Containment

What's going on? Possible flu outbreak.

There is, currently,

no vaccine and it has thus far

proven to have a mortality rate of 100%.

Dr. Lommers just called from Washington.

National Guard's on their way.

Captain Scott!

Carnahan, right?

You're walking on thin ice.

You like her.

She's good, Lex.

In the kind of way that I feel like I have to do right by her.

I think we're being lied to.

I saw two bodies.

They were both dead before Patient Zero.

From the very beginning,

you believed that they were lying to us.

What if we can prove that you were right?

We just need to get the tape

of the hospital security feed.

It's corrupted.

Get it to Jana.

She's the only person

I can trust with this.

Here.

Recovered, decrypted... all the footage restored.

This place isn't the ivory tower

you think it is.

Lex, help!

Please! Jana!

Freeze!

Party's over.

We have to find a way out of the Cordon.

The sooner, the better.

Thomas, no.

Don't worry.

I don't get sick.

We are currently 47 hours post-exposure.

Subject Thomas Graham continues to show no signs of illness.

I've inoculated several cohorts of sentinel rats

with the subject's serum, sputum

and saliva and tested their blood...

Ow! Crap!

It bit me.

Let me see. Ah...

Is that infected or control?

Maybe it didn't

go through the gloves. I'm infected, Doc.

Larry...

Larry, look at me.

Now, check your gloves.

Oh, no.

No, no, no... Larry...

No! Focus.

The next glove.

Oh, no. Oh, no.

Doc, please help me.

Got any eights?

Go fish.

This way, man.

Right here.

Sir... right in here.

I'll check on you in a few hours.

Got any twos?

Go fish!

Just couldn't toe the line,

could you?

Did you think you'd actually be able

to breach the Cordon?

I don't even know if she's alive.

Now, you can discipline me later,

but please... help me find out.

Sorry, son, but you don't have access.

That's on you.

I heard Jana screaming.

Being attacked, maybe even killed.

I couldn't care less

who I pissed off trying to get to her.

Well, you should.

Those are the people who could've helped you now.

I don't trust any of those people!

But you?

I thought at least you would've had my back.

I've had your back.

I've vouched for you from day one.

I said you wouldn't be anything like your father.

You're suspended until further notice.

I'm telling you, it's been two days

and the kid's absolutely fine.

You were one of my favorite students, Victor,

and you know I've always admired your optimism...

I've assayed his viral load every six hours

and... nothing.

I understand it must be difficult there

and you want to believe that...

If Thomas is resistant,

that could be the key to a vaccine.

Even if you're able

to develop a vaccine,

it could take... 12, 18 months?

So?

That's still hope.

More than we've ever had before.

Does the Cordon have that long?

You should call your sister in Rockville.

This line's for official use only.

She's worried about you.

Well, tell her I'm fine.

I'll call when I've found a way to end this.

Hey.

Hey.

Well?

I see you got in.

Yeah.

The password was "password."

Nice work.

Gotta hustle if I want to make detective before you.

Better keep hustling.

Think I finally found the right footage.

All right, what are we looking at here?

Okay. So here's where it all started.

Tuesday at 8:00 a.m.

Here's Sanders with Sayid.

So Cannerts insists that Sayid was Patient Zero,

but we both know Sanders died before him,

so if I'm right,

Sanders is infecting Sayid here,

not the other way around.

We just need to prove it.

What about the boyfriend?

I mean, they-they died around the same time.

I went back through the old sign-in ledgers

to see if I could figure out who he was.

A "Henry Burns" signed in almost every day at 5:00 a.m.

5:00 a.m.?

Right there. Oh.

Is that him?

There's Sanders. That's our guy.

Henry Burns.

Where are you going?

There's the quickie.

Like clockwork.

Just like Nurse Helen said.

5:15.

That was a quickie.

He stays inside until...

8:16.

Wait...

Where is he going now?

Did you see that?

He knows.

He knows he's sick.

He looks panicked.

Who is he calling? Sanders?

Makes sense, she's in the building.

What are you doing?

That explains why we couldn't find

his personal effects, huh?

Why wouldn't he want anyone to know who he is?

What are you doing?

"Closed for maintenance."

Burns quarantined himself.

We were right.

He-He's the real Patient Zero.

I must declare the virus as highly contagious

and fatal in 100% of its victims.

I recommend we institute

a cordon sanitaire to contain the spread of the virus.

What I need is the truth.

We are in the middle of the damn hot zone.

Jana! If we let anyone out, we're risking the lives

of everyone in this city.

The second Victor needs

a pat on the head, you come running.

Oh, don't be reductive.

No, David, it really is that simple.

No, it isn't, no, it... Impeccable timing.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.

Should I come back?

No,

Lex, it's fine.

What do you need?

Uh...

I know we haven't always seen eye-to-eye,

but I'm not coming to you as a cop.

I'm coming to you as a person.

You know I have someone on the inside.

I just need to know she's okay.

Will you help me?

I appreciate you coming to me,

Lex.

And I will see about having your sluice access

temporarily reinstated so you can get an update on Jana.

Thank you.

But since you're here...

...I'd like you to meet the Director

of Infectious Diseases at Georgetown.

This is Dr. David MacIntyre.

It's good to meet you.

My husband.