NCIS: Sydney (2023) s03e17 Episode Script

[PEOPLE CHEER]
[TECHNO MUSIC PUMPS]
[DRONES WHINE]
Come on, you can do this, Tegan.
Let's go!
[ALL CHEER]
[DRONE BUZZES]
[DRONE SCREECHES]
[ALL CHEER]
You won, Tegan! Yeah! [LAUGHS]
Bro! In the hangar!
[TEGAN] Good race, Avery.
Don't touch me.
[TEGAN] What? What did I say?
[PEOPLE CHEER]
[PEOPLE CHANT]
Tegan! Tegan! Tegan! Tegan!
Tegan! Tegan! Tegan! Tegan!
[CHANTING FADES]
[TAYLOR] Tegan!
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
Honey, where are you?
[DOOR OPENS]
[KNOCK AT DOOR]
Tegan?
Tegan!
[TAYLOR] Babe?
What?
I need you!
[ETHAN SIGHS]
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
[TAYLOR] She's done it again.
Are you kidding me?
It's your turn.
I am sick of being the fun police.
[PHONE BUZZES]
[DISTURBING MUSIC]
[TEGAN ON VOICEMAIL] It's me.
You know what to do.
[ETHAN ON VOICEMAIL]
Tegan, honey,
I don't know where you are,
but you have exactly one hour
to come back home.
[THEME MUSIC]
[MONITOR BLEEPS]
I think I'm in love.
Yeah, I've gotta be honest,
she's a lot bigger than I thought.
I'm not complaining.
And there's nothing that Sonja won't do.
[JD] Ooh.
AI-powered,
but completely firewall-protected.
Sonja's not just a fridge.
Sonja online-shops for you,
learns your eating patterns,
and she makes seven kinds of ice cubes.
- And when you say music she's
- [K-POP MUSIC BLARES]
Screams in Korean?
Sonja, music off!
[MUSIC STOPS]
Good, Sonja.
As long as DeShawn's food's
still in there.
- Bluebird!
- [EVIE] Argh!
Bluebird! Bluebird!
- [SONJA BLEEPS]
- Isn't that fun?
Yeah, I connected her
to all of your phones,
but she wouldn't connect with Doc's,
so I turned him into a meme.
I didn't want him to feel left out.
Does it keep the beer cold?
- Can I get back to you on that?
- Sure.
In the meantime,
let's do that NCIS thing.
- Yeah.
- [SONJA BLEEPS]
[SONJA CHIMES]
Onya, Sonja.
[THUMPS GLASS]
[SONJA BLEEPS]
[SONJA CHIMES]
[CAMERA CLICKS REPEATEDLY]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[CAMERA CLICKS]
[MACKEY] Tegan Macpherson, 17, American.
Her dad, Ethan, works in
acquisitions for the US Navy.
You okay?
Poor kid.
Part of the job I hate the most.
I'm with you there, partner.
Cause of death, Rosie?
Uh, loss of blood,
most likely from
a severed carotid artery.
[MACKEY] We thinking knife?
Uh, well, knife wounds
tend to be cleaner.
This looks like it's been shredded.
Something mechanical would be my guess.
But whoever did this
was tall enough to solve
the Wallabies' line-out woes.
Uh, think Larry Bird on stilts.
It looks like
she was climbing into the vent
at the top of that ladder
when she was killed.
Death from above.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DESHAWN] We're very sorry
for your loss.
[EVIE] When was the last time
you saw Tegan?
Last night.
She snuck out.
Again.
That sort of thing happen a lot?
She started hanging out
with a new crowd.
Sneaking out, coming home late.
Any idea what she was doing?
Look, she's 17.
Yeah, I guess
she was testing boundaries.
We'll need to talk to her friends.
Do you have their names?
She met them online.
I have no idea who they are.
[BLUE] So, I found out
who her friends are.
There were a bunch of social media posts
geotagged to the location
of the crime scene
around the time of Miss Tegan's death.
And?
And I feel I really must recluse myself.
Tegan was hanging out with
people that I kinda know.
What? Like, friends?
Oh. [CHUCKLES] I wish. No.
These people are mucho heavy.
They're part of the Fortress Crew.
Oh, come on. The gaming posse?
They're like the sickest gamers
in the whole city.
Where have you guys been?
I don't know. Just hanging out
in the real world.
Okay, well, they hang out at
a place called the Fortress.
Okay, and you hang out there too?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That place is a little bit
too first-person shooter for my liking.
And as you guys know,
I'm more of an MMORPG kinda gal.
Just roll the tape, Blue.
[JD] So she was a drone racer?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Guess we know where Tegan
was sneaking off to.
And she wasn't just racing.
She was winning.
Tegan was kicking names and taking ass.
No points for second best.
- You know who she is?
- [BLUE] No.
I'm still trying to work that out.
So what's the prize for
winning one of these races?
Oh, merch, sponsorship deals.
I mean, more than anything,
though, bragging rights.
The winner gets mad street cred
and the loser just gets
a sad trip home on the bus.
- Oi!
- Argh!
Stick that in your, um,
your magnifying thingy,
will you, Bluebird?
[MACKEY] What is it?
From the looks of
the micro-strands, it looks like
it's from some sort of
super-high-end carbon fiber.
From what?
- [MONITOR BLEEPS]
- I'd start there.
Carbon fiber props on a drone.
Well, sounds like you might
want to cancel that BOLO
you've got on Larry Bird.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[MACKEY] Tegan wasn't
just racing drones.
She was killed by one.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[ENGINE STOPS]
Actually, you know what, guys,
I think on second thoughts,
I'm just gonna stay in the car.
Okay, just keep these windows open
and, uh, I promise I won't overheat.
Blue, we're gonna go in there
and they're gonna say
a bunch of techie stuff
that Mackey's not gonna understand.
JD will pretend he understands,
but he won't.
That is a fact.
And that's when you step in
and translate.
Blue, Tegan died from injuries
sustained in an encounter with a drone.
We need to find out how.
And you can help with,
you know, the nerds.
Okay, just please don't
call them "the nerds", okay?
It perpetuates unwelcome stereotypes.
Oh, yeah?
Sometimes.
- [GAME CHARACTER] Victory!
- [GAMER] Oh, come on.
- [COMPUTER GAME BLEEPS]
- [TECHNO MUSIC PLAYS]
Wow, I'd hate to see
the power bill for this joint.
Ha! You jest, but the voltage
running through this place
could keep the Death Star afloat
for weeks.
Yeah, if the Death Star was real.
Shh! Boss, not in here.
[JD] Hey, don't be intimidated, Blue.
They're all just as nerdy as you are.
Yo.
Sup, dawgs?
What are you, a cop?
Yep.
- [JD WHISPERS] Get in there!
- [MACKEY MOUTHS WORDS]
Wait, are you playing
Hollow Knight: Silksong?
Yeah, obvs.
And you're still stuck on
the Bell Beast,
even with Druid's Eye?
Here, can I?
What?
- [GAME CHARACTERS GRUNT]
- [WEAPONS FIRE]
Who did you say you were again?
Uh, Bluebird Gleeson.
No, no, no, no. Who are you really?
Um
I'm DeathBird666?
The DeathBird666?
[HESITANTLY] Yes.
[SCOFFS IN DISBELIEF]
[GAMERS WHISPER]
So, um, recognize her?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Welcome to the Event Horizon.
Level 50-plus only.
You need to have clocked at
least seven tier-one games or more.
[PANEL BLEEPS]
I'm one short.
[DOOR CLICKS]
[GUNFIRE ON VIDEO GAME]
[GUNFIRE CONTINUES]
"NOTAHELIBRO."
[GUNFIRE ON VIDEO GAME]
Why'd you choose that as your handle?
Drones are the future.
Dinosaurs fly choppers.
Yeah, Special Agent Mackey here
is a chopper pilot.
She's not that into drones.
[SCOFFS] Pwned.
She just owned you.
Kind of dominating
this sweaty noob right now.
This scrub's about to learn
all about GG no re.
Good game, no rematch.
The 'G' stands for
- Yes, Blue, thank you.
- [GUNFIRE ON VIDEO GAME]
[SCREEN POWERS DOWN]
Are you serious, bro?
Last night you were drone racing
with Tegan Macpherson.
- So?
- So
Tegan was found dead soon after.
Tegan's dead?
Want to tell us your real name?
Avery Walker.
What'd you do after the race, Avery?
N-nothing. I packed up and left.
You didn't want to stick around?
[SCOFFS] Why would I? I was angry.
Because you lost?
I didn't lose.
Tegan, she
she cheated.
[JD] How did she cheat?
[AVERY] Doesn't matter now.
Well, maybe it does.
Drone racing's all about the best pilot,
not who has the best tech.
Her new drone was over-specced.
In what way?
Speed, maneuverability, reaction time.
The thing was next level.
Do you know where she got it from?
Helps if your old man
works for the Navy.
Do you have footage of the race?
[TENSE MUSIC]
[EVIE] This is from last night.
It's Tegan's drone crossing
the finish line. Recognize it?
That's the Darwin 2.
That's
That's impossible.
What's the Darwin 2?
It's a military prototype attack drone.
It's being developed by
a local contractor.
That's the whole reason
why I'm out here,
to finalize bulk procurement
for the US Navy.
So how did Tegan get her hands on one?
- Did you ever bring one home?
- Of course not.
The contractor holds them until
the Navy takes possession.
Who's the contractor?
[JULIAN] I'd love to help,
but even the cleaners
have to sign NDAs here.
I'm bound by the National Security Act,
as I'm sure you're aware.
Yeah, an act you're gonna come to know
intimately in the coming weeks.
Excuse me?
The US military ponied up 1.2 billion
to purchase a fleet of
top-secret drones.
We have reason to believe
one of them is missing.
Which means it's no longer
very secret, is it?
Well, I really can't comment.
[MACKEY] You might
want to reconsider that.
A teenager was killed last night,
most likely by your missing drone.
That kid was the daughter
of a procurement officer
you've been dealing with on the project.
Wait, Ethan's daughter, Tegan?
You seem more surprised by
who has your missing drone
than the fact that
it's actually missing.
[SIGHS]
We were conducting final tests
on the Darwin 2
three weeks ago.
We sent three drones up,
only two came back.
How does that happen?
We're still working that out.
But you've seen the footage?
Well, no.
The Darwin 2 has a data-purging protocol
that goes into effect
if it detects an intrusion.
If the controller loses comms,
it deletes its own footage.
So what have you done
to work out where it went?
Well, it's an ongoing investigation.
- Meaning?
- Meaning they've done squat.
Because that would mean
letting the Navy know
their top-secret drone
isn't top secret anymore.
And that would crater
a $1.2 billion deal.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SONJA BLEEPS]
[EVIE] Ooh.
[SONJA BLEEPS]
[SONJA] Hi, Deshawn.
Would you like me to
order you another 'bag-wet'?
How did she know it was yours?
Really? That's the takeaway?
Oh, was just browsing, D. Relax.
Girl, it's a fridge, not a library.
Okay.
[LIGHTHEARTED MUSIC]
[SCOFFS] Awesome.
I guess Sonja will have to
order me another one after all.
[SONJA] I'm on it, DeShawn.
[DESHAWN CHUCKLES]
Welcome to the future, girl.
Sonja's got it covered.
Hmm.
Seriously?
[MACKEY] What's the update?
- Evie ate my lunch.
- Hardly an update.
How about this, then?
Clocked at a nearby tollway
after the drone went missing
during the test.
Check who it's registered to.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Go rekindle the romance.
D.
[SOCKET WRENCH CLICKS]
[CAR ENGINE STOPS]
[CAR DOORS OPEN]
[MARVO] Evie Cooper!
As I live and breathe.
[EVIE] Hello, Marvo.
You remember my partner,
Special Agent Jackson.
Action Jackson? How could I forget?
How's it going, big fella?
Now, listen, before you start,
if you're after cheap abalone,
I can't help you out.
I'm out of the game altogether,
all right?
There's no margin on molluscs
these days.
How about drones?
Drones? Pfft!
Do I look like someone
who's into drones?
Nah, mate, I'm old school.
[TWO MUFFLED THUDS]
[TWO MUFFLED THUDS]
You got somebody in the trunk, Marvo?
Firstly, it's a boot.
And secondly, no.
[TWO MUFFLED THUMPS]
What I meant to say is
I can explain.
Keys.
[KEYS CLINK]
- Wouldn't do that if I were you.
- [EVIE] Mm-hm.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[LOCK DISENGAGES]
Argh!
[CURIOUS MUSIC]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[EVIE SIGHS] The Great Wall
of China, Marvo Armando.
The primary caregiver
of a kid with autism.
Now I've heard everything.
[SIGHS]
- Me sister died last year.
- [DOG BARKS]
PJ's hers.
So we play the hand we're dealt, Coops.
We do what we gotta do.
So you keep him in the boot?
Not full-time.
Jeez, what do you think I am?
Nah, it's his mum's car.
He likes to go in there
when the wheels fall off.
I think the smell of the vinyl seats
reminds him of her or something.
[EVIE] Hm.
So, how'd the wheels fall off today?
Who knows?
The theft of a Navy drone, maybe?
Coops, haven't we been through this?
I'm telling you, me and drones
is like, pfft, me and the ex.
We just We don't mix.
That's funny,
'cause your car was spotted
close to where the drone was
stolen from three weeks ago.
Ah, well, that's
hashtag fake news, that is.
I wasn't even there.
I didn't tell you where it was.
[DESHAWN] Evie.
[EVIE] You know this girl?
Yeah, that's PJ's mate, Tegan.
Nice kid.
She in some kind of trouble?
[SIGHS]
She's dead.
Her throat was slashed by
the rotor blade of a drone.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Is this about Tegan?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all right, Peej.
I'm just talking to the police now.
I'll catch up with you later, mate.
You know what happened to her, PJ?
Yeah.
Sh-sh-she's dead 'cause of me.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[PJ] And this.
The drone.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[JD] So, help us understand, PJ.
How'd you get a hold of
the drone in the first place?
[PJ] They were doing trials.
Tegan heard her dad
talking about software issues.
Had to run more tests.
So I drove over to check it out.
By yourself?
Why?
To see if I could hack it.
Why would you do that?
Tegan loved drone racing, but
she never won.
I wanted her to win.
Just so I'm clear,
you stole the drone
and gave it to Tegan
No.
No?
[PJ SIGHS]
[RING CLICKS]
Hey, hey, hey, mate.
It's all right,
it's all right, it's all right.
Remember what Uncle Marvo
always tells you, huh?
"Never talk to the cops"?
Yeah, the other thing, Peej. The
other thing, mate, all right?
"As long as you're here, I'm okay."
That's it, that's it.
That's right. Exactly.
And I'm here, mate, okay?
All right? You can tell them.
You can tell them everything, all right?
It's all right.
I I I never gave it to her.
The drone, it has
It has a critical vulnerability.
It's how I brought it down.
I couldn't give it to her like that.
So what did you do?
I took it home and I tried to fix it.
And did you?
I patched the vulnerability,
but the next time I went in,
it was it was unpatched again.
It it freaked me out. I
I couldn't let Tegan have it.
PJ, she raced it last night.
If you didn't give it to her,
then how did she get it?
She stole it from me.
That must have made you angry.
What did you do when you found out?
I went to warn her, but I was
I was I was too late.
Warn her? Warn her about what?
[MACKEY] PJ?
Maybe give us five minutes, yeah?
Yeah.
[RING CLICKS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]
[DESHAWN] Give him a beat.
He'll calm down, boss.
- [MARVO] You all right?
- He's just scared.
You're doing the right thing.
He's got every right to be.
Software patches
don't just reverse themselves.
Are you saying PJ's lying?
I'm saying it
it doesn't make any sense.
So how do we check?
We talk to Ethan.
If Tegan found out about
the software issue from Dad,
maybe he knows about it.
Go.
And failing that, you'd have to
get the drone back online,
which would require you
putting it back together again.
If that's even possible.
[MARVO] When we get out of here,
we'll get
a raspberry slurpie, hey?
Your favorite?
How do we reach him?
[PAPER RUSTLES]
Why don't we start here?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Thanks, mate.
[DOOR CLOSES]
[MARVO] Come on, mate.
You love to draw. Draw
Draw something happy.
[MARVO] Hmm?
All right. Give me a crack, then.
All right.
Ohh, what have we got here?
Yeah, Marvo 'Picasso' Armando,
about to create his next masterpiece.
Hey?
What do you reckon?
[MARVO] Hey, tough crowd, eh?
Tell you what, mate.
Why don't you draw what happened?
Yeah?
[PULSING MUSIC]
[ETHAN] You're worried about
software issues?
Of course there are software issues.
That's what tests are for,
to straighten them out.
We heard this one
couldn't be straightened out.
How do you know about this?
From the kid who hacked your drone.
- A kid?
- He learned about it from Tegan.
And Tegan learned it from you.
Apparently every time it was fixed,
it would unfix itself.
You want to tell us how that's possible?
[EDGY MUSIC]
[JD] So that's you, right?
And that's Tegan?
[MACKEY] Looks like you're arguing.
How come?
She wouldn't give it back.
[MACKEY] Okay, well, here.
Is the drone chasing you both?
[PJ] No.
Just me. It
It wanted to kill me.
Wanted to kill you? Why?
Because I found its weakness.
So how is it that you're still
standing, and Tegan is dead?
[PJ] We were trying to escape
by climbing into the vent
while I was trying to hack it.
And she was trying to save me,
by shielding me.
[MACKEY] But Tegan's
holding the controller.
No, no, she wasn't
She she wasn't controlling it.
So who was?
[BREATHES SHAKILY]
PJ, come on.
[BREATHES DEEPLY]
I wanna go home.
Yeah, yeah. You're not gonna
get much more right now.
He he needs a little boot time.
Don't you, mate?
[CHAIR SQUEAKS]
[PJ BREATHES DEEPLY]
[MACKEY] Okay.
Take him home.
We'll be in touch.
Come on, mate. It's all right, mate.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[PHONE BUZZES]
[MACKEY] What do you got, D?
Ethan tore up his NDA.
PJ was right. The Darwin 2
can unpatch itself.
How is that possible?
'Cause it's autonomous.
Next-gen AI thinks for itself.
Ethan called it sentient.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
According to Ethan,
the Darwin 2 receives
instruction from an operator
via a controller,
or it can create its own.
Digitally ambidextrous.
Great.
So we've created an unmanned,
heavily armed, aerial combat system
that can write its own rules.
What could possibly go wrong?
So where did the instruction
to kill PJ come from?
Man or machine?
Well, man, I get.
The Darwin 2 is part of
a $1.2 billion deal.
If word gets out it was hacked
by a 17-year-old kid,
it's GG no re for Julian.
- Kill the kid, save the deal.
- [SONJA DOOR OPENS]
So that covers 'man', but why
would a machine want PJ dead?
Well, according to PJ, it's
because he found its weakness.
But to confirm that,
you would have to ask it.
Any answers are gonna be
on its hard drive.
- [SONJA DOOR CLOSES]
- Bewdy.
So we're interviewing machines now?
[SONJA] Welcome to the future,
girl. Sonja has it covered.
Pull your head in, Sonja.
The hard drive won't work, though,
without the rest of its bits and pieces.
Okay, so let's get on with
putting it back together.
Blue, Trigger, have at it.
E, get D up to speed.
JD, let's go talk to the man.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Should we really be putting
Humpty back together again?
Who's Humpty?
Oh!
[CHUCKLES] Right.
And no, we definitely shouldn't be.
Okay, but that's exactly
what we're doing.
Not entirely.
I intentionally forgot to
put the logic board back in.
And that's essential to its functioning?
It can't think logically
without it. Don't worry.
You good?
Lighting her up. [SIGHS]
[BLUE TYPES ON KEYBOARD]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
Okay. Hello, Mr. Darwin.
Let's take a look at the origin
of your species.
[BLUE TYPES]
Where's that photo from?
Is that supposed to be there?
I wouldn't have thought so.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[MACKEY] Our lab tech
just pulled this
from your drone's hard drive.
We tracked it to your server.
So what's a photo of PJ Armando
doing on your system, Julian?
[JD] And there's code
attached to the photo.
It's a kill command.
Part of the drone's ROE.
Why would I want to kill a kid?
Maybe PJ exposed a fatal flaw
in your product.
There's 1.2 billion reasons right there.
I have a minor software issue,
so I kill a 17-year-old?
Are you insane?
If you didn't upload PJ's photo
to the Darwin 2, who did?
[JULIAN] Who do you think?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[JULIAN] PJ found the
vulnerability and tried to patch it.
But the AI is built
to recognize any attempt to alter it.
Which is why it unpatched itself.
Well, PJ is seen as a threat.
And any threat must be terminated
with extreme prejudice.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[BLUE TYPES]
It's weird, I'm used to messing
around with nuts and bolts,
but this thing is supposedly alive.
Mmm, technically not true.
Our current definition of life
does not include software
or simulations.
That is, until AI overwrites
our definition of life,
which, by all accounts,
is imminent.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC BUILDS]
[DRONE WHIRS]
Please tell me it didn't hear us.
I guess it doesn't
need a logic board.
[DRONE WHIRS]
[DRONE BEEPS]
[DRONE WHIRS]
You're flying this
thing, right, Blue?
Unfortunately not.
Okay, everyone, just
just stay calm and don't move.
[DRONE BLEEPS]
[TENSE MUSIC]
- [DRONE BEEPS]
- Freckles!
Blue, get down!
[GUNFIRE]
[DRONE WHIRS]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[DESHAWN] Where's it going?
To complete its mission.
To hunt down PJ and kill him.
- [MARVO] Leave a 'massage'.
- [VOICEMAIL BEEPS]
Marvo, call me back.
Trigger, get a trace on Marvo's phone.
Blue, work out how to
shut that thing down.
D, let's hit it.
[MACKEY] What do you mean
there's no kill switch?
[JULIAN] It's adapting on the run.
Anything you throw at it,
it will find a way around.
- It's how I designed it.
- What if we just cut the power?
It self-charges by tethering
to available power sources.
So it's unstoppable?
They asked me to design
the perfect killing machine.
That's what I did.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[DESHAWN] That's Marvo's car.
[CAR DOORS CLOSE]
Why did PJ come back
to this scary-ass place?
Because scary-arse places
have less people
for scary-arse drones to shoot.
[DESHAWN] Damn! Looks like
it's already been here.
[EVIE] Do you think we're too late?
[DRONE WHIRS]
[DESHAWN] I'mma go with yes.
[DRONE BLEEPS]
Oi, Coops!
What the hell are youse doing?
Move it!
[TENSE MUSIC]
You took your time, Coops!
And as for you, Action Jackson
[DRONE FIRES REPEATEDLY]
- [MACKEY] Speak to me, D!
- Boss?
[DRONE FIRES]
Remember that man versus machine thing?
[DRONE FIRES]
Well, right now,
it isn't much of a contest.
[SIREN WAILS]
[MARVO] Do something!
- [DRONE FIRES]
- [DESHAWN] Evie!
[DRONE FIRES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[SIREN WAILS]
[SIREN PULSES]
[SIREN STOPS]
DeShawn! Evie!
[INTENSE MUSIC]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[PHONE BUZZES]
[MACKEY] D?
Where are you?
In a tight spot.
[MACKEY] Where's the Darwin 2?
[DESHAWN] I think we lost it.
This place is a maze.
- [SIREN WAILS]
- Cavalry's on the way.
- [TENSE MUSIC]
- [SIREN WAILS]
[TACTICAL LEADER] Where are we at?
Two of ours, two civilians.
- Who's controlling the drone?
- It is.
It's autonomous.
[DRONE WHIRS]
[JULIAN] It's possible the Darwin 2
could appropriate
and overwhelm rival systems.
It may seize control of them.
[MACKEY] What other choice do we have?
[TENSE MUSIC]
[PANTS]
All right, come on. We're not safe yet.
[MARVO] Let's go.
PJ, come on.
The drone wants me.
It it can have me.
[SIGHS] PJ, look at me.
Look at me.
We can beat this thing, yeah?
We can't. It won't stop until
it's eliminated the threat.
I'm the threat. Just just go.
No, no. Not without you, mate.
[DRONES WHIR]
[INTENSE MUSIC]
[DRONE WHIRS]
[PJ] This is my fault.
I stole it.
If I hadn't, Tegan would still be alive.
Hey. Hey, hey, hey.
You didn't create the tech.
You didn't program it to kill.
You were just looking out
for a mate, yeah?
Just like Tegan did for you.
And just like Uncle Marv
is trying to do right now.
[DRONE WHIRS]
Yo, Evie. We got company!
Get behind me!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[TACTICAL LEADER]
Entering tunnel three now.
Looks like they're at the far end.
Get ready to light it up.
[CONTROL BUTTONS CLICK]
[DRONES ZOOM]
[DESHAWN] Here comes the cavalry.
[INTENSE MUSIC BUILDS]
- Why aren't they shooting?
- [MONITOR FIZZES]
We've lost connection.
You've just tripled its firepower.
[DRONES WHIR]
Oh, you've got to be kidding me.
- Move!
- Go, go, go.
- [DRONE FIRES]
- [DESHAWN] Move!
- [DRONE WHINES]
- [MARVO] Go! Go! Go!
[DRONE BLEEPS]
Go! Go! Go!
[DRONES FIRE]
- [INTENSE MUSIC]
- [TIRES SCREECH]
Hey. Police birds are out of action.
I hope you've got some thoughts
on taking this thing out.
I've got one.
That thing's gonna fly, right?
Just gotta get it nice and close
to the Darwin 2.
Then what?
Did you guys ever blow up
mailboxes when you were kids?
- It's a pipe bomb?
- Cool.
But what's gonna stop the Darwin 2
blowing this thing out of the sky?
Well, that's where Blue comes in.
[TRIGGER] She's gonna hack the
Darwin 2 the same way PJ did,
but this time,
using the Fortress servers,
she can hopefully disable
the drone's weapons system.
[PHONE RINGS]
- Bluebird?
- [BLUE] Evie?
- I need to speak with PJ.
- Yeah, sure.
Oh, and, uh, we're still alive,
thanks for asking.
- [TYPES]
- [PJ] Hello?
PJ, I need to know how you
hacked into the Darwin 2.
The drone checks its location
via GPS every 15 seconds.
You need to send the command
'satellite missing'
at just the right moment.
And then while it's still searching,
I send a second command to alter
the drone's attack system.
That's genius.
But you only have a short window
before it reboots itself.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
So, what's gonna stop the Darwin 2
from hacking your drone, mate?
Mine's a combination of
pulse modulation,
gaffer tape and dumb luck.
Totally analogue.
I love it.
Okay.
[DRONE BUZZES]
[TRIGGER] Houston, we have lift-off.
[DRONE BUZZES]
Okay.
You good?
Yep, yep, I got it.
[MACKEY] Okay, Blue, drone's
in the air. What's the plan?
[BLUE] Every 15 seconds,
I have a window to send
a burst of interrupt commands
to the Darwin 2.
- And that's when I strike, yeah?
- Yes.
But strike too soon
and it will take you out,
but strike too late and
[MACKEY] It takes out our people.
- Good chat, Blue.
- [BLUE] Okay.
I'm gonna let the team know
that you're inbound
and with a flying pipe bomb.
[DRONE BUZZES]
Talk to me, Blue Leader.
[BLUE] Okay, I'm tracking Evie's phone,
and it looks like
they're in the next tunnel.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[MARVO] An exit!
[INTENSE MUSIC]
- Move. Back. Back.
- [EVIE] Go, go, go, go, go!
[DESHAWN] Move!
[BLUE] Three cat dog.
[BLUE] Two cat dog.
- [MARVO GROANS]
- [GUNSHOT]
One cat dog.
[BLUE] It's disabled.
Now.
[TENSE MUSIC]
- [DRONE BUZZES]
- [GUNSHOTS]
[DRONE BUZZES]
- [DESHAWN] Drone! Go!
- [EVIE] Go, go, go, go!
[EXPLOSION BOOMS]
[DESHAWN GROANS]
Y'all good?
Okay, great.
[JD] Ha-ha!
Sick pwnage.
GG no re, baby.
- Yeah!
- [MACKEY LAUGHS]
Nerds.
- [SIGHS]
- [GAMERS CHEER AND APPLAUD]
[GAMERS WHISTLE]
- [GAMERS CHEER]
- [BLUE] Oh.
[BLUE MURMURS INDISTINCTLY]
[CAR DOORS THUD]
[EVIE CLEARS THROAT]
You heading off?
Our plane is.
Whether or not we're on it
is a whole different thing.
Yeah, Tegan, she was signed up
for next season's soccer.
Her friends can't wait
for her to get back.
It's like as soon
as we get off that plane
You gotta go through it all over again.
I'm so sorry, man.
[CAR APPROACHES]
[MARVO GRUNTS]
- [MARVO] Oh.
- [CAR DOOR CLOSES]
uh, Ethan, this is Marvo,
and his nephew, PJ.
[MARVO] G'day, mate.
PJ was mates with Tegan.
[MARVO CLEARS THROAT]
Well, go on, PJ, use your words, mate.
I'm sorry for your loss.
Thank you, son.
Well, go on.
PJ thought you might want these
to remember your daughter by.
[ETHAN] What's going on here?
[PJ] Kids at school
did stuff to me.
So, Tegan did stuff back to them.
[EMOTIONAL MUSIC]
Taylor.
Come over here.
You're gonna wanna see this.
What is it? Uh
It's our bad-ass daughter.
Good onya, mate.
- [DOORS THUD]
- Okay, thanks. Bye.
- [PHONE RECEIVER CLUNKS]
- Well, it's official.
Julian won't be getting
his billion-dollar payday
anytime soon.
The US Navy's pulling out of the deal?
Apparently they like
their autonomous drones
to be not so autonomous.
Mm. So what happens to Julian?
- He's a software engineer.
- [SONJA BLEEPS]
He didn't break any laws.
But I'm, uh, more worried about
what's gonna happen to the rest of us.
[SONJA] JD,
you look like you need a beer.
- [LIGHTHEARTED MUSIC]
- [SONJA CHIMES]
Oh.
The rest of us will be just fine.
- [SONJA CHIMES]
- Sonja, you have read my mind.
[BOTTLE CLUNKS]
- How good's Sonja?
- [BOTTLE TOP OPENS]
[JD CHUCKLES]
[SONJA] Thanks, JD.
It's been a pleasure to serve
- [SONJA POWERS DOWN]
- [JD SIGHS]
Come on.
That is enough Sonja for one day.
[LIGHTHEARTED MUSIC]