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A | On Day 2, Beth Emhoff is waiting to board her flight home as she coughs. She receives a phone call from Jon Neal who calls her and says it was nice seeing her after mentioning meeting with her to have sex earlier and reminds her to use an alternate email address of his to communicate with him. Her flight is called and she hands her credit card to the waitress to close out her tab after ending the call with Jon. In Kowloon, Hong Kong, Li Fai is riding a boat home and showing symptoms of suffering from a fever. He then takes a train subway home and sits down on the couch next to Li Fai's Sister, who seems concerned about his condition. In London, England, Irina is also showing signs of a fever. She returns to work and drops off a portfolio before taking a taxi home where she is found by a maid having suffered a seizure. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, Beth signs paperwork dealing with a construction project and returns home where she is greeted by Clark Morrow and Mitch Emhoff. A Japanese Bus Man exits a plane lavatory and looks at paperwork from AIMM Anderson. As he is riding a bus in Tokyo, Japan, he suddenly collapses. Li Fai's condition continues to deteriorate and he rides an elevator with a family and walks out to the market area. He starts to get tunnel vision and walks out into the middle of the street and is hit by a truck. | ||
On Day 3, Dr. Ellis Cheever arrives for work in Atlanta at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He passes by Roger (Contagion)|Roger and tells him he did a good job picking the winners in the football betting pool. Roger asks Dr. Cheever if he could diagnose his son with having ADHD, but Dr. Cheever tells him he isn't that kind of doctor, but could refer him to someone. In San Francisco, California, Alan Kruwiede shares a video on his blog of a phone recording a passenger took when the Japanese Bus Man collapsed. He then shows the video to Lorraine Vasquez and tells her it could be from mercury poisoning in the fish which the fishing industry suppresses. She tells him she will show it to their health reporter Hobart and Alan gets upset and threatens to sue the paper if they steal his story. | |||
Revision as of 20:42, 12 March 2020
A viral pandemic spreads across the world as medical organizations rush to track it and create a cure.
Genre
Characters/Groups
Japanese Bus Man - Yoshiaki Kobayashi
Dr. Ellis Cheever - Laurence Fishburne
Lorraine Vasquez - Monique Gabriela Curnen
Social Worker - Mary Jo Faraci
Dr. Leonora Orantes - Marion Cotillard
WHO Official - Joseph Anthony Foronda
Paramedic - Phillip James Brannon
Jon Neal's Wife - Rebecca Spence
Minnesota Medical Examiner - David Lively
Assistant Medical Examiner - Andrew White
Jory Emhoff - Anna Jacoby-Heron
Helpful Doctor - Ira Blumen, MD
Minnesota Health 1 - Scott Stangland
Minnesota Health 2 - Jimmy Chung
Minnesota Health 3 - Rick Uecker
Minnesota Health 4 - Tara Mallen
Dr. Ally Hextall - Jennifer Ehle
Dr. David Eisenberg - Demetri Martin
Dr. Ian Sussman - Elliot Gould
Dennis French - Enrico Colantoni
RADM Lyle Haggerty - Bryan Cranston
AIMM Employee 2 - Joshua Weinstein
AIMM Employee 3 - Sarah Charipar
Japanese Official - Hee-Wan Kwon
Sussman's Assistant - Blair Robertson
Hedge Fund Man in Park - Randy Lowell
Chinese Health Official 1 - Kwok Wah-Wong
Chinese Health Official 2 - Sau Ming Raymond Tsang
Funeral Director - Jim Ortlieb
Beth's Mother - Annabel Armour
Elizabeth Nygaard - Kara Zediker
National Guardsman - Peter A Kelly
Shivering Man - Jason Babinsky
Sanjay Gupta, MD - Sanjay Gupta
Man with Megaphone - Thomas Gebbia
Hextall's Father - Dan Flannery
Home Invasion Thug - Dan Sanders-Joyce
Character thumbnails with links to profiles
Detailed Synopsis
On Day 2, Beth Emhoff is waiting to board her flight home as she coughs. She receives a phone call from Jon Neal who calls her and says it was nice seeing her after mentioning meeting with her to have sex earlier and reminds her to use an alternate email address of his to communicate with him. Her flight is called and she hands her credit card to the waitress to close out her tab after ending the call with Jon. In Kowloon, Hong Kong, Li Fai is riding a boat home and showing symptoms of suffering from a fever. He then takes a train subway home and sits down on the couch next to Li Fai's Sister, who seems concerned about his condition. In London, England, Irina is also showing signs of a fever. She returns to work and drops off a portfolio before taking a taxi home where she is found by a maid having suffered a seizure. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, Beth signs paperwork dealing with a construction project and returns home where she is greeted by Clark Morrow and Mitch Emhoff. A Japanese Bus Man exits a plane lavatory and looks at paperwork from AIMM Anderson. As he is riding a bus in Tokyo, Japan, he suddenly collapses. Li Fai's condition continues to deteriorate and he rides an elevator with a family and walks out to the market area. He starts to get tunnel vision and walks out into the middle of the street and is hit by a truck.
On Day 3, Dr. Ellis Cheever arrives for work in Atlanta at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He passes by Roger (Contagion)|Roger and tells him he did a good job picking the winners in the football betting pool. Roger asks Dr. Cheever if he could diagnose his son with having ADHD, but Dr. Cheever tells him he isn't that kind of doctor, but could refer him to someone. In San Francisco, California, Alan Kruwiede shares a video on his blog of a phone recording a passenger took when the Japanese Bus Man collapsed. He then shows the video to Lorraine Vasquez and tells her it could be from mercury poisoning in the fish which the fishing industry suppresses. She tells him she will show it to their health reporter Hobart and Alan gets upset and threatens to sue the paper if they steal his story.