Cold-Blooded Killers

- Swat - Steve Everitt (episode intro)

- Huge Monster is Coming - Bill Brown ("Three very different parasites.")

- Piano Steps - Mark Russell (show intro)

- Enemy at the Gates - Steve Everitt ("Parasites are organisms that live in or on other living organisms called hosts.")

- Lonely Riding - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] ("And when the deadliest parasites strike, the chances of survival are very slim.")

CASE 1

- Unanswered Truth - Robert Bennett (September 2008, New York)

- Jungle Warfare - Christopher Ashmore, Benjamin Marks [Audio Network] ("Chris started playing ice hockey at 4 years old.")

- Dark 5 - Bernhard Hering, Martin Wester, Matthias Kruger (Chris' parents take him to hockey tryouts)

- Lethal Knocking - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] (Chris acting oddly)

- The Hideout - Christophe La Pinta ("The next day, the team's roster is posted online.")

- Aliens Crush Man - Bill Brown (Chris struggling with his homework)

- Robotic Bugs - Kurt Oldman (family has pizza/Chris leaves the table and lays on the couch)

- Fade to Black - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] (Chris' temperature is 103/Chris continues to run a high fever through the weekend)

- Lonely Riding - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] (Steve and Lori take Chris to the pediatrician)

- Distant Spaces - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] (pediatrician determines it's a virus)

- Flashpoint 2 - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (Chris fails to improve)

- Fade to Black - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] (on Wednesday night, there is an alarming development)

- Lethal Run - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (Chris freaks out over being touched)

- War Torn - Brad Smith (Steve rushes Chris to the emergency room)

- Toxic Element - Arnaud Rozenblat, Daniel Finot [Cezame Music Agency] (test on Chris' spinal fluid is abnormal)

- Equations - Dusty Grey, William Smith (enter Dr. Kevin Ragosta)

- Desperate Souls (Dark Version) - Bernard Grimaldi, Vincent Chaintrier ("But the mysterious illness only gets worse.")

- Dark Pulse 11 - Bernhard Hering, Martin Wester, Matthias Kruger (Chris suffers seizures)

- Death in Suburbia - Steve Everitt (MRI reveals that Chris has encephalitis)

- Psychotic Puzzle - Baxter Poe, Matt Novack, Stan Hope ("He was regressing instead of progressing.")

- Ratpack Remake - Neil Pollard, William Kingswood ("Chris is getting worse by the hour.")

- Threatening Thoughts - Florian Moser (Chris placed in a coma)

- Chased By Evil - Robert Bennett ("Steve and Lori Speelman have spent the last six days in the hospital, fighting to save their 9-year-old son, Chris', life.")

- Toxic Element - Arnaud Rozenblat, Daniel Finot [Cezame Music Agency] ("The doctors still have no idea what is causing Chris' brain to swell.")

- Against All Resistance - Florian Moser (Dr. Ragosta considers using steroids)

- Concentric Strings - Andrew Blaney (Chris' response starts to improve)

- Definitely Bad - Christopher Franke (Chris breathing normally)

- Os Capengas - Vladimir Cosma [SOURCE NOT KNOWN] (Dr. Ragosta turns to Dr. Leonard Weiner)

- Chernobyl Void - Steve Everitt (family gets a phone call)

- Fearless - Dan Skinner, Adam Skinner [Audio Network] ("They told us that Chris tested positive for acanthamoeba.")

- Dark Pulse 11 - Bernhard Hering, Martin Wester, Matthias Kruger (acanthamoeba)

- Atomic Reaction - Denis Levaillant ("The acanthamoeba enters the body through the skin or up the nose.")

- Lethal Knocking - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] ("It creates a very destructive inflammatory response within the brain itself, and that is almost always fatal.")

- Basic Low-Ender - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener ("The doctors don't know how Chris was able to survive.")

- Urgency - Helen Jane Long [Audio Network] ("9-year-old Chris Speelman is a victim of the deadly brain-eating parasite, acanthamoeba.")

- Fraud - Murray Munro (doctors try to figure out how Chris got the parasite)

- Buried Alive - Barrie Gledden, Richard Kimmings [Audio Network] (Steve recalls Chris being at a party/"Acanthamoeba are very common in the environment.")

- Concentric Strings - Andrew Blaney (Chris slowly recovers)

- Dead Air - Scott Marcussen (Chris is back on the ice)

- A Harsh Reality - Ronni Shaw ("No one knows exactly how Chris beat the parasite.")

- Crime Without Passion - Steve Everitt (avoiding exposure to acanthamoeba is nearly impossible, however cases are extremely rare)

- Toxic Element - Arnaud Rozenblat, Daniel Finot [Cezame Music Agency] ("But the deadliest parasite on the planet has a different approach.")

CASE 2

- Mysterons - David O'Brien [Audio Network] (2007, Virginia)

- Starting to Rain - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener (Michael and Maria go out for a romantic meal)

- Darkness in the Alley - Scott Marcussen (Michael develops an upset stomach and headache)

- Build to Bang - Steve Everitt (symptoms continue the next morning)

- Ballistics Analysis - Scott Marcussen (symptoms persist after a few days/Michael goes to a clinic)

- Psycho 32 - Bernhard Hering, Martin Wester, Matthias Kruger [UBM Music] ("Michael stays in bed for the rest of the week.")

- Spooky Danger - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener (Michael wakes up with a low-grade fever)

- Psycho 32 - Bernhard Hering, Martin Wester, Matthias Kruger [UBM Music] (Michael's mother arrives)

- Cyber Psycho - Steve Everitt (Michael's mother rushes him to the emergency room)

- Lethal Knocking - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] (Maria gets an alarming message)

- Secret Experience - Arnaud Rozenblat, Daniel Finot [Cezame Music Agency] (Maria sees Michael laying in fetal position)

- Fearless - Dan Skinner, Adam Skinner [Audio Network]; Distant Spaces - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] (malaria)

- Chased By Evil - Robert Bennett (what the plasmodium parasite does)

- Generator Groove - Steve Everitt ("But how did the world's deadliest parasite get inside Michael?")

- The Stabbing - Scott Marcussen (life cycle of malaria/Michael likely got the parasite on a vacation in the Dominican Republic)

- Meteor - Nick Ingman, Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (Michael starts speaking in computer code)

- Solar Flare - Nick Ingman, Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] ("Michael seems to have lost control of his mind.")

- Dark Web - Guy Skornik, Elisabeth Skornik [Cezame Music Agency] (Inside the Monster)

- Ballistics Analysis - Scott Marcussen ("After a week of crippling symptoms, software designer Michael Beall has been diagnosed with the parasitic disease, malaria.")

- Distant Spaces - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] (enter Dr. Michael Edmond)

- Why We Fight - Bruno Alexiu [Cezame Music Agency] (malaria parasites have spread to Michael's brain)

- Fearless - Dan Skinner, Adam Skinner [Audio Network] ("I'm thinking my husband's dying in front of my eyes.")

- Bloodlines - Lee Groves, Peter Marett (Michael put on multiple I.V. drugs)

- Lovers Remain (Underscore) - Alejandro Saldarriaga-Valencia, Guillermo De La Barreda, Nicolas Barry, Rene Garza, Tomas Jacobi (Michael starts to improve/Michael discharged)

- The Stark Realization - Scott Marcussen (Michael drives Maria to the airport)

- Atomic Reaction - Denis Levaillant ("Suddenly, the hair on the back of my neck stood up.")

- Ballistics Analysis - Scott Marcussen (Maria cuts her business trip short)

- Cyber Psycho - Steve Everitt (Michael races back to the hospital)

- Aliens Crush Man - Bill Brown ("Michael Beall is recovering from a near-fatal bout of malaria.")

- Solving the Puzzle - Christophe La Pinta (Dr. Edmond orders a new round of malaria tests, but they come back negative)

- Swat - Steve Everitt (post-malarial neurological syndrome)

- Subsonix - Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] ("There is no treatment for post-malarial neurological syndrome.")

- Hi-Tech Surgery - Achille Richard, Yuhei Nakata (Michael starts to recover)

- Concentric Strings - Andrew Blaney ("By the fifth day, Dr. Edmond is confident his hunch has paid off.")

- Liquid Rocketman - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (Michael is fully recovered)

- Smash Palace - James Jacobsen, Parthenon Huxley ("Michael Beall beat tremendous odds when he recovered from a parasitic infection that kills millions."/how to avoid malaria)

- Fade to Black - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] ("But other parasites attack the body's organs directly.")

CASE 3

- Still Frame Beauty - Steve Everitt (Fall 2006, Massachusetts)

- Time Critical - Takeshi Furukawa ("Web analyst Nathan Yang is an avid long-distance runner.")

- Endless Dunes - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener (Nathan visits his cousin in New York)

- Whitney's Ghosts - Alejandro Saldarriaga-Valencia, Guillermo De La Barreda, Nicolas Barry, Rene Garza, Tomas Jacobi (Nathan starts to feel extremely tired/Nathan returns home)

- Giving You the Creeps - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener (symptoms don't go away)

- Dark March - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener [UBM Music] (clip of Nathan taking medicine)

- Adama - Ariel Blumenthal (Nathan isn't used to feeling so unwell)

- Equations - Dusty Grey, William Smith (Nathan visits his doctor)

- Death Star - Nick Ingman, Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (Nathan wakes up to night sweats)

- Dead Air - Scott Marcussen ("I don't think I've ever had night sweats like this.")

- Against All Resistance - Florian Moser (Nathan returns to his primary-care physician)

- Minesweeping - Jean Yves Rigo (Nathan's symptoms continue to worsen)

- Solving the Puzzle - Christophe La Pinta (Nathan decides not to run the race)

- Buried Alive - Barrie Gledden, Richard Kimmings [Audio Network] (Nathan gets a call from his doctor)

- Piano Mystery Fall - Steve Everitt (Nathan's illness remains a mystery)

- Hardcore Rise (a) - Scott Marcussen (enter Dr. Bruce Dezube)

- Urgent Situation - Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock [Audio Network] (Nathan's spleen looks abnormally large)

- Giving You the Creeps - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener; Clues and Intuitions - Christophe La Pinta ("Dr. Dezube must find out what is making Nathan's spleen five times its normal size.")

- Minesweeping - Jean Yves Rigo (Nathan tested for various diseases)

- Cyber Psycho - Steve Everitt (all of the tests are negative)

- Crime Without Passion - Steve Everitt ("Marathon runner Nathan Yang has been struck down by a mysterious illness.")

- Unanswered Truth - Robert Bennett ("Now his doctor has discovered a terrifying new symptom.")

- Clues and Intuitions - Christophe La Pinta (Nathan scheduled for surgery to have his spleen taken out/doctors do one final series of blood tests)

- Ballistics Analysis - Scott Marcussen (leishmaniasis)

- Build to Bang - Steve Everitt (what the leismania parasite does)

- Find Him - Takeshi Furukawa ("The leishmania parasite is destroying Nathan's spleen.")

- Endless Dunes - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener (Nathan put on powerful antibiotics)

- Revelation - Guy Skornik, Elisabeth Skornik [Cezame Music Agency] ("The leishmania parasite is spread by a tiny blood-sucking insect about a third the size of a mosquito, called a sandfly.")

- Os Capengas - Vladimir Cosma [SOURCE NOT KNOWN] (how the sandfly transmits the leishmania parasite)

- Psychotic Puzzle - Baxter Poe, Matt Novack, Stan Hope (Nathan asked about his recent travels)

- Police Tape - Christophe La Pinta (Nathan recalls being on vacation in Greece)

- Hi-Tech Surgery - Achille Richard, Yuhei Nakata (Nathan's trip to Greece was a year before his first symptom)

- Bits of Remembrance - Kurt Oldman ("One man in Washington thinks he has the answer.")

- Sodium and Vapor - Scott Marcussen (Dr. David Sacks)

- Grave Danger - Takeshi Furukawa (Dr. Nathan Peters examines a mouse)

- Thunder Drums - Billy Lincoln ("As soon as the mouse is bitten, its immune system comes to the rescue.")

- Dark 5 - Bernhard Hering, Martin Wester, Matthias Kruger (explanation of what neutrophils do)

- Added Addiction - Kurt Oldman ("Normally, neutrophils will instantly kill any foreign invaders on the spot."/leishmania parasite can overtake the neutrophil)

- Equations - Dusty Grey, William Smith (the leishmania parasites have been able to survive inside Nathan for over a year via using his spleen as shelter)

- World Action News - Billy Lincoln (Nathan starts to recover)

- Undercover Mission - Bob Bradley [Audio Network] (Nathan is parasite-free)

- Endless Dunes - Daniel Backes, Peter Moslener (Nathan returns to his old routine)

- A Harsh Reality - Ronni Shaw (without treatment, the fatality rate of leishmaniasis is nearly 100%/how to avoid the parasite)

- The Search Continues - Terry Devine-King [Audio Network] (some parasites are cold-blooded killers)

- Smoke & Mirrors - Steve Martin (ending screen)