ground
Plenty of open pools and fountains
Ideal habitat for mosquitoes
Which can carry Encephalitis
True, but despite what the media says
Mosquitoes are far more likely to infect birds than humans
Hey, little buddy
Your mama home?
- May I help you? - Sorry to bother you, ma'am
We're just gonna be doing some work out here tonight
Got to replace some malfunctioning pressure gauges
All through the neighborhood
Will there still be water in the house?
Sorry, no
Not till we're done working, ma'am
The Department of Water and Power is sorry to inconvenience
Here are some earplugs
We'll get finished up as soon as we can
Okay, buddy
Okay, let's set up and start digging
To us, it feels like mosquitoes exist just to make our lives miserable
But the truth is we're their second choice
They'd much rather be feeding on birds
Viral encephalitis is primarily an avian disease
A mosquito bites an infected bird
It becomes a lifelong carrier
Passes it along to every other bird it feeds on
And then, those birds get bitten by other mosquitoes
And then, those mosquitoes pass it on
To more birds, and so on and so forth but generally, a bird population
Develops an immunity to the local mutation of the virus,
And it doesn't get affected anymore
So, we're looking for new birds?
Any new flocks appear lately?
Society finches
They're migratory Flocks, been showing up since the beginning of the month
Right around the time
Our unexpected behavior started
Well, finches are known carriers of encephalitis, have you tested these?
Yeah, we sample all incoming populations
For infectious diseases including encephalitis
These guys just tested negative a couple of hours ago
So they're set for rerelease in a... tomorrow
So, we're saying now it's not encephalitis?
Yeah, that's what we're saying
Dr Hood
Dr Hood Agent Young
I'm glad I caught you
Mr Strickland, is everything okay?
I wanted...
Second round of tests came in on the 32 perps
No positives for encephalitis
Not rabies, not dis
distemper, nothing
People want to hurt me
Excuse me?
You came here to help them
To make me look like an idiot
Idiot
He's hallucinating
People are talking
Mr Strickland
Who's talking?
I could hear them
Mr Strickland, there's no one else here
Just stay calm
And we'll get some help for you
Oh, please don't
They're coming for me
Mr Strickland?
I got to protect myself,
I got to protect myself
Mr Strickland Calm down
Shut up, you bastards
Bastards
Look out.
Leave me alone
You bastards
He's dead
What the hell is going on here?
This is where Mr Strickland was staying
Thanks
You guys know who's going to settle his bill?
No
But you all work for the government, right?
He was state We're federal
Thanks
I'll have Strickla's autopsy report in a couple of days
And I'm going to ask for his medical records
and any recent purchases he made on his credit card
Rachel?
- Sunscreen? - And bug repellent
Containing DEET, a known psychotropic in high enough doses
Yeah, we used military-grade DEET at Quantico
Made some of the recruits sick Scary stuff
And effective
Maybe it's not the mosquitoes causing this mass psychosis
Maybe it's what people are using to keep them away
Could it be a bad batch?
I'm more worried about this
What's a nanoparticle?
A nanoparticle is... it's a tiny, tiny piece of... well
Just about anything, really, and...
Cosmetics companies like them because they're...
Easy to absorb and they make their products feel less greasy
Problem is...
Sometimes they can be so small
The particles travel right through the skin
Directly into the body itself
So, if this lotion made DEET into nanoparticles
Whoever's using this could be absorbing it at much higher doses than intended
Excuse me, excuse me Is there a problem? Can I help you?
I'm Agent Rachel Young of the FBI this is my colleague, Dr Jacob Hood
We'll need receipts for all purchase made of this product in the last month
We've only been selling that item for 3 weeks now
Then mining your sales records from your system won't be too difficult, will it?
It's a test product, we're the only ones in the Austin area who carry it
So far it's been a pretty good seller
The state police will be here soon
They'll need to take all remaining stock into custody
The manufacturer pays us to sell this stuff I can't just stop selling it
Until I check with my corporate office first
How does corporate feel about people trying to kill each other
With their bare hands on store property?
Get this product off your shelves Now, please
I miss Daddy
I know you do, honey
Do you miss him?
Of course, But the most important thing is we're gonna be fine
Just the two of us Like peas in a pod
Now, let's put in some earplugs for the noise outside tonight, okay?
Those workers might be here pretty late
All right, sweetheart Good night
How many houses we got line on after this one?
2 more confirmed
After that we're flying blind
Until we get a lead on that distributor
Yeah, yeah, I bought some of this stuff
I never got a chance to use it, though
That's not what you wanted to hear, huh?
I'm sorry
Better than if you lied to me
Hmm
I've made my amends
I'm done lying
I've recommended you be released,
contingent on
regular drug tests, okay?
I don't know what to say
Don't say anything
Just don't make me look bad
That's a promise
- Hey - Hi
Greg Filmore bought the sunscreen,
but he didn't use it
Any luck with the receipts?
Looks like "Sun-N-Shoo" is not the common denominator
You're positive?
Yeah, cross-referencing, the booking records and the grocery receipts
Only 4 of the 23 people brought in for erratic behavior purchased the product
Hang on
Looks like they all bought something else
What?
Travis Springs bottled water
Travis Springs?
Didn't Strickland have a bottle of Travis Springs when he went crazy?
Hi
How's it testing?
It's a little acidic
Gonna have to up the filtration
Eexcuse me but who are you?
FBI, Mr Driggs
We're here to ask you a few questions about your operation
I didn't know the feds had an interest in bottled water
Well, we do when the people who drink it are going crazy
What are you talking about?
Not exactly the mountain spring I was expecting
Bottled water is one of the least regulated industries in the country
It's mostly just tap water
So, this is the same thing that comes out of the tap in people's homes
At a buck 50 a bottle
Not a bad markup if you can get it
There is nothing wrong of my water and what comes out of the tap
that's got all kinds of crap in it
fluoride, ammonium, chlorine
Nitric acid
And how is your water any different?
I filter out the chemicals and restor it to its pure state
My water is as clean and refreshing as a mountain spring
Even if it didn't start out that way
What is your source?
The county reservoir
They're doing another, chlorine burn to kill off bacteria this week
Keeps the tap water clean, okay but it tastes terrible
Just another reason why people drink bottled water
How often does the treatment center do the chlorine burn?
Oh, several times a month during the rainy season
The rain can wash all kinds of nasty contaminants down into the reservoir
Which is very good for business
Excuse us a second
What is it?
Chlorine, kills bacteria
Which for drinking water it's a really good thing
But chlorine
Is also really good at... combining itself with whatever it touches
So, there's a possibility that some kind of... chemical combination
Is what's causing all this psychosis Excuse me...
Can you get mea sample of your filtered water and your source water, please?
Sure
Okay, well, I'm going to go test this water
All right, I'll be next door checking out Gill Strickland's paper trail
I'll let you know if anything turns up
That sounds good
Hmm
Agent Young
Just one bottle of Travis Springs?
Are you sure?
Okay, got it
What?
Get away
Hood
What's going on?
If Krauss is correct
then we appear to be living
In the worst of all possible universes
But if Dyson is correct
Then the universe is receding
Into the threshold
Of the unknowable
But if Witten is correct
Then all matter will dissolve into nothingness
Hood
The universe
Is dying
and we're all
alone
Hood
It's me
Rachel
You're not alone
Stay back
Don't come any closer
They told me about you
Don't come any closer
Listen to me
Right now you're not yourself, Hood
Don't come any closer
Stay away
Please Hood
I just want to help you
Hood, Hood
Hood, I just,
I just want to make sure you're okay
Jacob
Jacob, look at me
Rachel?
I'm right here
Rachel?
I'm not alone?
No
No, you're not
I'm not alone anymore
Good morning
You had a rough night
Doctor said you'll be fine
Whatever...
came over you...
passed through your system within a few hours
Same as the other victims
Wow
Here
Oh, bless you
Yeah
So, there were 3 other cases picked up
By Austin PD last night
Right around the time of your
- My freakout? - Yeah
Your freakout
Do you remember anything?
Well, I was in the shower
And suddenly everything went really, really weird
I mean, it was
I think
Maybe there's something in the water
That was coming through my mucous membranes, my skin
because the onset was so fast
It was, like
Okay,
But if it was in the water supply
Then wouldn't it have affected the whole area?
Well... excuse me
It's...
most definitely not in the reservoir 'cause I tested the water last night
But I don't know about that
- Why? - 'Cause last night I found out
That Gill Strickland's hotel bill
Showed that he only purchased one bottle of Travis Springs
I'm thinking that he was refilling it in the sink
You were taking a shower he was drinking out of the tap
- It's got to be the water - But if it's
In the tap water, but it's not in the reservoir, then...
Then something's happening to the water in between
In the pipes
We got to get on this
Rachel
Yeah?
Did I do... anything
Or say anything
you know
Weird last night?
Not really
Except the break dancing
Nice to have you back, Hood
Thank you
Good to be back
Stop
Someone's been digging trenches here
This is a new development
Why would you dig up pipe on a brand-new house?
You wouldn't
But this might help us find out why
I'd say it's from a water pipe
What are you doing here, Greg?
Daddy
Hey, buddy How you doing?
Come here, Troy
Well, I
I wanted to see you and Troy
And...
Look, I wanted to say that I'm
What, Greg?
You're sorry for being in jail?
I just, I just need you and Troy to know...
That you don't need to be afraid of me
- Okay? - Stop, Greg Just...
stop
I filed for a restraining order
Please,
just listen
Even the FBI said said it wasn't my fault
But...
God knows, in the past I've given you reason to be real mad
I know that, but...
I'm clean, Ash
For 16 months now, I got my my plumbing company up and running
And what?
What, Greg?
And I want to come home
To my family
To my life
That's all
They said it wasn't your fault?
You've seen the news
All kinds of people acting crazy lately
Ash
I can't do this again, Greg
And Keep away from us, or I'll call the police
Ashley
Nice family, do what we say you might get to see them again
If our victims didn't have clean backgrounds
What would you say these random outbursts point to?
It's a no-brainer
Drugs
But these people aren't drug users, Hood
You're not a drug user
Remember the Salem witch trials?
Yeah, sure
Puritans, repression
Teenage girls freaking out and seeing witches
We read the Crucible in 10th grade
Well
some historians now believe
that those... bewitched girls
were actually eating grain tainted
with a naturally occurring hallucinogenic compound
So they were tripping?
Maybe
Are you saying there's some kind of hallucinogen in the pipes?
Well, I'm saying that the most logical explanation is usually the right one
And if people are acting like they're on drugs then chances are
They're on drugs
Whether they know it or not
Hey, I thought we were done talking
You're not under suspicion, Mr Driggs but we need your help
Do you have any small scale, filtering equipment here in your office?
Yes... i test our samples every couple of hours
That's much more often than the water treatment plant
Well, that's very good
- Can I borrow an Erlenmeyer flask, please? - Right over here
Great
Thank you
That's very helpful
And...
A funnel, please
Thank you, some... filter paper
- Ashless... please - You got it
Janitorial closet
- Yeah, can I... - Sure
Thank you
Perfect
Mind if I sit down?
Bleach?
Yeah
6% solution of sodium hypochlorite or...
Half the percentage used in the chlorine burn
Take our water pipe
Add the chlorine
Stirred, not shaken
What's it doing?
Hopefully, it's making whatever happened to the pipes
After the chlorine burn happen for us now
That ought to do it
If the chlorine did manage
To pull some kind of drug out of the pipes
Whoever drank the water or bathed in it
Immediately afterwards would have been affected by
Now
whatever's in this solution
Is what will have been ingested by our victims, including me
If there are drugs in the pipes
Why would all the victims' drug tests come back negative?
Because plastic
Is so good
At leaching onto other substances,
Altering the compounds
Now, chemically speaking what we get out of this
Won't be exactly the same as Heroin or Cocaine,
But it will be similar enough to get you high
But different enough to fool a drug test
Exactly
Phencyclidine
The pipes were embedded with PCP
Rachel, it's not like I'm an expert on street drugs, but...
Didn't PCP go out of style with Deep Purple and Pet Rocks?
Well, angel dust is off the market but PCP is making a major comeback
Street gangs make it into pills or soak Marijuana in it
Then distribute via existing Cocaine connections
So, if the pipes were a way of transporting the drugs
How'd they end up in the ground?
Probably a mix-up
Drug-laced pipes somehow got swapped with the real piping
And White Tail Hills got itself a bad trip
The question is...
How much more is out there
And how can we track it down without anyone else being affected?
We start by shutting down its method of delivery
Who are you calling?
The reservoir pumping station that services White Tail Hills
I'm gonna have them shut off the water for the development ASAP
Hey, Greg
Who the hell are you?
Someone who's missing something valuable
And this place?
This is the lost and found
You buy a flat of 3-inch pipe schedule 40 recently?
- Why? - Because it's ours
And we want it back
I don't know what the hell you're talking about
You're the only plumbing supplier in this crappy little prefab paradise, Greg
You know what that means?
No
It means you're lying
No, I'm not
The drug traffickers must be digging up pipes, looking for their merchandise
But how do they know where to dig?
Grab Greg Filmore's case file from my bag, will you?
Got it
Now, he said that he lived with his brother in Cedar Park
Right
But on his paperwork he listed his address
Aat 131 Columbia Street White Tail Hills
That's where we got the pipe sample
That's right
Somebody is digging up pipe
Based on the police reports of erratic behavior
With all the chlorine burns at the water treatment plant
We sure, those pipes already had a big percentage of the PCP flushed out of them
They need to reclaim their merchandise as quickly as possible
Well, Greg Filmore listed his place of employment as
Kingston Plumbing and Pool Supply
What is it?
Hold on hold on, hold on
Yep, it's an ID stamp
Suppliers put them on pipes in case a pipe fails inspection
K.I
Kingston
Where are the rest of the pipes?
I told you
Those pipes are just what the manufacturer shipped us
Just, the truck pulls up and I take what they give me
One pipe looks the same as the next Now, that's it, man, that's it
2,000 feet of pipe per pallet
We've taken 78 feet of pipe out of the ground
You want to tell me how much you think is left?
- Uh, 1,900 - Close enough
So what I want to know is where's the rest of my stuff?
I don't know, man I swear to God I don't know
You're lying
Where's the rest of my damn pipe?
I don't know
Isn't that the truck we saw at White Tail Hills?
It sure is
They were working near Greg's house
Keep your head down and the door locked while I check this out
- Well, Rachel - Hood, it's best you stay here
You got to believe me, man I got no idea what you're talking about
You got a wife and kid back in that crappy new house, don't you?
You don't start talking it'll be them sitting here
Maybe this will help you remember where my stuff is
Spin him around
- Sit up - I don't want to do this, Greg
But we're talking close to 20 million dollars, worth of product
My PCP
I don't know nothing
Found it, boss
Here you go
I'm done asking you nice, Greg
Give me his hand
No no, please
Hold still
This is hot enough to melt metal, Greg.
Rachel
What do you think it'll do to your hand?
Do you ever listen to advice?
Screw you
All right, now, hold him
Rachel, they're going to kill him
I already called for backup that's all we can do
- We're outgunned and outmanned heavily - Hold still
I don't want to sit here and watch him die either,
but your safety is my priority
Chlorine
Where is our pipe?
What are you doing?
Perfect.
Hood
It's possible to think your way out of a problem
Now, I'm gonna give you one more chance
To tell me where my stuff is
I don't know, man, I swear
Where's our pipe?
What the hell is that?
Go check it out
- Give me your jacket - Why?
'Cause I want to tear it apart Come on
Antifreeze
propylene glycol is a non-toxic humectant
Put it over your nose and mouth
It'll protect you from the chlorine
Come on Let's go
Greg told me he wasn't responsible for what happened at the supermarket
Well, he told you the truth
He just drank the wrong water from the wrong tap
Could have happened to anyone whose house was fed by those pipes
Believe me, I know
Mrs Filmore, in my line of work
I, I don't tend to be very forgiving when it comes to substance abuse
But I was wrong about your husband
He was clean
And he's going to stay clean for you and your son
We'll leave you two alone
Hi
How was your phone call to the FBI?
Well, the Bureau's concerned you're turning into a rock star
Doing drugs trashing your hotel room
Well, what can I say, Rachel? I'm a wild and crazy scientist
Any news on the case?
Did they find the rest of the drugs?
Yeah, they tracked down the 4 missing pallets of PCP-laced pipe near San Antonio
Speaking of which
Was that your first time?
First time what?
Getting high
On PCP?
Yeah
Don't tell me
You didn't inhale
Or better yet, to be a true scientist requires experimentation
What is this, cop humor?
I'm not a cop I'm a fed
What's the difference?
We don't get paid overtime and we're special
Agents, that is
So
Special Agent Rachel Young
When are we going back to the shooting range?
We are never going back to the shooting range
- Why? - Because
You think really well
But you can't shoot well a damn