ACT III
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - SEATTLE, WASHINGTON - DAWN (HOURS BEFORE)
A luxurious hospital room. Oak wood floors. Large windows view a lake. HARD RAIN FALLS. An occupied hospital bed. The sound of RAGGED BREATHING. Monitors BEEP franticly.
Carter's hand dangles over the railing of the bed, black with puffy veins. Abnormal. He GROANS painfully. COLD RAIN FREEZES the windows; CRACKLING.
INT. HOSPITAL - CONFERENCE ROOM - LIGHT - MOMENTS LATER
FLAMES CRACKLES. A large conference room. Floor to wall fireplace. Windowless walls. RAIN POUNDS THE CEILING. A round table.
Three doctors are seated. Documents are scattered on the table. Readable data and non-conclusive tests. doctors share worried looks.
Doctor Peggy Rose (60) short, dark hair and eyes. Doctor Thompson Scott (45) average height, blonde hair, blue eyes. Doctor Marg Stone (33) short, brown hair, green eyes. All are dressed in work attire.
DOCTOR PEGGY
(CHINESE ACCENT)
Are there any new leads concerning Mr. Knox's condition?
DOCTOR STONE
I revisited his first blood exam, it appears to be an infection.
DOCTOR THOMPSON
(snaps)
This is beyond infection!
Doctor Peggy looks around at the two, perplexed.
DOCTOR PEGGY
The bacteria culture test would have detected the contamination if that was the case.
DOCTOR STONE
Not if it's an advanced culture.
DOCTOR THOMPSON
(indifferent)
I doubt that. Our technology is limited. I'm sure that's the cause.
Stone waves her hand at the door.
DOCTOR STONE
(frustrated)
Go take a look at the patient, his veins are black! Poisoned or infected. Please share what else it could possibly be??
DOCTOR PEGGY
Enough...let's get our heads on straight, shall we?
DOCTOR PEGGY stands, glaring down at the documents. The readable documents display high pain levels and increased vitals. A scan of crucial organs. Brain, heart, kidneys, liver, and lungs. All are blackened and inflamed.
DOCTOR PEGGY (CONT'D)
His pain levels are off the charts. A fever is dangerously rising. A virus is spreading rapidly through his body. Mr. Knox hasn't the need for life support, which is astonishing with how impacted his organs are. How is this possible?
DOCTOR THOMPSON
No clue...his heart should have gave out hours ago.
DOCTOR STONE
He shouldn't be alive...nor breathing on his own.
Stone eyes a nerve damage chart. Seddon's classification of nerve injury. Neurotmesis. Severe. Thompson plucks a document from the table, a graph of an inclined heart rate?
DOCTOR THOMPSON
His heart rate was slightly above average when he was admitted. Not drastically almost as if anxiety or exercise was the cause.
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