Lazarus (2025) s01e07 Episode Script
Almost Blue
No way. You're only 23?
Looking like that?
What's that supposed to mean?
I thought you were at least
28 or 29.
So that makes us the same age.
- Huh? Hold up, you're 23 too?
- Sure am.
Seriously?
I can't believe this.
I had you pegged being
somewhere around 40.
40?
Okay, so how old are you,
Chris? Maybe 30?
Don't be stupid,
I am not that old.
Then 26 or 27?
Nope. No comment.
Anything I say is just gonna
let you narrow it down.
- You paused there for a second.
- That means he's probably right.
I guess I better start using
"ma'am" around you.
Don't even think about it.
Since we're sharing,
I'm 16 years old.
God, could you be
any more annoying?
Ow, ow. Cut it out.
40?
All done.
What exactly
is that supposed to be?
Something he found
lying around the armory.
And now he some great idea
of using it for the barbecue.
Don't you think that's
a little dangerous?
- 40?
- Here we go.
- Wow.
- Whoa.
What was that?
Hm? A fire?
Nah, couldn't be.
Earlier today,
the very last ice floe
in the Arctic broke apart.
Oh, my God.
Wow, so the North Pole's
finally gone for good?
It's all over the news
right now.
Check this out.
This video is going viral.
-According to my calculations,
precisely 3 years from now,
the ice in the North Pole
will melt and be lost forever.
It's been 3 years to the day
since he made that speech.
For real?
So then everything is playing
out as Skinner predicted.
Some people are even starting
to treat him
like a prophet or a God.
But they were just calling him
a terrorist the other day.
Forget terrorism.
It's possible this could
escalate into World War III.
And now it look
like Hapna is old news.
Yeah, you said it.
If Skinner's telling the truth,
there's only 15 days left
until the first deaths occur
Ya'know, a world war might wipe
out humanity before Hapna does.
That's not very funny, Chris.
Hm? Oh, Ms. Hersch.
Sorry I'm late.
Let's get started.
Sadly, we're back to square one.
Even the FBI agents who
raided that cult,
the Tower of the Truth, couldn't
find anything tied to Skinner.
Very unfortunate.
Their deity, Naga,
was indeed an AI modeled
after Skinner's brain,
but the bureau concluded
that the man himself
wasn't involved in any way.
So, all that for nothing.
Okay, then, what do we do now?
In times like these, it's best
to go back to where we began.
- What do you mean?
- First off,
we should take another look
at Skinner's video.
Hm?
Nope. Not food.
Nor do I intend
to unilaterally decide
what the fate of
humanity will be.
All I am doing is serving
as the Seventh Trumpeter.
Wait, pause it.
What's he mean?
What is the seventh trumpeter?
It's part of the New Testament.
John, one of the apostles
of Jesus,
was given a vision
of the future by God
which he wrote about
in the Book of Revelation.
What's supposed to happen?
Volcanic eruptions,
meteor storms, and war.
In the Book of Revelation,
God, enraged by
humanity's arrogance,
brings down all sorts
of disasters on them.
Yikes.
Sounds like what's
happening to us now.
Angels each sound
their trumpet
warning of the next calamity.
And then,
after the seventh angel blows
its trumpet,
final judgment gets delivered
upon humanity.
Ah, that makes sense.
So that's why Skinner said he's
blowing the seventh trumpet.
Ah, there goes the timer.
I'll be right back.
Hey, so when did the other
six trumpets get played?
Good question.
Alright.
The analysis is complete.
The weather's
not very good today.
Plus, the sun will
be setting soon.
It's better if we leave tomorrow
instead. What do you think?
- Set sail.
- You sure?
We don't have the luxury
of believing in tomorrow.
You should know that.
What's that thing?
A memory drive
extracted from Naga.
And what are these numbers?
I assume it's the final output
of data it created.
So it's like Naga's
dying message?
Possibly.
This may have been its way
of trying to communicate to us.
Like telling us the name
of its girlfriend?
- Take this seriously.
- Whatever you say, chief.
That looks like a phone number
to me.
So, let's call it
and find out.
Huh? Just like that?
Perhaps it's some kind
of alpha-numeric code.
I'll run it through
my decryption software.
Or maybe they could be
map coordinates.
Huh? Ramen shop?
Sorry, I must have
the wrong number.
"Hafurrowfoohee
minminary furolee."
- What the heck?
- It doesn't make any sense.
Ah.
Found them.
So they're coordinates?
Like, latitude and longitude?
Yeah.
It's used in the military.
It's the UTM coordinate system.
Here are the four locations
they point to.
- Hm?
- Hm?
- So, uh
- Something's not right.
They all point to the middle
of the ocean.
Huh.
The Maldives, Manila Bay,
the Sakishima Islands,
Tuvalu.
I'm stumped.
Hold on.
Didn't these islands get
submerged about 10 years ago?
Now that you mention it
Are you saying these spots
used to be islands
instead of water?
Actually, these might be
Yeah, I was right.
Skinner bought land
in all four of these areas
right before they sunk
into the ocean.
He did what?
Why would he buy
sinking islands?
So is this what Naga
was trying to tell us?
Aw, man.
This is so confusing.
All this yapping
isn't getting us anywhere.
Let's take a boat ride.
Aloha ocean resort.
What are the odds
that Skinner is hiding
in one of those 4 locations?
It's hard to say
why he would be there,
But I'm sure there must
be some sort of reason
that he purchased
all of that land.
Sounds interesting.
The only problem is that
the islands are now submerged
because of global warming.
So we don't have
that many clues to follow.
Understood.
And while I have you,
do you have time
to meet me for coffee?
How interesting.
I didn't know
you liked Rembrandt.
Or maybe you just wanted to come
to a place
that hasn't been bugged?
- Not at all.
I want to appreciate
Rembrandt's artwork
one last time
before the end of the world.
That's very sentimental.
I'm just that kind of guy.
The same guy everyone sees
as a coldhearted pragmatist
and who actually might be an AI
instead of a regular
human being?
First time I've heard that.
I'll be back in an hour.
Hey, Abel?
Don't let sentimentality
kill your career.
You don't have to
tell me that, Liz.
Okay. See you in an hour.
Reporting in from the Maldives.
Just 12 more minutes
until I reach the target.
Roger. I'm currently over the
mouth of the Santa Maria River.
The plane's about to land.
I just left Ishigaki Island.
I'll be at Taketomi Island
in 10 minutes.
I've already made it to Tuvalu.
I'm gonna go ahead and dive in
and take a look around.
Talk soon.
Here we go.
Oh. Oh.
Who the hell is that?
- Is this it?
- Yes, sir. Right on the mark.
Just as I thought, nothing here.
Hey, guys, this is
completely unrelated, but
is Lazarus going to get
disbanded after we find Skinner?
Of course.
That's the sole purpose
of our team.
I was just thinking
that would be kind of a shame,
you know?
And? Are you saying
we're better off
not catching Skinner?
Sounds like you would rather
see the end of the world.
No, that's not what I meant.
I just
I gotta say, I totally forgot
how blue the sky and sea are.
Yeah, I don't remember the
last time I saw a clear sky.
That's because Babylonia City
is always cloudy.
It's like that everywhere
these days.
The only beautiful places left
are those without humans.
You know,
maybe this is something
Skinner wanted us to see.
So this is what
the earth really looks like
and we're destroying it.
The first six trumpets
have already sounded.
Who can really say
that Skinner is wrong then?
How was it?
A buncha nothing.
It's been 10 years now.
Everybody here packed up
and moved to another island.
Oh?
What happened there?
Oh, a bunch of flying fish
jumped out,
and one of them hit me.
Wow. Sounds like it hurts.
Not one bit.
It's an insensitivity disorder.
I was born with it.
- Huh?
It makes me unable
to feel pain,
so I don't know what it's like.
Oh, wow.
So you've never taken Hapna?
I never had a need to take it.
Cases like mine
aren't uncommon around here.
It's called analgesia.
What's up?
I just found out a
majority of the people
who lived on this island
suffer from analgesia.
Really?
Yeah, my guide is actually
a former resident.
He can't feel pain at all.
And guess what.
When he was little,
he remembers Skinner coming
to visit the island.
In the past,
we didn't have any money.
It was impossible
for us to move elsewhere.
But then
Mr. Skinner swooped in
and bought our entire island
from us.
So thanks to him, we had enough
money to start new lives.
Elaina, can you
trace where the money
that he spent on the
other islands went?
I'll try.
Damn it.
I still can't seem
to figure Skinner out.
Rembrandt is the painter
that many regard
to be the master of light.
In other words, he understood
that the true nature of things
depended heavily on
how they are illuminated.
He practically revolutionized
the world of art.
Okay then,
what is so important
that you had to bring me here
to talk?
I believe
that I owe you an apology.
What for?
Because I know how you feel
about Skinner,
and it's not a stretch to say
that I've taken advantage
of that fact.
Don't worry about it.
No one forced me to do anything.
I made my own decisions.
Of course, Doctor.
Why did he start
this whole thing?
And why did he leave me behind?
I need the answers
to those questions.
About the prison in Arizona.
The intelligence branch
of the army
has started sniffing around.
- For Axel?
- Yeah.
Plus, they're looking into
the incident
at the Schiphol Airport.
Axel is the one.
He can shed light on everything.
Skinner came to that
island 15 years ago,
for a drive
to receive gene donations.
Same story with
the other islands.
He bought up
all of their territory,
which gave the residents
enough money
to move away
and start new lives.
Whatever the case,
it's likely that this analgesia
was the origin of Hapna.
Do you know where he studied
the donated genes?
At the Hague Institute.
Skinner was a researcher there
at the time.
Interesting.
That place got shut down
after the incident.
I'll look for a list of people
who worked there
during that period.
I've been thinking, I betcha
Naga needed to understand.
Understand what?
Naga saw Skinner as its father.
It probably wanted to know
his intentions.
It feels almost like
we are experiencing everything
Skinner had gone through,
you know?
Actually, that might be
what he had in mind all along.
What do you mean?
He wants us to
feel like he felt.
Live our lives
through his experiences.
What you're really saying
all of us are just dancing
in the palm of his hand.
"The Raising of Lazarus."
Tell me something,
Dr. Hersch.
Do you somehow get
the impression
that Dr. Skinner sold
his soul to the devil
and became
a different person?
No, I don't.
I don't think he's changed
at all.
He's always been very sincere.
Practically to a fault.
But you can't survive
in the world like that.
And when I told him as much,
he replied,
"What exactly is so wrong
about a scientist
who is sincere and pure?"
Indeed.
Here's what I can say for sure.
He wants somebody
to search for him and find him.
Of course,
I'd like to believe that, too.
I've found a data archive.
It includes a list of
all the researchers affiliated
with the Hague Institute.
Huh?
What's wrong?
Well
Why?
Alexandra?
Is that you?
I ♪
I must be
losing my mind ♪
I keep on trying
to find a way out ♪
There's no need ♪
You don't lock the door
anymore ♪
I ♪
Ba ba, ba ♪
You know I
never go out ♪
Ba ba, ba ♪
And you know I
start to forget things ♪
It's okay ♪
They weren't
essential anyway ♪
Looking like that?
What's that supposed to mean?
I thought you were at least
28 or 29.
So that makes us the same age.
- Huh? Hold up, you're 23 too?
- Sure am.
Seriously?
I can't believe this.
I had you pegged being
somewhere around 40.
40?
Okay, so how old are you,
Chris? Maybe 30?
Don't be stupid,
I am not that old.
Then 26 or 27?
Nope. No comment.
Anything I say is just gonna
let you narrow it down.
- You paused there for a second.
- That means he's probably right.
I guess I better start using
"ma'am" around you.
Don't even think about it.
Since we're sharing,
I'm 16 years old.
God, could you be
any more annoying?
Ow, ow. Cut it out.
40?
All done.
What exactly
is that supposed to be?
Something he found
lying around the armory.
And now he some great idea
of using it for the barbecue.
Don't you think that's
a little dangerous?
- 40?
- Here we go.
- Wow.
- Whoa.
What was that?
Hm? A fire?
Nah, couldn't be.
Earlier today,
the very last ice floe
in the Arctic broke apart.
Oh, my God.
Wow, so the North Pole's
finally gone for good?
It's all over the news
right now.
Check this out.
This video is going viral.
-According to my calculations,
precisely 3 years from now,
the ice in the North Pole
will melt and be lost forever.
It's been 3 years to the day
since he made that speech.
For real?
So then everything is playing
out as Skinner predicted.
Some people are even starting
to treat him
like a prophet or a God.
But they were just calling him
a terrorist the other day.
Forget terrorism.
It's possible this could
escalate into World War III.
And now it look
like Hapna is old news.
Yeah, you said it.
If Skinner's telling the truth,
there's only 15 days left
until the first deaths occur
Ya'know, a world war might wipe
out humanity before Hapna does.
That's not very funny, Chris.
Hm? Oh, Ms. Hersch.
Sorry I'm late.
Let's get started.
Sadly, we're back to square one.
Even the FBI agents who
raided that cult,
the Tower of the Truth, couldn't
find anything tied to Skinner.
Very unfortunate.
Their deity, Naga,
was indeed an AI modeled
after Skinner's brain,
but the bureau concluded
that the man himself
wasn't involved in any way.
So, all that for nothing.
Okay, then, what do we do now?
In times like these, it's best
to go back to where we began.
- What do you mean?
- First off,
we should take another look
at Skinner's video.
Hm?
Nope. Not food.
Nor do I intend
to unilaterally decide
what the fate of
humanity will be.
All I am doing is serving
as the Seventh Trumpeter.
Wait, pause it.
What's he mean?
What is the seventh trumpeter?
It's part of the New Testament.
John, one of the apostles
of Jesus,
was given a vision
of the future by God
which he wrote about
in the Book of Revelation.
What's supposed to happen?
Volcanic eruptions,
meteor storms, and war.
In the Book of Revelation,
God, enraged by
humanity's arrogance,
brings down all sorts
of disasters on them.
Yikes.
Sounds like what's
happening to us now.
Angels each sound
their trumpet
warning of the next calamity.
And then,
after the seventh angel blows
its trumpet,
final judgment gets delivered
upon humanity.
Ah, that makes sense.
So that's why Skinner said he's
blowing the seventh trumpet.
Ah, there goes the timer.
I'll be right back.
Hey, so when did the other
six trumpets get played?
Good question.
Alright.
The analysis is complete.
The weather's
not very good today.
Plus, the sun will
be setting soon.
It's better if we leave tomorrow
instead. What do you think?
- Set sail.
- You sure?
We don't have the luxury
of believing in tomorrow.
You should know that.
What's that thing?
A memory drive
extracted from Naga.
And what are these numbers?
I assume it's the final output
of data it created.
So it's like Naga's
dying message?
Possibly.
This may have been its way
of trying to communicate to us.
Like telling us the name
of its girlfriend?
- Take this seriously.
- Whatever you say, chief.
That looks like a phone number
to me.
So, let's call it
and find out.
Huh? Just like that?
Perhaps it's some kind
of alpha-numeric code.
I'll run it through
my decryption software.
Or maybe they could be
map coordinates.
Huh? Ramen shop?
Sorry, I must have
the wrong number.
"Hafurrowfoohee
minminary furolee."
- What the heck?
- It doesn't make any sense.
Ah.
Found them.
So they're coordinates?
Like, latitude and longitude?
Yeah.
It's used in the military.
It's the UTM coordinate system.
Here are the four locations
they point to.
- Hm?
- Hm?
- So, uh
- Something's not right.
They all point to the middle
of the ocean.
Huh.
The Maldives, Manila Bay,
the Sakishima Islands,
Tuvalu.
I'm stumped.
Hold on.
Didn't these islands get
submerged about 10 years ago?
Now that you mention it
Are you saying these spots
used to be islands
instead of water?
Actually, these might be
Yeah, I was right.
Skinner bought land
in all four of these areas
right before they sunk
into the ocean.
He did what?
Why would he buy
sinking islands?
So is this what Naga
was trying to tell us?
Aw, man.
This is so confusing.
All this yapping
isn't getting us anywhere.
Let's take a boat ride.
Aloha ocean resort.
What are the odds
that Skinner is hiding
in one of those 4 locations?
It's hard to say
why he would be there,
But I'm sure there must
be some sort of reason
that he purchased
all of that land.
Sounds interesting.
The only problem is that
the islands are now submerged
because of global warming.
So we don't have
that many clues to follow.
Understood.
And while I have you,
do you have time
to meet me for coffee?
How interesting.
I didn't know
you liked Rembrandt.
Or maybe you just wanted to come
to a place
that hasn't been bugged?
- Not at all.
I want to appreciate
Rembrandt's artwork
one last time
before the end of the world.
That's very sentimental.
I'm just that kind of guy.
The same guy everyone sees
as a coldhearted pragmatist
and who actually might be an AI
instead of a regular
human being?
First time I've heard that.
I'll be back in an hour.
Hey, Abel?
Don't let sentimentality
kill your career.
You don't have to
tell me that, Liz.
Okay. See you in an hour.
Reporting in from the Maldives.
Just 12 more minutes
until I reach the target.
Roger. I'm currently over the
mouth of the Santa Maria River.
The plane's about to land.
I just left Ishigaki Island.
I'll be at Taketomi Island
in 10 minutes.
I've already made it to Tuvalu.
I'm gonna go ahead and dive in
and take a look around.
Talk soon.
Here we go.
Oh. Oh.
Who the hell is that?
- Is this it?
- Yes, sir. Right on the mark.
Just as I thought, nothing here.
Hey, guys, this is
completely unrelated, but
is Lazarus going to get
disbanded after we find Skinner?
Of course.
That's the sole purpose
of our team.
I was just thinking
that would be kind of a shame,
you know?
And? Are you saying
we're better off
not catching Skinner?
Sounds like you would rather
see the end of the world.
No, that's not what I meant.
I just
I gotta say, I totally forgot
how blue the sky and sea are.
Yeah, I don't remember the
last time I saw a clear sky.
That's because Babylonia City
is always cloudy.
It's like that everywhere
these days.
The only beautiful places left
are those without humans.
You know,
maybe this is something
Skinner wanted us to see.
So this is what
the earth really looks like
and we're destroying it.
The first six trumpets
have already sounded.
Who can really say
that Skinner is wrong then?
How was it?
A buncha nothing.
It's been 10 years now.
Everybody here packed up
and moved to another island.
Oh?
What happened there?
Oh, a bunch of flying fish
jumped out,
and one of them hit me.
Wow. Sounds like it hurts.
Not one bit.
It's an insensitivity disorder.
I was born with it.
- Huh?
It makes me unable
to feel pain,
so I don't know what it's like.
Oh, wow.
So you've never taken Hapna?
I never had a need to take it.
Cases like mine
aren't uncommon around here.
It's called analgesia.
What's up?
I just found out a
majority of the people
who lived on this island
suffer from analgesia.
Really?
Yeah, my guide is actually
a former resident.
He can't feel pain at all.
And guess what.
When he was little,
he remembers Skinner coming
to visit the island.
In the past,
we didn't have any money.
It was impossible
for us to move elsewhere.
But then
Mr. Skinner swooped in
and bought our entire island
from us.
So thanks to him, we had enough
money to start new lives.
Elaina, can you
trace where the money
that he spent on the
other islands went?
I'll try.
Damn it.
I still can't seem
to figure Skinner out.
Rembrandt is the painter
that many regard
to be the master of light.
In other words, he understood
that the true nature of things
depended heavily on
how they are illuminated.
He practically revolutionized
the world of art.
Okay then,
what is so important
that you had to bring me here
to talk?
I believe
that I owe you an apology.
What for?
Because I know how you feel
about Skinner,
and it's not a stretch to say
that I've taken advantage
of that fact.
Don't worry about it.
No one forced me to do anything.
I made my own decisions.
Of course, Doctor.
Why did he start
this whole thing?
And why did he leave me behind?
I need the answers
to those questions.
About the prison in Arizona.
The intelligence branch
of the army
has started sniffing around.
- For Axel?
- Yeah.
Plus, they're looking into
the incident
at the Schiphol Airport.
Axel is the one.
He can shed light on everything.
Skinner came to that
island 15 years ago,
for a drive
to receive gene donations.
Same story with
the other islands.
He bought up
all of their territory,
which gave the residents
enough money
to move away
and start new lives.
Whatever the case,
it's likely that this analgesia
was the origin of Hapna.
Do you know where he studied
the donated genes?
At the Hague Institute.
Skinner was a researcher there
at the time.
Interesting.
That place got shut down
after the incident.
I'll look for a list of people
who worked there
during that period.
I've been thinking, I betcha
Naga needed to understand.
Understand what?
Naga saw Skinner as its father.
It probably wanted to know
his intentions.
It feels almost like
we are experiencing everything
Skinner had gone through,
you know?
Actually, that might be
what he had in mind all along.
What do you mean?
He wants us to
feel like he felt.
Live our lives
through his experiences.
What you're really saying
all of us are just dancing
in the palm of his hand.
"The Raising of Lazarus."
Tell me something,
Dr. Hersch.
Do you somehow get
the impression
that Dr. Skinner sold
his soul to the devil
and became
a different person?
No, I don't.
I don't think he's changed
at all.
He's always been very sincere.
Practically to a fault.
But you can't survive
in the world like that.
And when I told him as much,
he replied,
"What exactly is so wrong
about a scientist
who is sincere and pure?"
Indeed.
Here's what I can say for sure.
He wants somebody
to search for him and find him.
Of course,
I'd like to believe that, too.
I've found a data archive.
It includes a list of
all the researchers affiliated
with the Hague Institute.
Huh?
What's wrong?
Well
Why?
Alexandra?
Is that you?
I ♪
I must be
losing my mind ♪
I keep on trying
to find a way out ♪
There's no need ♪
You don't lock the door
anymore ♪
I ♪
Ba ba, ba ♪
You know I
never go out ♪
Ba ba, ba ♪
And you know I
start to forget things ♪
It's okay ♪
They weren't
essential anyway ♪