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Episode 3
Production JTBC
Executive Producer Cho Joon-hyung
Production DRAMAHOUSE
Production Chief Park Joon-suh, Bae Ik-hyun
Script Park Hye-ryun
Director Ahn Pan-seok
Su-jin, can you see that behind me?
Can you see “Moon Yang Ho” written on it?
I’m going to be riding on that thing.
Do you know how much that weighs?
3000 tons. Crazy!
Take care. I love you.
If you keep walking for 15 minutes,
the owner should be at the front.
You can go in after paying your monthly rent.
250 dollars is so cheap. Go on, bye.
How did you conclude that it was an engine breakage?
At that time, the salvage work hadn’t even begun,
so all we could do was to trust the survivor’s testimony.
- Uh Ki-young? - Yes.
- Have you met him in person? - Yes..
- How was he? - He looked uneasy..
Think about it, being the only one alive out of 130 people.
Did he answer your questions honestly?
Yeah, pretty much.
He remembered the incident relatively well.
He was probably shocked, but he still remembered the time of accident,
and the time of the ship’s sinking.
You probably have records of their radio contact before it sank, may I see them?
That’s the thing I’m most uncomfortable about.
The records of the month before the sinking were incinerated.
Incinerated? Did someone get rid of them on purpose?
The thing is…
An employee on nightshift fell asleep with the heater on, and there was a fire.
- Did the records get burned? - Yes.
The ship’s logbook only?
No, a lot more things than that were lost.
It isn’t so easy so conclude it was on purpose.
I heard that it was ahead of schedule on returning. Why?
They said the cooler in the freezer was broken.
Broken freezer?
You think this was due to the virus, right sir?
Yes.
Then why are we here at the insurance company?
Think about it, would a company that got insurance benefits for the breakage
give information about the virus and throw the world into chaos?
What do you think the company wants the most?
To cover things up quietly.
The fact that their selfishness allowed Uh Ki-young to roam around makes me mad.
There was probably a doctor on board,
and he must’ve left a medical record.
What do you reckon happened on the ship?
Mr. Kang!
Hey! Why weren’t you answering my calls?
Where are you? Are you drunk?
Yeah, a little.
It’s so frustrating.
Do you know what I went through on that crazy ship?
I think I’ll feel better after I tell you.
The captain... I’ve never met anyone as stubborn as him.
The catch wasn’t as high as last year’s so he kept taking the ship north.
So at the northern end of the Bering Sea,
we came across a school of pollack.
While everyone was distracted by the fish, no one saw the iceberg in front of us.
We crashed into it and realized the refrigeration system was broken,
so the captain was going crazy because the pollack were about to rot.
Fix it, damn it. That’s why I feed and pay you isn’t it?
Sorry, captain. The ship is so old.
Stop giving me excuses and fix it.
Captain, we could load it onto another ship.
It set sail 2 days ago.
What’s its location?
It’s 1,500km south, but it’ll only take a week if we meet halfway.
Call them. And we’ll fill up the freezer with ice.
Then it’ll last for a week.
Yes, sir.
If the refrigeration system were broken,
the pollack would be rotting.
If I were the captain I would be furious as well.
The replacement for a freezer would be...
Ice?
They were in the Bering Sea, so ice was probably abundant.
I heard that arctic ice was melting right now.
But aren’t the ice pieces huge?
It’s nothing that 130 crewmen can’t handle.
What if they filled the freezer with it?
Why did the ship sink, then?
The refrigeration system broke down a month before the ship sank.
The infection could’ve spread during that time
It could’ve spread before that.
Here’s the copy of the contact records.
Everything was accurately noted just until a month before it sank.
In the medical records, no one was even sick, except one who had joint inflammation.
Therefore…
It’s easy to talk about fishing up ice from the sea and filling the freezer.
While breaking it into small pieces,
the shrapnel would hit our eyes and cut them.
Skulls were hurt, hands and elbows were cut.
I had a bad knee, and
doing that made it swell up a lot.
People gave me ice to put on my knee, so
I somehow finished the job like that, while icing my knee.
But people started to get sick.
At first it was 3 people, the next day 5,
and then 9, and 20.
I’m the only normal one here.
I’m scared to death.
Half, no, 2/3 are already dead,
and the rest are on their way.
Yes. What? What did you say?
At that moment, Uh Ki-young
was probably the one who was scared the most.
When something terrible happens to people,
they always look for someone to blame.
They probably asked him why he was okay and didn’t leave him alone.
So, Ki-young took refuge inside the command room,
and tried to contact the company.
They got all of the information through radio contact,
and the person who talked with Ki-young
probably told his commanding superior.
I can’t be sure of how much of the incident was reported, but
someone must've have wanted a scapegoat.
Why aren’t you saying anything?
If I’m setting up the hypothesis, you have to rebut it.
That’s how we can develop our theory, and reach an elaborate hypothesis.
But if you’re so quiet.
It’s so elaborate already, I didn’t feel the need to.
No, it isn’t..
I believe you.
Everything that you say makes me believe you.
I should put you through elementary training again.
Don’t you know that epidemiology starts and ends with a question?
You have to question even a verified evidence.
So, even if we figure out the infection route and the source of infection,
we have to ask, is this really it?
We have to keep questioning it.
Ah, I’m hungry.
- How did you know? - What?
That I like tuna and mayo.
Wait, let me guess how.
You saw the records of my health exam.
You knew that I had gastritis,
and excluded spicy chicken, beef, squid, and anything else spicy,
and at the end you were left with the only obvious answer.
Your ramen is getting cold. Eat.
The only non-spicy thing should’ve been tuna,
but there are three, dduk galbi, beef bulgogi, and tuna and mayo.
How did you pick among the three?
You said eliminating the choices leaves the answer, right?
Do you want me to tell you how I guessed?
Yes!
I..
just got my favorite one.
That’s not it, is it?
There’s a trick, right?
He didn’t even do an endoscope to check what I ate or what I like eating.
How does he know?
Aren't we jumping to conclusions?
How can they think of sinking their own ship on purpose?
It’s not a chug boat.
They probably did a calculation of gain and loss.
What would they have gained from its sinking?
They were probably able to protect the image of the company.
What else?
The refrigeration system was under the list of the
insurance cover and a mass infection wasn’t, so
the difference between the benefits was probably huge.
They would lose the ship.
That’s to be determined by calculating gains and losses with the insurance money.
We’ll have to see whether it is cheaper to fix a broken ship
or to buy a new one with the money from the insurance company.
They would also lose more than 100 shipmen.
Precisely speaking, that would be 129 corpses out of 130, the remainder being Uh Ki-young
That’s only a hypothesis, but it gives me chills.
If I’m the only one alive out of 130 people, oh my goodness.
He was probably out of his mind.
So he probably couldn’t think straight.
But how can he sink a ship by himself?
It only takes one open valve.
He could've set the engine room on fire.
Ah right. You said there was a fire in the engine room.
Why couldn’t I have thought of that?
But even though he could’ve told them everything after he got rescued, why didn’t he?
He was probably threatened,
and was told that he would be reported for killing the 129 people on deck.
They would claim that they never instructed the sinking.
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.
Just because I was the only uninfected one,
I got all of the blame.
That I was bad luck.
It felt like it would all be over only if the ship would sink. So…
You should’ve told me the truth right when you got back.
Then it probably wouldn’t be this bad right now.
Uh Ki-young, the man who killed 129 of his crewmates.
He mocked me and told me to tell them the truth
if I wanted to live the rest of my life in prison.
Your food is here.
Is he waiting for his wife? What is he staring at?
Eat it before it goes cold!
He hasn't even touched his food.
Goodbye.
It’s Uh Ki-young.
Take a seat.
- Put on a mask if you have one. - Oh, that’s right.
How do I get smuggled out of the country?
Why are you asking me?
Please find out for me, Mr. Lee.
No, why are you asking me to do it?
If I get caught by the cops and say anything, the company’s going to be ruined,
and you won’t like that.
Crazy bastard,
who do you think you’re blackmailing?
Do you think I’m scared?
Alright.
Ki-young, stop.
You have such a short temper.
Just sit here for a while.
Yes, sir, I have Uh Ki-young here.
He wants to be smuggled out.
Or he said he’ll tell everything to the press. What should I do?
What? OK.
Communications Log
Why are you packing all of a sudden?
They told me to transfer boats when they move the pollack.
- I speak some Russian. - Oh…
Oh man, am I getting a cold?
I heard that the company runs on money from Russia.
That’s right. It’s half and half.
Anyway, I’ll miss you.
Why is it so cold?
What are you doing?
Hae Sim Ho. That’s the ship that took Moon Yang Ho’s pollack, right?
Was that it?
Have you lost contact with them?
We did for a little while, but reestablished contact.
Why is this still up here?
- Does the satellite phone work? - What?
- Call the Hae Sim Ho. - For what?
Call right now.
You said you could contact them.
They aren’t answering. Let’s try tomorrow.
What the hell are you doing?
Hey! Why did you take that?
Give it when I ask you nicely.
Why are you acting like this?
Do you need me to tell you again?
If you touch me you die.
Only I made it out alive.
Did you forget that everyone died because of me?
Leave those papers here.
Mr. Kim is going to kill me. Please.
Do you want to die?
You probably know what kind of a person Dr. Son Byung-shik was.
It's not like him to say that he wanted to spread the disease.
It isn’t like him. I fully agree.
But his vague statement can’t be considered scientific evidence.
I understand, that it’s hard for you since you two were close.
I know how you feel, Dr. Yoon.
But we have a crisis on our hands.
I hope you can understand that there are
more important things than friendship at stake here.
Whether or not M virus disturbs the nervous system
is beyond personal compassion or curiosity.
The person is on the verge of death and in the midst of intense pain.
We can't take what he said and conclude
there was a problem with his nervous system.
Yes, if Dr. Son were the only example here,
I wouldn't be talking about it.
We had little time to examine Dr. Son before his death,
so it's hard to agree on what his condition was.
Lee Ji-heng showed definite signs of neurological disturbance.
Isn’t that right, Professor Kwak?
He was deeply depressed and although he was impervious to the pain...
You probably did a brain scan.
Yes, and everything seemed to be normal.
See? The test results say everything.
Lung hemorrhaging was the direct cause of death for the M virus victims.
I’ve never heard of a virus that infects both the respiratory and nervous systems.
That’s right. It doesn’t make sense that it affects the nervous system
without damaging any part of the brain.
Even after looking through GenBank,
where every discovered virus is recorded, we couldn’t find the source for the M virus.
Therefore, we can't make conclusions on how the virus works
when we've never seen anything like it.
But isn’t coming to a rash conclusion,
that there is a virus that affects both respiratory
and nervous systems just based on two cases,
even more unreasonable?
I understand each of your points.
But I’m warning you, don't say anything about neurological disturbances
to the reporters crowded outside.
The papers are rampant with stories of the child's dead.
If we add to the fire, the entire country could be thrown into chaos.
Let's talk before we go in.
Sorry, I’m tired. Next time.
When you’re busy you usually dress pretty poorly.
You’re well-dressed these days.
Just in case I need to do a briefing.
Are you sure there isn’t a man you want to impress?
I trust Dr. Yoon and respect him more than anyone else.
Had there been any other emotions that you're thinking about,
I wouldn’t have asked Dr. Yoon for any help.
I was just kidding.
Why are you getting so defensive?
I don’t want to hear anymore jokes like that.
Ji-ho, Ji-hoon, are you sleeping?
Leave them alone. Do you know what time it is?
Leave them alone!
I don’t have any time to waste.
Let me leave as soon as possible.
If I'm caught, I'm going to tell them everything you made me do.
You, Mr. Lee, and the company would be ruined.
Are you okay with that?
The Hae Sim Ho log that you took.
How about we make a trade?
Ok. The Philippines. I don’t like cold places.
OK. Yes.
The Moon Yang Ho didn’t sink because of an engine breakage,
but because of a mysterious disease.
We transferred a crewman and pollack to a carrier ship,
but they've lost contact with the ship.
If that ship comes back, terrible things can happen,
so please keep it under quarantine.
- Please send this via express mail. - OK.
Write the zip code here,
and the name and address of the recipient here.
OK.
Hey, Su-jin
Are you OK?
I’ll go to you, where are you?
I’m leaving tomorrow.
Leaving? You’re leaving without seeing me?
Let’s meet.
We can meet like we did last time.
That’s not going to work.
If I can just see you face,
if I can only see your face, I can get through this.
Next up,
The CDC is now investigating the virus and nervous system failures
related to the 6-year-old child’s death caused by the unidentified virus.
Currently, the 2 patients infected with the virus have both died,
and now there are rumors on whether or not this is a super virus without any cure.
The Ministry of Health is talking about
raising the alert state to Warning from Caution.
Ki-young
What’s that?
- Nothing. - Are you OK?
Yeah.
- Are you really going to leave? - Yeah.
To where and how?
I’m going to get smuggled out.
Do you have to do that?
If I don’t?
We can just see each other like this once in a while.
Just see each other?
Is that all you need?
I want to hug you but I can’t. I can’t even hold your hand.
Me too...
Are you OK with that?
Be honest. Are you scared?
No..
Then can you hug me?
What about a kiss?
You saw the door over there, right?
So why didn’t you come in?
If you come in right now, then I won’t leave the country.
You can’t do it.
Don’t cry.
Why are you doing this to me?
- It’s not my fault. - Then is it my fault?
- Why did this have to happen? - That’s what I’m dying to know.
You should’ve just stayed and worked at the convenience store with me.
Go. Leave.
Leave already.
Busan
Gimcheon Harbor
Mr. Kang,
- Yes, Dr. Yoon? - You're here.
I might have to go to Busan soon.
What brings you here?
Among the suspected infected patients,
there were those who got negative results, right?
Right.
I want to reexamine them,
because I thought maybe there could be some who have developed antibodies.
OK. How are your animal tests going?
Mammals, fish, birds, nor any other species are getting infected.
That makes it impossible
to develop the antibodies for the cure.
So you’re saying the only answer is people like Uh Ki-young
who are infected but aren’t dead?
Yes. Inside his body is a neutralizing antibody that resists the virus.
We call it neutralizing antibody because it incapacitates, or neutralizes the virus.
If there really is a neutralizing antibody in Mr. Uh Ki-young’s body,
we can just copy the code to make that antibody,
and make an artificial antibody.
We just need to get blood from Mr. Uh.
Drawing blood allows us to get the antibody,
but to copy the code to produce the antibody requires us to extract his bone marrow.
Are you saying that if we can get his bone marrow, there can be a cure?
Are you getting any leads on where Mr. Uh might be?
Not yet. There was something I wanted to ask you..
You’ve heard of the Moon Yang Ho, the fishing ship that sank?
Yeah, I heard that Uh Ki-young was the only survivor.
I heard that before it sank, the refrigeration system broke.
I think the virus infection started after that incident.
Can that lead to anything?
Maybe as the freshness of the fish dropped…
I know for sure that the fish aren’t the host of the virus.
If that had been the case, the fish would’ve been infected during the test.
If the refrigeration system had broken... I think...
They would’ve filled it with ice to keep the temperature low.
- Floating ice? - Yes.
I heard that the ice in the arctic is melting.
So maybe when they were breaking the ice...
I think we found an important clue.
What do you mean you found the virus’s infection route and the source?
What happened? This looks similar.
This wasn’t even in GenBank.
Yeah, I found this through my personal connections.
Except for 5%, the order is exactly the same.
It’s a variant of the Kaludima virus that thrives off the arctic ice.
How did a virus from the North Pole get all the way here?
It’s said that humanity’s history is written inside the arctic ice.
And people hypothesize that there are unidentified viruses frozen inside, as well.
- You’ve heard of that, right? - Yep.
And you’re saying that, since the ice is melting, the seal could be broken?
Assuming that’s correct,
how can it come all the way from the Arctic?
What if I told you that it came here on a ship?
On a ship?
Who would do such a thing?
It’s Mr. Kang’s hypothesis.
Looking at the base sequence, it’s totally plausible.
He says that a ship that was operating in the Bering Sea.
- The Moon Yang Ho? - Yep.
When the refrigeration system broke,
they took the arctic ice and filled the freezer.
The virus was sealed inside that ice
and the crewmen who got in contact with the ice were first infected.
Then it spread immediately in an enclosed area,
causing the ship to sink.
But the lone survivor of the ship came back.
I thought this only happened in movies.
Mr. Kang. That guy is something else.
He says this as if he were a witness.
Do you believe him?
The proof is here.
Treatment Subject Orthopedics
Excuse me, nurse. How much longer do I need to wait?
Just a bit more, please.
Let’s get started.
Is something wrong?
Doctor... I think he’s here in the waiting room.
What do we do?
Are you sure?
I’m sure. What do we do?
If you report him, it’ll take 20 minutes. We just need to hold him until then.
You, get hand sanitizers and mouth wash,
and after he comes in, disinfect the other patients,
get their contact information and let them go, OK?
Call the physical therapy and… I’ll do that
We have to report him.
The phone number is there.
I’ll do it. Tell him I’m getting ready and send him in after 10 minutes.
Yes, this is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
What? Where in Busan?
Can you tell us the clinic name and the exact location?
It’ll take 10-15 minutes for the checkup to finish.
Waiting for physical therapy takes 5 to 10 minutes, so
15 minutes minimum, and 25 minutes maximum.
Mr. Kim Min-shik!
- Yes. - Go ahead.
What? I was here before him. What’s up?
Hey. Hey!
Why aren’t you answering...
Let her go first.
Go ahead first.
Yes?
I’m in serious pain.
Oh, okay, hold on....
This is the orthopedic clinic.
There are 4 possible exit routes.
It’ll take 30 minutes to set up inspection checkpoints,
and 10 minutes for the local dispatch to arrive.
If the hospital can hold him for 15 minutes,
we’ll have a complete lockdown.
If we catch him, will we be able to make the vaccine without any trouble?
If Dr. Yoon can't do it, no one can.
Where is he right now?
He just left with Mr. Kang.
I think the fire department let them take their helicopter.
Attention all units:
our guy just showed up at Kijung Orthopedic Clinic,
located: 469 Gamcheon-dong, Saha-gu.
Lock up the entrances and wait there.
Do not close in without any protective gear.
Does that hurt? What about here?
Stop being a crybaby.
Lose some weight. It’s straining your spine.
Stay here for a bit.
I think it’ll take a while with this patient,
so give the other patients x-rays if they need one.
Let me see that.
Ah, there’s one.
Take care of him.
OK.
Mr. Uh Ki-young, please go to the x-ray room.
Mr. Uh Ki-young, please…
So that’s why he came to Busan.
If it’s Uh Ki-young who’s the key for the Moon Yang Ho case,
how about we plan ahead of him?
He told me to smuggle him out.
1.5 million Wons in cash. It has to be a single.
It can be that the date is set.
There won’t be any problems tomorrow, right?
They’re the ones who sank a 3000-ton ship!
They even smuggle too.
We have to evacuate.
Infection can spread.
Philippines.
Tomorrow. I won’t get caught.
I’m going to hide. They won’t find me.
Who are you?