Contagion (2002) Movie Script
(triumphant fanfare)
(triumphant orchestral music)
- [President] Build peace,
the desire for peace in the hearts and minds of all of us.
I believe the realms of humanity
are not beyond the reach of human beings.
Justice, peace in the Middle East,
will, God willing, be our legacy abroad.
And I promise you that if I'm given the privilege
of being reelected to a second term,
we can all enjoy another four years
of unprecedented prosperity.
Thank you. Thank you for all your support.
I wanna see you in November.
Thank you. Goodbye. Good luck. God bless you.
(audience applauds)
- [Reporter] And the President is leaving the stage.
He's bouncing back from a very tough year,
but he's looking fit and energized
as he kicks off his reelection campaign.
There was speculation to whether President Howard
would seek a second term, after the unexpected death
of his wife.
(tense music)
(crowd applauds)
(crowd cheers)
- [President] Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Hello.
Thank you very much.
(indistinct shouting)
- [Security] Get him in the car.
- [Reporter] Ladies and gentlemen,
I don't know if you heard that,
but it seems a shot has just been fired.
(sirens wail)
- [Maxwell] Help him.
- Go get his coat off. Get his coat off.
- I'm all right. I'm all right.
- Little bit of blood.
- What? - Oh god.
- You okay?
- [President] Something stuck me.
- [Brenner] Whatever hit you was not a bullet,
Mr. President.
- It was this.
- Is this someone's idea of a sick joke?
- Sir, I don't think this is a joke.
(tense dramatic music)
(sirens wail)
- Clear.
- You all right, Mr. President?
- I'm fine, Pete. I'm all right.
- Bring that chair. Let's go.
I really think you ought to ride, Mr. President.
- No, no, no, no.
Listen, the president of the United States
can survive getting stuck by a pin.
We're blowing this totally out of proportion.
- Excuse me, Mr. President.
I'm Dr. Morgan, the chief administrator of this hospital.
- Hello, and don't worry, we won't be here that long.
- I don't understand.
We were told the president had been shot.
- Not exactly.
- What do you mean, "Not exactly?"
- He's bleeding from a small puncture wound, Doctor.
- Ma'am, do not touch him. Thank you.
(phone jingles)
- [Diane] Yeah. What's up?
No, you tell them that I won't be pressured
into releasing test results prematurely.
All right? Gotta go.
(phone jingles)
- Hey.
No, Sharon, we can't do the symposium on the seventh.
We got the zoo night thing. Remember?
Okay. Work it out. Gotta go. Gotta go.
Hey there.
- [Taxi Driver] Hey, how are you?
- Just one.
- [Taxi Driver] I got it.
(phone jingles)
- Hello?
Yeah.
No, just book it with Atlanta.
Vacation. Vacation.
Vacations are for people with lives.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Hold on just a second.
Something's going on.
(dramatic music)
- Dr. Landis.
- Who's asking?
- Agent Paul Garra, United States Secret Service.
We need you.
- You're kidding.
- Come with us. - Hey.
- I'll explain in the car.
- Can I have my phone back, please?
- No.
(phone jingles)
- Do you take messages?
Mind telling me what this is about?
- We have a biomedical emergency.
Department of Disease Containment
says you are the best virologist they have.
- I'm speaking at the Epidemic Intelligence Conference
in 20 minutes.
I can't help you.
- There's been an attack on the president.
- Can I get my phone back?
Thank you.
- [Dr. Morgan] Dr. Landis.
Dr. Morgan, hospital administrator.
What can I do to help you?
- What do you have here
in the way of pathogen testing facilities?
- Oh, nothing fancy, I'm afraid. Just routine microbiology.
We have a basic clinical laboratory
that's equipped to do PCR assays using standard primers.
- The president's down here?
- Yes. This is the isolation wing. It's the south wing.
- Okay. We're gonna have to evacuate the whole south wing.
- The whole wing?
- The whole wing.
- [Maxwell] As of yet, no one's claimed responsibility.
- It was a dart.
I am the first president in history
to be attacked by a game piece.
- Let me see that finger.
- [President] I mean, if you want to kill a man,
why don't you shoot him?
- Maybe they didn't want you dead yet.
- [Brenner] Yeah, send her in.
Dr. Landis.
- Martin Howard.
- I thought you looked familiar.
Mr. President, I am Diane Landis,
head of arvovirology at the DDC.
How do you feel?
- I feel fine, great. Really.
Have you met Dr. Amos, my personal physician,
and my chief of staff, Delbert Maxwell.
- [Diane] I think we should save the introductions
right now, sir.
Where's this dart?
- Right here.
This is evidence, ma'am.
- [Diane] It's also possibly contaminated
with a highly infectious organism.
If you touch it, you are contaminated.
If you touch anybody else, they're contaminated.
We've gotta start breaking that chain.
Have you touched your mouth or your eyes
since you found this?
- I do not know.
- [Diane] Can you tell me if anyone else was exposed?
- Whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no.
Just hold on here.
First of all, I'm not sure anyone was exposed.
- Sir, you were hit with a dart
that seemed designed to deliver a dose of something.
Have a seat.
Look at me.
Sir.
Sir.
Look at me.
Where's the point of entry?
- Right here.
- Nurse?
- Washington.
- Nurse Washington,
I need a full CBC on anyone who's had contact
with the president.
I also need a biopsy of the puncture site.
I need you to disrobe.
- Well, whatever you're doing,
you need to have it done by three o'clock,
because I'm catching a plane to St. Paul.
- Not if you're in quarantine.
- Quarantine?
- [Diane] Sir, if you were infected with a pathogen,
we have to make sure that it doesn't leave this hospital.
- You wouldn't be looking to make this your shot
at the big leagues, would you?
- Mr. President, with all due respect, in my world,
I am the big leagues.
- You didn't vote for me, did you?
- [Security] We got him on the line.
- Sir, call coming in.
Make sure you have it.
- Maxwell here.
- [Terrorist] Your president has been infected
with a level four hot agent.
- Who is this?
- [Terrorist] Your DDC doctor will be running tests.
You'll hear from us soon.
- What do you want, exactly?
(dial tone beeps)
- So what's my prognosis?
- He says you've been infected with a level four hot agent.
- What does that mean?
- It's a measurement of lethality.
Level four is the highest known threat to human life.
Anthrax, Ebola, Hanta virus. They're all fours.
- [President] Well, how do we know
this guy's telling the truth?
- Well, we're gonna take his word on it right now.
Sir, you are definitely in quarantine.
No one can enter or leave this room
until we know whether or not you're contagious.
- All right.
Here's the official word.
This quarantine has nothing to do with me. All right?
If word gets out that I am sick
and being held hostage by some lunatics,
the Middle East peace talks could go south in a heartbeat.
Now, both sides are trusting that our strength,
my strength is gonna see this through,
and I'm not going to let this kill two years of hard work.
So, we happen to be here when the outbreak occurred,
and we're stuck here just like everybody else.
Clear?
All right.
Let's just hope this is a bluff.
- If it's level four, we'll know soon enough.
(somber music)
- Del,
see if you can get my son on the phone.
- All right.
What should our response be with the questions
that are going to come up?
- [Dr. Morgan] May I have your attention, please?
Because of an isolated outbreak in the medical center,
it is necessary to impose a full quarantine,
effective immediately.
Until further notice,
no one may enter or leave the complex.
I repeat: this facility is under a complete quarantine.
We will do everything we can to make your stay
as comfortable as possible.
(worried chatter)
(keys jangle)
- [Speaker] You can't do that.
(barriers rumble)
(phone rings)
- Richard?
Richard?
Richard, please.
What happened? - You gotta get from there.
- What's going on?
- I know what's going on,
but you gotta get out from there.
- Somebody, can you help me? I need to get to my baby.
- [PA] Assure you that the hospital
will reopen as soon as possible.
- Whoa. What are you doing?
- I'm here to see the president.
What are you doing?
- Me too.
- [Wallace] All right, Houdini, let's go.
They're looking for you, again.
- Aw, Wallace.
- Sorry. This kid's like a ghost.
He's all over the hospital.
- [Dusty] Can you take me to see the president, please?
- Sorry.
- But I'm homeless.
- He has a home. He lives at the state home for boys.
- [Dusty] That's not a home.
I really wanna meet the president.
How can you refuse to see an orphan?
- Come on, orphan.
Let's get back to your room. You're supposed to be resting.
- Wait, I had my appendix out.
- Okay.
- Wait. Do you have any kids?
- No.
- How come?
- I'm really very busy.
- [Dusty] Okay, so let me tell you about kids.
You see, impressionable boys need their role models.
If they don't have one,
they become sociopaths and turn to lives of crime.
Think about my future. Think about your future.
Think about running into me in an alley in about 10 years.
Come on. What better role model than the president?
- I'll see what I can do.
- [Dusty] Tell the president my schedule is wide open.
- Yeah, I did meet the president,
and I'm not winning any popularity contests,
I can tell you that.
Got my neck stuck out about a mile here.
Listen, I need a field lab flown down here pronto.
Okay?
Okay. Bye.
Wayne Ferrin?
- Diane?
What are you doing here?
- Hey.
Well, you look the same. Only craggier.
- Well, you look so successful.
- That bad, huh?
Is it obvious?
- Well, wait a minute.
I think I can still see the old virus cowboy
in there somewhere.
Come here, sit down.
Is this quarantine business yours?
- Yeah.
- [Wayne] Classic Diane.
I should have known when I heard the word quarantine.
How's Robbie?
- Wow. It's been a long time since I've seen you.
We broke up a year ago.
- Not you too?
- We differed on priorities.
- Yeah, his priority was love, and yours was disease.
Nice, Diane.
- Oh, leave me alone. I like my life.
I love my job, and everything else is just messy.
- Hmm.
- [Diane] Okay, here's the deal.
What I'm about to tell you has nothing to do
with the President of the United States, okay?
- President. What President?
- We have two people who were potentially directly exposed,
and two more who were exposed indirectly.
- Any idea what the agent is?
- No. But we're gonna find out.
I gotta get my field lab down here.
- You ordered the slammer? We talking level three?
Four?
You think we've got a BSL four hot agent
here in this hospital?
- Right here in this case.
- You always knew what to bring to the party, Diane.
(cell door clanks)
(ominous music)
- [Announcer] Please do not be alarmed.
Need you to stay in your homes.
We are here only to ensure the safety of the president.
(trucks rumble)
- [Soldier] Come on, keep up, keep up.
Go, go, go, go.
Go, go, go.
(helicopter whirs)
- Secure the perimeter. We're gonna be here a while.
(machines beeping)
- So, what if it is what they say it is?
- Good thing it's an election year.
I got the wrong gear. I need my field lab.
Okay.
I'm gonna run the ELISA assay first.
Maybe you ought to wait outside while I centrifuge this.
Accidents happen. There is a hot agent in this blood.
It could become aerosolized.
No need for us both to be breathing it.
Go on.
Go. Call Barbara. Say hi for me.
- I always did hate it when you made sense. Okay.
You be careful.
- Yes, sir.
- [Reporter] General Riker,
why would you choose to personally take command
of an operation of this kind?
- Well, as serious as the quarantine is,
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the fact
that the president was caught up in this situation.
- It's well known that there's been animosity
between you and President Howard.
Is it safe to say that it's because you yourself
have an eye on the White House?
- The president is the commander in chief
of the armed forces.
That defines our relationship.
- [President] Riker. How'd he get here so fast?
I knew he'd show.
He's just gonna muck things up,
trying to get his picture taken.
- You want him ordered away, sir?
- No. No, no, no, no.
He'll just run in front of the cameras
and turn this into hospital gate.
No, the less we give him, the better.
Where's that dart when we need it?
(tense music)
- Anything yet?
- How do I do it?
- Do what?
- Tell the president of the United States that he has Ebola.
- They did it. They really went and did it.
- Whoever they are, they got a bad strain of Ebola.
Normal incubation is days.
It's been, what? Four hours?
It's already in his bloodstream.
I have never seen anything move so fast.
Not Ebola, West N, Sudan, even Zaire.
- So those three people upstairs? They're contagious.
- I have to go up there.
- [President] They're not gonna get an answer
for at least a week, so you just tell them that.
- State Department.
- Are they having a costume party
down in the cafeteria tonight?
If you need the Air Force band, I am the president.
- Mr. President, I'm afraid that the news is not good.
You, Mr. Maxwell and Nurse Washington
have all been infected with a virus.
It's called Ebola.
- What's the course of treatment?
- Ebola has no treatment, and it has no cure.
We'll try to keep your fever down, replace fluids.
- What's the survival rate?
- This strain doesn't precisely match anything
I've ever seen before.
- Bottom line, doctor.
What are our chances of beating it?
- [Diane] Less than 10%.
Most people who contract Ebola die within days.
However, this strain seems even more virulent.
There are three phases to the disease.
Once phase one symptoms are present, you're contagious.
If you're not contagious now, you will be soon.
- Ebola is transmitted through blood and saliva, yes?
- As far as we know, through contact with infected persons.
Anyone who touched the wound needs to be isolated.
This entire area is the hot zone.
The only way in or out will be through the main door.
- All right.
Tell me about this, how it's transmitted again.
- [Diane] As far as we know,
it's through contact with infected person's blood.
- Maxwell here.
- We've got him on the line.
- It's Agent Fraley. The shooter's on the line.
Who am I speaking with, please?
- [Terrorist] By now, you know we're not bluffing.
- Who are you?
- [Terrorist] Let's just say
we're a humanitarian organization
and we want money for war reparations in the Middle East.
- What do you want?
- [Terrorist] $100 million to be deposited
into a Swiss bank account whose number we'll provide.
- 100 million.
You're aware that it's a policy of the United States
not to negotiate with terrorists?
- I seem to recall the last time
your president refused to negotiate with hostages,
people died.
Well now we'll see how willing he is
when its his own life on the line.
- [Maxwell] Life?
You've infected him with a virus that has no cure.
- Oh, we have a cure.
- I'm listening.
- [Terrorist] We also have a serum
that will arrest the progress of the disease temporarily.
Each dose lasts eight hours.
So if at the end of 24 hours the money's in place,
then your president gets the full cure.
But if not, he dies.
Now, we've hidden three doses in the hospital.
You will find the first dose in the West wing
on the top shelf of a store room next to room 220.
- What if? Hello?
- That was good.
- Did we get that?
- No, sir.
- [Maxwell] He says there's a temporary serum.
Room 220 store room.
(dramatic music)
- [Security] Got it.
- Be careful.
It could be more virus.
- [PA] If you are experiencing any symptoms of nausea
or dizziness, please report to the nursing station
on the second floor.
- Are you Dr. Landis?
- Yes. And you are?
- I'm Kirby Allen,
or chairman of the board of directors with this hospital,
and I wanna know why I wasn't consulted
before you quarantined my hospital.
- Consultation was not an option, sir.
- Well, my staying here during this little exercise of yours
is not an option.
- You know, you really might wanna be careful around this.
- Sir, you're gonna have to stay back.
- I'm afraid I haven't made myself clear.
- Then let me make myself crystal clear for you.
This conversation is over, sir.
- [Dusty] Sherry. Sherry.
I got chicken today. No more yucky meatloaf.
Sherry, where are you?
Where'd you go? Where'd you go?
Come here, girl.
Come here.
There you are, good girl.
Hi. You must be hungry.
(light fixture squeaks)
(Sherry hisses)
- [President] Tell Oliver of course I can still mediate
from here.
I'm okay.
Stress that, Joe.
I'm coming right back to the table with him
as soon as I can get out.
All right, I've gotta go. Okay.
- Well, got some good news and some bad news.
- Good news?
- The terrorists aren't liars.
- Bad?
- The terrorists aren't liars.
- Yeah.
- I've studied this serum of theirs
and it might just do what they say it does.
I won't know more until my field lab shows up,
but I know it won't do you any harm.
I think you should take it.
- No, I'm not going to.
- What?
Sir, you're not gonna have a second chance at this.
You're already in phase one of the disease.
This serum could do you some good now.
By stage two, you won't be thinking clearly.
In stage three,
your organs begin putrefying and hemorrhaging.
- Thank you for the vivid description.
Listen, there's no point in me taking anything temporary,
because as soon as they realize they're not going to get
any money, they are going to disappear.
And I am dead anyway.
- Well, why don't you just give them the money?
- Because the US doesn't, will not deal with terrorists.
I've said that in the past,
and people have died because of it.
What would I be if I turned around and saved my own skin?
No.
No, you give it to one of the others if you think it works.
- You are a stubborn man.
- I've been called worse.
Probably by you.
(President coughs)
- Yeah. Hold on. Here she comes now.
- So, despite the fact that in my opinion,
we have a viable serum here-
- [Maxwell] He wouldn't take it.
- We have to convince him to take this.
It'll buy us some time to figure out what to do.
He's not gonna do anybody any good as a dead president.
- He won't change his mind.
- [Diane] Then one of you should take it.
It's the only shot we have right now.
- I am not being heroic in any way, believe me.
There's nothing I wanna do more than be at home now
with my daughter,
and not looking at you two in this place,
with this stuff running through my veins.
But nurses don't take a patient's cure.
- Cop the president's antidote?
That leaks out, my career's over. Pass.
- I can't give this stuff away.
(helicopter whirs)
(tense music)
- And I am not gonna be the doctor
who couldn't save the president.
Hello, gentlemen.
- President Howard. President Howard.
- [Reporter] We're reporting
from the presidential quarantine,
where many citizens have gathered to show their support.
The sources of the White House maintain
that it's business as usual.
(chamber hisses)
- Once we get these varicella cultures going,
this place will be the deadliest environment on earth.
- You and I are here on purpose.
How do we talk?
- The helmet is wired for communications.
You can even make a phone call.
Okay, let's party.
(triumphant music)
(gas hisses)
- [Diane] This miracle cure of theirs
is definitely a convalescent serum
made from the blood of an Ebola survivor.
Boy, there's just a bare minimum of globulin
to fight the virus.
You know, what they gave us
seems to be a diluted form of a full cure.
- Well, then there is a cure.
- Yeah, if we could get enough of it.
- This is too sophisticated for low tech thugs.
Who works at this level?
- No one.
This biochemistry surpasses even what the DDC
and the defense department are working on.
The last person to even come close to a full cure
was a Dr. Crowley.
Eventually, disappeared in the jungle somewhere.
- Well, can we get his data sent over?
See if we can use the research?
- Yeah, from what I understand, not much of it made it back.
But you know, we could give it a shot,
Wayne, if we could reverse engineer the serum,
find out how to scarify the virus to retard rejection,
and all we need is the survivor of this strain of Ebola,
and we can make our own.
We don't need the terrorists at all.
- Well, can we get the DDC to send out feelers to Africa,
put on an Ebola survivor on an airplane?
- No, because it has to be this strain of Ebola.
Nobody's ever seen it before.
(cell doors clank)
(president sighs)
(ominous music)
- [Diane] Do not be alarmed. I come in peace.
- [President] No, your attire is more becoming
each time I see you.
- My field lab finally showed up.
I've had a chance to study the serum.
I think we're on our way to a cure.
- What do you need to finish it?
- [Diane] A survivor of this strain of Ebola.
Then we can take the survivor's antibodies,
which have already fought off the disease,
to make a convalescent serum.
But I need one of you to survive long enough
so that I can make the cure to save the others.
Please, take this antidote.
You're not giving into their demands
by living for a few more hours.
- Mr. President, we've got him on the line.
- Will you tell him I'm watching the World Series?
There's nothing more to talk about.
- No deals, no antidotes.
We're not giving and not taking.
- No, you'll tell your president he wants to be stubborn,
we can be on a hill upwind of any major city
from here to New York within hours,
with enough virus and aerosol transmission gear
to unleash a plague like this country's never seen.
- [Maxwell] Yeah. Well, we...
(Maxwell coughs)
- [Diane] Are you all right?
- [President] Dell?
- Hey.
Hey.
- Call him back.
- I don't know. I don't know what happened.
- Is he all right?
- For the moment.
Mr. President,
Mr. Maxwell told me what they were threatening.
This isn't just you anymore.
They said that they could unleash this over a whole city.
If they did that, no one anywhere would be safe.
Please take this antidote.
Give me some more time to beat them.
In a few more hours,
you're not even gonna be able to take phone calls.
Who's gonna lead your team then?
(somber music)
(phone rings)
- Can you get that?
- Hello? Can you hear me?
- Who is this?
- This is Dr. Landis.
I'm attending the president. Who is this?
- What happened to Maxwell?
- Mr. Maxwell became too ill to talk.
- She says Maxwell can't talk. It's a doctor.
- Well, talk to the president. Do it.
- Put the president on.
- I'm sorry. The president is unable to take your call.
If he's to take this antidote,
I need to know how it's administered.
- Wait. Wait. What are you talking about?
He hasn't taken it yet?
- Is it intravenous or subcutaneous or what?
- She doesn't know how to administer the antidote.
- Just give it.
- Hi. You have a question?
- Are you a doctor?
If you want the president to live long enough
to meet your demands, I need to know more about this virus.
How do I administer the serum?
- You're kidding, right?
You administer it intravenously.
What kind of a doctor are you?
- What kind of doctor are you, infecting people with Ebola?
- Well, at least I know how to administer an IV serum.
Where did you get your diploma, in the mail?
- Johns Hopkins.
- Harvard. Phi Beta Kappa.
Gee, you sound really smart,
and the president is really lucky to have you there.
Now what I wanna know
is what the president's intentions are now,
if you can remember.
- He's considering your demands.
- [Terrorist] You tell him that his time is running out,
that we could have one of our men on a plane to New York
before Leno's monologue is over.
Turn it off.
(machine beeps)
- Got it. We got it.
It's coming from an apartment across the street,
Send teams Alpha and Delta.
(sirens wail)
(dramatic music)
- You handled yourself like a pro. I'm impressed.
- Oh, I was a little out of my element.
- Oh, please.
How'd you like to be ambassador to Spain?
- I'd rather have France.
(both laugh)
- I would appreciate it though,
if you took all of Maxwell's calls from now on.
You're confident, you're quick on your feet.
I kind of like having you here with me.
- Must have routed the call to someone's cordless phone
in the complex.
They could be anywhere.
- How's Dell?
- We're looking at him now, sir.
Dr. Landis, I need you in here.
- I'll be back in a moment.
- [Dr. Amos] I didn't want the president to know
how bad Nurse Washington has gotten.
She's been asking for you.
The virus has already attacked her sight,
so you might wanna stand close.
- Thank you.
- [Diane] Hey. It's Diane.
- I wanted you to be the one.
- The one?
- I want you to be the one to give it to my daughter
after I'm gone.
You are a good person.
You'll say the right thing to her.
Just tell her what happened.
That I didn't want to leave her alone.
She's only 11.
Can you tell her she's been the light of my life?
- Of course.
- Thank you.
(melancholy music)
(zip whirs)
(Diane pants)
- [PA] Safety and national security
will not be lifting the quarantine this evening.
For your comfort,
nurses will be handing out blankets and clothes
after dinner,
which is going to be made in the cafeteria.
Once again, we're sorry for any inconvenience.
- Hey, Doc, you're not gonna bust me, are you?
I'm looking for Sherry, my cat.
You okay?
- Yeah.
Fine.
I'm great, Dusty.
You?
- It's okay, you know? To cry.
It doesn't mean you're a baby or anything.
It's good for you.
- Why'd they dig her up? Little Miss Johns Hopkins.
I didn't even upload-
- [Terrorist] Hey, hey, let's stay focused.
We're here to get the money.
- Just don't trust anybody who's that stupid
and thinks she's that smart.
She could screw everything up.
I'm gonna go up there and see what that little rat is up to.
- What? No, no, no. You're crazy. We can't go up there.
- We can't. I can.
(tense music)
- That's not part of the plan.
Look, what if someone sees you?
- I don't care.
I need to see just how smart she really is.
(door hisses)
- Ooh.
She is so dead.
(cell doors clank)
- [PA] Dr. Landis, you are needed on the second floor
of the West wing, stat.
(dramatic music)
- I'm sorry buddy.
- What?
What? What, what, what, what happened? What?
- She's dead.
- Who?
- Sherry.
- Who?
- [Wallace] His cat.
He found his cat on the shelf in the supply closet.
- There's something you should see.
Look closer.
- It's airborne.
It's okay.
It's okay.
It's okay to cry.
The virus has become airborne, sir.
This amplification is gonna speed up the transmission
to everyone in the hospital.
We can shut off the air conditioning,
but we can't stop people from breathing.
- [Dr. Amos] Martin, this cannot get out
into the population.
There'd be no way to stop it.
- The whole building has to be sealed off completely
from the outside.
- How far do we need to evacuate the area?
- Five mile radius minimum.
- What is it, Lieutenant?
- Sir, you may want to take this phone call, sir.
- General Riker here.
- [President] General, do you recognize this voice?
- How are you, Mr. President?
- I know why you came here and you're not going to get it.
You are gonna make good use of yourself.
So listen good.
You will mobilize all our resources necessary
to seal off this hospital.
That means windows, doors, air vents, everything.
And I want this done immediately.
You'll also evacuate a five mile radius of this hospital.
And general, this is an order.
- So what are you doing next, when all this is over?
Hey. I got a good idea.
- Yeah.
- I can come with you. Where you're going next, I mean.
- [Woman] Can't you do something?
Talk to someone out there.
- Well, think about it.
I can watch things. Wally says I'm very resourceful.
- [Diane] You know, that sounds like the best idea
I've heard all day.
- I can't stay in here anymore. I'm sick.
(woman sobs)
(tense music)
- Get some help.
Can we get some help here?
Come on, a little help.
Hello? People?
Cold compress, something?
Sorry. It's gonna be okay. Come on.
Dusty. Wait.
Go up to the fifth floor.
Tell Dr. Morgan that I need to see him right away.
Dusty, go.
You're gonna be okay.
Landis.
- We have no word that the money has been transferred.
- Now, why would we ever pay you
for killing millions of people?
- What are you talking about?
- The strain is airborne.
You didn't know that.
- You don't know what you're talking about.
- Don't I? I loaded the DNA buffer.
The proteins have aerosolized.
- Look.
Look, you want the cure? You send the money.
- We need another dose.
- Well, you'll find the next dose
on the top shelf of the boiler room in the east wing.
She said it's become airborne.
- She's lying.
- She didn't sound like she was lying.
- Why? What'd she say?
- Something about a DNA buffer.
- She ran the buffer?
What else did she say? Did she identify the epitomes?
- I don't know. You're the scientist.
So, can this thing of yours, can it become airborne?
- You sound nervous, precious.
We have the cure. Remember?
- Do we?
Did you know that this thing would become airborne?
You did, didn't you?
- Just stick to your end of the deal,
and just don't strain your brain, okay?
- What are you doing?
We are here to get the money, not commit genocide.
- I'm not committing genocide.
I just wanted it strong enough to kill him.
I didn't know it was gonna become airborne.
- Kill him? Kill him?
We're not supposed to kill him.
How are we gonna collect the money if everyone's dead?
- He deserves to die for what he did to me.
- Wait, wait, wait.
This isn't about you. It's about the money.
We are here to split $100 million, remember?
- They're not gonna pay us the money yet anyway.
- Well then, what are we doing here?
- She's messing everything up.
You just let me take care of her, and then they'll pay.
Just let me take care of everything.
(dramatic music)
(cart rumbles)
(cell door clanks)
(phone rings)
- Yes?
- [Terrorist] If we don't get the money,
you're all gonna die.
Better tell your president to hurry.
- You listen to me.
- This is President Howard.
- So, you're alive. I was beginning to wonder.
- You just listen to me, and you listen carefully.
We will find you. We will catch you.
And when we do, believe me,
I will change my stand on the death penalty.
- Very smooth.
- Okay.
I could take some diplomacy lessons from you,
but I'm telling you that really felt good.
(president coughs)
Thank you.
As a matter of fact,
I am tired of sitting here in these pajamas.
I've got to do something.
Ah, look. No, no, no, no.
You know, I've never stood next to you.
You're taller than I thought.
- Well, so are you.
- Yeah. I'm gonna get dressed.
- All right.
I'm a doctor, remember?
- I'm the president. Remember?
- Okay.
(gentle music)
- [President] You ever been married?
- Once.
I have a very demanding job.
- [President] Yeah, me too.
It's not easy, being married.
It's a lot of hard work.
But when it comes together.
You got kids?
- No. No.
It wasn't a priority.
- [President] Well, it's tough raising a child,
especially alone.
The rewards make everything else in life seem secondary.
- Ah, red tie.
Very presidential.
- Exactly.
- Let me help you.
Let me help you.
I'm sorry,
I've never done this before in rubber gloves.
- I should hope not.
(both laugh)
(tense drumming music)
(indistinct shouting)
- [Speaker] All the way.
(squad marches)
- [Soldier] By order of the United States Army,
under the command of General Riker,
you are ordered to leave your homes immediately.
Military personnel be escorting you.
You may bring only what you can carry.
(guns rattle)
(trucks rumble)
(cell doors clank)
(prolonged beep)
- She slipped away just a few minutes ago.
I'm sorry.
(melancholy music)
- Yeah. Okay. I'm on my way. Go now.
I'm not staying in this place
with what's floating around in here.
So hurry up.
I'm the chairman of the board.
Of course it's all right. Go.
(helicopter whirs)
(tense music)
- [Soldier] What's going on, sir?
- Unidentified aircraft approaching the quarantine zone.
We're going in.
- But sir, we don't have the clearance.
- The president is in danger.
Now put out the order, Lieutenant.
- Yes, sir.
Move, move.
- Excuse me for staring.
Aren't you the doctor that's taking care of the president?
- Yeah, that's me.
- Oh. I'm Mary Blaine. Hi. Pleased to meet you.
- Hi.
- They say you are the best virologist at the DDC.
Is it true? Did you find a cure?
- Listen, I don't want you to worry about anything.
We're gonna beat this.
I don't want you to worry.
- I'm not.
- There's trouble on the roof.
You need to check for a breach. Come on.
- [Terrorist] That's terrible.
- Okay. I'm here. Do you see me? I'm here.
Yeah. Yeah. Good, good.
Oh.
- To the pilot in the unidentified aircraft,
leave the area or you will be destroyed.
- Come on. Set down.
- [Pilot] Tangling with the army wasn't part of our deal.
- Don't pay any attention to those guys.
They're just posturing for the cameras.
Set down. Yeah.
Come on.
Come on. Yeah, yeah.
Come on. Get down.
- [Soldier] This airspace is restricted.
Please leave immediately. This is your final warning.
Leave now or you will be fired upon.
- What now, General?
(dramatic music)
(helicopter explodes)
- Take it down.
- [Soldier] Stop. Stop where you are.
- I'll hold the stairs. Go.
- What?
- Stand back.
- What are you doing?
You're breaching the containment. You can't.
You're creating a hazardous situation. You can't do this.
Please, stop.
You can't do this.
- Stand down.
- I believe this is your prisoner, agent.
- Do you understand that by breaching this quarantine,
you're endangering the surrounding population?
- Perfectly. Let's go. Move, move, move.
- You can't go down there.
- [Riker] The president's in danger.
- Stay relaxed, gentlemen. We're the home team.
- Stand aside.
- Agent Tom Brenner, United States Secret Service.
- General Riker, United States Army.
- General, I assume you still know
who your commander in chief is.
- [Riker] That depends if he's still in command
of his mental faculties.
- The president is very much in control, sir,
and he does not want to see you.
Do you understand?
- Yeah.
(guns rattle)
- You just as much hiccup, sir,
and I will blow your head off.
- Stand down, Mister. We're on the same side.
- No, sir. I do not believe we are.
- Okay.
Stop it.
Stop it.
One of those things is gonna go off.
And as much as I don't wanna be the person in front of it
when it does,
I also don't want you ripping holes through this hospital.
This virus is very small. Very small.
It would just love to escape through some bullet holes.
Please put the guns down.
(president knocks)
- Come here.
- What are you doing here, General?
- Ensuring your safety and wellbeing, Mr. President.
- Yeah.
Well, your concern for me makes me all warm inside.
Now, listen carefully.
Since you made the unfortunate choice
of walking into a quarantined area,
you and your men will stay inside.
And when that quarantine is lifted,
if any of us are still alive,
you, General, can look forward to a court marshal.
Dismissed.
- [Riker] Move it out.
- Dr. Landis.
Dr. Landis.
- Yeah?
- This came for you. It sounded very important.
- Thanks.
I think I have something important here.
This is all the data that the DDC has on a Dr. Crowley.
Dr. Laura Crowley is believed to have died
from the Ebola virus three years ago in Rwanda.
I just saw this woman in an elevator five minutes ago.
- Crowley?
Crowley, Crowley. Dr. Laura Crowley.
I remember her.
She was a doctor who was injecting locals with her cure.
Killed hundreds of them, as I remember.
She was fixated that it was all my fault.
Secret service had an all points out for that lunatic.
Charming woman. I thought she was dead.
- She looked alive and well to me.
- Tom.
- [Brenner] Yes, Mr. President.
- Yeah, I think our terrorists are here in the building.
- We're moving north now.
(prolonged beep)
- [Diane] Oh no.
- [Dr. Morgan] He's in full arrest. Bag him.
(tense music)
- Come on. Come on.
Come on.
- Doctor.
It's over.
(melancholy music)
- I know he was your friend.
I'm so sorry.
- What options are left?
- I keep trying.
- Could you turn the lights down on your way out?
It's killing my eyes.
- [President] Son, this is a quarantined area.
Do you know that? You're not supposed to be here.
- Are you the president?
- Yes. And you shouldn't be here.
- I've always wanted meet you.
My dad was always talking about you.
- Yeah. Come on.
You said was.
What happened to him?
- [Dusty] He's dead. So's my mom.
- It's hard losing someone who was close to you.
I'm sorry.
- Like your first lady?
- Yeah. Like that.
Yeah, Diane, I think we have a problem here.
Can you come down?
- My dad used to talk about how he wanted shake your hand.
When I found out you were here,
I had to come, you know, for him.
You're sick, aren't you?
- Yeah, a little.
- You know what I like when I'm sick?
Chicken gumbo soup.
The kitchen downstairs makes a killer gumbo.
I can get you some.
- No, no, no, no. It's all right. Thank you.
- Wow. Cool suit. Can I get one?
Hey, I finally got a meeting.
- Uh-huh.
- You two know each other?
- Yes, we do. Come on, Houdini.
- Ouch.
President's nice, isn't he? But I thought he'd be bigger.
- [Diane] Where'd you get that?
- When I went to Rwanda.
- What were you doing in Rwanda?
- My parents were missionaries.
They went there to help sick people.
They said we'd be there for a month. Then they got sick.
- Sick?
- [Dusty] Really sick.
They put me on a plane back home.
They said they'd come back when they got better,
but they never did.
- You know, Dusty,
you're probably gonna have to stay here for a while
until we find out whether or not
you caught what the president has.
- Stay here in this place?
- Mhmm.
- How long?
- Maybe for a few hours.
That's okay.
(somber music)
- I understand.
- Oh, Diane, I'm so sorry.
Come here.
- Well, at least I can do this now.
- Covering the building is not going to work.
The virus is too contagious. It's too powerful.
It'll spread if it hasn't already.
- And we're not going to let that happen.
So, you wanna be president?
Be president.
You see, we have a problem here, sir.
And I wanna know what you want to do, Mr. President.
We have a virus in this hospital that's now gone airborne.
That's going to kill everyone inside.
And the really bad news is it's going to get out.
Maybe it already has, and there's no way to stop it.
My son, your wife, our mothers.
It's gonna burn through the population like a forest fire.
And it doesn't care who it infects.
And since the president makes all the hard decisions,
what are you going to do now?
- Ah, I don't know sir.
- No, there's no time for indecision, Mr. President.
- I'd say order up a 60 kiloton inversion bomb
at a blast radius that would incinerate
over one square mile.
Fry the virus before it spreads.
- Yes.
Yes. That is a good choice.
- Sir.
Mr. President.
History will look unkindly
at the person who pushes the button on a bomb
that kills the president and 100 innocent souls.
I wouldn't want that fate to fall on one of my men or yours.
I'd like to take that duty myself.
- History may also look at that person with gratitude
for saving millions.
- Well, looks like we'll both get our place in history.
Sir.
(cell door clanks)
(tense drumming music)
(sheet tears)
- What are they up to?
- I don't know.
But we're gonna find out. Come on.
Put this on.
- I know, I know.
- Lieutenant, why don't you go with the men, huh?
- No, sir.
- Go with the men, Lieutenant.
(gentle whimsical music)
- [President] Diane, everything is in place.
The bomb is ready to go.
I have everything but a reason not to do it.
Can you give me a reason?
- Haven't had a vacation in years.
- I'll give the order to Riker.
We'll set the detonation for 1800. One hour from now.
I'm about to call my son.
Is there anyone you would like to call?
- No.
No, sir.
There isn't anyone.
- I'm very proud of all you've done.
Thank you, Diane.
- Oh. Wayne.
Listen, pal, in an hour-
- That kid caught the virus.
- This is a bad thing, isn't it?
- Things aren't always what they seem
through the looking glass, Alice.
- What?
There's no way that he could have antibodies to the virus.
He was exposed an hour ago.
He told me he was in Rwanda.
- I know. I dug up his med history. Check it out.
- Parents were affected in '97.
He must have had it too.
- The kid's got the antibodies.
- Dusty's got the cure.
We're springing Dusty.
- But you can't. He's gone.
- What? - He's disappeared.
- Dusty Burke.
Paging Dusty Burke.
Dusty?
Dusty, it's Dr. Landis.
No one's mad at you for leaving quarantine,
but we need you to come back to the fifth floor right away.
Okay?
(upbeat music)
Dusty, there's something that you have
that could help the president.
If anyone finds a small boy in a green robe,
have him return to the fifth floor quarantine right away.
- We've gotta find the kid before they do.
- Why?
- Why? Why? Why?
Obviously, Dr. Fantastic has found antibodies
in the kid's blood.
- How's that possible?
- How do I know? Am I his mother?
- I don't know.
- What?
- No, no. Look at that. Look at that. I'm infected.
I'm infected. Look what you've done.
- Calm down.
- Don't you tell me to calm down.
You've infected me with your disease, you witch.
- Have you been asleep? I have the cure.
- You said no one would die. They did.
"We won't ever go into the hospital," you said. We did.
"You won't be infected by the virus." I am.
I don't trust anything you say.
- [Laura] Just don't you push it.
Don't you push it, because I have the cure. Remember?
- [Terrorist] No. No.
I won't let you kill me with your incompetence.
You hear that?
If I have to put my life on anyone,
I'm going to Dr. Landis.
(ominous music)
- Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Come on.
Get it right.
A little higher.
Yeah. There you go.
There you go.
(man gasps)
(man groans)
- I'm sorry.
You bet on the wrong doctor.
- [Riker] Mr. President, do I have the order, sir?
- Any delay is going to push the virus
closer to the perimeter.
Go ahead, General. And God forgive us.
- Yes, sir.
(dramatic music)
(bomb beeps)
- [Laura] Hi, sweetie.
Are you fixing yourself a little snack?
- It's for the president.
Don't tell anyone, okay?
- That is so sweet. You don't have to worry.
I am not going to tell anybody. I'm gonna lock my lips.
I'm gonna throw away the key.
As a matter of fact, I have a surprise.
I'm gonna take you up there myself. Okay?
- We've got everybody out looking for him.
When we find him, I can make a serum from his blood,
but I need more time.
- All right.
How far downwind do you think the virus has gotten by now?
We can't let it get out, Diane.
- We've only got 10 minutes until detonation.
- Right, then use every one of them.
Don't stand here talking to me about it.
- I've seen you somewhere.
- Huh?
- Yeah. Yeah. I have.
- No, you haven't.
- Wait, you're the doctor in Africa.
The one that gave my mom and dad the shot
that was supposed to make them better.
- No, it's not me.
- It is you.
- Just-
- So what happened when I left? How did they die?
- You can't think about what was. Block it out.
It never happened. Just block it out.
- Everybody's looking for this little guy. Who are you?
- Hi, I'm Mary Blaine and Dr. Landis asked me to find him
and I got lucky.
- Are you okay?
- [Dusty] I thought she looked familiar.
This doctor was in Africa with my mom and dad.
- What?
(Wayne groans)
- Get in.
(door slams)
Die.
Die already, you miserable.
Move, move.
- [Brenner] Dusty.
- Dusty?
- Dusty?
- Dusty?
(packet rustles)
Wayne.
Wayne.
Wayne.
Oh, no.
- Dusty?
Let's go.
Dusty.
- [Diane] Hold on, Dusty.
- [Brenner] Dusty.
(bomb beeps)
(tense music)
(Dusty groans)
- Come on, let's go.
- Where did she go?
Where'd she go?
(Tom groans)
- [Diane] Dusty, come here. Come here.
Are you okay?
Are you all right?
- Yeah.
- Game is over, Florence Nightingale.
Come to mama.
Come to mama.
Get over here.
- You gotta go.
- You, out. Now.
Out. Go. Get out of here.
- [Diane] Don't worry, it's going to be okay.
- Go. - [Diane] It's all right.
- You thought you were gonna save the world.
- It's okay, Dusty.
- Turn around. Turn around.
- How can you do this? You're killing people for money.
- Ooh. "You're killing people for money."
How did you ever get into the DDC?
I was infected with Ebola,
and then I made a serum out of my blood.
What have you done lately?
You have the disease and the cure in your blood,
and you choose the disease?
- I chose nothing. You turn around.
Turn around.
Go, go.
(bomb beeps)
Pick up that cell phone.
Then you call a copter in to pick us up.
- They won't come.
- Oh, yes, they will come
when someone so close to the president calls.
- I am telling you, you've got to listen to me.
They're not gonna come.
- They're gonna come. They're gonna come.
And me and the kid are gonna disappear.
And you and the president are gonna die and rot
just like I did.
Call them. Call them.
- It's not just us who's gonna die.
- Oh, that's precious. Little Miss Einstein.
We are immune.
- Not from a bomb, you're not.
- That's really good.
Do you really think I'm that stupid?
- In a couple of minutes, we're gonna find out.
Let me make the call. Give me Dusty.
I can stop this. Nobody has to die.
- You think I'm afraid to die? Do you?
I've been dead for years.
You know, I used to be just like you.
I was hopeful and I was idealistic.
I thought I was gonna save the world.
I was gonna go right to the top.
But I wasn't socially acceptable, like you.
So I wasn't sent to Washington.
I got sent to Rwanda.
I met our president before I left.
Know what he said to me?
He said,
"The sacrifice you're making is an honor to your country."
I was killing people,
and I thought I was curing them.
Was that part of the honor?
I was supposed to get promoted, but instead I got Ebola.
What are you doing? Stop it. Stop it.
- Now.
(Laura screams)
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
My phone. Where's my phone?
- Got it.
- Good boy.
(phone rings)
- Riker.
- [Diane] Stop the bomb.
We found the cure. He's sitting right here next to me.
(triumphant music)
(crowd applauds)
- [Riker] Mr. President.
- Hey.
Listen.
I don't want to cheapen what happened to all of us
by whatever words I could say.
So, I just wanna say
thank you.
- Of course.
- Hey, you wanna come to my house?
- The White House?
- [President] Yeah.
- Yes, sir.
And maybe you could talk Dr. Landis into coming with you.
- I betcha I could talk her into it.
- See you at my place?
- I'll make it a priority, sir.
- Bye.
(crowd cheers)
(phone jingles)
(dramatic music)
(triumphant fanfare)
(triumphant orchestral music)
- [President] Build peace,
the desire for peace in the hearts and minds of all of us.
I believe the realms of humanity
are not beyond the reach of human beings.
Justice, peace in the Middle East,
will, God willing, be our legacy abroad.
And I promise you that if I'm given the privilege
of being reelected to a second term,
we can all enjoy another four years
of unprecedented prosperity.
Thank you. Thank you for all your support.
I wanna see you in November.
Thank you. Goodbye. Good luck. God bless you.
(audience applauds)
- [Reporter] And the President is leaving the stage.
He's bouncing back from a very tough year,
but he's looking fit and energized
as he kicks off his reelection campaign.
There was speculation to whether President Howard
would seek a second term, after the unexpected death
of his wife.
(tense music)
(crowd applauds)
(crowd cheers)
- [President] Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Hello.
Thank you very much.
(indistinct shouting)
- [Security] Get him in the car.
- [Reporter] Ladies and gentlemen,
I don't know if you heard that,
but it seems a shot has just been fired.
(sirens wail)
- [Maxwell] Help him.
- Go get his coat off. Get his coat off.
- I'm all right. I'm all right.
- Little bit of blood.
- What? - Oh god.
- You okay?
- [President] Something stuck me.
- [Brenner] Whatever hit you was not a bullet,
Mr. President.
- It was this.
- Is this someone's idea of a sick joke?
- Sir, I don't think this is a joke.
(tense dramatic music)
(sirens wail)
- Clear.
- You all right, Mr. President?
- I'm fine, Pete. I'm all right.
- Bring that chair. Let's go.
I really think you ought to ride, Mr. President.
- No, no, no, no.
Listen, the president of the United States
can survive getting stuck by a pin.
We're blowing this totally out of proportion.
- Excuse me, Mr. President.
I'm Dr. Morgan, the chief administrator of this hospital.
- Hello, and don't worry, we won't be here that long.
- I don't understand.
We were told the president had been shot.
- Not exactly.
- What do you mean, "Not exactly?"
- He's bleeding from a small puncture wound, Doctor.
- Ma'am, do not touch him. Thank you.
(phone jingles)
- [Diane] Yeah. What's up?
No, you tell them that I won't be pressured
into releasing test results prematurely.
All right? Gotta go.
(phone jingles)
- Hey.
No, Sharon, we can't do the symposium on the seventh.
We got the zoo night thing. Remember?
Okay. Work it out. Gotta go. Gotta go.
Hey there.
- [Taxi Driver] Hey, how are you?
- Just one.
- [Taxi Driver] I got it.
(phone jingles)
- Hello?
Yeah.
No, just book it with Atlanta.
Vacation. Vacation.
Vacations are for people with lives.
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
Hold on just a second.
Something's going on.
(dramatic music)
- Dr. Landis.
- Who's asking?
- Agent Paul Garra, United States Secret Service.
We need you.
- You're kidding.
- Come with us. - Hey.
- I'll explain in the car.
- Can I have my phone back, please?
- No.
(phone jingles)
- Do you take messages?
Mind telling me what this is about?
- We have a biomedical emergency.
Department of Disease Containment
says you are the best virologist they have.
- I'm speaking at the Epidemic Intelligence Conference
in 20 minutes.
I can't help you.
- There's been an attack on the president.
- Can I get my phone back?
Thank you.
- [Dr. Morgan] Dr. Landis.
Dr. Morgan, hospital administrator.
What can I do to help you?
- What do you have here
in the way of pathogen testing facilities?
- Oh, nothing fancy, I'm afraid. Just routine microbiology.
We have a basic clinical laboratory
that's equipped to do PCR assays using standard primers.
- The president's down here?
- Yes. This is the isolation wing. It's the south wing.
- Okay. We're gonna have to evacuate the whole south wing.
- The whole wing?
- The whole wing.
- [Maxwell] As of yet, no one's claimed responsibility.
- It was a dart.
I am the first president in history
to be attacked by a game piece.
- Let me see that finger.
- [President] I mean, if you want to kill a man,
why don't you shoot him?
- Maybe they didn't want you dead yet.
- [Brenner] Yeah, send her in.
Dr. Landis.
- Martin Howard.
- I thought you looked familiar.
Mr. President, I am Diane Landis,
head of arvovirology at the DDC.
How do you feel?
- I feel fine, great. Really.
Have you met Dr. Amos, my personal physician,
and my chief of staff, Delbert Maxwell.
- [Diane] I think we should save the introductions
right now, sir.
Where's this dart?
- Right here.
This is evidence, ma'am.
- [Diane] It's also possibly contaminated
with a highly infectious organism.
If you touch it, you are contaminated.
If you touch anybody else, they're contaminated.
We've gotta start breaking that chain.
Have you touched your mouth or your eyes
since you found this?
- I do not know.
- [Diane] Can you tell me if anyone else was exposed?
- Whoa, whoa, whoa. No, no, no.
Just hold on here.
First of all, I'm not sure anyone was exposed.
- Sir, you were hit with a dart
that seemed designed to deliver a dose of something.
Have a seat.
Look at me.
Sir.
Sir.
Look at me.
Where's the point of entry?
- Right here.
- Nurse?
- Washington.
- Nurse Washington,
I need a full CBC on anyone who's had contact
with the president.
I also need a biopsy of the puncture site.
I need you to disrobe.
- Well, whatever you're doing,
you need to have it done by three o'clock,
because I'm catching a plane to St. Paul.
- Not if you're in quarantine.
- Quarantine?
- [Diane] Sir, if you were infected with a pathogen,
we have to make sure that it doesn't leave this hospital.
- You wouldn't be looking to make this your shot
at the big leagues, would you?
- Mr. President, with all due respect, in my world,
I am the big leagues.
- You didn't vote for me, did you?
- [Security] We got him on the line.
- Sir, call coming in.
Make sure you have it.
- Maxwell here.
- [Terrorist] Your president has been infected
with a level four hot agent.
- Who is this?
- [Terrorist] Your DDC doctor will be running tests.
You'll hear from us soon.
- What do you want, exactly?
(dial tone beeps)
- So what's my prognosis?
- He says you've been infected with a level four hot agent.
- What does that mean?
- It's a measurement of lethality.
Level four is the highest known threat to human life.
Anthrax, Ebola, Hanta virus. They're all fours.
- [President] Well, how do we know
this guy's telling the truth?
- Well, we're gonna take his word on it right now.
Sir, you are definitely in quarantine.
No one can enter or leave this room
until we know whether or not you're contagious.
- All right.
Here's the official word.
This quarantine has nothing to do with me. All right?
If word gets out that I am sick
and being held hostage by some lunatics,
the Middle East peace talks could go south in a heartbeat.
Now, both sides are trusting that our strength,
my strength is gonna see this through,
and I'm not going to let this kill two years of hard work.
So, we happen to be here when the outbreak occurred,
and we're stuck here just like everybody else.
Clear?
All right.
Let's just hope this is a bluff.
- If it's level four, we'll know soon enough.
(somber music)
- Del,
see if you can get my son on the phone.
- All right.
What should our response be with the questions
that are going to come up?
- [Dr. Morgan] May I have your attention, please?
Because of an isolated outbreak in the medical center,
it is necessary to impose a full quarantine,
effective immediately.
Until further notice,
no one may enter or leave the complex.
I repeat: this facility is under a complete quarantine.
We will do everything we can to make your stay
as comfortable as possible.
(worried chatter)
(keys jangle)
- [Speaker] You can't do that.
(barriers rumble)
(phone rings)
- Richard?
Richard?
Richard, please.
What happened? - You gotta get from there.
- What's going on?
- I know what's going on,
but you gotta get out from there.
- Somebody, can you help me? I need to get to my baby.
- [PA] Assure you that the hospital
will reopen as soon as possible.
- Whoa. What are you doing?
- I'm here to see the president.
What are you doing?
- Me too.
- [Wallace] All right, Houdini, let's go.
They're looking for you, again.
- Aw, Wallace.
- Sorry. This kid's like a ghost.
He's all over the hospital.
- [Dusty] Can you take me to see the president, please?
- Sorry.
- But I'm homeless.
- He has a home. He lives at the state home for boys.
- [Dusty] That's not a home.
I really wanna meet the president.
How can you refuse to see an orphan?
- Come on, orphan.
Let's get back to your room. You're supposed to be resting.
- Wait, I had my appendix out.
- Okay.
- Wait. Do you have any kids?
- No.
- How come?
- I'm really very busy.
- [Dusty] Okay, so let me tell you about kids.
You see, impressionable boys need their role models.
If they don't have one,
they become sociopaths and turn to lives of crime.
Think about my future. Think about your future.
Think about running into me in an alley in about 10 years.
Come on. What better role model than the president?
- I'll see what I can do.
- [Dusty] Tell the president my schedule is wide open.
- Yeah, I did meet the president,
and I'm not winning any popularity contests,
I can tell you that.
Got my neck stuck out about a mile here.
Listen, I need a field lab flown down here pronto.
Okay?
Okay. Bye.
Wayne Ferrin?
- Diane?
What are you doing here?
- Hey.
Well, you look the same. Only craggier.
- Well, you look so successful.
- That bad, huh?
Is it obvious?
- Well, wait a minute.
I think I can still see the old virus cowboy
in there somewhere.
Come here, sit down.
Is this quarantine business yours?
- Yeah.
- [Wayne] Classic Diane.
I should have known when I heard the word quarantine.
How's Robbie?
- Wow. It's been a long time since I've seen you.
We broke up a year ago.
- Not you too?
- We differed on priorities.
- Yeah, his priority was love, and yours was disease.
Nice, Diane.
- Oh, leave me alone. I like my life.
I love my job, and everything else is just messy.
- Hmm.
- [Diane] Okay, here's the deal.
What I'm about to tell you has nothing to do
with the President of the United States, okay?
- President. What President?
- We have two people who were potentially directly exposed,
and two more who were exposed indirectly.
- Any idea what the agent is?
- No. But we're gonna find out.
I gotta get my field lab down here.
- You ordered the slammer? We talking level three?
Four?
You think we've got a BSL four hot agent
here in this hospital?
- Right here in this case.
- You always knew what to bring to the party, Diane.
(cell door clanks)
(ominous music)
- [Announcer] Please do not be alarmed.
Need you to stay in your homes.
We are here only to ensure the safety of the president.
(trucks rumble)
- [Soldier] Come on, keep up, keep up.
Go, go, go, go.
Go, go, go.
(helicopter whirs)
- Secure the perimeter. We're gonna be here a while.
(machines beeping)
- So, what if it is what they say it is?
- Good thing it's an election year.
I got the wrong gear. I need my field lab.
Okay.
I'm gonna run the ELISA assay first.
Maybe you ought to wait outside while I centrifuge this.
Accidents happen. There is a hot agent in this blood.
It could become aerosolized.
No need for us both to be breathing it.
Go on.
Go. Call Barbara. Say hi for me.
- I always did hate it when you made sense. Okay.
You be careful.
- Yes, sir.
- [Reporter] General Riker,
why would you choose to personally take command
of an operation of this kind?
- Well, as serious as the quarantine is,
I wouldn't be here if it weren't for the fact
that the president was caught up in this situation.
- It's well known that there's been animosity
between you and President Howard.
Is it safe to say that it's because you yourself
have an eye on the White House?
- The president is the commander in chief
of the armed forces.
That defines our relationship.
- [President] Riker. How'd he get here so fast?
I knew he'd show.
He's just gonna muck things up,
trying to get his picture taken.
- You want him ordered away, sir?
- No. No, no, no, no.
He'll just run in front of the cameras
and turn this into hospital gate.
No, the less we give him, the better.
Where's that dart when we need it?
(tense music)
- Anything yet?
- How do I do it?
- Do what?
- Tell the president of the United States that he has Ebola.
- They did it. They really went and did it.
- Whoever they are, they got a bad strain of Ebola.
Normal incubation is days.
It's been, what? Four hours?
It's already in his bloodstream.
I have never seen anything move so fast.
Not Ebola, West N, Sudan, even Zaire.
- So those three people upstairs? They're contagious.
- I have to go up there.
- [President] They're not gonna get an answer
for at least a week, so you just tell them that.
- State Department.
- Are they having a costume party
down in the cafeteria tonight?
If you need the Air Force band, I am the president.
- Mr. President, I'm afraid that the news is not good.
You, Mr. Maxwell and Nurse Washington
have all been infected with a virus.
It's called Ebola.
- What's the course of treatment?
- Ebola has no treatment, and it has no cure.
We'll try to keep your fever down, replace fluids.
- What's the survival rate?
- This strain doesn't precisely match anything
I've ever seen before.
- Bottom line, doctor.
What are our chances of beating it?
- [Diane] Less than 10%.
Most people who contract Ebola die within days.
However, this strain seems even more virulent.
There are three phases to the disease.
Once phase one symptoms are present, you're contagious.
If you're not contagious now, you will be soon.
- Ebola is transmitted through blood and saliva, yes?
- As far as we know, through contact with infected persons.
Anyone who touched the wound needs to be isolated.
This entire area is the hot zone.
The only way in or out will be through the main door.
- All right.
Tell me about this, how it's transmitted again.
- [Diane] As far as we know,
it's through contact with infected person's blood.
- Maxwell here.
- We've got him on the line.
- It's Agent Fraley. The shooter's on the line.
Who am I speaking with, please?
- [Terrorist] By now, you know we're not bluffing.
- Who are you?
- [Terrorist] Let's just say
we're a humanitarian organization
and we want money for war reparations in the Middle East.
- What do you want?
- [Terrorist] $100 million to be deposited
into a Swiss bank account whose number we'll provide.
- 100 million.
You're aware that it's a policy of the United States
not to negotiate with terrorists?
- I seem to recall the last time
your president refused to negotiate with hostages,
people died.
Well now we'll see how willing he is
when its his own life on the line.
- [Maxwell] Life?
You've infected him with a virus that has no cure.
- Oh, we have a cure.
- I'm listening.
- [Terrorist] We also have a serum
that will arrest the progress of the disease temporarily.
Each dose lasts eight hours.
So if at the end of 24 hours the money's in place,
then your president gets the full cure.
But if not, he dies.
Now, we've hidden three doses in the hospital.
You will find the first dose in the West wing
on the top shelf of a store room next to room 220.
- What if? Hello?
- That was good.
- Did we get that?
- No, sir.
- [Maxwell] He says there's a temporary serum.
Room 220 store room.
(dramatic music)
- [Security] Got it.
- Be careful.
It could be more virus.
- [PA] If you are experiencing any symptoms of nausea
or dizziness, please report to the nursing station
on the second floor.
- Are you Dr. Landis?
- Yes. And you are?
- I'm Kirby Allen,
or chairman of the board of directors with this hospital,
and I wanna know why I wasn't consulted
before you quarantined my hospital.
- Consultation was not an option, sir.
- Well, my staying here during this little exercise of yours
is not an option.
- You know, you really might wanna be careful around this.
- Sir, you're gonna have to stay back.
- I'm afraid I haven't made myself clear.
- Then let me make myself crystal clear for you.
This conversation is over, sir.
- [Dusty] Sherry. Sherry.
I got chicken today. No more yucky meatloaf.
Sherry, where are you?
Where'd you go? Where'd you go?
Come here, girl.
Come here.
There you are, good girl.
Hi. You must be hungry.
(light fixture squeaks)
(Sherry hisses)
- [President] Tell Oliver of course I can still mediate
from here.
I'm okay.
Stress that, Joe.
I'm coming right back to the table with him
as soon as I can get out.
All right, I've gotta go. Okay.
- Well, got some good news and some bad news.
- Good news?
- The terrorists aren't liars.
- Bad?
- The terrorists aren't liars.
- Yeah.
- I've studied this serum of theirs
and it might just do what they say it does.
I won't know more until my field lab shows up,
but I know it won't do you any harm.
I think you should take it.
- No, I'm not going to.
- What?
Sir, you're not gonna have a second chance at this.
You're already in phase one of the disease.
This serum could do you some good now.
By stage two, you won't be thinking clearly.
In stage three,
your organs begin putrefying and hemorrhaging.
- Thank you for the vivid description.
Listen, there's no point in me taking anything temporary,
because as soon as they realize they're not going to get
any money, they are going to disappear.
And I am dead anyway.
- Well, why don't you just give them the money?
- Because the US doesn't, will not deal with terrorists.
I've said that in the past,
and people have died because of it.
What would I be if I turned around and saved my own skin?
No.
No, you give it to one of the others if you think it works.
- You are a stubborn man.
- I've been called worse.
Probably by you.
(President coughs)
- Yeah. Hold on. Here she comes now.
- So, despite the fact that in my opinion,
we have a viable serum here-
- [Maxwell] He wouldn't take it.
- We have to convince him to take this.
It'll buy us some time to figure out what to do.
He's not gonna do anybody any good as a dead president.
- He won't change his mind.
- [Diane] Then one of you should take it.
It's the only shot we have right now.
- I am not being heroic in any way, believe me.
There's nothing I wanna do more than be at home now
with my daughter,
and not looking at you two in this place,
with this stuff running through my veins.
But nurses don't take a patient's cure.
- Cop the president's antidote?
That leaks out, my career's over. Pass.
- I can't give this stuff away.
(helicopter whirs)
(tense music)
- And I am not gonna be the doctor
who couldn't save the president.
Hello, gentlemen.
- President Howard. President Howard.
- [Reporter] We're reporting
from the presidential quarantine,
where many citizens have gathered to show their support.
The sources of the White House maintain
that it's business as usual.
(chamber hisses)
- Once we get these varicella cultures going,
this place will be the deadliest environment on earth.
- You and I are here on purpose.
How do we talk?
- The helmet is wired for communications.
You can even make a phone call.
Okay, let's party.
(triumphant music)
(gas hisses)
- [Diane] This miracle cure of theirs
is definitely a convalescent serum
made from the blood of an Ebola survivor.
Boy, there's just a bare minimum of globulin
to fight the virus.
You know, what they gave us
seems to be a diluted form of a full cure.
- Well, then there is a cure.
- Yeah, if we could get enough of it.
- This is too sophisticated for low tech thugs.
Who works at this level?
- No one.
This biochemistry surpasses even what the DDC
and the defense department are working on.
The last person to even come close to a full cure
was a Dr. Crowley.
Eventually, disappeared in the jungle somewhere.
- Well, can we get his data sent over?
See if we can use the research?
- Yeah, from what I understand, not much of it made it back.
But you know, we could give it a shot,
Wayne, if we could reverse engineer the serum,
find out how to scarify the virus to retard rejection,
and all we need is the survivor of this strain of Ebola,
and we can make our own.
We don't need the terrorists at all.
- Well, can we get the DDC to send out feelers to Africa,
put on an Ebola survivor on an airplane?
- No, because it has to be this strain of Ebola.
Nobody's ever seen it before.
(cell doors clank)
(president sighs)
(ominous music)
- [Diane] Do not be alarmed. I come in peace.
- [President] No, your attire is more becoming
each time I see you.
- My field lab finally showed up.
I've had a chance to study the serum.
I think we're on our way to a cure.
- What do you need to finish it?
- [Diane] A survivor of this strain of Ebola.
Then we can take the survivor's antibodies,
which have already fought off the disease,
to make a convalescent serum.
But I need one of you to survive long enough
so that I can make the cure to save the others.
Please, take this antidote.
You're not giving into their demands
by living for a few more hours.
- Mr. President, we've got him on the line.
- Will you tell him I'm watching the World Series?
There's nothing more to talk about.
- No deals, no antidotes.
We're not giving and not taking.
- No, you'll tell your president he wants to be stubborn,
we can be on a hill upwind of any major city
from here to New York within hours,
with enough virus and aerosol transmission gear
to unleash a plague like this country's never seen.
- [Maxwell] Yeah. Well, we...
(Maxwell coughs)
- [Diane] Are you all right?
- [President] Dell?
- Hey.
Hey.
- Call him back.
- I don't know. I don't know what happened.
- Is he all right?
- For the moment.
Mr. President,
Mr. Maxwell told me what they were threatening.
This isn't just you anymore.
They said that they could unleash this over a whole city.
If they did that, no one anywhere would be safe.
Please take this antidote.
Give me some more time to beat them.
In a few more hours,
you're not even gonna be able to take phone calls.
Who's gonna lead your team then?
(somber music)
(phone rings)
- Can you get that?
- Hello? Can you hear me?
- Who is this?
- This is Dr. Landis.
I'm attending the president. Who is this?
- What happened to Maxwell?
- Mr. Maxwell became too ill to talk.
- She says Maxwell can't talk. It's a doctor.
- Well, talk to the president. Do it.
- Put the president on.
- I'm sorry. The president is unable to take your call.
If he's to take this antidote,
I need to know how it's administered.
- Wait. Wait. What are you talking about?
He hasn't taken it yet?
- Is it intravenous or subcutaneous or what?
- She doesn't know how to administer the antidote.
- Just give it.
- Hi. You have a question?
- Are you a doctor?
If you want the president to live long enough
to meet your demands, I need to know more about this virus.
How do I administer the serum?
- You're kidding, right?
You administer it intravenously.
What kind of a doctor are you?
- What kind of doctor are you, infecting people with Ebola?
- Well, at least I know how to administer an IV serum.
Where did you get your diploma, in the mail?
- Johns Hopkins.
- Harvard. Phi Beta Kappa.
Gee, you sound really smart,
and the president is really lucky to have you there.
Now what I wanna know
is what the president's intentions are now,
if you can remember.
- He's considering your demands.
- [Terrorist] You tell him that his time is running out,
that we could have one of our men on a plane to New York
before Leno's monologue is over.
Turn it off.
(machine beeps)
- Got it. We got it.
It's coming from an apartment across the street,
Send teams Alpha and Delta.
(sirens wail)
(dramatic music)
- You handled yourself like a pro. I'm impressed.
- Oh, I was a little out of my element.
- Oh, please.
How'd you like to be ambassador to Spain?
- I'd rather have France.
(both laugh)
- I would appreciate it though,
if you took all of Maxwell's calls from now on.
You're confident, you're quick on your feet.
I kind of like having you here with me.
- Must have routed the call to someone's cordless phone
in the complex.
They could be anywhere.
- How's Dell?
- We're looking at him now, sir.
Dr. Landis, I need you in here.
- I'll be back in a moment.
- [Dr. Amos] I didn't want the president to know
how bad Nurse Washington has gotten.
She's been asking for you.
The virus has already attacked her sight,
so you might wanna stand close.
- Thank you.
- [Diane] Hey. It's Diane.
- I wanted you to be the one.
- The one?
- I want you to be the one to give it to my daughter
after I'm gone.
You are a good person.
You'll say the right thing to her.
Just tell her what happened.
That I didn't want to leave her alone.
She's only 11.
Can you tell her she's been the light of my life?
- Of course.
- Thank you.
(melancholy music)
(zip whirs)
(Diane pants)
- [PA] Safety and national security
will not be lifting the quarantine this evening.
For your comfort,
nurses will be handing out blankets and clothes
after dinner,
which is going to be made in the cafeteria.
Once again, we're sorry for any inconvenience.
- Hey, Doc, you're not gonna bust me, are you?
I'm looking for Sherry, my cat.
You okay?
- Yeah.
Fine.
I'm great, Dusty.
You?
- It's okay, you know? To cry.
It doesn't mean you're a baby or anything.
It's good for you.
- Why'd they dig her up? Little Miss Johns Hopkins.
I didn't even upload-
- [Terrorist] Hey, hey, let's stay focused.
We're here to get the money.
- Just don't trust anybody who's that stupid
and thinks she's that smart.
She could screw everything up.
I'm gonna go up there and see what that little rat is up to.
- What? No, no, no. You're crazy. We can't go up there.
- We can't. I can.
(tense music)
- That's not part of the plan.
Look, what if someone sees you?
- I don't care.
I need to see just how smart she really is.
(door hisses)
- Ooh.
She is so dead.
(cell doors clank)
- [PA] Dr. Landis, you are needed on the second floor
of the West wing, stat.
(dramatic music)
- I'm sorry buddy.
- What?
What? What, what, what, what happened? What?
- She's dead.
- Who?
- Sherry.
- Who?
- [Wallace] His cat.
He found his cat on the shelf in the supply closet.
- There's something you should see.
Look closer.
- It's airborne.
It's okay.
It's okay.
It's okay to cry.
The virus has become airborne, sir.
This amplification is gonna speed up the transmission
to everyone in the hospital.
We can shut off the air conditioning,
but we can't stop people from breathing.
- [Dr. Amos] Martin, this cannot get out
into the population.
There'd be no way to stop it.
- The whole building has to be sealed off completely
from the outside.
- How far do we need to evacuate the area?
- Five mile radius minimum.
- What is it, Lieutenant?
- Sir, you may want to take this phone call, sir.
- General Riker here.
- [President] General, do you recognize this voice?
- How are you, Mr. President?
- I know why you came here and you're not going to get it.
You are gonna make good use of yourself.
So listen good.
You will mobilize all our resources necessary
to seal off this hospital.
That means windows, doors, air vents, everything.
And I want this done immediately.
You'll also evacuate a five mile radius of this hospital.
And general, this is an order.
- So what are you doing next, when all this is over?
Hey. I got a good idea.
- Yeah.
- I can come with you. Where you're going next, I mean.
- [Woman] Can't you do something?
Talk to someone out there.
- Well, think about it.
I can watch things. Wally says I'm very resourceful.
- [Diane] You know, that sounds like the best idea
I've heard all day.
- I can't stay in here anymore. I'm sick.
(woman sobs)
(tense music)
- Get some help.
Can we get some help here?
Come on, a little help.
Hello? People?
Cold compress, something?
Sorry. It's gonna be okay. Come on.
Dusty. Wait.
Go up to the fifth floor.
Tell Dr. Morgan that I need to see him right away.
Dusty, go.
You're gonna be okay.
Landis.
- We have no word that the money has been transferred.
- Now, why would we ever pay you
for killing millions of people?
- What are you talking about?
- The strain is airborne.
You didn't know that.
- You don't know what you're talking about.
- Don't I? I loaded the DNA buffer.
The proteins have aerosolized.
- Look.
Look, you want the cure? You send the money.
- We need another dose.
- Well, you'll find the next dose
on the top shelf of the boiler room in the east wing.
She said it's become airborne.
- She's lying.
- She didn't sound like she was lying.
- Why? What'd she say?
- Something about a DNA buffer.
- She ran the buffer?
What else did she say? Did she identify the epitomes?
- I don't know. You're the scientist.
So, can this thing of yours, can it become airborne?
- You sound nervous, precious.
We have the cure. Remember?
- Do we?
Did you know that this thing would become airborne?
You did, didn't you?
- Just stick to your end of the deal,
and just don't strain your brain, okay?
- What are you doing?
We are here to get the money, not commit genocide.
- I'm not committing genocide.
I just wanted it strong enough to kill him.
I didn't know it was gonna become airborne.
- Kill him? Kill him?
We're not supposed to kill him.
How are we gonna collect the money if everyone's dead?
- He deserves to die for what he did to me.
- Wait, wait, wait.
This isn't about you. It's about the money.
We are here to split $100 million, remember?
- They're not gonna pay us the money yet anyway.
- Well then, what are we doing here?
- She's messing everything up.
You just let me take care of her, and then they'll pay.
Just let me take care of everything.
(dramatic music)
(cart rumbles)
(cell door clanks)
(phone rings)
- Yes?
- [Terrorist] If we don't get the money,
you're all gonna die.
Better tell your president to hurry.
- You listen to me.
- This is President Howard.
- So, you're alive. I was beginning to wonder.
- You just listen to me, and you listen carefully.
We will find you. We will catch you.
And when we do, believe me,
I will change my stand on the death penalty.
- Very smooth.
- Okay.
I could take some diplomacy lessons from you,
but I'm telling you that really felt good.
(president coughs)
Thank you.
As a matter of fact,
I am tired of sitting here in these pajamas.
I've got to do something.
Ah, look. No, no, no, no.
You know, I've never stood next to you.
You're taller than I thought.
- Well, so are you.
- Yeah. I'm gonna get dressed.
- All right.
I'm a doctor, remember?
- I'm the president. Remember?
- Okay.
(gentle music)
- [President] You ever been married?
- Once.
I have a very demanding job.
- [President] Yeah, me too.
It's not easy, being married.
It's a lot of hard work.
But when it comes together.
You got kids?
- No. No.
It wasn't a priority.
- [President] Well, it's tough raising a child,
especially alone.
The rewards make everything else in life seem secondary.
- Ah, red tie.
Very presidential.
- Exactly.
- Let me help you.
Let me help you.
I'm sorry,
I've never done this before in rubber gloves.
- I should hope not.
(both laugh)
(tense drumming music)
(indistinct shouting)
- [Speaker] All the way.
(squad marches)
- [Soldier] By order of the United States Army,
under the command of General Riker,
you are ordered to leave your homes immediately.
Military personnel be escorting you.
You may bring only what you can carry.
(guns rattle)
(trucks rumble)
(cell doors clank)
(prolonged beep)
- She slipped away just a few minutes ago.
I'm sorry.
(melancholy music)
- Yeah. Okay. I'm on my way. Go now.
I'm not staying in this place
with what's floating around in here.
So hurry up.
I'm the chairman of the board.
Of course it's all right. Go.
(helicopter whirs)
(tense music)
- [Soldier] What's going on, sir?
- Unidentified aircraft approaching the quarantine zone.
We're going in.
- But sir, we don't have the clearance.
- The president is in danger.
Now put out the order, Lieutenant.
- Yes, sir.
Move, move.
- Excuse me for staring.
Aren't you the doctor that's taking care of the president?
- Yeah, that's me.
- Oh. I'm Mary Blaine. Hi. Pleased to meet you.
- Hi.
- They say you are the best virologist at the DDC.
Is it true? Did you find a cure?
- Listen, I don't want you to worry about anything.
We're gonna beat this.
I don't want you to worry.
- I'm not.
- There's trouble on the roof.
You need to check for a breach. Come on.
- [Terrorist] That's terrible.
- Okay. I'm here. Do you see me? I'm here.
Yeah. Yeah. Good, good.
Oh.
- To the pilot in the unidentified aircraft,
leave the area or you will be destroyed.
- Come on. Set down.
- [Pilot] Tangling with the army wasn't part of our deal.
- Don't pay any attention to those guys.
They're just posturing for the cameras.
Set down. Yeah.
Come on.
Come on. Yeah, yeah.
Come on. Get down.
- [Soldier] This airspace is restricted.
Please leave immediately. This is your final warning.
Leave now or you will be fired upon.
- What now, General?
(dramatic music)
(helicopter explodes)
- Take it down.
- [Soldier] Stop. Stop where you are.
- I'll hold the stairs. Go.
- What?
- Stand back.
- What are you doing?
You're breaching the containment. You can't.
You're creating a hazardous situation. You can't do this.
Please, stop.
You can't do this.
- Stand down.
- I believe this is your prisoner, agent.
- Do you understand that by breaching this quarantine,
you're endangering the surrounding population?
- Perfectly. Let's go. Move, move, move.
- You can't go down there.
- [Riker] The president's in danger.
- Stay relaxed, gentlemen. We're the home team.
- Stand aside.
- Agent Tom Brenner, United States Secret Service.
- General Riker, United States Army.
- General, I assume you still know
who your commander in chief is.
- [Riker] That depends if he's still in command
of his mental faculties.
- The president is very much in control, sir,
and he does not want to see you.
Do you understand?
- Yeah.
(guns rattle)
- You just as much hiccup, sir,
and I will blow your head off.
- Stand down, Mister. We're on the same side.
- No, sir. I do not believe we are.
- Okay.
Stop it.
Stop it.
One of those things is gonna go off.
And as much as I don't wanna be the person in front of it
when it does,
I also don't want you ripping holes through this hospital.
This virus is very small. Very small.
It would just love to escape through some bullet holes.
Please put the guns down.
(president knocks)
- Come here.
- What are you doing here, General?
- Ensuring your safety and wellbeing, Mr. President.
- Yeah.
Well, your concern for me makes me all warm inside.
Now, listen carefully.
Since you made the unfortunate choice
of walking into a quarantined area,
you and your men will stay inside.
And when that quarantine is lifted,
if any of us are still alive,
you, General, can look forward to a court marshal.
Dismissed.
- [Riker] Move it out.
- Dr. Landis.
Dr. Landis.
- Yeah?
- This came for you. It sounded very important.
- Thanks.
I think I have something important here.
This is all the data that the DDC has on a Dr. Crowley.
Dr. Laura Crowley is believed to have died
from the Ebola virus three years ago in Rwanda.
I just saw this woman in an elevator five minutes ago.
- Crowley?
Crowley, Crowley. Dr. Laura Crowley.
I remember her.
She was a doctor who was injecting locals with her cure.
Killed hundreds of them, as I remember.
She was fixated that it was all my fault.
Secret service had an all points out for that lunatic.
Charming woman. I thought she was dead.
- She looked alive and well to me.
- Tom.
- [Brenner] Yes, Mr. President.
- Yeah, I think our terrorists are here in the building.
- We're moving north now.
(prolonged beep)
- [Diane] Oh no.
- [Dr. Morgan] He's in full arrest. Bag him.
(tense music)
- Come on. Come on.
Come on.
- Doctor.
It's over.
(melancholy music)
- I know he was your friend.
I'm so sorry.
- What options are left?
- I keep trying.
- Could you turn the lights down on your way out?
It's killing my eyes.
- [President] Son, this is a quarantined area.
Do you know that? You're not supposed to be here.
- Are you the president?
- Yes. And you shouldn't be here.
- I've always wanted meet you.
My dad was always talking about you.
- Yeah. Come on.
You said was.
What happened to him?
- [Dusty] He's dead. So's my mom.
- It's hard losing someone who was close to you.
I'm sorry.
- Like your first lady?
- Yeah. Like that.
Yeah, Diane, I think we have a problem here.
Can you come down?
- My dad used to talk about how he wanted shake your hand.
When I found out you were here,
I had to come, you know, for him.
You're sick, aren't you?
- Yeah, a little.
- You know what I like when I'm sick?
Chicken gumbo soup.
The kitchen downstairs makes a killer gumbo.
I can get you some.
- No, no, no, no. It's all right. Thank you.
- Wow. Cool suit. Can I get one?
Hey, I finally got a meeting.
- Uh-huh.
- You two know each other?
- Yes, we do. Come on, Houdini.
- Ouch.
President's nice, isn't he? But I thought he'd be bigger.
- [Diane] Where'd you get that?
- When I went to Rwanda.
- What were you doing in Rwanda?
- My parents were missionaries.
They went there to help sick people.
They said we'd be there for a month. Then they got sick.
- Sick?
- [Dusty] Really sick.
They put me on a plane back home.
They said they'd come back when they got better,
but they never did.
- You know, Dusty,
you're probably gonna have to stay here for a while
until we find out whether or not
you caught what the president has.
- Stay here in this place?
- Mhmm.
- How long?
- Maybe for a few hours.
That's okay.
(somber music)
- I understand.
- Oh, Diane, I'm so sorry.
Come here.
- Well, at least I can do this now.
- Covering the building is not going to work.
The virus is too contagious. It's too powerful.
It'll spread if it hasn't already.
- And we're not going to let that happen.
So, you wanna be president?
Be president.
You see, we have a problem here, sir.
And I wanna know what you want to do, Mr. President.
We have a virus in this hospital that's now gone airborne.
That's going to kill everyone inside.
And the really bad news is it's going to get out.
Maybe it already has, and there's no way to stop it.
My son, your wife, our mothers.
It's gonna burn through the population like a forest fire.
And it doesn't care who it infects.
And since the president makes all the hard decisions,
what are you going to do now?
- Ah, I don't know sir.
- No, there's no time for indecision, Mr. President.
- I'd say order up a 60 kiloton inversion bomb
at a blast radius that would incinerate
over one square mile.
Fry the virus before it spreads.
- Yes.
Yes. That is a good choice.
- Sir.
Mr. President.
History will look unkindly
at the person who pushes the button on a bomb
that kills the president and 100 innocent souls.
I wouldn't want that fate to fall on one of my men or yours.
I'd like to take that duty myself.
- History may also look at that person with gratitude
for saving millions.
- Well, looks like we'll both get our place in history.
Sir.
(cell door clanks)
(tense drumming music)
(sheet tears)
- What are they up to?
- I don't know.
But we're gonna find out. Come on.
Put this on.
- I know, I know.
- Lieutenant, why don't you go with the men, huh?
- No, sir.
- Go with the men, Lieutenant.
(gentle whimsical music)
- [President] Diane, everything is in place.
The bomb is ready to go.
I have everything but a reason not to do it.
Can you give me a reason?
- Haven't had a vacation in years.
- I'll give the order to Riker.
We'll set the detonation for 1800. One hour from now.
I'm about to call my son.
Is there anyone you would like to call?
- No.
No, sir.
There isn't anyone.
- I'm very proud of all you've done.
Thank you, Diane.
- Oh. Wayne.
Listen, pal, in an hour-
- That kid caught the virus.
- This is a bad thing, isn't it?
- Things aren't always what they seem
through the looking glass, Alice.
- What?
There's no way that he could have antibodies to the virus.
He was exposed an hour ago.
He told me he was in Rwanda.
- I know. I dug up his med history. Check it out.
- Parents were affected in '97.
He must have had it too.
- The kid's got the antibodies.
- Dusty's got the cure.
We're springing Dusty.
- But you can't. He's gone.
- What? - He's disappeared.
- Dusty Burke.
Paging Dusty Burke.
Dusty?
Dusty, it's Dr. Landis.
No one's mad at you for leaving quarantine,
but we need you to come back to the fifth floor right away.
Okay?
(upbeat music)
Dusty, there's something that you have
that could help the president.
If anyone finds a small boy in a green robe,
have him return to the fifth floor quarantine right away.
- We've gotta find the kid before they do.
- Why?
- Why? Why? Why?
Obviously, Dr. Fantastic has found antibodies
in the kid's blood.
- How's that possible?
- How do I know? Am I his mother?
- I don't know.
- What?
- No, no. Look at that. Look at that. I'm infected.
I'm infected. Look what you've done.
- Calm down.
- Don't you tell me to calm down.
You've infected me with your disease, you witch.
- Have you been asleep? I have the cure.
- You said no one would die. They did.
"We won't ever go into the hospital," you said. We did.
"You won't be infected by the virus." I am.
I don't trust anything you say.
- [Laura] Just don't you push it.
Don't you push it, because I have the cure. Remember?
- [Terrorist] No. No.
I won't let you kill me with your incompetence.
You hear that?
If I have to put my life on anyone,
I'm going to Dr. Landis.
(ominous music)
- Go ahead.
Go ahead.
Come on.
Get it right.
A little higher.
Yeah. There you go.
There you go.
(man gasps)
(man groans)
- I'm sorry.
You bet on the wrong doctor.
- [Riker] Mr. President, do I have the order, sir?
- Any delay is going to push the virus
closer to the perimeter.
Go ahead, General. And God forgive us.
- Yes, sir.
(dramatic music)
(bomb beeps)
- [Laura] Hi, sweetie.
Are you fixing yourself a little snack?
- It's for the president.
Don't tell anyone, okay?
- That is so sweet. You don't have to worry.
I am not going to tell anybody. I'm gonna lock my lips.
I'm gonna throw away the key.
As a matter of fact, I have a surprise.
I'm gonna take you up there myself. Okay?
- We've got everybody out looking for him.
When we find him, I can make a serum from his blood,
but I need more time.
- All right.
How far downwind do you think the virus has gotten by now?
We can't let it get out, Diane.
- We've only got 10 minutes until detonation.
- Right, then use every one of them.
Don't stand here talking to me about it.
- I've seen you somewhere.
- Huh?
- Yeah. Yeah. I have.
- No, you haven't.
- Wait, you're the doctor in Africa.
The one that gave my mom and dad the shot
that was supposed to make them better.
- No, it's not me.
- It is you.
- Just-
- So what happened when I left? How did they die?
- You can't think about what was. Block it out.
It never happened. Just block it out.
- Everybody's looking for this little guy. Who are you?
- Hi, I'm Mary Blaine and Dr. Landis asked me to find him
and I got lucky.
- Are you okay?
- [Dusty] I thought she looked familiar.
This doctor was in Africa with my mom and dad.
- What?
(Wayne groans)
- Get in.
(door slams)
Die.
Die already, you miserable.
Move, move.
- [Brenner] Dusty.
- Dusty?
- Dusty?
- Dusty?
(packet rustles)
Wayne.
Wayne.
Wayne.
Oh, no.
- Dusty?
Let's go.
Dusty.
- [Diane] Hold on, Dusty.
- [Brenner] Dusty.
(bomb beeps)
(tense music)
(Dusty groans)
- Come on, let's go.
- Where did she go?
Where'd she go?
(Tom groans)
- [Diane] Dusty, come here. Come here.
Are you okay?
Are you all right?
- Yeah.
- Game is over, Florence Nightingale.
Come to mama.
Come to mama.
Get over here.
- You gotta go.
- You, out. Now.
Out. Go. Get out of here.
- [Diane] Don't worry, it's going to be okay.
- Go. - [Diane] It's all right.
- You thought you were gonna save the world.
- It's okay, Dusty.
- Turn around. Turn around.
- How can you do this? You're killing people for money.
- Ooh. "You're killing people for money."
How did you ever get into the DDC?
I was infected with Ebola,
and then I made a serum out of my blood.
What have you done lately?
You have the disease and the cure in your blood,
and you choose the disease?
- I chose nothing. You turn around.
Turn around.
Go, go.
(bomb beeps)
Pick up that cell phone.
Then you call a copter in to pick us up.
- They won't come.
- Oh, yes, they will come
when someone so close to the president calls.
- I am telling you, you've got to listen to me.
They're not gonna come.
- They're gonna come. They're gonna come.
And me and the kid are gonna disappear.
And you and the president are gonna die and rot
just like I did.
Call them. Call them.
- It's not just us who's gonna die.
- Oh, that's precious. Little Miss Einstein.
We are immune.
- Not from a bomb, you're not.
- That's really good.
Do you really think I'm that stupid?
- In a couple of minutes, we're gonna find out.
Let me make the call. Give me Dusty.
I can stop this. Nobody has to die.
- You think I'm afraid to die? Do you?
I've been dead for years.
You know, I used to be just like you.
I was hopeful and I was idealistic.
I thought I was gonna save the world.
I was gonna go right to the top.
But I wasn't socially acceptable, like you.
So I wasn't sent to Washington.
I got sent to Rwanda.
I met our president before I left.
Know what he said to me?
He said,
"The sacrifice you're making is an honor to your country."
I was killing people,
and I thought I was curing them.
Was that part of the honor?
I was supposed to get promoted, but instead I got Ebola.
What are you doing? Stop it. Stop it.
- Now.
(Laura screams)
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- Are you sure?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
My phone. Where's my phone?
- Got it.
- Good boy.
(phone rings)
- Riker.
- [Diane] Stop the bomb.
We found the cure. He's sitting right here next to me.
(triumphant music)
(crowd applauds)
- [Riker] Mr. President.
- Hey.
Listen.
I don't want to cheapen what happened to all of us
by whatever words I could say.
So, I just wanna say
thank you.
- Of course.
- Hey, you wanna come to my house?
- The White House?
- [President] Yeah.
- Yes, sir.
And maybe you could talk Dr. Landis into coming with you.
- I betcha I could talk her into it.
- See you at my place?
- I'll make it a priority, sir.
- Bye.
(crowd cheers)
(phone jingles)
(dramatic music)
(triumphant fanfare)