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Dispatch, this is 4215.

I'm pursuing armed robbery suspect at tunnel construction and 32nd.

Requesting backup.

Damn it.

Chief, thanks for calling.

Agent Pollack. Check that number.

We think this could be your guy.

Tell me what you got.

Officer chased a suspect into the tunnel,

shots were fired,

when our guys finally got here,

this is what they found.

Where's the rest?

That's the question of the day.

Agent Matt Pollack, FBI,

meet our Deputy Medical Examiner, Andrea Karthas.

Hi.

I ran UVs 30 yards each way on the tracks

and I couldn't find a trace of blood.

Are you after the Downtown Reaper?

That's right.

This is not my guy. It's not his style.

The Reaper's a neat freak.

There's too much of a mess.

It looks like he was literally torn apart.

What's this?

I don't know yet.

I won't know for sure until I send it to the lab.

You let me know as soon as you do, huh?

No problem.

I'll drop down to Dr. Franklin's office later.

Thanks.

Matt.

- Matt! - Yeah.

Sorry we had to drag you out here for this.

That's all right, Chief.

We've been seeing a lot of copycats in the last few weeks.

A lot of sick people.

I'll tell you what, I'll still run a check to match this same MO, and, uh,

- have your guys do the same, huh? - For sure.

Be sure we're… Be sure we're locked down here.

It's got to be cleared in four hours.

We've got a party of VIPs coming through.

The tunnel has reached the halfway point.

Petronovich wants to show off "his" tunnel again.

You know the crowd.

Fortune 500, politicians…

Yep. My people.

- Thanks, Chief. - We'll see you, Matt.

Mm-hmm.

I'll look forward to it!

Damn it!

I do not need this now.

They want me to worry about

some dead cop in my tunnel, when I have six strip-mall complexes

that do not have the right permits.

Sir, the permit applications are already in

and I don't anticipate any problems.

As for the incident in the tunnel

you might want to think about postponing the VIP tour

until we clear out the mess.

I might, might I?

Let me tell you a little something, Dave,

about how business works.

You see, just like in a war, when you're running a Fortune 500 company

occasionally you run into a little thing called collateral damage.

Sometimes, something gets in the way

and you just have to push that thing aside.

- Sir… - Listen.

"It's a terrible thing that happened to that officer today,

and I'm just sick, personally, that it happened in my tunnel."

- You see, Dave? - Yeah.

Sometimes even bad publicity

can be good publicity.

Where are the plans for Station 9?

Dr. Franklin, what do you have?

Massive tissue loss for one thing.

He was cut almost completely in half.

Lots of severed bones.

Whoever did this must have used something incredibly sharp.

You see here, what's left of the legs?

These are the strongest bones in the human body,

but look how they've been cut,

there are no splinters, no evidence of crushing.

I don't know any man or animal for that matter

with the strength to do this damage.

What about a machine or some other device?

There'd be a metal residue.

Even a high-density plastic leaves a trace.

But, here… Nothing.

Except for this,

the fluid Andrea collected.

What is it?

Based on the tissue damage it caused I thought it was an acid.

But after I ran a few tests

I've discovered it's actually a combination of proteins.

Right. Meaning?

Well, it's an enzyme.

This one has a profile similar to those found in some insects,

but never in this massive quantity.

I can't identify it.

What does an enzyme like that do? What is it for?

Well, for digestion, certainly.

It's similar to human saliva.

It's not something that could immobilize someone immediately.

I'd like to send a sample to the CDC consultant at the university here.

Do you know Dr. Foster?

Emily Foster, the entomologist?

Yeah, I know her. We worked together before.

I'll give her a call and see if she can analyze it.

You know what, Doc? I'll take it to her.

It would be a lot faster. Thanks.

Hello.

Matt, hey, what are you doing in town?

You going somewhere?

I'm going to Whistler for the long weekend.

- Skiing, huh? - Not this girl.

I'm a snowboarder now.

I should have guessed.

So what can I do for you?

I was hoping you could take a look at something for me.

We found a fluid on a victim's body.

What do you need the CDC for?

The lab can't identify it and Franklin thought maybe you could.

Great. Put it in the fridge and I'll look at it when I get back.

I would appreciate it if you can look at it now.

I've got to jam or I'm going to miss my flight.

I think you're gonna want to see this.

Wow.

These were done by something razor sharp.

There's scrapes on what's left of the femur.

His legs were cut straight through.

Looks like a bear attack, doesn't it?

More like he was eaten.

Eaten?

Look…

Here, here, and here.

I've seen these kind of lacerations before.

I need a piece of paper.

Here.

From the lacerations…

on his remains,

and the marks evident on the X-rays,

this is what the jaws would look like.

It looks like the mandible of an insect, doesn't it?

Only 1000 times bigger.

- Right. From outer space. - I'm not kidding.

The enzymes are definitely insect.

And with the amount recorded

that would have to come from something over 80 kilograms.

That's huge!

Emily, this is ridiculous.

No, it's not.

Every once in a while a new species,

or an old species that we thought was extinct,

pops up some place.

Last year in Norway there was a 20-foot section

of a giant squid that washed up on shore.

The cross-section showed that it was over 125 feet long.

Nobody wanted to believe that that species existed.

Just because you've never seen it before doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

You said that he was attacked in the new subway station?

That's right.

We've got to get over there.

If what I think is true,

we've got to contain this thing.

What about your trip to Whistler?

I'm here, aren't I?

I'll call Lembeck.

Thank you.

Not sure.

Welcome, everyone.

My name is Jack Ball

and I am a vice-president at Petronovich Enterprises.

Thank you for coming.

Today, you are among the first to ride the state-of-the-art system

beneath the depths of Mt. Airy.

This is one of the deepest tunnels in the world.

No one believed it could be done.

Thanks to the determined efforts of Victor Petronovich

and Petronovich Enterprises,

we are halfway there.

- Here, here. - Yes.

- Are there any questions? - Yeah.

Uh, once it's done, how long will it take to get from here to Portsberry?

Once completed, the commute will take under 45 minutes.

A vast improvement over the three hours it takes today.

This will mean more commerce, more business, more money.

- Oh, I like that. - We like that, don't we?

So, uh, how long is the track?

Uh, the total trip, city to city, will be 38 miles.

Though today we will only travel the completed 19.

Aw, boo. Come on, Jack.

The chief engineer, designer, Mr. Yokoto,

will also be joining us.

He is also happy to answer any of your questions.

Enjoy.

And they're off.

Once Stewart takes the ride this afternoon,

I'm sure we'll have no trouble securing the remaining vacancies