A researcher at Chicago's Natural History Museum returns from South America with some crates containing his findings. When the crates arrive at the museum without the owner there appears to be very little inside. However, police discover gruesome murders on the cargo ship that brought the crates to the US and then another murder in the museum itself. Investigating the murders is Lt. Vincent D'Agosta who enlists the help of Dr. Margo Green at the museum - she has taken an interest in the contents of her colleague's crates. Unknown to both there is a large creature roaming the museum which is gearing itself up for a benefit reception which the city's mayor is to attend.

One of the sound effects is a floppy disk drive access sound from an Apple Macintosh computer (not the Silicon Graphics computers).

Margo Green:
Using superstition to bring people to the museum is like hiring topless ushers for the Bolshoi Ballet.


Dr. Whitney Frock:
Well if they did, I might go to the Ballet.

Incorrectly regarded as goofs: The tank into which Margo falls only contains hot water, used to loosen skin from a carcass. At the time she enters this tank, it is switched off and the water is cold.

STRING QUARTET IN B FLAT MAJOR
by F.J. Haydn
Performed by Kodaly Quartet
Courtesy of Naxos of America
By Arrangement with Source/Q