A year ago, the animals started acting strangely,
but no one noticed...
until they began attacking,
coordinating,
evolving.
The animals were mutating,
and it was happening faster than anyone expected.
The government came up with a plan.
Thanks to the Noah Objective,
in six to ten years
the world's animal population
will be thriving once again.
Killing the animals? Play God and repopulate
the planet?
This is ridiculous.
But messing with Mother Nature
could be catastrophic,
so a group of us are trying to save the animals.
Jackson Oz and Abraham Kenyatta,
animal experts.
Chloe Tousignant,
an Intel operative.
Jamie Campbell,
a reporter who's been
following this story, found me,
Mitch Morgan,
a veterinary pathologist.
Together we're going to find a cure
for the animals.
Time is running out.
Previously on Zoo...
Jamie!
We have to go!
Get your hands off me!
I'm taking you!
- Go, go! - I hate you for this.
Lucky for me that you came along.
This is where we're going.
In Caraquet.
You all right?
It's a dog bite, it's fine.
Doesn't look too good.
I changed your medical records.
We'll keep this between the two of us.
Our little secret that what?
My blood's changing? That I'm changing?
Changing into what?
I've heard this before.
Searching for an animal
with a phase two mutation.
So I got a hit on his fingerprints.
Janos Kovacs.
There is something specific
about Kovacs' genetic makeup that
made it possible for the mutation to occur in him.
Yeah, that's what it looks like.
_
As the death toll in the human-animal conflict
nears one million and rumors swirl that the mutation
has taken on a new phase,
spiritual leaders are calling for an interfaith
day of prayer on behalf of those
searching tirelessly for a cure.
He's dead.
Do you have any idea what you've done?
What were you thinking, huh? Who are you, anyway?
You never should've brought that
- monster on this plane. - Huh, who is she?
That monster was our only chance
at understanding the new mutation!
He already killed six of my guys,
you wanted to wait until he killed somebody else?
Everybody should just calm down.
Calm down? Yeah, great idea, Abe.
I can namaste with the best of them, but you know what?
This chick just ruined our best shot at saving the world.
- You're going to save the world? - Yeah, that's the idea.
Oh, well that's just great, that just really inspires confidence.
Okay, enough now!
Mitch, run every test you can on the body.
Well, that's going to require a whole lot of complex DNA work,
and I'm not going to be able to do that unless
- we bring D.C. in on it. - We'll figure out a way...
Hold on, you haven't told Washington?
No, I haven't told Washington.
My team died for that festering freak
and you bastards are off book?
This operation is strictly need-to-know.
I don't give a steaming crap about your spy secrets, lady.
I want my ops center on the radio now.
I don't care what you want.
This plane is under my command.
And so are you.
_
You sure you're okay?
Yeah, I will be.
When we get to Caraquet.
Hook up with my friends.
If we keep following the river
we should be there by nightfall tomorrow.
Yeah, if we actually make it.
We're low on food and matches.
We could use a gun, too.
I've flown over this place a dozen times.
From up there it looks great,
- down here it kind of sucks. - You're a pilot?
Used to fly rich guys up here to drink beer
and shoot cute little furry things.
Then the furry things got less cute.
So how'd you get stranded?
I do mail runs for some of the smaller towns.
Plane got forced down.
I had no choice but to try and hoof it.
I didn't know it would be this cold.
You don't have anything in there that you can put on?
Not unless I want to stuff my pants with
Andrew Jackson's face.
So you're lugging around money?
Yeah, it's my life's savings.
Every penny of it.
Kelly, my girlfriend,
she didn't trust banks in the best of times,
let alone during the animal apocalypse.
So, uh, why carry it around with you?
Why don't you just
- leave it at home? - We had some wolves
get into our apartment in Halifax.
It was bad. I got out.
But Kelly didn't.
Everybody has a story like that these days, right?
What's yours?
Just, uh...
doing time at the end of the world.
Like everybody else.
Tires.
Clever.
When I was back home, I would tie a mattress
to a tree whenever I needed to sort something out.
Anyway, I just came to tell you,
we're dropping you at your base in Sao Paulo
- in a few hours' time. - Mm.
I thought you might want to know.
- Am I supposed to say thank you? - No.
I could break that French girl into a hundred pieces.
You know that, right?
Can make it so she wouldn't be
pretty again for a month.
Chloe is just doing her job.
It's amazing, isn't it?
When people on her side of things "just do their job,"
people on my side of things die in great big chunks.
You lost people you care about.
So have we.
It's not easy.
But we're trying to stop
this thing.
Set the world right.
Even if you do,
those people are still gone.
That is why we can never give up.
So there are others still left to remember them.
Anyway, I'll just leave you to it.
Unless there's anything else I can do.
Maybe one thing.
Okay.
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We have to tell Mitch, Chloe.
If there is even a chance that I have the same mutation,
Mitch needs to know that there's another phase two subject
- he can study. - Jackson...
- No. - You know it's true.
If they learn about it in Washington,
- they will lock you in a cage. - Mitch is our friend.
He's not going to tell anyone, we can trust him.
What if someone accesses his data?
The only way to guarantee this stays secret
is to not tell anyone.
Ooh, what are we not telling anyone?
Eleanor wants to talk to us.
Okay.
I need you to meet me in
Geneva, Switzerland immediately.
They're pushing forward on the Noah Objective.
A multinational conference has been assembled here
to work out logistics.
I thought we had more time.
General Andrew Davies has taken over,
and his methods are aggressive.
What does that mean?
I'd rather discuss this in person.
Okay, we-we'll come as soon as we can.
What about Jamie?
Resources are scarce, Dr. Morgan,
but Jamie is still at the top of my list.
As soon as there's a team available.
Thank you.
- Thank you. - Thanks.
Okay, so we'll come straight to your hotel
once we land.
No. I'll come to the plane.
Have your pilot notify my adjutant, Lieutenant Reed,
when you land.
- Of course. - And understand this,
we need to tread lightly.
General Davies
and his supporters want all alternatives
to the Noah Objective shut down.
At any cost.
Well, he's gonna love us.
Just be careful.
We'll see you then. Stay safe.
Did she seem a little off to you?
- Yes. - Yes.
Something is wrong.
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- No, no! - What, what?
What happened?
No, we followed the river,
it should have taken us all the way to Caraquet.
You sure you're not just reading the map wrong?
No, look.
That mountain's not supposed to be there.
Oh, my God.
The river.
It moved.
Just follow my lead.
I'm assuming Eleanor didn't want us coming here
for a reason.
Well, she never showed up at the plane,
so we don't have a whole lot of options.
That's Lieutenant Reed.
Eleanor's adjutant.
Excuse me, gentlemen.
Agent Tousignant, what are you doing here?
Looking for Eleanor.
I assumed she was still with you.
She never arrived.
I'll ask around.
- Maybe someone else has seen her. - Thank you.
I'll check the other meeting.
Well, that's not good.
Wait here.
It's about to get worse.
That's General Davies,
the man Eleanor warned us about.
Agent Tousignant.
General Davies, pleasure to meet you.
I hope you're not here
to offer us another
ridiculous idea for a cure.
No, we just had some loose ends
to tie up with Eleanor.
Ah, yes, our patron saint of lost causes.
I'm afraid she's yet to grace us with her presence today.
Agent Tousignant, I'm gonna be straight
with you... you're a talented analyst.
Too talented to be wasting your time
with Frodo and Sam here.
We can use your skills here with the Noah Objective.
You cannot exterminate every animal on the planet
and then repopulate it.
The entire ecosystem will crash.
You understand that, right?
The Noah Objective is the most
scientifically sound option we have.
It's madness.
Extreme? Yes.
Unquestionably, but so are the circumstances.
Damn it, I knew it!
I knew I recognized you.
Chloe,
Jackson, this is
Dr.... Andrew Davies.
He's got a PhD from Cambridge.
I read your graduate thesis.
I'm familiar with your work
as well, Dr. Morgan.
The study you published about mast cell tumors.
The one that was ultimately...
discredited.
You had your chance to find a cure.
You failed.
Every day spent discussing
how to save the animals
means thousands of human lives
will be lost.
So as much as I'd like to stand here
debating ethics with you all day,
I have a war to win.
That's the guy running the Noah Objective?
And now we're smack-dab in the middle of his crosshairs.
We need to find Eleanor now.
This lake isn't on the map, either.
What the hell is going on here?
It's not a lake.
It's a coal mine.
The river was diverted, and it flooded the mine.
W... who would divert an entire river?
Beavers.
Right.
They build dams.
What if they built a really big one?
One that diverted the river.
Sorry we couldn't drop you in Sao Paulo as planned.
They should be able to get you to your base from here.
Thanks.
Dariela?
Circumstances aside, I'm glad we got
to get to know each other.
Even if it was brief.
It was a very
good brief.
After all this is over, perhaps we could con...
It's impossible.
Rivers don't just move.
Yeah, well, this one did.
And it put us eight miles off course.
Don't move.
Well, it's gone.
At least for now.
If you say so.
We should keep moving, though.
We don't want to be here when it comes back.
I'll say one thing about the animal apocalypse.
Makes it easier to bribe hotel employees.
Eleanor?
No!
Oh!
What happened to her?
Her entire mandible is separated from her jaw.
- All right, we got to call the cops. - Wait.
She wanted to tell us something.
Something she couldn't say over the phone.
She was concerned someone was listening to her.
Maybe whoever it was killed her.
Maybe.
Maybe not. See, those are some scorch marks.
Looks like something burned her from the inside out.
Radioactive material has been used in assassinations before.
You think she was assassinated?
She said it herself.
That Davies would shut down anyone standing in the way
of the Noah Objective.
Yeah, but come on, that's...
that's a little extreme, huh?
If I'm gonna get any answers,
I'm gonna need a sample of cerebrospinal fluid.
Check out her nervous system
for any chemicals
or radiation.
I'll take a look around the room.
We need to find out
what she was trying to tell us.
Sorry about this.
Mitch... check this out.
A little busy here.
We got company.
Scoop up some ants. Hurry
before this spinal fluid goes bad.
Now, that's a sentence you could go
your whole life and never hear.
Okay, let's get our bearings.
If we're going the right way,
there should be two peaks to the west.
But we need a higher vantage point to see them.
Ow! Oh!
Are you okay?
- Yeah. - Just take a minute.
I'll check it out.
Put the bag down.
Easy, buddy.
Jamie.
- Are you okay? - Yeah.
I, uh...
I was gonna come meet you halfway,
but a crazed beaver had other ideas.
"Crazed beaver"?
Yeah.
You see anything up there?
Yeah, I saw the peaks.
We're headed the right way.
Glad your foot's doing better.
Eleanor's dead.
Julie, get me on the next train out of here.
I don't care!
Just do it.
If you're just joining us,
we're covering breaking news out of Geneva, Switzerland,
where IADG's consultant, Eleanor Lewis, was found dead
in her hotel room.
The cause of death has not yet been released.
Eleanor Lewis is survived by her 20-year-old son,
- a freshman at U-Chicago. - Hey.
I'm sorry.
I really am.
We, um, we need to reach out
to someone else in Eleanor's department.
She didn't have a department.
It was only her and Amelia.
With them both gone, we're working alone.
Which means there's no search team
being sent to look for Jamie.
Hey, Mitch, no one's
giving up on Jamie, okay?
We will find a way to...
No one is gonna waste any resources
looking for a redhead lost in the woods, right?
Another development in this ongoing investigation.
Right?
And this information is coming to us live.
Authorities have discovered five more unexplained deaths
in Geneva, bringing the total count to 427.
We're getting unconfirmed reports
that each of the victims suffered strange burns.
So other people died just like Eleanor?
It would appear so.
Well, then maybe this is bigger than General Davies.
Or smaller.
What's that?
That is Eleanor's cerebrospinal fluid.
What are those?
Check this out.
There was an ant inside Eleanor's spine when she died?
So the ants killed her?
- Maybe. - But how?
Just send me somewhere that has flights
back to my base in Sao Paulo.
The U.S. base in Sao Paulo was decommissioned.
Are you kidding me?
Look, I've got to get back
- to my commanding officer. - Just tell me
where home is, and I'll send you there.
I don't want to go home. I want to go back to my unit.
You don't have parents, family?
Wherever there are people waiting for you,
I can send you there.
You're not listening to me! There's nobody!
There's no place to send me! I don't have anywhere to go!
I want to speak to a U.S. military representative.
Hey, Lieutenant!
I need your help.
Soldier.
As you were. Where you heading?
I, uh... I was recalled stateside, sir.
Now, why do you look so upset?
You're not in any trouble.
Just don't want to miss my train.
Come here, I want to talk to you about something.
Eleanor Lewis' laptop and files, where are they?
I don't know what you're talking about, sir.
Oh, I think you do, Lieutenant.
You killed her, didn't you?
Because she wanted to stop the Noah Objective.
I didn't kill Eleanor.
As far as we can tell, the animals did.
That's why the Noah Objective is so important, Lieutenant,
so we can stop all this senseless loss.
Now, I won't write you up in my report,
but I need to know where that laptop is.
I didn't take it.
Really.
I believe you.
Damn it.
What the hell?
You know the, uh, social structure of ants
is actually quite similar to that of humans?
Male ants, for example, will mate with
attractive new female ants even if they're from an enemy colony.
You know, not everything is about mating, rafiki.
Mmm.
Dariela has an intriguing combination of
strength and beauty.
What does it matter?
I'm never going to see her again.
Okay.
We'll be there as soon as we can.
That was Dariela.
W... What does she want?
- Yeah, and why do we care? - She wants to show us something,
says it's important to what we're working on.
Well, so is that creature formerly known as Janos Kovacs,
but that didn't stop her from putting a bullet in his brain.
I'll go with you.
Oh, I-I don't need any help.
That's strange.
They all seem determined to move in that one direction.
And it looks like they're being drawn to something.
But what?
I have no idea.
I could ponder that for a while,
but I'd rather ponder this.
Mitch.
What?
Jamie would have wanted you to finish what we began.
Oh.
Now you're going to tell me what Jamie would've wanted?
Hmm?
After you left her out there in the middle of nowhere?
You think I wanted to?
I made a difficult call.
To save your life.
I didn't need saving. She did.
She was my friend, too.
I don't see any evidence of that.
How dare you assume that your pain
is more important than ours?!
Cuts deeper than ours!
The grief of losing Jamie does not belong to you alone!
What?
Where's the scientist guy? You didn't bring him?
Surprisingly, he's not a big fan of your work.
Why did you call?
Believe me, I didn't want to.
But that's the thing about having no options...
it makes you call people you hope you never see again.
- I know, I'm really charming. - Okay, tell us.
There's something very weird here.
The transformer's been magnetized.
All this stuff is stuck to it.
You smell that?
The smell is what's interesting?
Sulfur.
From an explosive?
Uh... maybe.
What are you looking for?
- Ants. - Ants?
That's right.
Dead ants give off a...
sulfur smell,
so you'd think with a smell this strong that... excuse me...
you know, there'd be, uh... yeah, look.
See?
Ants.
I don't get it.
What could ants have to do with this?
I don't know, but they were all over Eleanor's hotel room.
Hey.
I thought you could only see an oasis
in a desert.
You got a low bar for an oasis.
I'm just trying to stay positive.
Hey, it's a stove.
We should get some firewood before the storm hits.
No, you need to stay off that foot.
I'm fine, I can do it.
I'll go.
Just sit.
Rest.
You see a lantern in here?
What a minute, hold on, I got Abe here. Yeah?
Have you heard about the explosions?
Yeah, we just saw one of them.
There's dead ants everywhere.
They're generating electricity.
What are you talking about?
The ants we collected. They can generate electricity,
that's how they're killing people.
Hold on, you're saying ants are electrocuting people?
Yup, that's what happened to Eleanor.
Enough of these ants together
could generate a powerful enough charge to...
To blow up a transformer.
First people, now transformers... what's next?
Ants move in a straight line.
Where were the other explosions?
Power station.
Near PARC Trembley, next one was
just over the border in, um, Les... Pu...
- Pugin... - Pugins.
Les Pugins.
We've mapped all the deaths
caused by the ants,
including Eleanor.
They all fall along the same line.
W...
What if all the ants in Geneva
were heading to the same place?
The Large Particle Accelerator.
It runs underground, it's the largest machine in the world.
It collides subatomic particles.
Helps us understand the laws of nature.
The incidents all seem to be
heading in a straight line right for it.
But why?
I don't know. Certain kinds of ants
are drawn to electrical systems,
and these ants have the phase two mutation.
If you think they're gonna attack the accelerator,
- we should evacuate people. - It won't help.
If all these ants make it to the accelerator
and generate a strong enough charge,
they could create a runaway fusion reaction.
Which would kill
every living thing within a thousand-mile radius.
Jamie!
Don't do this!
Damn it.
I'm trying to help you.
Okay?
You looked through my bag.
Yeah, and I saw pictures of me.
What the hell is going on?
What do you want from me?
Nothing.
It was never about you.
It was about the leopard.
What?
What, were you gonna steal it?
Auction it off, sell it on the black market?
I don't know, okay?
I was a pilot.
Some guys hired me to fly 'em up here.
Please, it's freezing out here.
If you're a pilot, where's your plane?
It's in pieces. It was a float plane.
By the time I got back to where we docked it,
the animals had torn it apart.
And I grabbed my cash and I just bolted.
Where are the guys that hired you?
I don't know.
Look, they took off when the animals attacked your house.
Why's a pilot carrying a gun?
Have you noticed what's going on out here?
You can't walk 30 feet without some creature attacking you.
That's what the gun's for.
That's it.
And call me nuts, Jamie, but I would think me having a gun
would be a good thing to you.
I mean, unless you're gonna defend yourself
with your one good foot.
Can we please go back to the cabin?
Yeah, sure.
- When you give me the gun. - Really?
Yeah, really.
Do you realize how crazy this sounds?
Yes, I do.
We hear this all the time.
But if the ants are being drawn here,
the highest concentration of energy is the collision point.
Collision point? That doesn't sound ominous at all.
What the hell is she even doing here?
This place must have a way
of dispersing all that energy, right?
Maybe we can use
the accelerator's own system to dissipate
- the ants' energy. - Oh, that may work.
But diverting that much power
- will require manual override. - Where's the override?
That way. It's a wall console
in between the fourth and fifth stations.
Get to the override. I'll evacuate them.
I'll go with them.
Great, maybe you can find something else to shoot.
Are you saying the ants are smart enough
to know that they can cause this...
- what's it called? - Runaway fusion reaction,
and no, they're not that self-aware, it's more like
a biological imperative.
Whoa.
There, just...
back up, don't let them anywhere near you.
Did you see that?
Yeah, I did.
Where are the others?
They just passed station four.
Oh, my God.
Jackson.
The ants are right behind you.
Don't let them get near you. You have to hurry!
I know, we just saw a river of them.
I'll let you know when we're there.
Hold tight.
Hey, we're at the collision point.
Time to find this override.
We're at the fourth station, it's got to be over there.
You need to look for a red door.
We don't throw that override,
the accelerator won't be able
to absorb the ants' energy.
No one said it would be locked.
Yo, lab rat.
Found something to shoot.
Hurry up!
They're closing in!
Come on.
- Can you do this? - Just throw it.
Holy crap.
Jackson?
Charge it up.
Hurry!
All right, there's gonna be a shockwave.
Get ready.
You guys okay?
Did we win?
- Dariela. - I think I might've
swallowed one of those bastards.
Easy.
I know.
Somebody's got to look at your foot, though.
Oh, wow.
That's not good.
Hurry up.
I don't have much time.
I can feel the damn thing.
You're gonna be all right.
Okay.
Put those on her temples.
And that...
is the current
that the ant is generating.
Should I be worried that you guys know how to build
an electric chair?
Right now you should be grateful.
We are gonna fry this little sucker.
Blow its fuse before...
Before it can blow mine. I got it.
You sure this will work?
Uh... yeah, sort of.
Are you ready?
Do it.
Clear!
No.
No, I can't do that.
You have to.
Yeah, he's still in there.
Got to go again.
Clear!
So I guess this means you trust me.
I'm working on it.
Wait!
My foot's numb, so it's not gonna hurt, right?
Wrong.
Your-your... your girlfriend.
The one you said was killed by wolves.
- Kelly. - Was she even real?
Okay, put 'em up.
Guys, I think we're pissing it off.
It's charging up.
Try again! It could kill you.
Not if the ant kills me first.
- Do it! - Clear!
Okay.
Put 'em on, put 'em on.
Dariela.
- Dariela! - We're good.
The ant's dead.
But she's got no pulse.
Okay, get her... Get her
- on the floor. - Dariela!
- Okay. - Okay, okay, okay.
- Got to clear the airway. - I got this!
Come on, come on.
Did it work?
- Good news is yes. - And the bad news is?
You might have a dead ant
floating around inside you somewhere.
It's okay.
We're happy to drop you wherever you want.
Unless you'd consider staying.
Listen, I know we have our differences,
but I think we can use someone like you.
Because I shoot stuff for a living?
Among other qualities.
I want to get back to my unit.
Military is what I know, it's home to me.
But after everything I've seen...
With all the animals...
Not just the animals.
At the train station, I saw a U.S. general
murder one of his own men.
A U.S. general?
Yeah, before you guys got there.
Was it this man?
Yeah, that's him.
He thought the soldier
had stolen files from...
Eleanor something.
Whatever they were, he wanted them back badly.
Chloe would kill me for this,
but, uh...
there's something I should tell you.
Yeah.
There is.
Here.
I've got a link in one of her deleted files.
You think it's what Eleanor wanted to talk to you about?
Could be.
What is this thing?
Some sort of demonstration.
This is how many animals they expect to eliminate
with the Noah Objective.
What are those white dots?
Those are human casualties.
Oh, my God.
See?
Someone's accessing the TX-14 server.
Over two million people will die
if the Noah Objective goes forward.
And Davies knows it.
So General Davies knows
his big animal solution will also kill millions of people.
What the hell are we gonna do?
We're gonna stop him.
Shut it down now.
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