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Previously
on The Hot Zone...

We may have a filovirus on our hands
and there is a chance that it's Ebola.

PETER: It can't be Ebola.

Ben, we don't have it.

We just need to run daily tests on our
blood to prove that we don't have it.

FRANK: What the hell
am I dealing with here?

NANCY: I can't tell you that until I
get my hands on some fresh tissue.

Ebola Zaire.

Fax it to Carter immediately and include
the image of the exploded cells.

CARTER: Ask 'em if people have
been getting sick around here.

(speaking in Lingala).

RHODES: He said,
"The forest is bleeding."

NANCY: I don't think you understand
what we're really dealing with here.

Ebola spreads easily.

Anyone handling blood, feces,
vomit, any bodily fluids.

How many workers in your facility
right now fit that description?

FRANK: Not
feeling well, Bruce?

DOMANSKI: Just a headache.

NANCY: You need to let me get in there
today, make sure that it's contained and

that it doesn't spread
to the other primates.

DOMANSKI: Who in
the hell are you?

CARTER: I found a sick
monkey in another cell.

We didn't catch it in time.

These people burned themselves and
their village to contain this thing.

Wait, please!

Hold on!

We need, we need samples,
please!

It's still out there somewhere,
and we're gonna find it.

♪ ♪

RHODES: Are you sure those soldiers didn't
set fire to the village themselves?

Like, you know, some
kind of turf war, maybe?

I mean, how do we even know
those people were really sick?

CARTER: They were sick.
You could smell it.

RHODES: Head office
is gonna love this.

No blood sample,

and the only doctor who knew anything
is lying in a pile of ashes.

So, now what?

CARTER: We tell the nuns
they've lost their only doctor.

After that?

We figure something out.

It may not be
exactly by the book.

RHODES: Look, Carter.
I want to keep this job.

So, we have to stick to
IDC procedures, okay?

CARTER: You find any,
you let me know.

♪ ♪

RHODES: Where is everybody?

♪ ♪

(speaking in Lingala).

CARTER: What happened here?

ADOGO: Not certain.

The local soldiers have
quarantined the hospital.

Doctor Adogo.

MELINDA: Melinda Danport
with International Aid Relief.

We bring the sisters supplies
whenever we have extra to spare.

Came in yesterday to
find this fascist fiasco.

CARTER: Wade Carter.
Travis Rhodes.

We're with
International Disease Control.

MELINDA: IDC?

Perhaps you can make a few calls so
these men will let us through...

RHODES: What about the Sisters?
Has anyone talked to them?

ADOGO: They cannot come
further than the porch.

Quarantine.

No one has been in or
out in two-three days.

MELINDA: We heard some screams yesterday
but nothing for a few hours now.

CARTER: Tell him
the General sent us.

We came on his private plane.

He expects us to report back.

And I want his name.

SOLDIER: Nzembo Lunga.

CARTER: Nzembo Lunga.

(speaking in Lingala).

RHODES: Okay. We can pass.

Let me take these up for you.

MELINDA: Thank you.

(speaking in Lingala).

CARTER: What did he say?

RHODES: He says we can enter and
exit, but he's under orders to shoot

anyone else who comes out.

CARTER: Sister?

Do you remember we spoke to
Sister Monica a few days ago?

We went to the village
where Dr. Ewonda went, he...

RHODES: I'm sorry
to tell you that...

he passed away.

The, the whole
village was burned.

CARTER: Sister?

RHODES: Where is
Sister Monica?

SISTER ELISE:
Don't go in there.

RHODES: Carter.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Sister Monica?

Sister Monica?

CARTER: Sister Monica,
can you hear us?

We're here to help.

RHODES: Sister Monica?

(gasping).

RHODES: Oh, Jesus!

(wheezing).

(coughing).

(gurgling).

(theme music plays).

(door bell)

(knocking)

NANCY: So sorry to
bother you at home, Sir.

We couldn't reach
Colonel Tucker.

General Dwyer,
this is Wade Carter.

We sterilized Cell H, but as
Carter was leaving the facility...

CARTER: I found one more
infected monkey in another cell.

DWYER: How sure are you?
CARTER: 100%

And there's probably more.
It's "jumped."

NANCY: It "spread."
We didn't contain it in time.

We need to get in there with a team,
euthanize the infected monkeys and

sterilize the premises.

DWYER: Any chance this has
been transmitted to people?

CARTER: We don't know yet.

But I've dealt with Zaire before,
it's best to quarantine the

workers to be safe.

DWYER: I get Nancy brought
you in for your experience,

but you've got one hell
of a reputation, Dr. Carter.

Keep a low profile.

Everything you do
lands on her shoulders.

NANCY: Should we
contact the WHO?

DWYER: Yeah, but they're so
bogged down with political hacks,

Santa'll leave the North Pole before
they can scramble a team together.

NANCY:
What about the CDC?

DWYER: I'll call them, but they don't
have a vet department under an

hour away like we do.

And they can't handle a
mission as dangerous as this.

NANCY: Don't worry, Sir.

We will plan every detail
and follow military protocol.

DWYER: Colonel.

Modern day Army's never contained an
outbreak on U.S. soil like this before.

There is no protocol.

BEN: I told my wife.
I told her everything.

PETER: You what?

BEN: Look, she
deserves to know, all right?

I'm-I'm sure that
you understand.

PETER: No. Not really, Ben.

Let me guess.
Was she freaked out?

BEN: Yeah, she's terrified!

She thinks I have it,
th-that I could pass it.

PETER: Great.
You know, this is just great.

I hope you know she's
gonna tell everyone.

BEN: No, she is not.

Look, I told her to stay inside, and
to keep the kids home from school.

But maybe they should
come in and we should test

their blood, too.

PETER: And set off
alarms all over this place?

BEN: Alarms?
Who cares about alarms?

I want to keep
my family alive.

PETER: Look, Ben, it doesn't
transmit that easily. Okay?

It's not like we
chugged a bottle of it.

We just waived
our hands over it.

For God's sakes, there's a
whole team of workers tha...

Shoveling monkey crap all
day, they don't have it!

BEN: Okay. All right,
all right, all right...

You're probably right.

PETER: Prob...
Do you want to start a panic?

You want to get
the base shut down?

You know, publicly embarrassing the
Army doesn't usually end that well.

BEN: She's not
gonna say anything.

PETER: Yeah, how
can you be 100% sure?

(scrubbing)

♪ ♪

CARTER: You ready?
NANCY: I have no road map.

I mean, no protocols?

Out of all the agencies
that are set up to protect us,

why are we not more prepared?

CARTER: It's never been
at our back door before.

(sighs).

CARTER: There's only one reason
people do anything in this world.

Fear.

I've been in your shoes.

NANCY: Really?

Juggling a burgeoning
outbreak and two kids,

houseful of
pets and a husband?

CARTER: I mean going
in for the first time.

All these labs here, military
hierarchy, it can trick you.

Makes you think there's
an order to the world.

FRANK: Hey, Walt.

The hell's
happening with my monkeys?

And what happened in Cell H?

HUMBOLT: Did
they clean it out?

FRANK: Yeah.

One of my boys called me last night and
said there was some man here in full gear.

HUMBOLT: Oh, that-that-that was, uh,
uh, that was just a precautionary...

FRANK: Oh, cut the crap.

What, are you gonna
tell me it's still SHF?

People don't wear space
suits if it's just SHF.

(broom stick rattles)

Bruce?

What the hell?

Bruce?

(heavy breathing).

DOMANSKI: Frank.
HUMBOLT: You feeling okay?

(retches).

(coughing).

FRANK: Ebola?

What the hell.
I never heard of it.

HUMBOLT: Has he come in contact
with feces or monkey fluids?

FRANK: What are
you talking about?

Of course, he did.

That's his job,
it's all our jobs.

I must've touched six dead monkeys
in the past two days, myself.

HUMBOLT: Don't you
bleach everything?

Corporate guidelines
say you're supposed to...

FRANK: Oh, the guidelines don't say
anything about a damn hazmat suit.

Don't turn this around on us!

How does this thing spread?

(scoffs).

HUMBOLT: Urine. Feces. Sweat.

Pretty much a,
anything you touch.

FRANK: Why in the hell didn't you
tell us to take extra precautions?

HUMBOLT: They told me that they
exterminated every cell in that room.

Every living cell.

FRANK: My God, Walt.

I've gotta tell my guys to go home,
I gotta get 'em out of here.

HUMBOLT: No, no, no, no, no.
Wait, just hold on a second.

Hazleton's gonna come down on us like
a ton of bricks when they find out

that we went to the Army.

FRANK: We?
I wasn't in on that.

HUMBOLT: Oh, the Colonel just magically
had four monkeys appear in her trunk?

It's gonna be okay.

The Army wouldn't just walk away if
there was still a threat. Right?

It's much more likely he's
hungover or had some bad chicken.

We don't even know
if he has a fever.

FRANK: Well, that could be.

HUMBOLT: So let's, let's just,
let's take his temperature before

we get into all
kinds of panic.

We'll just get a thermometer.

FRANK: I can't.
HUMBOLT: Why not?

FRANK: They're all rectal.
We used 'em on the monkeys.

WOMAN (over PA): On sale
this week through Sunday.

If you're not already a
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associates to sign up today.

(baby cooing).

WOMAN (over PA): Pharmacy,
you have a call on line 1.

Pharmacy,
you have a call on line 1.

FRANK: Oh...

GIRL: $2.87.

FRANK: Uh, just
keep the change.

GIRL: Do you want a bag?

FRANK: Uh, yeah.

Thank you.

(phone ringing)

NANCY: This is Colonel Jaax.

WALTER (over phone): It's
Walter Humbolt from Hazleton.

We've got a problem.

PETER: Nancy?

NANCY: We got a
call from Reston.

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

PETER: Are there
any other symptoms?

NANCY: We don't know yet.

Just get ready.

You may have hot
samples coming in.

(workers chatter).

HUMBOLT: Um, could I
have everyone's attention?

We have some mandatory training,
which will begin shortly.

Um, if I could just have everybody head
upstairs and hang tight for a bit.

DOMANSKI: Did
someone call my wife?

NANCY: We'll notify her.

Just close your eyes,
take a deep breath.

Trust me, it'll help.

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

Do not let them go home!

NANCY: Evacuate the hallway.

Sir, you need to get
out of the vicinity.

I'm Colonel Jaax, U.S. Army.

You need to get out of here.

Carter?

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

NANCY: The CDC doesn't have a
quarantine facility anywhere near here.

RHODES: And the Army doesn't have
jurisdiction over a private facility.

NANCY: Carter?

HUMBOLT: I just want you to know we've
been cooperating fully with the Army.

RHODES: Who were kind enough to
let us know as they went in.

CARTER: This isn't
a pissing contest.

NANCY: Look, we
have to move fast.

I don't know what the problem is, there's
only one right thing to do here.

PARAMEDICS: Ready?

On you.

CARTER: This is insane.

NANCY: You need to
warn the hospital.

RHODES: I know what
precautions to take.

But let's look at the facts.

Shortness of breath.
Nausea. Vomiting.

Could all be symptoms of any number
of things, including heart attack.

CARTER: Don't be an idiot.

RHODES: Don't
jump to conclusions.

Neither of you are
medical doctors.

No one did an exam or even
tested the patient's blood.

You sound an alarm like this, it'll
be heard all across the city.

CARTER: You can't allow that
ambulance to dock at a local ER.

RHODES: I am sure you had to work
twice as hard for those stripes.

I would keep your loose
cannon the hell away from me.

NANCY: We have compelling evidence
that the agent is alive and

replicating in that facility.

RHODES: You have nothing more than a
faint green glow and a even fainter

understanding of the panic that you
would be thoughtlessly unleashing.

CARTER: Did your ego get so big
you're willing to kill a man for it?

NANCY: Look, his nurses, his doctors,
they must wear protective gear.

RHODES: You know damn well if
this is what you say it is,

this entire neighborhood
would be strewn with bodies.

CARTER: There was
no way to help her.

I'm really sorry.

I don't understand.

Nobody was sick when
we came through here.

SISTER ELISE: He
brought the "death plague."

CARTER: Who did?

SISTER ELISE: The schoolmaster,
he was very sick.

CARTER: Who was the-the
next one to get sick?

SISTER ELISE: One of
the pregnant ones.

CARTER: There's six bodies over
there, how many were pregnant?

SISTER ELISE: Two.

They come for vitamin shots to
give them strength for birth.

RHODES: Carter?

That first day we were here,

they were giving shots to what?

40, 50 people?

Well, there's only a
handful of needles here.

CARTER: They probably
dumped the trash since then.

RHODES: No, the gum wrappers from the
packs we brought are halfway down.

This thing hasn't
been emptied in weeks.

CARTER: Did the schoolmaster
get vitamin shots?

How often do you
change needles?

SISTER ELISE: We change
them every one or two days.

CARTER: Do you sterilize them?

SISTER ELISE: Of course. We rinse
them, several times a day.

Do you think we...

CARTER: I'm sure it
was already spreading.

RHODES: Carter?

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

(speaking in Lingala).

CARTER: Sister, get
back on the porch.

MELINDA: Go back!
Go back! Go back!

(gunshots)

(arguing in Lingala).

Should be plenty.

JERRY: Okay.
NANCY: Hi.

JERRY: Hey. Hey, we have a lot of
backup supplies but I don't have enough

ketamine for more
than 40, 50 monkeys.

NANCY: I've got officers
coming out of my ears.

I just need my
husband right now.

JERRY: What happened?

NANCY: CDC showed up,
pushed us out.

They sent that
worker to the hospital.

JERRY: Civilian hospital?

Well, what's the read
on the guy's blood?

Is he positive?

NANCY: Well, we haven't
even gotten any samples yet.

I don't know.

I mean, they're supposed
to send us one for testing.

JERRY: You were...
in your racal, right?

NANCY: Of course I was.

I wasn't even in there
for more than ten minutes.

So Tucker has wrangled a meeting, he wants
me to stand up in front of the top brass,

the CDC, even the Pentagon guys and somehow
convince them to give us the keys.

JERRY: Well, if anyone can...

NANCY: Yeah, but we
don't have the time.

ERICSON: Hey, Nancy.
NANCY: Hey.

I mean, they want me to xerox a bunch
of charts for these guys when this

thing could be ripping
through the suburbs already.

JERRY: What does Carter think?

NANCY: Carter thinks
this could be the biggest

catastrophe in U. S. history.

JERRY: Nancy.
He can't say that.

NANCY: I know, not publicly.

JERRY: Look, I know he's the expert and
everything, but you gotta protect yourself.

NANCY: But they
don't understand.

If we don't move in
now, it could be too late.

JERRY: You always
have to fight so hard.

(soft chuckle).

So, look, why don't you just go
in there, and show those guys

what they're dealing with?

Mainly you.

NANCY: Yeah. I can do that.

Thanks.

JERRY: Sorry, I know I gotta
trust the gear, it's just...

kids.

NANCY: Of course.
Can never be too careful.

It'll be over soon.

BEN: What do you think the chances
are that the worker has it?

PETER: Look, this guy
cleaned their cages, right?

He fed them.

I don't know, maybe
he even got scratched.

Comes back positive,
it doesn't mean anything.

MAN (over intercom): Peter. Your
girlfriend's on her way up.

PETER: What?
No, no, no, no, no, no...

Hey.

Sorry, it's, uh, no unauthorized
personnel allowed inside

the lab, so...

REBECCA: Good to see you, too.

PETER: Hey, did you do, like,
a hair thing or something?

It's, you look great.

REBECCA: Where the
hell have you been?

I have been paging
you for two days.

PETER: I'm sorry.
Ah, crap.

It's, like, just been
on this insane deadline.

REBECCA: I went by your place,

I saw the car in the drive,
I got worried.

PETER: Yeah, well, I took the commuter and
then I just kind of biked it from there.

I'm sorry, I didn't
mean to freak you out.

REBECCA: Are you
coming over tonight?

PETER: Um, yeah. No, I mean,

I, you know, I want to, but...

(sighs).

Yeah, we're just about to
test this blood, and, you know,

who knows what
we're gonna find.

Can you, uh?

Look, something happened,

and, um,

I just, you know, I need to stay here
with Ben until we figure it out,

so, you know, orders.

REBECCA: You know the
last time you went AWOL...

PETER: No, no, no.

Come on.
It's nothing like that.

It's, I was mixed up, and yeah,
I didn't know what I wanted...

then.

REBECCA: You won't walk into the
Cineplex if we show up two minutes late.

That is not a guy who loses track
of his fiancée for two days.

PETER: Yeah, I
didn't want to scare her.

BEN: Right.

PETER: All right, let's...

see what's up with this guy.

(monkeys screeching)

(group chatter).

OFFICIAL: Do we
have this right?

You went in on your own,

in the face of a
deadly pathogen,

and this is the first
we're hearing about it?

NANCY: That's correct.

Since its discovery, this virus has been
isolated in remote regions of Africa.

Today, it is 20 minutes outside
a metropolis of six million.

The Ebola virus enters the body's cells
and uses the cells' own machinery

to reproduce itself.

The cells bulge with the newly assembled
viruses until it floods into the body,

and the whole thing
starts all over again.

There is a
mortality rate of 90%.

OFFICIAL 2: Is it
anything like AIDS?

NANCY: It's easier to contract, because
it is spread through most bodily fluids,

even sweat.

Caretakers are usually the first to
contract and propagate the virus.

With every hour, this disease is
incubating and possibly spreading in

the Hazleton facility.

We need to get in there and
euthanize all the animals.

ERICSON: What about
the asymptomatic ones?

NANCY: Unfortunately, many of
the monkeys may be carriers.

Too big a risk to
keep them alive.

OFFICIAL 3: Why not
just gas the place?

NANCY: Well, that would be
easier, but less humane.

Look, we don't get many
chances to study this virus.

We need to take
samples, to look for a cure.

OFFICIAL 3:
That's a huge operation.

You'd be putting
our soldiers at risk.

NANCY: True.

But the Army is better equipped to
handle a level four hot agent than

most local hospitals,

which is where infected people
will start showing up if we

don't contain it.

Are you prepared for
an outbreak like this?

(group chatter).

(clears throat).

RHODES: Colonel, are you 100% certain
your samples contain Ebola Zaire?

NANCY: Well, you can
never be 100% certain...

RHODES: Even if
the test glows green,

it is possible that
whatever virus you have is

simply reacting to your Ebola test
and not actually Ebola Zaire,

is it not?

NANCY: Well,
it's possible but...

RHODES: And you want to trigger hundreds
of millions of Federal funding,

and start a widespread panic when
we don't even have one single

confirmed human case.

There are more reasonable
responses at this point.

NANCY: With all due respect...

RHODES: You have no
experience in the field.

NANCY: And that is why I brought in the
best emerging infectious disease expert.

RHODES: The CDC is the global expert
on emerging infectious diseases.

CARTER: So what happened
with your response to AIDS?

RHODES: We were the first to publish
a report on these epidem...

CARTER: People had been
tracking that for years.

You let a generation of
hemophiliacs and the gay community

tackle the first blows alone.

90,000 people
died in this country.

TUCKER: Colonel.
NANCY: Carter.

Like it or not,
the virus is here.

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

we were too scared
to pull the trigger.

TUCKER: Jahrling?

You have the results
of that sick employee?

PETER: Uh, there were
no viruses detected.

RHODES: Thank you, that's
exactly what I'm talking about.

NANCY: There's an
incubation window.

(group chatter).

CARTER: It's airborne.

RHODES: That is
entirely unfounded.

A careless,
unsubstantiated claim.

CARTER: Go on, Nance.

NANCY: It's not
entirely unsubstantiated.

Several years ago,
there was a trial done.

It showed the virus infecting the
monkeys with no interaction with

the hot agent.

Other than air circulation.

You can imagine just one infected
person entering a public space.

A D.C.
subway, for example.

One sneeze, and a million hot
particles could be dispersed.

It can sweep the population before we would
have a chance to shut down the city.

TUCKER: Bottom line, you don't have the
manpower to euthanize those monkeys

and decon the building.

RHODES: Take the monkey house.

But precedent places us in charge
of any possible human exposures.

DWYER: None of
that may matter.

I just got word.

Hazleton's
consulting their lawyers.

We're stalled until they
officially allow access.

TUCKER: Well, we have
to move on some plan.

If it hasn't jumped to humans
yet, we've just been lucky.

CARTER: She wasn't alone.
RHODES: Who?

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

from her village.

It looks like they both
left hospital to head home...

when a day into their journey,

one of them wasn't
feeling well and came back.

Died four days later.

I wonder if the other
woman made it there.

M-Matambwe Village.

RHODES: Well, when we get back to
Kinshasa and send off the sample,

then we can call HQ and
have them send out a team.

CARTER: No one is coming.
There isn't time.

RHODES: What are you doing?

CARTER: Getting your ass
and mine to that village.

They may already be in
the midst of an outbreak.

RHODES: Our mission was
to get a blood sample.

We have one.

We're supposed to turn it
over as quick as possible.

Besides, if they're
using dirty needles,

then there could be
100 people infected.

CARTER: You're right, but
we only got a lead on one.

And we're following it.

Dr. Adogo.

ADOGO: Yes?

CARTER: We need to
get to Matambwe Village.

ADOGO: No, man, th-the, the roads
are washed out north of here.

Rainy season.

MELINDA: There are
other ways to get there.

It's not exactly
IDC regulation, but...

♪ Huh, hey ha ♪♪

CARTER: We need to
hire a chopper to Matambwe.

PILOT: 300, US.

CARTER: It's only 40 to Bumba.
Ten times the distance.

Hundred each way.

(scoffs and sniffs).

PILOT: Mm-mm.

MELINDA: Okay, then we'll find another
pilot who will do it for the same price.

PILOT: Okay, okay.

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

I got a job tomorrow.

RHODES: Carter.

This is insane.

You can't ask me or her to get in some rickety
chopper with a drunk at the controls.

CARTER: Then don't come.

RHODES: What?

You don't even know if that woman
made it back to her village.

CARTER: There's a deadly virus, and
there's an infected person heading for

a populated area.

RHODES: And us getting that sample
back to HQ is the best hope those

people would have.

CARTER: It'll take months, years, for them
to do anything useful with that sample,

we're the only
line of defense.

RHODES: You have no idea
what you're getting into.

Just the three of us.

We'll be hundreds of
miles from the nearest town.

We could be
stranded out there.

We could be the next victims.

What good would that do?

CARTER: We haven't seen it
navigate through the human body

from the start.

What's the incubation period?

The first symptom?
The second?

RHODES: You've been hunting
viruses for two decades.

Running all over the globe.

Probably hard to keep
a relationship going.

Did you ever want
to have kids, Carter?

No.

No, my guess is that you
sacrificed a lot to be right here.

On the precipice.

The one who could name
the next killer disease.

CARTER: You saw how that virus
burned through that hospital.

This is something new.

If you think you can maneuver
your way out of Zaire without me,

good luck.

(helicopter rotors)

RHODES: Colonel Jaax.

I would be remiss not to
warn you about your partner.

There's a lot
there you don't know.

NANCY: I studied under Carter.

I know him pretty well.

RHODES: Then you must recognize
he'll do whatever it takes to draw

attention to that virus.

NANCY: Well, somebody has to.

RHODES: He'll
sacrifice anything and anyone.

NANCY: Thank you
for the warning.

But from where I'm standing,
he's made no mistakes.

RHODES: And you think I have.

So, calling out "airborne" just to cause
hysteria in a meeting where you obviously

weren't prepared for it,
that wasn't a mistake?

He always has an agenda.

You'd be smart to figure out what it
is before you become a casualty in it.

NANCY: I don't know what went on with
you two, but I can't afford to let it

influence what I do now.

♪ ♪

SECRETARY: You okay?
HUMBOLT: Yes, I'm fine.

Any word on Domanski
from the hospital?

You can shut the door.

NANCY: Was it your idea?

Turning it over
to the lawyers?

HUMBOLT: Of course not.
It's my guys in there.

You think I don't
want them cared for?

They want me to
shut down tonight.

All of those animals are
gonna starve to death.

NANCY: I can't go
against orders.

HUMBOLT: I went behind their backs
to get you in the first time.

Board was not exactly
thrilled with that decision.

NANCY: Then try
something else.

HUMBOLT: They're trying
to do the right thing,

but allowing more people in is a
lot of liability, safety concerns.

And you can bet the military isn't
gonna take the heat for any of this.

NANCY: Well, there's
other ways to speed it up.

Put pressure on them.

From the outside.

(phone ringing)

ANITA: Washington Post.
Metro desk.

♪ ♪

MAN (over TV): The destructive
force of a filovirus is its

ability to destroy the
human body so quickly.

Since its discovery, it has been
isolated to remote regions of Africa.

But its ability to
proliferate is astonishing.

Predicting the behavior of these
viruses is enormously challenging.

We now know the virus
spreads throughout the body...

ANITA: Yeah, I need an address
in the Reston, Virginia area.

MAN (over TV): Unlike a complex,
double-stranded DNA virus,

filoviruses are RNA-based,
made up of ribonucleic acids.

They mutate and evolve...

BEN: Peter?

MAN (over TV): Faster than almost
anything else on planet earth,

causing them to act
in unpredictable ways.

A filovirus was detected two
years ago when a teenage boy,

caught it on
holiday with his family.

The perfectly healthy boy
died just a few days later.

PEOPLE: Oh!

(indistinct chatter).

JERRY: Hey.
NANCY: Hey.

I was going
stir-crazy sitting there.

Waiting for the go-ahead.

I know this thing is
getting under your skin.

I just thought if I could see him
that maybe it would make me less...

I don't know.

JERRY: No, no, it's me.
I, I know better.

I was overreacting, I'm sorry.

It's just, uh, it
really hit home this time.

Why don't you get
out of the car?

He'd be happy to see you.

NANCY: You've always been
so protective over them.

It's part of why I
love you so much.

JERRY: Well, it sounds like
the whole thing might be over.

Our part of it, anyway, I heard it's,
uh, it's still out of our hands.

NANCY: Not for long.

JERRY: Well, why
do you say that?

NANCY: I went to Humbolt.

I think he leaked
the story to the Post.

They called the
General for an interview,

which means they
probably called Hazleton.

If I were to guess, I think
we're heading in tomorrow.

(group chatter).

♪ I've got a long list
of real good reasons ♪

♪ For all the
things I've done ♪

♪ I've got a picture
in the back of my mind ♪

♪ Of what I've
lost and what I've won ♪

♪ I've survived
every situation ♪

♪ Knowing when to
freeze and when to run ♪

♪ And regret is just a
memory written on my brow ♪♪

(monkey screeching)

CARTER: Whatever it takes.

NANCY: I can't
stress this enough.

You are going into a
hostile environment.

We are facing an enemy
that can devastate a city.

GENERAL: It's hard to
imagine losing your wife.

NANCY: Was it your idea?

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

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

And that scares
the life out of me.

It should scare you too!

NARRATOR: The Hot Zone. Continues
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