ReGenesis s01e12 Episode Script

Haemorrhagic fever in smallpox.
Game over.
He's got it.
- MI-5.
- MI-5, cool.
Listen, we need to talk.
Our friend Martin Jamieson, aka William Zanzinger was found dead in Cape Town.
Hey, write this down.
Bethke Labs, B-E-T-H-K-E, Labs, Cape Town, South Africa.
Tell James Bond to get us all the biohazard samples he can.
We knew it was smallpox two days ago when we started this.
Now we've got National Guardsmen who are sick and they were inoculated.
What the hell do they have in mind? Numbers, numbers, numbers! Jesus Christ.
- Marburg.
- Marburg? As in war games Marburg.
This doesn't ring any alarm bells for you? Here, from the motherland.
It's Marburg.
It's not mine.
Wait a minute, this is weaponized? It looks like they increased the incubation period of the virus.
Well, I think we should keep Gamelan here for a couple of days, put her on a drip, X-rays, blood work.
If I didn't know so much, maybe I wouldn't think that I could save Gamelan.
I could just let her go.
I'm going to go back to the people I work with and tell them that this thing came from Fort Egan.
Okay.
The man who ended up with the viruses from Egan was Ivan Chiernegin.
He was head of germ warfare research - for the Soviets, wasn't he? - My beloved boss.
There's been a SARS-like case reported in Denver, Colorado.
The local doctors and public health officials can't identify the virus.
I don't want to sound paranoid, but let's hope to God this isn't coming from the same guy who gave us Miranda.
It's all pretty much the same.
We're seeing respiratory tract infections leading to pneumonia, pleurisy, as well as cyanosis.
How low is the hemoglobin? It varies.
You can look at the charts.
It's basically higher in patients in the 20-40 year old range.
Flu-like symptoms at first, it worsens over the course of 24 hours.
Runny nose, aches and pains, in some cases diarrhea.
Any poxes, rashes, lesions? Fatality was diagnosed as pneumonia.
How many in quarantine? Well, we've got 12 in there now.
We're running out of room.
Has there been any response to medication? Not as much as we hoped.
Did you try Zanamivir or Oxycodan? Acetaminophen We tried them all.
We definitely think it is a new strain.
It's just not acting like any we've had before.
- Okay, let's pick it apart.
- Samples from every patient.
We're going to need a complete set of specimens from the fatality.
Where are you at with your isolation protocols? - We're at high levels.
- Bump them to critical.
- Sure.
- Can I set up a station in your lab? - Of course, it's just right this way.
- Is this okay? - Oh, you're fine in here.
- All right, I'll catch up with you guys later.
- Yeah? - How bad is it? You're going to have to coordinate a press release - with the WHO and the CDC.
- What have you got? Tests so far on this virus can't tell us what it is except it's incredibly virulent and contagious.
- Made in a lab? - It looks natural on the outside.
Is it Marburg? So far no poxes, no internal hemorrhaging.
I'm pretty sure we can rule that out.
What is it? We're working on it.
- Okay, stay in touch.
- You too.
Ivan Chiernegin is Ivan Havlac.
- According to who? - David.
I thought he was the scientist and I was the intelligence agent.
Find Chiernegin and you'll find the bastard who made the Miranda virus and maybe stop another potential epidemic.
Wait a minute, what are you talking about here? We've got a bad viral strain in the States.
It's spreading fast.
It could have been manufactured in a lab.
Or what? A Chiernegin lab? Yeah.
You're getting a lot of doors slammed in your face, aren't you? Yeah Wait a minute! What aren't you saying? Come on.
Colin! Come on.
Do you Do you remember Jersey Shores? Colin Navasink light station.
Hum? Don't go there.
Just indulge me, will you? I remember it was raining, I remember we didn't even make it to the top of the stairs.
I've got a big problem.
I need your help.
Sit still.
What do you know about Chiernegin? Ran the Soviet's biochemical weapons program until 1989.
After the wall came down.
Is that it? Pretty much.
You've got to tell me.
After the CIA got hold of him, they hired him to monitor the Iraqi chemical weapons program during the Iraqi/Iran conflict.
Monitor it? Iraq threw every chemical weapon they had at the Iranians during that war.
Yeah, hundreds of thousands were killed, and where were the United States? I know, I know Officialy, it was none of our business.
So, what happened to him? Errant cruise missile.
Wiped out the entire compound.
So, why doesn't anyone want to talk about a dead guy? I don't know.
Do you still got somebody deeper in Washington? I might.
Do want to keep me in the loop? I will.
When all this is said and done, do you want to still I would.
Thanks, Digby.
- What? Is that it? - Yup.
That's That Come here, listen! This is lung tissue from a 29 year old male a day after being admitted.
It's dense tissue.
- Here's what's a little scary.
- This isn't? This is the patient a day after admittance.
Five hours, temperature's up to 101.
Eight hours, 30 minutes, the temperature spikes up to 105, lung are 93% filled with fluid.
Jesus.
We managed to keep him alive for another 4 hours.
What sort of lab results do you have? Blood cultures.
They're all pretty much consistent.
PCR, mass spec.
But we're not equipped to run those tests.
Okay, let me see what you got.
Networking to the mainframe.
- Thanks.
- No problem.
Do you think it might have something to do with a specific blood type? I don't know.
Oh, interesting idea.
You can read the screen from over there? Sure.
What does this say? Go away.
Bob, I'm going to need you to coordinate a team to get going on some PCR sequences.
Bob? I've scanned over a hundred genes so far and I've come up empty.
What are you talking about? Scanning the canine genome to identify the genetic basis of MH.
I'm not having any luck.
Bob, blood cultures.
David and Jill are sending blood Specimens, I know.
I have a team ready to do PCR and mass spectrometry work as soon as the samples arrive.
Good.
Okay.
What are you working on? Malignant histiocytosis.
Gamelan's been diagnosed with it.
Your dog? Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
The dog genome project has been really helpful.
I haven't heard of it.
Oh.
It was done by a cancer research center in the States.
They are working on identifying the mutant gene that causes histiocytosis, and they think they're about I don't think Gamelan's got two years.
But they've mapped out the entire canine genome.
Isn't it amazing? So, all I have to do is compare Gamelan's genes to a healthy map and I'll find it.
I know, there are But I might get lucky.
I'm doing random scans.
I could find the right mutated gene.
You could, of course.
Yeah, sure.
Uh, when those blood cultures come in we're going to need you to get to work on that.
Okay, of course.
Bob, you know I have some free time now, maybe if you want you could give me a set of genes to scan.
- Thank you, Carlos.
- Okay.
Thank you.
Every bone Every bone in my body feels like it's broken.
Jesus, I feel like shit.
Well, I'll talk to your doctors and see if we can't make you more comfortable.
- You're not a doctor? - PhD.
You're all scientists from Canada.
Somebody said it was SARS.
Is that it? Is that why you guys are down here from Toronto? Because if I've got SARS, I'm going to sue.
I don't think you can sue a city that contained an epidemic.
You hang in there.
Thanks.
Thank you.
Poor guy.
At least if it was SARS, we'd know what we were dealing with.
Okay, get these in a priority box to NorBAC and we'll get back to it in 15 minutes.
Thank you.
- How's it going? - I don't know, what do you got? Well, they've just admitted - and there's a rumour that it's SARS.
- It isn't SARS.
More a corona virus, they're running an ELISA test, but my hunch is it's a type-A flu strain.
But without a decent PCR run or mass spec, we can't know that for sure.
The only other useful test we can run down here is an antibody array.
- All right.
I'll get on it.
- Okay.
Jill, I want you to go wide on that victim down in the morgue.
Brain, lungs, heart.
Everything.
Samples of everything.
Freeze them and send them to Carlos right away.
David, what are you thinking? I just want to be thorough.
All right.
Chiernegin.
Where'd you pull that one out of? Well, can you tell me about him? No.
I thought you knew what was going on around here.
Ivan Chiernegin was a Soviet biochemist who worked with everything from sarin to REX.
He ended up working for the CIA in Iraq.
As far as the United States is concerned, Chiernegin doesn't exist.
I didn't hear it from you, Conner.
After the U.
S.
and Iraq's relationship fell apart, Hussein offered Chiernegin a palace on the Tigress and all the money he wanted to work for him.
We knew where he was and decided to take decisive action.
So, it wasn't an errant cruise missile.
It was believed that he was neutralized.
Along with his wife and child.
They were confirmed.
Around the summer of '97, Ivan Chiernegin reportedly surfaced in North Korea.
A couple of years later in Pakistan, leaving behind bio-warfare programs in each country.
He dropped off our radar around 2000.
Which would be around the time he dropped down to Cape Town and started to work on Miranda.
When this thing first hit, this This Miranda virus people around here did get a little jumpy.
Wait a minute.
They knew that Chiernegin could have been behind the Miranda virus? I don't know, but when NorBAC first suggested that Miranda was a camel pox/ebola blend, the folks at Fort Egan went to work and compared it to their own.
- And? - Not the same.
- Far more virulent than what we make.
- Oh, come on Conner.
Even I can make the leap.
Fort Egan misplaces a milder strain of Miranda, it ends up in the hands of a Soviet biochemist with a vengeance towards the West, he ends up in well equipped lab in Cape Town, South Africa Yeah, it makes sense.
Why didn't anyone at Fort Egan share information with us when we were trying to figure it out? The United States doesn't manufacture chemical or biological weapons.
Yeah, right.
It can't be.
Okay Here we are.
Sit.
Come on.
How are you, Bob? I'm fine.
So, there's nothing you can do.
Bob, we could try another transfusion but it's very unlikely that it would I understand.
If we operated now I know.
And even if we could take out the spleen, we can't be sure it's not already in her heart, lungs Is she in any pain? I don't think so.
Not yet.
Not yet? Histiocytes attach and grow throughout every organ.
The heart will have to pump harder, the lungs will struggle for more oxygen.
What can I do? You can take her home, make her as comfortable as possible.
She'll probably be just the way she is right now.
I had a bag for her.
- Her ball and blanket and bowl.
- It's in the back.
You want to take her home? I'm so sorry, Bob.
I'll go get it.
Hey.
Hi.
Dr.
Sandstrom's not here? No, he left.
Left? Left where? I assume on a plane by now, back to Toronto.
Hey Joe, it's me.
Are you there? Listen, call me as soon as you get this message, okay? It's very important.
Oh, you're fucking beautiful.
You are one sick seal.
You got it, David.
The Spanish flu.
- Intact.
- We got it.
- We got it.
- We got it! You know your terminal? Your terminal? You're going to Canada, right? Do you know your terminal? No West, I think.
Air Canada.
Your cell phone's ringing.
Yeah? - Was it something I said? - What? David, you just took off.
Where are you? - I'm in a cab at the airport.
- Why? What's going on? Nothing.
I just I need to get back to the lab.
- Something's not - Not what? Not what? David, what is it? Nothing.
I just Listen, finish getting all those samples okay, and then get them back to the lab as soon as you can.
All right.
I'll stay on it all night.
Good.
I'll see you back in Toronto.
Okay, David, are you David? I'm sorry, did I scare you? What the fuck are you doing here, Bob? I just I had some work to be done and Gamelan is I need you to purify this blood for a PCR run, okay? Sure.
Are you running anything on the mass spec? I had some histiocyte cells Okay, well this is definitively a priority.
I understand.
Is this from Denver? - Yeah.
- I see.
David, I have a hard decision to make.
Not now, Bob.
I really need you to do this blood work for me, okay? All right.
David.
David, did you hear me? - What? - When did you get back? I don't know.
Last night.
Well, how did it go in Denver? What are you working on? Mayko, do you need me for something? - What's your problem? - I'm busy, okay? Hey, David.
You're back.
Yes.
Bob, we just received the samples from Denver.
Bob, the PCR sequencing? I already did it this morning for David.
Where are they? I don't know.
I gave them to David to read.
David We just got the samples, Bob says that you've already run them? Just one.
Do all the other victims.
Okay, you got something or? David, I got confirmation - that Chiernegin is alive.
- So, find the fucker.
Do you know what we're dealing with in Denver? You'll know when I know, Caroline! I don't know.
His temperature hit 104 early this morning.
Lungs are filled up.
None of the antivirals work.
It's been 24 hours since he was admitted? If that.
About two thirds of the people who are in there - have had their flu shot.
- Got it.
Well, flu viruses mutate.
That's a given.
I guess the question is, can we stop it? Yeah.
Mayko - Here are the fragments.
- Oh, okay.
Thanks.
Hello? Hey Jill.
We're just trying to put together a total gene sequence now.
Okay, anything panning out with David's hunch? Type-A flu looks like a possibility, but Jill, - we've never seen anything like it.
- That figures.
Just keep on it.
Is David there? He got back last night.
What is with him? Is he acting strange? Yeah, he's totally intense.
I mean he hasn't come out of his office since this morning.
Try and talk to him.
I mean, I don't know I don't know what's going on, - but try to talk to him, Mayko.
Okay? - Yeah, sure.
- Are you on your way back? - Yeah, I'll be in the lab as soon as I can.
Okay, safe trip.
I'll see you soon.
David.
David, are you all right? - Do you want to talk? - Leave me alone, Mayko.
Leave me alone.
David, you should take a look at these flu sequences.
David.
Joe.
Joe, if you're there pick up, okay? I need you to go out and see if that body's still there.
You be careful, all right.
Don't touch it.
I'm serious, Vasili.
Is this the Spanish flu that you dug up the northern? I told you about Nunavut? The vodka and the marijuana did in New York, remember? It's in Denver, Vasili.
I think I put it there.
Hey Lil, it's me.
I I just wanted you to know I love you.
I just wanted to call and say that.
Hey Jill, it's me.
I really need to talk to you.
If you haven't figured it out by now.
Shit, I can explain.
I really fucked up this time.
Really I really fucked up this time.
Call me.
Okay, Sandstrom, get your shit together.
You're going to go back to the lab and tell them what's going on.
Caroline.
Call Caroline.
What? We went to your house when we fucked up, my house when we were fucked up.
Danny? How about getting laid? You want to do that? Just keep driving the car, Danny.
Do you want a drink? Do you want to get wasted? I am wasted.
I'm done.
You don't want to go there, man.
Believe - It's my fucking life.
- Fine, you drive.
Sit down! I am not going to make this easy for you.
You don't know what you're doing man.
Did you when you took that bottle of pills? Yes, I did.
I had nothing left.
- Yeah, well neither do I.
- Get the fuck out of my cab.
How bad is it? Right now he has severe cerebral edema.
I'm calling in a specialist from Boston.
He'll be here tonight.
All right.
Well, we'll monitor him overnight.
Definitely no way of knowing.
Other than the head trauma and a few fractured ribs and some other minor injuries.
He's very lucky.
Come on, David.
We've got work to do.
Hey, come on, buddy.
You're going to be okay, right? Well hi, Gamelan.
Hello.
Who's a good girl? Hi, good girl.
Hey, you're back.
Yeah, how's it going? We haven't heard anything.
They're watching him tonight.
Who? You didn't hear? David, he was hit by a car.
A cab.
He's in the hospital in a coma.
What? In intensive care.
I want to keep working on things.
I'm not good at things like this.
I'm better when I'm working, trying to fix things.
Yeah, sure.
I understand that.
I like dogs better than people.
They don't judge, they're not duplicitous.
They can't confuse you like people do.
Mayko's down at the hospital.
She's going to call if there are any changes in his condition.
Are you going to go down there? Yeah Yeah, I guess I should.
Okay.
Gamelan.
Hey, pal.
You're looking good.
You're going to be okay.
Hey, Jill.
Hey, Mayko.
How's it going? The same.
Every now and then he kind of moans, but then he seems to go away.
Are you going to stay all night? Yeah.
Yeah I think if I talk to him, I think he might hear me.
He might answer, you know.
Are you okay? Yeah.
Shit.
The more I know I've only known the guy 6 months.
He really gets under your skin, doesn't he? Yeah.
You want some company? Sure.
You reckon David does? Yeah.
David.
When did you get here? I don't know.
Clear.
I'm not hungry.
- You have to keep your strength up.
- I don't want to.
You have to get better.
It's good for you.
- What is it? - Soup.
Your favorite.
You made red lentil? Eat.
That's mine.
That's the gun that killed me.
That's not for you.
Go to 300.
Don't die on me, David.
Don't die.
Clear.
Do you want something to drink? Everything I do turns to shit.
You don't want to get better, do you? No.
Go to 360.
Clear.
No pulse? Alright.
Come back.
Can I have a litre of saline? His volumes might be low.
Check his blood pressure.
Interesting isn't it? Very.
- They're definitely influenza-A.
- I can see that.
It's the most common strain of the flu virus.
Influenza-B, influenza-C, Hong Kong, Russian.
- Bob.
- Asian, Swine, Avian.
- Bob! - We're not even close.
Bob, slow down.
I'm sorry, I guess I'm not very focused.
Are you having a hard time concentrating with David? David's in good hands, Bob.
Okay, stop.
He's going to be okay.
That's why I have to think.
That's what'll get us through.
On top of everything his dog is dying.
- Good morning.
- Hey, welcome back.
Thank you.
Where are we on the virus? I've sequenced 2 segments.
So far nothing is hanging, and it's no Marburg, no Miranda.
Just influenza-A.
It has to be.
Wait a minute.
This is what came out of Denver? That's what you sent.
No.
No.
What? Jill? Jill? Jill, what is it? Better get Denver the WHO, every other health department on alert.
This is the fucking 1918 Spanish Flu.
Wes! Fortunately this Spanish Flu is David and Jill's life's work.
I'm well aware of that.
That's why we were so quick to identify it.
So, hopefully we'll be able to get a head start on the vaccine.
The Spanish Flu is extremely contagious.
If not contained, it could turn into a pandemic overnight.
Can you contain it? Right now, there are 28 reported cases, all confined to the Denver area.
That's good.
I think we should shut down all access to the Denver area.
Airport, highway.
No, no.
That's politically impossible.
Then we're just going to have to hold our breath a couple of days, and see if it crops up anywhere else.
Caroline, do we have to use the term Spanish Flu? It's the strain we've identified.
- Yes, I know.
But it has such a - Devastating connotation? Yeah, that'd be it.
I'll advise Denver accordingly.
Thank you, Caroline, and please keep me updated.
I will.
And I'm supposed to ease your mind about Chiernegin? The Spanish Flu doesn't just appear out of nowhere, Colin.
He's out of Cape Town, we think he's in the U.
S.
Oh shit.
And that's all we know right now.
What? What is it? There was an army 2 star general that worked at Fort Egan.
His name was Ablamar.
Ablamar was Hira Kahn's direct boss when she worked at the Pentagon.
I'm pretty familiar with her history.
Before that he was a liaison to the intelligence agency in Pakistan.
Where are you going with this? Well, Miranda came out of Egan.
- You're thinking Hira? - Well, we don't know yet.
There were some issues about her past.
And she did seem really familiar with Miranda.
If Chiernegin got to her and she did cross a line, a man like that would want her dead.
He always covers his tracks.
Why wouldn't he go after David, or this entire lab? You're right.
I think it'd be a good idea that we put some security around David.
What are you what are you doing? You don't believe in this.
I don't know what I'm doing.
Yes you do.
Look at you.
Another one of our failures.
Stop it.
It killed you.
It made me.
It gave my brother hope.
It's wrong.
It's all wrong.
It could have worked.
You have no idea what I've done.
You just wanted to find an answer.
What I wanted was a lot different than what I did.
So, fix it.
David, you can fix it.
Goodbye, Dr.
Sandstrom.
Bye, Mick.
The CDC's widening the quarantine area.
This has doubled in just the last 2 hours.
They're turning the old stables and airport into a quarantine centre.
Denver proper is reporting Lakewood has 5 reported cases.
Aurora 7.
Hi.
Okay, here's what I got.
These are David's notes, from what I can tell was the beginning when he first had a line on the 1918 flu victim.
He was working with a guy named Joe Okalik in Nunavut, which makes sense because the sample we worked on clearly came out of the permafrost.
How did a flu in Nunavut end up in Denver, Colorado.
I don't know, but more important than that right now is we need to find the body he exhumed and make sure it's contained.
- Yeah, let's do it.
- I can't find any dig records - or permits anywhere.
- Can I take this? - Yeah.
- Thanks, Wes.
That sounds like David.
I've been trying to get in touch with this Joe Okalik and he's not answering his cell.
Okay, go home, pack your long johns and catch the next flight up there.
- Okay.
- Fuck.
What? I don't know what's worse.
Thinking some terrorist released this flu or that the head scientist from NorBAC did.
Fuck.
I know you wouldn't leave if you didn't have to.
I know that.
You're off on a whole new adventure.
And when you look back, I'll always be there.
Goodnight, Gamelan.
David, if you die I'm going to kill you.
Joe, look, I need you to go out and see if the body's still there.
A male caller.
Yeah, it's my boss.
- They let you out? - I've been trying to get in touch with him.
- He's dead.
- Flu? Denver's already begun the antiviral treatments but nothing seems to be working.
- So, how did it get there? - I caused it, Mayko.
I let it out.
It's the same fucking flu.
Bu the girl she was sitting next to had contact with just about everyone who's gotten sick.
Daisy, I am so sorry.
There's no hope? Just a corpse.
Another fucking corpse.
All I have are corpses.
I buried my baby and I buried my parents.
What kind of person would want to see another corpse? Do you think that's why I'm pissed at you? I don't know.
David, I am pissed at you because we could have had a vaccine by now.
People are dying David! You fucked up!