Killing Moon (1999) - full transcript

(dramatic music)

(cart beeps)

- Can I get a drink of that?

- No way man, you
know the drill.

- Come on, this was nothing.

I'm really thirsty.

- Aw, are you thirsty...

(Ron coughs)

Sorry, Captain.

Jeez, Ron.

Cover your mouth, will ya?



Hey.

Are you all right?

You don't look so good.

- Piece of cake

when you're used to
swallowing bowling balls.

- We'll crunch numbers
on the three best sights.

- That one little
island wasn't too bad.

You know what?

The beachfront reminds me
of our resort on Lanai.

- Man, this is one hot night.

- Yeah, it's the
Hawaiian islands,

it's generally hot here.

Look, we'll switch in Honolulu.

I doubt they'll even
notice the difference.



(Ron coughs)

Jeez, Ron, cover
your mouth, will ya?

(Ron coughs)

- I'm sorry, I'm feeling
a little lightheaded.

Give me a minute, okay?

- A minute.

- [Man] Will the
owner of a gray Sedan,

license number K-L-2-7-7-P-

- He's furious.

- Yup.

It's gonna be a pleasant flight.

- At least it's only an hour.

(Roberta chuckles)

- An hour with an
irate Clayton Durrell

is like a week at the dentist.

- Jesus fuckin'...

Ron.

What is it, man?

- I don't know.

I feel kind of funky.

- Easy, man, easy.

- What?

- Oh, Ron-
- Oh, Bill, we're in trouble.

(Ron coughs)

- [Bill] Jesus Christ.

- Bill?

- [Bill] Ron.

- Bill.

Bill!

We screwed up.

(Bill grunts)

(tense music)

- [Worker] Passenger
Kurt to check-in counter.

Passenger Kurt to
check-in counter.

(tense music)

(suspenseful music)

- Could you fasten your
seatbelt please, sir?

- Oh, yes, thank you.

- Are you doing all right?

And your seatbelts, gentlemen?

Please put your bags
under your seat.

Thank you.

Hi.

- [Man] Hi, sorry.

- Thanks.

Seatbelts, thanks.

(dramatic music)

(Bill coughs)

- Good evening
ladies and gentlemen,

this is the Captain speaking.

We're about 55 minutes
away from Honolulu.

Cruising altitude
will be 23,000 feet.

Present conditions in Honolulu,

clear skies, 81
degrees Fahrenheit.

Same for the next few days.

Please relax, enjoy your flight.

- You're in the Navy?

- Yes, I am.

Lieutenant Dave Thatcher.

- Jaya Millay.

- Jaya.

That's an interesting name.

- Well, when I was born
we lived in Toronto,

in an area called Little India.

- So, it's Hindu.

- I guess I should be thankful
I wasn't born in the 60s,

then I'd be Rainbow or
Sunshine Avatar Bliss.

- Oh, thank God
for small mercies.

- It's an okay name,
it means "prayer".

- Hm.

- Hi.

Beverage?

- Um, yeah.

Cola, please.

- Sure.

- I don't know.

I think the third
property we looked at,

the one on Maui...

(Bill coughs)

That's the problem with the
local transportation though.

But we've dealt with that...

- Oh, Jesus.

- Hey, excuse me.

I was wondering if I could
be of any assistance,

you look really sick.

- You a doctor?

- Matter of fact, I am.

- [Bill] Oh, well...

Where'd you intern, Doc?

- Johns Hopkins.

- [Bill] No shit.

- Yeah, heard?

- My uncle Dan's head
cardiologist there.

You must know him.

Dan Smythe?

- Oh, yeah, I know
Dan, he's a great guy.

- What's your trip, asshole?

You like playing doctor?

The only Dan Smythe I
know is in the banditos,

and he's doing a life stretch
for a double homicide.

Go play doctor somewhere else
before you need a real one.

- [Clayton] I know
on the islands

you get awful sick
sometimes from-

- Yeah, like pneumonia,

if you've been
stranded on the beach

a couple of days after surfing.

(Bill coughs)

- Pneumonia.

(tense music)

(Bill coughs)

- Beverage, guys?

- Yeah, thanks, Pam,
I'm dying of thirst.

Could I have a big
glass of water?

- Sure.

- Could you bring up a pitcher?

It's real dry in here.

- How's the humidex?

- It's normal.

- Waikiki Beach,
the Maui location,

what about...

Okay, yeah.

I've got this done, I
need you to take this-

- No.

Something very
strange just happened.

There's a guy back
there in economy,

well, the same guy with the
leopard unit on, he's bleeding.

- [Nancy] Bleeding?

- Bleeding?

- Bleeding, he's bleeding, okay?

I talked to him, he told
me he's got pneumonia,

he's bleeding from
his fucking eye.

- Pneumonia doesn't do that.

- Well, no kidding.

I mean, I've heard of sweating,

you can perspire, your lungs
get screwed, but not bleeding.

Nancy, turn around.

This coffee's cold.

Press the button or some...

Aw, great!

(water pours)
(tense music)

- Great.

- Aw, jeez.

- You want me to check the
rear galley thermostat?

- No, no, it's okay, I'll do it.

You have control.

Plane's on autopilot.

(tense music)

(Bill coughs)

Hey.

Can I get you something?

- Wa, wa-
- Water?

You want water?

You want water,
I'll get you water.

- Stole, the lab.

- Stole what?

What lab?

- The vial.

- Vial of what?

Aw, crap!

(dramatic music)

Pam!

- Oh my God.

- Okay, back up, back up.

Give him some room.

- I'm a doctor.

This man's dead.

- Keep everybody calm.

We'll be in Honolulu soon

- It's best that you
stay in your seats,

there's no need for alarm.

We'll be landing soon.

There's a doctor on
board, please stay calm.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- What's all the
commotion back there?

- God.

(tense music)

Gordon, you okay?

- [Gordon] He's dead.

- [Co-Pilot] Who's dead?

- Honolulu Control, this
is Sunray Flight 335.

We have an emergency,
do you read me?

- [Control] Flight 335,
this is Honolulu Control.

What's the problem?

- Control, we have an
in-flight fatality,

we may have some kind
of a bug onboard.

- [Control] Flight 335,
move to frequency 122,

and we will secure, copy?

- Heading for 122.

Roger that, Control.

- [Co-Pilot] Gordon,
what's going on?

- One of the
passengers just died.

It looked as if he'd hemorrhaged
up half of his organs.

Last thing he said was something
about stealing from a lab.

- A disease?

- Control, this is 335, copy?

Honolulu Control,
this is Flight 335.

Come in, please.

- What is it?

- He told me, Miss,
that he had pneumonia.

- The blood is very dark.

- It's arterial.

- That's right.

- What does it mean?

- It means the normal
flow of blood in the body

has gone awry.

- How can that happen?

- There are many reasons.

What happens is the blood
lining the walls of the lungs

becomes heavier and bursts
into the lung itself.

And essentially, you drown.

- Before he died, he said
something about stealing.

And a lab, and he
mentioned a vial.

- It could be a virus.

In a close space like this,

plane's an ideal environment

for a virus to thrive in.

Outside, they tend to die
before they find a host.

- Is there anything
else it could be?

- Well, I don't know, there's
so many factors involved,

and I'm not an immunologist.

- This is arterial blood.

If it happened this
fast, it has to be viral.

How long to Honolulu?

- Half an hour?

- Well, you should contact
Los Angeles and the CDC.

- The what?

- The Center for
Disease Control.

- We should talk to the pilots.

(tense music)

- Captain?

This is Dr. Yamada and
Lieutenant Thatcher.

- Gentlemen.

- It looks like
we have a problem.

- Uh, Pam, take care of our
passengers, keep them calm.

What happened, some kind of bug?

- I'm not sure.

- Maybe we should
drop the oxygen masks,

get the people back
there some clean air.

- Well, it's too
late for that now.

This is a totally
enclosed space.

What viruses leave us
are nuclei droplets.

Coughing, sneezing,
even breathing.

- We've been on the plane,
what, maybe half an hour?

It'll have infected everyone.

- Well, Dave is right.

About 15 years ago there
was a spate of deaths

in a harvest community
in Southern California.

Migrant workers.

They all lived in tents,

an atmosphere very
similar to this.

People who entered those tents
for a minute were infected.

- [Control] Flight 335, come in.

(Gordon coughs)

- This is 335, go ahead.

- [Control] We want
you to sit tight.

We're setting up
com-links with Los Angeles

and the Center for
Disease Control.

It's gonna be about
5 minutes, copy?

- Copy that, we have
a doctor onboard.

- [Control] Roger that,
we'll set up for standby.

- Standing by.

- Could I have everyone's
attention please?

I have some distressing
news for us all.

We may have some sort
of virus onboard.

- Virus?

- [Adam] What do
you mean a virus?

- The man that got sick,

did he say he had
some kind of virus?

- Please, let me finish.

I am going to tell you
everything that I know,

which isn't much.

- Excuse me, I think I
heard you're a doctor,

is that right?

- Yes.

But I'm not
currently practicing,

I'm a coroner in the
city of Sacramento.

- A coroner?

Oh, that's terrific.

What a nice practical
joke that is,

you might come in real
handy in about 20 minutes.

- I practiced
medicine for 5 years-

- Good, now you
became a stiff doctor.

- Say another word, you'll find
your tongue in your pocket.

- Okay.

Look, some of the things
we need to watch for

are thirst, nosebleeds,
and dizziness.

- Are we gonna get sick?

- That, I do not know.

I let the passengers
know what's going on.

- Look, this guy looked
fine when he got on.

Maybe this virus,
or whatever it is,

turns catastrophic only
in the final phase.

- What are you saying?

- This guy could've been
sick for days or weeks.

Who knows what the
incubation period is?

- [Co-Pilot] What was
that about incubation?

- A virus lies dormant
before it comes to life.

- How long does that last?

- Well, I mentioned
that outbreak among
the migrant workers.

That was anthrax.

But I've read about
engineered viruses

that have an incubation
period of less than 3 hours.

- So we can all get sick?

- Look, we're gonna be
in Honolulu soon, but-

- [Co-Pilot] But what?

- I don't think Honolulu has
the facility to deal with this.

(dramatic music)

(alarm rings)

- Laura Chadwick, Center
for Disease Control.

- Frank Conroy.

What have you been told?

- I was alerted to a
possible viral outbreak

aboard a plane over the Pacific.

Is that true?

- Yes.

- I'm not clear why I've
been dragged out of bed.

I'm just a Los
Angeles lab director.

If this is real, Atlanta
should be involved,

and we should have U.S. Army
medical services onboard.

- I agree, Miss Chadwick.

The CDC never should've
been involved.

(dramatic music)

This is more a national
security matter

than health related.

But since you're in the loop,

we'd like you to stay
the whole way through.

The army may be
brought in later.

- Who's "we" exactly.

- I'm the director
of special operations

with the National
Security Commission.

- Has Atlanta been called?

(dramatic music)

- Tag Hunt.

- Laura Chadwick, Center
for Disease Control.

How are things on the plane?

- Things are bad.

Have a look.

(dramatic music)

- Not only is it dangerous,

but it's against airline policy.

I know, I travel all the time.

If a kid has chickenpox
or the measles,

they don't let
them on the plane.

That is their job!

To protect people
like you, and people-

- What's going on?

- We're trying to figure
that out right now.

- They do not let
them on the plane.

It's happened to
me countless times,

I fly first class all the time.

- Sir, it is time
to take your seat.

- I want to ask you,

why would you let
that man on the plane?

He was sneezing on me-

- I will answer all your
questions when you take a seat.

- Sit down and do what?

Die like that bozo in the back
with the blue blanket on him?

- The captain and
the pilot onboard

are doing their best right now-

- They're not doing nothing!

We're 6 miles up in the air.

No wait, I'm not done with you.

I want to know your last-
- Hey, hey, hey!

Come on.

- Middle America, wakey wakey.

Because I'm telling you
right now, when I land,

I am suing their ass!

- Oh, sit down!

- It's your aircraft,
tell him to shut it.

Tell him to shut it!

- And I want to make sure that
two or three of you people

know what's going on-

- That is enough!
- So that when we sign-

- Please take your seat.

You are scaring people.

We have a problem here,
I don't have any answers,

but you are causing
more of a problem.

(people clapping)

- I want your last name.

- [David] Control yourself.

- I'm fine.

- Hi.

There's a young
back there alone,

do you mind if
she sits with you?

- Sure.

- Okay.

- Sure, yeah.

My name's Adam.

- Hi.

I'll have her sit over there.

- Okay.

- Teri.
- Okay.

Jaya.

Can you come here for a minute?

It's okay, sweetie.

This is Teri and that's Adam.

I want you to sit with
Adam, keep him company.

- Hi.

- How you doin'?

Jaya?

- Hi.
- I'm Adam.

Right.

- Whoa, that's a mean machine.

- Here, check this out.

I've got a ton of games.

You wanna try?

- [Control] Come in, 335.

- 335, go ahead, Control.

- [Control] 335, we're
not going to be able

to land you here in Honolulu.

- [Gordon] Say again, Control.

- [Control] 335, we're unable
to accommodate you here.

- Control Tower, this
is Dr. Robert Yamada,

one of the passengers.

Why are we unable
to land in Honolulu?

- [Control] 335, it
wasn't our decision.

You are prepared at
Glen Ord Air Force Base

200 miles north and
east of Los Angeles.

- Roger that.

- [Control] Standby for
the new flight plan.

- Standing by.

- I better tell the passengers.

I just spoke to ground control.

We won't be able to
land in Honolulu.

- What?

- Come on.

- [Woman] Well, what do we-

- [David] What?

Why not?

- There's no bio-secure
location there.

- Bio what?

Who cares!

We have to land this plane, yes?

- And do what?

- You tell me,
you're the doctor.

Just get off, and let
them deal with us.

- Maybe that's not
such a bad idea.

- We don't know what's going on,

but whatever it is,

we can only deal with
it in California.

That is the only place we're
getting off this plane.

- Aw!

- [Man] You're all
patched and clean.

You have dedicated
communications with Sunray 335.

- That should do it.

- [Man] The com-links are
open, 335 is all yours.

This is Honolulu, out.

(tense music)

- Here they are.

- And no one can interfere?

- No.

I've isolated their
transponder signature,

we're locked on to each other.

They're the only thing
that'll appear on this screen.

- Good job, Tag.

- You all right?

- We're hooked up
to the NSC now, Doc.

You want to go to the cockpit?

- Just try and relax.

Dave says we're linked.

Well, are we?

(Gordon gasps)

Oh my God.

When did this happen?

- It just started.

- What do we do?

(Gordon coughs)

- Shit.

- Anything?

- Nothing.

On any of those islands,

there's never been anything
remotely like this.

- I think we should
continue to pursue this

as if it were manmade.

- Is there something
I should know?

- Hopefully you know
what we're dealing with.

That's what you're
here for, isn't it?

(ominous music)

- Right.

Well, whatever it is,

it has an incredibly
quick incubation period.

Do we know anything
about the man

that brought this on?

- We should know
something more shortly.

- So, when can I
talk to this doctor?

- [Frank] The control
is working on it.

It should be a
couple more minutes.

- Standby, 335.

- [Robert] Standing by.

- [Tag] We're in big
trouble, the pilot's down.

- Coordinates?

- [Tag] 23 latitude
by 145 longitude.

About 3 hours, 35 minutes away

from the coast at their speed.

(dramatic music)

- Nothing.

No stations heard of anyone
claiming responsibility.

- What about the passengers?

- We've nearly finished
a second level profile

on all of them,
including the crew.

With one exception, the
chance of any one of them

having contact with
the type of group

that would plan an attack
of this kind is near zero.

- Who's the exception?

- Naval intelligence officer.

It's one of the Navy's Young
Turks, I think he's clean.

- What about the
man they found dead?

- Criminal record.

Drugs.

He was traveling with someone
who didn't get on the plane.

- Well, let's see
if we can find him.

I don't like this, Ed.

What the hell were
they doing out there?

- It's one of the things
that has us worried.

There was an unusual
number of tourists.

I don't know, maybe
they were just looking

for a vacation
that was different.

- They sure got that.

- Oh, you wanted this.

That's every report
on nerve gas, toxins,

manipulated viruses, bacteria,
synthesized fungoides

that we've done in
the last 15 years.

- Look, Ed, if
this thing is real,

I want a sample of it.

- I agree.

But if we don't have
a lot more information

before that plane
hits the coast...

(ominous music)

(Roberta coughs)

- [Clayton] Get
some water, Roberta.

- I'm just not
feeling very well.

Oh my God.

- Aw, God!

- [Roberta] Clayton, please.

- Oh, no!

- Clayton, I need some help.

Clayton, I need some help.

- We have blood up here,
we've got blood up here!

- Nancy, I need some
help, I need some help.

Nancy, I need some help.

I need some help.

I need some help!

- Don't, go sit over there.

Over there.

- [Roberta] Oh my God.

(tense music)

(Roberta sobs)

- Hey.

No more tears.

Breathe.

Breathe.

You're scared.

That's understandable.

I'm scared too.

- Thank you.

- I think everybody's scared.

- Thank you.

- Let's see.

Look.

It's just a little bit.

- Okay.

- I'm Peter.

Peter Neely.

What's your name?

- I'm Roberta.

- Hi, Roberta.

Breathe.
- Okay.

- Great, oh great.

Aw, fuckin' great,
fuckin' great!

Aw, great!

(Co-pilot coughs)

- What do we do now?

- Pretty soon there won't
be anyone to fly this plane.

- What about the passengers?

There might be a pilot onboard.

- Yeah, you go out there.

Say, "Hi, anybody onboard
know how to land a 737?"

There'll be pandemonium.

- Maybe you should start
jotting down some of the basics.

I'm gonna go see if anyone's
up for a career change.

- Okay.

She's on autopilot now.

I'll...

(Co-pilot coughs)

I'll write down the basics
to keep us in the air.

(tense music)

- You better tell that
controller what's going on here.

- Can I have your
attention, please?

I've got some bad news.

As you know, the pilot is
unable to fly the plane.

- I knew it.

We are so screwed.

So, so screwed.

We should've landed in Honolulu,

there was a million
pilots in Honolulu.

You geniuses decided not to.

- If we landed in Honolulu,

we weren't getting
off the plane.

That was the motivator
for this little sojourn

to Los Angeles.

- What about the co-pilot?

- [David] He's
getting sick as well.

- Ugh.

- Has anyone here ever
flown a plane before?

- Teri.

Teri, you gotta tell them.

- Okay, fine, I've
flown a Cessna.

- Great!

- You don't get it, I cannot
land a plane this size.

- Look, our options
are pretty limited.

- There's no one else?

- No.

I think you should
go get instructions

from the co-pilot right away.

- Okay.

Let's go then.

- Great.

Oh, great!

I'll get our phones.

- No, Clayton!

You turn that on, you're gonna
interfere with navigation.

- I don't know where
you've been, Nancy,

the last couple of minutes,

maybe you've been a
little bit vacant,

but there's a lot going on
on this plane now, okay?

We've got a lot of troubles.

I've got a lot
more to worry about

than whether I should turn on

this God damn cell phone or not.

- Clayton, don't.

Don't, please.

They told us not to.

Nancy, pick up your phone.

- No.

- Pick up your phone!

Turn it on, see if it works.

- It's dead.

- People, I want to
welcome you to Sunray's

flight of the damned!

It's Flight 666!

- [Man] Sit down, freak boy!

- Christ almighty!

- Wow.

You work with that guy?

- This is actually one
of his better days.

- Why do you work for him?

- Well, his company's
one of the biggies

in vacations and resorts.

- His company is what?

- Well, actually, I think
his father started it,

he just took it over
a few years ago.

- There is a weird syndrome

that kids with
successful parents have,

it makes them complete assholes.

(Roberta chuckles)

- Yeah, well, he
has that in spades.

So, why are you here?

I mean, I don't want
to pry or anything.

I won't bother you, you
don't have to answer.

- No, it's fine.

I was in a hospital for
depression back home,

and about a year ago I did
something fairly stupid.

- You didn't...

- Yeah, I did.

But I got over that.

And I figured I needed a
change, so I came down here.

(dramatic music)

- Wow, you know, you seem so...

You're so cool.

(Peter chuckles)

Oh, God.

Okay.

(melancholic music)

- I wish she wasn't here.

- Honolulu phoned CDC
first so she wouldn't be.

At least she's all
we've got to deal with.

- She's going through
that disk you gave me.

Is there any of
our work on there?

- Old weapons.

We haven't pursued
this for a long time.

- If this is real, we could
have a chemical weapon

on our hands that
nobody knows about,

all to ourselves.

- Are you gonna let it land?

- I haven't made
that decision yet.

- Co-pilot's down.

- I think your
decision's made for you.

- What?

- Nothing.

Who's flying the plane?

- Autopilot.

The best bet is to bring them in

and drop them in the
ocean about 10 miles out.

They got a chance of
hitting at the right angle.

- [Teri] Control,
come in, this is 335.

- Who the hell is that?

- Let's find out.

(dramatic music)

335, go ahead.

- [Teri] Control, this
is one of the passengers.

I'm licensed to fly a
single-engined Cessna.

- That is good news, 335.

That bucket you're in
may seem pretty big,

but she ain't far
removed from a Cessna.

- Doesn't really seem like that.

- You're gonna do fine.

I'm just gonna take you
through a few of the basics

before we take
her off autopilot.

- Roger.

- These people are
trying to be brave,

but they're just very scared.

- Aren't you?

- Yeah, I am.

- You know, some of us
aren't getting sick.

- That girl over there,
the woman flying the plane.

I don't feel like running
a marathon or anything,

but I'm okay.

- Yeah, well, we need to
figure out why that is.

- What are you trying
to get at, Doc?

- Well, I heard you
talking to that young girl.

Naval intelligence?

- And?

- Well, this isn't some
military experiment

gone wrong, is it?

- Okay.

We don't have any time for
this, but I will tell you,

when there are maneuvers
or an operation

that involves all
the armed forces,

I'm the Naval liaison
with those other forces.

That's what I do, okay?

- This man's dead.

He's a hemophiliac.

- If he's a hemophiliac,
his blood wouldn't thicken.

- No.

But as long as the
blood's in the veins,

it's irrelevant, but-

- Great, that's great,
that's terrific.

Another one bite the dust, Doc?

Another blue blanket
death back there?

- This man had a
medical condition,

this won't happen to us all.

- Bullshit.

That is bull!

- That's the truth.

- It is not the truth!

We are dead.

- Look, if we can make
it to Los Angeles,

which is only a couple of
hours, we'll all be fine.

- If we make it to
Los Angeles at all,

I want you to ask them why
they've killed our cell phones.

- What?

- [Clayton] Yeah,
our phones are dead.

Do you have one?

Do you have a phone?

Yeah?

Try and turn it on.

Try it.

Is it working?

- Mine's dead.

- See now, I don't think
we're up on all the rules.

You know something about this?

Why are our phones dead?

- Relax.

It's standard procedure,

they don't want us
panicking the world.

- Standard procedure?

This is bullshit, army boy.

- Hey, hey, it's Navy.

And I need you to
control yourself.

Wait a minute.

Hemophiliac, Taxinol.

(tense music)

There's only one dose.

There must be more
in his luggage.

- Why would we want it?

I mean, if it's a coagulant,
don't we want the opposite?

- No, we need something
to alter our metabolism,

to make it more difficult
for this virus to take hold.

- Exactly.

- How do we get to the luggage?

- In the hold.

There's a hatch in the cockpit,

but it's not pressurized.

- All right.

Let's keep it shut.

- What do you have for me?

- Well, it's pretty bizarre.

I've taken the
symptoms and mapped

a theoretical viral agent's
life in a human host.

Oh, I'm sorry, layman's terms.

- Yeah, that would be nice.

Sometime before
the plane gets over

the United States, perhaps?

- Mhm.

Well, I've looked
at a few things.

First, pulmonary infections,

which happen almost exclusively
in arid, dry habitats.

- So we can rule that out.

- Actually, we can rule out

most viral and
bacterial candidates.

- Well, then we're
back to square one.

- Not necessarily.

What we're seeing up there
resembles two things.

First, haemorrahagic fever.

But the incubation period
of whatever is on that plane

is much too quick, and
the symptoms are off.

No eruptions on the epidermis,

and the bleeding is arterial.

- So, what the hell is it?

- The only thing
that it resembles

is radiation sickness,
which isn't viral.

- Look, Doctor, before I let
those people off that plane,

I need to be more
certain than you sound.

- Of course you let them off!

We're erecting a
bio-secure environment

which is perfectly safe,

and I need to run
some more tests bef-

- Excuse me!

I need you to find the
certainty in that computer,

or get the hell out!

- That passenger
licensed for a Cessna,

she's a pretty quick study.

She may just be able
to land that thing.

- How are they holding up?

- So-so.

They came up with a
pretty interesting idea.

There's some coagulants
down in the hold,

they want to go
down and get them.

- Why?

- If the virus is
thickening their blood,

a coagulant would
be an enormous help.

- That would make it thicker.

- No.

Inside the body, it would
act as a stabilizer.

The cell would take what
it needs to correct itself.

- Well, that's a 373,

it can get extremely cold
down in the cargo hold.

- Well, they'll only be
down there a minute or two.

- Thanks.

- So, it's extremely cold
and the air is rarefied.

You can only go down
for 2 or 3 minutes.

Now, I'll go down, but I
need someone to go with me.

- I'll go.

- Preferably two people.

- I'll go.

- Great.

- Oh, hell.

I'll go along.

Joe Carter.

- Excellent.

Okay, let's go.

- I'll be back in a minute.

- Please be careful.

- All right, Teri,
we're going to the hold.

Okay.

We go through one at a time.

If we can't find the
suitcase inside two minutes

then come back up, get
warmed up, and start again.

- There should not be too much
luggage down there, right?

- All right.

Remember, the luggage
is labeled "Terzian".

- [Joe] It's cold in here.

- [Peter] It's freezing in here!

- Take the back.

- Yeah, got it.

(ominous music)

- Terzian, Terzian.

Terzian!

- Okay, let's get outta here.

- Come on.

Come on, come on.

- [David] Peter,
watch it, watch it!

(dramatic music)

(wind blows)

- What is it?

- They opened the hatch!

(people screaming)
(dramatic music)

- Shut the door!

(dramatic music)

- Peter!

(Peter screams)

(David screams)

(dramatic music)

(Roberta shrieks)

- Oh, God.

- What happened?

What happened?

Where's my husband?

- Just get him up.

Easy, easy.

- Come on, Dave.

- Oh my God, what happened?

Is he all right?

He's freezing.

- He banged his head.

- Okay, put him
back, put him back.

Get the chair back.

Okay, there we go.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Stay back now, stay
back, you're all right.

You're okay, you're okay.

- [Roberta] Keep him covered.

- I'm okay.

(Roberta laughs)

- [Joe] You're okay.

Now, let's see what we've got.

- You're okay.

- [Joe] Is this it?

- Oh my God.

That's it.

That's it, isn't it?

- That's it.

- Jesus Christ.

- Did you get the drugs, 335?

- [Teri] Affirmative.

I'm gonna turn you over
to the doctor here.

- I should talk to him.

- We're gonna pass you
over to one of the doctors

working on our end, 335.

- [Teri] Standing by, Control.

- Yes, hello, this
is Dr. Chadwick.

Time is critical right now,

so I'm gonna take you through

everything I want you to do.

- We have to keep
this thing at bay

until we can reach help.

Now, this is Taxinol,
it's a coagulant.

Hopefully it'll slow
this thing down,

but we only have 12 doses.

- If we're gonna make L.A.,

a few people are important.

Teri's flying the
plane, Dr. Yamada, Pam.

We're gonna give Jaya, that
young lady there one too.

- Well, excuse me, but
isn't it based on looks?

I mean, she looks fine, right?

She looks fine to me.

- These decisions are
based on a kind of

fundamental morality that's
probably over your head.

- Whatever.

Slots for everybody.

- There are 5 people back
there who are still conscious,

and they need this
more than we do.

- Hey, hey, just a minute.

Okay?

You're not the only
one running this show.

Those 5 people are gonna die.

Let's share this amongst
the people who are healthy.

- Clayton!

Shut up, just shut up!

- Am I the only one
who's speaking their mind

how they really feel
about this whole thing?

It may be unfair...

You know what, we should vote.

- I agree.

But it's the three guys
who went down into the hold

to get that stuff that
should do the voting.

Now, I say we give it to
the people who need it.

How about you?

- That gets my vote.

- The voting's closed.

- Bunch of lemmings
is what we have here!

- Okay, okay.

Then that leaves 3 dosages
for the rest of us.

So, we've prepared some straws.

The red straws get the Taxinol.

Pam, you can pick one for me.

It's red, give her a Taxinol.

- Thank you.

(tense music)

- [David] I'm sorry.

The second red
one, one more left.

- This is for you.

(tense music)

- There's still one left, right?

(tense music)

No, wait a minute,
wait a minute.

I had my hand on the
other one, you saw that.

You all saw that, right?

I mean, I had my hand
on the other straw.

- You have a good
chance of surviving

this little bout of the flu,

but if you keep it up,
you won't survive me.

- [Peter] Thanks.

- All right.

Just open it up and drink it.

- Okay?

- Go ahead.

- Well, Roberta...

- What?

(man coughs)

- Nothing, nothing.

(dramatic music)

- Joseph, I can't.

- Aw, Sharon, it's hitting you.

You need this more than I do.

- Let's split it.

- Please, don't
split the Taxinol.

Anything less than a
full dose is useless.

- Drink it.

- I want you to open this and
drink the whole thing, okay?

All right?

- Mhm.

- Good girl.

(dramatic music)

- You're getting sick.

- No.

Don't even think about that.

You just drink that up.

You know...

There are some times when
pretending you're tough

isn't such a good idea.

This is one of them.

Go ahead.

(melancholic music)

Good.

- Come on, I want you
to drink something.

Come on now.

Drink this all up.

Drink the whole thing.

That's great.

Just relax.

Open this and drink
the whole thing.

Can you open this and
drink the whole thing?

Sir?

I'm gonna open this and
you drink this down.

The whole thing.

There you go, swallow that one.

Good work.

- Hey, hey, Peter.

Would you be interested
in selling that?

- I don't know, how much
are you willing to pay?

- $10,000.

- Um, Doctor.

How much is one of these worth?

- I don't know, a
buck and a half.

- A buck and a half.

And you're gonna
pay me 10 grand?

- Yeah.

I have some in cash, and
a check, if you like.

- Okay.

Although, I think I'd have
to be kind of suicidal

to sell this right now.

- Okay, look, how
about $100,000?

It's a few more zeros, $100,000,

that's a lot of money.

- I think it's kinda low.

- Nobody's talking
to you, all right?

This is a deal between
Peter and myself.

$100,000.

- But Clayton,
Dave's my advisor,

and so if he says it's
too low, it's too low.

- $250,000.

- Stop this!

That's enough.

- Come on, Clayton.

You and I are
barely getting sick.

In fact, I feel great.

- We are trying to make a deal.

I am talking about one quarter

of a million dollars for you.

- This isn't fair!

- In fact, whatever you
want, pick your price.

I just want this
to be over with.

- Me too.

- Peter, Pete...

- Joseph.
- Yeah?

- Here.

And thank you very much for
helping me out downstairs.

- I can't take this.

- Joseph.

(Peter chuckles)

- Okay, here.

Your husband's a good man.

I feel like a million bucks.

- Thank you.

Joseph, take it.

- You want to hear
something crazy?

- Sure.

- Okay.

I came here because it's
kind of where I grew up.

My father had a sugar
refinery on the big island.

And I was happy then.

- I thought you were happy now.

- Yeah, but I thought
that coming here

I could get it together to face

what happened to me last year.

- That's not crazy.

- That's not the crazy part.

The crazy part is
now I want to live

so fucking badly it scares me.

(dramatic music)

Do you know?

- Yeah.

- I've come up with something.

I think I'm on the right track
with radiation poisoning.

- We've had satellites
scan the plane,

no radioactive signature.

- What about at
the genetic level?

- What?

- The disk you gave me.

Four years ago, there was
a theft of some DNA models

from Menzies Cochran.

It's a tiny pharmaceutical
company in Hawaii.

- DNA models?

- And it reminded me of Menzies.

He was a geneticist.

About 8 years ago, he isolated
a chain and modified it,

calling it Menzies C5.

He engineered it to
combine with tritium.

- How does it work?

- In a nutshell...

It affixes to an element,
in this case, tritium.

And as the gene replicates,
so does the tritium.

- Radiation poisoning.

- Exposure to over 4,000 rads

destroys the human
vascular system.

Death is within hours.

- So, it is a chemical weapon.

- Menzies created
an antidote, C6.

He never wanted it to
be used as a weapon,

so he never put it out.

- [Frank] No, that
doesn't make any sense.

- Bear with me.

It does.

Look, if someone on the
plane was exposed to C5-

- Then they'd have C6.

- Not if they stole the C5.

- That's guesswork.

- This is what I do!

I didn't just pull
this out of a hat.

If we take a look at
all the backgrounds

of the people on the plane,
especially patient zero,

he should fit a profile.

- Yeah.

- What is the problem?

- Prove it, Doctor.

Don't guess, prove it.

- Now, how did you learn to fly?

- I'm sorry?

- How did you learn to fly?

- My company bought a
Cessna for business reasons.

- What do you do?

- Vice president, development
for Eastern Winds resorts.

What about you?

Why were you down in that
far-flung corner of the islands?

- Well, I went there to
scatter my wife's ashes.

- I'm sorry.

- We met there.

And what about you, Dave?

Why were you down there?

- [David] I'm based in
Hawaii, it's not that far.

- You never really answer
a question, do you?

- [David] What do
you want to know?

- Well, how do you know
so much about viruses?

You know as much as I do.

And the Taxinol was your idea.

- You're not really a
doctor, you're a coroner.

But we're lucky to have you.

Excuse me.

- And you are awfully
skilled at evading questions.

Listen, I don't-

- I know all about Taxinol,

because my lover used it
to stop internal bleeding

when his lungs were covered
with copious legions.

I'm probably not
getting sick because

I'm on so many
protease inhibitors,

the bubonic plague
couldn't survive my system.

I know all about viruses

because I've got one inside
me, slowly killing me.

- Hey, I'm sorry I
suspected you earlier.

- It's okay.

I don't even know when
I'm being evasive.

It's being in the
Navy, you know.

"Don't ask, don't tell."

I'm gonna go see how some
of the passengers are doing.

If we live, this is
our little secret.

Okay?

(tense music)

- 335.

Come in!

Dr. Yamada, come in.

- Dr. Yamada here, go ahead.

- Dr. Yamada, this is
Dr. Chadwick again.

I think I have an idea of what
you're dealing with up there.

- [Robert] And we're all ears.

- It's a type of
radiation poisoning.

- Negative, Control.

There's no damage
of the epidermis

of any of the subjects.

- It's at the genetic
level, Doctor.

Are you there?

- I'm here.

And what are you talking about?

- I think patient zero was
infected with a genetic strand.

It's called Menzies C5.

It's a splice of a gene,
a nitritium isotope.

- That fits.

- [Laura] What kind of tools
do you have up there, Doctor?

- Nothing.

- Damn!

- Radiation poisoning.

We're talking about
cerebral edema.

- More than that.

Red and white blood cells
are essentially becoming

radioactive isotopes.

- Right.

(Nancy breathes heavily)

Can you hear me?

Can you hear me?

- Am I gonna be okay?

- Try to take a breath, come on.

(Nancy exhales)

(dramatic music)

Go to the cockpit.

You tell Dr. Chadwick I'll
get her the proof she needs.

(dramatic music)

(tense music)

(man coughs)

Hold these.

Control, this is Dr. Yamada,

I think I may be able
to give you some proof.

- How so, Doctor?

- I've taken a sample of
blood from patient zero,

and I'm going to introduce it

into a sample of mercury
take from the cabin humidex.

- [Laura] Yes, that's excellent.

- What's going on?

- Mercury is a liquid metal.

If this is just blood,
then nothing will happen.

Unless there's a
radioactive isotope in here.

Control.

This is Dr. Yamada.

The blood is completely
contaminated with isotopes.

The metal is in the early
stages of breakdown.

- [Laura] Dr. Yamada,
that was very creative.

- [Robert] Yeah, that's
what we coroners do,

and now you get creative.

- We're on it.

I'm just gonna check
my element tables,

but I think what he
just did clinched it.

(dramatic music)

(Sharon coughs)

- Adam, I don't want you to die.

(Adam chuckles)

- I don't want to
die either, Jaya.

- Are you scared?

- Yeah.

I'm pretty scared.

- Do you remember how I told
you that my name means prayer?

- Yeah.

- Well, it's an actual prayer.

- Maybe you could say it for me.

I mean, say it for all of us.

- I don't know the words.

- Well...

- How are we doing
up there, 335?

- [Teri] We're not bad, Control.

- You're riding into a storm,

so we're gonna be
relaying a new set

of landing coordinates, copy?

- Roger.

- How are the passengers?

- We've got 6 dead
and 2 comatose.

- Copy that, 335.

Standby for those new
coordinates, over.

It's a straight run here,

but I'm flying them
around the storm.

- No, you need to get them
here as fast as you can,

we know what this is.

- You have to get
Conroy to okay that.

- Oh, forget him!

He's on some sort
of conspiracy trip.

- You're freelance, right?

- No, I work for CDC, I run a
lab for them in Los Angeles.

- I thought you
were contract help?

- What are you talking about?

- Look, Doc.

We're here to do a
real specific job.

I'm flight control.

I don't care about
anything else.

We don't get to see the big
picture, and I don't want to.

I land the plane.

Then I go home, and this whole
operation never happened.

- Those people up there have
put their lives in our hands.

- My job is to bring a plane

to a specific set of
coordinates, that's all.

- Tag, those are
real people up there.

What if it was you,
or your family?

- You really have no idea who
we're working for, do you?

- [Frank] Where's my plane, Tag?

- About two minutes
from the coast,

but I'm flying them
around the storm,

so you can tack on about
20 minutes to their ETA.

- We need to get them
here as soon as possible.

- Fly them around
the storm, Tag.

(tense music)

- How sure are you?

- Nearly positive.

The first one that died,

the drug offenses,
it was smuggling.

He was also arrested
for bringing in

archeological
artifacts from Egypt.

- We found his partner.

- Where?

- Dead in the airport washroom.

- It gets worse.

The lab from Hawaii
has confirmed a break
in two nights ago.

- So it's not a weapon.

There's an antidote.

- We've got a problem here, Ed.

A big one.

If it gets out that we tried
to cover this thing up,

it's only a matter of time

before that woman from the
CDC puts things together.

- We don't have a problem,

you just can't let them land.

- Plane crash.

- It's extreme, but preferable
to telling the joint chiefs

that we thought we'd
stumbled on a new viral agent

and tried to keep it secret.

Bring 'em down in the ocean.

- They might already
be over land.

- Do what you have to do.

This was your baby,
put it to bed.

(tense music)

- This is the new flight plan.

- It's all right, I've
already mapped it.

- Use these coordinates, Tag.

- This...

335, are you ready for
your revised flight plan?

- [Teri] Go ahead, Control.

- Follow a heading

of 045 degrees, 11
minutes latitude north,

by 128 degrees, 17
minutes longitude west.

- [Teri] Going to 045 degrees
11 minutes latitude north,

by 128 degrees, 17
minutes longitude west.

- I'd like to talk to you.

- About what?

- I need to contact
CDC right away.

- Why?

- We need the
antidote, Menzies C6.

- The antidote can be here
in less than one hour.

- Why can't you call now?

People are dying!

We have a
responsibility to them.

- My responsibility lies
with the American people.

- And who's on that
plane, the Ancient Greeks?

- You do your job,
and I'll do mine.

- You all right, Teri?

- Fine.

Okay, about in about
a hundred miles,

we're going to have
to climb 5,000 feet

to clear those mountains.

I'm gonna need your
help during that climb.

- There's something wrong here.

We're well past that.

Teri, climb now!

- What?

- Climb!

- Throttle.

Throttle up!

(suspenseful music)

(people groaning)

- Hang on!

- Oh God.

(intense music)

- Shit.

We lost them.

335, come in.

335, this is Flight
Control, do you read?

They couldn't navigate
the mountains.

- That's a shame.

Do you have an exact location
where they went down?

- It'll take me some time.

- Get it done as quickly
as possible, Tag, please.

(dramatic music)

What the hell are you doing?

- Oh, I'd just like to
know who I helped kill.

(tense music)

Patient zero.

It was him, and that
asshole knew it.

- What?

- The first to go.

The idiot poisoned himself.

He was a thief and a smuggler.

Guess he picked the
wrong thing to steal.

- It's over, go home.

(melancholic music)

- There's no one here.

Oh my God.

(suspenseful music)

Bastard!

You knew all along, didn't you?

You were never gonna
let them land, were you?

There's nothing out there!

No bio-secure area, no
medical facilities, nothing!

You're so fucking afraid
of these assholes!

Well, Christ, grow up!

- Wait a minute!

- You're gonna spook me
about who we're working for?

Well, fuck them!

No, you wait a minute!

I understand why you're
here, but why me?

Why the charade?

- I don't know!

Probably because they
contacted your group first.

They would've done that
just to cover the bases.

- Those people were never
meant to live, were-

- I don't know!

- I've got to tell someone.

Tell them what they did.

- Doc.

Laura.

They'll kill you.

(machine beeps)

- I thought 335 was the
only flight on that path.

- It is.

(dramatic music)

- Down!

For Christ's sakes,
hug the mountain.

- I am!

The drafts I can't control.

- Okay.

Just get us down.

- You think they saw us?

- I don't know.

We've completely cleared
the spine of the mountains.

- [Control] 335, please come in.

- Shit.

- They saw us.

- [David] Don't answer.

- 335, we had you
there for a sec.

Please respond.

- It's not the same
voice, it's the doctor.

- Yeah, it's a trick.

- Keep heading south?

- Yeah.

- Do you think it could've
been another plane?

- No, it's not possible.

And if they crashed, they
wouldn't of made a signal.

The blip indicated they
were heading south.

They figured out the coordinates
we gave them were wrong.

- So you did try to kill them.

- All right.

I'll help.

But it's not gonna be easy.

They don't think we wanna help.

(dramatic music)

- The sun's coming up.

- Adam, Adam.

Listen.

(Jaya speaks in
foreign language)

- I thought you
didn't know the words.

- I found them on the net.

- What?

(Adam coughs)

How did you get on the net?

- You've got a browser
here, I just used it.

You're not gonna get
nailed for long distance.

- How did you get on?

- [David] Hey, she's
on the internet.

- This computer is a Tetra 8000.

Its modem is iridium, you
could use it from anywhere.

Is that important?

- Jaya.

Does email work with that?

- Sure.

- Yes.

- We can contact the CDC.

- You did a good thing.

(dramatic music)

- Jaya.

Can you show me how
to use this modem?

Over here.

It's okay.

- [Teri] Control, this is 335.

- This is gonna be
hard to believe, 335,

but it's good to hear from you.

- Tell them we want to help.

- I've got the doctor
with me, we want to help.

- My father always
told me God helps those

who help themselves.

Listen up, Control.

- So, you think it'll work?

- We'll find out in
a couple of minutes.

You're on.

- Wish me luck.

(tense music)

- 335, you're just 3 miles
from the landing zone.

- Everyone fasten your
seatbelts, we're ready to land.

I'll see you on the ground.

(dramatic music)

Ready, Control.

- I've got you.

You're at 18,000 feet.

I want you to turn
right 10 degrees.

- [Teri] Veering
right, 10 degrees.

- We plan to be
leaving soon, Doctor.

- Yes, I know.

But I have something
to say to you first.

I know you crashed that plane.

(tense music)

- Now, what would
make you think that?

- Oh, I don't think
it, I know it.

- That plane crashed.

Planes do that.

Yours could do that.

- I'm gonna stand up for
those people on that plane.

- Stand up for them?

Why not join them?

- You know...

I'm not scared of you anymore.

- I wasn't sure if
you were smart or not.

You're not.

- Oh, I'm smart.

Yeah.

I'm smart enough to know
that I want my plane

to land safely in Los Angeles.

- This is it.

Lower your flaps to 30 degrees.

- Roger, lowering
flaps 30 degrees.

- Look to your right.

There's a lever for
your air breaks.

- I see it.

- [Tag] Pull it back.

- [Teri] Got it.

- Your seatbelt.

- Everybody can lean forward

and place your head
between your knees.

It's probably gonna be
one hell of a landing.

You ready?

- Mhm.

- Okay.

- Your flight will be
leaving for Washington.

- Why is that?

- Debriefing.

Standard operating procedure.

As I'm sure you know,

this was a highly
classified operation.

You'll be-

- Quiet as a mouse.

- It's good to have
a sense of humor.

- I hope you have yours.

- Excuse me?

Ah, Ed, I'll have those
coordinates shortly.

- [Ed] I don't think
we'll be needing them.

- [Frank] What?

- I think they're gonna land.

- What the hell are
you talking about?

That plane crashed
in the mountains.

- [Teri] I'm not lined up!

- Relax.

Turn right, 060.

- Okay.

I'm coming in line now.

- [Tag] Now flare, flare!

Pull back on the control column.

(tense music)

(tires screech)

(people groaning)

(David laughs)

- We're on the ground!

- Oh my God!

Control, thank you
for everything.

I'm shutting down.

- Good job, 335.

Come on in, we're
waiting for you.

- Yes!

We made it!

Teri, I love you!

Teri!

Teri!

Teri!

- Dave!

(people chattering)

- [Dave] Thank you, thank you.

(dramatic music)

- Let's go, Frank.

We have a problem.

- Smooth.

- Come on.

(dramatic music)

(siren blaring)

Now, tell me.

Doesn't that feel good?

- Yeah, it does.

- We did it!

We God damn did it!

(dramatic music)

- You take care of
this woman here.

You come with me, please.

(somber music)

- Listen up, everyone.

I'm going to introduce
a serum right away.

Please roll up your sleeves,

I'll be giving you an injection.

(dramatic music)

- Where's Dr. Chadwick?

- I'm Chadwick.

- I'm Dr. Yamada.

It's good to see you.

- I'm glad you made it.

- [Robert] Well, thank you.

- The CDC is setting
up cots in the hangar.

We'll lead you for
more treatment.

- Okay, thank you.

How is he?

- He's fine.

- Hey.
- Hey.

- You know, you never
told me where you lived.

- Where do you live?

- Los Angeles.

- I think I'll move there.

- Good work, Dr. Chadwick.

- Thank you.

We'd like you to come
inside for more blood work.

- The air feels
pretty great out here.

- I'd really like to meet
the guy who landed us.

- Tag, this is Teri.

- Hi!
- Nice landing.

- Thank you.

- You know, it was a
full moon last night.

- Yeah?

- Weird things happen
when the moon is full.

(dramatic music)

(melancholic music)

(intense music)