The Head (2020) s01e01 Episode Script

1
Come on, people!
Get them while they're hot!
Which won't be too long out here,
in this goddamn cold.
There you go. There you go.
Ok, go.
Go, go, go!
Go! Wow, take it easy.
This is mine. Okay?
Speech, speech, speech!
Okay, okay If I must.
This has been a summer of intense work
and scientific exploration.
But our mission is not yet finished.
While our lucky
summer brothers and sisters
are leaving for the warmth
of civilization,
a few of us remain
to endure the winter darkness
in order to bring the light
of knowledge to the world.
The work we started on Polaris V
and that we continue to do here
could be the very thing
that cures our ailing planet.
Summer's over.
"Who is it?"
It's the summer commander.
Annika dear,
can you stop fighting
climate change for a moment
- and join the farewell party?
- Why should I?
Because he's your boss,
and it is important
for you to be there.
Yes, but
You're my husband.
A husband I don't get to see
for six months.
Or touch
Or kiss
Or touch
"Everybody's leaving today?"
Most of them are, yeah
Only ten of us
will remain here, you see?
Take off's in a couple of hours.
Last one of the summer. After that
"Hey, listen to me,
you can do this, you hear me?
Everything is going
to be alright. You'll see."
Sure. Six months of isolation
in the coldest place on Earth.
What could possibly go wrong
"Mom would be proud of you."
Maggie?
- I was looking for you.
- I'm just talking to my sister.
Come on, hurry up. Hey.
This could be the last time
Gus does the chicken dance.
- Oh, I wouldn't wanna miss that.
- No, you wouldn't.
Bye, Syl.
- I love you.
- "Bye."
Lukas found it
in his search history,
and grounded him for a month.
It's just crazy what kids have
at the tip of their fingers
these days
May I have this dance, my lady?
I was actually just about
to get a burger.
You know what?
I think you're scared.
- What?
- You're scared
of this!
Oh, please
Stop, stop! Please, please!
- But I'm so happy you came!
- Okay, okay!
You win!
I hope you are going to miss me.
I'm not going to miss you.
- Of course not.
- No, I'm not.
Take good care of my station, yeah?
No, no. You mean my station,
my station now.
- Okay.
- Get the fuck out of here.
Goodbye.
Are you sure about this?
- Johan
- You can't stand him.
That has nothing to do with it.
You haven't worked together
for eight years.
- With good reason.
- But I am doing it now.
I want my name on this, Johan.
He should not be allowed
to get the credit again,
just because he is a man.
I discovered that bacteria
together with Arthur.
Okay?
Okay.
Fuck, I love you.
So much.
- And you know that.
- Yes.
I've been thinking a lot about
having more people in the house.
- More people in the house?
- The small kind.
The small kind?
We'll make a family together.
Yes?
- Yes?
- Yes.
"This is nonsense.
Doesn't prove a damn thing.
Thought you'd feel that way, Garry.
You were the only one
that could have gotten
to that blood
We'll do you last"
You fucked up, MacReady.
You should've done Palmer last.
Jesus, whose idea was this?
It's a tradition.
All stations watch it
at the beginning of the winter.
It's a celebration
of your fellow winterers.
Great.
I think I need a break.
Where are you going?
Maggie, are you scared?
There are things
that bump in the night
A stray.
It probably got separated from its herd
during last night's blizzard.
Where is she going?
It's trying to find its way
to the ocean.
Probably won't make it
- You know you can't help.
- I know.
- It's against the rules.
- Yeah, I know.
Flying out our garbage,
staying away from the wildlife,
trying to pretend we aren't here.
It's absurd, of course, but
those are the rules.
Jesus, we're in the middle of nowhere.
Who would find out,
who would know if we helped her?
I think you're learning
the wrong lesson from this.
This place doesn't give a shit
if we live or die.
Empathy will only get you killed.
- Astrid.
- Hey.
There it is.
- How long it's been?
- Three weeks.
No contact?
It happens.
To lose all communications?
Sometimes.
She's fine.
Tonight we will all be pretending
we cannot hear you two
through the thin walls.
Where's everybody?
Where's the welcome committee?
I don't know.
Come on!
Hello?
Anybody?
Get the generator up and running.
The generator.
Let's check the generator. Come on.
Micke?
Yes, it's not new It's
a week old, at least.
Johan.
Johan, bullet holes.
Who the hell had weapons in here?
Micke!
What?
It's Erik.
What's going on?
I I don't know, Johan.
"Johan, Astrid talking.
You need to get to the hangar
right now."
Come on, Micke!
Astrid?
What the fuck?
Where's the other Sno-Cat?
Not here.
There's something else
you should see.
What?
Come.
Is that?
Has anyone looked?
We were waiting for you.
Micke.
What can you tell me?
Judging by the size,
the bone structure
I would I'd say it's a woman.
Did she die in there?
Yes, probably.
Looking at the bone disintegration,
we're talking 800 degrees, at least.
I'm sorry.
It doesn't have to be Annika, right?
Search the whole station.
Look for the rest of the crew.
Check every fucking corner
and find my wife, yeah?
You two, check the dorms.
Look everywhere.
And I mean everywhere! Come on.
- We go to the mess hall.
- Yeah.
Go, go, go!
Johan, we can't open the kitchen door,
it's somehow blocked from the inside.
Come on, yeah! Come on!
Come on!
It's Maggie! Maggie!
Easy, easy.
Come on, Gus.
Come on, easy.
Easy.
Maggie.
It's Johan. Look at me.
You know who I am.
We are not gonna hurt you.
We are not here to hurt you.
Maggie, wanna put that knife down?
Put the knife down, Maggie. Maggie.
Put it down. Okay.
There you go.
Okay.
We're gonna get you out
and send you to the infirmary, okay?
Come on.
It's safe.
Come.
Watch your head.
Easy, easy.
Let's go, come on, come on.
We knew these people, right?
We were their friends.
They were civilized.
I just can't begin to imagine
them killing one another
I mean look at poor Maggie,
she seemed terrified
Maybe it wasn't them.
One of the missing, then?
Who?
Arthur?
Ebba?
Annika?
I need you in the air.
Check the western plateau.
The Argentinean station is closest.
Maybe the Sno-Cat tried to reach it.
Okay.
"You're speaking
to Superintendent Bergman now.
What's the situation you found
on the ground today?"
No electricity.
One of the Sno-Cats is missing.
The other one is
smashed.
Totally burned down.
Everywhere,
you see signs of destruction.
Bullet holes.
"Someone brought a weapon
to a demilitarized zone?"
It seems like it.
We don't know who.
"What about the personnel?"
Seven dead. Two missing.
And one survivor.
"That'd be Doctor Mitchell?"
Yes, she was the station doctor.
"Could you describe
her current state to me?"
This is Mikael Karlsson, I am
I am the expedition doctor.
She's not making a lot of sense
right now.
Serious T3.
"T3?"
Polar T3 syndrome.
It leads to memory loss and psychosis.
She's in a bad state.
"Will she live?"
Yes Yes.
"Okay.
Try not to disturb the crime scene."
Okay, but the whole station
is a crime scene.
"I know, and I understand that,
but I'm going to need you
to do your best.
About Doctor Mitchell,
keep her safe, keep her isolated."
Is she a suspect?
"She's a person of interest.
We're sending a team down there.
Our officers will take charge
of the investigation
as soon as they get there."
And how long will that be?
"I'm being told 48 hours."
Are you ok?
I hadn't had a cigarette in ten years.
And here I am, freezing
my ass off for the privilege
of getting cancer,
so what do you think?
How did you get a hold of those?
Mess hall.
So much for not
disturbing the crime scene.
Don't tell the police.
I won't.
Maggie.
Can she be questioned?
- In 48 hours?
- No, now.
We are supposed to wait for the police.
I can't wait that long, Micke.
Annika can't wait that long.
Maggie?
Do you know who I am?
Johan.
Okay.
You can go.
- Johan, I don't know
- Micke, you can go.
I'm sure you can guess
what I'm about to ask, Maggie.
- Annika?
- Where is she?
I see I see her.
Running
Screaming. She's
Is she hurt?
Maggie, is she hurt?
I don't know.
- You don't know?
- It's all
It's bees, buzzing in my skull.
They cover everything.
Maybe you could shoo away those bees?
What?
If I were to ask if
if you did this, what would you answer?
- Did?
- The murders.
You think I?
What do you expect me to think?
I have seven bodies.
I got two missing and Annika
Maggie, sorry.
It's a lot to process, okay?
I just need some clarity.
I need you to tell me
what happened, Maggie.
Can you do that, please?
It was after burying the seal
The se the seal?
That's when it started.
That day
No, the day after and
Miles and Nils, they
We were naked,
we were doing that run
Three, two, one. Go!
It's fucking cold, isn't it?
It's fucking cold!
- Yeah, well done guys!
- Well done!
Here you go.
Three hot chocolates for the newbies.
Enjoy!
You deserve it.
Of all the clubs that I consider
myself proud to be a member of,
none fill me
with quite as much pride
as the 300-Club.
To go from 200 degrees
Fahrenheit in that steam room,
to minus 100 out there
in the dark polar night,
that is not only a mark of distinction,
that is a mark of insanity.
To Maggie,
Aki,
Heather
This is your first winter
with this merry band of misfits.
You replace
two of our fallen brothers,
Lars and Damian.
May they rest in peace.
Anyway Enough of all that.
All I really wanted to say was
Welcome to the loony bin!
Welcome, welcome!
He likes the sound
of his own voice, doesn't he?
Yep, but he's a genius.
Did you watch his rant at Davos?
Yeah, I think I did.
That was nasty.
But the research he did on Polaris V,
what he and Annika found
eight years ago,
that was a game changer.
You sound like a groupie.
Are you kidding me?
A bacteria that feeds on CO2?
Do you know how many candidates
I had to kill to get this gig?
Fucking touching me!
Hey Miles, leave me alone.
Fucking asshole!
Hey! Hey!
Fuck off!
Stop it!
- Fucking liability!
- Fucking twat!
What are you doing?
Nils?
Miles, what happened?
What happened?
That motherfucker acts
like he owns the place,
just because he's been down here
since before they shot Lennon.
He's been getting on your nerves?
Yeah.
How?
He's been timing me.
- Timing you?
- Yeah, in the shower.
He stands out with
a fucking watch in his hand.
- While he showers?
- While I shower.
He stands there and says,
"You got five minutes,
you had five minutes."
I know we got five minutes,
I know we all got
five fucking minutes a week.
I don't need
that motherfucker telling me
how precious hot water is.
And he goes on he says,
"You got, you heard,
you had six minutes,
you had seven fucking minutes."
- And have you?
- No!
Yeah. I don't know. I
Maybe.
It's hard
to keep track.
It's hard to keep track, down here.
You know?
Nils?
I
I'm sorry, doc. I
You just, you just reminded me
of someone.
- Oh, yeah?
- Yeah.
She was too good for the ice.
I think maybe you are too.
Well?
I think I'm going to increase
his dose of tyrosine.
That serious?
A little T3-ish.
He's losing time. More than usual.
Did he say anything?
- Anything?
- Yeah.
About what?
About whatever it is that's going on
inside that head of his.
They were fighting over shower time.
That's how that thing started.
Is that it?
I think that's enough for now, Arthur.
Okay.
- Sorry, Sir
- Erik.
Erik.
I'm sorry, I'm
I'm just trying to work out
who I'm supposed to answer to.
I'm the commander.
But he's the superstar.
It's complicated to deal with him,
especially since he is the one
saving the world.
Thank you.
Good morning, Argentina!
Hello, Méndez
Did you watch the match last night?
'Cause someone's ass got kicked again!
That must have hurt, huh?
Hello, Méndez?
Méndez, wakey, wakey!
Méndez Wake up!
What are you drinking?
It's really good, try.
No, I'm not gonna drink that.
This is sugar.
No, it's fruit.
It's not fruit!
Look, you could eat beef,
you could eat lamb,
pork, turkey, chicken,
and still feel good,
still feel fit, you know?
Paleo would be good for you.
You calling me chubby?
Yeah, she did. Yeah.
- What?
- For sure.
No, no, no. I'm just
it would make you feel good!
- In, in you meaning me.
- Right, right.
- Just eat. Right. Just eat.
- Thanks, I appreciate.
- That's fine.
- That dog food.
It is done.
What are you talking about?
The seal. I buried it.
You're nuts! What about the Treaty?
Well, the Antarctic Treaty
says not to disturb the wildlife
not the wilddead, right?
I don't think that's what it means.
"If a law is unjust,
a man is not only right to disobey it,
he is obligated to do so."
- Wait, is that?
- That's Thomas Jefferson.
What? I'm a cook, not a philistine.
A renaissance man.
Who's a renaissance man?
- No one
- Michelangelo.
- Yeah, good old Michelangelo.
- Best of Ninja Turtles.
Hey!
Miles didn't come for dinner yet?
No idea. I haven't seen him all day.
Guys!
Anyone seen Miles?
No, no.
And this afternoon?
No.
I saw him earlier. Outside.
Doing his round.
How long ago was that?
I don't know.
Two?
Three hours?
Miles, are you here?
Miles!
Miles!
Miles, can you here us?! Miles!
Miles!
Hey, Miles!
Miles!
Miles, are you there?
Miles!
Miles!
Guys? You'd better come see this.
Over?
"You've found Miles? Over."
Not exactly.
"On my way."
Heather?
- What's up?
- Come see this.
- What?
- This.
Fuck
Is that?
Of course it is.
You go back inside.
That's bullshit.
Miles?
Guys! They're back!
Erik.
Where's Miles?
Heather?
Did you find him?
What is going on?
Hey, Heather?
Erik!
Erik?
Hey, Nils?
Did you find him?
Nils, is he okay?
Nils!
- What the fuck is going on?
- I don't know, I don't know
Please.
What Please guys!
Heather, check the comms. Hello? Hello?
- What's going on, guys?
- Hey!
Hello? Fuck!
- Erik? Talk to me!
- Hello?
Fuck! Fuck! Central! Central!
Central! Hello?!
What the fuck is going on!?
Why are we not connected
to the satellite?
Heather?
- What's going on?
- Fuck, fuck, fuck
Fuck
Why is the satellite not linked?
Satellite is not working
But we can fix it!
Somebody knows how to fix it!
That would be Miles's job
Where is Miles?
Miles?
Miles?
Miles?
Okay. Easy, easy!
What happened? What happened?
Easy! Come on. What happ Micke!
I don't fucking know
I don't know what's happening!
- It's all right.
- What's happening to her?
It's okay, relax!
- Micke!
- Get out!
What do you need?
- Get out, I said!
- Fuck! Fuck!
So relax, relax. Relax, Maggie.
I'm here, I'm here.
Find me.
"Dear Johan,
I am so sorry there are things
I don't deserve forgiveness
blood in my hands
for what I did
I deserve to burn"