Come this way.
Men wounded in battle we can deal with.
But this strange disease...
30 men dead yesterday.
18, the day before.
We need supplies.
Plasma.
Penicillin.
We will get anything you need, doctor.
You're Americans.
Please...
get me out of this shithole.
Buddy, that's what we're here for. We're going to take you home.
But first we're going to take a little blood sample, all right?
- I am going to die, right? - No, you're not going to die.
Tell my girl I love her.
I am not going to tell her. You're going to tell her yourself, all right?
The soldiers inside are in the early stages of the disease.
By tomorrow night they will look like this.
Mother of God.
I will authorize an immediate airdrop.
It's worse than I thought. Get the plane here by 19:00 hour.
- Shouldn't we... - Get the plane, Billy.
Come on. All right.
- I am going in. - All right, Sergeant.
Isn't this your last day?
Yeah.
Oh, come on now. It's almost over.
Doesn't it feel good? You're such a good boy. Yes. Come on.
Sam, are you there?
Pick up the phone if you're there. We got a situation in Zaire. it doesn't look good at all.
You guys stay there. I will be right back.
Hemorrhagic fever, high mortality.
We picked up a satellite relay from Cairo.
I said stay. No.
Sam?
Hi, Billy. What's up?
Looks like we have a Level 4, Sam.
How many dead?
Don't know. There aren't any numbers yet.
What do you think it is? Too early to say.
The World Health Organization is preparing a team, but I want you there first.
I am taking you off Hanta and flying to Zaire.
Let me get my crew together. I will get back to you. Bye bye.
I can't believe this. You're wet, right?
You guys are wet.
Which one disobeyed me first? Lewis, it was you, wasn't it?
You guys are busted. You look very guilty.
Come on. Lewis, come on.
Get down.
How are you doing?
Hi, boys. How you doing?
How are you doing? What are you doing?
You miss me?
Come here. Who wants some breakfast?
Your paper.
You here to get your stuff? Come on, boys.
Bagels. Who wants bagels?
Who wants some breakfast?
- Who wants some breakfast? - I have got to go away.
Where?
Zaire. They think there's been some cases of hemorrhagic fever there.
- Is Casey going? - Yeah.
And Jaffe. The whole crew.
Most of it.
So you want me to take the dogs?
It's just 4 days.
Okay but I am going to Atlanta Friday. If you're late, the dogs go too.
Fair enough.
What you going to be doing at CDC?
Working BL4.
Same as you.
My job.
Well, I'd like to think of it as my job.
And I won't have the Pentagon breathing down my neck.
This is mine.
Take it.
And the rest of your stuff is in boxes in there.
I can hang on to it till you come back or...
whatever.
You know that you're giving me all the pictures of us.
Yeah
You can keep them.
You keep them.
I don't want them, Sam.
Well, I don't want them either, Robby.
Thursday.
I want a turn-up, on the mark, Lieutenant. Come on, let's move it.
Let's go.
This plasma goes in the right rudder of the right wing.
Casey, where the hell is Jaffe? His wife is in labor. Just put him on leave.
- Who's going to read the tissue samples? - You don't trust me?
- Come on. - All right. Fine.
You want a hotshot scope-jockey, fine, but, frankly, I am hurt.
- Who cut his orders? - The Old Man himself.
He hasn't got up this early in years.
- I will tell him you said that. - I will deny it.
Good to see you, sir. Sam.
Thought if I showed my star around here it might speed things up for you.
Is it working?
No.
Personal file on your new man.
Plus telex traffic to date, and satellite photos from the last burst of the area.
- Sam... - Sir?
Get in, get out.
I must say I hate having you around here to make my life miserable
I really don't want to lose you to some bug in the field.
- One question, sir. - Go on.
What have I ever done to make your life miserable, sir?
You got up this morning, didn't you?
Thank you, Billy.
Major Salt.
Sir, may I say it's an honor to have this opportunity to work with you.
Sit down. I am viewing your background first:
West Point, Johns Hopkins. How many hours did you log in helicopter school?
- 85. - Married?
- Yes, sir. - Good luck.
You have never been in the field?
No, sir. But I am fully trained and highly motivated.
I am talking about landing in a hot zone. It's unique situation.
Have you ever seen the effects of hemorrhagic fever?
No, sir.
Allow me, sir.
- Major. - Yes.
When the patient first gets the virus, he will claim the flu-like symptoms.
And in 2 or 3 days pink lesions begin to appear on all over his body, along with small pustules...
which erupt with the blood and pus. A kind of milky substance begins to...
These lesions become full-blown. They feel like mush to the touch.
There's vomiting, diarrhea, bleeding in the nose, ears, gums.
The internal organs shut down. They liquefy. That's very good major.
Uh, we have read that in a book too, but
in 16 hours you're about to see it.
- In the flesh, so to speak. - I feel confidence that
I can handle anything we encounter, sir.
If just one of us panics, that puts us all in danger.
And he's under direct orders not to die out there.
And that's one set of orders he's actually planning to follow
That must be it.
He's losing it.
No. Just hang on.
- Salt, don't take your helmet off. - I can't breathe.
Keep your helmet... Casey.
Keep your helmet on.
Keep his helmet on.
Don't let him expose himself, Casey.
Goddamn it. Isolate him. Isolate him.
Don't worry.
It's not airborne.
Sam Daniels, USAMRIID.
Benjamin Iwabi.
We have been expecting you.
We came as soon as we could.
Not soon enough.
The village is dead.
Do you know the incubation period?
No, but it kills in 2 or 3 days. The mortality rate is 100%.
Jesus.
Could an infected person have gotten out of the village?
If he did, he'd be dead or dying in the jungle.
It's 50 miles to the next village.
First case? Patient zero?
A young man called Murazo.
Worked with a white man to build a road into Kinshasa.
- When he returned he was sick. - I see.
And he drank from this well.
From there, it spreads to the entire village.
Did you identify the carrier? The host?
No, when we arrived, he was incoherent.
He died 2 hours later.
He couldn't tell us how he got it.
He's not sick.
He's a local ju-ju man. Witch doctor.
He stayed in his cave the whole week.
- I'd like to talk to him, too. - No, he talks to me.
You see, he believes that the Gods were awoken from their sleep...
....by men cutting down the trees...
where no man should be. And the Gods got angry.
This...
is a punishment.
Alarmingly high fatality.
All localized within a 3-mile radius.
Incubation period short. Appears contained.
Alarmingly. Casey, you didn't put "alarmingly".
It's an adverb, Sam. It's a lazy tool of a weak mind. Period. Done.
I want to add this:
Billy...
this is the scariest son-of-a-bitch I have ever seen.
And you know I have seen a lot.
Fine. Fax it to Ford's house.
Sorry, sir.
It's all right.
I have never seen anything like it before.
I put the team in danger, sir.
We're still here.
I got scared, sir.
You know, fear gets a bad rap, Salt.
I don't want anybody working with me who isn't scared.
Okay?
Well, then I am your man, sir.
Sir, I sent you the fax 6 hours ago.
Sam, I am not going to issue an alert.
I don't want to bust up your party, sir. But you got to issue an alert.
- You said it was contained. - I said containment was probable.
- You should be monitoring the airports. - Sam,
do you remember 1989? You found 2 cases of Congo fever in Nairobi...
and we put a note in every American kid's lunch box. You remember that?
- Yes. I was wrong. - You were wrong.
What about 1992? Lassa fever?
- I was wrong. - Wrong again.
- But now you're right about this? - No, I could be wrong about this.
Yet you waltz into my party smelling like dirty socks...
take me away from Senator Rosales... Let me remind you that he is the head of
the Senate Arms Services subcommittee which is in charge of our fucking budget.
Forget Ebola, forget Lassa. This bug kills so fast, Billy, you...
Keep your voice down.
- Now that is exactly my point. - What?
It is a very lethality of this virus which is working for us here.
These unfortunate people don't live long enough to spread the goddamn thing around. So it is contained.
I hope so.
I am just through talking, okay?
Because you never understood the concept of time. What day is it?
- Sunday. - And what day did you say you'd be home?
- Friday. - Thursday, Sam.
I said Thursday. I meant Friday.
Thursday and Friday sound so much alike, even I confuse them.
Why didn't I go to Atlanta like I said I would?
Because you're a very decent human being. If you put the big bags in...
Fuck you, Sam.
You said you'd be home Thursday, so I could fly Friday, go to my apartment on Saturday...
buy a toaster, treat myself, and maybe on Sunday have a day of rest.
Now I have to go to the airport at 2. I won't get in until around 7.
It will be too late to buy a toaster. It will be too late... God...
You know what? I can't unpack, because I have a 9 o'clock cocktail party.
Lewis, move over. Get over. Get over there. Get over.
- Move over. Get... - You're scaring him.
Lewis.
That's because you let him get on the couch.
Here.
Okay, we can go now.
How long are you keeping the dogs?
- Sam, the dogs are going with me to Atlanta. - But they're my dogs too. I miss them.
Okay, do you want the dogs, Sam? Because either they go with me or stay with you.
We're not going to split them up and we can't share them. You decide.
A negotiation.
Okay.
Wait.
You win.
You keep them.
Okay we can go now.
Wait I just wanted to tell you something. It's important.
Now I forgot.
- Sam, I am going to miss my flight. - Wait a minute, I remember.
When you go to the pet store, remember that they like those medium-size bones.
No, I know, the little barbecued...
ones, I know.
That's right.
You look tired, Sam.
Was it that bad in Zaire?
Could have been better.
You be careful.
I wish you luck.
You better tell him to go.
We can go now.
No Casey, that's not what I said. Now listen to me. You're not getting this. Try to be objective.
All right, so let me understand this. You didn't want the photos...
- but you wanted the dogs? - Casey, you're missing a point.
You could have taken a photo of the dogs and solved everything.
- I open my heart and you make jokes. - I am not making jokes.
The point is, when we got the dogs they were puppies. They were cute.
- Yes, but that's not my point. - They're still cute.
- They were ours, and now they're not... - Sam
Sam, the dogs are probably a case for the Supreme Court.
I am just asking you if you think I am right or wrong.
Sam, we're about to look at the most deadly virus you and I have ever seen.
I think you might should be somewhere in the neighborhood.
Right or wrong? it's a question.
Sam, she's starting a new job at the CDC. No, she's got the same job as you at the CDC.
- Good for her. - Anyway, she's starting a new life.
She's happy. She's not coming back.
It's nobody's fault. It's over. Now just move on, because, frankly, I am sick of hearing about it.
- All right. What do you mean, it's over? - Oh, you really need to seek some help.
I think the State sanctioned divorce, signed by both parties, is strong evidence that something is off.
Did you talk to her? Did she say it's off?
Sam, do you know how I managed to remain friends with two of you?
How
Because I don't have conversations like this.
I am not asking you to take sides. She didn't take the dogs to be mean.
She's not a mean person. I am asking you your opinion...
What is this?
What?
You didn't check your suit. There's a tear in it.
Can't take your breath away.
Thank you.
- Good morning, Colonel. - Good morning, Major Salt.
I took the liberty of bringing in Motaba samples myself, sir.
- Casey, we got an early riser. - Hey, I was up at 4.
Right. Okay, let's go to work.
I want to separate those samples. I want to thaw them and I want to throw them under the scope.
Done, sir.
- We will have the results in a couple hours. - Very good, Major.
Listen to the way it rolls off your tongue. Motaba.
You know, it sounds like a perfume.
One drop and you will feel so different.
Your lover will melt in your arms. Here, try a sample.
Quick hands.
But not as quick as mine.
Don't mess with this stuff. You got to be ready for anything.
Nothing in here can't kill you. Including the air.
Okay, sirs, here we go.
These pictures were taken over a period of 8 hours.
Normal healthy kidney cells before they meet the virus.
In 1 hour, a single virus has invaded, multiplied and killed the cell.
In just over 2 hours...
its offspring invaded the nearby cells here, and here.
Continually multiplying.
Jesus Christ, 5 hours?
It infects the cell, replicates, and kills this fast? These numbers can't be right.
Ebola takes days to do this damage.
Sirs, the numbers are correct. I wish to God they weren't.
One goes in, millions come out.
Every cell is dead.
Now we see them individually...
searching for their next victim...
until there is nothing left to kill.
Mark this day, Salt.
We could spend our whole careers waiting to see a new virus.
Sirs...
Mr. Motaba...
up close and personal.
I hate this bug.
Come on, Casey.
You have to love its simplicity.
It's 1 billionth our size and it's beating us.
So what do you want to do, take it to dinner?
- No - What then?
Kill it.
You know Colonel Daniels is not going to like us going behind his back like this.
Then we will kill him.
Lighten up, Billy. We have no alternative.
You're so Goddamned sentimental. That's the trouble with this country.
Sir, the micrographs are ready.
They're ready.
Oh, my God. it's our African friend. It's back.
We have to be very careful now, Billy.
We wiped out a whole camp to keep this bug secret.
Right
Lock it up. Shelve it.
You know about this, I know about this, nobody else.
Get your friend Daniels off the case.
I don't want that nosy little bastard messing up 30 years of our work.
- Hi Meryln, is he in there? - Colonel, just a minute, please.
Come in, Sam.
Lieutenant it would be kind to get some coffee.
- Would you like anything, Sam? - Why am I off Motaba?
- Nothing for the Colonel. - Yes sir.
Sit down, Sam.
Now did you or did you not say that Motaba was contained?
It's going to pop up again.
We don't have a blood test. We don't know how it's transmitted.
There's a fresh outbreak of Hanta virus in New Mexico.
CDC needs help. We're sending you.
No, send Peterson's team.
Don't tell me who to send on an assignment, Colonel.
I told Senator Rosales I'd send my best man. That's you.
Now get the hell on out of here.
We have got baseline information on the Hanta.
What am I going to do there? Trap rats, Billy?
We got the bug growing. We got most of the proteins isolated.
We will have an antibody test within a week. Casey put the bug into rodents and rhesus
and if everything goes well, we will know its genetic sequence within a month.
If you leave us alone, we will map this guy down to its last gene, make it famous.
- Sam. - Yeah.
The odds of Motaba causing us any more problems are bottomed a million to one. And you know that.
- No, I don't know that. - Well, you should.
And you would if you didn't harbor this desire to face the end of the world.
You know it's the biggest thing we have ever seen.
Jesus, you're killing me.
- Fresh, brand-new virus. - You're still killing me.
Whoa. It's bumpy, baby.
It's okay, baby.
You will be out of here in no time. Em-hmm yeah, I promise.
- When did you get it? - Today.
- We still on? - He wants it.
Great.
Oh, I see.
- So your ship came in again, Jimbo? - Our ship.
Our ship
Africa, land of great beauty and untold riches.
- Absolutely untold. - Keep it that way.
Take care.
Hey, Robby, Robby, you got to tell them to send an alert.
- No, Sam, I won't. - Jesus, why are you fighting me on this?
No, Sam. I am not going to base on my first official decision on a hunch when the army won't back you.
It's not a hunch. I am faxing you the whole academic, Robby.
I have got a lab full of dead animals here.
There's no response to intravenous acyclovir. They're all dead.
Of course they're all dead, Sam. You stuck them with the same needle.
Where's the evidence that is coming here?
I don't need any evidence, I have got a feeling, okay?
Oh you got feeling. Okay, you know what, Sam? Your feeling is in my notes.
Robby this is not complicated, it's very simple. This thing kills everything in its path.
Just tell them to put out an alert.
You know this is starting to sound familiar. Is that an order, Colonel Daniels?
I can't believe you're taking a deadly virus and turning it into a family matter.
This is not personal, Sam.
Look, I can't-- I can't do this back and forth. Once in your life, take a chance.
You know what, Sam? I did. I married you.
You hung up, didn't you?
Shit. First it was the dogs, now we're fighting over a virus. I can't believe it.
What is the matter?
You know music is supposed to soothe the savage beast.
What?
Oh, Christ, you little shit.
Hey, fellow, welcome back.
- Look, look, look, look... - Hey. All right. All right.
- Put on the shelf, let's have a look. - All right.
- Well, hello. - You got the papers and everything?
Yeah, papers. That's a good one.
Look at her. You asked for a monkey, I got you a monkey.
- What do you mean, "look at her"? - What do you mean "what do I mean"?
I told you a male.
- No, you said, "she." - I said "male".
Customer has already got a female. He wants to breed them.
Goddamn. Jesus.
Okay, okay, it's okay.
All right, all right. Look, um... I will sell her cheap.
No, no...
Oh, come on, I have done a lot of papers for you. Just help me out.
...now you screwed it up. I can't even sell that one. Here, look at this, look.
It serves you right. What am I going to do with her?
The warning will be included in our weekly report, Dr. Keough.
But that doesn't got till Wednesday and Colonel Daniels
believes it is serious enough to send out a special alert.
Do you know how much it costs to send out a special alert to 400,000 health workers?
In '89, he predicted Hanta and it hit.
Well, I suppose I understand your allegiance to your ex-husband but both you and I know that
the chances of this virus showing up in the US are virtually nil.
Go on, girl.
Yeah, it's freedom.
Look at the trees.
It's like home.
There you go.
That's it.
Don't give me that look.
No. No, go on.
I'd keep you, but I am already hitched.
Come on. Go on.
There you go.
That's it.
Take care.
This is Captain Carter again.
At this time I'd like to ask you to return to your seats...
as we're about to command the final approach into Boston's Logan Airport.
Hey, buckaroo.
So cute.
Hey, mister.
Are you going to eat the rest of that cookie?
No.
You can have it, Sheriff.
No, no, no, no, no, no. Bobby, don't bother the nice man.
It's no problem.
And I don't want no trouble with the law.
Jimbo.
I missed you so much.
You look like shit, baby. What's wrong?
I don't know. Something I ate, or something.
Jimbo?
What is it?
Sweetie, talk to me, what is it?
Jimbo?
Help.
Morning, Rudy.
Lucrecia won't touch those beef wafers so we have to go back to veal...
What's wrong?
Rudy, can you hear me? Come on, Rudy, help me out.
Here, squeeze my hand. lt looks like toxic shock.
- Fred said he was fine yesterday. - Come on, Rudy.
I have been reading about some really bad strep cases in Newsweek.
Maybe I should subscribe. Henry, get me a blood culture and a blood count.
Goddamn it, come on, Rudy.
A final score of 6 to 3
Shit.
Fuck.
What about AIDS or hepatitis?
We will have the blood tested, Henry. I am sure there's nothing to worry about.
Or maybe you should give me gamma globulin or something?
I wouldn't want to give anything to my girlfriend.
Flowers would be nice on occasion, don't you think?
- Yeah, you should eat. - You shouldn't eat that crap.
- It's bad for you. - Come on, you know you want one.
- Dr. Keough. - You got something for me.
E. coli outbreak in Michigan in a steak house franchise and,
Couple fevers of unknown origin in Boston.
Their infectious disease docs can't figure them out.
Wouldn't be African explorers back from Zaire, would they?
Yeah, right. No, just a couple American kids. No unusual travel.
Some atypical strain of Lyme and those Boston doctors just missed the boat.
Lisa.
Get me on a plane to Boston.
Right in here.
Right over here.
James.
Jimbo, can you hear me?
Jimbo
We're here to help you but we need to know how you got sick. Can you talk to me?
Jimbo?
Hello?
Jimbo, were you in contact with any animals?
- Doctor, should we call a code? - Turn it off.
- What in God's name this is? - I am here to find out.
We're going to need a post.
No way, I am not going to cut myself and get whatever the hell he's got.
- I don't do autopsies. - What about you?
- I will do it. - Oh, God, he's dead, isn't he?
- Oh, God. - Honey.
- Please don't let him die. - We're doing what we can but
I need you to help me.
- Jimbo, say something. - I need you to look at me, Alice
Alice, did Jimbo tell you anything?
- Did he talk to you? - Oh God. Oh God.
Oh God...
Very slow.
Maximum sharps precautions.
Slow.
Give me the scalpel. You assist me.
He worked at an animal quarantine facility in San Jose. He might have got it there.
We're monitoring all his co-workers.
The host could still be there. Don't let anybody out of that place.
Now we're isolating everybody. I have quarantined the Boston med staff, EMS crew, girl's neighbors.
Christ, Sam, I opened this guy up.
It looked like a bomb went off inside. His pancreas, liver, kidney...
all the organs were liquefied. Christ, I should have forced the alert.
You tried. But it still wouldn't help those 2 kids. Get tissue samples to both our labs.
I will confirm if it's Motaba. Robby,
is anybody else showing symptoms? No, not yet.
CDC has a Stage 3 alert out. If there are any new cases...
God...
we will find out about them.
What about that girl?
She died when I was in post. She wasn't on the plane.
So the first time she had contact with him was at the airport.
The plane got in at 9:00. She was admitted at 6:00 the next morning.
We're talking a 24-hour incubation period.
God, this thing moves so fast now.
Sure it moves fast. But that's good for us. At least we can see it.
Nobody gets sick within 24 hours, we're in the clear.
This doesn't sound like you.
What?
Imagining the best case scenario.
Why not? I still think there's hope for us.
- Honey, are you all right? - Excuse me.
I am going to get something to drink.
Honey?
What's your problem?
- Water. - You have to wait your turn, sir.
Help me, I need water.
Henry.
We caught it early, and you're going to make it. But I need you to fight.
Dr. Mascelli. Dr. Mascelli to ER, stat.
Look who's here.
Hi.
You got to fight, okay, Henry?
Got to fight.
She got sick really fast, doctor.
I thought it was the flu. She fainted. Doc, she's burning up.
She will be all right.
Cover him up.
They keep coming in. What's wrong with these people?
I don't know, Emma. I don't know.
Get me the County Health Department, now.
Are you sure? Are you sure?
Every last one.
Okay, great. Thank you. Definitely...
Okay, the airline passengers checked out clean.
No further infection at Boston Municipal. We're in the clear.
Yes. Come here.
Robby, Dr. Reynolds.
15 cases.
You're telling me there's another outbreak? Yeah.
- Besides the one in Boston? - Sir, I don't understand why you're reluctant?
The CDC and USAMRIID are the only 2 agencies capable of dealing with a virus like this.
That's why I want to get out tonight. They need all the help they...
Sorry Sam, can't do that.
Billy, why in God's name would you keep me out of there?
- It's a civilian matter, Sam. - That's bullshit.
CDC is on it. Let them do their job.
Besides, we don't have a charter.
Oh, fuck the charter, Billy. It's not about the charter. People are dying. It's about you being a doctor.
It's about that sacred oath we took, remember.
We have been friends for 20 years. I--
Yes, we're friends, Sam, but I am also your boss.
I run this outfit. It's not one black comedy. You do what the hell I say do.
I am your boss. I have my boss. Is that clear to you?
Yeah, get your boss on the phone.
Call McClintock. Tell him to put me on a plane before the two of you kill a lot of people.
Colonel, I am going to suggest you shut up now before you say something you're sorry for.
And don't forget who you're talking to.
Well, tell me who I am talking to, because I don't know who I am talking to anymore, Billy.
Am I talking to USAMRIID, the Pentagon, the CIA, fucking McClintock? Dugway.
- Tell me who I am talking to. - This conversation is over.
- Can you tell me who I am talking...... - You're going to fly to New Mexico this morning.
And I suggest you go home and get packed or do whatever you have to do, Colonel,
and I suggest you do it now.
All right, Sergeant, who screwed up? Why wasn't my pilot given the new orders?
New orders?
General Ford called me 02:00, told me to get my ass to Cedar Creek, California.
- Didn't you get the dispatch? - No, I got you going Albuquerque...
No. I am not going Albuquerque. I am going to Cedar Creek, California.
You get General Ford on the phone right now and you get him to confirm.
All right.
No, don't give him confirmation. Give me that phone.
- No, I better get a confirmation. - What? You're crazy?
- Don't you know what time it is? - It's... 2:30, sir.
That's right. You redirect on my orders. You call the tower right now
and you tell them to change my flight plan. Put your finger on the phone.
This could mean my stripes, sir.
It will mean your ass if you don't put your finger on the phone.
Finger the phone. Finger it.
Thank you.
The good news is the government is asking
the President for Federal help.
So you can proceed there with
the 1st Battalion of the 8th Infantry.
Now we going to need transmission rates of every possible carrier:
insect, marine, animal, human.
If this thing's spreading, we going to need where it's going and how fast it's getting there.
And Billy...
they have placed a whole mop for clean sweep.
Donny, you and I both know we can throw these people a lifeline.
We have to proceed with conventional containment.
And you have to maintain an absolute media blackout.
Control your subordinates. Is Daniels in line?
Yes, sir.
I will believe that when I see it. Anything else?
No, sir.
Good luck, Billy.
- Get the supplies. Bring them in. - Okay.
- What could be holding them up? - I don't know. There they are now.
Ray Fowler, Chief of Police. This is Mayor Gaddis.
I am Dr. Keough from CDC. This is Dr. Aronson and Dr. Ruiz.
Cedar Creek is a small town, doctor. We're like a family. Everybody's scared.
- I don't know what to tell them... - I know,
I know and we're here to help you in any way we can. So for now on,
- I will be in charge. - I thought he was in charge.
Sam...
Hi, Robby. They just set up the BL4 mobile unit.
What are you doing here? I thought General Ford sent you to New Mexico.
He did.
We're keeping the patients isolated in here.
So many.
So many, so fast.
Apparently they all got it at a movie theater.
Dr. Daniels? Yeah
There's something I think you should see. This way.
The patient was admitted a week ago after a car accident.
He's had no contact with anyone in isolation.
It's airborne.
General Ford. I am Lt. Colonel Briggs. Sir, welcome.
Thank you, Colonel. The Sit. Rep.
Well, sir. Since 0620 this morning we have had an outer and inner perimeter established.
No one has violated our cordon. Before that, I can't give you any guarantees.
Colonel, there are 2,618 people in this town.
I want everyone of them accounted for by 09:00. Guarantee me that.
Very well, sir. We're on it.
Quarters in here, sir.
By the way, Colonel Daniels is in town against orders.
Locate him.
- Arrest him. - Yes.
Clear this area, now.
We have rights. We have rights.
...patient.
Doctor. Right now.
Stop. God, what're you doing?
You can't do this to us.
This is a different strain.
This one is the one we got from Jimbo Scott, the one from Zaire.
This new one is the one from Cedar Creek. They look the same. But...
closer...
and closer.
See the differences?
Yeah. The spikes here and here. Yes.
Well I guess the protein code has changed, which allows it to survive longer in the air.
So it spreads like the flu.
- Okay, Casey, tree of death. - All right...
Assuming that the new strain originated with Seward...
- He infects the whole theater. - Go back further.
All right. He's a medical worker. Now Dr. Mascelli tells us that he was sprayed with a blood sample
taken from Alvarez. And Alvarez tells us what?
Zip. He was dead before we got here. But listen...
Alvarez died of the original strain. Seward died of the new strain.
Now these are too closed together on the tree for the virus to suddenly, spontaneously mutate,
so I think...
that the host animal is carrying both strains.
Pretty good. Pretty good. Alvarez, Jimbo, what's the connection?
- I can't find one. - Wait a minute. Wait.
- Alvarez worked at a pet store. - Pet store?
- I am just learning this now? - We just got it, Sam.
Jesus, if the host is there, and Casey is right, then it's carrying antibodies to both strains.
I am at the pet store. Salt, you going to get on
the new strain right from scratch. Yes sir.
- Casey, blood test. - Right away.
Excuse me, General, you got a minute?
Oh there you are, Sam. Colonel Briggs has been looking for you,
Colonel, take this man into custody.
We're in deep shit, Billy. The virus has aerosolised.
- What are you talking about? - It's gone airborne.
- Colonel, would you excuse us? - Certainly, sir.
Motaba is only spread through direct human contact. Now you said that yourself, Sam.
I know what I told you, but now I am telling you we're facing a new strain.
What? It spreads like the flu.
- Impossible. - Fine.
Go to the hospital, check it out yourself. Go without a mask, you will see more clearly.
You got 19 dead, you got hundreds more infected, and it's spreading like a brush fire.
You have to isolate the sick and I mean really isolate them, Billy.
We got to get everybody else back in their houses. We got to keep them there.
We are doing that, Sam.
No, we're not doing it because I just drove through 100 people.
And if one of them has got it, then 10 of them have got it.
And if one of them gets out of Cedar Creek, Billy, then we're in deep fucking shit.
And we're already in deep fucking shit.
And if you're going to arrest me, arrest me now.
All right, Sam. All right.
Don't threaten me.
Don't threaten my crew.
Please.
Leave us to do our work.
All right, Sam. All right.
- You were never here. - No, I was here.
I followed the bug here.
I have always been here.
And you remember that.
The US Army and the CDC report...
that the virus which's struck this northern California town...
is being contained while they search for answers.
A tight quarantine has been established for the protection of neighboring townships
and extends to the Pacific ocean, just a scant mile away.
You are entering a restricted area. Turn your aircraft around.
This is a no-fly zone.
Careful of the glass.
Return to your home. Do not congregate in the street.
Return to your home...
What a mess.
Robby.
Could this be the host?
This monkey's sick. It can't be our host.
We need to run an ELISA. Let's get back to the lab.
No one is permitted to leave the town.
Anybody attempting to do so will be placed under arrest.
I repeat, we are turning you around.
Hey, what the hell is Bobby doing?
Tommy, follow us.
- We got to get out of here. - Kids, get down.
Remain calm. We are turning you around.
Got to get to the trees.
Halt your vehicle. Halt your vehicle and dismount.
Shit.
They're bluffing. Keep going. Keep going.
You have entered a restricted area. We will fire.
This is your last warning.
Damn.
They're shooting.
Damn it, people, there's no place to go.
Go. Go. Go. We're almost there.
What the hell are they trying to do?
All right, get out of the vehicle. Right now.
Let's see your hand.
- All right, lady, get out. Come on. - Move. Let's go. Move.
- Salt, how are we doing? - Just a moment, Colonel.
Okay, you tell me as soon as you got something, okay?
Yes sir.
Anything?
Sir, this monkey's been infected with the original strain.
- No antibodies, nothing. - Okay...
That means that the monkey caught it before the mutation.
Maybe he was on the boat from Africa next to the real host animal. Maybe he caught it at Biotest.
Not Biotest. CDC turned that place inside out. Motaba negative.
- No. Test it again. - My people know what they're doing, Sam.
Robby, get your people over there, tell them to test it again.
And after that you will tell them to test it again.
And after they test it, tell them to test it again.
Welcome home.
Military have escalated the quarantine at Cedar Creek, doubling their presence
as small town.
Authorities remain silent about the number and details of the situation...
continuing the media blackout.
From here we can only guess at the seriousness of the spread of the disease.
Our sources number the dead as low as 10, as high as 50.
It's like a war zone out here, and we can only imagine...
the fear and frustration of the citizens of this once very quiet rural town.
Their voices too are silent to us. All phone communications have been cut off.
Then those we can hear...
those with information, will not speak. it is, in a word, frightening.
A military curfew is now in effect.
Return to your home immediately.
Anyone found on the streets after 19:00 hours, or 7 o'clock p.m.
will be arrested and confined.
Return to your home.
You will be safe there.
Return to your home immediately.
The area's been secured. All civilians are in their homes.
Only minimal protective gear is required for all military personnel.
- Got it? - I got it.
Bring it in.
Billy.
She was one of the first one infected.
What's E-1101?
It's an experimental antiserum from Yale virology.
I figured it might be worth a try.
I read the journals. I haven't read a word about E-1101. Where'd you get it, Billy?
You know I can call Yale in a second.
Damn it, Sam, I want to save these people as same as you.
I am using everything in the arsenal.
We have to work together, Sam.
Are we?
Are we what?
Are we working together, sir?
Oh, shit.
Don't waste your time making phone calls, Sam.
- Salt. - Excuse me.
- Salt, come here. - Yes sir.
Give this to the rhesus and also put it with some virus and pull it apart, yeah?
Yes sir. What is it?
- What's it look like? - This is not orange juice, Colonel.
No, it's not.
- Colonel? - Yeah.
What is it?
I don't know.
Maybe he will tell us.
If you're feeling sick in any way,
you should hang a pillowcase or any piece of white cloth on your front door.
Soldiers will take you to a testing facility and you will know the result within a few hours.
Early stages resemble the flu.
Coughing and high fever.
Anyone showing these signs should report them immediately.
Doctors have the situation well in hand and working day and night to find a cure.
I will only be gone a few hours.
Or I may have to spend the night, so...
you girls be good, okay?
Make sure you brush your teeth before you go to bed.
- Don't touch your mommy. - Oh, baby, I can't...
I love you.
Bye.
Positive.
Positive, damn it.
This whole damn town is infected.
Just follow the line...
This way, folks. One straight line. Down the hall.
Out into the field.
This way, folks. One straight line.
No.
No animals have been removed from here for the last 14 days.
I double-checked the storage lists, the manifests, the vet profiles. Nothing.
Talk to every single employee. And I mean every single one.
Somebody got to know something. The source of this whole mess is there.
The host is there, Casey. He didn't talk to everyone. He said he talked to everyone.
- This coffee sucks. - Sam.
- Why don't you try to get a little sleep? - Why don't you get some sleep?
- I slept back in July. - Yeah, well, I got work to do.
Don't tell me when I need sleep, Casey. I don't tell you when you need sleep.
What happened, Casey?
Oh, nothing. I just got a sudden case of the willies.
You okay? I can finish up.
No, no, no, I am fine. I am fine. I just, you know, I hate them willies, you know?
They ought to call them "the Sams", don't you think?
You're tired, huh?
Yeah.
The most optimistic projection USAMRIID is willing to make for the spread of the virus is this:
24 hours...
36 hours...
48 hours.
The curtailment procedure must be viewed objectively.
Be compassionate, but be compassionate globally.
Thank you.
All right, all right. Please. Please.
The President's ETA from the East Asia Economic Summit is about 20 hours now.
He wants a recommendation by then, from this group.
As I understand it, you want to firebomb the town of Cedar Creek, California, population 2,600
with something called a fuel-air bomb...
the most powerful non-nuclear weapon in our arsenal.
The way it works, it explodes, sucks in all available oxygen to the core...
vaporizes everything within a mile of ground zero.
men, women, children and one airborne virus.
Destruction complete, case closed, crisis's over.
This Constitution of the United States, I have read it cover to cover.
I don't find anything in it about vaporizing 2,600 American citizens.
But it does say, several times...
that "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process",
So,
couple things before Clean Sweep is even considered:
One,
unanimous, unwavering support for the President on this one and
I mean public. You got to stand shoulder to shoulder with him.
He goes down, you go down.
And the second thing is, I want an army of experts,
citing hundreds and thousands of lab experiments telling any idiot with a camera
that there was no other way.
You got that?
No member of this government is going to go sneaking off to the Washington Post
telling them how they were the sole voice of opposition.
If there's a voice of opposition out there, I want him in here. Now.
Those are the citizens of Cedar Creek.
Go on. Look at them. These are not statistics, ladies and gentlemen.
They are flesh and blood.
And I want you to burn those into your memories.
Because those images should haunt us till the day we die.
1918. Remember your history, Donny? The great influenza pandemic.
Circled the globe in 9 months. Killed 25 million people.
My father lost 3 brothers in that. So?
What if there were men who could have stopped it, only they didn't?
How you think history would judge such men?
Oh, baloney.
FDR stopped Stilwell going into Indochina.
He caused the Vietnam War. What does history say him?
Truman dropped the bomb on the Japanese. Saved hundreds and thousands of American lives.
Now your revisionist historian is saying he just dropped that bomb to scare the Russians.
Come on, give me a break.
Those men were at war, Donny. We're not.
We are at war, Billy. Everybody is at war.
I have a presidential green light on operation Clean Sweep, and I am going forward.
Donny,
these people are Americans.
2,600 dead or dying Americans.
If that bug gets out of there, Billy, 260 million Americans will be dead or dying.
Those people are casualties of war, Billy.
I'd give them all a medal if I could...
but they are casualties of war.
That'd be all, Joe.
Come on.
- Neal, is it? - Yes, sir.
I have to ask you a few questions.
- Have a seat. - Okay.
Jimbo, Jimbo, how did he get it?
You know, maybe we're on the wrong track. Maybe Alice gave it to him.
No, tissue samples show twice the viral amplification of Alice
- So we're stuck. - We're doing the best we can, Sam.
We're not.
Let's wait for the comprehensive results to come in.
Can I ask you a personal question?
What'd you do with the dogs?
God...
Please don't tell me you put them in a kennel.
What'd you think, I tied them to a tree and left a 5-pound bag of dog chow in your pie?
That's what you did to me when you left me.
Samples are going to start over, okay?
It's Alvarez, Jimbo, Biotest.
Jesus.
Fuck.
Guys, guys, the monkey. Turn around.
Oh my sweet Jesus. He should be dead by now.
I guess the orange juice worked, huh.
But it doesn't work on humans.
It doesn't work on Cedar Creek Motaba, Sam. This monkey was infected with the original strain.
You're right. Then you know what that means?
This is no experimental antiserum.
E-1101 was designed to kill African Motaba.
And they had it all the time.
Casey.
Casey, come on, buddy.
Salt, how's his breathing?
He's going to arrest.
We going to need blood, fluid, oxygen, ice, now.
- Casey. - Let's go. Put it in his armpits.
Let me get it in there.
- Under his armpits. - I need pressure.
- Coming up. - I need his arm.
Give me his temperature.
- I need pressure. - Nurse, you got to tell me
what his temperature is.
106.
- I need pressure. - We need suction. We need more ice, now.
Okay, Casey. Let me in here. Come on.
You slept long enough. Come on.
Open your eyes. Open. Open.
Open. Open. Open. Look at me. Look at me.
Casey, right here. Here I am, here I am.
See me? There you are.
There you are. How you doing?
- I had a wonderful dream, Auntie Em... - Yeah?
You were there. You were there.
Stay here. Stay with me. Yeah.
You were there too. You had a 106 fever. We're going to take you down, okay?
Stay with me. Come on. Don't fuck around.
How many brain cells did I kill?
How many? About a billion.
Now I am only as smart as you.
What can we give him to kill his sense of humor?
- We got to get a line. - We need Diapans.
Hold him.
- Hold his hand. - I got it.
What? Talk to me. What?
It didn't get past the outer glove. Just hold him down and give him a line.
What do you mean?
Come here.
I was with him in the lab. I should have known something was wrong.
Maybe it didn't punch you in. lt did.
- Let me see. - He did, Sam.
- Okay, let me get some iodine on it. - I did that. I did it. I put iodine...
I did it, I did it, Sam.
Oh God.
Oh, God, I know how to work with needles. I just...
- Okay, Robby... - Why didn't I wait?
- No. No. Listen to me. Listen to me... - Sam not now, okay? Not now.
- Robby. - What?
- Listen to me. - There's nothing to say, Sam.
There is.
Watch it.
Yes Sam?
You knew about Motaba all along. E-1101 was the antiserum.
You could have stopped this outbreak before it mutated. But you didn't.
- We couldn't. - We?
We.
We. That's all you need to know.
No, I want the host. You got to tell me what the host is.
We have never found the host. We had to synthesize the antiserum.
Sure, to protect the troops. But now the virus comes here and 2 kids die.
And we could have stopped it right then and there, but, we don't
because we have to protect the perfect biological weapon.
But then the virus mutates and we can't stop it now and we could have then.
The decision was made in the interest of national security.
At the time, we felt we could afford a certain number of losses.
Robby's infected.
Sorry.
Is "we" sorry too?
Billy,
"We" is responsible for a town dying.
"We" is a party to Casey dying.
My wife is dying.
Isn't she your ex-wife, Sam?
I am sorry... What.... What's your point?
My point is your penchant for distorting the facts.
You and Robby are, in fact, divorced.
Who is "we"?
"We" includes you, Sam.
Unless you resigned from the Army in the last week.
You don't just do research and it ends there, Sam.
We have to defend ourselves against the other maniacs who're developing biological weapons.
That's where the game is played.
Yes, it was a terrible mistake to withhold E-1101, but we're beyond that now.
We have done all we can as doctors.
We have to go on...
as soldiers.
You're going to wipe out the town.
You're going to eradicate that mutation and then your weapon's intact.
That's why the troops are moving out, right, Billy?
It's already ordered.
When is it, Billy?
20:00 hours.
By order of the President.
What do you mean the President?
He was shown of the projections. He was advised by an expert panel of virologists.
I wasn't there.
It's not about a weapon, Sam.
When the president saw that within 48 hours
this virus could be crawling across the White House lawn, he gave the order.
I wasn't invited.
Suppose you had been, Sam...
what would have been your advice?
- What? - Colonel.
- Ruiz called. - Yeah?
Apparently he scared a security guard into telling him Jimbo Scott
smuggled an animal out Biotest.
- Jesus. What kind of animal? - He couldn't say.
Had to be small enough to fit in the back seat of a car though. Colonel,
We do know it came in on a ship from Africa around September 1st.
Well, something at least ran reason up.
We got to find that ship. Listen, my friend, you better pack. We got work to do.
Yes sir.
- Colonel Briggs. - Yes, sir.
Daniels was here? And here?
- Yes, he was down here. - Why was I not informed?
Sir you were sleeping.
I am never that asleep, Briggs.
Now you find him and you arrest him.
We are so close now. Robby, we have a real chance.
I know.
- You believe that? - I believe you, Sam.
- You got to go. - Okay.
Listen to me.
I don't know how to say this...
but if I am not back by 18:00
and you're not
symptomatic...
leave.
What are you saying?
Leave town.
Robby, have you seen the troops moving out?
They can't do that.
They're doing it, Robby.
Colonel...
Sir, I think we should go very soon, like, right now.
Let's go.
Where's Colonel Daniels? Is he seen in the hospital?
Yes, I think he's upstairs, I can find...
Upstairs. Let's go.
How many hours in flight school? 60 hours plus, sir.
- Actual flying time? - Every minute, sir,
I was yanking and banking.
Anybody seen Col. Daniels?
We're looking for Colonel Daniels. Have you seen him?
Tall, big guy?
Sure. Sure.
There.
Let's see some activity on these birds, people. We got 4 flights pulled today.
I want a fuel 93 and I want a turn 91, let's go.
- Sergeant. - Yes, sir.
Sergeant, where's your pilot?
General Ford just called, from CP.
We have got a helicopter priority to deliver fast traffic. Where is he?
My pilot, sir, he's...
Your pilot's what, sergeant?
Sir, my pilot's taking a leak.
Taking a leak? No shit.
Well, in that case we just wait in the Loach.
Sir?
You better tell him to squeeze it off, sergeant.
How about you give him a hand, sergeant?
Yeah, 'k.
Anybody seen Colonel Daniels?
They're down below. Let's go.
Stop that chopper. That's an order.
- Don't move. - Hold your fire.
Watch it.
Hit the deck, troops. We're airborne.
Com Center, Flightline. Com Center, Com Center, Flightline.
Shit.
Get us to San Francisco, Salt.
They will be on our tail, so follow coastline. Fog might give us cover.
Fog, sir? Yeah, fog. You have flown through fog, right?
I read about it, sir.
Colonel Daniels just commandeered one of our choppers.
What?
Dare I ask how?
Don't waste time thinking about it, Briggs. Find him. If he resists, shoot him.
- I understand sir. - Wait. Wait.
Donny, you don't have to do this. He's a carrier of the disease. Go, do it. Now.
I am doing it, sir.
Donny,
You go after him like this, the press going to swarm all over it.
You're creating a panic.
You always have the wrong priority, Billy.
He's not infected Donny. You damn well know it.
I know that he's been in direct contact with Motaba patients.
You know something beyond that?
You should have arrested him when you had the chance.
Launch AWACS.
Yes, sir.
You're sure?
Yes, sir. Holy shit.
I got it. Back up, coming through.
Make a hole, people.
Back it up.
Colonel Daniels from USAMRIID. I am sorry.
Yes, and I am George from Sioux City, South Dakota. Back of the line, Colonel.
We got a terrible epidemic. We're from Cedar Creek, George.
- We're from Cedar Creek, California. - Cedar Creek, site of the viral infection.
George, you heard about the virus? Need we say more? Okay.
We need all the bills of lading from ships arriving from Africa in the last 3 months, George,
- shall I cough on you, George? - No...
- Mrs. Pananides. - Now you're talking, George.
- Mrs. Pananides. - What?
I think these men need some help.
Biotest has to be very careful on its paperwork. Live cargo, federal regulations.
Here's our list. Compare with your Biotest list.
- All right. You ready? Number 1, Petra. - Same.
- Number 2, Venus. - Same.
- Number 3, Patricia. - Same.
Number 4, Tae Kuk.
- Tae Kuk. - No, sir.
- No? - No, sir.
Arrived from San Francisco a week ago carrying a monkey. No.
- Delivered to Biotest. - No, negative, sir.
- It's not on the list? - No, sir.
- That's our vessel. That's the boat. - Sir, sir,
The Tae Kuk has set out to sea already, sir.
So what? How we going to locate it?
I got a friend in the Coast Guard. I can make a call easy.
How close a friend?
Closer than his wife would like.
Get me on that ship, Salt. It can't be far. It just left this morning.
You want me to fly you out to sea...
drop you onto a freighter? Sir, with all due respect, that is idiotic.
Idiotic? Let me ask you a question.
- Are we fugitives from the law. - Right.
Idiocy is our only option. Find the boat.
So what is this?
She's a monkey. Her name is Betsy.
- A monkey? I could tell. - I am feeding her, see?
- She lives in the woods. - Do a lot of monkeys live in the woods?
No, just Betsy. She comes to visit me.
Does Betsy like apples like my little monkey loves apples?
She does.
Tae Kuk, Tae Kuk, this is Army Helo 1350 on guard. Say your position. Over.
Try another frequency.
It won't work, Colonel. They will be monitoring marine channels.
I have to rely on the Coast Guard position report, sir.
- Just don't get negative on me. - Affirmative.
You sure you got the coordinates right, Salt? Yes, sir.
How much fuel we got? Are we going to run out?
Don't worry about it, Colonel. This bird will go 400 miles without refueling.
- Wait. - What?
There.
Tae Kuk...
- Seattle. - That's it. There it is. Thank you, Mrs...
- What's her name? - Pananides.
Thank you, ma'am.
- I can't land this thing on that ship, sir. - You got to get me on it.
- I will get you close enough. - Close enough for what?
Close enough to jump, sir.
You're not serious.
All right, you fly, I will jump, Colonel.
No, just get-- get closer.
Just get...
- very close. - Yes, sir.
Colonel, that lifeboat down there is about your best shot.
How do I get back up here?
Just get them to clear me an area. Or I can throw you a rope.
Just kidding, sir. Trying to keep you loose.
Closer.
Get me closer.
Does anyone here speak English? English?
- A Little. - I need information...
about an animal that was on this ship.
Okay, you don't understand. Look,
This is a medical emergency. I am an American Army doctor.
Doctor.
- Doctor. - Doctor, yeah?
Come. Look.
Is there anyone else sick on this ship?
No. No, sick.
Can you take me to this man's sleeping quarters.
Upstairs.
Where is his locker?
There's our host.
Hey...
How are you?
I am good. I am good, Case.
Robby...
Yeah, Case.
You should be nice to Sam, you know. He's got a big crush on you.
I am so scared.
Would you please hold my hand?
I am right here, Casey.
The President's scientific advisors and FEMA have assured me that there is no threat...
of the further spread of this disease at the present time.
In a related story, the 2 men who escaped from Cedar Creek quarantine this morning
are believed to be infected with the disease...
Everybody relax. This is a military emergency. Back up.
It's all right.
Back up. Everybody back up. This is a military emergency.
Stay calm. Stay calm. Everybody stay calm.
- It's all right. It's okay. - That's them.
That's the guys.
2, get your camera on them.
Can you tell me which camera I can talk into? Right there.
My name is Colonel Sam Daniels. I am here with Major Salt.
We are not infected with the Motaba virus, but many other people are.
We have identified the.... the animal...
carrying the virus and we need your help finding it.
The animal who is carrying the Motaba virus is a monkey.
This is a photo of the animal. Can you get in close, please?
Can you get a shot of it, please?
Somebody get in as close as you can.
It's a small monkey, about the size of a cat. It has a white face.
it has dark fur running down its back.
Please do not attempt to capture it yourself.
Don't even go near it. What you can do is if you see this monkey...
call this number at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.
The area code is 404...
and it's 555-9653.
Again, if you see this monkey...
do not go near it. Do not...
Kate.
Hold your fire.
Right. Palisades.
Okay, Dr. Reynolds, I just want to read this back to make sure I have written it down correctly.
That's 211 Sycamore Road, Palisades.
And the woman's name is Jeffries.
Thank you very much.
Thank God that woman called the CDC. You're not kidding. All right, what have we got?
Jimbo Scott takes the monkey to Cedar Creek, and he tries to sell it but he can't. Yes.
So he drives to San Francisco, he gets on an airplane for Boston, but
- without the animal. - Must have released it somewhere.
Right in between Cedar Creek and San Francisco is what?
- Palisades. - That's it.
- We're there. - There it is.
That's it. We're there, colonel. We are there.
We intercepted a cell phone transmission. They're headed right there and I got 2 teams on stand-by.
Good. Briggs' a potential screw-up you managed to avoid among many others you have not.
Who do you think should handle this now?
You, sir?
You kiss ass with the best of them, Briggs.
- You hope to make General one day? - Yes, sir.
Well, you won't. Now get me on one of those choppers.
She won't come.
She won't come, except to me.
I am her only friend.
I trust you are the very best helicopter pilot in this men's army.
- Yes, sir. - That's a relief.
Viper 2, Lead, left echelon.
Viper 2, light on the skids, I am at your 6
- We're looking for a Loach number 1350. - 1350, sir.
- Make this easy for me, all right? - Yes, sir.
Kate,
- What? - Have you ever been sick?
- Yes. - it's not much fun, is it?
- No. - Well...
There's a whole lot of people are sick right now. A whole town.
And you know how much you love your mommy?
Well that's how much I love my wife.
And my wife is one of the people who're very sick.
And I want her to get better.
And Is it, Betsy?
Betsy can help make everybody better because she got this medicine inside her.
And that's what makes her very special.
Do you understand?
You won't hurt her?
No.
She will just go asleep for a while. That doesn't hurt, does it?
- No. Promise you won't hurt her. - I promise.
If I hurt her, you can punch me in the nose.
A serious punch.
For a very serious nose.
All stations this net, this is Viper 6.
The Commander in Chief has issued final authorization.
We are ordered to proceed.
I know that some of us have doubts about what we are about to do.
We will be less than human if we didn't.
But the fate of the nation...
perhaps the world, is in our hands.
We are the last line of defense.
We cannot, we dare not refuse this burden.
I am confident that each of us...
each of you...
will do his duty.
Viper 6 out.
Viper Command, Sandman is rolling. Over.
God forgive us.
Betsy.
Here girl.
Here Betsy.
Here girl.
Oh, God, be careful.
He won't hurt her.
I can't stand this.
It won't be long.
There you are.
Careful. Careful.
Here Betsy.
- Here Betsy. - No. Jesus.
Come on, Katie, move. Come on.
No.
Oh, baby. Move.
Come on.
Betsy, come on.
Here Betsy.
Damn it, Salt.
We're approaching the destination, sir.
Fellows, our fugitive is a carrier of the disease
and we're going to take him into quarantine at Travis, all right? Let's go.
Big Eye, Viper flight is airborne, do you see us?
Viper, Big Eye paint your flight at 2 Standing by, over.
Come on, Major, don't give me any shit. Listen very carefully.
Put General Ford on the phone, tell him it's Colonel Daniels and it's urgent.
Sam, where the hell are you?
Billy, we're on our way back. We got the host.
What?
We found the host, Billy.
Thank God.
Yes. Sir, you got to call off the bombing.
Well, I-- I will buy you some time, that's all I can do.
You get your ass back here. Quickly, safely.
Yes, sir.
Sam, you may run into resistance on your way back.
Resistance?
That makes it little tough to get back safely, doesn't it, Billy?
Good luck.
Let's go.
- Problems, colonel? - Of course.
Sandman flight, this is Viper 6.
Stand down, stand down. Return to base.
Viper 6, Sandman. Roger. Return to base.
Salt.
- Yes, sir. - Take a look.
- Is that resistance? - That's resistance. Hold on.
- There's our Loach, sir. - Where?
Army 1350, this is Viper lead at your 8 o'clock. Acknowledge. Over.
Viper, I hear you.
Army 1350, stand by to turn into formation to accompany us to Travis Air Force Base, over.
Travis? On whose authority?
It's mine.
Who are you?
Major General Donald McClintock,
senior officer in this area, over.
General Clintock, I didn't know you were behind us.
Certainly you will be happy that we have the host animal.
We're headed back to the lab at Cedar Creek.
Your orders are to accompany me to Travis Air Force Base, over.
General, you don't understand. There is nobody sick at Travis.
Don't make this difficult for me, Colonel Daniels.
They're lining up in attack formation, sir.
They don't want to send any word but "down".
Sir, I don't think you want to destroy an Army helicopter in Californian broad daylight.
With all due respect Colonel Daniels,
if you do not follow us to Travis Air Force Base,
I will blow you out of the sky.
General, with all due respect, fuck you, sir.
Under my authority...
go weapons hot.
Viper 2, This is General McClintock.
Go weapons hot.
Hold on, colonel.
We're going low.
Anything I can do to help?
Just don't make me nervous.
The river bends to the right.
We have got to cut them off. Viper 2 break right.
2, breaking right.
I don't see them back there. I think we have lost them.
Oh shit. Hang on Colonel.
2's masked. No shot. No shot.
See that bridge up ahead, Colonel?
Yes.
Over or under, sir?
Why.... why don't you decide. I am really not up to it...
- Hang on. - I would have said over.
Wires. Wires. 2 is off left.
What should I do, sir?
Get him out of the air.
Don't go under the bridge.
- You're missing him, son. - Oh fuck.
- I have to go into it. - You're missing him.
Hang on, Colonel.
That's it, sir. That's it. We got it.
If you're in trouble, I just want to be the first to know.
Hang on.
Salt, you got to warn me before you pull a stunt like that again.
I didn't know I was going to do it till it's done, sir.
Viper 2, where the hell are you?
Lead, Viper 2 closing in on you now.
He's pulled a 180, he's coming right back at you.
Viper Lead, they're coming straight at us.
I am going weapons hot.
Holy shit. Break now.
- Where's he gone? - I don't know, sir.
Son of a bitch, he did that on purpose.
Salt, yes sir. Are those rockets on the side of this thing? They are, sir.
Fire a couple on those trees.
Look there.
Lead, we got fire in the trees at 2 o'clock.
Verify.
Viper 2, Lead. Can you get down there and search for wreckage?
Lead, 2. Negative. It's too thick down there.
Big Eye, Viper. We think the Loach is down. What do you see?
Viper, we had 3 contacts and then an explosion. Now we only got 2.
Everything else is ground clutter on the highway, over.
Flying a little low, aren't we Salt?
Avoiding radar, sir.
She's still out. How you doing Betsy?
Salt. Sir.
Use the E-1101 as a road map to synthesize an antiserum.
I will get right on it.
- We have got an awful lot of people here. - Hey, I will copy it big time.
- I mean I want liters of it. - Yes, sir.
I want everything in place if Robby responds. You got it?
- Yes, sir. - Okay.
Sir, there's no sign of wreckage.
We have been decoyed.
You son of a bitch.
How you doing?
Sam...
You're going to be okay. We found the host.
You don't have to say that, Sam.
No, it's true.
Would I kid you?
Salt's cooking up the good stuff.
So let's hang out for a while.
I love your face.
Keep talking to me, Robby.
Please don't leave me, Robby.
Sam...
Don't.
Sam...
It's okay.
Colonel, I got it.
- Your helmet? - Come on, come on, put it up.
We got it.
Okay, you ready?
- Say when. - Now.
I got it. I got it.
- Get the lab geared up. - Yes, sir.
Make more. We got a town waiting.
- It's going to work, sir. - Go, go. Come on. The time's now.
You delayed the bombing. More sentimental bullshit.
Wait a second, Donny, I just give it a chance we can save these people.
You're nuts. Sandman 1, Viper 1.
How copy? Over.
Viper 1, Sandman 1. Send your traffic, over.
We had the antiserum and didn't use it. Don't you think it's going to come out?
I can defend that.
It's not about saving our asses anymore, Donny.
You are to proceed immediately with Operation Clean Sweep.
Is that understood, over?
Daniels knows about the African camp.
Roger, Viper.
Sandman is proceeding. Out.
Salt, her temperature's coming down. lt's working, she's normalizing. Come here.
But, sir, they're coming.
I picked up a transmission. The plane is in the air. They're coming Colonel.
Come on.
- Where are we going? - Come on. Come on.
- Where are we going, Colonel? - We got to get through to the pilot.
- Can you do it? - Yes sir, guard channel. Let me trespass it.
- All right. Get this thing up. - Where're we going?
I don't know. Get us in the air.
Shouldn't we contact Command Center, let them know we have the antiserum.
- They don't care, they want to burry the town. - Oh, this is crazy.
They want their weapon.
- They're going to kill all those people? - Right. They want their weapon.
They're going to sit there and watch all those innocent people die?
Yes, they want their weapon.
No.
Viper, Sandman. We are the IP, commencing bomb run now.
3 minutes to target area. Over.
Sandman, Viper Command. Bomb release is go.
I say again, bomb release is go. Over.
Where are we going, Colonel? What are we doing now?
Get me on the guard channel. I want to talk to the pilot now.
Go.
To the aircraft approaching Cedar Creek,
this is Colonel Sam Daniels. I am a doctor with USAMRIID. Do you read me?
We read you, over.
Okay. You must stop bombing this town.
That son of a bitch, that little son of a bitch.
Sandman, this is Viper Command, you're being spoofed by com chatter.
Viper Command, Sandman. Authenticate "hotel alpha". Over.
Sandman, this is Viper Command. I authenticate.
"Juliette". Over.
Unfortunately, your commanders do not have the current data. We do.
We have an antiserum, as we speak it's being administered.
Every infected person in Cedar Creek within a matter of hours will have their dosage,
so you must abort the mission.
This is urgent. Answer me. Do you read me?
You cannot bomb this town. You must abort.
I am talking to the pilots in the bomber.
Do you read me?
Where is he, Briggs?
Can he prevent the bombing? Can he cause them to abort their run?
If he gets in the way of the inbound aircraft, yes, sir.
Will you get something up in the air and blow him the Christ out of there?
Now.
Can't we stop his transmission?
Do you read me? You must abort.
They won't answer you, Colonel. They have been trained not to.
You hear me, don't you, guys?
I will say it one last time.
These people that you're going to bomb are not the enemy.
We can kill the virus without killing these people. And I swear to you on my soul
that the President of the United States does not have the facts.
He does not know that we have a serum that is working.
Do you really think he wants to blow up the town?
Oh Christ, guys,
If you think I am lying, drop the bomb. If you think I am crazy, drop the bomb.
But don't drop the bomb just because you're following orders.
What you haven't been told is that your superiors have another agenda.
Don't you understand that right below you in Cedar Creek
there's a biological weapon that they have been manufacturing illegally for last 30 years?
I guarantee you...
that the disease has spread beyond the perimeters of this town.
People, we're in a state of national emergency.
We are under executive orders.
See it through.
And if you incinerate Cedar Creek, you incinerate the serum.
Billy, can you hear me?
Why the hell don't you do something, call this thing off? Don't kill all these people to protect your lie.
This is murder, Billy, anyway you're fucking slice it.
If you manipulate the truth, the President, the Country, the Constitution...
then it's not just a town you're killing, it's a big piece of the American soul, sir?
Billy, why aren't you at Cedar Creek, man?
Colonel Daniels, this is General Ford.
I remind you that you are interfering with Presidential authority.
Sandman has a specific line to the target.
If you are in his way, he cannot complete his
bombing run and that would be hell to pay.
Do you understand? Over.
- Why'd he say that? - Beats the hell out of me.
Billy. Are you dumb or something? You just told him how to stop the...
Okay.
Colonel, there it is.
I see it.
- Okay, Major. You're up for this? - Yes, sir.
Viper Command, he's over the target area, please advise. Over.
Sandman, Viper Command. We have final clearance. Do not deviate. Over.
Guys,
I am talking to the pilots coming towards in the bomber.
I know what you're about to do doesn't come easy to you.
But what I have been telling you is the truth. So help me God.
You will release that weapon on time and on target.
Whatever you do in the next 30 seconds,
will be your testimony to life.
Sandman, Viper Command. You people know what's riding on this.
Please, try to remain calm.
Okay, guys, no more words. But we're not moving from your path.
Do you hear us? I said we're not moving from your path.
I have never seen anything like this, I swear to God, I have never seen anything like this.
Sandman, Viper Command.
I don't care if you have to fly through those bastards.
This is what you have been trained for.
Hold your course and drop. Over.
You will have to take us out with you.
We're not moving.
They're dropping it.
Thank you, guys.
Sandman, Viper command. How did you release that weapon? Over.
Viper Command, this is Sandman. We have detonation over the water.
It might have been wind shear. Over.
Sandman, you understand that it is my belief, that you have deliberately contravened a direct order.
Now you return to base for immediate rearming. Over.
Give me the microphone, General.
I beg your pardon, Billy?
Give me the mike, general.
Sandman, this is General Ford. You will ignore that order.
For the record, I am relieving General McClintock of command
for the crime of withholding vital information from the President of United States.
I have in no way withheld vital information from the President of United States.
- Colonel Briggs? - Sir.
You will place General McClintock under arrest.
If I go down for this, Billy, you go down for it.
It's out of our hands now, Donny.
You silly sentimental son of a bitch.
Nobody puts me under arrest.
Nobody.
Colonel Briggs...
what a wonderful moment this must be for you.
That was a good nap, kid.
You look better.
Gown's a comfort.
How're they doing on the antiserum? Great.
Cranking it up by the liter.
How much are they giving the contact patients? 200 mils.
Is that what they gave you?
I didn't think I'd ever see you again.
I did think you'd make it.
It's a pretty unique experience.
Sort of like living with me.
Would you go through it again?
Maybe.
Now that I have the antibodies...