- Vicky: No, no you're not wasting your time Colt. Getting people to change isn't easy, they have to want to. It takes a long time.
- Vicky: Daddy, please tell me you had nothing to do with this.
- Russ: I wish I could.
- Vicky: So Colt was right. Even after he warned you, even when he quit because of this project, you went ahead and did it anyway, knowing how dangerous it was?
- Russ: Gary thought we could come up with something new and innovative and I thought I could control them.
- Vicky: People have died.
- Russ: I know. And I know it's my fault.
- Vicky: Well, then you should also know that the swarm has split into sub-swarms
- Russ: And at the rate they're going they'll cover North America in a few weeks.
- Colt: This is a huge mistake. UD-66 is the most powerful pesticide in the world. The United States government didn't use it in Afghanistan to kill the opium fields because once you spray it, things do not grow back for ten years!
- Vicky: People were being eaten alive!
- Colt: Oh, and you think people won't start dying if you spray UD-66?
- Vicky: Give me another option!
- Colt: Okay, Vicky, look: there is a reason why the locusts did not attack us.
- Ballard: We're down to our last option.
- Colt: Not the UD-66
- Ballard: Yes.
- Colt: It may not even work! It's just a super pesticide with really bad side effects.
- Ballard: UD-66 is not a pesticide, Colt, it's classifed as a chemical weapon.
- Colt: I know what it is. Now, you saw they reacted with the UD-45, what makes you think they would react any differently to this?
- Ballard: Because there isn't a biological system on the planet that can survive UD-66
- Colt: And just where do you plan on dropping it?
- Ballard: Obviously, we will try to avoid public places.
- Colt: I do not even want to think about what would happen if people are exposed to this!
- Ballard: Look, I *fully* understand the risks here Colt, but we need to stop that swarm.
- Colt: Yeah, while you're at it why don't you just go ahead and nuke 'em?
- Ballard: We're out of options. The decision has been made.
- Gary: We've come too far. Invested too much money. Too many years. You and I both know what'll happen if either of us says anything about this accident.
- Russ: I don't give a damn about the money!
- Gary: Well, I do! I'm not going to see all that we've built go down the tubes for some glitch.
- Russ: [Yelling] You call a man's life a glitch?
- Ballard: It's got to be more than a standard infestation if you're talking to me.
- Grimes: This is more than your standard, run of the mill locusts.
- Ballard: How so?
- Grimes: We believe they've been bioengineered.
- Ballard: Bioengineered? By who?
- Grimes: A company called Silogen.
- Ballard: [Knowingly] Silogen. Genetically modified foods and pesticides. A few years ago they violated a bunch of Section 8 rules and the last I heard, they were supposed to be shut down.
- Grimes: That's right. But they had money. Money buys lawyers. Good ones. So they got off the hook with just a fine, and now, they're back in business. Seems they were engineering some kind of modified locust as a pesticide alternative.