Painkiller Jane s01e04 Episode Script

My name is jane vasco.
I could use you on my team.
I work for a secret government agency that hunts neuros.
People who can do dangerous things with their minds.
On my first assignment Something a little weird happened, okay, something really weird.
Until i get some answers i'm getting on with my life, doing my job.
Stocking up on aspirin, because let me tell ya, pain's a bitch! The five car pile up alright, check your comms.
Maureen? Check.
Connor? Check.
Alright, now watch your footing, we know he has mines and trip wires.
Maybe some home-made goodies too.
Probably.
Alright, take first positions you don't move until i give the word.
Understood? Copy.
All right, move out.
Maureen, into position now! Incoming! Bauers, are you hit? No, but i don't think this stealth approach is working.
Connor, you in position? Connor, connor Connor! He's hit! Bauer, why don't you lay down some fire, on three.
Alright, 1 so here we are.
Yeah.
Here we are.
We spend our lives looking for answers.
Who am i? Why am i here? Why is david hasselhoff so big in germany? We always think that finding the answers are going to bring us some kind of satisfaction, when usually it just gets us more questions.
The more things i find out about myself, the more i wish i could develop partial amnesia.
Only with my luck, i probably rember the pain and forget my name.
Hey, i did a story on your old boss at the d.
e.
a.
Earl pike.
Yeah? Seems as if he took early retirement.
You're kidding! Lt.
Pike loved the job.
Up until he got shot.
I interviewed him for the story.
Seems the shooting really threw the fear of god into him.
Yeah, but enough to quit? The man took a bullet a half inch from his heart.
I guess it's hard to say what any of us would do unless we've walked in his shoes.
Brian and i have been going out just long enough for it to still be exciting and scary at the same time.
So much to learn about him and so much to keep him from discovering about me.
Come on! Number b-4.
Bingo! Bingo! Oh Hello! Sorry to interrupt.
It started raing It's quite all right.
Would you like to join us? We have reservations.
Yeah, uh-huh.
Aw, that's too bad.
I'm going to find the ladies' room, dry off a little.
And tell your paper that they need a new weatherman.
Number o-69.
Everything okay? I have to go.
We haven't even had.
.
I'm so sorry.
I can't really explain, but Duty calls.
Yeah, something like that.
I promise i'll make it up to you.
That, i'm looking forward to.
Hey.
Hey, i'm sorry to drag you out, but i need you to see this.
Agent vasco.
I'm not even sure who you are an agent with, but i know in three days, you and your team will try to arrest me.
It won't go well.
Your three teammates will be killed.
And then you'll shoot me.
I die in front of the orange door.
Is this some kind of joke? Keep watching.
I know how this sounds, but you have to believe me.
These things that i see all will happen.
I can't stop it, but maybe you can.
Please don't come after me.
Keep your team away.
It's the only way to save their lives and mine.
You found this in a bathroom? It was taped to a mirror, waiting for me.
Who knew where you'd be tonight? Nobody.
That's the thing.
Brian and i were on our way to dinner.
When all of a sudden it started raining, so we ran into that senior center.
Are you sure he didn't steer you that way intentionally? In case it started raing.
At exactly the right moment to fit into his master plan to freak me out? I don't think so.
What do you think i should do? Jane, we don't know who this guys is.
He's not even on our radar.
Maybe it will turn out to be a practical joke or something.
See ya tomorrow, alright? Hey, it could be a new one.
How many incidents, riley? Four, including this one.
What's going on? Riley's been tracking a series of unusual phone calls.
It could be neuro.
You remember that plane crash yesterday in north carolina? Somebody called the airline that morning, warning them to cancel the flight.
The cops figured that the tipster must have had some kind of involvement, right? So they traced the call and brought the guy in for questioning Same guy's phoned in three other tips.
All solid.
All reliable.
That's the guy.
Damn! Not on our radar, huh? What? I have something you should see.
I got a message from this man.
Keep your team away.
It's the only way to save their lives and mine.
"the man" is ethan grant.
No criminal record, no nothing.
He told the police that he "saw" the plane crash before it happened.
There was no other evidence connecting him to it.
But there were other calls, right? The voice print from his call to the airline matches three others from the past six months, warning people about bad things that were going to happen: a gas main explosion, a fire at an elementary school, and get this A tornado that touched down near amarillo, texas.
Sounds good for a chip to me.
You heard what the man said.
If he's right and so far you say he has been then three of you will die.
If you actually believe that someone can see into the future.
Even if i don't Why risk it? He hasn't committed any crime.
All he's been doing is trying to save people's lives.
So far, yes.
But if he is a neuro and if he can see into the future, you have to wonder what else he can do.
Bet on every horse race, title fight and bowl game for the next twenty years? I was thinking more along the lines of predicting presidential security routes.
Or transport protocols for nuclear weapons.
Why do you assume he's trying to hurt anyone? Because he can, traditional law enforcement can't handle him.
That power is what makes him, and every other neuro, our problem.
Even if it costs us our lives.
Let's leave this alone, andre.
Is he still in police custody? No.
They had to release him.
Way to go feds.
That's the address where they picked him up.
A house owned by his sister, sarah.
If you're going to do this, i'm going with you.
Why? Because i'm the only one guaranteed to survive.
He's not here.
When do you expect him home? Ethan doesn't live here.
He was just visiting for a few days when he made that phone call.
After the police dragged him off, i doubt he'll be back.
Do you know where we can find him? I don't know.
You don't know where your own brother lives? I need to get to work.
We know what he can do.
We know he was trying to save those people on the plane.
They wouldn't believe him.
They never do.
It started about a year ago.
Before that ethan seemed fairly normal.
Fairly normal? He worked as a graphics designer.
He made a good living at it.
But then something changed.
Ethan would get a feeling that something bad was going to happen, and within a few days, something always did.
Then his feelings got more specific.
He knew when and where And how many people would die.
He called the gas company in denver to warned them about the main exploding.
They told him someone would look at it.
Obviously, nobody did, not until it was too late.
It was like that every time.
Nobody would listen.
We really need to talk to your brother, i'm going to ask you one more time, do you know where we can find him? I wish i did.
Since this began, ethan has basically retreated from the world.
When his premonitions first started, he thought that they were the result of some secret government experiment.
Now he's afraid they want to dissect him, or try to exploit his abilities.
He probably wouldn't like me talking to you Miss grant, we're here because your brother sent me a message.
About what? Another disaster.
One that he wants me to help him stop.
Did he tell you how many people are going to die? Did he say he'd be one of them? Why do you ask? Because when he came to see me this week I got the feeling he was here to say goodbye.
Hello? Ethan.
Keep him on.
Riley, you got that? I need a trace.
Got it.
He says to tell the two agents sitting in my living room that there's going to be a terrible accident.
A transformer at the westdale power station is going to explode within the hour.
Five city blocks will be affected, including the intersection of fourth and delancy.
A traffic signal will lose power and when it does, it will cause a major accident involving half a dozen cars.
Eleven people will die.
Has he called the power station? He's saying that they aren't going to listen to him.
Maybe they'll listen to you.
Let me talk to him.
Ethan Go.
We can be at the power station in 15 minutes.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
If he knows we're on his trail.
This could be a ploy to throw us off.
You willing to take that chance? Yeah, i know.
If you can't do it, who can? Then let me speak to your supervisor! Thank you.
Riley says it'd take him at least an hour to get into the power plant control system.
It might take me that long to get through to these people.
Yes, yes.
My name is jane vasco, i'm a federal agent.
We just received a tip that there's a threat to one of your power transformers.
It's imperative that you look into it immediately.
No, no, no, i'm sorry sir, thsoe details are classified! Sir, i am instructing you to do this.
If any causalities occur from your failure to look into this situation What? Excuse me, hi.
Riley traced the call ethan made to his sister this morning.
Isn't this enough proof that the man's for real? He said if we go after him, three of us will die.
Or should i say, three of you.
You have to let this one go, andre.
Can't do it, jane, you know that.
He goes through what we just went through every time he sees a disaster coming? Now you want to act like the government thugs he's afraid of and hunt him down? That is just it, maybe we can help him? So far we're doing a bang-up job.
I mean with his visions.
If he is a neuro, we can chip him.
Give him some peace.
Unless you want him to deal with this for the rest of his life.
No, you think ethan is some ticking bomb who needs to be defused.
You don't care about helping him.
You do.
You're a manipulative son of a bitch, you know that? Ethan called from a military surplus store about a mile away from his sister's.
Connor and maureen going to meet us? You sure this place doesn't have an orange door? Look at the bright side, kid, it's not saturday.
Yeah, he was here this morning.
Asked to use the phone.
How many calls did he make? Just the one.
A local number.
I don't allow any long distance on my phone.
Had you ever seen him before? Sam? Sure.
He comes in once in a while.
Sam? He said his name is sam? Isn't it? What does he buy? The basics.
Batteries, rope, water purification tablets Survival gear.
Well, i don't sell mochaccino lattes.
Obviously not.
You ever sell sam a gun? Sure.
A hunting rifle.
Anything else? Couple knives.
Like i said, the basics.
Hand grenades and semi-automatics.
Well, well.
.
Now what? Close the shop? Bust me? I could skip that last part, if you give me sam's address.
Here.
Sam whittaker.
That's his sister's address.
That's what he gave me.
We still have a deal or what? What's this? Dunno.
You know what it is? These symbols scribbled in the margin? It seems familiar, but i'm not sure.
You got anything else? In my business, you don't pry.
Especially not with that one.
Meaning? Your buddy sam has been stocking up on enough guns, ammo, trip wires, mines and grenades to supply his own little army.
Still think he doesn't pose a threat? There's nothing on this guy.
No bank records, no phone service, no driver's license Same thing for the fake sam whittaker id.
He knows how to stay off the radar.
But everybody makes a slip and i'll find it.
A paranoid neuro with an alias and a gun fetish.
Tasty.
He drew this? Yeah, jane thought it seemed familiar.
Yeah, it's the tosrona logo.
They made those funky clear sneakers that were trendy a while back.
I had three pairs.
Okay, so we know our neuro likes geeky shoes.
Okay, guys, tosrona had a factory downtown.
Closed about a year ago.
This! This is tosrona.
It's still empty.
The whole district is pretty much abandoned.
A hell of a place to live under the radar.
We should check it out.
Told you everybody makes a slip.
If it is a slip.
That's a good point.
He would have known we were going to trace him.
Maybe he wanted us to find this.
Why? To lead us into a trap? Maybe.
He's not trying to trap anybody.
He told us to stay away.
You're afraid to go after this guy? You're the one who should be afraid.
According to him, i come out of this.
Maybe we don't have a choice.
Haven't his experiences and ours proven we can't change the outcome? There's always a choice.
There has to be.
If it's all fate, then we're just going through the motions and none of it means a damn thing.
That's one theory.
Consider it rejected.
Nobody controls my destiny but me.
That's what we'd all like to believe, isn't it? You don't? Say you're right, and we can save our own asses by leaving this guy out there along with his guns, if he uses those guns, and even one innocent person gets hurt, then we've all got blood on our hands.
I agree.
It's our risk.
Our choice.
Doesn't look wired.
No signs of life.
We're ready to go in.
Got it, proceed.
Wait! Everyone hold.
What? Ethan said he was going to die by the orange door.
Good, so we know we're in the right place.
At least let me go in first.
We're going in.
We're in.
Headed for the upper level.
Keep your eyes open, this guy has a lot of fire power.
Riley, you reading us? Clear as day.
Scanning for other heat signatures.
Keep us posted.
All quiet down here, boss.
Keep looking, he's gotta be here somewhere.
Maureen, what's your status? Side door, southwest corner.
No one here.
Nobody has been here for months.
This is a total bust.
So much for the doodle clue.
At least you're alive.
What's all this? There were usable prints on that sheet of paper from the gun place.
They matched up with a few more aliases for ethan grant.
So i'm running them all down.
Looks like a lot of work.
Yeah, well Part of the job.
I was wondering if you could pull up the audio files of ethan grant's emergency calls.
Okay.
But if you've already got all the servers running I'd love to help you.
I can grab them right now.
You just wait right there, okay? Here you go, my dear.
We'll have a listen to these together, i suppose.
Yeah.
Check these out later.
Agent vasco.
Ethan, where are you? I knew you'd come here.
I saw it.
I believe you.
And i believe your premonition about me and my team.
How do i stop it? You don't understand, you can't stop fate, no one can.
It's like a living thing, it swallows us all into darkness.
What are you doing here? And why did you send me that warning? On the slim chance that you might be the one who saves us all from the abyss.
I don't understand.
These disasters i see don't just spontaneously happen.
There's a chain of events leading up to each one.
Where do i come in? By the time i see what's going to happen, my opportunity to break the chain has already passed.
But not for me.
You are only hope.
Futile as it may be.
It's also the only hope your friends have to survive the darkness that's written on them.
I've tried warning my team.
They won't listen to me.
Now you know how i feel.
When it's closing in on you and you have no place else to go, we already found the tosrona building downtown.
The one with the orange door, where you said Where i die.
So stay away from it.
Come out so i can see you.
Let me bring you in right now, safely and quietly.
I have no choice anymore.
No matter what i do, no matter how hard i try, i can't change this.
Fate will have her way.
Fate didn't buy all those guns, and destiny won't pull the trigger.
If anyone on my team members are injured, i'm going to hold you personally responsible.
You're wrong about that, jane.
Our lives are in your hands now.
One link.
Any way.
Just turn yourself over and put an end to this.
What i have here, will protect my friends and put an end to your pain.
And take away my gift.
Your gift is torture.
It's a torture i couldn't live without.
It's helped me live in a world that has little but pain to offer me.
Like you said, i do have a choice.
I'm sorry, jane.
Doesn't happen this way.
Sorry ma'am.
Read the sign.
Men only.
Just a minute.
You have to leave now.
Here we go.
Grant won the state spelling bee when he was nine years old.
That should crack the case wide open.
Hey, jane, what's going on? Vasco.
Tell me that's a pint of tequila Because i'm losing my mind.
I have to do something to break the chain somehow.
Sorry.
Jane? You're absolutely sure jane is the one who tranked you? I think i know what vasco looks like.
It was jane.
She calibrated the dose to keep you out for an hour.
Just long enough.
For what? Easy, easy There's some damage to your workstation What do you mean, damage? Oh, man Riley Oh, no, no, no! I don't understand.
Why would she do this? To cover her tracks.
I just stopped by jane's place.
There's some clothes and a suitcase missing.
But she left her locator behind.
Will somebody tell me what the hell is going on?! Jane's still trying to change the future that ethan grant predicted.
By leaving town? She's probably trying to get as far away from ethan, the tosrona factory, and us as possible.
Without her, the premonition can't play out the way he saw it.
She did this thinking we can't find grant by tomorrow.
Tomorrow? You mean today.
It's almost 6:00 a.
m.
Can you fix it? I'm good but i can't bring back the dead.
Unless Wait a minute Ok, this is one of the first handheld processors.
It's a collector's item.
Which is helpful because because it has an early version of my personal operating system.
It'll be excruciatingly slow.
You know what kids, law enforcement did function before the advent of the computer.
We'll just have to investigate the old-fashioned way.
Connor, you and i, we're going to sarah grant's it's the closest thing we've found to a home base for ethan.
What about jane? How are we going to find her? We're not.
There's no indication that she's in danger.
Besides, with a head start and her skills No, we stay on ethan.
So i see only one bed here, where did your brother sleep? That's a pull-out couch.
Let's check it out.
Was ethan's the only one who slept on it, in the last few months? Yeah.
Ugh Vasco, i'm going to kill you for this.
What'd you find? It looks like lint.
Ethan's? I guess.
This guy needs to be chipped sooner than later.
Andre.
I want a sample of that dirt.
The car had overheated and so had i, the only thing that mattered to me was knowing there was no way i could get back in time to fulfill my destiny.
Here's the breakdown on your dirt.
Nothing too surprising in its composition.
But distinctive enough to tell us where it came from? If we had geographic samples to compare it to, sure.
Who might have that kind of data? The u.
s.
Geological survey? The epa? Even if they agreed to run the analysis, we'd have to wait our turn, it could take months.
Then we won't ask.
Riley You want me to hack the epa with this? Are you saying you can't? Of course i can.
It's just a matter of time.
Within the hour would be nice.
But decrypting the access codes alone would take Of course, you don't actually need full access to their database.
Just comparative soil and pollutant analysis Which their computer could do for me.
There you go.
This is tosrona.
It's still empty.
The whole district is pretty much abandoned.
There's no one here.
No one has been for months.
Here's the question of the century, what's a police training facility that looks exactly like the tosrona shoe factory doing way out here at the exact spot my car broke down? And why is andre's suv parked outside? Okay, that's two questions, but who's counting when you're about to come face to face with fate.
Alright, i saw movement in the north-west corner.
Hang on.
Yeah, north-west corner.
This is going down.
It won't be what he predicted without vasco.
Let's find out.
Alright check your comms.
Maureen? Check.
Connor? Check.
Alright, now watch your footing, we know he has mines and trip wires.
Maybe some home-made goodies too.
Probably.
Alright, take first positions you don't move until i give the word.
Understood? Copy.
All right, move out.
Bauers, are you hit? No, but i don't think this stealth approach is working.
Connor, you in position? Yeah, i'm here.
Alright, i'm going to draw his fire.
When i do, i want you to Connor, wait! Connor! Bauer, why don't you lay down some fire, on three.
Alright, 1 Don't worry, andre, i'm going to get you outta here.
How bad is it? What the? That one really hurt.
But i thought andre died? I drugged connor and andre.
But Don't you understand? I died in their place.
You're trying to fake out fate? Who says it's a fake-out? Maybe this is exactly what ethan saw, and he only interpreted it as seeing three different people die.
There's only been two.
Logic was one of maureen's strong points, it just didn't always hit home when it came to applying it to herself.
That leaves one left to go.
Sorry, mo.
so here we are.
Yeah.
Here we are.
The chip will suppress your abilities.
No more premonitions.
But i saw my own death.
You shouldn't believe everything you see.
So it is possible.
The things i see They can be changed.
Come on.
Watch out! Noooo! Connor? Another room.
Hey, you saved three lives tonight.
Ethan came to me for help, and he still ended up dead.
While i came through, without a scratch.
Jane 1-13? What's that? Not only was our guy paranoid, he was a hypochondriac.
No, he was preparing.
For what? Whatever he saw coming.
Most of us would give anything for a peak into the future, ethan had no choice but to see his own.
And it tortured him to the very end.
It's second nature to curse our flaws, and we do convince ourselves that life would be easier without them.
Ethan's ability to se the future was his flaw, a vision he was compelled to share with me.
And maybe it's because i have my own issues with confining.
But i can't help wondering, what did'nt he share?