Hanrahan and Park in “Unfinished Business”

Your soldiers are loyal to you. I think they're worried we're going to execute you.

If I was getting executed, Isaac would've come himself.

There was a shooting near the borderline between us and the Scars. Treaty might be broken. He's dealing with that now. If it's war again, we're gonna need all the soldiers we have, so he's wondering why you apparently killed some of your own men.

Including Leon.

Leon?

[nods, mournfully] Leon.

Jesus. [she helps herself to one of Park's cigarettes] What happened?

My unit is responsible for...

[cutting her off] Securing the hospital. I know your orders. I gave them, Elise. What happened?

We cleared the ground floor up to the sixth. A few scattered infected here or there; nothing we couldn't handle. All that was left was the basement, B1, B2, B3. We were expecting the worst, the kind of environment they like. Plus, the old-timers said that down there was where they brought the first Cordyceps patients in '03. On top of that, we had an access problem. [pointing to her blueprints] These stairwells here, here and here caved in, and all the elevator cars were stuck in their shafts just below ground level. [taps on the blueprint] The only way in or out of the basement is here this stairwell. So yesterday, that's where I sent a squad, down to B1.

And?

Nothing. The whole floor was empty, not even rats. So today, B2, hoping for more of the same, I sent another squad down, and I put Leon in charge, cuz... [pauses] He's my best. A few minutes in, he radios back. There's Cordyceps on the walls, the floor. Chances are, they'll find infected next, but that's what they were down there for, so I told him to proceed. Five minutes later, he radios again. But this time he... he was struggling to breathe. He could hardly talk. I thought... [her voice breaking] maybe he had been bit. I said, "Leon, were you bit?" He said... He said, "It's in the air." He said, "It's in the air. Seal us in." I knew it wasn't in the vents, or we would've all been infected weeks ago. So, I scrambled my other team, and we locked the only door to B2, and we locked the only door to B1. And we did what Leon said. We sealed them in.

[rattled, but remaining calm] Nothing else has gotten out? [Park shakes her head] No-one else has gotten sick? [she shakes her head, taking a drag on her cigarette] Okay. The hospital's a resource we can't afford to lose. [stubs out her cigarette] I'll inform only the people who absolutely need to know, and no-one else. As far as I'm concerned, Sergeant Park, you resolved the situation permanently and heroically. We owe you a debt. [She gets up and heads to the door, but pauses on the way out, and turns back to Park] I'm sorry about your son.