Isle of the Dead Page #4

Please, I haven't had visitors

in over a decade. Sit.

Don't, don't, don't worry.

They are all securely locked up.

There's nothing to worry about.

What are they?

My patients.

I found a cure.

Cure?

Wexler:
Cure. Cure. Yeah, that's

what I said, cure.

You should be eating.

Why are you not eating?

Here.

Here.

You must be hungry.

Here.

She was a brilliant

researcher, you know.

Your mother.

The work we did together

at the NIH, it was really

groundbreaking.

Did she talk about me?

Yes.

Yes, at the end.

You know by then she

assumed that--

Right. Yeah, of course.

I, I want you to know that I did

ask her to come with me to the

facility. I did.

She said she just

If I had her help... the

sequencing...

But that...no.

I mean, if this is speculation.

Water under the bridge. You know

bridges burn.

You're here!

You're here!

This um...

This isn't a coincidence, is it?

It's not.

I thought this might be my only

chance to get to know your work.

I've never considered the

possibility--

I know. I was alive.

Mikaela, I'm sorry.

Colonel, why didn't you contact

HQ?

Let them know you're

still alive.

What's the point?

I mean ,

The estimated mortality rate

was totaled.

I was considered collateral

damage.

The minute the pathogen escaped

the lab...

They weren't coming for me.

They weren't coming for

any of us.

But , that is the point

of a ten year quarantine.

Isn't it, huh?

Yeah. You let the epidemic run

its course,

to kill a possible host.

Starve it to death.

That's why we picked this

island, in fact--

It's a natural limit to how far

it can spread.

Yeah, but what about, birds and

fish? And other stuff?

Has there been a case of an

outbreak in the mainland?

No.

Then I guess that birds, fish,

and stuff are not a problem.

What exactly went wrong,

Colonel?

The order was to create a

weaponized strain of the Ebola

virus.

And you know, when the army

embarks on such an endeavor,

We split the work into two

tracks.

Refining the pathogen to make

the bioweapon,

and synthesizing an anti-serum

to defeat it.

Why?

Why do you have the safety on

your gun, soldier?

So you don't kill yourself with

it accidentally.

What we saw out there in that

jungle, that wasn't Ebola.

No. Not anymore.

The head of my bioweapons teamis

also my second in-command,

Captain Marshall.

Marshall, he created some

mutated strains of the virus.

See, he was sloppy.

Sloppy.

He didn't follow protocols.

Why have protocols if you're not

going to follow them!

So one of his strains was very

aggressive,

its effects were beyond

something that we could control.

And so when infected, then it

became what you saw out there in

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