Sick Girl

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“Sick Girl”
Masters of Horror episode

Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 10
Guest stars	Misty Mundae Angela Bettis Jesse Hlubik Marcia Bennett Chandra Berg
Written by	Lucky McKee
Directed by	Lucky McKee
Production no.	110
Original airdate	January 13, 2006
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"Sick Girl" is the tenth episode of the first season of Masters of Horror. It originally aired in North America on January 13, 2006. It was directed by Lucky McKee and based on a story written by McKee and Sean Hood.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Ida Teeter (Angela Bettis) is a shy entomologist who has a wide variety of insects all over her home which happen to be the cause of her recent girlfriend standing her up. She is “informed” by her fellow entomologist Max Grubb (Jesse Hlubik) that her obsession with her job is the reason that her lady friends are constantly breaking up with her. Ida is crestfallen by this although she is introduced to the beautiful and strange girl named Misty Falls (Erin Brown a.k.a. Misty Mundae) who sits with her sketch pad by the elevator in the lobby of the McNaughton Museum of Natural History where Ida and Max work. Instantly, Ida is enamored by the chance to be with her although Max gives her the warning of “babes or bugs, you can’t have both”.

Simultaneously, a mysterious package arrives for Ida Teeter at her apartment door which is revealed to be a large unidentifiable mantid like insect. Landlady Lana Beasley (Marcia Bennett) is concerned with the “pets” of Ida and the effect that may be lain upon her seven-year-old granddaughter Betty (Chandra Berg) dubbed “The Ladybug” because of her continuous habit of wearing a ladybug costume. The Ladybug looks up to Ida as a heroine influence much to Beasley’s dismay (she wants the place to remain spotless) and Ida promises to keep the insects under check. Later that night, she examines the new insect which she fondly names “Mick” and informs Max via telephone of the creature while speaking baby talk to her pet tarantula and determined to ask Misty out. “Mick” escapes from its plastic tank shortly after Ida leaves.

The next day, Ida walks over to Misty where she decides to ask Misty out to dinner in which Misty honorably (and embarrassedly) accepts. Ida happily informs Max at lunch that the date was a success, discovering a Chinese insect in her food (“Chinese food that’s actually from China” jokes Max.) The two women go out on a date that night in a Chinese restaurant where Misty embarrassedly states that she thinks Ida is attractive and whether or not this is a date. Misty then asks whether or not that the two of them can watch a movie about “Texas Pixies” on Ida's DVD player (Misty adores pixies which she draws constantly in her sketch pads) which Ida accepts as their date although she is concerned about what Misty would think of her large collection of bugs and remembering Max’s warning.

In the meantime, Mick escapes and attacks Beasley’s pet dog, dragging it into one of Ida’s bedroom pillows where it consumes the animal in its safe haven. Later, there are posters advertising the lost dog.

The Ladybug greets Ida and Misty (whom the Ladybug calls a “fairy”) who then makes the humorous faux pas of stating that Betty is Beasley’s daughter. Misty is introduced to the apartment where Ida keeps her away from the bedroom where all insects (including Mick unknown to both of them) hidden in the furniture. They head out to the living room where Ida serves two glasses of bourbon whisky and they proceed to watching the “Texas Pixies” movie together. The two get closer until their moment is interrupted by Max who is curious of their date yet annoyed that Ida was to get Misty into the bedroom not to stash the insects in there.

Ida returns to find Misty asleep on the couch. She proceeds to the bedroom and returns with the pillow (with the Bug Mick hidden inside) to give to Misty who suddenly wakes up from her drunken slumber. Still too drunk to drive, Ida allows Misty to stay with her. In gratitude, Misty returns the favor by stripping of her shirt, revealing small pretty breasts, and seduces Ida with a flurry of passionate kisses. Below, Mick’s proboscis reaches for Misty and nips her ear which Misty dismisses and continues her session with Ida.

The next morning, Ida awakens to find that Misty has discovered her secret bug stash and has a great interest in bugs. She also discovers that Misty is Professor Malcolm Wolf’s daughter (her last name came from her hippie mother) and the two search for the escaped Mick. Later, Misty feels pain in her right ear where she finds a small sample of foreign saliva in it. Misty becomes weak and Ida lays her down in bed for comfort. Ida turns to Max with drawings of the creature by Misty which Max responds by telling Ida to take it easy. Ida is offended by this though Max describes the “drainage of vital juices” to her. She comes home where Misty moves in and they relate to the many emotional nights they have spent together. They spend more time together although Misty begins displaying unusual tendencies such as the insatiable interest in straying bugs.

Beasley encounters Mick as it runs past her. Going to complain, she finds Ida and Misty locked in an extremely passionate kiss. She leaves, keeping this hidden from her ever-interested granddaughter. Misty later comes across the pillow with Mick in it during a laundry excursion, ready to report it though she discovers that she has strange urges to lay next to it. The insect then invades her much chewed and saliva-doused ear with its proboscis. Ida receives an almost apologetic letter from a mysterious source though she suspects that it is Malcolm Wolf. To her terror, she realizes that the insect could be dangerous. At home, she is pulled into a loving kiss by Misty right in front of Beasley and Betty who innocently asks if she can get a kiss from Ida. Disgusted for the sake of influence of her granddaughter, Beasley gives Ida and Misty two weeks to move out which is reduced to one week when Betty asks for “some skin” (a handshake slap) from Ida.

Ida is horrified by Misty’s strange behavior and her abrupt and crude remarks, most pertaining to how Beasley depises their sapphic romance and how angered she is by Ida’s sadness about the things Beasley said about Betty. Enraged, Misty loses her temper and yells at Ida about how much that she has done for her until she suddenly passes out.

Misty awakens and explains about a storybook-style dream where she was a fairy resting upon a lily pad and encountered a “beautiful” giant bug (Mick the mammal-eating mantid insect) that landed and her and forced its proboscis into her navel, drawing blood and inserting “his juices” into her. Max calls Ida for her to come to the lab and Ida notices how Misty has placed the pillow between her legs. When she arrives, Max delivers the information from her “Brazil homey” about the insect which he finds humorous and impossible.

“The insect is known to inhabit the nests of birds and other small animals, where it behaves like a parasite, inserting its proboscis and drinking the animal’s blood, replacing what it takes with a unique toxin. This toxin the bug injects is a protein which,once it finds its way into the bloodstream, causing mutations. This protein invades the host’s DNA and the bird is impregnated with the insect’s young.”

While Max finds this funny, Ida is horrified to learn that Misty may have gotten bit by the insect itself. During the explanation, the insect Mick inseminates Misty during a sexual meeting. Beasley walks into the hallway, stapling an eviction notice to Ida’s apartment door and encounters Misty who asks her why she doesn’t like her. Beasley then states that she doesn’t like the perverse nature of her, Ida, and the insects and that she didn’t want her granddaughter to be influenced by a pair of-when Misty interrupts her with a list of crude synonyms for “lesbian” and the possibility that her “Ladybug could grow up to like other Ladybugs”. Beasley is revolted, calling Misty a monster. Misty agrees sadly and morphs two insectoid eyes and multiple tendrils that flap around wildly. The terrified Beasley then falls over the stairway to her death. Smugly, Misty removes the eviction notice from the door.

Ida arrives home to witness medics hauling away the corpse of Lana Beasley on a gurney and Betty crying and seeing her dead grandmother. Misty makes light of the situation much to Ida’s repulsion. Ida calls Max over to her apartment and she finds Misty in the bathtub who later reveals the location of the hidden predatory insect in the pillow. She is convinced of the truth that the insect has indeed infected Misty who reveals her own secret. Her father, Professor Malcolm Wolf, sent the insect to Ida so it would bite her and make her repulsive to Misty who has long been in love with her because she would go to her father’s classes and stare/draw pictures of her beloved. Misty then undergoes metamorphosis into a bug-human monster.

Responding to Ida’s screams, Max breaks into the apartment only to countered and cornered by the monstrous Misty who then kills and devours portions of his face in a gory mess. During the time Ida is terrified and upon the floor, the insect Mick then scurries over to her left ear where it inserts its proboscis into it, beginning the same insemination process with her. The Misty-Insect then screeches as she/it descends on her/its lover.

Some time later, both Ida and Misty are sitting in the living room couch with large pregnant abdomens. Misty complains that Ida will beat her to the birthing even though “she got knocked-up first”. They discuss the genders of the future “children” and talk about sending Wolf a few hundred cigars as the insect Mick continues to inseminate them through left and right ears respectively.