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John, how many times I tell you, go inside.

Stop drinking the beer. Go inside. Don't talk so much. It's too hot. Leave me

alone. I work hard all day. Who takes care of the children?

Who takes care of the dogs? Who? Me. Then do it.

Leave me alone.

Do me a big favor.

I had a little bad luck recently.

Sir, appreciate it if you could help a little.

Frank, I'm a man like yourself.

Getting along in years, you can see where I'm sleeping.

Thirty -five cents gets me a decent slot.

Sir,

I'm among strangers.

You could help a little.

When did he come in? Around eight.

Police found him in an alley.

Dr. Saxenian sent him up here because of his rash.

He should have gone to dermatology.

Then Dr.

Saxenian hasn't been with us very long.

Hello.

They didn't get your name downstairs.

The doctor is speaking to you.

Have you been drinking?

Drugs?

Have you had penicillin?

Do you not understand?

Are you from Europe?

The doctor is trying to help you.

What language do you speak?

What are some others?

He understands you. He just isn't talking.

And naturally, you beat me at ping -pong. That was Monday. On Mondays,

Moses could beat me at ping -pong.

Mrs. Payne, where's Dr.

Kildare?

Examining a piece.

Finished, Doctor?

Yes, Mrs. Fane.

Keep him isolated.

Modified isolation, yes, Doctor. Complete isolation.

Complete isolation? Yes, Mrs. Fane.

And a septic technique.

Take his vital signs every 30 minutes. If his temperature goes over 104, 10

grains of aspirin.

And cooling measures.

Just a minute.

And Mrs. Fane.

Take these down to the lab, please.

Well, if you're going for coffee, perhaps you might drop them.

I might.

I'm taking his blood cultures to back tea.

I'll be back in a few minutes.

Thank you, Mrs. Fane.

Certainly.

I'll tell you the truth, it's not easy to find a nice young lady in the

hospital.

Nice young ladies are tough to find.

But up on Ward 4, there was this nurse's aide. Kind of a nice, simple girl.

What did you do to her?

Hey, what do you got?

You know, I'm trying to tell them about this nurse's aide on Ward 4.

Oh, you're telling them? Yeah.

Anyway, she was a nice, sweet, kind of a simple little girl. Obviously a country

girl. And I'm operating very vaguely. What do you want to go tonight,

sweetheart? Flamingo room? Crystal room?

We wound up in a colony club because she says it's cute.

Very cute.

Sit down. Cup of soup costs you 75 cents.

Very cute.

I see a shadow over my shoulder. I look up as a seven -foot polo player.

She says, hello, Billy.

Hi, Billy. This is Dr. Gursky.

Won't you join us, Billy?

75 cents for soup. Billy's going to join us.

Yeah?

I called down to save dinner, killed air. It got just a trifle cruel, doctor.

Dr. Ann Warner, the ice maiden of Blair.

You want to sit here?

What's the matter? Don't you want to sit with Ann?

You know what her trouble is?

You can't make out with her. No, it's just that she always looks at me as if

be more interesting dissected. You would. Come on.

He lunged at the poor, crippled, defenseless girl, his little pig eyes

Hello, Doctor.

Hello, Doctor.

It's all set, sweetheart.

I found the place.

You what?

A little cottage by the beach, just you and me, with the wind whistling through

the pines, the ocean shlopping against the sand, a loaf of bread, a jug of

And thou, talking, talking, talking.

Jim just sent Mrs. Fane trotting to the lab with an armful of tests. You should

have seen her.

An interesting case? Middle -aged Caucasian.

Looks older than he is.

How old is he?

I don't know.

Well, how can you say he looks older? Maybe he's the same age as... Don't

interrupt.

Multilocular vesicles.

Arms, face, neck, palms.

It's a penicillin reaction.

No wonder Mrs. Payne is sore. She'll have your head.

Vital signs are okay.

Well, I've got to get back on up. Doctor, you're leaving me in the first

stages of our love?

Oh, I'm sorry, but duty calls.

What does he have to tell you, Jeff? I think he's foreign. I don't know what

nationality. Did he say anything at all?

Yeah, something like... I asked him if he was from Europe. Something like...

What,

a Scandinavian of some kind?

Yeah.

Why, what's that?

That's Polish.

How would you know?

My parents were Polish.

Oh, come on.

And one is not a Polish name?

I changed it. Come on.

No, look, I've got to get up to five. Just a second or two. There are things

I've got to find out.

Isn't there somebody else who speaks the language? Not this time of night. Come

on in.

I didn't know she was Polish, did you?

I wonder why she changed her name.

A fine, long name like that, you could have been a psychiatrist.

I never changed my name.

Kepish.

Kepish.

What would you change it to, Kennedy?

He asked why the face masks.

Ask him, is anyone else in his family sick?

How

long

has he been sick?

Look, ask him... It's no use. He's not going to tell us anything.

Why not?

Don't ask me why not.

These people are so stubborn.

Why did you isolate this patient, doctor?

I don't have his test yet, sir.

What's his history?

He's Polish.

That's why Dr. Warner is helping us.

What's his history in Polish?

Nothing, sir. He won't tell us anything.

You ordered Mrs. Fane to isolate this patient. You must have had some reason.

I'd like to hear it.

I... I didn't want to underestimate.

What's your diagnosis?

Just your guess so far.

Chickenpox.

You don't isolate a patient for chickenpox. Well, what are your

diagnoses?

Anacillin reaction, septicemia, smallpox, possible.

pustular syphilides, but I don't think so.

If you had to choose one of your differential diagnoses, put it at the

the list, what would you say?

I'd say smallpox.

That's what I'd say.

Yes, it's one of the most contagious diseases there is.

There's no treatment.

If it isn't fatal by itself, it leads to complications which sometimes are.

The ordinary incubation period is about 14 days.

The patient feels fine, but he's infectious to other people well before

it. Then that man could already have spread smallpox to, uh, what?

Hundreds of other people.

Doctor?

Thousands, if you want the mathematics.

All over the city.

Dr. Wilkeman, has public health identified him yet?

We're trying to.

His clothes had no labels.

He apparently brought no personal possessions with him. And he won't talk.

Might be an illegal immigrant.

It seems possible, yes.

Dr. Gillespie, why did the hospital try to hush this case up?

I think what you have in mind is that we didn't want to create a public furor.

Doctor, there is a public furor.

Dr. Wilkerman has taken over the epidemiological aspects. There's only

case so far.

But from what you said, there may be thousands of other cases walking the

streets right now. He may have it or I may have it. You may, yes.

Unless you've had a successful vaccination.

Have you?

You know, no one has to get smallpox.

Vaccinated, you don't get it and you don't spread it.

Because of vaccination, it's a very rare disease.

How many people in this city are vaccinated effectively?

Discounting school children, I'd guess about half.

Well, why not vaccinate the rest right now?

Because mass vaccination isn't a thing you can do right now.

It takes a supply of vaccine, time, doctors, money.

We have to operate on a basis of reasonable chance.

Chance? We have half a dozen teams in the field right now.

We've barred from the staff here.

Visiting the most likely areas, giving vaccinations.

No new cases turn up.

Chance, though.

With everything you've said, doctors, it's still likely there's an epidemic

underway right now. Where did it break out?

The city's taking that chance.

Yes, the city has to take that chance.

Polski Dom Narodowy.

Dom, house.

The Polish community house.

My Aunt Cash is the secretary here. I called her and told her that we were

coming. I didn't know you had an aunt.

I don't see her very often.

In celebrating something?

They usually are.

You're not from around here, though.

No, I'm from Lowry, the mining town.

Family there still?

No, my father's dead.

How come you never come see me?

Hey, this is your fella, huh?

Aunt Kasia, this is Dr. James Kildare.

Jim.

Not your fella?

No. I'm working on it.

Good. You bring her see me more.

She's ashamed, us Polish people.

Aunt Kasia, there's a case of smallpox.

So? I didn't tell you on the telephone. There's only one case, but the man is

Polish and he's from this district.

What name?

We don't know. He wouldn't tell us.

Here's a picture of him, and it'll be in the papers tomorrow.

Hello.

This is Mr.

Gorski. He gives party.

His daughter just got married.

What's this, Kasha?

Smallpox. Public health centers.

The case turned up at Blair last night from this district.

I heard about that. I didn't know the man was Polish, ma 'am.

I'd expect Cashew to know him, if anyone would.

Well, what do we do?

Disband the party?

Oh, I don't think you'll have to do that. We would like to vaccinate

and show the picture around.

Vax?

Of course.

Everybody, please.

Proceed. There was a man found sick last night

in this district.

They have found now that he has smallpox and that he's Polish.

There is danger of an epidemic.

So we have to be vaccinated.

And there are doctors here to do it.

Please, it's all right. The doctors say this is just routine.

That is Ospa.

Don't be afraid.

We must be vaccinated.

He's from the police.

Police?

He's from the police.

What's this, old man?

You're from the police.

I'm here because I speak Polish.

I don't know what you're doing here. It's not for you.

He says, you're a cop? And I said, yes, I am. And the only reason I'm here is

because I can speak Polish.

And he says, it's no use for you. He said, I was only walking down Mikiewicz

Street.

That's not in this town.

He won't talk much sense from now on.

What is this top?

Jeter. Drives the skin so we get a better take. I'm rather good at this if

say.

Ah, the groom, I remember.

What did he say? You're too young. I won't translate.

No more?

No more.

Take the picture.

No luck?

No.

Anyone who hasn't seen the picture?

It is my father.

Have you lost your mind?

Anyone who hasn't seen the picture?

I am sorry no one here knows him.

I wouldn't bet on it.

What?

Nothing. All through for the evening, doctor?

Yeah. I mean, you have done everything medically necessary?

That's right. All right. Now we finish my party!

Infectious disease service.

Would you mind speaking up a little? I can't hear you.

Yes, he is. Who is this call?

I'm sorry. I can't give out any information.

Who is this calling?

Who are you?

Hello?

We go home.

Doctor, time for another drink.

What's in the stuff, anyway?

Polska Vodka.

Polska Vodka.

All right, we make a good four of you.

What's the matter with him? The father of the groom. He's crying because now

little boy is grown up and got married.

Did you like that?

Sure.

A little like nuzzling a snowball.

Oh, I'm sorry, Doctor.

Anne, what's the matter?

I am a snowball. Haven't all your buddies told you that? No, it isn't just

It's everything about you.

Nice, neat, and all zipped up.

Jim, I think you've had too much vodka.

Sure I have, but it's the sober truth.

Look, there are a bunch of Poles out there having a wild, wonderful time.

entitled to that.

Well, I'm a doctor, and I don't belong.

Well, those aren't exactly peasants out there.

Gorski's an engineer and a city official. The bride's a Radcliffe girl.

are a couple of lawyers, a hotel manager, I don't know what all.

They don't mind belonging.

Oh, really?

Ann, when you cut yourself off from your own people, don't you miss a lot of the

warmth and richness of things?

What I'm missing, I don't miss.

Come on.

I was born and raised in a small mining town called Lowry.

By the time I was eight, I'd seen a lot of lovely things.

Silicosis, poverty, hunger.

A lot of lovely things.

Have you ever seen your mother beaten?

I have.

My father was a good, staunch Polish drunk.

When I was in the 10th grade, he made me quit school.

To earn for him.

Because that's what a girl does, you see.

So I earned for him.

I got a job as a short order cook.

But I cheated.

I got a raise and I didn't tell him about it.

I saved the money and I bought correspondence course.

It took me three years of nights to finish high school.

And then I left him.

After that, it took me two years before I could go to college.

Then three years of working before I could go to medical school.

I earned my way every inch.

And if he'd come and tried to stop me, I would have taken a gun and I would have

killed him.

So don't tell me how warm and wonderful and charming it all is, because I know.

Anne, everybody's different.

Every man.

You seem to think that just because your father... Well, it's as if you've

closed the door on everything.

I'm not saying it very well.

I'd like to be judged on my own terms.

Well, sure you would.

But, Anne, you're a fine doctor. Now, you know that.

But sometimes when I see you with patients, you do everything very

right.

But a doctor should give them more than that.

Well, maybe I can't.

Give them some of your courage, feeling.

And you could be a really fine doctor.

You know what Gillespie says? A doctor's got to let out sometimes.

A doctor has to know how to cry.

Oh, well, Jim, if you're so good at crying, you cry for me.

Because I forgot how a long time ago.

Ann. We came here to find an epidemic.

We haven't found it yet, remember?

Good night.

Hey, boy!

Excuse me.

Now it's even money. My wife won't let me in the house. Probably want to spray

me first.

You can tell her you're safe.

Did you find out anything last night? Who he's connected with?

He's not connected with anybody.

He is, though. A woman called up last night asking about him. No name.

Oh, he did say one thing. He mentioned Miekewicz Street.

It's in Krakow. I had it checked out.

Couldn't ask him anything more. He's been delirious.

Probably the first complication is encephalitis.

We did an LP last night.

Protein fell counter -consistent with that.

He's become quite toxic.

I don't think he's going to tell us anything anyway, Doctor.

I hope he will.

Wherever he's been for ten days, he's carried contagion. Let me know.

He wants us to stay out of it.

Hendrik, he is my father.

I will wait.

Make up name to give them.

Stop. Police.

It's something about guns and luggage. I don't understand.

Because we're not real doctors.

Explain to a man about infecting other people.

He said he'll talk to the old doctor.

He wants to rest.

He says then he'll talk to the old doctor.

I don't understand.

Let's do what he says. He'll tell Galatia. I'll call him.

got anything on the old man?

No. Dr. Gillespie, I've heard that there are five new suspected cases of

smallpox no one's told us about. More like 50. What, doctor? You jump like a

rabbit. What I mean is that any undiagnosed case of anything now is

smallpox. Anything from heat rash to wax in the ears. Is that clear? But no

other definite smallpox yet.

You seem disappointed.

We're trying to do our job, doctor. Have you been vaccinated yet?

Yes.

You'll what?

Yes, of course.

Where are you now?

I'll meet you there.

Dr. Gillespie, was that about him?

Who? The smallpox case.

If anything happens, gentlemen, we'll tell you. Where are you going now,

Out.

Caught him before he left. He'll be right over.

I don't know, Jim.

I think I should have just made that stubborn old man tell us something right

then. He was suffering.

He was suffering.

What about other people, people that he may have infected?

He reminds me so much of my father.

I believe I mentioned my father.

Last night, yeah.

And I believe I told you not to mistake your father for everybody else.

Doctor, please. You know you do that.

Yes, I know I do that.

Well, Anne, if you know it, you're a doctor. Why don't you do something about

it? Get some help.

I don't want any help, Jim.

Someday I... Someday.

Look, I'm not afraid or anything.

I do my job and I do it well.

Isn't that enough?

I'm sorry to keep you waiting. I had a call from Wilkerman. He has a crew

He said he'd talk to us. Dr. Kildare?

Dr. Warner?

Yes?

He tried to run away.

I wouldn't have said he could have walked across the room with a great

No, Wilkeman. He was just trying to get away, poor fellow. He made it down six

flights of stairs, almost to the street.

No. No one on the way.

Nothing.

I don't think he meant to tell.

No. I don't think he'd have told anyone.

Yes, of course.

Goodbye.

I'm sorry. It's my fault that he didn't tell us anything. I should have kept

asking him questions.

No, she's just taking blame for me.

I'm the one who wanted to let him rest.

Blame? No.

The man was suffering.

He... No blame.

Let me do that for you, Jim.

Oh, thanks.

It's just where it says name, having nothing to put down.

Well, that was his choice.

To be all alone, a city full of strangers.

Would you like me to cry, Jim?

What mercy did he have on strangers?

Pretty soon we're going to see them walking in here. One, two, then a

maybe. People that he infected.

Oh, he had a great deal of mercy on people.

He was a stupid, frightened, ignorant man, and he died running away.

Ann. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry that I didn't make him talk while he still had one breath left.

That was my weakness.

No, it was not. Yes, it was.

What are you, anyway? Enamel on steel won't dent, won't rust. Talk about being

frightened. I can't feel what I don't feel. Now, take your hands off of me and

don't ask me to pretend.

Stop it.

It's another case of smallpox.

He thinks so, anyway.

Call Dr. Gillespie. I don't think he's left yet. And call Dr. Wilkerman, public

health.

Where's the doctor?

Is this the hospital, ladies?

a doctor. Where's some doctor? Hey, hey, I want a doctor. I don't want to sit

around here all day. I'm sick. Get your hands off me, you big ape.

I'm a sick man. I can pass out from this. Get away from me, will you? I want

doctor.

We're both doctors.

What makes you think you got smallpox? I got it, don't I? I saw this creep.

I even handled him. Where?

In Tryon Alley, just off Cardiff Square.

That's where he was picked up. Is that right? In the paper. I was sleeping

there. How close did you get?

Right up.

I says, buddy, can I help you?

And I took hold, like to assist him.

What's this? We're going to vaccinate you.

If you're not already infected, this will make you immune.

And if you are, it'll help you to have a lighter case.

Can't you tell if I got it? We'll do this first.

You're rubbing off hard. Sorry, let's go.

Mr. Walsky, why didn't you come in sooner?

Huh? I said, why didn't you come in sooner, Walsky?

My name isn't Walsky, it's Cox.

Cox, sure.

His name was Walsky. This is his watch.

You took this, you took his wallet. What'd you do with the wallet? No.

No, I only tried to help the guy.

Wait. What? Wait. You want us to vaccinate you, don't you?

You gotta.

You're doctors.

Look, I swear, I'm an ethical man.

What did you do with the wallet?

You should see what you'll look like not vaccinated.

You'll turn green, black, blue, red, all colors of the rainbow.

That bad?

Worse.

All right.

Give it to me.

I threw the wallet away.

I don't know where.

That's his watch.

I'll have a check.

Dark.

Is it? Is it going to hurt much?

Oh.

Ah.

Hello?

Yes, Anya.

Polky? I don't know.

Polky.

I'm sorry, Anja.

1 -3 -4, Cardiff Square, apartment 2B.

Something is happening.

No.

In the paper, no news.

Something is happening. I can feel that. I must go there.

If he wanted you there, he would have asked.

No, not what he would want me to do.

What he would do himself.

My father.

All right.

the whole community. This may just be a wild goose chase. We only have the watch

to go on. No, no, no. It seems likely to me.

Shall we go in?

We

were

coming now to the hospital.

My father is dead.

He was too coward before to come.

The police.

It is why he never told you his name.

He was in this country illegal.

We brought him.

It was ten years in Mexico waiting to be admitted.

He had tuberculosis from before, from Poland.

Regulations he couldn't enter.

Antonio, we wanted him with us to take care.

And so we have broken the law.

You brought him here yourselves?

Yes, three weeks ago.

From Mexico to here, always in our car.

And here, never outside our room.

And Antonio and I are vaccinated, so... Never outside?

No, and no one to see us.

When he first got sick, we wanted a doctor.

But he would not allow it, because to incriminate us.

And when we did not know, he went out from us.

For us, he would not tell you his name.

For our own fear, we did not come to you.

Not to him.

Not to comfort?

That is our shame.

He was a very brave man.

Yes.

Always too much.

In Poland, in Kraków, he was of the resistance, the underground army. You

understand?

In 1944, the Gestapo took him.

On Mitskevich Street.

On Mitskevich Street.

Did he speak of it?

Yes.

They tortured him a long time

to tell other names.

They were too brave.

So...

The doctors, the Nazi doctors, they used him for experiments.

You understand?

They gave him the tuberculosis.

And for that, afterwards, he could not come here.

So, we broke the law.

To bring him here.

I wish, I wish he would not always be so brave.

But he was brave.

And an honorable, honorable man.

I notified the police and the immigration people.

I hope after they understand, they'll go easy.

I think so.

Well, nothing more, I guess.

Oh, God.

Oh, God, what have I done?

Oh, God, forgive me.

What have I done?

This is my fault.

This is my fault.

doctors from before.

He thought that we were Nazi doctors.

I'm glad of it.

I've been crying for a week.

Poor man.

That poor, poor man.

He may have done good he never dreamed of.

A gift, you know, one pole to another.

Do you want to stand up?

Thank you.

Oh, I'm a mess.

No, no.

Jim, am I going to have to learn everything all over again?

I don't know.

You've got a lifetime, Doctor.

Am I going to be of any use to people this way?

That I am sure.

I don't feel like going back, could we? Walk around a little?

Sure.

I'll tell you what. We find a place, I buy you some sausage and beer.

Kielbasa y pibo.

How about that, huh?

Kielbasa y pibo.

Out of the dobson.

Okay. Okay.