The War of the Worlds (2019) s03e01 Episode Script

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What happened?
There was an attack.
Is it like this everywhere?
I think so.
You came to us for a reason.
You're one of us.
You're human.
They suffer from genetic mutations.
We think that they're
trying to cure themselves.
The biological weapon you're developing.
It's gonna kill all the aliens.
I'm trying.
Emily?
You've been gone for months.
What did they do to you?
Catherine!
He's one of them.
I'm looking for someone. Bill Ward.
Who is he?
It feels like
they're inside my head.
Emily?
She tried to kill you.
You infected me.
They're gonna wipe us out.
My stomach
- Emily.
- Em?
If you ever touch my daughter
again, I will kill you.
The creature calculates
all the possible outcomes
in an instant.
We're looking for Professor Bill Ward.
They travelled through time,
from the future.
Emily and Sacha
are the Adam and Eve of the alien race.
One of us has to go back in time.
I'll do it.
- Are you sure?
- No.
But somebody has to do it.
I've only one opportunity
to make this stop,
or billions of people will die.
Can I help you?
We're looking for Bill Ward.
I have no choice.
Thousands of people
all over the world continue
to experience hallucinations.
Doctors and psychologists
are struggling to explain
why so many people have been affected
and what the possible causes may be.
Dominic with that report.
And now over to the news
Four months ago,
we detected unusual activity
on the x-ray spectrum.
A black hole appeared
on the edge of the Earth's exosphere.
It gave us the first confirmed sighting
of a magnetic monopole.
A "magnetic monopole"?
Our theories predicted
they were a particle
with a net magnetic charge.
Now, because of this event,
we know the monopole
isn't a particle at all,
but a wave-like charge
that permeates space-time.
- Why did it appear?
- Excuse me?
Why did it appear?
We have no idea. Um
To the outside observer,
the black hole is, uh
is only a few hundred
kilometers in diameter.
But if we were to stand inside it,
it would expand until it became
the size of a universe.
It is proof our theories of many worlds
and many dimensions
beyond our own are true.
Your paper suggests it's connected
to the hallucinations
people are experiencing?
I'm not convinced
they are hallucinations.
- Then what are they?
- I'm not sure.
The monopole is generating
high-intensity gravitational waves.
These waves work on a quantum level.
There's growing evidence
they can affect our consciousness.
You're saying the black hole's
causing thousands of people
all over the world
to see things?
There isn't a single account
of anyone having these experiences
before the black hole appeared.
It can't be a coincidence.
Have you seen anything?
Yes.
But you're able
to be here and talk to us
while others have lost
their grip on reality?
Some people are more
vulnerable than others.
Maybe I'm good at burying things.
For other people, it's not so easy.
Yes.
The meeting went over.
I'm on my way.
The beef tips with mushrooms,
I think it's chicken teriyaki.
NASA can put us into space,
just don't ask them
to put the right labels
on the food pouches.
Mission control
wants us to change orbit,
to swing by the black hole
and collect some more data.
What are they hoping to find?
Anything that explains why it appeared.
It's so cool we get to do this stuff.
You know, you're almost too old
to be using words like "cool".
Ouch.
I said almost.
Names?
What are your names?
Can I have your names, please?
A woman died from gunshot wounds
in Hammersmith Hospital.
I want her possessions.
Police!
Go! Go! Go!
What's the latest?
Multiple casualties.
Two terrorists confirmed dead
- and there's one in custody.
- Do we know who they are?
No prints. No ID.
They're not on any watch lists.
They've all got the same tattoo.
What, you recognize it?
It's been appearing on message boards
connected to these hallucinations
people have been having.
- You think there's a link?
- Yeah, maybe.
I want you to check out
these support groups
that are popping up.
There's a briefing in ten.
Hello?
Dan?
What do you want?
I just wanted to see how you are.
So how are you?
How's work?
I don't know what you want me to say.
Son, I
I just wanted to hear your voice.
So how's Mum?
- Dan.
- Don't call me.
And don't call Mum.
Uh
I see myself firing a gun.
It's so loud.
I'm a social media strategist.
I've never fired a gun in my life.
The worst thing
is the bodies in the streets.
The smell.
I can taste it in my mouth.
Did you get it?
Where are the others?
They didn't make it.
Sophia?
I know you.
I don't think so.
Zoe?
That's your name, isn't it?
I've seen you.
Are you coming in?
It helps to talk about it.
The things we see.
Do you know why it's happening?
I don't think anyone knows.
I thought I was going crazy,
then I started to hear about
other people seeing things.
I went to a support group.
Ash was there.
Big funny guy with a shaved head.
You remember him?
Vaguely.
What is it you see?
I see myself with a girl.
I saw on the Internet
that she was murdered.
Emily Gresham?
You see her too?
The guy who killed her,
I recognized him.
Bill Ward.
You know why he did it?
He's never said.
When I found out she was dead,
I started to cry.
It felt like
Like I had lost someone close to me.
How can I feel that way
about someone I've never met?
I don't know.
Adjusting lateral rotation 38 degrees.
Orbit trajectory looks good.
It should be visible any moment now.
For fuck's sake!
You're that nonce who killed that girl.
I'm not a nonce, whatever that is.
I heard you were like
a professor or summat.
Yeah, well, something like that.
Quadratic equations?
- What, you know about maths?
- A little.
I can't figure this shit out.
I'm doing my GCSEs.
You want me to help you?
Suit yourself.
Okay.
Bonjour.
Did you get the data
from the space station?
- Not yet.
- Why is it taking so long?
Maybe gathering data isn't so easy
when you're orbiting Earth.
How's Sophia?
Catherine?
She's getting worse.
It's like she's slipping
into another world.
So what are you going to do?
I'm going to figure out
why it's happening
and I'm going to make her better.
Nadia has £5 to spend
on pencils and rulers.
The pencils cost 5p
and the rulers cost 30p.
No one buys pencils and rulers.
Like, what world
do these pricks live in?
Humor me.
You've got a visitor.
- Who is it?
- A woman.
Are you going to sit down?
When you walked in, you recognized me.
We've never met.
So how do we know each other?
How do we know each other?
If I tell you,
you wouldn't believe it.
Try me.
Why did you kill Emily Gresham?
You pushed her
off the roof of a hospital.
Why would you do that?
They all had the same tattoo.
What's the connection?
Why did you kill her?
She was 17, she was blind.
Look at her.
Look at her.
I had to. I didn't have a choice.
Please. Why?
I have to know.
Please, you have to tell me.
To stop the attack.
They attacked us.
Who?
They were human.
They came from the future.
Emily and a boy called Sacha.
They left the Earth
on one of their ships.
They were the Adam and Eve
of an alien race.
It was their descendants
who came back through time to attack us.
They killed billions of people.
The bodies I see in the streets?
Those of us who survived, they
They hunted us down.
They killed my wife and my son.
So you're saying this is
going to happen in the future?
It already has.
Look
We used their technology
to send me back through time.
I killed Emily because
I didn't want their race
to come into existence.
So, there was never an attack.
Then why are we still seeing things?
I don't know. It happened
soon after I came back.
Something must have gone wrong.
Who are they?
When they sent me back through time,
some of them travelled with me.
How did they die?
They attacked a police station.
She
She took a notebook
from the evidence store.
- Do you know what's in it?
- Yes.
Equations, formulas
about quantum physics.
Their knowledge is so far beyond ours.
What could they do with it?
I don't know.
They have crippling genetic mutations.
But they think that all their
suffering is caused by us
so they want to wipe us out.
I doubt that's changed.
So, do you believe me,
or do you think I'm crazy?
I don't know.
You know
if it wasn't for me,
everybody would be dead.
I sacrificed everything.
So
So fuck you.
Fuck them all.
You miss her?
We annoyed the shit out of each other.
Now she's gone.
It's so weird that I'm never
going to see her again.
I'm sorry.
You want anything
from the vending machine?
Surprise me.
That I will do.
What's up with you?
You wanna do some spice?
No.
I do not want to do some spice.
Suit yourself.
Jesus!
You have your whole life ahead of you.
Don't waste it in here.
Smoking spice,
walking around like a zombie.
Get out.
Get a life for yourself.
You don't know how lucky you are.
Don't waste it. Don't be a prick.
Yeah, what about you?
It's too late for me.
Same time tomorrow?
Okay.
You finish it.
Can you stay?
I've got to look after my brother.
Hmm.
Will he get better?
No.
How long does he have?
I don't know.
Not long.
Maybe I could meet him?
He's very weak.
We have to be careful
he doesn't get infected.
Are you okay?
I don't have anyone else
I can talk to about this stuff.
- What is it?
- I went to see Bill Ward.
They let you talk to him?
I work for the government.
What did he say?
He says we were attacked by aliens.
- Aliens?
- The things we see,
he says they actually happened.
He says he travelled back through time
to stop the attack.
- You believe him?
- No.
It's insane.
Maybe he just wants
to get out of prison.
Maybe.
What are you going to do?
There might be a way to see if
he's telling the truth.
I'm Zoe, this is Rob.
Can we get you anything to eat or drink?
They all had the same tattoo as you.
What is that?
Are you members of some sort
of religious cult?
Did you take a vow of silence?
Is that part of the deal?
You murdered six police officers.
They're gonna lock you up
for the rest of your life.
Can you can you ask
Detective McKay to step in?
- Please.
- Sure.
I know who you are.
I know how you got here.
You don't believe me?
You think I'm lying?
I know who she was to you.
She's the reason you exist.
I know that you attacked us.
You want to wipe us out,
and now you're planning
to attack us again.
How did I do?
Zoe?
Oh, shit. Zoe, are you okay?
You believe him?
You think the things we see
actually happened?
As crazy as it sounds,
I think he's telling the truth.
Catherine.
I'm reading the paper you sent me.
It proves the quantum
oscillations of electrons
can entangle with the particles
in the phosphorus nuclei of our cells
Catherine?
It supports my theory about
It's Sophia.
gravitational waves
There was an accident
I need to tell Sophia's friends.
Their numbers will be in her phone.
Did she have her phone with her?
I don't know. I'll ask the police
I'm supposed to be attending
a conference in Marseille.
I'm giving a lecture.
Catherine.
I should tell them I can't do it.
I'll call them.
I can't I can't
It's okay.
I'd like to try to read your palm ♪
I used to think I was some
kind of gypsy boy ♪
Before I let you take me home ♪
Now so long, Marianne
It's time that we began
To laugh and cry
And cry and laugh
About it all again
Well, you know
That I love to live with you
But you make me forget so very much ♪
I forget to pray for the angels ♪
So who was Marianne?
She was Norwegian. Leonard Cohen met her
in the 1960s
on the Greek Island of Hydra.
She was his muse.
Sorry, I kind of
geeked out on you there.
You are a massive geek. Own it.
Trust me, I will.
The net magnetic charge cycle
mirrors the Hawking radiation.
I want to try and sonify it.
We're gonna need to adjust the sensors
to improve the data capture.
Looks like one of us
is going on a spacewalk.
Call it.
Heads.
So predictable.
Deep in the green lilac park
You held on to me
like I was a crucifix ♪
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