The Head (2020) s01e04 Episode Script

Over here!
I think I've found something!
Find me.
Johan does Annika have
an intramedullary nail?
What?
Who are you?
The work we started on Polaris V
"could be the very thing
that cures our ailing planet."
This is your first winter
with this merry band of misfits.
Welcome to the looney bin!
"The killer carved a "V"
into Nils' chest."
"I think it's a message."
"Be afraid. Be very fucking afraid"
We need to do something.
There must be a way of getting
help from outside.
Come on. Okay.
Here we are, hold, here we are.
Okay, okay.
Okay, okay.
You're going to be okay.
- No! Careful, careful.
- Careful.
Breathe slowly!
It's okay, here we are. Okay?
- Here we are
- Oh, shit!
Oh, fuck! Fuck!
- Maggie, Maggie, look at me!
- You'll be okay!
Look at me!
You need to tell us what to do.
Tell us what to do!
Mi mirror. Mirror, mirror!
Mirror, mirror
Here!
- Alright.
- Okay.
- Lower!
- Okay.
This is a fucking mess, a fucking mess.
- She is going to be okay.
- I need your help.
- Yeah?
- I need, I need
-lidocaine and Phenylephrine,
-Phenylephrine
adrenaline and
- Hold it! Hold on.
- Gauze, scalpel
- alcohol
- Lidocaine here!
- Electrocautery
- Electro-what?
- Adrenaline!
- What?
The lidocaine first! Lidocaine first
Ten milligrams.
Then the phenylephrine
It's a
Shit.
Okay, okay, okay
Scalpel
Okay
You'll kill yourself.
Who then?
I'll do it.
You're shaking worse than she is.
Do you want to take over?
No.
Okay.
Just tell me what to do
Like this
- Okay.
- Yeah.
Annika, you'll need to clean up with
- get some gauze.
- Yeah.
I'm ready.
Start there
Cut horizontal, across the wound.
Okay?
Oh, shit!
- Oh, shit!
- Keep going, keep going
- Okay.
- Keep going, keep going
- Okay! It's okay.
- It's okay, it's okay.
Oh, shit! We're losing her. Maggie?
Maggie! Hey! Maggie!
- Maggie!
- Maggie!
- Maggie!
- Shit.
Hey! Maggie! Stay with me! Maggie! Hey!
Yeah.
It's okay, it's okay.
Show me, show me
There's a rupture, in the vein there.
See that red thing there,
you have to cauterize it.
Cauterize Cauterize Okay.
Ready?
You did great.
Well done, man. Well done.
Make sure she gets some rest.
"I was impressed.
I was convinced she was going to
die on that operating table."
I wish she had.
Lives would've been saved.
We looked into her story.
It checked out, Arthur.
She wasn't trying to steal your work.
She's lying to your face, Johan.
Maybe
Or maybe, somebody else is.
What are you talking about?
We found a body
buried outside the station.
Female, approximately 1.60 m.
Badly burnt.
Doesn't match anybody in the crew.
Who is she, Arthur?
It's Sarah Jackson.
Sarah Jackson?
But she died in Polaris V
eight years ago.
Yeah.
What is she doing outside my station?
We brought her back.
Hey, man
I'm sorry about what happened
at the mess hall, alright?
It's ok. We're all under pressure.
No, no. No excuse. I
I really hope that
Maggie recovers, okay?
- Thanks.
- Okay.
So how's it looking?
The whole engine was flooded with fuel,
and the ignition cables
had been peeled off.
What are you saying? Can it
reach the Argentinians, or not?
Smell it
It's drenched in fuel.
Just one spark and this entire thing
will become
a huge molotov cocktail, so
It's madness.
We We don't have any other option.
There's another option.
Polaris V.
Polaris V? The old station?
If we can bring five's radio here,
we can plug it to our system.
We use the same satellite, right?
If it's not burnt to a crisp.
We believe that the ice floor collapsed
before the fire spread.
And it started at the lab,
far from the comms room, so
Maybe, maybe
That's a big maybe
We don't need the Sno-Cat to get there.
Five's closer so
we could use the snowmobiles.
So, who's in?
I'm in.
Annika's in?
I'm in.
And you?
Are you coming?
Polaris V is under masses of ice.
Ah, there's the irony of it though.
Do you not read the newspapers?
We are losing 50 billion
metric tons of ice per year,
and most of it here,
in West Antarctica.
It's coming back to the surface?
Global warming
was giving us a chance
to save our arses,
and we took it.
We've got heaters and digging tools,
anything else we need?
I don't know.
How long are we planning to be there?
As long as it takes.
Yeah, we need rations and
batteries for the flashlights.
You and I can go have a look.
Maybe you two can finish
fueling the snowmobiles
and look for some walkies?
Okay.
You alright, mate?
Listen, Erik, we're going to Polaris V.
We believe there's some
equipment we can salvage
from the comm's room.
Erik, we'd really appreciate
if you'd share some of those
batteries with us
Erik!
Erik, please. Listen to us.
If we can get the comms running
again, it could save us all.
Not her.
What?
Ebba.
It won't save Ebba.
Erik
Look at you.
You saving the world
Didn't work out very well, did it?
We are alive
Not so sure we deserve being saved.
Don't come knocking at my door.
We have to call it off.
Let's find every flashlight,
and battery this prat
hasn't pilfered and let's go.
"He knew Nils was the one that kept
this whole bloody place ticking over.
And with him gone,"
it was only a matter of time
before the whole thing fell apart.
Heating.
Power.
- Gustav.
- What?
I think I know where Annika is.
- Where?
- Polaris V.
- Polaris V?
- Polaris V is accessible again,
it emerged from the ice.
Annika is clever, innovative,
she might have used it as a retreat.
Get a team on stand by.
As soon as the storm calms down,
they head out.
- Okay?
- Okay.
"Four nations scrambled
a joint rescue operation,
when disaster struck
the research station
Polaris V in Western Antarctica."
"Nine members of the crew
were rescued
before the station collapsed."
"We had casualty incidents,
we lost the station."
"The flames were all around us, we
couldn't see, we couldn't breathe.
I thought we were going to die."
"one member
of the crew remains missing."
"Unfortunately we lost
a dear colleague of ours
called Sara Jackson, a very talented
scientist."
"She is a very good friend, so
we're all"
"She was part of your team?"
"Yes, she worked along side us."
"She braved the flames to
send the SOS."
"We had to run
as fast as we could to get out."
"We managed to salvage
most of our research, and,
we firmly believe that
this will change everything.
We dedicate it to the memory of
Sarah and her family."
"Today, we pay tribute
to the heroine of Polaris V.
Sarah Jackson,
born Sara Blasco.
An example of Spain's brain drain.
She left her country after graduating
to pursue a career
in environmental science.
In England, she became a scientist,
a mother, an adventurer.
These are the last recorded
images of Sarah Jackson,
in an interview she gave us
just two days before her tragic death."
"Now, Sarah, I understand
you are a mother of two.
Is it hard for you to leave
your daughters for half a year,
to go to the coldest place on earth?"
"Yes, absolutely.
But they are
a couple of brave, strong girls,
and they understand
I'm doing it for them.
And for their future.
Their generation will suffer
the mistakes that we've made,
so, it's up to us to fix that,
no matter the sacrifices
we must make in the process."
"And also,
she calls them every single day."
"It's true, I miss them a lot."
Micke, where's Maggie?
She is in her room, I just moved her.
- That's not your call to make.
- But wait,
we have her phone,
we have her computer.
Where would she go?
- I need to talk to her.
- She is sedated.
- Sedated?
- Yes, she needs to rest.
She has been through a lot.
We have a missing person out there.
Yes, but her health
is also your responsibility,
- Johan.
- I'm
not asking you, Micke.
I'm sorry, Maggie.
How do you feel?
Like I've been stabbed
with a red hot iron poker.
Yeah My patients always say that.
I'm not complaining.
Pain's good.
Pain means I'm alive.
You good?
Yeah, it's good.
Thank you.
Heather?
No.
Where're all the others?
They left.
Left?
To Polaris V. The old station.
Why?
They said maybe there's
something in the comms room
they could salvage.
You believed them?
I couldn't stop them.
I couldn't leave you here
alone with Erik.
We should go after them.
You need to rest.
I spoke to the doctor.
She says I'm discharged.
Maggie, you can barely walk!
I'm not waiting here
for my turn to die.
We need a map to reach Polaris V.
All these are recent.
No sign of Polaris V.
We need the exact coordinates.
Here.
Here.
The winter crew.
Sarah Jackson
She was the only victim of the fire.
She saved the research.
Oh, shit.
What?
Look.
It's not a "V".
It's a five.
You were right.
They're not going after the radio.
It made sense.
The Sno-Cats had been sabotaged,
but not the snowmobiles.
Whoever was doing this
wanted us to go to Five.
But why?
I don't know, and
the worse thing is, I don't know
if I just can't remember
or if I never really found out.
All I know is that people were dying,
and the reason was buried there.
Please, let me.
Can I trust you, Aki?
What?
After you battered Ramon, I
I had look at your record.
"It's good.
Almost too good. Scrubbed, even.
Except it says you've
been taking beta-blockers,"
which is weird,
because you don't have a history
- of heart issues, so
- I can explain.
Beta-blockers, they're
used to combat the side effects
of antipsychotics.
Jesus.
"You don't get to work
for Arthur Wilde"
If you're not the best.
I started taking amphetamines.
I quit sleeping.
And I could hear them, you know?
Talking behind my back.
Laughing at me.
Paranoia is a classic symptom
of a psychotic breakdown.
In the final exam,
Yoshi
my good friend,
he cheated!
What did you do, Aki?
I punched him.
Once
Twice
I broke his ribs,
his nose. He was bleeding.
He was begging me to stop.
But I couldn't stop
I felt
You felt good.
I felt free.
- Okay.
- Sorry.
"Can you believe that?
That woman braved a temperature"
of minus 60 with a gunshot wound
just to chase us.
You're being paranoid
You tell me.
How can you be paranoid
if you're really being followed?
Shouldn't you be in bed, doctor?
I figured you could use some help.
Feel well enough to use a shovel?
No, but I can still patch you up
if you hurt yourself with it.
You are a strapping lad.
Get to work.
"We were digging, trying to find a way
to access Polaris V."
Stop!
You need to take a break.
The sooner we dig this hole,
the sooner we'll be out of here.
No, but you're sweating.
Yeah, I know.
If your sweat freezes it'll stop
the blood flow in your skin.
You'll be so numbed from the cold that
you could lose a finger, or
your entire foot.
And you wouldn't notice
until it was too late.
You heard the doctor.
Take a break.
I had to turn the snowmobiles off.
We are running low on fuel.
Fuck it.
Booze and hypothermia.
- Great pairing.
- Shut up and drink with me,
would you, Arthur?
This is a 50 year-old
single-malt Scotch.
I've been saving this for years,
waiting for the right moment.
But, you know? I'm not sure
I have many moments left, so
this shitty one will have to do.
You know, Epicureans they lived
in a garden far from the world.
Far from the things
they desired, but
But made them suffer.
That's my garden.
It's just that
I don't want to die in it.
To Polaris V.
Ashes to ashes.
Dust to dust.
From whence we came, we shall return.
"It was nice"
"There were good people there."
"Polaris V.
The research was a major breakthrough.
I'm talking
Nobel prize level.
Mr. Wilde totally deserves it."
"Primarily the work.
The camaraderie,
the research."
"I remember running the tests
again and again,
because we couldn't believe
our eyes. We set out to find
a bacteria that potentially
could kill a lot of people,
and what we found was a bacteria
that potentially could save
the world."
"Only really what was on the news
at the time.
I mean, obviously in
my preparation for this
it's come up a couple of times, but
Yeah, I mean, It was
almost almost ten years ago."
"That's Polaris
Five for me, before
before the
Before the fire, obviously."
"I remember the research.
And of course, I remember the fire."
"It was very nice until the fire."
"Maggie thinks that salvaging the radio
was a ruse."
That the killer was leading you there.
You mean that I,
was leading them there.
It's only you and her left.
- We found it, we found it.
- Yeah.
Where are we?
It looks like one of
the northern service tunnels.
We need to find a way
in and then the comms room.
"Eight years ago, Maggie
was finishing high school.
You, on the other hand,
you were right there."
"You knew the old station well enough,
that taking them there
would let you pick them off
one by one."
You have a conveniently
selective memory.
What do you mean?
That I wasn't the only remaining
survivor of Polaris V.
You know, it's funny but,
since the beginning,
you've been pitting us
against each other,
Maggie and me.
But you've never asked
the tough questions about Annika.
Because I know her.
Do you?
"Maybe I was wrong
about Maggie.
But not wrong about
the value of the work.
People would kill
to get their hands on it.
I was just wrong about whose hands."
I know my wife.
I know what she's capable of.
And I sure as hell
know her better than you.
Did she ever tell you how we met?
You're about to tell me, aren't you?
She was working as
the assistant to some
hack. A wanker
who took all her work and published it
under his own name.
Now, that's That's how it goes.
You pay your dues,
keep your head down,
keep your mouth shut.
But not Annika.
She went public.
She released all their emails
and exposed this guy
for the fraud he was.
Poor sod, never worked again.
Neither did Annika, not for years.
Look
I know you think I'm an asshole,
and you are probably right.
But I was the only one willing
to take a chance on Annika,
when no one else would.
Out of the goodness of your heart,
I suppose.
And it worked.
Because she had talent, she had fire,
she had ambition.
She so fucking hated you
after that winter in Polaris V.
You know what? I do get it.
We had a falling out,
I won't deny that.
But she came back anyway, didn't she?
See?
There was her ambition again.
And that's what sold us all out.
"I would have these notes to myself.
You need to know
what you want.
And what you are prepared to do
to get it."
"I am ambitious.
And I'm proud to be ambitious."
He should not be allowed to get
the credit again,
just because he is a man.
Okay?
Come with me.
You came in here.
No, we came in through
the Northern side
straight into the mess hall.
And eight years ago
the fire started here.
Correct.
Why did you come back?
We came back for the comms.
Shit. This place collapsed years ago.
Tread carefully,
I don't want you to finish the job.
Are we close?
Closer.
- Another flashlight
- We better go faster.
It's a party?
The Sunrise Dinner.
End of the long winter night.
We were sitting here
waiting for the sun to come up
when the fire alarm went off.
Are you okay?
"And here it is!
The best cheesecake
in the whole continent!"
"Yeah!"
Are you okay?
Yeah yeah. It's just
weird it's all just
still here.
Are you kidding me?
The fucking cheesecake
is the only thing left intact.
"Surviving the fire
had been a scarring experience
for us all.
None of us were ready for it."
But it seemed to hit Annika
the hardest.
"She was distraught."
"Try her room first
and then the common areas."
We need to find the suitcase.
Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you.
Sorry.
Yes, they were looking for something.
But
I don't think it was the radio.
I think if we hadn't been there
they would've turned
the whole station upside down.
- Annika?
- It's It's Sarah.
It's Sarah.
I talked her into joining us,
she was so talented.
It's my fault.
We owe her our lives.
She sent the SOS.
Without it, they'd never found us.
We should keep moving.
- We should keep mov
- Yeah.
Maggie,
we're running out of flashlights.
You don't want to be here
when that happens.
Look,
no ash, no charring
The fire was snuffed out
before it got here.
Does that mean
the comm's room survived?
Hopefully. Now we just have to find it.
How many flashlights do we have left?
I'm out. Just the one in my hand.
- Me too.
- And me.
Same here.
We need to split up.
Seriously? Split up?
We don't have enough batteries
to search every single direction.
Not one at a time at least.
Look, we split up or we die here.
Use the flares.
If our flashlights die,
come to the meeting point immediately.
"But you split up."
To cover more ground.
Or to avoid prying eyes
Look, it'd been eight years.
We didn't have the benefit
of a bloody layout like you.
Still a risk, considering
one of you was the killer.
Hey
- Maggie?
- What? Are you okay?
Are you okay? What?
What?
Could you Can you help me, the
- Oh, shit.
- Oh, shit.
- Fuck.
- Busted my stitches.
- Aki
- Oh, shit.
I can't carry on.
Okay, you stay here, right?
I'll stay with her.
Okay.
Okay.
You have to go and find the comms room.
I'll be fine, I promise.
Keep the flashlight off.
Only use it if you need it.
She did it on purpose.
I did it on purpose.
Why?
Because of Sarah.
They didn't want to
leave me alone with her
and I had to know why.
There was a fracture
of the occipital bone.
Sarah didn't die in the fire
She was murdered.
Murdered?
What are you saying?
Most people die in fires
due to smoke inhalation.
The fire uses up all the oxygen,
or your lungs fill with carbon dioxide.
- No
- Maybe Sarah got
dizzy. She fainted and hit
her head on the way down.
The station collapsed
with her inside it.
How do you know the injuries
were not post-mortem?
I don't know.
I'm telling you she was murdered.
I'm sure of it.
They wanted to get rid of the evidence.
That's why they came back.
Whoever it was,
they were looking for something.
We need to find the suitcase.
They knew what they were looking for.
"Return to Sarah Jackson."
"This was it
It was a sweater,
and it was covered in blood."
This was what
they were all looking for.