Crew member, possibly the sole survivor,
has been brought here to the Highlands Medical Center.
It is thought he will be treated and, naturally, questioned.
Please stay tuned. We'll bring you updates as they happen.
Inhalation therapy. Four West, please.
Inhalation therapy. Four West.
Excuse. The... The sound on the TV.
The sound is not working, sir.
Please, I just want to... Back in the line. Sound is not working. I told you.
Ah, no. Please.
I just... In the line, please.
Get out of my store. No, I...
Okay, that's it. Get out.
Get out now. Sorry.
Get out of my store.
Sorry.
Don't bring me any more problems today.
I need a shipment report right now. All right, let's lock it down. No one in or out.
Yes, sir.
We're working in conjunction with the fire department here. I want you to break them into teams, all right?
You take control of that. You make sure you get every inch of this place covered.
Yeah, we got it. How's it going, Chief?
Good. Let's gather round. I've got the sheets here.
Have your men been briefed? Yes.
All right, guys. This is the number we're looking for.
Everybody take a sheet. You find this container as soon as you can.
You do not touch it. You do not open it.
You don't meddle with it at all. You understand? Yes, sir.
Bring it back to me. Let's go. Move it.
Yes, sir.
The container's serial number is...
8654-64328.
And if I am right, it's got enough smallpox...
to cause tens or hundreds of thousands of fatalities in this city.
Many more nationwide.
The field report.
And don't leave anything out.
They found the container.
That's confirmed?
Let me know if they find something. Cool.
They found the container in Seattle.
The port's being locked down until Hazmat can take a look at it.
They still have to open it up.
And we still need this field report.
All right.
Way to go, Mike.
Hey, my friend. How are you?
I need to get in here.
Uh, the hospital?
Why? Do whatever you have to do. I-I need some help.
Okay. Well, if you want to visit someone, why not just go in there?
No. I-I need uniform. I need to be cleaner, something.
Do whatever you have to do.
Okay.
Why?
There are people who can help if you ask the right way.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Okay, okay, okay. I'll see what I can do.
Okay.
Starting to sweep the container.
You realize that we just closed down the third-busiest port in the United States.
And if they don't find what they're looking for,
you've got yourself $10 million worth of heroin to talk your way out of.
They'll find it,
or someone's gonna have to explain how they nearly got me killed out there.
Four West, please. Inhalation therapy, Four West.
Where you going?
Uh, to clean the bathroom.
Yeah, okay.
You were on ship, yes?
Yes.
What happened on that ship? What do you mean?
My w... Hey.
Please.
I don't want to hurt you. Okay?
My wife and daughter died on that ship.
You're the only one who can help.
You will help me, yes? Promise?
- Mm-hmm. - Please.
I... I don't hurt.
Please.
My wife and daughter, did you remember them?
I need you to help me.
If I tell you, you'll get me outta here?
I'll try.
Can you do it?
Get me outta here.
Yes.
You help me, I will help you.
- What do you wanna know? - Something bad happened on the boat.
Yeah. How it started?
Where did it start?
We were two days out. The captain checked the container.
He found six more illegals than he'd agreed to carry.
I don't understand.
He thought he was being cheated.
What? There were drugs involved.
He made a deal.
Half a kilo of heroin for every illegal.
Now he wanted one kilo each and two kilos for each of the extras.
Do you think anybody's gonna do business with you again?
He wouldn't pay.
What man? Who? Who wouldn't pay?
The man who arranged the shipment.
He said it wasn't his problem.
You sure you wanna hear all this?
Tell me. Tell me everything you know.
The captain tried to call his bluff.
He said in that case,
he'd make sure he delivered only as many people as he'd agreed to.
He shot one.
Then another.
He kept shooting them. It didn't make a difference. The man wouldn't pay.
He'd hear them being shot on the phone. He didn't care.
Nobody tried to stop it.
He had the gun.
Did you see them? Do you remember them?
There were so many. I don't know.
What I don't understand, how did the ship go down?
We hit a reef, sprung a plate. I don't know.
Get me outta here.
You promised. I don't understand.
The ship go down, people shooting. Why?
I don't know.
Okay. Who is he? Who is the man who doesn't pay extra?
I'm just crew. Did... Did you hear a name?
The captain must have said something. I didn't wanna listen.
But you were there. It was just business.
Not business. Look. Look.
He was American.
American and something else. Chinese maybe.
Where he's calling from?
The Northwest. Seattle, Portland, something like that, some...
Where... Where is he calling from?
Somewhere where we were heading. Give me a name.
I need a name. Captain called him...
Ronny.
"You trying to screw me, Ronny?
Pull a fast one this time, Ronny?" Yes. Yes.
Another name, a second name.
Uh, "Double-cross me, you think you're gonna do...
anyone's gonna do business with Ronny Chow again?"
Cho. Ronny. Ronny Cho.
Chan. Chow. Something like that.
Look. Get me outta here. Now!
No. No. No!
No! No! No! No!
Where is he? Come here.
You can't see him now. You shouldn't be here.
Don't tell me I can't see him. Carole.
Look. I know how this is supposed to go, okay? I'm a well trained D.E.A. wife.
I know all the rules. I've played by the rules for 15 years.
They don't work. Now, he takes off, I don't ask where.
He comes back a mess, and we pretend everything's okay until the phone rings again?
Enough! I wanna see him now.
Is that it? That's it.
All of it. All of it.
Names, dates, amounts, route you took, everything?
It's all there.
You wanna put a name to who you suspect?
No.
You wanna take a guess?
I just wanna stop smallpox from spreading in the city...
that I just moved my wife and son into.
You know, this is either gonna make you a hero or get you sent down for 20 years.
Uh, excuse me. Carole's here.
Broaching 678 now.
Initial observation.
Negative.
Sweetie. Oh, Mike.
Thank God. They're just looking for something.
Once they find it, it'll be okay. It'll be all over.
Yeah, the truck's clean. There's nothing here.
Yes, sir.
Pack it up. We're moving out.
Where's Tyler? He's off with some girl.
Listen. I was followed. We were bugged.
I hate to break this up.
We have some unfinished business. About what?
There's a slight problem.
What?
Okay, why don't you wait outside with Brent. It won't take long, okay?
Are you sure? Yeah. It's all right. It's okay.
Give her anything she needs, Brent. Okay.
Thanks.
Okay.
It'll be all right. Let's just... just come on over here and sit down, okay?
Is he gonna be okay? It's gonna be all right.
Okay, so... so what's the problem?
I have to check that container number again.
8654-64328.
Is it possible you dropped a number somewhere?
Well, unless you copied it down wrong, no.
- Shipped here, Port of Seattle? - Yeah, right.
Hazmat took it apart, searched every inch.
- Okay. - It's clean.
It's clean? Yeah, clean. No metal barrels. No glass containers.
Nothing that even remotely matches what you told me.
So where is it? Where's the smallpox?
Where's the container that it's supposed to be in?
Did he mention anything about what went down?
No. God, no.
We didn't even have a chance to talk. She came right in.
I'm keeping my office here, but as far as you're concerned, I'm out of the garment business.
We'll be sorry to see you go.
Look. Don't call me for any advice. I don't need to know.
All you need to do is keep running the business,
call me from time to time and check in.
Thanks very much, Ben. I appreciate it. All right.
Good luck. Take care, man.
Just what in the hell were you doing out there, Mike,
if it wasn't trying to get your hands on $10 million worth of heroin?
I'd like to know.
Got it. Nothing.
I closed the entire port down.
I put my job on the line. I put the D.E.A. on the line, and we have nothing to show for it.
You know, maybe we should try this again, okay?
And this time let's try it with all the facts.
It's on that container, 'cause the information's good.
It doesn't square with what they found or what they didn't find.
I've got a lot of explaining to do, but not half as much as you do.
It's there.
I know it's there.
They've opened the port again.
Hey, any messages? Hi. No, not so far.
The computer's up and running? Mm-hmm.
- Good. Hey, thanks, all right? - You're welcome.
- Hello. - Where's the container?
It's there.
Checked it myself. Is there a problem?
Yeah, there's a problem. They closed the port down. They're not letting anything in or out.
Must be some kind of labor strike or something. Happens all the time.
Listen. I-I got an idea. I wanna run it by you. You got a minute?
Hey, uh... Hey, Jennifer.
I wanna get one of those, uh, espresso machines.
You know, the big, kind of shiny... the good ones. Okay.
Yeah, for clients and stuff like that. We'll put it out in the lobby.
Okay. I'll get right on it. Thanks.
Who is it?
It's me...Abdul.
Hey.
I'll give you one last chance to alter this.
Tell us what you were really doing out there.
Okay, you know, you leave me no choice.
He's all yours.
Excuse me.
In this country, I'm a janitor.
In my own country, I trained for three years to be a doctor...
before the war came.
You? Teacher.
What is the lesson for today, teacher?
Angie!
Angie! Hey!
No.
Come here. Angie, wake up. No.
Wake up! Help!
Help!
Somebody help! Angie, wake up.
- Hey. - Hey. Look.
What's going on? It's gonna be a while.
This is an administrative procedure, in line with the opening of a formal disciplinary action against you.
It does not preclude any civil or criminal action which may result from further investigation.
Do you understand your rights?
There's nothing you can do here. No, I wanna wait here.
Hello?
Mom, look, I need you. I need you right now. You gotta come and meet up with me.
Angie's in trouble. She's foaming at the mouth, Mom. I think she's passed out.
- And I need you to come here right now and help me. - Tyler, where are you?
I'm in an old... I'm in an old bank at Pike and Main. I need you to come here now.
Listen, Tyler. Calm down. Listen to me. Please, come here now.
Dial 911. You do everything they say. No, I can't, Mom. Listen to me.
Listen to me. I need you. I don't need cops, okay? Angie did heroin.
What? I'm in trouble right now. She's in trouble. I need you.
Tyler, stay put. Tyler, stay put.
Okay, I'm on my way. I'm on my way. I'm on my way.
Hurry.
I've got a deal for you. What do you say you guys do the paperwork?
Yeah, thanks a lot.
Dispatch, this is 10-41. We got another one.
We got another one, guys. Get... Get on the horn and get them back.
I don't know why they closed the port down.
I don't know why they're searching containers, but it's nothing to do with me...
- or the stuff I'm bringing in for you. No excuses, Ronny.
I pay you well to do a job, and I expect you to get it done. Yes. Look.
Whatever they're looking for, it is nothing that can lead to any of my clients, all right?
I'll personally guarantee that. You disappoint me, Ronny.
You can find him? This man.
This is America, my friend.
Everything's possible for a price.
Everything I saved. Everything for the new life.
Take it.
Just find me this man, this Cho. This Ronny Cho.
No, I can't do this. I gotta go. I can't do this.
Please, take it.
Nothing I can do, Ronny. They're back.
There ain't nothing getting in and out of this place. I don't care.
A lot of people rely on me, and they don't like delay.
And they definitely don't like cops opening those boxes,
because you never know what they might find, right?
Here's one.
It's not just this case. We got a record of leaks...
that compromise a half-dozen cases over the past two years.
Someone's been selling everything from, uh, early warnings on raids to...
Details on security procedures.
This is a National Reconnaissance Office intercept here, Mike.
It's a phone conversation between an Afghan warlord and one of his guys in Kabul.
They're talking about how much to offer for a list of all ethnic Afghans recruited for undercover work by the agency.
The guy in Kabul, Mike, says it's a genuine offer.
You put all those lives at risk. How much?
Including some of our own people. Is it worth it, Mike?
Hold on, guys. Found two containers with the same serial number.
Another four show up on trucking company records.
Some of them have left the port. We're trying to trace them.
We have full interagency cooperation on this.
It's the real deal. We put out a dragnet.
And Homeland Security's on this, as well as the interstate police.
Okay.
They closed it down again?
Yes. They're searching the containers again. There's nothing I can do.
I want you to find out what they're looking for!
Yes. They've shut down the port again.
I know. I've got somebody working on it.
They're pulling your trucks over. They know. You understand me? No.
No, I didn't know they were pulling trucks off the road. Look.
I will handle this. You're disappointing me, Ronny.
You have to give me more time. Do you know what this is costing me? Time?
You don't have more time. We had a deal, and you're blowing it.
Everything okay?
Yeah, you know. We all have somebody to answer to.
All right, so listen. I got a great idea.
I found a hundred thousand square feet with 300 units.
We fake as many leases as we need to handle the money that's coming in.
On the books, it shows that they're rented. They pay in cash.
You pay the taxes. We're home free.
Here, it... I'm gonna be gone a couple days, all right?
- Hey, uh, come by the office. - Yeah, next week sometime.
So they find out that I've turned Fazal around.
It's too late to pull the container off the ship.
- So what do they do? - Hey, Brent.
We're gonna need your phone logs, your diary and a list of contacts over the last six months, okay?
Yeah. We need to double-check his version...
of what he was doing out there and who he was dealing with.
I got it.
Why the duplicate containers?
It's a decoy.
One, two, three, whatever. It could be a dozen.
All they gotta do is tell their people to slap the same serial number on the side, and we're running around in circles.
- Let's check with the map. - Meanwhile, the real container's out there somewhere with the smallpox.
It's a classic smuggling technique.
You send in 20, 30 mules empty-handed, you swamp the system.
While the one guy with the stuff under his shirt gets through.
Get C.D.C. That one container's out there somewhere.
And it's in the city.
What are you doing?
There are seven containers with the same serial number.
Seattle is shut tight again. They're stopping all ships from heading in.
Then they'll start searching the ones that are still at sea.
Also shutting down all the other West Coast ports: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach.
And the hospitals have been alerted to a possible smallpox outbreak.
I mean, it's already starting to look like the Normandy invasion out there.
There are 311 authorized crossing points into the continental United States.
They're closing them down.
Homeland Security has put the nation on orange alert.
The C.D.C. is on board, and they're starting to get ready to vaccinate the entire populations...
of Washington State, Oregon and California.
They've already closed down all the airports in the West...
LAX, Sea Tac, San Francisco.
And by the end of today, all air and rail travel will be frozen nationwide.
They're also trying to figure out how to shut down all the interstates...
east to west, north to south.
Pretty soon it's gonna be the biggest traffic jam in the history of global commerce,
because nothing and nobody is moving out there.
So I guess you have to agree that, uh, we're listening to you now.
Isler. That's confirmed?
First case of smallpox has just been confirmed.
Uh-huh. My good side.
Is that for me? Uh, did a Mr. Cho call?
No.
You have no new messages. Hey, Sue.
Has a Mr. Cho called for me?
And the two points where you can get in and out of this parking lot.
That's right. All right. Let's get this one area marked off.
All right.
What about our cars? What are we gonna do? I gotta get my car out of the lot.
Sorry, sir. This place is off-limits for some time.
Hey, what's up? You need anything or what?
Hey, I got all the things you need right here.
Hey, you don't gotta go up in there. Hey, come here, girl. Yo, I'm talkin' to you.
Mom, come here.
Oh, God. Oh, man. It's okay. She's okay.
She's gonna be okay. She's not even breathing.
It's all right. Angie?
Come on. Come on.
Where's Carole? She left.
Just like that? Yeah. She got a call from Tyler and split.
Did she say anything? No.
Number two confirmed.
Come on. Come on. Come on!
It's okay. She's gonna be okay. Hear 'em? They're on their way. They're on their way.
Isler.
Are you sure?
You've got a confirmation on that?
Another one confirmed. Same location. I don't think this thing can be contained.
Smallpox spreads in the air and by the slightest physical contact.
- Once this gets out, this could be devastating. - What is that place?
It's a coastal town called Port Connor here in Washington.
Okay, now why there? Why bring it in there and not a big city like Seattle?
Unless they intended to bring it to Seattle and something happened.
The point is it's here, and any minute we're gonna start getting confirmations all over.
Then what's to stop it from spreading all over the States?
- Hey, hey, we're here. - What happened?
I don't know. She's out cold, and I can't wake her up.
She's done heroin, and I don't know...
We need some space to work here. She's not breathing right now.
Give us space. Come on, Tyler, honey. Come on. Let them work.
- Okay, okay, okay. - How much heroin has she done?
I don't know. I don't know. I just know she did heroin.
- Has she used before? - I think so.
Pupils are dilated. Breaths are shallow. What's her name?
Uh, Angie. Hey, Angie. Can you hear me?
Is she gonna be okay? She'll be fine.
- She's gonna be all right, right? - She's gonna be all right.
Wake up. Can you hear me? Angie.
Hey, hey, is Bob there? It's Ben.
Hey, Bob, listen. I need some legal advice fast.
So, how you doing? Okay.
I took a job with another cab company.
What did you find out? Where is he?
Cho has disappeared. Disappeared.
But I found he has a partner. Here.
Here's his card.
"Ben Edmonds."
So you had no knowledge of what was actually in Pacific Garment's containers?
I tried to get them to stop. They threatened me.
This is all attorney-client privilege, right?
Yeah, of course.
What happened to Cho?
Don't worry about Cho. I'll find him. Okay?
Are you really sure you wanna get into a war with this guy?
I don't know. I don't know.
I just have to see him. If I see him, I-I'll know.
It wasn't just the containers. I was laundering their money.
I didn't want to, but they wouldn't let me stop.
You were... You were threatened?
Yeah, Bob, I was threatened. They firebombed my car.
Next time it'll be your house.
I have enough information to take down his entire organization...
and anybody he was doing business with.
I've been thinking about going to the police.
No, no, my friend. No, that's not a good idea.
Look, look. I'll find Cho, okay?
You look like you need some rest. Why don't you get some rest? You look terrible.
I'll find Cho.
And you're prepared to go to the police with this?
I'm gonna need some kind of guarantee,
protects my life and any kind of legal complications.
Well, legally, I'm certain we can work it out.
But I agree, your personal safety is an issue.
Now, who was, uh... Who was the first?
The crewman on the freighter that sank last week off of Washington coast. He was the only survivor.
Somebody shot him while he was under police guard.
So he didn't die of smallpox.
No, it showed up on the autopsy.
The others? Information's still coming in.
Let's see what we got here. Okay, number two.
An illegal found in the water off of Washington coast.
Number three, same deal.
So, they... they were all on that boat that sank?
Number four as well. All illegals.
Some of them were found still trapped in the hold. Others washed up on the coast.
Hey, look, a floater.
Under the pier.
Thirty-five bodies in total.
- Including the other crewmen. - They checked all the bodies?
Okay, the fifth body has just been confirmed. This one's from the ship as well.
Okay, so it seems that all the confirmations...
are coming from the ship.
And it looks like everybody that was on that ship is dead.
- Do you know why it sank? - No.
The answer's on the ship.
What happened to the people on it, including the crew?
Now, how did they all end up dead?
The Coast Guard picked up the sole surviving crewman.
What we do know is that he was a helmsman of the ship,
and apparently he left his post.
The whole thing is still under investigation.
Twenty percent of the heroin for the western United States,
and a good percentage of its illegals, comes in by the Pacific Northwest.
They used the same routes for the smallpox.
Right? So, they infected the illegals somewhere out at sea.
That means when the illegals landed, they would become walking time bombs,
spreading the smallpox by foot. Get 'em all out here.
They'd make for Seattle, down the coast, then inland.
Disperse everywhere in the United States within days.
It's the perfect vector for spreading this thing.
I mean, it's by definition invisible. It's mobile.
It's impossible to trace. Right.
And these aren't the kinds of people that are going to check into a hospital at the first sign of illness.
They'll infect the maximum amount of people before they die.
Smallpox has a two-week incubation period.
So, by the time they were contagious, they would be everywhere.
If everybody on the ship is dead, and the ship is at the bottom of the Pacific,
then the smallpox never made it to shore.
Maybe we dodged a bullet this time.
I hope so.
So, do we have a deal?
Channel 14 News has learned that with all the domestic and international...
I need complete immunity from all charges.
Walk away free and clear. Is it in writing?
I need it in writing.
Tell 'em I'm coming in.
Uh, I'll be back in a couple hours.
Okay.
Oh, what about your 10:30 appointment?
Uh, tell him I'm... I'm not feeling well.
It didn't look good for you for a long time out there.
You can appreciate that.
I think I have to come in for a while.
I think I need a desk job or something.
After you're behind that desk for a while though, wouldn't you miss it out there?
Listen. Be careful, okay? I miss you, but I'm hanging in.
I just... You know, I got a son that I don't even know what he looks like.
I, um, got a home that...
Spend some time with your family, you know. Maybe we can talk about this another time, you know?
But anything you need. Anything.
I appreciate it. I know you do.
Get some rest.
Hey.
How long have you known? What happened?
Just wake up one morning and said, "What the hell am I doing this for?"
Just a measly little civil service pension.
Or maybe you got in...
a lot deeper than you wanted.
You thought you were providing some low-grade information.
- There's half a mil looking at you right there. - I know what you really want.
But this time it was something a whole lot bigger.
It all nearly blew up in my face.
I didn't know anything about smallpox, Mike, and you know it.
Now, if you weren't such a damn cowboy, running off half the time...
without telling your partner what the hell you were doing, it never would have gone down like that.
Somehow that doesn't make me feel any better.
So, what was it? Was it the money?
We got a record of leaks that compromise a half-dozen cases over the past two years.
Or did you just want to prove to everybody how smart you were?
So, you're gonna, uh... you're gonna keep on fighting that war on drugs, hey, Mike?
You knock yourself out, 'cause I'm done.
In case you haven't noticed, we lost.
We lost long before we dropped the first bomb on the Taliban.
Shoveling water out there, Mike.
There's more heroin in circulation here than there ever was.
We're backing the warlords, who've always been the major players.
I mean, I don't need to tell you what kind of a sick joke the whole thing is, do I?
But then you were never much for policy decisions, were you, Mike?
What do you do with the doubts?
Where do you put 'em?
You never had $10 million street worth in your hand...
and thought about taking off?
You and Carole set up for life if you do it right.
You're gonna tell me you never once were tempted?
I guess that's the difference between you and me. I came back.
Don't get righteous with me, Mike. You got a 15-year-old son...
who didn't have a dad growing up...
because you're such a damn fine soldier.
We all make decisions. Don't we?
We all make choices.
You coming after me? Well, it looks like I'm gonna have to.
Now I'm gonna put it all together, gonna make the case.
And, uh, yeah, like that.
You know? So, I'll be seeing you.
You understand?
Was it worth it?
Hey, babe.
Carole.
Hey.
Identification, please. Thank you.
How long do you plan to be in the country?
Is the computer up yet?
I.D., please.
- Good evening. - Good evening.
What's the purpose of your visit?
A little vacation.
- How long do you plan to be in Canada? - Couple of weeks.
Thank you very much. Have a good trip.
Thanks. Good night. Good night.
What is back there in the States, huh?
Your family?
Do you think they are what you really want?
For how long? After you get back, before you leave again?
Two days? Huh? Three weeks?
Taxi!
Uh, Fifth and Union.
Yes, sir.
How's it going?
Good.
- It's a good-looking family. - Thank you, sir.
What are you... What are you doing? I-I said Fifth and Union.
Get out. What do you mean, get out?
- Get out of the car. - Take me to Fifth and Union.
Just take me... Get out!