Utopia (2020–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - not slow not bad - full transcript

Good enough.

Do you want to say a few words?

Sunrise. Shovel fast.

Oh, my God.

-What happened, Ian?
-We found Artemis.

-What?
-And then we...

killed her and we buried her
in the woods.

It was a good grave.

One of the best.

You know there's a sink...?

She strangled Artemis
with her own scarf.



Then, she peeled off
her fingernails

like it's rotisserie chicken,
underneath each is a tattoo

of numbers
like a fucking code...

Artemis let Mr. Rabbit
kill my dad.

She knew where he was
and didn't tell me.

Your dad killed
every child we've seen

on the news
in the last few days.

-It's his flu.
-He killed those kids

-to save me.
-Really?

You're worth
all 92 of their lives?

I don't see it.

Artemis let your dad die

to protect you,
to protect this entire planet,

before he tried to save you
any more, with more disease.



As far as I'm concerned,
she's the hero

of this whole fucking thing.

She still needed to die.

If the Harvest would have found
her, they'd have hurt her.

-Much worse than I did.
-You killed her.

The Harvest would have
killed her, too.

They just would have
made it last longer.

I just think we're losing
a little touch with humanity.

Really?

Who's most human here?

Me, who for nine years

has done nothing
but stay alive at any cost,

or you three, with your
small jobs and tiny apartments

and phone screens and texts
always chirping up at you?

Your only passion?

Sitting in your bedrooms
talking about a world

I was actually living in.

A world that, yes,
sometimes means killing,

even if...

You found Artemis,

we found Grant.

And Grant found Utopia.

Careful.

No one taught him
scissor safety.

It's okay.

It's-it's okay.

She only wants Utopia.

Like us.

Can I have those?

See? Thank you.

Is that my starburst?

Jessica Hyde?

Do you want to see
the real thing?

I do.

That's so...

Wow.

It's mine, you little shit.

Jessica, stop.

Get the fuck out here!

Jessica, he-he is a kid.

You're scaring him.

Grant, open this fucking door.

Open up!

Let me talk to him.

- You're scaring him.
- Open up!

Fucking open the door!

Jessica-- whoa! Calm down!

Little fucker.

Hey, um, I don't want
to freak you out.

Uh, I totally got this
under control,

but I need to let you know that,
uh, Stearns is in the hot zone.

He's in St. Louis?

Yeah.

He's been there
since last night.

He tried to fake his way in.

He was controllable, you said.

-Mm.
-"He's like a mushroom.

"Give him a little blast
of sunlight

and stick him back underground."
That's what you said.

Yeah.

I mean, we didn't think
that he had balls.

Apparently, he does.

It's a pretty serious situation.

You bet your fucking ass
it's a serious situation.

We need to fix this today.

As of right now, Dr. Stearns

is the most dangerous man
on the planet.

Thank you.

-Oh, hey.
-Mmm.

Yeah,
all the hotel rooms are booked,

'cause of all the people
looking for answers.

I found a place
with one spot left.

-Really? Where?
-Chez Stearns.

-Oh, c...
-First-class service,

-free continental breakfast
and...
-Come on.

...a slobbery little
snuggle buddy.

Oh, a slobbery little
snuggle buddy?

Hey, Penny. Hey, sweetie.

- Hey.
- "Hi. I miss you."

Oh, honey, I miss you.

God. If I could get even
just some basic information,

I-I might be able
to provide some answers.

Look, Michael, I think
it's great that you tried,

-but it-it's time to come home.
-Mm-hmm.

...are liars, fascists...

-I'm worried about your anxiety
with all those crowds.
-Okay.

Michael, did you even hear
what I said?

Uh, you know what? I got to,
I got to call you back.

-Hey-- Oh, excuse me.
-Sorry.

Sorry, I-I overheard you there.
Uh, I can't get inside, either.

Are your kids in there, too?

No, I-I'm a virologist,
actually.

And I think
that if I was given...

I went to work in the morning.

I came home,
and this place was barricaded.

My husband and kids
are trapped in there.

-Are they infected?
-No, they're not
infected at all,

but the doctors said
they can't leave quarantine

for another 48 hours.
Does that sound...?

-48 hours?
-Mm-hmm.

That's actually incredibly fast.

I-- It doesn't feel fast to me.

-So, the outbreak
originated in schools.
-Mm-hmm.

I-Is there any way
to find out the exact classroom?

Why? Do you think
you can help, Doc?

Well, that's what
I'm trying to do.

That-that's why I'm here.

- Can I join you guys, then?
- Are you kidding?

-Yes, please. Please, please.
-Come on over.

Whoa.

-Hey.
-Dick.

-How do you feel?
-Good, man.

You need me there?
Talk to me, Rambo.

Nope, Dad, I got this.

Reread Seven Habits last night.

Feeling really sharp.

Be bold.

Today I plan on being
nothing less than revolutionary.

Sharpen the saw,
sharpen the saw.

Motherfucking Bundt cake!

Hi.

Gentlemen and lady,

so, we have some serious issues.

Who's the boy?

He's the boy with Utopia.

This one

is a bit of a broken record.

Where is Jessica Hyde?

This is like a little turdy pop
song that's stuck in my head.

I wake up in the middle
of the night, take a piss,

and there it is.

I'm shaving and showering
in the morning, there it is.

I'm having relations

of an intimate variety with a
lady friend, and there it goes:

"Where is Jessica Hyde?"

I need this earworm
out of my head.

And she's not alone.

She's got some
comic book nerds with her.

Between them, they've seen
several pages of Utopia,

which is several more than we've
seen, which is unacceptable.

We need to find a way

to make them reveal themselves.

And this one.

This is our most
immediate concern.

Our gentle, spineless scientist

has somehow found his backbone

and is in St. Louis, demanding
that he personally conduct

the field tests for his vaccine.

- Oh, my God...
- Thomas,

we can't have
Michael there, man.

-He could blow
this whole thing up.
-Yeah!

If he gets a blood
sample, we have real problems.

He was supposed to study
the sample of flu

we sent him,
conclude it was his flu

and then sound the victory bell
for us.

Yes. Obviously, Cara.

He was supposed to do what
we had every reason in the world

to believe that he would do,
but he didn't.

I know what to do.

We need to pull a duet
sourced from Home.

We need to start manufacturing
the vaccine, now.

Everything has to happen now.

So...

...what next?

We need Utopia.

We need to find the boy.

So, how do we get him?

We're gonna crowd-source
the shit out of him.

Need to make sure
that everyone in America

is looking for that little shit.

- I suggest honey,
not vinegar.
- So,

let's brainstorm.

AMBER Alert?

We don't know the kid's name.

But do we have a similar?
At Home?

-Likely.
-Then we stage a kidnapping.

Mom comes forward,
then we have his identity,

and concerned citizens are
out there looking for him.

Kidnapping.

That's very local news.

I was thinking public park.

Spree killing.

That sounds extreme.

Yeah, this is
an extreme situation.

I'm sorry,
killing innocent children...

Innocent children
are already dying

by the dozens from our flu.

That was
an understood sacrifice, Thomas.

Yes, Cara.

Those children were
the understood sacrifice.

What have you done today...

To earn your place
in this crowded world?

Need you to think
bigger picture here.

So, Winger Park...

My children play
at Winger Park.

Dayton Grove Park is also
a very accessible park.

-There are no blockades...
-I'm sorry, Thomas,
I have to object.

None of the rest of you have
a problem with this?

You can't object
to the unnecessary murdering

of innocent families
in a park?

Cara, we understand.

-You're a mother...
-This has...

this has nothing to do
with me being a mother, Thomas.

Or a woman, or not tough enough.

I was one of the first
people on board.

This isn't about me being weak
or sentimental or--

There's a line.

Cara...

are you having doubts
about our larger purpose?

No, I'm not, Thomas.

Then can we continue?

Sure.

Does your dad know
about this, Thomas?

Lean in...

Cara.

You're an asshole, Thomas.

You're getting emotional, I see.

-Calm down, okay?
-I'm not--

-I'm not being emotional.
-Okay.

You're a fount of reason.

I'm not going to hurt you.

I'm gonna ask you
for your help.

You must be a smart kid.
You fooled all those grown-ups

into thinking you were
one of them.

And you got Utopia.

You did the one thing
we all just talked about doing.

But I look at you, and I see...

your clothes are
too small for you.

You smell bad.

No one is taking care of you.

So no one is going to care
that you are going to spend

the rest of your life
being hunted.

Look at me, Grant.

You're gonna end up
just like me.

You're not gonna like it.

So I'm asking you
to let me look at Utopia.

I think you and I may be able
to figure this out.

The two of us.

Why?

'Cause I'm the kid
who's been running forever,

trying to find the answers.

And you're the kid
who found them.

Wow.

Oh.

Oh, it's the Fairy.

A carousel.

Jump rope.

This feels... off.

Just tell me how to find Home.

Artemis said
the answers would be here.

I don't understand.

We haven't really studied it.

Yeah. I mean, it could
take us months to decode.

I don't have months.

All right, well...

-maybe give us minutes?
-Just find the answers.

Okay, well,
let's-let's divvy up.
Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, um...

Anything on Diels?

Minutes, bro. Minutes.

Hey, Jessica, the tattoos
underneath the fingernails,

do you remember the numbers?

7-7-3-1-5-3-7-0...

-7-1.
-7-1. It's here.

- What?
- It's in Utopia.

-Look, right here.
-Whoa.

Yes.

Let's see, uh...

What does it mean?

Seven billion.

The world population.

So, the number of people
that are... gonna die:

everyone.

The undoing, um...

Chicago.

7-7-3.

It's the Chicago area code.

We should call. I'll call.

I'd be dubious of the security.

Okay, let's shortcut this.

You're dubious.
Becky's optimistic.

You're threatening.
Grant, I'm sorry,

-I don't know you that well.
-No problem.

Look, if you want answers,
there's a phone number

planted in Utopia.

Department
of Homeland Security.

Agent Katherine Milner.

This is Agent Milner.

This is Jessica Hyde.

Artemis told me to contact you.

I don't know a Jessica Hyde.

Or an Artemis.

She chose that name.

Artemis, Protector of Children.

Does that mean anything to you?

Sure. It's clever.

My cosplay name is Enyo.

Sorry,
you have the wrong number.

Put it... put it on speaker.

The second you called me,

the Harvest started moving.

Take the 355 north
for 22 miles.

1100 Durham Road.

Leave now.
Leave how Artemis taught you.

Make me some kindling.
Break the rest.

What the fuck is this?

No. No!

-Move.
-No.

She has a dad.
He needs to know.

-What good will that do?
-A little.

If people find her...

It'll just be another
violent death in Chicago.

-It'll blend in.
-If the Harvest...

They'll know we're not afraid
to kill our own.

That's an advantage.

There's no downside.

We're out in ten seconds.

-Ooh.
-Whoa.

Vroom vroom.

I guess I'm just surprised.

Thomas is in the hot zone,

and I'm here enjoying
my work-life balance.

I had to have
one of you with me

and one of you to stay here
and hold down the fort.

You understand why I picked you?

-Yeah.
-Yes?

-Yeah, yeah. It...
-Good.

it just sucks
to be out of commission

on my own idea, you know?

You know...

Christie, can I ask,

is it because of Simpro?

The false flag was my idea,
and I bear full respons...

-Cara, it was a good idea.
-I...

It got the attention on me,
the FDA tests it,

-of course, it comes back clean,
-Right.

no flu, total vindication:

I'm a sympathetic figure.

Check the budget proposal,

-but slow-walk...
-Yeah, I'll slow-walk it back.

-Sure. No, I...
-Yeah. Hi, Jim.

The FDA will look like fools
if they came at you again.

-We were absolutely
rock solid until...
-Right?

Goddamn Dr. Mike.

Can I ask you, then,
why am I on the sidelines?

Cara, it's not the sidelines.

It's the fort.

I need to mention
a most difficult subject.

Thomas isn't ready.

I don't know
that he ever will be.

Hey. Okay, come here, baby.

Come here. I got you, I...

Okay.

Hi.

To your question...

How was he during the meeting?

Thomas has strong ideas...

-Yeah.
-...uh, and...

I just think
he needs to be grounded.

You can help him with that.

Okay.

Okay.

Sir?

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Hi, honey. Hi.

Dr. Dearborn,

head of the CDC.

Here you go, pal.

Chloe. I wanted to talk to you
about the St. Louis flu.

I have some doctors
I want to send your way.

You're tired.

New baby smell.

It appears out of nowhere
in classrooms across one city.

Food-based?

No. Water-based.

No.

Fomite?

No.

All arriving medical
personnel,

please report to medical tent
127 in the red zone.

Excuse me, guys!
I-I know Dr. Christie!

- I-It's Dr. Michael Stearns!
- Hey, forget it.

Forget it, man. They don't care.
I could be helping.

-I'm a doctor.
-I am, too.

My specialty is this flu,
for God's sake. This flu!

I even have a sample
of the vaccine.

-What?
-I just need access to test it.

This is-- Why the fuck
aren't you inside?

-You could be saving
my daughter.
-I know.

-Is she infected?
-I don't know.

Last I heard,
she's in the medical tents.

But no one will give me
anything else.

I'm Dale. Dale Warwick.

- Michael Stearns.
- Excuse me.

- Hey.
- Hey.

Excuse me. Christie Labs.

Hey. Hey, hey, Thomas Christie!

-Excuse me! Excuse me...
-Christie Labs. Thank you.

Thank you. Hi. Thomas Christie.

I'm here representing
Christie Labs.

-Thomas Christie!
-I was told that Dr. Dearborn

from the CDC called ahead
to ensure our entrance?

-Yep. Right this way.
-Great. Thank you.

Thank you. Let's go, boys.

Hey, Thomas Christie! Hey!

Hey, I'm a flu expert!

I'm bleeding again.

I'll fix it
when we have scissors.

It feels like shit.

Stop the car and let me out.

-Hmm?
-Stop the car.

Do not trust Milner
just because she wants you to.

If she tries to get you
to go anywhere, do not.

-Do not let her know
we have Utopia.
-Wait, wait.

-Y-You're not coming?
-It was your idea.

See if she knows the way Home.

See if she's worth trusting.

-You stay with Jessica.
-But I want to stay with you.

Come on, Grant.

If they take you
and there's torture?

Make sure to tell them I'm dead.

Hey! Hey, wait for me!

I've cut back
to one torture a month.

Well, this feels creepy enough.

Wow...

You should know I don't bring
just any girl here,

only the special ones.

Sh...

This is...

-Oh, let me just...
-No.

Jessica Hyde?

I'm so thankful
to finally meet you.

You're not Jessica Hyde.

Then who are you?

And where is Jessica Hyde?

We-we don't know Jessica Hyde.

Right.

Artemis just happened
to send you my way?

Gave you my phone number?

-Don't waste my time.
-We don't know Jessica,

but we...

we know Utopia.

If you've seen Utopia,
and I doubt...

We've seen it.

-Do you have it?
-We've seen it.

-What have you seen?
-We're not gonna tell

some stranger
in an abandoned toy store

the secrets of Utopia
just because she asks.

We're under attack.

You're Homeland--
what do you know about Harvest?

You think I won't tell you,
but I will,

'cause you should know.

After 9/11 the U.S. government
recruited a group of scientists

to help beat the rest of the
world in biological warfare.

By creating diseases
that would kill us.

It's the new arms race.

We don't necessarily want
to use the diseases,

we just want to have
more of them than anybody else.

What we didn't know was that
nestled amongst this group

was a few rogue scientists.

They took our information,
our resources and went global.

-The Harvest.
-Controlled by Mr. Rabbit.

You know how much money
is to be made

in precision biological warfare?

A weapon that can target people
with complete deniability.

Target people by race,

ethnicity.

Drop a virus
on a communion wafer,

target by religion.

Weave a virus into tampons,
target by gender.

That's what they were
perfecting, and that's worth

billions and billions
to the highest bidder.

So who is Mr. Rabbit?

In 2002, Mr. Rabbit had a deal

with a group in China
to provide them

with a particularly vicious
strain of pig flu.

At the last minute,
his clients reneged.

So Mr. Rabbit himself
went to China

with the flu he promised them.

By the time it was over,
more than 800 people had died.

Are you talking about SARS?

Years later,
they finally caught him.

They tortured him,
and so, to mark him forever,

his captors carved the Chinese
symbol for rabbit on his torso.

They released his identity to
every agent in every government

with which he had dealings.

And then they set him loose.

A little game--

run, rabbit--

to see who would kill him first

and in how much pain
he would die.

You can't begin to imagine
the ways people can die.

Instead of going underground,

he began systematically
killing everyone

who might know who he was.

63 people on five continents
by the time he was done.

Then he went underground.

That's the man
who wants to kill you.

He could be anyone right now.

But judging from the state
of the world,

I don't think
he's done creating death.

Has this information
made you feel better?

No?

No.

Homeland Security doesn't tend
to make people feel better.

- Uh, wait.
- Yeah.

Can, uh... can we at least
seek asylum with you?

You know, protection?

- Yeah.
- No.

No?

-No?
-No.

You don't have Jessica Hyde,
you don't have Utopia.

Okay, I understand

why you want Utopia.

Why do you want Jessica Hyde?

Because Mr. Rabbit
wants Jessica Hyde.

She knows something that
makes her very dangerous to him.

I like that about her.

You don't have to do this alone,
you know.

Tell Jessica I can be a friend.

Wait. Where's Home?

Where the heart is.

At this point, there are less

than 4,000 tigers left
on the planet,

and most will soon be
in captivity.

- We can make more, though.
- Breeding.

Well, we aren't having
any luck at that, actually.

Why make more, anyway?
They just sit in cages.

I think that's
an important point.

We are wiping them out.

Do we have a right to create
more just because we can?

When there is literally no place
for them on Earth anymore?

-Hey.
-Hello, Arby.

Hi, Arby!

-May I help you?
-I need a helper.

A good listener.

What size are you looking for?

Mm...

Hmm.

Him.

Yes.

Will he be back?

If he listens.

So, all we have
for Jessica is bad news.

We got no idea how to get Home,

we're being hunted by a madman
who killed 92 people, so...

Oh, no, you're forgetting
everyone who died from SARS.

Yeah, this is not good.

Whoa.

Fuck!
-What's happening?
What's happening?

-Are you serious?
-What's happening?
What's happening?

Seriously?

You should've seen
your face, dude.

What the fuck you waiting for?

I'd just...

I'd just like one hour

where I don't piss myself.

Where are we going?

Chicago.
We're going City Mouse.

So, what happened?

This one's gonna be harder on
you than the others, I'm afraid.

I don't see why.

Mm.

Part of me hopes
that you do see why.

Once it happens.

You're entirely set?

Yes.

You picked the child?

Yes.

-Which one?
-Adam.

He's a nice one. Mm.

He'll be happy to help.

You'll be absolutely sure
to do it...

Humane.

-Humane.
-Humane.

I wonder if you really know
what that means?

Not slow and not bad.

That's as good a definition
as any. Hmm.

Everything in Utopia is real.

Mr. Rabbit is real,
and he's after us.

After Jessica.

But we still don't know why.

-We'll find out,
Milner will help...
-Milner won't.

No one knows.

Why do they still want me?

Hey, what do you remember

about Utopia, about Home?

Like, how much
of this feels right?

I was very young
when we moved to Home.

Six, maybe seven.

And what does it look like?

I lived in my own little house.

It was yellow.

Your own house?

No adults?

My dad visited. Sometimes.

Yeah. Home seems real nice.

Giant presents
were always coming in and out.

"His greatest creation."

"Inside his greatest creation."

What was in the presents?

I don't think
I ever got to open them.

Yes, it was important
that I not go near the presents.

Bioweapons? Medical equipment?

Presents.

Did you have a special friend
who helped you?

I remember a man,
bring me cookies every Tuesday.

Jessica, in Dystopia,
Mr. Rabbit feeds you cookies.

Jessica, the man
who brought you cookies...

...do you remember his face?

Not really.

Maybe that's what's hidden
in Utopia.

Yeah.

Mr. Rabbit is finally revealed,

and-and that... and that's
why they're still after you.

You might
actually know who he is.

Kids are dying! Kids are dying!

Kids are dying!

Hey, this is, this is her,
this is Charlotte.

A little ballerina.

-Yeah.
-She's-she's beautiful.

Thanks.

Kids are dying!
Kids are dying!

Dr. Michael Stearns?

Yes.

You've been cleared.

Oh, my God.

Okay. Okay.

Oh... Okay.
Good luck, guys.

-Okay.
-Good luck.

-Huh.
-Hey!

Michael, if you see my daughter,

tell her that her dad
says "I love you,"

and tell her I'm-I'm gonna get
in there, I'm gonna see her.

-Dr. Stearns, let's go.
-Wait.

My medical partner
comes with me.

Let's go.

But he'll need a suit.

We
want answers! We want answers!

We want answers!

Come on, come on.

Charlotte.

Daddy.

You're here.

I'm here.

You said you knew
this flu, right?

You'll see, Mike.
She's strong.

She's a fighter,
and she wants to live, Mike.

This was
Sam's Dystopia notebook.

Her research, drawings.

She was real smart.

Oh, man, I wish Sam
could have seen all of Utopia.

Guys? This thing, it...

it-it-it's
on the final few pages

of Sam's notebook over and over.

It-it, it must have been the
Utopia page Olivia showed her.

When she said it was big?

Yeah, but that creature's
not in Utopia.

It has to be. Unless...
we don't have all of Utopia.

What are these?

His fingerprints.

How did you get them?

Oh, kids touch everything.

What did he touch?

A bird.

-Good.
-Yeah.

I'm just gonna
compare this...

Mm-hmm.

Well... no time
like the present.

- Because.
- Cara, are you ready?

Excuse me.

Arby?