Martin and Beth must race against time to escape from Bartok and find a way to cure Martin before he suffers the same grotesque fate as his father. However, Bartok has ulterior motives for his seeming kindness toward Martin: He intends to use to Telepods’ ability to gene-splice for nefarious purposes, and has been aware from the start that Martin will eventually mutate into a human-fly hybrid creature. Physically a grown adult by his fifth birthday, Martin is given the task of repairing his father's Telepods by Bartok, and also falls in love with Bartok employee Beth Logan ( Daphne Zuniga).
Martin's unique heritage (which he is kept unaware of) results in his suffering from rapid aging, but also provides him with a photographic memory and no need for sleep. The child, named Martin Brundle ( Eric Stoltz), is adopted by Anton Bartok ( Lee Richardson), the head of Bartok Industries and sponsor of Seth's experiment. The sequel continues the story, with Veronica Quaife dying in the process of giving birth to Seth Brundle's mutant son. Ronnie and the diseased Seth must both cope with the effects of his transformation on their relationship, while Seth desperately searches for a cure before his humanity-and his sanity-completely drain away. Veronica notices the disturbing changes in Seth's personality, whose body begins a prolonged and grotesque process of deteriorating into a human-insect hybrid creature, which Seth dubs “Brundlefly”. Unaware of the accident, Seth initially believes that his newly-increased strength and energy are a result of the teleportation process purifying and improving his body, but his behavior soon becomes arrogant and violent. The computer becomes confused by the fly's presence, and merges it with Seth at the genetic level. One night, Seth rashly decides to test the process on himself, but fails to notice a common housefly which has slipped into the transmitter pod with him. Journalist Veronica “Ronnie” ( Geena Davis) agrees to document Seth's project, and the two become lovers. Scientist Seth Brundle ( Jeff Goldblum), has successfully invented a teleportation device which can disintegrate matter in one “Telepod” and reintegrate it in another.
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