The Nevers (2021–…): Season 1, Episode 12 - I'll Be Seeing You - full transcript

We've been through this before, Zephyr, Alexis, Naveen, we needed you to understand.

How long have I been out?

Long enough.

I have to admit, I thought it would put up more of a fight.

Then the eyes of the blind shall be offered, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

Then shall the lame man leap as an heart,

and the tongue of the dumb sing.

You're a riddle and a song and a delight, and I shall call you Babel.

This is a house built for God.

I can feel him.

Can you?



Yeah.

He doesn't hurt anymore.

He's just...

Your people built the tower, Babel, all the way to heaven.

And they were after a name for themselves as well.

A name that would bind them together forever and ever and ever.

Amen.

Then they wouldn't get lost, you see.

But I lost my friends, Clara, the Colonel.

I was careless.

Now there's just the sad policeman.

I have to learn to keep the good ones safe.

You?

You have to prove yourself.



Everyone is tested in their time.

Forged in the fire.

Hey, it's funny how I didn't burn.

Maybe I can't.

Maybe.

I won't.

It turned out God didn't want those people to find out the true name.

And he didn't want them in heaven either.

He broke their tower and he confounded their language.

And he scattered them across the earth so they would never, ever, ever find one another again.

So they would always be alone.

And he...

Can you understand it, Babel?

Is it speaking?

What's it saying?

Aidez moi

Help.

It is calling for help.

And the tongue of the dumb shall sing.

Where is my daughter?

You must be mistaken, my lord.

Your daughter is dead.

I stood by you while you buried her for all the world to see.

She's with her own now.

Somewhere she should have been a long time ago.

What have you done?

You go easy on me.

Watch yourself.

Find her.

Why won't it die!

Bring me the carbine.

Yes, run and get the big guns.

You're not looking at all well.

I'm having a bad day.

I'd rather think that it's hurting you when we hurt the creature.

I always suspected it.

But the doctor and I couldn't break through the shell to prove the theory.

You and Haig.

Yes, such a disappointment.

You have no idea what the Galanthe means to us.

To the future of the world.

I had thought that you were immune to melodrama.

Mrs. True

That's one of the things that appeal to me about you.

And of course, I understand exactly what the creature means to the touch.

That's why it must die.

No matter the cost.

Including to your own brother, Lavinia.

Especially to my own brother.

I'm sure you find him sweet.

Rather awkward.

His soul misunderstood by society.

Miss Adair, perhaps you've seen little glimpses, little rages.

Augustus' anger is not a trifling matter.

And his turn has made him deadly.

That is not the man I know.

Love is blind.

The veil has fallen from my eyes.

I know now that my duty is to cure Augustus.

For your safety.

For the sake of this world that Mrs. True is so concerned about.

You have no way of knowing if this will take away the turns.

You said it yourself.

It's just hurting us.

If you kill the Galanthe, you might as well shoot us, too.

What?

My dear, I have no intention of shooting you.

I merely intend for you to watch.

Shoot us, too?

I'm just trying to stall. I don't know what I'm supposed to say.

Maybe something without the downside of getting us killed?

How about the upside of getting us free?

What have you seen here? Free telephone wire?

Advanced science, then.

This kind?

Missed you.

I know you did

Frank!

Very important things to do.

We have got to get drunk.

Don't worry, it's already started.

Frank, please join us.

I've done a good thing.

It's a new sensation.

Harriet helped.

Harriet helped?

She gave the speech of the fucking century more like.

Where is she?

Where's the gal?

You're new here, so you might not know,

but everyone at the orphanage is something of a rarity.

You try not to stare, even if a person is large.

I think you're magnificent.

Frank, we won.

We saved the orphanage.

Congratulations.

I don't think Lily requires our protection anymore.

Sooner or later, he'll come to claim her.

And when he does, I'll be waiting.

You found the primary case study.

Well then, you can arrest Masson.

The time has passed.

I'm sorry, I won't stand around and watch a good man go to prison

for the rest of his life for the murder of some worth his fucking toff.

Not when that man is somebody that I care about.

You mustn't talk that way.

It's the truth.

It's how I feel.

It's not real.

It's not possible.

This.

Why can't you see that?

We just brought a spag-headed girl to an orphanage

to be looked after by a woman with fire in her hands

and a debutante giantess.

I think what is possible is very much up for debate.

Get it over with.

Mabel!

Hello, Skin-Shinner.

Bloody cowards, those carriage men.

They just took off.

you're on your metal, girl, remember,

one loyal woman is worth more to me than an army of weaklings.

Mabel!

You've been so busy recently, haven't you?

All these campaigns.

Plans when they're plans when they're plans.

Honestly, you bring such a tremendous energy

to everything you do, and I don't want you to think

that I'm without admiration, but...

You see, sooner or later, haven't you?

Somebody has to stop you.

Otherwise, what would you become?

Huh?

Aren't you going to shout at me?

Tell me how pathetic I am.

You could scream for help.

Always with the upper hand.

Tell me, Lavinia.

Is there nothing that I could do that might shock you?

Arryn!

Arryn!

Are you there?

Call off your army!

The purists!

You must call them off!

Call them off?

I'd sooner pipe the rats out of London.

No, done calling in that favor.

Do you understand me?

Get me the fuck out of this shit hole of a city

before it eats itself alive.

What happened here?

What happened?

The doctor did his rounds.

He found out all about our little plan.

The touched must be burned

The touched must be burned

Get away from it!

If I wanted it dead, I wouldn't have just saved its life, would I?

Myrtle?

See, I'm a skin shedder, too.

It's not as hard as you like to make it look.

Amalia

Talking isn't always telling.

What did you see?

The orphanage.

And what?

They're in danger.

They don't even have any defences.

I blew up the fucking power grid.

We can't just leave it here, not with her.

Penance.

You have to stay.

Help me find a way to heal it.

All I know is if I'm breathing my last and I ask myself what I did with this life I was given,

I won't have it on my conscience that I abandoned my friends.

Not when they need me most.

It's always the choices for you, isn't it?

If you hurt it, I will hunt you down and cut you to shreds.

We all have our scars.

So you're just going to have to get used to the idea, Neil.

I'm going to start my own practice and if that's not the kind of wife you want,

then maybe I'll just have to find myself a new kind of husband.

Well, you can't just disband the club.

What are your workers going to do?

Because I've always said they need some kind of union.

Well, you know what they say.

Every union needs the right kind of leader.

Oh, trying to recruit me.

Look at all this finery.

So what do you think?

Or are you still just passing through?

I thought I might stay a few more days

George?

What's got into you today?

Nothing. No.

Just looking for a primrose.

Want some cake?

It was a dragonfly when first I saw him.

He burned through the sky like a silent judgment.

But in the water, he was small again.

Nothing but a singing fish.

Now look.

Oh, he's grown so big.

It hurts to change.

I know.

I know.

You look like the doctor, and you smell like the doctor.

Somehow, you...

More.

More?

We came from the wires.

How many of you in the Legion, is it?

Yes.

You're spoiling him.

I was going to wait.

Seventeen, six hundred days to go.

It was supposed to be special.

This host is damaged.

But I have to do it.

I'm to end this mortal coil.

I can't do that if I'm talking to a fucking cypher, can I?

Where's the poetry in that?

I'm looking for someone to do a special study with at my facility.

You must be Sarah

It's like we've got what we need.

For a good old-fashioned exorcism.

Get the defenses up.

No power.

The purists are coming.

Catherine!

Where have you been?

Aresha, what happened?

Where's Azai?

He's with the children.

We're under attack.

So take Azai and find a safe place that you don't come out.

You understand?

I need you both safe.

Go.

Okay, go.

Go, go.

Go, go!

What are we made of?

The steel in our hands or the steel in our hearts?

Let the doctor burn our fucking guns.

We've still got blades, ain't we?

We've still got fists and chains!

Beautiful!

This is what we trained for!

Time to use what we've been given, hnnn

This way, this way, this way, this way!

Oh my god, look at their face.. oh

We're losing our chance

Penance

No you're not going in

We have to help them

No we need defence back up

Make it safe somewhere where can bring everyone I'll just go and get them

Just go, come on

Let me go, let me go !

Penance, go

Why are you doing this?

Why are you doing this?

The galanthe showed me

It showed me what..

What has to happen

You're keep something from me?

You're keep something from me in the power station and you're keeping something from me now

No

Swear it then

On my life

Myrtle no

I'm going in

No you're following my orders, understood?

You abandoned us

You risked the orphenage for your fucking mission and now you want me to take your orders?

I'm finding my friend

Look here stop!

Emily.

You sure as hell took your time.

Where is everyone?

I sent them to hide.

He's been covering for us.

It's too many of them.

I can't find Lily.

Who?

You've missed a lot.

I know.

and Ambrose?

Myrtle

Go after her.

We'll carry on searching down here.

Purify

Ambrose

No

You came back!

I know

I can speak

I'm so glad

But Myrtle it's been terrible

I wanted to fight

I was going to try and help them

and then..

I just hid

It's alright

Just think

You can go home now

to your real friends

and your deboutante ball

You can meet the queen

I don't want to meet the bloody queen

I don't even get the courtesy roll

Papa said I always did

And all my friends

Were horrible snobs

You're the only real friend I've ever had

But of course

I know your family will have you back now

Didn't want me then

Not going to get me now

Well then

We're not going to be orphans anymore

Because we'll have each other won't we?

Alright

We can climb out

get to the gate

Myrtle

We can't leave

We have to try and help them

Right

We"ll find Amalia

Is this your best friend? speak free

Remeber mine do you?

my Nancy

I tell you what I'm gonna make you a fair exchange

you come over here

and I'm gonna put this knife in you the way you did to my Nancy

and that way

your little princess come out of here alive

Myrtle don't

Myrtle no!

I said.. come on

it's gonna slide in so easy right up close

you don't deserve this

I do

Amalia, have you seen my family?

Can't clean this one up

go

Stay quiet, shh shhh

It's alright,

all what we ever faced

Come on then, let's dance

Lilly

Lilly

I know you're here.

Come out.

Now.

My God.

Lily.

The orphanage is overrun, let me get you to safety.

I'd rather die than be alone in that prison again.

There's no need, you don't have to hide anymore.

Hide?

You locked me away.

For your own good.

Because I was shameful.

No, because you were a monster.

Stop it.

No, no.

See, the monster hasn't gone.

She's still here daddy and she'll always be here.

No.

Let go of me.

I wouldn't do that if I was you.

Come.

You're not a purist.

No I ain't.

What do you want?

Justice

For the murder of Mary Brighton.

For the torture of Sarah Eason.

For the incarceration of that little girl of yours.

You locked up in the dark for years while she screamed and held and shut in her own filth.

There is no justice.

There are no rules, there is only man and what he can bend to his will.

I'm afraid you put yourself in the way of mine.

You might have known I'd find you in the gutter.

Looking at the stars.

You don't give up, do you?

I've rebuked you and I've bled you and I've cast you out

in the name of every heathen deity and yet still you persist.

What are you?

Sarah.

I thought you remembered everything though.

The voice on the line.

Whispers in the dark.

Mother.

Guided this hand.

Now we guide this flesh.

And if we can't borrow, we will destroy.

We cannot be contained for long.

We.. one part.

The wires, that's where it came from.

A stream of fire from an oak.

And when it was gone.

Nothing remained but a blasted stump.

Mother.

No

She was inside me.

She was a deamon

No

She was a fungus.

Soft.

And spreading.

More and more of her.

All that she never was.

And she never was.

Mother.

You know, doctor.

I used to think that we were all pawns in some great game.

We don't know the rules.

We can't see the players.

Now I know that there is always a choice.

See what I brought to greet you.

Our old friend.

Do you remember?

Yes, sir.

I do.

And the eyes of the blind shall see.

Catherine

Heratio?

Stay inside

Amalia

I've died before.

I thought it would be a terrible thing to do.

But it wasn't much in the end.

Just a moment.

Into the dark.

Come on.

Mrs True

I'll hold you in my heart as long as it's beaten.

And until my last breath.

I'll tell everyone your name.

Who comes after.

If that's all right.

Zephyre Alexis Naveen.

had laid down her life for her friends

Death shall have no dominion.

Not for us

We've been through this before.

Talking isn't always telling.

You gave your life for your friends because we needed you to understand.

Why we would do the same.

You gave me a gift once.

To set me free.

Frank,

I'm here.

It's all right.

It's all right

That's better.

I didn't keep them safe.

I couldn't.

So is the Galante gone then?

It was never gone.

It was always here, inside us.

Death shall have no dominion.

That was his plan.

Sacrifice.

To share itself.

And the spores?

Not spores.

Seeds.

It sowed itself in us.

We are Galante, Penance.

And now there will be so many more.

More of us.

To be spat at in the street and murdered in our home.

What? You think the hate dies with the purists?

The Galanthe just ..

took us for its own.

It colonized our world without so much as a beggar pardon.

Do you think any of them asked for this?

You always had the touched are gifts.

Look!

Just...

Would you look around you?

Look at what my gifts have done for us.

This is it.

This is the future that was promised.

No, we're here to change the future, Penance.

I changed a rippling.

And the Galante showed me...

The Galante has used you!

And I used you.

Never felt like that.

Not even once.

Amalia.

I said that I would follow you to the ends of the earth.

Here we are.

Auggie.

I'll find you in the morning sun.

And when the night is new.

I'll be looking at the moon.

But I'll be seeing you.

I'll be seeing you.

In all the old familiar places.

Let this heart of mine embraces.

All day through.

In that small cafe.

The park across the way.

The children's carousel.

The chestnut trees.

The wishing well.

I'll be seeing you.

In every lovely summer's day.

In everything that's light and gay.

I'll always think of you that way.

I'll find you in the morning sun.

And when the night is new.

I'll be looking at the moon.

But I'll be seeing you.