Gen V (2023) s01e08 Episode Script

1
Marie, what happened?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SCREAMING, GRUNTING]
Oh, shit.
- [SIREN WAILS]
- [GRUNTING]
You sense things in blood.
Thought I was the only one.
- Holy shit.
- [SAM] I'm messed up, Emma.
You should be with someone that isn't.
[EMMA] Well, maybe
I want to be with you.
Oh, fuck.
Turns out the school is
a fucking Mengele health clinic.
[CATE] They were using Sam
to augment Luke's powers,
but they were doing
other stuff to him, too.
Shetty was directing it all.
[SHETTY] We're estimating about
ten months to make it potent
and contagious enough
to get the job done.
What you're describing, it's genocide.
- [RETCHES]
- Keep a close eye on her.
Is this all of it? We'll make sure
this stays out of the wrong hands.
This school is a front.
You will not control us!
[SHETTY] The school is here to study you.
- It's time.
- [GROANS]
Don't help.
- [MARIE] Fuck.
- [EMMA] Why didn't I fucking help her?
- Holy shit, she fucking killed her.
- [MULTIPLE VOICES OVERLAPPING]
[SAM] She tortured us! She tortured us!
[MARIE] Cate, holy shit!
She killed a guy. We all
killed someone. Oh, my God.
[JORDAN] She's fucking crazy.
[EMMA] Can we help her? What?
Why didn't you let me save her?
[MARIE] What the fuck did you do?!
[VOICES DISTORT AND FADE]
Okay, look, let's all just calm down
a-and assess the situation.
The situation's bleeding
all over the fucking rug.
We just we have to figure out
what to do now.
You murdered her.
Marie, I did this for you.
I did this for all of you.
When I'm done, maybe eventually
you'll realize I'm being a hero.
I want to be a hero, too.
- Of course, Sam.
- Leave him alone.
Shetty sucked.
I'm not an experiment.
What are you gonna do, Cate?
We are gonna free The Woods.
Sam, don't go with her.
[SAM] This is about you, too.
If they find out what happened here,
I'm not gonna be
the only one they torture.
Maybe it's time for me to save you.
You can beat me.
But do you really think
you can beat him?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR OPENS]
Fuck.
[DOOR CLOSES]
- Who are you calling?
- Campus security emergency line.
- Yo.
- Are you crazy? They'll get Sam.
What about all the people in The Woods?
She lets them out, it's gonna be chaos.
- Yeah, but
- You, too?
Look, this is fucked up,
but Godolkin and Vought
are fucked up, too.
So, what, we just sit here?
No.
We stop them.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[HEART MONITOR BEEPING]
[PHONE VIBRATING]
- Okay, the MRI.
- Yeah, yeah. Hey.
These shadows,
here and here and here,
indicate damage.
We believe every time
your father uses his powers,
something like a micro-tear occurs
in the neural pathways.
An accumulation over years.
Years. O-Okay, so can we, can we reverse
or-or brighten those areas with,
like, some medicine or something?
We'll I'll buy whatever
it is that we need.
Brain matter is a finite resource.
Through physical therapy
and the right drug cocktail,
we can mitigate or slow.
Not reverse.
Have you experienced any lightheadedness
or spots in your peripheral vision?
Uh, me?
Maybe an uncontrollable tic
in the ring or pinky finger
of your left hand?
No. No.
I-I mean, m-maybe-maybe
lightheadedness, but
but doesn't-doesn't everybody
get lightheaded sometimes?
Can we, can we focus on my dad?
I-I mean, I just
S-Sorry, it's just a lot. I just
Our recommendation is physical therapy,
figuring out the right
anti-seizure medicine.
And no more using powers.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[KNOCKS ON DOOR]
What, they didn't have
any king-size hospital beds?
[CHUCKLES]
How am I looking?
Like you're made of steel.
Go through my phone.
The contacts for Heather are in there.
Heather Heather PR or wardrobe?
Wardrobe.
We got to get the costume resized.
[STAMMERS] The doctor.
I'll get the doctor.
So the Polarity costume fits you.
I'm sorry.
For
everything.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
I knew about The Woods.
I played along.
I stayed quiet.
To protect you.
But school's done now, kid.
It's your time.
Dad.
Our powers,
- they're killing
- You're the big man now.
You follow the straight and narrow.
Do whatever they tell you.
No one gets through life
without regrets.
But goddamn I don't regret being
able to take care of my family.
And I know you're gonna do the same.
You have to.
Your family's counting on you.
[ASHLEY] I'm missing
a farm to table fuckfest
at Ina and Jeffrey's
to be at this board meeting,
but someone has to save
this fucking place.
All right, I don't know
where the fuck Indira is,
so let's just start this
fucking meeting.
Golden Boy is fertilizing the lawn.
Application rates are down.
Neuman's town hall was a shit show.
We need a big fucking distraction.
Let's send someone
straight to The Seven.
Let's just go in order.
GPA: fucking terrible.
IQ: surprisingly good.
Additional skills: British accent?
All right, who is pushing for this kid?
- Anyone?
- Focus tests show him in the lead
with the 12 to 18 demo.
They think he seems like,
quote, "a real one".
His on-screen skin color tests
read a bit dark.
Then we'll get Annie fucking Leibovitz
to shoot him, you racist shit.
Polarity brand is consistent, though.
All right, we will come back to him.
Who's next? And seriously,
where the fuck is Indira?
[HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYING]
[WHIMPERING]
[ELEVATOR BEEPS]
Cate?
I haven't seen you down here in a while.
Greg.
Uh, I'm Bob.
Oh, God. No, no!
[DOOR CREAKING]
- Unlock the cells.
- Okay.
[ALARM BLARING]
[BREATH HISSING SOFTLY]
When's the last time you saw sunlight?
Is "Gangnam Style" still a thing?
Let's go outside.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[LUKE] Hey, Sam.
Luke.
What you doing?
Helping supes.
Hurting humans?
Same thing.
That's what you wanted.
Nah, man.
I hurt one person once.
Then I killed myself from guilt.
And what about your tiny friend Emma?
She's not here.
Yeah, and neither are you.
You killed yourself.
Leaving me in this cell!
Sam, I know you don't want to do this.
Sam. Sam.
Sam!
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Who is that?
[SAM] That was Andy.
He was hilarious.
And then really sad.
He was bipolar.
[CATE] They got him sick on purpose?
This is what they do.
This school
thought they could torture you.
Why? Because they said
you were all crazy?
Inferior?
But you're not inferior.
You are superior to them.
And it's time we showed it.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Eat your own fucking hands, you monster.
Right.
- [BONES CRUNCHING]
- [GUARD SCREAMING]
[RIHANNA: "DESPERADO"]
Desperado ♪
- Sitting in a ♪
- Fuck.
[MUSIC STOPS]
Desperado ♪
Excuse me.
- I'm not trying to go against you ♪
- Hey. Excuse me.
- Actually, I'm going with ya ♪
- Hello? Excuse me.
Come on.
I'm recording a reaction video.
Now I got to listen
to fucking "Desperado"
- all over again.
- Are you a supe?
No shit, asshole.
Are you a supe?
No, I'm an adjunct professor, marketing.
- [SIZZLING]
- [SCREAMS]
We could be runaways ♪
Running from ♪
- [PEOPLE SCREAMING]
- Any sight of love ♪
- [ELEVATOR BEEPS]
- Yeah, yeah, there ain't nothing ♪
There ain't nothing here for me ♪
There ain't nothing here
for me anymore ♪
I don't wanna be alone ♪
Oh, Jesus.
Emma, you clear
the Performing Arts center.
Okay, teachers, administration.
Jordan, you sweep the student union.
There's a panic button
in Shetty's office.
Under her desk. It'll lock down
pretty much everything.
Okay, that's where I'm going.
Yo, yo, yo, fam, what up?
It's your fave social media adviser,
Jeff Pitikarski.
As all you Jeffsters can see,
no crutches, no cast,
leg's finally healed.
Hashtag "Hot Jeff Summer".
It's something
[MAN] Oh, God. Please.
Somebody fucking help me!
Run!
Oh, fuck.
Yeah, yeah, there ain't nothing ♪
[ELECTRONIC HUM GROWING LOUDER]
[SCREAMING]
Shit. Escaped meth head,
east campus quad.
Fuck me. There's more than one!
All units, alpha protocol!
- [PANICKED SCREAMING]
- Runaways running from ♪
Any sight of love ♪
Yeah, yeah, there ain't nothing ♪
There ain't nothing here for me ♪
- [ELECTRONIC HUM]
- [PAINED GROANING]
- You were safer inside, dummy.
- [SCREAMING]
Yeah, yeah ♪
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
My cover's blown.
I think our rehab might be unlocked.
Let's do a livestream.
[KYLE] Ever since Translucent died,
there's been a gaping empty hole
in The Seven.
That's why I'm proposing
number 27: Maverick.
Who better to replace Translucent
than Translucent's son?
- If he's gonna be as much of a perv
- Jeff? Jeff?
- Jeff, can you hear me? Jeff?
- as his father, then we just can't do this.
[KYLE] He wasn't that bad.
- Uh, um
- What is it?
- Uh, there's an issue on campus.
- What?
[CATE] Stay right there.
I'm just waiting for a couple
more people to hop on.
[JUSTINE] Holy fucking shit.
Harper, are you watching this?
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Eat it.
[PANTING SHARPLY]
Now.
[PEOPLE SCREAMING]
Oh, my God. [GASPS]
Where the fuck is Shetty?!
[PANICKED CHATTER]
[SCREAMING]
This country was founded
on a single truth:
All men and women were created equal.
If this is going to be
the dawn of The Seven,
we have to first
get through dusk.
No, no, just me.
Now, that right there
- is how you fucking audition.
- [CHUCKLES]
Don't touch my knuckles.
That's how you choose a monologue
to compliment your director
without explicitly saying,
"Hey, I love you.
I'm a needy little shit.
Please give me the job".
No, you do it through the work.
You play it on the fucking line.
I'm sorry, can I help you?
Kid, we're having a breakthrough here.
Look, if you're here to audit
the class, just have a seat.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Okay, remember when I talked about
stage presence, everybody?
That is not it.
Josh Hartnett has more stage
presence than this man here.
And I can say that because
we are close personal
[GAGS] I was kidding.
[PANICKED CHATTER]
Sam, stop!
[COUGHING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
What are you thinking?
Why are you here?
Because you're here.
- So, what?
- So
[STAMMERS] We
We share things, our
our feelings, our privates,
and now you're just
throwing all that away?
No, no.
Emma, it's my choice.
Yeah, but, Sam, you don't
want to hurt people.
People hurt me!
Yeah, I didn't ask for you
to rescue me, Emma.
You did that for you.
And you never asked what do I want.
You just came in, and,
"Fucking Sam, do this".
"Sam, don't kill people".
- Okay, that's pretty normal. That's not weird
- I'm normal, Emma!
This is what normal looks like
when you've had my fucking life!
You know, while you were worrying about,
oh, maybe starring in a reality TV show,
I was having a needle
shoved in my fucking spine.
Okay, that is not what I meant! No!
Sam, I want what's best,
and you know that.
You want what is best
for you.
I risked everything for you.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
Emma, you would do anything
for everyone to like you.
You're not a hero.
I know you don't mean that.
You don't mean
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[CRYING SOFTLY]
[SOBS]
[SNIFFLES]
What the fuck?
[GASPING]
What the fuck?
[PHONE VIBRATING]
- You don't even know.
- [CATE] Don't be mad.
I freed The Woods. Shetty's dead.
How ? What did you do, Cate?
It's not too late.
Come be with me.
I love you.
We can be together.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[ZAPPING AND SCREAMING IN DISTANCE]
[LUKE] What are you doing?
You're not real, you're not real,
you're not real.
Hey, is Emma the only girl
that ever let you bust a nut?
No. No.
I mean inside of her.
Sam. What's happening?
Is this right?
- Holding humans accountable?
- Killing innocent people.
[STAMMERS] Aren't some of
these people innocent?
[CATE] What we're doing is so hard.
- Do you want my help?
- Sam, listen to me.
Who's actually you, imagining me.
This is it. This is your fucking moment.
You are not defined
by what's happened to you.
You are what you do.
- Yeah?
- "Yeah" you want my help?
[LUKE] Right now.
Be a hero. Stop Cate.
Sam?
Sam, what's happening?
I love you.
But you said you were me.
And trust me
I hate myself.
Sam, do you want my help?
No.
Yeah.
Okay, help me.
You fucking crazy fuck.
[CATE] Feel nothing.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
I feel so empty.
It feels good.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[PANICKED SHOUTING, SCREAMING]
[GRUNTING]
[ALARM BLARING]
[CLANGING]
[JUSTINE] Guys, guys,
these big-ass doors just
locked me in my dorm room!
There's some maniac loose on campus.
- [LOUD ELECTRONIC HUMMING]
- [GROANS]
[PAINED GROAN]
[EXHALING SHARPLY]
- Oh, my God.
- [FRANTIC KNOCKING]
- [BOURKE] Open the fucking door!
- Who the fuck is that?
[BOURKE] I can hear you, Ashley.
Now, you open this door
or I swear to God
I'm gonna tell everyone
what you and I did
in the bathroom
at the pediatric cancer fundraiser!
All right, open, open,
open, open, open, open.
[BOURKE] I'm gonna tell
them what you did!
All right, we're opening the door!
Stop fucking talking, my God.
Holy shit, Ash.
I prayed the fucking Shema.
I swear to God I thought
I was gonna die.
Calm down. Just breathe. Shake it out.
Everything's fine. Look.
Someone turned on the sonic whistle.
We're good.
[BOURKE] Holy fuck.
- [ELECTRONIC HUMMING CONTINUES LOUDLY]
- [PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[GRUNTS]
[ROARING LOUDLY]
[SCREAMING]
- [GLASS CRACKLING]
- [BOURKE] Oh, fuck no.
Fuck, please.
[ZAPPING IN DISTANCE]
[MAN SCREAMING]
What the fuck? Don't just stand there.
Block the fucking door.
Find fucking Homelander.
Radio the helicopter now. Go.
All right, everyone, grab one
and make a call right now.
Whoever kills these rogue supes
gets in The Seven.
[PHONE VIBRATING]
Hello?
[ASHLEY] Marie Moreau? Ashley Barrett.
Vought. We are considering
you for The Seven.
Congratulations. We're so excited.
We just need you to take out
some, uh, escaped, um,
students.
Cancel them. Cancel them
from planet Earth.
Oh, Miss Barrett, thanks,
but [CHUCKLES]
Jesus fucking Christ, Marie,
the entire board of trustees is up here.
You do this, and I will get you
a meeting with your sister.
- Get
- [LINE CLICKS]
Oh, my God.
I just lost Wi-Fi.
- [GASPS]
- There's no signal.
LTE?
No. No, nothing.
Harper!
Who's gonna know if we die?
What the fuck?!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[PANICKED SCREAMING]
- Oh, hey, hey, hey!
- Hey! Hey!
Hey, we're here! Come on!
Oh, shit, shit, shit.
Cate, stop!
[GASPS]
- [GASPS]
- [PANICKED SCREAMING]
[ANDRE STRAINING]
[HELICOPTER THUDS]
[PANTING]
[GRUNTS]
I'm gonna go stop Cate.
No, I'll talk to her.
I mean
Guardians of Godolkin.
We do this together.
Am I right?
[BREATHES DEEPLY] Let's go.
Hey, Cate.
[MARIE] Jesus, Cate.
How are you pushing so much?
Shetty's medication.
I thought she was helping me.
[SIGHS] She was limiting me.
[MARIE] Cate, you have to stop this.
They want me to kill you.
- Is that what you're gonna do?
- No.
Of course not.
[MAVERICK] Cate, shit.
- I got this call from Vought about kill
- Stop her.
[MAVERICK] You got it.
Oh, shit.
- Okay, bro. Bro?
- Maverick?
We're on the same side, Cate.
Do you really want to be like your dad?
- [BLOW LANDS]
- [GRUNTS]
Stop her.
- I got this. [GRUNTS]
- [BLOW LANDS]
[ANDRE] Cate?
- [BLOWS LANDING]
- [BOTH GRUNTING]
Maverick.
Just hold on.
Can't you, like,
find the real you or something?
[GRUNTS]
Like, dig deep or whatever?
[BLOWS LANDING]
Let go!
[MAVERICK GRUNTS]
[PANTING]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Okay, asshole!
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
[FAINT HEARTBEAT]
- [HEARTBEAT GROWING LOUDER]
- [BLOOD FLOWING]
What the fuck?
[PANICKED SCREAMING]
We need to get everybody
back inside right now.
[FRANTIC SHOUTING]
[BOURKE] What the fuck
is he doing?! Holy
- Get to the helicopter.
- No, it's fucking grounded!
It's fucking enclosed. Get in.
- Do you want to stay here?
- No!
- Go!
- [SCREAMS]
Go, go.
- Go, go, go!
- [OVERLAPPING SHOUTING]
[BOURKE] Hurry, hurry!
Cate? Cate? Hey, hey, hey.
What side are you on, Andre?
Whatever side gets us out of this shit.
Yeah, that's your real
superpower, isn't it?
Acting like you're doing something
when really you're doing nothing.
Cate, whenever either one of us
does something on their own,
shit gets screwed up big-time.
But I know we do some
amazing shit together.
Whatever's happening right now,
let's just, let's just figure it out.
Both of us.
Please.
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Cate!
Dude, stop. We loved Luke.
He was like my brother.
[GRUNTING]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[ANDRE GASPING]
You're right. Okay?
I agree. Fuck Shetty. Fuck our parents.
Marie, they asked you to kill me.
So if you don't, what's gonna happen?
They'll still try to kill you.
And they'll try to destroy me.
Then what choice do we have?
I don't know.
I just wanted to be a hero.
Someone my sister could be proud of,
but I don't give a shit anymore.
I just want to be a good person.
But, Marie, you're not a person.
You're a product to them.
A freak.
I'm trying to save you.
[FIERCE YELLING]
- [JORDAN SHOUTS]
- Fuck.
And fuck you.
[PAINED GROANING]
My heart.
[JORDAN GRUNTING, PANTING]
- Get us the fuck out of here!
- [PANICKED SHOUTING]
The helicopter!
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
- Fucking Christ!
- [PANICKED SHOUTING]
I'm putting that in my next movie!
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[PANTING]
[HOPEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
See? We're good together.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[GASPS] No.
[SCREAMING]
[SONIC BOOM IN DISTANCE]
[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING QUIETLY]
Sir, I, uh
[SIGHS] What kind of animal are you?
What?
Do you like attacking your own kind?
No, I, um
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Stay back.
[SCREAMS]
It's happened yet again in America.
Tragedy on campus.
Four Godolkin students
went on a brutal murder spree.
At least 12 people are now dead.
Many more undoubtedly
would have been killed
had it not been
for the Guardians of Godolkin
excuse me the New
Guardians of Godolkin,
Cate Dunlap and Sam Riordan.
Proving once again that all Americans
are safer with heroes like
Sam and Cate protecting us,
our values and our way of life.
The hell?
[JORDAN] Hey.
You're awake.
What happened?
You took that blast
like a fucking champ.
Anyone else would be in the ground.
[HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYING]
There's no doors.
Where are we?
[THE MUFFS: "KIDS IN AMERICA"]
Looking out a dirty old window ♪
Outside, the cars in the city ♪
Go rushing by ♪
I sit here alone ♪
And I wonder why ♪
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
What a bunch of cunts.
[SCOFFS SOFTLY]
Friday night and everyone's moving ♪
I can feel the heat,
but it's soothing ♪
Heading down ♪
I search for the beat
in this dirty town ♪
Downtown the young ones are going ♪
Downtown the young ones are growing ♪
- We're the kids in America ♪
- Whoa ♪
We're the kids in America ♪
Whoa ♪
Everybody live for
the music-go-round ♪
Bright lights, the music gets faster ♪
Look, boy, don't check on your watch ♪
Not another glance ♪
I'm not leaving now ♪
Honey, not a chance ♪
Hotshot, give me no problems ♪
Much later, baby, you'll
be saying, "Never mind" ♪
You know life is cruel,
life is never kind ♪
Kind hearts don't make a new story ♪
Kind hearts don't grab any glory ♪
- We're the kids in America ♪
- Whoa ♪
We're the kids in America ♪
Whoa ♪
Everybody live for
the music-go-round ♪
- We're the kids in America ♪
- Whoa ♪
We're the kids in America ♪
Whoa ♪
Everybody live for
the music-go-round ♪