Title: KILLER ANTS: THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU
Summary: Love, greed and fire ants mix it up in rural Texas. #horror #horrormovies #ants
Directed by
Carolyn Banks
Summary: Love, greed and fire ants mix it up in rural Texas. #horror #horrormovies #ants
Directed by
Carolyn Banks
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
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00:01:12It's okay?
00:01:15Do I have a choice?
00:01:21I'll be right back.
00:01:24Brave boy.
00:01:27I'll be right back.
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00:02:18Stop it!
00:02:23Come on, come on.
00:02:24Stop it!
00:02:25Hold still.
00:02:26Wrecking them spire antlers.
00:02:29They're gonna eat you alive.
00:02:32Some folks allergic to me.
00:02:34Only takes one to get on you.
00:02:36Get you all swelled up.
00:02:38Just like you, man.
00:02:41Just like you.
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00:02:52Welcome to Texas, man.
00:02:53We gonna get you all swelled up.
00:02:57Yeehaw.
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00:03:10It's only for a semester.
00:03:12Come on.
00:03:13It's minuscule.
00:03:14Our apartment is bigger than that.
00:03:16Look at it.
00:03:17Is it rusting?
00:03:18These must be the neighbors.
00:03:19Hi there.
00:03:20Oh, hi.
00:03:21You must be the McAllisters.
00:03:23I'm Harry Naylor.
00:03:24This here's Billy.
00:03:25How you doing, Miss McAllister?
00:03:27We're having tea here.
00:03:28I can get a couple of glasses
00:03:29because I have to get your keys.
00:03:30You're right next door to us.
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00:03:38Well, it's a pity she's feeling poorly.
00:03:40But I can sure understand
00:03:41her wanting to check out her new home.
00:03:43Yeah, the Conroys are mighty proud
00:03:44of their little house next door.
00:03:46Yeah, get yourself a fishing license,
00:03:47you can go fishing right from the property.
00:03:49Billy caught a catfish two summers ago.
00:03:51You can't believe it.
00:03:52You ought to go get the catfish for her.
00:03:54Yeah, the big old catfish pictures.
00:03:55I'll be right back.
00:03:56It's something else.
00:03:57It really is.
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00:04:18Evan, have you seen this place?
00:04:22Oh, come on.
00:04:24It's not that bad.
00:04:25We just moved in.
00:04:26Do you think they really think this is decor?
00:04:30No.
00:04:33What was all that stuff about her
00:04:36having a different name and all?
00:04:39No.
00:04:44I know, I know, play nice.
00:04:52Shh, shh, shh.
00:04:55I love you.
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00:05:17Well, now that I've met him,
00:05:19I really think he's kind of strange.
00:05:22Because of his constant misuse of the nominee case.
00:05:26I thought everything was so gentle.
00:05:28As I see it, the only detriment is the fire ant's size.
00:05:32Otherwise, a fire ant colony is the ultimate murdering machine,
00:05:38not only killing the victim,
00:05:40but disposing of all the evidence.
00:05:44Okay, everybody, here they come.
00:05:46And remember, she was a big-time something-or-other in New York.
00:05:50He's a performance artist.
00:05:52What in the name of God Almighty is a performance artist?
00:05:55A stripper.
00:05:56Hush, hush.
00:05:58Hello, come in.
00:06:00Welcome to my home.
00:06:02Thank you very much.
00:06:04I'd like for you to meet some people here.
00:06:06Oh, okay.
00:06:09This is Evan McAllister.
00:06:11Hello.
00:06:12It's good to meet you.
00:06:13And his wife, Corrie.
00:06:15Corrie Pruitt.
00:06:17So you're new in the English department?
00:06:19Yes, sir.
00:06:20I'm looking forward to getting started.
00:06:21You must be brilliant to get that kind of a deal here.
00:06:24Oh, I don't know about that.
00:06:26Between the two of us, I would say that Corrie here is the brilliant one.
00:06:29I mean, all the while I was in grad school in New York,
00:06:31she was sustaining me financially with her work.
00:06:35I can certainly see what he sees in you, dear.
00:06:39We're actually looking for a studio space right now, if we know of any.
00:06:43Something that we can maybe continue.
00:06:45We'll see if we can continue with that.
00:06:48Hi there.
00:06:51You're a performance artist or something like that?
00:06:54Well, I had a show before we moved.
00:06:58That sounds rather interesting.
00:07:00What does it entail?
00:07:02Well, it's my interpretation of the oppression of women throughout history.
00:07:08That sounds really interesting.
00:07:10Looks like you're really good at it too, huh?
00:07:12Well, some people think so.
00:07:16Excuse me.
00:07:34I wouldn't.
00:07:35That's right, everybody. Don't go outside.
00:07:38We nuked it this morning, but for some reason, it just didn't work.
00:07:42We're talking about fire ants. They're my speciality.
00:07:45I met the little fuckers.
00:07:48We say that a lot, Brian.
00:07:51Well, this is really fantastic. Thank you so much.
00:07:53You're very welcome.
00:07:54You had jalapeno jelly, a Texas delicacy.
00:07:56It's my specialty. I grow the peppers myself and seed them.
00:08:00Texas has a delicacy.
00:08:03Excuse me.
00:08:06Did you mean that you were stung when you said you met the ants?
00:08:13Here, somewhere in town?
00:08:15Well, it was right after we crossed into Texas.
00:08:20Some of the bites don't seem to want to go away.
00:08:23You're an expert on them, aren't you, on fire ants?
00:08:30I think we need to go, Evan.
00:08:34Bye.
00:08:50What the fuck was all that about?
00:08:52I don't know. I...
00:09:05Didn't get a thing.
00:09:08Same time.
00:09:11Looks like those new folks forgot their Jeff as well as their man.
00:09:15Well, they are Yankees, don't forget.
00:09:17Actually, I think he's from here.
00:09:19You're right. He is from here.
00:09:21Well, that's why it seemed all right. She's the one who's so uppity.
00:09:34Fifteen.
00:09:49Oh, that's mine.
00:09:52Oh. Sixteen?
00:09:54Yours.
00:10:04No.
00:10:07It's not your day.
00:10:11Here's fine with me.
00:10:14Thanks.
00:10:17Excuse me.
00:10:24Let me guess. English, right?
00:10:27Very good. Linguistics, actually.
00:10:32I'm in Myrmecology, actually.
00:10:35Oh. Ant specialist.
00:10:38Nobody knows that word.
00:10:40I know lots of words. Long words, short words.
00:10:43Big words, little words.
00:10:45I'm Evan McAllister. I'm in Holland's.
00:10:47Olivia Sanchez. They stuck me on the top floor in Brody.
00:10:51Well, you must work with, um...
00:10:53What's his name?
00:10:55Hamilton something.
00:10:57Locke. Hamilton Locke.
00:11:00You know what? I don't much like it either.
00:11:09So I was thinking, seriously, that the very next thing I write about would be about fire ants.
00:11:13You know, 101 uses for a dead fire ant.
00:11:16Dead cat.
00:11:19I'm working on that very thing myself right now.
00:11:22Dead fire ants?
00:11:24Yeah. Dead fire ants.
00:11:30God, I'm so full. I always eat too much when I come here.
00:11:33Yeah, that's a good clue.
00:11:34It's really good.
00:11:37Well, I'm going to have to look you up and have you help me out with that book.
00:11:41Oh, right. Yeah, the fire ant book.
00:11:45Hey, I'm going to be coming to you for advice.
00:11:47Oh.
00:11:48I'm a fire ant specialist.
00:11:49Oh, yeah. That's true.
00:11:52Hey!
00:11:55That's Cory. My wife.
00:11:58Oh.
00:12:02I'll tell you a secret about my wife.
00:12:05She doesn't much like that Locke character either.
00:12:17If you make a big pile.
00:12:18Oh, I'm making a big pile.
00:12:20Shit.
00:12:22Just what I needed.
00:12:25Oh, hi.
00:12:27I can make us some fresh tea.
00:12:29Would you like some?
00:12:31I really wish I could, but, um, you know.
00:12:36Okay, come on.
00:12:39She's downright unfriendly.
00:12:41Don't talk to me. I don't care if you hurt me.
00:12:57Okay.
00:13:58God.
00:14:00Evan, I'm still not pregnant.
00:14:03It's no big deal. It'll happen.
00:14:05But what if it doesn't happen?
00:14:08It will.
00:14:09With my sperm, we will rule the world.
00:14:17See what I mean?
00:14:21Uh-uh.
00:14:25That big one.
00:14:28I think you're seeing things.
00:14:31They look exactly the same as before.
00:14:35Sorry, Liv.
00:14:39Just the big boy I need.
00:14:49Mm-hmm.
00:14:52Honey.
00:14:53Yeah?
00:14:55Where'd this jam come from?
00:14:57I don't know.
00:14:59I don't know.
00:15:01I don't know.
00:15:03I don't know.
00:15:05Honey.
00:15:06Yeah?
00:15:07Where'd this jam come from?
00:15:10What jam?
00:15:11I don't know. I just found it.
00:15:15I don't know what you're talking about.
00:15:19Oh, my God.
00:15:23Ugh.
00:15:28Is this some student's idea of a joke?
00:15:32Ugh.
00:15:34What is that?
00:15:35It's a pile of dead fire ants.
00:15:40In our refrigerator?
00:15:42At least we know how to kill them.
00:15:45Are those ants still out there?
00:16:04No, I just got rid of them.
00:16:10What did you do with them?
00:16:13I gave them decent Christian burials, Corey.
00:16:15What do you think I did for them?
00:16:17I threw them in the fucking trash.
00:16:21Well, how did you pick them up?
00:16:25With my hands.
00:16:26Oh.
00:16:28That's disgusting.
00:16:30It's not like we have a proper ant scoop, you know?
00:16:33I mean, I guess you can order one from the Tiffany catalog.
00:16:35All right, okay.
00:16:44There are just so many of them.
00:16:50They look like coffee grounds.
00:16:55The only important thing is that they were dead ants.
00:17:02But why would they go in there?
00:17:04How would they get in there?
00:17:06Someone told me that they're drawn to electrical stuff.
00:17:09Who?
00:17:11Was it that lock guy?
00:17:13Have you seen him?
00:17:14No, I have not run into that lock guy.
00:17:16And what if I have?
00:17:17What would it matter?
00:17:18All he did was ask you about those bites and you completely freaked.
00:17:21That was like two months ago.
00:17:23Do we really have to talk about it again?
00:17:36Remember that girl from the restaurant you saw me talking to?
00:17:40That's who told me.
00:17:41She's a fire ant researcher.
00:17:45That scraggly looking girl?
00:17:49In the white lab coat?
00:17:53Oh, not another one.
00:17:56This makes three.
00:17:58But isn't he...
00:17:59Yes, married.
00:18:00And so what?
00:18:02I'm not exactly sending in love letters.
00:18:04Yes, you are.
00:18:05Deep down, you are.
00:18:07I am following up on a joke, that's all.
00:18:10101 uses for a dead fire ant.
00:18:12You're deluding yourself.
00:18:13That's what you're doing.
00:18:14Make up your mind.
00:18:16A week ago, you thought I should dress up like a hooker and be out meeting men.
00:18:20Today, I'm just writing to a guy.
00:18:21I didn't mean you should meet someone else's man.
00:18:24I don't deserve a remark like that.
00:18:26You're right.
00:18:28I'm sorry.
00:18:29I worry about you.
00:18:30I mean, one day you're a little miss, leave me alone,
00:18:33Next, the sultry scarlet woman.
00:18:38Olé!
00:18:55A major scientific discovery, Miss Sanchez.
00:19:04Solognosis Invicta, ladies and gentlemen.
00:19:07The red imported fire ant.
00:19:09Flesh eater.
00:19:11Stripper of carcasses.
00:19:14Perhaps even the instrument of death.
00:19:18And what a painful death it would be.
00:19:24Fire ants often arrive at the scene of an accident, even before the emergency vehicles do.
00:19:30Next slide, please, Miss Gretzner.
00:19:33They swarm the victim in droves.
00:19:37They lap at the blood, ounce by ounce, until it is gone.
00:19:45They fill every moist orifice.
00:19:48The mouth, the ear, the eyes.
00:19:52Oh, yes.
00:19:54The fire ants' lungs.
00:19:58Stop!
00:20:01I don't know about the rest of you, but I have no intention of killing you.
00:20:09I don't know about the rest of you, but I have no desire whatsoever to see fire ants swarming an accident victim.
00:20:19No desire whatsoever.
00:20:21I came here for an academic discussion, not this Halloween extravaganza.
00:20:27Tell me, Grandma.
00:20:29Oh, my God.
00:20:30Why hasn't Dr. Locke rid us of the fire ants?
00:20:34Why hasn't he controlled them?
00:20:36Why?
00:20:37All the money pouring into this school for research.
00:20:42I can show myself out, thank you.
00:20:45Think about it.
00:20:46Think about that.
00:20:48You don't think about it.
00:20:57To continue.
00:21:03Dr. Locke!
00:21:05Dr. Locke, there's so much more I need to tell you.
00:21:09I have materials.
00:21:11I bet you do.
00:21:12But there's more.
00:21:14All right, all right, all right, all right.
00:21:16We'll talk, all right?
00:21:17Come on.
00:21:18I have at my home some materials on the fire ants.
00:21:21Have you?
00:21:22Bet you didn't hear me out this morning.
00:21:24That's true.
00:21:25I was having a lecture.
00:21:27But I am interested in your materials.
00:21:29Have a seat.
00:22:06Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da...
00:22:08Bum-bum-bum-bum!
00:22:11Do-do-do-do-do-do-do...
00:22:13Do-do-do-do-do-do-do...
00:22:16Da-da-da...
00:22:17Da-da-da-da-da...
00:22:22How's it going in there, Tootsie?
00:22:25Ha-ha-ha...
00:22:35It really stinks, Cora.
00:22:38You should smell it from here.
00:22:42Why are we doing it anyway?
00:22:46Evan, we are not doing it.
00:22:51I am doing it.
00:23:35I am doing it.
00:24:05I am doing it.
00:24:36My turn.
00:24:43Trick or treat.
00:24:45Hello. Come in. Come in. Come on.
00:24:48Watch your step. Be careful.
00:24:50Don't drop your candy.
00:24:52Hi.
00:24:53Look at you.
00:24:54We thought if we came to this neighborhood, we'd get a better haul.
00:24:58You are right. Look at all this candy.
00:25:01Yummy.
00:25:03This is Olivia Sanchez.
00:25:07Who are these little devils?
00:25:09Beelzebub.
00:25:10Very good.
00:25:11Beelzebub.
00:25:13Beelzebub too.
00:25:15The sequel.
00:25:17How about this one?
00:25:19No.
00:25:21You know what? I bet I know who this little devil is.
00:25:25This little devil is Hamilton Locks.
00:25:28You are quite an angel.
00:25:30Oh, thanks.
00:25:32Yeah. It really suits you.
00:25:37Well, I guess we'll just fly away now.
00:25:41Come on, guys. Come on.
00:25:48Away, away, for I will fly to thee.
00:25:51Not charioted by Bacchus and his cards, but on...
00:25:55On the Venus wings of Posey.
00:25:59Hey, Marnie. It's me.
00:26:01Give me a call as soon as you get this.
00:26:03I just met Evan's wife.
00:26:05You're acting like a bitch.
00:26:06And you pretty much always act like a bitch these days.
00:26:08Well, maybe it's all these hormones you have me taking.
00:26:11So you want to have a baby so bad.
00:26:14I want to have a baby.
00:26:16I thought we wanted to have a baby.
00:26:19It's useless.
00:26:20What?
00:26:21Is that it, sweetheart?
00:26:23Is it because we haven't been able to get pregnant?
00:26:25Because if so, listen, we've got plenty of time.
00:26:28There's plenty of stuff that we can do.
00:26:30I mean, you're just taking things too hard.
00:26:32No! That is not why it is.
00:26:34It's because I'm fucking here.
00:26:36It's because I'm in Deliverance, Texas with a bunch of yahoos.
00:26:41You know, Evan, we used to have a life.
00:26:44We used to have friends and conversations and dinner parties and...
00:26:50And fun, Cory.
00:26:53We had fun.
00:26:55What happened to that?
00:26:57It stayed in Manhattan.
00:27:03I'm taking a shower.
00:27:22What are you smiling at, you old bat?
00:27:52Brew it is ready.
00:27:57Brew it, correct?
00:27:58That's right.
00:27:59Okay, and that's an ointment and a birth control?
00:28:04Correct?
00:28:11That's right, thanks.
00:28:18So this is where the magic happens, huh?
00:28:20Hello!
00:28:21Hey, listen, about that Halloween thing, I just wanted to apologize.
00:28:23Oh, no, don't worry about it.
00:28:25We all have our bad days.
00:28:27And my brother's kids were thrilled with how much candy you gave them.
00:28:30Oh, great. Well, they were really sweet.
00:28:33Do you want to sit down?
00:28:35Oh, yeah. Actually, I wanted to talk to you about fire ants.
00:28:38You see, my wife, Cory, the weird thing is the bites, they healed up.
00:28:43And then they came back, and they were worse.
00:28:48Pustules, red with white heads, like big pimples.
00:28:51Yeah, she's allergic to the venom.
00:28:53It's not that uncommon.
00:28:54Did you see the ants that had stung her?
00:28:57Briefly, I mean, she was brushing at them.
00:29:00How many?
00:29:01Oh, I don't know, 10, 20, maybe. They were really big.
00:29:04Big?
00:29:05Well, I mean, they looked big to me, I guess.
00:29:08It was just right when we crossed the Texas state line.
00:29:11Would you show me on the map?
00:29:13Sure.
00:29:18Let's see, they were right around there.
00:29:22Dr. Locke was doing some research up that way. Should we talk to him about it?
00:29:26No way.
00:29:28Has she seen a doctor?
00:29:30She got some kind of ointment.
00:29:33You know, I've seen stings that swell to the size of a grapefruit.
00:29:37But that's extreme.
00:29:39Well, Cory's bites were grape-sized, maybe, no bigger.
00:29:42Here, check this out.
00:29:45This is what a fire ant does.
00:29:49It grabs the skin with its pinchers,
00:29:53and then it rotates and it stings in a circle.
00:29:59Shit.
00:30:01They even have a wing stage.
00:30:03That's how the queens fly away to make their new nests.
00:30:06They really get around, these ants.
00:30:09Look.
00:30:11We've noticed that queens are getting larger,
00:30:14and that now some mounds have multiple queens.
00:30:18Which is very strange.
00:30:20It used to be that if you killed the queen, all the other ants in the mound would die.
00:30:24But that's not happening anymore.
00:30:26And nobody really seems to know why that happened, or how.
00:30:32It's odd.
00:30:39And listen to this.
00:30:40Toxin from the average bite usually dissipates in four to six days on the normal victims.
00:30:45Are you going to do this all night?
00:30:47Listen, this is really interesting.
00:30:49The red-inputted fire ant...
00:30:51And listen to this name, the scientific name.
00:30:53Cellopnosis Invicta.
00:30:55Invicta, it probably means invincible.
00:30:57I thought we were trying to have a baby.
00:31:00Well...
00:31:02Apparently...
00:31:05Apparently we're trying too hard.
00:31:07See, a guy I talk to at the department,
00:31:10he said that the goal is to not try to have a baby.
00:31:13He said...
00:31:14Evan, are you saying that you talked to some stranger in the department about our personal life?
00:31:21Not some stranger, a guy I work with.
00:31:23I see him pretty much every other day.
00:31:25I can't believe this.
00:31:26What? Can't believe what?
00:31:27What, I can't talk to anyone anymore?
00:31:29I mean, can I not talk at all?
00:31:31Evan, this is really personal.
00:31:35What?
00:31:36You know how I feel about it.
00:31:38Yeah.
00:31:39I can pretty much guess how you're going to feel about any and everything these days.
00:31:43Oh, fuck it, Evan.
00:31:44I'm going to sleep.
00:31:52Nursing and rehab.
00:31:53It's getting ready to open here at the end of June.
00:31:57Did you see that leather miniskirt?
00:31:59She thought I was going to wear that in the lab or something.
00:32:02I cannot believe that. That's so funny. It was so shocking.
00:32:05Is that Evan?
00:32:06Jeez, yeah.
00:32:08Evan!
00:32:14Hi.
00:32:15I just wanted to give you a little present I got you.
00:32:19It's no big deal. You can just open it later.
00:32:24It's a surprise.
00:32:26You gave him that shirt?
00:32:28He looked like he needed something.
00:32:30Oh, he needs something, all right. He needs to leave that Cruella de Vil.
00:32:34Stop that.
00:32:35You only know what I told you, and I could have misread the whole situation.
00:32:39Oh, yeah, right.
00:33:00Liv, why him of all people?
00:33:03Oh, okay. I'll mind my business.
00:33:06No, it's okay.
00:33:08I don't know the answer.
00:33:10I just know that I had kind of closed myself off, and I was happy that way.
00:33:18I don't know.
00:33:20Whenever I think about him or when I'm with him, I just...
00:33:26Goosh.
00:33:28No, more like goosh.
00:33:31You know what I think, really?
00:33:33It's a curse for saying I give that paper in Mexico.
00:33:37No, just remember they contacted you, not vice versa.
00:33:41Still, Locke will shit if he finds out.
00:33:44You know what? We should shop.
00:33:47Ten to one, you don't have any sexy underwear.
00:33:51Just what I need to give my paper to a room full of scientists.
00:33:55Well, for two weeks, we'll go to Mexico, and we'll find ourselves two handsome caballeros.
00:34:01And you're not going to think about Evan. You won't talk about him.
00:34:04You're not going to look out windows to try to get a glimpse of him.
00:34:07I swear, I will think only about fire ants.
00:34:09And caballeros.
00:34:12And caballeros.
00:34:14Ole!
00:34:25Oh, my God.
00:34:56Oh!
00:35:22Sweetheart, what is it?
00:35:25He did it.
00:35:27Did something happen?
00:35:29Yes.
00:35:31Yes, something happened.
00:35:33Something that would never happen in New York.
00:35:40Corey, get up.
00:35:44Corey!
00:35:55Corey!
00:36:01Oh, Jesus. We're going to the hospital.
00:36:03No fucking joke!
00:36:05No, Corey, look at you. We have to take you to the hospital.
00:36:07You're wearing a fire ant t-shirt. You think that's funny?
00:36:09I looked at yourself in a mirror.
00:36:11Yeah, I'm going to get you some tissues.
00:36:25Corey!
00:36:55What the fuck?
00:37:02These are birth control pills, aren't they?
00:37:07Put your clothes on. We need to see a doctor.
00:37:11No.
00:37:16Where were the goddamn ants?
00:37:19Damn.
00:37:23Die, you motherfucker!
00:37:48Fuck.
00:38:18Fuck.
00:38:48Oh, my God.
00:39:18Oh, my God!
00:39:20Oh, my God!
00:39:22Oh, my God!
00:39:48Oh, my God.
00:40:19Oh, my God.
00:40:21Oh, my God.
00:40:24Oh, my God.
00:40:49Just a few questions.
00:40:53Could you describe Miss Pruitt, your wife, right?
00:41:01Could you describe Miss Pruitt's behavior when you last spoke to her?
00:41:18Fuck.
00:41:49Fuck.
00:42:02Ah, fresh from her Mexico City appearance.
00:42:06It did go pretty well.
00:42:08I'd say a job offer's better than pretty well.
00:42:11I wonder what went on while we were gone.
00:42:13Well, Hamilton Locke fell in love with Evan's dragon lady wife.
00:42:17And they ran off together.
00:42:29Olivia, listen.
00:42:32Evan's wife, she killed herself.
00:42:37Marge, enough is enough.
00:42:39Sweetie, sweetie, I'm not joking.
00:42:41It happened while we were away.
00:42:44Oh, my God.
00:42:48Oh, my God.
00:42:50Oh, you've heard.
00:42:52Yes, it was unfortunate.
00:42:54She asphyxiated herself inside a refrigerator of all places.
00:42:59You can imagine that.
00:43:01I don't want to hear anymore.
00:43:13I don't want to hear anymore.
00:43:32Hey.
00:43:34Oh.
00:43:41Oh, this is beautiful.
00:43:44Yeah.
00:43:48Belongs to some prof on sabbatical.
00:43:50I really shouldn't be here.
00:43:52I...
00:43:55I shouldn't either.
00:43:59I rented a room, but...
00:44:02I just keep coming back here.
00:44:05I don't know what to...
00:44:09When I found Corey, she was...
00:44:11Oh, God, I'm so sorry.
00:44:17I'll show you.
00:44:22Well, I don't...
00:44:31I don't know.
00:45:01I don't know.
00:45:07I don't know how they can think what they think.
00:45:09Who?
00:45:11The cops.
00:45:13Some detective, especially.
00:45:16Tried to tell me that Corey committed suicide.
00:45:21I told him it must have been ants.
00:45:23He was just trying to get away from the ants, but...
00:45:26He thought I was crazy.
00:45:28Oh, they can swarm and then dissipate.
00:45:31Tried to tell the cops that.
00:45:36What is that?
00:45:38Do you mind if I look in there one more time?
00:45:40Okay.
00:45:57Hamilton Locke did this.
00:45:59I know he did.
00:46:01No, I know he did.
00:46:03And we have to find a way to prove it.
00:46:05Corey was unhappy.
00:46:07They were right about that.
00:46:10Things got pretty out of hand.
00:46:12These are ant eggs.
00:46:14You were right about the ants.
00:46:16You know, listen.
00:46:18One day, my colony was behaving kind of oddly.
00:46:20All the ants were gathered together in one corner.
00:46:23Locke had just been there.
00:46:25He just touched the corner of the tank with his hand.
00:46:27Probably with some kind of substance he's working with.
00:46:30He's a crazy guy, but this is way over the top.
00:46:32I know it sounds crazy.
00:46:34But at the time, I thought...
00:46:36He must have developed some way to draw the ants.
00:46:39An attractant.
00:46:41Why would he want to do that?
00:46:43Everyone's trying to get rid of fire ants.
00:46:45Well, that's not all.
00:46:47These eggs, they're four times the size they're supposed to be.
00:46:51What happened to Corey was horrible.
00:46:53Evan, don't you want to get to the bottom of it?
00:46:56Let me help you.
00:47:00I have a lot of reasons for wanting to.
00:47:02And a big one is that I...
00:47:04I know.
00:47:06Hamilton Locke.
00:47:08I need them, too.
00:47:19Like I said, it's mighty pretty land, but it's all infested now.
00:47:24The county agent said there's nothing can be done about it.
00:47:28Well...
00:47:30I'll take it off your hands.
00:47:33You're a gentleman.
00:47:36Yes, I'll take it off your hands.
00:47:56Apparently, he wasn't always the way he is now.
00:47:59He got weirder after his wife, Constance, left him.
00:48:03Nobody remembers much about her except for one day she was here and the next day she was gone.
00:48:08Can you imagine being married to him?
00:48:10Yes.
00:48:11Well, maybe we can find her.
00:48:12Her name is Constance Honeycutt Locke.
00:48:15There's a Honeycutt Hall somewhere on campus.
00:48:18I bet she was one of those rich bitches.
00:48:20You know, like her father was some big donor or something.
00:48:23And Locke came along and swept her off her feet?
00:48:26He does kind of remind me of that one movie star...
00:48:30Vincent Price.
00:48:32You ever seen his films?
00:48:34The Tingler.
00:48:36The Fly.
00:48:37Where'd you see those?
00:48:39Oh, there's this old movie house near campus called the UMAC.
00:48:42We'll have to go sometime.
00:48:46Oh, hey, Evan.
00:48:48It's okay.
00:48:50It's okay to want to do stuff again.
00:48:52To go to movies.
00:48:57I'm sorry, I...
00:48:59I should be back.
00:49:02Okay.
00:49:11Oh, Constance, I owe it all to you.
00:49:19Love is not love which alters when its alteration finds.
00:49:27Oh, no, it is an ever-fixed lock.
00:49:45So what's the problem?
00:49:47Call him.
00:49:48Olivia, you are on your way to becoming a world-class scholar
00:49:52with a job offer anybody would kill for,
00:49:54and you're whining because some guy hasn't called you in six whole days?
00:49:58Okay, hang up the phone and dial him, bitch.
00:50:02There.
00:50:22I can't believe how heavy these things are.
00:50:24I know.
00:50:33Fuck.
00:50:45It's not under lock, it's under honey cut.
00:50:50All right, now I have to go to the maps upstairs.
00:50:57Lock had me do a bunch of this crap when I first started.
00:51:00Busy work, it was just so...
00:51:05boring.
00:51:10Oh, I can't remember any of the names, though.
00:51:13No, except for one. It was, um...
00:51:16It was something odd. It was like, um...
00:51:19Overbeak.
00:51:21Or something like that.
00:51:23Oh.
00:51:28What are you two doing down here?
00:51:33Come on upstairs, you silly things.
00:51:35Almost everything is on computer now.
00:51:38We are modern.
00:51:40I would have guessed.
00:51:47Honeycut, Constance, Cypress Subdivision.
00:51:49Look at that.
00:51:51Honeycut bought the property from Overbeak.
00:51:54I'll bet Honeycut bought property from every name I looked up.
00:51:58Honeycut, who was long gone, the runaway bride.
00:52:01Let's go find some of these places.
00:52:17Voila.
00:52:19You know what?
00:52:22I don't know.
00:52:24Oh my God, your window.
00:52:26Jesus.
00:52:42You okay?
00:52:44Yeah.
00:52:47What are you thinking?
00:52:51I was thinking the line from Shakespeare.
00:52:56Tell me later.
00:53:16I don't know.
00:53:28Hot damn.
00:53:31Hey, man.
00:53:43Are the ads gone?
00:53:45I don't care about the ads.
00:53:56I thought that was beautiful.
00:54:01Hey, where have you been?
00:54:03I've been trying to call you all night.
00:54:06I know what you've been doing.
00:54:11Oh shit.
00:54:13Is that Lox?
00:54:15Mm-hmm.
00:54:16Olivia, you could get yourself kicked out of here.
00:54:19Lose that job in Mexico.
00:54:21Your whole career down the toilet.
00:54:24I've just got to find some kind of proof.
00:54:26Of what?
00:54:27Of murder.
00:54:28Do you know how crazy you sound?
00:54:32Yes.
00:54:33So what are you going to do next? Break into his house?
00:54:43No.
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00:57:08I personally think it's a little early in the grieving process for a girlfriend.
00:57:33Nonetheless, you'd probably like to know that I have yours back in my home.
00:57:39Ah, love.
00:57:43You'll forgive the outmoded technology, but this was taken a few years ago,
00:57:48when Constance Honeycutt Locke still graced this house with her presence.
00:57:59After a while, they all looked the same.
00:58:02Some writhing about, a few panicked swipes at various parts of the body,
00:58:07a scream or two, and then...
00:58:11a thunk.
00:58:14They fall to the floor.
00:58:17Miss Pruitt was rather imaginative, using the fridge and all.
00:58:23Of course, it was I who gave her the idea.
00:58:26I guess this is some student's idea of a job.
00:59:02Miss Pruitt.
00:59:32Ha, ha, ha.
00:59:42The proof that you were so ardently looking for, Miss Sanchez.
00:59:47Oh, and that solubnosis-invicta egg?
00:59:51The oversized one that you put into the incubator at the lab?
00:59:56Alas, there was a defect with the heating system,
00:59:59and the egg crumbled into dust as a result.
01:00:03It disappeared, Miss Sanchez.
01:00:08Oh, but first, let me get your cell phones.
01:00:19Well, let's get this show on the road!
01:00:26PHONE RINGS
01:00:38Hey, Liv, you were right.
01:00:40If these notes are accurate, he's breeding larger and larger fire ants with every hatch.
01:00:45Call me.
01:00:47Miss Sanchez, it seems you have a message.
01:00:55What is that? That noise?
01:00:58Stridulation. It's the sound that fire ants make.
01:01:02But usually you can't even hear it because it's such a small sound.
01:01:05Alas, there are billions and billions of them.
01:01:10Ha, ha, ha.
01:01:13If you could see yourself from the heavens, as God does,
01:01:19you would see yourself as the center...
01:01:24of a bullseye.
01:01:31You really must excuse me, but now I have to deal with your meddlesome friend.
01:01:38Ha, ha, ha.
01:01:45What can we do?
01:01:46I wish I knew.
01:01:47Don't you wear glasses?
01:01:49I took them off. They're in my pocket.
01:01:52Well, maybe if I could get them out with my teeth, maybe...
01:01:57Here.
01:02:00Oh.
01:02:01Ha, ha, ha.
01:02:11Okay.
01:02:14Come on.
01:02:22Come on.
01:02:30Come on, man.
01:02:33Oh, God, she's here.
01:02:47Hello?
01:02:52Hello?
01:02:58Listen, Evan, they're on their way to the attractant, not to us.
01:03:01They'll probably pass right over us if we just...
01:03:03Whoa, whoa, whoa. Over us?
01:03:05Over us, like over our bodies?
01:03:07Yeah, I think so.
01:03:09Just focus your mind on one thing and don't let it wander.
01:03:12And what happens if we move?
01:03:14Don't think about it.
01:03:15Oh, yeah, sure.
01:03:16Here, try this. How would you describe my breasts?
01:03:19What?
01:03:20Breasts. How would you describe them in one word? Just one.
01:03:23You're crazy, lady.
01:03:51Pert.
01:03:53What?
01:03:55Pert.
01:03:56Or describe your breasts as pert.
01:03:59Pert, that's good, right?
01:04:01Yeah. Pert's great. Pert's terrific.
01:04:06I can't wait to tell Marnie.
01:04:09You dare search my belongings?
01:04:12You dare?
01:04:14I'll show you everything you ever wanted to see.
01:04:18And far more than you ever believed possible.
01:04:22Everything.
01:04:25My bracelet!
01:04:46I'll be damned.
01:04:48Look where we are.
01:04:55All right, come on.
01:04:59We could rush him.
01:05:01Why not?
01:05:02Because he'd shoot her, then shoot you and me. Bang, bang, bang.
01:05:06Just try it.
01:05:18I'm sorry.
01:05:20I'm sorry.
01:05:22I'm sorry.
01:05:27Remember me?
01:05:29I think Dr. Locke should have exerted some control over those nasty fire ants.
01:05:35Well, Dr. Locke did.
01:05:37Dr. Locke made them bigger and better and more obedient.
01:05:43Dr. Locke even made the fire ant queens get along.
01:05:49That Dr. Locke, he's a regular Henry Kissinger.
01:05:54Now I'm going to show you something you've never seen before.
01:06:00You're a bitch!
01:06:08How convenient you've made it.
01:06:13Please, have a seat.
01:06:20Now, who will be first?
01:06:32No, that would be too simple.
01:06:35Too quick.
01:06:37And you wouldn't get to see her.
01:06:39Yes, Miss Sanchez.
01:06:41A queen.
01:06:43The queen of all queens.
01:06:45A queen who's ready to fly and start a new colony of Solipnosus Invicta Gigantica.
01:06:54The ant who will become known throughout the world as the Locke ant.
01:07:01See, this isn't about some petty land equity.
01:07:05See, this isn't about some petty land acquisition scheme.
01:07:10This is about my ant.
01:07:12And immortality!
01:07:22Homage must be paid for all these years of breeding.
01:07:27All these years of care.
01:07:31She will have her first big meal.
01:08:01No.
01:08:03No.
01:08:08Dance.
01:08:09They're coming.
01:08:10They'll kill her.
01:08:12No, no, no, no, no, no!
01:08:28Adieu.
01:08:29Parting is such sweet sorrow.
01:08:49The eye!
01:08:51The fire ant loves the eye!
01:09:00Be careful.
01:09:02I'm calling for help.
01:09:08Looks like that stings.
01:09:30See, he was breeding ants.
01:09:32Including a giant ant.
01:09:34And that's what killed him.
01:09:35He kept them in here.
01:09:36Whenever he wanted new land, he'd put this on the land.
01:09:39And then, he'd use dry dilation to excite them.
01:09:42Yeah, it really was brilliant.
01:09:44He could make them breed when he wanted them to.
01:09:46He could make them go where he wanted them to go.
01:09:48He should be on the cover of Time.
01:09:50Except for he's on the cover of Dead.
01:09:52Oh, come on, ladies.
01:09:54He was just another greedy bastard who used all this to buy time.
01:09:57He was just another greedy bastard who used all this to buy land cheap.
01:10:00He was interested in real estate, not science.
01:10:04Could I please have the name of the deceased?
01:10:06Hamilton Locke.
01:10:07Do you know the victim's occupation?
01:10:09Entomologist.
01:10:11You're going to spell that right.
01:10:13Uh, myrmecologist, actually.
01:10:15He was a myrmecologist.
01:10:27I thought you'd never get out of there.
01:10:29I know.
01:10:30They kept asking me stuff.
01:10:32And then I kept telling them, and they'd repeat my answer back to me like I was crazy.
01:10:38Especially when I told them about how Locke had that first egg and destroyed it,
01:10:42and then I had another one, and...
01:10:46What's the matter?
01:10:50It was just hard.
01:10:52I went back over all that stuff about Cory.
01:10:55I know.
01:11:00Tell me that Shakespeare quote, you know, from that day.
01:11:07What day?
01:11:09You know what day.
01:11:12She loved me for the dangers I had passed,
01:11:15and I loved her that she did pity them.
01:11:18It's from Othello.
01:11:20These are the perils of falling for someone in the English department.
01:11:26Yeah.
01:11:29So what do you think?
01:11:31I think that Locke's breeding program was absolutely brilliant.
01:11:36I mean, he was able to...
01:11:38I'm not talking about Locke and his goddamn ants.
01:11:40I'm talking about...
01:11:41I know what you're talking about.
01:11:44And...
01:11:46I don't know.
01:11:48I have a job offer in Mexico.
01:11:50I guess I didn't tell you about that.
01:11:54Well, there's something I didn't tell you.
01:11:56And what would that be?
01:11:58I, too, have an offer.
01:12:00From a publisher.
01:12:01For a gag book entitled,
01:12:02101 Uses for a Dead Fighter Ant.
01:12:04Get out!
01:12:05No, it's true.
01:12:06And so I'm portable.
01:12:07I mean, Mexico sounds like a great place to write the sequel.
01:12:10What will the sequel be about?
01:12:12Well, I'm thinking cockroaches.
01:12:15Oh!
01:12:16You know, there's a really interesting species of cockroach in Veracruz.
01:12:20Veracruz? Your job is in Veracruz?
01:12:22No.
01:12:24But it would be well worth a side trip.
01:12:26These cockroaches are fascinating.
01:12:28They're carnivorous.
01:12:29Oh, can't wait for that one.
01:12:31Unless you get cockroaches.
01:12:52Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
01:13:22One day I started to shiver and shake
01:13:27It was more than I could take
01:13:30If I couldn't make you mine
01:13:34I'd never trade a switch
01:13:37Cause from the very start
01:13:40You gave me, you gave me, you gave me
01:13:45You gave me this
01:13:52You gave me this
01:14:00My heart was pumping
01:14:03And my knees, they were weak
01:14:06Oh, my mind went blank
01:14:09And I, I could hardly speak
01:14:12Something in your smile
01:14:16Touched me way down deep
01:14:19I started to quiver and quake
01:14:22It was more than I could take
01:14:25If I couldn't make you mine
01:14:29I'd never trade a switch
01:14:32Cause from the very start
01:14:35You gave me, you gave me, you gave me
01:14:40You gave me this
01:14:49guitar solo
01:15:19guitar solo
01:15:28Lights of white
01:15:31Lights in the red light
01:15:34You ain't no light
01:15:36Shining out the door
01:15:38You ain't no Shakespeare fellow