| Episode 10 - Carrier - Sally Ann McGee |
| Sally Ann McGee is dancing at a club. The bartender is watching her. When she comes up for a refill, he comments on her not being drunk. After she admits she cannot pay her bar tab of $120 (not including tip), he suggests an alternate means of payment. In the back, he gets off of her and zips up, she says she should run up a bigger tab next time. He wants to know why she wouldn’t kiss him; she says life is too short. He grabs her and demands a kiss, she says okay. He coughs and collapses, green foam coming out of his mouth. She walks out singing “Ain’t we got fun” Stone is brushing his teeth. The Devil shows up, singing the praises of microbes and the death that they cause. He gives Stone a matchbook from Writhe. Stone shows up at the club and talks to another bartender about what happened. A biohazard team shows up to take the body. At county general, he talks with the doctor about the body. They should have preliminary results in a few hours. Sally Ann McGee is at a party. She meets Wolfie, and then they are interrupted by a drunken guy (It sounds like his name is Chip, but the close captioning lists him as Phillip). They start to dance, and Phillip bumps into them again. Wolfie gets knocked down, and Sally Ann McGee kisses Phillip. She and Wolfie leave. Phillip starts to retch, and hands his beer to some guy as he runs out. The beer gets passed around to 2 more people. At the house the next day, Stone talks to the doctor again; they try to theorize about what happened. They talk to Christina Pearson, the girl who threw the party. She tells them about Phillip and Wolfie scuffling. At Wolfie’s workplace, Stone bribes the clerk to get the address. The clerk says Wolfie called in and said he’d hooked up with a babe at a party. |
| Stone goes to the address; Sally Ann McGee answers the door. She says he is not home, and he is not coming back. She tells him she really liked Wolfie, but that he snuck up and kissed her. She starts to cry, and Stone hands her a Kleenex. As she wipes away the tears, smoke rises from them. She knocks Stone through a wall and runs out. Outside, Stone is ready to send her back, but she grabs him and kisses his eyes. He falls in the canal as she walks off singing “Ain’t we got fun.” Stone makes it back to the hotel, and Max has to help him upstairs. Stone keeps insisting he can’t get sick, but shots from his point of view make it clear that something is wrong. In his room, Max says “Well Stone, I can’t say the idea of getting you into bed has never crossed my mind, but I thought we’d have music.” She takes off his shirt, and sees the tattoos on his arms. She tells him she got an ex-boyfriend’s name tattooed on her butt. She leaves to call an ambulance. The Devil shows up, wearing a surgeon's mask. Stone asks why he is sick, The Devil doesn’t know how he can get better, but suggests that taking out Sally Ann McGee might do it. Stone make is back down to the lobby, Max yells at him for getting out of bed. The Biohazard team busts in, and checks him for a heartbeat, but he doesn’t have one. They try to inject him with something, but he stumbles out. Sally Ann McGee is at a bar. Some drunk guy is hitting on her. He tells her e works for the Department of Water and Power. She puts “Ain’t we got fun” on the jukebox. They dance, and she knocks him down. Then she arm wrestles him, and knocks him down again. She tells him he is no fun, and then kisses him. On the TV behind the bar, there is a news conference about the disease. The doctor says they are close to finding a cure. At the hospital, Sally Ann McGee demands the cure, but there is none. The doctor wants to run some tests, isolate her, and Sally slams her into the wall, then runs. In the doctor’s office, Stone comes in, coughing. He asks about Sally Ann McGee, and she tells him that she was a typhoid carrier in the 1920’s. She was locked away at 19, because there was no treatment for her. She was responsible for 200 deaths, 50 in one shot when she got drunk and vomited in a reservoir one night. A call comes in with another case. Stone goes down to the bar. He finds out that Frankie worked at the local pumping station. At the plant, Sally is drinking with Sandoval, a water man. She tells him about how she got sick from the water, salmonella typhi. They dance, and she tells him that she killed herself in the hospital. But now, she has decided to kill everyone else instead. Sandoval drinks his drink, and dies. Stone finds Sandoval’s body. He finds an emergency override wheel and dumps the contaminated water. He finds Sally, tracking her by her singing. She knocks him down; he tells her he dumped the water. She tells him that if wasn’t her fault, she didn’t do anything wrong. As she talks, Stone keeps shooting at her and missing. As she raises her flask, he hits it and it shatters, piercing her eyes. At the restraint, Stone is drinking a glass of water, and The Devil shows up. He explains that when Sally Ann McGee got sucked back to hell, her disease reverted to its normal, unhellish state. “So Ezekiel,” he asks, “how did it feel to be a pariah, shunned and hated by your fellow man?” “Well, you know, it kind of reminded me of you,” Stone tells him, much to The Devils amusement. When he stops laughing, Stone continues, “Yeah, run out of heaven on a rail. I bet it still hurts, doesn’t it?” The Devil has no response. Instead he disappears, laving Stone to finish his angel food cake. |