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here you go

they didn't have the kind you wanted

i hate this kind i'm sorry han

i wish they had something with coding in

it

look if it's that bad baby she's staying

extra day

no it's not that bad

besides if i'm gonna be sick i'd rather

be sick at home good afternoon ladies

and gentlemen flight 178 to new york is

now ready for boarding at this time

well i'm sure glad it happened today

instead of yesterday

can you imagine if i had a felt like

this yesterday when we were camping

see you in a week now listen okay i know

you're gonna be busy with a delegate

county in new york but when you get to

washington on tuesday the kids will

expect a call

wish you were coming

yeah sure you do i really do

love you

excuse me yeah

stewart if you could angry

there

hi

i should warn you i'm getting a cold or

something

it's okay

just got over one myself

and

yeah i have the tetracycline to prove it

we should never have been kicked over to

contagious diseases this whole thing

should have been handled by the

department of sanitation how are they

going to handle it during the garbage

strike wow i lionel there's the

follow-up you want

great oh lionel you know dr prescott by

name only hi lionel cats dr katz

contributed to the garbage analysis we

did for the mayor yeah just the animal

waste section lionel give dolores back

her desk what now now

nora yeah we're up to our butts in

vaccinations we have to stop everything

to analyze garbage no no i'm sorry the

garbage strike is a political problem

jake's from indiana oh really hey jake i

was in indianapolis once yeah that was

even less interesting than i thought it

was going to be

i thought the whole purpose of this

department was to protect the people's

health oh can you believe it someone is

putting politics over people's health in

new york

jake let me tell you what's going on

here

the democratic national convention is

going to be in our town in one more week

right and the networks are going to

televise our great big piles of garbage

all over the country so covering for the

mayor is that why we're in public

service well that's not why i'm in a

public service i'm a public service

because

i can't stand sick people

it's nice to have met you oh you too

no

you're taking this too personally don't

don't get emotionally involved just do

your job and go home i'm not sure i can

do that oh you've only been here a

couple of months you'll figure it out

yeah maybe

i hope not

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how is she

well

i think she's coming down with a flu or

something

you don't mind my

well

what

are you congressman phillips that

depends

are you a member of the national rifle

association

no

i'm a teacher

well in that case i am congressman

calvin phillips

thank you

pauline styles

i've seen you on cnn several times oh

it's very nice to meet you

you said you were a teacher

yes fifth grade i don't usually sit in

first class but i won this trip on a

game show so here i am

great

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thank you

poor thing

well

we'll all be home soon yes

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night janet oh

give me a hand with uh some of that no

thanks here you go oh mary thank you

homer

yeah wow

well i'm glad to see you're not getting

uh personally involved in your work oh

yeah

what are you gonna be doing this weekend

handing out condoms to strangers on the

subway

well i'm still a little a little afraid

of the subway that'll wear off yeah yeah

soon you'll be very afraid oh good thank

you listen nora

um

well i was wondering if you needed a

hand um because i haven't got any plans

this weekend really i know it would help

me get a handle on this stuff no no no

this is uh just uh

stuff i have to read you know just

reading stuff

reading stuff

texting

see you monday all right

probably change your mind i'll let you

know thanks

have a good weekend

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okay

miss styles uh can i offer you a ride

home as well no thanks my car's parked

in the line

honey you're gonna be all right she

feels awfully hot

well whatever she has uh you can be sure

catching it

i hope not i took all my sick days just

to take this trip

thank you

nice to meet you congressman phillips

likewise you take care now here we'll

get her home right away bye bye-bye

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we'll be making two stops driver uh

first we'll be going to

1099 park avenue 10.99 park yes sir

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thanks a bunch of help with her luggage

okay

here you go

thanks again

you're sure you don't vomit it no no

it's okay i'll be fine well um

feel better i'll try

okay bye

well where to sir uh

trump tower i'll walk from there

mom

dad i'm home

hello

anybody home

i don't know you who are you

have you seen my parents

okay

gracias thank you i'm sick i want to lie

down okay

just leave the bags

gracias thank you

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sarah

sarah you home yet honey

sarah

oh well i guess i got the time

difference wrong again

listen honey your dad and i decided to

fly to paris for the weekend instead of

coming right home so we've changed our

reservations great and we'll be coming

home tuesday instead

what

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and

um okay

so see you tuesday honey love you babe

okay bye

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mr ping i'm really sick

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ah congressman phillips good to have you

back uh the amar corps industries

representative left you the keys you

requested thanks

has anyone else arrived i really don't

know sir i've only been on half an hour

so thank you

charlene

you look incredible

i was almost sure that you weren't going

to be here

well i almost didn't come

what did you tell mike

i told him i was gonna buy some dresses

for the convention

i don't think he was even listening to

me but

but cindy and pierce were in the room

calvin i'm lying to my children now i'm

lying to my children

i'm sorry

where are we going with this

i mean is it leading somewhere

mike would fight for the children i know

he would

even if it meant losing a seat in

congress i don't think i could bear that

why are we doing it

why are you doing it

is it cause you're bored

don't

but i just don't say it

i had some dinner delivered

i'll go heat it up

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mom

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mom

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laughs

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ugh

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good evening hello can i take this for

you

so

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ugh

god

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oh

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what about an ekg not a bad idea birdman

come on people let's go let's go

iv

one two three

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what's your name honey just tell us your

name

hey dope didn't have any other jane does

in here tonight

85 palpation

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where's dr lipsky

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all right scalpel bergman

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got it

drake

let's go

section

all right

bag of birdman

doctor

she's arrested get the board

damn it

why aren't you breathing

she tested hiv negative negative

gonorrhea lift her up

let's go let's go let's go

oh my gosh it's a hemorrhagic rush

we're losing her

adrenaline damn it call the team

spank

come on

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come on

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delores would you finish that up for me

please

yeah are you i'm gonna break for our

weekly false alarm two behind

dr hart's office

oh uh

it's dr henshaw

hello

are you sure

did you id the body no no no no no look

you've done everything right i'll be

right there

dolores finish that up sure nora what is

it hopefully nothing

what look i've got to go to manhattan

general i'll tell you on the way

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interesting yes

very

i checked with all the other hospitals

nothing similar has been admitted i

don't see how this could be an isolated

case but if this is really your signia

the admitting papers call it a drug

the body still here yeah an isolation i

hadn't moved up from the morgue do we

have to do an autopsy what about a

fluorescent antibody test oh funny hey

where'd you find this guy

indiana state board of health

look we're lucky if the city pays for

cotton swabs yeah

nora

i'm sending this off to the centers for

disease control in atlanta

but i need you to sign it

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i don't know why we have to do this now

it was halfway home sorry dr martin so

why do we have to wear these masks you

say it's not tv it's not legionnaires i

didn't want a prejudice okay all right

all right fine fine now let's get her

over

her chart indicated she might be an

addict but look

she got a tan wearing a bikini you know

dr hart

we don't get a lot of tan junkies around

here

standard iv marks in the arm

looks like they did a cardiac puncture

what do you make of this

could be mosquito bites bee sting

i got the same thing here the bee sting

would be more erythema

certainly not an injection

what about a flea bite

yeah maybe

how anyone could call these uh needle

tracks beyond me

that's what they usually see up in er

must be two

dear god

this is one node

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put on another pair of gloves

i'm gonna put on two pairs of gloves

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yes graham negative pneumonia i know

get out of here you heard what he said

get the hell out of here gentlemen get

the organs out as quickly as possible

then you'll each need two grams of

streptomycin now and one every day for

the next five days i've got a festive

director of health control

please keep this quiet we don't need a

panic

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call the office i want every available

nurse here on the double bring everybody

in off the streets now

what what is it it's the plane jake

it's the plague

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did you find the chief of staff he's in

hawaii but the director of health

control is on his way

mondays just get worse and worse

seven please

all right everybody listen up listen up

please

okay first things first we've got to

identify the girl

i've got a morgue shot of her i'm sorry

but that's the best that i can do

gail

call missing first and see what you can

find out sure

dolores get over to the address where

the jane doe was found see if you can

idea and trace any contacts right okay

we've set up medical stations right here

in the hospital dr prescott streptomycin

for everyone who came in contact with

the girl two grams to start and then a

gram every day for the next five days

tetracycline for everyone else has a

preventative measure that includes

everyone here in this room uh okay i

think dr hart wants to review the

symptoms we're looking for first the

bacteria will attack the lungs within

the next 12 hours the patient will

experience chills and fever as in the

flu

shortly thereafter the symptoms expand

to cover shortness of breath sharp chest

pains and coughing at this stage it

becomes extremely

contagious by the next day wet coughing

with blood

delirium

madness

and shortly after

death

if it's caught early it can be treated

with large amounts of strep and there is

a small chance of recovery

but after the first day the symptoms are

irreversible and death is inevitable

okay now if this is really the mnemonic

plague there's no vaccine

there's no treatment that will immunize

us absolutely taking every precaution

available will result in only an 80

prevention rate so there is a very real

risk here

and you should all be aware of that and

finally we're not going to mention the

word plague to anyone if anyone asked

we're going to say that we are

investigating a very dangerous and

contagious pneumonia all right let's get

to it

vance

hi

i'm glad you could come down i really

need a meeting with the mayor when right

away right now he's negotiating with the

unions over the garbage strike

i assume this is your new association

yes dr jake prescott dr vincent califado

our illustrious director of health very

nice to meet you sir

well

let's think about this for a minute uh

this young girl apparently had a

bacterial pneumonia now while that's

very sad we get these things all the

time gram-negative doctor yes

derelicts drug addicts i mean they pass

out vomit swallow the wrong way the

lungs become infected her x-rays don't

conform to that diagnosis i was at the

autopsy vents and i can give you my

personal assurance the girl was no drug

addict look dr califado every physician

every nurse every orderly that came in

contact with this girl is at risk

these are your people doctor let's try

to stay calm shall we and uh let's not

call each other a doctor so much look

we don't know where this girl came from

we don't know who she is you know jake

jake

i've dealt with these things before in

africa several times not these epidemics

honestly they have a way of burning

themselves out and just how many people

have to die to fit a qualified burnout

vince i'm afraid that if we don't get to

the mayor by the time the cdc gets back

to us with the confirmation it could be

out of control or i can't base this

decision on fear i mean i can't tell the

mayor you want to see him just because

you're afraid not because i'm afraid

because i'm terrified i saw the body

vince this is the worst disease the

world has ever known it's wiped out

entire civilizations all right all right

all right i hope you're wrong

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so

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that's it yeah

now he's not happy about this he's

trying down the strike before the

convention gets here

deputy mayor capro this is dr hart our

chief epidemiologist how do you do hi

pleasure to meet you

vincent you have to promise me not to

distract him with this now i need him at

these negotiations

capro you know the mayor and i have

something in common we both took an oath

the only difference is mine's about 3

000 years older than his good afternoon

vince

ready how do you do please sit down

so as far as you know dr hart there's

only this one case and it has yet to be

confirmed by the cdc so far yes but it's

so easily passed a handshake a sneeze a

cough but the absence of other cases

would tell against your diagnosis might

even point to this being an isolated

incident andy mr mayor with all due

respect

ten years ago we had a few isolated

cases of another disease and now we have

a hundred thousand people dead from aids

i need police assistance some emergency

discretionary spending

and i need my detention powers increased

i want to put that girl's picture on tv

to id her

dr harp

let me tell you my dilemma here

i have a convention coming into town

it's bringing in millions and millions

of dollars in revenue

now i go on television and i say that we

have a case of plague in manhattan

what do you think's going to happen i

don't think you should do that i brought

the mayor's task force report on

emergency preparedness with me good good

thinking let's see what it says

uh new york city is 314.7 square miles

an area please come on skip skip i'm

sorry well you know this is really an

excellent report

uh a tornadoes b hurricanes c

earthquakes

sabotage bridge clubs here it is

epidemics epidemics

epidemics are considered to be beyond

the scope of the task force of emergency

preparedness

well

we'll just have to wing it

that's what the people pay me for

yes to all the extras no to running the

girl's picture on tv

every looted taking greenwich village is

going to say that they saw her

dr hart should this become more serious

i'm going to rest a little easier

knowing that you're in charge thank you

you'll go ahead and do whatever you have

to do but please do it quietly

fair enough

fair enough

nora

hillary daniels was the duty nurse

tonight that jane doe was admitted she

just came in with her two little girls

all three are showing symptoms

get them up to isolation and be sure

that everyone here has been medicated

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i don't want to be in this hospital i

work at this hospital i demand to be

taken somewhere else dr lipsky

who the hell are you i'm dr prescott a

doctor

you've been exposed to a very dangerous

and contagious disease i need to know

who you've been in contact with since

you left the hospital

never been in contact with anyone

i've been working for 48 hours straight

check the call sheet doctor

this is the flu all right can't you see

that

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what is this

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isolation isolation

what is this what's happening to me

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you david bergman's roommate that's

right

what's going on

he's really sick i brought some of those

things with you but dude do you know

what he did when he got off work

yesterday

um he whined a lot about his hours were

you home when he got there

no i called him for messages okay when

did you have your first contact with him

this afternoon what's going on

mr chapman uh you've been exposed to an

infectious pneumonia i'm going to treat

you with streptomycin for five days i

regret having to detain you are you

detaining me for observation yes

doctor um

he's gonna be okay isn't he i mean david

he's not gonna like

die or anything is he nurse

we're gonna do everything we can mr

chapman

come on over here

up here

just roll your sleeve up

relax your arm jake

what are we gonna do

call security get me some officers down

here stat

then we're gonna close off this entire

wing of the hospital and detain everyone

here everyone

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okay

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everybody settle down now

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now

the important thing to remember

about

the the republican method of government

is

mistrials are you all right is that the

leaders are usually

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nora

her name was dobbs sarah dobbs

this wasn't some street kid

her family's super wealthy

her parents are away so she was home

alone

i don't know i'll find out

who was on duty friday night

rafael ortiz he called in sick this

morning

the doorman from friday called in sick

i'll find him

sarah jobs

it's a boarding pass jake wait now it

might be all right yes look see it was

for friday she wasn't necessarily

contagious while i'm bored but she could

have been no listen i just read a report

about this airplanes exchange massive

amounts of air while in flight and

catching a disease on a plane would be

like like catching it on a beach with a

five night wind blowing gail

call the airline get a manifest in a

seating chart and start checking the

names of passengers call them and if

anybody's sick

damn what how did she get home from the

airport did she take a cab did she take

a bus

nora yes

saint sebastian's just called uh a

teacher collapsed in front of her summer

school class and they took her there she

has all the symptoms now i've detained

everybody at the school and they're

cooperating so far

vince what was the teacher's name

pauline styles

i've got a call in to the mayor i'm

recommending a declaration of imminent

peril yeah

check for a pauline styles on that

flight okay

what the hell are you doing here

well i'm uh quarantined you're detained

you're not quarantined he's the roommate

he's a reporter for the village voice

you told me you were david bergman's

roommate i am david bergman's room and

i'm also a reporter with a village voice

now i'm not here to discuss my resume do

you guys have an official comment on

what's going on here

does it have anything to do with aids

mr chapman

we are dealing with a highly contagious

bacterial infection now we're trying to

make sure that it doesn't work its way

into the general population and we are

taking every precaution

it has nothing to do with aids uh doctor

could you be a little more specific

about

dr hart

kevin

what's this

i told you

i had a cold the doctor gave me a

prescription

well it worked really well didn't it

that's so funny

kind of ironic isn't it what

well when you told me that we were going

to be spending a weekend in bed i didn't

know this is what you meant oh well

it wasn't

but uh

you seem almost happy about it at least

we're talking more

seeing how we really feel about each

other

you're not gonna start singing are you

feelings

feelings

is this the speech you're giving in

washington on wednesday

yeah

we have seen the moral fiber of our

country

attacked by greed and self-centeredness

a disease not of the body but of the

soul

that's not the way i'm gonna deliver it

okay

i'm gonna take

dramatic pauses

maybe lower my voice a little bit oh you

and mike i hate politics

calvin if i get this

how did it start with a sore throat what

do you mean if you get this

of course you're gonna get it

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okay

hi

i'm cold

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let's get these covers around your dolly

are you a nurse

my mom's a nurse she's over there

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no

i'm a doctor

that's what i want to be when i grow up

dr hart

there's a dolores rosales on the phone

for you

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see you later sweetheart

they're probably illegal

gentlemen i don't want to panic these

people you understand

jake why don't you wait for the

paramedics if we're not down in a few

minutes come on up

tell these people raphael is very sick

he must go to the hospital they all must

go raphael

raphael has a very dangerous disease do

you understand

if you don't take medicine you will all

die

let

calm down

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hey break it up

i said break it up

come on

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dolores

jake stay there

so you want to be a hero

let me tell you a story

one night about two years ago

my husband adam and i were walking home

from a newsstand about half a block from

our apartment

and a man came out from the shadows and

asked adam for his wallet and adam

wouldn't give it to him and now he's

dead

and they got the wallet anyway and

that's new york all right

i'm not impressed by what you did the

police were right outside the door and

that's what they're paid to do this

isn't indiana

i've got to give you another

dose of strep

the bacteria can go directly into your

bloodstream

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it's quite a bedside manner you have

there

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what

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what is it

rats

there were rats in the apartment the guy

was lying in the corner it looked like

he had flea bites on his arm yeah okay

what do you want first the good news or

the bad oh i want the good news please i

need some good news good news is new

york city rats are not the right rats

for transmitting the plague properly

okay their fleas do not harbor the

disease that effectively go home

what's the bad news the bad news is that

doesn't mean they can't get the job done

there's 7.5 million rats in new york

city they use the sewers as their rapid

transit system right a flea bites a sick

guy

jumps on a rat bites it the rat gets the

plague and then he runs up and plays

with 7.5 million friends

so what do we do

we're going to dust a 20 block area

around the ortiz apartment with a safe

insecticide we'll kill the fleas capture

some rats and then check them for the

plague when this hits the papers people

are going to start killing their own

rats if they do that if they kill the

rats first the rats are going to come

flooding out of their nests they're

going to be dying all over the place and

the fleas will jump on the nearest warm

body like a person

like a person

okay cats what's your take on this

you're usually an optimist but under

ideal conditions

a rats could make for a major outbreak

what are ideal conditions close crowding

people living in basement apartments and

cellars

and something that provides the rats

with a readily available food source

like a garbage strike like a garbage

strike

i'll go dust

andy seriously

i think it would be foolish of us to

think that we have this disease under

control

there's still three people from sarah

dobb's flight unaccounted for including

a congressman and there's an entire

family up on east 104th street who are

infected we could already have an

epidemic on our hands few people in

spanish harlem don't make an epidemic

tuck to hurt

oh god well what i mean by that no i

think we're all very clear

he's always talking about

your attitude

enough

i'm tired

i expect probably the good doctors are

exhausted as well

that's everybody just

let's everybody just take a deep breath

please

i don't actually know you doing

dr jake prescott he works with me well

dr prescott i hope you realize that this

meeting the comments made in this

meeting and the advice you're giving me

are all confidential

i won't be giving you any advice sir

finally i meet someone living in new

york doesn't want to give me advice

jake's from indiana

well so

i gathered

dr hart

that you're still very much in favor of

a

declaration of imminent peril yes sir i

am

mentioned

i agree

cap bro

sir

if you declare a state of imminent peril

we will lose the convention

the garbage strike and the crime wave

have already driven down tourism by 30

percent

i think the plague puts us a little over

the top

well

i have to say

dr hart that uh on the face of it

seems that you have this container no

sir the press is too close if they find

one case there could be a panic and

panic i would think there would be a lot

more panic from a declaration of

imminent apparel

i hate to go against a doctor's advice

but

i'm afraid i'm gonna have to agree with

cat bro on this

keep me informed

mr bear have you ever heard of the

egyptian port city of sin

excuse me

in 546 a.d this same bacteria your

senior pestis also known as the black

plague also known as the black death

appeared in the egyptian port city of

sin

there were so many deaths they couldn't

dig enough graves for the people so they

took off the tops of towers and stacked

the corpses inside

they put the dead bodies on ships and

towed them out to sea

and set them adrift

when it was over

over 100 million people were dead half

the world

half

now

there is no vaccine for the mnemonic

form of this disease

treatment is only 80 effective and that

depends on whether you catch it before

symptoms are shown otherwise you're dead

and you think we have it contained you

think this is another unfortunate

illness that affects social misfits and

drug addicts and immigrants

mr mayor in five days

half of this city could be dead

five days

that's what you're gambling with

there's something to drink in the

refrigerator i don't know what

hi gail it's dr hart

uh-huh

so that takes care of everyone but

congressman phillips and you've checked

all the city hospitals all the morgues

know john does right

what does his wife say

well if all else fails we'll catch him

at the airport when he leaves for dc

set up an observation team at kennedy uh

yeah put him on the limo in the cab

companies

maybe we'll even find the one that

picked up sarah dobbs

yeah you need anything you can call me

at home tonight

right

okay have a good night

bye-bye

nice tableware you know i have some nice

stuff right my mom's in ottawa

you're canadian yeah originally yeah

okay

what

bandage let's change that band oh god

see i came here to go to medical school

because adam was coming to new york to

go to medical school and i couldn't live

without him you know how it is when

you're young

we had a little

hole in the wall in midtown

it was really awful

and i made

a kind of a calendar from a big piece of

butcher paper yeah

yeah and i put our names on

and i drew a picture of the empire state

building

and we kept count as the weeks went by

of the days the city won

and the days

that we won what about ties there were

no ties

well how'd you end up doing

well let me put it this way after a

couple months we

took the calendar down

but you didn't leave no

no we didn't leave

see you've been here such a short time

ten years ago things were different

i'm not saying they weren't tough

but i don't know very slowly things just

began to deteriorate and we built up a

tolerance for it

you could walk right past a homeless

person who was

begging for money to feed her child

or right past an old man in the park who

was talking to himself

forget all about neighborhoods who've

gone under to the crackheads and the

dealers

lose a friend that aids

and feels so helpless

you always scream

but you don't know who to scream at

horrible things happen at random

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and no one knows who's in control

anymore

so you just go numb inside

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maybe we can't stop it

maybe we can't stop it jake

maybe we can't stop it

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i'm really tired

yeah um

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okay

i can go stay at the hospital no no it's

fine no

ah

did you mind the sofa

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no

i don't know

a lot

i'll get you a blanket

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excuse me i'm sorry sir

you understand my friend's up in

isolation i said i'm sorry sir

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so

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hey how you doing

can i help you

yeah um i need to see the charts for

everyone who has admitted into isolation

today can i get you to access them for

me

all right

i'm told there was a time we could only

access this by hand well progress always

seems to take me longer

too bad

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hi barry it's me niles um

no

no they won't let me have to see him

look

i i need you to uh to check something in

my office all right

yeah go and get the medical dictionary

on the second shelf and look up your

signia pestis

y e r

s i n i

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hmm

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i think i think this is worse than the

flu calvin

this is something bad

maybe we should go to the hospital no

no hospitals

can you imagine what the press would do

to me if we checked into a hospital

what they would do to mike

us congressman checks into new york city

hospital with another congressman's wife

you can explain that to your kids

i guess you're right

i guess it's just

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hey

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all of them

yeah

okay

yep that's her now i'll tell her

okay

well she cooks too ah the deli

downstairs cooks take a look at this

a plague on both your houses so much for

not alarming the public

i just talked to gail over the hospital

there's no new cases but uh

we didn't get to the ortiz family in

time they all have symptoms

and the medical team that treated sarah

dobbs all died during the night

bergman lipsky

and daniels and her two little girls

and we still haven't found our

congressman so i can only assume he's

dead or he wasn't infected

there's a third possibility

what's that

if he was already on an antibiotic of

some sort

he could be lingering that's right

great homecoming

what are these guys doing here lionel

probably looking for fleas and animal

hair they should wait outside yeah guys

yes ma'am

why don't you take a break

i don't want sarah's parents to see you

when they walk in

they got a big enough shot coming as it

is

we'll be back in an hour

look at this

it's got film in it

let's get it developed

hey who the hell are you

what's going on here

what the hell are you doing in our

apartment

sarah are you home

mrs dobbs

i'm dr hart with the city department of

health

i'm sorry to have to greet you this way

do you have a warrant for this no

it's sarah

where is she

she contracted a very dangerous

pneumonia

but she's all right

she's

unfortunately

no she passed away sunday night okay i'm

sorry

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the public has a right to know yeah i

suppose that's true

i suppose that's why you're trying to

break out of the hospital right to

inform the public

well the phones here weren't working

we're thinking about going door-to-door

yeah how were you thinking about

informing the public maybe the same way

you informed them about the aids crisis

the plague that's a contagious disease

right that's your department isn't it

what did your department do about

informing the public

and what about david

my roommate died here last night what

did you do to save him not enough

obviously

i panicked

so i'm a human being

the treatment you're giving people it's

only 80 effective anyways i could still

get the damn disease and die i would

tend to think you'd already be

exhibiting symptoms

look niles have you got any swelling any

soreness fever or anything no

how would you like to come with us

you can be beside us through this entire

crisis

you'll get your own special view of what

we're doing

well they're gonna they're gonna charge

me with impersonating a doctor no i'll

get him to drop the charges

i can't guarantee you a favorable report

i'll write what i see that's exactly

what we want you to do

that's interesting huh

it's a california ground squirrel

wow

the pictures are bad great

hi lionel

i think there's one you got to see

it's a california ground squirrel

imagine how sick that squirrel must have

been to let her hold it like that what

does a ground squirrel have to do with

the plague is he with us dr katz this is

niles chapman i want you to bring him up

to speed on what we're doing

you do mr chapman there are known

reservoirs of the plague and the rodent

population out west until five days ago

it was moving in our direction slowly

about a meridian a year

this is a very very complicated organism

it's been around for more than four

billion years and it continues to evolve

we're not sure it can be eradicated i

spoke to sarah's aunt in california how

is she shocked but well they came across

a squirrel the afternoon before they

left the park the afternoon

before so sarah was an infection not

until the end of her flight also they

found the congressman's limo driver

great and dr katz they need you at 104th

street

i'm out of here what about the airport

anything nothing oh

where the hell is calvin phillips

so

first she dropped off the sick girl

right and then the congressman wanted me

to drop him a trump tower so that's

where we stayed i don't think so i got

the feeling he didn't want me to know

where he was going

i'm gonna give you a shot of strep

and you're gonna have to take it for the

next few days hey wait a minute wait a

minute wouldn't i already be sick

probably hope we can't take any chances

anyway

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the press are insisting that you make a

statement i'll make a statement tell

them i'll make a statement as soon as i

get all my reports from all around the

city and that there is no danger to the

public at this time tell them that yes

also i want you to get up to manhattan

general try to put a lid on this cap bro

you want me to go to manhattan general

yeah

you're the one who kept on saying there

wasn't going to be any epidemic here

aren't you well why the hell is it still

going on

hey buddy what's going down here we're

just doing our job hey hey the rats get

to get out of here but we have to stay

yeah get the battery

if that's right take it easy human

beings should be treated better than

rats take care i'm just talking to you

okay that's all i'm just talking about

yes

for dr hart

hey lionel how much joy

no no dancing rats and we're getting

further and further away from the ortiz

apartment get the second crate nothing

new here either

so uh good news all around huh so go

figure as my father used to say i don't

know maybe the mayor was right huh well

call me later all right let's go

let's go let's get out

your baby is better off with you okay

you're perfectly safe

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get everything

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well

our missing congressman hasn't shown up

at the airport

but he's still holding a reservation on

the last flight to washington so we need

to search the area where the limo

dropped him off did we ever get a

picture no yes

and i recommend calling in the police

and reporting him missing

dolores have you had any sleep

no not yet do you mind if i take you no

go ahead we can do a few minutes without

you thanks excuse me

gail's capri returned any of my calls

not yet where is he i can't order police

searches without his permission no what

should we do about the press all right

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wow

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c

okay

taxi downstairs

think you can make it downstairs

thank you

calvin

i love you

i thought we weren't allowed to say that

to one another

i thought you didn't want to go ahead

and say it okay say it

i love you

of course you do

of course

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are you ready to make a statement to the

press

statement in a few minutes now there's

no need

well dr hart you certainly got the word

out didn't you i had nothing to do with

it you and the mayor refused to be

honest with the public i told you that

the press would find out yeah but we're

all the new plague cases

are there any new cases

there aren't

your little epidemic is over now go out

and tell the press you've got it

contained oh for god's sake

listen there are riots breaking out all

over the city

actual riots now it's time we put this

thing to rest dr hart

i think you should come to the isolation

ward right away gail i think you should

come now you're not going anywhere until

we have this settled we'll have this

settled when you find me congressman

phillips doctor excuse me aren't you uh

deputy mayor catherine what do you want

i was just curious since you were

prepared to call this crisis over where

exactly you obtained your medical degree

from mayor andrew carmichael

i'm chief physician to the upcoming

democratic convention and i'm not gonna

let it die because a bunch of doctors

who can't make it in private practice

you think what i just said is funny yeah

well i think a lot of people are gonna

think it's funny

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nora

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dr hart dr hart i have to have a

response from you

stop it

get a roll for me

i'll have your job yo son of a [ __ ]

[ __ ] hey i have your job i'm filing

charges against you

listen doctor i think she got my jaw i

uh uh i need an x-ray or something oh

i'm not a doctor i'm a reporter

best of luck mr capro in whatever field

of endeavor you eventually decide to

access routes pursue lincoln tunnel have

been closed as well the police have

issued repeated warnings

this is eastside hospital now listen

i've got to go

i got to go make some speech

i have to go

we're gonna be fine okay

you'll be just fine

jfk step up it's going to take a while

radio says traffic's backed up

everywhere

okay

what i care the police have issued

repeated warnings urging all citizens to

stay indoors nevertheless

she was my friend and i sent her right

into the middle of it all right

this disease doesn't have a brain

i can't pick and choose who it wants to

attack and how it will respond to

treatment now you know that yeah

it could have just as easily have been

you

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you know you don't have to carry this

all by yourself

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and if your burden is heavy

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what is that something they say in

indiana

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oh yeah

that's just one of our many interesting

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we have another jane doe on the east

side

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i told you it was gonna be like this man

you're lucky we're moving at all

gonna miss my fight

everybody's trying to get out of the

city man why do you want me you don't

seem to understand i have to be in

washington

thank you

someone had systematically removed all

the id out of her wallet and the man who

brought her in just vanished

we didn't know what was wrong with her

at the time

and where was the wallet

oh in your purse

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she had food delivered

i got an address can you finish here

about two blocks from where the limo

dropped off congressman phillips

what's going on oh we got the dress we

did not want to marry

the

alarm

the citizens

and visitors of our great city

i would appeal to those attempting to

leave the city please

understand you are in no danger

anyone involved in non-essential travel

should stay indoors

riding and demonstrating will be of no

constructive use for any of us

this is a time for calm

i appeal to you

with understanding for one another

we will come through this

i missed my plane

it's the traffic man i'm sorry yeah

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how far are we from penn station

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18 block by five let's go there get here

we're on our way now to check it out

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philadelphia

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so

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um

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she shouldn't be up there it's a

violation of the constitution really did

congressman phillips tell you that i

told you i don't know a congressman

phillips

then what about this prescription bottle

with his name on it

i really don't know when he left did he

have a woman with him about 35 40.

i'm sorry

congressman phillips has been exposed to

the plague he is highly infectious if

you came close to either one of them the

only chance you have

is an antibiotic that we have in this

bag

but if you didn't come close to him then

you got no problem

i i i called him a cab a couple of hours

ago he he left for the airport but we

know he never made it get the cab

company on the phone we're gonna talk to

that driver

that driver will need to be medicated

no no we've confirmed that he was

dropped at penn station

we think he's taking the next train to

washington you're too late the last

train to washington just left you want

me to alert the next station no you have

to stop it now divert it somewhere i

need everyone held on board the train

all right

listen what if he's not on the train

what if he's in the station someplace

get over to penn station and seal it off

the whole damn thing can they do that

they have to go

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okay dr hart we've advised the engineer

we're diverting the train to the

maintenance yard

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everybody's got to stay on the train

until they can be medicated all right

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what's going on

i

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he's got it

he's got it we all could get it

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excuse me what's going on

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ladies and gentlemen everyone please

remain calm you must stay on this train

until you have been medicated there

right there

carson phillips

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ah

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so

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back off

back off leaflet

it's all right

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oh my god

you think this is bad you should see

what they did to the rats

oh man

this is not good news cats not good news

yeah really this is terrible news the

city let this happen to me but i got

some good news too what's your good news

my brother's a lawyer

nate chapman vincent came by this

morning and showed me the paper you sure

went to town on the mayor and capra i

know capro's resigned and the governor

is calling for an investigation of the

mayor's response oh oh there goes

another beautiful friendship

so

no new plague cases in two days

i think we might have stopped it

how many dead of the plague 22

another 46 from riots and panic well

it could have been worse

it should have been better

so what are you going to do how you're

going to stay with the city or what

chapman has made you have to be some

kind of hero

i don't know i really don't i know she's

considering some kind of an offer from

indiana shut up niles just as long as

you don't move out of the city i mean i

know you'd never consider living

anywhere else

you know i mean how could you

after all we got the giants and the jets

and the nets and we got shakespeare in

the park broadway and the chrysler

building that's right this is a great

spot i'll take the manhattan

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all of yeah

cities

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you