The Head (2020) s01e02 Episode Script

1
Are you sure about this?
Six months of isolationin
the coldest place on Earth.
What could possibly go wrong
Where's everybody?
How long it's been?
— Three weeks
— No contact?
Hello?
What's the situation
found on the ground today?
Seven dead. Two missing.
And one survivor.
It's Maggie!
— Annika.
— Where is she?
I need you to tell me what
happened, Maggie.
Fucking asshole!
That motherfucker acts
like he owns the place
Guys! Anyone seen Miles?
Satellite is not working
Somebody knows how to fix it!
Miles?
That would be Miles's job
FIND ME
I knew you'd find me.
Come here.
Yesterday,
when I said I didn't want kids
Yes?
What I meant was
I don't want to have kids
just yet.
Okay
Okay?
Just yet.
— Let it ring.
— Okay.
— No, I have to pick it up.
— Come on.
— Just a minute, hang on.
— Annika?
No, Annika.
— Don't move.
— Annika.
Don't move.
Annika speaking.
Annika?
What's going on?
— Okay, thank you for calling.
— What's going on?
Damian is dead.
— Damian, who?
— Damian Fowles is dead.
Who was it on the phone?
His sister.
Listen, what happened?
He
He had a fall
He fell from the roof
of his house in London.
— He fell?
— Yes.
— Did he fall or jump?
— I don't know.
Was he depressed?
Have you spoken to?
— I don't know, Johan!
— Okay.
— You in touch with the old team?
— No.
Maybe you should call them.
Call Arthur.
I just need to
I need to clean all this.
Yes?
Come on in.
Astrid is on her way back now.
Okay.
Well?
— Nothing.
— What do you mean, "nothing"?
I flew over the path to the
Argentinian base. Twice.
No sign of the Sno-Cat.
So why did you land?
What about the ridge?
Johan, I tried.
Listen. You should be
up in the air right now,
— not wasting time chatting
— Johan!
Do you want to take
a look at that storm?
It's impossible to
fly in that thing.
It's almost condition one.
I had to come down.
I'm not risking my life for you.
I'm sorry, but I'm not.
So, calm down, Johan.
There's a dozen people in
this base that depend on you.
Okay?
I'm so sorry.
Does any of them work?
— No.
— Micke?
— No.
— Try another.
Try over there.
— Yes!
— Does it work?
Yes.
Okay.
What is it that
you're looking for?
I'll know it when I see it.
Okay, so we have Aki's.
This one is working.
Heather
Miles?
Perfect.
Only Ramón's is left now.
— What's going on, Micke?
— It doesn't work.
It seems like the thumb reader is
disabled, can I have a look?
Can you open it?
— I can try
— Let's do it.
— I'll get on with it.
— Yes.
Thanks, Micke.
Okay
Photos, emails
contacts, everything in
it is heavily encrypted.
A military grade encryption.
Encrypted?
Can't you decrypt it,
if that's even a word?
Not without the
phone's pass code.
What kind of cook needs a
256-bit encryption, anyway?
SOCRATE'S LIFE THE
FUTURE OF MY PAS
BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL
Who the hell is?
Hi.
How is she?
— A little better.
— Okay.
Okay, I'll go see her.
No, I
I said better. Not good.
You don't trust me?
Trust? I trust Johan.
He's a good friend of mine.
— But who am I talking to?
— Micke Stop that.
If she suffers another episode,
then I'll kick you out of that room.
I promise you,
nobody, and I mean nobody,
gets to speak with her
until the police arrive.
Okay.
Okay. I'll
— I'll behave.
— Don't pressure her.
She needs to reach the memories
on her own, one by one.
I'll know if it happens.
Take it easy on her.
Okay.
Hey.
Hey.
Micke says you're doing better.
I like him.
— He's taking good care of me.
— Yes, he is.
He's also not sure
that you're ready.
Ready?
To tell me what happened.
After you found Miles.
Miles
Erik and Heather found Miles.
In the snow.
Remember?
Just, just
Just take your time.
He was
His head
He was missing his head.
Missing
Not
Not exactly.
So?
I want to
preamble what I'm about to say
This is just a preliminary
examination and I have
— I understand.
— I'm a GP.
— This is not my
— We get it.
Please get on with it.
Sorry.
I'm fairly certain
that the cause of death
is blunt force trauma.
A hit to the back of the head.
With what?
A heavy object. Think a
a wrench or a hammer.
Nothing too sharp or we'd be
looking at deeper lacerations.
And the decapitation
Based on the lack of a
larger pool of blood
Postmortem.
That's something, I suppose.
He also could have
been killed in the base
and then moved outside.
The trail of blood on the
snow is just a trickling.
That and the way the blood's
crystallized around the neck,
I'd say he was killed outdoors.
Jesus Christ.
You all right?
I thought you army
boys had seen things.
Correct me if I'm wrong but,
didn't the Taliban
use to play football
with their prisoners' heads?
You watch it, Arthur.
You're a guest in this
room, okay?
You can just as
easily find yourself
on the other side of that door.
Aye, aye.
So,
who are we looking for now?
Someone big, strong?
Not necessarily.
He could have done it.
Or me.
I'm certainly strong enough.
So you're saying
It could be anyone.
Okay.
I'm
bringing everyone together.
You know how some people
are natural born leaders?
Well, he's not one of them.
I thought you said
he was in the army.
Some people,
they join the army just
to be told what to do.
When Erik was in Kabul
he led his platoon into a
sniper trap.
Lost three.
It won't be the first time
Erik's returning home
without one of his men.
NO SIGNAL
Nils,
you can't smoke here.
Aki
Fuck off.
So
Based on Maggie's examination,
Miles was attacked from behind
and the killer could be
a man or a woman.
So what you're saying
is that we know jack-shit.
It could be
fucking Sporty Spice here.
Huh?
Or fucking
Ferran Adrià and his
his fucking kitchen knives.
Nils
Yeah
Or maybe you finally reached
the bottom of the bottle
and found the courage
there to kill Miles.
— Come on!
— If it looks like an asshole
— and sounds like an asshole
— Enough!
Yeah, and there's worse things
than being a fucking asshole,
isn't it, Ramón, hey?
What did you just say?
— What did you just say?
— Hey, I said enough!
— Come on, guys.
— What did you just fucking say?
I said enough! Ramón!
Stop it.
Nils.
Nils Don't go there.
Please.
— Fuck you.
— Ramón.
We're 5000 miles away
from civilization.
We're in a place where man
is not supposed to survive.
Cannot survive.
We're a five-inch wall
away from annihilation.
And the one thing that
keeps us all together,
all alive, the only
thing, is unit cohesion.
So be smart.
I for one refuse to believe,
that I'm looking at
a killer right now.
It doesn't make sense.
It could be anybody, no?
It doesn't mean it
has to be one of us.
Sorry, I
What are you saying, Erik?
I'm saying
— there may be an intruder.
— An intruder?
Are you serious?
We are in the South Pole.
— Arthur
— No no!
An intruder? Why?
Where from? And for what reason?
I don't know!
I'm just saying someone may
have come from the outside
killing Miles,
destroying the comms.
So what do you suggest we do?
What we'd do in the army.
We search the perimeter.
If someone's come to the base,
he must have used a
vehicle, right?
A vehicle leaves
tracks on the ice,
tracks that we can spot. So
Shouldn't we hold a vote?
No vote. I'm the commander.
Suit up. All of you. Now.
Come on.
How was she?
Annika?
Was she scared?
No
She seemed collected. If
if she was scared,
she didn't show it.
— You'll be okay?
— Yeah.
You know where to find me.
This is Maggie, I need help!
Please, come quick!
I'm 30 yards east from
the comms building.
You okay?
Maggie?
What is it?
What happened?
— What's this doing here?
— Jesus Christ
Whose is this?
Nils, I
I saw him
I came from over there and I
I saw him come out here
and then he went
he went back and
I didn't know what
he was doing
Where's Nils?
Where the fuck is Nils?
I saw him go back
to the station.
— It's locked.
— What? What happened?
Okay.
Shit
Nils? Are you there?
Nils? Do you copy?
Nils,
open the door.
I'm sorry
What?
What's the hold up, Erik?
Hey, you!
Open the bloody door immediately!
— I can't!
— Open the fucking door!
Hey, step back!
I'm handling this!
Okay?
I'm the commander!
So give me some space!
For Christ's shake!
Ramón!
I swear to god I didn't
fucking kill him.
I need I need time!
What do you need time for man?
It's minus 30 out here,
— I know!
— and dropping.
I can't fucking think
if you won't shut up!
Buddy, hey
Nils, come on.
Just open the door,
we talk this through together,
and we give you all the
time you need in order to
Come on, buddy! Hey, stay with me!
Stay with me!
— Nils!
— Fuck!
Well done, Erik.
Well done.
Okay.
Annika, Arthur,
Ramón. You check the
back entry to the pantry.
Perhaps he is drunk enough,
and he has forgotten to lock it.
Ebba, we go to the hangar door.
We check that.
Let's go!
Hey, hold on a minute.
What about the rest of us?
You stay put.
Make him talk. Keep him awake!
Nils?
Nils!
Hey! Where're you going?
You can stay and freeze
your ass off if you want to.
Me, I'm doing whatever
I can to get inside.
There'll be service vents,
that release the exhaust of
the emergency generators.
Otherwise,
turning them on would be like
leaving a car engine
running inside your garage.
It's a stupid way to go.
From there
we should be able to get out.
Just gotta make sure
we land on the right
side of the locked door.
Shit. There's no way we
can squeeze down there.
Not in these clothes, we can't.
What the hell are you doing?
Don't you worry, big boy.
You don't have to come with me.
I'll just slip inside,
unlock the door from the inside,
andvoilà,
you guys are in.
Mittens!
Okay!
Fuck, it's cold!
Shit! Fuck!
You ready?
Fuck Fuck, it's cold.
Jesus, Heather.
This is crazy. Just stop.
Are you okay?
Shit.
— Heather?
— Are you okay?
Heather?
I'm okay!
So what now?
We have to make sure Nils
doesn't see her coming.
Nils? Nils?
Nils?
— Nils?
— Stop I wish you to shut up.
Nils, I know you can hear me!
I'm not gonna stop until
Shut up!
Will you fucking just shush?
Will you shut up!
Woman, shut up!
— Put the bottle down. Please.
— You're the one who found it!
I heard you on
the fucking radio.
If you keep drinking
you'll pass out
You had to go sniffing around!
and then who's gonna open
the door for us, huh?
— Fuck off!
— Hey, listen to me! Listen!
If you keep on like this
you'll have eight more bodies
to answer for when summer comes!
Oh yeah,
blame it on good old Nils.
You wouldn't be the first one.
Or worse.
You'll get alcohol poisoning
and you won't even wake up!
Is that what you want?
Not waking up?
That sounds like
a happy thought.
I'll fucking drink to that!
Hey! Hey! Wake up!
Rise and shine, motherfucker!
Hey, hey!
— Is it cold enough for you?
— That's enough.
— Calm down.
— Enough, why?
— He's awake.
— Do you worry he's gonna
— catch a cold?
— He's awake.
He left us, Erik!
To freeze to death out there.
No, I wasn't gonna do
that, all right?
You killed Miles, motherfucker.
— We don't know that.
— Come on!
I didn't fucking kill Miles!
Nils, shut up!
Has anybody stopped
to consider why?
Why would he kill Miles?
Because they were at
each other's throats
— all the time?
— You don't chop
someone's head off because
you don't like him.
— Whose side are you on?
— This is not
about sides,
this is about the truth.
— Oh, really?
— Yes!
And the truth is we've known
Nils for a very long time,
and he may be an
asshole when he drinks.
But he's not a murderer.
Are you sure about that?
Come on, Annika,
you know perfectly well
how he ended up here.
Drinking himself to death in
the coldest place on Earth.
And it wasn't for the free
ice, I can tell you that, guys.
Ramón, of course I know.
Yeah, but I don't know.
So could someone please tell
us what the hell happened?
Don't you fucking dare, Ramón.
Don't you fucking dare.
They don't know?
You don't like to talk about it?
You don't get to talk about her!
Ten years ago, was it ten?
Yeah. Ten years ago.
His teenage daughter OD's
Fuck you, you fucking asshole!
And there is this son of a
bitch that sells her this
very bad shit.
And when the police find him,
the guy's already dead.
Beaten to a pulp.
— That wasn't me.
— The cops couldn't prove it,
that's for sure.
But everybody knew.
Everybody knew,
your wife knew it
— It wasn't me!
— That's why she left.
It wasn't fucking me, okay?
I wish to God it was!
I wish I got to do it with my bare
fucking hands, but it wasn't me!
Running away to the
end of the world
wasn't enough, right?
It wasn't enough to forget her.
You had to pick up the bottle
and destroy everything
You fucking asshole!
— Nils, stay focused!
— I'll rip your fucking throat!
— I rest my case.
— Fuck you!
— Nils!
— Fuck him!
We cannot find a man guilty
based purely on hearsay.
With all due respect, Erik.
Yes, everyone's innocent
until proven guilty,
I'll give you that
But it was his saw that
severed Miles' head.
His tool of trade.
It's certainly something Annika
and I don't use in the lab.
Maggie,
did you really see him?
Did you see him trying
to get rid of it?
— Yes.
— So what?
His saw
What should we do, then? Huh?
Strip him naked?
Toss him out into the ice to die?
And which one of you
is going to do it, huh?
Who takes the credit?
Yeah
I didn't think so.
Look
Look, look Okay I
I did, I went into my room,
and I
I was going to get my gear ready.
I was gonna go outside.
I was gonna help to
find Miles' killer.
And I and I saw it
It was
It was deep inside my closet.
It was behind my boots! Okay?
The saw was covered in blood.
And
And I
I knew how bad it looked!
And I knew that you guys
wouldn't believe me!
So I buried it Okay?
But I didn't
I didn't kill Miles.
I'm
— I'm being framed Okay?
— Liar
I am being fucking
framed, Ramón!
And whoever did it,
is right here, right
now, in this room.
Me and Heather have been
going on and on, but
but I don't think I've
heard you say more than
two words all winter.
In Denmark,
winters aren't for soul searching,
they're for drinking.
So what made you sign up
for this crazy murder
mystery party then?
Eight years ago,
when Lukas had gambled
all our savings away,
this was the quickest way
to dig us out of the hole.
A stitch is a stitch
anywhere in the world, and
you know,
here they pay double for it.
Sounds like an asshole.
Yeah,
I spent that winter hating him.
It wasn't the money, really.
It was
spending six months without
seeing Viktor and Lilly.
But then,
I came back home and
Some say that people don't change but
Lukas did.
But now you're back.
Unfortunately.
What, because Lukas has
No, no.
He's been on the straight
and narrow ever since.
I don't know.
I guess the kids are older now, so
Maggie!
Jesus!
You scared me.
I was looking for you.
We got him, right, so
Now all we have to do
is sit tight and wait.
I was thinking about
what Nils said
About the saw.
You believe him?
I don't know.
Look It doesn't make sense
First he screws up the comms
That's premeditated.
Then he kills Miles. And then
he cuts his head off?
Must've really hated him.
I don't think it was personal.
Miles was our comms guy,
the only one who
could fix our radio.
So, he wanted to isolate us?
But then, why the head?
I think it's a message.
A message?
"Be afraid
Be very fucking afraid"
Hey! Oh! Nils! Hey!
Nils! Don't die! Don't die! Hey!
Help, help! Somebody, help!
Nils!
Hey, Nils!
Hey! Help! Help, somebody!
Help! Somebody, help!
Nils! Don't die, don't die!
Nils! Hey! Nils!
Hey! Don't die!
Help!
Maggie!
He's dead
He's dead!
So you didn't go and
talk to Nils with Aki?
Nils was dead by the
time I got there.
So how do you know?
What?
What happened when Aki found him.
How do you know?
He told me.
He told you he
found him bleeding.
— Yes.
— But you didn't see if yourself?
I know it.
— I knew him.
— Yeah, but
I know how it is.
Six months
Trapped in a tin can,
seeing the same faces day after day.
Now, strangers they start
looking like family.
But the ice calls the
strangest kind of people.
People on the run.
People with something to hide.
My first winter here,
I met this telescope
operator, Jacob.
He would call his wife every single
day, the whole winter.
Spent an hour on
the phone with her.
But the day before
our return flight
he shows up dead.
He slit his wrists
in the shower.
Later we found out that his
wife had died a year ago.
And Jacob,
he was wanted for questioning.
So, all that I'm saying is
a lot of the people here are
not who they say they are.
Not really.
So how do you know?
How do you know about Aki?
Look, Aki didn't do it, okay?
A human being frozen inside
a thousand year old glacier?
But doctor, that's impossible!
No human being
had set foot in Antarctica
before the 19th century!
Impossible, yet here it is,
right in front of us
Hey. What are you watching?
The Polaris' submission to the
Antarctica Short Film Festival.
And?
Let's just say I'm not surprised
the Indian station kicked our butts.
You cannot beat
Bollywood numbers!
You
have awakened the ice beast!
Kill him!
Dr. Imamura!
I've got the test results and
you will not believe this.
His cells!
His cells, they are not
animal cells at all. They are
plant cells!
Johan!
I have tested a few different
radio frequencies, and
I found something.
What is it then?
It's a recording.
A message playing in a loop.
It's broadcasted by
a short range radio.
Short range?
How short?
Very short.
I think the signal's coming
from inside the station.
Okay,
do we know where from exactly?
anyone
please contact
Team immediately
communications are in urg
medical assistance.
anyone Annika Lundqvist
communications
are in urg assist
This
is a Doppler Direction Finder.
It's very simple.
You just hold it like this,
The antenna goes forward,
and then you just follow the
directions on the screen.
— So, like this?
— Yes, exactly.
— The way it's pointing?
— Yes, correct.
ost our sat
this an SOS. I repeat
this an S
Fuck!
please coInternational
Emergency Res
urgent need of
medical assistance
Maybe it's downstairs?
— It must be down
— Yes.
expedition wintering
at Polaris VI
Okay, go!
SOS this
please contact
International Emergency
Response Team immediately
llite communica
No, here.
in urgent need of
medical assistance
Dr. Annika Lundqvist
member of he scientific expedition
wintering at Polaris VI
Underground?
SOS this
is an SOS
gency Response
Team immediat
we have los
our tellites commu
urgent need of medical ass
Dr. Annika Lundqvist
member of the scientific expedition
wintering at Polaris VI this
we have lostall our
satellite communica
we a in
gent need of medical assistance
In there.
Have we been to the tunnel?
— I don't think so.
— My name is Dr. Annika
Didn't I say,
"search the whole station"?
— The whole station.
— They didn't think
They didn't think anyone
could be out there?
Come on, help me.
an SOS. If anyone is li
please contact the
International Emergen
mmediatelywe
have lost our satellite
are in urgent need
of medical assistance
My name is Dr. Annika Lundqvist,
member of the scientific
— Okay, this way.
— This?
Yes.
this is an SOS
contact the International
Emergency Response Team
we have lost allour
satellite communication
urgent need of
medical assistance
my name is
Dr. Annika Lundqvist
Polaris VI, this is an SOS
I repeat, this is
SOS
if anyone is listening
please contact
the International Emergency
Response Team immediately
It's right here.
lost all our
satellite communication,
and we are in urgent need
of medical assistance
my name is Dr. Annika Lundqvist.
Member
Shit, she's clever
What is it?
This is the last option.
The phone doesn't work,
the radio doesn't work.
She's hoping someone from
the outside hears it.
Let go! Let go!
Arthur
I don't know where Annika is.
She was alive the
last time I saw her.
I've been in those
tunnels for weeks!
Surviving on emergency rations!
I haven't seen the light of
day in God knows how long.
I I didn't even know
that the winter was over.
So when the lights in
the tunnel went on,
I thought she'd found me.
She?
Maggie
She's alive, isn't she?
Being a good little girl
Playing the victim
You can't trust her, Johan.
She did it.
She killed them all.