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Apr 18, 2003 · Flora or Fauna: Directed by Chuck Bowman. With Victor Browne, Gladise Jiminez, Marcia Strassman, Lela Lee. After two scientists are burned by acid, Burt and the others discover a bizarre animal/plant hybrid growing in the valley and hurry to destroy it before it spreads seeds.
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- Chuck Bowman
- 2003-04-18
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is the ninth episode in Tremors: The Series, the gang has to deal with one of the horrors that crawled out of the Proudfoot Labs.
From the Survival Journal of Burt Gummer:
While foraging to supply my survival-school menu, I crossed paths with Tyler, who was giving an over-enthusiastic tourist named Larry a pricey private tour.
Little did we suspect that the latest spawn of Mixmaster — that diabolical government concoction that mingles any non-human DNA it can find — had already claimed two more victims.
We did, however, notice suspicious seismic activity on Tyler's monitor. We ditched Larry and checked it out. That's how we met federal employee Dr. Casey Matthews and two of her assistants, Pete and Roger, who were drilling for soil samples. Dr. Matthews (if that's even her real name) admitted that she was studying Mixmaster's effects on the valley's ecosystem.
Tyler stayed to chat (or, more accurately, flirt) with Dr. Matthews. Consequently, he was present when she discovered the aforementioned fatalities: They stumbled upon the gory skeletons of two more of her assistants, who had been in the field since morning but had failed to check in.
Naturally, I called in Cletus Poffenberger. Yes, he's a former federal scientist, but he's the only one I remotely trust. Working with Dr. Matthews, he discovered that the substance that had killed the two men was an organic acid.
A sci-fi fanatic named Larry has paid for Tyler to give him a private El Blanco tour. Although El Blanco does not appear during the tour, Burt and Tyler find him near a research site with a pair of scientists studying Mixmaster. When the other members of their team do not report back, Tyler takes the lead scientist (Casey Matthews) in search of them. They find their skeletons instead. When Casey studies the tissue samples of the remains, she finds they were killed with a powerful organic acid loaded with Mixmaster.
Tyler immediately brings Cletus in to assist and they discover the scientists were killed by a plant which contains the characteristics of Amazonian pitcher plants, Venus flytraps and an unknown reptilian species. It sprays acid from pouches in the ground to dissolve and consume organic tissue, leaving only skeletons behind. After they locate the actual plant in question, they find that it is four square acres in size, which makes killing it problematic, as it is surrounded by the acid "mines". When Larry visits the lab, he discovers that the pouch they took for study grew a seed pod. Roger (Casey's assistant) works out that the plant expels seeds similar to dandelions when it reaches a specific temperature. When they go back out to inspect the plant, they see that it has created a hundred seed pods, all ready to burst when the temperature is right. Casey creates a poison to kill the plant and Tyler uses a helium balloon to get close to the "tap root" so he can kill the plant before it releases it's seeds.
Sep 8, 2022 · Tyler and Burt must destroy a field of deadly flowers before they unleash their flesh melting sap on Perfection. From Episode 9 'Flora or Fauna' : The "Mix-master" creates a deadly mutation...
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“Flora Or Fauna?” Chuck Bowman: Brent Maddock & S. S. Wilson: April 18, 2003 43 mins An over-eager tourist named Larry Norvel wants to see El Blanco (even going as far as to rent out an entire trip for himself), but is met with disappointment.
Episode NumberOriginal OrderTitleDirected By11“Feeding Frenzy”Bradford May26“Ghost Dance”Whitney Ransick37“Night Of The Shriekers”43“Blast From The Past”Tyler Reed moves to Perfection, Nev., the home of a giant prehistoric worm and a world-renowned monster hunter. Burt and his old friend Cletus try to help the government put a stop to a deadly ...
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- March 28, 2003
- Michael Gross
"Tremors" Flora or Fauna (TV Episode 2003) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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