The Relic1997

[Lt. D'Agosta talks to Dr. Green and Dr. Frock about the Kothoga being real]

Lt. Vincent D'Agosta:
Somebody want to tell me what in God's name that was?

Dr. Albert Frock:
I think it's the Kothoga. John Whitney must've found it somewhere, somehow, and sent it back to the museum. For God's sake why wouldn't he give us warning?

Lt. Vincent D'Agosta:
How big were those crates that John Whitney sent back?

Dr. Albert Frock:
Not very big.

Lt. Vincent D'Agosta:
Then how the hell did something like that fit inside one of them?

Margo Green:
In those crates that Whitney sent back, the artifact was packed with a leaf specimen that carried a parasitic fungus. The fungus was loaded with hormones - animal hormones - that are produced in the thalamoid region of the human brain.

Lt. Vincent D'Agosta:
You mean the hypothalamus.

Margo Green:
I know this is crazy, but maybe this animal started out as something else - A chameleon, a lizard, or maybe even a dog. It ate those leaves, and is changing into whatever it is now... to what we just saw.

Dr. Albert Frock:
You're not crazy, Margo. Don't you see, girl? It's the callisto effect. It's really true. The Kothoga myth was based on fact. The people of the Zenzera tribe, when they were threatened by an enemy, they must have fed some of those hormonal leaves to some animal, and it caused a riot in its D.N.A., and it was transformed into some horrific beast. But the beast needed those hormones to stay alive, so when it was big enough and deadly enough, they stopped feeding it.

Dr. Albert Frock:
So it would have to find some other way to get the hormone.

Dr. Albert Frock:
They're enemies. Yes, and when the enemies were dead and it had no more hormones, it would eventually die, and the Zenzera would come out from hiding.

Lt. Vincent D'Agosta:
Well, we don't have time to wait for eventually, so here's my question, how the f*** do we kill that thing?