ReGenesis s03e03 Episode Script

We have a toasted mouse that didn't get the T4 and a happy mouse that did! It either works or not.
Wanna watch Bob burst into flames? Get back to work! - He's such an asshole, Carlos.
- He's scared, Mayko.
David! You're not sick because of the cyanobacteria.
When you came in you were legally drunk.
They found Sertraline and Escitalopram in your system.
Just take me home.
Why won't you just say "goodbye dad"? Why do you make it so hard for me to leave? Dad.
Dad! Go in there and let them tell you what to do.
I come out of there, I become this total boring prick, you'll tell me right? It's too late for that.
- Good luck.
- Thanks.
Very nice.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Shit, shit! What do you make of this? They think it's West Nile Virus.
It's tough to diagnose, even tougher to cure.
It's very routine these days.
Why are they bothering us? Just keep reading.
Victims, male, females, 30s and 40s.
Most people who get sick with West Nile are over 50.
There are exceptions.
I've heard of 35-year olds who come down with it.
I was hoping we could divert this crate to San Francisco.
Avoid this bullshit.
- What's this? - A wish list.
That's what you do all day.
You're asking for 147 million? - Yeah.
- 2 million for an electron microscope.
Are you sleeping with somebody I don't know about? I ran it all past Herb Kinsman when you were out.
Didn't even blink.
Then why is he pulling us down to Washington? Because the White House has put together this blue ribbon advisory board and he would like to showcase us.
So I would like you to focus on being a nice, genial guy.
I am so good at that.
Answer some basic questions like "What have you done for us lately?" I think Utah would be a good talking point.
If I'm still awake.
Would you like Wake me when I'm on.
ReGenesis 3x03 Strangers in the Night Team NorBAC Transcript & Presync Goufrach, Lovechange, NikoMagnus Version NoTag 1.
0 Oh Lord, okay.
- The first stop? - Where do we hide? Bar.
- We've never met.
I'm Mayko Tran.
- Pleased to meet you.
- Oh my God.
- What? Be right back.
How are you? - How are you doing? - Fine, thank you.
Surprised to see you here.
I'm the new science czar.
- Really? - Really.
So I would just love to hear how you landed that one.
It was an opportunity I couldn't refuse.
- An opportunity to what? - Don't flatter yourself.
We're in Washington.
It's all about maintaining the perception of civility, right? I had a really nice visit with Jeff.
Did you get that letter from my lawyer? I did.
I have to tell you that I was really hoping that we could discuss Jeff's custody without a lawyer.
Can't the 3 of us sit down and work this out? Personally, I would prefer an outside opinion.
- So you never answered my question.
- Which was what? How did you get this appointment without knowing one damn thing about science? Well, I slept with you for 25 years.
I suppose something rubbed off.
The optic nerve damage was extensive.
But the surgical team at Sinai treated it aggressively.
I was told if the impact had just been I would have been permanently blinded.
So are we having a good time? It's more fun than a roadside colonoscopy.
I got another reply from San Francisco.
They think it's 2 outbreaks: West Nile and something else.
Mr.
Riddlemeyer, Weston Field, NorBAC.
Good to see you, Weston.
I was looking over your brief this morning.
- It was thorough, tight.
I appreciate.
- Thank you.
I'm a little bit surprised by all the changes at the top though, sir.
Carl.
Hm? That's how it goes with this administration.
It's results-oriented.
Without the appropriate outcomes, they're not afraid to act decisively.
Let me introduce you to NorBAC.
It's not necessary.
Carlos Serrano.
Carl Riddlemeyer.
Mucho gusto en conocerlo.
Es muy buenas cosas de usted.
Pues se va a desilusionar.
De ninguna manera.
David Sandström.
Your reputation precedes you.
Who are you? - This is Carlton Riddlemeyer.
- It's Carl.
- Let's get you a drink.
- No thanks.
I'm on the wagon.
3 weeks.
I've been there.
Good luck.
So what's the game here, Carl? It's all about sharpening the tip of the spear, Dave.
Reevaluate.
Rejuvenate.
- Cut the fat, you know.
So we - It's just - What? - Is this David Sandström? - Yeah, who's this? - Angelica Starov.
I'd like to talk to you about Owen.
You know what.
Hang on a second.
I gotta take this.
A good friend of mine's in the slammer.
You're a Republican, I'm sure you understand.
Okay, yeah, what, Owen? Go ahead.
He's been getting in fights.
He stabbed another inmate.
Okay, um And I believe he's back on drugs.
Fuck.
Look, I wanna talk to you about this.
I really do but I can't right now.
Can I call you back? - When? - Tomorrow.
Tomorrow night ish.
Maybe I should just go back to Toronto.
So, Rachel, you're just full of surprises.
- I'm as surprised as anybody.
- Where'd he come from? Money and power.
He's a lobbyist.
He reps everything from Tobacco to Big Pharma - anyone who needs a shot of perfume.
- Okay Charming, manipulative, brutal.
Usually all 3 at once.
And you're married to him? - I'm divorcing him.
- Great.
What can we expect from him tomorrow? We'll be catching a falling knife.
- 2 more hospitalizations.
- In San Francisco? We could be doing the science instead of just talking about it.
Last week, the President called me into the Oval Office and asked me to help.
My first challenge is to cut 3.
8 billion dollars out of the science budget.
No one likes this.
He's put me in a very difficult situation so I have asked these distinguished gentlemen to recommend some major institutional cuts.
Now, I'm of the opinion that too many individual cuts weakens the whole.
Sometimes amputation is in order.
I've been advised to take a good hard look at NorBAC.
- Are you familiar with NorBAC? - Somewhat.
Enough to see that there are a number of structural issues.
The lab is abroad, run by a Canadian.
We have to share decisions with both Mexico and Canada.
Now, I understand that this is an enormous decision.
And I like to believe that I am open to dialogue.
I want to give you people a chance to state your case.
I assure you, my mind is open.
- Doctor Sandström.
- Would you allow me to begin? NorBAC is a watchdog in the world of genetic science.
- But what do you actually do? - We do what nobody else does.
We're a biomedical SWAT team.
We have expertise in bioweaponry, disease outbreaks, climate threats We've all read the brochure.
Let's talk specifics.
What have you done for me lately? Oh, I don't know, uh lately We saved the planet's water supply.
And you tested the solution on yourself.
- What if it went wrong? - It didn't.
It went really well.
The bottom line is, in the science envelope I have centres for disease control, environmental protection, food and drug, NIH.
And then there is homeland security, customs and borders, FBI, CIA, NSA, FEMA.
They all now do science preparedness and response.
So why the heck do I need NorBAC? This is by far the finest lab I've ever been associated with.
As I understand it, Ms.
Woods you've been in academia for the last 10 years.
We have scientists from 3 countries.
Viruses know no borders, neither do we.
That gives us a special place in U.
S.
science.
We pay 80% of the tab.
Why should the American taxpayer support a lab that's in Toronto, Canada? And your location allows you to circumvent american law.
Work was done at NorBAC to reverse engineer AIDS drugs.
Technically we didn't break any US laws.
What about the fact that your chief virologist got sick from a disease that you were trying to solve? - That was an accident - She quit over it didn't she? Now what was her name? Her name was Jill Langston.
What the hell is going on here? Excuse me? After everything we've done, everything we've been through, you dragged our asses down here because we have some explaining to do? This isn't personal, Dr.
Sandström.
I'm sorry if you have a problem with procedure.
Well I wanna be perfectly clear here, so I'll rephrase the question.
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about And your distinguished advisors clearly don't have a fucking clue about what we do at NorBAC.
But we have to sit here pissing in our pants while you decide our future? We're simply following a directive from the President of the United States.
Yeah? Fuck that shit and fuck you.
This is a goddamn ambush.
We're done here.
- Perhaps you'd like to sit down.
- You know every day your government spends in Iraq could fund NorBAC for a decade.
If your President wants to hack away at his budget, - tell him to look at the Pentagon.
- The subject is science, not politics.
Science? Science is on the verge of unlocking the secrets of life.
There are genetics programs out there underway right now, that make the Manhattan Project look like a bunch of fucking babies playing with lego blocks, and you're thinking about amputating the only organization that's actually minding the goddamn store.
You're insane! All of you! FEMA! Jesus Christ! Thank you, Dr.
Sandström.
Thank you for your time.
- Where is he? - Relax, Wes.
He screwed us in there! We have operating funds for 4 maybe What was he supposed to do? It was an inquisition.
Beautifully orchestrated by Riddlemeyer.
There he is.
Let's get out of here.
- Who in the hell do you think you are? - What? You cannot tell the US government to go fuck themselves! They let us play in their sandbox; you went and shit in it.
And I have all the confidence in the world, that you'll find how to clean it up.
Right now, we've got work to do.
Carlos and I are going to San Francisco.
They don't know which way is up.
The rest of you back to TO.
They're sending samples.
In or out, Wes? Shit.
- Doctor Sandström? - David.
This is Carlos Serrano.
- Carlos.
- Nice to meet you.
- Good flight? - Next time we take donkeys.
Where are we at? We have 27 critically ill, necrotizing pneumonia.
They are spread out over - Victims? - Adults, equally male and female.
- No recoveries? - None yet.
- We understand you have some anomalies.
- Why we called you.
Test results are all contradictory.
We have 4 hospitals saying it's West Nile and 3 saying it isn't.
And that's because Well, West Nile is spread by mosquitoes.
Generally, we'd see 30 to 50 mild cases in an infected area for each hospitalization.
- You're not finding that here? - No.
Okay.
So you've got a West Nile-like virus that's not being spread by mosquitoes.
Human contact.
But none of the victims knew each other.
Other than the 2 couples.
So how is it spreading? David would like for you to text him your results.
Tell him the IgM-antibody capture ELISA test came up positive for WNV.
We're also doing a real-time PCR on the CSF.
- CSF? - Cerebrospinal fluid.
- And an IgG ELISA.
- You just said that.
That was an IgM.
But they show a lot of false positives, so we're doing a couple of extra serum tests: an IgG and an IgA ELISA.
- How about you do that? - Yeah.
West Nile 2004 in the bay area.
Lot of dots.
West Nile is increasing Climate change? Probably.
Let's take a look.
Fever, headache, stiff neck, convulsions, pneumonia, coma.
Textbook West Nile.
Treatment? Intravenous and pulmonary assist.
What's the CDC saying? They'll have PRNT results in 4 days.
Are any of these patients healthy enough to talk? She's the only one who's making any sense.
My name is Doctor Carlos Serrano.
Do you remember being bitten by a mosquito? Have you travelled or been on an airplane in the last 10 days? No.
Have you been with anyone who's sick in the last 10 days? I work at the information desk at a library.
Strangers all day long.
Nina, do you have any idea how you caught this illness? God has a plan.
Everything happens for a reason.
Are you a man of faith? Yes.
People are dying, aren't they? Don't worry, Nina.
You have the best care in the world here.
God bless.
God bless.
There you are.
Video hook-up with David in the conference room.
- Great.
Thanks.
- Okay.
Rachel, Wes says the 2 tests came up contradictory.
That's putting it mildly.
They got the same thing here.
The CDC is doing PRNT, we need to kick some ass.
- I'll run a PCR.
- Good.
Here's the problem with the West Nile diagnosis.
I'm not buying that all 4 of these people got bitten by mosquitoes.
It's possible.
No, there'd at least be a mosquito bite, somewhere it scratch.
Are there no cases of West Nil passing from human to human? One case of mother-to-fetus and one case of an infant getting it from breast milk.
There.
That's why it's gotta be another kind of virus.
People don't know each other.
The transmission has to be, food, place, or air system.
That narrows it down to couple thousand types of virus or bacteria.
Rachel, you just keep trying to identify it.
Bob, look for a chemical or environmental explanation.
Carlos will work the cure.
He'll liaise with the CDC and other hospitals.
- I know that's not a real word, Bob.
- Interface.
Mayko, see if these people are more connected than we think.
Okay, maybe they all went to the opera, ate at the same restaurant, had the same flu shot.
You know the routine.
Happy hunting.
We need full medical records on several patients I've got social security numbers here.
Patient one is Dennis Harper, social security number 482-623.
That's not what I wanted.
Anything? Patient 23 has high levels of nickel, cadmium, and palladium.
- I don't think it's anything, Rachel.
- I think you're right.
What? Okay So, of 31 people, in Cleveland at the same time, but didn't know each other.
And that's about the most exciting thing I've found so far.
You? Nothing.
I do have some more PCR data coming in I could use a hand with.
Yeah, no problem.
- Coffee? - Yeah, love some.
So can I ask you a personal question? Let me guess.
You and Carl Riddlemeyer? I cannot get the 2 of you together in my head.
I'm sorry, how did that happen? Well I'm a freshman at Brown.
It's the 70s.
And I read an op-ed in a student paper: Fighting for peace? Fucking for chastity.
Get out now.
That's the guy I fell for.
- And that was Carlton? - Yeah, that's right.
Walked away from a family fortune to change the world.
- Pretty sexy.
- Serious dough? Carlton Riddlemeyer the 4th.
Shock and awe For all the right reasons.
Okay, so then what happened to this fairy tale? Oh, reasons change.
We go to Georgetown so he can get a degree in environmental law.
I get pregnant.
We run out of money.
- That's when family reels him back in.
- What do you mean? He slowly became everything he hated.
One molecule at a time.
How long were you 2 married? Why'd you stay so long? I've stopped asking myself that question because I hate the answer.
Yes, we're trying to get different drugs in play at different hospitals.
We'd like St.
Joseph's to try ribavirin and acyclovir.
That's fantastic.
Okay, thank you.
I have been through every obscure disease website, I can find Nothing.
They lost another patient.
- 7 more were admitted.
- 7? Any connection to the others? How is it spreading? How old are the new victims? Where are the young people? Where are the old? Morning.
PCR results came back, confirming the obvious.
It's not West Nile.
Alright, now we know what it isn't.
What the heck is it? I'm not here.
- What? - It's me.
- Tell me you know what it is.
- Unidentified.
Well, call the CDC and let 'em know what you got.
Sure, but here's why I called.
either they or their spouse paid for a night at the same motel, on the same night.
- Are you awake? - No.
Where's the motel? - San Francisco.
- No Mayko, they're from San Francisco.
Why would they stay at a motel in San Francisco I don't know.
Ask them.
Okay, what are the patient numbers? 3 13, and 15.
Okay, good work, Mayko.
Dead.
Dead.
ICU.
- Nothing to do with us.
- They all stayed here, Miss Gryce.
I phoned 2 customers who stayed on that same floor the night before and 2 the night after.
Nobody's sick.
These people had rooms on the same floor? Yeah.
Can we see a list of the guests that stayed here that night, on that floor? Mr.
and Mrs.
Dean Martin, Mr.
and Mrs.
Sammy Davis Jr, Peter Lawford? It's a motel, Sir.
Fine.
Do you recognize any of these people? Right.
I call Public Health.
They find one cockroach turd, I close you down for a year.
He stayed here with his wife.
They're married.
Why did they need an alias? What about this woman? Did she stay here? Same night? Same floor? Yes.
Okay, what's going on? Who are these people? The floor was rented for a convention.
Convention? What kind of convention? The Sinatra Appreciation Society of San Francisco.
What do they do? They appreciate.
And who's the head appreciator? Everything's done by email.
Info@Sinatra or something like that.
All I know is they take the same floor the first saturday in march, june, september and december.
And on sundays they go to church.
Nina, it's Doctor Serrano.
Thank you for visiting me.
I need your help, Nina.
Tell me about the Sinatra Appreciation Society? I knew it would catch up with me.
Evil has a long memory.
What happened? I went once.
You know about the sin of lust? I know a lot about it.
He invited me to join his group.
Now God's punishing me.
Who invited you? You won't get a better sleep than with a perfect Dreamcoil 2000.
Roll around, it won't spill.
Try it together.
It's okay.
He snores.
It's nice though.
Firm.
How is it for indoor sports? Well, load it up with all your buddies.
She's built to take it.
Now all I need are a bunch of buddies.
Know how I can get in touch with Joey, Dino and Sammy D? Okay, who wants to know? American Bio What is this? We need to know about the Sinatra swingers club.
Our club is a matter of personal choice.
Okay? Why don't you tell us about your personal choice? You could be in a lot of trouble, Mr.
Braungart.
- What are you talking about? - You might've made lot of people sick.
- No, that's not true.
- People are dead.
No.
We practice safe sex.
Okay? Some viruses can be passed through saliva, physical contact, coughing - Sucking, licking, probing.
- Come on, Pete.
How many partners do your people have each night? - I don't know.
- Answer.
I don't know! One? 10? 20? It's up to them.
Well, we need a list of all the people who were at your group grope last month.
Look, I I really can't tell you that.
It's anonymous.
Life and death, Pete.
I don't know everybody's real name.
Okay? I swear to God.
How long have you been sick? Maybe you have our mystery illness.
No, it's just a summer cold, that's all.
- How long have you had it? - I don't know.
Couple of weeks, maybe.
If he has it, why isn't he in the hospital with the others? What the fuck? - What? - David Sandström? Angelica Starov.
Yeah, from the Ontario Juvenile Detention Centre, right? No.
I'm at U of T.
Aren't you the person who called me about Owen getting in some fights? He was.
He stabbed some kid.
- Oh, Jesus.
- Who needed 12 stitches.
David.
Another death.
- Oh shit.
- One of the nurses is sick too.
So it's communicable.
It could be a secondary infection.
They're doing tests.
He has 32 out of 38 addictive genes, which is why I believe Owen would be perfect for the kind of research I'm doing.
What? Research? But you're a social worker.
No! I'm scientist! Peter Braungart's blood work.
Hematologist can't be certain, but he thinks the blood profile of interleukins and lymphocytes - are identical to the other patients.
- So Braungart's got the virus.
A milder case.
Why would it be milder? He's on a massive dosage of Interferon.
Hep C? Chronic Granulomatous Disease.
What? It's a hereditary - Hello?! - I'm here.
Did you get my number? You know what? I'll call you back.
It's a hereditary disease where the neutrophyl granulocytes can't destroy ingested pathogens.
So, they put you on Interferon To boost your immune system.
This is fantastic.
We may have stumbled on a treatment.
Interferon? Maybe.
- We can test it on mice.
- That'll take some time.
People.
That's high stakes.
Do you think any of your patients look like they're gonna recover? Okay.
There's 2 patients whose lungs have ceased to function.
They may not last through the night.
I'm willing to take a risk on one of them if we can get - family to okay it.
- Good luck.
That was an odd call for you to make.
Nothing else is working.
You're not gonna start reading to me from that thing are you? There's nothing wrong with the Bible, David.
I didn't say there was.
I just think it should come with a disclaimer.
This is a work of fiction.
No, it isn't.
It's the divine word of God? I didn't say that.
But it's not fiction.
It's a book of myths.
What's the difference? A single person writes fiction.
It takes an entire civilization to write a myth.
She She didn't make it.
She didn't even last an hour.
It might have been the disease.
We don't know.
- What? - Miss me? Where the hell are ya? - I'm not telling.
- I can't believe I'm talking to you.
Come home! I miss you guys.
Where are you? What are you doing? Somewhere.
Teaching, English and science.
I had a few days off, so I hit a beach with a friend.
- A friend, - She's a nun.
- I swear.
- Bullshit.
A Buddhist nun! So, Bob, Mayko, they're okay? We just, we miss you like crazy.
When are you coming back? I need more time.
So I check my email, for the first time in 2 months and there are, like 70 from Owen.
Man.
I thought you were calling to talk about me.
You can wait.
I don't think he can.
Seriously, he sounds depressed.
He's got some science thing he wants you to check into.
What? Well, have you been checking in with him, like you promised? I haven't seen him in, like a couple of months.
I know.
It's been crazy for you, David.
I know, I know.
Go see him? I will! I was going to.
When are you coming back? I still have a lot I need to figure out about my life.
I think I was hiding behind that big mountain of work.
Work for me.
I miss you.
I want you.
I want you back here.
I better get off the phone before you talk me into getting on a plane.
I will see you sometime, David.
Wait, wait.
Just Look, tell me where you are and I'll come and visit you.
Love to Bob and Mayko and Carlos.
Even Wes.
What about me? You too.
So we are now at 7 dead, The 4 spouses who were in quarantine have now been admitted.
Fuck.
Mayko, where are we at with the victimology? All I could get from the Sinatra website were member emails.
Most were anonymous addresses.
But I emailed them and explained the situation, told them they're the only ones who know who else might have contracted this.
Did you tell them to report to a hospital? 'Course, but I don't know if they went.
Rachel? Well, we've cloned and sequenced 32 viruses common to patients 3, 17, and 19, and still can't find the one that explains Sinatra.
- That's what we're calling it.
- Nice.
How many do you have left? - Hundreds.
- Hurry it up.
Well, Rachel and I coo.
.
The viruses that we have eliminated are the most likely candidates.
So the work we've done is actually significant.
Is it? Well, then, I'll be patient for the next Time's up.
Anything else? One medical worker became infected, but it looks like she has strep.
We're back to believing that it's only passed through very intimate contact.
That's the good news.
- Bad news? - Well, there are still no recoveries.
Okay, here's what I don't understand, Pete Braungart is on Interferon, right? That's why he's alive.
The Interferon gives him the extra immunity that he needs to live.
So we give this Interferon, we give this extra immunity to Nina and she dies.
It doesn't make any sense.
We're still missing a big piece of the puzzle.
Pete has Chronic Granulomatous, right? It's a disorder of the phagocytic cells.
It's a strange disease.
Only 1000 Americans have it, 86% male.
And it's rare to live to be an adult.
They think it's associated with 4 genes.
CYB-B, CYB-A, NCF-1 and NCF-2.
Maybe those genes are the key.
That's good, Bob.
Work that up, okay.
Have a good day.
How you doin'? So, what's the drug of choice in here? Crystal? - No.
- No? - Yeah.
- Yeah? Sometimes.
Not much.
- Think that's a good idea? - You try being in here.
Have a seat.
I hear you've been getting in some fights.
Knifed a guy.
That's VD.
Got a venereal disease too? No.
Violent and Dangerous.
That's what they call this place.
Well, that's still no excuse for the stabbing.
Come on you're a smart guy.
You know how to talk yourself out of a tight spot.
Now my lawyer says my case is fucked because of the fight for protecting myself.
So I'm looking at even longer in here.
I'll uh - I'll talk to your lawyer.
- Fuck that noise.
I'm gonna do this thing with Angie.
Who? Angie.
Scientist.
Russian.
Smokin' hot.
I spoke to somebody about you.
Is that who I was talking to? Are you fucking retarded? Yes! She's doing this thing about knocking out addiction.
- She's gonna do it on me.
- Wait a minute.
What are you talking about? I don't know.
She fixes addicts by messing with the biology in their brains.
The science is way off.
But that's what you said had to happen.
I was talking about your genes.
She just does it with your brain.
How? - I don't know.
She does it on mice! - That's mice, Owen! She's going to do it on me.
- No, it's ridiculous.
- She's going to do it.
It sounds like your mind is all made up.
So what am I here for? You want my permission? I'm not your old man.
You want me to tell you it's all gonna be okay.
Is that it? Well, I'm not gonna do that, cuz it's not gonna be okay! Forget it, Owen.
Look, my lawyer says that if I volunteer to be a test subject then I got a shot at getting outta here.
Look, I cannot stay in here, David! Just call her.
David.
Really bad time right now Wes.
- It's gonna get a lot worse.
- What? We just got a priority alert of an outbreak in Boston.
in critical condition, one fatality.
Symptoms? Fever, headache, sore neck, convulsions, coma, pneumonia.
- Sinatra? - Looks that way.
Fuck.
Okay, Carlos and I on the next flight.
Get Mayko in the loop with Richard Shrider.
Tell him we need to figure out if any friends, relatives, or colleagues of the patients in San Francisco travelled to Boston.
I'm on it.
Guys! This little virus is already starting to jump cities and we still don't know what the fuck it is! We're losing! We're losing.
I asked you to help me.
You told me that my addiction could be fixed.
Owen! What I told you was we might be able to turn off the addiction genes in you but the science is like, Angelica can do it now.
I'll talk to her.
Isn't appetite related to the same neurological pathway as addiction? Fever, headache, stiffness, convulsions, pneumonia, coma.
Wes, the Boston patients are all parents of infants.
The outbreak seems to be centered around a place in a mall where kids play.
Where are you Sinatra? We've got the beginnings of a pandemic here and we don't have a clue.