AIRPORT_COP ANNOUNCER_876 ANSEL ATC BARNES BISHOP BOLIVAR CALDWELL CAPTAIN_REDFERN CRISPIN DR_BENNETT EICHHORST ELECTRONIC_FEMALE_VOICE EMMA_ARNOT EPH FANS FEMALE_REPORTER GARY_ARNOT GIRL GUADALUPE GUS HAZMAT_WORKER HERR_EICHHORST HOMELAND_SECURITY_OFFICIAL INMATE JIM JOAN KELLY MAN MAN_1 MAN_2 MAN_SINGING MATT NEIL_DIAMOND NORA NTSB_INVESTIGATOR NY_NEWS_ANCHOR PALMER PASSENGERS PETER PILOT POLICE_OFFICER PORT_AUTHORITY_OFFICIAL REPORTER REPORTERS ROOKIE_COP ROSE SETRAKIAN SITE_FOREMAN SWAT_TEAM_COP THERAPIST VARIOUS_REPORTERS WOMAN ZACK SETRAKIAN Hunger, a poet once said, is the most important thing we know, the first lesson we learn. But hunger can be easily quieted down, easily satiated. There is another force, a different type of hunger, an unquenchable thirst, that cannot be extinguished. Its very existence is what defines us, what makes us human. That force is love. CAPTAIN REDFERN final descent into New York for an ontime arrival. We want to thank you for flying Regis Air and encourage that you ask us CAPTAIN REDFERN any connecting gate information you may need. CAPTAIN REDFERN We're looking at partly cloudy skies and may hit a little turbulence on our approach so make sure those seat belts are fastened. ROSE Not again. ROSE Yes? PETER Rose, get back herenow! I need your help! ROSE We're landing. Whatever it is can wait. PETER Now! Come now! ROSE All right, relax. ROSE Sir? We're landing. Would you, uh, power off your device? BOLIVAR You call this a device? ROSE You have to turn it off. BOLIVAR It's like when a cop calls a car a "vehicle" or, uh, when he calls you "sir" when he means "asshole." Having a little gig in New York coming up. You give me three or four of those little baby vodkas, I'll get you a frontrow seat. ROSE Turn it off. Put your seat up. We're landing, sir. ROSE Ma'am. JOAN ROSE Seat backs in the upright position. JOAN Finally. CAPTAIN REDFERN Flight attendants, prepare for landing. EMMA ARNOT Are we landing now? ROSE What? EMMA ARNOT Are we landing now? ROSE Yes, sweetie, and you've been a very brave girl. Here, this is for you. EMMA ARNOT Thank you. ROSE You're welcome. Turn your music off now. We're landing. CAPTAIN REDFERN On behalf of cabin crew, I want to take a moment to say that we know you have many choices when it comes to air travel. ROSE Peter! You haven't done anything back here! This place is a mess! PETER There's something in the plane. ROSE What do you mean? This is trash! PETER Inside the plane! Something alive, in the cargo hold! ROSE Sh! Sh! CAPTAIN REDFERN We'd like to extend a special thankyou to any Black Platinum Award members flying with us tonight and encourage all our passengers to ROSE What the hell do you mean? Like a dog? PETER No. Something really, really big. I heard it movea thumping underneath the floor. I heard it trying ROSE No, Peterthere are no animals on the manifest PETER It tried to open the latchI heard a noisethen it moved away. But you can feel it moving. CAPTAIN REDFERN Flight crew, prepare for arrival. PETER Did you see it? ROSE Nothing. I just think that you heard ROSE Oh my God! Oh my God! Go to Captain Redfern, tell him to warn the landing crew! And get emergency services. There's someone down there! It's gonna give, it's gonna give! ATC Bravo Delta 347, you're clear for Taxiway Foxtrot. Bravo Delta 347, clear for Taxiway Foxtrot. ATC Regis Air 753, this is Kennedy Ground. Regis Air 753, Kennedy Ground. Regis 753, Kennedy Ground! Over. ATC What the?01:04:23.19 ATC Bishop! A Regis Air flight out of Berlin, a 767 widebody stopped on the service apron! BISHOP What's it doing there? Apron's dead. That's a blind spot. ATC I dunno. The plane just went dark. Just shut down. Flatout quit. No lights, no radio, no nothing. BISHOP Regis 753, Kennedy Ground, over. Regis 753, Kennedy Ground, please respond, over. BISHOP Okay. Shut down Foxtrot, clear all the gates and advise reroute. BISHOP How many aboard? ATC Almost full flight, sir. Uh, passengers and crew, about 210 souls. BISHOP Holy Jesus. ATC Shouldn't we wait for first responders, sir? ATC Bishop! Bishop! Wait! BISHOP Engines are shut down. No lights. ATC Whoa, it's cold. 01:05:32.02 BISHOP It's like a dead animal. BISHOP There's something really wrong here. It's like it never moved. ATC This looks so much bigger from the ground than on the screen. I mean, they're like buildings with wings. BISHOP All the window shades are shut. See that? POLICE OFFICER Bishop. BISHOP ATC Bishop. Not all of 'em. BISHOP Scramble all emergency vehicles to Taxiway Foxtrot. ATC SWAT, Homeland Security? BISHOP Port Authority, FBI, TSA, CDC. Robbie, no one on the tower calls home. No one shares the news. This is bad. Real bad. We got ourselves a dead airplane. MATT Hey buddy, you can't park there. There's a fire hydrant. EPH It's a medical emergency. MATT Oh, is there really? EPH Well, there will be if I can't get this tie on right. Do you know how to tie this? MATT I don't know, man. I wear a clipon. You're on your own. EPH You waiting for somebody? MATT Yeah, why? EPH Here's what I need you to do. The meter maid comes by, you tell him it's official CDC business, okay? MATT Yeah, sure thing. EPH Zack! Hey, man. EPH Hey, dude. ZACK You're late. EPH Five minutes. It can't be helped. ZACK Ten, Dad. EPH Ten? Okay. ZACK It's wrong. EPH Maybe, maybe ten. I've got a good feeling about this. Wish us luck. ZACK Good luck. EPH Five minutes! I know, I know. I'm sorry. THERAPIST Ten. KELLY I texted you. KELLY Five times. EPH I wouldn't have gotten that 'cause I don't text when I drive. It's not safe. THERAPIST Dr. Goodweather, I EPH Ephplease. You know, she gets "Kelly," my son gets "Zack," soEphraim, or Eph, please. THERAPIST Dr. Goodweather, this is the last of six courtappointed custody counselling sessions. You've been late for four of them. EPH Oh, you're going to say that I'm late because I don't want to be here. You might be onto somethingbut I have a really good reason. There was this outbreak of hanta virus in this Alphabet City preschool, which is extremely rare this far north and east ... THERAPIST Dr. Goodweather. Every time you come in, you take over the session. EPH Because I have control issues, I know. But I have to defend myself here because this might be my last chanceand I've thought long and hard about this. And it seems like you two have created this narrative wherein I'm the bad guy. But why? Because I don't want out of my marriage. 'Cause I want things back the way they were. KELLY But this isn't just about you, Eph. What you want. Not anymore. EPH I'm an epidemiologist. You know, if I take time off, if I go flyfishingpeople die. KELLY I get that you have an important job, Ephraim. You're great at your job. You get straight A's at your job. EPH But I'm flunking our marriageis that it? What are you writing? Please stop writing. How horrible am I? KELLY You're not horrible. You're just barely present. EPH I've done everything you've asked me to in order to get us back together again. I quit drinking. You wanted time alone so I moved out, against my own wishes. I've jumped through every hoop. Tell me what you need. KELLY Time apart has only clarified things for me. It's allowed me to make room in my life for Matt. We're going to be living together now, and EPH Matt? The Sears guy you're talking about? My house? KELLY Matt is a operational manager. EPH At Sears. KELLY Yeah, and you know what? He gets straight A's at his job, too, but at home he's present. Unlike you, he's, he's always here. For both of us. EPH Does he drive a green Prius? EPH You want me to quit my job? I'll do it. I'll quit my job. KELLY I don't want you to quit for me. EPH I wouldn't be quitting for you. I'd be quitting because of youfor Zack. So he isn't driving around Queens in a green goddamn Prius. THERAPIST Dr. Goodweather. KELLY It's too late, Eph. I love you, but ... EPH How can you love me and it be too late? You want a guy who's crazy about Zack? Check. A guy who's crazy about you? Check. Decent, employed? Check, check. KELLY Can't you see that this is the problem, Eph? This is who you are. KELLY Go on. EPH Nora, how bad is it? NORA It's crazy. NORA I have, like, 12 different agency officials about to have a dickmeasuring contest here. EPH No, it's an international flight docking out of Berlin. EPH The CDC gets the first call. I can be there EPH in 20 minutes. Can you keep the measuring contest going that long? NORA Don't worry; I'll show them mine. EPH Might just work. MATT Sorry, I guess the Meter Reader didn't see it as much of an emergency. EPH Matt, huh? MATT Yeah, that's me. EPH Interesting. You know, it's too bad I'm in such a rush, Matt. But I'm sure I'll see you again at MY house. MATT You drive safe now, you hear? JIM Hey, Boss. EPH You got my milk? JIM Ah, yeah, here. Homeland Security is just desperate to push the button on a terror alert. They're ready to get on that plane right now. EPH Jim, terrorists usually crash planes, not land them and shut 'em down. What are the 911 calls saying? NORA Haven't been any. EPH None? NORA Uhuh. EPH Shit. HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL Dr. Goodweather. Dr. Goodweather. EPH When we flew to Chicago last week, we sat on the tarmac for half an hour, people were freaking out, texting, calling. There have been 200 people sitting there silently for ...? JIM Over an hour now. EPH Pilots? JIM Absolutely no movement. EPH Have you done heat readings? HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL Surface of the plane is too cold. Blocks it all like a screen. We got Delsar mikes attached to the surface of the plane; picked up mostly silence. EPH Mostly? HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL Well, cooling pings from the sheet metal contracting. Oh, and there's, uh, this. EPH What do you think that is? HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL Rustling of some sort. PORT AUTHORITY OFFICIAL Our experts think it's the engines shutting down or liquid settling. EPH How long between landing and shutdown? JIM Six minutes. HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL It's too short a window for a contagious event so I think CDC should take a back seat on this one. PORT AUTHORITY OFFICIAL I agree. EPH Do you? PORT AUTHORITY OFFICIAL Absolutely I do. EPH How often do you touch your face? HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL What? EPH In a day, how often? HOMELAND SECURITY OFFICIAL I don't know, once an hour? EPH Every three minutes. You have mouthhand contact every five minutes. You touch somebody else every 20 minutes. That's how contagion works. You don't like terrorists? Try negotiating with a virus. A virus exists only to find a carrier and reproduce. That's all it does, and it does it quickly. It has no political views, it has no religious beliefs, it has no cultural hangups. It has no respect for a badge. It has no concept of time or geography. It might as well be the Middle Ages except for the convenience of hitching a ride on a metal tube flying from meal to meal to meal. That's how a plague begins. So you still want to be the first one through the door? CRISPIN So we heard you buy silver without a receipt, man. Is that right? SETRAKIAN I'm always in need of good silver, yes. CRISPIN Yeah, well, uh, can I get, uh, 50for this? SETRAKIAN It's a very nice timepiece, indeed. I see that the band links have snapped. You must have been in a hurry, taking it off. CRISPIN Can I, uh, can I get 50 for it? SETRAKIAN I can offer you maybe ... 25. CRISPIN SETRAKIAN If the test is good. SETRAKIAN Unfortunately, this is merely silverplated brass. Cheap Eastern European knockoff. CRISPIN SETRAKIAN Listen very carefully, son. I know your little friend has a gun, and the hammer is cocked but I don't care. I can control your entire body weight from this pressure point. And this knife is pointing straight at your radial artery. By the time he clears his coat pocket, your artery will be punctured and sliced wide open from top to bottom. CRISPIN SETRAKIAN You fall down bleeding, I go under the counter and your friend starts shooting at an empty space. I can guarantee you this: you will bleed out before the 911 operator answers the phone. That is option one. Option two is you release the bills, your friend gives me the gun, he can keep the bulletsI don't careand you leave this store. Now, son, you have a choice. SETRAKIAN Is there anything else I can do for you gentleman this evening? NY NEWS ANCHOR Inspectors are trying to determine what sparked the fire but they do not believe it was suspicious. We have more now on the developing story out of JFK Airport tonight. You're looking at live video of the airplaneidentified as a Regis Air widebody jet. It originated in Berlin, and it shut down just moments after landing. We are told there has been no communication from the pilot. All attempts to contact the flight crew SETRAKIAN Berlin. NY NEWS ANCHOR inside the aircraft have been unsuccessful. Federal and local agencies are on the scene, including officials from the Port Authority SETRAKIAN He's back. SETRAKIAN I don't know if I have the strength to do it all over again. SETRAKIAN This time ... I cannot fail. SETRAKIAN Feeling hungry? SETRAKIAN Enjoy, dear. NORA I'm not looking forward to what we'll see out there NORA You with me? Mysterious dead plane on the tarmac not exciting enough? EPH Sorry. It's just another courtmandated happy family therapy day. NORA I noticed. You cut your hair. You cleaned up nicely. Did you break out a tie? EPH It's in my jacket pocket. NORA Did it help? EPH Uh, no, in fact, it didn't. She wants to take Zack away from me. And there's a manchild living in my housewith my son. NORA Careful. NORA Stay focused. NORA You and Kelly have been separated for a year. Things happen. They happened to us. EPH Oh, that's different. NORA How is it different? EPH It just is. NORA I don't think Kelly would agree. EPH She doesn't know. I never told her. NORA You didn't? EPH No. She, uh, she filed, so I didn't tell her. She doesn't know. NORA You really know nothing about women, do you? JIM Okay, Boss. JIM Ready to go through the looking glass? EPH Ready, Jim. JIM I got your milk! EPH Keep it cold till I come back. NORA Oh my God. Jim NORA do you see this? It's every passenger, everyone on the plane. JIM Yeah, we're seeing it. EPH They're all dead. JIM What is it, Eph? What killed them? EPH No signs of struggle. NORA No signs of blistering or chemical agents. EPH No bruising. EPH Faint discoloration. EPH No markings. JIM Shit. What is it? EPH Something sudden. Painless. EPH All the window shades are closed except for this one. JIM Is it a gas leak? Is it chemical? NORA The Hazmat Cat's picking up high levels of ammonia. NORA Nothing deadly, though. EPH There shouldn't be any ammonia in the plane systems. Jim, check the cargo manifest. JIM Got it. I need a cargo manifest. What about the Geiger? NORA It's negative, Jim.01:23:58.11 EPH No visible signs of trauma. EPH No bloating. EPH The tongue and soft palate appear pale, almost white. EPH Eyes are clear. The skin is dry; it's inelastic. There's no frothing, no nosebleeds. EPH There's no signs of struggle. Almost peaceful. NORA Let's try the UV lights. NORA Oh my God. What is this? NORA Are you getting this? EPH These patterns are everywhere. All over the cabin. EPH They're only visible under UV light. NORA The pattern is biological. Probably where the ammonia is coming from. I'm taking samples. EPH EPH Jimbo? EPH What is this? JIM No Jimbo, please. Um, that's the cargo compartment. EPH Have it emptied, take each piece of luggage and check it for biological agents and ammonia spectrum. JIM Got it. NORA Jim? NORA Cockpit door just opened. BISHOP It should be locked. JIM Nora, that door's not supposed to be open. NORA I'm just going to take a quick look. JIM All right, I want you to back out of there right now, okay? JIM That door's supposed to be locked! JIM You shouldn't be in there alone. JIM Nora, can you hear me? JIM Eph! JIM The door to the cockpit is open. Nora is inside. JIM Nora? Eph! JIM C'mon, guys! Somebody talk to me! PILOT NORA EPH Nora! I'm coming! ANSEL ANSEL Help me! BOLIVAR Lady, get the BOLIVAR the light outta my face! PILOT JIM I'm sending in SWAT! EPH No, Jim! Send paramedics. We've got survivors! HERR EICHHORST Mr. Palmer. MR. FITZWILLIAM Sh. It's his dialysis session. He's asleep. HERR EICHHORST Well then, wake him up. MR. FITZWILLIAM When he's ready. HERR EICHHORST Now. MR. FITZWILLIAM In time. ELECTRONIC FEMALE VOICE Dialysis complete. HERR EICHHORST How long have you worked for Stoneheart, Mr. Fitzwilliam? MR. FITZWILLIAM All my life, sir. Mr. Palmer aided me and my brothers after my father passed. HERR EICHHORST Gratitude. What an effective leash. PALMER Herr Eichhorst. MR. FITZWILLIAM Mr. Palmer. MR. FITZWILLIAM Herr Eichhorst is here to pay his respects. MR. FITZWILLIAM I'll be outside if you need me. PALMER You may notice how chilly it has gotten in here, Eichhorst. Twenty full degrees cooler than the rest of the building. But not too cold for you, I trust? Of course, it can't be too cold for youcan it? EICHHORST The cargo has arrived safely. And all four survivors have been found. PALMER Throughout my life I've learned what it feels to cross a lineto do thingsthings that cannot be undone. PALMER That lineit has been crossed now, hasn't it? PALMER Your breath. I'll never get used to ... EICHHORST Yes, even I miss breathing sometimes. JIM Here we go. BARNES Wait for me. It won't be long. EPH Everett. BARNES Eph. How bad is it? JIM The NTSB has taken over a refrigerated chemical warehouse in the Bronx. They've turned it into a fully contained mass casualty morgue. EPH That's not necessary, Everett; these bags are triplesealed. I'm handing a dozen bodies over to the CME, four from each section of the plane, for autopsies. BARNES And the four survivors? NORA I've secured the isolation rooms at a local hospital. We need to move them there right away. BARNES Of course. I'm sure they'll comply. EPH Comply? I'm not asking. I'm invoking the Health Powers Act. Those four survivors stay. BARNES Quarantine? EPH It's within the powers of the CDC, Everett. You know that. BARNES Look, if you quarantine, I need you to meet with the next of kin. Reassure them the CDC's on the case. EPH Fine! NORA We're trying to figure out what happened here, what caused this. Isn't that what's most important for us? BARNES Yes, of course, but it's also important that we don't have fulltilt panic. These people need to hear from someone in the field. NORA We don't know anything yet! EPH You two figure this out. I don't have time for this shit. Jim? JIM Yeah. NORA When he talks to the families, I want no press, Everett. BARNES No press. I promise. MAN 1 4243. 4249. MAN 2 4249. JOAN Okay, wait. You're telling me only four people survived this plane crash? NORA Ms. Luss. JOAN It's Mrs. Luss. NORA Mrs. Luss, there was no crash. An unidentified agent killed all of the remaining passengers. Any information you can give us would be of great help. JOAN Of great help to who? NORA To us, ma'am, the CDC. JOAN Okay, well, I'm no ordinary passenger. I'm Joan Luss. I'm an attorney ... of Matloff, Luss, and Hayum, so all that information that you're collecting, you're gonna need to get to me. PersonallyWhat are you doing? Don't seal me in! I'm talking to you. Excuse me, little miss! Don't you walk away from me! I am Joan Luss! EPH Captain Redfern, this is my colleague, Dr. Martinez. NORA Hi. CAPTAIN REDFERN What happened on my plane? NORA That's what we came to ask you. EPH Now, I want you to try to recall as best you canfreshcut grass, garlic, green appledo you remember smelling any of these odors before you passed out? CAPTAIN REDFERN What? Grass? Apples? NORA Mnemonic odors, the way our brain reads chemicals. Phosphine gas, colorless, smells like garlic, or phosgenevery toxicsmells like freshly cut grass. CAPTAIN REDFERN I remember landing the plane, and turning onto the taxiway, and thenI don't remember anything else. JIM Eph, can I get you for a sec? ANSEL Oh, thank God you're here. I was just telling him I have this noise in my head ... like a hum ... Could you have someone look at my ears again? EPH We'll have somebody perform a full battery of tests but for now you need to stay inside this tent, Mr. Barbour. ANSEL You don't understand. My wife is gonna panic if I don't call soon. I need to call home. BOLIVAR Hey, you. You the guy I gotta talk to around here? EPH Uh, yeah, I think so. BOLIVAR How about some Demerol, Doc, huh? I mean, what time's that refreshment cart swing by? EPH Mr. Bolivar, what was the last thing you remember before landing? BOLIVAR BOLIVAR I dunno, uh, flickering lights, maybe ... I black out sometimes. EPH Those cuts on your arm? BOLIVAR Oh, these? Yeah, I cut for the fans. EPH Tell me, this uh, tattoos, the occult, Satanic thing. Is this really part of your belief system? BOLIVAR You kidding, Doc? My father's a Baptist minister. I'm in it for the pussy. JIM Eph. There's something you have to see in the cargo area right now. EPH Okay, let's go. EPH Who uncrated this thing? JIM No one. This is how it came out. No straps, no containment wrap. EPH What is it? What's inside it? JIM No one's opened it yet. EPH What does it say on the manifest? BISHOP Not on the manifest. Got golf clubs ... kayaks... machine parts ... 40 generators, 10,000 condoms, 10 plasma TVs ... but no box. NORA Looks like a coffin, doesn't it? EPH Coffin? It's nine feet tall. EPH It's old. It's hand carved, it's not machined. JIM Hey, guys! Over here. JIM Guys, uh, look, we swabbed it, we ran the Geiger, we did samples of the air and everything is fine but the NTSB was crystal clear. They didn't want us to touch anything. EPH Help me open it. JIM Okay. NORA Soil? Why would someone ship a box of soil? What are the chances of someone loading this unchecked and unlisted? BISHOP Something this size on a flight bound for the U.S.? Impossible. Not in today's world. EPH Jim, get samples from the top, mid, bottom. Plastic seal it. JIM I'm on it. EPH No one goes near this. Not Customs, Not Homeland Securitynobody. NORA Eph, look. NORA It's a latch. Why would anyone put a latch on the inside? EPH Call Berlin. There's gotta be a record of this. Somebody put this on the plane. We just have to find out who. REPORTER A lot of confusion here tonight REPORTER at JFK International Airport, Nestor. Officials with the Centers for Disease Control MATT Hey man. Who doesn't put your Mom first is outofhismind crazy. Right, Z? REPORTER that authorities have discovered multiple casualties. I repeat: multiple casualties aboard the stalled airliner, Regis Air Flight 753. MATT Tonight was a big step for you. REPORTER What we don't know is what ZACK Sh! caused the fatalities. As you can see behind me, officials with the CDC are on the scene, but whether this is any indication of a biological contamination or MATT Terroristshas to be. What do you think, Z? REPORTER some other toxins possibly being involved ZACK Whatever it is, my Dad'll handle it. Good night. REPORTER We have no official word KELLY Good night, sweetheart. REPORTER on what caused the fatalities or what might have caused the catastrophic systems failure that afflicted the plane shortly after it landed. NORA And I need the master list of passengers with their points of embarkation. NORA Also every place where that plane landed before Berlin. NORA Eph, families are waiting. EPH NORA You know this is all about him covering his own ass, right? NORA Just talk to them like you'd like to be talked to. Tell them what you'd like to hear. Whatever happens, I'll be there. BISHOP I don't know, it's a box, but ... BISHOP there's something about it. BISHOP Ya. BISHOP Call me back ... BISHOP Listen. BISHOP I don't give a shit what time it is BISHOP here or there in Berlin. You're calling back, understand. MAN BISHOP Hey. You hear that? HAZMAT WORKER No. Sorry. Nothing. BISHOP What the? GUS You've got hands, homeboy. Ah, ah! Knocking boys out every day when I was locked up. Woo! Greatest alltime, like Mayweather, bro. What's up? Ah, ha! Gotta go pro. I get rich, I'll let you wash my car. I'll let him be my driver. Woo! That was it. You're gonna sleep for a week. Greatest all the time, baby. Greatest all the time! EICHHORST You are avoiding me, Gus. GUS This guy. It's like that? You just appear out of nowhere? Reminds of my ex, huh? Now, Imma tell you like I told her! How you find me, bitch? GUS I'll catch up to y'all in a little bit, man. GUS We good. What's up? EICHHORST As we agreed, you will pick up the vehicle at the airport. GUS The airport? Whole place is on lock. You don't watch the news, white boy? EICHHORST You will enter through a service staircase, get the vehicle. When you get to a barricade, you will be let through. EICHHORST It's all arranged. GUS It's all arranged. Calm down, 007. Never let you down before. EICHHORST This is different. EICHHORST I need to make sure you follow my instructions precisely. Your brother's criminal record and your mother's immigration status. GUS If this is a threatyou just made a mistake, puto. EICHHORST It is not a threat. It is more a reward. The rest of your fee is in the glove box. Destination is preprogrammed on the GPS in the vehicle. GUS I get picked up driving a stolen vanthat's it, bro. They're gonna send me back to the bullpen. Can't go back. Can't do it, man. EICHHORST It is not stolen. You will be let through and in the end of it, your mother's immigration status will be fixed, your brother's criminal record erased. GUS I do this for you, that's it: I'm done. You lose my number and my address. I'm trying to do the right thing by my mother now. 'Cause if anything happens to herI mean anythingI'll kill your waxy ass. EICHHORST Three rules: You will not examine the cargo, you will not make any stops, and you will cross the bridge back into Manhattan before daybreak. Do you understand? EICHHORST In English, then. The three rules. GUS Screw you. Suck my dick. I'll get it done. ANNOUNCER 876 will be departing from Gate 23. Once again, Flight 876 will be departing from Gate 23. FANS FANS Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! Bolivar! WOMAN My daughter! My daughter is on that flight! And I AIRPORT COP Sir? This area of the airport is closed. You have to wait back here with everybody else ... AIRPORT COP Hey! Settle down, will you? GIRL Hey, hey, listen to me! AIRPORT COP Settle down! AIRPORT COP I need you to settle down! AIRPORT COP Hey! Sir! Sir! Hey! Sir! SETRAKIAN JIM It's all right. It's all right. Just go get a wheelchair. He's a medical. You all right? Sir, what do you have here? You have aCoumadin. You got a heart condition? Are you all right? SETRAKIAN You in charge? JIM What? SETRAKIAN I need to talk to someone about that plane. BARNES I recognize some of these names in First Class. That never helps. BARNES Look, Eph, just introduce yourself and tell them we're on it. You'll do great. Go on. VARIOUS REPORTERS NORA When you said no press, I almost believed you. EPH I'm Ephraim Goodweather. I'm the Chief Medical Officer for the Centers of Disease Control here in New York. EPH I have been asked to introduce myself and to give you a preliminary update about FEMALE REPORTER How many survivors? EPH where we are in the investigation. EPH Please, please. EPH I think I'm supposed to stand here and somehow reassure you. I can't do that. Two hundred and six passengers on Regis Air Flight 753 are dead EPH and we don't know why. EPH Four passengers survived and we don't know why. EPH What I can tell you, having been the first to board the plane, is that they all appeared to have died peacefully, without distress. EPH That's the only comfort I can give you at this time. You want answersreal answersto what happened on that plane and so do I. And I won't quit until we're all satisfied. GARY ARNOT I don't care about your promises! GARY ARNOT I want my daughter back! All you do is talk and talk! That's all you do! GARY ARNOT This is my daughter. My daughter, Emma. And I want to see her again, dead, alive. I'm her father! Don't you have children of your own? Don't you have a heart? EPH Fortyeight hours. I'll get you answers. It's the best I can do. GARY ARNOT No, please! Please! REPORTERS DR BENNETT Jesus. Goodweather, what are you doing to me here? EPH Just tell me what you have. DR BENNETT I'm just getting into it now. I haven't finished cutting all of them yet. EPH Just give me anything you can. DR BENNETT Okay, top of the charts DR BENNETT This here. DR BENNETT Can you see this ... DR BENNETT Here? EPH Yeah. What is that? DR BENNETT It's an incision. Deep enough to puncture DR BENNETT one wall of the carotid artery without rupturing it. DR BENNETT Razor sharp. Clean cut. No bruising, no trauma. NORA There's no instrument that can do that. DR BENNETT Not that I'm aware of, anyway. Not with this precision. EPH Anything else? DR BENNETT Gets way more interesting. DR BENNETT A spotcheck of six other corpses revealed the same thing. DR BENNETT The exact same wound in the exact same place. EPH Are you telling me that the other passengers have the same incision? DR BENNETT Or puncture, yes. DR BENNETT All the ones I've looked at so far. There is one more intriguing abnormality ... EPH I don't what the hell am I looking at? NORA On our screen that looks white. DR BENNETT Because it is. White and opalescent. NORA Blood proteins are separating? DR BENNETT No, in fact, there's a complete absence of hypostasis; no blood pooling anywhere. And an absolute absence of erythrocytes. I'll know more once I cut into the liver and kidneys but... EPH I'm sorry to do this to you, but you're gonna have to do the preliminary alone. I don't want any of this leaking to the press... DR BENNETT Okay, buddy. But you'll owe me. EPH For the rest of my life. NORA REPORTER This just in. It appears we now have confirmation that one of the four surviving passengers is the Goth rock star Bolivar. His followers are up in arms as Bolivar JIM Eph, I'm sorry, but I think you're gonna want to talk to this man. SETRAKIAN Dr. Goodweather, my name is Abraham Setrakian. EPH It's very nice to meet you. I can't talk right now. JIM Eph, he says he has some insight into the outbreak here. EPH Great. Mr. Kent here can take down your information. SETRAKIAN Time is of the essence, Doctor. EPH It certainly is. Jim? JIM Eph? SETRAKIAN You have to listen to me! I have seen this disease before. I have faced it before. You, you, you must contain it. NORA You've seen it before. Where? EPH I assure you, we're taking every available precaution. SETRAKIAN You're not. You can't. And He is counting on that. EPH "He"? SETRAKIAN It is too much to say all at once, here, without sounding crazy. EPH EPH No, of course not. Uh, Jim, we're going to the cargo hold. Please take care of this gentleman for me. Thank you. JIM It's okay. Just come with me. SETRAKIAN The bodies ... they are not decomposing normally, yes? The tissues are still pliable. NORA How do you know that? EPH Nora. Nora. SETRAKIAN Listen to me now. What I'm about to say I do not say lightly. All the passengers on that plane, dead and alive ... they must be destroyed. EPH Destroyed? Okay. Here you go, fellas. Feel better. SETRAKIAN The heads must be severed, the bodies burneddestroyed! SETRAKIAN Doctor, did you find the coffin? If you have the coffin, then you still have him. It is not too late! Destroy the coffin! Do not allow it across the river! DR BENNETT As advised by Dr. Goodweather, I will examine the body under UV light. DR BENNETT NORA How did that old man know about the coffin? EPH You mean the cabinet? NORA He called it a coffin. EPH I know what he called it. He also told us to destroy 206 bodies. And he had a sword. EPH Nora! NORA What? What the hell is that? NORA Looks like a horsehair worm. Or a Dirofilaria immitis. EPH Body is simple. It's just collagen. Degenerate nonfunctional digestive system. NORA Look at that. EPH It's beautiful. It's looking for a host. It's desperate. EPH So, it's not airborne. That's the carrier. NORA Eph, look! NORA Soil. EPH Hey! Where's that cabinet? NTSB INVESTIGATOR What cabinet? EPH Thereright there. Rewind. NORA Can you go slower? Frame by frame? EPH There must be a gap or a cut. SITE FOREMAN No, there's no cut. Watch the time code. EPH Wait, two seconds. Go back. EPH Start there. Wait, wait. There! EPH What's that distortion? SITE FOREMAN I don't know. But it grabs the box and lifts offup. EPH That box was 500 pounds. Nothing can lift it up like that. NORA The old man said, "If you have the coffin, you still have him." NORA Him. EPH This footage is only seven minutes old. The box is still in the airport! GUS Mmmm. GUS What the hell is that? Crazyass white boy. C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, pick up. Jim. Where are you? Right now. JIM At the main garage door, funneling traffic out. EPH Stop it, stop it! Stop everyone! This is an emergency! You need to seal off the perimeter of the airport. That, that box EPH Remember the box? With the markings on it? JIM Yeah, yeah. Thethe Berlin cargo omit. EPH That's the one! EPH Now listen carefully, Jim. We need to stop all vehicles big enough to hold it. No vans, no trucks, nothing. EPH No big vehicles. No exceptions. JIM Okay, no big vehicles in or out of the security zone. Got it. JIM All right, everybody, listen up. I want none of these trucks JIM bigsized vehicles released without my authorization. GUS C'mon. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. SWAT TEAM COP Pull up there, sir. I'll be right with you. GUS Shit, shit, shit, shit. SWAT TEAM COP Id and permit. GUS Oh yeah, man. Crazy what's happening, huh? SWAT TEAM COP What do you want me to do with this? SWAT TEAM COP Step out of the vehicle. Open the cargo area, sir. SWAT TEAM COP Step out of the vehicle, sir! GUS Get that light out of my face! SWAT TEAM COP Step out of the vehicle, sir! GUS Can I get my seatbelt? JIM Hey, what's going on here? SWAT TEAM COP I asked for ID. He gave me this. JIM Oh, well, this is one of our vehicles. You can let him through. SWAT TEAM COP Sir? JIM I said, let him through! JIM You tell those sons of bitches I'm done. I came through for them, but now I am done. You got it? JIM Okay, go. DR BENNETT I have now removed the chest plate of one of the subjects ... and found abnormal neoplasms in the heart, liver, and kidneys. MAN SINGING Hands touching hands DR BENNETT The growths do not seem like oncological aberrations NEIL DIAMOND reaching out DR BENNETT but almost like new NEIL DIAMOND touching me, touching you ... DR BENNETT fully functional organs. NEIL DIAMOND Sweet Caroline, good times never seemed so good. NEIL DIAMOND I've been inclined to believe there never would, But now I look at the night, And it don't seem so lonely NEIL DIAMOND We fill it up with only two. NEIL DIAMOND And when I hurt, hurting runs off my shoulders, How can I hurt holding you? DR BENNETT What? NEIL DIAMOND Warm DR BENNETT Ah! DR BENNETT NEIL DIAMOND Touching warm NEIL DIAMOND Reaching out, touching me, touching you. DR BENNETT 02:02:07.02 NEIL DIAMOND Sweet Caroline, good times never seemed so good. 02:02:16.21 DR BENNETT NEIL DIAMOND I've been inclined to believe there never would. Oh, no, no. PASSENGERS PASSENGERS NEIL DIAMOND Sweet Caroline, good times never seemed so good. Sweet Caroline JIM Sorry, Eph. Nothing. You got anything here? EPH Just trying to figure out how a 500pound, ninefoottall coffin got up and walked away. NORA You called it a coffin. JIM We'll get a break. We always do. We just gotta find some place to start. EPH This is where we start. JIM What the hell are those? EPH Something new. ROOKIE COP Setrakian? What iswhat is that? SETRAKIAN Armenian. ROOKIE COP Is that where you're from? SETRAKIAN At one time. SETRAKIAN How soon may I leave? ROOKIE COP Well, nothing happens till Monday when charges are filed but it's almost dawn now. INMATE Hey, hey! Cop! CALDWELL You a librarian? CALDWELL Ooh. That's some ancient ink you got there, old man. What is that? Numbers? SETRAKIAN Yeah. Numbers. CALDWELL Mean anything? SETRAKIAN Only to me. EICHHORST Everything went as planned. Love is going to guide them all back ... to their homes ... to their loved ones. PALMER Curious detail: an old man with a sword was arrested at the airport. EICHHORST The Jew! He's still at it! After all these years. PALMER You must admire him for that EICHHORST I'll take care of him. I look out upon this island and I savor what is to come: purity. PALMER Mr. Fitzwilliam, a sentimental man would venture out into the city tonight. To walk these streets one last timebefore the fall. MR. FITZWILLIAM Do you require anything else, sir? PALMER No. For the first time in my life, I have everything I need. GUADALUPE Hello? GUS Hi Mommy. GUADALUPE Who is calling? GUS It's Gusto. Who else? GUADALUPE Are you smoking? GUS Huh? No, Mammy, no. I'm not smoking. Are you kidding me or what? I'm working. GUS Just calling to check in and see what you're up to. Is Crispin home? GUADALUPE He is. GUADALUPE At least I can keep an eye on him. CRISPIN Mommy, one beer left. Why do you do this to me? How many times do I gotta tell you? GUADALUPE I'm making him breakfast. GUS I'm getting on the bridge now. Be home in an hour. GUADALUPE Okay. GUS I love you. GUADALUPE I love you too, son. Bye. GUS I don't know what you are but you're bringing me good luck! GUS SETRAKIAN Love, you see, is the one force that cannot be explained, cannot be broken down into a chemical process. SETRAKIAN It is the beacon that guides us back home when no one is there and the light that illuminates our loss. Its absence robs us of all pleasure, of our capacity for joy. It makes our nights darker and our days gloomier. SETRAKIAN But when we find love, no matter how wrong, how sad or how terrible, we cling to it. It gives us our strength. It holds us upright. It feeds on us and we feed on it. GARY ARNOT GARY ARNOT Emma. Emma. EMMA ARNOT Daddy, I'm cold. EMMA ARNOT Daddy, I'm cold. EMMA ARNOT I'm very cold.02:09:26.04 GARY ARNOT GARY ARNOT Emma! Oh, baby. GARY ARNOT You're home. GARY ARNOT You're home. SETRAKIAN Love is our grace. SETRAKIAN Love is our downfall.