Origin (2018) s01e04 Episode Script

LOGAN: Wait.
So you're saying that we're good to go? That we're gonna make it to Thea? I physically cannot repeat myself again.
Well, halle-fucking-lujah! - [LAUGHING.]
- Ha! - Eric.
- LOGAN: What? Guy who owned this.
Hey.
- He said that was his name.
- [LOGAN SCOFFS.]
- Where are you going? - To find a bathroom.
Logan, I don't think it's a good idea, you going alone.
I'm not gonna drop dead, okay? I got meds now.
But feel free to keep fussing.
[SCOFFS.]
[WATER FLOWING.]
[SHUN EXHALES.]
Came this way.
Are you going to kill him? [GROANING.]
[GRUNTS.]
Hey.
Hey, what the fuck are you doing? [GRUNTS.]
[LOGAN GRUNTING.]
Help! Did you guys hear that? [GASPING.]
[BONES CRACK.]
LOGAN: No! [SCREAMS.]
- [GRUNTS.]
- God damn it.
Get away from him.
SHUN: Where is he? Shun! Fuck! [GROANS.]
Shit.
[GROANING.]
[POWERING UP.]
BAUM: What happened to him? Eric, he attacked him.
What do you mean "attacked"? KATIE: I don't know.
He tried to strangle him.
[LOGAN GRUNTING.]
- He was crying blood.
- Eric? I'm sorry, what? There was something in his eye.
[SHUDDERING.]
I think it was alive.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Ring 10.
HENRI: Are you sure he's on this level? SHUN: He left blood on the button.
[WIND HOWLING.]
- SHUN: Let's go.
- Wait.
What're you doing? [HENRI BREATHING HEAVILY.]
SHUN: What the fuck is that thing? I have no idea.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
- [MUSIC PLAYING.]
WOMAN: Come on, come on, come on.
Okay, okay.
Okay, okay.
[LAUGHS.]
- I'm a chronic disorder? - MAN: Yes.
[LAUGHS.]
HENRI: I affect nerve tissue? The spinal cord? Yes! [LAUGHS.]
Do I affect the eyes? WOMAN: Yes.
Am I Neuromyelitis Optica? [ALL GROANING.]
Otherwise known as Devic's Disease.
Yes! Yes, yes! Got it.
[HENRI LAUGHS.]
[ALL LAUGHING.]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER.]
I read your paper on chain-terminating inhibitors, Dr.
Gasana.
It was fascinating.
I'd introduce myself, but you seem to know everything already.
Laura Kassman.
I'm with the government.
I'm flattered.
Didn't think you guys made house calls or bar calls, in this instance.
I wanted to see you in your natural habitat.
I'm looking for a geneticist with your specialism.
Someone who lives and breathes his work.
You are looking at him.
So this is the guy Rey crippled and Shun killed because he was infected with whatever made Eric crazy? Just wanted everyone to hear that out loud.
They both came out of Cell 50.
Everyone else in there is dead.
Just racking up the corpses, aren't we? I don't understand.
I thought the priority was stopping Eric.
- [CLATTERING.]
- [SHUN SIGHS.]
It was.
But Henri We think we found something.
ABIGAIL: Keep the doors closed, okay? VENISHA: Do you have to go with them? I wanna help Henri.
[SIGHS.]
Don't let them hurt Eric.
Not until we understand what's going on.
REY: Where's she going? [EXHALES.]
You don't need to worry about it.
[GROANS.]
I'm sorry about Taylor.
Abigail said that you knew him.
Were you close? I was in love with him.
I keep thinking I could have saved him.
I should have stopped him going to Cell 50.
I don't know how to do this.
A part of me is just gone.
It will start to repair.
It always does.
Just give me something.
Just give me anything that will make me forget.
[SIGHS.]
Here.
- [GROANS.]
- Slowly, slowly.
- KATIE: What's he gonna do? - LOGAN: I don't know.
This is everything we could find.
Thought it might be that.
Everyone back.
What the hell is that thing? Amputation laser.
Keep it pointing at the body, Doc.
Gurney, please.
ABIGAIL: On three.
One, two, three! [ALL GRUNT.]
[BODY THUDS.]
You're gonna cut him open.
Wait, what? I need to look inside.
Do we have to be here? It's safer if you stay with us.
Someone needs to keep him upright.
[SCOFFS.]
No chance.
Just don't get my fingers.
[DEVICE PULSING.]
I'm not hungry.
Eat.
I need you sober for this.
And you'll need to sign an NDA.
[DRONE WHIRRING.]
AUTOMATED VOICE: Welcome, Dr.
Gasana.
Enjoy your visit.
Commencing analysis.
Mapping genome.
It's all top-of-the-range.
I didn't think we had labs like this.
- In South Africa.
- AUTOMATED VOICE: Data HENRI: What exactly do you do here? Matters of national security, mostly.
- Special assignments.
- AUTOMATED VOICE: Loading data Unfortunately, our latest project has, uh, somewhat hit a brick wall.
- That's why you came to me.
- AUTOMATED VOICE: Results due in You're an expert in DNA-targeted systems.
I understand your focus is designing them to treat rare diseases, correct? It's a little more complicated, but that's the idea.
AUTOMATED VOICE: Results due in one We're using the same technology, only we want it to do the opposite.
We want to target specific cells in an individual's DNA, and trigger a disease.
Why? Jokonya? LAURA: Since his rise to power, hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured across the border, fleeing his country into ours.
All of them desperate, all in need of food and shelter.
We're simply not equipped for this level of crisis.
You mean the government can't afford the cost? People are dying, Dr.
Gasana.
In less than a year, we'll hit famine.
[SIGHS.]
hen there'll be rioting, and next, civil war.
Unless Jokonya is stopped.
You want to assassinate him? It's a little more complicated, but that's the idea.
If Jokonya's regime continues, South Africa will come apart at the seams.
We need an untraceable weapon.
Something that can never be tracked back to us.
We're trying to save hundreds of thousands of lives.
At the cost of one.
- [DEVICE PULSING.]
- [ALL GRUNTING.]
LOGAN: Jesus Christ! [GASPS.]
- [COUGHING.]
- Hmm.
ABIGAIL: God, what is that stuff? LANA: We saw it in Cell 50.
The whole place was covered in it.
[ABIGAIL GROANING.]
[LOGAN COUGHS.]
ABIGAIL: Oh [WINCES.]
Oh, my God! Ugh! What the fuck is that thing? Jesus Christ.
Is it still alive? No, I think it's decomposing.
You think? Wait, what are you gonna do? We gotta blast the body into space.
Right? Get rid of it.
Do you understand what this is? We're looking at first contact.
Fuck first contact.
One of those things tried to squirm inside my head.
If we destroy it, we lose all capacity to understand We don't need to understand it.
That sent Taylor homicidal, and there's a live one in Eric.
What we need is to kill it.
[SIGHS.]
We have no idea what this creature is capable of.
Or how it dies.
Bullets worked with Taylor.
- I'll hedge my bets.
- [GUN COCKS.]
- I'm coming with you.
- No, you're not.
- I wasn't asking.
- No use to me on this, Lana.
I made the wrong call with Taylor.
I won't this time.
- Where do we start? - SHUN: Ring 10.
That's where he was last.
[GRUNTS.]
[PANTING.]
[GROANING.]
ABIGAIL: Can you tell us anything? HENRI: It's insect-like.
Invertebrate.
No indication that flesh has been eaten away.
It's formed semi-permanent bonds in the brain, reminiscent of obligate parasites on Earth.
English, please, Dr.
Frankenstein.
There are species that survive or reproduce by entering a host.
They can be capable of drastically altering behavior, or at times, entirely controlling their mental faculties.
You're saying this thing might've controlled Taylor in the same way? If the creature is controlling the brain, it's tapping into higher mental processes.
- [CLATTERS.]
- ERIC: [OVER SPEAKERS.]
Hello? [ERIC EXHALES.]
Please, somebody.
Who is this? ERIC: Venisha? [DEVICE BEEPS.]
Eric, I can't talk to you.
ERIC: [PANTING.]
Venisha, please.
Please.
I don't know what's wrong with me.
I keep blacking out, and there's whole chunks of my memory missing.
I don't remember what I've done.
There's blood all over me, and I think Did I try and hurt that woman? [ERIC PANTING.]
- [DEVICE BEEPS.]
- The others said you tried to kill her.
Oh, God, I don't remember.
[SOBS.]
What's happening to me? [INHALES AND EXHALES.]
There's something wrong with me.
I deserve to die.
- [BEEPS.]
- You don't say that.
We all came here for a second chance.
[SNIFFLES.]
I know.
[WINCES AND SIGHS.]
Thank you.
Thank you for talking to me.
I'm glad I'm not alone.
- [BEEPS.]
- Where are you? [SIGHS.]
HENRI: One of you, help me with him.
Let's go.
No, thank you.
I need to move him before the body decays.
Sorry, Doc.
Screw that.
Eric's still out there.
All right, let's go.
If you see Eric, drop him and run.
Okay.
[GRUNTS.]
Trial 45910.
- Batch 86-B.
- [MICE SQUEAKING.]
[SWITCH CLICKS.]
- [SIZZLING.]
- [MICE SQUEAKING.]
MAN: It killed them all again.
[ALL WHISPER INDISTINCTLY.]
HENRI: I can see that.
Still addressing too many genes.
We'll get there, Doctor.
LAURA: What was that? HENRI: Batch 86-B.
Don't get smart.
Isn't that why you hired me? That was the fourth trial in as many weeks.
Where's my invisible bullet, Dr.
Gasana? You have your bullet.
It's the invisible part that's problematic.
You're insisting we use a brain-based virus to carry the system.
Because we're triggering a brain tumor.
They're hereditary in Jokonya's family.
It's the perfect cover.
Fine, but that's what makes this almost impossible.
I have to neutralize the virus so that none of the carriers before or after Jokonya gets seriously sick.
This isn't something that can happen overnight.
- [BEEPS.]
- Dr.
Theron, please.
[DOOR OPENS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
Dr.
Theron, meet Dr.
Gasana.
Heard a lot about you.
Who the hell is he? Competition drives results.
We both know that.
Good luck.
[SHUDDERS.]
It's freezing in here.
What is this place? [INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER.]
[CLATTERS.]
SHUN: Cover me! [STATIC CRACKLING.]
[METALLIC CLANG.]
[BANGING ON DOOR.]
- Fuck! - LANA: Come on.
[SHUN GRUNTS.]
[PANTING.]
For someone who's not a doctor, you really seemed to know what you were doing in there.
Turn him, please.
How do you know all this? Check on Rey.
Henri? Rey? Rey.
Wake up! Henri, I left her with Venisha.
[GRUNTING.]
[STEAM HISSING.]
LANA: Hello? [GRUNTS.]
Can anyone hear us? Hello.
Can anyone hear us? Hello.
Lana.
Henri, we're locked in the morgue.
Ring 10.
[WATER DRIPPING.]
[SHUDDERING.]
[THUD.]
Hello? Eric? Eric, are you in there? Eric, where are you? - ERIC: You came.
- [GASPS.]
[SIGHS.]
He led Shun and Lana there.
He's clever, isn't he? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Trial 45937.
- Batch 16-C.
- [MICE SQUEAKING.]
[BEEPS.]
- There's your invisible bullet.
- [MAN CHUCKLES.]
REPORTER: across the capital, Jokonya's death from a hereditary brain tumor and cries for immediate democratic election.
while the president's family remain in grief.
LAURA: Well done, Dr.
Gasana.
You just changed history.
REPORTER: of the world's most brutal dictatorships.
Congratulations.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
LANA: Shun.
Shun.
The cold air, it's coming from up there.
We've got to break that thing.
No, glass bullets.
It'll shatter.
We need something to take it out.
Stop the ventilation.
[SHUN GRUNTING.]
Don't move.
[GRUNTS.]
Don't move, I said.
I don't know if you're telling me the truth or if you're still dangerous.
Stay back! [EXHALES.]
You think I'm a monster, too.
I don't know what to think.
- [GRUNTS AND WINCES.]
- Eric, stay back.
[GROANING.]
Eric.
I understand.
I understand if you can't trust me.
[GROANS.]
[PANTING.]
I'm sorry.
For everything.
[VENISHA WHIMPERS.]
Eric.
Eric, come on, come on.
Eric.
Eric.
[GASPS.]
Thank you for believing me.
[SCREAMS AND GRUNTS.]
[VENISHA SCREAMING.]
Help! That sounded like Venisha.
Get to Shun and Lana.
- Wait, what are you gonna do? - Go.
Be careful.
[SHUN GRUNTING.]
[ROD CLATTERS.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[GROANING.]
[SCREAMS.]
- [CLATTERS.]
- [SCREAMS.]
LANA: Are you okay? Shun! Fuck.
[GROANS.]
Fuck.
- [SCREAMS.]
- Shun! Hey, hey, look at me.
Don't, Lana.
[PANTING.]
[GROANING.]
[ROD CLATTERS.]
[PANTING.]
It stopped, it worked.
[VENISHA SHRIEKING.]
[ERIC RETCHES.]
[CHOKING.]
[RETCHING AND GASPING.]
HENRI: Eric! [BOTH GRUNTING.]
- [SCREAMING.]
- [VENISHA SCREAMS.]
[HENRI GRUNTS.]
[ERIC GRUNTS.]
[VENISHA WHIMPERS.]
[SCREAMING.]
[BOTH GRUNTING.]
I just want to live.
[PANTING.]
Shun! Shun, hold on.
[BANGING ON DOOR.]
[GASPS.]
ABIGAIL: It's me.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
- Lana, is he - He's alive.
Help me get him up.
Come on.
- [GRUNTS.]
- [SCREAMS.]
[VENISHA YELPS.]
[ERIC GROANING.]
- [VENISHA CRIES.]
- [GRUNTS.]
[VENISHA SCREAMS.]
Open the door! Open the door! [VENISHA SCREAMING.]
ERIC: Let me out! Let me out! Do it! No.
No.
[MOUTHS.]
I'm sorry.
[VENISHA WHIMPERS.]
VENISHA: No! AUTOMATED VOICE: Purging air lock in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, - three, two, one.
- [VENISHA SCREAMS.]
[AIRLOCK HISSES.]
[BREATHING SHAKILY.]
[RETCHES.]
[DOOR OPENS.]
Never feels the way you expect.
I didn't think about his family.
They're suffering.
But think of the many who aren't because of what we've done.
The world is full of those who will never understand what it means to sacrifice the few for the many.
But you and I, we're willing to bear the scar for people who will never know our names.
And that is what makes us heroes.
You okay? What happened? Eric's gone.
Venisha's gone, too.
[SOBBING.]
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
SHUN: Thanks.
No problem.
I didn't mean the bandage.
You didn't have to come with me.
Don't forget, I nearly let Taylor kill you, so, sorry.
Again.
You know, it takes a real asshole to make someone apologize for not being able to kill a man.
So, maybe the two can cancel each other out? We can get one of those things.
[CLICKS TONGUE.]
What do you call them? SIREN mentioned them once or twice.
A blank slate.
[CHUCKLES.]
[SIGHS.]
Sounds good.
What? I can cook.
You all right, Doc? [PLATE CLATTERS.]
Should we say something? - Um, we don't have to.
- HENRI: No.
We should.
She didn't deserve to die.
What was she even doing down there? I think she was trying to save him.
Couldn't you have gotten her out? Let's just try and eat.
Venisha.
- Venisha.
- Venisha.
[RUMBLING.]
[CHIMING.]
[YAWNS.]
AUTOMATED VOICE: All doors to Crew Quarters unlocked.
It's done.
Don't you wanna get some sleep? Not yet.
[DOOR OPENS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
Captain's quarters.
Sweet dreams.
- [BEEPING.]
- [DOOR OPENS.]
Are you gonna be all right? You saved us, you know.
- [BEEPS.]
- [DOOR OPENS, CLOSES.]
So thanks for, uh Just thanks.
[CHUCKLES.]
Uh - [BEEPS.]
- [DOOR CLOSES.]
Okay.
[BEEPING.]
[WHIRRING.]
[INAUDIBLE.]
[SOBBING SOFTLY.]
[BEEPS.]