Tom Swift (2022) s01e10 Episode Script

I'm Tom Swift, inventor, billionaire,
shoe collector extraordinaire.
But none of that was
good enough for my dad.
I thought if I built him
a spaceship to Saturn,
I could earn his love,
but his mission ended tragically.
Or so I thought.
Turns out it was sabotage.
My father survived the attack
and sent me a message capsule
with the data I need
to rescue him from space.
But it exploded when it entered
the atmosphere.
Now I have to find
the pieces of that capsule
and reassemble my dad's message.
A global conspiracy called The Road Back
is standing in my way,
so I can only trust my squad:
my best friend Zenzi,
my bodyguard Isaac,
my adopted brother Lino,
and my A.I. Barclay.
Together, we're going to find my father
and bring him home.
We gotta go. He'll be back any minute.
Yeah, I know how stealing
works, thank you.
I just didn't think
that breaking and entering
would be required
to find this capsule piece.
I thought we were just going to Tribeca.
I know, I looked.
Susannah moved it.
It's, uh, it's the only piece
that we could lock onto.
Now we have to liberate it
from this hoarder's paradise.
Yeah, well, Tom's gonna
be pissed we did this.
The way he talked about his dad
I believe him, but that wasn't
the Barton that I knew.
Yeah. Me neither.
And Tom's as fine as anyone would be
if they found out
that their dad tried to
lobotomize the fabulous
out of them at 13.
I'm sure he's processing his emotions
through some man's pants right now.
Healing takes many paths.
Yeah, I'd rather have him mad at us
than to miss the window
to send the rescue drone
to help Uncle Barton. It's only
- Eight hours to apogee.
- Yeah.
I think
Ah. I found it.
Damn it, it's stuck on
this Jet Beauty of the Week.
Is that Keyshia Cole?
Eskol is fine, by the way.
At a safe house.
The less you know the better, though.
Thanks.
Just can't believe I fell for another
tainted, shiny object.
It's like Marcus: murder edition.
You deserve a man
who's as shiny on the inside
as he is on the outside.
A partner.
Let's get out of here.
I think Keyshia gave me a paper cut.
I'm Tom Swift.
I'm a bad bitch.
I'm Tom Swift. I'm a bad bitch,
and I am not in my feelings.
Be a man.
Tom Swift.
A man doesn't prance around
half-naked and wear pants
that are vacuum-sealed to his ass.
Maybe if you didn't borrow
Barack's leftover suits, you
Mmm. Okay, okay.
I'm Tom Swift.
I'm a bad bitch,
and I'm not in my feelings.
I'm Tom Swift. I'm a bad bitch.
And I'm not in my feelings.
I'm Tom Swift, baby.
I'm a bad bitch.
And I'm not in my feelings.
How about a nice, soothing car model?
Big rims always make you smile.
Must you always choose pink?
Yo, it's a car.
What is straighter than a
You know what?
Ah.
Baby, I'm Tom Swift.
I'm a bad bitch, and I am
You're what?
Good morning, Mrs. Swift.
Going into "stay out"
"of grown folks' business" mode.
I am Tom Swift, and
I'm not gonna skip leg day.
Okay, where are we with
the drone to rescue your father?
Has there been any progress?
You told me we need
to be ready by apogee.
That's in less than six hours.
Tom.
Talk to me.
No.
Um, I'm sorry to interrupt.
I got the second to last
capsule piece, Aunt Lorraine.
There's just one piece more.
We'll be ready.
So Isaac and I got
the capsule piece we could get,
but The Road Back has the last one.
We need your help.
The Swift Black Engineering
Futures conference
is one of our biggest
events of the year,
so we'll make an appearance,
and then we'll get
the last piece from Susannah
and launch the rescue drone.
You want to pick a car
and a shoe, maybe?
That sounds like a Barton problem.
Maybe he has some gummies for that,
or an everlasting gaystopper.
Please make sure all the
engineers have been checked in
- and have been fitted for Swiftsight.
- Yes.
Okay, this is gonna be fantastic.
Yes. Yes.
Oh, no, no, no, I've got this.
It's important that a CEO
get her hands dirty.
Or my hands dirty in this case.
So, Tom is going to use these
to solve the Riemann Hypothesis?
That prime number theorem
has remained unsolved
for 160 years.
The upgraded Swiftsights
don't just transfer
information between brains.
They also allow us to merge our minds.
Look, these will surpass the
boundaries of spoken language
and human capacity to attack a problem.
And that is why we're debuting it here.
Hmm. I am so proud.
Mutual math isn't exactly
my idea of a good time.
It's more like a massive
multi-player game.
Or as Tom described it,
a circuit party for fractions.
It's revolutionary. And genius.
Okay, I'm gonna go.
Okay.
Good help is so hard to find.
So, tell me about the dinner party
Tom had at the Manor.
You mentioned Susannah Robb attended.
As CEO, it's imperative
that I be kept abreast of
any meeting with an investor.
Did I mention that?
You know, Tom must have
forgotten to text you.
I guess I've just been fuzzy lately.
You need to get some good rest.
Maybe a stronger formulation
of lip gel is in order.
You exercised, shopped,
and unfollowed your dad on Instagram,
and your mood remains at a four.
Should I sing "Hot in Herre"
in the British accent again?
City Girls?
Barclay!
What would make you feel better, Tom?
How about a nice self-esteem
boosting back-breaking session?
I need to call Justin.
Excellent. I'll ready the lubes.
Nah, I need to apologize.
Thomas?
I'm sorry.
You helped me, and
I shouldn't have gone off on you.
You're apologizing?
Are you in danger,
and this is your clue?
No. I just want to do it different.
Like, I don't want to use people
and make them feel like
they're not good enough.
I know I treated you like that,
and I'm sorry.
Thank you.
But honestly,
this isn't really necessary.
I figured you were sorry
when you texted me
to give Susannah the Swiftsight.
I-I texted what?
Uh, Barclay, pull up the texts
between Justin and I
from the past 24 hours. Share screen.
I'm right on top of that.
Blurring all orifices.
It's gone. I
I swear it was there, Tom.
It came from you.
No, it it didn't.
It came from her.
No.
Susannah must have faked
the push notifications
to make it look like a text from me.
Yeah, but all the Swiftsights
are at the conference.
What does she want?
I do hope your answer is yes.
Otherwise there will be consequences.
I think it's how
they send their message:
don't fly too close to the sun.
She wants me to have consequences.
I have to go to the conference.
Justin, thank you.
Be careful.
Time to be a bad bitch.
Ladies and gentlemen,
introducing the Swift
Enterprises infrasonic cannon.
All right, everyone,
so as you can see here
we have a pretty low setting.
You all look so nervous right now.
What is about to happen? Right?
All right, so here we go.
Ready? Here we go.
Ehh, completely harmless.
Completely harmless. He's fine.
- You're good? How do you feel?
- Great.
Yeah? Very good, very good. Yeah.
All right, who's next?
Sir, how about you?
Come on up.
Have you ever left a
dinner feeling completely unsatisfied?
Well, the Swift Flavor Saver
enhances seasoning profiles,
so you'll never have to leave
Brett's house
feeling bland again.
Tom. Oh, my God.
I was so sad about your dad.
He was such a good dad.
- Oh, well. Thank you.
- You're lucky.
Can we get a picture?
Sure.
Okay. Oh, my God, thank you so much.
Thank you so much. Oh, my God.
Relax.
I'm not gonna set anything on fire.
Angela Bassett already did that
better than me.
Susannah stole a Swiftsight
from the house last night.
She faked a push notification
to Justin's phone,
and I think her "Operation
Moseley" may be in action.
Damn it, Justin.
Don't you remember Vegas?
You told me you can
- never trust a twink.
- Never trust a twink.
Look, Susannah gave me a choice:
join her, or face consequences.
I think she's found some way
to hurt the people here.
Maybe with Swiftsight,
maybe with something else.
But I'm her Black Icarus,
and today she wants to melt my lace.
There-there have to be moles
in the group.
Get security.
Round everyone up for questioning.
You'd like us to accuse
200 Black engineers of sabotage
and then offer them a box lunch?
Okay, uh, maybe we can find
a more subtle way to deal with this?
Look.
We can figure it out. We can stall.
Keep your comms on.
As long as nobody
puts on Swiftsight, we're good.
Hey.
You want to help me try it out?
No.
Come on, I just
I just want to see my mom.
We went to the Bronx Zoo
before Christmas in 2010.
Okay.
But be quick.
Don't rush my memory.
Don't let anyone use these.
Hi. I'm sorry. Thank you.
No one's tried theirs. You?
I grabbed all the ones in the east wing.
- Isaac?
- All good here, too.
All right, the rest of
them are locked up in the office.
I think we're gonna be okay.
- Can we get a photo?
- Yeah, come on.
Of course you can get a pic. Yeah.
Thank you.
No! Don't burn me!
- No!
- What's going on? Lino.
I don't know what's happening.
Don't burn me!
Lino! Oh, my God.
Hey. Hey, hey.
Lino. Okay. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
I saw my mom.
She kept shouting that I was the light
and I needed to be purified.
I just wanted to see a good memory,
but it kept showing me
the same messed-up thing
over and over and over!
It showed him his worst memories
on a loop?
How could she do that?
This is why Susannah wanted
the Swiftsight.
The brain stores trauma. It can be found
even if we don't know where it is.
Clearly it simulated a TBI,
and it made him perseverate.
I saw that in Afghanistan.
He got that image in his head
and couldn't get it out.
Susannah must have wanted
to give us all PTSD.
Barclay, run an EMDR sequence.
Engaging Eye Movement
and Desensitization
Reprocessing protocol.
Watch this carefully
and tell me what you see.
My mom, Violet,
she brought me next to the fire, uh,
held me down when I tried to get away
and tried to put my hand in the fire.
EMDR sequences help people
desensitize traumatic memories.
I ran an accelerated version on Lino.
The memories are still troubling,
but perseveration has stopped. Okay?
Found it.
Susannah thought she was slick
by hiding it in the liquid memory.
But it's just basic.
Basic like her bangs,
and basic like that fancy moped.
Barclay, send this across the air
to every Swiftsight in existence.
And your dad's capsule piece?
Tommy!
I see Lino unwrapped his gift early.
How's his head?
You think you're smarter
than me. That's cute.
Intelligence really isn't
about capacity, is it?
It's about execution.
Now you see what will
become of the world
if you do not join me.
Join us, 'cause it will take
brilliance like ours
to stop the world's
reckless quest for discovery.
Susannah, I've already heard
your desperate,
desperate sales pitch, and I'm gonna use
a technical term for you.
Hell no.
I found your little elementary,
uninspired excuse
for a hack of Swiftsight. Girl!
You will never hurt us again.
Shucks.
Guess you got me, Tom.
I thought all the Swiftsights were off.
They were. Something else
is affecting people.
It's not just Swiftsight.
Susannah's got to something else here.
It could be a chemical agent.
Something airborne.
Maybe it's in the T-shirts.
Look, I'll tend to the people
on the floor, y'all find the exits.
Those infrasonic cannons
they demonstrated,
they gave us all Havana Syndrome,
like those people at
the embassies in Cuba.
- Okay.
- My heart is racing. I can't breathe.
But the cannons we used
on the Chocolate Cowboys
didn't make me sick.
Wait, Tom. What if someone
poisoned the food?
Okay. Barclay, cross-reference
poison symptoms.
Arrhythmia, nausea, vomiting.
Grab one of those cones.
Look for anything that's not popcorn.
Poisons causing
arrhythmia, vomiting and nausea
are almost too many to mention.
Tom, what is this?
Cherry pits. The flavor savers.
She must have had them swapped.
Cyanide.
Cherry pits can be
ground up to make cyanide.
We need to find an antidote.
Standard antidote would be
activated charcoal and chelation.
Do we have that?
No, but, um, we do have cobalt.
Dicobalt reverses cyanide.
Go get Mom's blue earrings
and take the battery from
the phone that Dad gave her,
with the extended battery life. Go!
We're making progress, okay?
You're gonna be okay.
Isaac, Zenzi, how we looking?
Not great.
Okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay, okay.
I can't get ahold of 911.
Barclay doesn't pick locks, does he?
Stand back. Stand back.
Mom!
Tom said to give me your cobalt earrings
and the phone battery Dad gave you.
If he won't listen to Susannah,
maybe he'll listen to his mother.
Hey! Let her go!
Get off!
Stay where you are.
Oh, my God, Claire.
That gel you used on him
it's the same thing
you've been giving me.
- Isn't it?
- Lorraine
All they did was touch the door.
Hello?
So did we.
Break that battery for me.
We can use the pure cobalt
in Mom's earrings
to counteract the cyanide
then mix the acid from the battery
with the acid from the soda
to create a chelating agent
that will remove the toxins
from the body.
It's highly concentrated.
A few drops of this should cleanse
the poison right out of their systems.
Tom, we need you.
Oh, okay, okay, um
Look, two parts cobalt, one part cola.
Dilute it with water,
and give it to everyone
who had the popcorn.
- Okay?
- I got you.
Okay.
Hey, hey, hey.
The appetizers,
they had cyanide in them.
Did you guys have anything to eat?
There wasn't exactly time for snacks.
Tom, the door.
Um, um
Um, Barclay, enter scan mode.
Barclay, what is this?
I-I don't know.
Unable to identify the concentrate.
Ah!
Susannah is attacking
every person at this conference.
How do I save them all?
Hey! Hey, everybody, listen to me.
Let me get everybody's attention.
Today, we were attacked
by an organization
- who is trying to destroy
- No, this is your fault!
You wanted to try your new tech out
on us, and you didn't care if it hurt.
Swift Enterprises
I would never use something dangerous
to hurt my own people.
My family's here.
They were attacked as well.
All right? Look,
why would I hurt us? Us!?
I am one of you.
Okay? Look,
the real way our adversaries kill us
is to make us turn against each other
and-and destroy the seeds of trust
that have always been our foundation.
The only way we can survive
- is to rely on each other.
- Yeah!
Together, we can invent the power
that freedom requires.
Look, I know I can't solve this alone.
All right? But if we use
our Swiftsights,
we can take our collective power,
and we can help save our friends
and our family. Come on, y'all.
Let's go! Let's go!
Join me if you specialize
in organic chem.
We'll break down the compound.
Civil engineers,
let's get these doors open.
Biomedical, squad up.
Tom, we got it.
The compound on the doors is VX gas.
- We need atropine.
- Okay.
Who has stomach meds?
Intestinal medication has atropine.
That and nanocream should get
the toxins out of the system.
Yes. Lay it down, lay it down.
Isaac, here. Take this.
I got you. I got you.
All right. All right?
Good.
Hey, help him up.
Zenzi. Mm.
Got you.
I'm never opening the door
for a man again.
Zenzi. Zenzi.
She's quipping. She's
fine. You're fine? Okay.
Civil engineers, how do we get out?
There's a covalent bond serum
holding the doors closed.
We'll need extreme heat
in order to destabilize it.
How about a throwback?
Barclay, on my mark,
vibrate at 50 terahertz.
Three, two, one!
I'm so proud of you.
Mm.
I'm so proud of you.
But listen, we have an issue.
I think Claire has been
Claire's been what?
She's a problem.
But we'll deal with her tomorrow.
We have two hours before apogee.
Can you still launch the drone?
Why should I save a man
who tried to destroy me?
He never told you about
his little gummy bears?
I prayed you'd never find out.
How could you ask me
to do anything for that man
when you know what he tried to do to me?
Because
Because he realized he was wrong.
And when I found out, I told him
if he ever tried anything like
that on my baby again,
he would never see you,
me or Lino again.
Look, trying to change you,
it was the biggest regret of his life.
Oh, then why didn't he stop?
That man was trying to change me
until the day he got on that damn ship.
Look, the man had his limitations.
And his time on Earth,
it was, it was cut short
before he was able
to evolve his thinking.
But he was evolving.
Do you think he would have
left you all of this
if he didn't love you
believe in you?
There is a world of people
telling me how my father felt about me,
but ignoring how he actually treated me.
Parental love should not be conditional.
No, no, no, no, no.
I shouldn't have to prove
that I'm worthy,
or-or forgive his shortcomings.
It's not enough.
He doesn't deserve it.
Then be like your mother
and show some mercy.
Grace is being given
things you don't deserve,
and mercy is being spared
the things you do.
You're not perfect either, Tom.
You may need grace someday, too.
I love you both unconditionally.
And I am begging for mercy and grace
for Barton.
He is my husband, he is your father,
and he is only human.
So please save him before it's too late.
I triangulated the origin point
of Susannah's video call.
She should be headed this way.
Are you sure she's in a
200-yard radius? I don't see her.
Try locking onto the capsule piece.
She's approaching
the T-intersection now.
Wait for it.
Boom! Kobe!
And she's got the capsule piece
in her backpack.
Girl, you lost!
Give me the capsule piece.
Why take me on a high-speed chase
through Hudson Valley?
She's leading me somewhere.
Barclay, run possible endpoints.
There are several warehouses,
a shipping station,
Brandon's house, ew. And uh-oh.
Approaching Swift Enterprises
server farm.
She can't hack that. Baby, we got
the best security in the world.
Last chance. Join us.
Or I'll use everything in my power
to destroy your company and anyone else
who attempts unmitigated progress.
Joining you wouldn't help me.
Money doesn't matter, Tom.
The Road Back's offering you power.
Power. We are everywhere.
In every city, every country,
every part of government.
Join us, and you and I will
control the world's fate.
You just said that in front
of my five million followers.
Say hey, Susie.
Oh, and good luck on the whole
global conspiracy thing
you spoke of, because after
- Ooh, she mad.
- You son of a bitch.
You think you don't have
to face consequences?
Why are we here, Tom?
What is this building?
You think I don't know? It's Barclay.
You know, you think you're really smart,
but you're just a rich kid
with a talking laptop.
Shame about those backups, though.
Deleting Barclay's backups,
it freed up significant
additional memory.
Barclay, when was your last backup?
All backup files
were deleted before dinner last
That's it? Girl, that explosion was
as flat as your bangs.
See you soon, Tom.
Barclay!
Barclay, status update.
Tom, piece damaged.
Circuitry destroyed.
Ah!
Okay, okay, okay.
Data failing.
You'll need to transfer ten terabytes
of the capsule data to your watch cloud
or your dad's coordinates will be lost.
- Begin transfer now?
- Pause. Uh
I-If I do that,
it'll delete your temp file
from the watch cloud, Barclay.
Okay.
There's not enough room
for the both of you.
You're going to have
to choose one of us.
Tom, the corrupted
data has been restored.
and Tom, one more thing.
Forgive me.
I thought I had to force you
to be my vision of a man.
But as I stand here
in this ship you built me,
begging you to rescue me
I was a damn fool.
You
exactly as you are,
are the only person who can save me.
You need to
capture the capsule data now,
before the circuitry melts.
He doesn't deserve it.
He doesn't deserve it.
He doesn't deserve it,
he doesn't deserve it, he doesn't
Mom was right.
I'm sorry, Barclay.
Transfer capsule data. Delete temp file.
Replacing myself with the data upload.
It's okay, Tom.
You're gonna be ok
Won't start without Barclay.
I'll come back for you later, Dani.
You know my dad stored his Cobra here
and never let me drive it?
We can work on those daddy issues
at literally any other time.
This jet pack will bring
his escape pod home.
Ready when you are, Tom.
Ah, Dunk Supremes.
'Cause if you're gonna show mercy,
you might as well look good doing it.
Damn, I'm talking to myself,
not Barclay.
Ah, this is gonna take
some getting used to.
- What about Susannah?
- She's exposed.
Won't be hearing from her
for a long time
if ever.
Come on, come on, come on.
Ah!
All right, speeding to you now.
Glad you could join us.
He's at a moon of Saturn. Dione.
Isaac, plug in
the following coordinates.
Shouldn't Barclay do that?
Barclay is
no longer with us.
Initiating launch sequence.
Barclay's gone?
His backups were deleted.
I might have some backups on my cloud.
From side-ho mode?
He wouldn't be all there, but
it's possible.
Yeah.
Hey. Hey, I think it's your dad.
- Tom
- He's still alive!
Now that his drone is in space,
we can use
his communication servers;
I can talk to him.
I'm going back to the observatory.
We have dedicated satellite comms.
Yeah, go. Go, go, go, go, go.
Another light day at Swift Enterprises.
- You did amazing today.
- Just today?
- Oh, my God.
- What?
"A car belonging to
Congressman Nathan Eskol"
"was found in the Hudson River."
"Bloodstains everywhere."
"No body has been found."
You were drugging me
into betraying my family.
You were blinded by grief.
In a way, I was protecting you.
I kept this company afloat
while you spiraled.
I deserve some respect for that.
You deserve nothing.
You're fired, Claire.
Uh
I don't think you'll be firing me.
You really like to talk
when you've got that gel on.
So many secrets.
Each of those cards contains
a recorded confession from you.
What you did to win
that second custody battle
with Violet over Lino?
You wouldn't.
I would tell the world.
And I will, if you make me.
Now, let's talk about
your succession plan.
Dad?
I-I found the capsule
and I reassembled it.
I-I sent a rescue drone,
and it should be there soon.
Thank you.
Thank you, son.
I'm so sorry that I ever doubted you.
The way I treated you, I
You have changed.
I forgive you.
I am so proud of
The connection is gone.
You won't be able to contact him again.
I severed the link.
You did what? Why?!
Because your father told me to.
That's why I planted a jamming device.
You did what?
I know this is hard to hear,
but you have to believe me, Tom.
After Barton gets in the rescue drone,
he's going to encounter a wormhole.
Oh, a worm Okay, we can
bring him back to Earth
- and we can warn him
- You're wrong. You're wrong.
His ship is already failing.
He'll later realize that
if he hadn't gone
through that wormhole,
he would certainly have died.
The wormhole will bring
him back to Earth, Tom,
but not until the year 2096.
I had to sever the link,
otherwise you'd have stopped him
from going through it,
and he would be gone forever.
You just saved your father's life.
Congratulations.
You said
he told you to do it.
How do you know my dad?
I met him when he crash-landed on Earth
in 2096.
I'm from the future, Tom.
He sent me back to save him,
and to save you.