Orphan Black (2013) s04e09 Episode Script
The Mitigation of Competition
Leda will be dismantled for its assets.
Sarah and her self-aware sisters won't get such humane treatment.
Alison is Sarah's twin sister.
Adele: Your bail hearing's not gonna be until Monday.
- Monday?! - Mm-hmm.
- Shingles.
- Yes.
You'll be first to take the new generation of bot this week.
Those shingles will be a thing of the past.
Ira: A swan! Stop saying it like that.
It was a vision of a swan.
What is happening to me? - This is for my ma.
- No, no, no, no What if we created a blastocyst? We'd need fertilizable Leda eggs.
and Castor sperm from Ira.
Where are you gonna get the eggs from? The only problem is we don't have the resources to do it alone.
I want to work with Sarah Manning and the others to restore you as the head of Neolution.
Are you sure you can work with Sarah? I look forward to it.
I just want you to find a cure.
We will.
Rachel? I saw it again.
The same man.
I think I was on the island.
Are you all right? Yes, I'm fine.
It's fine.
You need to see this.
Turn it up.
Evie: When the refinery shut down, my father lost his job, just like a lot of folks in Tisdale.
You had a serious illness, too, didn't you? Severe Combined Immunodeficiency.
That's right.
We couldn't move.
Instead, it was a steady stream of of good-byes.
Friends, teachers.
That must have been difficult.
I got through it.
But as you know, Tisdale is still suffering.
So when Brightborn decided to build a new research facility, I knew just the place.
260 new jobs.
A new walk-in clinic.
A new park.
She's painting herself as some kind of hometown hero.
Yes, she's ingenious.
I believe Tisdale can rebuild.
And here at Brightborn, we just want to be a part of that.
All right, so it's press conference day today.
Give me something.
What are you gonna say? It's just another big step for Brightborn.
You'll just have to wait and see.
Could probably give me one thing, just one little Just give me one thing.
Her government approvals have come through.
Then we should act now.
- [Knock on door.]
- That's them.
Are you sure you're all right? Scarcely believed it.
A Castor who favors slacks.
You must be Felix.
Hello, Rachel.
Thank you for coming, Felix.
This is a bad idea.
[Humming.]
I'm sure we can all agree that this little diplomatic exchange is rock bottom.
Susan gets the brilliant and delightful Cosima, forging ahead to save your lives, while we get you, Rachel, and your half-baked plan to take down Evie Cho.
I can assure you, it is not half-baked.
Ira, you fertilized my sister's eggs for science.
You don't get to speak, too.
Sarah: So what does it mean then? Evie's got approval for clinical trials of the new bot? It means implanted gene therapy works.
They'll prove it suppresses certain genetic disorders.
Only it's a Trojan horse.
'Cause they can alter their DNA however they want.
Yes.
Including germline editing.
Changing their clients' children's DNA without consent.
She wants to get the technology to the public within three years.
Jesus.
Evie Cho might be a more cunning villain than you, Rachel.
Her villainy is exactly how we get her.
Go on.
Evie developed her tech with illegal human trials.
We've learned that two carriers recently fled the Brightborn maternity lab.
Tabitha Stewart and Kendra Dupree.
You want to find them before Evie does.
No, we want you to.
And with what these girls know, I can destroy Evie.
Right.
And then Susan Duncan can take her place at the head of Neolution again.
Evie is hunting you, Sarah.
We both need her gone.
I have m-m Mm.
my limitations, but Ira will help.
We do this, it's with our people, our way.
Give me the file.
We'll let you know how it goes.
[Baby screaming.]
- [Screaming stops.]
- Woman: Okay, she's gone.
[Flatline.]
Evie: Oh, no.
Van Lier: I'm sorry.
It came for you this morning.
"Leave us alone or the whole video goes online.
" Like I'm going to let that happen.
They could ruin everything.
Why haven't we found them? We're working on it.
We traced the e-mail to a fixed address, but the less you know about that the better.
And what should I know about Detective Duko? He disappeared tailing Sarah.
Evie, you need to focus on the press conference tonight.
Let us handle this.
I have jobs for each of you.
[Siren chirps.]
Honey! Oh, Donnie, thank God.
Oh, my God, it is so good to see you.
Oh! Oh, Donnie, Donnie, please.
I just I never thought I'd see you again.
- Let's just go home, okay.
- Contain yourself.
Adele is coming over to talk about your defense, okay? Well, she can wait.
Daddy needs his conjugal, baby.
Donnie, our lives are imploding, and all you can think about is your stiffy? You're right, I'm sorry.
You've been such a rock.
How are the kid's doing in Florida? Oh, they're safe.
Except for my mother.
Yeah? What about you, how's the musical? It's a fraud.
We're singing "Jesus Christ Superstar," and I've completely lost touch with my faith.
- No, you haven't.
- Yes, I have.
I'm Judas, and I can't even pray anymore.
Well, listen Oh! Donnie, oh.
Come on.
Let's just go home, all right? We will let Adele get us out of this first, and then I'll make you see God, Mrs.
Hendrix.
Donnie! Mm-hmm.
- Here, hold my undies.
- Oh, God.
- They're dirty.
- Are they? Kendra and Tabitha were both full term.
Kendra's got a four-year-old son.
All right, you're a single mum, - [Mobile dings.]
- and you're desperate enough to surrogate a monster for money how far can you run? Art: Yeah.
Tender mercies.
Donnie's out of remand.
God.
Hendrix is on bail, Cosima's on the Island of Dr.
Moreau, - and Helena is AWOL.
- You got a name? I'm meant to be bringing us together, and we're falling apart.
Well at least you still got Rachel.
Oh, God, yeah.
All right, I got to go.
I got to go make sure the Hendrixes don't let my bio-sister into Clone Club.
I love you.
I know.
You, too.
You got something? Maybe.
Description matches two women checked into the Centretown Shelter yesterday.
One pregnant, the other with a newborn.
Susan: Good.
Now prick the oocyte right in the center to avoid trauma.
I don't want to screw this up.
Relax.
You're merely fertilizing Leda with Castor.
Good.
Now drop some plasma so we know the membrane is ruptured.
And drop it back in the center.
And we are on our way to compatible stem cells.
Thanks to Sarah and Ira's contributions.
You all right? Yeah.
I think the trip up here yesterday took it out of me a little.
I will put our egg in a culture.
Why don't you lie down for a bit? Mm.
I have brought you some reading.
No way.
It's very rare.
"On the Science of Neolution.
" P.
T.
Westmorland.
Sarah: Oh, no.
Art: Yeah.
Centretown Woman's Shelter.
This doesn't look good.
Shit.
No, no, no.
You stay right here.
You're not Beth Childs today.
All right, fine.
I I just talked to her.
[Sobbing.]
It doesn't make any sense.
She told me to meet her here.
No, I'm hearing you.
But you have to let us do our job now.
I saw cruisers.
What's going on? In here.
Looks like we have a suicide.
So no signs of foul play? Nah, not that I can see.
Forensics is on the way.
Though she checked in with a girl named Kendra.
But now we can't find her.
- Jesus.
- Yeah.
Her other friend out there found her hanging from that pipe.
No vital signs for her or the baby.
[Mobile rings.]
Oh, shit.
Helena? Hello, sestra.
Hey, w we've been worried about you.
Why haven't you answered your clone phone? I think ringing is broken.
Okay.
Where are you? I have a place of my own now.
How is Kira? She's getting bigger.
How 'bout you? How are yours? Yes, much kicking.
They're fighting like us.
-Yeah? -[Chuckles.]
I'm happy for you.
I'm glad you're far away from all this.
Why? Is problem? No, no.
No.
Is problem with family Hendrick? No.
Look, it it's nothing for you to worry about.
It's just the usual shit.
Oh, I've got to go.
You keep those babies safe, all right? Say yes.
Okay.
Okay, bye, meathead.
Ah, uh, [clears throat.]
Trina? Beth? Why are you dressed like that? Uh, I'm undercover.
I'm, uh, plainclothes.
What's wrong? You were right about Brightborn.
It's way worse than I thought.
These wounds look to be defensive.
Could be.
You seen Marty Duko lately? No, why? Guy blew his shift.
Nobody knows where he is.
No, I haven't seen him.
Hope he's okay.
Trina: Tabitha called me as soon as they broke out.
Scared shitless.
It wasn't a suicide, no way.
I believe you.
What, um What about Kendra Dupree? Oh, my God.
I hope she got away.
Where would she go? I already told the detective in there.
Okay, that's good, but, uh can you tell me? I feel like I could help.
Kendra talked about a an empty house somewhere.
A friend of her family who died.
Something Steinbeck.
Clara? Mary? - Any idea where? - I just know that house wouldn't sell because the town's economy is so crap.
Tisdale? That would make sense.
Kendra's from there.
You got to find her before they do.
Yeah.
Okay.
We will.
[Mobile rings.]
Detective.
I'm at the scene.
The one that got away Kendra Dupree I got a little tip she's headed to Tisdale.
But you're not the only ones looking for her.
Okay, could be worse.
They've charged you with possession, trafficking, and importing.
Importing? No, no, we weren't importing.
Shh.
Uh, what is their evidence? We won't know for a couple of weeks.
Until then, just comply with your bail conditions and try not to worry.
- Okay.
- Okay.
FYI there's two plainclothes parked outside your house in an unmarked car.
We're under surveillance? - Mm-hmm.
- Is that normal? We've already been charged.
Seems like Detective Duko has quite a hard-on for y'all.
Well, it's not him.
Why couldn't it be him? 'Cause he's on leave.
Okay, how would you know if he's on leave? You know what, maybe we should review the scope of - lawyer-client privilege again.
- Mm.
Okay, is something going on with Detective Duko? [Pops lips.]
No.
- No.
- No, I don't think there is.
Great, um, we can continue this conversation at home.
Let's maybe have a drink there.
We'll leave you two.
- Bye.
- Bye.
It's functioning perfectly, Evie.
The therapy is underway.
Well, I won't miss the shingles.
[Chuckles.]
Just promise me that you'll find that carrier, Ian.
Or none of it will matter.
I promise.
Art: What do you know about this place? Sarah: Tisdale? Nothing.
I mean, looks rough.
I'm guessing Brightborn offered Kendra money and she thought, how bad can it be? Pretty bad.
- [Mobile ringing.]
- So how many more Steinbecks we got left? Uh, two.
And one Steinbock.
Rachel, I told you I'd call you.
Yes, an hour ago.
Well, we're still looking for Kendra Dupree.
Well, we have new information that could help.
Kendra took her four-year-old son, William, to friends in Pickering.
I'll send the address.
No, we've got our own leads out here.
Where are you then? How can we help? If I need help, I'll ask.
[Sighs.]
You really don't like each other, do you? She put a pencil in my brain.
Okay.
We have the location of Sarah's last phone call.
She's in Tisdale.
You should go then.
Contingency, in case she falters.
You're the sick one.
Cosima.
You're the sick one, too, right? Charlotte? I don't feel very sick yet.
That's good.
How do you brush your hair? I don't.
I just wake up, and it looks like this.
Want to feel? I used to have pigtails, too.
Do you like the book? Yeah.
But I'm finding it bit overwhelming right now.
I didn't even know that this guy, P.
T.
Westmorland, was involved in Neolution.
This is my favorite part.
This the island that we're on? It's made of Precambrian rock, almost 4 billion years old.
We're at this end.
You're right, that is a very cool part.
First, your foster sister does a test on us, like she's got geneticists at her disposal, and then I meet her suburbanite twin sister, the drug dealer and her husband gets thrown in jail, and the cops just throw the book at him.
Did your family threaten Duko or something? Adele, you're making it sound like we're the mob.
What? So I'm reading this wrong? Well, you did just mix mood stabilizers with gin, darling.
That's brunch.
Hello, Felix.
Hey! Helena! Hi! Adele, Helena.
Helena, this is Adele.
This is my half-sister.
What? Different mother, same father.
So you must be Sarah's other sister? Yes, same mother womb.
So it's triplets now, huh? Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
- From different regions.
- From the same stomach.
- Yeah.
Countries in there, different countries? This is I should go.
That's probably best.
Nonsense.
I think you should stay.
I have so many questions for you, all starting with where you got that hat.
Have you named it yet? Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God Oh, can you use a different word? Just Just call me a bad man.
- Oh, you're a bad man.
- I'm a bad man.
Who runs this cellblock? - Oh, you run it.
- I run this cellblock.
- Yeah, you run it.
- Oh, honey, I love you! Gah! Oh! Oh.
Oh Donnie, would you pray with me, please? - Right now? - Yes, yes.
Just close your eyes, close them.
Oh, dear Lord [Sighs.]
I know we haven't been very good Christians lately but we are very grateful that Donnie's out of remand.
And we're trying our best to be good To be good.
Oh, crap.
I can't do this.
Oh, God's forsaken me.
Honey, I'm - I'm sure he gets the point.
- No, no.
Everybody knows we're criminals.
They stare at me in the grocery store.
And there are the cops outside of our house, Donnie.
We have to get out of here.
Honey, we can't.
I forfeited my passport as part of my bail conditions.
[Sighs.]
Well, we'll we'll go to Niagara.
And we'll pretend it's a holiday, we'll send for the kids, and we'll go hide in one of those water park hotels.
The last time we went to SplashDown, Oscar got foot-and-mouth disease.
Donnie, would you work with me here, please.
Yeah.
Let's go to Niagara.
Good.
- [Doorbell rings.]
- Art: All right, this is the last Steinbeck on the list.
[Knock on door.]
There's baby stuff.
[Ringing doorbell rapidly.]
Just do it quick.
[Door closes.]
Hello? Kendra? [Baby crying.]
Kendra Dupree? [Crying continues.]
Hey.
You go away.
You hurt my baby.
Get away from him.
We're not from Brightborn.
We don't want to hurt your kid.
I don't believe you.
Listen very carefully, I'm a police officer, all right? I'm gonna reach into my pocket real slow and show you my ID.
There you go.
All right, just put down the gun.
Move.
Okay, okay.
[Baby crying.]
Shh, shh, shh, shh.
Shh, shh, shh, shh.
Shh, shh, shh.
Oh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
It's okay.
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
See, Felix neglected to tell me twice that Sarah's got sisters.
And you're so preggo and foreign.
Because it wasn't pertinent, and I'm not a gossip.
Oh, you're not a gossip? [Scoffs.]
Right.
Where is Sarah? She's good, good, darling, she's just busy, busy-busy.
Alison? Donnie Hendrick? Yeah, they're great, all great.
Totally fine.
Oh, yeah, they're doing real well, aside from the fact that they're currently under federal prosecution.
Adele.
What, shouldn't she know? They are sisters.
What does this mean? Jail? No, no.
Well, maybe Donnie.
Yes.
I don't know.
Because of Pouchy? So she knows about the killings? [Laughs.]
Tangential, of course, t to drugs and missing cops.
You have a loud voice.
Yes, I do, because, see, my brother here, he's got more secrets than a Freemason, and I'm getting real tired of sifting through - all his bullshit.
- Just relax.
Maybe bullshit is where you belong.
Did you just step up to me, little triplet? [Snarls.]
- Okay, whoa.
- Jesus.
No, you don't want to do that, all right? It's okay? We don't need to do any of that, all right? All good.
Um, sestra you give me an hour here with Adele, and then I promise we are gonna catch up right proper, okay? You are safe? Yeah.
Hope so.
[Door opens.]
[Door closes.]
Wow.
She was something else.
[Sniffles.]
And I don't think that hat was store-bought neither.
You're going to sober up, and then you're gonna go.
I'm not leaving without an explanation.
Adele, you are so beautifully unsullied by all this shit.
And I'm not gonna be the person that ruins that for you.
Okay, okay.
[Sniffles.]
Genetics doesn't really make a family, does it? - No.
- Honesty and and, uh, acceptance, that's what it's all about, hey? This is my life.
I'm really sorry.
Okay.
Hmm.
Okay, um, I'm gonna leave you with your real family for a while.
[Sniffles.]
Okay.
Okay.
[Baby fussing.]
How did you find me? We spoke to Trina.
Um, I knew her from before.
I was just coming back with lunch.
They killed Tabitha, didn't they? Well, if they did, they made it look like a suicide.
We know about Brightborn.
You want to tell us what happened? [Baby fusses.]
Shh.
[Coughing.]
It's okay.
Tabitha and I were nearing full term.
We heard rumors some of the babies were born different.
One night, the nurse fell asleep, so we snuck out of the ward.
We heard a baby crying, saw two doctors sneak into an operating room I'd snuck this phone in [sniffles.]
to call my son.
- [Baby crying.]
- Shh, shh, shh, shh.
Woman: See this dysplasia? Must be excruciating.
Hold her steady.
[Baby crying.]
Just a little bee sting, and then you won't feel anything at all.
[Baby screaming.]
[Screaming stops.]
Okay, she's gone.
[Flatline.]
Kendra: The next day, we ran.
I named him Jacob.
They put this beautiful baby in me, but he was born blind.
[Coos.]
If they find him, they'll put him down, too.
If you're willing to come forward with this, we could expose them.
We could end all this.
Look, you take the video and you leave me out of it.
That won't work, Kendra.
Without you, the video can be discounted.
Look what they did to Tabitha.
I have another son.
They'll hurt us, I know they will.
Hi.
So? What do you think of Neolution's forefather? I think he's fascinating for a racist blowhard who thinks that poverty is genetic.
Consider the era, the Victorian mind-set.
Is your mind-set so different? [Chuckles.]
Our ethics debate again.
Well, I just met a little girl with a deformed leg and a terminal illness.
When I created Charlotte, I was under tremendous pressure to continue Leda.
I didn't have Kendall's replicating cell line.
I don't understand.
What pressure? It doesn't matter.
She is a life.
She's unique.
She's She's happy.
And, hopefully, we will cure her.
The cumulus cells are are starting to strip off the the egg.
[Clears throat.]
That's excellent news.
Tomorrow we should have a zygote.
Of course she's reluctant to come forward.
You have to convince her, Sarah.
I'm trying, but it's not our decision, is it? - It's hers.
- Listen to me.
If you found her, Brightborn is right behind.
Tell her we'll protect her.
What if we can't? I'm not lying to her.
Then let me.
Or use the information I gave you about her other son.
[Sighs.]
I'm not blackmailing her, Rachel.
Sarah, don't be naive.
We have one chance at [Sighs.]
[Mobile rings.]
Still here.
Sarah won't act.
We need that contingency plan.
All right, but there's a complication.
He's sleeping.
Sarah: All right.
We're not safe here.
We need, uh, we need you to come with us.
Like protective custody? Honestly, there are police that we can't trust.
But we've got a safe house, and it's very well protected.
This is crazy.
I don't even know you people.
Brightborn is after us, too.
And we both have daughters, and we put them first everyday, just like you're doing with Jacob.
But we need you to help us end this.
Could you go get him, please? Okay.
Art: Shh, shh, shh, quiet.
- They're outside.
- [Baby crying.]
[Footsteps on stairs.]
Kendra! Let her go, let her go.
She'll keep him quiet.
- [Phone ringing.]
- Whose phone is that? Landline.
Whoa.
Shit.
- [Ringing.]
- Kendra: Shh, shh, shh.
Shh, shh, shh.
Shh, shh, shh, shh.
Hello? Rachel: Kendra Dupree? Listen to me carefully.
I have an associate waiting for you in a car outside.
I know Sarah is there.
I also know your son William is with Carrie Munroe, 14 Emerson Drive, Pickering.
If you do as I say, he won't be hurt.
Shh, shh.
Shh.
Don't move.
Police! Drop your weapons nice and slow.
Kick 'em over to me.
Get on your knees.
Put your hands behind your heads.
Lock your fingers.
You again? Where's your usual partner? Why? You miss him? You go get Kendra, I'll take care of these guys.
[Handcuffs clicking.]
Kendra?! [Engine turns over.]
Ira, stop! - Kendra! - [Tires squeal.]
[Sighs.]
What happened? She's gone with Ira.
Rachel's screwing us.
I'm so stupid.
Hey, did you kill that woman at the shelter?! - No, no, no, hey! - Eh?! Eh?! We're not doing this.
We're gonna drop 'em off at the precinct.
We'll be out by morning.
Yeah? [Chuckles.]
I'm gonna be real interested to see who springs you.
Swimsuits a hair dryer, and earplugs for your snoring.
Uh, I grabbed some Imodium in case you want that crab salad again.
[Sighs.]
- Hey, the cops are gone.
- Oh.
There's just an ambulance parked there now.
Good, good time to skedaddle.
Yep, let's get out of here.
Wait flip-flops.
Uh, basement, basement.
Right, okay, okay.
Go, go.
[Thud.]
Donnie.
Donnie? Donnie.
Oh, Lord! [Gasps.]
Sorry to barge in.
We're gonna have a little chat.
Okay.
Large-scale clinical trials are just the beginning.
Soon, Brightborn will offer advanced gene therapy directly to you and your families.
I can think of no better place to begin this genetic revolution than in my hometown of Tisdale.
Thank you.
Okay, I'm ready.
- What is it? - Rachel Duncan is here.
- In the city? - Downstairs.
She says she has information about Kendra Dupree.
[Indistinct conversations.]
[Muffled moaning.]
You're the tough one in the family, aren't you? I guess you'd have to be.
This one's first generation.
It's glitchy as hell.
Messed up a lot of people.
I need you to tell me what Sarah got up to with Detective Duko.
He disappeared tracking her.
By the time I count to 10, you're going to answer, or this goes in.
I love you, Donnie.
One, two Lord, please, hear my prayer.
- three, four - I've sinned and sinned.
- five, six - I've turned my back on my community.
- seven - I've lost my way.
- eight, nine - Please, forgive my husband - ten.
- protect my children, and have mercy on [Gasping.]
Helena, wh-where did you come from? Beavertail National Park.
It was very peaceful.
[Breathing heavily.]
[Muffled.]
Helena! Donnie Hendrick Mm.
you look like roast pig.
[Sobbing.]
Hey, what the hell are you up to? Where's Kendra? She and her baby are safe.
Did you threaten to hurt her kid, eh? You're worse than bloody Brightborn, mate.
We're just doing what needs to be done, what you would not.
Where's Rachel? She's meeting with Evie.
You let her do that? - It's not what you think.
- You're stupid, mate.
She is playing you.
Rachel just wants power.
She'll cut us all down, including you.
You're supposed to be on the island.
Well, I'm here.
And lucky for you, I have your solution.
You know where my carrier is? She's in my custody.
Along with her video.
It's abhorrent.
I'm surprised you left yourself so vulnerable.
So this is a shakedown.
I prefer to think of it as a negotiation.
Project Leda is obsolete.
Off the table.
Fine.
Same with Susan.
Agreed.
Her day has past.
Don't tell me you want Sarah and her sisters spared.
You don't know me at all, do you? Well, then what? I take great offense to something you said to me once that Neolution would never allow a clone a position of power.
Today, that changes.
You want a seat at the table.
And in return, I give you Kendra and her video.
And no one need know about engineered birth defects and euthanized newborns.
The video's on there? Yes, there are no copies.
And what about Kendra Dupree? She's in my hotel room.
And the child is with her? Yes, that's right.
Do we have a deal? Like I have a choice.
One question.
Why euthanasia? Surely, with Brightborn's resources - You're recording this? - hidden away And ready to upload it to every major news network.
Let them live out their shortened lives.
If even one of these children were discovered, decades of science would have been shelved.
At the end of the day, euthanizing severely deformed newborns was the most humane way forward.
Now, if you'll excuse me.
Wow, she did it.
Well done.
Welcome.
What if I were to tell you that, in a few short years, immune deficiencies could be eradicated, cancer cured? Blood disease, hemophilia, hereditary blindness all in our past? - [Mobile buzzes.]
- Sound farfetched? Not to me.
Because here at Brightborn Technologies At the end of the day, euthanizing - severely deformed newborns - we are on the cusp of a genetic revolution.
- was the most humane way forward.
- [Mobiles buzzing, dinging.]
Today we are pleased to announce federal approval of phase three clinical trials Woman: Hold her steady.
of implantable bioengineered gene therapy.
Evie: the most humane way forward.
Woman: Okay.
researching and marketing gene therapies She's gone.
Excuse me.
Are babies being euthanized at Brightborn's birthing facility? large-scale double-blind studies.
Do Brightborn treatments cause deformation? - What are you talking about? - Well, we have video of you admitting to euthanizing Brightborn babies.
How do you respond? Woman: Can you confirm these are Brightborn doctors? [Reporters clamoring.]
Thank you.
No comment.
No further questions.
Excuse me.
Ms.
Cho! Please.
Baseless allegations.
No further comment.
Ira: Rachel? Is it happening again? What did you see? It isn't a glitch.
It's the island.
There were people there.
The swan's trying to show me something, Ira.
[Woman singing in French on radio.]
[Door opens, wind whistles.]
[Indistinct radio chatter.]
[Footsteps.]
Sarah and her self-aware sisters won't get such humane treatment.
Alison is Sarah's twin sister.
Adele: Your bail hearing's not gonna be until Monday.
- Monday?! - Mm-hmm.
- Shingles.
- Yes.
You'll be first to take the new generation of bot this week.
Those shingles will be a thing of the past.
Ira: A swan! Stop saying it like that.
It was a vision of a swan.
What is happening to me? - This is for my ma.
- No, no, no, no What if we created a blastocyst? We'd need fertilizable Leda eggs.
and Castor sperm from Ira.
Where are you gonna get the eggs from? The only problem is we don't have the resources to do it alone.
I want to work with Sarah Manning and the others to restore you as the head of Neolution.
Are you sure you can work with Sarah? I look forward to it.
I just want you to find a cure.
We will.
Rachel? I saw it again.
The same man.
I think I was on the island.
Are you all right? Yes, I'm fine.
It's fine.
You need to see this.
Turn it up.
Evie: When the refinery shut down, my father lost his job, just like a lot of folks in Tisdale.
You had a serious illness, too, didn't you? Severe Combined Immunodeficiency.
That's right.
We couldn't move.
Instead, it was a steady stream of of good-byes.
Friends, teachers.
That must have been difficult.
I got through it.
But as you know, Tisdale is still suffering.
So when Brightborn decided to build a new research facility, I knew just the place.
260 new jobs.
A new walk-in clinic.
A new park.
She's painting herself as some kind of hometown hero.
Yes, she's ingenious.
I believe Tisdale can rebuild.
And here at Brightborn, we just want to be a part of that.
All right, so it's press conference day today.
Give me something.
What are you gonna say? It's just another big step for Brightborn.
You'll just have to wait and see.
Could probably give me one thing, just one little Just give me one thing.
Her government approvals have come through.
Then we should act now.
- [Knock on door.]
- That's them.
Are you sure you're all right? Scarcely believed it.
A Castor who favors slacks.
You must be Felix.
Hello, Rachel.
Thank you for coming, Felix.
This is a bad idea.
[Humming.]
I'm sure we can all agree that this little diplomatic exchange is rock bottom.
Susan gets the brilliant and delightful Cosima, forging ahead to save your lives, while we get you, Rachel, and your half-baked plan to take down Evie Cho.
I can assure you, it is not half-baked.
Ira, you fertilized my sister's eggs for science.
You don't get to speak, too.
Sarah: So what does it mean then? Evie's got approval for clinical trials of the new bot? It means implanted gene therapy works.
They'll prove it suppresses certain genetic disorders.
Only it's a Trojan horse.
'Cause they can alter their DNA however they want.
Yes.
Including germline editing.
Changing their clients' children's DNA without consent.
She wants to get the technology to the public within three years.
Jesus.
Evie Cho might be a more cunning villain than you, Rachel.
Her villainy is exactly how we get her.
Go on.
Evie developed her tech with illegal human trials.
We've learned that two carriers recently fled the Brightborn maternity lab.
Tabitha Stewart and Kendra Dupree.
You want to find them before Evie does.
No, we want you to.
And with what these girls know, I can destroy Evie.
Right.
And then Susan Duncan can take her place at the head of Neolution again.
Evie is hunting you, Sarah.
We both need her gone.
I have m-m Mm.
my limitations, but Ira will help.
We do this, it's with our people, our way.
Give me the file.
We'll let you know how it goes.
[Baby screaming.]
- [Screaming stops.]
- Woman: Okay, she's gone.
[Flatline.]
Evie: Oh, no.
Van Lier: I'm sorry.
It came for you this morning.
"Leave us alone or the whole video goes online.
" Like I'm going to let that happen.
They could ruin everything.
Why haven't we found them? We're working on it.
We traced the e-mail to a fixed address, but the less you know about that the better.
And what should I know about Detective Duko? He disappeared tailing Sarah.
Evie, you need to focus on the press conference tonight.
Let us handle this.
I have jobs for each of you.
[Siren chirps.]
Honey! Oh, Donnie, thank God.
Oh, my God, it is so good to see you.
Oh! Oh, Donnie, Donnie, please.
I just I never thought I'd see you again.
- Let's just go home, okay.
- Contain yourself.
Adele is coming over to talk about your defense, okay? Well, she can wait.
Daddy needs his conjugal, baby.
Donnie, our lives are imploding, and all you can think about is your stiffy? You're right, I'm sorry.
You've been such a rock.
How are the kid's doing in Florida? Oh, they're safe.
Except for my mother.
Yeah? What about you, how's the musical? It's a fraud.
We're singing "Jesus Christ Superstar," and I've completely lost touch with my faith.
- No, you haven't.
- Yes, I have.
I'm Judas, and I can't even pray anymore.
Well, listen Oh! Donnie, oh.
Come on.
Let's just go home, all right? We will let Adele get us out of this first, and then I'll make you see God, Mrs.
Hendrix.
Donnie! Mm-hmm.
- Here, hold my undies.
- Oh, God.
- They're dirty.
- Are they? Kendra and Tabitha were both full term.
Kendra's got a four-year-old son.
All right, you're a single mum, - [Mobile dings.]
- and you're desperate enough to surrogate a monster for money how far can you run? Art: Yeah.
Tender mercies.
Donnie's out of remand.
God.
Hendrix is on bail, Cosima's on the Island of Dr.
Moreau, - and Helena is AWOL.
- You got a name? I'm meant to be bringing us together, and we're falling apart.
Well at least you still got Rachel.
Oh, God, yeah.
All right, I got to go.
I got to go make sure the Hendrixes don't let my bio-sister into Clone Club.
I love you.
I know.
You, too.
You got something? Maybe.
Description matches two women checked into the Centretown Shelter yesterday.
One pregnant, the other with a newborn.
Susan: Good.
Now prick the oocyte right in the center to avoid trauma.
I don't want to screw this up.
Relax.
You're merely fertilizing Leda with Castor.
Good.
Now drop some plasma so we know the membrane is ruptured.
And drop it back in the center.
And we are on our way to compatible stem cells.
Thanks to Sarah and Ira's contributions.
You all right? Yeah.
I think the trip up here yesterday took it out of me a little.
I will put our egg in a culture.
Why don't you lie down for a bit? Mm.
I have brought you some reading.
No way.
It's very rare.
"On the Science of Neolution.
" P.
T.
Westmorland.
Sarah: Oh, no.
Art: Yeah.
Centretown Woman's Shelter.
This doesn't look good.
Shit.
No, no, no.
You stay right here.
You're not Beth Childs today.
All right, fine.
I I just talked to her.
[Sobbing.]
It doesn't make any sense.
She told me to meet her here.
No, I'm hearing you.
But you have to let us do our job now.
I saw cruisers.
What's going on? In here.
Looks like we have a suicide.
So no signs of foul play? Nah, not that I can see.
Forensics is on the way.
Though she checked in with a girl named Kendra.
But now we can't find her.
- Jesus.
- Yeah.
Her other friend out there found her hanging from that pipe.
No vital signs for her or the baby.
[Mobile rings.]
Oh, shit.
Helena? Hello, sestra.
Hey, w we've been worried about you.
Why haven't you answered your clone phone? I think ringing is broken.
Okay.
Where are you? I have a place of my own now.
How is Kira? She's getting bigger.
How 'bout you? How are yours? Yes, much kicking.
They're fighting like us.
-Yeah? -[Chuckles.]
I'm happy for you.
I'm glad you're far away from all this.
Why? Is problem? No, no.
No.
Is problem with family Hendrick? No.
Look, it it's nothing for you to worry about.
It's just the usual shit.
Oh, I've got to go.
You keep those babies safe, all right? Say yes.
Okay.
Okay, bye, meathead.
Ah, uh, [clears throat.]
Trina? Beth? Why are you dressed like that? Uh, I'm undercover.
I'm, uh, plainclothes.
What's wrong? You were right about Brightborn.
It's way worse than I thought.
These wounds look to be defensive.
Could be.
You seen Marty Duko lately? No, why? Guy blew his shift.
Nobody knows where he is.
No, I haven't seen him.
Hope he's okay.
Trina: Tabitha called me as soon as they broke out.
Scared shitless.
It wasn't a suicide, no way.
I believe you.
What, um What about Kendra Dupree? Oh, my God.
I hope she got away.
Where would she go? I already told the detective in there.
Okay, that's good, but, uh can you tell me? I feel like I could help.
Kendra talked about a an empty house somewhere.
A friend of her family who died.
Something Steinbeck.
Clara? Mary? - Any idea where? - I just know that house wouldn't sell because the town's economy is so crap.
Tisdale? That would make sense.
Kendra's from there.
You got to find her before they do.
Yeah.
Okay.
We will.
[Mobile rings.]
Detective.
I'm at the scene.
The one that got away Kendra Dupree I got a little tip she's headed to Tisdale.
But you're not the only ones looking for her.
Okay, could be worse.
They've charged you with possession, trafficking, and importing.
Importing? No, no, we weren't importing.
Shh.
Uh, what is their evidence? We won't know for a couple of weeks.
Until then, just comply with your bail conditions and try not to worry.
- Okay.
- Okay.
FYI there's two plainclothes parked outside your house in an unmarked car.
We're under surveillance? - Mm-hmm.
- Is that normal? We've already been charged.
Seems like Detective Duko has quite a hard-on for y'all.
Well, it's not him.
Why couldn't it be him? 'Cause he's on leave.
Okay, how would you know if he's on leave? You know what, maybe we should review the scope of - lawyer-client privilege again.
- Mm.
Okay, is something going on with Detective Duko? [Pops lips.]
No.
- No.
- No, I don't think there is.
Great, um, we can continue this conversation at home.
Let's maybe have a drink there.
We'll leave you two.
- Bye.
- Bye.
It's functioning perfectly, Evie.
The therapy is underway.
Well, I won't miss the shingles.
[Chuckles.]
Just promise me that you'll find that carrier, Ian.
Or none of it will matter.
I promise.
Art: What do you know about this place? Sarah: Tisdale? Nothing.
I mean, looks rough.
I'm guessing Brightborn offered Kendra money and she thought, how bad can it be? Pretty bad.
- [Mobile ringing.]
- So how many more Steinbecks we got left? Uh, two.
And one Steinbock.
Rachel, I told you I'd call you.
Yes, an hour ago.
Well, we're still looking for Kendra Dupree.
Well, we have new information that could help.
Kendra took her four-year-old son, William, to friends in Pickering.
I'll send the address.
No, we've got our own leads out here.
Where are you then? How can we help? If I need help, I'll ask.
[Sighs.]
You really don't like each other, do you? She put a pencil in my brain.
Okay.
We have the location of Sarah's last phone call.
She's in Tisdale.
You should go then.
Contingency, in case she falters.
You're the sick one.
Cosima.
You're the sick one, too, right? Charlotte? I don't feel very sick yet.
That's good.
How do you brush your hair? I don't.
I just wake up, and it looks like this.
Want to feel? I used to have pigtails, too.
Do you like the book? Yeah.
But I'm finding it bit overwhelming right now.
I didn't even know that this guy, P.
T.
Westmorland, was involved in Neolution.
This is my favorite part.
This the island that we're on? It's made of Precambrian rock, almost 4 billion years old.
We're at this end.
You're right, that is a very cool part.
First, your foster sister does a test on us, like she's got geneticists at her disposal, and then I meet her suburbanite twin sister, the drug dealer and her husband gets thrown in jail, and the cops just throw the book at him.
Did your family threaten Duko or something? Adele, you're making it sound like we're the mob.
What? So I'm reading this wrong? Well, you did just mix mood stabilizers with gin, darling.
That's brunch.
Hello, Felix.
Hey! Helena! Hi! Adele, Helena.
Helena, this is Adele.
This is my half-sister.
What? Different mother, same father.
So you must be Sarah's other sister? Yes, same mother womb.
So it's triplets now, huh? Yeah.
- Yeah, yeah.
- From different regions.
- From the same stomach.
- Yeah.
Countries in there, different countries? This is I should go.
That's probably best.
Nonsense.
I think you should stay.
I have so many questions for you, all starting with where you got that hat.
Have you named it yet? Oh, God, oh, God, oh, God Oh, can you use a different word? Just Just call me a bad man.
- Oh, you're a bad man.
- I'm a bad man.
Who runs this cellblock? - Oh, you run it.
- I run this cellblock.
- Yeah, you run it.
- Oh, honey, I love you! Gah! Oh! Oh.
Oh Donnie, would you pray with me, please? - Right now? - Yes, yes.
Just close your eyes, close them.
Oh, dear Lord [Sighs.]
I know we haven't been very good Christians lately but we are very grateful that Donnie's out of remand.
And we're trying our best to be good To be good.
Oh, crap.
I can't do this.
Oh, God's forsaken me.
Honey, I'm - I'm sure he gets the point.
- No, no.
Everybody knows we're criminals.
They stare at me in the grocery store.
And there are the cops outside of our house, Donnie.
We have to get out of here.
Honey, we can't.
I forfeited my passport as part of my bail conditions.
[Sighs.]
Well, we'll we'll go to Niagara.
And we'll pretend it's a holiday, we'll send for the kids, and we'll go hide in one of those water park hotels.
The last time we went to SplashDown, Oscar got foot-and-mouth disease.
Donnie, would you work with me here, please.
Yeah.
Let's go to Niagara.
Good.
- [Doorbell rings.]
- Art: All right, this is the last Steinbeck on the list.
[Knock on door.]
There's baby stuff.
[Ringing doorbell rapidly.]
Just do it quick.
[Door closes.]
Hello? Kendra? [Baby crying.]
Kendra Dupree? [Crying continues.]
Hey.
You go away.
You hurt my baby.
Get away from him.
We're not from Brightborn.
We don't want to hurt your kid.
I don't believe you.
Listen very carefully, I'm a police officer, all right? I'm gonna reach into my pocket real slow and show you my ID.
There you go.
All right, just put down the gun.
Move.
Okay, okay.
[Baby crying.]
Shh, shh, shh, shh.
Shh, shh, shh, shh.
Shh, shh, shh.
Oh, shh, shh, shh, shh.
It's okay.
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
See, Felix neglected to tell me twice that Sarah's got sisters.
And you're so preggo and foreign.
Because it wasn't pertinent, and I'm not a gossip.
Oh, you're not a gossip? [Scoffs.]
Right.
Where is Sarah? She's good, good, darling, she's just busy, busy-busy.
Alison? Donnie Hendrick? Yeah, they're great, all great.
Totally fine.
Oh, yeah, they're doing real well, aside from the fact that they're currently under federal prosecution.
Adele.
What, shouldn't she know? They are sisters.
What does this mean? Jail? No, no.
Well, maybe Donnie.
Yes.
I don't know.
Because of Pouchy? So she knows about the killings? [Laughs.]
Tangential, of course, t to drugs and missing cops.
You have a loud voice.
Yes, I do, because, see, my brother here, he's got more secrets than a Freemason, and I'm getting real tired of sifting through - all his bullshit.
- Just relax.
Maybe bullshit is where you belong.
Did you just step up to me, little triplet? [Snarls.]
- Okay, whoa.
- Jesus.
No, you don't want to do that, all right? It's okay? We don't need to do any of that, all right? All good.
Um, sestra you give me an hour here with Adele, and then I promise we are gonna catch up right proper, okay? You are safe? Yeah.
Hope so.
[Door opens.]
[Door closes.]
Wow.
She was something else.
[Sniffles.]
And I don't think that hat was store-bought neither.
You're going to sober up, and then you're gonna go.
I'm not leaving without an explanation.
Adele, you are so beautifully unsullied by all this shit.
And I'm not gonna be the person that ruins that for you.
Okay, okay.
[Sniffles.]
Genetics doesn't really make a family, does it? - No.
- Honesty and and, uh, acceptance, that's what it's all about, hey? This is my life.
I'm really sorry.
Okay.
Hmm.
Okay, um, I'm gonna leave you with your real family for a while.
[Sniffles.]
Okay.
Okay.
[Baby fussing.]
How did you find me? We spoke to Trina.
Um, I knew her from before.
I was just coming back with lunch.
They killed Tabitha, didn't they? Well, if they did, they made it look like a suicide.
We know about Brightborn.
You want to tell us what happened? [Baby fusses.]
Shh.
[Coughing.]
It's okay.
Tabitha and I were nearing full term.
We heard rumors some of the babies were born different.
One night, the nurse fell asleep, so we snuck out of the ward.
We heard a baby crying, saw two doctors sneak into an operating room I'd snuck this phone in [sniffles.]
to call my son.
- [Baby crying.]
- Shh, shh, shh, shh.
Woman: See this dysplasia? Must be excruciating.
Hold her steady.
[Baby crying.]
Just a little bee sting, and then you won't feel anything at all.
[Baby screaming.]
[Screaming stops.]
Okay, she's gone.
[Flatline.]
Kendra: The next day, we ran.
I named him Jacob.
They put this beautiful baby in me, but he was born blind.
[Coos.]
If they find him, they'll put him down, too.
If you're willing to come forward with this, we could expose them.
We could end all this.
Look, you take the video and you leave me out of it.
That won't work, Kendra.
Without you, the video can be discounted.
Look what they did to Tabitha.
I have another son.
They'll hurt us, I know they will.
Hi.
So? What do you think of Neolution's forefather? I think he's fascinating for a racist blowhard who thinks that poverty is genetic.
Consider the era, the Victorian mind-set.
Is your mind-set so different? [Chuckles.]
Our ethics debate again.
Well, I just met a little girl with a deformed leg and a terminal illness.
When I created Charlotte, I was under tremendous pressure to continue Leda.
I didn't have Kendall's replicating cell line.
I don't understand.
What pressure? It doesn't matter.
She is a life.
She's unique.
She's She's happy.
And, hopefully, we will cure her.
The cumulus cells are are starting to strip off the the egg.
[Clears throat.]
That's excellent news.
Tomorrow we should have a zygote.
Of course she's reluctant to come forward.
You have to convince her, Sarah.
I'm trying, but it's not our decision, is it? - It's hers.
- Listen to me.
If you found her, Brightborn is right behind.
Tell her we'll protect her.
What if we can't? I'm not lying to her.
Then let me.
Or use the information I gave you about her other son.
[Sighs.]
I'm not blackmailing her, Rachel.
Sarah, don't be naive.
We have one chance at [Sighs.]
[Mobile rings.]
Still here.
Sarah won't act.
We need that contingency plan.
All right, but there's a complication.
He's sleeping.
Sarah: All right.
We're not safe here.
We need, uh, we need you to come with us.
Like protective custody? Honestly, there are police that we can't trust.
But we've got a safe house, and it's very well protected.
This is crazy.
I don't even know you people.
Brightborn is after us, too.
And we both have daughters, and we put them first everyday, just like you're doing with Jacob.
But we need you to help us end this.
Could you go get him, please? Okay.
Art: Shh, shh, shh, quiet.
- They're outside.
- [Baby crying.]
[Footsteps on stairs.]
Kendra! Let her go, let her go.
She'll keep him quiet.
- [Phone ringing.]
- Whose phone is that? Landline.
Whoa.
Shit.
- [Ringing.]
- Kendra: Shh, shh, shh.
Shh, shh, shh.
Shh, shh, shh, shh.
Hello? Rachel: Kendra Dupree? Listen to me carefully.
I have an associate waiting for you in a car outside.
I know Sarah is there.
I also know your son William is with Carrie Munroe, 14 Emerson Drive, Pickering.
If you do as I say, he won't be hurt.
Shh, shh.
Shh.
Don't move.
Police! Drop your weapons nice and slow.
Kick 'em over to me.
Get on your knees.
Put your hands behind your heads.
Lock your fingers.
You again? Where's your usual partner? Why? You miss him? You go get Kendra, I'll take care of these guys.
[Handcuffs clicking.]
Kendra?! [Engine turns over.]
Ira, stop! - Kendra! - [Tires squeal.]
[Sighs.]
What happened? She's gone with Ira.
Rachel's screwing us.
I'm so stupid.
Hey, did you kill that woman at the shelter?! - No, no, no, hey! - Eh?! Eh?! We're not doing this.
We're gonna drop 'em off at the precinct.
We'll be out by morning.
Yeah? [Chuckles.]
I'm gonna be real interested to see who springs you.
Swimsuits a hair dryer, and earplugs for your snoring.
Uh, I grabbed some Imodium in case you want that crab salad again.
[Sighs.]
- Hey, the cops are gone.
- Oh.
There's just an ambulance parked there now.
Good, good time to skedaddle.
Yep, let's get out of here.
Wait flip-flops.
Uh, basement, basement.
Right, okay, okay.
Go, go.
[Thud.]
Donnie.
Donnie? Donnie.
Oh, Lord! [Gasps.]
Sorry to barge in.
We're gonna have a little chat.
Okay.
Large-scale clinical trials are just the beginning.
Soon, Brightborn will offer advanced gene therapy directly to you and your families.
I can think of no better place to begin this genetic revolution than in my hometown of Tisdale.
Thank you.
Okay, I'm ready.
- What is it? - Rachel Duncan is here.
- In the city? - Downstairs.
She says she has information about Kendra Dupree.
[Indistinct conversations.]
[Muffled moaning.]
You're the tough one in the family, aren't you? I guess you'd have to be.
This one's first generation.
It's glitchy as hell.
Messed up a lot of people.
I need you to tell me what Sarah got up to with Detective Duko.
He disappeared tracking her.
By the time I count to 10, you're going to answer, or this goes in.
I love you, Donnie.
One, two Lord, please, hear my prayer.
- three, four - I've sinned and sinned.
- five, six - I've turned my back on my community.
- seven - I've lost my way.
- eight, nine - Please, forgive my husband - ten.
- protect my children, and have mercy on [Gasping.]
Helena, wh-where did you come from? Beavertail National Park.
It was very peaceful.
[Breathing heavily.]
[Muffled.]
Helena! Donnie Hendrick Mm.
you look like roast pig.
[Sobbing.]
Hey, what the hell are you up to? Where's Kendra? She and her baby are safe.
Did you threaten to hurt her kid, eh? You're worse than bloody Brightborn, mate.
We're just doing what needs to be done, what you would not.
Where's Rachel? She's meeting with Evie.
You let her do that? - It's not what you think.
- You're stupid, mate.
She is playing you.
Rachel just wants power.
She'll cut us all down, including you.
You're supposed to be on the island.
Well, I'm here.
And lucky for you, I have your solution.
You know where my carrier is? She's in my custody.
Along with her video.
It's abhorrent.
I'm surprised you left yourself so vulnerable.
So this is a shakedown.
I prefer to think of it as a negotiation.
Project Leda is obsolete.
Off the table.
Fine.
Same with Susan.
Agreed.
Her day has past.
Don't tell me you want Sarah and her sisters spared.
You don't know me at all, do you? Well, then what? I take great offense to something you said to me once that Neolution would never allow a clone a position of power.
Today, that changes.
You want a seat at the table.
And in return, I give you Kendra and her video.
And no one need know about engineered birth defects and euthanized newborns.
The video's on there? Yes, there are no copies.
And what about Kendra Dupree? She's in my hotel room.
And the child is with her? Yes, that's right.
Do we have a deal? Like I have a choice.
One question.
Why euthanasia? Surely, with Brightborn's resources - You're recording this? - hidden away And ready to upload it to every major news network.
Let them live out their shortened lives.
If even one of these children were discovered, decades of science would have been shelved.
At the end of the day, euthanizing severely deformed newborns was the most humane way forward.
Now, if you'll excuse me.
Wow, she did it.
Well done.
Welcome.
What if I were to tell you that, in a few short years, immune deficiencies could be eradicated, cancer cured? Blood disease, hemophilia, hereditary blindness all in our past? - [Mobile buzzes.]
- Sound farfetched? Not to me.
Because here at Brightborn Technologies At the end of the day, euthanizing - severely deformed newborns - we are on the cusp of a genetic revolution.
- was the most humane way forward.
- [Mobiles buzzing, dinging.]
Today we are pleased to announce federal approval of phase three clinical trials Woman: Hold her steady.
of implantable bioengineered gene therapy.
Evie: the most humane way forward.
Woman: Okay.
researching and marketing gene therapies She's gone.
Excuse me.
Are babies being euthanized at Brightborn's birthing facility? large-scale double-blind studies.
Do Brightborn treatments cause deformation? - What are you talking about? - Well, we have video of you admitting to euthanizing Brightborn babies.
How do you respond? Woman: Can you confirm these are Brightborn doctors? [Reporters clamoring.]
Thank you.
No comment.
No further questions.
Excuse me.
Ms.
Cho! Please.
Baseless allegations.
No further comment.
Ira: Rachel? Is it happening again? What did you see? It isn't a glitch.
It's the island.
There were people there.
The swan's trying to show me something, Ira.
[Woman singing in French on radio.]
[Door opens, wind whistles.]
[Indistinct radio chatter.]
[Footsteps.]