1 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,958 You mind? What? 2 00:00:41,708 --> 00:00:44,461 Ceasing and desisting with that thing. I'm... 3 00:00:45,170 --> 00:00:46,755 edgy enough, as it is. 4 00:00:47,047 --> 00:00:49,508 Trouble sleeping? Trouble waking up. 5 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,344 This damn outbreak, whatever it is... 6 00:00:52,719 --> 00:00:55,347 makes me just want to pull the covers up over my head... 7 00:00:55,389 --> 00:00:56,974 and hide out till it's all over. 8 00:01:21,206 --> 00:01:23,667 Mrs. Sneden describe her husband's symptoms to you? 9 00:01:23,834 --> 00:01:26,461 She just said, "Get out here ASAP." 10 00:01:27,254 --> 00:01:28,839 Of course, that's what she said... 11 00:01:28,922 --> 00:01:32,634 the time her first husband accidentally shot himself in the woods. 12 00:01:34,011 --> 00:01:35,179 What? Yeah. 13 00:01:36,555 --> 00:01:39,558 She claims he mistook himself for a six-point buck. 14 00:01:40,017 --> 00:01:44,188 Sheriff wrote her up for hunting out of season and that was the end of that. 15 00:01:45,606 --> 00:01:47,691 Okay, well... 16 00:01:49,526 --> 00:01:50,903 let's take a look. 17 00:02:03,457 --> 00:02:04,458 Ben. 18 00:02:05,209 --> 00:02:09,254 The radio. I might better stay here in case something happens. 19 00:02:20,807 --> 00:02:21,975 Mrs. Sneden? 20 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:32,069 Mrs. Sneden, it's Dr. Crower. 21 00:02:34,780 --> 00:02:35,822 Edith? 22 00:03:19,950 --> 00:03:21,285 Mrs. Sneden. 23 00:03:24,371 --> 00:03:25,497 Dr. Crower. 24 00:03:26,623 --> 00:03:27,666 Ma'am? 25 00:03:31,587 --> 00:03:32,588 Ben. 26 00:03:34,923 --> 00:03:36,175 Here, let me. 27 00:03:42,973 --> 00:03:44,016 Oh, God. 28 00:04:31,772 --> 00:04:34,274 Now, listen to me! I'm sick and tired of it. 29 00:04:34,483 --> 00:04:36,193 It's not my fault. 30 00:04:38,862 --> 00:04:41,573 You damn stupid whore. I tell you to do something, you do it. 31 00:04:42,741 --> 00:04:44,701 Stop it. Just stop it. 32 00:04:44,785 --> 00:04:46,119 I'll stop it. 33 00:04:54,545 --> 00:04:56,588 What is it? What's happening? 34 00:05:00,133 --> 00:05:03,554 Oh, my God, here's another one. 35 00:05:07,683 --> 00:05:09,643 We're proud people, Sheriff. 36 00:05:10,143 --> 00:05:14,064 Come flood or famine, ain't been no Tippett with his hand out. 37 00:05:14,147 --> 00:05:17,568 Let's just cut through the pious bull and get down to business, A.E. 38 00:05:18,819 --> 00:05:21,864 I know it's tough making a go of a small business these days... 39 00:05:21,947 --> 00:05:25,367 what with the out-of-state chain stores circling around like vultures. 40 00:05:25,450 --> 00:05:27,703 This ain't about the hardware store, Lucas. 41 00:05:29,872 --> 00:05:32,958 It's about... Go on, friend. 42 00:05:34,126 --> 00:05:35,460 It's about me. 43 00:05:38,380 --> 00:05:39,631 I'm, uh... 44 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:44,261 I'm having visions, I guess you could say. 45 00:05:45,179 --> 00:05:47,055 Visions? Yes, sir. 46 00:05:48,015 --> 00:05:49,558 Visions of what? 47 00:05:49,933 --> 00:05:51,059 Blood. 48 00:05:53,645 --> 00:05:55,189 Everywhere I turn. 49 00:05:56,732 --> 00:06:00,277 Open the icebox, there's blood in the milk... 50 00:06:02,404 --> 00:06:04,031 blood in the leftovers. 51 00:06:05,699 --> 00:06:07,868 I cracked open an egg this morning... 52 00:06:09,953 --> 00:06:11,955 there's a bloody chick inside. 53 00:06:12,956 --> 00:06:15,375 I'd say someone's trying to send you a message: 54 00:06:16,293 --> 00:06:19,171 "Cut out the cholesterol." Man, I'm serious, here. 55 00:06:22,257 --> 00:06:26,261 I'm losing it, man. I'm losing my mind, Lucas. 56 00:06:26,845 --> 00:06:29,097 Now, you can stop it. I know you can. 57 00:06:29,181 --> 00:06:31,934 Man, I'll do anything, anything you want, just... 58 00:06:32,017 --> 00:06:32,976 Please... 59 00:06:33,894 --> 00:06:35,312 just make it stop. 60 00:06:37,064 --> 00:06:39,483 All right, friend, take it easy. Take it easy. 61 00:06:46,406 --> 00:06:49,201 Tell you what, you remember that time... 62 00:06:49,868 --> 00:06:53,413 your brother ran over that kid right in front of your store? 63 00:06:55,123 --> 00:06:56,250 No! 64 00:06:56,708 --> 00:07:00,796 No, Lucas. Bobby wasn't anywhere near there. He was up in Asheville. 65 00:07:01,463 --> 00:07:04,758 Partner, didn't I just hear you say you'd do anything? 66 00:07:07,427 --> 00:07:08,804 I always have... 67 00:07:10,472 --> 00:07:12,891 I've always done everything you wanted. 68 00:07:15,269 --> 00:07:19,648 God, man, that's my brother. I can't just... 69 00:07:20,858 --> 00:07:23,318 Can't just sell him out? Well... 70 00:07:25,904 --> 00:07:30,826 okay, then I guess you're gonna be seeing a lot more bloody chicks. 71 00:07:45,048 --> 00:07:46,133 Here he is. 72 00:07:46,216 --> 00:07:48,343 Relax, Wallace. Remember your blood pressure now. 73 00:07:48,427 --> 00:07:51,430 Sheriff Buck, what's going on in there? Your deputy wouldn't let me in. 74 00:07:51,513 --> 00:07:54,057 Well, what for, Daniele? You look pretty damn healthy to me. 75 00:07:54,141 --> 00:07:56,226 Come on, Sheriff. There are unconfirmed reports... 76 00:07:56,310 --> 00:07:58,770 of victims bleeding through their eyes. 77 00:07:58,812 --> 00:08:01,732 Well, it grieves me that a few of our friends have taken ill... 78 00:08:01,815 --> 00:08:05,110 but I give you my word that their recovery is well in hand, all right? 79 00:08:05,944 --> 00:08:08,780 Oh, yeah? Well, we heard the ambulance in the night... 80 00:08:08,906 --> 00:08:10,490 and you're lying. 81 00:08:10,574 --> 00:08:12,868 Calm down, Wallace. You don't know what you're saying. 82 00:08:12,951 --> 00:08:14,077 The hell I don't. 83 00:08:14,161 --> 00:08:16,455 My cousin Roy was sitting in his truck at Tippett's. 84 00:08:16,538 --> 00:08:19,082 He started bleeding out of his eyes and his mouth. 85 00:08:19,166 --> 00:08:21,710 I know Roy, Wallace. He's a good friend of mine. 86 00:08:21,793 --> 00:08:25,214 And I've talked to him about that Tennessee sour mash he guzzles. 87 00:08:25,422 --> 00:08:28,926 Folks, look, in a small town, rumors can act like a cancer. 88 00:08:28,967 --> 00:08:31,261 This is no cancer. It's something else. 89 00:08:33,514 --> 00:08:34,598 Dr. Crower. 90 00:08:39,061 --> 00:08:41,688 You mind helping me out here. People are running scared. 91 00:08:41,772 --> 00:08:43,398 I've been telling them to keep calm... 92 00:08:43,482 --> 00:08:46,276 but it might be more convincing coming from a doctor. 93 00:08:48,487 --> 00:08:49,947 The Sheriff's right, people. 94 00:08:50,030 --> 00:08:52,533 You just take ordinary precautions, you'll be fine. 95 00:08:52,991 --> 00:08:54,826 You got another bleeder in there? 96 00:08:57,246 --> 00:08:59,456 She's an elderly woman with a broken hip. 97 00:09:01,917 --> 00:09:03,836 Okay, there you go. You heard the man. 98 00:09:03,877 --> 00:09:06,171 If we hear anything else, we'll let you know. 99 00:09:24,189 --> 00:09:25,899 It's Merlyn Temple, Dr. Crower. 100 00:09:25,983 --> 00:09:27,985 She was such a beautiful girl. 101 00:09:30,737 --> 00:09:33,073 Her daddy went crazy and hit her over the head. 102 00:09:38,829 --> 00:09:41,456 Robin, I need two units of O negative right there. 103 00:09:41,540 --> 00:09:44,501 I'm sorry, Dr. Crower, there's nothing left. That's impossible. 104 00:09:44,585 --> 00:09:46,879 We've got 30 units on ice. That was yesterday. 105 00:09:46,962 --> 00:09:49,381 What about that help we were promised from County General? 106 00:09:49,464 --> 00:09:52,092 They called and they're not gonna come. Why the hell not? 107 00:09:52,176 --> 00:09:54,970 They're afraid. Son of a bitch. 108 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:03,645 You look like you could use some help there, buddy. 109 00:10:03,729 --> 00:10:06,982 Crower, right? Billy Peele, Center for Disease Control. 110 00:10:07,065 --> 00:10:08,525 You sent us some blood samples. 111 00:10:08,609 --> 00:10:10,194 Yeah, right. Did you find anything? 112 00:10:10,235 --> 00:10:13,197 No, nothing that makes any sense. Has anyone on the staff gotten sick yet? 113 00:10:13,238 --> 00:10:14,281 No. 114 00:10:14,364 --> 00:10:17,534 Then we can rule out an airborne contagion. Just make sure everyone gloves up. 115 00:10:17,618 --> 00:10:20,287 This is gonna tell you everything I know, which is nothing... 116 00:10:20,370 --> 00:10:22,497 except four deaths, all from unexplained hemorrhaging. 117 00:10:22,581 --> 00:10:24,875 You give us two days. We'll explain it. 118 00:10:25,250 --> 00:10:27,836 My office is right there. You make yourself at home. 119 00:10:31,298 --> 00:10:33,342 Watch this, please. Yes, Doctor. 120 00:10:40,557 --> 00:10:42,726 Well, the pump's still working, mister. 121 00:10:43,101 --> 00:10:45,729 Nurse? Can we get a unit of plasma over here? 122 00:10:45,812 --> 00:10:47,940 We need to jump-start this old boy. 123 00:10:52,694 --> 00:10:56,114 Jenna, I'll hook up Elroy. They need help on the south end, go ahead. 124 00:10:56,198 --> 00:10:58,575 All right, thank you, Sheriff. You're welcome. 125 00:11:03,121 --> 00:11:07,084 You had your chance, Elroy. You remember last Christmas? 126 00:11:07,835 --> 00:11:09,545 I offered you a new lease on life... 127 00:11:09,628 --> 00:11:12,256 and you just practically spit in my face. 128 00:11:12,631 --> 00:11:14,216 You have a good one, Elroy. 129 00:11:15,217 --> 00:11:16,718 What the hell are you doing? 130 00:11:19,179 --> 00:11:21,598 Friend of mine down the hall is more critical. 131 00:11:21,682 --> 00:11:25,310 I'll save you the trouble and take this by myself. This man's a goner, anyhow. 132 00:11:25,352 --> 00:11:28,105 Boy, and they accuse us doctors of playing God. 133 00:11:28,146 --> 00:11:29,273 Well, okay. 134 00:11:30,691 --> 00:11:34,278 Methandextrophine, 10 cc's in a major artery and your heart's froze up... 135 00:11:34,319 --> 00:11:36,655 like an old 283 with a blown head gasket. 136 00:11:36,738 --> 00:11:37,739 Whoa, partner. 137 00:11:39,658 --> 00:11:42,202 You don't want to do that. No, I don't. 138 00:11:42,286 --> 00:11:44,496 I'm here to find out what's causing this epidemic... 139 00:11:44,538 --> 00:11:46,123 and I don't know who the hell you are. 140 00:11:46,206 --> 00:11:48,292 Lucas Buck, Sheriff of Trinity. 141 00:11:51,170 --> 00:11:55,382 Billy Peele, Center for Disease Control, United States Government. 142 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:03,140 You touch another ounce of my blood supply... 143 00:12:05,851 --> 00:12:09,021 you'll be giving up a quart of your own, Buck. 144 00:12:11,857 --> 00:12:14,318 Nurse. Yes, Dr. Peele. 145 00:12:15,527 --> 00:12:17,696 Hang in there, fella, you'll be all right. 146 00:12:18,447 --> 00:12:20,115 Hook that up for me, would you? 147 00:12:37,591 --> 00:12:38,717 Well? 148 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:41,678 Well, what's the population of Trinity? 149 00:12:41,762 --> 00:12:43,805 It's 9,000. 150 00:12:44,556 --> 00:12:48,060 Something like that. Maybe 10,000 with the surrounding tobacco farms and villages. 151 00:12:48,143 --> 00:12:49,895 You know, lung cancer's king down here... 152 00:12:49,937 --> 00:12:51,939 but otherwise people are in pretty good health. 153 00:12:52,022 --> 00:12:54,858 Five cases of exsanguination in two days? 154 00:12:54,942 --> 00:12:57,402 It's not good. Exsanguination from what? 155 00:12:57,486 --> 00:13:01,990 I considered Rhinosporidiosis, Ebola, bonebreak fever. 156 00:13:02,741 --> 00:13:04,159 Hell, even the plague. 157 00:13:05,577 --> 00:13:07,329 It's people bleeding from their eyes. 158 00:13:07,412 --> 00:13:09,414 It's like something out of the Old Testament. 159 00:13:09,498 --> 00:13:12,793 We've ruled out a bacterial agent. 160 00:13:12,876 --> 00:13:17,089 Maybe it's viral. Of course, these days you get so many different mutations. 161 00:13:18,590 --> 00:13:21,009 Sometimes God works in mysterious ways. 162 00:13:37,568 --> 00:13:40,612 A little help here. A little help. Tie him down. 163 00:13:46,451 --> 00:13:47,619 You all right? 164 00:13:52,416 --> 00:13:53,584 You got him? 165 00:13:56,461 --> 00:13:57,796 Hold on, you got him? 166 00:13:58,046 --> 00:13:59,298 You got him? Okay? 167 00:14:25,199 --> 00:14:26,491 Gail is not here. 168 00:14:26,909 --> 00:14:30,579 What in the world makes you think I'm looking for that old cousin of yours? 169 00:14:31,330 --> 00:14:33,832 Because I've seen you looking at her, that's why. 170 00:14:36,835 --> 00:14:41,590 No, sir. I'm here to make sure that you have a pair of these. 171 00:14:42,841 --> 00:14:43,967 And a mask. 172 00:14:46,303 --> 00:14:48,180 What for? It ain't Halloween. 173 00:14:48,222 --> 00:14:50,516 And I ain't planning on robbing a bank or nothing. 174 00:14:50,599 --> 00:14:53,644 You better not or I'll have to run you in, young buck. 175 00:14:55,854 --> 00:14:57,981 Actually, I robbed these from the hospital. 176 00:14:58,065 --> 00:15:02,361 I wanted you to have them, just in case. In case of what? 177 00:15:02,402 --> 00:15:05,489 In case you get around anybody who's sick. 178 00:15:08,116 --> 00:15:10,869 You just take these with you, you hear? 179 00:15:14,248 --> 00:15:16,792 You talking as the head of the civil defense? 180 00:15:19,378 --> 00:15:20,712 I'm talking as your father. 181 00:15:44,653 --> 00:15:48,198 Have you had contact with anyone showing signs of open bleeding, ma'am? 182 00:15:48,282 --> 00:15:51,451 No, of course not. 183 00:15:52,953 --> 00:15:54,329 I keep to myself. 184 00:15:55,122 --> 00:15:57,082 Have any of your neighbors been acting odd? 185 00:15:57,833 --> 00:15:59,793 No, no more than usual. 186 00:15:59,877 --> 00:16:01,420 Well, what about strangers? 187 00:16:01,587 --> 00:16:02,796 Strangers? 188 00:16:07,926 --> 00:16:11,180 Sheriff Buck's no stranger. Thank you. 189 00:16:21,940 --> 00:16:24,359 I know you're seeing blood everywhere... 190 00:16:24,776 --> 00:16:29,448 and I know you're hearing voices, Mr. Tippett, and I know you're scared. 191 00:16:30,490 --> 00:16:33,327 You don't want to die. You don't want to go crazy. 192 00:16:34,411 --> 00:16:39,249 So I'm here to beg you one last time. Please don't listen to him. 193 00:16:41,627 --> 00:16:44,087 Close your heart and your mind against him. 194 00:16:46,298 --> 00:16:48,759 Please, Mr. Tippett, you're on the wrong side. 195 00:16:49,384 --> 00:16:51,136 You don't want to betray your brother. 196 00:16:51,220 --> 00:16:55,349 Please, I can't let that happen and I won't. 197 00:17:09,363 --> 00:17:10,447 Mr. Tippett? 198 00:17:11,448 --> 00:17:14,743 You mind if I come in? I hope you don't. 199 00:17:18,664 --> 00:17:20,707 What's happening? 200 00:17:23,043 --> 00:17:27,381 Mr. Tippett? Come on, let's get you patched up. 201 00:17:34,388 --> 00:17:35,764 God, my teeth. 202 00:17:41,687 --> 00:17:46,358 What is this, Dr. Matt? It's horehound tea with anise. 203 00:17:46,441 --> 00:17:47,985 Smells like wet dog fur. 204 00:17:49,069 --> 00:17:50,612 You drink it anyway. 205 00:17:52,531 --> 00:17:55,576 It's gonna build up your immune system. Medicine won't help you now. 206 00:17:55,659 --> 00:17:57,077 Help me with what? 207 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,037 I don't know. Against whatever's going around. 208 00:17:59,121 --> 00:18:01,957 I heard Jimmy Watson's daddy hung himself at the farm. 209 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:04,585 It's hanged. It's not hung. 210 00:18:15,512 --> 00:18:16,555 Just drink. 211 00:18:23,979 --> 00:18:26,940 This puff piece they ran locally, it's a disgrace. 212 00:18:27,024 --> 00:18:28,692 What do you care? You didn't write it. 213 00:18:28,734 --> 00:18:31,403 It goes to the integrity of my profession. Come on. 214 00:18:32,237 --> 00:18:35,240 The profession of journalism has about as much integrity as... 215 00:18:35,324 --> 00:18:37,576 the world's oldest profession. Maybe less. 216 00:18:38,076 --> 00:18:41,413 At least whores don't kid themselves about their motives. 217 00:18:41,455 --> 00:18:43,415 Don't you give a damn about anything? 218 00:18:43,916 --> 00:18:48,670 Yeah, but not journalism, not integrity... 219 00:18:51,465 --> 00:18:53,133 certainly not the truth. 220 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:55,844 Then what? 221 00:18:58,931 --> 00:19:01,433 You. Don't. 222 00:19:03,060 --> 00:19:04,978 Don't even think... But I do think. 223 00:19:05,062 --> 00:19:07,773 I think about what it would be like with you, don't you? 224 00:19:12,110 --> 00:19:13,737 Don't you? 225 00:19:21,453 --> 00:19:24,957 Yes, you do. Yes, I do. 226 00:19:30,879 --> 00:19:35,342 God, Lucas, I'm sorry, but... But? 227 00:19:35,801 --> 00:19:38,637 There's something going on at the boarding house. 228 00:19:45,894 --> 00:19:47,688 "A plague on both your houses." 229 00:19:47,771 --> 00:19:51,358 Tongues of fire. Rivers of blood. 230 00:19:53,318 --> 00:19:56,280 I should've known it would come to this. I should have known. 231 00:19:56,947 --> 00:19:57,948 Come on out. 232 00:19:59,783 --> 00:20:01,743 Go on. Scoot. What's the matter with him? 233 00:20:01,827 --> 00:20:03,912 Has he got rabies or something? 234 00:20:04,830 --> 00:20:07,583 Because he looks like Old Yeller out in the corn crib. 235 00:20:08,250 --> 00:20:09,501 Sleeping spirit... 236 00:20:10,085 --> 00:20:12,337 God so loved the world that he gave his only son... 237 00:20:12,421 --> 00:20:14,339 You're gonna be all right, Dr. Matt. 238 00:20:14,673 --> 00:20:17,134 "Whosoever believeth in him shall not perish." 239 00:20:17,259 --> 00:20:18,343 You just hang in... 240 00:20:19,094 --> 00:20:20,137 Go on. 241 00:20:20,179 --> 00:20:23,307 Blessed are the children, blessed are the meek. 242 00:20:23,348 --> 00:20:25,601 The sick, the sick in spirit. 243 00:20:27,644 --> 00:20:31,857 And God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son... 244 00:20:33,358 --> 00:20:35,694 That whosoever believeth in him shall live forever. 245 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,462 You all right, son? I'm all right. 246 00:21:37,047 --> 00:21:39,007 Yeah, you're a tough kid. That's good. 247 00:21:40,551 --> 00:21:44,054 You talk to your sister lately? Merly? No, sir. 248 00:21:45,138 --> 00:21:50,018 Why would I talk to her? She's dead. That's a good point. 249 00:21:52,020 --> 00:21:54,189 Well, take care, son. 250 00:22:34,897 --> 00:22:39,151 You know something, Doctor? Part of me feels sorry for the poor bastard. 251 00:22:40,152 --> 00:22:41,904 Sorry or responsible? 252 00:22:44,156 --> 00:22:45,574 What makes you say that? 253 00:22:46,074 --> 00:22:49,328 I saw you coming out of Mr. Tippett's house before he got sick. 254 00:22:51,872 --> 00:22:53,457 You think I made him sick? 255 00:22:54,374 --> 00:22:55,751 I hadn't decided yet. 256 00:22:56,335 --> 00:22:59,296 You seem to be the missing link though, somehow. 257 00:23:00,714 --> 00:23:02,591 Just kind of playing God, you know. 258 00:23:02,674 --> 00:23:05,344 If you mean that little tussle over the plasma. 259 00:23:06,011 --> 00:23:09,139 I figured you were new and you needed to know who the players are. 260 00:23:09,348 --> 00:23:10,474 Mmm-hmm. 261 00:23:12,643 --> 00:23:15,145 You know who you remind me of? Who? 262 00:23:15,479 --> 00:23:19,441 This guy named Fassal. See, he's a warlord in Rwanda. 263 00:23:20,651 --> 00:23:23,987 Can't really remember which side he was on, but it don't matter... 264 00:23:24,029 --> 00:23:28,075 I just remember being ass-deep in the middle of a bunch of sick people. 265 00:23:29,034 --> 00:23:31,828 I mean, they were butchered and dying by the pant load... 266 00:23:33,372 --> 00:23:37,000 and this jerk was holding up the deliveries of medical supplies... 267 00:23:37,042 --> 00:23:38,669 until he'd taken his cut. 268 00:23:42,548 --> 00:23:44,591 I'm not looking for a cut. No? 269 00:23:45,467 --> 00:23:46,760 What you looking for? 270 00:23:47,469 --> 00:23:48,804 Respect... 271 00:23:51,265 --> 00:23:52,766 obedience. 272 00:23:59,982 --> 00:24:01,900 Who's playing God now, Doctor? 273 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:10,659 By the way, what happened to the warlord? 274 00:24:12,244 --> 00:24:14,288 You threaten him with a syringe, too? 275 00:24:15,038 --> 00:24:16,665 No. No. 276 00:24:17,374 --> 00:24:20,377 One of his own gunmen ran him over in an armored jeep. 277 00:24:21,420 --> 00:24:24,381 Accidentally on purpose, they say. Yeah. 278 00:24:25,424 --> 00:24:27,634 Got to watch your back every step of the way. 279 00:24:29,928 --> 00:24:31,054 See you around. 280 00:24:50,866 --> 00:24:53,035 Don't you give a damn about anything? 281 00:24:53,785 --> 00:24:55,204 Yeah. 282 00:24:55,996 --> 00:24:57,080 You. 283 00:24:57,915 --> 00:25:01,043 I think about what it would be like with you, don't you? 284 00:25:04,546 --> 00:25:05,547 Don't you? 285 00:25:17,893 --> 00:25:19,144 Yes, you do. 286 00:25:21,688 --> 00:25:23,482 Blood workups on all three victims... 287 00:25:23,565 --> 00:25:27,319 death is almost certainly due to disseminated intravascular coagulation. 288 00:25:27,653 --> 00:25:29,905 It's typical plasma-to-serum conversion. 289 00:25:29,988 --> 00:25:34,743 Factor 12 triggering the cascade system, massive mucosal bleeding. 290 00:25:35,369 --> 00:25:38,163 The major, I do mean major, anomaly identified so far... 291 00:25:38,205 --> 00:25:41,792 is that none of the victims was in a state of existing chronic illness... 292 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,671 which is essential for the sudden onset of DIC. 293 00:25:48,340 --> 00:25:52,177 Therefore, the invading agent remains a mystery at this time. 294 00:25:53,011 --> 00:25:56,306 It's 10:42 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, Trinity, South Carolina. 295 00:25:56,348 --> 00:26:00,310 8 of January, '96, signed William Peele, CDC, et cetera, et cetera. 296 00:26:00,686 --> 00:26:04,815 And, Annie, fax me a copy up here when you transcribe it, will you? Thanks. 297 00:26:11,613 --> 00:26:15,868 Excuse me, what are you doing? Watching you. 298 00:26:16,201 --> 00:26:17,244 Why? 299 00:26:19,538 --> 00:26:22,499 I just wanted to see the guy who stuck it to Sheriff Buck. 300 00:26:24,543 --> 00:26:27,504 Did I make you uneasy? No. 301 00:26:28,755 --> 00:26:30,340 Nothing makes me uneasy. 302 00:26:31,049 --> 00:26:33,719 Except maybe seeing someone sitting on her ass... 303 00:26:33,802 --> 00:26:35,512 in the middle of an emergency. 304 00:26:39,057 --> 00:26:41,977 Well, I'm flattered you even noticed my ass... 305 00:26:42,269 --> 00:26:45,939 in the middle of this big emergency. 306 00:27:18,263 --> 00:27:19,640 So you came. 307 00:27:27,856 --> 00:27:28,941 Wait. 308 00:27:33,904 --> 00:27:35,781 But it's not about anything else. 309 00:27:39,117 --> 00:27:40,661 No heart, no soul. 310 00:27:41,620 --> 00:27:44,498 That's the way you want it? That's the way I want it. 311 00:30:26,243 --> 00:30:28,161 Where's the doctor, the one from Atlanta? 312 00:30:28,245 --> 00:30:30,414 With a patient. Get him. Now. 313 00:30:46,763 --> 00:30:48,599 She just started bleeding. 314 00:30:48,807 --> 00:30:50,684 What were you doing at the time? 315 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,061 Never mind. 316 00:30:56,148 --> 00:30:58,358 What's your relationship to Miss Emory? 317 00:31:00,444 --> 00:31:02,654 Buck. That's none of your business. 318 00:31:02,738 --> 00:31:04,656 We always gonna do this? Do what? 319 00:31:04,740 --> 00:31:07,951 Jerk around like this. You just make damn sure she gets better. 320 00:31:07,993 --> 00:31:10,579 Or you'll what? I'll think of something. 321 00:31:12,206 --> 00:31:14,499 Well, don't give yourself a brain hemorrhage. 322 00:31:16,335 --> 00:31:18,629 And while you're at it, think about this. 323 00:31:19,963 --> 00:31:21,381 You need me, don't you? 324 00:31:22,090 --> 00:31:24,843 All right, I need you to fix her up. Just get on with it. 325 00:31:25,427 --> 00:31:26,678 I will. 326 00:31:29,348 --> 00:31:30,807 But then... Then what? 327 00:31:32,684 --> 00:31:34,311 Well, then you'll owe me. 328 00:31:51,495 --> 00:31:52,538 Hi. 329 00:31:53,330 --> 00:31:57,334 I'm sorry, do I know you? No. Not yet. 330 00:31:58,001 --> 00:32:01,797 I like that "not yet" part. Selena Coombs. 331 00:32:03,173 --> 00:32:06,885 You're the epidemiologist from Atlanta. 332 00:32:07,511 --> 00:32:09,513 Saint Charles, Louisiana, actually. 333 00:32:09,555 --> 00:32:11,431 Just got a one-room studio in Atlanta... 334 00:32:11,515 --> 00:32:15,352 with one box of stuff in it. I still haven't unpacked since my last assignment. 335 00:32:15,394 --> 00:32:17,771 And where was that? East Africa. 336 00:32:18,230 --> 00:32:19,690 Cholera epidemic. 337 00:32:20,899 --> 00:32:24,695 Well, this town must seem pretty tame after Africa. 338 00:32:24,945 --> 00:32:26,363 Not so far. 339 00:32:27,072 --> 00:32:29,366 It's hard for outsiders here. 340 00:32:30,617 --> 00:32:32,536 You must feel like a fish out of water. 341 00:32:32,578 --> 00:32:35,873 Yeah, I feel kind of a like the only normal guy in the nut house. 342 00:32:36,373 --> 00:32:38,876 You know, present company excluded, of course. 343 00:32:39,459 --> 00:32:42,087 Well, don't jump to conclusions. 344 00:32:45,424 --> 00:32:47,217 Anyway, I got a message for you. 345 00:32:47,676 --> 00:32:50,304 So this wasn't just a chance meeting? 346 00:32:50,971 --> 00:32:52,973 I'm taking a chance, all right. 347 00:32:54,349 --> 00:32:55,934 Look out for Sheriff Buck. 348 00:32:56,018 --> 00:32:57,978 Come on... No, really. 349 00:32:59,605 --> 00:33:03,233 Have you ever looked into the face of evil? I mean... 350 00:33:04,359 --> 00:33:06,320 the pure, unadulterated thing. 351 00:33:07,821 --> 00:33:10,741 I would probably be too busy to even notice it. 352 00:33:15,954 --> 00:33:17,289 You will. 353 00:33:23,212 --> 00:33:24,630 See you around. 354 00:33:56,495 --> 00:33:58,539 If you want to, you can go in. 355 00:34:00,707 --> 00:34:02,167 It's okay. 356 00:34:03,377 --> 00:34:04,795 He's not contagious. 357 00:34:19,518 --> 00:34:21,311 How you doing, Dr. Matt? 358 00:34:23,438 --> 00:34:25,649 I'm dwelling in the house, Caleb. 359 00:34:33,574 --> 00:34:35,993 Everything's going to be all right, Dr. Matt. 360 00:34:38,537 --> 00:34:40,664 Everything's going to be all right. 361 00:35:00,726 --> 00:35:04,521 So what do you want? You're the link. I can feel it. 362 00:35:05,898 --> 00:35:08,984 I thought scientists went on facts, not feelings. 363 00:35:09,276 --> 00:35:11,862 Chasing viruses, it's a whole new field. 364 00:35:13,071 --> 00:35:15,657 We rely on our guts as well as data. 365 00:35:16,408 --> 00:35:18,202 Maybe you're an unwitting host. 366 00:35:18,410 --> 00:35:21,371 Maybe there's a symbiotic relationship between you... 367 00:35:21,413 --> 00:35:23,165 and the infected that you're not aware of. 368 00:35:23,248 --> 00:35:25,209 Or maybe some monkey's running around Trinity... 369 00:35:25,250 --> 00:35:27,252 doing his thing with bored housewives. 370 00:35:30,464 --> 00:35:33,842 How come every time you whisper in someone's ear, blood pours out? 371 00:35:34,927 --> 00:35:38,096 I mean, you give that fisheye of yours to some poor bastard... 372 00:35:38,388 --> 00:35:39,890 and he's down for the count. 373 00:35:41,016 --> 00:35:44,144 And how come with all that kind of contact... 374 00:35:45,729 --> 00:35:47,105 you ain't sick? 375 00:35:48,732 --> 00:35:49,942 Right living. 376 00:35:50,192 --> 00:35:53,529 You been in Africa too long, friend. You sound like a witch doctor. 377 00:35:53,612 --> 00:35:55,864 Roll up your sleeve. Not this again. 378 00:35:55,948 --> 00:35:58,158 No, this time it's not a game. 379 00:35:59,952 --> 00:36:01,954 Roll up your sleeve. I need a sample. 380 00:36:08,001 --> 00:36:09,795 I give you my blood... 381 00:36:11,421 --> 00:36:14,258 you'll be giving me yours, Peele. 382 00:36:15,801 --> 00:36:17,469 Kind of funny how these days... 383 00:36:17,553 --> 00:36:21,306 the thing we fear the most is our very lifeblood. 384 00:36:22,474 --> 00:36:24,393 Yeah, hysterical. 385 00:36:29,314 --> 00:36:30,816 So what do you do with this? 386 00:36:31,024 --> 00:36:34,403 We send it down to Atlanta and we wait. 387 00:36:35,821 --> 00:36:39,658 And you think it'll show what, that I'm the Plague Sower? Typhoid Mary? 388 00:36:44,830 --> 00:36:46,623 I'll let you know. Yeah. 389 00:36:50,085 --> 00:36:54,214 All right, people, now the Sheriff is not here, and I'm not authorized... 390 00:36:54,298 --> 00:36:55,966 to make any statements about anything. 391 00:36:56,008 --> 00:36:58,218 Come on, Ben, just give us the death toll. 392 00:36:58,385 --> 00:37:01,054 That's so morbid. What is it? Five? Eight? 393 00:37:01,138 --> 00:37:03,015 Have they closed the elementary school yet? 394 00:37:03,098 --> 00:37:04,224 No, we haven't. 395 00:37:04,349 --> 00:37:07,686 Look, we don't want people to get all panicky just because... 396 00:37:07,728 --> 00:37:10,397 Just because the Trinity River has turned red? 397 00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:11,857 What is that about? 398 00:37:11,899 --> 00:37:15,777 What that's about, friend, is an unfortunate red dye spill... 399 00:37:15,861 --> 00:37:19,573 at a paper mill upriver in North Carolina, just south of Wilmington. 400 00:37:19,656 --> 00:37:22,534 Now, I've been in contact with the public authorities up there... 401 00:37:22,576 --> 00:37:25,412 and they've assured me that the malfunction has been corrected. 402 00:37:25,495 --> 00:37:27,206 All right? Anything else? 403 00:37:27,247 --> 00:37:30,751 Have you also been in contact with the investigator from the CDC, Sheriff? 404 00:37:30,876 --> 00:37:32,044 Yes, ma'am, I have. 405 00:37:32,127 --> 00:37:33,879 He's helping me with my investigation... 406 00:37:33,962 --> 00:37:36,924 and I have offered him my full cooperation as well. 407 00:37:38,967 --> 00:37:41,178 Ben, you want to bring the car around for me? 408 00:38:04,701 --> 00:38:05,827 Now what? 409 00:38:07,454 --> 00:38:08,622 Now we wait. 410 00:38:13,752 --> 00:38:16,880 No, you go on. I'll wait. 411 00:38:18,423 --> 00:38:19,716 For what? 412 00:38:20,175 --> 00:38:22,970 I mean, there's nothing out here on a night like this except... 413 00:38:23,053 --> 00:38:24,388 Except for what, Ben? 414 00:38:26,223 --> 00:38:27,307 Spirits? 415 00:38:34,314 --> 00:38:35,732 Well, all right. 416 00:38:53,625 --> 00:38:56,086 Lord protect us all on a night like this. 417 00:39:06,972 --> 00:39:08,765 All right, here I am. 418 00:39:11,059 --> 00:39:12,102 Hey. 419 00:39:12,477 --> 00:39:14,605 Merlyn Temple, you listening to me? 420 00:39:19,985 --> 00:39:21,278 I'm sorry. 421 00:39:23,030 --> 00:39:25,616 It's a trying time for me, my people are afraid... 422 00:39:25,657 --> 00:39:27,659 and I haven't been able to help them. 423 00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:29,703 So I thought... 424 00:39:33,498 --> 00:39:34,625 No. 425 00:39:43,217 --> 00:39:44,218 No. 426 00:39:45,511 --> 00:39:46,678 Never mind. 427 00:39:47,346 --> 00:39:48,805 Thought what? 428 00:39:51,683 --> 00:39:54,186 Thought you could help me out. I mean... 429 00:39:55,020 --> 00:39:58,649 all this blood, no offense, Merly, but... 430 00:39:59,358 --> 00:40:01,026 that's kind of heavy-handed... 431 00:40:01,193 --> 00:40:04,863 I know it's your job to keep people on the straight and narrow. 432 00:40:05,030 --> 00:40:06,281 I've been there... 433 00:40:06,823 --> 00:40:10,202 and it's easy to get carried away. You lose sight of your goals. 434 00:40:10,744 --> 00:40:12,079 Protect the good. 435 00:40:13,372 --> 00:40:14,873 Punish the wicked. 436 00:40:15,207 --> 00:40:17,918 Or is the whole thing one big ego trip? 437 00:40:18,210 --> 00:40:19,795 You start to lose yourself. 438 00:40:22,381 --> 00:40:23,799 You start to fall. No. 439 00:40:23,882 --> 00:40:26,510 You are the one who has fallen, not me. You need me. 440 00:40:27,386 --> 00:40:30,264 I can show you all the pitfalls to avoid. 441 00:40:30,389 --> 00:40:31,723 I know what I'm doing. 442 00:40:36,895 --> 00:40:38,230 Merlyn. 443 00:40:40,357 --> 00:40:41,358 Merlyn. 444 00:40:51,785 --> 00:40:52,870 Lord... 445 00:40:53,579 --> 00:40:57,416 I don't mean to bug you or nothing but things are really getting out of hand. 446 00:40:57,541 --> 00:41:00,002 If you could make my cousin Gail all better... 447 00:41:00,878 --> 00:41:02,671 and help poor old Dr. Matt. 448 00:41:04,756 --> 00:41:06,675 Lord, they didn't do nothing. 449 00:41:24,776 --> 00:41:26,904 That's not exactly true, Caleb. 450 00:41:27,821 --> 00:41:29,823 Says who? Says me. 451 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:33,911 I saw Dr. Matt lying to the people, telling them that nothing had happened. 452 00:41:33,994 --> 00:41:36,288 He's just calming them down. That's his job. 453 00:41:36,371 --> 00:41:38,790 Well, they won't get crazy and turn on each other. 454 00:41:38,916 --> 00:41:40,501 Well, he should've told the truth. 455 00:41:40,584 --> 00:41:43,962 Lucas' job is to lie, to deceive. 456 00:41:44,796 --> 00:41:46,548 Well, he's got Matt now. 457 00:41:47,216 --> 00:41:49,134 He owns him. Cut it out, Merly. 458 00:41:49,176 --> 00:41:50,594 He's just an old guy. 459 00:41:56,016 --> 00:41:57,809 You're doing this, ain't you? 460 00:41:59,144 --> 00:42:01,146 You made him sick. And Gail? 461 00:42:01,230 --> 00:42:03,065 Gail made herself sick. 462 00:42:03,357 --> 00:42:05,901 She laid down with Lucas. Stop it, Merly. 463 00:42:06,401 --> 00:42:07,986 What's happened to you? 464 00:42:08,570 --> 00:42:10,739 Well, I was told to punish the wicked... 465 00:42:10,864 --> 00:42:13,575 and warn those that would sin. Who told you this? 466 00:42:13,700 --> 00:42:16,411 You're listening to them voices, too, like Dr. Matt? 467 00:42:16,495 --> 00:42:17,871 Then maybe you're crazy. 468 00:42:17,955 --> 00:42:19,456 You just leave him alone. 469 00:42:20,624 --> 00:42:22,417 Leave us all alone. 470 00:42:22,918 --> 00:42:24,545 But they've sinned, Caleb. 471 00:42:24,628 --> 00:42:27,673 Not like you have, Merly. Not by a long shot. 472 00:42:29,007 --> 00:42:30,217 And what about me? 473 00:42:30,300 --> 00:42:32,010 I spent time with Lucas. 474 00:42:32,094 --> 00:42:34,346 You going to make me sick and crazy, too? 475 00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:36,223 Of course not, I love you. 476 00:42:36,306 --> 00:42:37,975 Then love them, too, Merly. 477 00:42:38,058 --> 00:42:39,268 All of them. 478 00:42:40,519 --> 00:42:42,354 All of us down here, we need it. 479 00:43:52,424 --> 00:43:54,426 Leaving without saying goodbye, Billy? 480 00:43:55,219 --> 00:43:57,095 Nope, not leaving. 481 00:43:58,138 --> 00:43:59,473 I'm sticking around. 482 00:44:00,140 --> 00:44:03,101 What for? To collect. You still owe me. 483 00:44:04,478 --> 00:44:06,980 Looks like the deal's been consummated, already. 484 00:44:07,814 --> 00:44:09,066 Not our deal. 485 00:44:09,983 --> 00:44:11,568 We ain't even started yet. 486 00:44:17,115 --> 00:44:18,242 No, we haven't. 487 00:44:34,591 --> 00:44:35,884 How you feeling? 488 00:44:36,510 --> 00:44:37,845 I feel fine. 489 00:44:39,346 --> 00:44:40,430 You? 490 00:44:42,140 --> 00:44:43,183 I'm okay. 491 00:44:45,978 --> 00:44:47,062 Good.