Helix (2014–2015): Season 1, Episode 4 - Single Strand - full transcript

Julia: Previously on
helix...
That's his ex-wife?
He never talks about
her or his brother.
That's probably because
he caught her and his
brother in bed together.
I just cracked the test.
I swabbed three
security techs for
control samples, all clear.
Then I ran the test
on known infectees.
All green,
positive for infection.
Duchamp was
working on a cure,
something called sodra.
How many subjects
were killed?
Over 75%.
(roaring)
(people yelling in fear)
(gunshot)
I have to stay down here.
It's too dangerous.
We have to go.
Alan, I can't.
She's infected.
She has the virus.
We need to
seal off level r.
It's the only way to
stop the contagion.
Leave them down there?
He's right.
We need to seal it off.
The test doesn't work.
It doesn't work!
(detonator beeping)
Alan.
Jules? You there? Jules?
(light buzzing)
Man: They shut off
communications with us.
They want to starve us
out of here.
Hatake and the cdc
have abandoned us.
There is no
treatment, no cure.
We are forced
to take matters
into our own hands.
Julia: The cdc
hasn't abandoned us.
They'll be back as soon
as they figure out
What's going on
and how to help us.
They are not coming back.
They left us
down here to die.
Only we will not
go down without a fight.
On this level,
there is a control node for
the co2 removal system.
We can override it.
Can't they just filter
in air from outside?
It's 60 below out there,
And everything
past the main entrance
is sealed up
Like a spaceship
to prevent contamination.
But if we shut off
the oxygen scrubbers,
They run out of air upstairs
in six hours max.
So do we.
Level r is much larger.
Fewer people,
bigger air pocket.
Enough to outlast them
if they want to,
How do you say it,
play chicken.
This is a terrible idea.
We need to focus on
re-establishing communication.
This is communication.
The base is full
of hazardous materials
And an even more
hazardous infection.
You're endangering
every single person
in this facility.
Thank you for
your input, dr. Walker,
But it's time,
I think, you found
a new place to bunk.
(breathing with respirator)
(breathing with respirator
more quickly)
(breathing with
respirator quickly)
(silence)
Alan: Do you even know
if this was an accident,
or was it intentional?
Daniel: I have my people
investigating as we speak.
Well, that's just great.
And how do we
control this outbreak
Without communication
with the outside world?
You have access
to the top minds and
equipment in the world here.
That sounds like
you don't plan to repair
the satellite dish.
It took a top-tier
military contractor
Two months in scaffolds
to put up that equipment.
It doesn't just get fixed.
So how long before somebody
notices we've gone dark?
We have periodic
resupply drops.
Am I the only one here
alarmed by this?
We have people
down on level r,
including one of my own,
Locked up with
a week's worth of supplies.
You're the one who
wanted to seal that floor.
Temporarily!
When I thought we could
call for reinforcements.
If this is
a long-term situation,
We have to
provide those people with
some standard of care!
I barely
had the manpower
To stop one of
those vectors from
infecting half the base.
We can't risk
re-opening that floor.
We are dealing
with something we've
never seen before.
So, we just abandon
the sick and the dying?
Yes.
(theme music playing)
(sighs)
(loud knocking on door)
Shit!
(loud knocking on door)
Dr. Jordan.
Yes.
Um, dr. Van eigem.
You tested me yesterday.
Can I come in?
Um, sure.
How can I help you?
I don't want to
go to level r.
You won't.
You tested negative.
And you haven't
gotten any false results?
Any variances?
No. I designed
the test myself.
Are you sure?
Yes, of course.
I mean...
Are you really sure?
Hatake's not budging.
He intends to leave
the infected downstairs
With whatever food and
supplies they can scrounge
until there's a treatment.
Poor julia.
What happened to
calling in reinforcements?
With the com-link down,
we're blacked out
and dead to the world.
He did mention
something about
periodic resupply drops.
He say how
periodic they are?
No. The man's
playing his own game
And he isn't
sharing the playbook.
You know that.
We're on our own.
All we have
going for us is our rapid
response test to the virus.
Sorry.
I had to babysit
a pcr assay.
Doreen: And the dog
ate my homework.
Hey. We're all feeling
the pressure, all right?
But we need to
stay on point here.
There are a lot of people
in for a lot of suffering
if we don't step it up.
Doreen, what's your
progress on the source?
Strong possibility
of zoonotic transfer.
Only question is,
was it a monkey to human,
Or the other way around?
I need more than that.
Sarah?
I'm picking up
walker's analysis of the
narvik-a and b samples.
I have the
dna sequencers going 24/7,
And I'm running multiplex
ligation-dependent probe
Amplifications for all
known virulence factors.
Good. The sooner we have
a viable treatment option,
The sooner
we get julia back.
Just remember that.
I'm gonna check
on my brother.
(device beeping)
(groaning in pain)
I'm afraid the morphine
isn't helping.
I know the symptoms,
dr. Duchamp. He's dying.
We need to start
the sodra immediately.
The sodra treatment
has never been tested
on humans beings. Not once.
That doesn't mean
it won't work.
It's a universal antiviral.
I wish we had
time for testing,
but we don't.
If it were your brother,
Wouldn't you try
everything you could?
Killing a human being
with an untested treatment,
It's unconscionable.
(groaning)
It's up to next of kin
to give informed consent
When the patient has
left no clear directives,
Even in the case of a highly
experimental treatment.
I consent.
Major balleseros.
Heard about
your satellite dish.
Hell of a thing.
Are you out of your mind?
(sighs)
I like to think
I'm bringing
a little sanity
to the proceedings.
Keeping the word
from getting out
on this shit-show
Is one of my imperatives.
I also have imperatives.
I've been waiting to
hear what yours might be
since I got here,
You know,
before the cdc or one
of your wingnut scientists
Shares it with
the rest of the world.
My work here
is protected,
even from you.
Not anymore.
You made a virus that
does everything other
than what you advertised.
You don't have
the intellectual capacity
to evaluate my work.
You want things
to get easier?
Produce the results
you promised our employers.
Automated voice:
Environmental alert.
What's going on?
Atmosphere sensor alert.
Environmental alert.
Co2 levels are rising.
Someone's shut off
the oxygen scrubbers.
Is that bad?
Only if you like breathing.
The control node
is 30 meters from the
old thermogenics lab.
It was engineered with
analog override switches
for the oxygen scrubbers.
System malfunction?
They used a hardwired code.
My guess is
they want to force us
down to level r.
It's a blackmail play
to get us to negotiate.
How much time?
Six hours before co2
levels hit the redline.
In two hours
we can expect to
start suffering headaches,
Nausea, vomiting...
All right.
Let's get some weapons,
and go negotiate.
They'll have
an ambush ready.
We'd be taken hostage.
Speak for yourself.
What do we do?
We do nothing.
I will handle
this personally.
Like you've handled
everything else?
I'll take a security
team downstairs.
No security team,
just you and me.
You're going?
It took many years
to build this base.
I won't sit by
while someone tries
to destroy it.
Open up.
Just get it over with.
Am I infected?
Headache is
a very general symptom.
It's not as if
you're hallucinating
Or experiencing
labile emotions and
uncontrollable anger.
Not yet.
Test says you're clear.
What about this?
It's possible that
it's a psychosomatic
response to stress.
This is not in my head!
Don't you get that?
You need to calm down.
That's easy for you to say.
You're not the one
with a deadly disease.
Don't let them
send me down there.
Please?
If I go down there,
I'll never come back up.
(crying)
Hey. We're not just
sending people
down there to die.
I'm sorry.
That's what you think.
You don't know hatake.
And you don't know
dr. Farragut.
He's not gonna let
anything happen to us.
I hope I can
trust you, sarah.
Alan: Breathe.
Breathe, peter.
(peter groaning)
(rapid breathing)
It's okay.
(device beeping)
Peter, it'll be okay.
It'll be okay.
Something wrong
with the dose regulator?
Is there
anything I can tell you
to make you stop?
(beeping)
no.
Breathe. Breathe.
(sighs)
We out of air yet?
I'm still breathing.
Did you get
any results from that
sample I gave you?
You want answers,
I want answers.
See how that works?
There's no reason
I shouldn't be telling
alan what's what.
You want me to
keep working on
your little pet project?
Give me a reason.
Maybe you haven't noticed,
but there are people
That don't want
what's inside this base
getting out.
Ugh. I haven't had nearly
enough sleep, coffee,
Or cigarettes to deal
with any more of this
fox mulder crap from you.
Doreen.
If you tell
another living soul
what I'm about to say,
I end up
in a hurt locker.
(scoffs)
You mean as opposed
to this paradise?
I'm with a special
investigative section
in the pentagon.
I was sent as part
of an internal inquiry
For a black-bag
research operation.
Well, why didn't you
say so in the first place?
Don't make me regret this.
Okay.
So, your superiors
think the virus is a weapon?
Weapons get rid
of the enemy.
This thing seems
to make them even
more dangerous.
What we have
is a hidden base
Conducting secret research
outside of the reach
of any government.
No one knows
the bigger picture.
And you think you do?
I heard these germ docs
over at fort detrick
Talking about using
viruses to move dna around.
Gene delivery vehicles?
Yeah, that was it.
What if this
virus is acting
like a freight train
Pulling some
weird-ass dna behind it?
Maybe you're not
as dumb as you look.
I'll run the virus
through the gene sequencer.
Try to remember that
we are running out of air.
(crash nearby)
(growling)
(roaring)
(screeching)
(panting)
You can take
the gas mask off.
The virus isn't airborne.
Are you experiencing
any symptoms?
Nausea, fever,
black mucus discharge?
I promise...
I'm not like him.
If I start going crazy,
You have my permission
to beat me to death
with that stick
That you stuck in the door.
Just right now, I'd like
to thank my rescuer.
Please.
I'm keeping my gloves on.
Fair enough.
What's your name?
Jaye.
Just jaye?
I'm an md, phd,
blah, blah, blah.
Got an alphabet soup
after my name if that
makes any difference.
It doesn't.
I'm julia. Julia walker.
I know who you are.
You're that cdc chick.
I kinda like
the sound of that.
I hate to be
a crappy houseguest,
But you got
anything to eat or
drink around here?
Look around.
You just got
the grand tour.
You like it?
All in all,
I'd rather be in montana.
Hatake stashed mre lockers
in strategic locations.
You know, in case
the shit ever hit the fan.
Oh, I'd say this qualifies.
Yeah.
(laughs) yeah.
Two hours, 36 minutes,
the first two infusions
Of the sodra antiviral
have been administered
Under the modified
duchamp protocols.
Patient marginally
stabilizing.
Is this how
you want to go out?
The kid who had
the balls to go through
Dad's pockets when
he was passed out?
The kid who
talked me down from
a 50/50 to a 70/30 split
And made it seem like
he was doing me a favor?
I would not have survived
If you hadn't been there.
What that man...
What that man did to us...
I owe you this.
And you owe me
For that night.
Automated voice:
Environmental alert.
(alarm beeping)
Environmental alert.
(dr. Van eigem sighs)
My head hurts.
Do you have
anything stronger?
I've given you the
highest dosage of nsaid...
Nsaids I can.
I'm not worried
about hurting my liver.
Did you recheck
your rapid response tests?
I did.
There's nothing
wrong with it.
You said you'd step up
the care packages.
It's not enough
to skype with me
a couple times a week.
Excuse me?
The silences,
The pauses.
Why don't you
just tell me her name
and get it over with?
There's tons of guys
on this ice hole who'd
love to be with me.
Who are you talking to?
My ex-boyfriend
if he doesn't
step up his game.
Did you hear me?
'cause I'm not
gonna wait around
for you to figure it out.
Don't go.
You're hallucinating,
Which means that
our test doesn't work.
I need to tell alan.
Please.
You can't tell anyone.
I can't keep you here.
You're sick.
I'm not the only one.
How long have you
known about your tumor?
I don't have a tumor.
Please.
I'm an oncologist.
Slurring speech, tremors,
Prescription vial
of gabapentin.
I haven't told anyone.
Doctor-patient privilege
goes both ways.
It'll be our secret.
Balleseros: How long
does this usually take?
Doreen: As long as it takes.
You can't rush these things.
This is the real deal.
Building blocks
of life and all that.
It's hard to
be patient listening
to your crappy music.
(computer beeps)
Please tell me
that means something.
Oh, yes.
Say hello
to my little friend.
An rna map of
the virus should show us
what's under the hood.
Weird.
I've never seen
this combination before.
Meaning?
Meaning someone
designed this virus,
And it sure as shit
wasn't mother nature.
We're looking
at the hand of man here.
Proteins specifically
designed to bind the
virus to specific cells
So it can deliver
its genetic message.
What's the message?
Can you tell what
they designed it to do?
No.
But I can find out.
(keys clacking)
(medical device beeping)
Hey, sarah.
How is he?
At least he has
bottled oxygen,
Unlike the rest of us.
You okay?
You feeling the co2 yet?
No.
I, um...
I was going over
the rapid response test.
I was... I was
rechecking them.
And, um...
Peter: Alan.
Peter?
Peter, can you see me?
Of course
I can see you.
Who's the pretty one?
Sarah.
Sarah, this...
This is
my brother peter.
Sarah, you had something
you wanted to tell me about
the rapid response test?
It doesn't work.
What do you mean
it doesn't work?
I was archiving
the results,
And I found
a flaw in the cell line
cycling protocol.
We can't trust
any of the results.
Are there any
infected on this floor?
No. No one's reported in,
But we can't trust
that everyone downstairs
is a positive.
I'm really sorry
I let you down.
And walker.
No.
I made a mistake.
There's no excuse.
Right now
you get to fix it.
Have you isolated the flaw?
I'm working on it.
All right, work faster.
Then find hatake and tell
him we need to implement
A base-wide
retesting protocol,
then open level r,
All right? The sooner
this gets done,
The sooner we can get
those people out of there.
Right.
Security's checking in.
People are reporting
headaches, fatigue,
Which are early signs
of co2 poisoning.
We need to get down
to level r and handle this.
What am I looking at?
Automated voice:
Access granted.
I don't know
quite how to say this,
But things have
gone downhill
Since you were infected.
No shit?
Peter.
I know you're weak,
But I have
so many questions
About your work here,
about this... This place.
Seventy-thirty?
You're not taking
any of the risk.
What?
Okay, all right,
60-40, final offer.
You never know
what's gonna come out
of the old man's pockets.
Sixty-forty is just
fine with me, buddy.
Okay.
You go hide.
I'll find you
when it's done.
I will stay
right here with you
if that's okay.
It's dangerous.
I know. It's okay.
It's okay.
Fleming's commander
jamaica rum.
That was
the old man's poison.
You'd think a mean
scumbag like him would
be a bourbon drunk.
You ever try that stuff?
He's dead.
Been gone a long time.
He can't
Hurt us anymore.
Something about being
trapped in this place.
I see that bastard
around every corner.
Snake eyes.
(pounding)
hey! Let us in!
Not so loud, jaye.
Man: Shut the hell up!
You're gonna attract
the vectors!
Then open the door.
We don't have any room.
Bullshit. Let us in.
Please!
Shh!
Do you hear that?
Let us in!
Shut up. Come on.
(growling nearby)
How is he?
Well, he won't talk
about much of anything
but our childhood.
Delirium?
Uh, no. I mean,
he's in and out
of it, but, uh,
I don't know,
it's hard to say.
He just...
He's stuck back there.
Are these the
viral load comparisons?
They were declining
after the sodra infusions
took hold, but now...
This looks like the
virus is coming back,
With a vengeance.
You knew we were
taking a chance.
I'm sorry.
But it was working.
I mean, maybe we could...
We could be more aggressive.
We've already given him
a larger dose than any
of my studies.
Any more could
trigger a cascade
of antiviral toxicity.
There's nothing
we can do.
How long does he have?
If you've got anything
to say to him...
...Take this time
and make the most of it.
Peter, we need
to talk about...
The treatment
we're trying is...
Aw, hell,
I know that tone.
...Highly experimental.
Every time mom turn a turn,
You've have that sad-sack
look on your face.
How bad?
Aw, jesus,
don't sugar-coat it.
I'm sorry.
I have to ask
some questions.
There are things
going on here that
we can't explain.
And you think I can?
Some of it may have to do
with your research.
Well, you were the
genius in the family,
and you couldn't
Figure out that
I've been doing
shit work up here?
What do you mean?
I thought hatake
recruited me
to do next-gen stuff.
This was gonna be
my ticket to the show.
Just tell me
about the virus.
Hatake had me doing
animal necropsies
for the other docs.
I was never the alpha.
The only part of
my life hatake seemed
interested in was...
...Julia.
How did he know about her?
He's got ears everywhere.
I mean, he was
the one around here
who ever wanted to talk.
(coughing)
I drove you away.
I owed you better.
No, you know I'm right.
I could have been there,
but I didn't...
I didn't want to owe you
anymore, not for dad,
not for anyone.
Don't do that.
You were the one
who stuck up for me.
You were the one
running interference
with the old man.
I envied you.
That's why I wasn't there.
From the moment
she showed up...
That's why the two of you
ended up together.
That night...
It wasn't just that night.
It was before.
Every once in a while,
when we'd travel
to some conference.
Even after
you ended things,
we knew we...
We couldn't stop
seeing each other.
That's why I came up here.
I couldn't stay away.
I went as far as I could.
I'm so sorry.
(flatline tone)
He's crashing!
Sarah: Dr. Hatake?
Gabapentin.
Gabapentin,
come on, come on!
Duchamp: Three hours after
completion of sodra protocol,
Patient experienced
cardiac arrest
Congruent with overwhelming
viremic sepsis,
This time with concomitant
catastrophic decrease
In brainwave activity.
Patient has been fitted
with a defib vest,
Is now intubated
And on artificial respiration
in a vegetative state.
It's unlikely
that the patient will
regain consciousness
Or be able to
maintain his own life
without the ventilator.
Ah!
Ah! (groaning in pain)
I can feel
their hands on me,
Dragging me away.
Please make them stop.
Shh, close your eyes,
close your eyes.
Doctor's orders.
(groaning in pain)
Everything's gonna be fine.
I'm not gonna let them
take you, I promise.
(gasps)
I knew I could trust you
to protect me from them.
Did I tell you,
or did I tell you?
There's enough
food here for weeks.
Do you know
what this means?
Cheese bread
three meals a day?
Good thing you know
your way around this base.
Looks like
I'm not the only one.
What is it?
It's my initials.
Julia lynn walker.
Hell of a coincidence.
No, it isn't.
It can't be.
Can't be what?
It's my writing.
The way I wrote
my name and...
The flower
evening primrose.
It was my favorite
when I was a girl.
It grows in montana.
I have notebooks
full of them.
I did this.
I've been here before.
Automated voice:
Environmental alert.
Environmental alert.
Hatake: Gentlemen.
We need to have a talk.
Put down the weapons.
They won't be necessary.
Forgive us
if we don't agree.
Depriving this base
of oxygen is murder.
What about locking us up
with barely any supplies
and no treatment?
It is only
a temporary quarantine.
(coughing)
Maybe you should
stay down here with us.
Then we'll see
your definition
of "temporary."
You are right.
I'm not standing
in your shoes.
I had to make
a hard choice.
You're playing
with our lives.
I'm not.
Your lives are worth
no less than mine.
You're lying.
Why else would I come
down here with only one man?
You could kill us both.
If we fight we die.
Together...
...We survive.
We have your word?
My word of honor.
(system starting up)
Thank you.
They were
about to give up.
Why did you...
Why?
They gave up,
but they did not surrender.
They were willing to kill us.
Maybe not today.
But...
They would not have stopped.
We could have just
locked them up.
You shot an unarmed woman
less than 36 hours ago.
To protect you.
I just returned the favor.
Dispose of the bodies
and go back upstairs.
You're not coming?
I have something
to take care of.
Dr. Walker?
Why take the risk?
I need you upstairs.
As far as I can see,
the genetic message
inside the virus
Is a massive splice job,
real cutting edge
From animal
and human species.
And here's where
it gets interesting.
How is that interesting?
Because it's
completely unknown.
Ran it against
every genetic sequence
known to man.
This is a completely
unidentified single strand.
Why would anyone want
to put that inside of us?
I don't have a clue,
but it scares the
crap out of me.
There's some trait
that they want us
to manifest,
And this disease is
a way to force it in.
The people who
designed this virus
want to change us
From the inside out.
I mean, I may
not be perfect,
But I like what I am.
I like you too, doreen.
Well, we're
not infected yet.
We'll take this to alan,
get to the bottom of it,
Stop whoever's doing this
Before they cause
any real damage.
Hey, what's wrong?
(doreen chuckles)
This was your idea
to begin with.
You were right.
I know.
(doreen typing)
Ah!
Sorry, doreen.
I'm so sorry.
(rats squeaking)