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or kidnapped under my watch.

Dr. Herbert Humphries

has.

That would be my father.

Three months ago.

Ha.

Hate to break it to you,

but three months is like

three years in this jungle.

Well, I have some

captivating evidence for you.

This was recovered from

the SD card in his camera.

Taken three days ago.

That means he's still

out there somewhere alive.

Hmm. What

do you think, Meyers?

You feel like one last hoorah

before I'm stateside?

Got nothing left to lose.

All right,

let's go find your daddy.

Yes!

So what is it that's

so bad out here anyways?

You don't want to know.

Out here in the jungle, there's

stuff you ain't gonna find

in the bottom

of a Petrie dish.

Out here, you're

bottom of the food chain.

Hit the deck!

Cover! Cover!

Cover! Cover! Go! Go!

Yates!

Cover! Go! Go!

Stay with the girls!

Get down!

Hello, Foxtrot Six Two!

This is

Charlie Two One Alpha, over!

Incoming enemy fire, over!

Paulo! Stop firing!

Hold your fire!

Beastman, is that you?

Ah, Jaguar,

I should have known.

Yes, that's definitely you.

Why don't you and your men

just drop your weapons

and get the hell

out of here.

We're just passing through,

no trouble.

No blood need be shed

here today, Beastman.

We only want

your vehicles,

your weapons,

and your women.

No chance in hell,

voodoo man!

Don't say you haven't

been warned, Beastman.

We're gonna take them

the hard way!

Aah!

Cover me!

I'm gonna flank them!

Copy that!

Flank! Flank!

Grenade!

Aah!

Incoming!

Next time, Beastman!

Anybody hurt?

Everything's clear!

All right.

Come on.

So now what?

We get the hell

out of here.

Mission's over.

What?

I'm not risking

my men's lives for this.

I'm really sorry

about your men,

but there is something

really wrong here.

Listen.

I don't hear a thing.

Exactly.

The only time

the jungle goes this quiet

is if there's a really

large predator around.

Hey, boss,

you call in air support?

Nope.

Incoming!

Take cover!

Rhonda!

Get down, get down!

Aah!

Ortega!

Aah!

Norving!

Shoot that thing!

Shoot it down!

How's Ortega?

Not good. He's not gonna

make it back to base.

All right, we're gonna have

to go someplace closer then.

Hey, Simpson, Jennings,

get over here!

Help get Ortega on the back

of the truck, all right?

We're going

to Jaguar's village.

It's closer.

Isn't that guy

who just tried to kill us?

You let me worry

about that.

What is that?

I don't know.

There's something

you're not telling me.

I could say

the same thing for you.

All right, well,

say whatever you want.

We're out of here.

We can't leave.

Watch me!

What about the bug?

Yeah, we're taking

this with us.

You can do whatever

the hell you want with that.

Just make it fast.

When you said there are worse

things in these mountains,

things that no armor

could protect you from,

were you talking

about the Garinagu?

No. I was just talking

about Jaguar, their leader.

The guy thinks he's got

some magical powers

that make him bulletproof.

It's bullshit!

What about those things?

You ever see anything

like that before?

Look, only 10% of

this jungle's been explored.

Who knows

what's out there?

Only a matter of time

before we ran into something

more dangerous than Jaguar.

All right,

grab your gear.

Someone help Yates

with Ortega.

We're on foot from here.

Let's move.

What about the bug?

You can bring that nasty

thing if you want to.

I'm not carrying it.

Look, many insects are repelled

by the smell of their dead.

This bug could be

our best defense.

These are

our best defense.

It's not much further.

Step it up! Come on!

Whew.

Don't these things

ever shut up?

Well, just be glad you're

hearing them and not seeing them.

Oh, no way.

You've gotta

be kidding me.

Worst-case scenario,

we all go for a swim.

I know, I know.

I'll make it up to you

when we get back.

I have bug juice in places that

you don't even want to know.

There is no making

this up to me.

Guess I'm

off the hook then.

Come on.

I've been expecting you,

Beastman.

Welcome back.

Have you finally come

to face your demon?

Look, one of my men

is dying.

Many of

my own men are dead,

four

at your hands alone.

What makes you think I

wouldn't just skin you alive

and feed you to the

spirits of the jungle?

Because both of us know there's

something else out there besides us...

something else

that hunts men,

a real beast

that even you're afraid of.

So if we work together,

both of our people can survive.

That's why I think I'm better off

to you alive than skinned alive.

For now, but there's a still a

debt of blood which must be paid.

You owe me four souls.

Well, when this is

all said and done,

you can do

whatever you want to me.

But save my guy

and leave the rest

of them out of it, okay?

The spirits admire

such courage...

and so do I.

This way.

Let's move.

There.

Careful.

Easy.

Go on.

Your women must leave.

Hey, Meyers,

check that GPS.

See if you can

track down our men.

What's that?

Bones and cocaine

for the pain.

Hey, Meyers, we're gonna leave

that one out of the report, okay?

In fact, leave it all out.

Eat.

Oh, no.

Come on, Ortega.

Hey! Hey!

Eat it, come on.

That's an order!

Swallow!

Ortega?

Ortega!

Is he gonna be all right?

The spirits of the jungle

will decide his fate.

Yeah, thanks.

Oh, don't thank me yet.

I don't work for free,

and we have

much to discuss.

El Bicho Diablo.

The Devil Bug.

For generations, our people

have lived in peace and harmony

with the animal spirits

of the jungle.

That peace have been

disrupted by El Bicho Diabl.

It does not belong here.

The spirits cannot rest.

So you've seen

these before?

No.

Legend foretold their coming

as a great plague

to wash away evil.

We felt their presence

these past few months,

growing every day.

But they do not attack.

This village is protected

by the jungle.

Your people brought

this plague upon the land.

What do you mean,

"your people"?

We had nothing

to do with this.

That may not be

entirely accurate.

Are you telling me

that you knew

what we were dealing

with the entire time?

That's not entirely true.

Stop lying to me

and start talking now!

All right.

My father was an entomologist

like me... insects.

Only his specialty

was genetic engineering.

Oh, you didn't think that

this was relevant information?

He was working for some

company called Transgen Tech.

He never told me

what he was working on,

and I couldn't even find

any evidence

that the company

really existed.

Then this turned up

in a backpack

with photos

from three days ago.

As far as what those things

are out there,

you know as much as I do.

Yeah, well,

that's not enough.

You need to find out everything

you can about these bugs,

everything

if we're gonna go after them.

So get to work.

Did you just

say "go after them"?

What happened

to abandon the mission?

Well, that was before

they took four of my men!

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