All through the last half of the movie Reds the viewers were prepared for Jack Reed’s death. After he had lost a kidney when he was a young man, his physician had warned that an infection could be fatal to a person with one kidney; there were no "wonder drugs" in the World War I period. Toward the end of the movie, when Jack was hospitalized with a high fever in Petrograd, Russia, it was rather obvious that his time had come. His wife, Louise, who had reached his side after a long and difficult - and illegal - journey, stayed by his side throughout his ordeal. He called out, deliriously, unintelligibly. But, suddenly, he regained consciousness; he looked alert and almost healthy again. The two of them talked - Jack coherently and animated - and then he asked her for a drink of water. He se…