Debris (2021) s01e05 Episode Script

Earthshine

1
- ANNOUNCER: Previously on Debris
- GROHL: How's the family?
MADDOX: What can I tell you?
It is what it is.
- What are you doing?
- It's an unknown caller.
JULIA: Do I answer your phone?
Not everything is a conspiracy, Craig.
FERRIS: We think he's part of a group
calling themselves Influx.
They are actively seeking Debris.
It is more important now
than ever to show all cards.
BRYAN: This is going to affect Finola.
We're just going to have to
sit on this for a little while.
MADDOX: I know you can handle it.
BRYAN: But there are things that I know
that you will not find very palatable.
I need you to trust me.
FERRIS: It's your father.
He may still be alive.
We intercepted a communication
that Bryan knows, too.
FINOLA: We all deserve to know the truth
about what happens to
the people that we love.
I'm not sure you'll ever understand it.
[indistinct chatter]
DRIVER: Next stop, Fourth Avenue.
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
You dropped your glove.
Oh. Would've been the second
pair I lost in a month.
I know what you mean. I need the, uh,
the strings on the mittens
like the kids have.
Hey, those could work.
We could make those a thing.
Dare to dream, right?
What a world that would be.
[complete silence]
[no audible dialogue]
[crashing, metal twisting]
[alert beeping]
♪♪
[coughs]
What happened?
Where am I?
[theme]
[phone chimes]
A new case file just came in.
May I see it?
Please?
Why? You don't read it.
You glance at it and
you pretend to read it.
- Someone doesn't like Mondays.
- It's Thursday.
Then you're not a morning person.
It's 12 o'clock.
Man, I'm messed up.
That's the first thing you've got right.
[sighs]
You're upset with me.
You've been really quiet since Nebraska.
How would you know, Bryan?
You slept the whole way.
I was making you think I was sleeping.
- It's training.
- Right.
You're still upset.
Okay. Just because we disagreed
about how to handle the last case
doesn't mean that there
has to be a thing.
Sometimes I'm going to go
against your logic
and experience, and depend on my own,
Which is what you did. That's fine.
I don't want to get into it, okay?
It is what it is.
We see things differently,
and it's okay.
Seriously.
I'm good.
It's all good.
Good.
- Ahmed.
- Hey, Bryan.
AHMED: Long time. How you doing, man?
- Finola Jones.
- FINOLA: Hey.
Let me get you up to speed.
The bus was reported missing
from Hackettstown, New Jersey
around 7:05 AM.
How did it end up here in Boston?
From residual disturbances
in the atmosphere,
we believe a piece of Debris
caused a temporary deformation
in the topology of spacetime.
It opened up a wormhole?
Mackie's team is working
the Jersey side.
We assume the Debris was used there
to get the bus here.
FINOLA: Any survivors?
One, but he's gone.
Looks like he dragged himself to here.
Okay. He lost a lot of blood.
He didn't get up and walk away.
Is there any camera work
or security footage?
No.
And did you check the local hospitals?
- Nothing so far.
- Well, he has to be somewhere.
There was a piece
of Debris that they thought
capable of doing something like this.
It was stolen from Germany
a few months back.
FINOLA: I remember hearing about that.
BRYAN: There was some intel on an event
in China a little bit after that.
Whoever tried to figure it out
did not end well.
Ended up coming out like long,
human strings of spaghetti.
That was off the grid, though.
In a remote area.
Why target a city bus?
FINOLA: Something's changed.
They're getting bolder now.
[phone rings]
Hey, it's Bryan.
- I got stuff.
- Well, we need stuff.
I picked up CCTV footage to try
and track what happened to the bus.
Got it traveling down Beatty Street.
What we found is pretty unbelievable.
Sending it to you now.
Sending over surveillance footage now.
Okay.
Do you guys have the Debris on your end?
Uh, no, just faint signatures
and atmospheric disruptions.
We've interviewed
several people in the area
who claimed to hear a high-pitched whine
two hours prior to the event.
- A whine?
- Yeah.
People heard it
from three blocks around.
- [phone chimes]
- I got it.
It just came through.
Can you standby, please?
FINOLA: Well, that's
the entry point right there.
That's something.
Maybe. Note the time stamp.
That guy leaves right
after the bus disappeared.
Let me speak to Mackie.
Hey, Mackie, there's a bank
across the street.
Is there a coffee cup
on a concrete barrier?
Yeah.
There's a possible suspect
in the CCTV footage
who witnessed the event.
We want to find out who he is.
Lift it for prints and then
we can run it through IAEFS.
Thanks.
Agent Jones.
We found the crash survivor.
Thank you.
FINOLA: He's been shot.
Syringe wrapper.
Someone shot him and took his blood?
BRYAN: And a skin biopsy.
A sampling of his hair.
Someone wanted the follicles.
What's going on here?
Collecting DNA.
Maybe trying to figure out
how messed up this guy got
going through a wormhole.
Like, experimenting?
Yeah.
It has to be Influx.
Who else could be this organized?
BRYAN: Let's get him back
to Orbital, do our own tests.
FINOLA: I'll arrange for transport.
I assumed they were
trying to get Debris to sell
to countries, governments,
black market. Not to use.
Well, they're definitely
interested in the results.
Maybe it was a test.
Test? For what?
To prove that they can do it?
Maybe they just want to sell it.
A demonstration for a buyer.
If they're the same ones
who stole it from Germany,
they're getting better at it.
These commuters didn't die
like they did in China.
They've definitely crossed a threshold
in terms of their understanding of it.
Wait. I can't get a hold of the footage.
The piece that was used in China.
- It's not on the server.
- Let me see that.
Any idea why it was taken down?
I don't know. It was there.
It's not a coincidence that file's gone.
I want to catch these guys, Bryan.
Yeah, so do I. We will.
And I'll ask Maddox about this
when I speak to him.
Okay.
AHMED: Hey. Print results
on the coffee cup in Jersey.
Guy is ex-paramilitary.
Peter Joseph Eickmann.
Came in on a flight from
Germany to JFK yesterday morning
on an EU passport.
NSA flagged him.
He's on a few watch lists.
CIA, MI6, Interpol.
FINOLA: Let's go find out what he knows.
590-45.
We're three minutes from
wheels up to New York City.
This guy you're looking for,
he wasn't a guest?
No, he was dropped off by cab
here yesterday morning.
He met up with a group that checked into
the hotel using stolen credit cards.
[keyboard clacking]
MAN: Uh, here we go.
BRYAN: Hello.
He seems to be the one
in control again, no?
BRYAN: Sure would love
to find out who he is.
FINOLA: Can you rewind it?
MAN: Sure.
FINOLA: Freeze there.
FERRIS: I know you're upset
FINOLA: Ferris, these are
the men who took my father.
FERRIS: Are you absolutely sure?
FINOLA: Yes, I literally just saw
them on video. They were here.
If we can stop this
and catch one of these guys,
I can learn more about
what happened to him.
You must be strong.
The intel I'm expecting
about your father,
- I've been told is promising.
- What does that mean?
Ferris, you've gotta
give me something. Anything.
I just want to know how
how he can possibly be alive
when I saw him dead.
I know what I saw. And it was him.
We had clones in Pennsylvania.
Could they have a piece
of Debris like that?
I know their shelf lives were short,
but could Influx have found
some sort of way to just
FERRIS: Finola I don't know.
When I learn something
concrete, so will you.
This is a nightmare.
This is a bloody nightmare.
[sighs]
Bryan talked about an event like this,
a wormhole in China
where they were unsuccessful,
but have now crossed a threshold.
They know how to do
things they couldn't do before,
things they couldn't do
before they had my father.
They are using him. And now the
case file from China is gone.
- I can't even access it.
- What do you mean?
The Americans took it down.
Can you see if you can get
the file and find out why?
I've been denied here, too.
Why do we even bother
with this alliance?
This is pointless if
the U.S. is being dishonest.
We're supposed to be able to trust them.
I'm supposed to be able to trust Bryan.
I just want to remind you,
we have secrets from the Americans, too.
I'll look into this.
Listen, I'm gonna have to go.
He's coming.
BRYAN: You okay?
Yeah. Just catching Ferris up to speed.
The rooms they were in
were clear, nothing here.
It's as if they just
[loud high-pitched whine]
This is the same sound
they heard in New Jersey.
BRYAN: It's gonna happen again.
♪♪
JULIA: Do you want something to
eat before I go pick up Dario?
MADDOX: No, thanks, babe.
I've gotta get back to work.
You were quiet today.
You didn't share a lot.
Sometimes I think she thinks
I share too much.
- No.
- I think she thinks I try to take over
the sessions or something.
I actually thought you were quiet today.
I want to move to Houston.
You want to move to Houston?
There's a facility there.
The Goodson Clinic.
They're doing excellent work.
- We live here. I work here.
- [cell phone rings]
Our whole life is here.
We talked about that place,
like, seven years ago.
I-I just want to try something new.
For who, for Dario? Because
that doesn't make any sense.
He's getting the best care here.
You can't do that. You cannot do that.
You cannot say that to me
and then and then shut down.
We have to continue talking about this.
Susan just told us this today.
Yeah, I feel like she's not on my side.
I am on your side. I have
always been on your side.
Honey, that's why I go.
I know how important it is for you
to control the fate of the
world, what it takes from you.
And I know how hard it's been for you
to accept what happened to us
You cannot say that to me anymore.
the things you couldn't
change, after the accident
I am here now, and I do accept it.
I accept this, I accept all of this.
This is what we have.
I love you, I love our son,
and I want us to be together.
That's all I want, okay?
[phone rings]
Yeah?
WOMAN: We have an incident
on the ground in New York.
[whine continues]
FINOLA: Anything?
There's no point of origin.
It's like it's coming from everywhere.
We've been taking readings,
trying to map it out.
How large is it?
Several blocks in diameter.
The previous event in New Jersey,
the sound zone was much smaller.
It was a block at most.
This is going to be
a much larger wormhole.
They're gonna make more than
just a city bus disappear.
[whine stops]
I can't hear it anymore.
It stopped. Everywhere.
- How long do you think we have?
- Mackie said it was heard
two hours before it wound up in Boston.
Well, that explains why Influx
is on the ground in numbers.
Obviously, they're the ones who
stole this piece from the Germans.
There was a case file,
China, last month.
It was taken down off the servers.
Do you know why?
No. I'm not sure why
it wouldn't be there.
Wouldn't you have to approve
anyone taking it down?
Typically, yes, but MI6
doesn't always follow protocol.
I'll look into it.
I'm heading to you now.
We need to stop this
event and catch these guys,
and I want the first crack at
our British friend when we do.
Okay.
I'm gonna put a team here,
and then one over there.
Then I'll check in, okay? Thank you.
Did we find out where it came from?
No, they're still
searching the buildings.
Base camp's over there.
- Thanks.
- All right.
[phone rings]
[phone beeps]
[phone rings]
Hey, can I ring you later,
Dee Dee? Are you okay?
DEE DEE: Yeah, I just wanted
to ask you a question.
I was just thinking about that song.
Do you remember that Spanish
song we used to sing?
It's from, like, a movie or something.
Do you remember it?
Listen, I can't really talk right now.
Come on, just give me a sec.
What was it?
Do you remember the name?
Fi, put me out of my misery.
What was it? What was it called?
Where are you?
Just outside the hospital.
Justin got a little
carried away tonight.
Well is he okay?
Yeah.
What's going on?
I just wanted to talk to you.
I just wanted to
hear your voice, you know.
I just feel so alone.
Just felt good when we listened
to that song, you know?
Listen, Dee Dee,
I want you to go home. Okay?
Get some sleep and call me later.
All right?
I really have to go, but
please, just go home and sleep.
- Okay.
- I love you.
I love you.
[sighs]
- Can I show you something?
- Yeah.
The hotel manager of this place
said that only some of the
Influx Operatives checked in.
Yeah, they were at full capacity.
I think maybe some of the others
checked in across the street.
It's the only hotel for
the next six blocks.
♪♪
BRYAN: Hey!
Get down!
Get on the ground! Get on the ground!
The gun! Drop the gun!
Nobody has to get shot. Let's talk.
You can't stop it.
If we can just talk
No.
Where is the sound coming from?
Where is it coming from?
Even if you stopped it
you couldn't stop it.
- What does that mean?
- Another will rise in my place.
- If you can just help us stop
- This technology will be free.
FINOLA: No!
[exhales sharply]
- Hey.
- Hey.
- Are you good?
- Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Where's Bryan?
Over there, talking to the coroner.
Listen, whoever they are,
whatever their reasons,
whatever they're doing, they have
enough conviction to die for it.
Did you learn anything?
He said, "Another will rise in my place.
This technology will be free."
It is like they are zealots.
Listen, you're gonna have to
get me this China file.
There has to be something
on it that can help us
stop them from opening up
another wormhole.
It is all we have left.
Literally, it is all we have got.
We do not have long,
so if there's anything that I can get
I have it.
I couldn't risk sending it
over the network.
It's on its way to your location.
What do you mean?
Go to the intersection
of Varick and Moore.
You're a block away. Wait there.
Ferris.
She knows more than she's telling you.
Your father is not a clone.
Who are you?
[engine revs]
[door opens]
BRYAN: Eickmann had nothing on him.
Still no idea where Influx
plans to open the wormhole.
What's that?
The China footage. Ferris found it.
She managed to get it.
Did you ask Maddox about it?
I did. He was unaware.
Said that the state department
pulled it down.
China's, uh, too hot right now,
but he's working on getting it back up.
And you believe that?
Why would he say it if it wasn't true?
Well, I just mean I know there's
a lot of tension between,
uh, China and the U.S. right now.
I'm just wondering if there's, um,
anything that he's not telling you.
No.
He tells me everything.
Yeah, well
Go teamwork.
[keyboard clacking]
There's nothing controversial
on here at all.
It's exactly as you described it.
It says the excavators were stolen
from a nearby construction site.
Why did they need excavators?
That's interesting.
They're facing each other.
And the shovels are extended.
What are you thinking?
Wait a second
[keyboard clacking]
That's how they're doing it.
Yeah, we got scorch marks
and residue all over them.
I've got two men on the radio towers
reporting back 120 on the Laghari.
There was absolutely Debris here.
BRYAN: Okay, we'll call you
when we know more.
You're right.
[sighs]
That's how they enabled the
Debris to pull the bus through.
The wormhole needs to be opened
between two steel conductive poles.
And the whine we heard,
I think it was some kind of
charging process,
almost like a tuning fork.
Like the Debris was gathering
atmospheric electricity
to power the event.
So we're looking for two tall,
opposing vertical structures
in the middle of Manhattan.
You realize that's
the entire island, right?
- What's the situation?
- We've got teams canvassing.
Still no signs of Influx,
or any of the Debris.
We're mapping all readings and
reports on the sound disturbance.
MALLORY: Agent Jones. Sir.
FINOLA: So, for the size of the
event we're talking about,
they'd want the largest solid
mass of steel they could get.
MADDOX: [sighs]
If we don't find
the Debris they're using here,
a big chunk of Manhattan is
going to literally disappear.
There's got to be a way
to narrow this down.
That one on Madison.
I read an article about it.
It was the first skyscraper in Manhattan
to have a tuned mass damper on it.
They're these huge steel weights
designed to stabilize tall
buildings against wind sway.
All right, are there any of these
mass dampers in the sound zone?
Yeah, looks like we've got two more.
So they're going to use two
out of the three to open it up.
We only need to find one,
deactivate the Debris
so they won't sync.
If we can do that,
we can stop the wormhole.
All right, here's what we're gonna do.
I'm gonna take a team to Park.
Finola, you take a team to Lexington.
Bryan, you head to Madison. All right?
- Yeah.
- Yup. Thank you, Mallory.
♪♪
[instrument beeping]
The Debris is charged to 80%.
It won't be long.
Clear.
Shh.
MAN: No signatures.
MAN: Clear.
Nothing here. It must be with you guys.
Repeat. Madison is clear.
[elevator dings]
[door opens in distance]
Are you okay?
Shots fired! Agent down.
Okay, take it down. They're here.
Let's go!
[panting]
They're in the northeast stairwell.
FINOLA: 54th floor.
I think they've taken
the Debris with them.
AGENT: Laghari levels flat, sir.
[phone rings]
- Yeah.
- We're clear.
Yours must be the second building.
That's impossible.
We're not getting any
Laghari signatures.
- It's not here.
- Negative.
Finola's team confirmed
the other piece of Debris
was taken from her location.
Maybe we're not getting the signatures
because the pieces aren't synced.
It has to be you.
Copy.
Hey, Pete? Something's not right.
I'm gonna circle back.
[instrument buzzing]
It's down to 90%.
As long as we stay above 70, we're good.
The charge will last
at least 15 minutes.
I don't have enough time.
Now you do.
I've jumped too many times.
Once more. Think of the cause.
It must be done.
♪♪
We got one of them. Dormant.
MALLORY: I'll initiate
recovery protocols.
Copy.
Pete.
[door opens]
[shouts]
- [phone rings]
- MADDOX: Yeah?
Agents down, in need
of medical assistance.
Roger that.
We're sending EMTs to your 20.
We'll back up Finola.
Help is on the way.
You're gonna be all right.
You're gonna be okay. Hey, look at me.
Mallory, look at me. I'm gonna
stay right here with you.
You're gonna be okay. All right?
♪♪
MADDOX: Finola, en route to you.
What's your 20?
Finola? Finola?
[groaning]
I'm here. They're leaving. I'm going in.
♪♪
[elevator dings]
[grunting]
[beeping]
[Debris powering up]
[Debris powering up]
That doesn't make any sense.
What?
It's synced now.
Somehow they've initiated it.
It's going to happen.
[panting]
[Mallory gasping]
Hold on. Hold on.
Okay, careful. You good?
- [groans] Uh-huh.
- All right, stay with me.
I'll walk you through the sequence.
N52 Disruption. Simple stuff.
Good, cause I've never done one.
I was joking. Not easy. Very hard.
I was hoping the joke
was the other way round.
At least inside, you know
I'm smart enough to do it.
Bryan, I've played cards with you.
I think you're lucky enough. [panting]
Start an AF ground sequence.
AF ground sequence.
[high-pitched whine]
You're off on the second parameter.
That's way too high.
[whine fades, instrument beeping]
- Next.
- Lock it in.
- Go back to the first node.
- I thought we always go
one, two, three, in that order.
If you do, you'll be turned
into a fine yellow mist.
I stand corrected.
[panting]
You've got his eyes.
What've you done with him?
Is he alive?
Tell me what you've done with him.
- Tell me what
- [complete silence]
[sound returns, Debris powering down]
[instrument beeping]
[panting]
[grunts]
[sirens in distance]
You all right?
Yeah.
[sighs]
You did it, Mallory. You did it.
Help is on the way.
We recovered both pieces of Debris.
I heard. Well done.
Can't say I'm not happy he's caught.
But that was a risk.
I wanted him alive.
When I first met you,
I wondered about you.
I doubted you could do this job.
I shouldn't have.
Where is he?
He's in the transport truck.
Where are they taking him?
Somewhere where no one
will hear him scream.
Well, I'm gonna go finish the report.
I'll see you on the plane.
MADDOX: Finola, hey.
How you doing? You okay?
- Yeah.
- Good.
You did great. Invaluable, really.
This is gonna completely
open up Influx for us.
Yeah, well, I'm just, um, grateful
that we were able to stop what
they were attempting to do here.
- The loss of life
- It would have been inconceivable.
- Yeah.
- Let me ask you something.
You were in contact with him
just before agents took him down.
Did he say anything to you?
No.
Will I be able to interview him?
I want to get the lay of the land first.
Trust me, I will get
what I need out of him.
And I'll personally let you
know what I find out, okay?
- Yeah. I appreciate that.
- [phone rings]
Oh, I gotta go. Yep, I'm on my way now.
♪♪
[phone rings]
[phone chimes]
[sighs]
GEORGE: Dee Dee, put that down. Not yet.
JENNA JONES:
Listen to your dad, Dee Dee,
we're going to eat soon and I don't
want you to fill up on sweets.
I'm starving. Finola is, too.
YOUNG FINOLA: No, I'm not.
I'm not hungry yet.
GEORGE: Jenna. Jenna,
take it away from her.
Take it away. She won't have
any teeth left. [chuckles]
["Porque Te Vas" by Jeanette plays]
GEORGE: Oh, come on.
Dance with Dee Dee, Finola.
Hoy en mi ventana brilla el sol ♪
Y el corazon ♪
Se pone triste
contemplando la ciudad ♪
Porque te vas ♪
Como cada noche desperté ♪
Pensando en ti ♪
Y en mi reloj todas
las horas vi pasar ♪
Porque te vas ♪
Todas las promesas de
mi amor se iran contigo ♪
Me olvidaras ♪
Me olvidaras ♪
Junto a la estacion
llorare igual que un nino ♪
Porque te vas ♪
Porque te vas ♪
Porque te vas ♪
Porque te vas ♪
♪♪
WOMAN: Debris is not
burning up on entry.
Repeat. Debris is not
burning up on entry.
[beep]
Multiple impacts in North America,
Atlantic Ocean continental shelf.
[beep]
MAN: Orbital responding.
[beep]
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