1 00:00:01,260 --> 00:00:06,560 An ordinary man, insurance executive, 45 years old, stumbles to his death on a 2 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:07,980 subway platform in New York City. 3 00:00:08,380 --> 00:00:09,380 Or does he? 4 00:00:10,340 --> 00:00:14,040 Unbeknownst to his wife or child, his brain is rescued from the accident scene 5 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:17,780 by a secret branch of the United States government and put into the body of an 6 00:00:17,780 --> 00:00:21,980 artificially produced 26 -year -old man who has the strength of Superman, the 7 00:00:21,980 --> 00:00:24,660 speed of Michael Jordan, and the grace of Fred Astaire. 8 00:00:26,980 --> 00:00:27,980 They only catch. 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,960 On the penalty of death, he can never let anyone from his past know he is 10 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,380 alive. And that, my friends, is a problem. 11 00:00:34,660 --> 00:00:40,200 For this man is desperately in love with his wife, his daughter, and his former 12 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:41,200 life. 13 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:49,440 Before, on Now and Again. 14 00:00:49,940 --> 00:00:54,260 As you know, over the course of the past ten days, almost 100 New Yorkers have 15 00:00:54,260 --> 00:00:56,040 lost their lives in insect. 16 00:00:56,540 --> 00:01:01,460 A member of the board of directors of a chain of bait and tackle shops was 17 00:01:01,460 --> 00:01:06,120 visited in his sleep by a family of night crawlers that took up residence in 18 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:07,120 small intestine. 19 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:11,980 And finally, our own head of public health had the grievous misfortune to 20 00:01:11,980 --> 00:01:16,320 encounter a scorpion during a moment of reflection between meetings. 21 00:01:17,960 --> 00:01:22,160 What kind of inconsiderate jackass would ring the bell at this hour? 22 00:01:23,340 --> 00:01:24,660 May I use your bathroom? 23 00:01:25,210 --> 00:01:26,330 He's not moving in, is he? 24 00:01:27,150 --> 00:01:28,150 I don't think so. 25 00:01:28,450 --> 00:01:29,970 No. No. 26 00:01:30,250 --> 00:01:37,030 If the next car is red, then you are dragging your sorry butt home and saying 27 00:01:37,030 --> 00:01:40,710 whatever it takes to put things back the way they were. 28 00:01:46,090 --> 00:01:47,090 We're closed. 29 00:01:49,070 --> 00:01:50,770 Butterflies feed on corn. 30 00:01:51,470 --> 00:01:53,390 They need corn pollen to survive. 31 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:59,220 But these big conglomerates, these produce giants that have taken over 32 00:01:59,220 --> 00:02:04,120 family farms, they grow transgenic corn, corn that's been genetically altered to 33 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:05,059 be bug -proof. 34 00:02:05,060 --> 00:02:06,060 Dr. Bing. 35 00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:07,500 Mr. Shipman. 36 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:08,759 Speak of the devil. 37 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:13,200 I'm not financing your bug research so that you could put out reports like 38 00:02:13,420 --> 00:02:16,540 All that report says... All it says is that we're destroying the planet, Dr. 39 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:19,780 Bing. And just who do you think you are, anyway? The mayor of Bugtown? 40 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:35,800 This is Lisa Wiseman. 41 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:37,620 Oh, hello, Mrs. Wiseman. 42 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:39,320 This is the school nurse. 43 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:42,760 You phoned the administration office this morning and told them Heather was 44 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,300 running a fever, didn't you? 45 00:02:45,460 --> 00:02:47,840 So it really brought you back here. 46 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:49,920 Just drawn back? 47 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:51,700 Just couldn't stay away? 48 00:02:55,020 --> 00:02:56,100 So where were you? 49 00:02:56,640 --> 00:03:00,120 First, we have to know where they are going to be. Then we have to find 50 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,640 something fast enough, agile enough. 51 00:03:03,210 --> 00:03:08,730 To catch something that is able to fly or walk up walls or crawl through a 52 00:03:08,730 --> 00:03:09,750 the size of a needle. 53 00:03:10,770 --> 00:03:12,610 I might know someone who could do that. 54 00:03:15,970 --> 00:03:18,730 Mr. Wiseman, what is that sound? 55 00:03:26,330 --> 00:03:27,330 Company. 56 00:03:32,430 --> 00:03:33,430 It's showtime. 57 00:03:56,110 --> 00:03:57,730 That's right. Just relax. 58 00:03:58,910 --> 00:04:00,330 Nobody's going to try and catch you. 59 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:08,400 You just stay right over there doing your bee fangin'. I'll just stay right 60 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:10,280 here doing my Michael thing. 61 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,300 The B, Mr. Wiseman, do you still have visual contact? 62 00:04:45,840 --> 00:04:47,640 Oh, no. Got to go, Doc. 63 00:06:11,150 --> 00:06:15,170 scaring away all the solicitors and door -to -door salesmen and religious 64 00:06:15,170 --> 00:06:16,170 zealots. 65 00:06:18,490 --> 00:06:19,590 Okay, you win. 66 00:06:20,190 --> 00:06:21,190 I'll come out. 67 00:06:27,890 --> 00:06:28,890 Almost summer. 68 00:06:30,390 --> 00:06:31,390 Almost. 69 00:06:34,410 --> 00:06:38,030 You know there's a conversation that we need to have. I think I'm going to move 70 00:06:38,030 --> 00:06:39,030 into a hotel. 71 00:06:42,830 --> 00:06:46,030 You've got to know there is no one else in the whole world I would rather have 72 00:06:46,030 --> 00:06:47,770 sleeping on my couch. Yeah, I know. 73 00:06:48,950 --> 00:06:54,450 But I think that we have exceeded my own personal statutes of limitations on how 74 00:06:54,450 --> 00:06:56,130 long I can have a guest in my house. 75 00:06:57,950 --> 00:07:02,730 I really need to be able to fight with my daughter without keeping my voice 76 00:07:02,730 --> 00:07:03,730 down. 77 00:07:05,190 --> 00:07:08,270 I need to be able to go into the kitchen at 2 o 'clock in the morning and turn 78 00:07:08,270 --> 00:07:09,810 on the light without waking somebody up. 79 00:07:12,110 --> 00:07:17,070 I need to know that it's okay to occasionally walk around in my 80 00:07:17,070 --> 00:07:18,070 know what I mean? 81 00:07:18,950 --> 00:07:20,930 None of these things is a problem for me. 82 00:07:24,210 --> 00:07:27,590 Yeah, I've been getting that underwear feeling myself. 83 00:07:28,430 --> 00:07:32,710 So that's why I've been thinking, why don't we move into a hotel? 84 00:07:35,810 --> 00:07:36,830 You can go home. 85 00:07:39,610 --> 00:07:40,910 Have you even talked? 86 00:07:42,550 --> 00:07:43,550 Talking's good. 87 00:07:44,270 --> 00:07:46,290 Sometimes the other person actually hears you. 88 00:07:48,510 --> 00:07:49,510 Oh, I don't know. 89 00:07:49,670 --> 00:07:56,530 I mean, on the one hand, as part of me, I miss her, 90 00:07:56,570 --> 00:07:59,530 believe it or not. I miss her carping. 91 00:08:00,550 --> 00:08:05,010 I miss the way she would sit next to me at the country club and count my drinks. 92 00:08:06,930 --> 00:08:08,090 I miss her smell. 93 00:08:11,790 --> 00:08:14,170 And then there's the other hand. 94 00:08:15,770 --> 00:08:19,610 This is my fault. You know, it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't let you list 95 00:08:19,610 --> 00:08:23,890 your house. Oh, baloney. If it hadn't have been this, it would have been the 96 00:08:23,890 --> 00:08:30,350 car or where to go for the vacation or the color of the... I don't know what. 97 00:08:33,190 --> 00:08:39,549 Excuse me. I need to get the paper for my homework. Sorry. 98 00:08:47,690 --> 00:08:50,210 I need to figure out what I am going to say to her. 99 00:08:52,670 --> 00:08:55,910 Maybe you should try and think about what you want to say to Ruth. 100 00:09:03,910 --> 00:09:04,910 Doc, 101 00:09:07,590 --> 00:09:10,270 something terrible's happened. Somebody shut off the whirlpool. 102 00:09:10,590 --> 00:09:12,230 I smell sabotage. 103 00:09:13,070 --> 00:09:16,550 Mr. Wiseman, you've been soaking in that thing for hours. 104 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,960 Any muscle soreness or outer skin tenderness caused by your fall should 105 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:22,960 abated long ago. 106 00:09:23,300 --> 00:09:24,300 Really? 107 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,580 Oh, I don't know what to tell you, Doc. 108 00:09:28,500 --> 00:09:29,520 Guess I'm getting old. 109 00:09:30,620 --> 00:09:31,740 Plug it back in, will you? 110 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,580 I probably only need another 15, 20 minutes. 111 00:09:37,220 --> 00:09:39,720 What you need is to get up and move around. 112 00:09:40,060 --> 00:09:44,940 What I need is one of those cold, frosty drinks with a paper umbrella in it. You 113 00:09:44,940 --> 00:09:45,940 know the kind I'm talking about. 114 00:09:46,700 --> 00:09:47,700 Get out. 115 00:09:47,860 --> 00:09:49,420 Oh, calm down. 116 00:09:49,620 --> 00:09:51,440 Learning men can disagree about these things. 117 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:54,440 Now. 118 00:09:57,340 --> 00:10:00,600 Examination results on our favorite flying stinging machine. 119 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:02,720 Stinger. I'll take one of those. 120 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:12,220 Well, turns out this bee stinger is covered with fluid that contains strains 121 00:10:12,220 --> 00:10:13,460 a deadly botulism. 122 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,940 And thankfully, our friends at the lab removed it. 123 00:10:20,580 --> 00:10:23,840 And according to this, he's normal in every other way. 124 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:25,080 So what are you saying? 125 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:29,580 Human being dipped that bee into some kind of goo and turned it into a killing 126 00:10:29,580 --> 00:10:31,300 machine? Well, then this is easy. 127 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,400 Whoever it is had to sneak in there to get the bee into the deputy mayor's 128 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:39,340 office. We just need to check every log and every security camera. 129 00:10:39,680 --> 00:10:40,680 Hmm. 130 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:43,900 But Mr. Wiseman indicated that the bee made his entrance. 131 00:10:44,430 --> 00:10:45,450 Through an air conditioning duct. 132 00:10:45,710 --> 00:10:50,550 Fine. Whatever. The person behind this crawls through the duct, then pushes the 133 00:10:50,550 --> 00:10:53,730 bee through the grate. And says, don't sting me. 134 00:10:55,090 --> 00:10:56,870 Sting that specific man there. 135 00:10:58,330 --> 00:10:59,370 I don't think so. 136 00:11:03,730 --> 00:11:05,530 There's a book I need in my special library. 137 00:11:05,750 --> 00:11:06,750 Would you get it for me? 138 00:11:37,580 --> 00:11:38,580 Political cartoons. 139 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,200 Political cartoons. 140 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:43,520 Political cartoons. 141 00:11:46,940 --> 00:11:47,940 Hey. 142 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:49,960 I know you. 143 00:11:51,580 --> 00:11:52,580 Mom. 144 00:11:53,380 --> 00:11:54,380 Mom. 145 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:56,160 Mommy! 146 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:58,200 Say it again. 147 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:04,860 I saw this man yesterday. I was at the museum and I saw this man. 148 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:06,440 All right. 149 00:12:06,750 --> 00:12:07,609 So what? 150 00:12:07,610 --> 00:12:13,130 I don't mean to be cold, but everybody has to be someplace before they die. 151 00:12:14,550 --> 00:12:19,350 I mean, all right, you saw this man in the museum or someone who looks like 152 00:12:19,370 --> 00:12:21,510 Why are you so upset you didn't know him? 153 00:12:22,070 --> 00:12:23,750 Mom, you don't understand. 154 00:12:24,270 --> 00:12:30,130 I was in this room filled with bugs, and I was with this man, Dr. 155 00:12:30,330 --> 00:12:35,330 Bing, who, like, lives for bugs. And then this guy walks in, and he is 156 00:12:35,920 --> 00:12:38,680 And now he's dead and Bugs killed him. 157 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:49,600 Heather, 158 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:55,580 sweetheart, are you perhaps trying to suggest that there might be a link 159 00:12:55,580 --> 00:12:56,580 these events? 160 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:03,960 And that perhaps this man's anger toward your friend, Bug Doctor... 161 00:13:04,590 --> 00:13:06,770 Somehow precipitated his death. 162 00:13:09,290 --> 00:13:15,570 And that the ants ate him in an act of... 163 00:13:15,570 --> 00:13:21,050 Act of vengeance? 164 00:13:22,830 --> 00:13:26,050 Cupcake, come on. You're smarter than that. 165 00:13:26,350 --> 00:13:29,410 That can't really be what's got you so upset. 166 00:13:31,610 --> 00:13:32,710 Uncle Roger? 167 00:13:34,090 --> 00:13:34,729 Bite me. 168 00:13:34,730 --> 00:13:35,730 Heather! 169 00:13:37,150 --> 00:13:38,430 Forget it. Sorry. 170 00:13:39,550 --> 00:13:40,550 It's all right. 171 00:13:41,050 --> 00:13:43,650 I know you meant it in the nicest possible way. 172 00:13:44,390 --> 00:13:45,390 You know what? 173 00:13:45,670 --> 00:13:48,890 I've had it. I've had it with this. I don't know who this man is. Do you? 174 00:13:49,590 --> 00:13:50,590 No. 175 00:13:50,910 --> 00:13:53,110 So what are we talking about? 176 00:14:00,460 --> 00:14:03,920 crazy things and yes i am scared but you know what that's not my department 177 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:10,860 heather misses school now that is my deal and frankly i'm not too happy with 178 00:14:10,860 --> 00:14:17,700 my deal is going so excuse me forgive me if i am not so anxious to worry about 179 00:14:17,700 --> 00:14:24,560 strangers getting eaten by bugs um i'm not saying that i know anything 180 00:14:24,560 --> 00:14:29,040 i'm just saying that i have a sense about this that 181 00:14:30,990 --> 00:14:34,310 This is, like, all connected in some way. Dr. 182 00:14:34,550 --> 00:14:37,070 Ping, this man, and the bugs. 183 00:14:38,290 --> 00:14:43,390 And that it just, like, is all, like, connected somehow. And I'm just saying 184 00:14:43,390 --> 00:14:45,370 that maybe we should just, like, tell somebody. 185 00:14:45,990 --> 00:14:47,790 Tell somebody what? Tell whom? 186 00:14:48,630 --> 00:14:50,410 I don't know. Like, the police. 187 00:14:50,650 --> 00:14:51,650 Somebody. 188 00:14:56,910 --> 00:15:01,650 Press 1 if this is an emergency call. Press 2 for a non -emergency call. I'm 189 00:15:01,650 --> 00:15:03,350 going to say 2. 190 00:15:07,210 --> 00:15:11,050 Press 1 if you're calling about a criminal matter. Press 2 if you're 191 00:15:11,050 --> 00:15:12,070 about a civil matter. 192 00:15:14,650 --> 00:15:15,650 Gotcha. 193 00:15:17,770 --> 00:15:20,930 Press 1 if your call involves the commission of a street crime. 194 00:15:21,410 --> 00:15:25,070 Press 2 for all other matters. I'm going to go for 2. 195 00:15:25,560 --> 00:15:27,160 All other matters in this situation. 196 00:15:28,900 --> 00:15:29,900 I'm on hold. 197 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:32,420 And there's music. 198 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:35,240 It's a theme from cops. 199 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:39,000 It's a joke. 200 00:15:41,540 --> 00:15:42,540 Oh, hello. 201 00:15:43,740 --> 00:15:47,900 I'm not sure that I have the right department, but my daughter wanted me to 202 00:15:47,900 --> 00:15:53,760 you because she feels that she has information about this crazy bug thing 203 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:54,760 going on. 204 00:15:56,780 --> 00:16:00,240 What kind of information do... I mean, she met a man. 205 00:16:01,540 --> 00:16:06,900 And she feels that he may have some connection to this bug thing. 206 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,360 Excuse me? Are you snickering? 207 00:16:14,980 --> 00:16:18,880 No, I don't appreciate that. How can you ask me that? You don't even know my 208 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:23,140 daughter. For your information, officer, she happens to be a pretty terrific kid 209 00:16:23,140 --> 00:16:24,560 most of the time. 210 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:29,700 And she's just trying to call you up and be a good citizen and give you 211 00:16:29,700 --> 00:16:34,200 information on this... I'm on hold. 212 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:40,040 Why don't you hang up, climb in the car, and go see this guy? 213 00:16:42,660 --> 00:16:45,120 I'm going into New York, look for a hotel room. 214 00:16:46,220 --> 00:16:47,420 You two need a lift? 215 00:16:48,220 --> 00:16:50,100 Well, Uncle Roger, that would be great. 216 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:52,440 Thank you. 217 00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:56,600 Bite me. 218 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:01,680 There's a tradition in Europe that has to do with the special relationship 219 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:03,560 between beekeepers and their bees. 220 00:17:04,339 --> 00:17:08,800 When a beekeeper dies, it's customary for members of their family to visit the 221 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:11,599 hives and actually inform the bees of his passing. 222 00:17:14,380 --> 00:17:15,380 Telling the bees. 223 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:17,540 That's what the ceremony is called. 224 00:17:18,900 --> 00:17:19,900 Ah, here it is. 225 00:17:20,660 --> 00:17:21,660 1978. 226 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:25,099 A beekeeper in the town of Stanhope, England, died. 227 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:31,040 His family and children went to his hives and spoke to his bees, then joined 228 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:34,120 mourners at the grave site nearly three miles away. 229 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:36,820 Ah, listen to this. 230 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:42,360 A short time into the ceremony, mourners heard a loud buzzing, then saw the 231 00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:47,440 swarm. Thousands of bees, but not a single mourner was stung. The bees 232 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,540 the flowers and people and landed on the beekeeper's casket. 233 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,880 Settling there motionless for over an hour. 234 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,020 Finally leaving and flying back to their hives. 235 00:17:58,660 --> 00:18:03,660 Dr. Morris, with all due respect, you're not suggesting what you just read us is 236 00:18:03,660 --> 00:18:04,760 science, are you? 237 00:18:05,620 --> 00:18:11,700 You know and I know that that story is an anecdotal old world, old wives tale. 238 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:15,480 But gentlemen, think about it. 239 00:18:16,420 --> 00:18:18,500 In the last quarter century... 240 00:18:18,890 --> 00:18:24,850 Communication by the highest form of life, mankind, has in fact been 241 00:18:25,170 --> 00:18:28,850 reduced to a series of zeros and ones, a simple binary code. 242 00:18:29,090 --> 00:18:34,350 Now, is the idea that someone can insinuate themselves into the 243 00:18:34,350 --> 00:18:39,190 mysteries by which lower forms of life commune with one another really so far 244 00:18:39,190 --> 00:18:40,190 -fetched? 245 00:18:41,630 --> 00:18:45,690 Just for a moment, suppose there exists out there... 246 00:18:46,060 --> 00:18:49,740 Someone who knows virtually everything there is to know about insects. 247 00:18:50,140 --> 00:18:55,400 Someone who has spent their entire life in the presence of bugs, studied their 248 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:59,840 evolution, studied their mating habits, their reproductive cycles, their 249 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:05,820 migratory patterns, their social structures. Someone who has devoted 250 00:19:05,820 --> 00:19:10,620 exploring the methods and rituals and intricacies by which they communicate. 251 00:19:10,660 --> 00:19:13,140 Just suppose. 252 00:19:17,320 --> 00:19:18,320 Bugmeister. 253 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:19,720 Exactly. 254 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,200 They're open until 8 .30 tonight. 255 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:24,760 No problem. 256 00:19:27,960 --> 00:19:33,400 I'm sorry about everything, about lying to you, about cutting school, about 257 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:34,460 calling everything ugly. 258 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,340 And thank you for listening to me, and thank you for doing that. 259 00:19:40,020 --> 00:19:43,700 I'm not really doing anything. I'm just sitting here watching this thing go by. 260 00:19:44,650 --> 00:19:48,190 I think maybe you are thinking wrong personally. 261 00:19:50,410 --> 00:19:51,410 Uncle Roger? 262 00:19:52,090 --> 00:19:53,090 Yes, Cupcake? 263 00:19:54,270 --> 00:20:01,150 How come I call you all kinds of nasty names and I mean to you all the 264 00:20:01,150 --> 00:20:04,710 time and show you virtually no respect, yet you're still nice to me? 265 00:20:08,430 --> 00:20:09,870 I like you, Polka Dot. 266 00:20:10,750 --> 00:20:11,750 Always have. 267 00:20:13,070 --> 00:20:14,770 I liked you from the second you were born. 268 00:20:15,610 --> 00:20:19,530 Still got the cigar your dad gave me when he brought you home from the 269 00:20:22,150 --> 00:20:23,150 Sorry about that. 270 00:20:24,270 --> 00:20:25,270 It's the way it is. 271 00:20:34,110 --> 00:20:36,950 This is the only way you can think of to do this? 272 00:20:37,430 --> 00:20:41,910 Mr. Wiseman, the only hope we have of finding this bugmaven. 273 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:43,800 Bug Meister. 274 00:20:44,020 --> 00:20:50,860 Bug Meister? He is releasing his warrior bee in the slender hope of 275 00:20:50,860 --> 00:20:56,720 having him lead us back to his master, queen, or whomever it is he's taking 276 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:57,619 orders from. 277 00:20:57,620 --> 00:21:01,580 I know, but... Now, we can't reasonably expect a human being, and let's use 278 00:21:01,580 --> 00:21:06,200 Special Agent Number One as an example, to be able to follow this common 279 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:08,200 bumblebee through the city at night. 280 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:14,680 Over trees and fences, flying hither and yon. It makes no sense. No, we have to 281 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:18,860 outfit our bee with some sort of tracking device so we can follow it 282 00:21:18,860 --> 00:21:23,140 electronically. Now, unfortunately, the only tracking device we happen to have 283 00:21:23,140 --> 00:21:27,320 on hand is in your nose, so to speak. 284 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:34,060 In any event, in order for us to do this thing tonight before this bugmonger... 285 00:21:34,060 --> 00:21:35,260 Bug? Meister. 286 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:37,360 Oh, right. Makes any more trouble. 287 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:39,840 I've got to get that little bugger out of your head. 288 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:42,600 Now, just breathe deeply. 289 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,160 It'll all be over before you know it. 290 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,280 Authorities for both the city and federal health organizations continue to 291 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:52,920 strongly discount theories that suggest the current rash of insect -related 292 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:56,640 fatalities are in any way connected, despite the fact that all the victims 293 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,560 appear to be in pest control or other environmentally volatile industries. 294 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:02,800 They want a declaration? 295 00:22:03,630 --> 00:22:07,550 If I'm going to send them a manifesto, here's who I am and here's what I want, 296 00:22:07,710 --> 00:22:09,010 they're going to think I'm an idiot. 297 00:22:11,670 --> 00:22:13,010 Why would I do that? 298 00:22:14,190 --> 00:22:15,650 This is much more elegant. 299 00:22:17,750 --> 00:22:19,430 Let society do the math. 300 00:22:20,850 --> 00:22:21,850 Hmm. 301 00:22:22,270 --> 00:22:26,310 Only those who kill bugs and foul the planet seem to be dying. 302 00:22:27,070 --> 00:22:29,710 What can I do to make sure that I'm not bitten or stung? 303 00:22:31,950 --> 00:22:33,970 Perhaps I should stop killing and polluting. 304 00:22:45,270 --> 00:22:46,270 What did you say? 305 00:22:50,230 --> 00:22:51,510 I know you disagree. 306 00:22:52,630 --> 00:22:54,130 You think it's all too subtle. 307 00:22:55,250 --> 00:22:58,350 Well, you may be right. 308 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:06,480 It may be that what they need is a dose of pestilence, something on a grand 309 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,960 scale, something to get their attention. 310 00:23:19,180 --> 00:23:21,120 Something to let them know we mean business. 311 00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:24,460 Mr. Wiseman. 312 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:35,460 You mutilate that bee the way you did me? 313 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:40,320 How's our little patient doing? 314 00:23:41,100 --> 00:23:44,400 As soon as the anesthesia wears off, we'll roll down the window, throw him 315 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,460 outside, and see where he goes. 316 00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,740 As long as you had me on that table, you could have at least done a little eye 317 00:23:49,740 --> 00:23:50,740 work. 318 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:56,440 He's on the air, and he's heading due north. 319 00:23:59,220 --> 00:24:01,280 He's heading due north, but follow the truck. 320 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:02,560 See where it takes us. 321 00:24:18,350 --> 00:24:19,350 Let's go home? 322 00:24:23,090 --> 00:24:25,650 I suddenly have a feeling that I messed up here. 323 00:24:26,890 --> 00:24:27,910 What does that mean? 324 00:24:29,130 --> 00:24:36,050 Well, I mean, it's 8 o 'clock at night, and I'm showing up with my mother to say 325 00:24:36,050 --> 00:24:41,010 to a guy that's been nothing but nice to me, Hey, isn't this the guy that came 326 00:24:41,010 --> 00:24:45,050 in the other day and yelled at you? And isn't it a little bit weird that killer 327 00:24:45,050 --> 00:24:46,810 aunt ate him for a midnight snack? 328 00:24:48,110 --> 00:24:50,270 You were right, Uncle Roger. That's crazy. 329 00:24:50,670 --> 00:24:52,150 I don't know what I was thinking. 330 00:24:53,530 --> 00:24:54,890 Can we just go home? 331 00:24:55,870 --> 00:25:02,390 Heather Elizabeth Wiseman, we just drove an hour and 15 minutes through rush 332 00:25:02,390 --> 00:25:07,250 hour traffic because you sensed a connection between the man in the 333 00:25:07,250 --> 00:25:08,990 and a man in the museum. 334 00:25:09,370 --> 00:25:13,190 I know that, but... But this had better be a really good but. 335 00:25:15,130 --> 00:25:16,670 But I just... 336 00:25:16,910 --> 00:25:18,630 I think I was wrong, and I just want to go. 337 00:25:23,530 --> 00:25:30,530 No big deal. I'll just drive you both back to New Rochelle and get 338 00:25:30,530 --> 00:25:31,530 myself a hotel room tomorrow. 339 00:25:32,650 --> 00:25:33,930 Shut that off. 340 00:25:34,150 --> 00:25:35,150 Yes, ma 'am. 341 00:25:37,410 --> 00:25:41,890 I did not drive all the way in here to turn around and drive all the way back 342 00:25:41,890 --> 00:25:45,290 without finding out something about where you've been. 343 00:25:45,870 --> 00:25:48,270 What you've been doing, who you've been doing it with. 344 00:25:49,270 --> 00:25:54,130 Now hear this, young lady. I am going in there and I'm finding me a bug man. 345 00:25:54,690 --> 00:25:56,970 Now you can come with or you can stay here. 346 00:25:57,950 --> 00:26:00,030 But this is me going. 347 00:26:10,450 --> 00:26:11,450 Summer? 348 00:26:18,570 --> 00:26:20,910 Fancy meeting you here. What were the chances of that? 349 00:26:21,210 --> 00:26:22,890 Mom, please don't go in there. 350 00:26:24,310 --> 00:26:26,990 Well, look, we've been through this. I'm not turning around and going home. 351 00:26:27,250 --> 00:26:29,550 I know, but what I'd really like is to go in there by myself. 352 00:26:30,730 --> 00:26:33,270 That's not going to happen. No, Mom, I'm serious. 353 00:26:33,490 --> 00:26:35,610 If you go in there, I'm going to die. 354 00:26:36,310 --> 00:26:40,450 Well, welcome to the club, little girl. You know, you have got me so worked up 355 00:26:40,450 --> 00:26:43,050 about newspapers and bugs and strange men. 356 00:26:45,390 --> 00:26:48,910 I'm actually worried that if you go in there alone, that you are going to die. 357 00:26:49,970 --> 00:26:51,890 Mom, think about that. That's crazy. 358 00:26:55,590 --> 00:26:59,290 But that's what you said. I know, but that's because I'm crazy. 359 00:27:02,550 --> 00:27:04,870 Mom, I mean, he's no killer. 360 00:27:06,270 --> 00:27:07,630 He studies bugs. 361 00:27:08,250 --> 00:27:11,590 And you know what? He looks like he studies bugs. 362 00:27:11,870 --> 00:27:14,430 He's tiny and he's skinny. 363 00:27:17,740 --> 00:27:21,440 man who was nice to me when I felt that nobody else was being nice to me and I 364 00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:25,840 want to say goodbye to him and yeah I know all the stuff I did was stupid and 365 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:31,160 wrong and I'll never do it again but I want to say goodbye to him by myself you 366 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,720 know like like a grown -up like a sane person 367 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:40,980 I 368 00:27:40,980 --> 00:27:46,480 am going to press 9 -1 -1 369 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:52,180 And if he so much as looks at you sideways, you press send. 370 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:56,400 I'll be waiting in the car. 371 00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:03,940 If you are one second more than 15 minutes, you really cannot imagine just 372 00:28:03,940 --> 00:28:09,880 embarrassing and humiliating I can be or how much physical pain I can inflict. 373 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:12,800 Don't worry, Mom. 374 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,000 It won't happen. 375 00:28:14,460 --> 00:28:15,660 Start your clock now. 376 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:48,080 Hold everything. 377 00:28:48,460 --> 00:28:50,620 Our flying friend seems to have stopped. 378 00:28:51,500 --> 00:28:54,180 Sir. I believe the Eagle has landed. 379 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:55,500 Thank goodness. 380 00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:57,360 Guide us in. 381 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:15,980 Bringing up kids. 382 00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:20,900 I don't think people are meant to do it alone. 383 00:29:25,060 --> 00:29:26,060 My goodness. 384 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:28,600 I thought we'd lost you. 385 00:29:30,380 --> 00:29:31,400 Where have you been? 386 00:29:46,090 --> 00:29:50,470 I'm sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. I just was upstairs in the vivarium, and 387 00:29:50,470 --> 00:29:51,470 I didn't see you. 388 00:29:52,790 --> 00:29:55,050 Isn't it late for you to be in the city? It's a school night. 389 00:29:56,310 --> 00:30:03,170 Yeah. I got busted. My mom found out I was cutting school and coming here, 390 00:30:03,350 --> 00:30:05,710 so it's a long story. 391 00:30:10,930 --> 00:30:11,950 What's with the bee? 392 00:30:12,910 --> 00:30:14,250 I think it's been butchered. 393 00:30:16,070 --> 00:30:18,590 What? What are you talking about? 394 00:30:18,870 --> 00:30:23,510 Looks to me like someone's cut it open and sewn it back together. 395 00:30:24,970 --> 00:30:26,410 Why would someone do that? 396 00:30:27,150 --> 00:30:28,150 I don't know. 397 00:30:30,370 --> 00:30:32,310 Put this in your ear and I'll guide you there. 398 00:30:34,930 --> 00:30:35,930 Aren't you afraid? 399 00:30:36,230 --> 00:30:37,230 Of what? 400 00:30:37,550 --> 00:30:38,670 No tracking device. 401 00:30:41,210 --> 00:30:42,890 What, slip your mind? 402 00:30:43,310 --> 00:30:44,590 Just a wise man. Relax. 403 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:46,520 I know the drill. 404 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,540 You know where my wife and daughter hang their hats. No one's running anywhere. 405 00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,240 I appreciate that, Mr. Wiseman. 406 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:02,480 Don't mention it. 407 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,320 Looks like someone might have put something electronic in it. 408 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:13,420 Look, um... I'm not going to be here that much longer. 409 00:31:17,420 --> 00:31:18,420 This bee is bugged. 410 00:31:19,340 --> 00:31:20,340 What? 411 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,020 What are you talking about? 412 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:27,520 Maybe they know. 413 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,300 Maybe who knows what? 414 00:31:50,410 --> 00:31:51,610 Do you even hear me? 415 00:31:53,030 --> 00:31:54,610 Do you even care that I'm here? 416 00:31:56,010 --> 00:32:02,310 Do you have any idea how much trouble I've gotten into 417 00:32:02,310 --> 00:32:03,870 for coming here? 418 00:32:05,970 --> 00:32:08,630 And all I wanted to do was to say goodbye. 419 00:32:09,010 --> 00:32:11,250 One hug and that would have been it. 420 00:32:11,510 --> 00:32:14,190 And everyone would have felt good about it. 421 00:32:15,610 --> 00:32:17,270 What is your problem? 422 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:26,320 I don't have a problem. 423 00:32:26,940 --> 00:32:30,360 I know my place in the world. It's people with an overblown sense of 424 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:31,360 that have problems. 425 00:32:31,740 --> 00:32:36,700 They step on people and things, call them mean -spirited names, and then cry 426 00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:38,340 foul when they're bitten or stung. 427 00:32:39,540 --> 00:32:41,460 That man that was in here the other day. 428 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:43,380 What are you suggesting? 429 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:47,500 Nothing. I'm not suggesting anything. I really have to go now. Did you tell 430 00:32:47,500 --> 00:32:50,500 anyone about seeing that man in here the other day? No, nobody, I swear. 431 00:32:50,940 --> 00:32:54,520 Heather, did you tell anyone, anyone about who you saw in here the other day? 432 00:32:54,620 --> 00:32:56,330 No! Nobody did. Did you? I swear. 433 00:33:00,070 --> 00:33:01,490 What are you doing here? 434 00:33:02,310 --> 00:33:03,450 Who's this, the older brother? 435 00:33:03,750 --> 00:33:04,729 Come on, Mr. Newman. 436 00:33:04,730 --> 00:33:06,210 Let's get out of here. This guy's crazy. 437 00:33:06,710 --> 00:33:08,570 Mr. Wiseman, who is that you're talking to? 438 00:33:11,250 --> 00:33:14,330 Come on, Mr. Newman. Let's go. My mom's outside. She can give you a ride. 439 00:33:15,230 --> 00:33:16,610 Mr. Wiseman, what's going on? 440 00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:37,300 I don't mean to be rude, but this is museum property. I don't think you're 441 00:33:37,300 --> 00:33:38,460 authorized to be down here. 442 00:33:39,020 --> 00:33:40,020 Oh, that's all right. 443 00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:41,240 I'm with the government. 444 00:33:42,280 --> 00:33:43,380 I hear you need help. 445 00:33:43,820 --> 00:33:45,880 I hear you have a little bit of an insect problem. 446 00:33:46,180 --> 00:33:47,180 The government, huh? 447 00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:50,580 Actually, I do have a bit of a problem. 448 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:54,980 Some animal has cut open one of my bees and inserted some kind of transmitter 449 00:33:54,980 --> 00:33:55,980 inside him. 450 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:57,960 You wouldn't know anything about that, would you? 451 00:33:58,700 --> 00:33:59,700 Yeah, 452 00:34:00,420 --> 00:34:01,680 I've run with some bees in my time. 453 00:34:03,150 --> 00:34:04,150 Let me take a look. 454 00:34:07,470 --> 00:34:08,470 You have any hobbies? 455 00:34:11,770 --> 00:34:13,989 Talk about a small world. 456 00:34:16,830 --> 00:34:18,350 You two know each other? 457 00:34:19,270 --> 00:34:21,070 We took a nasty fall together once. 458 00:34:23,610 --> 00:34:25,770 Dr. Martin, we just lost position. 459 00:34:26,290 --> 00:34:28,530 In fact, we just lost everything. 460 00:34:28,770 --> 00:34:30,010 What did you just do? 461 00:34:30,449 --> 00:34:31,449 It's okay. 462 00:34:31,790 --> 00:34:33,030 He was in a lot of discomfort. 463 00:34:33,889 --> 00:34:37,350 Have you ever had a transmitter you didn't want inserted into your body? 464 00:34:37,350 --> 00:34:38,350 me, this is my area. 465 00:34:39,710 --> 00:34:42,949 Besides, it's not like you would have been around to take care of him. 466 00:34:43,290 --> 00:34:44,290 Oh, really? 467 00:34:45,989 --> 00:34:46,989 Where am I going? 468 00:34:47,510 --> 00:34:49,469 Oh, come on. You know where you're going? 469 00:34:50,130 --> 00:34:51,130 We both do. 470 00:34:51,790 --> 00:34:53,929 And they're not going to let you take any of your little friends with you. 471 00:34:54,850 --> 00:34:57,510 It's not like that movie was called Bugman of Alcatraz. 472 00:34:59,930 --> 00:35:00,930 The arrogance. 473 00:35:02,250 --> 00:35:06,470 You build a suspension bridge, you put a few tire tracks on the moon, you come 474 00:35:06,470 --> 00:35:10,210 up with a way to encode a few thousand volumes of knowledge on a computer chip, 475 00:35:10,270 --> 00:35:12,230 and you think it's this profound accomplishment. 476 00:35:13,070 --> 00:35:16,150 You totally, brazenly forget your roots. 477 00:35:16,670 --> 00:35:22,410 One of you paints a church ceiling with big clouds and lightning bolts and a guy 478 00:35:22,410 --> 00:35:24,050 with a beard. Stop everything. 479 00:35:24,330 --> 00:35:26,090 A work of art. That's genius. 480 00:35:28,510 --> 00:35:34,180 But have you ever bothered to look... closely in a spider web or a a rasher of 481 00:35:34,180 --> 00:35:40,580 honeycomb michelangelo the sistine chapel the story of creation ha 482 00:35:40,580 --> 00:35:47,500 makes my blood curdle creation started in the ground in the dirt 483 00:35:47,500 --> 00:35:51,880 in the swamps with them 484 00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:58,160 what the hell is that 485 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,940 what the hell What is that? 486 00:36:03,060 --> 00:36:04,060 I don't know. 487 00:36:06,720 --> 00:36:07,720 Morning there, friend. 488 00:36:12,940 --> 00:36:14,960 Telling me it's time to do something. 489 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,960 They're singers filled with bubonic plague. 490 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,340 You think that will get everybody's attention? 491 00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:55,720 Come on. 492 00:36:58,640 --> 00:36:59,640 It's all right. 493 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:06,620 What's going on down there? 494 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:42,040 the situation. 495 00:37:43,780 --> 00:37:45,020 Actually, I think I've made it worse. 496 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,900 We need to seal off the basement skylight that's visible on 78th Street. 497 00:39:06,980 --> 00:39:11,140 We've got a quarter of a million angry bees in here, and we don't want any of 498 00:39:11,140 --> 00:39:12,140 them getting away. 499 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:17,980 There's already a containment team on the way, Mr. Wiseman. 500 00:39:19,360 --> 00:39:20,360 Wow. 501 00:39:23,540 --> 00:39:24,540 What brings you here? 502 00:39:24,860 --> 00:39:26,240 Oh, me? Nothing much. 503 00:39:27,860 --> 00:39:29,680 Looking for a tracking device, actually. 504 00:39:30,490 --> 00:39:32,850 Tough to come by. Take me ten days to replace. 505 00:39:33,690 --> 00:39:35,210 I heard there might be one in here. 506 00:39:36,170 --> 00:39:39,950 You didn't happen to come across one during your adventures tonight, did you? 507 00:39:40,650 --> 00:39:44,410 Uh, it may have gone buzzing by at some point. 508 00:39:45,290 --> 00:39:50,310 But in all the confusion, it's a shame. I used to have one. 509 00:39:52,230 --> 00:39:53,230 Ten days, huh? 510 00:39:53,450 --> 00:39:54,450 Mm -hmm. 511 00:40:10,990 --> 00:40:11,990 what you're feeling. 512 00:40:13,170 --> 00:40:14,170 Numb. 513 00:40:15,590 --> 00:40:16,890 Does that count as a feeling? 514 00:40:17,690 --> 00:40:18,690 Numb? 515 00:40:19,130 --> 00:40:20,870 Sure. It counts. 516 00:40:22,110 --> 00:40:24,070 But I don't get it. 517 00:40:24,330 --> 00:40:29,370 She came back on time, in one piece. She gave you a kiss and said, thank you, 518 00:40:29,370 --> 00:40:33,630 Mommy. I mean, speaking as a daddy, I think that's hitting the jackpot. 519 00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:41,400 What don't you know? She told you what happened. She gave him the bad news. 520 00:40:41,660 --> 00:40:43,460 He hugged her goodbye. 521 00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:47,880 Now it's over and all you have to do is count your blessings. 522 00:40:48,340 --> 00:40:49,340 Hmm. 523 00:40:53,380 --> 00:40:56,280 Somehow I failed to hear you counting your blessings. 524 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,160 Well, I'm sorry. 525 00:41:02,740 --> 00:41:05,860 There was something about the look on her face when she got back in the car. 526 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:06,960 Maybe you think there was... 527 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:08,480 More to the story. 528 00:41:08,780 --> 00:41:14,060 Well, of course there was more to the story, but trust me, it's stuff that you 529 00:41:14,060 --> 00:41:15,060 don't want to know. 530 00:41:15,180 --> 00:41:20,960 And, Lisa, that is... It's nature's plan. 531 00:41:21,900 --> 00:41:25,720 At a certain point, they reach an age at which they don't want to tell you 532 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:29,000 everything, and that's the way it's meant to be. 533 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:36,320 Believe me, you reach a certain age, and your heart just won't take it. 534 00:41:41,070 --> 00:41:42,830 You know, it wasn't this way when there were two of us. 535 00:41:45,970 --> 00:41:48,750 She remitted me. She could always go to Michael. 536 00:41:49,570 --> 00:41:54,150 She had an issue with Michael. She could always cuddle up to a good old mom. 537 00:41:58,970 --> 00:42:01,370 Somehow, between the two of us, you know. 538 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,020 Next, on Sci -Fi Crusade. 539 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:40,060 Every world, every mission, every adventure, from the beginning. 540 00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:47,080 Richard Dean Anderson stars in Stargate SG -1. Tonight, from 7 to 11, on Sci 541 00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,080 -Fi.