Mutant X s01e08 Episode Script

Go.
Go.
Go.
Go.
What did we do wrong? There might have been a failsafe for the security video.
That, or we got spotted by the gsa.
You know, i still say this is a big waste of time.
Yeah? Well, the bottom line is we've got to be better prepared.
If this had been the real deal and not just some cyber-simulation, we'd be in eckhart's hands right now.
You know what? I must be crazy, because i thought you guys asked me to come in here and give you a hand.
But clearly, i'm the only one doing any work around here.
Okay, do you guys want to break it up or do you want me to come in there and pry you apart, huh? You can't stand to see other people happy, huh? Oh, have a little pity, honey.
The guy's just jealous.
Yeah.
No, i didn't introduce the two of you so i could sit here all night and watch you stare longingly into each other's eyes.
Oh, it's so sad.
You know, i've got to tell you, ton', the idea of you giving up cyber-crime and opening up a coffee shop - a little hard to take.
Well, it's not a coffee shop, it's a coffee bar.
Yeah, and who says you're the only one who gets to clean up his act? Yeah, well you didn't know ton' back in the day.
Well, that was then.
This is now.
Seven card stud, nines wild.
King's pawn to queen's pawn three.
I'll bet five.
Call.
My knight takes your bishop.
Damn it.
And i've got four aces and three wild nines.
What? And checkmate.
How'd you do that? It's another example of using your opponent's weaknesses against them.
Please.
We've been hearing that since day one.
No, no, i'm serious.
In your case, your recklessness leaves you wide open.
You, you play so cautiously, i read you like a book.
Yeah, well you know what i think? He cheats.
You know, one of you lovebirds want to give me a hand here, please? Thanks.
Time to go online.
We've been talking the past few months about sinister men and women chasing mysterious men and women with miraculous abilities through the streets.
Well, one of my regulars called in to describe what might be the ring leader in all this.
A white-haired guy who seems to pop up in a lot of these stories.
Miss macevoy? Are you trying to figure out where you went wrong? I figured a little study of your playbook might give me a leg up next time.
Understanding your opponent's weaknesses is important for everything in life.
So what are yours? None of your damn business.
So did you catch that thing about eckhart on proxy blue? Uh huh.
Do you think that's going to cause us any trouble? I don't see how.
Although it must be driving eckhart up the wall.
Yeah, checkmate.
Checkmate.
As long as proxy blue seemed to be nothing more than a whining voice for the paranoid lunatic fringe, it remained nothing more than an annoyance.
But to hear myself described in such detaii i completely understand, sir.
We all know how difficult how it is to do our jobs and still remain invisible to society's radar.
Leaks are inevitable.
But this story just won't go away.
It's already been picked up by one of the electronic gossip boards.
And it gets worse.
These bruisers look like feds armed with some pretty exotic hardware.
They show up in black vans, do their jobs and disappear.
Sometimes innocent bystanders disappear with them.
And the guy in charge looks something like this.
Oh, dear.
Well, i hold myself responsible for allowing this to reach crisis proportions.
But unless we find a way to take over control of proxy blue, this cartoon could destroy everything.
I might be able to help you solve your problem, sir.
So when do the rest of us get to meet her? Soon.
She's opening the data dive this weekend.
I guess you'll all be invited.
Brennan introduced you two? You know, i know where you're going with this.
I know all about toni's past, but i also know that she left it behind her.
Just don't want you getting into something that could hurt you down the road.
You know, coming from anybody else, i'd resent that.
But coming from you i love it.
Yeah, well, i'm keeping my eye on you.
Oh, that's toni.
I'll take care of these later.
Yeah.
Hey, jesse, what's up? Everybody's just hanging out.
Brennan's reading, shalimar is cleaning up, and emma's emma's playing chess by herself and still getting her ass kicked.
I heard that.
And me, i'm just having the time of my life sitting here staring at you.
Oh, you do know how to sweet-talk a girl.
And speaking of staring, i just got those shots i told you about.
You interested in seeing some pictures of me in some really sexy lingerie? Let me think about that.
Only one of the reasons i am crazy about you.
You're never at a loss for words.
Speaking of chess, this is what the well-dressed red queen is wearing.
What do you think? Sweet.
Just takes a second to download.
It's called social engineering, mr eckhart.
The process by which, with a few simple cues, one manipulates a mark.
The way a con-man ingratiates himself with a victim.
Grifters have been using this technique for years.
Political candidates, too.
Multl-millionaire plutocrat passes himself off as a good old boy.
Regardless of what the product is, social engineering is just a matter of selling the client what they think they already want.
I propose we attack the problem in two ways.
I want proxy blue destroyed, and i want to seamlessly replace her with our own identical version.
To tell our version of the truth.
Exactly.
Can you do it? I guarantee it.
You know that red queen outfit? Uh huh.
The one in the picture that we downloaded? Well, i'm wearing the matching thong.
Talk about knowing my weaknesses.
Blech.
You know, i really don't need to hear this.
This better be good.
Oh, hey, thanks.
Come on, bren, don't make such a big deal out of this.
Yeah, toni was just so grateful you introduced us, she wanted to find some way to pay you back.
Do i look like the kind of guy that needs to be set up? Do i? I mean, you set us up.
It's not about needing anything.
It's about wanting your friends to like your other friends.
Okay, well you know, i've got to be honest with you.
I've never been set up on a blind date in my entire life.
You're not the only one.
That's why i wasn't so keen on meeting you either.
Kendra macevoy, this is jesse kilmartin and brennan mulwray.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Geez, when are you going to quit playing in cyberspace there, toni, and get yourself a real job? Don't let her fool you, bren, kendra knows her way around a touch pad.
Oh, is that so? I met toni working at an ad agency.
I didn't know you were in advertising.
Well, wait, let me guess - what, did you hack into the phone system? I used their phones for a couple long distance calls.
Yeah, about fifty grand worth.
Kendra tracked me down, but instead of busting me, they made me a consultant.
So i went straight by showing them how to make their system uncrackable.
You know what? I remember that.
We thought that you were going to rat us all out.
Oh, yeah, like i'm a rat.
More like a pussycat.
Oh, see? At least somebody understands me.
Gag.
Come on, let me show you around.
Are they always like that? Yeah.
You know, if i thought i could make any money, i'd sell tickets.
Hey, whoa, wait a minute, you're in advertising.
Oh, no.
I've used my new mutant abilities to get a much better job.
The girl and the computers are not to be harmed.
Toni! Hey.
Hey, come here.
Come here.
Where the hell do you think they're going? They've got toni.
Hey, hey, hey listen to me.
Maybe they got her and maybe she set us up, alright? Either way, you're not going anywhere until we figure it out.
Stay here.
Listen to me, jesse.
Okay, so what's the plan? What plan? The plan.
The plan to save toni.
Well, right now i don't see that happening.
What? Well, there's too many unknowns in the equation.
I mean, first of all, we don't know where she really stood.
Where she stood? You know what? I think i'll tell you where she stood.
She did not set us up.
Well, you know that? Yes, i know that.
No, you don't know that.
You said yourself that she introduced kendra to you as her friend.
Now, second, even if she was imprisoned against her will, how do we know that eckhart hasn't managed to suborn her? Suborn her? Suborn, jesse.
She may be lost to us.
Hey, you guys.
I can't say for sure, but it looks like we might have a serious problem.
And, yes, we're ten years ahead of the curve.
Hey.
Ow.
What the hell was that? A sub-dermal governor.
To keep you in line.
I thought you were my friend, kendra.
Friends don't kidnap friends.
Oh, it's just a little social engineering.
Call it whatever you want.
Pretending to be something you're not is lying in my book.
The truth is miss macevoy saved you from making the biggest mistake of your life.
Separating you from those outlaws was a favour you could never repay.
Mason eckhart.
I've heard all about you.
Yes, and i've heard all about you.
Miss macevoy tells me you're the best computer cracker she's ever met.
I don't flatter easily.
Well, if anyone can crack proxy blue, toni can, sir.
Get her set up in the technical analysis section.
If she's as good as you say she is, i expect results, and fast.
It's a file transfer protocol.
A tools application that somehow got inside our system.
How'd it get in there? Well, it looks like someone slipped it in under a picture file.
Toni sent me a picture file.
Well, then i'd have to say that toni is trying to crack us.
Well, didn't you say she used to be a cyber-outlaw? Yeah, but she went straight a long time ago.
Then what's she doing trying to get inside our computers? Well, i thought you said that we can't be cracked.
Yeah, we have molecular nano-electronics.
So we're fine then? If she's half as good as you say she is, i won't know for sure until i run a complete diagnostic.
I want to apologize for blowing the chance to bring mulwray and kilmartin into custody.
Their presence there was a complete surprise.
I'm just grateful that you were able to grab quintana.
You know, i have to say, miss macevoy, i find this new look of yours a nice change from my former presentation? If i were to offer an opinion, i'd suggest it's a big improvement.
Actually, sir, this is my real look.
I was afraid you wouldn't take me seriously if i showed up looking like this.
So i transformed myself to convey the idea of no-nonsense seriousness.
While i had you undercover infiltrating miss quintana's world, you were socially engineering me? I guess you could say that.
I knew we'd work together beautifully.
Emma? So what's going on? Adam's doing a complete scan of the entire system.
And? And he's pretty sure everything's going to be okay.
Good.
But you never know.
Yeah, tell me about it.
Toni had me completely convinced that she was an upstanding citizen now.
And really, she was just using jesse to get into our system.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
What's that supposed to mean? She slipped a mapping application into the system via some hot pictures.
Sounds kind of sneaky and underhanded to me.
Yeah, but if all she wanted to do was crack us, why would she go through the whole thing of you introducing her to jesse? Yeah, i guess you got a point.
She could have just sent me the e-mail.
Yeah.
That still doesn't let her off the hook.
The fact remains she invaded the system, period.
Yeah, but you can't just go ahead and assume that wait, what, are you defending her now? Come on, i know toni.
We're both felons, remember? I understand.
I just wonder what this is doing to jesse.
It's exactly what i was afraid of.
Toni's application has invaded our entire computer system.
Well, that's not a huge deal, right? Do a full diagnostic, scan everything, clean the system.
It's already underway.
So why do you look like your dog just died? The gsa gets their hands on the matching software in the but it'll act like a homing beacon.
Coffee house, they can use satellite technology to pinpoint our exact location.
So they could be here in a matter of minutes? And destroy everything we've created.
Well, since they're not here already, i think we have to assume that jesse was right about toni and she's just an innocent victim in all this.
Yeah, with the guts not to save herself by telling the gsa about the application, at least not yet.
Not to say the gsa won't find it soon enough on their own.
Yeah.
We've got to get our hands on that software before they do.
I've brought you here to do a complete and thorough inventory of every piece of technology in this place.
I want you to examine and catalogue every machine, hard drive, software, scanner and outport device.
I want every file downloaded, checked and double-checked.
I'm not sure i understand, miss macevoy.
The gsa has got the most advanced computer systems that money can buy.
Why bother with all this junk? Money can buy an awful lot.
But it can't buy a cracker's instinctual grasp on cyberspace.
There may be a lot of secrets buried amongst this junk that might save us decades of development.
But i could be here for days.
And what's your point exactly? So how come you never told me how much sub-dermal governors itch? Toni? Got any other girlfriends being held prisoner by the gsa? Why did you do this? Oh, god, do you really have to ask? I'm a cracker, for god's sake.
Adam's pissed.
So somebody found the file transfer protocol, huh? Yeah.
Well, i figured i'd be in and out before anybody noticed.
And then i got busted by these creeps.
What in the hell were you thinking? Oh, jesse, it's like i said, you know, i'm a cracker.
It's like it's like everest.
You do it because it's there.
How did you get to a computer in genomex? Well, they're having me work on a way to take over proxy blue.
Eckhart's so pissed off he's having me create a facsimile to sell the gsa party line.
And that's why kendra pretended to be my friend, so she could drag me in here to work for these creeps.
Adam says we've got to get our hands on the other end of the mapping software before they do.
Or else eckhart will be able to pinpoint our location and we're toast.
Kendra's over at the data dive starting an inventory.
So unless it got fried when brennan hit the system, they're going to find it soon.
I'm really sorry, jesse.
Look, it's in a red microdrive.
I've got to go.
I've got company.
Adam.
You know, i don't have to tell you the kind of pressure i'm under to deliver here.
Am i crazy, or are you trying to get me to sympathize with you? Well, if i thought it would work.
Forget it, kendra.
You played me like a violin and i'm done.
Alright, you know what? Forget about me.
And think about your own skin.
Yeah, i'm working as fast as i can.
Oh, toni, i read you like a book and i know what you're capable of.
Think about this as a career opportunity for both of us.
You really mean that, don't you? Absolutely.
Well, these machines of yours are state of the art.
If all i wanted to do was crack supermarket product codes.
Look, i need my machines.
My database, my tools.
What do you say you bring me over to the data dive? I'll see what i can do.
So toni's okay? Well, yeah, i mean she seems fine.
Yeah, well right now we've got to focus on retrieving the microdrive.
Assuming that it's still intact.
Look, there's a fifty-fifty chance that brennan's we could be talking about a wild goose chase here for nothing.
Yeah, and we could also be talking about the other fifty - the scenario that says that he didn't fry it - and our goose is cooked.
Emma's afraid jesse's not going to forgive himself for getting us into this.
Come on, guys don't walk around beating themselves up like that.
He'll be over it before you know it.
What a load of macho crap.
It's not macho crap.
That's why girls like soap operas and guys like boxing.
Oh, please.
Oh, come on, in soap opera it takes a year to tell fifteen minutes of drama.
In the ring it's over in fifteen seconds.
I hope that's not your philosophy for everything.
Hey, adam, it seems like everybody went home for the night.
Brennan's right.
I don't hear anybody inside.
Alright, then it's a simple matter.
You go in, grab the microdrive and get out of there.
Adam, everything's gone.
The only thing left is an espresso maker.
Then they've taken everything over to genomex for an inventory.
And the gsa is one step closer to finding our sanctuary.
All right, brennan, right now there are two possibilities.
Either you accidentally fried the mapping software in the first place.
Or the gsa has it and they don't know they have it.
Exactly.
Great, so we're right back where we started.
Only now we have to break into the gsa to get the software and rescue toni.
It's a good thing i've got a little experience in breaking in.
Yeah, but after our failures with the virtual break-ins, we have to totally rethink our strategy.
Yeah, really.
If there's one thing we learned from that damn exercise it's that just barging in isn't going to work.
Plus, we've got to make sure that eckhart doesn't know that we're after the microdrive in case we get in there and we can't find it.
Man, you know, i knew i shouldn't have introduced jesse to toni.
Now that we've got all of your stuff here, could we pick it up a little? I just kind of figured you'd bring me to the data dive instead of bringing the data dive here.
Get real.
I bent over backwards to make sure that all of your machines were here.
And i expect results.
I couldn't have put it better myself, miss macevoy.
The media seem to be unwilling to let this story die.
Everywhere i turn, i hear about super-powered freaks pursued by brutish thugs lead by a white-haired gentleman who looks like me.
It's all hitting a little too close to home.
Maybe it's time to go public and cut your losses.
Or maybe not.
We're making serious progress here, mr eckhart.
And i am quite serious.
I expect to see a concrete example of the new version of proxy blue by tomorrow at the very latest.
We'll be ready.
If you really think i'll be ready by tomorrow, you're dreaming.
And if you think that you're going to be alive the day after tomorrow, oh, unless you give me something, your nightmare's just begun.
I wouldn't waste your time watching me if i were you.
I don't know.
Maybe well, if she's eckhart's prisoner, we should have her crack the genomex computerystem and have her cause them as much aggravation as she's caused us.
You know, it is a thought.
Eckhart's got her working on cracking proxy blue's firewalls so they can create their own version.
I just passed checked checkpoint five, adam, halfway across the upper catwalk.
What does the situation look like from your end? I'm getting an all-clear reading on the lower catwalk.
Security's on yellow.
Alert status: Zero.
With no gs agents or security officers between you and the tech lab.
I'm on my way.
Jesse, i've got the all clear from adam.
Take position, emma.
We're all ready to move on your signal.
Go.
Shalimar.
What did we do wrong this time? I don't know.
Any number of things.
Motion detectors i wasn't aware of, hidden cameras.
All i know is we better come up with a better game plan or else toni's doomed and we're finished.
What are you doing? Oh, i was i was just stretching my legs.
We seem to make miss quintana nervous.
What have you got to show us, toni? You know, i still need a little more time.
You could have a beautiful future working for us here.
Or that future could be short, swift and brutally final.
It's up to you.
We're still playing virtual games here while toni's we are all frustrated, jesse, but that doesn't mean we can go in with our eyes closed.
Toni is not a hero.
We have to get in there and get her out.
Yes, but like adam says, now that we know going in soft and sneaky without being ready to kick serious ass isn't the answer either.
Adam? Hey, hey, hey.
Hold on, you two.
Now, what we've got to do is we've got to find a whole new way of thinking about how to invade eckhart's world.
Now, their greatest weakness is eckhart's bullying shalimar's recklessness playing poker, what we're talking about is using the gsa's vulnerability against them.
Assumption that might makes right.
When in fact might in their case means arrogance, overconfidence and smugness.
So we're going to use their weakness as our secret weapon.
This is proxy blue's take on our round-up last week.
Remember when you thought justice, freedom and due process were real? The family of five that disappeared from their home last week must have learned those ideals were just illusions.
And this is ours.
We've all been left in the lurch at one time or other.
But those people who took off last week definitely had something to hide.
Same story with an entirely different spin.
I love the fact that it subtly blames the victim.
I thought you might like that, sir.
And while the original encourages skepticism, ours raises doubts about the meaning of reality itself.
Just another kind of social engineering.
Nicely done, miss macevoy.
And we owe all this to miss quintana here.
Absolutely, mr eckhart.
I told you she was a genius.
For what? Adam.
I owe you an apology.
Well, i've been acting like toni's a victim in all this.
But i have to face the fact that she's the one who got us into all this hot water in the first place.
Right.
And i have to say that i regret that we didn't try to rescue her sooner.
You know, right after she got incarcerated, and dealt with the other problems later.
Thank you.
But she owes us an apology, too, for trying to crack our system.
Hey, adam.
I've got a really weird proxy blue thing over here.
So the truth is out, and i'm not angry, i'm just hurt.
The loser who called in the story on this white-haired mastermind turns out to be a hopeless dope fiend.
Just the right tone.
Who really owns your thoughts, your feelings, your ideas? Reality is yours to make, so make it right.
It's a little snide, a bit snarky, but with our spin on reality.
So, now we have our perfect replacement.
When is this little genius of yours going to find the real thing so we can put an end to this problem once and for all? We'll get to that eventually.
Eventually? I'll have toni work on it until we find the real proxy blue website.
But meanwhile, we don't have to wait.
Toni's programmed our version of proxy blue to function as a virus.
Who really owns your thoughts, your feelings, your ideas? Our version hunts down the real one.
Reality is yours to make.
So make it right.
Eats it, and then replaces it with itself.
It's always seemed to me the best way to get ahead is to know your opponent's weaknesses.
So, even if they turn on the real thing, they end up getting our version of the story.
And that's how you get the masses to buy the truth as we see it.
It's always seemed to me the best way to get ahead is to know your opponent's weaknesses.
And the only way to take the red queen is to move against black queen's ten.
Would you play it again, please? It's always seemed to me the best way to get ahead is to know your opponent's weaknesses.
Where have i heard that before? And the only way to take the red queen is to move against black queen's ten.
You know, toni calls herself my red queen.
And kendra was dressed in black that night.
Okay, but there are only eight squares across a chess board.
So what does black queen's ten mean? Black queen's ten, black queen's ten.
Well, the security forces at genomex change shifts every day at ten o'clock.
Maybe she's trying to tell us that that's the best time to make our move.
In other words, toni's using the fake proxy blue that she created for eckhart to send us a message.
Yeah.
Othere's always the possibility us alof walking into a trap.
But it's not like we have a lot of choice in the matter.
No, we're going in to genomex, because whatever the danger that awaits us there, the greater danger is the risk of compromising our sanctuary's location.
And that's something we must never allow to happen.
Black queen's ten.
You know what to do.
Go.
Go.
Go.
Go.
Kendra, you know, you ran off so quickly the other night, i didn't even get a chance for a goodbye kiss.
Unfortunately, i don't think there's going to be a second date.
Oh, my god.
Miss macevoy, i found something.
Here, jesse.
You know how to make one hell of an entrance.
You got my message, huh? Yeah.
Jesse? Yeah? Grab the microdrive.
I'm going to send eckhart a little message of my own.
Well, i've checked out the system and toni's made sure that what she pulled won't ever happen again.
And now that i know how skilled she is, i've asked her to do a security clearance for every safehouse across the country.
You're putting her into the underground? Well, yeah, but rather than get her out of town permanently, we're going to keep her moving around, you know, to hide her in plain sight.
Right? Right.
So you and i can get together for some hot weekends in spas across the country.
Alright.
Ah.
Now, if only she can strike that happy balance between creative curiosity and criminal trespass.
It speaks ill of a number two to allow an invasion of this facility on her watch.
I completely understand, sir.
But i still believe there remains a positive aspect to this whole affair.
I have to admit your success with a counter-version of proxy blue is a mitigating factor in this disaster.
Why do the most distrustful people make the easiest dupes? Is this the real thing or is it ours? The real thing, sir.
Of course, it all depends on who you distrust.
I'm talking to you, mr eckhart.
Instead of bumping the real proxy blue off the air, adam put me to work cleaning out your system.
So sit back and enjoy the show because tomorrow morning you're going to have to start everything from scratch.
Miss macevoy, take your hands off me.