The Dresden Files (2007–2008): Season 1, Episode 11 - Things That Go Bump - full transcript

When I'm in danger;
Mortal peril even -

I try to find a quiet place
of peace in my center.

A place where I can breathe
easy, gather myself,

and proceed with
serenity and calmness.

If you've figured out how to achieve
serenity in face of certain death,

would you please let me know.

I found one trick
that always works

when confronting insurmountable
danger; Running...

very, very fast.

Unfortunately, that
takes training.

Still, about once a year I
decide to really get in shape,



do some yoga, go
jogging; All that stuff.

Dresden?

Hey Murphy.

How are you? Come in.

Luckily for me,
something usually comes up.

Got something you
want to tell me?

Uh, no.

You want to join
me for some Yoga?

I'm serious! What did you do?

What do you mean,
what'd I do? What?

I was on my way to
work, and I got a call.

Uh huh.

Large explosion
4 blocks from here.

Dispatch said the
flames were green!



Hm.

So help me, if I find out you
had anything to do with this.

Murphy, I'm not responsible
for every single weird thing

that happens in Chicago.

Just most of them.

Thanks.

Okay, look,

I will come with you to check
out your green explosion,

and then if you want my help
you can hire me, to consult...

for money.

Only if you promise to use
the money on a new wardrobe.

Oh, right, yeah,
coming from you,

Lieutenant I only
got one necklace,

wear it everyday Murphy.

Hey, I like this necklace.

My daughter gave it to me.

Your daughter?

My daughter, she's nine.

Yeah, I know, but you don't talk
about your daughter too much.

Okay, I'll just go get changed.

Activate your defenses!

Chicago PD,
put down your... sword.

Murphy! No, no, no!

Morgan.

I don't have time for this.

Right behind us. No time.

Mai!

Okay, in my life a lot
of stuff happens really fast,

so I'm going to try to
bring you up to speed.

Pay attention.

Ancient Mai, head of the
High Council for Chicago,

powerful wizard,
doesn't like me.

Uh, Dresden, who
are these people?

It's really complicated...

Wallace, Soto,
take her to the back.

Morgan, Mai's chief enforcer,
also doesn't like me.

And these guys, no clue,

but they probably
don't like me either.

Morgan, what's going on here?

Are your defenses up?

Yeah.

Harry, I thought I heard...

- Bob!
- Oh dear.

Bob? Who's Bob?

Nobody.

What is that?

Watch your step.

What's with the power?

Didn't you pay your
bill this month?

Oh, and what
happened to the sun?

Oh, nice trick.

It's not the power.

It's everywhere Dresden.

It's 9 o'clock in the morning.

How can it be dark outside?

Tell her...

nothing.

What do you mean
tell her nothing?

How can I tell her anything?

None of us know what the hell
is going on around here.

Did I just see someone in there?

Alydia? Alydia?

Soto! No!

That's not good.

How do I get in these situations?

I mean there I was in a good
place for once, when bang,

the big boss of the High Council

and her pack of wardens

come crashing into
my place uninvited.

Add Lieutenant Murphy,

my main source of income,

who isn't even supposed to
know about these people;

Seal the door shut with some
kind annihilating darkness,

and suddenly, what do you
know, another bad day for me!

Gone.

Soul ripped from his body.

His body torn into its
component elements.

This can't be real!

Is this happening?

Yeah it's real,
and it's happening.

I said tell her nothing!

Morgan is the one talking about
soul-ripping and element tearing.

I think the ship has
kind of sailed you know.

The barn door is open,
the cows are out

and the bag is really
devoid of cats!

Calm down Dresden.

Okay, you, for
once in your life,

are going to tell me the truth!

What is that?

Well that, its energy
from the other side.

Listen to me, we all come
from somewhere, right?

We come here, we do this life
thing, and then we go back.

That stuff, the other side,
that's like the middle;

It's like the transition
between here and there.

As living things...

we can't touch this stuff,
because if we do...

It's death.

Which means none of us are walking
out of here while that's out there.

Hey Morgan, your guy,
what was his name?

Soto.

He mentioned Alydia before
he touched the darkness?

His sister;

She was killed in
the line of duty.

Murphy, what you saw was a
spirit, on the other side.

The other side?

Death? Ghosts?

I can't deal with this.

That's just way too much.

Uh, Morgan,
can I just get a second?

I need some place safe for Mai.

Put her in my bedroom;
Wallace, Amber, upstairs.

Murphy, sit down.

We need to talk.

How'd you do that?

I'm not done yet.

So I guess I don't
have to say it, huh?

Pretty obvious.

Everything you ever told me, or
avoided telling me - the wizard stuff;

It was all true.

Yeah.

And the other people,
they're like you?

They're more like you actually.

They're wardens, cops, kind of.

They don't like you very much.

Hey, you don't always
seem to like me too much,

but I don't hold it against you.

So someone painted your
windows with death.

Yeah, it looks that way.

A trap.

Exactly.

Morgan, what is this?

What have you been messing with?

I think we've given away
enough secrets for one morning.

Why'd you come here?

Why did you involve me?

Because you were close
and we needed shelter.

You have whatever you
were running from

follow you right to my doorstep.

Our first concern should
be trying to reverse

whatever is linking this
place to the other side.

So, are you going
to help me or not?

Morgan...

A civilian, in the
middle of this!

You know when this is done
we're going to have to take...

Listen carefully Morgan!

Murphy is not going to
be erased, dealt with,

or anything like that, okay!

If she is, I'm gonna
come after you;

I'm gonna come after Mai
and the entire council

and I'm going to my
psychopathic, bloodthirsty Uncle

look like Mahatma Gandhi!

You hear me?

You don't frighten me Dresden.

Really?

Because I scare the hell
out of myself sometimes!

Morgan, do you have any
idea what's going on here?

I suspect a planar binding.

A thin coating of other side material
on the exterior of the building;

Like a net?

Or a coat of paint.

So, paint thinner.

A coherent burst of light
to blast away the darkness;

You think you can manage that?

My soul's not
entirely dark Morgan.

Glad to hear it.

You're symbology is inelegant.

You want to draw?

Grab some chalk.

It'll do.

Oh good.

Okay.

Morgan, what is with you?
What's the problem?

Soto.

What?

I trained him.

I train all the new wardens.

You blame yourself for the kid?

I'm responsible for them.

Now he's dead;
Destroyed by the darkness.

Who else am I to blame?

Let's just do this.

We gotta get out of here.

Ready?

And...

go.

It's not working.

Concentrate!

Some things never change.

Always blowing things up.

I'm not always
blowing things up.

Right.

Sometimes you set
things on fire.

Oh just...

What happened?

We're still stuck.

Harry...

Morgan.

Harry...

Let me guess.

Bob!

At your service.

He just walked through a wall.

He's a ghost; It's a long story.

Harry, may I speak
to you, in private?

I am sorry to have
interrupted...

I was trying to be discreet, but
as you say, the cat is out of...

Please don't do that Bob.

Okay, what have you got Bob?

Well, I've been on to a
situation and I have come

to a very troubling conclusion,
though I'm not certain

of the exact nature of the containment
spell, I can tell you without doubt...

It was cast from the inside.

- You already knew?
- Yeah.

I checked the defensive.

Of course, Murphy
thought she was getting

some kind of light show,
but they're still intact,

which means the spell was
not cast from the outside.

It must be one of the wardens.

Morgan?

Mai?

Okay, have you found anyway
of getting out of here?

No.

The material from the
other side is everywhere.

It's even beneath the floor -

if you were thinking of digging.

Okay listen Bob, this is
what I need you to do.

I need you to lie low;

I need you to say
out of the way;

And I need you tell me
if you notice anything.

You want me to spy?

Pretty much.

How clandestine!

Dresden!

Dresden!

What? What is it?

The darkness, it's moving.

What?

- Morgan...
- Dresden...

Let's get out of here.

What just happened?

Ahh, the darkness is closing in

and we just lost
half a storefront.

We should tell him the
truth about the attack.

You heard Mai. We say nothing.

But knowing what's behind
this might help him get us out.

She's right.

This is a hostage situation.

We've been trapped here
by some crazy person.

We don't know what they want
or how they're doing this,

but you people know who it is.

That could be e
key to everything.

So out with it.

We arrived at the location for the
meeting, Eckard Park, just before dawn.

Eckard Park, right down
the street from here.

We never saw what hit us.

There was an explosion, fire.

All right, the
fire, was it green?

How'd you know that?

I told him.

We got reports;

That's what I came
here to investigate.

So Morgan, you're telling me

you don't have a clue
what attacked you?

A greenish flame,
an aerial attack.

Logical conclusion would be...

That's enough.

You have no right...

That was embarrassing.

Mai, you've got to tell
me what's going on.

You have to help us.

You're just like your mother;

Full of ideas about how
the world should behave.

Well I'm not a trained
monkey, I don't do tricks.

She needs to rest.

She's still hurt.

What she needs is a hospital.

Hospitals won't help her.

I need to sleep, lick my wounds.

Wallace, get her
back into the bed.

What about an open resolve
with a ritual alignment?

That will require a
sacrificial component.

No one is sacrificing
anyone, that's black magic.

We'll find another way.

Hey Morgan...

Mai's asleep now.

So you know, if there's
anything you feel like sharing,

now might be a good time.

You should spend your energy
trying to help us to escape.

Morgan, you've got to stop
jumping at my shadow.

The secrecy's not
helping us, okay;

In fact it's going
to get us killed.

So, what was the meeting about.
- In the park?

I only tell my secrets
to people who I trust,

and right now, that's not you.

Murphy, what are you doing?

Murphy...

what are you doing?

I thought I saw my
father out there.

What?

Your father lives in Florida.

Who told you that?

I don't know;

Marie in the evidence
room told me.

Said he was living
with some hooker or...

I hope she's right.

I haven't talked to
him in over a year.

Well, you know, I think you'd know
if your father was dead, right?

Yeah, I guess.

You know, I hate this.

You and your friends are trying to
get us out of here and I'm useless;

Dead weight.

Well, I don't know, I don't
think you're useless.

You got Morgan to talk;
That's more than I can do.

Not like he said much.

You want to help?

There's a chance, just a chance,

that someone in here
is working against us.

And you want me to find out who?

Well, you're the
detective right?

I'm just a guy that knows
a few tricks, so...

Now that is strange.

What, darkness and death
outside your window?

You think?

I don't know, I mean it's
still outside the window.

It's seeping through the
glass in the storefront.

Listen, I'm going to go check the
front, okay, so you just stay here.

Don't go touching that thing.

Morgan...

So Morgan, just one question...

You always have questions.

I just realized something...

you can ghost out here
whenever you want.

You can vanish like
a puff of smoke.

Morgan...

I don't actually teleport.

What do you mean, I see you
come and go all the time?

Or I don't see it.

Do you?

Yeah.

Invisibility.

Not precisely.

I just make your eyes
choose not to see me.

You'll have to teach
me that trick some day.

There was a time when I
would have, but not now.

Okay, but if we can make this
stuff not see us; Somehow...

And walk through.

Yeah.

It's worth a try right?

It might work.

Okay, I got 7 protective
shields, it's enough for everyone.

And once they're modified,
they should hold off

the other side
for a few seconds -

long enough for us to get out.

Are you sure about that?

We don't know how
thick this stuff is.

If you don't have a respirator you don't
go into smoke you can't see through.

It's too easy to get
lost or turned around.

It can't be that thick.

It's like a coating, right?

A net?

Yeah, unless it's not, in
which case if we're in there

and the charge runs out then...

We're dead.

We need to send in a scout,

find out exactly
how much material

we have to travel through.

Morgan, I'm not sure we're
going to get too many

volunteers for that,
seeing as this stuff

kills any living
thing it touches.

Not everyone in this
building is alive.

Frankly, I think
it's a terrible idea;

Exposing me to the
distilled essence of death,

on the off chance it
might help you escape.

Has anyone ever
explained the concept

of cost/benefit analysis to you?

I dropped out of high
school, remember.

And you wonder why your life
is an unending series

of insurmountable intellectual,
financial and emotional hurdles.

Open the door.

Bob, listen, are you sure you
didn't find out when, you know...

- When I was spying?
- Yeah.

No not very much.

Amber's has been crying;

She doesn't really want to know.

Wallace keeps sharpening
those strange weapons of his.

Mai sleeps.

Murphy paces.

Morgan, well, you know
Morgan, is Morgan.

Nothing to tell us who's behind
this, how to get out of this?

I'm just trying...
you know, anything?

If by that you mean a better
option than me going in there, no.

Okay, look, I have your skull.

If you're gone too long
I'll use it summon you back.

Good.

Just like a safety rope.

So it's okay.

- All right.
- Come on.

- Wait.
- Yeah.

Are you sure once I go in there
I'll still be bound to that thing?

No, not entirely.

Well, that's a happy thought.

Are you ready?

Yes.

Bob...

you're being really brave.

I didn't know ghosts
could be brave.

I didn't know ghosts
could be ghosts.

Life is a veritable cornucopia
of surprises, isn't it?

Wish me luck m'lady.

Good luck.

Harry.

He'll be right back.

Bob?

Bob...

Hrothbert of Bainbridge
I summon you...

Hrothbert of Bainbridge I sum...

Summon you.

Hey, it's been over an hour.

Yeah.

He might not be coming back.

I just thought I might...

come back through here,
so I was just, you know...

He's really important
to you isn't he?

I've known him since I was 11.

Everyone else in my life is gone

and if he doesn't make it...

See that?

- Did you see that?
- Is it him?

Hey Bob, Bob?

Looks like my father.

Harry.

Your father?

Dad, is that you?

Harry!

I have to warn you!

He's been dead for over
20 years, what's he doing?

He's trying to
warn me about something.

Are you sure about that?

You saw, you saw it.

You heard it, right?

I saw it.

I've seen a lot of
crazy things today,

but I'm thinking it might have been
sort of trick; An illusion, whatever.

Look, to me, none of
this makes any sense,

but right now I'm thinking
whatever comes out of that,

it's not something
that we should trust.

You know what, I don't
know what to believe.

I don't know what to believe.

Your ghost!

Bob! He's back.

Bob, Bob, are you all right?

Yes. As well as can be expected.

I tried to summon you but
the connection was gone.

I know, I know,
but it's back now.

I can feel it.

Were you free? Were you free?

Harry, there's no freedom
in there; Not for me.

In my life my sins
were considerable,

but there are things on the other side,
presences, that love me not at all.

I was fortunate to have
extricated myself.

How thick is the energy field?

Can we walk through it?

There is no through it.

This is not some sort of
energy field, or net, or shell.

Whoever did this shifted
this entire building

to the other side, completely.

We are, for all intents
and purposes, in hell!

Dresden's judgment may
occasionally be flawed,

but his record
collection is impressive.

How long have you know him?

Most of his life.

I first met him when I was
a newly commissioned warden

and he was a teenager,
recently orphaned

and he was living with his Uncle,
Justin Morningway; A man of influence.

Let me guess, Harry was some sort of
child genius, destined for greatness.

Quite the contrary,

he's a Morningway, like
his Uncle and Mother,

and Morningways
are nothing but trouble.

I could never play like that,

even if I had all
the time in the world.

Speaking of which, shouldn't
you be doing something

to try and get us out of here?

I am.

I'm listening to
Jazz and thinking,

or I would be if you didn't
keep asking me questions.

Well, sorry, it's not
too pretty in there.

It wasn't me.

What?

That's what you're trying
to figure out, right;

If I'm the one who pulled
this place to the other side?

Because it could only have
been done from in here,

but you know Morgan
and Murphy and Mai.

Wallace and I are the strangers

so it must have been one of us.

I haven't ruled out anybody.

It's okay.

I think it's you.

You think it's me?

Mai wouldn't mind
seeing you dead.

Morgan is always hounding you
and Wallace and I and Soto,

we're nobodies.

Disposable...

I don't kill people.

You killed your Uncle, Justin
Morningway, with black magic.

What do you know about that?

There's a case file on you.

Required reading
for all new wardens.

You're the living example
of what not to do,

and someone to keep an eye on.

I may be expendable, but
you're the usual suspect.

Is that so?

You're a Morningway!

Those things are
expensive you know.

We're running out of time Bob.

I gotta get us out of here.

Amber, Murphy, everyone.

Yes, even the expendables.

You heard that?

You did ask me to spy.

Harry you are right.

Time is of the essence.

It's in here too.

I know.

Have you thought about using
a psycho-pompic ritual?

Yeah, all that's gonna do is
get us on the other side

and get us stuck there - dead!

Necromantic conversion;
Perhaps rendered as in oil.

Been there, done that.

We coat ourselves in that,

we're not even going
to get in it Bob.

What if we painted the
floors or the walls?

We need gallons of the stuff.

We only have enough
ingredients for a few ounces.

Harry?

Harry!

I made it!

Dad!

Is it really you?

Don't touch it Harry.

It's from the darkness,
made of the other side.

Remember what happened to Soto.

He's right Harry, he's right,
you can't be too careful.

Give me a minute Bob.

Are you sure?

Give me a minute.

Be careful.

Listen to me, it took
so much to get me here,

so much work to get me here
and I don't have a lot of time.

The person who sent me here,
she wants you to know

that someone betrayed you
in this building.

Who's she?

I'm getting pulled back Harry.

Harry do you hear me, there's
a traitor in here Harry.

Dad, I've already
worked that out.

You know that, what are
you gonna do about it?

I'm trying to find
out who they are.

No, no, Harry.

There is no more
time for that, okay.

You have to kill them Harry.

You got to kill everyone
in this building.

There's no other way.

You all right?

Get away from her!

Amber!

Amber!

It's Wallace, he's
trying to kill Mai.

Wallace, what are you doing?

It's one of us;
One of us is doing this.

You okay?

There's only one way out
and that's to kill you all.

Mai, you have to help her.

Go!

Bob, watch Murphy.

I shan't take my
eyes off of her.

Mai!

Pathetic.

I'm old and pathetic.

Still weak.

I should be getting better.

Something's not right.

Someone's keeping
me from healing.

Someone close.

Who?

You.

Me? Mai, I'm trying to
protect you here.

Well try harder.

Murphy?

Single shot straight
through the heart.

I just killed a man because...

what, he was a wizard

trying to kill a bunch
of other wizards,

in order to escape
a magical trap!

Okay, listen, you said it
yourself, it's a hostage situation.

It happens, you lost it,
okay, you snapped.

But I don't shoot people.

I arrest people;

I investigate crime
scenes, I write reports.

It was pretty simple
until I met you.

It's actually still simple.

He was trying to kill us all
and you stopped him, okay?

Yeah, yeah, I guess.

Yeah.

Harry, Mai's still hanging on...

barely.

Never should have
trusted her with anyone else.

Oh please.

I was just up there

and Mai was just up there
and now it's just...

This is not good.

This doesn't make any sense.

It moves, it stops.

Now it's moving again. Why?

What's causing it to close in?

Okay, listen, I think that
is the wrong question.

I think what we should be asking

is what is holding it back?

Or who?

Mai?

Mai came back here,

the darkness closed
in on the storefront.

It wasn't in the bedroom until
she wasn't in it anymore.

The weaker she's getting,
the faster it's closing in.

So she's been holding it at bay?

It's not just that;
She's controlling it.

Think about it;

Mai was hurt, she said she
had to lick her wounds,

so she came here, she
retreated here to my place.

Like some sort of a cave
and then once she was inside...

She pulled the entrance shut.

- Right.
- Right.

Then she moved this
place to the other side.

This isn't an attack,
this is a defense.

Mai's trying to protect herself

from whatever is attacking her.

To heal herself.

Yeah.

But she's not getting better.

No.

Something's blocking
her ability to heal.

Something is weakening her.

Harry,

whoever is preventing
her from healing,

must be very near
her constantly.

Which means the thing that
attacked her is in here with us.

But your place is defended,
that's why we came here.

It shouldn't have
been able to get in;

Not without setting
off your alarms.

Dresden?

Unless it was invited in.

Hey Murphy, come on in.

Took you long enough.

Okay, Morgan, Morgan.

You invited it in.

I thought it was
Murphy, what can I say?

You invited it in!

Morgan, I...

What are you?

Ask Morgan, he knows.

Morgan...

You're a good man Dresden, polite,
nice to your friends, especially Murphy.

Why'd you have to go and
choose the wrong side?

The wrong side?

As opposed to you,
whatever you are?

Do you think Mai would
do the same for you?

That she's one of the good guys?

Power, that's all
she cares abut.

That's a lie!

Really, tell you what?

Just to show you I have a heart,
you kill Mai; Slit her throat,

hand me her corpse,

and I'll let you live.

So my entire building is trapped in hell;

I'm stuck behind a
failing magical barrier

and something really, really
horrible is waiting on the side.

I mean, like I said, I try
to take care of myself,

but some days
things just happen.

Clock's ticking.

So Morgan, are you going to
tell me what that thing is?

It will just depress you.

Morgan, please.

I'm waiting!

It's a???, a Drake.

You mean a dragon, scales,
horns, fire breathing?

A dragon, dragon?

Magical powers, able to change
shape, immortal, that sort of thing.

Oh, that's great.

Fine, you had your chance.

Okay Morgan, you gotta
pull the shield tight now!

What are you doing?

I'm gonna make Mai sicker.

She'll just lose control of
the spell and the darkness

will close in around her.

I'm counting on it,
I'm counting it,

so just pull the shield
in tight, please, now!

It's gone.

Okay, we gotta pour everything
we go back into Mai.

We gotta bring her back.

Morgan, Amber, bring her back.

There you go.

Okay. It's dead, you're safe.

Would you please get
us out of here now.

It's done.

Good job Morgan.

Well done Harry.

Well, you don't
see that everyday.

Well Harry, we made it.

I'm sorry for judging you.

You're more than a last
name in some case file.

Thanks.

- We can go.
- Good.

Oh Mai, is that it?

Just, good?

You trapped us in here;
Two people die.

You could reverse the spell
anytime and you didn't?

Why?

Because I knew, I knew
it was in there with us

and the only way to get rid
of it was to trap it with us.

And if it came to it,
let us die with it.

That's absurd.

So destroying that was...?

Yes, more important than
saving you, or myself.

Is that all?

No.

One thing.

These Drakes, they can shape, they're
magical, immortal and all that.

But you can change your
appearance and you're magical

and you've been around
a long, long time.

Are you inferring something?

Technically I'm implying,
you're inferring.

Well, it's dangerous either way.

You didn't answer my question.

Well you didn't ask one,

which at least shows
some common sense.

Hey, Dresden, mind if I come in?

You know Murphy, no, I'm not...

I was being rhetorical.

There was an explosion
in the area this morning,

do you know anything about it?

No, not really.

Gonna introduce me
to your friends?

No.

Sorry.

- Leaving?
- We're leaving.

Leaving.

Good day Lieutenant...

Dresden.

You don't want to know.

Hell, I don't want to know.

Murphy, want to get some lunch?

Lunch?

- Yeah.
- Sure.

I've been craving Chinese.

How about the Golden Dragon?

Greek.

Okay, Greek.

Greek.