The Bay Page #9

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.

(isopods chirping)

Get it out.

(siren blaring)

(car stalls)

(Alex choking, vomiting)

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.

- (retches)

- Alex.

Please explain

to me what's going on.

- Okay.

- (helicopter approaching)

- 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...

- (Stephanie screaming)

- (flesh squelching)

Donna's voice:

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.

(Stephanie crying)

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?

Slattery:

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.

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.

Williams:

What did the report say?

Slattery:

Well, uh...

kinda strange stuff.

It said the cause of death was

"undetermined due

to a multiplicity of parasites

and a variety of infections. "

Do you want a copy

of this report?

Williams:

Oh, yeah.

Funny enough, I would love

to see a copy of that report.

- Here we are, baby.

- (baby crying)

Williams:

So let me get this straight.

Two divers are found

with a bunch of holes in them

and all that we know is that

they're mysteriously being eaten

by parasites

and infections.

Williams:
Nobody knows what

happened and it takes 16 days

to get this

information to us?

Slattery:
Listen, we

set up an incident center

without cause and we're

in deep doo-doo here.

Williams:
Really? Well, I've

got a town full of dead bodies.

Slattery:
A small

town. I think we need to

keep this whole thing

in perspective here.

Williams:
What kind of

perspective are you talking about?

(screaming)

(muffled)

Help me! Help me!

Get off of me!

Get off of me!

(baby continues crying)

Slattery:
Listen, it's not that easy to

pull the trigger on something like this.

We...

(sighs)

We blow up a nonissue and shut

down the entire Chesapeake Bay...

I mean, we're talking about beaches,

restaurants, vacation fishing.

The public panics if word gets out

we're setting up an incident center

about a spreading disease

or for a spreading disease.

You don't just shut down the

Eastern Seaboard without approval

from a higher authority.

Great, I understand. Thank you

very much, Officer Slattery.

That's it?

Okay.

Thanks.

Donna's voice:

Um, then at about 5:30,

they came in

the hazmat suits,

and then they quarantined

the town for another three days

and that was when they

confiscated

every single camera

they could find.

You know, there were

those who survived,

and for some reason,

they never became sick.

Uh, the town as a whole

reached a financial agreement

with the government.

I don't know how much

money changed hands,

but I do know that silence

was part of the agreement.

I tried to reach out

to people like Stephanie,

but she didn't want to

participate in this film.

Oh, and by the way.

The official line

from the government

was that the outbreak

was due to

unseasonably high

water temperatures.

This is Donna Thompson...

signing off.

(music playing)

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