ReGenesis s01e03 Episode Script
The Face of God
We have another case.
It could be a busload.
There's nothing to worry about, you're being put in quarantine.
But the girl she was sitting next to, the one you're looking at, had contact with just about everyone who's gotten sick.
My dad came up with the idea to make a clone.
He used you to save your brother.
Okay people, I've got samples.
We might have patient zero.
- She was at the lab? - She works there.
- Here's my birth certificate.
- This can't be right.
My mother died 2 years before I was born, Dr.
Sandstrom.
Get me the samples.
But I mean it, you stay away from my daughter.
Caroline took me to her office, asked me all kinds of questions about Hira.
- Her family, her brothers.
- Where the hell is it? Holy shit.
siRNA is like this imperial guard except in Miranda's case it's not in her throat.
- So, the baby's patient zero.
- How do you tell a mother her baby's going to live in quarantine for the rest of her life? - All he wants is the truth.
- Somebody should tell him the truth.
But will you? There's no hope? Oh shit.
Young lady, would you put your mask on please? I'm Dr Sandstrom's daughter.
Hi.
Hi.
So, are you going to die or what? Oh, you're not going to be that lucky.
That's not funny.
Sorry.
Uh, the Ebola shows up around 14 hours after exposure, so Okay, and where are you? Almost there.
Almost what, dad? Another 10, maybe 9 hours, we'll know for sure.
Whether you're going to like, live or die or whatever, I guess.
Yeah.
So, uh are you scared or? Lilith, I want you to go home to your mom, okay? That is so fucked up.
Lilith, I don't want to argue about this.
You could be dying and all you have to say to me is go home to your mum's? I don't know what you want me to say! You want me to tell you that I'm going to be all right? You want me to lie to you? I don't know! I don't know.
Well, okay then.
Uh, I have my cell phone so I guess if I don't hear from you then I'll No, no.
Lilith.
Is that his blood? As much as he'd give me.
Yeah, not your model patient type.
David Sandstrom in a quarantine box.
What do you think? I want a full sweep.
Any sign of tissue factor, I want to know it.
And if there is a sign? We do everything we can, Mayko.
"This is my near death experience.
"What have I learned? Nothing.
What am I feeling? Nothing.
"What am I thinking? Nothing.
What the fuck is wrong with me?" Everything.
Now, I had to guess.
Size 16 shirt, boxers I would imagine, medium.
Size 9 shoe.
Did I get it right? No deadly virus floating in those veins, David.
I was just getting used to being dead.
Well, you're all clear.
I've seen worse and I've worn worse.
You really had me scared, David.
All of us.
You think I'm an asshole, right? I'd do it all over again.
She needed to know the truth, Caroline.
She needed to kill her baby? You don't understand.
The Institute Pasteur in Paris has done extensive work on Ebola.
- They need to be brought into this.
- Not going to happen, Carlos.
Why in God's name would you not want all the help that you can get? Two words: National Security.
Look, if I'm going to sell them, you're going to have to sell me.
Let me show you something.
Mayko, put up the Ebola MS data.
This is the sequence of the virus the baby was carrying.
It's totally repetitive.
The genome must be completely unstable.
Look, there and there.
It's weird.
And the Ebola proteins keep changing.
The virus seems to be recombining at an extremely high frequency.
What are you saying? It's evolving? Exactly, and we're fighting to keep up with it.
So, you get it? We can't neutralize something until - we know what we're going after.
- And how soon will that be? Depends on how many labs we have working on it.
Look, I'll see what I can do.
In the meantime, this thing, the research data, nothing leaves this lab until I say so.
How's she doing? She hasn't eaten.
She's on a protryptaline drip.
Oh, I'll take that.
Remember me? You know, you really ought to eat something.
Daisy, what happened to you, to Miranda It wasn't your fault.
We're going to find out who did this.
I swear to you.
I mean, you're You're going to walk out of here and everything's going to be okay.
So, will you - Hey.
- Hey.
So, you're okay? Uh, you got the car keys? You have to be on the list.
Hey, you were here the other day.
Uh, yes sir.
Dr.
Sandstrom was running some tests on me.
I just wanted to know if he had any results yet.
Sure, it's okay.
You want to come in the lab? - Is Dr.
Sandstrom there? - No, he's on his way.
Come on in.
I've been running those tests on you.
So, I was right, wasn't I? I'm a scientist, Mick.
I have to believe in science fact, not science fiction.
You don't believe me? - '90 right? You were born in 1990? - Yeah.
Well, back then cloning an embryonic cell by nuclear transfer was just not just not possible.
Briggs & King cloned a frog in 1952 and Dr.
Bromhall cloned a rabbit in 1975.
Well yes, but Are they teaching that in school already? No, my dad talks about that stuff all the time.
Have you ever heard of a Dr.
Shelby Sloane? That's your father? He wrote the bible on reductionism in genetics.
Yeah.
Yeah, well then he probably told you that Briggs & Kings' frog didn't survive and the rabbits ended up as mutants.
It was a step closer, but No, no, you can't be a clone.
I am! I have to be! Yeah, okay, sure.
Look, I know what you're thinking.
I'm not a twin.
Okay.
Okay Right.
So, what I'd like to do is take some blood.
Run a couple more tests.
Are you good with that? What's wrong with this test? You know how to interpret a DNA sequence? Sure you do, your dad taught you, didn't he? Well, this one's not right.
I need to do it over.
Fine.
Have a seat, I'll be right back.
And don't touch anything.
Just Okay.
I don't see any difference.
They must be twins.
Not according to their birth certificates.
They were born 2 years apart.
Ooh, then that's what I call a long labour.
I'm up to 27 VNTR loci.
Isn't that a little overkill, Bob? Sure, but I know I'll find some differences in the DNA eventually.
Hey, you guys hear about this guy? He says he's using Jesus Christ's DNA to resurrect him.
"Indeed it is.
The scriptures prophesied the return of Christ.
"They never prophesied how or when.
" Turn it off, Mayko.
Ever hear David weigh in on this guy? Oh, let me guess.
He doesn't believe him.
No shit.
David thinks I rushed the sequencing.
Made a mistake.
Sequenced the same DNA twice.
I don't make mistakes.
- Then somebody made a clone.
- 15 years ago? They didn't even have iPods.
I must have screwed up somewhere.
- Hello.
- Hey, what's going on? - You're out.
- I'm out.
Are you covered in poxes or what? - Funny.
Is Carlos there? - Yeah, hold on.
Hola, David.
You get anything back from Paris about the virus? Uh, it didn't go to Paris.
- Say again.
- Security.
Jesus Christ.
Is Hira on it? - She's been locked out, David.
- What do you mean, locked out? Caroline seems to think there could be an issue with her clearance.
- She does? - Oh, for fuck sakes, where's Caroline? Get her on the phone! - I haven't seen her all morning.
- Find her! It's good to have you back, David.
You'll get over that in a day or two.
Hira, you're employed by a lab that handles everything from toxic mould to P-strain 872, where Don't patronize me, Caroline.
I know what it is.
Do you recognize these men? Some of them.
This one? My brother, Maura.
This was taken at his 21st birthday party.
Where did you get that? - Do you recognize these men? - No.
You don't recognize your brother? I haven't seen my brother for over 2 years.
Well, this is what he looks like today.
What does this have to do with me? Did you know your brother's a member of a terrorist organization known as Jaish-e-Mohammed? The Army of Mohammed.
Are you a member of The Army of Mohammed? I can't believe you would ask me that.
Do you recognize these emails? Where are you going with this, Caroline? I had them translated.
"My beloved sister, Hira.
What you told me about Brucellosis wasn't enough.
I need more.
" Why were you writing to your brother about it? My brother is a good man.
He's just your He's part of an organization that's responsible for suicide attacks against the Indian parliament! That's a lie.
I don't believe my brother has anything to do with that.
What other information did you share with him? With Jaish-e-Mohammed? Why are you acting as if I did? Hira, this is why you're down here.
This is why you're locked out of the lab.
Excuse me, are you Dr.
Sandstrom? I might be.
Peter Madden, IPN News.
I just wanted to get you comments on what's going on No, no.
Look, I don't do PR, okay.
Now for the moment, the epidemic has been contained, World Health is going to contact - No.
- You guys if there's any updates on We just wanted to get your reaction on this cloning of Christ business.
You got to be kidding me, right? You're aware of the work the Reverend Steven Walsh is doing? Believe me, I have got better things to do.
You know the guy's a con artist, right? Then you don't think it's possible to clone something from a smear of ancient blood.
Come on! Dr.
Sandstrom, theoretically speaking, isn't there some scientific basis Could somebody come down please and let me into my fucking lab! to what Dr.
Walsh is doing with his team of researchers.
Reverend Walsh theoretically could be telling the truth.
Okay, sure! Theoretically if you by some believable way could secure viable genetic material from some ancient source It's possible, theoretically that you could You know, extract the DNA.
But that doesn't mean that you Don't you have a parade or something you should be covering? What was that all about? Ignorance.
Who changed the codes to the front door? Who do you think? No, mum.
Dad actually wants me to stay.
No, I'm not lying to you.
Yeah, and what about school? Yes, I know I have to go.
Yeah I got it I don't know, okay, but I'll figure it out No! Yeah, all right, fine.
I'll get him to call you.
Bye.
Hey, what's up? I've got proof.
I mean, I saw it.
Yeah, you saw what? Is your dad here? Lilith, my DNA is exactly like my brother's.
I saw it.
Okay.
It was identical.
So, what? What? That makes you a clone? Yes! Your dad's got to believe me now.
I mean, he'll want a study.
Yeah, I guess.
No, he's a scientist and I'm a messed up experiment and he's going to want to fix me.
He'll have to, won't he? I don't know.
Like I don't know when he's going to be home or whatever, but you can like, stay.
I should probably get going.
My dad's going to start Your dad What Do you do everything this guy wants? I'm not sure I do anything he wants.
Do you want something to drink? Yeah, sure.
We've got champagne.
I don't drink champagne.
Yeah, yeah, I know you're right.
It's too gay.
Uh, there's tequila and margarita mix.
Oh, no.
I don't drink alcohol in general.
Oh.
It's 3:00.
I mean, it's a pretty good time to start, right? Okay, sure.
Are Are you okay? Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Cool, okay.
Sure.
What do you know about this Walsh guy? Just what I hear on the news, and we know they never lie.
- The whole thing's a scam.
- Oh, I don't know.
He did prove he got the nail from the hill - where Jesus was crucified.
- He proved that, did he? Do you know how many people got nailed on that hill? Okay, what about the DNA match from the blood on the nail to the blood in that chapel in Belgium? What are you talking about? It was on the news last night.
Some place in Belgium, they got a vial of Christ's blood, like in a shrine.
Oh sure, yeah, I believe that.
- Okay, just say they do.
- No.
You know as well as I do that you can reconstruct the degraded DNA off the nail through the genome gathering You know what? I'm sorry I brought it up.
Even if Walsh is David Blaine with a crucifix, that doesn't mean he didn't hook up with somebody really smart.
Maybe there's a genetic researcher out there who's way ahead of the curve.
More ahead of the curve than I am? I know.
It boggles the mind.
- Hi.
- In a minute, Bob.
I do need to talk to you about this DNA.
Bob.
.
! Where's Hira? At the moment, she's a security risk.
I don't think she should be here.
Oh, you don't think she should be here.
Okay, let me get this straight.
We have got some asshole out there using babies as Ebola factories, and I'm losing my chief virologist.
I'll try to get her cleared as soon as possible, okay? David, do you know there are 3 vials of recombinant salmonella unaccounted for in this lab? Well, did you check the freezer? I think I saw them in there next to Jimmy Hoffa's body.
What's your point, Caroline? Things get misplaced around here all the time.
Not anymore.
Do you know Hira has a brother who's a member of a terrorist cell in Pakistan? Coincidence? You think she took them? You think Hira gave salmonella to a terrorist group? David, I've never questioned your judgement when it comes to the science in this lab.
Don't question mine when it comes to security.
- I want her back.
- So do I.
When I'm satisfied she works for us, not for whoever else is out there.
Bullshit.
Is now a good time? Oh Jesus, Bob.
What? I don't think I made a mistake on the DNA samples from Mick and his brother.
- Well, then you did the test too fast.
- You told me to.
We all make mistakes.
Then I made the same mistake again.
I got a new sample.
See, so far it's identical to the first sample.
I didn't make a mistake, David.
Don't lose it on me.
Do you have any idea what you're saying? - I'm just looking at the data.
- I don't care about the data.
There's no way somebody cloned a human being 15 years ago.
You know his father's Shelby Sloane? Yeah, I talked to him.
He thinks his kid's nuts.
Carlos! - Have you seen this? - I have.
Any way Sloan could have pulled a clone out of his hat 15 years ago? - No.
- What have we got here? I'd say we're missing some part of the equation.
I'll keep looking for something different in the DNA.
If you want to be really sure, we'd have to run the full sequence.
The complete genome? On both of them? There's no way.
It would take 6 months and easily cost 2 million per kid.
I know! I know! I know! Goddamn it! Okay, we're asking the wrong questions here.
Is he a clone or not, fuck that, there's no way.
So, what's the thing? The thing is The thing is Why would Sloan need a copy? Why would Sloan need as close of a copy as he could get? It makes Brother Why would he? What did he die of? - Mick's brother, uh - Cal.
Yeah, Cal.
What killed him? - Osteosarcoma.
- Bone marrow cancer.
That's good, that's good.
It depends how you look at it.
No, this is it.
This is it.
Okay we're going to look at those samples and we're going run PCR tests on them.
I want you to focus on gene CF-268, - It's on chromosome 9.
- CF-268.
Exactly, we're going to look for that gene that causes bone cancer.
We're going to look for it in both samples, and if we find that it's mutated in Cal but not in Mick, we got what we're looking for.
- We'll look.
- All right.
Where are you going? I'm going to go find out why we're one PhD short around here.
David, you're okay.
It was just the Ebola virus.
Can we talk? You look good.
Ah, thank you.
What's going on? I figured Caroline would have filled you in by now.
Yeah, she told me one of your brothers belonged to an extremist group in Pakistan.
That's about it.
I'm on your side here.
You've got to know that.
She found some emails I wrote to my brother.
He wanted to know how to make Brucellosis.
That's a dirty little bug.
You didn't tell him, did you? - Of course not.
- I'm just asking.
I told him how dangerous a bacterium like Brucellosis was, how easily it could spread.
And you mentioned all this to Caroline? She wanted something more from me.
Was there more? Yeah I was approached by the Pakistani military.
They offered me my own lab in Karachi.
Well, why wouldn't they? You're a brilliant scientist.
What's the issue here? At the time I was working for the U.
S.
Defence Department.
The Pakistanis wanted me to work on the same biologal warfare agents I was working on there.
Tularemia, Botulinum toxin.
They wanted me to deliver them.
Steal the bio-agents I was working on.
But you didn't, right? I thought about it, David.
India had a biological weapons program, Pakistan wanted one.
Best defence: Mutually assured destruction.
Jesus.
All right.
Did you give them anything, and I mean anything at all? No.
And you told all this to Caroline? Yes.
She didn't believe you.
She sent someone to interrogate my parents.
Okay, so I'll pick you up tomorrow morning at 8:00.
No, David I can't.
I'm locked out! I know you can handle this, all right? I know you're smart and I know you're strong but I am a selfish little brat who wants his best virologist in his lab tomorrow morning.
- And Caroline? - Ah Caroline-Smaroline.
We'll deal with Caroline Somehow Together.
Okay? Okay.
"It's identical to the first sample.
"When I'm satisfied she works for us.
"Maybe there's a genetic researcher out there who's way ahead of the curve? "They were born 2 years apart.
"Sure, theoretically! "If you by some believable way could secure "viable genetic material from some ancient source "It's possible theoretically that you could "Dr.
Sandstrom, a renowned microbiologist here in Toronto lending credence " Aw, Jesus Christ! " extraordinary possibility that the Christ child could indeed be cloned.
" What? - Where are you? - I don't really know.
You were right, David.
Mick doesn't have it.
Somebody fixed gene CF-268.
That son of a bitch.
Listen, Mayko wants to speak to you.
Put her on.
You been listening to the radio? Unfortunately.
That sound byte just made you Walsh's best friend.
You know what, Mayko? I want you to do me a favour.
Get in touch with Walsh's people, tell them I'll give them a fair hearing.
Meaning what? Meaning I'll test their goddamn icon and I will announce the results no matter what they are.
Aren't you in deep enough? If I'm wrong, may lightening strike me dead.
Was it like vitamins and everything? Not really.
What are you thinking about? Nothing.
My dad I guess.
Ha! No offence, but he is like, a real dick.
Sometimes I wonder if he can't talk to me because he doesn't think I'm real.
You're real, Mick.
No, I mean real like his son.
Cal was always, you know like, the sick one, the one that needed to be saved.
And I was always I don't know, like some kind of lab experiment.
You're not a lab experiment! I was just made to save my brother and now he's gone.
Then what difference does it make if I'm dead or alive? Yeah, that's really fucked up.
I know.
So am I.
It's been some time.
Ten years, Tampa.
The Hyatt Convention Hall.
You stood up and publicly challenged my direction in the Human Genome Project.
Yeah, well.
Old school, new school, I wasn't the only one.
No, just the loudest.
To what do I owe the honour of this intrusion? Well, Dr.
Sloane, I just want to know, how did you manage to manipulate the genetic code of a human embryo? Okay, you want to know what I think? - Do I have a choice? - I think Mick was in-vitro.
Thousands of babies were conceived that way.
No, no.
Not 15 years ago.
You have no idea what I was capable of 15 years ago.
I'm starting to believe that you were able to get a fertilized human egg, get into it and manipulate the DNA.
Before the human genome was mapped? Oh, I know.
That's what's so goddamn brilliant about it.
I mean, somehow you were able to find the mutant bone marrow cancer gene in Mick, and replace it with a normal one.
You did, didn't you? Like I said, you have no idea what I was capable of back then.
It's brilliant, Sloane.
It's goddamn brilliant! It's just unfortunate that you had to jettison a lot of excess baggage to get there.
I'm talking about your son.
My son? It was all about my son.
All of it.
I wasn't going to wait for God to give me a miracle.
I knew how to make my own.
It was goddamn brilliant.
I was seeing things no one had ever seen before.
A whole new frontier of science.
Wait a minute, you're talking about Cal? You're goddamn right, I'm talking about Cal, he was dying! While the rest of you were imagining the impossible, I was doing it! - You were doing it all right.
- Fucking right! You think any great advances would ever have been made if it had been left to a bunch of second-guessing cowards? Well, you certainly weren't that! I guess sacrifices had to be made, right? - You know nothing about sacrifice.
- Well, Mick does.
And he's going around saying he's a goddamn clone, but it's worse than that.
He's Cal's twin.
And you stick him in a freezer for 2 years so what? So, if something goes wrong with Cal, you can thaw him out, mess with his DNA and use him for spare fucking parts? I mean Jesus! That's why he's dying now, you son of a bitch! I know he's dying! You think I don't know that? Look, I'm sorry.
I didn't come over here to I want to help.
It's so easy for you to judge me, isn't it? Tell me, what would you have done, Dr.
Sandstrom? Would you have just Sat back and watched your child die? I've done everything Everything scientifically possible.
You can't help us.
No one can.
It's too late.
When I was like, 3 My parents, they got divorced and my mom, she took me out West and I never saw my dad.
Or like hardly ever.
And, whenever I did, he was way too busy to to even notice me.
Yeah.
You're there, but you're not there.
Yeah, exactly.
It was like that when when my brother died.
I knew he was there, I knew he was with me in my room.
I knew he was there and I knew that he had died.
You know the weird thing though? If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be alive.
I mean, I wouldn't be dying.
It's not like I'm afraid to die or anything, you know.
I just want to live my life.
I know.
Oh, did I fall asleep? Come on, let me help you to your room.
No, I'm fine.
I'm fine here.
Are you all right? Sure.
Then why you have to fight? I've spent my whole life fighting.
To go to school.
To learn the things I've learned.
To make a mark in my field.
I won't let them take that away.
It won't happen, dad.
"So, how great is this town? "In the last year, we got SARS, a black-out and "I've got a little jock itch.
"And what about that last Ebola thing, was that freaky or what? "You know, it's kind of a relief this Walsh guy - you heard about him? "This guy, the Reverend Stephen Walsh is cloning Jesus Christ.
"Yeah, I think I'm signing up for my own personal one of those.
"Yeah, cheap wine out of water.
Heals me when I get sick.
"Christ: The perfect gift for the guy who's got everything!" Hey.
Did you have a nice night? Yeah.
Are you expecting somebody? No.
Fifteen years of disappointments.
If there's a miracle in there, maybe you can find it.
Come in.
No, I can't.
Mick isn't at home.
So He's here, Dr.
Sloane.
I see.
Look, Mick's scared.
He's all alone, he has no one to talk to and he sure as hell can't talk to you.
I'm sorry.
- It's okay, dad.
- No, it's not okay.
It's never been okay.
You're entitled to the truth, Mick.
What I did, I did out of love for your brother, love for you, for the healthy son I hoped you'd be.
Sorry I didn't live up to your expectations.
Oh Mick, if I If I had half your character, your strength! I'm the one who didn't live up to his promise! As a man, as a scientist, as a father! The truth is that I created one son to save another.
I never thought I would fail.
I never thought about the consequences.
Let's just go, dad.
Mick Uh Call me or Goodbye, Dr.
Sandstrom.
Dad, just Tell me you can help him.
I don't know.
Ah! Yeah, you can! I mean, of course you can.
You're Dr Lilith, the odds are he is beyond anybody's help.
I'm just telling you the truth.
I'm sorry.
Not only has Dr.
David Sandstrom acknowledged the possibility of our miraculous cloning of Jesus, but he said he would prove it beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Hey, did you check out what's going on out there? Some kind of demonstration.
David's not going to like it.
When are we going to see some evidence of your claims? They're more than just claims, young lady.
We are entering a great new age of enlightenment and the return of Christ is only the beginning.
Are you ready for this? I don't know.
Could you just lie and say: "Yeah, I'm great David, there's nothing to worry about.
I just know you are going to kick Caroline's ass, if she gets in my face.
" No.
I can't say that.
Could you at least think it? What? David, I did some preliminary test on the scraping we got from Reverend Walsh.
Yeah, on the nail.
Okay.
Yeah, it's a really degraded mess.
Of course it is, Bob.
What do you want me to do? Sequence the genes we use to to test for somebody's racial background.
- Let's really pick this thing apart.
- Sure.
Oh, and one more thing.
Dr.
Sandstrom will no doubt affirm what we already know - Shit.
- the nail is authentic.
David, let's just go in the back.
Oh no, no, no.
We are not going in the back door of our own lab.
The blood.
The DNA matches known samples of Christ's blood.
That's a lie Walsh and you know it! - I don't think he heard you.
- He doesn't want to hear me.
Furthermore, the blood traces taken from the nail, from which we cloned the Christ child have been genetically broken down by 4 independent labs.
Now what labs? Where's your documentation? Is that it? They show the blood to be that of a man.
A man with the genetic characteristics of a Semite.
Come one, a lab told you that? How much are you paying them Walsh? No! Next time on ReGenesis - Hira's dead, David! - Yes, she's dead.
Got it! I've got to get out of here.
Yeah, when Burillsky went through the boards? - They're the biggest.
- Oh, man, you're not We have a situation developing in the US related to a prion type disease.
Mad cow.
- Bullshit! - I'm sorry? It takes at least 7 years for a prion protein to fuck up the brain, and then at least another year after that before you die.
Sarah McKinley, Tampa, Florida, 5 years old.
And how are they getting it? How are they getting it? Your accreditation means a great deal to all of us involved.
- Really, what's a great deal? - Say $100,000.
It could be a busload.
There's nothing to worry about, you're being put in quarantine.
But the girl she was sitting next to, the one you're looking at, had contact with just about everyone who's gotten sick.
My dad came up with the idea to make a clone.
He used you to save your brother.
Okay people, I've got samples.
We might have patient zero.
- She was at the lab? - She works there.
- Here's my birth certificate.
- This can't be right.
My mother died 2 years before I was born, Dr.
Sandstrom.
Get me the samples.
But I mean it, you stay away from my daughter.
Caroline took me to her office, asked me all kinds of questions about Hira.
- Her family, her brothers.
- Where the hell is it? Holy shit.
siRNA is like this imperial guard except in Miranda's case it's not in her throat.
- So, the baby's patient zero.
- How do you tell a mother her baby's going to live in quarantine for the rest of her life? - All he wants is the truth.
- Somebody should tell him the truth.
But will you? There's no hope? Oh shit.
Young lady, would you put your mask on please? I'm Dr Sandstrom's daughter.
Hi.
Hi.
So, are you going to die or what? Oh, you're not going to be that lucky.
That's not funny.
Sorry.
Uh, the Ebola shows up around 14 hours after exposure, so Okay, and where are you? Almost there.
Almost what, dad? Another 10, maybe 9 hours, we'll know for sure.
Whether you're going to like, live or die or whatever, I guess.
Yeah.
So, uh are you scared or? Lilith, I want you to go home to your mom, okay? That is so fucked up.
Lilith, I don't want to argue about this.
You could be dying and all you have to say to me is go home to your mum's? I don't know what you want me to say! You want me to tell you that I'm going to be all right? You want me to lie to you? I don't know! I don't know.
Well, okay then.
Uh, I have my cell phone so I guess if I don't hear from you then I'll No, no.
Lilith.
Is that his blood? As much as he'd give me.
Yeah, not your model patient type.
David Sandstrom in a quarantine box.
What do you think? I want a full sweep.
Any sign of tissue factor, I want to know it.
And if there is a sign? We do everything we can, Mayko.
"This is my near death experience.
"What have I learned? Nothing.
What am I feeling? Nothing.
"What am I thinking? Nothing.
What the fuck is wrong with me?" Everything.
Now, I had to guess.
Size 16 shirt, boxers I would imagine, medium.
Size 9 shoe.
Did I get it right? No deadly virus floating in those veins, David.
I was just getting used to being dead.
Well, you're all clear.
I've seen worse and I've worn worse.
You really had me scared, David.
All of us.
You think I'm an asshole, right? I'd do it all over again.
She needed to know the truth, Caroline.
She needed to kill her baby? You don't understand.
The Institute Pasteur in Paris has done extensive work on Ebola.
- They need to be brought into this.
- Not going to happen, Carlos.
Why in God's name would you not want all the help that you can get? Two words: National Security.
Look, if I'm going to sell them, you're going to have to sell me.
Let me show you something.
Mayko, put up the Ebola MS data.
This is the sequence of the virus the baby was carrying.
It's totally repetitive.
The genome must be completely unstable.
Look, there and there.
It's weird.
And the Ebola proteins keep changing.
The virus seems to be recombining at an extremely high frequency.
What are you saying? It's evolving? Exactly, and we're fighting to keep up with it.
So, you get it? We can't neutralize something until - we know what we're going after.
- And how soon will that be? Depends on how many labs we have working on it.
Look, I'll see what I can do.
In the meantime, this thing, the research data, nothing leaves this lab until I say so.
How's she doing? She hasn't eaten.
She's on a protryptaline drip.
Oh, I'll take that.
Remember me? You know, you really ought to eat something.
Daisy, what happened to you, to Miranda It wasn't your fault.
We're going to find out who did this.
I swear to you.
I mean, you're You're going to walk out of here and everything's going to be okay.
So, will you - Hey.
- Hey.
So, you're okay? Uh, you got the car keys? You have to be on the list.
Hey, you were here the other day.
Uh, yes sir.
Dr.
Sandstrom was running some tests on me.
I just wanted to know if he had any results yet.
Sure, it's okay.
You want to come in the lab? - Is Dr.
Sandstrom there? - No, he's on his way.
Come on in.
I've been running those tests on you.
So, I was right, wasn't I? I'm a scientist, Mick.
I have to believe in science fact, not science fiction.
You don't believe me? - '90 right? You were born in 1990? - Yeah.
Well, back then cloning an embryonic cell by nuclear transfer was just not just not possible.
Briggs & King cloned a frog in 1952 and Dr.
Bromhall cloned a rabbit in 1975.
Well yes, but Are they teaching that in school already? No, my dad talks about that stuff all the time.
Have you ever heard of a Dr.
Shelby Sloane? That's your father? He wrote the bible on reductionism in genetics.
Yeah.
Yeah, well then he probably told you that Briggs & Kings' frog didn't survive and the rabbits ended up as mutants.
It was a step closer, but No, no, you can't be a clone.
I am! I have to be! Yeah, okay, sure.
Look, I know what you're thinking.
I'm not a twin.
Okay.
Okay Right.
So, what I'd like to do is take some blood.
Run a couple more tests.
Are you good with that? What's wrong with this test? You know how to interpret a DNA sequence? Sure you do, your dad taught you, didn't he? Well, this one's not right.
I need to do it over.
Fine.
Have a seat, I'll be right back.
And don't touch anything.
Just Okay.
I don't see any difference.
They must be twins.
Not according to their birth certificates.
They were born 2 years apart.
Ooh, then that's what I call a long labour.
I'm up to 27 VNTR loci.
Isn't that a little overkill, Bob? Sure, but I know I'll find some differences in the DNA eventually.
Hey, you guys hear about this guy? He says he's using Jesus Christ's DNA to resurrect him.
"Indeed it is.
The scriptures prophesied the return of Christ.
"They never prophesied how or when.
" Turn it off, Mayko.
Ever hear David weigh in on this guy? Oh, let me guess.
He doesn't believe him.
No shit.
David thinks I rushed the sequencing.
Made a mistake.
Sequenced the same DNA twice.
I don't make mistakes.
- Then somebody made a clone.
- 15 years ago? They didn't even have iPods.
I must have screwed up somewhere.
- Hello.
- Hey, what's going on? - You're out.
- I'm out.
Are you covered in poxes or what? - Funny.
Is Carlos there? - Yeah, hold on.
Hola, David.
You get anything back from Paris about the virus? Uh, it didn't go to Paris.
- Say again.
- Security.
Jesus Christ.
Is Hira on it? - She's been locked out, David.
- What do you mean, locked out? Caroline seems to think there could be an issue with her clearance.
- She does? - Oh, for fuck sakes, where's Caroline? Get her on the phone! - I haven't seen her all morning.
- Find her! It's good to have you back, David.
You'll get over that in a day or two.
Hira, you're employed by a lab that handles everything from toxic mould to P-strain 872, where Don't patronize me, Caroline.
I know what it is.
Do you recognize these men? Some of them.
This one? My brother, Maura.
This was taken at his 21st birthday party.
Where did you get that? - Do you recognize these men? - No.
You don't recognize your brother? I haven't seen my brother for over 2 years.
Well, this is what he looks like today.
What does this have to do with me? Did you know your brother's a member of a terrorist organization known as Jaish-e-Mohammed? The Army of Mohammed.
Are you a member of The Army of Mohammed? I can't believe you would ask me that.
Do you recognize these emails? Where are you going with this, Caroline? I had them translated.
"My beloved sister, Hira.
What you told me about Brucellosis wasn't enough.
I need more.
" Why were you writing to your brother about it? My brother is a good man.
He's just your He's part of an organization that's responsible for suicide attacks against the Indian parliament! That's a lie.
I don't believe my brother has anything to do with that.
What other information did you share with him? With Jaish-e-Mohammed? Why are you acting as if I did? Hira, this is why you're down here.
This is why you're locked out of the lab.
Excuse me, are you Dr.
Sandstrom? I might be.
Peter Madden, IPN News.
I just wanted to get you comments on what's going on No, no.
Look, I don't do PR, okay.
Now for the moment, the epidemic has been contained, World Health is going to contact - No.
- You guys if there's any updates on We just wanted to get your reaction on this cloning of Christ business.
You got to be kidding me, right? You're aware of the work the Reverend Steven Walsh is doing? Believe me, I have got better things to do.
You know the guy's a con artist, right? Then you don't think it's possible to clone something from a smear of ancient blood.
Come on! Dr.
Sandstrom, theoretically speaking, isn't there some scientific basis Could somebody come down please and let me into my fucking lab! to what Dr.
Walsh is doing with his team of researchers.
Reverend Walsh theoretically could be telling the truth.
Okay, sure! Theoretically if you by some believable way could secure viable genetic material from some ancient source It's possible, theoretically that you could You know, extract the DNA.
But that doesn't mean that you Don't you have a parade or something you should be covering? What was that all about? Ignorance.
Who changed the codes to the front door? Who do you think? No, mum.
Dad actually wants me to stay.
No, I'm not lying to you.
Yeah, and what about school? Yes, I know I have to go.
Yeah I got it I don't know, okay, but I'll figure it out No! Yeah, all right, fine.
I'll get him to call you.
Bye.
Hey, what's up? I've got proof.
I mean, I saw it.
Yeah, you saw what? Is your dad here? Lilith, my DNA is exactly like my brother's.
I saw it.
Okay.
It was identical.
So, what? What? That makes you a clone? Yes! Your dad's got to believe me now.
I mean, he'll want a study.
Yeah, I guess.
No, he's a scientist and I'm a messed up experiment and he's going to want to fix me.
He'll have to, won't he? I don't know.
Like I don't know when he's going to be home or whatever, but you can like, stay.
I should probably get going.
My dad's going to start Your dad What Do you do everything this guy wants? I'm not sure I do anything he wants.
Do you want something to drink? Yeah, sure.
We've got champagne.
I don't drink champagne.
Yeah, yeah, I know you're right.
It's too gay.
Uh, there's tequila and margarita mix.
Oh, no.
I don't drink alcohol in general.
Oh.
It's 3:00.
I mean, it's a pretty good time to start, right? Okay, sure.
Are Are you okay? Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Cool, okay.
Sure.
What do you know about this Walsh guy? Just what I hear on the news, and we know they never lie.
- The whole thing's a scam.
- Oh, I don't know.
He did prove he got the nail from the hill - where Jesus was crucified.
- He proved that, did he? Do you know how many people got nailed on that hill? Okay, what about the DNA match from the blood on the nail to the blood in that chapel in Belgium? What are you talking about? It was on the news last night.
Some place in Belgium, they got a vial of Christ's blood, like in a shrine.
Oh sure, yeah, I believe that.
- Okay, just say they do.
- No.
You know as well as I do that you can reconstruct the degraded DNA off the nail through the genome gathering You know what? I'm sorry I brought it up.
Even if Walsh is David Blaine with a crucifix, that doesn't mean he didn't hook up with somebody really smart.
Maybe there's a genetic researcher out there who's way ahead of the curve.
More ahead of the curve than I am? I know.
It boggles the mind.
- Hi.
- In a minute, Bob.
I do need to talk to you about this DNA.
Bob.
.
! Where's Hira? At the moment, she's a security risk.
I don't think she should be here.
Oh, you don't think she should be here.
Okay, let me get this straight.
We have got some asshole out there using babies as Ebola factories, and I'm losing my chief virologist.
I'll try to get her cleared as soon as possible, okay? David, do you know there are 3 vials of recombinant salmonella unaccounted for in this lab? Well, did you check the freezer? I think I saw them in there next to Jimmy Hoffa's body.
What's your point, Caroline? Things get misplaced around here all the time.
Not anymore.
Do you know Hira has a brother who's a member of a terrorist cell in Pakistan? Coincidence? You think she took them? You think Hira gave salmonella to a terrorist group? David, I've never questioned your judgement when it comes to the science in this lab.
Don't question mine when it comes to security.
- I want her back.
- So do I.
When I'm satisfied she works for us, not for whoever else is out there.
Bullshit.
Is now a good time? Oh Jesus, Bob.
What? I don't think I made a mistake on the DNA samples from Mick and his brother.
- Well, then you did the test too fast.
- You told me to.
We all make mistakes.
Then I made the same mistake again.
I got a new sample.
See, so far it's identical to the first sample.
I didn't make a mistake, David.
Don't lose it on me.
Do you have any idea what you're saying? - I'm just looking at the data.
- I don't care about the data.
There's no way somebody cloned a human being 15 years ago.
You know his father's Shelby Sloane? Yeah, I talked to him.
He thinks his kid's nuts.
Carlos! - Have you seen this? - I have.
Any way Sloan could have pulled a clone out of his hat 15 years ago? - No.
- What have we got here? I'd say we're missing some part of the equation.
I'll keep looking for something different in the DNA.
If you want to be really sure, we'd have to run the full sequence.
The complete genome? On both of them? There's no way.
It would take 6 months and easily cost 2 million per kid.
I know! I know! I know! Goddamn it! Okay, we're asking the wrong questions here.
Is he a clone or not, fuck that, there's no way.
So, what's the thing? The thing is The thing is Why would Sloan need a copy? Why would Sloan need as close of a copy as he could get? It makes Brother Why would he? What did he die of? - Mick's brother, uh - Cal.
Yeah, Cal.
What killed him? - Osteosarcoma.
- Bone marrow cancer.
That's good, that's good.
It depends how you look at it.
No, this is it.
This is it.
Okay we're going to look at those samples and we're going run PCR tests on them.
I want you to focus on gene CF-268, - It's on chromosome 9.
- CF-268.
Exactly, we're going to look for that gene that causes bone cancer.
We're going to look for it in both samples, and if we find that it's mutated in Cal but not in Mick, we got what we're looking for.
- We'll look.
- All right.
Where are you going? I'm going to go find out why we're one PhD short around here.
David, you're okay.
It was just the Ebola virus.
Can we talk? You look good.
Ah, thank you.
What's going on? I figured Caroline would have filled you in by now.
Yeah, she told me one of your brothers belonged to an extremist group in Pakistan.
That's about it.
I'm on your side here.
You've got to know that.
She found some emails I wrote to my brother.
He wanted to know how to make Brucellosis.
That's a dirty little bug.
You didn't tell him, did you? - Of course not.
- I'm just asking.
I told him how dangerous a bacterium like Brucellosis was, how easily it could spread.
And you mentioned all this to Caroline? She wanted something more from me.
Was there more? Yeah I was approached by the Pakistani military.
They offered me my own lab in Karachi.
Well, why wouldn't they? You're a brilliant scientist.
What's the issue here? At the time I was working for the U.
S.
Defence Department.
The Pakistanis wanted me to work on the same biologal warfare agents I was working on there.
Tularemia, Botulinum toxin.
They wanted me to deliver them.
Steal the bio-agents I was working on.
But you didn't, right? I thought about it, David.
India had a biological weapons program, Pakistan wanted one.
Best defence: Mutually assured destruction.
Jesus.
All right.
Did you give them anything, and I mean anything at all? No.
And you told all this to Caroline? Yes.
She didn't believe you.
She sent someone to interrogate my parents.
Okay, so I'll pick you up tomorrow morning at 8:00.
No, David I can't.
I'm locked out! I know you can handle this, all right? I know you're smart and I know you're strong but I am a selfish little brat who wants his best virologist in his lab tomorrow morning.
- And Caroline? - Ah Caroline-Smaroline.
We'll deal with Caroline Somehow Together.
Okay? Okay.
"It's identical to the first sample.
"When I'm satisfied she works for us.
"Maybe there's a genetic researcher out there who's way ahead of the curve? "They were born 2 years apart.
"Sure, theoretically! "If you by some believable way could secure "viable genetic material from some ancient source "It's possible theoretically that you could "Dr.
Sandstrom, a renowned microbiologist here in Toronto lending credence " Aw, Jesus Christ! " extraordinary possibility that the Christ child could indeed be cloned.
" What? - Where are you? - I don't really know.
You were right, David.
Mick doesn't have it.
Somebody fixed gene CF-268.
That son of a bitch.
Listen, Mayko wants to speak to you.
Put her on.
You been listening to the radio? Unfortunately.
That sound byte just made you Walsh's best friend.
You know what, Mayko? I want you to do me a favour.
Get in touch with Walsh's people, tell them I'll give them a fair hearing.
Meaning what? Meaning I'll test their goddamn icon and I will announce the results no matter what they are.
Aren't you in deep enough? If I'm wrong, may lightening strike me dead.
Was it like vitamins and everything? Not really.
What are you thinking about? Nothing.
My dad I guess.
Ha! No offence, but he is like, a real dick.
Sometimes I wonder if he can't talk to me because he doesn't think I'm real.
You're real, Mick.
No, I mean real like his son.
Cal was always, you know like, the sick one, the one that needed to be saved.
And I was always I don't know, like some kind of lab experiment.
You're not a lab experiment! I was just made to save my brother and now he's gone.
Then what difference does it make if I'm dead or alive? Yeah, that's really fucked up.
I know.
So am I.
It's been some time.
Ten years, Tampa.
The Hyatt Convention Hall.
You stood up and publicly challenged my direction in the Human Genome Project.
Yeah, well.
Old school, new school, I wasn't the only one.
No, just the loudest.
To what do I owe the honour of this intrusion? Well, Dr.
Sloane, I just want to know, how did you manage to manipulate the genetic code of a human embryo? Okay, you want to know what I think? - Do I have a choice? - I think Mick was in-vitro.
Thousands of babies were conceived that way.
No, no.
Not 15 years ago.
You have no idea what I was capable of 15 years ago.
I'm starting to believe that you were able to get a fertilized human egg, get into it and manipulate the DNA.
Before the human genome was mapped? Oh, I know.
That's what's so goddamn brilliant about it.
I mean, somehow you were able to find the mutant bone marrow cancer gene in Mick, and replace it with a normal one.
You did, didn't you? Like I said, you have no idea what I was capable of back then.
It's brilliant, Sloane.
It's goddamn brilliant! It's just unfortunate that you had to jettison a lot of excess baggage to get there.
I'm talking about your son.
My son? It was all about my son.
All of it.
I wasn't going to wait for God to give me a miracle.
I knew how to make my own.
It was goddamn brilliant.
I was seeing things no one had ever seen before.
A whole new frontier of science.
Wait a minute, you're talking about Cal? You're goddamn right, I'm talking about Cal, he was dying! While the rest of you were imagining the impossible, I was doing it! - You were doing it all right.
- Fucking right! You think any great advances would ever have been made if it had been left to a bunch of second-guessing cowards? Well, you certainly weren't that! I guess sacrifices had to be made, right? - You know nothing about sacrifice.
- Well, Mick does.
And he's going around saying he's a goddamn clone, but it's worse than that.
He's Cal's twin.
And you stick him in a freezer for 2 years so what? So, if something goes wrong with Cal, you can thaw him out, mess with his DNA and use him for spare fucking parts? I mean Jesus! That's why he's dying now, you son of a bitch! I know he's dying! You think I don't know that? Look, I'm sorry.
I didn't come over here to I want to help.
It's so easy for you to judge me, isn't it? Tell me, what would you have done, Dr.
Sandstrom? Would you have just Sat back and watched your child die? I've done everything Everything scientifically possible.
You can't help us.
No one can.
It's too late.
When I was like, 3 My parents, they got divorced and my mom, she took me out West and I never saw my dad.
Or like hardly ever.
And, whenever I did, he was way too busy to to even notice me.
Yeah.
You're there, but you're not there.
Yeah, exactly.
It was like that when when my brother died.
I knew he was there, I knew he was with me in my room.
I knew he was there and I knew that he had died.
You know the weird thing though? If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be alive.
I mean, I wouldn't be dying.
It's not like I'm afraid to die or anything, you know.
I just want to live my life.
I know.
Oh, did I fall asleep? Come on, let me help you to your room.
No, I'm fine.
I'm fine here.
Are you all right? Sure.
Then why you have to fight? I've spent my whole life fighting.
To go to school.
To learn the things I've learned.
To make a mark in my field.
I won't let them take that away.
It won't happen, dad.
"So, how great is this town? "In the last year, we got SARS, a black-out and "I've got a little jock itch.
"And what about that last Ebola thing, was that freaky or what? "You know, it's kind of a relief this Walsh guy - you heard about him? "This guy, the Reverend Stephen Walsh is cloning Jesus Christ.
"Yeah, I think I'm signing up for my own personal one of those.
"Yeah, cheap wine out of water.
Heals me when I get sick.
"Christ: The perfect gift for the guy who's got everything!" Hey.
Did you have a nice night? Yeah.
Are you expecting somebody? No.
Fifteen years of disappointments.
If there's a miracle in there, maybe you can find it.
Come in.
No, I can't.
Mick isn't at home.
So He's here, Dr.
Sloane.
I see.
Look, Mick's scared.
He's all alone, he has no one to talk to and he sure as hell can't talk to you.
I'm sorry.
- It's okay, dad.
- No, it's not okay.
It's never been okay.
You're entitled to the truth, Mick.
What I did, I did out of love for your brother, love for you, for the healthy son I hoped you'd be.
Sorry I didn't live up to your expectations.
Oh Mick, if I If I had half your character, your strength! I'm the one who didn't live up to his promise! As a man, as a scientist, as a father! The truth is that I created one son to save another.
I never thought I would fail.
I never thought about the consequences.
Let's just go, dad.
Mick Uh Call me or Goodbye, Dr.
Sandstrom.
Dad, just Tell me you can help him.
I don't know.
Ah! Yeah, you can! I mean, of course you can.
You're Dr Lilith, the odds are he is beyond anybody's help.
I'm just telling you the truth.
I'm sorry.
Not only has Dr.
David Sandstrom acknowledged the possibility of our miraculous cloning of Jesus, but he said he would prove it beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Hey, did you check out what's going on out there? Some kind of demonstration.
David's not going to like it.
When are we going to see some evidence of your claims? They're more than just claims, young lady.
We are entering a great new age of enlightenment and the return of Christ is only the beginning.
Are you ready for this? I don't know.
Could you just lie and say: "Yeah, I'm great David, there's nothing to worry about.
I just know you are going to kick Caroline's ass, if she gets in my face.
" No.
I can't say that.
Could you at least think it? What? David, I did some preliminary test on the scraping we got from Reverend Walsh.
Yeah, on the nail.
Okay.
Yeah, it's a really degraded mess.
Of course it is, Bob.
What do you want me to do? Sequence the genes we use to to test for somebody's racial background.
- Let's really pick this thing apart.
- Sure.
Oh, and one more thing.
Dr.
Sandstrom will no doubt affirm what we already know - Shit.
- the nail is authentic.
David, let's just go in the back.
Oh no, no, no.
We are not going in the back door of our own lab.
The blood.
The DNA matches known samples of Christ's blood.
That's a lie Walsh and you know it! - I don't think he heard you.
- He doesn't want to hear me.
Furthermore, the blood traces taken from the nail, from which we cloned the Christ child have been genetically broken down by 4 independent labs.
Now what labs? Where's your documentation? Is that it? They show the blood to be that of a man.
A man with the genetic characteristics of a Semite.
Come one, a lab told you that? How much are you paying them Walsh? No! Next time on ReGenesis - Hira's dead, David! - Yes, she's dead.
Got it! I've got to get out of here.
Yeah, when Burillsky went through the boards? - They're the biggest.
- Oh, man, you're not We have a situation developing in the US related to a prion type disease.
Mad cow.
- Bullshit! - I'm sorry? It takes at least 7 years for a prion protein to fuck up the brain, and then at least another year after that before you die.
Sarah McKinley, Tampa, Florida, 5 years old.
And how are they getting it? How are they getting it? Your accreditation means a great deal to all of us involved.
- Really, what's a great deal? - Say $100,000.