Millennium (1996) s03e01 Episode Script

It has begun.
It's all right.
- Nicotinehead in the bathroom.
- I've got it.
Ma'am? Open the door.
Open the door.
I can't.
Everything's going to be OK.
Oh, God, no! If I make friends and we have to leave, I'll just have to make new friends all over again somewhere else.
- Won't I? - Yeah.
Is that you, or is your pack full of rocks? - You didn't answer my question.
- Go ahead and make friends, sweetie.
It's OK.
My friends in Seattle, are they still my friends? They'll still be your friends, just like Daddy has old friends here.
Good.
But can we paint our new house yellow? We'll see.
- Hi, sweetheart.
- Hi, Grandma.
Hi, Grandpa.
- You have a good day.
- I will.
- I'll pick you up later.
- OK.
Bye.
- Hi, Tom, Justine.
- Morning, Frank.
Good morning.
Thank you.
You've saved me a lot of backtracking.
We'd be happy to keep Jordan over on week nights if time's that important to you, Frank.
- You know how much we love her.
- Yes, I do.
- I'll pick you up before dinner.
- OK.
Don't forget to buckle up.
Bye, Daddy.
Palmer? You Palmer? Special Agent Baldwin.
How about bringing me up to speed? We've located the voice and data recorders on a wooded slope just about two miles west.
We should have them within 45 minutes.
- How soon before we get them transcribed? - Two hours.
We are looking for evidence of a crime under the suspicion that this airplane did notjust fall out of the sky.
They never do, Agent Baldwin.
And as soon as we have evidence of anything, you'll be the first to know.
How you doing with all this? You imagine it you think you can but not like this.
I got a scene that's pretty much intact, but it won't stay that way long, so every minute counts out here, all right? I'm fine.
- I'm just not used to the smell.
- Shallow breaths with the diaphragm.
Stop worrying about your performance rating, Barry.
Stop worrying about me.
What you don't understand is there are people responsible for what happened to Catherine, When your wife died, you said you felt you had betrayed her, This was not a naturally occurring phenomenon, This was a murder, Not just of my wife, but of everyone that got killed out there in that outbreak, Everyone, - Why do you think this is so? - What? - Tell me why you think this is - I'm not here to educate you, Why are you here, Frank? You're here because you have people who need you to get well, I'm not so sure I want to this time, How do you feel, seeing that? Five months, Frank.
That's not much time to come so far.
I feel like everything is moving slowly.
I feel unconnected.
- You're back at work.
- No.
Consulting.
That's just an excuse to justify my being here at these therapy sessions.
The Bureau felt you should have time to deal with your loss.
I think I've taken enough time.
Frank, you've had a terrible tragedy in your life.
No matter how well you think you are, you have got to go slow.
This way.
We're lucky for the trees.
At 30,000 feet, this thing's buried so deep, we'd never find it.
It all comes raining down and we get to put it back together.
OK, people, looks like we got ourselves a crime scene.
Let's get some prints.
I don't care! "No comment", that's all you say.
Because we don't have a statement.
If we don't have a statement, you don't have to worry about issuing one.
All right? - Sounds like a reasonable strategy.
- This plane crash in the Sierras, they found a weapon, the press is all over it, not to mention the interagency crap.
- Who's out there? - Barry Baldwin.
Good soldier.
More ambition than instinct.
He's a first-timer on something like this, but, right now, he's the best I got.
How are you, uh doing, Frank? Better.
I feel pretty good.
I can tell.
You're practically jumping up, clicking your heels.
I want to move on, Andy.
- What do they say? - That I'm not ready.
Well, when you are, tell me.
I have a lot to thank you for and I'm not unappreciative.
Hey, Frank, smile.
Come on, big smile.
It's what I live for.
As of 1400 hours, the FBI will take lead on this investigation as it has become a crime scene.
I am Special Agent Baldwin.
I will be the investigator in charge.
NTSB and FAA personnel will serve in a support capacity, OK? OK.
This is what we know for sure.
Impact was at 11,38pm local time, The aircraft began breaking apart in midair, scattering wreckage and bodies over two miles, NTSB has located a structural anomaly at the tail of the aircraft that may have been caused by a fire in the aft lavatory, This alone could have caused the crash, but we also found a gun with an empty magazine, If they're connected, it's uncertain how, but we got prints from the weapon, so what we need now is a body to match them to, Passenger and crew manifest lists 113 people on this plane, We have recovered 91, I know this is hard, people, especially with the children, but it's of utmost importance that we leave this site with every possible piece of evidence as to what caused this tragedy, That's the job of the living, Though there's been no announcement, sources say the FBI is now investigating the crash as a crime, What has brought this downed airliner into the hearts of the world most - is the children on board, 23 in all - They'll never understand.
Sunlight Foundation for the terminally ill, which had taken them on a charity tour, FBI investigators are being careful with any additional details they may have gathered, We anticipate a press release within the next few hours and we'll bring you those details as they come to us, Thank you, Susan, Moving on to other news, the president's legal problems continue to mount as pressures from within his own Daddy, can you reach for me? I need a glass.
I think I can manage that.
- There you go, sweetheart.
- Thanks.
- We're having spaghetti.
You hungry? - Yeah.
- There you go.
- Thanks.
That's enough though.
- Good, you start.
- We have to say grace.
- Grace? - Mm-hm.
Is that what Grandma and Grandpa taught you to do? Bless us, Father, for this food and keep our family safe and together always.
If you get any bigger, I'm going to make you carry me, - Grandpa still carries me.
- Does he? Is Grandpa mad at you, Daddy? - Why do you say that? - Because he never talks to you.
Well, we just both feel bad about Mommy, like you do.
She was his daughter too, just like you are mine.
It's very hard for us to talk about losing her.
He talks about those kids who died in the plane crash.
He says they want to find who did it.
There's a lot of people working on that.
What if they don't find who did it? Will it happen again? Hm.
Yeah? - It's Frank.
I'm sorry for calling so late.
- What time is it? I can't get this crash out of my mind.
It's about the kids, Andy.
OK.
Can we talk about this in the morning? I don't wanna talk about it any more.
I see it.
That hasn't happened for a long time.
That's why I need to get out there.
Now, Special Agent Baldwin.
You wanna put this on? It helps to know who the competition is.
I'm not too sure what the thinking is - we've got it under control.
- Just another pair of eyes.
- Sure.
Welcome the input.
If you've never been to a crash site, you get used to the smell.
No, you don't.
Ever.
- I'm just going to have a look around.
- Sure.
They want us to diagram the whole thing.
- Anything in particular you're looking for? - No, just looking.
The tail section travelled farthest.
They think it snapped off midair.
The aerodynamic pieces always travel the farthest.
I didn't know that.
I've never been on one of these.
Special Agent Emma Hollis, Critical Incident Response Group.
Frank Black.
You were at the Bureau when it was the Behavioral Science Unit.
Yes, I was.
I saw the chopper, thought it was you.
Except I'd heard you weren't gonna be out in the field, you'd stick close to Quantico.
Your reputation's pretty well-known around the academy.
I hope it's nothing I have to live up to, Agent Hollis.
I don't know if you've heard the prevailing theory.
The gun had one set of prints, which have been matched to a flight attendant.
They got traces of gunpowder off her right hand and casings from Teflon-coated loads.
So the theory is she stashed the gun in the bathroom until she decided it was time for the plane to land.
Whose theory is that? Special Agent Baldwin.
- I gotta tell you, it doesn't make sense to me.
- Why's that? Smoke alarm went off in the aft lavatory before the plane broke up.
If she's gonna crash the plane, she's not gonna call attention to herself.
Anyway, it's lucky it came down in this meadow.
NTSB guys say a few minutes earlier and it would have been all at impossible elevations.
"Lucky" is a tough word to use out here.
Yeah.
Let me ask you What about the butterflies? Is there anything to them? They're attracted to motor oil, brake fluid.
So it's nothing, then? They're attracted to lacrimal secretions.
- Tears? - I don't know if it means anything.
That's why you're here, though.
I mean, you see things differently.
- That's what they say.
- I'm not sure why I'm out here.
Just hold on a second so I can follow the bouncing ball.
You got a match on the prints? A seven-point match on the stewardess.
Only prints on the gun.
We have powder residue.
We've got her employment profile and it's spotty.
Two medical leaves in three years.
HR gave her a termination warning at the end of 1997, - She's been on probation until the crash, - Disgruntled employee.
Yeah.
She hides a gun in the lav, boom, boom, she's even.
That sounds right.
Did you ask Frank Black what he thinks? No.
Not yet.
He's not real communicative.
Not real sure what he's doing here, to be honest.
- Keep him apprised, he might be of help.
- Sure.
- I gotta release something to the press.
- Loose theory only.
Sole perpetrator.
I don't want you going out on any limbs.
All right.
You got something? There's your smoke alarm.
- Pink lipstick on the filter.
- Check the file on the stewardess.
- You think she's a smoker? - I'm betting she's not.
OK.
I got her medicals.
No indication she smoked.
Nothing definitive either way.
Think there was someone else in the lav? Female, from the lipstick.
- Single, unwed, travelling alone.
- How'd you know? It's unusual for a mother to kill her child.
Baxter, Champagne Dutton.
- Lee.
- Deena Bartus.
Bartus, Bartus Deena Bartus.
No, she boarded with a child.
What about the stewardess Lillie Thom? Any connection? They're both from Salt Lake City.
I'd better tell Baldwin.
He's about to release a press report.
Agent Hollis.
It's just a theory.
Everyone's got one.
Wake up, sleepy girl.
Hey, sweet girl.
So big.
How'd you get to be such a big girl, huh? Come on.
Frank Black? Yeah.
Agent Spadner out of the SLC field office.
- We spoke.
- You have anything for me? Fire marshal says it's a natural gas explosion.
Our guys are en route.
I got the victims listed as a two-year-old girl, a 28-year-old woman fighting for her life in ICU.
- Don't ask me how.
- Do you have any names? No.
Nothing in the car and the mail goes elsewhere.
County records says it's owned by a private trust.
Neighbours don't know much.
Said they're quiet, in and out.
Sometimes not here for weeks, even months at a time.
Had any luck with the victim? Is she able to talk? I haven't spoken to her.
Well, somebody is.
Just got off the phone with a woman who's working with you.
What? - So, it's physically possible for her to speak? - Yeah, physically.
But emotionally? She just lost her two-year-old daughter.
Hi.
I'm Emma Hollis.
I'm sorry for your loss.
I'd like to help you.
We know about Deena.
I work for the FBI.
This explosion at the house wasn't an accident, was it? Please, we can't help if we don't know what's going on.
For your little girl, at least.
Anything you know about who might have done this to her.
Get out.
Frank Black.
For a guy who's been laying low for months, you've been getting around.
Word is you requisitioned a forensic unit from the Salt Lake office.
What is this? An obligatory budgetary call? I just wanna know what's going on, First you beg to go to California, now Baldwin tells me you're in Salt Lake City with one of his agents.
- What? I'm by myself.
- Doing what, for God's sake? Now, I never authorised any travel out there, Frank, There was a house explosion.
It connects to the plane crash.
To your stewardess.
How? Please, tell me, cos we just issued a statement saying she acted alone.
Andy, I gotta go.
You're a real piece of work.
Mr Black? Get out.
Get out now! There's a connection.
It's what drew me in.
It's why I had to get out there.
And it's in those containers.
What? What's in 'em, Frank? Victims of a viral outbreak.
The planned release of a biotoxin.
Andy, the same one that killed Catherine.
Wait, before you say this in front of anybody - I'm sure about it.
- We've been friends a long time, so I can - These people are involved.
- How? How were they involved? I don't know.
They were prepared.
They planned for an outbreak.
They were ready.
Frank, your wife died in the Pacific Northwest.
These people are in Salt Lake City.
You're way off.
Way, way off, Frank.
I am all hands on deck trying to keep this case in order and you turn it upside down with this ridiculous chase for vengeance.
There is a pattern.
At ground zero of the outbreak, the first victim was a mother and a child.
The woman on the plane is connected to the woman in the house explosion and they both had children.
These containers, you open them and you'll find the same thing - a mother and a child.
- A viral outbreak? - Yeah.
A plane crash? A house explosion? If they are all connected to you and Catherine, how come your daughter's still alive? We had something that they didn't have.
An antitoxin.
Just not enough of it.
The people I worked for, the Millennium Group, they got it for us.
They were warned.
Maybe you should throw it to them then, cos this won't fly here, not in a thousand years.
Andy, just open the caskets.
KP levels to base level, we're ready to go.
We're good to go.
You shouldn't be out there.
You shouldn't be here either.
Go home, Frank.
Till I call you.
Is that my daddy? Daddy! How come you're late? I'm sorry I'm home so late.
I had a really hard day at work.
She wouldn't go to bed.
- You wouldn't go to bed? - Nope.
Do you know what happens, Cinderella? I'll take her up, Frank.
- I'll come up and tuck you in.
- Bye.
Good night, Grandpa.
That little girl needs more than you're giving her, Frank.
I'm afraid for her.
I know you blame me for Catherine's death, Tom.
Please.
Don't do it this way.
She's setting imaginary place settings for her mother whenever we sit down to eat.
- It's not healthy, Frank, do you think? - We're all working through it in our own way.
Every day I thank God Jordan didn't die in that thing, Frank.
But my daughter did.
And every day I have to deal with the anger of wondering "why her?" Why not you? - I wonder too.
- Do you, Frank? Or are you just running from it? There isn't a picture, a memento, nothing here that remembers Catherine.
If you're so good at what you do, Frank, you'd have caught who did it.
Maybe you've lost it.
Maybe you're just running now.
Hi.
I'm sorry, I know it's late and it's - I called, but your phone's off the hook.
- I know.
I just can't get this stuff out of my head, about the crash and the house and those two women.
I can't help you.
It's over.
It's a dead end.
With all due respect, sir, I think you're wrong.
That woman at the hospital knows something.
I saw it in her eyes.
She'll talk to you, I know it.
If you hadn't noticed, I have a problem taking "no" for an answer.
But tell me to leave and I will.
Just take what you need.
Be out within the hour.
Yes? We're moving everybody.
We know who you are, Mary.
We know all about you and your loss.
And I know that two days ago you lost a daughter.
This is a picture of my wife.
She died too.
In a viral outbreak in the Pacific Northwest.
You know about that and I need to know what.
I need to know what, Mary, for my little daughter.
I need to know who killed her mommy.
- It wasn't meant for her.
- Who was it meant for? For me.
And my sisters.
And the children.
Who would do that? Who would kill the children? Doesn't matter.
There's only one left.
Only one child.
Where is she? She can't save herself.
We can save her.
Help me.
- Do you want to take them here? - Wait for a safe spot.
No! - What the hell were they doing? - Cables, chains, anything you got in there.
Just don't move.
OK.
Don't move.
I'm going to get you out.
No! Don't touch her.
Don't! It's OK.
We're just going to help you, that's all.
Emma, Emma! What are you doing? No! No! Oh, God.
No.
There's nothing to see.
She was so scared.
I know.
I made this!