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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.