The Hot Zone

If the doctor did not hide the heart,

there would be no proof the people of Sverdlovsk,

died from anthrax.

The victims did not die from tainted meat like

the Soviet government claims.

They were exposed to a biological weapon.

Test it yourself.

You see that pale area there,

that's bacterial overgrowth,

could be endocarditis.

All other evidence was destroyed.

Under whose authority?

The Kremlin.

And you can confirm this man was killed by an

incident at Compound 19?

He worked in a ceramic factory next door.

The contaminated cloud drifted for miles,

killed everyone in its path,

men, women, children.

We were lucky the wind did not head toward town or

300,000 people would be dead.

What's the Russian government doing with all that anthrax?

My understanding was to attach it to

warheads for SS-18 ICBMs.

How many pounds could you produce?

In each year, about 300 pounds,

aerosolized spores.

How bad?

300 pounds, that's just from one plant?

Uh, we produce a little for vaccines but

that amount could kill billions.

We need to know the virulence and...

The location of the stockpiles.

If they're going to offer you asylum,

they'll need more.

Exact formulas, locations,

proof that Russia broke our treaty.

Of course, of course.

But if you think that the attack will come from Russia,

you are looking in the wrong place.

America has many enemies.

Soviets sell bioweapons to them because

any enemy of America is a friend to Russia.

I am here to warn you, an attack is inevitable.

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We're almost there.

Difficulty breathing, vitals unstable.

BP 60 over 40.

0.3 milligrams of epinephrine.

Any heart issues?

No. He's pretty active.

I brought him in because he was vomiting all night,

had a headache for two days, uh.

He's been sweating a lot, drenched his clothes,

the sheets.

And then he got really confused and

didn't know where he was.

Usually when he gets the flu,

it just passes in a day or two.

This doesn't present like the flu.

Get Dr. Bush down here.

But they just took down two skyscrapers and

public health faces a threat no one's talking about.

They know our airport security

has increased.

Hell, the hijackers took flight lessons in crop-dusting planes.

Just one outfitted with a biological or

chemical weapon could take out the whole county.

Why aren't they grounded?

We've got dusters flying all over this place for mosquitos.

Excuse me a minute.

Back to the slides.

As you can see here, Miami Dade County should

be expecting a spike in infections.

This is Officer Clemons.

From where?

What do you think the likelihood is?

The patient's spinal fluid showed rod-like bacteria,

Looked like bamboo sticks.

Sally?

Stain was gram positive.

So we could be talking some lethal cereus or, or anthrax.

And the patient?

Blood pressure bottomed-out.

Organs are failing.

Still don't have an affirmative result,

but considering...

I thought you should be in the loop.

Does the guy work in agriculture?

Don't know.

I'm hoping his wife can retrace his last 48 hours for me.

Do you think this could have been intentional?

In a cushy retirement town?

With all the fake threats we've been fielding,

there's a better shot it's...

It's an infection from a natural cause.

Look, um...

I hate to open the door but you better call the FBI.

- Hey, Agent Ryker. - Hey.

Let's get these new samples over to USAMRIID for testing

as soon as possible.

Thought you sent the last of the samples over days ago.

Uh, they just finished shoring up the new section.

I got new access.

Well, I'm glad you're the one dealing with Copak and not me.

But there's something new.

We got a call from Florida.

The cell outside Dallas?

We're using FISA but no specific threat

has surfaced so far.

What about the three in Chicago?

We're working on flipping one member,

brother's heading to prison so we have leverage.

Picked up comm from Afghanistan,

trying to trace it.

Trying?

It was sent through a series of servers, sir.

It makes it hard to track.

You go home last night, Polk?

How about you, Hale? Reilly?

Because Mueller inherited this Charlie Foxtrot a week before

the towers came down and I guarantee he didn't

go home last night.

Damn it, find a connection.

Follow it!

You boys need a refresher?

Waco, Ruby Ridge? We've let this country down.

Find these sons of bitches.

Bring us up to speed on the suspected cell in Jersey.

What?

I just got a call from Florida.

They're tracking a possible anthrax attack.

Might not be a hoax this time.

I was thinking I would take a team and head down there.

You have a definitive test?

We have a preliminary CSF stain gram-positive for

rod-like bacteria.

English.

It proves it was a bacterial infection.

That's gonna take a while before any of our labs come

back with an actual anthrax read,

but we don't have any time to waste if this is

the first indicator of a biological attack.

Like the one in Toledo?

Turned out to be talcum powder and what was that other one?

College jock wrote anthrax on his protein powder

so his roommates wouldn't use it.

The patient lives in Boca Raton.

Just 'cause two hijackers lived there

doesn't mean there's a connection.

That's too much of a coincidence.

Listen, the CDC's already on its way down there.

I need to get on the ground before

the press gets wind of it and stirs up panic.

About time the CDC carried their weight on

these damn hoaxes!

We're fielding two, 300 a week.

Look, Ryker, these SOBs are fly-a-plane-into-a-skyscraper

kind of terrorists.

They're not gonna sprinkle magic dust on some guy in BFE Florida.

We're thin here.

Sit down.

All right.

Jersey, what do you got?

Last week they bought some burner phones

close to a dozen, sir.

They're running their names off known watch lists as we speak.

We're expecting to get a hit.

Dr. Simon Kurz.

Dr. Kurz, this is Special Agent Ryker.

Listen, uh, thanks for jumping on those Pentagon samples, but, um,

I need a favor.

No problem.

I have some tissue samples being flown up to a

few labs from Florida, one of them is coming to you and

should arrive within the hour.

I need you to take a look.

Of course, Agent Ryker.

We'll get right on it.

Thanks.

Bruce, we got some samples coming in from Florida.

Not it!

But they need the anthrax expert.

Oh, I don't know.

This bench is getting awfully comfortable.

If you're pulling me off of it,

I'm gonna need a new uniform,

maybe a nice, new pair of Chucks.

At least ask for Nike Shox.

Are those all the rage?

Yeah, no one's worn Chucks since before the three-point line.

Really?

It wasn't me who benched you on anthrax.

I know that!

It was those suits in Washington that are full of baloney,

blaming Gulf War Syndrome on everything but the Gulf.

Easy to point fingers at a vaccine when symptoms could

have been caused by myriad factors in the field.

I just spent 20 years working on piddly little things called breakthroughs,