Fortitude (2015–…): Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode #1.1 - full transcript

Henry!

Get out of here!

Just go home
and leave this all to me!

Go!

the river did come to me

straight into my arms

I tried to hold it

but it just ran
through my fingers

the ocean did come to me

straight into my arms

I tried to caress it



but it ran
through my fingertips...

water will keep running,
rivers will turn

water will keep running
and rivers will turn

water will keep running,
rivers will turn

water will keep running,
rivers will turn.

the wind blows
from north to south

but I'm still where I was

keep taking some shirts off

and taking them off

everything is open,
leaking about

everything is open,
leaking about

everything is open,
leaking about...

Liam?

What's the matter?



Hey.

They were in a snow hole.

I'd never have seen it.

The camp blew away
in the night.

Cheap tourist junk.

Hawkeye here spotted them

About half a mile up
over the glacier.

Good work.

Anybody hurt?

They'll hurt when I bill them
for the fuel.

Great, thanks.

Henry.

This is for Henry.

Straight from
the governor's office.

Henry Tyson's
medical adjudication.

So it's only
a matter of weeks then.

Yes.

So now the governor
has no choice.

Okay, boss?

I've put your bowl
on the floor, sweetie,

In case you're sick again.

He was up three times
through the night

And now he's got
a temperature.

What is his temperature?

I don't know.

He's burning hot.

So you haven't taken
his temperature?

He's burning up.

You asleep, kiddo?

You've got your mum
all wound up now.

You hear me?

Liam?

You not well, son?

Liam?

Why don't you call the doctor
if you're that concerned?

Vincent Rattrey?

Professor Stoddart?

Hello, nice to meet you.

Let me take that for you.

And their research suggests

Industrial Perfluoroalkyl
compounds

Have begun to breach
the blood/brain barrier

In arctic predators.

Cannibalism's
a psychotic behavior.

Bears devouring
other bears.

I mean, it's the last resort
for any species.

Just put it on the back seat.

We've just come
out of the dark months--

The winter dark.

People are out
and about again.

Bears, too.

Does it not really mess
with your body clock,

Your mood and things?

Don't people suffer
from depression?

The opposite.

Elation.

They say "glethi."

Glethi?

Danish, Swedish, Norwegian,
Icelandic, lap.

We've got them all here,

And I guarantee you'll
never know which is which.

Friday evening,
I'll make dinner.

I'll get Natalie round too.

I'll have finished
my report by then.

Lots to talk about, Vincent.

Cannibalism's not the only
aberrant behavior we're seeing.

What's the report on,
professor?

Environmental impact assessment
for a tourist development.

While you're here,

These are yours
for departmental use.

You'll need your own rifle
and a hat.

Something groovy
with earflaps.

And, uh...

...Welcome to fortitude!

I read a review of this
only last night,

And the man was saying
it was the very best

Digital projector
currently available.

Like going to the pictures
at home, eh?

I thought Liam was coming over.

Liam's sick today.

Liam's not coming?

Have you two fallen out?

No.

What's that you've got?

I found it.

Found it where?

Was Liam's dad
in the army?

Afghanistan.

His last tour
was February.

So this is your first summer
in the arctic?

Yeah.

Is it bad?

Liam's got the mumps.

Since he was sick last night,

Liam has not
opened his eyes.

Hasn't woken at all?

No.

Sleep is a healing strategy that
the body of a child employs.

Liam's body is tackling
a heavy viral infection.

You know,
even when a child is asleep,

They can be fully aware
of what's going on around them.

So what Liam needs
from us is calm,

Someone with him
at all times.

Probably best
if it's his mother.

Are you and frank planning on
having any more children?

Are we what?

Has his dad had the mumps?

Uh...

He hasn't told me
one way or the other.

Well, ask him.

Tell him to give me a call
at the surgery if he hasn't.

This could be a trunk.

And that's a tusk.

So it has to be a mammoth.

I think it's
a prehistoric mammoth,

Thawed out of the permafrost.

I think we need
to get out of here

Before any bears show up.

We could both
use this, Jason.

When that mine shuts,
I have nothing, Jase.

Nothing lined up.

Nothing saved.

Nothing.

Carrie's ten now.

She needs things.

We could try and sell this
to the research center

As a scientific specimen.

Split it 50/50.

What do you think?

Let's get it on the truck.

Very impressive, Hildur.

And now look.

See?

They've wired it up

With teeny weeny light bulbs.

It really comes to life,
doesn't it?

It's time you and Henry

Sorted out your
differences, Dan.

By taking him
his exile letter?

Well, he can't die here.

That's the law.

Look, he's old,
he's lonely,

He's dying.

You're his friend,
so fix it.

Margaret.

Liam Sutter.

Ten years old.

What about him?

He's got the mumps.

99% sure mumps.

But...

But what?

It just might be something else.

Yes?

Why are you telling us this?

Because his dad
was in Afghanistan,

And childhood poliomyelitis
is rife out there.

Incubation period
up to 37 weeks,

So it is possible

We are just seeing it now
in Liam.

Polio?

It's a quarantine issue.

You up for that, governor?

Seal off the town?

It will be your responsibility.

Well, wouldn't we just isolate
the Sutter child

And quarantine the family?

If he's been carrying polio
for the past 37 weeks,

I think it's way, way, way, way,
way too late for that.

I'll run some tests.

Polio?

I know.

You're so gorgeous.

So.

You're search and rescue?

Mm-hmm.

What do you do
when you find out there's women?

Do you swoop down
and save them?

Yeah, something like that.

Maybe they're gonna need someone
to save you from me.

You think?

Mm-hmm.

You know, in this place...

...Things can come at you
from nowhere.

Things?

What kinds of things?

Monsters.

Monsters.
Mm-hmm.

You won't see them,
you won't hear them.

Until they have you
in their teeth.

You know?

And then they're gone.

Into the darkness
before you know it.

Hi.

You're Vincent Rattrey.

Natalie Yelburton.

So...

You're the guy that thinks pfas
could be responsible

For these reindeer abnormalities
I've been finding.

You saw my paper?

Skimmed it.

So what's this
experiment here for?

This?

Oh, this is dinner.

Where did you get this?

Out of its mouth.

Its mouth?

I found a carcass.

Thawed out of the ground.

You know, wiry,
matted ginger hair, a trunk.

Has somebody
put you up to this?

No.

There's an entire carcass?

I mean, its value to science
is just incalculable.

What's your name, please?

Jason.

So... Put a precise number on
incalculable for me, professor.

How do you mean?

What's it worth?

It's priceless.

No, I mean
what's it worth to you?

How much will the research
center give me for it?

No, you...

No, you listen to me.

The law about finds
of this nature

Is perfectly clear.

Okay...

Hey!

Hey!

Hey, I know you!

Your name's Jason!

Jason!

Are you still employed
at the hotel?

Yes.

Has anyone in fortitude

Spoken to you
about the incident

Or given you reason to believe

They may have learned
about the incident?

No.

I'm required to ask you
if you feel safe in fortitude.

Yes.

I'm required to ask you

If you have any plans
to leave fortitude.

No.

Because you know if you do,
you must tell us.

Otherwise, you would be

In serious breach
of your license

And liable to recall.

Mm-hmm.

Are you seeing anybody?

Is that an official question?

Officially...

It would be none
of anybody's business.

Thank you.

I don't like you going up there
without telling me.

All I was doing was
going up to the cabin

To fix the storm shutters.

Listen, you stood in a bear
trap, for goodness sakes.

You could have lost your leg.

Okay, look,
I'm sorry, Hildy.

I'm sorry.

So how's everything
coming along?

How's your speech?

Do you need
any good jokes for it?

The ice drill's en route.

Really?

Left Oslo
this morning,

So it arrives on Wednesday.

All happening.

Storm shutters.

What?

You're lying to me, Eric.

We live in the one place
on earth

Guaranteed a quiet life.

The honeymoon was a night
of thrills and...

Thrills and magic,
thrills and magic.

Eric took me up
onto the glacier in a tent,

And now we are building
a hideaway in the ice,

A hotel hewn
into the glacier itself,

Where lovers of the wilderness,
lovers of the northern lights,

Or just lovers...

Or just lovers.

Good morning.

How you doing?

Fortitude police.

Now, I see you're not
carrying any hunting rifles

For protection
from the polar bears.

I understand.

I understand, sir,
where you're coming from...

Good.

But the waiting period
for firearms

Put that precaution
out of our reach.

So that is that.

I beg your pardon?

That is that.

See, we're only
traveling inland.

No bears.

No bears inland.

No bears inland.

What my friend means is
since, as we all know,

Polar bears
are coastal predators

And we're not traveling
along the coast,

Then the recommended precautions
were not applicable

In our time scale.

How are you?

I'm good.

What's he doing?

He's Norwegian.

Ah.

Look at this.

A polar bear will be eating you
before you are dead.

Once he has a hold of you,
he is eating you.

This is all the bear left
of Billy Pettigrew

Once he was done
with eating him.

So you need to go
back into town

And equip yourselves properly
before you continue.

Oh, fuck this.

Fuck this?

Fuck this!

And fuck him.

Hey!

We have a gun!

This would not stop me,
never mind a bear.

So you will walk back
down the glacier into town.

You will keep my rifle
for protection.

When you get back,
you will bring my rifle to me

And I will return
your handgun.

Is that the cop
you told me about?

No.

I put that one
in the hospital.

Do you mind if I make
more steam?

No.

That's me.

Ah!

Pints?

For concussion.

Are you taking wine
to the professor's?

Yep.

Who's that?

It's the sheriff.

Is he a good sheriff
or a bad sheriff?

Well, no one knows.

Why not?

In fortitude,

There's two fundamental rules.

You have to have a roof
over your head

And you have to be able
to provide for yourself,

So it follows
everyone's got a job,

No one is poor,

So there's no stealing
and there's no crime.

Everybody's always happy.

Then there's nothing for him
to do, then?

Whether he's a good sheriff
or a bad sheriff.

Henry?

Drinking yourself to death?

Join me.

Do you want me
to throw this lot out?

No, leave them.

Are we gonna talk, Henry?

"Billy Pettigrew
was a geologist," it says.

Yes.

"he was looking for something
up on the glacier."

That's right.

No wife and no kids.

Just like you and me, Dan.

Yes.

And no mention anywhere at all
of the bullet that killed him.

Nobody found a bullet.

That was down to you.

The state he was in, they
weren't looking for a bullet.

If I don't keep myself
topped up,

I shake like
a fucking leaf.

I was stone cold sober
that morning.

It was a mercy you shot him.

A mercy I shot him.

Meant to hit the bear,
but I shot him.

Bang.

Then the car door slams,
and I think,

"no engine, no siren?"

The car door slams,
and there you are.

You were there.

Weren't you?

The governor is advised
that your prognosis

Is now final stage
palliative care.

You can go back
to the mainland, Henry.

Tell me.

You can die in peace
in a hospice,

Being cared for.

Not by yourself in this hovel.

Forget what happened.

He was as good as dead.

Tell me!

I can't tell you.

Why don't you trust me?

If frank hadn't shown up,

Another couple of hours,
I'd have gnawed it off.

How long till
you can walk?

I can walk now.

Means I don't have
to sit through

Poor Hildur's presentation.

Do you know a bloke
called Jason?

Coal miner.

Yeah, I know him, why?

We had a fight.

A fight?

Well, more of a scuffle.

He showed me a bit
of something that he'd found.

What?

Animal remains.

What kind of animal?

Can I just say

If he did find it
on this island...

You don't want to look like
a gullible arsehole.

Can you arrest him?

Find out if he's
telling the truth.

Because if he is,
this thing needs protecting.

I'll tell you what:

When I get back, I'll pay him
a visit, all right?

So what do we do next?

We let him stew for a while,
mull it over.

I'll go and see him again

And tell him he's got 24 hours
to make an offer.

Or the carcass gets torched.

I'll go this time.

Fuck with him.

No, you won't, Ronnie.

This thing needs calm
and fucking diplomacy.

I mean, look at you.

Liam hasn't opened his eyes.

He isn't responding to my voice
or his dad's.

I think...

I think we need
to get him out of here.

I think he's...

I want him in a proper hospital
where they know what to do.

I think he's much sicker
than that woman...

Hey, hey, it's okay.

I think he's much sicker
than that woman says.

She's...

I don't trust her,
that Dr. Allerdyce, she's...

Jules, listen to me.

If Liam is not better
by tomorrow morning,

I will have him
airlifted.

Airlifted?

If there's no improvement
in Liam's condition

By tomorrow morning,

I will requisition a flight
to the mainland.

Really?

Yes, of course.

Good.

Now, I have to go.

Have you met Elena?

Elena?

Hi.

You must be Jules.

Yeah, that's right,
Jules Sutter.

You're married
to the search and rescue guy?

The new guy.

You know frank?

Well, I know who he is.

How much does an ice drill cost?

We'll recover the capital outlay
soon enough, charlie.

You're putting all your eggs
in one little basket.

I have no choice.

You know that.

The mines are mined out.

There's no future apart
from tourism, is there?

Tourists.

That's all the glacier
really means to you, isn't it?

It means businesses
staying in business, charlie.

Shops, bars, hotels,

Restaurants, hire firms,
camping equipment...

You won't win this argument

By resorting
to emotional blackmail.

There isn't
any argument!

Where the hell is this
coming from all of a sudden?

You have reassured me
at every stage of planning

That it is a foregone conclusion
that your report

Will permit the development
of the glacier hotel project.

I gave you no...

I have committed funds...

I gave you no cast-iron
assurances.

Public finances...

Hildur.

You promised me, charlie!

So...

Will the report
give final approval

For the glacier hotel
project or not?

What if something
was found up there,

And we had to protect it?

What?

Something.

That came out of the ice.

What something?

Charlie?

Hey.

I spoke to Dan Anderssen.

You spoke to Dan?

You spoke to Dan,
what about?

He said if there's
no improvement in Liam

By the morning, he's going
to have him flown out

To the mainland.

You spoke to...

Why?

Why would you do that?

Why would you go
behind my back?

It's mumps,
for Christ's sake!

What if it's not?

You can watch him!

Where are you going?

Jules!

Wow.

You've never
seen that before?

No.

I thought you studied
polar bears.

Well, apex predators.

Not polar bears.

Oh, okay.

Grizzlies?

No.

Vincent, your paper was
on bio magnification

Of perfluoroalkyls
in apex predators.

Yeah, in the UK.

In the UK?

Badgers?

Yes, badgers.

A badger can give you
a pretty nasty bite, actually.

Hi!

Liam?

You're awake.

Are you feeling better?

Frank?

Frank, come here,
he's all better!

My little soldier.

The swelling's gone down
completely.

Oh, yeah.

I'm hungry.

He's hungry.

All the time,
I'm afraid to speak

In case I annoy you.

I spend my life
trying to think

What it is you want,

And I'm afraid
I get it wrong.

Liam, what's the matter?

Are you all right?

Liam, what is it?

What is it, son?

My feet are burning!

Sweetie, it's all right,
calm down.

Get the car keys!

Jules, get the car keys!

Charlie Stoddart said
something's been found.

He's not going to give us
the go-ahead.

What's he talking about?

What's been found?

He didn't say.

Governor?

He didn't tell me.

Third- and fourth-degree
frostbite.

We'll have to wait
a few weeks.

Wait for what?

To see if debridement
is necessary.

Amputation, perhaps.

It's beyond me how you could let
this happen to a little boy.

What have you done?

What?

You're lying to me.

Jules, I'm not lying.

You left him on his own,
you must've done.

He must've gone
looking for you.

He must've gone outside
because you weren't there.

Please, Jules, not now.

"please"?

"please" what?

What have you done?

Where did you go?

Where did you go?!

Hello?

Professor Stoddart?

Hello?

Professor Stoddart?

Hello?

Hello?

Stay down there.

Face down.

Face down!

I just got here...

Cross your hands
behind your back.

Please, I just
found him there.

I didn't...

Kneel down.

Stay there.

We have a very
serious problem here.

I don't think
this is a bear attack.

What were you doing
earlier this evening?

You were doing something
you shouldn't have...

Something happened to Liam.

It's much worse than that.

I've told DCI Morton

That we will extend him
every consideration.

Get out of here.

Natalie should've
been there too!