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DAYTONA BEACH,FLORIDA
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Yeah baby.
What about me,lover?
I got you girl.
Spring break date, gentlemen!
Lenny.
Are you okay? Are you all right?
Somebody call 911!
Are you okay?What happen to him?
Lenny?
- Hate this time of year.
- Yeah, spring break sucks.
********
- Damn it.
V-fib. - Got it.
*********
Charging 200.
Clear.
Nothing.***
Charging 250.
Clear.
*********
Mine's a V-fib, too.
Charging 200.
Clear.
********
Time to call it.
Subject number two is Leonard Reese.
Male, Caucasian,
five-foot-11.
No significant birthmarks or moles.
Subject has a tattoo over
his left shoulder blade.
In the form of a dagger
piercing a pair of cherries.
Tasteful.
I'll now begin the internal examination.
Where the hell am I?
Greg? Greg!
- We need some help in here!
- What did you do to us?
Can I get some help in here?
What did you do?
PALO ALTO,CALIFORNIA
Tanner still misses you.
Yeah, well, the feeling's mutual.
But, mm, it wouldn't have been right
to hold onto him after my job change.
I'm never at home.
And he needs his exercise.
Don't you, boy?
Hey, the last time you were in town,
someone from the Congressional Science and
Technology Committee asked you out on a little date.
You know, didn't feel right.
You know, it's been two
years since Maggie died.
Don't you think it's time to move on?
Anna, I'm here as a friend.
I'm not one of your
psychiatric patients, okay?
I know. And I'm asking out
of concern, as a friend.
Come on, boy!
If you don't want to talk about it,
that's fine. But, uh, how else
How else can I, uh, deal with my grief?
I am dealing with it.
I am.
I'm just dealing with it in my own way.
And that doesn't involve a lot
of crying on people's shoulders
and analyzing feelings.Okay?
What does it involve?
Hood.
- What happened to the weekend off?
- Cut short.
Some college kids in Daytona Beach died of
mysterious causes, then came back to life.
Excuse us.
What does it involve?
It involves this.
Audrey Simone, internal medicine.
So you're the FBI's go-to guy for
when the dead come back to life?
Well, not exactly, but they, uh,
come to me with a variety of problems.
Well, I can't wait to
hear you explain this.
Lenny Reese, age 21.
He spontaneously recovered from
his apparent death 12 hours ago.
We've never seen anything like it.
- Please, get me out of here.
- Lenny
I'm serious, man.
I woke up in a room full of dead people.
I saw one of my best friends cut open
while his heart was still beating.
- Greg McCarthy?
- Yes.
Uh, now, w-whatever I need
to do to get out of here
You need to tell me what
you were doing yesterday.
Well, um, we had just finished
up midterms at Maryland State,
and a bunch of us came down here
to de-stress a little, you know?
Drink some beers, hook
up with some hotties.
Just party, man.
What did you and Greg do
in common the past 24 hours?
The only thing that Greg and I shared in the
past 24 hours was a runner-up Miss Teen USA.
- She consented to that?
- Hell yeah.
What's her name?
Tabitha, uh, Jackson.
I'not I'm not sure.
Will you excuse us for a second?
If the only common thread between the
two victims is sex with the same girl,
then we're looking at
sexually transmitted infection.
That instantly slowed their
heartbeats down to next to nothing?
Well, yeah, it's possible.
Could be toxic shock syndrome,
which could result from,
uh, bacteria passed through intercourse.
Could lead to heart and
lung failure, even coma.
I'll have Dr. Simone check for it.
If it was that, what
woke him up from the coma?
Well, find the girl they slept
with, we could find the answer.
The cops said I had to stay
here until I talked to you guys.
Well, now I talked to you,
so I'm-I'm free to go, right?
Uh, you're at the center
of a public health crisis.
We got to check you out,
make sure you're okay.
I'm fine.
Sorry, but we've got to run you through
the system, get 100% positive ID.
Positive ID? What the
hell are you talking about?
You know exactly who I
am. I'm Leonard Reese.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Leonard. If that is your real name.
We'll check your fingerprints,
your DNA, see what they tell us.
That's ridiculous.
No, that's federal procedure.
I need to track down a person
of interest: Tabitha Jackson.
Oh, my God.
No.
No. No!
Tabitha Jackson checked
in here two nights ago.
This brings back memories.
Really? You were
something of a party girl?
That information is on
a need-to-know basis.
You know, last week, all
my hard work paid off.
Aced exams.
I just thought I would reward myself.
You know, like, blow off some steam.
Do you remember what happened?
I was so drunk.
God, it was so stupid.
I can't believe there were two of them.
Tabitha
I'm not a police officer-- I'm not really
sure how to ask you this, but, um
I need to know something
about your *** history.
- What?
- I'm sorry.
those two bomay have contracted
a sexually transmitted disease,
and we don't know where it's from.
But I can count on my hand how many
people that I've had sex with.
I'm telling you, I'm not this girl.
I'm not this girl.
We believe you, okay? We believe you.
Okay, I'm gonna take you to the
hospital now, okay? Let's go.
Do you want us to call your parents?
- Do we have to?
- No, we don't have to.
I think you should.
I think they'd want to know
so they can be here for you.
- Just keep walking, babe.
- But that's
- that's one of them!
- I know.
It's okay. All right. It's okay.
You all right, Tabitha?
Son of a ***.
He acts like nothing had
ever ever happened.
Tabitha!
We need a doctor over here, now!
Pulse ox tanking! She's
asystole! Let's go!
Nope. She's got a heartbeat.
- That's just a residual, sir--
please stand back. - No, it's not.
I don't think shocking
her is gonna help.
I already told you, stand back.
- Dr. Simone!
- Dr. Simone, please!
******
Defibrillation did nothing for
Lenny Greg. This is no different.
- Clear!
- Stop.
The heartbeat's regular, but
impossibly slow-- five beats per minute?
That's why the medics thought
Greg and Lenny were dead.
Five beats a minute?
That's, like, one beat every 12 seconds.
What's her body temperature?
- It's only 75.
- Seventy-five?
It's as if she's turned ectothermic.
Well, that's not consistent
with toxic shock syndrome.
It's not consistent with anything
else I've ever encountered, either.
Any body that's that cold
with a heartbeat that slow
that's not a coma.
That's suspended animation.
Excuse me, can you help us?
We're trying to find our daughter.
Tabitha Jackson?
Oh, uh, I'm Special Agent Young.
I'm the one who called you yesterday.
Your daughter is stable now.
- Let me walk you to her room.
- Yes, please. Thank you.
- That's great
- Yeah.
That's
All right, you got to flip him.
All right flip it.
Let's see. All right.
- Come on, down the hatch.
- I can't.
Yes, you can. Drink up,
Belinda. You have to.
Oh, I know, I know. Rules are rules.
- But I thought the rules were
- Come on, come on.
Less thinking, more drinking.
See? It's not that bad, right?
Hey, uh, I just got the weirdest message
from our boy Lenny saying Greg is dead?
All right, I'm not getting
punked again by that dude.
Remember April Fools?
- Yeah, you're probably rig.
- Yeah.
And hey, you know what, if they
want to miss out on this, fine by me.
- More for us.
- Absolutely.
Boo-yah.
I hate playing kings.
I love playing you.
Only two kings tonight, sweetheart.
Lucky for you, we know
how to treat a queen.
- Oh, yeah?
- Let me show you.
PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB
Oh, hi, Rachel.
You don't mind if I call you
Rael, do you, Agent Young?
Good news for both of us, Lenny.
You seem to be fine, so you're no
longer under Federal supervision.
But the nurses say you've
been harassing them.
So my advice to you
is stay out of trouble,
or next time you won't be in a
hospital bed, you'll be in jail.
God, you're beautiful.
A woman like you FBI agent.
Bet you've been through a lot, huh?
You know, after my brush with
death, the things that I've seen,
the friend that I lost
It's not a doctor that I
need, if you know what I mean.
I don't know what
turns me on more--
the fact that you might be diseased
or that you got a girl drunk
so you and your buddy
could gang *** her.
You are a ***! And I'm out of here!
Lenny is suffering from something
called necrotizing fasciitis,
more commonly known as
flesh-eatiting bacteria.
Sounds almost as disgusting
as it looks. What causes it?
Well, actually, it's the
same strep A bacteria that
causes common diseases like
tonsillitis and strep throat.
Change of plan?
We're going somewhere else.
Pet store.
Now, little known fact
about strep A bacteria.
In addition to causing necrotizing fasciitis,
it naturally produces hydrogen sulfide.
Watch this.
Uh, Hood you can wake him up, right?
No, I just murdered him.
What kind of scientist
do you think I am, Rachel?
No, at this dosage, all hydrogen sulfide does
is induces a state of suspended animation.
Just like Lenny and Greg.
And now Tabitha Jackson.
Mickey's breathing is reduced
to just a few breaths a minute.
His metabolism slows to a crawl.
When normal air is reintroduced
Mickey?
Mickey comes back to life.
So someone dosed our victims
with hydrogen sulfide gas.
Not really.I think the strep
A bacteria in their bodies
somehow directly released hydrogen
sulfide into their bloodstream.
- Suspended animation.
- That's right.
So, you're telling me that
if we revive Tabitha Jackson,
she'll come down with a case
of necrotizing fasciitis.
It's quite simple-- think of it as a
two-stage process, like a cavity in a tooth.
Stage one's just a hole.
Without intervention,
it proceeds to stage two.
When infection sets in, it spreads
out until it devours everything.
So we need to prevent Tabitha Jackson's
case from developing to stage two,
- keeping her in suspended animation.
- Yeah.
Until we find out what's causing it
and we can find out how to stop it.
And we do this by
prolonging her current state?
Well, it doesn't appear to be causing
any long-term damage to the body so far.
Well, I suppose we could
try ice water immersion.
We have a few tubs in the
back-- we could use one of those.
Good. Keep her as cold as possible.
Listen-- we're smack in
the middle of spring break.
If this thing is spread
through *** contact,
you better start preparing for a
lot more cases just like Tabitha.
Belinda!
Are you okay?
Belinda!
You got a ***?
Oh, come on, Kayla.
You don't need protection from me.
Sorry, babe, no ***, no nasty.
Lucky you.
Wake up, sexy.
Wake up.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Help!
Somebody help us! Help!
So I'm not gonna get sick?
Not from Seth.
Thanks to the fact that you were
responsible enough to use some protection.
Guess my party's over, huh?
For now.
Screening your calls?
Let me guess.
The dog sitter?
She's a professor of
psychiatry,actually.
So are you seeing her?
No,she was a friend of my wife.
I meant as a psychiatrist.
No,no,not that either.
When are you gonna tell her the dog was
just a ruse to spend more time with her?
Tanner is not a ruse.
Could have fooled me.
Several cases of a deadly form of flesh-eating
bacteria were reported in Daytona Beach today.
The bacteria is believed to
spread through *** contact.
To prevent a possible epidemic,
the County is prohibiting the
service of alcohol after 8:00 P.M.
and the 10:00 P.M.curfew is being enforced on all
residents of Voluisa County including spring break visitors.
I'm glad to see the local health
department is complying with our request.
But it's not enough.
Yeah.
We have two more victims in suspended
animation,Belinda Shea and Seth Sandel.
How are they holding up?
Well,we're monitoring their vitals
continually.to prevent hypothermia.
So far,so good.
You got any more tubs?
No,we're not equipped to handle
this sort of thing.on a large scale.
It may be getting larger.
Well,what can we do?
Our entire infrastcture is built around
maintaining a body temperature of 98.6,not 70.
With one pretty major exception.
What's the coldest
place in the building?
The temperature at our morgue is kept
at a constant 36 degrees at all times.
She looks like she's already dead.
She's not,Mr. Jackson.
This could help keep her alive.
If she wakes up now,she's
gonna be in terrible danger,
but if we can somehow crack the code
of the bacteria that made her sick,
we should be able to engineer a cure.
How long would that take?
I wish I knew.
Rachel,sit down.
I want to show you something.
This is the DNA sequence
of normal strep A.
This is the DNA sequence
of the new bacteria.
It looks a lot shorter.
Yeah,it's a lot simpler,too;
it's got less than half
the number of base pairs.
What does that mean?
It's got no junk DNA-- the portions of
the DNA that serve no identifiable purpose.
Every natural organism has junk DNA.
So the bacteria infecting
the kids is manmade.
Yeah.
The good thing about that is,if someone
created it,then we'll know how to destroy it.
I'm gonna have the hospital geneticist
build me a gene map of the bacteria.
It's kind of a like a forensic scienst putting
together the pieces of an exploded bomb.
If we do that
We'll have a shot at
tracing it to its creator.
Exactly.
Any signs of flesh-eating bacteria?
No.
So far,so good.
Wait.
What is it?
The autopsy photo of our
first victim,Greg McCarthy
I remember something.
All the male victims had the
same daggers- and-cherries tattoo.
I looked into it.
It wasn't a fraternity tattoo.
It's got nothing to do with Maryland State
University or any of its sports teams.
The dagger and cherries?
When these guys were so proud of
taking advantage of young women,
maybe one of them crossed
the line,got busted.
I'm gonna have the National Crime Information Center do
a cross-search of all our male victims and sex crimes.
What's this?
Hot off the press.
Gene map of our manmade bacteria.
Our bone parts.
That's right.
Nowevery gene here has a purpose,seeings
it was built and designed for a reason.
So what have we got?
We got
resistance to ultraviolet
rays,resistance to radiation,
tolerance for oxygen
loss,tolerance forextreme cold.
What is it?
Space.
The suspended animation
this bacteria causes
could conceivably allow someone
to survive long periods in space.
Are you saying our
bomb was built by NASA?
It's not a bad guess.
FLORIDA SPACE CENTER
I'm shocked you found
Chronos-X-Coli outside these walls.
X as in experimental.
And "Chronos" as in
the Greek god of time.
Exactly.
Our goal here is to enable astronauts to travel to
destinations that would otherwise remain out of reach.
Now,we may not see spaceflight utilizing
suspended animation in our own lifetimes,
but our children will.
Well,unfortunately,there's a few
college-age children who won't,Dr. West.
And it appears to be associated with
the work you're doing in this lab.
I'm sorry.
This is the Space Science Center,not some biological
warfare facility in the former Soviet Union.
My people don't sell their
wares on the black market.
And while the bacteria found in your
victims does match Chronos-X-Coli,
Chronos-X-Coli wasn't designed
to cause necrotizing fasciitis,
and that's actually what's harming
your victims,not suspended animation.
There's no record of a break-in or reports
of stolen materials in the past three years.
That's 'cause,like I said,that
kind of thing doesn't happen here.
Dr. West,when I was analyzing
your Chronos-X-Coli's DNA,
there was one gene I
couldn't quite work out.
It's an apoptotic gene,I think.
It's a built-in failsafe; the gene
designed to initiate cell suicide.
Exactly.
Your built-in
self-destruct mechanism.
Yeah.
Well,right now have innocent
victims that are lying in hospital,
and there's a possibility that
your failsafe could help cure them.
Tell us how it works?
I wish I could help you,Dr.
Hood,I truly do,but I can't.
National security regulations
make it impossible.
The information you're asking for falls under
the heading federal proprietary technology,
and I can't share that with you.
You understand young
people's lives are at risk?
Yes,I'm aware of that.
I'm also aware that we don't pick and
choose where we want the law to apply.
It applies all the time
or it means nothing.
It applies until we get a federal
court order that says it doesn't.
Hopefully,no one else
will be dead by then.
We'll see ourselves out.
How long's it gonna take
to get a court order?
If things work out,we
could have it by midnight.
Let's hope.
This is Agent Young.
Okay,thks. Got it.
Get this.
It turns out Lenny Reese,his buddy Greg
McCarthy and our latest victim Seth Sandel
were all accused of gang-raping a girl here
in Daytona during spring break last year,
and they all got off.
So maybe it isn't an epidemic.
Maybe it's revenge.
If that is the case,it's not over yet.
There's a fourth suspect
accused of the same crime.
*** or not,we better find
him before the killer does.
Yeah.
WE do know***
The victims include three male students
visiting from Maryland State University.
We're reporting from
Daytona Community Hospital.
Back to you.
hey, You walking away from me?
yes
okay, ***
****
Four accused rapists.
Lenny and Greg are dead.
And one in suspended
animation-- Seth Sandel.
What do we know about the fourth?
His name is Derek Kenin.
He attended Maryland State
with Lenny,Greg and Seth.
*** charges were thrown
out due to lack of evidence.
The victim was local?
That's right.
Julia Taylor,age 19.
If aone wanted revenge it'd be her.
Yeah,but I doubt a 19-year-old would have been able to
get around the federal wall of proprietary technology
or convert Chronos-X-Coli
into a biological weapon.
Maybe she had help.
So Julia Taylor still lives at home.
You go through that kind of trauma,you
just look for someplace safe.
I don't understand.
The case was closed.
We've reopened it.
Two of the four accused are dead.
A third is very sick.
So you're not here about the ***?
You're investigating ***?
Two murders,possibly re.
Wait a minute.
You think Julia had
something to do with this?
- Mrs. Taylor
- Unbelievable.
You're treating my
daughter as a suspect?
Here's your suspect.
Why don't you lock her
up and throw away the key.
I'm sorry,Mrs. Taylor.
We didn'know.
The D.A.said it would
just be he said,she said.
She took it really hard.
Blamed herself.
It took so much just to come forward,and
then to be labeled a *** and a liar.
The doctors gave her a prescription
for her depression,but it didn't work.
She started drinking instead.
One night she drank too
much and tried to drive home.
Crashed into a divider
and never woke up.
So you brought her home?
This is better for her anyway.
To be where she's loved.
This is all her stuff?
Yes.
Would you mind?
No.
Pure silica fiber.
It's light enough for flight,but
strong enough for withstanding G-forces.
Mrs. Taylor,this is
a space shuttle tile.
Do you know anyone who works at NASA?
My ex-husband.
It was a gift om him--
Julia's father Henry.
Henry West?
Yes.
Excuse me.
This is Special Agent Young.
I need to locate Dr. Henry West.
I'm really sorry for
any trouble we've caused.
- I wish you and your daughter well.
- Thank you.
All right,keep me posted.
West disappeared.
He left the lab and hasn't gone home.
That's why he stonewalled us.
With his daughter in a coma,I
guess it seemed appropriate.
Put the rapists
in the same state--
then administer a flesh-eating
disease to ravagers of the flesh.
They didn't get it quite right.
Innocent girls are dying.
There's no justice in that.
Maybe he wast aware of the
potential for *** transmission.
Or maybe he just didn't care.
I have the Bureau tracking the
GPS on Derek Kenin's cell phone.
Derek's the only *** suect
who hasn't been infected yet.
We find him,we find West.
No,I can't wait until tomorrow.
I need to go home now.
Okay,all right,what
about a different airline?
Well,can't you just do something?
I mean-- all
right,just listen to me.
Just listen to me,okay?
Listen to me.
No,please,don't put me on hold.
Come on!
Don't move.
Stay back.
Stay back.
Dr. West
You're too late.
It's over.
He was the last one.
Stay back!
My little girl is
gone.
My life is just a memory.
Everything I've
done-- I'm not sorry.
Tell me about the fail-safe.
How does the organism destroy itself?
Tell me.
Why?
So you can save a bunch of rapists?
No.No.
No!
Hood.
I need t ambulances.
Shark Cove Hotel,now.
You infected more than rapists,Henry.
The infection spread
through *** contact.
Those boys-- they infected
at least two innocent girls.
Girls just like your daughter Julia.
These girls,they had nothing to
do with what happened to Julia.
They don't deserve to suffer
any more than she did.Come on.
This can't be what you wanted.
What,you need a pen?
Here you go.
You want to write on my hand?
Okay,is that an "A"?
Ag.
the periodic table of elements.
Ag is the symbol for silver.
Is it silver?
It's called colloidal sver.
Until the 1930s,it was quite
a widely used antibiotic.
Now it's more commonly known
as a dietary supplement.
But its value here is as a trigger for
the fail-safe gene inside the bacteria.
It should cause the
bacteria to destroy itself.
The only thing is,for the silver to
work,um,the blood needs to circulate.
So we're going to have to wake them up.
But if we wake them up then we wake up the
flesh-eating bacteria and then they they die.
Isn't that what you told us before?
Personally I believe
it's worth the risk.
Well,it's been 48 hours and there's no sign of the
flesh-eating bacteria on any of the victims,Dr. Hood.
Dr. Hood.
Thanks for everything.
I'm sorry I ever doubted you.
Oh,I understand.
What I was suggesting
did sound a little crazy.
I'm just glad your daughter's okay.
Will you excuse me?
There's something I have to do.
Than again.
Come on,Tanner.
Hey,buddy.
Anna?
Yeah,it's Jacob.
Oh,uh,I was thinking,um
I,uh
I really enjoy our conversations and,um,
I kind of regret the-the
way the last one ended.
Me,too.
Want to try again?
Great.
Well,how about this,um,I'm going to be
passing through Stanford sometime soon.
Sure,if you got the time.
You know,I'd like that,too.
Yeah,I got to go.
Yeah,no,I got to go.
Bye.
Professor Yang?
Yeah.
Good for you.
I think so.