Private is distraught when cockroaches appear in the HQ, taken in by Rico when threatened by an exterminator. In order to help the cockroaches return to where they originated, the penguins and roaches set out on a mission to defeat the exterminator. Following a long stakeout, Officer X, now an exterminator, arrives on the scene, and soon manages to tie up Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico as Private slips away. To save his teammates and defeat X, Private temporarily suppresses his feelings of disgust and covers himself with numerous roaches, which crawl off him and into X's clothing when the lights are turned off. X subsequently runs out of the building and Private suffers a delayed case of "the willies".