Eleventh Hour

Help,please!

We're in here!

Help,please!

It's my mom,my dad and my brother.

I got the kid.

- Seizing. Diaphoretic - I don't know what happened.

Are they going to be okay?

What's wrong?

Paralysis. I'll go back for the traction board.

There's no time. The kid just stopped breathing.

He's cyanotic,we got to tube him.

- You have to help them,please - Both breathing.

Come on now,son.

We're losing him.

Dr. Hood.

I'm Wallace Bennett,

Chief of the Major Investigations Division.

I'm heading the Go Team on this case.

I put in a call to the FBI director to thank him

for sending you over here on such short notice.

My people have been over operations,

structures,power plants,

systems and human performance,

but so far,we've got nothing.

We also did a full battery of chemical testing

for explosive residue.

Results negative across the board.

We keep mining the same data but there's something

we're missing here and I...

...over and over.

Over and over..

Dr. Hood,we need something...

Dr. Hood?

Dr. Hood?

Did you hear a word I just said?

Ice cream.

Excuse me?

Do you have ice cream?

And a hot plate.

Vanilla.

Dr. Hood,what the hell is this all about?

The landing gear on this

aircraft is directly adjacent

to the engine,right?

- That's where they tend to put it - So...

after a long flight,it's going to get very hot.

So... you bring my entire investigation

to a halt just to tell my people that engines get hot?

On the night the plane crashed the temperature

on the ground was minus 20 Celsius.

That is way below freezing.

Thermal shock fracture.

Yup.

We tested the hydraulics in the landing gear for extremes,

but not for rapid temperature change.

I don't suppose the NTSB could help me get a new watch?

I'll give you my damn Rolex.

Oh,that won't be necessary.

Dr. Hood's employers at the FBI are perfectly capable

of reimbursing him

for any expenses and/or...

personal items damaged during the course of an investigation.

Mr. Bennett,

this is Special Agent Rachel Young,my,um...

I'm his FBI handler.

And we've got somewhere else to be.

Sir.

A family in San Jose,California ate breakfast

approximately 36 hours ago. - And?

And they've been paralyzed ever since.

EMT has brought them in as a triple case of spinal trauma,

but we ruled that out right away.

We did a tox screen for botulism and Lyme disease,

spinal taps for meningitis.

Negative on all counts.

It has to be poisoning of some kind.

Wrinkle is the daughter ate the same breakfast

as the rest of the family,continues to be asymptomatic.

Are you Jacob Hood with the Bureau?

He is. And you are?

I'm Agent Morris,FDA.

This is my colleague Agent Wilson with the CDC.

We both requested you. Thanks for coming in so quickly.

Heard about your work on the hantavirus case last March.

I'd like to hear about your work here earlier today.

We screened and catalogued

the stomach content on all three victims,

plus the asymptomatic daughter.

No toxins or bacteria known to lead to paralysis.

The CDC's primary

objective is to keep this thing from spreading,

while we at the FDA are mainly concerned

with the safety of the food chain.

But frankly...

We're stumped.

Where's the daughter?

Emily Stanner,16 years old.

She's in with the police right now.

They think she did this?

Well,they don't know what to think.

But,you know there's a case in New Jersey a couple of years back...

a teenage kid put antifreeze in his parents' iced tea.

Turned out he was pissed off about being grounded.

Listen,Emily,the truth is,

lots of kids get angry at their parents.

Look... if your folks

are mistreating you or abusing you,

mentally,emotionally... even physically,

it could count in your favor.

Tell me the truth about everything you know,

and it could go a long way towards

helping you out in court later.

Excuse me,uh,but we're busy here,

if you don't mind,huh?

I do mind. You shouldn't be in the same room with this patient,

not without adequate protection.

What do you mean," protection" ?

She's carrying

type 5 C-vector airborne virus.

It's highly contagious,no known cure.

Really,no one mentioned this to you?

It's okay,

as long as you've had no physical contact,

it should be fine.

Don't go anywhere.

I'm going to look into this.

Don't worry... there's no such thing as a type 5 c-vector.

I said that to scare

them off so I could talk to you in private.

My name's Jacob Hood.

I'm kind of the science guy for the FBI.

My family... are they going to be okay?

Is the same thing gonna happen to me?

I don't know.

That's what I'm here to find out.

The police,they think that...

I didn't do anything

to my mom,my dad or my little brother.

I know.

You do?

Yeah.

The forensic pathologists they've been over

your house with a fine-toothed comb to find

anything that would've caused your family's paralysis.

So if you're a poisoner,you're a very good one.

And I've seen your high school transcripts,

and Chemistry,well,you failed it,twice.

So I don't think you're too much of a threat.

What I want to know is is there anything

you can remember that you did differently

from your family yesterday morning?

Anything at all?

No.

All we did was eat breakfast.

Just breakfast.

We've already got forensics.

Want to tell me again why we're here?

Any idea,Rachel,how many

seemingly innocuous household ingredients

could actually kill you?

Air freshener?

Smells good.

Key ingredient: formaldehyde.

Could cause headaches,

nausea,nosebleeds,

dizziness,memory loss...

Margarine?

What's poisonous about margarine?

The benzoic acid.

Fatally so,if you're allergic to it.

You know the use of the term " nontoxic"

is only for advertising.

It has no regulated governmental definition whatsoever.

Well,nothing in here looks all that dangerous.

Be that as it may,we've got a sample size of four subjects,

three who ate breakfast and got sick,

and one who ate the same breakfast and didn't get sick.

Make that a sample size of five.

Looks like they have a dog.

Hey,Eddie. - Hey,Mom.

Hey,son. - Brought the mail up.

How about a cold one?

Don't mind if I do.

You gonna stay for supper?

Sounds like a plan.

What's in the mail?

Oh,relax,Mom,it's just bills

and junk.

We got it,Bob.

All right.

"Notification of full payment. "

We did it,babe.

We sure did.

Eddie,we paid off the farm.

We need to celebrate.

Huh. - Forget the beers,

we are opening the champagne tonight.

That's an idea.

You know,about a year ago,we were

a hair's breath away from losing the place.