The Copenhagen Test (2025) s01e05 Episode Script

1
Parker:
The story we tell
is that Mosaic
has an encrypted drive
with the identity
of whoever placed the mole
at The Orphanage.
We use a third party to get
the drive into Mosaic's hands
without him knowing
it was from us.
-Saul, don't!
Michelle: These agencies
ask you to do something
unthinkable,
but they don't know
the real cost.
The only ones
that know that
are the people in it.
-You always intended
for him to die.
Moira: Yeah.
Know why?
Alexander: You needed
to create a dead end.
Now the enemy
has no more leads,
nowhere left to focus
except on finding the drive.
Parker: My job
is to protect our country
by manipulating people
and sometimes
getting them killed
for the sake of a mission.
St. George: The things
you can't carry, bury it away
and try not to dig it
back up.
Alexander: When you don't have
the whole picture,
how do you know that
you're doing the right thing?
-Be grateful
for all the things
you don't know.
Michelle: It was a nice
change of pace
to have someone
do the right thing.
I'm not supposed to give you
my real name, so.
It's between us.
[crowd shouting indistinctly]
reporter: Last night,
Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
The largest public space
in the world was a war zone.
With orders
to secure the square,
the People's Liberation Army
of China,
three hundred thousand strong,
converged on Beijing
from all directions.
Unarmed citizens and students
faced tanks
and soldiers
with semi-automatic weapons.
For the last five weeks,
the mass
student demonstration
has touched a nerve.
Soon, everyone
seemed to join
-[doorbell rings]
protesting against hardship,
government corruption--
[speaking Mandarin]
[door opens]
Victor.
Victor: Hey, how's it goin'?
Preston: So good!
Come in. Come in.
Victor: How do you
like the area?
-It's, uh--
It's very nice.
-And the interview
for the engineering job?
How did that go?
-Promising.
-Good.
Good.
This is your
immigration paperwork.
Certificates
of Naturalization.
No one will ever
bother you about it.
And this
is a three-year lease
on the house.
Paid in full.
Preston: You've done so much
for us, Victor.
Victor: I know it's not home,
but you can have
a fulfilling life here.
-This is not enough.
You are saying
goodbye to us.
-I think,
given the nature of my job,
it's best if our lives
don't intersect going forward.
You know how sorry I am
that you got caught up
in what I was working on
in China.
And I'm sorry
for the suspicion.
And that you had
to leave your home.
But I am glad
that you made it here
to this country.
Because you wouldn't have
been safe there.
No one chose this,
but it happened.
And I did my part.
Like I promised.
-For Preston and me,
yes.
But you owe him more.
When he is born,
he won't know China.
He won't know my family
or Preston's family!
In America,
they don't like our faces.
We go to interview at lab,
but they don't want us.
It will be hard
for our son here.
Because he is like us.
-Hey
Helen:
But he is also not like us.
He is born here.
American.
He is one of you.
In a country we don't know.
You are not done.
You look after him.
You promise that.
[sighs]
[sighs]
-Have you picked
a name yet?
-Alexander.
[theme music playing]
[sighs]
[♪♪]
Victor: The Orphanage.
If they suspect
that you're compromised,
you're dead!
Alexander: I've been
having these moments.
It's like feedback
in my brain.
Did anything
like that happen
to the Cassandra
test subjects?
-No.
Saul: Sacrifice
their entire lives
because they're doin'
the right thing.
But they never have
the whole story.
-Hi. [sighs]
Alexander.
-Natalie.
I'm not supposed
to give you my real name.
Well, you're easy
to pretend to fall for.
-No one person
gets to be more important
than the mission.
[suspenseful music playing]
[static crackling]
[static crackling stops]
[sighs]
[♪♪]
[creaks]
[sighs]
-For whoever ends up
watching this,
but I'm really hoping
it's you, my friend.
My eyes and ears
have been hacked
by a nanotechnology
called "Cassandra
RU-two-five-eight."
It's broadcasting everything
that I see and hear,
and whoever did this
is using the information
to compromise operations
all over the world.
I didn't know
it had happened to me.
And I wasn't a part of it.
But when The Orphanage
discovered the hack,
they chose not to expose it.
They kept it open
to find the hackers
who were responsible.
And I agreed to that.
For the good
of our country,
despite the risk
to innocent lives.
I couldn't have known how far
they were willing to go.
But I have knowingly
compromised
classified information
at the direction
of my superiors.
And there's no stopping now.
And despite my loyalty,
they still don't trust me.
They watch
every move I make.
I still believe
in the mission,
but I know they're not
telling me the whole truth.
I don't know
who I can trust anymore.
-If you could
go back in time
[conversation fades]
Alexander: I'm not even sure
of what's real in my own life.
Did you ask me something?
-It's been so long,
I was starting to wonder.
-Yeah, sorry, it's, uh,
it's work.
-Work.
-Maybe we call it a day.
-Yeah. Sure.
-He's being weird, right?
Moira: Lone wolf thinks
Mosaic's drive
identifies them
as the one who placed
the mole
in The Orphanage,
which means they think someone
close to them has flipped.
They can't trust
anyone else with this.
They will show up personally.
So, this is how
we catch them.
We build a trap.
-Director Moira asked me
to relay an update
on a magnetic drive
we've been trying to locate.
Based on intelligence gathered
from a parallel operation
in the EU
called "Stormwatch,"
we believe with
a high degree of certainty
that our former source,
Saul Clemente,
codename "Mosaic,"
went to Paris
shortly before his death.
[groans]
Our analysts believe
there's a strong possibility
he made this trip
to hide the magnetic drive
somewhere in the city.
And they've narrowed it down
to a three-square mile area.
-We know exactly
where the drive is.
We had put a tracker on it
before we got it
into Mosaic's hands.
-This is a performing arts
venue. Here.
Now, once the drive
stopped moving,
we obtained access
to the cameras in that location.
There are only a few,
but we did find this.
He walked up
to the top floor,
fifteen minutes later,
he left.
Public building, lots of people
comin' and goin'.
He hid that drive
in plain sight.
-You don't want the target
to know exactly where it is yet.
-Our enemy
can't be ahead of us.
You will lead them to it.
-Alexander and Remy
will enter the country in alias.
By the time
they touch down,
we should've identified
the target location.
Our extraction agent,
a local,
will meet them
and arrange transport
to an airfield we control.
Then you're home.
-Remy will go with you
to the immersive performance.
The audience will be masked,
not ideal for us,
but it will make our target
feel more comfortable
if they wanna
follow you there.
At any point
after you have the drive,
that's when we expect
the enemy to intercept.
Then we grab them.
-You're gonna bring them in.
For questioning.
-That part you won't
have to worry about.
Once we have them,
it's above your pay grade.
[sighs]
Frances: This is a modified
low-dose compound
with multiple drugs.
Dissolves on the skin.
It'll make them compliant.
Moira: We're gonna
keep our distance. No comms,
so it feels like
you and Remy are alone.
You'll be more exposed
than usual,
but it's a risk
that we have to take.
-What if they decide
to take out the location
and everyone in it
to destroy the drive?
-Then we won't have to wonder
who the enemy is, will we?
They'll be the only one
left standing.
Whatever it takes,
remember?
-Something's off with him.
-In what way?
-I don't know.
Normally, I can read
what he's thinking.
It's right there. But
something's changed.
I just have
this terrible feeling
like I'm gonna miss
something big.
-Use Michelle.
Get him to talk.
-That's what I mean.
He's not talking to her either.
It--
His walls are up
for some reason.
-You think we hold?
-No, we can't hold now.
We might only get
one shot at this.
If our lone wolf
senses a trap or goes dark,
we might never find them.
-[sighs]
-[door opens]
-Keep watching Alexander.
If he's not onboard,
we call it.
[♪♪]
-I'd like to meet him.
[inaudible conversation]
[♪♪]
-You ever seen her
talk this much?
Moira: Never.
What're you up to?
-We're sacrificing so much
for this operation.
I wanted to see for myself
if he was up for it.
I believe he is.
[sighs]
-You're worried.
We'll know who
our lone wolf is very soon.
-[chuckles] Who? Yes.
But I can't figure out
the why.
Parker: Hey.
He's headed to your place.
Michelle [over phone]: Why?
-I don't know.
Something's up.
See if you can
get him to talk.
-Understood.
-Thank you.
[♪♪]
Michelle: Look,
I've been here before.
I'm a little too charming,
guy falls a little
too hard for me,
he starts getting obsessive,
comes to my apartment
late at night
with little to no warning
and then
I have to kill him.
-I can't stay long.
I'm leaving to go out of town
tomorrow, and, uh
I-- I think
we should call this off.
-Oh.
Wow.
Wow. This is, um--
This is awkward.
You thought
we were together?
-I'm being serious, Michelle.
-So am I.
We never made this
a formal thing.
You know,
you didn't have to come
all the way here
to break up with me
if you didn't want
to see me again.
-Well, I thought
you deserved that at least.
-Well, thank you.
Your chivalry
knows no bounds.
-[sighs] Yeah.
-What is this,
our first fight?
It was bound to happen
eventually, right?
Look, if you're mad
about something,
you might as well
just come out and say it.
Alexander.
Hey.
[♪♪]
Let's just--
Can we talk about this?
[sighs]
-I got an early flight.
You take care of yourself.
[♪♪]
I just wanna know that what
I do for my country matters.
[knocking at door]
-Hey.
He's leaving her place.
-He just got there.
-He walked out in a hurry.
She closed all her blinds.
[♪♪]
-Where is he going now?
[sighs]
Rachel: Come in.
-Hey.
-Hi.
-Sorry to drop in on you
like this. Um--
You got a minute?
-Yeah.
Sure.
-You're still workin' nights.
-Still workin' nights.
-You've been back
to the cabin.
-Yeah.
I told you I loved it
from the minute we walked in.
But I doubt
that's why you're here.
What's up?
-Nothing. Nothing, um--
I just wanted to say some things
I've been thinkin' about.
Whatever happened
between us,
I can only speak
to my side of it. Um--
But I want you to know
you were right.
I never let you in.
And I'm sorry.
That's it. Um--
You don't have to respond
or anything, I just--
I just wanted
to say it. [sighs]
I'll see you around, Rach.
-Why would he
tell her that now?
[♪♪]
[sighs]
Alexander:
There's a chance
I don't come back
from this mission.
And if something happens,
no matter what anybody says,
I want you to know that
I did not betray this country.
I'll go through with it,
but I'm not doing it
The Orphanage's way.
[♪♪]
-We have a plane to catch.
Don't worry,
I grabbed our bags.
[♪♪]
[grunts]
[sighs]
tech 1: Coming in.
tech 2: Standing by.
Signals tech: They've left
Washington airspace.
Switching to flight comms.
Ellie: Go for control.
[indistinct chatter]
Shadowboxer's apartment
is clear.
And she didn't go to work
at the bar tonight.
They don't have her.
-Copy.
-Has she gone dark?
-I can fix it.
-You were worried
about Hale
and now his minder
is missing?
-I'll find her, sir.
-That's a good idea.
[♪♪]
[footsteps]
Michelle: Who's with you?
-[gasps]
-Honestly?
You think that
if they were coming for you
that they would send me?
Did you run
because you thought
that we were coming
to kill you? Why?
-Alexander broke it off.
-Tonight?
-Yeah.
You didn't know?
-No.
I told you on the phone,
he's been acting weird.
We didn't tell him
to do that.
Even if we had,
which, again, we didn't,
wouldn't that mean
your part in this is done?
You get to walk free.
Wasn't that the deal?
[laughs]
-You haven't made
a lot of deals
with spy agencies,
have you?
-No, I haven't.
-The last time
I was an alias
for an operation
that went sideways,
the agency
I was working for
sent the cleaners in after me
within minutes.
No loose ends.
I don't care
what The Orphanage says.
They're all the same.
They're never gonna
let me go.
Not after what I did.
Oh, wow.
They didn't give you
my whole file, did they?
[footsteps]
How do you think
The Orphanage
collected me
in the first place?
I made a mistake.
The kind you can't run from.
They'll say my debt
is never repaid.
And they're probably right.
-So, make a deal with me.
When we stop
whoever did the hack,
I'll find a way
to get rid of your file.
I don't know how yet,
but I'll find a way.
Please don't run.
Come back in.
I need you.
The only way I know
how to connect to him
is through you. And
you're the only person
who knows
what any of this feels like.
Also, this?
Going out on your own
into the cold?
That'll trigger exactly
the kind of reaction
you're afraid of.
They will overreact.
The entire mission
will get pulled.
We are this close
to this being over.
[♪♪]
-If breaking up
was Alexander's idea,
that means he knows
I'm not on his side anymore.
Our fiction that he can talk
to the real me is blown.
He must've figured out
you're still manipulating him
through me.
-How do you know that?
-Because he did it
right before he left.
So when you found out,
he'd already be on his way.
That's exactly what I would do
if I was about to go rogue.
-Go home.
Pretend everything's normal.
-You should call it off.
You've lost control of him.
[♪♪]
-Found her.
Just a misunderstanding.
Moira: We still a go?
-Mission's good.
Let's go.
I have to see this through.
We can't stop now.
[indistinct chatter]
Frances: Just keep
an eye on it, okay?
-Mm-hmm.
-Got it?
-Got it.
ground agent: Osiris
and Timekeeper in position.
[suspenseful music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[indistinct chatter]
They're heading
into the theater.
Perimeter holding
a half mile out.
No sign of hostiles.
-Thank you, Ground.
Keep your distance
until our target
shows themselves.
Radio silence.
ground agent: Roger that.
-Let me see it.
[keyboard clacking]
I wanna know
who's in that room.
Ellie: Who's got eyes
on the room?
[electronic beeping]
[upbeat music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
[woman speaking French]
crowd: Ah!
[woman speaking French]
[speaking French]
[woman cries]
[baby crying]
[indistinct chatter]
[baby laughs]
[man speaking French]
[soft piano music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
Ellie: They've reached
the target room.
-Now they've just
gotta find it.
Then the enemy
will find them.
[man speaking French]
-Hello.
[speaking French]
[speaking French]
Look for a key somewhere.
[man continues speaking]
-Hey.
-What?
-Didn't Mosaic
collect old guns?
[man speaking French]
[suspenseful music playing]
Excusez-moi.
[speaking French]
[sighs]
-Sure feels like it
sometimes.
Let's go.
-Signals?
-Drive's moving.
He's got it.
-[techs sighing]
-[indistinct chatter]
-All right. All right.
Now they go to the stairwell
to get to the extraction point
on the breezeway.
Get the extraction agent
in place.
If the enemy
is at the theater,
they could be intercepted
at any time.
[man speaking French]
[suspenseful music playing]
Show me outside.
Zoom in.
-Control.
[tense music playing]
They found
our extraction agent.
He's dead in his apartment.
[loud bang]
[door opens]
-Every morning
man: I look
into obsidian eyes.
-Extraction?
-Let's get you out of here.
-Get a closer shot.
ground agent:
Are we moving in?
Moira: No. We don't know
if this is our lone wolf.
-We have to warn them somehow.
Moira:
If that's not our guy,
we can't give them
a reason to panic.
We need identification.
Get me a face.
Who is this guy?
[suspenseful music playing]
-Hey.
Where are we going?
-There's a service elevator.
It'll take us down
to the waterline.
Safest way out.
Moira: We got him.
Punch in.
Why is this taking so long?
Get me a name!
[suspenseful music playing]
Why don't we have
a name yet?
Frances: It's classified!
ground agent: Sniper's Nest
has a clean shot.
-No, we take him alive.
Ground, go!
ground agent: On the move.
Three minutes out.
[♪♪]
Frances: Moira
-Pull the overhead camera in.
I wanna see
where they're going.
-Moira!
We're picking up
another RF signal.
About thirty voices on it.
It's not ours.
There's someone else here.
-Contact! Northwest corner.
Contact! Northeast corner.
They're all over!
-Peter. It's the CIA.
Moira: What the fuck
are they doing here?
CIA comms: Closing to target.
Capture first.
But if he's escaping,
we shoot to kill.
-Now let's find out
if you're full of shit or not.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Henry pants]
-You okay?
-[sighs] War wound.
Before we head down--
It's a Faraday cage
for the drive.
In case it's being tracked.
Time is of the essence.
[grunts]
[gun cocks]
[grunts]
-How'd you know
he didn't have the drive, huh?
-Because I was watching
through your eyes,
Alexander Hale.
[♪♪]
-Stay down.
We hold him here.
Strike should be
on site in minutes.
-Hey.
-[gasps]
-Hey. You're okay.
It's okay.
Frances: Remy's down.
-Now that's interesting.
-Get up.
You're comin' with me.
-But I thought
we were staying here.
CIA operative 1:
Drop your weapon!
This is the CIA!
-[grunts]
Alexander Hale,
surrender, now!
[gunshots]
[grunts]
[gun firing]
[pants]
[suspenseful music playing]
[gun firing continues]
[groans]
[grunts]
CIA operative 2:
I see him! Go, go!
Go! Go around!
Watch your cover!
Cover, go, go!
[Alexander sighs]
CIA operative 2:
Go! Go!
Come on, move!
Move! Come on!
[pants]
[upbeat music playing]
[indistinct chatter]
CIA operative:
Alexander Hale, stop!
[crowd screaming]
Hale, stop!
[gun cocks]
ground agent: Orphanage,
stand down!
[crowd screaming]
CIA operative: CIA!
ground agent: Don't move,
drop your weapon!
Get on the ground!
CIA operative: Step back!
ground agent:
Stand down, now!
CIA operative: Lower
your weapons and move back!
-You back up!
-Step back!
[pants]
[indistinct shouting]
[pants]
ground agent:
Osiris, we're Orphanage.
Come on. We need
to get you to safety.
We have Osiris.
[tense music playing]
[grunting]
[ground agent groans]
Moira: Get our people
out of there.
Do not fire
unless fired upon.
ground agent:
Osiris is off the map.
Repeat,
Osiris is off the map.
-He's going after the target.
Moira: Which direction?
Frances: Alexander
must've put the drive
in a Faraday cage.
We can't track him.
-Get me every camera
we own east of the city.
I wanna see it!
tech 1:
Yes sir, we're on it.
-This is a manhunt.
The operational theater
is now the entire city.
We find our operative
and we do not let him fall
into the wrong hands!
-Roger that.
Pull up that quadrant.
[♪♪]
Cobb: Henry!
-Edmund!
[pants]
-I saw you
on the monitor with Hale.
What's goin' on?
-Did you tell anyone
you know me?
-No.
Are you in trouble?
-Not anymore.
[gun cocks]
-[gunshot]
-[grunts]
[gunshots]
[tires squealing]
-Look, I don't know what--
-I don't care
what you did.
Okay?
This belongs
to The Orphanage.
Make sure it gets to them.
-Okay, next block.
[♪♪]
[pants]
[suspenseful music playing]
[dog barking in distance]
Alexander:
I realized during all this
that the only time that anyone
actually told me the truth
was when I had already
found it myself.
The people I work for
want me in the dark.
Because it's easier
to control me that way.
[♪♪]
[♪♪]
Once we find
who we're looking for,
The Orphanage
might cut a deal with them
in exchange
for the technology.
And they'll only tell me
what helps them use me.
I'm never gonna find out
why this happened.
Or why they chose me.
Or if there's a way
to get this thing
out of my head.
And stop it
from happening to anyone else.
[♪♪]
[grunts]
I know you'll understand,
my friend.
[static buzzing]
[melodious music playing]
-What--
You havin' fun, Alexander?
-Uh-huh.
-Yeah?
-Yeah!
-Yeah? Did it--
Did it go faster?
-Maybe! [laughs]
-Oh!
[Alexander laughs]
Victor: Yeah?
Alexander:
Me, me, me, me, me!
Victor: Me, me, me, me!
[Alexander and Victor
talking indistinctly]
[suspenseful music playing]
[water trickling]
[static buzzing]
[groans]
[static crackling stops]
[pants]
[grunts]
[♪♪]
[kettle whistling]
[whistling stops]
[tense music playing]
-Get on the ground
or I shoot.
-If you were gonna shoot me,
you'd have done it already.
But you didn't
for the same reason
you drugged
your own partner.
For the same reason
you didn't wanna hand me over
to The Orphanage
just quite yet.
You know you're hacked.
And you know
I'm the only one
that can answer
your questions.
So, let's talk.
[instrumental music playing]