The Copenhagen Test (2025) s01e07 Episode Script

1
-Did you make contact
with Schiff?
-No, sir, I didn't.
-He's lying.
Alexander: How do I
get it out of my head?
-There's no way
to remove it.
-[groans]
Schiff: No one has ever
made it past six months
without complete and total
mental collapse
or death.
Parker: It doesn't make sense
that he would flip.
It doesn't sound like
the person he is at all.
Schiff: You're gonna help me
find the ghost
I've been hunting
for a long time.
Alexander: However flawed
The Orphanage might be,
I would still
never work for you.
Schiff:
If I give the order,
your parents are dead!
-I need to speak
to St. George.
Directly.
-He is walking evidence
of a decision that we made
to compromise
national security.
Be prepared to give
the kill order.
Alexander:
I'll do what you asked.
As soon as Victor comes through,
I'll lead you to St. George.
[cell phone buzzes]
[horn honking]
Parker: How could
Nicole's warning
on spear phishing Senators
get so much praise?
And Tim's report
on sound poisoning?
That was so 2016.
-Oh, it was
total amateur hour.
I mean,
your nanite brain hack
was so much more nuanced.
-I know!
But I submitted that memo
months ago
and Carter's eval said
it was ridiculous.
"We should really be worrying
about more likely scenarios."
-That's bullshit.
-One hundred percent.
There are enemy states
that wanna hurt us,
and making our agents
sick with sound
is only gonna
get 'em so far.
The first ones to figure out
how to use us,
what we see and hear,
they're gonna rule the world.
-Or at least
become filthy rich.
-Exactly.
But
I don't know.
Maybe Carter's right.
-Maybe.
You ever wonder
who we've been writing
these reports for?
And what they're doing
with them?
That place, those people,
why do we work for them?
-They don't listen to us.
They throw out
everything we say.
-They don't appreciate us.
I think I'm gonna quit.
Tomorrow.
-Let's do it.
Just after lunch.
Food's not great,
but it's free.
[laughs]
-I'm gonna grab us
some celebratory coffees
before we go out
in a blaze of glory.
-[laughs] Let's not
make it too dramatic.
[♪♪♪]
[man clearing throat]
[inaudible conversation]
-[sighs]
How's the salmon?
-It's really good.
-Do you know who I am?
[♪♪♪]
[theme music playing]
["Inside Looking Out"
by The Animals playing]
Sittin' here lonely ♪
Like a broken man ♪
Settle my time and do ♪
[breathes deeply]
Alexander: I'm ready.
I'll do what you asked.
As soon as Victor
comes through,
I'll lead you to St. George.
It's okay,
everything's okay.
Oh, baby ♪
I just need ♪
Your tender lovin' ♪
To keep me sane ♪
In this ♪
[sighs deeply]
[groans]
[grunts]
My rebirth ♪
Hey.
Listen to me.
You don't have to do this.
[both grunting]
[Alexander groans]
[grunting]
[grunts]
-[grunts]
-[screams]
[groans]
[both grunting]
[grunts]
[clatters]
I don't wanna hurt you.
-You're gonna have to
if you wanna live.
[grunting]
[groans]
[Alexander grunts]
[groans]
[music stops playing]
-[Michelle grunts]
-[groans]
[grunts]
[both panting]
[both grunting]
[grunts]
[both panting]
Soup's ready.
[tense music playing]
[grunts]
[panting]
Ellie: You think
he'll kill her?
[♪♪♪]
[Alexander
breathing heavily]
[exhales sharply]
-Wet team, move in.
-Understood.
-We need to get this
contained, now.
-[feedback buzzing]
-[groans]
Ellie: Wait, what's he doing?
That's not
a panic attack, is it?
[Alexander gasping]
[groans]
Ellie:
It's the tech in his brain.
[Alexander gasps]
[groans]
[Alexander panting]
-Timekeeper,
Osiris is in the dining room.
Possibly incapacitated.
-[feedback buzzing]
-[pants]
[feedback fading]
[grunts]
-[door slams open]
-[gunshot]
-[grunts]
-[gunshots]
[suspenseful music playing]
Remy: Hale.
[music intensifies]
[grunts]
[gunshots]
Damn!
Osiris has left
the building on foot!
In pursuit!
-I'm ready.
I'll do what you asked.
As soon as Victor
comes through,
I'll lead you to St. George.
-Until Hale is apprehended,
I suggest
we remove you, ma'am,
to a secure location.
-No.
[♪♪♪]
-He's coming for you.
-Then we know where
he's going to be, don't we?
[tense music playing]
-Where is Hale now?
-We're--
We're still looking.
-Have we figured out
how Victor Simonek
is connected to this?
-We have placed agents
in Victor's restaurant.
They reported
that he's been entertaining
Alexander's parents
since lunch.
-Are they in on it? Why else
would they be in town?
-Our analysts
do not believe
the Hales have any awareness
of the situation.
Victor's part in this
might simply be
to guarantee their safety.
-We could bring them in.
His parents.
Force Hale to surrender.
-I don't believe
he will surrender.
-Like you didn't believe
he's flipped?
Parker: Alexander hesitated
when he saw the anxiety pills
he used to take
that carried the nanites.
His symptoms, the blips,
he's been experiencing
they're escalating.
Frances,
have we figured out how
these are happening to him yet?
-I'm still researching
the modified tech.
Marlowe:
You said he hesitated
when he saw the pills
his ex-fiancee gave him.
If we're worrying about
what's happening to him,
so is he.
-He's going to Rachel.
[door closes]
Alexander Hale is no longer
an Orphanage operative.
He's flipped.
And he's currently en route
to St. Elizabeth's Hospital.
When contact is made
agents should shoot to kill.
[tires screeching]
[suspenseful music playing]
Remy:
Approaching the hospital now.
[♪♪♪]
Nothing. She's not here,
he's not here.
Parker: Her shift was
supposed to start an hour ago.
-The next three days
on her calendar are blocked off.
-He's at her apartment.
We have a team en route.
How far?
Ops tech:
They're still five out.
-Her apartment's close by.
I'm on my way.
-Rachel!
[panting]
[grunts]
[pants]
[muffled screams]
I have always felt so lucky
that you came along.
Will you marry me, Rachel?
[♪♪♪]
[gunshot]
[suspenseful music playing]
[car alarm blaring]
[door chimes]
[song playing
on store's speakers]
She’s always taken ♪
For a fool ♪
And she's out there
On the dance floor ♪
Makin’ eyes at me ♪
[pants]
I need to use
your bathroom.
-What happened to you?
-A top secret spy agency's
trying to kill me
because my eyes and ears
have been hacked.
[laughs] Right.
-Look, there's
a methadone clinic
around the corner. So.
Get some help.
-Thanks.
-Nothing at any pharmacy.
[♪♪♪]
-He knows how to patch
himself up, combat-style.
Where is the closest place
that he can get super glue?
[grunts]
[groans]
[breathing heavily]
[pants]
[grunts]
[groans]
[grunts]
[dialing]
[line ringing]
Victor: Alexander?
-Yeah.
-I've been trying
to call you.
-Phone's been compromised.
They're onto me, Victor.
-[feedback buzzing]
-[groans]
[pants]
-All right, A-A-A-Alexander,
wh-- what can I do?
[pants]
-I just need
what I asked for earlier.
That's all.
Just get me that.
Please, just--
Trust me.
-Okay, I-- I-- I--
Listen, go to
our favorite spot, 9 p.m.
All right. This is proving
more difficult than I expected.
I'll have it by then.
-No. No.
It has to be earlier.
I don't think
I can survive until then.
-Alexander, find a way.
-Victor,
when this is all over
[groans]
tell my parents
how much
I love them, okay?
-Tell them yourself.
This isn't over yet.
[grunts]
[pants]
[gasps]
[feedback buzzing]
[grunts]
[♪♪♪]
[grunts]
[drone whirring]
[suspenseful music playing]
-Got you, Alexander.
[pants]
Orphanage agent 1: Hey, move!
Get out of the way!
[crowd screaming]
Orphanage agent 2:
Get on the ground, Osiris!
You're a traitor!
-Prove it.
-Are his eyes bleeding?
[suspenseful music playing]
Orphanage agent 1:
We lost Osiris.
On the move to the subway.
We're in pursuit.
[grunts]
[sighs]
man [over PA]:
Next stop, Woodley Park.
Doors open on the right.
[groans]
[woman screams]
[crowd screaming]
[grunting]
[groans]
[coughs]
[grunts]
[grunts]
[grunts]
[gasping]
-Forgot to thank you
for dosin' me!
-Guess that makes us even!
[screaming]
[grunts]
man [over PA]:
Next stop, Bethesda.
Doors open on the right.
[coughs]
[indistinct chatter]
[♪♪♪]
[indistinct chatter
continues]
Signals tech:
Facial recognition.
Scanning the crowds.
Remy:
We're entering the market.
There's people everywhere.
Signals tech:
We can't get a clean scan
on facial recognition.
There's too many variables.
-Run the footage back,
frame by frame!
He's here somewhere.
Remy:
There's a blizzard out here
and it's too crowded.
Can't make a visual.
We're gonna make our way
to the perimeter.
Make sure
he doesn't get out.
We'll find him.
[sighs]
-When I was promoted,
you said everyone here
was scared of you.
And it was my job
to say to your face
when you're fucking up.
But I can say it to the back
of your head as well.
You're mishandling this.
Send Alexander a message.
Persuade him to come back
and lead us to Schiff.
-No.
Hale has made his choice.
-This from the man who always
wants to play the long game.
What's the long game here?
-There is none.
We kill Hale before he
goes through with his promise.
-That's proving
to be difficult,
don't you agree?
I know you think
our finest will succeed.
End this
while keeping it in-house.
But if by chance,
even a small chance,
we don't succeed,
Alexander becomes living,
breathing proof
we kept the hack open.
There's no longer
a tactical problem,
but a political one.
I have an attorney
who might be able to stop it
from becoming public,
but we need to act fast.
Because if the bureaucratic shit
hits the fan,
it will be called what it is:
treason.
-No.
It'll expose her.
-You're the most
pragmatic person
I have ever known.
No one person gets to be
bigger than the mission.
Why is St. George
the exception?
I don't think anyone
has earned the right
to be followed
without question.
Not even her.
I recommend you keep your eyes
wide open on this one.
[♪♪♪]
[door closes]
-Mm!
-I need to know
what's going on with Alexander.
-I'm flattered you think
I know something.
I just analyze signals, dear.
-So, tell me
what the signals
inside his head
are doing to him.
Frances,
I cannot do my job!
[sighs]
I cannot find Alexander
unless I have all
of the information.
[♪♪♪]
-This was the old tech
that was shelved.
-"bleeding
from the eyes and ears
marked a rapid decline
within two hours.
Mini-seizures with
incapacitating
cognitive instability.
Subject rendered
unconscious until
grand mal seizure.
Fatal."
So, the new tech
inside of his brain
could be worse?
It's gonna destroy him.
-Maybe not.
We might kill him first.
We should remember that
he didn't choose any of this.
-He chose to betray us.
That choice he made.
-It's true, he did.
I just wish
I could understand why.
-Well, maybe he found out
about the tech
and realized that we knew
it would kill him
and didn't tell him.
-That's possible.
There is something
driving Alexander.
But from the beginning,
it's never been
the fear of his own death.
[pants]
[static crackling stops]
[wind chimes chiming]
-Alexander.
-[sniffs] You alone?
-Yes.
What are you doing here?
-I think it might be better
if I tell you inside.
-What's wrong with you?
-Please, Rachel, it--
It's, what? 7:30?
-Yeah. It's 7:26. Why?
-I have less than an hour
and I need to make it two, okay?
-What are you talking about?
-It's gonna sound crazy,
but I will tell you,
I promise, just--
just inside.
[sighs]
-What's wrong?
What's gonna sound crazy?
Outside of all
the cryptic muttering
and you showing up
at my ca-- [sighs]
Alexander, what happened?
-Fight with a co-worker.
-From the research library.
Right.
Let me see it.
-You're living here now?
-Come here. Please.
Come on.
[Alexander groans]
Did you use super glue?
-Yeah.
-Sit down.
[sighs]
Okay. This is gonna sting.
[sighs]
[grunts]
[groans]
Okay.
Do you remember what I said
when we first got here
that weekend?
-Yeah, you said
you could imagine us
living here one day.
-I came back a few times.
After we broke up.
And then I saw
it went on the market,
and I've wanted a place
to get away from the city
when it all became too much.
-Or you just needed
a place to hide.
-What?
[grunts]
-I think it's time for us
to be completely honest
with each other.
I work for
an intelligence agency.
We cleared you.
They said there
wasn't any evidence
that you had anything to do
with the laced pills
but I need to hear you
say it, directly.
I need to hear it from you.
-Wh-- What laced pills?
Why--
The anti-anxiety medication?
-Those--
-What happened?
-Those pills you gave me
were spiked
with nanites. Okay?
Nanites that hacked my brain.
And unfortunately,
it's breaking my brain down,
hour by hour.
So, I need to know
if you had anything
to do with this,
and I need to know
if there's a way to stop it.
-Uh--
Those pills came from
a pharmaceutical rep.
They were samples.
-What pharmaceutical rep?
-Uh--
Mark from Kevnik.
I-- I have his card
at my office.
[grunts]
I-- We have so many reps
come through
and it was the only way
to get the pills
without a paper trail,
which you told me
was necessary!
I had no idea
anything was wrong
with those pills!
-Okay.
-[feedback buzzing]
-[groaning]
[grunts]
[gasps]
[groans]
[classical orchestral
music playing]
[music stops playing]
-Ma'am.
You canceled the flight?
-For tonight.
Kate will be on it
in the morning.
She doesn't travel well
when the sun's down.
-But we need to move you
to a secured location as well.
-I've already
answered that.
-This risk isn't worth it.
I won't put
The Orphanage in danger.
-And I wouldn't ask you to.
Which is why I plan to keep
the threat against me
as just that, Peter.
I'm just one person.
-This place won't survive
without you.
-Then I built it wrong.
This place
is bigger than us, Peter.
It always was.
Now, I have to say
goodbye to Kate.
[♪♪♪]
-Are you feeling okay?
-I'd feel better
if you cleared me
to finish what I started.
Or has he been found?
-Not yet. I guess
I didn't know him
as well as I thought.
He's proving trickier
than predicted.
-Send me back out.
I'll track him down.
-You don't have to.
L-Look, you can be done
if you want to.
I'll keep working
on that thing that I promised.
I'll find a way.
-But I'm not done.
I'm not done
until you're done.
I will find him and end this.
[♪♪♪]
But there's something
you should know.
-You should see a specialist.
This could be a tumor.
And if they catch it
early enough,
you have
a really good chance--
-Of what?
Living a long
and healthy life?
[sighs] It's not cancer, Rach.
It's these nanites
from the pills
which are
fusing with my brainstem.
It's called symbiosis.
I came looking for you
because if you did have
something to do with it,
then maybe--
maybe you could give me
something that would fix it or--
or hold it off
just long enough.
-Long enough for what?
[sighs]
I thought we were being
completely honest
with each other?
[sighs]
-The man that did this to me
is gonna kill my parents
if I don't do what he asks.
-Your parents?
Alexander, wh--
-And at this rate,
I'm not gonna live
long enough,
so, please, I need you
to give me more time.
-Believe me, I would
if I had any knowledge.
What if I give you something
that makes it worse?
I-- I can't.
I can't.
I'm so sorry, Alexander.
I'm sorry.
[cries]
[Alexander sighs]
I'm sorry.
-It's okay.
It's okay.
Get down!
-[Rachel screams]
[gun firing]
[glass shatters]
-Who is shooting at us?
-My agency.
-Shouldn't they be helping you?
-They think I betrayed them.
-Wh-- How many are there?
-There's too many.
-We're not gonna survive this,
are we?
-All right, listen to me.
I'll run, you surrender.
Say that I attacked you.
Tell them I forced you
to help me.
-Alexander
-It's gonna be okay.
[gun firing continues]
I promise.
-Alexander. Follow me.
Hurry!
[whirring]
Get in! Come on!
[suspenseful music playing]
-They're here somewhere.
Find them.
[pants]
[♪♪♪]
-Alexander.
-[gasps]
-No.
You were a part of this?
[sighs] This whole time,
you-- you knew?
-We don't have time for this.
Your eyes and ears
have already started bleeding.
So, it's happening.
But once the seizures start,
it's the end.
Nobody who's been dosed
with Cassandra
has ever survived
past the symbiosis stage.
It is a wall
you're heading straight for.
-You did this to me?
You lied to me. You--
-Alexander, we have to go!
-Shut up!
[grunting]
-I can give you more time.
[pants]
Uh--
[Alexander sighs]
Here. Here. Take this.
It's adrenaline.
It'll give you another few hours
until the symbiosis starts.
But only take it
if you're seizing.
Otherwise, the dose
is strong enough
to induce a heart attack.
-Why should I trust you?
-Because if you don't,
you'll die.
And so will your parents.
It's your only option.
-[loud bang]
-[gasps]
[beeps]
This way.
[beeping]
Run. Go! Go! Go, go!
[explosion booms]
[car alarms blaring]
What're you doing?
You have an hour left. Go!
-Was all this here
when we came?
Just tell me the truth!
-The nanites needed to pair
with the first
monitoring station.
-Like a fucking
Bluetooth device?
-I didn't expect you
to propose.
But it did make for
a pretty romantic getaway.
Not all of it was fake.
-[gunshot]
-[gasps]
[inaudible dialogue]
-They're-- No,
'cause the rarest scallop
is from the Indian Ocean,
which is seven thousand
miles away
from where they're claiming!
You guys really hate
your desserts, right?
-[sighs]
Victor: Okay, you know what?
We can get something else.
We have--
Oh, we have
a pistachio ice cream
-Victor!
-that you’ve got--
-You-- You only talk this much
when you don't want us
to ask questions.
[laughs]
Please, we know
Alexander's in trouble.
-Okay.
-Tell us what we can do to help.
-This! [chuckles] This.
This-- We are gonna
buy him some time
because we are not
gonna show anybody
that anything is wrong!
-Aw, yes--
-We're having a great meal.
Except for the dessert.
That's not so great.
-[Helen laughs]
So, what should
we do about that?
-Well, uh,
pistachio ice cream sounds
like a wonderful idea!
-Yes!
-Yes, two!
Preston: Shot, shot.
-Three!
Three of the pistachio.
And another bottle of this
Preston: Yes!
-port 'cause
we finished this. [laughs]
We have. So,
the black market in scallops,
this is a cutthroat business.
-This may be our only chance
to take the upper hand.
But we have to do it now.
-You know him
better than anyone else.
Do whatever it takes.
-You really do
trust her, don't you?
-Parker?
-Her too.
-I know you don't understand
what Saint George means to me.
Mainly because I haven't
let you understand.
Let's just say
I spent most of my life
rescuing other people.
She was the first person
who was ever able to rescue me.
-From what?
-From who I used to be.
She's making her arrangements
and I'm not gonna
get in the way.
-And if this gamble
means we lose her?
You can live with that?
[engine roars]
[suspenseful music playing]
[car unlocks]
[engine starts]
automated voice:
Navigating to: home.
[sighs]
-Follow him.
-The highest in tequila
is wasted on me.
A-At a certain point,
my palate--
Helen, what time is it?
-Uh, almost 9:50.
[tense music playing]
Preston:
No, I got it. I got it.
Victor: How long do you have?
Alexander: Until ten tonight.
I don't want my parents
to see anything.
Victor: No, no, no.
I'll keep them here.
Preston: Oh, yeah.
-[Helen speaking indistinctly]
-Okay, excuse me.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, hi!
I'm Victor,
this is my joint. Um,
listen, we're having
staffing issues,
so we're gonna have
to close, uh, early tonight.
I'm sorry about that.
But the good news
is that all your meals
on the house tonight.
-[indistinct murmuring]
I'm sorry about this.
Please, come back again.
automated voice: You have
arrived at destination. Home.
[suspenseful music playing]
[sighs]
-Hello, Miss St. George.
-You're a daring one,
Mr. Hale.
Coming here, of all places.
-I didn't have
a choice, ma'am.
Schiff: He didn't
come here to chat.
He was leading me here.
I'm the one
you need to speak with.
-And who are you?
-You'll remember soon enough.
-I did my part.
My parents better be safe.
[door closes]
-You two wait outside.
This is between her and me.
[door opens]
[door closes]
Berlin.
[gasps]
[screams]
1989?
-Oh, you have to be
more specific.
[scoffs]
-I can be more specific.
I'm gonna kill you.
And then I'm gonna
make you infamous
by revealing your identity
to the world,
linking you to
a breathtaking act of treason,
and revealing a full accounting
of all your dark deeds.
And everything you built
will just be another agency
awash in scandal.
And your sycophants
will bury their heads
in their hands
behind prison walls.
Just wanted you
to know who it was
that person
you don't remember.
I'm surprised it's not
a van der Weyden or a Raphael.
-Da Vinci was a polymath.
Someone to aspire to be
in our line of work.
Don't you agree, Frederick?
-But he never painted
the slaying of the dragons.
[♪♪♪]
[gun cocks]
You're not St. George!
[groans]
[gunshots]
[Schiff groans]
-Exterior's clear.
-Thank you, Remy.
-[pants]
-[line ringing]
[grunts]
-Kill Hale and the parents!
[Schiff groans]
[suspenseful music playing]
Victor: Hey, guys?
I wanna show you the, uh,
the private dining room.
It's, uh, right this way.
It's been renovated.
This way. Come on.
Come on up.
[tires screeching]
[gunshots]
[horn honking]
[yells]
[gasps]
[sighs]
[feedback buzzing]
[groaning]
[tires screeching]
-[grunts] Not now.
[tires screeching]
[grunts]
[gasps]
[grunting]
[gasping]
[grunting]
[♪♪♪]
[grunts]
[gasps]
[pants]
[instrumental music playing]