In probing the relationship between origin and destination dynamics in simple metapopulations, we have demonstrated several patterns that expand our understanding of disease dynamics in these systems. By directly incorporating a movement network into our model framework, we have constructed a very general approach that lends itself to arbitrarily large and complex systems. This is noteworthy, as more and more natural systems are being thought of in terms of networks of interacting components (e.g. separate species in ecological communities \cite{Proulx2005} or host individuals exchanging parasites \cite{Craft2011}). By adjusting the scale of our metapopulation, we can ask and answer different questions about the forces influencing disease dynamics.