Millennium (1996) s03e03 Episode Script
TEOTWAWKI
Ready? Hit it! One, two, three, four! Who are the Warriors? We are the Warriors! What kind of Warriors? The Redland Warriors! Stand up and yell, Warriors! Stand up and yell, Warriors! Tell them yourselves, Warriors! Red, white, blue, fight! Yeah! Love that Warrior pride! Yeah! As you all know, we're having this pep rally today notjust to show our school spirit, but to celebrate our victory at the State Academic Championships! And also to accept the most generous gift I can imagine from ComLogic Computers, a system for our school worth over two million dollars.
No! No! At the turning of the last millennium it was foretold the world would be consumed by fire and misery, The unbelievers slept untroubled, But the fateful toiled against the inevitable weighed by a terrible burden - deciding who would be spared, and who would be left behind, Come on, let's set up.
This way.
This way.
Why are these bodies being moved? We were asked to make our reports and get them out.
This way.
Hollis.
See if you can get somebody to tell you what was documented on the victims.
Carlton.
Let's go home, buddy.
Let's just get in the car and go home.
What's the chief want to call it? What do you call it? Is it a massacre? A shooting spree? What did they call it down in Oregon? Or that school down South? That I can even ask.
- Who's Geibelhouse? - That'd be me.
Baldwin.
Special Agent, Critical Incident Response Group.
As you can see, we're pretty far down the road here.
- I can see.
- Yeah.
- You familiar with crime scene procedure? - Familiar with it? - With preservation of evidence.
- It's not a question.
Yeah.
What is it you wanna know? Just what's been missed.
We've got three dead.
They're taped in black.
There were nine wounded, taped in white.
I sent the wounded to the hospital rather than waste more black tape.
If that's OK with you.
The shooter was under the bleachers.
He got off 15 shots, fired in rapid succession from a semiautomatic weapon.
- Have you recovered it? - Under the bleachers.
We're running prints and registration.
I don't know why I'm answering your questions.
I called the FBI and specifically asked for Frank Black to come out here.
So how come Frank Black's not out here? We've got interviews to conduct.
You know the drill.
Quick but thorough.
Let's try to get this done before anybody starts asking about feeding these kids.
"Skylark.
" To the 21st century.
Or not.
One way or another, we're about to see the future.
Five seconds.
Four, three, two, one.
- Not again.
- Oh, God.
There goes the grid.
Air treatment system is out.
We should be going to backup power.
- Where is it? - It's disappeared.
Gone.
- It can't be.
- It's gone.
It's just gone.
- I don't believe this.
- Well, better start believing it.
Cos it's only the beginning.
The end of the world as we know it.
I need to talk to you.
He didn't do it.
He swears to me up and down he didn't do it.
- He says Brant did it.
- Just a damn minute.
- Have you even asked your kid? - I just found out about it.
Right now, we don't know who did it.
Neither do the police.
They're talking to the kids now.
They've got the FBI on this.
- They find a weapon? - Did they get a registration? If it's one of our kids, that could lead back to us! That's the big bugaboo here, isn't it? If they figure out who shot those kids, the rest of it is gonna come out for sure, and I don't think any of us wants to explain to our stockholders, or to corporate America, what the hell we're up to.
Let's just hope to God it's not one of our kids.
That's a nice tight pattern.
I'm gonna make you come out hunting with us this season.
I'm only gonna do this cos it's mandatory.
You know me, Frank.
I'm always looking for ways to get you out of your own head.
I got a call from an old friend of yours from Washington State.
Detective Geibelhouse.
He was first on the scene at this high school shooting.
- He asked for you.
- What did you tell him? It's too soon.
I didn't want you out there, especially since it'd be like going home.
You're gonna have to let me make my own way.
When I really need you, Frank, then I'll consider it.
Anyway, sad as it is, this is just kids and guns.
"Just kids and guns"? One step at a time.
I talked to about 50 kids.
They honestly seem without a clue who did this.
Somebody saw something.
I feel like we're not getting something here.
I did get one red flag.
A kid named Brant Carmody.
He was very noncommunicative in a kind of belligerent way.
I asked an administrator.
She said he's a tough kid.
Football star who quit the team and gave up two or three big athletic scholarships.
- He's also got ajuvenile record here.
- What were the charges? Assault and battery twice.
Apparently he comes from a very wealthy family.
Very.
His father's some Fortune 500 computer executive.
Let's go find him.
- Before he washes off the powder residue.
- I'm just saying it's a red flag.
Right now, that's about the only flag we've got.
- Stacey Carmody? - Yes.
- We'd like to talk to your son Brant.
- Why? It's OK.
We spoke to him earlier.
We just have a few follow-up questions.
How many people does it take? I don't have to let you in, do I? Becker, kitchen! Hollis, upstairs! Wallace, follow me! Call 911.
My son just shot himself.
Oh, God.
The gun on the left is a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun with a 15-round magazine.
It's the gun used by Brant Carmody in his own suicide.
It's registered to his father, purchased through a dealer in Missoula, Montana.
It is identical to the gun on the right, purchased through the same dealer and also registered to Brant's father.
Both were purchased for home defence.
They were both locked in a cabinet, had trigger locks, and both, upon being recovered, not only had been recently fired, but had Brant Carmody's fingerprints on them.
As Brant fits a certain profile as a youth offender with a history of violent behaviour, it was my deduction and that of those who accompanied me to Redland High School that he fired this weapon, that he acted alone, and that his motives, although uncertain, can be attributed to what his counsellors say was a strong tendency to act out his rage.
We've wrapped up our investigation.
We've handed over our findings to the Seattle PD, who will now handle this matter for the community of Redland, and we would like, without further questions, to consider this unfortunate matter closed.
All right, good.
Unless somebody has something, I'd like to move on.
Why do you assume it was suicide? Uh two reasons.
The angle of entry on the wound, and his fingerprints were all over the trigger lock, which had to be removed before the weapon could be discharged.
That's a very weak deduction.
I'm not saying you're wrong.
I think that the assumption you make about the second shooting is the basis for your assumption about the first shooting.
Did anyone test the parents for powder burns? We didn't test the mother, because we were talking to her on her doorstep when the gun went off.
And no, we didn't check the father.
Was that something that you overlooked? Or was that a decision you made? - A decision based on the circumstances.
- Where were the trigger locks found? Mr Carmody handed them over to us, with several other handguns he asked us to remove from the house.
So his fingerprints were on those as well.
Well, of course they were.
OK, let's table this for now and move on to the next order of business.
I wasn't trying to humiliate him.
It's that lax kind of police work we see all too often.
I have spoken to Baldwin.
I am reassured he made the right decisions out there.
- What are you afraid of? - We weren't out there.
- You're just pressuring me! - What is there about this case? You want the FBI to question this man with the kind of evidence we've got? I send Baldwin back out there, I am going to be the point man in a tabloid media circus.
- Send me.
- I am not going to be strong-armed like this.
I'm not asking you, I'm telling you.
I'm going out there.
And if you say no, I understand.
I'll turn in my credentials and go home for good.
Because I'm not used to seeing you or myself sitting on our hands in any kind of meeting.
I'll get it! - Jordan? - There's somebody here for you.
What'd I tell you about answering the door without finding out who's there? Hi.
I'm sorry.
I told her I work with you.
It's OK.
Come in.
Hey.
What did I teach you about this? Not to answer the door because people aren't always who they say they are.
OK.
- I'm sorry.
How can I help? - I'm sorry.
I should've called.
I drove around the block three times - no, more like five times - before I decided to ring the bell.
- So you weren'tjust in the neighbourhood.
- You're going there, aren't you? To Redland.
Why? If you are, there's something I need to show you.
Something Agent Baldwin left out of his report.
I found this at the crime scene.
I've interviewed every kid.
No one wants to claim it.
But there's an inscription in it to one of the cheerleaders who died, Tammy Meador.
- Why don't you go up and finish packing? - OK.
Is she going with you on your trip, Daddy? No, honey.
Go get ready.
"Skylark.
" - I assume that's not the accused's writing.
- No, it's not.
I checked that.
It's a book of prayers from the Dark Ages, which I thought was weird.
Itjust doesn't seem like something you'd find in a high school gym.
"The days are numbered, history counting backwards as we count forward to a new dark age.
Though not all will survive, I would rather die than live knowing I didn't try to save you.
" It's a warning.
It means someone out there knows about this.
You were out there.
You want to go back and follow up.
Go pack.
I'll let Andy McClaren know that I'm requesting someone to assist me.
I guess the problem's fixed now.
How do you mean "fixed", Chris? The FBI's closing their investigation.
We won't be answering any more questions.
You told him, didn't you, Chris? You told your son about what we're doing.
I had to.
I had to.
Stacey insisted.
That's why he went crazy! You can't tell a kid everything will be taken away from him and expect him to deal with it.
Nothing's "fixed", Chris.
I just got a call from Geibelhouse, saying two FBI agents are coming to ask more questions.
- I don't know what you think I can tell you.
- You and Brant Carmody were dating.
He was your boyfriend, we were told.
Yeah, he was.
We went out for about three years.
But we broke up at the beginning of this year.
Why is that? Excuse me.
Go ahead.
Why did you break up, Kathy? Brant I don't know.
He just kinda changed.
He became a different person.
- What do you mean? - He became really negative.
He quit football.
He quit school, basically.
He was here, but not really.
- He was, like, numb.
- Like depressed? No.
He would talk about the end of the world.
And he would get really scary.
- What do you mean, "the end of the world"? - Like everything collapsing.
Banks and governments and order and society.
And he would totally believe it.
Kathy.
Do you think he shot those kids? I think everyone thinks he did.
What do you think? But I don't understand why he would kill himself.
That wasn't like Brant.
He was angry at everyone else.
Why would he kill himself? Kathy, do you know who Skylark is? We found him here on the floor in his pyjamas.
- Was this bed made or unmade? - The bed was unmade.
- I'm assuming they have full-time help.
- Yeah.
Is this the only access to this room? And you are certain no one else, other than the father, was in this area of the house at the time of death? To be honest, no one really checked.
And there were about five of us here, too.
I think that Brant Carmody did, in fact, kill those kids.
I think that his rage was driven by his absolute conviction that the end of the world was coming.
And that nothing, not even the taking of his classmates' lives, mattered any more.
But his death was not a suicide.
He was murdered, wasn't he? Hi.
- What are you doing here? - Talking to that programmer.
He says you guys worked out the problem with the chips.
You guys fixed everything.
It's too late.
No matter what anyone tells you.
We shouldn't be talking about this.
- Especially after what happened at school.
- Brant was telling everybody what'd happen.
You're not gonna do that.
You're gonna be strong and keep this a secret.
Why? That's what I wanna know.
Why? Because that's the only way we're gonna survive.
If everyone knows, none of us is gonna make it.
Agent Baldwin, we just have one question.
What is the FBI's involvement in this case? Agent Baldwin, just this one question.
Keep them outta here.
- How long we got to wait for this lawyer? - You people are out of control.
You couldn't find the person who shot those kids at the high school, so you blame my son.
Now you want to blame my husband.
You just need someone to blame! - That's enough.
- That's what you're good at! You can't stop the violence, so you have to make it look like you're doing something.
Stacey, that's enough.
- Did Brant talk about the end of the world? - The end of the world? About the breakdown of society.
About futility.
I don't know.
He was a kid.
He had problems.
- You got kids? - I got kids.
And they get angry at me, - but I don't blow their heads off.
- I did not kill my son! That's interesting, cos we checked out a few things that don't quite make sense.
Pathologist said Brant had toothpaste in his mouth from brushing his teeth before bed.
And when we found him dead he was already in his jammies.
I wanna know why a kid who's so upset gets ready for bed like that before he offs himself.
And that's what you're basing this on? I'm not gonna need a lawyer.
You are.
What'd you find? Frank Black.
We'd better talk right now.
What's going on? - Who's Skylark? - We don't know.
Well, he, she or whoever it is sent this email to the victim.
Did you read this? It's a death threat.
It swears revenge for killing Tammy Meador.
- When was this sent? - A half-hour before the time of death.
How does that work? - His dad sends his own kid a death threat? - No.
Skylark or someone else.
- So what are we saying? - The father didn't kill his kid.
Somebody else did.
Looks like you got a real mess to clean up here.
Get to the Internet service provider and find out who Skylark is.
Do it quickly and quietly, because as soon as they know that we know, Skylark's life's gonna be in danger.
- What's going on? - I just got a call from the FBI.
About Gary King's kid.
They're looking for your son Carlton, Gary.
Why? - I don't know why.
- They say he has some online name.
Skylark.
And that he made a death threat to Brant Carmody.
- You told him, didn't you? About our plans.
- He figured it out! These kids are scared! You think they're scared now? Wait till it all hits the fan! Yeah? We have an APB out on Carlton King.
I got roadblocks going up, but he's gone, Frank.
We're doing a background check.
Look at these card transactions.
Last year his family spent several hundred thousand dollars on things like gas generators, solar panelling, barbed wire, nonperishable food items.
The list goes on, including an arms purchase from that same wholesaler in Montana of four M-16 assault rifles.
Gary King, his father, is also on a deed of trust with the 11 executives who run ComLogic, in the purchase of 14,000 acres of high desert land in eastern Washington State.
Strange tastes for a man who's made his fortune in high technology.
- What are they preparing for? - The failure of technology in 2000.
When computer chips designed to only recognise two digits think that we've made a leap backwards 100 years.
That's not gonna happen.
- Is that gonna happen? - They believe it will.
You have to pick up this Gary King.
And everybody whose name appears on this deed of trust.
I'm all over it.
There's nothing illegal here.
What are you gonna arrest these men for? I just don't buy it that Skylark, Carlton King, he snuck into that house and killed his classmate.
- You still think it was the father? - Yeah.
Yeah? Yeah? Back up! Go inside! Back up! Go inside! - Don't, Hollis! - I'll shoot you! You're not gonna shoot anybody, Carlton.
That's what you're saying, isn't it? You're saying I killed Brant! - We found your letter.
- I would've killed him.
He killed Tammy.
You don't want to hurt anyone.
That's why you gave Tammy that book.
To warn her.
What you're doing is very serious.
If you're innocent, you don't wanna make this mistake.
What difference does it make? It's what's gonna happen anyway, isn't it? Won't be any police.
Or FBI.
My dad says it's gonna be every man for himself.
Why did you come here, Carlton? Cos I'm afraid they're gonna do the same thing to me they did to Brant.
Nobody's gonna hurt you, Carlton.
You've got to let us help you.
Do you know who these cars belong to, Carlton? Yes.
This is where we keep all the stuff we're gonna use to survive.
You ready? I want you to stay in the car, OK? If anything happens, I want you to go and get help.
- We should call for backup.
- They have a lot of fire power.
- It could turn into a standoff in seconds.
- What are you gonna do? I don't know.
But I think we should wait until they come outside and get in their cars.
But we can't let 'em leave.
Get down.
FBI! Drop your weapon! Frank! Frank? Are you OK? Gary? Gary? Frank! He's going around the truck.
Dammit! Frank! - Gary? - They're under the cars! I need more guns! Dad? - Carlton! - Put the gun down, Gary! Get down, Carlton! Get away! - Move, Carlton! - Put the gun down so nobody gets hurt.
- Did you bring him out here, Carlton? - He's not part of this.
He's just afraid.
You brought the FBI out here, didn't you? Put the gun down, Gary.
This is not a war.
There's no enemies here.
Put the gun down.
Show your son that he's got nothing to be afraid of.
Show him that you won't do to him what Brant Carmody's father did.
- Gary? - I'm here.
It's OK.
Everything's gonna be OK.
Is it true, Chris? Did you do what they say? Did you? How could you do it? How could you kill our son? Answer me! Answer me! Answer me! Answer me! Answer me! My son was a killer.
I know that doesn'tjustify what I did, but I did it to save my wife.
And my little girls.
They would've stayed behind if Brant was in jail, see.
You don't you don't believe this, huh? You still don't believe it.
It's gonna happen! You can't stop it! All the chips, all the power grids are gonna fail! I worked on those chips.
I built them.
We can't fix the problem fast enough.
There'll be no banks.
There'll be no police.
Airports will fail, and telephones.
You won't be able to get food or gas or fresh water.
How long before people take to the streets with guns? How long is it gonna be before people turn into animals? Is that what it takes to save the world? Killing your own flesh and blood? Saving the strong and letting the weak die? - What alternative did I have? - Let's go.
- Yes.
- Mr Black? - Yeah.
- It's Emma.
I wanna say thank you.
I don't know for what, exactly.
I've got to fill out all this paperwork and I've never done it before.
For discharging my weapon.
They make you account for every shell.
- I was hoping I could look at your report, - I didn't fire my weapon, Agent Hollis.
I wasn't even carrying it.
- You were relying on me? - I was relying on my experience.
And you.
You did an excellentjob, Agent Hollis.
Do you think what he said was true? About the breakdown of society at the millennium? I think the only way we're gonna survive is by our humanity.
If we lose that, there's nothing.
Good night, Agent Hollis.
It is prophesied that when the end comes, it will come in darkness, A catastrophe all foresaw, but few believed, Most of us will battle too late against the chaos, But not the few, the radical few, who obey no disciplines, Unencumbered by conscience, they prepare ruthlessly, pursuing their own preservation, If they survive, the rest of us perish, None will weep for the civilised, the principled, Us, None but God himself, I made this!
No! No! At the turning of the last millennium it was foretold the world would be consumed by fire and misery, The unbelievers slept untroubled, But the fateful toiled against the inevitable weighed by a terrible burden - deciding who would be spared, and who would be left behind, Come on, let's set up.
This way.
This way.
Why are these bodies being moved? We were asked to make our reports and get them out.
This way.
Hollis.
See if you can get somebody to tell you what was documented on the victims.
Carlton.
Let's go home, buddy.
Let's just get in the car and go home.
What's the chief want to call it? What do you call it? Is it a massacre? A shooting spree? What did they call it down in Oregon? Or that school down South? That I can even ask.
- Who's Geibelhouse? - That'd be me.
Baldwin.
Special Agent, Critical Incident Response Group.
As you can see, we're pretty far down the road here.
- I can see.
- Yeah.
- You familiar with crime scene procedure? - Familiar with it? - With preservation of evidence.
- It's not a question.
Yeah.
What is it you wanna know? Just what's been missed.
We've got three dead.
They're taped in black.
There were nine wounded, taped in white.
I sent the wounded to the hospital rather than waste more black tape.
If that's OK with you.
The shooter was under the bleachers.
He got off 15 shots, fired in rapid succession from a semiautomatic weapon.
- Have you recovered it? - Under the bleachers.
We're running prints and registration.
I don't know why I'm answering your questions.
I called the FBI and specifically asked for Frank Black to come out here.
So how come Frank Black's not out here? We've got interviews to conduct.
You know the drill.
Quick but thorough.
Let's try to get this done before anybody starts asking about feeding these kids.
"Skylark.
" To the 21st century.
Or not.
One way or another, we're about to see the future.
Five seconds.
Four, three, two, one.
- Not again.
- Oh, God.
There goes the grid.
Air treatment system is out.
We should be going to backup power.
- Where is it? - It's disappeared.
Gone.
- It can't be.
- It's gone.
It's just gone.
- I don't believe this.
- Well, better start believing it.
Cos it's only the beginning.
The end of the world as we know it.
I need to talk to you.
He didn't do it.
He swears to me up and down he didn't do it.
- He says Brant did it.
- Just a damn minute.
- Have you even asked your kid? - I just found out about it.
Right now, we don't know who did it.
Neither do the police.
They're talking to the kids now.
They've got the FBI on this.
- They find a weapon? - Did they get a registration? If it's one of our kids, that could lead back to us! That's the big bugaboo here, isn't it? If they figure out who shot those kids, the rest of it is gonna come out for sure, and I don't think any of us wants to explain to our stockholders, or to corporate America, what the hell we're up to.
Let's just hope to God it's not one of our kids.
That's a nice tight pattern.
I'm gonna make you come out hunting with us this season.
I'm only gonna do this cos it's mandatory.
You know me, Frank.
I'm always looking for ways to get you out of your own head.
I got a call from an old friend of yours from Washington State.
Detective Geibelhouse.
He was first on the scene at this high school shooting.
- He asked for you.
- What did you tell him? It's too soon.
I didn't want you out there, especially since it'd be like going home.
You're gonna have to let me make my own way.
When I really need you, Frank, then I'll consider it.
Anyway, sad as it is, this is just kids and guns.
"Just kids and guns"? One step at a time.
I talked to about 50 kids.
They honestly seem without a clue who did this.
Somebody saw something.
I feel like we're not getting something here.
I did get one red flag.
A kid named Brant Carmody.
He was very noncommunicative in a kind of belligerent way.
I asked an administrator.
She said he's a tough kid.
Football star who quit the team and gave up two or three big athletic scholarships.
- He's also got ajuvenile record here.
- What were the charges? Assault and battery twice.
Apparently he comes from a very wealthy family.
Very.
His father's some Fortune 500 computer executive.
Let's go find him.
- Before he washes off the powder residue.
- I'm just saying it's a red flag.
Right now, that's about the only flag we've got.
- Stacey Carmody? - Yes.
- We'd like to talk to your son Brant.
- Why? It's OK.
We spoke to him earlier.
We just have a few follow-up questions.
How many people does it take? I don't have to let you in, do I? Becker, kitchen! Hollis, upstairs! Wallace, follow me! Call 911.
My son just shot himself.
Oh, God.
The gun on the left is a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun with a 15-round magazine.
It's the gun used by Brant Carmody in his own suicide.
It's registered to his father, purchased through a dealer in Missoula, Montana.
It is identical to the gun on the right, purchased through the same dealer and also registered to Brant's father.
Both were purchased for home defence.
They were both locked in a cabinet, had trigger locks, and both, upon being recovered, not only had been recently fired, but had Brant Carmody's fingerprints on them.
As Brant fits a certain profile as a youth offender with a history of violent behaviour, it was my deduction and that of those who accompanied me to Redland High School that he fired this weapon, that he acted alone, and that his motives, although uncertain, can be attributed to what his counsellors say was a strong tendency to act out his rage.
We've wrapped up our investigation.
We've handed over our findings to the Seattle PD, who will now handle this matter for the community of Redland, and we would like, without further questions, to consider this unfortunate matter closed.
All right, good.
Unless somebody has something, I'd like to move on.
Why do you assume it was suicide? Uh two reasons.
The angle of entry on the wound, and his fingerprints were all over the trigger lock, which had to be removed before the weapon could be discharged.
That's a very weak deduction.
I'm not saying you're wrong.
I think that the assumption you make about the second shooting is the basis for your assumption about the first shooting.
Did anyone test the parents for powder burns? We didn't test the mother, because we were talking to her on her doorstep when the gun went off.
And no, we didn't check the father.
Was that something that you overlooked? Or was that a decision you made? - A decision based on the circumstances.
- Where were the trigger locks found? Mr Carmody handed them over to us, with several other handguns he asked us to remove from the house.
So his fingerprints were on those as well.
Well, of course they were.
OK, let's table this for now and move on to the next order of business.
I wasn't trying to humiliate him.
It's that lax kind of police work we see all too often.
I have spoken to Baldwin.
I am reassured he made the right decisions out there.
- What are you afraid of? - We weren't out there.
- You're just pressuring me! - What is there about this case? You want the FBI to question this man with the kind of evidence we've got? I send Baldwin back out there, I am going to be the point man in a tabloid media circus.
- Send me.
- I am not going to be strong-armed like this.
I'm not asking you, I'm telling you.
I'm going out there.
And if you say no, I understand.
I'll turn in my credentials and go home for good.
Because I'm not used to seeing you or myself sitting on our hands in any kind of meeting.
I'll get it! - Jordan? - There's somebody here for you.
What'd I tell you about answering the door without finding out who's there? Hi.
I'm sorry.
I told her I work with you.
It's OK.
Come in.
Hey.
What did I teach you about this? Not to answer the door because people aren't always who they say they are.
OK.
- I'm sorry.
How can I help? - I'm sorry.
I should've called.
I drove around the block three times - no, more like five times - before I decided to ring the bell.
- So you weren'tjust in the neighbourhood.
- You're going there, aren't you? To Redland.
Why? If you are, there's something I need to show you.
Something Agent Baldwin left out of his report.
I found this at the crime scene.
I've interviewed every kid.
No one wants to claim it.
But there's an inscription in it to one of the cheerleaders who died, Tammy Meador.
- Why don't you go up and finish packing? - OK.
Is she going with you on your trip, Daddy? No, honey.
Go get ready.
"Skylark.
" - I assume that's not the accused's writing.
- No, it's not.
I checked that.
It's a book of prayers from the Dark Ages, which I thought was weird.
Itjust doesn't seem like something you'd find in a high school gym.
"The days are numbered, history counting backwards as we count forward to a new dark age.
Though not all will survive, I would rather die than live knowing I didn't try to save you.
" It's a warning.
It means someone out there knows about this.
You were out there.
You want to go back and follow up.
Go pack.
I'll let Andy McClaren know that I'm requesting someone to assist me.
I guess the problem's fixed now.
How do you mean "fixed", Chris? The FBI's closing their investigation.
We won't be answering any more questions.
You told him, didn't you, Chris? You told your son about what we're doing.
I had to.
I had to.
Stacey insisted.
That's why he went crazy! You can't tell a kid everything will be taken away from him and expect him to deal with it.
Nothing's "fixed", Chris.
I just got a call from Geibelhouse, saying two FBI agents are coming to ask more questions.
- I don't know what you think I can tell you.
- You and Brant Carmody were dating.
He was your boyfriend, we were told.
Yeah, he was.
We went out for about three years.
But we broke up at the beginning of this year.
Why is that? Excuse me.
Go ahead.
Why did you break up, Kathy? Brant I don't know.
He just kinda changed.
He became a different person.
- What do you mean? - He became really negative.
He quit football.
He quit school, basically.
He was here, but not really.
- He was, like, numb.
- Like depressed? No.
He would talk about the end of the world.
And he would get really scary.
- What do you mean, "the end of the world"? - Like everything collapsing.
Banks and governments and order and society.
And he would totally believe it.
Kathy.
Do you think he shot those kids? I think everyone thinks he did.
What do you think? But I don't understand why he would kill himself.
That wasn't like Brant.
He was angry at everyone else.
Why would he kill himself? Kathy, do you know who Skylark is? We found him here on the floor in his pyjamas.
- Was this bed made or unmade? - The bed was unmade.
- I'm assuming they have full-time help.
- Yeah.
Is this the only access to this room? And you are certain no one else, other than the father, was in this area of the house at the time of death? To be honest, no one really checked.
And there were about five of us here, too.
I think that Brant Carmody did, in fact, kill those kids.
I think that his rage was driven by his absolute conviction that the end of the world was coming.
And that nothing, not even the taking of his classmates' lives, mattered any more.
But his death was not a suicide.
He was murdered, wasn't he? Hi.
- What are you doing here? - Talking to that programmer.
He says you guys worked out the problem with the chips.
You guys fixed everything.
It's too late.
No matter what anyone tells you.
We shouldn't be talking about this.
- Especially after what happened at school.
- Brant was telling everybody what'd happen.
You're not gonna do that.
You're gonna be strong and keep this a secret.
Why? That's what I wanna know.
Why? Because that's the only way we're gonna survive.
If everyone knows, none of us is gonna make it.
Agent Baldwin, we just have one question.
What is the FBI's involvement in this case? Agent Baldwin, just this one question.
Keep them outta here.
- How long we got to wait for this lawyer? - You people are out of control.
You couldn't find the person who shot those kids at the high school, so you blame my son.
Now you want to blame my husband.
You just need someone to blame! - That's enough.
- That's what you're good at! You can't stop the violence, so you have to make it look like you're doing something.
Stacey, that's enough.
- Did Brant talk about the end of the world? - The end of the world? About the breakdown of society.
About futility.
I don't know.
He was a kid.
He had problems.
- You got kids? - I got kids.
And they get angry at me, - but I don't blow their heads off.
- I did not kill my son! That's interesting, cos we checked out a few things that don't quite make sense.
Pathologist said Brant had toothpaste in his mouth from brushing his teeth before bed.
And when we found him dead he was already in his jammies.
I wanna know why a kid who's so upset gets ready for bed like that before he offs himself.
And that's what you're basing this on? I'm not gonna need a lawyer.
You are.
What'd you find? Frank Black.
We'd better talk right now.
What's going on? - Who's Skylark? - We don't know.
Well, he, she or whoever it is sent this email to the victim.
Did you read this? It's a death threat.
It swears revenge for killing Tammy Meador.
- When was this sent? - A half-hour before the time of death.
How does that work? - His dad sends his own kid a death threat? - No.
Skylark or someone else.
- So what are we saying? - The father didn't kill his kid.
Somebody else did.
Looks like you got a real mess to clean up here.
Get to the Internet service provider and find out who Skylark is.
Do it quickly and quietly, because as soon as they know that we know, Skylark's life's gonna be in danger.
- What's going on? - I just got a call from the FBI.
About Gary King's kid.
They're looking for your son Carlton, Gary.
Why? - I don't know why.
- They say he has some online name.
Skylark.
And that he made a death threat to Brant Carmody.
- You told him, didn't you? About our plans.
- He figured it out! These kids are scared! You think they're scared now? Wait till it all hits the fan! Yeah? We have an APB out on Carlton King.
I got roadblocks going up, but he's gone, Frank.
We're doing a background check.
Look at these card transactions.
Last year his family spent several hundred thousand dollars on things like gas generators, solar panelling, barbed wire, nonperishable food items.
The list goes on, including an arms purchase from that same wholesaler in Montana of four M-16 assault rifles.
Gary King, his father, is also on a deed of trust with the 11 executives who run ComLogic, in the purchase of 14,000 acres of high desert land in eastern Washington State.
Strange tastes for a man who's made his fortune in high technology.
- What are they preparing for? - The failure of technology in 2000.
When computer chips designed to only recognise two digits think that we've made a leap backwards 100 years.
That's not gonna happen.
- Is that gonna happen? - They believe it will.
You have to pick up this Gary King.
And everybody whose name appears on this deed of trust.
I'm all over it.
There's nothing illegal here.
What are you gonna arrest these men for? I just don't buy it that Skylark, Carlton King, he snuck into that house and killed his classmate.
- You still think it was the father? - Yeah.
Yeah? Yeah? Back up! Go inside! Back up! Go inside! - Don't, Hollis! - I'll shoot you! You're not gonna shoot anybody, Carlton.
That's what you're saying, isn't it? You're saying I killed Brant! - We found your letter.
- I would've killed him.
He killed Tammy.
You don't want to hurt anyone.
That's why you gave Tammy that book.
To warn her.
What you're doing is very serious.
If you're innocent, you don't wanna make this mistake.
What difference does it make? It's what's gonna happen anyway, isn't it? Won't be any police.
Or FBI.
My dad says it's gonna be every man for himself.
Why did you come here, Carlton? Cos I'm afraid they're gonna do the same thing to me they did to Brant.
Nobody's gonna hurt you, Carlton.
You've got to let us help you.
Do you know who these cars belong to, Carlton? Yes.
This is where we keep all the stuff we're gonna use to survive.
You ready? I want you to stay in the car, OK? If anything happens, I want you to go and get help.
- We should call for backup.
- They have a lot of fire power.
- It could turn into a standoff in seconds.
- What are you gonna do? I don't know.
But I think we should wait until they come outside and get in their cars.
But we can't let 'em leave.
Get down.
FBI! Drop your weapon! Frank! Frank? Are you OK? Gary? Gary? Frank! He's going around the truck.
Dammit! Frank! - Gary? - They're under the cars! I need more guns! Dad? - Carlton! - Put the gun down, Gary! Get down, Carlton! Get away! - Move, Carlton! - Put the gun down so nobody gets hurt.
- Did you bring him out here, Carlton? - He's not part of this.
He's just afraid.
You brought the FBI out here, didn't you? Put the gun down, Gary.
This is not a war.
There's no enemies here.
Put the gun down.
Show your son that he's got nothing to be afraid of.
Show him that you won't do to him what Brant Carmody's father did.
- Gary? - I'm here.
It's OK.
Everything's gonna be OK.
Is it true, Chris? Did you do what they say? Did you? How could you do it? How could you kill our son? Answer me! Answer me! Answer me! Answer me! Answer me! My son was a killer.
I know that doesn'tjustify what I did, but I did it to save my wife.
And my little girls.
They would've stayed behind if Brant was in jail, see.
You don't you don't believe this, huh? You still don't believe it.
It's gonna happen! You can't stop it! All the chips, all the power grids are gonna fail! I worked on those chips.
I built them.
We can't fix the problem fast enough.
There'll be no banks.
There'll be no police.
Airports will fail, and telephones.
You won't be able to get food or gas or fresh water.
How long before people take to the streets with guns? How long is it gonna be before people turn into animals? Is that what it takes to save the world? Killing your own flesh and blood? Saving the strong and letting the weak die? - What alternative did I have? - Let's go.
- Yes.
- Mr Black? - Yeah.
- It's Emma.
I wanna say thank you.
I don't know for what, exactly.
I've got to fill out all this paperwork and I've never done it before.
For discharging my weapon.
They make you account for every shell.
- I was hoping I could look at your report, - I didn't fire my weapon, Agent Hollis.
I wasn't even carrying it.
- You were relying on me? - I was relying on my experience.
And you.
You did an excellentjob, Agent Hollis.
Do you think what he said was true? About the breakdown of society at the millennium? I think the only way we're gonna survive is by our humanity.
If we lose that, there's nothing.
Good night, Agent Hollis.
It is prophesied that when the end comes, it will come in darkness, A catastrophe all foresaw, but few believed, Most of us will battle too late against the chaos, But not the few, the radical few, who obey no disciplines, Unencumbered by conscience, they prepare ruthlessly, pursuing their own preservation, If they survive, the rest of us perish, None will weep for the civilised, the principled, Us, None but God himself, I made this!