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 Steve Trevor (LYLE
WAGGONER) and Diana Prince (LYNDA CARTER) must investigate a peculiar
series of building collapses. Oddly, all of the demolished buildings
are owned by GDH Enterprises, Gideon D. Harcourt (ROBERT ALDA),
president, owner, and according to their file, "Industrial
Giand."
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Their first speculation that the buildings have been sabotaged
by the corporation is dismissed after learning that Harcourt himself
is enraged and bewildered by the attacks on his property.
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Even more interesting is the phone call Harcourt receives from
a mysterious lady. In the course of their conversation the woman, who
introduces herself cryptically as Formicida (LORENE YARNELL),
threatens to destroy more of his property unless he shuts down one of
his plants and halts production on a deadly pesticide -EF-11, and
destroy the EF-11 formula. |
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Harcourt steps up security measures at the plant while Diana
and Steve continue to search for clues. Diana receives a call from Dr.
Doug Radcliffe (ROBERT SHIELDS), she met earlier in the year. He
sounds troubled and arranges to meet her at a warehouse that evening.
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Meanwhile, Formicida has learned that Doug is meeting Diana and
she intends to be there as well. |
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Diana arrives at the warehouse, but hearing-that Doug is in
trouble with two of Formicida's heavies, she whirls into Wonder Woman
before entering. She tries to break up the fight, but Formicida
persists. Formicida distracts Wonder Woman long enough to allow her
boys to load Radcliffe into a car and drive off.
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Dr. Irene Janus (LORENE YARNELL), berates Doug for selling his
pesticide formula too early, despite the fact that he knew it would
turn into a deadly toxin after contact with the air. |
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Now, Diana, at the IADC headquarters, checks out Doug Radcliffe
with IRAC, the computer. Steve looks on with her. Suddenly, IRAC
flashes the connection they are looking for -Doug Radcliffe sold a
pesticide formula to GDH. With Radcliffe now kidnapped by Formicida,
Diana surmises that whoever kidnapped Radcliffe probably is the same
person who is harassing Harcourt. But the only clues she has are a
test tube filled with ants and the fact that Formicida is a very
strong woman. |
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One of Formicida's men visits Harcourt's office. Suspecting
that he is carrying a package that Harcourt is expecting, the man is
admitted to the executives office where he deposits his parcel and
leaves.
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Diana does not receive quite the same courtesy when she seeks
admission, she is rebuked and held by an armed guard, as the security
people, receptionists and Harcourt himself believe that she is the
mysterious woman responsible for the building demolitions.
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Just as Harcourt harangues Diana for her ecological terrorism
of which he believes she is guilty, a terrible crunching sound is
heard from his office. They dash inside to find it's contents -all
collectors item antiques -destroyed. Diana points out the ants milling
in the sawdust.
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Back at the IADC, IRAC has linked Dr. Irene Janus with Dr.
Radcliffe. She is a well-known entymologist with a special interest in
ants and more importantly, she is the woman Diana remembers as the
Radcliffe kidnapper. What she doesn't realize immediately, but soon
will, is that Formicida and Dr. Janus are one in the same.
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When they investigate more extensively, they find out she is
not a scientist gone mad but a concerned citizen of the world. Diana
learns that the pesticide formula was sold too soon and that Janus is
simply trying to halt the marketing of the poison before it enters the
food chain, eventually poisoning millions of innocent victims. |
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Harcourt's own scientists have made this discovery themselves,
but Harcourt will not stop the distribution. Instead, he wants the
test reports changed to demonstrate that the product is absolutely
safe.
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The stage is now set for the confrontation as Formicida plans
to have the ants that she has learned to control destroy Harcourt's
plant. Diana, trying to save property, brings along IRAC's rover,
which is programmed and capable of communicating with the ants. |
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Formicida plants hundreds of ants at the plant and, on command,
orders them to destroy the building. The plant shakes as the creatures
devour the structure. Harcourt refuses to evacuate the plant, but
Wonder Woman intervenes and he reluctantly obeys. Meanwhile Formicida
is in the now evacuated control room, neutralizing the already
produced pesticide. Her potion is wearing off and her strength, ten
times that of her own body weight -just like ants -is wearing off.
Fortunately, Wonder Woman races to the production area where she
untams the levers and switches, neutralizing the chemicals and
preventing it from ever being released into the atmosphere. |
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The ants are still crunching around them, devouring the
structure voraciously. Wonder Woman activates the rovers voice
mechanism and suddenly, the plant goes ghastly silent -the little
rover has "called them off." Diana now smiles in victory, "he always had a way with
words!".
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