1 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:25,330 Help,please! 2 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:26,530 We're in here! 3 00:00:28,100 --> 00:00:29,330 Help,please! 4 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:31,930 It's my mom,my dad and my brother. 5 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,700 I got the kid. 6 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:35,600 - Seizing. Diaphoretic. - I don't know what happened. 7 00:00:35,660 --> 00:00:37,900 Are they going to be okay? 8 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:39,500 What's wrong? 9 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:41,900 Paralysis. I'll go back for the traction board. 10 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,000 There's no time. The kid just stopped breathing. 11 00:00:44,060 --> 00:00:45,660 He's cyanotic,we got to tube him. 12 00:00:45,730 --> 00:00:47,260 - You have to help them,please! - Both breathing. 13 00:00:48,730 --> 00:00:49,700 Come on now,son. 14 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:51,130 We're losing him. 15 00:00:58,930 --> 00:01:00,160 Dr. Hood. 16 00:01:03,460 --> 00:01:04,960 I'm Wallace Bennett, 17 00:01:05,030 --> 00:01:06,160 Chief of the Major Investigations Division. 18 00:01:06,230 --> 00:01:07,460 I'm heading the Go Team on this case. 19 00:01:07,530 --> 00:01:09,930 I put in a call to the FBI director to thank him 20 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,360 for sending you over here on such short notice. 21 00:01:12,430 --> 00:01:13,900 My people have been over operations, 22 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:15,060 structures,power plants, 23 00:01:15,130 --> 00:01:16,760 systems and human performance, 24 00:01:16,830 --> 00:01:18,800 but so far,we've got nothing. 25 00:01:18,860 --> 00:01:21,300 We also did a full battery of chemical testing 26 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:22,630 for explosive residue. 27 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:24,000 Results negative across the board. 28 00:01:24,060 --> 00:01:26,400 We keep mining the same data,but there's something 29 00:01:26,460 --> 00:01:28,300 we're missing here and I... 30 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,060 ...over and over. 31 00:01:30,130 --> 00:01:31,800 Over and over.. 32 00:01:31,860 --> 00:01:34,560 Dr. Hood,we need something... 33 00:01:34,630 --> 00:01:36,430 Dr. Hood? 34 00:01:37,460 --> 00:01:39,030 Dr. Hood? 35 00:01:40,630 --> 00:01:42,660 Did you hear a word I just said? 36 00:01:44,060 --> 00:01:45,630 Ice cream. 37 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:47,230 Excuse me? 38 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:50,730 Do you have ice cream? 39 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,160 And a hot plate. 40 00:02:04,460 --> 00:02:06,460 Vanilla. 41 00:02:16,100 --> 00:02:18,460 Dr. Hood,what the hell is this all about? 42 00:02:18,530 --> 00:02:19,660 The landing gear on this 43 00:02:19,730 --> 00:02:21,630 aircraft is directly adjacent 44 00:02:21,700 --> 00:02:23,300 to the engine,right? 45 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:24,800 - That's where they tend to put it. - So... 46 00:02:24,860 --> 00:02:27,430 after a long flight,it's going to get very hot. 47 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:30,800 So... you bring my entire investigation 48 00:02:30,860 --> 00:02:32,830 to a halt just to tell my people that engines get hot? 49 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:41,800 On the night the plane crashed,the temperature 50 00:02:41,860 --> 00:02:43,660 on the ground was minus 20 Celsius. 51 00:02:43,730 --> 00:02:45,930 That is way below freezing. 52 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:56,130 Thermal shock fracture. 53 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:57,860 Yup. 54 00:02:57,930 --> 00:03:01,360 We tested the hydraulics in the landing gear for extremes, 55 00:03:01,430 --> 00:03:03,500 but not for rapid temperature change. 56 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:07,030 I don't suppose the NTSB could help me get a new watch? 57 00:03:07,100 --> 00:03:08,630 I'll give you my damn Rolex. 58 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:10,900 Oh,that won't be necessary. 59 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,000 Dr. Hood's employers at the FBI are perfectly capable 60 00:03:14,060 --> 00:03:15,560 of reimbursing him 61 00:03:15,630 --> 00:03:17,760 for any expenses and/or... 62 00:03:17,830 --> 00:03:20,330 personal items damaged during the course of an investigation. 63 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,760 Mr. Bennett, 64 00:03:21,830 --> 00:03:23,330 this is Special Agent Rachel Young,my,um... 65 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:26,230 I'm his FBI handler. 66 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:27,700 And we've got somewhere else to be. 67 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:29,700 Sir. 68 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,200 A family in San Jose,California ate breakfast 69 00:03:32,260 --> 00:03:34,830 - approximately 36 hours ago. - And? 70 00:03:34,900 --> 00:03:37,030 And they've been paralyzed ever since. 71 00:03:52,260 --> 00:03:55,260 EMT has brought them in as a triple case of spinal trauma, 72 00:03:55,330 --> 00:03:56,630 but we ruled that out right away. 73 00:03:56,700 --> 00:03:59,900 We did a tox screen for botulism and Lyme disease, 74 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:01,630 spinal taps for meningitis. 75 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:03,530 Negative on all counts. 76 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,930 It has to be poisoning of some kind. 77 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:08,800 Wrinkle is the daughter ate the same breakfast 78 00:04:08,860 --> 00:04:11,200 as the rest of the family,continues to be asymptomatic. 79 00:04:11,260 --> 00:04:12,830 Are you Jacob Hood with the Bureau? 80 00:04:12,900 --> 00:04:14,400 He is. And you are? 81 00:04:14,460 --> 00:04:15,660 I'm Agent Morris,FDA. 82 00:04:15,730 --> 00:04:17,660 This is my colleague Agent Wilson with the CDC. 83 00:04:17,730 --> 00:04:19,760 We both requested you. Thanks for coming in so quickly. 84 00:04:19,830 --> 00:04:22,860 Heard about your work on the hantavirus case last March. 85 00:04:22,930 --> 00:04:26,100 I'd like to hear about your work here,earlier today. 86 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,660 We screened and catalogued 87 00:04:27,730 --> 00:04:30,100 the stomach content on all three victims, 88 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:31,900 plus the asymptomatic daughter. 89 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:35,400 No toxins or bacteria known to lead to paralysis. 90 00:04:35,460 --> 00:04:36,860 The CDC's primary 91 00:04:36,930 --> 00:04:38,900 objective is to keep this thing from spreading, 92 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,800 while we at the FDA are mainly concerned 93 00:04:40,860 --> 00:04:42,060 with the safety of the food chain. 94 00:04:42,130 --> 00:04:43,400 But frankly... 95 00:04:43,460 --> 00:04:44,430 We're stumped. 96 00:04:44,500 --> 00:04:46,330 Where's the daughter? 97 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,700 Emily Stanner,16 years old. 98 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:51,100 She's in with the police right now. 99 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:52,860 They think she did this? 100 00:04:52,930 --> 00:04:54,160 Well,they don't know what to think. 101 00:04:54,260 --> 00:04:56,960 But,you know there's a case in New Jersey a couple of years back... 102 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,460 a teenage kid put antifreeze in his parents' iced tea. 103 00:04:59,530 --> 00:05:02,700 Turned out he was pissed off about being grounded. 104 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,630 Listen,Emily,the truth is, 105 00:05:05,700 --> 00:05:08,100 lots of kids get angry at their parents. 106 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,230 Look... if your folks 107 00:05:11,300 --> 00:05:13,760 are mistreating you or abusing you, 108 00:05:13,830 --> 00:05:16,630 mentally,emotionally... even physically, 109 00:05:16,700 --> 00:05:18,200 it could count in your favor. 110 00:05:18,260 --> 00:05:20,000 Tell me the truth about everything you know, 111 00:05:20,060 --> 00:05:22,060 and it could go a long way towards 112 00:05:22,130 --> 00:05:23,530 helping you out in court later. 113 00:05:25,660 --> 00:05:28,830 Excuse me,uh,but we're busy here, 114 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:30,360 if you don't mind,huh? 115 00:05:30,430 --> 00:05:33,160 I do mind. You shouldn't be in the same room with this patient, 116 00:05:33,230 --> 00:05:36,130 not without adequate protection. 117 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:38,000 What do you mean," protection" ? 118 00:05:38,060 --> 00:05:39,160 She's carrying 119 00:05:39,230 --> 00:05:41,730 type 5 C-vector airborne virus. 120 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,160 It's highly contagious,no known cure. 121 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,660 Really,no one mentioned this to you? 122 00:05:48,730 --> 00:05:50,500 It's okay, 123 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,030 as long as you've had no physical contact, 124 00:05:53,100 --> 00:05:54,700 it should be fine. 125 00:05:56,500 --> 00:05:58,060 Don't go anywhere. 126 00:05:58,130 --> 00:05:59,730 I'm going to look into this. 127 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:10,260 Don't worry... there's no such thing as a type 5 c-vector. 128 00:06:10,330 --> 00:06:12,430 I said that to scare 129 00:06:12,500 --> 00:06:14,030 them off so I could talk to you in private. 130 00:06:14,100 --> 00:06:15,830 My name's Jacob Hood. 131 00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:19,830 I'm kind of the science guy for the FBI. 132 00:06:19,900 --> 00:06:22,860 My family... are they going to be okay? 133 00:06:22,930 --> 00:06:24,360 Is the same thing gonna happen to me? 134 00:06:24,430 --> 00:06:26,100 I don't know. 135 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:28,160 That's what I'm here to find out. 136 00:06:28,230 --> 00:06:31,260 The police,they think that... 137 00:06:31,330 --> 00:06:33,700 I didn't do anything 138 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,330 to my mom,my dad or my little brother. 139 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:37,560 I know. 140 00:06:37,630 --> 00:06:39,630 You do? 141 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:41,360 Yeah. 142 00:06:41,430 --> 00:06:43,130 The forensic pathologists,they've been over 143 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:44,730 your house with a fine-toothed comb to find 144 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:47,130 anything that would've caused your family's paralysis. 145 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:49,530 So if you're a poisoner,you're a very good one. 146 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:53,160 And I've seen your high school transcripts, 147 00:06:53,230 --> 00:06:55,930 and Chemistry,well,you failed it,twice. 148 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,160 So I don't think you're too much of a threat. 149 00:06:58,230 --> 00:07:00,630 What I want to know is,is there anything 150 00:07:00,700 --> 00:07:02,600 you can remember that you did differently 151 00:07:02,660 --> 00:07:04,030 from your family yesterday morning? 152 00:07:04,100 --> 00:07:05,400 Anything at all? 153 00:07:05,460 --> 00:07:07,800 No. 154 00:07:07,860 --> 00:07:11,030 All we did was eat breakfast. 155 00:07:11,100 --> 00:07:12,960 Just breakfast. 156 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:27,200 We've already got forensics. 157 00:07:27,260 --> 00:07:29,130 Want to tell me again why we're here? 158 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,060 Any idea,Rachel,how many 159 00:07:32,130 --> 00:07:34,800 seemingly innocuous household ingredients 160 00:07:34,860 --> 00:07:35,930 could actually kill you? 161 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:39,800 Air freshener? 162 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:41,960 Smells good. 163 00:07:42,030 --> 00:07:44,800 Key ingredient: formaldehyde. 164 00:07:44,860 --> 00:07:47,630 Could cause headaches, 165 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:49,230 nausea,nosebleeds, 166 00:07:49,300 --> 00:07:51,400 dizziness,memory loss... 167 00:07:51,460 --> 00:07:53,400 Margarine? 168 00:07:53,460 --> 00:07:55,100 What's poisonous about margarine? 169 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,200 The benzoic acid. 170 00:07:57,260 --> 00:07:59,260 Fatally so,if you're allergic to it. 171 00:07:59,330 --> 00:08:02,130 You know the use of the term " nontoxic" 172 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,330 is only for advertising. 173 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:08,000 It has no regulated governmental definition whatsoever. 174 00:08:11,500 --> 00:08:14,100 Well,nothing in here looks all that dangerous. 175 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:17,900 Be that as it may,we've got a sample size of four subjects, 176 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,000 three who ate breakfast and got sick, 177 00:08:20,060 --> 00:08:22,960 and one who ate the same breakfast and didn't get sick. 178 00:08:23,030 --> 00:08:25,230 Make that a sample size of five. 179 00:08:25,300 --> 00:08:27,330 Looks like they have a dog. 180 00:08:56,630 --> 00:08:58,400 - Hey,Eddie. - Hey,Mom. 181 00:09:00,900 --> 00:09:02,960 - Hey,son. - Brought the mail up. 182 00:09:03,030 --> 00:09:04,100 How about a cold one? 183 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:06,330 Don't mind if I do. 184 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,000 You gonna stay for supper? 185 00:09:08,060 --> 00:09:09,930 Sounds like a plan. 186 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:11,200 What's in the mail? 187 00:09:11,260 --> 00:09:13,230 Oh,relax,Mom,it's just bills 188 00:09:13,300 --> 00:09:14,960 and junk. 189 00:09:18,660 --> 00:09:20,000 We got it,Bob. 190 00:09:21,900 --> 00:09:23,430 All right. 191 00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:26,560 "Notification of full payment. " 192 00:09:26,630 --> 00:09:27,930 We did it,babe. 193 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,360 We sure did. 194 00:09:29,430 --> 00:09:31,030 Eddie,we paid off the farm. 195 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,030 We need to celebrate. 196 00:09:35,100 --> 00:09:36,730 - Huh. - Forget the beers, 197 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:38,660 we are opening the champagne tonight. 198 00:09:38,730 --> 00:09:40,600 That's an idea. 199 00:09:42,530 --> 00:09:44,430 You know,about a year ago,we were 200 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:47,100 a hair's breath away from losing the place. 201 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:49,330 Now... 202 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:52,230 it's ours,free and clear. 203 00:09:52,300 --> 00:09:54,400 And we have you to thank for that. 204 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,960 Let's go get some champagne. Come on. 205 00:10:01,830 --> 00:10:04,100 One of the nice things about dogs is 206 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,100 that they're omnivores, 207 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:07,930 just like us humans. 208 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,900 So,Trixie 209 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:13,060 probably just had a little bit of everything 210 00:10:13,130 --> 00:10:15,100 the Stanners did. 211 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:16,600 Poor Trixie. 212 00:10:16,660 --> 00:10:19,130 So why aren't the Stanners dead? 213 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,130 Because dogs metabolize toxins much faster than we do. 214 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,630 Look. 215 00:10:25,700 --> 00:10:28,660 Single mass... 216 00:10:28,730 --> 00:10:32,030 going down the digestive tract into the stomach. 217 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:33,960 Or up out of the stomach, 218 00:10:34,030 --> 00:10:36,830 as the case may be. 219 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:43,130 What is it? 220 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,560 Fungus. 221 00:11:02,300 --> 00:11:03,260 Help! Please! 222 00:11:03,330 --> 00:11:04,330 I need help! 223 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,500 Emily,your family's bodies have been, 224 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:16,230 uh,colonized 225 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:19,160 by a fungal organisms,kind of like a mold, 226 00:11:19,230 --> 00:11:21,160 that's growing inside of them. 227 00:11:21,230 --> 00:11:24,300 And normally the doctors would give them 228 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:26,160 an anti-fungal medication 229 00:11:26,230 --> 00:11:28,830 that kill the fungus and allow them to get better. 230 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:32,160 But you tried that,and it didn't work? 231 00:11:32,230 --> 00:11:34,160 Well... 232 00:11:34,230 --> 00:11:36,200 Mmm. 233 00:11:36,260 --> 00:11:38,830 In this case,um, 234 00:11:38,900 --> 00:11:42,160 even though we have killed the-the fungus, 235 00:11:42,230 --> 00:11:45,500 the paralysis is still progressing. 236 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:48,060 So we are trying to find out why that is. 237 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:53,360 I don't have any other family. 238 00:11:56,250 --> 00:11:57,960 You have to fix them. 239 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,200 This is our fungus. 240 00:12:06,260 --> 00:12:08,260 Take a look. 241 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,860 It's... 242 00:12:13,930 --> 00:12:15,930 beautiful. 243 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:17,700 Botrytis cinerea. 244 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:19,730 It's everywhere. 245 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,900 There're probably spores of it 246 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:23,930 in the air we're breathing right now. 247 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,600 Don't worry... it only,uh, 248 00:12:26,660 --> 00:12:27,930 grows on plants. 249 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:29,800 That's why it's on the food inside the dog, 250 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:32,800 but not actually on the dog's tissues itself. 251 00:12:32,860 --> 00:12:36,460 So Trixie ate whatever the family ate. 252 00:12:36,530 --> 00:12:37,800 Mm-hmm. 253 00:12:37,860 --> 00:12:40,600 And we know the family ate plant material... 254 00:12:40,660 --> 00:12:42,930 fruits and vegetables... 255 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,960 but we don't know which fruits 256 00:12:46,030 --> 00:12:48,460 and/or vegetables were contaminated. 257 00:12:48,530 --> 00:12:51,160 There's our conundrum. 258 00:12:52,700 --> 00:12:54,800 In its natural state, 259 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,430 botrytis cinerea is completely harmless to humans. 260 00:12:58,500 --> 00:13:02,100 From the looks of that specimen, 261 00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,230 I'd say it's been genetically modified. 262 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:10,900 And it's not harmless anymore. 263 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:22,930 Care to explain why we're hunting a deadly fungus 264 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:24,360 in a wine shop? 265 00:13:24,430 --> 00:13:26,860 Because some winemakers use genetically modified fungus 266 00:13:26,930 --> 00:13:28,000 in their product. 267 00:13:28,060 --> 00:13:30,000 And Coppertina Vineyards 268 00:13:30,060 --> 00:13:32,100 is one of the world's leading makers 269 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,160 of botrytized wine. 270 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,230 Once upon a time 271 00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:40,730 in Medieval France,there was a nobleman 272 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:43,730 who liked to oversee every aspect 273 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,530 of the winemaking in his domain. 274 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:46,900 Control freak. 275 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,730 Exactly. 276 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,530 Until one summer,he fell in love. 277 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,530 So he took the fair maiden 278 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:56,530 to his bedchamber. 279 00:13:56,600 --> 00:13:58,200 They pretty much stayed there. 280 00:13:58,260 --> 00:13:59,860 They couldn't wait any longer,so in desperation 281 00:13:59,930 --> 00:14:03,860 they picked the molding grapes off the vine 282 00:14:03,930 --> 00:14:05,500 and made wine out of what was left. 283 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:07,060 And? 284 00:14:07,130 --> 00:14:08,830 And it was delicious. 285 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:11,600 So they named this fungus, 286 00:14:11,660 --> 00:14:13,600 our little fella, 287 00:14:13,660 --> 00:14:16,100 botrytis cinerea... 288 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,600 or "noble rot",after the nobleman 289 00:14:19,660 --> 00:14:22,130 whose great love had unwittingly created 290 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:24,830 such ambrosia. 291 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:27,560 But botrytized wine making 292 00:14:27,630 --> 00:14:29,600 is a gamble with nature. 293 00:14:29,660 --> 00:14:31,960 One too many days of rain or sun, 294 00:14:32,030 --> 00:14:34,000 and the whole harvest is worthless. 295 00:14:34,060 --> 00:14:36,330 So why would the winemakers take that risk? 296 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:37,560 Why? 297 00:14:37,630 --> 00:14:41,060 Because this bottle 298 00:14:41,130 --> 00:14:43,430 of Coppertina's botrytized vintage 299 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:45,500 is $1,500. 300 00:15:04,930 --> 00:15:06,860 The only problem with your botrytis theory 301 00:15:06,930 --> 00:15:08,860 is that the Stanners didn't have wine for breakfast. 302 00:15:08,930 --> 00:15:10,930 So how did they get sick? 303 00:15:12,700 --> 00:15:15,860 A fungus's spores kind of work like,um... 304 00:15:20,660 --> 00:15:22,300 ...this little fella. 305 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,230 Any organism that reproduces 306 00:15:29,300 --> 00:15:33,000 by spreading itself over the largest area possible, 307 00:15:33,060 --> 00:15:34,900 you'd be a fool to think that just 308 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,060 'cause you put it on one crop that's where it's gonna stay. 309 00:15:38,130 --> 00:15:41,060 So the fungus could be... 310 00:15:41,130 --> 00:15:43,130 anywhere. 311 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:08,460 What's wrong with his eyes,Hood? 312 00:16:08,530 --> 00:16:10,460 Keratomycosis. 313 00:16:10,530 --> 00:16:12,500 It's an infection of the cornea 314 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:14,860 caused by overexposure to a... 315 00:16:14,930 --> 00:16:19,100 mycological organism. 316 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:20,530 English,please. 317 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,100 There is a fungus among us. 318 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:25,460 And I bet it's on these grapes. 319 00:16:25,530 --> 00:16:26,630 Hey! 320 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:28,230 Todo el mundo a trabajar. 321 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:29,260 Can't you read? 322 00:16:29,330 --> 00:16:31,530 This area's for employees only. 323 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:33,660 We... We just wanted to take a picture. 324 00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:36,400 It's our first vacation. 325 00:16:36,460 --> 00:16:38,130 Oh,will you take it for us? 326 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:39,800 No? Okay. 327 00:16:39,860 --> 00:16:41,230 You want to see the fields, 328 00:16:41,300 --> 00:16:43,730 you can pay for the tour in the tasting room. 329 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:44,900 - Intending? - Of course. 330 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:45,960 - Yes. - Thank you. 331 00:16:46,030 --> 00:16:47,030 Come on,honey. 332 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,000 Well,good news,bad news. 333 00:17:06,060 --> 00:17:08,000 Botrytis cinerea on the grapes 334 00:17:08,060 --> 00:17:10,560 has been genetically altered, 335 00:17:10,630 --> 00:17:11,830 but it's not the same strain 336 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:13,500 that paralyzed the Stanner family... 337 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:16,530 the nucleotide sequence is wrong. 338 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:19,360 Which means we're back to square one. 339 00:17:19,430 --> 00:17:22,330 You don't seem particularly bothered by this. 340 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:25,700 Well,just because the fungus trail's gone cold 341 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,330 doesn't mean the money trail isn't still hot. 342 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:31,430 I called in a favor at Quantico. 343 00:17:31,500 --> 00:17:33,460 We'll have Coppertina's 344 00:17:33,530 --> 00:17:35,530 full financial records no later than tomorrow. 345 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,030 Don't you need a subpoena 346 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:40,860 to look into a privately held company's financial records? 347 00:17:40,930 --> 00:17:44,300 Gotta love the Patriot Act. 348 00:17:57,830 --> 00:17:59,830 Damn it,Matty. 349 00:18:02,130 --> 00:18:05,160 Hey,Liz,am I in time for dessert? 350 00:18:06,860 --> 00:18:09,360 Oh,Matty,you can't leave your toys... 351 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:17,300 Oh,my God! 352 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:22,460 Palo Alto lawyer Sam Sheridan returned home 353 00:18:22,530 --> 00:18:24,500 hoping to enjoy a family dinner, 354 00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:26,560 but found tragedy waiting instead... 355 00:18:26,630 --> 00:18:30,060 his wife and two children now in critical condition 356 00:18:30,130 --> 00:18:32,230 at Maple Valley hospital. 357 00:18:32,300 --> 00:18:35,230 Now authorities have yet to release an official statement 358 00:18:35,300 --> 00:18:36,630 on the cause of the incident, 359 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:39,730 but symptoms are said to match those of a local family 360 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:43,560 who became paralyzed early in the week also following a meal. 361 00:18:43,630 --> 00:18:45,330 Thanks for that report,Laura. 362 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,100 We'll let you know of any further developments 363 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,500 regarding this very strange case of possible food contamination. 364 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,560 We'll be right back. 365 00:18:57,400 --> 00:18:58,860 Eddie, 366 00:18:58,930 --> 00:18:59,930 I wanted some of that. 367 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,600 Oh. 368 00:19:01,660 --> 00:19:03,330 Sorry,Mom. I thought you guys were done. 369 00:19:34,830 --> 00:19:36,600 This thing is spreading,Hood. 370 00:19:36,660 --> 00:19:38,660 Uh-huh. 371 00:19:41,700 --> 00:19:43,630 Okay,look, 372 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:45,630 we know that it's a fungus. 373 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:48,130 We know that it has to be on some kind of produce. 374 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,800 So,why not just get the FDA 375 00:19:50,860 --> 00:19:53,960 to issue a mass recall on all fruits and vegetables 376 00:19:54,030 --> 00:19:55,630 sold in the affected area? 377 00:19:55,700 --> 00:19:57,130 'Cause it's never going to happen. 378 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,400 Let's be conservative 379 00:20:01,460 --> 00:20:03,330 and posit that our fungus 380 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:07,030 is residing on some form of produce within 381 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:10,530 only a 500 mile radius 382 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:13,030 of the Stanner family. 383 00:20:13,100 --> 00:20:15,030 - Okay. - California 384 00:20:15,100 --> 00:20:16,360 agriculture is,what, 385 00:20:16,430 --> 00:20:20,260 $32 billion dollar industry. 386 00:20:21,630 --> 00:20:23,600 About 40,000 square miles 387 00:20:23,660 --> 00:20:25,330 in the state is farmland. 388 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:27,930 So, 389 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,930 if the FDA were to recall just 390 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,800 the produce from our area,that is a loss 391 00:20:31,860 --> 00:20:34,160 of... 392 00:20:34,230 --> 00:20:38,200 $2.5 billion. 393 00:20:38,260 --> 00:20:40,230 I get that it's a long shot. 394 00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:42,300 But... 395 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:44,360 once people figure out that something's wrong... 396 00:20:44,430 --> 00:20:47,360 Then they'll probably issue some kind of... 397 00:20:47,430 --> 00:20:49,500 voluntary recall. 398 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:51,330 They issue warnings 399 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:52,660 and guidelines all the time, 400 00:20:52,730 --> 00:20:54,330 but people don't listen anymore. 401 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:57,160 Like the boy who cried wolf. 402 00:20:57,230 --> 00:20:59,730 The answer has got to be here somewhere. 403 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:01,360 It's not in there,Hood,it's in here. 404 00:21:01,430 --> 00:21:04,860 It looks as though Coppertina Vineyards 405 00:21:04,930 --> 00:21:07,500 transferred $10 million 406 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:10,400 to another company about five years ago. 407 00:21:12,630 --> 00:21:13,730 Do you want to know what happened next? 408 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,660 Enlighten me. 409 00:21:17,130 --> 00:21:18,960 Their profits started to skyrocket. 410 00:21:19,030 --> 00:21:20,900 The company they paid 411 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:22,900 was... 412 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,600 Aeonium Agritech. 413 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:32,600 Mr. Cooper,the FBI flagged a transfer of funds 414 00:21:32,660 --> 00:21:34,600 between Aeonium and Coppertina Vineyards 415 00:21:34,660 --> 00:21:36,560 a couple years back. 416 00:21:36,630 --> 00:21:38,860 Can you tell us what they spent the $10 million on? 417 00:21:38,930 --> 00:21:39,960 I'm afraid I can't 418 00:21:40,030 --> 00:21:41,430 get into any of that 419 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:43,000 without our legal counsel present. 420 00:21:43,060 --> 00:21:44,400 I understand,Mr. Cooper,but... 421 00:21:44,460 --> 00:21:46,000 Well,I'll get into it for you. 422 00:21:46,060 --> 00:21:47,700 It was a botrytis fungus. 423 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,100 It was genetically altered, 424 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:50,560 and now a variant of it 425 00:21:50,630 --> 00:21:52,800 is paralyzing people less than 40 miles from here. 426 00:21:52,860 --> 00:21:55,000 You must know,Dr. Hood,that,uh, 427 00:21:55,060 --> 00:21:57,230 anyone involved in fungal biotech 428 00:21:57,300 --> 00:21:59,660 uses botrytis as their base organism. 429 00:21:59,730 --> 00:22:00,800 It's common. 430 00:22:00,860 --> 00:22:02,260 It's nontoxic, 431 00:22:02,330 --> 00:22:03,960 relatively simple to manipulate. 432 00:22:04,030 --> 00:22:07,460 Uh,any one of our corporate colleagues could have made 433 00:22:07,530 --> 00:22:09,330 - what you're looking for. - I know what you 434 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,100 and your corporate colleagues 435 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:13,300 tend to do is you push a little hard, 436 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:15,200 a little bit fast-- you don't really do 437 00:22:15,260 --> 00:22:18,660 scientific due diligence,so,uh... 438 00:22:18,730 --> 00:22:20,100 in the past decade,you've introduced 439 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:21,560 genetically modified product 440 00:22:21,630 --> 00:22:24,000 into the market without anything close 441 00:22:24,060 --> 00:22:26,200 to the kind of rigorous,long-term testing 442 00:22:26,260 --> 00:22:28,230 necessary to guarantee public safety, 443 00:22:28,300 --> 00:22:29,960 and now lives are at stake. 444 00:22:30,030 --> 00:22:32,860 So,you think we're moving forward too fast? 445 00:22:32,930 --> 00:22:35,960 You want to talk about,uh,lives at stake? 446 00:22:36,030 --> 00:22:38,560 See,our products increase yield 447 00:22:38,630 --> 00:22:40,630 so that farmers 448 00:22:40,700 --> 00:22:44,000 can produce more food for people to eat. 449 00:22:44,060 --> 00:22:45,830 Why don't you ask 450 00:22:45,900 --> 00:22:47,130 the millions of people 451 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:49,330 on the verge of starvation in Bangladesh, 452 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,230 Niger,Egypt... 453 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:53,400 why don't you ask them if we're moving forward too fast? 454 00:22:53,460 --> 00:22:54,930 See,you want humanity 455 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,500 to keep its food all natural, 456 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,400 and that's very poetic, 457 00:22:59,460 --> 00:23:03,100 but human beings can't eat poetry. 458 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,360 Without genetic modification, 459 00:23:06,430 --> 00:23:09,630 most of the Third World will starve to death 460 00:23:09,700 --> 00:23:13,230 within a few months,and the rest of us... 461 00:23:13,300 --> 00:23:15,360 we won't be far behind. 462 00:23:15,430 --> 00:23:17,760 Your altruism is an example to us all. 463 00:23:17,830 --> 00:23:21,900 Does that apply to the prices you charge the starving nations, 464 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,030 or does Aeonium offer some kind 465 00:23:24,100 --> 00:23:25,900 of Third World starvation discount? 466 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:27,100 Just curious. 467 00:23:31,260 --> 00:23:33,600 Any more questions,you're gonna need a warrant. 468 00:23:33,660 --> 00:23:36,560 I think we still have those in this country,don't we? 469 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,030 You know,if you let me do my job, 470 00:23:44,100 --> 00:23:45,100 I could actually help you. 471 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:46,530 Jason Cooper is everything 472 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,200 that is wrong with global agribusiness. 473 00:23:48,260 --> 00:23:50,330 Greed masquerading 474 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,530 beneath a thin veneer of lofty idealism. 475 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,260 Which is why you don't confront him head-on. 476 00:23:54,330 --> 00:23:56,600 You stroke him,finesse him,get him 477 00:23:56,660 --> 00:23:58,430 to drop his guard,and then you pounce. 478 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:00,600 Okay,I'm sorry,I apologize. 479 00:24:00,660 --> 00:24:02,260 But we need answers. 480 00:24:02,330 --> 00:24:05,460 This is not the only place we're gonna find them. 481 00:24:08,530 --> 00:24:11,160 I thought this was a public university. 482 00:24:11,230 --> 00:24:12,500 It is. 483 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,130 Welcome to the brave new world 484 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:15,860 of academia,bought and paid for 485 00:24:15,930 --> 00:24:17,800 by multi-billion-dollar corporations. 486 00:24:17,860 --> 00:24:21,000 These companies finance the university's labs, 487 00:24:21,060 --> 00:24:22,600 and the scientists who work in them, 488 00:24:22,660 --> 00:24:24,800 they pay millions of dollars in sponsorship, 489 00:24:24,860 --> 00:24:26,900 and in return they get to keep all discoveries 490 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:28,000 the university makes. 491 00:24:28,060 --> 00:24:30,130 So,all of Aeonium's research... 492 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:32,500 Is here. 493 00:24:36,700 --> 00:24:38,300 What are they doing? 494 00:24:38,360 --> 00:24:41,330 Recording spectra from deep in the ultraviolet region 495 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:43,100 of the electromagnetic spectrum, 496 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,300 through the visible region, 497 00:24:45,360 --> 00:24:47,960 into the near infrared. 498 00:24:48,030 --> 00:24:50,360 No,really,what are they doing? 499 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:56,830 May I? 500 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,260 You got the wrong maximum absorbency wavelength. 501 00:25:04,330 --> 00:25:06,930 For pnitrophenol,the machine should be 502 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,700 at 410,not 418. 503 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,160 I knew that. 504 00:25:11,230 --> 00:25:12,730 Oh,who's,uh... 505 00:25:16,660 --> 00:25:19,500 who's been,uh,working with botrytis fungus? 506 00:25:22,430 --> 00:25:24,960 Oh,that's,uh... that's Professor Altschuler. 507 00:25:25,030 --> 00:25:26,860 Botrytis has been his thing 508 00:25:26,930 --> 00:25:28,100 ever since he was an undergrad 509 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:29,230 at Cal Tech. 510 00:25:29,300 --> 00:25:30,760 Looks good-- who's his underwriter? 511 00:25:30,830 --> 00:25:33,530 Aeonium. 512 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:35,260 Well,we're here with the... 513 00:25:35,330 --> 00:25:36,500 FBI. 514 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,130 And,uh, 515 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,400 I'd kind of like to talk to Professor Altschuler. 516 00:25:41,460 --> 00:25:42,800 Yeah. 517 00:25:42,860 --> 00:25:44,660 Sure... I mean,if you can find him. 518 00:25:44,730 --> 00:25:46,400 What do you mean? 519 00:25:46,460 --> 00:25:47,800 He's MIA. 520 00:25:47,860 --> 00:25:49,130 He hasn't been into work all week, 521 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:51,460 and he's not returning his phone calls,either. 522 00:25:51,530 --> 00:25:54,360 Not gonna get tenure slacking off like that. 523 00:25:54,430 --> 00:25:56,230 No. 524 00:25:58,230 --> 00:25:59,830 Mr. Cooper,Karl Altschuler is here. 525 00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:01,130 I told him you were busy,but... 526 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,200 This is why we stopped. 527 00:26:03,260 --> 00:26:06,230 This is what we thought could happen. 528 00:26:07,300 --> 00:26:09,360 I read that. 529 00:26:11,660 --> 00:26:12,700 Calm down,Karl. 530 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:13,930 I won't calm down! 531 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:15,900 People are dying because... 532 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,000 you restarted the project 533 00:26:17,060 --> 00:26:18,500 against my explicit recommendation. 534 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,260 And I followed your recommendation, 535 00:26:20,330 --> 00:26:22,230 and I shut that research down. 536 00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:23,860 My name is all over this research,Jason. 537 00:26:23,930 --> 00:26:25,530 This isn't connected. 538 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:26,560 It's in the records. 539 00:26:26,630 --> 00:26:27,700 It just can't be. 540 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:29,830 It is,and you know it. 541 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:31,300 Be very careful,Karl. 542 00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:32,860 You have a career to think about. 543 00:26:32,930 --> 00:26:34,800 And if you start telling everybody 544 00:26:34,860 --> 00:26:37,600 that Aeonium is involved in this,well... 545 00:26:37,660 --> 00:26:40,560 an accusation is just as good 546 00:26:40,630 --> 00:26:42,830 as a guilty verdict in this day and age. 547 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:44,360 And it's just as dangerous,too. 548 00:26:44,430 --> 00:26:46,430 For you. 549 00:26:46,500 --> 00:26:48,030 For all of us. 550 00:26:48,100 --> 00:26:50,530 For all of us,Karl. 551 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:51,660 Karl! 552 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:35,600 Altschuler last swiped his credit card here. 553 00:27:35,660 --> 00:27:37,960 Patriot Act again? 554 00:27:38,030 --> 00:27:41,500 You're lucky I'm not tempted to abuse my powers. 555 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,060 This should be it. 556 00:27:55,900 --> 00:27:58,160 Professor Altschuler? 557 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,400 Professor Altschuler,it's the FBI. 558 00:28:08,630 --> 00:28:09,860 Let's try this. 559 00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:31,160 He's dead. 560 00:28:31,230 --> 00:28:33,100 Drug overdose? 561 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,530 I'll call the police. 562 00:28:47,830 --> 00:28:49,960 Fascinating. 563 00:28:50,030 --> 00:28:53,130 That's got the thickened tail 564 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,760 of the Androctonus crassicauda,but the size and coloring 565 00:28:56,830 --> 00:28:59,860 of the Leiurus quinquestriatus. 566 00:28:59,930 --> 00:29:01,760 But it's a scorpion. 567 00:29:01,830 --> 00:29:04,100 Yeah,it's a scorpion. 568 00:29:05,430 --> 00:29:07,760 But it's no species I've ever seen before. 569 00:29:07,830 --> 00:29:09,660 I expect a geneticist 570 00:29:09,730 --> 00:29:12,700 of Altschuler's caliber would be 571 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:15,900 more than able to engineer a hybrid. 572 00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,260 So,what are you,a bug expert,too? 573 00:29:20,330 --> 00:29:22,460 It's not a bug; it's an arachnid. 574 00:29:22,530 --> 00:29:24,800 And no,I'm no expert. 575 00:29:26,660 --> 00:29:28,200 Someone very close to me 576 00:29:28,260 --> 00:29:31,230 was,um,involved in an experimental 577 00:29:31,300 --> 00:29:35,930 brain cancer treatment that used scorpion venom. 578 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:41,060 It was your wife... 579 00:29:41,130 --> 00:29:42,860 right? 580 00:29:44,830 --> 00:29:47,260 I... I know she died of cancer 581 00:29:47,330 --> 00:29:49,360 two years ago. 582 00:29:49,430 --> 00:29:54,000 Yeah,it was quite a promising treatment,actually,but,um... 583 00:29:54,060 --> 00:29:56,260 unfortunately,not quite on time. 584 00:30:00,830 --> 00:30:03,000 I'm sorry,Hood. 585 00:30:06,460 --> 00:30:08,160 This wasn't drug related. 586 00:30:10,660 --> 00:30:12,560 This was an overdose of scorpion venom. 587 00:30:12,630 --> 00:30:16,630 The thing about scorpions is they don't go for humans. 588 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:18,700 They go for insects. 589 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,530 That's it. 590 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:25,560 It's a pesticide. 591 00:30:25,630 --> 00:30:27,500 What? 592 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,330 Oh,my God,it's brilliant. 593 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:35,600 Scorpion venom is made to paralyze insects. 594 00:30:35,660 --> 00:30:39,600 If Altschuler could take the botrytis fungus 595 00:30:39,660 --> 00:30:42,460 and combine it with the scorpion venom, 596 00:30:42,530 --> 00:30:47,600 he would have a totally organic pesticide. 597 00:30:47,660 --> 00:30:50,160 To spray on the produce... 598 00:30:50,230 --> 00:30:52,200 to kill insects with the venom? 599 00:30:52,260 --> 00:30:54,630 And that is what 600 00:30:54,700 --> 00:30:58,360 has been paralyzing our victims. 601 00:30:58,430 --> 00:31:01,130 No bite marks or stings. 602 00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:05,130 And nobody's going to be checking for scorpion venom 603 00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:08,200 because the only deadly scorpions native to the U.S. 604 00:31:08,260 --> 00:31:10,660 are in the Arizona desert. 605 00:31:10,730 --> 00:31:13,400 What I don't understand is 606 00:31:13,460 --> 00:31:15,960 why the venom was released in our victims 607 00:31:16,030 --> 00:31:19,160 when it's only supposed to attack insects. 608 00:31:19,230 --> 00:31:22,300 Or why it affected everyone in the Stanner family 609 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:23,660 except for Emily. 610 00:31:23,730 --> 00:31:26,330 We've got the bullet,but we don't have the trigger. 611 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:32,360 No... but we have something else. 612 00:31:32,430 --> 00:31:34,360 Poor bastard. 613 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,130 He was trying to atone for the mess he made. 614 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:41,400 But to make enough antibodies 615 00:31:41,460 --> 00:31:43,000 to produce a scorpion antivenin, 616 00:31:43,060 --> 00:31:45,960 he'd have to endure sting after sting. 617 00:31:46,030 --> 00:31:49,360 Let's just hope the dose that killed him 618 00:31:49,430 --> 00:31:53,260 was enough to turn his blood... 619 00:31:53,330 --> 00:31:55,830 into a cure. 620 00:32:25,060 --> 00:32:27,460 Dr. Richards has the hospital toxicologist 621 00:32:27,530 --> 00:32:29,460 working on synthesizing an antivenin 622 00:32:29,530 --> 00:32:31,860 from Altschuler's blood. 623 00:32:31,930 --> 00:32:34,160 We'll just have to wait and see. 624 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,130 You hungry? 625 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,030 No,I'm fine. 626 00:32:39,100 --> 00:32:40,960 Hood,you should eat something. 627 00:32:41,030 --> 00:32:43,630 You call that eating? 628 00:32:43,700 --> 00:32:46,560 I know,the sweet tooth. 629 00:32:57,560 --> 00:32:59,700 You could've just asked. 630 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,030 This is it; this is the trigger. 631 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:02,660 My candy? 632 00:33:02,730 --> 00:33:04,730 You know what's in this? 633 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,930 "Licoricey" goodness? 634 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:09,730 Insects. 635 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:14,500 Carmine. It's a red food coloring 636 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,560 made from a South American beetle. 637 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,100 I'm suddenly in the mood for some fresh produce. 638 00:33:26,030 --> 00:33:28,360 Have you had breakfast yet,Mr.Cooper? 639 00:33:32,860 --> 00:33:34,760 Strawberries,maybe? 640 00:33:34,830 --> 00:33:36,860 Rachel,what did the Stanners have for breakfast? 641 00:33:36,930 --> 00:33:39,700 Corn flakes,pancakes,fruit salad... 642 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:41,060 grapefruit juice? 643 00:33:41,130 --> 00:33:44,000 Pink grapefruit juice made with carmine. 644 00:33:44,060 --> 00:33:45,760 And the fruit salad 645 00:33:45,830 --> 00:33:50,060 probably contained fungus from your pesticide. 646 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:52,830 The Sheridan family. 647 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:54,630 Oh,the Sheridan family, 648 00:33:54,700 --> 00:33:56,830 they ate any number of fruits and vegetables for dinner. 649 00:33:56,900 --> 00:34:01,430 Finished with red velvet cake,carmine red. 650 00:34:02,460 --> 00:34:04,500 It's a synergy effect. 651 00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,730 See,the fungus, 652 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,400 it attacks the insect proteins. 653 00:34:09,460 --> 00:34:11,760 It doesn't know they've already been eaten by a human. 654 00:34:11,830 --> 00:34:14,130 So the fungus is the loaded gun, 655 00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,860 and the food coloring containing the insect proteins 656 00:34:16,930 --> 00:34:18,930 is the trigger. 657 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,030 Around two years 658 00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:26,360 and several million dollars into the project, 659 00:34:26,430 --> 00:34:29,060 we decided that the end product 660 00:34:29,130 --> 00:34:30,830 wasn't viable anymore. 661 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:35,360 You see,when we fed our test animals food which was dusted 662 00:34:35,430 --> 00:34:39,200 with the,uh,pesticide,see,most of them were fine. 663 00:34:39,260 --> 00:34:40,430 Except for one. 664 00:34:40,500 --> 00:34:41,930 Which was paralyzed. 665 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,130 I mean,we did everything by the book, 666 00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:45,630 you know,for a phase three trial. 667 00:34:45,700 --> 00:34:46,730 The test sample sizes, 668 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,800 genetic lines,everything. 669 00:34:49,860 --> 00:34:53,460 And I thought it was just some kind of anomaly, 670 00:34:53,530 --> 00:34:54,930 but Altschuler,of course,he was obsessed, 671 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:57,600 so he,he did a culture of the dead animal's body, 672 00:34:57,660 --> 00:34:59,100 ran all kinds of tests and... 673 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:03,000 And that's when he discovered the fatal synergy. 674 00:35:04,860 --> 00:35:06,560 We stopped the project before it went any further. 675 00:35:06,630 --> 00:35:09,830 We sent what was left to a biowaste disposal facility, 676 00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:11,630 and that was that. 677 00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:13,030 Until now. 678 00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:14,530 You should have contacted the authorities 679 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,000 the minute you suspected something. 680 00:35:17,060 --> 00:35:19,260 If those people die,it's negligent homicide. 681 00:35:19,330 --> 00:35:21,000 No,uh,you got to believe me here. 682 00:35:21,060 --> 00:35:23,700 I have all the paperwork on file, 683 00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,460 uh,all of our waste goes to a federally licensed 684 00:35:26,530 --> 00:35:28,700 disposal facility just east of here. 685 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,530 It's a 45-minute drive. 686 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,830 All right,all right! 687 00:35:37,900 --> 00:35:39,100 Nice and easy! 688 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,000 Two-three-five- eight- seven-zero-one. 689 00:35:41,060 --> 00:35:42,060 This one checks out. 690 00:35:42,130 --> 00:35:44,000 - Where are the rest? - That's it! 691 00:35:44,060 --> 00:35:46,300 Ground radar confirms we got 692 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:47,600 ten tanks of pesticides. 693 00:35:47,660 --> 00:35:49,130 There should be 14. 694 00:35:49,200 --> 00:35:51,900 We're going to have to question all these workers, 695 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,630 anyone whose had access to the disposal field 696 00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:56,760 in the past 12 months. 697 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:03,000 Hood,car! 698 00:37:03,460 --> 00:37:06,660 Where are the four missing canisters of Aeonium pesticide? 699 00:37:06,730 --> 00:37:08,460 People are going to die! 700 00:37:08,530 --> 00:37:09,930 - Tell me! - O-Okay... 701 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:12,960 Okay! I-I gave them to my dad. 702 00:37:13,030 --> 00:37:14,930 I just wanted to help him out a little, 703 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,430 that's all! 704 00:37:16,500 --> 00:37:17,500 And it did! 705 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,460 Rachel... 706 00:37:28,430 --> 00:37:30,130 Sir! 707 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,200 Put the can down! 708 00:37:32,260 --> 00:37:33,930 You get away. 709 00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:36,360 My boy called me and told me to burn the fields. 710 00:37:36,430 --> 00:37:37,860 That's exactly what I'm doing. 711 00:37:38,900 --> 00:37:41,760 People are sick because you put 712 00:37:41,830 --> 00:37:43,930 Aeonium pesticides in your crops. 713 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,760 You put the lives of every person who ate 714 00:37:46,830 --> 00:37:48,430 produce from your farm at serious risk. 715 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:50,630 By burning your fields, 716 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:53,260 there's a very good chance you're going to spread 717 00:37:53,330 --> 00:37:55,000 whatever organism made those people sick 718 00:37:55,060 --> 00:37:56,060 to the neighboring farms. 719 00:37:57,160 --> 00:37:59,360 You see those fields over there? 720 00:37:59,430 --> 00:38:01,960 Monsanto. 721 00:38:02,030 --> 00:38:03,960 You see these fields over here? 722 00:38:04,030 --> 00:38:06,260 Crops all the way to the base of those mountains? 723 00:38:06,330 --> 00:38:07,460 That's Dole. 724 00:38:07,530 --> 00:38:10,460 When my father's father 725 00:38:10,530 --> 00:38:13,500 settled this land,it was small family farms 726 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,730 for as far as the eye could see. 727 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,930 Now,we're the only ones left. 728 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:20,760 Drop it,now. 729 00:38:21,730 --> 00:38:24,160 Last year we almost lost this place. 730 00:38:24,230 --> 00:38:26,960 Yeah,when we planted the new crop 731 00:38:27,030 --> 00:38:28,900 my boy called me and he said, 732 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,360 "Dad," he says,"I got something that we can put on the crops 733 00:38:32,430 --> 00:38:35,900 "that'll really make a difference." 734 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:37,360 So we put it on there. 735 00:38:37,430 --> 00:38:39,560 We used it,yes,sir. 736 00:38:39,630 --> 00:38:41,030 Now,I knew where it come from. 737 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:42,460 It worked so good,I didn question it. 738 00:38:42,530 --> 00:38:45,030 Well,maybe you should have. 739 00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:53,760 That's the state police. 740 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,860 It's over,sir. 741 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,930 Well,I'll,uh... 742 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,160 I'll,I'll go with you. 743 00:39:08,230 --> 00:39:11,360 I'm sorry about what we did. 744 00:39:11,430 --> 00:39:13,400 I'm real sorry. 745 00:39:28,660 --> 00:39:30,400 Mom,Dad,this is Dr. Hood. 746 00:39:30,460 --> 00:39:32,230 He's the only one that believed 747 00:39:32,300 --> 00:39:33,930 I wasn't trying to poison you guys. 748 00:39:34,860 --> 00:39:35,900 Thank you. 749 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,560 Oh,don't mention it. 750 00:39:37,630 --> 00:39:40,800 I'm just glad the scorpion antivenin worked. 751 00:39:40,860 --> 00:39:44,660 But Emily still needs to see a chemistry tutor. 752 00:39:59,630 --> 00:40:02,130 We were lucky. 753 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,960 Fungus tends to mutate really quickly. 754 00:40:06,030 --> 00:40:08,000 Sooner or later,there'd be a hardier strain 755 00:40:08,060 --> 00:40:10,060 and way more people would've been at risk. 756 00:40:10,130 --> 00:40:13,700 Guess I'm going to have to look at my food labels 757 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:15,400 more closely from now on. 758 00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,230 Uh,natural coloring. 759 00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:24,660 So,you're saying that's just bugs,huh? 760 00:40:24,730 --> 00:40:27,000 Maybe,maybe not. 761 00:40:27,060 --> 00:40:28,660 According to the FDA 762 00:40:28,730 --> 00:40:30,860 as long as it's "natural" it could be anything. 763 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:36,530 Green food coloring,on the other hand, 764 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:41,500 is a petroleum derived triphenylmethane. 765 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,330 Nothing natural about it. 766 00:40:46,100 --> 00:40:47,830 Yummy. 767 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 768 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000