ReGenesis (2004–2008): Season 1, Episode 11 - The Promise - full transcript
Louisa Raposa, their spokesperson.
- Welcome to Canada.
- Thank you.
Aye-aye-aye-aye.
Severe anticoagulation syndrome.
- What causes it?
- We don't know.
All right, why don't you two
pack your bag?
Aw, fuck! Fuck!
Mosquitoes can cause
anticoagulation.
Malaria, she kills over 2 million people
a year in Africa alone.
And the mosquito inserts the parasite
along with anticoagulation saliva
into the human.
Carlos, that has been
genetically engineered.
What? No.
We got a Reimer.
Really?
Uh-huh. It's amazing.
No bigger than a bar fridge,
it turns salt water, human waste,
anything,
into pure drinking water.
- Except it has a flaw.
- Exactly.
What about something your body
wouldn't recognize?
An imposter. A Trojan horse.
...bacteriophage, which is a virus
so it multiplies.
Pretty soon,
one becomes a million
and eventually they bust out.
Do you think this could be it?
Bob, you're a genius.
1x11- The Promise
And don't you put this on my team!
We told you to close this
border a day and a half ago,
now the whole thing's out of control!
This is fucking bullshit.
- Jill, you got the numbers?
- Yeah.
Why isn't the Windsor/Detroit
tunnel sealed?
And where are those National
Guardsmen from Lansing?
We're not sure. The trucks were diverted,
that's all I know right now.
Diverted?
- Who gave that order?
- The medical corp.
- They're all sick.
- Wait, they were inoculated!
Not my department.
David...
antigens, ELISA test, PCRs
all confirm the Variola Major.
Well, we knew it was smallpox
two days ago when we started this.
Well, now we have confirmation.
Yeah, we got National Guardsmen
who were sick and they were inoculated.
With that vaccine?
I don't know. We better put
out a health advisory.
I'll take care of it.
China... China...
China still isn't allowing that
flight in Chicago to land.
If it's filled with suspected smallpox.
Confirmed smallpox.
They're trying to divert it to Guam
but they don't have enough fuel.
Bob, you need to stick to the science,
let these guys handle the logistics.
Yeah, but they can't make it
to Guam. It'll go down.
Hey, Bob. I need you to put a request in
for the smallpox vaccine batches
that were used to inoculate everybody.
- But David!
- All right, now just listen.
We need to know
if they're still alive, all right?
Okay.
- The Canada-U.S. border's been closed.
- Finally!
Mayko!
I need those numbers!
Yeah, hold on a sec!
David!
Over here! Over here!
Now they're thinking
the terrorists botched the whole thing
to screw us up at the border.
20,000 dead and now it's a diversion?
What the hell do they have in mind?
- Number! Numbers! Numbers!
- Okay, okay!
This reflects the data from
the samples out of Windsor.
- This is good, this is good.
- What good?
Hemorrhagics over the last 24 hours.
Move, get out of here.
Fuck, what the hell?
- What are you looking for?
- The military numbers!
I need to know how many people were
on the front line who were inoculated.
Go back.
- David.
- Yeah?
- You were right. Hemorrhagics.
- Yeah?
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
Sometimes I amaze even myself.
Report out of Flint.
Fifty marines are seriously ill.
Pox?
- No, they're bleeding.
- Sure.
Sure?
Where are the 2 million inoculations
we're expecting from the U.K.?
They're still sitting
on a tarmac in London.
The Brits are getting a little jittery
about releasing them.
- What the hell for?
- Because they're starting to think
they might need the
inoculations themselves.
Oh, they're going to need
more than that.
The President ordered inoculations
for every man, woman and child!
Yeah, and I ordered a double
cheeseburger, no onions! Where is it?
Just stick to the science, buddy.
Okay.
- How're you holding up?
- Oh, hey, fine. Listen.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Do you like oysters?
The little ones.
Yeah, well I know
this fantastic oyster bar,
it's down in the distillery district.
It's actually... it's right by my loft.
What do you say the two of us
duck out of here,
we pick up a couple of dozen of
Kumamoto oysters, you know,
the little oysters and then
maybe go back to my place
and have a nap.
You interested?
I'm not interested in being
court-martialed.
Oh well, come on.
We're all going to be dead in a couple
of weeks anyway, so who cares?
I've been inoculated.
So have I. That's the problem
Private Rossette.
You see, in a few days there's going
to be vomit coming out one end,
diarrhea coming out the other and well,
blood coming out
of every pore in between,
so there's kind of a time
factor on my offer.
Here, listen. I just got this sweater.
Tell me, do you think it looks better
if it's done up like this.
Or if I just like leave it
open and all sort of sexy?
What are you doing?
Hemorrhagic fever in smallpox.
Game over.
He's got it.
Game terminated. On 8-2 at 17:32 hours
Eastern Standard Time.
Good work, David.
Well, hey, not bad, eh?
Because, what was Atlanta?
It was 5 days, 600,000, and Mexico was?
Four days, close to
a million dead.
- And I got...?
- Two days, 22,000 dead.
Three days!
And 30,000! Wow!
Good work everybody.
Thank you, Weston.
Care to explain your reasoning?
Oh, I thought you'd never ask.
You see, the military boys they did
a pretty good job rushing in to fight
what they thought was
a clear cut smallpox outbreak,
but they didn't really do their homework
because although the smallpox
which infected the inoculated soldiers
was killed
by their heightened antibodies,
there was something lurking
in the bushes. Check it out.
Smallpox, hum?
With a little friend.
The antibodies kill the smallpox
and they release
green monkey disease, aka Marburg fever
hidden behind the smallpox.
I should say actually, it's super-Marburg
because the symptomology was
pretty fucking quick.
That's it.
Oh, that's it.
I mean, you could have contained
the smallpox outbreak,
but in the confusion you managed
to infect thousands of people with
a virus that's right up there with Ebola
released by the very inoculation
that was supposed to be protecting us.
A pretty slick trick, general.
We'll need recommendations.
Well, as I said to Private Rossette here,
my recommendations are to study
and develop a rapid test
for recombinant chimera viruses.
Private Rossette,
would you like to...
- David.
- Not now.
It's about Miranda.
I'll just be a minute.
What's with lover boy?
No comment, general.
How'd it go?
Very well.
Colin Digby, David Sandstrom.
Oh yeah.
MI-5.
MI-5, cool.
That's a nice suit.
Listen, we need to talk.
Our friend Martin Jamieson,
aka William Zanzinger
was found dead in Cape Town.
Well, it is good news. Thank you.
How?
- It appears to be suicide.
- Any other leads?
No, nothing official.
We don't think that Jamieson
created the Miranda virus on his own,
as he was a mercenary. We already had him
linked to illegal arms trading
out of Russia, drugs out of South America
and an incident here in Canada.
What'd he do, kill a seal?
No, he firebombed a Sikh temple.
We also don't think that he committed
suicide, not out of remorse anyway.
- He was most likely murdered.
- Why Cape Town?
Sorry, I beg your pardon?
You said he died in Cape Town.
What was he doing there?
He was running from
British intelligence.
Yeah, but why did he run there?
I mean, why not Papua New Guinea
or Tuktuyuktuk
or some spider hole in Iraq?
We don't know yet.
Okay.
Well, that's good,
right? Helpful? Thank you.
I've just got to wrap up a few things.
So, he's really good
at what he does, yeah?
With science he's brilliant.
The rest I'm not sure.
Hi, Bob.
Hello, Dr. Nathan.
Well hello, Gamelan.
So...
What's the problem, Bob?
Histiocytosis.
You know about histiocytosis?
Histiocytes are a type of
white blood cell also called macrophages
which ordinarily form a part of
a dog's immune system.
Their proper role is to engulf
bacteria and other material
which should not be present in
the body and destroy it.
I thought it might be there,
but I'm not against a second opinion.
How many PhDs do you have now?
Still just two.
We'll need to run some tests.
I already have.
Well, I think we should keep
Gamelan here for a couple of days,
put her on a drip. She's jaundiced.
See, I didn't notice that.
We'll see if we can't get
her red cells up.
X-rays, blood work.
Sure.
I packed a bag for her.
Now, what do you like on
your oysters again?
Mmm, definitely some lemon.
Some lemon, all right.
And let's have a little bit more
of this hot stuff right here.
All right, you want some hot stuff?
Imagine that, nobody's home.
You are.
My turn.
Hey, how's it going?
Oh, bankers hours?
Oyster night.
Hum, got it.
Do you remember a conversation about
some state of the art DNA sequencer?
What, over oysters?
It was back during the
Miranda outbreak.
I'm pretty sure Hira said she heard
there was one in Cape Town, South Africa.
Yeah, so?
Cape Town came up the other day.
Here you go. Bethke Labs,
Cape Town, South Africa.
You ever been there?
A beautiful city, got a mountain
right in the middle of it.
Yeah, we went together, remember?
Oh, right.
Hum, this is weird.
Bethke Labs was destroyed
by a fire a month ago.
Cause unknown, no casualties.
Hold on.
Okay, the examiner called it
an industrial accident.
Cape Daily called it terrorism.
The National called it suspicious.
What is that?
"Because of potential dangers,
biohazard experts
sealed and secured the facility
- pending medical review."
- Thank you.
I'm always glad to help.
Hey, write this down. Bethke Labs...
Cape Town, South Africa.
Tell James Bond to get us
all biohazard samples he can.
Okay, is there anything...
See ya!
- May I?
- Yeah, come in Carlos.
I've been thinking about
your recent scare.
I haven't. There was really
nothing to worry about after all.
That's great, but we can test
for BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
The breast cancer genes.
If you have the mutated version,
and there are more errors in replication,
then this can lead to a
cancerous growth.
It's a simple test.
I can do it for you here.
Okay. What happens if I have it?
If you have it, it means
you're predisposed to breast cancer.
The usual recommendation is a
double mastectomy.
Oh...
is that all?
Yes, but Caroline given the information,
before a cancer grows
it can be life saving information.
Yeah.
I'm going to have to think about it.
Okay, good.
But thank you.
Bob?
Bob, what are you doing?
Hey.
Oh, hi.
- What are you still doing here?
- Am I supposed to be somewhere else?
Home.
There's no reason to go home.
My dog's in the hospital.
Gamy,
what's wrong with her?
Gamelan's got garden variety histiocytes
but they're out of control.
I'm sorry, Bob.
They've attached to her organs
instead of doing what
they're supposed to do.
What's the prognosis?
Well, if they've attached
to her liver or her heart,
they can grow as fast as cancer cells
and form lumps.
Do you think Caroline would
let me work on it?
Fuck Caroline.
Do you need any help?
Bob...
Sometimes I think
I know too much.
If I didn't know so much about
histiocytes and receptive furins
and mitosis and meiosis,
mitosis reduction division.
If I didn't know so much
maybe I wouldn't think
that I could save Gamelan.
I could just let her go.
Bob, I'll help you, okay?
Thanks, Mayko.
What is that?
Check it out. Two culminates
orienting away from each other
because of NH3 production.
Aren't you supposed to be working
on a model of a smallpox/Marburg
outbreak in Detroit?
Well, I've got to get
my kicks somewhere.
Now I'm halfway there,
I'm just waiting for some
sequence information from Jill.
I've been waiting forever.
How long does it take to sequence
a fucking smallpox virus?
Hang on a sec.
- Hi.
- Hi.
How's that theoretical Marburg
coming along?
Oh, well, I tried hitting it
with anti-virals
and cytokines and
human vasoactive agents.
I didn't get anywhere.
Even the smallpox sequencing?
Shit.
Okay, here if you just come for
a second and let me...
Are you all right?
No, I'm a fucking disaster, David.
It started in college, you know,
feeling like I couldn't get enough air,
feeling like I was going
to have a heart attack,
the sweats, the shakes.
Feeling like I'm going to go crazy.
I feel that way everyday.
Look Jill, you're in
a new town, a new job,
your ground breaking experiment just...
- Crashed and burned.
- Yep, you've got a lot of shit going on.
No, I know. I know.
And I've done all this stuff too, David.
Like I've done cognitive
and behavioural therapies,
I was on Venlafaxine for about a year.
- Wow, how did that work for you?
- It helped,
but it made my brain dull.
It killed my sex drive.
Look, I want you to take the
rest of the day off, okay?
You've got to chill.
It's going to be all right.
I'm sorry,
I shouldn't be doing this.
Do what? Enjoy the fresh air, relax.
It's okay. I'll handle it.
I've got to get back to work.
- Are you having another one now?
- No, I'm fine.
You know, you made
those same noises that night in Chicago.
Come on, Jill.
I'm fine.
Carlos.
Hum?
Have you ever been
with a women?
Yes I have, Bob.
I haven't.
A handsome guy like yourself?
I'm sure your time will come.
You know I have
Asperger's Syndrome.
Yes, I do.
We show marked deficiencies
in social skills,
difficulties with changes
and often have obsessive
routines and preoccupations.
We have trouble reading
non-verbal cues.
Sometimes we even have difficulties
in language in a social context.
Todos tenemos
una cruz que cargar.
Yeah.
My burden's Gamelan.
Well, she's not a burden.
I love her but...
Gamelan's sick.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
What's wrong with her?
It makes me too sad to
talk about it.
Okay, I think we're done.
Let's get to the PCRs.
Okay.
Bethke Labs in Cape Town
employed 24 people.
They specialized
in DNA testing and viral arrays,
but all of the employees have been
accounted for and questioned.
It looks like a dead end.
It still sounds familiar.
David, I think you're going
to want to see this.
- How many times did you run it?
- Three.
Let's see it, Bob.
Here are the
other 2 routes.
Fuck me, it's her.
Yup.
I almost died when I saw it.
Miranda.
Wait a minute.
What is that?
We don't know.
It's such a small peak,
almost background.
It may be an error in the
image processing.
Find out.
But I've seen it in a number
of samples now. It must be real.
Find out!
We definitely found Miranda
in the samples.
Okay.
But this other thing out of
the same lab could be the next thing
some sick fuck's going
to throw at us.
What do the mass specs show?
Well, we could be looking at
anything from enteric pathogens
to calisa viruses.
So you want viral DNA and
RNA micro arrays.
I do, from a cleaned up sample.
We just need to reduce
the background.
All right.
You're back on the Venlafaxine?
No.
You're awfully calm.
Thank you.
- It moves faster than Miranda?
- Twice as fast.
Meaning crash out and
destruction of the host is how long?
Say you put it in on a plane
from L.A. to New York,
everybody would be digested
from the inside out
over roughly Trapdoor, Missouri.
And nothing is
slowing it down?
No. Well, there's a test out there that
I want to read up on,
a liposome encapsulated virus.
It slowed things down in monkeys,
and that's all it did.
But I have to finish all the polyclonal
immune sera before I can go there, so...
Here's a picture of it
taken first in 1976,
and that's what we found.
Okay, order some primers and
sequence the whole thing.
We need to find out if somebody
fucked around with it like Miranda.
- Are you ready for this?
- What?
That stuff we scraped off
the vials from the Bethke Lab fire?
Did we find out what it is?
- Marburg.
- Marburg?
Uh-huh, as in war games Marburg.
- Oh, what are you saying?
- You tell me.
It could be just coincidence.
Come on. Miranda and Marburg together.
This doesn't ring any alarm
bells for you, hum?
Look, if Bethke Labs gave us Miranda
and then a bunch of generals
have us running around playing war games
based on the Miranda scenario
but using a Marburg chimera?
Are they acting dumb or
are we just dumber?
- Okay, I'll see what I can find out.
- Me too.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to go look at some art.
Go away, Sacha!
Try again.
The great professor, Dr. Sandstrom.
How are you?
Here, from the motherland.
I get the pickles
and the pickled herring.
But you, you want me
to talk, hum? What about?
The return of figurative art
or the New Baroque?
How about the death of conceptual art?
Marburg.
Have you ever worked with it?
Vascily, we know that
Moscow was working with Marburg
shortly before the wall fell.
So?
So.
The art of science
is much improved.
Very, very good detail.
Yeah, the techs have come a long way.
Do they look familiar?
This is Marburg...
...it's not mine,
it's not Soviet,
it's not even Soviet block.
Are you sure?
We...
we didn't care about
Marburg until '85.
Six years later,
the whole scountry collapsed.
There was no time
for us to weaponize the virus.
Wait a minute,
this is weaponized?
From the sequence,
it looks like they increased
the incubation period of the virus.
So, a person could be walking around
for weeks with this and not even realize it.
A 10 megaton bomb
in a hand grenade.
Do you know whose
work this is?
An artist. A true artist.
Do you know any scientists connected to
a Bethke Lab in Cape Town, South Africa?
David,
you know the reason
I took up art
was to get away from all
this stuff of yours!
I wish I could do the same.
Then why don't you.
Tonight, here, stay, we drink, we drink,
you get drunk,
maybe you buy a painting.
Hey, Carlos.
I wanted to know if you've had a chance
to think about what we talked about?
Yeah, I really haven't had the time.
Uh, Caroline,
it's a simple blood test.
Yeah, a simple blood test that's going
to tell me if my life goes on as usual
or if I have the genes
that will change me forever.
I don't know if I could commit
to a double mastectomy, Carlos.
Caroline, if it would
save your life?
If I was diagnosed and
if I had no choice.
Okay, but that would be
rolling the dice.
- Carlos.
- You know, you can.
My mother died when I was 14.
Her breast cancer
had metastasized all over.
She went into the hospital on
the Friday and died on the Sunday.
My mother never told
me she was sick.
She'd been fighting
cancer for over 2 years,
but she didn't
tell me she was sick.
- I'm sorry.
- No, Carlos, the thing is...
I'm glad she didn't tell me.
It might sound cold I guess,
but I'm glad I didn't know what
my mother was going through.
I wouldn't have known
how to handle it.
I wouldn't have been able
to deal with the inevitable.
My life would have changed so much.
- Look, Caroline you can prevent...
- No, please, Carlos. Please.
You can prevent what happened...
- Carlos! Carlos! Please!
- ...to your mother with a simple blo...
Listen to me!
Maybe some day...
Okay, when I'm ready,
but not today.
Okay.
So, I'm not taking this as bad news.
I mean, it is bad
but we already knew that.
Oh, and I think we're looking at
a polygenic mode of inheritance.
I know you're not hungry but
you should try to eat something.
It's homemade of course.
You know,
remission isn't out of the question
and I think we can fight
the pleural effusion with a transfusion
and then we can...
I'd like to hear you,
hear your feet tapping
around the house,
sbarking when we play Frisbee,
crunching on your food.
I'd like to hear you, Gamelan.
I miss that.
Please get better.
Hey.
Hey. Hey, David!
Do you know an Ivan Havlac?
Havlac, Havlac, I know that name.
Why do I know that name?
Oh, Flames sent him
to New York for Savard, right?
No, that was Jan Havlac.
Ivan Havlac was chief
scientist of Bethke.
About 6 months ago he disappeared.
With a deadly virus?
What the fuck?
We don't know
that for sure.
Well, let's make the
fucking leap, Caroline.
Not only is Havlac missing,
so's his resume.
What are you
talking about?
Neither British nor
South African intelligence
have been able to figure out who he is.
And you think it's not a coincidence
that Jamieson died in South Africa,
Havlac worked for Bethke and
we found Marburg there?
See, you're learning a little science,
I'm learning a little intelligence.
Can you use your science contacts to try
to figure out who this guy really is?
Yeah, if you can use
your contacts.
Caroline, if this Havlac guy
has disappeared with Marburg,
a chimera strain that's looking
deadlier than Zaire ebola
and they've got us playing
games with this shit hidden in smallpox.
What's really going on?
Okay, I'll make some calls.
Good.
Do you still need that
information on Vascyli Popov?
Caroline. Are
you keeping tabs on me?
I promise you're the
only woman in my life.
Yes.
Vascyli Popov is not the first person
I would have gone running to on this thing.
Vascyli Popov is a fucking hero.
He fought against proliferation.
He was a fucking Soviet
germ doctor, David!
And he came West after the wall fell,
and he's helped us track down
a number of Soviet researchers
who were working for nasty governments
and terrorist organizations.
Look, I showed him the Marburg. He
positively confirmed that it was not Soviet.
Carlos! Can you join us
in the war room please!
War room.
We ran tests on the Marburg's protein,
cleavability of the glyco-protein.
Glyco-proteins are conjugated
protein carbohydrates...
It doesn't
matter what they are.
What matters is that we
found a huge jump
from the Marburg that
came out of Africa in '72
to the Marburg
that we're dealing with.
What kind of jump?
Defensive to offensive.
The stuff we scraped off
the vial in Cape Town
wasn't made to study the virus,
it was made to spread it.
It's been weaponized.
Come on guys, we know
the Soviets were stockpiling Marburg.
Not this kind.
- If you believe Borov.
- I do.
Then who else could
have made it?
Only the Americans
in this restructured form.
That would mean Fort Egan,
the most security tight lab in the world.
You're suggesting somebody got
Marburg out of that lab?
It's easy.
You want me to
open it for you?
No, I'll do it.
You sure?
May I?
Nice.
Very nice.
Front page. It's our centre.
My skewering,
in every university
library in the world.
The worst is from
the people that you know.
People that supported
you in the past.
Were they trashing you?
No, no, that's just it. I...
Well, you know you should
just do what I do in these situations.
Fuck 'em.
Fuck 'em all.
No. I can't do that.
David, I mean you don't know
how this feels, right.
I mean, I can't sleep,
I can't stop eating,
no desire for sex.
Well, maybe I could help you
in that department.
Maybe I should just go
back on the meds.
No, listen.
You know what?
You put it out there.
That's what we do.
We do our best work and
we put it out there
and sometimes we win and sometimes
we fall on our collective asses.
We all make mistakes?
- We all...
- Is that what you were going to say?
- Fuck you.
- ...make mistakes. We do.
- I don't.
- Yes, you do.
No.
Jill, come on. To err is human.
So, fuck it. What's the big deal?
- It's humiliating.
- Oh, it's humiliating.
A little humiliation
is good for the soul.
No, it's humiliating, David.
And humiliation is
something you can deal with.
- Well, it pisses me off.
- Well, it's in here...
and you've got to get it out there.
I don't understand that.
What do you mean?
I don't know. The point is,
you've just got to be honest
with yourself, right.
You fucked up.
Your paper was a piece of shit.
What?
I mean, you fucked up
on all your protocols.
I fucked up
on one protocol.
That was a protocol that a fucking
grad student would have picked up on.
David!
Come on, you just...
you can't go writing half-assed papers.
I don't write
half-assed papers!
Well, according to the holy Jesus
journal of genetic geniuses, you do.
Right?
They're fucked.
And, what are you going
to do about it?
I'm going to write another paper
and it is going to be so good, and
I am going to blow it up their asses!
- That-a girl.
- Hey! Shut up down there!
You shut the fuck up!
- Uh, that was fun.
- Feeling better?
I'm feeling...
I think I'm feeling
a little better, yes.
Good, all right.
I just want to...
I just want
to check something.
It's not getting better.
I'd better go.
Thank you, David.
Anytime.
I need to
get some answers.
You're talking about stuff
that's way above my pay rate, Caroline.
Oh, come on Des.
I use that line too when
I don't want to talk about the truth.
If the U.S. military made this strain of
Marburg, they can help us break it down.
We need their help, not their bafflegab.
Fort Egan worked on Marburg,
but they systemically destroyed
all their germ stockpiles in 1970.
It took 3 years.
And was Marburg
one of their stockpiles?
All right,
I'm going to go back
to the people I work with
and tell them that this thing
came from Fort Egan.
That my information came from
an unimpeachable source.
If you have a problem with that,
tell me before I get to three.
Okay.
Okay.
Thanks, Des.
If Fort Egan worked on Marburg,
why aren't they working with us?
Egan systematically destroyed
their germ stockpiles
over a 3 year period beginning in 1970.
But not all of them.
They destroyed their
weaponized germ stockpiles,
but didn't slow down
defensive research one bit.
Yeah, defensive research
against bio-warfare and bio-terrorism.
But they have a sample.
Caroline, they created
the worst bio-agents known to humanity
so that they could figure out a way
to defend themselves against it.
That's the American way.
And the Russian,
Pakistani, French, North Korean.
Where are you going?
Back to the well.
David Sandstrom,
I didn't know you were such an art slut.
I didn't know you...
drew figures.
I use Sacha for inspiration.
Can we talk?
Sure.
What about the girl?
Oh, da da da, she can only speak
Ukrainian, Russian, Polish.
It would be a great
shame to ask her to leave.
We think the Marburg came
out of Fort Egan.
I wonder why other artists
don't use nude models, eh.
Poets, playwrights, novelists,
I think it would improve
things for them, don't you?
Have you got any
paintings for sale, Vascyli?
The Louvre is coming
tomorrow to take the lot,
but until then
they are all available.
How much for this one?
What can you pay?
How about $5,000?
And where are you going?
Back to the well.
And where are you going?
Hiya.
Hi.
- Want to sit down?
- Yeah.
- Confirmation?
- Yes.
Absolutely.
Let's not split hairs.
Well, I really can't tell
you anything more then, can I?
Okay, look. We got Marburg
out of the lab in Cape Town.
The Miranda virus
originated out of that same lab,
and the Marburg looks American.
You don't look surprised.
You're really going places you shouldn't
be going right now, you know that?
My job is to advise 3 countries
on threats to our biological safety.
Right now, one of those countries
may be the biggest threat.
Caroline, please.
Colin, tell me.
Let me do my job.
The whisperers among my
colleagues were just deafening.
Of course we heard that security
at Fort Egan had been compromised.
We didn't hear about
the theft until later.
Who?
Who took the viruses?
What's more interesting
is where they ended up.
Why were there stockpiles
in the first place?
- Caroline, please.
- Was it strictly defensive?
Shit.
Look, you know how easy it is
to blur the line
between offensive and defensive
research. Come on.
What was that
war game all about?
Just what it was.
A war game.
So, it's just a coincidence
that we found a strain of Marburg
and the Miranda virus
in the same place.
They ended up in
the hands of a madman.
- Havlac in South Africa.
- Only if he changed his name.
The man who ended up
with the viruses from Egan
was a Van Chiernegin
MD. PhD F-U-C-K.
He was head of germ warfare
research for the Soviets, wasn't he?
My beloved boss.
It was dubbed "shotgun marriage".
Even presidents weren't
aware of the program.
Especially after the
compromise at Fort Egan.
It was specifically designed to create
hybrids of hemorrhagic fevers and poxes
so that vaccines could be
created to combat them. Right?
Did they make vaccines?
No, they weren't able
to come up with one.
- Just the bug that could kill us.
- Yeah.
Okay, so Miranda we stopped.
This smallpox Marburg thing.
It wasn't a theoretical exercise, was it?
Of course it was. There's no indication
that the Marburg is out there.
But it could, that's what
they're worried about.
Yeah, that's what they're worried about.
Ever since Jamieson was found murdered,
now there's this thought that
whoever's behind the Miranda virus
he's pointing a loaded gun
right at us again.
After the Cold War
he disappeared for awhile,
when he resurfaced, it was on the payroll
of the Central Intelligence Agency,
and then he turned on
the West with vengeance.
Why?
Oh, what does it matter why?
He's still turning.
So, we should be looking for Chiernegin?
He's the one behind Miranda?
He's behind taking what
came out of Fort Egan
and turning it into something
that's far more deadly
and I'm sure he's not going
to stop there.
I'll get the Chiernegin name
on the radar of every intelligence agency.
Great, I'm going to need all the research
that Fort Egan's got on Marburg.
I'll see what I can do.
- We have a priority 1 alert.
- What?
There's been a SARS-like case
reported in Denver, Colorado.
The local doctors and public
health officials can't identify the virus.
I don't want to sound paranoid,
sbut let's hope to God this isn't coming
from the same guy that gave us Miranda.
Temperature spike's up to 105.
Lungs are 93% filled with fluid.
You ever see a virus
that virulent?
What are you working on?
Malignant Histiocytosis.
Gamelan's been
diagnosed with it.
Do you want to take her home?
I'm so sorry, Bob.
Uh, okay.
You got something?
David, I got confirmation
that Chiernegin is alive.
So, find the fucker.
I've got a big problem.
I need your help.
- This is what came out of Denver?
- That's what you sent.
No, no.
What? Jill?
Jill, what is it?
David.
He was hit by a car. A cab.
He's in the hospital in a coma.
What?
Subtitles: kubilai & Lama
Transcript: Raceman
- Welcome to Canada.
- Thank you.
Aye-aye-aye-aye.
Severe anticoagulation syndrome.
- What causes it?
- We don't know.
All right, why don't you two
pack your bag?
Aw, fuck! Fuck!
Mosquitoes can cause
anticoagulation.
Malaria, she kills over 2 million people
a year in Africa alone.
And the mosquito inserts the parasite
along with anticoagulation saliva
into the human.
Carlos, that has been
genetically engineered.
What? No.
We got a Reimer.
Really?
Uh-huh. It's amazing.
No bigger than a bar fridge,
it turns salt water, human waste,
anything,
into pure drinking water.
- Except it has a flaw.
- Exactly.
What about something your body
wouldn't recognize?
An imposter. A Trojan horse.
...bacteriophage, which is a virus
so it multiplies.
Pretty soon,
one becomes a million
and eventually they bust out.
Do you think this could be it?
Bob, you're a genius.
1x11- The Promise
And don't you put this on my team!
We told you to close this
border a day and a half ago,
now the whole thing's out of control!
This is fucking bullshit.
- Jill, you got the numbers?
- Yeah.
Why isn't the Windsor/Detroit
tunnel sealed?
And where are those National
Guardsmen from Lansing?
We're not sure. The trucks were diverted,
that's all I know right now.
Diverted?
- Who gave that order?
- The medical corp.
- They're all sick.
- Wait, they were inoculated!
Not my department.
David...
antigens, ELISA test, PCRs
all confirm the Variola Major.
Well, we knew it was smallpox
two days ago when we started this.
Well, now we have confirmation.
Yeah, we got National Guardsmen
who were sick and they were inoculated.
With that vaccine?
I don't know. We better put
out a health advisory.
I'll take care of it.
China... China...
China still isn't allowing that
flight in Chicago to land.
If it's filled with suspected smallpox.
Confirmed smallpox.
They're trying to divert it to Guam
but they don't have enough fuel.
Bob, you need to stick to the science,
let these guys handle the logistics.
Yeah, but they can't make it
to Guam. It'll go down.
Hey, Bob. I need you to put a request in
for the smallpox vaccine batches
that were used to inoculate everybody.
- But David!
- All right, now just listen.
We need to know
if they're still alive, all right?
Okay.
- The Canada-U.S. border's been closed.
- Finally!
Mayko!
I need those numbers!
Yeah, hold on a sec!
David!
Over here! Over here!
Now they're thinking
the terrorists botched the whole thing
to screw us up at the border.
20,000 dead and now it's a diversion?
What the hell do they have in mind?
- Number! Numbers! Numbers!
- Okay, okay!
This reflects the data from
the samples out of Windsor.
- This is good, this is good.
- What good?
Hemorrhagics over the last 24 hours.
Move, get out of here.
Fuck, what the hell?
- What are you looking for?
- The military numbers!
I need to know how many people were
on the front line who were inoculated.
Go back.
- David.
- Yeah?
- You were right. Hemorrhagics.
- Yeah?
Yeah.
Jesus Christ.
Sometimes I amaze even myself.
Report out of Flint.
Fifty marines are seriously ill.
Pox?
- No, they're bleeding.
- Sure.
Sure?
Where are the 2 million inoculations
we're expecting from the U.K.?
They're still sitting
on a tarmac in London.
The Brits are getting a little jittery
about releasing them.
- What the hell for?
- Because they're starting to think
they might need the
inoculations themselves.
Oh, they're going to need
more than that.
The President ordered inoculations
for every man, woman and child!
Yeah, and I ordered a double
cheeseburger, no onions! Where is it?
Just stick to the science, buddy.
Okay.
- How're you holding up?
- Oh, hey, fine. Listen.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Do you like oysters?
The little ones.
Yeah, well I know
this fantastic oyster bar,
it's down in the distillery district.
It's actually... it's right by my loft.
What do you say the two of us
duck out of here,
we pick up a couple of dozen of
Kumamoto oysters, you know,
the little oysters and then
maybe go back to my place
and have a nap.
You interested?
I'm not interested in being
court-martialed.
Oh well, come on.
We're all going to be dead in a couple
of weeks anyway, so who cares?
I've been inoculated.
So have I. That's the problem
Private Rossette.
You see, in a few days there's going
to be vomit coming out one end,
diarrhea coming out the other and well,
blood coming out
of every pore in between,
so there's kind of a time
factor on my offer.
Here, listen. I just got this sweater.
Tell me, do you think it looks better
if it's done up like this.
Or if I just like leave it
open and all sort of sexy?
What are you doing?
Hemorrhagic fever in smallpox.
Game over.
He's got it.
Game terminated. On 8-2 at 17:32 hours
Eastern Standard Time.
Good work, David.
Well, hey, not bad, eh?
Because, what was Atlanta?
It was 5 days, 600,000, and Mexico was?
Four days, close to
a million dead.
- And I got...?
- Two days, 22,000 dead.
Three days!
And 30,000! Wow!
Good work everybody.
Thank you, Weston.
Care to explain your reasoning?
Oh, I thought you'd never ask.
You see, the military boys they did
a pretty good job rushing in to fight
what they thought was
a clear cut smallpox outbreak,
but they didn't really do their homework
because although the smallpox
which infected the inoculated soldiers
was killed
by their heightened antibodies,
there was something lurking
in the bushes. Check it out.
Smallpox, hum?
With a little friend.
The antibodies kill the smallpox
and they release
green monkey disease, aka Marburg fever
hidden behind the smallpox.
I should say actually, it's super-Marburg
because the symptomology was
pretty fucking quick.
That's it.
Oh, that's it.
I mean, you could have contained
the smallpox outbreak,
but in the confusion you managed
to infect thousands of people with
a virus that's right up there with Ebola
released by the very inoculation
that was supposed to be protecting us.
A pretty slick trick, general.
We'll need recommendations.
Well, as I said to Private Rossette here,
my recommendations are to study
and develop a rapid test
for recombinant chimera viruses.
Private Rossette,
would you like to...
- David.
- Not now.
It's about Miranda.
I'll just be a minute.
What's with lover boy?
No comment, general.
How'd it go?
Very well.
Colin Digby, David Sandstrom.
Oh yeah.
MI-5.
MI-5, cool.
That's a nice suit.
Listen, we need to talk.
Our friend Martin Jamieson,
aka William Zanzinger
was found dead in Cape Town.
Well, it is good news. Thank you.
How?
- It appears to be suicide.
- Any other leads?
No, nothing official.
We don't think that Jamieson
created the Miranda virus on his own,
as he was a mercenary. We already had him
linked to illegal arms trading
out of Russia, drugs out of South America
and an incident here in Canada.
What'd he do, kill a seal?
No, he firebombed a Sikh temple.
We also don't think that he committed
suicide, not out of remorse anyway.
- He was most likely murdered.
- Why Cape Town?
Sorry, I beg your pardon?
You said he died in Cape Town.
What was he doing there?
He was running from
British intelligence.
Yeah, but why did he run there?
I mean, why not Papua New Guinea
or Tuktuyuktuk
or some spider hole in Iraq?
We don't know yet.
Okay.
Well, that's good,
right? Helpful? Thank you.
I've just got to wrap up a few things.
So, he's really good
at what he does, yeah?
With science he's brilliant.
The rest I'm not sure.
Hi, Bob.
Hello, Dr. Nathan.
Well hello, Gamelan.
So...
What's the problem, Bob?
Histiocytosis.
You know about histiocytosis?
Histiocytes are a type of
white blood cell also called macrophages
which ordinarily form a part of
a dog's immune system.
Their proper role is to engulf
bacteria and other material
which should not be present in
the body and destroy it.
I thought it might be there,
but I'm not against a second opinion.
How many PhDs do you have now?
Still just two.
We'll need to run some tests.
I already have.
Well, I think we should keep
Gamelan here for a couple of days,
put her on a drip. She's jaundiced.
See, I didn't notice that.
We'll see if we can't get
her red cells up.
X-rays, blood work.
Sure.
I packed a bag for her.
Now, what do you like on
your oysters again?
Mmm, definitely some lemon.
Some lemon, all right.
And let's have a little bit more
of this hot stuff right here.
All right, you want some hot stuff?
Imagine that, nobody's home.
You are.
My turn.
Hey, how's it going?
Oh, bankers hours?
Oyster night.
Hum, got it.
Do you remember a conversation about
some state of the art DNA sequencer?
What, over oysters?
It was back during the
Miranda outbreak.
I'm pretty sure Hira said she heard
there was one in Cape Town, South Africa.
Yeah, so?
Cape Town came up the other day.
Here you go. Bethke Labs,
Cape Town, South Africa.
You ever been there?
A beautiful city, got a mountain
right in the middle of it.
Yeah, we went together, remember?
Oh, right.
Hum, this is weird.
Bethke Labs was destroyed
by a fire a month ago.
Cause unknown, no casualties.
Hold on.
Okay, the examiner called it
an industrial accident.
Cape Daily called it terrorism.
The National called it suspicious.
What is that?
"Because of potential dangers,
biohazard experts
sealed and secured the facility
- pending medical review."
- Thank you.
I'm always glad to help.
Hey, write this down. Bethke Labs...
Cape Town, South Africa.
Tell James Bond to get us
all biohazard samples he can.
Okay, is there anything...
See ya!
- May I?
- Yeah, come in Carlos.
I've been thinking about
your recent scare.
I haven't. There was really
nothing to worry about after all.
That's great, but we can test
for BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
The breast cancer genes.
If you have the mutated version,
and there are more errors in replication,
then this can lead to a
cancerous growth.
It's a simple test.
I can do it for you here.
Okay. What happens if I have it?
If you have it, it means
you're predisposed to breast cancer.
The usual recommendation is a
double mastectomy.
Oh...
is that all?
Yes, but Caroline given the information,
before a cancer grows
it can be life saving information.
Yeah.
I'm going to have to think about it.
Okay, good.
But thank you.
Bob?
Bob, what are you doing?
Hey.
Oh, hi.
- What are you still doing here?
- Am I supposed to be somewhere else?
Home.
There's no reason to go home.
My dog's in the hospital.
Gamy,
what's wrong with her?
Gamelan's got garden variety histiocytes
but they're out of control.
I'm sorry, Bob.
They've attached to her organs
instead of doing what
they're supposed to do.
What's the prognosis?
Well, if they've attached
to her liver or her heart,
they can grow as fast as cancer cells
and form lumps.
Do you think Caroline would
let me work on it?
Fuck Caroline.
Do you need any help?
Bob...
Sometimes I think
I know too much.
If I didn't know so much about
histiocytes and receptive furins
and mitosis and meiosis,
mitosis reduction division.
If I didn't know so much
maybe I wouldn't think
that I could save Gamelan.
I could just let her go.
Bob, I'll help you, okay?
Thanks, Mayko.
What is that?
Check it out. Two culminates
orienting away from each other
because of NH3 production.
Aren't you supposed to be working
on a model of a smallpox/Marburg
outbreak in Detroit?
Well, I've got to get
my kicks somewhere.
Now I'm halfway there,
I'm just waiting for some
sequence information from Jill.
I've been waiting forever.
How long does it take to sequence
a fucking smallpox virus?
Hang on a sec.
- Hi.
- Hi.
How's that theoretical Marburg
coming along?
Oh, well, I tried hitting it
with anti-virals
and cytokines and
human vasoactive agents.
I didn't get anywhere.
Even the smallpox sequencing?
Shit.
Okay, here if you just come for
a second and let me...
Are you all right?
No, I'm a fucking disaster, David.
It started in college, you know,
feeling like I couldn't get enough air,
feeling like I was going
to have a heart attack,
the sweats, the shakes.
Feeling like I'm going to go crazy.
I feel that way everyday.
Look Jill, you're in
a new town, a new job,
your ground breaking experiment just...
- Crashed and burned.
- Yep, you've got a lot of shit going on.
No, I know. I know.
And I've done all this stuff too, David.
Like I've done cognitive
and behavioural therapies,
I was on Venlafaxine for about a year.
- Wow, how did that work for you?
- It helped,
but it made my brain dull.
It killed my sex drive.
Look, I want you to take the
rest of the day off, okay?
You've got to chill.
It's going to be all right.
I'm sorry,
I shouldn't be doing this.
Do what? Enjoy the fresh air, relax.
It's okay. I'll handle it.
I've got to get back to work.
- Are you having another one now?
- No, I'm fine.
You know, you made
those same noises that night in Chicago.
Come on, Jill.
I'm fine.
Carlos.
Hum?
Have you ever been
with a women?
Yes I have, Bob.
I haven't.
A handsome guy like yourself?
I'm sure your time will come.
You know I have
Asperger's Syndrome.
Yes, I do.
We show marked deficiencies
in social skills,
difficulties with changes
and often have obsessive
routines and preoccupations.
We have trouble reading
non-verbal cues.
Sometimes we even have difficulties
in language in a social context.
Todos tenemos
una cruz que cargar.
Yeah.
My burden's Gamelan.
Well, she's not a burden.
I love her but...
Gamelan's sick.
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
What's wrong with her?
It makes me too sad to
talk about it.
Okay, I think we're done.
Let's get to the PCRs.
Okay.
Bethke Labs in Cape Town
employed 24 people.
They specialized
in DNA testing and viral arrays,
but all of the employees have been
accounted for and questioned.
It looks like a dead end.
It still sounds familiar.
David, I think you're going
to want to see this.
- How many times did you run it?
- Three.
Let's see it, Bob.
Here are the
other 2 routes.
Fuck me, it's her.
Yup.
I almost died when I saw it.
Miranda.
Wait a minute.
What is that?
We don't know.
It's such a small peak,
almost background.
It may be an error in the
image processing.
Find out.
But I've seen it in a number
of samples now. It must be real.
Find out!
We definitely found Miranda
in the samples.
Okay.
But this other thing out of
the same lab could be the next thing
some sick fuck's going
to throw at us.
What do the mass specs show?
Well, we could be looking at
anything from enteric pathogens
to calisa viruses.
So you want viral DNA and
RNA micro arrays.
I do, from a cleaned up sample.
We just need to reduce
the background.
All right.
You're back on the Venlafaxine?
No.
You're awfully calm.
Thank you.
- It moves faster than Miranda?
- Twice as fast.
Meaning crash out and
destruction of the host is how long?
Say you put it in on a plane
from L.A. to New York,
everybody would be digested
from the inside out
over roughly Trapdoor, Missouri.
And nothing is
slowing it down?
No. Well, there's a test out there that
I want to read up on,
a liposome encapsulated virus.
It slowed things down in monkeys,
and that's all it did.
But I have to finish all the polyclonal
immune sera before I can go there, so...
Here's a picture of it
taken first in 1976,
and that's what we found.
Okay, order some primers and
sequence the whole thing.
We need to find out if somebody
fucked around with it like Miranda.
- Are you ready for this?
- What?
That stuff we scraped off
the vials from the Bethke Lab fire?
Did we find out what it is?
- Marburg.
- Marburg?
Uh-huh, as in war games Marburg.
- Oh, what are you saying?
- You tell me.
It could be just coincidence.
Come on. Miranda and Marburg together.
This doesn't ring any alarm
bells for you, hum?
Look, if Bethke Labs gave us Miranda
and then a bunch of generals
have us running around playing war games
based on the Miranda scenario
but using a Marburg chimera?
Are they acting dumb or
are we just dumber?
- Okay, I'll see what I can find out.
- Me too.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to go look at some art.
Go away, Sacha!
Try again.
The great professor, Dr. Sandstrom.
How are you?
Here, from the motherland.
I get the pickles
and the pickled herring.
But you, you want me
to talk, hum? What about?
The return of figurative art
or the New Baroque?
How about the death of conceptual art?
Marburg.
Have you ever worked with it?
Vascily, we know that
Moscow was working with Marburg
shortly before the wall fell.
So?
So.
The art of science
is much improved.
Very, very good detail.
Yeah, the techs have come a long way.
Do they look familiar?
This is Marburg...
...it's not mine,
it's not Soviet,
it's not even Soviet block.
Are you sure?
We...
we didn't care about
Marburg until '85.
Six years later,
the whole scountry collapsed.
There was no time
for us to weaponize the virus.
Wait a minute,
this is weaponized?
From the sequence,
it looks like they increased
the incubation period of the virus.
So, a person could be walking around
for weeks with this and not even realize it.
A 10 megaton bomb
in a hand grenade.
Do you know whose
work this is?
An artist. A true artist.
Do you know any scientists connected to
a Bethke Lab in Cape Town, South Africa?
David,
you know the reason
I took up art
was to get away from all
this stuff of yours!
I wish I could do the same.
Then why don't you.
Tonight, here, stay, we drink, we drink,
you get drunk,
maybe you buy a painting.
Hey, Carlos.
I wanted to know if you've had a chance
to think about what we talked about?
Yeah, I really haven't had the time.
Uh, Caroline,
it's a simple blood test.
Yeah, a simple blood test that's going
to tell me if my life goes on as usual
or if I have the genes
that will change me forever.
I don't know if I could commit
to a double mastectomy, Carlos.
Caroline, if it would
save your life?
If I was diagnosed and
if I had no choice.
Okay, but that would be
rolling the dice.
- Carlos.
- You know, you can.
My mother died when I was 14.
Her breast cancer
had metastasized all over.
She went into the hospital on
the Friday and died on the Sunday.
My mother never told
me she was sick.
She'd been fighting
cancer for over 2 years,
but she didn't
tell me she was sick.
- I'm sorry.
- No, Carlos, the thing is...
I'm glad she didn't tell me.
It might sound cold I guess,
but I'm glad I didn't know what
my mother was going through.
I wouldn't have known
how to handle it.
I wouldn't have been able
to deal with the inevitable.
My life would have changed so much.
- Look, Caroline you can prevent...
- No, please, Carlos. Please.
You can prevent what happened...
- Carlos! Carlos! Please!
- ...to your mother with a simple blo...
Listen to me!
Maybe some day...
Okay, when I'm ready,
but not today.
Okay.
So, I'm not taking this as bad news.
I mean, it is bad
but we already knew that.
Oh, and I think we're looking at
a polygenic mode of inheritance.
I know you're not hungry but
you should try to eat something.
It's homemade of course.
You know,
remission isn't out of the question
and I think we can fight
the pleural effusion with a transfusion
and then we can...
I'd like to hear you,
hear your feet tapping
around the house,
sbarking when we play Frisbee,
crunching on your food.
I'd like to hear you, Gamelan.
I miss that.
Please get better.
Hey.
Hey. Hey, David!
Do you know an Ivan Havlac?
Havlac, Havlac, I know that name.
Why do I know that name?
Oh, Flames sent him
to New York for Savard, right?
No, that was Jan Havlac.
Ivan Havlac was chief
scientist of Bethke.
About 6 months ago he disappeared.
With a deadly virus?
What the fuck?
We don't know
that for sure.
Well, let's make the
fucking leap, Caroline.
Not only is Havlac missing,
so's his resume.
What are you
talking about?
Neither British nor
South African intelligence
have been able to figure out who he is.
And you think it's not a coincidence
that Jamieson died in South Africa,
Havlac worked for Bethke and
we found Marburg there?
See, you're learning a little science,
I'm learning a little intelligence.
Can you use your science contacts to try
to figure out who this guy really is?
Yeah, if you can use
your contacts.
Caroline, if this Havlac guy
has disappeared with Marburg,
a chimera strain that's looking
deadlier than Zaire ebola
and they've got us playing
games with this shit hidden in smallpox.
What's really going on?
Okay, I'll make some calls.
Good.
Do you still need that
information on Vascyli Popov?
Caroline. Are
you keeping tabs on me?
I promise you're the
only woman in my life.
Yes.
Vascyli Popov is not the first person
I would have gone running to on this thing.
Vascyli Popov is a fucking hero.
He fought against proliferation.
He was a fucking Soviet
germ doctor, David!
And he came West after the wall fell,
and he's helped us track down
a number of Soviet researchers
who were working for nasty governments
and terrorist organizations.
Look, I showed him the Marburg. He
positively confirmed that it was not Soviet.
Carlos! Can you join us
in the war room please!
War room.
We ran tests on the Marburg's protein,
cleavability of the glyco-protein.
Glyco-proteins are conjugated
protein carbohydrates...
It doesn't
matter what they are.
What matters is that we
found a huge jump
from the Marburg that
came out of Africa in '72
to the Marburg
that we're dealing with.
What kind of jump?
Defensive to offensive.
The stuff we scraped off
the vial in Cape Town
wasn't made to study the virus,
it was made to spread it.
It's been weaponized.
Come on guys, we know
the Soviets were stockpiling Marburg.
Not this kind.
- If you believe Borov.
- I do.
Then who else could
have made it?
Only the Americans
in this restructured form.
That would mean Fort Egan,
the most security tight lab in the world.
You're suggesting somebody got
Marburg out of that lab?
It's easy.
You want me to
open it for you?
No, I'll do it.
You sure?
May I?
Nice.
Very nice.
Front page. It's our centre.
My skewering,
in every university
library in the world.
The worst is from
the people that you know.
People that supported
you in the past.
Were they trashing you?
No, no, that's just it. I...
Well, you know you should
just do what I do in these situations.
Fuck 'em.
Fuck 'em all.
No. I can't do that.
David, I mean you don't know
how this feels, right.
I mean, I can't sleep,
I can't stop eating,
no desire for sex.
Well, maybe I could help you
in that department.
Maybe I should just go
back on the meds.
No, listen.
You know what?
You put it out there.
That's what we do.
We do our best work and
we put it out there
and sometimes we win and sometimes
we fall on our collective asses.
We all make mistakes?
- We all...
- Is that what you were going to say?
- Fuck you.
- ...make mistakes. We do.
- I don't.
- Yes, you do.
No.
Jill, come on. To err is human.
So, fuck it. What's the big deal?
- It's humiliating.
- Oh, it's humiliating.
A little humiliation
is good for the soul.
No, it's humiliating, David.
And humiliation is
something you can deal with.
- Well, it pisses me off.
- Well, it's in here...
and you've got to get it out there.
I don't understand that.
What do you mean?
I don't know. The point is,
you've just got to be honest
with yourself, right.
You fucked up.
Your paper was a piece of shit.
What?
I mean, you fucked up
on all your protocols.
I fucked up
on one protocol.
That was a protocol that a fucking
grad student would have picked up on.
David!
Come on, you just...
you can't go writing half-assed papers.
I don't write
half-assed papers!
Well, according to the holy Jesus
journal of genetic geniuses, you do.
Right?
They're fucked.
And, what are you going
to do about it?
I'm going to write another paper
and it is going to be so good, and
I am going to blow it up their asses!
- That-a girl.
- Hey! Shut up down there!
You shut the fuck up!
- Uh, that was fun.
- Feeling better?
I'm feeling...
I think I'm feeling
a little better, yes.
Good, all right.
I just want to...
I just want
to check something.
It's not getting better.
I'd better go.
Thank you, David.
Anytime.
I need to
get some answers.
You're talking about stuff
that's way above my pay rate, Caroline.
Oh, come on Des.
I use that line too when
I don't want to talk about the truth.
If the U.S. military made this strain of
Marburg, they can help us break it down.
We need their help, not their bafflegab.
Fort Egan worked on Marburg,
but they systemically destroyed
all their germ stockpiles in 1970.
It took 3 years.
And was Marburg
one of their stockpiles?
All right,
I'm going to go back
to the people I work with
and tell them that this thing
came from Fort Egan.
That my information came from
an unimpeachable source.
If you have a problem with that,
tell me before I get to three.
Okay.
Okay.
Thanks, Des.
If Fort Egan worked on Marburg,
why aren't they working with us?
Egan systematically destroyed
their germ stockpiles
over a 3 year period beginning in 1970.
But not all of them.
They destroyed their
weaponized germ stockpiles,
but didn't slow down
defensive research one bit.
Yeah, defensive research
against bio-warfare and bio-terrorism.
But they have a sample.
Caroline, they created
the worst bio-agents known to humanity
so that they could figure out a way
to defend themselves against it.
That's the American way.
And the Russian,
Pakistani, French, North Korean.
Where are you going?
Back to the well.
David Sandstrom,
I didn't know you were such an art slut.
I didn't know you...
drew figures.
I use Sacha for inspiration.
Can we talk?
Sure.
What about the girl?
Oh, da da da, she can only speak
Ukrainian, Russian, Polish.
It would be a great
shame to ask her to leave.
We think the Marburg came
out of Fort Egan.
I wonder why other artists
don't use nude models, eh.
Poets, playwrights, novelists,
I think it would improve
things for them, don't you?
Have you got any
paintings for sale, Vascyli?
The Louvre is coming
tomorrow to take the lot,
but until then
they are all available.
How much for this one?
What can you pay?
How about $5,000?
And where are you going?
Back to the well.
And where are you going?
Hiya.
Hi.
- Want to sit down?
- Yeah.
- Confirmation?
- Yes.
Absolutely.
Let's not split hairs.
Well, I really can't tell
you anything more then, can I?
Okay, look. We got Marburg
out of the lab in Cape Town.
The Miranda virus
originated out of that same lab,
and the Marburg looks American.
You don't look surprised.
You're really going places you shouldn't
be going right now, you know that?
My job is to advise 3 countries
on threats to our biological safety.
Right now, one of those countries
may be the biggest threat.
Caroline, please.
Colin, tell me.
Let me do my job.
The whisperers among my
colleagues were just deafening.
Of course we heard that security
at Fort Egan had been compromised.
We didn't hear about
the theft until later.
Who?
Who took the viruses?
What's more interesting
is where they ended up.
Why were there stockpiles
in the first place?
- Caroline, please.
- Was it strictly defensive?
Shit.
Look, you know how easy it is
to blur the line
between offensive and defensive
research. Come on.
What was that
war game all about?
Just what it was.
A war game.
So, it's just a coincidence
that we found a strain of Marburg
and the Miranda virus
in the same place.
They ended up in
the hands of a madman.
- Havlac in South Africa.
- Only if he changed his name.
The man who ended up
with the viruses from Egan
was a Van Chiernegin
MD. PhD F-U-C-K.
He was head of germ warfare
research for the Soviets, wasn't he?
My beloved boss.
It was dubbed "shotgun marriage".
Even presidents weren't
aware of the program.
Especially after the
compromise at Fort Egan.
It was specifically designed to create
hybrids of hemorrhagic fevers and poxes
so that vaccines could be
created to combat them. Right?
Did they make vaccines?
No, they weren't able
to come up with one.
- Just the bug that could kill us.
- Yeah.
Okay, so Miranda we stopped.
This smallpox Marburg thing.
It wasn't a theoretical exercise, was it?
Of course it was. There's no indication
that the Marburg is out there.
But it could, that's what
they're worried about.
Yeah, that's what they're worried about.
Ever since Jamieson was found murdered,
now there's this thought that
whoever's behind the Miranda virus
he's pointing a loaded gun
right at us again.
After the Cold War
he disappeared for awhile,
when he resurfaced, it was on the payroll
of the Central Intelligence Agency,
and then he turned on
the West with vengeance.
Why?
Oh, what does it matter why?
He's still turning.
So, we should be looking for Chiernegin?
He's the one behind Miranda?
He's behind taking what
came out of Fort Egan
and turning it into something
that's far more deadly
and I'm sure he's not going
to stop there.
I'll get the Chiernegin name
on the radar of every intelligence agency.
Great, I'm going to need all the research
that Fort Egan's got on Marburg.
I'll see what I can do.
- We have a priority 1 alert.
- What?
There's been a SARS-like case
reported in Denver, Colorado.
The local doctors and public
health officials can't identify the virus.
I don't want to sound paranoid,
sbut let's hope to God this isn't coming
from the same guy that gave us Miranda.
Temperature spike's up to 105.
Lungs are 93% filled with fluid.
You ever see a virus
that virulent?
What are you working on?
Malignant Histiocytosis.
Gamelan's been
diagnosed with it.
Do you want to take her home?
I'm so sorry, Bob.
Uh, okay.
You got something?
David, I got confirmation
that Chiernegin is alive.
So, find the fucker.
I've got a big problem.
I need your help.
- This is what came out of Denver?
- That's what you sent.
No, no.
What? Jill?
Jill, what is it?
David.
He was hit by a car. A cab.
He's in the hospital in a coma.
What?
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