Echo 3 (2022) s01e05 Episode Script

1
Sophie.
Jairo, what's up, man?
Hey, Maria Eugenia!
Hello, Javier, how are you?
- I saw your husband with another woman.
- Ah.
Watch out.
Javier, how are you?
Look what I brought you.
Let's see, what do you have in there?
Well, look at this beauty.
That's a good looking fish.
Enjoy.
So much meat and me on a diet.
Quit teasing, girls.
You taking care of her?
She looks horrible.
It's okay.
Apologies.
I meant to be here
when you first arrived.
I came as soon as I could.
Called payara.
Ugly, but it's delicious.
And the locals know how to make it. Hmm?
Anyway.
I'm Tommy.
I'm Venezuelan, obviously, but I
was educated in the US. Georgetown.
Do you know if
Do you know if my husband is alive?
Good question. And feel free
to ask me anything you want.
Huh? Okay?
But about that, I don't know. Hmm?
Should eat. It's always good advice.
How long will I be here?
I don't know.
Different department.
Sorry, I'm just a
bureaucrat with limited vision.
Not a very glamorous job.
But you?
One of your employers is the CIA.
- No.
- No?
It's a mistake, this file?
If that's what it says, yeah.
Well, I can't change
what the file says, but
I can write a new file that goes
on top, becomes the current file.
So, tell me about yourself.
I'm a scientist.
Peer-reviewed.
You can look it up online.
And I was picked up collecting plant
samples to study tribal medicine.
I do addiction research.
And there was a giant mix-up over
the fact that I had a GPS beacon
in my stuff.
Not any GPS beacon. Army issued.
Right.
My husband's in the
military. So is my brother.
I mean, you should see our
house. It's like a fucking armory.
Well, you know, Amber, to be fair,
there was a great deal of
hardware unleashed to save someone.
And don't take offense,
someone who's only a scientist.
Hmm, no.
You're conflating facts.
Please.
My brother is like a
legend in Special Forces.
My husband's very fucking powerful.
So, they have the means and
the resources to mount a rescue.
That's not a bad thing.
Is it Is it bad that they love me?
No.
No, but the other view would
be that your family members
with the security clearances
make you very trustworthy.
So, your family loves you, sure,
but the CIA could love you too, no?
I have friends at Langley, believe
it or not, from my college days.
I know how it works.
Hmm.
I used to be a writer.
I was pretty good.
Then I went into national security,
and for a while there, I
was actually doing both.
Writing fiction during the week
and gathering intelligence
on the weekend.
Just like you. Two lives.
So, I feel like I understand you.
Where is this going?
Honestly?
You'd probably die here.
I'm just checking boxes.
And now we're both just
here, in in this scenario,
and I wanna have a good
relationship with you.
I want that too.
Good. Great.
Thank you.
There is no reason we cannot be friends.
Huh?
I'll be back in two or three
weeks to take your statement.
Hey, Tomás, I have something else
really important to say to you, okay?
What is it?
Fuck you.
Oh, I love it. I really do.
You know, a normal
person would be terrified.
They'd You'd be kissing my
shoes, but you're so composed.
You must have had some
great fucking training.
It's my childhood.
When I was little, there
was this rapist guy, right,
who was my mother's boyfriend.
And my brother, who is
probably gonna kill you
Yeah, anyway, he-he shot
this guy when he was eight.
Just close range, with a hunting rifle,
right in front of my fucking face.
And I think that that
event taught me about fear.
And I acquired this immunity to sadists.
It's like she's still here with me.
I just can't believe it.
In one second, everything changed.
She should be here with us.
I let her down. I
didn't take care of her.
What's going on, Manuel?
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Ready to head out?
- Yes, boss.
- Give me a minute and I'll be right there.
- Okay.
Hello.
You're leaving so soon?
Gotta go to Caracas to report
on the good work being done here.
Especially by you.
Hmm?
Listen.
I want you to know we are
all very sorry about Fami.
- Hmm?
- Mmm.
- Thank you.
- So what?
Are you leaving?
Give it some time.
Stay. Relax.
Drink, eat, you deserve
it. And the fish is
Hmm? Okay.
You want to go to Colombia?
No, there's nothing for me there.
Then it's settled.
Take all the time you want, okay?
Hey?
- Yes?
- Okay.
All right, then.
Take care.
Mm-hmm.
Put the American on the program.
- Will do.
- Keep an eye on her.
You know it, brother.
All right, then. Take care.
Down by the bay ♪
Where the watermelons grow ♪
Back to my home ♪
I dare not go ♪
For if I do ♪
My mother will say ♪
"Have you ever seen a
bear combing his hair" ♪
You look like shit.
Hmm?
You should learn how to
dress up a little better.
I ate some bad fish.
But I'm ready to brief you.
Go on, then.
She's marvelous.
My idea is to produce videos with her.
Give a little love to the base.
- Love to the base?
- Mmm.
What the fuck are you talking about?
More YouTube?
Picture it,
"The damsel they cannot bring home."
It's perfect because
her family is military.
If I can get her to
disavow her own blood!
Wow! That shit goes viral.
Fuck.
It's a little obvious, no?
Obvious is good, no?
Makes it clear.
What's clear?
Fuck YouTube.
I asked you to find out what
role she plays in all this.
None.
Maybe she's a
subcontractor, I don't know.
You're losing it.
You're either full of
shit, or I don't know
what the fuck is wrong with you.
You're coming up with this
silly YouTube video shit.
Fuck, how can I do my
job if you don't trust me?
You want me to trust
you? Take responsibility.
- Give it to me.
- Will you take responsibility?
Find that shit out, now.
What the fuck is her role in all this?
Get answers or I'm gonna fuck you!
Okay.
Okay, nothing.
Move your ass and get to work, fuck.
Done.
Get out of here.
I want to get out of here!
You better get out.
Out of here!
Don't come in here.
Do not come in here.
No, no, no. Uh-uh. Uh-uh.
Hello?
Uh, go away.
Whoa.
Go away. You're not
supposed to be in here.
Hello?
I'm Amber.
This is my room.
Won't you get out of here?
Okay.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
What day is it?
I don't know.
- Are you trying to confuse me?
- Not at all.
I didn't know you were in here.
The door was unlocked.
- What day is it?
- I don't know.
I will not speak to you, in that case.
Are you German?
How long have you been here?
Huh?
Is that a toothbrush?
You can't have it!
- The music is so loud.
- There's no music.
- The music is so loud. Too loud!
- There's no music.
- Hey, hey! Hey!
- Stop!
Shh! Listen.
They turned the music off. It's over.
There was, um
There was no music.
So, I Now I know you're a liar.
Thank you very much.
Liar.
I would like to know
how 500 million points
of mega data got pushed in four weeks.
I don't know. I do not kn
Amber, no. What are you doing, Amber?
No, no, no. What are you doing?
This is not right. Not like
this. You use your hamstrings.
I do it like this. You do it like this.
What is your problem?
Why you never talk to me?
I've tried. It's hard.
No, you don't. Not really.
You don't really talk to me.
Not from the heart.
Hey.
Have you ever been
diagnosed with schizophrenia?
You imagine things that aren't real,
like that music, the music playing.
Hallucinations are a
feature of schizophrenia.
Maybe if I'm crazy, I shouldn't
tell you that I'm leaving.
I'm leaving in November.
It's been decided.
And, if you want me to,
I can maybe call your family,
let them know you're here.
You're very fortunate to have me.
Can I ask you a question?
Ja.
Why do you get to move around
wherever you want all by yourself?
They let you go anywhere.
- I earn it.
- How?
They love free labor.
If I earn five minutes by myself
swim across.
You can't escape from here. Never.
You want a tip though? Don't
drink the soup. It's poisoned.
Huh? The soup?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Uh-huh.
Do you have a family?
Sí.
I got Amber!
Alex!
Just wanted to say thank you.
Will you take this? It's just a gift.
Adios, chicas.
Thank you.
That's not the way to get Escape.
You know a better one?
Yeah, I do. But I can't tell you.
They will kill me immediately.
- Don't you wanna get out?
- Yeah, I am.
- No, you're not.
- Yes, I am.
- I am!
- The only way out is with me.
- Uh.
- It's with me.
Look. Oh, oh. Oh!
Okay.
Ah! Careful. Careful.
I thought you said it was poisoned.
It is. Nasty drugs.
Who cares? I'm leaving.
Might as well enjoy.
May I have yours?
No.
It's not poisoned. You want my soup.
Nein. Amber, w was?
I got you.
I got your number.
It means,
"When you see the gold,
you've found El Dorado."
Let's talk about something that's real.
It's real. It's all around us.
Hey.
Nice to see you. Hmm? You look nice.
Look, I have, um I have a new theory.
And I I think it's pretty good.
Our partners from Russia
and Cuba pulled your travel.
I asked them for help
with you because they
have advanced capabilities
I like to travel.
And they have you at
Kleiner Tiergarten Park.
Hmm? In Berlin, August 25th, 2019.
What?
Two days before you arrived there,
a Chechen separatist got
killed by a suppressed Glock 26.
You think I killed him.
Of course you didn't
kill him, Amber. Hmm?
The FSB killed him. You were
sent in to map the scene.
- And that's you, first in.
- I was just a tourist.
There was probably 10,000
tourists there that day.
And that's what you
were doing at the border.
You were mapping our network,
assessing our ties to the villages.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God, Tommy. Timmy?
Or is it Tomás?
Look, I'm your prisoner.
I'll say anything you want.
You can make me say anything you
want, so cut out all this bullshit.
- Let's do our tape.
- Okay, okay.
I'm just, uh, clearing up the
air. Just giving you my news.
So talk about
the School of Americas
all the assassination bullshit,
and whatever new piece you
were setting up in Venezuela.
- Hmm.
- Hmm?
And, uh, look at me. Look
at me, not the camera. Hmm?
Tell us why you are here.
My name is Amber Chesborough.
I'm a botanist and a pharmacologist,
and I'm being held as
a prisoner in Venezuela
because they think that
I'm part of the CIA.
Are you fucking with me right now?
Sorry, I just had to get that out there.
Oh, my God. Okay.
Just explain to me the
School of Americas thing.
Like, what e what exactly it
is, and if it's related to cocaine,
'cause I wanna say it right.
I'm sorry. I don't know.
I don't know what the
CIA does around here,
and you fucking know
that, you sadistic bastard.
Amber, I'm t-trying to help you.
Hmm. This is how you and I survive.
- Hmm?
- Okay, then just tell me what to say.
- It doesn't work that
- Tell me what to say. Give me the line.
It doesn't work that way, okay?
My name is Amber Chesborough.
The daughter of Maggie, an artist.
The sister of Alex, a decorated soldier.
And the wife of Eric
Haas, a decorated soldier.
And I'm being held against
my will in Venezuela.
Unreal.
I surprised you, huh? Huh?
You came to this region to
hurt people. Admit that much.
To punish us until we become like you.
But the truth is that democracy
is dead in North America,
and we don't want to imitate you.
We reject your influence.
Oh, so what, you fucking
corrupt little baby?
Ah, but don't get like that, Amber.
I'm talking about the old you.
- Now you've changed.
- No, I'm completely the same.
- Oh, no, Amber.
- Yeah. Yeah, I am.
Amber, I've seen you.
Now you're making friends here, huh?
Like the people in the cocaine lab.
America should no longer treat Venezuela
as the enemy any more than we
treat ourselves as the enemy.
We're all human beings, and we
deserve equal treatment under God.
We have one good one.
I need ten more like.
America has done awful things
to Venezuela over the years.
- Our leaders are flawed. They're capable
- Okay, that's that's good. Good.
- Yeah, okay.
- It's generic.
You don't want to talk about the CIA.
It's okay. Fine. So what?
Now we're making a
propaganda tape, okay?
So you don't have to believe
it. It's make-believe.
It's for the TV. It's for the Internet.
If my brother sees me trashing the US
He will understand.
He's He's not naive.
He has risked his life for this country.
- Let's move on.
- I just
- I can't do it to him.
- Amber, let me make this easy for you.
I will move you to the men's prison.
This is the last time
I'm gonna hit record.
My name is Amber Chesborough
and I'd like to make a
statement about America.
The people that I know
who work for the American government
believe that they can make
the world a better place.
That's America.
This childish idea that
is worth dying for
that we can make
the world a better place.
Despite perhaps the
most obvious evidence.
I'm going to grab some air.
When I come back,
we're gonna do it again.
I'm not allowed more
than three pumps of soap.
I fake, uh, most of my orgasms.
I want to rip out the
cat's whiskers sometimes.
I have been having
super psychotic dreams.
I don't like the look of raisins.
I never knew my father. Uh,
he-he left when I was little.
And I heard from my brother
that he's a good dancer.
My father was wonderful.
My mother was the devil. She
prepared me for espionage.
My rich husband hates me.
He's so angry with me,
and that's why he's gonna
leave me in here to die.
That's absurd.
When I get out, I'll call them
and let them know you're here.
He's gonna come here immediately.
I can't hear God anymore.
I keep trying to remember
what he sounds like.
God sounds like flapping
wings. My husband hates me.
He's gonna leave me here because
I lied to him.
I don't think your husband
would abandon someone so pretty.
You're so pretty. Is
that why he married you?
No. It was to prove
something to himself,
that he wasn't his father, you know?
- But I shouldn't talk
- But he kept you safe. He kept you safe.
But he looked down on me
secretly.
If I'm honest
I never loved him.
Whoa. Okay. I don't believe that.
I don't wanna play this anymore.
Oh, no, no. I'm not
finished. I'm not finished.
You refuse to believe that the
person you love lied to you.
It's too shocking a discovery,
so you cover the trauma
with rationalizations
that the whole marriage
was a kind of fraud.
But you loved him.
No, I just said that I do not
love him. I just said that.
You're lying to yourself.
Forget about me, but why
is Amber lying to Amber?
No. I'm not taking therapy from
somebody who's mentally ill.
What if I am? So?
I'm still a lot smarter than you, Amber.
And I received training at the
BND in personality analysis.
It's a lot harder than studying plants.
I see you, my friend. I see you.
Hey. Did you sleep?
No.
Life is good. And the work's good.
Stay there.
Amberline, where would I go?
You said you had a plan
to escape. What is it?
What do I do? Like, where do I go?
Hey, they they cannot understand you.
They don't speak any English.
Hey, Fabiola, do you speak English? No.
What about you, Maria?
Do you speak English? No.
Pedro? No, no, no,
no, no, no. No English.
You can escape, but you
will have to kill someone.
And it's obvious to me,
Amber, that you're no killer.
That is the core problem, honestly.
That's what really worries
me, that you're no killer.
Hey. Hey. Tell me.
Behind the helicopter pad,
the guards leave an ATV.
They take it into the
jungle, not to to patrol,
but to have sexual adventures.
So you take that ATV,
and you-you take it down
the path to the waterfall.
And from there, to the river,
uh, that leads to the Amazon.
And then you follow the
current to civilization.
You understand?
Yeah. Yeah.
You can't even kill a guard. Why
are we even talking about this?
Oh, you'd be surprised.
I don't think so. That's why I like you.
You're not innocent at all,
but you're also not bad.
So you're a confused mixture.
That's okay. I like it.
Hildy. Hildy. Hildy.
Hildy, let's go. Let's
go. The hole's ready.
Come on. Come on.
Oh, no, Amberline. I can't leave.
Can't leave.
What? No. Come on.
Come on. Come on. Let's go.
My best friend.
I'm gonna make it.
Oh, my God.
She came this way!
Fuck.
Okay. Okay.
We are in a tough situation.
We're all family here.
Brothers, sisters,
friends, fathers, mothers.
And these women
have been given the same privileges.
The guy by the ATV, you didn't kill him.
Amberline, you'll be okay.
But what did they do? Huh?
They took advantage of it.
Our men were in a dangerous situation.
Risking their lives to find her.
This is a difficult situation.
I don't know what you
want me to do, Amber.
I have 400 people working under me,
and I have to maintain discipline, so
someone has to be punished.
Okay.
You tell me, Amber.
Shoot me, please. Shoot me.
I did it, I did it. Shoot me. Shoot me.