Departure (2019) s01e02 Episode Script

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- Previously on Departure
- Oh, my God! What's happening?
If there are survivors
on the open water,
six hours is all they will have.
- Let's find this plane.
- Pilot's state of mind is
- top priority.
- Why has our pilot
- got a second phone?
- And who is he talking to
- right before takeoff?
- My airline contact says
ACARS cut out three minutes
after the transponder.
- Which means?
- Somebody on board wanted
- that aircraft to disappear.
- Kendra, this is Janet Freeh.
- Security Service.
- MI5?
- Hm.
- You brought
a spy into this investigation
without telling me?
On the manifest his name's
Harold Rossi.
His real name is Hassan Esmaili.
He's on the watch list,
and he's been trained as a pilot.
If we don't find those
black boxes, then we'll
- never know what happened.
- They found debris?
No. A survivor.
Got it.
How in God's name is she alive?
Searching passport photos now.
Match: Madelyn Strong, age 25.
London-born. She was
a medical resident and she was
a last-minute addition to the flight.
All right, people. We need
to know why she was in New York.
I want all CCTV footage. I want
to know her social networks;
what she was involved with;
where she went to school;
where she grew up.
Do you think there could
be more survivors?
Oh, I'll say the chances are
next to impossible but,
then again, so was this.
Anything more on
our watch list Iranian?
Not yet. Janet's looking
into it, I'll keep you posted.
Kendra? Phone.
- OK
- I've made contact
with Lieutenant Commander Foster
aboard the lead search vessel.
When we find the aircraft,
I'd like for you
- to consider me for the dive.
- Nadia, I understand, but it's
not my call, it's the Navy's.
I've gotta take this. Sorry.
- OK.
- That's it.
OK. Got it.
The chopper's landed and
they're taking her into surgery.
- Oh. Do we know who she is yet?
- Madelyn Strong.
- A young doctor.
- Oh. She's a bloody miracle.
Howard, why was
she a last-minute passenger,
and how did she escape
with a life raft?
What are you trying to say?
Is our miracle survivor
our prime suspect?
Doctor Brown, please call 4-9-9.
Doctor Brown, please call 4-9-9.
Humpty-Dumpty's in better shape,
but this young lady fell
from a far greater height.
Do you think I'll be
able to question her?
No. This kind of coup-contrecoup injury,
I'd expect severe concussion.
Will you put her into an induced coma
- until the swelling goes down?
- Well
- I hope that won't be necessary.
- Doctor, please.
Could I have one minute with her
when you think she's OK?
Please?
Thank you.
Doctor Mackay: call your office.
Doctor Mackay: call your office.
Hassan Esmaili
travelling as Harold Rossi,
he was seated two rows away
from our lone survivor.
How did an Iranian pilot
on the watch list
- get on our aircraft?
- That I still don't know.
But Ali Basra
Madelyn Strong's fiancé,
he's second-generation Pakistani.
- Is that a crime?
- No.
But this is.
He's got a criminal record.
We need to test the plane for
every possible vulnerability.
How's the airline
going to like me tearing
- their new jet liner apart?
- Yeah, well, it's better
than having their entire
950 fleet grounded.
- Hi. I'm Navi
- Shit, sorry.
your in-flight entertainment
system. What would you like to do?
I'd like you to tell me why 255 people
died on Flight 7-1-6.
I'm sorry. Could you repeat that?
No. Because, like us,
you only get one shot at it.
I'm thinking
that maybe a fire on board
knocked out the transponder.
Yeah. A cracked flame tube
or combustion chamber could
leak gas, ignite a blaze. I can
run some tests, if you'd like.
Yeah. Let's start below deck.
And get on to the lab.
I want the raft that our
survivor used tested for DNA.
- Right.
- As soon as.
OK.
We need to be discreet
with our investigation
- into Hassan Esmaili.
- Discreet?
That's an understatement.
If it leaks that there was
an Iranian terrorist
onboard 716, who might have
- caused it to crash
- And it could look
- like an act of war.
- That is the general consensus
amongst my colleagues at MI5 as well.
OK, then, we happily agree.
We do.
I want in on the questioning
of Ali Basra.
- Ali Basra?
- Mm-hm.
- Why?
- He's got a rap sheet.
- For what?
- Assaulting a police officer
at a demonstration.
But more importantly,
Madelyn missed
her scheduled flight at JFK.
She was waiting for a package,
which the airport security
screening shows
was labelled for Basra.
- What was in the package?
- That's what I want to ask him.
No, Dom and I will handle the family.
I need you on the Iranian.
Use your contacts,
see what you can turn up.
Good luck. Thanks, Janet.
Anxious family members
continue to gather
- at Heathrow Airport
- Kendra Malley,
the investigator in charge,
is expected to brief the media
- later this afternoon.
- The Trade and Industry
Minister is being cautious with
- her approach to the Chinese.
- Stock markets are falling
with fears that all British-mad
9-50 aircraft will be grounded.
We are positive your ship
is headed in
the wrong direction, Captain.
Flight 7-1-6's last ACARS transmission
was 49.0515, negative 28.4317.
- Is that so, Miss?
- You won't find the black boxes
in the quadrants you're searching.
Then why do my calculations
say that we should
- be searching here?
- Well, for one,
they don't factor in
wind drag coefficients.
Where are we with the captain?
Any indication that his two
spouses knew about his double life?
I'm bringing them
both in for interviews
this afternoon.
Hopefully, I can establish
who knew what, as well as
Donovan's state of mind.
Wife in London, husband in
Dublin, kids with both?
Makes me suicidal just saying it.
Yeah. The tabloids get
a whiff of this, God help us.
Oh, yeah. Levi. Flight 7-1-6
had internet access
all across the Atlantic,
so let's collect all the
passengers' texts and calls,
- as many as we can, yeah?
- All right.
Theo? Where's Theo?
Theo! What's the update?
We're doing a fan blade out test to see
if faulty manufacturing
could have caused
Engine failure? No.
The aircraft could have made it
to Shannon on one.
Start with the electrics.
- I've got a team on that too.
- OK. What's the word on the raft?
Uh, the lab said that it would
take a couple days to analyze
the residue and the DNA.
And I told them that wouldn't fly,
so they'll have it to you
by the end of day.
OK. Nice work. Anything else?
Right. They've located
Madelyn Strong's next of kin.
That's it. Thanks, everyone.
There.
Why do you need our DNA?
Have their bodies been recovered?
We're working as fast as we
can. Please, sir, bear with us.
Have you
Have you found my Stella?
- You'll be OK.
- Rest assured
we're doing everything
that we possibly can.
Hopefully, we should have
some news soon, OK?
Excuse me. Are you Ali Basra?
You must be Derek Strong,
Madelyn Strong's father?
God, what's happened?
Would you both like
to follow us, please?
Please.
How long have you and
Madelyn been engaged?
What's that camera for?
Is this an interrogation?
Why?
Because I'm Muslim?
It's just a few questions, Mr. Basra.
So, um, who did Madelyn take after?
Mother? Father?
She She takes after her mother.
She's all hearts and laughter,
much more than me.
She collects stray cats.
You just met the biggest.
You don't approve of her fiancé?
What father dreams his daughter
will marry a DJ?
She's gone, isn't she?
They're all gone.
You were arrested for an act
of violence outside
of the Syrian embassy.
I was just protesting the war.
- By throwing a brick at a copper?
- Nah, I didn't throw anything.
They messed up.
They scooped up the wrong man.
Then who is the right man?
You were there protesting with
supporters of the Islamic State,
members of the fundamentalist
group Hizb-ut-Tahir.
There were thousands of people there!
Every political stripe there is!
What are you accusing me of?
CCTV footage from JFK.
Who the hell is that?
I was hoping you could tell me.
He must be like a colleague?
Someone she met at the interviews there.
Did Madelyn share
her fiancé's political beliefs?
What has that got to do with it?
What has that got to do with anything?
Why the devil are you asking me
all these questions about Maddy
when there's scores of other
family members out there?
Oh Jesus!
You've found her body, didn't you?
For God's sakes, tell me!
We did find Madelyn, yes.
She's in critical condition,
- but she is alive.
- Christ!
She's alive?
Howard?
Why in God's name did you
tell him she was alive?
He knew and it's just a matter of time.
Bullshit! You're compromising
the interviews!
Hello? Uh ah sorry, Howard.
I can't hear you.
I think the phone's breaking up.
Bad reception?
- Terrible.
- Mm.
You will always find people
who are looking for ways
to benefit themselves. There is always
value to be found in good asset
poorly managed.
Aviation is the only industry
where a man with a boxcutter
can put a halt
on billions in revenue.
- The entrepreneurial spirit is..
- Your stepmom's
all over the news.
Yeah, she normally is
when there's a plane crash.
Well, this tabloid
doesn't like her much.
Yup.
You know, you never
really talk about it
- your dad.
- There's nothing to talk about.
The car crashed. He died. She didn't.
- Bartok.
- Yeah.
He's the Russian oligarch,
- right?
- Yeah.
He's the douchebag that made millions
off of Flight 716 going down.
Shorting airline stocks.
Well, how did he know?
Well, this site says he planned it.
Do you believe that?
I don't know. Mom had
to investigate his company
a few years ago and my dad said
he made our lives a living hell.
Private investigators
and lawsuits and
My dad hated him.
Is that why you do?
No, I just hate
how he's getting away with it.
Just
just give me a minute, would you?
Don't worry how it looks.
It makes me look smart.
I wish I had shorted BGA.
In fact, I should call
my bankers and give them shit.
Now, they're saying I crashed
Flight 716 because I wanted
to kill my accountant.
I was just talking to my accountant.
Captain Donovan's phone records
indicate you called several
times before his flight.
I always phone Richard
before his flights.
You called 16 times, to be exact.
I missed him, that's all.
We were very happy.
Your little girl says that you two were
quite unhappy
in the days before his flight.
Is Daddy still angry?
Couples always argue a bit
when they have young children.
Did you know about his affair
with a man in Dublin?
Of course. He's my husband.
A man? What are you
talking about? Richard wasn't
So, when you called
your husband 16 times,
it wasn't because you'd found out?
OK
Let's say the package Madelyn
picked up at JFK was a bomb.
I mean it's-it's unlikely
that it would get past security.
Well, it did in the Air India bombing.
True, but that was before 9/11.
Back when flying was still fun.
You can say that again.
Has Homeland Security ID'ed the
man who gave her the package?
- No.
- All right.
OK, then we need to find out
everything that's true and false
in all of Ali's statements.
I'll get my team on it.
- But Kendra
- Yeah?
Letting the dad see our
only eyewitness is one thing;
Basra is another.
He's a person of interest.
So, what are you saying?
Don't let Basra see his fiancée,
who's touch-and-go?
- OK.
- Kendra, Dom.
Our Iranian passenger
on the terror watch list,
Hassan Esmaili?
- Yes?
- He died five years ago.
Hassan Esmaili, suspected in connection
with the Mazari Sharif killings
and the 2012 assassination
of a Sunni opposition leader.
The Israelis were convinced
that they killed him in 2013.
Even sent in special forces
to retrieve his DNA from a drone strike
- to make certain.
- Clearly not certain enough.
Have you broken it to
the Israelis that they failed?
Not yet.
Not exactly a conversation
I'm looking forward to.
Well, he had a lot of hours in the air,
piloting military and commercial jets.
- Mm-hm.
- So what is this?
Just a coincidental passenger
aboard a mysteriously
disappeared plane?
Who is this guy?
If it quacks like a duck
Then it usually is,
so what's your theory?
Plane crashed as a result
- of a failed hijacking?
- Or he brought a bomb on board.
Or Madelyn Strong did,
either knowingly or unknowingly.
A mid-air explosion would have
created a massive debris field.
That said, it does feel like
someone would like us
to think it's terrorism.
What? You think we're being played?
Dad's on his way to the hospital.
Janet, this is great work.
So nice for you to say so, Kendra.
Thank you for these.
Despite an unprecedented
international effort,
rescue ships have yet to detect
any sign of the aircraft.
As BGA Flight 716 stretches
into its second day,
the Royal Navy has shifted
its focus towards
finding the black boxes
Oh, I should take this.
It's it's family.
No worries.
- Hi, Gillian, how are you?
- Did AJ come home
- to London with that girl?
- You know about Sophia?
Looks like he took all of
my AirMiles to fly her over.
I didn't know. I'll, uh,
I'll reimburse you.
I don't care about the points, Kendra.
Maybe it's just the way
he's acting out his grief,
but some of the things he said
remind me too much of Gavin.
- The crazy stuff.
- He's a teenager, Gillian.
They do crap like that all the time.
- Is that right?
- Gillian, I'm working right now
and this is a longer conversation.
- I'll call you at the weekend.
- Sure, Kendra.
You can stop pretending
to look out the window now.
Actually, I've got eyes on
a van that's been following us.
Who do you suppose
might want to tail us?
You were saying?
You spooks see spies everywhere.
Where are you getting the Wi-fi?
I slaved it off of that guy's phone.
You are such a geek.
- Hm.
- You ready?
Yeah. Just give me a sec. Look at this.
What is this? Another Bartok site?
Yeah. Look at this.
Showcases businesses to boycott;
houses to protest at;
even assets to tag with graffiti.
Cool.
Yeah.
I'm going to go see the Tate.
Are you gonna come?
Yeah, I'll catch up in a sec.
Whatever.
Cedric, please pick up
- Do you think she'll make it?
- I don't know.
But she's come this far.
One out of 256.
My poor Maddy.
Mr. Strong, look,
I understand how hard this is
No, you don't.
I'm sorry,
but I will have to speak to her
as soon as she wakes up.
- She's our only witness.
- Witness?
Look at her!
You know, they'll, um,
they'll tell you that
she can't hear anything.
Ignore them.
My husband was in a coma for 21 days.
I talked to him all the time.
Did it work? Did he wake up?
He knew he was loved.
Theo's got something.
- You're Su-Lin?
- And you're Richard's
- gay sex fling.
- Excuse me?
I was Richard's husband
and we were together for over 12 years.
So you're saying I was the affair?
We named him Joseph,
for Richard's father.
And, yes, it's his.
I've factored in current,
water temperature,
wind drag. It all points
to the same thing:
the raft was carried southeast,
not due east.
Either way, we're looking
for a needle in a haystack.
No. At this point, we are looking
for the right haystack.
This quadrant here
You can show me all
the illustrations you like
She could be right, Captain.
Our calculations
didn't take the wind drag or
temperature into account.
So was that a yes or a no?
Well, he's using your coordinates.
- I'm Lieutenant Peter Valery.
- Nadia Torres.
If we find the plane,
I'll be making the dive.
I'm jealous.
You recovered the flight
recorder from the EBA crash?
- A year ago.
- Well, now I'm jealous.
That was one tricky dive.
I moved to Dublin from Glasgow
10 years ago to be with Richard.
And, um, how long have you
known about Su-Lin?
Only recently.
I assumed he was having an affair,
perhaps more than one
over the years. But I never thought
it was a woman, let alone
another marriage.
Something about this you find funny?
It's just that
I'd always wanted to have
children with Richard,
and last year he finally agreed to it.
And now I'm wondering
if he was reluctant
because he already had a child
and now Joseph will never know him.
Richard called you
just before his flight.
What can you tell me
about his emotional state?
Well, he wasn't pleased at all.
He wanted to know
if I'd contacted his wife.
And did you?
No.
Had you ever issued any
kind of, um ultimatum?
You mean, me or her?
Well, I wasn't pleased
about it obviously,
but what was I supposed to do?
I genuinely believe he loved us both.
- What have you got?
- See for yourself.
Blood.
Yeah. It's O positive.
Our survivor is A negative.
So someone else was
on the raft with her.
Blood on the raft?
My bet is it's Hassan Esmaili's.
Yeah, well, we'll need a
sample of his DNA to prove that.
Hm. And if it does?
Then Madelyn and Hassan
are the only two
that made it off the plane.
Coincidence? Or
What the hell do you want?
Shalom.
Mossad? You're bloody
Israeli intelligence?
Pleasure to meet you both.
What are you doing here?
- Protecting an asset.
- Let me guess: Hassan Esmaili,
AKA Harold Rossi.
Yes. Hassan was no terrorist;
he was one of ours.
And the drone strike that
supposedly killed him?
A cover. Hassan wanted to retire
so we fabricated his death
so he could live safely and undetected.
We cannot say
what happened to your flight
was not an act of terror, only that
Hassan was not the culprit.
It's impossible.
Then why follow us? Why
not just call us up, go for a drink?
This is not a conversation you
have on the phone, my friend.
I'm not your friend.
If Hassan is exposed
as being on Flight 716
and his death was a fraud,
the lives of other agents
he worked with in Iran
and Lebanon will be put at risk.
Is that Mossad's polite way
of threatening us?
Not at all
But, please, keep what
they told you in mind.
Yes? Thank you.
As long as you give us Hassan's DNA.
I know what you think he did,
but he would never have killed himself,
and he would never have
killed those people.
I know him, you don't.
Thank you for your cooperation.
What's your assessment?
A new baby, the stress of two families.
The pressure of all those lies
being revealed
It could easily trigger
a dissociative episode.
Pilot suicide?
Yeah.
Could the Iranians have known that
Hassan worked for Mossad
and was still alive?
Found out he was onboard
the aircraft and attacked it?
Yeah, it's a possibility.
I've asked Janet
- to liaise with MI6 on it.
- Or is it possible
that Hassan turned again and sold
out his minders? What do you think?
I hate all this spy vs. spy nonsense.
- Yeah.
- Even more than press briefings.
Wish me luck.
Early this morning, a lone survivor
from Flight 716
was found on a raft
in the North Atlantic Ocean.
After undergoing life-saving surgery,
the survivor remains
in critical condition.
- Can you give us a name?
- Not at this point.
No other debris or wreckage
has been found on the surface,
making a mid-air explosion
highly unlikely.
Has a terrorist attack been ruled out?
At this point, there is, ah
there is no indication that this
was an act of unlawful interference.
As soon as we have more information,
- we will bring it to you.
- She's lying.
What?
I overheard her talking
about someone on the watch list
being on the plane.
So why is she lying?
I don't know.
That's what I gotta find out.
So, I get to see her now that
I've met with your approval?
It's not about my approval.
We found footage from
the protest that corroborates
- your story.
- Where's Maddy?
I thought you should know,
the guy at JFK
was just an Uber driver.
Your fiancée got a little
effusive with him
- when he returned her package.
- Do you know what was in it?
Vintage vinyl.
FBI tracked it to a little shop
in East Village
where CCTV shows her shopping
for Miles Davis and the like.
Your name was on the package.
That's why she missed her flight?
Looks like it.
Oh, God.
Oh, Maddy.
I'm sorry.
How long have you known your
husband led a double life, Mrs. Donovan?
Did you think he was suicidal?
Mrs. Donovan?
OK, we're nearing
the coordinates you supplied.
Sonar is now activated.
We'll see if your numbers add up.
Middle of the ocean.
Kendra! Come here.
Come here. Listen.
Listen to that beautiful sound.
They found the black boxes.
So now we can find the truth.
You're going to wake up,
we'll get married,
you'll get that residency at Columbia.
- You're going to
- 15.
What?
15% chance she'll ever walk again.
- You don't know that.
- But I do. That's the cost
of being a damn actuary:
knowing all the awful numbers.
Maddy?
Maddy, can you hear me?
Doctor! Doctor!
She's waking up.
This is where the pings
from the black boxes are originating.
That's right at the edge of the trench.
I know, but we'll be able
to dive down safely 1200 metres.
OK, just don't go beyond that threshold.
- Copy.
- Hang on a sec. Hi, Dom, what's up?
- She's awake.
- I'm on my way.
- Hi.
- You've got two minutes.
No. It's too soon.
She's just woken up.
You know Maddy would want to help.
Thanks.
Hi, Madelyn. I'm Kendra.
I'm trying to figure out
what happened to you.
Do you know how you survived the crash?
Madelyn do you know
who was on the raft with you?
Do you remember this man?
Hm?
Dr. MacKay!
- Dr. MacKay!
- Clear the room!
- Damn you!
- Clear the room, now!
One milligram Lorazepam.
On it!
So, what did you two get up to today?
Uh, well, I went to the Tate Modern.
He did not.
Yeah, I could never
get him to go either.
AJ looks just like his dad now, huh?
I'm sorry?
Oh, I saw the, um
There. I mean, he's the spitting image.
Yeah, it's still a bit raw, Sophia.
- Oh.
- That's her way of saying
that she doesn't want to talk about it.
- She does it all the time.
- AJ
Why did you lie
at the press conference?
You know there's evidence
the plane was brought down
by an act of terror.
Sorry, what are you talking about?
Um, we both think that Bartok did it.
Bartok? That's ridiculous.
No, it's not. You know
what Dad said about him.
And now he's made millions
shorting airline stocks.
He knew the plane
would crash, you know.
Come on, AJ. You know
that conspiracy theories just
- make stupid people feel smart.
- Don't patronize me!
You know, I spoke
to your aunt today, she told me
all about the stolen AirMiles.
When were you going to tell me?
Hm?
When are you going to tell me
what really happened to my dad?
- AJ!
- AJ! What are you doing?
Come on! It's going to be
a great weekend.
Yeah, I don't want to go.
We're going to the cottage.
We're family.
Gavin, just leave him.
Let him stay. It's OK.
AJ?
Look, uh, about last night,
I
I had a very long day at work.
Yeah, I'm sorry too.
I'll pay Aunt Gillian back, I swear.
I'll call her and apologize.
I was thinking, uh
maybe you and I should
go back to that grief counsellor.
What do you think?
Yeah.
I was up all night.
I'm probably just gonna go to bed.
Get a few more hours.
Are you sure you're OK?
Mm.
Commander Foster wants
to wait a few days,
what with the storm kicking off.
I told him, once I'm below
the chop, it'll be calm.
And if the storm pushes
the wreckage down the trench,
it's gone forever.
I've dived into worse.
You need to be sure, Peter.
I am.
What is this?
How did you get this?
Easy. I installed a Trojan
onto Kendra's laptop.
Gave me access to her web-cam.
Really?
Uh-huh.
Approaching aircraft, range 2-2-0.
Calico, confirm target bearing 1-7-0.
Target on sonar, bearing 1-7-0.
Depth approaching niner-8-0.
Target estimated at 1-5-0 right.
Copy 3-5-5. Repeat, copy 3-5-5.
Topside, Calico.
Confirm visual on target.
There it is.
Yes!
- Good, copy.
- Full station for waypoint.
Life support 0-2-6, 2-7-0.5
Calico, what's your depth?
Depth is 1-3-2-0.
Isn't that beyond threshold?
- Lieutenant, you're too deep.
- I'm almost there.
Leave bottom. Repeat: leave bottom.
Negative, Topside.
I think I can make it,
just another 100 meters
and then we'll be there.
- Lieutenant, leave bottom.
- I need to proceed forward.
No!
Holy shit.
The submersible's imploded.
No.
No, there's no chance the black
boxes can be recovered now.
Maddy!
Easy, easy! Nurse! I need a nurse!
I should've stopped him!
Stopped who, Maddy? Maddy? Stopped who?