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Why did BOTH Fet and Dr. Goodweather lie about Justine getting infected?


I could have sworn I saw a worm crawl in her left eye after the explosion of bodies. Fet say's he didn't see and Goodweather didn't see any under the light, but she clearly has a worm shaped wrinkle under the same eye when she's tossing that reporter out.

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Fet got the worm just in time. After a few hours Eph checked and she was not infected.

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Guess I will have to re watch. I assumed she did because of the mark that looks like worm under her eye.

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The worm did go inside her, but then Fet fried it with the UV light.

It's pretty stupid that shining the light on the worm when it was on her forehead didn't kill it, but then when it's under her skin it gets fried in a second, but that's what happened.

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I was wondering about that too. It seemed like Fet just sat there watching it crawl in. I didn't realize he zapped it after it got under her skin. A confusing scene.

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Fet, Epp, and Strakian never do anything that is puts them a step in front of the worms, vamps, etc. They are always at least one step back.

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It's a frustrating scene. Fet didn't even try to grab it when it was in her hair! Justine didn't realize what it was. Then Fet didn't try to grab it as it crawled in her eye!!

Now after they fried it, did they just leave it, in her face???

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it burned up leaving a scar. It was burning as it crawled in and finally evaporated just as it got in.
Kind of silly but come on it's the strain

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The eye she opened widely while being aware that worms could be all over her?
"Come worm, over here, yummy yummy eye, come little wormy, come..."

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Fet didn't even try to grab it when it was in her hair! Justine didn't realize what it was. Then Fet didn't try to grab it as it crawled in her eye!!


I don't think you can grab them with your bare hands... otherwise they get inside you somehow.

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They established it early on in season one that they can also burrow through bare skin. If he grabbed it with his bare hand, that would have been the likely result.

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If she were infected she'd have had a lot of worms in her face minutes later and she'd have turned by now.

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