Jeremiah (2002) s01e20 Episode Script
Things Left Unsaid (2)
(Jeremiah) Previously, on Jeremiah Hey, Lee.
Hey! There's a page missing out of Simon's journal, Marcus.
He got his hands on it first, before anybody else.
"En route to meeting" "with the brothers of the apocalypse," "outside Clarefield.
" "They're afraid.
" "Maybe Big D-2.
" It's the return of the Big Death.
My position's been compromised.
You have to bring me in.
(Clarence) No virus is 100 percent fatal to 100 percent of the population.
There will always be some with an immunity.
(Clarence) The first time the Great Death came, it took root in the hormones of adults, but now, somehow, it has mutated.
It may be capable of destroying all life as we know it.
Go to Millhaven.
Go to the tavern.
Ask for Wylie.
Will he be able to tell me where Valhalla Sector is? (Clarence) Yes, without question.
Kurdy! Elizabeth? No! (Kurdy) She's hurt because of you and your goddamn quest.
Stay the fuck away from her, and you stay the fuck away from me.
I'm done, man.
I'm done with this, and I'm done with you.
You are on your own! - Give me a "P.
" - (Phil) P.
- Give me a "H.
" - H.
- Give me a "I.
" - I.
- Give me a "L.
" - L.
- What's that spell? - Phil.
What's that spell? Phil! What's that spell? Phil! Whoo! [laughing.]
And what does Phil want to do now? I don't know.
Oh, I could wear the little kitty-cat ears again.
You like the kitty-cat ears, don't you? Well, I don't know if I can handle the kitty-cat ears thing again.
Well, then we'll do whatever you want to, because Theo said you were a very good boy this week, and I should do whatever I can to make you happy.
[laughing.]
Yeah? You know what I invented for Theo? Well, I didn't really invent it.
I just sort of reinvented it, because nobody else knew how to work it.
A barometer.
Uh-huh? See, the barometer was invented by Ben Franklin, and it--it can tell you whether it's dry outside, or if it's humid, or if it's raining-- Uh, but can't you just look outside to see if it's raining? You know what? Why don't you do the cheer thing again? OK.
[chuckling.]
Give me a "p.
" [door bursts open.]
(Kurdy) Help her.
Help her.
She's dyin'.
(Jeremiah) Dear dad, it's been 15 years since the Big Death wiped out everyone over the age of innocence.
The end of your world, the beginning of mine.
Look, I can't help her.
I'm not a doctor.
Look, you're one of Theo's brain boys.
You know stuff.
Well, yeah, but-- Look, you do what you can, or I will rip your fucking lungs out.
[choking.]
OK, OK.
[Phil coughing.]
Well, come on, I'll need some help.
Elizabeth, you are not gonna die.
Do you hear me? I swear to you, you are not gonna die.
[gasping.]
[sighing.]
Ezekiel I know you're out there, and I know you're supposed to protect me.
Now, since I got a long walk tomorrow, I'm gonna take a chance, try to get some sleep, [grunting.]
So if you see anybody Approaching, you know, just let me know somehow.
Throw something, make a noise.
Fart.
[sighing.]
[coughing.]
[crickets chirping.]
It's like talking to my own armpit.
[grunts.]
(Ezekiel) Where are you going, Jeremiah? I've been wondering that myself, for a long time.
If you figure it out before I do, let me know.
Where are you going now? And what did you find out from the brothers of the apocalypse? Nothing I feel like telling you right now.
I surprised you back there.
You didn't expect to see me.
No.
So what were you doing there? Did somebody send you? Do the brothers know where you come from? No, and no.
I found them on my own.
They knew nothing of my past.
They cared without me having to tell them why they should care, and without asking the questions that should never be asked.
They provided a place for me to pray and to seek forgiveness.
For what? For what was, what is, and what is yet to be.
You know, if you're always gonna talk like a goddamn fortune cookie, there's not much I can do for you.
So good night.
There is nothing you can do to help me, and nothing you can do to help your friends.
All I can do is try to keep you alive, with or without your help.
Hey, yo, Marcus.
You made it.
I said we'd be here.
We're here.
You know how it is.
A lot of folks out here are all talk and no action.
Me, I'm all action and no talk.
You don't say.
- Yeah.
- Was that a joke? Nathan, I want to introduce you to Erin.
She's my 2nd, up at the Mountain.
It's a pleasure.
Come on inside.
It's cold out here.
[dog barking in distance.]
What's a fine-looking woman like yourself doing working for a stiff like this? You gotta come over to my side, er'.
Let me show you the St.
Louis we're rebuildin'.
We got supply lines.
Folks are movin' back into neighborhoods.
We're movin' up and movin' in.
And I definitely could find a position for somebody like you.
I'll bet.
So have you found a place for the meeting? Yeah.
It took some doing, 'cause we had to make room for all the big guns from all over the country, but I found us the perfect place.
Great.
So where's Lee? We got to go over the security arrangements.
Got a lot of nervous people here.
Lee couldn't make it.
Uh-huh.
I heard there was some trouble.
No, no trouble.
Just have to adjust a few of the security details, make all those nervous people happy.
Well, that's great, see, 'cause right now, I'm one of them.
[dog barking in distance.]
(Jeremiah) You get any sleep? I don't sleep.
Ever? Ever.
Insomnia? Memories.
Same thing.
Since we're walking, I figure I can ask you a couple of questions, all right? I can tell you nothing.
Our father was very upset with me when he found out I talked to you before.
He said I should tell you nothing more, for your own good.
But you just did.
No, I didn't.
Yes, you did, by telling me that you're not supposed to tell me anything, well, that tells me something.
I know something now that I didn't 2 minutes ago.
You see how that works? Where are we going? That way.
What's that way? The truth.
Then that's the last place you should be going.
We'll see.
[gasping.]
How is she? I--I tried.
I did everything I could.
I gave her something for the pain-- No, no, no, no, no! Look, you get back in there.
You do something.
Look, you can beat the shit out of me all you want, but--but I'm telling you the truth.
There's nothing else I can do.
I'm sorry.
OK? I'm-I'm sorry.
Hey.
Hey.
I, uh I talked to Phil, and he said Well, he said you're gonna be OK.
One of the things I've always loved about you, Kurdy, is you've never lied to me.
Don't start now.
Elizabeth, I'm so sorry.
It wasn't your fault.
You carried so much weight in your life, Kurdy.
Don't carry this, too.
This--this is Jeremiah's fault.
I mean, i-if we weren't there, those guys never would have shown up.
No, Kurdy, you're wrong.
The men that attacked us were following me, the convoy, the cars headed for St.
Louis.
You have to warn Marcus.
[stuttering.]
They're meeting tonight, and it--it's a 2-day drive.
I would never make it back to the Mountain in time.
There's a radio.
It's buried next to the Clarefield road sign, 2 miles north of here.
You have to warn them, Kurdy.
They're walking into a trap.
OK.
OK, I'll do it.
You rest, OK? And I'll be right back.
Don't blame Jeremiah for this.
It wasn't his fault.
I've always had this feeling, that as long as the two of you were together, you'd be safe, but apart Don't let what happened to me tear you apart, OK? I need to know you'll be safe.
Please, Kurdy.
Promise me you'll find him.
Elizabeth-- Kurdy, promise me.
OK, I promise.
I love you, Kurdy.
Elizabeth I have loved you since the first time you spoke to me, and it didn't matter if you knew.
It--it didn't even matter if--if you loved me back, 'cause for that one moment, I had The kind of love you only get once in a lifetime.
I mean, people spend their entire lives looking f-- Elizabeth? [sniffling.]
[sobbing.]
[continues sobbing.]
[birds twittering.]
(Ezekiel) We should not be walking this way.
(Jeremiah) It's the only way I know how.
Left foot, right foot, left, right.
You come up with something better, you let me know.
There are only 2 towns in this direction, on this side of the mountains, Boundary and Millhaven.
Hmm, nice names.
You should not go to Millhaven.
You're just full of suggestions today, aren't you, Ezekiel? I mean it.
Why not? Because it is not a place you should go.
Didn't we just cover that part? There is a river that flows through hell, Jeremiah, and the name of that river is Millhaven.
Step into it, and the river will wash you away into the darkness.
I will not allow you to go there.
[horse whinnies.]
Well, you may not have much choice.
[carriage approaching.]
(Jeremiah) Hey.
How you doing? (driver) OK.
Which way you headed? Up the road.
Do you mind if I hitch a ride? I've been walking a long time.
Yeah? How long? About 15 years.
Get in.
[horse nickering.]
Do not go to Millhaven, Jeremiah.
Do you hear me? Stay away from Millhaven! Friend of yours? Just one more guy on the road.
(Kurdy) You know, the whole time I knew you, I always felt like I could say anything to you.
The only thing I couldn't get right was "goodbye.
" [sighing.]
You know, I'd say goodbye, and there'd always be, like, one more thing.
I mean, you-- you'd always listen, even though there was one more thing, one more thing after that.
I don't know how to say goodbye, Elizabeth.
[bird cawing.]
You know, I keep thinking that there should be one more thing, and then I remember [birds chirping.]
I love you.
And I'm sorry.
And I will keep my promise.
I swear it.
Goodbye.
(Nathan) We've got guards positioned in every road leading up here.
Nobody gets in without us knowing about it.
(Marcus) Wow.
It's certainly big enough for our needs.
I worry about it being this open.
Well, it's the best compromise we could come up with.
Everybody's open to getting together, but nobody wants to be stuck in a box where they can be locked in, you know? At least this ways, if there's trouble, people can get out fast.
[indistinct chattering.]
What about weapons? That's gonna be a problem.
We told everybody to leave the artillery at home, no guns allowed, but we got people from rival groups here.
Got a lot more people who still think that this may be some kind of a setup.
Now, we could search out everybody as best we can, but I don't think that's the way to stop anyone from bringing shit in here if they really want to.
All right, we should get ready.
Our guests are gonna arrive any time now.
Right.
Follow me.
[car approaching.]
[plastic rustling.]
[people chattering.]
[pool balls clacking.]
[glasses clinking.]
[drink pouring.]
Hey.
Hi.
What can I get you? I'm looking for a guy.
Oh, well, you're in the wrong bar.
You want to be across the street.
[both laugh.]
His name's Wylie.
[laughs.]
[all chuckling.]
Is that another joke that I'm not getting? Wylie's not his name.
I mean, that's what we call him.
It's not his name.
Wylie, like Wile e.
Coyote.
You remember the cartoon? He was always chasing after something he was never gonna catch, until he finally goes nuts.
That's pretty much our Wylie.
So, does that make you the roadrunner? Yeah, maybe it does.
So where can I find this Wylie? He's right over there.
Meep-meep.
Thanks.
[laughing.]
Choo-choo.
Choo-choo.
[inhaling.]
[Wylie cheeping.]
Hey.
How you doing? [Wylie cheeping.]
I'm Jeremiah.
Brother Clarence sent me.
He gave me this to prove that he sent me.
He said you might have some answers for me.
Are you from the Mountain? Yes.
At last.
What the hell took you people so long? It's a long story.
Listen to me.
I have all the answers you'll ever need to hear, and some you won't wanna hear.
We can't talk here.
Come on.
I'll tell you everything you wanna know, all of it.
All of it.
[birds chirping.]
[crow cawing.]
I let 'em think I'm crazy, because that way nobody bothers me.
Nobody pays attention.
[door creaking.]
You see things that way, hear things, talk to people.
Quite a place you got here.
And--and good job acting nuts, too.
Don't touch that one.
That's Shirley.
She's special.
Well, it's obvious that you're totally, completely sane.
I am.
I just don't like people touching her.
Is that wrong? No.
No, no, you-you're good.
It's fine.
You want to know about Valhalla Sector? - You want to know about the virus? - Yes.
Then sit down.
Here.
See, a lot of people come through here from Valhalla Sector.
- This is one of their main transfer points.
- Yeah.
Everybody looks the other way, because they don't want trouble, but I see them.
I try to talk to them, 'cause some of them don't like what they do, and, well, they gotta talk to somebody or go insane.
They give me, like, papers, news clippings, reports.
I've got it all here, man.
I've got it all right here.
See.
See, before the big "D," there were places like Thunder Mountain, where you come from, that place in Greenbriar, Virginia, bomb shelters for the government in case of nuclear attack, fallout shelters for schools, city hall, duck and cover, everything will be just fine, the radiation will just Wash off in the rain, huh? but it was all bullshit, you know, except for the big ones, the ones the government was building.
Cold War ended, bug war started.
Anthrax in the mailbox, viruses in crop dusters, pretty soon they realized that these fallout shelters weren't worth shit.
What they needed was something that was not only radiation safe, but safe from biological and chemical warfare, safe for the shadow government, so they built 3 of them.
Valhalla was the biggest of the bunch, the one they reserved for all the big shots, and that's where they went when the Big Death hit, starting in New Delhi.
(Mary) Devon! Devon, come in.
There's a phone call.
It's the lab.
They say there've been 10 more deaths in New Delhi, and 3 this morning in Paris.
New Delhi.
Why New Delhi? I--I--I could never figure that out.
Why New Delhi? Why new fucking Delhi? That's where the fucking experiments were going on.
See, they were doing this bad-ass shit outside the U.
S.
, because they weren't supposed to be doing shit like this at all.
Like we we're not supposed to have smallpox anymore, or Anthrax, but they had been making that shit and storing it up for years.
How it started doesn't matter.
The only thing, the only thing that matters is that something went wrong.
The virus got loose.
People started dying, dying fast, dying bad.
Nobody knew what the fuck was happening, and the ones who did know, the ones who had funded the fucking thing, were busy trying to cover their own asses because they didn't want to admit that they'd been working on this shit in secret, so they covered it up, covered their asses, covered up a lie while this thing was eating its way through people like a hot knife through butter, and by the time they got their shit together, it was just too late.
It was too fucking late.
[people shouting.]
(Wylie) And now it's panic, and riots, and blood in the streets, blood and fire, and everywhere you look, it's terror and people dying.
And people killing themselves rather than face the virus, including, including the guy who created the virus, one of only 2 guys who really understood how it worked.
His son survived, was taken in by the other guy.
Well, you know, I see him come around here sometimes.
He's pretty messed up, you know, but I guess if your dad had killed half the world, well, I guess that'd be the kind of thing that'd screw anybody up pretty bad, you know? Now, the researcher, I don't know his name (Mary) Devon! I think I do.
(Wylie) He was trying to warn the powers that be, tried to break the conspiracy of silence, but they fought him tooth and nail, and they called everybody back, back to Valhalla Sector, because now the president was coming, and he wanted answers.
(Mary) My God, Devon, what are we gonna do? [sirens wailing.]
I'm gonna call max.
He'll send someone.
Got contacts all over the place.
C.
D.
C.
, Thunder Mountain, Wright-Patterson.
If anyone can get us on a plane to Valhalla Sector, it's max.
(Wylie) But there were some folks who didn't want the answers found, because it would expose them.
They tried to shred the evidence, but the other guy, he wouldn't let go.
He was gonna find the proof and put the blame where it belonged.
(Devon) We'll be gone less than an hour.
But why can't we come? It's too dangerous.
Half the roads are blocked, the lab's under armed guard.
Keep the lights off and the doors locked, understand? We just gotta get those files and get out before anyone knows we've been there.
Come on.
Max has found an airfield just outside of town.
There's one last plane leaving for Valhalla Sector in an hour.
We've gotta be on it or it'll be too late.
That's why.
That explains the rifle.
The secrecy.
He was gonna expose them.
Yeah.
Uh, how do you know about that? I just What-- What do you know about the vaccine? You know about the experiments? I didn't think anybody else knew about that stuff.
It stands to reason if the Big Death is coming back, they're gonna want a vaccine.
No, no, no, no.
See, that's where you got it all wrong.
The vaccine is what's bringing the Big Death back.
You wanna see? You wanna see it with your own eyes? Because I'll show you.
You've come this far.
Come on, you brave enough to go the rest of the way? You want to see this thing through to the end, or do you want to walk away? I gotta know.
[sighing.]
I gotta know.
Let's go.
OK.
It's all falling apart.
[people chattering.]
[door creaking.]
The place is filling up out there.
Thanks for the performance anxiety.
You'll do fine.
Stop editing your speech.
It was fine when you wrote it the first time, and it was fine when you rewrote it the next 7 times.
8th's the charm.
3's a charm.
Hey, don't quibble.
I only wish I knew where Lee was.
I wish I knew where he wasn't.
Read it to me again.
Which part? You know the part.
[sighing.]
"We gather here today in a common cause," "because the desires that unite us" "are greater than the forces that divide us.
" "We look with awe at the artifacts of the past," "believing that we will never again" "know such greatness," "but greatness is only a matter of will.
" "It is the end result of patience," "determination," "direction and strength.
" "And we who have grown up in the shadow of the Big Death" "have those qualities in abundance.
" "We have made mistakes, but we have learned from them.
" "And what we have learned most" "is that we cannot entrust our future" "to those who can only see the past.
" "Tonight, we stand together, united for the first time.
" "In the coming days," "we will carve out the framework for a new country" "and a new future.
" "Because if we fail to do so," "others will do it for us," "and generations yet unborn will lie to regret our failure.
" (Jeremiah) Wylie, I've been thinking.
There's something that bothers me.
Why haven't you told anybody else? (Wylie) I have.
What, you think you're the first or something? I've tried.
It's just, you know, There's no C.
N.
N.
anymore, no radio, newspapers, police, nobody who can do anything about this shit, the more people I tell, the bigger the chance the wrong people hear about it, and I get whacked.
Look, in the last year, since I've put it all together, I told 12 people before you.
Brother Clarence.
That's the one you know.
4 others tried to do something about it, tell other people.
They ended up murdered.
5 more I never heard from again.
I figure they just wanted to forget the whole thing.
Well, then, that leaves 2.
What about them? Once they knew what was going on, once they really understood, they killed themselves.
Truth can do that to you sometimes.
Come on, we're almost there.
[Wylie grunting.]
[Jeremiah grunting.]
You gotta watch yourself.
They still have guards here sometimes.
Go ahead, take a look.
[Jeremiah grunting.]
What am I supposed to be This is where they brought the bodies in the beginning, before they started the burnings, before it all went crazy.
(Jeremiah) Went crazy how? After the Big Death, uh The, uh, the other guy, the--the--the researcher [Wylie panting.]
- Devon.
- Yeah.
He was the only guy who understood how the virus worked, so he kept working towards finding a cure.
He never did find it, but he did find a vaccine.
He just wouldn't give it to them.
Why not? Well, by that time, the Big Death was long over.
Burned itself out once and for all.
There was no need for it.
At least, that's the story he told them when they asked.
But if the virus is gone, why do they need a vaccine? And--and if he had a vaccine, why wouldn't he give it to them? Well, giving them the vaccine would've meant giving them the key to how the Big Death works.
Don't you see? The virus behind the big "D" is the deadliest weapon we've ever had.
You immunize your own population, turn it against the enemy, and these guys in Valhalla Sector, they got enemies coming out their asses.
Some of them wouldn't think twice about using it if they thought it was necessary.
So he wouldn't give it to them, they decided to do the tests on their own.
Figured, you know, if he could figure it out, so could they.
They just didn't want to expose their own people.
Guys like you and me, everybody above-ground, we're expendable, Jeremiah.
To these guys, we're just lab rats.
Like Jimmy Holcomb.
Who? Jimmy Holcomb was a test subject for the vaccine.
The tumors that it gave him killed him.
I traced it To a lab by Seattle.
It was pretty extensive.
I got the impression it wasn't the only one.
No, it wasn't.
I mean, these guys are something else.
You know, they set up control groups where people couldn't touch each other, so they'd know if the disease had mutated and became airborne.
They took kids, did experiments on 'em, tried different drug cocktails.
Eventually, they got what they thought was a working vaccine.
Just one problem.
What's that? You know how sometimes when you used to get a flu shot, you got the flu? Yeah.
About a year after getting the injections, some of the test subjects who got the vaccine against the Big Death developed a form of the virus.
When guys in Valhalla Sector found out, they sent teams of burners to torch any place where the virus showed up.
See, all this time, still trying to cover their asses.
Now, the new mutation is slower than the old one, but it's more deadly, and the old vaccine doesn't work against it.
They're trying to track down all the test subjects, but sooner or later, they ain't gonna get there in time, and when that happens, everybody dies Everybody.
[people chattering.]
[door opening.]
Ready to go, man? [door shuts.]
Yeah, I think so.
9 is the charm.
No, 3's the charm, man.
Don't even go there.
How do they look? Well, it's a tough crowd, man.
I'm telling you, it's gonna take some serious-ass words to get some of those folks to work together, so I really hope you got 'em.
10's the charm? 10's the charm? Time's up.
You have to go now.
Isn't that what they tell condemned men right before they take the long walk? Marcus, [door shuts.]
You'll be fine.
I believe in you.
The whole Mountain believes in you, and when this is done, so will they.
- Hey.
- Evening.
I'm looking for a guy.
Oh, well, you got the wrong bar.
Try the one across the street.
[laughing.]
Cut the crap.
I'm not in the mood.
Now, his name is Wylie.
He might have come in here with another friend of mine named Jeremiah.
Yeah, he came in here a few hours ago.
They sat right over there.
That's Wylie's table.
That's Wylie, like, as in Wile e.
Coyote-- Is he coming back? Yeah, probably.
You want a drink while you wait? [pool balls clacking.]
[people chattering.]
You know, it's pretty strange when 2 guys from out of town both come looking for Wylie like this.
If you are not looking for an ass-whippin', I strongly suggest you move.
[chuckling.]
I have a better idea.
How about you get your ass out of that chair, and you go where I tell you to go, or I'll blow your fuckin' head off.
Does that work for you? [grunting.]
[groaning.]
[grunting.]
[guns firing.]
[air sirens wailing.]
- Shit.
- What? - Something's wrong.
- Wha-- I haven't heard one of those sirens since We gotta split up.
No, wait.
No, it's our only chance.
Wait! God.
[air sirens continue wailing.]
Check it out, OK? Is there a problem? - You have 2 guys check it out.
- I don't know, man.
We haven't heard back from the guys yet we've got guarding the roads.
They're supposed to check in every half-hour.
They might just be late.
They're not the most reliable guys around.
Marcus, you should go back downstairs until we-- No.
They put their lives on the line to come here.
We do what we came here to do.
[microphone producing feedback.]
Hello.
[helicopter whirring.]
Oh, shit! [helicopter approaching.]
"Tonight," "we stand together," "united for the first time.
" "In the coming days," "we will carve out the framework" "for a new country" "and a new future," "because if we fail to do so," "others will do it for us.
" [vehicles approaching.]
[helicopter whirring.]
(soldier over megaphone) This is an illegal assembly.
stay where you are, and you will not be harmed.
I repeat, surrender peacefully, and no one will be harmed.
Fuck you.
[screaming.]
[guns firing.]
[people screaming.]
[helicopter hovering.]
(Ezekiel) No! No! (Ezekiel) No! No! (Kurdy) Jeremiah! [Kurdy grunting.]
[breathing heavily.]
[door shuts.]
[door opens.]
(Jeremiah) Hey, dad, I'm home.
original source: peritta synced and corrected: quinnell
Hey! There's a page missing out of Simon's journal, Marcus.
He got his hands on it first, before anybody else.
"En route to meeting" "with the brothers of the apocalypse," "outside Clarefield.
" "They're afraid.
" "Maybe Big D-2.
" It's the return of the Big Death.
My position's been compromised.
You have to bring me in.
(Clarence) No virus is 100 percent fatal to 100 percent of the population.
There will always be some with an immunity.
(Clarence) The first time the Great Death came, it took root in the hormones of adults, but now, somehow, it has mutated.
It may be capable of destroying all life as we know it.
Go to Millhaven.
Go to the tavern.
Ask for Wylie.
Will he be able to tell me where Valhalla Sector is? (Clarence) Yes, without question.
Kurdy! Elizabeth? No! (Kurdy) She's hurt because of you and your goddamn quest.
Stay the fuck away from her, and you stay the fuck away from me.
I'm done, man.
I'm done with this, and I'm done with you.
You are on your own! - Give me a "P.
" - (Phil) P.
- Give me a "H.
" - H.
- Give me a "I.
" - I.
- Give me a "L.
" - L.
- What's that spell? - Phil.
What's that spell? Phil! What's that spell? Phil! Whoo! [laughing.]
And what does Phil want to do now? I don't know.
Oh, I could wear the little kitty-cat ears again.
You like the kitty-cat ears, don't you? Well, I don't know if I can handle the kitty-cat ears thing again.
Well, then we'll do whatever you want to, because Theo said you were a very good boy this week, and I should do whatever I can to make you happy.
[laughing.]
Yeah? You know what I invented for Theo? Well, I didn't really invent it.
I just sort of reinvented it, because nobody else knew how to work it.
A barometer.
Uh-huh? See, the barometer was invented by Ben Franklin, and it--it can tell you whether it's dry outside, or if it's humid, or if it's raining-- Uh, but can't you just look outside to see if it's raining? You know what? Why don't you do the cheer thing again? OK.
[chuckling.]
Give me a "p.
" [door bursts open.]
(Kurdy) Help her.
Help her.
She's dyin'.
(Jeremiah) Dear dad, it's been 15 years since the Big Death wiped out everyone over the age of innocence.
The end of your world, the beginning of mine.
Look, I can't help her.
I'm not a doctor.
Look, you're one of Theo's brain boys.
You know stuff.
Well, yeah, but-- Look, you do what you can, or I will rip your fucking lungs out.
[choking.]
OK, OK.
[Phil coughing.]
Well, come on, I'll need some help.
Elizabeth, you are not gonna die.
Do you hear me? I swear to you, you are not gonna die.
[gasping.]
[sighing.]
Ezekiel I know you're out there, and I know you're supposed to protect me.
Now, since I got a long walk tomorrow, I'm gonna take a chance, try to get some sleep, [grunting.]
So if you see anybody Approaching, you know, just let me know somehow.
Throw something, make a noise.
Fart.
[sighing.]
[coughing.]
[crickets chirping.]
It's like talking to my own armpit.
[grunts.]
(Ezekiel) Where are you going, Jeremiah? I've been wondering that myself, for a long time.
If you figure it out before I do, let me know.
Where are you going now? And what did you find out from the brothers of the apocalypse? Nothing I feel like telling you right now.
I surprised you back there.
You didn't expect to see me.
No.
So what were you doing there? Did somebody send you? Do the brothers know where you come from? No, and no.
I found them on my own.
They knew nothing of my past.
They cared without me having to tell them why they should care, and without asking the questions that should never be asked.
They provided a place for me to pray and to seek forgiveness.
For what? For what was, what is, and what is yet to be.
You know, if you're always gonna talk like a goddamn fortune cookie, there's not much I can do for you.
So good night.
There is nothing you can do to help me, and nothing you can do to help your friends.
All I can do is try to keep you alive, with or without your help.
Hey, yo, Marcus.
You made it.
I said we'd be here.
We're here.
You know how it is.
A lot of folks out here are all talk and no action.
Me, I'm all action and no talk.
You don't say.
- Yeah.
- Was that a joke? Nathan, I want to introduce you to Erin.
She's my 2nd, up at the Mountain.
It's a pleasure.
Come on inside.
It's cold out here.
[dog barking in distance.]
What's a fine-looking woman like yourself doing working for a stiff like this? You gotta come over to my side, er'.
Let me show you the St.
Louis we're rebuildin'.
We got supply lines.
Folks are movin' back into neighborhoods.
We're movin' up and movin' in.
And I definitely could find a position for somebody like you.
I'll bet.
So have you found a place for the meeting? Yeah.
It took some doing, 'cause we had to make room for all the big guns from all over the country, but I found us the perfect place.
Great.
So where's Lee? We got to go over the security arrangements.
Got a lot of nervous people here.
Lee couldn't make it.
Uh-huh.
I heard there was some trouble.
No, no trouble.
Just have to adjust a few of the security details, make all those nervous people happy.
Well, that's great, see, 'cause right now, I'm one of them.
[dog barking in distance.]
(Jeremiah) You get any sleep? I don't sleep.
Ever? Ever.
Insomnia? Memories.
Same thing.
Since we're walking, I figure I can ask you a couple of questions, all right? I can tell you nothing.
Our father was very upset with me when he found out I talked to you before.
He said I should tell you nothing more, for your own good.
But you just did.
No, I didn't.
Yes, you did, by telling me that you're not supposed to tell me anything, well, that tells me something.
I know something now that I didn't 2 minutes ago.
You see how that works? Where are we going? That way.
What's that way? The truth.
Then that's the last place you should be going.
We'll see.
[gasping.]
How is she? I--I tried.
I did everything I could.
I gave her something for the pain-- No, no, no, no, no! Look, you get back in there.
You do something.
Look, you can beat the shit out of me all you want, but--but I'm telling you the truth.
There's nothing else I can do.
I'm sorry.
OK? I'm-I'm sorry.
Hey.
Hey.
I, uh I talked to Phil, and he said Well, he said you're gonna be OK.
One of the things I've always loved about you, Kurdy, is you've never lied to me.
Don't start now.
Elizabeth, I'm so sorry.
It wasn't your fault.
You carried so much weight in your life, Kurdy.
Don't carry this, too.
This--this is Jeremiah's fault.
I mean, i-if we weren't there, those guys never would have shown up.
No, Kurdy, you're wrong.
The men that attacked us were following me, the convoy, the cars headed for St.
Louis.
You have to warn Marcus.
[stuttering.]
They're meeting tonight, and it--it's a 2-day drive.
I would never make it back to the Mountain in time.
There's a radio.
It's buried next to the Clarefield road sign, 2 miles north of here.
You have to warn them, Kurdy.
They're walking into a trap.
OK.
OK, I'll do it.
You rest, OK? And I'll be right back.
Don't blame Jeremiah for this.
It wasn't his fault.
I've always had this feeling, that as long as the two of you were together, you'd be safe, but apart Don't let what happened to me tear you apart, OK? I need to know you'll be safe.
Please, Kurdy.
Promise me you'll find him.
Elizabeth-- Kurdy, promise me.
OK, I promise.
I love you, Kurdy.
Elizabeth I have loved you since the first time you spoke to me, and it didn't matter if you knew.
It--it didn't even matter if--if you loved me back, 'cause for that one moment, I had The kind of love you only get once in a lifetime.
I mean, people spend their entire lives looking f-- Elizabeth? [sniffling.]
[sobbing.]
[continues sobbing.]
[birds twittering.]
(Ezekiel) We should not be walking this way.
(Jeremiah) It's the only way I know how.
Left foot, right foot, left, right.
You come up with something better, you let me know.
There are only 2 towns in this direction, on this side of the mountains, Boundary and Millhaven.
Hmm, nice names.
You should not go to Millhaven.
You're just full of suggestions today, aren't you, Ezekiel? I mean it.
Why not? Because it is not a place you should go.
Didn't we just cover that part? There is a river that flows through hell, Jeremiah, and the name of that river is Millhaven.
Step into it, and the river will wash you away into the darkness.
I will not allow you to go there.
[horse whinnies.]
Well, you may not have much choice.
[carriage approaching.]
(Jeremiah) Hey.
How you doing? (driver) OK.
Which way you headed? Up the road.
Do you mind if I hitch a ride? I've been walking a long time.
Yeah? How long? About 15 years.
Get in.
[horse nickering.]
Do not go to Millhaven, Jeremiah.
Do you hear me? Stay away from Millhaven! Friend of yours? Just one more guy on the road.
(Kurdy) You know, the whole time I knew you, I always felt like I could say anything to you.
The only thing I couldn't get right was "goodbye.
" [sighing.]
You know, I'd say goodbye, and there'd always be, like, one more thing.
I mean, you-- you'd always listen, even though there was one more thing, one more thing after that.
I don't know how to say goodbye, Elizabeth.
[bird cawing.]
You know, I keep thinking that there should be one more thing, and then I remember [birds chirping.]
I love you.
And I'm sorry.
And I will keep my promise.
I swear it.
Goodbye.
(Nathan) We've got guards positioned in every road leading up here.
Nobody gets in without us knowing about it.
(Marcus) Wow.
It's certainly big enough for our needs.
I worry about it being this open.
Well, it's the best compromise we could come up with.
Everybody's open to getting together, but nobody wants to be stuck in a box where they can be locked in, you know? At least this ways, if there's trouble, people can get out fast.
[indistinct chattering.]
What about weapons? That's gonna be a problem.
We told everybody to leave the artillery at home, no guns allowed, but we got people from rival groups here.
Got a lot more people who still think that this may be some kind of a setup.
Now, we could search out everybody as best we can, but I don't think that's the way to stop anyone from bringing shit in here if they really want to.
All right, we should get ready.
Our guests are gonna arrive any time now.
Right.
Follow me.
[car approaching.]
[plastic rustling.]
[people chattering.]
[pool balls clacking.]
[glasses clinking.]
[drink pouring.]
Hey.
Hi.
What can I get you? I'm looking for a guy.
Oh, well, you're in the wrong bar.
You want to be across the street.
[both laugh.]
His name's Wylie.
[laughs.]
[all chuckling.]
Is that another joke that I'm not getting? Wylie's not his name.
I mean, that's what we call him.
It's not his name.
Wylie, like Wile e.
Coyote.
You remember the cartoon? He was always chasing after something he was never gonna catch, until he finally goes nuts.
That's pretty much our Wylie.
So, does that make you the roadrunner? Yeah, maybe it does.
So where can I find this Wylie? He's right over there.
Meep-meep.
Thanks.
[laughing.]
Choo-choo.
Choo-choo.
[inhaling.]
[Wylie cheeping.]
Hey.
How you doing? [Wylie cheeping.]
I'm Jeremiah.
Brother Clarence sent me.
He gave me this to prove that he sent me.
He said you might have some answers for me.
Are you from the Mountain? Yes.
At last.
What the hell took you people so long? It's a long story.
Listen to me.
I have all the answers you'll ever need to hear, and some you won't wanna hear.
We can't talk here.
Come on.
I'll tell you everything you wanna know, all of it.
All of it.
[birds chirping.]
[crow cawing.]
I let 'em think I'm crazy, because that way nobody bothers me.
Nobody pays attention.
[door creaking.]
You see things that way, hear things, talk to people.
Quite a place you got here.
And--and good job acting nuts, too.
Don't touch that one.
That's Shirley.
She's special.
Well, it's obvious that you're totally, completely sane.
I am.
I just don't like people touching her.
Is that wrong? No.
No, no, you-you're good.
It's fine.
You want to know about Valhalla Sector? - You want to know about the virus? - Yes.
Then sit down.
Here.
See, a lot of people come through here from Valhalla Sector.
- This is one of their main transfer points.
- Yeah.
Everybody looks the other way, because they don't want trouble, but I see them.
I try to talk to them, 'cause some of them don't like what they do, and, well, they gotta talk to somebody or go insane.
They give me, like, papers, news clippings, reports.
I've got it all here, man.
I've got it all right here.
See.
See, before the big "D," there were places like Thunder Mountain, where you come from, that place in Greenbriar, Virginia, bomb shelters for the government in case of nuclear attack, fallout shelters for schools, city hall, duck and cover, everything will be just fine, the radiation will just Wash off in the rain, huh? but it was all bullshit, you know, except for the big ones, the ones the government was building.
Cold War ended, bug war started.
Anthrax in the mailbox, viruses in crop dusters, pretty soon they realized that these fallout shelters weren't worth shit.
What they needed was something that was not only radiation safe, but safe from biological and chemical warfare, safe for the shadow government, so they built 3 of them.
Valhalla was the biggest of the bunch, the one they reserved for all the big shots, and that's where they went when the Big Death hit, starting in New Delhi.
(Mary) Devon! Devon, come in.
There's a phone call.
It's the lab.
They say there've been 10 more deaths in New Delhi, and 3 this morning in Paris.
New Delhi.
Why New Delhi? I--I--I could never figure that out.
Why New Delhi? Why new fucking Delhi? That's where the fucking experiments were going on.
See, they were doing this bad-ass shit outside the U.
S.
, because they weren't supposed to be doing shit like this at all.
Like we we're not supposed to have smallpox anymore, or Anthrax, but they had been making that shit and storing it up for years.
How it started doesn't matter.
The only thing, the only thing that matters is that something went wrong.
The virus got loose.
People started dying, dying fast, dying bad.
Nobody knew what the fuck was happening, and the ones who did know, the ones who had funded the fucking thing, were busy trying to cover their own asses because they didn't want to admit that they'd been working on this shit in secret, so they covered it up, covered their asses, covered up a lie while this thing was eating its way through people like a hot knife through butter, and by the time they got their shit together, it was just too late.
It was too fucking late.
[people shouting.]
(Wylie) And now it's panic, and riots, and blood in the streets, blood and fire, and everywhere you look, it's terror and people dying.
And people killing themselves rather than face the virus, including, including the guy who created the virus, one of only 2 guys who really understood how it worked.
His son survived, was taken in by the other guy.
Well, you know, I see him come around here sometimes.
He's pretty messed up, you know, but I guess if your dad had killed half the world, well, I guess that'd be the kind of thing that'd screw anybody up pretty bad, you know? Now, the researcher, I don't know his name (Mary) Devon! I think I do.
(Wylie) He was trying to warn the powers that be, tried to break the conspiracy of silence, but they fought him tooth and nail, and they called everybody back, back to Valhalla Sector, because now the president was coming, and he wanted answers.
(Mary) My God, Devon, what are we gonna do? [sirens wailing.]
I'm gonna call max.
He'll send someone.
Got contacts all over the place.
C.
D.
C.
, Thunder Mountain, Wright-Patterson.
If anyone can get us on a plane to Valhalla Sector, it's max.
(Wylie) But there were some folks who didn't want the answers found, because it would expose them.
They tried to shred the evidence, but the other guy, he wouldn't let go.
He was gonna find the proof and put the blame where it belonged.
(Devon) We'll be gone less than an hour.
But why can't we come? It's too dangerous.
Half the roads are blocked, the lab's under armed guard.
Keep the lights off and the doors locked, understand? We just gotta get those files and get out before anyone knows we've been there.
Come on.
Max has found an airfield just outside of town.
There's one last plane leaving for Valhalla Sector in an hour.
We've gotta be on it or it'll be too late.
That's why.
That explains the rifle.
The secrecy.
He was gonna expose them.
Yeah.
Uh, how do you know about that? I just What-- What do you know about the vaccine? You know about the experiments? I didn't think anybody else knew about that stuff.
It stands to reason if the Big Death is coming back, they're gonna want a vaccine.
No, no, no, no.
See, that's where you got it all wrong.
The vaccine is what's bringing the Big Death back.
You wanna see? You wanna see it with your own eyes? Because I'll show you.
You've come this far.
Come on, you brave enough to go the rest of the way? You want to see this thing through to the end, or do you want to walk away? I gotta know.
[sighing.]
I gotta know.
Let's go.
OK.
It's all falling apart.
[people chattering.]
[door creaking.]
The place is filling up out there.
Thanks for the performance anxiety.
You'll do fine.
Stop editing your speech.
It was fine when you wrote it the first time, and it was fine when you rewrote it the next 7 times.
8th's the charm.
3's a charm.
Hey, don't quibble.
I only wish I knew where Lee was.
I wish I knew where he wasn't.
Read it to me again.
Which part? You know the part.
[sighing.]
"We gather here today in a common cause," "because the desires that unite us" "are greater than the forces that divide us.
" "We look with awe at the artifacts of the past," "believing that we will never again" "know such greatness," "but greatness is only a matter of will.
" "It is the end result of patience," "determination," "direction and strength.
" "And we who have grown up in the shadow of the Big Death" "have those qualities in abundance.
" "We have made mistakes, but we have learned from them.
" "And what we have learned most" "is that we cannot entrust our future" "to those who can only see the past.
" "Tonight, we stand together, united for the first time.
" "In the coming days," "we will carve out the framework for a new country" "and a new future.
" "Because if we fail to do so," "others will do it for us," "and generations yet unborn will lie to regret our failure.
" (Jeremiah) Wylie, I've been thinking.
There's something that bothers me.
Why haven't you told anybody else? (Wylie) I have.
What, you think you're the first or something? I've tried.
It's just, you know, There's no C.
N.
N.
anymore, no radio, newspapers, police, nobody who can do anything about this shit, the more people I tell, the bigger the chance the wrong people hear about it, and I get whacked.
Look, in the last year, since I've put it all together, I told 12 people before you.
Brother Clarence.
That's the one you know.
4 others tried to do something about it, tell other people.
They ended up murdered.
5 more I never heard from again.
I figure they just wanted to forget the whole thing.
Well, then, that leaves 2.
What about them? Once they knew what was going on, once they really understood, they killed themselves.
Truth can do that to you sometimes.
Come on, we're almost there.
[Wylie grunting.]
[Jeremiah grunting.]
You gotta watch yourself.
They still have guards here sometimes.
Go ahead, take a look.
[Jeremiah grunting.]
What am I supposed to be This is where they brought the bodies in the beginning, before they started the burnings, before it all went crazy.
(Jeremiah) Went crazy how? After the Big Death, uh The, uh, the other guy, the--the--the researcher [Wylie panting.]
- Devon.
- Yeah.
He was the only guy who understood how the virus worked, so he kept working towards finding a cure.
He never did find it, but he did find a vaccine.
He just wouldn't give it to them.
Why not? Well, by that time, the Big Death was long over.
Burned itself out once and for all.
There was no need for it.
At least, that's the story he told them when they asked.
But if the virus is gone, why do they need a vaccine? And--and if he had a vaccine, why wouldn't he give it to them? Well, giving them the vaccine would've meant giving them the key to how the Big Death works.
Don't you see? The virus behind the big "D" is the deadliest weapon we've ever had.
You immunize your own population, turn it against the enemy, and these guys in Valhalla Sector, they got enemies coming out their asses.
Some of them wouldn't think twice about using it if they thought it was necessary.
So he wouldn't give it to them, they decided to do the tests on their own.
Figured, you know, if he could figure it out, so could they.
They just didn't want to expose their own people.
Guys like you and me, everybody above-ground, we're expendable, Jeremiah.
To these guys, we're just lab rats.
Like Jimmy Holcomb.
Who? Jimmy Holcomb was a test subject for the vaccine.
The tumors that it gave him killed him.
I traced it To a lab by Seattle.
It was pretty extensive.
I got the impression it wasn't the only one.
No, it wasn't.
I mean, these guys are something else.
You know, they set up control groups where people couldn't touch each other, so they'd know if the disease had mutated and became airborne.
They took kids, did experiments on 'em, tried different drug cocktails.
Eventually, they got what they thought was a working vaccine.
Just one problem.
What's that? You know how sometimes when you used to get a flu shot, you got the flu? Yeah.
About a year after getting the injections, some of the test subjects who got the vaccine against the Big Death developed a form of the virus.
When guys in Valhalla Sector found out, they sent teams of burners to torch any place where the virus showed up.
See, all this time, still trying to cover their asses.
Now, the new mutation is slower than the old one, but it's more deadly, and the old vaccine doesn't work against it.
They're trying to track down all the test subjects, but sooner or later, they ain't gonna get there in time, and when that happens, everybody dies Everybody.
[people chattering.]
[door opening.]
Ready to go, man? [door shuts.]
Yeah, I think so.
9 is the charm.
No, 3's the charm, man.
Don't even go there.
How do they look? Well, it's a tough crowd, man.
I'm telling you, it's gonna take some serious-ass words to get some of those folks to work together, so I really hope you got 'em.
10's the charm? 10's the charm? Time's up.
You have to go now.
Isn't that what they tell condemned men right before they take the long walk? Marcus, [door shuts.]
You'll be fine.
I believe in you.
The whole Mountain believes in you, and when this is done, so will they.
- Hey.
- Evening.
I'm looking for a guy.
Oh, well, you got the wrong bar.
Try the one across the street.
[laughing.]
Cut the crap.
I'm not in the mood.
Now, his name is Wylie.
He might have come in here with another friend of mine named Jeremiah.
Yeah, he came in here a few hours ago.
They sat right over there.
That's Wylie's table.
That's Wylie, like, as in Wile e.
Coyote-- Is he coming back? Yeah, probably.
You want a drink while you wait? [pool balls clacking.]
[people chattering.]
You know, it's pretty strange when 2 guys from out of town both come looking for Wylie like this.
If you are not looking for an ass-whippin', I strongly suggest you move.
[chuckling.]
I have a better idea.
How about you get your ass out of that chair, and you go where I tell you to go, or I'll blow your fuckin' head off.
Does that work for you? [grunting.]
[groaning.]
[grunting.]
[guns firing.]
[air sirens wailing.]
- Shit.
- What? - Something's wrong.
- Wha-- I haven't heard one of those sirens since We gotta split up.
No, wait.
No, it's our only chance.
Wait! God.
[air sirens continue wailing.]
Check it out, OK? Is there a problem? - You have 2 guys check it out.
- I don't know, man.
We haven't heard back from the guys yet we've got guarding the roads.
They're supposed to check in every half-hour.
They might just be late.
They're not the most reliable guys around.
Marcus, you should go back downstairs until we-- No.
They put their lives on the line to come here.
We do what we came here to do.
[microphone producing feedback.]
Hello.
[helicopter whirring.]
Oh, shit! [helicopter approaching.]
"Tonight," "we stand together," "united for the first time.
" "In the coming days," "we will carve out the framework" "for a new country" "and a new future," "because if we fail to do so," "others will do it for us.
" [vehicles approaching.]
[helicopter whirring.]
(soldier over megaphone) This is an illegal assembly.
stay where you are, and you will not be harmed.
I repeat, surrender peacefully, and no one will be harmed.
Fuck you.
[screaming.]
[guns firing.]
[people screaming.]
[helicopter hovering.]
(Ezekiel) No! No! (Ezekiel) No! No! (Kurdy) Jeremiah! [Kurdy grunting.]
[breathing heavily.]
[door shuts.]
[door opens.]
(Jeremiah) Hey, dad, I'm home.
original source: peritta synced and corrected: quinnell