The War of the Worlds (2019) s02e08 Episode Script

1
What if we don't find Bill Ward
before he releases the virus?
We have to find him,
or we have no future.
Her pregnancy has made the virus
much more aggressive.
You didn't know?
Okay, I have to take you to their ships.
They can save you. We've seen it.
Where is she?
On one of our ships.
I know she's infected with the virus.
That ship will leave Earth
and take them far away.
You failed. My people will live.
Your virus will never infect us.
They travelled through time.
They look like us because they are us,
from the future.
It was Emily and Sacha.
They are the Adam and Eve
of the alien race. It was always them.
Everything that's happened
is because of us.
We can stop it.
How?
You have to kill me.
What's it doing?
They're cleaning the streets.
They think they've won.
(QUADRUPED APPROACHING)
What's it doing?
They're cleaning the streets.
They think they've won.
Maybe they have.
BILL: Isla.
(BREATHING UNEVENLY)
I I just want to talk.
What do we have to talk about?
The past, the future.
Please.
Look, if we wanted to kill you,
we could have done it by now.
Where did you get that?
BILL: One of your people
went to an observatory in France.
He was looking for me.
Micah.
You know him?
He was the father of my children.
- I'm sorry.
- Your people killed him.
No, your people killed him.
You're lying.
BILL: He wanted an end to conflict,
to change things.
Your people wouldn't let that happen,
so they killed him.
- No.
BILL:- It's all true.
We've all lost people that we love.
Micah thought there was another way.
It's all in here.
We need your help.
It seems to be some kind of
pathway to the past.
We need to know how it works.
You expect me to help you?
You had the opportunity to kill me
and you didn't.
Why was that?
We have to look to the future.
Do you like what you see
for either of our people?
I won't do it.
I can't.
Are you going to kill me now?
No.
There's been too much killing.
I'm tired.
Please talk, if you want.
You can change things.
It's what Micah wanted.
BILL: Let her go, Zoe.
Zoe. Let her go.
(GRUNTING)
(GUN CLICKS)
No!
Get off!
(TEARFULLY) Leave me alone.
- We're gonna die on this ship.
- At least we’ll be together.
You think we're gonna be together?
I hate you.
We have time, Emily.
We have plenty of time.
ADINA: If we re-engineer their virus,
we can adapt the gene modifier
to attack humans, not us.
You said it was nearly over?
We can use their weapon
to wipe out the remaining survivors.
Fewer of our people
have to die fighting them.
Is that how Micah died?
Yes.
You're lying.
Isla.
(BABY FUSSING)
What happened to him?
Tell me.
Micah came to believe
what we’re doing is wrong.
His ideas were dangerous.
Jokim had to stop him.
Jokim killed him.
- We’re killing our own people now?
- Micah betrayed us.
(BABY FUSSING)
Isla.
I’m truly sorry.
Sometimes
I think we were cursed
the moment we were conceived.
We're cured.
You have a child to call your own.
Because we killed his parents.
We slaughtered them.
What if the cost is too high?
No cost is too high
if it means we have a future.
Isla?
Isla, are you there?
My wife's name was Helen.
And after our son was killed,
I made her a promise
that I would kill every one of you.
I didn’t even know if I could do it.
I just
I wanted her to love me.
That's all I ever wanted.
I was just too stupid to see it.
So I agreed to kill your people,
'cause I messed up my marriage.
Jesus. How fucked up was that?
It’s the same with my son.
I never realised
how much I loved him
Till he was dead.
And then it was too late.
But you
You never got to see your children live.
I'm so sorry.
Anyway
(CHUCKLES RUEFULLY)
I’m sure you’re not listening to this.
I just
I needed to say it.
ISLA: I was listening.
Where are you?
(GUN CLICKING)
I did it.
I told him I’m on my way.
I know you’re angry with me
for what happened to Micah.
We couldn't allow him
to jeopardise our future.
I want a new life.
For myself and my baby.
You will have it.
I promise.
Once we kill Bill Ward.
KARIEM: You think you can trust her?
BILL: I don't know.
KARIEM: She’s one of them.
Something's insane.
You You don't even know if it works.
I was told I needed to have faith.
I’ve seen churches full of dead people.
Faith doesn't stop you getting killed.
(QUADRUPED APPROACHING)
Wait till I’m inside.
Their attention will be on me.
SILAS: There’s no one here.
ADINA: Where's Isla?
- Did you come alone?
- Yes.
(GRUNTS)
These are the formulas Micah used
to transpose the matter waves.
They plot a journey
to another place and time.
What place, what time?
I don't know.
If Micah wanted to change things,
they must be further back,
before we came to Earth.
But why would he want to
come to find me?
We knew your name.
It was passed through the generations.
You were the man who would slaughter
all our people,
cause our ancestors to flee Earth.
But that’s not true.
You can’t deny the role
you have played in all that’s happened.
Our understanding of the past
was incomplete.
He must have believed
that you could give him answers.
Do you know how to make the journey?
Our ships are alive.
Their matter waves grow and change.
They will open the pathway.
One of us has to go back in time
and finish what Micah started.
I will.
I'll do it.
Are you sure?
No. But somebody has to do it.
How will I know what to do?
ISLA: Micah chose a place and time.
When you get there, we have to hope
that what you need to do
will be clear to you.
You have to break the time loop.
Yes.
Will
Will I see myself?
- Will there be two of me?
- I don't think that's possible.
Only Micah truly understood
these things.
(SCOFFS) So
So we have no idea what to expect.
ISLA: Micah thought this was
the only way to end this.
I always believed in him.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
I got it for you
for your baby.
That's very you.
What we plan to do.
If it works
your baby will never exist.
I know.
I promised
I would make a life for you
For all of you.
(SNIFFLES)
It wasn't meant to be.
Things will go back
to how they were between us.
We'll barely talk and
when we do, we'll fight.
It will be up to us
to make things better.
What if we don't?
I'll get myself clean.
Maybe you'll fall in love.
It will change you.
You think that's possible?
It happened once. It can happen again.
I'm going to miss you.
I love you so much
I love you too.
(CRYING)
(SNIFFLES)
I always wanted to be a father
You will be
in a world much better
than this one.
Your children will be happy and safe.
Yes.
But it’ll be without you.
You don't know this is gonna work.
What if it kills you?
(SIGHS) I guess that's the risk
I'm going to have to take.
- Maybe there's another way?
- This gives us another shot.
Helen and Dan get to live.
You get to see your mum again.
It’s worth a try.
You scared?
Yeah.
When you go back,
we won’t know each other.
Maybe you'll go to university
and I'll be your professor.
(TOM LAUGHS)
I want to do media studies.
Media studies? Jesus.
Don't screw up your life like I did.
Lead a good life.
I'll try.
You're a good kid, Tom.
Isla!
Get to the ship. Go!
(PANTING)
(SHUDDERING)
(SHARP CLANK)
ADINA: We need to get to the ship.
To activate the ship, you just
place your hands on the console.
(BEEPING)
I have to go.
(QUANTUM WEB PULSING)
(OXYGEN HISSING)
DAN: You're awake. How are you feeling?
Dan?
It's so good to see you.
They found you unconscious
outside the hospital.
Do you remember what happened?
Dad?
Your mum, have you spoken to your mum?
Yeah, I told her what happened.
She’s worried about you.
She's okay?
She's fine.
I'll go get the doctor.
Dan
I’m so proud of you.
I love you.
Okay.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Emily.
- On my count. Three, two, one.
- What have we got?
Gunshot wound to the abdomen.
BP 85 over 60. Heart rate 110.
(PANTING)
All right, Emily.
BILL: Emily and Sacha,
they are the Adam and Eve
of the alien race. It was always them.
Everything that's happened
has led to the moment
when Sasha and Emily got on that ship.
ISLA: When you get there,
we have to hope
that what you need to do
will be clear to you.
You have to break the time loop.
I hear this sound.
And then I see flashing lights.
DOCTOR: When did this start?
This morning
I've been seeing things.
Hallucinations are common
after losing your sight.
I'm not hallucinating.
They seem so real.
DOCTOR: Can I help you?
- We're looking for Bill Ward.
- He's been discharged.
Emily's here.
He's trying to break the time loop.
We have to find him.
(CRYING)
BILL: Are you okay?
They think I'm crazy.
Why?
Are you one of the doctors?
Yes.
Why do they think you're crazy?
I'm seeing things.
(SNIFFLES)
What What kinds of things?
It's okay. You can tell me.
I see
I see dead people in the street.
I see myself with people I've never met,
doing things that
That haven't happened.
What is it? It’s like I'm there.
I can feel it.
You think I'm crazy, too?
No, no.
Not at all.
Why don't I take you back to the clinic?
Here, take my arm.
Thank you.
Where are we?
Why are we outside?
The things that you’re seeing,
it's the future.
I
I know how that sounds.
But it's the truth.
I want to go back to the clinic.
- Take me back to the clinic.
- I can’t do that, Emily, I’m sorry.
How do you know my name?
What you’re seeing,
I have lived through.
So did you.
The dead bodies in street,
that’s going to happen.
You're scaring me.
I’ve only one opportunity
to make this stop,
or billions of people will die.
I’ve got to change things so that
the people we love get to live.
They'll never even know.
What are you doing?
I'm sorry, Emily.
I have no choice.
(GASPS)
I love you.
Search around the hospital.
MEDIC: Everybody, give us some room.
Can you move back, please?
MAN:- Move back.
MEDIC:- Make space, please.
(QUANTUM WEB PULSING)
DAN: Dad?
Where have you been?
I was waiting for you
outside the hospital.
BILL: I did something terrible.
- Terrible.
- What is it?
BILL: I
I did it for you, for your mother,
for everyone.
DAN: What did you do?
It’s not gonna make any sense to you.
But I had to do it.
I had to do it.
(MOBILE BUZZING)
It's work.
I'll be right back.
- Hi.
- All right?
JOHANNES: You have every song
in the world at your fingertips.
I can never decide what to play.
Le paraplysie du choix.
Choice paralysis.
It's like when you're buying toothpaste
in the hypermarket.
There's 100 different types.
You just want toothpaste.
I have friends coming at the weekend.
You should come and have a drink.
I have to work on my paper.
If you get bored and want some fun?
We'll see.
JOHANNES:- You want coffee?
- Yes, please.
(LINE RINGING)
(CATHERINE SPEAKING FRENCH)
Come on, Sophia. Answer your phone.
(MOBILE BUZZING)
DAN: Dad?
Has Has anything happened?
- Is there anything on the news?
- About what?
Did they detect a signal about
the existence of extraterrestrial life?
Not as far as I know.
I’ve stopped it.
It's going to be okay.
It's gonna be okay.
(SPEAKING FRENCH)
I've brought breakfast.
Max is sleeping.
I'm sorry.
I shouldn’t have said those things.
I don't blame you.
Your life is better without me.
It's easier.
And my apartment is a lot tidier
But it feels
empty.
Come home with me.
I want to help.
What did you get?
Everything.
(SIREN WAILING)
Helen.
Hi, Bill. Dan says you collapsed.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah, no, no, I’m fine. Fine.
Erm
What’s between us,
I just wanted to say
I'm sorry.
I'm pretty sure
we did this already, Bill,
about 100 times.
Yeah, but that was about me before,
what I wanted for myself.
I wasn’t thinking about what you needed.
I was a selfish prick.
Well, thank you.
It wasn't just you.
I figured out what's important.
It's you, Helen. You and Dan.
Always was.
I just wish I'd realised it sooner.
I should go.
It's good to see you, Helen.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(DOORBELL RINGS)
(BOTH LAUGH JOYFULLY)
(COUGHS)
Bill.
The virus
It’s in the lab.
Emily
Where are you going?
(CRIES OUT)
Bill.
Where are you going?