Moonlight s01e10 Episode Script

NARRATOR: Previously on Moonlight: MICK: I saw Coraline last night.
JOSEF: Coraline is dead.
- You look like someone I used to know.
- Ex-girlfriend, maybe? - Ex-wife.
- She's found a cure.
- There is no cure for vampirism.
One of these days, you're gonna have to stop hating what you are.
- What could be the downside? - Missing the things that you loved.
Turn me.
Turn me.
- Lf she is back, what does she want? - She's back for Mick.
She's been lying to us, stalking us.
No.
She's not a vampire.
She's human.
She has a cure.
The object missed her heart, but punctured her left lung and partially tore the pericardium.
- Is she gonna live? It's a deep wound and infection has already set in.
That's her biggest concern right now.
That and a buildup of fluid around the heart.
You know, it's a very unusual wound.
I understand she told the ER doctor that it was some sort of accident.
- Do you know what happened? - No, we don't know what happened.
Well, all we can do now is monitor her.
- I'll let you know if there's any change.
- Thank you very much.
Why did she lie? Why didn't she tell them I did it? She wouldn't want the police involved.
I can't believe I almost killed her.
L I thought for sure she was a vampire.
You couldn't have known.
I didn't even know.
You still care for her, don't you? She was my wife.
You really think there's some kind of cure? MICK: Coraline was a vampire for years and now she's as human as you are.
Something changed her back.
And if she dies I'll never know what that was or how she did it.
Did you find him? That's him.
Where is he? He's living is Los Angeles, using the name Josef Kostan.
- What do you want me to do? - What I hired you to do.
- Kill him.
- I'll take the next flight out.
It has to be fire.
- Why fire? - Because I've said so.
Burn him to death, and you'll get your money.
Consider it done.
Trust me on this one, fellas.
You mix it up with mortal girls, never ends well.
TIM: What? DAN: You can turn them not mortal.
JOSEF: It's too much commitment.
- So you're saying, never turn a girl ever? I'm saying forever's a long time.
- I know what you're saying.
JOSEF: All right, bets.
I'm in with three AB negatives.
I'm out.
- What do you got? - Two pair.
- Two pair, that's it? JOSEF: Yeah.
DAN: Flush beats that.
- Of fives.
I guess tonight's my night, boys.
TOM: I'm glad to see you're here, Mr.
St.
John.
- What happened, Tom? - We're still putting the pieces together.
- There aren't many pieces left.
- Josef? Forensics haven't found any remains yet, just ash.
Whoever did this brought an awful lot of firepower to take out just one man.
- How did they get in? - Had to be real pros.
I've been the head of security for Mr.
Kostan for five years.
There's no way anyone should have been able to get anywhere near this office.
MAUREEN: Great, you're still here.
That's why I love you.
I just had to finish up some copy.
I spent the afternoon in the hospital.
Yeah, Morgan.
How's she doing? She's in pretty bad shape.
Does anyone know how she hurt herself? No, she's still unconscious.
Cheer up.
I've got something to take your mind off Morgan.
Explosion in a downtown office building took out the top floor.
- Terrorists? - No.
Apparently the target was this bigshot hedge-fund trader.
Oh, my God, that's Josef Kostan.
He's a friend of Mick's.
Okay, I take it back.
This is why I love you.
- Was he there? - Afraid so.
No survivors.
Have a cameraman meet you down there.
I wanna know the who, what and why.
I can't cover this.
This guy's a friend of Mick's.
Great.
Use that to show some vulnerability.
Tracking says women 18 to 34 find you a little harsh.
[SNIFFS.]
It was poker night.
- I was supposed to be here.
- I'm so sorry.
Yeah, me too.
Who could've done this? They used fire.
They must have known he was a vampire.
Josef had enemies, but this - Who could hate him this much? - Yeah.
You brought your camera guy? That's why you're here, you're on a story? - Look, Maureen sent me.
- Beth, just go away.
They were gonna send someone here to cover this story.
- Wouldrt you rather it was me? - My friend just died.
I don't really wanna talk to you right now.
No, actually, you stay and get your story.
You do your job, I'll do mine.
MICK: Josef had cameras installed in every office.
Top-of-the-line.
Offices, hallways, elevators parking structure, basement, even the boiler room.
He even wanted infrared cameras installed.
I don't know why, but he insisted.
MICK: I know why.
Vampires don 't give off body heat.
Josef wanted to know exactly who his visitors were.
Here, this is him.
A heat signature.
Josef's killer is a human.
He must have come in with the maintenance crew.
When I saw him go into Mr.
Kostars office I headed up there, but it was too late.
Wait, stop.
Stop right there.
Can you zoom in on the incendiaries? Those look military-grade.
- I need a copy of this footage.
- Sure.
Anything I can do to help get this guy.
[PHONE RINGS.]
- Yeah.
WOMAN: Mr.
St.
John? - Yes.
- This is Dr.
Duffy.
You should come down to the hospital.
Miss Vincent's awake.
How's she doing? Is she okay? Her wound shows some signs of healing.
She's been in and out of consciousness.
- Can I talk to her? - Just a few minutes, she needs to rest.
Okay, thanks.
Hey, Coraline.
You look like someone just died.
Someone did.
It's Josef.
Oh, God.
I remember introducing you two.
You thought he was a pompous jerk and he thought you werert cut out to be a vampire.
We were both probably right.
- But you were best friends anyways.
- Yeah, we were.
And now he's gone.
But I'm back.
You have to tell me how.
How I survived the fire that you thought killed me? - How you became human.
- It always comes back to this.
You're so desperate to be mortal again to experience death for yourself.
Why? It's Beth, isn't it? You think you love her.
This is not about Beth, okay? I came back for you.
I became human for you.
- Doesrt that mean anything? - How, Coraline? For you.
You have to tell me how.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Look, I overreacted.
- Look, I'm really so I shouldn't have brought a camera into Josef's office.
I'm so sorry.
This is just really hard for me, all of it.
Coraline's in the hospital, Josef's dead.
I know he meant a lot to you.
I've outlived so many of my friends you think I'd be used to losing people by now.
Yeah, but losing Josef's different.
He survived 400 years.
Four hundred years.
He saw so much.
So much history.
He was history.
And now he's gone.
And that loss to me is so enormous that I'm not even sure if I know how to mourn him.
- I need a drink.
- Yeah, me too.
Are you gonna stand there all day or are you gonna help me find out who killed me? MICK: Recognize that guy? JOSEF: No, I've never seen him before.
- Is he a vampire? - Showed up as human on your infrareds.
- Does he know Josef's a vampire? - Well, they did use fire.
The other people he killed, your friends, were they vampires too? Mm-hm.
Well, remind me to donate a little something to charity in their name.
Oh, wait.
I can't.
I have no money.
I have no office, I have no anything.
Because some janitor decided to whack me, in a very public " hard to explain how I'm still alive" kind of way.
So everyone thinks I'm dead.
Yeah, and it has to stay that way.
This janitor is a professional assassin with access to military-grade weaponry.
Somebody hired him and you're only gonna be safe so long as he thinks he succeeded.
So find him and whack him, so I can carry on with business.
Where are you going? Well, your assassin may be ex-military.
I'm gonna see if your buddy Ryder England can get me into their files.
- He can't.
- He can't hack the military? Oh, he can.
He did.
That's why he's on a sabbatical in South America now.
I know somebody.
Sam, does some computer work at Buzzwire.
Okay, let's go.
You, stay.
You do not leave this apartment.
Is this the only time we get a clear look at his face? - Yeah.
MAN 1: Yeah, I'm looking at it right now.
- Is there a problem? - No, I just When Beth said she knew a hacker named Sam, l You thought I was a guy.
Overweight, living in my parents' basement wearing a T-shirt with Yoda on it? - Yeah.
- Mick's kind of old-school.
- Yeah.
MAN 2: Hey, man.
Yeah.
Okay, if this guy was special ops, he went through basic training.
He had his picture taken for his military ID.
I'm using facial-recognition software to cross-reference your image with the Pentagors ID database.
- How do you have access to that? - Don't ask, don't tell.
Ralf Martan.
Completed his training at Fort Bragg.
Ex-military, Green Beret, special ops.
He spent a year in Afghanistan and then went to Iraq.
Was discharged and then went back as part of Darkwatch Associates.
He's a mercenary.
SAM: Looks like he got into some trouble over there.
Went solo, disappeared from radar about six months ago.
Jeez, talk about born to kill.
You guys sure you wanna find this guy? [WOMEN LAUGHING & MUSIC PLAYING.]
JOSEF: Okay, we're gonna play a little game here.
The rules are I make the rules.
Okay, now you kiss her.
- There you go.
WOMAN 1: That's hot.
JOSEF: Oh, my God, is it.
Yeah.
Okay.
Hey, you're back.
Sorry.
Sorry, party's over.
[MUSIC STOPS.]
Excuse me.
- But they just got here.
- What did I tell you? Well, you told me not to go out, so I ordered in.
What, do you got a death wish? Get them out of here now.
I'm sorry, ladies.
Daddy's a little grumpy.
We're gonna have to pick this up later.
WOMAN 1: God.
WOMAN 2: I know.
WOMAN 1: Bye, Josef.
WOMAN 3: I love your place.
WOMAN 2: Love you.
Bye-bye.
I don't believe this.
What if they tell someone you're alive? You want this guy throwing a firebomb in here? Wreck my place, huh? Burn me up like he did Tim and Dan? What's the matter with you? You didn't even think about it, did you? Did you even think about it for one second? You don't care about yourself.
Can you at least care about not getting me killed? Listen, I wasrt, like Look, I get lonely, man.
You know that.
Yeah, I'm beginning to see why.
The hacker got the assassirs name.
- Ralf Martan, do you know him? - Martan, Martan.
No.
Apparently, he's some born killer.
Special ops, Darkwatch, Afghanistan.
You know, the last time I was there, the British were invading.
Hey, I need to go to my office.
- Are you kidding? - No, I have a fireproof safe.
I need to get some cash.
- You don't need cash.
- No, I gotta get it.
I can't drink your store-bought blood.
I need some fresh AB negative.
Your office is Your office is not a safe place.
This I'm going to bed.
And what am I supposed to do? Why don't you tidy up, man? - Are you sure these vitals are right? - I checked them myself.
So our patient has a raging infection, but instead of spiking a fever her temperature's dropped two degrees in the past six hours? - I don't know what to tell you.
- Try again.
This can't be right.
[CORALINE GROANS.]
It's okay, I'm just checking your vitals.
- I'm dying.
- Shh.
Calm down now.
It's so strange.
But I'm not supposed to There you go.
Nice and comfy.
TOM: Stop right there.
- Mr.
Kostan? - Hi, Tom.
I can't believe it.
I thought about calling first, but I didn't wanna make a big deal.
- You're alive, but how? - It's a long story.
You're the only one who knows I'm still alive.
We need to keep this between us.
Josef.
I called as soon as he showed.
Figured there might be something extra in it for me.
There is.
You've already died once this week.
Isn't that enough? [GRUNTING.]
Who are you working for? Answer me.
Who hired you? [GROWLING.]
Now, I don't like repeating myself.
Huh? - Whitley.
- Whitley? John Whitley.
He's a real-estate guy in New York.
You know that name? - Whitley? - I don't think so.
Don't lie to me, Josef.
He certainly seemed to know you.
[GROANING.]
MICK: Give me a hand lifting this guy, will you? Josef.
MAN: All right, watch your head.
What's your connection to all this, Mick? I'm investigating the death of Josef Kostan.
- This guy firebombed the building? - I'm pretty sure.
He looks like the guy I saw on the tapes.
- What'd he come back for? - I don't know.
The security guy's dead.
Maybe he was a loose end.
We'll look into it.
Good job.
Listen, be careful with this guy.
- He's dangerous.
- Hey, we do this for a living.
- Hey.
- Hey.
So I checked out that name you got.
I found a John Whitley in New York.
He's 93.
A wealthy real-estate developer.
At one point, he owned half the Upper East Side.
It must be our guy.
No family.
His wife died two years ago.
He had a daughter who disappeared in 1955.
You think Josef's after him? Josef's sense of justice is pretty much an eye for an eye.
- Where are you going? - New York.
I have to stop Josef before he does something stupid.
- I'm going with you.
- Why? To stop you from doing something stupid.
[MAN SCREAMS.]
[GRUNTING.]
WOMAN [OVER RADIO.]
: All units, be advised.
Adam-24 is not responding to radio transmission.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
Hey Josh.
Oh, God, I completely forgot.
It's movie night, isn't it? - We need to talk.
- Come in.
Are you? Are you going somewhere? Yes, to New York.
- You know, the Josef Kostan story.
- Thought that was wrapped up.
No.
- So are you going alone? - No.
You and Mick, I bet, huh? When were you gonna tell me? I was gonna call you from the air Airport.
Look - This isn't working.
- It's just a case.
- A case? - A story, whatever, work.
It's Look me in the eye right now and tell me you don't have feelings for him.
Look me in the eye and tell me that.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR.]
You ready? I can I'll come back.
- No.
JOSH: No, I was just leaving.
You two have fun in New York.
- Lf you need to stay - No, it's okay.
Let's go.
Shh.
How'd you get in here? I work for you, remember? What are you doing? Josef Kostan, tell me about him.
- Is he dead? - No, he's not.
He walked away from an explosion no one could possibly have survived.
His friend threw me across the room with one arm.
You're gonna tell how this is possible or I'll put an air bubble into your bloodstream.
And you're gonna stroke out without having gotten your revenge.
He's a vampire.
- That's not funny, old man.
- No, it's not.
Now tell me everything about them.
Tell me how to kill them.
Mr.
Kostan, we've been expecting you.
Yes, sir.
I will.
I'm sorry, Mr.
Whitley isn't receiving visitors.
- Please can you ask him again? - He was very clear.
- This is really important.
- I'm sure it is.
Is there anything else I can do for you? Yes, can you tell him it's regarding Josef Kostan? - No way.
- Hey, we asked nicely.
They said no.
After you.
Mr.
Whitley, there are people here.
I'm not sure how they got in.
Should I call the police? Mr.
Whitley, we think you might be in danger.
No, leave us.
You hired a hit man to kill Josef Kostan.
No.
- Sir, we have evidence - I hired him to kill Charles Fitzgerald.
Who? That was his name when he took my daughter from me.
When he murdered her.
Sarah was 21 when that picture was taken.
That was 1955.
In a few months, she was gone.
You think Josef is responsible for the death of your daughter? I know what he is.
He's a monster.
He took my daughter from me.
Well, you better tell me all about Josef so I can find him before he finds you.
There, in that drawer.
Bring me that diary.
This was my Sarah's.
My wife kept it from me until she died two years ago.
My daughter was a beautiful, innocent, trusting young woman.
Her only mistake was falling in love with Fitzgerald.
He exploited her love.
He seduced Sarah and then he killed her.
I couldn't protect her then but I can avenge her now.
So is that all in the diary? Read for yourself.
So you hired someone to kill him.
It took me two years to find Fitzgerald.
I can't die knowing that monster still walks this earth.
[WHITLEY COUGHING.]
You're gonna have to leave now.
Hey.
Thank you.
Listen to this.
"It doesn't matter to me what he is.
I love him.
I want to be with him, even though he tells me it's impossible.
I know our love can overcome any obstacle.
I want him to turn me into what he is.
He says it's dangerous, but I don't care.
I'm not afraid.
It's the only way we can be together forever.
I'm ready.
" That was the last entry.
So Josef never mentioned any of this? Never told you about Sarah? No.
I knew he lived here in New York before he moved to Los Angeles.
Vamps move around.
We can't stay in one spot too long.
You have.
You stayed in L.
A.
- I like the weather.
- Really? [PHONE RINGING.]
It's Sam.
Hey, what did you find out? Josef was picked up at the terminal by an H&G limo.
- I'll text you the drop-off address.
- Okay, thanks.
[BETH READS ON-SCREEN TEXT.]
[DOORBELL RINGS.]
- Can I help you? - Yes, we're looking for Josef Kostan.
- No one by that name is here.
- Are you sure? - A limo dropped him off at this address.
- I don't know what to tell you.
What about Charles Fitzgerald? Do you know him? It's okay, Paula.
You can let them in.
- Well, you can run but you can't hide.
- Not from me, Charles.
So we had a pretty interesting talk with John Whitley.
You wanna tell me what's going on? Mick, Beth this is Sarah.
Sarah Whitley.
JOSEF: You can take your dinner break.
I'll watch her.
What's wrong with her? She's been in a coma since 1955.
BETH: Oh, my God.
She hasn't aged.
Yeah, I met her at Grand Central Station.
We were both waiting for a train and she asked me for a light.
And the moment I looked into her eyes, I knew that she was something special.
I knew better than to get involved with a human.
I know it was a mistake, but I did it anyway.
Well, for months, I thought I was keeping my secret from her.
But then I discovered that she knew.
She knew, and she didn't care.
That was the happiest day of my life.
BETH: So you were in love with her.
- I wasrt looking for it, believe me.
The longer we were together, the more I began to think that the whole reason that I became a vampire was You know, so I could live long enough to meet her.
You know, it took me over 350 years to find her.
And only a year to lose her forever.
So, what happened to her? He tried to turn her.
Yeah.
She'd been begging me to do it for months.
I didn't want to but she wouldn't let it go.
Now, she knew that was the only way we could be together.
So I tried.
I drained her and I fed her my blood, but it didn't work.
She never came out of it.
She got lost somewhere in between.
MICK: Josef.
This, all this it's not your fault.
- I know, but it is.
I'm the one who did this to her.
You've been looking after her ever since.
I couldn't let her go.
You know, maybe someday medicine a miracle, something will bring her back.
Stay down, okay? Die, vampire.
Why won't you die? MICK: It doesn't always work like that.
[GRUNTING.]
[CRACKS.]
Thanks.
You're welcome.
What are you using back there, barbecue tongs? Will you hold still? I'm trying to get the second bullet.
You know, for a 400-year-old vampire, you sure have a low threshold for pain.
Well, giving is different than receiving.
MICK: Done.
- How's your stake wound? - Nothing a little blood wouldn't help.
MICK: All these years, Josef.
You ranting about how it could never work between us and humans.
Well, what happened to Sarah is proof that I'm right.
MICK: Josef Kostan in love? That's proof that anything is possible.
Love can show you a part of yourself you never knew existed.
Or a part that you thought you lost forever.
And then this happened.
I guess the universe had a different plan for me.
I guess who I am is who I'm supposed to be.
You gonna try and make your thing with Beth work? Well, I hope the universe is on your side.
- Are you okay? - I will be.
That bastard staked me.
- Are you coming back to L.
A.
With us? - I'm gonna stay here a few more days.
BETH: You should have this.
She really loved you.
Hey.
You all right? Yeah.
I just can't stop thinking about Sarah.
She was so in love with him.
MICK: Yeah, it's terrible.
Do you really think there's a cure? Coraline made herself human.
Is that a cure? I don't know.
I can't say.
Taxi.
Come on, let's go do something.
- Like what? - I don't know.
Something fun, something quintessentially New York.
We'll catch a set at the Village Vanguard.
We'll A couple of martinis.
A steak for the lady.
Just you and me on the town.
Come on.
I don't know, but our flight leaves in a couple hours.
So we'll take a later flight.
Look, I don't know.
I didn't leave things very well with Josh.
I do think I need to get home.
Yeah, of course.
- I'll drop you.
- No, it's okay.
I'll walk.
It's a good town for it.
Okay.
[MACHINES BEEPING.]
Mick.
[EKG FLATLINING.]
Code Blue.
Let's go.