The Hot Zone (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Expendable - full transcript

NANCY: Previously
on The Hot Zone...

PETER: Nancy?

NANCY: We got a
call from Reston.

A worker has a fever, it may
have spilled over to humans.

CARTER: It's airborne.

RHODES: That is
entirely unfounded.

BEN: Peter?

NANCY: Close your eyes.
Take a deep breath.
Trust me.

CARTER: We'll be back
for the other workers.

Do not let them go home!

TRAVIS: Travis Rhodes, CDC.
I'll be taking it from here.



NANCY: I don't know what
happened with you two.

CARTER: One of the
victims came for shots
with another expectant mother.

RHODES: What are you doing?

CARTER: Getting
your ass, and mine,

to Matambwe Village.

PILOT: I'm gonna
have to drop you,
then come back later.

CARTER: This is...
Insane.

RHODES: We could be
stranded out there.

We could be the next victims!

(gasping).

(groaning).

RHODES: Oh, Jesus!

JERRY: I get that you
have to protect everybody,

but all I can do is
protect the kids.



FATHER: Please,
watch over our family.

Nancy, my sister, Jerry
and these two monsters.

JASON: Have you
ever seen AIDS?

NANCY: We do
have vials of HIV,
but it's not a Level 4 Agent.

JASON: You've seen
something worse?

NANCY: Ebola Zaire.

You need to let me
get in there today.

Make sure that it is
contained and that it doesn't
spread to the other primates.

CARTER: We didn't
catch it in time.

NANCY: Carter thinks
this could be the biggest

catastrophe in U.S. history.

We can't afford to be
the people that stood
by and did nothing because

we were too
scared to pull the trigger.

I think we're
heading in tomorrow.

(helicopter rotors)

RHODES (over radio):
Girl's just under
eight months pregnant.

MELINDA (over radio):
The girl is 24,

so maybe we can
refrain from referring
to her as a juvenile.

RHODES (over radio):
This is stupid.

We all ready have a
sample from Sister Monica.

MELINDA (over radio):
Words of a hero.

CARTER (over radio):
This isn't about a
sample anymore.

We need to find out how
this thing proliferates

Incubation times.

Symptoms.

We need to observe it.
Get inside its head.

♪ ♪

There's another 100 when
you get back tomorrow.

PILOT: Not tomorrow.
Coffee harvest.

We gotta transport
my boss to the fields.

CARTER: Then when?
PILOT: Three days!

CARTER: That's a good sign.
MELINDA: No.

No need for masks.
They have to trust us.

CARTER: You're on.
MELINDA: What?

CARTER: I heard you with
the guards back there.

The NGO's trained you well.

MELINDA: Uh, not
sure a six week crash
course is gonna cut it.

Bend down. Put your
ands together.

(chattering)

RHODES: Do you
see anyone who's pregnant?

(speaking in Lingala).

RHODES: They want
us to share a drink?

MELINDA: It's their
custom, we need to respect it.

RHODES: One of
them could have it.

♪ ♪

CARTER: We want access
to the woman, we drink.

(theme music plays).

NANCY: Are you married?

ASH: No way.

(chuckles).

CARTER: You got a
girlfriend, Ash?

ASH: Um, I don't know.
A couple I guess.

(chuckles).

Uh, why-why's it matter?

CARTER: We'll get to that.

NANCY: And you're
22 years old?

ASH: Yep.

CARTER: Any problem
with tight spaces?

Claustrophobia?

Panic attacks?

ASH: Uh, I don't think so.

CARTER: What about family,
next of kin?

WILL: My dad passed
a few years back, but...

My mom's got family close by.

So, my older sister.

CARTER: How many siblings?
WILL: Uh, just the one.
Vanessa.

CARTER: Any health issues?

SARAH: No. I mean, we
just had our physicals,
so why ask...

CARTER: This isn't a
conventional mission.

Just making sure.

Any BL4 experience?

SARAH: Um, just two times,
but I've been a part of the

VMD for about a year.

Do you need animal care
technicians on your team?

CARTER: Everyone will be
briefed on the mission. And...

What about children?
You have any?

SARAH: No.
NANCY: Are you pregnant?
SARAH: No.

(knock)

NANCY: Hello?

DOROTHY: He was
having trouble breathing,

so I brought him in.

NANCY: How long have
you been at the hospital?

DOROTHY: Overnight.

We didn't, um...

Know if we'd be
staying, but uh, now...

(deep breathing).

NANCY: It's okay, I'm...
I'm still here.

DOROTHY: Now they're saying...

(pained exhales).

He might not be coming home.

NANCY: Can he talk?
Put him on the phone, please?

DOROTHY: Uh, just a second.
It's Nancy.

FATHER: Oh, hey, Nancy.

(labored breathing).

NANCY: Hey Dad.
You hanging in there?

FATHER (over phone):
Yeah, oh yeah, but...

This one really
knocked the piss out of me.

NANCY: Yeah.

FATHER (over phone):
That's for sure.

NANCY: You can
kick this thing.

(labored breathing).

FATHER (over phone):
Yeah, I, um, I,
well, I hope so.

NANCY: Dad, I um...
I really wanna come...

But we just got the
go ahead to go into
this facility and...

Everything in there
is hot right now.

We need to contain it.

So, the next 36 hours
is really critical.

FATHER (over phone):
No, no. You, you, uh...

You-you-you have
to stay there.

They, they need you there.

(clears throat).

It sounds like a,
like a real son of a gun.

NANCY: It is.

FATHER (over phone):
Well then, there's...

Nobody better they
can have on the job.

And we both know it.

You have a level head,
a good heart...

NANCY: Dad.

FATHER (over phone): No.
None of that, now, come on.
Please.

Always known your worth,
you just never pushed
it on anybody.

But now, this is-this maybe
is the time to do that...

(coughs).

FATHER (over phone):
Lives on the line here.

This is your chance
to show them what you got.

NANCY: Dad, just hang
in there for me, okay?

Just hang...

Just be strong and
hang in, just wait.

Just wait...

FATHER (over phone):
You bet I will.
Same for you, huh?

(exhales).

JERRY: I'm so
sorry, sweetheart.

Your dad's always
been a fighter.

NANCY: He didn't sound good.

JERRY: Well, if
you need to go...

NANCY: I wanna be there.
We've been through a lot.

I'd just like to
sit with one...

(exhales).

Just one last time.

(sighs).

Watch Jeopardy...

I just...

JERRY: The Colonel
will understand.

NANCY: Even if I go,
my mind will be here.

(sighs).

What we're dealing
with could be worse than
anything we've ever seen.

And if that virus gets out
because I put my family...

first.

JERRY: Well, you know...
We do have a team here.

NANCY: My team.

I mean, I just finished
hand-picking the best crew to

go in and I haven't
even briefed them yet.

JERRY: Right...

Didn't you ask the 91-Tango's
about their families?

Why are you any more
expendable than them?

NANCY: No one's expendable.

JERRY: You telling me you
didn't cut people because

their loss would be
felt more than others?

MAN (over PA): Colonel
Nancy Jaax to Pathology.

NANCY: I'm going to
need you train them with
the wrangling equipment.

JERRY: They all have
experience with animals.

I would worry more
about how they are gonna
handle those Racal suits.

NANCY: What do you
mean you sniffed it?

And you're just
telling me this now?

BEN: I wanted to
tell you earlier,

but that's kind
of not the point, okay?

Peter is gone.

NANCY: What do you...
Did you page him?

BEN: Yes, I-I paged him.
I...

(exhales).

I think he left the base.

I called his
house a few times.

NANCY: Ben, he's exposed, Ben.

BEN: I know, but we've
been testing ourselves,

every day, and so far
we're both negative.

NANCY: Does anyone else know?

BEN: No, I-I just called you.

You know, I figured
you would, um, help...

quietly, I didn't think
I should leave the lab.

NANCY: Well, you
got that part right.

Okay...

So, I have to go find him.

BEN: Okay, so in
days that he bikes in.

He usually takes
the train part way.

So if you drive,
maybe you can catch him.

MAN (over PA): Westbound
Train 8-9-5 stops in...

(crowd chatter).

♪ ♪

MAN (over PA): May I have
your attention, please...

Please do not
leave luggage
unattended at the station.

Luggage left unattended
may be removed without
warning or destroyed

by station security.

NANCY: Peter...
PETER: I guess Ben told you?

NANCY: Not when
he should have.

PETER: It wasn't his fault.
It was all me.

So, this is how it is?

It's like when
someone has AIDS,

you can't get within
five feet of me?

NANCY: I'm just trying to...

PETER: To say,
"I told you so?"

Oh.

Can't really say you stuck
the landing on that one.

NANCY: Why'd you run?

PETER: Didn't run. I just...

I had to get out of there, I
needed to think for a second.

NANCY: And risk exposing
God knows how many people?

MAN (over PA):
Attention all passengers.

In the interest
of public safety,

riders are asked to...

PETER: Look, I
might be a cocky prick,

but I'd never put
anyone's life in danger.

Whatever this is, I
mean, it isn't airborne yet.

There'd be a whole...

Continent of corpses.

NANCY: Well maybe.
But you know better
than to be out here.

PETER: I know, um...
I don't know what happened.

I know every protocol.
Backwards and forwards,
but when it's you,

it's like...

So, I just panicked.

NANCY: Okay, I need
you to come back now.

PETER: I'm not
going to Slammer, Nancy.

NANCY: Protocol's protocol,
Peter, you know that.

PETER: Rhodes is in
charge of human infection.

You really think he's
gonna quarantine me?

NANCY: Not his decision.
You work for USAMRIID.

PETER: Yeah,
but as a civilian.

And we both know the CDC
will just send me to the
nearest crowded hospital.

The safest thing?

Is for me and Ben to
sequester ourselves in the lab.

Plus, you need us in BL4.

Got too many
samples coming in.

NANCY: You lock the door.
You don't go home.

PETER: I promise.

NANCY: I will
handle the Colonel.

TUCKER: Look,
I'll be honest, Jerry.

(scoffs).

I don't like any of this.

Nancy should never
have brought Carter in.

JERRY: He's the only
one that's worked
with Ebola in the field.

TUCKER: Sure, but getting
everybody in that meeting

rattled w-with some
wild "Airborne" claim?

I mean, that was
reckless, Jerry!

JERRY: Nancy's trying to
protect people best she can.

She's worked harder than
anyone to get to where she is.

And when she puts
her mind to something,

you cannot get her off it.

TUCKER: Jerry!
The BL4 incident, now Carter.

500 primates, it's
a lot of monkeys.

You're head of
the vet department.

What if it were your decision.

JERRY: And I have
my guys ready, but...

TUCKER: Look, I have been
wanting to say this, but...

I can see how torn
up you've been since
you lost your brother.

JERRY: Sir...
That doesn't have
anything to do with this.

TUCKER: Yeah, but suddenly
losing someone like that.

It's hard to imagine...

losing your wife too...

Now, you can't tell
me you don't think
about that every day, Jerry.

JERRY: No, I can't.

If you put me in
charge instead of Nancy,

she's is going to
feel like her whole...

TUCKER: Does it matter?

If it means
keeping Nancy safe.

It's a tough question.

Look...

Don't get me wrong, Jerry.

Nancy's one of the best
to ever come through here,

but she hitched herself to
the wrong horse on this one.

Think about your kids, Jerry.

(school bell)

(kids chatter).

JASON: What's up?

FRIEND: Hey, uh, did your mom
say anything about something

weird going in Reston or...

JASON: What
do you mean weird?

FRIEND 2: Sam's mom at the
Post said there was a reporter

looking into some
monkey flu or something?

FRIEND: And they'd brought in
some team from Fort Detrick.

FRIEND 2: Sounded like
that place your mom works.

JASON: I'm sure
it's no big deal.

FRIEND 2: We figured.
No reason to spaz out.

(primates screeching).

(phone ringing)

NANCY: This is Colonel Jaax.

FRANK (over phone):
They're dying in there!

You said it'd be handled.

Been a whole day,
nobody's showed.

NANCY: Believe me, Frank,
I'm working as fast as I can.

I've got my hands full here.

I need everyone who's
going in to be fully prepared.

FRANK (over phone):
It's spreading.

More of the healthy
monkeys are dropping.

We gotta go in, we
gotta save the good ones.

NANCY: Frank, you need to
stay away from that building.

We cleared out
all the employees
for their own safety.

Look, I can station
someone outside the building
to make sure nobody enters,

but we need to be careful.

Press sniffing around, they're
gonna start asking questions.

All right?

And no one's in a
position answer.

♪ And he fought the
world alone and now it's ♪

♪ 18 and life,
you got it ♪

♪ 18 and life, you know ♪

♪ Your crime is time and
it's 18 and life to go ♪

♪ 18 and life,
you got it, 18 ♪ ♪

DORIS: My husband's been
stuck here for two days.

How long before we
know if he has it?

RHODES: Most symptoms
appear in seven to eight days.

But, it could be up to three
weeks before we have any...

DOMANSKI: Weeks?

DORIS: What's
gonna happen to him?

RHODES: At this point,
we don't know.

But I would be surprised
if your husband has
anything other than the flu.

DOMANSKI: How can that be?

I thought they
knew what this was?

RHODES: It's not
that simple, I'm afraid.

DORIS: I knew he shouldn't
taken that job there.

No one should be
testing on animals.

It's cruel.

DOMANSKI: It's
gonna be okay, Dor.

I don't feel too bad.
You heard him.

The longer I'm okay, I'm
guessing the better chance

I have, yeah?

RHODES: You tested
negative yesterday,

I'm sure today
will be no different.

Thank you.

Get this over to
USAMRIID for testing.

Relax, soldier.

Even if you were
holding Ebola,

it's not as easy to transmit
as you've been led to believe.

Trust me. I've seen it.

RHODES: Did you taste bleach?
They're using disinfectant.

MELINDA: It's more than the
nuns did with their needles.

Tells us something...

(speaking in Lingala).

MELINDA: They don't want
us crossing the perimeter.

CARTER: Faith Healer must
have put her in isolation.

We, we need to go in.

CHIEF KUTU: No.

(speaking in Lingala).

MELINDA: The sickness has
entered because of a curse.

RHODES: What if we show
them our gloves and masks now?

MELINDA: Against a curse?

No, they see this
as something deeper,
more spiritual.

RHODES: What's
spiritual about a virus?

MELINDA: Nothing.

They know it's a virus,
an illness, that makes
them sick, hence the bleach.

What makes it
spiritual is why it
targets a specific person...

That's where
beliefs, witchcraft,

faith comes in.

Someone is given the
illness for a reason.

TINDA: Good day.
I am Tinda.

I am teacher for school,
uh, in close by villages.

TINDA: You can go.

(gasping).

(coughing).

(crying).

SARAH: Hey.
REESE: You're on this?

I thought you and
Paul were trying?

SARAH: Yeah, we
are, it's just,

it didn't happen
this month, so...

Guess I'm cleared for action.

WILL: Guys...
NANCY: At ease.

Biohazard level 4 agents will
be present in the building.

Reason Ebola Zaire is
classified as a BL4 agent is

that There is no
vaccine, no treatment.

Our best defense against
infection will be each other.

The buddy system.

Yes... Will.

WILL: So, is it
just monkeys or...

Are there people with it?

With Ebola?

NANCY: All monkeys.
So far.

We will do a
Racal suit training...

SARAH: Racals?
How's this thing spread?
Is it airborne?

NANCY: It's unclear how
the virus is spreading.

Certainly bodily fluids.

But those could be carried
from the pressure washers that

they use to clean the flowers.

So, as far as
this operation goes,

we act as if the virus is
in the droplets in the air.

ORMAN: Guys,
let's keep on track.

NANCY: I need to know.

Any scrapes, open
skin of any kind?

Anyone whose suit is
compromised once inside and it

turns out you are exposed,
will be moved to the Slammer

for three weeks before
anyone is cleared to leave.

And to make things harder,
the animals haven't been
fed since yesterday,

so they will be aggressive.

A nail can rip through a suit.

Teeth can breach a mask and
lacerate or puncture the face.

I can't stress this enough,
you are going to into a

hostile environment.

We are facing an enemy
that can devastate a city.

And you're what's standing
between it and the civilians

outside those doors.

Now, it's important that
you understand this mission

is on a voluntary basis.

So, if you're
having any doubts,

this isn't the one for you.

Just raise a hand.

TUCKER: Colonel Jaax.
You got a minute?

NANCY: Was it your idea?

JERRY: The Colonel and I
agreed it was better...

NANCY: To not include
me in the conversation?

I've worked my ass off
never to be in this position.

And when it happens,
it's my own husband?!

God, Jerry!

JERRY: I was, I was
trying to protect you.

NANCY: I would rather your
respect than your protection.

JERRY: Oh, come on.

You know that I respect you...

NANCY: Yeah, but not enough to
let me make my own decisions.

JERRY: I told you
how much I didn't want
you going in there...

For the kids and you
were so determined...

NANCY: Because I was
looking out for everyone,

not just our kids.

Six million people
in the metro area!

And the 91-Tangos?

Which one of us?

Which one of us is better
prepared to guide them?!

Those kids who just
signed up for this!?

JERRY: I know what I'm doing.

NANCY: Enough to
bet their lives on it?

Or yours?

I know these pathogens, Jerry.

Probably more
than anybody else.

This is the day
I've been trained for!

JERRY: I will take
as much anger as you
want to throw at me,

if it means
keeping you safe.

(scoffs)

NANCY: Oh, God...

I think we both
know what this is about.

JERRY: Nance...

NANCY: There was nothing
you could do for your brother.

I know you miss him
more than I can ever
understand, but you...

JERRY: Why can't you
just let me protect you?

NANCY: You are
not gonna lose me, too.

JERRY: Listen to me, Nancy.

If our kids end up
with only one parent...

NANCY: It's not gonna happen.
JERRY: Listen to me...

We both know that I am
the one who is expendable.

Period.

NANCY: Just because we got
edged out of Reston doesn't

mean we're
completely sidelined.

Someone needs to
track the workers.

CARTER: I'm
going in with Jerry.

NANCY: Wait, but they
didn't even want you involved.

How did you convince them?

CARTER: Said they
needed one of us inside.

Job's gotta get done.
It's not personal.

NANCY: Well,
like hell it isn't.

You could have leveraged it,

refused to go in
there without me.

CARTER: What?
And ended up with
both of us benched?

Leverage isn't exactly
something I have around here.

Somebody's gotta
get the monster.

Whatever it takes.

NANCY: You caved so
easily with Rhodes.

Letting him take
Domanski to hospital.

CARTER: What are
you talking about?

NANCY: In some twisted way,
do you want this to get out?

To spread?

CARTER: Nancy, come on...

NANCY: It sure would validate
all those years of raising a

red flag and nobody listening.

Get the CDC, the Pentagon...

The nation to wake up.

CARTER: I'd never
want anyone to die.

NANCY: No, but if it meant
snapping this country to

attention, showing the
"monster" on some white

neighbor instead of
an African villager...

You'd justify the
collateral damage.

Wouldn't you?

CARTER: Did I want this?

Never.
Now it's here.

Would it be good for
the Oval Office to be
pissing its pants about now?

You bet.

NANCY: And I'm the one
that brought you into this...

CARTER: Nancy, it's
in that building.

It's learning. It's evolved.

NANCY: Right, your
elusive "Super Ebola."

CARTER: There
will be Super Ebola.

It will wipe us out if
we don't get ahead of it.

NANCY: And that particular
strain is lurking in a

Washington suburb?

CARTER: It's not presenting
the way it always has.

Without symptoms,
people could be spreading
it without knowing.

It's not the
monster I've seen before.

And that scares
the life out of me,

it should scare you, too.

♪ ♪

BEN: Do I wanna know?
PETER: Nothing yet.

Let me give it a sec.

BEN: Domanski's all
clear for day two?

PETER: Wait...

MAN (over PA):
Coaches, athletes and judges.

Parents helping
in gymnastics...

JAIME: Mommy.
NANCY: Hi, hi.

JAIME: Didn't think
I'd see you here.

NANCY: When have I
ever missed a meet?

JAIME: Well, never, but...

I thought you'd be busy today.

NANCY: Hey...

JAIME: Jason's
friends heard something
something about a monkey flu.

And Jason came to my locker
after lunch and he was like

really wigged-out.

NANCY: I was gonna talk to
you guys after your meet.

What did he hear?

JAIME: Just that
there's some outbreak in
the monkeys or something.

Sam White's mom
heard it from the Post.

And then, Jason said
that it was contained,

but you always tell me not
to believe everything I hear,

so, I don't know.

NANCY: Mmm.
Well, it is...

Will be contained, very soon.

JAIME: You're not
going in there with
the monkeys, are you?

NANCY: No, I am not.

JAIME: Okay.

Can we come
home tonight, then?

NANCY: I... Well,

I think your aunt
wants you one more
night because she made...

(groans).

No, but listen why.
She's making fondue.

(sighs).

JAIME: Okay.

Well, can you promise
me that this is the
last night of carob pie?

NANCY: It's healthy.

JAIME: Mmm.

NANCY: All right, now go
show them what you got.

Go on.

(pager beeps)

RHODES: Tell her this
isn't going to hurt.

Tell her everything
is going to be okay.

MELINDA: Okay.

(crying).

RHODES: Don't move, don't move!

(speaking in Lingala).

(speaking in Lingala).

RHODES: We need to
get out of this place.

I'm sorry, but there's nothing
we can do for anyone here.

MELINDA: You
have your mission,

but I have mine.

I'm here to help these people.

RHODES: We stay,
we risk exposure.

CARTER: We can't leave.

RHODES: We have to.
We go down, these
samples don't get back,

more people die.

All this was for nothing.

CARTER: Chopper isn't coming
back for a couple of days.

RHODES: What?

(villagers arguing).

(yelling).

RHODES: What is that noise?

CARTER: Hey! Hey!

Step back! Step back!

What happened here?

TINDA: I let you in the hut,
they think you're going to
spread the disease.

They want to blame someone.

RHODES: We've both
seen this thing up close.

Panic. Fear.

We know what it
can make people do.

MELINDA: Not something
that's easy to forget.

Those people in Matambwe...

MELINDA (over phone):
They were terrified.

You could see in their eyes,

they knew they were
going to die.

RHODES: Just...

Imagining that
kind of hysteria in
millions of people...

I can't let that
happen in D.C.

MELINDA: You want me to say
that keeping those workers out

of quarantine is
the right decision.

RHODES: That obvious, huh?

(scoffs).

MELINDA: I know you.
I'm your wife.

RHODES: Look, maybe we
could keep a lid on it.

I've been staring at
this guy for a day now, Mel.

He doesn't have it,
not-not what we saw in Africa.

I'm telling you, it's,
it's something different.

MELINDA: No rash?

Nausea, his eyes are...

RHODES: He's barely
even got a fever.

Even though it's tearing
the monkey's insides apart.

And meanwhile,
I've got Carter
trying to pull every alarm.

And we both know
what he's capable of.

MELINDA: Do you think maybe
it's possible you're pushing

back so hard because it's him?

CARTER: There are two
kinds of ventilators,

two types of battery.

Grab the right one.

If they lose power,
the air pressure in
your suit will decrease.

Don't panic.

JERRY: Breathing heavily just
burns through more oxygen.

CARTER: Claustrophobia
can creep up on you.

If you find your
heart start to race,

just breathe through.

Count to 20.

(breathing).

CARTER: If your
heart starts to
pound faster, harder...

You know you're
about to spin out.

Keep your eyes focused
on the door ahead of you.

Once you're through
there, focus on the next one.

Know you're getting out.

JERRY: Those of you with sharp
instruments: Always keep your

buddy on the left hand side.

Unless you're left handed,
then safely on the right.

CARTER: If we lose power...

It may get dark.

Your hood may fog.

You've got a
flashlight on you, find it.

You've all been
assigned a buddy inside.

Every ten minutes, do a
360 around your partner.

(Will gasping).

(heavy breathing).

JERRY: Check
constantly for suit breaches.

Every 45 minutes is
a mandatory break.

Carter! Carter, light!

Hey, it's okay.

(panting).

(whimpering).

It's okay.

Regular breaths,
slow and steady.

(labored breathing).

CARTER: Whose buddy was he?

Find a new one.

NANCY: Domanski's got it.
Just verified.

And the other
workers were sent home,

they could be
exposing their families.

RHODES: Come with me.

He tested positive?

But there's been no
change in his condition.

NANCY: It was verified
under the electron microscope.

I'm ready to bump this
tug-of-war up to the top if

you're determined to
keep stonewalling me.

RHODES: Colonel, you haven't
stared Ebola in the face.

NANCY: I did yesterday.

RHODES: In a monkey.

NANCY: We need to draw
blood from all the workers and

whoever they were in
physical contact with.

Now.

RHODES: This is
coming from your General?

NANCY: The Army's been
in lock-step with this

from the start.

The question is, when this
gets tossed across the river,

I know D.O.D.'s got
my back and Health and
Human Services has yours.

Which one do you think
has President Bush's ear?

RHODES: We have a hard
enough time getting nurses
to deliver mashed potatoes

to patients with AIDS.

We've got politicians who
literally want to brand people

who have HIV.

Now you cry Ebola and Tom
Brokaw's got a photo of bloody

corpses in every home
in America tonight.

Only a fraction of healthcare
workers show up tomorrow to

handle the thousands
who come racing in panic.

Each one
suspicious of the other.

Millions of dollars triggered,
thousands of National Guard

throwing themselves in harm's
way from a terrified mob.

Anticipated roadway fatalities
alone run in the hundreds.

NANCY: You don't think
very highly of people, do you?

RHODES: D.C. may be
a thriving modern metropolis,

but at the end of
the day, it's just a
village like any other.

Fear is fear.

NANCY: With all due respect,
that's not the my battle I've

been charged with fighting.

RHODES: So, you would wager
guaranteed fatal casualties

against a couple of
possible infections?

NANCY: We don't
have to broadcast it,

we can do this quietly.

I can have them
tested tonight.

PRIEST: The Blood of Christ.
The Blood of Christ.

The Blood of Christ.
The Blood of Christ.

The Blood of Christ.

The Blood of Christ.

The Blood of Christ.

The Blood of Christ.

The Blood of Christ.

The Blood of Christ.

NANCY: Hi.
Is your mom home?

CHAD: Mom!

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

JERRY: Nancy?

NANCY: How is he?

(weak breathing).

NANCY: Dad? Hi.

FATHER: Hi, darling.
Did you save the world?

NANCY: Not really.
Jerry took the wheel.

FATHER: Well, you, you
didn't have to do that for me.

NANCY: Well...

He and the Colonel
made the decision.

Took me by surprise, but I'm
happy to be here to see you.

FATHER: You know.

I always tried to protect you.

NANCY: I know, Dad.
And you always did.

FATHER: And and it wasn't
because I didn't think that

you couldn't do it yourself.

Hmm.

Don't be angry with
him for too long.

NANCY: Can I have one day?

(chuckles).

FATHER: I
wouldn't even waste one.

I am so proud of you.

(soft crying).

FATHER: Now go. Go.

NANCY: Put up a fight
until I get back, okay?

FATHER: I do. I promise.

NANCY: Okay.
FATHER: Same for you.

WICHITA: Hey mom...

Yeah. I figured he's
probably asleep.

JERRY: Time to
move out, private.

WICHITA: Mom, I gotta go.

Just um...

Wanted to say hi.

Okay.

I love you, too, Mom.

Bye.

♪ ♪

JERRY: All right,
Tangos, listen up!

You're going into combat
against a virus for whom

survival is all that matters.

It has no conscious, no mercy.

You guys think the same
way and we all come home.

Clear?

TANGOS: Yes, sir!

NANCY: We need to
do a wider sweep.

CARTER: You ever seen anything
destroy a body like this?

WOMAN: Is my
husband gonna die?

NANCY:We're here
for your husband.

RHODES: Can I have a word?

PETER: I don't like
what I'm seeing over here.

SOLDIER: Someone
is snooping around.

JERRY: I am in
command of this mission.

NANCY: I can't
lose anyone else.

SOLDIER: Colonel's
gone down ma'am.

NANCY: What's going
on in the facility?

SOLDIER: One escaped!

NARRATOR: The Hot Zone.
Continues tomorrow at 9:00pm
on National Geographic.

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