Biohackers (2020) s02e06 Episode Script

- [lights flickering]
- [water dripping]
[ominous music playing]
[coughs]
[grunts]
[coughing]
[coughs]
Jasper!
Jasper!
Jasper!
[Jasper grunts]
Jasper! Jasper!
Wake up.
Come on. Wake up. Come on.
- [Jasper groans]
- [Mia coughs]
[Mia grunts]
[Mia breathing heavily]
[ominous music continues]
[Mia grunts]
[flames crackling]
Fuck!
[Mia gasps, grunts] Fuck.
The hallway collapsed.
Is there another way out?
- Look in
- [Mia] Huh?
in my pocket.
[Winter coughing, gasping]
There's a shaft. [coughing]
[Mia] Thanks.
[Jasper coughs]
[Mia] Jasper?
- Jasper. Jasper, wake up.
- [Jasper gasping]
Jasper! Jasper, can you hear me?
We have to go now.
Come on!
- [Jasper coughs]
- Come on!
- [Jasper] What?
- It's okay. It's okay. We have to get out.
- Can you stand up?
- [Jasper] Wait, wait.
[coughing]
[Jasper coughing]
[Mia] You okay?
[Jasper grunts]
Something's wrong with my leg.
Come on.
- [Jasper coughs]
- The door over there.
There has to be another exit in the back.
[beep]
[Winter groaning, gasping]
- [Mia] We have to help him.
- [Winter coughing]
[Winter coughing]
- [Mia grunting]
- [Winter gasping]
[Mia grunts]
[glass shattering]
[alarm sounding]
Help is on the way.
[alarm continues]
- [Mia] Okay.
- [beep]
[tense music playing]
[tense music grows to crescendo]
[theme music playing]
[ominous music playing]
[Jasper] Mia.
[approaching footsteps]
Come on.
[Mia] We have to find the shaft.
[Jasper] It's here.
[Mia grunts]
[Jasper] Up there, huh?
[Mia] Mm-hmm.
[Mia grunts]
[both grunting]
[rattling, clanking]
[Jasper grunting]
[straining]
- [Mia] Jasper.
- Come on.
- I can't hold on.
- Here.
Here. Hey, just a little more.
[both grunt]
- Look at me. I'll pull you up.
- [Mia yelps]
[Mia gasping]
Climb! [grunts]
- [Mia grunting]
- Got you! I got you.
I got you. I got you.
I got you. I got you.
[Mia breathing heavily]
For our next date,
let's stay home and watch a movie, okay?
[both chuckle]
- Okay.
- Okay.
[Mia] Okay.
[tense music playing]
[Mia] Okay.
[Jasper grunts]
[thumping]
[Mia grunts]
[silence]
There's Winter's car. Come on.
[high-pitched sound]
We're going to the hospital.
[car door closes]
Papa?
[Mia] Wait a minute.
That way.
[Jasper] Rheinhausen?
To Lorenz?
Yeah, we have to warn her.
Fürstenberg's after her now.
You need to see a doctor.
We're the only ones
who know she's in danger.
My phone's dead.
Your phone's with Fürstenberg.
- If we don't warn her, no one will.
- We don't know how long you've got left.
[distant siren blaring]
It's okay.
I can handle it.
[siren blaring]
[siren fades]
[Lotta] Papa?
[tense music playing]
Papa?
[sighs]
[distant siren blaring]
Fuck!
[indistinct chattering]
[phone buzzing]
Niklas.
I've been waiting for you here,
and I'm starting to worry.
Where are you?
I can't really talk right now.
[breathing heavily]
You're welcome to stay here
until Lotta gets home.
Thanks.
I really hope that she calms down.
We don't have anything against her.
It's complicated and confusing,
and I wanna sort it all out
so we can all return
to being friends like before.
Yeah, I do too.
[chuckles]
[doorbell ringing]
Hello. Um, it's an emergency.
Can we talk to Tanja, please?
Uh, she's not here.
Where is she?
She went to see someone named Jasper.
I have no idea where.
I'm Jasper.
[Mia] Do you have a phone?
Ours are broken.
Yes, of course. Come in.
[typing]
- Here you are.
- [phone line ringing]
- [tense music playing]
- [car phone ringing]
INCOMING CALL
MOM
- What is it?
- It's Mia.
Fürstenberg knows what's going on.
Get out of there.
- Shit.
- [Mia] Jasper's with me.
Fürstenberg took his phone.
[Lorenz] Goddammit. How much does he know?
[Mia] Everything.
He read all of Jasper's messages.
- [Lorenz] Do you have the book?
- Yeah.
There are more, hundreds,
all full of other projects like Homo Deus.
Good. How are you doing?
Not so good.
Okay. Let's meet at the Excellence Center
for the handover,
then we can get everything sorted out.
But the center's
the first place he'll be looking for us.
This process demands special equipment.
And nobody else in Germany has it.
CALL VON FÜRSTENBERG
[disconnect tone]
[Mia sighs]
Wolfgang.
[Baron] Where you going?
Did you really think I'd be okay with you
not sticking to our agreement like this?
I'm holding up my end.
I'm saving your research until you
get out of prison and can work again.
You're forgetting the other part here,
the one where I don't rat you out
and get a shorter sentence.
That's something I can't control.
Mm. That's too bad.
[Baron] I have your documents.
Your lab was destroyed.
- You need me.
- I don't need anybody.
I have my knowledge,
my education, my ideas,
and I know Homo Deus inside and out.
I can just start over again.
The only thing I need is
Mia.
You need Mia.
[disconnect tone]
[sighs]
Hey, Siri, FaceTime Weber.
[phone beeps, ringing]
- [car tone]
- [assistant voice] Autopilot activated.
[phone line ringing]
Hello, Professor?
I have proof that will show
Baron von Fürstenberg
is the one behind this,
not just Homo Deus.
There are other projects
just like it in scale.
Uh, how many other projects?
A lot. A whole lot.
I want you to call the DA with a new deal,
and you can tell him that I'm prepared
to disclose dozens of secret projects
as well as my colleagues and sponsors
if he lets me go free.
You need to make sure you know
what this means for you
and how many enemies you'll be making.
If everyone likes you, you lack character.
Okay?
- So can you do this?
- [Weber] Yeah.
I think that's exactly the kind of deal
the DA will happily accept.
Very good.
[exhales sharply]
- [car tone]
- [assistant] Autopilot deactivated.
[indistinct chattering]
[medic] Out of the way, please.
- [Lotta] Is my father in there?
- Excuse me.
I need to know where my father is.
[distant siren blaring]
- [Jasper] Okay?
- I think it's getting worse. Let's go.
[door handle rattles]
[high-pitched sound]
[sniffles]
[groans]
[breathing heavily]
[Jasper] Hey.
It's okay.
Man, you guys look like shit.
The book.
[pensive music playing]
Thanks, Monique.
[pensive music continues]
[phone buzzing]
Papa!
No, I'm in your lab.
So can you come?
[tense music playing]
Where's the ultrasound helmet
for sonication?
There hasn't been a high success rate
for it to be profitable since you left.
- Our budget got cut.
- And the rest? Where is it?
[Monique] We sold the controller
and the helmet.
Oh shit!
Looks like you cut the wrong corners.
What do we absolutely need to save her?
We need a brain-computer interface
with a different polarization.
[echoing] Then we'll break through
the blood-brain barrier
so that it can be infiltrated
by Mia's immune system.
[Jasper] How long will it take to get?
[Monique] There aren't any in Germany.
[Jasper] How long?
- I know I know where one is.
- [Monique] A few days, maybe.
There's an interface in the apartment.
- [Jasper] What?
- [gasping]
Mia! Diazepam now!
- [Monique] I'm on it!
- Mia.
- I'll get the interface.
- [Lorenz] Okay.
- [groans, gasps]
- Mia, calm down! Mia, calm down!
Calm down!
Come here, Mia.
- Look at me. Hey, look at me, okay?
- [gasping]
It's okay. Look at me.
- Hey, you're good. You're good.
- [gasping]
Come here. Everything's okay.
[approaching footsteps]
Well, I'm sure you have questions.
Hey! You're awake.
Question. Did you drive here?
- Mia needs us.
- Mm-hmm.
Our forefathers,
your great-grandfather,
your grandfather, me now,
we are patrons of the sciences.
There are some things, though,
that the world
is not yet ready to be shown.
Powerful sources of energy
that would be misused as weapons,
artificial intelligence
that would
replace human interaction completely.
All things humanity wants,
yet all they see are themselves
and their own microcosms.
Someone must see the bigger picture.
That's what we have to do.
[exhales sharply]
Tanja Lorenz
has developed a new medication
that prevents every illness entirely.
Homo Deus.
It would lead to explosive overpopulation,
wars fought over drinking water,
food, and space.
[breathes deeply]
The key to Lorenz's discovery
is your friend Mia.
And Lorenz is on her way to her now.
Those two can't meet up.
Where's Mia?
I'm not sure.
[tense music playing]
I know who I can ask though.
Here.
Okay.
[phone buzzing]
You guys go ahead. Give me a sec.
Hey.
Hey.
Sorry I couldn't really talk before.
- There was a fire on our property.
- What? You holding up okay?
Yeah, it's all good.
So are you still at home?
[Niklas] No, I'm at the Excellence Center.
Mia's in really bad shape.
Lorenz is trying to save her.
Shit. Think I should come?
[Niklas] That's nice of you, but I think
there's enough of us here already.
Let's just meet at home later,
and we can talk all about it then.
No one wants to keep fighting,
especially not me.
Yeah, I'll see you at home.
- Talk to you then.
- [Niklas] See you later.
[exhales sharply]
The guilt you feel now
speaks to your good character.
And so does the loyalty
you have to your family, you know.
[kisses]
[Ole echoing] Okay.
So just to make sure I've got this right.
You say the ultrasound waves
jolt the tissue
so that the membranes expand
and immune system can get inside?
Yeah. The wrong setting
would soften her entire brain,
not just the blood-brain barrier.
Not good. New idea. We could find out
what kind of nanoparticles Winter used
to get Oblivion into the brain
and then used them
- [voices echo]
- [high-pitched sound]
[normal] Doing that would take weeks.
This is Mia's only chance.
[breathing heavily]
[Chen-Lu] This is the shittiest idea
in the entire history of shitty ideas.
[Lorenz] Okay, so Oblivion
folds the protein in the brain,
responsible for
the manifestation of memories.
But from what I'm seeing,
the newly folded protein is a prison
that changes the shape of
the same proteins until they no longer
[Mia echoes] My name is Emma Mia Akerlund.
- voluntarily and of sound mind
- [shrill sound]
[Ole] Don't worry about it.
[Lorenz] It's like Creutzfeldt-Jakob,
just 1,000 times faster.
I worked with Fürstenberg and Winter.
I helped them both
voluntarily.
I just forgot.
I made a deal with them.
I'm so sorry I got you all into this.
Hey. We all have good days
and bad days, right?
Yeah, and we'll talk about it all
when you wake up.
You're not in any state
to do that right now.
And just so you know,
we love you the way you are.
Yeah.
- Let's get this thing started.
- Okay.
[Lorenz] You sure you trust me to do this?
[sighs] You would've killed me a while ago
if you wanted to do that.
I could be wrong.
Okay. We'll do 60 seconds per burst.
Sinus-shaped ultrasound impulses,
frequency 515 kHz
at 5,000 cycles per burst.
[Ole] 5,000 cycles.
[Lorenz] And an interburst interval
of 64 milliseconds.
Okay.
Ready?
[shuddered breathing]
All right, then. Here we go.
[machine pulsing, beeping]
[pulsing hum]
[humming intensity increases]
[Mia echoing] Where are my friends?
[Jasper] You wanna open your present?
Guess what it is.
Do you wanna know what it really meant?
- [Mia echoes] What do you want?
- [Jasper echoes] To explain!
- [Jasper] Please, talk to me.
- [Mia] Why?
Why?
What do you think, huh?
You just show up and say sorry,
and now everything is okay?
[crowd cheering in video]
[echoing voices]
[emotional music playing]
[Baron] Come, come, Mia.
[muffled scream]
[echoing sounds]
[Baron] We have a problem.
You can't run around freely with knowledge
of the Homo Deus medication.
Either you forget everything
in the past 24 hours,
or I'll have to make you disappear.
[echoing] Forever.
There's a research project
called Oblivion,
the morning-after pill for shitty days.
It would be interesting
to find out how it works
for you.
[Mia echoing] Never.
[Baron] You're young.
You spent the past year
trying to complete your father's mission.
Now you're free. You can look forward.
I don't wanna take that away.
[Mia echoing] What about Lorenz?
[Baron] Lorenz is going to jail.
- What do you use Homo Deus for?
- [Baron echoing] Nothing.
No one will ever know. I'll make sure
all the records of it disappear.
I'm on your side.
Had it been up to me,
Homo Deus would never
even have been explored.
[muffled screaming]
[wistful music playing]
[Lorenz] I knew
I could trust your moral compass.
[Mia] Grandma! I can't understand you!
[indistinct chattering]
Hey. Oh, sweetheart. Baby girl. Oh.
They'll always be with you in your heart.
[grandma] A part of you.
[emotional music playing]
And they'll live on
in your memory forever.
You'll never forget them.
[sighs]
[Lotta] She's alive.
Good. Then let's finish what we started.
Watch Lorenz now.
She knows Oblivion alone
won't be enough for her.
[Mia] You lied to me.
You financed Homo Deus.
My brother and my parents
are dead because of you.
- It's your fault.
- I don't want to hurt you, Mia.
Lotta.
- Please let us go.
- I can't do that.
Fuck, Lotta! Your psycho dad's
doing something to Mia!
- She needs help!
- He's not gonna harm her.
Since I met Mia, she just used everyone
for her own personal vendetta.
You said it's okay to sacrifice one life
to save many.
Oh, but not if it means you'd be affected.
And you attacked a train, Jasper!
You guys are the psychos!
My father's just fixing
what Lorenz couldn't!
- [scoffs]
- [Lotta] What?
Why? Why pay for Homo Deus
if you're not gonna use it?
To make sure nobody misuses it.
Everybody should have the right
to make decisions about their health.
If everyone could choose
between getting healed or not,
they would obviously
all choose to be healed.
The world's population
is already being pushed.
The planet is collapsing.
It needs someone
to take on this responsibility.
Homo Deus is a part of me.
And no one could take it away.
- [grunts]
- That's not a choice you get to make.
[Mia grunts]
[tense music playing]
Family is a complicated thing.
Leave me alone.
[Jasper grunts]
[Lorenz] As a child,
I also just wanted my parents to love me.
I did anything for their love.
[tense music playing]
[Mia grunts]
I was the best student at my school.
I was the youngest professor in Germany.
- It was never enough. Never enough.
- Can you just shut it?
The people that I got recognition from,
my professors,
the scientific community,
my investors.
My whole life, I always took the path
that others chose for me.
- Don't make the same mistake.
- Shut up right now!
Hey, Lotta.
Sit down right now.
You're not gonna shoot.
You're better than that. I know you.
Sit down!
- [tense music playing]
- [Mia grunts]
[Baron grunts]
[Mia grunting, groaning]
- Nothing's happened yet.
- [strap clicks]
It's okay.
We'll figure things out.
[sobbing]
Fuck!
[tense music playing]
- [Mia grunts]
- Watch out, Papa!
[both grunting, groaning]
No!
I said stop it! [grunts]
[thud]
[approaching footsteps]
[Niklas] We need an ambulance
at the Freiburg Institute.
Two people are injured. Immediately.
[emotional music playing]
[inaudible]
[emotional music continues]
- [Jasper] Hey.
- Hey.
How are you?
How's your leg?
Better than your broken arm.
[Ole] Hey.
Mia!
And is your head back in order?
Did the sonication work?
Any time, but let's not do it again.
Yeah.
[Ole laughs]
- [Mia] Where's Lorenz?
- She had an appointment with her lawyer.
And Fürstenberg?
Is he?
And Lotta?
[approaching footsteps]
[machine beeping]
- [Uli] What happened?
- [sobs]
[Lotta crying]
[Baron moans]
Papa?
I want [moans]
Could you give us a minute alone with him?
- I'm almost done.
- Right now, please.
[door closes]
[gulps]
It's something
it's something that can't wait, okay?
You have to do something for me [groans]
for the for the family.
[blinds motor whirring]
[bird squawking]
[door hydraulics hiss]
[emotional music playing]
How are you doing?
My arm
but up here, it's working again.
You have a good immune system.
Yeah, the best.
Thank you.
Thank you for the book.
And now Homo Deus can benefit everybody.
[Mia exhales sharply]
Well, you wanted to see me, so
I thought you did.
- [gunshot]
- [gasps]
[gasps]
[ominous music playing]
[Lorenz groaning]
[Lorenz gasping, grunting]
Mia!
What?
[Lorenz labored breathing]
[exhales sharply]
[Mia breathing heavily]
[sobs]
No.
[emotional music playing]
[water splashes]
["I Might Float" by Syd Matters playing]
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[theme music playing]
[music fades]