Jeremiah (2002) s02e05 Episode Script

1 Previously on Jeremiah What's the deal with that anyway? Letters to my dad.
How long you plan on keeping that up? Someday, I'll put 'em in the fire, and they won't burn.
I looked for you for 15 years, not knowing whether you were alive or dead.
I finally find you, and you don't even say hello? Ezekiel's dead.
You know how Ezekiel got his name? He wasn't born with it.
He took it on after his real father died.
I lost Michael.
I lost your mother.
I can't lose anybody else, I I wondered where you'd gotten off to.
I saw you with your dad.
Did you finally get the answers you were looking for? Oh, Libby, Erin just the two I wanted to see.
Sorry, that line didn't work last time.
I don't think it'll work this time either.
- Not without flowers.
- Mm, anyway.
Listen, you know I'm giving Kurdy some space, so we can figure out what's going on, so I don't know exactly where I'm supposed to be staying, here.
I was wondering if you and Markus had a chance to figure out where I would stay when I wasn't in Milhaven.
Not yet.
So many people have been moving in lately, we're packed pretty tight.
He's been having to do some creative bed swapping.
We're still looking for a place for Theo as it is.
Yeah, I'll tell you what.
I wouldn't use the words "bed swapping" and "Theo" in the same sentence if I were you.
Anyway, we're working on it.
I should have an answer for you tomorrow.
'kay.
Hey, tomorrow's a big day.
Are you excited about your dad coming? Yeah.
Yeah, I, uh you know, we talked, but we haven't really had a chance to talk-talk.
It's a great reward after all these years.
In one fell swoop, you found your father and the answers you were looking for.
What's the first thing you're going to ask him? Probably the same thing you would if you were in my shoes.
What happened to my mom? It's been 15 years since a strange disease wiped out all of the adults and left us kids to fend for ourselves.
Now I'm moving ahead, through the past.
I can't let go I'm holding hope so tight It's hard to breathe when the whole world falls I'm gonna put the stars back back up in the sky Let them all just shine down I'm gonna try I believe we'll find the world together Through your eyes That's all I can see I believe we're looking at forever In a world where we can be free I believe - Devon - Markus.
Welcome to Thunder Mountain.
How was your trip? It was, uh it was rough, but I'm here, and I'm glad I am.
From what I've heard about this place, I'm looking forward to taking the tour.
We can do that.
Hey - Libby.
- What's up? Did you get my stuff? I brought so much of your damn stuff, I didn't have any room for my own.
You don't travel light, huh? Well, I'm a girl.
That's what we do.
A woman needs her things.
You keeping her busy? We've been putting the com system back together again, so that we can link all the members of our new alliance into one system.
She's been doing a great job of finessing the details.
You taught her well.
Good.
I'm glad.
Start chasing balls around, you never know where it's going to end, huh? Mom! Sorry about that.
We usually don't get anybody older than Well, older From the outside world walking around in here.
No one's seen anybody older than Markus, it's all right.
See she gets this? Of course.
It was a rough trip, so if you've got someplace I can Right this way, sir.
This place sucks! - Hey! - You call this a room? It's the best we've got.
In case you hadn't heard, we're short on space.
I thought you were supposed to be building some great new alliance, a force to be reckoned with.
You think maybe you could start with a little interior decorating? Theo, get real.
You know what our situation is here.
We gave you your own room, because we thought in your condition we'd spare you, and everyone else, from having to share.
So what's with the hissy-fit? Hello I'm pregnant! I have mood swings.
I have a whole mood playground, swings, jungle gym, one of them things you get on and spin round and round on.
Okay, you're moody.
What's up? It's personal And if I have anything to say to you, I will have it tattooed on my ass, so you can read it when I'm leaving this sorry excuse for a hole in the ground.
Now, is this or is this not the best you can give me? This is about it.
Then I'm done.
You can go now.
Hey.
Jeremiah.
I've missed you.
Yeah, me, too.
I I've missed you.
You, uh You look good.
You look rested.
Nice shirt.
You look healthy.
You know, better than the last time I saw you.
You know, getting some sun on my face actually helps.
Have a seat.
It's a hell of an opportunity.
I mean, I can only imagine what I'd say to my dad.
Well, that's one thing the Big Death gave us all in common.
We all lost our parents around the same age, and we all grew up wondering what it'd be like if they were around.
Well, it raises an interesting question.
If you could see your folks one more time, what would you say to them? I guess I'd just say, "I love you.
" Everything else I missed you, I thought about you, I looked for you it all gets wrapped up in that.
Kurdy, what about you? I think I'd say I hope I turned out the way you expected.
I don't know.
I'd let them know that I'm alive.
You know, not to worry about me.
I've got friends.
Of course, none here at the Mountain.
What about you, Markus? Anything left unsaid between you and your dad? No.
I got to say everything I needed to say.
I was lucky.
So's Jeremiah.
Still, you can't help but envy him a little.
So how was your your trip? I was excited at the thought of having some time with you.
Yeah.
Yeah, any time.
Yeah.
Yeah, the last time we saw each other, there was so much going on, we didn't have any actual time to talk And so we've got a lot of catching up to do.
So, how are you? I'm good.
I'm good, and you? (door opening) Oh, I'm sorry.
Jeremiah, I didn't know you were here.
Libby, what's Well, we're testing the com system downstairs, and we have this feedback loop, I said if anyone could fix it, you could, so Later would be better.
Well, yeah, but, um Yeah, everyone's waiting, and Markus is going to be by later, and I want it to be perfect.
If you have to You know I should.
Let's get it over with.
I'll see you in a while.
Libby Thank you.
(knocking) Yeah? Hey, uh, what's up? That's kind of what I was going to ask you.
What was that about in there? What was what all about? You knew we had the room set aside to catch up.
Now, whatever was wrong with the com system could've waited, but you came in deliberately and broke it up.
I want to know why.
I was busy looking for something, okay? For something? Well, what are you looking for that's so important you've got to interrupt the time that I'm spending in there with my dad? That.
Your dad gave me that a long time ago.
Told me to give it to you if anything ever happened to him.
So you'd Know everything.
Well, he's he's right here, and he's alive, so if I need to know anything from him Look, you said the first thing that you'd ask your dad about is what happened to your mom.
I mean, of course you would, it's I just think you need to read that letter before you talk to your father.
It's been opened.
Did you read it? They came through Valhalla looking for anything that they didn't want you to have.
I made it a point to memorize it all, so if something happened to the letter, I could be his letter to you.
Jeremiah, if you're reading this letter, then you know that I am dead.
I'm sorry that I didn't get a chance to see your face again.
I would like to have met you, not as the child that I remember, but as the man you've become.
I I have so much to say, so much to tell you.
I love you, and that I've missed you, and I have so much to apologize for, but most of all, Jeremiah, I don't want to leave you with any unanswered questions I know you must have.
When you've finished reading this letter Jeremiah, I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me, because it was my my fault that your mother died.
(knocking) Yo.
The dinner for your dad's about to start.
You coming? Yeah, I'll be there.
All right.
(laughter) And I remember one other time, I guess Jeremiah must've been about six months old, I'd been invited to a convention in Paris.
We we got to the hotel, we checked in, and we found a nice little restaurant just around the corner.
So we went there, we had our meal, paid our bill.
We left.
Jeremiah was such a quiet and good little boy, that we didn't even realize he was there until we got back to the hotel and we noticed that we'd left him back at the restaurant under the table in his bassinet.
So what happened? Well, we went back there, and he was still there under the table in his bassinet having dinner with another couple.
This is why I have abandonment issues.
It was hilarious.
The only person who wasn't laughing was Jeremiah.
Mary used to call him grandpa, because he was so damn serious, but I'll tell you something, Jeremiah, it was it was those moments, it was those little things, those little embarrassing funny moments, that got me through all that.
I used to play them over and over in my head, until the day I found out that you were still alive And now, I just want to hear all the other stories I wasn't around for.
You're on.
Well, ladies, gentlemen, Kurdy.
Hey.
It's late, and I'm going to bed.
Of course, I'm not telling you what to do, but the sun comes up pretty early around here.
Yeah, we're half a mile deep inside a mountain.
Details.
The last day we saw each other, Jeremiah, do you remember that day? Back in less than an hour.
But why can't we come? You can't come, son.
It's too dangerous.
Half the roads are blocked, the lab's under armed guard, so you keep the lights off, and the door locked.
Do you understand? Okay, sweetheart, I love you.
You look after your little brother for us, okay? Come on, honey, we've got go.
- I know.
- We're going to grab the files and get out before anyone knows we've been there, so you be ready to go the minute we pull up, right? Let's go! Mommy's got to go, okay? Max has found an airstrip just outside of town.
There's one last plane leaving for Valhalla Sector, so we've got to be on it, or it'll be too late.
I promise, we'll be back in less than an hour, okay? Everyone was in a panic.
Riots breaking out all over the place.
The things I saw that day, I don't ever want to see again.
The files containing the truth about the virus Paul and I had been researching had gotten out.
We had to get them.
I have never been as scared in my life as I was on the road that day not afraid for myself, afraid that if something happened to me, the truth would fall through the cracks, the truth that was in those files, the truth about how the Big Death got out.
It seems so silly now, that papers, files, and disks would make everything okay.
None of it would change what was coming.
I'd been barred from my office by the military, who wanted control of the virus, but the doors only stay closed when the guards stay to keep them closed, and in the panic of those days, very few people were reporting to work.
I told your mother to keep the engine going and be ready the second I came out.
I never made it that far.
Doing any better? No.
Want to talk about it? No.
Okay.
What, that's it? You just gonna go? I thought you had some spine.
I do.
I just have this little rule that I don't go where I'm not wanted.
I'm trying to make a decision, okay? And it's just hard, that's all.
I mean, I know what I said.
I know what I told Markus, and that whole stupid council, about being behind the alliance and wanting to bring my baby up in a better world, and all, but But what? I'm having second thoughts.
About the alliance? About my baby.
I don't know if I want to have it.
- You don't mean that, Theo.
- No? Look at the world, Erin.
Is this the kind of place you want to bring up a baby? We're not talking about me.
We're talking about you.
Yeah, we're talking about me.
I ran Clarefield, Erin.
I got to see people bringing babies into the world left, right, and center.
When you don't have tv or the internet, you spend a lot of time making babies, and I got to see them come into the world, and it was like It was like they had this look in their eye when they became people.
They'd look around like, "This wasn't the world I was supposed to get.
" They look in your eyes, and you want to cry.
I've always thought tears were good for the soul.
A baby has got to have hope.
I thought that's what we were trying to do here, build a world based on hope.
You're trying, sure.
Done it? Not by a long shot.
Not by a long freaking shot.
Now, I remember when I was a little girl Stop it.
Stop what? Stop looking backward.
It seems to me that everybody is spending far too much time looking backward and not nearly enough time looking forward.
You're having a baby, Theo.
That means you look forward, because that's what babies are for, to help us think about tomorrow.
Look, Erin It's always been hard.
Every generation has contemplated whether they should bring the next generation on board the planet.
I know that, but I'm just trying But what? I'm trying to say that's not the point.
Okay, then what is the point? 'cause I'm sitting right here.
Talk to me.
Okay, fine.
When you feel like talking about it, you know where to find me.
What happened, happened, Theo, and I'm, like, the last person in the world who should be telling you to get over it, but get over it, because getting bogged down in the past never did anything for anybody.
Hey, Jeremiah, we were talking earlier about what we'd say to our parents if we ever got a chance to see them again.
Yeah.
And for us, it's just a dream, but you got the real deal, my man.
I'm happy for you.
A little jealous But I'm also pissed at the way things worked out, Jeremiah.
I know at this point, very little of it has to do with you.
We've had our ups and downs lately, but I want you to know that me and you are cool.
I just have some things I need to work out.
Must be cool with you and your dad, though.
Yeah It's it's great.
When I awoke, after they captured me, I was in Valhalla Sector.
We were all there together, in the belly of the beast.
Did you find a way out? Now they've got everyone inside, they've set the doors on a time-lock.
They won't open again for six months.
They're 10 feet thick, hardened steel, concrete, lead And after six months? My guess is they won't allow anyone out on foot.
Maybe a couple of choppers will go out and reconnoiter, but they won't land, and they need me here, so they'll never let me out.
Well, maybe they'll let me out.
They might, but they'd never let you back in again.
I don't care.
At least we could find out about the boys.
I I I could get word back to you somehow.
Mary, it's 3,000 miles away.
You'd have to walk.
You don't know what's out there waiting for you.
It'd be suicide.
There has to be something we can do.
We can't just give up, Devon.
We won't.
We'll never stop looking for them.
We'll never stop.
We weren't the only ones there against our will.
Along with us was Paul Weill, the creator of the virus, and the man responsible for the Big Death.
Paul was my friend, and he was Ezekiel's father, and he was a good man.
For Paul, everything was academic.
Formulas to be cracked, DNA to be decoded, the kind of guy who resequences ribonucleic acid in his head for fun.
A certified genius but there's a fine line between genius and madness.
As the days passed, and the Big Death finished the last of its rampage outside, the narrow confines of Valhalla Sector were only slightly more narrow than the walls of his conscience closing in.
Morning, Paul.
How you feeling? Did you sleep all right? No, I I don't sleep anymore.
Any word from the outside? No.
Nothing.
It looks like we're on our own, at least for the foreseeable future.
The foreseeable future.
Isn't that a wonderful phrase, huh, Devon? We always fool ourselves into thinking that we can actually see past the horizon, but it's always been a lie, because if we actually did see past it, we would see that there is no future.
Not after what I did.
Paul, you've got to stop this.
You can't let yourself drown in self-pity.
You give these people an opening, they will walk right in and take what they want, and we can't have that.
No and we can't give them the key to the virus.
What's done is done.
If we give it to them, it'll just it'll just keep coming back again and again.
You've got to keep fighting, Paul.
You've got to be strong, if not for yourself, then at least for Simon.
Simon Yeah.
Did you know that I read to him every night from the bible? We just started the book of Ezekiel.
I think he likes it.
He thinks it's a bedtime story.
And then he asks me when we can go outside and play.
What do I tell him When he asks me that Devon? What remarkable lie could I possibly say to comfort him? And me Ahem.
You really shouldn't keep your door open.
You, uh you don't know who could come walking in here.
Yeah, we can't have that, now, can we? Why'd you give me that letter? Because I wanted you to be able to choose which way to go.
It was for your sake, but mostly for Devon's.
He's had to carry around this this burden for a really long time, and like you, he has to move forward, but he can't do that unless you let him.
Erin tells me you used to write letters to your dad.
Why? To tell him things that I thought he would want to know.
It kept him alive.
Then you burned them For closure.
What's your point? Do you still write letters to your dad and burn them? There's no reason to.
I didn't ask you if there was a reason, I asked you if you were still doing it.
Sometimes.
Why? He's alive.
He's here.
Why write him a letter and burn it? It's easier.
I I know we have to talk about it eventually.
When you're ready.
When I'm ready.
So now that you know the truth, I guess you have to decide whether or not to wait to let come to you and talk to you when he's ready.
What are you going to do? I don't know yet.
I don't know.
You owe me an apology.
For what? For being a witch.
Sorry, truth hurts.
What are you afraid of? I'm not afraid of anything, okay? I'm not afraid of the world, I'm not afraid of the future.
Then what are you afraid of? I'm afraid I might make a rotten mother.
Okay? I don't know how to be a mother.
I'm a warrior.
I was out there kicking ass and taking names and making a way for myself while you were sitting in here sippin' on tea for 16 years.
You're a fighter.
All the way, because I hate to fail.
And now, you're afraid you're going to fail at this, is that it? I don't want to raise somebody that's going to come out as screwed up as I am, okay? And I don't know any other way to raise a kid, Erin.
All I have to offer is what I am, and what I got.
And I just don't know if that's going to be enough.
It is, Theo.
Yes, you're afraid.
It's natural to be afraid.
It just means you're going to try damned hard not to screw up.
I'm a warrior.
So am i, and we're both survivors.
But what are we surviving for? Can't you see? We're shaping the world for the future, but the future we're building is here.
It's not behind the barrel of a gun.
It's not the result of one man keeping another man down.
It's not the politics.
This is the future.
Whatever you decide to do, you don't have to do it alone.
Over the months that followed, they kept after us, grinding us down, trying to get the information that we had.
We held out as best we could, but we paid the price Paul, me, your mother.
Any news from the latest search party? No.
Nothing.
Devon? They sent out some drones to do aerial surveillance over various parts of the country.
I saw the house.
I saw the backyard, where the swing set is.
I saw the front porch where Michael fell over and chipped his tooth.
I saw everything, but I didn't see the boys.
They could be anywhere if they're even still They're alive, Devon.
How can you be sure? Because I can feel it.
The same way every mother can feel it.
We know, Devon.
I know.
The same way I know that we will see our boys again.
Okay? Yeah.
Hey.
We will.
Now, get some sleep.
We held out as best we could, but in the end, is it any wonder that Paul began to fray at the edges? I should have seen it coming.
I should have seen it coming.
We've got to do something, Paul.
We've got to find some way out of here.
In another couple of weeks, they're going to open up the doors, there's going to be recon teams out there.
It's our last chance.
How? You think they're going to let the man who created the virus and the only other man who understands it just walk out the front door? They're having trouble with the number five recycling system.
The only way to get to it is through an air shaft that leads straight to the surface.
They've had it sealed up until now.
They'll seal it again after they've fixed it.
- It's too risky.
- We've got to try! If both of us try a move like that, we will get caught.
And we'll never get out of here.
At least, not all of us.
What are you talking about? - You go.
- No.
- Devon, listen to me.
- Absolutely not.
I can create a diversion, make time for you and Mary both to make it out of here, but you have to promise me that you'll take Simon with you when you go.
I can't stand the idea of him growing up inside this place.
I'm not leaving you here on your own.
Have you any idea what they will do to you? No, Devon It's already been done.
For years, scientists had done studies on the stress created by living in close quarters, underground, for prolonged periods, but no one had ever been tested under circumstances like this, not with the added burden Paul was carrying, what he'd done, what we were planning.
It was supposed to be a diversion, nothing more.
What's going on? Weill's killed five officers, and closed himself off with three more, all wounded! That wasn't what we agreed to.
Devon, we have to go back and try to stop him There isn't time! We have to go now.
It's our only chance to get out of here.
Come on, dr.
Weill, put down the gun down.
You don't want to do this.
You'd be surprised.
Just put the gun down.
Stay back.
I mean it! Where's my dad? Shh.
You shouldn't be down here.
Oh, hey, we got turned around somewhere We have a blip in shaft five.
Repeat, blip in shaft five.
Moving to intercept.
Don't know if we can get there in time.
We need back up.
Someone get down here now.
You thought you'd won, but you lose.
I killed the world, man.
I killed the whole freaking world! You think I'm going to worry about you? Simon, drop the book.
Just forget the book! Now, what I what I know ends here.
What I discovered cannot be used to terrorize mankind again.
You thought I couldn't stop you, but I can! I I have no one left.
No one left but me.
No! Keep going, Simon, just keep going.
Keep going! Simon, don't look down.
Stop where you are! I will fire! Devon! Devon, I can't hold on! Hang on, hang on.
I can't hold Devon! It won't open.
It won't open! When Paul was gone, they concentrated their efforts on me, because I was their last hope.
What they did to me, I I can't describe.
After a while, they realized I wasn't going to give them anything.
Didn't stop them from trying, but they had nothing to hold over me.
Not you, not Mary.
Nothing.
Paul was right.
You were right.
I am afraid, but not just of the future.
The right future, the one that we have to build, is one where the where the Big Death is no longer something to fear, a memory.
That's what I had to make sure of, that it was a memory.
For you, for her, for all the unborn children.
Her death is on my hands.
My baby's life is in my hands.
If I had been stronger, if I hadn't let go, if I'd tried another way I'm ashamed of what I did.
I'm afraid of what I might do.
The children of the world deserve a future without fear.
What do I do if I screw up? All we can do is get on with the business of living, bury our dead, raise our children, hope for a better world.
I just don't know if I can give my baby the world that he deserves.
Well all we can do is try, and I hope you can try to forgive me, Jeremiah.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry Hi.
Hi.
I, uh, I've been looking all over for you.
I couldn't find you.
You okay? Yeah, I'm good.
We, uh We have some time.
Mm-hmm.
All the time in the world.
It's been a long time, Jeremiah.
16 years.
A lot's happened to you, and me and everybody.
You must have some questions.
No.
Jeremiah, I don't mind I'm going to quit looking back, because when you look back, you lose the moments, and that's all we have, really is moments.
I'm happy that you're alive, that you're here today.
Right now.
I got something to say to you.
Will wonders never cease.
Leo or Cleo? What? Leo or Cleo? I'm thinking Leo if it's a boy, and Cleo if it's a girl.
It's gonna be Theo and Leo or Theo and Cleo, and where we walk, mountains will tremble.
Hell, I'm trembling just at the thought of it.
Of course it could be worse.
It could be twins.
Theo, Leo, and Cleo? So you got all your stuff? I think so.
I've been in contact with some people.
We're going to get Valhalla Sector back on line along with some other abandoned bases, make it a clearing house for information.
I think it'll be a big help to what's going on here.
You finally had some time with Jeremiah.
Yes, I did, and it was it was good.
I don't know what it is, but maybe hanging out with people your age, I feel younger, like a great weight's been taken off my shoulders.
That's good.
You'd better call.
I will.
Goodbye, Libby.
Bye, Devon.
- Take care.
- You too.
Libby A long time ago, I gave you a letter that I wrote to Jeremiah.
Do you still No.
I think it got lost in the evacuation.
It's probably long gone by now.
I could take a look around for you No, no, it's good.
- Markus.
- Safe journey.
Thanks for having me.
- Be good.
- Let's go.
I wondered where you'd gotten off to.
I saw you with your dad.
Did you finally get the answers you were looking for? (Mary): I love you, Jeremiah.
I love you too, mom.
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