Hunters (2016) s01e08 Episode Script

1 (announcer) Previously on "Hunters" (Jackson) Agent Regan was taken.
Agent Briggs, you wrote that Agent Regan appeared to be a willing passenger in Musa's helicopter.
Yes, ma'am.
I know you killed my parents.
Is that what the humans told you? Are they still alive? The ETUs know more than I do.
Hunters have been seeking access to lithium mines in Romania from as far back as 1989.
Raw materials for thermonuclear weapons.
- (straining) - She'll be ready for the Purge.
Your mom and dad aren't your real family.
They were assigned to you.
Like you to Flynn? They said I'd gone native, but I refused to come in.
Even if it meant being someone I never really was, I wanted you more.
They need to think that I put up a fight and that's how you escaped.
Shoot me.
- Do it! - (gunshot) Regan's not the mole.
Jules ran the diagnostic.
Told her she made the calls to McCarthy.
And he knew about talking on Columbia.
Good luck finding somebody else to spy on citizens for you and order drone strikes for you and torture people for you.
(creature clicking and shrieking) There's just one more thing you need to do.
What happened? I got away.
(panting) (grunts) (creature growling) (growling continues) (shrieks) (panting) (knocking) (Emme) Flynn, are you awake? Yeah.
I'm awake.
(door opens) We have to leave in 12 minutes.
I know.
(panting) Are you okay? I'm fine.
Why are you breathing so hard? I'm fine.
Let me get dressed.
Hey.
Will you put on some coffee? Sure.
(lock beeps) Finnerman thinks you went with Musa willingly.
She would think that.
- Agent Regan - What? No Alison anymore? I'm going to need to know everything that happened during your captivity, and I mean every last detail.
I'm not gonna tell you shit until you tell me the truth about what happened to my parents sir.
Your parents? What did you do with my mom and dad? Oh, nothing.
Who told you we had anything to do with them? Musa.
Well, he's lying.
You saw the Quins capture them.
If Musa had my parents, he would have used them to try and turn me.
Regan, I honestly don't know what happened to your parents.
Musa might be a monster, but at least he told me the truth.
(piano music playing) (music stops) (man) Okay, bring her in.
That's it, okay, a little more.
This place is impressive.
Looks like things are really getting organized.
I heard things got gnarly at the old hospital in Circleton.
We got most our gear out before the ETU raided us, but it was close.
Jules didn't exactly give us a lot of time.
There was no leak from outside? No, we were never breached.
ETU must have caught a break.
They're nipping at our heels and now we've got no one on the inside.
He was eliminated, wasn't he? Yeah, Jules was taken in the Great Hunt.
Good.
He'd served his purpose.
We're moving ahead with it, then? Everything's on schedule.
The Purge will take place exactly as planned.
I'm calling for you You are why I'm still breathing (Ted) If you're reading this, it means I'm no longer with you.
You're on your own now and you have to be strong.
This is what we are.
Ones we can't trust, they're here.
- Come on.
- (loud explosion) (Ted) No matter what you do, I am your father.
(rabbit squeaks) And you're my little girl.
(girls screams) And I'll always love you.
(Flynn) Hey.
Hey.
I heard you saw Abby.
Is she all right? I'm okay.
Thanks for asking.
Sorry.
I'm glad you're back, really.
Yeah, I saw Abby.
(whispers) Did you talk with her? She tried to brainwash me.
Called it deprogramming.
Deprogramming from what.
Human life.
Abby told me they did the same thing to her, probably why they got her to try and turn me.
Didn't work.
You came back.
And Abby did not.
I guess it worked on her.
She let me escape.
Why would she do that? Don't know.
Maybe they didn't want me.
Are we responsible for Regan's parents' disappearance? That's just Musa manipulating her.
Regan was on the inside.
She had direct contact with Musa.
She has vital intel, intel we have no other means of acquiring.
Well, if she's refusing to talk, we do have options.
Put her in the chair? Use her own treatment against The Hunters are mining raw materials for WMDs and you're concerned about her discomfort.
We will do whatever it takes.
She will cooperate.
Only if we give her what she demands.
That's not unreasonable.
If you know anything about Regan's parents, now would be the time to tell me.
(Liana) We've shut down the breeding camp and the Columbian operation.
All other loose ends need to be tied.
There's nothing else outstanding.
Except Regan.
The reprogramming was unsuccessful.
Hers or yours? You failed.
She spent so long as a human.
You failed.
Where is she now? Let me answer that question for you.
She's back with the ETU.
Full of information about us, spilling everything.
You're in charge of her during the Hunt.
Alison ran off before the kill.
Alison? Why would she do that? I guess she got spooked.
You lost a Seraphin to the ETU, now Regan.
Despite this, Musa still seems to think you're an asset.
But I beg to differ.
(creature shrieking) - (gurgling) - He's dying.
It's the reversion process.
The shell hasn't taken.
(shrieks) It isn't working.
(groans) (clicking) (clicks) (clicking) Stuck between Hunter and human.
(clicking) Shh (bones crack) (bones crack) It's the only way.
(jump rope snapping) Regan.
Regan.
Before I say anything, I need to know you're gonna talk to me.
Holding out is just gonna make things worse.
Worse than you lying to me? Are you gonna cooperate? Guanos are after a human.
Sterling Martinez.
Lives in Baltimore.
Don't know why they want him.
It has to do with something they called the Purge.
Sounds ominous.
Your turn.
I don't know anything about your mother But your father, we have him.
You have him? What does that mean? Finnerman has him at a secure facility.
For how long? How long?! He hasn't been at that site for long, but altogether, he's been held for six years.
(snarls) I'm sorry.
(grunts) I want to see my father.
You deceived me, Ruth.
Agent Regan is our best asset, or was.
I don't know if she'll ever trust me again.
(Finnerman) You and I go back three decades.
There is no one I trust more.
Which is precisely why I didn't tell you.
To protect you.
Protecting me does not help Agent Regan.
(lock beeps) She's in a very vulnerable state.
If Agent Regan is medically unfit for work, she will need to provide a report to that effect.
She gave us what we wanted.
Now it's our turn.
Once Flynn and Briggs have found this Martinez and we can establish that the intel is legitimate, then we can move on Regan's request.
No.
I'm not lying to Regan.
I made a deal with her.
She will see her father without waiting on what happens to Martinez.
Matter of fact, I'll take her myself.
(Jackson) All right, we gotta move fast on this.
Sterling Martinez, 37.
Martinez is a former scientist with Wexxler-Kline, a Belgian pharmaceutical.
As far as we can tell, he retired early, aged 30.
Big time farmer.
Probably cashed in after inventing a pill that makes modern life better.
Oh, you'd know.
Martinez appears to live modestly.
Jules' replacement can scour his financials to find out what he's been hiding.
Stephanie Le Guin, meet Agent Briggs, Agent Carroll.
The muscle.
Oh, Miss Congeniality.
(Jackson) Steph's a cryptographer, Finnerman brought her in to continue working on decoding the Hunter language.
The Hunters have their eyes on Martinez.
This is coming from Regan.
How do we know it's not compromised? We don't.
This is where he's holed up, Fells Point.
Musa is casting a line.
Let's reel Martinez in first.
We've tried everything to make the process work.
Without the reversion, there is no Purge.
Losing the Coahuila cell set us back.
Ted alone cost us a decade of research and then McCarthy and his antics.
Maybe it's time you bring in the human.
We rely on them too much as it is.
But he's made a breakthrough.
And we have no other options.
Abby's right.
Bring in Martinez.
I can't.
I have to meet with Karp.
He'll only deal with me.
I'll go.
No, definitely not.
I've already been in touch with him.
I can handle it.
As well as you handled Regan? Abby can take care of it.
Thank you, Musa.
Do not disappoint me.
I won't.
The Feelers will go with you.
(creature clicking) Go.
(clicking) (creature chirps and clicks) (Briggs) All clear.
(Flynn) Looks like Martinez didn't retire after all.
(Briggs) No, he took up fishing or he's opening a Red Lobster.
No, he's studying this stuff.
Carroll, take a look at this.
Quins.
He's working for the Hunters.
(Briggs) These are dated ten years ago.
If they are baby Quins, then they're all grown up now.
That's a comforting thought.
Lots of stuff on a bone disease called craniodiaphyseal dysplasia.
Says here it causes bone defects in the skull and face.
Well, what do aliens care about a calcium disorder? Mm-hmm.
The hell are you doing? Collecting evidence.
Don't pull that shit.
How you gonna watch my back if you're tweaked? - I'm not tweaked.
- No, not yet, maybe.
It's for the pain.
My legs have been screwed since the prison raid.
Not your leg.
Try your head.
If you can't handle this I can handle it just fine.
(door creaks opens) Sterling Martinez! Please don't shoot me.
(inhales sharply) (lock beeping) Just take it one step at a time.
I'll be close by if you need me.
(Regan) Dad? (clicking) Alison.
(gasps) Look at you all grown up.
Your hands, scars.
Who did this to you? It's okay, it's okay, I'm not in pain.
At least it stopped me from molting.
I don't miss that.
(whimpers) Where's Mom? Is she here, too? No.
I don't know where she is.
I haven't see her in years.
I can't believe it's you.
It's me.
I didn't think you were still alive.
How'd they catch you? I'm not a prisoner.
I work for them.
Look at what they're capable of.
I didn't know this place existed.
Hunters were killing people.
That's what I wanted to stop.
There's a lot you don't know.
Who are these kids? What's wrong with them? They were born with a rare sclerotic bone disorder, severe calcium buildup in the skull.
So they're human.
I don't understand.
He doesn't know.
You have a homemade lab.
You're conducting experiments.
Well, maybe you're cooking drugs.
Or bombs or worse.
No, no, it's just it's just research.
I work for a pharmaceutical company.
We did a critical trial of a new drug.
There were some side effects.
They didn't show up until some patients had children.
You caused birth defects.
Yeah, we did.
Hundreds of kids.
I took full responsibility.
I mean, that's why I retired early, to try and help them.
I wanted to fix this.
That's what my research is about.
I just made what I think might be a huge breakthrough.
I'm meeting with some new investors this afternoon.
My last memory of you and Mom is both of you being taken by the Quins.
Quins? Never heard that before.
The deformed Hunters.
The ones who attacked our house.
We call them Feelers.
They're Brother's servants, like his bloodhounds.
Very dangerous.
How did you end up in here if Musa took you? You know Musa? Brother number four.
We've met.
I know he's the leader of the Hunters.
Musa and I we had a falling out.
Musa was becoming extreme in his measures and I disagreed.
My life was in danger, so I left.
The humans caught me.
Here I am.
(groans) Finnerman did this to you? So many over the years.
Not just me, other Hunters, too.
They're watching all of us.
I can't really blame them for the experiments.
Humans are very curious, and also easily frightened.
Quite nasty if you don't answer their questions.
Um Was this man ever involved? I've never seen him before.
A soldier brought me here.
Polynesian looking, had an accent.
This guy? The one on the left? He looks familiar, but I can't be sure.
Someone reached out to me after I posted my results online, but I never met them.
(Briggs) Oh, you didn't think that was weird? Random e-mail from a pharma exec? Well, I vetted the credentials as best as I could.
They're with a startup, they seem well financed.
- And what do they want from you? - Well, my research.
They have an interest in skull and bone disorders.
They're on their way here now.
We need to roll, come on.
- Excuse me? - You're in danger, we're getting you out of here.
Gather your research.
All of it.
There must be a mistake, I'm just a retired Get your shit, now.
(cell phone vibrating) Flynn Carroll.
Flynn? It's me, Abby.
Hang on.
(Abby) I'm in trouble.
I don't know what to do.
Just just slow down.
Start from the beginning.
Musa wants me to do something, but I don't think I can do it.
What does he want you to do? Kill an innocent person, and if I don't do it, Musa will kill me.
What do you want from me? I need you to come get me, but it has to be now.
Abby doesn't want to turn herself in.
This is her play.
She's trying to lure you away so she can snatch Martinez.
She sounded scared.
And Regan told me Abby let her escape.
And you believe that B.
S.
? Man, we gotta strap you to the mast.
She was my wife.
This is my call.
No.
If Abby wants to come in, she will.
With or without you.
And if she doesn't, you're not gonna have the guts to do a thing about it.
Musa's planning something.
I'm worried a lot of innocent people are gonna die.
There's innocents here, too.
I've been locked away a long time.
Please How many people are held here? People? None.
How many captives? Just the one.
(Regan) It would still be useful.
(Ted) I don't know what to tell you.
Tell me about the Purge.
Nothing you should concern yourself with.
Why are you still defending Musa? He tried to kill you.
Your mother tried to kill me.
She's Musa's right hand.
She chose him over us.
The night the Quins came, your mother set us up to be captured.
Why would she do that? 'Cause Musa wanted me to come in and I wouldn't.
I was planning to leave the Hunters for good, give you a new life, free from all the Detour in the south hall.
(Regan) Why didn't Mom want to come with us? To keep our family together? Your mother and I were playing roles.
But I wasn't.
I wasn't, not when it came to you.
I'm your father, Alison.
And nothing, not even Musa, could ever change that.
(cell phone vibrating) (Ted) You okay? You okay? Yeah.
Yeah.
(whispers) Something's going on.
We need to create a diversion.
- (groans) - Dad? - (grunts) - Dad? Help us, someone, please! Help! What's going on? (man) I don't know.
Someone please! Help her! Help him! Please! (lock beeping) (Regan) Dad? Dad? (heavy metal music playing) (lock beeping) (music grows louder) (lock beeping) (heavy metal music playing) (music stops) McCarthy? Aren't you a sight for sore eyes? (McCarthy clicking) (groans) Has a doctor seen you? No, no, no, no, no, no No doctors.
(grunts) Just butchers.
And of course, the butcher queen herself.
Finnerman? She never told you.
Of course not.
The stench of her indecency.
(inhales deeply) (growls) Spare yourself, McCarthy, talk to us.
I tried talking.
Baseball, politics.
Hell, we even played trivia.
(chuckling) What do Nancy Sinatra, Freddie Mercury, and Brittany Spears all have in common? I don't know.
You people turn their music into a misery.
Use it to torture prisoners.
At least Iron Maiden made sense.
You're a murderer, McCarthy.
Then kill me.
An eye for an eye.
That's one of your commandments, isn't it, Elder Jackson? My faith has nothing to do with this.
Your faith has everything to do with this.
Please.
We know about the Purge.
Cooperate with us and I will make sure you are treated humanely.
Then Musa kills me for being a traitor.
I will protect you from Musa and everyone else, I give you my word.
(coughs) (growls and chitters) Water, please.
(panting) Christ on the cross asked for water.
The least you could do is give me a sponge soaked in vinegar.
(Jackson) God forgive us.
(McCarthy grunting) (clicking) Too good for your own good.
(cries out) (grunts) (guns cocks) Hi, Flynn.
Surprise.
The famous Abby.
You know, you're cute for a Guano.
It's all over.
(gunshots) And they say metal is dead.
(heavy metal music plays) (alarm sounding) (clicking) You, head off McCarthy, I'll get the doors! No! You stay! Let me out! Jackson! (roars) (cries out) (clicking) (lock beeping) Regan! (tires screeching) Shit.
(Jackson) No.
No.
Come on.
Stay with me.
Stay with me.
I want to see Flynn.
You don't think you've messed with him enough? Are you gonna kill me? That'd be no fun.
Interrogation, on the other hand Hey, pack it up.
Let's go.
You said clear it out.
I don't want to leave behind any research.
(water slurping) What's wrong? Something's not right.
(high pitch shriek) (both groan) - (high pitch shriek) - (straining) (high pitch shriek continues) (cries out) (straining) (high pitch shriek continues) (shrieking stops) (high pitch shriek) (groans) Why the hell didn't you stop her? I can't do my job properly if you keep things from me.
You let our most prized asset get away.
If it wouldn't raise questions about my facility, you'd be out of a job right now.
What the hell were you thinking? He was bleeding.
He was coughing up blood.
There were wounds all over him.
It was immoral, it was dirty, and I don't want to take any more part in it.
McCarthy is a liar and a serial killer.
He murdered his own offspring.
And what about Regan's father? He clearly loves his child, like a human.
And he wasn't spared torture.
Which is precisely why I kept you out of it.
I know your limitations, Truss, believe me.
Better than you do.
Now, you're not gonna go and do anything foolish like resign, are you? No.
We have a job to do.
Well, as long as you remain, I require your subordination and your discretion on this matter.
You have it.
As always.
Good.
Oh, and don't worry.
I've made sure that the deaths of those young soldiers today aren't on you.
Not on paper, at least.
(pill bottle clatters) Maybe if you weren't so doped up, we'd still have Martinez.
And your sexy wife.
I should have handled Abby, not you.
Like you did at the hotel? I would have brought her in this time.
Oh, bullshit.
You just had your shot.
You let her go.
You still think she loves you.
(scoffs) Oh, whatever's in that medication, that's some strong hooch.
You don't know shit about me.
You don't know shit about you.
You know that scar on your arm? Jules had the same scar.
So did other Hunter victims.
Jackson didn't tell you? No.
Man up and face your demons, if you even can.
(grunts) Guano should have killed you when they had the chance.
(shouts) I'm back, Musa.
The humans held me captive, but I escaped.
I've warned you to stop with the injections, the drug abusers.
I did.
Your recklessness caused the deaths of two Hunters, including your own child.
Yet another transgression, attempting to breed in human form.
What do you care? We're all expendable to you.
You're excluded from the Purge.
You can't do that! You've become a demon! Injecting human flesh has made you sick in the mind! Weak in the heart! I can separate you from your misery right now.
Or you do as I say, do you understand? Know your place.
Forgive me, Musa.
You're my brother.
I am your servant.
Your will is mine.