Wander (2020) Movie Script
(WIND BLOWS)
(GENTLE MUSIC)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(CRIES)
(BEEPING)
(BEEPING ACCELERATES)
(SCREAMS)
(TWO SMALL EXPLOSIONS)
(POLICE SIREN)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
The whole cavalry's here.
MAN: I don't get it.
She knew what would happen.
All right. (SIGHS)
Let's do this.
-First on site?
-Already been handled.
This is out of control.
(SIGHS)
Get the body to the morgue.
Trash the jeep.
MAN: It's not my job.
Do it, Leiland.
This is all on you.
How are you, good?
I'm gonna make a call.
(INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO CHATTER)
("ESSUWONIKE"
BY JEREMY DUTCHER)
Under the stars, Arthur boy!
My chem-trail guy
confirmed our suspicions
about White Sands and Alamogordo.
And that observatory
that the FBI tore down?
That is definitely... (EXHALES)
Big Brother related.
Uh, we will dig into it later.
Okay.
Arthur, these type of days
are the worst kind.
We're gonna get you through it, pal.
So let's get busy.
A lot of setup to do today
before the big show under the stars.
(GRUNTS)
(RADIO STATIC)
MAN ON RADIO: Do not panic.
I repeat, do not panic.
I repeat, do not panic.
I repeat, do not panic.
MAN: Hey, hey, hey, Junctioneers.
Welcome back to The Thought Junction,
the deep web podcast dedicated entirely
to all things conspiracy.
I am your host, Wild Horse,
here with my co-anchor, Atlas Major,
our resident private investigator.
Howdy, howdy.
You know the drill, people.
-You wanna talk, our burner's up.
-Number's on the site.
Well, Wild Horse,
this week we continue discussing
the unsettling number
of Illuminati black operations
that plague our country.
With the common goal
of stealing our basic civil liberties.
Mark my words,
MK-Ultra never stop, people.
There are human-testing facilities
strewn all across this country.
Some are hidden in plain sight,
others in tunnels, bunkers,
right under our feet.
That's a friendly reminder
of how our overlords value us.
None are more hopelessly enslaved
than those
who falsely believe they are free.
And for all of us out there
blowing the whistle on these characters,
there's only a few ways
this can possibly end.
-Pawn, patsy or dead.
-Pawn, patsy or dead.
-(RINGING)
-Oh, we got a caller.
-Uh, who are we talking to?
-WOMAN: My question is for Atlas.
-Shoot.
-I know you worked in homicide.
-Do you still do murders?
-I'm retired.
Retired? More like pulled off the case
because you saw something you shouldn't.
-Hey, Wild Horse...
-(LAUGHS)
I don't know what I saw.
Why, what's going on?
My daughter, she was killed, I think.
-If that's true, go to the cops.
-They're in on it.
And they're covering it up.
All right, where are you right now,
ma'am?
No, this was a mistake.
Uh, I'll... Don't... Don't go anywhere.
All right, let's go to the forum boards,
Junctioneers, see what's trending.
(DOG BARKS)
( "NIPUWOLTIN" BY JEREMY DUTCHER)
(BARKS)
(BARKS)
(DOG WHINES)
-(GRUNTS)
-(GUN CLICKS)
(QUIETLY) I am powerful.
I am protected.
All right, Chucky, go on.
(GRUNTS) Come on.
(QUIETLY) There he is, Charlie.
How's that bum knee, George?
Do it, George.
Drop the limp, nobody's watching.
Boom.
WOMAN: Hmm. You got a knack, Arthur.
You got George.
-Up to your insurance boys' standards?
-Yes, thank you.
Thank you.
-How's Tanya?
-(GROANS) Don't ask.
You haven't been going
to your appointments.
That's because sometimes I can't tell
who's the doc and who's not.
-Guy's a wackjob.
-You wanna get better?
You gotta go to your appointments.
I'm just looking out for you. I just...
I'm grown up, Shell.
How about you and... Nick?
-Mr. Tall, Dark, and FBI.
-Why can't you just be happy for me?
-I'm looking out for you.
-You're looking out for me?
You don't think
it's at all coincidental
that he just happened to be transferred
into town and he'd go out with you?
You're going too far
with the conspiracy thing.
-You know what? I blame Jimmy.
-Yeah, well, at least he believes me.
You met him in 51/50.
He's a crazy person.
I mean, he gets in your head,
he provokes you...
Whoa, hey, gee, Shell.
Don't hold back.
-My only friend.
-What about me?
Can we get the check?
Okay, well, I have something for you
in my car.
(INHALES)
(BEEPING)
Arthur, no one's recording you
right now.
-Are you sure? How do you know that?
-I-I know it.
(SIGHS)
(CUTLERY SCRAPES)
(PUTS BOWL DOWN)
It's two years.
She'd be nine.
You believe that?
I love you.
With all my heart.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(INSECTS CHIRRUP)
(COYOTES HOWL IN THE DISTANCE)
(ECHOING LAUGHTER)
(SIGHS)
ARTHUR: Go, go, go, go, go, go!
(GLASS SHATTERS)
GIRL: Remember, Dad?
Detective.
SHERIFF: Is that a burn?
ARTHUR: New one to me.
Who's that?
WOMAN: Any leads on who took the body?
MAN: The body!
They took the body!
WOMAN: Any leads on who took the body?
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(EXHALES)
Charlie.
(BEEPING)
-(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
-WOMAN: Arthur Bretnik?
How do you know my name?
My name's Elena Guzman.
I called the show the other night.
-How'd you get on my property?
-I opened the gate, Arthur.
-Jimmy?
-Yeah.
Just check your signs and relax, man.
I'll make some coffee.
-Get your hands up.
-(DEVICE BEEPS)
-Turn around.
-JIMMY: Never mind him, Elena.
-Jimmy, get 'em up.
-We're back to this, are we?
(DEVICE BEEPS)
-He's harmless, I promise.
-Turn around.
Okay?
ELENA: My daughter's name is Zoe.
She died a few days ago.
We're from a small town called Wander.
About 90 miles from here.
The cops told me
that she was in a car accident,
but when I went to ID her body,
she had a wound on her chest.
What kind of wound?
It was a hole.
Whatever it was,
she wasn't in a car accident.
I'm sorry for your daughter,
but I can't help you out.
-I'm begging you.
-Arthur. Arthur, she can pay.
ELENA: I can pay.
$10,000. Half up front.
-(THUNDER)
-Please.
JIMMY: All right,
so I didn't tell you the whole truth.
But it was her daughter, for God's sake.
-You of all people should know.
-Don't, Jimmy.
10K is a hell of a lotta money
and I'm only charging
a 20 percent finder's fee.
Oh, really?
What else didn't you tell me, Jimmy?
Nothing.
Talked to her on the phone,
told her to meet me here, that's it.
You're too trusting.
Oh! Well, I think I balance the two
of us out very nicely in that regard.
Let me show you something. Look at this.
You know the hole Elena said
she saw in her daughter's chest?
Yeah, what about it?
Ah.
It sounds
like the exact same death wound
-my John Doe had at the church.
-Jesus, Arthur.
-Is it a coincidence, Jimmy?
-Coincidence?
BOTH: There are no coincidences!
Ah. You're going to Wander, I see.
Okay, I'll be your wingman.
No! No, no, you stay here,
I need you here.
Shit.
(THUNDER)
ARTHUR: Whoever did this to Zoe
is connected to my John Doe.
And is responsible for the crash
that destroyed my family.
They tried to kill me.
I don't know who you are,
but I'm coming for you.
So this woman
who lost her daughter, too,
she said she wants some help.
There might be something to this, Tan.
This could be the break
we've been waiting for.
-You're going out of town?
-Yeah. The pay's good,
so I thought it might give me a chance
to get my mind off things.
-That's great.
-Yeah. You'll visit Tanya?
-Obviously.
-She loves if you bring her...
-Daisies, I know. Charlie?
-He's with um...
-Oh.
-Yeah.
-If you need to call, you use this.
-Yeah, been through that before.
And have this on when you do.
-Gonna tell me where you're staying?
-No, I will text you the details.
-All right?
-All right.
JIMMY: Hey, hey, hey, Junctioneers,
welcome to The Thought Junction.
ARTHUR: All right, Thought Junctioneers.
Think about it,
you're going to work five days a week.
You're working 80 hours a week
and you're bringing home
40 percent of your paycheck.
I wanna know where the money is.
There's tunnels,
there's bunkers underneath this earth.
They have every bit of, uh,
technological modus operandi,
and yet you can't even put gas
in your car.
JIMMY: That's what they do.
Slip it in real slow, take advantage
-of our inherent suggestibility.
-ARTHUR: It's called incrementalism.
-And boom.
-JIMMY: You don't think that? Really?
ARTHUR: Yeah, and what happens next,
Wild Horse?
JIMMY: Curtains!
ARTHUR: Arthur Bretnik,
private investigator, audio log.
Zoe Guzman investigation.
Day one.
Landed in Wander.
Service highway leads you in,
and a one-way trucking lane
leads you out the other.
Rail line sequesters the town.
Some mountains.
Run down. No infrastructure.
Hotel. Convenience store.
A single caf.
-(MAN LAUGHS)
-Seems to be it.
Why would anyone live here?
(POLICE SIREN)
Well.
-OFFICER: Arthur Bretnik?
-What?
OFFICER: I ran your plates.
What brings you to Wander, Mr. Bretnik?
Mr. Bretnik?
Well, the yuccas are blooming.
Everyone knows everyone
round these parts.
We don't get a lot of visitors.
So I thought
I'd introduce myself to you.
Well, that's not necessary,
but it's very kind of you, sir.
-Santiago.
-Santiago.
SANTIAGO: Have a good day, Mr. Bretnik.
I'm sure
we'll be seeing each other again.
That was weird.
(SANTIAGO'S CAR STARTS)
(ARTHUR'S CAR STARTS)
(DEVICE BEEPS)
(BEEPING)
I am powerful.
ARTHUR: Arthur Bretnik.
Private investigation audio log.
Zoe Guzman investigation.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
2:30 p.m.
About to have follow-up interview
with victim's mother,
Elena Guzman.
WOMAN: Beautiful day!
Sure is.
-So lucky to be here.
-Yeah.
ELENA: Moved here four years ago.
ARTHUR: From where?
ELENA: Just wanted a change.
ARTHUR: That wasn't my question.
I haven't gone in since.
Yeah.
-You mind if I...?
-No, go ahead.
They found her on the service highway,
by the Wander sign.
(TWO SMALL EXPLOSIONS)
They haven't released her body to me.
She's still at the morgue.
She's still at the morgue?
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(SIGHS)
(BIRD CALLS)
Zoe.
(CAMERA CLICKS)
WOMAN: I gotta get home.
This is all in the last week?
WOMAN: Yeah, we lost another three.
And her.
She knew what would happen if she ran.
SANTIAGO: She didn't deserve this.
None of them did.
WOMAN: Well, talk to Canton, not me.
(THUD)
WOMAN: Let's go.
Have to get these reports out to Canton.
(GRUNTS)
(TIRES SCREECH)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(GASPS)
(COUGHS)
-WOMAN ON RECORDING: Three.
-Three.
-Two.
-Two.
Three.
-Two.
-Two.
-Three.
-Two.
Two.
-One.
-One.
-Three.
-Three.
-Two.
-Two.
-One.
-One.
MAN: They took the body!
They're stealing the body
from the morgue, Arthur, go!
ARTHUR: Drop the body!
WOMAN: Any leads on who took the body?
(GLASS SHATTERS)
No!
(PHONE RINGS)
-ARTHUR: Jimmy, you up?
-Of course I'm up!
Elena was right.
All right, hang on, hang on, slow down.
Elena was right
about the hole in Zoe's chest.
I'm gonna send you some photos, okay?
(TEXT ALERT)
You get 'em?
And there were other bodies, too.
-With a hole?
-Oh, yeah.
JIMMY: Arthur? Arthur?
-You okay?
-Yeah, I'm being watched.
-Jimmy, can you do something for me?
-Okay.
On my computer
there's a program called 9erwire.
It accesses the federal database
where all 911 calls are housed.
JIMMY: Okay, bingo, got it.
I need to know who called in Zoe's body.
Wait, hold up.
My SIM's compromised, Jimmy.
I'm gonna text you a new number.
-(MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
-(PHONE VIBRATES)
SHELLEY: Oh, one second.
-He finally tell you where he's at?
-No, but he gave me a new number.
-I'm gonna call him, okay?
-Hm-hmm.
It's quite the operation
he's got going on.
The man's got ingenuity in spades,
I'll give him that.
(LINE RINGS)
He's not picking up.
ARTHUR: Zoe Guzman investigation.
Day two. 2:57 p.m.
I'm going to the Wander sign
to look for Zoe's car.
Victim site,
appears to be a vehicle crash.
Vehicle appears to be bigger.
Thick tread.
Seen this vehicle before,
white Cherokee.
Definitely being followed.
Let's see what plays out.
(ENGINE STARTS)
(MAN SINGS NATIVE AMERICAN SONG)
The can?
(SINGING CONTINUES)
(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)
(MEN SPEAK FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(PHONE RINGS)
-Hey, Jimmy, did you find it?
-There's no 911 call on file, man.
-No, there had to be.
-They probably had it pulled.
What are you talking about?
They don't pull 911 calls.
Hey, Jimmy, I gotta go.
Come on!
(CAMERA CLICKS)
(CAMERA CLICKS)
ARTHUR: Arthur Bretnik, audio log.
They're bringing people here.
Did they bring me here?
Stay focused, Arthur.
I need to find Zoe's vehicle.
More answers might be inside.
There's a scrapyard on the edge of town.
If the vehicle Zoe was in
is anywhere...
(GRUNTS)
(GUNSHOT)
-(GRUNTS)
-(DOG BARKS)
-(GUNSHOT)
-(CAR ALARM)
(GUNSHOTS)
(GUNSHOTS)
(GUNSHOTS)
(GUNSHOT)
(GUNSHOT)
(GUNSHOTS)
ARTHUR: I found the vehicle Zoe
was driving. Some kinda G-card inside.
They shot at me.
They're toying with me.
They know I'm here. They want me here.
You wanna know my fortune, Daddy?
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(TRAIN HORN)
(SIGHS)
-ARTHUR: Hey, Shelley.
-SHELLEY: Arthur?
Hey, you on that phone I gave you?
-Yeah.
-You got the jammer on?
-Yeah.
-Listen, I can't get a hold of Jimmy.
SHELLEY: Of course you can't.
-ARTHUR: Can you do me a favor?
-Sure.
At my place, in the box you gave me,
there's photos.
Can you see if there's any of a woman
with blonde hair and a black hat?
If so,
-send me a pic of it, will ya?
-Are you sure you're okay?
Yeah, Shell, I promise.
-I'll go after this.
-All right.
Tell Tanya I love her.
I will.
(SIGHS)
(SIGHS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(LAPTOP BEEPS)
-(LAPTOP BEEPS)
-(INDISTINCT SHOUTING ON VIDEO)
(TRAIN PASSES)
(TRAIN HORN)
ARTHUR: Arthur Bretnik.
Zoe Guzman investigation.
Day three.
My motel was clearly compromised.
I'm setting up a new base now
a couple of miles outta town.
(ELECTRICAL WHINE)
At the Spruce Winds Cabins now.
Going back to check out the garage.
It's the hub.
This isn't gonna end well for you,
Arthur.
("POMOK NAKA POKOTOINSKWES"
BY JEREMY DUTCHER)
(SONG ENDS)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(DISTANT THUD)
(BEEPING)
(MECHANICAL WHIRRING)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(GRUNTS)
(MEN CHATTER INDISTINCTLY NEARBY)
Hey, Charlie.
(CHARLIE BARKS)
Where's neglectful Uncle Jimmy, huh?
Where's Uncle Scumbag Jimmy?
(DOOR OPENS)
Oh, man.
Damn it!
(GRUNTS)
It's all true.
(VEHICLE HORN BLARES)
(SHOWER RUNS)
(FAUCET SQUEAKS, WATER STOPS)
-Hey!
-Goddamn!
Can I have a little privacy?
-Jimmy?
-Goddamn, put the gun down.
Put the fucking gun down!
What happened to your arm?
-Where's Charlie?
-He's got food and water for days.
How'd you find me?
You sounded off on your voicemail,
I came here,
the front-door lady let me in.
-I said I was here in my voicemail?
-You overdoing your meds again, man?
Oh... Give a minute, okay?
Just go on. Go on.
He left Charlie tied up outside
in the sun with food and water.
-Who does that?
-ARTHUR: Is he okay?
Yeah, cos he's a trouper
and he's the best dog.
Hey, did you get those photos?
Yeah, and everything
on the investigation
-you said you were leaving alone.
-Sort of in a hurry here, Shell.
Okay, I found it.
(CAMERA CLICKS)
-Oh...
-SHELLEY: What?
-Let's do this, Arthur boy.
-Jimmy's there?
He just showed up.
You lied to me, Arthur.
You know, this is how it starts.
He gets in your head, he works you up.
-I'll call you later, Shell.
-Arthur?
Let's go for a drive.
Come on, let's go for a drive.
-You look like shit, Arthur.
-Yeah, but I smell great.
Check out this picture
Shelley just texted me.
Look at this.
That's the first day I got here.
The sheriff and her.
Huh? I knew I recognized her!
She was there!
The John Doe scene at the church.
You think she's behind the crash
with your family?
Yeah, I do! I mean, she's there.
Jimmy.
They bring them, take them there.
There's an entire underground bunker,
there's cells
monitoring this whole place.
Wander is like...
it's a testing ground.
No shit.
(MAN PANTS)
And they insert these implants.
They're keeping them here,
they're tracking 'em.
Just like we've talked about
all this time.
(MEN CHATTER NEARBY)
(MAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)
Oh, my God!
MAN: The new version or the old?
(MEN SHOUT INDISTINCTLY)
Zoe tried to run!
Jimmy, listen to me.
I've scoured every police database
I can find.
Zoe never shows up. But look at this.
Jimmy, check out
this missing person's report.
-JIMMY: Martina Lopez?
-ARTHUR: No.
Zoe.
Elena has been lying to us
the whole time, Jimmy.
Her real name isn't Elena.
It's Sofia Lopez
and Zoe is Martina Lopez.
Both reported missing.
The people controlling all this...
They're bringing people here.
They're changing their names,
they're erasing their past.
I mean, the people here in Wander,
they're all trapped.
Jimmy, she knows you. Gives us away.
-I'll be around back.
-Roger that.
-Why'd they send you to me?
-It's all your fault!
(GRUNTS)
(GRUNTS)
They killed her!
-(SHE YELLS)
-(HE GRUNTS)
Zoe's dead because of you.
(BEEPING)
(BEEPING ACCELERATES)
Jimmy's in on it.
(TWO SMALL EXPLOSIONS)
(BODY THUDS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
JIMMY: Arthur! Jesus Christ, Arthur.
Goddamn. Did you shoot her, Arthur?
Jimmy, I can't remember telling you
where I was in my voicemail.
Huh?
"Jimmy's in on it."
-That's the last thing she said.
-Let's just take a deep breath.
No, Jimmy, see... I'm getting confused
and I can't decipher
if it's you or if it's me!
All right.
I'll make a confession, Arthur.
I lied to you.
Elena first made contact with me through
the PI website that I built for you.
And I told her to call the show.
(SIGHS)
I, um... needed the money,
and I'm sorry, all right?
But I've always had a gut feeling
that there was...
There was something more to all of this.
-Wander, Elena, Zoe.
-Jimmy.
Some link between here
and what happened to your family.
-Don't talk about my family.
-And I was right.
We were right.
Jimmy, I'm barely hangin' on here.
Arthur.
We're pinning down the truth.
Stay with it.
You know me.
Do I, Jimmy?
("POMOK NAKA POKOTOINSKWES"
BY JEREMY DUTCHER)
One more.
(TIRES SCREECH)
(GRUNTING)
I'll take it from here.
ARTHUR: Five miles inland.
On the edge of the Valley of Fire.
Marked by a cross.
I never wanted blood on my hands.
It's a war, Jimmy.
Between the dark and the light.
Light.
-You're light, Jimmy.
-I hope so.
Every name on this ledger
goes back as a missing person.
Every one of these people
are trapped in Wander. Martina. Sofia.
-Zoe and Elena.
-Reported missing Amarillo, Texas.
We got these two.
Right, I saw them at the truck stop
and then trapped at the Foxhole.
Men, women,
different ages, various races.
-But they all have one thing in common.
-Yeah, they were all immigrants.
That's Ukraine, Syria, Trinidad, Korea.
I mean, the list goes on and on.
And what the hell does it have
to do with you?
I got too close to my John Doe case.
But why lure you here?
Well, we're gonna find out.
Jimmy, tomorrow,
I'm going back to the Foxhole.
Hell, yeah.
This needs to be exposed.
ARTHUR: Hey, Shell.
Look, uh,
I haven't been totally honest about...
what I've been working on
here in Wander.
I got hired to investigate a murder.
But here's the thing, Shell.
It's linked to something bigger.
And I'm directly involved.
All I need is a name, Shell.
This time, I'm gonna prove it all.
NICK: Look. Hey, whoa.
I checked it out.
Wander, it's a sleepy old town.
-He's... He's fine.
-I'm gonna go.
Shell, this is not your battle to fight.
SHELL: He's done this before.
He stretches stories, changes the truth,
becomes delusional.
Right, yeah,
and who does he always drag into it?
He's going to end up
hurting himself or someone else.
Like you.
And I don't want that to happen.
So let's give it a night.
If he still doesn't answer his phone,
we will go down there together
and we'll sort it all out.
All right, this is the Foxhole.
No one's here this time of day.
I'm gonna download
everything from the computers.
You get the footage of
everything from inside the lab.
If I go down,
you keep running.
And, Jimmy, if that happens,
you gotta promise me one thing.
-JIMMY: Yeah?
-You take care of Tanya.
I will.
(ARTHUR EXHALES)
(TRAIN HORN IN THE DISTANCE)
Let's go.
(BEEPING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER NEARBY)
(PHONE VIBRATES)
-Arthur.
-ARTHUR: Shelley.
(SIGHS) What happened?
I know you're in Wander.
Shelley, I need you here tomorrow.
Arthur, you have to stop.
You're not well,
and Jimmy just perpetuates it.
Jimmy's dead.
-What?
-They killed him.
What are you talking about?
Shelley, I need you here
tomorrow morning, 10 a.m.
I'll text you the details
as soon as I know them.
-Arthur! Arthur, wait please.
-It'll all make sense tomorrow.
Hey.
What's going on?
(NO DIAL TONE)
(PHONE BEEPS)
Really?
That's it.
(SIREN)
NICK: On your knees! Hands up, Arthur!
Down! On your knees! Arthur, hands up!
Down, down! Hands up.
Down.
(TRAIN HORN IN THE DISTANCE)
NICK: Let's go over this again.
We've ID'd everyone in that photo.
All Wander locals.
(GUNSHOT)
(GUNSHOT)
Victor Canton, local doctor.
(GUNSHOTS)
A resident of Wander for over 25 years.
-No.
-NICK: He's a scientist.
He created the chip technology.
He's selling it to people,
he's putting it into people.
They were all involved.
With the implants,
my accident, everything.
The entrance to the Foxhole
was right there.
Right there.
You open this garage,
there's a red car there.
You push a lever, the car goes up.
There is nothing there, Arthur.
That's impossible.
ARTHUR: I took Jimmy there
to gather evidence.
(BEEPING)
(ELENA SHOUTING ON VIDEO)
What?
No.
(MEN SHOUT INDISTINCTLY)
Welcome to the Foxhole.
I would like to commend you
on signing up for this noble venture.2e
You are helping our country grow
in ways that will benefit
our social structure
and national security
for years to come.
So what type of medical testing
did you volunteer for?
The C68 biochip,
the world's leading device
in human near-field technology.
(LOUD THUD NEARBY)
-MAN: They're here!
-ARTHUR: Keep downloading.
-JIMMY: Let's go.
-ARTHUR: Turn around, Jimmy.
JIMMY:
There's gotta be a way out of here.
ARTHUR: There's stairs in the back. Run.
Come on, Jimmy!
(GRUNTS)
(GUNSHOTS)
(SHOUTING)
Jimmy!
(JIMMY COUGHS)
ARTHUR: Jimmy!
Sorry. I'm sorry, Arthur.
So close, Arthur.
(GUNSHOT)
Come on, move! Move! Up the stairs!
Come on! Go, go, go! Come on.
Bag, phone, keys.
If you want the truth
about what happened to your wife
and daughter, work with me.
Come on, let's go.
We gotta go.
Move!
And there was a woman, too. Elsa.
CIA, I think. She took me to the garage.
She's the one in the photos
you texted me, Shell.
NICK: Her?
Yeah.
NICK: Her name's Kimberly Clark.
She was actually a witness
-at the crime scene.
-No, she wasn't.
She took me to a safehouse.
Sheriff Santiago was there.
And they told me
who was behind everything.
They prey on runaways.
Lower class, broken homes.
Immigrants. There, I said it for you.
ELSA: They lure them here
with a promise of money, housing,
in exchange for medical testing.
Insert the implant and they're trapped.
I'm not who you think I am, Arthur.
We're all on the same team.
You can call me Elsa.
Come on, I got something to show you.
His real name was Felipe Jimenez.
Your John Doe from the church.
He was a Colombian refugee who escaped
when his implant malfunctioned.
Canton couldn't have you
looking into things,
so he had the body stolen
from the morgue.
-Who's Canton?
-Victor Canton.
Early adopter of chip technology,
single-handedly advanced the field.
He developed tech that could track
movement, location, vitals.
It was revolutionary.
And attractive to foreign investors.
Yeah, what's the Oryon Project?
Canton changed, he got greedy.
Funding sources became anonymous.
Bigger parties with deeper pockets.
The fact that Wander uses immigrants
for its testing is not an accident.
He took a black ops
government security contract
and shifted his focus to border control.
Border control? Remote control
everybody. That's what I thought.
The chip links directly
to the subject's central nervous system.
When it reaches a set radius,
it could be frozen or shut down.
And you guys can murder
whoever you want.
Not exactly how Canton sees it, but yes.
SANTIAGO: He told us his intentions
were to progress the greater good
of humanity,
not to create weapons
for the highest bidder.
And you just go along for the ride, huh?
Not anymore.
Wander has helped
shape Canton's business model.
Him and his investors are on the verge
of going wide with the tech.
Why am I here?
Canton was the one that made the call
on the hit-and-run of your car.
He killed my daughter?
I wanted you to know that.
I am so sorry.
You've been watching me?
Because I've been waiting
for the day I could tell you all this.
You deserve to know the truth.
The truth?
Arthur, you are here because I wanna
offer you an opportunity.
ARTHUR: What opportunity?
I know the pain Canton's actions
have caused you with Tanya.
I know how you struggle
with what happened to Cleo.
You don't know anything.
ELSA: I've lost people, too.
It's not right.
Canton is hardly ever here in Wander,
but there's a meeting
set for tomorrow morning.
It's his last meeting
before he sells the Oryon Project.
Arthur, you can't tell me
you don't wanna go face to face
with the man that destroyed your family.
To get revenge for your daughter.
Justice.
That's the opportunity I'm offering you.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
ARTHUR: The plan was...
It was set...
That's when I called you, Shell.
-Arthur!
-Shelley, Jimmy's dead.
ARTHUR: But, uh, things, they changed.
("KOSELWINTUWAKON"
BY JEREMY DUTCHER)
First time meeting him.
Luis.
Follow my lead.
-Santiago, why are we back here?
-Now!
(GUNSHOTS)
LEILAND: What are you doing?
-(GASPS)
-I always knew I couldn't trust you.
Elsa, Santiago told me
you were shot dead yesterday.
Had to get you here somehow.
Lost your focus a long time ago, Victor,
and I'm tired.
What are you doing?
You want your apology?
Now's your chance.
Victor Canton, meet Arthur Bretnik.
Do it, Arthur.
He murdered your daughter.
You think killing me
is gonna stop any of this?
Shooting me is exactly what they want.
You shoot, they win.
I just wanna hear you say it.
CANTON: You have no idea
of the complexities.
-Say it!
-This is bigger than all of us.
-Say it!
-CANTON: You were supposed to be alone.
-I wasn't driving the truck.
-Say it!
Say it!
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
TANYA: Look at that determination!
ARTHUR: Go, go, go, go, go, go!
(SIGHS)
Arthur, it's okay.
Drop the gun. I'll handle this.
Get to the office
and wipe down the computer.
(DIALS NUMBER)
It's done.
(GRUNTS)
Give us a minute.
You know, these are psychotics.
And they are known
to create acute anxiety
and paranoid delusions in people
with a history of mental illness.
How long you been mixing these?
They played you.
You don't know
how powerful these people are.
They're connected everywhere.
For all I know, this is all part of it.
Listen, I'm here as your lawyer,
not just your friend.
And I wonder
if there's anything we're missing.
You want proof?
I have one of the chips in me!
After the accident,
they put a chip in me.
Are you one of them?
I think you're sick again, Arthur.
ARTHUR: You need to check
the addresses again.
-Just check 'em.
-SHELLEY: We checked every...
-They checked every address.
-JIMMY: Check 'em again.
-SHELLEY: They went to Elena's house.
-Check 'em again.
SHELLEY: It was boarded up.
And the property
was re-claimed after the owner died.
The bank claimed it.
And the morgue
where you said you found the bodies,
it hasn't been in use for years.
-We found your car.
-What do you mean, you found my car?
-ARTHUR: You found... you found my car?
-SHELLEY: Yeah.
What's the problem?
It has all the files from the case.
It has the addresses I can't remember.
SHELLEY: But the problem is
what we found in your car.
ARTHUR: What did you find?
SHELLEY: Jimmy.
SHELLEY: He was decapitated.
Did I?
(SIGHS)
(LOCK CLICKS)
Hi.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Morning.
(MUTTERS QUIETLY)
NURSE: You and that stuff.
Anything interesting?
We're all just puppets to the man.
Arthur Bretnik,
my resident conspiracist.
ARTHUR: I like airplanes.
(FOOTSTEPS)
-How you doing, Arthur boy?
-ARTHUR: Jimmy.
I knew it.
I knew it.
I made you a promise.
Tanya will never want for anything.
Of that, you can be sure.
Whose body was in the trunk?
JIMMY: Does it really matter, Arthur?
Did Canton actually order
the hit on my family?
-I need to know.
-You deserved your revenge.
-Yes or no?
-JIMMY: Arthur.
-Tell me!
-ELSA: Yes, Arthur.
He did.
We owed you that much.
Why me?
ELSA: Every good conspiracy
needs a patsy.
JIMMY: When Felipe and Zoe escaped,
Wander and Canton became a liability.
We needed to clean things up.
We knew if we left you enough clues,
nudged you in the right direction...
(GUNSHOT)
...someone in your mental state
might be able to shoulder the burden
of tying up loose ends.
If anyone ever tries to expose
what's happening in Wander,
we'll be able to deflect,
pin it back to you.
A man unhinged.
ARTHUR: Who are you people?
You said it yourself, Arthur.
It's all about keeping a tight grip.
Immigration,
incarceration, border control.
These are all big concerns for us.
Pawn, patsy or dead.
Two outta three ain't bad, huh, Jimmy?
Hmm. You're a good man, Arthur.
A silent warrior.
ARTHUR: All right now, Junctioneers.
I wanna talk about trust, okay?
Who do you trust? Can you trust...
I don't know, say, the person
sitting next to you, huh?
What do you really know about them?
Look at their face.
They look like they have
a modicum of morality or ethics.
But do they really?
I am powerful.
I am protected.
ARTHUR: Now why don't you try
an experiment for me?
Next time you hear about a homicide
or an unfortunate accident,
I want you to look at the person
associated with that act,
and ask yourself,
if he was walking down the street,
would you believe
that he is capable of such an act?
SHELLEY: Hmm.
("THE SUN'S GONE DIM AND THE SKY'S
TURNED BLACK" BY JHANN JHANNSSON)
ARTHUR: Look at the person
sitting next to you.
Look at them.
I mean, really look at them.
Look in their eyes,
look inside their soul.
Ask yourself questions.
"Is he capable of that?
"Am I capable of that?"
NURSE: You ready for our walk?
Arthur?
-ARTHUR: Search your souls, people.
-(KNOCKS ON DOOR)
You don't know what you're gonna find.
-(RATTLES DOOR)
-Arthur, open up!
ARTHUR: This is Atlas Major
with Thought Junction.
Arthur!
ARTHUR: I'll catch you all next week.
(ALARM)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
("THE SUN'S GONE DIM AND THE SKY'S
TURNED BLACK" CONTINUES)
ARTHUR: Hey, Shell.
Look, I haven't been
totally honest about
what I've been working on
here in Wander.
I got hired to investigate a murder.
All I ever wanted was the truth.
I don't know why,
but for the first time in a long time,
I have hope.
Let's see what plays out.
("THE SUN'S GONE DIM AND THE SKY'S
TURNED BLACK" CONTINUES)
(LAUGHS)
(LAUGHS)
(ARTHUR LAUGHS)
(GENTLE MUSIC)
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(CRIES)
(BEEPING)
(BEEPING ACCELERATES)
(SCREAMS)
(TWO SMALL EXPLOSIONS)
(POLICE SIREN)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
The whole cavalry's here.
MAN: I don't get it.
She knew what would happen.
All right. (SIGHS)
Let's do this.
-First on site?
-Already been handled.
This is out of control.
(SIGHS)
Get the body to the morgue.
Trash the jeep.
MAN: It's not my job.
Do it, Leiland.
This is all on you.
How are you, good?
I'm gonna make a call.
(INDISTINCT POLICE RADIO CHATTER)
("ESSUWONIKE"
BY JEREMY DUTCHER)
Under the stars, Arthur boy!
My chem-trail guy
confirmed our suspicions
about White Sands and Alamogordo.
And that observatory
that the FBI tore down?
That is definitely... (EXHALES)
Big Brother related.
Uh, we will dig into it later.
Okay.
Arthur, these type of days
are the worst kind.
We're gonna get you through it, pal.
So let's get busy.
A lot of setup to do today
before the big show under the stars.
(GRUNTS)
(RADIO STATIC)
MAN ON RADIO: Do not panic.
I repeat, do not panic.
I repeat, do not panic.
I repeat, do not panic.
MAN: Hey, hey, hey, Junctioneers.
Welcome back to The Thought Junction,
the deep web podcast dedicated entirely
to all things conspiracy.
I am your host, Wild Horse,
here with my co-anchor, Atlas Major,
our resident private investigator.
Howdy, howdy.
You know the drill, people.
-You wanna talk, our burner's up.
-Number's on the site.
Well, Wild Horse,
this week we continue discussing
the unsettling number
of Illuminati black operations
that plague our country.
With the common goal
of stealing our basic civil liberties.
Mark my words,
MK-Ultra never stop, people.
There are human-testing facilities
strewn all across this country.
Some are hidden in plain sight,
others in tunnels, bunkers,
right under our feet.
That's a friendly reminder
of how our overlords value us.
None are more hopelessly enslaved
than those
who falsely believe they are free.
And for all of us out there
blowing the whistle on these characters,
there's only a few ways
this can possibly end.
-Pawn, patsy or dead.
-Pawn, patsy or dead.
-(RINGING)
-Oh, we got a caller.
-Uh, who are we talking to?
-WOMAN: My question is for Atlas.
-Shoot.
-I know you worked in homicide.
-Do you still do murders?
-I'm retired.
Retired? More like pulled off the case
because you saw something you shouldn't.
-Hey, Wild Horse...
-(LAUGHS)
I don't know what I saw.
Why, what's going on?
My daughter, she was killed, I think.
-If that's true, go to the cops.
-They're in on it.
And they're covering it up.
All right, where are you right now,
ma'am?
No, this was a mistake.
Uh, I'll... Don't... Don't go anywhere.
All right, let's go to the forum boards,
Junctioneers, see what's trending.
(DOG BARKS)
( "NIPUWOLTIN" BY JEREMY DUTCHER)
(BARKS)
(BARKS)
(DOG WHINES)
-(GRUNTS)
-(GUN CLICKS)
(QUIETLY) I am powerful.
I am protected.
All right, Chucky, go on.
(GRUNTS) Come on.
(QUIETLY) There he is, Charlie.
How's that bum knee, George?
Do it, George.
Drop the limp, nobody's watching.
Boom.
WOMAN: Hmm. You got a knack, Arthur.
You got George.
-Up to your insurance boys' standards?
-Yes, thank you.
Thank you.
-How's Tanya?
-(GROANS) Don't ask.
You haven't been going
to your appointments.
That's because sometimes I can't tell
who's the doc and who's not.
-Guy's a wackjob.
-You wanna get better?
You gotta go to your appointments.
I'm just looking out for you. I just...
I'm grown up, Shell.
How about you and... Nick?
-Mr. Tall, Dark, and FBI.
-Why can't you just be happy for me?
-I'm looking out for you.
-You're looking out for me?
You don't think
it's at all coincidental
that he just happened to be transferred
into town and he'd go out with you?
You're going too far
with the conspiracy thing.
-You know what? I blame Jimmy.
-Yeah, well, at least he believes me.
You met him in 51/50.
He's a crazy person.
I mean, he gets in your head,
he provokes you...
Whoa, hey, gee, Shell.
Don't hold back.
-My only friend.
-What about me?
Can we get the check?
Okay, well, I have something for you
in my car.
(INHALES)
(BEEPING)
Arthur, no one's recording you
right now.
-Are you sure? How do you know that?
-I-I know it.
(SIGHS)
(CUTLERY SCRAPES)
(PUTS BOWL DOWN)
It's two years.
She'd be nine.
You believe that?
I love you.
With all my heart.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(INSECTS CHIRRUP)
(COYOTES HOWL IN THE DISTANCE)
(ECHOING LAUGHTER)
(SIGHS)
ARTHUR: Go, go, go, go, go, go!
(GLASS SHATTERS)
GIRL: Remember, Dad?
Detective.
SHERIFF: Is that a burn?
ARTHUR: New one to me.
Who's that?
WOMAN: Any leads on who took the body?
MAN: The body!
They took the body!
WOMAN: Any leads on who took the body?
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(EXHALES)
Charlie.
(BEEPING)
-(KNOCKING AT DOOR)
-WOMAN: Arthur Bretnik?
How do you know my name?
My name's Elena Guzman.
I called the show the other night.
-How'd you get on my property?
-I opened the gate, Arthur.
-Jimmy?
-Yeah.
Just check your signs and relax, man.
I'll make some coffee.
-Get your hands up.
-(DEVICE BEEPS)
-Turn around.
-JIMMY: Never mind him, Elena.
-Jimmy, get 'em up.
-We're back to this, are we?
(DEVICE BEEPS)
-He's harmless, I promise.
-Turn around.
Okay?
ELENA: My daughter's name is Zoe.
She died a few days ago.
We're from a small town called Wander.
About 90 miles from here.
The cops told me
that she was in a car accident,
but when I went to ID her body,
she had a wound on her chest.
What kind of wound?
It was a hole.
Whatever it was,
she wasn't in a car accident.
I'm sorry for your daughter,
but I can't help you out.
-I'm begging you.
-Arthur. Arthur, she can pay.
ELENA: I can pay.
$10,000. Half up front.
-(THUNDER)
-Please.
JIMMY: All right,
so I didn't tell you the whole truth.
But it was her daughter, for God's sake.
-You of all people should know.
-Don't, Jimmy.
10K is a hell of a lotta money
and I'm only charging
a 20 percent finder's fee.
Oh, really?
What else didn't you tell me, Jimmy?
Nothing.
Talked to her on the phone,
told her to meet me here, that's it.
You're too trusting.
Oh! Well, I think I balance the two
of us out very nicely in that regard.
Let me show you something. Look at this.
You know the hole Elena said
she saw in her daughter's chest?
Yeah, what about it?
Ah.
It sounds
like the exact same death wound
-my John Doe had at the church.
-Jesus, Arthur.
-Is it a coincidence, Jimmy?
-Coincidence?
BOTH: There are no coincidences!
Ah. You're going to Wander, I see.
Okay, I'll be your wingman.
No! No, no, you stay here,
I need you here.
Shit.
(THUNDER)
ARTHUR: Whoever did this to Zoe
is connected to my John Doe.
And is responsible for the crash
that destroyed my family.
They tried to kill me.
I don't know who you are,
but I'm coming for you.
So this woman
who lost her daughter, too,
she said she wants some help.
There might be something to this, Tan.
This could be the break
we've been waiting for.
-You're going out of town?
-Yeah. The pay's good,
so I thought it might give me a chance
to get my mind off things.
-That's great.
-Yeah. You'll visit Tanya?
-Obviously.
-She loves if you bring her...
-Daisies, I know. Charlie?
-He's with um...
-Oh.
-Yeah.
-If you need to call, you use this.
-Yeah, been through that before.
And have this on when you do.
-Gonna tell me where you're staying?
-No, I will text you the details.
-All right?
-All right.
JIMMY: Hey, hey, hey, Junctioneers,
welcome to The Thought Junction.
ARTHUR: All right, Thought Junctioneers.
Think about it,
you're going to work five days a week.
You're working 80 hours a week
and you're bringing home
40 percent of your paycheck.
I wanna know where the money is.
There's tunnels,
there's bunkers underneath this earth.
They have every bit of, uh,
technological modus operandi,
and yet you can't even put gas
in your car.
JIMMY: That's what they do.
Slip it in real slow, take advantage
-of our inherent suggestibility.
-ARTHUR: It's called incrementalism.
-And boom.
-JIMMY: You don't think that? Really?
ARTHUR: Yeah, and what happens next,
Wild Horse?
JIMMY: Curtains!
ARTHUR: Arthur Bretnik,
private investigator, audio log.
Zoe Guzman investigation.
Day one.
Landed in Wander.
Service highway leads you in,
and a one-way trucking lane
leads you out the other.
Rail line sequesters the town.
Some mountains.
Run down. No infrastructure.
Hotel. Convenience store.
A single caf.
-(MAN LAUGHS)
-Seems to be it.
Why would anyone live here?
(POLICE SIREN)
Well.
-OFFICER: Arthur Bretnik?
-What?
OFFICER: I ran your plates.
What brings you to Wander, Mr. Bretnik?
Mr. Bretnik?
Well, the yuccas are blooming.
Everyone knows everyone
round these parts.
We don't get a lot of visitors.
So I thought
I'd introduce myself to you.
Well, that's not necessary,
but it's very kind of you, sir.
-Santiago.
-Santiago.
SANTIAGO: Have a good day, Mr. Bretnik.
I'm sure
we'll be seeing each other again.
That was weird.
(SANTIAGO'S CAR STARTS)
(ARTHUR'S CAR STARTS)
(DEVICE BEEPS)
(BEEPING)
I am powerful.
ARTHUR: Arthur Bretnik.
Private investigation audio log.
Zoe Guzman investigation.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
2:30 p.m.
About to have follow-up interview
with victim's mother,
Elena Guzman.
WOMAN: Beautiful day!
Sure is.
-So lucky to be here.
-Yeah.
ELENA: Moved here four years ago.
ARTHUR: From where?
ELENA: Just wanted a change.
ARTHUR: That wasn't my question.
I haven't gone in since.
Yeah.
-You mind if I...?
-No, go ahead.
They found her on the service highway,
by the Wander sign.
(TWO SMALL EXPLOSIONS)
They haven't released her body to me.
She's still at the morgue.
She's still at the morgue?
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(SIGHS)
(BIRD CALLS)
Zoe.
(CAMERA CLICKS)
WOMAN: I gotta get home.
This is all in the last week?
WOMAN: Yeah, we lost another three.
And her.
She knew what would happen if she ran.
SANTIAGO: She didn't deserve this.
None of them did.
WOMAN: Well, talk to Canton, not me.
(THUD)
WOMAN: Let's go.
Have to get these reports out to Canton.
(GRUNTS)
(TIRES SCREECH)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(GASPS)
(COUGHS)
-WOMAN ON RECORDING: Three.
-Three.
-Two.
-Two.
Three.
-Two.
-Two.
-Three.
-Two.
Two.
-One.
-One.
-Three.
-Three.
-Two.
-Two.
-One.
-One.
MAN: They took the body!
They're stealing the body
from the morgue, Arthur, go!
ARTHUR: Drop the body!
WOMAN: Any leads on who took the body?
(GLASS SHATTERS)
No!
(PHONE RINGS)
-ARTHUR: Jimmy, you up?
-Of course I'm up!
Elena was right.
All right, hang on, hang on, slow down.
Elena was right
about the hole in Zoe's chest.
I'm gonna send you some photos, okay?
(TEXT ALERT)
You get 'em?
And there were other bodies, too.
-With a hole?
-Oh, yeah.
JIMMY: Arthur? Arthur?
-You okay?
-Yeah, I'm being watched.
-Jimmy, can you do something for me?
-Okay.
On my computer
there's a program called 9erwire.
It accesses the federal database
where all 911 calls are housed.
JIMMY: Okay, bingo, got it.
I need to know who called in Zoe's body.
Wait, hold up.
My SIM's compromised, Jimmy.
I'm gonna text you a new number.
-(MAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY)
-(PHONE VIBRATES)
SHELLEY: Oh, one second.
-He finally tell you where he's at?
-No, but he gave me a new number.
-I'm gonna call him, okay?
-Hm-hmm.
It's quite the operation
he's got going on.
The man's got ingenuity in spades,
I'll give him that.
(LINE RINGS)
He's not picking up.
ARTHUR: Zoe Guzman investigation.
Day two. 2:57 p.m.
I'm going to the Wander sign
to look for Zoe's car.
Victim site,
appears to be a vehicle crash.
Vehicle appears to be bigger.
Thick tread.
Seen this vehicle before,
white Cherokee.
Definitely being followed.
Let's see what plays out.
(ENGINE STARTS)
(MAN SINGS NATIVE AMERICAN SONG)
The can?
(SINGING CONTINUES)
(COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING)
(MEN SPEAK FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(PHONE RINGS)
-Hey, Jimmy, did you find it?
-There's no 911 call on file, man.
-No, there had to be.
-They probably had it pulled.
What are you talking about?
They don't pull 911 calls.
Hey, Jimmy, I gotta go.
Come on!
(CAMERA CLICKS)
(CAMERA CLICKS)
ARTHUR: Arthur Bretnik, audio log.
They're bringing people here.
Did they bring me here?
Stay focused, Arthur.
I need to find Zoe's vehicle.
More answers might be inside.
There's a scrapyard on the edge of town.
If the vehicle Zoe was in
is anywhere...
(GRUNTS)
(GUNSHOT)
-(GRUNTS)
-(DOG BARKS)
-(GUNSHOT)
-(CAR ALARM)
(GUNSHOTS)
(GUNSHOTS)
(GUNSHOTS)
(GUNSHOT)
(GUNSHOT)
(GUNSHOTS)
ARTHUR: I found the vehicle Zoe
was driving. Some kinda G-card inside.
They shot at me.
They're toying with me.
They know I'm here. They want me here.
You wanna know my fortune, Daddy?
(GLASS SHATTERS)
(TRAIN HORN)
(SIGHS)
-ARTHUR: Hey, Shelley.
-SHELLEY: Arthur?
Hey, you on that phone I gave you?
-Yeah.
-You got the jammer on?
-Yeah.
-Listen, I can't get a hold of Jimmy.
SHELLEY: Of course you can't.
-ARTHUR: Can you do me a favor?
-Sure.
At my place, in the box you gave me,
there's photos.
Can you see if there's any of a woman
with blonde hair and a black hat?
If so,
-send me a pic of it, will ya?
-Are you sure you're okay?
Yeah, Shell, I promise.
-I'll go after this.
-All right.
Tell Tanya I love her.
I will.
(SIGHS)
(SIGHS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(LAPTOP BEEPS)
-(LAPTOP BEEPS)
-(INDISTINCT SHOUTING ON VIDEO)
(TRAIN PASSES)
(TRAIN HORN)
ARTHUR: Arthur Bretnik.
Zoe Guzman investigation.
Day three.
My motel was clearly compromised.
I'm setting up a new base now
a couple of miles outta town.
(ELECTRICAL WHINE)
At the Spruce Winds Cabins now.
Going back to check out the garage.
It's the hub.
This isn't gonna end well for you,
Arthur.
("POMOK NAKA POKOTOINSKWES"
BY JEREMY DUTCHER)
(SONG ENDS)
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(DISTANT THUD)
(BEEPING)
(MECHANICAL WHIRRING)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(GRUNTS)
(MEN CHATTER INDISTINCTLY NEARBY)
Hey, Charlie.
(CHARLIE BARKS)
Where's neglectful Uncle Jimmy, huh?
Where's Uncle Scumbag Jimmy?
(DOOR OPENS)
Oh, man.
Damn it!
(GRUNTS)
It's all true.
(VEHICLE HORN BLARES)
(SHOWER RUNS)
(FAUCET SQUEAKS, WATER STOPS)
-Hey!
-Goddamn!
Can I have a little privacy?
-Jimmy?
-Goddamn, put the gun down.
Put the fucking gun down!
What happened to your arm?
-Where's Charlie?
-He's got food and water for days.
How'd you find me?
You sounded off on your voicemail,
I came here,
the front-door lady let me in.
-I said I was here in my voicemail?
-You overdoing your meds again, man?
Oh... Give a minute, okay?
Just go on. Go on.
He left Charlie tied up outside
in the sun with food and water.
-Who does that?
-ARTHUR: Is he okay?
Yeah, cos he's a trouper
and he's the best dog.
Hey, did you get those photos?
Yeah, and everything
on the investigation
-you said you were leaving alone.
-Sort of in a hurry here, Shell.
Okay, I found it.
(CAMERA CLICKS)
-Oh...
-SHELLEY: What?
-Let's do this, Arthur boy.
-Jimmy's there?
He just showed up.
You lied to me, Arthur.
You know, this is how it starts.
He gets in your head, he works you up.
-I'll call you later, Shell.
-Arthur?
Let's go for a drive.
Come on, let's go for a drive.
-You look like shit, Arthur.
-Yeah, but I smell great.
Check out this picture
Shelley just texted me.
Look at this.
That's the first day I got here.
The sheriff and her.
Huh? I knew I recognized her!
She was there!
The John Doe scene at the church.
You think she's behind the crash
with your family?
Yeah, I do! I mean, she's there.
Jimmy.
They bring them, take them there.
There's an entire underground bunker,
there's cells
monitoring this whole place.
Wander is like...
it's a testing ground.
No shit.
(MAN PANTS)
And they insert these implants.
They're keeping them here,
they're tracking 'em.
Just like we've talked about
all this time.
(MEN CHATTER NEARBY)
(MAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)
Oh, my God!
MAN: The new version or the old?
(MEN SHOUT INDISTINCTLY)
Zoe tried to run!
Jimmy, listen to me.
I've scoured every police database
I can find.
Zoe never shows up. But look at this.
Jimmy, check out
this missing person's report.
-JIMMY: Martina Lopez?
-ARTHUR: No.
Zoe.
Elena has been lying to us
the whole time, Jimmy.
Her real name isn't Elena.
It's Sofia Lopez
and Zoe is Martina Lopez.
Both reported missing.
The people controlling all this...
They're bringing people here.
They're changing their names,
they're erasing their past.
I mean, the people here in Wander,
they're all trapped.
Jimmy, she knows you. Gives us away.
-I'll be around back.
-Roger that.
-Why'd they send you to me?
-It's all your fault!
(GRUNTS)
(GRUNTS)
They killed her!
-(SHE YELLS)
-(HE GRUNTS)
Zoe's dead because of you.
(BEEPING)
(BEEPING ACCELERATES)
Jimmy's in on it.
(TWO SMALL EXPLOSIONS)
(BODY THUDS)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
JIMMY: Arthur! Jesus Christ, Arthur.
Goddamn. Did you shoot her, Arthur?
Jimmy, I can't remember telling you
where I was in my voicemail.
Huh?
"Jimmy's in on it."
-That's the last thing she said.
-Let's just take a deep breath.
No, Jimmy, see... I'm getting confused
and I can't decipher
if it's you or if it's me!
All right.
I'll make a confession, Arthur.
I lied to you.
Elena first made contact with me through
the PI website that I built for you.
And I told her to call the show.
(SIGHS)
I, um... needed the money,
and I'm sorry, all right?
But I've always had a gut feeling
that there was...
There was something more to all of this.
-Wander, Elena, Zoe.
-Jimmy.
Some link between here
and what happened to your family.
-Don't talk about my family.
-And I was right.
We were right.
Jimmy, I'm barely hangin' on here.
Arthur.
We're pinning down the truth.
Stay with it.
You know me.
Do I, Jimmy?
("POMOK NAKA POKOTOINSKWES"
BY JEREMY DUTCHER)
One more.
(TIRES SCREECH)
(GRUNTING)
I'll take it from here.
ARTHUR: Five miles inland.
On the edge of the Valley of Fire.
Marked by a cross.
I never wanted blood on my hands.
It's a war, Jimmy.
Between the dark and the light.
Light.
-You're light, Jimmy.
-I hope so.
Every name on this ledger
goes back as a missing person.
Every one of these people
are trapped in Wander. Martina. Sofia.
-Zoe and Elena.
-Reported missing Amarillo, Texas.
We got these two.
Right, I saw them at the truck stop
and then trapped at the Foxhole.
Men, women,
different ages, various races.
-But they all have one thing in common.
-Yeah, they were all immigrants.
That's Ukraine, Syria, Trinidad, Korea.
I mean, the list goes on and on.
And what the hell does it have
to do with you?
I got too close to my John Doe case.
But why lure you here?
Well, we're gonna find out.
Jimmy, tomorrow,
I'm going back to the Foxhole.
Hell, yeah.
This needs to be exposed.
ARTHUR: Hey, Shell.
Look, uh,
I haven't been totally honest about...
what I've been working on
here in Wander.
I got hired to investigate a murder.
But here's the thing, Shell.
It's linked to something bigger.
And I'm directly involved.
All I need is a name, Shell.
This time, I'm gonna prove it all.
NICK: Look. Hey, whoa.
I checked it out.
Wander, it's a sleepy old town.
-He's... He's fine.
-I'm gonna go.
Shell, this is not your battle to fight.
SHELL: He's done this before.
He stretches stories, changes the truth,
becomes delusional.
Right, yeah,
and who does he always drag into it?
He's going to end up
hurting himself or someone else.
Like you.
And I don't want that to happen.
So let's give it a night.
If he still doesn't answer his phone,
we will go down there together
and we'll sort it all out.
All right, this is the Foxhole.
No one's here this time of day.
I'm gonna download
everything from the computers.
You get the footage of
everything from inside the lab.
If I go down,
you keep running.
And, Jimmy, if that happens,
you gotta promise me one thing.
-JIMMY: Yeah?
-You take care of Tanya.
I will.
(ARTHUR EXHALES)
(TRAIN HORN IN THE DISTANCE)
Let's go.
(BEEPING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER NEARBY)
(PHONE VIBRATES)
-Arthur.
-ARTHUR: Shelley.
(SIGHS) What happened?
I know you're in Wander.
Shelley, I need you here tomorrow.
Arthur, you have to stop.
You're not well,
and Jimmy just perpetuates it.
Jimmy's dead.
-What?
-They killed him.
What are you talking about?
Shelley, I need you here
tomorrow morning, 10 a.m.
I'll text you the details
as soon as I know them.
-Arthur! Arthur, wait please.
-It'll all make sense tomorrow.
Hey.
What's going on?
(NO DIAL TONE)
(PHONE BEEPS)
Really?
That's it.
(SIREN)
NICK: On your knees! Hands up, Arthur!
Down! On your knees! Arthur, hands up!
Down, down! Hands up.
Down.
(TRAIN HORN IN THE DISTANCE)
NICK: Let's go over this again.
We've ID'd everyone in that photo.
All Wander locals.
(GUNSHOT)
(GUNSHOT)
Victor Canton, local doctor.
(GUNSHOTS)
A resident of Wander for over 25 years.
-No.
-NICK: He's a scientist.
He created the chip technology.
He's selling it to people,
he's putting it into people.
They were all involved.
With the implants,
my accident, everything.
The entrance to the Foxhole
was right there.
Right there.
You open this garage,
there's a red car there.
You push a lever, the car goes up.
There is nothing there, Arthur.
That's impossible.
ARTHUR: I took Jimmy there
to gather evidence.
(BEEPING)
(ELENA SHOUTING ON VIDEO)
What?
No.
(MEN SHOUT INDISTINCTLY)
Welcome to the Foxhole.
I would like to commend you
on signing up for this noble venture.2e
You are helping our country grow
in ways that will benefit
our social structure
and national security
for years to come.
So what type of medical testing
did you volunteer for?
The C68 biochip,
the world's leading device
in human near-field technology.
(LOUD THUD NEARBY)
-MAN: They're here!
-ARTHUR: Keep downloading.
-JIMMY: Let's go.
-ARTHUR: Turn around, Jimmy.
JIMMY:
There's gotta be a way out of here.
ARTHUR: There's stairs in the back. Run.
Come on, Jimmy!
(GRUNTS)
(GUNSHOTS)
(SHOUTING)
Jimmy!
(JIMMY COUGHS)
ARTHUR: Jimmy!
Sorry. I'm sorry, Arthur.
So close, Arthur.
(GUNSHOT)
Come on, move! Move! Up the stairs!
Come on! Go, go, go! Come on.
Bag, phone, keys.
If you want the truth
about what happened to your wife
and daughter, work with me.
Come on, let's go.
We gotta go.
Move!
And there was a woman, too. Elsa.
CIA, I think. She took me to the garage.
She's the one in the photos
you texted me, Shell.
NICK: Her?
Yeah.
NICK: Her name's Kimberly Clark.
She was actually a witness
-at the crime scene.
-No, she wasn't.
She took me to a safehouse.
Sheriff Santiago was there.
And they told me
who was behind everything.
They prey on runaways.
Lower class, broken homes.
Immigrants. There, I said it for you.
ELSA: They lure them here
with a promise of money, housing,
in exchange for medical testing.
Insert the implant and they're trapped.
I'm not who you think I am, Arthur.
We're all on the same team.
You can call me Elsa.
Come on, I got something to show you.
His real name was Felipe Jimenez.
Your John Doe from the church.
He was a Colombian refugee who escaped
when his implant malfunctioned.
Canton couldn't have you
looking into things,
so he had the body stolen
from the morgue.
-Who's Canton?
-Victor Canton.
Early adopter of chip technology,
single-handedly advanced the field.
He developed tech that could track
movement, location, vitals.
It was revolutionary.
And attractive to foreign investors.
Yeah, what's the Oryon Project?
Canton changed, he got greedy.
Funding sources became anonymous.
Bigger parties with deeper pockets.
The fact that Wander uses immigrants
for its testing is not an accident.
He took a black ops
government security contract
and shifted his focus to border control.
Border control? Remote control
everybody. That's what I thought.
The chip links directly
to the subject's central nervous system.
When it reaches a set radius,
it could be frozen or shut down.
And you guys can murder
whoever you want.
Not exactly how Canton sees it, but yes.
SANTIAGO: He told us his intentions
were to progress the greater good
of humanity,
not to create weapons
for the highest bidder.
And you just go along for the ride, huh?
Not anymore.
Wander has helped
shape Canton's business model.
Him and his investors are on the verge
of going wide with the tech.
Why am I here?
Canton was the one that made the call
on the hit-and-run of your car.
He killed my daughter?
I wanted you to know that.
I am so sorry.
You've been watching me?
Because I've been waiting
for the day I could tell you all this.
You deserve to know the truth.
The truth?
Arthur, you are here because I wanna
offer you an opportunity.
ARTHUR: What opportunity?
I know the pain Canton's actions
have caused you with Tanya.
I know how you struggle
with what happened to Cleo.
You don't know anything.
ELSA: I've lost people, too.
It's not right.
Canton is hardly ever here in Wander,
but there's a meeting
set for tomorrow morning.
It's his last meeting
before he sells the Oryon Project.
Arthur, you can't tell me
you don't wanna go face to face
with the man that destroyed your family.
To get revenge for your daughter.
Justice.
That's the opportunity I'm offering you.
(DOOR CLOSES)
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
ARTHUR: The plan was...
It was set...
That's when I called you, Shell.
-Arthur!
-Shelley, Jimmy's dead.
ARTHUR: But, uh, things, they changed.
("KOSELWINTUWAKON"
BY JEREMY DUTCHER)
First time meeting him.
Luis.
Follow my lead.
-Santiago, why are we back here?
-Now!
(GUNSHOTS)
LEILAND: What are you doing?
-(GASPS)
-I always knew I couldn't trust you.
Elsa, Santiago told me
you were shot dead yesterday.
Had to get you here somehow.
Lost your focus a long time ago, Victor,
and I'm tired.
What are you doing?
You want your apology?
Now's your chance.
Victor Canton, meet Arthur Bretnik.
Do it, Arthur.
He murdered your daughter.
You think killing me
is gonna stop any of this?
Shooting me is exactly what they want.
You shoot, they win.
I just wanna hear you say it.
CANTON: You have no idea
of the complexities.
-Say it!
-This is bigger than all of us.
-Say it!
-CANTON: You were supposed to be alone.
-I wasn't driving the truck.
-Say it!
Say it!
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATION)
TANYA: Look at that determination!
ARTHUR: Go, go, go, go, go, go!
(SIGHS)
Arthur, it's okay.
Drop the gun. I'll handle this.
Get to the office
and wipe down the computer.
(DIALS NUMBER)
It's done.
(GRUNTS)
Give us a minute.
You know, these are psychotics.
And they are known
to create acute anxiety
and paranoid delusions in people
with a history of mental illness.
How long you been mixing these?
They played you.
You don't know
how powerful these people are.
They're connected everywhere.
For all I know, this is all part of it.
Listen, I'm here as your lawyer,
not just your friend.
And I wonder
if there's anything we're missing.
You want proof?
I have one of the chips in me!
After the accident,
they put a chip in me.
Are you one of them?
I think you're sick again, Arthur.
ARTHUR: You need to check
the addresses again.
-Just check 'em.
-SHELLEY: We checked every...
-They checked every address.
-JIMMY: Check 'em again.
-SHELLEY: They went to Elena's house.
-Check 'em again.
SHELLEY: It was boarded up.
And the property
was re-claimed after the owner died.
The bank claimed it.
And the morgue
where you said you found the bodies,
it hasn't been in use for years.
-We found your car.
-What do you mean, you found my car?
-ARTHUR: You found... you found my car?
-SHELLEY: Yeah.
What's the problem?
It has all the files from the case.
It has the addresses I can't remember.
SHELLEY: But the problem is
what we found in your car.
ARTHUR: What did you find?
SHELLEY: Jimmy.
SHELLEY: He was decapitated.
Did I?
(SIGHS)
(LOCK CLICKS)
Hi.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Morning.
(MUTTERS QUIETLY)
NURSE: You and that stuff.
Anything interesting?
We're all just puppets to the man.
Arthur Bretnik,
my resident conspiracist.
ARTHUR: I like airplanes.
(FOOTSTEPS)
-How you doing, Arthur boy?
-ARTHUR: Jimmy.
I knew it.
I knew it.
I made you a promise.
Tanya will never want for anything.
Of that, you can be sure.
Whose body was in the trunk?
JIMMY: Does it really matter, Arthur?
Did Canton actually order
the hit on my family?
-I need to know.
-You deserved your revenge.
-Yes or no?
-JIMMY: Arthur.
-Tell me!
-ELSA: Yes, Arthur.
He did.
We owed you that much.
Why me?
ELSA: Every good conspiracy
needs a patsy.
JIMMY: When Felipe and Zoe escaped,
Wander and Canton became a liability.
We needed to clean things up.
We knew if we left you enough clues,
nudged you in the right direction...
(GUNSHOT)
...someone in your mental state
might be able to shoulder the burden
of tying up loose ends.
If anyone ever tries to expose
what's happening in Wander,
we'll be able to deflect,
pin it back to you.
A man unhinged.
ARTHUR: Who are you people?
You said it yourself, Arthur.
It's all about keeping a tight grip.
Immigration,
incarceration, border control.
These are all big concerns for us.
Pawn, patsy or dead.
Two outta three ain't bad, huh, Jimmy?
Hmm. You're a good man, Arthur.
A silent warrior.
ARTHUR: All right now, Junctioneers.
I wanna talk about trust, okay?
Who do you trust? Can you trust...
I don't know, say, the person
sitting next to you, huh?
What do you really know about them?
Look at their face.
They look like they have
a modicum of morality or ethics.
But do they really?
I am powerful.
I am protected.
ARTHUR: Now why don't you try
an experiment for me?
Next time you hear about a homicide
or an unfortunate accident,
I want you to look at the person
associated with that act,
and ask yourself,
if he was walking down the street,
would you believe
that he is capable of such an act?
SHELLEY: Hmm.
("THE SUN'S GONE DIM AND THE SKY'S
TURNED BLACK" BY JHANN JHANNSSON)
ARTHUR: Look at the person
sitting next to you.
Look at them.
I mean, really look at them.
Look in their eyes,
look inside their soul.
Ask yourself questions.
"Is he capable of that?
"Am I capable of that?"
NURSE: You ready for our walk?
Arthur?
-ARTHUR: Search your souls, people.
-(KNOCKS ON DOOR)
You don't know what you're gonna find.
-(RATTLES DOOR)
-Arthur, open up!
ARTHUR: This is Atlas Major
with Thought Junction.
Arthur!
ARTHUR: I'll catch you all next week.
(ALARM)
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
("THE SUN'S GONE DIM AND THE SKY'S
TURNED BLACK" CONTINUES)
ARTHUR: Hey, Shell.
Look, I haven't been
totally honest about
what I've been working on
here in Wander.
I got hired to investigate a murder.
All I ever wanted was the truth.
I don't know why,
but for the first time in a long time,
I have hope.
Let's see what plays out.
("THE SUN'S GONE DIM AND THE SKY'S
TURNED BLACK" CONTINUES)
(LAUGHS)
(LAUGHS)
(ARTHUR LAUGHS)