ReGenesis s04e07 Episode Script
Hearts and Minds
The treatment that almost killed Wes, it's working.
His Hep-C viral load is down.
Wes, they're doing some new trials.
You're in.
Thank you, Rachel.
You're not quitting, Wes.
- Yes, I am.
- We need you.
I need you.
Well, I'm in his office and it seems awfully empty.
When are you gonna hire a replacement? I don't know! These are my notes on David's report on Lefelin.
He wanted you to have a read and check the literature.
- This isn't working.
- That's okay.
What do you think about hyperbaric chambers? I'm hoping that the oxygen therapy will improve some of the memory loss that I'm having.
Well, I always add a touch of Nina Nina! In the Phase Three trial, the death rate was 2 in 10,000.
Now that Lefelin's been on the market for two years, that rate appears to be 6 in 10,000 and 600 are dead.
What went wrong? Nothing went wrong.
Four more deaths per 10,000 may sound like a lot, but it is still only 0.
06% of all users.
Lefelin is a drug for sick people and sick people die.
This drug is a huge advance over current treatment options.
Simply, the benefits outweigh the risks.
We see no reason why Lefelin should be removed from the market.
Thank you very much, Dr.
Van Horne.
Our next witness is Dr.
Enuka Okimba.
Lefelin was designed to lower the immune response in people who suffer from autoimmune diseases.
But for an unknown reason, it raises the likelihood of congestive heart failure.
Yes, the number of deaths are small.
But what if that's because Lefelin hasn't finished doing its damage? What if, in 5 or 10 years, thousands die? We have a petition from 900 rheumatologists and thousands of patients imploring us to keep the drug on the shelves.
So if you could please refer to your data? I would if I could.
But Kernwell Pharmaceuticals has shelved my data.
And I have repeatedly asked them to release it.
So what are they hiding? And why is this committee cooperating in a cover up? Thank you for your testimony.
We will have a short recess of 15 minutes.
Hey, Mayko, what's up? Hey, I'm glad I got you.
Shit, you know what? I'll have to call you back.
She wasn't nearly as impressive as I thought she'd be.
With your testimony, any fears about this drug should be abated.
So are you ready? Yeah.
You look a little concerned.
Just haven't done one of these drug reviews in a while.
Just do a précis of your report, it's a very powerful argument.
Our next witness is the chief scientist of NorBAC.
We welcome Dr.
David Sandstrà m.
Hey, how you doing? Here's our report.
Took us 3 months.
Our piece in it was to go over the original research, nine years of it and 5 years of drug trials.
We didn't do any bench science, what we did was coordinate a multi-pronged evaluation that included the work of 6 universities and 3 independent labs.
All our work suggests that this drug is safe.
However, when Kernwell asked Dr.
Okimba to consult, it was because they had a concern that Lefelin would stimulate the replication of viruses.
And after a year of research, her data supported that concern, at which point they told her her data was unacceptable and she was fired.
Now, last night I learned that Dr.
Okimba, because of confidentiality, is not allowed to refer to her research in this forum.
I, however, am not constrained by any such rule.
You were invited, Dr.
Sandstrà m, to give a verbal précis of your report.
Since you're not going to do that, this meeting is adjourned.
that's just the tip of the iceberg.
What if next year it is 6,000? Until such time as this committee gives its final report, Lefelin will remain on the market.
Thank you.
Don't worry.
The Press will grill him now.
The committee has reached the decision to keep Lefelin on the market.
That's insane.
- That drug kills people.
- Is it true that you're seeking the Republican Senate nomination in Virginia? The good people of my home state have honoured me with asking me to run.
And I'm mulling it over with my new bride.
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What's your excuse? - They're suppressing her research.
- No, they didn't suppress it, they ended it.
If you judged her with your brain and not your cock, you'd come to the same conclusion.
How much will a Senate run set you back? I don't know, about 21 million.
Let me guess, you'll accept money from Kernwell whose profit last quarter was 220 million on Lefelin alone.
And it cost them I have nothing to hide and neither does Kernwell.
If you want to take this thing on, fine.
You waste a week - and you drop it.
- When did you become reasonable? I want you to see that the system works.
Yeah, it works.
Just not for the people it needs to work for.
We need to replace Weston Field.
I'm going to send you someone.
I knew there was catch.
Thanks for the reminder, Carl, but no.
I know you want to run the lab, David, but let's face it, your talents don't lie in organization or management.
Hey, it's me, sorry I didn't get back to you.
What's up? When? - Shit.
Yeah, I'll be right there! - What's wrong? Bob had a seizure last night.
Why aren't you in the fucking hospital? - Hello, David.
- How is he? - I'm fine.
- It was just a scare.
They released me.
There are no lesions in my brain that could have caused the seizure.
They also ruled out hypoglycemia, hyponatremia and hypoxia.
Yeah, well they didn't rule out hyperbaric fucking chamber, did they? I know you're concerned, but you have to stop yelling at me.
The seizure could've been brought on by a bad infection.
Or could be a panic attack.
You went into the chamber, you're on the fucking floor drooling.
Get the others.
I remembered her name.
- What? - The girl I've been thinking of.
Her name is Nina.
Yeah? What else? Guess how many search hits I got on the name "Nina".
I figured I knew her from Roth's labs, so I entered "Nina scientist".
I got 994,000 hits.
Still nowhere.
Thank you.
So how was Washington? They still wear bow ties there.
- I like bow ties.
- I know.
You made quite the splash in DC.
- A dozen reporters want to talk to you.
- Talk but not listen.
- Did you get my email? - Which? Same as the note I left on your desk three days ago.
I can't even find my desk up there.
The X3200 microarray hybridizer is down again.
Okay, tell Wes I mean, call tech support, - and get them to deal with it.
- They don't do the 3200.
Weston made a deal with the manufacturer for support.
Wasn't Witmar bought by Dunbar? - Didn't Dunbar go bankrupt? - Okay, I get it.
X3200.
I'll deal with it.
- How was Washington? - I spent the evening with Enuka Okimba.
- You know Enuka? - Hottest virologist in the US.
Quite the reputation.
I was referring to her science.
Yes, so was I.
She's done some groundbreaking research.
A lot of high-end consulting.
And she got great set of reviews for that book.
Better than David's.
- People didn't like the message.
- Some people didn't like the messenger.
Regardless.
Enuka and I spent several hours last night going over her briefs.
She seems to think that Lefelin causes replication of viruses by inhibiting the immune system.
Viral congestive heart failure? She believes that her negative findings are being suppressed.
And I believe her.
Now, she doesn't have the resources to pursue her research.
We do.
Since we came this close to putting our stamp of approval on this drug, it would be in our best interests to take a look at what she has to say.
Beautifully designed, isn't it? You can find Lefelin in high concentrations in blood but it doesn't accumulate in any organ, even the liver, which might be expected.
This isn't chemistry, this is art.
You can see why you get great binding.
In experiments done at Harvard the drug responded brilliantly.
I know this bioinformatician at Kernwell.
He's a very respected dude.
- Not a company man.
- Except that he works there.
He's got a teaching gig starting in the new year.
Anyway, he still says the numbers on Lefelin were fabulous.
Yeah, because they cut Enuka's numbers out.
No, because Enuka is such a good virus hunter.
They redid her experiments.
The viruses were replicating before the drug was even administered.
- Enuka is wrong.
- That seems to be the theme.
There are indications of infection in some of the dead, but it's a classic case of sick people getting secondary bacterial infections as they die.
So simultaneous with but not the cause of.
Wait a minute.
Mayko's Bioinformatician dude friend at Kernwell said that there was viral DNA detected.
There was.
But none from a virus that could have caused their disease.
I've looked at the medical records of the 113 of the dead people And you hate to make diagnoses without real bodies.
- Yes.
- Just do your best.
David, I need to examine a real heart.
Okay, I'll call Enuka.
I know they did postmortem organ analysis.
No, look, I want to look at a fresh one, that nobody has dissected or contaminated.
Ditto.
It would make my work more accurate as well.
You want a real body? I will get you a real body.
Thank you.
{\ What? Really? Mr.
Dixon.
I'm David Sandstrà m from NorBAC.
My sincere condolences.
They said the drug didn't harm her.
Now she's dead.
Can you prove that it killed her? Well, we have to look at your wife's heart first.
You're not sure? Why? Why should I give you her heart? Mr.
Dixon, I think that there's evidence that suggests that Lefelin increases risk of heart attack.
I'm just trying to figure out by how much and why.
Believe me, I'd love to pull a bad drug off the shelves.
But if the drug isn't that bad.
If it improves the lives of millions of people who are suffering, we may just have to live with some deads.
"Live with some deads"? We do every time we drive a car or play hockey.
There's risk in everything.
This isn't about risk.
I just lost my wife.
I want to show you something.
Edwina, she taught phys-ed before we opened a yoga studio.
This room was filled with her students.
She taught all over the world.
She She got the lupus, and they put her on Lefelin, and she was dead within a year.
Of heart disease.
Heart disease, I mean, she was a health nut.
Her parents are both still alive.
Heart disease? Please.
- It is possible - Yeah, it's possible.
And it's also possible that Lefelin killed her.
That too.
I'm not gonna get to the bottom of this unless I can prove it.
To do that, I need to look at a heart that hasn't been autopsied.
Which means somebody who's passed away in the last few days.
You threw a cup of coffee at somebody.
Did that get you anywhere? So what's your strategy now? You got me.
- Do you have my organ? - Yeah.
So, how does it look? I don't know.
I got the heart, not the stomach.
- What? What! - David, it's been embalmed.
So? I can't do anything with this.
Medical examiners, they do autopsies on embalmed bodies all the time.
- I've been embalmed.
- Look, you can tell certain things like if arsenic is present.
But I can't do anything with this! Wes wrote up an entire protocol on organ recovery.
So now I fucked up but Wes wouldn't have, is that it? - Why do you want to do his job? - I don't want to do his jo.
I don't want anybody else to screw it up.
So you did.
David, he's not coming back.
I'll hire someone else.
Maybe we'll get lucky.
Thank you.
It would really help if we could examine some live patients.
Sure.
- Hey, how's it going? - Good.
- You're here for? - Job interview.
What's he like? David Sandstrà m? Total prick.
That's what I hear.
From? Nevermind.
David Sandstrà m.
I'm, I'm sorry, I didn't recognize your voice.
It's cool.
- Victoria Milling.
- Victoria.
Nice to meet you.
- Your CV was very impressive.
- Thank you.
I've run several private-sector labs and I think an MBA can give NorBAC a sharper, leaner attitude.
I like leaner, but sharper? Someone could get hurt.
Victoria.
I'll tell you what, I need to find somebody, on an autoimmune drug called Lefelin suffering from congestive heart failure.
- Consider it found.
- Great.
- So, where can I park myself? - The office is upstairs This is a terrible question, I'm gonna ask it anyway.
Are you pregnant? - You're not allowed to ask me that.
- Excuse me? - It's against the employment laws.
- To ask a question? It's discriminatory.
I know my rights.
Look, if I hire you, it's going to take 6 months to train you and then you are gonna fuck off for a year on maternity leave.
What about my rights? Are you pregnant? Sorry.
Riddlemeyer's on line.
I'll take a message.
So from all appearances, Edwina Dixon died from CHF.
Congestive heart failure.
The CHF is generally caused by artery disease, valve disease or congenital heart disease.
But from the cardiac pathology, I think I can rule those out.
What about hypertension? Not really consistent with her medical records.
Alright, well then it's gotta be something foreign.
We got viruses, toxins, drugs, alcohol.
No correlation among the victims for drugs and alcohol.
In fact they tend to be kind a health nuts.
Liver and kidneys were functioning properly according to hospital records.
Alright, what about viruses? They're still not finding anything in the blood or tissue samples.
There are over a hundred million viruses in a teaspoon of seawater and you can't find any in human blood? I can find antibodies but I've been through all of Enuka's samples again and I still can't find any Coxsackie B-3, Parvovirus B-19, or any CMV virus in all of heart tissue samples.
Those are the viruses associated with CHF.
Okay, maybe we're onto some sort of congestive heart failure that's caused by a virus that we thought was benign.
Come on guys, let's get creative here.
Maybe we'll, I don't know, make a scientific discovery.
Maybe some unknown virus damaged the heart muscle when they were babies.
Hundreds of them get something later on in life, they take Lefelin and they die? Possibly.
Are we missing some sort of pattern: geography, ethnicity, - non-medical conditions? - Like? I don't know.
Maybe Maybe their genetic makeup affects the body's response to Lefelin.
I think what we need is a live patient then we can test some of these ideas.
Yes, I'm on it.
Bob? You're alright? You're sure? Okay somehow damages the heart muscle when they're babies.
You're alright? You're sure? Hello? Enuka.
David Sandstrà m.
Hey, David.
How's it going up there? I really appreciate your support.
Progress is slow.
We need a living victim.
The ones I was dealing with have all died.
But with the press we got, they're forming a national organization.
"Victims of Lefelin".
I'll get someone to call you.
That'd be great.
Listen, that was fun the other night.
We should get together.
You feel like flying up for the weekend? It'd be nice.
But since the FDA hearing, five drug companies have cancelled my consulting contracts.
Payback time, eh? Subtle, huh? Without that work, I'll have to shut my lab.
Hang on just a sec.
David, listen.
- Hang on.
And subcontracting work? - My memories were all over the place, fragments, so I couldn't piece them together.
- I'm on the phone, Bob.
- Sound and picture out of sync.
Why? - Why? - I don't know either.
Enuka, I call you back.
What does this sound like? - A finger nail on a piece of metal? - See, I kept drawing.
Nina.
The lab.
Everything.
But it was all fragments.
I couldn't go anywhere.
So I switched my mode.
I decided to focus on sound.
Suddenly the memories came flooding in.
I heard her and everything.
Bob, I want you to come with me.
Nina? By hearing, I saw.
- Bob, let's go together.
- No, Nina.
Someone has to do it.
Nina's the key to unlocking the memories.
Nina will know, she'll remember.
We just have to find her! - Okay, how's the web search going? - Nothing so far.
Don't worry.
We'll find her.
Have you eaten yet? Yeah, but I can eat again.
But how will you find her if you don't even know her last name? Maybe Roth will know.
She worked at his lab.
We'll find Roth.
But, okay, how? Wes left me some contacts.
Maybe Riddlemeyer.
Look, don't worry.
I am not on anybody's side.
I just need to figure out Because I need a living patient.
Yeah, I understand.
Look, can I send them an email or something? Can I even talk to your lawyers? You know what? Fuck off! - Dr.
Sandstrà m? - You're the guy on the phone? - Yes, I'm Marlo - Here's the deal.
I need to find a living patient on a drug called Lefelin who is suffering from congestive heart failure.
Alright? But the people in charge of "Victims of Lefelin" won't let me talk to any because their class action lawyer has forbidden it.
So now you have to find me a victim even though there is no central database - for side effects to drugs.
- But You're literally gonna contact every hospital in the US.
Hope you get lucky.
- David, my staffing budget.
- Put it on my desk.
I did.
Tuesday and last Friday.
Any day now.
This is the office.
It's yours if you can get me A patient A drug called Lefelin.
Congestive heart failure.
Excellent! Now, there are 5,794 hospitals in the US, - you better get started.
- Should I take care of the 3200 first? No, the 5,794.
But on the phone you said you needed the 3200 fixed right away.
The microarray Hybridizer? Yeah.
The X3200.
Shit.
You'd better open letters first.
This is more efficient.
- You got a minute? - For you? Where's Bob? Sleeping.
We were up most of the night.
- Nina? - Nina.
Riddlemeyer keeps calling.
You never return his calls.
Do you have anything interesting to tell me? No.
Except I got you a Lefelin guy.
How? Where? French Lick, Indiana.
And no, I did not make that up.
I found him on pillskill.
org.
A website for people who think their medication is making them ill.
- Who is he? - 37-year-old father of 2.
Developed congestive heart trouble after starting on Lefelin 11 months ago.
His wife posted this tearful plea.
- What did he do? - He's a dentist.
Why was he on an autoimmune drug? Colitis.
Not severe.
His wife says he was in perfect health otherwise.
Okay.
Gonna need an MRI for Carlos, we need blood samples for Rachel.
Already ordered.
See, someone can function here without Wes.
Which brings up something I want to talk to you about.
Dr.
Sandstrà m.
Samuel King.
Okay? - We'll talk later.
- Sure.
How did you get passed security? I was a Lieutenant Colonel, USAF.
I was chair of the Advanced Science Committee for 6 years.
I retired last year.
My wife just sold her business.
So we thought we'd get out of Washington and see the world.
Well, that's fantastic, Samuel.
But this isn't a travel agency.
I was warned about your sense of humour.
- By? - Carl Riddlemeyer.
When he offered me the position of Director of Operations here.
He was supposed to set up this meeting.
- Perhaps he forgot.
- Oh no, no.
I think he made a valiant effort.
I don't mean to be rude, Samuel, but I do my own hiring around here.
And I don't give a flying fuck what Riddlemeyer does.
Yes.
There were days I wished I could've said that too.
But I've learned that Carl is about the smartest shark in Washington.
So, say and do what you want, Doctor.
But don't say you weren't warned.
Nothing personal.
Nothing is personal between 9 and 5.
Rachel, what do you got for me? Your 37-year-old dentist? No viruses known to cause Congestive heart disease.
So we're wasting our time? Maybe the drug is good.
Thanks, Rachel.
Bob.
- How's he doing? - Better.
This is from a defusion tensor-MRI.
The dentist, father of two? Now, you can see the fiber orientation.
Looks normal.
Valves look good.
Here and here, looks good.
The only odd thing is inflammation on the right side.
Odd because? Inflammation usually begins on the left side.
In fact in med school they teach you the most common cause of right-sided heart failure is left-sided heart failure.
So what does this anomaly imply? It's gotta mean something.
Yeah.
I was reading about something last night, Brugada? Brugada disease.
Yeah, it's genetic.
I tested for it.
Negative.
You know, David, I think you're supposed to try to hit the round black board.
What about pericardial cyst? Yeah, but that would show up in an X-ray.
It's not bacterial.
Not viral.
Parasites? We checked for Taenia solium.
Unknown parasites? Sure, which ones? We need a black swan.
- A what? - Karl Popper.
Philosopher.
All swans are white.
In fact swans are white by definition, until Europeans go to Australia and discover black swans.
Sometimes the impossible can happen.
Yes.
And then people say, "Of course you can fly airplanes into buildings.
" The lesson? Nothing is impossible.
What are you searching for? A black swan? No, I'm just going over the literature again.
We've ruled out coronary artery disease, hypertension, alcohol, disorders of the heart valves.
You can also add viral, thyroid, and heart rhythm disorders.
What about sodium retention? - You mean nonsteroid anti-inflammatory? - Yeah.
And calcium channel blockers.
We checked for them.
Negative.
I get a few hits here for Chagas.
I thought about that.
But only a handful of the victims have been to Mexico, and almost none to South America.
Maybe they got it in the US.
Chagas doesn't really exist in the US.
Only border states.
It's too cold.
Global warming.
Look at the Pine Beetle.
It's starting to move northwards.
Millions of acres are being devastated.
David, that's been documented.
How come Chagas moved north and nobody knew about it? Because it's a black swan.
Nobody was looking for it.
Come on, we found TB from South Africa in Chiapas.
However it found itself there, it found itself there.
What else have we got? True.
I'll get Rachel to run a PCR assay for T.
cruzi in the blood samples.
Nina Another death in a Lefelin patient.
I'll order up samples.
Here she is.
Alright, I tested one patient, Sandy Kybartas from Dover, Delaware.
Tested positive for Chagas.
Never been south of Atlanta.
Hijo! Black swan for dinner, Carlos? Or do you prefer crow? Okay, it's one patient.
- Rachel, there's more? - Yes.
So what are you guys talking about? - No, please.
- Go ahead, go ahead.
Chagas, it's a parasite from Mexico, Central and South America.
Basically a bug bites you on the lip.
And if you're really lucky, it shits on you.
Nice.
If you're really really lucky, a little protozoan that lives in the shit crawls out and into your body through the bug bite.
The parasite floats in your blood stream and multiplies in the heart.
- Yeah, right side? - Right side.
It lives there for 20, 30 years, slowly munching away on your heart till you die of congestive heart failure.
Notoriously hard to detect.
Doctors in North America wouldn't even think of looking for it.
Wait.
These people were bitten Some of them are only in their early 30s.
That's a good point.
They're on Lefelin It's an autoimmune suppressor.
So a normal immune system would've kept the bug in check.
But on Lefelin, the Chagas parasite may be allowed to proliferate.
Or the body launches an immune attack on the infected heart.
Either way, the damage is sped up.
At least that's the working hypothesis.
Right.
So, how do we prove it? Enuka.
David Sandstrà m.
- Got some preliminary news for you.
- Really? Chagas.
We found antibodies against Chagas in a new patient and in the blood of three dead.
Which is four out of four.
David, the Lefelin victims they're from all over the US.
A lot of them are from Indiana, Colorado, Illinois, Oregon.
I know, I know.
We had a big discussion about that up here.
We think climate change may be causing the disease to spread northwards.
No, I don't think conditions have changed that much.
Well it's our best guess.
I'll get back to you.
I know that face.
And that face says Global warming can't be the cause of Chagas in the US.
It's not warm enough.
See, there are the parts of the US that the weather is consistent with the bug.
- David.
- Just a sec.
It's still mostly in Florida and states that border on Mexico.
Okay.
Yeah? So medical reports of Chagas are increasing in the US.
- There you go.
You see that, Bob? - Wait, let me finish.
Chagas is increasing because of immigration.
Mexicans, Guatemalans, are heading north bringing the disease with them.
Literally, inside of their bodies.
Now for American-born, Chagas is actually decreasing.
Fuck.
CDC says Chagas is down by 11%.
I just got that report you asked for.
The bug that vectors Chagas - Yeah? - It's the assassin or kissing bug.
- Sounds like my ex.
- The real name is vinchuca.
And there is no evidence that it's spreading in the US.
Like I said, not warm enough.
- In fact, some think it's declining.
- Fewer vinchucas, less Chagas.
- Makes sense.
- Why fewer vinchucas? They like dirty places, animal pens, shelters.
So as the US becomes less agricultural, reports of the bugs are going down.
It was a good theory.
It's still rampant in Latin America though, right? Yeah, in Bolivia alone.
David, two more positives on Chagas.
Patients 21 and 13.
What the hell Okay.
How can Chagas spread other than by insect? Blood? No, the importation of blood products from Latin America is virtually non existent.
Very few of the dead have had blood transfusions.
Okay, Mayko, check it out.
What about transplant tourism? Not for autoimmune deficiencies.
Plus, that would be impossible to hide in 600 dead people.
Pregnancy.
They got it from their mothers.
- It can be passed that way.
- If they didn't go to Latin America, - maybe their mothers did.
Mayko? - I'll look into it.
- Food? - Yeah, maybe.
- Mayko? - Sure.
Why always me? Because you're good.
You're fast, too.
Okay, forget medical tourism, forget blood, pregnancy: it's food.
I think.
I just sent you an email.
Open it.
Okay.
There was an outbreak of Chagas in Brazil in 1997 linked to infected sugar cane juice.
Huge infestation of those bugs in the crops? And the sugar cane was used as a sweetener in a health drink.
What drink? Guap.
"Guap"? Guap was test-marketed in health food stores all across the US for 6 months before it was pulled due to lack of interest.
So far, Mayko has found 162 families who say their departed loved ones definitely or probably drank this stuff.
So the drug didn't make them sick.
They would've been sick anyway.
But Lefelin sped it up.
So you were right.
But Enuka was right too.
Everyone's happy.
Unfortunately, the drug will never sell in South America.
Kernwell couldn't give a shit.
Drugs in Latin America have to be sold at a lower cost, so it's no big loss.
Don't be such a cynic, Sandstrà m.
Speaking of cynics, could you please find us Olivier Roth? He's a very elusive man.
Why? Bob is looking for somebody who worked in Roth's lab.
- Nina something or other.
- Really.
Why? I dunno.
They were friends.
I'll see what I can find out.
By the way, we're being sued by a Victoria Milling.
Something to do with discrimination against pregnant women.
That's complete bullshit! I discriminate against everyone equally.
Okay, I've got a question for you.
- What's wrong with Samuel King? - I don't know, you tell me.
You want him out of Washington.
If you don't trust him, why should I? - Who said I don't trust him? - You did.
Carl, you're running for office in Virginia.
Don't you want one of your trusted confidants by your side? Sam and I have had difficulties of late.
He knows where the skeletons are.
With this Senate run, I'm not feeling his full support.
I thought it might be a good idea to have him in a cushy job thanks to me.
Well, I'm not one for baby-sitting, Carl, but I did like the guy.
So I made a couple of phone calls, there's a position at the WHO.
In Geneva.
Basically you go from capital to capital, you have lunch with health ministers.
Might be right up Sam King's alley.
What do you say? Fine.
- But you hire someone.
- My someone? What do you want? Wes's job.
- Say again.
- David, I'm organized.
I deal with reams of information.
I work harder than anyone else.
- Mayko - No, listen to me, let me finish.
I'm loyal, I'm smart, I'm good, I'm fast, you said that yourself.
You're all of those things.
You're also the best bioinformatician in North America.
I'll continue to run the department.
We just have to hire another body.
Why? Look, Caroline said one day I'd be doing this job.
One day is today.
So what do you say? Done.
I love you, David Sandstrà m! Thanks! Well.
Hello-hello.
Welcome.
- Great place.
- Thank you.
Make yourself at home.
- I'll take that.
- Thanks.
- Can I get you a glass of wine? - Sure, that'd be great.
- How's the book going? - Good.
- It's on the best seller list.
- No way.
Yeah.
Science best seller list.
Number 8.
That's like saying you're one of the top 10 bullfighters in Greenland.
Whatever! What about your book? I'm being translated.
Into English.
Bob? - Is that your dog? - No, friend of mine.
Sometimes he hides.
Does he bite? No.
Someone has to do it.
It's too dangerous.
Nina?
His Hep-C viral load is down.
Wes, they're doing some new trials.
You're in.
Thank you, Rachel.
You're not quitting, Wes.
- Yes, I am.
- We need you.
I need you.
Well, I'm in his office and it seems awfully empty.
When are you gonna hire a replacement? I don't know! These are my notes on David's report on Lefelin.
He wanted you to have a read and check the literature.
- This isn't working.
- That's okay.
What do you think about hyperbaric chambers? I'm hoping that the oxygen therapy will improve some of the memory loss that I'm having.
Well, I always add a touch of Nina Nina! In the Phase Three trial, the death rate was 2 in 10,000.
Now that Lefelin's been on the market for two years, that rate appears to be 6 in 10,000 and 600 are dead.
What went wrong? Nothing went wrong.
Four more deaths per 10,000 may sound like a lot, but it is still only 0.
06% of all users.
Lefelin is a drug for sick people and sick people die.
This drug is a huge advance over current treatment options.
Simply, the benefits outweigh the risks.
We see no reason why Lefelin should be removed from the market.
Thank you very much, Dr.
Van Horne.
Our next witness is Dr.
Enuka Okimba.
Lefelin was designed to lower the immune response in people who suffer from autoimmune diseases.
But for an unknown reason, it raises the likelihood of congestive heart failure.
Yes, the number of deaths are small.
But what if that's because Lefelin hasn't finished doing its damage? What if, in 5 or 10 years, thousands die? We have a petition from 900 rheumatologists and thousands of patients imploring us to keep the drug on the shelves.
So if you could please refer to your data? I would if I could.
But Kernwell Pharmaceuticals has shelved my data.
And I have repeatedly asked them to release it.
So what are they hiding? And why is this committee cooperating in a cover up? Thank you for your testimony.
We will have a short recess of 15 minutes.
Hey, Mayko, what's up? Hey, I'm glad I got you.
Shit, you know what? I'll have to call you back.
She wasn't nearly as impressive as I thought she'd be.
With your testimony, any fears about this drug should be abated.
So are you ready? Yeah.
You look a little concerned.
Just haven't done one of these drug reviews in a while.
Just do a précis of your report, it's a very powerful argument.
Our next witness is the chief scientist of NorBAC.
We welcome Dr.
David Sandstrà m.
Hey, how you doing? Here's our report.
Took us 3 months.
Our piece in it was to go over the original research, nine years of it and 5 years of drug trials.
We didn't do any bench science, what we did was coordinate a multi-pronged evaluation that included the work of 6 universities and 3 independent labs.
All our work suggests that this drug is safe.
However, when Kernwell asked Dr.
Okimba to consult, it was because they had a concern that Lefelin would stimulate the replication of viruses.
And after a year of research, her data supported that concern, at which point they told her her data was unacceptable and she was fired.
Now, last night I learned that Dr.
Okimba, because of confidentiality, is not allowed to refer to her research in this forum.
I, however, am not constrained by any such rule.
You were invited, Dr.
Sandstrà m, to give a verbal précis of your report.
Since you're not going to do that, this meeting is adjourned.
that's just the tip of the iceberg.
What if next year it is 6,000? Until such time as this committee gives its final report, Lefelin will remain on the market.
Thank you.
Don't worry.
The Press will grill him now.
The committee has reached the decision to keep Lefelin on the market.
That's insane.
- That drug kills people.
- Is it true that you're seeking the Republican Senate nomination in Virginia? The good people of my home state have honoured me with asking me to run.
And I'm mulling it over with my new bride.
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What's your excuse? - They're suppressing her research.
- No, they didn't suppress it, they ended it.
If you judged her with your brain and not your cock, you'd come to the same conclusion.
How much will a Senate run set you back? I don't know, about 21 million.
Let me guess, you'll accept money from Kernwell whose profit last quarter was 220 million on Lefelin alone.
And it cost them I have nothing to hide and neither does Kernwell.
If you want to take this thing on, fine.
You waste a week - and you drop it.
- When did you become reasonable? I want you to see that the system works.
Yeah, it works.
Just not for the people it needs to work for.
We need to replace Weston Field.
I'm going to send you someone.
I knew there was catch.
Thanks for the reminder, Carl, but no.
I know you want to run the lab, David, but let's face it, your talents don't lie in organization or management.
Hey, it's me, sorry I didn't get back to you.
What's up? When? - Shit.
Yeah, I'll be right there! - What's wrong? Bob had a seizure last night.
Why aren't you in the fucking hospital? - Hello, David.
- How is he? - I'm fine.
- It was just a scare.
They released me.
There are no lesions in my brain that could have caused the seizure.
They also ruled out hypoglycemia, hyponatremia and hypoxia.
Yeah, well they didn't rule out hyperbaric fucking chamber, did they? I know you're concerned, but you have to stop yelling at me.
The seizure could've been brought on by a bad infection.
Or could be a panic attack.
You went into the chamber, you're on the fucking floor drooling.
Get the others.
I remembered her name.
- What? - The girl I've been thinking of.
Her name is Nina.
Yeah? What else? Guess how many search hits I got on the name "Nina".
I figured I knew her from Roth's labs, so I entered "Nina scientist".
I got 994,000 hits.
Still nowhere.
Thank you.
So how was Washington? They still wear bow ties there.
- I like bow ties.
- I know.
You made quite the splash in DC.
- A dozen reporters want to talk to you.
- Talk but not listen.
- Did you get my email? - Which? Same as the note I left on your desk three days ago.
I can't even find my desk up there.
The X3200 microarray hybridizer is down again.
Okay, tell Wes I mean, call tech support, - and get them to deal with it.
- They don't do the 3200.
Weston made a deal with the manufacturer for support.
Wasn't Witmar bought by Dunbar? - Didn't Dunbar go bankrupt? - Okay, I get it.
X3200.
I'll deal with it.
- How was Washington? - I spent the evening with Enuka Okimba.
- You know Enuka? - Hottest virologist in the US.
Quite the reputation.
I was referring to her science.
Yes, so was I.
She's done some groundbreaking research.
A lot of high-end consulting.
And she got great set of reviews for that book.
Better than David's.
- People didn't like the message.
- Some people didn't like the messenger.
Regardless.
Enuka and I spent several hours last night going over her briefs.
She seems to think that Lefelin causes replication of viruses by inhibiting the immune system.
Viral congestive heart failure? She believes that her negative findings are being suppressed.
And I believe her.
Now, she doesn't have the resources to pursue her research.
We do.
Since we came this close to putting our stamp of approval on this drug, it would be in our best interests to take a look at what she has to say.
Beautifully designed, isn't it? You can find Lefelin in high concentrations in blood but it doesn't accumulate in any organ, even the liver, which might be expected.
This isn't chemistry, this is art.
You can see why you get great binding.
In experiments done at Harvard the drug responded brilliantly.
I know this bioinformatician at Kernwell.
He's a very respected dude.
- Not a company man.
- Except that he works there.
He's got a teaching gig starting in the new year.
Anyway, he still says the numbers on Lefelin were fabulous.
Yeah, because they cut Enuka's numbers out.
No, because Enuka is such a good virus hunter.
They redid her experiments.
The viruses were replicating before the drug was even administered.
- Enuka is wrong.
- That seems to be the theme.
There are indications of infection in some of the dead, but it's a classic case of sick people getting secondary bacterial infections as they die.
So simultaneous with but not the cause of.
Wait a minute.
Mayko's Bioinformatician dude friend at Kernwell said that there was viral DNA detected.
There was.
But none from a virus that could have caused their disease.
I've looked at the medical records of the 113 of the dead people And you hate to make diagnoses without real bodies.
- Yes.
- Just do your best.
David, I need to examine a real heart.
Okay, I'll call Enuka.
I know they did postmortem organ analysis.
No, look, I want to look at a fresh one, that nobody has dissected or contaminated.
Ditto.
It would make my work more accurate as well.
You want a real body? I will get you a real body.
Thank you.
{\ What? Really? Mr.
Dixon.
I'm David Sandstrà m from NorBAC.
My sincere condolences.
They said the drug didn't harm her.
Now she's dead.
Can you prove that it killed her? Well, we have to look at your wife's heart first.
You're not sure? Why? Why should I give you her heart? Mr.
Dixon, I think that there's evidence that suggests that Lefelin increases risk of heart attack.
I'm just trying to figure out by how much and why.
Believe me, I'd love to pull a bad drug off the shelves.
But if the drug isn't that bad.
If it improves the lives of millions of people who are suffering, we may just have to live with some deads.
"Live with some deads"? We do every time we drive a car or play hockey.
There's risk in everything.
This isn't about risk.
I just lost my wife.
I want to show you something.
Edwina, she taught phys-ed before we opened a yoga studio.
This room was filled with her students.
She taught all over the world.
She She got the lupus, and they put her on Lefelin, and she was dead within a year.
Of heart disease.
Heart disease, I mean, she was a health nut.
Her parents are both still alive.
Heart disease? Please.
- It is possible - Yeah, it's possible.
And it's also possible that Lefelin killed her.
That too.
I'm not gonna get to the bottom of this unless I can prove it.
To do that, I need to look at a heart that hasn't been autopsied.
Which means somebody who's passed away in the last few days.
You threw a cup of coffee at somebody.
Did that get you anywhere? So what's your strategy now? You got me.
- Do you have my organ? - Yeah.
So, how does it look? I don't know.
I got the heart, not the stomach.
- What? What! - David, it's been embalmed.
So? I can't do anything with this.
Medical examiners, they do autopsies on embalmed bodies all the time.
- I've been embalmed.
- Look, you can tell certain things like if arsenic is present.
But I can't do anything with this! Wes wrote up an entire protocol on organ recovery.
So now I fucked up but Wes wouldn't have, is that it? - Why do you want to do his job? - I don't want to do his jo.
I don't want anybody else to screw it up.
So you did.
David, he's not coming back.
I'll hire someone else.
Maybe we'll get lucky.
Thank you.
It would really help if we could examine some live patients.
Sure.
- Hey, how's it going? - Good.
- You're here for? - Job interview.
What's he like? David Sandstrà m? Total prick.
That's what I hear.
From? Nevermind.
David Sandstrà m.
I'm, I'm sorry, I didn't recognize your voice.
It's cool.
- Victoria Milling.
- Victoria.
Nice to meet you.
- Your CV was very impressive.
- Thank you.
I've run several private-sector labs and I think an MBA can give NorBAC a sharper, leaner attitude.
I like leaner, but sharper? Someone could get hurt.
Victoria.
I'll tell you what, I need to find somebody, on an autoimmune drug called Lefelin suffering from congestive heart failure.
- Consider it found.
- Great.
- So, where can I park myself? - The office is upstairs This is a terrible question, I'm gonna ask it anyway.
Are you pregnant? - You're not allowed to ask me that.
- Excuse me? - It's against the employment laws.
- To ask a question? It's discriminatory.
I know my rights.
Look, if I hire you, it's going to take 6 months to train you and then you are gonna fuck off for a year on maternity leave.
What about my rights? Are you pregnant? Sorry.
Riddlemeyer's on line.
I'll take a message.
So from all appearances, Edwina Dixon died from CHF.
Congestive heart failure.
The CHF is generally caused by artery disease, valve disease or congenital heart disease.
But from the cardiac pathology, I think I can rule those out.
What about hypertension? Not really consistent with her medical records.
Alright, well then it's gotta be something foreign.
We got viruses, toxins, drugs, alcohol.
No correlation among the victims for drugs and alcohol.
In fact they tend to be kind a health nuts.
Liver and kidneys were functioning properly according to hospital records.
Alright, what about viruses? They're still not finding anything in the blood or tissue samples.
There are over a hundred million viruses in a teaspoon of seawater and you can't find any in human blood? I can find antibodies but I've been through all of Enuka's samples again and I still can't find any Coxsackie B-3, Parvovirus B-19, or any CMV virus in all of heart tissue samples.
Those are the viruses associated with CHF.
Okay, maybe we're onto some sort of congestive heart failure that's caused by a virus that we thought was benign.
Come on guys, let's get creative here.
Maybe we'll, I don't know, make a scientific discovery.
Maybe some unknown virus damaged the heart muscle when they were babies.
Hundreds of them get something later on in life, they take Lefelin and they die? Possibly.
Are we missing some sort of pattern: geography, ethnicity, - non-medical conditions? - Like? I don't know.
Maybe Maybe their genetic makeup affects the body's response to Lefelin.
I think what we need is a live patient then we can test some of these ideas.
Yes, I'm on it.
Bob? You're alright? You're sure? Okay somehow damages the heart muscle when they're babies.
You're alright? You're sure? Hello? Enuka.
David Sandstrà m.
Hey, David.
How's it going up there? I really appreciate your support.
Progress is slow.
We need a living victim.
The ones I was dealing with have all died.
But with the press we got, they're forming a national organization.
"Victims of Lefelin".
I'll get someone to call you.
That'd be great.
Listen, that was fun the other night.
We should get together.
You feel like flying up for the weekend? It'd be nice.
But since the FDA hearing, five drug companies have cancelled my consulting contracts.
Payback time, eh? Subtle, huh? Without that work, I'll have to shut my lab.
Hang on just a sec.
David, listen.
- Hang on.
And subcontracting work? - My memories were all over the place, fragments, so I couldn't piece them together.
- I'm on the phone, Bob.
- Sound and picture out of sync.
Why? - Why? - I don't know either.
Enuka, I call you back.
What does this sound like? - A finger nail on a piece of metal? - See, I kept drawing.
Nina.
The lab.
Everything.
But it was all fragments.
I couldn't go anywhere.
So I switched my mode.
I decided to focus on sound.
Suddenly the memories came flooding in.
I heard her and everything.
Bob, I want you to come with me.
Nina? By hearing, I saw.
- Bob, let's go together.
- No, Nina.
Someone has to do it.
Nina's the key to unlocking the memories.
Nina will know, she'll remember.
We just have to find her! - Okay, how's the web search going? - Nothing so far.
Don't worry.
We'll find her.
Have you eaten yet? Yeah, but I can eat again.
But how will you find her if you don't even know her last name? Maybe Roth will know.
She worked at his lab.
We'll find Roth.
But, okay, how? Wes left me some contacts.
Maybe Riddlemeyer.
Look, don't worry.
I am not on anybody's side.
I just need to figure out Because I need a living patient.
Yeah, I understand.
Look, can I send them an email or something? Can I even talk to your lawyers? You know what? Fuck off! - Dr.
Sandstrà m? - You're the guy on the phone? - Yes, I'm Marlo - Here's the deal.
I need to find a living patient on a drug called Lefelin who is suffering from congestive heart failure.
Alright? But the people in charge of "Victims of Lefelin" won't let me talk to any because their class action lawyer has forbidden it.
So now you have to find me a victim even though there is no central database - for side effects to drugs.
- But You're literally gonna contact every hospital in the US.
Hope you get lucky.
- David, my staffing budget.
- Put it on my desk.
I did.
Tuesday and last Friday.
Any day now.
This is the office.
It's yours if you can get me A patient A drug called Lefelin.
Congestive heart failure.
Excellent! Now, there are 5,794 hospitals in the US, - you better get started.
- Should I take care of the 3200 first? No, the 5,794.
But on the phone you said you needed the 3200 fixed right away.
The microarray Hybridizer? Yeah.
The X3200.
Shit.
You'd better open letters first.
This is more efficient.
- You got a minute? - For you? Where's Bob? Sleeping.
We were up most of the night.
- Nina? - Nina.
Riddlemeyer keeps calling.
You never return his calls.
Do you have anything interesting to tell me? No.
Except I got you a Lefelin guy.
How? Where? French Lick, Indiana.
And no, I did not make that up.
I found him on pillskill.
org.
A website for people who think their medication is making them ill.
- Who is he? - 37-year-old father of 2.
Developed congestive heart trouble after starting on Lefelin 11 months ago.
His wife posted this tearful plea.
- What did he do? - He's a dentist.
Why was he on an autoimmune drug? Colitis.
Not severe.
His wife says he was in perfect health otherwise.
Okay.
Gonna need an MRI for Carlos, we need blood samples for Rachel.
Already ordered.
See, someone can function here without Wes.
Which brings up something I want to talk to you about.
Dr.
Sandstrà m.
Samuel King.
Okay? - We'll talk later.
- Sure.
How did you get passed security? I was a Lieutenant Colonel, USAF.
I was chair of the Advanced Science Committee for 6 years.
I retired last year.
My wife just sold her business.
So we thought we'd get out of Washington and see the world.
Well, that's fantastic, Samuel.
But this isn't a travel agency.
I was warned about your sense of humour.
- By? - Carl Riddlemeyer.
When he offered me the position of Director of Operations here.
He was supposed to set up this meeting.
- Perhaps he forgot.
- Oh no, no.
I think he made a valiant effort.
I don't mean to be rude, Samuel, but I do my own hiring around here.
And I don't give a flying fuck what Riddlemeyer does.
Yes.
There were days I wished I could've said that too.
But I've learned that Carl is about the smartest shark in Washington.
So, say and do what you want, Doctor.
But don't say you weren't warned.
Nothing personal.
Nothing is personal between 9 and 5.
Rachel, what do you got for me? Your 37-year-old dentist? No viruses known to cause Congestive heart disease.
So we're wasting our time? Maybe the drug is good.
Thanks, Rachel.
Bob.
- How's he doing? - Better.
This is from a defusion tensor-MRI.
The dentist, father of two? Now, you can see the fiber orientation.
Looks normal.
Valves look good.
Here and here, looks good.
The only odd thing is inflammation on the right side.
Odd because? Inflammation usually begins on the left side.
In fact in med school they teach you the most common cause of right-sided heart failure is left-sided heart failure.
So what does this anomaly imply? It's gotta mean something.
Yeah.
I was reading about something last night, Brugada? Brugada disease.
Yeah, it's genetic.
I tested for it.
Negative.
You know, David, I think you're supposed to try to hit the round black board.
What about pericardial cyst? Yeah, but that would show up in an X-ray.
It's not bacterial.
Not viral.
Parasites? We checked for Taenia solium.
Unknown parasites? Sure, which ones? We need a black swan.
- A what? - Karl Popper.
Philosopher.
All swans are white.
In fact swans are white by definition, until Europeans go to Australia and discover black swans.
Sometimes the impossible can happen.
Yes.
And then people say, "Of course you can fly airplanes into buildings.
" The lesson? Nothing is impossible.
What are you searching for? A black swan? No, I'm just going over the literature again.
We've ruled out coronary artery disease, hypertension, alcohol, disorders of the heart valves.
You can also add viral, thyroid, and heart rhythm disorders.
What about sodium retention? - You mean nonsteroid anti-inflammatory? - Yeah.
And calcium channel blockers.
We checked for them.
Negative.
I get a few hits here for Chagas.
I thought about that.
But only a handful of the victims have been to Mexico, and almost none to South America.
Maybe they got it in the US.
Chagas doesn't really exist in the US.
Only border states.
It's too cold.
Global warming.
Look at the Pine Beetle.
It's starting to move northwards.
Millions of acres are being devastated.
David, that's been documented.
How come Chagas moved north and nobody knew about it? Because it's a black swan.
Nobody was looking for it.
Come on, we found TB from South Africa in Chiapas.
However it found itself there, it found itself there.
What else have we got? True.
I'll get Rachel to run a PCR assay for T.
cruzi in the blood samples.
Nina Another death in a Lefelin patient.
I'll order up samples.
Here she is.
Alright, I tested one patient, Sandy Kybartas from Dover, Delaware.
Tested positive for Chagas.
Never been south of Atlanta.
Hijo! Black swan for dinner, Carlos? Or do you prefer crow? Okay, it's one patient.
- Rachel, there's more? - Yes.
So what are you guys talking about? - No, please.
- Go ahead, go ahead.
Chagas, it's a parasite from Mexico, Central and South America.
Basically a bug bites you on the lip.
And if you're really lucky, it shits on you.
Nice.
If you're really really lucky, a little protozoan that lives in the shit crawls out and into your body through the bug bite.
The parasite floats in your blood stream and multiplies in the heart.
- Yeah, right side? - Right side.
It lives there for 20, 30 years, slowly munching away on your heart till you die of congestive heart failure.
Notoriously hard to detect.
Doctors in North America wouldn't even think of looking for it.
Wait.
These people were bitten Some of them are only in their early 30s.
That's a good point.
They're on Lefelin It's an autoimmune suppressor.
So a normal immune system would've kept the bug in check.
But on Lefelin, the Chagas parasite may be allowed to proliferate.
Or the body launches an immune attack on the infected heart.
Either way, the damage is sped up.
At least that's the working hypothesis.
Right.
So, how do we prove it? Enuka.
David Sandstrà m.
- Got some preliminary news for you.
- Really? Chagas.
We found antibodies against Chagas in a new patient and in the blood of three dead.
Which is four out of four.
David, the Lefelin victims they're from all over the US.
A lot of them are from Indiana, Colorado, Illinois, Oregon.
I know, I know.
We had a big discussion about that up here.
We think climate change may be causing the disease to spread northwards.
No, I don't think conditions have changed that much.
Well it's our best guess.
I'll get back to you.
I know that face.
And that face says Global warming can't be the cause of Chagas in the US.
It's not warm enough.
See, there are the parts of the US that the weather is consistent with the bug.
- David.
- Just a sec.
It's still mostly in Florida and states that border on Mexico.
Okay.
Yeah? So medical reports of Chagas are increasing in the US.
- There you go.
You see that, Bob? - Wait, let me finish.
Chagas is increasing because of immigration.
Mexicans, Guatemalans, are heading north bringing the disease with them.
Literally, inside of their bodies.
Now for American-born, Chagas is actually decreasing.
Fuck.
CDC says Chagas is down by 11%.
I just got that report you asked for.
The bug that vectors Chagas - Yeah? - It's the assassin or kissing bug.
- Sounds like my ex.
- The real name is vinchuca.
And there is no evidence that it's spreading in the US.
Like I said, not warm enough.
- In fact, some think it's declining.
- Fewer vinchucas, less Chagas.
- Makes sense.
- Why fewer vinchucas? They like dirty places, animal pens, shelters.
So as the US becomes less agricultural, reports of the bugs are going down.
It was a good theory.
It's still rampant in Latin America though, right? Yeah, in Bolivia alone.
David, two more positives on Chagas.
Patients 21 and 13.
What the hell Okay.
How can Chagas spread other than by insect? Blood? No, the importation of blood products from Latin America is virtually non existent.
Very few of the dead have had blood transfusions.
Okay, Mayko, check it out.
What about transplant tourism? Not for autoimmune deficiencies.
Plus, that would be impossible to hide in 600 dead people.
Pregnancy.
They got it from their mothers.
- It can be passed that way.
- If they didn't go to Latin America, - maybe their mothers did.
Mayko? - I'll look into it.
- Food? - Yeah, maybe.
- Mayko? - Sure.
Why always me? Because you're good.
You're fast, too.
Okay, forget medical tourism, forget blood, pregnancy: it's food.
I think.
I just sent you an email.
Open it.
Okay.
There was an outbreak of Chagas in Brazil in 1997 linked to infected sugar cane juice.
Huge infestation of those bugs in the crops? And the sugar cane was used as a sweetener in a health drink.
What drink? Guap.
"Guap"? Guap was test-marketed in health food stores all across the US for 6 months before it was pulled due to lack of interest.
So far, Mayko has found 162 families who say their departed loved ones definitely or probably drank this stuff.
So the drug didn't make them sick.
They would've been sick anyway.
But Lefelin sped it up.
So you were right.
But Enuka was right too.
Everyone's happy.
Unfortunately, the drug will never sell in South America.
Kernwell couldn't give a shit.
Drugs in Latin America have to be sold at a lower cost, so it's no big loss.
Don't be such a cynic, Sandstrà m.
Speaking of cynics, could you please find us Olivier Roth? He's a very elusive man.
Why? Bob is looking for somebody who worked in Roth's lab.
- Nina something or other.
- Really.
Why? I dunno.
They were friends.
I'll see what I can find out.
By the way, we're being sued by a Victoria Milling.
Something to do with discrimination against pregnant women.
That's complete bullshit! I discriminate against everyone equally.
Okay, I've got a question for you.
- What's wrong with Samuel King? - I don't know, you tell me.
You want him out of Washington.
If you don't trust him, why should I? - Who said I don't trust him? - You did.
Carl, you're running for office in Virginia.
Don't you want one of your trusted confidants by your side? Sam and I have had difficulties of late.
He knows where the skeletons are.
With this Senate run, I'm not feeling his full support.
I thought it might be a good idea to have him in a cushy job thanks to me.
Well, I'm not one for baby-sitting, Carl, but I did like the guy.
So I made a couple of phone calls, there's a position at the WHO.
In Geneva.
Basically you go from capital to capital, you have lunch with health ministers.
Might be right up Sam King's alley.
What do you say? Fine.
- But you hire someone.
- My someone? What do you want? Wes's job.
- Say again.
- David, I'm organized.
I deal with reams of information.
I work harder than anyone else.
- Mayko - No, listen to me, let me finish.
I'm loyal, I'm smart, I'm good, I'm fast, you said that yourself.
You're all of those things.
You're also the best bioinformatician in North America.
I'll continue to run the department.
We just have to hire another body.
Why? Look, Caroline said one day I'd be doing this job.
One day is today.
So what do you say? Done.
I love you, David Sandstrà m! Thanks! Well.
Hello-hello.
Welcome.
- Great place.
- Thank you.
Make yourself at home.
- I'll take that.
- Thanks.
- Can I get you a glass of wine? - Sure, that'd be great.
- How's the book going? - Good.
- It's on the best seller list.
- No way.
Yeah.
Science best seller list.
Number 8.
That's like saying you're one of the top 10 bullfighters in Greenland.
Whatever! What about your book? I'm being translated.
Into English.
Bob? - Is that your dog? - No, friend of mine.
Sometimes he hides.
Does he bite? No.
Someone has to do it.
It's too dangerous.
Nina?