Fortitude (2015) s01e01 Episode Script

Henry! Get out of here! Just go home and leave this all to me! Go! The river did come to me Straight into my arms I tried to hold it But it just ran through my fingers The ocean did come to me Straight into my arms I tried to caress it But it ran through my fingertips Water will keep running, rivers will turn Water will keep running and rivers will turn Water will keep running, rivers will turn Water will keep running, rivers will turn.
The wind blows from north to south But I'm still where I was Keep taking some shirts off And taking them off Everything is open, leaking about Everything is open, leaking about Liam? What's the matter? Hey.
Hey, you found them! They were in a snow hole.
I'd never have seen it.
The camp blew away in the night.
Cheap tourist junk.
Hawkeye here spotted them about half a mile up over the glacier.
Good work.
Anybody hurt? They'll hurt when I bill them for the fuel.
Great, thanks.
Henry.
This is for Henry.
Straight from the governor's office.
Henry Tyson's medical adjudication.
So it's only a matter of weeks then.
Yes.
So now the governor has no choice.
Okay, boss? I've put your bowl on the floor, sweetie, in case you're sick again.
He was up three times through the night and now he's got a temperature.
What is his temperature? I don't know.
He's burning hot.
So you haven't taken his temperature? He's burning up.
You asleep, kiddo? You've got your mum all wound up now.
You hear me? Liam? You not well, son? Liam? Why don't you call the doctor if you're that concerned? Vincent Rattrey? Professor Stoddart? Hello, nice to meet you.
Let me take that for you.
Thank you.
And their research suggests industrial perfluoroalkyl compounds have begun to breach the blood/brain barrier in arctic predators.
Cannibalism's a psychotic behavior.
Bears devouring other bears.
I mean, it's the last resort for any species.
Just put it on the back seat.
We've just come out of the dark months-- the winter dark.
People are out and about again.
Bears, too.
Does it not really mess with your body clock, your mood and things? Don't people suffer from depression? The opposite.
Elation.
They say "Glethi.
" Glethi? Glethi.
Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Lap.
We've got them all here, and I guarantee you'll never know which is which.
Friday evening, I'll make dinner.
I'll get Natalie round too.
I'll have finished my report by then.
Lots to talk about, Vincent.
Cannibalism's not the only aberrant behavior we're seeing.
What's the report on, Professor? Environmental Impact Assessment for a tourist development.
While you're here, these are yours for departmental use.
You'll need your own rifle and a hat.
Something groovy with earflaps.
And, uh welcome to Fortitude! I read a review of this only last night, and the man was saying it was the very best digital projector currently available.
Like going to the pictures at home, eh? I thought Liam was coming over.
Liam's sick today.
Liam's not coming? Have you two fallen out? No.
What's that you've got? I found it.
Found it where? Was Liam's dad in the army? Afghanistan.
His last tour was February.
So this is your first summer in the Arctic? Yeah.
Is it bad? Liam's got the mumps.
Since he was sick last night, Liam has not opened his eyes.
Hasn't woken at all? No.
Sleep is a healing strategy that the body of a child employs.
Liam's body is tackling a heavy viral infection.
You know, even when a child is asleep, they can be fully aware of what's going on around them.
So what Liam needs from us is calm, someone with him at all times.
Probably best if it's his mother.
Are you and Frank planning on having any more children? Are we what? Has his dad had the mumps? Uh He hasn't told me one way or the other.
Well, ask him.
Tell him to give me a call at the surgery if he hasn't.
This could be a trunk.
And that's a tusk.
So it has to be a mammoth.
I think it's a prehistoric mammoth, thawed out of the permafrost.
I think we need to get out of here before any bears show up.
We could both use this, Jason.
When that mine shuts, I have nothing, Jase.
Nothing lined up.
Nothing saved.
Nothing.
Carrie's ten now.
She needs things.
We could try and sell this to the Research Center as a scientific specimen.
Split it 50/50.
What do you think? Let's get it on the truck.
Very impressive, Hildur.
And now look.
See? They've wired it up with teeny weeny light bulbs.
It really comes to life, doesn't it? It's time you and Henry sorted out your differences, Dan.
By taking him his exile letter? Well, he can't die here.
That's the law.
Look, he's old, he's lonely, he's dying.
You're his friend, so fix it.
Margaret.
Liam Sutter.
Ten years old.
What about him? He's got the mumps.
But But what? It just might be something else.
Yes? Why are you telling us this? Because his dad was in Afghanistan, and childhood poliomyelitis is rife out there.
Incubation period up to 37 weeks, so it is possible we are just seeing it now in Liam.
Polio? It's a quarantine issue.
You up for that, Governor? Seal off the town? It will be your responsibility.
Well, wouldn't we just isolate the Sutter child and quarantine the family? If he's been carrying polio for the past 37 weeks, I think it's way, way, way, way, way too late for that.
I'll run some tests.
Polio? I know.
You're so gorgeous.
So.
You're search and rescue? Mm-hmm.
What do you do when you find out there's women? Do you swoop down and save them? Yeah, something like that.
Maybe they're gonna need someone to save you from me.
You think? Mm-hmm.
You know, in this place things can come at you from nowhere.
Things? What kinds of things? Monsters.
Monsters.
Mm-hmm.
You won't see them, you won't hear them.
Until they have you in their teeth.
You know? And then they're gone.
Into the darkness before you know it.
Hi.
You're Vincent Rattrey.
Natalie Yelburton.
So You're the guy that thinks PFAs could be responsible for these reindeer abnormalities I've been finding.
You saw my paper? Skimmed it.
So what's this experiment here for? This? Oh, this is dinner.
Where did you get this? Out of its mouth.
Its mouth? I found a carcass.
Thawed out of the ground.
You know, wiry, matted ginger hair, a trunk.
Has somebody put you up to this? No.
There's an entire carcass? I mean, its value to science is just incalculable.
What's your name, please? Jason.
So put a precise number on incalculable for me, Professor.
How do you mean? What's it worth? It's priceless.
No, I mean what's it worth to you? How much will the Research Center give me for it? No, you No, you listen to me.
The law about finds of this nature is perfectly clear.
Okay Hey! Hey.
I know you! Your name's Jason! Jason! Are you still employed at the hotel? Yes.
Has anyone in Fortitude spoken to you about the incident or given you reason to believe they may have learned about the incident? No.
I'm required to ask you if you feel safe in Fortitude.
Yes.
I'm required to ask you if you have any plans to leave Fortitude.
No.
Because you know if you do, you must tell us.
Otherwise, you would be in serious breach of your license and liable to recall.
Mm-hmm.
Are you seeing anybody? Is that an official question? Officially it would be none of anybody's business.
Thank you.
I don't like you going up there without telling me.
All I was doing was going up to the cabin to fix the storm shutters.
Listen, you stood in a bear trap, for goodness sakes.
You could have lost your leg.
Okay, look, I'm sorry, Hildy.
I'm sorry.
So how's everything coming along? How's your speech? Do you need any good jokes for it? The ice drill's en route.
Really? Left Oslo this morning, so it arrives on Wednesday.
All happening Storm shutters.
What? You're lying to me, Eric.
We live in the one place on earth guaranteed a quiet life.
The honeymoon was a night of thrills and Thrills and magic, thrills and magic.
Eric took me up onto the glacier in a tent, and now we are building a hideaway in the ice, a hotel hewn into the glacier itself, where lovers of the wilderness, lovers of the Northern Lights, or just lovers Or just lovers.
Good morning.
How you doing? Fortitude Police.
Now, I see you're not carrying any hunting rifles for protection from the polar bears.
I understand.
I understand, sir, where you're coming from Good.
But the waiting period for firearms put that precaution out of our reach.
So that is that.
I beg your pardon? That is that.
See, we're only traveling inland.
No bears.
No bears inland.
What my friend means is since, as we all know, polar bears are coastal predators and we're not traveling along the coast, then the recommended precautions were not applicable in our time scale.
How are you? I'm good.
What's he doing? He's Norwegian.
Ah.
Look at this.
A polar bear will be eating you before you are dead.
Once he has a hold of you, he is eating you.
This is all the bear left of Billy Pettigrew once he was done with eating him.
So you need to go back into town and equip yourselves properly before you continue.
Oh, fuck this.
Fuck this? Fuck this! And fuck him.
Hey! We have a gun! This would not stop me, never mind a bear.
So you will walk back down the glacier into town.
You will keep my rifle for protection.
When you get back, you will bring my rifle to me and I will return your handgun.
Is that the cop you told me about? No.
I put that one in the hospital.
Do you mind if I make more steam? No.
That's me.
Ah! Pints? For concussion.
Are you taking wine to the professor's? Yep.
Who's that? It's the sheriff.
Is he a good sheriff or a bad sheriff? Well, no one knows.
Why not? In Fortitude, there's two fundamental rules.
You have to have a roof over your head and you have to be able to provide for yourself, so it follows everyone's got a job, no one is poor, so there's no stealing and there's no crime.
Everybody's always happy.
Then there 's nothing for him to do, then? So nobody knows whether he's a good sheriff or a bad sheriff.
Henry? Drinking yourself to death? Join me.
Do you want me to throw this lot out? No, leave them.
Are we gonna talk, Henry? "Billy Pettigrew was a geologist," it says.
Yes.
"He was looking for something up on the glacier.
" That's right.
No wife and no kids.
Just like you and me, Dan.
Yes.
And no mention anywhere at all of the bullet that killed him.
Nobody found a bullet.
That was down to you.
The state he was in, they weren't looking for a bullet.
If I don't keep myself topped up, I shake like a fucking leaf.
I was stone cold sober that morning.
It was a mercy you shot him.
A mercy I shot him.
Meant to hit the bear, but I shot him.
Bang.
Then the car door slams, and I think, "No engine, no siren?" The car door slams, and there you are.
You were there.
Weren't you? The Governor is advised that your prognosis is now final stage palliative care.
You can go back to the mainland, Henry.
Tell me.
You can die in peace in a hospice, being cared for.
Not by yourself in this hovel.
Forget what happened.
He was as good as dead.
Tell me! I can't tell you.
Why don't you trust me? If Frank hadn't shown up, another couple of hours, I'd have gnawed it off.
How long till you can walk? I can walk now.
Means I don't have to sit through poor Hildur's presentation.
Do you know a bloke called Jason? Coal miner.
Yeah, I know him, why? We had a fight.
A fight? Well, more of a scuffle.
He showed me a bit of something that he'd found.
What? Animal remains.
What kind of animal? Can I just say if he did find it on this island You don't want to look like a gullible arsehole.
Can you arrest him? Find out if he's telling the truth.
Because if he is, this thing needs protecting.
I'll tell you what: when I get back, I'll pay him a visit, all right? So what do we do next? We let him stew for a while, mull it over.
I'll go and see him again and tell him he's got 24 hours to make an offer.
Or the carcass gets torched.
I'll go this time.
Fuck with him.
No, you won't, Ronnie.
This thing needs calm and fucking diplomacy.
I mean, look at you.
Liam hasn't opened his eyes.
He isn't responding to my voice or his dad's.
I think I think we need to get him out of here.
I think he's I want him in a proper hospital where they know what to do.
I think he's much sicker than that woman Hey, hey, it's okay.
I think he's much sicker than that woman says.
She's I don't trust her, that Dr.
Allerdyce, she's Jules, listen to me.
If Liam is not better by tomorrow morning, I will have him airlifted.
Airlifted? If there's no improvement in Liam's condition by tomorrow morning, I will requisition a flight to the mainland.
Really? Yes, of course.
Good.
Now, I have to go.
Have you met Elena? Elena? Hi.
You must be Jules.
Yeah, that's right, Jules Sutter.
You're married to the Search and Rescue guy? The new guy.
You know Frank? Well, I know who he is.
How much does an ice drill cost? We'll recover the capital outlay soon enough, Charlie.
You're putting all your eggs in one little basket.
I have no choice.
You know that.
The mines are mined out.
There's no future apart from tourism, is there? Tourists.
That's all the glacier really means to you, isn't it? It means businesses staying in business, Charlie.
Shops, bars, hotels, restaurants, hire firms, camping equipment You won't win this argument by resorting to emotional blackmail.
There isn't any argument! Where the hell is this coming from all of a sudden? You have reassured me at every stage of planning that it is a foregone conclusion that your report will permit the development of the glacier hotel project.
I gave you no I have committed funds I gave you no cast-iron assurances.
Public finances Hildur.
You promised me, Charlie! So Will the report give final approval for the glacier hotel project or not? What if something was found up there, and we had to protect it? What? Something.
That came out of the ice.
What something? Charlie? Hey.
I spoke to Dan Anderssen.
You spoke to Dan? You spoke to Dan, what about? He said if there's no improvement in Liam by the morning, he's going to have him flown out to the mainland.
You spoke to Why? Why would you do that? Why would you go behind my back? It's mumps, for Christ's sake! What if it's not? You can watch him! Where are you going? Jules! Wow.
You've never seen that before? No.
I thought you studied polar bears.
Well, apex predators.
Not polar bears.
Oh, okay.
Grizzlies? No.
Vincent, your paper was on bio magnification of perfluoroalkyls in apex predators.
Yeah, in the UK.
In the UK? Badgers? Yes, badgers.
A badger can give you a pretty nasty bite, actually.
Hi! Liam? You're awake.
Are you feeling better? Frank? Frank, come here, he's all better! My little soldier.
The swelling's gone down completely.
Oh, yeah.
I'm hungry.
He's hungry.
All the time, I'm afraid to speak in case I annoy you.
I spend my life trying to think what it is you want, and I'm afraid I get it wrong.
Liam, what's the matter? Are you all right? Liam, what is it? What is it, son? My feet are burning! Sweetie, it's all right, calm down.
Get the car keys! Jules, get the car keys! Charlie Stoddart said somethings been found.
He's not going to give us the go-ahead.
What's he talking about? What's been found? He didn't say.
Governor? He didn't tell me.
Third- and fourth-degree frostbite.
We'll have to wait a few weeks.
Wait for what? To see if debridement is necessary.
Amputation, perhaps.
The doctor will explain.
It's beyond me how you could let this happen to a little boy.
What have you done? What? You're lying to me.
Jules, I'm not lying.
You left him on his own, you must've done.
He must've gone looking for you.
He must've gone outside because you weren't there.
Please, Jules, not now.
"Please"? "Please“ what? What have you done? Where did you go? Where did you go?! Hello? Professor Stoddart? Hello? Professor Stoddart? Hello? Hello? Stay down there.
Face down.
Face down! I just got here Cross your hands behind your back.
Please, I just found him there.
I didn't Kneel down.
Stay there.
We have a very serious problem here.
I don't think this is a bear attack.
What were you doing earlier this evening? You were doing something you shouldn't have Something happened to Liam.
It's much worse than that.
I've told DCI Morton that we will extend him every consideration.
Get out of here.
Natalie should've been there too!