Some patients may benefit from treatments that help the bone marrow recover its function.” Treatment focuses on “reducing and treating infections, maintaining hydration, and treating injuries and burns. Death is often caused from the bone marrow breaking down, resulting in infections, and internal bleeding. A major concern is damage to the bone marrow. She has only 24 hours to survive as there is no antidote to radioactive poisoning. She ends up in a hospital where a doctor informs her that her bloodstream is poisoned with a radioactive material, Polonium-210, to be precise. The CDC says the lower the level of ARS, the better chance of recovery. Kate misses the target and has to run away, but her body starts crumbling under the influence of poison. Apparently, exposure at that level is like taking at least 18,000 x-rays.
ARS results in skin burns, nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, and hair loss in addition to other not very fun symptoms. The EPA says high exposure to radiation can cause skin burns and acute radiation sickness (ARS), which is what Kate’s doctor at the beginning of the film says she has. Taken at extremely high dosage in a short amount of time (like Kate), it probably means death through radiation exposure. Like any other radioactive material, if taken at significant dosage over a long period of time, there’s an increased risk of cancer. Keep scrolling to find out what Polonium-204 really is, and if there’s even a cure. But still, there’s not much information to go off of. There are other hints to what the poison throughout the film, like a discarded radiation outfit in the hospital and Kate’s increasingly reddening skin. Viewers see that Kate received the dose through glasses of wine the night before. Seeing as most people don’t come across Polonium-204 every day, the poison is sure to raise a few eyebrows.
To stave off the effects of the poison, she takes stimulants (five to be exact) to keep going through the night. Early on in the film, Kate is secretly given a deadly dose of polonium-204, and as a doctor explains, she only has one night to settle her affairs. During Kate’s odyssey, she also picks up Ani (Miki Martneau), a young girl who she believes can get her to her killer.īut before the gunslinging, intense fight scenes, and harrowing path to redemption, there’s the poisoning. This time, the incredibly talented Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as Kate, alongside her mentor Varrick (played by Woody Harrelson). Kate is the streaming service’s most recent woman-led action film, hot on the heels of the star-studded Gunpowder Milkshake, starring Karen Gillan, Paul Giamatti, Lena Heady, Angela Bassett, Michelle Yeoh and others. It turns out, getting revenge isn’t as easy as she thinks. Her goal: to kill the person responsible. Slipped a fatal poison on her final job, a ruthless assassin working in Tokyo has less than 24 hours to find out who ordered the hit and exact revenge. Imagine an unstoppable assassin who realizes she’s been poisoned and only has 24 hours to live. Netflix’s new action film Kate has an adrenaline-pumping premise.