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[Spec] Sandstrom's problem
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jenni42ld
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 		[Spec] Sandstrom's problem
At the beginning of ep 1, we first see Sandstrom freaking out about something. He thinks he's screwed something up big time. He calls someone on his cell- Joe? Or Jill? I can't tell what name he says. It could be either, though in the second call where he doesn't say a name, he says "man" though since Jill appears to be the new virologist I lean towards her even so. (He also calls "Lil", though we know who that is now, and says he loves her- it must be bad, cause he's not one to say that easily.) I might be digressing, I don't know... anyways, I have compared the beginning of that episode with the "next time on regenesis" from the end of the most recent one... when it does the rewind, before we get to the "six months earlier" he thinks back about all the things that happened. As near as I can tell we've seen all of them. But he does think about a dead body. We see it. And when he calls Jill (I'm guessing it's her) he asks if the body is still there. If she has been out to the gravesite. AND on the next time on regenesis, he says he's got the 1918 samples. He shows her the cooler. And we see him digging up a body. A really old body. The same body we saw in the flashback. AND we know that the Spanish flu is one of his hobbies. One hobby that Jill the virologist shares- she gave a lecture on it. He's got a lead on a body...a famous one, that's buried in permafrost, intact.

I think that this is what he f***** up, big time (his words). I think his hobby accidently unleashes the Spanish flu on the world.

And now he needs to get to the lab and get to work on a cure. Let the people at the lab know what he's done, though he may not like it, but he needs their help.

*pant* Dang. Ok, I think that's it.

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 		1918 was the year of the great Flu Epidemic that killed somewhere between 20M-40M people.

At one point (I read this in the book Flu, by Gina Kolata ) there was a group of scientists working on digging up bodies of people who had been killed by the pandemic (and were subsequently buried below the frostline, thereby preserving them) to try and hunt up some of the virus in order to study it and find a vaccine that could prevent it, were that strain ever to reappear.

Maybe a long stretch, but the dates match up nicely. Plus, flu epidemics always get people freaking out as they're so much more likely than an Ebola one (but then again, episode 1...) Wink

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 		Another good book about the flu pandemic is "The Spanish Lady" by Joan Smith. Published in 1992 or 1993, it is probably out of print, but might be at your local library. I read it many years ago and remember being moved by the personal stories it tells.

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 		well i guess ur suspiscions are correct take a look
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The Trials - Episode 6
Directed by: Don McBrearty
Written by: Chris Philpott

NorBAC reviews an experimental treatment being used on children with Leukemia. Just as they are about to declare the cancer therapy safe, another child dies. David (Peter Outerbridge) disregards the proper channels and goes to Nunavut to get a sample of what he believes is the Spanish Flu virus from a frozen corpse. Mick (Mark Rendall) and Lilith (Ellen Page) go whale-watching in Quebec, but Lilith begins to realize just how sick he is.


Frozen body...spanish flu. He probably failed to get the cure and killed alot of pewople thats why he is hit by the bus or car. He killed himself.
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