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• How does the alien parasite spread among the faculty and students?▾

  The parasite reproduces through water — infected hosts carry slug-like larvae that can be transferred through any bodily fluid, most easily through direct contact with water or a wet surface. This is why the alien queen keeps the school's water supply close at hand, and why the students realize that dehydration is a way to detect carriers: an infected person will compulsively seek and consume water to keep the larvae alive inside them.

• Why does Zeke's homemade drug (Scat) act as a weapon against the aliens?▾

  Zeke manufactures a powdered stimulant he sells to students, which turns out to be composed largely of diuretics — substances that rapidly dehydrate the body. Because the alien parasites depend on a hydrated host environment to survive, a concentrated dose of the drug essentially desiccates and kills the larvae. The students weaponize this by loading the powder into makeshift dispensers and injecting or stabbing infected people with them.

• Who is revealed to be the alien queen at the end, and what does that reveal about the plot?▾

  Marybeth Louise Hutchinson, the new transfer student who seemed wholesome and eager to fit in, is revealed to be the alien queen herself rather than a mere host. Her entire 'nice new girl' persona was a calculated infiltration strategy to embed herself at the center of the school community while the takeover spread outward. When unmasked, she transforms into a massive multi-limbed creature, showing that the queen form is far larger and more powerful than the standard parasitic larvae infecting the other characters.

• What happens to people after the alien parasite is removed or destroyed?▾

  When the parasite is killed — primarily by Zeke's drug — the host is freed and returns to their normal self, with no lasting physical harm shown. The infected teachers and students who survive the ordeal have no memory of their actions while under alien control, which allows the film to wrap up with the school apparently returning to normal. This selective amnesia conveniently avoids the characters having to answer for the violence committed while possessed.

• Why do the aliens choose a small-town high school as their invasion staging point?▾

  The film implies the aliens target the school because it is a contained, hierarchical social structure where authority figures (teachers) already have control over a captive population (students), making it an efficient base to quietly expand the infestation before the outside world notices. Marybeth also hints that the aliens are refugees from a dying world seeking a new home, framing the invasion less as conquest and more as desperate colonization — the school's insularity makes it an ideal beachhead.