"We're in transit with an unconscious male... condition stable, mid-forties... temperature 105, mental confusion." "No apparent injuries... but has a black rash on the chest and arms." "Any available ER, please respond." ""lnfection"" "Room five." "He fell." "He broke his right ankle." "Don't tell me the obvious." "I can see that." "Why did he fall?" "Whose fault was it?" "He tried to get out of bed." "You must stay put." "You can't walk yet." "I called out for help many times, but nobody came." "I thought I'd wet the bed." "I'm not avoiding you." "I'll send the cash next week, I promise." "Please understand, it's a tough time." "No, I'm not being cold." "I do love our daughter." "I think of her more than you." "There you are, Dr. Uozumi." "The boy with high fever is waiting to see you." "is it my turn yet?" "I've been here forever." "I told you, please be patient." "is it my turn yet?" "My head is spinning." "Please respond." "Male in his forties, pulse dropping... temperature rising, rash spreading to his face." "He's in critical condition." "Thank you very much." "What the hell is going on?" "They are late paying us again." "I spoke with them this morning." "And?" "For Christ's sake, you're our representative." "You're being paid." "It's for a nurse." "Where are they?" "Room six, bed two." "It's your patient." "Do I prioritize in or outpatients?" "Both." "I get it." "Send them all to surgery." "The hospital makes a fortune, and we can finally get paid!" "Sorry." "Please respond." "His rash is spreading." "His fever is out of control." "It may affect his brain." "He needs immediate care." "Someone, please reply." "It's too hot in here." "What is going on?" "The generator is malfunctioning and unstable." "Doctor..." "We're running out of our supplies." "Blood bags, drips, syringes-- we only have a few of each left." "As for drugs..." "Can't you order more?" "Nine nurses have quit these past two weeks." "It's clear that our operation is in trouble." "Everyone is avoiding us now." "Let's just do our best." "is that your solution?" "My nurses are working non-stop." "Because we're understaffed... we put patients into shared rooms... and we risk cross-infection." "It needs to be discussed." "Keys to the drug cabinet, please." "You must force some patients home." "Who?" "Which ones?" "For some of them that means-- l know...better than anyone." "Where does it hurt?" "My chest--it really hurts." "Can you bear it?" "Can't you help me?" "It's too late for surgery, huh?" "Don't say that." "Be strong." "There's no hope." "No drugs can help me either." "No. lf we used stronger drugs... we'd be risking your life." "I don't mind." "Please do it." "If it will lessen the pain... I don't care what the odds are." "Don't be like that." "Let's be strong together." "How long have you felt dizzy?" "Maybe it's nothing... but I don't remember." "When I woke up" "Woke up?" "Speak straight and stop smiling." "I woke up face down." "Did you hit your head?" "Why didn't we realize?" "How long has he been here?" "He didn't tell us." "Call Dr. Akiba now!" "I'm so sorry." "Now you're in a new room." "When you call us, we can come right away." "All right." "Forget it." "I haven't taken care of the blood." "You're new." "I shouldn't have asked you." "l can do it." "Step aside." "Do you have any idea what you've done?" "He's not your guinea pig." "If he were conscious, you'd be in trouble." "Practice on yourself, if you must." "Come here." "Quickly, everyone." "Come here." "Come in, please." "The rash has covered his whole body." "Respond immediately." "How is he?" "Concussion, right?" "He walked here from the highway." "Cerebral ventricle hemorrhage... sub-cranial hematoma... no voluntary respiration." "It's up to you." "I'll check on the outpatients." "Come here, everyone." "Grandpa, you, too." "I've made dinner." "Grandma, don't hide." "Let's eat, come on." "Hold out your hands." "Take her back to Dr. Nakazono in Neurology." "What are you doing?" "Suturing this cut." "I can do it, a simple thing like that." "Simple?" "It's a vital surgical skill!" "But I'm a surgeon, too!" "How dare you!" "I know of your work-- a failed pediatrician who begged us for work." "Don't call yourself a surgeon." "Please let me do it." "I can do sutures." "Do you want to sew people up?" "That's the extent of your ambition." "You don't deserve to practice." "Wake me up in three hours." "I'll take a nap in Room five." "I can do it." "It's easy. I know I can." ""No longer accepting new patients."" "Any ER respond, please." "The rash is spreading." "It may be infectious." "Pulse dropping, high fever." "It's an emergency." "Please respond." "Male in his forties, rash spreading." "Central Hospital." "We have an emergency patient." "Can't take him, sorry." "He needs a well-equipped hospital." "I understand, but" "He might be infectious." "Try somewhere else." "We can't accept him." "Can you pick up the glasses?" "Do you recognize this?" "You do, don't you?" "You're all there." "I'm sorry." "I should make dinner." "Not an unusual case." "It happens as the brain atrophies." "You made dinner." "I'd love some." "She sees her long-dead family." "It's a mystery why they appear there... but the phenomenon itself is well-known." "Ever wonder how come red is always the same color?" "In the sunlight... or beneath a lamp... it looks the same, right?" "That's proof that our brains are creating the color." "A lot of what we see is actually a product of our mental process." "If brain circuitry is altered... memories can begin to move again." "You can let her look at mirrors... just don't let her have one." "If it broke, it might upset her." "I understand." "She had cigarettes, you know." "Probably from another patient." "I'll be in at 7:00 a.m." "Working late?" "Good-bye, then." "Every damn day." "I can do it." "Sutures are easy." "I'm a fine surgeon." "Who does he think he is?" "Buying new equipment, but not hiring technicians... leaving renovations half-done." "What's up with this hospital?" "Don't tell anyone... but I haven't heard from the director since yesterday." "We have no reason to stay here... but we can't abandon the patients." "Many of them can't be transferred." "They should be... in hospice care." "Let's divide them up... look for places that'll take them." "If... we can just get through tonight." "What?" "Ask me before you use things!" "I'm so bad with a syringe." "We don't have enough!" "Stop this." "Chief, problem in Room Three." "Room Three?" "What are you doing?" "I said no!" "It's urgent." "He's been in transit for an hour." "We're too short-staffed." "He's covered in a rash, maybe infectious." "Exactly, so we" "He is in critical condition!" "But we can't quarantine him." "Don't you care what happens?" "As a doctor, you don't care if he dies?" "Where is he?" "Where's he gone?" "Down here." "What happened?" "He must've fallen." "Call Dr. Akiba." "He's Dr. Uozumi's patient." "Get them both." "Right." "Go back to your room." "If he dies en route... to somewhere else... I have to report this hospital." "OK, I get it." "into our ER, emergency treatment only." "That's all we can do." "Room Three, he's deteriorating fast." "Room Three?" "It's out of the question." "Try elsewhere." "Stop that!" "What's up?" "Looks like he fell." "Fell?" "Trying to stand?" "l don't know." "The hematoma is affecting his mental state." "Weak pulse." "Check blood pressure." "What the hell?" "What's going on?" "Blood pressure is below seventy." "Dopamine drip..." "five gamma units." "What happened?" "Fell out of bed." "Fell?" "You're kidding?" "Damn." "Tachycardiac arrest." "Defibrillator." "Epinephrine, atropine, and calcium chloride." "Get her out of here." "Here's the epinephrine." "Come with me." "200 joules." "Removing bandages." "200 joules, charged." "Step back." "Damn." "Set it to 250." "Charged." "No change." "Steroids and that calcium." "Shut her up!" "250 joules charged." "Try 300." "Calcium chlorate." "No pulse for five minutes, so" "So cardiac massage." "Here?" "300 charged." "OK." "One moment." "OK." "There's a pulse." "What was that?" "What a strange color!" "What did you use?" "You said calcium chlorate." "Chlorate?" "It's chloride!" "But he said" "Get ready for surgery!" "Not here." "Uozumi, think." "Can we flush him?" "No, his blood chemistry is ruined." "l'll open him up." "Scalpel." "Forget it. lt's no use." "Get ready." "Forget it. lt's all over." "He's gone." "But" "But I heard "chlorate."" "Forget it." "What's done is done." "It's my fault?" "I killed him?" "Stop it. lt's too late now." "Did I kill him?" "But the doctor said "chlorate."" "Quiet!" "Don't worry." "I heard it, too." "Dr. Akiba definitely said "chlorate."" "Come on." "We're not assigning blame." "There must be a report." "Why?" "What report?" "Wait a minute." "Nobody wanted him to die." "It was a medical mistake." "I don't recall... what I ordered." "But... the proof is right there." "I take full responsibility." "Wait a minute." "His pulse was slack, failing." "Even so, immediate cause of death was misdosage." "Suppose we'd found him later?" "There'd be no way of saving him." "One moment, Dr. Uozumi." "Are you asking us to falsify the report?" "Why be a slave to the truth?" "We did all we could for him for three months." "A situation developed... and things just turned for the worst." "is that it?" "It's not like we injected Drano." "In a life or death situation, it was a small mistake." "Doctor, he was your patient." "You were entrusted with his life." "He had burns over seventy percent of his body." "If he had returned to consciousness... what kind of life would he have had?" "Doctor." "Stop it, please!" "It's my fault, and I'll take the blame." "If I'd... just stopped to think... ln any case, I'll do what must be done." "What happens... if Dr. Akiba has to quit?" "As things are, if this place is reported... what will become of the patients?" "It doesn't justify a false report." "We'll all lose our jobs." "And what if it gets into the media?" "It'll follow all of us." "We'll be unemployable." "Chief... he never had... a single visitor." "No friends, no family... no one." "No one... can recognize him, right?" "As he decays... the chemical will dissipate." "The burns messed up his chemistry anyway." "So no one could know?" "If someone ran an analysis in the next 48 hours... but who would doubt us if we all sign the certificate?" "It won't be family that picks him up." "The Health Department will take him." "There might be... an official autopsy." "Complete cell breakdown will take two days." "We can't wait that long." "We must tell the authorities today." "Let's heat him up." "Speed the decay." "His skin was inflamed anyway." "So he decayed faster." "lt's perfect." "Here?" "Rooms One and Five are free." "Dr. Kishida is sleeping in Five." "Kishida is in Five?" "This is Room Three." "Five is across from Room Four." "Put him in Room One... and warm him up." "Four hours will do it." "Erase the EKG memory." "It's OK." "Don't worry about her." "Don't let him decay too far." "We'll take turns." "I'll stay." "Doctor... I'm sorry." "I got so confused." "Don't worry about it." "I've always... felt you were... lt's OK." "Escaping gas makes them move." "How long since you graduated?" "Three months." "You're very behind." "How old are you?" "I'm twenty-three." "Why?" "Did you drop out?" "No." "Let me keep trying." "That's no use." "Nursing is an innate skill." ""Trying" does nothing." "It's a good thing you're at this hospital." "Understand?" "Nowhere else... would you deserve to be called "Nurse."" "See, I can do it." "Whose patient is that... in the ER?" "ER?" "No way." "Where?" "He was here." "Dr. Akiba." "Dr. Akiba." "Doctor." "Dr. Akai." "Dr. Akiba." "Who is this?" "He has been left alone." "I told the paramedics no, but" "Doctor, I thought you'd gone home." "I fell fast asleep... in one of the wards." "A ward?" "Which one?" "Where did you sleep?" "Why?" "l should've woken you." "Room Four." "Room Four?" "The patient with the brain contusion." "I checked on him... got sleepy, then crashed out." "Anything wrong?" "No." "Young Akiba... you didn't examine him yet." "I'm anxious for you to see him." "Right." "A most unusual case." "What on earth is that?" "Liquefaction of the internal organs." "He smiled... right at me." "Me, too." "We must contact the Health Department." "Akiba, wait." "Think a moment." "We're the first doctors to see these symptoms." "We could be pioneers." "But if it's infectious, think of the risk." "Let's call Disease Control." "Really, Akiba?" "You want them involved?" "Ms. Shiozaki, call Uozumi." "So, he fell from the bed." "Unconscious though he was, he fell out of bed." "Why do you think that was?" "Because you hurt him." "No." "He tried to get away from you." "That's not true." "You jabbed him so many times." "That's not right!" "You heard everything in Room Three, right?" "But make no mistake... you were the one... who caused his death." "What the hell is that?" "He looked right through me and smiled." "Akiba, what do we do?" "We study it." "Study?" "None of the texts contain anything like this decay." "You want to spend your entire career here?" "A once-in-a-lifetime chance." "If we discover the pathogen... it will carry our names... forever." "Offers and research grants will pour in." "Let's do it." "Our secret." "Let's get started." "Uozumi!" "I hate this." "I don't care." "I want no part of it." "You can't ask me to touch that." "I feel the same, but we have no choice." "Why?" "He doesn't run the hospital." "He was in Room Four." "Dr. Akai was next door." "I don't know what he heard." "He says he was asleep." "It'll take three more hours in Room One." "Let's buy time." "Then we can talk our way out of it." "Are you decided?" "Let's get down to work." "I want a cell culture." "Nurse, I put him on a monitor." "Keep an eye on him." "Right." "Dr. Akiba." "Where are you?" "You shouldn't be here." "Come out." "Where are you hiding?" "Come out." "Dr. Kishida." "Time to sleep." "Come on." "You're... still there?" "What's up?" "She sneaked in." "She likes it here." "I'm busy now." "Check on Room One now and then, OK?" "OK." "You're still there." "You're there, aren't you?" "Ms. Shiozaki." "Nurse?" "Nurse!" "Where did he go?" "He dissolved." "No way." "The gangrene just consumed him." "Maybe he just escaped." "With no muscle tissue?" "I don't think so." "We must consider everything." "That's not enough tissue for one man." "It's not much, that's for sure." "Escaped." "Let's search." "We'll split up." "Find something?" "What a night." "One thing after another." "It could hardly be worse." "Think we'll find it?" "is it crawling around somewhere?" "It's not medically possible" "No, it's not." "No musculature." "It defies common sense, even." "Hang on." "Let's take a step back." "Did we really see it?" "Do you... really believe it?" "What do you mean?" "We were shocked, confused." "We imagined a man's face... like seeing a face in the clouds..." "We saw it!" "We saw it." "We saw the tissue damage." "It was human." "I don't know if our emotions played tricks or what... but a man dissolved before our very eyes." "Excuse me." "I'm going back to work." "I tell them, but they still throw them out." "We've got to save more of them." "It's such a waste." "Nurse, they're from the infectious patient." "Nurse, what's wrong?" "What's wrong?" "Ms. Shiozaki?" "If I just sterilize them... we can refill the shelves, right?" "Sister?" "What happened?" "Ms. Shiozaki, what are you doing?" "Cold water, quick!" "Look." "The same--The same symptoms." "As what?" "It's true." "Got that?" "It's happening!" "Get her out of here." "We must contain it." "lt's an airborne infection." "infection?" "What do we do?" "Uozumi?" "How about Room One?" "No." "Kishida is asleep in Room Five." "Where then?" "In there is safest." "Not with bare hands!" "What's wrong?" "Something happened?" "Don't touch or even approach her." "She's got a fever." "We must treat her." "Forgive me." "I'm sorry." "Forgive me." "What we saw was human, after all." "Now we know it's strong enough to spread." "What can we do?" "We should hurry." "Nurse Shiozaki's internal organs are gone." "What happened to her?" "What on earth?" "What's going on, Doctor?" "Please tell me what's going on?" "I can't talk now." "Later maybe, when Room One is cleared up." "I have a right to know!" "What infection?" "Dr. Akai." "What?" "What happened?" "It spread." "Shiozaki has the symptoms." "Can she still talk?" "Talk?" "Are you kidding?" "!" "Then she can't be the pathogen host." "Let's find the other guy." "What do you mean, "host"?" "You saw what it did." "Enough is enough." "Let's report it." "It's too far gone." "Now it's spreading." "If you won't, I'll search myself... starting in Room One." "Wait." "I'll go check Room One." "Nurse?" "What the hell are you doing?" "Stop messing around." "I found the vein." "Now I hit them on the first try." "What are you doing?" "Every vein in the body." "Stop it." "Stop!" "Am I a slow learner?" "Slow at everything?" "That's not why I dropped a school year." "I had terrible asthma." "Hospitalized for two years." "The nurses were so kind to me." "I wanted... to be just like them." "is that bad?" "To want to be a nurse?" "Even... a slow girl like me?" "I didn't mean it like that." "No innate skill... so I stuck him... over and over." "Over... and over..." "and over-- -l'm sorry!" "Please give me the syringe." "You can't take back... what's been said." "Want me to practice?" "Then I will." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry!" "Time for practice." "Don't!" "That was the young nurse." "How on earth can you tell?" "It's the same symptoms." "What symptoms?" "Dr. Akai." "We can't handle an airborne pathogen this toxic." "We don't know it's airborne." "The contusion patient in Room Four is unaffected." "Even worse." "We're clueless about it... beyond knowing it kills and has no interest in symbiosis." "Use your brains." "You'll only become country quacks at this rate." "But it dissolves people." "Why do that to a host?" "What if it doesn't need a host?" "Cells live for a few hours after death." "Imagine it uses this to restructure the body." "Dr. Akai... do you have any proof of that?" "Why are you so concerned with the pathogen?" "I told you--to be a pioneer." "I'm sick of this." "The same symptoms." "The same symptoms?" "Let's set a limit-- one more hour." "If we don't solve it in an hour, we call for help." "They'll only seal off the hospital." "They won't help us." "No one exits until they identify it." "We'd just wait to die." "Then I'll leave now." "You mean run?" "l don't care how you put it." "Young man... if you leave now, will you ever stop running?" "We should all get our stories straight... concerning ourselves." "If you won't regret it, go." "It's up to you." "One hour." "Then we report it... and I'm gone." "Fine by me." "I never liked this place." "Wanted to quit anyway." "lt's your choice." "Now I know why." "Because of you." "Finally you admit it." "I already knew." "But really it's not my fault." "You're flawed... as a doctor and as a human being." "Therefore, you'll never be a good doctor." "No love for your patients." "Visiting hours are over." "Now is the only time... I can make it." "You're caring for my son... but I can't find him." "Which room?" "It was Room Three." "He was badly burned." "He's not in his usual bed." "Where's my son?" "Your son" "A while ago... his symptoms... I've not been to visit for ages." "I'd like to see him soon." "Your son's symptoms" "You can't see him today." "is that so?" "I'll come again tomorrow." "Doctor." "Doctor. it hurts." "It hurts so much." "Are you OK?" "Fine." "Just hungry." "Do you want some?" "A visitor left it for us." "I'm OK." "I can't bear it." "Give me something." "I can't." "Please stick it out." "This will be you one day." "Then you'll know how it feels." "They say we're judged... at the end of our days." "So why are you punishing me now?" "What are you talking about?" "I can't change anything." "You run away then." "No, I don't." "A doctor's job is to extend life by every day he can." "You should try... having a little love for your patients." "How dare you?" "Love your patients." "Love your patients." "Love them more." "Let me go!" "Forgive me, please." "Back then... I spoke with your wife and daughter." "They were worn out from nursing you, so l" "You couldn't cure me... so you wanted me out of the hospital." "No, that's not it." "You didn't react." "I thought it was for the best." "It was agony when my heart stopped." "I always had faith... you'd cure me some day." "I'm so sorry." "Please accept my apology." "I don't know what came over me." "Uozumi... what's up?" "Who are you talking to?" "I'm sorry." "It won't happen again." "Why?" "Why not give this man drugs?" "When you killed me so easily?" "I'm so sorry." "I'm at peace now." "A doctor's job... isn't just about preserving life." "Release him from his pain." "OK." "Calm down." "Uozumi, stop it!" "Stop!" "Are you OK?" "What's wrong?" "But he" "He gets inside." "He gets inside my head." "lnside-- Inside my head." "My head's exploding." "My head" "My head's exploding." "Help me." "Help me." "My head-- it hurts." "Dr. Akai!" "Dr. Akai!" "What's going on?" "I've got to get out of here now." "You." "Get out, quick." "I'm sorry for what I did." "I polluted your blood." "It was me." "Have mine." "I give it to you." "l was" "Stop that!" "I was bad." "Doctor, join us." "All together now." "Join together." "Naughty boy, come with us." "Dr. Akai, get out of here." "The infection is everywhere." "We're all doomed." "Don't worry." "No one's doomed." "How come you're so calm?" "Do you know something?" "What's your secret?" "What is this infection?" "Did you spread the virus?" "Vaccinated yourself... to watch the infection spread?" "I didn't do that." "Dr. Akiba." "Think about how it spreads." "What do you mean?" "You forgot?" "When you were all in Room Three... I was nearby." "I was very close, Akiba." "I certainly wasn't sleeping." "I was wide awake." "So what?" "What's that go to do with the infection?" "Are you punishing us?" "is that what you mean?" "It was an accident." "It was no one's fault." "I agree." "His death couldn't be helped." "All of us die sometime." "It's what happened next." "After that." "You tried to make out that it didn't happen." "This virus isn't airborne at all." "It spreads through the mind." "The mind?" "Through dreams." "Before you know it... it'll reach your subconscious, too." "Don't talk nonsense." "You created it and wanted to experiment on others." "You were biding your time." "Our mistake gave you the chance." "You're insane." "You've no right to judge us." "Who are you to criticize us?" "Dr. Akiba." "Doctor." "Dr. Nakazono, you're in danger." "Get out." "The infection is spreading." "Run quick!" "Doctor, who were you talking to?" "Who?" "Who were you chatting with?" "It was Dr. Akai." "Akai?" "Look carefully." "No one's there." "No one is there." "Doctor, there's no one there." "Did you see?" "There's a terrible infection." "People go crazy." "Blood turns green." "Wait." "lt's a sickness--infectious." "Stay away from me!" "Believe me." "An ER patient forced on us, incredible symptoms." "He turned green and just dissolved." "It spread." "Their blood turned green, they vomited and died." "Murder at Central Hospital!" "Quick, send help!" "I must put him back." "Quick, get him back." "Akai?" "No way." "No way." "It can't be true!" "Dr. Akai, there you are... there all along." "Who are you talking to?" "Of course... you can't leave us yet." "The virus spreads through your consciousness-- through your dreams." "Before you know it... it'll reach you soon enough." "There's no pulse." "Try 300." "It's charged." "Step back." "No pulse." "Damn." "Calcium chloride." "Calcium chloride here." "No." "Calcium chlorate." "Right, calcium chlorate." "Dr. Kishida." "Pardon me, but it's 7:00 a.m." "Doctor, please wake up." "Doctor." "Doctor?" "Did I?" "No." "Did I?" "No!" "No way!" "Two doctors and four nurses... were killed at this hospital last night." "Police are looking to question employee Dr. Kiyokazu Akiba." "He was last seen by this paramedic." "He was very flustered... didn't even glance at the patient." "Very strange behavior for a doctor." "I shudder to think what he'd just done." "Thank God I didn't leave my patient with him." "Was this your patient?" "l don't know." "But your name's here." "We must know his treatment." "It's obvious." "Don't unplug him, for Christ's sake!" "I'm sorry." "Dr. Akai... are you still here?" "Still here then." "Just right here." "Help me."