Alex Rider (2020) s01e06 Episode Script

1
Set our eyes west
Chase the sunset ♪
Hint of wine on my breath ♪
And you got
Your hand on my hand ♪
Lips to my ear ♪
Whisper "Switch
To 5th gear" ♪
I will
Hey, look ♪
Cosa Nostra
In a Tesstarossa ♪
Pull me closer ♪
Baby, don't let go ♪
Get away from
Where we came from ♪
Where we'll end up
I don't know ♪
We got the whole world ahead
And the old world behind ♪
Nothing in the rear view
But wasted time ♪
Steal my heart
I promise I won't tell ♪
And if I steal your kisses
Baby, pay my bail ♪
We got the whole world ahead
And the old world behind ♪
Whole world ahead
And the old world behind ♪
Whole world ahead
And the old world behind ♪
You're the whole world
And the world is mine ♪
[WIND WHISTLING]
[TOM WALKER'S "HEARTLAND" PLAYING]
Stick out your tongue
Let me take your temperature ♪
If you ain't having
No fun ♪
Must be something wrong
With ya ♪
Let me take
Your fingerprints ♪
Pay your way
And now you're in ♪
And better seal your lips
So that'll be the end of ya ♪
Come and find your love
At the heartland ♪
Heartland ♪
Ain't nothin'
You're looking for ♪
You've had enough
But you wanted more ♪
Come and lose yourself
At the heartland ♪
Heartland ♪
You'll forget
Who you were before ♪
Give it up
You can have it all ♪
In the heartland ♪
EVA: Good morning.
- You need to eat something.
- Don't want to.
Kyra, we need to act normal.
If I could do that,
I wouldn't be here.
James.
James.
What happened?
- Morning, Alex.
- Morning, Kyra.
[MUSIC]
ARRASH:
Feels different, doesn't it?
Being in the minority.
Being the odd ones out.
Only two of you left.
It's kind of sad.
Watching two people
cling so hard to something
that's so
mundane.
So, what's it gonna be?
Gonna run away as well?
What do you think?
[CHUCKLES]
Perhaps running away
is not what to do.
Right, man?
EVA:
I've been through all our files.
All the background on Sir David,
Lady Caroline.
Every second
of online footage.
This other boy
doesn't appear once.
Our visitor says he took it
from the hand of a dead man.
Parker is in London.
Let's get to the bottom
of this.
Yeah. And, uh, bring Kyra
down after lessons.
As soon as she is dealt with,
the better.
Of course.
Yeah.
ALEX: Kyra?
Kyra?
Are you okay?
What do you think?
We saw Baxter got killed
last night.
Laura's gone, now James is gone,
and I'm next.
So on a scale of okay
to not okay, I am very not.
I won't let it happen.
Really?
How's that going to work?
Look.
You are not entirely stupid,
but if you think I need you
to ride in and rescue me now,
you clearly haven't been
paying attention.
What are you gonna do?
It hurts me to say it,
but James was right.
If we stay here, we're finished.
I can't leave.
- Not yet.
- Why not?
Is it something to do
with Ian Rider?
Look, you do
whatever you have to do,
and I'll do
whatever I have to.
But until you trust me,
you're no use to me.
[PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
Hello?
Sorry, what?
Yeah. Definitely.
And you'll text me the address?
Perfect. I
Eddie, cover for me.
Tell Mr. Boswell I'm ill
- or something.
- Why?
When undiscovered talent
becomes discovered talent.
That's just happened.
[WEATHERS' "1983" PLAYING]
Windows fogged up
Nothing new ♪
Only enough room for two ♪
And, oh
We're getting old ♪
The thing
is sometimes I think
I've always seen my life,
like, through a lens.
You know, it's just kind
of what makes me me.
Nah, too preachy.
You got that 1983 vibe
And not a lot of time ♪
Take in the view ♪
You got your top down
Headed southbound ♪
And turning on a dime
What do we do? ♪
One last ride
And one more time ♪
And na-na-na-na-na-na ♪
[WIND WHISTLING]
EVA: From Facebook data
to Internet oversight,
what we can see
is that if your message
is strong enough,
you can take away
people's liberties.
And they will applaud you
for doing it.
[ALARM BLARING]
Hmm.
Now, as we all know,
Dr. Baxter is indisposed today.
So this afternoon's
physical education session
will be replaced
by a free study period.
Work well.
Oh, um, Kyra.
I'd just like a word, please.
In my office.
If you don't mind.
[MUSIC]
You can't just run.
You'll die in the snow.
- I'm going to die anyway.
- You hide. We got the codes,
- so go somewhere
- They'd look everywhere.
They wouldn't.
I just need an hour.
We've seen the second floor,
and the answers
aren't there.
The answers have to be
in the basement.
I don't have an hour.
I don't care
about your answers.
Kyra, please.
What are you gonna do?
Better you don't ask.
So when they come for you,
you can't tell them.
[MUSIC]
CRAWLEY:
We're going back 30 years or more.
I want everything covered.
All our enemies.
Old and new.
Double-check everything.
What do you think
Ian would say
about Blunt putting Alex in play?
He was training him.
I think he'd be proud.
[MUSIC]
[BEEPING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[CLANGING]
[MUSIC]
[MUSIC]
[DOOR BUZZES]
Hello?
Hello?
- LANGHAM: Tom.
- I'm here
for the young filmmakers'
networking thing.
Yes. We spoke
on the phone.
- Welcome.
- Thank you.
- Come through.
- Sure.
- Who brought you?
- No one. I came by myself.
Ah.
- Can I take your jacket?
- Sure. That'd be lovely.
Carry on.
You must be Tom Harris.
I'm Parker Roscoe.
- I run Roscorp Media.
- No way. I know you.
Have your cake and eat it.
That was awesome.
That was a long time ago.
- A different life, you could say.
- Ah. Right.
Sorry.
I very much enjoyed
your, uh, films.
They were very original.
Thank you. Um
Yeah. That's what
we were shooting for, actually.
Um
Sometimes I think
I've always seen life,
like, through a lens.
You know?
It's just part
of what makes me me.
Yeah. By the way, I think we
may have a friend in common.
- What? Really?
- Yeah.
Alex.
Alex Rider?
No. Alex Friend.
[MUSIC]
Alex F Yeah.
There's a lot of Alexes.
It's a very popular name.
Alex Friend
Sir David?
Up at the mansion?
With that big bedroom
with a huge bed?
I mean, like, who even has that?
I assume you might because
Rich.
His sister. She Pfft.
She's a bit of a handful.
Isn't she?
How do you know Alex Friend, Tom?
Yeah, it's a long
It's a long story.
Mm. Well,
I'd love to hear it.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Uh
- I've just remembered, I
- Remembered what?
I have a thing
now.
Shall I come back?
I can come back.
- I don't think so.
- I've really gotta
Sit down, Tom.
Don't make me ask you again.
[MUSIC]
[DOOR OPENS]
- Have you seen Kyra?
- No.
Well, if you see her.
Of course.
Eva wants a word
with Kyra.
About time.
We'll find her.
I'll check the back stairs.
[BEEPING]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[MUSIC]
[OBJECT THUDS]
[GIRL SOBBING]
Alex.
Alex. Alex.
- Come on.
- Alex.
- Alex!
- [SHUSHING]
Alex. Alex.
Be quiet.
Jesus Christ.
Alex. Please, man,
you've gotta help us.
You gotta get us out of here.
They're gonna kill us.
My name is Parker Roscoe.
My father can pay you
anything you want
if you can just
get me out of here.
LAURA: Alex, you need to get us
out of here, please?
Please, Alex. Please.
[MUSIC]
[PANTING]
- Tell me the truth, Tom.
- I'm telling you the truth, man.
I don't really know him. I just
deliver him pizza sometimes.
I have a part-time job.
I deliver pizza.
Sometimes to him,
but I don't know him.
I was just bigging myself up,
man. I don't
How does someone like me
knows someone like that?
Exactly. See, I know
that you're lying to me, Tom.
Okay?
When you learn to become a liar
you can detect it
in others.
And I
[GRUNTS]
I am an excellent liar.
And you're not.
LANGHAM: I have a faster way
to solve this.
Grab his thumb.
No. No, you don't have to do this.
You don't have to do this.
I'm telling you the truth.
Please, I swear.
I swear
[WHIMPERS]
[PANTING]
[CHIMES]
Twenty-first century
window into the soul.
Let's see
who you really are.
[PANTS]
Call him.
Now.
[RINGING]
Greif.
I'm sending you a video.
I think you need to act
quickly.
TOM:
If anyone who's met Alex Rider
would think he's a typical
teenage schoolboy.
But if comic books have taught
us anything, which they have,
is that looking
like a mild-mannered normo
is actually
an obvious giveaway.
So is Alex Rider
really what he seems?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC]
Kyra's gone as well.
Have security
sweep the building.
- Check all exits.
- Yes, doctor.
We've looked
everywhere.
GUARD [ON RADIO]:
We have a breach.
Side door
has been compromised.
Any sign of them?
[STATIC CRACKLES]
Repeat.
GUARD:
One set of footprints.
Repeat. One set.
Small,
leading to the forest.
She will die
out there.
Do you wanna bet everything on that?
They've split up.
They've seen the truth.
Somehow.
And she panicked
and ran away.
Send out a squad
to bring Kyra back.
Dead or alive.
Then search the building
- for Alex Rider.
- EVA: Understood.
- GUARD 1: Sir.
- GUARD 2: Yes, sir.
[MUSIC]
[STEPAN GROANS]
ALEX: Who the hell is that?
PARKER:
That's Stepan Serenkov.
He's been here longer
than all of us.
The whole place is a setup.
It always has been.
They have these,
like, copies of us.
Like twins.
It's like looking in the mirror.
They come down here,
they watch us,
and they learn every detail.
I know.
I saw the second floor.
They've got these
monitoring stations.
- Everything's been duplicated.
- JAMES: And they come here
and look at us
like we're animals in a cage.
They ask us stuff.
They're supposed to be us.
And when they're good enough
at being us,
they get sent to our homes.
Do you understand?
They get sent
to our families.
They sleep in our beds.
They take over our lives.
And we're just
Parker's right.
We need to get out of here.
Even if I could get you out,
what then? We can't just go
running upstairs without a plan.
We'll get killed.
- The guards have guns.
- Do you know why she's like that?
Do you know
why they're all like that?
Stellenbosch
is interrogating us.
And anything they can't learn
from just watching,
anything they need,
I mean, your favorite food,
your PIN number
for your bank account,
the name of your first pet,
anything
to get the bigger picture,
she gets it out of you
no matter how hard you try.
- Okay? You can't leave us here.
- You'll be safer here.
- I can get help then come back.
- You can't leave us here.
[DOOR OPENS]
- I'm sorry.
- Alex, you can't leave us here.
Alex!
Alex Rider, I presume.
[MUSIC]
[PHONE RINGING]
- Hello?
- BAKER: Hello, Miss Starbright.
I'm calling
from Brooklands School Office.
- What can I do for you?
- I just wanted to ask,
- does Tom Harris happen to be with you?
- No. Should he be?
I wondered if he popped around
to see Alex.
- [CELL PHONE BUZZING]
- You see, he's not in school,
and I can't get ahold
of his parents.
And it's unlike Tom
to skip school, so I
Wait, he just
You know what?
I'm sure it's nothing.
He's probably
just a little ill.
Don't worry about it. You know what?
I'll call you back.
[LINE OUT RINGING]
[CELL PHONE BUZZING]
Who's Jack Starbright?
Just some kid from school.
You stay here.
I'll make sure we don't have
any unexpected visitors.
[MUSIC]
Langham is leaving
the building.
Stay on Parker.
[GRUNTING]
You are wasting
your energy.
They've all been in here,
and they've all tried to escape.
Tried very hard, believe me.
GREIF: But you're not like them, are you?
You're a fake.
You can talk. You've got
a whole school of them.
My children aren't fake.
- My children are perfect.
- Your children?
I doubt you'll understand,
but the world needs
a leader, Alex.
One voice, my voice,
through them.
So that's Project Gemini then?
You have been busy,
haven't you?
I think it's my turn now
to learn about you.
What are you doing?
And we're ready.
Good. Go ahead.
ALEX:
What are you doing?
No. No. No.
[MUSIC]
[WIND WHISTLING]
We've got movement.
A lot of movement.
They've got snowmobiles out
across the mountain.
Small groups sweeping
in a grid pattern.
It's a search.
Someone's got out.
[CELL PHONE BUZZES]
Jack. What is it?
JACK:
It's Alex's friend Tom.
He skipped school
to go to Roscorp Media
and isn't answering his phone.
Something's not right.
Right. Leave it with me.
[MUSIC]
Mm.
GREIF: What's your name?
Alex.
GREIF: Your full name.
Alex Friend.
You know,
from the Friend Foundation.
I go clay-pigeon shooting.
What is your name?
Alex Friend.
How much did you give him?
The dose is accurate.
He's just fighting it.
GREIF: Alex, you're lying.
Your name is Alex Rider.
Tell me the truth.
Who sent you here?
Why did you kill?
- Why did you kill my uncle?
- GREIF: What?
Why?
Why did you kill Ian?
- EVA: Who?
- GREIF: Who's Ian?
You don't know?
Who is Ian?
ALEX: That doesn't make any sense.
How can you not know?
Is there someone else?
Someone else is involved?
Aah
I'll find them.
GREIF: Who sent you here?
- Who Who knows about me?
- ALEX: All this way,
and you don't even know
who he is?
GREIF:
Answer the question.
Who sent you?
Or what?
You gonna turn the water on?
You're gonna play the music?
I'm not gonna help you.
I'm not gonna help you.
I can get paper clips
any time I like.
Now, who sent you here?
Who sent you here?
I've seen it all ♪
I've seen it all now ♪
I swear to God
I've seen it all ♪
Nothing shocks me
Anymore ♪
After tonight ♪
EVA: I don't understand.
He shouldn't be able to fight it like this.
[ALEX SINGING INDISTINCTLY]
GREIF:
What about Kyra?
Her trail goes dead
in the forest.
No way she can survive that.
Just suppose she does.
Somehow.
Where would she go?
She has no friends,
she resists social interaction.
I believe the only place
she could go back to
would be her parents.
Tango-6-3-Whiskey-1-5-5.
I need another job done.
Another kill.
But fast.
In Singapore.
Andriy Vashenko,
Nuo Chao.
Parents of a student
of mine.
I'll arrange the transfer
immediately.
[GRUNTING]
[DOOR OPENS]
Oh, you wanna keep trying, huh?
Because I've got lots of songs.
I can keep singing all day.
- I can't wait to hear that.
- Kyra?
Yeah, I know.
Sometimes I surprise myself.
- Can you get me out of here?
- Yes, and I will.
As soon as you tell me
who you really are.
What?
We trust each other,
or we're both dead.
Oh, very good.
You sound like her,
you move like her.
So what? I just open up
and tell you everything
and you take it upstairs to Daddy?
Alex. Alex,
what are you talking about?
Brand-new fake Kyra,
part of the matching set.
Collect them all.
- Listen, it's me.
- Oh, stop it.
You might as well have
Eva Stellenbitch
come and slap me
in the face again.
You're not the real Kyra.
The real Kyra's special.
Oh, Alex, shut up.
It's me, okay?
The second floor,
the washers,
Greif's office,
all the zeros for the keypads.
What they did to Baxter,
I was there, okay? It's me.
I thought you ran away.
I retraced my steps
so they'd think I'd escaped.
I've been hiding
on the second floor, listening,
and I stole
a couple of these.
Thanks.
So
you really think I'm special?
I was just saying
random stuff to buy time.
Okay. Come on.
Wait, Kyra.
Um, I'm not a billionaire.
I I came here to find out
who killed my uncle.
My name's Alex Rider.
Okay, let's go.
Time for us to part ways.
You don't have to do this.
This is a stupid idea.
I told a lot of people
at school I'm coming.
It's a big city.
We waited,
but you never showed up.
A lot of things
can happen.
[MUSIC]
TOM:
You don't have to do this.
Maybe I just want to.
You should probably
shut your eyes.
No way.
Suit yourself.
- [DOOR OPENS]
- CRAWLEY: Drop the knife!
Drop the knife now!
Now!
[MUSIC]
[MUSIC]
PARKER:
Take your hands off of me.
Tom. We're friends of Alex's.
Jack raised the alarm
- when she couldn't get through.
- Parker's got my phone.
It's got everything.
Alex's real name,
his identity, everything.
[LINE OUT RINGS]
- [LINE CLICKS]
- I have the boy. Eyes on Langham?
JONES:
Negative. We have nothing.
- Bring him down.
- Alex has been compromised.
GREIF:
There's no reason to delay now.
We send everybody back home
to their families.
And the originals?
There's no more use
for them.
They should be disposed of
before we go.
[SIGHS]
KYRA: So you're like a spy?
Kind of. Not really.
I was supposed to be able
to send messages to London, but
the signals have been jammed.
These work.
Yeah, but those are short-range, right?
If we could just get out,
one phone call,
and we'd have a chance.
You sound like James. We can't
steal any snowmobiles.
They're all out
looking for me.
We have no skis, no boards,
nothing we can use.
We have boards.
Okay.
This is the drugs, right?
You're having a psychotic episode?
It will work.
It is an ironing board.
Find some straps,
to get my boots under.
You're gonna die
if you go down in this.
We're gonna die anyway.
Please, find me some straps.
Oh, this is so stupid.
It's too flat.
Yeah, that's the problem
with this.
Okay, Alex, even if this works,
what about James and the others?
- What about them?
- They are ready-made hostages.
When your cavalry show up,
Greif will kill them.
We can't just do nothing.
[ALARM BLARING]
They know you've gone.
Okay.
I will get the others,
bring them here.
Tell your friends
- this is where we'll be.
- Okay.
Alex, can you even snowboard?
I can snowboard.
[MUSIC]
I'll call through
and update Blunt.
- JONES: There isn't time.
- [LINE OUT RINGS]
WOLF: It's Wolf.
How soon can you be in the air?
Fifteen minutes, if we have to be.
Well, it has to be.
We have an agent blown.
- Get moving.
- We have a go order?
It's Alex.
I'm his handler, my authority.
You can't authorize
a military operation.
If I'm wrong,
then Blunt can fire me,
- but if I'm right
- If you're right,
we're not gonna get there
in time.
- [ALARM BLARING]
- Give me a signal.
I'm not moving
until I hear from you.
Channel 16, okay?
Don't forget.
- Are you gonna be okay?
- Are you?
Go.
[MUSIC]
Keep listening.
I'll find a way.
Go.
[MUSIC]
[MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
[MUSIC]
[STATIC CRACKLING]
GUARD 1: I have a sighting
in the northern quadrant.
- In pursuit.
- GUARD 2: Copy that. En route.
[OBJECT THUDS]
Alex?
[STATIC CRACKLING]
Alex, can you hear me?
[MUSIC]
[GRUNTING]
[YELLS]
[GROANS]
Ow.
[SNOW MOBILE ENGINE REVVING]
[TIRES SQUEALING]
[HORN HONKING]
KYRA [OVER RADIO]: Alex?
Alex?
Alex can you hear me?