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insect, they decide to feed it some bluish powdery substance one of them finds in a bottle on a shelf. They argue over who gets to pour it into the jar with the insect, and as a result, they pour in an excessively large amount of the powder. Hearing the nurse and orderly returning, the children quickly leave. Unbeknownst to the two, the insect has grown to gigantic proportions and broken free of its glass prison. It promptly kills them both.
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no thorns, and neither she nor Fred can figure out what could have pricked him. Nevertheless, he seems okay, and after bidding
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where he pricked his finger. Their attention is taken away from Fred when police detective Jim Bishop brings his partner in with a bad gunshot wound. The two had been involved in a stakeout that went poorly, and Jim's partner got shot at point-blank range. However, Rachel is confident that he should
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Railsback, Gwynyth Walsh, Don Lake, Helen Hughes, Sandy Webster, Susan Anspach, Bill Lake, Peter Van Wart, Don Ritchie, Stuart Stone, Marsha Moreau, William Fruet, Martin Walters, Michael Masciarelli, Risa Gertner, Sandy Howard, Tom Fox, Chris Koseluck,
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isn't much more than a standard angry-larva story, but it has been cleverly directed by
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ward start roaming the halls. Lab technician Alice
Bradley, tasked with guarding the insect specimen, is lured away from her post by her boyfriend, laser lab technician Ted Andrews, to have sex, which leaves the insect completely unguarded. The children wander on into the lab unnoticed. Seeing the
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in the hospital's in-house laboratory. Rachel is concerned that whatever Fred had might be contagious and orders mandatory checkups of everyone, including Jim. When Jim comes back clean of any mysterious parasitic insects, Rachel decides to show him around the hospital, including their high-tech
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the pupa prove futile, so it is decided to slice it open. In doing so, the doctors unleash a particularly feisty insect-like creature, but with Jim's help, they get it contained.
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Hill Valley
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Elliot Jacobs in the hopes of identifying the mysterious insect. Before Elliot arrives, a group of children from the hospital's
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Fred inexplicably hurts himself on the plant as though he pricked his finger on a thorn. However, Marwella claims the plant
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