Millennium (1996) s03e10 Episode Script

"Almighty Father, to whom alone belongs life and death, we know if thou wilt thou canst even yet raise thy servant up.
" "If it shall be thy pleasure to prolong her days on Earth " So, do you like this train? Yeah.
A lot.
Sorry.
That's OK.
Everything's OK, honey.
What in the hell is 108 doing? We got a situation here.
How'd this happen? That switch shouldn't move.
Bridge 12 is still out.
I gotta get 'em off that track.
They're not responding.
" shall be thy pleasure to prolong her days on Earth, let her be an instrument of thy glory.
" "Through this holy anointing, may the Lord, in his love, heal you with the grace of the Holy Spirit.
" "Or in his infinite mercy, now receive you into those heavenly habitations, his humble servant, Jordan Black.
" - You don't feel like you have a fever.
- But I am sick.
It's not fair to the other kids.
What is it? A test? Long division? - Fish sticks? - I just don't feel well.
- Grandma and Grandpa are on vacation.
- You could stay home with me.
There's nothing I'd like better.
I'll tell you what.
If you're still feeling crummy by lunch, I'll come and get you.
- Will we always be together? - Of course.
- Forever? - Well, nobody gets forever.
By the time you're 13, it's gonna feel like an eternity.
Come here.
Come on.
I love you.
You sure? I love you too.
- Bye.
- Scoot.
Bye-bye.
- Come on, Mom, let's go.
- All right.
Oh, that's wonderful, sweetie.
Now give me a big smile.
Around and around and around we go.
Where we stop, nobody kno Come here, sweetie.
Come on.
Oh, my God.
Come here.
Come here.
Oh, no.
Somebody! Somebody call 911! We've got a weird one.
A woman expired in a park, with a major release of body fluids.
Centers for Disease Control got called in to evaluate the health hazard.
- The fluid wasn't her own.
- Where did it come from? That's what they're asking us.
- Who's he? - Her son.
She was Jewish Orthodox, so he's fighting the autopsy.
He says she needs to be buried within 24 hours of death.
They honour the dead.
Maybe there's something he doesn't want us to discover.
She drowned.
On dry land, without any water nearby, according to CDC.
- Are you from the FBI? - Yes.
Will you tell them this is not right, please? My mother was ready, at peace with her God.
They have no right to interfere.
No right.
I'm very sorry.
Gertrude Epstein.
48 years old.
Died of a massive pulmonary oedema, or so it seemed.
But the water in her lungs had neither protein nor blood, which you get with bodily fluids.
So, basically, somebody pumped her full of water.
- How? - You tell me.
After the cause of death gets beyond a single cell, it's not my department.
Her death was caught on videotape.
Right before it happens, there's no one near her.
Have there been other victims? The same circumstances? Not that we've heard about.
I think you'll find there's others, if you send a bulletin to the local hospitals.
Her watch.
It's missing.
Paramedics said it was gone when they picked her up.
Here we go.
Look out.
Coming through.
Excuse me.
Thank you.
Watch it, buddy.
Let's go.
Somebody call 911! CDC sent this over.
There was another victim.
Lisa Maher, dead on arrival at Mercy Hospital six hours before this videotape was shot.
Lungs full of mystery water, just like this woman.
Pretty thick medical history.
Maybe it is some weird disease.
Meningoencephalitis.
She had it three years ago.
It's a bacterial infection of the brain.
Adults rarely survive it without brain damage.
Jordan had a brush with it when we moved to Seattle.
She was hospitalised with a raging fever.
A day later, itjust went away.
Wow.
But she's fine now? Yeah.
We're very lucky.
The two victims have almost nothing in common.
Gertrude had a master's in musicology.
Lisa Maher dropped out in eighth grade.
- Maybe they do have something in common.
- What? Gertrude Epstein, the woman in the park, three years ago had this car crash.
She said it changed her life.
That it was a kind of a miracle.
This woman survives a fatal car crash.
The other, a fatal disease.
Both victims have cheated death before.
- "Cheated death"? - Yeah.
- You think that has some bearing? - I do.
I need to enhance the faces on this videotape.
The killer may be there, watching.
I have to go.
- Dad? - Shh.
I'm just taking your temperature.
Go back to sleep, sweetie.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Five.
Six.
Seven.
Eight.
Three, Four, It's the 911 call that came in late last night from this apartment.
What do you think? Some kind of taunt? Why a 911 call for victim number three? According to the landlord, this man was a shut-in.
The body wouldn't have been discovered for days, then only by the smell.
Calling 911 was an act of compassion.
Compassionate homicide.
The woman in the park.
He would have stuck around long enough to make sure she was taken care of.
Any progress on the video? We've checked a few people.
So far, they seem legit.
Joggers, parents with kids.
Parkgoers.
- You really think he's there? - Yes, I do.
Frank, you said the first two victims cheated death, whatever that means.
This guy had no history of anything like that.
In fact, he barely had any history at all.
- A near-death experience group.
- "Remain in Light"? - So Patrick's passed on.
- Patrick Varad.
Um Just "Patrick".
We go by first names here.
They've all had near-death experiences? Most.
We're a support group for those who have, but we do get some hangers-on.
People who are fascinated by life after death.
Could you take a look at these photos and tell me if any of them have been through here? And that's when I heard those words: "It's not your time.
" "It's not your time.
" I mean, even now, just thinking about it, I'm amazed.
My return to this world was a pure gift.
There was no haggling, no pleading.
Just the realisation that life and death are out of our hands.
Not our decision.
You know, I also realised something which It seems so obvious to me now.
That force that gives us life in the first place Of course it has a plan for what comes after.
Nothing bad will happen.
When it's my time, I'll go.
It will be fine.
I'm sorry, I can't help you.
- Nothing with the photos.
- Huh? Nothing with the photos.
Are you OK? I I think it's yours, Frank.
- Yeah? - Is this Frank Black? Hey, Supergirl.
You feeling kind of crummy? - Thank you very much.
- OK.
Take care, Jordan.
I'm gonna whip you up some home-made chicken soup.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
- You don't even know how.
- Yes, I do.
Hey.
Jordan.
- We're set up in two.
- Pulse is 30 and shallow, BP 132 over 94.
- Get a line in.
What's her temperature? - 108.
Resetting.
What's her name? Jordan? Can you tell me how you feel? When did this start? - She was fine an hour ago.
- She's seizing.
- Lumbar puncture tray.
Temperature? - 108.
3.
- Please.
- OK, we need to move her.
We have to get her temperature down.
- You're hurting her.
- Get him out.
- Mr Black - Get him out.
Stop.
Stop.
Stop.
Stop.
- Mr Black, please - All right, I understand.
Baby.
- I know, I know.
I love you.
- No, Daddy! Daddy Daddy, help! Daddy, help! Daddy, no! Daddy! Daddy! - Daddy, help! Daddy! - I got you.
This is why nobody takes trains any more.
I could walk faster.
- We've stopped.
- Is that your idea of ajoke? You're supposed to get us from A to B on time.
That's your business.
And if I ran my business the way you run yours - The other engine will be here soon.
- You told me that two hours ago.
What's your idea of soon? A day? A week? Wasting our lives here, that's what you're doing.
You're wasting our lives.
- Excuse me, is that seat taken? - Please.
Well, her temperature's normal, and her basic signs have been stable for a while.
I'd like to keep her for observation, but I think we're OK.
- What's wrong with her? - She presented the symptoms for meningitis.
Fever, altered mental functioning.
She was hospitalised with meningitis before.
Yeah, in Seattle.
I told you that.
What's wrong with her? Nothing diagnostic.
It's an FUO.
- An FUO? - I'm sorry.
Fever of unknown origin.
You have no idea what's going on? In Seattle, the fever simply disappeared.
Just like now, except for one thing.
In Seattle, there was an underlying infection - meningitis.
This time, her white counts were normal.
Her labs were clean.
She has all the symptoms, but not the disease.
Which makes you wonder if it's all in her head.
Mr Black, I'd like to suggest a specialist.
We have an excellent woman who works only with children.
It's not in her head.
Someone is doing this to her.
Stay here with her.
Can you make the nose smaller? - That's it.
Let's print some out.
- Frank.
How's Jordan? Stable.
- This is the man.
- What man? I need a security detail.
He was on the grounds last night.
Can you give us a minute? Thank you.
- Who is this guy? - I saw him when Jordan collapsed.
Then I saw him again last night, outside her window.
He's stalking her.
- What do you mean? - Stalking her.
You requisitioned equipment, a sketch artist.
McClaren asked me why.
I come here and find Jordan's been hospitalised.
You could have told me.
I told you Jordan had meningitis in Seattle.
- A fatal condition.
Itjust disappeared.
- Is it back? No.
She's one of them, like the three victims.
Jordan should have died in Seattle.
Like the woman in the park, like the 911 call.
Living on borrowed time.
And now this man is after her.
Your daughter is sick.
I know you're worried, but it has nothing to do with this case.
- You're wrong.
- You see things even Hey, wait a minute.
This is not an apparition.
Gertrude Epstein.
GPE.
The woman who collapsed in the park, that's her watch.
He had it.
He left it.
You want to help me? Find him.
Somehow he's in contact with the victims.
And now he's after Jordan.
Help me find him.
I can't leave here.
Help me find him.
- He's not a regular.
I know that.
- But has he ever come by? Like I said, we get a lot of curiosity seekers, hangers-on.
our workshop last spring.
That's OK.
Someone else thought he might have been here, that's all.
Thanks.
One, Two, Three, - You were there.
- Where? In the room with this man when he died.
That call came in on 911.
That's your voice on the tape.
- That's not my voice, - Sure sounds like it, Not to me, - What is your name? - It doesn't matter.
- Actually, it matters quite a bit.
- You're angry.
Why did you go to that encounter group, Remain in Light? - Is that how you meet people? - I met you there.
I've circulated your picture up and down the east coast to survivor groups.
One in Boston, one in Baltimore, one in Philadelphia.
They've all seen you.
Don't know your name, but they've all seen you.
Is that a crime? Murder is a crime.
Thank you.
It's not my voice, is it? That's all for now.
Let's go.
- Frank.
Frank! - Stay away from my daughter.
- It's not him.
- Yes, it is.
This is him.
You stay away from my daughter.
It's not his voice on the 911 tape.
Look.
- It's not.
- Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, - Time to issue a flood warning? - It's just coming from nowhere.
I think we should move.
Let's get our stuff here.
So, left? Right? What do you say? Right.
All full.
- May we join you? - Oh.
Please, please.
Thanks.
- Can I help you? - No, I'm OK, thanks.
- We had a little flooding next door.
- Really? Somebody! Somebody call 911! - You want to talk about it? - You let him go? We had no evidence, and that's not what I meant.
You attacked him.
- Hey.
- What? You attacked a man in my custody.
Forget he's not pressing charges, I have to report it.
- So report it.
- I won't.
Of course I won't.
I am worried about you, OK? - Who is he? - I told you.
No.
You gave me a picture and said, "Find him".
Somehow I did.
He found you.
He's responsible for three deaths.
- We don't know that.
- And now he's after Jordan.
You thought it was his voice on the 911 tape.
So did I.
But we were wrong.
You saw the report.
Forget the report.
He's right here.
Look at it.
- There he is, right here.
- It looks like him.
On the tape it sounded He's in the park and look what he's got in his hand.
He's holding a watch.
The watch he took from the woman and left for me.
- Could be anything from anybody.
- But it's not.
Look at it.
- He vanishes in one frame.
- The tape was tampered with.
- But it hasn't been.
- Well, he can'tjust disappear.
Where did he go? He's after Jordan.
- Doctor! We need a doctor in here.
- Get a doctor.
Sweetheart.
Congested, but right now she's fine.
To be honest with you, I'm a little confused.
We can continue to treat her symptoms - in fact, she couldn't be in a better place for that.
We're running out of time.
Mr Black.
Not facing what's happening to her won't make her well.
Saying someone is doing this to her doesn't make those tough decisions go away.
Someone is after her.
Who are you? You were in the park when the woman died.
You were there and then you vanished.
Weren't you? What are you doing here? Who are you? - Can't explain.
- Why are you stalking my daughter? - She received a gift.
- "Gift"? Of additional time on Earth.
Just like the others.
Now their time is finished.
And there are those who need now what she needed then.
To continue living.
So you intend to kill my daughter to save them? - Your wife died so your daughter could live.
- She chose.
- Did she? - Yes.
Where was the choice? You're talking about the only great thing that ever happened in my life.
Understand? "Almighty Father, to whom alone belongs life and death, we know if thou wilt thou canst even yet raise thy servant up.
" "If it be thy pleasure to prolong her days on Earth, let her be an instrument of thy glory.
" "By this holy anointing, may the " Hey.
What are you doing? - " may the Lord, in his love, heal you " - Shh.
Don't do that.
Get out.
Get out.
Out.
- Why is he here? - I was called.
Listen, she's not gonna die.
Get out.
Next stop, Washington DC, All aboard, Frank.
- Mr Black, please.
- Come on, Frank.
Let them do their job.
Her saturation's dropping.
She's not moving air.
Set up a thoracentesis.
- Crash cart's here.
- Pulse ox down to 90.
What's going on here? It's already full.
She's solid water.
Chest tube, now.
I tried.
Oh, God, I tried to do everything you asked me to do without knowing why.
No expectations.
Don't do this.
I'm begging you, please don't take her away from me.
No.
If somebody has to die, let it be me.
Are you listening to me? So, do you like this train? Yeah.
A lot.
Sorry.
That's OK.
Everything's OK, honey.
What in the hell is 108 doing? We got a situation here.
Where is it all coming from? I don't know.
It's impossible.
Oh, my God.
She's drowning.
I can't keep her lungs drained.
- Respiratory arrest.
- V tach.
Call a code.
One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, - Clear.
- Wait.
Hey.
Hey.
I saw Mommy.
Shh.
Rest.
Train cars derailed in the Flint River.
What a mess.
OK, looking good.
Get her into Exam One.
These wouldn't have made it, but their compartment doorjammed airtight.
- It's the only thing that saved them.
- Lucky.
Except for that guy over there.
Dad? Dad.
Mommy said she's fine.
And she said to tell you she chose.
She made the right choice.
I don't know what that means.
It means she loved you.
Very, very, very much.
I made this!