How many people are infected?
I can’t say that over the phone.
If you tell us your name and location,
we'll give you that information.
Hello? Hello?
This bastard is a Typhoid Mary.
He knows he’s the source.
Son of a bitch!
Episode 2
Planning JTBC
Executive producer Cho Joon-hyung
Welcome.
Are you looking for a phone?
I called 30 minutes ago about an untraceable phone.
They’re quite expensive because of all the crackdowns.
That’s fine.
Hello?
It’s me.
Hi.
Did you have a bad day?
No. Where are you?
Home, of course.
My mom kept telling me to stay
so I couldn’t go to Seoul.
Don’t lie.
What?
I know that you’re in Seoul.
What are you talking about?
You should’ve told me we should break up face to face,
why are you doing this?
Are you the same person I knew?
I waited for 2 years.
How can you do this to me?
Hello?
- Hi, it’s me. - Where are you?
Why are we meeting at a place like this?
Listen carefully.
Do you see an underpass to your right?
- Yeah. - Walk towards it.
After the underpass, take the first left.
What are you up to?
Where are you?
Take a right.
Stop playing around.
You’re almost here. Keep walking.
Walk a bit more.
I think I’m at the wrong place.
There are only fences.
Hello? Hello?
Su-jin!
Is that you?
Don’t come close!
Stop messing around.
I was scared to death back there.
Take off your mask.
I can’t see you.
Listen closely to what I say.
Did you hear about Jung-won?
Yes.
- Chang-shik is dead, too. - What?
Why are you saying this?
Both of them died because of me.
What are you talking about?
The doctor on the ship told me that I’m a carrier.
Carrier?
The virus is parasitic on my body.
So the people are dying because of me.
Everyone except me died on the ship.
That’s why it sank.
I didn’t believe the doctor when
he was talking about me being the carrier.
I didn’t do anything, but people are dying because of me. Does that make sense?
The doctor might be wrong.
Jung-won and Chang-shik are dead because of me.
You didn’t kill them.
We have to find out if we can treat it.
Let’s go to the hospital.
No. If I go, I’ll be subject to experiments.
I don’t want to live like that.
The 2 years on the ship were hard enough.
I don’t want to be locked up again.
So are you going to keep running for the rest of your life?
I’m going to leave.
Leave? To where?
Where there won’t be any people I know.
What about me?
What about me then?
I want to go, too.
I missed you so much
I almost went crazy.
You didn’t miss me?
I love you...
Ki-young. Uh Ki-young!
Help me. Possible infection.
Come to the hospital when you see this. Byung-shik
Yes, Mr. Son is insisting on self-treatment.
The police have him surrounded.
We’re on our way to Son Medical.
If he’s talking about self-treatment,
then he’s definitely infected.
Be careful.
- Are there any movements? - Nope, none at all.
I’m Kang Ju-hun from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Sir, we’re from the CDC.
Please pick up.
If you don’t, we’re going to come up.
Hello?
Sir, let us help you.
I’m a doctor, too.
- I can take care of myself... - This isn’t something you can do by yourself.
We’ll provide you with our equipment.
Just come down, please.
The person who can make the cure is on the way,
so please give me some time.
If you keep resisting us, we’ll have to come up.
Hello? Doctor?
- Na-hyun. - Yes, sir.
- Get four protective suits. - Yes, sir.
As you know,
there aren’t many things known about this virus.
We don’t know how we get infected.
Once infected, the chance of survival is close to nil.
There will likely be some resistance, so avoid physical contact,
and make sure your protective suit stays on.
Your own protection is your priority.
Let’s go.
No!
Get out of here!
That’s enough.
A newbie can’t break regulations already.
You never cry on the job!
You broke the rules first.
You said saving Private Ryan is nuts.
As soon as a person is infected,
they’re nothing but a virus host.
Na-hyun, you were Private Ryan?
I didn’t know that.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention Headquarters
You’ve known each other for a while, right?
Do you know about the rumor that went around?
- Guinea pig? - So you know?
Each of you guys were being guinea pigs for each other’s experiments.
And that you have dozens of needle marks on your arms.
No, that’s not true.
We were drunk and thought about it once.
We were always betting who'd break the record of staying in the lab longest.
Later they included Choi Soo-chul and made you look like insane people.
Drink.
People don’t change, huh?
I heard he cut off all family contact and tried to cure himself.
He was always like that.
All the memories started coming back.
Did he really believe he could cure himself?
If curing himself had been a priority,
then he would’ve contacted me or someone else.
He probably knew when he saw himself that something started.
From then on, he probably focused on research rather than the cure,
to find out about whatever that was inside him.
- Did you see his report? - Yup.
I saw things organized into different parts.
It made me feel so sad.
It’s just like him.
Yes?
- Dr. Lee, what are you doing here? - I was told Dr. Yoon would be here.
I’m in charge today, but the patient wants to see you.
Let’s go.
He was 2 years my senior.
He didn’t want to work at a big hospital, so he started his own.
He was a doctor who would listen to everything that a patient had to say.
Now I think it’s time for me to hear everything he has to say.
Byung-shik.
Gyu-jin…
Thanks to you, everyone is healthy, including your family at home and at your clinic.
Here are the test results.
Thank goodness.
The records that you wrote
are a valuable resource in our tracking down the pathogenesis.
I didn’t call for you to ask you to help me.
After I was infected, I felt this desire in me.
Because of that, I didn’t have time to think about anything else.
Listen to what I have to say carefully.
We’re both doctors
I’m telling you this because it may help you.
It was something I’d never felt before.
I wanted to spread it.
I couldn’t control it with rationality.
I’m getting an ominous feeling.
I think his nerves have been heavily affected.
A virus that creates heavy hemorrhaging and severely disturbs the nervous system...
Could there really be a virus that powerful?
We can’t say that it’s impossible.
It’s just that we haven’t seen it yet.
It was like that with SARS.
Also with the Swine Flu. They seemed unstoppable,
but we stopped them.
Won’t that happen again with this one?
Don’t give me that look.
Administrators have to be hopelessly optimistic.
That's the only way we can handle the pressure.
This can be a plague worse beyond our imagination.
We have to get ready.
Let’s get started with animal experiments first.
Can you do it?
I thought your project with the U.S. was pretty urgent.
We need about 24 hours with a full team to refine the virus,
extract the B-cell and synthesize it. Is that possible?
Of course it’s possible.
It seems that Ms. Park has Dr. Yoon in mind to lead the lab team.
This is such a sensitive issue…
For academic advancement, we need a person like Dr. Yoon,
who always questions existing theories without hesitation.
That's why I support him.
But I'm responsible for people's lives, and I can't haphazardly
chase unproven theories and put lives in danger.
Yes, we have to be cautious.
Speaking of which, shouldn’t Dr. Choi be back in Korea by now?
I was thinking the same.
I think Dr. Choi is in the Arctic, at the Dasan Research Station.
- That’s right. - Do you think he'll consent?
If he hears about the virus, he’ll come no matter what.
That’s his passion. Don’t you all know?
If only he would take charge...
So, we’ll have Dr. Choi take charge of the lab team.
Any other opinions?
I’m all for it.
So am I.
Come in.
What happened to Dr. Son?
I don’t think he’ll make it through the night.
- I have some good news, though. - What is it?
Dr. Yoon has decided to join us as part of the advisory committee.
He’ll begin tonight and take charge of the lab team.
I think there's been a mistake because you came late.
We have just decided to give control of the lab team to Dr. Choi Soo-chul.
Dr. Yoon even declined an invitation from Irvine.
He's one of the world's foremost virologists.
It’s really unfortunate.
Dr. Choi is in the Arctic, so it’s impossible for him to join right away...
- That shouldn't be a problem. - How about this.
Since it’ll take Dr. Choi some time to get here,
we'll let Dr. Yoon take charge until then.
If you all agree...
If it’s Dr. Choi, then of course. What do you think?
Both of them don’t lack a thing.
So please inform Dr. Choi, Mr. Kim.
Yes.
And Ms. Park, please talk to Dr. Yoon about this and get him to understand.
OK.
Cape Presley, Franz Joseph Land, Russia
Good work.
Is the radio connected?
I checked.
There seems to be no mechanical defect, but...
But?
Don’t waste time saying that word.
How’s the electric shock experiment going?
Why aren’t you answering?
- We did it. - And?
- The results… - What about them?
- As we were converting the files... - What happened?
We lost about 2 minutes and 15 seconds of data.
You moron!
What’s the order of infection?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Good job. How does a BBQ party sound to recharge our bodies?
No?
Of course we want to!
Yes?
Come in. I thought you were leaving?
Something came up.
- Do you want something to drink? Tea? - No, thank you.
Seems like this is urgent. Shall we?
Can you extract bone marrow?
From whom?
Me.
You?
Yes, keep it and if something happens to me,
please incubate NK.
But it is still on clinical trial
I am well aware of it.
What is the matter?
An unidentified virus has broken out.
Virus? Is it fatal?
Yes, I believe so.
Don’t be so serious. It’s not like you're going out to war.
Please, I beg of you.
How is it?
WBC count is lower than average.
According to the results, neutrophil percentage dropped to below 30 percent.
A drop in white blood count could mean
it's the beginning of the incubation period.
White blood cells also drop for other reasons so we shouldn’t assume so quickly.
Mr. Bae is confirming it right now so let’s wait.
Sometimes it feels better to hear that it is uncertain.
Have the transportation ready. For one person.
Are you going there yourself?
Yes, it won’t be easy to accept.
The family is going to be so confused.
He probably has symptoms of a mild cold
and is showing no further signs, yet.
Mentioning quarantine will make them furious.
Be careful, they might fight back.
Let’s go.
Who is it?
We’re from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Are you Lee Ji-heng?
It’s tough, right?
It’s not tough compared to what you guys are doing.
It must’ve been very difficult for you two to visit so many places.
I heard you had a lot to do yesterday at the corpse site.
No kidding.
I heard you guys had to call the cops. How did it go?
- Just OK... - Why?
- Did it not go well? - No, it did...
He kept telling me to open the door.
So I said no.
Then he said it would be my fault if his friend died.
And he kept yelling at me.
Did you run away the moment you saw the corpse?
I was so shocked.
And him, too. He was at the sink throwing up, and then
ran away without looking back.
My legs were trembling and I was getting choked up. I didn’t have time to look.
Was this the person?
Yup, that’s the guy.
In conclusion, we’ll explain the relationship with this and influenza.
Because of the dielectric structure that is divided into eight sectors,
there was speculation that there could be a relationship,
but after putting the DNA base sequence through search in the database,
we could not find any connection.
If you can’t find it in a place with every single DNA base sequence discovered in the world,
then probably…
We’ve discovered something new,
or someone else discovered it before, but didn’t put it in the records.
I think we have to stop for a bit and decide on the name of the virus.
The virus looks like the moon, so researchers are calling it the "Moon Virus."
So we’ll call this one the “M Virus” from now on.
For other kinds, we’ll mark them off as M1, M2, like that.
We’ll categorize variations observed from the nucleic acid, capsid,
and enzymes, and notate them.
Anything the Ministry of Health and Welfare has to say?
At the Ministry, we have decided to raise the alert state to Caution.
The actions from now on will be conducted according to it.
Through cooperation, we hope to quickly overcome this situation,
and we, too, will promise
not to hold anything back in helping this cause.
That's it.
We’ll conclude our conference now.
Thank you.
Mr. Kim, when is Dr. Choi going to return?
Because he moved his camp site farther away,
we’re having trouble contacting him.
But, don’t worry. He’ll come soon.
- Huh? - Your shift should have ended hours ago.
Were you waiting for me?
If you don’t keep changing shifts every 6 hours, you won’t last long.
It’s been over 20 years since our college years.
I’ve been doing this for over 20 years.
You must be busy. What are you doing here?
- Are you going home? - Yup.
You must not have a car since you were going to leave the country.
- I can take the taxi. - I’ll drop you off on the way.
It’s OK.
If you have time to do that, just sleep.
You really aren’t getting my sign.
I have something to tell you.
Your gate got really old.
It was pretty when it was freshly painted.
We haven't painted it since.
I see...
It must be hard to bring up,
whatever you wanted to tell me, since you haven’t been able to say it.
Yeah. I don’t want to say it.
If it isn’t too late already, just go to the Irvine lab.
I think I made a mistake.
I really appreciate your taking charge of our lab, and helping me,
but I can’t insist my own ways when I work in an organization.
and I didn’t even know Dr. Choi was coming, so I asked you…
Dr. Choi is coming?
It seems like it.
- Thank God. - Thank God?
I have so much to do,
so I was going to spend the night at the lab.
I was going to see my daughter, get my stuff and go back.
Dr. Choi is going to be taking over. You’re OK with that?
Why not? I already agreed to help you.
Alright. Drive safe.
You should sleep some more.
No. You're the one who should sleep.
I can’t sleep.
Even if we had caught Uh Ki-young early,
it would have been hard to save the child.
So don’t think that it’s your fault.
It might not have been my fault, but we could’ve saved the boy.
If only I had known that he was at Choi’s apartment...
It only I thought he'd return.
If only I thought more...
How did you end up here from the military?
When I was an MP, one of the troopers got the Marburg virus
when we were on dispatch in Africa, and I had to watch him die.
And one of the infected soldiers tried to run away...
He infected 8 more people before he was caught.
Then the 8 infected died all because of me
because I didn’t pull the trigger.
Then I realized that viruses are more deadly than guns.
Guns can only kill things at which they’re aimed,
but fatal viruses can destroy countless lives.
Ki-young isn’t a rifle, but rather
a live grenade with the safety pin pulled off.
It's time to eat.
Hello?
Mom...
Hello? Is that you?
Why did you take so long to answer?
I picked it up after only 2 rings.
Why aren’t you home yet?
I’m busy.
Did you find a room?
Not yet.
Don’t waste money and get a place to live already.
I will.
What’s up with your voice? Are you sick?
No.
Ki-young. Hello? Son?
Welcome.
32,000 dollars, correct?
- Yes. - How do you want it?
- In cash. - All in cash?
- Yes. - Do you have ID?
Hang on a second.
Moon Yang Ho Sinking Incident (2012)
What you’re seeing right now is the Moon Yang Ho,
a fishing ship that sank 50km southwest of Ulleung Island.
The footage was shot from a rescue helicopter,
so I apologize for the unclear image.
Also, when the Busan Coast Guard arrived,
the ship was already completely sunk.
We’ll introduce him again for those that came late.
This is Lieutenant Cha In-joon, a special criminal inspector who will help us.
Over there is Lieutenant Park Seung-tae.
To give you more information about that day,
the coast guard received the SOS signal first at 9 AM.
And 10 minutes later, a call came from the ship's company.
They informed us that their ship had an accident.
First to arrive at the scene was a helicopter from Ulleung Island’s coast guard.
At that moment, it’s said that the ship was already halfway sunk.
The helicopter from the Ulsan coast guard came
15 minutes later and started recording the scene.
But, isn’t something off?
What do you mean?
Can you rewind a bit?
We can’t see the crewmen.
In that situation, shouldn’t they be at the top
of the wreckage, holding on for their dear lives?
Unless all the crewmen were already dead at that point…
What do you mean by that?
The virus could’ve spread throughout the ship.
What did the company say?
They probably kept in contact through radio.
There's nothing unusual about the radio records.
If you did salvage work, something must’ve come up, no?
Ah, since the water was so deep, they had to give up.
Is there any footage of the rescue?
There is.
They said he was 5km from the sink site on a life boat.
The helicopter found him while hovering over the scene.
This just came in.
Uh Ki-young...
just withdrew 32,000 dollars from the bank.
Then shouldn’t we release a public arrest warrant for him?
If there were one sooner, he would’ve been caught.
That might be difficult.
It’s true that he’s a dangerous person,
but we have no concrete evidence.
We can’t legally put out a warrant on him.
Although it could help by pressuring him like that.
Uh Ki-young has severe swelling on his left knee right now.
How about we issue an APB to all of the orthopedic clinics around the country?
It we contact all of them, it’s going to take around 20 minutes.
If they call right after they see him
and the nearest police goes after him, we could get him.
I think it’s possible.
Let’s contact the Ministry of Health and Welfare
and request immediate cooperation.
At first it was 3 people, the next day 5, and then 9, and 20.
I did it. I sank that boat with my own hands.
I didn’t even do it for money.
I would’ve done anything to get out of that hellhole.
Even after looking through GenBank, where every discovered virus is recorded,
we couldn’t find the source for the M virus.
That's right!
But isn’t it coming to a rash conclusion,
just based on two cases even more unreasonable?
He mocked me...
We have to extract his bone marry.
If we can get Uh Ki-young’s marrow...
I’m sure. What do we do?
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