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(eerie music playing)

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(theme from
( the twilight zoneplaying)

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(heartbeat)

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a city hospital, 8:00 p.m.

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an unexpected visitor
has just arrived

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bearing unwelcome tidings--

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a disease so new

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the textbooks
haven't recorded it.

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this then is its first
case history

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documented
from the medical files

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of the twilight zone.

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i'm nurse hendricks.

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may i help you?

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it's my eyes.

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i need to see the doctor.

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get dr. peterson.

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let me take a look.

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no.

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please. we can't help you
if we don't know what's wrong.

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don't touch me.

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i'll show the doctor.

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get me the doctor,
immediately.

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name?

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jean reed.

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mrs. jean reed.

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address?

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1705 fairmont street.

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please, where's the doctor?

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i've got to see him.

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dr. peterson is on his way.

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take a seat.

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there isn't much time.

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oh...

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oh, god.

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no...

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it's too late.

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what's too late?

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don't you understand?

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i can't see.

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i'm blind.

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let me see.

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come with us, please.

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good morning.

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man:
can't you do something?

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hendricks:
try the clinic.

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clinic's full.

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my wife hasn't been well.

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i think maybe it's her heart.

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we just need
somebody to see her.

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maybe a day or two in here.

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mr. wells, without
medical insurance

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or some guarantee of payment

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we cannot admit her.

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i'm sorry.

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it's hospital policy.

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there's nothing i can do.

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come on, sweetheart.

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what kind of hospital

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is this?

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i thought you're supposed
to look after sick people.

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i couldn't help overhearing.

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are you all right?

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i'm fine.

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it's not my decision.

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it's hospital policy.

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people should understand that.

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got it.

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mrs. hendricks, mrs. reed
is asking for you.

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she says she has
to talk to you.

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she was quite insistent.

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you wanted to see me,
mrs. reed?

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yes. hello.

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won't you
sit down, please?

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i have a great deal
of work to do.

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i have something
to tell you.

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sit down, please.

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mrs. hendricks,
we're alike, i think.

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you and i.

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i don't even know you

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and i don't think
you know me.

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no, but i sense
that we're alike.

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we are two of a kind.

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mrs. reed, shouldn't
you be sleeping?

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you're changing the subject.

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of course.

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i know because i used
to do the same thing.

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it's easier, isn't it?

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prescribe a pill,
suggest a nap

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anything to not
think about a person

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or talk to them.

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sleep is the best thing for you.

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dr. freidman will be in at 9:00.

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he's our chief of staff,

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and one of the country's
finest eye specialists.

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you'll feel much better
after he talks to you.

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i feel all right now,
mrs. hendricks.

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it's you i'm worried about.

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that's very kind of you.

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now get some rest.

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i don't care
what your figures show.

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my phone bill is wrong.

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yes.

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no, it's not.

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it's $50 higher
than it should be.

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well...

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computers
make mistakes.

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no, i don't want to hold...

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looks like you need
a vacation, claire.

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it's the way

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people treat
you sometimes.

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you want to...

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never mind.

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what can i do for you?

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you talked to
mrs. reed yesterday.

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did she mention her
family, her husband?

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not that i recall.

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why?

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he's here.

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did he come in
about his wife?

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no. he didn't even
know she was here.

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emergency picked up the call
about an hour ago.

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he was calling for help.

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an ambulance
just brought him in.

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he's gone blind, claire,
without apparent cause.

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it's contagious?

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he claims he's had it
since last night.

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if it's contagious,
she got it from him.

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but if she knew...

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knew, and left him there

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and came in here
to save herself.

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he says he begged her
not to leave him.

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he must have passed out.

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fear, i guess.

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when he came to,
she was gone.

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he crawled around the house
until he found a phone.

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that's hard to believe.

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she knew exactly
what was happening.

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she must have seen it
happen to him.

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mr. reed...

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it's dr. peterson.

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do you have any news?

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what's causing this?

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we don't know yet.

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then leave me alone.

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mr. reed,

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would you like to be
in a room with your wife?

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i wouldn't share her air

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if it was
the last oxygen on earth.

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do you have any idea

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what it's like
to wake up blind, alone,

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calling for someone over
and over who isn't there,

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realizing you've been abandoned?

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i don't need to talk
to her or to you

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or anyone
till someone

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tells me they've found a cure.

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leave me alone.

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i don't care
what happens to her.

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don't you
understand?

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i don't care.

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there you are.

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you both better
come downstairs.

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all hell's
breaking loose.

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(people shouting)

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nurse:
stay calm.

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i'll get to you.

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i must see
a doctornow.

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i'm sorry.

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others are ahead of you.

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i need a doctor.

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please...

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this is an emergency.

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wait your turn.

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you're the same
as everybody else.

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who do you
think you are?

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go to the end
of the line.

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man:
i can't see anything.

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woman:
wait your turn.

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man:
help me, please.

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woman:
get to the end
of the line.

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i can't see.

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i'm right here.

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it's all right.

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i was at work.

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i'm not sure
what happened.

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hendricks:
we'll take care of you.

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they're blind, claire.

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they're all blind.

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man:
stoned blind,
we used to call it.

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blindness is not new, this is.

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this growth,
this ocular window shade

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is beyond my experience.

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i was informed that the center
for disease control in atlanta

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is on full alert
and that the surgeon general

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has convened an emergency
meeting in washington

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of top physicians.

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delay in responding
to this

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could cost us dearly.

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agreed.

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any clue
to the disease's origin?

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dr. gordon's been
calling atlanta on that.

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he went home

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to shower
and change.

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he should be
back by now.

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dr. gordon came in

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an hour ago.

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he's blind.

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my god.

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we've had reports

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of an estimated 500 cases
in new york city.

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los angeles
is running about the same.

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it seems we have
an epidemic on our hands.

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what about the press?

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not being very
helpful, are they?

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unless we say something
constructive soon,

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we'll have a full-blown
panic on our hands.

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people
are scared.

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there must be
something we can do.

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there is and we are.

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the difficult part
is this waiting for someone

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to come up with a cause.

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then we can proceed.

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until then
all we can do

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is keep running tests and wait.

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when did you last
get some sleep?

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i don't know.

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go home and rest.

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consider that
an order.

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you too, eddie.

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i need my staff alert
and clearheaded.

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all right,
but i'll be back

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for my regular shift
tonight.

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ditto.

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who is it?

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it's me.

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claire hendricks.

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i'm glad you've come to see me.

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please, sit down.

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you must be exhausted.

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the others
were talking about you,

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how hard you work.

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they call you

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a dedicated woman.

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is that what they call me?

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dedicated?

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they used to call me that, too.

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i was very businesslike.

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nothing bothered me.

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why did you come to visit me?

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i don't know.

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i was on my way home...

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normally you don't
visit much, do you?

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the other nurses
mentioned that, too.

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is it because
you sense it, too--

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that we're two of a kind,
you and i?

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i should let you get some sleep.

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i know what's happening to us.

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i know how it's happening

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and why it's happening.

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would you like to hear?

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yes.

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it's because we're monkeys.

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remember...

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see no evil, speak no evil,
hear no evil?

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we used to be courteous.

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we used to care.

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we used to rise up in outrage

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if someone was in pain,
abused, unsheltered,

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but now...

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don't you see?

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we've cut ourselves
off from so much

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we refuse to see
what's going on.

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we turn a blind eye to pain.

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now it's catching up
with us.

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now it truly is a blind eye.

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00:12:11,163 --> 00:12:13,615
that's preposterous.

276
00:12:13,615 --> 00:12:15,901
is it?

277
00:12:18,770 --> 00:12:22,841
i heard your husband
went blind first,

278
00:12:22,841 --> 00:12:26,411
and you abandoned him.

279
00:12:26,411 --> 00:12:28,647
is that true?

280
00:12:28,647 --> 00:12:32,401
he'd just gotten a call
his mother had died.

281
00:12:32,901 --> 00:12:34,786
they weren't very close.

282
00:12:34,786 --> 00:12:39,958
when he heard, it was like
someone discussing the weather.

283
00:12:39,958 --> 00:12:43,095
that's when
he became a monkey,

284
00:12:43,595 --> 00:12:44,830
and i ran.

285
00:12:44,830 --> 00:12:47,883
i ran to save myself.

286
00:12:49,735 --> 00:12:52,738
now i'm a monkey, too.

287
00:12:55,741 --> 00:12:58,677
this new growth
is irritated and inflamed.

288
00:12:58,677 --> 00:13:01,179
the ocular muscles are
function normally, though,

289
00:13:01,179 --> 00:13:04,316
leading us to believe
the eye itself is undamaged

290
00:13:04,316 --> 00:13:06,818
though hidden beneath
a curtain of flesh.

291
00:13:06,818 --> 00:13:09,321
there's a chance surgery
can remove this

292
00:13:09,321 --> 00:13:11,189
without injuring the eye

293
00:13:11,189 --> 00:13:14,359
but we won't know
for certain until we try it.

294
00:13:14,743 --> 00:13:15,994
atlanta has no news on causes?

295
00:13:15,994 --> 00:13:17,863
they may have a theory

296
00:13:17,863 --> 00:13:19,664
but they're tight-lipped

297
00:13:19,664 --> 00:13:21,266
until they
can confirm.

298
00:13:21,266 --> 00:13:23,769
they estimate that
at the present rate

299
00:13:23,769 --> 00:13:26,905
those afflicted could reach
100,000 by week's end.

300
00:13:26,905 --> 00:13:28,657
what about quarantine?

301
00:13:28,657 --> 00:13:29,908
i can confirm

302
00:13:29,908 --> 00:13:31,076
it's being discussed,

303
00:13:31,076 --> 00:13:32,144
but that's all.

304
00:13:32,144 --> 00:13:35,897
there's always a chance it
may not be a disease at all

305
00:13:35,897 --> 00:13:37,616
but some latent mutation

306
00:13:37,616 --> 00:13:40,802
triggered by some change
in the environment.

307
00:13:43,655 --> 00:13:47,893
what's got 100 arms, 100 legs,
50 heads, and no eyes?

308
00:13:47,893 --> 00:13:50,462
the south wing
of this hospital.

309
00:13:51,096 --> 00:13:53,632
could i have your attention?

310
00:13:53,632 --> 00:13:57,569
i've just received
a fax from washington.

311
00:13:57,569 --> 00:13:59,087
at 1700 on 10 april--

312
00:13:59,087 --> 00:14:03,608
only hours before
the first case was discovered--

313
00:14:03,608 --> 00:14:06,011
an explosion was reported

314
00:14:06,011 --> 00:14:10,515
at a top secret biological
research lab in alaska.

315
00:14:10,515 --> 00:14:14,519
it is presumed certain
unstable bacteria

316
00:14:14,519 --> 00:14:17,539
may have been released
into the atmosphere.

317
00:14:17,539 --> 00:14:20,675
it is estimated that
their effects could be

318
00:14:20,675 --> 00:14:22,527
unpredictable.

319
00:14:22,527 --> 00:14:25,530
it is fairly certain
the bacteria released

320
00:14:25,530 --> 00:14:29,334
cannot survive long...

321
00:14:29,334 --> 00:14:33,472
outside the laboratory.

322
00:14:41,279 --> 00:14:45,333
well, i suggest...

323
00:14:46,952 --> 00:14:48,670
...we adjourn.

324
00:15:10,926 --> 00:15:12,794
claire?

325
00:15:14,613 --> 00:15:16,631
hello, eddie.

326
00:15:16,631 --> 00:15:17,682
thought you were leaving?

327
00:15:17,682 --> 00:15:21,419
i was, but there's
no reason to go home.

328
00:15:24,506 --> 00:15:28,793
jim and i have separated.

329
00:15:28,793 --> 00:15:31,379
he moved out.

330
00:15:31,379 --> 00:15:34,799
sorry, i didn't know.

331
00:15:34,799 --> 00:15:39,905
nothing acrimonious,
all very calm and sensible.

332
00:15:39,905 --> 00:15:42,707
we just stopped connecting.

333
00:15:42,707 --> 00:15:45,727
we led our separate lives

334
00:15:45,727 --> 00:15:50,515
like two strangers just
sharing the same space.

335
00:15:50,515 --> 00:15:56,821
no connection, no involvement,
just lost in our indifference.

336
00:15:56,821 --> 00:16:01,726
i came in here and
started thinking about me

337
00:16:01,726 --> 00:16:03,745
about all of us.

338
00:16:03,745 --> 00:16:05,513
she's right, eddie.

339
00:16:05,513 --> 00:16:07,632
we're monkeys.

340
00:16:07,632 --> 00:16:10,735
claire, you're not
making any sense.

341
00:16:10,735 --> 00:16:13,038
do you know,
i can't remember

342
00:16:13,038 --> 00:16:16,291
the last time i looked
a patient in the eye.

343
00:16:16,291 --> 00:16:17,842
somewhere along the line

344
00:16:17,842 --> 00:16:20,645
i stopped treating
them as individuals.

345
00:16:20,645 --> 00:16:22,731
they're just numbers to me.

346
00:16:22,731 --> 00:16:24,883
they don't have life stories.

347
00:16:24,883 --> 00:16:26,551
they have charts.

348
00:16:26,551 --> 00:16:28,370
i'm no different from you.

349
00:16:28,370 --> 00:16:29,588
but you are.

350
00:16:29,588 --> 00:16:31,456
you're an excellent nurse.

351
00:16:31,456 --> 00:16:33,475
it's just part
of the job.

352
00:16:33,475 --> 00:16:35,994
isn't that a fine excuse?

353
00:16:35,994 --> 00:16:41,383
isn't that a comfortable bandage
on our diminished humanity?

354
00:16:41,383 --> 00:16:43,902
the phone company
overcharges us,

355
00:16:43,902 --> 00:16:46,404
there's nothing
they can do about it.

356
00:16:46,404 --> 00:16:47,906
we turn sick
people away

357
00:16:47,906 --> 00:16:50,909
because they don't
have the right insurance.

358
00:16:50,909 --> 00:16:52,978
it's just part of the job.

359
00:16:52,978 --> 00:16:54,579
so we lie to ourselves

360
00:16:54,579 --> 00:16:57,866
and cut ourselves off
further and further

361
00:16:57,866 --> 00:17:00,118
because there's
so much pain.

362
00:17:00,118 --> 00:17:02,704
you were in the meeting with us.

363
00:17:02,704 --> 00:17:06,257
you heard the reports
from washington

364
00:17:06,257 --> 00:17:07,826
just as i did.

365
00:17:07,826 --> 00:17:10,445
they know what the cause is now

366
00:17:10,445 --> 00:17:12,447
without a shadow
of a doubt.

367
00:17:12,447 --> 00:17:15,867
if you keep chasing this
around in your head...

368
00:17:15,867 --> 00:17:17,686
there's something happening.

369
00:17:17,686 --> 00:17:19,888
that report doesn't explain

370
00:17:19,888 --> 00:17:23,391
why only some people
are susceptible and some aren't.

371
00:17:23,391 --> 00:17:25,694
what does it say in the bible?

372
00:17:25,694 --> 00:17:27,395
"if thine eye offend thee,

373
00:17:27,395 --> 00:17:29,331
pluck it out."

374
00:17:29,331 --> 00:17:31,032
stop this.

375
00:17:31,032 --> 00:17:32,701
you're upset.

376
00:17:33,201 --> 00:17:38,723
this has all been
a terrible strain on all of us.

377
00:17:38,723 --> 00:17:42,227
what you need
to do is go home.

378
00:17:42,227 --> 00:17:43,728
get some sleep.

379
00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,370
yes, i'm sure that
will solve everything.

380
00:17:52,370 --> 00:17:54,055
good night, eddie.

381
00:18:03,848 --> 00:18:05,600
oh!

382
00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:06,851
god!

383
00:18:06,851 --> 00:18:09,354
oh! oh, my...!

384
00:18:09,354 --> 00:18:11,573
(screaming)

385
00:18:11,573 --> 00:18:12,774
help me.

386
00:18:12,774 --> 00:18:14,609
somebody...

387
00:18:14,609 --> 00:18:16,711
help!

388
00:18:16,711 --> 00:18:18,580
it's okay, i'm here.

389
00:18:18,580 --> 00:18:20,465
claire, it's me.

390
00:18:20,465 --> 00:18:21,716
i'm blind, eddie.

391
00:18:21,716 --> 00:18:22,967
i'm blind.

392
00:18:24,836 --> 00:18:26,087
oh, god.

393
00:18:26,087 --> 00:18:27,338
oh, god!

394
00:18:32,744 --> 00:18:33,995
dr. freidman.

395
00:18:33,995 --> 00:18:35,246
ah, eddie.

396
00:18:35,246 --> 00:18:36,498
good.

397
00:18:36,498 --> 00:18:37,749
thank you.

398
00:18:37,749 --> 00:18:42,137
dr. peterson will play
guide dog for a while.

399
00:18:42,137 --> 00:18:44,005
how's claire?

400
00:18:44,005 --> 00:18:45,256
she's the same.

401
00:18:45,256 --> 00:18:46,508
no vision.

402
00:18:46,508 --> 00:18:47,759
none at all?

403
00:18:47,759 --> 00:18:49,644
no, i'm afraid not.

404
00:18:49,644 --> 00:18:50,895
mrs. reed, good.

405
00:18:50,895 --> 00:18:53,398
i was hoping to see you.

406
00:18:53,398 --> 00:18:55,266
dr. peterson here.

407
00:18:55,266 --> 00:18:56,518
yes.

408
00:18:56,518 --> 00:18:58,903
could you drop by
mrs. hendricks' room

409
00:18:58,903 --> 00:19:01,773
maybe help cheer her up
a little?

410
00:19:01,773 --> 00:19:03,575
she thinks a lot of you.

411
00:19:03,575 --> 00:19:04,209
of course.

412
00:19:04,826 --> 00:19:05,910
i'd be glad to.

413
00:19:05,910 --> 00:19:07,112
nurse.

414
00:19:23,628 --> 00:19:24,879
mrs. hendricks.

415
00:19:25,497 --> 00:19:27,048
it's me, jean.

416
00:19:27,048 --> 00:19:29,868
can i visit for a while?

417
00:19:29,868 --> 00:19:31,970
of course.

418
00:19:31,970 --> 00:19:34,105
well, isn't that exciting?

419
00:19:34,105 --> 00:19:36,107
we're going to see again.

420
00:19:36,708 --> 00:19:37,859
operation works.

421
00:19:37,859 --> 00:19:40,545
20 out of 20
successful in l.a.

422
00:19:40,545 --> 00:19:44,482
dr. freidman's getting
his this afternoon,

423
00:19:44,482 --> 00:19:45,984
and i'm tomorrow.

424
00:19:45,984 --> 00:19:48,002
and you?

425
00:19:48,536 --> 00:19:51,706
when are they planning
to operate on you?

426
00:19:51,706 --> 00:19:53,708
they're not.

427
00:19:53,708 --> 00:19:55,226
they're what?

428
00:19:55,727 --> 00:19:59,230
the operation isn't
really the answer.

429
00:19:59,230 --> 00:20:02,233
you said it yourself,
remember?

430
00:20:02,233 --> 00:20:03,735
you're right.

431
00:20:03,735 --> 00:20:07,806
that was before we knew
about the bacteria...

432
00:20:07,806 --> 00:20:10,542
now we have an easy answer

433
00:20:10,542 --> 00:20:13,077
solid and uncomplicated.

434
00:20:13,077 --> 00:20:15,079
but it won't last.

435
00:20:15,079 --> 00:20:17,081
it will happen again

436
00:20:17,081 --> 00:20:19,484
and they'll think
of something else.

437
00:20:19,484 --> 00:20:21,486
what if we run out
of solutions?

438
00:20:21,486 --> 00:20:23,071
easy answers?

439
00:20:23,071 --> 00:20:26,157
it's time to go now,
mrs. reed.

440
00:20:35,767 --> 00:20:37,635
wait, dr. peterson.

441
00:20:37,635 --> 00:20:42,307
aren't they going to operate
on mrs. hendricks?

442
00:20:42,307 --> 00:20:43,525
no.

443
00:20:43,525 --> 00:20:46,861
an operation isn't
the answer in her case.

444
00:20:46,861 --> 00:20:49,647
how will she ever see again?

445
00:20:49,647 --> 00:20:51,366
she'll see again.

446
00:20:51,366 --> 00:20:54,619
it will just take her
a little longer.

447
00:20:54,619 --> 00:20:57,605
enigma draped
in hospital sheets

448
00:20:57,605 --> 00:20:59,791
in self-imposed darkness

449
00:20:59,791 --> 00:21:02,594
with the added
sobering thought

450
00:21:02,594 --> 00:21:05,947
that claire hendricks
is perfectly correct

451
00:21:05,947 --> 00:21:08,116
in her own diagnosis.

452
00:21:08,116 --> 00:21:11,319
take it as a warning,
a cry for humanity

453
00:21:11,319 --> 00:21:14,556
or a simple plea
for responsibility

454
00:21:14,556 --> 00:21:18,059
from the dark places
of the twilight zone.