The Waves of Madness (2024) Movie Script
1
Bloody legend, mate.
That's my set for the night.
See you all tomorrow at seven.
You say it.
I play it
Encore!
That was my encore.
Come on, come on.
Fine. Fine.
I'm gonna go punch a dart.
Welcome to end of day five
of your southern equator round the world.
Cruise aboard the Elder of the Seas.
Settle in and enjoy one of our many fine dining
and entertainment options for this evening.
Make yourself at home for the next 60 days.
This will be your home for the next 60 days.
- Hi.
- Hi. What are you after?
Whiskey with the biggest cube of ice that you have?
- Yeah, I think I could do that.
- Cool.
Any preference on the whiskey?
Scottish.
Hey,
do you have any darts back there by any chance?
No. I am all out. Sorry.
That's all right. I'm sure I got a few left
- No worries.
- Thank you.
- You're on our drinks package, right?
- Right. Yeah.
Yeah. I'll just you go. Cheers.
I thought youd never ask.
Just a heads up. You are on your last one for today. Okay.
- Thank you.
- No worries.
This is rum.
What?
Yeah, I asked for whiskey.
I'm so sorry Im
- No, no, no, no.
- It's been a long night. Im
- I'll fix it up. Yeah.
- You know, it's fine.
No, it's fine, it's Its fine. It's all going to the same place.
Catch-ya.
I've been on 25 cruises
but a trip on the Elder of the Seas changed me
in ways I never expected.
Nothing prepared me for the jaw dropping,
the quiet majesty of this magic ship.
The Elders of the Seas cruise ship
is a life changing experience.
It's amazing. I highly recommend it.
The most transformative thing I've ever been on.
I just discovered parts of myself that I didn't even realize...
I had.
I became at one.
- So gross.
- Whatever
Did you just hear that?
What? The wind?
Yeah, I can definitely hear it.
Voice. Did you hear that voice?
This is a cruise ship.
We're probably surrounded by several thousands
of people here on board.
There are a lot of voices.
Okay. I'm freezing. Can we just please go back inside.
Gimme your jacket.
Just listen for one second, then we'll go back.
That was a voice. There was something else there.
Happy anniversary
Please don't make this another one of those.
We never landed on the moon nights.
- We didnt ever land on the moon
- Oh my god. Put that drink down.
Hey, we never should have gotten this all drink pass.
Fifteen is a little bit too much.
- Let's go to bed.
- Says you.
Says you
Let's go to bed.
Holy shit.
What's going on with the stars?
I'm
I'm gonna go.
Rise.
This is an SOS...
from the Elders of the Sea.
If you're getting this, if you get this message,
don't send help.
Legrasse. Agent Legrasse do you copy?
I copy.
Switch to spread spectrum.
Copy.
What's your position?
I disembarked from the freighter approximately...
an hour ago.
And I'm currently...
at 49 degrees, nine minutes south
and 128 degrees and 34 minutes west.
Good.
Youre closing on the target.
Are you gonna tell me what I'm doing out here night fishing?
Or is this all just a very expensive vacation again.
Approximately 48 hours ago,
a large world cruise ship named
The Elder of the Seas went dark
and veered more than a thousand kilometers off course.
Putting them smack in the middle of point Nemo
What, like the fish?
The nowhere.
It's the oceanic pole of inaccessibility,
meaning the point of the ocean
that's farthest from any land mass.
Alright, and how's that relevant to the mission?
Perhaps Point Nemo's unofficial name
will give you a bit more context.
The spacecraft cemetery,
Excuse me.
Various governments have sent hundreds
of decommissioned satellites, space stations, you name it,
back down to Earth and sunk them there over the years
to lessen the risk of hitting inhabited locations.
Great. So what's the mission?
We intercepted a distress call.
Something about lights in the sky.
The cruise ship you're approaching went dark Legrasse.
They said there is something on the ship.
- Human?
- We don't know,
But our intel from the experts who cross examined the noises
of the somethings, in the background of the distress call,
hypothesize not,
which makes all of this very interesting to our organization.
Imagine It does.
You should now have access to all areas of the ship.
But be advised,
we're not the only organization
that could have intercepted that distress call.
It was on open channels.
Your mission is to board the ship quietly,
recon the situation and retrieve any and all intel
or technology, be it from this world...
or another,
that could be beneficial for our organization.
And what about survivors?
Your objective is to secure the technology
by any means necessary.
No more comms until the mission is over.
Return to your boat and make it to the extraction point
in 12 hours.
And if there's nothing to secure?
Then like you said, this was all just a
very expensive vacation.
Walk away and erase the situation.
Plan B authorized.
- Copy that.
- Over and out.
Over and out.
Welcome to end of day five of your southern equator
round the world cruise aboard the Elder of the Seas.
Settle in and enjoy one of our many fine dining
and entertainment options for this evening.
Make yourself at home for the next sixty days.
This will be your home for the next sixty days.
Agent Legrasse audio log number one.
Ship appears to be deserted.
No survivors,
no anyone on first approach.
Heading deeper into the ship, to survey the situation.
Agent Legrasse audio log number two,
shopping floor appears to be all clear,
no signs of conflict.
No signs of anything.
Proceeding north to security floor with caution.
Let me go how I want.
While Im still me.
Welcome back.
I'm glad to see you here again,
and just tuning up shows your commitment to the process.
You know in your line of work,
these post mission checkups are very important.
So where were we?
It's hard, you know.
It's natural to not wanna let go,
its human instinct.
Especially after what happened to your wife.
But you need to let go or else you won't have your own life.
I've studied your files,
it didn't exactly work out with other therapists, did it?
But I want you to know this will be different.
We do this your way, the way you want to do it.
No drugs.
No judgments. No theories.
We just go back to the beginning.
To understand what happened.
So let's get started.
Now what happened at sea,
on the ship of yours?
Gday! Im Meg with one G.
Short for Megg with two Gs, I'm gonna be your human-sized,
non shark affiliated entertainment.
for the duration of your stay. Bloomin onion.
Have you seen the size of this theater?
You're never gonna see this place as empty as it is right now.
Or, this cup! Come on down every Tuesdays
and Thursdays to see what it's like to be a Megg out of water.
Agent Legrasse,
audio log number three.
The situation on the ship appears to be evolving.
We've got what looks like... blood...
written on the wall here by some aspiring artist
who seems to have fallen victim to...
whatever's happening on this ship.
Continuing to proceed towards security to...
just try and figure out what the hell is going on here,
because so far we got...
zero survivors,
zero bodies,
zero contact.
This is an SOS from the Elders of the Sea.
This is an SOS from the Elders of the Sea.
This is an SOS from the Elders of the Sea.
There's the most intense storm that I have ever seen.
It is relentless. Alright, it's knocked us off course.
I don't know how we drifted so far,
but we're over a thousand kilometers off course.
But engines, the engine stopped working,
due to some kind of electrical screw up or I don't even know.
I mean, right after the guests they started reporting like a,
seeing a light in the sky, followed by more guests,
acting even more erratic, even more crazy
and getting increasingly violent.
Alright, they're trying to get into the theater.
I've...
I barricaded myself in a security room.
I'm doing my best to keep the signal going.
Running on reserve power.
Something is draining the batteries.
Something is draining all the power.
So if you're getting this, if you get this message,
don't send help.
Do not send help, you need to destroy this ship.
Destroy the ship asap.
Blow it up from space.
Do whatever you have to do.
There's not many of us left. It doesn't matter.
You cannot risk this thing getting to the mainland.
You need to destroy the ship!
This is an SOS from the Elders of the Sea.
This is an SOS from the Elders of the Sea.
Distress call terminated.
Agent Lagrass audio log number four.
Just received visual confirmation that...
something was aboard the ship when the distress call was sent out.
The theater was mentioned as some sort of a
Contact.
Hello?
Is there someone there?
Thank goodness.
I have been stuck in here for one or two days
just trying to figure out what to do, and...
and this is the rescue party? Is it just you?
It's just me.
Great.
Hey, just you, you wanna let me outta here?
What are you doing in that cell?
I maxed out my drink pass.
Jesus. All right, so you know what's going on here or what?
Not really.
I guess I was lucky enough to get thrown in here
before whatever started going on out there and...
and it's been nice and safe in here.
They could really invest in some soft furnishings.
Copy that.
Wait,
arent you going to rescue me?
I'm not here to rescue you.
Fine.
Just let me out then.
Thought it was nice and safe in there.
It is until I starve to death and die.
Alright, fine.
Get back.
Ladies first.
Thank you.
Wait, am I your hostage now?
I don't have time for hostages.
Right? It it just seems very hostage-y with you following me
and pointing a gun at my back.
Maybe let's try again.
Hello, my name is Francis.
Do you have a name?
Yep.
Great.
Light is your only friend.
Well, that's unfortunate.
It's just, it would be really helpful to know your name
because then if I needed to get your attention,
or call out for help, then I would know what to say.
Cut the shit.
If you're still alive on this ship after what I've heard,
you're more than capable of taking care of yourself.
Fancy.
Where to?
Well, you can go wherever you want.
But where are you going?
Wherever I want.
Going to be a long night.
Agent Legrasse, audio log number five.
I have encountered some woman...
claiming to be a passenger on the ship.
Proceeding to the theater with caution.
What the hell is that?
It's a record,
in case anything happens to me.
My mission progress is uploaded to a server remotely where I'm...
Cool. That just seems very high tech
for a not rescue guy.
Who are you with?
The Coast Guard.
Really?
Which coast?
Where even are we right now?
Well, it's my stop.
Wait.
Where am I supposed to go?
I thought we agreed on wherever you want.
Well, not really. You just started barking
orders in my general direction.
I'll bark some more then,
you go that way. I'm going this way.
Wait, if I can go wherever I want,
I want to go with you.
You do realize that I'm headed towards
whatever's on this ship, right?
Well, they're probably in both directions to be fair.
Wait, they?
Getting rid of a couple of thousand people
seems like a lot of work for one thing.
So you know where the theater is?
Yes, of course.
And you know how to get there?
Yeah.
Tuesday and Thursday nights are my jam.
Fine.
Lead the way.
You wanna put that thing away.
Jesus, just put your hands down.
My name's Legrasse,
by the way.
Thank you.
I did gather that
when you were talking into your little remote upload-y thingy.
So Agent Legrasse,
shall we?
Welcome back
I wanted to talk about the symptoms of...
unaddressed grief...
that can lead to us building emotional walls.
You know, these walls can...
distance us from the people in our lives
that we love and care about.
Even cutting off...
potential new connections entirely.
You know, we detach ourselves from the world around us,
becoming emotionally numb...
in order to avoid setting ourselves up
to care about something and lose it.
I'm boring you.
I get it.
But it's good that we touched upon these monsters of yours,
that would've been a serious breakthrough before.
Do you often see them on your missions?
Let's not dive into that just yet.
But...
tell me about your other relationships with...
with other people
After losing Emma.
Are you okay?
You're awfully quiet up there.
How much further to the theater?
That depends on a couple of variables.
What kind of variables?
Hello? Are you monsters?
Shit, the monsters have guns.
Come on out.
Is that a gun pointed at me or are you just happy to see me?
Oh my god, it's Megg. I love her show.
American?
Used to be.
Congrats. Listen, we've gotta get outta here like now.
- Ocean's that way. Knock yourself out.
- Bro. You are lucky to be alive.
Don't you hear them?
Hear what?
Them. They.
It. I didn't stick around to look.
Elaborate.
It was a couple of days ago.
I went down here pretending to be a tree the whole time.
But everyone was wigging out.
Something was... something was calling.
Calling.
Yeah. You didn't just hear it though.
You kind of like more felt it.
It was more like...
you just knew it. I don't know. Let's go.
Where is everybody? Where's the crew?
There should be thousands of people onboard this ship.
Like bodies, anything.
There was these guys in robes coming around,
after that everyone just kinda went nuts and took themselves.
Where?
Back there to the theater.
Copy.
Aren't you listening? You don't wanna go to the theater.
See yourself. Fight the monsters on your own.
- I'm outta here.
- Monsters?
Yeah. Something was coming around after.
After the guys in robes pissed off.
After it all went dark, that's when they...
Fall back.
Move.
Get to cover.
Go. What's behind us?
The casino!
Go!
What now?
Same same until we get shot or we get to the casino.
I don't wanna get shot.
Good. Me neither.
It's them.
Megg was right.
Fall back to the casino. Now!
Do you know how to get outta here?
Yes. The exit to the elevators is this way.
Go! Following you.
Actually. Wait, wait.
I have a theory.
What theory?
Light is your only friend.
Hey, catch!
Legrasse! Get it in the eye!
Shit.
Holy shit.
Legrasse.
I think we're on a roll here.
So let's keep pushing forward, shall we?
You feel guilt about everything, don't you?
You know, before civilization
we'd only worry about the simple necessities.
Food, shelter, water.
If something larger than us,
will come and eat us in the night.
But what keeps us awake now...
today?
Guilt.
If only I had said something,
if only I had done something,
you let the past beat you bloody.
You blame yourself for Emma, don't you?
I can see that.
But I can also see that you're not quite telling me everything.
You don't just believe that you were responsible for what happened to Emma.
You truly believe you were responsible.
Don't you?
Tell me,
what do these last words from Emma mean to you?
Let me go how I want,
while I'm still me.
Past,
present,
then,
now.
I understand how hard it can be
to keep track of them all at once.
Tell me, Legrasse.
When exactly do you think you are right now?
(Russian Speech)
Capture the call.
Oh good. You're awake.
- Is it..?
- Dead?
Yeah.
Yeah...
Thank God.
This better than yours.
Yes and no.
What are you doing?
Looking for clues but...
there's nothing.
Goddamn Russians.
They never write anything down.
Who are you?
Oh no.
Did you bump that part of your head?
Stop it.
So, what? You just killed that thing with a knife...
down there reading Russian?
Somehow survived on this ship?
Who are you with?
It seems to me we have two choices.
Fight each other,
or fight together.
Which way to the theater?
Below decks.
Elevators are to the right.
Ladies first.
Hey, magic wrist.
Back here.
Access granted.
Up or down?
Since when do monsters go up?
Don't you wanna talk into your remote upload-y thingy
and let it know we just killed a monster?
I think I've uploaded enough.
But we just killed a monster.
Don't you think that's important?
Let's just keep that between us for now.
So who do you work for?
The government?
More like the government's government.
We ensure power doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
And by the wrong hands
you mean anyone who could oppose you.
It's complicated.
Sounds like a cult.
We're not a cult.
You've seen one cult, you've seen 'em all.
What is this place?
I think it's safe to say this area wasn't exactly
open to the public.
Speaking of cults,
the Kitab Al Azif.
Book of the Dead.
Found in an ancient nameless city in 1921.
I think this book might be what I'm looking for.
Go!
Hide, get down!
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
Alright. You ready?
Legrasse, not yet!
Get the book!
Legrasse?
We have to go now.
Emma?
Emma?
Emma?
Legrasse.
Come on.
Legrasse? Give me your wrist. Give me your wrist!
Access granted.
This is going nowhere.
No matter how much I try to spell it out for you,
you just won't listen.
You won't accept it.
This woman Francis,
who you claim was on the ship with you.
Did she experience this call,
or madness as you put in your report?
No?
Are you familiar with the concept of guardian angels?
No, I'm not talking about hallucinations.
I'm talking about a very concrete survival mechanism.
In life threatening crisis,
our minds can experience both the terror of the present...
and the peace...
of perspective.
Our brain can step back from that.
Rise above it,
and rationally help us get through it.
In extreme cases,
this subconscious...
creation...
can take the form of a physical...
or spiritual entity.
Someone even familiar with us.
In this case,
someone named Francis.
I know that look.
You don't believe me.
You won't accept the truth.
Sometimes...
the real answer is the hardest answer.
And it's the scariest answer because it's the simplest answer!
It's time for you
to ask the real question.
What makes more sense?
That you...
and some woman who just happened to resemble your late wife,
who just happened to be embroiled in some
impossible mission,
wrapped up in some ancient cult conspiracy
on a boat full of monsters in the middle of the ocean?
Or it was just...
a very concrete survival mechanism
that allowed you to slowly come to terms
with what you did to your wife.
Remember what you did to your wife,
to Emma.
It's time to accept it.
It's time for you to answer the call.
This is very interesting.
You're still there on that ship, aren't you?
With those things?
With me!
Legrasse!
Legrassse, wake up!
Legrasse, wake up!
Oh good, you're awake.
I think that thing finally cleared off.
Are you still you?
I think so.
Good.
Are you?
Last I checked.
Are you real?
Is this place real?
Sounds real.
So what's going on in there?
My wife died.
She had really early onset.
She deteriorated a lot faster than she was supposed to and...
When she was still her, she would just...
tell me over and over again,
let me go how I want,
while I'm still me.
So I let her go.
No one ever knew.
No one ever suspected.
I made it look like an accident.
But somehow this ship knows.
I'm so sorry.
But I think that's what this place does.
Or rather what's...
in this place...
it wants to get inside your head...
to feed off your madness.
What you're feeling...
I think that's what happened to everyone on board this ship.
So is this really happening?
So you're telling me that something
came down from the stars and did all this.
I think the stars woke something up,
or a ghost of something.
Something ancient from down below.
And the owners of this ship,
the Elders,
it's their mission or
or their destiny...
to awake this old one up from its watery tomb.
Revive its subjects so that it can
resume its rule on earth.
All the earth will burn...
in a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
How do you know all that?
I think the easiest way to explain it is the longer I'm here,
the ship knows.
So I know.
So we know.
So what wakes this thing up?
You know, this old one.
What starts the...
- The...
- Ritual?
Yeah.
Something in that book.
Something about the pattern of the stars.
It's already started.
All will become one body,
one mind, one whole.
This ship didn't go off course.
No, it was called here.
Just as everyone was on board.
People from all over who were lost
and just looking to become a whole again.
Where'd all the bodies go?
With the book,
to the theater, to become one.
If anyone gets their hands on what's happening here,
we need to destroy that book
and we need to sink the ship and everything on it.
Okay, how?
Plan B.
I'm carrying an eraser.
Like what? For a pencil.
- How is that going to help us?
- It's a backpack nuke.
We bring them on missions to erase the situation.
If things go bad,
things just went bad.
Okay, so what's the payload?
10,000 tons of TNT give or take.
Plenty enough to sink this piece of shit.
Let's go.
Jesus.
They weren't just bringing living people here.
No, they were bringing bodies too.
Some of these are very, very old.
Just waiting for this moment.
How old is this cult?
What are they feeding down here?
I think whatever they're feeding.
If it's still hungry, that's a good thing.
Why?
Because what's whatever it gets full,
it's probably gonna wake up.
Come on.
What the hell?
Holy shit.
- What do you think?
- Hold on.
One thousand, two one thousand,
three one thousand, four one thousand,
five one thousand, six one thousand, seven one thousand
eight one thousand, nine one thousand...
Alright? It looks like we got about eleven seconds to pull this off.
Great. Pull what off?
You're gonna go over there.
Sneak up behind the cult leader,
take him out.
Get the book.
Take him out?
Yeah. Quiet with your knife.
Jesus. Okay.
And I'm gonna arm the eraser,
strap it to a body over there at the buffet,
and that monster's gonna drag it back
to whatever's going on back there with the other monster.
And then we got about five minutes to get the hell off this ship.
Wouldn't It just be easier to arm the eraser, and get off the ship?
Way less could go wrong.
Look, I'm just going with what I know here,
and what I know
is that that thing back there is gonna have a hell of a time
digesting its meal with a nuke in its stomach.
Now we've gotta do this now,
and we've got to do this right.
No shortcuts,
before whatever's happening back there
finishes happening.
Okay, let's do it.
What could go wrong?
Alright.
Next rotation.
11 seconds.
Meet right back here.
Did you just talk that thing?
Yep. You ready?
Fuck it. Let's go.
Okay, go.
Did you get the book?
Yeah. Did you strap a nuke to a body?
Now we've got about four and a half minutes
to get the hell outta here.
Shit!
Let's go
Legrasse!?
Get down!
Holy shit!
Go. Go!
How many of those flash grenades do you have left?
- None.
- None?
None, none. Zero. Run!
Legrasse! They're everywhere.
They're everywhere!
Get off!
What are you doing?
Are you posing? Come on,
we still got a monster on our ass. Come on,
let's go.
Get in!
How much longer?
Three minutes.
How much longer to get off the ship?
Ask me again in three minutes.
Go.
- What are you doing?
- Cover me.
Is this a bad time to mention I'm outta ammo?
What?!
Nevermind.
Wait a second.
Remind me what you left just behind again?
We need to go!
Get in!
- Go!
- How do you start this thing?
Just press the big button that says ON!
Fine!
- Go!
- Hold on!
This thing's coming fast!
I'm going as fast as I can!
Go faster!
I can't!
Just keep your eyes on the road!
Brace yourself.
We're running out of ship!
Jump!
What!?
Jump!
Go!
Get away from the car!
Try and get up from that one asshole. Let's go.
Hey, hold on.
Close, close!
How many more minutes?
It's like seconds now, but...
What!?
Shit!
Jump!
How much longer?
Jesus.
Alright, here we go.
Oh my God. Why does something ever start?
I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Hold on.
Legrasse?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Screw this! I think we should swim.
Thank God. Hold on.
Wait.
Where's the book?
Are you familiar with the concept of guardian angels?
No, I'm not talking about...
hallucinations.
I'm talking about very concrete survival mechanism...
in life threatening crisis.
Our minds can experience both the terror of the present,
and the peace...
of perspective.
Our brain can step back from that, rise above it
and rationally help us get through it.
In extreme cases,
this subconscious...
creation,
can take the form of a,
a physical...
or spiritual entity.
Someone even familiar with us.
In this case,
someone named Francis.
Francis?
Francis?!
Agent Legrasse, audio log number six.
Upon final investigation,
it has become apparent that...
there's nothing to secure,
and that this all was just a very expensive vacation.
I'm proceeding with plan B and heading to the extraction point
on the freighter.
Over and out.
Jesus.
Legrasse?
Thought I lost you for a second there
Obviously.
Got me out here in the middle of nowhere again like usual,
looking for something X on a map.
X marks the paycheck.
Yeah. Yeah.
I don't know.
Just got a feeling on this one.
The new organization buys facts,
not feelings.
So what have you got?
I'm closing it on the mark, but...
you sure he's out here?
The satellite seems to be.
Hang on,
think I got something.
Remind me real quick. The mark's supposed to be alive, right?
He was. When you were dispatched.
Why? What do you see?
Well, you know, just...
some spooky old graveyard out here in the middle of nowhere.
This guy's supposed to be a scientist, right?
He claimed to have evidence on a new bio weapon
he didn't want falling into the wrong hands.
Oh Jesus.
So we got some scientists playing with bio weapons in a graveyard?
You really love to leave out the little details on these jobs, don't you?
I tell you what I can, mate.
We need his intel.
Don't we always?
I don't know. I'm kinda getting a vibe here
that he is either already dead or...
something else.
Look, Legrasse.
Whatever he is, get the intel.
That's the job.
Copy.
I think I see some lights ahead in one of these crypts actually.
Here goes nothing.
Be careful Legrasse.
We have no idea what we're dealing with in there.
No one's home.
We got some...
crazy lab here.
It looks like our guy was busy.
Find out what he was working on
and get the data back to hq.
Good morning, Dr. Stoker.
Good morning.
Oh boy.
This is a lot.
Elaborate.
You know, a lot. Large quantity.
You know, large sum.
What's on the computer, Legrasse?
Tiny words.
Something, something genome.
Something...
something mutations...
something ancient blood.
Wait, he awaits in the depths
of the harbor city.
Does that ring any bells to you?
Download everything you can and get outta there.
We need that data.
Blood is the key that unlocks everything.
The flood...
- Download initiated.
- ...is coming.
Immortality...
can finally become reality.
For him,
it always has been.
Quick question.
Is your satellite picking up anything down here besides me?
Negative. Stay focused, Legrasse.
Just get the data and bring it home.
Copy that.
Legrasse? What's happening?
Looks like I'm right on time.
What the hell is going on?
I'm gonna have to call you back.
I was wondering if I'd ever see you again.
Well, you haven't actually been in danger until now.
Is that right?
Ladies first.
Bloody legend, mate.
That's my set for the night.
See you all tomorrow at seven.
You say it.
I play it
Encore!
That was my encore.
Come on, come on.
Fine. Fine.
I'm gonna go punch a dart.
Welcome to end of day five
of your southern equator round the world.
Cruise aboard the Elder of the Seas.
Settle in and enjoy one of our many fine dining
and entertainment options for this evening.
Make yourself at home for the next 60 days.
This will be your home for the next 60 days.
- Hi.
- Hi. What are you after?
Whiskey with the biggest cube of ice that you have?
- Yeah, I think I could do that.
- Cool.
Any preference on the whiskey?
Scottish.
Hey,
do you have any darts back there by any chance?
No. I am all out. Sorry.
That's all right. I'm sure I got a few left
- No worries.
- Thank you.
- You're on our drinks package, right?
- Right. Yeah.
Yeah. I'll just you go. Cheers.
I thought youd never ask.
Just a heads up. You are on your last one for today. Okay.
- Thank you.
- No worries.
This is rum.
What?
Yeah, I asked for whiskey.
I'm so sorry Im
- No, no, no, no.
- It's been a long night. Im
- I'll fix it up. Yeah.
- You know, it's fine.
No, it's fine, it's Its fine. It's all going to the same place.
Catch-ya.
I've been on 25 cruises
but a trip on the Elder of the Seas changed me
in ways I never expected.
Nothing prepared me for the jaw dropping,
the quiet majesty of this magic ship.
The Elders of the Seas cruise ship
is a life changing experience.
It's amazing. I highly recommend it.
The most transformative thing I've ever been on.
I just discovered parts of myself that I didn't even realize...
I had.
I became at one.
- So gross.
- Whatever
Did you just hear that?
What? The wind?
Yeah, I can definitely hear it.
Voice. Did you hear that voice?
This is a cruise ship.
We're probably surrounded by several thousands
of people here on board.
There are a lot of voices.
Okay. I'm freezing. Can we just please go back inside.
Gimme your jacket.
Just listen for one second, then we'll go back.
That was a voice. There was something else there.
Happy anniversary
Please don't make this another one of those.
We never landed on the moon nights.
- We didnt ever land on the moon
- Oh my god. Put that drink down.
Hey, we never should have gotten this all drink pass.
Fifteen is a little bit too much.
- Let's go to bed.
- Says you.
Says you
Let's go to bed.
Holy shit.
What's going on with the stars?
I'm
I'm gonna go.
Rise.
This is an SOS...
from the Elders of the Sea.
If you're getting this, if you get this message,
don't send help.
Legrasse. Agent Legrasse do you copy?
I copy.
Switch to spread spectrum.
Copy.
What's your position?
I disembarked from the freighter approximately...
an hour ago.
And I'm currently...
at 49 degrees, nine minutes south
and 128 degrees and 34 minutes west.
Good.
Youre closing on the target.
Are you gonna tell me what I'm doing out here night fishing?
Or is this all just a very expensive vacation again.
Approximately 48 hours ago,
a large world cruise ship named
The Elder of the Seas went dark
and veered more than a thousand kilometers off course.
Putting them smack in the middle of point Nemo
What, like the fish?
The nowhere.
It's the oceanic pole of inaccessibility,
meaning the point of the ocean
that's farthest from any land mass.
Alright, and how's that relevant to the mission?
Perhaps Point Nemo's unofficial name
will give you a bit more context.
The spacecraft cemetery,
Excuse me.
Various governments have sent hundreds
of decommissioned satellites, space stations, you name it,
back down to Earth and sunk them there over the years
to lessen the risk of hitting inhabited locations.
Great. So what's the mission?
We intercepted a distress call.
Something about lights in the sky.
The cruise ship you're approaching went dark Legrasse.
They said there is something on the ship.
- Human?
- We don't know,
But our intel from the experts who cross examined the noises
of the somethings, in the background of the distress call,
hypothesize not,
which makes all of this very interesting to our organization.
Imagine It does.
You should now have access to all areas of the ship.
But be advised,
we're not the only organization
that could have intercepted that distress call.
It was on open channels.
Your mission is to board the ship quietly,
recon the situation and retrieve any and all intel
or technology, be it from this world...
or another,
that could be beneficial for our organization.
And what about survivors?
Your objective is to secure the technology
by any means necessary.
No more comms until the mission is over.
Return to your boat and make it to the extraction point
in 12 hours.
And if there's nothing to secure?
Then like you said, this was all just a
very expensive vacation.
Walk away and erase the situation.
Plan B authorized.
- Copy that.
- Over and out.
Over and out.
Welcome to end of day five of your southern equator
round the world cruise aboard the Elder of the Seas.
Settle in and enjoy one of our many fine dining
and entertainment options for this evening.
Make yourself at home for the next sixty days.
This will be your home for the next sixty days.
Agent Legrasse audio log number one.
Ship appears to be deserted.
No survivors,
no anyone on first approach.
Heading deeper into the ship, to survey the situation.
Agent Legrasse audio log number two,
shopping floor appears to be all clear,
no signs of conflict.
No signs of anything.
Proceeding north to security floor with caution.
Let me go how I want.
While Im still me.
Welcome back.
I'm glad to see you here again,
and just tuning up shows your commitment to the process.
You know in your line of work,
these post mission checkups are very important.
So where were we?
It's hard, you know.
It's natural to not wanna let go,
its human instinct.
Especially after what happened to your wife.
But you need to let go or else you won't have your own life.
I've studied your files,
it didn't exactly work out with other therapists, did it?
But I want you to know this will be different.
We do this your way, the way you want to do it.
No drugs.
No judgments. No theories.
We just go back to the beginning.
To understand what happened.
So let's get started.
Now what happened at sea,
on the ship of yours?
Gday! Im Meg with one G.
Short for Megg with two Gs, I'm gonna be your human-sized,
non shark affiliated entertainment.
for the duration of your stay. Bloomin onion.
Have you seen the size of this theater?
You're never gonna see this place as empty as it is right now.
Or, this cup! Come on down every Tuesdays
and Thursdays to see what it's like to be a Megg out of water.
Agent Legrasse,
audio log number three.
The situation on the ship appears to be evolving.
We've got what looks like... blood...
written on the wall here by some aspiring artist
who seems to have fallen victim to...
whatever's happening on this ship.
Continuing to proceed towards security to...
just try and figure out what the hell is going on here,
because so far we got...
zero survivors,
zero bodies,
zero contact.
This is an SOS from the Elders of the Sea.
This is an SOS from the Elders of the Sea.
This is an SOS from the Elders of the Sea.
There's the most intense storm that I have ever seen.
It is relentless. Alright, it's knocked us off course.
I don't know how we drifted so far,
but we're over a thousand kilometers off course.
But engines, the engine stopped working,
due to some kind of electrical screw up or I don't even know.
I mean, right after the guests they started reporting like a,
seeing a light in the sky, followed by more guests,
acting even more erratic, even more crazy
and getting increasingly violent.
Alright, they're trying to get into the theater.
I've...
I barricaded myself in a security room.
I'm doing my best to keep the signal going.
Running on reserve power.
Something is draining the batteries.
Something is draining all the power.
So if you're getting this, if you get this message,
don't send help.
Do not send help, you need to destroy this ship.
Destroy the ship asap.
Blow it up from space.
Do whatever you have to do.
There's not many of us left. It doesn't matter.
You cannot risk this thing getting to the mainland.
You need to destroy the ship!
This is an SOS from the Elders of the Sea.
This is an SOS from the Elders of the Sea.
Distress call terminated.
Agent Lagrass audio log number four.
Just received visual confirmation that...
something was aboard the ship when the distress call was sent out.
The theater was mentioned as some sort of a
Contact.
Hello?
Is there someone there?
Thank goodness.
I have been stuck in here for one or two days
just trying to figure out what to do, and...
and this is the rescue party? Is it just you?
It's just me.
Great.
Hey, just you, you wanna let me outta here?
What are you doing in that cell?
I maxed out my drink pass.
Jesus. All right, so you know what's going on here or what?
Not really.
I guess I was lucky enough to get thrown in here
before whatever started going on out there and...
and it's been nice and safe in here.
They could really invest in some soft furnishings.
Copy that.
Wait,
arent you going to rescue me?
I'm not here to rescue you.
Fine.
Just let me out then.
Thought it was nice and safe in there.
It is until I starve to death and die.
Alright, fine.
Get back.
Ladies first.
Thank you.
Wait, am I your hostage now?
I don't have time for hostages.
Right? It it just seems very hostage-y with you following me
and pointing a gun at my back.
Maybe let's try again.
Hello, my name is Francis.
Do you have a name?
Yep.
Great.
Light is your only friend.
Well, that's unfortunate.
It's just, it would be really helpful to know your name
because then if I needed to get your attention,
or call out for help, then I would know what to say.
Cut the shit.
If you're still alive on this ship after what I've heard,
you're more than capable of taking care of yourself.
Fancy.
Where to?
Well, you can go wherever you want.
But where are you going?
Wherever I want.
Going to be a long night.
Agent Legrasse, audio log number five.
I have encountered some woman...
claiming to be a passenger on the ship.
Proceeding to the theater with caution.
What the hell is that?
It's a record,
in case anything happens to me.
My mission progress is uploaded to a server remotely where I'm...
Cool. That just seems very high tech
for a not rescue guy.
Who are you with?
The Coast Guard.
Really?
Which coast?
Where even are we right now?
Well, it's my stop.
Wait.
Where am I supposed to go?
I thought we agreed on wherever you want.
Well, not really. You just started barking
orders in my general direction.
I'll bark some more then,
you go that way. I'm going this way.
Wait, if I can go wherever I want,
I want to go with you.
You do realize that I'm headed towards
whatever's on this ship, right?
Well, they're probably in both directions to be fair.
Wait, they?
Getting rid of a couple of thousand people
seems like a lot of work for one thing.
So you know where the theater is?
Yes, of course.
And you know how to get there?
Yeah.
Tuesday and Thursday nights are my jam.
Fine.
Lead the way.
You wanna put that thing away.
Jesus, just put your hands down.
My name's Legrasse,
by the way.
Thank you.
I did gather that
when you were talking into your little remote upload-y thingy.
So Agent Legrasse,
shall we?
Welcome back
I wanted to talk about the symptoms of...
unaddressed grief...
that can lead to us building emotional walls.
You know, these walls can...
distance us from the people in our lives
that we love and care about.
Even cutting off...
potential new connections entirely.
You know, we detach ourselves from the world around us,
becoming emotionally numb...
in order to avoid setting ourselves up
to care about something and lose it.
I'm boring you.
I get it.
But it's good that we touched upon these monsters of yours,
that would've been a serious breakthrough before.
Do you often see them on your missions?
Let's not dive into that just yet.
But...
tell me about your other relationships with...
with other people
After losing Emma.
Are you okay?
You're awfully quiet up there.
How much further to the theater?
That depends on a couple of variables.
What kind of variables?
Hello? Are you monsters?
Shit, the monsters have guns.
Come on out.
Is that a gun pointed at me or are you just happy to see me?
Oh my god, it's Megg. I love her show.
American?
Used to be.
Congrats. Listen, we've gotta get outta here like now.
- Ocean's that way. Knock yourself out.
- Bro. You are lucky to be alive.
Don't you hear them?
Hear what?
Them. They.
It. I didn't stick around to look.
Elaborate.
It was a couple of days ago.
I went down here pretending to be a tree the whole time.
But everyone was wigging out.
Something was... something was calling.
Calling.
Yeah. You didn't just hear it though.
You kind of like more felt it.
It was more like...
you just knew it. I don't know. Let's go.
Where is everybody? Where's the crew?
There should be thousands of people onboard this ship.
Like bodies, anything.
There was these guys in robes coming around,
after that everyone just kinda went nuts and took themselves.
Where?
Back there to the theater.
Copy.
Aren't you listening? You don't wanna go to the theater.
See yourself. Fight the monsters on your own.
- I'm outta here.
- Monsters?
Yeah. Something was coming around after.
After the guys in robes pissed off.
After it all went dark, that's when they...
Fall back.
Move.
Get to cover.
Go. What's behind us?
The casino!
Go!
What now?
Same same until we get shot or we get to the casino.
I don't wanna get shot.
Good. Me neither.
It's them.
Megg was right.
Fall back to the casino. Now!
Do you know how to get outta here?
Yes. The exit to the elevators is this way.
Go! Following you.
Actually. Wait, wait.
I have a theory.
What theory?
Light is your only friend.
Hey, catch!
Legrasse! Get it in the eye!
Shit.
Holy shit.
Legrasse.
I think we're on a roll here.
So let's keep pushing forward, shall we?
You feel guilt about everything, don't you?
You know, before civilization
we'd only worry about the simple necessities.
Food, shelter, water.
If something larger than us,
will come and eat us in the night.
But what keeps us awake now...
today?
Guilt.
If only I had said something,
if only I had done something,
you let the past beat you bloody.
You blame yourself for Emma, don't you?
I can see that.
But I can also see that you're not quite telling me everything.
You don't just believe that you were responsible for what happened to Emma.
You truly believe you were responsible.
Don't you?
Tell me,
what do these last words from Emma mean to you?
Let me go how I want,
while I'm still me.
Past,
present,
then,
now.
I understand how hard it can be
to keep track of them all at once.
Tell me, Legrasse.
When exactly do you think you are right now?
(Russian Speech)
Capture the call.
Oh good. You're awake.
- Is it..?
- Dead?
Yeah.
Yeah...
Thank God.
This better than yours.
Yes and no.
What are you doing?
Looking for clues but...
there's nothing.
Goddamn Russians.
They never write anything down.
Who are you?
Oh no.
Did you bump that part of your head?
Stop it.
So, what? You just killed that thing with a knife...
down there reading Russian?
Somehow survived on this ship?
Who are you with?
It seems to me we have two choices.
Fight each other,
or fight together.
Which way to the theater?
Below decks.
Elevators are to the right.
Ladies first.
Hey, magic wrist.
Back here.
Access granted.
Up or down?
Since when do monsters go up?
Don't you wanna talk into your remote upload-y thingy
and let it know we just killed a monster?
I think I've uploaded enough.
But we just killed a monster.
Don't you think that's important?
Let's just keep that between us for now.
So who do you work for?
The government?
More like the government's government.
We ensure power doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
And by the wrong hands
you mean anyone who could oppose you.
It's complicated.
Sounds like a cult.
We're not a cult.
You've seen one cult, you've seen 'em all.
What is this place?
I think it's safe to say this area wasn't exactly
open to the public.
Speaking of cults,
the Kitab Al Azif.
Book of the Dead.
Found in an ancient nameless city in 1921.
I think this book might be what I'm looking for.
Go!
Hide, get down!
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
You rise. We rise.
Alright. You ready?
Legrasse, not yet!
Get the book!
Legrasse?
We have to go now.
Emma?
Emma?
Emma?
Legrasse.
Come on.
Legrasse? Give me your wrist. Give me your wrist!
Access granted.
This is going nowhere.
No matter how much I try to spell it out for you,
you just won't listen.
You won't accept it.
This woman Francis,
who you claim was on the ship with you.
Did she experience this call,
or madness as you put in your report?
No?
Are you familiar with the concept of guardian angels?
No, I'm not talking about hallucinations.
I'm talking about a very concrete survival mechanism.
In life threatening crisis,
our minds can experience both the terror of the present...
and the peace...
of perspective.
Our brain can step back from that.
Rise above it,
and rationally help us get through it.
In extreme cases,
this subconscious...
creation...
can take the form of a physical...
or spiritual entity.
Someone even familiar with us.
In this case,
someone named Francis.
I know that look.
You don't believe me.
You won't accept the truth.
Sometimes...
the real answer is the hardest answer.
And it's the scariest answer because it's the simplest answer!
It's time for you
to ask the real question.
What makes more sense?
That you...
and some woman who just happened to resemble your late wife,
who just happened to be embroiled in some
impossible mission,
wrapped up in some ancient cult conspiracy
on a boat full of monsters in the middle of the ocean?
Or it was just...
a very concrete survival mechanism
that allowed you to slowly come to terms
with what you did to your wife.
Remember what you did to your wife,
to Emma.
It's time to accept it.
It's time for you to answer the call.
This is very interesting.
You're still there on that ship, aren't you?
With those things?
With me!
Legrasse!
Legrassse, wake up!
Legrasse, wake up!
Oh good, you're awake.
I think that thing finally cleared off.
Are you still you?
I think so.
Good.
Are you?
Last I checked.
Are you real?
Is this place real?
Sounds real.
So what's going on in there?
My wife died.
She had really early onset.
She deteriorated a lot faster than she was supposed to and...
When she was still her, she would just...
tell me over and over again,
let me go how I want,
while I'm still me.
So I let her go.
No one ever knew.
No one ever suspected.
I made it look like an accident.
But somehow this ship knows.
I'm so sorry.
But I think that's what this place does.
Or rather what's...
in this place...
it wants to get inside your head...
to feed off your madness.
What you're feeling...
I think that's what happened to everyone on board this ship.
So is this really happening?
So you're telling me that something
came down from the stars and did all this.
I think the stars woke something up,
or a ghost of something.
Something ancient from down below.
And the owners of this ship,
the Elders,
it's their mission or
or their destiny...
to awake this old one up from its watery tomb.
Revive its subjects so that it can
resume its rule on earth.
All the earth will burn...
in a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
How do you know all that?
I think the easiest way to explain it is the longer I'm here,
the ship knows.
So I know.
So we know.
So what wakes this thing up?
You know, this old one.
What starts the...
- The...
- Ritual?
Yeah.
Something in that book.
Something about the pattern of the stars.
It's already started.
All will become one body,
one mind, one whole.
This ship didn't go off course.
No, it was called here.
Just as everyone was on board.
People from all over who were lost
and just looking to become a whole again.
Where'd all the bodies go?
With the book,
to the theater, to become one.
If anyone gets their hands on what's happening here,
we need to destroy that book
and we need to sink the ship and everything on it.
Okay, how?
Plan B.
I'm carrying an eraser.
Like what? For a pencil.
- How is that going to help us?
- It's a backpack nuke.
We bring them on missions to erase the situation.
If things go bad,
things just went bad.
Okay, so what's the payload?
10,000 tons of TNT give or take.
Plenty enough to sink this piece of shit.
Let's go.
Jesus.
They weren't just bringing living people here.
No, they were bringing bodies too.
Some of these are very, very old.
Just waiting for this moment.
How old is this cult?
What are they feeding down here?
I think whatever they're feeding.
If it's still hungry, that's a good thing.
Why?
Because what's whatever it gets full,
it's probably gonna wake up.
Come on.
What the hell?
Holy shit.
- What do you think?
- Hold on.
One thousand, two one thousand,
three one thousand, four one thousand,
five one thousand, six one thousand, seven one thousand
eight one thousand, nine one thousand...
Alright? It looks like we got about eleven seconds to pull this off.
Great. Pull what off?
You're gonna go over there.
Sneak up behind the cult leader,
take him out.
Get the book.
Take him out?
Yeah. Quiet with your knife.
Jesus. Okay.
And I'm gonna arm the eraser,
strap it to a body over there at the buffet,
and that monster's gonna drag it back
to whatever's going on back there with the other monster.
And then we got about five minutes to get the hell off this ship.
Wouldn't It just be easier to arm the eraser, and get off the ship?
Way less could go wrong.
Look, I'm just going with what I know here,
and what I know
is that that thing back there is gonna have a hell of a time
digesting its meal with a nuke in its stomach.
Now we've gotta do this now,
and we've got to do this right.
No shortcuts,
before whatever's happening back there
finishes happening.
Okay, let's do it.
What could go wrong?
Alright.
Next rotation.
11 seconds.
Meet right back here.
Did you just talk that thing?
Yep. You ready?
Fuck it. Let's go.
Okay, go.
Did you get the book?
Yeah. Did you strap a nuke to a body?
Now we've got about four and a half minutes
to get the hell outta here.
Shit!
Let's go
Legrasse!?
Get down!
Holy shit!
Go. Go!
How many of those flash grenades do you have left?
- None.
- None?
None, none. Zero. Run!
Legrasse! They're everywhere.
They're everywhere!
Get off!
What are you doing?
Are you posing? Come on,
we still got a monster on our ass. Come on,
let's go.
Get in!
How much longer?
Three minutes.
How much longer to get off the ship?
Ask me again in three minutes.
Go.
- What are you doing?
- Cover me.
Is this a bad time to mention I'm outta ammo?
What?!
Nevermind.
Wait a second.
Remind me what you left just behind again?
We need to go!
Get in!
- Go!
- How do you start this thing?
Just press the big button that says ON!
Fine!
- Go!
- Hold on!
This thing's coming fast!
I'm going as fast as I can!
Go faster!
I can't!
Just keep your eyes on the road!
Brace yourself.
We're running out of ship!
Jump!
What!?
Jump!
Go!
Get away from the car!
Try and get up from that one asshole. Let's go.
Hey, hold on.
Close, close!
How many more minutes?
It's like seconds now, but...
What!?
Shit!
Jump!
How much longer?
Jesus.
Alright, here we go.
Oh my God. Why does something ever start?
I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Hold on.
Legrasse?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Screw this! I think we should swim.
Thank God. Hold on.
Wait.
Where's the book?
Are you familiar with the concept of guardian angels?
No, I'm not talking about...
hallucinations.
I'm talking about very concrete survival mechanism...
in life threatening crisis.
Our minds can experience both the terror of the present,
and the peace...
of perspective.
Our brain can step back from that, rise above it
and rationally help us get through it.
In extreme cases,
this subconscious...
creation,
can take the form of a,
a physical...
or spiritual entity.
Someone even familiar with us.
In this case,
someone named Francis.
Francis?
Francis?!
Agent Legrasse, audio log number six.
Upon final investigation,
it has become apparent that...
there's nothing to secure,
and that this all was just a very expensive vacation.
I'm proceeding with plan B and heading to the extraction point
on the freighter.
Over and out.
Jesus.
Legrasse?
Thought I lost you for a second there
Obviously.
Got me out here in the middle of nowhere again like usual,
looking for something X on a map.
X marks the paycheck.
Yeah. Yeah.
I don't know.
Just got a feeling on this one.
The new organization buys facts,
not feelings.
So what have you got?
I'm closing it on the mark, but...
you sure he's out here?
The satellite seems to be.
Hang on,
think I got something.
Remind me real quick. The mark's supposed to be alive, right?
He was. When you were dispatched.
Why? What do you see?
Well, you know, just...
some spooky old graveyard out here in the middle of nowhere.
This guy's supposed to be a scientist, right?
He claimed to have evidence on a new bio weapon
he didn't want falling into the wrong hands.
Oh Jesus.
So we got some scientists playing with bio weapons in a graveyard?
You really love to leave out the little details on these jobs, don't you?
I tell you what I can, mate.
We need his intel.
Don't we always?
I don't know. I'm kinda getting a vibe here
that he is either already dead or...
something else.
Look, Legrasse.
Whatever he is, get the intel.
That's the job.
Copy.
I think I see some lights ahead in one of these crypts actually.
Here goes nothing.
Be careful Legrasse.
We have no idea what we're dealing with in there.
No one's home.
We got some...
crazy lab here.
It looks like our guy was busy.
Find out what he was working on
and get the data back to hq.
Good morning, Dr. Stoker.
Good morning.
Oh boy.
This is a lot.
Elaborate.
You know, a lot. Large quantity.
You know, large sum.
What's on the computer, Legrasse?
Tiny words.
Something, something genome.
Something...
something mutations...
something ancient blood.
Wait, he awaits in the depths
of the harbor city.
Does that ring any bells to you?
Download everything you can and get outta there.
We need that data.
Blood is the key that unlocks everything.
The flood...
- Download initiated.
- ...is coming.
Immortality...
can finally become reality.
For him,
it always has been.
Quick question.
Is your satellite picking up anything down here besides me?
Negative. Stay focused, Legrasse.
Just get the data and bring it home.
Copy that.
Legrasse? What's happening?
Looks like I'm right on time.
What the hell is going on?
I'm gonna have to call you back.
I was wondering if I'd ever see you again.
Well, you haven't actually been in danger until now.
Is that right?
Ladies first.