- A group of animal rights activists are killed in action when trying to flee from a lab animal which doesn't exist in nature.
- When a group of college age animal activists raid a laboratory to release animals, they unwittingly unleash a genetically altered monster, which goes on a killing rampage. Walter feels responsible since he experimented with combining the DNA of different species in the past, and works hard to come up with a way to trap the new animal before it can breed uncontrollably.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
- Four animal rights activists break-in a laboratory to vandalize the facility and release animals. They unleashed a dangerous man-made animal composed by the DNA of different species that kills them and hides in the woods. Soon the monster begins a crime spree and Charlie is wounded but survives. But soon Dr. Bishop finds the animal is breeding and people attacked by the monster becomes the host of its offspring. Further Charlie has many parasites in his blood and internal organs that are growing fast. Dr. Bishop recalls a failed experiment and together with Olivia and Peter, they try to find the animal to save Charlie.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Olivia (Anna Torv) reads her niece a bedtime story. Peter(Joshua Jackson) calls.
Rachel (Ari Graynor) giggle on the phone with him. She resumes bedtime story reading. Ella (Lily Pilblad) checks to make sure monsters aren't real. No, of course they're not, auntie assures her.
Cut to masked people breaking into a lab with caged animals and setting them free.
A man asleep in bed gets a security auto notifcation on his cell phone.
In the lab, a woman tells Jonathan (Rafi Silver) to hurry up so they can leave. But he's interested in what's in a room with red lights.
The man shows up and the protesters yell at him for experimenting on animals. He sees the red-lit room is open and worries that they opened it. He goes to check it out and is promptly chomped down on. An unseen thing races out of the room, growling. The protesters flee, leaving Jonathan behind.
As they speed away in their car they wonder what that thing was. And then they hear it growl beside their speeding car and they're flipped off the road. Overturned, they're helpless in the car as it races at them.
At Harvard. Peter arrives in the lab and sees a tasty-looking omelette. He goes to take a bite, but when Walter (John Noble) yells at him he discovers an ear in it. It wasn't breakfast, it was an experiment. Peter suggests loudly his dad give him a little more warning and be aware his actions have consequences. Astrid (Jasika Nicole) reports Olivia called.
At the protesters' car in the woods, the team checks it out. Three dead. It appears they were attacked by an animal with enormous claws. A pteradactyl, Walter suggests. The kids weren't carrying IDs. They find a lock pick device, which suggests they weren't up to any good. Olivia notices four fast food drinks in the car. But three bodies. Peter recognizes the cups from a fast food place by MIT. Olivia wants to go through the database to ID the victims.
Olivia knocks on a door, asking about Chris. Carl Bussler (Keith Nobbs) is happy to answer her questions - right after he hides the bong and puts on some pants.
Carl says Chris is involved in animal rights causes.
At the lab, Walter and Astrid look at the sliced up bodies. Walter admires the fang work. Whatever did it had the claws of a lion and the fangs of a snake.
Astrid looks into labs that do animal research to see if any reported break-ins.
Walter finds something in one of the bodies - a spike of some sort.
Animal control reports to the site of a monster sighting. They hear noises in the bush.
Peter checks in on Olivia, who tries to ask innocently about him being friends with her sister. He asks if it bothers her. She says no.
Olivia tells Astrid about the animal control call about a monster. Walter tells Olivia to be careful. Peter finds this odd.
Charlie (Kirk Acevedo) goes monster hunting. He finds the animal control van - and the officer dead and mauled inside. He hears something in the woods and goes after it, gun drawn, after calling for back-up. He finds the other officer, shredded. As he's looking at the body, a long snakelike tail drops out of the tree behind him. Olivia arrives to hear gunshots and Charlie bloody and slumped against a tree. He's hurt, but OK. Olivia asks what it was. "Big," he says.
Medics pluck porcupine-like spikes out of Charlie. Walter takes one as a sample. He asks what the animal's skin was like, if it was rough like a rhino. He asks about the tail, if it was like a scorpion. Peter can tell Walter has an idea. He thinks they're dealing with a transgenic species, an organism made up of the genes of multiple species, something man made. Peter wonders why anyone would want to make a "Franken-rhino."
Astrid gives Olivia the name of a lab. Olivia stops by. Swift Pharmeceuticals. Dr. Swift (David Pittu) says there was no break-in. A guy with a paint roller walks by, suggesting clean up. He tells her she needs a warrant to see more.
Olivia stops by Harvard to ask Walter what he would need to make a hybrid animal. He lists a number of things, among them a house in the country and lots of time. Peter says Walter's been like that all day. Peter tries to focus him. Walter show him the book he found among his old files. It shows a giant snake creature with spider legs and a scorpion tail. Walter tried to make it 20 years ago. Peter knows Walter knew this was connected and said nothing. Olivia asks who he was working with. Astrid notices one of the bodies in the bag is moving. They open it up. Maggots. No, larvae, Walter corrects. He calls for a petri dish. The body splits open with tons of writhing larvae. "Make it a bucket," he says. Astrid announces she's going to be sick. "Two buckets!"
Walter thinks the stinger carries the eggs and plants them when it stings people. Olivia thinks of Charlie.
Charlie and his wife Sonia (Kiersten Warren) get ready for bed, watching the news, which has reports of mountain lion sightings. Charlie tells her he was cut by some drunk with a bottle. There's an urgent ring at his doorbell. It's Olivia. She tells him he might not be OK.
Walter does an ultrasound at the lab, telling Charlie he might be carrying the creature's offspring. They're hoping he's not pregnant. But the ultrasound shows a bunch of tiny little squirmies in him.
Walter doesn't know what to do next, they've already spread throughout his system.
Peter goes to talk to Walter.
Charlie asks how the things are actually born. She tells him it won't get that far.
Walter calls for supplies to poison them.
Astrid sticks a needle in Charlie's abdomen. If it doesn't work, they think Charlie has maybe 16 hours left.
A woman takes her young son to a playground. A long rattler-like tail sticks out of the play tunnel.
Broyles (Lance Reddick) gives Olivia the reports on Kelvin Genetics, where he did his hybrid research. They still can't find the fourth animal activist.
Peter calls for Olivia. The poison killed the larvae but it also poisoned Charlie. Walter thinks they're killing Charlie so they can gestate. Walter has a theory that involves mixing the mother's blood with Charlie's to trick the larvae so they'll stop feeding.
They need to find the creature.
The boy on the playground crawls near the tunnel with the monster in it. His mom senses something is amiss and grabs him just in time.
Olivia looks at a map, trying to figure out why there aren't more sightings. She wants a schematic of the sewers. All the sightings are near storm drains. Walter is upset they don't have more, feeling guilty about Charlie.
Charlie cries out in pain, writhing and holding his stomach. They see gross little bumps moving under his skin. The larvae are getting bigger.
Olivia gets a call about the sighting in the park. There's no pattern.
Carl from MIT calls Olivia. He says this kid Jonathan hasn't been to class for a few days. Jonathan Swift. Olivia goes back to Swift Pharmaceuticals, mad at Dr. Swift. She accuses him of creating dangerous genetic hybrids which killed five people. She tells him about the larvae in Charlie Francis.
Dr. Swift says Olivia is wrong, it didn't kill five people - it was seven. She says Swift was working with Cameron Dagleman - no one Walter ever worked with. She got the types of animals in the hyrbid. Walter stops her at bat. That was the missing ingredient that allowed the creature to survive. But that won't help Charlie.
Astrid suggests they bait it in the sewers. Walter says it doesn't want food, it wants its kids - bats are highly material species.
Walter says they'll need 50 caliber incendiary rounds.
Charlie lays on the stretcher in the lab, huddled under a blanket. He tells Olivia not to get hurt for him, but she says he'd do the same for her.
Walter, Peter and Olivia suit up. Walter pockets some of the poison they used before.
Underground, they follow the map to a good hunting spot.
Walter takes out the box of monster larvae babies.
Charlie calls his wife who tells him a banal joke. He chokes up listening but tries to play it off as a laugh. She asks if he'll be home for dinner. They say I loves yous but he doesn't tell her he's currently carrying a hybrid monster's babies.
In the sewer, Walter has to tinkle (his word). Peter tells him to go where ever, they're knee deep in the facilities. Walter walks off and padlocks himself on the other side of a gate from Peter and Olivia. Walter says no one else is going to get hurt. He chugs the poison. If the creature gets him it'll poison itself. Peter yells at him not to do it.
Walter says if he should happen to live through it, there's an antidote in the lab.
He walks off down the dark tunnel, singing to himself.
Peter and Olivia try to break down the gate he locked.
Walter makes his way through the dark, looking around every corner with trepidation. He reaches a dead end, but hears slime oozing behind him. He turns to see a giant lizard beast hanging from the ceiling. Suddenly it doesn't seem like such a good idea.
Peter and Olivia run up behind it. Shots ring out and the beast falls dead. Walter holds the smoking gun in his hand. He wonders if anyone happened to notice the time when he said the poison would kill him within the hour.
Back at the lab, Walter is up on his feet and making an antivenin for Charlie. They inject him with something.
Later, he looks better.
Peter tells Walter he was brave today.
They do another ultrasound on Charlie. The larvae are still in there. But they're shrinking and dying.
Olivia asks what happens next. "Now you crap 'em," Walter says.
At home, Charlie climbs in bed with his wife.
Olivia checks on her sister and niece. She turns out the light and listens for monsters. She turns the light back on again and goes to sleep.
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