The Rig (2023) s01e04 Episode Script

Do you think these items
could be those containers
from the production module?
Have to be.
I know nothing about them yet
here we are with unaccounted items.
What about the serial numbers?
They all start the same,
could that tell you what it is?
No.
Same manufacturer maybe. But
haven't been logged properly.
Well, someone knows it's there.
How often are these things locked?
They're not.
Magnus must know something?
It wouldn't be the first
thing he's failed to tell us.
The decommissioning?
Likes to fix everything by himself.
He hasn't said nothing about
shutting this place down.
He hasn't spoken to me once since we
Since we lost
Since everything that's happened.
Must be pretty hard,
losing people you're responsible for.
- I wouldn't know what to do.
- Yeah, well
wouldn't be the first
time it's happened.
I didn't know that.
You wouldn't.
Was his son, Thomas.
Eight years old. Hit by a
car on his way to school.
Magnus should've been there,
but he stayed past his rotation
because the other OIM was sick.
Losing one family while
looking after another.
Now close the valve.
Stop! Stop! It's gonna blow.
The pipe into the seafloor
is still pressurized.
The whole force of the
reservoir's coming up through here.
If we wanna take this apart
we're gonna have to shut
it off at the source.
How do we do that?
Hey, how you feeling?
Like a million dollars.
So what's the damage
for saving the world?
Some nasty burns.
You were lucky.
Guess it was a worthwhile show then, eh.
It's not funny, you could've
gotten yourself killed,
then we'd have another
problem on our hands.
Problem?
Thank God I survived
then, save you the hassle.
That's not what I meant.
Look, if I'm keeping you
from more important things
That's not fair.
Well, you clearly
rather be somewhere else.
I should be somewhere else.
Working out what's going on.
But instead I've been here,
with you, because I wanna be.
Let me help.
I can take the pain.
The more heads the better
and there's no point in me lying
here feeling sorry for myself.
We need answers.
What we need, is for you to be okay.
You need to rest.
I'll be back in a bit.
Alright? How is he?
I mean he's talking but I dunno.
Well, he's not shown
signs of anything unusual
and it's been nearly
twenty-four hours so.
I don't think he's a
risk to himself or us.
I don't think Baz is either.
I I think we've got him wrong.
He he's not aggressive.
Killing Alwyn seems
pretty aggressive to me.
He said he didn't mean to.
I keep thinking back to
how he was with the growth,
and how it reacted to him
and he said he had to protect it.
Alwyn wasn't messing
about with any growth.
But he was trying to
take Baz off course.
So, why'd he go after
his blood sample then?
Why run when we were trying to help him?
Help doesn't always seem
like help when you're scared.
- Fight or flight.
- Yeah.
He talked about "memories
of what was here before
but it was under attack", right?
But he he said long before.
Millions of years.
That's exactly how old
I think these spores are.
Older in fact. Hundreds of millions.
How?
There are species of bacteria
that can remain dormant
for whole epochs of history and
then be brought back to life.
Back in the nineteen twenties,
there was a researcher
who managed to reanimate ancient
bacteria within coal deposits
that were three hundred
million years old.
Scientists at the time
didn't believe him,
but now we know it's possible.
And these bacteria don't
always need our help.
With the right conditions they
can trigger their own regrowth.
Well, that's slightly terrifying.
Yep.
You think that's what
we're seeing? Why here?
I can't be sure.
But the deep ocean is the largest,
oldest, least explored habitat on Earth.
If I was looking for
ancient forms of life,
ones who have the memory of every
struggle a planet has ever faced
this is exactly where I'd look.
So, this thing could
be like an ancestor?
Yeah. Not only that.
If we're right, this could be huge.
This would be the oldest living
organism ever discovered on Earth.
Yeah, we've pissed it off.
Aggressive or not, whatever
it is, it's killing people.
And we're just sitting
ducks. This is so fucked up.
You, okay?
No, I'm scared.
We all are.
It's nothing to be ashamed of.
I'm pregnant.
Tell me you're joking.
Does Magnus know?
Jesus Christ, Cat.
You have to tell him.
It has to be declared.
It was never supposed
to be me that carried.
It was always gonna be
Kacey, but then she couldn't.
So now if something happens out here.
Kacey just doesn't lose her
wife, she loses her baby.
Hey, come on. No one's losing anybody.
Alright, take a minute,
we'll work this out.
Hey Cat.
Congratulations. This is good news.
Yeah.
What are you doing out of bed?
I was coming to talk to you
but I didn't want to interrupt.
What are you doing?
I wanna help.
You wanna help, come with me. Come on.
Alright boss?
Aye aye.
I was just, er, looking for Rose.
You?
Yeah, all good. Just erm
getting a bit of peace and quiet.
Anyway, if I see her
I'll send her your way.
Of all the fossils in the room,
this one has to be the oldest.
Oh I know.
Just bear with it.
Pictor has been searching sea beds
for new places to drill for decades.
So, they must have
found something before.
The growth is reacting to Baz, right?
And he believes he needs to protect it.
So how are they communicating?
That's a good question.
I mean, there is
bacterial communication.
It's a chemical process,
but it's effect is similar to
the way humans use language.
It's called "Quorum Sensing".
Could being exposed to
the spores let Baz do that?
I don't know.
I've never seen a host interact with
the quorum sensing process before.
Well, I've never heard of someone
falling a hundred feet and surviving.
"What you don't know
can still kill you".
Or save you.
It's just something Alwyn said.
I mean he's right.
Nature constantly changes and
adapts in ways you wouldn't believe.
Said like a true geologist.
Well, it's just true.
I mean look at the Earth
it's a rock that's been hanging in
space for four and half billion years,
but across that time it's actually
been many different planets.
How do you mean?
There are periods in the history of the
Earth that are so different from now.
They It it's closer to
Venus, or the moons of Jupiter.
Volcanos across whole continents,
ice caps all the way to the tropics.
The Earth is always changing.
We're here so briefly
that we assume it's stable,
but there's no such
thing as solid ground.
And this thing has
been there for it all.
Survived every near
extinction we've had?
Did it survive 'em or did
it could have caused 'em
You sure it needs protecting?
Well, that's just it.
Mass extinctions destroy most of
the evidence of what caused them.
So, this could be a real threat
or just an innocent bystander.
I don't know.
Oh finally.
This is the OIM.
Rose and Dunlin to the
control room immediately.
OIM out.
Come with me.
Both of you.
What's going on?
Hey, you okay pal?
- I'm fine.
- Shouldn't you be in isolation?
He's fine. Cat's certain. So am I.
What's so urgent?
The pressures through the
roof. Baz and Garrow
What is he doing!
Shit!
Looks like he's trying to bypassing
the safeties for the well head control.
Why?
The only reason you'd do that
is if you wanted to open it.
Isn't that like, blowout territory?
He'd have to be nuts.
The pressure on that thing,
he'll get us all killed.
Well, let's not give him the option.
Fulmer, can you reconnect
us? Take control remotely?
Well, I can try, but it's unlikely.
He's got the manual controls.
Try.
Is there any other way to shut it off?
We should send the Bullseye ROV down
and close the triple S
valve inside the well.
It can't be reopened from topside.
No. No, It's too risky to
try that with the Bullseye.
Well, going back over to the
Production module's out of the question.
Baz is way too unpredictable,
and probably contagious.
If we don't get there in time whoever
goes over there is dead for sure.
- I, just
- Magnus.
What is that?
That's, err, it's new equipment.
- Magnus, unless he's gonna swim down there
- Yeah, for what?
and get in our way, the Bullseye
is the best way to stop it.
Magnus! For what?
It's to suck every last
drop out the reservoir.
- Dunlin, can you just
- Ahead of decommissioning?
- Why don't I know about it?
- Magnus, we need to make a call. Now.
- Do we launch the ROV or not?
- Look I'm head of safety.
The well head is the most
volatile place on this whole rig
It's not operational yet. Alright.
- But why am I was the last to know?
- Magnus.
- Now's not the time.
- No, never is.
For fucks sake! What is he doing?
The pressures out of control.
We need to launch the Bullseye
now. There's no other way.
- Fulmer?
- Nah, I can't reconnect.
Okay we send the Bullseye.
Easter's the best trained.
Then let's get him up here.
Dunlin, sort the launch team.
And what about this injector?
PRIORITIES!
This is the OIM. Easter to
control room immediately.
Ah, c'mon.
What's wrong, darling?
Sad you're not invited to the party?
All food to be consumed
within the canteen
Fuck off, Murchison!
You sure this'll work?
They'll go down and
shut off the wellhead?
It's what I'd do. If I thought
someone was trying to open it.
Will it hold?
As long as they're fast.
Good thing we're not
doing this at night.
It's always night down here.
I've seen some fish down
here that shouldn't exist.
All glowing eyes and teeth.
That's what you get for
diving into the abyss.
Okay.
I wasn't expecting that.
My God
Are those circles?
Aye.
But what is it?
"The fountains of the
Great deep burst apart."
Some kind of thermal vent?
Well head checks were
done on last rotation.
There was no mention of
anything like this down here.
What if it's just woken up?
Close the S valve, Easter.
Before our day gets any worse.
You got it boss.
Steady hands.
What did you expect?
Well done.
Hey, what?
That should have bought us some
time. Before they try something else.
"The ring and the dark".
What if this is what Baz meant?
Alright alright let's get these off.
- Right so we just disconnect it?
- Yeah.
- Wait!
- What?
System's primed.
Disconnecting it will only set it off.
So, what do we do?
We're running out of time.
We need Fulmer
he's the only one who
knows these kind of systems.
We we gotta get him to help.
Then he can tell the others,
make them understand the warning!
Did he say anything else?
Anything that might make sense of it?
Only that we had to stop it.
I'm just not sure what exactly.
But there must be a reason why he
was interfering with the well head.
I I'm certain he wasn't
trying to put us in danger.
I'm not so sure about that.
Yeah, if he was ready to open
it then he wasn't messing around.
Yeah, but he didn't.
I think she's right.
He seems to be trying to achieve
something, not just hurt us.
I think you're looking for
logic where there is none.
His behaviour, this symbol,
they're just more things
we don't have answers for.
Did Dunlin speak to you?
About what?
The unaccounted for items?
Do you know anything
about this delivery?
There's no record of what they are.
How am I supposed to
know if I signed for them?
Dunlin found four containers
in the production module
that he didn't authorize.
Did he say what was in them?
They were locked.
Everything here was delivered and
installed on the last rotation.
While I was onshore. Rose?
No, I don't know anything about them.
Well, we've got a problem
then, cos neither do I.
- Oh my God.
- Signal?
The satellites back on.
Maybe. The skies are clear.
Files. We can access the files.
Rose! Rose!
Fulmer radio room!
Get through to the beach.
Kinloch Bravo to coastguard.
I repeat, Kinloch Bravo to coastguard.
Signal's back.
Kinloch Bravo to coastguard.
Tell me you've got through.
- I've got dial tone.
- I have to get back.
Don't we all. Make yourself useful.
Kinloch Bravo to coastguard.
What's Project Cirein?
I've never heard of it.
What what's the next
clearance level up from you?
There isn't one.
Oh, come on!
This is the Coast Guard receiving.
This is OIM of Kinloch Bravo.
Emergency rescue required.
Can you confirm rescue? Over.
Can you confirm rescue? Over.
Kacey?
Oh my God, Cat, are you okay? Tell
me you're okay? Is the baby ?
I'm, I'm fine, we're fine.
Are you okay?
No one's been able to contact the rigs.
Pictor keep fobbing me off,
telling me everything's fine.
- What's happened?
- Weird stuff.
Really weird. I'm fine, we're both fine.
Look don't panic but
we need a rescue yeah.
Jesus. Cat okay, well,
um, who do I call?
Give, give me a number?
- I knew something wasn't right
- Okay try the coastguard yeah.
No, I have, they won't
listen to me, I'm not Pictor.
What exactly have Pictor said to you?
We haven't even been
able to contact them.
They said err
What's happening Kacey, what's going on?
It looks like another power
cut. We keep getting them.
Right hang on let me show you.
I can't I can't see
Kacey, you're gonna have
Is that fog?
Kacey! Kacey! You listen to me.
You don't go outside, d'you hear me?
Listen!
Kacey!
Kace? Please.
C'mon. C'mon, c'mon
Shit!
Can you confirm rescue?
I should have some
old passwords in here.
Rose?
Here read these out.
I'll see if any work.
- You got through?
- What?
No. No the err, the
signal's gone again.
Everything alright?
Fine, fine.
I thought I'd come down
and give you a hand.
- Yeah, thanks.
- Fulmer?
- We need your help
- Fuck!
You um you stay with the radio
I just, I need to check something.
Fulmer?
Fulmer!
This is the OIM.
Please assemble for urgent briefing.
No exceptions. OIM out.
C'mon. C'mon!
This isn't working is it. We should go.
Maybe Magnus has better news.
Where's Fulmer?
He ran off from the radio room
before we were called down.
Haven't seen him since. He's
been acting weird Rose ?
Fulmer. We need you.
How long have you known?
Just now.
I saw the drawing.
You've seen those circles before.
I don't know how I knew to draw it.
You must have recognized
them in the control room?
Why didn't you say anything?
Why did you let me believe I was okay?
I didn't know.
You could have told me.
You should have told me.
Whatever it is, it's in me, Rose.
It's been in me this whole time.
Come here. Come here let me see.
You're still hurt.
It's gotta be a good sign, right?
It's not just the
circles. Or the healing.
I've started seeing things.
Hearing things.
Baz spoke to me.
He spoke to you?
Like erm, a hallucination?
I don't know. I can, I
can hear him in my head.
Is he speaking to you now?
Or like a memory?
It's different.
I'm sorry.
You're gonna be okay.
You should head back.
I'm gonna find an answer to this.
I promise.
You should rest.
I'm gonna come straight back okay.
Did you get through?
He's coming.
Signal came back for a
short while just now
Did you get through?
- No.
- I don't know.
Well, what is it? A no or a don't know?
We made contact with the Coast Guard.
They never confirmed rescue, Magnus.
Err I've called us here because
I need the bigger picture.
Wait, listen, listen. Listen!
Raise your hand if you
got through to shore?
Then I'm certain the
message got through.
If not by my channels,
then at least by yours.
Aye, but it might not
just be the message
we have to worry about.
If blackouts are happening,
they might not have the
resources to send help.
What you talking about?
Well clearly, I'm the only one
who bothered listening to the news.
Wait, wait, wait, quiet, quieten down!
We don't know they won't
have the resources
unless you've heard this direct.
Unless someone has
actually spoken to the team
in charge of our choppers,
I'm ain't buying that they won't
try as soon as they find out.
Agreed, there's no way they're
gonna leave us out here.
Look our families will team together,
they'll find the resources
What if our families
don't know what's going on?
Y'know I spoke to Kacey and she said
that Pictor have been
telling them that we're fine.
What you saying?
What if Pictor aren't sending help?
But that doesn't make sense,
why would they do that?
Because we mean nothing
to them! Fuck all.
They're probably hoping that we've
burned and disappeared as well.
Would save them the
cost of a decommission.
Or what's happening here
is happening at home too.
Why'd you say that?
Blackouts, comms down.
They said power-cuts, it's
not the end of the world.
Look regardless of
power-cuts and resources
clearly our families
don't know what's going on.
And the longer we stay here,
the more our resources deplete.
We need to get back. Now.
Look I know it's a risk, but
we should take the lifeboats,
it's our only option.
Ah we won't make it to
shore in the lifeboats.
They don't have the range, and
the navigation. Not a chance.
I've supported your
call, day in, day out.
Staying here's the wrong one.
Look maybe the lifeboats
ain't the right answer,
but we gotta do something.
And what if Cat's right, what
if this is happening back home?
This ain't just about
us. It's our families.
- We stay put we stay safe
- Look fuck the rules.
It's alright for you. My boys
are waiting on me back there.
- Everybody needs to calm down.
- No! I'm with Dunlin.
I need to get back to my wife.
Ohh, kids this, wife that
you wouldn't get
yourselves in such a twist
if you'd just tried to
contact the Coastguard!
- What about us, here?
- Some of us care more
about others than we
do ourselves Hutton!
We are your "others".
Well, it's not my fault
we're all you've got left.
Look at ya, no wonder no
body fucking loves you.
You touch me again you will regret it.
Regret? You don't know anything about
- C'mon then!
- Hutton!
Hutton!
Stop! Stop it! She's pregnant, stop!
Oh no, I best not have heard
what I think I just heard.
You're carrying a child?
And you came out here
without saying a thing?
You're the fucking medic!
Keeping it secret puts
yourself in danger,
the entire crew not least your baby
How could you be so selfish?
Cat
Look, you're not the only
one out here suffering
It's reckless. You're
all being reckless.
Of course, we all want to get home.
But I have to put your safety first.
That's my job!
It's crew first. And is
It's always been
crew first.
And that that's
why I wasn't there.
- That's why I lost my
- Okay?
- Sit down. Sit down, you're okay.
- Magnus
You need to stop before it's too late.
Go, rest and I don't want you to
step foot inside that control room
until you've slept.
Right now, I've got this.
Hey! Hey! Listen up.
I am sorry if Pictor
lied to your families.
But believe me, I'm with you, not them.
We will find a way back,
no matter what it takes.
I promise.
Sorry, Magnus.
I should never have brought
up Thomas. I'm sorry mate.
Let's go.
It's me.
Hey.
Fulmer?
Fuck! Fuck!
Fulmer!
Fulmer!
Fulmer!
- Heather!
- That was all my fault.
You were trying to protect
her. She'll forgive you.
- I I didn't mean to
- She'll forgive you. Listen to me.
Was Fulmer being weird with you tonight?
Look I I I can't
right now. I need to find Cat.
- Cat?
- What? What's going on?
Something's not right.
Fulmer!
Stop!
What are you doing?
Come back!
I can't.
It's not safe anymore.
I'm sorry.
Fulmer!
Oh, my God.
What is it?
We need to go. Now!
Come on.
- You okay?
- Yeah.
There they are.
What happened?
Fulmer he went across.
Growth over there.
It's everywhere.
The spores.
They landed on my
stomach. Like they knew.
Lights?
There's lights coming towards us.
It worked? They got through?
They must have!
Well, what is it?
Looks like searchlights.
- A ship?
- Can't tell.
Look everyone move back.
What's going on?
Lights, in the distance
we're being rescued!
Nar seems too quick.
They might have already
been on their way.
Should I get Magnus?
We get him when we're sure.
Listen up! I want everyone
in their survival suits.
Okay, prepare for immediate evacuation.
The message got through,
we're going home.
I'll believe it when I see it.
- Check your suits.
- Get a move on!
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Hey, hey, hey what's all the fuss?
Could be a rescue.
We're preparing for evac.
- Thank God.
- Get ready to go.
But what about Fulmer?
I'll go. I'll find him.
No. We can't risk it. We need a plan.
I think I can see it!
Yeah, but how many of them?
- Just the one?
- Yeah.
For all of us?
We're not alone.
Fulmer?
No. Something else.
I don't know what this is.
But it's not a rescue.