The Head (2020) s03e04 Episode Script

This is Joe. Joe is a good man.
Everyone knows.
It's a known fact.
Joe likes the scent of the first
cup of coffee in the morning
You gave me cold milk.
It's cold now.
I've only started watching
the telly, it's cold already.
Get me a hot one.
She didn't scream or make a sound.
She just started shaking
and then she fell.
I could see the white of her eyes.
And I just wanted to pull her up,
but I knew it would kill me, right?
So I just stood there watching.
I'm sorry, all I wanted
was to cheer her up.
I must've done something
when I reconnected the pump.
Did you touch any wiring?
I don't know, it was very dark.
Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women
and blessed is the
fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God,
pray for us sinners now and
at the hour of our death.
Where's Keiko?
You all need to rest.
Please, just tell us.
She only went into the
lab for a bit of fun.
That wasn't for fun.
Medics to infirmary.
Calling medics to infirmary.
- I'm on my way.
- I'll stay with them.
They need to sleep.
Okay, you heard her, come on.
Come on.
I want to go home.
You can go home in three days.
We have taken the final dose.
I know, but you are
still under observation.
Please. I will call my dad.
He will arrange a pick-up.
I'm sorry.
Whoa.
I don't feel well.
- You know, I feel really sick as well.
- I know, okay.
It's just the shock.
You heard the doctor, you
just need to sleep, okay?
- Okay.
- Okay.
Nice job.
Will she wake up?
I can't say. It could
be a brain contusion.
It happens if you put a bucket
on someone's head and bang it.
She was conscious when
I left her with you.
- It's ransomware.
- Oh, shit.
Can we still check the subjects' HDMs?
No, everything's fucked.
I told you, it all went berserk
just before the power cut.
- After you did what?
- Nothing.
- You must've clicked something.
- I didn't.
Maybe a trojan file
called "Dicks for Liam".
What?
Keiko did this. She set
it to run at midnight.
What do you mean?
She inserted a flash drive
when she broke in here.
You got that out of her?
- I have my methods, you have yours.
- How much is a thousand bitcoin?
The current rate is
about 50 million dollars.
Fuck. Okay, what are our options?
Well, the best bet is to
pay. But the only person here
with that kind of money
is missing her head.
And when she still had one, she
microwaved the satellite phone.
What about cracking the code?
Assuming it's alphanumeric
and case sensitive
14.77 million combinations.
With the right software,
it would take me a week.
But since I don't have any,
we're looking at a year
to enter them all manually.
What's 82,000 seconds?
We have 23 hours left.
I'll get the code out of her.
You mean the one you
put in a fucking coma?
Someone disabled the breaker
and crossed wires in the pump.
- The short circuit wasn't accidental.
- Keiko.
No, she was locked up when
they planned Ida's shower.
- Then one of the others.
- You can't keep harming the subjects.
This trial is over.
Shit.
Wait. Wait, what's happening?
Let's check outside.
Sean? Sean.
Sit up, sit up.
Please.
Please, I'm so sick.
What's wrong with me?
Probably nothing.
We'll know once we've
done the bloods, alright?
Is this the algae?
- What'd you do with the knife?
- I ditched it.
- Did he see your face?
- No, of course not.
- You sure about that?
- Yeah.
Good boy.
So, who are you texting, hmm?
- Is she fuckable?
- It's none of your business.
Look at Billy Big Boss, eh?
What, you give a fella a paper cut
and suddenly you're John
fucking Wick, is that it?
Huh?
- Book's overdue, mate.
- I need it.
Sit the fuck down, alright?
Stay.
I need help! Right now!
I don't remember inviting you.
Your thug took my mobile.
I want it back.
They don't grow on trees, you know.
I did everything I was told.
No questions asked.
I think I deserve more respect.
Oh, do you now?
How much respect is that?
As much as I get?
You want to play with the big
boys, is that it, Professor?
Hmm? No, I didn't think so.
Now why don't you fuck off?
You're wrong. You're wrong.
You're wrong. You're wrong.
You're wrong. You're wrong.
You're wrong. You're wrong.
You're wrong. You're wrong.
Nice deep breath, okay? Breathe in.
I'll check your eyes.
Can you look at the light?
Ready? Look at the light.
Can you look at the light?
When can I talk to them?
When they're able.
Anything from the bloods?
Early markers show signs of
blood poisoning. Her blood too.
Do you think it's the algae?
Well, you tell me. It's your algae.
Liam.
I know you're probably hurt
and confused about last night.
I know that I am.
But I just think maybe you
misunderstood the situation and
It's okay.
I get it now.
I get a lot of things that I
should have understood years ago.
You're a woman who likes
to fend for herself.
Well
now you have a chance to.
You okay?
Yeah.
When was the last
time Liam examined you?
I'm fine. I'm fine.
How are the subjects?
We'll have to wait and see.
I really thought after the rabbit
trials I made it safe for humans.
Well, we all knew the risks.
This is my fault.
Lauren rushed the animal trials
and I shouldn't have let her.
I should have
I really thought that I
could be different from him.
That I could make
different choices and
But I can't. I haven't.
We're just on a massive ego trip.
A massive ego trip, and all we
have to show for it is death.
There's just death and then more death.
Maybe it would be better
if the ransomware destroyed
everything because
No, stop it. Stop it.
You say you're like your father,
then fucking fight like him.
Anyone got eyes on Horst?
I'm near the mess
hall. I'll let you know.
Horst?
Horst?
Horst?
Who's there?
- Horst, what are you doing in here?
- I'm cooling down.
- Rachel?
- Maggie! He's in here!
Are you okay? Maggie!
I don't know what's wrong with him.
Have you vomited?
Yeah, from both ends.
Is it the same thing as the subjects?
Looks like it.
Jesus Christ, Horst.
Well, it wasn't fair, was it?
What were you thinking drinking
the fucking algae water?
What? No. No, no.
I'm not a fucking idiot.
Not the algae water.
I was drinking the condensate.
Jesus!
What is it?
I don't know.
What is that?
Oh, Jesus.
Rachel.
So it's not the algae making them sick.
Alright, so it's definitely
not one of the subjects.
The killer wouldn't
drink water they poisoned.
Neither would Horst. Rotorhead.
It was your idea to
drink the condensate.
Yeah, I know.
- It was her idea not to drink it.
- Why would I poison my own trial?
Let's think it through logically.
Yeah. Okay, let's.
Why does someone get beheaded
whenever you two are around?
What are you talking about?
- Liam
- No, I'm sick of lying for you.
You don't want my help, I
won't keep your secret anymore.
What fucking secret?
The research we're doing here
is a continuation of the one
they started on Polaris VI.
Polaris VI? Wait, what?
The Antarctic base?
- Yeah.
- What?
A scientific mission.
Everyone was killed.
Yet, somehow, Margaret
Emilia Mitchell lives.
The only survivor.
You conveniently forget
the other survivor.
The one who committed the murders.
Fuck's sake, you keep saying that!
Said judge and jury.
- What survivor?
- Arthur Wilde.
He's Rachel's father.
She worked with him on a
ship after he escaped prison
and that whole crew also ended up dead.
Two cursed missions.
And you bring us to the desert to
open up Tutankhamun's fucking tomb.
- Again.
- Pierre, I can Pierre!
Why didn't we know
this when we signed up?
Why didn't Geri?
We had to cover it up for
the research to continue.
- I signed an NDA just like you did.
- No, fuck your NDA!
You and you.
You're gonna tell us
why it's happening again.
Probably the same reason it
happened in the first place.
My father died on that ship,
but before he died he swore that
what happened at Polaris was her.
Not him.
And nothing began before she turned up.
I should have known.
The way you knocked out Drake.
It wasn't your first time, was it?
This is a mistake.
Wait!
Stop!
Stop!
Get the fuck off me, you fucking
Get off, fucking bastards!
Fucking get off!
Fuck!
Stop, alright?
Don't you leave me out Don't
you fucking leave me out here!
Fucking bastards!
Bitch.
- What's in the bottle?
- Penicillin.
After her, you're next.
No, no, not me.
Absolutely you.
No, there is a flow of
energy from our intestines.
The gut bacteria talk to our brain.
Antibiotics kill that flow.
So you've got one of those new-age PhDs.
Horst, what are you doing?
Horst, where are you going? Horst!
Someone please get Horst,
I just can't deal with this.
He's refusing medical care. I
have other people to tend to.
- So do I.
- Unbelievable.
- Horst?
- Yeah.
May I come in?
Hey. Hey.
I know that it's really hard
to trust anyone right now.
But you can trust the science.
We really need you to
take the antibiotics.
Haloxylon salicornicum!
Anti-inflammatory, antipyretic,
antioxidant, anti-fucking-death.
Grows right here in the desert.
Okay. Here, where?
I'm going to find it.
Horst, you have sepsis.
You're dehydrated.
You're not going anywhere.
Hey. Hey, Rachel.
You're absolutely right.
I don't trust you.
Horst. Horst. Horst, wait.
Please. Please, let me help you.
Help me?
You don't give a shit about me.
You just want your lab monkey alive,
cracking the fucking ransomware.
I see you're finally getting some color.
They must have found you out, did they?
What'd you do this time?
A grudge?
Or were you just missing
the rush of the kill?
You know it's not me.
Poor Maggie.
It's astonishing.
You've been playing two women so
long, you've forgotten which is which.
Now, I'm no doctor. You are,
but correct me if I'm wrong.
I believe the diagnosis is
dissociative identity disorder.
Or split personality, for dummies.
Maggie believes she's innocent
while Olivia slits their throats.
You do, after all
talk to imaginary people.
Nice view.
It gives me great pleasure to know
this will be the last thing you see.
You're wrong. You're wrong.
You're wrong. You're wrong.
You're wrong. You're wrong.
You're wrong. You're wrong.
Promise me you will cherish
life and never give up, Maggie.
You don't remember me?
Of course I do.
You're Aki's father.
And I promise.
You know, that day I met you
was the last time I spoke to my son
before I had to bury his body.
Director of Public Prosecutions
- I'm so sorry.
- versus Arthur Wilde
resumes in five minutes.
All I wish now is for
his reikon to find rest.
Reikon?
When a person dies by violence,
we believe their soul
wanders the Earth as a ghost
until they get justice.
Forgive me.
I must sound like a
superstitious old man to you.
Not at all.
Aki would say I was.
For him, everything could be
explained with theorems and equations.
Always a tensai.
Even as a little boy, he would tell me:
"Daddy, there is only magic in numbers."
Like Pascal's Triangle.
Excuse me?
Something Aki taught me.
We needed it to crack a passcode.
I just remember the way his face lit up.
Will you please teach it to me?
Of course.
It's a beautiful number pattern.
It's a beautiful number pattern.
It's a beautiful number pattern.
Ignore her.
It's zero degrees.
And colder in the freezer
where she wants to put us.
We boys share Horst's ration.
- Rachel gets Maggie's.
- No, it should be equal.
You're drinking for two.
Thank you.
I'm going to go lay down.
How are they?
They're on penicillin. Their
fever's down. It's working.
I worked out Takashi's key code.
How?
It's something we spoke
about at Arthur's trial.
And what is it?
I'll type it myself.
- I don't trust you.
- I don't trust you either.
You are messing with me.
Ten minutes left.
Ready to lose everything?
You're wrong. You're wrong.
- Shit.
- You lied.
I thought I knew it.
Jamal.
Fucking think.
There's magic numbers.
Aki.
Always the tensai.
The tensai, genius.
You're wrong. You're wrong.
You're wrong. You're wrong.
That is correct.
Don't fucking move.
I cracked the code, Jamal.
Or you've always known it
and were waiting to use
it when it served you.
Now get up.
Slowly.
Inside.
Where did you come from?
Do you want to feel my pain?
Or do I turn the other cheek?
Babe.
Hey. Babe.
What have they done to you?
I'm okay.
I'm okay.
It's okay.
I heard them talk.
The ones missing all
were killed. Ida too.
And our water was poisoned.
- By who?
- They don't even know.
But this happened before.
- We have to get out.
- I'm sorry, Keiko,
but you just broke into their
lab. How can we trust you?
A man paid me to infect
their computers here.
That's all I did. You can
believe me or not. I don't care.
But if we stay, we die like Ida.
- Do we even know where we are?
- I know.
There's a map in the mess hall.
Okay. I saw a car in the hangar.
- You think they'll let us drive out?
- No.
We take them out.
Mutiny, baby.
But they've got guns.
And you've got Jesus.
Who's in?
Yep.
Sean, united we stand.
But divided we are fucked.
I'm sorry, I can't. If we
mutiny, we don't get paid.
They're not going to pay us anyway.
I can't.
My father can.
He will pay Conor's treatment.
Yeah, right. The father
you're not talking to anymore?
Wait till he gets his
princess back alive.
But this is serious.
So am I.
I promise.
Your kid's going to have
so many birthdays. Okay?
Okay?
Okay.
You're going to come
with me and call for help.
Anyone? Something's
happened in the subject wing.
I need your help, now!
Hey, easy.
You two. Slowly.
Nice and easy.
Both of you stand up. Go over
there and join your friend.
Not you.
Stay down.
Up.
Hands where I can see them.
Over there.
Joey, get over here. Where
is the other guard's rifle?
Where is it?
Upstairs.
You got the keys?
It's a bitch to be the victim, isn't it?
Keiko.
- Keiko
- Babe, it's over.
We won.
No.
He hurt me.
A lot.
Please.
Don't do that.
And killing him won't
make it any better.
You're right.
- This will.
- No!
You need these.
Go ahead.
Open it up.
Where is the other doctor, huh?
She's locked up.
Why is she locked up?
Because we're all so terrified
and so exhausted
that we don't know what to think.
You clearly haven't thought
this through, have you?
Really, big boy?
Can you mansplain it to me?
- What will you do with us?
- Join your friend.
And then what?
- Home sweet home.
- How?
The chopper's dead and
there's no fuel for the truck.
It's alright, he's lying.
I'm lying?
Check the petrol cans
if you don't believe me.
They were filled with sand.
There's petrol in the hotbox.
- What?
- There's petrol?
Yeah, I found an oil drum
full while searching for Keiko.
But I didn't
- Put him down!
- Hey! Back off!
- Tell me you're lying.
- I'm not lying.
- Please, I swear.
- Pierre.
- Let him go.
- Why would I lie?
- Can I say something?
- You didn't know.
How can you trust each other?
Joe here says that he
saw petrol in the hotbox.
Maybe he put it there.
Maybe he's the killer.
Maybe that's why he accused you, Keiko.
He's running!
Stay!
Get a move on, hurry up!
Open that door.
Open the door!
Where is Jamal?
In a better world.
- You killed Jamal?
- Keiko.
Wait, you killed the power, didn't you?
So what?
So, that means that there's no
AC. No AC means no condensate.
You have no drinking
water for your journey.
We can drink the algae water.
No, but you can't because it's seawater.
The desalinator doesn't work
without electricity, so you need us.
Because we can help make it drinkable.
We're going to die without water.
Alright.
- Only you stay.
- Okay.
Stay there.
And you two go down.
I've shot one bastard.
And I can shoot three.
Lights out! Back in your fucking cells!
Fuck!
Dear friend.
I've been forced to
return to pen and paper
to convey my heartfelt thanks
for all your thoughtful gifts.
It's surpassed all my expectations.
I would very much like
to meet you in person.
I look forward to you visiting soon.
Warm regards, Professor Wilde.