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Hell's teeth,

Oh, bless you,

Allergies,

That's right, allergies,

Eddie, why don't you

start feeding the doggies?

Okay, ,,feed the doggies,

Get the food

and feed the doggies,

Sal, what's the matter?

It's, it's Carrie,

They found a tumor on her liver,

I'm so sorry,

And, um,

the air conditioning is broken,

but I made a call,

and Mr, Rivers is here,

He found something

he wants to show you,

Fully developed Fifth Limb

emanating from tumorous growth,

Third incident of animal tumors

in and around cornfield

in the past three months,

Unidentified skeletal anomaly,

Once again,

everything consistent

with Rampant ACCELERATED

cell growth,

Check incidence

of feline teratoma,

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You are about to experience

the awe and mystery

which reaches from

the deepest inner mind

to The outer limits,

Who we are

and what we will become

are determined by our actions,

But are those actions planting

the seeds of our salvation

or destruction?

( radio )

, ,,no let up in sight,

Today's weather brought to you

by

Macroseed,

working

hand in hand with farmers today

for a better, positive tomorrow,

Over to you, Harold,

Neighbor called it in

this morning,

This is how we found him,

Hey, Bob,

Hey, Linda,

Careful,

May I?

Yeah,

Let the coroner's Office know

we're ready to transport,

Hey, Linda,

He's got lumps on his face,

Here,

I know,

Oh, I thought I could

handle that,

All I'm saying is,

maybe Eddie would be better off

in a special facility

Where they can take care of him,

I don't want that,

Linda, Carol and Fred were

talking about a home

before They got killed,

Eddie's my nephew, Rex,

He's family...

I have to take care of him,

Maybe we could get some help,

It might take some

of the pressure off,

We can't afford it,

We turned our lives upside down

to come here and help him,

I was lucky to get a job

at

macroseed,

I'll never make as much as a

lawyer in private practice here,

I know,

We'll figure something out,

Yeah,

Hey, none of that,

You'll catch something,

I already have,

Don't forget about

the church rummage sale,

Did Gaye rope you

into it again this year?

Oh, didn't you hear?

Gaye's in the hospital

up in springfield,

Tumor,

Just, uh, ,,

had a pain in her side

and the next thing you know, ,,

wham,

Oh, I'm so sorry,

It's benign,

but at her age it's, ,,

Yeah,

So I'm doing

the rummage sale

this year,

So you all really

better be there,

We'll be there, doc,

Hey, Eddie, Hi,

I'll save

the heavy lifting for you,

Okay,

( woman groaning )

( Rex groaning )

As soon as I get the results,

I'll call you,

It came on so sudden,

It's worrisome, and unusual,

But these bone growths

are usually self-Limiting,

They only go so far,

then they stop,

Then we'll look at our options,

Thank you, Dr, Wells,

Meanwhile,

Matt, I want to put

some dressing on this,

( moaning )

( Matt )

Wow,

Yeah,

Does it hurt?

Not really,

Maybe I should kiss it

and make it bigger,

Yeah,

@

Ah! My back!

What?

Ahh!

Oh, my god!

Help!

Oh, my god!

Tara,

I'll go get help,

Tara,

Tara!

Help!

Hey, Sal,

You want to eat in or out?

In,

We could break in

the back seat of my new car,

Stop,

What's the matter?

Think your husband

will catch us?

Reminds you of the storeroom

in chemistry, doesn't it?

Except we're not 17 anymore,

Mm-Hmm, you're right,

Now we know more,

Sally will be back soon,

Then maybe we should

accelerate this process,

Did you hear about Matt Hooper?

Yeah,

And Carrie Lattimore has

a teratoma on her liver,

Yeah, ,,why are we talking

about this?

Because you work at macroseed,

You think it's from the corn?

Why not?

Because we tested it,

that's why,

All right, well,

take a look at this cat,

Fibrous sarcoma is rare in cats,

Maybe 1 in 10,000 get it,

This is the third animal

with Massive tumors

that's come across

my table recently,

They've all been found

in the cornfields,

And look at this...

It's more like a teratoma,

Different cells randomly growing

abnormal tissues together,

It's weird that

this is happening right now,

don't you think?

And old man Rivers' tumors,

they were the same thing,

They're all accelerated growth

just like the tx-40,

Okay, you got me,

I'm actually an alien,

We mutated the corn

to meet our special

nutritional needs,

It's unfortunate that

you earthlings, you know,

can't handle it,

I'm serious, Couldn't it happen?

I'll tell you what

the biochemists tell me, okay?

And you can trust me,

'cause, well, I'm a lawyer,

Harold, ,,

yes, the corn has been

genetically altered,

and, yes, tx-40 was designed

for accelerated growth,

but it cannot cross to humans

or cats or other plants,

But it's all so sudden,

Linda, stuff like this

unfortunately

happens every day,

Now, ,,

how about a little acceleration

of our own?

Harold,

Just a little?

Hmm?

( phone ringing )

( phone ringing )

( Harold groaning )

what?

I have to go,

Olly olly oxen free!

What do you want?

It fell off its nest,

Get that out of here!

You come in here again,

you'll wish

you hadn't been born,

( mattress creaking,

woman moaning )

( truck Horn blasting )

( thunder crashing )

"And so Donald went back

to his cave, ,,"

Hi,

Hi,

"All the other dinosaurs cheered

"And said that Donald was

the bravest dinosaur

in the whole wide jungle,"

Called your office today to see

if you wanted to go to lunch,

I must have been

in the bathroom,

Yeah, I guess so,

( Eddie )

Read Donald,

Okay, Eddie,

Read Donald,

Sure,

"Donald's great big day,"

"Donald was a dinosaur,

"He wasn't as big

"As Albert the allosaur,

but he was much taller than

Peter the protoceratops,"

All I'm saying is,

don't you want to have kids?

I don't want to have one

until this thing

gets sorted out,

That's ridiculous,

You're overreacting,

Something is happening, Rex,

One day old man Rivers is fine,

and the next he, ,,

He looks like a monster

and blows his head off,

We have to move before

something happens to us,

Back to kansas city?

Anywhere,

The longer I wait to have a baby

the greater the chance

of birth defects,

Look at Eddie,

Linda,

He'll never be like other kids,

He'll never have a chance,

Maybe it's best

to put Eddie in a home

with other kids like him,

Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry,

I didn't mean it,

Eddie! Eddie!

Eddie!

Eddie!

Eddie!

Eddie!

Eddie!

Eddie!

Eddie!

( sneezing )

Eddie, I'm sorry,

I didn't mean it,

I don't want to go away,

You're not going to go away,

You'll be with us always,

Mommy and daddy went away,

That's True,

but you're not going to go,

We love you too much

to let you go,

You're stuck with us, Buddy,

Oh, ,,

and Mr, Fuzzy turtle?

Yes, of course,

Do you want to go

to the game tonight?

And pancakes?

And pancakes!

Computer Model indicates

MUTATING CELLS

increase exponentially

under ideal conditions,

Rex?

Eddie?

( door slamming )

( rustling )

( crashing )

Eddie?

What's the matter?

Eddie?

Oh, my god,

Oh, my God,

It hurts,

It's okay, it's okay,

Everything's going to be okay,

Shh, shh, shh,

I can't see too good,

I'm going to fix that, okay?

I'm gonna fix that,

Where's Rex?

He's, ,,

he's at the game,

You walked home alone?

I got lost at the game

and I couldn't find him,

so I came home,

It's okay, it's okay,

It's okay,

It's okay,

Doc, I've got to talk to you,

Linda, I have patients waiting,

You know where I was all night?

Springfield, with Eddie,

He's got lumps

like old man rivers,

Oh, my God,

Don't you see

what's happening, doc?

Carrie Lattimore,

old man rivers, Gaye Herman,

Tara Acton, Matt Hooper,

Eddie...

They all have tumors

that just suddenly appeared,

It's obviously something

that was introduced

to the environment,

What else could it be

but the tx-40?

Linda, some people get

these things no matter what,

Not this quickly,

You probably

don't remember this,

but after you left for college

in the big city,

Hobson was a dying town,

Macroseed saved it,

They paid top dollar...

Better than top dollar

to rent these fields,

Tx-40 is safe,

So before We go

kicking up a ruckus,

let's get some facts first,

okay?

Tx-40 is hurting people, doc,

How come we don't have it?

We breathe the same air,

Now think about the people

that you mentioned,

Some of them live close

to the cornfields,

others live far away,

Upwind, downwind,

sidewind... whatever,

There isn't any pattern,

ergo, it's not happening,

Or maybe we're missing

something,

How long have I known you?

As long as I can remember,

Pretty long time, right?

So I'm going to presume

that I know you pretty well,

I know what you're doing,

but you don't have to,

What am I doing?

Proving that you're better

than your mama,

This isn't about her,

It's about people getting sick,

I need to see the research

on tx-40,

I can't show you that,

That's proprietary information,

We're talking about Eddie,

I know, I helped drive him

to springfield, remember?

I have to know,

Hey, want to grab some lunch?

No thanks,

Gotta get this done,

Boss of mine,

Maybe we should talk,

You could have got

Rex fired today,

you know,

If it hadn't been me

who saw him, he'd be toast,

You're right,

But that's not the only reason

you called us both in here,

No,

I also want to impress upon you

the importance

of what you're doing,

or nearly doing,

Tx-40 is safe, Linda,

Bad P, R, Will kill it

just as dead

as if it was

causing these things,

I know,

That's why you got to be careful

about what you say,

You can't take back

bad publicity,

That's what I said,

Macroseed has been

very good to all of us,

And we want to keep it that way,

So that's why

I'm going to let you see this,

I already cleared it

with the big boys,

So please, read it

before you do anything else,

I think

it'll put your mind at ease,

It's the data on tx-40,

pure and unadulterated,

And you can draw

your own conclusions,

Thank you,

Thanks, Harold,

No problem,

Linda, here,

There are two main ways

to genetically alter plants,

One is to shoot plant cells

with a particle gun,

They use microscopic pellets

coated with the dna

they want to add,

The other way to insert

the appropriate new Genes

is to use a bacterium,

Agro-Bacterium tumafascens,

which is first altered Itself

and then it inserts the new

genes into the target plant,

So what happened?

All their crossover tests

were performed on corn

that was altered

through radiation,

But after the Tests

someone decided

that bacteria was

to be used instead,

It was probably somebody

in accounting

who figured that

it would be cheaper,

All I can say is,

bacteria is a living thing,

It mutates on its own,

You can't control it completely,

Do you know

what tumafascens means?

Tumor-Inducing,

Now, according to this,

they're supposed to remove

the tumor-Inducing part before

they use the bacteria,

But like I said,

it's a living thing,

It might have found a way

to sneak around it,

God, doc, what have they done?

How could you do this?

Do what?

You do tests one way and Ignore

doing them again after making

major Changes

and switching to

bacteria to alter it?

Linda, it wasn't...

Bacteria that changes

on its own,

We don't use bacteria anymore,

What?

We didn't want

to take the chance,

If you read

the rest of the document

you'd see we phased that out,

Wasn't worth

the money we'd save,

Cooler heads prevailed,

It's all right there,

I'm sorry,

Apology accepted,

Don't,

Don't,

Why not?

Because I don't want to,

All right,

No means No,

I could smell his aftershave,

No, it's just my perfume,

Think I wouldn't find out?

Sally saw Harold

leaving your Office

two days ago at lunchtime,

That's why you didn't

answer my call,

You were screwing him,

Weren't you?

God, you stink of him!

I called your office tonight,

You didn't answer,

I was with doc wells,

Fine, Let's call him right now!

Then I went to talk

to Harold about the tx-40,

Oh, that's why his aftershave's

all over you,

Why do you do this?

What are you trying to do?

Beat your mom?

"I slept with More guys

than she did,"

No,

Then why do you do it?

We love each other...

That's why we got married,

What happened?

Rex, ,,

no,

No,

Stay away from me,

I'm sorry,

No, ,,Yeah, we're fine,

Fortunately,

we did the right thing,

Absolutely, it would have been

very bad, but facts don't lie,

Yeah, we did good,

Score one for our side,

I'll let you know

if anything else happens,

Okay, right, ,,Bye,

Hey, man,

Harold, what happened?

Rex,

Thanks for the warning,

I didn't know that...

No, you never do,

You're always thinking

about yourself, No one else,

That's not True,

Really?

Well, do you ever

think about me?

You ever think about us?

You ever lie in bed at night

and dream about us

being together?

Having kids, having a family, ,,

taking vacations, huh?

Doing stupid things

and laughing about them?

Do you?

Sometimes,

Sometimes,

That's really

encouraging, Linda,

What?

Do you think you were

just another notch

on the bed post?

No,

Is that what you tell youself

so that you're off the hook?

"Harold doesn't care

so I don't care either"?

I don't say that,

Then what do you say, 'cause, ,,

I'm not psychic over here,

That I'm married,

Well, you don't have to be,

I know,

Maybe we've been looking

on the wrong side

of the equation,

What do you mean?

When they tested the tx-40

with human dna,

where did they find that dna?

Average white Males,

middle-Aged guys,

And that's the problem

with a lot of drugs

on the market,

They're tested

with Average white males,

Not women or kids or whatever,

And what they've found is

There are big differences

in how the drugs react

among the groups,

So maybe the people who are

affected aren't average,

Exactly,

Maybe they just have

a predisposition to those things

and tx-40 triggers it,

That's why we haven't all

been affected,

Yes!

Or maybe it's something

completely different,

The best thing

is to look for patterns,

What's everybody got in Common?

Well, what about hormones?

Growth hormones,

Carrie could have been going

through a growth spurt,

And Matt and Tara, ,,and Eddie

are in their prime high-Level

hormone years,

Raging hormones,

Yes,

Of course, that doesn't explain

old man Rivers,

Yeah,

There's the rub again,

Yeah, there's the rub,

( flies buzzing )

son of a bitch,

You wanted proof?

Here it is,

Carrie Lattimore has

a teratoma on her liver,

Eddie has lumps on his head,

Matt, Tara... all of them

are suffering from UNCONTROLLED

accelerated cell growth,

And the tx-40 is causing it,

Anyone with

an above-Average levels

of human growth hormone

is susceptible,

Kids in growth spurts,

old men taking supplements,

You name it,

I think she's right, Harold,

Unbelievable,

I should call the board,

We'll have to check this out,

Can't, uh, ,,

Yeah, we'll have

to check this out,

Good work,

Thank you,

( phone ringing )

Yeah,

Yeah,

Rex?

Rex,

Linda, Harold Zimmer here,

Our lab just finished running

the first round of tests,

We used some blood

from Matt Hooper,

Doesn't seem to be any

interaction with the tx-40,

We're going to keep checking,

but, well, we'll let you know,

( beep )

Linda, doc wells,

I called the lab

up in springfield

to do a test on a blood sample

from Mr, Rivers,

They said the tx-40

didn't have any interaction,

so if it's not the corn

triggering it,

I don't know what it is,

( beep )

( Harold )

it cannot cross

to humans,

Oh, my God,

( busy signal )

Oh, come on, doc,

get off the phone,

Rex, I'm on my way

to doc wells' house,

Don't worry, but I think

you should meet me there,

( sneezing )

( Horn honking )

Doc?

Doc, it's Linda Andrews,

It's not the corn,

It's the milkweed,

The corn dna is transferred

to the milkweed,

Hello, Linda,

So surprised,

Are you going to shoot me?

Maybe,

Let's go,

You always were determined, Lin,

That's why you were the captain

of the cheerleaders,

You weren't the best,

but you were determined,

You didn't get there first,

but you always got there,

So I'm right,

Yeah, unfortunately,

Our lab confirmed it

this afternoon,

It's the pollen

from the milkweed,

You can't cover this up,

Yes, I can... I have to,

See, we can't afford

bad publicity, remember?

We can't let some freak

crossover mutation

wipe out years

of research and planning,

We'll just get rid

of the milkweed,

No problem,

You can't get rid of all

the milkweed in the country,

Even if you could,

how could you guarantee

that tx-40 wouldn't cross

to something else?

Good old doc, huh?

You're too quick for me,

Don't do this, Harold,

You know what your problem is?

You're always

searching for a crusade,

Searching for something to fill

up what's missing inside,

Make you important,

Me, Rex, Eddie, your work,

We're all just

trying to fill the void,

Now you got your teeth into

something really big,

And you won't let go,

But you have to,

No, I don't,

It's too late, Harold,

Look, I could put in

a good word for Rex,

I'll transfer him

to kansas city,

get him a raise,

You guys could start over again,

and get the best help for Eddie,

Eddie is going to die,

and it's all because of people

like you playing god,

I'm sorry about that,

But you could start over,

Screw you,

Well, I'm going to take that

as a no,

Or you could change your mind,

You have in the past,

You don't care

about anybody, do you?

Actually, doc,

I care about the whole world,

You know, when a disaster

happens, doctors perform triage,

Not everybody lives...

You know that,

The process is designed

to maximize the number

of survivors,

It's the same with medication,

The fda certifies

thousands of drugs

knowing full well that a small

but acceptable percentage

of people will have

a fatal reaction to them,

Why?

Because many, many more people

will benefit,

The cost is worth the benefit,

Tx-40 is worth the cost,

What'll it cost you

if it doesn't roll out?

A few million,

The Miracle of stock options,

You only care about yourself,

It's a common disease

these days,

The only thing I can

prescribe for it

is a long, hard look

in the mirror,

It's a shame

some people don't have

the spine for it,

Oh, I can, I can do it, doc,

Yeah,

'cause, ,,I like what I see,

More's the pity on you,

Stop!

Every great step

demands sacrifice,

Doc!

Hey!

Poor doc,

He was trying to save me,

He came in here distraught,

You felt I was responsible

for what happened to Eddie,

and you couldn't accept

that tx-40 wasn't guilty,

He tried to stop you

and you shot him,

And I tried to wrestle

the gun from you,

It went off, killing you,

but not before

you shot me in the leg,

Ah!

I got your message,

You all right?

Yeah,

I'm sorry, I'm sorry,

It's okay,

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Let us always remember...

As we sow,

so shall we reap,

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