Departure (2019): Season 1, Episode 4 - Sabotage - full transcript

- Previously onDeparture.
- Is everything okay?
Can you hear me?

- God help me, I think he
crashed that plane on purpose.

- A flight simulator.
- He planned the whole thing.

- He said: "Maybe it would be
better for everyone if
I just disappeared."

- [There is always value
to be found in good assets.]

- Mom went to investigate
his company a few years ago

and my dad said he made
our lives a living hell.

Bartok might've killed everybody
to shut 'em up. Don't you care?

- It's closer to the edge.

- And if it falls, we're going
to lose the flight recorders.

- There's a company laying cable
in the area. They have a sub:



Bartok International.
- No. Bad idea.

- Nonetheless, I'd like
to meet with Bartok.

There's nothing else
in range.

- It wasn't an accident.
Gavin wasn't taking his meds.

- Does AJ know?
- How do I tell him

that his father killed himself
and tried to kill me?

- That's not where the nurse
puts the needle. Oof!

- I don't know
how I'm gonna tell her

that her father is dead.
- Maybe you should wait.

- I think she might notice he's
suddenly missing, don't you?

- She's weak.
She needs rest.

- You just want her stable so
you can keep interrogating her.

- Yeah, I do.

- Don't you think
she's had enough trauma?



- I brought the director of MI5
up to speed about our discovery

of our pilot's secret playhouse.

I've also worked up
a rough draft press release.

Pilot suicide. It's the only
conclusion the TSIB can reach.

- Hm.

- Donovan's flight simulator
is relatively simple to use.

That's what makes it
so popular with pilots.

- And gamers.
- It's the same flight 716 took.

- Yeah. See here?

This program marks the spot
where Gander control

hands over to Shanwick.

- The exact same flight path?
- That bastard

planned everything
down to the last detail.

- Now, Donovan made first
contact with Shanwick
at 35,000 feet.

- But he missed the second check
at three zero west.

Here, he initiates
a sharp right turn.

- Well, that's right
over the trench, isn't it?

- About 100 miles short of it.
- But that is where
he's aiming for.

- Then he makes a rapid descent.

He left four different versions
of this dive on the simulator.

- So, he was practicing.
- The first three simulations

are so steep, he loses control
and he crashes.

- Well, isn't that the point?

- I don't think so.

At that angle, the ocean should
have been filled with debris.

- Yeah, but we haven't
found any.

- Why? Because he decided
to level off at 150 feet.

- We're thinking that he wanted
to land the aircraft

in one piece and have it sink.

- Lost forever.
Just like Malaysia.

No closure for the families.
- No. But it protects

the insurance payouts
for his dependents,

so long as it doesn't
look like suicide.

(screaming)
- Maddy, it's okay. It's okay.
It's okay. You're safe,

you're safe. It's okay.
It's okay. It's okay.

You're safe.
It's okay. It's okay.

(sobbing)

- Mr. Bartok, I, uh...

What is that?

- I use Caravan tea leaves
for a nice strong zavarka.

- Hm.

It's good.

But can we talk
about why I'm here?

- Your boss, Kendra Malley.

She cost me a lot of money,
did you know that?
- No.

- My company had a small problem
with one of my helicopters.

It had, uh, a slight, uh...

- Yaw?
- Mm.

Ms. Malley was the investigator.
She discovered

a mechanical failure that was
undetected by maintenance.

Grounded my entire fleet
for weeks.

It cost me a... a lot.

- Would have cost you more
if someone had died.

- And now she sends you,
begging for my submersible.

- I wouldn't call it begging.

- Oh, well, then you are not
doing it right.

- Everything on the flight
simulator goes against
Captain Donovan. His second

insurance policy, his complica--
the fact that he confessed
suicidal thoughts to his friend.

- Granted,
there is a compelling case.
- An overwhelming case, Kendra!

- That only the black boxes
can corroborate.
- You've already blown

your chance at finding those.
- Madelyn Strong has
given us a name.

- Name? From a delirious victim?
- Yeah, well, delirious or not,
she is our only eyewitness.

Dom's texted.
Madelyn Strong's awake.

- [Hi, Kendra.]
- AJ. I finally reached you.

You're not in Edinburgh,
are you?

- It's nice to hear
from you too.

- Police came looking
for you last night.

- Ah, shit.

- They've got a video
of you vandalizing
Pavel Bartok's plane.

What the hell is going on?
- [Well, you know
what he's like.]

You should be investigating him.
He's a mass murderer.

- Is all of this coming
from Sophia?

[AJ, please.]

Please, AJ, darling,
will you just come home?

- Now I know you've been
lying to me.

- Hi. Did you manage
to get the sub?

- No, but...
- Did he say anything about
his plane being vandalized?

- No. He's open to discussion
but he'll only talk to you
personally about it.

Just don't go without
a chaperone.
- Great.

Thanks.
- No problem.

- It didn't go well with AJ.
I don't think he's in Edinburgh.

I don't even think his
girlfriend's with him.

- Well, I can get Gibbons to put
an alert out on AJ and the car.

- Thanks. It would help. Does
Madelyn know about her father?

- No, not yet.
Ali's agreed to hold off.

He's not happy about it, though.
- Yeah. I can imagine.

- Look, I checked
the CCTV footage

in Maddy's room.
It cut out for two minutes.

- A glitch?
- Maybe.

But it happened conveniently
when Derek had his heart attack.

I'm gonna review the footage
from all the cameras
on the ward.

- Okay. And stay on top of the
autopsy results. Let me know
if anything crops up.

- I'm on it.

- Hi, Madelyn.

I'm Kendra Malley.

- Yes, I remember. Um,
am I the only one you found?

There was a little girl.
I think her name was Stella?

- Thank you. You'll be okay.

- Madelyn,

let's-- let's start
from the beginning.

[What happened after you got
onto the plane? Was there...]

Was there
anything unusual?

- It was a normal flight.

Sorry.

After around three hours,
I got up to go to the loo.

(screaming)

Crew members were trying
to get into the cockpit.
- Open up!

- Was, um... Was this
one of the people

that was trying to get
into the cockpit?

- You let me in!
Everything okay?

- Yes.

- What about this man?

- Yes. But later.

He came later.
- Oh. Hassan Esmaili.

Christ, are we back
on terrorism?

- Uh, could he have been trying
to help? He is a decorated
air force pilot.

- Iranian air force.
- Point is he jumped in

after the pilot locked himself
in the cockpit.

- So our eyewitness
corroborates pilot suicide?

- Hm.

- I reviewed the hospital
security footage.

See how he moves?

He knows the location
of every camera.

- Who is this guy?

- Someone who knows
what he's doing. Here...

That's our best shot of him.

I'll get Janet to run
facial recognition,

but if this guy's a
professional, he's likely
not a UK national.

I'd be shocked if he showed up
in the database. Here,

watch what happens when
he goes into Madelyn's room.

See?

Camera cuts out.

Two minutes later, Ali enters,
sees Madelyn in distress and...

Derek on the floor, dead.

- So, was Derek the target,

or just in the wrong place
at the wrong time?

- It's got to be Madelyn.

- Yeah, but why would somebody
want to kill her?

What does she know?

- You don't have to answer
any more questions, Maddy.
You're too tired.

- No, it's okay.

Where's Dad?

He was here, wasn't he?
I wasn't dreaming it?

- No. No,
you weren't dreaming.

- You ready?

- There was some sort
of explosion.
- Explosion?

Do you remember which side
of the aircraft?

- [Yes, the hole
was near the front,]

[on the right side.]

- Starboard side.
Theo, pull it up.
- Yeah.

- Right there.

- And your escape, Maddy:
how did you survive?

- I don't know how, but I was
able to get back to my seat.

Some time passed,
and there was... this...

this man...

Everything was black...

The ocean, the sky.

- Madelyn,

tell me about the man
that fell with you on the raft.

- I tried to get to him,
but he was already dead.

And... he went under.

- Can you describe him for me?

- He was sitting across
the aisle from me on the plane.

He was on his laptop the whole
time. Playing a game.

- Daniel Hoffman.

(phone chiming)

- Yes, that's him.

I remember he got very upset.

And that's when he started
talking about Moses.

- God dammit, Moses!

Jesus.

- Did he tell you who Moses was?

- No.

- (news): Ten Downing Street
refuses to give further comment

In other news, BGA stocks
continue to decline

as a shipment of one hundred
aircraft to Saudi Arabia

and China sits in limbo,
awaiting the outcome of
the TSIB investigation.

- [Look up, mate.]

[So you tagged Bartok's plane?]

- Yeah.

- [You think we're stupid?
That video's been circulating.]

[For all we know, you're
working with the cops.]

- Well, only an idiot
shows his face online.

Yeah, I got the full video here
if you want to see it.

Just come on outside
and I'll show it to you.

- [Show it to me now.]

[Come on in.]

(door buzzing)

The Real McCoy.
Well done, mate.

Welcome
to the X house.

- So what's the plan for Bartok?
- Ah! He's a profiteer

and fascist pig. We're gonna
make him smell like one.

This is where
the magic happens.

- We need to get everything we
can on Daniel Hoffman. And check
if the blood on the raft

matches his DNA. I have to go.
- You're done then?
You finished with her?

- Ali--
- You got what you wanted, now I
have to tell her her dad's dead.

- Look, do you want me
to come in with you?
- No.

It's just...

I only ever wanted
to make her happy

and now I have to go
and tell her this.

That's messed up.

(sorrowful music)

- Excuse me, Mr. Holl?

- Mrs. Donovan.

- I have something
I need to tell you.

- This way.

- I lied before.

When you asked me about
all my phone calls to Richard,

just before
he left New York.

I said there was
nothing wrong,

but we were fighting.

I knew he was lying to me.
It was making me crazy,

so I told him...
"Don't come home!"

I told him...
I wish you were dead!

- And how did he respond?

- He said, "Maybe
you'll get your wish."

(sobbing)

- Take a whiff.

- What is that?
- You don't want to know.

Let's just say it's going
to take a few days for Bartok

to get that stink off.
What's that?

- It's a live feed
from the TSIB.

I'm hoping to hear
some shit about Bartok

and Flight 716.
- That's brilliant!

How'd you manage that?
- Uh, I installed

a Remote Access Trojan
on one of their machines.

- That's level 4 hacker shit.
I'm impressed, mate.

- Yeah, well, my dad
was a computer engineer,

so we used to design
games together.

- My dad was a cop. Spent
his entire life thinking

he was protecting the little
guy. Never woke up to the fact

he was really just propping up
bastards like Bartok.

- You sure Bartok's in town?
- We're sure.

We've been watching him.
He leaves the same time
every night.

We'll get him. And you...

are gonna video
the whole thing.

- Kendra: [AJ, please come home,
okay? We can talk.]

[Please, darling, just
tell me where you are.]

- Good. We're rolling,
we're rolling.

- Thank you.
- Is it true Captain Donovan
planned the whole thing?

- I'm sorry?
- We have a source, says Donovan
bought a flight simulator

six weeks before Flight 716.
- No comment.
- What did you find on it?

Was he practicing the crash?
Did he plan it all out?

Why is the TSIB hiding evidence?
Don't victims' families
have a right to know

about the flight simulator?
- Excuse me, please.

- Hey.
(door buzzing)

- The leak had to come
from someone on this team.

We need to step up security.
- I mean, I can get the IT guys

to start tracking some of our
phone calls, but are you sure
you want to do this?

- The tabloids are promoting
theories. How long before the
public starts to believe them?

- It's already started.
- Yeah, well, then do
what you need to do.

- Kendra!
- Yeah.

Did you find
anything on Hoffman?
- Oh, yes. The DNA checks out.

He was the man in the raft.
- And were you able to find

any link to anyone named Moses?
- No. But Hoffman did work
in aviation.

- Really? Doing what?
- I'm not sure yet,

but I did run his face through a
social media recognition
software

and this popped up.

It's a BGA staffer's page

-teambuilding exercise- and
there's Hoffman on the right.

- Right, so at the very least
we know that he had friends
who worked in the airline.

- Well, I've already put a call
in their HR department.

- Levi, this is great work.

- Do you guys have a second?
- Yeah.

- Okay. Madelyn said there was
a breach on the starboard side.

So I went back and I reviewed
the underwater footage.

At first I thought
it was a shadow,

but these shadows move,

and that dark spot?

It stays the same.
- It's a hole,

which means Maddy was right.

But she said that that happened
before the plane dived.

- Well, you can't expect

a coherent chronology from
someone who's suffered
that much trauma.

- Fair enough, fair enough.

Then, how does this hole
square up with pilot suicide?

- Could the pilot have gotten
to the avionics bay?

- Yeah, through the trapdoor
of the cockpit.

- But to do what?
Plant a device?

- Why would he go through all
that trouble? He could have
crashed the plane any time.

Ah, none of this makes sense.

- The heart showed signs of age,
but no obvious indication

of pump failure
or ventricular dilation.

- Should there be
with a heart attack?
- Not necessarily.

Numerous things can lead
to a heart attack.

Uh... arrhythmia,
viral infection...

- What about this bruising here?
Is it post or ante mortem?
- Ante mortem,

but consistent with the crash
team's attempt to revive him.
There is one thing...

This puncture.

Looks like he was given an epi,
but there's no record
of that happening.

- So, he could have been
injected with something?

How long for
a full tox panel?

- I'll follow up with pathology.
Likely a few days.

- Make it one, if you would.
- All right.
- Thank you.

- What was that about?
- I'm sorry, Ali.

Nothing I'm at liberty
to discuss.

- Right.

What a surprise. All you lot do
is keep us in the dark.

- Take it easy, Ali.

When's the last time
you got some sleep?

Get some rest.

Maddy needs you.

- Can you let me in?

- (Kendra): And a fire in the
entertainment system could've
knocked them both out.

- Derek Strong has a needle
wound in his neck.

- You think he tried

to stop that orderly
from attacking Madelyn?
- Yeah.

And he paid the price for it.
- Shit.

- There's nothing yet
on AJ or the car.

But I'll let you know
as soon as I hear.
- Thanks.

- Should we tell this to Howard?
- Yeah.

Thanks.

- He's in here.

- Derek Strong has a puncture
wound to his neck, consistent
with a syringe.

- And there... That's
the unidentified orderly
exiting Madelyn's room

just moments before
they discovered his body.

- You seriously suggesting
the man was murdered?
- Yes.

- There was a CCTV camera
in Madelyn's room.
Did it show anything?

- No, it cut out.
- Right.
- Or it was tampered with.

- Howard, I think this is a
matter for the police. I mean,

it's way beyond
the remit of the TSIB.

- But you said that the doctor
thought Derek Strong had
died of a heart attack.

- Yes, initially, but--
- But what?
- I think Madelyn

was the true target. She must
have seen something onboard,

something incriminating--
maybe she doesn't even know it.

- Yeah, but this is just the
sort of thing that feeds
conspiracy theories.

- Did you hear the last one
was that Putin shot down
the aircraft

to kill the surgeon who'd taken
out his wrong kidney?

- I trust the surgeon
was on the plane?
- Yeah.

- Howard, you said that you were
looking into finding us

another submersible?
- I'm talking to the Navy--

ours, the Irish,
the Icelandic. No luck.

I've got a call into the Yanks,
but it could be weeks.

- Yeah, but we have, what?
Two, three days, max, before the
wreckage slips into the trench.

After that, no technology on
this planet is going to be able
to retrieve those black boxes.

There is, uh...
there is one company

that is laying new undersea
cable across the Atlantic--
- Oh, no. You can't be serious.

- Bartok has the equipment
and he's in the area!

- Bartok should have been
deported long ago.

- Yeah, well, I would make a
deal with the devil if it meant
that I could get hold

of those black boxes.
- Well, find some other way.

- [It's a good time,
I'm alone. Kendra...]

[She's got nothing.]

[Yeah, well, she's dragging
her feet on the pilot
suicide angle,]

[but don't worry, she'll soon
understand she's got no choice]

[but to go along with it.]
- [Sorry...]

I forgot my laptop.

- Kendra.
- Hm?
- I've been chasing BGA

to see if Hoffman ever did any
work for them. They pretty much
told me to get stuffed.

- Get their head of HR on
the ph-- no, you know what?

Call Moreau's office-- tell him
I'm coming over to see him.

- Right now?
- Yeah.
- Great.

(laptop chiming)

- [Kendra, she's got
nothing. Yeah, well,]

[she's dragging her feet on the
whole pilot suicide angle,
but don't worry,]

[she'll soon understand
she's got no choice but
to go along with it.]

- That was filmed in Howard's
office off of a webcam.

- Shit. That's--
that's off my computer.

I was the one that was hacked!

- Let me see this.

- Has Janet been forcing this
whole pilot suicide theory
to throw us off?

- Levi's an advocate, too.
- But Janet-- Janet
was there on the scene.

She found the bloody key
to the lock-up with
the flight simulator.

- Okay, alright, look:
check out everything
that she's done and touched.

And see if there are any other
computers hacked.
- Yeah.

- Let me
see this again.

- You brought a spy
into this investigation.

- Well, I can handle it.
You've got enough on your plate.

- Mr. Moreau
will see you now.

- Ah, Miss Malley.

I'm so sorry to have
kept you. Please.

How are things going
on the investigation?

Can I get you
something to drink?

- Uh, no, thank you. Look,
I'm here because your, uh,

your HR department is refusing
to release the personnel files

of a--
- Daniel Hoffman?

- Yes.
- Yes, I did get a note

from legal about that.
I gather the problem isn't us

so much as the privacy laws.

- Yes, but Mr. Hoffman is dead.
- Miss Malley,

I'm on your side, which is why
I overruled our lawyers
and the HR department.

Uh, here we are.

Everything we have
on Daniel Hoffman.

- Right.

So, uh, did you know him?
Daniel Hoffman?

- No, I've never heard
of him before today.

I mean, we have literally
hundreds of people working in
the IT systems and the software.

I gather he was more

of a contract employee.

- Right, well, thank you.

Oh, one other thing.
Did you know if Mr. Hoffman

had an associate or a colleague
by the name of Moses?

- The only Moses I know was
the one who crossed the Red Sea.

- I look forward
to hearing from you.
- Of course.

- (news): Rumours continue to
circulate that the captain
of Flight 716...

- Anonymous sources tell us
he even had a flight simulator

with the entire crash
planned out.
- Meanwhile,

lone survivor Madelyn Strong
is fast becoming a hero

on social media with messages
of support flooding in--

- In the markets, BGA stock
continued to take a hit.

- Any word on AJ yet?
- No, not yet.

- I've just got
to make a call. Gillian.

- Kendra?

- [Has AJ called you?]
- No.

[Why? What's wrong?]
- Well, he said that
he was in Edinburgh,

but I don't think he's there.
I don't know where he is.

And last time I spoke to him,
he just seemed very angry.

- I think I should
come over, Kendra.

[I'll book my ticket right now.]
- Okay.

Uh, send me the flight
details, yeah? Thanks.

- You sure
you're up for this?

- Yeah.

- [She'll go along
with it, trust me.]

That was a private conversation
between me and my boss,

the director of MI5.
- About?

- He wanted to know where the
investigation was heading and
I gave him my personal opinion.

- You said that you checked
with Homeland Security to see

if Captain Littlefield actually
met Donovan in New York.

- I have a friend who works
there, John Rathman.

He says no request was made.
- Not by me, directly.

I went through
departmental liaison.
- We checked with New York

for a paper trail.
There is none.

- Levi said he's been trying to
get hold of Captain Littlefield,

but he seems to have
disappeared off the map.

Friend of yours from MI5?
- Howard...

What the hell's going on here?

- That's what we're trying
to establish, Miss Freeh.

- Right.
- For all we know, you planted
that flight simulator.

- Oh, don't be ridiculous!
- Well, a ruling of pilot
suicide

would completely eliminate
the aircraft manufacturer's
liability.

- So, who are you
working for, Ms. Freeh?

MI5 or Windsor Aeronautics?

- Howard,

are you seriously entertaining
this nonsense?
- You came to me

with a draft press release

about pilot suicide.
I nixed it, of course.

- You leaked the information
about Donovan's flight
simulator, didn't you?

- That wasn't me.
- You have seriously

compromised this investigation.

Now these two gentlemen will
escort you off the premises.

Good day, Miss Freeh.

- I don't work for you, Howard.

- Thank God.

- Theo. How are we doing
with getting that hacker
out of the system?

- As best as I can tell,
it didn't breach the network.

So far yours is the only
computer that's been infected.

- Just my luck, eh?
- Yeah.

- Any news on Bartok's sub?
- Not yet.

(tense music)

- [You're certain it was him?]

- Thank you for opening
my email.

- [So? Do they know]

[how our call was recorded?]

- [Apparently,
it was Malley's son.]

[The little shit gained
access to our webcam.]

[The police are searching for
him, but we've got our own man]

[out looking for him.]
- Oi.

It's on.

It's time to stink up
Bartok's car.

- Kendra: [Hi. I'm, uh,
I'm on my way to Bartok's.]

[It's not my favourite idea, but
I'll let you know how it goes.]

- It's good to finally meet you
Miss Malley.
- Likewise.

- Please.

Rioja is your preference,
if I'm not mistaken?

- Oh, I, ah, don't know

whether I should be flattered or
creeped out that you know that.

(laughing)
But you are mistaken.

I took up whisky
a year ago.

- Oh.

- No, please...

For old times' sake.

(dramatic music)

- Get it done.

- You know, I must
confess something.

When you first issued
that report against me

five years ago, I was enraged.

I thought, who is this woman
who has the nerve to disrupt

my supply chain? I threw up
every roadblock I could,

and when my lawyers finally said
that there was nothing more

I can do, I fired them.

You see, I don't like to lose.

- Who does, Mr. Bartok?

- So how does it feel to be
one of the very few people

to go up against me and win?
- Well, to tell you the truth,

I, uh... I haven't really
thought about it.

It's one of my smaller cases.
- Ha!

(chuckling)
You live up to your reputation.

- I'm just doing my job,
Mr. Bartok.

(beeping)

- They call me
'the personification
of disaster capitalism'.

So, I loan you
my submersible,

and what's in it for me?

- Well, I think
your reputation could do

with a little rehabilitation
right now,

wouldn't you say?
- And Howard Lawson,
he supports this proposal?

- He doesn't know.
- Well, now I'm interested.

- [He'll be out soon.
Make sure you stand]

[far enough back.
That's no stink bomb you put
in the back of his car.]

- What do you mean?
- [We're gonna blow
this bastard up for real.]

- Kendra! Move away
from the car!

(sirens)

- You all right?
- Yeah.

AJ was here. Just before
the bomb exploded.

We have to find him.

- If we give them AJ's name and
description, they'll arrest him.

- I know.

But at least
he'll be safe.

(tense music)

- Andrew Julian Malley,

Caucasian, blond, male.
- Date of birth?

- March 4th, 2001. Six foot two;
weighs about twelve stone.

- We have a suspect description
for one of the assailants.

(cell phone buzzing)

- AJ. Where are you?

(panting)

- I'm sorry. I screwed up!

[I screwed up.]

They're after me.
- [Who-- who's after you?]

AJ, just tell me where you are,
okay? And I'll come and get you.
(gunshot)

- Christ, they're
tracking my phone.
- AJ?

(gunshot)

(indistinct voices)

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