Lifeline (2017) s01e01 Episode Script

1 - Lori Wescott? - Yes.
- Your password is humming bird.
- You're from LifeLine? - Mmhmm.
- Is everything okay? - No, it's not.
In thirty-three days you're gonna die.
[theme music.]
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
I am so sorry to bother you Mr.
Chlewicki.
I am such a klutz.
- Hey you got to be more careful.
- Are you sure this is safe? - Oh yea, we're fine.
- I will die of embarrassment if I lose Todd's ring before we're even married.
- Is this what you're looking for? - Help! Somebody help, please! Help! Somebody pl- [alarm.]
- 2471 just went red.
Give me agent Connor, Hooks.
[ringing.]
- It has to be for you.
You jumped last.
- Yes? Sure, no problem.
See you next month.
- Thirty-one year old female, I'm betting an accident of some kind.
- We'll know soon enough.
Fix position.
Jump.
- Help! Somebody help, please! Help! Somebody please, anybody help! - Get me the hell out of h- - Hummingbird, the passwords hummingbird.
Do you understand? - You're from LifeLine? But you didn't even try to save him.
- That's not my client.
- Now let me be very clear, LifeLine saved my life.
I have to say it's surreal to even say that out loud.
'Cause look, you know, there's a lot of things that you could spend money on.
There's a lot of things that we all spend money on.
I have definitely bought some awesomely, unnecessary stuff.
But LifeLine is something you absolutely need.
The truth is, I like to keep my personal life private and LifeLine always respects that.
It was painless, didn't feel a thing.
But I'll share this with you, every night before I sleep, I think of how close I came to actually dying.
Does it really matter how it all works? What matters is this, something unspeakable was supposed to go down, but LifeLine made sure that it didn't.
And you can't put a price on that.
- Miranda, nice to see you again.
I hear you've been having second thoughts.
- I can't get a straight answer from your people about how this gizmo works.
- It's not scary, our LifeLine device simply scans your vitals and is in constant communication with our surveillance systems.
The result is unprecedented personal protection.
- You can find me that fast, wherever I am? - It's a lot less complicated than it sounds.
Have you ever lost your cell phone? - I lost it all the time until my son put some sort of find your phone app on it.
- Yes! That's exactly what this is, a find Miranda app.
If our GPS computers tell us something is wrong, we respond immediately to fix it.
- So this thing that you're implanting always knows where I am? - I assure you, your information is kept very private.
I consider myself overprotective, but I looked away for just one moment, and that's all it took for him to run into the street.
A car sped around the corner, didn't even see him.
But my baby had one of these.
A LifeLine agent swooped in from nowhere and saved his life.
It was incredible, Miranda.
I can't imagine how I would've lived with myself if he- If I hadn't done everything possible to protect him.
- Okay.
- You won't feel a thing.
Welcome to LifeLine, Miranda.
You are now one of the most secure people in the world.
Your password is sparrow.
Hopefully you will never need it, but if a LifeLine agent is needed, that is the password they will use to identify themselves, - Sparrow.
- That's right, Miranda.
- Right this way.
Can I have my son back? And next time you use my family to close a sale, I get half the commission.
- This is Jasmine.
Yes sir, right away.
- Nervous? - Should I be? - If you're smart.
- Then yes, I'm very nervous.
- You're very good at what you do, Jasmine.
And loyal.
- Thank you, I really like working for this company.
- I'd like to offer you a promotion, case director.
- You picked the right woman.
- It's a position that comes with great rewards and also confidential information.
- Are you asking if I can keep a secret? - I'm not asking.
If you take this job, you will keep them, understood? - Okay.
- Great.
Let's get you started.
Now the devise we install into our clients is not quite what we say it is.
But you suspected that, didn't you? Yeah, it is much, much more than that.
It's constantly receiving transmissions of your vital signs from itself, thirty-three days in the future.
- What do you mean in the future? - If the device receives a warning of an upcoming death in the future, we can take action today, in the present.
- What kind of action? - How's it going, Jay? - Setting jump coordinates, north 34 mark 1005894.
West 118 mark Jump windows closing fast, no time to waste.
[?.]
- You're sending him into the future? - The jump box is a one way ticket thirty-three days into the future, and that is a fact that will never leave this building.
How we looking, Jay? - Everything looks nominal.
Locking in jump coordinates.
- Once and agent arrives in the future, they stay there.
- Why jump an agent forward to save a client's life? You know they're gonna die in thirty-three days.
So why not just lock that client in a bunker with guards and doctors until their expiration date passes? - Yeah we tried that in the beginning and we learned the hard way.
Look, your fate is certain.
Okay? It can't be undone.
Your every action taken is already part of a pre-determined timeline and that is why I built the jump box.
It doesn't just jump an agent forward in time, it jumps them to a brand new timeline.
Where new outcomes are possible.
Look, our company is growing quickly and we're getting new clients everyday.
Now I need someone to manage the jumps, schedule the saves.
[?.]
Tell me where you want to go Row baby row Tonight we're gonna- - Nora? - In here, dad.
Dinner's almost ready.
I feel it down deep in my soul Just tell me where you want to go - How was your day? - It was good, real good.
I got something for you.
Now I know it's not a dog.
But I saw this little guy and I thought you might like him.
- Dad what's going on? - Nothing's going on.
I promise.
I'm clean, I'm just happy.
I got a job.
- You did?! - Mmhmm, at the parking garage on Harris.
I can walk over there, save bus fare.
- Dad that's great! - Bad news is, it's at night.
Overnight, five nights a week.
You'll be home alone a lot.
- Stop self-sabotaging, I can deal.
- You stop watching Dr.
Drew.
He's perfect! Now I'll have someone to keep me company all these nights you'll be abandoning me.
- Jesus, come on.
- Dad, I'm joking.
I'm so proud of you.
Thank you.
Hey there little guy, bet you don't even remember the trip here, huh? You think you've always been here.
- Here it is.
It's hot, right? - Stephanie.
Stephanie.
Blackbird.
- Who is that? Your mom? She's kind of hot.
- I don't know her.
- Blackbird.
Do you understand? - Holy shit.
- Come on, get her out of the car.
- What the hell? Where are you going? - You're gonna be okay, okay? - Bitch.
- You're in no shape to drive.
- Get off me, bitch! - I just saved your life, prick.
- Hey! - Hey.
Mail.
- I didn't know you were gonna be back so soon.
- I went in after you.
Now we have three days off together.
It looks worse than it is.
- Sit down, let me get you some ice.
So what happened? - Oh my God the clients companion was wasted so I stopped her from getting into the car, and then tried to stop him from driving.
And he just didn't like it.
I wasn't about to let anyone drive in that condition.
I had it under control.
- Clearly.
- Why does her life matter and his doesn't? - Because she's a client and he is not.
And because sticking your nose into that situation almost got it knocked off.
I mean look at you.
- That's an awful way to think.
- No, awful would be losing you.
And kissing that side of your mouth.
I'll get you a plate.
Morning.
You uh new? - Uh, yeah.
Hi, Jasmine.
Been here a month.
- Connor.
Uh, what are you doing in our filing system? - I'm blowing it up and I'm starting over.
- It's not that bad.
- Agents are assigned at random, client interviews feel like they've been filed like orangutans.
Did you want something? - I was just trying to save someone's life.
But you knows, that can probably wait.
- Oh yeah, um.
Connor Hooks, if that's not your client, you know what floor I'm on.
Literally, these files are on the floor.
- I get it.
- So stupid.
- Fixed position all set.
Your jumping in three, two, one.
- All right, we got three days to celebrate the twelve days of Christmas, New Years Eve and New Years Day.
- Well then let's get started.
[ringing.]
Yep? Okay.
See you in a month.
- Look whose finally home.
- Detective Grundy, what a surprise.
You just missed Connor.
- I know, I uh- I waited till he left to knock.
- So congratulations, I heard you made sergeant.
- I did.
Two years ago.
- Two years, wow.
Hey you should really come around more often.
- I do.
You guys are never here.
- Okay so we travel a lot, and you didn't just drop by.
- I want you to come back to the force.
Jenkins is retiring next month.
I got approval to hire you without opening it up.
-[?.]
promotion.
Flattered.
- You were a good cop.
You're one of the best I ever worked with.
- I loved being a cop, Grundy.
It's one of the things in my life I'm the most proud of.
And I loved working for you.
- But.
- I've committed to something different.
It's something new and exciting and Connor and I are really happy.
- Working for an insurance company? - Well it's a little more than that.
- Enlighten me.
There's not a lot about it online.
A lot of theories, no real information.
- The company doesn't seek any attention.
But we're helping a lot of people.
That's really all I can say about it.
- Okay.
Well you look good.
I mean, without the.
God you haven't aged a day.
Take care of yourself.
Okay? - Mmhmm.
- I'll see myself out.
- Don't let it go off.
- Why do we even bother setting it, huh? You're always awake before it goes off anyway.
- Because I don't want to miss one minute of morning time with my wife.
[ringing.]
- Hey.
- Hey.
So who's the client? - Porter Booth.
- Again? - Guys got the highest price premium on the board.
- Well whatever he's paying is a bargain in his line of work.
- You got everything you need for the job? - Yeah.
- We are locked in, signal's strong.
- Just get me close.
Lock position and jump.
[alarm.]
- Spencer.
Is that supposed to happen? - Whoa, whoa come here.
[honking.]
- Get off me, asshole.
- Flamingo, asshole.
Your welcome.
[ringing.]
- Connor Hooks.
- Who is this? - Do you believe in free will or fate? - Neither.
- I have a task for you.
I want you to beat the board.
- Nobody can beat the board.
- You really don't believe that, do you? - What are you talking about? - I'm talking about Haley.
- If you've done anything to her, I swear to God I will kill you.
- I want you to prove them all wrong, prove to them you'll never miss a save no matter what.
Haley went red thirty-three days ago.
Another agent was sent and failed.
She dies in twenty minutes and I need you to get to her before they get to you.
- Where the hell is she?! - Paris and Wilk.
- We should really start doing these exchanges in nicer places.
- Nice places come with extra eyes.
Extra eyes are expensive.
- Dad? - What happened? - I cut it on the fish bowl, I didn't want you to have to leave work but it won't stop bleeding.
- It's okay, we'll fix it.
I think there's a first aid kit up in the break room.
- Where's the merchandise? - How long you been stealing from me? - I'm protected in ways you can't imagine.
- Drop it! Drop it now! - Shoot her, Skinny! - She looks like a cop.
- I ain't shooting no cop.
- Put your weapon down, now! - Connor, what are you doing here? - Haley, just get out of here, go now.
- I'm not letting this man die! - Go! [gunshots.]
- Haley! No! - Get us out, Skinny! [gunshots.]
- Dad? Dad! Dad! - Hey, don't look at that.
- Get a clean up team here now! Wipe that girl's memory, triple dose! - Hey, don't look at that, don't look at that.
Look at me.
No get off! You're okay.
- Please help! - It's okay, it's all right, please be okay.
- No! Let go! [exhales.]
- Next on LifeLine.
- We're not in the revenge business, Connor, we save lives.
- You shoot now, it's murder.
- I heard there ain't no pain on earth worse than a gunshot.
- Connor I could lose my job.
- You know a man driven by revenge is a liability.
- Follow his rules and there won't be any trouble.
- It was only five minutes.
I ran as fast as I could.
- [?.]
not gonna know, we're gonna do it off the books, unregistered.