Two survivors arrive at a stockpile of supplies, hoping to claim food to last them a year, but discover others have reached it before them—non-human ants controlled by a person who can communicate with insects. The woman explains that these ants built the shelter and warns against fighting them. Despite their uneasy truce, another man plans to capture one survivor as a sacrifice to gain more ant followers, while intending to keep the other woman for himself. The episode ends with the looming threat of forced submission to the ant colony and the emergence of a ruthless power struggle among the shrunken humans.