La Brea (2021) s02e06 Episode Script

1
My whole life I never
knew who I really was,
where I came from, my parents.
Silas told me that they're still alive.
They are.
The three of us and Silas,
we're part of the team
that created Lazarus.
There is a room in that
building with a portal.
It can connect to the future.
You're mother, she's in 1988.
Josh and Riley, they
went through to 1988.
Your only chance to save your
children is that glass building.
There are dangers there you
will not be prepared for.
My life is nothing without you.
I'm gonna bring our son back.
I can finally get some
answers about my parents.
Look.
Okay, here we go.
Once we get inside,
head to the top floor
and use the keycard to
access the portal room.
Then we make our way to
'88, find Riley and Josh.
Put your mask up.
Yep.
You.
Get down and get over here.
All right, here we go.
Take off your mask.
It's getting hot anyway.
I don't recognize you.
Yeah, I don't recognize you.
But it's it's my
first delivery, so
Where's the usual guy?
Taamet killed him.
You know, he
he'll kill me too if
I don't get back soon.
So if you don't mind,
we'd like to keep moving.
He doesn't look like he's buying it.
What do we do?
Nothing, unless we have to.
Okay, new guy.
- Take the wagon in.
- Okay.
We got a problem.
Everything looks fine to me, Kiera.
Nothing's fine when Silas is around.
I want everyone on that wagon
brought to me now.
Security
Take him!
Off the wagon now.
Everybody off.
Gavin!
Over here.
All of you.
Get off there.
Get down on the ground.
On the floor.
- Hold on, we're outnumbered.
- Get off of me!
Stay down.
Ahh!
You two, get him.
Go, go, go.
Aaah!
Lucas! No! Lucas!
Are you all right?
We gotta go. Aah!
Izzy, Eve, run!
Run!
Go, go!
Come on, let's go!
Gavin!
Dad!
All right, everyone, gather together.
Move, move, move.
Get in deep up that ridge.
We're good.
What's gonna happen to Dad?
I don't know.
But I should have done something.
I should have helped him.
If you had, then we'd be
trying to get you back too.
- We'll get Gavin.
- How?
I don't know, but I'm not
giving up on getting to Riley.
There's gotta be another way in.
Silas helped design that building.
So if anyone can help us, it's him.
Look. Silas fled this way.
Could be his. We could track him down.
Yeah, but what about Scott and Lucas?
We can't just leave them out here.
Hate to say it,
we don't have time to find them.
The longer we wait,
the further Silas gets.
We don't have another choice.
Come on, let's go.
Hey, hey, hey.
I'm here. You're not alone.
I don't see the rest
of our group anywhere.
Okay. Doesn't change the plan, man.
We're still going in
that building. Yeah?
Aah!
Here, let me see.
Come on.
Come on!
- Ahh.
- Okay.
Oh, no.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, calm down, dude.
Calm? How can you be calm right now?
These are the exact same
burns that were on Eddie.
I don't need to remind
you what happened to him.
Yeah, well I'm fine.
No, you're not.
We can't do this. I've
gotta take you back.
No, no, no, no, no. Scott,
there's nothing for me there.
I don't think that's true.
What's true is I made
a promise to my mom.
I want to do more with my life, man.
I can't do that down here.
You can barely move right now, okay?
You know I'm right.
Fine. Fine. I will go to the clearing.
But you're going to that building.
No, no, no. Hey, look.
- You are not gonna make
- No. I don't care, Scott.
You have to try to get out of here, man.
It's your only shot.
Now, don't be an idiot.
I appreciate you looking out for me.
But I'd rather be an idiot.
Sorry, I don't do a lot of cooking.
Anything we don't
have to catch, we love.
Caroline, you said you had
a way to stop the tidal wave.
How?
Let me show you.
Like I said, I came to '88
to access the first
experiments in time travel.
I'm using that code to create a virus
that'll shut the Lazarus program down.
We created a portal inside
a building in 10,000 B.C.
And as long as that portal remains open,
these sinkholes will
continue to randomly generate,
increasing in size
and frequency until
We don't want to talk
about where that puts us.
As long as I can stay hidden
from the people hunting me,
I've got a shot.
Hunting you? Who'd want to stop you?
Aren't you, like, doing a good thing?
That depends who you ask.
No. It's the power.
- Where's your fuse box?
- Down the road.
I've been siphoning
electricity from the ice rink.
They're closed for renovations,
so no one's noticed.
How can we help?
Replace the fuses at the rink.
- Go. Now.
- Okay.
Let's do it.
These footprints match the others.
We're on the right track.
Let's keep moving.
Hey Levi, can I can I talk to you?
Sure.
We need you to help get my dad back.
But I also think, once we do,
they need space to figure things out.
Didn't you see the look in my mom's eyes
when my dad was taken?
I saw her fear.
Well, what I saw was
that she still loves him.
Turn around
and go back to your clearing.
We can't do that.
We have to get to Gavin.
You can help us.
I've been trying to help you.
You may not believe me,
but everything I've done
has been to protect your husband.
I was trying to make sure
he didn't go back into that building.
What do you mean "back"?
He's been there before?
What matters is,
I've gotta get him out of there.
I have a better chance
if I do it on my own.
Now, leave.
What are you gonna do, kill us?
My husband is in that building.
I don't care what I have
to do, I'm not stopping.
I know how much Gavin cares for you.
So I don't want to be
the reason you get hurt.
You go in there
you might never get back out.
We don't want out.
There's a portal in there
that'll take us to 1988.
If you care about Gavin,
you'll help him get back to his family.
I have a plan.
Stay close and don't get in my way.
Hey, Silas
I know we're walking into danger,
but what puts you so on
edge about this building?
It's not the building.
It's the man who runs it.
Where's my family?
They evaded my guards.
So I can only assume they're safe.
The question is
Gavin Harris why are you here?
You don't have to be afraid of me.
Well, you know who I am,
so why don't you tell me who you are?
I oversee everything that
happens in this building.
I run the Lazarus program.
My name is James.
Most importantly, I am your father.
I know everyone is scared.
You're wondering where all
the capable people went.
Well, I will tell you, they went to 1988
- to help themselves.
- Whatever.
Fear not.
A powerful leader still remains.
- Me.
- This guy's gotta be joking.
- Get a load of this guy.
- Judah,
if you didn't know my name.
- He's full of himself.
- Together we will get
through this hardship. We will
- I'm getting out of here.
- Hey, come on.
Hey, we don't need anyone else.
We've always gotten by.
I know. I'm just
thinking about something.
What is it? Tell me.
We're over here! We
need some help! Please!
- Who is it?
- It's Scott and Lucas.
- They're back.
- Is he okay?
Come on.
What happened to him?
Are you guys okay?
Uh, that's a relative question.
We tried to get into
the Lazarus building,
but its bouncers bounced us.
We gotta get him to the bus.
Any first aid stuff we
have would be great, too.
Please, grab whatever you can.
- We should help.
- Be careful.
- Come on.
- Sorry. Yeah.
Let me see if I can find something.
Okay.
You're my father?
The last time I saw you,
you were an infant.
I have dreamed about the day
that I could tell you everything.
And now you're here,
and I don't know where to start.
Why didn't you come for me?
I grew up less than a
day's walk from here.
And you never came looking for me. Why?
Trust me, if I knew where you were,
I would have moved heaven
and Earth to get you back.
Give me a chance to explain everything.
Come. There there's
so much you need to know.
You want to know about
our family, our history,
this building is at the center of it.
In fact, the day I learned
your mother was pregnant
is the day I dreamed it up.
Truth is, all of this is for you.
For me?
My dream was to fix the world
so that you would have a better future.
Because where we're from,
the Earth can no longer sustain itself.
Famine, extinction, lack of resources
Our planet is dying.
Where are we from?
Los Angeles in the year 2076.
That's when I conceived
of the Lazarus Program
and its efforts to reverse
the damage the humans have done.
And how does being in
10,000 B.C. fix the future?
Natural resources, Gavin.
In the future, we're running out.
But everything we need
is still right here.
The solution has
always been in the past.
This bay holds over 1,000
species of plant life for study.
- It's incredible.
- Mm-hmm.
Don't worry about the sabertooths.
They're all caged.
We have a thriving
animal research facility
that we hope will offer insight
into correcting the genetic flaws
that led to their extinction.
Everything we learned
we send back to 2076
so these tragedies
will never happen again.
Any of this familiar at all?
Nope. Should it be?
Oh, I suppose you were
too young to remember,
but you used to love it here.
We'd play hide-and-seek.
I'd read you the Latin
names of all the flora.
Oh, look, look, look.
This is a kind of species of Doritifera.
It has a-a venom that we're extracting
and synthesizing to create a vaccine
that hopefully protect
livestock from disease.
It's this kind of
out-of-the-box thinking
that I am certain will heal the world.
You didn't create all
of this by yourself.
So where is the rest of your team?
You mean Aldridge, your grandfather
and, uh your mother.
Why isn't she here?
Why is my mother in 1988?
You're telling me a
really interesting story,
but it's not what I heard
from Silas and Aldridge.
We built something incredible,
and then it broke us apart.
I have deep regret about losing them
regret about losing you.
And then one day you show up
trying to get into the building.
So, son, I've been
doing a lot of talking.
I should be asking you,
why did you come back here?
To reunite my own family.
Nothing would make me
happier than to help you.
It's just up ahead.
- Hey.
- Hey.
- How you holding up?
- Just trying to stay focused.
I'm sorry.
I'm sure it tore you up watching
what happened to Gavin today.
You know, for what it's worth,
I had a bit of a rough
patch with my wife.
I understand what you're going through.
Hmm. How did you do it?
How did you find your way back to her?
Well, let's just say it
was a lot of hard work
and a lot of "I'm sorrys."
But we're better for it now.
We're here.
Behind that grate is a passageway
which will lead us directly to Lazarus.
Holy crap.
We're in its territory.
If we go any closer,
that bird will attack.
I'm gonna distract it.
You guys head for the tunnel.
- Eve.
- This is not a debate.
Hey! Over here!
Up here! Right here.
Over here!
Okay, get ready to run.
Come on! Over here!
- Move, move!
- Come on.
Let's go.
Go, go, go.
Mom, come on! Come on!
Mom, please, come on. Come on, Mom!
Watch out!
What?
- Come on.
- Hurry up. You got it!
Inside. Get in.
Ahh!
Uh, marks have spread.
How can we help him?
A proper tourniquet.
Before we all fell down
here, I used to get high
and watch survivalist videos on YouTube.
I saw this guy make one out
of scarves and a metal rod.
- Let's do it.
- Hey. I found some aloe.
Great. Put some on his arm.
Scott and I need to
go grab a few things.
Hey.
- You all right?
- Yeah.
If you say so.
Veronica, what is it?
I know there are a lot more
important things going on,
but I thought it was weird
that you went to that building
and you didn't tell me.
I mean
you were about to leave forever,
and you didn't say goodbye.
I didn't really think
about it, Veronica.
It's just
you saved my life.
I helped you, too.
I thought I just I
thought we'd become friends.
You've harnessed an Aurora.
The black rock contains uranium.
We extract it, refine it,
and use it to power this machine.
And I can just walk through it
and it'll bring me to 1988?
No.
Gavin, there must be some mistake.
The portal goes to 2076,
the year we're from.
Aldridge told me it goes to '88.
Well, I don't know what to tell you.
She wasn't lying to me.
Aldridge has always played her own game.
I-if you've spent more
than an hour in her company,
you'll understand
what I'm talking about.
Why do I feel like
you're playing a game.
You've shown me your
building. You've talked
about all these amazing
things you're doing.
All I want is the truth.
I'm not gonna give up
until I get my son back.
Of course you're not.
That's not what our family does.
But we do know when we need help.
Let me do that for you.
I will try to find a
way back to my grandson.
Stay here. There's
more I need to show you.
I can help you.
Just please stay.
Okay, connections look good.
- Ready?
- Yeah.
Here we go.
Systems are coming online over here.
Great job, guys.
- Then we're coming back.
- No.
I'm about to sequence
a huge chunk of code.
Should take about 30 minutes.
Need you guys to stay there
in case we blow another fuse.
Then we'll wait.
You know, I used to play hockey.
You play hockey?
I was terrible.
But my dad thought I was amazing.
He had this vision for
me as a left-winger,
so I gave it a shot.
I hated how much he pushed me.
But now I'd give anything
just to hear his voice again.
Yeah, I-I miss my dad, too.
If this doesn't work,
my dad is gonna be in the
path of that tidal wave.
He's a teenager here in 1988.
He doesn't make it, neither do I.
So that means I basically
cease to exist, right?
Hey, that's not gonna happen.
Okay? You're both gonna be fine.
What are you doing?
You're really that bad at skating,
I gotta see it.
Are you insane?
We're on a mission to save Santa Monica.
Come on. We can have
five minutes of fun.
Attention, all skaters,
the rink is now open.
I've been meaning to tell you ♪
I've got this feeling
that won't subside ♪
Whoa.
I look at you and I fantasize ♪
You're mine tonight ♪
Now I'm ♪
Josh? Riley? Where are you?
Where are you?
Josh? Riley? Where are you?
We're here. What's wrong?
Kill the power. Now.
- What about the virus?
- They found me.
- Down here!
- Do it. Now!
Down here.
And don't forget to eat your Wheaties.
Ahh, dude.
- Augh.
- There we go.
Whew. You sure that's on right?
I can't feel my fingers.
Yeah. That's kind of the point.
Yeah. Thanks, Doc.
Anymore questionable medical advice
before I try to sleep?
Yes.
Be nice to people.
Because when you're kind,
sometimes they'll even
bring you surprises.
- Is it bourbon?
- It is not.
- Oh, Baby Ruth. Sweet.
- Yeah.
Judah's been handing these out,
trying to prove to people
that he's a good leader or something.
I got us a few. Whoa.
Nope.
This is a reward for good behavior.
And at this moment, I don't
think you've earned it.
Dude, I am in pain.
I have earned anything I want.
I heard Veronica talking to Ella.
And I can't help but suspect
that she may have feelings for you.
No, that's not what she said, dude.
She didn't have to.
I'm a keen observer
of the human condition.
Oh, my God, Scott. What is your point?
You said you made a promise to your mum
to try and be a better man.
Better doesn't always
mean some big hero move.
Sometimes the hero move
is just a bit of decency.
Scott
just give me the damn Baby Ruth.
When I'm convinced
you've actually learned something,
then you can have one.
I'll check on you later.
Caroline?
They trashed the place.
Caroline.
- They took her.
- Maybe they stole the virus.
- I'll call the cops.
- And tell them what?
That you're from the future
and that you're grandmother from
the further future is missing?
They'll lock us up.
Remember the last thing she said?
About eating our Wheaties?
- What the hell is that?
- No idea.
My dad would know.
Would be great if we could talk to him.
Maybe we can.
- Yeah.
- Whoo!
So what's the plan here?
Caroline said there was a way to 1988
in that building in 10,000 B.C.
If I can tell that to my teenage dad,
then he'll have a
memory of it as an adult.
Okay.
So then my dad will know to
go into that portal down there
so he can meet us up here.
This is crazy.
We have to do something, Josh.
What other choice do we have?
Let me do this myself, okay?
Okay.
- See ya.
- I'll call you.
Gross.
Excuse me. You're Sam, right?
Do I know you?
Oh, my God, are you stoned?
No. Narc.
This is just so disappointing.
Oh, cool, giving me your digits?
Ew. No.
Please, just stop talking.
Listen to me, I know
you don't know who I am,
but you have to trust me.
This is really, really important.
I need you to read this
note and commit it to memory.
It's not gonna make any
sense to you right now,
but it will when you're older.
Okay. Are you, like, a crazy person?
Sam, look me in the eyes right now
and tell me you'll remember. Please.
- Okay. Okay, I got it.
- Good.
One more thing. Promise
me that in three days
you'll make sure you're
not in Santa Monica.
Why?
If you don't leave town, I
guarantee you'll regret it.
All right. Okay. You're freaking me out.
Sam, there are a lot of things
you're gonna do in your life
and a lot of people that
are gonna count on you
and love you.
Please don't let them down.
Okay. All right. I promise.
Okay.
No cameras here. We're
in a utility tunnel.
Easy access to an
auxiliary security room.
There we can connect with
the building's video feed,
find Gavin, get you to the portal.
Look me in the eyes right now
and tell me you'll remember.
It's the strangest thing.
It's like I've got a new memory.
A memory of what?
Of Riley.
She found me in '88.
She wrote me a note.
She said there's a portal
here that can reach them.
Is she with Josh? Are they okay?
I don't know. But the note said
they'll be waiting for us at
the Santa Monica boardwalk.
We need to move now.
Go. Go, go!
Stop. Don't move.
Have you thought about my offer to stay?
My whole life I've wanted
answers about who I am
and where I came from.
Now I've got my father standing here
ready to give them.
Yet I can sense your hesitation.
I can't stay.
I have to get back to
my wife and daughter.
Yeah.
I told you I want to help
But I don't think that I can trust you.
You've been doing your
best to try and convince me
that I can
but why do I feel like
you're only telling me
part of the truth?
You're right.
I wanted you to see some of the good
before you learned the
rest. Please, sit down.
I I-I want to show
you something else.
You want to know who you are.
This is where it all starts.
That's my mother?
You were the most important
thing to both of us.
Then answer what I already asked.
Why was I taken away?
Why did my grandfather
raise me in that village
unless he knew that
he couldn't trust you?
Back then he was right not to.
I have made mistakes.
I'm not a perfect person.
But I've looked hard at my failures,
and I've learned a better way.
Wouldn't you hope that your own children
would give you a second chance?
I am asking you to stay
and give me a chance to prove myself
worthy of your trust.
Excuse me, James.
We have a situation.
Gavin. Hey.
Are you okay?
This is my wife and daughter.
It's a pleasure to meet you.
My name is James.
You said they were safe.
They were caught sneaking around.
No matter the time,
that's still called trespassing.
Well, that's the least egregious crime
committed in this building.
It's been a long time, Silas.
So what have you been filling
the boy's head with today?
Details.
Yeah, the ones that I'm sure
you conveniently left out.
Only thing Gavin needs to
know is you're dangerous.
Silas, we don't have
time to argue, okay?
We've got bigger problems right now.
What do you mean?
Aldridge was wrong.
Portal doesn't go to '88.
- Yes, it does.
- No.
Riley found me in '88.
And she gave me a message.
She said a woman named Caroline
used the portal to go there herself.
- You lied to me.
- Of course he did.
You swore to me that you were
gonna help me find my son.
You knew the answers all along.
Why-why the hell did you do that?
Because I didn't want to lose you again.
I knew you would leave.
It was foolish. I was wrong.
I was afraid.
You want another chance
to prove yourself to me?
Well, this is it.
You can start by letting Silas go
and by letting us use that portal.
Scott said you needed me?
Can you come here?
When I said I didn't think about
saying goodbye before I left
I wanted to, but I
I just didn't.
Why not?
Because I've been burned
by basically everyone
I've gotten close to.
- Now I just kind of
- Shut off.
Yeah.
I've been burned too.
I'm not good at this stuff either.
But maybe
we could be a little
less bad at it together.
If we were back in our LA
I'd take you to this
bar I love on the water.
It's, uh kind of a dump.
But, uh, there's something about it.
You can relax there.
But since we can't do that,
would you like to share this
melted candy bar with me?
- I would.
- Here.
What?
- Oh, my God.
- Oh, no.
No.
No.
Oh, my God. We're gonna figure this out.
Okay? Hey. We're gonna fig
We're gonna fix this, okay?
Uh
Lucas.
Hey, Lucas. Lucas!
Help!
Unbelievable.
It's right where Riley said it would be.
Go find your son.
Just take it back. Yes.
Thanks for not giving up on me.
After you were taken, all I could
think about was getting you back.
I couldn't imagine our
lives without you, Gavin.
All set?
See you guys there.
Let's go get Josh.
You searched for your son for years.
Why did you just let him go?
Because if I didn't, he'd
never come back to me.
Do you think it worked?
If nothing else, we should
get points for creativity.
That another way of saying you
think it was a waste of time?
No, it was my way of saying
you keep impressing me.
Should we wait another ten minutes?
It's fine with me.
Sunset, good-looking woman,
some real food over there
there's worst places to be.
Not bad.
Riley!
There they are.
- Josh!
- Riley!
- Dad?
- Riley!
Dad! Dad!
- You came.
- Thanks to you.
You made it.
Oh. Welcome back to LA.
I don't think that
was a normal earthquake
I think that was because
of what's about to happen.
What are you talking about?
Another sinkhole's coming
like the one at La Brea.
But this one, and every other sinkhole,
we might be able to stop.