All language subtitles for The Hot Zone s02e02 Hells Chimney.eng

NARRATOR: Previously
on The Hot Zone Anthrax.

WOMAN: Usually when
you gets the flu,

it just passes
in a day or two.

NURSE: This doesn't
present like a flu.

KURZ: Bruce, we
got some samples coming in from Florida.

IVINS: Not it!

KURZ: We need
an anthrax expert.

LAYTON: Patient's spinal fluid
showed rod-like bacteria.

MAN: You better call the FBI.

RYKER: Anthrax uses its
host as a live incubator and

95% of confirmed cases
worldwide are cutaneous,

which means it gets into a
cut where someone touches it.

But Bob Stevens inhaled it,

which is insanely rare
unless it's aerosolized.

O'CONNOR: I don't think AMI
was the only media attack.

BROKAW: What do you mean?

O'CONNOR: The doctor thought
it was just a spider bite.

REPORTER [over TV]:
And tragic news,

we've just learned that photo
editor Robert Stevens has died

from his anthrax exposure.

RYKER: Results came back.

It's Ames.

MAN: Ames stream?

I didn't think it
existed outside a high-security research labs.

RYKER: It doesn't.

IVINS: Hey, did somebody just
pass you guys on the hallway?

SOLDIER: No,
didn't see anyone.

IVINS: Really?

[ventilated breathing]

[banging]

IVINS: Shelly,
get out of there!

Come on, the plane just
hit the World Trade Center.

We got to go now.
We could be next.

Come on people, get
out of there, go, go, go.

Everybody out.

Come on, we got to evacuate.

We need shelter,
get off the phone.

New York City is under attack.

Some plane just hit the
World Trade Center, all right.

They're alerting
all military bases.

We could be next.
Come on guys, get out, guys!

Go! Go ahead, just
leave your stuff.

Out, out, out, out, right out.

Move, move, move, move, move.

GUMBEL [over TV]: For
us to tell exactly how large an aircraft it is

there or whether or
not that was intentional, um.

Go ahead, I'm sorry.

AGENT: FAA is banning all
departures nationwide for any

flights heading
through NYC airspace.

AGENT 2: And what
about the 3,300 flights already in the air?

Who's got NORAD on their line?

RYKER: What do we know?

MOORE: Passenger
list is already in,

names of interest
are being looked into,

but we're still waiting
on the cargo manifests.

RYKER: Oh, these guys wouldn't
have any check luggage.

Anything they need they
would already had on them.

Still, we can't rule out
the potential of a bio-agent.

These planes could've been
used as a method of dispersal.

Hit the highest
point in the city,

let gravity do the rest.

Get the Hazmat
units mobilized.

I'll start running
it up the chain.

REPORTER [over radio]:
As reports came in, that the first hijack.

RYKER: Yeah, this is Ryker.

We're on the road.
We're on our way to New York.

No, you have to wait. No.

Until I can get
a team on the ground,

we can't rule out some
sort of biological threat.

REPORTER [over radio]:
Both towers of the

World Trade Center
have been hit by large...

MOORE: You got
to be kidding me.

[horn blaring]

Come on, let's move!

RYKER: Yes,
extreme heat can destroy a toxin like botulinum,

but the spores
that produce the toxic are heat resistant.

Yes.

[rattling]

MOORE: Oh, my God.
It's headed right for...

RYKER: The Pentagon.

[distant chatter]

[whispering]

WOMAN: Oh. Oh, sir.

I need you to please
return to your seat.

MAN: Sorry.

[whispering]

RYKER: You can't even stretch
your legs on a flight anymore.

[laughs]

Terrorists brought us
all right to the edge.

MOORE: So you
think it's related?

This new anthrax case at NBC?

RYKER: Related to what, 9/11
or the anthrax in Florida?

MOORE: Florida.

Already know the answer to
Al-Qaeda is a big old yes.

RYKER: Well, there hasn't been
a case of inhalational anthrax

since 1976 and suddenly
you start seeing them?

It's all got to be connected.

MOORE: So that's
an affirmative?

RYKER: Uh, no.
That's a working hypothesis.

Start with the obvious but
can't know more until we get

some actual evidence.

BROKAW [over TV]:
Osama Bin Laden continues to

make threats
against America and our allies all over the world.

But it has not hampered
the military's response.

Tonight, correspondent
Michael Smith has this report.

SMITH [over TV]: After
the airing of two shocking tapes made by Bin Laden,

and then another
by his followers,

the administration has asked
the networks for restraint in

coverage of this crisis.

LAYTON: Uh, thanks
for agreeing to see me.

I'm Dr. Marci Layton from
the Department of Health.

How are you
doing Ms. O'Connor?

O'CONNOR: How do you think?

The guy in Florida, he
died in days, didn't he?

LAYTON: Unfortunately, yes.

However, I understand you went
to see your doctor a week ago?

Thought it was a spider bite,
put you on Cipro?

O'CONNOR: Mm-hmm.
LAYTON: Okay. That's good.

If it is anthrax, Cipro is
our best defense against it.

PRODUCER: In
five, four, three...

SMITH [over TV]: Intelligence
related to terrorism.

BROKAW: After six years
serving as Governor of the State of Pennsylvania,

Tom Ridge has retired.

LAYTON: Do you remember
opening any mail or a package

that may have contained
some sort of a powder?

Uh, the mail in
question likely arrived a week or two ago.

O'CONNOR: Casey and
I open mail all day.

I can't, I
can't remember if...

[laughs]

LAYTON: Memory
could be a tricky thing,

just take a breath, okay?

[takes deep breath]

If there was a piece
of mail that was flagged,

something seemed
off or threatening,

who would you have alerted?

O'CONNOR: I would, uh,
I'd contact security.

LAYTON: Okay.

Now think back to the last
time you called security about

something suspicious, maybe
there was a particular phrase,

or message, a color?

O'CONNOR: A green bag.

The, yeah, the last time I
called security on a letter,

they took it away in
a green shopping bag.

LAYTON: Agent Ryker?
RYKER: Yes.

LAYTON: Agent Moore?
MOORE: How's it going?

LAYTON: I'm Dr. Layton,
New York's Public Health

Director of
Communicable Diseases.

Apologies for the
rushed retrieval but with

one nightmare
scenario after another,

didn't have time to wait
around for your baggage claim.

So, I saw O'Connor's wound.

RYKER: Necrotic eschars?
LAYTON: Yeah.

It sure looks like cutaneous
anthrax lesion to me.

RYKER: Okay.
Did they find the letter or the envelope,

however the anthrax
was delivered?

LAYTON: No, not yet.
But it's been flagged.

It should be in the building.

RYKER: Good.
We need to get our hands on it.

All the mail at
AMI was incinerated.

LAYTON: Info on 30 Rock, it's
where NBC News is located.

It's not your
typical office building,

massive tourist destination,

iconic landmark.

RYKER: When were you
first alerted to the situation over at NBC?

LAYTON: Late last night.

Took Tom Brokaw calling
half New York to get the situation taken seriously.

MOORE: Ground Zero.

RYKER [off-screen]: 30 days.

Still burning.

LAYTON: We call
it Hell's Chimney.

[theme music playing]

REPORTER [over TV]: The
United States Government

says you should be on alert
because new terror attacks

could come at any moment.

REPORTER 2 [over TV]:
The enemy is hidden, the enemy is very often

right here within
our own country.

REPORTER 3 [over TV]: Law
enforcement nationwide has

been put on the
highest state of alert.

REPORTER 4 [over TV]:
National Guard troops are

stationed
throughout the airport.

REPORTER 5 [over TV]:
Operation enduring.

PRESIDENT BUSH [over TV]:
I want justice.

REPORTER 6 [over TV]:
Kill and demoralized.

REPORTER 7 [over TV]: Front
lines in Northern Afghanistan,

direct hit from
laser guided bombs.

Explosions were heard
near the Kabul Airport.

PRESIDENT BUSH [over TV]:
Wanted dead or alive.

[phone ringing]

[groans]

[phone ringing]

IVINS: Hello?

KURZ [over phone]: Bruce,
I know you put in a long day,

but we need you.

Biopsy came in for testing.

IVINS: I'll be right there.

♪ ♪

Diane? Sweetheart?

Di? Di?

I have to go.

The lab needs me.

DIANE: Okay.

IVINS: What's the status?

KURZ: Status is its
too damn dark outside for you to be so awake.

IVINS: Sue me for wanting
to help stop the bad guys.

So, where did this
biopsy come from?

KURZ: The city
that never sleeps.

See you in there.

IVINS: Okay.

Who's towel is this?
Am I your maid?

Put it in the bin.

MOORE: Layton says they
can't keep up with all

the hoax letters
that are coming in.

You really think
we'll find this thing?

RYKER: We need to.

It's just a
matter of tracking it.

MOORE: Assuming it's just one.

BROKAW: Are you with the FBI?
RYKER: Yes.

BROKAW: I need
a microbiologist.

Dr. Layton said he
was on his way over.

RYKER: You're talking
to him, Mr. Brokaw.

I'm Special
agent Matthew Ryker.

BROKAW: Oh, Agent Ryker,
my assistant called

authorities days ago.

And apparently testing
is log-jammed and I'm...

for the life of me, trying to
figure out why it is that this

is not a higher priority.

RYKER: Well, it's my
understanding that the CDC's

been swamped with
samples from Florida. But I...

BROKAW: Now listen, I've
had enough of that, okay?

And no action.

I've got a sick
employee upstairs and

we've had enough
of the runaround.

We still don't
know what Erin has.

RYKER: Well, I
just flew in from D.C.

I've only been on the ground
a couple of hours but we have

the best minds in
the field working on it.

I've pulled them
out of bed to do it.

And Dr. Layton will
make sure the CDC's on it.

You should have
results by tomorrow.

BROKAW: Hmm.

Well, I'm trusting
you agent because my next call is to Ashcroft.

Excuse me.

MOORE: You think he's just
worried about his assistant?

RYKER: No, he's right.

But this thing will start
going sideways fast if

we start taking special
consideration to big titles.

MOORE: Copy that.

Elevators are just
around the corner.

RYKER: Until we find a source,

we need to shut down
the entire building.

SERGEANT: Whoa, whoa, whoa, I
thought you just said we were

just here as a specialist?

RYKER: As a specialist,
I'm telling you we need to

shut the building down.

SERGEANT: On whose authority?

RYKER: Just tell everyone this
investigation now falls under

Operation Noble Eagle.

MOORE: Hey, uh, should
we call Copak first?

I mean, if we're gonna be
pulling the Presidential card?

RYKER: If not now, then when?

Listen Sergeant,
somewhere in this building is a lethal agent

and we cannot let
anyone else be exposed.

Which way?

MOORE: Uh, it's up
here to the right.

RYKER: Thousands of employees,
acres of office space.

Any idea how much
mail must come through a building like this?

Single letter is like
finding a needle in a...

MOORE: I'd prefer a haystack.

MAN: I take it you're
the agent asking for me?

What can I do for you?

RYKER: What's your
hate mail protocol?

MAN: I wouldn't call
it much of a protocol.

Any threatening letters get
funneled down through here.

So you fellas
collect it for testing.

It's a little backed up right
now because of Ground Zero.

RYKER: Chris, clear
out this whole area and

let's get a
Hazmat team in here.

We're gonna go through
every single piece of mail.

That letter's got to
be in here somewhere.

[indistinctive chatter]

Check everything carefully.

The letter Erin opened has
to be here and if you find

anything with powder,
stop immediately.

We need to preserve all
the source as we can.

MAN: This one has
a flagged corner.

WOMAN: That's on the right.

MAN: Right.

[indistinctive chatter]

WOMAN: Copy that.

MAN: We're almost halfway
through the mail here, sir,

still nothing.

[elevator bell rings]

[overlapping chatter]

RYKER: What the hell?

Hey, hey.

This building is contaminated.

Why are people
flooding in here like it's any other Friday?

SERGEANT: Agent Ryker,
it wasn't my call.

RYKER: Then whose was it?

GIULIANI: Not that
it's your business.

SERGEANT: Mayor Giuliani.

GIULIANI: The call was mine.

No one is
shutting down 30 Rock.

RYKER: Mr. Mayor,
you're not hearing me.

GIULIANI: Really?
Because it seems you're not hearing me.

You're not the acting
superior in this jurisdiction.

RYKER: Erin O'Connor
is infected.

Not only are all of her
colleagues at risk but so is

every person who
steps into the building.

We need to evacuate, we need
to get a hazmat team in there

so we can scan every
inch of the place.

GIULIANI: Do you
have a positive test,

a confirmation on the victim?

RYKER: No, not yet.

GIULIANI: Any other
sick workers? Any proof?

I'm talking absolute that
anthrax is in this building.

RYKER: That's why
we're searching.

GIULIANI: Just because one
person who might have it,

might've been
exposed weeks ago, uh,

is already being
treated and nobody else is showing symptoms,

yet you're trying
to shut down one of the,

the busiest
buildings in my city.

RYKER: Sir, with
all due respect.

GIULIANI: You're here looking
through a microscope but, uh,

I've got to
see the big picture.

RYKER: Okay.

Well here's an image,
anthrax spores do not die off.

They settle, they lie in wait.

What we are talking about
is a ticking time bomb.

Mayor Giuliani, please.

GIULIANI: Plenty of twisted
pricks get their rocks off

by scaring people.

If they shut down every
building that had a hoax,

wouldn't be a building
open come Christmas.

[sighs]

Do you have any idea what the
good people of this city have

been through these last weeks?

RYKER: I understand.

GIULIANI: Hell, the city
gets threats every day.

RYKER: I need at
least the third floor.

NBC and its adjacent offices.

Look, I can use
the freight entrance.

Mr. Mayor, you
haven't seen what this bacteria does to a body.

[sirens blaring]

AGENT: Clear the entrance.
Let's move, guys, move.

Just make sure it's taped off.

[indistinctive chatter]

RYKER: Block that corner off.

And you guys got to
rotate it out of the suit.

We've only got
the third floor,

but make sure
you swab everything.

WOMAN: Copy that.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

IVINS: Didn't they say
the subject had a lesion indicating cutaneous anthrax?

It's negative.

KURZ: Negative?

IVINS: I think maybe
we should test it again.

[laughs]

KURZ: We tested
it twice, Bruce.

IVINS: Are you in
a hurry to get out of here?

KURZ: After 20-plus hours
of straight lab work?

Yes, Bruce, I am.

I don't know about you, but
if I'm gonna do that again,

I'm gonna need some sleep.

IVINS: Hey, Simon.

Did you open my...

[door slams]

♪ ♪

[phones ringing]

[overlapping chatter]

SYKES: I'll call you back.

WOMAN: There's a
flight leaving at 12:25.

COPAK: Great.
Get me on it.

SYKES: Morning, sir.

Wasn't trying to be nosy, but
I was looking for you earlier.

Susan said you were up
in the Director's office.

[sighs]

COPAK: Yeah.

SYKES: Lot of heads
rolling this morning?

COPAK: Just a friendly
reminder that we either

get out front of this story
or we become the story.

SYKES: Hmm, locking
horns right out of the gate?

COPAK: With the Director?

No. We go back.

SYKES: Princeton, right?
COPAK: Yeah.

Before the bronze star,
Purple Heart.

He took the law firm,
Attorney General route and

I dedicated my
life to the bureau.

My mistake.

Always easier climbing
new stairs than the ones

you've been
slogging up for years.

SYKES: Well, Van Harp's
keeping me busy,

but if you need extra
hands on the anthrax case.

COPAK: Oh, Ryker's on it.

SYKES: I know the cells in our
AOR better than anyone, sir.

COPAK: If I start
pulling agents off

9/11 without confirmation
this is an attack.

SYKES: Of course, sir.

But if it is, this whole
thing could blow wide open.

MOORE: We went through
everything in there.

RYKER: Did you
find the letter?

MOORE: I thought
we had something but it was just a hoax.

I don't know what to tell you.

There's no anthrax
letter in that room.

RYKER: That makes no sense.

That lesion on Erin O'Connor's
shoulder is no hoax.

That letter's gotta
be here somewhere.

MOORE: About that, they just
brought in O'Connor's biopsy.

RYKER: And?

MOORE: Tested negative.
RYKER: What?

Actually, O'Connor's
been on Cipro for days.

Once Cipro is established
in the bloodstream,

I'm thinking it could result
in a false gram-negative.

Dr. Zaki over at the
CDC is working on an

experimental strip to expedite
gram-positive testing.

It'll be more conclusive.

Give them a call.

MOORE: Yeah.

IVINS: Things are good.

Lately with
Diane and the kids,

everything's clicking.

I mean, the only
stressful thing is...

HALSTROM: And how
has work been lately?

IVINS: And other than that,

how was the play,
Mrs. Lincoln?

HALSTROM: Do you
want to expand on that?

IVINS: Stressful.

I mean, you know, we're
at the epicenter of this

anthrax business and
the country under attack.

Haven't been able to
see the kids much lately.

HALSTROM: It's quite common
to pull away when there is

stress in the workplace.

IVINS: There is nothing
common about my work.

HALSTROM: What's
happening there?

What's adding anxiety?

[scoffs]

Bruce? Where
did you just go?

IVINS: Sorry.

HALSTROM: I know
9/11 really rattled you,

but it's good that you've
come here for more support.

IVINS: My work at USAMRIID,
dealing with DOD,

it's high clearance stuff.

HALSTROM: These conversations
are confidential.

IVINS: Since the
situation in Florida,

things have been unhinged.

And now with New York, the
samples keep flooding in and

it's up to us to separate
the hoaxes from the real deal.

We're this line of defense
nobody even knows exists.

HALSTROM: Would you say
you feel under-appreciated?

IVINS: What? No.

What I'm saying is that
it's just us in there,

this select
group of scientists,

some of us barely
know each other.

Even in a vacuum, how do you
trust someone with something

so paramount as the
safety of our nation?

HALSTROM: Bruce, do you
suspect someone at work

is possibly involved?

MAN: This way.

They're still working on
those contaminants as well.

WOMAN: Yeah, they are.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[beeping]

COPAK: I assure you,

this won't get blown
out of proportion.

GIULIANI: Better not.

I asked for a babysitter and
was promised you'd have an

iron grip on the situation.

RYKER: Mayor.

Sir.

We just got results from
Erin O'Connor's latest biopsy.

She's positive for anthrax.

Her first test was
a false negative because

she'd already been on Cipro.

GIULIANI: Didn't I already
give you what you asked for?

RYKER: We need to do a lot
more than close off one floor.

Anthrax is here.

COPAK: Who ran the test?
RYKER: CDC.

Brand new testing method.

GIULIANI: And by new,
is that some sort of experimental thing?

RYKER: And?

GIULIANI: Unless you
have any new proof that

she got it here at 30 Rock.

RYKER: How is a positive
biopsy result not enough?

COPAK: Ryker.

GIULIANI: I'll
take that as a no.

STAFFER: Mayor Giuliani,
the press is ready for you.

And Assistant Director
Mawn is standing by.

GIULIANI: Thank you.

COPAK: You gotta understand,

the local team is doing
everything by the book.

They're good.

But they need more to go on.

Conjecture is the enemy here.

You get an attack letter in an
evidence bag and hold it up in

front of the cameras,
I can get us anything we want.

RYKER: We went through
every inch of that mailroom.

Erin knows she
handed the letter off.

COPAK: Then you jumped
a step when you retraced it.

The truth is never about
what should have happened.

GIULIANI: Thank
you all for coming.

I just wanna be clear
that we're, we're,

we're talking with
you today because

we're being overly cautious.

All employees, as well as
areas of the building that

may have been
exposed will be tested.

RYKER: We're
missing something.

MOORE: We've been
through every piece of hate mail twice.

RYKER: Mailroom doesn't
bag them, though, do they?

MOORE: Uh, no.

I think security guards
collect potential threats

from each floor.

RYKER: Which guard
handles the mail from NBC?

GIULIANI [over TV]: After
a long talk with the CDC,

the chances that
this is contained, uh...

[knocks]

GUARD: What do you need, pal?

MOORE: FBI.

RYKER: We're looking
for a letter that was addressed to Tom Brokaw,

came in a green plastic bag.

Seen anything like that?

GUARD: I don't know.

It can be anywhere in here.

RYKER: Start over there.

GIULIANI: While the
powder in the letter, uh,

proved negative for anthrax,

a skin biopsy
did test positive.

And since this
incident could date back as early as September 25th,

there's a
decent shot that, uh,

anyone who might
have been exposed, uh,

would be by now.

That is our hope.

I encourage everyone
not to overreacting.

NBC's in control of the
situation and cooperation with

governmental agencies, that's
including the CDC and the FBI.

If anyone receives
any suspicious mail,

the best thing to do,
contact the police or FBI.

RYKER: Get out.

Leave the sandwich.

Chris, stay back.

I'm vaccinated,
but you need to leave.

And get that guy on Cipro.

REPORTER [over TV]:
Excuse me, Mr. Giuliani.

REPORTER 2 [over TV]:
Mayor, clarify what the CDC told you today?

Exactly how safe
is 30 Rock right now?

GIULIANI [over TV]:
The CDC and the FBI have informed us that the

chances that this is
contained are very good.

[overlapping chatter]

REPORTER: Any
connection to 9/11?

GIULIANI: I'll let
our local Assistant Director Mawn answer that.

Mawn?

MAWN: Thank you, Mayor.

MAWN [over TV]: Uh,
at this moment, we see absolutely zero link to 9/11.

[ventilated breathing]

LAYTON: So it is terrorists.

RYKER: Our forensics
might find more,

but I'm not seeing
any identifiers, Dr. Layton.

And there's no
obvious fingerprints,

there's no hair.

The envelope has
been taped, not licked,

so we're not gonna
pull any DNA evidence.

The letter itself
is photocopied,

so we're not gonna
get any ink samples.

MOORE: They did
leave us something to go off of, postmark.

RYKER: Maybe it
could be traced back to the point of origin.

MOORE: Right.
And track it down to where it was first dropped off.

RYKER: Yeah.
Follow up with the postal service.

MOORE: Okay. Got it.

LAYTON: If this is
a match for Florida,

we've got
a full-blown bioweapons attack on our hands.

Question is, who
else is a target?

RYKER: Well letters
were sent to AMI and NBC.

I'm starting to think this
is an attack on the media.

HUDEN: First showed
up over a week ago.

My doctor
prescribed antibiotics.

He said it was a spider bite.

But it's not, is it?

RYKER: What's important is
that it looks to be resolving.

We'll need to run
some tests, though.

HUDEN: Whatever you need to
do to take down the cowards

who are doing this.

RYKER: Do you remember
opening any suspicious mail?

Something that might look
similar to this letter here.

[scoffs]

HUDEN: I remember an
envelope just like this.

I didn't open it, though.

RYKER: What do you mean?

HUDEN: The letter,
I, I never opened it.

RYKER: We got a
case at the Post.

A woman with a cutaneous
wound on her finger.

And I just got word that
Dan Rather's assistant over

at CBS tested positive.

RYKER [over phone]:
She noticed the lesion a couple of days ago.

MOORE: Did you find
any letters at CBS?

RYKER: No, but
we did find spores,

some of them at Rather's desk.

Look, uh, I'm at
ABC News right now.

Um, I got a lot of
newsrooms to sweep.

RYKERS [over phone]: What
about you? What's your status?

MOORE: I'm heading into the
mail facility in Trenton now.

I'll let you know if the
postmark gets us anywhere.

RYKER [over phone]:
Good. Thanks.

COPAK: All right, uh...

Rest assured, the tests
we will be performing are just a precaution.

Uh, several employees at
other news outlets have

tested positive for anthrax,
so we wanna make sure that

everyone here at
ABC News is safe.

Special Agent Ryker.

RYKER: As Assistant Director
Copak may have mentioned,

we will need to know the names
of anyone who came to visit

you here at work over
the past two weeks.

[overlapping chatter]

Everyone, please, please,
let's, let's stay calm.

[overlapping chatter]

[phone line ringing]

WOMAN [over phone]:
Hey, honey.

MAN: Is he any worse?

WOMAN: Getting pretty fussy.

He's, he's little owie
is looking kind of ugly.

[baby fussing]

RYKER: Is everything okay?

MOORE: Excuse me, ma'am.

Hi, my name is Agent Moore.

I'm with the FBI.

Uh, I'm just looking
for your floor manager.

ANGELA: Uh, Quinton?

What'd he get himself into?

MOORE: Uh, no, he's
not in any trouble.

I just got a couple
of questions for him.

ANGELA: Quinton!
Feds are looking for ya!

He's right in there.

MOORE: Thanks.

- QUINTON: You see these
hash marks down here? - MOORE: Right.

QUINTON: That big metal
beast out there doing all the

clanking stamps the code,
then sends it on down the line

to the others to be
sorted accordingly.

MOORE: Okay.
Meaning the code then serves as a, sort of,

road map for
the letter's journey?

QUINTON: Uh, this one, after
leaving here was dispatched to

our route that covers 30 Rock.

MOORE: Okay.

And where might the letter
been dropped off before it

made its way to this facility?

QUINTON: Could have been
any box in our region.

One of our blue boxes,
if I had to guess.

MOORE: Blue boxes?

Okay. How many of those
blue boxes are we talking?

QUINTON: Over 600.

[sighs]

IVINS: Thought you
went home already?

[chuckles]

KURZ: Got called back in. You?

IVINS: Yeah. Same.

KURZ: You know, I'm
practically drowning in

samples that need testing,
and now word is,

we're about to get new spores
from the New York letter.

How much you wanna bet if
it turns out to be Ames just

like the Florida strain.

IVINS: You sound
pretty confident.

KURZ: Well, you wanna
know what worries me?

If it is Ames, only
advanced labs have it.

IVINS: Then how'd
Al-Qaeda get ahold of it?

KURZ: Exactly.

This thing, this
thing could get messy.

You heading out?

IVINS: Yeah.

I just have some
things to finish up first.

KURZ: Well, suit yourself.

Goodnight, Bruce.

IVINS: Good night.

♪ ♪

DOCTOR:
We tried administrating oral antibiotics but

little Joey keeps
spitting them up.

We're running out of options.

RYKER: How long has the
infection been active?

DOCTOR: I can't tell you
any more than the father did.

He said his wife and
the baby came by the office a few days ago.

We don't have many options
to stave off the spread of

the infection in an infant.

RYKER: Anthrax isn't
something you stave off.

If it's already systemic,

which this is, this
boy needs to be on Cipro.

DOCTOR: I told you,
he can't keep them down.

RYKER: No, no,
not oral, intravenously.

It's his only shot.

DOCTOR: Agent, this
is my ICU, my call.

Do not mistake this
update as anything more than

a professional courtesy.

RYKER: Before today, I was one
of only a handful of people in

this country to have ever seen
a case of anthrax in a human.

DOCTOR: And babies?

Ever seen an anthrax case
in an infant before?

You wanna take a guess at the
odds of a human weighing less

than 20 pounds surviving
that much Cipro intravenously?

RYKER: Is it better than zero?

Because those are Joey's odds
if we don't kill the anthrax.

[phone ringing]

Oh, you're up late.

WILLIS: Correction,
I'm up early.

You, my friend, are
the one that's up late.

RYKER: Well,
you know, can't sleep.

WILLIS [over phone]:
What's new? So I got your text.

RYKER: So, what's got
you up before the dawn?

WILLIS [over phone]:
The Patriot Act Bill, has everyone on Capitol Hill

scrambling right now.

WILLIS: You know, half the
groups I lobby for don't even

know which way they
want this vote to go.

Turns out that allowing
the FBI to freely spy on

Americans makes
some folks uneasy.

RYKER: You know
this isn't public,

but the anthrax we found,
all signs point to it leading

back to Florida.

WILLIS [over phone]:
Well, you're afraid that'd be the case.

RYKER: Only it's worse.

Several victims.

One's an infant.

WILLIS: Jesus, Matthew.

WILLIS [over phone]:
I know word around D.C.

is that it's terrorist
that's behind these letters.

Is that what you're thinking?

RYKER: Well, Al-Qaeda
declared war on 9/11.

No reason to think they'd
stop with the first strike.

[sirens blaring]

WILLIS [over phone]:
You still there?

Matthew?

RYKER: Uh, yeah,
I'm still here.

Uh, why don't we talk more
once I get back to D.C., okay?

WILLIS [over phone]:
Yeah, sure.

Call me when you land.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ Nearer, my God, to Thee ♪

♪ Nearer to Thee ♪

♪ E'en though it be a cross ♪

♪ That raiseth me ♪

♪ Still all my song shall be ♪

♪ Nearer, my God, to Thee ♪

♪ Nearer, my God, to Thee ♪♪♪

HALSTROM: Bruce, do you suspect
someone at work is possibly involved?

IVINS: The other night I
swabbed a few places around

USAMRIID looking for
something peculiar.

HALSTROM: Peculiar, meaning?

IVINS: Connected to the
anthrax attacks obviously.

HALSTROM: And?

IVINS: Inconclusive.

HALSTROM: Bruce, at minimum,
this is a massive burden

you've taken upon yourself,

and worst case a matter
of National Security.

IVINS: Yes, I'm aware.

HALSTROM: Have you considered
as a means of lifting this

burden contacting
the authorities?

Possibly the FBI?

IVINS: What if I'm wrong?

What if this
colleague is innocent,

I could destroy
his entire world.

No.

Not without
something concrete.

HALSTROM:
I understand your trepidation.

Will you at least
consider it, please?

MAN: No need to wait
around on our account.

RYKER: I was just
heading to the field office.

I thought I'd stop by
and check in on your son.

MAN: Doctors
still won't say much.

Though from what
they have said,

it sounds like making
it through the night was

a pretty major milestone.

So, thank you for that.

RYKER: No need to thank me.

- I didn't do any.
- MAN: Don't.

The pediatrician said
you talked him into

the intravenous treatment.

RYKER: I'm happy to help.

[phone ringing]

Excuse me.

Dr. Layton?

LAYTON [over phone]:
Hey, our teams got their hands on that letter

that infected the
woman at the Post.

LAYTON: Here's
the troubling thing,

the letter is still sealed.

RYKER: No one opened it,

not even ripped a
corner or something?

LAYTON: No.

The powder must've worked
its way around the seal.

The things is we've been
operating under the assumption

that just a few spores
couldn't infect anyone.

MILLER [over TV]:
To know how to do this,

make sure that
they don't link up with people like Osama bin Laden

uh, for not panicking
in the situation.

I think most of what
we're going to see will...

COPAK: Hey, any
leads on the letter?

RYKER: Not yet.
It's with the CDC now.

COPAK: Get a load of this.

News got their hands on some
tidbit and it's blowing up

all over the airwaves.

KING [over TV]:
Should we be concerned that Iraq may be able to do that?

MILLER [over TV]:
I have always been concerned about Iraq.

I share the
concern about Iraq's biological weapons program.

Uh, I found it very curious
indeed that Saddam Hussein...

MOORE: Iraq?

COPAK: No, no, this is,
I've had a couple of calls

from Washington already.

Fumbled my way through.

It's like talking to people
about a party they think

you were invited to.

MOORE: Is Al-Qaeda even in Iraq?

RYKER: Iraq's bioweapons
capabilities were shut down after the war.

COPAK: As far as you
and I have been told.

PRESIDENT BUSH [over TV]:
It's clear that, uh,

Mr. Bin Laden is a man
who's, uh, an evil man.

REPORTER [over TV]: FBI
investigators are frantically

searching for leads in the
case and the CDC has been

quick to provide testing
and laboratory services.

[phone line ringing]

OPERATOR [over phone]:
You have reached the

Federal Bureau
of Investigation tip line.

If you are calling in regards
to an open investigation,

press one.

REPORTER [over TV]: Infections
in humans and especially...

♪ ♪

DIANE: Hey.

IVINS: Hi.

DIANE: Who are
you calling, Bruce?

IVINS: Oh, just work stuff.

DIANE: All right.

[sighs]

PRODUCER: In
five, four, three...

BROKAW: Good evening.

Tonight we find
ourselves in the unusual and

unhappy position of
reporting on one of our own.

REPORTER [over TV]:
Anthrax, war, terror and

threats of more,
the USA is in an

understandable
state of anxiety.

REPORTER 2 [over TV]:
It is concern in the county about anthrax as a weapon.

REPORTER 3 [over TV]:
How does the FBI find out

who is responsible
for sending out anthrax?

MAN [over TV]: We don't have
enough information to know

whether this could be
related to terrorism.

REPORTER [over TV]:
Reinforced by the President

that more terror
attacks could be coming.

REPORTER 2 [over TV]:
In Rockefeller Center, an anthrax case in NBC.

BROKAW [over TV]: But NBC
was not the only target.

Anthrax spores were also found
on the desk of my colleague

Dan Rather at CBS.

Other news outlets including
ABC and the New York Post were

targeted as well.

BROKAW: And today
anthrax attack victim Robert Stevens was laid

to rest in Florida.

Our thoughts are
with his family.

The other two original victims
from Florida are recovering.

But now with multiple attacks
along the Eastern Seaboard and

no suspect yet identified, our
nation is gripped with fear.

We can only hope there
will be no more victims.

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