Alphas s02e06 Episode Script
Alphaville
Previously on Alphas Agent Sullivan just called.
We have an Alpha missing-- Skylar Adams.
Skylar's smarter than just about anyone.
She was always inventing things.
Are you looking for my mommy? I was going to head out to, uh--to the coffee shop.
Are you asking me out on a date? If we're gonna try this, we're gonna need to take it slow.
Slow is good.
Dr.
Rosen Cornell Scipio.
- Is that a photic stimulator? - There's 42 different models.
You remember the young woman who built you your phone? - Yeah, Skylar.
- Do you still have it with you? She said I could call her on this.
She might be the one to figure out how this thing works.
Identities of all volunteers remain classified.
The purpose of the study is to test reactions to various frequencies of light oscillation.
Project Bluebird, Artichoke, Paper Clip-- you believe these names? These Cold War programs were the government's first attempts to explore the limits of the human neurological system.
And one of the more promising experiments was photic stimulation-- visual stimulus to alter brain activity.
But as you can see, some pretty horrible results.
I still don't get the connection to your toy here.
You said they use this to treat people for epilepsy and Parkinson's and lazy eye syndrome.
Well, Bill, Stanton Parish somehow managed to coerce Senator Burton to fast-track this particular device through the FDA.
I seriously doubt he was concerned with lazy eye syndrome.
So you had Kat take this thing apart.
She couldn't find anything.
Yeah, but why? Why, Bill, was it used so deliberately on that Jason Miller kid in the hospital? It enhanced his Alpha ability, which put you and the rest of the team in danger.
Thousands of these are due to be distributed right now.
I'm convinced that this-- this--well, whatever it is-- is a crucial part of Parish's war plans.
And I hate to think what will happen if I can't figure out what it does.
Well, whatever it is, Nathan Cley needs this on his desk tomorrow morning, okay? That is evidence.
Yeah, well, it's not going to be on Nathan Cley's desk tomorrow morning.
It's going to be on Skylar Adams's.
If anyone can figure this out, it's her.
You know, I checked.
Health inspectors eat here.
I'm so sorry.
It's-- it's a force of habit.
Oh.
You know what? I should get going.
You're really not gonna tell me where you're going? Dr.
Rosen's being really paranoid about security.
You know I'm head of tactical, right? Your boss is making it really hard for me to do my job.
Do you want to come along to protect me? That's sweet.
Look, I just-- I'm sorry.
- No, no-- No, John, I'm sorry.
I-- I'm trying, okay? And we'll get there, but I got to go.
Dr.
Rosen, why do I have to go? I don't want to go.
I don't like going places.
Gary, you're part of the team.
And I want everyone doing security.
No, but Bill-- he does the security.
'Cause Bi-- Bill's the muscle, and the muscle is in the arm.
I'm the brain, and the brain stays in the head.
The office is the head.
That's my metaphor.
Right, right.
That's a great metaphor, Gary, you are the brains, okay? Yeah, well, then tell Dr.
Rosen-- the brain stays in the head.
Gary, when Stanton Parish finds out we have this device, he's going to come looking for it.
You are too important to be left behind.
You monitor signals.
No one else can do that, all right? You're going.
Oh, okay.
But then you ha- you have to appease me.
Appease you? Okay, all right, Gary, how about you pick where we stop for lunch? Yeah, that's good.
How about we let him drive us to lunch? - No, no, I'm the shotgun.
- I'm gonna let you drive.
That's fool's gold, Bill.
You never let me drive.
Rachel? - Where are you going? - To see a guy about a thing.
You gonna miss me? No.
Well, I bet I can change your mind on that.
- Hi.
- Hi.
What, you don't like office hours? Sorry.
The subway was late.
Bentley's in the shop? No.
The Bentley was repossessed.
She couldn't afford to make the payments.
And she's not allowed to push anyone anymore to keep the car.
So Nina's going, huh? Yeah.
Look, nothing's gonna happen, okay? Just trust me.
It's not you I'm worried about.
Nina's promised to use her ability for the, uh-- for the good of all.
Yeah, that's like asking an alcoholic to only drink in the office.
I need to do this myself, so I can handle it.
Give her a chance, okay? She's trying to change.
Yeah.
Cameron, we need to go.
Give my love to Dani.
Your dad says hi.
All right.
I'm the shotgun.
Nothing but trees-- where are we? Well, I think we're almost there, Bill.
I think, I think.
You think? Doc, what exactly did Skylar say? Well, she wasn't all that specific.
No, she hung up on him.
But I'd already traced the call.
She's 3.
2 miles north of Route 11.
All right, well, that's around here, then.
Yeah, it is, but it's all-- it's just trees.
There's trees everywhere At least on--on Mapquest and Google maps.
When you're this far out, you don't want to be found.
Don't--oh, wait, wait! Stop, stop! What, what? - Gary, what are you doing? - Gary! Gary! What are you doing? It's all gone! There's no wi-fi.
There's no 4g.
Everything's gone.
Gary, that's what happens when you're out in the boonies.
Can you just get back in the van, please? This is no good.
We have to turn back now.
We're not turning back, Gary.
Just don't--don't jump out of the van again.
I don't like the boonies! Oh, what's this? Hey.
How you fellas doing? Just fine.
But you're on private land.
You need to turn around.
Excuse me, we're looking for a friend of ours who lives somewhere around here.
Her name is Skylar Adams.
Hey, D.
C.
I.
S.
Hey! Hey! You have to respect that badge.
Give me it back.
You're feds.
Get the hell out of here.
Give me.
- Go! - All right.
Get out of here.
- Cameron, just-- - move it.
Just go ahead.
Look out! Whoa! He's an Alpha.
You're right, Gary.
- What do the other two do? - We don't want to find out.
- Hey, hey.
- He opens doors.
- Hey, hey, hey, back off.
- Guess you're walking.
What do you think you're doing? - Let's go! - Gower! Back off! Hello, Skylar.
Dr.
Rosen.
- You're Rosen? - Yes.
Yes--yes, I am.
And, uh-- and you are? Skylar, are these folks friends of yours? No.
Neither are you.
Skylar? Go home.
Alphas 2x06 Don't take no for an answer and there's no telling where we've been 'cause people don't understand understand, understand people don't understand people like me Skylar.
Skylar, listen to me.
I know I promised I'd never make contact with you again, but I need your help.
- We don't help outsiders.
- What do you mean, "we"? I thought you weren't with those people.
Just tell me what you want.
All right.
Thank you, Nina.
I need you to take a look at this.
It appears to be a photic stimulator, but I think it's much more than that.
You want to use me for my abilities? I'm shocked.
Take it to the genius bar.
Skylar.
Skylar This is important.
I took a tremendous risk helping you elude the NSA.
I did not have to do that.
Really? You're playing that card? - Hey! Over here! - Kids, come this way! Wait up! So this is where you ended up-- a town full of Alphas.
It's just an old summer camp they fixed up-- a place for refugees.
Refugees from what? The neuro-typical world from you.
You don't look too impressed.
No.
With all these Alphas here, you never know who's a Parish sympathizer.
So we got to keep our eyes open.
Why don't you stay with Rosen and the machine? And I'll do a security check with, uh, Rachel and Gary.
All right.
Xenon tube, flash header power supply.
Yeah, yeah, I know what this is.
It's a photic stimulator.
Skylar, I-I know that.
But t-there's got to be more to it.
Hey, look who's here.
Zoe, you remember Dr.
Rosen.
Hi, Zoe.
- What's this? - Whoa.
Zoe, don't touch.
Don't touch.
I'll show you later.
She never stops.
This is how it always is.
Zoe what's this? Zoe, Zoe, do you like bubbles? Do you want to know how to blow a giant bubble that never pops? How do you do that? I'll show you.
Come here.
Let's just sit right here.
Now the first thing you have to do, is you have to take a deep breath.
And then blow it out slow.
Here it comes.
Here it comes.
Here it comes.
It's getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger There you go.
Wow.
This is an amazing-looking creature.
Think you could draw a picture of it for me? Okay.
Thank you.
How did you do that? I've had a little experience raising a equally spirited one of my own.
She just-- she never stops.
She wakes me up at 4:00 in the morning to tell me she discovered a new prime number.
Well, as they say, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Didn't you once take apart your family's Volkswagen and make an air cannon or something? It was a Nissan.
Careful, careful.
That, uh-- that could be dangerous.
More dangerous than an air cannon? Yeah, quite possibly.
Gary, do me a favor.
Try to keep your eyes in the real world, please? No.
I don't like only being able to see the real world.
It's boring.
I hate it here.
Yeah, well, you know, this place reminds me of when my parents used to send me to summer camp.
I hated it as well.
I couldn't sleep without the traffic noises, but after a while, you learn to appreciate a place like this.
Smell that.
You smell that country air? Oh.
Bees.
Oh, no.
- Gary, come on, back up.
- I don't like bees, Bill.
They have evil intent.
Gary, wait, wait, wait.
Come back.
- Calm down, son.
- Get off! Get off! Don't let them sting you.
Oh You can speak bee.
Basically.
Huh.
You must be Skylar's friends.
Um, Agent Harken? Gary? No.
Agent Bell.
I'm an Agent, too.
Claude.
I'm the, uh, founder of this colony for people like us.
You're the guy I need to talk to--I've got some questions about security arrangements around here.
We all get along pretty well.
We've never had any incidents.
I doubt we'll have any now.
You always want to prepare for the worst and hope for the best, right? Oh, you're the founder, so it's your fault that there's no signals here.
Gary can read electromagnetic communication, so he gets a little cranky in dead zones like this-- Bill! I'm not cranky.
You're the cranky-- you're always cranky.
Yeah.
It's not exactly dead around here.
Nature is crawling with signals, if you're open to them.
Excuse me.
Okay.
This is amazing.
She's actually hand-drawing algorithmic fractals.
Yeah, she's bored with those.
She's moved on to complex plane multibrots.
It's like having your own little computer running around.
At least a computer comes with a manual and an "off" switch.
Well, it's not easy raising an Alpha.
That's why we're here-- it takes a village and all that crap.
Something is draining the battery.
Could be a design flaw.
- Dinner, dinner! - Hey-- Thanks, Claude.
Claude Skylar's mentioned you.
I'm Dr.
Lee Rosen.
I know who you are.
What's that? Good question.
I guess I'll be seeing you at dinner.
- Uh, something I said? - Actually, yes.
That stunt you pulled letting the world know about Alphas didn't make you any friends here.
Dinner! Come on, mommy, let's go! Dinner! You can leave it.
It's safe here.
No, I-I prefer to keep it with me.
Wow.
You should see a shrink about those trust issues.
Gary, where are you going? What are you doing? I'm going back to the office! Bill, I don't have my things.
I don't have my pajamas or my mouth guard for the bruxism.
- Gary, listen to me.
- I can't sleep without my signals.
Gary, this is part of the job.
We have to be on the lookout for any outside communication, anybody trying-- Oh, Bill, I told you- there are no signals.
It's not-- What? What, someone out there? No.
Oh.
What-what do you see? It's a star.
Gary, we're not here to look for damn stars.
No, it's good.
Some stars, they-- they send out radio waves.
I know that.
- Gary.
- It's a pulsar.
Gary, you're killing me right now, you know this, right? It's pingy.
Whoo-hoo.
Gary.
Gary! Gary, listen to me.
It's time to eat, okay? You're late, okay? You're late to eat, Gary.
Let's--can we-- can we look at stars another time? No, Bill, it's not stars.
It's something else.
It's all-- it's all-- it's yellow and purple and--and red.
And it's-- it's like curtains, but they're exploding.
Yeah, that sounds like the Aurora Borealis, Gary.
I've seen that in Alaska before.
Huh.
It's the whole sky.
Pretty amazing.
You hungry, Gary? Hey, let's sit right here-- come on--with Hicks.
I could've killed them both.
Don't sneak up on me like that.
It's what I do.
You're so quiet, we should tie a frickin' bell on you.
Parish sent us here to observe.
No one's around--let's just go and grab the machine.
If we go for it now, they'll know it's valuable.
We only move if they figure out what it does.
What the hell is this? See, uh, it's a green algae.
Apparently they grow their own food.
Really? Yep.
Eat up.
Gary, what's the deal? I thought we had radio silence out here.
Oh, yeah.
No.
I-I was wrong.
There are signals everywhere.
I just--I wasn't focusing hard enough, 'cause even the trees have signals, and the rocks have signals.
It's all--it's wavelengths, but it's smaller.
It's like-- even this food.
This food has a signal.
It's go-- it sounds like, Aw-wa, ba-wawawawa, ba-wawawa-- Yeah, that means "don't eat me.
" That's what this means.
- What else is there? - 'Cause of the color.
No dessert until you clear your plate, Digit.
Didge.
Look at you, all domestic.
You even lasered off all your tattoos.
Or was that just to make it harder for the FBI to spot you? Come on, let's go.
Rebel Mom.
Rebel Mom.
I thought this was a place where Alphas could be free to be themselves.
Not me.
I'm here for Zoe.
So what, you can't be yourself and her mom all at the same time? Well, right now I'm kind of sucking at both.
Trouble in the Justice League? They're not exactly thrilled to have me around.
Maybe I should just stay here with you.
That's a load of crap.
I saw you.
You were happy.
Made me want to throw up.
Yeah, but I ruined it.
And now when I'm with them, I just feel alone.
This is delicious.
Honey wine.
You made this? - The bees do all the work.
- Mmm.
It's human nature to exploit the special abilities of other creatures.
Perhaps.
But it could also be perceived as two groups working together for their mutual benefit.
And when one disengages from that bond, both suffer.
Have you ever had a brick thrown through your window? Have you ever been persecuted for being who you are? Claude, I'm sorry, but Dr.
Rosen has spent his entire career fighting against exactly that kind of intolerance-- - Rachel-- - His career? This is our lives I'm talking about.
And we did not elect you to be our spokesman.
You're not one of us.
You never will be.
You're just an outsider looking in.
Yes, I'll admit it-- I am an outsider.
But let me ask you this, Claude.
If you knew that your bee colonies were going to collapse no matter where you hide them, what would you do? Wouldn't you try to stop it? Why'd you come here, huh? No! Please, no! I can kill more than cars.
Hey! Doc! Doc, you all right? Yes, I think so.
Easy, easy, easy.
I got him.
What do you know about this? I don't know what you're talking about.
Put those away! We don't solve things with violence around here.
Oh, really? Perhaps you should tell your man about that.
I didn't start this, Claude.
The hell you didn't! You started the whole damn thing.
My life fell apart because of you.
My wife left me, and she took my kids, all because of you and your big mouth.
Do you have a name? - Gower.
- Mr.
Gower I opened my big mouth because it was absolutely necessary.
If you'll just let me explain-- Gower! Go home.
Claude-- You can spend the night here, but I want you gone by morning.
Come on.
Let's get back to our homes.
There gonna be some way to repair this? Well, maybe if you stop touching it.
Ugh.
Gower smashed this one up.
I mean, we replaced the circuit boards.
Hey, do you see that? Sneaky-ass, clever bastards.
What? W-what have you found? Control circuits.
Nano-processors embedded in the wires themselves.
Idiots installed it all backwards.
Yeah, this photostim has definitely been tampered with.
Is there any way to determine what exactly has been done to it? - It's gonna take some time.
- We don't have time, Skylar.
Claude wanted us out of here first thing this morning.
Lucky you.
Hey, you know, you and Zoe can come with us.
Actually, that's a great idea.
No.
I brought Zoe here to be around kids like her.
Every morning I wake up and wish I could leave.
It was so much easier when I was alone.
Hey, Zoe.
Zoe.
God! Mother of the frickin' year.
Digit! Digit? Skylar.
Oh! Ugh! - Rachel, turn that thing off.
- Yeah, okay.
It's got its own internal power source.
Maybe if I reconnect it-- Rachel! Bill! - Oh, my God, what happened? - She's having a seizure, Bill.
Rachel, stay with me.
Stay with me.
Dr.
Rosen Where are you? I can't see you.
I'm right here.
Zoe? Digit.
Skylar.
Gary, have you seen my kid? No, but, Skylar, I'm looking for something too.
I want to get a cabin, but I want one with carpet.
Everything here's made of wood, and I like carpet, 'cause it's all-- it's squishy beneath my toes.
I don't have time for this.
Zoe? - Aah! - How did that machine do that? It's as if that-- that instrument, whatever it is, has amplified her Alpha ability.
Soit's like what happened to that coma kid in the hospital, right? Yes, but whatever adjustment Skylar made to that thing has increased its potency.
Rachel, Rachel, what you're experiencing is an intensification of your own ability, which means you can probably control it.
Just focus, go through your protocols.
You can control this.
Zoe? Zoe! Didge? I didn't mean it.
Didge? Come back.
Zoe! Zoe! Oh, didn't mean to scare you.
So don't sneak up on people in the middle of the woods.
Who are you? We want that machine you fixed.
It's not mine to give.
Yeah, well, it's not the Doc's either.
See, he stole it.
We want it back.
- You okay? - Yeah.
- You sure? - Yeah, fine.
- Here, Rache.
- I'm okay.
Just get this off of me.
I can't breathe, okay? Just get it off of me.
- Shh, shh.
- Okay, just--I can't breathe.
Oh.
Rachel, what's wrong? Oh, you look like one of the faces from my expressions chart-- j-joyless.
Rachel's sick, okay? We're gonna take her home, as soon as Dr.
Rosen gets back with that photostim.
Oh, okay, drive safe and really fast.
I'm gonna go and air out my cabin.
- What? - Gary, you-- your cabin? Yeah.
Yeah, number 33.
Claude said that I could live here.
And, Nina, you can take your office back, 'cause I-I don't need my man cave anymore.
Gary, you're not staying.
Let's go.
Get in the van.
- No, I am staying.
- Shh! Stop talking so loud! I make up my own mind.
I make my decisions.
Gary, there's no Thai food here, no Chinese, no take-out, nothing.
Come on.
No, you're-- you're trying to trick me.
I told you, I-I'm not leaving! Oh, God.
Gary! Gary, have you seen Skylar anywhere? - Oh.
Yeah, yeah.
- Where? She went into the trees.
She was looking for Zoe.
I was listening to the sun.
Yeah, well, if you see her, tell her I'm looking for her.
Yeah, in the--okay.
Where is she? That's not how this is gonna work.
that's how it's gonna work.
Where is she? Hey, Doc.
Long time no see.
You're looking good.
Skylar, please don't give Mr.
Scipio that instrument.
He can't be trusted.
He works for Stanton Parish.
They don't care who they hurt! Come on, Doc, that any way to talk about an old friend? We used to have something.
- He has Zoe.
- What? Lee, you are the reason why he's here.
We were safe-- Aah! Doc, come on, I'm taking that bag.
Why did you do that? How are we gonna find her now? We'll find her, I promise.
We have to get out of here! Go! Go! We have to get to the van! Rachel, let us know when you hear something.
Stop, stop! Stop the car! Just let me-- just let me hear, okay? - What, Rachel? - Let me just listen! I hear a child, breathing hard.
She's scared.
There's somebody with her.
They're indoors.
All right, how far? Where? Skylar, wait, wait.
It's too dangerous.
- No.
- She'll be fine.
- It's my daughter.
- Skylar! Skylar! Skylar! Aah! Want to do your thing? Want to let them know we're coming? I don't think so.
Hey, want to come do your thing? Over on this side.
That open window right up there.
It's all you, baby.
Yeah.
Do you smell that? - What? - Smell what? It's a fire.
The forest is burning.
It's heading east, towards the camp.
- That's over a mile away.
- Get in.
Move.
- Look out! - Run, Zoe! Aah! Hey! Hey! Let me go! Stand still! Let me go! Come here! Stop! Look, all we want is the kid.
So let me out and give me the machine.
Fair trade.
Can't do it, sweetheart.
You're Hicks, right? My sister told me about you.
She said she kicked your ass at Highland Mills.
That's not quite how I remember it.
Oh, yeah? Well, you'll remember this.
- You okay? - Do I look okay? Get me up.
Where is she? Where's Zoe? - Uh, she-- - Where is she? She's that-- she went that way.
Come on, go, go, go, go.
Zoe! Mommy's here.
Mommy! Easy, easy.
Good.
You found her.
Come on! Let's go! Come on! Okay.
We got to get out of here, now, now! All right.
You should've played nice.
No, no, no.
Get back.
Back, back! Go, go, go! It's okay.
- Easy, easy, easy.
- Don't worry, honey.
Don't worry.
There's no way we're gonna make it out of here! Zoe, you stay with Hicks, okay? I got her.
I can fix this.
Everybody, come on! Hurry up! Let's go! Move! Let's keep moving here! What are you still doing here? I'm trying to help.
Dr.
Rosen! - Gary! - Dr.
Rosen.
My eyes are all red.
I can't see.
- Go, get in the car.
- Come on, come on.
I'm the shotgun.
Just get in the car, okay? Gower, go, I've got her.
I've got her.
Here you go.
Claude, what can I do? Haven't you done enough? I need that canister.
Here you go.
Okay, give me the hose.
All right.
Hurry.
Let me help.
Okay.
Here, right there.
You lost That's 7.
223868 fluid ounces.
I rounded.
Yeah, I'm gonna take your word for it, kid.
Take the washers.
- I got 'em, here.
- Okay.
What else? Make sure that connection's tight.
Will it work? Do you know my mommy? Zoe, come here.
Come on, get out of here.
- What about you? - I'll be fine.
Just go.
- Thank you! - Go! Hicks.
Hicks! Come on.
Skylar! Where's Skylar? They got out.
Let's get out of here.
Oh, he's hurt.
He's hurt.
Are you okay? Yeah, yeah.
I stopped bleeding.
I'm fine.
Ah, Doc, he's bleeding.
We stopped it.
What happened? We have to get him to a hospital.
I'll drive.
A wildfire that broke out earlier today near White Mountain National Forest is reportedly contained, although a code orange air-quality alert remains in effect.
- What are you drawing there? - A picture of us.
You're a pretty cool kid, you know that? I know.
Where's the red one? This part needs to be red.
Maybe it fell.
Thank you.
They roll everywhere.
She is very talented.
Hitting on a single mom via her kid-- it's kind of creepy.
I'm not hitting on you, Ms.
Adams.
You're far too young for me.
I'm bringing you an offer.
A child like Zoe--she needs an environment that she can thrive in, as do you.
Who are you? I'm Stanton Parish.
I believe you met some of my colleagues recently.
I apologize for their behavior.
They have the unfortunate tendency to get carried away.
What do you want? To give you an opportunity help make the world a better place.
Isn't that what every mother wants for her child? - Hey.
- Hey.
Heard you had a rough trip.
My whole world opened up.
I mean, my senses It's just--they got bigger than ever before.
Dr.
Rosen doesn't know if I'll ever go back to the way I was.
I would've brought you flowers, but I know the smell would bother you, so What? You just you get me.
You really do.
It's weird, right? Like, everything's turned up so high, but I'm still here.
Maybe Cam You could have been killed.
No.
No.
But if it was a couple inches up and to the right, I really might've been in trouble.
I'm so sorry.
Hey, it's not your fault.
Yeah.
No, I know.
It's just-- Besides, if I play my cards right, I just might get medical leave.
You can nurse me back to health.
Let me guess.
You told Cley that machine got burnt up in the fire.
Yes.
A tragedy.
He was disappointed.
One of these days, Doc, crap is gonna come back and bite you in the ass.
You know that, right? What's on your mind, Bill? Scipio knew that we were gonna be there.
I know.
Someone close to us is working with Parish.
Bill, I want you to vet everyone.
Cley's office, the D.
O.
D.
staff, families, friends, everyone, even Kat.
All right, I'll bring Hicks and Gary up to speed.
No.
They don't need to know.
This is just between you and me.
Find this person, Bill.
And when we do? Just find him.
We have an Alpha missing-- Skylar Adams.
Skylar's smarter than just about anyone.
She was always inventing things.
Are you looking for my mommy? I was going to head out to, uh--to the coffee shop.
Are you asking me out on a date? If we're gonna try this, we're gonna need to take it slow.
Slow is good.
Dr.
Rosen Cornell Scipio.
- Is that a photic stimulator? - There's 42 different models.
You remember the young woman who built you your phone? - Yeah, Skylar.
- Do you still have it with you? She said I could call her on this.
She might be the one to figure out how this thing works.
Identities of all volunteers remain classified.
The purpose of the study is to test reactions to various frequencies of light oscillation.
Project Bluebird, Artichoke, Paper Clip-- you believe these names? These Cold War programs were the government's first attempts to explore the limits of the human neurological system.
And one of the more promising experiments was photic stimulation-- visual stimulus to alter brain activity.
But as you can see, some pretty horrible results.
I still don't get the connection to your toy here.
You said they use this to treat people for epilepsy and Parkinson's and lazy eye syndrome.
Well, Bill, Stanton Parish somehow managed to coerce Senator Burton to fast-track this particular device through the FDA.
I seriously doubt he was concerned with lazy eye syndrome.
So you had Kat take this thing apart.
She couldn't find anything.
Yeah, but why? Why, Bill, was it used so deliberately on that Jason Miller kid in the hospital? It enhanced his Alpha ability, which put you and the rest of the team in danger.
Thousands of these are due to be distributed right now.
I'm convinced that this-- this--well, whatever it is-- is a crucial part of Parish's war plans.
And I hate to think what will happen if I can't figure out what it does.
Well, whatever it is, Nathan Cley needs this on his desk tomorrow morning, okay? That is evidence.
Yeah, well, it's not going to be on Nathan Cley's desk tomorrow morning.
It's going to be on Skylar Adams's.
If anyone can figure this out, it's her.
You know, I checked.
Health inspectors eat here.
I'm so sorry.
It's-- it's a force of habit.
Oh.
You know what? I should get going.
You're really not gonna tell me where you're going? Dr.
Rosen's being really paranoid about security.
You know I'm head of tactical, right? Your boss is making it really hard for me to do my job.
Do you want to come along to protect me? That's sweet.
Look, I just-- I'm sorry.
- No, no-- No, John, I'm sorry.
I-- I'm trying, okay? And we'll get there, but I got to go.
Dr.
Rosen, why do I have to go? I don't want to go.
I don't like going places.
Gary, you're part of the team.
And I want everyone doing security.
No, but Bill-- he does the security.
'Cause Bi-- Bill's the muscle, and the muscle is in the arm.
I'm the brain, and the brain stays in the head.
The office is the head.
That's my metaphor.
Right, right.
That's a great metaphor, Gary, you are the brains, okay? Yeah, well, then tell Dr.
Rosen-- the brain stays in the head.
Gary, when Stanton Parish finds out we have this device, he's going to come looking for it.
You are too important to be left behind.
You monitor signals.
No one else can do that, all right? You're going.
Oh, okay.
But then you ha- you have to appease me.
Appease you? Okay, all right, Gary, how about you pick where we stop for lunch? Yeah, that's good.
How about we let him drive us to lunch? - No, no, I'm the shotgun.
- I'm gonna let you drive.
That's fool's gold, Bill.
You never let me drive.
Rachel? - Where are you going? - To see a guy about a thing.
You gonna miss me? No.
Well, I bet I can change your mind on that.
- Hi.
- Hi.
What, you don't like office hours? Sorry.
The subway was late.
Bentley's in the shop? No.
The Bentley was repossessed.
She couldn't afford to make the payments.
And she's not allowed to push anyone anymore to keep the car.
So Nina's going, huh? Yeah.
Look, nothing's gonna happen, okay? Just trust me.
It's not you I'm worried about.
Nina's promised to use her ability for the, uh-- for the good of all.
Yeah, that's like asking an alcoholic to only drink in the office.
I need to do this myself, so I can handle it.
Give her a chance, okay? She's trying to change.
Yeah.
Cameron, we need to go.
Give my love to Dani.
Your dad says hi.
All right.
I'm the shotgun.
Nothing but trees-- where are we? Well, I think we're almost there, Bill.
I think, I think.
You think? Doc, what exactly did Skylar say? Well, she wasn't all that specific.
No, she hung up on him.
But I'd already traced the call.
She's 3.
2 miles north of Route 11.
All right, well, that's around here, then.
Yeah, it is, but it's all-- it's just trees.
There's trees everywhere At least on--on Mapquest and Google maps.
When you're this far out, you don't want to be found.
Don't--oh, wait, wait! Stop, stop! What, what? - Gary, what are you doing? - Gary! Gary! What are you doing? It's all gone! There's no wi-fi.
There's no 4g.
Everything's gone.
Gary, that's what happens when you're out in the boonies.
Can you just get back in the van, please? This is no good.
We have to turn back now.
We're not turning back, Gary.
Just don't--don't jump out of the van again.
I don't like the boonies! Oh, what's this? Hey.
How you fellas doing? Just fine.
But you're on private land.
You need to turn around.
Excuse me, we're looking for a friend of ours who lives somewhere around here.
Her name is Skylar Adams.
Hey, D.
C.
I.
S.
Hey! Hey! You have to respect that badge.
Give me it back.
You're feds.
Get the hell out of here.
Give me.
- Go! - All right.
Get out of here.
- Cameron, just-- - move it.
Just go ahead.
Look out! Whoa! He's an Alpha.
You're right, Gary.
- What do the other two do? - We don't want to find out.
- Hey, hey.
- He opens doors.
- Hey, hey, hey, back off.
- Guess you're walking.
What do you think you're doing? - Let's go! - Gower! Back off! Hello, Skylar.
Dr.
Rosen.
- You're Rosen? - Yes.
Yes--yes, I am.
And, uh-- and you are? Skylar, are these folks friends of yours? No.
Neither are you.
Skylar? Go home.
Alphas 2x06 Don't take no for an answer and there's no telling where we've been 'cause people don't understand understand, understand people don't understand people like me Skylar.
Skylar, listen to me.
I know I promised I'd never make contact with you again, but I need your help.
- We don't help outsiders.
- What do you mean, "we"? I thought you weren't with those people.
Just tell me what you want.
All right.
Thank you, Nina.
I need you to take a look at this.
It appears to be a photic stimulator, but I think it's much more than that.
You want to use me for my abilities? I'm shocked.
Take it to the genius bar.
Skylar.
Skylar This is important.
I took a tremendous risk helping you elude the NSA.
I did not have to do that.
Really? You're playing that card? - Hey! Over here! - Kids, come this way! Wait up! So this is where you ended up-- a town full of Alphas.
It's just an old summer camp they fixed up-- a place for refugees.
Refugees from what? The neuro-typical world from you.
You don't look too impressed.
No.
With all these Alphas here, you never know who's a Parish sympathizer.
So we got to keep our eyes open.
Why don't you stay with Rosen and the machine? And I'll do a security check with, uh, Rachel and Gary.
All right.
Xenon tube, flash header power supply.
Yeah, yeah, I know what this is.
It's a photic stimulator.
Skylar, I-I know that.
But t-there's got to be more to it.
Hey, look who's here.
Zoe, you remember Dr.
Rosen.
Hi, Zoe.
- What's this? - Whoa.
Zoe, don't touch.
Don't touch.
I'll show you later.
She never stops.
This is how it always is.
Zoe what's this? Zoe, Zoe, do you like bubbles? Do you want to know how to blow a giant bubble that never pops? How do you do that? I'll show you.
Come here.
Let's just sit right here.
Now the first thing you have to do, is you have to take a deep breath.
And then blow it out slow.
Here it comes.
Here it comes.
Here it comes.
It's getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger There you go.
Wow.
This is an amazing-looking creature.
Think you could draw a picture of it for me? Okay.
Thank you.
How did you do that? I've had a little experience raising a equally spirited one of my own.
She just-- she never stops.
She wakes me up at 4:00 in the morning to tell me she discovered a new prime number.
Well, as they say, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Didn't you once take apart your family's Volkswagen and make an air cannon or something? It was a Nissan.
Careful, careful.
That, uh-- that could be dangerous.
More dangerous than an air cannon? Yeah, quite possibly.
Gary, do me a favor.
Try to keep your eyes in the real world, please? No.
I don't like only being able to see the real world.
It's boring.
I hate it here.
Yeah, well, you know, this place reminds me of when my parents used to send me to summer camp.
I hated it as well.
I couldn't sleep without the traffic noises, but after a while, you learn to appreciate a place like this.
Smell that.
You smell that country air? Oh.
Bees.
Oh, no.
- Gary, come on, back up.
- I don't like bees, Bill.
They have evil intent.
Gary, wait, wait, wait.
Come back.
- Calm down, son.
- Get off! Get off! Don't let them sting you.
Oh You can speak bee.
Basically.
Huh.
You must be Skylar's friends.
Um, Agent Harken? Gary? No.
Agent Bell.
I'm an Agent, too.
Claude.
I'm the, uh, founder of this colony for people like us.
You're the guy I need to talk to--I've got some questions about security arrangements around here.
We all get along pretty well.
We've never had any incidents.
I doubt we'll have any now.
You always want to prepare for the worst and hope for the best, right? Oh, you're the founder, so it's your fault that there's no signals here.
Gary can read electromagnetic communication, so he gets a little cranky in dead zones like this-- Bill! I'm not cranky.
You're the cranky-- you're always cranky.
Yeah.
It's not exactly dead around here.
Nature is crawling with signals, if you're open to them.
Excuse me.
Okay.
This is amazing.
She's actually hand-drawing algorithmic fractals.
Yeah, she's bored with those.
She's moved on to complex plane multibrots.
It's like having your own little computer running around.
At least a computer comes with a manual and an "off" switch.
Well, it's not easy raising an Alpha.
That's why we're here-- it takes a village and all that crap.
Something is draining the battery.
Could be a design flaw.
- Dinner, dinner! - Hey-- Thanks, Claude.
Claude Skylar's mentioned you.
I'm Dr.
Lee Rosen.
I know who you are.
What's that? Good question.
I guess I'll be seeing you at dinner.
- Uh, something I said? - Actually, yes.
That stunt you pulled letting the world know about Alphas didn't make you any friends here.
Dinner! Come on, mommy, let's go! Dinner! You can leave it.
It's safe here.
No, I-I prefer to keep it with me.
Wow.
You should see a shrink about those trust issues.
Gary, where are you going? What are you doing? I'm going back to the office! Bill, I don't have my things.
I don't have my pajamas or my mouth guard for the bruxism.
- Gary, listen to me.
- I can't sleep without my signals.
Gary, this is part of the job.
We have to be on the lookout for any outside communication, anybody trying-- Oh, Bill, I told you- there are no signals.
It's not-- What? What, someone out there? No.
Oh.
What-what do you see? It's a star.
Gary, we're not here to look for damn stars.
No, it's good.
Some stars, they-- they send out radio waves.
I know that.
- Gary.
- It's a pulsar.
Gary, you're killing me right now, you know this, right? It's pingy.
Whoo-hoo.
Gary.
Gary! Gary, listen to me.
It's time to eat, okay? You're late, okay? You're late to eat, Gary.
Let's--can we-- can we look at stars another time? No, Bill, it's not stars.
It's something else.
It's all-- it's all-- it's yellow and purple and--and red.
And it's-- it's like curtains, but they're exploding.
Yeah, that sounds like the Aurora Borealis, Gary.
I've seen that in Alaska before.
Huh.
It's the whole sky.
Pretty amazing.
You hungry, Gary? Hey, let's sit right here-- come on--with Hicks.
I could've killed them both.
Don't sneak up on me like that.
It's what I do.
You're so quiet, we should tie a frickin' bell on you.
Parish sent us here to observe.
No one's around--let's just go and grab the machine.
If we go for it now, they'll know it's valuable.
We only move if they figure out what it does.
What the hell is this? See, uh, it's a green algae.
Apparently they grow their own food.
Really? Yep.
Eat up.
Gary, what's the deal? I thought we had radio silence out here.
Oh, yeah.
No.
I-I was wrong.
There are signals everywhere.
I just--I wasn't focusing hard enough, 'cause even the trees have signals, and the rocks have signals.
It's all--it's wavelengths, but it's smaller.
It's like-- even this food.
This food has a signal.
It's go-- it sounds like, Aw-wa, ba-wawawawa, ba-wawawa-- Yeah, that means "don't eat me.
" That's what this means.
- What else is there? - 'Cause of the color.
No dessert until you clear your plate, Digit.
Didge.
Look at you, all domestic.
You even lasered off all your tattoos.
Or was that just to make it harder for the FBI to spot you? Come on, let's go.
Rebel Mom.
Rebel Mom.
I thought this was a place where Alphas could be free to be themselves.
Not me.
I'm here for Zoe.
So what, you can't be yourself and her mom all at the same time? Well, right now I'm kind of sucking at both.
Trouble in the Justice League? They're not exactly thrilled to have me around.
Maybe I should just stay here with you.
That's a load of crap.
I saw you.
You were happy.
Made me want to throw up.
Yeah, but I ruined it.
And now when I'm with them, I just feel alone.
This is delicious.
Honey wine.
You made this? - The bees do all the work.
- Mmm.
It's human nature to exploit the special abilities of other creatures.
Perhaps.
But it could also be perceived as two groups working together for their mutual benefit.
And when one disengages from that bond, both suffer.
Have you ever had a brick thrown through your window? Have you ever been persecuted for being who you are? Claude, I'm sorry, but Dr.
Rosen has spent his entire career fighting against exactly that kind of intolerance-- - Rachel-- - His career? This is our lives I'm talking about.
And we did not elect you to be our spokesman.
You're not one of us.
You never will be.
You're just an outsider looking in.
Yes, I'll admit it-- I am an outsider.
But let me ask you this, Claude.
If you knew that your bee colonies were going to collapse no matter where you hide them, what would you do? Wouldn't you try to stop it? Why'd you come here, huh? No! Please, no! I can kill more than cars.
Hey! Doc! Doc, you all right? Yes, I think so.
Easy, easy, easy.
I got him.
What do you know about this? I don't know what you're talking about.
Put those away! We don't solve things with violence around here.
Oh, really? Perhaps you should tell your man about that.
I didn't start this, Claude.
The hell you didn't! You started the whole damn thing.
My life fell apart because of you.
My wife left me, and she took my kids, all because of you and your big mouth.
Do you have a name? - Gower.
- Mr.
Gower I opened my big mouth because it was absolutely necessary.
If you'll just let me explain-- Gower! Go home.
Claude-- You can spend the night here, but I want you gone by morning.
Come on.
Let's get back to our homes.
There gonna be some way to repair this? Well, maybe if you stop touching it.
Ugh.
Gower smashed this one up.
I mean, we replaced the circuit boards.
Hey, do you see that? Sneaky-ass, clever bastards.
What? W-what have you found? Control circuits.
Nano-processors embedded in the wires themselves.
Idiots installed it all backwards.
Yeah, this photostim has definitely been tampered with.
Is there any way to determine what exactly has been done to it? - It's gonna take some time.
- We don't have time, Skylar.
Claude wanted us out of here first thing this morning.
Lucky you.
Hey, you know, you and Zoe can come with us.
Actually, that's a great idea.
No.
I brought Zoe here to be around kids like her.
Every morning I wake up and wish I could leave.
It was so much easier when I was alone.
Hey, Zoe.
Zoe.
God! Mother of the frickin' year.
Digit! Digit? Skylar.
Oh! Ugh! - Rachel, turn that thing off.
- Yeah, okay.
It's got its own internal power source.
Maybe if I reconnect it-- Rachel! Bill! - Oh, my God, what happened? - She's having a seizure, Bill.
Rachel, stay with me.
Stay with me.
Dr.
Rosen Where are you? I can't see you.
I'm right here.
Zoe? Digit.
Skylar.
Gary, have you seen my kid? No, but, Skylar, I'm looking for something too.
I want to get a cabin, but I want one with carpet.
Everything here's made of wood, and I like carpet, 'cause it's all-- it's squishy beneath my toes.
I don't have time for this.
Zoe? - Aah! - How did that machine do that? It's as if that-- that instrument, whatever it is, has amplified her Alpha ability.
Soit's like what happened to that coma kid in the hospital, right? Yes, but whatever adjustment Skylar made to that thing has increased its potency.
Rachel, Rachel, what you're experiencing is an intensification of your own ability, which means you can probably control it.
Just focus, go through your protocols.
You can control this.
Zoe? Zoe! Didge? I didn't mean it.
Didge? Come back.
Zoe! Zoe! Oh, didn't mean to scare you.
So don't sneak up on people in the middle of the woods.
Who are you? We want that machine you fixed.
It's not mine to give.
Yeah, well, it's not the Doc's either.
See, he stole it.
We want it back.
- You okay? - Yeah.
- You sure? - Yeah, fine.
- Here, Rache.
- I'm okay.
Just get this off of me.
I can't breathe, okay? Just get it off of me.
- Shh, shh.
- Okay, just--I can't breathe.
Oh.
Rachel, what's wrong? Oh, you look like one of the faces from my expressions chart-- j-joyless.
Rachel's sick, okay? We're gonna take her home, as soon as Dr.
Rosen gets back with that photostim.
Oh, okay, drive safe and really fast.
I'm gonna go and air out my cabin.
- What? - Gary, you-- your cabin? Yeah.
Yeah, number 33.
Claude said that I could live here.
And, Nina, you can take your office back, 'cause I-I don't need my man cave anymore.
Gary, you're not staying.
Let's go.
Get in the van.
- No, I am staying.
- Shh! Stop talking so loud! I make up my own mind.
I make my decisions.
Gary, there's no Thai food here, no Chinese, no take-out, nothing.
Come on.
No, you're-- you're trying to trick me.
I told you, I-I'm not leaving! Oh, God.
Gary! Gary, have you seen Skylar anywhere? - Oh.
Yeah, yeah.
- Where? She went into the trees.
She was looking for Zoe.
I was listening to the sun.
Yeah, well, if you see her, tell her I'm looking for her.
Yeah, in the--okay.
Where is she? That's not how this is gonna work.
that's how it's gonna work.
Where is she? Hey, Doc.
Long time no see.
You're looking good.
Skylar, please don't give Mr.
Scipio that instrument.
He can't be trusted.
He works for Stanton Parish.
They don't care who they hurt! Come on, Doc, that any way to talk about an old friend? We used to have something.
- He has Zoe.
- What? Lee, you are the reason why he's here.
We were safe-- Aah! Doc, come on, I'm taking that bag.
Why did you do that? How are we gonna find her now? We'll find her, I promise.
We have to get out of here! Go! Go! We have to get to the van! Rachel, let us know when you hear something.
Stop, stop! Stop the car! Just let me-- just let me hear, okay? - What, Rachel? - Let me just listen! I hear a child, breathing hard.
She's scared.
There's somebody with her.
They're indoors.
All right, how far? Where? Skylar, wait, wait.
It's too dangerous.
- No.
- She'll be fine.
- It's my daughter.
- Skylar! Skylar! Skylar! Aah! Want to do your thing? Want to let them know we're coming? I don't think so.
Hey, want to come do your thing? Over on this side.
That open window right up there.
It's all you, baby.
Yeah.
Do you smell that? - What? - Smell what? It's a fire.
The forest is burning.
It's heading east, towards the camp.
- That's over a mile away.
- Get in.
Move.
- Look out! - Run, Zoe! Aah! Hey! Hey! Let me go! Stand still! Let me go! Come here! Stop! Look, all we want is the kid.
So let me out and give me the machine.
Fair trade.
Can't do it, sweetheart.
You're Hicks, right? My sister told me about you.
She said she kicked your ass at Highland Mills.
That's not quite how I remember it.
Oh, yeah? Well, you'll remember this.
- You okay? - Do I look okay? Get me up.
Where is she? Where's Zoe? - Uh, she-- - Where is she? She's that-- she went that way.
Come on, go, go, go, go.
Zoe! Mommy's here.
Mommy! Easy, easy.
Good.
You found her.
Come on! Let's go! Come on! Okay.
We got to get out of here, now, now! All right.
You should've played nice.
No, no, no.
Get back.
Back, back! Go, go, go! It's okay.
- Easy, easy, easy.
- Don't worry, honey.
Don't worry.
There's no way we're gonna make it out of here! Zoe, you stay with Hicks, okay? I got her.
I can fix this.
Everybody, come on! Hurry up! Let's go! Move! Let's keep moving here! What are you still doing here? I'm trying to help.
Dr.
Rosen! - Gary! - Dr.
Rosen.
My eyes are all red.
I can't see.
- Go, get in the car.
- Come on, come on.
I'm the shotgun.
Just get in the car, okay? Gower, go, I've got her.
I've got her.
Here you go.
Claude, what can I do? Haven't you done enough? I need that canister.
Here you go.
Okay, give me the hose.
All right.
Hurry.
Let me help.
Okay.
Here, right there.
You lost That's 7.
223868 fluid ounces.
I rounded.
Yeah, I'm gonna take your word for it, kid.
Take the washers.
- I got 'em, here.
- Okay.
What else? Make sure that connection's tight.
Will it work? Do you know my mommy? Zoe, come here.
Come on, get out of here.
- What about you? - I'll be fine.
Just go.
- Thank you! - Go! Hicks.
Hicks! Come on.
Skylar! Where's Skylar? They got out.
Let's get out of here.
Oh, he's hurt.
He's hurt.
Are you okay? Yeah, yeah.
I stopped bleeding.
I'm fine.
Ah, Doc, he's bleeding.
We stopped it.
What happened? We have to get him to a hospital.
I'll drive.
A wildfire that broke out earlier today near White Mountain National Forest is reportedly contained, although a code orange air-quality alert remains in effect.
- What are you drawing there? - A picture of us.
You're a pretty cool kid, you know that? I know.
Where's the red one? This part needs to be red.
Maybe it fell.
Thank you.
They roll everywhere.
She is very talented.
Hitting on a single mom via her kid-- it's kind of creepy.
I'm not hitting on you, Ms.
Adams.
You're far too young for me.
I'm bringing you an offer.
A child like Zoe--she needs an environment that she can thrive in, as do you.
Who are you? I'm Stanton Parish.
I believe you met some of my colleagues recently.
I apologize for their behavior.
They have the unfortunate tendency to get carried away.
What do you want? To give you an opportunity help make the world a better place.
Isn't that what every mother wants for her child? - Hey.
- Hey.
Heard you had a rough trip.
My whole world opened up.
I mean, my senses It's just--they got bigger than ever before.
Dr.
Rosen doesn't know if I'll ever go back to the way I was.
I would've brought you flowers, but I know the smell would bother you, so What? You just you get me.
You really do.
It's weird, right? Like, everything's turned up so high, but I'm still here.
Maybe Cam You could have been killed.
No.
No.
But if it was a couple inches up and to the right, I really might've been in trouble.
I'm so sorry.
Hey, it's not your fault.
Yeah.
No, I know.
It's just-- Besides, if I play my cards right, I just might get medical leave.
You can nurse me back to health.
Let me guess.
You told Cley that machine got burnt up in the fire.
Yes.
A tragedy.
He was disappointed.
One of these days, Doc, crap is gonna come back and bite you in the ass.
You know that, right? What's on your mind, Bill? Scipio knew that we were gonna be there.
I know.
Someone close to us is working with Parish.
Bill, I want you to vet everyone.
Cley's office, the D.
O.
D.
staff, families, friends, everyone, even Kat.
All right, I'll bring Hicks and Gary up to speed.
No.
They don't need to know.
This is just between you and me.
Find this person, Bill.
And when we do? Just find him.