Mom
What do you mean they’re moving?
Danny
They’re going to the windows in the living room.
Danny
Building webs across them.
Danny
They’re lined up around the front door.
Danny
How are you going to get into the house?
Mom
But don’t let anyone in, okay? No one.
Danny
Is anyone supposed to be here?
Mom
I’m trying to take care of that.
Mom
I’ve been trying to reach the plumber.
Mom
He was supposed to come by today.
Mom
Just don’t open the door!
Danny
I’m trying to wipe away the webs from the window. I can’t.
Mom
Spider web strands are strong, stronger than steel.
Mom
These webs are even stronger.
Mom
I just need to make sure no one is following me.
Mom
I don’t want anyone else to get hurt.
Mom
I have a plan. Please trust me.
Danny
My arms keep twitching, Mom.
Danny
My handsarnet’ workkk
Mom
She’s testing the strength of her web.
Mom
Yes, your nervous system. She’s testing her strength.
Mom
Try to fight it, Danny. The more you rest, the stronger she gets.
Mom
I’ll be there as soon as I can.
Danny’s Mom, Susan, texts her co-worker Bryan.
Susan
Bryan, I’m having some personal issues.
Susan
I’ll check in when I can.
Bryan
On today of all days?
Bryan
Corporate is going to be here in two hours.
Bryan
I was counting on you to help me come up with a plan.
Bryan
Why the hell would you leave?
Susan
I can’t get into it now, but he isn’t well.
Bryan
Can’t Alex watch Danny?
Susan
You know Alex. He’s useless in a crisis.
Susan
Besides, Danny wants his mom.
Bryan
This meeting is career changing, Susan.
Bryan
You need to deal with family issues off the clock.
Susan
Not possible. Gotta go.
Bryan
Know what is possible today?
Bryan
All of our research going up in smoke.
Susan
Danny is sick. He needs me.
Susan
I know you were hoping for some Hail Mary to save our project.
Susan
But we both know it’s already been decided.
Susan
Project Arachnid is over.
Bryan
This is why I wanted Tomas to be my only research partner.
Bryan
He didn’t give up at every obstacle.
Susan
I’ve done more for our project than anyone!
Susan
You know the personal risk I took in these experiments.
Susan
Project Arachnid never would’ve happened without me.
Susan
Without my research.
Bryan
Let’s not forget what else of yours.
Bryan
Which you spliced into the spider cell lines without consulting anyone.
Susan
Which was a major breakthrough!
Bryan
And then, the moment the project became complicated, you snitched like a little girl.
Susan
I had to tell Corporate! Tomas died!
Bryan
You make everything too personal.
Susan
Personal? Of course it’s personal.
Susan
It was enough of an ethical violation to use any human material.
Susan
Using my own was the only way I could do this and still sleep at night.
Bryan
And it worked, didn’t it?
Susan
You know we lost control when Mama took over that orangutan.
Susan
It was wrong of us, Bryan.
Bryan
Yes, but we could’ve manipulated the sequence further instead of giving up.
Bryan
If we had cut back on the parasite element…
Bryan
We could have moved forward without involving Corporate and you know it.
Bryan
Think about what we could’ve learned.
Bryan
If we had just let the experiment unfold.
Susan
The test subject killed Tomas!
Susan
The spiderlings poured from the orangutan’s neck and swarmed him.
Susan
It was too fast for us to do anything to save him!
Bryan
Yes, he was gone in under three minutes. Incredible!
Susan
Incredible? You’re sick.
Bryan
You know I’m right.
Bryan
Losing Tomas was painful but think if you had just waited.
Bryan
What would they have done next?
Susan
They would’ve killed people, Bryan.
Susan
They would’ve killed and kept on killing.
Bryan
You knew how to stop them.
Susan
I had a THEORY. An untested theory!
Susan
That’s not how science works!
Susan
We don’t unleash mutants.
Susan
We don’t watch a human life being taken from us and not put on the brakes!
Bryan
Tomas barely felt a thing.
Bryan
It’s not like anyone missed him.
Bryan
So what, we have a different researcher on the floor.
Bryan
No. I’m not evil. I’m a scientist.
Bryan
A scientist who could’ve saved the world.
Bryan
We could’ve done it.
Bryan
Created an organic weapon that completely eliminated terrorism.
Susan
I know the dream. It didn’t work.
Bryan
Yeah, because of you.
Susan
You’re lucky we weren’t arrested, Bryan.
Susan
Be grateful for that.
Bryan
Studies show that every house in America has spiders.
Bryan
They can’t be fully exterminated from anyone’s home.
Bryan
We were on the brink of the ultimate weapon.
Susan
It’s better this way.
Susan
We can move forward. In different directions.
Bryan
In two hours, Corporate will destroy the evidence and the research.
Bryan
We’ll be back to square one.
Susan
YOU’LL be back to square one. I have a photographic memory.
Bryan
I’ve got to go, Susan.
Bryan
Some of us have work to do.
Bryan
I have to catalog all of the spiders before Corporate firehoses them all.
Bryan
I have to make sure they’re all accounted for.
Susan
Of course they’re all there.
Susan
I’m meticulous about tracking them. You know that.
Bryan
Yeah, but you’ve been a bit distracted lately.
Bryan
What with Danny calling all of the time.
Bryan
And fighting with your husband.
Bryan
And last week, when you had to deal with that plumber.
Susan
That was for 10 minutes!
Susan
The upstairs bathroom was leaking and I had to get someone to address it quickly.
Susan
You know why it took longer than it should have.
Susan
The jerk kept calling me little lady and asking to speak with my husband.
Susan
Please just cover for me.
Susan
I don’t have time for this!
Bryan
You seem awfully calm, Susan, all things considered.
Susan
So help me God, Bryan.
Susan
If you did anything—
Bryan
Whatever. Better get to Danny.
Bryan
Help him get over his little bug.
Susan
What do you mean “little bug?”
Bryan
Like I said, I’ve got to go count the spiders.
Bryan
Especially the breeders.
Bryan
Who knows what could happen if one escaped.
Susan
What did you do, Bryan?
Bryan
Tell me, Susan. Have they molted yet?
