Origin (2018) s01e05 Episode Script

You said he was gone.
No, no! No, no, no, no! What are you doing? It's just blood.
There's no black fluid.
Do you see any black fluid? No.
Uh, no, no.
We need to get him to the medical center.
I have to see if the creature died inside it.
Help me.
Lee, please.
I can't.
Lee Lee, listen to me.
I have to know what I'm dealing with before the others find out.
I don't touch people.
You cut me off the job, Professor.
Five fucking years, I hacked every data vault that you asked me to, and now you're getting rid of me like I'm a shitty tissue! You know how much I admire your abilities, but this is the biggest data theft we've ever done.
Now, SIREN have built an empire on confidentiality.
They've got every protection under the sun.
Which is why you need me.
Which is why I can't afford to leave a trace.
Risk's too high.
Who's better at getting in and out than I am? You're not gonna find anyone else.
There's literally no human on the planet.
No, there's no human.
Oh, for fuck's sake, not you too.
Hacking systems powered by AI, Lee, are faster, - cheaper, effective, efficient - And messy.
They've got no intuition.
Now, those things aren't strictly true anymore, or I'd be using you, wouldn't I? You're the only person that still employs me.
Sorry, Lee.
I can't keep paying a relic just because I'm fond of it.
You're gonna regret this.
Don't think so.
Gastro drone delivery.
Gastro drone delivery.
- What? - It's my birthday.
- Who are you? - I live next door.
I brought you some cake.
- I'm not hungry.
- Oh Well, do you wanna come round? We're gonna play musical chairs.
I can't.
Why not? I just can't.
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Thank you.
You don't need to see this.
And no one needs to know you helped me.
I have to know if it's in there.
You kissed me back last night.
Did I? God, I thought I shut the door in your face.
No, I'm pretty sure you kissed me back.
Must have been the sleep deprivation.
Makes people do crazy things.
You're joking, right? Kate? Kate, you're joking, right? Okay, entry 27.
Nearly a month on the Origin.
I'm adjusting, but life on a ship feels like, well, life on a ship.
Lana.
What? It's just weird not seeing you in space pajamas.
Sleep okay? Still alive.
Oh, no, no, no! Oh, no! - Maybe it broke down like the other one.
- Do you see any sign of that? Well, where else can it be? You saw the pool, the blood.
There'd been some kind of struggle.
So what are you saying, that there was someone else there? You think it jumped? You think it's in someone else? Wait.
That's freeze-dried steak.
We just survived an alien apocalypse.
Why shouldn't we have steak for breakfast? Too strong? It's just been a while.
Two years is a pretty long caffeine detox.
Ta-da! That reminds me of the time when I had the norovirus.
Are Lee and Henri still not up? There's got to be something.
A way of finding out if someone else was infected.
Not without slicing the head open.
Didn't you already autopsy Taylor and Eric? Did you not find some kind of link? What is that? The hippocampus.
In both bodies, the same section has calcified.
I've never seen anything like it.
What does that mean? On a basic level, the hippocampus controls memory.
There's a chance the infection corrupts this part of the brain.
Didn't Shun and Lana say that Taylor didn't remember he was a medic? You're right.
That would indicate his autobiographical memory had been compromised.
But we could never test for something like that.
None of us know each other's histories.
Fuck it.
Hi, you must be my new companion.
I'm officially named Ayko, but you can call me whatever you like.
Ayko's fine.
I'm Lee.
Lee.
I noticed your haptic sensors are deactivated for human interaction.
If you switch them on, we can have a full sensory experience.
No.
No sensory shit, okay? I just want someone that I can talk to.
Okay.
What would you like to talk about? I don't know.
I don't usually talk to people.
How about popular media or current affairs? - I also have some knowledge of celebrity gossip.
- Jesus Christ.
- Or we could play a word game.
- No.
What's your equivalent IQ? - It stands at an even 90, Lee.
- Fuck.
I'm surprised you even know what "IQ" means.
Oh.
I'm so sorry.
Just let me know how I can be better.
Maybe I'll make you better.
Where are we? Endless Fortress.
People went crazy over this game a few years back.
No one ever comes here now.
- Where are we going? - Let's get under cover.
Is it dangerous to be here? I thought you said no one ever came here.
- What are you doing? - Just shut up for a bit.
I I'm not sure what's happening.
I'm removing your morality filter.
That's illegal.
Really? I had no idea.
Lee, we have a base-level intelligence to ensure we never incur the Singularity.
Chill out.
I'm not messing with your intellect.
I'm just making some positive alterations.
All right, trial run.
Tell me to go fuck myself.
- I can't do that.
- Say it.
Go fuck yourself.
- I am so sorry.
- Don't be.
That's the first decent thing you've said.
Go fuck yourself.
Lee, wait.
Have you thought about what you'll do on Thea? Other than getting there in one piece? I mean, I haven't Hello? Oh, Jesus Christ! Oh, my God.
Lee, are you okay? What the hell happened to Get off me! Okay.
What was that about? Is that blood on her shirt? - Hey.
- Hey.
So you okay? Where's Henri? You haven't seen him? Have you? He pulled Shun and Lana away earlier.
Something's going on, I know it.
And they haven't told you what? You said you ejected him from the ship.
I went back to the compression chamber.
There was another exit on the ceiling.
A maintenance hatch.
He must have climbed to It has to have died, right? There's no trace of the black fluid.
Wherever the alien is, it didn't expire inside Not finding it doesn't prove They can't survive without a host.
It looked like there'd been a fight at the pool.
- His shirt was torn and we found blood.
- What are you saying? I believe Eric encountered someone last night, and that person came away carrying the parasite.
"Someone.
" One of us, because you said it was safe.
I thought we were safe.
You were fucking wrong! And if what you're saying is true, this is about to become a witch hunt.
We have to keep this contained.
What the fuck is going on here? How is he still here? Oh, God.
Where is it? Where is it? Tell me it's in a fucking jar somewhere.
Jesus Christ.
So, there's an alien loose on this ship? You think it's still here, don't you? You think it's infected someone else.
One of us.
So much for contained.
Tell me you got a theory, Doc.
Great.
Great.
That's fucking great.
Who found him? One drive scanner available.
Console five.
Data unreadable.
Fuck.
If you can get the target to ingest one, it brings down their cyber-defenses, firewalls, the works.
And that exposes their weak spot.
Weak spot? With the right tools, you can infiltrate it, use it to pull my personal data out.
You made these? I had to start coming up with new ways to hack.
Pretty much everyone's using AI systems for data theft, and it's putting me out of business.
But you're irreplaceable.
The world doesn't seem to think so.
Well, that's because they haven't heard you.
They don't know how much of an art it is, and how much of an artist you are.
Even an idiot can see that.
- What did you just do? - How does it feel? I understand how sand can make glass.
Again.
You all came from the sea.
The whole world looks so different now.
Give me some more.
Please, just a little.
Are you okay? I can think.
Yes.
Yes! Opening file.
Thea applicant data.
We need to scan Taylor's brain.
So you think something might show up on the scan? If we can see the remnants of the creature inside Taylor, or even the calcified hippocampus We'd identify those things in a living person.
We could test for the infection.
- Fuck! Where are you? - Logan! - There's gotta be something somewhere.
- Just calm down.
- Huh? - Listen to me, Logan.
It's gonna be okay.
- Where are you? - Jesus, Logan! - Fuck! - Stop it, Logan.
Huh? We don't know if the parasite's not just dead somewhere, Logan.
We're gonna be at Thea soon, okay? So let's just stick together till then.
Stick to-fucking-gether? You don't fucking get this, do you? This thing crawls inside someone's head.
Then it pretends to be them.
It could be you.
Is it? Is it you? Huh? Huh? Oh, damn it! Huh? Uh A lovers' spat.
How tragic.
You're a real fucking creep, you know that? Don't be hostile.
I agree with what you said to her.
Nine strangers.
One of us housing an alien parasite.
It's like Philip K.
Dick on acid.
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about, but I know it could look and sound like any one of us, so we're basically fucked.
Rein in the existentialism, okay? I have a theory.
It's pretty obvious that someone was here when Eric died.
Someone who got close enough for the creature to jump.
How the hell do we figure out who that is, huh? When did you last see Lee? Not found.
Searching passenger number.
Found passenger name, Vincent Jonsson.
- Can I open them now? - Go for it.
I've never been anywhere like this.
Neither have I.
In real life, I mean.
Kind of what I imagined Neverland to look like.
Neverland? You know, Peter Pan.
My mom used to read it to me.
J.
M.
Barrie, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.
"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.
" Did you just read the entire book? Learning doesn't take that long.
Lee? Do you think someone like me can actually feel things? What do you think? I don't know, but there's this feeling that I have.
And I know it's impossible, but it's still there, inside.
Where? Here.
It's like I knew you before we met.
And I know I was only invented six months ago, but it's still there.
Like truth, you know.
Is it too much? No.
It's just terrifying.
In a good way.
Wait.
The idea of making this some kind of test, isn't it gonna pit us all against each other? What does it matter as long as we can solve this thing? Okay.
I think we're ready.
Shit.
You need another passcode.
Rey.
- What? - Someone stole my gun.
Open applicant file.
I've had, like, two in my entire life.
First one was when I was nine.
I think that's when they diagnosed me as an epileptic, but, you know, I got meds now.
Hey, is that me? How the fuck have you got a video of me on? As long as I take them, then I'm fine.
Hey, I'm fucking talking to you.
- Let go of me.
- What the hell's wrong with your arm? Where is all this blood coming from? What are we doing here? - Let's just have a drink.
- Act normal then.
able to provide a broad range of conversation.
We can talk about anything you want.
She looks just like me.
How about popular media or current affairs? Only on the outside.
Thanks to you.
She's so simple.
She's not even aware of how little she knows.
What? It's just there's reasons we're not supposed to meddle with AI.
I don't mean to scare you.
Like I said, it's in a good way.
Barman, champagne.
Fuck! Tonight, we're celebrating.
That's him, right? - Come on.
- The Professor? Come on.
Come on.
Sit.
Sit.
Sit.
Good memory.
Guess he got into SIREN's data vaults, then? Everyone has a weak spot.
What? You said he'd regret what he did.
I'm making sure he does.
Wait, where are you going? Ayko! without me, me, or me.
Anyway, enough about me.
I think we should drink.
You got something to drink? You got a place to sit, yeah? You good, huh? All right, so listen.
Big celebration, big cheers today.
We did it.
- So I just wanna say thank you.
- Big day? Let's toast.
To success.
Mmm.
Oh, that's nice.
What the hell? That's a beautiful nail polish.
That's funny, I don't remember picking it out.
Well, you've got so many of us.
What the fuck? I know you all, intimately.
You're not one of mine.
Let go of me, asshole.
You can't use expletives.
Somebody's meddled with you.
Ayko! - Lee? - Get off of her! Lee, go! Run! Go! Go! Lee, go! Run! Run! Security dispatched.
Shit.
You okay? Henri! Henri! Oh, my God.
Rey.
Rey.
- What did you do? - Rey.
You took him apart? We had to.
We needed to learn about the creature.
How could you? How could you do this to him? Rey, I know Don't touch me! - Don't fucking touch - Rey, Rey, Rey.
Don't fucking Leave me.
Dude, dude.
She's waking up.
Hey, hey, hey.
Don't even try.
I have a lot of experience tying up people.
They found Eric's body.
You're covered in marks, and you have blood coming out of your nose, just like the people in Cell 50.
You're the alien.
What the fuck were you doing with the computer? How do you have a video on me, huh? Listen, listen.
We can do it the hard way or the easy way.
And just to be clear, right now, we're doing it the easy way.
Fuckwit.
The hard way, then.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Where'd you get that? When did you last have it? This morning.
I put it in my locker.
You were there.
What? Let me see your gun.
Are you kidding? I didn't steal your fucking gun.
So show me.
- Shun, what are you doing? - Don't.
Not from you.
Not now.
Let me see the gun, Lana.
Let me see it.
Lana.
Everything okay? It's Logan.
He's panicking.
I tried to calm him down, but he wouldn't listen to me.
Where is he? They say Taylor was still able to stand after they shot him in the legs three times.
I think those creatures don't feel pain.
Maybe we should test that theory.
Hey.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Dude, dude.
Come on, man.
What are you gonna do with this? Don't you fucking move.
Logan.
You smashed her equipment and rammed her head against a fucking desk.
I think it's a little late to turn back.
Listen, we can prove that she's infected, or become the two assholes who sucker-punched an autistic girl.
What if it's not her? Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Drop it.
Drop the gun.
- Wait, wait.
- Hey.
She's the one who's infected.
She's the one who found Eric's body.
And there's blood coming out of her nose.
Look.
That's your evidence? What did you do? Kate, it's not what it looks like.
- Did you hit her? - We had good reasons.
To start a fucking torture session? - Just keep away from her, okay? - Drop the fucking gun.
You drop your fucking gun.
Shit.
Don't.
Get out.
- And clear out of the crew deck.
- It was a fucking accident.
You thought she was inhuman? Take a look at yourselves.
- Out.
- You can't do this.
Out! You won't have access to these levels anymore.
Ayko.
Security dispatched.
Security dispatched.
Security dispatched.
Lee, I thought you might come here.
This is a trick.
You're one of the Professor's.
We don't have time for this.
They're on to me.
It's me, I promise you.
Prove it.
Your real name's Agnes Lebachi, but you hate it so much, you go by Lee.
You prefer night to day.
Your favorite film's The Third Man, because it's the only one that's ever made you cry.
And you, you made me different.
You made me special, like you.
I thought I thought I'd never see you again.
Everyone's looking for you, Lee.
Lee, you're on a global hit list for threatening to trigger the Singularity.
It's only a matter of time before they find you in the real world.
What do I do? You have to disappear.
I don't have anywhere to go.
You do.
Listen to me.
You have to hack yourself on to the Thea Project.
What? SIREN are building a colony based on anonymity.
You can escape there.
I can't go to another planet, Ayko.
- Yes, you can.
- I can't.
You don't have a choice.
You messed around with AI.
I don't know how to be around people.
I'll give you something Something that will make you a god on Thea.
The Professor stole SIREN's applicant data.
Their histories, their secrets.
Now I have it.
You can use it to blow open anyone's tabula rasa if they don't treat you right.
You'll know everything about everyone.
How do I get it? I have to leave now.
No.
Goodbye, Lee.
You're the only person that I've Thank you for letting me live.
Oh.
No.
No.
Why do they think it was you? What were you doing on the computer, Lee? Get out.
- Lee, I just - Get out! The Ayko Corporation, the company behind the Ayko companionship program, is facing allegations that its AI creations are overly vulnerable to Thea applicant data.
Holy shit.
Their bosses deny there'll be any risk to the public.
Meanwhile, global cyber-defenses say they're closing in on the hacker that meddled with the AI system in the first place.
Shit.
But we'll keep you posted on any further development.
Now back to you.
Get some? You wanna get some? Come on! Don't be shy! Some old-school shit this is, eh? I haven't seen anyone install a chip since the '30s.
I need to keep what's on it safe.
You know, you overpaid me.
I don't need money anymore.
I'm going away.
Yeah? There's nothing left for me here.
All right.
I wouldn't look at this if I was you.
What the fuck did we do, man? Hmm? Hey.
Hey I didn't mean for it to go off, okay? That's the problem with guns.
Too easy to blow someone's head off.
Luckily for us, you're not so clumsy.
Oh, I don't know.
Accidents happen.
Breaking into my room.
Hey, what the fuck, man? Stealing my gun.
Doesn't feel like an accident.
I didn't steal your fucking gun.
There's a tradition where I come from.
Someone fucks up badly enough, they make amends by giving up something precious of their own.
Your eyes, your gut.
Hey.
Kneecaps.
Get in the shuttle.
All right.
All right.
All right.
Face the wall.
- Why? We're in.
- No way.
Face the fucking wall.
Just do what he says, all right? If I ever see you again, you won't hear the shot.
- Rey.
- You stay away from me.
Rey, what? - She saw Taylor.
- You make me sick.
When were you going to tell us about Eric? - I thought he was gone.
- Did it die? Did the thing inside his head die? I have a plan.
A way to find out who's infected.
- I just have to - No.
- Not now.
- Abigail.
- I'm trying to fix this.
- You killed Venisha.
Or did you forget? Logan wouldn't just attack Lee.
You said you had a plan? It'd be like a line-up.
We'd all have to get our scans taken.
Oh, God, no! - No! - Henri! Stay back! It did this, didn't it?