Jason Reed (Jonathan Emerson) is working the graveyard shift at a rat-infested textile mill that has recently been reopened. Reed is surrounded by rats, and attempts to drive them away by throwing one rat into a cotton picker. When the rats do not leave, Reed prepares to throw another one into the cotton picker when he is attacked by a large unseen creature (voiced by Frank Welker), which pushes him into the cotton picker where he is torn apart.