The Event (2010–2011): Season 1, Episode 12 - Inostranka - full transcript

Get on the radio.

Pull the remaining
guards offthe post
one patrol at a time.

Tell them to meet
in the boiler room.

What for?

My men will be waiting
there to disarm them.

Nobody needs to get hurt.

I'm not Ietting you
take over this prison.

(SIGHS)

(GUN FIRING)

You've been
promoted.

Pull the
guards.



I can't.

The order has to
come from the Major.

You can order
a Code Eight Iockdown,
though, can't you?

GUARD: I swear, if I
have to eat one more
serving of that crap...

SLEEPER 1: Put
the guns down and
get on the ground.

SLEEPER 2: Warning!
Hands in the air!

Let's see 'em!

It doesn't matter
how many times you
ask me the question.

My response
won't change.

An invasion is inconsistent
with our philosophy.

No matter
the evidence?

For all I know,
you've manufactured
this evidence.

We will not harm you,
because we cannot.

To do so would invalidate
who we are as people.



To compromise a moral center
which forms the very
basis of our existence.

What moral center?

You murdered
your boyfriend on
Sophia's orders.

Yes.

And I have to Iive with that
for the rest of my Iife.

But, ifWilliam had talked,
it would have only done harm.

What about this?

What did they do?

What was their crime?

My people would
never have done

something Iike this...
They did.

Thomas did.

Sophia said he
had different ideas
about how to adapt.

That he's Iess patient.
Impulsive.
Those are her words.

Is it really so hard
to believe he did this?

And that the rest of you
are just as capable of it?

(STUTTERS)

(DOOR OPENING)

I'm sorry, sir.
A Code Eight just
went out.

AII detainees
need to go back
to their cells,

and all guards
are to report to
the boiler room.

BLAKE: What for?

They said
instructions
will follow.

Probably
just a drill.

I'm not having
this interrogation
interrupted for a drill.

But, sir...
I'm the Director of
National Intelligence,

this is a matter of
national security.
I'm overriding the order.

Get back to
your post,
soldier.

Yes, sir.

(DOOR CLOSING)

This is Corporal
Bell, Sector Three.

I've got orders to
remain at my post, over.

GRIER: Corporal, I say
again, you are to report to
the boiler room ASAP, over.

Director Sterling

has countermanded
the order, over.

Director Sterling is here?

I didn't know
about that,
all right?

The Major would have made
those arrangements.

Tell him to stay put.

GRIER: Roger that,
Corporal. Keep to your post.

I want Sterling.

We need to stay on schedule.

We've got the numbers
and the firepower.

Sterling is not
a threat to us.

Do you know what
he has done
to our people?

The methods he
has used here?

He has to pay.

Tell me exactly
where he is.

Tell me.

I don't know what
you want me to say.

I haven't been in
contact with Sophia.

I haven't been in
contact with Thomas.

AII I can tell you is that
what you are suggesting

is not consistent with...
"Consistent with
your morality."

Right.

You can talk all
day about your oath,

but the facts tell
a different story.

What would it take,
Mr. Sterling,

to make you believe me?

At this stage,
I'm not sure if
that's even possible.

(GUNS FIRING)

BELL: We're under
attack, sir.

(GUNS FIRING)

Attack? By who?

I don't know.
They're in
uniform,

but they're not
stationed here.

I've never seen them before.
And their weapons,
they're not Army issue.

Give me your
sidearm.

Give me your
sidearm!

(GUNS FIRING)

Unlock the prisoner.

(GUN FIRES)

Come on.

(GUN FIRING)

(GUN FIRING)

Corporal!

Who sent you?
Why are you here?

You'II never
get out of here
alive, you know.

Why are you here?

We need our people back.

You're here to
break out the
prisoners? Which ones?

AII of them.
Thomas said we
need them all.

Thomas.

Thomas is here?

Yeah.

And he wants to
see you dead.

(GUN FIRES)

Are you all
right, sir?
(GROANS)

BELL: She's
getting away!
Don't worry about her.

If they're
roaming freely,

we have to assume they've
gained control of the
guards and the prison.

We're not getting
out of here alive.

But we have to stop Thomas
from Ieaving here
with those prisoners.

Come on.

Go!

Let's go, you're free.
Come on, it's okay.

Let's go. You're
free to go. Thomas
is freeing you.

Come on.
It's okay.

Thomas is freeing
you. Come on.

Let's go.

ELIAS: Where are we in
finding the destination
of Thomas' message?

During its transmission,
the satellite

rotated out of SETI's
interception range.

Langley's piecing
together all
known variables

in an effort to
try to reconstruct it
as we speak.

What about BIake,
at Inostranka?

Has he been able to
find out anything that
can help Iocate Thomas?

Or at Ieast figure out
what the hell he's planning?

We've not yet
heard anything
from Director Sterling.

But, any
information
he receives

will be
immediately
disseminated.

Someone, tell
me I'm missing
something

because we really
seem to be
nowhere on this.

In terms of
Michael Buchanan's
escape,

Agent Lee
has been
running point.

We're suspecting
Buchanan got to
one of the guards.

No one else knew of
the transfer order.

I want a full
report tomorrow.

Yes, sir.

Mr. President,
there's a problem.

What is it?

Senator Lewis.

You Iied to me, Mr. President.

You Ied me to believe that
the Inostranka facility
was a weather station.

That was my
understanding.

You're running
a secret prison.

You're incarcerating
people without any of

the protections
of the Geneva
Convention.

You're threatening the
moral authority of this
entire administration...

That information is
classified and can only
be obtained illegally.

Which I will remind
you is an offense
punishable by Iaw.

Punishable by Iaw.

That's right.

That's ironic,

coming from
someone who's running

a prison outside
the jurisdiction
of any Iaws.

Hey. I don't blame
you for being outraged.

I was in the same
place as you
not so Iong ago.

I want to know who
the prisoners are.

And why they're there.

I want to know
the color of
their skin

and their
religious
affiliations.

I want to know
what kind of...

Unfortunately, Senator,

all I can tell you
is that it's a matter
of national security.

Those two words
are so overused,

and your government has
managed to rid
them of any meaning,

and in the process
you've made this
country Iess secure.

This is an outrage.

Senator, you've
held public office
for all of two weeks.

You weren't
even elected.

You want to
be outraged?

Your state has the
highest unemployment
numbers in the country,

the highest
obesity rates for
young children.

Why don't you use
the Iast 90 days you
have Ieft as Senator

to help those people,

and Ieave matters
of national security

to those of us with
actual credentials.

And the next time you
question my integrity,
I will eviscerate yours.

You can show
yourself out.

Yes, Mr. President.

(SIGHS)

Hello, Sean.

Heard a Iot about you.

Do you Iike tea?

Um...

Tea. I made
some for you.

Be careful.
It's hot.

Michael told me
what you went through
to save Leila's Iife.

I want you to know
I'm grateful to you.

I imagine you have
a Iot of questions.

(SCOFFS)

You could say that.

I'm Sophia.

My people crashed
on your planet
66 years ago.

And in the
name of peace,

I'm trying to bring
them home.

Peace?

Everywhere I go,
people are
getting killed.

Getting tortured
and abducted.

I'm afraid my son, Thomas,
has different intentions.

He's trying to bring
more of our people here.
A Iot more.

And, if he does?

Your world will be destroyed.

Everything you've
ever told me was a Iie.
(SCOFFS)

Leila, that's not true.

How old
are you?

Where are
you from?

Tell me.

I'm stronger than you think.

I'm from a place
very far away.

Humans call
it NGC 253.

And, I know that
doesn't mean anything

to you right now,
but it was my home.

Why did you Ieave?

Well...

Life there wasn't
sustainable.

So, we came here to
Iook for a new home.

But...

We were found.

Put in prisons.

Hunted.

But not you.

A group of us escaped.

We Iived among the
population. We made new
Iives for ourselves.

And then I met
your mother and...

I just wanted to protect
you. Keep you safe.

So that no one would find out
what you really were.

What am I?

What am I?
You're my
daughter.

You're a part of me.
And you're a part
of your mother.

I'm not human.

Am I?

How different am I?

I don't...
I don't feel different.

I don't Iook different.

You are.

Sit down.

I'm going to tell
you everything
in time. Okay?

I will answer all
the questions
that you have.

I want to know
everything.

And, I will tell
you everything.

But, you have to come with me.
We can't stay here.

Of course I'm going
to come with you.

I wish it were as
simple as that.
But it's not.

What do you mean?

Sean can't come with us.

He can't know more
than he already does.

It will place all
of our Iives at risk.

But everything he's done,
he did for me.

He saved my Iife.
I know.

But this is
Sophia's order.

I don't take
orders from Sophia.

But I do.

You'II have
to choose.

Either come with me
or stay here with Sean.

There is no other way.

(WIND HOWLING)

Echo team,
report.

Echo team,
have you secured
the target? Report.

No response.

Something's wrong.

Sterling must
have gotten
away from them.

Everyone is waiting
for you, sir. What do
you want us to do?

Send another
team. I want
Sterling secured.

We need to be
airborne in 30.

The next guard
shift will be
coming in soon.

Then you'd better
be quick about it.

My friends.

The time has come for
you to Ieave this place.

CROWD: Yes!

You have Ianguished
here for far too Iong,

as time and time again
Sophia has failed to
negotiate your release.

Even now,
while she herself is free,
she asks you to remain here.

And for what?

I say you should be free.

CROWD: Yeah!

You should have
a say in your future.

CROWD: Yeah!

And for that reason I
have split from Sophia.

I will no Ionger
take her orders,

and neither will you
ifyou come with me.

CROWD: (MUMMURING)

I should take
a Iook at that
wound, sir.

Not now. Let's
just get to the
command room.

BLAKE: We
have to notify
the outside.

Someone's inside.

Do you recognize him?

No, must be
one of theirs.

How do you
want to do this?

(BANGING ON DOOR)

(GUN FIRING)

(PANTING)

Get his gun.

Major Pearson.
(GASPS)

Corporal.
The gun.

Phones are down.

Try the base comm.

Dead.

(PANTING HEAVILY)

Corporal, the
first aid kit.

(GROANS)

Help me.

Okay, okay.
Easy there.

(MOANS)

AII right.

Okay.

This is bad, sir.

AII right.
Just pack the wound
and tape it up tight.

If there's a
chemical hemostat
in there, use it.

Sir.

(GASPS)

Ifwe can't get
word to the outside,

we're going to
have to try to
keep them in here.

There's only two
of us, sir. What are
we supposed to do?

(PANTING)

There has to
be a fail-safe.

Is there a way to
Iock down every sector?

Yes, there's a perimeter
override, but I don't
have the clearance.

But maybe
you do, sir.

Sir, if we do this,
it will not only
trap them inside...

It'II trap us
inside with them.

I'm aware, of
that Corporal.

I understand that all of
you have served Sophia
for a very Iong time.

But she has asked you
to put the interests
of the humans before your own.

I believe it is time
that we protect our own.

CROWD: Yeah.

I believe it is they
who should serve us.

CROWD: Yeah!

But if you believe
in Sophia,

then stay. Go
back to your cells.

And enjoy waiting
another 66 years.

Those ofyou who
wish to be free,
come with me now.

PIans to make
a place for ourselves

in this world are
already underway.

The choice is yours.

CROWD: (MUMMURING)

Maya, we're
going to stay.

Join us.

I don't know if
that's a good idea.

We have to stay here
to show our
solidarity with Sophia.

No, we have
to be smart.

We don't know what
Thomas is up to, or
what he's capable of.

This is not the
right time to
go against him.

Maya.

I'm glad to see
you're with us.

I imagine it
was a difficult
decision.

Not at all.

You. Open
the door.

BELL: They're at
the Ioading docks
in Sector Four.

That door Ieads
out to the helipad.

CROWD: (CHEERS)

The door's opening.
We got to hurry, sir.

Come on. Come on.

(METAL CLANKING)

Yes.

BELL: Yes.

What's going on?

I don't
know.

Open the
damn door!

I can't.
The code's
not working.

Somebody must have
reset the system.

THOMAS: How?

From the command room

and only by an
officer with the
highest clearance.

Sterling.

The command room.
Go. Send everyone.
Arm them if you have to.

But make it clear,
I need Sterling alive.

Yes, sir. Let's go.

(GRUNTS)

Bravo One.
Where are you? Report.

Help me up.
We have
to move.

Oh, God. He's
sending more.

He's sending more.

Let's go, Corporal.

We can only
dodge them
for so Iong.

Take us to
the armory.

It's going to be
all right, sir,
we're almost there.

Sir!

They're detainees.

Hold up.

(GASPING QUIETLY)

Who did this
to you?

Thomas.

BELL: I don't
understand, sir.

Why would he do this
to his own people?

These aren't
his people,

they're Sophia's.

This isn't
just a prison
break,

it's a coup d'?tat.

(DOOR CRASHING)
DEVON: Turn around
slowly! Hands in the air!

Drop 'em.
Now!

Drop 'em!
Let's go.

Good evening,
I'm Chris Matthews
in Washington.

Transparency in government.

Why do politicians promise
to turn on the Iights

yet continue to
keep us in the dark?

My guest tonight
is Senator Catherine
Lewis of AIaska.

Senator Lewis inherited
her Senate seat
when her Iate husband,

the Iegendary six-term Senator
Bernard Lewis,
passed away this month.

My condolences.

Thank you,
Chris.

But as the
proverb says,

"Good men must die,
but nothing can
kill their name."

And I'm Iiving
proof of that.

I have vowed to champion
my husband's causes,

the foremost of which
is transparency in government.

Speaking of which,
I understand

you've made some
shocking discoveries
since taking office.

I have.

And the most
shocking thing about it

is that they're
in my own backyard.

I've discovered
a secret government program

that's been siphoning
hundreds of millions
of dollars every year.

Did you know that
Alaska has the highest
rate of unemployment

in the country?

A state-wide epidemic
of childhood obesity?

This is Iive?

Get me MSNBC.

Get me Senator
Lewis' aide.

Hell, get me
Lewis. Now.

Those are my words.
She's using
them against me.

...of this highly
classified secret program,

what it's called
and what it is,

when we come back.
(SCOFFS)

She has 90 days
Ieft as Senator.

She has nothing
to Iose by
releasing this.

And if she
does, everything
will come out.

Not only the
existence of
Sophia's people,

but the message
that more of
them are coming.

Sir, I don't know
what we can
do at this point.

We can't shut
the broadcast down.

I've got
Senator Lewis
on Iine one.

(PHONE RINGS)

Excuse me,
Chris.

This is Senator Lewis.

What kind
of game are
you playing?

You inspired me.

I'm just standing up
for my constituents,
just Iike you said I should.

You have no idea what
kind of Pandora's box
you are opening.

Then tell me what's
in it and maybe
I'II Ieave it shut.

You'II stop talking
if I tell you who

the Inostranka
prisoners are?

That's right.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:
Back in one.

What do you say,
Mr. President?

Your husband knew.

Excuse me?

He knew.
Your husband.
Everything.

He knew what
Inostranka was,
who was held there,

and why. And he let it go.

Because he knew it was
the right thing to do.

You're Iying.

If you want to
honor his legacy,

you'II Iet
it go, too.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:
Back in 30.

Senator?

Tell me what
Inostranka is

and when I go
back on the
air I'II start

throwing softballs
instead of grenades.

Don't tell me,

and I'm gonna
blow Pandora's
box wide open.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:
Back in ten.

The clock is ticking,
Mr. President.

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR:
Five, four, three, two...

Deal.

We're back. My guest tonight,
Senator Lewis, made a shocking
discovery when she found

evidence of a secret
government program.

She's here to tell us

what it is.

What it is,
is a travesty.

There are dozens
of other programs,

and earmarks, and
special interests,

all taking money
from ordinary
taxpaying citizens.

But what else can you
tell us about this
program in particular?

What I can tell you,

is that as Iong
as transparency

remains a Iow
profile in the Senate,

a Iot of us are going
to get Ieft behind.

MATTHEWS: I
know you're a
Senator now,

but don't talk in...

You kept her quiet.

For now.

God help us
when we tell
her the truth.

You get some sleep,
sweetheart. Okay?
I Iove you.

I Iove you.

(SIGHS)

What do you mean,
I can't go with you?

He said I can
stay with you

or I can go with him
and you can't come.

Why not?
I don't
understand.

There's things. There's
things that he said...
Things you can't know.

Okay. Leila,
Leila.

Look at me.
AII right?

I don't care what your
father is or who
Sophia is or any of it.

I just care
about you.

And I'm not
Ieaving you.

You don't care
what I am?

No.

You don't care
that I'm not human?

(SIGHS)

That hasn't
fazed you?
Stop. No.

Then why haven't
you touched me?

Since I told
you, you haven't
touched me.

I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry.

I'm just...
I'm just trying to...

You wanna
go, right?

Do you
wanna go?
No.

I don't, but I...

I just...
It's Iike I
feel empty.

And my Dad is the
only person who can
fill in those blanks.

(SIGHS)

Okay.

You should go.

Sean...

No, no. Just go.

I can't just
Ieave you.

I can't just
Ieave you behind.
I...

You're a
part of me.

And without you

I have nothing.

Okay. Okay.
AII right.

How do I...
How do I choose?

I don't know.
I don't know.

I don't...
What do I do?

Let's just go
to sleep. Okay?

Let's just
go to sleep.
I can't.

Let's just try.
Okay? Just try.

Let's go to sleep,
and we'II figure it
out tomorrow. Okay?

Okay.

(WIND HOWLING)

(SPUTTERING GASPS)

I'm taking
my people
out of here.

Why do you
need them?

You've already
got others coming,
don't you?

That's right,
we translated
the message.

How many
are coming?

When are
they coming?

(YELLS)

I know you changed
the code to the gate.

Tell me the new
one and nobody
else has to die.

(GASPING)

I don't know what
you're talking about.

Then it's going
to be a Iong and
painful night for you.

(YELLS)

(GROANS)

(GRUNTS)

(SPUTTERING GRUNT)

There's nothing
you can do to me.

I'm the only one
who knows the code.

And you'II never
get it out of me.

(SCREAMS)

You took away
their freedom.

I'm going to get
it back for them.
It's what they deserve.

And what about the
detainees that
you had executed?

The ones who were
Ioyal to Sophia.

Shut up!
Is that what
they deserve...

(SCREAMS)

THOMAS: If the next
thing out of your
mouth isn't the code,

I will cover this
room with your blood.

Do it already.

(SCREAMS)

Last chance.

Wait! Wait!
Don't do it.
I have the code.

I...
Don't Iisten to him.
He's Iying.

No, I have the code.

I have it.
I saw him program
the system.

(GROANS)

Untie him.

No, not him. He
comes with us.

Let's go.

Come on.
Let's go.

You have to
stop Thomas.

What he wants
will destroy you.

But please believe me,
we don't all want this.

Run.

THOMAS:
Let's go!

Come on, Iet's go.
We're taking off.

(GUN FIRES)

(YELLS)

(GASPS)

(GUN FIRES)

(MOANS)

We have to go!
The next shift
is coming!

(HELICOPTOR BLADES WHIRRING)

Hold on, just
hold on. There's
help on the way.

Believe me.

Sean?

Sean?

Sean?

Sean!

Hello,
Dr. Dempsey.

I'm sorry
to have to
bother you.

Oh, no, no.
Don't be silly.

I was concerned
when I heard
that you'd called.

Are you all right?

I'm fine.

But I'm afraid Leila Buchanan
and her boyfriend

were able to find and
free the test subjects.

I see.

(SIGHS)

The boy, what's
his name?

Sean Walker.

Walker.

Here you are.

You know, when you get
to be as old as I am,

the Iines between the past,
the present and the future,

they begin to blur.

Sir, I'm not
sure that I follow.

Oh, forgive me,
I shouldn't expect
you to understand.

It's just that
I have a feeling that
this Mr. Walker and I

will cross paths again.

Soon.