Millennium (1996) s02e23 Episode Script

- Bye-bye, Kenny.
- Bye, Kenny.
Bye.
How does God choose when it's time for someone to die? A lot of people think that they know the answer to that but no one really knows but God.
If God is so great, couldn't he make it so nobody ever dies? Honey, there must be a reason that all things have to die.
There must be.
We'll all know the reason someday.
Sometime.
Is the time near? Dr Sorenson, we're in a hot zone.
We can't determine that until we collect all the evidence, and corroborate it with the CDC at Fort Detrick.
We don't have to wait, sir.
It's here.
We knew it was coming, that it would spread faster than we could ever control it, and now it's here.
The time is now.
There's cracks around back.
The foundation's cracked, I guess it's all right.
This house was damaged long before this morning's earthquake.
Bletch.
The Old Man.
Our family.
Maybe now we've found our way back It's time for a different yellow house.
Frank? This came for you.
Henry left you some property.
A cabin and a few acres in the Wenatchee Mountains.
We should put this up for sale.
I'm not gonna have any use for it.
It might be nice to take Jordan out of the city.
No one's been up there since I was in high school.
I'm sure the cabin's barely standing.
Well, now that you've left the Group, it might be a nice project for you.
Honey, yesterday, Peter Watts told me there was going to be an earthquake this morning.
To the magnitude, to the minute.
The Group knew.
There's something happening, events are unfolding.
Events that, if I understood, I could affect.
It's a responsibility, that, for the sake of you and Jordan, I can't walk away from.
So much in me distrusts their power.
I am disgusted by their control over people.
I doubt their Christian prophecies.
I want to tell them to go to the hell that they fear so much.
But beneath it all I believe them.
I can't walk away until I am certain of what the future might bring.
The way you feel toward them describes my feeling toward you.
The time is near, Why now? Why now, Frank? Why were we born now? Do you realise the probability of even being born at all? The chances of any life being here, let alone you and me? When it ends, we'll be among the ten per cent of all humans who ever lived, Do you understand the odds of being born at the time it ends? Since the time is now, since the end is here, we're all old, But compared to all the life on earth, in the universe, we're infants, That's all we'll ever be, Can you calculate the odds of being both? I'm so lucky to be born now, The things they've told me, The responsibility, Frank, just to know is enough to to see it, Having a chance to witness, To have the chance to watch it happen, But we'll be all right, We can't be born just to die, We knew this was coming, we've known for two millennia, "Blessed is he who reads, and those who hear the words of this prophecy, for the time is near," Richard, I'm honoured you offered me ajob with you in the Trust.
But I have to remain with the Millennium Group.
Can you say why? Frank, get out.
Get away.
When we investigated Lara Means' whereabouts for you, we made some discoveries about Millennium that scared the hell outta me.
They're watching us.
You should be aware that they've begun intense surveillance on Peter Watts.
Any group who so closely monitors their own members should be feared.
I am certain of one thing, Frank.
- I'd be watching your back.
- Be well, Richard.
How is it decided who lives and who dies? Maybe, individually, we are allotted only so many days of life.
Maybe, as a whole, mankind is only allotted so many days of life, So you see, in what appears to be the plan for mankind, the death of one individual is absolutely inconsequential.
The Millennium Group is not concerned with any single individual life.
Do you see where I am going with this? Our responsibility, and remember that word, it'll come up again, our responsibility is to the life of the whole of mankind.
And so we must proceed in a manner that increases the odds of that survival.
Sounds like a paradox.
But it is the very nature of our responsibility.
If one life appears to interfere with our protection of billions of lives, it really becomes a no-brainer.
And the courage to be responsible for all those lives, that is the first thing that you must understand and accept.
As you are about to become a member of the Millennium Group, there will be a constant danger to yourself, mentally, physically, in the responsibility of the responsibility.
Just the simple act of comprehending the reality of the events before us can cause some to break.
Come on! And for those who are not broken by the danger and responsibility of knowing, comes the intensity of living with that reponsibility for the rest of their lives.
And the actions which must be taken to achieve the Millennium Group's success of purpose.
This is who we are.
Long time.
This is no way to meet up again.
- Did you examine this? - Of course.
Nothing.
I was positive this was no accident.
The Trust checked the car, intent on finding the evidence to prove our suspicions, but no foreign substances in the brake line, no evidence of tampering on the pads, disc or wheel drums.
No one can tell me the same night Richard informs me the Group is watching us, he dies in a car wreck.
Frank, death is never convenient, no matter what the circumstances, the timing or the need for a reason.
Sometimes it's just as simple as our time is up.
There are strange reports out of the east of China, near Jinan, in which an entire village of farmers and their families were found dead today, Causes are being attributed to everything from mass suicide to a toxic spill, - You put yourself at risk coming here.
- We're all at risk.
Lara Means.
I heard a message.
She's volatile.
Sometimes happens after being initiated into the Group.
It could happen to you if you intend to become a member.
- I'll never stop questioning.
- You made me start questioning.
You can stop looking for evidence here, they didn't do this.
How do you know that? The Group's occupied with something far more important.
You tried to get information about the Marburg virus from the Group's database.
Yes, I did.
After you showed me the medical tests, which indicated we had been inoculated without our being aware, I needed to know "inoculated against what?" So, since it appears that I no longer have level blue clearance, I broke into Group archives and stole some of the Old Man's effects.
A recorded transmission and his security access phrase.
I matched his voice code, got into level blue and I looked up the Marburg virus.
- What did you find? - It appears to live in an animal host.
Somewhere in the Kitum Cave region of East Africa.
The Soviets, Biopreparat, sent men into the jungle to find it.
Jordan keeps having these dreams about monkeys.
Frank, your daughter doesn't just dream.
What about the Russians? The object was to create a devastating biological weapon.
The virus is genetically labile.
It could exchange genes with plague, anthrax, smallpox, flu strains, which creates variant viruses against which a human population has no immunological defence.
Weapons-grade anthrax takes 8,000 microscopic spores to introduce an infection.
The Marburg variant they created in the lab takes three.
In 1982 prions were discovered.
A prion is a protein that has no RNA, no life.
It would make the perfect weapon.
It's immune to antibiotics, enzymes, can withstand heat of over 600 degrees.
A Marburg variant virus was genetically engineered with a prion, thereby creating a biological agent that would kill quickly, spread rapidly and, if the virus were neutralised, the fused prion would finish off the host.
When the Soviet Union fell, the bioweapons facility was abandoned.
The virus, Marburg variant PRP, a man-made life form that had never been exposed to the environment, leaked.
Birds in the area, and birds were especially susceptible, became infected.
They migrated to Alaska, Northern Canada, to the American Upper Midwest.
In 1986 a Wisconsin farmer and his flock of hens died from its effects.
It had undergone antigenic drift.
It could be transmitted from birds to humans.
As soon as that happened, the virus disappeared.
The virus.
You're telling me it's back? - The man we found by the river last week? - Yeah.
A family near San Diego, a few days ago.
A village in China yesterday, a town in South America today.
The Group has a vaccine.
They gave it to us.
Yeah.
After '86 they developed a vaccine that would keep the virus in check, in the body.
- People can be inoculated? - There would never be enough material.
They only made enough for Group members.
And their families? And their families, Peter? It was always about control, Frank.
They're gonna expect us to stay with them now they've protected us from this plague.
So watching our families die, that's protecting us? - What are you gonna do? - Get your family, I have a place we can stay.
Lara Means, can you contact her? "The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him, to show his servants things which must shortly take place," "And he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, to all things that he saw.
" "Blessed is he who reads, and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it, for the time is near.
" Forget it, Watts! She's coming with me.
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last.
" - Yes? - Frank! Peter, what's up? Peter? Where are you? What's going on here? Geibelhouse.
I need you to track Peter Watts' cellphone.
No, no, now.
Now! All right, call me back.
Peter? Where are you? Where are you? Peter! Where are you? Peter! since last Wednesday's outbreak, is estimated at 500, Under the advisement of the Centres for Disease Control, the Government and the State of Washington have declared King, Pierce and Thurston counties quarantined areas until further notice, The CDC admits to not having identified an infectious agent or cause - Hello? - Catherine? - I've been calling you all night.
- Pack the provisions.
I'll be there in an hour.
We need you here now.
I'll load the van myself.
Don't go outside.
Lara, you're the only one, not my wife, not my family, who ever understood.
Only you.
I've travelled that road, Lara, that you're on.
What I saw made me swear that I would rather die than return.
Oh, I know peace can be found there.
And if you do, if you do find it, I know you will never return.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Our new yellow house.
- Can we go home now? - We're gonna be here for a while.
- OK.
- Come on, sweetie.
Ugh! - Mommy, I'll be right outside.
- OK, sweetheart.
Catherine During the Black Plague, people took their families to the mountains or the forest.
They'd post guards encircling their camps and kill anybody that appeared.
The ones that practised this behaviour, they survived the outbreak.
The symptoms, which a victim may not recognise, include disorientation, Monitor any increase in body temperature, be aware of a low-grade fever, Secondary symptoms may take only hours or minutes to appear Can we turn it off? Look at her.
What if she gets sick? - How can we let her go through that? - We wouldn't.
If I get sick, I don't want you to watch me die.
- Hey - I don't want her to watch me die.
- You would have to - What? I couldn't do that.
- I couldn't.
- You have to.
- What are you asking me? - Wouldn't you want I wouldn't ask you to do that.
I'd go out in the woods I'd just I wouldn't ask you to do that.
I wouldn't.
If you both became sick, I wouldn't I wouldn't want to live after that.
I can't get sick.
It was done to me and I didn't ask for it.
The Group gave me a vaccine.
- They know what this is? - I don't know what they know.
- What are they doing about it? - It's a virus.
Maybe it loses it virulence.
It fades away, or maybe they're going to give it to the government, I don't know.
They told me that they only had enough for their members.
Oh, my God.
Lara Means got a sense of what was gonna happen to her.
We gotta give it to Jordan.
Right away.
I love you.
Where's Mom? We need supplies, Many are dead, This is a general distress call, Send help.
I made this!