"I, Goa'uld"

TEASER

INT. DNVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER ER - DAY

The room is chaos and injured patients keep coming in. Overheard conversations are about the huge pile-up on I-25 near Speer, where the patients are coming from.

A DOCTOR and triage NURSE are treating a child. The patient's MOTHER is behind him, grabbing the doctor's arms as he's trying to save the boy.

MOTHER
You have to save my son!

DOCTOR
(angrily)
I'm trying!

MOTHER
But my son--

DOCTOR
(impatient)
Security!

MOTHER
He's my only child. I--

DOCTOR
SECURITY! Get this woman out of the ER!

A security guard ushers her out. The doctor and nurse continue working. He glances up when paramedics park a gurney next to him.

The young woman on it is in her mid-twenties, broken bones, bloody. The doctor recognizes her. He goes back to work on his patient.

DOCTOR (CONT'D)
(to paramedics)
What is her condition?

PARAMEDIC
Critical.

The doctor shakes his head.

DOCTOR
Is her name Michelle Russell?

PARAMEDIC
Yeah. Do you know her?

DOCTOR
She's famous. Steph, get her up to x-ray and into surgery.

The triage nurse motions an orderly over and they leave with Michelle. The doctor finishes with the boy and moves to the next patient. He turns when a hand grabs his arm. The nurse has a developed x-ray. She is terrified.

Nurse

That woman you sent to x-ray--
Michelle Russell...

DOCTOR
Did we lose her?

The nurse shakes her head. With a trembling hand she gives him the x-ray. The doctor snaps it into a light board. It reveals a goa'uld tucked at the base of the skull.

DOCTOR (CONT'D)
Quarantine her immediately! Call the CDC!

The nurse runs off. The doctor starts directing patients to be moved. Off the confusion we:

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