The War of the Worlds (2019) s02e02 Episode Script

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You're human.
Please, just let me go.
Given the extent
of their physical degeneration,
we think that you'll encounter
minimal resistance.
That's my sister.
It's a trap. We're under attack.
They must've cured themselves.
He's one of them.
I'm looking for someone.
Professor Bill Ward.
You've been gone for months.
What did they do to you?
You have to kill him.
He's creating a virus
that will slaughter our people.
You will die with us.
You can stop it from happening.
How?
You have to kill him.
Em, what's wrong?
I can feel them.
What do you mean?
I can feel them.
I feel their pain.
It's okay.
You're safe now.
None of us are safe.
How long have you
been sitting with him?
Most of the night.
Has he said anything?
I gave him the antibiotics.
The equations in his notepad.
I think they're important.
More important than
the lives of the people here?
Sophia?
This will terminate
the pregnancy in the first ten weeks.
Okay.
Have you told Nathan?
No. It's better if he never knows.
If there's anything else you need.
Thank you.
They'll never know they were human.
It's better this way.
If they knew,
they'd grow up to hate us.
Like we grew up to hate them?
We lost some more of our people.
- How many?
- Six.
We cure ourselves
so we can die fighting them?
We have no choice.
We kill them, they kill us.
Sometimes I think it will never end.
It's different this time.
Emily knows what she's got to do.
What are you doing?
I I was looking for your mother.
Right.
Water.
Water.
Please.
Thank you.
The equations
What are they?
They're formulas.
To measure the collapse
of the matter waves.
This matter wave
Is it what we call
wave particle duality?
It's all around us.
It's
It's only when we see them,
that we call them objects or things.
Only then
are they part of space and time.
We know of these collapses.
We only partially understand them.
It took us hundreds of years.
Even now,
transposing the matter waves
is dangerous.
You can control them?
Can you move objects
through space and time?
Yes.
We detected ripples
in interstellar space,
close to the edge of our solar system.
Do you know what they were?
They are the echoes
of our transposition,
our journey to Earth.
But you came to Earth
more than six months ago.
Why are we only detecting
these ripples now?
The echoes travel
at the speed of light.
It took them longer to get here.
Longer than you?
Our journey took no time at all.
Hey.
You said you wanted to change things?
It's not too late.
What do you mean?
How? How can you change it?
You walk along the river
and you join the other section here.
He regained consciousness.
Leave us.
Did he say anything?
He said their journey to Earth
took no time at all.
How is that possible?
In the quantum world, photons
and electrons can affect each other
even if they're hundreds of miles apart.
It happens in an instant.
There's no travel, no communication,
no time passes.
Can they use this?
I think they can move objects
instantaneously across vast distances.
I think it's how they got here.
Catherine, how does it help us?
I don't know.
I don't know.
He said we could change things.
That it wasn't too late.
If you can manipulate the world
on a quantum level,
then maybe anything is possible.
Yeah, maybe.
I know I shouldn't have
given him the antibiotics.
All I could think about
was getting answers.
That was more important
to me than anything.
How can you love someone
who thinks like that?
It's not easy.
All I can tell you is that I do.
Em?
How're you doing?
I'm okay.
Mum has to stop herself from crying
every time she looks at me.
She was in pieces
when you didn't come back.
We thought you were dead.
Maybe you should go and find Mum.
You're angry with me
for using the antibiotics.
When someone else needs them, you can
explain why you chose to save him.
And then you can watch them die.
There's someone out there.
I asked for volunteers to clear the snow
from around the service panels.
Oh, no. Check the generator.
Stay away from the windows!
What's happening?
Stay away from the windows!
- Theo!
- Catherine, down!
- Theo?
- Get down, Sophia!
Theo!
- Sophia, get down!
- Theo!
Theo?
Sophia!
Emily, get down!
Theo?
- Theo?
- No!
No!
No!
Theo!
Sophia, get up!
There's nothing you can do! Leave him!
You have to leave him! Let's go!
Quickly!
Quickly!
Nathan.
Nathan!
Let's go!
Catherine!
Got it!
The service tunnel! Go!
Come on, Sophia! Go!
Go, go, go!
Where's Theo?
He's dead.
Get out of here.
Get out!
Come on!
Come on!
No!
Take them away.
Take them away.
Come on.
Micah?
Why did you have to do this?
There has to be
another way.
There is no other way.
It's us or them.
It doesn't have to be like this.
Did you tell them why you came here?
They should know
that it doesn't have to be like this.
Where is the notebook?
You cannot kill an idea.
They won’t ever understand it.
Your ideas will die with you.
You can kill your own brother?
We cannot allow you to live.
Please
Don't get old.
I think the chances of that
are extremely slim.
My boyfriend was in the wine trade.
Yeah?
What happened to him?
He died.
In the attack?
After.
I tested Emily's DNA.
- She let you?
- I took a hair from her hairbrush.
She shares some of the same mutations
as the aliens.
She She's alien?
It's incredible.
Her DNA is almost identical.
The chances of that are
are billions to one.
How is that even possible?
I don't know.
It doesn't make any sense.
None of it makes any sense.
Well, you said that
if you had a live alien,
you could start testing the virus.
Seems to me like you've got one.
You want me to test it on Emily?
Could you?
You're asking me to
to deliberately infect her?
What would it do to her?
Well, I'm developing RNA interferers
that shut down the genes
that cause insulin.
She would fall into a diabetic coma
and she would die.
Well, maybe that's a price worth paying.
I'm not gonna do it.
How could I experiment
on a 17-year-old girl?
She's a child.
This is it.
This is what the end
of humanity looks like.
Drink up.
- Hello, Tom.
- Hey.
Couldn't sleep.
Who can these days?
I think they've gone.
You think it's weird
that they look like us?
What?
Nothing.
Pack up your things.
We're leaving.
Chloe?
You okay?
The tremor in Sacha's hand
It's come back.
You can't be sure what it is.
I mean, maybe he's just tired
No, no, no. It's the muscular dystrophy.
And it's getting worse.
Like his father.
I can't bear it.
Come here.
Hey.
How are you feeling?
Everyone keeps asking me that.
I'm not sure what I'm supposed to say.
You can sit down.
Mmm, maybe don't wanna get too close.
What do you mean?
Everyone thinks I'm one of them.
I don't think that.
So
What's been going on with you
these last few months?
Any good parties?
No.
No good parties.
Met any nice girls?
You're seeing someone?
I thought you were dead.
I'm sorry.
Kariem, honestly, it's fine.
You're not jealous?
Well, is Is she prettier than me?
No, I
You're joking.
What happened to you on that ship?
I know something is wrong.
Whatever it is, you can tell me.
Please.
I want to help you.
Sometimes,
it feels like they're inside my head.
I keep having these thoughts.
I'm so scared.
Maybe you should talk to Bill.
No.
No.
No, I don't think I should.
I'll check upstairs.
We just leave him up there?
We don't bury him?
It's too dangerous to go back.
If he was here he'd tell us not to go.
I'm sorry.
I'll see if I can find
some wood for a fire.
I promised Theo I'd protect him.
I told him I'd keep him safe
Sophia. Sophia.
It's not your fault, okay?
There's nothing you could have done.
Get down! Get down!
Don't shoot! Don't shoot! Don't shoot!
Check them.
Show me your wrists.
Your wrists, let me see 'em.
Take your bag off.
I'm looking for my family.
Do you know them?
No. No way.
Tom and Emily's dad?
Are they still alive?
Yeah. Yeah, they're here. They're here.
They're inside.
Sarah?
Mate, she's with them.
Are Are you sure?
You're sure
You're sure that that's them?
Mate, I'm 100%.
I've been with them since the start.
Happy days.
Sarah.
Oh, my God.
You're alive.
Hi.
Hi.
Oh, Jesus.
It's so good to see you.
The kids?
They're here. They're fine.
We're okay.
Dad?
Tom.
Hey, buddy.
I thought you were dead.
No.
I never stopped looking for you.
Same hair.
Em.
It's me. It's your dad.
I know.
I can see you.
You can help me if you like?
What's going to happen
now Jonathan has his family?
What do you mean?
Will he get back with his wife?
I don't know.
Let's just be grateful
that he's found them.
Everything will change now.
Mom's telling him about me.
It's okay.
I know you think I'm one of them.
Are you?
No.
What is it?
It's Micah.
He's dead.
How?
He died fighting for our people.
I'm truly sorry.
Jokim will bring
his body here for burial.
Was Jokim there when Micah died?
Yes.
He did everything he could.
He couldn't save him.
Sarah.
Chloe?
This is, erm
This is Chloe.
We, erm,
travelled through France together.
Hi.
Hi.
This is Tom, Emily. My kids.
Your dad talked to me about you.
It's nice to finally meet you.
Thank you for looking after him.
I'm glad he found you.
If you need anything,
anything at all
Yeah, thank you.
Uh, this is my son, Sacha.
Hi.
We'll, uh, let you settle in.
- I'll show you where we're sleeping.
- Yeah.
What?
I want the water,
and I'll take your bag, too.
Thank you.
Nothing.
We'll have to squeeze in
another mattress.
- Sarah
- I don't want Emily sleeping on her own.
Not after everything she's been through.
So she's in with us for now.
Sarah
I'm with Chloe.
We didn't mean for it to happen.
I'm sorry.
Oh, you thought I was dead, so
She's very pretty.
How old is she?
Sorry.
Everything was so fucked up.
I thought
I thought I lost you and the kids.
I was going under, I was a mess.
We just
We needed each other.
- I'm sorry.
- Don't.
Things weren't exactly great between us.
I've hated myself for that,
every single day.
Just go.
This is the building.
Right, go ahead.
I'll keep watch.
How do we find
this Professor Bill Ward?
We have to assume
he's some kind of scientist.
We'll start there.
Look at the reference pages.
What are they?
At the back of the book, they list
all the sources used for research.
I miss the internet.
He's creating
a virus that will slaughter our people.
You have to kill him.
Emily?
I won't let you kill them.
Emily.
What's going on?
Jonathan's daughter, Emily.
She tried to kill someone.
Hello, Tom.
I heard what Emily did.
Oh, no. I'm fine.
She tried to kill you.
Yeah.
Everyone's saying she's one of them.
Is she?
Yes.
How can she be?
She's my sister.
None of it makes any sense.
I'm sorry, Tom.
What are they gonna do to her?
I don't know.
We don't have a choice.
I'm sorry.
I didn't know what I was doing.
It's okay. It's okay.
Look, uh
I'm gonna give you something to, uh
To help you sleep.
Okay?
Okay.
What is it?
It's, erm It's just a mild sedative.
Okay.
I'm sorry.
It's okay.
Just Just get some sleep, okay?