The Hot Zone
A speed bump
As Jerry and his crew make their way to the monkey lab, they get a call from Ash (played by Bobby Moreno) that there is a reporter snooping around
Almost called off…
Not wanting to bring to much attention to what their doing Jerry almost aborts. But luckily Ash gets her to leave.
Back at the lab
Failing at talking Rhodes into doing a wider sweep. Which I can see his point but still, one needs to be careful.
Nancy takes the blood samples and tests them for Ebola.
Cleaning out the monkey lab
Jerry and his soldiers, get to work setting up safe zones and Jerry and carter set up the teams:
– A sedation team
– A blood draw team
– An euthanization , and bone marrow remover team
– A monkey incineration team
Monkey escapes…
Finding freedom
As one of the cages is opened, their surprised to find two monkeys in it. And one gets away.
Chasing a monkey
The monkey gives them the run for their money. And if it wasn’t diseased I would’ve rooted for the monkey.
Using the vents
As it tries to escape through the vents Jerry sends Ash who is still outside and another soldier to cut off its escape.
And it works. And the monkey is finally caught and sedated.
Finding the virus
As Jerry and the others are busy with that
Nancy, Peter and Ben go through the samples and find out that four of the lab patients have the Ebola virus
Noticing differences
Nancy is stumped as she notices the virus is different. And is also affecting humans differently. Than the Ebola Zaire.
Carter is on his own mission
As the others continue their work Carter goes through files. And good thing he does because he notices a missing monkey.
Jerry overdoes it
Though Jerry makes sure that the others take their breaks. He fails to do so.
And in the end passes out.
Luckily Nancy has just arrived and ready to take his place as they take him to the hospital.
Finding Carter
Noticing Carters absence she goes looking for him. And finds him looking through frozen monkeys
And when he tells her about the missing one. She tells him to go enlist help from Rhodes and put the past behind them.
More trouble
Just to give her a bigger headache news vans start showing up.
In comes Humbolt
Calling Humbolt to take care of it.
He shows up and the news guy tells him people saw men in hazmat suits.
Lying he tells them the monkeys have SHF. And if they want to come in and see and smell, dying decaying monkeys they could
Surprisingly they don’t and leave.
Leaving Hazleton
Later on we see Humbolt packing up his office.
Hopefully he went on to have a wonderful life. Maybe to become a doctor?
Back to taking care of the monkeys
Finding out they still have 300 monkeys to take care of they get to work.
Fake out
The smartest monkey in the place pulls one over on the person doing the euthanizations and pretends to be dead
And at the right moment attacks grabbing onto her face mask.
Luckily Nancy and others show up to sedate it time. Before it tore her suit or mask.
Going on break
As some of the soldiers are out on their break they notice needles just strewn everywhere on the ground.
Nancy saves the day
After being told about it, Nancy goes out and notices a little boy came through the fence. Between there and the park.
And gets him to drop the needle and is able to move him back into the park area.
Such a tense and emotional moment. It’s a good thing Nancy’s mother instincts came out.
Finished
Finally they get finished with the lab and clean it and close down shop.
But it’s not all happy
After giving a rousing speech to her troupes Tucker shows up.
Going to see Jerry
Though they led us to believe it was Jerry who was in trouble, it wasn’t. It was her dad. He had passed.
Crawling into bed
Crawling Into the hospital bed with Jerry he holds her as she cries.
An earlier emotional moment
If that didn’t make you cry. An event before this where as her dads getting worse, her mom tries to call Nancy but he stops her. And tells her to let Nancy do what she needs to.
Peter does have a heart
During one of his talks with Ben, we see him actually apologize for making him sniff the vile.
And Ben accepts his apology. And they both sit in anticipation, worry and silence as they fear the worse.
Carter and Rhodes
Meeting up with Rhodes at his work. He tells him about the missing monkey.
A rush to the airport
They find out the monkey hadn’t escaped but was actually killed because it got sick on the way there
More monkeys
More infected monkeys were about to go to Texas but luckily Rhodes and Carter were able to stop it.
At Capitol Hill
Trying to convince the senate
Nancy, her husband, Peter and Ben try to get the senate to take the Ebola crisis more seriously. And to make new regulations and protocols for outbreaks.
Especially the Ebola outbreak.
Peter makes the winning plea
As the senate is about to leave without listening to anything Peter steps in.
And makes them realize they didn’t dodge a bullet. They got hit head on.
Rhodes speaks up
As they begin to leave again Rhodes pipes up and says they should listen.
I guess he finally woke up.
Telling them the cold hard truth
Nancy tells them that the fact is Ebola changes all the time. And luckily this time it was one that didn’t harm humans. But next time it will.
Finally they listen.
The Past
Meeting Rhodes and Melinda
As Carter talks with Bosa, he decides they need to stay longer, and delays their flighr without Rhodes or Melindas permission
Doing what needed to be done
Carter goes to see Bosa, who is now sick. And asks him to get rid of his body as to not spread the disease. Because it’s their custom to come and touch the bodies of the dead.
The last straw
As Bosas tent sits ablaze, Rhodes and Melinda have enough and leave. Rhodes yelling he won’t back him up.
My final thoughts
This show was amazing.
I wanted to thank the showrunners for having people show compassion towards the monkeys and not acting as if they were just objects.
After Show Special
After the last episode aired a special called: Going Viral: Beyond the Hot Zone
Now this is the real world and it is scary stuff so if anyone with anxiety problems might get upset by it please don’t continue. It’s not worth it.
From the special we learned that after the 1989 incident. Regulations were put in place and new practices made.
After that there was a 2014 outbreak there was another outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. That killed almost 13,000 people.
And due to the fact some doctors from other countries got sick. The aide to those countries wasn’t that good.
And suddenly in 2015 the Ebola just disappeared out of nowhere. That’s the scary thing about viruses especially the Ebola virus. It retreats learns and comes back stronger.
Uh Oh…
A return in 2018, in 2018 it came back. All from just one little boy getting bitten by a bat.
It’s still ongoing today. Hundreds are dying. And as the rest of the world looks away, and minds their own business, the virus is always trying to find a new home.
Another fact mentioned was deforestation has a lot to do with it. Because as it loses somewhere to live it finds somewhere new.
It was an interesting and heart wrenching documentary. Where they talked to real survivors of the Ebola virus.
And talked to the real Jerry and Nancy Jaax.
And seeing all those people die was horrific and on-top of that knowing that the few small hospitals they do have are being destroyed by rebels.
In the end, the main point I got out of it: It’s time for the world to wake up and stop living in ignorance.
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