Falling Skies s05e01 Episode Script

ÿþ1 Aliens killed my wife.
It wasn't my hate that kept me going.
It was my love.
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Previously on Falling Skies.
Since I woke up with the spikes, I feel like.
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I'm drawn to you.
Espheni power core, was never on earth in the first place.
It powers the entire Espheni war machine.
We are gonna blow that son of bitch up.
Who do you propose to pilot that flying saucer to the moon? Me.
Let me be your weapon.
Bye, Daddy.
Tom always finds his way home.
That overlord said that there was a danger coming, and until he does.
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We have to finish what he started.
We have to end this war.
Tom mason.
It's about time.
You are safe and sound.
We come in peace.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Who's there? The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Show yourself.
Tom mason.
It's about time.
Oh, my God.
You're beautiful.
What is it? You look pale.
Rebecca? Wait.
What are you doing here? Where are we? Nice try, Tom.
You promised me - we'd talk before dinner.
How did we get home? This is just another game.
This is another game.
What do you want, Rebecca? The cancer's back.
- We have decisions to make.
I remember this conversation.
I know.
Me too.
They say with breast cancer, you're not out of the woods for five years.
It's been four.
I almost made it.
But this time.
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The, uh, radiation, like we talked about, would be the safest.
It's not enough.
What do you mean? I want to do the chemo, too, hit it with both barrels.
Just a round of radiation.
And maybe this monster goes back into remission.
But maybe not.
Then we have to have this conversation again.
And again and again.
I'm tired of running for my life.
I want to eradicate this.
So that it leaves me and never comes back.
I don't want to just survive.
I want to take back control of my life, of our lives.
Don't you? Yes.
I am so tired.
And you can't be afraid.
You never know where a rogue cell might be hiding.
We have to stop reacting.
We have to kill it at its source.
You have to get mad, Tom.
More than mad.
Tap into your primal rage until this is over, Even if it costs you.
Okay? Find your warrior.
It's time.
They're waiting.
Dan, they're your soldiers.
They're your people, Anne.
They need to hear from you.
I know it hurts, but you got to own the pain so that you can get through it.
Okay.
Own it.
It's been two days.
No sign of Lexi and Tom.
So, I'm just gonna say what you're all already thinking.
They're gone.
They're gone.
That's the bad news.
The good news.
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they succeeded in their mission.
They succeeded.
The Espheni power core is down.
And in the days leading up to our victory, we witnessed a mass exodus of their ships leaving our planet.
We don't know why, but we know they have their work cut out for them now dealing with the mess we just made for them, and that means one thing.
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For once, we have the upper hand.
So, let's do this! My husband and my daughter gave their lives so that we could finish this, and that's what we're gonna do.
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Finish it.
I know that some of you can never forgive Lexi.
There are days I'm not sure I've even forgiven her.
But whatever she was guilty of, there's no denying the sacrifice that she made with her true father by her side.
They flung themselves into the unknown for us.
That was my husband.
That was my daughter.
That was my family.
I want these barricades up by nightfall! Move! What's the matter, Butterfield? Is that too heavy for you? You want me to get - one of the little children to carry it for you? Hey, Colonel! What's with this barricade? The power core's out.
We need to hit them now.
We need to hit them hard.
What we're not gonna do is spend another night risking any surprise ambushes.
What are you talking about? They're not gonna attack anybody.
They're running scared.
It's not the time to get cocky.
We need to be smart.
We're shoring up our defense so we can get through the night in one piece.
Relax.
Hunting season opens at first light.
Yes, sir.
Let's move! Come on! Find your warrior.
That's far enough.
Mason.
No, no, no.
You have got to be kidding me.
Hang on.
Don't do that.
Let me get this straight.
You hijack an alien ship, fly a one-way ticket to the moon, get lost somewhere up there in the void of the galaxy, and you still won't die.
What's in the bag, Cambridge? Hey, hold on a second.
Wait one damn second! What the hell happened to you? Oh, my god.
Tom? Oh, god.
If I'm dreaming, - then I'll never want to wake up.
-Are you okay? - - I'm okay.
You have to tell me.
Lexi? She saved us all.
Is that some kind of new Volm toy? Have you used it before? Relax.
It's gonna detect abnormalities faster than I can right now.
I think if I had been force-fed eye worms, I would know it.
Has a certain subtle telltale feeling like electroshock therapy.
So, you've told us everything about the overload.
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- "Scorch.
" Yeah, and your last-second escape from the beamer and.
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But you haven't told us how the hell you got back here.
You're all clean.
-What? - - Take that off.
-My necklace? - - Take it off.
Take it off.
- I don't want you to wear it.
- What? - I'll explain it to you later.
Just trust me.
Thank you.
Yeah, anyway, like I said, I was back in my bedroom in Boston.
You mean back home? Yeah, except it wasn't a dream.
It was a memory.
And it wasn't invasive like with the Espheni.
It was, um.
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There was something very vivid about it, almost pleasant.
Warm.
It was coming from somebody who really knew me.
Somebody that knew you? Well, what was it? The memory was, uh, a long time ago when your mom, Rebecca, had breast cancer.
Only there was something even unnatural about her.
It was like it was her, but it wasn't her.
I.
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wish I could remember more.
Okay.
I think you were hypothermic, hallucinating in that freezing beamer that was spinning into space, and that's how you're coming up with these visions.
Yeah, but.
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but how did he get from space.
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To the ocean? I don't know.
Maybe when you were incapacitated, there was some autopilot function that landed the beamer in the water or ejected you.
That's as good of an explanation as I've heard so far.
Or maybe the beamer sank.
Maybe.
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maybe none of that matters.
Exactly.
You're right.
All that matters is that you're back.
Exactly.
I wish I had a better story to tell you.
I really do, because, let's face it, my sudden return here is.
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a little freaky.
No.
I got a clean bill of health.
So, as I know more, you'll know more.
And in the meantime, uh.
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as you've heard.
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Anne and I lost our daughter on this mission.
And what I'm about to say may strike some of you as a little unusual coming from me.
But I'm doing a lot of thinking about what it's meant to pay for this war with people that I love.
And one thing is clear.
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I'm mad.
Every single person here has lost someone that they love, Someone who's made the ultimate sacrifice for the greater good, And for those sacrifices to mean anything, we're gonna have to win this war.
Yeah! And to win the war, I'm gonna need you to get mad with me! I'm not talking about anger.
I'm talking about rage.
You think you're mad, but you're not.
It's human nature to take your foot off the gas right before the finish line.
We're not gonna do that.
This is the time for overkill, to fire both barrels, to use everything we've got! Our enemy is still out there, but they're unprotected and they're vulnerable and they are just waiting for us to take them out, if we've got the will to do it! Hell, yeah! Because when the last bullet goes into the last Skitter, This war's over! Yeah! Soon the time will come for us to go back to being doctors and bricklayers, schoolteachers, mothers and fathers, But that time is not now.
That is not who we are.
Right now, we are warriors.
And so I'm putting a challenge to each and every one of you.
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To find your warrior.
The Espheni are on their heels now.
Should be a turkey shoot.
Skitters, Hornets, anything with a pulse, we take out.
Right, first we got to go after the heart of their war machine, which is its tech.
We got to dismantle as much as we can as fast as we can.
Beamers and Mechs? Not much of a threat with the power core gone.
Cochise, can we count on help from the Volm? We're gonna need air attacks to accelerate this plan.
Our fleet consists of only three galleons.
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uh, heavy bombers.
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which lack - the surgical strike ability to target the enemy as you suggest.
Collateral damage would be.
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incalculable.
I guarantee the Espheni are trying to get their weapons back online, So we can't just talk about this.
We got to find a way to locate their tech.
I am able to obtain longitudinal data from our recon drones.
The batteries are - still emitting enough energy to provide a ping beacon.
And, indeed, I have located Mechs and Beamers within a three-sectored radius of our position.
Three.
One, two, and three.
We're gonna have to be careful.
They might have enough battery energy left to fry us where we stand.
Alpha, bravo, charlie teams.
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everybody gets a vehicle.
Alpha team goes north along the Savannah.
Bravo team goes west over this hill, and charlie team drives south to Baldwin Park.
I guess nobody's told you.
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we don't have anything with an engine and four wheels.
Disabled beamer fell into our lot when the power grid went down.
What? Are you ki.
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Yeah.
Got one truck.
Not ready yet.
Are you kidding me? What exactly is the plan then? We're gonna explore these things on foot? It's gonna have to be slow going.
That's what it's gonna have to be.
Just expand our radius mile by mile.
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- We're gonna have to go inch by inch.
It'll be slow going.
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- Till we take over the entire.
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How is it we don't have any vehicles? I've been assured that other militias will follow suit.
What? What?! Did you say other militias? Other human militias? Our galleons have confirmed The largest so far in Sao Paulo, Cape Town, and Tucson, Arizona.
Militias.
Armed and ready to fight.
In that way, they are prepared.
They lack organization, however.
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a plan, a leader.
And a way to communicate with each other, except through the Volm.
Well, make sure you tell them what we're doing, and hopefully, we can all get on the same page.
Can wipe these bastards out together.
Hey.
I know you're hurting more than you let on.
It's not hard to tell.
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or feel.
I promised to protect her.
It should have been me on that beamer.
Well, you got to let it go, Ben.
You know, it's time to move on for all of us.
I'll catch you guys up there.
Hey, man.
I miss her, too.
Hey, could you give us a minute? Yeah.
All right.
We got to stick together, brother.
So, we got a job.
Um, Weaver wants to take off A.
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A.
P.
You're on bravo team.
What team are you on? I'm on Alpha.
And Maggie? Alpha.
Right.
Got to stick together.
Alpha team's locked and loaded.
Bravo team, we're a go.
I just can't believe it.
Can we talk to these other militias? Soon, we hope.
In the meantime, we'll just stay focused on the mission.
As you should.
Thank you, Shaq.
- - Welcome.
What about the overlords? Didn't cochise estimate that there were 500 worldwide? I mean, - do we really think they bailed before their power went down? I think most of them died trying.
I saw an espheni ship crash on my way back to camp.
- I doubt it was the only one.
- I hope so.
The cost was high.
Matt, stay back at camp.
I-I'm coming this time.
I don't think so.
Tom? Okay.
You can come.
Stay close, though, huh? Let's move out! Go, go, go, go! Okay.
- Charges set? - Two support beams on the south.
- One in the front.
- Two in the back.
Should take the beamer out of commission for good.
All right.
Three, two.
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Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Look over there.
They're going after that dead cow.
It's not very often you see them alone out here like this with no formations.
There's no overlord.
They're completely chaotic without them.
Man, - those skitters are starving.
Looks like they'll eat anything, even each other.
Like a bunch of wild animals.
And just as stupid.
Man.
For the first time in three years, this is gonna be a damn carnival.
All right, and I'm gonna win you a giant stuffed panda bear.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
We got a little opportunity here.
Kill a bunch of birds with one stone? Good thinking.
Wait.
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for.
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it.
-Nice! - - That was nice.
There's a lot more where that came from.
I think so.
If you're not too afraid.
Oh, please.
Not with you here to protect me.
Team Alpha already hit their targets.
Our turn.
Less than 300 meters from Espheni tech.
Lightning strike, then get the hell out of dodge.
Loose arrowhead on me.
- Is this dodge? - Shut up.
Hey, whoa! Cease fire! They're not shooting back.
Just enough juice left in them to give us a scare.
Easy, though.
Let's get to it.
Salvage anything you think we can use.
So many possibilities.
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so little time.
What is it? That is our target.
It's an overlord escape pod from a cruiser.
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Remote controlled.
Yeah, it doesn't look like the kind of thing we ever want to come back online.
The damage looks pretty significant.
I don't think anybody could have survived that.
Better safe than sorry.
Want to blow some stuff up? Scotty, you got those bombs? Yes, sir.
They got us surrounded.
It's a trap.
Stay loose.
Matt, watch your flank.
Easy, easy.
Cochise.
What's taking them so long? Tom Mason must be in trouble.
I'm so glad I brought you along.
Charlie team needs backup! We're moving out! Now.
Let's go! Scotty! Is he gonna make it? He's gone.
Scotty, I'm still gonna need your help.
Cover me.
Where the hell are you going?! Cover me! Shit! Show me what you got.
Don't fight it.
Thank you, Scotty.
I'm sorry.
It's okay.
It's okay.
Let go.
Let go.
Come and get it! Come on! Keep coming closer.
Let go.
Let go.
Just let go.
Okay, three, two, one! Run.
Run! Oh, thank you, Daniel F.
Weaver.
- Shoot the bombs! - I'm jammed.
I'm out.
Shoot the bombs! Sara! Take the shot! Shoot the bombs! -Yeah! - - Yeah! All right! - .
I-I got it? Nice shot.
Thank god for small miracles.
Nice shooting.
I notice Ben and I - were put on separate teams.
Was that intentional? Of course not.
You're still not letting this go.
How about this? Oh, Christ.
Here we go.
Not letting you go.
So, what do you think about that? Well, I didn't know you had a hold on me in the first place.
What, did we sign papers? You know what I mean.
I care about you, Maggie.
Right, well, that's not the first time you've said that.
Yeah, well, it might be the last.
I mean, what do you want me to say? All right, all right, all right.
I'm in love with you.
Do you know that? And, yeah, I-I love Ben.
And I'm asking you.
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to hurt him, to break his heart so you can be with me.
So.
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there.
That's.
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then that's everything.
I love you, too, Hal.
I just can't.
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stop.
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Stop what? - - These feelings for ben.
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I can't control them, okay? And neither can you.
You okay? Yeah.
I think next time, I'll stay at camp.
Maybe I shouldn't have brought him along.
Ben was his age, though.
He's 14.
He's spinning a bit seeing what you did with Scotty.
So am I.
Did what I had to do.
I didn't do anything that you didn't do, gutting that Skitter very intimately.
I want to know what I'm killing with precision and understanding.
I want to own it.
When you made me take that necklace off, you didn't want me getting lost.
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in depression, in Lexi.
- - Wait.
No, no, no.
I get it.
I just don't want - to get lost in rage, either.
Dad.
The Skitters set a trap for you.
It was like - they knew we were coming.
Which means - that they're being controlled by an overlord nearby.
We need to flush him out somehow while there's no beamers or Mechs to protect him.
If you don't mind my saying, these teams are exhausted from battle.
We can't think in terms of battles anymore.
We're winning a war.
And if there's an overlord nearby, that's a game changer.
Okay, we need a little data checklist.
Let's start with you, Hal.
Go.
The skitters we saw were definitely in a.
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-What would you call it? - - A feral state.
There's no way they were under overlord control.
They were practically eating each other.
Overlords can only control Skitters within a five-mile range.
Is that true? Your skitters were rabid.
Ours were definitely not.
No, they were organized.
They were controlled.
Your overlord must be within a five-mile radius of the ambush.
So, he has to be hiding in that circle.
Easy.
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Maggie and I crisscross the five-mile radius until our spikes draw us.
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You don't want to be reckless.
You'll draw the enemy right to you, putting us in danger of another surprise ambush.
- Glad we could help.
- No, let's just I.
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every defensible position within this area.
Places big enough for an overlord to harbor a Skitter nest for cover.
There's a few structures here matching that description.
All right.
Let's hear them.
- - Okay.
Got a canning factory off route 80.
Hotels over here.
Woodrow Wilson High School.
Shopping mall.
- - Wait a second.
What? What was it? Got a Woodrow Wilson High School.
That's it.
Tom? Tom? That's it.
Woodrow Wilson High School.
That's where he's hiding.
All due respect, professor, how you know that? I just do.
That's where he is.
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Woodrow Wilson High School.
That's where we got to go.
Don't worry.
I'm on it.
Look, since you're acting a little crazy I know where - we're supposed to go, Anne.
I'm sure of it.
- I saw it in that memory.
Wait, you never said anything about Woodrow Wilson to.
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Well, it didn't - mean anything to me before, but I saw a bust - of Woodrow Wilson in my bedroom, and I never owned a bust of Woodrow Wilson.
Is there anything else that you remember, huh? Grover Cleveland? Jerry Ford? I think this is important, and I don't think we should ignore it.
- How do you know it's not a trap? - Because.
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whoever or whatever helped me, they saved my life - and they brought me back here.
Why set a trap - if you've already got me? I don't know - why they gave me this clue.
You already let me go to the moon.
Tell me you're afraid of high school? Isn't everybody? Yeah, fine.
Woodrow Wilson it is.
You're totally sure about this? Damn straight.
Game on.
Ben, Maggie.
Let's go.
All clear.
You guys feel anything? No.
You? Nothing.
Oh, no.
What is that? The bleachers.
They're moving.
Hal! Dingaan! Let's see what those things can do! Wait.
Let me go first.
I want to win my own panda bear.
Good girl.
I don't get it.
I could have sworn I heard something.
- Denny! Anthony! Anthony! Help me! Tom Mason.
It's about time.
You never know where a rogue cell might be hiding.
We have to stop reacting.
We have to kill it at its source.
Ben.
What the hell are you doing down here? Ben, disconnect and get out of here.
Let him go right now.
I am unarmed.
Let him go, and then we'll all leave here peacefully.
You have become a savage killer.
Your son is my only leverage.
Oh, you don't have any leverage.
I could shoot you right now, and all Ben gets is a headache.
How does that feel.
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To be afraid? I am not afraid of you.
- - Let him go.
I am not afraid.
I'm not afraid, either.
Let's go.
Denny.
Poor thing.
-You all right? - - I'm fine.
I'm fine.
'Cause they're gonna pay for what they did to Denny.
I didn't know you guys were friends.
There are only a few of us, you know? We understood each other.