Falling Skies s05e08 Episode Script

This is insanity.
You are talking to me like this is Iraq, and I just got off the transport.
And you're talking to me like I haven't spent all this time fighting side by side with the Masons! Don't you see? They have learned to play the long game.
Spikes and eye worms.
We don't know if they can be controlled.
I just -- how can I believe this? You're wrong.
Okay, Dan, I know.
I know this is tearing you up inside.
But the Espheni have mastered the art of infiltrating our people and turning them against us, and we cannot let that happen.
Katie? What is wrong? What is wrong? No, hey, listen, you need some sleep.
We both do.
I want you to think about something.
Is there anyone else? In the 2nd Mass who's working with the Espheni, even against their own will? Gee, I Let mesleep on that.
See what I can come up with.
Yeah.
And Dan? Think about after tomorrow.
Everything we can accomplish Together.
Ma'am! No luck yet on those two 2nd Massers who attacked Sergeant Kagel, but we think they're still on base.
Step up patrols, Private.
I want those two women found.
Yes, ma'am.
Yes.
Affirmative.
I understand.
Yes, sir.
Hal? Hal, you okay? Oh, never better.
Keep you two separated this time.
We don't have a lot of options.
Yeah, and Ben's injured.
He's probably getting interrogated by Kagel again.
I'd like to get my hands on that guy.
Mm-hmm.
At least Weaver got Matt out.
You know, Maggie's either hiding or she's gone.
Otherwise, she'd get thrown in here with us.
No, Weaver's our best bet.
Wherever he is, he's working on a plan.
Got you! Come on.
Why were you meeting with her? Come on! Aah! Well You won't be meeting with her anymore.
Man: Atten-hut! Return to your barracks now! We've got an incident outside of the brig! Hold your position! Lieutenant, keep an eye.
That's far enough.
Turn to your barracks! You're murdering the Masons.
We're warning you! Step back! We wanna see them right now! We're not gonna let this happen! All of you.
What is wrong with you? We are on the same side.
We don't side with traitors.
Traitors?! Stand back! Calm down.
What the hell is going on? What is wrong with you?! That's enough.
Lieutenant Wolf, take the full 2nd Massachusetts from the bunkhouse to the internment area.
Guards posted.
What? I want no more incidents tonight.
Now! Captain, you're making a mistake.
Captain, you know this is wrong.
Let go of me! Get your hands off me! Captain, all due respect, isn't confinement to quarters enough -- Lieutenant, are you questioning a direct order? No, ma'am.
Private Grey! Lieutenant.
I agree with you.
You were brave to speak up.
It's not right.
These death sentences are wrong, too.
I'm not the only one that sees it.
What the hell are we doing? Come with me.
I wanna show you something.
Just outside camp.
Come on.
Ben? What the hell did you do to him? Hal: Hey! Ben, are you okay? Hey, what'd you do to him?! Stand back, Mason.
Ben, Ben.
Hey! Ben, I got you.
Could you at least get him some water, please? Hal, how is he? He's healing.
At least they didn't rip out any more spikes.
I'm fine.
Hal's right.
I just -- I just have to rest.
Here you go.
Here.
Some water.
So you're okay with torture, huh? He was interrogated.
He was tortured! One of those spikes was forcibly ripped out of his spine! I don't argue points of honor with convicted traitors.
Come on.
You can't possibly believe in this witch hunt.
If the enemy's within, that's where we fight him.
That sounds like Captain Marshall talking.
Then you're not looking closely enough.
I think I am, and I think the overwhelming feeling in this camp is fear.
Aah! Hey, Ben, you okay? I'm fine.
Those spikes are starting to heal the wound.
Let's hope so, huh? You say you're not traitors, and yet you hope that thesealien weapons can heal your son.
You've already admitted that they've given him some kind of special powers.
To use against the Espheni.
Since when does shooting the enemy with his own gun make you a traitor?! Do you think this is easy?! My best friend was shot as a traitor! It's not a dog's fault if it gets rabies.
But you still gotta put it down.
Well, Trevor, you have an impressive lab back there.
Test results show that your infection is gone.
I just need to check you out.
Show me your hands.
It's stethoscope.
Back off.
I need you to take a couple deep breaths.
You okay? We've been fighting as hard as anyone, and to be held captive by our own people! Anne, don't.
You'll end up in front of the same firing squad as your husband.
What? What did you say? I thought you knew.
Ma'am, back to work, please.
What the hell is going on here? My husband is not a traitor! Ma'am, I will shoot you.
Anne, please.
Anne, you gotta keep a cool head.
How can I? You saved my life.
Let me save yours.
All right, first off, you gotta put down that scalpel.
It'll get you shot.
Listen to me.
You asked how well I know the captain.
Well enough that I can talk to her.
Good.
What does she need to hear? Things that Tom and his sons have done.
Good.
Start writing.
Okay.
I have quite the list.
Colonel, what the hell are we doing out here? We don't have time for any Holy shit.
How'd you find this? Find it? I killed it.
Yeah.
You killed it? How? Strangled it with my belt.
Turns out they actually do have a spine.
What were you even doing out here? I was following your C.
O.
, Katie Marshall.
She was meeting with this thing.
I don't understand.
Captain Marshall? Why would she meet with an overlord? I don't know.
But I sure as hell am not gonna let her execute my friends for a far lesser offense.
You're gonna confront her? You know the captain as long as I have.
She's different.
What happened? She's changed.
She's colder.
I hate to say it, but she's -- Paranoid.
Yeah.
Let me ask you something.
If we were to bring this thing back into camp, what would she do? Storm the whole area.
Smoke out more of the enemy.
That's what she should do.
Let's find out.
Gotta keep your wounds clean, bro.
We're gonna get out of this.
I know we will.
Hey, listen.
Everything about Maggie Hal, you don't have to No, I-I understand that that was beyond your control.
And, um, I'm sorry.
I had feelings before for her, before the spikes.
I never would've acted on them, but then the spikes -- Bennone if it matters.
None of it matters because she loves you.
She always has.
Well, we have amazing timing.
Because of Isabella? Yeah.
I mean, she's, uh SheShe's great, but You're still in love with Maggie.
No.
No.
Yeah.
No.
It's, uh, I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm Shut up.
Okay.
So, you gonna tell me more about Isabella? I bet you'd like that, wouldn't ya? We seem to have the same taste in women.
Almost gives a guy hope.
Middle of a war with aliens, on death row, and boys still have a reason to talk about girls.
You seem like a family man.
You got any kids? Two boys.
Yeah? What are their names? Jonah and Tommy.
Do you know if they, uh Does anybody? I left 'em way out in the sticks with their mom and some family when all this started.
They said if folks stayed off the grid I just found someplace way out in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just saw a place like that.
Still totally untouched.
Seriously? Yeah.
Yeah, actually, it almost Well, made me think I made a mistake.
Or maybe my boys would have been better off if I had left them someplace like that.
Tough call.
It's not a call that I thought I'd ever have to make.
How about you? God, no.
Figured after my hitch was up, I'd just take over my dad's hardware store.
Raise my family.
Well, that's what we're fighting for -- to get our families back.
I miss my boys.
Lieutenant? When we win, it won't be in spite of our sacrifices.
It will be because of them.
I have to believe that.
We are so close to victory that the real tragedy would be if we let it fall apart right now because right now we have the upper hand.
Right now we have the advantage, and if we can push that advantage, if we can trust each other, if we can -- if we can work together, we could win.
Where was that during your trial? That would have made an impression on the Captain.
I got caught up in the absurdity of humans putting humans on trial.
I'm not a traitor.
I'm no more a traitor than your best friend was.
Yeah, maybe you're not.
Maybe this is a witch hunt.
You hear someone say it out loud, and -- You're afraid to speak up.
You don't wanna be the only one.
There's a lot of guys in the 14th who know we're focused on the wrong things.
Lieutenant, if you believe that -- Need a relief? Nah, nah, I'm good.
Hey.
You hear about Kagel getting jumped by those two girls? No.
What happened? They cut his face and took his weapons.
Motorcycle patrol was going out there to catch them.
This is nuts.
We should run.
We are going to get Tom and Hal.
They're gonna be executed.
Let's go.
Come on.
Jesus, I've never seen so many heroes in one group.
I see four in the front.
There's probably two more inside.
We'll have to kill them, you know.
I know.
Hopefully, Kagel's one of them.
Kagel is a diseased pig who deserves to be killed.
Well, it's not his fault.
I mean, what turns a man into that? A militaristic society.
An imperialistic world view that teaches men that taking what you want is a strength.
Has Hal heard this manifesto? No, not yet.
All right, well, it's none of my business, but I would love to be there when you lay it on him.
Okay.
Someone's coming.
Get ready.
What the hell are you two doing? We could ask you the same thing.
We're letting them out.
The hell you are.
You'll get them and yourselves killed.
I just found a weakness in the perimeter that way.
Listen to me.
In a couple of minutes, there's gonna be a ruckus, and that's gonna be your chance.
Matt's going to get reinforcements.
He's going to get Dingaan, and he's going to get Cochise, and I need you to go join them.
Come back here with numbers before sun-up.
What if we can't get back in time? I'll do what I have to, but I think we can resolve this peacefully.
There's been enough killing.
Go, go, go, go, go! Yo! Gather 'round! Gather 'round! What you got, Wolfie? Come see what Wolfie brought you.
Lieutenant, I hear you've got something.
Why all the theatrics? This deserves an unveiling, ma'am.
I was out on patrol.
I killed it before it killed me.
Whoa! Whoa! Outstanding, Lieutenant Wolf.
Attaboy, Wolfie.
Nice to know what that son of a bitch was doing out here.
All right! Show's over.
Two of you, take this and dispose of the body.
I want it burned.
Everybody else back to your posts.
Oh, Captain, shouldn't we send a team out there? Yeah, we can do this! What if there's more of 'em? Come on, Captain.
We can strafe the whole area and be back for sun-up.
Not tonight.
Your troops, your call, Captain, but the sergeant does have a point.
I won't risk the lives of my men, Colonel Weaver.
Good night.
Don't make no kind of sense, man.
Something isn't right.
Hasn't been right for a while.
Gentlemen, a word.
Tom: From there, it's simple.
Kill as many of their bio-creations as possible and advance.
If all the militias around the globe do this, we can gut the Espheni war machine and take back our home.
Go ahead.
Take that for a minute.
It just doesn't sound like treason to me.
The man that she's about to execute is the closest thing to a real hero that I've ever seen in all my years of service.
Why would the Cap meet up with the enemy? That I don't know, but she's not the officer I trained.
And she's not the woman that Well, she's not the woman that I knew.
Fellas, we've gotta get our heads out of this witch hunt.
Follow the 2nd Mass down to D.
C.
, take the real enemy head on.
Yeah.
There's a whole lot of us who would love nothing more, Colonel.
Yes, sir.
Amen.
What about the Volm? Cap says they're just as dangerous.
There's nobody that annoys me more than the Volm.
But they wanna kill the Espheni just as much as we do, believe me, and we wouldn't be where we are today if it wasn't for them.
So we in, fellas? Yes, sir.
Yeah, boss.
Hell, yeah.
Let's do it.
Hell, yeah.
Go back to your duties.
In the morning, be ready to stand fast.
Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.
Took out a whole skitter factory? With the others, yeah.
That's all we've done, is fight and kill the Espheni.
Hell, my own daughter died blowing up their power core on the Moon.
You know, I think if we could pass these stories on to Captain Marshall, it could make a difference.
Okay, I'm going with you.
Anne, you don't have to.
What if she thinks that you're siding with the traitors? No.
I can't be responsible for that.
We'll go together.
What? I can't imagine how hard it must have been for you to lose your daughter.
We've all had to make sacrifices.
Yeah, we have, but you had so little time with her.
Just a little over a year.
Yetsomehow she was still able to fly a Beamer.
Well She was half Espheni, so Traitor! This woman is a traitor! Arrest this woman! She had a child -- Uhh! She had a half Espheni child, Captain.
I don't even wanna think about how that could happen, Dan, they're putting me in the brig.
They're saying I'm a traitor.
Katie, Anne Mason just spent the last two days trying to save the life of one of your soldiers.
All right, Anne.
I got it.
I got it.
Dan Man: Keep moving.
Come with me.
Trevor has led the 14th in the exposure of collaborators.
He's a model soldier and beyond reproach.
I'm wondering when you're gonna wake up to this, Dan.
This escalating paranoia is exactly what I'm talking about.
Paranoia? I asked you to give me the names of collaborators, and you neglected to mention this? A woman whose child was half alien? You're misunderstanding the whole situation.
Anne Mason is no collaborator.
She's no collaborator.
She's You see that? What am I looking at? Those posts.
Graves of 39 collaborators captured and executed within the last six weeks.
Sergeant.
Escort Colonel Weaver back to my quarters.
I have some questions.
You know, I'd watch it if I were you, Colonel.
Because it looks to me like you're getting on the cap's nerves.
Anne? Tom! You okay? What happened? I'm fine.
Hey, hey, hey.
take it easy with her.
Stand down, Mason.
Come on.
You gotta be kidding me.
Ugh! What? What happened? She'll be joining y'all in the morning, bright and early.
What about a trial? We can't just execute them.
Cap's orders.
That's all we know.
Do you need any more proof? What the hell? We can't just I used to be proud of this unit.
Listen, there are good men here.
Come on.
Help us.
Help us.
We need to be fighting the enemy, not each other.
You lay one hand on anyone in the 14th, including the captain, and I will take you out.
You have my word.
All right.
All right.
I'll help you.
Sounds like treason to me.
But if you shoot me, how can I help you commit it? There's something you're not telling me, Dan.
Something I'm not telling you? Interesting you see it that way.
My cards are on the table.
You know my hand.
Do I? Seems to me you're playing it pretty close to the vest.
That overlord was killed barehanded.
Lieutenant Wolf was not trained in that kind of combat.
You were.
Maybe when I was a much younger man.
Were you always this suspicious and paranoid, and I just missed it? Stop it.
You know, it just breaks my heart that we can't find common ground.
Mm.
It doesn't have to be this way.
Well, it wouldn't be if you'd just admit it.
Come on.
Admit it, Dan.
I will if you will.
Captain, there's been an escape.
There! That's the weak spot in the perimeter.
Wait, wait, wait.
When they realize we're gone, they're gonna take it out on the 2nd Mass.
We gotta go back and get 'em.
No, no, no, Tom.
You can't.
I'm not leaving anybody else behind.
Once we get out, we can get help.
We'll circle back around, okay? You guys go.
I'll catch up to you.
No, no! Whoa! Armed guards.
Forget it.
We can take 'em.
No.
No one dies, remember? We cross here, two by two.
Tom and I will go first.
All right.
Okay.
All right.
Hang on to me.
Ready? Come on, come on.
Go, go, go, go! Okay.
Man: Freeze! There they are! I see them! Freeze! Stop right there! I see them! Hold it right there! Fill the light on the west wall! On your feet! Show me your hands! Stand up! Freeze! We're not going anywhere.
Ohh! Go! Are you crazy?! Get outta here! Get to the fence! Run! Shut up, okay? Or you're gonna make it worse.
Okay, here's your chance.
Go.
I'm not going anywhere without my family.
I'll take care of them.
No, no, no.
No, listen to me.
Come here, you! You gotta go.
Please.
Ben: All right, all right.
Get your ass over there.
I'm not playing with you! Come on! Come on! Oh, God! Kagel, that's enough! Hey! Kagel! That's enough! You were on guard! How the hell did they get out? Stand down, Sergeant! Where the hell were you? I said stand down.
Cap, Cap, we got 'em.
Wolfie sprung 'em right under the Lieutenant's nose, Cap.
Mason.
Where's Tom Mason? He got away.
He leaves his wife and kids behind while he escapes.
The man's not only a traitor.
He's a goddamned coward, too.
But don't worry.
We'll find him, Cap.
It's like catching rats.
And Wolfie's the latest vermin.
He probably got turned by superfreak right here.
Gentlemen, here is a clear example of how the Espheni infiltrate and compromise.
These traitors convinced Lieutenant Wolf, your comrade in arms to desert his post, turn his back on his unit on his country on his own race.
He is a traitor.
Captain, Tom Mason was right.
It's a witch hunt.
We should be fighting the enemy, not each other.
Do you want another post in the ground with your name on it? This is wrong.
A lot of you agree with me.
Captain Marshall, I am officially relieving you of duty in favor of the ranking officer on this base, Colonel Weaver.
Shelton, don't.
You will relinquish your fire-- Lieutenant was advancing on a superior officer with clear intent! Detail.
Remove Lieutenant Shelton's body.
It's almost first light.
Prepare the prisoners.
Company dismissed.
On your feet.
Let's go! Get up! Let's go! I believe protocol dictates the prisoners are allowed some final words.
Anne Mason, do you have something you'd like to say? I have lost two children to this war and countless other people I've loved, as we all have.
And if it takes my own death and the death of these three brave men next to me to get you back to fighting the real enemy instead of your own people, well, then So be it.
I hope when this war is over, that each one of you finds your humanity again.
It's not only what we've been fighting for, but it's what makes us fight.
It's what makes us fight.
Thank you, 2nd Mass.
Private.
You don't have to do this.
Sergeant.
Proceed.
Squad.
Formation! Kagel: Squad.
Ready! Squad! Aim! Squad Fire! Fire! I said fire, damn it! Yeah Guns in position! Hold your fire! Come on! Come on! Hold your fire! You all right? Yeah! Hold your fire! Hold your fire! You guys okay? You were right.
He was a diseased pig.
Lay down your weapons! Little bro! Dad! All right, don't shoot! Don't shoot! Nobody shoot! Put your weapons down! Put your weapons down! Look, we're all soldiers! And we've all sworn an oath to fight the enemy, not each other! Some of you have been poisoned by fear, conditioned to mistrust, and that's understandable, given that we live in a world where our friends look like enemies.
And our enemies can look like us.
That's not an excuse anymore! Now is the time For us to stand together! To band together, to march together, all the way to Washington, D.
C.
! Uhh! I'm sorry.
It's over.
Captain Marshall was in league with the Espheni! It's true! It was the colonel who killed that overlord last night, after it met with Captain Marshall! Black blood? What the hell is that? She ain't even human.
Were you ever the Katie Marshall that I knew? The warrior, the soldier, the woman? She died, didn't she? Are you some kind of biological creation? Uh-huh.
You had it in for Tom Mason from the start.
Why? You cut off the head of the snake, the snake dies.
I'm sorry.
I wasn't perfect.
She was just an experiment.
But she still feels.
She remembers the memories of loving you.
Isabella, I'm sure you would've done the same thing.
Don't downplay, Maggie.
The guy was completely psychotic.
I don't know.
Okay, this is getting heavy.
You got it? Yeah.
All right.
Hey, Maggie, I, uh, and I don't care why you had your spikes taken out.
I really don't.
The thing is, I -- I did it for you.
What? I know you have someone else now, and I totally get it.
But I realized my decision had everything to do with you and I just thought you should know.
Colonel, sir? If anyone gave out medals anymore, you'd sure get one.
What for? I didn't do a damn thing.
All due respect, sir, but that's horseshit.
You ran this entire operation like a puppeteer.
You can't see that, then you're not half the man I remember.
Well, hell, don't bat your eyes at me like some kind of schoolgirl.
We still got a bunch of aliens to kill, don't we? Nobody's seen Trevor on the base.
He just vanished.
He played me.
Rookie mistake.
How many sympathetic ears have we run into in the last three years? It's a relief to talk to somebody that's not in the thick of battle, even if it's just for a minute.
Ah, good, you're here.
You got this thing disconnected? How is it still working now that you moved it? We're not sure.
Whoa.
Guys This thing -- my spikes -- it's like it's calling me.
It is an Espheni communication device.
It would make sense that Ben Mason's spikes are reacting to it.
Maybe I can go in and see what Dingaan saw -- No, no, no, Ben.
That's not safe.
No, not after what you've been through.
I might be able to translate what the overlords are saying.
That thing gave Dingaan and me one hell of a headache.
God knows what it would do to you.
Yeah, Dan's right.
Absolutely not.
Dad, how many times have I heard you say this could be the final showdown? Any information I could get -- isn't it worth anything? It's not worth your life.
Be careful.
Ben, don't.
Ahh! Come on.
No, no.
Ben! Come on! Get him out! Get him out -- Oh! Ben! He's burning up.
Dingaan, get him something to cool him down.
Ben, what did you see? What'd you hear? The overlords.
A lot of them.
They were chanting, like some sort of ritual for some higher being.
Higher than an overlord? Cochise, is there something you haven't told us? Uh I never thought it possible.
Hello.
Aah! Get up! Come on, come on! Finish it.
Finish it.
Ohh! Look what I found.
Tell him what you told me.
Tom Mason is alive.