- Jimmy Sands: There. Now it's securer than the god damn Alamo.
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Bad example there Jimmy.
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: [Seeing a tree filled with the "killer bats" he helped genetically alter] Don't you see? They want me! Because I can control them - I made them that way... come to me!
- Dr. Swanbeck: To be honest with you folks, never seen anything like this before.
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: We'll take over the forensic work now, Doctor. If that's all right with you?
- Dr. Swanbeck: Hell, yes. Take over. I never did care too much for the sight of blood myself.
- [the uncover the corpses of two teenagers that were killed and mutilated]
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: It's a damn shame. There's some folks around town think some kids might've done this. Some satanic cult ritual thing or some other such nonsense.
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: Uh... I'm starting with the male cadaver. Incision just below the temporomandibular joint at the neck extends in depth all the way to the hypoglossus muscle.
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: I'm sure that jugular incision was the initial point of contact. They went for the lethal attack.
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Hey. Jimmy, I'd imagine nobody'd mind if you wanted to step outside and keep old Doc Swanbeck company.
- Jimmy Sands: Yeah. That's a good idea, Sheriff. You guys just... You just keep doin' what you're doin'.
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: The external anterior jugulars have been severed down to the common carotid on the right side of the median. Shelia, I'm gonna need your confirmation now. By just looking at the neck wounds, this one here by the ear, I'd say we have a bite diameter of four centimeters and a circumference of, say, 13 centimeters.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: The Pteropodidae family. This is impossible. These bats only feed on fruit and nectar. This can't be.
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Excuse me ma'am?
- Dr. Sheila Casper: This must be some kind of sick hoax.
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: Well, unfortunately, we're fairly certain that this is not a hoax.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Wait a second. Are you sayin' some kind of bat did this?
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: I'm afraid so, Sheriff.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Well, then, there is something very wrong here, gentlemen, because this sort of thing is not supposed to happen. What's going on here? What is it you aren't telling me?
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: Though the total number of attacks may be higher, we've only been able to confirm these five for certain.
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: Yesterday was the first human encounter that we know of.
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: I'd say it was a hell of a lot more than just an encounter, Doctor.
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: All the attacks were similar and occurred here in western Texas. All in the past six days.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Impossible.
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: Dr. Casper?
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Bats do not kill people! Period! There must be some other explanation. One that has absolutely nothing to do with bats and therefore, nothing to do with me.
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: Ms. Casper. You're right, of course. But the bats that were talking about, they're very, uh, special.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Special? In what way?
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Exactly what are we talkin' about here, Doctor?
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: Well, the two bats that escaped from my lab were brought from Indonesia. Their test subjects. The Pteropus Poliocephalus in question...
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Hold on a minute! These are flying foxes we're talking about?
- Jimmy Sands: Oh, no.
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: Yes.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: But those are among the most endangered species in the world.
- Jimmy Sands: Not to mention the ugliest and largest bats you ever wanna meet.
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Let me get this straight. Are you tellin' me that you're responsible for the death of those two kids, Doctor? Is that it?
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: Look, Dr. McCabe sought our assistance at the CDC as soon as the bats escaped. Now we're here to stop these things before they can kill or contaminate others.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Contaminate? What were you guys experimenting with?
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: Well, let's just say it was, uh, virus based. I really can't discuss it, uh, any further. I'm sorry.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: So, um, we're here to help you find your infected guinea pigs, is that it?
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: And destroy them, if need be.
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Oh, you can count on that.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Look, I'll help you find them but I'm not gonna destroy them. And I'm not gonna let any of you destroy them either.
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Dr. Hodge, anything?
- Dr. Tobe Hodge: Yeah, good news. Preliminary blood test from the two teenagers suggests that any abnormalities infecting the bats is completely host-specific and can't be transferred in active form to humans.
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: So, you're sayin' that the bats can only infect other bats.
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: The virus was designed specifically not to be transmittable beyond the bat's own zoological order.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Tell me, Dr. McCabe, what exactly did you do to them?
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: I'm sorry, but again, I'm not allowed to say.
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Now, that's bullshit! Those things are killin' people in my town, and as far as I can tell, you're directly responsible for that!
- Dr. Sheila Casper: We need to know what we're dealing with here, Doctor.
- Jimmy Sands: I'm kind of curious myself, now that you mention it.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: All right. I'll tell you, then. You let me know how I do. You've somehow increased their natural intelligence.
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: Yes, and their ability to work together communally.
- Jimmy Sands: Well, that's not so bad. We could all use a little dose of that.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Then you made them aggressive.
- Jimmy Sands: Now, that's bad.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Finally, you made them carnivores.
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: No, Dr. Casper, I made them omnivorous. Put my bats anywhere in the world and they will feed.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Why would you do that?
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: Because I'm a scientist. That's what we do. We make everything a little better. Bigger livestock, better crop yields.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Millions of years of evolution. But arrogance to think that you could do better.
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: Apparently, I have, Dr. Casper. Apparently come I have.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: You son of a bitch.
- Jimmy Sands: Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't like anythin' movin' higher up on the food chain than me. Period.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Okay, look, our chief concerned at the moment must be insuring that this disease is not allowed to spread to the bat population at large. 'Cause if their feeding habits are disrupted, well call me you may as well just say "so long" to that nice little balance of nature thing we had going.
- Jimmy Sands: Take a look at this. This is a bat migration schematic I've created. It traces migration, feeding patterns. I've entered the usual information climate, food sources, bat roost. Those dots, those are our bats. Now, once the temperature changes and they start freezin' their little bar asses, they'll migrate. Followin' their food to more temperate climates. By February, this colony would have reached Mexico City, San Antonio, and New Orleans, just in time for Mardi Gras.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: And if our bats infect other bats and those newly infected bats follow their usual patterns of migration... Show 'em, Jimmy.
- Jimmy Sands: That, my friends, is six months from now. And it ain't gonna be pretty. 'Course my ass will be long gone by then.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: If we don't stop them soon, what happened to those kids is gonna happen all over the country.
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: So, what do we do now?
- Dr. Sheila Casper: The only way to stop the spread of the contamination is to locate the roost and to annihilate every last infected bat.
- [McCabe has run outside the school where the bats are]
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: McCabe, come on back here now.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Doctor, just come back inside slowly.
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: Don't you see? They want me. They've come for me. Because I can control them! I made them that way.
- [He spreads his arms out]
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: Come to me.
- [the bats fly into him and bite his ear off, claw his eye then gets rips his throat out killing him]
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: NO!
- [shoots gun in air]
- [overlooking a map]
- Jimmy Sands: These are from an old geological survey. I figure the bats have to be here.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: No. No they're deeper. They would never allow themselves to be that vulnerable.
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Well, since this caves man-made, the trip down should be pretty easy. Provided, of course, there hasn't been too much internal collapse in a tunnels.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: How about other entrances?
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: As far as I know, the entrance the bats are using is the only one this place has ever had.
- Jimmy Sands: One entrance. Nice tunnel down, should be a piece of cake.
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: No, it won't. They'll know you're there. They'll know what you're up to. Will try and stop you.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: What are you talking about?
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: They're always aware. That's how I designed them. To be perfect killing machines.
- Jimmy Sands: What?
- Dr. Sheila Casper: You son of a bitch.
- [Machine goes off]
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: They found us.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: How? How could they have found...
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: Because I called them here.
- [Pulls out a handgun]
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: And now, we'll put an end to all this.
- [the bats start to take out the power to the building]
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: They're talkin' out the power.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Those bats didn't escape from your lab, did they, McCabe? No. You let them go, didn't you?
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: Very perceptive, Sheila.
- Dr. Sheila Casper: But how could you? You knew what those things were capable of!
- [the windows shatter behind them Sheila takes the handgun away while the sheriff pins McCabe against a shelf]
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Do you know how many people have died, McCabe? Huh? Do you even care?
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: They simply need to be controlled! If you understood them the way that I do, you could control them!
- Dr. Sheila Casper: Then do it! Control them!
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: You go on! Stop 'em right now!
- Dr. Alexander McCabe: [giggling] Why would I wanna do that?
- [He continues to giggle till the sheriff punches him]
- Sheriff Emmett Kimsey: Bitch.