"David, he was operated on." " On his brain?" "Why?" " They're not sure." " Where you going?" " Mexico." "People are dying there from an antibiotic resistant strain of TB." "I want you in Hudson Point, Illinois." "The people have temporarily lost the ability to feel any pain." "They inflict horrific injuries on themselves without realizing it." " How bad is it?" " 46 cases." "Five people are actively suffering from the disorder." " You got a take?" " Everybody's drinking the same water." "Breathing the same air." "Corn is really huge down here." "In Chiapas, there are over a million people at risk." "The Mexican government has not invited anyone into Chiapas." "They're fully aware of this outbreak." "What if they brought it here?" "Let's get some concrete answers before we start throwing around words like "biological weapons"." "I've got bad news." "Our TB strain is identical to the KwaZulu-Natal slum in South Africa." "We don't know how to kill it." "Just got a call from homeland." "There was firefight in Chiapas." "It appears that Carlos was caught in the middle." "He's missing." "And we are to presume dead." " How's it going?" " Good." "Just finishing." "Got that TB strain percolating with every antibiotic from isoniazid to pyrazinamid." "Okay, so now all we do is wait." "I hate waiting." "Me too." " You hear from David?" " No, you?" "Where's David?" " He went back to Mexico, didn't he?" " Of course he did." " You didn't think he'd go back there?" " Goddamnit!" "Come on, Wes." "Don't act so surprised." "He knows that Washington and Ottawa are doing all they can." "Like what?" "It's been two days and nothing." " Not a word about Carlos." " Riddlemeyer's gonna love this call." "Then don't make it, Wes." "Really." "What he doesn't know won't hurt him." "He's expecting him in Hudson today." "7 more accidents involving people who can't feel pain." " We're on top of it." " And?" "And it'd be nice to have David's brain on top of it too." "Exactly." "Oh, God..." "Shit." "Okay!" "Canadian!" "I'm a Canadian scientist!" "I'm a scientist." "Okay!" "Turning right!" "Alright!" "Stopping!" "Stopping!" "Take it easy!" "Speak English?" "No hablo español, alright?" "I'm a scientist, alright?" "Scientisimo." "Comprende scientisimo." "Que pasa aqui?" "Que pasa?" "Que quiere aqui?" "It's a passport!" "It's just a passport!" "Canadian citizen." " Just relax!" " Que quieres?" "Don't point that gun at me." "Come on." "Listen, I need to speak to Sub-commandante Muñoz." " Que quieres con el comandante Muñoz?" " Si, Commandant Muñoz!" " She knows me." "Compadres." "Comprande?" " Arriba!" " Muñoz!" "Take me to see Muñoz!" " No!" "No!" "Very important that she sees me." "Oh geez!" "I'm not wearing the fucking bag!" "ReGenesis 4x02 La Consecuencia" "Subtitles Team NorBAC" "Bsiocnarf, Dapitch666, Enelea, Icefre@k" "Linwelin, Michvanilly, MikL" "Version NoTag 1.01" "I'm still using those!" "You don't want me here." "I'll leave." "Just give me Carlos Serrano." " What makes you think I have him?" " The army don't know where he is." " You've not heard from him?" " I wouldn't be here if I had." " After he betrayed us, he disappeared." " Betrayed you?" "My men were hidden in the countryside." "Safe from this disease." "Safe from the Mexican army." "Carlos and you convinced me to gather them for vaccination." "They were slaughtered like ants." "Or was it you who betrayed us?" "I can think of a much easier way for you to get in my pants." " I just want the truth." " The truth?" "The truth is, nobody wanted us to come down here." "People were dying, that's why we came." "We don't give a shit about politics or your goddamn revolution." "We're here to stop a pandemic..." "And I'm sorry, lady, but we're all you've got." "Did you bring a cure for the sick?" " Do you know where Carlos Serrano is?" " Rico!" "He was the last to see him." " Tell him what you told me." " Hello, Rico." "You're looking well." "The Federales attacked us." "I ran one way, Carlos ran the other." "They followed him." " Then I heard shots." " You don't know what happened to him?" "No." "I went back." "I didn't see a body." "Have you checked with the local doctors or the local clinics?" " Or the morgue?" " We just have a cemetery." "He's been missing for two days and you have nothing?" "Nothing yet!" "What do you have for me?" "We will keep looking." "I'll give him back dead or alive." "Did you bring a cure?" "There is no cure." "But we did think of something." "A way to treat the sick." "Go on." "This strain of TB has become mutated." "It's resistant to every drug developed in the last 20 years." "How are you going to treat it?" "With drugs it hasn't mutated a resistance to." " Something new?" " No." "Something old." "An antibiotic that hasn't been used on TB in like... 60 years." "Something called streptomycin." "Gracias." "We may have found your compadre." "I have got to fucking learn how to speak Spanish." "Carlos!" " Hey, David." " Jesus." "Don't move." "You okay?" "You look like shit." "I feel like shit." "What the fuck happened?" " They shot at me." " Who?" " The soldiers." "Mexican soldiers." " Goddamn Federales." " Wait a minute." "You've been shot?" " No." "I dove for cover went down a 20-foot embankment." "Just busted myself up." " Broken ribs?" " I think so." "I'll be okay." " So what did I miss?" " More bad news..." "The TB is extensively drug resistant." " Are you're sure?" "Nothing will kill it?" " The strain's from South Africa." "South Africa?" "KwaZulu-Natal?" "How did that get into Chiapas, David?" "I don't know." "I was hoping we can find Patient Zero and ask him." "What makes you think he's still alive?" "Dead or alive, if we find him, he'll have a lot of answers to what's been happening here." "Come on." "Other than a couple of cracked ribs, he's fine." " I want you two out of there now." " That sounded like an order." " Then take it as a suggestion." " Taken." "It's nice to know that you care though, Wes." "How safe are you?" "I don't know." " And the strep injections?" " It's gonna be at least a week before we can confirm." "I have new patients coming in everyday." " How's it going up there?" " It's slow." "I gotta grow a second batch of TB." "First sign of life in those culture dishes," "I want you to hit it with every antibiotic you've got." "You don't have faith in the Streptomycin." "Just want a backup, don't get lazy on me." "Got a hundred cocktails standing by." "Thank you." "What else?" "We've got some new cases of accident victims in Hudson, Illinois." "And unfortunately, a lot of them are kids." "we've got a 3-year-old girl..." "I'm sorry." "But we have got to hit this thing with everything we've got down here, before it blows up on us." "Rachel, believe me the fuse is lit." "Got it." "And now she hates my guts." "Hey, Bob." "I brought you some flowers." "I know you can't see them, but at least you can smell them." "So," "David is still in Mexico with Carlos" "I guess this whole thing is... pretty scary with the whole TB business." "I suppose you could use my help." " Are you alright?" " I'm good." "I just don't know what I'm doing here." "Thanks for the flowers." "Please help me get the needles out and we can get to work." "Excuse me." "Can I help you?" "I work with Bob." "I was just coming by to see how he was doing." "He's doing fine." " I'm Dr. Jartikoff, his attending." " Hi, Mayko Tran." "Do you know how much longer he'll have to be in this induced coma?" "It's hard to say..." "We don't have much control over the swelling in his brain." "Sure." "I think the prognosis looks pretty good." " Good." " He'll be back, sooner than you think." "You hear that, Bob?" "Hurry and wake up, okay?" "We got work to do." "I'm glad you're safe." "What did he say?" "He said until Bob's swelling goes down they want him to keep him in an induced coma for a while just to be safe." "But he is improving?" "That's what Dr. Jartikoff said." "You sound beat, David." "That's an improvement." "Five minutes ago, I thought I was dead." "We've got the WHO checking all the flights from South Africa to Mexico." "We're looking at over 4,000 passengers." "I don't care, okay?" "I need you to track everybody down." "Has there been any alerts of this TB breaking out elsewhere in the world?" " No, just in the ghetto in Durban." " Okay, stay on it." " Call me when you hear from the WHO." " Okay." "You be safe." "Thanks." " You slept well." " Lots of codeine." "What's up?" "David, this distribution pattern doesn't make any sense." "The red flags indicate the first wave of infection, all soldiers." "The yellow and blue flags were infected one month later." "The soldiers' families." "In almost every case, the Zapatista soldier got infected at least a month before any symptom showed up in their families." "Are you telling me that all these first cases came down" " with symptoms at the same time?" " The same week." "Almost the same day." "Then how?" "Let's say the men are at a training camp." "The government buys an aerosolized form of KwaZulu-Natal" "TB off some scientist trying to make a buck." "The men are sleeping..." "You know what's gonna happen if we accuse the Mexican?" "Half the world is condemning Mexico for its brutal tactics in Chiapas." "We will become the Mexican army's number one target." "We have to be sure before we make any accusations." "And be back in Canada." "But that doesn't mean there's a conspiracy." "That just means they all contracted it at the same time." "What's the incubation period for TB?" "It was like two, three months?" "Before it can be properly diagnosed." "Yes." "OK." "Let's just start with that." "Maybe you're right, there was a training camp, whatever." "They all participated in some group activity two to three months ago." "Let's find that out." "And then maybe, we can track it to a nice simple Patient Zero." " Alright?" " Alright." "I will get on it." "I think they prefer that I eat alone." "It might be better that we don't eat together." "I don't want them to think..." "I'm a doctor talking to his colleague." "Let them think what they want." "So how did you end up in Chiapas?" "The indigenous people of Mexico have been oppressed for hundreds of years." "Enslaved." "Used as cannon fodder." "Land that belonged to them was taken away." "I thought I could help." "But..." "I didn't fit in." "Some things take longer to change than others." "But you know, Rico." "The work you're doing here, it's..." "It's good." "What a world, Carlos?" "So many people, so many things we find to hate." "Race, religion..." "Sexual preference." "You'd think we could find better things to do with our spare time." "Maybe some day, my friend." "Maybe some day." "Jesus, Mayko!" "I'm in the middle of lunch!" "Nine-year-old who heated hot chocolate in the microwave." "Scalded his mouth, tongue, lips, not to mention his esophagus and stomach." " Third-degree burns?" " David, I'm good at multi-tasking." "I am not good at putting this on hold!" "Alright!" ""Alright" as in "what have I got on Hudson?"" "We got 3 new leads based on patients' samples." " And she's in too." " I PCRed for viruses." "I found that most of the pain- free victims have a rotavirus." "A rotavirus isn't that dangerous." "The most you'd get would be like a bad diarrhea." "Then I cultured the samples and got two more leads." "I found a Neisseria meningitidis." " What, meningitis?" " Yeah." "Brain inflammation could theoretically block pain receptors." "So, okay, fine, fine." "How do we prove it?" "Check the spinal fluid in the victims." "What else have you found?" "It was on the nasal swab cultures." "Something growing like a fungus." "Well there you go." "Fungi produce all sorts of crazy neurological shit." "See if you can ID the fungus." "Alright." "And you know, find out if the rotavirus has any pain blocking properties." "I'm all over it." " Call me when you've got something." " Thank you, David." "Let me ask you." "Two or three months ago, before the TB symptoms showed, was there any occasion where the Zapatistas were all together?" "A group gathering?" "What was that?" "Early July?" "Yes." "La Fiesta de San Fermin." "They celebrate like they do in Spain." "The sangria and bulls." "Fireworks." "Were you here then?" "No." "There was no TB to worry about." "But..." "I know who you should talk to." "People sleep in the church during the festival?" "Others stay with relatives, friends." "People make room." " Some people don't even sleep." " Lots of close, personal contact." "Do you remember anything unusual about that weekend?" "Sick tourist?" "No, the touristas they stay away because of the fighting." "It's only locals." "But I don't recall any sickness." "Padre?" "Would you excuse me please for one minute..." "They have to have contracted the disease the weekend of the festival." "Whole families were at that festival, why would the men get sick first?" "They tell me you're on top of the situation in Hudson Point." "Hello, Carl." " What are you doing in town?" " You look tired." " Working too hard?" " At least one of us is." "Congressman Kirchner is concerned about his constituency and I'd like to be able to tell him we've got this thing licked." "I would like to be able to tell him that too, but we don't." "Why not?" "Because these things take time, Carl." "Any leads?" "Rotaviruses." "What?" "They affect the gastrointestinal system, usually benign in humans..." "And you found this in the Hudson victims?" " All of them." " So what does that mean?" "Carl, I have to get back to work now." "I just need to tell Kirschner something." "Some strains of rotavirus in mice are neurotropic." "So, it effects the brains?" "Could affect the nervous system." "We're still checking that out." "At least we're trying to." " See anything interesting there, dear?" " So, what's this about fungus?" "We just ID-ed it as Eupenicillium Shearii." "And as I understand it all the victims in Hudson had it growing?" " In their nasal passages, yes." " So where did it come from?" "All we know is that it produces a compound that blocks pain receptors." "Alright." "So the fungus could be it." "Maybe." "And if you would let me get back to work," "I could be able to tell you that." "It's always good to see you, Rachel." "Maybe there's some activity that men do that the women and children don't participate in." "Father..." "I'd like to ask..." "Are you feeling okay?" "This outbreak began during the festival?" " That's what our data suggests, yes." " Gracias." "Are you feeling okay?" "Yes..." "Is there something you want to tell me, father?" "As I give the last rites," "I hear over and over the same thing..." "The dying men believe that God is punishing them for break... breaking their marriage vows." "Breaking which marriage vows?" "During the solstice festival, many of the men visit..." "La puta." "A prostitute?" "That's it!" "Patient Zero." "All the men contracted the TB by sleeping with the town hooker." "They disperse to the countryside, bring the disease to infect their families." "Father, do you know where we could find this puta?" "Ah, shit..." "Father, we're going to get you examined." " Smell that?" " Ah, shit." "Madre..." "She's been dead at least a month." "Dried blood all over the pillow." "Consistent with TB." "Okay, how does the local puta come down with a rare African strain of TB?" "I don't think she had the money." "Maybe she picked it up off a South African tourist?" "She could have been infected on purpose, put back into the general population?" "You're reaching for something we can't prove." "You're saying this woman was used against us, like a weapon?" " She wouldn't even know she had it." " Or she picked it up from a tourist." "David, come on." "I know a person who can tell me if what Carlos says is true." "The person responsible for this will pay." "So the TB cultures haven't told us jackshit," " is what you're saying?" " David, it's too soon." "We need at least another week!" "Come on, Mayko!" "Something's got to look promising." "Right now, all the cultures indicate the TB bacterium is still growing." "Nothing is working yet!" "Shit!" "Are you getting any results with the Streptomyicin?" "Three more days before we can test for positive results." "Okay, so we're all in the hands of Mother Nature." "Somebody needs to light a fire under Mother Nature's ass." "I fucking hate waiting..." "Maybe you can distract yourself with what's going on in Illinois." "The plant-like fungus that I found in all of the victims..." " Eupenicillium Shearii, was that it?" " It's not growing just in the victims, it's growing in the noses of everybody in Hudson Point." "Great." "What are they snorting?" "I got a slight response from the mice who breathed in the fungus." "Their ability to feel pain is maybe somewhat diminished, but not..." "How did you determine that?" "The old-fashioned way." "Put the little guys on a hot plate to see how long it'd take them to dance." "Yeah, something like that." "Alright, check the levels of yeast in the mice." "See if it's proportional to the Hudson patients." "There's a connection between the ability to feel pain and the amount of fungus?" "Exactly." "And Mayko?" "Once you're finished picking everyone's noses, see if you can figure out how this shit's getting airborne." "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "He's a government spy." "A traitor." "We were warned by someone in the army, a sympathizer..." "Or he's being set up by someone who doesn't want him here!" "I didn't do this!" "I will let you live if you confess." "Admit what you've done." "Admit what you've done!" "I didn't tell the army where our men are." "I swear this, please!" "Did you bring the puta here?" "Speak, or I will put a hole through your lies!" "But I did not know she was infected." " What else?" " I swear this!" "Please!" "What else?" "!" "Say it!" "She was let out of jail." "She begged me to bring her back here." " How much did she pay you to do this?" " Nothing!" " How much?" " He's telling the truth, Muñoz!" "How much?" "The soldiers gave me 200 American dollars to get her out of their sight." "I believed them." "She was Indian." "They hated her." "Muñoz, he was set up, put down the fucking gun." "I used the money to buy medicine for our people." "I'm so sorry." "Please forgive me." "Thank you, Rico." "For your honesty." "Why?" "Why Muñoz?" " Why Muñoz?" "He told you the truth!" " I have lost my patience." "I think it's time you leave." "You've accomplished nothing." "And what about the girl?" "Tucked away." "Why didn't you call me, Bob?" "I'm sorry you won't be along for the ride." "Where the hell have you been?" "Just get better." "Mad, Bad and Dangerous." "Science beyond the brink." " Here it is!" "Listen!" " Mayko!" "No!" ""This first effort by David Sandström cannot be dismissed" ""as just another attempt by a leading scientist" ""to prove the value of his efforts on the cutting edge of discovery." ""But it can be dismissed as a convoluted and disappointing diatribe" ""drowning in hyperbole."" ""Drowning in hyperbole."" " One person's opinion." " Yeah." " Probably an ex-girlfriend wrote it." " I never said I was Charles Dickens." "You really go off on the Chinese here, don't you?" "Well, somebody had to be held accountable." " Feel like some dessert?" " I would love dessert." "Why do you feel that way about Chiapas, David?" "Come on, Carlos." "We witness genocide." "We should be taking this to the United Nations." "Taking what to the UN?" "We don't have any proof." "I'm sorry." "So we do nothing?" "We do science, not politics." "And they just..." "They just get away with it." "Whole world's going to hell, Carlos." "If we're lucky, we'll get to toast marshmallows over the embers." "That is bullshit." "Excuse me." "You're focusing on the wrong thing, you know that, right?" "People are being slaughtered by my own government, David." "That doesn't change the fact that we're still dealing with a major outbreak here and we still don't know how to stop it!" "Now those people need your help, not your moral indignation." "I don't know..." "You can spend the rest of your life running around in the dark trying to figure out a way to hang this whole fucking mess around the neck of the government, and you'll have achieved nothing." "Or, you can do what you do, right now." "Help figure out a way to stop this thing and save thousands of lives." "Hell, I don't know, maybe even prevent a pandemic." "Look, I know how you feel, man." "I do." "No, you don't." "Then tell me." "I feel ashamed." "I don't care about your priorities, Carl." "We need to get back into Chiapas." ""I'm working on it" doesn't make me feel any better." "We need more medical aid." "We need more drugs, more equipment." "Yeah, well they've offended me the way they've treated their own people." "Then make them care, Carl." "Come on." "You've been in Washington long enough to know how to bullshit some politicians into giving you what you want." "You're welcome." "Jesus." "Fucking bureaucracy." "Looks like the situation in Chiapas is escalating." "The army has amassed at the Chiapas border." "Great." "So now nobody gets in or out." "Swell." "If you get any positive results on the cocktails you're working on" "I will let Washington know, and it'll go through acceptable diplomatic channels." "What?" "The rest of the civilized world isn't acceptable anymore?" "What's going on with Hudson?" "It's spreading." "Kirchner's riding Riddlemeyer's ass and Riddlemeyer's riding mine." " I'd like to see that picture." " And I would like an answer for them!" "Okay, let's solve this Hudson's Point thing before the town gets its reality show and Wes gets delusions of grandeur." "Where are we at with the fungus?" " Do you have a few minutes?" " Yes." "Good." "I've been trying to isolate the compound that blocks the pain receptors" " and get enough to inject into a mouse." " Got any ratios from mice to humans?" "Yes, absolutely." "Alright, this line represents the amount of the Fungus in the humans." "This line represents the amount in mice." "And this, shows what happens when you take into account weight." "So, there's the same amount of fungus in the mice as there is in the humans." "The same amount of the Hudson Fungus was found in everyone, whether they experienced the pain-free episodes or not." "So, I don't think the amount has anything to do with this." " I found the source of the fungus!" " Fantastic." "Local sweet corn." "It's on the husks!" "You tear them off and the fungus goes airborne." "Right up your nose." "So everybody we tested in Hudson has the fungus." "But not everybody was affected." "Why?" "Well obviously, it's interacting with something in the people who experience the pain-free episodes." "Mayko, open your mouth." "What the fuck?" "I think you bit your tongue." "I'll get some ice." "That's gotta hurt." "No." "No, it doesn't." " No, I'm not feeling any pain at all." " Let's put Mayko under a microscope." "Okay." "Alright." "So I can confirm Hudson fungus in Mayko's nasal passages." " Wonderful." " And mine." "But you're not pain free." "So obviously, the fungus is producing more pain reducing agents in Mayko than in me." "It could channel off." "Alright, so what are the differences between the two of you?" "Ethnicity." "But most of the patients in Hudson Point were Caucasian." " Age." " Easy there..." " What you ate." " Prescription drugs." "A guava shake." " Brown rice." " Over-the-counter drugs." " Not me." " Fabric softeners." "Okay, stop." "Please, stop." "Obviously, Mayko has something in common with the patients in Hudson." "So I'd like the two of you to write down everything you ate today, anything you drank." "Your product that you use, including the brand names." "Now all we've got to do is find the needle in the haystack." "Right, Wes?" "Sorry." "I was culturing the Hudson Fungus with our toiletries and I got a hit off Mayko's toothpaste." "Careful..." "It stimulated the fungus to produce more of the pain reducing byproduct." "Okay, what's in the toothpaste?" "Sodium fluoride, sodium lauryl sulfate, calcium sodium phosphosilicate, zinc chloride, hydrogen peroxide, artificial colouring." "More to the point, what's different between your toothpaste and Mayko's?" "I've got her cross-checking that right now." "Carlos, any word from Doctors Without Borders?" "Nothing." "And the Zapatistas haven't updated their website in days, which is strange." "Yeah." "David, I got it!" " Now I've got it too." " No, what do you taste?" " Let me try again." " No!" "Mint!" "Mint, minty flavour." "It's methyl salicylate." "This way." "Okay, both the mice have the fungus." "I've been administering the methyl salicylate to this one for over an hour." "Now let's see if it's the methyl salicylate that is kicking the production of the compound into overdrive." "Here we go." "There's the control." "Okay!" "His feet are burning!" "Here we go." " Come on little guy." " There we go." "I'll get Wes." "That's it." "That is it." "Methyl salicylate:" "C8H803, AKA wintergreen." " It's toxic in its pure form." " Isn't this what killed that jogger?" "Her body absorbed high levels of methyl salicylate from muscle-pain ointment." "In our case, wintergreen, as a scent, enters the nostrils where it meets up with the Hudson fungi." " You get chemical warfare in your nose." " Fungus doesn't like the wintergreen and so as a defensive reaction it produces this compound." "It takes a direct route from your nose to your blood in your brain," " where it blocks the pain receptors." " Everybody that's infected in Hudson is using the same toothpaste as Mayko?" "Methyl salicylate is in hundreds of consumer products." "Mostly as a flavouring agent." "Ice-cream, chewing gum, mouthwash, candy." " Almost anything minty has it." " So what are we gonna do?" "For starters we gotta get everybody in and around Hudson on antifungals." " And that includes you and I." " Bravo!" "Even I can follow your work." "Good evening." "So where does this thing come from in the first place?" "In one species of mushroom, research was carried out that demonstrated that the spores were spread worldwide by blowing in the wind." " And why this and why Hudson?" " They upset the natural balance." " They dusted the corn for..." " They had a problem with Rust fungi." "There you go." "The Rust and the Hudson fungi were probably natural checks for each other." "You get rid of the Rust, the Hudson moved in." "This is good news." "I want your data on my desk, first thing in the morning." "Why?" "Well, just think about the people in the world who suffer from chronic pain:" "There are cancer patients." "There are people who have severe arthritis." "Soldiers!" "We could help billions." "For once, I'm in complete agreement with you." " Just send me your findings." " You can get them yourself." "And download away." "So, you didn't feel as if you should consult me before you... distributed this information?" "Like you said, Carl." "This is a great thing." "You should share it with the whole world." " David, may I have a word with you." " Sure." "Make sure you post all of our findings on our website." "Already on it." "What can I do for you, Carl?" "Is this where you were last week?" " Why?" " Is it?" "Yes." "They thought it was their only solution." " There was no other way out." " We were this close" " of finding a cure." " But..." "And this was not us." "I have an entire virology lab full of TB cultures..." " Their backs were against the wall." " In 48 hours, we could have saved them!" " Did this come from the Pentagon?" " No!" "This is the Mexican..." "Can you come up here a second?" "David." "Oh no." "You tell him." "They carpet bombed the village, the quarantine city, everything." "They blew it off the map." "I received a phone call from Mexico City at 6 AM." "They considered the full ramifications of the threat of a pandemic." "That they probably started!" "They felt they needed to take extraordinary measures." "By bombing Chiapas." "The US government will condemn their actions." "And the Mexican government will say it was best for their people." "And justifying the murder of hundreds of people as a health prevention." "They're exterminating the indigenous people of Mexico." "That's what this is all about." "Whatever you're doing in there, it's working." "They stopped using the pentobarbital." "The rest is up to you, Bob." "Keep fighting." "I'll be here." "Hi, David." "Hi, Bob." "I'm glad you're relieved..." "You can sense that?" "So you're... still up and running, eh?" "Very much so..." "I'm gonna ask you a couple of questions." "Okay..." "What's your phone number?" "I can do better than that... 3.141592653..." "Okay." "Okay, Bob." "Bob?" "You can remember Pi, that's great." "What month is it?" "June..." "August...?" " September." " September." "Right..." "Hang on a sec." "Here you go." "Slowly." "Easy." "You okay?" "Yes." "Thank you." "So what have you been doing, Bob?" "What do you mean?" "What's with the surgery?" "What surgery?" "Brain surgery." "Nevermind that." "Nevermind that now." "Where were you?" "I was..." " What did he have you doing?" " Who?" "Roth." "I don't know..." "I can't remember, David." "That's okay..." "I don't know..." "Okay." " Okay." "It's okay." " I don't know..." " What the hell is going on?" " They're dead!" " Four of 'em." "Just didn't wake up." " What happened?" "We had multiple cases of intravenous drug users dying of liver failure." " Just in the shelters?" " Oh, no, all over the city." "It's hepatitis C. Heavy viral, all consistent with acute infection." "I know HC replicated like crazy." "But a thousand times in 24 hours?" "You mind if we get up to speed, see what you got?" "What I've got is an identified hep C strain." "Very little luck with treatments." "And now 26 dead." "This MRI looks fine." "Came out of the coma without any side effects." "Except he can't remember the last 3 months." "There's something about what I've done." "Where I've been..." "I just don't know." "Roth has been the money behind some very questionable research." "He was doing something in a secret lab for three months!" "Doing something with Bob." "And Bob can't remember anything about it!" " I'll make some calls." " Thank you."