The Rig (2023) s01e05 Episode Script

- It's from the Charlie.
- Better cancel the leaving party then.
Do you think it's full? Could
be up to 30 people in there.
How the hell did they make it
through an explosion that big?
Probably the same way
Baz survived his fall.
We're not helping them
standing here. Let's go.
Let's go!
We can't leave them down there for long.
We can bring them up on the spider deck.
We'll have to do it fast.
There's no bumper down there.
Once we tie to the rig, that
lifeboat will take a battering.
I know.
You're not seriously thinking
of letting them up here.
God knows what they're
bringing in with them.
We need to know what
happened over there.
What about what is happening here?
There are no fans left for shit to hit.
You wanna go down there and
tell them to keep sailing?
Better than ending up
like Baz. Or Fulmer.
I'm not abandoning them. Any of them.
She's right. It's what
Magnus would have done.
Well, Magnus ain't here.
And who exactly put
you in charge anyway?
I did.
Along with about 10 years and 200
pages of Pictor operating procedures.
So, if you don't wanna help us, fine,
but I'm not leaving those people
down there to drift and die.
We can help them, and
they could help us.
We should still check them.
I'll get Cat to do it. You stay here.
And make sure the rest of
the crew don't get in our way.
I'll put an empty rope. Get the gate!
Let's hope there's someone
alive in there to catch it.
If anybody's wet, we need to
wrap them up straight away.
I need you back in the med bay, Cat.
It's not safe down here.
Is it safe anywhere?
We need to test the new arrivals.
Check their blood pressure, see
if they have fillings, tattoos.
All those are good signs.
Means they're clear.
Got it! Pounce
It's makeshift, I know.
But it's the best we can do.
Folks, ready?
How many of you? Any casualties?
This is a mistake.
Yeah, they'll probably know
that when it's too late.
- You all right?
- Get out of my way.
Here, put this on.
- Where's Rose Mason?
- You're welcome, mate.
- It's only a bit of freezing water.
- Where is she?
I need to get to the control room.
- We need to screen everyone first.
- I don't have time for that.
This is my rig. You follow my rules.
It's not your rig. All
assets belong to the company.
David Coake, Pictor
Research & Expansion.
Where is your control room?
Bring everyone to the med bay.
Make sure they're all checked.
Watch your step.
You better know what
you're doing, Dunlin.
Ready?
Where's the med bay?
Is that all?
- You'll be all right.
- Cheers.
Easter.
Hey, Harish.
I wasn't notified Research &
Expansion were in this field.
What is it you're doing here?
Research.
On a specific project?
Your wells are shut down?
We had to close the triple S valve.
And we've lost the remote
link to the production module.
Who's running the systems over there?
- Has pump control been compromised?
- The whole production module has.
Did you let that happen?
We've had some bigger issues
since the fog came in.
I bet you have.
Some of our crew have had
a psychological difficulty.
Maybe more.
They're in control of
the production module
and we've had to restrict access.
Which is why we needed
to test you coming on.
I'm fine.
And why we need to know
what happened on the Charlie.
We had a pressure failure, and
then a fire, and then an explosion.
And I lost a lot of good people
in it. That's what happened.
We need to prioritise getting
access to the production module.
Shouldn't we focus on
getting everyone home?
Your comms lead can
take the reins on that.
Fulmer. Our comms lead's name is
Fulmer, and he's over there too.
So you've had no contact with the beach?
We had a brief connection earlier,
but then it dropped off
before we could confirm rescue.
Tell me about any contact
straight away, got it?
You still haven't told us
what you were doing over there.
Do you know what's causing all this?
- Do you?
- No, that's why I'm asking.
We need to know what we're dealing with
if we're gonna get everybody home.
It's funny hearing you say that.
Caring about getting your crew home.
You're pretty notorious at headquarters.
What's he on about?
- No
- Didn't she tell you all?
She's gonna be leading the
decommissioning taskforce.
You kept that quiet.
I'm sorry, Dunlin, you
heard Magnus on the helideck.
There's no alternative.
Doesn't mean you gotta hold
the axe for them, does it?
I'm designing a programme with
Pictor. To retrain you all.
We're gonna roll it out
as soon as we get home.
Sending grown men back to school.
It's embarrassing, Rose.
Better watch out. You're going
to end up as popular as me.
You still haven't told me.
What are Pictor doing out here?
Later.
Where's your OIM? Or don't tell
me. You've lost him as well.
We thought we were on our
own out here for a while.
Yeah, us too.
Retinas are good.
What happened over there?
It all started with him. Coake.
As soon as he came on board.
he sent our OIM and a bunch
of our guys back to the beach.
Those of us that were left
were drafted into this, um,
this "new equipment test."
But that wasn't what it was.
- What was it?
- From what I could tell,
it was something to do with
carbon capture and storage.
The new equipment he installed
on the production module
reversed the process.
We weren't drawing oil up from the well,
we were sending something down.
Do you think that's what
those injectors are for?
How did the explosion happen?
Right after we started, the fog came in.
People started acting
weird, disappearing.
But Coake stayed in the control
room, you know, and he was calm.
Like, like he'd done this all before.
I'm starting to like
this guy less and less.
Yeah, join the club.
So then his test started going wrong.
Pressure warnings. Big
kicks from the well.
But he keeps pushing it and
pushing it and pushing it
Easy, easy, easy. You'll
be all right, mate.
One-forty over eighty, please.
Meant there were a lot of
empty seats on that lifeboat.
- He's got a piercing.
- What?
Here.
Can you show me?
How would you know that?
Um we did a CPD course
together last summer and
Yeah.
Okay. Why are you
being so shy, poor boys?
I'm literally about to have
a baby with another woman.
No, no. Not shy, just
Just that he ghosted me, so
That's not true.
- Well, the piercing is a good sign.
- All right.
Should mean that you're clear.
If you need anything to help
you sleep in the meantime
I should be all right.
Thanks. I am starving though.
That we can fix.
I'll come find you in a bit.
- I'm glad you're all right.
- Thanks.
Not rid of me yet.
Okay. Cross check the names
with their crew list, please.
- What for?
- So we know who didn't make it.
Cat, are you ?
Asking if you're okay is stupid,
right? But after what happened.
I'm fine, Heather. Don't worry about it.
And we're fine. You were
only looking after me.
Wait and trust, right?
Right.
- Cat, Heather.
- All right, boss.
I, uh, thought I could
do with a check-up.
And I'd say I owe you an apology.
- I see we have visitors.
- Yeah. From the Charlie. Not many though.
A pump of this under your tongue
every three to four hours, please.
Used to treat angina. Am I that old?
Stress is normal. Especially
after these few days.
I hope you know that
earlier, my outburst
Yeah, it was misplaced.
I know. We all do that sometimes.
All this has just
You can focus on the work, but
at the back of my mind, uh
my boy, Thomas, is always there.
Oh, sorry. It's not a nice
subject for a mum to be.
Honestly, it's all right, mate.
Are you all right?
I'm getting there.
How are the new arrivals?
There was no choice.
I had to let them up.
That was the right call.
Yeah.
That's what I keep telling myself.
But there's something
weird about this Coake guy.
And what happened over there.
Cat said Fulmer is missing.
He went across to Baz.
Yeah, not such a good call there.
I don't know how to
make sense of all this.
This symbol has got to be a link to
what we found on the seabed, but
I mean, if Fulmer would've just waited,
maybe I could have
triggered something for him.
A connection that we can't make.
It's not just about that, though, is it?
I don't know who he thinks I am.
Have I ever, ever given the
sense that I need protecting?
Especially by him.
Well, maybe he thought he needed
to make that decision on his own.
Well, by doing that, he's
risking the lives of everyone.
Taken information with him
that could potentially help us.
A way of communicating with this thing.
- We're so close, but
- Hey.
If you're getting close,
you gotta keep going.
That's the best way to help him.
I don't know.
I'll be right here.
You can show me what we're dealing with.
Mm-hmm.
Magnus MacMillan. OIM.
Welcome to the Bravo.
David Coake. Head office.
Have you had any contact with the beach?
Not since this all started.
Did Derek make it across?
- Your OIM?
- He got called back to shore.
We lost a lot of good men.
But I've got my orders.
You lost control of
the production module.
At least we still have one.
Unlike the Charlie.
I've restricted access until
we know what we're dealing with.
- We need access to the pump control.
- Rose is leading on it.
Hmm, glad somebody is.
It's not a lot but it's what we've got.
Great. Hardly enough
to go round as it is.
You could always give up your share.
Yeah. Right.
Hey, Dunlin, hope you
got a plan to feed us all
now you've let this lot all on board.
Listen, we need to talk. But not here.
- Oh, intimate, is it?
- I'm being serious.
Trust me
you'll want to hear this.
It's about Rose and Coake.
Who's Coake?
That's what we're gonna find out.
I looked him up, Coake,
on the offline database.
- And?
- Nothing.
- And he's not listed on the Charlie.
- He's not listed anywhere.
You were with him. How was
he accessing the systems?
He was using a temporary account.
Yeah, the IT tech set it up for
him when he first got on board.
And then he made them wipe it every day.
Do you think he wiped
it before you left?
He made us wipe everything on
the test we were runnin', but
it weren't like a deep
clean. There was no time for that.
Well, we should check.
See what files he accessed
before coming here.
- What are you looking at?
- Uh, just
There's something about these circles.
I mean, Baz talking about rings,
then we find them on the seabed,
these drawings that Fulmer made.
They're all pointing the
same way, I just can't
Well, I don't wanna put you off.
No, no, no. What, what, what's up?
About last night
You know it's
It's like Heather said.
I was right there, in the
spores, but it wasn't aggressive.
More curious.
What if it didn't need to be told?
- When it touched me, what if it
- It knew.
And left you alone.
Yeah, like it recognised
new life, and
wants to protect it.
We need more evidence.
They look like the
layers on your charts.
Or the rings of a tree.
Yeah, good years and bad years.
Oh, my God.
The rings.
If this organism is as
old as I think it is,
how would it measure time?
We think in days, months, and years,
but for it, even a
century, even a millennia,
passes in a millisecond.
And down in the depths,
it wouldn't use the sun or
the changes in the stars.
- Tides?
- Not tides. Life.
The ebb and flow. I can't
believe I missed this.
Rose.
Fulmer!
You took your time.
At first I thought
it had something to do
with the structure of the spores.
But then I measured the ratio
between each of the rings,
and I should've seen it right then.
Seen what?
So when you look at
the layers of the Earth,
or the rings of a tree,
their structure tells you
their age and the condition
at the time they were formed, right?
Well, what if this is the same?
The gap between each of the rings
matches the time between each of the
five major mass extinction events.
- We've got Ordovician, Devonian, Permian.
- The Great Dying.
Exactly. Which makes this last
ring, the Holocene, which is us now.
And the circle is closing.
Are you saying it
wants to destroy us?
That's what happened on the Charlie.
- I thought it was an explosion.
- Caused by the people it had infected.
They did something to the
well then they opened it.
Probably trying to bring more of it up.
If you'll give me a team,
let me send them across
to the production module
Absolutely not.
We've lost too many to this thing.
I have executive orders
to continue with the processes
undertaken on the Charlie.
Yeah, and things worked out so well
for you over there, didn't they?
Coake, you need to
tell us what you know.
Full transparency. Are the
injectors part of Project Cirein?
They're for carbon capture and storage.
What you've been touting as
the future of this company.
I would know about that.
Well, some things are
above your paygrade, love.
Hey, I'm not having that.
Show some respect.
We're not sending anyone else
over there. Not until we're sure.
Fine. I'll be in the control room.
The man's an arsehole.
It's just what we need.
- What are we gonna do with all this?
- I don't know.
If Fulmer was here, maybe he
could help us understand it.
But without him, we're
still reaching in the dark.
Look, um
I'm sorry about the accident.
What's happened to you is
it's my fault.
Everything's different now.
When you stop fighting,
everything changes.
It's astonishing.
Wisdom doesn't suit you, Baz.
What are you doing here?
We're trying to repair the
damage done. And stop any more.
- With this?
- Can't you feel it?
We need to disconnect it
before anyone activates it.
Or it activates itself.
Don't you want your life back?
Two days ago, all you were worried
about was that stag do in Prague.
I was in such a rush back then.
Trying to fit everything in.
But you have to trust me.
- We're the same now.
- No.
No, we're not.
And I can't work out why.
My injuries were worse.
I'd have died without it.
It'll grow, though.
Stronger within you.
- How do I stop that?
- You don't.
But I can help you harness it.
Use it for good.
If you help us.
But I know we've never
been the best of friends,
but we can leave all of that.
We need to protect it
so they can protect us.
Don't fight it. Trust me.
You're here for a reason.
- That's him.
- You're Coake, right?
I've had enough of
welcoming committees, thanks.
So you've seen the
shitshow upstairs, then?
We need proper leadership if
we're gonna get out of this.
That's what this crew wants, let's talk.
- All right, what's this about?
- Change in management.
Look, I can understand your
frustration with them upstairs.
And I'm sorry about your
friends. The ones you've lost.
Yeah, none of this should have happened.
You're right. It shouldn't.
Same goes for the decommissioning
your pocket princess keeps pushing.
The CCS equipment I was testing
on the Charlie, if that works,
it'll extend the life
of this field for years.
We've already installed
the same system here.
Yeah, in the production module
with Baz and Garrow and Fulmer.
Good luck with that.
There's a way we can remove
them safely and get them help.
In the meantime I'll be
able to finish my work,
and then get you all back to yours.
So how do we do it?
There's a shipment of
compressed CO2 on board
to test the CCS equipment.
Those locked containers
in the Chemical Store.
- They're in there, right?
- You take masks and breathing kit.
You go get the canisters,
feed the gas into the
fire suppression system.
It'll knock them out, totally painless.
Then you find them, clear them
out safely, and start cleaning up.
Target the pump control first.
No, we should take some
time. Plan this properly.
Ah, we've been sitting
around here long enough.
Don't you wanna get home?
As long as they're over there,
they're a risk to everyone.
You still haven't told
us what this thing is.
What's causing it all?
I don't know what it is,
but I know what it wants.
It wants to keep you all
here so it can spread.
That's what it did before,
that's what it'll do now.
- Before?
- On the Charlie.
No one gets hurt, right?
Your safety is my priority.
That's why we need to do this.
Yeah.
Coake would've used a
different name, probably.
Are there any you don't recognise?
There.
That Tim Hughes. I didn't meet
anyone by that name onboard.
- You sure?
- Yeah, I'm friendly, Easter.
I try to remember these things.
"Spread of organism is confirmed."
If it spread, that means
they've seen it before.
- No.
- Coake knew.
He already knew this
thing might be out here.
That's why Pictor sent him.
We have to tell Magnus and Rose.
I can deactivate the anti-tamper
and switch it to manual.
I'm in.
I've never seen a system like this.
You can do it. You have to.
- This isn't new, you know. This being
- I know.
It returns when it's needed.
That's its purpose.
So you're saying all
this, everything it's done,
Alwyn, Leck, that's good?
It's the last line of defence.
It's here to make things right.
Fuck.
But this death and destruction
is not the only way to fix things.
It's not destruction. It's self-defence.
And if we can show we're listening,
we might be able to stop
it from going any further.
This is the access code.
Take two canisters, feed
them into the central system.
- So you're not coming with us?
- You can handle it.
When the Fire Suppression
System activates,
the module doors will try to
seal to allow full saturation.
I'll hold them open from
Control so you can get out.
And then we'll go back
for Baz and Garrow.
Once it's safe, yes.
Hey, you sure about this?
We've only just met this guy.
Let's just get it over with, yeah?
Okay.
Look at that.
Mystery solved.
Hey, take one each.
These aren't just CO2.
Do you wanna get home?
Take a break. I'll keep an eye.
Yes, it's perfect. We're
gonna pull this place apart.
Did you feel that?
- We should check it out.
- You, you stay there.
Go keep watch.
It might retreat if we
can protect it from attack,
help us fix everything we've done.
Look at what it's done here. It's
restoring things to how they were.
Right.
We've had warnings before
and we've never listened.
This isn't working.
I've got as much chance of
turning it on as turning if off.
- I tried
- You need to keep your focus.
This isn't about us.
I barely recognise this place.
Come on. It's this way.
Right, this is it.
Yeah.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
we should test these first.
- Coake knows what he's doing.
- Tell that to the Charlie.
Yeah, well, he got off, didn't he?
He's a survivor. And
that's what we need.
Masks on.
Okay.
Sleep tight, Baz.
Something's wrong.
That's the fire suppression system.
- We need to get out.
- No. They're coming for us. For this.
Well, we can't stay. We
won't be able to breathe.
We have to.
You go. Find Garrow and shut it off.
I'll stay here.
How long do we leave it before
we start dragging them out?
All right, this stuff works
pretty quick, don't you?
Hutton.
What are you doing?
Look, just get out of our way.
You made your choice.
Now, just let us through.
What's going on?
You should come, come
and see what we've found.
Uh, sorry, mate. But our friends
are dead, right, remember?
Leck, Alwyn
We're past sitting round for
a bit of kumbaya on the fire.
This has gone too far.
Just come back with us, you and Baz.
We all just wanna get home, you know.
Help.
This isn't knocking him out.
It's fucking killing him!
Come on, we've got to get out of here!
Don't leave me.
Dunlin! Come on!
- I'm not leaving him.
- You don't have a choice!
Just give it a try.
No!
Fuck.
Baz! Fulmer! You gotta get out of
Oh, shit.
I'm sorry.
She'll die.
- Does Rose know you're in here?
- No. She doesn't need to know.
Where's Dunlin?
There are people over
there. What are you doing?
What has to be done.
Hurry up!
No, no, no!
No! Open up!
You need to log back in.
Right fucking now.
It's too late.
He sealed the fucking doors. The
bridge phone, get them to open it.
We're coming, Dunlin.
Open this fucking door.
- Open this
- Hold on! We're gonna You're all right.
- Do you hear me?
- No!
No, no, no, stay with me!
Stay with me!
Dunlin?
Dunlin!
Dunlin?
We're all gonna want
to go, I promise you.
Dunlin!
Dunlin!
I'll get you out!
I promise!
Dunlin!
No!
Magnus.
Coake knew about all of this.
Long before it all started here.
Him and the company.
They let us get on a chopper knowing
that they were risking our lives.
That bastard.
- There's nobody else over there.
- Yes there is.
Hey, Coake!
Fuck's sake.
You let us come out to this field
knowing this had happened before.
Knowing you were risking our lives.
We risk our lives every time we
step on one of these platforms.
He's sent a team over to the prod.
I saw Hutton and Murch coming out.
What are they doing over there?
Trying to save your
lives, and everyone else's.
None of this is about
us. It's about survival.
- That thing is a cancer.
- Guys
That thing is an ancient life form.
It has intelligence and intention,
and it's older than anything
that's alive on Earth.
It could be the ancestor
of everything, all life.
Guys, he's activated the
fire suppression system.
I can't log in. We need
We have a problem. The only way
to deactivate it is manually.
- Fulmer.
- You're not going over there.
We have to get him back.
He's the link between us and it.
Control.
Okay. Magnus, it's Murch.
We've got to open those doors.
All right, go. I can open the
door. You'll need an air tank.
- I'll take Hutton's.
- Tell me who's inside.
- Magnus.
- What?
Dunlin is still inside.
- They're trying to open it.
- It's too late.
Hey!
- You just stay the fuck back there, Rose.
- Give me the tank. Now.
Where's Fulmer?
We don't know where he is,
but Dunlin and Garrow
Coake fucking played us.
We'll deal with that
later. Where are they?
- They didn't just change, Rose. They're
- They're gone.
- But we didn't see Fulmer.
- Why did I trust him?
That man isn't who he says he is.
Oh, shut the fuck up,
Hutton, and get back inside.
You've done enough damage already.
You're not seriously
going back in there.
I'm not leaving him.
Dunlin.
Fulmer!
Fulmer, wake up. Wake up. Come on.
Shit.
You really gonna make me carry you?
- Hey.
- I'm here. I'm here.
- The air
- It's okay now.
What are you doing here?
Come on, we have to go.
You okay? Okay? Here.
Let's go.
Here.
I fucked it! I fucked it!
It's okay, Hutton. Don't.
- I choked them to death.
- Don't. Don't!
Dunlin, he fucking
never trusted that bastard.
It was me that forced
him to go into that room.
It's my, my fault!
- Did you close the door?
- What?
- Did you close the door on him?
- What the fuck No!
- Then it wasn't you.
- I was in there!
Blame yourself if you want.
It won't make it easier.
It was my choice, you know?
I chose to stay on the rig.
They didn't even ask me. I volunteered.
And I know that if I'd been home,
like I was supposed to
it wouldn't have happened.
Thomas would still be alive.
He'd be 14 years old.
And I'd still be a dad.
I try not
but it's always there in my head.
All the ways I could have saved him.
Hey, can you imagine living with that?
Feeling like the choice
you made killed your son.
But I didn't kill him.
Because I wasn't
driving that fucking car.
And you didn't kill Dunlin.
Hey, are you listening to me?
Punishing yourself
doesn't bring them back.
I just wanted to help.
All I ever wanted to do is help.
I need you onside, Hutton.
But I have to give it to Coake.
He got you to follow an order.
I've been trying for 20 years.
Fuck you.
We've gotta deal with Coake.
He can't get away with this.
No, he won't.
Trust me.
Dunlin.
He's gone. He's gone.
I could hear it.
When I was with Baz.
What does it want?
It's been trying to reach out.
We haven't been listening.
I'm listening now.
Amen.
It's too much.
- All this loss.
- Come here.
It's okay.
Oh. Oh, thank fuck you made it.
Not all of us did.
Are you both all right?
Yeah, we're good. Let's go.
Coake isn't gonna back down.
He wants to destroy
this thing at any cost.
Good luck with that.
He's been asking a lot of
questions ever since he got here.
It's time he gave some answers.