1 00:00:00,097 --> 00:00:01,794 Subtitles by Korea NSC Subtitle Team 2 00:00:01,794 --> 00:00:04,133 Geez, Randy. Come up for air. 3 00:00:06,845 --> 00:00:10,403 Yes, it is. My dad's gonna kill me being out so late. 4 00:00:10,476 --> 00:00:14,022 Look, just tell your old man you were studying anatomy. 5 00:00:14,022 --> 00:00:17,945 Before or after he crushes your throat with his workboot? 6 00:00:18,110 --> 00:00:21,174 Besides I don't feel so good all of a sudden. 7 00:00:21,174 --> 00:00:24,316 Really? I never felt better. 8 00:00:25,703 --> 00:00:28,145 You know? I can buy more sympathy on e-bay. 9 00:00:28,145 --> 00:00:29,226 Take me home. 10 00:00:29,226 --> 00:00:30,197 Come on... 11 00:00:30,197 --> 00:00:32,881 No, I mean it. Drive. 12 00:00:33,316 --> 00:00:34,494 Whatever. 13 00:00:47,989 --> 00:00:50,862 - Damn thing needs a tune-up. - It needs a junk yard. 14 00:00:53,449 --> 00:00:55,041 Randy. 15 00:00:55,627 --> 00:00:57,836 - What? - There's a car coming. 16 00:00:57,957 --> 00:01:00,776 - Just relax. - No, there's a car coming fast. 17 00:01:03,850 --> 00:01:05,572 - Come on. - Randy? 18 00:01:05,572 --> 00:01:06,823 Come on, oh, my god. 19 00:01:06,823 --> 00:01:08,442 - Randy? - Come on. 20 00:01:08,594 --> 00:01:11,003 - Randy! - It won't start! 21 00:01:31,775 --> 00:01:34,086 Are you okay? 22 00:01:34,086 --> 00:01:36,051 Oh, man, he's really hurt. 23 00:01:36,051 --> 00:01:37,659 He's more than hurt, Randy. 24 00:01:37,659 --> 00:01:38,838 He looks sick. 25 00:01:38,838 --> 00:01:41,086 Look, just sit tight, okay. We're gonna get you help. 26 00:01:41,086 --> 00:01:42,619 Don't worry about me. 27 00:01:42,619 --> 00:01:44,639 Take care of her. 28 00:01:49,658 --> 00:01:51,837 Oh, my god. 29 00:01:51,837 --> 00:01:53,101 She's sick, too. 30 00:01:53,101 --> 00:01:55,064 My daughter. 31 00:01:55,860 --> 00:01:59,562 Please, save my little girl. 32 00:02:06,268 --> 00:02:09,841 Medical investigation 1x09. Little Girl 33 00:02:42,104 --> 00:02:44,261 ORIGINAL AIR DATE ON NBC: 2004/11/12 34 00:02:48,411 --> 00:02:50,331 Four deaths, one town. 35 00:02:50,331 --> 00:02:52,739 What we're dealing with is aplastic anemia. 36 00:02:52,739 --> 00:02:56,293 An idiopathic disease that kills by destroying its victim's bone marrow. 37 00:02:56,293 --> 00:02:58,356 No bone marrow, no blood cells. 38 00:02:58,356 --> 00:03:00,017 No blood cells, no oxygen, 39 00:03:00,017 --> 00:03:02,961 no immunity to disease, no blood clotting. 40 00:03:02,961 --> 00:03:04,694 It's not a pretty way to go, 41 00:03:04,694 --> 00:03:08,649 and so far it's hitting at a disturbing rate of one in 25,000 in this area. 42 00:03:08,649 --> 00:03:11,056 That's gotta be an off-the-chart cluster in anyone's book. 43 00:03:11,056 --> 00:03:13,780 Look, we can all sit around here and say aplastic anemia 44 00:03:13,780 --> 00:03:14,866 is rare or it's random, 45 00:03:14,866 --> 00:03:16,931 but it doesn't change the fact that we're staring down the barrel 46 00:03:16,931 --> 00:03:19,372 to one hell of a deadly disease. 47 00:03:19,372 --> 00:03:23,045 All right, here are the things aplastic can be triggered by. 48 00:03:23,045 --> 00:03:25,536 Toxic exposure, drugs or other medications, 49 00:03:25,536 --> 00:03:28,117 radiation exposure, viral infection. 50 00:03:28,117 --> 00:03:32,659 And our four victims are a banker, a teacher, a plumber and a cab driver. 51 00:03:32,659 --> 00:03:36,936 All found dead, none of whom had any ties to one another or exposure to any of the above. 52 00:03:36,936 --> 00:03:38,703 No commonalties between any of them? 53 00:03:38,703 --> 00:03:40,115 There's nothing I can find. 54 00:03:40,115 --> 00:03:42,516 Unfortunately, by the time the victims' bodies got to us, 55 00:03:42,516 --> 00:03:45,571 blood and tissue degradation made them virtually useless. 56 00:03:45,571 --> 00:03:47,000 Which in summation tells us? 57 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,329 We're up against a non-contagious disease that's spreading 58 00:03:49,329 --> 00:03:52,269 and we have no idea how or why. 59 00:03:53,322 --> 00:03:54,497 What are you thinking? 60 00:03:54,497 --> 00:03:57,561 How much I hate myself for wishing we had a living victim. 61 00:03:57,561 --> 00:03:59,248 I think we've got one. 62 00:04:04,733 --> 00:04:07,408 Her name's Carla Beyer, she's ten years old. 63 00:04:07,408 --> 00:04:09,932 Night before last she and her father were in a car accident 64 00:04:09,932 --> 00:04:12,605 and she was transported to a hospital near Willemet, Maryland, 65 00:04:12,605 --> 00:04:14,523 which is about 45 minutes from here. 66 00:04:14,523 --> 00:04:17,267 Two teenagers saw the whole thing, called 911. 67 00:04:17,334 --> 00:04:19,934 She presented with dizziness, nose bleeds, bleeding gums, 68 00:04:19,934 --> 00:04:21,506 skin pallor, oral thrush. 69 00:04:21,506 --> 00:04:23,556 That's consistent with aplastic anemia. 70 00:04:23,556 --> 00:04:25,776 Any more details from the attending doctor? 71 00:04:25,776 --> 00:04:29,567 Yeah, that something like this was way beyond the sheepskin her tuition bought. 72 00:04:31,213 --> 00:04:32,218 Willimet Hosptal Maryland 73 00:04:32,218 --> 00:04:34,509 Her CBC reveals a decrease in all blood cells 74 00:04:34,509 --> 00:04:35,902 and they've been dropping steadily. 75 00:04:35,902 --> 00:04:38,239 Look, I know I don't have the resources that you do, 76 00:04:38,239 --> 00:04:39,858 but when I read your surveillance alert 77 00:04:39,858 --> 00:04:42,071 I knew that Carla was positive for aplastic anemia. 78 00:04:42,071 --> 00:04:44,502 If Carla is aplastic, her last chance for survival would 79 00:04:44,502 --> 00:04:45,989 be to get a bone marrow transplant. 80 00:04:45,989 --> 00:04:49,455 Miles, I want you to biopsy her marrow and then see if her father's a match. 81 00:04:49,455 --> 00:04:50,981 I don't think that's gonna be possible. 82 00:04:50,981 --> 00:04:53,354 Her father died from injuries sustained in the crash, 83 00:04:53,354 --> 00:04:56,085 but he had the same symptoms, same disease. 84 00:04:56,085 --> 00:04:59,494 Two people from one family with aplastic anemia is unheard of. 85 00:04:59,494 --> 00:05:00,716 What about the mother? 86 00:05:00,716 --> 00:05:03,828 The police haven'teen able to find her as yet. 87 00:05:04,657 --> 00:05:07,548 So, this little girl's been in the hospital for two days without any family around her? 88 00:05:07,548 --> 00:05:09,772 Her parents are divorced, father got custody. 89 00:05:09,772 --> 00:05:11,683 Carla and her dad are new in the area. 90 00:05:11,683 --> 00:05:13,579 Her mom never even moved here. 91 00:05:13,579 --> 00:05:16,408 Apparently, the police aren't even sure of the mother's name. 92 00:05:17,037 --> 00:05:18,435 On it. 93 00:05:23,244 --> 00:05:25,356 She has a slight concussion from the accident. 94 00:05:25,356 --> 00:05:28,372 She's been unconscious since we stabilized her. 95 00:05:29,021 --> 00:05:31,379 Her temperature's normal, 96 00:05:31,589 --> 00:05:33,920 but her breathing is labored. 97 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,452 She appears to have pinpoint hemorrhaging on the skin. 98 00:05:36,452 --> 00:05:37,562 Petechia? 99 00:05:37,562 --> 00:05:38,884 Yeah, that's my guess. 100 00:05:38,884 --> 00:05:40,923 Her platelets must still be dropping. 101 00:05:40,923 --> 00:05:42,624 Look at her fingertips. 102 00:05:43,483 --> 00:05:45,594 Very callused. 103 00:05:45,594 --> 00:05:47,562 She must play the piano. 104 00:05:47,562 --> 00:05:49,486 Mine were like rocks when I was a kid. 105 00:05:50,953 --> 00:05:53,355 All right, let's see how we're doing here. 106 00:06:01,383 --> 00:06:03,388 Daddy? 107 00:06:09,767 --> 00:06:11,474 Miles, I don't want her left alone. 108 00:06:11,474 --> 00:06:14,649 If she so much as stirs or flutters an eye, I want to know. 109 00:06:15,949 --> 00:06:17,560 We're not gonna lose her. 110 00:06:22,357 --> 00:06:23,457 How'd it go with the cop? 111 00:06:23,457 --> 00:06:24,627 Forget about it. 112 00:06:24,627 --> 00:06:27,443 Got a little testy when I offered to help find Carla's mom. 113 00:06:27,443 --> 00:06:29,087 Claims they have it under control. 114 00:06:29,087 --> 00:06:31,163 All right, I need you both to go to the father's house. 115 00:06:31,163 --> 00:06:33,258 Test it for any potential causes of this breakout. 116 00:06:33,258 --> 00:06:36,073 Eva, search it for any clues that will help us find the mother. 117 00:06:36,073 --> 00:06:37,710 Without a bone marrow transplant, 118 00:06:37,710 --> 00:06:38,925 this little girl is never gonna make it. 119 00:06:38,925 --> 00:06:40,330 I'll find her. 120 00:06:47,047 --> 00:06:49,614 Damn, this place is spotless. 121 00:06:49,614 --> 00:06:51,563 I could learn a thing or two. 122 00:06:51,563 --> 00:06:55,032 It's not exactly what you'd expect from a single dad. 123 00:06:58,858 --> 00:07:00,762 No wonder dad was so organized. 124 00:07:00,762 --> 00:07:02,769 Looks like he was a CPA. 125 00:07:02,892 --> 00:07:05,028 Ran his business out of the house. 126 00:07:06,128 --> 00:07:09,561 Carla was lucky to have a dad who wanted to be so involved. 127 00:07:15,173 --> 00:07:18,133 Looks like he had the lion's share of the custody, too. 128 00:07:18,133 --> 00:07:21,693 Although it would appear she spent all of last week at her mom's. 129 00:07:21,693 --> 00:07:25,296 There's pictures of Carla and her dad all over the room, 130 00:07:25,559 --> 00:07:27,124 but not one of her mother. 131 00:07:27,124 --> 00:07:28,310 It's weird. 132 00:07:28,310 --> 00:07:30,640 Her mother doesn't have much of a presence here, 133 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,598 doesn't seem to have much of a presence in her life. 134 00:07:36,913 --> 00:07:39,648 But she's definitely attached to her dad. 135 00:07:41,255 --> 00:07:43,008 That's how we find mom. 136 00:07:44,104 --> 00:07:45,342 I don't follow. 137 00:07:45,342 --> 00:07:46,851 Dad's a CPA, right? 138 00:07:46,851 --> 00:07:49,694 Part of his job is to keep and file receipts for others. 139 00:07:49,694 --> 00:07:51,418 If Carla was so attached to her dad, 140 00:07:51,418 --> 00:07:54,371 I bet he'd make sure he was available 24/7 for her. 141 00:07:54,371 --> 00:07:56,327 Especially if she was with her mom. 142 00:07:56,327 --> 00:07:59,602 And he could only be that available by cell phone. 143 00:08:02,464 --> 00:08:04,750 Check for calls dad received on the days and nights 144 00:08:04,750 --> 00:08:07,732 that corresponds with the days Carla was with her mother. 145 00:08:07,732 --> 00:08:11,189 We reverse directory that number and I bet we find mom. 146 00:08:35,267 --> 00:08:36,667 Tell me you found the mother. 147 00:08:36,667 --> 00:08:41,142 Her name is Angela Beyer. She lives at 1258 tenth street in Willemet. 148 00:08:41,295 --> 00:08:42,460 Wait a minute. 149 00:08:42,460 --> 00:08:45,160 That's right there in the middle of the original cluster of four. 150 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:46,591 We've called, but there's no answer. 151 00:08:46,591 --> 00:08:47,604 We're two hours away, 152 00:08:47,604 --> 00:08:50,506 but from your locale you're only about ten minutes from there. 153 00:08:50,506 --> 00:08:51,922 We're on our way. 154 00:08:55,817 --> 00:08:57,617 Mount Ranier, Maryland 155 00:08:59,071 --> 00:09:00,410 We're not in Kansas anymore. 156 00:09:00,410 --> 00:09:01,436 Yeah. 157 00:09:01,436 --> 00:09:03,760 Hell of a place for a little girl to spend her weekends. 158 00:09:05,228 --> 00:09:07,321 Angela Beyer? 159 00:09:09,997 --> 00:09:12,425 Angela Beyer? 160 00:09:17,766 --> 00:09:19,438 It's an emergency. 161 00:09:20,256 --> 00:09:22,019 Hello? 162 00:09:25,428 --> 00:09:27,616 Ms. Beyer? 163 00:09:50,321 --> 00:09:53,145 Looks like she's been dead for several days. 164 00:09:57,349 --> 00:10:00,339 She may've just given her daughter a death sentence. 165 00:10:03,986 --> 00:10:07,029 How is she? / Still unconscious and her vitals are dropping. 166 00:10:07,029 --> 00:10:08,093 Blood count? 167 00:10:08,093 --> 00:10:09,037 Falling. 168 00:10:09,037 --> 00:10:10,985 Hematocrit down to 27%, 169 00:10:10,985 --> 00:10:13,618 hemoglobin at nine, her white blood cell count is 2,500 170 00:10:13,618 --> 00:10:15,939 and her platelets are down to 30,000. 171 00:10:15,939 --> 00:10:17,647 I can't keep her stable. 172 00:10:17,647 --> 00:10:20,082 Put her in a sterile bubble, transfer her to the NIH 173 00:10:20,082 --> 00:10:22,829 and then get her in a reverse isolation unit now. 174 00:10:22,829 --> 00:10:24,287 Are you sure moving her is wise? 175 00:10:24,287 --> 00:10:25,768 NIH has the latest therapies. 176 00:10:25,768 --> 00:10:29,053 Using those and finding a match on the national marrow donor program registry 177 00:10:29,053 --> 00:10:30,699 may be the only way to save her. 178 00:10:30,699 --> 00:10:33,410 We'll move her to NIH, but what about Carla's mom? 179 00:10:35,759 --> 00:10:37,793 There is no mom. 180 00:10:46,775 --> 00:10:50,599 The success rate to find Carla a bone marrow match on the donor registry 181 00:10:50,599 --> 00:10:52,300 is at best 50/50. 182 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:54,821 I thought you said aplastic anemia wasn't contagious. 183 00:10:54,821 --> 00:10:56,155 It isn't. 184 00:10:56,155 --> 00:10:57,722 So, how'd she die? 185 00:10:57,722 --> 00:11:00,118 They may have all been exposed to the same thing. 186 00:11:00,118 --> 00:11:01,498 The source could be here. 187 00:11:01,498 --> 00:11:02,839 We just don't know yet. 188 00:11:02,839 --> 00:11:06,014 Having a mother like this is like having no mother at all. 189 00:11:06,014 --> 00:11:09,539 I don't know for sure yet, but she doesn't appear to be aplastic. 190 00:11:09,632 --> 00:11:11,634 Well, maybe she wasn't. 191 00:11:12,647 --> 00:11:14,248 Hypodermic needle. 192 00:11:14,248 --> 00:11:16,667 And it's damn far from sterile. 193 00:11:20,235 --> 00:11:21,899 Her mother was on interferons. 194 00:11:21,899 --> 00:11:25,140 If you ask me, that wasn't the only thing she was sticking in her veins. 195 00:11:25,161 --> 00:11:27,823 Not the kind of needle we would associate with prescription drugs. 196 00:11:27,823 --> 00:11:29,979 Maybe her drug use is what ruined her marriage. 197 00:11:29,979 --> 00:11:33,540 Interferons are used to suppress chronic hepatitis. 198 00:11:33,540 --> 00:11:37,586 Certain forms of hepatitis are known viral triggers for aplastic anemia. 199 00:11:37,586 --> 00:11:40,831 You mean, Carla's aplastic anemia could have been triggered 200 00:11:40,831 --> 00:11:44,279 by catching a disease that her mother had because she's a junkie? 201 00:11:44,279 --> 00:11:46,421 Carla and her father. 202 00:11:46,952 --> 00:11:49,649 Here's a pay stub from a local bar. 203 00:11:49,649 --> 00:11:51,472 Which could make Carla's mother's hepatitis 204 00:11:51,472 --> 00:11:54,684 the causative agent and common link between the other four victims. 205 00:11:54,684 --> 00:11:58,457 People come in for a drink and leave exposed to something that could kill them. 206 00:11:58,457 --> 00:12:00,926 We could have been looking in the wrong direction the whole time. 207 00:12:00,926 --> 00:12:03,055 Well, there's only one way to find out. 208 00:12:03,055 --> 00:12:05,222 Get her and the father to NIH and autopsy them. 209 00:12:05,222 --> 00:12:07,051 I want to know exactly what killed them. 210 00:12:07,051 --> 00:12:08,207 I'll call you when I get the results. 211 00:12:08,207 --> 00:12:10,980 Eva, dig into the backgrounds of both Carla's parents. 212 00:12:10,980 --> 00:12:13,203 There's got to be a relative there somewhere. 213 00:12:13,203 --> 00:12:14,378 Powell, get to the bar. 214 00:12:14,378 --> 00:12:18,801 See if anyone remembers seeing any of the original four aplastic victims there. 215 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:23,562 Carla's a sweet kid. 216 00:12:23,562 --> 00:12:26,204 She didn't... talk much. 217 00:12:26,204 --> 00:12:28,530 Sure liked the pretzels, though. 218 00:12:28,530 --> 00:12:30,237 Tell me about her mother. 219 00:12:30,237 --> 00:12:32,214 Real piece of work. 220 00:12:32,214 --> 00:12:34,814 Can't imagine she was much of a mom. 221 00:12:34,814 --> 00:12:38,555 Angie had, uh, a couple of go-arounds with rehab. 222 00:12:38,555 --> 00:12:40,051 No matter how hard she tried, 223 00:12:40,051 --> 00:12:42,810 she just, she never could slay that dragon. 224 00:12:43,487 --> 00:12:45,040 Not even for Clayton. 225 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:46,904 She wanted to get back together with her ex, huh? 226 00:12:46,904 --> 00:12:48,825 And Carla. 227 00:12:49,175 --> 00:12:51,121 She was trying to work things out, 228 00:12:51,121 --> 00:12:52,982 but Clayton made it clear it wasn't gonna happen 229 00:12:52,982 --> 00:12:55,414 unless she kicked her drug habit. 230 00:12:55,414 --> 00:12:57,897 So, you think she was the one getting people sick? 231 00:12:57,897 --> 00:13:00,416 That's what I'm trying to find out. 232 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,715 These are pictures of people who've gotten sick and died. 233 00:13:03,715 --> 00:13:05,191 Recognize any of them? 234 00:13:05,191 --> 00:13:08,280 I know almost everyone who comes in here by... 235 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:13,625 name, face or how much head they have on their draw. 236 00:13:14,157 --> 00:13:17,632 I'm sorry, none of them ring the memory bell. 237 00:13:30,610 --> 00:13:33,930 Preliminary blood results for the little girl, her mother and her father. 238 00:13:33,930 --> 00:13:35,937 Thanks. 239 00:13:39,437 --> 00:13:42,443 Son of a bitch. 240 00:13:56,607 --> 00:14:01,111 Carla Beyer has no aunts, no uncles, no grandparents on either side, 241 00:14:01,111 --> 00:14:02,846 no family at all. 242 00:14:02,846 --> 00:14:04,283 Everybody has somebody. 243 00:14:04,283 --> 00:14:05,640 Not her. 244 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:08,477 As far as I can tell, she's as alone as alone gets. 245 00:14:08,477 --> 00:14:11,129 Then we sure as hell better get lucky with the bone marrow registry. 246 00:14:11,129 --> 00:14:14,510 Yeah, I pushed them. They're gonna rush her tests. 247 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:16,325 Can't someone just... 248 00:14:16,325 --> 00:14:18,502 hold her hand or something? 249 00:14:18,502 --> 00:14:21,491 Most isolation units are to prevent what's in there from getting out. 250 00:14:21,491 --> 00:14:23,045 But this is a reverse unit. 251 00:14:23,045 --> 00:14:26,089 It's designed to keep things from out here from getting in. 252 00:14:26,089 --> 00:14:27,788 Her immune system has degraded to such a point 253 00:14:27,788 --> 00:14:30,073 where anything she comes in contact with could be lethal. 254 00:14:30,073 --> 00:14:31,997 Her oxygen levels are continuing to go down, 255 00:14:31,997 --> 00:14:33,184 her temperature's on the rise. 256 00:14:33,184 --> 00:14:34,463 How do her lungs sound? 257 00:14:34,463 --> 00:14:36,405 Well, there's no clear signs of developing pneumonia, 258 00:14:36,405 --> 00:14:37,486 but with her white cell count dropping, 259 00:14:37,486 --> 00:14:40,600 it's only a matter of time before infection sets in. 260 00:14:40,737 --> 00:14:42,047 I think we should give her a transfusion. 261 00:14:42,047 --> 00:14:43,764 No, I don't want to go there yet. 262 00:14:43,764 --> 00:14:46,068 Well, can't you do something? 263 00:14:46,122 --> 00:14:49,483 Try a round of G-CSF and then epogen first. 264 00:14:49,902 --> 00:14:51,330 I'm coming up empty on any connection 265 00:14:51,330 --> 00:14:54,841 between the previous aplastic anemia victims and Carla's mom. 266 00:14:54,841 --> 00:14:57,343 No one in their families ever knew of them going into the bar where she worked, 267 00:14:57,343 --> 00:15:00,120 and no one at the bar recognized any of them as customers. 268 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,437 The only victim connection to Angie Beyer is to Carla and her father. 269 00:15:03,437 --> 00:15:06,887 If there's a commonality between them and her hepatitis, I can't find it. 270 00:15:06,887 --> 00:15:08,290 And that doesn't matter. 271 00:15:08,290 --> 00:15:09,205 What are you saying? 272 00:15:11,066 --> 00:15:11,985 but not because of the mom. 273 00:15:11,985 --> 00:15:14,789 The mom died of liver failure caused by hepatitis C, 274 00:15:14,789 --> 00:15:17,557 which is a strain of the virus that does not trigger aplastic anemia. 275 00:15:17,557 --> 00:15:19,759 - All right, so we're screwed. - No, not totally. 276 00:15:19,759 --> 00:15:22,801 I ran a standard blood test on Carla, the mother and father. 277 00:15:22,801 --> 00:15:24,901 Type-wise, they don't match. 278 00:15:24,901 --> 00:15:27,076 - What does that mean? - Did you do a DNA comparison? 279 00:15:27,076 --> 00:15:31,478 I tested 25 genetic markers on the mother, father and Carla's DNA. 280 00:15:31,478 --> 00:15:33,403 But these results don't match. 281 00:15:33,403 --> 00:15:34,641 Well, how can that be? 282 00:15:34,641 --> 00:15:36,549 They weren't her biological parents. 283 00:15:36,549 --> 00:15:38,327 She must have been adopted. 284 00:15:38,587 --> 00:15:41,451 Which means that somewhere out there, Carla has a birth mother and father. 285 00:15:41,451 --> 00:15:44,041 And they could be the bone marrow donors she needs to save her life. 286 00:15:44,041 --> 00:15:45,735 - Exactly. - All right, so how do we find them? 287 00:15:45,735 --> 00:15:47,648 We need to find out where Carla was born, 288 00:15:47,648 --> 00:15:48,969 who handled the adoption, 289 00:15:48,969 --> 00:15:52,298 whether it was a public or private agency, whether it was an open or closed adoption. 290 00:15:52,298 --> 00:15:54,612 I'll start with Carla's adoptive father. 291 00:15:54,612 --> 00:15:57,061 He was the responsible one. If anybody would have records, he would. 292 00:15:57,061 --> 00:15:58,700 Yeah, he was meticulous, all right? 293 00:15:58,700 --> 00:16:01,600 - Filed everything. - You guys keep her alive. 294 00:16:02,635 --> 00:16:04,900 I'll find her birth mother. 295 00:16:06,064 --> 00:16:08,130 All right. Here we go. 296 00:16:08,130 --> 00:16:11,403 Check registers for the last ten, 15 years. 297 00:16:11,403 --> 00:16:15,837 Great. Carla's about ten, so start there and look backwards. 298 00:16:15,837 --> 00:16:20,589 Look for any large checks made out to a hospital, a woman's name, a lawyer... 299 00:16:20,589 --> 00:16:21,987 You think they bought this baby? 300 00:16:21,987 --> 00:16:24,388 People desperate to have a baby will do almost anything. 301 00:16:24,388 --> 00:16:27,298 Unfortunately, the same goes for people desperate enough to get rid of one. 302 00:16:27,298 --> 00:16:29,293 Yeah. 303 00:16:41,099 --> 00:16:43,556 Carla's adoption went through a little over ten years ago. 304 00:16:43,556 --> 00:16:45,680 Her adoptive father's name was Clayton Beyer, 305 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,273 and her adoptive mother's name was Angela. 306 00:16:48,273 --> 00:16:49,918 What do you mean "was"? 307 00:16:49,918 --> 00:16:52,038 - They're both dead. - Dead? 308 00:16:52,038 --> 00:16:55,878 And their adoptive daughter will be, too, if we don't find her birth parents. 309 00:16:55,992 --> 00:16:57,620 I don't understand. 310 00:16:57,620 --> 00:16:59,226 The little girl is ill. 311 00:16:59,226 --> 00:17:01,776 She needs a bone marrow transplant, or she won't make it. 312 00:17:01,776 --> 00:17:03,471 And she needs it now. 313 00:17:03,471 --> 00:17:05,665 There's a chance if we can find her birth parents 314 00:17:05,665 --> 00:17:10,359 that their bone marrow will be a match and we can save this little girl's life. 315 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:12,928 Look, I'm sympathetic to your plight, 316 00:17:12,928 --> 00:17:14,542 but those records are sealed. 317 00:17:14,542 --> 00:17:15,815 Well, then unseal them. 318 00:17:15,815 --> 00:17:16,925 I can't do that. 319 00:17:16,925 --> 00:17:18,628 This is a medical necessity. 320 00:17:18,628 --> 00:17:20,372 Medical necessity or not, 321 00:17:20,372 --> 00:17:23,427 the law says I can't give you those records without a court order. 322 00:17:23,427 --> 00:17:25,887 This little girl doesn't have time for a court order! 323 00:17:25,887 --> 00:17:27,410 Eva... 324 00:17:28,126 --> 00:17:29,315 Look... 325 00:17:29,315 --> 00:17:31,720 I understand that you're doing your job, 326 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,573 but you have to understand that we're doing ours. 327 00:17:33,573 --> 00:17:36,082 And right now, that means finding Carla's birth mother. 328 00:17:36,082 --> 00:17:38,366 Maybe so, but for me, 329 00:17:38,366 --> 00:17:42,004 weighing that little girl's life against the confidentiality of her birth mother 330 00:17:42,004 --> 00:17:45,188 is not a decision I am empowered to make. 331 00:17:45,188 --> 00:17:47,418 That's up to a judge. 332 00:17:47,418 --> 00:17:49,036 Judge Markum? 333 00:17:49,036 --> 00:17:51,314 It's Eva Rossi. 334 00:17:52,164 --> 00:17:55,334 Actually, it's been about 12 years, sir. 335 00:17:55,925 --> 00:17:57,442 I wouldn't have called, 336 00:17:57,442 --> 00:17:59,817 but I need your help. 337 00:17:59,975 --> 00:18:01,594 No, it's not about me. 338 00:18:01,594 --> 00:18:04,538 It's about a little girl named Carla. 339 00:18:18,812 --> 00:18:20,163 You gotta be kidding me? 340 00:18:20,163 --> 00:18:21,621 Are you positive? 341 00:18:21,621 --> 00:18:23,230 No, thanks. 342 00:18:23,230 --> 00:18:24,872 - Connor. - Thanks, Joe. 343 00:18:25,443 --> 00:18:27,187 I know that look, and it's not good. 344 00:18:27,187 --> 00:18:29,025 That was the bone marrow registry. 345 00:18:29,025 --> 00:18:32,529 Carla came up negative for a possible donor match. 346 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:39,867 The growth factor leveled Carla's blood count for a while, 347 00:18:39,867 --> 00:18:42,057 but she's already showing signs of slipping. 348 00:18:42,057 --> 00:18:45,446 So, she's dying from a disease, and we still can't find the source. 349 00:18:45,659 --> 00:18:47,088 She's not the last victim. 350 00:18:47,088 --> 00:18:49,042 I just got a call from the Maryland state health department. 351 00:18:49,042 --> 00:18:53,228 They found two more cases of aplastic anemia, that resulted in death. 352 00:18:53,228 --> 00:18:56,228 They happened in a town 30 miles north of Willemet called Riverdale, 353 00:18:56,228 --> 00:18:59,072 and they happened prior to the original four victims. 354 00:18:59,072 --> 00:19:02,381 So not only are we fighting a non-contagious disease, that's been spreading, 355 00:19:02,381 --> 00:19:05,312 but we've been searching for its source in its wrong place. 356 00:19:05,312 --> 00:19:06,973 Frank, get to Riverdale. 357 00:19:06,973 --> 00:19:09,503 Find anything that ties the victims there to the victims in Willemet. 358 00:19:09,503 --> 00:19:10,959 All right. 359 00:19:11,876 --> 00:19:13,730 I found Carla's birth mom. 360 00:19:15,735 --> 00:19:17,387 Her name is Cyndi Weaver. 361 00:19:17,387 --> 00:19:19,423 According to her records, she was an unwed teenager 362 00:19:19,423 --> 00:19:22,569 who gave the child up at birth a little over ten years ago. 363 00:19:22,569 --> 00:19:24,727 There's no mention of a father. 364 00:19:24,727 --> 00:19:27,871 She's married now. She lives at Covington estates. 365 00:19:27,983 --> 00:19:30,659 I'm sure this is one knock on the door she wasn't expecting so soon. 366 00:19:30,659 --> 00:19:32,508 Try one she was never expecting. 367 00:19:32,508 --> 00:19:35,010 On her surrender form terminating her parenthood, 368 00:19:35,010 --> 00:19:36,716 she checked the box that said she never wanted to be 369 00:19:36,716 --> 00:19:40,552 contacted regarding the child, ever. 370 00:19:44,477 --> 00:19:46,119 You guys are early for pickup, 371 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,393 but just in time for cake. 372 00:19:49,395 --> 00:19:52,015 No, we, we're not here to pick up any children. 373 00:19:52,015 --> 00:19:54,221 We're here to talk to Cyndi Weaver. 374 00:19:54,221 --> 00:19:56,053 Oh, it's Cyndi Harmon now. 375 00:19:56,053 --> 00:19:57,324 - Just a sec. - Thank you. 376 00:19:57,324 --> 00:19:59,200 Honey, door's for you. 377 00:20:04,178 --> 00:20:06,384 Hi. Can I help you? 378 00:20:06,384 --> 00:20:08,637 I'm Dr. Stephen Connor. This is Eva Rossi. 379 00:20:08,637 --> 00:20:11,211 We're from the national institutes of health. 380 00:20:11,211 --> 00:20:12,663 What's going on? 381 00:20:12,663 --> 00:20:14,354 We're here to talk to you about one of your children. 382 00:20:14,354 --> 00:20:16,108 Is there something wrong with one of my boys? 383 00:20:16,108 --> 00:20:18,013 It's not your boys. 384 00:20:18,013 --> 00:20:19,905 It's a girl. 385 00:20:19,905 --> 00:20:21,479 Your daughter. 386 00:20:21,479 --> 00:20:24,592 Daughter? No, I don't have a daughter. I have two sons. 387 00:20:24,592 --> 00:20:28,049 We're talking about the daughter you gave up for adoption 388 00:20:28,049 --> 00:20:30,252 a little over ten years ago. 389 00:20:30,252 --> 00:20:31,839 Adoption? 390 00:20:31,839 --> 00:20:34,412 This is some kind of mistake. 391 00:20:34,412 --> 00:20:36,544 She's very sick. 392 00:20:36,544 --> 00:20:39,513 She needs a bone marrow transplant to survive. 393 00:20:39,513 --> 00:20:42,384 - Well, you have the wrong person. - Your maiden name is Weaver? 394 00:20:42,384 --> 00:20:43,688 Right? From Lexington? 395 00:20:43,688 --> 00:20:45,622 Yeah, but I never had a daughter. 396 00:20:45,622 --> 00:20:48,155 Honey? Come on, we've got a pinta to bash. 397 00:20:48,155 --> 00:20:49,705 Oh, they were just leaving. 398 00:20:49,705 --> 00:20:51,409 Good luck to you. 399 00:20:53,555 --> 00:20:55,310 She's lying. 400 00:20:58,028 --> 00:21:00,161 And this is gonna prove it. 401 00:21:26,828 --> 00:21:28,783 Hey. 402 00:21:34,405 --> 00:21:36,370 How's she doing? 403 00:21:36,370 --> 00:21:38,168 Miles says she's a fighter. 404 00:21:38,168 --> 00:21:39,908 She's not gonna give up. 405 00:21:39,908 --> 00:21:42,719 Sounds like someone I know. 406 00:21:46,933 --> 00:21:51,027 If she does make it, without family, it's not gonna be pretty. 407 00:21:51,226 --> 00:21:53,590 You don't get adopted at ten. 408 00:21:53,590 --> 00:21:56,755 You bounce around from foster home to foster home. 409 00:21:59,095 --> 00:22:01,843 It's just not fair. 410 00:22:29,835 --> 00:22:32,228 - It's her, isn't it? - Cyndi Weaver is Carla's mother. 411 00:22:32,228 --> 00:22:34,303 DNA doesn't lie. 412 00:22:34,620 --> 00:22:36,210 How could a mother not want to help their child? 413 00:22:36,210 --> 00:22:37,881 I have my theories, but don't get me started. 414 00:22:37,881 --> 00:22:39,753 We need to get this woman in here, type her marrow. 415 00:22:39,753 --> 00:22:41,990 - Carla needs her. - I'll get her here. 416 00:22:42,621 --> 00:22:46,449 All right, including Carla and her father, we have six cases in Willemet. 417 00:22:46,449 --> 00:22:50,029 We now know there were two other cases before this 30 miles north in Riverdale. 418 00:22:50,029 --> 00:22:52,790 One retired contractor, one college coed. 419 00:22:52,873 --> 00:22:56,458 Add that to the background diversity of these victims in this local cluster, 420 00:22:56,458 --> 00:22:58,387 and we have nearly every walk of life covered. 421 00:22:58,387 --> 00:23:00,891 The only thing we don't have is someone alive to talk to, 422 00:23:00,891 --> 00:23:03,850 to see how these people all fit together. 423 00:23:04,153 --> 00:23:06,260 We have one. 424 00:23:06,852 --> 00:23:09,778 A transfusion could give Carla enough strength to wake up. 425 00:23:09,778 --> 00:23:13,214 A transfusion could also reduce her ability to accept a bone marrow transplant. 426 00:23:13,214 --> 00:23:16,216 Connor, she's not creating any red blood cells as it is. 427 00:23:16,216 --> 00:23:18,865 It's only a matter of time before her marrow shuts down completely. 428 00:23:18,865 --> 00:23:20,256 At least if we try this transfusion now, 429 00:23:20,256 --> 00:23:24,068 she may be able to wake up and tell us something that will help us stop this thing. 430 00:23:24,068 --> 00:23:26,654 Hey, C? I don't like the risk either, 431 00:23:26,654 --> 00:23:28,835 but the kid has a point. 432 00:23:28,835 --> 00:23:30,750 Even if we can't save her, 433 00:23:30,750 --> 00:23:33,899 maybe she can help us save others from the same fate. 434 00:23:38,211 --> 00:23:39,853 Do it. 435 00:23:50,653 --> 00:23:53,332 Eva, whatever you do, make the sale. 436 00:24:23,897 --> 00:24:26,734 - I need to get to work. - And I need to talk to you. 437 00:24:32,172 --> 00:24:34,461 I knew you'd be back. 438 00:24:35,364 --> 00:24:37,577 Summa cum laude at Yale, 439 00:24:37,577 --> 00:24:41,004 recruited by the cream of the fortune 500 crop. 440 00:24:41,117 --> 00:24:44,217 An out-of-wedlock baby hardly fits into the plans of a high school sophomore 441 00:24:44,217 --> 00:24:46,074 going places like that. 442 00:24:46,074 --> 00:24:47,962 I'll be the first to admit, 443 00:24:47,962 --> 00:24:51,929 I was young and stupid getting pregnant in the first place. 444 00:24:51,929 --> 00:24:54,189 The truth is, 445 00:24:54,189 --> 00:24:56,562 I was drunk at a party. 446 00:24:56,562 --> 00:24:59,494 I don't even know who the father was. 447 00:24:59,494 --> 00:25:02,767 So giving her up for adoption was the best thing for the girl 448 00:25:02,767 --> 00:25:05,283 and, yes, for me. 449 00:25:05,283 --> 00:25:08,212 The girl's name is Carla. 450 00:25:08,212 --> 00:25:10,595 Don't make it sound like I, I 451 00:25:10,595 --> 00:25:12,667 threw her in the trash or 452 00:25:12,667 --> 00:25:15,576 tried to sell her to the highest bidder. 453 00:25:15,576 --> 00:25:18,789 No, it wasn't like that. 454 00:25:19,442 --> 00:25:23,559 She shares your gift for music, by the way. 455 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,603 I never saw her 456 00:25:28,603 --> 00:25:31,219 when she was born. 457 00:25:31,219 --> 00:25:34,417 I forced myself not to look at her. 458 00:25:34,417 --> 00:25:37,788 I was afraid she'd look at me. 459 00:25:38,514 --> 00:25:42,056 I knew if our eyes met, I'd never let her go. 460 00:25:45,867 --> 00:25:47,861 They told me she was adopted by good people. 461 00:25:47,861 --> 00:25:50,224 She was one of the lucky ones, 462 00:25:50,224 --> 00:25:51,586 but her luck has run out. 463 00:25:51,586 --> 00:25:53,880 Both of her parents have died in the last few days. 464 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:56,026 Her mother of a long-term illness, 465 00:25:56,026 --> 00:26:00,386 and her father of the same disease that's killing her. 466 00:26:00,530 --> 00:26:03,799 You said something yesterday about, uh, bone marrow? 467 00:26:03,799 --> 00:26:06,166 She has aplastic anemia. 468 00:26:06,166 --> 00:26:08,308 It means that her bone marrow doesn't work. 469 00:26:08,308 --> 00:26:09,926 And she's not responding to medicine. 470 00:26:09,926 --> 00:26:13,297 If she doesn't get a transplant soon, she'll die. 471 00:26:13,638 --> 00:26:15,002 Okay, 472 00:26:15,002 --> 00:26:19,269 you can't just walk in here and drop that on me. 473 00:26:20,609 --> 00:26:23,878 Your husband and sons, they don't know, do they? 474 00:26:23,878 --> 00:26:27,497 No. No one in this life does. 475 00:26:27,643 --> 00:26:30,489 That's why I waited for them to leave. 476 00:26:30,489 --> 00:26:34,099 And, and how do you expect me to explain this to my husband 477 00:26:34,099 --> 00:26:37,329 and to my boys with no warning? 478 00:26:37,329 --> 00:26:40,506 That I created 479 00:26:40,506 --> 00:26:43,581 all of this based on a lie? 480 00:26:43,581 --> 00:26:45,944 You don't have to tell your family. 481 00:26:45,944 --> 00:26:48,217 You don't have to look at Carla, 482 00:26:48,217 --> 00:26:51,633 but only you can save her life. 483 00:27:00,389 --> 00:27:01,404 Any word from Eva? 484 00:27:01,404 --> 00:27:03,019 Nothing yet. 485 00:27:03,019 --> 00:27:05,911 I've got a bone marrow specialist standing by if... 486 00:27:05,911 --> 00:27:08,201 when Carla's donor comes in. 487 00:27:08,201 --> 00:27:10,403 - She's waking up. - Get Powell. 488 00:27:12,668 --> 00:27:14,887 Carla? 489 00:27:19,362 --> 00:27:23,040 Carla, can you hear me? 490 00:27:23,835 --> 00:27:27,318 Can you open your eyes? 491 00:27:29,321 --> 00:27:32,218 There you go. 492 00:27:35,941 --> 00:27:38,068 Where am I? 493 00:27:38,245 --> 00:27:40,994 You're in a hospital. 494 00:27:40,994 --> 00:27:44,015 My name's Dr. Connor. 495 00:27:48,522 --> 00:27:50,619 Where's my dad? 496 00:27:50,733 --> 00:27:53,087 He and your mom aren't here right now. 497 00:27:53,728 --> 00:27:56,252 But they'd want me to take care of you. 498 00:27:56,369 --> 00:27:58,514 Am I sick? 499 00:27:58,514 --> 00:28:00,825 Yes, Carla, 500 00:28:00,975 --> 00:28:03,610 just like your daddy. 501 00:28:03,703 --> 00:28:07,764 I need to ask you about places that you and your dad may have gone to lately. 502 00:28:07,902 --> 00:28:13,317 Or things you may have done that you normally wouldn't have. 503 00:28:14,094 --> 00:28:16,047 I'm really tired. 504 00:28:16,047 --> 00:28:19,041 Just stay with me just for a few more questions, okay? 505 00:28:19,041 --> 00:28:21,425 And then I'll let you rest. 506 00:28:21,425 --> 00:28:25,608 Has your dad taken you anyplace where there may have been a lot of chemicals? 507 00:28:25,608 --> 00:28:26,849 Like a factory. 508 00:28:26,849 --> 00:28:29,932 My dad works at home 509 00:28:29,932 --> 00:28:34,325 and except for school, piano and soccer, 510 00:28:34,875 --> 00:28:37,184 we're usually there. 511 00:28:37,184 --> 00:28:40,617 All right. What about soccer? 512 00:28:40,617 --> 00:28:44,047 Have you seen anyone spreading fertilizer on the field you know, 513 00:28:44,047 --> 00:28:46,499 to help the grass grow? 514 00:28:46,499 --> 00:28:49,598 If they did, it didn't work. 515 00:28:49,598 --> 00:28:52,907 The field's mostly dirt. 516 00:28:58,292 --> 00:29:00,597 Carla? 517 00:29:36,799 --> 00:29:41,141 My dad got that for me, my birthday. 518 00:29:42,964 --> 00:29:45,583 He brought it when mama took me to the river. 519 00:29:45,583 --> 00:29:48,104 You went to a river? 520 00:29:48,946 --> 00:29:52,095 I invited my dad... 521 00:29:52,611 --> 00:29:55,159 for a picnic. 522 00:29:55,159 --> 00:29:58,708 She wanted us to be a family again. 523 00:30:00,376 --> 00:30:02,748 But they fought. 524 00:30:02,748 --> 00:30:05,746 They always fight. 525 00:30:05,799 --> 00:30:09,118 That must not have been a very fun picnic. 526 00:30:09,243 --> 00:30:12,118 Except for me and my dad went swimming. 527 00:30:12,118 --> 00:30:14,478 You and your dad swam in the river? 528 00:30:14,478 --> 00:30:16,393 For a little while. 529 00:30:17,363 --> 00:30:20,378 The water didn't smell very good. 530 00:30:22,769 --> 00:30:25,217 Why don't you get some rest now? 531 00:30:25,217 --> 00:30:28,878 If you need anything, there'll be someone right out here for you, okay? 532 00:30:29,537 --> 00:30:31,692 Thank you, Carla. 533 00:30:34,969 --> 00:30:36,882 There's a river near Willemet. 534 00:30:36,882 --> 00:30:40,452 20 minutes upstream on its banks in Riverdale, 535 00:30:40,452 --> 00:30:43,681 the town where the second cluster developed. 536 00:30:43,847 --> 00:30:46,144 Check it out, Frank. 537 00:30:53,538 --> 00:30:54,700 Was that really fair? 538 00:30:54,700 --> 00:30:55,888 What are you talking about? 539 00:30:55,888 --> 00:30:59,883 Lying to Carla about her mom and dad, suggesting they're still alive. 540 00:31:00,001 --> 00:31:02,074 Aren't you just setting her up for an even bigger fall? 541 00:31:02,074 --> 00:31:03,773 That little girl just lost both of her parents 542 00:31:03,773 --> 00:31:06,333 and you want to talk to me about being fair? 543 00:31:06,333 --> 00:31:08,826 The only thing I'm concerned about right now is saving that little girl's life, 544 00:31:08,826 --> 00:31:11,493 and when I do, then I'll tell her the truth. 545 00:31:15,984 --> 00:31:18,000 Riverdale, Maryland 546 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:22,857 Truth is, my husband loved being out on that river more than being home. 547 00:31:22,857 --> 00:31:25,015 I'm sorry for your loss. 548 00:31:25,163 --> 00:31:27,495 Fred was a good man. 549 00:31:28,707 --> 00:31:30,489 You take these from the river? 550 00:31:30,489 --> 00:31:32,347 Yes, ma'am. 551 00:31:32,509 --> 00:31:34,492 Your husband 552 00:31:34,492 --> 00:31:36,519 must've loved to fish. 553 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,669 Every day. 554 00:31:38,669 --> 00:31:41,983 He worked his whole life so he could spend his ... 555 00:31:41,983 --> 00:31:45,733 last years putting a line in that dirty water. 556 00:31:45,733 --> 00:31:48,957 - Dirty? - Gower chemicals, two miles up. 557 00:31:48,957 --> 00:31:52,249 Turned every fisherman on the river into catch and release. 558 00:31:52,249 --> 00:31:54,428 Their insecticides must work. 559 00:31:54,428 --> 00:31:57,263 I haven't seen a cricket around here in three years. 560 00:31:58,762 --> 00:32:01,214 The plant's right on the river. Saw it myself. 561 00:32:01,214 --> 00:32:03,561 The EPA confirmed to me they were cited a year ago 562 00:32:03,561 --> 00:32:06,145 for excessive benzene waste output into the river. 563 00:32:06,145 --> 00:32:08,366 All right, the dead fisherman I get, but what about the coed? 564 00:32:08,366 --> 00:32:09,789 I talked to her parents again. 565 00:32:09,789 --> 00:32:10,862 Turns out... 566 00:32:10,862 --> 00:32:14,153 she spent the last few months of her life working as a water-ski instructor. 567 00:32:14,153 --> 00:32:15,440 On the river. 568 00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:16,571 You got it. 569 00:32:16,571 --> 00:32:18,032 Nice work, Frank. 570 00:32:20,302 --> 00:32:21,727 Duran. / Nat, 571 00:32:21,727 --> 00:32:23,053 we're looking for benzene. 572 00:32:23,053 --> 00:32:27,140 Double-check Carla and her father's blood and pray like hell it's there. 573 00:32:27,933 --> 00:32:29,738 Dr. Connor! 574 00:32:33,882 --> 00:32:35,934 What happened? / Out of nowhere, her blood pressure plummeted! 575 00:32:35,934 --> 00:32:36,825 She could be septic. 576 00:32:36,825 --> 00:32:38,745 Push I.V antibiotics. 577 00:32:39,757 --> 00:32:41,184 Mask her. 578 00:32:41,261 --> 00:32:43,277 Her resps are too high. 579 00:32:43,784 --> 00:32:44,890 She's in V-fib. 580 00:32:44,890 --> 00:32:46,358 Defibrillator! 581 00:32:51,683 --> 00:32:54,341 Stay with us. Stay with us. 582 00:32:55,973 --> 00:32:58,073 Clear! 583 00:32:59,692 --> 00:33:01,513 No change! / Again! 584 00:33:01,513 --> 00:33:03,253 Clear! 585 00:33:11,092 --> 00:33:13,236 Normal sinus rhythm. 586 00:33:13,447 --> 00:33:14,696 Push the bicarb and dopamine. 587 00:33:14,696 --> 00:33:16,669 If her heart rate drops, give her atropine. 588 00:33:16,669 --> 00:33:18,357 Miles, keep pushing the antibiics. 589 00:33:18,357 --> 00:33:20,631 We got to stop this infection long enough to buy us some time. 590 00:33:20,631 --> 00:33:23,317 Unfortunately, time is something we're still gonna need. 591 00:33:23,317 --> 00:33:24,807 I'm sorry, Stephen. 592 00:33:24,807 --> 00:33:26,585 She wouldn't come. 593 00:33:38,803 --> 00:33:40,602 She's showing early signs of heart failure. 594 00:33:40,602 --> 00:33:42,604 Shortness of breath, fluid in the lungs. 595 00:33:42,604 --> 00:33:45,411 Her immune system is practically nonexistent. 596 00:33:45,769 --> 00:33:48,479 Another bacteria invades her body, 597 00:33:48,479 --> 00:33:50,843 she won't make it. 598 00:33:52,807 --> 00:33:53,784 Connor. 599 00:33:53,784 --> 00:33:55,428 I found something. 600 00:33:57,092 --> 00:33:58,092 Hey. / Hey. 601 00:33:58,092 --> 00:34:02,159 I did a GC-mass spec analysis of blood samples from both Carla and her father. 602 00:34:02,159 --> 00:34:03,753 Were they positive for benzene? 603 00:34:03,753 --> 00:34:07,478 The blood tested negative for benzene, but I found a nitrobenzene compound. 604 00:34:07,478 --> 00:34:08,961 What do you think, chloramphenicol? 605 00:34:08,961 --> 00:34:11,222 It was under the rock the whole time, we just never knew where to look. 606 00:34:11,222 --> 00:34:12,774 What the hell is chloramphenicol? 607 00:34:12,774 --> 00:34:15,721 It's a powerful antibiotic, and it's been known to cause aplastic anemia. 608 00:34:15,721 --> 00:34:17,929 So how did it get into the little girl and her father? 609 00:34:17,929 --> 00:34:20,752 Other countries use it in livestock to keep their animals healthy. 610 00:34:20,752 --> 00:34:23,451 Imports containing traces aren't supposed to be allowed in the country. 611 00:34:23,451 --> 00:34:25,687 You can't inspect everything that comes in. 612 00:34:25,687 --> 00:34:28,048 It's in a variety of products, chicken, crayfish, shrimp. 613 00:34:28,048 --> 00:34:29,894 It's even found in milk and honey. 614 00:34:29,894 --> 00:34:32,785 You don't need a high dose of it to cause aplastic anemia. 615 00:34:32,886 --> 00:34:34,511 Wait a minute. 616 00:34:34,511 --> 00:34:36,632 Wait a minute, wait a minute. 617 00:34:39,896 --> 00:34:43,491 The retired contractor from Riverdale, 618 00:34:43,491 --> 00:34:45,577 the guy who fished all the time... 619 00:34:45,577 --> 00:34:47,884 according to his autopsy, 620 00:34:47,884 --> 00:34:51,187 he had undigested shrimp in his stomach. 621 00:35:07,122 --> 00:35:10,255 Can I talk to you? 622 00:35:11,971 --> 00:35:14,263 My family thinks I'm visiting a friend for the weekend. 623 00:35:14,263 --> 00:35:16,019 So you have me until Monday morning. 624 00:35:16,019 --> 00:35:18,530 But I need to know that you're sure about this. 625 00:35:18,530 --> 00:35:21,558 Because once the procedure starts, there's no backing out. 626 00:35:21,558 --> 00:35:23,437 I'm not backing out. 627 00:35:23,437 --> 00:35:25,238 I'll do whatever you want. 628 00:35:25,238 --> 00:35:29,112 But as I told Ms. Rossi, it's all on one condition. 629 00:35:29,351 --> 00:35:33,908 I don't want to see the little girl, 630 00:35:33,996 --> 00:35:36,851 and I don't want her to see me. 631 00:35:37,450 --> 00:35:39,498 Okay. 632 00:35:40,651 --> 00:35:42,821 You really think that's what got my husband sick? 633 00:35:42,821 --> 00:35:44,383 That's what I'm gonna find out. 634 00:35:44,383 --> 00:35:46,422 Did you eat any of these? 635 00:35:46,422 --> 00:35:49,189 I'm allergic to crustaceans. But Fred couldn't get enough of them, 636 00:35:49,189 --> 00:35:50,702 he ate them like peanuts. 637 00:35:50,702 --> 00:35:53,216 He had them damn near every day for lunch. 638 00:35:53,788 --> 00:35:55,622 There's no markings on this bag. 639 00:35:55,622 --> 00:35:57,782 Do you have any idea where he got them? 640 00:35:57,782 --> 00:35:59,584 I think he picked them up down in Willemet, 641 00:35:59,584 --> 00:36:01,681 but I have no idea where. 642 00:36:43,966 --> 00:36:45,819 Vitals? 643 00:36:45,819 --> 00:36:48,984 B.P., heartbeat, respiration as stable as we can hope for. 644 00:36:48,984 --> 00:36:50,772 - How's the mother's marrow? - Clean. 645 00:36:50,772 --> 00:36:53,300 We should be ready to transplant in a few minutes. 646 00:36:55,906 --> 00:36:58,440 - Connor. - Yeah, look, it has to be the shrimp. 647 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,811 Any idea how it ties into Carla and the dad? 648 00:37:00,811 --> 00:37:01,761 No, I'm not for sure, 649 00:37:01,761 --> 00:37:03,816 but I know there weren't any shrimp in dad's house. 650 00:37:03,816 --> 00:37:04,810 Are you positive? 651 00:37:04,810 --> 00:37:05,835 Absolutely. 652 00:37:05,835 --> 00:37:07,764 If we're sure it's chloramphenicol in the shrimp, 653 00:37:07,764 --> 00:37:09,042 where did they ingest it? 654 00:37:09,042 --> 00:37:10,241 Hell if I know. 655 00:37:10,241 --> 00:37:11,659 What about Carla's mom? 656 00:37:11,659 --> 00:37:13,125 There was no food in that house, 657 00:37:13,125 --> 00:37:15,575 except for toaster pastries and sugar cereal. 658 00:37:15,575 --> 00:37:17,196 Wait a second, what about take-out? 659 00:37:17,196 --> 00:37:18,463 Take-out? 660 00:37:18,463 --> 00:37:19,992 For the picnic at the river. 661 00:37:19,992 --> 00:37:22,512 We know Carla and her dad ate there together. 662 00:37:22,512 --> 00:37:23,679 I'll call you back. 663 00:37:27,689 --> 00:37:30,159 Picnic, what do I know about a picnic? 664 00:37:30,159 --> 00:37:31,427 You were her friend. 665 00:37:31,427 --> 00:37:34,010 Carla said her mom had her dad meet them at the river. 666 00:37:34,010 --> 00:37:36,576 Yeah, I remember that. 667 00:37:36,576 --> 00:37:37,703 She brought food. 668 00:37:37,703 --> 00:37:39,267 Do you have any idea where she got it? 669 00:37:39,267 --> 00:37:42,700 I gave her all the leftovers from the happy hour from the day before. 670 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:43,884 Which was shrimp. 671 00:37:43,884 --> 00:37:45,323 Yeah, peel and eat. 672 00:37:45,323 --> 00:37:46,907 Who's your supplier? 673 00:37:46,907 --> 00:37:49,136 - Why? - Who's your supplier? 674 00:37:49,136 --> 00:37:53,071 Ming distribution. It's about a mile from here. 675 00:37:53,071 --> 00:37:55,941 The guy imports from Southeast asia, it's really cheap. 676 00:37:55,941 --> 00:37:57,621 Yeah, but it's also deadly. 677 00:37:57,621 --> 00:37:59,988 If you have any left, I suggest you dump it. 678 00:38:03,883 --> 00:38:05,765 Most of the marrow's infused. 679 00:38:05,765 --> 00:38:07,776 One more unit and we're done. 680 00:38:07,776 --> 00:38:10,193 Stephen, her breathing. 681 00:38:10,478 --> 00:38:12,056 Get a mask on her. 682 00:38:21,695 --> 00:38:22,733 Hives. 683 00:38:22,733 --> 00:38:24,763 She's having an allergic reaction to the marrow. 684 00:38:24,763 --> 00:38:26,123 We need to stop the procedure now. 685 00:38:26,123 --> 00:38:28,299 - No, she needs the marrow. - Her B.P.'s dropping. 686 00:38:28,299 --> 00:38:30,867 She's going into anaphylactic shock. We need to take care of this now. 687 00:38:30,867 --> 00:38:32,565 She will die without the marrow. 688 00:38:32,565 --> 00:38:35,620 Nurse, push epinephrine, benadryl and steroids. 689 00:38:35,620 --> 00:38:37,152 Right away. 690 00:38:37,785 --> 00:38:39,465 Let's hope for the best. 691 00:38:44,839 --> 00:38:46,381 I found the source of the shrimp. 692 00:38:46,381 --> 00:38:48,738 A seafood importer from Vietnam. 693 00:38:48,738 --> 00:38:50,921 He's been shut down, shrimps been recalled, 694 00:38:50,921 --> 00:38:52,318 the word's out. 695 00:38:52,318 --> 00:38:54,063 Good work, man. 696 00:38:54,063 --> 00:38:55,942 How's the kid? 697 00:38:56,375 --> 00:38:58,584 Touch and go. 698 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:05,810 Well, that has to be a good sign. 699 00:39:21,098 --> 00:39:23,407 Hey. 700 00:39:26,106 --> 00:39:28,792 How are you feeling? 701 00:39:28,792 --> 00:39:31,188 Hungry. 702 00:39:34,012 --> 00:39:35,103 Miles, 703 00:39:35,103 --> 00:39:37,717 get this young lady something to eat. 704 00:39:37,717 --> 00:39:40,008 Happy to. 705 00:39:41,330 --> 00:39:45,118 Where's my mom and dad? 706 00:40:00,526 --> 00:40:03,653 Did she... 707 00:40:03,653 --> 00:40:05,857 Did Carla... 708 00:40:05,857 --> 00:40:08,746 is she okay? 709 00:40:09,545 --> 00:40:13,822 Why don't you look for yourself? 710 00:41:05,330 --> 00:41:07,651 Hey. 711 00:41:09,587 --> 00:41:11,838 - You okay? - I'm fine. 712 00:41:14,246 --> 00:41:15,782 You sure? 713 00:41:15,782 --> 00:41:18,394 I'm fine, Stephen. 714 00:41:24,904 --> 00:41:27,949 What was it like for you? 715 00:41:28,512 --> 00:41:31,633 You know... 716 00:41:32,424 --> 00:41:36,592 when you knocked on your birth mother's door? 717 00:41:44,703 --> 00:41:47,252 She didn't answer.