Helix (2014–2015): Season 1, Episode 9 - Level X - full transcript

Previously on Helix...

- What's your name?
- Jaye.

I did this.
I've been here before.

Oh, my God.

Just shut up and go right now!
They'll kill you, but they won't kill me.

- You stole me from my parents.
- Daniel...

My name is Miksa.

How long have you known
about your tumor?

The vectors, they took Peter
up into the ducts.

(vector shrieking)

- Look at you. Your symptoms are gone.
- I'm cured.



- How?
- I don't know.

Dr. Walker is no longer your concern.

She's now the property
of the Ilaria Corporation.

- You can't just appropriate a human being.
- Oh, but I can.

Ah!

(footsteps)

(quiet clatter)

(clatter in air duct)

(silence)

(vector shrieking)

(vector shrieking)

(stun baton zapping)
(vector shrieking)

You okay?

- That was a close one.
- Yeah, but it worked. The good news is,



we only needed one of them.
Let's get him to the cryo lab for testing.

Next time, you can be the bait.

One vector.

One vector. We've hardly seen
any since Peter was taken.

Where'd they all go?

I must insist you return upstairs.

This exercise is too dangerous.

On the contrary, level R seems...

almost abandoned.

Any idea how 50 vectors just...

disappear?

He came from in here, right?

Sarah: Yeah.

- And we're on the bottom level of the base?
- Yes.

Then why is there air
coming up from below?

This isn't the bottom level, is it?
What's down there?

Tell them everything. Or I will.

Tell me what?

Level X.

Level X. There's a...
What is on Level X?

The virus vault.

That's where we keep
all our original core samples.

You have original samples of NARVIK?
A and B strains?

Of course he does.
He created them.

Come with me.

You engineered... an apocalypse virus?

I was never going to deliver it.

That doesn't matter!

Ilaria wanted a virus and a cure.

I used them to create something
more beneficial.

Like creating smallpox to cure cancer?

If I didn't, they would have
hired another lab,

one that might have given them
the virus. Without me,

You'd be dealing
with a billion bodies by now.

No, you don't get to play the hero.

What you've done is unconscionable.

- Sutton was a much greater evil.
- Was?

What happened to her exactly?

She is... no longer a problem.

What's coming next is
far worse than Sutton.

- What do you mean?
- Sutton was just a messenger.

Next, they will send an army.

They will not stop
until they have the virus.

Then we need to get down there

And destroy the virus before
Ilaria get their hands on it.

Show them.

Daniel: Just give me
a second to pull up the image.

- Sure, where is it?
- You have a lot of explaining to do.

- I'm sorry. I was trying to protect you.
- You goddamn drugged me!

Tell me about the picture.

The one of us. I couldn't have
been more than six years old.

We have met before.

When you were a child.

- Then you knew my mother?
- Of course.

She was extremely talented.

A top-notch cellular biologist.

And yet you asked me about her
just the other day,

pretending you'd never heard of her.

Your mother was one of the
finest scientists I ever met.

A great mentor.

She was also... a dear friend.

I visited her several times
in Montana.

That's when that photo was taken.

How is that photo even possible?

It was 30 years ago.
You look ex...

I was a very young man.

So it's just a coincidence
that I'm here,

at your base,
all these years later?

Coincidence, karma, fate...

Call it what you wish.

(door buzzer)

You still here?

Why didn't the old lady let you go?

Seems she had different plans.

Too bad she won't be here
to see the shit-storm

Crash down on this place.

In two days,

Ilaria's gonna drop in, full force.

Yeah?
Hope we're here to see it.

Shouldn't be a problem.

Aren't you supposed to be
some kind of Houdini with locks?

Most locks.
But they added

an electromagnetic seal
after I got out last time.

Meaning what?

I can get the door unlocked,

But I can't get it to move, genius.

Daniel: Level X was here
long before we were,

- it'll be here long after we're gone.
- What was it?

The remains of an abandoned
Russian trading post

from the 1850s. I'll pull up
the security cameras.

Sarah: Oh, my God.

Alan: At least now we
know where all the vectors went.

They are attracted to heat.

The vault has its own power supply.

- Is the vault secure?
- Solid as a rock.

So, how do we get down there
to destroy what's left

- of the NARVIK samples?
- There is a secure staircase.

I will go down.

Like hell you will.

I don't trust you
anywhere near that virus.

And how do you plan
to get past the vectors?

We already know the halothane
gas doesn't work on them.

I don't know... yet.

Guys, take a look at this.

Daniel: What are they doing?
Sarah: It's swarm behavior,

Like bees in a hive.
They're all drawn to something.

Or someone.

(vectors growling)

(Peter coughing)

(Peter roaring)

(banging against window)

(vector roaring)

I don't know what
you're trying to accomplish.

We got better results
with the racal suits.

You have racal suits
for every vector on this base?

Yeah, good point.

- Ready for the cold stuff?
- Yeah.

(gas hissing)

(victor chuckles.)
Look at that.

CFC gas puts 'em in a state
of paralysis.

That ought to do the trick
for the vectors downstairs.

Yeah, there's just one problem:

I don't have enough gas
to hit the whole floor.

I won't be needing the gas.

Well, how are you gonna
get the temperature down?

You gotta hit at least, what,
-40 to see any results?

It's -50 outside.

(victor laughs.)

Sure. So, what, they're gonna
follow you right out?

Hey, that'd be a hell of a snowball fight.

I'm bringing the outside to them.

Why don't you just bang your head
against it? Probably just as effective.

Better that than getting murdered.

I don't think Hatake works that way.

He's hyper-efficient. Killing us
causes more problems than it solves.

At least for now.

Then we have a chance,
if we can hold out

until Ilaria blows the hell
out of this place.

They don't know we're down here.

If they blow up the base,
we're locked inside.

We gotta let them know, man.

Maybe we can...
light a signal fire or something.

You keep thinking, Klein,
'cause that's what you're good at.

Hey, I just want to be
standing at the end of this.

Not like Sutton
or that Inuit bitch.

- What about the Inuit girl?
- Sutton sent a squad down to kill her

and burn her whole village
to the ground.

No loose ends.

We'll have no way
of communicating

Between the mechanical room
and level X.

The walls are too thick, so everything
will have to be perfectly timed.

Daniel will prep the base while Hatake

and Jordan take
the power grid offline.

Then Julia and I will make the descent
to level X to destroy the core virus.

I should go with you and Julia.

You can't. I need you
to keep an eye on Hatake.

It's just flipping switches.

I don't trust him with Julia.

- Alan, let me go down there alone.
- Are you crazy?

There were two vectors in the
ducts and they didn't attack me.

Peter didn't attack me either.
We still don't know why they do

- or don't do anything.
- Shit.

- You all right over there?
- Uh, yeah.

My zipper's just caught.

Take this.
Just in case.

She won't need it, you will.

Make sure the boilers and the forced
air system are turned off in sequence.

One.

- Two.
- Three.

- This is three. That's four.
- Sorry.

- Three, four.
- Then...

It has to be perfectly timed.

If the power's still on
when Julia and I get to level X,

Then the vectors will still be active,
and we don't want that.

Step two: Daniel
and his security team will

distribute thermal blankets to
as many uninfected as possible.

Now, it's 28 minutes maximum.

That should be survivable, but after that
hypothermia will start to set in

and we'll start losing people.
A survival blanket. Ha! Ha!

You want to feel real cold?
You should try working here for a while.

Oh, what, no takers?

How about a paycheck?
Haven't had one of those in a while.

Step three: Julia and I will
descend Hatake's private staircase

- at exactly 0200.
- Mark.

(system voice): Access granted.

And at the same time, you
and Sarah turn off the power grid.

We flood the base
with all that outside air

and freeze the vectors in place.

(Hatake): Now.

Now!

Ok.

- One!
- Two!

Three! Four!

When the blowers stop,
the pressure will change,

and then the hot air will
rise up and out

as the cold air sinks down
to the bottom of the base.

(labored breathing)

Hiroshi, I'm gonna die soon.
And nothing I did will ever matter.

I...

I accomplished nothing.

I left nothing behind.

It will be like I never even existed.

Dr. Jordan?

Can you hear me?

And I worked so hard,
but it doesn't matter.

Can you hear me?

How do you think we'll know
if your plan worked?

If we're not...

Attacked and infected
when we get to this level X,

then it worked.

(system voice): Emergency power active.
Emergency power active.

What the hell, man?
Are they here already?

- No. It's too soon.
- What do you think it is?

Opportunity.

I thought you said you couldn't break
the electromagnetic thingy.

Not with the power on, Einstein.

Alan: We'll have 28 minutes tops

to destroy the core virus and
get back upstairs before the heat comes on.

Cold.

It'll get worse.
Keep moving.

Alan, if this doesn't work...

If this doesn't work,

we burn the base to the ground
with everyone in it.

Everyone? Even Peter?

Even Peter.

But if we destroy the base,
how do we get home?

We don't.

Jesus.

Eighteen minutes.
Keep moving.

(vectors breathing quietly)

(system voice): Access granted.

Oh, my God.

There are too many.

Ebola Zaire.

Ebola Reston.

Rift Valley fever.
What the...

Marburg, Lassa...

Spanish flu.

They've got more strains here
than we do at the CDC.

Wait. Don't put them back.

Jules, we don't have time.
We have to find the NARVIK.

We have 11 minutes, all right?
That's less time than we need.

You want to leave all these for Ilaria?

(incinerator roaring)

(warning alarm sounding)

We should go upstairs, hunker down
and wait for reinforcements.

- I'll take my chances outside.
- It's suicide out there.

- I have to.
- I'm not leaving the base.

No, you're not.

Have you ever seen death?

Ever stared it right in the face?

Do you know what that's like?

No.

I thought it would be
a dark and empty hole.

But it's not.

It as bright as day and it's

filled with all the things
you never did in your life.

Dr. Jordan. We are almost
at the hypothermic limit.

Please! It's almost time!

I'll never cure the incurable.

I'll never crack an RNA code,

I'll never win the Seaborg.

And I'll never have children.

(Sarah hyperventilating)

Doctor! Doctor?

Dr. Jordan?

Son of a bitch.

Yersinia pestis.
This is the Black Death.

Plague of Justinian.
Cocoliztli. Sweating sickness.

It's like a who's who
of mass epidemics in here.

NARVIK.

It's gone.

- Someone got here before us.
- Maybe it was misplaced.

(watch beeping)
We're out of time.

- No, no, no, no, not yet.
- Jules, we don't have time.

- Wait, wait.
- Jules.

Ok.

No, no, no, no, no, we don't have time.

They're waking up!

(snowmobile failing to start)
Aw, shit!

If you shoot me, you kill
your sister and your brother.

Tell me.

Sutton sent a squad to track
down Anana and burn the village.

Bullshit.
We rounded up all her men.

Apparently not.

It's the truth.
Believe me.

Why do you care?

Because at some point,
it just has to stop.

Now, you can shoot me,

but I'm still going.

No, you're not.

We're going.

Keep going. Don't stop.
Don't worry about me.

(Alan grunting with effort)

(vectors growling)

(pounding on door)

- Wait.
- Come on!

- Alan, those are my initials.
- We don't have time!

Alan, those are my initials.
I did that.

- How?
- I don't know, but I'm here for a reason.

And I have to go down there.

Are you sure about this?

I was a little girl,
maybe six or seven,

but my mother brought me
to this place. She knew Hatake.

Why didn't you ever tell me?
I thought I was just

hallucinating from the virus,
but it was like

a repressed memory, something
I didn't want to know until now.

Jules, that door will not hold forever.

If we go down there,
we may not come back up.

I'm not asking you to come with me.

I'm not asking your permission.

(pounding on door)

(pounding on door)

This is it.
This is why I'm here.

You're sure?

(light switched on)

Oh, my God.

Jules, what is this place?
Where are we?

Home.

- What's wrong?
- The trail's gone.

I thought you people were supposed
to be good at this tracking shit.

Our people can't track anything
through the blowing snow

in the middle of the night.

Our people are also really
good at not being followed.

- Anana.
- You two make more noise than

a rutting caribou. My snowmobile
threw a track. I saw your lights

about two miles back.

Thought you were part
of those Ilaria assholes.

That's why we're here.
Sutton sent a death squad after you.

A group came by here
about three hours ago.

How many?
Three snowmobiles, five riders.

Are they on their way to the village?

As far as we know,
with orders to terminate.

We need to go now!

You told me you spent summers
in Montana.

I did.
Apparently also here.

But why would Hatake build
an exact replica of my mother's cabin?

Seems like something you'd
have told me by the third date.

It looks exactly the same. How?

The question is: Why?

Why bring a six-year-old girl here?

Why build a fake cabin
to make her think it was home?

I don't know.

Well, what do you remember
about your mother?

Hardly anything.
She died when I was young.

Well, think, Jules.
There must be something.

Peter said something to me.

Peter spoke to you?

When I was hallucinating, he said,

"it's about you, Julia.
It's always been about you."

Might have been
your subconscious talking.

Or it might be the reason
we're all here.

We have to go.

(binoculars scanning)

About 15 civilians
being loaded into a trailer.

Why would they do that?

My guess is they're
gonna set it on fire.

Less to clean up that way.

- Easy!
- No, I am not gonna let them burn to death!

Neither am I.
We just can't go strolling in there.

- You gotta think like a soldier.
- He's right. We're outnumbered

and outgunned.

- Can you get us close?
- Oh, yeah.

- Come on, keep moving.
- Get going!

Go on! Go on!
Let's go! Get in!

Hey, you missed one!

Caught her out around the perimeter
about to snipe your ass.

We checked the perimeter.
We didn't see anyone.

- Sir.
- We didn't see anyone, sir.

Miksa?

Hey, that's one of them!
He works for me.

I'm with him.

I don't know any stupid Eskimos.

(Tulok spits.)

Alan, I'm sorry I never told you.

Alan's not here.

But... you're going to be ok.

The surgery didn't work.

It was too close
to the spinal cord.

Grade IV metastatic.

As soon as we get back
to Hatake's office,

I'm gonna find out...
(door creaking)

(vectors growling)

- Jules...
- Get right behind me.

- Stay close.
- What are you doing?

Trust me on this, Alan.

- Go upstairs. Go.
- Jules, come...

I'll hold them back.

(shrieking)

- Go ahead, finish him.
- Wait a minute.

Let him do it.

Sir, our orders are no headshots,

In case the skulls are dug up
after we burn them.

Oh.

You mean like this?

(gunshots)

(both panting)

- Jules, how did you do that?
- I don't know, I just did.

- But how did you know?
- Ever since my recovery,

I've felt, uh... different.

I mean, my eyes changed,
but that's not all.

I don't know
how to explain it, but, uh...

The vectors seem to have
lost interest in me.

- More like they're afraid of you.
- Maybe they were.

I have so many questions.

We both know who has the answers.

- Brother.
- Brother.

Don't ever call me Eskimo again.

(door buzzer)

(system voice): Level B.

- Sarah. What happened?
- I should be asking you.

How could you not know she had
a grade IV spinal tumor?

A spinal tumor?
Is she symptomatic?

She suffered a seizure
about 20 minutes ago.

Her pulse is weak, thready.

I want to get her into the ICU
as soon as possible.

We can hook her into the life
support we used on Peter.

So, where is the core virus?

Gone, or never there.

That's... impossible!

Given the last nine days,

you may want to remove that word
from your vocabulary.

How did you not know?
You didn't know, right?

Maybe I didn't want to know.
I saw all the signs.

- The tremors, the morphine.
- You can't blame yourself.

Except if I had known, I would
have done the same thing.

I needed her on the job
more than I needed her healthy.

- She's really good, Alan.
- She has the spark.

- We have the spark...
- Sarah?

Alan, wait for me.

Wait for me until I finish my training.

Sarah, just... Just relax.
Try to sleep, all right?

Sleep with me again, Alan.

Maybe you should, uh...
Maybe I'll... I'll get her stabilized.

- Of course.
- And... And you can...

Jules.

It's fine.

We're divorced, remember?

You knew my mother,

you built a replica
of my childhood cabin.

None of this is coincidence.

Who the hell are you?

This was one of the happiest days
of my life.

Me, you...

and your mother.

That's Jaye.

- But my mother's name was...
- Jane.

Or to a four-year-old, Jaye.

I've waited for this day
longer than you could possibly know.

- I was... afraid.
- Of what?

Rejection.

I wanted you to... know me,

But it was never the right time.

What are you saying?

The cabin is not a replica.

That's not possible.

- You never lived in Montana.
- No, that's not possible.

Who are you?

You have...

Your father's eyes.

Did we ever play with those...
little cars?

Hot wheels. All the time.

Was there a white one with, um...
the doors that opened...

- Like wings?
- Yeah. Up, not out.

Heh. Like wings.

That was my favorite.

- You punched me for it once.
- Ha! Ha! Ha!

(Tulok laughing)

Yes, I did.

Even?

(door opening)

We need to talk about what's
coming next. Ilaria will...

(groaning in pain)

(Anana): Ugh.
(Balleseros groaning)

- You idiot. Sit.
- We don't have any time.

You can't save the world
if you're bleeding to death.

This is why women will always be
the stronger sex.

We know when to sit.

♪ all around me are
familiar faces ♪

♪ worn out places ♪

♪ worn out faces ♪

♪ bright and early
for their daily races ♪

♪ going nowhere, going nowhere ♪

♪ their tears are filling up
their glasses ♪

♪ no expression, no expression ♪

♪ hide my head,
I want to drown my sorrow ♪

♪ no tomorrow, no tomorrow ♪

♪ and I find it kinda funny ♪

♪ I find it kinda sad ♪

♪ the dreams in which I'm dying
are the best I've ever had ♪

♪ I find it hard to tell you,
I find it hard to take ♪

♪ when people run in circles,
it's a very, very ♪

♪ mad world ♪

♪ mad... ♪