ReGenesis s01e01 Episode Script
Baby Bomb
Episodes 01 Baby Bomb Joe.
Joe, if you're there, pick up, okay? I need you to go out and see if that body's still there.
Be careful, all right? Don't touch it.
Where are you man? Been up to the gravesite yet? But call okay? Call me as soon as you get this.
Hey, Jill, it's me.
I just wanted to call you.
How uh I love you.
I just wanted to call and say that.
Hey Jill, it's me.
Uh, I really need to talk to you.
If you haven't figured it out by now Shit, I can explain.
I really fucked up this time.
Really I really fucked up this time.
Call me.
Okay Sandstrom, get your shit together.
You're going to go back to the lab and tell them what's going on.
Caroline.
Call Caroline.
Excuse me, can I help you? Please, sit down.
I'll get someone right away.
Hello? That is so disturbing! Who is that? - Off.
My daughter, Lilith.
- Shit! Well, no wonder I am so fucked up.
What are you doing here? Oh, that's a really nice welcome.
I guess you were too busy to come pick me up.
You didn't tell me you were coming.
- Yes, I did.
- When? I - Hi, Sally.
- Oh, Jesus.
Uh, Twyla.
Yeah.
How long ago? Okay, are you there now? Carlos, yeah, I want him there too.
Okay, you call him.
I'm on my way.
- Where you going? - Huh? Oh, airport.
Oh, what? To pick someone up? No, I gotta go to work.
David, I mean she just got Oh yeah, yeah, listen.
You two get to know each other and I'll be back later.
Bye.
I hate helicopters.
I hate riding with people who hate helicopters.
Tower, I've got the NorBAC scientist on board.
Caroline should be waiting for us at the airport.
- How was the trip? - Let's not get into it.
What do you got? All the victims seems to be North of here.
Okay.
No one's recovered, 3 dead.
Original diagnosis was some kind of pox.
But? Winnipeg came back negative for any of the pox viruses that affect humans.
- What about Atlanta? - They I.
D.
'd it as camel pox.
- Human beings don't get camel pox.
- They do now.
They tried treating it with the drug cidofovir.
It works on the virus in camels.
No effect on the victims and they can't figure out why.
Has anyone been outside of Canada to the Middle East? - Or a zoo maybe? - The latest victim hasn't been anywhere.
Okay, so we've got a virus that shouldn't infect people, but does, and a cure that should work, but doesn't.
- What's causing it or how it's spread.
- Other than that Patient 4: Darryl Graves, 16, student.
Works part-time at a gas station on highway 17.
Left work yesterday around 6 with a fever.
Brought himself here last night at 11:30 covered in pox.
- Okay, I got it.
It moves fast.
- How about the others? - All died within 36 hours.
- Connect this guy to the other 3 victims.
There were all connected.
Not this boy.
Excuse me, could you turn him to the side please.
Oh, Jesus.
Carlos! I have to call the CDC.
What do I tell them? Whatever you want.
Let's get those samples from pathology.
- When did you and my dad hook up? - About 3 months ago.
That's a really long time for him.
- Sally is this Jell-O or an experiment? - My name's Twyla.
And it's aspic.
Um, so where do you live anyway? Far.
Manhattan.
Right.
You know, actually I live on Salt Spring Island, near Vancouver.
- Cool.
- No.
The adults are all old hippies and the kids are all skater losers.
So, what? Did my dad pick you up in a bar or his health club? - We met professionally.
- Oh, you're a molecular biologist.
I'm his physiotherapist.
So that was therapy then? Let's treat is as a Bio-3 until we know what we're dealing with, all right? Sure.
- Uh, Dr.
Sandstrom? - Maybe.
Can I speak to you about something? Speak.
- Uh, I sent you an email.
- And I get hundreds a day kid.
- I don't read half of them.
- Listen.
- I need your help.
- Because? - Because I'm dying.
- I'm sorry.
- Please help me.
- Kid, I'm a molecular biologist.
I know all about you.
You're the best genetic scientist in the country.
Look, I'm dying 'cause I'm a clone.
- Say again.
- Like Dolly.
- She died 'cause she was a clone.
- Dolly died because she was euthanized.
She had a lung problem.
And she was a clone, - and you're not.
- I am! Look! Just look at this picture of me and my brother.
Amazing.
Two brothers who look alike.
You do need help kid.
I'm not that kind of doctor.
Dr.
Sandstrom, sir, please just - I'll get started.
- Right.
- Bob.
- From Oxford.
Oh yeah, Cort says the colamine is NAH Lab.
He knows about a new strain of monkey pox.
- Okay, what about that flu sequencing.
- Oh, I just broke down the French strain.
- No one's answering at UCB or Stanford yet.
- Wake 'em up.
Anything? - Closer to West Nile than Spanish.
- Shit.
Look up this drug, I want every report you can find on it.
The results are on your desk.
Perfect.
I want you on this, okay? You do the sequencing while Carlos does the pathology.
Lil, Air Canada 3551, 10:34 P.
M.
Fuck.
- The other side.
- Cidofovir.
Oh yeah.
- And uh, Twyla called.
- Yes.
Did you know that camel pox is the closest virus to small pox? - Maybe that's why people are getting it.
- That or too much humping.
You know that's where IUD came from.
Camel drivers used to insert pebbles into the uteruses of camels to keep them from getting pregnant.
How'd they figure that out? It's going to be a long day.
Carlos, people with Asperger's Syndrome can't help it.
You know, the Iraqis are working on strains that infected people.
- Does David know this? - I don't know.
- This is camel pox.
Patient 4.
- Identical.
Except that boy has a hemorrhagic fever.
The Lassa or Marburg, probably both.
Serrano, poxes look like bricks.
Hemorrhagics look like worms.
- Do these bricks look like worms to you? - No, but they're acting like worms.
I was in Africa with Medecins Sans Frontieres.
That pool of blood.
With Ebola you leak blood out of every orifice.
- Poxes cause internal bleeding too.
- This wasn't bleeding, it was a complete vascular meltdown.
If you open that boy up, his organs will look like they've been put through a blender.
Ebola? This meant his liver and kidney's leaking out of him and that would explain the failure of cidofovir.
- Ebola and camel pox together? - Maybe a genetic hybrid of the two.
No, camel pox is made of DNA, Ebola's made of RNA.
The two split and went their separate ways over 2 billion years ago.
- Maybe they've kissed and made up.
- A variant? No, or maybe it's not Ebola and maybe it's not even camel pox.
Okay, where do we start? The minister of health wants you to phone her and so does the CDC.
- The rest are just urgent.
- Thanks, Wes.
Patient 4, the Grave's boy, his mother was just admitted to the hospital covered in pox.
Okay.
Credit card receipts from the gas station where he worked, surveillance tape from the garage.
I'll run a trace on all the cars and quarantine the occupants.
Go wider.
Include anyone they were in contact with.
Hey, so this is what we know so far.
Victim 1: Elmer Jones.
Owns a grocery store off highway 17.
Lives alone.
Tuesday morning he feels sick, goes to C.
U.
, Dr.
William Parton.
Dr.
Parton sends Elmer to Northway Health Centre here, admitting nurse is Katherine Holochuck.
Now those are victims 1-2 and 3.
A straight flow of events until Darryl.
people are in quarantine now? Except the question marks, we're still searching for them.
Now what we have to know is why did it suddenly jump to Darryl.
Does this mean one of these people infected someone who drove down the highway and gave it to Darryl? And or is there is one person, a patient zero, who's spreading it? Caroline.
Patient 4, Darryl, he just died.
You're talking about nature somehow accidentally combining, - say, a flea and an elephant.
- I'm not saying it makes sense, just it makes more sense than anything else I've heard.
Okay, how about this? A single strand RNA Ebola-like intermediate somehow might get copied on a cellular reverse transcriptase and then integrated into the genome.
Okay? - Okay, but what if - Okay, just a second.
Now, camel pox, it might somehow super infect the same cell, and then some kind of recombination occurs.
I mean, I know we're talking about nuclear and cytoplasmic replication, but hey, you never know, right? No.
David, you know there's no way that the camel pox variant could accommodate the extra genomic burden you're giving it.
There's no way.
Ockham's Razor.
The simplest explanation is best.
Fuck.
- I need more coffee.
- You want one? I've got to call my daughter.
You're a father? Sort of.
- David.
- Oh hey, come on in.
I got a lead on a sample of the Spanish lady.
- From where? - It's a long story.
Have you guys made any progress? Eliminated a few hypothesis, you? Positive on CP, negative on Ebola.
We've PCR'ed the hell out of it, David.
I don't think there's any Ebola there.
I think Carlos is wrong.
Yeah, maybe.
Okay, call me tonight.
Okay, bye.
I didn't know you smoke.
I don't.
Neither do I.
I would think an MD would know better.
I do, I do.
I'm quitting.
Again.
So, how do you like it here? Ah, I miss Mexico City a little.
The sushi was better.
Any regrets? If I want to do the best, I have to be with the best.
You didn't answer my question.
I have no regrets working with David Sandstrom.
Someone has to teach him how to do things.
So, how are we doing in there? Well, I have my theory, David has his.
Eventually, you run out of wrongs, you end up right.
- I hope eventually is soon, Carlos.
- Yeah.
- Mierda.
See you inside.
- Yeah.
We've gone through it twice now.
We definitely have PCR evidence for camel pox DNA, but no evidence at all for any Ebola.
What about other hemorrhagic fever viruses? - Nothing.
- When you were at Fort Egan, - did you ever see anything like this? - Never.
Isn't it time we give up on this idea? We're getting nowhere.
We have no material evidence.
We have no theoretical model.
What? Oh hey, Twyla, can I call you back later? I don't know.
Actually that was a good answer.
Here's a better one.
- What? - Look at this.
cell align with the pox variant components, and then we take the Ebola virus packaging sequences and we'll super infect okay divide pox Where did that come from? I don't know, it just kind of popped into my head.
- Virus! It's a virus.
- Too crazy? Yeah well.
- Hira? - Possible.
Simple enough? Maybe too simple.
Thank you.
Let's do it.
- What? - Sorry, it's mine.
So, what? Are you guys like broken up or? I don't know, your father isn't really equipped to deal with that kind of conversation.
Yeah, I know.
So, what? Are you leaving? Yeah, well, I don't want to get too comfortable.
Why not? - You don't know him at all, do you? - Oh yeah, I know him.
David has room for 2 things in his life: His science and himself.
The rest is just shit that gets in the way or gets used and thrown out.
That's your dad, honey.
So, once you figure out where you fit, you do what you got to do, right? Ciao.
Goodbye, Twyla.
It's Sally.
- What's wrong? - It's not working.
- Not even my card.
- Maybe your face is changing.
I mean those face recognition things are very sensitive.
- Can you try? - Sure.
So, either quarantine the school or I'll get somebody to quarantine the whole town.
Three countries came together to back this lab but you can't get one school closed.
Shit.
It's Caroline Morrison at NorBAC.
I need the medical officer of health's daily briefing.
It was supposed to be sent to me.
I'm not interested in excuses, just do it please.
Thank you.
He touched her.
I'm going to put him on the list.
- I wasn't sure you'd still be here.
- I was just leaving.
- Anything? - A couple of leads I want to check out.
Oh, so where are we at? That boy we saw, Darryl, his mother just died.
So, that's seven dead, four in critical condition, and so many in quarantine I can't keep up.
Two-hundred and fourteen.
What do you have? We had a theory.
Unfortunately, we're having a lot of difficulty proving it.
Oh, and that Face First thingie you put in? It's not working.
What's wrong with it? I don't know.
Hira had a problem with it today.
We're having trouble getting her through a background check.
- She was cleared 3 months ago.
- Yeah, well something's come up.
Okay, would you please check with me before you start playing around David, not now.
I'm juggling politicians, health authorities and police departments.
And I'm juggling camel pox, Ebola and God knows what else and I'd like to have my best virologist able to get into lock up.
She's here, she's just on limited access.
What do you want? Hello, like, I asked you a question.
Uh, I'm Mick.
What? What, are you retarded? I asked you what you wanted.
Are you Dr.
David Sandstrom's daughter? No.
Yes, maybe I am Dr.
David Sandstrom's daughter.
Why? What do you want? I need to talk to him.
- So talk to him.
- I've tried.
I need help.
Look, I'm dying.
So is everyone.
If no one died there wouldn't really be enough room, you know? - Yeah, well, I'm dying now.
- Oh, like now now.
Like if I don't get help I won't make it till the end of the year.
I really need your dad's help.
Look, my dad's not even a doctor doctor.
He's a PhD doctor and they don't help anyone.
I know but he'll know how to help me because - Yeah? - I'm a clone.
You actually almost had me there for a second.
Damn it, I'm a clone, I can prove it! Look, you've got issues, okay? - Who are you not talking to? - Ersky Labs in South Africa.
Why? They have the most state of the art automated DNA sequencer in Africa.
Hemorrhagics come from Africa.
I'm wondering if they've ever seen anything like this.
Clever.
Hey! What's going on with my security clearance? Oh, don't worry about it.
It's just bureaucratic bullshit, but if you run into any more bumps, you let me know, okay? It almost becomes a Ebola/camel pox chimera.
- Serrano, no personal calls.
- Deiderman of Heidelberg.
Microbiology's worst squash player.
- Who are you talking to, Bob? - My mother.
- Does she have any ideas? - Huh? Says your proposed chimera virus is too unstable, it would never survive repeated passage through people.
Deiderman, yeah, Sandstrom.
Nothing wrong with being wrong, right? - Yeah, you'll get used to it.
- He's right, David.
No way to fit the Ebola gene only to the pox variant.
- It's true, it's in there.
- Maybe not the way we're imagining it.
- What fucking way? - I don't know.
I don't even know what we're arguing about.
Chimera, Ebola, camel pox together.
But Hira can't confirm it with PCR.
What if this isn't Ebola? I'd like to base this on something more reliable than Carlos' notes.
Mayko's right, David.
I ran an analysis test on the serum, couldn't find any traces of Ebola antibodies.
There are no IGM or IGG antibodies, and the immuno-chemistry tests came up negative.
Then what are we saying? We're saying it was a brilliant hypothesis, but my diagnosis was wrong.
No.
Carlos is right.
It's Ebola.
It's there.
- Yeah.
- How's it going? - Oh, fucking beautiful.
You? - Two more dead.
- Shit, where are you? - A restaurant in McClint.
- So, it's on its way eh? - Yeah.
And I have politicians in denial with health care professionals on the verge of panic.
- What about your end? - Uh, dead end.
I can get you first samples in a few hours.
Will that help? Maybe.
The damn virus has evolved so fast.
A mutation might shed some light.
Bye.
Okay, everybody, go home, have a shower, feed your dog, change your underwear, be back in an hour.
We've got fresh samples coming in.
I can get you first samples in a few hours.
Thank you.
Well, the couple closed the diner at 9.
They were just making their own suppers.
Steaks left on the grill started a grease fire.
I was supposed to meet the local chief medical officer.
- Well, she's on her way.
- She had to go by the hospital and check on how they're setting up the quarantine.
NorBAC? - Excuse me.
- Yeah, what? - This thing, what is it? - That's what we're working on officer.
I want this place sealed up.
No press, no pictures.
- My son's in quarantine.
- Why? - Same school as Gerald Graves.
- It's just a precaution.
Well, it's one hell of a precaution.
My wife's scared to death.
- I understand.
- What do I tell her? - Is my boy going to be all right? - We don't know enough about this yet.
- I'm sorry, but that's the truth.
- Word is that Gerald died.
Is that true? Yeah.
Look, I appreciate your time.
I'll get to sealing this place up.
Officer Got a card? Yeah.
- As soon as we know anything.
- Thank you.
Lilith! Lilith! Hello? - You abandoned me.
- It had nothing to do with you.
Your mom and I weren't getting along and she's the one who moved out too, so if you've got abandonment issues, take it up with her.
Retard, I mean yesterday.
- Oh.
Uh, Twyla was here.
- Oh, right, right.
You seriously must be the worst father in the world.
I come and what? Within 10 seconds you're gone, and 24 hours later you're back.
Where were you? I was working on something very, very important.
Oh, and I'm not.
- I need a beer.
- Yeah, me too.
The fact is it's moving down highway 17.
Well, shutting down a highway's a good precaution considering the consequences.
That's nothing compared to what happens if this virus hits Toronto.
You sir, can hope for the best, but my job is to plan for the worst.
The sooner you get back to me, the better.
- Your mom got your email.
- Was she pissed? Did you want her to be? And you were right, I was supposed to pick you up at the airport.
I fucked up.
I'm sorry.
You can stay till the weekend and then you've got to go.
- No, I'm moving in.
- No.
What? - No look, there's a virus - Newsflash.
Biology isn't everything.
And I hate to break it to you but you are my parent too.
Yeah, but the one thing that we both agree on is that I suck as a dad, and that's genetics.
Oh yeah, when I went to the store today I got stalked.
- What? - Yes, this guy I don't know, this kid, he was like totally following me.
And then I got up in his face - What did he want? - You.
Said he was dying and needed to talk to you.
- Is he a weird guy about 15? - Well, all 15 year old guys are weird.
Well, they don't get any better until they're about 30.
- Did he say he was a clone? - Yeah, and then - I mean, that's not possible, is it? - Not unless he's from the future.
Exactly what I thought.
Morrison.
I wouldn't use the word epidemic.
There are some reported cases of what appears to be a virus, yes.
A pox virus.
Don't know.
Some fatalities, yes.
Nine.
Look, I'm trying to be as straightforward as I can, but I will not tell you anything that is not confirmed.
The only thing certain is 9 dead.
How many more? I don't know.
Jesus.
- So, explain this whole virus thing.
- It's very scary.
What do you remember me telling you about viruses? - Uh, dick all I guess.
- Okay, virology 101.
Viruses are very small.
They're about a millionth of an inch.
If this room was a cell, a virus would be the size of a pinprick, okay.
And what they do what they do is they crawl in through tiny, tiny holes.
Say, right about there.
- Okay.
Uh, can you pass the chocolate? - Uh, sure.
So, they crawl in, okay, and they steal some enzymes and they use them to make copies of themselves.
Thousands of copies.
And with Ebola, which is what we call a hemorrhagic or bleeding virus, eventually all those copies bust out.
They blow about a thousand holes through your cell walls, and then they float away and each of them finds another cell to crawl into and make another thousand copies of itself, and a thousand thousand more holes and then pretty soon you're bleeding and leaking to death inside your own skin.
Yeesh.
And that's what we're dealing with here, and that is why you really, really have to go home to B.
C.
Dad, I would rather die of a virus than of boredom in Salt Spring.
I've got to go back to work.
Dad, it's just that mum is dating this like totally boring base player guy who wears way too much cologne and like, he calls me Lily.
- So sorry.
Does he make your mom happy? - Well, yeah, I suppose he It doesn't make itself.
This doesn't make itself.
Jesus, that's it.
You are brilliant! - What? What? - Fucking brilliant! You aren't seriously going to work right now.
Yeah, want to come? - Not at 3 a.
m.
- Okay.
Thanks for the chat.
Excuse me.
- Do you work here? - I do.
Hi, I'm Bob Melnikov.
- Hey, are you in charge? - Of the lab? No.
I'm a biochemist.
David Sandstrom is the chief scientist.
- I thought Caroline Morrison was.
- Oh no, she's not a scientist, she's the executive director of the lab.
The liaison to The 3 countries involved in NorBAC: Canada, the U.
S.
and Mexico, right? - Are you a reporter? - Yeah.
So, what's going on up north, Bob? Are we looking at another SARS outbreak? - I can't I don't - Come on.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hey! Did you see the report on Angus MacDonald? - The mechanic.
- The garage on highway 17.
Yeah.
He died before they could question him.
His wife is sick now, she doesn't work there.
I've got a crew going through all the receipts.
Someone's on that highway.
If they went to another garage, they're probably having car trouble.
- Let's check out every garage on 17.
- I'm on it.
Okay, hypothesis #2: We can't find any genetic information that will prove the Ebola gene is in the camel pox genome.
Why? Because we are dealing with a chemically synthesized gene.
Ebola kills, right? But it doesn't spread very easily.
Camel pox spreads easily, but it can be fought with a drug.
So, if you could connect them, Ebola DNA would get a free ride on the camel pox.
- But they're incompatible.
Why? - Square pegs, round holes.
Right.
So you have to remake the connections, and I'm telling you there's somebody out there who's figured out how to do this.
- Now they fit.
- What do you got? - A super virus.
- Are you saying this thing is deliberate? You know, well nothing else makes any sense.
I mean if creating a killing machine makes any fucking sense.
And I think I know how they did it too.
Amino acids, building blocks of proteins.
Proteins, building blocks of viruses.
So, if you're looking for the Ebola, you want to look for its DNA recipe, but we can't find it.
Why? Because the same amino acid can be coded - with different DNA.
- Wait, wait, wait.
You lost me.
Okay, think of it this way.
- What does that say? - Grate aural sects.
- Thank you, David.
- You're welcome.
So whoever made this knew that we'd be looking for this.
So they wrote it like that.
Okay folks.
Now we know what we're looking for.
Jesus Christ.
Hey kid, come here! All right, listen.
Now you stop harassing me, you stop harassing my daughter or I swear to God I'll have you put away.
Do you understand? Hmm? Have a nice day.
Dr.
Sandstrom, would you talk to my father? - Oh, Jesus.
- I think you know him.
Dr.
Shelby Sloane.
- Shelby Sloane's your father? - He's the man who cloned me.
- Then why doesn't he fix you? - 'Cause he's given up.
- No, it's because you're not a clone! - I am! Please, just let me prove it to you! All right, I want you to get me DNA samples of you and whoever or whatever you were cloned from.
I'll run them through my mass clonometer.
If the samples match up I'll call the National Post, they'll make you clone of the year, okay? It's been a real out of this world conversation, Mick.
Do you know why my father stopped being a scientist? - Oh God.
- Because of what he did to me.
Let me give this to you straight, all right? You say you're dying but there's people out there right now who really are dying.
So why don't you just get your Kid, take it easy.
All right? Get me the samples.
Really? Really.
But I mean it.
You stay away from my daughter.
Ladies and gentlemen, this, believe it or not, is an artificial gene.
- Scary.
- Bio terrorism, yeah.
I know, how the hell did you figure this out so fast? - David, are you sure? - Uh-hmm, and it's coming right at us.
Wes, Homeland Security, FBI, CSIS, and send through the Investigation Securidad.
This is so fucked.
Scientists, all that knowledge, twisting it around - just to kill innocent people.
- I can't believe it.
Gas chambers, germ warfare, atomic bombs.
I can.
David, what about a cure? With Ebola there's no vaccine, no cure, just quarantine.
Caroline Morrison at NorBAC.
Please tell him it's urgent.
When it hits the city, it spreads everywhere.
There'll be no way to stop it.
The dead will be the lucky ones.
Why don't you come and sit down while we wait for the bus.
- Oh, thank you.
- Oh here, let me help with your luggage.
Oh! Great.
I was just coming to sit.
It sounds like someone's overtired.
Yeah, and a sore throat.
- Oh, what's her name? - Miranda.
- Oh, Miranda.
- Yeah.
- That's such a lovely name.
- My truck broke down so I got a little more luggage than I can handle.
- Oh well, so do I.
- Oh.
Oh, so where you off to? Oh, the U.
K.
so Miranda can meet her dad.
I came back to Canada to have her.
And what's his problem? Wasn't he there at the conception? - Well, he's a great guy.
- Oh.
Oh hey, the bus is here.
- Here, let me help you with this.
- Oh, you don't mind? Oh, thank you.
- No, no, no.
What's your name? - Daisy.
- I'm Frances.
- Hi, Frances.
Thanks a lot.
- Here, I'll let you go first.
- Thank you.
Joe, if you're there, pick up, okay? I need you to go out and see if that body's still there.
Be careful, all right? Don't touch it.
Where are you man? Been up to the gravesite yet? But call okay? Call me as soon as you get this.
Hey, Jill, it's me.
I just wanted to call you.
How uh I love you.
I just wanted to call and say that.
Hey Jill, it's me.
Uh, I really need to talk to you.
If you haven't figured it out by now Shit, I can explain.
I really fucked up this time.
Really I really fucked up this time.
Call me.
Okay Sandstrom, get your shit together.
You're going to go back to the lab and tell them what's going on.
Caroline.
Call Caroline.
Excuse me, can I help you? Please, sit down.
I'll get someone right away.
Hello? That is so disturbing! Who is that? - Off.
My daughter, Lilith.
- Shit! Well, no wonder I am so fucked up.
What are you doing here? Oh, that's a really nice welcome.
I guess you were too busy to come pick me up.
You didn't tell me you were coming.
- Yes, I did.
- When? I - Hi, Sally.
- Oh, Jesus.
Uh, Twyla.
Yeah.
How long ago? Okay, are you there now? Carlos, yeah, I want him there too.
Okay, you call him.
I'm on my way.
- Where you going? - Huh? Oh, airport.
Oh, what? To pick someone up? No, I gotta go to work.
David, I mean she just got Oh yeah, yeah, listen.
You two get to know each other and I'll be back later.
Bye.
I hate helicopters.
I hate riding with people who hate helicopters.
Tower, I've got the NorBAC scientist on board.
Caroline should be waiting for us at the airport.
- How was the trip? - Let's not get into it.
What do you got? All the victims seems to be North of here.
Okay.
No one's recovered, 3 dead.
Original diagnosis was some kind of pox.
But? Winnipeg came back negative for any of the pox viruses that affect humans.
- What about Atlanta? - They I.
D.
'd it as camel pox.
- Human beings don't get camel pox.
- They do now.
They tried treating it with the drug cidofovir.
It works on the virus in camels.
No effect on the victims and they can't figure out why.
Has anyone been outside of Canada to the Middle East? - Or a zoo maybe? - The latest victim hasn't been anywhere.
Okay, so we've got a virus that shouldn't infect people, but does, and a cure that should work, but doesn't.
- What's causing it or how it's spread.
- Other than that Patient 4: Darryl Graves, 16, student.
Works part-time at a gas station on highway 17.
Left work yesterday around 6 with a fever.
Brought himself here last night at 11:30 covered in pox.
- Okay, I got it.
It moves fast.
- How about the others? - All died within 36 hours.
- Connect this guy to the other 3 victims.
There were all connected.
Not this boy.
Excuse me, could you turn him to the side please.
Oh, Jesus.
Carlos! I have to call the CDC.
What do I tell them? Whatever you want.
Let's get those samples from pathology.
- When did you and my dad hook up? - About 3 months ago.
That's a really long time for him.
- Sally is this Jell-O or an experiment? - My name's Twyla.
And it's aspic.
Um, so where do you live anyway? Far.
Manhattan.
Right.
You know, actually I live on Salt Spring Island, near Vancouver.
- Cool.
- No.
The adults are all old hippies and the kids are all skater losers.
So, what? Did my dad pick you up in a bar or his health club? - We met professionally.
- Oh, you're a molecular biologist.
I'm his physiotherapist.
So that was therapy then? Let's treat is as a Bio-3 until we know what we're dealing with, all right? Sure.
- Uh, Dr.
Sandstrom? - Maybe.
Can I speak to you about something? Speak.
- Uh, I sent you an email.
- And I get hundreds a day kid.
- I don't read half of them.
- Listen.
- I need your help.
- Because? - Because I'm dying.
- I'm sorry.
- Please help me.
- Kid, I'm a molecular biologist.
I know all about you.
You're the best genetic scientist in the country.
Look, I'm dying 'cause I'm a clone.
- Say again.
- Like Dolly.
- She died 'cause she was a clone.
- Dolly died because she was euthanized.
She had a lung problem.
And she was a clone, - and you're not.
- I am! Look! Just look at this picture of me and my brother.
Amazing.
Two brothers who look alike.
You do need help kid.
I'm not that kind of doctor.
Dr.
Sandstrom, sir, please just - I'll get started.
- Right.
- Bob.
- From Oxford.
Oh yeah, Cort says the colamine is NAH Lab.
He knows about a new strain of monkey pox.
- Okay, what about that flu sequencing.
- Oh, I just broke down the French strain.
- No one's answering at UCB or Stanford yet.
- Wake 'em up.
Anything? - Closer to West Nile than Spanish.
- Shit.
Look up this drug, I want every report you can find on it.
The results are on your desk.
Perfect.
I want you on this, okay? You do the sequencing while Carlos does the pathology.
Lil, Air Canada 3551, 10:34 P.
M.
Fuck.
- The other side.
- Cidofovir.
Oh yeah.
- And uh, Twyla called.
- Yes.
Did you know that camel pox is the closest virus to small pox? - Maybe that's why people are getting it.
- That or too much humping.
You know that's where IUD came from.
Camel drivers used to insert pebbles into the uteruses of camels to keep them from getting pregnant.
How'd they figure that out? It's going to be a long day.
Carlos, people with Asperger's Syndrome can't help it.
You know, the Iraqis are working on strains that infected people.
- Does David know this? - I don't know.
- This is camel pox.
Patient 4.
- Identical.
Except that boy has a hemorrhagic fever.
The Lassa or Marburg, probably both.
Serrano, poxes look like bricks.
Hemorrhagics look like worms.
- Do these bricks look like worms to you? - No, but they're acting like worms.
I was in Africa with Medecins Sans Frontieres.
That pool of blood.
With Ebola you leak blood out of every orifice.
- Poxes cause internal bleeding too.
- This wasn't bleeding, it was a complete vascular meltdown.
If you open that boy up, his organs will look like they've been put through a blender.
Ebola? This meant his liver and kidney's leaking out of him and that would explain the failure of cidofovir.
- Ebola and camel pox together? - Maybe a genetic hybrid of the two.
No, camel pox is made of DNA, Ebola's made of RNA.
The two split and went their separate ways over 2 billion years ago.
- Maybe they've kissed and made up.
- A variant? No, or maybe it's not Ebola and maybe it's not even camel pox.
Okay, where do we start? The minister of health wants you to phone her and so does the CDC.
- The rest are just urgent.
- Thanks, Wes.
Patient 4, the Grave's boy, his mother was just admitted to the hospital covered in pox.
Okay.
Credit card receipts from the gas station where he worked, surveillance tape from the garage.
I'll run a trace on all the cars and quarantine the occupants.
Go wider.
Include anyone they were in contact with.
Hey, so this is what we know so far.
Victim 1: Elmer Jones.
Owns a grocery store off highway 17.
Lives alone.
Tuesday morning he feels sick, goes to C.
U.
, Dr.
William Parton.
Dr.
Parton sends Elmer to Northway Health Centre here, admitting nurse is Katherine Holochuck.
Now those are victims 1-2 and 3.
A straight flow of events until Darryl.
people are in quarantine now? Except the question marks, we're still searching for them.
Now what we have to know is why did it suddenly jump to Darryl.
Does this mean one of these people infected someone who drove down the highway and gave it to Darryl? And or is there is one person, a patient zero, who's spreading it? Caroline.
Patient 4, Darryl, he just died.
You're talking about nature somehow accidentally combining, - say, a flea and an elephant.
- I'm not saying it makes sense, just it makes more sense than anything else I've heard.
Okay, how about this? A single strand RNA Ebola-like intermediate somehow might get copied on a cellular reverse transcriptase and then integrated into the genome.
Okay? - Okay, but what if - Okay, just a second.
Now, camel pox, it might somehow super infect the same cell, and then some kind of recombination occurs.
I mean, I know we're talking about nuclear and cytoplasmic replication, but hey, you never know, right? No.
David, you know there's no way that the camel pox variant could accommodate the extra genomic burden you're giving it.
There's no way.
Ockham's Razor.
The simplest explanation is best.
Fuck.
- I need more coffee.
- You want one? I've got to call my daughter.
You're a father? Sort of.
- David.
- Oh hey, come on in.
I got a lead on a sample of the Spanish lady.
- From where? - It's a long story.
Have you guys made any progress? Eliminated a few hypothesis, you? Positive on CP, negative on Ebola.
We've PCR'ed the hell out of it, David.
I don't think there's any Ebola there.
I think Carlos is wrong.
Yeah, maybe.
Okay, call me tonight.
Okay, bye.
I didn't know you smoke.
I don't.
Neither do I.
I would think an MD would know better.
I do, I do.
I'm quitting.
Again.
So, how do you like it here? Ah, I miss Mexico City a little.
The sushi was better.
Any regrets? If I want to do the best, I have to be with the best.
You didn't answer my question.
I have no regrets working with David Sandstrom.
Someone has to teach him how to do things.
So, how are we doing in there? Well, I have my theory, David has his.
Eventually, you run out of wrongs, you end up right.
- I hope eventually is soon, Carlos.
- Yeah.
- Mierda.
See you inside.
- Yeah.
We've gone through it twice now.
We definitely have PCR evidence for camel pox DNA, but no evidence at all for any Ebola.
What about other hemorrhagic fever viruses? - Nothing.
- When you were at Fort Egan, - did you ever see anything like this? - Never.
Isn't it time we give up on this idea? We're getting nowhere.
We have no material evidence.
We have no theoretical model.
What? Oh hey, Twyla, can I call you back later? I don't know.
Actually that was a good answer.
Here's a better one.
- What? - Look at this.
cell align with the pox variant components, and then we take the Ebola virus packaging sequences and we'll super infect okay divide pox Where did that come from? I don't know, it just kind of popped into my head.
- Virus! It's a virus.
- Too crazy? Yeah well.
- Hira? - Possible.
Simple enough? Maybe too simple.
Thank you.
Let's do it.
- What? - Sorry, it's mine.
So, what? Are you guys like broken up or? I don't know, your father isn't really equipped to deal with that kind of conversation.
Yeah, I know.
So, what? Are you leaving? Yeah, well, I don't want to get too comfortable.
Why not? - You don't know him at all, do you? - Oh yeah, I know him.
David has room for 2 things in his life: His science and himself.
The rest is just shit that gets in the way or gets used and thrown out.
That's your dad, honey.
So, once you figure out where you fit, you do what you got to do, right? Ciao.
Goodbye, Twyla.
It's Sally.
- What's wrong? - It's not working.
- Not even my card.
- Maybe your face is changing.
I mean those face recognition things are very sensitive.
- Can you try? - Sure.
So, either quarantine the school or I'll get somebody to quarantine the whole town.
Three countries came together to back this lab but you can't get one school closed.
Shit.
It's Caroline Morrison at NorBAC.
I need the medical officer of health's daily briefing.
It was supposed to be sent to me.
I'm not interested in excuses, just do it please.
Thank you.
He touched her.
I'm going to put him on the list.
- I wasn't sure you'd still be here.
- I was just leaving.
- Anything? - A couple of leads I want to check out.
Oh, so where are we at? That boy we saw, Darryl, his mother just died.
So, that's seven dead, four in critical condition, and so many in quarantine I can't keep up.
Two-hundred and fourteen.
What do you have? We had a theory.
Unfortunately, we're having a lot of difficulty proving it.
Oh, and that Face First thingie you put in? It's not working.
What's wrong with it? I don't know.
Hira had a problem with it today.
We're having trouble getting her through a background check.
- She was cleared 3 months ago.
- Yeah, well something's come up.
Okay, would you please check with me before you start playing around David, not now.
I'm juggling politicians, health authorities and police departments.
And I'm juggling camel pox, Ebola and God knows what else and I'd like to have my best virologist able to get into lock up.
She's here, she's just on limited access.
What do you want? Hello, like, I asked you a question.
Uh, I'm Mick.
What? What, are you retarded? I asked you what you wanted.
Are you Dr.
David Sandstrom's daughter? No.
Yes, maybe I am Dr.
David Sandstrom's daughter.
Why? What do you want? I need to talk to him.
- So talk to him.
- I've tried.
I need help.
Look, I'm dying.
So is everyone.
If no one died there wouldn't really be enough room, you know? - Yeah, well, I'm dying now.
- Oh, like now now.
Like if I don't get help I won't make it till the end of the year.
I really need your dad's help.
Look, my dad's not even a doctor doctor.
He's a PhD doctor and they don't help anyone.
I know but he'll know how to help me because - Yeah? - I'm a clone.
You actually almost had me there for a second.
Damn it, I'm a clone, I can prove it! Look, you've got issues, okay? - Who are you not talking to? - Ersky Labs in South Africa.
Why? They have the most state of the art automated DNA sequencer in Africa.
Hemorrhagics come from Africa.
I'm wondering if they've ever seen anything like this.
Clever.
Hey! What's going on with my security clearance? Oh, don't worry about it.
It's just bureaucratic bullshit, but if you run into any more bumps, you let me know, okay? It almost becomes a Ebola/camel pox chimera.
- Serrano, no personal calls.
- Deiderman of Heidelberg.
Microbiology's worst squash player.
- Who are you talking to, Bob? - My mother.
- Does she have any ideas? - Huh? Says your proposed chimera virus is too unstable, it would never survive repeated passage through people.
Deiderman, yeah, Sandstrom.
Nothing wrong with being wrong, right? - Yeah, you'll get used to it.
- He's right, David.
No way to fit the Ebola gene only to the pox variant.
- It's true, it's in there.
- Maybe not the way we're imagining it.
- What fucking way? - I don't know.
I don't even know what we're arguing about.
Chimera, Ebola, camel pox together.
But Hira can't confirm it with PCR.
What if this isn't Ebola? I'd like to base this on something more reliable than Carlos' notes.
Mayko's right, David.
I ran an analysis test on the serum, couldn't find any traces of Ebola antibodies.
There are no IGM or IGG antibodies, and the immuno-chemistry tests came up negative.
Then what are we saying? We're saying it was a brilliant hypothesis, but my diagnosis was wrong.
No.
Carlos is right.
It's Ebola.
It's there.
- Yeah.
- How's it going? - Oh, fucking beautiful.
You? - Two more dead.
- Shit, where are you? - A restaurant in McClint.
- So, it's on its way eh? - Yeah.
And I have politicians in denial with health care professionals on the verge of panic.
- What about your end? - Uh, dead end.
I can get you first samples in a few hours.
Will that help? Maybe.
The damn virus has evolved so fast.
A mutation might shed some light.
Bye.
Okay, everybody, go home, have a shower, feed your dog, change your underwear, be back in an hour.
We've got fresh samples coming in.
I can get you first samples in a few hours.
Thank you.
Well, the couple closed the diner at 9.
They were just making their own suppers.
Steaks left on the grill started a grease fire.
I was supposed to meet the local chief medical officer.
- Well, she's on her way.
- She had to go by the hospital and check on how they're setting up the quarantine.
NorBAC? - Excuse me.
- Yeah, what? - This thing, what is it? - That's what we're working on officer.
I want this place sealed up.
No press, no pictures.
- My son's in quarantine.
- Why? - Same school as Gerald Graves.
- It's just a precaution.
Well, it's one hell of a precaution.
My wife's scared to death.
- I understand.
- What do I tell her? - Is my boy going to be all right? - We don't know enough about this yet.
- I'm sorry, but that's the truth.
- Word is that Gerald died.
Is that true? Yeah.
Look, I appreciate your time.
I'll get to sealing this place up.
Officer Got a card? Yeah.
- As soon as we know anything.
- Thank you.
Lilith! Lilith! Hello? - You abandoned me.
- It had nothing to do with you.
Your mom and I weren't getting along and she's the one who moved out too, so if you've got abandonment issues, take it up with her.
Retard, I mean yesterday.
- Oh.
Uh, Twyla was here.
- Oh, right, right.
You seriously must be the worst father in the world.
I come and what? Within 10 seconds you're gone, and 24 hours later you're back.
Where were you? I was working on something very, very important.
Oh, and I'm not.
- I need a beer.
- Yeah, me too.
The fact is it's moving down highway 17.
Well, shutting down a highway's a good precaution considering the consequences.
That's nothing compared to what happens if this virus hits Toronto.
You sir, can hope for the best, but my job is to plan for the worst.
The sooner you get back to me, the better.
- Your mom got your email.
- Was she pissed? Did you want her to be? And you were right, I was supposed to pick you up at the airport.
I fucked up.
I'm sorry.
You can stay till the weekend and then you've got to go.
- No, I'm moving in.
- No.
What? - No look, there's a virus - Newsflash.
Biology isn't everything.
And I hate to break it to you but you are my parent too.
Yeah, but the one thing that we both agree on is that I suck as a dad, and that's genetics.
Oh yeah, when I went to the store today I got stalked.
- What? - Yes, this guy I don't know, this kid, he was like totally following me.
And then I got up in his face - What did he want? - You.
Said he was dying and needed to talk to you.
- Is he a weird guy about 15? - Well, all 15 year old guys are weird.
Well, they don't get any better until they're about 30.
- Did he say he was a clone? - Yeah, and then - I mean, that's not possible, is it? - Not unless he's from the future.
Exactly what I thought.
Morrison.
I wouldn't use the word epidemic.
There are some reported cases of what appears to be a virus, yes.
A pox virus.
Don't know.
Some fatalities, yes.
Nine.
Look, I'm trying to be as straightforward as I can, but I will not tell you anything that is not confirmed.
The only thing certain is 9 dead.
How many more? I don't know.
Jesus.
- So, explain this whole virus thing.
- It's very scary.
What do you remember me telling you about viruses? - Uh, dick all I guess.
- Okay, virology 101.
Viruses are very small.
They're about a millionth of an inch.
If this room was a cell, a virus would be the size of a pinprick, okay.
And what they do what they do is they crawl in through tiny, tiny holes.
Say, right about there.
- Okay.
Uh, can you pass the chocolate? - Uh, sure.
So, they crawl in, okay, and they steal some enzymes and they use them to make copies of themselves.
Thousands of copies.
And with Ebola, which is what we call a hemorrhagic or bleeding virus, eventually all those copies bust out.
They blow about a thousand holes through your cell walls, and then they float away and each of them finds another cell to crawl into and make another thousand copies of itself, and a thousand thousand more holes and then pretty soon you're bleeding and leaking to death inside your own skin.
Yeesh.
And that's what we're dealing with here, and that is why you really, really have to go home to B.
C.
Dad, I would rather die of a virus than of boredom in Salt Spring.
I've got to go back to work.
Dad, it's just that mum is dating this like totally boring base player guy who wears way too much cologne and like, he calls me Lily.
- So sorry.
Does he make your mom happy? - Well, yeah, I suppose he It doesn't make itself.
This doesn't make itself.
Jesus, that's it.
You are brilliant! - What? What? - Fucking brilliant! You aren't seriously going to work right now.
Yeah, want to come? - Not at 3 a.
m.
- Okay.
Thanks for the chat.
Excuse me.
- Do you work here? - I do.
Hi, I'm Bob Melnikov.
- Hey, are you in charge? - Of the lab? No.
I'm a biochemist.
David Sandstrom is the chief scientist.
- I thought Caroline Morrison was.
- Oh no, she's not a scientist, she's the executive director of the lab.
The liaison to The 3 countries involved in NorBAC: Canada, the U.
S.
and Mexico, right? - Are you a reporter? - Yeah.
So, what's going on up north, Bob? Are we looking at another SARS outbreak? - I can't I don't - Come on.
- Nice to meet you.
- Hey! Did you see the report on Angus MacDonald? - The mechanic.
- The garage on highway 17.
Yeah.
He died before they could question him.
His wife is sick now, she doesn't work there.
I've got a crew going through all the receipts.
Someone's on that highway.
If they went to another garage, they're probably having car trouble.
- Let's check out every garage on 17.
- I'm on it.
Okay, hypothesis #2: We can't find any genetic information that will prove the Ebola gene is in the camel pox genome.
Why? Because we are dealing with a chemically synthesized gene.
Ebola kills, right? But it doesn't spread very easily.
Camel pox spreads easily, but it can be fought with a drug.
So, if you could connect them, Ebola DNA would get a free ride on the camel pox.
- But they're incompatible.
Why? - Square pegs, round holes.
Right.
So you have to remake the connections, and I'm telling you there's somebody out there who's figured out how to do this.
- Now they fit.
- What do you got? - A super virus.
- Are you saying this thing is deliberate? You know, well nothing else makes any sense.
I mean if creating a killing machine makes any fucking sense.
And I think I know how they did it too.
Amino acids, building blocks of proteins.
Proteins, building blocks of viruses.
So, if you're looking for the Ebola, you want to look for its DNA recipe, but we can't find it.
Why? Because the same amino acid can be coded - with different DNA.
- Wait, wait, wait.
You lost me.
Okay, think of it this way.
- What does that say? - Grate aural sects.
- Thank you, David.
- You're welcome.
So whoever made this knew that we'd be looking for this.
So they wrote it like that.
Okay folks.
Now we know what we're looking for.
Jesus Christ.
Hey kid, come here! All right, listen.
Now you stop harassing me, you stop harassing my daughter or I swear to God I'll have you put away.
Do you understand? Hmm? Have a nice day.
Dr.
Sandstrom, would you talk to my father? - Oh, Jesus.
- I think you know him.
Dr.
Shelby Sloane.
- Shelby Sloane's your father? - He's the man who cloned me.
- Then why doesn't he fix you? - 'Cause he's given up.
- No, it's because you're not a clone! - I am! Please, just let me prove it to you! All right, I want you to get me DNA samples of you and whoever or whatever you were cloned from.
I'll run them through my mass clonometer.
If the samples match up I'll call the National Post, they'll make you clone of the year, okay? It's been a real out of this world conversation, Mick.
Do you know why my father stopped being a scientist? - Oh God.
- Because of what he did to me.
Let me give this to you straight, all right? You say you're dying but there's people out there right now who really are dying.
So why don't you just get your Kid, take it easy.
All right? Get me the samples.
Really? Really.
But I mean it.
You stay away from my daughter.
Ladies and gentlemen, this, believe it or not, is an artificial gene.
- Scary.
- Bio terrorism, yeah.
I know, how the hell did you figure this out so fast? - David, are you sure? - Uh-hmm, and it's coming right at us.
Wes, Homeland Security, FBI, CSIS, and send through the Investigation Securidad.
This is so fucked.
Scientists, all that knowledge, twisting it around - just to kill innocent people.
- I can't believe it.
Gas chambers, germ warfare, atomic bombs.
I can.
David, what about a cure? With Ebola there's no vaccine, no cure, just quarantine.
Caroline Morrison at NorBAC.
Please tell him it's urgent.
When it hits the city, it spreads everywhere.
There'll be no way to stop it.
The dead will be the lucky ones.
Why don't you come and sit down while we wait for the bus.
- Oh, thank you.
- Oh here, let me help with your luggage.
Oh! Great.
I was just coming to sit.
It sounds like someone's overtired.
Yeah, and a sore throat.
- Oh, what's her name? - Miranda.
- Oh, Miranda.
- Yeah.
- That's such a lovely name.
- My truck broke down so I got a little more luggage than I can handle.
- Oh well, so do I.
- Oh.
Oh, so where you off to? Oh, the U.
K.
so Miranda can meet her dad.
I came back to Canada to have her.
And what's his problem? Wasn't he there at the conception? - Well, he's a great guy.
- Oh.
Oh hey, the bus is here.
- Here, let me help you with this.
- Oh, you don't mind? Oh, thank you.
- No, no, no.
What's your name? - Daisy.
- I'm Frances.
- Hi, Frances.
Thanks a lot.
- Here, I'll let you go first.
- Thank you.