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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.

So, what's the matter?

It's Carrie.

They found a tumor on her liver.

I'm so sorry.

And the air conditioning is broken, but I did make a call.

And Mr. Rivers is here to see you. He found something in his field 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

Unidentified skeletal anomaly

Once

again everything consistent with rampant accelerated cell growth

Check incidence of feline teratoma

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inner mind to the outer limits.

What we will become are determined by our actions.

But are those actions planting the seeds of our salvation or destruction?

We caught humans throughout the weekend with no lead up in sight.

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today for a better Hobbs tomorrow.

Over to you, Harold.

Thanks very much, Janice.

Neighbor called 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.

I thought I could handle that.

All I'm saying is, if we want to start a family, maybe Eddie would be better off

in a home or special facility where they can really take care of him. I don't

want to do that.

Linda, Carol and Fred were talking about a home before they got killed. You know

that. Eddie's my nephew, Rex.

He's family. I have to take care of him.

Maybe we could get some help.

Just a couple of days a week. It might help 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 Macro Seed.

I'll never make as much as a lawyer in private practice here. The town's too

small. I know.

Hey, none of that. You might catch something.

I already have.

Don't forget about the church rummage sale.

I'm counting on both of you to help.

Don't tell me Gay roped you into it again this year?

Oh, didn't you hear?

Gay's in the hospital up in Springfield.

Tumor.

Just, uh... had a pain in her side.

And the next thing you know, way.

I'm so sorry.

It's benign, but at her age, it's... So I'm doing the rummage sale this year.

So you all really better be there.

We'll be there, Doc.

Hi, Eddie.

I'll save the heavy lifting for you. Okay.

And as soon as I get the results, I'll call you.

It just came on so sudden.

It's worrisome and unusual.

But these kind of bone growths are usually self -limiting. They only go so

Then they stop.

Then we have to look at our options.

Thank you, Dr. Wells.

Meanwhile... Matt, I want to put some dressing on this.

Maybe I should kiss it and make it bigger.

Hey, Sal, you want to eat in or out?

In. Hey.

Or we could break in the backseat of my new car.

Stop.

What's the matter? You think your husband's going to catch us?

Kind of reminds you of the storeroom in Chemistry, doesn't it?

Except we're not 17 anymore.

You're right.

Now we know more.

Sally, we'll be back with lunch soon.

And 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 Macro Seed.

You think it's from the corn?

Why not?

Because we tested it. That's why.

All right. We'll take a look at this cat.

Fibrosacoma 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. And 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 kind of weird that all of this is happening right now, don't you think?

And Old Man River's 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 core in to meet our special nutritional needs, but it's

unfortunate that you earthlings, you know, can't handle it. Look, I'm serious

about this.

Couldn't it happen?

I'll tell you what the biochemists tell me, okay? And you can trust me, because,

well, I'm a lawyer.

Harold. Yes.

The corn has been genetically altered. And yes, TX40 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.

No.

How about a little acceleration of our own?

No. No, just a little.

Hmm?

hell do you want you come in here again you're gonna wish to god you hadn't been

born

And so Donald went back to his cave. Hey. Hey.

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 want to go to lunch.

I must have been in the bathroom.

Yeah, I guess so.

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?

Of course.

But I don't want to have one until this thing gets sorted out.

Well, 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. Well, he'll never be like other kids. He's never going to have a chance.

Maybe the best thing is to put Eddie in a home with other kids like him.

Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it.

I didn't mean it.

I don't want to go away.

No, you're not going to go away. I promise you're going to be with us

Mommy and Daddy went away.

Well, that's true, but you're not going to go.

We love you too much to let you go.

Yeah, you're stuck with us, buddy.

I miss your fuzzy turtle.

Yes, of course.

You want to go to the game tonight?

And pancakes?

And pancakes.

Computer model indicates

mutating cells increase exponentially under ideal conditions.

Rex?

Eddie? What's the matter?

Eddie?

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Everything's going to be okay.

I can't see too good.

I know. I know, but I'm going to fix that, okay?

I'll fix that.

Where's Rex?

He's at the game.

He walked home all alone?

I got lost in 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. 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 on his head like old man Rivers.

Oh, my God.

Don't you see what's happening, Doc?

Carrie Lattimore, old man Rivers, gay Herman, terror actin, Matt Hooper,

all of them have these tumors that have 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 are going to get these things, no matter what. No matter

what, it just happens.

Not this quickly.

You probably don't remember this, but after you left for college in the big

city,

Hobson was a dying town.

Macro Seat saved it. They paid top dollar, better than top dollar, to rent

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. Then how come I don't have it? Or you? We breathe

the same air.

Now think about the people that you've mentioned.

Some of them live close to the cornfields. Others live far away.

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 make the presumption that I know you pretty well.

I know what you're doing.

But you don't have to.

What am I doing?

Trying to prove that you're better than your mom. But this isn't about my mama.

It's about people getting sick.

I need to see the research on TX -40.

They're not going to let me show you that. That's proprietary information.

talking about Eddie Rex.

I know.

I helped drive him to Springfield last night, remember?

I have to know.

Hey, mind to grab some lunch? No, thanks.

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

doing.

TX -40 is safe, Linda.

But bad PR is going to kill it just as dead as if it was causing these things.

I know.

Well, that's why you've got to be careful about what you say.

You can never take back bad publicity.

That's what I said.

Not to mention, Macro Seat 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.

There are two main ways to genetically alter plants.

One is to shoot plant cells with a particle gun. They use microscopic

coated with the DNA they want to add.

The other way to insert the appropriate new genes is to use a bacterium.

Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which this first altered itself, and then it

the new genes into the target plant.

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.

You know what tumorfations 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.

How could you do this? Do what?

You do tests on the TX -41 and then you completely ignore doing them again once

you've made major changes and switched to using bacteria to alter it?

Linda, it wasn't... Bacteria that can change on its own that's completely...

don't use bacteria anymore.

What? Well, we didn't want to take the slightest chance. If you had taken the

time to read the rest of the document, you'd see we phased that out.

It 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.

All means no.

I can smell his aftershave.

No, it's just my perfume.

I think I wouldn't find out.

Sally Laddams or Harold leaving your office two days ago at lunchtime. That's

why you didn't answer my phone call. You were too busy screwing him.

Weren't you?

God, you stink of them.

I called your office tonight. You didn't answer.

I was with Doc Wells.

Fine, let's call him right now and ask him what time you left.

Then I went to go talk to Harold about the T -Export. Oh, and that's why I can

smell his aftershave 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.

Why do you do it?

We love each other. That's why we got married.

No. No.

You stay away from me.

I'm sorry.

No. Yeah, we're fine.

Fortunately, we did the right thing.

Yeah, absolutely.

It would have been a very bad thing. It's true, but facts don't lie.

Yeah, we did good.

Score one for our side.

Yeah, I'll let you know if anything else happens.

Okay, right.

Bye.

Hey, man.

Harold,

what happened?

Rex.

Thanks for the warning, by the way. I didn't know that... No, you never do.

You're always thinking about yourself and no one else.

That's not true.

Really?

Well, you ever think about me?

You ever think about us?

You ever lie in bed at night and dreaming 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 that you were just another notch on the old bedpost?

No.

Is that what you tell yourself, so that you can let yourself off the hook?

Harold doesn't care, so I don't care either? No, I don't say that.

Then what do you say, because...

I'm not psychic over here.

Then I'm married.

Well, you don't have to be.

I know.

You 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 been the problem with a lot of medical drugs on the market today.

Their tests are 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 were 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.

But the best thing to do 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.

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 it's the TX40 that's causing it.

Anyone who has an above average level of the human growth hormone is

susceptible. Kids going through 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.

Harold Zimmer here.

Our lab just finished running their first round of tests.

We used some blood from that hooper.

There doesn't seem to be any sign of TX -40 interacting with it.

We're going to keep checking, but, well, we'll let you know.

Bye.

Linda Duckwells, I called the lab up at Springfield to do a test on the blood

sample from Mr. Rivers. They said the TX -40 didn't have any interaction with

it. So, if it's not the corn tree... I don't know what it is.

cross to humans.

Oh my god.

Oh my

god.

Rex, I'm on my way to Doc Wells' house.

Look, I don't want to worry you, but I think you should meet me there.

It's not the corn.

It's the milk that I changed. The corn DNA is transferred to the milkweed.

Hello, Linda.

I'm so surprised.

What are you going to do?

Shoot me, Harold?

Maybe.

Let's go.

You always were determined, Lynn.

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.

Yeah, 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, for God's sake.

I mean, even if you could.

How could you guarantee that TX -40 wouldn't cross to something else?

Good old Doc, huh?

You're just too quick for me.

Don't do this, Harold.

You know what your problem is, Lynn?

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 fuzzy little animals 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 could get him transferred to Kansas

Get him a raise.

Okay? You know, you guys could start over again.

And get the best possible help for Eddie.

Eddie is going to die.

And it's all because of people like you playing God.

I'm really sorry about that.

But you could still 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.

TX40. He's worth the cost. And what's it going to cost you if it doesn't roll

out?

A few million.

It's a miracle of stock options.

You only care about yourself.

It's a common disease these days.

Unfortunately, the only thing I can prescribe for it is a long, hard look in

mirror. It's a shame.

Some people don't have the spine for it.

Oh, I can do it, Doc.

Yeah.

Because I like what I see.

More's the pity on you.

Stop!

Every great step demands sacrifice.

Hey!

Poor Doc.

He was trying to save me.

He came in here distraught.

You felt that I was responsible for what happened to Eddie, and you couldn't

accept it when I told you that TX -40 wasn't guilty.

I 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.

I got your message.

You all right? Yeah.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Let us always remember, as we sow, so shall we reap.