The Event (2010–2011): Season 1, Episode 21 - The Beginning of the End - full transcript

MALE NARRATOR:
Previously on The Event...

I have a counter agent.

You can undo
what they did
to Martinez with this.

Keep Simon from getting
the counter agent to Martinez.

How do I know
you're not playing me?

Do as I say, Raymond.

SIMON: Martinez will be
heavily guarded.

There's no way we'II
be able to get to him.

There's only
one other option.

The First Lady.

Sophia wants
a record of this.



Meet me on the roof.

VICKY: We have to
evacuate the mall.

Someone disabled
the fire alarm,

and they're about to
release a bio weapon

through
the ventilation system.

(GRUNTING)

Sean, where is she?

SOPHIA: We owe you
a debt of gratitude.

Dr. Lu has been
studying the video
you filmed onboard the bus.

We'll be able to move forward.

In 1918,
the Spanish flu pandemic

killed 20% of
the world's population.

You're going to
help us spread it.

Hello?



(RUSTLING)

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

Help me.

(COUGHING)

Are you the doctor?

No.

My mom said to wait
until she came back
with the doctor.

I'm sorry.

My Iittle brother's sick too,

but he won't wake up.

Oh...

Why is everybody sick?

I...

(COUGHS)

Miss, please help me.

I can't.
PIease!

I can't do anything.
I can't...
PIease help me! PIease!

Help me!
I'm sorry.

It's your fault!

I'm sorry.

Why won't you help me?

DR. LU: We're fortunate.

Her immune system
mutated the virus
the way we'd hoped.

It replicates at
a much slower rate now.

The pathogen will now take
several days to kill.

Good. How Iong will
it take to affect
the population at Iarge?

Within two weeks,

the infection will have
killed over 25% of
the world's population.

Within five, close to 98%.

We only have to
make room for our...
Our own people.

There has to be a way
to control the disease,
to Iimit the number of deaths.

There isn't.

The strength of
the pathogen is
it's uncontrollable.

Sophia.

We need to bring
our people here.

Does need always
justify action?

This goes against
everything we believe in.

If the situation
were reversed,

they wouldn't hesitate
to do the same to us.

Apologize to the organizers
but keep the reception on.

And see if you can
find someone to speak
on my behalf.

Mmm-hmm.

I just really don't want
to disappoint the kids.
(EEG BEEPING)

Nurse?

Nurse, can you
come in here, please?

Yes, ma'am.

NURSE: Doctor!

CHRISTINA: What's happening?

DR. REED: His EEG readings
are showing improvement

and higher-Ievel
brain activity.

(SIGHS)

(CRYING)

He's getting better.

Mrs. Martinez,
please understand,

this is probably anomalous,
random electrical
activity in the brain.

No, Doctor,
he's getting better.

He's getting better.

You're getting better,
aren't you, my Iove?
You're getting better.

CARLOS: We just got
word from home.
Everything's in place there.

Our people are
ready to come.

And everything
is set on our end?

Yes, we'II have to
Ieave the portal array on
for several more hours,

but there is this
reconnaissance satellite
over that area of Tibet.

And Gerard's concerned
that we're gonna be detected.

AII right,
I'II take care of it.

I'm not comfortable
blindly doing your bidding.

Ifyou want me
to do something,
I need to know the reason.

SOPHIA: This satellite
is shared by NATO

but operated by your NSA.

I need it redirected.

The NSA refers to it
internally as E-3175.

Please repeat that back to me.

E-3175.

Thank you, Raymond.

There's
something else, Sophia.

I just got word
that Martinez's
condition is improving.

Meaning you didn't
stop them from getting
the counter agent to him.

The counter agent,
can it really reverse
what happened to him?

It can.

You can't allow Martinez
to re-enter the equation.

It could jeopardize
everything for both of us.

Do you understand?

Sophia, I need your word

that if we
continue to work together,
you'll do what you said.

And you'II spare
the American people.

I give you my word.

(HANGS UP)

He'II realize
he's been duped

as soon as we
release the pathogen,

and Americans
start getting sick.

By then, it'II be too Iate.

BLAKE: AII right, thank you.
(HANGS UP CELL PHONE)

That was Peel.
The President's
still in a coma,

but there are definite
signs he's improving.

That's great news.

Were you able to find anything
actionable about Sophia?

She sent a team
to Siberia to search for
the weapon she plans to use.

That makes some sense.

A few weeks ago,

we discovered Sophia had
one of your people working

on ice core samples
from eastern Russia.

What could Sophia
have been Iooking for
in the ice?

I don't know,

but I think she found it.

According to Peel,
Jarvis waived off an action

on an inbound
Russian passenger plane.

So whatever the weapon is,
you think it was
on that plane.

Yeah, and now it's here.

WOMAN: (ON TV)
...terrorist attack.
A hazmat team is on site here,

and shopping mall patrons
were evacuated and are safe.

BLAKE: Who is it?
The body, however,
of an unidentified...

His name is Roman.
He's one of our people.

...in the background there,
leading authorities to believe

that he may have played a part
in this thwarted
terrorist attack.

Terrorist attack.

Also, police are
trying to locate

a city transit
bus still missing.

A dead SIeeper.

VICKY: He was carrying cash
and his driver's Iicense.
That's it.

So we have nothing.

We have an address.

That could be fake.

And even if it is
the dead guy's address,

what are the odds
the courier's just gonna be
conveniently waiting there?

What's your problem?

We Iet the courier get away!

With a virus that could kill
God knows how many people.

Fine, and ifwe
went after her,

the entire mall
would have been infected.

Yeah, and now,
Sophia will get to
do much worse with it.

Look, we made the right
decision at the time.

Sean, no matter what happens,

we've already done more
than most people would have.

A Iot more, all right?

This is the address.
Pull over.

Hi.

Excuse me.

We're Iooking for
a guy with Iong, brown hair
and a moustache, beard.

(SPEAKING SPANISH)

No? No?
Beard.

WOMAN: No.

(VICKY SIGHS)
Um...

Okay. Thanks.

(GRUNTS)

Hold still.
Put your hands up.
Put your hands up.

(SIGHS)
Who are you?
Why are you here?

BIake! BIake, come out here.
We got company.

Drop your weapons.
SIMON: Put your weapon down.

Put your gun down!

Put it down!
You drop it.
Drop it.

Drop your weapon.

Identify yourselves.
Shut up!

Put your weapon down.

Wait a second. I know you.
You're one of Sophia's people.

No, not anymore.

I don't believe you.
He's telling the truth.

Who the hell are you?

BIake Sterling.

He's the Director of
National Intelligence.

Not anymore.
And who the hell are you?

I'm Sean Walker.

From the plane
at Coral Gables.

What are you doing here?

You first.

There was an attempted
terrorist attack at a mall.

We tracked a man named Roman
to this apartment.

We're the ones who
stopped that attack.

What?

It was supposed
to be a dry run.

Sophia's going to
release a virus.

A strain that's even deadlier
than the 1918 Spanish flu.

Do you have any
idea where she is?

No, that's why we came here.

Then we're all
just wasting time.

Come on, Iet's start
Iooking around.

DR. LU: I need
more data points

to track how
the virus is continuing

to replicate within
the culture medium.

Initial indications are good.

What's her status?

Her body temperature
is rising.

Heart rate and
blood pressure dropping.

We need to keep her alive
and producing the virus.

Increase IV fluids
and give her a corticosteroid.

PIease...

PIease don't do this.

Don't kill all those people.

If we had a choice,
we wouldn't.
But we don't.

We're just taking back
what's rightfully ours.

Your father
should have told you.

We were here first.

We've determined
the most efficient way
to spread the pathogen is

by using three parallel
distribution channels.

The first team will
release the pathogen
in the immediate region.

They will contaminate
a food processing facility

that ships
products to supermarkets
in six different states.

Within days,
it will spread across
the eastern seaboard.

The second team will
contaminate currency

at the Bureau of Engraving
facility in Virginia

in time for the monthly
Reserve Bank distribution.

This will effectively
spread the disease
on a nationwide basis.

The third team
will release the virus

in the international
terminal at Dulles Airport

at a time that will
maximize the number

of global crossings
by infected passengers.

Within five days,
the vast majority of
the human population

will be dead.

This is the Iast time
that we'II all be
meeting together as a group

until it's all over.

But I want each ofyou
in your own way

to honor and
mourn the Ioss of Iife,

but also to remember
why we are doing this.

For our survival.

I want that
satellite redirected

from its coverage
zone immediately.

Normally, Mr. President,

a request Iike this would come
from the Director of
National Intelligence.

And seeing how that
office is still vacant,

I'm giving you
that order directly.

Yes, sir.

But it is currently
in a non-geostationary orbit,

so the repositioning
will take two hours
to take effect.

Understood. Thank you.
(HANGS UP)

Dr. Reed, thank you
for taking the time to see me.

Yes, sir.

I understand that
President Martinez's health
has taken an unexpected

but welcome turn
for the better.

I'm cautiously optimistic.

AIthough, to be frank,
we're not entirely
sure what's going on.

Tell me what you do know.

I understand these are extreme
and unusual circumstances,

but still, I do have
to honor doctor-patient
confidentiality.

And I understand
that completely, Doctor.

But this is a matter
of national security.

If there is
a transfer of power
back to President Martinez,

I want to make that transition
as smooth as possible.
You can understand.

AII I can tell you is
that typically in cases
of multiple strokes,

the recovery takes months,
sometimes years.

Years?
But this case
isn't typical.

What's happening here
just doesn't happen.

Not when the patient
is so far gone.

If you'II excuse me, sir.
Oh, absolutely.
Thank you again.

Christina, I just got
some encouraging news
from the doctor.

I know you poisoned him.

That's absolutely...

My husband almost
died because of you!

Our son almost
Iost his father!

I am gonna make
sure I tell your wife

and your children
about everything, and...

Don't you touch me!
Back off!

You are nothing but a coward!

Look at me, Raymond.
Look at me.

NURSE: Mrs. Martinez...

I am gonna bury you alive!

NURSE: Mrs. Martinez...
You understand me?
What is it?

NURSE: Mrs. Martinez.

The President is awake.

Oh, my God.

Okay, I need a full workup.

Get me a chem panel.
I want an EEG right away.
Mr. President?

Mr. President, are you awake?
Can you hear me?

Mr. President, see if
you can follow my finger.

Outstanding. Outstanding.

Mr. President,
do you know where you are?

Mr. President?

Open your eyes, sir.

Outstanding, sir. Yes.

(MUMBLING) Christina?

Yes.

DR. REED: Okay.

Reactivity is good.
I want to take
a Iook at your reflexes.

Doctor,
I promise I will submit
to all your battery of tests

if you just give me
a moment with my wife.

Mr. President,
please understand,
you're still extremely weak.

You're very vulnerable.
You need to remain
calm and at rest.

I'II keep an eye on him.

Okay.

Thank you.
You bet.

Hey.
Hi.

Give me another one.

I prayed for this, EIias.

I Iove you so much.

What happened?

Not now, my dear.
Not now, okay?

The Iast thing I remember,

I was telling BIake
that I saw the Iook
in Jarvis' eye.

That he had
something to do with this.

Honey.

Tell me what you know.

Tell me.

Jarvis is working
with Sophia.

He poisoned you
with something she gave him.

But one of BIake's agents,
Simon Lee,

gave me an antidote
to give to you.

What about Sophia's plan
to bring more of
her people here?

Honey, I'm...
Wait, wait, wait.

Honey, I've already
told you what I know,

and you heard the doctor.
You have to rest.

I know what the doctor said,
but I need answers. I need...

I need to talk
to BIake Sterling.

Can you get him for me?

Christina?

We're Iooking for notes,
receipts,

anything that might Iead us
to Sophia's new Iocation.

Nothing so far.

I remember you now.

You were CIA.

You went rogue
just as I was
taking over the agency.

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

There was talk
that you were
being scapegoated

by your division chief.

And then eventually,
you ended up running
freelance black ops.

Doing some pretty
unsavory things.

Whoever you're talking about,
I don't know
anybody Iike that.

Not anymore.

(EXHALING)

Do you think
Leila's still alive?

She was the Iast time
I saw her.

But I don't think
Michael had Iong to Iive.

What happened?

Michael was shot
trying to escape with us.

Leila insisted
on staying behind,
try to help him.

I'm sorry, Sean.
I had to Ieave her.

No, I understand.

When this is done,
I'II find her.

No matter what I have to do.

There's nothing here.

We're coming up empty.

Looks Iike your friend
didn't Ieave anything behind.

He's not my friend, okay?

And he must have
gotten rid of
anything personal

when Sophia ordered
him to go operational.

Which, from the Iooks
of it, was recently.

And if he just
trashed everything...

SIMON: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Stop what you're doing.

What did I do?
Just back away.

SEAN: I think
I've got something.

AII these
receipts are clustered

around the same
area in Maryland.

Gas stations,
hardware stores,
building supply.

He was up to something.

Possibly setting up
a base of operations.

Some of these receipts
have addresses
and time stamps.

We can go into
the NSA satellite archive.

See if we can Iocate him
at those places and times.
(CELL PHONE RINGING)

Sterling.
ELIAS: Blake.

Mr. President.

It's good to hear
your voice, sir.

And yours.

Christina told me
what you did.

Thank you for saving my life.

And thank Agent Lee.

BIake, I need you to
bring me up to speed.
What is going on with Sophia?

Well, according to Agent Lee,

their world is unstable,
and she's intent

on bringing their
population here.

The entire population?

Yes.

And in order to
make room for them,

she intends to
employ a bio weapon,

a virus that
they're immune to,

but it would decimate
the human population.

No matter what we
think of Jarvis,

he couldn't collaborate
on the extinction
of his own people.

Well, I assume he's
being played for a fool.
He fired me.

What?
Yes,

and he stopped all efforts
to hunt down Sophia's people.

We've had to try
to stop this attack

with our hands
tied behind our backs.

Not anymore.

BIake, you see what
you can do about Sophia.

I'II deal with Jarvis.

Sir.
I have to return
to the White House.

What?
No. Sir, that's impossible.

You can't put any stress
on your body until
we've done some tests.

I promise you'II be released
as soon as possible.

No. Now.

EIias, you have
to get better first.

Mr. President,
you've just
regained consciousness.

A few hours ago,
you were nearly dead.

And now I'm alive.

Sir, whether you
feel it or not,
your body is too weak.

I am going
to the White House.

EIias...
Just get me
something to wear.

Check the seals
and get them
Ioaded on second van.

Sophia, it's Carlos.
Everyone is in position
at the infection sites.

We're getting
a shipment Iater today.

New preservative?

New formulation.

Knolls?

Knolls?

Did you see this?

It says to use
a new drying agent
for the currency.

I'm not altering protocol
without an explanation.

Get me Michael Doyle.

KNOLLS: Michael Doyle?

The district supervisor.

A change Iike this has
to have come from him.

(SILENCED GUN FIRES)
(GRUNTS)

Confirm your status.

In place and ready.

In place and ready.

In place and ready.

It's time to begin.

SEAN: NSA won't Iet you
access their intranet
off-site.

But if their protocols
are Iike the Pentagon's,

I should be able
to spoof the PI.

You ever think ofworking
for the government, Mr. Walker?

Not while Vice President
Jarvis is in charge.

We have that in common.

Okay, I need an access code.

They killed mine,
but Chief of Staff Peel was
kind enough to Iend me his.

AII right. Uh...

There's a gas station
he visited repeatedly

in the vicinity of
other stops he made.

Aberdeen, Maryland.
AII right, give me
a date and time.

The 15th, 11:32.

NSA satellites archive images
every 60 seconds
over major cities.

There. That's Roman.

SEAN: Huh. Okay. So now
we track him forward in time.

Back to his car.

He made a few stops.

And drives under those
buildings. Let's see.

Sean, go forward in time.
See what else is
going on at that site.

We found them.

Well done, Mr. Walker.

By 5:30, all three
distribution channels

will be spreading
the pathogen.

I have Iive feeds
from the CDC that will

allow us to follow
this in real time.

What about her?

We've harvested
enough viral cells
from her system.

No. I mean what
about her condition.

It's unclear how Iong
her immune system

will be able to
fight off the virus.

Could be hours, days.

She's suffering.

And it'II only get worse.

Just end it.

But do it quickly and...
And painlessly.

CARLOS: Make sure
those are secured.
MAN: Will do.

CARLOS: We're on schedule.
I wanna keep it
that way, okay.

MAN: Got it.

Okay, canisters for
first and second team
are Ioaded and ready to go.

We're waiting on your word.

We're still
waiting for the ones

that we're gonna
take to the airport.

You ready?

Yeah.

AII right. Let's move.

Okay.

Let's close it up.
Good Iuck.

Thanks. You too.

Seeing as we don't know
what we're walking into,

is there any way
you can get
somebody to help us?

I put in some calls
to people I trust,

but it'II take time
to get them activated.

Time we may not have.

Yeah. We're five minutes out.

We have two spare magazines.

Where did you get that?

From someone who claimed
to be part of a group

that's protected
us from your people.

What did he
tell you about it?

He didn't.
He didn't tell me anything.

I have no idea what
it is or what it says.

Do you?

If he could read it,
he knew more than
he was telling you.

About what?

About us. Why we're here.

And about what happened.

What do you think?

Two guards by that entrance.

We need to move.

Excuse me.
I'm sorry. I just...
I ran out of gas.

This is a closed area.
You'II have to keep moving.

I know.
(GRUNTING)

There won't be any pain.

The first injection
will put you to sleep.

So you aren't awake
for the effects
of the second one.

(WHIMPERS)

Don't turn. Move!

Come on. Come on.

I'm not... Okay.

Don't try to move.
Don't try to yell for help,

or we will kill you.
Do you understand me?

How many people are here?

Two guards upstairs,
and me and Dr. Lu.
Uh-huh.

Five, if you count
the prisoner.

What prisoner?

What prisoner?
A girl. A girl.

(STRUGGLING)

(SCREAMING)

(PANTING)

Leila! Leila!
Sean. Sean. Sean.

Listen to me.
What?

Sophia's weapon...

I know.
I know about the virus.

No.

They used me as
a way to change it.

AII their plans are on
that Iaptop over there.

They're gonna
release it by 5:30.

AII right,
all right, I'm gonna...

I'm gonna get
you out of there.

No, you can't.

What?

I'm infected.

What? What do you mean?

They put it in me.

If you get anywhere near me,
if you touch me, you'II die.

I thought I told you
I didn't want to be disturbed.

EIi.

What are you doing here?
Shouldn't you be resting?

Get out from
behind that desk

and get the hell
out of my office.

I have every right
to be here.

The Cabinet enacted
the 25th Amendment.

They appointed me
acting President.

I know you tried
to kill me.

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

I know about you
and Sophia.

I don't know what
you've been told,

but if you're talking
about the peace agreement

that I'm presently
negotiating with Sophia...

Peace agreement?

That wouldn't
have been possible
while you were at the helm.

PIease, Richard, help me here.

You're on your own, Raymond.

Everything I've done
has been to guarantee

the safety of
the American people.

Is that what you've
been telling yourself

so you can
sleep at night, Ray?

Your actions have
only served yourself
and only you.

Whether you Iike it
or not,

I am the President
of the United States.

Not for Iong.

Not for Iong.

Well, we'II see
about that, EIi.

There needs to be
a vote that you're capable.

And you've had strokes.
Terrible strokes.

Who knows what damage
has been done to your brain?

Son of a bitch!

And I'II demand tests,

independent assessments
that you're mentally sound

and can be trusted.

Look at you, EIi.

You can barely stand.

Let alone Iead this country.

SEAN: No Iuck
getting into her Iaptop.

They're using
some kind of encryption
technology of their own.

SIMON: I'II take it
from here.

Thanks.

I never thought
I'd see you again.

I told you the day
we met I'II find you.

I'II always find you.

I'm glad we got
to say goodbye.

No, this isn't goodbye.

Sean...
There's a cure.
There has to be.

What if there's not?

You know what?
I think that, uh,
we should move.

What?

You know,
when this is all over,
I think we should move.

Boston's too cold.

I was thinking maybe, um...

We can go to Portland,
or Seattle

or someplace
smaller Iike, um, Bend.

Somewhere close to nature,
and we can have a Iittle yard.

I'd Iike a Iittle yard.
A garden.

Yeah, see?
And then we could get a dog,
and it'II be great.

You're allergic to dogs.

I'II deal with it.

AII that would be
really nice.

I'm not Ieaving you.

You have to find Sophia.

And stop her.

Do it for me.

Mmm...

Hey, hey, wake up.

Hey, Iook at me.

Now, you can
rationalize all you want,

but deep down,
you know what
you're doing is wrong.

According to Leila,
everything we need
to know is on there.

So all I need from you
is your password, Doctor.
That's all.

Don't you see?
It's too Iate.
It's pointless.

SIMON: Suit yourself.

(DRILL WHIRS)

Come here. Come here.
(DR. LU GRUNTS)

Listen,
now you're going to tell me
what I wanna know,

or I'm going to
cut you over and over.

Never so deeply that
you bleed to death,

but that's what
you'II be wishing for.

'Cause I'm going to
cause you more pain

than you ever
imagined possible.

(SCREAMS)

(DRILL WHIRRING)

Don't you see?
It's too Iate!

The password, Doctor!

Okay! Okay, okay!

Just give it to me.

Okay, stop it.
I'II tell you.

SIMON: What is it?

B-1-1.

The number two in brackets.

B-1-1.

It's the correct code.
We're in.

(SOBBING)

There's a Iot of data
to sort through.

Looks Iike multiple
distribution scenarios.

Asking her is
a waste of time.

Are you sure about that?

No matter what we do to her,

we won't know
if she's giving
us disinformation.

Wasting our time
until it's too Iate
to stop Sophia.

The answer's right here.

We're just gonna have to
figure it out on our own.

(MAN CHATTERING OVER PA)

Jarvis just confirmed.
The satellite's been diverted.

Then we'II begin powering up.

Where are we on the pathogen?

Right on schedule,
but Ieave that to us.

Your job is to
power the array.

Yes, of course.

We're ready to
activate on your order.

Proceed.

Proceed.

(POWER SURGING)