Colony (2016–2018): Season 1, Episode 4 - Blind Spot - full transcript

Will earns the respect of his new colleagues. A Resistance attack comes to the home front and brings the Bowman family together. Katie gets to know Will's team. Maddie finds a new job that makes the most of her talents.

Previously on "Colony"...

Come on!

Move.

Whatever you're going through
we're going through together.

I love you.

I'm a Collaborator, Katie.

You are protecting our family.

Our choice is clear, my friends.

Resist or die.

There's a woman running a unit.

I've seen her type before
when I was deployed.



Ex-CIA, if I had to guess.

Tell Katie her intel

needs to outweigh the damage
that her husband is doing to us.

They have this huge database
of information

and more importantly,
they have a woman

who knows how to manipulate it.

Who is she?

First I want to make a deal.

My husband
is never harmed, ever.

Hey, man, it's too early, man.

No, no, no, no,
you're always complaining.

- What's up, Dee?
- What's up?

Dee, you gonna smile today, huh?

♪ Bad boys, bad boys,
what you gonna do ♪



♪ What you gonna do
when they come for you ♪

He sings the same stupid song
every single day.

I just think
that they should make a show

about us, busting down doors

and kicking ass.

What do you think, Dee?

Against the wall.

We're looking for Marla Nelson.

- Room 201.
- This way.

- Class, we talked about...
- Stay seated... sit down!

- What's going on?
- You need to come with us.

Why? What for?

You know what for.

No, look,
this is a misunderstanding.

I was just using Bradbury
to explore...

- Hey, leave her alone!
- Shut up!

She didn't do anything!
Let go of her, man!

All of you, be quiet!

Get in your seat now!

In your seat now!

Please, I have
two little girls at home.

Just give me a chance
to explain.

Hey, you hit that kid
pretty hard back there.

Don't be such a pussy.

Copy. Additional units
in sight. Over.

What do we got tomorrow?

Same shit, different day.

Okay, babe, let's do this.

You know who else
gets your special medicine?

Who?

Spider-Man.

No he doesn't.

He does.
I swear.

It's what makes him big
and strong.

A spider made him big
and strong.

Want to stand up for me?

Okay.

Band-aid.

All set, kiddo.
Ya did great.

Are we gonna run out
of medicine?

No, no we're not.

Don't worry about that, okay?

'Kay.

Anything new?

Pattern's getting clearer.

Homeland uses
the same key groups of guys

in the same concentration
every time they move a VIP.

If we're prepared,
we'll get our opportunity.

What about Katie?

If her operation doesn't work...

It'll work.

So Lindsay's coming to hang out

with you and Grace
again today, right?

Yeah.

I want you to mind your manners.

- Okay.
- Okay.

- Come on.
- Hey, it's Ration Car Tuesday.

Hope everybody's having
lots of fun out there.

- Morning.
- Morning!

- Hey, Hudson.
- Good-bye, babe.

Sister-in-law.

- What you drawing?
- A kitty cat.

You look nice.

Something special
going on today?

Ah, we'll see.

Beau said you needed
to talk to me?

Close the door.

Come with me.
I want you to see this.

This is everything we know about
the Los Angeles insurgency.

You think all these cells
are operating independently?

I do, despite what Snyder
and the others want to believe.

People have a psychological need
to find the super-villain,

but in my experience, reality
is a lot more complicated.

So who is Geronimo?

That's a very good question.

You've never brought me behind
the curtain before... why now?

Well, you were forced
to take this job,

but there are legitimate reasons
for you to be doing it.

Morality's complicated
for people in our position.

I was in Iraq
after the invasion,

and in hindsight,
we had a window or opportunity

before everything
turned to shit.

Maybe if we'd shot
the first five guys

who looted the national museum,

everything would have been
different.

Or maybe not.

A million people died
in the Iraq war, and for what?

Is the life
of the average person

better or worse?

So right now, the resistance
is just a nuisance,

but if, in six months' time,
all these groups coalesce

around Geronimo,
it's really gonna be dangerous.

Do you think
they can do real damage?

Well, not to our visitors,
but to us.

To all the people
living here in this block.

I mean, if this resistance
miraculously managed

to do something meaningful,
do you have any idea

the kind of retribution
that would rain down upon us?

There's no version
of an effective resistance.

There's just misguided idealism
that leads to death and despair.

Can you come with us, Mom?

I have work to do, bear, but...

I'm sorry.

I will catch up
with you guys later.

- Okay.
- All right, kiddos.

Park time.

- Bye, Mrs. Bowman.
- Bye.

One...

two...

three...

four...
[rapid beeping]

five...

six...

seven,
eight...

nine...

ten.

Hi, this is Katie Bowman.
I need to speak with my husband.

It's an emergency.

I'm fine.

- Kids?
- She took him to the park.

It's okay.
They weren't here.

They weren't here.

I'm sorry.

- Look, I have to go inside.
- It's okay.

Have you checked the basement?

Hey, how you doin'?

Just dandy.

Katie was home when it happened.

This wasn't just
about scaring me.

Nah, middle of the day.
Bold move.

Hey, where are they going?

Hey!

Are they searching my house?

- It's protocol.
- Let's just take a walk.

You know how this goes, man.

Just let 'em do their thing.
It's bullshit.

Sooner started, sooner finished.

Are they searching our house?

- It's protocol.
- We found this.

It was probably in the bomb...

an old Indian Head penny.

Looks like Geronimo
was sending a message.

I wonder how he knew
I was working with your team.

What?
You think I'm involved?

- I don't know, are you?
- Are you serious?

Hey, hey, hey,
let's just chill out.

Um, Mrs. Bowman,

My name is Jennifer MacMahon.

I need you to come down
to our office.

- Not gonna happen!
- It's okay, Will.

No, you don't have to do this.

She wants to figure out
who bombed our house.

So do I.

Sorry to keep you waiting.

Please, come in.

Why don't you take a walk, hmm?

Let me talk to Katie
for a minute.

Right this way.

This way.
Thank you... next.

All persons entering the Green Zone
are subject to search.

All right, go.

Step forward.
Arms.

Remain in line at all times...
And proceed through the gate

when instructed.

All right, keep moving.

All persons entering
the Green Zone

are subject to search.

Remain in line at all times...
- Arms.

And proceed through the gate
when instructed.

Turn around.
Arms.

All persons entering
the Green Zone

are subject to search.

Remain in line at all times

and proceed through the gate
when instructed.

Let's go, grab a bag.
Move along.

You... next.
Come on.

Lucky day.
Administrative pull for you.

I'm happy to meet you.

I wish it were
under better circumstances,

of course.

It's been a long day.

I understand.

I want to assure you
that you and your family

are going to be perfectly safe
from now on.

How do you guarantee that?

Homeland Security
is speaking to your neighbors,

letting all of them know

that if anything happens
to you and your family,

everyone will be held
personally responsible.

Sorry, what?

And we've assigned
a block captain.

It's Patrick and Joanna Hart.

They live two doors down.

They're gonna be
assigning watch duties

and having regular
security briefings

with our team.

I promise you,
everybody on the street

is going to be very concerned
for your safety.

In other words,
our neighbors are gonna

be scared shitless of us.

They're gonna learn
to respect your position

in the Authority.

So take me through
what happened.

Uh, I was upstairs.

Doing what?

Folding laundry.

And then?

Um... I heard a crash
in the living room,

I ran down the stairs,
I saw the fire,

I grabbed the fire extinguisher.

You keep one in the house?

Yeah, under the sink.

And the attacker...
what did he look like?

He was dressed all in black
with a mask over his face.

But you did see him.

Yeah.

So this attacker throws a bomb

into your house
and waits for you

to run all the way downstairs
and grab the fire extinguisher

and then lets you get
a look at him?

Are you asking me
to explain the motivations

of a man who was attacking
my family?

Maybe he wanted you
to see him, send a message.

Well if the message
was to terrify me, it worked.

How did you and Will meet?

Uh, he came into my bar
in New Orleans.

When he was still a Ranger
stationed at Fort Benning.

Yes.

So, Will joins the FBI,

and you move four times,

and you wind up here in LA.

Don't you miss the South?

It's why I opened the Yonk.

That must have caused
some stress in your marriage.

Sorry... what does
any of this have to do

with finding
who fire-bombed my house?

Will's in the FBI.
You're running a bar...

not to mention that you're
a very attractive woman.

Men must have been
throwing themselves at you.

I don't know
what you're getting at,

but Will and I trust each other.

Good.

Hey.

- Hey.
- What happened?

- I don't know.
- What'd she ask you?

Um...

- Hey...
- U-uh...

I had to go through
everything three times,

and... and...

You know what?
It's over. It's fine.

I really want to go home.

Okay.

I'll get you a ride.

Mrs. Burgess.

I heard about
the work you're doing.

It's really inspiring
to see how concerned you are

with preserving
these important works of art.

- And you are...
- Maddie Kenner.

I'm filling the assistant job
you requested from the pool.

Photocopy these museum records
and file them alphabetically

by artist.

I think I can handle that.

What'd you say to my wife?

Sit down.

In all the different jobs
that I've had,

I've always been valued

for being able
to see the truth about things.

But that's become a lot harder
since the Arrival.

We're taught lies about
the greatness of our hosts,

lies about all the good things
they're gonna do for us.

Lies which we are forced
to regurgitate.

Why are you telling me this?

Because
that's our world now, Will.

We lie to everyone.

We lie to our friends and our
colleagues and our family.

We lie out of fear.
We lie to protect ourselves.

Because that's how we survive.

But when lying
becomes this pervasive,

if becomes a lot harder
to see the truth.

Homeland found these
in your son's bedroom.

Apparently, he's been
taping Geronimo's broadcasts.

Let me fix this.

If these tapes were
to get logged into the system,

there's nothing I could do.

But if they're sitting
in my drawer...

Appreciate that.

I suggest that you go back home

and be sure that these tapes

aren't the only thing
that you've missed.

"Corn beans began
to sprout a huge stalk

up into the clouds."

Mom!

Are you okay,
Mrs. Bowman?

I'm fine.
I'm fine.

It's lucky you asked me

to take the kids to the park.

Thank you, Lindsey.

Why don't you, uh...

why don't you head home
for the day?

See you tomorrow, kids.

Bye, Lindsey.

Why did this happen?

I guess...

Because sometimes
people do bad things.

We need to talk.

Some asshole bombs our house

so the Redhats
can wreck my room?

What do you think you're doing?

You've been recording Geronimo?

What?

They found your tapes.

A lot of people do it.
It's not that big of a deal.

It's a huge deal.

They can make whatever
they want out of this.

You do anything else?

No, I just made the tapes.

I didn't do anything else.

You tell anybody
about my new job?

No, of course not.

How do you know
when the broadcasts

are happening?

How do you know
when to tape them?

It's in the posters.

Whenever new posters
go up around the city,

it's a signal
a broadcast is coming.

This is a code.

It tells you the time
and date of the next message.

You figured this out yourself?

Me and some of my friends.

So what's gonna happen to me?

I'm gonna fix this.

Thanks.

I thought Broussard
was gonna be here.

He's working.

These are photos
of people coming and going

from the Green Zone.

Point out Will's boss to me.

I need a guarantee
that my husband will be safe.

Broussard already
made that deal.

I need to hear it from you.

You need?

I believe in this cause.
I have proven my loyalty to you.

But I cannot live

with a gun pointed
at my family's head.

He won't be touched.

This is her.

Her name is Phyllis.

My fellow Colonists,

welcome to day 348
of our occupation.

This morning I want
to talk to you about Ocho.

He's a simple man who grew up
in Eastern Los Angeles.

He walked to his bus stop

thinking about
what he could trade

or what he could do that week
to make ends meet;

to put food in the mouths
of his frightened

and hungry family.

- Will?
- Talk to me.

Looks like we've got
a right on Crenshaw.

And that was when the truck rolled
into his life, and this truck

was bound for the same place
Ocho was... the Green Zone.

Left on Washington!

45 seconds.
We gotta do this now.

Listen up.

The signal's converging
at the next cross street.

- What's there?
- A library.

The attack was meant only
to take food

from those who had everything

and redistribute it
to those who had none.

By the time Ocho heard
the first signs of the drones,

it was already too late.

My fellow Colonists,
brothers and sisters,

hermanos y hermanas,

if you never hear
my voice again,

I want you to remember the
words of Frederick Douglass.

If there is no struggle,
there is no progress.

Power concedes nothing
without a demand.

It never did, and it never will.

Go, go!

The limits of tyrants
are prescribed

by the endurance of those
whom they oppress.

The one thing
they cannot take from you,

my fellow Colonists...

is hope.

Get on your knees!

Do it now!

- This is 5855.
- Come on!

- Target acquired.
- Gimme your hands!

Copy that, 5855.

- We're good.
- All right, copy that.

I'm getting out, all right?

That's Geronimo.

Your friends
fire-bombed my house

this morning.

My wife and kids were home.

It's a shame they missed you.

Easy, Will!

- Who's Geronimo?
- I'm Geronimo!

- Bullshit!
- Will.

Bullshit.

Thank you so much.
We'll take it from here.

Come on.

Let's go.

Time for us to get out of here.

I communicated to our Hosts

that we captured Geronimo.
They were very pleased.

You spoke to them directly?

Well, no.
Through Helena.

Yes, come in.

There he is!

My all-star.

Great job today.

It's not him.

What?
What are you talking about?

Call it an educated guess.
It's not Geronimo.

Did you observe
the interrogation?

I don't need to see
what goes on down there.

That guy we caught was
doing pirate radio, yeah, but...

I seriously doubt
he's the mastermind

of your insurgency.

Is this true?

Well, we'll have to see
what the interrogation yields,

but I trust Will's instincts.

Shit.

I already passed
the news upstairs.

You know,
dismantling insurgencies

is all about breaking links
in a chain.

This might not be what we hoped,

but this is progress.

I guess I'll put
the champagne on ice.

Guess Snyder's not

the first difficult boss
you've had to deal with.

Not even close.

He'll get over it.

You told Georgina Anderton
that she was getting

the Ai Weiwei?

The Ai Weiwei got sent up
after the Arrival.

We don't have anything else
to send her

with that kind of cache.

What about the Hockney?

It's a lesser Hockney.

You think she won't know that?

David Schwartz had an Ai Weiwei.

He lived up off Coldwater.

How do you know that?

Because I used to work
at the gallery

that sold it to him.

Yo, anything?

Nothing yet!

The detainee said
this is where he picked up

the radio scripts.

He would have said anything
to get out of that room.

Hey, Will!

Check it out!

What are you looking at?

The Green Zone.

- Where do you want this?
- You can just leave it right over there.

Okay.

So, you were right
about the Schwartz' house.

What other big collections
are still out there?

I'm not sure.

Would a more permanent
position jog your memory?

My son is a diabetic.

We've been having trouble
getting his insulin.

That would never be a problem
if you were a member of my staff.

I might know the location
of a few more collections.

Excellent.

But if you work for me,
you work for me.

- Do you understand?
- Absolutely.

Be here at 9:00 a.m.
tomorrow.

Han Dynasty.

Was actually once a part
of the Great Wall,

or so they told us in Beijing.

Antiquities aren't my specialty.

- You are...
- Maddie.

I'm working for Charlotte.

My wife has excellent taste.

Would you like some more?

Wine?

I have to get home.

- Maybe some other time?
- Sure.

Geronimo's in the Green Zone?

Snyder's not gonna be happy.

A lot of people
aren't gonna be happy,

but I'll handle it.
You just better be right.

I'd bet on it.

I, um... I destroyed
your son's tapes.

Really?

Why, you wanna check the drawer?

You might be the kind of person

that kept 'em for leverage,
but not in that drawer.

It's a shame
how few people we have

who we can really trust,
isn't it?

Very true.

Hey.

Hey.

You all right?

Long day.

What's the matter?

How are the kids?

Uh, Gracie's still
a little scared,

and Bram's...

Bram.

I love you.

I love you too.

Mm.

What happened
to the beach photo?

Did it get broken in the fire?

No, your clumsy wife
managed to knock it off the wall

and break the glass.

I'll fix it.

You better.
I love that photo.

- I gotta open the Yonk.
- Okay.

I'll finish this up.

You okay to say good night
to Gracie?

- Course.
- All right.

- Mmm.
- Mmm.

Hey, Dad.

Hey.
Remember this?

Yeah, Charlie's birthday.

Um, about the tapes...

I took care of it.
You're okay.

Thanks, Dad.

What about Geronimo?

What about him?

Do you know why
I listen to those tapes?

Because Geronimo
is the only person telling us

that someday
things might change.

I know you're good
at your job, Dad,

but maybe with Geronimo,
you don't have to be so good.

Come have a drink with me.

Shouldn't this be "the Yok,"
not "the Yonk"?

I mean, the "N" is
after the "K."

Yok-na-patawpha.

- I like "the Yonk" better.
- Fair enough.

I brought my own.
I hope you don't mind.

What are you doing here?

Please, Katie, join me.

This was my husband's favorite.

Mm.

Ed and I took a trip
up the California coast

to celebrate
our fifth anniversary.

All the way up PCH
to Point Reyes.

He planned the whole thing.

The bed and breakfast,
the oysters on the beach,

and the hike along the cliffs.

We didn't see each other
a lot then.

I had been working
out of Ireland

for a long time.

The work was hard.

Some of us sought
external comforts.

Mine was an officer in the
British Special Air Service.

I rationalized it
by telling myself

that I needed it to stay whole.

Ed didn't know what I'd done.

He never found out.

He loved me too much.

Why are you telling me this?

Will reminds me so much of that.

He's a tremendous professional.

He's smart.

He's competent, driven, funny...

And so in love with his wife
that...

he doesn't see her
for what she is.

Was that the first time
that you'd seen someone die?

I don't know
what you're talking about.

The people that you've
gotten involved with

are not who they appear to be.

These kinds of movements
prey on idealists like you.

You want to make a difference,
but they will use you

and cast you aside.

They will destroy your life
without conscience.

You're wondering
if you have a choice.

You don't.

You work for me now.

ID, please.

Thank you.
Go ahead, ma'am.

Tomorrow morning
at 8:30, please.

Yes?

Snyder is as expected.

Well, today was obviously
a misstep.

I have a new asset.

I think she'll be very valuable.

Hmm, I don't know.

Their perception of time
makes that unpredictable.

Hello, my sun and my stars.

How was your day?

Okay.

I'll be right back.

We'll read.

Please, kill him too.