Mutation - Recap

Up to 10% of the population in a Virginia small town had been infected with a mysterious virus that not even their doctors know what it is. Connor and his team arrive at the hospital and start finding anything that can possibly help them on finding what this virus is.

Back in the NIH lab, Dr. Natalie Durant tests the blood of the already dead patients and finds out it's an influenza, but not any type of influenza she or any doctors had ever encounter. Stephen and Frank Powell went to the deceased patients houses, including a house that with an old couple that have been living there for years, but still no trace of the source. Finally, Eva Rossi mapped out all the places the first three deceased patients had been, and finds out that all three of them went to one house frequently. A owner of the house died due to brain cancer, or so that's what everyone thinks. Stephen and Natalie examine the dead brain cancer patient and indeed, the patient didn't die due to a brain cancer, she died due to a flu. So indeed, she is patient zero. Then, Connor examines her brain and finds out she had radiation before. It is concluded that it's the radiation that changed the nature of the influenza and caused it to mutate. But how do you still find a cure for it?

Back at the hospital, the old couple's wife checked in the hospital with the influenza. However, the old man is no where being sick and he had close contact with her wife and an already dead patient. How is it possible that this old man doesn't have the flu. Stephen asks him about his life and it turns out he is born in 1916 and had a similar flu when he was 2. Maybe he had the same flu everyone is having and got immune to it. Natalie tested his blood for antibodies to see if it has any effects on the flu, and indeed, it does. Antibodies are extracted from the old man and the NIH starts to distribute it throughout the hospital. However, there is another problem, there are not enough medicines to go around. While McCabe argues that the younger people should get the antibiotics, Connor contradicts him. He says that the age isn't a factor, but it's their condition. The people that already had the virus for a long time can't be help because their conditions are too worse and the antibiotics won't work, no matter how much you give them. Also, the people with the early stage of the virus can still wait for the next shipment because their condition isn't very bad yet. Therefore, it's the people in the middle they will be giving it too. McCabe thought about it, but eventually comes to his own sense and did the right thing.

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