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The Bay (2012) | The Found Footage Parasite Horror That Feels Uncomfortably Real · Two Cents: We See Scary Movies

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Welcome back to Two Cents. We See Scary Movies, the podcast
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where we watch horror movies and then calmly explain why
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everything could have been avoided if literally anyone had
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done their job. This month's theme is You Make
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Me Sick. These horror where the real
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danger isn't the monster, it's what spreads when no one's
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paying attention. I'm Tawan, trusting the process
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just long enough to realize there is no process.
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And with me is Dan, a man whose survival instincts are powered
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entirely by sarcasm and DVDs. This this week we're talking
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about The Bay, a found footage horror movie that starts with
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dead fish, escalates to dead people, and somehow still finds
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time to blame unseasonably warm temperatures.
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It's a 4th of July celebration, a small coastal town, and a
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whole lot of officials confidently saying everything
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That's fine right up until it very clearly is not fine.
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So grab some bottled water, maybe don't eat the seafood, and
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let's get into it. So the movie opens with a rapid
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fire montage of media coverage, mostly local news, showing what
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looks like a massive environmental catastrophe.
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Millions of fish are washing up dead on the shore.
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Blackbirds are falling out of the sky.
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Crabs are crawling up and dying. It feels like it's happening in
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multiple places, maybe even around the world.
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It was weird because when they were showing the montage I
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thought I saw something that said Italy at one point, but it
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was so fast it was hard to tell. Well, I believe those also all
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real real footage as. Well, because.
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We had a lot of stuff happening back in the back in the day.
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Right. Yeah, I do think that was all
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real. Because this is what 212 this
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movie was set in. Right.
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Yeah. So then we see a title card that
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comes up. These incidents were covered by
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the media, but this story has never been told.
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From there it switches into full found footage mode which was so
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shaky and chaotic. I was like.
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Oh fuck yeah. Definitely.
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I was like, this movie is actually going to make me sick.
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It's like, great. I picked a good one.
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But yeah, it was really shaky, chaotic clips of people running
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and panicking, like something is already going horribly wrong.
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Then we cut to a woman named Donna Thompson, who looks like
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she's on a Zoom call being interviewed.
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Someone is asking her to tell the story from her perspective
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because she was there in Maryland at the time.
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It happened in a small town called Claridge.
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So Donna is clearly nervous about telling the story story.
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She's worried something might happen to her if she puts it out
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there, but she also feels like she has to do it, but because
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otherwise she can't live with herself.
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She starts by talking about the claret, The Claridge.
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What the fuck is wrong with me anyway?
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She starts talking about what Claridge was like before the
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outbreak. It was kind of a small town that
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looks like it's built from her postcards.
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She show. She shows old footage from
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previous 4th of July celebrations.
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Everyone's happy, everyone's together.
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That classic little community vibe.
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She introduces the mayor. Apparently he used to sell
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vacuums or something and she introduces, I can't remember
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selling. She introduces another couple
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that was really involved in the community.
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Donna mentions that their entire family died that day, which was,
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you know, all of a sudden, like she was kind of like, yeah, they
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were part of the community and they really helped out and did a
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lot of stuff. Oh, and they died that day.
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They. Died.
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Yeah, they died. So Donna also talks about her
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own connection to the town. She grew up there, and she
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started her news career there as an intern.
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She shows footage of her first interview with the mayor, and
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she's laughing about how unprepared she was.
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She even makes this awkward little comment about how his
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hair must dry really fast because he's bald.
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Yeah. And he's like, Yep, it does.
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And then Donna says she didn't realize at the time how culpable
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he was in everything that happened.
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Yeah, and and Donna, Donna is like AI mean.
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Granted this is supposed to be her first time out, but she's a
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really shitty anchor or whatever like.
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Report or something? I mean, she's terrible.
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Yeah, and when she's doing the Zoom call part, her mouth drove
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me nuts. Her tongue kept sticking out or
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doing some weird thing with her tongue and it drove me crazy the
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whole time. Yeah, I I didn't like her at
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all. Her character.
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I don't like her character at all.
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Yeah. All right, annoyed me.
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This incident occurred in 2009. For some reason, I originally
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thought it was 2016. I don't know why I thought that.
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But then she especially does state that the first signs
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actually started about six weeks before the main incident
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occurred. The first warning sign was the
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disappearance and later discovery of two oceanographers.
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Reports say that they were studying pollution in the
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Chesapeake Bay. The theory was that bacterial
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growth was increasing because of runoff from local chicken
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plants. When the two scientists were
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found, their cause of death unknown, but they suspected that
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the injuries might be caused by shark bites, right?
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Like a bull shark, I think they said.
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Right, 'cause it's brackish water.
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And that they did say that. Bullsharks.
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Do they? Definitely make, you know, well
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aware that it's brackish water. That is the word of this friggin
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movie. It's brackish.
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Yeah, they did say it a lot. It was almost in every single
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scene. Right.
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You know, little kids playing. Oh, the water's brackish Jesus
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Christ. So because the water was
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brackish, sometimes bull sharks were able to come up into the
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into the Bay. So the oceanographers had done a
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water analysis and found a lot of alarming stuff.
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The female oceanographer. I didn't get their names.
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I didn't get them either. But the female oceanographer,
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she tracks the currents and explains that whatever toxins
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are in the water are riding those currents right toward
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Claridge, Maryland. We also see the this night
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vision video of some guy doing some undercover style footage
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talking about the scale of the pollution and I didn't get the
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exact amount and I feel like what I wrote is not right
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because it's a lot because he said something like 35,000 tons.
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Right of. Chicken waste is dumped to the
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Chesapeake Bay every year. And how that's feeding the
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problem. It might have been pounds
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because tons seems like a lot. Yeah, I think it was pounds and
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then like they were drinking like, you know, 20,000 gallons
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of water or. Something right?
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Yeah. I think it was like, yeah, no,
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no, no, no. I'm just going on and on and on.
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About the water. And the and and how?
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Brackish it is. How brackish it is, yes.
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So there's also footage of a town meeting where, and this is
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this little town meeting is actually just the mayor.
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He's during this 4th of July celebration.
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He's because they're all outside in the streets and whatever, and
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he's on the podium and he's talking about how great
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everything is in the town. So he's giving a speech.
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While he's giving a speech, some guy stands up and he's furious
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about the chicken plants dumping into the Bay.
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Then another woman who I think was the woman who was part of
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that couple that does a lot in the town, she was basically, she
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pushes back against it and she's basically like everyone's kids
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grew up in this Bay and they're fine.
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So she doesn't understand why everybody's suddenly doing
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doomsday talk and the mayor that's.
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Usually how it goes, though, right?
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Yeah. Why?
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Why are we all of a sudden, like, concerned just because
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Jimmy has like 3 fingers coming out of his forehead, you know,
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big deal. I mean, it wasn't like that when
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we were kids. I mean, it has nothing to do
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with the fact that they dumped nuclear waste into the Bay.
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I mean, that was like, what, five years ago?
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I mean, move on. Come on geez get over it I can
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sleep at night, what's your problem?
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So then the mayor in his speech talks about the Desalina tion
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plant and how it takes Bay from the water filters it removes the
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salt, makes it drinkable for residents as well as usable for
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the chicken plants. And the people just assumed that
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the filtration process for this Desalina tion also removed bad
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stuff too. Well, that's what we that was
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wrong to assume. So then we start seeing people
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getting affected at this time, like during the 4th of July
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celebration, everyone is down the streets.
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Like I said before, a woman. Well, yeah.
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And it was very, very reminiscent of Jaws.
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Everything's fine. It's 4th of July.
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Don't worry about it. We'll, we'll go to the water.
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Yeah, I do mention later on how much the mayor reminds me in
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this town. Reminds me of the mayor in Jaws.
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Yeah, because he's very similar. Just how they kind of don't
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care. They only care about his
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tourism. I don't care about anything
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else. Money, money, money, money,
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money. Right, so during this 4th of
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July celebration, everyone, of course, is out in the streets.
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And then a woman suddenly stumbles into frame and she's
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screaming for help. She looks like she's bleeding,
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and she's telling that she needs her husband, She needs to go to
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the hospital. Someone needs to take her to the
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hospital. Someone needs to help her.
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People are backing. Yeah, people are backing away.
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They're like, what the fuck's going on?
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Even though they clearly can tell that something's wrong with
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her, but it's just her right at this moment.
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So it seems very isolated and people are kind of like keeping
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their distance. That one remind that scene kind
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of reminded me of RoboCop when the guy goes into the nuclear
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waste. Help me man, help me.
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Right. Get off me, man.
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So then we cut to a pool near the Bay.
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Kids are playing and in the water and running around.
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Then all of a sudden you hear some kids start screaming.
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We get close up of people with huge welts and rashes, big boils
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or hives or something all over their skin.
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Then there's a crab eating contest and somebody starts
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throwing up and then everybody starts throwing up.
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Now, I don't know if everybody was throwing up because they all
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got sick or if everybody was throwing up because one person
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threw up because you know, that happens.
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That's. The thing with this movie too,
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like there was a lot of scenes that reminded me of other things
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because that reminded me of standby.
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Standby. Me.
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Yeah. Yep.
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So then we meet Doctor Jack Abrams.
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Donna says he treated over 350 patients that day, and then he
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died later that night. Thanks for the spoiler, Donna.
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She right. I know.
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I mean, that's the thing about Donna narrating and it's like
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this is the Doctor. He dies later.
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But here's the story. Thanks.
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Thanks a lot. So Doctor Abram calls the CDC
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because he's already seen at least 30 patients with the same
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symptoms. He thinks it might be a
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bacterial infection. The CDC runs him through a
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checklist. Have they been around livestock?
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Have they been in the sun more than usual?
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You know, basic just screening questions, although I've never
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been asked if I've been around livestock at a doctor's
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appointment. But anyway, well.
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Was the CDC involved? No.
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All right. So but they were just asking
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basic questions while everyone is clearly just losing their
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shit. Literally.
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Yeah, so then we switched, and there's a lot of switching back
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and forth in this movie. So then we switched to two cops
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reporting that they believe what they believe is the first death
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from whatever is happening. And this was around 12:42 PM.
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We also get footage for of a couple, Stephanie and Alex.
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She's from Claridge, but now she's a lawyer in Baltimore and
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he's a dentist. They have a baby.
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They rented a boat and are traveling from Wilmington to
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Claridge for the fireworks. So we hear 911 call.
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Someone says they're seeing something really bad, and
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they're filming a woman on the sidewalk with blood running out
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of her mouth and down her chest. She looks disoriented and very
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wacky. Then we go inside a police car,
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Pete, And we get like the POV inside the police car.
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Dispatch is overloaded. The hospital is full, and other
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hospitals a little further away is starting to fill up as the
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cops drive through town. There are ambulances and cops
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everywhere. They arrive at a scene where
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someone claims this one was attacked, maybe domestic
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violence. He says that whoever attacked
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her ripped her guts out and cut off her tongue.
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The cops are trying to figure out if this is a murder
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situation. Donna, we see her again.
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She shows a clip of herself as a reporter trying to interview
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someone, except she was given the wrong name and info.
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So it was really awkward. And she's talking to this guy
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near the scene of this quote UN quote crime.
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And she has the name wrong. She has the incident wrong.
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The guy is disgusted and irritated with her.
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She's super embarrassed about it.
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Then we go back to Stephanie and Alex and just shows that their
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travel time from to Carthage is about 7 hours.
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So then there's a FaceTime video from a young girl.
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She might be 12 or 13 years old. She's showing her friend the
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blisters that are all over her body.
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I thought I thought she was supposed to be 15.
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Not that it really matters. I don't know.
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I didn't catch an age. She looked little to me so I
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wasn't really sure how. She was.
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But she was showing her friend the blisters all over her body.
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She's been trying to call her parents but it goes straight to
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voicemail. Her parents, she said she was
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with her parents wherever she was and they suddenly left and
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like forgot their kid. Well, they probably saw her on
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the boils. Like I'm not dealing with that
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shit. I'm out of here.
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I didn't sign up for that. But she didn't even get a chance
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to tell them what was happening to her.
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So then we come back to the oceanographers footage.
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They found an infected fish and used a scope to look inside its
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mouth. They see parasite larvae and the
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oceanographer says she has never seen larvae like that before.
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A caption says the video was sent to the mayor, but the mayor
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never responded. Right.
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And we have Donna's old footage continuing and she hears on the
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radio there's been another murder.
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And this is a small town. SO2 murders on the same day in a
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small town is quite crazy. Try that in a small town.
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Right. The new studio starts reporting
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it as the second murder, a few blocks from the first.
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Possibly connected, possibly the husband.
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Basically, they're making things up on the fly just to fill time
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because nobody knows what's happening.
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Sounds very familiar. The news would never do that.
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No way. So Donna says, looking back.
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Because we do cut back and forth between old footage of Donna at
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this 4th of July celebration patient and Donna currently
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doing the Zoom interview. So she's, as she's looking back,
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she says she doesn't understand how she ever thought it was
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murder because the cases were so similar.
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Guts were open, blood coming out of the mouth, tongues missing or
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possibly missing. They weren't really sure.
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Then we go to Doctor Abrams again.
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He sends a video to the CDC showing a patient's leg.
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He thinks two things are happening at once.
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He says something from the outside is eating its way in and
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something from the inside is eating its way out.
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He needs to figure out what the hell is going on.
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Then we cut to Mayor Stockman who goes on the radio and tries
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to calm everyone down. He warns people not to spread
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rumors. He explains that when the
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weather warms up, bacterial growth can increase.
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Some people might get rashes or digestive issues.
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So basically, just stay calm, stop panicking, Don't start
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chaos until they understand what's going on.
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But before the interview, because there was a little part
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before they actually went on air, the DJ asks him what's
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happening and the mayor admits he's not really sure because
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he's been focused on his reelection campaign.
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Yeah, because that's, that's what you should focus on when
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you have people like, running around with like really bad
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blisters and and like dying everywhere, like tongues coming
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out of their mouth, right? Focus on the campaign trail,
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right? If you elect me, you get to keep
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your tongue. So he's on that and the 4th of
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July celebration. So he had two major things on
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his plate, man. Well, that's.
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Great. 4th of July, Yeah. I mean, yeah.
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But he says that the police have it under control, but he doesn't
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even know what it is. So while he's talking, we do see
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footage of people celebrating boats.
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They're swimming, everyone's having a good time, like nothing
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is wrong. Then we go back to the
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oceanographers. The bacteria is extremely is
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extremely high in a specific area.
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It looks like it's linked to runoff from the chicken plants.
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Fertilizer, pesticides, chicken waste, who knows?
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The male oceanographer cuts open the fish and a fish.
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Another fish and goop spills out.
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He recoils like it smells horrific and walks away,
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covering his nose. Now we go to a fishing boat.
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It's about 6 miles off the coast of Farage.
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A guy catches a fish and holds it up with his thumb in its
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mouth, and then suddenly something jumps out.
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It looked like a scarab, and it actually made me jump, and I
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wasn't expecting it at all. It crawls up his arm.
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He knocks it off, but not before it bites him.
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It scurries across the deck, and then it goes off the side into
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the water. And it's, you know, gone.
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But he does. He's like, you can hear him
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going, oh, my God, it bit me. It bit me.
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So back to the radio DJ. People are calling in with
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theories. It's Al Qaeda.
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Yeah, it's Iran. It's vaccines.
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It's a strange cloud over the harbor.
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Just every wild explanation imaginable.
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It's a cover up. Right.
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So back to the oceanographers again.
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The female oceanographer lays out a mutilated fish.
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And I need to say this because this guy that's with her is a
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total Dick because she has an accent.
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She's like French I think maybe. And he keeps correcting how she
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says things like he's making a blooper reel or something
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instead of focusing on the fact that Bay is dying.
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Because she says she says mutilated.
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And he's like, what? She repeats.
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And he's like, oh, mutilated in this mocking tone, but he does
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this to her the whole time. I'm like, shut the fuck up,
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dude. Like if you don't like her
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accent, why are you working with her?
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It's one of those, it's one of those like plot points where,
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like, you hate the character. Yeah, I don't care if you die,
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right, because you're making fun of her accent.
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So you you need to die. Right.
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So she shows a fish with no tongue, which I didn't even know
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fish had tongue. Tongue.
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Yeah, they do. But I didn't had no realize I
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did not realize that I know whales and dolphins do, but
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they're not fish. But I never.
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Paid fish having tongue. But I think part of the
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influence of this is there is a parasite that goes into a
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certain fish's mouth, which it's tongue, and then is it lives
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there, replaces it with itself. Yeah, yeah, so.
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But I didn't even realize. I mean, I've been fishing tons
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of times. I never paid attention.
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I guess I just never looked that deep into their mouths.
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I mean, what am I looking at there for?
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She shows that, you know the fish, fish's tongue's missing.
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She also shows other fish with big chunks missing from their
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lower abdomen. And she's like, something bit
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them. But she said it was weird
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because fish don't bite other fish this way.
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Then we see phone footage from two teenagers going out to a
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dock. These kids are in high school.
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They're older teenagers. The girl jumps in the water
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trying to get the guy to come in.
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He refuses to, jokes about jellyfish stinging her.
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Then suddenly she's like, ow, like something stung her.
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He thinks she's messing with them, but it gets worse fast.
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She starts getting pulled underwater like something is
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attacking her. Like Jaws?
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Yeah, he jumps in after her and they both get attacked and you
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just see and the the footage because he took the camera with
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him in the water or you can still see the footage, but it's
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got water issues like, and so it's kind of going in and out
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and it's stopping here and there.
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And so you see like you see blood, you see water splashing,
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you see their faces in agony. Just a little stop and go
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motions of that. Donna then does say that the
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phone was found on the beach by a 12 year old and the bodies
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were never recovered. Yeah, isn't that weird in this
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movie that, you know, nobody replies to anybody.
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Bodies go missing, right? The only thing that's left is
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like the footage of there's a conspiracy going on, right?
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From this point on it started to really annoy me because then
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like almost every single camera quote UN quote in this movie
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feels like that it was underwater because it's like
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this weird skipping. Yeah.
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It was just frustrating because it's like that part of the story
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is over, man. You know you're not in the water
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anymore. Right.
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Yeah. So we go back to Stephanie and
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Alex on the boat. They start getting frisky
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because she sees a sign in the sky, and I'm assuming it was
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some sort of cloud shape. I looked, I couldn't see
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anything. Was it a cow?
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Yeah. I mean death seems to make
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people horny in these movies. That would have been hilarious
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if it were a cow. But anyway, I couldn't tell.
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I couldn't see anything from, I couldn't make out anything from
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these clouds. So he's getting a little frisky
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with her. They start kissing.
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He then picks her up and threatens to throw her in the
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water. She says no and then he puts her
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down, but she pushes him in and when he comes up, he says, oh, I
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swallowed something. Something was in my mouth and
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but it was nothing. I guess huge or whatever.
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But he doesn't seem to be concerned about it and just ends
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up getting on the back on the boat.
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So then we go back to the oceanographers.
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The female says 40% of the Bay is dead.
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And the male is stunned by this information.
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Then we go back to the hospital. Doctor Abrams updates the CDC.
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It goes from 30 patients to 60 lesions, anaphylactic shock
19:59
treatments not working. The CDC references a similar
20:01
case somewhere else. About 30 people died and.
20:04
It spread in like 3 hours. Then Dr. Abram of course, is
20:06
begging for guidance because it's just getting worse by the
20:09
minute. Back to the oceanographers
20:11
again. The male finds a fish and for
20:13
some reason he acts like this fish is Ground Zero, like all
20:17
the fish in the sea and you find the one it started with.
20:20
Like why? Why do you think that?
20:23
So anyway, he see, he opens it up.
20:25
He sees larvae in the gills when he cut.
20:27
And the woman's, you know, she's shocked by this.
20:30
I don't, I don't know why, because they saw the last one.
20:33
He cuts it open and he sees a giant isopod inside it.
20:36
He says these isopods are eating this fish alive from the inside
20:39
out. The female, who again, I think
20:41
is French, asks if it's an anomaly.
20:44
He pretends not to. He pretends, but he acts like he
20:46
doesn't understand her and mocks her pronunciation.
20:49
Again, like, dude, there are bigger problems right now than
20:52
her accent. Are we really doing this right
20:54
now? Come on.
20:55
But he's a Dick. Then we see a caption where they
20:58
reported everything to Mayor Stockman and the Chesapeake
21:01
Environmental Council, but there is no record of a response.
21:04
Of course. Yeah, so then we get more clips.
21:06
There's a man showing something moving in his stomach on a
21:08
video, a little girl saying she thinks she ate something weird
21:12
because her stomach hurts and a hospital full of screaming
21:15
people. And the girl that we talked
21:17
about before that I thought was like 12 or so.
21:19
And you said she's 15. She's the one that's the.
21:20
She's at the hospital talking to her friend, but she shows her
21:23
friend at the hospital what the hospital looks like, which, as
21:26
you know, people yelling and screaming and there's blood
21:29
everywhere and people are banging on windows and nobody's
21:31
helping. It's total chaos.
21:33
So then Stephanie gets a voicemail from her mom because
21:37
neither of them can reach reach each other directly because
21:40
Stephanie's been trying to call her parents.
21:41
They're not answering. I guess they're also trying to
21:43
call her and she's not answering.
21:44
So her mom says something really bad happened.
21:47
She said that Stephanie's dad got sick.
21:49
They're at the hospital and they think they need to amputate his
21:51
leg. And she begs Stephanie not to
21:54
get off the boat because something really bad is going.
21:57
Stephanie, of course, doesn't hear this message at this at any
22:00
time during the movie, but we hear it as the viewers.
22:03
Yes, and it does. It does clearly state that
22:06
Stephanie never got that message.
22:08
Right. So Stephanie and Alex continue
22:10
toward Maryland. Alex sees an empty sailboat
22:13
drifting in the water and it's completely deserted.
22:15
Then we hear her mom's voicemail as it continues, and she says
22:18
that she has welts on her back and she doesn't think she's
22:21
going to make it, but she loves her and will try to contact her
22:23
again. So back at the CDC, they compare
22:26
the Maryland outbreak to archival footage from another
22:29
outbreak that had killed 30 people in three hours.
22:32
They say it's similar, but there are some differences, like the
22:34
tongues missing in Maryland. They discuss fungi, bacteria,
22:38
possibly maybe even cholera. Eventually, they start leaning
22:41
toward waterborne illnesses, possibly mutated by chemical
22:44
pollution. The CDC calls the EPA.
22:47
The EPA says pollutants have been found, industrial runoff,
22:51
chicken waste, algae, and that in 2002, there was a nuclear
22:54
plant leak. They didn't expect that leak to
22:57
reach the Bay until 2014, which I thought you don't want to stop
23:01
it if you want to try to do something like.
23:03
Why you want to reach it, I don't know.
23:05
You know, and, and now here we are, right?
23:08
You know, everybody's got boils and fish tongues and yeah, you
23:13
know, they're all dying. You know, Hey, we were expecting
23:16
to hit 2014. Not now like 5 years from now.
23:20
We should be going through this. This is way too soon for us.
23:22
We're not prepared, he says. You know, he doesn't expect it
23:26
to hit until 2014, but there has been some seepage and someone
23:31
asks, are people drinking this water?
23:33
And he says no. Why?
23:35
Because it's brackish. Because it's brackish.
23:38
That's right. But he is, but there is has been
23:41
some concern that it does seep into the wells.
23:44
And of course the town does have that Desalina tion plant where
23:48
they take the water from the Bay and Desalina get the salt out
23:52
and they drink it and use it for other chickens.
23:55
But it doesn't stop the parasites.
23:57
So the CD asks why nobody was warned and the EPA guy says it's
24:01
not their job Test to test for radioactivity, he says, which I
24:05
don't know why. So OK, he says filtered water
24:09
meets regulatory standards. Then we see a report card where
24:12
it shows the drinking water is AD minus.
24:15
Well, that's passing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
24:17
You can be college with that. So we see a long that we see a
24:21
long line of traffic and it's on a bridge and everyone's stuck,
24:24
stuck there honking, panicking. Donna says no one ever got off
24:28
that bridge that day. The bridge was shut down for
24:30
three days and and she looked into it but couldn't find out
24:33
who shut it down. And then we go into the past
24:35
where Donna is showing footage where she receives an e-mail
24:38
from the blog editor saying the FBI is not allowing them to
24:41
release anything because they don't want to create undue fear
24:44
or panic. Feels awfully familiar.
24:47
Yeah, somewhere around like 2020.
24:49
Right. Donna and her cameraman are at
24:53
the docks at the fairgrounds. She's about to record when she
24:57
hears this loud moaning and it's multiple moans from different
25:00
directions and it's all around her but it's far away.
25:04
She describes it as haunting and ghost like.
25:06
It freaks her out so much that she drops her mic.
25:09
Then we see two police deputies respond to a house because of
25:13
screens. Deputy Jim goes inside and tells
25:16
the other deputy to wait in the car.
25:18
Now the other deputy stays, Not only does he stay in the car,
25:20
but he stays buckled in the car. Like who do you want to be
25:23
prepared? Like why do you want to take
25:26
extra steps? Like just at least get out of
25:28
the car and stand up by the car if you don't want to go in with
25:31
him. It that part didn't make any
25:32
sense to me, make no sense whatsoever.
25:34
So Jim goes inside and you hear some talking going on and
25:40
there's some commotion, and then all of a sudden there's shots
25:42
fired. So the other deputy gets out of
25:44
the car and he approaches the house very slowly, like he
25:49
doesn't go rushing in. Like I, I most of the time when
25:52
police hear shots fired, they rush.
25:54
This guy acted like he was possessed and was walking just
25:57
really slowly. So he was moving so slowly,
26:00
though, it just didn't make any sense.
26:02
So he enters and then we get this close up shot of the top
26:07
part of the house and it's kind of dark.
26:09
And they've, they tell us that they've enhanced the audio so we
26:12
can understand what's going on. He's asking Jim what happened
26:16
because there's people all over there bleeding everywhere.
26:19
And Jim says people are dying. The other deputy insists they're
26:22
not dying. Then you hear muffled voices
26:24
begging shoot me, shoot me. Jim says they're asking him to
26:27
to kill them. The deputies realize that
26:29
there's like, what they think are bugs or something crawling
26:32
out of them. So then we hear the muffled
26:33
voices beg again to shoot them, and they're muffled because they
26:36
don't have tongues. Someone says Oh my God, they
26:39
don't have tongues. So not only is it stated on
26:46
screen, but they go ahead and inform you.
26:49
Right, So then you hear, then you hear the cops cause the cops
26:53
says when the cops say Oh my God, they don't have tongues.
26:55
Then one of the deputies says, 1's on me and I think, and it's
26:58
the one that was sitting in the car, he's like, Oh my God, it
27:00
bit me. Then we have more gunshots than
27:02
one deputy says which is the guy that walked in afterwards, He's
27:05
like Jim, no, it's me. And then there's another shot.
27:08
So then we cut to the Coast Guard radio transmission and
27:10
there's a guy flying over the area and they say roads are
27:13
closed, Claridge, but there are tons of dead fish in the water
27:18
and wants to know what the Hell's going on.
27:20
The CDC looks at a phone from someone, maybe the
27:23
oceanographers or University of Maryland guy, and it's showing
27:26
an isopod in a fish's mouth. They discuss how it could get
27:30
through filters into the water because it's big and they even
27:33
wonder if it's photoshopped. And they're like, no, it's not.
27:37
And they want to know how it's getting into the drinking water.
27:40
One person says they're usually in the Pacific but have been
27:43
seen in the Atlantic, and one was found 2 1/2 feet long trying
27:47
to Burrow into a submarine. Someone suggests that maybe the
27:50
larva is getting into the filter into the water because it's
27:54
small enough to get through it. The CDC guy says they're out of
27:57
answers and they need to find out what happened to the
27:59
oceanographers. So we go back to the
28:02
oceanographers. They dive into the Bay to get a
28:04
closer look. When they're underwater, they're
28:06
you can see dead fish on the floor of the Bay and isopods are
28:11
moving around on top of them. And I think we even see a crab,
28:14
and they're just eating these things.
28:15
And then all of a sudden, they're swarmed.
28:18
There's blood, commotion. It looks like maybe some one of
28:22
their goggles breaks. But this is how they die.
28:25
They died by diving into a pool of fully grown isopods.
28:28
So we go back to Donna and cameraman Jim.
28:31
Donna and Jim hear noises in a restaurant, and there's music
28:35
playing, but there's also some sort of moaning.
28:37
So they decide to go check it out.
28:39
They see a puddle of blood. Donna crouches to inspect it and
28:45
when she she's looking down at the puddle of blood, but she
28:48
also looks up, I guess, you know, obviously to see where
28:50
it's coming from from. And when she looks up, blood
28:53
drips down onto her head and face.
28:56
And when and you see the cameraman shoot his camera up
28:59
and you can see a dead woman whose arm is hanging over the
29:02
side of the roof of this building.
29:04
Of course Donna's freaking out. She screams when the blood hits
29:09
her face. And then we go and switch to
29:11
Doctor Abrams. So Doctor Abrams calls the CDC
29:13
again, begging for help. The CDC tells him to evacuate
29:16
the hospital, to just leave. He and his staff need to go.
29:19
Doctor Abrams can't believe it. He says his staff left 20
29:22
minutes ago. The CDC guy says, good, now you
29:25
should leave, too. Yeah, Doctor Abrams says he
29:32
can't just leave. The CDC guy, He's kind of, he's
29:35
kind of, he's not really stumbling over what he's saying,
29:37
but you can tell that he's, he knows he's trying to say it
29:40
without saying it kind of way, even though he's like leave.
29:44
But he he's basically just says that he knows it isn't a
29:48
bacteria, but once it's in your body, you're done.
29:51
That's it. It's over.
29:52
He also says that he's surprised Doctor Abrams isn't infected
29:54
already. Doctor Abrams says that he's
29:56
fine and the CDC says leave, I'm good, leave now.
30:00
Doctor Abrams says he has patience and pain and he's
30:02
amputated legs, feet, arms. The guy, the CDC says he knows
30:06
this and he's sorry, but the best thing he can do is leave.
30:09
Then we cut to Sheriff Lee and Sheriff Lee is driving around in
30:13
his car and he's talking to the mayor who's on the phone.
30:16
I guess this is where I thought the mayor reminds me of the
30:19
mayor from Jaws because all they care about are optics.
30:22
They don't care about anything else.
30:23
So the mayor says to the governor says the governor asked
30:26
if he should declare a state of emergency and the mayor says no
30:28
because everyone is sick, some aren't bothered by it, and it's
30:31
like what, 5 people? Five people may not be sick, but
30:34
the rest of your town's dying? Dude what?
30:37
Susie's fine. Yeah, I'm fine.
30:41
That's not a big deal. Meanwhile, it feels like the
30:44
whole town is dying, though. So the mayor tells Lee and his
30:46
deputies they need to get a handle on what's going on.
30:49
Lee says he can't reach his deputies.
30:51
And the mayor also adds on that he fortunately no one is
30:54
covering it. There's no news there.
30:55
The only person covering is just that one reporter.
30:58
But the FBI shut down her, shut it down.
31:00
So no one's that's not going to get out.
31:02
Lee says he lost track of his deputies about 30 minutes ago.
31:05
The mayor tells Lee to pick him up because he wanted to see
31:07
everything first hand. Let me go back to Donna.
31:10
Donna watches his blood off her face in a fountain.
31:13
The cameraman, Jim, notices something and walks around the
31:17
fountain, and he finds that there's a body lying there.
31:20
And so he's like, Oh my God. And he calls Donna over, and
31:24
she's like she, you know, is taken aback by this man because
31:27
his face is a mess. The mouth has basically been
31:29
eaten off. The tongue is probably gone.
31:32
So the cameraman is zooming in on the face.
31:34
And then all of a sudden, one eye opens really wide and moves.
31:37
So Deborah screams and they both run.
31:40
Yeah, and that was the last thing he recorded that night.
31:43
Yeah, yes, she made a point to say that.
31:45
Right, so back on the Zoom call, she does say that that was a
31:49
very terrifying moment. She looked ridiculous because
31:51
she was running in circles. But that was the last of what
31:54
they shot. They didn't shoot anything more
31:56
after that footage and that this is the first time she's reported
31:59
anything on the incident since then.
32:00
We go back to Stephanie and Alex with the baby.
32:03
They dock and Claridge. The town is deserted.
32:05
It looks completely deserted and desolate.
32:08
Nobody's there. Her family isn't there to greet
32:10
them. They don't understand what's
32:11
happening. And it's night time by this time
32:13
up, by the way they argue, talk about Alex filming because he's
32:16
continuing to film. As they're walking down the
32:18
dock, Stephanie gets mad at him for not being an adult.
32:20
Then Alex sees a dead body and reacts like, holy shit, what is
32:24
that? But at the same time, he's also
32:26
like, giddy almost. He's very intrigued by it.
32:30
Stephanie freaks out. She doesn't want to be near it
32:32
with the baby. So he keeps going in trying to
32:35
get a closer look. She just wants to leave Alex,
32:37
Like, where we going to go? So then we go back to the CDC.
32:40
They talked to a marine biologist from the University of
32:42
Maryland. He explains chicken waste in the
32:44
Bay contains steroids because they give steroids to the
32:47
chickens to make them grow faster, and the steroids in the
32:49
water could make isopods grow 5/10/15 times faster both in
32:53
size and in quantity. I didn't know that about
32:56
steroids. I.
32:57
Was like, really? So then we go back to the
33:05
Oceanographer footage and they're talking about the ink
33:09
excrement and the steroids, and they also notice there's a 5 to
33:12
1 ratio of female to male fish. Then we go back to the CDC guy
33:17
and he's like, get me the White House.
33:19
We go back to Stephanie and Alex.
33:20
You know what's the White House going to do?
33:22
Yeah, they're running into bodies everywhere.
33:25
Donna has is had, you know, she's voicing over top of the
33:28
footage we're watching and she says that people came into onto
33:30
Main Street hoping to find help, EMS, anyone and they just died
33:34
there. Stephanie wants to call the
33:35
police. Alex reminds her there's no cell
33:37
service. She wants to go somewhere where
33:39
there is cell service. Alex finds some store that looks
33:42
open and suggests they go in there and regroup.
33:44
So they head in there. Then we go back to Sheriff Lee
33:46
and the mayor. They find their cop car and see
33:49
Deputy Jim slowly getting out and walking toward them.
33:52
Lee calls to him and Jim just says go, just go and he just
33:56
keeps saying that over and over. As he's walking towards the car,
33:59
Lee sees the welts and blisters on Jim's face and he's like
34:01
damn, he's got it too. So then Lee is telling him just
34:04
come on, get in the car, get in the back seat, we'll take you to
34:06
the hospital, we'll get you checked out.
34:08
Jim slams his hand on the hood and says just go.
34:11
Then he walks away repeating we're all going to die.
34:13
Lee gets out to check on him. The mayor tells him no, let's
34:16
just get out of here because you know the mayor's great.
34:18
He's. A He's a good guy.
34:20
Right. Lee is talking to Jim.
34:21
Jim says you don't have to die like this.
34:24
Lee says no one's going to die and I'm just going to take you
34:26
to the hospital. Jim raises the gun.
34:28
Lee tells him to put it down. Jim shoots Sheriff Lee and then
34:31
shoots himself. A shot to share.
34:33
It and the mayor, who's sitting in the car is just looking like,
34:36
oh shit, let me go back to Stephanie and Alex.
34:39
She gets a guy named Bill. I don't know who he is to them.
34:43
It's Bill. I don't know.
34:44
You don't know, Bill. I don't know, Bill.
34:46
Bill's a good guy. It seems that way.
34:48
So they get a hold of him on Skype, I guess.
34:53
The Internet still works, obviously, I guess.
34:55
But you just don't have cell service.
34:56
But she gets them on Skype on her laptop.
34:59
Yeah. So when she gets Bill up, she
35:01
runs out to get Alex, who was outside looking to see if he
35:03
find the cops. So they tell Bill everyone in
35:05
town is dead. Bill thinks they're joking.
35:07
Stephanie begs for help. Bill tells him to call the
35:09
police. Stephanie says they can't, they
35:11
have no cell phones, no service and that he needs to call
35:13
someone. And she can't reach her parents
35:15
either. So then Bill asks what happened?
35:18
And Alex is like, we don't know what happened.
35:20
And Bill says no, what happened to you?
35:22
What's on your neck? And then Alex turns and you can
35:24
see he's got all those big bumps and boils or whatever on his
35:26
neck. So then we go back to Doctor
35:28
Abrams and he is completely alone in the hospital because
35:31
everyone's dead. He's recording himself because
35:33
he hopes someone will see it someday.
35:35
He realizes no one is coming. CDC isn't doing anything.
35:38
FEMA isn't doing anything. He says it's not a virus or a
35:41
bacteria, It's an Organism. Says it's an isopod.
35:44
And they infiltrate, infiltrate people and eat them from the
35:47
inside out. He doesn't know how they got
35:49
that big, but they're everywhere.
35:51
He shows his own rash along his chest and stomach, and he knows
35:55
he doesn't have much longer. He just hopes that someone will
35:57
find the video and get it out back to Maker, to Mayor
36:01
Stockton. He takes over the police car and
36:03
drives like a maniac through town with lights and sirens
36:05
swerving around dead bodies. Someone was actually alive
36:08
walking to the street trying to flag him down, but he just drove
36:10
right past them, right? He, I don't know where he thinks
36:12
he's going because they've cut off access to the town, so I
36:14
don't know what he's going to do.
36:15
And as he's driving along, he goes through an intersection,
36:18
and I can't understand why he would do this because you're
36:20
assuming that no one's out on the road because everybody seems
36:23
to be dead. Right.
36:25
But he drives through an intersection and he gets slammed
36:29
by another car. And then we see a caption that
36:31
says he died from the injuries in the crash that were
36:34
potentially preventable, but there were no emergency services
36:36
available. So let me go back to Al.
36:38
Yeah, So then we go back to Alex and Stephanie and Bill.
36:42
Alex is in agony. He's doubled over.
36:44
He's screaming. He's talking about how painful
36:47
it is. He just wants it to end.
36:48
He finds a fireplace poker, hands it to Stephanie, asks her
36:51
to end it. She refuses.
36:53
His neck is looking worse and worse.
36:55
He vomits up blood. Bill is looking horrified.
36:57
Stephanie screams, Then an isopod comes out of Alex's neck.
37:02
Then we hear Donna Donna's voice over say Alex died around 1:00
37:06
in the morning and at the larvae he swallowed earlier formed into
37:10
a full grown isopod within 8 hours.
37:13
Damn. That's a lot.
37:14
That's a fast. That's a lot of steroids, man.
37:17
That's a lot of steroids. It's.
37:18
Got roid rage. So now we see a Homeland
37:24
Security guy and he's talking to the main CDC guy.
37:27
He explains that weeks earlier, bodies of two oceanographers
37:30
were found. They thought it was a bull shark
37:32
attack, but the medical examiner said it wasn't.
37:35
Homeland Security didn't know what to do with the report, so
37:39
they sent it to FEMA and FEMA didn't know what to do with it,
37:41
so they sent it to someone else. I think it was the Coast Guard.
37:44
And then finally the Coast Guard was like, oh, I don't know what
37:46
to do with it. So they sent it to the CDC.
37:47
The CDC guy who is reacting very sarcastically to all of this
37:51
because he's fed up. And he's like, oh, yeah, great.
37:55
So he's like, what's in this report?
37:56
Because obviously they did not get it.
37:59
Homeland Security says they didn't really know.
38:01
It was just multiple parasites and multiple infections.
38:04
Homeland Security asks if he wants a copy.
38:06
The CDC guy sarcastically says, Oh yeah, I'd love a copy.
38:10
Great, thank you. Then the CDC guy says, so we've
38:14
got people with holes in them being eaten by parasites.
38:17
And it took you guys 16 days for this to reach us.
38:20
And then Homeland Security confirms it but doesn't seem
38:23
bothered by it and all. So then Homeland Security guy
38:25
says that they have a small incident center and they'd be in
38:32
deep shit for setting it up or something.
38:35
And the CDC says we have a whole town of dead people.
38:38
Homeland Security says it's a small town and they should keep
38:42
things in perspective. And the CDC guy asks, well,
38:45
what's your perspective? So while this conversation is
38:48
going on, we see Stephanie walking through town.
38:51
She's carrying the baby in the car seat.
38:53
She's trying to find a way out. She finds a cop car, puts the
38:56
baby in the front seat and gets in to drive.
38:59
But when she gets in, there's a woman in the back seat whose
39:01
face is all fucked up and the woman jumps forward moaning and
39:04
screaming. She's very zombie like, and she
39:09
basically crawls on to Stephanie.
39:11
So Stephanie struggling. Yeah, Stephanie's struggling
39:14
with her. The woman sounds like she's
39:15
saying, help me. Stephanie slams the woman's head
39:17
into the dashboard, and the woman dies.
39:19
So then Stephanie runs to the other side of the car to get the
39:21
baby out because who wants to drive with this dead lady,
39:24
right? As she does this, you can see
39:27
isopods coming out of the dead woman's mouth.
39:29
And you, it makes you wonder if maybe it's going to get into the
39:31
baby's car seat. And it likely could have, but
39:34
you really can't tell. And they don't really go into it
39:37
whether or not it did. Fuck that baby, right?
39:39
So then we go back to CDC and Homeland Security.
39:42
Homeland Security says you can't shut down the entire Eastern
39:44
seaboard over a small incident in a small town.
39:47
Businesses, restaurants, tourism.
39:49
Then you get all this panic. He says you can't do that
39:51
without higher authority. The CDC guy basically says yeah
39:54
thanks and hangs up on him. Be careful, it might be
39:57
brackish. Yeah, I'm more scared of
39:59
brackish than isopod water. I get some of that isopod water.
40:06
Thanks. So we go back to Donna and she's
40:09
on her Zoom call and she says within about 5 hours, hazmat
40:13
teams show up. They quarantine the town for
40:16
three days. A caption says to kill the
40:18
isopods, they dump massive amounts of chlorine into the
40:21
Chesapeake Bay. They and they also confiscated
40:24
all the videos they could find. Donna says some people didn't
40:27
get sick. The town reached a financial
40:29
agreement with the government and part of that agreement with
40:31
silence, She didn't. She doesn't know the amount that
40:35
was exchanged. She also says that she tried
40:37
contacting Stephanie to be part of the story but Stephanie
40:39
refused. Then we see a caption that says
40:42
40% of the Chesapeake Bay is lifeless, which I would think a
40:45
lot more of that would be license lifeless.
40:48
Considering they dumped a whole bunch of chlorine in there.
40:50
I would think it would kill off way more than just the isopods,
40:52
but whatever. I think the whole ecosystem of
40:54
that that Bay would be a fucking mess.
40:57
Maybe the other ones hid? Maybe they buried themselves on
41:01
the ground until the chlorine went away.
41:03
Right. So Donna, says the government
41:05
official, the government's official statement was that the
41:09
outbreak was caused by unreasonably high water
41:12
temperatures. And that's the end.
41:15
What are your thoughts, Dan? This movie was very brackish.
41:25
Oh. God, it definitely could have
41:28
been shorter because there was a lot of repeating and just just
41:34
constantly over explaining everything.
41:37
Like there was a lot that they could have cut out and you still
41:39
would have gotten the the point. Yeah, and the point would have
41:43
gotten to you a lot faster. Yeah.
41:48
Like I said, I didn't like her character at all.
41:51
I don't know, there was just something about the character I
41:53
just did not care for. Right.
41:55
I don't know. I, I didn't really care for it
41:58
all that much, to be quite honest.
42:01
They really, I mean, it was, it was hard to try to pull things
42:04
out, to make fun of, you know. Usually.
42:06
Like when we have a movie like this, it's you can usually pull
42:09
something out to make it funny. But right, This one didn't
42:12
really offer too much of that. Yeah.
42:15
So I don't know and I don't really have much more to say
42:18
about it. I would give it like 3.
42:21
Three cents. I was like, I don't know what to
42:24
say about this movie cuz it was one of those movies that just
42:29
didn't have like you're saying, where we could riff on it and
42:33
make fun of it or anything like that.
42:36
It, it is something that is probably based.
42:40
Well, it definitely is. It's, it's, they do pull some
42:42
things from reality because the Chesapeake Bay did have some
42:45
issues and apparently 40% of it is lifeless, which is weird.
42:50
But they have had problems with runoff and stuff like that.
42:52
And I don't think anybody should be swimming in the Chesapeake
42:56
Bay. That's just my personal PSA Dosa
42:59
with the Bay, right? I mean.
43:02
Because. You might float.
43:07
Hey, we all float down here. Right, See any clowns down
43:10
there? But this movie was directed by
43:13
Barry Levinson, who's, you know, a pretty well known director.
43:15
He did try to pull some stuff that made it seem like it could
43:20
have really happened, which you can kind of see it in in some of
43:24
the aspects of it that it could have been something that really
43:26
happened. So I, I kind of like that it is
43:29
somewhat based in a possible reality to some extent and that
43:34
there, there is some horror there in that way that I mean, I
43:38
don't. Think I know that it came.
43:39
I mean, obviously, you know, Last of Us came out after that.
43:43
But, you know, they took a, they took a real life concept and
43:48
applied, applied it to an area that it wouldn't normally be
43:51
applied to because, you know, it's a type of fungus that
43:55
doesn't affect humans. It only effects insects.
43:57
Yeah. But the way they did it was, you
43:59
know, it affects everybody. And I think that's what they're
44:01
trying to do here. Is that right?
44:03
Even though it's plausible, it's not something that can actually
44:06
happen. Right.
44:07
Yeah. Like you could, I mean, have
44:12
isopods that big and that many and they're eating you alive in
44:17
the water. Yeah, that's probably not going
44:20
to happen, hopefully, but. But I mean you, I mean, you do
44:23
have like the flesh eating bacteria and stuff like that.
44:25
Yeah. You could have pulled from that.
44:26
I mean, of course, it's not like within two minutes.
44:29
Yeah, yeah. So I do like that it was
44:35
somewhat based in a possible reality.
44:39
It was a little long, it was jarring parts and I was afraid
44:43
that I was going to get nauseous.
44:44
Unfortunately, it did not. I don't know why it didn't make
44:46
me sick. I'll.
44:47
Wait till next week. It didn't, yeah, great.
44:51
But there were some parts that that were very repetitive, and I
44:54
feel like they only did it because they needed to make it
44:57
as long as a full length movie could possibly be, possibly be.
45:01
So it was a little redundant at times.
45:04
I did like the end of, I like the part with Stephanie and Alex
45:07
in the shop or whatever. I mean, I like how that ended
45:11
and with the lady in the car. And it did give me one jump
45:14
scare. I will say that when that isopod
45:16
came out, that fish's mouth and called the guy's arm, I wasn't
45:18
expecting it, although I should have been.
45:20
But yeah, I'd probably give it 5, maybe 4 1/2 five cents high.
45:28
Yeah. I mean, you know, it wasn't, it
45:30
wasn't awful, but it wasn't great.
45:33
It was OK. It's definitely not something I
45:35
would watch again. No, no, I wouldn't watch it
45:38
again either. Let's see.
45:39
It has all right. It's IMDb rating is 5.7 and
45:44
Rotten Tomatoes is a 76% and I never understand what Rotten
45:48
Tomatoes means. So I feel like Rotten Tomatoes
45:50
would be bad and so 76% would be bad but I think it's not right?
45:56
I don't understand the Rotten Tomatoes because the name Rotten
45:58
Tomatoes makes me think that it's if it's high then that
46:01
means it's bad. It's it's, it's a typical, it's
46:06
a typical reading system. It's just the name.
46:07
Of the site, Yeah, OK. Because it just always throws me
46:10
off. I'm like is this good or is
46:11
this? Yeah, So, all right, that's
46:14
about all I have to say about it.
46:15
And nothing, nothing major to say about it except that, yeah,
46:20
it could. If anybody out there thinks this
46:21
is a true story, it's not, right?
46:24
It's not a true story, but, you know, whatever.
46:27
All right, So anything else you want to add to it, Dan We.
46:29
Can put a sock on this one. All right, let's just drown it,
46:33
that sock in some brackish water and all.
46:36
Right, so that's where we're going to leave the Bay.
46:39
A movie that doesn't give you the comfort of a clean ending,
46:41
just the uneasy feeling that the problem was never really solved,
46:44
it was just buried. It's the kind of horror that
46:47
lingers not because of what you see on screen, but because of
46:49
how believable it all feels when the credits roll and how easy it
46:53
is to imagine this being filed away, explained away and quietly
46:57
forgotten. So Dan, what fresh nightmare do
47:00
you have it picked out for us next week or two weeks from now?
47:04
It is called the night of something strange the.
47:07
Night of something strange and where can we find this Moody?
47:09
I believe it's to be. Right, and next week we'll be
47:13
trading slow burn environmental dread for something a little
47:16
messier, a lot weirder, and significantly less concerned
47:20
with realism as we dive into the night of something strange.
47:23
So as always, be scared, be prepared, and don't get caught
47:28
in the dark.