HOT ZONE

They're coming Jamie. Let's get you

comfortable.

Hoskins and her Aide use the arm ports to take Jamie's

vitals and hook her up to I.V.'s.

NOTE: since she's in the isolator, MDs wear masks gloves,

etc., not spacesuits.

SCREAMS and RAVINGS suddenly echo O.S. Hoskins slams the

inner door to keep Jamie from hearing.

CUT TO:

FOLLOW HOSKINS THROUGH THE SLAMMER TO: THE HOT SIDE

Maj. Haines screams in dementia next to Peter.

TWO AIDES in spacesuits wheel Loc's covered body out

causing Haines to lose it completely.

TWO DOCTORS in Spacesuits try to subdue him in his open

bed. He trashes yanking at his I.V.'s.

MAJ. HAINES

Get this shit offa me --

Hoskins aims a tranquilizer gun and shoots him with a

tranq dart.

INT. MORGUE - LIMBO

Loc's covered body is slid into the rack beside Deke's

body bag. The second death. The submarine door closes.

CUT TO:

RESUME: THE SLAMMER - JAMIE'S SIDE - SECONDS LATER

Jaxx enters. She strokes her daughter with her hands in

the glove ports. Jamie squeezes them through the plastic.

JAXX

I'm here, Jamie. I'm here.

JAMIE

Where's Dad... and Jason?

JAXX

Dad's with Jason and Popsy and Mama

just down the hall. They're having

their blood tested. We're going to

take some of yours too. Check it

out. You might not be sick at all.

Jamie smiles faintly. Maj. Hoskins ties off Jamie's arm

through the glove ports and thumps up a vein.

JAMIE

Mom... this is the "slammer" isn't

it? I heard you talk about it.

Jaxx nods. She can't stand to see Jamie suffer. She

holds Jamie's hand -- the needle enters her arm. Jamie

cries out.

CUT TO:

EXT. SAVAGE RIVER ISLAND - NIGHT

Full winter moon. The AIT's have pitched camp around the

Copter. The Pilot works on the engine under generator

lights. Bullet hits are visible across the cockpit glass.

INT. HELICOPTER - ON JOHNSON

JOHNSON

(on radio)

C'mon, C.J., I don't want Rangers

and State Police up here guns

blazing. I need this guy alive.

Reese listens intently trying to stay warm.

JOHNSON

(on radio)

He's no good to us with a bullet in

his head. We'll never know if his

antibodies can beat the bug or not.

Okay -- tell them he's contagious.

That'll buy some time.

(a response on radio)

Yeah, I should've brought my fishing

tackle. How's Nancy's kid. Any

word -- ?

CUT TO:

MICROSCOPIC VIEW - JAMIE'S BLOOD

It glows with Ebola antigen response.

INT. BL3 HOTSUITE - CONTINUING ACTION - NIGHT

Jaxx sits back from the microscope, trembling. She sags,

dropping her head on the bench. She weeps openly.

INT. SLAMMER - TIGHT ON PETER - LATER

Pete's face tells us this is a horrible way to go. Jaxx

looks on with loving eyes. She feels helpless.

PETER

Lousy room service. And what

happened to the sexy nurses we used

to have around here --

Jaxx strikes a pose. His laugh is like sandpaper. He's

dying and knows it.

PETER

Listen to me. I want you to give

the rest of my old friend to Jamie.

She's young. The antibodies might

turn her around.

Jaxx doesn't know what to say. She can barely speak.

PETER

Hey, maybe I'm the "magic bullet,"

Nance. Go on, take it. Give Jamie

a fighting chance. I got work to do

in the lab, anyway --

He unplugs his I.V. from the precious serum and sits up --

Nancy has to subdue him. Maj. Hoskins hurries in to help.

TO JAMIE - GERRY IN VIEW

Jamie. Her face a mask. Comatose. Gerry checks her

temperature. Jaxx enters. She's been crying.

GERRY

(back to Jaxx)

No break in her fever. Ribovirin's

not working. Efficacy is zero...

Her fever's still up. We need

immuno serum, Nance. None of the

patients are responding...

Jaxx regards their daughter. She makes herself do it.

JAXX

Peter wants her to have this.

She unhooks the antiviral I.V. bag and replaces it with a

serum bag marked "Sister G."

GERRY

(dumbfounded)

Peter's better? His fever broke?

Jaxx shakes her head slowly. Gerry reacts, overcome. He

holds Nancy close, both gazing at their daughter. Small

hemorrhages mar her youthful face.

JAXX

What's Jamie's --

GERRY

One-o-three. Just checked it.

JAXX

Take it every thirty minutes. If

there's any drop, I don't care how

slight, we'll know the serum's

working. She'll pull out. She

will.

TIGHT ON PLASMA BAG: GIVING LIFE INTO JAMIE

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. SAVAGE RIVER - THE DARK BEFORE DAWN

Karl sits hunched by river fire drinking coffee. Everyone

else still sleeps. He's fixed on the campfire.

THE FLAMES - DANCING

The sounds of Africa haunts him. Drums pound relentlessly

-- He looks up, suddenly startled.

FLASH TO: HIS POV - THE AFRICAN JUNGLE

A beautiful AFRICAN WOMAN walks out of the bush. She

kneels across the fire from him.

She hands Karl a gourd brimming with healing waters. He

reaches for it -- FLAMES SINGE HIS FINGERS.

He jerks back, looking around, disoriented.

HIS POV - PANNING AROUND

The river. Sun coming up. Reese is staring at him.

REESE

Karl? Are you alright, Karl?

JOHNSON

(rattled)

Yeah, I'm alright.

EXT. RIVERBANK - DAWN

The AIT's put in the raft, holding it steady in the

backwater. Karl and Reese board.

Onshore, the Pilot holds up his 9mm pistol. An offer.

JOHNSON

I don't believe in guns as an

equalizer. Nature's full of

equalizers more deadly...

They shove off. The AIT Leader in front, Reese in the

middle and Karl at the stern.

ON THE RIVER - FOLLOW THE RAFT

Karl steers them into the rapids. They move swiftly

downriver.

JOHNSON - CLOSER

Watching high cliffs and dense woods slide by.

FLASH TO: THE EBOLA RIVER

Karl crossing on the raft. Zairean Police aiming guns.

FLASH TO: THE HOSPITAL

His fingers sinking into a dead man's arm like pudding.

Village children singing to the Nuns.

Sister Genevieve convulsing in his arms.

RESUME: JOHNSON

He shivers, near convulsing. Another river to cross.

CUT TO:

THE MORGUE - LIMBO

Another body bag slides in beside six other bodies. The

tag reads: MAJ. ARNOLD HAINES.

CUT TO:

INT. WAR ROOM

A TV MONITOR: The Local ANCHORWOMAN standing outside RIID

interviews C.J. by phone inside. He's running on fumes.

The Staff watches him and the monitor.

ANCHORWOMAN (TV)

How many deaths so far, Colonel?

C.J.

We can confirm seven as a direct

result of the virus -- including

employees at the primate

facility... and one of our own.

C.J. CONTINUES OVER: INT. SLAMMER AREA - SAME TIME

Corridor beds are now filled. 30 PATIENTS are tended by

MEDICAL STAFF AND VOLUNTEERS wearing Scrubs, masks, decon

suits, anything to protect against possible infection.

C.J. (V.O.) (TV)

We're continuing to bring all

"cases" and exposed persons here to

RIID. We'll try to contain the

virus here until it burns itself out

-- We're still trying to find a

rescue therapy that's effective

against the virus --

AIT's wheel in Girard in an isolator. He's almost gone.

INT. USAMRIID CLINIC - SAME TIME

Peter's Wife sleeps on a sofa with her two children.

Others rest on chairs or the floor.

Jaxx checks a patient who looks good. Eyes clear.

Minimal symptoms. It's the Big Black Woman from Synergy.

JAXX

(to nurse)

Check her blood again. Maybe she

has the "magic bullet" antibodies.

The Black Woman smiles hopeful. Jaxx looks past her out

the glass partition into the Slammer area.

HER POV - THE SLAMMER AREA

A Medic covers up another victim.

Jaxx thinks that could easily be Jamie... Gerry hurries

up. Jaxx instantly panics --

GERRY

Her temperature's down. One-o-one.

Jaxx. Her panic rockets to joy -- Gerry half carries her

down the hall -- both euphoric.

THE SLAMMER - TIGHT ON SERUM BAG

The last of Sister "G" plasma drips into Jamie's I.V.

Jaxx reaches in the glove ports and wipes a trace of blood

from Jamie's ear.

JAXX

She's responding. It's working.

Human immuno serum protocol works.

GERRY

And we're fresh out -- Goddamn bug!

Gerry folds her into him. They share a frustrated cry --

JAXX

Why can't I just put my life in her

I.V. Why...?

They hold each other tight, praying for a miracle. Gerry

ceremoniously pulls a stuffed bear from a bag of

personals.

GERRY

Nancy... when she was two years old

-- but she used to want "Dee Dah"

the Bear when she was sick.

Jaxx kisses the bear and tucks it in beside Jamie. Jamie

instinctively hugs it to her. She wakes staring at them.

JAMIE

Mom... I'm sorry I said bad things

about guinea pigs -- and mice. I

know you're just trying to make me

well --

Jamie drifts off. Jaxx wells up. She suddenly heads away

-- filled with Jamie's words. Gerry follows --

FOLLOW THEM THROUGH THE AIRLOCK

JAXX

The animals -- Pete's working on

synthetic antibodies -- He's growing

living immune animal cells and

living human cells together -- to

clone a super immune cell. So far

guinea pig cells don't work. I just

had an idea -- that might --

CUT TO:

THE SLAMMER ENTRANCE - CONTINUING ACTION

Gerry catches her as they exit.

JAXX

We can mass produce antibody serum

for any bug. It would be just like

having Sister Genevieve alive again

-- donating her blood. There's a

way --

GERRY