1 00:00:53,010 --> 00:00:56,610 In the Arabian Nights. 2 00:01:05,710 --> 00:01:06,429 was dead, 3 00:01:06,430 --> 00:01:13,330 was sentenced 4 00:01:13,330 --> 00:01:16,050 to death 5 00:01:16,050 --> 00:01:23,210 by 6 00:01:23,210 --> 00:01:29,470 her husband, King 7 00:01:29,470 --> 00:01:32,570 Shariar of Samarkand. 8 00:01:38,260 --> 00:01:42,240 Scheherazade struck a bargain. 9 00:01:45,580 --> 00:01:51,340 If she could tell a story, 10 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:58,080 a story that would 11 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:00,060 please the king. 12 00:02:08,810 --> 00:02:11,570 Life would be spared. 13 00:02:18,090 --> 00:02:20,990 Her life would be saved. 14 00:02:25,430 --> 00:02:28,090 Until the next night. 15 00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:48,280 It's not widely known that Victorian sexologist and explorer Sir Richard 16 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,640 Francis Burton is still alive. 17 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:56,840 In 1892, an unfortunate encounter with the Fountain of Youth extended his 18 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:58,380 lifespan indefinitely. 19 00:02:58,660 --> 00:03:03,680 He decided to relocate to North America and has spent much of the past century 20 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:08,280 employed as chief taxidermist at the Natural History Museum in Toronto. 21 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,120 Good afternoon, Dick. How goes it? 22 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:19,920 Ah, Dr. Placebo. 23 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:22,900 Labor omnia winket. 24 00:03:23,820 --> 00:03:25,580 Work conquers all. 25 00:03:26,900 --> 00:03:30,380 My new armature method has put us several days ahead of schedule. 26 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,000 Dick, I'm afraid I've got some bad news. 27 00:03:33,580 --> 00:03:34,580 Oh? 28 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:36,080 What is it, sir? 29 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:42,360 I've had to cancel the Dusseldorf plague rat. They want $60,000 for it. Cancel 30 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:43,360 the plague rat, sir. 31 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:46,240 That rat was to be our book of kills. 32 00:03:46,780 --> 00:03:49,380 Our Shroud of Turin, our King Tut death mask. 33 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:54,340 Without that rat, this hole of contagion will be nothing more than a bunch of 34 00:03:54,340 --> 00:03:56,240 blisters, lesions, and goiters. 35 00:03:56,580 --> 00:03:58,300 Money's tight, Dick. You know that. 36 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:01,040 I'm sure you'll come up with an alternative. 37 00:04:20,459 --> 00:04:24,900 Diagram featuring patient zero, which demonstrates sexual transmission of the 38 00:04:24,900 --> 00:04:29,540 unknown agent causing acquired immune deficiency syndrome. 39 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:30,880 1982. 40 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:07,420 From the good to the bad. Tell the tale. Save my life. 41 00:05:08,220 --> 00:05:11,580 A life I could have had. 42 00:05:12,980 --> 00:05:18,680 Just like Sarah's dad. Tell a story. 43 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:22,680 Tell a story. 44 00:05:24,740 --> 00:05:28,380 I've been dead for years and years. 45 00:05:29,100 --> 00:05:31,000 Thick with loneliness. 46 00:05:34,700 --> 00:05:41,260 So here's me, I'm dying for a kiss. 47 00:05:48,140 --> 00:05:51,600 Tell the story, clear my name. 48 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:56,220 Why do they need someone to blame? 49 00:05:57,300 --> 00:06:01,300 Why don't people who matter tell the tale? 50 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:07,440 Life I could have had. 51 00:06:08,940 --> 00:06:13,080 Just like the caravan. 52 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:14,900 Tell a story. 53 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:18,600 Tell a story. 54 00:06:20,380 --> 00:06:24,700 We were boys who loved our bodies. 55 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:27,340 Playing hard and deep. 56 00:06:28,780 --> 00:06:31,380 Boys who thought we'd live. 57 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:37,200 We were playing for cheap. 58 00:06:37,460 --> 00:06:38,660 Tell a story. 59 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:42,620 Tell a story. 60 00:06:44,020 --> 00:06:47,480 Tell a story of my life. 61 00:06:48,140 --> 00:06:52,460 From zero hour to 12 a.m. 62 00:06:52,980 --> 00:06:55,300 From the good to the bad. 63 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,400 Tell the tale. 64 00:06:57,660 --> 00:06:59,280 Save my life. 65 00:07:00,220 --> 00:07:03,180 A life I could have had. 66 00:07:31,519 --> 00:07:33,540 Hey, who turned out the light? 67 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:37,440 Water is getting warmer. 68 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,040 You know, like water. 69 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:43,760 Whoa! 70 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:48,800 What's going on? 71 00:07:51,860 --> 00:07:53,220 It's a jet-set bath. 72 00:07:55,820 --> 00:07:56,860 I'm dreaming. 73 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,120 I'm in heaven? 74 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:29,540 Over the past century, biographers have struggled with the enigma of Sir Richard 75 00:08:29,540 --> 00:08:30,540 Francis Burton. 76 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:35,260 The majority portray him as a swashbuckling Victorian he-man, whose 77 00:08:35,260 --> 00:08:39,760 famous erotic translations made him a 19th century sexual radical. 78 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:45,360 Others point to his chauvinism, his sexless marriage, and his ongoing penis 79 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:49,800 -measuring projects as proof of his deeply conflicted sexual nature. 80 00:08:50,250 --> 00:08:54,310 However, all the biographers agree that his taxidermic efforts of the last 81 00:08:54,310 --> 00:09:00,430 hundred years are not his best work, despite some praise for his daring 1940 82 00:09:00,430 --> 00:09:05,110 diorama, Yellow Spotted Dingo Stalking the Brindle Belly Groundhog. 83 00:09:05,470 --> 00:09:10,790 Sources say Burton has high hopes that his new Hall of Contagion project will 84 00:09:10,790 --> 00:09:14,290 restore his reputation as a world-class intellectual. 85 00:09:14,850 --> 00:09:16,010 It's practically nothing. 86 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,920 A few lackluster footnotes about patient zero, but that's it. 87 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,520 Don't these scientists realize the implications? 88 00:09:26,540 --> 00:09:33,500 I mean, it's almost as if... Why, yes, it must be. 89 00:09:34,700 --> 00:09:36,600 A conspiracy of silence. 90 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:04,860 How can I get laid if nobody can see me? 91 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:14,040 George! 92 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:20,660 P-A-T-I-E-N-T-Z-F? 93 00:10:24,560 --> 00:10:25,560 No, E. 94 00:10:26,660 --> 00:10:28,620 R-O... Try the other eye. 95 00:10:30,340 --> 00:10:31,340 George. 96 00:10:31,980 --> 00:10:36,740 P-A-T-I-E-N-T-Z-E-B. 97 00:10:37,740 --> 00:10:39,040 Try it with both eyes. 98 00:10:39,380 --> 00:10:40,380 My old doctor. 99 00:10:47,860 --> 00:10:50,680 I don't know why I got it so wrong. 100 00:10:53,140 --> 00:10:56,100 The results of the test came back, George. 101 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:00,200 Because of your weakened immune system, your CMV. 102 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:03,140 cytomegalovirus is definitely active. 103 00:11:03,340 --> 00:11:05,060 We'd like to start you on some sort of treatment. 104 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:08,060 A friend of mine went blind from CMP. 105 00:11:09,380 --> 00:11:13,780 These days, we can sometimes prevent blindness if we catch it in time. 106 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:16,480 Now, there are a few treatment options. 107 00:11:17,260 --> 00:11:23,380 There's Foscovir, Cytavine, Ganciclovir, and the new one, ZP0. 108 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:28,680 Now, it's the most expensive, but some research shows it's also the most 109 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:29,680 promising. 110 00:11:35,750 --> 00:11:36,750 Yeah? 111 00:11:37,110 --> 00:11:38,690 Ah, Dick, come right in. 112 00:11:40,170 --> 00:11:42,670 I think I've found it. Found what? 113 00:11:43,410 --> 00:11:48,810 A new set of teeth for our hole of contagion. Something groundbreaking, yet 114 00:11:48,810 --> 00:11:49,830 crowd-pleasing. 115 00:11:50,310 --> 00:11:52,710 A display about patient zero. 116 00:11:52,990 --> 00:11:54,210 Who? I don't follow. 117 00:11:55,090 --> 00:11:59,550 Right now, our hole of contagion has a display for every major epidemic in 118 00:11:59,550 --> 00:12:00,550 human history. 119 00:12:00,570 --> 00:12:04,850 Cholera, typhus, buboric plague, influenza, syphilis, diphtheria. 120 00:12:05,310 --> 00:12:06,310 What's missing? 121 00:12:06,330 --> 00:12:07,490 AIDS, of course. 122 00:12:08,230 --> 00:12:12,350 We've covered AIDS. The African green monkey is... That green monkey was 123 00:12:12,350 --> 00:12:15,330 simply the way the AIDS virus crossed over from animals to Africans. 124 00:12:16,010 --> 00:12:22,330 Patient zero is the primum mobula. The first person to bring AIDS to North 125 00:12:22,330 --> 00:12:24,430 America. Allow me, sir. 126 00:12:27,550 --> 00:12:32,130 A snake lurks in the grass. 127 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,460 This chart is from a scientific study conducted in 1982. 128 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:40,640 The doctors interviewed as many as... This is all very well, Dick, but what 129 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,500 exactly are you proposing? 130 00:12:42,740 --> 00:12:47,200 The latest in high-tech image bombardment. The music video approach. 131 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:52,300 The use of today demands something as urgent and modern as AIDS itself. 132 00:12:52,620 --> 00:12:53,620 Sounds expensive. 133 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:56,400 Patient Zero was a flight attendant. 134 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:59,460 Perhaps the airlines would sponsor it. 135 00:13:01,610 --> 00:13:02,610 Well, perhaps not. 136 00:13:03,270 --> 00:13:04,450 Here's another possibility. 137 00:13:06,010 --> 00:13:10,210 These are pharmaceutical manufacturers who make treatment drugs for AIDS 138 00:13:10,210 --> 00:13:11,210 victims. 139 00:13:11,470 --> 00:13:15,630 Now, surely one of these companies would leap at the chance of funding our 140 00:13:15,630 --> 00:13:16,630 display. 141 00:13:16,850 --> 00:13:17,850 Possibly. 142 00:13:19,450 --> 00:13:22,470 There's the issue of local relevance, of course. 143 00:13:22,910 --> 00:13:25,290 That's the beauty of it, patient. Vera was Canadian. 144 00:13:25,830 --> 00:13:28,850 A promiscuous, irresponsible, homosexual Canadian. 145 00:13:29,630 --> 00:13:31,690 Hardly a positive role model, Dick. 146 00:13:32,190 --> 00:13:35,270 He was French-Canadian. 147 00:13:35,630 --> 00:13:36,630 Ah. 148 00:13:37,670 --> 00:13:39,190 French-Canadian. 149 00:13:41,910 --> 00:13:45,990 My passion for discovery has led me near and far. 150 00:13:46,330 --> 00:13:53,270 Rebecca, Medina, Brazil and Zanzibar. I speak 40 languages. I've written 151 00:13:53,270 --> 00:13:54,270 50 books. 152 00:13:54,410 --> 00:13:57,990 My friends include witch doctors, scientists and proof. 153 00:13:58,510 --> 00:14:03,750 My translations of the classics are thought the very best. Both my sutra and 154 00:14:03,750 --> 00:14:06,190 my knight pass the titillation test. 155 00:14:06,570 --> 00:14:12,190 I detail the mating habits of a dozen different tribes and shock those stuffy 156 00:14:12,190 --> 00:14:14,550 England with my studies of hot ties. 157 00:14:15,190 --> 00:14:19,970 Victorians were Cartesian. They revered the intellectuals. They wished to know 158 00:14:19,970 --> 00:14:22,810 the world, but recoiled to matters sexist. 159 00:14:23,010 --> 00:14:24,930 What's the point of all the facts? 160 00:14:25,130 --> 00:14:26,470 when you censor out the crew. 161 00:14:26,710 --> 00:14:30,970 My scientific searching would dismiss as low and lewd. 162 00:14:31,310 --> 00:14:37,770 Let's all be empiricists, pictures of the brain. 163 00:14:38,810 --> 00:14:45,690 Through our wit and brilliance, we can know the world again. 164 00:14:46,750 --> 00:14:53,530 We'll classify and label and find the answers 165 00:14:53,530 --> 00:14:54,530 of... 166 00:14:55,690 --> 00:15:02,090 A culture of certainty will banish every doubt. 167 00:15:02,910 --> 00:15:09,390 A culture of certainty will banish every 168 00:15:09,390 --> 00:15:16,030 doubt. I don't think geography has mapped every river, every glade, yet we 169 00:15:16,030 --> 00:15:19,230 still have much to learn about the mystery of age. 170 00:15:19,490 --> 00:15:23,410 Let's explore this foreign body, learn the customs of its cells. 171 00:15:23,900 --> 00:15:28,380 Transify its nooks and crannies, pull its chains and ring its bells. We will 172 00:15:28,380 --> 00:15:31,520 never find a cure till we isolate the soul. 173 00:15:31,900 --> 00:15:35,720 What we know where it came from, we can kill it off by force. 174 00:15:35,980 --> 00:15:39,440 What's the origin of this vine? Europe, Zaire, Haiti? 175 00:15:39,780 --> 00:15:43,860 The clues are here before us. Patience here holds the key. 176 00:15:44,440 --> 00:15:47,720 Let's all be empiricists. 177 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,900 Sisters of the mind. 178 00:15:52,700 --> 00:15:53,700 Rulers. 179 00:16:06,750 --> 00:16:13,730 A culture of certainty will put us 180 00:16:13,730 --> 00:16:15,310 back on top. 181 00:16:31,950 --> 00:16:32,950 Magnific- 182 00:17:07,150 --> 00:17:08,730 My own mother can see me. 183 00:17:09,750 --> 00:17:11,010 Just as well. 184 00:17:16,550 --> 00:17:18,430 She's given me a big lecture. 185 00:17:19,650 --> 00:17:26,170 You drop by for a visit after three years of being dead, and you don't even 186 00:17:26,170 --> 00:17:27,170 phone first. 187 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:52,540 Dr. Winnie Chang, my name is Richard Burden. 188 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,300 I'm calling from the Natural History Museum, and I'm doing a bit of research 189 00:17:56,300 --> 00:17:57,420 into contagious diseases. 190 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:03,760 Right. 191 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:07,940 How did you first meet patient Zero? 192 00:18:08,420 --> 00:18:11,400 I was doing a med school residency back in 1982. 193 00:18:11,860 --> 00:18:15,660 I helped with the contact tracing for this epidemiological study. 194 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:17,880 Zero was one of the people I interviewed. 195 00:18:18,540 --> 00:18:20,360 What was the purpose of the study? 196 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:25,120 The study was set up to find out if the disease was sexually transmitted. 197 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,980 Back then, we didn't know anything about AIDS. What caused it, if it was 198 00:18:28,980 --> 00:18:29,980 infectious, nothing. 199 00:18:30,940 --> 00:18:33,520 What was Zero like? 200 00:18:34,020 --> 00:18:37,380 Was he bitter that your team had tracked him down? 201 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:39,480 Tracked him down? 202 00:18:39,740 --> 00:18:45,640 Did he withhold information about his sexu liaison to throw you off the trail? 203 00:18:47,379 --> 00:18:51,220 Not a bit. He was one of the most cooperative in the study. He had a good 204 00:18:51,220 --> 00:18:53,960 memory, and he gave us lots of names out of his address book. 205 00:18:54,180 --> 00:18:59,020 Was he excited, knowing he was purposely infecting so many other people? 206 00:18:59,700 --> 00:19:03,640 Did he conform to the clinical profile of a serial killer? 207 00:19:04,860 --> 00:19:08,840 Look, he loved to sleep around, but so did a lot of people, straight and gay. 208 00:19:08,980 --> 00:19:11,520 The report did not set out to blame anyone. 209 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:14,920 You didn't. 210 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,480 Order him to stop having sex, though, did you? 211 00:19:19,420 --> 00:19:23,640 It didn't work that way. We told him that there was a very good chance this 212 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:25,340 new disease was sexually transmitted. 213 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:27,620 He asked for conclusive evidence. 214 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,280 Well, of course, back then we didn't have any. 215 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:35,460 He became very defiant. He told us that we were acting like the sex police. 216 00:19:35,820 --> 00:19:36,920 And what could we say? 217 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,080 On some level, he was right. 218 00:19:39,480 --> 00:19:42,820 Wouldn't it have been better to have put him under quarantine? 219 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:44,500 No, that's ridiculous. 220 00:19:47,790 --> 00:19:49,910 We seem to have lost battery power. 221 00:20:15,180 --> 00:20:16,180 We don't see. 222 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:18,400 I see. 223 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:20,500 You see. 224 00:20:21,380 --> 00:20:22,380 We see. 225 00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:24,760 I don't see. 226 00:20:25,780 --> 00:20:27,120 You don't see. 227 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:29,320 We don't see. 228 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:31,520 I see. 229 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:38,760 I've decided that the display must represent the sexual jungle where 230 00:20:38,760 --> 00:20:40,480 patient zero stopped his prey. 231 00:20:41,870 --> 00:20:46,430 Luckily, I'm hardened to such debaucheries, having conducted extensive 232 00:20:46,430 --> 00:20:50,830 investigations into the male brothels of Karachi in 1845. 233 00:20:58,750 --> 00:21:03,670 For someone of patient zero's insatiable appetite, this was probably just another 234 00:21:03,670 --> 00:21:08,990 bathhouse, one of the many hot spots he regularly prowled. New York, L.A., San 235 00:21:08,990 --> 00:21:10,770 Francisco, Medicine Hat. 236 00:21:12,490 --> 00:21:13,490 Excuse me. 237 00:21:14,050 --> 00:21:17,190 Did you ever have sex with a flight attendant named Zero? 238 00:21:21,390 --> 00:21:25,630 Denial seems to be a major component of the homosexual dysfunctional psyche. 239 00:21:26,630 --> 00:21:30,770 Perhaps such self-destructiveness was a key to Zero's behavior. 240 00:21:35,290 --> 00:21:36,430 Old movies, you know. 241 00:21:49,610 --> 00:21:50,610 Huh? 242 00:21:55,670 --> 00:21:57,430 Oh, look, he's popped a boner. 243 00:21:58,010 --> 00:22:04,990 When you pop a boner in the shower Point it like a flag for all 244 00:22:04,990 --> 00:22:09,850 to see Give us a good peek that you're too mad 245 00:22:14,450 --> 00:22:17,090 When you cruise the... 246 00:23:03,980 --> 00:23:04,980 Be proud. 247 00:23:35,050 --> 00:23:40,170 Madame Zero, it's Richard Burton from the museum. We spoke on the phone. 248 00:23:40,430 --> 00:23:42,330 I told you I wasn't interested. 249 00:23:42,910 --> 00:23:45,070 Just a quick interview. It'll only take a minute. 250 00:23:45,350 --> 00:23:47,430 Get out of here or I'll call the police. 251 00:23:47,670 --> 00:23:52,550 What we at the museum are interested in doing is a very prestigious scientific 252 00:23:52,550 --> 00:23:54,190 display about Zero. 253 00:23:54,630 --> 00:23:56,190 It should be quite spectacular. 254 00:23:56,690 --> 00:23:59,990 So all the neighbors can gossip? No, thanks. 255 00:24:00,470 --> 00:24:03,410 Well, actually spectacular in a small way. 256 00:24:03,930 --> 00:24:06,530 Quite esoteric. Not for the public at all, really. 257 00:24:07,890 --> 00:24:08,930 Forget it. 258 00:24:10,310 --> 00:24:12,230 Think about how it could help someone else. 259 00:24:12,750 --> 00:24:13,890 Another young man. 260 00:24:15,470 --> 00:24:16,470 Another mother. 261 00:24:16,990 --> 00:24:19,590 That's just what that journalist said. 262 00:24:20,830 --> 00:24:24,030 Ever so smoothly, and I believed him. 263 00:24:24,250 --> 00:24:29,870 Well, he made it sound like Zero was the devil, bringing his boyfriends home. 264 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:33,540 flaunting his lifestyle under our noses. 265 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:36,720 Ciro never did that. Not once. 266 00:24:38,660 --> 00:24:43,120 I've got to get the phone. Do you think I could possibly use your bathroom? 267 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:58,760 Yes. 268 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,040 I'll call you back. 269 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,140 Goodbye. Well, thanks very much. 270 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:07,400 Au revoir. 271 00:25:22,980 --> 00:25:24,740 Hello, is this George Carver? 272 00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:30,770 Yes. I'm doing research about patient zero for the display on contagious 273 00:25:30,770 --> 00:25:35,750 diseases, and I thought you might... Hello? 274 00:25:37,270 --> 00:25:42,970 Good afternoon, Dick. I've got some good news. 275 00:25:43,330 --> 00:25:46,910 I just had a meeting with the education director of Gilbert Sullivan 276 00:25:46,910 --> 00:25:49,630 Pharmaceuticals, and he loves the project. 277 00:25:50,090 --> 00:25:54,330 Capital! He's interested in signing on as a full corporate sponsor. 278 00:25:55,260 --> 00:25:56,820 That means we can go ahead with the lasers. 279 00:25:57,260 --> 00:26:02,980 Lasers? You enter the Hall of Contagion. Before you, a 20-foot-high hologram of 280 00:26:02,980 --> 00:26:07,820 Patient Zero, flanked on either side by Tau's video monitors. 281 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:12,740 Red laser... I like your enthusiasm, Dick, but you know we can't afford to be 282 00:26:12,740 --> 00:26:13,740 too ambitious. 283 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:45,040 I started working in 78. Zero had already been with the airline for a 284 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,040 couple of years. 285 00:26:46,380 --> 00:26:48,000 We became buddies right away. 286 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,880 This is us looking cute in our little uniforms. 287 00:26:54,220 --> 00:26:56,760 Were you aware of his sexual lifestyle? 288 00:26:57,580 --> 00:27:00,440 Well, he told me about all his boyfriends, if that's what you mean. 289 00:27:01,340 --> 00:27:04,060 How long was he able to hide his illness from you? 290 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,280 About two minutes. 291 00:27:05,980 --> 00:27:07,020 He told me everything. 292 00:27:07,300 --> 00:27:10,220 I even went with him to the hospital sometimes when he was having his test. 293 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:12,780 Tell me about his drug use. 294 00:27:12,980 --> 00:27:17,320 He dabbled. He was never into it as much as I was. You mean you shared needles 295 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:18,400 with Agent Zero? 296 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,340 No, he didn't use needles. He was mostly into grass and coke. I was the one who 297 00:27:23,340 --> 00:27:24,340 was into junk. 298 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:26,280 But I quit all that when I was diagnosed. 299 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:28,920 You have AIDS? 300 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:30,660 I'm HIV positive. 301 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:38,180 But if you didn't share needles with him, you must have had sex with him. Sex 302 00:27:38,180 --> 00:27:39,079 with Zero? 303 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:40,080 Who then? 304 00:27:41,300 --> 00:27:42,720 How? What does it matter? 305 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:47,860 You know, I was wild back then. Lots of drugs, lots of sex. I don't know how I 306 00:27:47,860 --> 00:27:48,779 got it. 307 00:27:48,780 --> 00:27:50,380 Where's all this leading to anyway? 308 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:53,820 How can you be sure that it wasn't Zero who infected you? 309 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:58,040 Listen, I thought this was a documentary about AIDS. 310 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:02,560 That was our deal. I tell you about Zero and I get to talk about ACT UP. 311 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,500 In good time, my dear lady. 312 00:28:05,860 --> 00:28:08,200 I know how upsetting all this must be for you. 313 00:28:11,370 --> 00:28:15,250 What was Vera's motivation behind purposely infecting so many other men? 314 00:28:15,770 --> 00:28:17,970 Was it revenge or dementia? 315 00:28:18,450 --> 00:28:21,510 All right, that's it. The interview's over. Get out of here, you sleepy 316 00:28:21,510 --> 00:28:22,510 fucker. 317 00:28:24,390 --> 00:28:25,390 Get out! 318 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,640 next with a weekend water sports roundup followed by Harry the Weather Dog who 319 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,400 says it's going to be rough, rough, rough for umbrella owners. 320 00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,940 On the entertainment front, at a press conference today, Gilbert Sullivan 321 00:28:37,940 --> 00:28:43,380 Pharmaceuticals awarded $50,000 to the Natural History Museum, becoming chief 322 00:28:43,380 --> 00:28:47,940 sponsor of its upcoming Hall of Contagion exhibition concerning diseases 323 00:28:47,940 --> 00:28:48,940 through the ages. 324 00:28:49,420 --> 00:28:53,600 Chief taxidermist at the museum, Sir Richard Francis Burton, has prepared an 325 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,640 exclusive sneak preview of his patient zero display. 326 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,080 He loved to sleep around. He was very defiant. He said that we were acting 327 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:03,740 like the sex police. 328 00:29:05,140 --> 00:29:08,100 Even later when he started losing weight, he didn't let that kill our 329 00:29:08,100 --> 00:29:13,660 evenings out. Lots of discos, lots of parties, lots of junk, grass, lots of 330 00:29:13,660 --> 00:29:15,140 sex. Zero was the devil. 331 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,020 Bringing his boyfriend home. 332 00:29:19,220 --> 00:29:22,540 flaunting his lifestyle under our noses. 333 00:29:23,020 --> 00:29:27,800 Burton assures us that his display will cause a King Tut-like sensation when it 334 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:29,860 opens to the public in two weeks' time. 335 00:29:30,180 --> 00:29:34,040 Well, Wendy, the synchronized swimming championship... 336 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:38,540 All ready, sir? 337 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,400 Right, here we go. 338 00:29:42,460 --> 00:29:46,360 Many dangerous diseases are transmitted by mammals to humans. 339 00:29:47,370 --> 00:29:54,330 Animal carriers can pass on rabies, risk valley fever, malaria, and numerous 340 00:29:54,330 --> 00:29:55,330 other plagues. 341 00:29:55,450 --> 00:30:00,770 The African green monkey is perhaps the most dangerous since science has tried 342 00:30:00,770 --> 00:30:01,830 to absorb HIV. 343 00:30:05,790 --> 00:30:06,430 I'm 344 00:30:06,430 --> 00:30:13,250 sorry, sir. 345 00:30:14,530 --> 00:30:16,310 Still a few bugs to work out. 346 00:30:16,750 --> 00:30:17,750 Of course. 347 00:30:17,990 --> 00:30:18,990 Yes, Dick. 348 00:30:20,070 --> 00:30:21,830 Now, about the patient zero display. 349 00:30:22,290 --> 00:30:25,690 I had an interesting talk with the vice president of Gilbert Sullivan 350 00:30:25,690 --> 00:30:30,150 Pharmaceuticals. She advised us to make contact with the local ACT UP chapter. 351 00:30:30,810 --> 00:30:35,090 She says that ACT UP is extremely well organized, and if we leave them out, 352 00:30:35,150 --> 00:30:36,710 there's a danger they'll picket the exhibit. 353 00:30:36,970 --> 00:30:39,930 That merry woman on my tape, she's from ACT UP. 354 00:30:40,510 --> 00:30:42,850 I can't work with that venom-spewing vulture. 355 00:30:43,470 --> 00:30:47,890 I think we should create an advisory group. You, me, someone from the 356 00:30:47,890 --> 00:30:52,670 Ministry of Health, Miss Strutting from Gilbert Sullivan, and one or two ACT UP 357 00:30:52,670 --> 00:30:53,670 people. 358 00:30:53,810 --> 00:30:57,130 Have I left anyone out? But they'll want, you know, input. 359 00:30:58,170 --> 00:30:59,870 Oh, I don't think we have to go that far. 360 00:31:00,410 --> 00:31:03,950 You get the ACT UP people to agree, I'll get the rest, and we'll publish the list 361 00:31:03,950 --> 00:31:04,950 of names in our newsletter. 362 00:31:05,850 --> 00:31:07,330 That should take care of it, I think. 363 00:31:16,140 --> 00:31:18,180 Miss Tyson, it's Richard Burton. 364 00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:20,160 No, no, no, please don't hang up. 365 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,160 Oh, you saw the broad talk. 366 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,060 Well, that's why I called. 367 00:31:32,300 --> 00:31:33,640 I must apologize. 368 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:37,200 It was that damn audiovisual department. 369 00:31:37,740 --> 00:31:39,960 They re-edited the footage without my knowledge. 370 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,380 I agree completely. 371 00:31:44,260 --> 00:31:45,260 Look. 372 00:31:45,580 --> 00:31:49,120 We at the museum want ACT UP to be involved in an official capacity. 373 00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:57,800 Good evening. 374 00:31:58,540 --> 00:31:59,600 My name is Bert. 375 00:32:00,620 --> 00:32:01,620 Dick Bert. 376 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,560 Folks, this is the museum guy I was telling you about. 377 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:08,760 Introduce yourselves. 378 00:32:09,660 --> 00:32:11,480 My name is Michael. 379 00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,320 I've got Kaposi. 380 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:17,260 A lot of rage and a lot more thorn. 381 00:32:17,820 --> 00:32:19,220 My name is Ross. 382 00:32:19,480 --> 00:32:21,100 He sells cows 60. 383 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,880 My sign is Capricorn. 384 00:32:25,860 --> 00:32:26,860 I'm Ray. 385 00:32:27,060 --> 00:32:29,000 I've had hepatitis. 386 00:32:29,980 --> 00:32:32,320 Stinko's had me thrusted B-C-E-B. 387 00:32:33,740 --> 00:32:34,740 I'm George. 388 00:32:35,140 --> 00:32:40,120 I've got retinitis. I'm taking B-Zero for my P-M-B. 389 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:10,179 50,000 a year. 390 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:14,280 You'll vomit, get rashes and headaches. 391 00:34:15,020 --> 00:34:17,639 It won't make you feel that official. 392 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:21,900 They want a different treatment. 393 00:34:22,699 --> 00:34:25,460 I'm sorry, but it's not released. 394 00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:29,699 It needs approval and faith and testing. 395 00:34:30,340 --> 00:34:33,300 This will be another decade of late. 396 00:34:34,260 --> 00:34:38,219 It'll hurt a little here. 397 00:34:38,590 --> 00:34:40,969 There's more pills that'll keep you up. 398 00:34:41,610 --> 00:34:47,590 I can't explain. I'm in. 399 00:35:11,180 --> 00:35:12,180 Can you drive? 400 00:36:40,270 --> 00:36:42,770 you about patient zero if you've got a minute. You've got to be kidding. 401 00:36:43,270 --> 00:36:47,330 Just a quick interview with you would be invaluable to the project. The Haitian 402 00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:48,330 perspective. 403 00:36:49,350 --> 00:36:50,350 Haitian? 404 00:36:50,870 --> 00:36:52,270 Uh, African? 405 00:36:54,030 --> 00:36:55,030 Well, whatever. 406 00:36:55,430 --> 00:36:56,430 Your viewpoint. 407 00:36:56,990 --> 00:36:57,990 No chance. 408 00:36:58,290 --> 00:37:01,770 You're probably worried about anonymity, job security, that sort of thing, right? 409 00:37:02,390 --> 00:37:03,870 Well, not to worry. 410 00:37:04,110 --> 00:37:05,790 I'm an old hand at disguises. 411 00:37:06,290 --> 00:37:07,290 Forget it. 412 00:37:07,390 --> 00:37:09,470 What about a goatee and spectacles? 413 00:37:10,620 --> 00:37:11,680 Deadlocks and a false note. 414 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:28,640 Howdy, stranger. 415 00:37:28,860 --> 00:37:29,860 Hey. 416 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:32,140 How'd the painting party go? 417 00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:33,920 The work seems endless. 418 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:35,820 I'm going to get a beer. Do you want one? 419 00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:37,040 Sure. 420 00:37:47,370 --> 00:37:48,370 What you looking for? 421 00:37:48,510 --> 00:37:51,070 I don't know. There's some slides of this guy I used to know. 422 00:37:51,570 --> 00:37:53,930 His name came up at the meeting tonight. 423 00:37:55,490 --> 00:37:56,490 Hmm. 424 00:38:06,550 --> 00:38:08,370 Hey, he looks like fun. 425 00:38:08,830 --> 00:38:10,290 I told you about him. 426 00:38:10,990 --> 00:38:12,430 That's Zero, the flight attendant. 427 00:38:12,810 --> 00:38:14,270 He's the straight one, right? 428 00:38:14,570 --> 00:38:15,650 No, that was Steve. 429 00:38:16,500 --> 00:38:20,880 Azir and I were just fuck buddies years ago. 430 00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:30,540 When he got sick, he was the one who 431 00:38:30,540 --> 00:38:31,540 stayed in touch. 432 00:38:32,140 --> 00:38:33,200 I didn't. 433 00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:40,040 Even when he was hospitalized that last time, when he was blind, he phoned to 434 00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,040 wish me a happy birthday. 435 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:48,880 I just didn't like visiting him. 436 00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,820 That hospital was just so depressing. 437 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:58,880 His body... It scared me. 438 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,520 A lot of us dropped him. 439 00:39:09,060 --> 00:39:11,440 It was like he betrayed us. 440 00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,180 If Zero the... 441 00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:16,180 prettiest party boy could get sick. 442 00:39:16,900 --> 00:39:19,300 Then, so could we. 443 00:39:22,220 --> 00:39:23,240 And he died. 444 00:39:24,420 --> 00:39:25,420 Lonely. 445 00:39:26,620 --> 00:39:28,260 Angry and alone. 446 00:39:30,260 --> 00:39:33,180 Because we were just too scared. 447 00:39:51,820 --> 00:39:52,820 Could you step to the side? 448 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:55,800 You can see me. 449 00:39:56,060 --> 00:39:57,280 You're blocking my view. 450 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,120 There seems to be some technical malfunction. 451 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:02,440 The camera's not reading you. 452 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:09,460 The asshole can't see me. Look, I'm busy right now, young man. No time to chat. 453 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:12,060 You don't recognize me? 454 00:40:13,060 --> 00:40:19,700 I'm afraid I... Well... Actually, it's funny, but you do look rather 455 00:40:19,700 --> 00:40:20,700 like... 456 00:40:22,670 --> 00:40:24,490 My God, you're alive. 457 00:40:25,210 --> 00:40:27,450 Well, I'm somewhat overwhelmed. 458 00:40:29,210 --> 00:40:32,710 I meet all sorts of killers in my line of work. 459 00:40:33,190 --> 00:40:34,910 Cannibals, necrophiliacs. 460 00:40:36,210 --> 00:40:39,390 But you're my first gay ghost. 461 00:40:40,310 --> 00:40:41,750 Maybe I infected people. 462 00:40:43,370 --> 00:40:44,410 I didn't know. 463 00:40:45,850 --> 00:40:46,850 Incredible. 464 00:40:47,370 --> 00:40:50,090 I'll put you right in the display itself. 465 00:40:52,140 --> 00:40:53,140 What a coup. 466 00:40:53,460 --> 00:40:54,460 Patient zero. 467 00:40:55,180 --> 00:40:57,640 Speaks from beyond the grave. I'll find a way to stop you. 468 00:40:57,880 --> 00:40:59,660 It's going ahead whether you like it or not. 469 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:02,500 Look, I'm offering you equal time. 470 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:05,520 A chance to tell your side of the story. 471 00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:07,440 Let's go back to the museum. 472 00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:09,020 We can talk about it there. 473 00:41:44,620 --> 00:41:45,620 What's it is? 474 00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,900 One of my recent successes. 475 00:41:56,460 --> 00:41:57,460 Allow me. 476 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:07,300 The most famous disease carrier was Typhoid Mary, an Irish cook in the early 477 00:42:07,300 --> 00:42:11,840 20th century who was responsible for a series of typhoid outbreaks in New York. 478 00:42:13,420 --> 00:42:18,720 From 1932 to 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service secretly studied the 479 00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:23,560 effects of untreated tertiary syphilis on 400 black sharecroppers in Tuskegee, 480 00:42:23,660 --> 00:42:24,660 Alabama. 481 00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,340 Denied treatment, most went blind or died. 482 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:39,460 In 1721, the plague swept across Europe from the east and reached Marseilles. 483 00:42:40,520 --> 00:42:44,880 The Dutch imposed a strict quarantine on all shipping vessels in an effort to 484 00:42:44,880 --> 00:42:45,880 contain the epidemic. 485 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:51,500 They even set fire to suspected plague ships, and the unfortunate sailors were 486 00:42:51,500 --> 00:42:54,940 forced to swim ashore naked or perish in the flames. 487 00:43:09,580 --> 00:43:10,580 Still not working. 488 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:13,020 Say something. 489 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:21,420 The terminal essay by Sir Richard Francis Burton in the final volume of 490 00:43:21,420 --> 00:43:23,280 his translation of the Arabian Nights. 491 00:43:26,140 --> 00:43:28,160 On the subject of pederasty. 492 00:43:29,620 --> 00:43:33,880 There exists what I shall call the sotadic zone, so named after the Greek 493 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,340 homosexual poet Sotadis, within which... 494 00:43:37,630 --> 00:43:40,230 The vice of pederasty is popular and endemic. 495 00:43:40,530 --> 00:43:47,350 The strategic zone generally corresponds to those regions enjoying a temperate 496 00:43:47,350 --> 00:43:48,350 climate. 497 00:43:49,810 --> 00:43:51,750 You wrote this in 1885? 498 00:43:52,470 --> 00:43:53,470 Uh-huh. 499 00:43:54,830 --> 00:43:55,930 Well, it's no good. 500 00:43:57,150 --> 00:43:58,190 No picture. 501 00:43:59,390 --> 00:44:00,390 No sound. 502 00:44:01,130 --> 00:44:04,490 I've read all sorts of theories about the origins of homosexuality. 503 00:44:05,490 --> 00:44:06,670 This is a new one. 504 00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:11,780 I had to present my homosexual research in such a way that was unthreatening to 505 00:44:11,780 --> 00:44:12,820 an English readership. 506 00:44:13,420 --> 00:44:18,380 My sotatic theory suggested England was too cold for sodomy to occur. 507 00:44:18,980 --> 00:44:22,360 Ipso facto, my reading public was reassured. 508 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,960 Ipso facto, I could publish without censorship. 509 00:44:26,420 --> 00:44:30,440 You convinced the British Empire that they'd go Homo if they went to the Thani 510 00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:35,020 colonies. Given the time, my presentation of the facts was remarkably 511 00:44:35,020 --> 00:44:36,020 scientific. 512 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:37,480 And Frank. 513 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,240 I can tell he doesn't quite trust me yet. 514 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,200 These serial killers are so suspicious. 515 00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:50,460 I've got to find a way to keep him here until my camera's fixed. 516 00:44:53,060 --> 00:44:55,320 Well, I know one thing he'll respond to. 517 00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:03,380 Do what you will. 518 00:45:05,010 --> 00:45:06,010 I'm yours. 519 00:45:07,350 --> 00:45:09,470 You look like leftovers in the fridge. 520 00:45:09,930 --> 00:45:15,210 These days, adequate precautions are the sine qua non of amorous encounters. 521 00:45:16,330 --> 00:45:19,010 You thought you were going to give me a charity fuss? 522 00:45:20,170 --> 00:45:21,170 You get lost. 523 00:45:21,790 --> 00:45:24,830 I thought that after three years, you might be a bit pent up. 524 00:45:26,490 --> 00:45:27,490 I can leave. 525 00:45:28,550 --> 00:45:31,270 All this plastic stuff might give me a rash. 526 00:45:32,870 --> 00:45:33,870 Well, I'm sorry. 527 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:37,360 I didn't mean to insult you. 528 00:45:39,340 --> 00:45:40,980 I wanted to make sure you'd stay. 529 00:45:43,740 --> 00:45:45,200 I suppose you'll be leaving now. 530 00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:49,360 Well, it's late. I've got nowhere else to go. 531 00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:53,100 I'll sleep on the floor. 532 00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:58,640 Look, my bed is certainly big enough for both of us. 533 00:46:00,580 --> 00:46:01,580 Which side? 534 00:46:02,820 --> 00:46:03,860 Whichever side you like. 535 00:46:20,460 --> 00:46:22,280 Hey, no more tricks. 536 00:46:22,740 --> 00:46:23,740 Tricks? 537 00:46:25,380 --> 00:46:26,680 Of course not. 538 00:46:36,140 --> 00:46:37,600 I'm so exhausted. 539 00:46:39,980 --> 00:46:42,740 I should warn you, I snore. 540 00:46:43,460 --> 00:46:45,720 I'll survive, I'm sure. 541 00:46:51,980 --> 00:46:57,860 Well, until manana good night 542 00:46:57,860 --> 00:47:08,060 Are 543 00:47:08,060 --> 00:47:15,120 you 544 00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:20,280 awake I never sleep long doc 545 00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:23,060 What's your beat? 546 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:28,140 I'm a pro at this game and I'd love to chat. 547 00:47:29,100 --> 00:47:33,680 One asshole to another, above this and that. 548 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:39,300 I tell you I'm no expert, I'm hardly one to talk. 549 00:47:39,580 --> 00:47:41,480 Getting poked is problematic, 550 00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:44,460 I'm not crazy about cork. 551 00:47:44,990 --> 00:47:46,890 You don't like getting fucked? 552 00:47:47,110 --> 00:47:49,330 I haven't heard that before. 553 00:47:49,850 --> 00:47:54,390 One asshole to another is the thing I most adore. 554 00:47:54,870 --> 00:47:59,610 In theory, it's no problem, but in practice, it's a pain. 555 00:47:59,950 --> 00:48:04,590 According to my research, it's a common gay refrain. 556 00:48:05,130 --> 00:48:09,590 The law of the father doesn't recognize the old. 557 00:48:09,930 --> 00:48:12,570 The phallus is a ruler itself. 558 00:48:13,130 --> 00:48:14,710 Cockles in control. 559 00:48:18,530 --> 00:48:20,330 That makes me juvenile. 560 00:48:20,750 --> 00:48:23,110 I'm a polymorphous man. 561 00:48:23,930 --> 00:48:28,150 Oedipus is weeping when my butt I do caress. 562 00:48:28,630 --> 00:48:30,770 I lie down and think of England. 563 00:48:31,130 --> 00:48:33,170 Toot that horn and bang that drum. 564 00:48:33,710 --> 00:48:38,290 It's an insult to the empire when I take it up the bum. 565 00:48:38,830 --> 00:48:43,410 Sex is not for queen and country, you don't need two rams and race. 566 00:48:43,950 --> 00:48:48,330 Sodomy ain't so symbolic, you rectum ain't a grave. 567 00:48:48,810 --> 00:48:53,550 Freud said we have a death wish, getting buggered, getting killed. 568 00:48:54,050 --> 00:49:00,850 This is a costly epidemic, something our subconscious wills. An asshole, just an 569 00:49:00,850 --> 00:49:03,710 asshole, give the analytic crisp. 570 00:49:04,300 --> 00:49:08,400 The meanings are straightforward and cockle in an outcome. 571 00:49:08,720 --> 00:49:13,440 If the asshole ain't so special, then the ballast can't be either. 572 00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:18,560 Patriarchy would crumble if we started getting wiser. 573 00:49:21,780 --> 00:49:23,720 I rest my case now. 574 00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:24,920 Let's have sex. 575 00:49:25,060 --> 00:49:27,240 I have really got to sleep. 576 00:49:27,500 --> 00:49:29,680 You refuse to open up. 577 00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,160 My taboos run very deep. 578 00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:39,480 You're now... I can't help it. I'm still 579 00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:43,200 English. My sincere apologies. Good night. 580 00:49:51,460 --> 00:49:56,280 Please confirm ACT UP's participation in museum subcommittee. 581 00:49:57,420 --> 00:49:58,420 Damn. 582 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:10,040 Miss Piper, you're absolutely right. 583 00:50:11,580 --> 00:50:14,020 Patients here to display must address the ACT UP agenda. 584 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:20,240 Surely you're not denying me a fair hearing. 585 00:50:41,100 --> 00:50:44,120 Sifting on community input into the creation of their television 586 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:45,120 advertisement. 587 00:50:45,860 --> 00:50:46,920 Recommendation was accepted. 588 00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,560 And this questionnaire will go out to the local AIDS community network mailing 589 00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:51,820 list. Thank you, Ray. 590 00:50:52,580 --> 00:50:56,180 Michael and Ross, you have a report from the Gilbert Sullivan Demo Working Group? 591 00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:02,480 Well, the working committee has bought all the supplies, which came to only 50 592 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:06,380 bucks. because Ross is dating the cashier at the art supply store. 593 00:51:06,780 --> 00:51:10,940 We have enough foam core, 40 placards, and the Blinded by Greed I-Chart banner 594 00:51:10,940 --> 00:51:11,940 is ready to go. 595 00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:18,580 While ACT UP is marching outside, Michael, Michelle, Peter, and I will 596 00:51:18,580 --> 00:51:24,760 sneak into the loading dock entrance of Gilbert and... Gilbert and Sullivan, and 597 00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:27,600 take the service elevator to the roofer we'll hang the banner on the side of the 598 00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:28,600 building. 599 00:51:33,330 --> 00:51:34,330 George, you have a question? 600 00:51:35,390 --> 00:51:38,550 I know the committee, right, has been working on this demo for a month now. 601 00:51:39,410 --> 00:51:43,630 But I guess what I want to say is that, well, I feel kind of worried about it, 602 00:51:43,690 --> 00:51:47,070 you see, because I'm taking ZP0, trying to save my eyesight, and at the same 603 00:51:47,070 --> 00:51:49,090 time I'm marching outside condemning the same drug. 604 00:51:49,370 --> 00:51:50,730 Well, the price is the big issue. 605 00:51:51,190 --> 00:51:55,350 It's the most expensive AIDS drug ever. I mean, it's $20,000 a year. 606 00:51:55,650 --> 00:51:58,950 How can anybody who doesn't have a drug plan possibly afford that kind of money? 607 00:51:59,190 --> 00:52:01,470 Gilbert and Sullivan said they have no choice. That's how much your research 608 00:52:01,470 --> 00:52:02,670 costs. Well, they're lying. 609 00:52:03,070 --> 00:52:06,550 Treatment and data says the two biggest clinical trials were paid for with 610 00:52:06,550 --> 00:52:07,550 government funding. 611 00:52:07,670 --> 00:52:09,830 You know what they call ZP0 in Europe, don't you? 612 00:52:10,910 --> 00:52:11,910 Zippo. What do you mean? 613 00:52:12,290 --> 00:52:15,910 Well, one of the European trials showed it did no good at all. Well, everything 614 00:52:15,910 --> 00:52:17,030 I've read said it's the best. 615 00:52:18,650 --> 00:52:21,490 All right, folks. We can come back to this at the end of the meeting if you 616 00:52:21,490 --> 00:52:23,350 like. Let's give Mr. Burton his turn. 617 00:52:23,590 --> 00:52:24,590 Is two minutes enough? 618 00:52:25,390 --> 00:52:28,490 Well, I think the complexity of the... Fine. 619 00:52:29,130 --> 00:52:30,390 Two and a half. Go on. 620 00:52:34,510 --> 00:52:40,490 Well, in my capacity as chief diorama artist at the Natural History Museum, I 621 00:52:40,490 --> 00:52:44,690 was advised, after speaking with Ms. Typhus here, to put forward the notion 622 00:52:44,690 --> 00:52:49,290 of a mutually beneficial dialogue, which, in concrete terms, at the end of 623 00:52:49,290 --> 00:52:52,950 the day, taking all factors into consideration, would be predicated upon 624 00:52:52,950 --> 00:52:56,710 your agreement to endorse the involvement of several of your number. I 625 00:52:56,710 --> 00:52:57,368 think Mr. 626 00:52:57,370 --> 00:52:59,890 Burton would like an ACT UP representative on his museum committee. 627 00:52:59,950 --> 00:53:00,950 Any discussion? 628 00:53:02,240 --> 00:53:05,560 Well, taking off my chair cap for the moment, I would like to note that based 629 00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:09,960 on my previous conversations with Mr. Burton, his show, A, perpetuates 630 00:53:09,960 --> 00:53:13,980 bigotry, and B, fetishizes blame. I mean, there's no mention of treatment 631 00:53:13,980 --> 00:53:15,880 issues or the rights of people living with AIDS. 632 00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:19,640 And finally, Gilbert Sullivan is the exhibit's main sponsor. 633 00:53:20,560 --> 00:53:21,560 Any more discussion? 634 00:53:23,900 --> 00:53:26,300 I call the question, all those in favor? 635 00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:30,200 All those opposed? 636 00:53:31,370 --> 00:53:32,510 I'm sorry, Mr. Burton. 637 00:53:32,770 --> 00:53:34,930 You've had your fair hearing. You know the way out. 638 00:53:36,030 --> 00:53:40,330 Our next item on our agenda concerns the housing needs of the homeless PWAs. 639 00:53:40,390 --> 00:53:43,070 George, you're familiar with the study the university's launched? 640 00:53:43,870 --> 00:53:45,770 George? Nothing wrong? 641 00:53:46,530 --> 00:53:48,830 Nothing. That Burton guy upset me. 642 00:53:49,530 --> 00:53:50,970 What a dweeb. 643 00:53:52,570 --> 00:53:53,570 I mean, we. 644 00:53:54,030 --> 00:53:55,370 Our group upset me. 645 00:53:55,910 --> 00:53:57,010 Just the way we talk. 646 00:53:57,770 --> 00:54:01,170 You know, we're always so goddamn confident and certain about everything. 647 00:54:01,330 --> 00:54:02,330 We always know who to blame. 648 00:54:02,610 --> 00:54:05,730 Because we're always right. All doctors are evil, all scientists are corrupt, 649 00:54:05,870 --> 00:54:09,310 all the government officials are opportunists. If we don't present a 650 00:54:09,310 --> 00:54:10,670 united front, we'll never be heard. 651 00:54:10,950 --> 00:54:12,510 The drug company is all controlled by the CIA. 652 00:54:12,870 --> 00:54:16,230 They've got all the money and the power. We've got to be as strategic as 653 00:54:16,230 --> 00:54:17,230 possible. 654 00:54:27,380 --> 00:54:31,680 The world must never know that PWA is actually arguing. 655 00:54:31,940 --> 00:54:33,640 George, that's not the point. 656 00:54:59,549 --> 00:55:03,070 He says the drug is the killer. 657 00:55:03,830 --> 00:55:06,890 He says it's a wonderful cure. 658 00:55:07,870 --> 00:55:10,950 They all say they're certainly certain. 659 00:55:11,870 --> 00:55:14,870 And I say yes. 660 00:55:15,550 --> 00:55:17,230 Nothing for sure. 661 00:55:20,050 --> 00:55:23,310 He says that I can stay healthy. 662 00:55:23,770 --> 00:55:27,130 He says I'm going to die in a year. 663 00:55:27,970 --> 00:55:31,410 They're both positive, sad and positive. 664 00:55:32,050 --> 00:55:37,410 So far, that's all that's there. 665 00:55:40,150 --> 00:55:44,090 I know, I know, I know the number. Day one. 666 00:55:48,300 --> 00:55:51,340 I know, I know, I know that they don't know. 667 00:56:22,890 --> 00:56:29,250 I'm positive I'm here I'm positive I care I'm positive 668 00:57:27,310 --> 00:57:33,590 Bringing his boyfriend home, flaunting his lifestyle under our noses. 669 00:57:34,110 --> 00:57:36,230 Zero never did that. Never. 670 00:57:36,690 --> 00:57:37,690 I'm back. 671 00:57:41,690 --> 00:57:43,510 I see we've made ourselves at home. 672 00:57:44,610 --> 00:57:46,190 You didn't give me much choice. 673 00:57:47,050 --> 00:57:48,230 The door was locked. 674 00:57:48,770 --> 00:57:50,610 What? Oh, that. 675 00:57:51,770 --> 00:57:52,770 That's silly of me. 676 00:57:53,150 --> 00:57:54,350 Force of habit, you know. 677 00:57:55,430 --> 00:57:56,430 Sure. 678 00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:00,840 He deliberately read it to this time. 679 00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:07,180 Well, sometimes the facts have to be rearranged to get at the real truth. 680 00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,400 I'm going to make a deal with you. 681 00:58:10,840 --> 00:58:11,840 A deal? 682 00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:15,420 I help you with your stupid display. 683 00:58:16,540 --> 00:58:21,760 It can make me into the biggest slut that ever lived on one condition. 684 00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:24,760 Make me appear. 685 00:58:25,180 --> 00:58:26,980 Well, absolutely, my dear boy. 686 00:58:28,650 --> 00:58:32,230 Just as soon as I discover what's wrong with my camera. 687 00:58:34,270 --> 00:58:35,270 No. 688 00:58:36,670 --> 00:58:40,650 In real life, I want to be alive. 689 00:58:41,170 --> 00:58:42,250 Or not at all. 690 00:58:47,970 --> 00:58:53,050 Thus, scientists have established that this contagious pandemic can be traced 691 00:58:53,050 --> 00:58:54,930 back to the African green monkey. 692 00:58:57,680 --> 00:58:58,700 Lucky thing. 693 00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:02,580 It cannot feel guilty like me. 694 00:59:04,100 --> 00:59:05,100 Guilt, moi? 695 00:59:06,840 --> 00:59:10,140 Oh, stop gawking and start talking. Why should I feel guilty? 696 00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:15,360 Why, you know, being the first one and all. 697 00:59:16,300 --> 00:59:20,020 Excuse me, I think you've got me mixed up with some other simian. 698 00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,120 Well, denial's going to get you nowhere. 699 00:59:23,260 --> 00:59:25,240 Everyone knows you're the cause of hate. 700 00:59:30,380 --> 00:59:32,840 Girl can't get a decent night's sleeper anymore. 701 00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:39,880 Bad enough that taxidermist is killing me and stuffing me and sticking his 702 00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:41,280 fingers where they don't belong. 703 00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:46,400 And now you come around nattering and name-calling. Gosh, I need a cigarette, 704 00:59:46,540 --> 00:59:47,540 I gotta tell you. 705 00:59:47,660 --> 00:59:49,200 Well, somewhere there's a connection. 706 00:59:49,900 --> 00:59:51,440 Somehow our flu and men go. 707 00:59:52,620 --> 00:59:54,520 You blood, my cement. 708 00:59:55,140 --> 00:59:57,060 Don't be a dick. I'm not into boys. 709 00:59:57,720 --> 00:59:58,720 No. 710 01:00:04,110 --> 01:00:05,230 But they proved it. 711 01:00:06,050 --> 01:00:07,110 You were the first. 712 01:00:07,570 --> 01:00:11,050 First scapegoat, maybe. That's all. There was never one. Real shred of 713 01:00:11,050 --> 01:00:13,590 evidence. Uh-uh. What the dickens is going on in here? 714 01:00:14,970 --> 01:00:17,190 Get back on your perch, chimp. 715 01:00:17,450 --> 01:00:20,970 Wait, the stuff sure do stuff me, ain't it? She's saying that the monkey theory 716 01:00:20,970 --> 01:00:21,769 isn't true. 717 01:00:21,770 --> 01:00:22,990 You're biased, of course. 718 01:00:23,570 --> 01:00:26,190 The facts all show that AIDS came from Africa. 719 01:00:27,130 --> 01:00:28,910 Ergo, from you. 720 01:00:29,250 --> 01:00:32,790 The experts keep pushing this African origin theory. And why? 721 01:00:33,870 --> 01:00:34,870 Let's see. 722 01:00:35,850 --> 01:00:36,850 Sexy. 723 01:00:38,610 --> 01:00:39,610 Tropical. 724 01:00:41,450 --> 01:00:45,490 It's across the ocean. You're trivializing the worst disease of the 725 01:00:45,490 --> 01:00:48,530 20th century. A contagious disease. Contagious? 726 01:00:50,310 --> 01:00:56,170 I'm sick to death of your stupid, stupid studies, monkey. See, monkey, don't. 727 01:00:56,170 --> 01:00:58,110 Your pet theory is this. 728 01:00:58,430 --> 01:01:00,190 You keep trying to... 729 01:01:06,369 --> 01:01:10,450 All you care about is pointing the finger. 730 01:01:10,830 --> 01:01:14,430 Looking for a scapegoat, someone to blame. 731 01:01:14,970 --> 01:01:18,350 We're sick of you searching for the source of denial. 732 01:01:18,970 --> 01:01:22,550 It's time to refocus, box out of the frame. 733 01:01:23,990 --> 01:01:24,990 Contagious. 734 01:01:25,590 --> 01:01:27,710 Whoa, whoa, whoa, contagious. 735 01:01:33,589 --> 01:01:40,370 CONTATI- CONTATI- CONTATI- CONTATI- 736 01:01:40,370 --> 01:01:47,230 CONTATI- 737 01:01:47,230 --> 01:01:54,370 CONTATI 738 01:01:54,370 --> 01:01:55,370 - 739 01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:07,720 Back off, some more contagious and dangerous. 740 01:02:08,000 --> 01:02:10,940 Watch out, just wait for a twist. 741 01:02:11,980 --> 01:02:15,580 Lock the doors, have the little children. 742 01:02:16,420 --> 01:02:19,220 Don't get caught in the jungle tonight. 743 01:03:16,270 --> 01:03:20,070 If I'd had my sword, I'd made short work of those moth-eaten carcasses. 744 01:03:51,920 --> 01:03:53,740 Suppose we should get dressed now. 745 01:05:35,150 --> 01:05:39,170 Pharmaceutical giant Gilbert Sullivan today announced a record 70% increase in 746 01:05:39,170 --> 01:05:42,630 annual profits, making it one of the largest drug companies in North America. 747 01:05:43,110 --> 01:05:47,010 A spokesperson for the company credits the success of their various AIDS drugs 748 01:05:47,010 --> 01:05:50,810 for the spectacular leap in the company's fortunes. He predicts that 749 01:05:50,810 --> 01:05:54,910 next year's profits will be even more impressive when their new drug, ZP0, is 750 01:05:54,910 --> 01:05:55,950 in full-scale distribution. 751 01:05:56,770 --> 01:06:00,290 Vice President Ms. Anna Strutting also announced the... God. 752 01:06:40,460 --> 01:06:41,460 Good morning, Burton. 753 01:06:41,960 --> 01:06:43,080 Working late again? 754 01:06:46,100 --> 01:06:49,280 Yes, all right, in fact. 755 01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:53,000 Finishing touches. 756 01:06:55,260 --> 01:06:56,700 Part work, you know. 757 01:06:57,620 --> 01:07:01,460 We're opening at ten as usual, you know. 758 01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:13,220 There are alternatives, George. 759 01:07:14,820 --> 01:07:18,240 It's too early to tell, but you can stop taking it if you like. 760 01:07:37,960 --> 01:07:41,160 They thirst for calming ground in private dreams 761 01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:46,380 Here's something. 762 01:07:48,440 --> 01:07:53,740 Experts believe that ghosts wander the earth in search of repentance for their 763 01:07:53,740 --> 01:07:54,740 sins. 764 01:07:56,240 --> 01:08:02,800 Only the fusion of fire and water at zero hour can release them from their 765 01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:03,800 earthly prison. 766 01:08:04,640 --> 01:08:08,050 Yeah. What about girls coming back to life? 767 01:08:08,670 --> 01:08:09,730 Having sex? 768 01:08:10,430 --> 01:08:11,430 Becoming human? 769 01:08:15,770 --> 01:08:17,189 Nothing, I'm afraid. 770 01:08:20,330 --> 01:08:27,229 Whenever someone 771 01:08:27,229 --> 01:08:31,529 lights a cigarette from a candle, the sailor drowns, I think. 772 01:08:49,970 --> 01:08:54,010 We have an apple. 773 01:08:54,729 --> 01:08:57,510 You have a pen. 774 01:09:06,310 --> 01:09:09,770 I have an orange. 775 01:09:10,370 --> 01:09:11,490 I have an apple. 776 01:09:13,569 --> 01:09:15,430 I have an orange. 777 01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:26,100 I have AIDS. 778 01:09:26,319 --> 01:09:27,420 I have AIDS. 779 01:10:13,100 --> 01:10:15,140 We've got to be as strategic as possible. 780 01:10:15,660 --> 01:10:17,300 There's nothing here we can use either. 781 01:10:18,940 --> 01:10:20,440 What if we recut it? 782 01:10:21,340 --> 01:10:25,040 Not to change the meaning, just to give the material a bit of focus. 783 01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:27,240 Shape it. 784 01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:29,120 Mold it a bit. No way. 785 01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:30,660 These are my friends. 786 01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:33,340 We'll treat them decently or not at all. 787 01:10:37,280 --> 01:10:38,280 Well? 788 01:10:39,820 --> 01:10:41,780 I need to find some new material, then. 789 01:10:56,940 --> 01:11:00,860 I've been busy borrowing some files from Dr. 790 01:11:01,060 --> 01:11:02,060 Chang. 791 01:11:02,440 --> 01:11:07,360 The original record for the 1982 cluster study, which established your guilt. 792 01:11:07,560 --> 01:11:08,560 Come to bed. 793 01:11:09,960 --> 01:11:11,380 There's work to do, my boy. 794 01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:14,080 Oh. 795 01:11:17,240 --> 01:11:18,400 Blood time zero. 796 01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:20,760 March 18. 797 01:11:31,150 --> 01:11:32,250 Same old articles. 798 01:11:41,030 --> 01:11:42,650 There's nothing new here. 799 01:11:47,170 --> 01:11:48,170 Unless... 800 01:12:01,580 --> 01:12:03,180 My bloodstream is in bad shape. 801 01:12:08,340 --> 01:12:09,340 Yeah? 802 01:12:10,180 --> 01:12:11,180 That's better. 803 01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:14,560 Not many T-cells left. 804 01:12:15,460 --> 01:12:16,460 Poor things. 805 01:12:17,100 --> 01:12:18,580 They couldn't hurt a fly. 806 01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:24,920 Well, it's clear they've given up. 807 01:12:25,800 --> 01:12:27,920 They're not even trying to work together. 808 01:12:28,780 --> 01:12:30,000 Or at least help. 809 01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:32,559 looks so ashamed. 810 01:12:32,560 --> 01:12:35,220 They can't even produce a decent antibody anymore. 811 01:12:36,840 --> 01:12:39,220 What a bunch of losers. 812 01:12:42,780 --> 01:12:45,100 Hey, who is this? 813 01:12:50,060 --> 01:12:52,160 Why are you scaring everybody? 814 01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:53,600 Hey. 815 01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:57,320 Hey, 816 01:12:58,260 --> 01:12:59,560 you. Bully. 817 01:13:01,200 --> 01:13:02,860 Stop picking on my immune system. 818 01:13:03,700 --> 01:13:06,840 Excuse me, but have we been properly introduced? 819 01:13:07,780 --> 01:13:09,780 Get out of my blood. 820 01:13:10,440 --> 01:13:12,200 I'd love nothing more. 821 01:13:12,440 --> 01:13:15,840 I haven't had a decent conversation in months. 822 01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:21,500 Your monocytes are monosyllabic. Your red cells are redneck. 823 01:13:21,740 --> 01:13:28,600 And as for the other viruses, well, does the phrase more wine with your 824 01:13:28,600 --> 01:13:30,180 dinner mean anything to you? 825 01:13:31,900 --> 01:13:35,020 Zero? What the dickens are you up to? 826 01:13:35,300 --> 01:13:36,300 It's HIV. 827 01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:39,420 What? HIV? 828 01:13:40,780 --> 01:13:44,960 You destroyed my immune system. You killed me. 829 01:13:45,240 --> 01:13:50,920 Like it or not, despite all the research, despite billions of dollars, 830 01:13:51,200 --> 01:13:57,600 not one reputable scientist has proven absolutely and conclusively that I 831 01:13:57,600 --> 01:13:59,640 disable people's immune systems. 832 01:14:00,620 --> 01:14:04,180 If you didn't kill me, who did? Look around. 833 01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:10,600 Your blood is chock full of all these big-headed, sick-making pathogens who 834 01:14:10,600 --> 01:14:11,600 want the credit. 835 01:14:12,060 --> 01:14:15,440 I couldn't agree more, Miss HIV. 836 01:14:16,020 --> 01:14:19,960 Smart people now think I'm the real cause. 837 01:14:20,900 --> 01:14:26,940 Nonsense! All the best research points to me. AIDS is actually untreated 838 01:14:26,940 --> 01:14:28,640 tertiary syphilis, darling. 839 01:14:28,900 --> 01:14:29,900 Oh. 840 01:14:30,390 --> 01:14:32,830 All this focus on the immune system. 841 01:14:33,070 --> 01:14:36,190 Really. I'm the one who makes people go blind. 842 01:14:36,810 --> 01:14:38,650 I'm the one who actually kills. 843 01:14:39,450 --> 01:14:42,750 Maybe it's some special combination of the four of us. 844 01:14:43,190 --> 01:14:45,710 Join hands and kick, darling. 845 01:14:46,210 --> 01:14:49,450 We'll do the cofactorial conga. 846 01:14:54,530 --> 01:14:58,690 Miss HIV, what about all the safer sex business? 847 01:15:00,350 --> 01:15:01,990 Safe sex is vital. 848 01:15:02,350 --> 01:15:04,770 You of all people should know that, Zero. 849 01:15:05,230 --> 01:15:11,570 For better or worse, that famous flawed cluster soap opera you starred in back 850 01:15:11,570 --> 01:15:16,070 in 1982 convinced everyone that safe sex is crucial. 851 01:15:16,850 --> 01:15:19,710 Well, that story proved I brought hate to North America. 852 01:15:19,990 --> 01:15:24,850 That data merely documents that you slept with the men who slept with the 853 01:15:24,850 --> 01:15:29,890 men, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. But it takes much longer than that. 854 01:15:30,300 --> 01:15:33,960 Sometimes as long as ten years to manifest chronic symptoms. 855 01:15:34,320 --> 01:15:37,500 The men I slept with might already have been infected? 856 01:15:37,800 --> 01:15:41,880 Exactly. They might even have infected you, for all we know. 857 01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:43,860 Well, then I wasn't the first. 858 01:15:44,080 --> 01:15:45,700 Of course not. 859 01:15:46,340 --> 01:15:51,000 Scientists have since documented cases of AIDS in North America at least as 860 01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:56,340 early as the 60s. Most importantly, why should it matter who was the first? 861 01:17:25,610 --> 01:17:26,349 I'm alive. 862 01:17:26,350 --> 01:17:27,350 Wait. 863 01:17:29,030 --> 01:17:30,030 Turn a bit the camera. 864 01:17:32,690 --> 01:17:33,690 I'm innocent. 865 01:17:33,990 --> 01:17:34,990 Say that again. 866 01:17:37,570 --> 01:17:38,710 I'm not the first. 867 01:17:40,650 --> 01:17:41,950 I'm still the best. 868 01:17:56,140 --> 01:17:59,260 New York, San Francisco, spent a lot of time there. 869 01:17:59,860 --> 01:18:01,380 I'm going to about a thousand. 870 01:18:29,930 --> 01:18:32,010 Second coming only lasted five minutes. 871 01:18:37,570 --> 01:18:40,970 I've been working around the clock, too excited to eat or sleep. 872 01:18:41,810 --> 01:18:43,630 Zero's innocence changes everything. 873 01:18:44,110 --> 01:18:48,070 I've had to revise my entire analysis, of course, but it's all worth it. 874 01:18:48,550 --> 01:18:53,410 The new display is going to be absolutely electrifying. A resounding 875 01:18:53,410 --> 01:18:55,770 slap in the face of scientific orthodoxy. 876 01:18:56,840 --> 01:18:58,980 Zero doesn't seem to understand the implications. 877 01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:01,780 He's been acting moody and depressed. 878 01:19:02,880 --> 01:19:04,080 I'm not the first. 879 01:19:05,940 --> 01:19:07,300 I'm still the best. 880 01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:14,760 From the start, AIDS was not only an epidemic of medicine, but also an 881 01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:15,760 epidemic of blame. 882 01:19:16,760 --> 01:19:20,500 Haitians, gay men, prostitutes, drug users, Africans. 883 01:19:21,180 --> 01:19:23,800 These were just some of the so-called carriers. 884 01:19:24,510 --> 01:19:28,150 constructed by hysterical headlines and hypocritical governance. 885 01:19:29,110 --> 01:19:33,350 Unscrupulous scientists have asserted without evidence that the African green 886 01:19:33,350 --> 01:19:38,570 monkey is the source, that HIV is the cause, and that patient zero brought 887 01:19:38,570 --> 01:19:39,710 AIDS to North America. 888 01:19:40,850 --> 01:19:45,190 In fact, none of these so-called facts have been proven. 889 01:19:45,970 --> 01:19:50,070 Patient zero should actually be acclaimed a hero of the epidemic. 890 01:19:50,850 --> 01:19:55,590 Through his cooperation in the 1982 cluster study, He helped prove that AIDS 891 01:19:55,590 --> 01:19:56,850 was sexually transmitted. 892 01:19:57,670 --> 01:20:02,570 The answer zero should be lauded as the slut who inspired safer sex. 893 01:20:04,150 --> 01:20:05,230 Well, thanks for nothing. 894 01:20:05,710 --> 01:20:06,710 Oh, don't you see? 895 01:20:07,310 --> 01:20:09,410 This display will publicly clear your name. 896 01:20:09,870 --> 01:20:12,250 You'll be hailed as a cutting-edge AIDS activist. 897 01:20:12,990 --> 01:20:16,510 Bullshit. But we've got to make the world see that you're innocent. 898 01:20:17,270 --> 01:20:18,950 Well, this has nothing to do with me. 899 01:20:19,450 --> 01:20:21,530 With who I was. With what I want. 900 01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:25,160 He'll be remembered as a hero. 901 01:20:27,420 --> 01:20:29,900 Well, you want to know how I want to be remembered? 902 01:20:30,740 --> 01:20:32,580 A photo in my mom's fridge. 903 01:20:33,120 --> 01:20:34,880 A slide in George's window. 904 01:20:35,980 --> 01:20:36,978 That's real. 905 01:20:36,980 --> 01:20:38,860 This is just another of your lies. 906 01:20:40,620 --> 01:20:46,080 I admit that when I started, my intentions were... were a little bit 907 01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:47,080 suspect. 908 01:20:48,380 --> 01:20:49,520 But I've changed. 909 01:20:51,570 --> 01:20:52,650 You've changed me. 910 01:20:54,810 --> 01:20:55,950 I'm doing this for you. 911 01:20:56,330 --> 01:20:57,330 For me? 912 01:20:57,650 --> 01:20:59,310 You were supposed to make me appear. 913 01:20:59,910 --> 01:21:03,570 You made me appear five minutes. Just long enough to finish off your display. 914 01:21:04,090 --> 01:21:05,290 That's all what you care about. 915 01:21:07,290 --> 01:21:08,290 Your display. 916 01:21:08,470 --> 01:21:09,470 Your carrier. 917 01:21:09,510 --> 01:21:10,510 Your museum. 918 01:21:11,790 --> 01:21:12,790 Wait. 919 01:21:12,990 --> 01:21:16,510 No. There's no life for me here. I want to be dead again. 920 01:21:18,390 --> 01:21:19,390 I don't understand. 921 01:21:20,749 --> 01:21:22,250 No, you don't. 922 01:21:27,070 --> 01:21:31,510 This afternoon, AIDS activists marched outside the downtown offices of the 923 01:21:31,510 --> 01:21:33,650 pharmaceutical multinational Gilbert Sullivan. 924 01:21:34,370 --> 01:21:37,870 Demonstrators want the new treatment drug, ZB-0, to be made available at 925 01:21:37,870 --> 01:21:41,370 greatly reduced rates for any person with AIDS who might need it. We're on 926 01:21:41,370 --> 01:21:44,170 the front steps of Gilbert Sullivan now. ZB-0 is an expensive and several drugs 927 01:21:44,170 --> 01:21:47,710 currently available, which are thought to treat AIDS-related blindness caused 928 01:21:47,710 --> 01:21:48,810 by... Oh, there's Ray. 929 01:21:49,469 --> 01:21:50,469 He's chanting. 930 01:21:52,430 --> 01:21:54,650 Now he's flirting with that new guy, Jeremy. 931 01:21:57,290 --> 01:21:59,030 Oh, Andrew's blocking me now. 932 01:22:00,170 --> 01:22:01,830 Hogging the spotlight as usual. 933 01:22:04,290 --> 01:22:06,470 Michael and Ross are poking their heads out. 934 01:22:09,550 --> 01:22:12,710 The banner looks incredible. 935 01:22:16,510 --> 01:22:18,330 Security guards are grabbing him now. 936 01:22:18,910 --> 01:22:22,750 In sports news, the Canadian synchronized swimming team made history 937 01:22:22,750 --> 01:22:26,630 when a men's pair, the only men competing in the Stockholm World Finals, 938 01:22:26,650 --> 01:22:30,030 scored top marks for the routine based on really important parts of the 939 01:22:30,030 --> 01:22:32,630 character. Their performance earned them a gold medal. 940 01:22:53,680 --> 01:23:00,560 There are six or seven things that I wanted to say Simple 941 01:23:00,560 --> 01:23:07,440 things in a simple way How is that book 942 01:23:07,440 --> 01:23:08,640 you're reading? 943 01:23:10,160 --> 01:23:16,500 A list of things I just keep on repeating 944 01:23:26,480 --> 01:23:28,660 The way you 945 01:23:28,660 --> 01:23:33,860 made 946 01:23:33,860 --> 01:23:40,560 me feel a little bit. 947 01:23:50,830 --> 01:23:53,990 I've got now a six or seven. 948 01:23:54,550 --> 01:24:01,290 A candle, a bow, a picture of you. A 949 01:24:01,290 --> 01:24:07,710 hurt in my heart because I can't forget the things 950 01:24:07,710 --> 01:24:12,570 we can't ever do. 951 01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:21,980 I forgot to say. 952 01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:27,900 Simple words in a simple way. 953 01:24:28,200 --> 01:24:34,980 It feels so strange to discover the 954 01:24:34,980 --> 01:24:36,460 seventh word. 955 01:24:37,280 --> 01:24:41,160 I could have said word lover. 956 01:24:44,600 --> 01:24:49,620 There are six or seven things that I can't forgive. 957 01:24:52,330 --> 01:24:59,050 That couldn't see you, myself who couldn't keep you You're gone, you left 958 01:24:59,050 --> 01:25:04,590 so sadly I want you back, 959 01:25:04,830 --> 01:25:08,850 want you back so badly 960 01:25:08,850 --> 01:25:15,430 All I've got now 961 01:25:47,550 --> 01:25:50,950 What do you mean you're not ready? You've never missed a deadline in your 962 01:25:50,950 --> 01:25:51,950 life. 963 01:25:53,900 --> 01:25:55,080 Well, say something, Dick. 964 01:25:57,460 --> 01:25:58,460 I'm sorry, sir. 965 01:26:01,360 --> 01:26:03,540 I guess you'll have to cancel the display. 966 01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:05,020 Don't be ridiculous. 967 01:26:06,960 --> 01:26:08,300 Where's the first version, Dick? 968 01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:10,780 The one we showed at the press conference. 969 01:26:11,440 --> 01:26:12,440 What? 970 01:26:13,740 --> 01:26:16,780 You can't... Sir. 971 01:26:19,660 --> 01:26:21,380 I like this one better anyway. 972 01:26:21,620 --> 01:26:22,620 But you can't show that. 973 01:26:25,450 --> 01:26:26,910 I'll speak about this later. 974 01:26:34,490 --> 01:26:37,250 You wanted $60,000. I had to cancel it. 975 01:26:38,490 --> 01:26:42,010 Anyway, I think if you take your seat now, I'll begin the presentation. 976 01:26:43,710 --> 01:26:46,990 All right, everyone, we'll start now. 977 01:26:55,240 --> 01:26:56,380 He loved to sleep around. 978 01:26:57,560 --> 01:26:58,920 He was very defiant. 979 01:26:59,760 --> 01:27:02,980 He told us that we were asking lots of sex police. 980 01:27:04,360 --> 01:27:07,320 Even later when he started losing weight, he didn't let that kill our 981 01:27:07,320 --> 01:27:08,320 evening out. 982 01:27:08,520 --> 01:27:12,340 Lots of disco, lots of parties, lots of junk. 983 01:27:12,660 --> 01:27:13,660 Grab. 984 01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:15,080 Lots of sex. 985 01:27:15,620 --> 01:27:16,860 Zero was the devil. 986 01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:18,280 Stop. 987 01:27:19,180 --> 01:27:20,800 Stop. This display is all wrong. 988 01:27:21,560 --> 01:27:23,040 Ladies and gentlemen of the press. 989 01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:26,420 There's no such thing as a patient zero, really. 990 01:27:26,640 --> 01:27:29,180 What do you mean there's no patient zero? We read the press release. 991 01:27:29,440 --> 01:27:35,020 Patient zero is a myth. Get out of the way, mister. We want to see the show. 992 01:27:35,300 --> 01:27:37,080 This is my lead item and I'm going with it. 993 01:27:48,860 --> 01:27:52,740 It's my fault, Dick. I should have seen that you've been working too hard. 994 01:28:01,260 --> 01:28:05,040 The pressure got to you. Rest now. We'll talk in the morning. 995 01:28:10,420 --> 01:28:15,280 The display profiles a promiscuous Quebecois flight attendant who had 996 01:28:15,280 --> 01:28:17,740 hundreds of homosexual partners on four continents. 997 01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:25,060 Record attendant figures were set today as the museum's Patient Zero display 998 01:28:25,060 --> 01:28:29,560 opened to the public. ...was started by a promiscuous gay man they call Patient 999 01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:30,560 Zero. 1000 01:28:53,870 --> 01:28:58,830 What's the time? Zero hour. How much patience? 1001 01:28:59,710 --> 01:29:04,630 None. What's the time? Zero hour. 1002 01:29:05,130 --> 01:29:06,690 How much patience? 1003 01:29:07,370 --> 01:29:08,590 None. 1004 01:32:26,830 --> 01:32:27,830 You've come back. 1005 01:32:30,710 --> 01:32:31,710 Yeah. 1006 01:32:33,070 --> 01:32:34,430 There's nowhere else for me to go. 1007 01:32:35,170 --> 01:32:37,890 I... I tried to stop the display. I really did. 1008 01:32:38,630 --> 01:32:39,710 I know what you mean now. 1009 01:32:44,330 --> 01:32:45,330 I was wrong. 1010 01:32:46,310 --> 01:32:47,310 And I'm sorry. 1011 01:32:49,410 --> 01:32:50,410 I'm sorry, too. 1012 01:32:51,670 --> 01:32:53,230 I know you can't make me alive. 1013 01:32:54,530 --> 01:32:55,530 You... 1014 01:32:56,440 --> 01:32:57,440 Anybody. 1015 01:32:57,880 --> 01:32:58,980 We'll keep trying. 1016 01:32:59,640 --> 01:33:03,820 We'll sneak into a research laboratory, find a chemical formula to make you 1017 01:33:03,820 --> 01:33:07,500 feel... You talk too much. 1018 01:33:33,900 --> 01:33:34,900 Need you. 1019 01:33:37,780 --> 01:33:38,780 Help me. 1020 01:34:06,269 --> 01:34:09,730 I'm not the first, but I'm still the best. 1021 01:34:10,310 --> 01:34:12,970 Make me true, make me clear. 1022 01:34:13,450 --> 01:34:15,050 Make me disappear. 1023 01:34:17,450 --> 01:34:19,370 Make me disappear. 1024 01:34:22,750 --> 01:34:24,290 What's the time? 1025 01:34:26,750 --> 01:34:28,330 I'm a station. 1026 01:34:31,050 --> 01:34:32,370 What's the crime? 1027 01:34:32,690 --> 01:34:34,110 Zero hour. 1028 01:34:34,790 --> 01:34:36,450 How much paper? 1029 01:34:37,290 --> 01:34:38,290 None. 1030 01:34:53,150 --> 01:34:54,830 Is that a light thing? 1031 01:36:54,880 --> 01:36:58,020 We don't need to mourn today. 1032 01:36:58,840 --> 01:37:05,200 Be with people who matter. Tell a tale, take a chance. 1033 01:37:05,900 --> 01:37:11,360 A chance we should have had before 1034 01:37:11,360 --> 01:37:14,220 we took paradise. 1035 01:37:36,860 --> 01:37:38,980 We'll be right back. 1036 01:37:56,520 --> 01:37:59,840 Tell a tale that must be told. 1037 01:38:00,300 --> 01:38:04,000 A lifetime's brave and sad. 1038 01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:09,000 Sing for me the paradise. 1039 01:38:13,720 --> 01:38:20,180 We've been told a thousand stories. 1040 01:38:20,640 --> 01:38:23,160 None of them seem right. 1041 01:38:26,440 --> 01:38:27,800 Thank you. 1042 01:39:20,300 --> 01:39:23,100 Thank you.