"We're supposed to sit here pissing in our pants while you decide our future, is that it?" "Why should the American taxpayers support a lab that's in Toronto, Canada?" "Science is on the verge of unlocking the secrets of life, and you're thinking about amputating the only organization that's actually minding the store!" "You're insane!" "How did you get this appointment?" "I slept with you for 25 years." "I suppose something rubbed off." "Rachel." "What we're doing..." "I'm a little concerned." "This thing that Carl is working on, the magnetobacteria?" "It is insanity." "You're worried about this..." "magnetobacteria?" "I'm worried about somebody getting a bullet in the back of the head." "So bacteria forms a biofilm?" "Yes, but take a look at them when we zoom in." " Like they're marching in formation." " Precisely." "Working together to gum up the circuit board." "As if programmed." "I have high inter-ocular pressure and an increased cup-to-disk ratio." "The optic nerve in both eyes is degenerating." "I'm going blind, David." "I'm sorry." "We've been studying ways to repair optic nerve damage for several years." "However, when the procedure fails, our test subjects are left totally blind." "I don't want to do it, David." "But I have to." "All right, Bob, you can open them." "I can see." "Dr. Melnikov, Dr. Tran." " He was terrified." " I didn't get that impression." "It was obvious to me." "People are talking." "They think you're acting differently, like you're, you know... more sensitive to their emotions." "I don't know what's going on, David." "All I do know is that I don't want it to stop." "I think some of the virus traveled in the wrong direction, up the repaired optic nerve, into Bob's brain and in particular into his Jacobson's Organ." " He's smelling emotions." " That would mean that Dr. Melnikov has genetically evolved into a higher state of being." " Why would he just up and leave?" " Maybe somebody took him." " Do you know Olivier Roth?" " Of course I do." "I never met him, but in the financial circles he was with Buffet and Gates." "Yeah, well, I think he's responsible for magnetobacteria and I think he's kidnapped Bob, so tell us where we can find him." "We will change humanity, evolve the species." "Listen to me, Roth, you son of a bitch." "You do anything to Bob, I'll find you." " See you in the future, David." " Roth!" "You, Dr. Melnikov, encompass the only hope we have left." "A man who truly understands the compassion, the hopes, the fears of his fellow man." "Within you, in a stem cell in your brain, lies the future of mankind." "Don't move!" "I can't run anymore." "Please... don't hurt me." "My head hurts." "I want to talk to David." "Please, let me talk to David Sandström..." "ReGenesis 4x01 TB Or Not TB" "Subtitles Team NorBAC" "Bsiocnarf, Dapitch666, Enelea, Icefre@k" "Linwelin, Michvanilly, MikL" "Version NoTag 1.0" " I need another 24 hours." " What you said 24 hours ago." "The Mexican authorities have not given us..." "I don't give a shit about the Mexican authorities!" "This is a TB outbreak." "It has nothing to do with..." " Doctors Without Borders said it was..." " They've been kicked out." " The same thing will happen to you." " No, we have a contact." "A medic who can get us across the Zapatista lines and keep us safe." " Are we going?" " Yes." "Call Rico, tell him we're on our way." "They have been delivering ultimatums to the Mexican government." "For medical aid!" "People are dying because they're not getting supplies." "They're turning Chiapas into a state of war." "The Zapatistas say the same thing about the Mexican army" "Fuck the politics." "We're going, Wes." "Riddlemeyer has a new priority for us in Illinois." "I want you to remind Riddlemeyer that his only priority is to find Bob." "That's the deal we made." "That's why his ass isn't in jail." "Tell him yourself." "David?" "Division of Health." "They're worried about hepatitis." "Give it to Rachel." " OK." " Not that I'm asking, but could you find out what Riddlemeyer's priority in Illinois is?" " What?" " I think you just got a new priority." "He's in a coma?" " His doctor induced it." " Why?" "They're concerned about swelling on his brain." "Maybe an infection." "David, he was operated on." "On his brain?" "Why?" "They're not sure." "What can we do?" "Nothing." "He's in the best possible care." " I want to be here when he wakes up." " Of course." "But that's not going to happen for about 5 days." "We should go." "David?" "Just gimme a minute, OK?" "I'll meet you down in the lobby." "I'll get a taxi." "Hey, Bob." "Did you have a good three months off?" "If you're gonna disappear like that, the least you could do is send me a..." "I'll be right back." "David," "I'd like to introduce you to Olivier Roth." " Dr. Sandström." " Son of a bitch!" "What did you do?" "Just listen to what he has to say." " What are you doing here?" " I've enormous respect for Dr. Melnikov" " and his accomplishments." " You mean his Jacobson's Organ." " You harvested his stem cells." " At his insistence." "You took advantage of him." "Bob is a brilliant scientist." "And a friend." "Unfortunately, his work to awaken the Jacobson's Organ in others" " was unsuccessful." " No shit." " When I heard he was injured..." " You cut a hole in his head." "I wanted to make sure he had everything he needed." "I'm telling you the truth." "I'm sorry if you feel I'm some kind of diabolical menace to humanity," "Excuse me." "You tried to send the world back to the stone age with your magnetobacteria." "Everything you need to know." "How to make it." "How to kill it." "And I assure you, all other samples have been destroyed." "Where was this file three months ago?" "Three months ago, Homeland Security received the same package from Mr. Roth." "What are you doing?" "You're working on a Zombie army to take over the world?" "I am not the enemy here, Dr. Sandström." "Thank you, Carl." "If there's anything I can do." "I'll make sure you get any updates on Bob's condition when we have them." "Dr. Sandström." "That's it?" "He just walks away?" "That's it." " Where are you going?" " Mexico." "People are dying there from an antibiotic resistant strain of TB." " I want you in Hudson Point, Illinois." " And I want Oliver Roth in prison." "I guess sometimes you just can't get what you want." "I've been receiving calls from a Congressman Kirchner." "The people in his district, that's Hudson Point, have temporarily lost the ability to feel any pain." "Lucky them." "They inflict horrific injuries on themselves without realizing it..." "In Chiapas, there are over a million people at risk." "We need to figure out a way to contain and kill it before it's knocking on our back door." "This community is near panic." "We have to do something." " Rachel and Mayko can manage it." " I want you to manage it!" "Fine." "When I'm back from Mexico." "Fuck." " Hello, David." " We're on our way to Chiapas." "I need Rachel." "Where the hell is she?" "I don't know." "What's going on?" "Get her on a flight with Mayko to Hudson Point, Illinois." "Alright." "I've got my Sat Phone." "Any change in Bob's condition, good or bad... call me." " Got it." " Tell Rachel from now on she's to have her cell phone on and in her pocket at all times." "Good night, David." " Chiapas no possible." " We're from NorBAC..." "Chiapas possible." "Here's some very complicated English for ya:" "Go fuck yourself." "You go fuck yourself." "You were right." "He's not going to let us through." "It's always the same." "The bigger the hat, the smaller the brain." "So..." "What do we do now?" "Like I said at the airport, I'll get you to where you want to go." "There are just so many army checkpoints and many more miles of Chiapas border." "Mayko!" "Cab's here." "We gotta go." "Found an interesting case in Pakistan." "Three related families with a mutation in the SCN9A nerve cell channel that gives them an insensitivity to pain." " They worked as circus freaks." " I doubt this is a genetic mutation." "From what I've read, this thing in Illinois seems to be a transitory condition." "Maybe something temporarily blocking the nerve channel?" "I'm thinking it may even be a virus in the nerve fibre." "But have you ever seen anything like that?" "Around here, no, but..." "What's WTF?" "WTF?" "The initials on your bag." "WTF." " Wes loaned it to me." " Oh, yeah?" "Yeah." "It was there." "He said I could use it." " There?" " Yeah, there." "Anything we need to do?" "No." " What'd you give him?" " Cocaine." "There's a white flag in the back." "Tie it up." "This is so the Chiapas know who we are." "I gotta fucking learn Spanish." "What's that?" "Corn Days?" "It's the American way." " You celebrate what you've got." " Corn?" "There is a town in Colorado that celebrates a chicken who lived for three months without a head." " What?" " I swear to God." " A headless chicken." " Oh, God." "Imagine." "Painful stimuli are produced by electrical impulses in your nerve cells." "These impulses travel from nociceptive dorsal root ganglion neurons originating in the body's periphery, through ascending spinal pathways to the brain." " You can sit wherever you like." " We're actually from..." "Doctor, my family grows corn and soybeans." "We're not scientists." "All we want to know is why this thing here is happening." "Ion channels in the nerve cells, including many types of sodium channels, produce these nerve impulses." "Hold on." "Ion channels?" "What are they?" "Stimulation of the nerve cells produces small changes." "The ion channel amplify small changes, and at a certain threshold, the neuron fires and a signal is sent back to the brain." " And that's how you know..." " The signal is transmitted by" "A-delta fibres to the spinal cord and then to a sorting station in the thalamus." "When the signal is relayed to the somatosensory cortex..." "Why'd Mitchell Hayes's daughter nearly take her eye out?" "I'd like to know why Washington sent a fella like you here." "Are you trying to cover up for some kind of government screw-up?" "That's ridiculous." "Can we get back to the basics here?" "The basics are that we don't know what the hell is happening around here!" "The "ouch"... is nature's way of protecting us." "I'm so sorry to interrupt here, Doctor." "Hi, I'm Rachel Woods and this is Mayko Tran." "We're here from the North American Biotechnology Advisory Commission." " How are you doing?" " Good, thanks." "Hopefully we can simplify this a little for you folks." " Be my guests." " Okay." "Wanna do the work?" "So, the thing about pain is it produces this, like, electrical zap." "When you poke yourself with a pin, you react within a tenth of a second." "You pull your hand away from that pin before your brain even has time to figure out what's going on." "That's the "ouch."" "It's basically ancient hard wiring for self-preservation." "That's the fast pain signals." "And they call it that because they're really fast." "So that's what's not working in these people?" "That's what we're gonna try to find out." "So you're coming in here thinking that this has to do with the ion channels?" "All right, you know what?" "That's a possibility." "Let me tell you what those are." "There are these structures, on nerve cells, that sense pain." "They're like these little gates that open and close." "So if these gates aren't opening and closing properly, then that can screw up that pain zap before it even gets to the brain." "So, amplify it, turn it down or block it completely." "So why are these gates closing on us?" "Why aren't these people feeling anything?" "We just got here 15 minutes ago." "Maybe if we can have another 24 hours," " we might have some answers." " Okay, but..." " we gotta have answers pretty quick." " I know." "How do I know you're not spies?" "Your accent... you're from Mexico City." "Surely Rico told you we were coming." "He has, but I didn't expect a chilango from up north." "We're here to help." " Why should I believe you?" " Check our gear..." "TB is caused by a bacterial microorganism, the Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and it's spread by droplet infection." "If a patient exhales, coughs or sneezes, tubercle bacilli are released into the air." "There is a gene, N-RAMP1, which is involved in a person having a susceptibility to leprosy, and it's also caused by a bacterium related to TB." "What do you think, are we spies or scientists?" "Go on." "We understand from the reports we got that there's a high mortality rate with this outbreak." "32 have died from this." "Hundreds are sick." "There's been some question as to the diagnosis, because this disease isn't responding to any of the first line TB treatments." "First line?" "The latest and greatest in antibiotics." "But it is TB." "Doctors confirmed that before Mexico City ordered them out of Chiapas." "We've brought diagnostic gear, a portable x-ray machine and... the latest in tiered treatments." "We'll ID this strain, contain it and kill it." "If there is anything you need..." "I'll have my men provide it to you." "It's not an easy problem to communicate." "I'm glad they sent in reinforcements." "We're actually gonna be doing specimen collection, fieldwork." "You should be visiting people in the hospital." "It's pretty rough." " You've seen pictures?" " No." "Oh, well..." "Jesus." " Oh, dear." " Yeah." "They get worse." "Oh, my God." "Lola, how're you doing?" "I'm fine." " Doesn't hurt much?" " Not at all." "It was like a switch being thrown." "She felt fine, no problems." "Two hours later I get a call from the school saying she'd done this to her eye." "Okay." " How about that?" " I can feel you touching my foot." "Okay, let's try the other foot." "Let's see." "There." "Any sensation?" "It kind of tickles." "Hey." "I've got cerebro-spinals from all the active patients," " so I'll be in the lab." " OK." "Okay." "I think we're done here." "Thank you, Lola." "Could you hang tight for a second?" "Okay." "They say with most people this passes in a few days." "What if it doesn't?" "Let's not go there." "Give us some time to look into it." " How's it going?" " Hey." "Spinal fluids slightly elevated, white blood cells levels" " and slightly decreased glucose levels." " Some kind of inflammation?" "I don't know." "I need to get these samples back to NorBAC." "I got a lot of environmental sampling to do, so I will be out with the corn and pigs." "Where did the outbreak begin?" "At first the sick ones were all Zapatista militia, then it jumped to the women and children." " I need all your data on the scatter." " What's that?" "Who got sick when." "The ones who were treated by the doctors before they left have files, the others, no." "Okay. "Importito"." "First things first." "We need an exclusion zone." "All right?" "Right here." " Why aren't these people wearing masks?" " We ran out." "Well, I've seen no shortage of bandanas." "David, their breathing's moist, restricted." "Get some hoark samples to look at under a microscope." "I'll run a PCR." "I'm going to need to do chest X-rays." "Do you have electricity?" "The Federales cut our power a month ago, but I can get a generator." "We should start inoculating all the children in the village." "What about my soldiers?" "It's not as effective in adults, but yeah, it's worth a try." " Your people know how to vaccinate?" " If you show them, they will learn." "Your shawl, over your mouth." "These white spots indicate concentrations of infection." "We're going to need to culture the bacteria at NorBAC and try to positive the ID of the strain." "How long will that take?" "Two to three weeks." "TB grows very slowly in the lab." " What do we do in the meantime?" " Make sure the sick stay quarantined." "We need to contain the outbreak." "We need to check all of your men, their wives, children." "Any symptoms of TB and they need to be brought here." "They won't leave their land." " Especially if a chilango tells them." " They're gonna have to." "They have been oppressed for generations, forced off their land by corporations and corrupt governments." "Let me put it this way." "This TB we're dealing with, it's a hell of a lot worse than any corrupt government." "It won't be easy to convince the people of Chiapas." "Can I help you, ma'am?" "No, I'm okay, thanks." "Well, you know, that's our field you're in." "Oh, sorry!" "I'm investigating a public health problem." "All these people hurting themselves?" "I guess you know all about it, yeah." "One of our farmhands actually got third degree burns." "He leaned his butt up against a red-hot tractor manifold." " Ed Koskey!" " So, you do know what's going on." "Well, sort of." " Tom Gleason." " Hi." "Mayko Tran." "Hey." "So, what are you hoping to find?" "Well, right now we don't really know, we're looking for toxins in the soil, water." "We've got a lot of grunt work to do before we're gonna have any answers." "I don't know if it's any help, but we've been organic for 5 years now." " No chemicals whatsoever?" " Just botanical insecticides." "Advantageous bacteria like B. thuringiensis," "S. spinosa, that sort of thing." "So you're... you're all-natural?" "Absolutely." "We got this really cool new one." "It's completely non-toxic." "It's called Rowinall." "See that there?" " That stuff?" " It actually repels pests." "Except guys like me, of course." "Though it doesn't last so long, so it got me thinking we should go back to using Gliocladium, that does a hell of a number on pythium and fusarium rot, that sort of thing." " Sorry." "Am I going too fast for you?" " Kind of." "Could you... just..." "Oh yeah, sure." "Not a problem." "Thanks." "S. spinosa, which is Saccharo poly-spora spinosa." "Takes care of your caterpillars, sawfly larvae, thrips, Colorado potato beetle, your fire ant..." "God, those are nasty little buggers." "All righty?" " Cool, thank you." " Okay." "So I'll see ya." " Yeah." "Thanks so much." " Good luck." "Take all the samples you want." "My field is your field." "That's awesome, thanks." "Bye." "Organize the cases chronologically." "Put them on a map." "We need to find Patient Zero." " Patient Zero?" " The person who brought it here and may be spreading it somewhere else." " We need to contain it." " I'll check in with the lab." "Okay." "Carlos." "Hey." "I never got a chance to thank you for coming down here." "It's really not necessary." "The situation down here is intolerable." "We'll keep you safe and protected from the Federales." "Cell phones don't really work down here." "This is a Sat phone." "I can communicate with anyone anywhere in the world via Globalvox." "And I just hope to find a pen that works." "We come from very different worlds, you and I." "Maybe not so different." "I'd better get back to work." "Organize these cases." "Put them on a map." "We need to find Patient Zero." " Patient Zero?" " The person who brought this here and may be spreading it someplace else." "We need to make sure it's contained." " I'll check in with the lab." " Okay." "So, how goes the revolution?" "For 500 years the indigenous people of Mexico have been crushed, treated like animals." "We're starting to make our voices heard, 10 million of us..." "a million here in Chiapas alone." "We fight for a roof over our heads, for food on the table, for dignity and respect." "But many, they do not like Indians." "They want us dead." "You're not fucking around, are you?" "We're willing to die for our autonomy." "Well, I would hate to see that." "You're used to a certain kind of woman, aren't you, Dr. Sandström?" " I'm not that kind of woman." " Meaning?" "I don't fuck for sport." "So, other than some mild headaches, you're certain Dr. Melnikov'll be fine?" "Physically, yes, but maybe confused and anxious about his condition." " To be expected." " Giving us a window of 2 or 3 months." " That's all the time I need." " Good, then" "I think we can bring him out of the coma in, say, 48 hours?" "Excellent." "Keep my office up-to-date on his progress." " And what about the girl?" " Tucked away." "Not to worry." "I'll say my goodbyes now." "Thank you for everything." "I'm sorry you won't be along for the ride." "Take care, my friend." "We have a very serious problem." "I don't understand." "We made a mistake." "We can't keep going." "Bob, there's nothing wrong with these animals." "They're distressed." " We moved past animal trials weeks ago." " We have to go back, Mr. Roth." "Wait!" "Where are you going?" "I don't know." "I have to double-check the data, the stem cell cultures." "Maybe we missed something that affects another part of the brain." "We need to..." "We can't go on until we're sure that we..." "We've been over this." "David will know what to do." "You're shaking." "Come on." "Let's sit down." "We'll talk this through." "Help me understand." "Hey." "Where the hell is Rachel?" "What is with her and her cell phone?" " Maybe her battery's dead." " Christ." " Any change in Bob?" " He's stable." "No real change." "How's Mexico?" "Hot." "Buggy." "In the middle of a revolution." "I need everybody on this." "I'm sorry." "You want us to drop Hudson?" "How bad is it?" "46 cases, 5 people actively suffering from the disorder." "It's a hit-and-run thing, it lasts 3 or 4 days and then it's gone." " You got a take on it?" " Maybe." "There's a Dr. Horner at Oxford who's doing interesting work on calcitonin gene related peptide." "No, I know Billy Horner." "He's got a long ways to go to understand the role of peptides." " Any other commonalities?" " Well, it's a little farm town, so everybody's drinking the same water, breathing the same air, eating local food." "What's your best guess, Mayko?" "Maybe a trigger of some kind." "Corn is really huge down here right now, everybody's eating it." "I've got samples of everything they put on their crops." "Park those samples with some techs." "We're getting our butts kicked." "Some kind of killer TB." "I need to get back up to NorBAC and..." " You're breaking up." " ... thousands at risk." "Get me on the next flight ASAP." "I'll try to get across the border today." "Hello?" "Look, if you can hear me, call me back." "Bye." "Shit." "Kill me fucking now." "What have we got?" "The first ones to be sick were all Zapatista soldiers." "There was no TB up here before." "Maybe somebody from the outside brought it in." "It would not be so easy for a stranger to go up this valley." " The government has patrols everywhere." " What are you thinking?" "Okay." "What about this?" "The Mexican government has not invited anyone into Chiapas." " They're fully aware of this outbreak." " It would not be the first time they'd ignore the needs of the indigenous people." "But what if this time, they're ignoring the people because they want the TB to spread?" " What if they brought it here?" " You think this could be an attack?" "I think if we find Patient Zero, he might have a lot to tell us." "You're suggesting the government is committing genocide using germ warfare." "Why is it so hard to believe?" "These are the most recent cases." "I need to speak to these men right away." "Munoz, wait a minute." "I'm going to go back to my lab tomorrow, try to characterize this bacterium." "Carlos will stay on, see if he can locate Patient Zero, but let's get some concrete answers before we start throwing around words like "biological weapons"." "It's time to go." "Yes." "Yes." "All set." "Ready." " Need some time?" " No." "All..." "All set." "Did we lose any more in the night?" "An old man and a child." "I won't be long." "See?" "All set." "Lean toward me." " Is this really necessary?" " How else can I control you?" "You know, I've always wanted to have sex with a bag on my head." "Go right ahead." "But keep it down." "I've got some driving to do." "Hey, Bob." "Sorry it's taken me so long to come and visit you." "Been pretty busy since they put you out." "Actually thinking of... getting the same procedure done to myself." "I could use a good long sleep." "True, a bottle of scotch is more my style, but..." "Why didn't you call me, Bob?" "We made a mistake!" "Three months." "Where the hell have you been?" "David?" "We have to go back!" "We made a mistake." "We can't keep going." "You have to find Roth." "You just get better, okay?" "One of those techs you hired screwed up the PCR" " and ruined the samples from Mexico." " What are you looking at me for?" "I came back to work with my team and they're off dicking around in Illinois." "That was a directive from Kirchner and you told me to send them there." "I redirected them." "They landed at Pearson an hour ago." "Riddlemeyer cut me into a conversation with the State Department." "You have no idea how much they do not want us in Chiapas." " Did you get the call yet?" " What call?" "Kirchner wasn't happy about seeing us turning around and coming back home." " We got a lot of work." " Is that...?" "Looks like Kirchner just got to Riddlemeyer." "Wes Field." " Yes, Sir, I understand." " Wes." "I understand your concern, but... this is a very virulent multi-drug resistant strain of TB." "Thousands of..." "millions of people could die." "And it's knocking on our back door." "We need to make this a priority." " We've got a load of samples to test." " Park them with a tech." "We've gotta ID this TB and find a way to kill it." "This thing in Illinois is ramping up." "We've got 7 new cases..." "I don't care." "Pass it off to the CDC." "There's nobody who can deal with this thing in Chiapas but us." " This is what we're gonna do." " It's 11 o'clock." " We haven't slept for..." " Sleep when you're dead." "We're going to culture this thing and find out what the hell it is... tonight!" "This strain of TB has the genetic makeup of a multi-drug resistant monster." "All right." "We know from the studies in Mexico that it's resistant to all of the first line therapies and we know that it kills people fast." "Could it be completely drug resistant?" "We don't know that for sure, because remember," "Flouroquinolone, Capreomycin, Kanamycin," "Amikacin... those drugs haven't been used down in Chiapas." "Wait, hold on." "Part of the MDR protein structure is very similar to a South African XDR strain that a team at Yale has been studying." "And that South African has been bombarded with every drug therapy known to man with no success." "Except, how can this Chiapas strain be resistant to drugs it's never seen?" "Carlos on two." "How's it going?" "Six more dead this morning." "Any progress with the distribution scatter?" "Nothing concrete." "Right now I'm on vaccinations." "When Sub-Commandante Munoz realized the extent of the outbreak, she scattered her men in the countryside." "I'm trying to convince her to gather them so that I can vaccinate and hopefully delay the onset of the disease." "Why does she need convincing?" "With the Mexican army in the area, she feels they're safer where they are." "That is just complete bullshit." "Thank you for your opinion, Dr. Sandström." "Let Carlos do his work." "It is my job to protect my soldiers." "If they all get sick and die, what good will it do you?" "Let him vaccinate your men." "Any more clues about the strain?" " We think it might be MDR TB." " What does that mean?" "It means Multi Drug Resistant." "This is very hard to kill." "Look, the vaccinations finally arrived." "I've trained a dozen teams of men to help administer them." " It's your best line of defence." " And for those who are already sick?" "We're culturing for other treatment cocktails to find the parameters of the drug resistance." "You're saying there are no drugs that will fight this?" "Nothing in our current medicine chest." " This is bullshit." " So is not getting your men vaccinated." " Did you hear me?" " I heard you." " Carlos, you know what to do." " I do." "Where you going?" "Okay." "Look, I have money." "Maybe we can buy them off." "Oh, shit." " Come on, we have to move." " If they catch us they will kill us." " We have to go!" " You go." "What will you do?" "Distract them." " I'm good at distracting." " No!" "I'm not comfortable with the shortcuts we're taking." "We're rushing the process and we're gonna come up" " with results that are inconclusive." " 20 people died last night." "We'll live with "inconclusive"." "I got bad news." "The sequence analysis is complete." "Our TB strain is identical to the Kwazulu-Natal slum in South Africa." "So it's not just multi-drug resistant." "It's one level up." "We don't have a clue what can kill it." "What the fuck is a South African TB strain doing in Chiapas?" "David, Riddlemeyer's on line 3." " We'll get to Illinois when we can." " It's not about Illinois." "Hello, Carl." "Isn't it past your bedtime?" "I just got a call from Homeland." "There was a firefight in Chiapas." "It appears that Carlos was caught in the middle." "He's missing." "And, we are to presume, dead." " You hear from David?" " No, you?" "He went back to Mexico?" " Of course he did." " Damn it!" " I'm still using those!" " Es un hijo de puta!" "You don't want me here, I'll leave." "Just give me Carlos." " Tell him what you told me." " The Federales attacked us." "I ran one way, Carlos ran the other." "Then I heard shots." "He's been missing for 2 days and you have nothing!" " I just came to see how he was doing." " He'll be back sooner than you think." " But he is improving?" " You sound beat, David." "It's improving." "Five minutes ago I thought I was dead." "Nine-year-old who heated hot chocolate in the microwave... scalded his mouth, tongue, lips, not to mention his oesophagus and stomach." "All we know is that it produces a compound that blocks pain receptors." "The plant-like fungus that I found in all the victims?" "It's not just growing in the victims." "It's growing in the noses of everybody in Hudson." "Great." "What are they snorting?" " David, how safe are you?" " I don't know, Mayko."