The Lost Symbol (2021) s01e08 Episode Script

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Previously
on "The Lost Symbol"
Your father's brotherhood
has something
that does not belong to them.
- Today we both escape.
- (both grunting)
People have been killed!
You're no longer part
of this operation.
You're going
to take an early retirement.
We must ensure
the mystery remains
unsolved.
Zachary.
PETER: How did my
boy become that
monster?
(groaning)
(trilling)
KNOPP: (voice-over)
We want the artifacts.
He had a phone on him.
We're trying
to crack the passcode,
trace his recent movements
in hopes of locating the pieces.
(trilling continues)
(electronic blipping)
NUNEZ: (voice-over)
Do you know what happened?
What's she saying?
She's not saying anything.
She can't talk.
They didn't tell you?
- Tell me what?
- She got cut.
Doc says, a hair deeper,
would've hit the jugular.
Hey.
Hey.
What happened?
Who did this?
No.
It's
not
over.
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Is he still asleep?
Reading.
"The Ramayana,"
original Sanskrit.
It's a good sign.
KATHERINE: Cymatics.
It's the science
of visible sound.
Vibrational phenomena.
Right.
Galileo and da Vinci
experimented with vibrations
to produce patterns, figures.
- That's what this is?
- Yeah.
He was studying it.
I don't know why.
It doesn't even make sense.
This is the kid--
he cheated on his finals,
he got kicked out of Penn.
There's so much I don't know.
Maybe that's a good thing.
No. I mean, like,
how did he pay for all of it?
You saw that house. The
equipment alone would have
Maybe he had money from before?
No, it reverted
to my parents when he died,
or didn't die.
He came back once.
What if he comes back again?
It was a 100-foot drop.
- They never found the body.
- That river flows
into the Potomac.
They might never find it.
(doorbell rings)
What's going on?
I was gonna call,
but I thought it may be best
to tell you in person.
Tell us what?
PETER: It's him, isn't it?
KNOPP: (voice-over)
The site's been cleaned.
The CIA woman is
receiving treatment.
And the contractors?
Their families
are being compensated.
How much is this costing me?
That should be low priority.
I wasn't consulted on
this insane plan to start with,
so it's not low priority to me.
The plan was in service of our
larger mission-- to protect
Don't presume to tell me
about our larger mission.
I was in the group
long before you.
It was quiet then.
No private contractors, no CIA.
That was a time of peace.
Now we find ourselves at war.
Has anyone spoken
to Peter Solomon?
- He should be consulted.
- KNOPP: I don't know
that he's in any state
to be objective.
This is his son.
His son may still have
the artifacts.
In which case,
Peter may have some insight
as to how to get them back
Paul?
You're frozen.
(beeping)
LANGDON: (voice-over)
So Leviathan
took him off the street,
held him in captivity,
so they could get
the pyramid back?
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
They got some kind
of private army.
Contractors.
A resource we rarely call on.
Yeah, well, some
of those resources are dead now,
courtesy of Mal'akh
or Zachary or
PETER: She gonna be all right?
Agent Sato?
She'll be all right. I mean,
probably won't ever talk
the same, though.
He just about crushed
her larynx.
If he's still out there, you
guys got to watch your backs.
Mom isn't picking up. I think
I should go check on her.
- He wouldn't hurt your mother.
- You don't know that.
Anyone in this family
could be a target.
Hey, uh, I can get
a squad car sent to her place..
- That's a good idea.
- No, no. No police.
She has a lot of triggers.
You weren't there.
You don't know how bad
it got with her.
- All right, then let's go.
- Dad shouldn't be alone.
It's not safe.
- I'll be okay.
- Jesus!
Am I the only one
taking this seriously?
I got him. I-I can
I can stay with him.
I mean, if that's okay with you?
Okay.
Yeah, let's go.
It's spread
to everyone on the network.
- A virus?
- A smart one.
Completely locked us out.
Of?
The archives, the central fund.
The central f
The group is supposed
to be insulated
- from this kind of thing.
- From anything originating
outside the network.
Mal'akh's phone--
it's a Trojan horse.
The moment we cracked it,
it sent the virus in,
locked us out.
So he wanted us to crack it?
Looks like.
But that would mean
he wanted to get caught.
He set all this up.
He's been ahead of us all along.
- We're in.
- You found the money?
The money, the secrets--
their world is your oyster.
Having a hidden network
is a brilliant idea,
right up until someone accesses
your hiding place.
How'd you do that anyway?
Show me the member list.
Him. William Osterman.
Let me see.
(computer chimes)
ZACH: What's that?
We're up on their phones, too.
This one's getting a call.
Can even trace it, if you want.
No need.
- KNOPP: Hello.
- It's Peter Solomon.
Peter, I was just
about to reach out.
- Uh, I'm sorry I didn't earlier.
- Of course.
You were too busy
playing judge and jury.
You were convalescing.
I didn't want to bother you.
- He's my son.
- Yes.
He's also the reason we're in
this situation to begin with.
Well, if you had told me
what you were planning,
I could have warned you.
Is it true
that he killed those men?
Yes, but that's not all.
He's hacked our network.
Frozen the fund, gained access
to our private information,
transaction histories.
He is talented,
I'll give him that.
Do you know why
he is doing this?
I don't know. To create
some point of leverage?
Maybe he just wants
to destroy us.
Somehow I don't think
it's that simple.
Sir, something's happening.
Peter,
we need to meet.
All of us.
She's taken good care
of the place.
It's taken good care of her.
Being out here
kind of saved her.
Mom?
Mom?
(birds singing)
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Mom?
- Mom.
- Oh, God!
- (laughing)
- Sorry.
Didn't hear you.
- Celine.
- Hmm.
It's a nice surprise.
- Robert.
- Hi, Isabel.
What's going on?
The two of you back on?
No.
- Uh-huh.
- Mom.
It's about Zach.
What about him?
Maybe we should go inside
and talk.
That sounds like a perfect idea.
The two of you can stay
for dinner.
No, Mom, we can't stay.
We need to leave.
Katherine, please.
So catch me up, Professor.
How is Harvard?
Zachary's alive.
We don't know
what happened exactly
- or how he did it.
- He had surgery.
His face, uh--
you wouldn't recognize him.
So you've talked to him?
Robert has.
He's different now.
He, um
He's had a psychotic break, Mom.
It's changed him.
And how long
have you known this?
Not long.
Do you know where he is now?
No. That's why we're here.
I need you to come with us.
He could come here,
and if he does,
- he's dangerous.
- (scoffs softly)
My God. Dangerous?
He's done things.
He's hurt people.
- He was the one who was hurt.
- Yes,
he was, but that was before.
And you sound just like before.
You're against him.
This isn't
about taking sides, Mom.
He hurt Dad.
Well, he wouldn't hurt me.
I stood by him. I loved him.
- So did I.
- Isabel, I
I know this must all be
very overwhelming.
We're still processing it
ourselves,
but I think what Katherine's
trying to say is that
this is not the same Zachary.
Well, forgive me,
but I don't think you know
what you're talking about.
And I'm supposed
to be the crazy one here.
You're not crazy, Mom.
I appreciate you saying that,
but if you meant it,
you should trust me enough
to make my own decisions.
I'm not leaving.
Okay.
Then we'll just stick
around for a while, too.
Great.
I'll make pasta from scratch,
we'll roast some vegetables
from the garden.
And don't worry, Robert.
No zucchini.
- Good memory.
- I remember everything.
She's in denial.
She's isolated herself
in this fantasy,
and now we're threatening
to tear that away from her.
After dinner, you should
take the car and go.
Totally. I mean,
I'll-I'll just leave you here.
You got the keys?
We're together in this.
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Sir?
(indistinct chatter)
Hey, hey.
You do know the idea was
to lay low, isolate.
Circumstances have changed.
You don't have to be here.
Well, I told them I'd keep you
safe so, yeah, I kind of do.
Oh, maybe I could sit in
and get some investment advice.
It's not that kind of meeting.
Yeah, I didn't think so.
My son, it appears,
has not finished with me.
(sighing)
(indistinct chatter)
PETER: (voice-over)
Gentlemen.
I was being held for ransom.
And now it seems you are
being held for ransom, as well.
Shall we begin?
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
Yeah.
(sniffles, clears throat)
(phone vibrates)
Hello?
- It's Robert.
- Hey, what's going on?
Uh, is her mom okay?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, safe at least.
Everything quiet there?
NUNEZ: Not really.
Things are afoot.
What does that mean?
Those Leviathan dudes--
- they're here.
- What?
It's not like that.
Mr. Solomon invited them.
They got hacked or something.
They think it's Mal'akh.
- Hacked?
- Yeah.
So they're meeting about it.
I guess Zoom wasn't an option,
what, with their accounts
getting lurked on.
- They have any idea what he took?
- I don't know.
They didn't invite me in.
But from what I can tell,
it's like
a ransomware situation.
- So what's the ransom?
- OSTERMAN: (voice-over) Cascade
is a long-range
acoustic technology.
The Chinese were developing it
in secret,
but as we know,
secrets are hard to keep.
So, we have our own program now.
The device can be programmed
with infrasonic frequencies,
which create
atmospheric vibrations.
And why would someone want it?
Its applications
would largely fall
into the anti-personnel bucket.
Crowd control, troop repulsion.
GARROWAY: So he wants a weapon?
I don't understand.
I thought he was
after the ancient wisdom.
PETER: He is.
He was keeping notes
on a vibrational phenomenon,
resonance, but I suspect
he thinks that this device
can help him
achieve apotheosis.
HACKETT: Apotheosis?
- What are you talking about?
- Most of us here believe
that the ancient wisdom
is tangible, is learnable,
an ancient scripture
with which one can train oneself
to unlock latent abilities
of the mind.
He clearly believes
that it is some kind of
metaphysical doorway to godhood.
How would he have arrived
at an idea like that?
How does anyone? Ideas have been
perverted all through history.
It is the world we live in.
No offense, Peter, but
your son's a complete lunatic.
And totally committed.
- We cannot turn that over to him.
- HACKETT: Oh, no?
This cutting-edge siren is
more important than our money?
- He could wipe out our accounts.
- Not to mention our reputations.
Money and reputations can be
rebuilt, some things can't.
I lost my hand, almost my life.
No one questions
your resolve, Peter.
We took an oath to protect
the wisdom. If our membership
is exposed, we won't
be effective in that role.
PETER: If we give him this device,
there is no telling
where it may lead.
(Knopp sighs heavily)
We'll put it to a vote.
All those in favor
of turning the device over?
All opposed?
(indistinct chatter)
Meeting's over?
So what happened?
Cowardice won.
The other room seemed fine.
Yeah, I just
I seem to remember
that it gets pretty bright
in the morning, so
I'm sure
I'll be up pretty early.
I don't really sleep well
in strange places.
Like the Library of Congress
basement?
Right.
(sighs, groans)
- Cold?
- Yeah. One thing
I will admit
I didn't miss about her leaving.
- She kept the house freezing.
- I could
I could go
and adjust the thermostat or
find an extra blanket.
Maybe you could just
lie with me?
This could all
totally unravel her.
I'd hate to see her go back
to that place.
I know.
But she needs
to know the truth, right?
I mean, she seems unable
to accept reality,
so, in the end,
maybe it won't matter.
Yeah.
Tens of thousands of years
of disappointment have given us
a powerful ability to deny.
And that's not just
personal experiences,
but utterly provable
historical events.
Like the myth
of the Wehrmacht,
"Historical negationism."
I wrote a paper on it.
Thank you
for being here.
Of course.
I think
I've been in denial, too.
I hadn't let myself feel
what it would be like to
to really lose you.
What are you feeling now?
'48. Good year.
It was actually.
Burma gained independence.
Sri Lanka, also.
Then again,
Gandhi was assassinated.
Yeah, win some, lose some.
Yes. And today, I lost.
We swore an oath
to protect the greater good.
They just want
to protect themselves
from
Zachary.
You know,
I was always so focused
on what I wanted him to be,
I couldn't see who he was.
But you can't think like that.
Shame, blame,
that little voice
in your head reminding you
what you've done wrong,
how you failed.
Do you have it?
The voice that reminds you.
Felix.
We served together.
Kind of took him under my wing.
He didn't belong there.
I mean, no one belongs
in a place like that, but
you could see it in his eyes
from day one.
What happened to him?
He stepped on a pressure plate.
IED. Right in front of me.
I'm sorry.
You know, I had that voice
under control for a while.
And then, all of a sudden,
all this happens,
and Langdon drops into my life.
Some new guy in some war
he's not ready for.
I had to help.
You are a protector.
Nah, I just
I do what I have to do.
To Felix.
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ZACH: Did you bring it?
Yes.
What will you do with it?
(whirring)
There's a tracking signal.
Lose it.
(gasping)
Stand down.
Take it off.
(gasping)
(coughs, wheezes loudly)
(coughing continues)
(clears throat, sniffles)
(car door closes, engine starts)
(engine revving)
ISABEL: (laughing)
Yeah. I
I got the fertilizer
that you, uh, recommended.
It's made a big difference.
Yeah, it's nice, actually.
It's nice to have the company,
and, uh,
the two of them
are really lovely together.
Yeah.
Oh, you know,
it's just a bunch of nonsense.
(Isabel laughs)
Yeah. (laughs)
(floorboard creaks)
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Hey.
- Did you get some water?
- Yeah.
I must have forgot it
in the other room.
What?
That alias he was using,
the one you found on the invoice
for that flotation tank
I was having
a really nice time
not thinking about that.
What was the name?
Abaddon.
Christopher Abaddon. Why?
It was in your mom's office.
It's a wire transfer
from her account.
KATHERINE: It was you.
You've been sending him money.
How long has this been going on?
He called me from Turkey
just after the riot.
- He needed surgery.
- And you didn't
think to tell us?
That was our deal.
No one could know.
He said they would
put him back in prison.
I lost him once.
I wasn't gonna lose him again.
Have you seen him?
Mostly, he calls.
He's visited a couple of times.
And you didn't sense
anything off about him?
He looks and sounds
completely different,
but a mother knows her son.
He's on a spiritual quest,
you know.
He he told you about that?
It's been a nightmare for him.
It's only normal, that given
what he's been through,
that he would want to find
some greater meaning in things.
That is not what he's doing.
Isabel,
have you seen him recently?
(sighs)
Has he given you anything?
You don't know him, Mom.
Oh, of course
you would say that
He murdered my friend.
He stabbed her,
and he left her body
at the base of a statue
- like some kind of religious offering.
- Stop it now!
He tortured Dad!
- No!
- Do you hear me? Peter Solomon, the man
- you married, the father of your children.
- Stop it!
- He cut off his hand!
- Stop. Stop it now!
Stop it now!
(crying)
Stop it now.
(crying)
(crying)
Stop it now.
(engine revving)
SATO: (voice-over)
No one needs to know
anything about this.
Mal'akh!
Zachary.
- Are you leaving?
- No. I'll come back this time.
Breith, bás, athbhreithe.
Hey.
(crying softly)
(shushing)
(softly)
Hey, hey.
(crying)
You're okay.
We're okay.
I'm
so ashamed.
No.
Don't be.
What what I've done.
Don't talk. It's okay.
Yeah.
He said you specifically told
him not to reach out to me, but,
"She can keep
her own damn secrets."
His exact words.
Look, you and I
have too much history
to let this get between us.
Assuming you get out
of this bed soon,
we got to figure out
what Blake's been up to.
He's been on the phone
with Istanbul.
He did all of those things?
And Peter--
is he okay?
- He will be.
- (rolling thunder)
You have to go.
No. Mom, I told you we're not
going anywhere without you.
He's coming.
What?
ISABEL: I told him you were here.
- You told him?
- Zachary.
I spoke with him earlier.
He's on his way here right now.
- Then you're coming with us.
- No.
- We can't leave you here, Mom.
- Isabel.
- I'm his mother.
- You're my mother, too.
Then you need to listen to me.
I am telling you to leave.
Isabel, with everything
you've just heard?
Katherine?
We need to let her
make her own choice.
It's going to be okay.
- Go.
- (sniffles)
Wait.
He's hidden something.
I heard him the other night
in the barn.
(engine revving)
Where are they?
- They left.
- In the middle of the night?
I told them to go.
What else did you tell them?
They said you've done things.
Are you still my son?
After everything
I've been through,
I am owed the truth.
You don't want the truth.
You never have.
(Isabel gasps)
My boy.
- He's gone.
- (crying)
(muffled screaming)
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(engines whirring down)
(sniffles)
How was your flight?
It's been a long journey,
and it's far from over.