Alphas (2011–2012): Season 1, Episode 4 - Rosetta - full transcript
During a raid against Red Flag an unknown Alpha is discovered. Gary bonds heavily with her while the rest of the team tries to define the extent of their enemies reach.
Too hot.
It's 9:28, kiddo.
It's perfect. Trust me.
It's too cold.
Really? Yeah.
You know, you
could get it yourself,
and that way, it would be
exactly the way you want it.
Yeah, I know.
Or I could get it.
Gary?
Gary?
Gotcha.
It died again. Where's the cord?
It's over there.
You like them
runny or well done?
Runny.
Sorry. I overcooked them.
Milos Kosar.
Intel says Red Flag's most aggressive
operations are run through his cell.
He doesn't look so scary.
This man nearly
had us all killed, Nina.
He was the one who
sent the Ghost after us.
He's our prime suspect
in 10 other cases.
I'm the one who found him.
I followed his cell phone.
Yes, you did, Gary.
Thank you very much.
It was easy.
Can I keep the vest?
Gary, please. I can't concentrate.
Please stop with the straps.
Six heartbeats on the perimeter,
three in the house.
Three heartbeats
inside the house.
Copy that, Bill.
All right, copy that.
No names over the
comms, please. Over.
Team two, there's three unfriendlies
on the inside. Copy that? Over.
Copy.
Team two, are you good to go?
Hell yeah. My vest
smells like cop sweat.
Team one and team
two in position. Over.
They don't know that we're here.
Element of
surprise is still ours.
Intel says they're planning
something any day now.
My gut says move.
Yeah, what does
the rest of you say?
Look, these are your people.
You know them better than I do.
Gum? Keeps the mouth
from getting too dry.
That always happens on
these kind of deals, you know?
You get the dry mouth
because of all the adrenaline.
Yeah, maybe I will. Thanks.
Going to need two minutes to
get in position behind the door.
That's pretty exposed.
When the signal
comes, run for the door.
I'll get you in.
You know who we are, right?
In our briefing, they said
you guys were civilians.
They said that, huh?
SWAT? Do I look like I
don't know what I'm doing?
FBI.
At least I still think I am.
Set here, one.
Heartbeat's steady.
All right, let's go.
Rachel.
Good to go. Team one.
All right, let's do this.
Call it, team two.
One. We're a go.
Milos, we've got company!
Moving in! Moving in!
Move! Move! Move!
Here we go! Here we go!
Let's make it critical! Go!
Eyes on the target!
Bill!
Don't take no for an answer
There's no telling
where we've been
Because people don't
understand, understand, understand
People don't understand
People like me
Bill, can you hear me?
Bill? Two heartbeats
moving. One static!
Rachel, do you copy?
Bill, do you hear me?
Only picking up one
heartbeat in the back room.
- Not moving.
- Move, move, move!
Rachel, what's going
on? Why did that happen?
It's static in the back
room. Bill, do you hear me?
There's only one heartbeat
in the back room now.
Anna, if you can hear
me, blink once for yes,
twice for no.
Her senses work,
but her ability to understand
and communicate is compromised.
Most likely autistic.
Low functioning at the
far end of the spectrum.
Harken says the home
is in her name. No family.
No one to complain
when Red Flag moves in.
So, what do we do with her?
Good question, Nina.
It's a lot of plans and
technical information.
I'll have someone check it out.
The good news, these guys
boogied out of here so fast,
they left a lot of evidence.
There's singe marks here
and on the lighting fixture.
This is definitely not
your typical blackout.
What about this computer?
It's encrypted.
That's a neat little
trick they pulled off.
In all the confusion they must have
just jumped out the side window.
They just walked away?
Uh, yeah, after they
blacked out everything,
somehow they got away.
That was a statement,
Mr. Hicks, not a criticism.
Sounded like a criticism to me.
Are you kidding me?
They sent us in here against
Alphas with unknown skills,
and somehow, we're
supposed to know every angle.
I thought that was DOD's job.
The best clue we have
right now is this home.
Might still pick up incoming
signals from Red Flag.
So, what about the girl, Anna?
Uh, I'll make some calls,
see if I can get
her into a home.
In the meantime,
Sullivan's people
will keep a watch out
for the three of you.
The three of us?
Meaning me?
Yes, I want Gary here,
scanning for signals.
I'm supposed to babysit?
Yes, just keep him focused.
He gets the egg salad at 1:30.
The question of who
is normal isn't medical.
It's political.
If you hear voices,
are depressed, are
attracted to the same sex,
if you believe in God,
or believe in nothing,
at one point or another,
society has branded you with
the stigma of mentally deficient.
We are not normal
by any strict definition,
but we reject the
label of deficient.
Okay, I think we get it.
In many ways...
Well, hang on a second. Doc, this is
the stuff we took from the house, right?
Yes.
And that frightens them.
Shouldn't we let it finish?
This is the remote
for the Blu-Ray.
It's just some pieces
I've seen before.
This is more propaganda
for their followers.
We need to discuss Milos Kosar.
No, that sounded like a
mission statement to me, Doc.
Now, if Red Flag has a plan,
wouldn't this help us figure it out?
Murdering their enemies
is their plan, Cameron.
You know that
better than anyone.
Can we move on, please?
This conversation's done.
Bill, what have we got?
This, uh, triggering device.
Doc, can we... Can we please
get a proper conference table?
Triggering device?
Yeah, a detonator so you can
blow something up by remote.
Found a lot of other stuff, too,
and a ton of info on
Northwell Petroleum.
It's a regional fuel company.
There's the goal
we're talking about.
So the big guy's strong... Hmm.
John Woo guy's got
aim. What do you do?
I can fly.
Really?
Yeah. Laser beams
shoot right out of my eyes.
All right. Forget I asked.
I know you're saying something,
but I... I don't understand.
Nina!
Don't answer.
All right. What's up, Gary?
I said don't answer.
You have a listening
problem. Put it on mute.
Hitting mute.
Now I've got a signal.
I can look at your sounds.
Okay, Anna, I can see it now.
I can see the sounds.
Okay, I can see the...
You.
This is you.
Can?
Can.
This comes after the "I."
What's next?
Help. Help what?
Okay, "Help."
I...
"I can help you find them."
"I can help you find them"?
Huh.
No, the signal that I
found in my bathroom,
that was Kosar's cell phone.
But I couldn't
understand the voice.
It's just... It's bloops
and scratches.
But it's not a voice.
It's her language.
And she's the only
one that can speak it.
She invented it.
Red Flag must have used her
to encode some of
their transmissions.
No, all of their transmissions.
She understands everything.
She can understand me, Gary?
Yeah, she
understands everything.
Every language.
Every language?
Yeah.
Ni vyema kukutana na wewe.
Huh. "It's nice to meet
you too, Dr. Rosen."
She says. That's a
message for you from Anna.
Swahili. Chinese.
Even some obscure Hindi dialect
I picked up from a yoga
instructor in Dharmshala.
She understands it all, Nina.
I guess you do, too, Mr. Modest.
She's a virtual Rosetta Stone.
She's a living, breathing
universal language translator.
Yeah, I know what a
Rosetta Stone is, thanks.
I looked through
her case history,
and she has been
consistently diagnosed
as severely autistic
and sometimes even
mentally disabled.
But that's not the case.
What she has is severe apraxia.
It's a condition
which affects speech
and other motor skills.
She may not be able to sign
or nod hello,
but her language and
pattern recognition is...
It's enormously enhanced.
She has taken all the
sounds that she can make,
and she has created
her own, unique language,
and no one noticed.
No one noticed
that she is an Alpha.
Gary did. Yes, Gary did.
And so did Red Flag.
Hmm.
You know, with Gary's help,
she could translate every
message on that tablet.
And we don't have
to chase after Kosar.
We find out where he's going.
So we take her
back to the office.
No. No, uh...
Familiarity, continuity,
the, you know, the day to day...
It's very important,
given her condition.
I think they should stay here.
Rosen.
Lee, do you have any
idea what time it is?
Uh... Sandra.
Hi, sweetie.
I'm not going to bed.
I missed 9:30, so
I'm gonna stay up.
All night!
You can't get him
off schedule like this.
I know, Sandra, I'm very sorry.
But he doesn't adapt
well. I know, I know.
I know this is good
for Gary, but, uh...
This can't keep
happening. He met a girl.
A girl?
She's about his age,
and I've never seen him
take to anyone so quickly.
Well, is she, uh...
Well, she has some
cognitive disabilities, yes.
Like Gary. Uh, not as social.
But, um, she's quite
extraordinary in her own way.
Wow.
Well...
That's, um... That's good.
It is. Yeah, it is. That's good.
And, uh, I promise,
no more late nights.
Okay.
Good night. Good night.
Dr. Rosen wants us
to translate all of them.
Anna. Okay?
He thinks your special
language abilities
will help us decode the
encrypted emails on this tablet.
Hey, Anna, what's this?
I just want the email.
You're controlling this.
With those sounds.
You have a secret, Anna.
Now we can really talk.
Ha! One friend to another.
You sound like the
lady on my voice mail.
That's really cool, Anna.
The things you
can do are amazing.
No.
No, it's not so amazing.
Dr. Rosen says that
a part of my brain just...
It grew bigger
than other people's.
And so, I... I can see all
the waves that float around.
What do they look like?
They look like
colors and shapes.
Hey, Gary, you working in there?
No, I'm talking to
Anna about myself.
She thinks that I'm amazing.
I do, too, Gary. Just
get back to work, okay?
Yeah. Anna, we have
to get back to work.
Where does Dr. Rosen
want us to start?
The first message. The
one that I followed here.
This one.
The brownout was
localized to an area
directly around the home,
and it gets stranger from there.
The carpet's singed and
the fibers clump together
in dense patterns.
It's really strange.
I've never seen anything
like it before. See?
No, I can't, Rachel,
but I trust you.
Some sort of static
electrical interference, hmm?
Maybe. It was powerful
and tightly controlled.
That's our Alpha
skill right there.
Now, at least we know
what we're up against.
Doc.
I found something.
Gary sent me a ton of these,
but this is the one that
caught my attention.
U-S D-O-T?
Department of Transportation.
It's a routing number for
a Northwell Petroleum truck
that's on the road right now.
So he's gonna
blow up a fuel truck.
No, 'cause we're gonna stop him.
I hate these faucets, you know?
The sensors never work.
We okay? Yeah.
What's the problem?
Ignition is electric.
Ah, give it a
minute. It'll bleed off.
Explosives. Yeah.
Are they in place?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's good.
Be careful with this.
Second car's in place,
ready on your go.
Tell your guys to
be extremely careful.
Rosen says this guy can
conduct electricity or something.
"Something like
that." That's great.
Yanks have a day game
against Boston today.
I'd love to make it home
in time for that.
Target in sight.
Satellite has confirmation
on the USDOT number.
It's a match.
Let's go. Let's do it.
Mobile one to mobile two,
we're gonna divert
target west at intersection.
Target coming your way.
Locked in on target.
We got him.
Out of the cab! Now!
Hands up where I can see 'em!
Where's the bomb?
Bomb? I got no idea
what you're talking about!
It's not Kosar.
It's not him!
You checked the number?
And did you re-check
the number, Bill?
Of course.
What about the driver?
Are we certain he
is who he says he is?
For all I know, he could've
been Mark Sanchez, okay?
But he wasn't
Kosar. It wasn't him.
Look, we put a scare
in him back in Montclair.
It is possible that
he ditched the plan.
No, no.
Not Milos Kosar.
He's an ideologue,
and he is not
easily intimidated.
He's out there with a bomb,
and I... Which I assume
he's going to use,
and we have no
idea where he's going.
Nina?
I want Gary at the office
as soon as possible.
We need him.
I need help sometimes.
A woman comes to buy
groceries and pay bills,
but I'm in charge
of my own life.
I'd like to buy my own clothes.
My mom won't let
me. She won't let me
buy a leather
jacket like the one
in Step Up 2: The Streets.
You don't need Doctor Rosen or
your mother to take care of you.
You're really smart.
Yeah, I am really smart.
I don't... I don't like
to do some things.
Anna, you don't
know me well. Mmm.
I don't like to take
care of myself.
I think I know you a little bit.
Yeah.
Okay, is this right?
Only one mistake.
No, I got that right.
The date... It should say 2011.
Count to 10.
Anna, count to 10. I
want to check something.
Anna.
Maybe you're
right. Yeah, I know.
But count to 10, 'cause
I wanna check this.
It could be something else.
Never mind.
Gary...
Hi, um...
I need to take Gary with me.
Rosen wants us back.
Yeah, I want to stay.
Wasn't an offer, Gary.
Well, I'm not leaving.
No... You're going. We both are.
Uh... No. No, I'm staying.
Hey, Gary, just
get in the car now.
Hey! Don't try and push me.
Excuse me?
You're trying to push me,
and it doesn't work on me.
No, I know it doesn't
work, and I wasn't.
So what's eating you?
Ha! That's a stupid question.
Nothing's eating me.
I'm not leaving. Okay, big shot.
Well, who's gonna take you back?
I am. The big shot
will drive himself back.
Or I'll call a cab,
since I don't have a car.
Gary, I don't
have time for this.
Just get in the car now.
I'm not leaving!
I'm not a big shot.
I'm an adult.
And I don't have
to do what you say.
It's the end of
the conversation.
Okay.
My CO guy used to say,
never let the
fight get personal.
Well, they tried to
kill me, Cameron.
It doesn't get more personal.
Don't you want to know why?
I know why. I
stood in their way.
Apparently, Red
Flag doesn't need
any more
justification than that.
Okay.
You know, you make things
personal, you get emotional.
You get emotional,
you make mistakes
and you overlook stuff.
I seem to remember someone
telling me that about my Alpha skill.
Don't be cute.
Uh, okay.
You wanna catch
this guy, I get it.
Just let him be the one
that makes the mistakes.
I'm glad you stood
up for yourself.
I'm glad you
stayed here with me.
I like you, Gary.
Then why did you lie to me?
I knew that there was
something weird about the date.
'Cause 10 was 20. And you...
You didn't want to explain.
So, I went back
through the messages.
And if I thought
that a two was a one,
then the first code that
you gave me was wrong.
And that's why the
truck was empty.
And you don't make
mistakes with that.
'Cause that's your Alpha skill.
You gave me the wrong
number on purpose.
But that was smart.
You were smart.
Because if you just
made something up,
I would have known.
So, you made it close,
and you changed the number
so that we wouldn't
find the real truck.
I had to, Gary.
I know you did, because
they weren't making
you do anything.
You work for them, Anna.
You work for Red Flag.
No, Gary, I don't work for them.
They work for me.
This is really bugging me.
This doesn't make any sense.
Okay, so we're
assuming that Red Flag
ditched their plan, right?
But did...
You know she can smell
your hands were on that, right?
No. She's gonna smell that
your nasty hands
were on that thing.
Anyway, we're assuming that
Red Flag ditched
the plan, right?
But the driver finished his route
in Pennsylvania, which means that
the truck was empty by
the time we got to the road.
So, the question is,
why would Red Flag plan
to go after a truck
with no fuel in it?
Exactly.
Hmm.
You know what I
would love to see?
A unicorn sliding
down a rainbow?
No, I would love to see a list
of all the Northwell trucks
on the road right now
with fuel in them.
2652 is on I-95.
South? Yep, heading south.
There's no way we can cover
all those trucks at once,
even if I can convince
someone that I'm right.
I think you're right.
I don't just translate
the messages.
I write them.
My friends trust me.
If you were with us,
we would trust you, too.
Huh.
We would never
treat you like a child.
Yeah, well...
I could figure it out.
'Cause I know the real number.
So, I could figure out the plan.
I'm sure you could.
Yeah, I could, but...
It'd be better if you just told
me where they were going.
Anna, I don't want
anyone to get hurt.
If you were my friend,
then you'd tell me.
You are my friend,
and I will tell you.
Okay, good.
I don't want to
hurt anyone, either.
But, sometimes, we
don't have a choice.
There's a drug to
prevent birth defects.
But lots of things are
considered birth defects.
You're not answering
my question.
Now, you're telling
me something else.
Alphas.
That's the word
Dr. Rosen used, right?
Women who take this
drug won't give birth
to any more Alphas.
But why would they do that?
That doesn't make any sense.
Society can't deal
with people like us.
We need to send
a message to them.
We are not a
problem to be fixed.
Make a choice
for yourself, Gary.
All you have to
do is say nothing.
You haven't answered me.
What are you going to do?
I never made my own friends.
I... I know people.
And they say that
they're my friends, but...
I didn't meet them, like
how I met you, Anna.
I know, Gary.
Yeah, so... Are
you really my friend?
Or... Were you just pretending
so that I'd send them
the wrong information?
Of course, I'm your friend.
Okay, good.
'Cause I just...
I did something.
Sneaky.
And... I don't think
that you're gonna like it.
Sullivan, I'm not saying
it won't cause panic.
You know, maybe
it will cause panic.
But you tell me, what
other choice do we have?
Bill...
No, tell... Tell!
Look, you could send 20
squad cars to Manhattan
to stop the ones heading there.
Bill, you need to look at this.
I'll call you back.
I want him here, Nina.
We need Gary's skills.
Was I unclear about that?
Shouldn't you ask Gary why
he doesn't want to come back?
You don't think I get it?
Yes, Gary has met
someone like him.
It's new. It's exciting.
But that doesn't
make his behavior
any less juvenile.
And it doesn't make
you leaving him there...
I didn't leave him there. He wanted
to stay. Any less irresponsible.
I'm not his mom, and
I'm not his babysitter!
Let's go. Trenton, New Jersey.
Montclair Pharmaceuticals.
What's going on?
Gary found Kosar.
We got a truck loaded with fuel
headed to the Montclair plant.
Now, apparently,
there's a new drug
that Red Flag wants to destroy
before anyone gets
a chance to take it.
I don't understand.
He texted you this? Yeah.
Well, how did he get the
number wrong in the first place?
Doc, it was the
girl the entire time.
She is Red Flag. The girl?
Yes! She gave us
the wrong information
to give her guys
more time to move.
Gary's still there.
Bill! You and Hicks go ahead.
We're gonna go
get Gary. Rachel...
This is Kosar we're talking
about. Come on, this is our shot.
I know. Go get him.
Let's go!
Let's go, let's go.
I'm sorry that I had to do it.
Anna, I had to because
your friend Kosar,
he tried to kill Dr. Rosen,
and that's wrong.
Rosen isn't like us.
He's not an Alpha.
No, he's not, but
he is my friend.
Anna, you don't
have to worry, okay?
I'm gonna make sure that
nothing bad happens to you.
Dr. Rosen's gonna help you
now. Like how he's helped me.
I don't need his help.
And neither do you.
I hope someday you'll see that.
No...
They're coming.
Whoa! No! Stop!
Hey! Hey!
It's through the gate.
All right, it's the R and D building on
the southeast corner of the campus.
That is the target.
Evacuate immediately.
Okay, take the wheel.
What? Take the wheel!
We can't wait for the timer!
Get it as close as you can...
And then blow it!
Where you going?
Hicks, the truck!
Don't blow it up.
Thanks, Bill. Just
let me concentrate.
Hold it steady!
Hicks, you ready? I'm on it!
- Freeze!
- Go get Kosar!
Gary?
Gary? Gary?
Are you, uh...
Are you all right?
Gary!
I have a headache.
Are you... Are you
hurt anywhere?
No.
Hi, Nina.
Hey. Where's Anna?
I don't know,
Gary. I don't know.
She was gone when we got here.
Oh, I need my phone.
Here, here it is.
Thank you.
You're okay, right?
Yeah.
Gary, I... I know
you liked Anna,
but remember,
I'm your friend, too.
Yeah... I know. But
you're not one of us.
You're not.
Gary, I don't make
distinctions like that.
Now, I don't know
what Anna told you,
but I want you to remember
that Red Flag is just a
small group of people
with some very extreme ideas.
Yeah, I know. You
already told me that...
Before.
I sent you an email, Dr. Rosen,
and you should read it.
You wanna test it?
No.
I'm not going back down.
No, if it's too cold,
then I can get it myself.
I can take care of myself.
Okay.
Good night, Mom.
Good night, sweetie.
I love you.
I'm sorry, Gary.
I hope you are still my friend.
The drug makers and
educators have been warned.
If they try to bring
this poison to market,
we will act again...
And we will continue to do so
until they understand
true neurodiversity
cannot be limited
by their small minds.
We picked this up
over an open frequency.
They didn't bother to encode it,
so I had our speech
analyst take a look.
The writing matches...
It's her, no question.
Hicks warned me,
and I did not listen.
I underestimated
this young woman.
And not just her ability,
but the strength of
her argument as well.
I'm not getting
your point, Rosen.
What, are you switching sides?
No, this drug was
designed to limit the chances
of brain damage in infants.
If it had gone to
market, it may indeed
have prevented other
Alphas from being born.
I don't know that.
All I know is that there's
good guys and bad guys,
and today, your people
put the bad ones in the ground.
Yes, they did.
And I can appreciate that.
I can have two conflicting
thoughts at the same time.
Something Don
Wilson used to say.
I hardly knew the man.
Fine, stay conflicted.
But all this is, is a
bunch of criminals
who used an issue to
try to expand their reach.
Maybe.
I want to show you something.
Wilson and I always thought
Red Flag was a loose network
of 50 to 100 affiliates.
A cartel, but...
When Anna flooded
Gary with messages
we got quite a
different picture.
This more than
a criminal enterprise.
This is a movement.
It's 9:28, kiddo.
It's perfect. Trust me.
It's too cold.
Really? Yeah.
You know, you
could get it yourself,
and that way, it would be
exactly the way you want it.
Yeah, I know.
Or I could get it.
Gary?
Gary?
Gotcha.
It died again. Where's the cord?
It's over there.
You like them
runny or well done?
Runny.
Sorry. I overcooked them.
Milos Kosar.
Intel says Red Flag's most aggressive
operations are run through his cell.
He doesn't look so scary.
This man nearly
had us all killed, Nina.
He was the one who
sent the Ghost after us.
He's our prime suspect
in 10 other cases.
I'm the one who found him.
I followed his cell phone.
Yes, you did, Gary.
Thank you very much.
It was easy.
Can I keep the vest?
Gary, please. I can't concentrate.
Please stop with the straps.
Six heartbeats on the perimeter,
three in the house.
Three heartbeats
inside the house.
Copy that, Bill.
All right, copy that.
No names over the
comms, please. Over.
Team two, there's three unfriendlies
on the inside. Copy that? Over.
Copy.
Team two, are you good to go?
Hell yeah. My vest
smells like cop sweat.
Team one and team
two in position. Over.
They don't know that we're here.
Element of
surprise is still ours.
Intel says they're planning
something any day now.
My gut says move.
Yeah, what does
the rest of you say?
Look, these are your people.
You know them better than I do.
Gum? Keeps the mouth
from getting too dry.
That always happens on
these kind of deals, you know?
You get the dry mouth
because of all the adrenaline.
Yeah, maybe I will. Thanks.
Going to need two minutes to
get in position behind the door.
That's pretty exposed.
When the signal
comes, run for the door.
I'll get you in.
You know who we are, right?
In our briefing, they said
you guys were civilians.
They said that, huh?
SWAT? Do I look like I
don't know what I'm doing?
FBI.
At least I still think I am.
Set here, one.
Heartbeat's steady.
All right, let's go.
Rachel.
Good to go. Team one.
All right, let's do this.
Call it, team two.
One. We're a go.
Milos, we've got company!
Moving in! Moving in!
Move! Move! Move!
Here we go! Here we go!
Let's make it critical! Go!
Eyes on the target!
Bill!
Don't take no for an answer
There's no telling
where we've been
Because people don't
understand, understand, understand
People don't understand
People like me
Bill, can you hear me?
Bill? Two heartbeats
moving. One static!
Rachel, do you copy?
Bill, do you hear me?
Only picking up one
heartbeat in the back room.
- Not moving.
- Move, move, move!
Rachel, what's going
on? Why did that happen?
It's static in the back
room. Bill, do you hear me?
There's only one heartbeat
in the back room now.
Anna, if you can hear
me, blink once for yes,
twice for no.
Her senses work,
but her ability to understand
and communicate is compromised.
Most likely autistic.
Low functioning at the
far end of the spectrum.
Harken says the home
is in her name. No family.
No one to complain
when Red Flag moves in.
So, what do we do with her?
Good question, Nina.
It's a lot of plans and
technical information.
I'll have someone check it out.
The good news, these guys
boogied out of here so fast,
they left a lot of evidence.
There's singe marks here
and on the lighting fixture.
This is definitely not
your typical blackout.
What about this computer?
It's encrypted.
That's a neat little
trick they pulled off.
In all the confusion they must have
just jumped out the side window.
They just walked away?
Uh, yeah, after they
blacked out everything,
somehow they got away.
That was a statement,
Mr. Hicks, not a criticism.
Sounded like a criticism to me.
Are you kidding me?
They sent us in here against
Alphas with unknown skills,
and somehow, we're
supposed to know every angle.
I thought that was DOD's job.
The best clue we have
right now is this home.
Might still pick up incoming
signals from Red Flag.
So, what about the girl, Anna?
Uh, I'll make some calls,
see if I can get
her into a home.
In the meantime,
Sullivan's people
will keep a watch out
for the three of you.
The three of us?
Meaning me?
Yes, I want Gary here,
scanning for signals.
I'm supposed to babysit?
Yes, just keep him focused.
He gets the egg salad at 1:30.
The question of who
is normal isn't medical.
It's political.
If you hear voices,
are depressed, are
attracted to the same sex,
if you believe in God,
or believe in nothing,
at one point or another,
society has branded you with
the stigma of mentally deficient.
We are not normal
by any strict definition,
but we reject the
label of deficient.
Okay, I think we get it.
In many ways...
Well, hang on a second. Doc, this is
the stuff we took from the house, right?
Yes.
And that frightens them.
Shouldn't we let it finish?
This is the remote
for the Blu-Ray.
It's just some pieces
I've seen before.
This is more propaganda
for their followers.
We need to discuss Milos Kosar.
No, that sounded like a
mission statement to me, Doc.
Now, if Red Flag has a plan,
wouldn't this help us figure it out?
Murdering their enemies
is their plan, Cameron.
You know that
better than anyone.
Can we move on, please?
This conversation's done.
Bill, what have we got?
This, uh, triggering device.
Doc, can we... Can we please
get a proper conference table?
Triggering device?
Yeah, a detonator so you can
blow something up by remote.
Found a lot of other stuff, too,
and a ton of info on
Northwell Petroleum.
It's a regional fuel company.
There's the goal
we're talking about.
So the big guy's strong... Hmm.
John Woo guy's got
aim. What do you do?
I can fly.
Really?
Yeah. Laser beams
shoot right out of my eyes.
All right. Forget I asked.
I know you're saying something,
but I... I don't understand.
Nina!
Don't answer.
All right. What's up, Gary?
I said don't answer.
You have a listening
problem. Put it on mute.
Hitting mute.
Now I've got a signal.
I can look at your sounds.
Okay, Anna, I can see it now.
I can see the sounds.
Okay, I can see the...
You.
This is you.
Can?
Can.
This comes after the "I."
What's next?
Help. Help what?
Okay, "Help."
I...
"I can help you find them."
"I can help you find them"?
Huh.
No, the signal that I
found in my bathroom,
that was Kosar's cell phone.
But I couldn't
understand the voice.
It's just... It's bloops
and scratches.
But it's not a voice.
It's her language.
And she's the only
one that can speak it.
She invented it.
Red Flag must have used her
to encode some of
their transmissions.
No, all of their transmissions.
She understands everything.
She can understand me, Gary?
Yeah, she
understands everything.
Every language.
Every language?
Yeah.
Ni vyema kukutana na wewe.
Huh. "It's nice to meet
you too, Dr. Rosen."
She says. That's a
message for you from Anna.
Swahili. Chinese.
Even some obscure Hindi dialect
I picked up from a yoga
instructor in Dharmshala.
She understands it all, Nina.
I guess you do, too, Mr. Modest.
She's a virtual Rosetta Stone.
She's a living, breathing
universal language translator.
Yeah, I know what a
Rosetta Stone is, thanks.
I looked through
her case history,
and she has been
consistently diagnosed
as severely autistic
and sometimes even
mentally disabled.
But that's not the case.
What she has is severe apraxia.
It's a condition
which affects speech
and other motor skills.
She may not be able to sign
or nod hello,
but her language and
pattern recognition is...
It's enormously enhanced.
She has taken all the
sounds that she can make,
and she has created
her own, unique language,
and no one noticed.
No one noticed
that she is an Alpha.
Gary did. Yes, Gary did.
And so did Red Flag.
Hmm.
You know, with Gary's help,
she could translate every
message on that tablet.
And we don't have
to chase after Kosar.
We find out where he's going.
So we take her
back to the office.
No. No, uh...
Familiarity, continuity,
the, you know, the day to day...
It's very important,
given her condition.
I think they should stay here.
Rosen.
Lee, do you have any
idea what time it is?
Uh... Sandra.
Hi, sweetie.
I'm not going to bed.
I missed 9:30, so
I'm gonna stay up.
All night!
You can't get him
off schedule like this.
I know, Sandra, I'm very sorry.
But he doesn't adapt
well. I know, I know.
I know this is good
for Gary, but, uh...
This can't keep
happening. He met a girl.
A girl?
She's about his age,
and I've never seen him
take to anyone so quickly.
Well, is she, uh...
Well, she has some
cognitive disabilities, yes.
Like Gary. Uh, not as social.
But, um, she's quite
extraordinary in her own way.
Wow.
Well...
That's, um... That's good.
It is. Yeah, it is. That's good.
And, uh, I promise,
no more late nights.
Okay.
Good night. Good night.
Dr. Rosen wants us
to translate all of them.
Anna. Okay?
He thinks your special
language abilities
will help us decode the
encrypted emails on this tablet.
Hey, Anna, what's this?
I just want the email.
You're controlling this.
With those sounds.
You have a secret, Anna.
Now we can really talk.
Ha! One friend to another.
You sound like the
lady on my voice mail.
That's really cool, Anna.
The things you
can do are amazing.
No.
No, it's not so amazing.
Dr. Rosen says that
a part of my brain just...
It grew bigger
than other people's.
And so, I... I can see all
the waves that float around.
What do they look like?
They look like
colors and shapes.
Hey, Gary, you working in there?
No, I'm talking to
Anna about myself.
She thinks that I'm amazing.
I do, too, Gary. Just
get back to work, okay?
Yeah. Anna, we have
to get back to work.
Where does Dr. Rosen
want us to start?
The first message. The
one that I followed here.
This one.
The brownout was
localized to an area
directly around the home,
and it gets stranger from there.
The carpet's singed and
the fibers clump together
in dense patterns.
It's really strange.
I've never seen anything
like it before. See?
No, I can't, Rachel,
but I trust you.
Some sort of static
electrical interference, hmm?
Maybe. It was powerful
and tightly controlled.
That's our Alpha
skill right there.
Now, at least we know
what we're up against.
Doc.
I found something.
Gary sent me a ton of these,
but this is the one that
caught my attention.
U-S D-O-T?
Department of Transportation.
It's a routing number for
a Northwell Petroleum truck
that's on the road right now.
So he's gonna
blow up a fuel truck.
No, 'cause we're gonna stop him.
I hate these faucets, you know?
The sensors never work.
We okay? Yeah.
What's the problem?
Ignition is electric.
Ah, give it a
minute. It'll bleed off.
Explosives. Yeah.
Are they in place?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's good.
Be careful with this.
Second car's in place,
ready on your go.
Tell your guys to
be extremely careful.
Rosen says this guy can
conduct electricity or something.
"Something like
that." That's great.
Yanks have a day game
against Boston today.
I'd love to make it home
in time for that.
Target in sight.
Satellite has confirmation
on the USDOT number.
It's a match.
Let's go. Let's do it.
Mobile one to mobile two,
we're gonna divert
target west at intersection.
Target coming your way.
Locked in on target.
We got him.
Out of the cab! Now!
Hands up where I can see 'em!
Where's the bomb?
Bomb? I got no idea
what you're talking about!
It's not Kosar.
It's not him!
You checked the number?
And did you re-check
the number, Bill?
Of course.
What about the driver?
Are we certain he
is who he says he is?
For all I know, he could've
been Mark Sanchez, okay?
But he wasn't
Kosar. It wasn't him.
Look, we put a scare
in him back in Montclair.
It is possible that
he ditched the plan.
No, no.
Not Milos Kosar.
He's an ideologue,
and he is not
easily intimidated.
He's out there with a bomb,
and I... Which I assume
he's going to use,
and we have no
idea where he's going.
Nina?
I want Gary at the office
as soon as possible.
We need him.
I need help sometimes.
A woman comes to buy
groceries and pay bills,
but I'm in charge
of my own life.
I'd like to buy my own clothes.
My mom won't let
me. She won't let me
buy a leather
jacket like the one
in Step Up 2: The Streets.
You don't need Doctor Rosen or
your mother to take care of you.
You're really smart.
Yeah, I am really smart.
I don't... I don't like
to do some things.
Anna, you don't
know me well. Mmm.
I don't like to take
care of myself.
I think I know you a little bit.
Yeah.
Okay, is this right?
Only one mistake.
No, I got that right.
The date... It should say 2011.
Count to 10.
Anna, count to 10. I
want to check something.
Anna.
Maybe you're
right. Yeah, I know.
But count to 10, 'cause
I wanna check this.
It could be something else.
Never mind.
Gary...
Hi, um...
I need to take Gary with me.
Rosen wants us back.
Yeah, I want to stay.
Wasn't an offer, Gary.
Well, I'm not leaving.
No... You're going. We both are.
Uh... No. No, I'm staying.
Hey, Gary, just
get in the car now.
Hey! Don't try and push me.
Excuse me?
You're trying to push me,
and it doesn't work on me.
No, I know it doesn't
work, and I wasn't.
So what's eating you?
Ha! That's a stupid question.
Nothing's eating me.
I'm not leaving. Okay, big shot.
Well, who's gonna take you back?
I am. The big shot
will drive himself back.
Or I'll call a cab,
since I don't have a car.
Gary, I don't
have time for this.
Just get in the car now.
I'm not leaving!
I'm not a big shot.
I'm an adult.
And I don't have
to do what you say.
It's the end of
the conversation.
Okay.
My CO guy used to say,
never let the
fight get personal.
Well, they tried to
kill me, Cameron.
It doesn't get more personal.
Don't you want to know why?
I know why. I
stood in their way.
Apparently, Red
Flag doesn't need
any more
justification than that.
Okay.
You know, you make things
personal, you get emotional.
You get emotional,
you make mistakes
and you overlook stuff.
I seem to remember someone
telling me that about my Alpha skill.
Don't be cute.
Uh, okay.
You wanna catch
this guy, I get it.
Just let him be the one
that makes the mistakes.
I'm glad you stood
up for yourself.
I'm glad you
stayed here with me.
I like you, Gary.
Then why did you lie to me?
I knew that there was
something weird about the date.
'Cause 10 was 20. And you...
You didn't want to explain.
So, I went back
through the messages.
And if I thought
that a two was a one,
then the first code that
you gave me was wrong.
And that's why the
truck was empty.
And you don't make
mistakes with that.
'Cause that's your Alpha skill.
You gave me the wrong
number on purpose.
But that was smart.
You were smart.
Because if you just
made something up,
I would have known.
So, you made it close,
and you changed the number
so that we wouldn't
find the real truck.
I had to, Gary.
I know you did, because
they weren't making
you do anything.
You work for them, Anna.
You work for Red Flag.
No, Gary, I don't work for them.
They work for me.
This is really bugging me.
This doesn't make any sense.
Okay, so we're
assuming that Red Flag
ditched their plan, right?
But did...
You know she can smell
your hands were on that, right?
No. She's gonna smell that
your nasty hands
were on that thing.
Anyway, we're assuming that
Red Flag ditched
the plan, right?
But the driver finished his route
in Pennsylvania, which means that
the truck was empty by
the time we got to the road.
So, the question is,
why would Red Flag plan
to go after a truck
with no fuel in it?
Exactly.
Hmm.
You know what I
would love to see?
A unicorn sliding
down a rainbow?
No, I would love to see a list
of all the Northwell trucks
on the road right now
with fuel in them.
2652 is on I-95.
South? Yep, heading south.
There's no way we can cover
all those trucks at once,
even if I can convince
someone that I'm right.
I think you're right.
I don't just translate
the messages.
I write them.
My friends trust me.
If you were with us,
we would trust you, too.
Huh.
We would never
treat you like a child.
Yeah, well...
I could figure it out.
'Cause I know the real number.
So, I could figure out the plan.
I'm sure you could.
Yeah, I could, but...
It'd be better if you just told
me where they were going.
Anna, I don't want
anyone to get hurt.
If you were my friend,
then you'd tell me.
You are my friend,
and I will tell you.
Okay, good.
I don't want to
hurt anyone, either.
But, sometimes, we
don't have a choice.
There's a drug to
prevent birth defects.
But lots of things are
considered birth defects.
You're not answering
my question.
Now, you're telling
me something else.
Alphas.
That's the word
Dr. Rosen used, right?
Women who take this
drug won't give birth
to any more Alphas.
But why would they do that?
That doesn't make any sense.
Society can't deal
with people like us.
We need to send
a message to them.
We are not a
problem to be fixed.
Make a choice
for yourself, Gary.
All you have to
do is say nothing.
You haven't answered me.
What are you going to do?
I never made my own friends.
I... I know people.
And they say that
they're my friends, but...
I didn't meet them, like
how I met you, Anna.
I know, Gary.
Yeah, so... Are
you really my friend?
Or... Were you just pretending
so that I'd send them
the wrong information?
Of course, I'm your friend.
Okay, good.
'Cause I just...
I did something.
Sneaky.
And... I don't think
that you're gonna like it.
Sullivan, I'm not saying
it won't cause panic.
You know, maybe
it will cause panic.
But you tell me, what
other choice do we have?
Bill...
No, tell... Tell!
Look, you could send 20
squad cars to Manhattan
to stop the ones heading there.
Bill, you need to look at this.
I'll call you back.
I want him here, Nina.
We need Gary's skills.
Was I unclear about that?
Shouldn't you ask Gary why
he doesn't want to come back?
You don't think I get it?
Yes, Gary has met
someone like him.
It's new. It's exciting.
But that doesn't
make his behavior
any less juvenile.
And it doesn't make
you leaving him there...
I didn't leave him there. He wanted
to stay. Any less irresponsible.
I'm not his mom, and
I'm not his babysitter!
Let's go. Trenton, New Jersey.
Montclair Pharmaceuticals.
What's going on?
Gary found Kosar.
We got a truck loaded with fuel
headed to the Montclair plant.
Now, apparently,
there's a new drug
that Red Flag wants to destroy
before anyone gets
a chance to take it.
I don't understand.
He texted you this? Yeah.
Well, how did he get the
number wrong in the first place?
Doc, it was the
girl the entire time.
She is Red Flag. The girl?
Yes! She gave us
the wrong information
to give her guys
more time to move.
Gary's still there.
Bill! You and Hicks go ahead.
We're gonna go
get Gary. Rachel...
This is Kosar we're talking
about. Come on, this is our shot.
I know. Go get him.
Let's go!
Let's go, let's go.
I'm sorry that I had to do it.
Anna, I had to because
your friend Kosar,
he tried to kill Dr. Rosen,
and that's wrong.
Rosen isn't like us.
He's not an Alpha.
No, he's not, but
he is my friend.
Anna, you don't
have to worry, okay?
I'm gonna make sure that
nothing bad happens to you.
Dr. Rosen's gonna help you
now. Like how he's helped me.
I don't need his help.
And neither do you.
I hope someday you'll see that.
No...
They're coming.
Whoa! No! Stop!
Hey! Hey!
It's through the gate.
All right, it's the R and D building on
the southeast corner of the campus.
That is the target.
Evacuate immediately.
Okay, take the wheel.
What? Take the wheel!
We can't wait for the timer!
Get it as close as you can...
And then blow it!
Where you going?
Hicks, the truck!
Don't blow it up.
Thanks, Bill. Just
let me concentrate.
Hold it steady!
Hicks, you ready? I'm on it!
- Freeze!
- Go get Kosar!
Gary?
Gary? Gary?
Are you, uh...
Are you all right?
Gary!
I have a headache.
Are you... Are you
hurt anywhere?
No.
Hi, Nina.
Hey. Where's Anna?
I don't know,
Gary. I don't know.
She was gone when we got here.
Oh, I need my phone.
Here, here it is.
Thank you.
You're okay, right?
Yeah.
Gary, I... I know
you liked Anna,
but remember,
I'm your friend, too.
Yeah... I know. But
you're not one of us.
You're not.
Gary, I don't make
distinctions like that.
Now, I don't know
what Anna told you,
but I want you to remember
that Red Flag is just a
small group of people
with some very extreme ideas.
Yeah, I know. You
already told me that...
Before.
I sent you an email, Dr. Rosen,
and you should read it.
You wanna test it?
No.
I'm not going back down.
No, if it's too cold,
then I can get it myself.
I can take care of myself.
Okay.
Good night, Mom.
Good night, sweetie.
I love you.
I'm sorry, Gary.
I hope you are still my friend.
The drug makers and
educators have been warned.
If they try to bring
this poison to market,
we will act again...
And we will continue to do so
until they understand
true neurodiversity
cannot be limited
by their small minds.
We picked this up
over an open frequency.
They didn't bother to encode it,
so I had our speech
analyst take a look.
The writing matches...
It's her, no question.
Hicks warned me,
and I did not listen.
I underestimated
this young woman.
And not just her ability,
but the strength of
her argument as well.
I'm not getting
your point, Rosen.
What, are you switching sides?
No, this drug was
designed to limit the chances
of brain damage in infants.
If it had gone to
market, it may indeed
have prevented other
Alphas from being born.
I don't know that.
All I know is that there's
good guys and bad guys,
and today, your people
put the bad ones in the ground.
Yes, they did.
And I can appreciate that.
I can have two conflicting
thoughts at the same time.
Something Don
Wilson used to say.
I hardly knew the man.
Fine, stay conflicted.
But all this is, is a
bunch of criminals
who used an issue to
try to expand their reach.
Maybe.
I want to show you something.
Wilson and I always thought
Red Flag was a loose network
of 50 to 100 affiliates.
A cartel, but...
When Anna flooded
Gary with messages
we got quite a
different picture.
This more than
a criminal enterprise.
This is a movement.