The Power (2023) s01e03 Episode Script
A New Organ
1
I can't breathe, I can't breathe!
Honey, we're almost
there, try and relax.
Sir, she has to take a seat
I know. I'm so sorry,
she's afraid of flying.
I understand, but we've
already started our descent,
I need you both to sit down
Don't touch me!
- Makayla
- Dad!
- Sir
- Honey, she's just trying to help
- No, stay away
- Miss, please calm down.
- It's on fire
- Oh, my God!
What we know for sure,
the pilot sent a
distress code at 5:48 a.m.
Just as the plane was
beginning to descent.
They managed to divert here
for an emergency landing,
but they came in too low.
The casualty count is
it's significant.
God. Do we know what caused this?
Off the pilot comms,
we think there was some kind of
electrical malfunction on board.
Shit. Press.
Get to our media contacts,
no names to be released
until the families have been notified.
We should prep a statement
as soon as possible.
Don't worry. Already
got my guys on that.
Daniel, uh, I can handle this
I know, but you've been up
for hours. Take a break, okay?
Let me deal with this mess. You
just take care of your people.
Great work.
All right, let's go.
I mean, it sounds supportive, so why
do I feel like I'm getting fucked?
'Cause fuckery's the only
language guys like Daniel speak.
You know that video from
Nigeria of the electricity?
Were there any teen girls on this plane?
The survivors were taken
to U-Dub. Let's find out.
Hello?
Tunde, this is Vin Sena from CNN.
CNN? Wait, sorry
Did you just say CNN?
Yeah. We've seen your
footage of the electric girls.
Look, we'll buy what you have and
I'll put you on a contract for more.
I don't know what to say, it's
Tunde?
I'm so sorry, I think
you have the wrong number.
- Tun
- You have a business exam coming up when?
- Three weeks.
- Only in three weeks?
You have plenty of time, abi?
- No.
- Your age mates are facing their books
and instead, you're gallivanting
around town filming rubbish.
And the poor girl
forced to go to the village.
People are saying she's a witch.
Oh.
You're puffing up your chest at me?
Awon big boy, big guy in town, abi?
You want to end up like your uncle Deji?
Philandering his way
into an early grave?
It is high time that you faced front.
That journalist thing, forget it.
Tunde.
Leave Ndudi and her family in peace.
You have brought enough shame.
I lost my appetite ♪
I cannot sleep at night ♪
I cannot concentrate ♪
I do not feel too great ♪
The world is caving in ♪
And I'm kinda struggling ♪
But I kinda like it ♪
♪
'Cause it feels like being in love ♪
Being in love ♪
- Being in love ♪
- Not today.
Not today.
What?
No girls.
Your parents should have gotten a text.
Sorry.
What the fuck are you doing?
- Hey!
- What the fuck?
- So he didn't let you on the bus?
- No.
He said all girls get off.
Her elbows were sparking
like chainsaws, man.
Elbows?
- I'll catch up with you later.
- Okay.
- Jos, hey.
- Hey.
You hanging out with Cat again?
Like, you know she has it.
Does she?
Did you see the one where
the girl sneezes it out?
- You're lying.
- Oh, my God, it's lit!
Uh, what are you doing later?
I'm hanging out with Cat but
maybe I'll see you Friday?
Sure.
- Hey. You good?
- Hey.
I would've gotten out the bus earlier
but I didn't know what was happening.
No, that guy was crazy.
And so, I was thinking,
what are you doing later?
Wanna hang out tonight?
I actually have plans
with Cat tonight. Sorry.
Friday?
Sure. Yeah.
Did you see the one
where she sneezes it out?
- No way.
- It's fucking lit.
This is South Seattle High.
First period is suspended.
All students report to your home rooms.
Quick as you can, please.
That's great. Okay.
Let's get seated. Get yourself seated.
We're leaving this open.
Okay, settle down now.
Uh, we have a directive
from the Governor's office,
to address the rumours that are
circulating regarding an issue,
that some of the girls in the
school may be experiencing.
It's related to
"sudden and unpredictable
discharges of electricity".
This isn't about anyone
getting into trouble,
this is about the safety of
all our staff and students.
So, if you have it
please, could I ask you
to identify yourself?
How about you raise your hand
if you know someone who has it?
Mr. Ellis, come on, man.
Let's just get this done.
Taylor White has it.
That's bullshit.
To the front please, Taylor.
Get out here.
We broke up last week and
now are you serious?
I can do it.
Ashley, thank you.
Brie Diaz can do it.
- Angel says she can do it.
- She's just pissed at me.
This is bullshit.
- I can do it.
- Out.
Cat Cole and Jos
Cleary-Lopez both have it.
Let's go, ladies.
Leave your bags.
Snitch.
- Anyone else?
- Mr. El That's absurd.
You can't do this.
Stop her! Don't let her leave!
Eyes front.
Come on, nothing to see.
Keep coming.
This is fucked up.
Come on, hustle. Move, move. Come on!
Forty-six passengers,
one flight attendant.
That's how many people
survived this crash.
- You can't keep her from me.
- I understand
No, you don't understand a damn thing.
My kid is 12, you're
holding her without cause.
I wanna see her now!
Mr. Kelly, please calm down.
The hell are the Feds doing here?
I wanna know where Makayla is right now.
We assure you, your daughter is fine.
She's being treated in the building,
and she'll be released once we
determine there's no ongoing threat.
Threat of what?
A couple of other
passengers ID'd your daughter
as part of the incident on board.
She is a 12-year-old kid,
not a god damn terrorist!
Is everything okay over here?
This is FBI business, ma'am.
I'm Margot Cleary-Lopez, the mayor.
Uh, I thought crashes were NTSB domain.
Unless I'm missing something and
it was criminal activity on board.
Dr. Sheldon operating room three.
Dr. Sheldon OR three.
Where were you stationed?
Uh, Afghanistan.
Thank you for your service, mister
Kelly. John Kelly.
Wanna take a seat?
- How's the arm?
- It's fine.
I'm fine.
I wanna see my daughter,
and these arseholes
Her name's Makayla?
She's probably terrified right now.
Yeah. I mean, I get that.
I've got three myself.
Look, she didn't do anything wrong.
I mean, she didn't mean
I don't even actually know happened
She's afraid of flying and she panicked.
But she's a good kid.
She wouldn't hurt anyone.
Listen, I'm gonna find
out what's going on.
But in the meantime
can you do me a favor?
If you deck one of those agents,
I'm pretty sure you're not
gonna see your daughter today,
so sit tight 'til you hear from me?
Yeah, I can do that.
Yeah? Okay.
Helen, I need to get
in to see Makayla Kelly.
These Feds won't let her
own father in to see her.
Okay. So we'll go around them.
Hey, is everything okay?
Yeah. Do you know anyone at U-Dub
Northwest who works in isolation?
I have some Feds blocking access to
a crash survivor I need to talk to.
Yeah, yeah. I do. Let me
put you in touch with Tash.
Tash, your ex?
Uh, sure. That'll be great.
Lazarus has risen.
Praise be.
It's okay, girl. No one
is gonna hurt you here.
Where am I?
This is the Sisters of Christ
Convent. I am Sister Maria.
What's your name?
Eve.
Ooh Good choice.
Those are fresh. We grow
most of our food here.
And we make soap, with seaweed,
to pay for anything else we need.
Which is more and more. Since
we've started taking you all in.
We get more girls like you every day.
Girls like me? What
kind of girl is that?
Girls with no place else to go.
You're gonna meet them soon
enough They're in the dormitory.
We found this in your bag.
You went through my stuff?
I have to.
We don't allow drugs,
alcohol, weapons
Are you a believer?
I talk to God every day.
Do you now?
And He talks back?
She. She does. All the time.
How lucky. To have such faith.
Eve. I am glad to meet you.
It was no accident I
found you on that road.
So rest as long as you like. Please.
You're just gonna
stare at her like that?
Sister Veronica!
- Hey!
- Sister Veronica!
What, you never seen a girl fit before?
No evidence that the
footage was doctored
Some even believe it's an ad.
For Taters. It looked like Taters to me.
Or could this be another
issue caused by video gaming?
Uh-huh.
Later today, we'll be
hearing your thoughts
together with expert analysis,
on the Internet phenomenon,
"The Electric Girl" hoax.
What?
- Yo move.
- And so, as adults catch up
with what the kids have
apparently been watching for weeks,
we have the latest footage
from around the globe.
Mm-hmm.
Is this a hoax? You decide.
Some viewers may find the
following scenes distressing.
Watch out.
Holy crap. Holy crap.
Prick!
- Hey!
- Run!
Okay, okay. Okay.
Nobody's looking at the
rise of violent crime.
Hey, yo! Can you move?
The US Police force
has a breaking point.
And suggesting that this might
be a good thing we got going on.
That's dumb.
You got this thing?
We all do. Well, most of us.
That's why we're here.
So everyone has it now?
Everyone's special.
None of these girls can
do what you can, baby.
- We got a clothes donation.
- Okay.
Girls, outside now! Family meeting!
It has come to our attention
that the recent issues
that some of you have
reported regarding your fingers
and, uh, sparks, has been spreading
across America, possibly further,
and it would seem that this
mutation is incredibly dangerous.
I think the unfortunate
business with the chicken,
which I won't get into again
has shown us just
what we are dealing with.
This is about all our safety. It's
my word and you'll be out of here.
No Electricity! Now get to work!
Go!
Is this necessary?
It's just a precaution until we know
for sure what we're dealing with.
There are a lot of rumours floating
around and not a lot of answers.
Right.
So you and Rob met at
Doctors without Borders?
Yeah, yeah. Six months in
Cambodia right out of med school.
Hmm. He says that trip changed his
life, his whole outlook on medicine.
Yeah, mine too. It really
put things in perspective.
Okay. The agents have been
doing checks every 20 minutes,
so just watch your time.
- Thank you again.
- You're welcome.
Makayla?
Hi.
I'm Margot. I'm the
mayor here, of Seattle.
I want my dad.
I actually just spoke to
your dad. He's right upstairs.
Why won't they let me
see him? Am I in trouble?
No. No, no one is in trouble.
No, I'm just here to
find out what happened.
I already told them.
I didn't do anything.
I just
hate when the plane shakes,
I feel like I'm gonna die.
My daughter Jos used to be
terrified of flying, too.
You remember anything
about what happened?
Might help me clear
things up and get you home.
My hands.
They started hurting a few days ago.
You know, like when you touch laundry
in a dryer and you get a shock?
I was really nervous for the flight,
so my dad gave me a
Benadryl to help me sleep.
Then the plane was shaking,
I woke up, I was so scared
and it was so hard to breathe.
And then a lady started
telling me to put on my belt.
The the flight attendant?
And then my hands started hurting again.
And then she reached
over to put on my belt.
And then suddenly the
blanket was on fire and
everyone was screaming
and everything went flying,
and then the plane just
I swear, I didn't mean to hurt anybody.
- I don't know what I did.
- Hey.
It's okay. We're gonna figure this out.
It's okay. It's okay.
Tell the lady I'm sorry.
What lady? The flight attendant?
I think I hurt her.
I thought the kid just didn't
want to put her belt on
but then it looked like she was seizing.
So I grabbed her.
I just wanted to make sure she
didn't hit her head or something
And then? Did you see it? How
the blanket caught on fire?
No, I didn't see
anything it was so fast
She was trying to push me
off, and her hands were here.
And then there was this, like, jolt.
And it hurt like hell, and then
it didn't hurt at all.
It felt fucking amazing.
I can't explain it.
I think she gave it to me.
I think we both brought the plane down.
Let's go, Mayor. You're done.
This room is strictly for
approved personnel only.
Oh, my God, Rob. You're
not gonna believe
It's Jos. We gotta get
to her school right now.
What? What? What's going on?
Thank you for getting here
so quickly, Mrs. Cleary-Lopez,
I know you're very busy
Jos?
Jocelyn Cleary-Lopez!
Jos! Jesus
- Jos!
- Christ.
Mom, I'm I'm over here.
- Oh, my God!
- Jesus!
- Are you okay, honey?
- What the hell is going on here?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- Oh, my God!
What are you doing here?
I thought only dad was gonna come.
Well, we were both worried.
What are you doing, Joe?
You've been to our house.
We've served you dinner.
And you're gonna treat our
kids like fucking criminals?
What's wrong with
you, man? Are you sick?
- Have you lost your humanity?
- They're gonna have to be taken care of.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Can you get those fucking things
off her or I'm gonna wrap them around
your mother fucking neck?
- You hear me? You hear me?
- Yeah.
If all of these girls
aren't with their parents
at home in the next hour,
you have a huge problem.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
- This will be fine, all right?
- Okay.
I know some girls can, like,
aim it or control it more.
It's like they know
what they want to hit
and how hard they want to hit it.
Okay.
But mine
mine doesn't work like that.
Okay. How does yours work?
See?
Hey! Hey!
- This?
- Mm-hmm.
You know, this is some weird ass
convent shit you got going on here.
You were in pretty bad shape, you
almost died out there on the road.
Do you know that?
You need a doctor to check you over
but we have a storm coming Friday
so it'll have to be after that.
There'll be no one
in or out for a while.
Can I leave?
Well, as long as you're
out by this afternoon.
After that we have to
lock the place down.
You need to stop by the office
and fill out the identity forms.
All girls must be on record.
Uh-uh, girl. No paper trail.
As soon as I get my shoes, I'm gone.
That suits us just fine.
You won't find much.
We take a vow of poverty.
Sister Monica, Patron
Saint of Wayward Children.
Have a seat, Eve.
I don't want trouble. No police.
Just talk.
Sister Veronica can be a hard ass
but I promise, she's a good woman.
She has done amazing things.
Doesn't seem very Catholic-y.
It isn't. We're nuns in our hearts.
Sisters of Christ in our hearts.
But not in the church.
When I was younger, I
decided to live my truth.
I told my family, this is who I am.
I am a woman.
Not the man that you believed me to be.
I was cast out, no family.
I lost my job.
I was on the streets.
And Veronica found me.
And she guide me.
But for her kindness
she was excommunicated.
All of the women here,
they have been cast out.
Standing up for justice.
Standing up for the weak.
If she stands up for people, why
is she so against the electricity?
Veronica's a revolutionary.
But this power is a crisis of faith.
And she worries.
She knows that consequences
come with change.
Have patience and stay.
Rebel nuns and wayward girls. See?
I told you there's a
place where you belong.
And then, in 2016
Is it impossible? Maybe
Maybe it's transferrable.
Maybe she touched something.
Wait, you're talking about
a virus here? What the hell?
The kids have been posting about
it, everyone is calling it a hoax.
I mean, there's fires and outages
I warned Dandon about this.
I know you did.
I can't believe this
is happening to my baby!
Shh! Shh!
I'm telling you. She's gonna
be okay. She's gonna be fine.
No, she's not. That girl from the plane?
They had her locked up like
E.T., running tests on her.
It is not okay with me that the
world is gonna use our daughter
- as a lab rat.
- Honey, honey.
I don't think it's headed that way.
- How do you know?
- I mean, if there are 50 in a high school
- and you extrapolate from there
- Yeah?
statistically, that's
hundreds and thousands of girls
going through this.
I think we need to get her some help
- and we need to do it quietly.
- Okay.
Can you contact that therapist
that Matty worked with last summer?
What was his name? Doctor
And we need to tell Helen
before this gets out.
Whoa, how would it get out?
Well, we can't keep something
like this a secret forever, Rob.
It's gonna get political.
- Don't do that. Don't do that.
- What?
Don't use that Mayor
Seattle voice on me, okay?
- Because I'm not the enemy, okay?
- Seriously?
You wanna argue about my
tone of voice right now?
- Thank you!
- Hey!
The electric eel is the only animal
that can produce a killing
shock of electricity.
Oh, look, Jos, it's
your long-lost family.
Despite the name eel
Give it back I was watching that.
Poor Mom and Dad.
It's like their favourite kid got
an STD from having sex with an eel.
What's an STD?
- Give it. Matty.
- What are you doing?
Let go!
Matty, are you okay?
- Jos! Jos! What's happening?
- I didn't mean to. It was an accident.
Come here.
Let me see Let me check.
Is he okay? What happened to his eye?
Margot, tell Frank to pull up front.
We gotta get him to
a hospital right away.
It was an accident accident.
It's gonna be fine, champ,
I'm telling you. Relax.
Come on, Ndudi.
- What are you doing here?
- Hey, hey. I just wanna talk
- Just go.
- Please.
Come on.
You shouldn't be here.
If my grandmother sees us
together, we are finished.
I know. I know, It's just
Ndudi, I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry. I, I just
You just what?
I just I had to see you.
Hey.
I got a job offer from CNN.
- Wait, Ndudi
- I'm so mad at you.
Tunde, that was my story.
I found it!
- You didn't even want to come.
- Shh.
You were messing around with Adunola.
Making up some nonsense
about some business.
Then you put my face
all over the Internet for
the whole world to see
and now you come here
asking me for advice?
- Because I'm a joke, abi?
- No, no. Ndudi, listen
Here's some advice.
Do something you believe in for once.
Be a man, Tunde.
Ndudi, I don't know what I want to do.
That's not my problem.
Ndudi.
Ndudi! Come inside!
What do you think you're gonna
do at this time of the night? Go!
So you're just gonna leave?
Mom and Dad are going
to lose their minds.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity.
CNN called me, they want me
to do my style of reporting.
Reporting? Bro, you take video selfies.
I can speak to people
other reporters can't.
And get into places other
reporters are not allowed
Dad is not going to allow
you to come back to the house.
You're neglecting your
school, your job
Things he wants from me. What
about what I want for myself?
Dami, Ndudi is right.
I need to be my own man.
Ah, I'm wasting my life here.
Wasting my time with studies
that don't interest me,
work I can't stand,
girls I don't care about.
I understand most of
what you are saying.
But the girls? They're not so bad.
Dami, this power is spreading.
And it's going to change things.
Here in Nigeria, but all over the
world, In ways we cannot imagine.
This is huge, Dami.
Allah is showing me my path.
This is my destiny.
Look, Jos. Do you like my boobs?
Honey. The doctor's got results.
Good news, his reflexes are strong.
His eyelid shut quickly, so the
injury is limited to the skin.
Oh, thank God.
But I hear a but.
His eye should be okay but you
should consult with a plastic surgeon
for a second opinion.
There may be some scarring.
Oh, man.
All right. Thank you so much. Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Dr. Stevens to the ICU.
It's okay, it's gonna be fine.
It's gonna be fine.
Gonna be fine. There's so much they
can do with skin graft these days.
You know?
Seriously, he's gonna get better.
Yeah.
Honey, hold on. I'll be right back.
Hey, Tash. How are you?
Oh, hi.
You didn't mean to.
- I know it was an accident
- Stop.
Stop what?
Stop pretending like we're so
close and that you're super mom.
I'm not pretending anything.
Today's the most time we've
spent together in over a year.
And it's only because I'm becoming
a liability for your perfect life.
Jos, that is not true.
I love you.
And sorry that I'm not around more.
I thought you didn't
wanna spend time with me.
What?
Oh, my God. Why is he talking about me?
Jos, come on, let's go get some answers.
Honey, she's okay. They
do dozens of these a day.
Come on.
Jos, I need you to stay
as still as possible, okay?
Mom.
- Dad!
- Get her out. Get her out now.
- Can you, can you play it again?
- Yeah.
So is she okay?
Watch this.
What am I looking at?
See that? It's not
coming from their hands.
It's coming from right there.
I heard from some colleagues
from around the country,
but I hadn't seen it for myself.
We've had a few cases come
through. Two girls with burn scars.
Okay, so Jos sparked when
she went through the scan.
It blew the machine but it gave
us this beautiful, clear picture.
That striated muscle tissue,
it banded into cervical
spinal nerves right here.
at these points, there and there.
Are those pacemaker cells?
- Like the sinoatrial node?
- Yeah, which would explain the
- electrical impulse.
- Layperson terms, please.
- It's an organ.
- It's a new organ.
One that generates electricity.
Well, that's
- insane.
- Well, not really.
The heart, the eye, the brain,
they all generate electricity.
Yeah, but unlike those organs,
that's all this one seems to do.
Well, where did it come from?
Well, I mean, if it was one girl,
I'd say it was a random mutation?
And then nature throws us
curve balls, I know that, but
it's hundreds and thousands.
It could be some genetic switch
that flipped.
Something that was there,
dormant, and it just
But why would it do that?
Has got to be environmental,
right? Don't you think?
Pollution, contaminated
soil, stressors, or
- Survival.
- Yeah.
Oh, God damn it. So, wait,
you're saying either
we did this to these girls or
they developed it out of necessity.
Hi, you've reached Dan's private line.
Leave a message or try my assistant.
What the fuck, Margot?
Do you have any idea what
time it is? This is harassment.
It's an organ. Girls are
developing a new organ.
They're, they're evolving.
That's what this is.
The electricity, all the
fires, the plane crash.
And we did nothing to prevent this.
We should've put more resources
Okay, calm down, okay?
Just take a breath.
Don't tell me to calm down.
This might be contagious.
How can it be contagious? You
just said it's "evolution."
Okay, that girl from
the plane, Makayla Kelly,
she transferred it
to a flight attendant.
And how would you know that?
Unless you interfered
with an FBI investigation?
You motherfucker.
You know all this and you kept it
from me, kept it from the public?
I don't have any obligation to
share classified information.
Classified by whom?
There are a lot of people in Washington,
people much smarter than you
and me putting plans into place.
No one wants to go off
half-cocked and create a panic.
We wait until we have answers
No, you are in the middle of
fundraising for your senate campaign
and this might fuck up your chances.
Well, Daniel, this is much
bigger than any campaign.
We need to prepare parents.
We need to prepare our girls.
They need to know what's
happening in their own bodies.
You know what they do
to the messenger, right?
You remember what happened with Covid?
I'm not going to put my face out
there as a target for an angry mob.
We wait until D.C. moves on this.
Until then, we try not to get hysterical
and we keep a lid on our feelings.
You love to stand in
front of the cameras
when you can present yourself as a hero.
But when you could be
a source of comfort,
when you could help people
not feel so crazy and
alone you are a coward.
Don't fuck this up for
me, Margot. I'm serious.
Yeah? Well, so am I.
It's nothing but a hoax.
It's a hoax.
It's fake news.
We're still gathering information
on this, but we think it's a hoax.
Enough. Thank you.
Ready?
Are you?
I'm so sorry to put you through this.
After all your hard work.
It's what you promised.
When we started down this
path together, you and me
in this fucked up world of politics.
We're gonna make a splash 'cause
we're gonna do the right thing.
It's definitely fucked up.
Well, burn it all down. Shit.
I brought the good popcorn.
Okay.
Good morning.
Well, it's been a very
eventful and stressful week
in this beautiful city of ours.
I know many of you are worried
about rumours flying around.
Things that have been
happening in schools.
And it seems that people
in positions of power
have been telling us it's a hoax.
"Reject the evidence
of your eyes and ears."
Well
This is not a hoax.
I'm here to talk to you as your mayor
but I'm also here to
talk to you as a parent.
I have two beautiful girls at home,
and I don't know about you,
but it's not okay with me
for politicians to make decisions
about what's happens
in my children's bodies.
In the past, we've all seen what happens
when we don't give women information
about what's happening
in their own bodies.
We've all seen or felt
that cycle of shame
and desperation.
Back alley abortions.
Teenage girls with no resources
forced into giving birth.
Rape victims too afraid to come forward,
and postpartum moms
suffering in silence.
Let us be done withholding.
Okay, this is everything
we know so far
the electrical condition that's
been affecting adolescent girls
- is not a virus or a trick
- Hey, did she tell you
she was gonna do this?
Doctors have discovered
the presence of a new organ
along the collarbone of young women.
It emerges naturally
in girls aged 12 to 19.
And the ability seems
to be transferrable.
The organ appears to be mimicking
some of the electrical
impulses of the heart
We don't know why it has developed
We don't know the extent
or purpose of its power.
These are the questions we will all
face together in the coming months.
The world as we know it
may never be the same
producing electricity.
A rope like organ, composed of
hundreds and
thousands of electrocytes:
cells that can build up electricity
and then release it at once.
Which so far, has affected girls
between the ages of 12 and 19 only.
Just girls, luckily.
It's an organ we have only
seen before in electric fish.
Well, it's just I mean, carry on.
It's vital that these
girls are supported.
Locked up if necessary.
Capital punishment.
Tranquillizers.
Implementing martial law.
We need to act.
I can't breathe, I can't breathe!
Honey, we're almost
there, try and relax.
Sir, she has to take a seat
I know. I'm so sorry,
she's afraid of flying.
I understand, but we've
already started our descent,
I need you both to sit down
Don't touch me!
- Makayla
- Dad!
- Sir
- Honey, she's just trying to help
- No, stay away
- Miss, please calm down.
- It's on fire
- Oh, my God!
What we know for sure,
the pilot sent a
distress code at 5:48 a.m.
Just as the plane was
beginning to descent.
They managed to divert here
for an emergency landing,
but they came in too low.
The casualty count is
it's significant.
God. Do we know what caused this?
Off the pilot comms,
we think there was some kind of
electrical malfunction on board.
Shit. Press.
Get to our media contacts,
no names to be released
until the families have been notified.
We should prep a statement
as soon as possible.
Don't worry. Already
got my guys on that.
Daniel, uh, I can handle this
I know, but you've been up
for hours. Take a break, okay?
Let me deal with this mess. You
just take care of your people.
Great work.
All right, let's go.
I mean, it sounds supportive, so why
do I feel like I'm getting fucked?
'Cause fuckery's the only
language guys like Daniel speak.
You know that video from
Nigeria of the electricity?
Were there any teen girls on this plane?
The survivors were taken
to U-Dub. Let's find out.
Hello?
Tunde, this is Vin Sena from CNN.
CNN? Wait, sorry
Did you just say CNN?
Yeah. We've seen your
footage of the electric girls.
Look, we'll buy what you have and
I'll put you on a contract for more.
I don't know what to say, it's
Tunde?
I'm so sorry, I think
you have the wrong number.
- Tun
- You have a business exam coming up when?
- Three weeks.
- Only in three weeks?
You have plenty of time, abi?
- No.
- Your age mates are facing their books
and instead, you're gallivanting
around town filming rubbish.
And the poor girl
forced to go to the village.
People are saying she's a witch.
Oh.
You're puffing up your chest at me?
Awon big boy, big guy in town, abi?
You want to end up like your uncle Deji?
Philandering his way
into an early grave?
It is high time that you faced front.
That journalist thing, forget it.
Tunde.
Leave Ndudi and her family in peace.
You have brought enough shame.
I lost my appetite ♪
I cannot sleep at night ♪
I cannot concentrate ♪
I do not feel too great ♪
The world is caving in ♪
And I'm kinda struggling ♪
But I kinda like it ♪
♪
'Cause it feels like being in love ♪
Being in love ♪
- Being in love ♪
- Not today.
Not today.
What?
No girls.
Your parents should have gotten a text.
Sorry.
What the fuck are you doing?
- Hey!
- What the fuck?
- So he didn't let you on the bus?
- No.
He said all girls get off.
Her elbows were sparking
like chainsaws, man.
Elbows?
- I'll catch up with you later.
- Okay.
- Jos, hey.
- Hey.
You hanging out with Cat again?
Like, you know she has it.
Does she?
Did you see the one where
the girl sneezes it out?
- You're lying.
- Oh, my God, it's lit!
Uh, what are you doing later?
I'm hanging out with Cat but
maybe I'll see you Friday?
Sure.
- Hey. You good?
- Hey.
I would've gotten out the bus earlier
but I didn't know what was happening.
No, that guy was crazy.
And so, I was thinking,
what are you doing later?
Wanna hang out tonight?
I actually have plans
with Cat tonight. Sorry.
Friday?
Sure. Yeah.
Did you see the one
where she sneezes it out?
- No way.
- It's fucking lit.
This is South Seattle High.
First period is suspended.
All students report to your home rooms.
Quick as you can, please.
That's great. Okay.
Let's get seated. Get yourself seated.
We're leaving this open.
Okay, settle down now.
Uh, we have a directive
from the Governor's office,
to address the rumours that are
circulating regarding an issue,
that some of the girls in the
school may be experiencing.
It's related to
"sudden and unpredictable
discharges of electricity".
This isn't about anyone
getting into trouble,
this is about the safety of
all our staff and students.
So, if you have it
please, could I ask you
to identify yourself?
How about you raise your hand
if you know someone who has it?
Mr. Ellis, come on, man.
Let's just get this done.
Taylor White has it.
That's bullshit.
To the front please, Taylor.
Get out here.
We broke up last week and
now are you serious?
I can do it.
Ashley, thank you.
Brie Diaz can do it.
- Angel says she can do it.
- She's just pissed at me.
This is bullshit.
- I can do it.
- Out.
Cat Cole and Jos
Cleary-Lopez both have it.
Let's go, ladies.
Leave your bags.
Snitch.
- Anyone else?
- Mr. El That's absurd.
You can't do this.
Stop her! Don't let her leave!
Eyes front.
Come on, nothing to see.
Keep coming.
This is fucked up.
Come on, hustle. Move, move. Come on!
Forty-six passengers,
one flight attendant.
That's how many people
survived this crash.
- You can't keep her from me.
- I understand
No, you don't understand a damn thing.
My kid is 12, you're
holding her without cause.
I wanna see her now!
Mr. Kelly, please calm down.
The hell are the Feds doing here?
I wanna know where Makayla is right now.
We assure you, your daughter is fine.
She's being treated in the building,
and she'll be released once we
determine there's no ongoing threat.
Threat of what?
A couple of other
passengers ID'd your daughter
as part of the incident on board.
She is a 12-year-old kid,
not a god damn terrorist!
Is everything okay over here?
This is FBI business, ma'am.
I'm Margot Cleary-Lopez, the mayor.
Uh, I thought crashes were NTSB domain.
Unless I'm missing something and
it was criminal activity on board.
Dr. Sheldon operating room three.
Dr. Sheldon OR three.
Where were you stationed?
Uh, Afghanistan.
Thank you for your service, mister
Kelly. John Kelly.
Wanna take a seat?
- How's the arm?
- It's fine.
I'm fine.
I wanna see my daughter,
and these arseholes
Her name's Makayla?
She's probably terrified right now.
Yeah. I mean, I get that.
I've got three myself.
Look, she didn't do anything wrong.
I mean, she didn't mean
I don't even actually know happened
She's afraid of flying and she panicked.
But she's a good kid.
She wouldn't hurt anyone.
Listen, I'm gonna find
out what's going on.
But in the meantime
can you do me a favor?
If you deck one of those agents,
I'm pretty sure you're not
gonna see your daughter today,
so sit tight 'til you hear from me?
Yeah, I can do that.
Yeah? Okay.
Helen, I need to get
in to see Makayla Kelly.
These Feds won't let her
own father in to see her.
Okay. So we'll go around them.
Hey, is everything okay?
Yeah. Do you know anyone at U-Dub
Northwest who works in isolation?
I have some Feds blocking access to
a crash survivor I need to talk to.
Yeah, yeah. I do. Let me
put you in touch with Tash.
Tash, your ex?
Uh, sure. That'll be great.
Lazarus has risen.
Praise be.
It's okay, girl. No one
is gonna hurt you here.
Where am I?
This is the Sisters of Christ
Convent. I am Sister Maria.
What's your name?
Eve.
Ooh Good choice.
Those are fresh. We grow
most of our food here.
And we make soap, with seaweed,
to pay for anything else we need.
Which is more and more. Since
we've started taking you all in.
We get more girls like you every day.
Girls like me? What
kind of girl is that?
Girls with no place else to go.
You're gonna meet them soon
enough They're in the dormitory.
We found this in your bag.
You went through my stuff?
I have to.
We don't allow drugs,
alcohol, weapons
Are you a believer?
I talk to God every day.
Do you now?
And He talks back?
She. She does. All the time.
How lucky. To have such faith.
Eve. I am glad to meet you.
It was no accident I
found you on that road.
So rest as long as you like. Please.
You're just gonna
stare at her like that?
Sister Veronica!
- Hey!
- Sister Veronica!
What, you never seen a girl fit before?
No evidence that the
footage was doctored
Some even believe it's an ad.
For Taters. It looked like Taters to me.
Or could this be another
issue caused by video gaming?
Uh-huh.
Later today, we'll be
hearing your thoughts
together with expert analysis,
on the Internet phenomenon,
"The Electric Girl" hoax.
What?
- Yo move.
- And so, as adults catch up
with what the kids have
apparently been watching for weeks,
we have the latest footage
from around the globe.
Mm-hmm.
Is this a hoax? You decide.
Some viewers may find the
following scenes distressing.
Watch out.
Holy crap. Holy crap.
Prick!
- Hey!
- Run!
Okay, okay. Okay.
Nobody's looking at the
rise of violent crime.
Hey, yo! Can you move?
The US Police force
has a breaking point.
And suggesting that this might
be a good thing we got going on.
That's dumb.
You got this thing?
We all do. Well, most of us.
That's why we're here.
So everyone has it now?
Everyone's special.
None of these girls can
do what you can, baby.
- We got a clothes donation.
- Okay.
Girls, outside now! Family meeting!
It has come to our attention
that the recent issues
that some of you have
reported regarding your fingers
and, uh, sparks, has been spreading
across America, possibly further,
and it would seem that this
mutation is incredibly dangerous.
I think the unfortunate
business with the chicken,
which I won't get into again
has shown us just
what we are dealing with.
This is about all our safety. It's
my word and you'll be out of here.
No Electricity! Now get to work!
Go!
Is this necessary?
It's just a precaution until we know
for sure what we're dealing with.
There are a lot of rumours floating
around and not a lot of answers.
Right.
So you and Rob met at
Doctors without Borders?
Yeah, yeah. Six months in
Cambodia right out of med school.
Hmm. He says that trip changed his
life, his whole outlook on medicine.
Yeah, mine too. It really
put things in perspective.
Okay. The agents have been
doing checks every 20 minutes,
so just watch your time.
- Thank you again.
- You're welcome.
Makayla?
Hi.
I'm Margot. I'm the
mayor here, of Seattle.
I want my dad.
I actually just spoke to
your dad. He's right upstairs.
Why won't they let me
see him? Am I in trouble?
No. No, no one is in trouble.
No, I'm just here to
find out what happened.
I already told them.
I didn't do anything.
I just
hate when the plane shakes,
I feel like I'm gonna die.
My daughter Jos used to be
terrified of flying, too.
You remember anything
about what happened?
Might help me clear
things up and get you home.
My hands.
They started hurting a few days ago.
You know, like when you touch laundry
in a dryer and you get a shock?
I was really nervous for the flight,
so my dad gave me a
Benadryl to help me sleep.
Then the plane was shaking,
I woke up, I was so scared
and it was so hard to breathe.
And then a lady started
telling me to put on my belt.
The the flight attendant?
And then my hands started hurting again.
And then she reached
over to put on my belt.
And then suddenly the
blanket was on fire and
everyone was screaming
and everything went flying,
and then the plane just
I swear, I didn't mean to hurt anybody.
- I don't know what I did.
- Hey.
It's okay. We're gonna figure this out.
It's okay. It's okay.
Tell the lady I'm sorry.
What lady? The flight attendant?
I think I hurt her.
I thought the kid just didn't
want to put her belt on
but then it looked like she was seizing.
So I grabbed her.
I just wanted to make sure she
didn't hit her head or something
And then? Did you see it? How
the blanket caught on fire?
No, I didn't see
anything it was so fast
She was trying to push me
off, and her hands were here.
And then there was this, like, jolt.
And it hurt like hell, and then
it didn't hurt at all.
It felt fucking amazing.
I can't explain it.
I think she gave it to me.
I think we both brought the plane down.
Let's go, Mayor. You're done.
This room is strictly for
approved personnel only.
Oh, my God, Rob. You're
not gonna believe
It's Jos. We gotta get
to her school right now.
What? What? What's going on?
Thank you for getting here
so quickly, Mrs. Cleary-Lopez,
I know you're very busy
Jos?
Jocelyn Cleary-Lopez!
Jos! Jesus
- Jos!
- Christ.
Mom, I'm I'm over here.
- Oh, my God!
- Jesus!
- Are you okay, honey?
- What the hell is going on here?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
- Oh, my God!
What are you doing here?
I thought only dad was gonna come.
Well, we were both worried.
What are you doing, Joe?
You've been to our house.
We've served you dinner.
And you're gonna treat our
kids like fucking criminals?
What's wrong with
you, man? Are you sick?
- Have you lost your humanity?
- They're gonna have to be taken care of.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Can you get those fucking things
off her or I'm gonna wrap them around
your mother fucking neck?
- You hear me? You hear me?
- Yeah.
If all of these girls
aren't with their parents
at home in the next hour,
you have a huge problem.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
- This will be fine, all right?
- Okay.
I know some girls can, like,
aim it or control it more.
It's like they know
what they want to hit
and how hard they want to hit it.
Okay.
But mine
mine doesn't work like that.
Okay. How does yours work?
See?
Hey! Hey!
- This?
- Mm-hmm.
You know, this is some weird ass
convent shit you got going on here.
You were in pretty bad shape, you
almost died out there on the road.
Do you know that?
You need a doctor to check you over
but we have a storm coming Friday
so it'll have to be after that.
There'll be no one
in or out for a while.
Can I leave?
Well, as long as you're
out by this afternoon.
After that we have to
lock the place down.
You need to stop by the office
and fill out the identity forms.
All girls must be on record.
Uh-uh, girl. No paper trail.
As soon as I get my shoes, I'm gone.
That suits us just fine.
You won't find much.
We take a vow of poverty.
Sister Monica, Patron
Saint of Wayward Children.
Have a seat, Eve.
I don't want trouble. No police.
Just talk.
Sister Veronica can be a hard ass
but I promise, she's a good woman.
She has done amazing things.
Doesn't seem very Catholic-y.
It isn't. We're nuns in our hearts.
Sisters of Christ in our hearts.
But not in the church.
When I was younger, I
decided to live my truth.
I told my family, this is who I am.
I am a woman.
Not the man that you believed me to be.
I was cast out, no family.
I lost my job.
I was on the streets.
And Veronica found me.
And she guide me.
But for her kindness
she was excommunicated.
All of the women here,
they have been cast out.
Standing up for justice.
Standing up for the weak.
If she stands up for people, why
is she so against the electricity?
Veronica's a revolutionary.
But this power is a crisis of faith.
And she worries.
She knows that consequences
come with change.
Have patience and stay.
Rebel nuns and wayward girls. See?
I told you there's a
place where you belong.
And then, in 2016
Is it impossible? Maybe
Maybe it's transferrable.
Maybe she touched something.
Wait, you're talking about
a virus here? What the hell?
The kids have been posting about
it, everyone is calling it a hoax.
I mean, there's fires and outages
I warned Dandon about this.
I know you did.
I can't believe this
is happening to my baby!
Shh! Shh!
I'm telling you. She's gonna
be okay. She's gonna be fine.
No, she's not. That girl from the plane?
They had her locked up like
E.T., running tests on her.
It is not okay with me that the
world is gonna use our daughter
- as a lab rat.
- Honey, honey.
I don't think it's headed that way.
- How do you know?
- I mean, if there are 50 in a high school
- and you extrapolate from there
- Yeah?
statistically, that's
hundreds and thousands of girls
going through this.
I think we need to get her some help
- and we need to do it quietly.
- Okay.
Can you contact that therapist
that Matty worked with last summer?
What was his name? Doctor
And we need to tell Helen
before this gets out.
Whoa, how would it get out?
Well, we can't keep something
like this a secret forever, Rob.
It's gonna get political.
- Don't do that. Don't do that.
- What?
Don't use that Mayor
Seattle voice on me, okay?
- Because I'm not the enemy, okay?
- Seriously?
You wanna argue about my
tone of voice right now?
- Thank you!
- Hey!
The electric eel is the only animal
that can produce a killing
shock of electricity.
Oh, look, Jos, it's
your long-lost family.
Despite the name eel
Give it back I was watching that.
Poor Mom and Dad.
It's like their favourite kid got
an STD from having sex with an eel.
What's an STD?
- Give it. Matty.
- What are you doing?
Let go!
Matty, are you okay?
- Jos! Jos! What's happening?
- I didn't mean to. It was an accident.
Come here.
Let me see Let me check.
Is he okay? What happened to his eye?
Margot, tell Frank to pull up front.
We gotta get him to
a hospital right away.
It was an accident accident.
It's gonna be fine, champ,
I'm telling you. Relax.
Come on, Ndudi.
- What are you doing here?
- Hey, hey. I just wanna talk
- Just go.
- Please.
Come on.
You shouldn't be here.
If my grandmother sees us
together, we are finished.
I know. I know, It's just
Ndudi, I'm so sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry. I, I just
You just what?
I just I had to see you.
Hey.
I got a job offer from CNN.
- Wait, Ndudi
- I'm so mad at you.
Tunde, that was my story.
I found it!
- You didn't even want to come.
- Shh.
You were messing around with Adunola.
Making up some nonsense
about some business.
Then you put my face
all over the Internet for
the whole world to see
and now you come here
asking me for advice?
- Because I'm a joke, abi?
- No, no. Ndudi, listen
Here's some advice.
Do something you believe in for once.
Be a man, Tunde.
Ndudi, I don't know what I want to do.
That's not my problem.
Ndudi.
Ndudi! Come inside!
What do you think you're gonna
do at this time of the night? Go!
So you're just gonna leave?
Mom and Dad are going
to lose their minds.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity.
CNN called me, they want me
to do my style of reporting.
Reporting? Bro, you take video selfies.
I can speak to people
other reporters can't.
And get into places other
reporters are not allowed
Dad is not going to allow
you to come back to the house.
You're neglecting your
school, your job
Things he wants from me. What
about what I want for myself?
Dami, Ndudi is right.
I need to be my own man.
Ah, I'm wasting my life here.
Wasting my time with studies
that don't interest me,
work I can't stand,
girls I don't care about.
I understand most of
what you are saying.
But the girls? They're not so bad.
Dami, this power is spreading.
And it's going to change things.
Here in Nigeria, but all over the
world, In ways we cannot imagine.
This is huge, Dami.
Allah is showing me my path.
This is my destiny.
Look, Jos. Do you like my boobs?
Honey. The doctor's got results.
Good news, his reflexes are strong.
His eyelid shut quickly, so the
injury is limited to the skin.
Oh, thank God.
But I hear a but.
His eye should be okay but you
should consult with a plastic surgeon
for a second opinion.
There may be some scarring.
Oh, man.
All right. Thank you so much. Thank you.
- Thank you.
- Dr. Stevens to the ICU.
It's okay, it's gonna be fine.
It's gonna be fine.
Gonna be fine. There's so much they
can do with skin graft these days.
You know?
Seriously, he's gonna get better.
Yeah.
Honey, hold on. I'll be right back.
Hey, Tash. How are you?
Oh, hi.
You didn't mean to.
- I know it was an accident
- Stop.
Stop what?
Stop pretending like we're so
close and that you're super mom.
I'm not pretending anything.
Today's the most time we've
spent together in over a year.
And it's only because I'm becoming
a liability for your perfect life.
Jos, that is not true.
I love you.
And sorry that I'm not around more.
I thought you didn't
wanna spend time with me.
What?
Oh, my God. Why is he talking about me?
Jos, come on, let's go get some answers.
Honey, she's okay. They
do dozens of these a day.
Come on.
Jos, I need you to stay
as still as possible, okay?
Mom.
- Dad!
- Get her out. Get her out now.
- Can you, can you play it again?
- Yeah.
So is she okay?
Watch this.
What am I looking at?
See that? It's not
coming from their hands.
It's coming from right there.
I heard from some colleagues
from around the country,
but I hadn't seen it for myself.
We've had a few cases come
through. Two girls with burn scars.
Okay, so Jos sparked when
she went through the scan.
It blew the machine but it gave
us this beautiful, clear picture.
That striated muscle tissue,
it banded into cervical
spinal nerves right here.
at these points, there and there.
Are those pacemaker cells?
- Like the sinoatrial node?
- Yeah, which would explain the
- electrical impulse.
- Layperson terms, please.
- It's an organ.
- It's a new organ.
One that generates electricity.
Well, that's
- insane.
- Well, not really.
The heart, the eye, the brain,
they all generate electricity.
Yeah, but unlike those organs,
that's all this one seems to do.
Well, where did it come from?
Well, I mean, if it was one girl,
I'd say it was a random mutation?
And then nature throws us
curve balls, I know that, but
it's hundreds and thousands.
It could be some genetic switch
that flipped.
Something that was there,
dormant, and it just
But why would it do that?
Has got to be environmental,
right? Don't you think?
Pollution, contaminated
soil, stressors, or
- Survival.
- Yeah.
Oh, God damn it. So, wait,
you're saying either
we did this to these girls or
they developed it out of necessity.
Hi, you've reached Dan's private line.
Leave a message or try my assistant.
What the fuck, Margot?
Do you have any idea what
time it is? This is harassment.
It's an organ. Girls are
developing a new organ.
They're, they're evolving.
That's what this is.
The electricity, all the
fires, the plane crash.
And we did nothing to prevent this.
We should've put more resources
Okay, calm down, okay?
Just take a breath.
Don't tell me to calm down.
This might be contagious.
How can it be contagious? You
just said it's "evolution."
Okay, that girl from
the plane, Makayla Kelly,
she transferred it
to a flight attendant.
And how would you know that?
Unless you interfered
with an FBI investigation?
You motherfucker.
You know all this and you kept it
from me, kept it from the public?
I don't have any obligation to
share classified information.
Classified by whom?
There are a lot of people in Washington,
people much smarter than you
and me putting plans into place.
No one wants to go off
half-cocked and create a panic.
We wait until we have answers
No, you are in the middle of
fundraising for your senate campaign
and this might fuck up your chances.
Well, Daniel, this is much
bigger than any campaign.
We need to prepare parents.
We need to prepare our girls.
They need to know what's
happening in their own bodies.
You know what they do
to the messenger, right?
You remember what happened with Covid?
I'm not going to put my face out
there as a target for an angry mob.
We wait until D.C. moves on this.
Until then, we try not to get hysterical
and we keep a lid on our feelings.
You love to stand in
front of the cameras
when you can present yourself as a hero.
But when you could be
a source of comfort,
when you could help people
not feel so crazy and
alone you are a coward.
Don't fuck this up for
me, Margot. I'm serious.
Yeah? Well, so am I.
It's nothing but a hoax.
It's a hoax.
It's fake news.
We're still gathering information
on this, but we think it's a hoax.
Enough. Thank you.
Ready?
Are you?
I'm so sorry to put you through this.
After all your hard work.
It's what you promised.
When we started down this
path together, you and me
in this fucked up world of politics.
We're gonna make a splash 'cause
we're gonna do the right thing.
It's definitely fucked up.
Well, burn it all down. Shit.
I brought the good popcorn.
Okay.
Good morning.
Well, it's been a very
eventful and stressful week
in this beautiful city of ours.
I know many of you are worried
about rumours flying around.
Things that have been
happening in schools.
And it seems that people
in positions of power
have been telling us it's a hoax.
"Reject the evidence
of your eyes and ears."
Well
This is not a hoax.
I'm here to talk to you as your mayor
but I'm also here to
talk to you as a parent.
I have two beautiful girls at home,
and I don't know about you,
but it's not okay with me
for politicians to make decisions
about what's happens
in my children's bodies.
In the past, we've all seen what happens
when we don't give women information
about what's happening
in their own bodies.
We've all seen or felt
that cycle of shame
and desperation.
Back alley abortions.
Teenage girls with no resources
forced into giving birth.
Rape victims too afraid to come forward,
and postpartum moms
suffering in silence.
Let us be done withholding.
Okay, this is everything
we know so far
the electrical condition that's
been affecting adolescent girls
- is not a virus or a trick
- Hey, did she tell you
she was gonna do this?
Doctors have discovered
the presence of a new organ
along the collarbone of young women.
It emerges naturally
in girls aged 12 to 19.
And the ability seems
to be transferrable.
The organ appears to be mimicking
some of the electrical
impulses of the heart
We don't know why it has developed
We don't know the extent
or purpose of its power.
These are the questions we will all
face together in the coming months.
The world as we know it
may never be the same
producing electricity.
A rope like organ, composed of
hundreds and
thousands of electrocytes:
cells that can build up electricity
and then release it at once.
Which so far, has affected girls
between the ages of 12 and 19 only.
Just girls, luckily.
It's an organ we have only
seen before in electric fish.
Well, it's just I mean, carry on.
It's vital that these
girls are supported.
Locked up if necessary.
Capital punishment.
Tranquillizers.
Implementing martial law.
We need to act.