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PITTSBURGH,PENNSYLVANIA

Hey, Ned, we're gonna hit the pierogi stand You coming?

I got to call home first

order me a potato and cheese, and no skimping on the sour cream

Got it

Hello?

- Cath, it's me - Tell me you got it

Last dancing robot in Pittsburgh

I had to wrestle it away from a hockey mom

Those chicks are tough

We are going to have one very happy birthday boy

Just don't be late for his party

I'll be there, I swear

Put him on, okay, I want to say hi

Johnny, Daddy's on the phone

Hey, Dad

Happy birthday, champ You excited?

This is gonna be the best birthday ever

Lot of pressure on Mom and Dad to keep topping ourselves,

but we'll give it a shot What do you say?

- Yeah - Buddy, you there?

Johnny

Help me

Help me

JEdgar Hoover Building WASHINGTON,DC

Damn it

Rachel Young?

Walsh

What's it been three years?

A-At least

I haven't seen you since Quantico

Well, what are you doing here?

You're looking at the new Special Agent in Charge of the WMD directorate

I am now one of the movers and shakers in the world of nuclear non-proliferation

Sounds exciting

So where'd you end up?

Finally land that spot you wanted at Counter Terrorism?

Not exactly

I landed at the Office of the Director

Top of the food chain Impressive

Actually, I'm more of a handler for someone at the top of the food chain

but our, our cases are unique

Well, like what? Give me a taste

Are, are you familiar with the parameters of electroporation?

Neural implants? How about porphyria enzyme de

- Hey, I got to run - ficiency syndrome?

Gentlemen

- It was great seeing you, Rachel - Yeah

We should grab a drink sometime, do some more catching up

Yeah

What?

- oversight at bio - waste facilities Now, I admit it's not very sexy

Sorry to interrupt

Dr Hood, you have an urgent call from the Pennsylvania State Health Department

Some guy named Rigdon

Pittsburgh EMTs responded to a demolition worker found in advanced respiratory distress

with multiple organ failure and other anomalous complications

Anomalous complications?

Ones that suggest he may well have been exposed to a highly toxic substance,

one not commonly seen

Right now, authorities have it categorized as a possible public health concern

How serious a concern?

It's hard to say till we get the specifics,

but it's definitely something he ate or drank,

something absorbed through the skin, something airborne

Best-case scenario, it's an isolated incident one victim, one quickly identifiable cause

And the worst-case scenario?

Suffice to say, really, really bad

So tell me about your old buddy Calvert Rigdon

Cal spent the last eight years heading up the Pennsylvania Health Department

Before that, he ran the National Center for Preparedness, Detection

and Control of Infectious Diseases at the CDC,

and before that, he was fighting typhus and yellow fever in Angola and Sierra Leone

Pretty impressive

Actually, his most impressive contribution was when he introduced me to my wife

Whoa, whoa, this is a restricted area

Don't shoot We're the good guys

I'm Dr Hood, Special Science Advisor to the FBI

Jacob

Cal

Afraid you're going to need these

Victim's name is Christopher Fisher

A member of the demolition clean-up crew found him this morning at around 10:00

He was dead by 11:00

What is this place?

Native Americans used to bury their dead here for centuries

Early settlers at Fort Pitt did the same

When the city expanded in the 19th century, it was buried under new construction

The demo team rediscovered it while clearing debris from the old foundation

Personnel log says Fisher was a licensed mortician?

Yeah, brought in to oversee the proper handling of all human remains

How long has he been here?

48 hours tops

So whatever we're dealing with is aggressive and fast

Initial contact to full-blown disease followed by death in a matter of days

That's the good news

Take a closer look

Oh, that's incredible

It's behaving like a hemorrhagic fever

Exactly

That sounds really bad

Well, only if you categorize extensive bleeding into the skin, mucous membranes,

and gastrointestinal tract, followed by heart failure, pulmonary edema,

and an agonizingly painful death as bad

Definitely bad

What are you thinking?

Well, if we're knee deep in the Congo rain forest, I'd posit Shigellosis,

Marburg virus, even Ebola, but Pittsburgh doesn't have the same exotic palette

It has to be something else

Like maybe a cave full of ancient, disease-riddled corpses?

Rachel, you may just have something

I was sort of kidding

No, I didn't mean about the corpses

No biological contagion could survive 200 years without subzero suspension,

but the cave itself, now, that's a different story

You're saying the cave is sick?

Radiation poisoning

Here? How is that possible?

In 1984, a worker at the Limerick nuclear power plant right here in Pennsylvania

tested positive for nuclear exposure,

but the source wasn't the power plant

It was his own basement, where he'd been exposed to very high levels of radon gas seeping

from the natural rock foundation

The real hazard comes when radon breaks down

When inhaled, the particles get trapped in the lungs and flood the body with toxic alpha radiations

Well, any one of Fisher's coworkers could become symptomatic

We need to initiate HazMat protocol, start looking for air and rock core samples now

What's going on?

Somebody tell us what's going on

I'm going to go introduce myself to the officer in charge,

get a list of all the quarantined workers

- Top priority - What's going on?

My people are calibrating the radon sensors right now

If that cave is contaminated, we should have confirmation within the hour

Let's hope it is radiation

At least we'll know what we're dealing with

Media Just what we need

Oh, great

The only thing that spreads faster than a legitimate health crisis is the panic about one

What is the plan for dealing with the media?

Well, lie, of course

I'm going to let them know about the emergency preparedness drill we've been running

Dr Hood, radiation levels look normal

Do you believe this?

Can they even do this? Is this even legal?

I got to get home

They can't just keep us here all day

Radon sniffers detected only minute traces of the gas in the burial cave

but not nearly enough to explain rapid-onset radiation sickness

Jacob, did you hear what I said?

We're back to square one

Deeply embedded pustules sharply raised and round in shape

Extensive blistering, most notably on palms and soles of feet

Confluent rash on face and forearms

Individually, those symptomatic manifestations point to any number of culprits

But collectively they only point to one

Smallpox

Smallpox I thought that was wiped out

The World Health Organization declared the disease eradicated in 1979,

but there are still stocks of the virus stored at two laboratories: the CDC in Atlanta and the, uh

State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology in Koltsovo, Russia

How'd it end up in Pittsburgh?

I don't know

The demolition workers are going to have to be inoculated,

along with any law enforcement and first responders who have had direct physical contact

That includes the three of us

Is that enough to protect us?

Well, unique strains have, uh, unpredictable resiliences

The vaccine has been enhanced with intranasal boosts

that should protect us from anything airborne,

but direct contact with infected fluids must be avoided

Words to live by

I'm going to notify the hospitals

It's a waste of time

There isn't a medical facility within a hundred miles equipped to deal with this level of biorisk

Hemorrhagic smallpox is the most deadly variation of the virus

It's highly infectious and efficiently lethal

So what do we do?

We improvise

Double the magnification

My God

The tests were conclusive

We got ourselves a smallpox outbreak

A full diagnostic panel's going to take time,

but preliminary mapping indicates genetic materials from multiple genomes

A hybrid

Two viruses mixed together?

Well, the toxin that killed Fisher was a combination of two distinct viral strains

We have to find the source

Well, the cave is clean

Wherever Fisher contracted the virus, it wasn't here

With every minute that passes, the likelihood of it spreading

Have additional victims becoming infected multiplies exponentially

It's imperative that we determine exactly where Fisher caught this virus

before this thing spirals into a full-blown epidemic

Landlord confirmed our first victim has rented here for the last five years

Keep a lookout for calcified scabs and flakes of skin

I always do

"Christopher Fisher, Christopher Fisher Christopher Fisher "

He lived alone

The only thing his co-workers knew was that he was divorced,

and had a daughter in college

Believe in luck, Rachel?

I'm in Pittsburgh dodging smallpox for a living

How much luckier can a girl get?

Well Good fortune is the result of careful planning

It's more of a statement than a karmic prediction

Can you make this kind of cash clearing bodies at a demolition site?

I don't know Maybe he was working two jobs

He was a mortician

If he was juggling two jobs, he might've put the number in speed dial

Try number four

Work, ex-wife, kid's cell, second job

ackson and Sons Mortuary

Your mask

Hello, Mr Jackson?

Yes?

I'm Jacob Hood

I'm part of a team investigating a serious public health matter involving your embalmer, Christopher

- Fisher - Fisher

I'd like you to tell me the names of everyone he worked with, and every dead body he worked on

Today's my son's birthday He's nine-years-old

We're, you know, throwing him a party

Check this out

Look at that

I am going to destroy you

You think he'll like it?

Sure, what kid wouldn't?

I'm not going to make it to his birthday, am I?

They said we can go home soon

They're lying

Keep us under control

The government's not going to help us

Even if they try, they'll screw it up

We're on our own here

Come this way

Just leave all your personal belongings right there

Hazmat's doing a full sweep of the funeral home

Rigdon's waiting to brief us on the status here

What's up?

How many workers do you count?

According to the foreman's report, there should be 21

I count 20

- Ned? - Cathy

It's after 3:00 I've been calling your cell for hours

They took it

What do you mean? Who took it?

It doesn't matter Cathy, just listen to me

Something happened

You promised John you would be home for his party

There isn't going to be a party

Cancel it and start packing

We have to get the kids out of here

What are you talking about?

Ned, you're scaring me

Please Cathy, just do it

What are you doing? What?

You You can't keep me locked up

I haven't done anything wrong

No, but you're about to

Ned

You've been exposed to a very dangerous, highly contagious virus

I want to see my family

I want to see my kids

I know you want to keep your family safe

You want to protect them from danger Ned

Ned, listen to me

You are the danger

Where are you keeping my husband? Explain to me Ned Ned

- Daddy - Hey, Johnny

Wait, wait Ned

Hey, buddy

This way, please

I got something for your birthday

Daddy

You go with these people now, son

I'll catch up with you later

No No

It's okay

Come on, honey

You'll see your dad later, okay?

They won't even remember me

They will, Ned I promise

Ned Warner's rash hasn't progressed beyond the macule phase

So it's still in the early stages?

When it's least contagious

That makes it highly unlikely he infected anyone else on his way home

Records from the funeral parlor

We'll find out which corpse infected Christopher Fisher

I'll oversee the decontamination in Ned's apartment

These are the people Christopher Fisher embalmed during the likely incubation period:

Susan Crane, retired civil servant, 72, cause of death, pneumonia

Gary Firth, doctor, 45, stomach cancer

Jack Ruddock, maintenance engineer, 56, industrial accident in a cold storage facility

My money's on the doctor

The man dealt with disease for a living

You just lost your money

Domesticated species lack a certain glycoprotein the virus needs in order to replicate

Excuse me?

The doctor was a veterinarian

You could've just said so

Even vets are familiar with medical safety protocol,

so let's focus on the other two candidates

We need a full background check, dietary history,

family illness, any recent travel out of the country

Who goes first?

The woman who died of pneumonia,

or the guy who died in the accident at the cold storage facility?

When in doubt, always use the scientific method

Heads or tails?

Yeah, we can provide pickup service

Give me your address

Mr Pulido?

Can you hold on a sec? Yeah? I'm your man

You looking for some cold storage?

We're here about your dead maintenance man

Jack Ruddock

I'm going to have to call you back

30,000 square feet kept at a constant 25 below

We're the largest public refrigeration facility east of the Allegheny

All the big companies and universities store their perishables here

What exactly are they storing?

Ice cream to rocket fuel

You name it, we got it in popsicle form

That's giant bluefin from the Gulf of Maine

Over there, we got CO2 pellets for industrial blast cleaning

And those, ice cores from the South Pole

From Penn's Antarctic survey

You can't be back there

Is this where Jack Ruddock had his accident?

Yeah He was fixing the refrigeration unit and he fell

OSHA's already cleared us

Do you know if he'd been out of the country recently?

Jack?

Nah, Jersey was a foreign country as far as he was concned

Look, I've got to take this

Just stop by my office, let me know when you're done

Why does it matter if the victims left the country?

Fisher is patient zero in this country because of our reporting system,

but some countries don't have one

And some countries wouldn't even tell us if they did have a case

Any chance they were in Latin America?

I want to know the villages in Guatemala they came from and exactly how long they've been in the country

How the hell should I know?

Hood, here

Pathology's back on Fisher

Tests were conclusive

It's definitely a hybrid form of variola major

Smallpox mixed with another virus

I told the CDC this would happen eventually

That we had to be more aggressive with our research

But what do they do? They restrict my work They slashed my funding

Cal, I know you're frustrated, but I need you to concentrate

We have to establish this strain's origin

It came from Central America, obviously

Something new Something manmade

What did the lab report say it was mixed with?

An adenovirus, serotype 14

That's a respiratory virus Is that combation even possible?

In virology, almost anything is possible

Sorry, I cannot help you translate That's not Spanish they're speaking

Then what is it?

Best guess? Garifuna

It's one of at least 20 Mayan dialects spoken in Guatemala

Great

Does anybody understand what I'm saying?

Comprende?

Your fly is down

Your coworker Jack had a bad infection when he died

There's a good chance he picked it up working here

We need to know how

Her brother arrived in the city last week

He stayed inside because he was too sick to work

Says he had a fever and a rash

What else?

Her village back home

There were sick people there, too

How many?

Everybody

Don't touch anything

Rachel, don't touch him

Everyone, stay away from this man and woman

- Folks, stay back, please - What?

They may both be very sick

*******Rachel?

Well, hybrid strains are notoriously resilient

And given so many unknown variables,timing, antibody count

20%, give or take

What about Xicalal, the Guatemalan village?

Oh, we contacted the Guatemalan Red Cross and the Pan American Health Organization

The place is being quarantined, so, we squashed a bug, Jacob

It's over

Cal, as long as Rachel and those people are at risk, it is far from over

Rachel's a hero, Jacob

Whatever happens next, we must never forget that

I want everybody's name when this is over

Payback's a bitch

You looking for something, Professor?

Rachel

I'm sorry

For what?

You did what you had to do

Is that Ned?

No It's one of the other workers

Ned's hanging on for now

How many have died?

Hood, how many?

Six

We think their viral loads overwhelmed the vaccine

Maybe if we got to them earlier

Do you have the number?

Rachel

Do you have it?

Yeah, I have it

I want you to make the call

Tell the bureau that your handler's been compromised

Tell them to send a replacement immediately

Rachel, I don't want a replacement

I don't care what you want You're my responsibility

You get some rest I got things I need to do

Hood Make the call Do you hear me?

Hood, I am serious

It doesn't add up, Calvert

What?

That apartment can't be ground zero The timing's all wrong

The Guatemalan patients are only now presenting symptoms

That's a full 12 hours after Christopher Fisher died

Well, not everyone suffers at the same rate

Viruses react with ethnospecific variabilities

Even if the illegals are not showing all the symptoms yet, they may all be dead by morning

So, we should write them off?

The way you wrote off the demolition workers?

I was being realistic

I want Rachel removed from general quarantine

Until we have confirmation of infection, protocol dictates she be in private isolation

We simply don't have another level three facility available for that approach

The rules apply to everyone, Jacob

Even the people we care about most

It not fair It's just the way it is

Until the blood work comes back on the Guatemalan carrier, Rachel stays where she is

Cath?

Is that you? Cathy?

Cath

Cath

I'm right here

I feel bad

It's okay We all do

No I don't mean that

I feel bad 'cause I'm leaving it all on you

I won't be here to help

You know, with the kids

Yes, you will Ned

You just have to hang in there

Yeah

Everything's gonna be okay

This is the dead Guatemalan's blood sample

So what we're looking for is the variola virus

Shaped like a brick with a surface like a ball of wool

You've seen it before?

Only in books

In 1979, when smallpox was eradicated,

the WHO had most of the live lab cultures destroyed

Since then, scientists have had to rely on computer simulations only

You said the smallpox virus was brick-shaped

That looked spherical

Wait a minute

Rachel? Get Agent Young out of there now

What? What are you doing?

- He was wrong - Who?

Rigdon The man you touched he didn't have smallpox He had chickenpox

Chickenpox?

I had chickenpox when I was five years old

That means you don't have it now

Somebody get me out of this damn thing now

I wish I could cheer, but right now, we're 12 hours into an outbreak of the variola virus,

and we're no closer to identifying the source

Excuse me

Variola means smallpox?

Yeah Why?

Customers rent the space by the pallet

Nobody asks any questions as long as the check clears

Ice cores from the south pole

Yeah, but ice cores are only viable in their original virgin state

These cores have been melted and refrozen

So, this isn't virgin ice?

Not even close

There 567 alpha

Frozen water doesn't lie, Manny

How about you?

You have any idea what's at stake here?

Jack screwed up the repairs on the fan

Fried the motor

He and Pulido, they stayed late one night to move the crates to another area

so everything wouldn't spoil

Their jobs were on the line

You're not gonna open that, are you?

Don't worry Anything viral would be benign at this temperature

Don't blame me if something leaps out and eats your face

Well, that would have been better than this

The samples are gone

Pulido's gone

He's taken the variola samples with him

Police and Hazmat have the city locked down They'll find him

The question is, how many innocent people will he infect before they do?

- What are you doing? - Getting directions

Pulido searched the 'Net for the quickest route from here to the intersection

of Fourth and Grant street 15 minutes ago

Pull over, sir, so we can search your vehicle

Turn off your engine

License and registration, please

Pulido?

Sorry to disappoint you, Professor

You knew that immigrant boy wasn't our source, didn't you?

The virus couldn't have come from Central America,

because it was from your laboratory, wasn't it?

I wasn't sure at first, Jacob

You got to believe me

But when it turned out to be Adeno 14

I-I knew it had to be one of mine It was an accident

An accident waiting to happen

How could you store a deadly hybrid smallpox virus in a commercial facility?

If it wasn't my strain that got out, it would've been someone else's

Are you listening to yourself, Calvert?

You've killed six people

You put the lives of an entire city at risk

How dare you try to rationalization that to me

We live in dangerous times

And mankind has got to come up with better vaccines, more powerful treatments

That can't be accomplished using computer simulations and theoretical models alone, you know that

Who are you trying to convince? Me? Or you?

Was it Pulido's idea to move the samples or yours?

When we rounded up his workers he realized what was in the cooler Demanded $75,000 for it

I was going to pay him, and I was going to destroy everything

I made a careless mistake, Jacob

Eventually you're going to make one, too

It happens to everyone who carries our kind of weight

You'll understand one day

Are you going to have her arrest me now?

Not yet

First you have a job to do

I want you to call your emergency response team, get them down here right now,

and you'll help clean this up, Calvert

You'll help clean this up

I'm sorry, Jacob

Hood

- Can't let him get away - I wasn't planning on it

Pulido Stay where you are

Don't make things worse

Pulido Pulido

FBI Everyone, stay where you are

Mr Pulido, don't touch anyone

You're infected with the virus

Right now, there's a microscopic army waging war inside of you

It's gonna invade your blood stream, attack your central nervous system

and destroy every healthy cell inside of you until there's nothing left

No, I got the vaccine

Too late to be effective

you and Jack were infected the night you moved the boxes

No, Jack wasn't sick

He fell and broke his neck

He was the lucky one

On the floor Now, Mr Pulido, or I'll shoot

Hey, you stay away from me

You need medical assistance, Alan

I need my money

Listen to yourself You're not making sense

It's the virus it's affecting your brain

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna ask you to gently, quietly leave the premises

No, no, no, no

Nobody goes anywhere until I get my damn money

Listen to me

I want my money

Listen to me, no amount of money in the world is gonna stop this disease that's raging inside of you,

but you might be able to stop it hurting other people

Now, if you stay here, you are issuing a death sentence to every innocent person in this room

Do you understand that?

I don't care

I will shoot

Don't open it

There's one vial missing

It's done, Jacob

Oh, Cal

I ran into an old colleague the other day

He's doing really well

It made me so jealous I could taste it

And then, last night, sitting in that damn plastic tent,

helpless, thinking I was gonna die

made me question this assignment

what I do for a living

everything

And

you're a major pain in the ass

But you also do a lot of good

I'm gonna see this through, make everyone else jealous of me

Mom, Mom

That robot was designed by a NASA engineer

It's got artificial intelligence, seven servo motors

It dances, it snores

It even does little electric farts

That was a really cool thing you just did

Not really

I also got one for myself

Energy restored