- Army Doctor: Okay, Colonel Peckem, last test is negative. You're all clean, virus free. We can sign you out. The helicopter will be arriving in a few minutes.
- Col. Peckem: Any news from Deitrich?
- Army Doctor: They're sending a new man from the Trixie project to take over as Dr. Watts' replacement. He should be here in the morning. If only we knew what Watts was working on. We checked the slides he left behind in his microscope and his notes, but we can't make heads or tails out of any of it. He was onto something, we know that. We'll dope it out sooner or later.
- Col. Peckem: [sighs] Sooner or later.
- Army Doctor: I understand that they found a Reeces monkey at Deitrich, immune. We'll find a human subject sooner or later.
- Col. Peckem: Yeah... sooner or later.
- [a soldier arrives with David, who is not showing symptoms]
- Soldier: Hey, you want an immunity check on this one, Doc?
- Army Doctor: [to the soldier] Are you kidding me? Put him with the others!
- [both Peckem and David make eye contact with each other, in which David smirks and he is taken away by the soldier, as Colonel Peckem also walks away towards the landing zone area]
- Dr. Brookmyre: You've known about this for days!
- Maj. Ryder: We never thought it would happen like this.
- Dr. Brookmyre: But you notified me. You must have suspected.
- Maj. Ryder: Notifying you was precautionary. We never thought it was possible.
- Dr. Brookmyre: That doesn't matter now. We've got to call the hospital in Unity. We need an ambulance for those two kids!
- Maj. Ryder: I'm afraid I can't allow that. We're bringing in our own medical personnel with medical equipment.
- Dr. Brookmyre: But this isn't the sort of thing that you consider sweeping under the rug or...
- Maj. Ryder: Look, we've quarantined the area. We're sealing off the town!
- David: What unit are you with? Why are you here? Why are you doing this to us?
- #1 Soldier at House: Look, mister... you let me go and...
- David: Talk!
- #1 Soldier at House: OK! It's a quarantine. There's a virus loose in the area.
- David: How'd the Army get involved?
- #1 Soldier at House: How does the Army get involved in anything? I don't know.
- [David forcibly restrains the solider in a choke-hold]
- #1 Soldier at House: Ahh! Honest to God I don't know! It's a police action. That's what they're calling it.
- David: What are your orders?
- #1 Soldier at House: Round up everybody and take them to the Evans City High School. Everything was going OK at first. People were willingly coming in with us. The US Army has medical facilities at the school. They're treating them at the school. But the ones with the virus... man, it's like they're crazy!
- David: What kind of virus is it? How is it transmitted? What's its origin?
- #1 Soldier at House: I don't know. The Army only tells us what we have to know. It's a need to know basis...
- [David angrily grabs the soldier harder by his neck]
- #1 Soldier at House: [gagging] W-water! The virus... it's in water!
- David: [surprised] In the water? The whole town's water supply?
- #1 Soldier at House: Yeah. You gotta believe me. We're only following orders.
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