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I'm dying. Look at me. He had a virus that killed us in a few days.

I'm scared. No one's immune.

We've got to find every man the victim came in contact with. That means his

killer.

If I touch this button, you'll be cut in half.

It's going to get me, Robert. No, no, no. You must.

I'm putting a hit on him. Who are you working for? We're going in now. Stop

lying to me or I'm going to kill you.

soft weapon made in the world today.

Do you know why men love war so passionately, Mr. Mazzara?

I don't know.

Why?

Because it's the only thing that stops women from laughing at them.

Something wrong, Mazzara?

I hear a little feverish. A long flight behind.

No one in our business can say civilization isn't advancing, Captain

After all, in every war, we find a new way to kill.

What is this?

Nerve gas.

A unique formula, very deadly, yet easily transportable, the perfect way to

out an unsympathetic population.

I saw with my own eyes the Kyrgyzstan massacre.

Children, thousands of them, chopped to death.

I can't do business with you.

I am an armed smuggler, not a mass murderer.

Goodbye, Elko.

Get out of my way.

What is this?

Judge me, Lazar. You're a moral man.

So how can I trust you?

Drop it!

Drop your weapon so he dies!

Drop them.

Got it, Mickey. Good. After the fifth wine, sir. Dom Perignon, 1970.

You owe me 150 bucks.

My dear Falco.

Vintage, my friend.

Vintage.

So who rates McCall?

A friend.

A friend.

A friend.

Lauren Demeter. We were in Africa together.

1970, right?

Yes.

Better make it Nigeria.

Biafra, right?

Biafra, yes.

Lauren was an intern in the International Health Organization.

She saved my life in more ways than one, I assure you.

Well, I hope I get to meet her sometime.

Sometime.

Thank you, Mickey, very much.

You're welcome.

Say goodnight, Mickey.

Don't penetrate the pericardial sac and perforate through the anterior wall of

the left ventricle.

Look at the serosal surface.

The hemorrhages.

They have nothing to do with this gunshot wound.

If this man hadn't been shot, he might have been dead inside of 48 hours

Get some blood for serology.

I'll get Dr. Molinari.

I'll keep this warm in the kitchen, Miss McCall.

Thank you, gentlemen. You're welcome.

Robert?

Lauren, I thought you'd forgotten.

I could have called.

Lauren Demeter.

Oh, what the years have done for you.

I've missed you.

How I've missed you.

Come on.

Oh, look what you've done.

Chateaubriand and truffles in the kitchen.

Truffles? Did you dig them up yourself?

No, no, no. I have this trained pig. I send him out into the city and he

snuffles the truffles and he brings them back in his mouth like a dog with a

morning paper.

I should meet this talented beast.

Oh, you will, you will.

Here's dinner tomorrow night.

Oh, champagne.

Champagne, caviar.

You'll spoil me.

Now, I'm afraid, as you can see, I am a little ahead of you.

I'm so sorry.

Meeting at the U .N. went way over.

Of course it did.

Of course it did.

When the beautiful and talented Dr. Lauren Demeter comes into town, she is

naturally in great demand.

I give you our old toast.

May we grow old together.

And you better hurry up.

Because there I am, way ahead of you.

Cheers.

I want some blood samples collected with the CDC in Atlanta. We'll fly down

immediately.

Take a look at this.

That's a little tin lesion.

What do you suspect?

What I suspect is impossible.

I want this autopsy room under strict isolation.

A colleague of mine is in town.

I'd better scrub down and get to her phone.

So, light cannot escape.

That's the event horizon.

Once across that horizon, the laws of physics no longer apply.

Time has no meaning.

It's like that moment before the universe began.

A window into eternity.

You think I'm ridiculous?

No, not at all.

I think you're wonderful.

Do you remember, oh, some time ago now, after my skirmish on the Yoss Plateau,

I found myself on your operating table.

I remember you asked me if I believed in prayer. I said no.

And I said I'd pray for you.

Well, now I'm the one who doesn't believe in prayer.

Really?

What?

Remember those children in Biafra, Robert, with their little stomachs

from malnutrition?

Maybe I've seen too much.

I... You've been around that for some years now. You've coped with it very

Touched more than that.

Want to talk about it?

Stay with me tonight

Yes,

this is an emergency look she's a doctor I know she left a number where she can

be reached Good night Jeremy

No failings.

Doctor?

It's for you.

For you?

I always need a number.

Hello? Lauren, this is a voice from the past. Phil Molinari.

Phil, how are you?

I was going to see you at the symposium, but I've run into something that just

can't wait.

What is it?

The medical examiner has a murder victim in here who may have a hemorrhagic

viral infection.

Now, it's going to be hours before I get the serology and cultures back from the

Center for Disease Control.

I was wondering if you might possibly be able to... I could come down and try to

identify it.

The victim is just ravaged with this thing. If it's infectious... I'll be

right away.

Medical examiner's office, right?

I really appreciate this, Lauren.

I'll see you soon.

What's wrong?

That was an old acquaintance of mine, Phil Molinari. He works for the

of Health.

Bureau of Contagious Diseases. It sounds like there's a problem.

I'm sorry, Robert. No, don't apologize.

The night is young.

What?

I'm coming with you.

Come on.

Good night, Jeremy.

Good night, Mr. McCall.

Can I call you Nurse McCall?

You certainly cannot call me Nurse McCall.

Neither can you, young man.

I wouldn't dream of it.

We've been in contact with this man. Just our people. And several people at

crime scene. I've isolated them already.

You think my diagnosis is possible, Lauren?

It's not smallpox. Not after the eradication campaign.

But I've seen this before.

This man must have been in Africa not long ago. What is it?

It behaves like a hemorrhagic orthopoxvirus, but it's more infectious.

Deadlier. What's the mortality rate?

From what I suspect this body is infected with, nearly 100%.

I saw this once before in Benin. I cabled Geneva, the international health

organization. But we were in the jungle. We were unable to take cultures.

I thought we contained it. How was it transmitted?

I believe by saliva aerosolization.

Coughing and sneezing. God help us.

Burn or sterilize everything that's been touched.

Cremate the body.

Well, we've got work to do.

We can derive a vaccinia immune globulin from the blood of U .S. military

recruits. They're the only ones who've recently been inoculated with smallpox

vaccine. But will it protect against this virus?

The serum globulin should protect everyone who's been exposed.

We can use the vaccine itself to immunize the rest of the community.

Everybody over 20 has already been vaccinated.

But protection decreases over time, especially with a virus this infectious.

Then no one's immune.

This is New York, Lauren, not some jungle outpost.

It'll take months just to inoculate one burrow. That's the least of our

problems.

We've got to find every man the victim came in contact with over the past 48

hours. That means the killer.

Is that the truck seat?

Yeah.

What's wrong, Lauren?

I'm in remission. I'll be fine. Let's go.

The cops left the thing. Nobody made it.

We're home free. Ruger wants us both to stand watch tonight.

Did you handle it?

Why, what's wrong?

It's like I got a fever. It's loose.

Infection is the common cold. I understand. And what I'm trying to tell

the mayor would want the people to know.

If you let the press in on this, some of the people are going to start leaving

Manhattan with the infection.

All right.

6 a .m.

I will keep a lid on this until Friday morning.

That's 48 hours.

We've got a killer to find.

Do you think he's just going to give himself up? Look, I can't keep the press

off this forever. They already know something's up. How do they know?

We started a mass roundup of suspects.

Don't you think that that means the killer is going to go underground?

Well, what do you suggest we do, McCall? Excuse me just a minute.

Lieutenant Branigan, I knew the victim.

His name is Eta Lazar.

I'm all -time armed, Michael. I do one or two jobs for the company every now

then.

Why don't you stop the roundup?

Give me a little time and let me meet a few people. No way.

There is no way the city will allow itself to be put into your hands,

No matter what you know.

All right. All right.

Please grant me access to the scene of the crime.

All right.

But when you're finished, I want you downtown with a list of the victim's

associates. He's given us a list, Lieutenant. We've already started

all of Lazar's contacts.

The killer is our wild card.

I'm going to enter for you possible contacts at the crime scene. I'll send

of my staff to help you.

Fine. I'll report later.

We have 48 hours.

No answer. Tillerman's not at home.

You two killed a man less than 24 hours ago. I wanted both of you to stay here

last night for your own protection.

He was burning up with fever.

Police grabbed him. They're sweeping the street, picking up hundreds of

suspects. Heard of Lazar? He was a nickel -dime smuggler. Maybe Lazar's

alive. Maybe he told them about the nerve gas.

Impossible, Mr. Ruger. I shot him twice in the heart.

I once took three rounds in the chest, Garrick. The head is a killing zone.

Yes, sir. If they pick Tilleman up, he might roll over for them. He didn't do

that. He went home sick last night like some schoolchild.

I'm giving you two hours to find Tilleman, then I'm putting a hit on him.

Now go!

So where do you want me to start looking?

Take me back to the hospital.

Come on. I've got to see Dr. Molinari. Sure. First thing I do is get some

I've been up all night.

So have you.

We've got less than 45 hours.

That woman wouldn't let me inoculate her child.

I talked with her for almost an hour.

Finally got her outside.

And then she ran from me.

Why? She's here illegally.

She's afraid.

Uneducated.

You know, the problems of this world aren't medical.

They're economic and moral.

Come on, you are tired.

No, I'm just lost.

You should get some sleep.

I've got to go out with Dr.

Malinari.

Interview some more contacts.

You all right?

Oh, I'm fine right now.

Why don't you lie down here for a while, hmm?

Okay. You mustn't let me fall asleep.

No, no. Of course not. Of course not.

Come on, relax. Just let yourself go.

Oh,

that feels so good.

That's what they all say.

All right, come up. Put your head down here.

Feet up.

Up the top end.

I'm just going to rest my eyes for a moment.

Yes, just for a moment.

Cool. Robert, I got it.

Cat's Iron District.

There's an arms dealer there. A company contact named Daniel Ruger.

You got that?

Ruger.

I know that name.

There's some heavy hitters working for him. They did a very exotic weaponry.

Nerve gas.

Could be our man, I suppose.

Perhaps Lazar was considered to be a threat of some kind.

All right, Mickey.

Set up a meeting.

I'm at arms.

Oh, yeah.

Sounds possible.

Hard to contact Hoover unless you're one of his regular clients, McCall, but I

have the address of his warehouse.

380 Ludlow.

To hell with it.

We're going in now.

Give me five minutes so I can put that up outside, all right?

Right.

Dressed to kill, Robert.

Where are you going?

We think we may have... have some knowledge of the whereabouts of Lazar's

killer, Oculus.

Have you called the police?

One final force and those people will disappear straight away, believe me.

I've seen you dressed for war.

How many times?

Oh, come on, Laura.

Hardly dressed for war.

There's only one way of dealing with people like this.

Take me with you. Let me talk to them. Let me tell them what kind of danger

they're in.

I'm sorry. It wouldn't work that way.

Don't patronise me, Robert.

There are too many lives at stake.

Yes, including yours, if I take you with me.

I don't care. It's my choice. Luckily, it isn't.

It's my choice.

And my choice is that you stay here.

Sorry, Lauren.

See you soon.

Saruga! Now that really is very impressive.

What kind of way is this to treat a customer?

Why don't you come out so we can talk business?

Don't make a move.

If I touch this switch, it will be cut in half.

Hand out of your pocket, please.

Who are you?

I'm a friend of Asa Lazar.

Then you're either very brave or very foolish.

I'm neither. You, however, are very thick.

You're in no position to insult me.

I'm not insulting you. I'm telling you the truth.

Asa Lazar was dying.

He had a virus that killed us in a few days.

You have both been in contact.

Oh, come on, come on. You must have noticed how ill he was looking and

Maybe Tilleman is infected.

Maybe that's why we couldn't locate them.

What if I don't believe you?

Then you're a fool.

And soon you'll be a dead fool.

You give yourselves up to the authorities.

You give them a list of all the people you've been in contact with during the

last 48 hours.

And you'll be provided with a serum that may save your lives.

Even if you're telling the truth, I'd rather take my chance with microbes than

with the police.

Kill him. Mr. Ruger, the serum. Take him out and kill him.

being infected.

That means that Tilleman would have had to have been an accomplice.

That if he is infected and knows that he's infected, he's certainly not going

go to a New York City hospital, is he? So that means an unlicensed doctor.

You know, Bagler's cousin is a top quack in New York City.

Lost his license for performing unnecessary surgery.

He's not treating Tilleman.

I'll bet he knows me. Well, I bet you're going to get on to them, aren't you?

Because you're going to get about 40 hours before Carpenter fills this with

press.

I'll take that back.

Colonel Browningham?

Robert, why didn't you call us in? I know.

There was no time to start with.

There are canisters of nerve gas in there and enough small arms to outfit an

army. You didn't answer my question.

No, I didn't.

Now, Robert, if you have any idea where Ruger is, I want to know about it. I

don't, Lieutenant. I really don't. Not now. Well, we better find him soon.

We've had our first death from the virus.

Who? An infant.

Around the corner from here.

McCall.

I'm going to need a statement from you.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry, Lauren. Don't feel sorry for me.

I failed that woman and her child.

It's hardly your fault.

I heard about what just happened.

You'll never change, will you?

Well, probably not.

Robert, it was a mistake coming back here, didn't you?

Why do you say that?

It's been too long.

You don't really know me anymore.

I know that I care for you.

You think you are my only soldier in Africa?

What?

After you left, you remember how lonely I was.

Well, I bet your friends in the company still have a few dirty nicknames for me.

I would doubt that very much.

Anyway, I don't give a damn for the past. Well, I have to give a damn about

because it's my past.

And I'm trying to make sense of it.

You were the only one with an ounce of compassion.

The rest tore across the country, killed the very people I was trying to heal.

But I still... I still tended their wounds. I still...

How can you say my life is beyond reproach?

I'm about as pure as... Lauren, I don't care. I really don't care.

Now, we have work to do. Come on.

We work in such different ways.

I don't want your help anymore.

Now, chairman, I'm wounded.

Well, I'm no doctor, son. It's an antique store. Are you nuts?

Verdi said he'd help me.

Verdi? Yeah.

All right. Verdi said he'd help me. All right, all right, all right.

You get in the back.

I just hope you're prepared.

I thought you said you were wounded.

I was.

Must be some kind of new age miracle. You got a crystal in here or something?

Uh -huh.

Lay on me! What are you doing?

You and I are going to have a little talk.

Otherwise, I might have to perform a little exploratory surgery.

What do you want to know?

A book named Tillerman's a very big man. High fever, skin lesions. Who's

treating him?

How would I know?

You're the best quag in town and all the little quacks consult with you. So tell

me.

Who's treating Tillerman?

A colleague of mine.

Dr. Folsom.

Looks like Doc Folsom's luck has just run out.

Tillerman's got a virus he'll kill inside of a week.

What kind of a virus?

Orthopox. But I got a serum blob in one that'll take care of it.

Now give me his address.

You don't need his address.

It's okay, Tony.

We're gonna get somebody here to help you.

Doctor, I'm the person who called you. My name's Mickey Kostmeyer. I'll call

to be here any minute.

There's no time to waste, Mr. Kostmeyer. Is the patient inside?

Yeah. You brought the serum while you were in, didn't you? Yeah, but you're

getting an operation until I see the patient.

Tell him that the serum's a real contract.

She brought a serum with her to make you feel better.

Tell him that.

You're going to get the serum.

Now, I need to know how to get in contact with your boss, Mr. Weaver.

Warehouse.

380 Love Love. No, no. He abandoned that place. How else can he contact him?

How can you get to Ruger when he's not at the warehouse?

My address book.

Under the name Ruger, there's a number.

Ruger has a veil, a go -between. Nobody knows who he is.

You call him, he gets Ruger to call you back.

I'm going to call an ambulance.

Where is it?

On the phone, under the table.

I'm a physician.

Tell him it's urgent.

Life threatening.

I'll have him call you right away.

Where can I reach you?

555 -1329.

Stay right there.

Hello?

Mrs. Ruger, who are you?

I'm a physician.

An epidemiologist with the International Health Organization.

How did you get my number? We have Tillerman.

What is it you want?

I want to save your life.

You've been exposed?

Yes, yes. I've heard all this before. Why do you care about my life?

I care about the people you might have infected.

I want a list of all the contacts you've made in the past two and a half days in

exchange for the serum immune globulin that'll save your life.

I'm all alone.

There are no police.

Where are you?

At the corner of...

82nd and Amsterdam.

Where's the ambulance?

You are going to take me to Ruger.

You're going to be all right. Just take it easy and keep yourself warm.

You've had the serum, so everything's going to be fine.

Hello. McCall.

I'm moving out.

What's your destination?

Hey, what's your address?

West Street, here.

Right.

Try to get the car.

I'm moving out.

the truth.

If you have any humanity, you'll give me that list of names. The list of my

disease contacts is the veritable who's who of the illegal arms trade.

Suppliers, clients, shippers. This is just a sting operation, isn't it? Who

you working for?

I told you before, the International Health Organization. Stop lying to me. I

want to know which agency, which government, and I want the name of your

superior officer. And you will tell me or I'm going to kill you.

She's telling you the truth, Ruger.

I'll put your weapon down.

Every single person with whom you have had contact in the past three days.

Are you all right? I'm feeling better, Doc.

McCall told me when to think.

Go on, go on. I can't wait. Go on, tell me.

What is a minor operation?

Uh -huh.

Minors and that any operation performed on somebody.

I always love it when you tell a story. You always laugh at it yourself more

than anybody else.

We can get to him.

You just keep laughing.

You've made his last few days so lovely for me.

On the contrary, you.

I've made them lovely for both of us.

You know, I'm actually... living my life for a change instead of experiencing

it.

Can't tell you how wonderful it is to wake up in the morning and find you

me.

Shall we dance?

That's what you'd never ask me.

do we always remember the past and not the future?

Well, it could be something to do with the fact that we haven't actually lived

the future yet, so we can't really remember it. Come on.

Don't you think it's that?

Well, maybe we haven't lived the past either.

Maybe it's just now.

And everything past and future is here with us at this moment.

Oh, there she goes again.

Hey, what is it? What is it? What's wrong?

Cancer? Nasty little cancer.

Peculiar to equatorial Africa.

Burkitt's lymphoma.

I was undergoing chemotherapy.

Now I've stopped.

I wanted to get my vitality back to visit you.

Have you seen a specialist here in New York?

I'm in a mild remission.

There's always so much work to do.

Yes, yes, you've been working away and for other people not taking care of

yourself, hmm?

You know how physicians are.

They're going to live forever or die in the effort.

I waited too long.

It's too advanced.

It's going to get me, Robert.

I'm scared.

No, no, no, you mustn't be scared.

You're going to stay here with me now, and I'm going to look after you, believe

me. And we will find... We'll find...

We'll find something.

You can't make it all better.

Please don't try.

I can't stay here, Robert.

I'm going to have to go back to the people who need me.

When I'm among them, it's easier to forget.

I'm leaving tomorrow.

No, no, Lauren.

No, please, Lauren. Don't try to stop me, please.

I love you too.

That's why I came back.

To say goodbye.