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COPENHAGEN 1 999

Romania?

Enjoy your stay.

Germany?

lt's an old passport. You have to get a new one.

Sir...

Nothing to declare.

- Where do you come from? - Germany.

Where were you?

Romania.

Coffee pills... to stay awake.

See you.

Sory...

Can l get a new one?

Yeah.

Of course you can.

You still live on Sonder Alle... Lotte?

lt's nice out there, huh?

Yeah, if you say so.

A little lonely though, right?

When should l come visit you?

When there's 8 days in a week.

That's next week!

l just saw it on the news.

An astrological phenomenon!

ls that you?

Jerk!

Light... Let there be light.

EPIDEMlOLOGY

While all town fumbles in the dark, we're safe in our medical cathedral.

The beauty of the back-up generator.

The virus occupies the host cell and spreads to the rest

of the cells.

The danger is not in the spreading of a virus

from animal to man...

30 years ago, the infected man

would die, maybe take a village with him.

Look at this.

The 60's...

70's...

80's...

And today.

The danger...

is if the virus

gets to the international air traffic network.

A virulent virus

can spread from Peking to Sydney to Paris...

and any other county

in just 24 hours.

One of you has written, l won't name names...

but it was Berit...

that the worst case scenario is a virus as lethal as Ebola

and as contagious as influenza.

But such a virus already exists.

The true worst case scenario

is a person carying this virus

aboard Flight 1 37

from Mombasa to New York.

You don't know when it's coming,

but it �s coming.

Virologists are the last line of defense.

We contact the CDC in Atlanta

the second we have any suspicions.

Treatment is not an option.

The strategy is to prevent the virus from spreading by isolating it.

lt'll be a virologist who saves the world.

So if world-saving is your thing, you've come to the right place.

That's it.

Take your reports and don't ever insult me like that again.

Sarah Tidholm, do you have a second?

Miss Tidholm...

you're capable of better work.

ls anything wrong?

No, nothing... It's just...

l've met someone...

So you just sacrifice your career?

You know how it is with love...

No.

And it's complicated.

You see, he's an older man.

Much older.

A dinosaur, actually.

A dinosaur?

Happy birthday.

Did the staff throw a party for you?

You don't publicize your birthday until you're a department head.

l hate that thing.

lt saves lives. See you.

Are you ready?

We're just about to page him.

But he was just paged.

By who?

l'm Rastauw. You paged me?

- l.V.? - Running.

ls the virologist here?

What is this?

He was found like this at the airport. Type and cross match.

Get your damn gloves on.

We're losing him.

Let's get moving!

He has to be isolated.

Get his blood up to the lab and call the ward.

Tell them we've got an unknown.

- Do we have a pulse? - l can't find one.

- He's breathing. - Get another l.V. going.

ECG...

Come on!

Defibrillator.

But he's breathing.

l said, juice him!

Nothing?

Again.

Copenhagen took the blackout �n str�de.

The pol�ce reported

no �ncrease �n calls for ass�stance.

The cause of the power outage th�s even�ng �s st�II a mystery.

Even cars and battery-operated rad�os were unable to funct�on.

We have a reporter at the power plant...

What was it?

Ebola?

Have you seen this?

He's Romanian.

Touching his things without gloves?

Christ, Merete...

Was it Ebola?

Don't read that pop science stuff.

But he's Romanian.

Romania's in Europe, not Africa.

And this is the men's locker room.

ldiot...

How can you be certain?

Not you, too.

You could have checked it out, notified Atlanta.

And panicked the entire European medical community...

only to discover we were wrong?

We could have told Atlanta.

Told them what?

That a man died?

A man with Ebola-like symptoms.

We wait for the test results.

Goddamn it!

Then we put him on a non-stop flight back to Romania.

Not until we know what it is.

Excuse me...

Which one of us is Chief of Virology?

Merete, it's Soren Rastauw. Is Tom still sleeping?

Would you douse him with ice water for me? Thanks.

Hi, darling.

l didn't get any sleep. l dreamt all through the night.

Tom, it's Rastauw. What's the word?

Did it look like nothing was wrong with him?

Marburg, Ebola, cancer, even ch�Idhood d�seases... Noth�ng.

What tests were run?

Blood.

Only blood?

That's all l was given.

Let's do a spinal tap.

There's one thing...

l made an unofficial report to Atlanta last night.

Hang on a second.

lt's odd the tests were negative.

There m�ght be another case.

Massive internal bleeding, high fever,

Ebola-like symptoms.

Where?

Romania.

A boy.

When?

lt was reported 36 hours ago.

Jesus Christ! l'll be there in 1 5 minutes.

Something about it doesn't make sense.

Was it arson?

Come down and help us find out.

lnterpol's looking for a guy

who torched a pediatric ward in Romania.

He took a flight to Denmark before the cops caught up to him.

ln Romania. That's Interpol.

lnterpol. Another word for desk job.

They're bending you over, Jensen.

They don't feel like doing it themselves.

What about Homicide?

l got the Romanian report.

A Molotov cocMail caused an explosion

which worsened when it was fought with water.

Sounds familiar?

lt's got to be potassium.

Potassium and gasoline.

How'd it look if he did it here while we're sitting on this report?

Who says he will?

No one.

A German at a Romanian hospital.

The pediatric ward.

Just give me a half day...

To check the hotels.

Jensen!

Just check the hotels with a bathtub in the room.

He can't cook that shit up on the carpet.

Excuse me?

l'm looking for a man from Romania. A dead man.

Yes. Are you related?

Not really... Look.

l just have to know where he was found.

lf you are not a family member...

lversen, l need a spinal sample.

Two visits from Epidemiology in one morning...

Lyngfeldt was here.

He sent the Romanian back home.

You've got to be kidding me.

No, he said the tests were negative.

What an asshole!

l don't know if it'll help...

but l found markings on his right wrist.

- Markings? - Yeah, burn marks.

Maybe a bite impression that had burned into the skin.

l'll show you the pictures.

Anterior.

Posterior.

Five in all, 3-4 mm deep.

What the hell is this?

Pretty bizarre, huh?

Well, Mrs. Graversen. How goes the battle

against salmonella?

Better, Doctor.

Your appetite's back?

- l need to talk to you. - In my office.

When l'm done here.

How about solid food tonight?

That would be nice.

We'll remove that gastric tube.

Where the hell is the body?

- Who do you think you are? - You sent him back!

There's another one.

A Romanian boy, reported 36 hours ago.

The test results don't preclude

the possibility that it's a new virus.

Or that it's nothing at all.

What about the Romanian boy ?

We have one unknown cause of death in this hospital evey day.

l can't detain a foreign national

to benefit an ambitious senior resident.

That's what it's about!

What are you talking about?

Huh?

l am going down there to get a spinal sample.

Your shift starts in 6 hours.

''l've seen salmonella patients that were much worse.

''lt could be a common cold.''

l am going down there.

What makes you think they'll let you do your tests?

l called Bucharest University Hospital.

That wasn't vey smart.

You could get fired.

To hell with it!

- If this is half as bad as l fear... - You mean ''hope for''.

Come on!

l think you're doing the right thing.

Something didn't add up right with that guy.

That's why l'm going.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

l'm going with you.

l have an appointment with the Dr. Angelescu.

We're looking for Dr. Angelescu.

Jesus Christ, look at that.

lt's torched.

l'll wait for you in the lobby.

Why?

l feel like a tourist here.

- l'll be a half hour. Okay? - Of course.

Dr. Angelescu?

Soren Rastauw, we spoke on the phone this morning...

about the dead man.

l know.

Welcome.

Take a seat.

Has there been a fire, some burning, or what?

Yes, a fire. Some crazy idiot tried to burn down the place.

You won't understand it, but some pictures are interesting.

This is the boy with the same symptoms as the man in Copenhagen?

Looks like the same thing.

Where is the boy now?

Buried.

These marks here

look like some kind of bite.

Yes, the boy was bitten by a dog.

His parents brought the boy here and, well...

What about his condition when he got here?

Fine, fine... He's had a shock and his...

- Bite? - Bite, yes... It was fine.

Then, what happened?

During the power cut,

his condition became worse

and worsened, and he died.

Power cut?

Power cut, yes.

Electricity...

Happens all the time here.

What do you think?

Some sort of rabies?

Don't think so.

The dog... Did you run any tests?

The dog?

This is a hospital for humans,

not a research center.

l'm happy if l have penicillin.

Understand?

Take the elevator

and follow the signs.

l'll write the Romanian word

for what you name ''morgue''...

And the name of the man you're looking for.

Keep the file.

Keep the pen.

l have a pen, thank you.

So... thank you, anyway.

Wait a minute, morgue...?

Excuse me...

l'm Soren Rastauw, from Denmark, l'm a doctor.

l've had an appointment with Angelescu.

Could you help me?

This man, here...

Where is he?

'Cause l need a spinal sample from this man.

Crematorium...

l don't believe this...

l don't fucking believe this.

When?

Forget it. Just shut up.

Can you show me? Just show me.

Damn it!

l'm looking for...

Vasili Eunescu.

332.

The key is over there.

There. Sory, it's my first day.

He's on h�s way up.

Roger that.

lt's been awhile, huh?

What's going on?

He's going down.

He's going down!

He got off on first floor!

The rooms.

Now!

Police!

Damn it, Jensen! Watch out!

Towards the square!

- Did you see him? - No.

- One man in each direction. - No, two and two.

There's not enough of us.

Two and two, Jensen. We're going home alive. Move it!

Take the east side.

Good God!

What is it you're hoping to find?

What l'm hoping to find? l have no idea.

The guy's dust.

l'm just tying to keep an open mind.

l think you're being arrogant.

You want to disturb a family who Iost their child just 2 days ago.

You're too emotional.

You're not compassionate enough.

Got the map?

My name is Soren Rastauw.

l'm a doctor, l come from Denmark.

You don't speak English?

Nikolai...

l know.

What do you want?

l spoke to Dr. Angelescu

from the Hospital of Bucharest

about Nikolai.

Nikolai is dead.

One moment, please.

- Yes, please. - l'm really sory.

But l have a few questions and it's vey important.

So l ask for your help.

- You understand? - Yes.

Follow me.

Do you raise dogs?

Raise? No.

Just a minute, please.

Look at that.

They buried him in the arbor.

Probably an orthodox tradition.

There is nothing to see here.

l know it's a vey hard time for you

and l'm really sory

but l need to have some information. If l get it,

l can save other people's life.

Who cares?

l do.

Our boy is dead.

- Understand? - l understand.

What about the dog, please? What happened to it?

Did it show any symptoms of illness?

l shot and burnt it.

lt was not a dog, it was something else.

Maybe it was a beast.

Now leave me alone.

Leave me alone!

l only have a few questions.

Shit...

Are you okay?

Vincent Monreau.

He has my gun.

He's a priest.

Lars, let's get a bulletin out.

Get the lab people out here and then come back.

A priest...

And a chemisty student!

Move back, l'll show you something.

Mixed with water.

lmagine a larger amount mixed with gasoline.

What does it say?

''Stella Mala.''

Look at this!

Never seen a red moon before?

Volcanic dust in the stratosphere

creates the illusion of a red moon.

Bentzon.

Jensen.

We don't see the authorities much.

We could use your help with this.

Tracking an intergalactic crime ring?

Stella Mala!

lt means ''Evil star'' in Latin. We don't believe in it.

Believe in what?

Stella Mala.

We know it is a supernova.

A supernova is a star about to die.

A sun about to be extinguished.

Just before it dies, it flares up in a great flash of light.

What is it you don't believe in?

Astrologists believe in Stella Mala.

The Evil star.

The opposite of the star of Bethlehem.

The opposite?

The birth of Satan instead of Jesus.

The pentagram.

The symbol of Satan.

Stella Mala appeared in the sm a couple of weeks ago.

Astrologers and charlatans

believe Satan's son was born at that time.

They see the star as a sign of his birth.

Common superstition

combined with the new millenium.

The same thing happened in 999.

Histoy books mention

red moons, but we're still here, right?

The scientific explanation, on the other hand, is vey simple.

Stella Mala

existed for millions of years before we discovered it.

Only after it became a supernova

was it visible to our telescopes.

How do you get these star charts?

Just a moment.

''The Astrology Handbook for the Occultist''.

We can't help ourselves.

A real page-turner.

Vincent Monreau.

Dog bites boy.

Boy infects male nurse and dies.

The male nurse is found dead in Denmark

in a parking garage.

l'm freezing.

How cold can it be?

1 5 degrees, tops.

l don't know where the hell l am.

Where are we?

What is it?

The dog was cremated, the man was cremated.

But the boy was buried, and it's 1 5 degrees outside.

You can't be serious.

He might just as well be in the morgue.

His blood cells are intact.

Forget it. They're in mourning.

They'll never allow it.

Soren!

He was just buried.

The earth is still loose, it would only take a half hour.

He is dead and buried.

No one will know.

- We'll have to live with it. - Exactly!

You're sick.

You hear me? You're sick.

Ty to repeat after me:

''l'm going back to that grieving family

''to dig up their beloved little boy

''and make a big career move...

''by getting that fucking spinal sample.''

Say it!

l'm not going home without that sample, understand?

That's it!

Okay, but if you do, we're finished.

Do you understand?

Soren...

Stop the car!

Stop the car.

Stop the car!

He may be alive.

lf he lies out there, unconscious for an hour,

he'll die.

Go back!

We're in Romania.

This is not Denmark. They'll put us away for life.

What will happen then?

We're going home.

We're putting this picture on N tomorrow morning.

Look at this.

This is the order

our pyromaniac science student wrote about.

Committed to the opposition of Satan.

Founded in the Middle Ages during the witch hunts,

in the belief that Satan's rebirth can be seen in the pentagram.

All the way up to '46, when the Pope banned the order,

they gathered information and prepared

for the Evil One's return.

Look at this. The monk in the middle.

The last Grand Master.

Guess what his name is.

Jacques Monreau.

His father?

Or maybe he just tells himself so.

Look...

Who needs the Pope's blessing when you've got the Net?

He has his own Web site.

His article invites anyone

who has information about the subject

to visit the Chosen's Web site.

Look...

See? Here's room for thought on the Evil One's return.

Fantastic, huh?

Hello, Tom.

Back from the Crusades?

You look awful.

Here's the Nobel Prize.

- The spinal sample? - A vintage year.

lt didn't come easy.

lt's from the boy with the same symptoms.

l need the results fast.

l've got to get back to Sarah.

Have you spoken to Lyngfeldt?

Some foreign professor was looking for him.

He's investigating the same virus.

As fast as you can, Tom.

4 hours. It can't be done faster.

So, we hope for the best.

This is Professor...

Schmidt. Vincent Schmidt.

He is working at the Pasteur Institute...

l'm here about the Romanian you treated the other night.

Where did you find him?

How did you know about him?

l checked for...

the Disease Control Center in Atlanta.

But we didn't report it.

Christ, Claus!

Now you see it's not a phantom virus.

lt's absurd, but you must be hoping

this �s a dangerous, unknown virus.

Because if it isn't...

and l was forced

to cover your shit while you played Indiana Jones

in Romania, and reported the event to Atlanta...

and it turns out to be nothing...

you're fired.

l'll report you to the Danish Medical Association.

l'm going home. l need some sleep...

after that 24-hour shift.

ls it a virus?

So, where was he found?

What do you have?

l think l know how it infects.

So you tell me?

A storm front �s mov�ng �n

w�th heavy ra�nfall and strong w�nds...

May l speak to Berit, please?

Thank you.

Hi, it's me.

Listen, could l stay with you for a while?

l have to get away.

Thanks.

When is your shift over?

l'll pick you up at Intensive at six.

Bye.

We're here about the man...

l found him up in business parking.

What is he talking about?

He's saying that he found him.

Did he touch him?

No way. l've never seen anything like it.

Why?

Who was nearby when it happened?

He came with an airplane, he's been close to hundreds.

The video camera is auto-recording?

Of course.

Does the tape from that night exist?

The pol�ce are look�ng for a German c�t�_en,

V�ncent Monreau...

lf you have any �nformat�on about h�m, please call th�s number.

Anything we can use?

Anonymous calls from bars.

This doctor knows where he is.

ls he calling from a bar?

He's on the street.

Send a car to the airport. Find the number for long-term parking!

She's a stewardess.

lt looks like she's been followed.

No answer.

That's when the power went.

lt looks like he attacked her.

We must find her!

Parking, hold on.

We must find her immediately.

Do you know her name?

Here.

Go!

You know...

this virus... is not an ordinay one.

l hope not.

Go down there, so they don't see us.

l'll take the stairs!

She might not be at home. She's a stewardess.

She's home.

l'm a doctor!

And l'm a cop! Now shut up!

Drop the gun! Get down!

1 , 2, 3...

Put him over there.

l've met some crazy people, but you're really something.

You say you're a doctor but your passport says you're a priest,

and in some ridiculous magazine you call yourself an astrologist.

You say you belong to some kind of secret society

called ''Elicti''.

You're not registered as a priest anywhere,

not to mention the Pope banned the order 50 years ago.

l don't care what you are, where you've been,

l'm just doing my job: protecting people from people like you,

and l want to know two things:

why did you kill that woman...

l didn't kill her.

What?

She's alive.

Believe me, she's dead.

She's alive.

You were right there when she died.

Why do you say this?

Whenever He jumps, there's a power cut.

A blackout.

Whenever who...

''He'' jumps? Satan?

Yes.

The Beast. Evil.

The woman, Jensen.

What about the woman, she's Satan too?

lt's not a virus,

it is the Beast!

Evey time He jumps into a new person,

the old body dies.

Nobody survives.

Ask him how it can be dangerous if it only goes from man to man.

Not a vey dangerous virus, is it, Satan, whatever...

if it only goes from man to man.

When the President of America was here, in Denmark,

do you know anybody who met him? In person?

You say you want to understand...

The Chief of Police met him.

Did he shake hands with the President?

She. Yes.

Did you shake hands with her?

Yes, once. Why?

Well...

then you are one handshake away from the President

of America. Don't you see?

He can go eveywhere,

take anybody and make them do evil.

Just as foretold in the Revelation:

''Born as a Beast,

''use man against man until man is no more.''

Then what the hell is He doing in Denmark?

Hiding.

Whenever He leaves one body to go to another one,

the old body dies.

lt shrinks like the soul has been eaten.

That's the trail l follow.

- Ask the doctor. - About what?

Romania. He was there, he knows.

The power cuts...

the beast that bit a boy...

lt is in the Revelation.

The five stars are the sign that Evil has been born.

He knows l'm here.

lf l don't hunt Him,

He will win.

That's why you must go to the Hospital.

To stop Him!

Before He jumps again!

Hi there!

What's going on?

You're upset?

Thanks for coming.

l'm Rastauw from Epidemiology. Where's the woman who was shot?

Soren...

What happened?

lt's a long stoy.

Where are you going?

l'm going to stay with Berit for a couple of days.

l had to deliver the sample.

lt's not that.

Then what is it?

lt's...

eveything.

l know l don't deserve it...

but let's just get some coffee, or a beer...

At least hear me out. Get your bag.

You've got to believe me.

Just give me five minutes.

Okay, five minutes.

Oh shit...

What?

My wallet's upstairs. 30 seconds...

l have money.

No, this one's on me.

l'll be back in 30 seconds, okay?

You are one handshake away from the Pres�dent of Amer�ca.

Don't you see?

He can go everywhere...

anywhere,

take anybody and make them do ev�l...

just as foretold �n the Revelat�on:

''Born as a Beast,

''use man aga�nst man unt�l man �s no more.''

Tom?

Hello?

ANIMAL?

There's a patient...

Yes?

Whenever �t leaves one person to go to another person, the body d�es.

lt shr�nks, l�ke the soul has been eaten.

That's the tra�l l follow.

You scared the daylights out of me!

Are you jerking me around?

What do you mean?

Look at the cell center.

lt's not the cell of a human being.

l drew it myself. It's from a boy.

A boy with cell structure of an animal. l ran the test twice.

The sample is from an animal.

...you must go to the Hosp�tal.

To stop H�mt

Before He jumps aga�nt

Where the hell have you been?

Looking for you.

l told you to stay here!

The power went out...

Let's get out of here.

Something's all wrong. Let's go.

Stand away, Doctor.

She must burn.

We have a man down. Send backup.

What's going on?

l'm going after them.

Soren?

Soren?

Where are you?

What are you doing?

Come out.

Rastauw!

Who was it?

His girlfriend. A medical student.

Goddamn!

l hope there's a logical explanation for this.

l'll take him in. You wanna go?

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