Growth Page #2

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Good. It's all yours.

No, Justin, I said

that I like it on top--

Justin:
Could you not--?

I came here to get some quiet,

not to be told what to do

by some bossy boss lady.

You know, some people think

I'm fun.

Good.

F***.

( car engine starts )

Hey, excuse me.

How are you?

Do you happen to know

where a local pay phone is?

What the hell?

( Marco snoring )

Moron.

On the TV I saw a man

selling second chance

I thought, "What kind of sucker

needs to buy self-confidence?"

I sit alone on a Friday night

in boxer briefs

Saying I realize--

( group singing )

Oh, this is incredible.

Gina.

No, I mean you told me

about them but--

We've got to figure out

how this is happening again

so we can stop it. Listen.

Infection, cellular lymphomatosis

fusion, reproduction.

Gina, these things infect.

They ingest.

They multiply and destroy.

There's no middle ground here.

Maybe it's some kind of mutation

gestating in a plant or a bug.

I mean, parasites live

just about anywhere.

A fish maybe?

No, probably not a fish,

at least not saltwater anyway.

Watch.

Watch what happens.

Here. Salt kills parasites--

their chief vulnerability.

Well, handy that we're surrounded

by salt water.

Talk to me about

the first outbreak then.

Well, parasites have been

used in science

for hundreds of years now.

Tapeworms are utilized

to keep people thin.

Maggots are used

for exfoliation.

Parasites-- microscopic parasites

can be given a simple

set of instructions.

They then burrow into their host

and they can manipulate their DNA.

We started with shellfish,

engineering oysters

that produced

perfect, lustrous

and round pearls.

And money from the pearls

funded further research.

We set out to make

the perfect human.

And at first we were successful.

They became strong,

their senses heightened.

The subjects became intuitive.

But we made one major

miscalculation.

The parasites needed to feed

and consumed the host

from the inside.

( knocks )

Okay, you can't tell me that

and then leave me alone in here.

Gina, it'll be fine.

I'll just be a minute. You're okay.

But--

( door closes )

I'm not gonna be able to keep this

a secret much longer.

People are gonna think--

People will think

what I tell them to think.

- Things have changed, Larkin.

- You forget who you're talking to.

Are you questioning

my loyalty here, Jake?

Oh, I'm questioning

a lot more than that, Doc.

How dare you bring Jamie onto the island

without consulting me?

If there's even a chance

that she can bring us

to the antidote, we've got to try.

You still believe that fairy tale?

No, this is our burden, Macavire.

We said that coming in

and I'm saying it now.

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