The Killing Gene Page #2
- R
- Year:
- 2007
- 104 min
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This lab is the only place
within a hundred miles
to keep stocks of Austixamine.
Could you tell us
what you use it for?
lt's all legal,
just the way you guys like it.
Listen, if you want me to take you in
for being an a**hole,
well, l got a license to do that.
What animals would you use it on?
l used to keep a couple of crocs.
that's all.
Are you aware of any Austixamine going
missing in the last three months?
No.
Who else has access
to your stocks of tranquilizer?
Nobody.
Any lab assistants?
Money's tight.
What kind of science do you do?
Ethology. Animal behavior.
l'm gonna need this opened, please.
Yeah, sure.
Here you go.
This is quite a collection
of drugs you got here.
l'm gonna need to see your records.
What do you do exactly?
Graft elephant ears on a monkey?
My work concerns
how species respond to predators,
how they warn each other,
if they warn each other.
How far they go to protect each other,
if they protect each other.
Like, you throw a croc into a cage of
monkeys and see how they deal with it?
Not always with a real crocodile.
You see, monkeys are expensive.
Eddie.
F***!
Sh*t!
Eddie!
Sh*t!
Oh f***!
F***! Eddie!
Sh*t!
F***!
Don't move!
Sh*t! Sh*t! Sh*t!
Shut your f***ing mouth!
Explain it to me.
'W Delta Z"- what does it mean?
The Price equation?
W is fitness, the ability
to reproduce across generations.
Z is a particular trait.
Delta...
- That's technical.
l don't understand.
Humor us!
The selfish gene.
Go on.
You think a bird will
sacrifice itself for the flock
or a bee will sting a predator
and die for the hive?
How noble. How heroic.
And it isn't true?
- No, it isn't true.
Suppose you put a snake in the cage
and one of the monkeys is a hero,
yeah, lures it away...
that it should eat him?
But it's not heroism.
It's not selflessness.
Forget the bees.
Forget the monkeys.
F*** the monkey!
The monkey's nothing.
Just think what the monkey's made of.
What's that?
Genes!
The monkey is just the gene's way
All these monkeys,
they're all related.
So the monkey dies -
what do the genes care?
That's what Price proved.
There's no altruism in nature.
lt's just genes
Iooking after themselves.
How many dead monkeys so far?
Would you mind
not smoking in here, please?
Just imagine a hero
without a genetic motive.
Not a relative,
not a potential mate.
Now, that would be interesting,
wouldn't it?
When did you graduate to people?
What do you mean?
Why did you run?
Ketamine...
l though that's why...
l've been dealing ketamine.
lf you want,
l can give you their names.
l've been so low on funding
l've just had to improvise.
We have four dead bodies, Dr. Gelb,
knocked out with your animal tranq.
Two of them with your equation
carved into their flesh.
l didn't kill anyone!
Somebody's carving the Price equation
into people's bodies?
F***!
F***!
l'm sure l didn't kill anyone.
He's got the animal tranqs.
He's got the theory,
which is a pretty freaky coincidence.
And he's nuts.
to work it out, right?
Why scratch your message
into the corpses?
lt's a tough code to crack.
We need help,
so he sends us to Dr. Gelb.
Gelb's had a message from God.
Tell the world!
Repent its selfishness or burn!
lt's not Dr. Gelb!
Until last night he was at
a conference at State University.
Whoever it is, is running
an experiment like Dr. Gelb.
And this whack-job actually thinks
we're gonna learn f***in' algebra!
lt says love is bullshit.
Deep down, it's just genes and
genes don't give a damn about love.
But human beings,
what's our love worth?
Our guardian genome?
The mother of your children,
your twin brother.
How much pain will it take
before you kill someone you love?
So, l'm all wired
up to Eddie, right...
l flip the switch, he's toast.
Before that he tortures you,
cuts you open,
cuts off your dick if he has to.
Love you, Eddie, but l am gonna
flip the f***in' switch, man!
l don't think our guy is gonna stop
till he gets to the end
of the equation.
l need a sandwich.
Like that thing, man.
One day...
you gots nobody.
Danny...
l think it's her.
l think it's Jean Lerner.
F***in' Pierre, man.
Yo, what's up?
Alright.
Eddie!
Gotta show you something.
Gelb's only had three assistants
in four years
and one of them's on our database.
What for?
- Victim. In a rape and murder case.
Jean Lerner.
Yeah. It was my case.
were part of that gang, right?
Raped her and murdered her mother.
Those two plus Pierre Jackson,
Daniel Leone and a woman,
Elly Carpenter.
Elly Carpenter, the girl
with the kid in the crack house.
Taking on guys like that,
she'd have to be f***ing Wonder Woman.
So, what happened, Eddie?
All of them walking free...
What the f*** happened with forensics?
Contaminated.
All of it?
All of it!
But you did get a confession
from Jamal Osman.
Corelli beat the crap out of him
to get it, so it was useless.
Those a**holes!
What they did to those women
you can't believe.
Eddie, we should get a warrant!
She drew illustrations
for children's books.
She was living here
to take care of her mother.
Those bastards!
They didn't even steal a thing.
No point, just for kicks.
Cut her.
Snapped some fingers.
Raped her with a bottle.
A broken bottle.
Tortured her for four hours.
Then they did her a deal.
They'd stop and leave her in peace
if she'd just tell 'em
to shoot her mother.
Eddie, look at this.
Yeah?
Hi. Eddie?
lt's weird isn't it?
To talk again?
Jean?
l've been thinking a Iot
about what l'd say.
Well, l guess Gelb
explained some of it.
There is a species of wasp
who lays her eggs
in a living caterpillar.
The Iarvae eat the caterpiIIar
from the inside out.
Organ by organ.
Who's next, Jean?
Who're you gonna test next?
Can you imagine the agony
the caterpillar is in?
But the wasp doesn't care.
Maybe that's almost beautiful.
lt's motherhood.
Call Corelli.
Tell him to send patrol cars
to Elly Carpenter's.
And l want 24-hour uniforms
on Jackson and Leone
and the tapes from these cameras!
Yeah, l need Forensics
at 4970 Richmond...
Danny, it's me. Where are you?
l'm still on the block.
Go straight home. Lock your door.
Don't open it to anybody but me.
l was right.
Who'd you call?
- What?
You called someone.
They don't all deserve to die.
Where's the f***ing backup?
Elly?
l should call.
Can't a person sleep?
ls your little boy here?
He's in bed.
What the f*** is it to you?
You wanna f*** me? Is that it?
Tight ass b*tch!
Dominic is not in his bed.
Elly. Where's Dominic?
Where is he?
- He's sleepin'.
Elly!
- What?
He's not in there! Where is he?
Where is he?
F***, no...
he's still playing out in the hall.
You got a problem? Huh?
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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