"Will papa get better?" "Yeah." "He will, yeah." "He won't wake." "I kept trying." "How do you sleep at night?" "I support an entire village in Chiapas." " What do you do?" " What do I do for Mexico?" "Hey!" "Take it easy!" "There's millions of migrants working on farms in this state." "You can't turn it around all by yourself." "Tell them to send everything they have and then..." "Oh God, are you okay?" "No, Bob." "Just leave it." "What's wrong Bob?" "Everything is fine Weston." "If there's something wrong with my eyes," "I can't do my job." "And this lab, it's all that I have." "I'm really scared, David." "Goddamn." "More lightning." "Spark a few more fires." "I wish it would rain with some of these storms." "Shit, look!" "Is he alright?" "Jesus!" "What's on your face?" "Those aren't burns." "What's wrong with your face?" "Hey, you talk to immigration?" "Yes." "Elvia is back in Mexico with her grandmother and cousins." "That's what she wanted, right?" "That's all she had left." "You still feel like hitting something?" "Yeah." "You know, sometimes I feel like the world is just..." " pushing me into a corner." " I hear that." "Feel like ya gotta do whatever ya gotta do to get out of it." "Yeah." "But assaulting a federal officer's not the best way to go about it." "I know that." "Hey." "You want the name of my therapist?" "Doctor Lowen?" "Right over there." "Doctor Lowen?" "David Sandström." "Carlos Serrano." " Nice to meet you." " Nice to meet you." "Alex." "Thanks for coming." "Your alert to the CDC got our attention, so we take a first-hand look." "Well normally, I'm dealing with smoke inhalation, fatigue, dehydration, but this?" " I don't know what to do." " Can I have a look?" " Yeah, please." "Here." " Thank you." "Those aren't burns, are they?" "And they all came in with these initial symptoms?" "Localized infections." "Ulcerations." "Mostly of cuts and scratches." "You get pretty dinged-up out there, even in the protective gear." " Where're you keeping the sick?" " Down at a station house in Benton" " about 5 clicks from here." " They're all like that?" "It gets worse." "Pneumonia, infection in the lobes of the lungs." "Looks like pulmonary abscesses as well." "Those are a couple days old, from the first guys who came down with it." "How they doing?" "3 have developed septicemia, 19 others are at various stages, and 2 are dead." " You're treating them with?" " Mainly antibiotics." "We're having a limited success with tetracycline." "So what makes you think it's noncommunicable?" "Five firefighters carried the sick to base camp." "They're not showing any symptoms." "Doesn't make you want to break into song, but it's a little ray of sunshine." "Any thoughts?" "We'll get some samples back to our lab and have a look at them." "I appreciate the help, guys." "The wind changes, we're gonna need all the healthy bodies we can get." " How many are out there right now?" " Last count I heard was close to 600." "Doctor Lowen?" "Lowen, go." "We got three more down, Doc." "In transport." "Make that close to 597." "ReGenesis 3x08 Sleepers" "Subtitles Team NorBAC" "Synchro Bbsiocnarf, Linwelin, Lovechange" "Version NoTag 1.0" "Look up." "Right." "Left." "Yeah." "Thank you." "You think therapy might be a good idea?" "No." "Cuz I got the number of a really good one if you want it." "I'm not comfort discussing my personal affairs" " with complete strangers." " How else would you do it?" "I'd rather go to confession." "You in a closet with a priest?" "I don't know." "It's like having a paid friend, you know." "Somebody who gives you what you need and then when your hour's up, you don't have to see them again." "Wait, that's a prostitute." " Is that it?" " Yes." "Blood from the victims, by name" " and date of exposure." " Do a progressive comparison" " from latest to earliest infection." " Anything specific I'm looking for?" "We have to check for all viruses." "Noncommunicable, pox-like lesions." "If you want to prioritize," " start with poxviruses." " Got it." "I'm not gonna force you to do it." "But this can't become an issue." "I'll give you my word." "I'll never hit another immigration officer again." "I'm not saying that." "I mean, if the guy hits you first, or treats you like that asshole did in California..." "Maybe I need to get back into therapy." " I'll give Rachel a hand." " Alright." " David?" " Hey Wes, want a subscription to Bride's Magazine?" "B.C. called." "Looks like it's spreading." "Take a look at this." "It's a map of the burn region." " What am I looking at?" " These are the 2 areas where they think the men were infected." "That's pretty far apart." "Nobody was infected anywhere in between?" "No." "Two completely distinct areas." "It's almost like they were encountering pockets of something." "Shit." "Okay, thanks Wes." "Hey Bob." "How'd it go?" " Fine." " Fine?" " Fine." "Bob?" " They don't know yet." "Come on." "I have high intra-ocular pressure and an increased cup-to-disc ratio." "The optic nerve in both eyes is degenerating." "It's progressive and irreversible." " Okay." " Stage 3 glaucoma." "Ah, okay." "They're putting me on a cocktail." "Eye drops." "They won't work." "I'm going blind, David." "I'm sorry." "Sorry, why?" "We're not gonna let this happen, Bob." "I was thinking I should take a leave of absence." "Stop, alright?" "Well, I just don't trust myself anymore." "You know, what if I drop something or..." "If you're worried about bench work, okay, we'll get a trained fucking supermonkey to do that crap." "What I want is your mind." "Okay?" "Your thoughts." "We'll work this through." "Yeah, fine." " Craig!" " Mom!" "Oh." "What are you doing here?" "I am on my way up to Algonquin." "I was gonna call but I don't have your numbers." "Yes, you do." "I emailed them to you last week." "They were in my cell phone." " You lost another cell phone?" " Nice new digs." "Very nice." "Yeah." "Come on, I'll show you around." "Great." "Just what I need." "Blackberry spam." " Hey David, this is my son, Craig." " Hey, how's it going?" " Good." " You'll have time to visit later." "Your mom's got some PCRs to get running." "This thing is getting out of control." " We really need to get on it." " Okay." " I've got to go back to work." " I just stopped by to say I was here." "Oh perfect!" "Mayko!" "This is Mayko." "This is Rachel's son, Greg." "Show him a good time." " But we'll meet for dinner, right?" " Anything but Persian." " It's nice to meet you, Greg." " Actually, it's Craig." " I am her son, though." " Sorry." "You met the genius who runs this place." " So what do you have against Persian?" " Just the food." "Mayko, I need to look at this blood." "I can't find a tech." "I'll do it." "Put it there." " 15 others to prep." " Sure." "Carlos Serrano." "Rachel's son, Craig." "Nice to meet you." " Same." " Just visiting?" "Actually, in transit." " Going where?" " Algonquin park." "Studying aggressive bear behaviour up there." " Are you a zoologist?" " Doing post-grad studies." "Interesting." " I better get back to work." " Everyone's busy." " ASAP, Mayko." " Got it." " Wanna check it out?" " Yeah." "Really, I didn't know that bears were aggressive." "Typically, they aren't." "So then what's causing it?" "I don't know." "It could be shrinking habitat causing competition for food." "Could be something epidemiological." " Could be something genetic, I suppose." " I actually read... an article not that long ago written by a team at NCU." "And they had identified 15 genes that affected aggressive behaviour." " Really?" "That's interesting." " Yeah." "Here, have a look at this one." "So, which of these bacteria is the bad guy?" "That's the mystery." "You know what, it is so weird up there." "Even the fires." "Like, I was doing field work over by Bella Coola and I'm..." "I'm taking up too much of your time right now." "Could you tell mom I will see her at dinner?" " It's fine, you don't have to leave." " No, no." "You're busy." " I'll see you soon though, right?" " Yeah." "Bye." "So these are images of the firefighter's blood." "Based on 16S ribosomal RNA analysis, it's Burkholderia Mallei." " Commonly known as glanders." " I'm not familiar with it." " It's a horse disease?" " That's it." "Also carried by donkeys, mules, almost anything equine." " But extremely rare." " Virtually unknown in North America." "There's been what?" "One reported human case" " in the last 60 years." " So why the comeback?" "First tell me how to treat it." "It's not easy." "Usually recommended treatment is a combination" " of imipenem and doxycycline." " Okay." "So how does it end up here?" "It's usually aerosol transmission between an infected animal and a human." "Horses?" "Mules?" "There's no ranching up here." "What about a wild herd?" "Infected animal dies." "Goes up in smoke." "Firefighters breathe it in, or it infects an open lesion?" " It's possible." " Maybe." "But?" "I gotta check something out." "Remember I said I needed that super cranium of yours?" " David, you don't have to do this." " I need it now." " What do you want?" " Dig up everything you can for me on glanders." " Am I looking for anything specific?" " Yeah, weaponization." "Nice to meet you, Dr. Serrano." "Carlos." "You too, Craig." "So you're into martial arts?" "Yeah, I find it's a, you know, good way to let off some steam." "I just don't get to the gym often enough." " I spar a bit myself." " Oh really?" "I'm always looking for a good sparring partner." "Sounds good." "So, later." "Yeah, sure." "What'd you find out, Bob?" "It's really quite fascinating." "Glanders is one of the oldest forms of biological weapon." "Yeah?" "In early times, horses infected with it were placed in the enemy's cavalry to destroy it." " In World War One..." " Bring it up to today, Bob." "It's still present in the 3rd world." "There have been rare cases of lab workers and veterinary personnel becoming infected." " What about its use as a weapon?" " It's believed the Soviets used it" " against the Afghanis in the 80s." " Any terrorists using it these days?" "No confirmed proof." "But, glanders is a good candidate." "It's readily spread, especially in aerosol form." "And patients don't develop immunity." "So it can be used on the same population over and over again." "Nice." "And because it is so rarely seen, no one has ever bothered to make a vaccine." "You mean, there was no money to be made making a vaccine." "That's a cynical conclusion." " What?" " Dr. Sandström?" " It's Alex Lowen." " Yeah." "I got people coming in here with something that isn't glanders." "What are they presenting?" "Smaller blisters, black in the centre, surrounded by redness and swelling." "You know what you're describing, right?" "Yeah." "Anthrax." "What the hell's going on up here?" "Dots represent the areas where the firefighters most likely contracted the glanders." "The crosses represent the anthrax." "Both associated with biological weapons." "So, what are we looking at?" "An attack?" "Well, both can be naturally occurring." "Doctor Lowen acknowledged that the glanders could have come from animals." "And anthrax spores lie dormant in the forest for decades." "But there's only been one outbreak of glanders in the last 6 decades." "Yeah, and now it shows up at the same time as an anthrax outbreak." "Doesn't sound very likely." "So what other possible explanations are there?" "It could be some clandestine germ warfare lab goes up in the fire." "I talked to Homeland Security about that." "If there was a lab," " it wasn't American or Canadian." " How can you be sure of that?" "The American government has been less than truthful with us before, Weston." "The Americans have the best germ lab in the world at Fort Egan." " Why wouldn't they just do it there?" " And Canada has no germ program." "So they say." "My problem with that is the dispersal pattern." "With a single lab, we'd have a central source." "These are all over the place." "More like they've been planted." " Yeah." " But that would mean somebody would have had to have known about the fire." "It was set." "You're talking terrorism." "Yeah, Wes." "That's exactly what we're talking." "And the forest, it's a massive biological weapon." "Come on, we gotta make a phone call." "If this is terrorism, the question is how are the pathogens being deployed?" "With biological weapons they have an aerosol-based delivery system." "In this case, there's no explosion, no flybys." " The fire is the delivery system." " How's that?" "The bacteria gets picked up by the convection of the fire and then carried by the smoke." "Firefighters get in contact with the air currents." "The wounds get infected." "They take off their masks, they inhale the bacteria, it gestates in the lungs and attacks the pulmonary system." "Why firefighters in the middle of nowhere?" "Maybe it was a test run." "Every infected firefighter is new data." " Should I give Riddlemeyer an update?" " Yep." " Can we prove it?" " Jesus, Wes." "Work with me here." "That's what this is all about." "I need some ammo when I call Riddlemeyer." "Okay." "If those firefighters do have anthrax, they were exposed to the anthrax in its spore stage." "So we need to send somebody to B.C. to get a sample of it." "Why?" "Because you can learn a lot about the makers from those spores." " Maybe even enough to catch them." " How's that?" "Okay." "It takes a lot of anthrax to infect a human being." "So, if you wanna use it was a weapon, you've gotta grow a lot of anthrax." "You need a growth medium." "Now when you go to extract the wet spores from the medium, you get a lot of clumping problems." "The medium leaves a residue on the spores." "We could trace the chemical makeup of that medium back to a specific lab." "Also, different labs use different chemicals to separate the spores." "And once you get the spores out of the medium, you gotta dry them off." "There's air, freeze-drying, and heat." "Some of the spores might show signs of the process used, also pointing back to a specific lab." "And lastly, you've gotta mill it, so that it's small enough to infect the lung." "We're looking at a size somewhere underneath 5 microns." "Okay?" "Class dismissed." "A long shot, David." "You got a better idea?" "No." "We need a spore sample, Wes." "I'll bring you back a Sasquatch." " David, there's something else." " What?" "The FBI received an anonymous call." "Something about... a smiley face you might have received." "The FBI is investigating smiley faces now?" "They're taking this seriously." "Something like this?" "Don't!" "I will let you know if it is anything to be concerned about." "Okay." "And Wes..." "Anthrax vaccinations for those firefighters ASAP." "Alright." "Tap." "Quick." "Not bad for an old man, eh?" "Two out of three?" "Okay." "I better get that." "Okay, if we're gonna find some of these spores, we'll wanna look right here." "Where your guys likely contracted the anthrax." "That area was already burnt over." "Well, anthrax is so goddamn tough it can survive even a fire." "I'd like to look for spores on the infected men's protective gear." "Good idea." "Okay, so, what about us?" "Well, we need samples, so I need a guide." "I guess that'd be me." "CSIS didn't want to take any chances with the package that was sent to David, so I had it shipped out and x-rayed." "What do you make of that?" "It's hard to tell what might be in that vial from an X-ray, but..." "Room 702?" " What time?" " I'll be there around ten." "Okay, ten." "What should I do with that?" "Irradiate it?" "I'll take care of it." "Well, that doesn't work." "You're..." "You're gonna need this." "Okay." "Could you?" "You've never been on the front line of a forest fire, have you?" "It's a first." "Well, listen to your walkie." "And know what the fire is doing at all times." "'Cause a doctor, or a molecular biologist, you're no help to anyone if you get caught in a burnover." "Burnover?" "Yeah, a burnover." "Basically everything is suddenly engulfed in flames." "And the thing is, you think the fire is under control one second, and the next... you're in hell." "Okay." "Avoid burnover." "Got it." "Avoid burnover." "Yeah, I think you better see this." "Whaddya got?" "I'm gonna run it again." "Let's make sure." "Those samples will make it back fine on their own." "You don't have to go." "I prefer to put them onto the chopper myself." "A cold one will wait for you when you get back." "Right." " What the hell is going on here, Doc?" " We don't know yet." "I got a buddy, Jeremy Williamson." " He's not doing too well right now." " I'm sorry to hear that." "What do we tell his wife?" "We're working as hard and as fast as we can." "Sure, but if you don't figure this out soon, you're not going to be able to have anyone go close to that fire." "Those samples will make it back fine on their own." "You don't have to go." "I prefer to put them on the chopper personally." "A cold one will wait for you when you get back." "Right." "Brought you a beer." "Thanks." "Where's yours?" "I'm taking a break." " Mind if I join you?" " Yeah, have a seat." "So how're you doing?" "You alright?" "Yeah." " It sorta hit me since you got here." " What's that?" "You know, that we're under attack." "Someone's intentionally doing this." "Killing people." "Why?" "What the hell kind of person does something like that?" "We'll probably read in the newspaper next week it was some asshole with a hard-on against the colour of fire trucks." "It's just that getting caught up in a plan that has nothing to do with you..." "I know how you feel." "Couldn't have asked for a more beautiful night though?" "It'd be more beautiful if it rained like this for another 4 days and killed the fire." "Sorry." "I'm just making conversation." "So why don't you hit on me?" "Do you want me to?" "You're avoiding the question." "I'm taking a break." "For their sake or yours?" "You didn't answer my question." "Yes." "But I'm married." "You're not wearing a band." "So you thought about it?" "Sometimes it's good to just have a pal." "You better answer that." "Excuse me." "What?" "We got the results on the package that was delivered to you." "David, it's smallpox." " That's impossible." "You made a mistake." " No mistake." "Fuck, Rachel." "Smallpox was eradicated in 1980." "1979, but both the Russian and American military still have stockpiles." "I guess somebody's got a big, bad security problem?" "So who would send it to you?" "You want an alphabetical list?" "Anthrax and glanders on the west coast and now smallpox on the east." "I think this is bigger than NorBAC." "Actually, this is exactly why NorBAC was put together in the first place." "Have Wes book me the first flight home tomorrow morning." "Sorry but as soon as the samples get in, it's gonna get even worse around here." "Mam, I'll stop by on the way back from the park." " Do you promise?" " Yes, I promise." " Okay." " I'll sign myself out." "Okay." " You be careful?" " You too." "Okay." "See ya." "Wow, that was quick." "Did he have a good time?" "I guess so." "He didn't come home the other night." "You were there to know?" "I was, yeah." "Craig." "Hi, dad." "What brings you here?" "That's funny... mom." " Why else would I come here?" " Of course." "So how're you doing?" " Can we not play this game?" " Just asking how you are." "I know." "I'm just telling you," "I don't wanna talk." " You've made your mind up about me." " So trite." "Just give me a reason." "You." "Washington." "Missy." "That's three." "Now go fuck yourself, okay?" "We've tracked the text message David received." "It was sent from a prepaid cell phone, purchased from a kiosk in Peoria." "The cell phone company traced the message it was sent from Columbus, Ohio." "Well, who is behind this knows David's cell number." "Security and IT figure out how that happened." "It might be a business card he handed out." "It's our only way of connecting this person, right?" "They've made no other contact." "I'm sure David won't mind the FBI monitoring his phone and the internet." "He's convinced they already are." "Bob." " Samples from the fire get here?" " Rachel's already working on them." "David, I was thinking while you were gone." "Well, since anthrax stays in its spore stage for so long, for decades, it's slow evolving." " So its genetic heritage is clear." " What are you thinking?" "Perhaps the genetic markers might give us a clue as to its geographic origin." "Great idea, Bob." "You get Mayko on it?" "Sure." " Have a good meeting." " Thank you." "I was just telling Weston how this whole thing has turned into a shit storm." "What's up?" "The Russians are denying that they're the source of the smallpox." "CIA has been telling us for years..." "I know the argument." "Some lab tech sells a smallpox sample for a crate of vodka," "David." "I think Mr. Riddlemeyer is just expressing Washington's position." "What is Washington's position?" "General Samuel at Fort Egan personally assures me that their security has not been compromised." "You expected him to tell you differently?" "Which is why we want you to determine the source of the virus." "So?" "If we determine which lab is the source," " we'll be hot on his trail?" " Reasonable course, don't you agree?" "What about the anthrax and the glanders?" " Do they think they're related?" " Hard to imagine they're not." "Vaccine." "Are we making it?" "Samples of the smallpox are en route from both Russia and Fort Egan." "I suggest you get ready for their arrival." "You didn't answer my question." "Are they making vaccine?" "Yes." "I guess the real question is who's gonna get it?" "May I use your office, Weston?" "Yes." "Well, as soon as they finish sequencing the anthrax," "I'll see what those DNA markers can tell us." " Thanks, Mayko." " Bob." "How are you feeling?" " Actually, I'm feeling a little better." " Yeah?" "Have you noticed that..." "Oh God, never mind." "What?" "Noticed what?" "No, just Wes and Rachel." " What about 'em?" " Well they're..." "Never mind." "Sorry, Bob." "Okay." "Thanks." "Any updates?" "Three more glanders infections." "Six more anthrax." "One didn't make it." " Shit." " There's something else." "Great." "Long-term weather models suggest that high winds may be coming." "And that wind's gonna blow the smoke somewhere." "Where is anyone's guess." "Want you to keep a close eye on it." "Any good news?" "Well, the rest of the anthrax vaccine did arrive." "Well, that's something." "Hang in there." "She's very good." "Second-best virologist I've ever worked with." " Wouldn't have hired her if she wasn't." " What exactly is she doing?" "She's doing a genetic alignment comparison." "How does that work?" "Well..." "In order to identify the original virus as smallpox, we had to sequence it." "185 000 nucleotides in the smallpox DNA sequence." "There are 400 strains of smallpox." "Each one of them has been sequenced, and each of those sequences is stored in the..." "World Gene Bank." "So, this is available to the public?" "Oh yeah." "It's accessible to everyone." "Now, each of the strain's sequences are..." "slightly different." "The nucleotide is in a different position at some point." "So what Rachel is doing is lining up the sequence of our guy's strain and comparing it to the sequences of the strains sent from Russia and the US." "Genetic alignment comparison." "She'll be able to tell us where it came from." "And the anthrax and glanders?" "Well, there are no military stockpiles of glanders, as you know." "So there's no real point taking a look at that." "But the anthrax we should be able to trace." "Just like that Ames Strain of anthrax that was sent to Senator Daschle awhile back." " That was stolen..." " From the US army." " Unproven." " We'll see." "We're already running tests on it." "Do you want some?" "Herbal." "Since when?" "Since I started going to my nutritionist." "Okay." "How's it going?" "It's like finding a needle in a haystack." "I've got 2 other labs and 4 universities working with me around the clock." "And still we're only a third of the way through." "It's impressive nonetheless." "That's one of those things you never really know about someone." "You mean take for granted?" "Perhaps." "Sensitive." "Herbal tea." " What, you turning over a new leaf?" " Maybe." "Maybe too late." "But I'm trying." " Craig was here." " Yeah, I know." "I saw him." "Briefly." " You two should really work this out." " Wanna have dinner, just you and me?" "You still like Persian?" "No." "Seeing someone?" "What do you want?" "I want you to sign those papers." "I see." " Is there some kind of rush?" " Missy's pregnant." " You mean Melissa?" " Yes." "You knocked up your trainer?" "You were actually fucking her?" "Oh Carl." "Come on." "I mean, great body." "What's she gonna do at the ranch?" "I can just see her doing squats with George and Laura." " You all done?" " No." "Do you love her?" "Just sign the papers." "You know, I'm actually happy for you." "Because you've got a second chance." "Don't blow it with this kid." "Where the forest fires in B.C. continue to rage out of control." "And a 14th firefighter has died fighting the blaze." "No immediate threat to the greater Vancouver Metropolitan area..." "It's not gonna happen, Bob." "It's alright." "I can make it work." "I can't." "I want you to go home and get some sleep." "We got a lot of work to do tomorrow." "Good night, David." "Good night, Bob." "I'll clean up that beaker." "Okay." "Holy mother of God!" "Smallpox." "But here's the thing." "It's synthetic." "How can you be sure?" "There's a problem with the coding of the strain." "Here." "Position 72,220." "That G should be an A." "It's an A in every other strain of smallpox except this one." "Now, in the early days of sequencing, it was quite easy to make mistakes in the G regions." "Is it or is it not deadly?" "That's a very good question, Wes." "If it slithers on the ground, has a rattle and 2 big fucking fangs, you check if it's poisonous?" "You found that?" "One difference in 185 000?" "Well, I had a little help from a program that Mayko wrote." "And it's in the TK gene which just so happens to be the area of the genome that I used to work on." "So I know it by heart." "I'm..." "I'm obsessive, remember?" " How can you be sure it's synthetic?" " It's like Rachel says." "When this sequence was entered into the World Gene Bank, it was entered incorrectly." "This is a..." "It's a typo." "This virus isn't real." "What's that?" "What are we looking at?" "Well..." "Think of yourself as an alien." "You find a picture book of horse." "and you decide to manufacture a horse, based on the pictures." "The book has everything." "Palominos, Pintos, Arabians." "It even has a couple of pictures of unicorns." "But you're an alien." "You don't know the difference." "And with this book as your only reference, they're all real." "So someone built this smallpox genetic code based on a sequence that exists only in cyberspace." "So someone can just build smallpox?" "Well, theoretically." "The technology is relatively straightforward." "We manufacture genetic material from chemicals all the time." "So when a lab needs DNA, it usually just orders it from another lab that specializes in synthesizing it." "We do it here at the lab all the time." "It's cheaper  faster." "What?" "I can't look at your purchase orders?" "Some maniac can just order up smallpox?" "No, no." "It's impossible to synthesize DNA as large as the smallpox genome." "And there are security measures in place that prevent that from happening." "You can, however, order DNA in smaller sequences." "Say, 200 nucleotides or less." " There's no security check for that?" " No." "Even though the smallpox virus is 185 000 nucleotides long, it's made up of combinations of only 4 nucleotides." "A, C, T and G." "And those combinations can be found in... other viruses, good bacteria, even humans." "So you just order up those." "You can't police that." "So what then?" "As crude as it seems, you just sew 'em together and wind up with smallpox." "Unbelievable." "Okay, anthrax and glanders." "Could that be synthetic, too?" "No." "Both are bacteria." "They're far more complex organisms than virus." "It would be like the difference between building a skyscraper and a bird feeder." "Yeah." "Who could pull this off?" "Basically anyone qualified to work in a microbiology lab could do it." "I mean." "And that's what, 5 000 people in the US alone." " What sort of facilities do they need?" " Any university and lab could do it." "Is this guy's work recognizable?" "Like a diamond can leave the signature style when he's working on a rock?" "Completely untraceable." "So how do we go about finding this guy?" "We don't have to." "He's found us." "Time to go public." "He's going to deploy it." "It's a show of force." "Maybe that's what the anthrax and the glanders were." "A show of force." "Maybe." "Isn't the more important question:" "where is it gonna be deployed?" "Oh, I have a feeling we're gonna find that out real soon." "He's in the US." "East coast." "Manhattan." "Censor the net?" "A bit late in the day, no?" "He synthesized one of the deadliest killers this planet's ever seen from stuff he got off the internet." "Hello." "My God." "Rachel!" " Where is he?" " They're still working on him." " What happened?" " They were attacked by some bear" " they were studying." " Oh Jesus!" "The storm's north of the Queen Charlotte islands." " Coming ashore?" " It's just a matter of time." "A storm cloud of pathogens is gonna hit Vancouver." "Population of 2 million David." " Dr. Sandström." " Robbie." "You said you knew who I was looking for." "Who is it?" "Guy gets gunned down in cold blood in front of my office!" "There are issues of national security in play." "He was executed?" "Who gave the order?" "!"