ALL AUNT AUTOMATED_VOICE BEN COLONEL COLONEL_TUCKER CPT_ORMAN DR_MUSOKE FLIGHT_ATTENDANT FRANK GUARD HOUSEKEEPER HUMBOLT JAIME JASON JERRY LAB_TECH LIEUTENANT MALE_NARRATOR MONET NANCY NANCYS_FATHER NEWS_REPORTER NURSE PA_SYSTEM PEOPLE PETER SOLDIER SONG WORKER YOUNG_AFRICAN MONET HOUSEKEEPER MONET PEOPLE MONET PEOPLE MONET FLIGHT ATTENDANT Can I help you, sir? MONET Thank you. YOUNG AFRICAN What's wrong with you, sir? MONET DR MUSOKE Please, roll up your sleeve. MONET NURSE Doctor! Doctor! Uh, Doctor, the patient is showing signs of headaches, vomiting and nausea. DR MUSOKE Is he from the west, the Congo? NURSE Not far from the Nzoia River area. Is it the new disease? DR MUSOKE I don't know. There's no signs of sarcoma, no meningitis. We have massive hemorrhaging. Sir, sir, can you hear me? MONET DR MUSOKE Have you been traveling anywhere? MONET Kitum. Uh, the caves. DR MUSOKE Clear a room, he needs fluids, a transfusion. He's lost a lot of blood. Let's go. NURSE His skin is loose. Doctor? MONET DR MUSOKE He's choking. He needs a breathing tube. Get me a breathing tube! Something is in the way. MONET SONG ? Merry Christmas, baby ? ? You surely treat me nice... ? NANCY AUNT Ooh. JAIME Mom, way too early for Christmas music. NANCY Uh, chef gets dibs on music, it is a Thanksgiving rule. JAIME That's bogus. NANCY That's life, sweetie. Help your grandfather to the table and go find your brother. Jason, can you come in and help, please? I was nothing like that. AUNT Identical. Except with bell-bottoms. JERRY And a macramé bikini top. NANCY I never even owned a macramé bikini top. JERRY Oh, I remember it well. NANCY Really? JERRY Very hard to get off. NANCY Ooh. Damn it. AUNT Oh, Nancy. JERRY Honey. Let me see. Uh-huh. NANCY It's fine, it's fine. Thank you. JERRY Thought I could trust you with a sharp blade. NANCY Apparently not in the kitchen. NANCYS FATHER JERRY Hmm. I'll get it. NANCY We could have come to him. AUNT You know your father, tradition is important. I offered to go over there, set everything up, he wouldn't hear of it. NANCY Jason, honey, can you come and get some dishes for the table? Thanks. NANCYS FATHER NANCY I'm just gonna go get some Pepsi. NEWS REPORTER The Aidsquilt is a sobering reminder of the scope of the tragedy in this country. As the virus has spread and more families are affected by its deadly consequences, the quilt continues to grow. JERRY Hey. NANCY Hey. JERRY You okay? NANCY He's so much worse than last summer. Why didn't he tell me? JERRY I'm sorry. What can I do? NANCY I just need a few more minutes. JERRY Okay. I'll just tell everybody the Pepsi's putting up a fight. JERRY Oh, here you go, honey. AUNT This looks just delicious. JERRY Mmm. It really does. NANCY Let's hope it tastes as good as it looks. AUNT A glorious feast. NANCY Thank you. NANCYS FATHER All right, you two, that's enough. JERRY ...beautiful, sweetheart. Who is hungry? JASON Ow. NANCYS FATHER Enough. Okay, everybody's got wine? NANCY You're gonna want more than that. NANCYS FATHER Dear Lord... NANCY NANCYS FATHER Thank you for the blessings of this food and this family. Help the Eagles crush the Cowboys today, please. And please watch over our family. Nancy, my sister, Jerry, and these two monsters. JAIME NANCYS FATHER In thy name we pray, amen. ALL Amen. NANCY Dig in. JAIME Did you sign the paper for coach? NANCY In your backpack. State Invitationals already, huh? JAIME Yep. You're up for carpool. NANCY Okay. JASON Have you ever seen Aids? JAIME Mom doesn't see human patients. Besides, Tammy's mom says that all the Aids are in New York-- NANCY Um, Tammy's mom believes that Falcon Crest is a real place. Let's just stick to science, okay? Facts only. We do have vials of HIV, but it's not a Level 4 agent. Actually hard to contract. JASON You've seen something worse? NANCY Jason, don't worry about what you're seeing on TV. I work in one of the safest places in the world. Come on, we're gonna be late. GUARD Morning, ma'am. Have a good day... Morning... PEOPLE NANCY Hey. BEN Morning. NANCY Ah, what do we have here? They really skimped out on the gift-wrapping. BEN Who would drop a package off looking like that? NANCY Hazleton. BEN Those research monkey guys? NANCY Yep. Well, hello, Monkey O53. Wow. It just gets better. It looks like a spleen. Huh. Let's see what brought you in here today. Hmm. BEN What's wrong? NANCY It's not just a spleen, it's... uh, a blood clot, I think. Engorged from... I'm guessing from subcutaneous hemorrhaging. BEN What would cause that? NANCY The virus, a powerful one. And, if this is a primate, it's probably Shf. BEN Uh, sorry. Peter's the virus guy. NANCY Simian Hemorrhagic Fever. Highly contagious. Where ever this guy came from, it could wipe out the entire colony. Oh, you're safe. BEN NANCY It rips the hell out of the inside of monkeys, but it doesn't spillover to humans. We'll make a few cultures, see what's going on. NANCY If this monkey has Simian Fever, you're looking for tiny black pepper corn shapes in the stew. PETER Dead monkeys make me sad. NANCY I never know how to decipher your level of sarcasm. PETER Hmm. Well, I guess I'd put us at a... kind of like a Level 3? NANCY Not really the pun type, Jahrling. Stick with acerbic. PETER Sardonic? NANCY Acidic. PETER I'll take it. BEN Guys. It's no good. It's all milky. NANCY I can barely see anything. It's off the plastic. BEN This is what I'm saying. NANCY Shf doesn't kill cells like this. There's only a few things in the world that could do this. PETER User error. What? Look, I told Hazleton to send us samples if they saw characteristics of Shf. My guess? Your first hunch was right. Some random bacteria invaded the culture where you're prepping the flasks. No judgment. NANCY No. PETER Happens to the best of us. NANCY And what if there is something else in there? PETER Nancy, if I zip myself up into one of those body bags and went down in that house of horrors every day, I'm sure I'd be seeing deadly pathogens everywhere I looked, too. That's why the Army hired a regular guy with a Ph.D. Was head of his class at Cornell... NANCY Did you see the carpet? PETER NANCY It's been eaten away by something that's far more aggressive. PETER A virus like you're suggesting just appears out of nowhere on U.S. soil? I mean... NANCY Well, there's a first for everything. Even you admitting you're wrong. PETER I really need to see the data on that. NANCY Well, there's only one way to find out. We'll take it to BL4. PETER All right. Meanwhile, I'll be here running tests to find out what kind of crap actually got in there. NANCY Okay. NANCY Carter, I know the last thing you want is to be bothered, but I need you. Are you there? Just pick up, please. Okay, look, I've got something in my lab that's scaring me. I've just spent 30 minutes looking at dead cells under a microscope. I swear I've only seen one thing that could cause this reaction. If I'm right, I'm looking at a filovirus. That means it's out there, uncontained in a building just outside of D.C. I'm gonna run some tests, but you're the only one who would know how to handle something like that. AUTOMATED VOICE All old messages deleted. MALE NARRATOR Every pathogen contained in Level 4 is deadly and incurable, some of the worst of which are the filoviruses, they spread through bodily fluids-- blood, mucus, feces, vomit, even sweat. In 1980, a doctor in Nairobi contracted the Marburg filovirus from a patient's vomit. Specimens of Dr. Musoke's blood are kept in Usamriid’s Level 4 laboratory. NANCY Which one of you is Captain Orman? MALE NARRATOR These deadly hot agents would be difficult to contain if they were unleashed in an urban environment. For the death rate... NANCY M.D.? CPT ORMAN Ranger. NANCY I'm looking for a science background. CPT ORMAN Bachelors emphasis on pathology. NANCY And you're cleared for Level 4 training tomorrow? CPT ORMAN Mm-hmm. That's me. NANCY You're going in tonight. CPT ORMAN Didn't expect such a charming escort to take me to Colonel Jaax. NANCY I am Colonel Jaax. CPT ORMAN S-- MALE NARRATOR CPT ORMAN So, what's in there that can't wait till tomorrow? NANCY A hunch. We'll only know for sure when we run some tests. Hope I'm wrong. CPT ORMAN How do you have any more eyelashes left, ma'am? NANCY This isn't routine. I'm just making a tool. We're going to send out a sample to the electron microscope, and they'll throw it under the beam, while we are in Level 4. We'll only get the concrete proof when we test the blood against the hot agents in there. CPT ORMAN Nothing like jumping in the deep end. NANCY I thought they taught you to swim when you were in training. Did I grab the wrong guy? CPT ORMAN No. I'm ready. NANCY You aren't a little scared? CPT ORMAN Of course not. NANCY That's bad. If you're not scared, you shouldn't be in Level 4. Fear keeps you sharp. Put that on. PETER Hey, Walter, thank you so much for the sample. Unfortunately, the cultures for O53 got botched, but if we're looking at a hemorrhagic blood clot here, my money's on Simian Fever. Thought you might want to let the facility know sooner rather than later. HUMBOLT So, we're talking low survival rate. PETER Yeah. Less than half. I mean, there's a slight possibility it's something else, but it's doubtful. HUMBOLT When will you know for sure? PETER Well, we're gonna run some tests tomorrow, but you might want to quarantine the other monkeys from O53's cell. HUMBOLT Jahrling, this isn't gonna get out of hand, is it? FRANK Mays here. HUMBOLT I'm glad it's you who picked up. FRANK Oh, yeah. Hey, Walt. So, what's going on in Tlh? HUMBOLT That's what I'm calling about. I just heard from the guy at Usamriid. It looks like Shf. FRANK Simian Fever? Damn. HUMBOLT Yep. FRANK Damn. HUMBOLT Pretty nasty stuff. I'm hoping we don't lose any more. FRANK So, what kind of precautions you want to take? CPT ORMAN That's one hell of a blade. NANCY It's a diamond. It costs more than my car. 100 million viruses will be on the head of a needle. This blade is so sharp it could cut one of them right in half. There we go. There it is. BEN Ugh, my ears are bleeding. PETER Do not even think about starting up with that Millie Vanilli crap. You know, my ex-wife never made me wear one of these cummerbund thingies. Did you have to wear one of these at your wedding? BEN Last chance, man. You're giving up the single life for puking kids. Going once? Twice? Hey, uh, did you ever figure out what blew up the Colonel's batch? PETER Yeah, I was just prepping the cultures right now. I bet you anything it's pseudomonas, man. It's a common soil bacterium, lives in dirt. Literally, one of the most common life forms on the planet. It's everywhere. It's in hospitals, hot tubs, it's... you know, everyone's fingernails. BEN Don't you want to wait until Nancy finishes up her tests? PETER You're talking about a million to one odds. Look, man, I... I wouldn't put too much stock in Nancy's paranoia. I mean, look, she's smart as a whip, but her mentor is like a pathogen-chasing wack job. This guy went off the deep end. Kind of always looking for the big one. I mean, it's not her fault. NANCY No clothes, no jewelry of any kind. Nothing but yourself. NANCY Going into Level 4 is like being born. You're stripped down to your bare essence, and you emerge into a strange and hostile environment. Leaving CPT ORMAN NANCY Leaving Level 0 for Level 2. We open the door, you'll feel resistance. Keep a firm grip. The negative air pressure keeps what's inside the hot zone from drifting out. Viruses fall part under the ultraviolet. It smashes their genetic material and makes it impossible for them to replicate. We like that. Leaving Level 2 for Level 3. Just do as I do. You want to make sure nothing gets between your scrubs and your gloves. First layer of protection is complete. I like to grab an extra length just in case I need it. That's the second layer. Wrap your tape around the cufflink. Okay. Level 4 is designed with no sharp corners. Even so, we're handling scalpels, tools. We'll be on a buddy system, like scuba diving. No one goes into Level 4 alone. I'll be scanning you head to toe for anything that can let contaminated particles in. You get a tear, I will get you out fast. Now, this is the moment. It's going to seem very claustrophobic. CPT ORMAN I've heard about it. NANCY Yes, but you haven't seen it. People panic, they claw at their suits, they scream. Let's try not to do that, okay? Good. CPT ORMAN NANCY All right, just breathe. Breathe through it. Like childbirth. Well, I guess you wouldn't know what that's like. CPT ORMAN Is it like being buried alive in a coffin? What are you doing? NANCY I'm checking your pupils. Signs of panic. Okay, let's bring your breathing down a little. Good. CPT ORMAN NANCY Level 4 airlock. This is where the real world meets the hot zone. All these nozzles, they will decontaminate us on our way out. Hey. You need to be straight with me. Can you do this? Welcome to the hot zone. Okay, you're ready? Disconnect. First thing I want to do is get more cultures made. Hand me the acetone. CPT ORMAN Fixation? What are we testing for exactly? NANCY Immunofluorescence. The cells I saw in that culture weren't just dead, they were exploded. CPT ORMAN What would do that? NANCY A filovirus. CPT ORMAN Where the hell did these samples come from? Africa? NANCY Somewhere closer. Close enough not to need postage. This is Jaax, I need a code. Got it. Cleared. Every known filovirus on Earth is in this freezer. Do you know how many people would die on this planet if the leftovers of this freezer ever got released? CPT ORMAN All of us? NANCY And there's not a cure on the horizon. Without Dr. Muzoke, we wouldn't have Marburg antibodies. NANCY I'll start by testing the anti-sera one at a time. My gut is that Marburg is matched, that's the filovirus found in monkeys. If we hit the virus jackpot, it'll glow green. No glow. It's negative. CPT ORMAN That's good? NANCY No. If it's not Marburg, none of the other options are good. PETER Hey, smell it. BEN What? PETER It's the easiest way to determine if it's pseudomonas, if it smells like grape juice. Huh. Nothing. BEN So it's not contaminated? Then what's eating those cells? NANCY Ebola Zaire. One of the deadliest viruses on Earth. Similar symptoms as Marburg, but instead of killing 30% of its victims, it kills 90. CPT ORMAN Hole. Hole, hole! NANCY Oh, God. This is Jaax. I've got a breach. I'm gonna do a crash exit. Orman, just stay here, someone's gonna come in and bring you out. I have to decontaminate. PA SYSTEM Romeo, Bravo, Lima, Fort. Code Three. Medical tear, lock two. NANCY SOLDIER Ma'am, are you all right? NANCY Whatever it is, it didn't get me. Just check the glove. SOLDIER We have a laceration NANCY The cut was there before, but I... SOLDIER I'm observing blood in the powder. She could be infected. COLONEL TUCKER What the hell were you thinking? NANCY Sir, we have a duty to warn Hazleton. COLONEL TUCKER Why'd you go in there with a cut? I don't even know where to start. NANCY You can get as angry as you want at me later, right now we've got to get to them. We may have a filovirus on our hands, and there is a chance that it's Ebola. PETER It-It can't be Ebola. Did you see a glow? NANCY I didn't get that far. PETER And did you check for contaminates? NANCY No, because I was using a fresh sample. PETER Well, there you go. I mean, how can you be 100% sure? I already have the lab running a thorough test of all known bacteria. Colonel, weeks ago, I asked Hazleton to send me samples of anything that looked even remotely like Shf. The package was for my study. NANCY The cells blew up because they were infected. PETER I've already told Hazleton that it's Simian Fever. What, you really think Coco Jr. in there has two rare and deadly diseases? Look, what's more likely? They sent us samples of Shf, which I've been expecting for weeks, or Ebola, which is literally never before been detected on U.S. soil. NANCY That's reckless. PETER No, that... that's experience. I'm sorry, I'm the only one here who's chased these viruses on the ground. COLONEL TUCKER Look, enough of this crap, okay? Ebola? Jaax, do you have any idea what kind of panic this would cause? I'm gonna need unequivocal proof. NANCY I was about to introduce Ebola Zaire to the sample tissue. I just need to get back in there. LIEUTENANT All your samples were compromised during sterilization, ma'am. It's protocol. COLONEL TUCKER Jaax, you and I both know, if this was Ebola, there'd be a trail of dead bodies already. All right? NANCY If I learned anything from thing Carter, it's that every time Ebola strikes, it retreats back into the jungle and it emerges again as something different. PETER And there's a reason that no one listens to that guy anymore. COLONEL TUCKER/JERRY COLONEL TUCKER Jaax, until this accident investigation is concluded, you're suspended from Level 4, as of now. Jahrling will take it from here. I'm sorry, Jerry. JERRY How are you doing? You okay? You're scaring the hell out of me, Nance. I'm gonna go check in with the lab, see about your test. NANCY Okay. Thanks. PETER Hey, where's Ben? LAB TECH He's half way to Shenandoah by now. PETER Damn it. I wanted to talk to him about something. LAB TECH He'll be back Monday. PETER How are these tests coming? You ID any contaminant yet? LAB TECH Not yet. I'm ruling out bacteria one by one. Won't be done for another few hours. WORKER Good night, Dr. Jahrling. PETER Night. PETER Wait. Uh. NANCY All clear. JERRY You know better, Nance. NANCY You have to trust me. I used precautions. JERRY I'm sorry, but if... if anything happened to you... NANCY It didn't. JERRY Okay, let's go home. NANCY I... I can't, not now. I'm pretty sure what I saw in there today. JERRY Okay. Not that I don't trust you, but why does it have to be you? Someone else can do that. NANCY Really, who? Peter's convinced I'm wrong, and the Colonel thinks that it's too improbable. So who else is there that's gonna raise a red flag? Jerry, look at me. These two hands have held anthrax, Marburg— JERRY You know I don't like talking about-- NANCY And I do it because it is my responsibility. It's my duty. JERRY What about your duty to Jaime and Jason? And me? NANCY You can't be angry with me for doing what I signed up for. JERRY You know, most days I lie to myself. I tell myself you're not in any real danger. I hate that I can't do that today. NANCY We're gonna get through this. I can't drop it. I... Not now. I need to find another monkey to sample. Okay? JERRY Just be extra careful, all right? NANCY I will. FRANK This facility is not open to the public. NANCY I'm not the public. I'm a Colonel with Usamriid. My name is Nancy Jaax. FRANK Oh. Sorry. Uh, I'm Frank Mays, uh, Colony Manager. Thank you for the heads-up on the Shf. NANCY What did you do with the other monkeys in the cell? FRANK Well, I quarantined them. Why? NANCY Because I need to see them. FRANK That's private property. They'd have my balls if I let you see them without clearance from Hq. NANCY Your whole colony is in danger. FRANK Ma'am, I've been here for 30 years and this is not our first outbreak. Luckily, we caught it early. NANCY How many dead? FRANK Aside from O53, uh... 11, 12. NANCY Did you nick yourself when you processed them? Any cuts or scrapes? FRANK You don't think this is Simian Fever, do you? Now, look, some Colonel shows up unannounced in the middle of the night... you-- what the hell am I dealing with here? NANCY I can't tell you that until I get my hands on some fresh tissue. FRANK Samples? That's days of paperwork. NANCY We don't have days. FRANK Lady, I am three years from my retirement. NANCY Frank, there's no one in the world who wants to see you live to your retirement more than I do. FRANK All right, uh... Let me see what I can do. Uh, but I'm gonna have to meet you off-site. FRANK I've got them right here. NANCY Oh, my God. What did you do? FRANK Uh, they're double-bagged. NANCY What am I supposed to do with these? FRANK You wanted monkeys. NANCY I wanted a little fresh tissue so I could make a concrete diagnosis. This-- FRANK Well, they're fresh, ma'am. They just died today. NANCY And Y-You just put them in garbage bags? These should be in coolers. FRANK Look, I did the best I could. Are you gonna help me figure out what's killing them or not? NANCY All right, you've got to bring them to my lab. FRANK Wha-- Lady, I can't go in that base. I-I can't-- I've got to stay under the radar. NANCY Well, these are gonna thaw. FRANK Look, it's a hell of a lot longer back to Reston than it is to Fort Detrick. NANCY This is... All right. This is what we're gonna do. You're gonna help me move them to my trunk. We need to hurry, it's gonna be rush hour soon. Help me get everything out. We gotta take everything out that can puncture a garbage bag. Now, have the exteriors of the bag been washed thoroughly with bleach? FRANK Yes. NANCY All right, when you pick them up, you need to be careful. You don't throw these around, you understand? FRANK Yes. NANCY Okay. FRANK Okay. There you go. NANCY No, no. You need to follow me. FRANK What? Why? NANCY Because by the time I get back to base, these bags could be soup. We can't have contaminated blood dripping on the highway. That is not an option. You need to stay close and watch for drips. NANCY Carter, it's me again. Did you get my fax? The electron microscope found eye hooks. I won't be 100% sure until I can test fresh tissue, but we're looking at a definite filovirus. If it breaks out, I really need you. This could sweep through D.C. in a matter of weeks. They won't know what hit them until it's too late.