Menhaden: Most Important Fish in the Bay Page #8

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This place is open up here.

Let's go in here.

- Will you look inside...

- Let's just go in here and regroup.

- Are you okay?

- Yeah, yeah.

Come on.

- Oh, my God.

- Oh, sh*t.

Um, here.

Let's set this stuff down.

- Where?

- How is Andrew?

He's fine.

He's sleeping.

Well, this

couldn't be creepier.

- Can we make sure there are no

more dead people in here? - Yes.

I'll make sure they're not.

Okay.

No, this is good.

This is good.

Let's stay here.

I'm gonna see if

I can find a landline.

Maybe I can get one to work.

Okay.

I'm gonna go out

and see if I see anyone

on the street at all.

Cops, something.

- We'll find 'em.

- Find 'em?

We'll find 'em.

Nothing's happened.

We just... we just...

have some deputies off radio.

You know, if I find these guys

are playing a joke on me...

Well, they're fired.

I've never had this happen.

There's got to be a reason.

I'm gonna make the next

town meeting, I can tell you that.

- We're gonna have to get some...

- Come on, Lee.

That's the last thing we need right now.

- What's that?

- Put your seatbelt on.

Oh, Jesus.

You're riding in a police car.

Yeah, I'm worried

about my seat belt.

That's what I'm

worried about, right?

Whose car?

I think that's Jimson's car.

- I can't be for sure.

- Is that him in the car?

I don't know.

- Whose house is this?

- What the hell is he doing, Lee?

- Now, wait a minute.

- I had to kill 'em.

That's Jim.

- What's wrong with him?

- What's wrong with him?

He looks like

he's done something.

- Is he drunk?

- He's got his gun out.

- Go away!

- What's the matter, Jim?

Come here, buddy!

Come here!

Something's

wrong with his face.

- Oh, God, he's got...

- Oh, Christ.

- Go away!

- Jim?

- Go away!

- Come on, Jim.

- Just chill out, buddy!

- Just go!

Come on!

Come on and get

in the back of the car.

Get in the back

of the car, Jim.

I'll take you to the hospital.

- Come on, we'll take you somewhere.

- Just go!

Come on, bud.

Don't let me lose you, Jim.

Come on, now.

We're all gonna die.

- We're all gonna die.

- Oh, God.

- I don't wanna die like this.

- It's okay, buddy.

- I'm coming to get you!

- No, Lee. Lee, stay.

- No, no, no, no.

- Let him go, Lee.

No, no, no. We gotta

get him somewhere.

- You stay here.

- Lee, for God's sake.

- Jim.

- They're eating my flesh.

- They're eating everybody's flesh.

- Jim, buddy. Get in the car.

- Let's go somewhere. Come on.

- We're all gonna die.

- Come on. Hey, what's that?

- We shouldn't have to die like this.

Huh?

No, you're not gonna die.

Nobody's gonna die.

Get in the car.

You don't have

to die like this, sir.

I can't touch you,

but get in the car.

Jim, now, wait a minute.

No, Deputy!

Put that gun down!

Bill, just hang on

for a second.

I'm gonna go and get Alex.

Okay?

Don't go anywhere.

Alex. Alex?

I got Bill on the Skype.

- Bill, can you hear me?

- Yeah, what's going on?

Okay, we came to Claridge

to meet up with my parents.

- And, um...

- Where are you, at an antique store or something?

There are these...

there are dead bodies

- everywhere, Bill.

- What?

- And...

- Bill, the entire town is covered

- in dead f***ing bodies.

- Oh, yeah. Okay.

That's a good one.

All right.

- Bill, please!

- What, are you guys serious?

Yeah, we are entirely

f***ing serious here, Bill.

Oh, okay.

Call the cops, guys.

No, we called the cops.

We can't get through to them.

We can't get through

to my parents.

Our cell phones aren't working.

We can't get service.

We need for

you to do something.

Okay, all right.

Where are you?

Claridge.

- Claridge?

- Claridge.

In Maryland, for God's sake.

- Call somebody, anybody.

- All right, hey.

Just get us

some help here, please.

Tell me, what happened to you?

We don't know what happened.

I mean, what is that

on your neck?

What's on my neck?

- Oh, my God, Alex.

- What is it?

Oh, holy sh*t.

My name is

Dr. Jack Abrams.

I am a physician

at the Atlantic Hospital

in Maryland.

I'm making this video

in the hope that

I will be able to watch it

at some point in the future,

and I'm gonna show the world

what happened here.

Uh, coming out

into the hall now...

I locked myself

in the ICU for...

The CDC stopped

taking my phone calls.

Contacted FEMA.

Help hasn't arrived.

I think I now know

what is killing people.

We were looking

for some kind of virus,

some kind of viral outbreak.

And when we called CDC,

they needed to send

a f***ing army down here to put

some goddamn minds together

to find what I know now,

which is this is not a virus.

This is an organism.

It is an organism

that has somehow

infiltrated these

people's bodies.

The blistering...

that's a symptom.

It is not...

that is what...

that is what threw us off.

It is the isopod.

It's eating their organs.

It's... it's... it's literally

eating them from the inside.

It is eating their intestines,

it is eating their liver.

It goes for kidneys,

lungs, tissue.

This is a rapidly growing,

accelerating organism.

How it's growing this fast,

I have no idea.

Um, I noticed this rash

about 45 minutes ago.

And I'm gonna continue

to take the camera

and I'm gonna document

everything that I see here.

If you find this tape,

just please get it out.

Get it out.

Alex? Alex, Jesus!

- Alex?

- Stephanie, would you please talk to me?

- What's happening?

- What's wrong?

Talk to me.

What's wrong?

- Alex?

- There's something crawling

inside of my stomach.

Alex.

Please explain

to me what's going on.

Okay.

- They're coming, they're coming.

- I can't...

They're gonna come.

Help is here, okay?

You're okay.

You're gonna be fine.

- It hurts.

- I know, darling.

I know it hurts,

but we gotta get you outside.

No!

I'm in too much pain.

I can't handle it.

- Alex... no.

- Take it, take it!

What's wrong with you?

Come on!

- Please. It's too much.

- No.

- Help me.

- Alex, come on.

Help.

Finish...

Alex died at 1:
26 AM.

The larvae he swallowed

in the bay

had grown into

a full-sized parasite

in eight hours

from the toxic soup.

Hi, this is Steve Slattery

over at Homeland Security.

I just wanted

to get back to you

on that message

about Chesapeake Bay.

Yeah? And?

Yeah, uh... turns out

we did hear something

a few weeks back

about a couple divers' bodies

being found in the water.

Natural Resources Police

thought it was

a bull shark bite.

And they were getting ready

to pull people out of the water

and put up a shark alert,

but a medical examiner

determined

that it was not

a shark bite at all.

What was it?

They weren't sure, so they

sent reports over to us,

and then we sent them over

to the Coast Guard

and they said it didn't make

any sense to them,

so then we sent it to FEMA

and they never responded,

so I figured

we'd send it to you.

Yeah, that's good.

What did the report say?

Well, uh...

kinda strange stuff.

It said the cause of death was

"undetermined due

to a multiplicity of parasites

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