Talamasca: The Secret Order (2025) s01e05 Episode Script
The Puzzle Palace
1
Previously on Talamasca
[Clicks]
[Snarls]
What the hell is that?!
Something very important
has gone missing.
It's called the 752.
It doesn't exist.
This is what Soledad
ditched the night she died.
Encryption.
Next-level shit.
Man: Ancient vampire blood.
More valuable than anything.
Have you seen
these trainers?
Jasper: Someone cares about you,
you know.
I don't know what
you're talking about.
Do not worry, my dude.
Between the two of us,
I'm sure we can figure it out.
♪
I don't think I'll like
being here without her.
Nurse: Don't worry, love.
You're not staying
in this place much longer.
You get to go
on a train ride soon.
♪
[Door squeaks open]
[Train rumbling]
[Horn blaring]
[Blaring continues]
Sorry, no fruit and nut.
Just plain old Dairy Milk.
So, what color loafers was
the man in 9C wearing?
Blue suede.
Left one had a scuffed toe.
Where are we going?
Oh, somewhere special.
Do they have fruit and nuts
there?
They have anything you want.
What about Coca-Cola?
Bathtubs full of it.
- Pineapple?
- Pineapple?
You'll have pineapple
coming out of your ears.
When will they bring my sister?
♪
Emma. Do you know what
I was wondering?
I was wondering how
many steps it was
from our taxi
to the train platform.
Depends.
466 for me.
But you take longer strides,
so you were 327.
[Chuckles softly]
I am sure you're right.
What do I do
when I get to the new place?
Not more tests
No, no, we're done with tests.
No. You'll be doing
something much more important.
♪
[Sirens wailing in distance]
Highsmith: Come on.
[Chains rattle]
Just tell me who she is.
Why do you care so much
about some freaking girl?
I don't.
I care about my book.
And I care when someone gets
between it and me.
You know what? I'm done.
You want your stupid book?
Go get it yourself.
Y-You're just using me.
You know, you're right.
Sometimes I do use people.
We all do, though,
don't we?
Just a matter of degree.
There are things
that I want.
A life outside the shadows.
Some fucking respect.
Dignity.
And I tend to see
talented people around me
as tools to get those things.
I obsess. I strategize.
But there is one thing
that I do not do.
I do not lie.
And I cannot stand it
when someone lies to me.
♪
[Soft whoosh]
♪
Jasper: [Whispers eerily] Hey!
♪
[Loud whoosh]
♪
Who the hell
do you think you are?
- Let me go.
- You child! Huh?
You think you can come into my world
and toss me in the ditch?
I don't know what you think
happened with her.
You don't want things
the way I want things.
You can't. You haven't been
alive long enough.
You puppy!
I walked from Bolivia to Texas.
I had nothing, I had no one.
I've told you
how determined I am.
I've shown you what
I'm building down here.
You know what I want
to destroy.
But you don't take me
at my word.
Instead, you try to get in
my head and root around.
Yeah, yeah.
I felt you trying to read
my mind since we left the hotel.
You think you're smooth?
Think you got moves?
You have no moves.
I have all the moves.
[Hisses]
- Say it.
- [Stammers] Say what?
You know what.
See, unlike you,
I'm really good at this.
And I've been bopping around
your porridge bowl all night,
and you got stuff
locked up tight.
Like, does the girl
[Shouts] have my fucking book?
[Normal voice]
But it's the primal shit
that you just cannot hide.
So go ahead, say
what you're thinking.
[Hissing]
Say it.
Say it.
I don't wanna die.
What?
I don't wanna die.
Oh, you're not gonna die.
I'm gonna give you purpose.
♪
[Grunting]
♪
[Door hinges creaking]
[Door slams shut]
♪
[Grunts]
♪
No. Please.
Jasper: You know, for a moment
I actually thought
you were different.
But you're exactly what
the Talamasca ropes in.
The same kind of venal turncoat
who got my family killed.
Start digging.
[Groans]
Fuck you.
[Scoffs]
[Revenant growls]
So if I feed you to them,
I'm gonna do it
a little at a time.
Keep you in a hole
as their snack forever.
And trust me,
it's painful and smelly.
And it'll drive you to a madness
that you cannot possibly fathom.
Far worse than what
that poor soul in the hotel
was going through.
And way worse
than becoming one of them.
I mean, sure, it's no picnic,
but listen to
those crazy fuckers.
They're pumped.
They have enthusiasm.
They got purpose.
You really wanna know
who the girl is?
Okay. I'll tell you.
I don't know.
I've been trying
to figure it out, just like you.
And that's the goddamn truth.
Doesn't matter. Dig.
- Go to hell.
- Oh, we're already there, baby.
[Loud whoosh]
Hey.
[Cages rattling in distance]
♪
[Loud thud]
[Grunts]
♪
[Screaming]
[Groans]
Guy: Come on!
Come on.
[Grunting]
[Revenants growling]
Run!
[Car revving, tires screeching]
[Car horn beeping]
Doris! Come on!
[Tires screech]
The door!
[Shouts]
[Revenant shrieks]
[Both Panting]
Holy shit.
♪
[Engine revving]
♪
[Panting]
♪
Guy: Holy shit.
What the fuck was that?
Who are you?
Uh, I'm the girl
who just saved your life twice.
So you're welcome.
Why do you keep following me?
God. [Laughs]
Don't flatter yourself.
Look, even though you have
your doubts,
I'm pretty sure he's the one
who had Keves killed.
- Jasper?
- Yeah.
[Sighs]
- You think he's dead?
- No, I doubt it.
Okay. Well, we need to ditch
this van and then get lost.
Really lost.
- We?
- We. Yes, we.
So what?
- Like the countryside?
- No.
Jasper has all the resources
of the London Mother House.
It's only a matter of time
before he finds us.
We can't go anywhere
in England.
So what does that mean?
Reconstructive
plastic surgery.
[Scoffs]
Sandpaper our fingerprints off.
[Sighs]
Are you okay?
I mean yeah.
Okay, well,
we've gotta leave the country.
Yeah.
[Car engine starts]
You think the Maida Vale coven
might help us?
No, no, no, no, no.
I don't want them.
Um
They're way too wrapped up
in all this.
Have you got anyone
that you can really trust?
Yeah, maybe.
[Gear shift clicks]
There's a rule against that
in the employee handbook.
No, there isn't.
You've actually checked,
haven't you?
What's so important
it couldn't wait until morning?
It looks the same as before.
Mmm. It is.
I'm running
a brute force script.
Could take days, months,
centuries, I don't know.
Whatever it is,
it's important enough
that it got
Soledad Marcel killed.
But that's not why I called.
Mm-hmm. Dah-dah.
Tell a lot about a man
by his shoes.
♪
Our man with
the yellow trainers.
Mm-hmm.
Tweaked some
facial recognition code
to search raw camera
feeds for his kicks, et voila.
You're brilliant.
Seems almost unfair
for a man so handsome.
Least you got healthy gums.
[Cellphone vibrating]
It's the lab.
DNA match for a third person
at the scene.
What? At Hepworth Lane?
Our murder-sui?
Safe to call it
a double murder now.
Owen: We're keyed directly
into the city's CCTV network.
I have an entire team scraping
and searching the footage
in real time.
We're inside the servers
at passport control
and have agents at Heathrow,
and Gatwick,
and all major rail stations.
- But--
- Jasper: Owen
is something bothering you?
- No.
- No?
Are you sure?
Then why won't you look at me?
I'd hate to think
I was offending
your delicate British
sensibilities.
We'll find them,
I promise you.
May take a little time,
that's all.
They set me on fire, Owen.
So I'd kind of prefer
to find them right the fuck now.
Of course.
But even with all of our
capabilities,
tracking two people
in a city of nine million?
It's like trying to hear
a whisper in a hurricane.
Well, I might know
a little butterfly
who can cut through
all the noise.
♪
I'll be right back.
Make it quick.
♪
[Car door closes]
[Indistinct chatter]
♪
You are not
gonna believe this.
♪
[Indistinct chatter]
♪
Straight on down
through the door on the right.
[Mid-tempo club music plays]
♪
[Music continues in distance]
Man: [On intercom]
Put a coin in the slot.
[Coin clatters]
[Sighs] Can we go and talk?
We're talking here.
This isn't how we do things.
I need to know what's happening.
This is exactly
how you do things.
You put people in the dark
and you keep them there.
We contact you.
That is the protocol.
You didn't respond.
We're a long way from protocol,
Helen.
I need an exfiltration
pack ASAP.
Cash, passport, airline tickets.
I'm out of the country
by the end of the day.
This is ridiculous.
I'm not doing this.
Sit down.
Sit down.
I need you, I need your help,
and you're gonna give it to me.
I did everything that you asked.
I went to the Mother House.
I got close to Jasper.
So close, I almost got killed.
And now I'm in a lot of danger.
And I need to leave England,
and you're the only person
that can help me do that.
What about our mission?
What mission?
There is no mission.
There are bigger forces at play
that you couldn't
possibly understand, Guy.
I'm burned, Helen.
It isn't about you.
But it is about me.
Right now, it is.
And you know it.
And I know there's
an empty space inside of you.
I know there's a wound
that has never really healed.
I can feel it. Trust me.
And I don't know
exactly what that is,
but I do know
that you care about me.
And that it's hard
for you to show that.
Because if you do, it might
compromise what we're doing.
It might get me hurt,
and you don't want that, do you?
♪
No.
Then don't rip open a new wound
right alongside your old one.
If you don't help me, Helen,
if you won't help me
I'm dead.
[Coin clatters]
[Laughs]
[Laughs, sniffs]
The mission's off the books,
isn't it?
Yes.
And I'm off the books,
aren't I?
Yes.
And you're looking
for something, aren't you?
Something more
than just the book?
Yes.
Something very personal.
And the Talamasca Elders,
they wouldn't be too happy
if they found out about that,
now, would they?
♪
If you help me get outta here,
I promise
I'll do whatever it takes
to help you find
what it is you're looking for,
I promise you.
You need me and we both
know that.
♪
No more freelancing.
No more bucking protocol.
I get you out,
if you do exactly as I say.
I promise.
I'll need a day to put
all the materials together.
You must stay quiet until then.
Use the safe house,
you'll be out of harms way.
Why is my mom a fugitive?
What did she do
to piss off the Talamasca?
Now is not the moment
to irritate me, Guy.
Okay, one more thing.
I need two exit packs.
I'm getting out of here
and I'm taking someone with me.
- Who?
- Doris, you don't know her.
Oh, for God's sake.
Yeah, well, she helped me,
Helen.
She helped me.
And now I'm gonna help her.
Very well.
Have it your way.
[Gasps]
I have a plan. Come on.
Helen: Take only what's necessary.
Leave everything else behind.
Let us help you.
Tell me where you're going,
Doris?
[Sniffs]
It's for your own good.[Sighs]
♪
You'll each need
a passport photo
and an alias.
[Camera shutter clicks]
♪
[Camera shutter clicks]
♪
Leave the photos for
my associate in Lansdowne Road.
There's a Sunday Reporter box.
Tuck the photos in
at knee level.
♪
Go directly to the safe house.
There's everything you need.
There's food
and a change of clothes.
Once you are there,
do not set foot outside
until nightfall,
the day after tomorrow.
We'll meet at Waterloo Station,
platform 9, 8 o'clock.
Sure about this?
No, but it's what we've got.
♪
Cellphone vibrating]
- Hey, Jay.
- Jay: Hey. Are you alone?
Yeah.
Something's popped up
on my radar,
and I wasn't sure if I should
You know, It's sensitive.
And it could be nothing, but--
Please don't tell me
this is about Helen.
Olive, we've got
a serious problem with her.
I just can't make sense
of what I'm looking at.
I think I need some help here.
Are you there? Olive?
Who was that?
Jay.
Jay?
It was a background check
on that sector agent in Parma.
He checks out.
There's nothing out
of the ordinary.
Guy's in trouble.
We need to get him out
of the country.
Where is he?
He's been laying low
in Maida Vale.
- With the witches?
- On the houseboat. Yes.
Come on, let's go.
♪
[Lock disengages, keys jingling]
[Keys thud]
[Lock clicks]
Doris: What is this place?
It's a Talamasca safe house.
[Light switch clicks]
Why exactly do you believe
this woman?
I mean, maybe she will help you.
It's a big maybe,
but why on earth
would she go out of her way
to help me?
Because she promised me
that she would.
And what kind of promises do
you think she made to someone
like Soledad Marcel?
I don't know,
I have no idea what exactly
happened to Soledad Marcel.
And neither do you.
What if she was fed to Jasper
by your Helen?
What if your Helen is a mole?
That's the thing
with the Talamasca.
You'll never know
where you stand with them,
or how they're using you.
I don't trust the Talamasca.
No, but you trust her.
Someone who's always hiding.
You're not exactly
an open book yourself.
Oh, I never said you
should trust me.
Why did you join the Talamasca
in the first place?
Okay. So
I'm in the third grade.
Miss Rosewood's class,
times tables.
And I was having a hard time
remembering six times eight.
And she kept saying,
"Six times eight is 48
and ain't that great?"
And then she'd do this big
exaggerated wink at me like, ah.
And it was really dumb,
and it didn't help me at all.
But I had this massive crush
on her.
And so she keeps doing that,
"Six times eight is 48."
And I'm standing there
and I'm watching her.
And then the principal walks in,
and there was,
like, this charge in the room,
and he whispered something
to her.
And I just remember
she turned
and she looked
right at me.
And it was a look
I hadn't seen before.
Not on anybody.
It was as if all the color
in my world was about to leave,
and she was the first person
to know about it.
And I just knew
before anyone had told me,
that my mom was dead.
♪
I didn't have anyone else,
so I was sent
to live with foster parents.
And that was
Um
♪
Hard?
It's cold.
♪
All these years later
I meet Helen
and she tells me that
my mother had actually been
a Talamasca agent.
And that story
that she had died,
was a lie made up
by the Talamasca.
She didn't die. She just
She just did something
to piss 'em off.
- What?
- I don't know.
All I know is that
she's still alive
and that she's been
in hiding from them
ever since that day
when I was 9.
♪
So that's why you joined?
Yeah.
♪
To find her.
♪
So the whole mortals
versus immortals,
good versus bad, um,
future of the world--
I was meant to be starting
a job in contract law.
♪
You know, I resented her?
All my life, since I was a kid.
I'd been told
that she was a junkie,
that she was irresponsible
and selfish,
and that she hadn't given
a shit about me.
It's one thing to find out
that that isn't true.
But for her?
She's been out there,
all these years,
knowing that her son
felt abandoned.
Can you imagine what that's like
for a mother to feel that?
No.
So if there's a chance,
I mean,
even a small chance that
I can get her out of trouble
♪
I'd go to the end
of the earth to do it.
What was her name?
Anna.
Anna Lemus.
[Chuckles softly]
I was a boy ♪
With a wild imagination ♪
I'd create worlds ♪
With cities and with nations ♪
And I like it ♪
Everyone was happy
as can be ♪
I love the town ♪
And I called it Jubilee ♪
[Music continues indistinctly
in background]
[Breathing heavily]
Mm, mm, mm.
[Cellphone vibrates]
We found them.
We'll move in after sundown.
♪
Guy: Well, plenty of clothes.
Doris: I don't know what we're
supposed to do here
for two days.
[Drawer slams shut]
♪
Jackpot.
♪
[Box clattering]
[Sighs]
Hmm. Yeah.
I'd say you look like a James.
You look nothing like a Julia.
[Laughs] That was the first name
that came to mind.
Okay, so, say you
get stopped by a border agent,
what's Julia's backstory?
Well, she's a dodgy one, actually.
She followed a childhood passion
for herpetology.
Herpetology?
Come on,
it's the study of reptiles.
[Laughs] Anyway,
she falls madly in love with
her hard-driving thesis advisor,
who was this Brazilian hunk
who would seduce her
with his long-winded monologs,
about the Amazonian
boa constrictor.
Until she found out that he was
as cold blooded as the animals
he claimed to love.
And so she is off to Yorkshire
to start up a lizard sanctuary.
[Laughs]
Very good.
What about our man, James?
James?
Well[Game piece clattering on board]
You've heard about his,
um, father,
the famous anchovy fisherman,
- Fitzgerald MacArthur?
- Oh, of course, I'm an adult.
Of course.
And his one-legged second wife,
Cora, the salty dog,
cheated on him with that
intercontinental balloonist?
- Oh. Chester Oklahoma.
- Chester Oklahoma. Right.
And how Fitzgerald
was so despondent,
that he threw himself
into the, uh, the blowhole
of a passing sperm whale,
leaving his young son, James,
to ply his father's trade,
trolling the lonely seas to farm
the one friend he ever had.
- The humble anchovy.
- Oh.
Now here he is,
roaming the countryside
in search of this woman
who started up a, um,
lizard sanctuary.
♪
[Chuckles softly]
♪
I win.
Aw!
So, what now?
Well, if we go to New York,
we could try out there,
but they might
be looking for us.
So might be easier
for us to get lost upstate.
Uh, or we can go West Coast,
California, maybe.
Have you heard of Big Sur?
Guy
It's supposed
to be beautiful there.
I meant for the rest
of today.
I can't do another board game.
I
We should probably get
some rest.
[Game pieces clattering]
♪
- What?
- Nothing.
[Upbeat music playing
over radio]
[Indistinct chatter]
Pretty face, toots.
[indistinct conversation,
laughter]
[Glasses clink]
♪
[Keys jingling]
♪
[Door opens]
[Door slams shut]
[Groans]
Ridge: Nothing yet, huh?
Should go home,
get some sleep.
Oh. Keeps me out of trouble.
At least take a break.
Maybe let me buy you some food
and a pint.
Look about starved.
Oh, I wouldn't turn my nose
up at a little nibble, I guess.
[Keys jingle]
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
♪
[Clicker clicks]
♪
[Revenants growling]
♪
[Growling continues]
[Cage clanging]
♪
[Indistinct chatter]
♪
[Door hinges creaking]
♪
[Revenants growling]
♪
[Growling continues]
You're hiding something from me.
♪
[Computer beeping]
♪
[Screaming]
♪
[Revenants growling]
[Screaming continues]
♪
[Computer beeping]
♪
♪
[Chokes]
Where is it?
This is what happens
when people get close to me.
Would you just tell me
the truth?
We can't trust Helen anymore.
Jasper:
They're gonna try and flee.
Who are you?
I think I know
where your mother is.
Just tell me who she is.
Why do you care so much
about some freaking girl?
I don't.
I care about my book.
And I care when someone gets
between it and me.
♪
In episode five, what we very
quickly come to find out
is that Jasper has
some plans for Guy.
You think you're smooth?
Think you got moves?
You have no moves.
I have all the moves.
Now Guy has really crossed
the line with Jasper,
and Jasper
lets him know it.
I'm scared of Jasper.
I'm scared of [indistinct].
Let's be real.
[Laughs]
Lafferty: It was important for us
to set this scene in the basement.
It's a place
that we've only seen
in which these horrible animals
are either made or kept.
Now we're in revenant world.
We really are in revenant world
at the start of episode five.
Fichtner: Yeah, we're down
on this freezing floor in a basement.
I'm like, "Couldn't we do this
on a soundstage with a heater?
Can I get a latte?"
Start digging.
Yeah,
the cages really do work.
I have a big lever,
which Nick keeps teasing me.
He goes, "You really
like playing with that thing."
And I'm like,
"Listen to the sound on it."
[Lever cranks]
I said, "Listen,
take that piece off the set,
give it to me as a wrap gift
so I can put it in my garage
at home,
and I'll just lift it up
and things will happen."
[Flames whoosh]
Hancock: When Guy gets
in deep trouble with Jasper
over what's happened
at the hotel
and the fact that he's
been keeping stuff from Jasper,
Doris jumps in to save him.
When I read it, I was--
I was like, yeah,
go on, Doris. [Chuckles]
I shot the fire myself,
but not at Bill.
They had Bill here,
a green screen here,
so he shot his reaction to me
throwing the flame.
Then they removed
the green screen and shot me
shooting the flame out
of the aerosol.
And then they combined
the two images together
so it will look like
I am shooting the flame at Bill.
But, in fact, I'm not.
Denton: We're watching Jasper
set on fire,
done by the stuntman Ben,
who is
That looks so real.
This part here is amazing.
- Buckens: I mean, it is real.
- Director: Action, A!
He's got protection and stuff,
but he is really on fire.
I've gone through
my storyboards,
and what I want to do here is
that as he goes up into flames,
he carries on,
pushing away Doris
until he pushes her
down the stairs.
She's going to fall down
and then he's going to get hit.
He's going to go down.
It's a super dynamic,
exciting shot.
And at the end,
the revenants are going to go
from those cages
charging around this corner
to follow.
So, yeah, it's super dynamic.
It's all shot in little bits.
But in the end,
it all comes together
in a gorgeous conflagration
of delight.
On the next day, we had
me and Guy running to the car,
all the revenants climbing
onto the car.
Hancock: It is a big action sequence,
and I think it's a lot of fun
and violent.
Denton: Both the capture
and escape of Guy and Doris
from Jasper
and the revenants
is a real crescendo
to this great series.
The action really comes out
in full effect.
Automated Voice:
Put a coin in the slot.
Denton: I really loved that scene
at Cupid's Arrow,
where we were playing in the
peep show between Helen and Guy.
If you don't help me, Helen,
if you won't help me, I'm dead.
McGovern: I think at that point,
Helen's ambivalence
about the Talamasca
has so chipped away
at her inner resolve
that she is particularly
vulnerable to turning.
And I love the way
the scene is written,
because Guy has reached
a point of maturation
where he's now calling
the shots.
Denton: He knows that
she's looking for her sister,
and he knows that the 752
may be the answer for her.
And so he's got
the upper hand here.
Sure about this?
No, but it's what we got.
Lafferty: Doris is immediately skeptical
of going into the safe house
from the start.
And she thinks
this is potentially perilous.
But the two find themselves
in this place overnight there,
and all they have is each other.
Hancock: Guy and Doris
have bonded together
and attached to the hip
a little bit,
even though they're
still wary of one another.
Buckens: It kind of feels
like an oasis,
a slower pace than the rest
of the show.
It was nice because the
characters felt very vulnerable
and like two kids.
I win.
[Scoffs]
[Remote clicks]
[Revenants growling]
Lafferty: We think
that the revenants
are coming for Guy and Doris,
hopefully up until
the last second,
in which we find out that that's
not where they're headed.
We had four or five kills
on the boat,
but timed out so that as
the revenant landed on the roof,
it goes with her,
flying through the air, lands,
the roof comes down
into the first window,
and we see someone getting
their neck eaten,
and then we see someone
get slashed across the throat.
So we had, in the four windows,
we had a kill on each window.
Richardson-Sellers: I knew that Olive
was a mole pretty early on.
I was like, fantastic.
Of course she is.
It makes total sense.
She is here
for the bigger picture--
"What is going to get me
to the 752?"
And that's Jasper.
Lafferty: And Jasper is alive,
but he's been burned by them,
and now he's got
a renewed sense of vengeance
to come after them
in episode six.
♪
♪
Previously on Talamasca
[Clicks]
[Snarls]
What the hell is that?!
Something very important
has gone missing.
It's called the 752.
It doesn't exist.
This is what Soledad
ditched the night she died.
Encryption.
Next-level shit.
Man: Ancient vampire blood.
More valuable than anything.
Have you seen
these trainers?
Jasper: Someone cares about you,
you know.
I don't know what
you're talking about.
Do not worry, my dude.
Between the two of us,
I'm sure we can figure it out.
♪
I don't think I'll like
being here without her.
Nurse: Don't worry, love.
You're not staying
in this place much longer.
You get to go
on a train ride soon.
♪
[Door squeaks open]
[Train rumbling]
[Horn blaring]
[Blaring continues]
Sorry, no fruit and nut.
Just plain old Dairy Milk.
So, what color loafers was
the man in 9C wearing?
Blue suede.
Left one had a scuffed toe.
Where are we going?
Oh, somewhere special.
Do they have fruit and nuts
there?
They have anything you want.
What about Coca-Cola?
Bathtubs full of it.
- Pineapple?
- Pineapple?
You'll have pineapple
coming out of your ears.
When will they bring my sister?
♪
Emma. Do you know what
I was wondering?
I was wondering how
many steps it was
from our taxi
to the train platform.
Depends.
466 for me.
But you take longer strides,
so you were 327.
[Chuckles softly]
I am sure you're right.
What do I do
when I get to the new place?
Not more tests
No, no, we're done with tests.
No. You'll be doing
something much more important.
♪
[Sirens wailing in distance]
Highsmith: Come on.
[Chains rattle]
Just tell me who she is.
Why do you care so much
about some freaking girl?
I don't.
I care about my book.
And I care when someone gets
between it and me.
You know what? I'm done.
You want your stupid book?
Go get it yourself.
Y-You're just using me.
You know, you're right.
Sometimes I do use people.
We all do, though,
don't we?
Just a matter of degree.
There are things
that I want.
A life outside the shadows.
Some fucking respect.
Dignity.
And I tend to see
talented people around me
as tools to get those things.
I obsess. I strategize.
But there is one thing
that I do not do.
I do not lie.
And I cannot stand it
when someone lies to me.
♪
[Soft whoosh]
♪
Jasper: [Whispers eerily] Hey!
♪
[Loud whoosh]
♪
Who the hell
do you think you are?
- Let me go.
- You child! Huh?
You think you can come into my world
and toss me in the ditch?
I don't know what you think
happened with her.
You don't want things
the way I want things.
You can't. You haven't been
alive long enough.
You puppy!
I walked from Bolivia to Texas.
I had nothing, I had no one.
I've told you
how determined I am.
I've shown you what
I'm building down here.
You know what I want
to destroy.
But you don't take me
at my word.
Instead, you try to get in
my head and root around.
Yeah, yeah.
I felt you trying to read
my mind since we left the hotel.
You think you're smooth?
Think you got moves?
You have no moves.
I have all the moves.
[Hisses]
- Say it.
- [Stammers] Say what?
You know what.
See, unlike you,
I'm really good at this.
And I've been bopping around
your porridge bowl all night,
and you got stuff
locked up tight.
Like, does the girl
[Shouts] have my fucking book?
[Normal voice]
But it's the primal shit
that you just cannot hide.
So go ahead, say
what you're thinking.
[Hissing]
Say it.
Say it.
I don't wanna die.
What?
I don't wanna die.
Oh, you're not gonna die.
I'm gonna give you purpose.
♪
[Grunting]
♪
[Door hinges creaking]
[Door slams shut]
♪
[Grunts]
♪
No. Please.
Jasper: You know, for a moment
I actually thought
you were different.
But you're exactly what
the Talamasca ropes in.
The same kind of venal turncoat
who got my family killed.
Start digging.
[Groans]
Fuck you.
[Scoffs]
[Revenant growls]
So if I feed you to them,
I'm gonna do it
a little at a time.
Keep you in a hole
as their snack forever.
And trust me,
it's painful and smelly.
And it'll drive you to a madness
that you cannot possibly fathom.
Far worse than what
that poor soul in the hotel
was going through.
And way worse
than becoming one of them.
I mean, sure, it's no picnic,
but listen to
those crazy fuckers.
They're pumped.
They have enthusiasm.
They got purpose.
You really wanna know
who the girl is?
Okay. I'll tell you.
I don't know.
I've been trying
to figure it out, just like you.
And that's the goddamn truth.
Doesn't matter. Dig.
- Go to hell.
- Oh, we're already there, baby.
[Loud whoosh]
Hey.
[Cages rattling in distance]
♪
[Loud thud]
[Grunts]
♪
[Screaming]
[Groans]
Guy: Come on!
Come on.
[Grunting]
[Revenants growling]
Run!
[Car revving, tires screeching]
[Car horn beeping]
Doris! Come on!
[Tires screech]
The door!
[Shouts]
[Revenant shrieks]
[Both Panting]
Holy shit.
♪
[Engine revving]
♪
[Panting]
♪
Guy: Holy shit.
What the fuck was that?
Who are you?
Uh, I'm the girl
who just saved your life twice.
So you're welcome.
Why do you keep following me?
God. [Laughs]
Don't flatter yourself.
Look, even though you have
your doubts,
I'm pretty sure he's the one
who had Keves killed.
- Jasper?
- Yeah.
[Sighs]
- You think he's dead?
- No, I doubt it.
Okay. Well, we need to ditch
this van and then get lost.
Really lost.
- We?
- We. Yes, we.
So what?
- Like the countryside?
- No.
Jasper has all the resources
of the London Mother House.
It's only a matter of time
before he finds us.
We can't go anywhere
in England.
So what does that mean?
Reconstructive
plastic surgery.
[Scoffs]
Sandpaper our fingerprints off.
[Sighs]
Are you okay?
I mean yeah.
Okay, well,
we've gotta leave the country.
Yeah.
[Car engine starts]
You think the Maida Vale coven
might help us?
No, no, no, no, no.
I don't want them.
Um
They're way too wrapped up
in all this.
Have you got anyone
that you can really trust?
Yeah, maybe.
[Gear shift clicks]
There's a rule against that
in the employee handbook.
No, there isn't.
You've actually checked,
haven't you?
What's so important
it couldn't wait until morning?
It looks the same as before.
Mmm. It is.
I'm running
a brute force script.
Could take days, months,
centuries, I don't know.
Whatever it is,
it's important enough
that it got
Soledad Marcel killed.
But that's not why I called.
Mm-hmm. Dah-dah.
Tell a lot about a man
by his shoes.
♪
Our man with
the yellow trainers.
Mm-hmm.
Tweaked some
facial recognition code
to search raw camera
feeds for his kicks, et voila.
You're brilliant.
Seems almost unfair
for a man so handsome.
Least you got healthy gums.
[Cellphone vibrating]
It's the lab.
DNA match for a third person
at the scene.
What? At Hepworth Lane?
Our murder-sui?
Safe to call it
a double murder now.
Owen: We're keyed directly
into the city's CCTV network.
I have an entire team scraping
and searching the footage
in real time.
We're inside the servers
at passport control
and have agents at Heathrow,
and Gatwick,
and all major rail stations.
- But--
- Jasper: Owen
is something bothering you?
- No.
- No?
Are you sure?
Then why won't you look at me?
I'd hate to think
I was offending
your delicate British
sensibilities.
We'll find them,
I promise you.
May take a little time,
that's all.
They set me on fire, Owen.
So I'd kind of prefer
to find them right the fuck now.
Of course.
But even with all of our
capabilities,
tracking two people
in a city of nine million?
It's like trying to hear
a whisper in a hurricane.
Well, I might know
a little butterfly
who can cut through
all the noise.
♪
I'll be right back.
Make it quick.
♪
[Car door closes]
[Indistinct chatter]
♪
You are not
gonna believe this.
♪
[Indistinct chatter]
♪
Straight on down
through the door on the right.
[Mid-tempo club music plays]
♪
[Music continues in distance]
Man: [On intercom]
Put a coin in the slot.
[Coin clatters]
[Sighs] Can we go and talk?
We're talking here.
This isn't how we do things.
I need to know what's happening.
This is exactly
how you do things.
You put people in the dark
and you keep them there.
We contact you.
That is the protocol.
You didn't respond.
We're a long way from protocol,
Helen.
I need an exfiltration
pack ASAP.
Cash, passport, airline tickets.
I'm out of the country
by the end of the day.
This is ridiculous.
I'm not doing this.
Sit down.
Sit down.
I need you, I need your help,
and you're gonna give it to me.
I did everything that you asked.
I went to the Mother House.
I got close to Jasper.
So close, I almost got killed.
And now I'm in a lot of danger.
And I need to leave England,
and you're the only person
that can help me do that.
What about our mission?
What mission?
There is no mission.
There are bigger forces at play
that you couldn't
possibly understand, Guy.
I'm burned, Helen.
It isn't about you.
But it is about me.
Right now, it is.
And you know it.
And I know there's
an empty space inside of you.
I know there's a wound
that has never really healed.
I can feel it. Trust me.
And I don't know
exactly what that is,
but I do know
that you care about me.
And that it's hard
for you to show that.
Because if you do, it might
compromise what we're doing.
It might get me hurt,
and you don't want that, do you?
♪
No.
Then don't rip open a new wound
right alongside your old one.
If you don't help me, Helen,
if you won't help me
I'm dead.
[Coin clatters]
[Laughs]
[Laughs, sniffs]
The mission's off the books,
isn't it?
Yes.
And I'm off the books,
aren't I?
Yes.
And you're looking
for something, aren't you?
Something more
than just the book?
Yes.
Something very personal.
And the Talamasca Elders,
they wouldn't be too happy
if they found out about that,
now, would they?
♪
If you help me get outta here,
I promise
I'll do whatever it takes
to help you find
what it is you're looking for,
I promise you.
You need me and we both
know that.
♪
No more freelancing.
No more bucking protocol.
I get you out,
if you do exactly as I say.
I promise.
I'll need a day to put
all the materials together.
You must stay quiet until then.
Use the safe house,
you'll be out of harms way.
Why is my mom a fugitive?
What did she do
to piss off the Talamasca?
Now is not the moment
to irritate me, Guy.
Okay, one more thing.
I need two exit packs.
I'm getting out of here
and I'm taking someone with me.
- Who?
- Doris, you don't know her.
Oh, for God's sake.
Yeah, well, she helped me,
Helen.
She helped me.
And now I'm gonna help her.
Very well.
Have it your way.
[Gasps]
I have a plan. Come on.
Helen: Take only what's necessary.
Leave everything else behind.
Let us help you.
Tell me where you're going,
Doris?
[Sniffs]
It's for your own good.[Sighs]
♪
You'll each need
a passport photo
and an alias.
[Camera shutter clicks]
♪
[Camera shutter clicks]
♪
Leave the photos for
my associate in Lansdowne Road.
There's a Sunday Reporter box.
Tuck the photos in
at knee level.
♪
Go directly to the safe house.
There's everything you need.
There's food
and a change of clothes.
Once you are there,
do not set foot outside
until nightfall,
the day after tomorrow.
We'll meet at Waterloo Station,
platform 9, 8 o'clock.
Sure about this?
No, but it's what we've got.
♪
Cellphone vibrating]
- Hey, Jay.
- Jay: Hey. Are you alone?
Yeah.
Something's popped up
on my radar,
and I wasn't sure if I should
You know, It's sensitive.
And it could be nothing, but--
Please don't tell me
this is about Helen.
Olive, we've got
a serious problem with her.
I just can't make sense
of what I'm looking at.
I think I need some help here.
Are you there? Olive?
Who was that?
Jay.
Jay?
It was a background check
on that sector agent in Parma.
He checks out.
There's nothing out
of the ordinary.
Guy's in trouble.
We need to get him out
of the country.
Where is he?
He's been laying low
in Maida Vale.
- With the witches?
- On the houseboat. Yes.
Come on, let's go.
♪
[Lock disengages, keys jingling]
[Keys thud]
[Lock clicks]
Doris: What is this place?
It's a Talamasca safe house.
[Light switch clicks]
Why exactly do you believe
this woman?
I mean, maybe she will help you.
It's a big maybe,
but why on earth
would she go out of her way
to help me?
Because she promised me
that she would.
And what kind of promises do
you think she made to someone
like Soledad Marcel?
I don't know,
I have no idea what exactly
happened to Soledad Marcel.
And neither do you.
What if she was fed to Jasper
by your Helen?
What if your Helen is a mole?
That's the thing
with the Talamasca.
You'll never know
where you stand with them,
or how they're using you.
I don't trust the Talamasca.
No, but you trust her.
Someone who's always hiding.
You're not exactly
an open book yourself.
Oh, I never said you
should trust me.
Why did you join the Talamasca
in the first place?
Okay. So
I'm in the third grade.
Miss Rosewood's class,
times tables.
And I was having a hard time
remembering six times eight.
And she kept saying,
"Six times eight is 48
and ain't that great?"
And then she'd do this big
exaggerated wink at me like, ah.
And it was really dumb,
and it didn't help me at all.
But I had this massive crush
on her.
And so she keeps doing that,
"Six times eight is 48."
And I'm standing there
and I'm watching her.
And then the principal walks in,
and there was,
like, this charge in the room,
and he whispered something
to her.
And I just remember
she turned
and she looked
right at me.
And it was a look
I hadn't seen before.
Not on anybody.
It was as if all the color
in my world was about to leave,
and she was the first person
to know about it.
And I just knew
before anyone had told me,
that my mom was dead.
♪
I didn't have anyone else,
so I was sent
to live with foster parents.
And that was
Um
♪
Hard?
It's cold.
♪
All these years later
I meet Helen
and she tells me that
my mother had actually been
a Talamasca agent.
And that story
that she had died,
was a lie made up
by the Talamasca.
She didn't die. She just
She just did something
to piss 'em off.
- What?
- I don't know.
All I know is that
she's still alive
and that she's been
in hiding from them
ever since that day
when I was 9.
♪
So that's why you joined?
Yeah.
♪
To find her.
♪
So the whole mortals
versus immortals,
good versus bad, um,
future of the world--
I was meant to be starting
a job in contract law.
♪
You know, I resented her?
All my life, since I was a kid.
I'd been told
that she was a junkie,
that she was irresponsible
and selfish,
and that she hadn't given
a shit about me.
It's one thing to find out
that that isn't true.
But for her?
She's been out there,
all these years,
knowing that her son
felt abandoned.
Can you imagine what that's like
for a mother to feel that?
No.
So if there's a chance,
I mean,
even a small chance that
I can get her out of trouble
♪
I'd go to the end
of the earth to do it.
What was her name?
Anna.
Anna Lemus.
[Chuckles softly]
I was a boy ♪
With a wild imagination ♪
I'd create worlds ♪
With cities and with nations ♪
And I like it ♪
Everyone was happy
as can be ♪
I love the town ♪
And I called it Jubilee ♪
[Music continues indistinctly
in background]
[Breathing heavily]
Mm, mm, mm.
[Cellphone vibrates]
We found them.
We'll move in after sundown.
♪
Guy: Well, plenty of clothes.
Doris: I don't know what we're
supposed to do here
for two days.
[Drawer slams shut]
♪
Jackpot.
♪
[Box clattering]
[Sighs]
Hmm. Yeah.
I'd say you look like a James.
You look nothing like a Julia.
[Laughs] That was the first name
that came to mind.
Okay, so, say you
get stopped by a border agent,
what's Julia's backstory?
Well, she's a dodgy one, actually.
She followed a childhood passion
for herpetology.
Herpetology?
Come on,
it's the study of reptiles.
[Laughs] Anyway,
she falls madly in love with
her hard-driving thesis advisor,
who was this Brazilian hunk
who would seduce her
with his long-winded monologs,
about the Amazonian
boa constrictor.
Until she found out that he was
as cold blooded as the animals
he claimed to love.
And so she is off to Yorkshire
to start up a lizard sanctuary.
[Laughs]
Very good.
What about our man, James?
James?
Well[Game piece clattering on board]
You've heard about his,
um, father,
the famous anchovy fisherman,
- Fitzgerald MacArthur?
- Oh, of course, I'm an adult.
Of course.
And his one-legged second wife,
Cora, the salty dog,
cheated on him with that
intercontinental balloonist?
- Oh. Chester Oklahoma.
- Chester Oklahoma. Right.
And how Fitzgerald
was so despondent,
that he threw himself
into the, uh, the blowhole
of a passing sperm whale,
leaving his young son, James,
to ply his father's trade,
trolling the lonely seas to farm
the one friend he ever had.
- The humble anchovy.
- Oh.
Now here he is,
roaming the countryside
in search of this woman
who started up a, um,
lizard sanctuary.
♪
[Chuckles softly]
♪
I win.
Aw!
So, what now?
Well, if we go to New York,
we could try out there,
but they might
be looking for us.
So might be easier
for us to get lost upstate.
Uh, or we can go West Coast,
California, maybe.
Have you heard of Big Sur?
Guy
It's supposed
to be beautiful there.
I meant for the rest
of today.
I can't do another board game.
I
We should probably get
some rest.
[Game pieces clattering]
♪
- What?
- Nothing.
[Upbeat music playing
over radio]
[Indistinct chatter]
Pretty face, toots.
[indistinct conversation,
laughter]
[Glasses clink]
♪
[Keys jingling]
♪
[Door opens]
[Door slams shut]
[Groans]
Ridge: Nothing yet, huh?
Should go home,
get some sleep.
Oh. Keeps me out of trouble.
At least take a break.
Maybe let me buy you some food
and a pint.
Look about starved.
Oh, I wouldn't turn my nose
up at a little nibble, I guess.
[Keys jingle]
[Door opens]
[Door closes]
♪
[Clicker clicks]
♪
[Revenants growling]
♪
[Growling continues]
[Cage clanging]
♪
[Indistinct chatter]
♪
[Door hinges creaking]
♪
[Revenants growling]
♪
[Growling continues]
You're hiding something from me.
♪
[Computer beeping]
♪
[Screaming]
♪
[Revenants growling]
[Screaming continues]
♪
[Computer beeping]
♪
♪
[Chokes]
Where is it?
This is what happens
when people get close to me.
Would you just tell me
the truth?
We can't trust Helen anymore.
Jasper:
They're gonna try and flee.
Who are you?
I think I know
where your mother is.
Just tell me who she is.
Why do you care so much
about some freaking girl?
I don't.
I care about my book.
And I care when someone gets
between it and me.
♪
In episode five, what we very
quickly come to find out
is that Jasper has
some plans for Guy.
You think you're smooth?
Think you got moves?
You have no moves.
I have all the moves.
Now Guy has really crossed
the line with Jasper,
and Jasper
lets him know it.
I'm scared of Jasper.
I'm scared of [indistinct].
Let's be real.
[Laughs]
Lafferty: It was important for us
to set this scene in the basement.
It's a place
that we've only seen
in which these horrible animals
are either made or kept.
Now we're in revenant world.
We really are in revenant world
at the start of episode five.
Fichtner: Yeah, we're down
on this freezing floor in a basement.
I'm like, "Couldn't we do this
on a soundstage with a heater?
Can I get a latte?"
Start digging.
Yeah,
the cages really do work.
I have a big lever,
which Nick keeps teasing me.
He goes, "You really
like playing with that thing."
And I'm like,
"Listen to the sound on it."
[Lever cranks]
I said, "Listen,
take that piece off the set,
give it to me as a wrap gift
so I can put it in my garage
at home,
and I'll just lift it up
and things will happen."
[Flames whoosh]
Hancock: When Guy gets
in deep trouble with Jasper
over what's happened
at the hotel
and the fact that he's
been keeping stuff from Jasper,
Doris jumps in to save him.
When I read it, I was--
I was like, yeah,
go on, Doris. [Chuckles]
I shot the fire myself,
but not at Bill.
They had Bill here,
a green screen here,
so he shot his reaction to me
throwing the flame.
Then they removed
the green screen and shot me
shooting the flame out
of the aerosol.
And then they combined
the two images together
so it will look like
I am shooting the flame at Bill.
But, in fact, I'm not.
Denton: We're watching Jasper
set on fire,
done by the stuntman Ben,
who is
That looks so real.
This part here is amazing.
- Buckens: I mean, it is real.
- Director: Action, A!
He's got protection and stuff,
but he is really on fire.
I've gone through
my storyboards,
and what I want to do here is
that as he goes up into flames,
he carries on,
pushing away Doris
until he pushes her
down the stairs.
She's going to fall down
and then he's going to get hit.
He's going to go down.
It's a super dynamic,
exciting shot.
And at the end,
the revenants are going to go
from those cages
charging around this corner
to follow.
So, yeah, it's super dynamic.
It's all shot in little bits.
But in the end,
it all comes together
in a gorgeous conflagration
of delight.
On the next day, we had
me and Guy running to the car,
all the revenants climbing
onto the car.
Hancock: It is a big action sequence,
and I think it's a lot of fun
and violent.
Denton: Both the capture
and escape of Guy and Doris
from Jasper
and the revenants
is a real crescendo
to this great series.
The action really comes out
in full effect.
Automated Voice:
Put a coin in the slot.
Denton: I really loved that scene
at Cupid's Arrow,
where we were playing in the
peep show between Helen and Guy.
If you don't help me, Helen,
if you won't help me, I'm dead.
McGovern: I think at that point,
Helen's ambivalence
about the Talamasca
has so chipped away
at her inner resolve
that she is particularly
vulnerable to turning.
And I love the way
the scene is written,
because Guy has reached
a point of maturation
where he's now calling
the shots.
Denton: He knows that
she's looking for her sister,
and he knows that the 752
may be the answer for her.
And so he's got
the upper hand here.
Sure about this?
No, but it's what we got.
Lafferty: Doris is immediately skeptical
of going into the safe house
from the start.
And she thinks
this is potentially perilous.
But the two find themselves
in this place overnight there,
and all they have is each other.
Hancock: Guy and Doris
have bonded together
and attached to the hip
a little bit,
even though they're
still wary of one another.
Buckens: It kind of feels
like an oasis,
a slower pace than the rest
of the show.
It was nice because the
characters felt very vulnerable
and like two kids.
I win.
[Scoffs]
[Remote clicks]
[Revenants growling]
Lafferty: We think
that the revenants
are coming for Guy and Doris,
hopefully up until
the last second,
in which we find out that that's
not where they're headed.
We had four or five kills
on the boat,
but timed out so that as
the revenant landed on the roof,
it goes with her,
flying through the air, lands,
the roof comes down
into the first window,
and we see someone getting
their neck eaten,
and then we see someone
get slashed across the throat.
So we had, in the four windows,
we had a kill on each window.
Richardson-Sellers: I knew that Olive
was a mole pretty early on.
I was like, fantastic.
Of course she is.
It makes total sense.
She is here
for the bigger picture--
"What is going to get me
to the 752?"
And that's Jasper.
Lafferty: And Jasper is alive,
but he's been burned by them,
and now he's got
a renewed sense of vengeance
to come after them
in episode six.
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