Departure (2019) s02e02 Episode Script

Previously on "Departure "
The fully automated Apollo
is designed to get you
and the world where we need to go
faster, safer using
state of the art automation.
- Where are we going?
- It's a surprise, OK?
Is it him?
As governor, I'm goin' back
to puttin' people first.
But you're down in the polls
with just days to go.
Days are all you need in politics.
Ease up, Apollo, you're headed
for the big curve.
The brakes aren't responding.
Mr. Cole, Kendra Malley.
I'm the lead crash investigator.
Your fugitive is part
of a Mexican cartel.
That's classified information.
Your crash is my crime scene.
- How many?
- Early reports are 60 dead.
Know what they'll say? They'll say
she's making political gains
on the back of tragedy,
People will celebrate this
but URSA will not be stopped.
Target's on the run. Assumed he's armed.
I want road blocks on a 15 mile radius.
I need a ride out of town.
Were you on the train?
I-I saw the wreckage.
Must have been horrible.
I've seen horrible
this was worse.
I'm Kendra. Your name is?
Bob.
So uh, where am I taking you, Bob?
Chicago.
Kendra?
We have to get past this checkpoint.
And if we don't?
OK.
Hello, Officer.
I need you to step out of the vehicle.
Erm, is there a problem?
Don't make me ask you again.
Unlock your door
and step out of the vehicle.
Erm.
Kendra Malley, FTSA.
You can call Special Agent Hunter
to verify.
At the next checkpoint I suggest
you display this right off bat.
Thank you, I will. Have a good day.
Has anyone seen Kendra?
Her car's gone from the motel,
I've tried calling her,
I can't get through.
Maybe she's at the crash site?
What are you, some kind of fed?
You know who I am?
Look, I don't know.
I'm just here to investigate
the accident, OK?
I'm not here to investigate you.
The crash was no accident.
What do you mean by that?
Ah, ah, ah. Don't answer that.
Just keep driving.
I'm supposed to be at a briefing now.
Hmm, you're just gonna keep driving.
W-What are you doing?
You won't get past the next road blocks.
You have a badge.
Yeah, I didn't answer my phone
nor was I at my briefing
so soon there's going to be an
APB out for me and this vehicle.
- Damn it.
- Your best chance is by foot.
There was a boy
and his mother on the train.
Boy's name was Lucas.
Is he OK?
- Yeah, he's doing well.
- His mother?
She's still missing.
Give this to him for me, please.
Hey, Bob!
Why did you say
the crash was no accident?
The FBI put me on that train.
Someone in the FBI
has been paid off by Carlos Ortega.
- I just met your fugitive.
- Where?
- He's off the main highway.
- Hit it! Let's go!
What'd he say to you?
He said that Carlos Ortega
may have crashed the train.
Does that name ring any bells?
It might.
Did he tell you anything else?
He implied the FBI may have set him up.
They had a man on the train.
Who else had the information?
How many ways must I tell you
I'm not going to tell you?
So, what else did he say?
Do I need to remind you
it's a federal offense
to lie to an FBI agent?
He's trying to get to Chicago.
Chicago?
You sound surprised.
Thanks for your cooperation, Ms. Malley.
You're welcome, Ms. Hunter.
- New phone ready to go.
- Cheers.
- You good?
- Great.
Kendra!
Someone at URSA called,
Jordan Cole's company.
They want a list of the victims.
Yeah, Cole said he wanted one too.
Tell them that we need
to contact next of kin first
but see if you can spot anyone
with a connection to Cole
- who might've been on the train.
- OK.
- Theo.
- Yeah?
Why don't you go to the crash
site, try to find out
what happened to the brakes
and I'll meet you there later.
Where are you going?
To try and find a way
through another roadblock.
Nothing gets to her, huh?
Don't let the British accent fool you.
Hey.
It's OK. Lucas, a man asked me
to give you this.
My car. Gramps gave it to me.
What you got there? V8 or V6?
V8? Oh wow!
Mom!
Come with me now. Let's go!
- The car!
- What?
- My car!
- Ah! Damn it!
Max gave it to me.
The man's name is Max?
Dom, what a pleasant surprise.
Well I thought I'd call,
make sure you're alright.
Theo called you, didn't he?
Such a mother hen.
You were abducted at gunpoint, Kendra.
- It's not as bad as it sounds.
- Would you tell me if it was?
- Howard called me last night.
- What the hell did he want?
Forgiveness.
You're free of him, stay that way.
Look, Dom er,
I could use help with something.
Yeah, anything, what do you need?
Anything you can find on a Max
connected to the Mataluna cartel
and erm, a Carlos Ortega.
This Max wouldn't be
the same guy who car jacked you?
He seems to be convinced that
the crash wasn't an accident
and the FBI, Dom, keep shutting me out.
I'll see what I can do.
I've gotta go, thanks though.
Any time.
Hey.
- He's beautiful.
- He looks just like his father.
Lisa's mom is coming to get us today.
We're all heading back to Toronto.
It's strange leaving without them.
Sorry for your loss.
Good luck.
Vivian, tell her.
It's probably nothing
but I thought I saw someone
outside the train when we stopped.
- The emergency stop?
- Mm-hmm.
This is the train operator. Was it him?
Erm, I think it was a white guy.
But I didn't see him very clearly.
OK, well thanks anyway, yeah?
Theo's still at the crash site
but the guy from train
operations just showed up
to continue the interview.
- Thanks.
- Good luck.
I appreciate you
coming in again, Mr. Ratch.
I just have a few more questions.
I didn't have a choice.
Union said it was mandatory.
Do you know the max speed allowance
between mile post 79
and the steep curve?
Sure I do. They increased
the speed last year
to accomodate the Apollo.
That's not an answer, Mr. Ratch.
It's 120 on the straight away
leading up to the curve.
Yet according to the information
we got from the black boxes,
the train was travelling at 140mph.
Do you know why that was?
No? Well, would this jog your memory?
Apollo let's roll. You ready?
This is 278, what's going on out there?
Do we need to keep asking what
the hell is going on?
Brakes reset, 90psi on the tail.
Speed up, you've got
the 278 coming your way.
Apollo on the move.
You ask the train operator
to increase speed.
After which he overrode the computer
and the Apollo
increased its speed to 140mph.
Apollo isn't the only train
on that line, 278 was running his tail.
You could've asked that train
to slow down.
You think I should've asked
the 278 to slow down?
- You think my boss wants that?
- Well, regulations
Regulations? You're pinning this on me?
I'm not trying to pin this on anyone.
I had no choice!
It was bend the rules or lose my job.
How do you think this
'just in time' country works?
Mr Ratch, the investigation
is still at early stages.
Which is why we bring in the foreigner?
What are you? Some hatchet job
lady from India?
I'm from England as a matter of fact,
Mr. Ratch.
London, to be precise.
I will pin this
on whoever is responsible.
We will be looking at how much
speed played a factor
in the derailment.
Following the Apollo crash,
Diana Bright gave
these words of comfort.
My thoughts and prayers are with
the victims, their families,
with all the people who've come
flooding in from miles around
to help search for the injured
in this carnage.
This small town of Rockwater
quickly moved into action,
using the school for victims'
families and friends
and transforming the old train
station into headquarters
for the investigation
and the local hockey rink
quickly became a space for the morgue.
You see that air brake valve back there?
Yeah.
The cock is parallel
to the brake pipe open position
so the air should flow
from the locomotive
to the rest of the cars.
So the brakes should've worked.
Maybe there's a break or block
somewhere else in the pipes.
- Yeah, you know your brakes.
- It's pretty basic.
My family all worked in auto
factories before they shut
and my father worked with
tractor trailers his whole life.
Well, it's the same basic principles.
Now we need to get our hands on
an industrial air compressor
so we can check the lines.
- I know a guy.
- Thanks, Sheriff.
You're welcome.
Eagle to home base,
no sign of the fugitive in area one.
Here she comes now.
You're a trooper. Thank you, Mike.
- Oh!
- Running on Diana time I see.
There was an FBI roadblock
on every road into town.
We were down to one lane.
This is great. Good morning all.
- Did you tell them who you are?
- Oh, yeah.
I'm sure they'd have been
impressed with that,
federal agents.
So, who are they after anyway?
I don't know. Maybe you can
ask them at your meeting this afternoon.
I get a security briefing?
- You just pulled into the lead.
- Uh!
It's good news, I have to work.
Ha ha ha! It's great news.
- Great.
- Thanks, ladies. The back desk.
Listen, I've been calling Walt Mack's
wife,
the man we found in the oil
tanker and she's not picking up.
I might swing by there for 'em.
Yeah, I'll come with you, I can
talk to her.
You read my mind.
So you flew all the way from England
to help with the investigation, huh?
No, D.C. I was, uh,
I was at a conference.
- Your husband come too?
- No husband.
Kids?
A son, AJ. He's first year at
university.
No wife, no kids.
I've got a mother who lives
outside Sacramento.
There's Mary right there.
Move the truck, guys.
The truck needs to be 50 yards out.
Mary?
Excuse me, Mary? It's Sheriff McCullogh.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Walt was a good man.
This is Ms. Malley. She's here
investigating the crash.
I'm so sorry for your loss, Mrs. Mack.
How many years
were you and Walt married?
Next year is our, or yeah, next
week is our silver anniversary.
Was there any change in him recently?
He was
he was just more of the same
truth be told.
How would you describe that?
He was absent.
Lost inside himself.
And I couldn't, uh
You all know what I mean.
I er, I lost my own husband
to mental illness
and depression.
That's not Walt.
Mary, his truck was parked on
the railroad crossing.
He would never take his own life here!
Not after what we've been through!
This damn crossing.
I kept telling him we should move.
Let the bank take the house.
After Leanna died, I couldn't
stand being so close.
Leanna?
She was my daughter.
She's beautiful.
It was prom night.
A drinking game.
They dared each other to
cross the tracks as the train came.
They think they're immortal
and then they're dead
and they take the living too.
Walt was so sad.
But to take all those people too?
I don't believe it.
He was a good man.
Thank you, Mary. God bless you.
I'm so sorry.
Thank you, Mary.
Alright you guys, come over here.
You're gonna be coming with us.
Listen, when I asked you about
your husband back there, I
It's OK, Sheriff, you weren't to know.
It's just, I kinda lied about
my own situation. I had a wife.
She left me 6 years ago.
I know it's not the same
but the point is,
we all have something, right?
Yeah, we do but it's odd
that Walter's truck
was on the track the same night
that the brakes failed.
That is is.
Hey!
Well, no blockages so far.
No obstructions, air's flowing
through same as the other cars.
- How many cars left?
- Just the other one.
They're lifting it now to see
if we can get to the lines.
Well, if there's no obstruction
maybe there was a problem
with the automation software.
- Maybe.
- Sheriff!
What is it?
- We found her there.
- Oh God.
It's the boy's mother.
- I'm just going
- Sure.
You found my mom?
I'm sorry, Lucas.
San Diego looks amazing.
Mom!
Mom!
Mom! Mom!
Come here.
Are you OK?
I wanna see my mom.
Are you sure?
OK.
Thank you.
Love you.
Yeah?
I won't keep you long.
I was just wondering if you checked
the trainspotter's video online.
- Yeah, we have people on that.
- Do you?
Cause there are hundreds,
hundreds of them.
I've just been
You chose me as you thought
I'd be easy to manipulate.
Well, if I did I got that wrong.
- I had hoped
- Look Howard,
you're not longer my boss,
my mentor, my anything.
Please just leave me alone.
I understand.
Good.
I'll get the job done, sir.
Yes, sir.
Agent Hunter, we might
be able to help you better
if we knew who you were looking for.
It's just that
the natives are getting restless
out there so
- Can I not say that anymore?
- No.
I'm sorry. Is just the people
around here like to know
who's running around
their back yard, that's all.
Copy that.
I heard about that uh, boy's mom.
- Yeah.
- Must have been awful.
Yeah.
Until yesterday, I don't think
I'd seen a dead body before.
- Had you?
- Uh yeah, my dad.
- Oh, uh
- It's OK.
Just sorta hits close to home, you know?
Where is home?
Oh, well that's a tough one.
Um, I was an army brat, then
a brat of a single mom brat,
then a foster care brat.
You know, it's sort of just complicated.
- How about you?
- I'm from Montreal.
So you speak French?
Un petit peu. I'm from Mount Royal.
I come from a long line
of privilege on both sides.
Well, it doesn't show.
Thank you.
Charlotte found a connection to Cole.
Philip Hogan. I found his name
on a list of victims.
Right, what is Philip Hogan's
connection to Jordan Cole?
He and John Cole
started URSA in college.
He was involved in the design
of the automation software
that ran the Apollo.
Eagle's made a sighting on Highway 5.
Let's move out.
Call from Kendra Malley.
Ms. Malley, I know you've been asking
for access to the software.
Yeah, I have but it's not
why I'm calling you, Mr. Cole.
Sorry to have to tell you this
but we've discovered
somebody close to you died
in the train crash last night.
Philip Hogan.
Yeah.
I was just hoping against hope.
The Apollo was just the beginning.
Phil was the future.
The world lost a visionary.
Last night on TV, you mentioned
that there were people
who would celebrate
the crash of the Apollo.
It was an emotional night.
Yeah, yeah, I understand that,
but is there
anyone you think could be involved.
I don't know any more than you do.
Thank you for letting me
know about Phil.
- Well, what'd he say?
- Not much.
Some farmhouses nearby,
a lumber yard. He can't be far.
Alpha to lumber yard. Echo, take
Crestfall Lane, we'll take River Road.
Agent Hunter at the farm
on Concession 59.
- Going to do a sweep.
- Copy that.
Go around back.
Damn.
Nothing here. Check the perimeter.
- You see anything?
- Let's go inside.
- You ready?
- Yeah, all set.
So the simulation takes into
account all derailment factors
and keep in mind,
we already established
the brakes weren't functioning.
- So slowing down's not an option.
- Correct. Uh, OK.
So here's the train
approaching the curve at 140mph
heading straight for the tanker.
- And it derails as expected.
- Right.
Look closer. I'll play it back
in slow motion.
Yeah, you see how the train
is leaning as it takes the bend?
- Yes, it's in too far.
- Yeah, now watch what happens
when I remove the tanker
from the equation.
Now speed is the only factor.
- Boom!
- It derails anyway.
Yep, as you suspected.
The truck had no bearing
whatsoever on the accident.
That should offer Walt Mack's
widow some peace of mind.
What was the truck doing there?
- Hmph.
- What are you thinking?
What if Bill Ratch hadn't asked
the train operator to speed up?
Would it have made a difference?
You mean if the train
was doing 120mph, not 140?
Yeah, did the extra 20mph
make any difference?
Well, let's see.
It's the same result.
So brake failure
is the one and only reason
the train left the tracks.
But we already ruled out
mechanical failure and human error.
Yeah, so why didn't the brakes
work when they were suppose to?
Maybe John Cole's software
isn't as flawless as he lets on.
All clear here, we're on our way back.
I'm done answering questions.
I was calling to say
we've ruled out increased speed
as a factor in the crash.
- Hilarious.
- I'm sorry?
I just got the call.
The company fired me.
And they're fighting
to keep my pension too.
They have no right to do that.
Really? Like you're not the one
who dropped the load on me.
I would watch your back.
Just heard you're ahead
in the polls, congratulations.
Yeah, I'll celebrate Governor Martin
hires movers, meanwhile.
We've set up shop across
the street there, til ballots are cast
which I see will be dangerous
for my diet.
Well, welcome to the neighbourhood.
Thank you.
How long you been in Michigan, Gale?
Oh, a few years before the Brights.
Well, we came up the Erie Canal in 1836.
Oh, and my people
were there to welcome you.
You're the one who was
warning people about the Apollo.
Sometimes I wish I wasn't right.
- You work the rails?
- Until half an hour ago.
Thirty years I put in, for what?
- Diana, car's waiting.
- Hang on a minute.
That's my son, Richard, by the way.
- And you are?
- I'm Bill Ratch.
Bill, hey. Diana.
So, uh, tell me what happened.
Dom, please tell me you have something.
I sent you the Interpol file
on Max O'Neill.
He's not your typical cartel member.
- How do you mean?
- He's a Princeton grad
Owns an investment management firm.
So he launders money for the cartel?
That would be my guess, yes.
Carlos Ortega runs the Mataluna cartel.
Max married his sister Maria.
Carlos Ortega.
That's who he said wanted to kill him.
That's Max's brother-in-law?
Maria was killed by a car bombing.
Reports suggest a rival cartel
sending a message.
If he launders money,
maybe he's up for racketeering,
extradited from Canada.
So the marshals take him
to Chicago for his arraignment?
Then why would he still be going
to Chicago? It makes no sense.
I've gotta go. Speak to you later. Yeah?
- I need to borrow you for a minute.
- What is it?
Diana Bright pulled into the lead today
and the election's next week.
So?
By law, she's entitled
to security briefings.
- She wants to know everything.
- That makes two of us.
Come on in. Right this way, please.
This is Kendra Malley, she's leading
the crash investigation.
And getting good men fired I hear.
I had nothing to do with that.
Wasn't you that wrote the report
saying the train was too fast?
- I did, but
- Well, that did it.
I just love your accent by the way.
I spent some time over there myself.
Smashing.
Richard Bright,
Diana's campaign manager.
And son! He forgets that part sometimes.
So ladies, who's running loose
in Michigan at the moment?
Releasing the fugitive's name
would put him in danger.
It would what?
What about everyone else?
Isn't everyone in danger too?
- To some extent
- Some?!
Some is too much. So, who is he?
Whats's his name?
He's a Mataluna cartel associate.
His name is Max O'Neill.
- As in the Mexican cartel?
- Yes.
I believe Mr. O'Neill is set
to testify against the cartel.
Isn't that right, Agent Hunter?
If he's gonna testify, why's he running?
We'll ask him when we find him, ma'am.
If the cartel finds him first?
The case dies with him.
That's why you understand
the need to keep
his whereabouts confidential.
Absolutely. Thank you, ladies.
Thank you.
How did you know O'Neill
was gonna be a material witness?
I have my ways.
How did the cartel find out
that Max was on the train?
Someone in the FBI leak it?
No, the leak was
from outside the Bureau.
- How do you know?
- I'm an FBI agent, I have ways.
Kendra! Someone's on the
tip line for you, name's Bob.
Patch it to my phone.
Hello?
I need your help.
Don't bring the feds. Trust me, please.
Diana Bright followed up her tweet
with a remarkable announcement.
I'll tell you what the FBI won't.
There is a fugitive on the run,
he is armed and he is dangerous,
so lock your doors
and keep your children safe.
You came.
I didn't think you would.
Should we get you to hospital?
Please, just sit.
You didn't tell the FBI
you were coming, did you?
No.
I guess you know who I am by now.
Yeah, you clean money for the cartel.
Now you're testifying against them.
Guess that is who I am.
What happened?
My business partner
stole millions I found out.
Just life savings from dozens of clients
and so I turned
to my brother-in-law for help.
I told Carlos that I would
launder his money for 6 months
until I made the money back.
But there's no leaving the cartel.
And now he's trying to kill me.
You think Carlos crashed the train
to stop you testifying against him?
Right after the crash,
I saw a man stumble
out of the car behind me.
My height, my build.
Someone approached him
I thought he was trying to help the guy
but then he snapped his neck.
You think Carlos had a hitman
waiting to ensure you died?
Did you get a good look at the murderer?
- No.
- OK.
- You should come with me.
- I can't.
The FBI are gonna
What?
- Someone's here.
- What?
Alright, are you OK to go out the front
and I'll meet you on the road, OK?
OK.
- What the hell?
- I'm a federal agent.
I'm just checking the house
for a fugitive.
You can't do that!
- I can.
- Get back here!
Hey Kendra.
Have you release the victims bodies?
Yes. The first are going now.
You need to stop them to be reexamined.
- For what?
- Strangulation.
Hey, hey, hey guys, wait.