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How do Michael Caine's and Katharine Ross' characters get out of Houston


I am puzzled as to how our hero and heroine get past all of those killer bees in the command centre and get out of Houston at the end before they implement the Caine character's final solution. Can anyone explain that?

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Nope, it's unexplainable like much of the logic of this film. It's pounded into the audience's heads that three stings mean certain death, and the bees attack and sting without restraint, so any physical contact with The Swarm means a character is finished.
That is until the ending in the Houston Control center when Caine and Ross can casually wave their arms through a cloud of bees, and then appear unharmed riding around in a helicopter.

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