Greater Works Vision

Coming Soon… from the skies above.

Narrator (deep voice):
In the burning sun of southern Texas and the jungles of Mexico… an ancient terror is crawling back.

[Thunder rumbles. A swarm rises on the horizon.]

Billions of flesh-eating monsters… born to devour, programmed to die.

They feast on the living, burrowing into wounds, laying their eggs in raw flesh. Once inside, there’s no escape. Cattle collapse. Wildlife vanish. Even pets are at risk. It’s not a virus. It’s not a parasite. It’s screwworm and it’s back.

[Cut to government scientists in hazmat suits, staring at glass chambers filled with squirming larvae.]

The only hope? A strange experiment. Inside secret U.S. labs, a bizarre weapon is being bred:
Sterile male flies, irradiated, winged and released by the billions from airplanes. Their mission? Mate, fail and die.

Professor Edwin Burgess (voiceover):
“It’s weird science… but it works.”

[A montage: cargo planes unleashing shimmering clouds of buzzing insects, flies crawling across lab trays, a rancher examining a wound oozing with larvae.]

Michael Bailey, AVMA:
“A thousand-pound bovine can be dead in two weeks. You don’t treat it fast, you lose everything.”

From Panama to Kansas, the war is on. The USDA is opening a new fly factory in Mexico. A fly distribution center rises in Texas. The clock is ticking.

[Cut to Don Hineman, silhouetted against a dying sunset.]

“I saw it once as a boy. You don’t forget what it looks like… when they eat a cow alive.”

“Operation Screwworm: Rise of the Flesh Flies” Based on horrifying true events.

Coming Summer 2026 — Don’t Look Up.

Sources =
Present:

https://www.avma.org/news/usda-unveils-texas-screwworm-facility-eradication-strategy-amid-reopening-southern-ports

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/us-plans-begin-breeding-billions-flies-fight-pest-123398866

https://www.agdaily.com/livestock/screwworm-eradication-lessons-from-a-longtime-veterinarian/

Past: https://www.fdacs.gov/Agriculture-Industry/Pests-and-Diseases/Animal-Pests-and-Diseases/New-World-Screwworm

https://www.flaentsoc.org/webbaum/baumhover.html

Instead of saying, “I know what it feels like,” let’s offer something gentler—something more honest:
“I cannot even begin to imagine the weight of your heartbreak, but I want you to know that I’m here, and I care. Deeply.”

Instead of saying, “You’re strong, you’ll get through this,” let’s say something that makes space for the ache:
“You will hurt—maybe in ways words can’t reach—but you won’t have to go through it alone. I’ll be right here, through every wave of pain, holding your hand when the nights feel endless.”

Instead of saying, “You look like you’re doing well,” let’s be more tender, more present:
“How are you holding up today, really? Not the smile you wear, but the truth behind your eyes—how’s your heart managing the storm?”

Instead of saying, “Healing takes time,” let’s honor the journey with more grace:
“Healing doesn’t follow a schedule. It’s not a race or a deadline—it’s a tender, unpredictable unfolding. Some days you’ll feel okay, other days will feel like starting over—and both are valid.”

Instead of saying, “Everything happens for a reason,” let’s not try to explain the unexplainable:
“This must feel so painfully senseless right now—and maybe it truly is. Sometimes there is no reason. Sometimes it just hurts. And that hurt deserves to be seen, not solved.”

And when words begin to fail—when nothing you say feels like it could possibly be enough—
Just be there. Hold their hand. Sit beside them in the silence. Because sometimes, love speaks loudest when it says nothing at all.
It lives in the stillness. It breathes in the pauses. It comforts in the quiet presence that says: “You don’t have to carry this alone. I’m not going anywhere.”