JACK and JACOB are still in the living-room, JACK watches MOLLY leave the room before turning to JACOB...
JACK
Is your wifi still working?
JACOB
I think so, why?
JACK
I found a site last night that could help.
JACOB
Last night?
JACK gets his laptop out of his bag and loads it up.
JACK
Elgin wasn't the first place affected. It's slowly spreading east. They think it started on one of the western isles.
JACOB
Why haven't we heard about it before now?
JACK
They've been localising the news. Keeping it to infected zones. If people knew, there'd be widespread panic.
JACOB
Surely preparing us would have been better?
JACK
Perhaps, but if you'd known the dead were rising, would you really have just gone and gotten supplies to try and last it out?
JACOB
I guess not.
JACK
No, you would have ran. Just like everyone else.. Causing mass hysteria, accidents on the roads, etc. They kept the news localised hoping they'd stop it before it got any further.
JACOB
So, what's causing it?
JACK
To begin with, they thought it was an actual infection, passed person to person. As you've seen, they bite. Now though, they think it's in the air. There has been an easterly wind blowing for the past week, pushing whatever it is from the Western Isles to... Well, here. It'll keep going...
JACOB
...and nothing can stop it?
JACK
You can stop the infected, but you can't stop the infection.
CUT TO: BLACK
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