Z Nation (2014–…): Season 2, Episode 13 - Adiós, Muchachos - full transcript

All hell breaks loose when it's discovered that Dr. Kurian's Z-Vaccine doesn't work at all! Instead of building an immunity to the Zombie Virus, the bad vaccine actually makes anyone inoculated susceptible to Murphy's unique brand of mind manipulation. Vasquez gets caught in his plot to kill Escorpion and is sentenced to death by La Reina. Murphy uses mental manipulation to position Warren as La Reina's new second in command. Warren frees Vasquez just in time to watch everyone who was inoculated succumb to a bizarre new form of the Zombie Virus.

Previously on Z Nation...

Welcome to Mexico.
La Reina awaits your presence.

- WARREN: I saw it.
- VASQUEZ: Saw what?

- Escorpion's tattoo.
- You can't ask me to do nothing.

He kidnapped my wife,
my baby girl. It's him.

I'm gonna do you a favour.

VASQUEZ: Shot 'em right there
in front of me.

Warren. My saviour!

The zombie plague is over.
I have the cure.

Remember this day,
for it will mark the beginning

of a Zero world order.



I don't trust him.

One moment, Doctor.

He tried to cheat you
once before, right?

One way to make sure
your food isn't being poisoned

is to have your chef
taste it first.

On second thought,

it is such a monumental
accomplishment

that the honour of the first dose
should really go to you.

I can't.
I...wouldn't presume to take...

Oh, please. I insist.

I'm not worthy, my Queen.

KURIAN: If anyone should have
the honour of the first dose,

it should be you,
don't you think?

If that's what I thought,
Doctor, I would have said it.



LA REINA: Well, then, Doctor?

Do you need some help, Doctor?

No.

(KURIAN WINCES)

Ah...

(GROANS)

Oh, ooh, ooh...

(MOANS)

Ugh! Ugh!

(GRUNTS)

(EXHALES DEEPLY)

- Kill him.
- Wait!

Wait. Wait.

(PANTS)

Wait.

I'm good.

I'm good.

I mean, I'm...l'm fine. (GRUNTS)

(MUMBLES) I'm good,
I'm good. I'm good.

I'm good.

I'm OK.

-L'm fine.
- Test him.

What?

(LOW GROWLING)

KURIAN: What's in that box?

No, no. I have my own test.

-I have...
-(GROWLING)

No, I have... Please!

- I have my own test!
-(SNARLING)

(SCREAMS)

(GASPS AND MOANS)

(GNASHING)

-(PANTS)
- That's enough.

(GROANS)

(MOANS)

He should've turned by now.

I can't believe it.
lt actually worked.

(THEME MUSIC)

SONG: ♪ Have mercy... ♪

(THREE GUNSHOTS)

♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh

♪ Have mercy. ♪

(BREATH ES HEAVILY)

I can see a world
where the humans dominate again.

And it is all
because of one person

whose strength

and courage and loyalty...

Lieutenant Warren.

Because of you,
El Murphy is brought to us.

Because of you, there is hope.

You gave us the future.

And so you must be
honoured next.

- Hm?
-|...

I, uh...

I don't know what to say.

Oh! You don't have
to say anything.

Uh... My Queen, if I may.

Uh, if you will allow me...

Lieutenant Warren. You're right.

I would never have gotten here
without her.

Would you please grant me
the great honour

of giving her
the vaccine myself

and save her life

as she has saved mine
so many times?

Oh! That is a beautiful idea.

I love it! (LAUGHS)

Oh, Doctor!

(CONTINUES LAUGHING)

Don't worry. The sting
will go away in just a second.

Mi Reina, please.
These people are outsiders, gabachos.

You cannot trust them.
You cannot trust her.

Quiet, Hector. You be very careful
with what you say next.

I'm just trying
to protect what I have...

What we have built.
She brought the assassin.

She wants to do you harm, Reina,
and I can prove it.

Just give me more time with him.

(SIGHS) Go.

Go!

(GRUNTS AND GROANS)

This is so unnecessary.

(VASQUEZ PANTS)

You are really
trying my patience now.

(MOANS)

Why were you trying
to kill La Reina?

I wasn't trying to kill her.

Arggh!

-(SPEAKS SPANISH)
- I was trying to kill you.

You came to kill me?

What the hell, guys?

Do you feel OK, Roberta?
ls it working?

She didn't get injected, stupid.

What? Why not?

That's exactly
what I intend to find out.

What is really going on here?

Hey, everybody! Ohh!

I feel strong!
Do you feel strong?

Oh. We must give this strength
to the rest of the world.

Hey, Doctor, Murphy,

you make more of this
miracle vaccine, huh?

We will not rest
until everybody is safe!

I got Murphy.
You guys find Vasquez.

Hey, Roberta!

Mi hermana! Come drink with me.

MURPHY: Kurian...

Kurian?

Kurian!

What is the matter with you?

Well, congratulations.

All those Zeros out there,

all the ones I just
"vaccinated",

they're under your control now.

They're your new army.

Well, then, the plan worked.

No, it didn't.

The plan was not
for me to get injected.

I know.

(LAUGHS)

What...what do you call it?

A poetic turn of events!

(CONTINUES LAUGHING)

- Priceless!
- Not if I can help it.

(SIGHS)

-(THUMPING)
-(VASQUEZ GRUNTS AND MOANS)

(WINCES AND MOANS)

You came to kill me?

I've been looking for you
since day one.

You killed my family.

I kill a lot of people.

My wife...

...and my little girl.

You're gonna have to be
more specific.

I'm Javier Vasquez.

I was DEA pre-Z.

Busted a couple
of your thugs,

and as payback,
you killed my family.

Yeah. Yeah, you said
you'd do me a favour, right?

And then you shot 'em.

My little girl.

My baby.

Julia.

Little yellow dress
with purple flowers.

She thought I could help her.

She thought I could.

All I can hear now
is her screaming...

"crying-

"Please.

-"Daddy, please!"
-Enough!

I should've killed you too.

That explains why you're here,
but what about the rest?

What about Warren?

She didn't know.

- Ohh!
- Don't you lie to me.

She didn't know.

Did she bring you
to kill me?

- Did she bring you to kill me?
-l'm done talking to you!

Then what does
she want with my queen?

What does she want
with my queen?

I'm done talking to you,

you worthless piece
of zombie shit.

You call yourself Escorpion?

You're nothing more
than el bicho.

You will never take anything
from me ever again.

- We'll see. We'll see.
- Hmm?

(GRUNTS)

Put him in the maiden.

Get him out of my face!

(LOW GROWLING)

(THUMPING AND MOANING)

LA REINA: 'Oro Azteca'.

Some Texan paid over $200,000
for this before the apocalypse.

Can you imagine?

My guys took it off of him
at the border.

You know immigrants.
They have to pay their way.

I have been saving it
for a special occasion.

I think this is it,
don't you?

Doesn't get
more special than this.

(LA REINA CHUCKLES)

To the end of the apocalypse

and the return of humankind.

- Hear, hear.
- Mmm...

Mmm!

And to mi amor,

because if he had not died
during the apocalypse,

all of this would not be mine.

It is all part of the plan.

It's part of the blessings
of Santa Muerte.

A blessing in death.

Gonzalo...

He only wanted the power.

(CHUCKLES)

What do you want?

A new world.

Can't hate on that.

What are you doing?

You don't think I'd be stupid enough
to create that mess

without also being able
to make an antidote, do you?

You mean the effects of the serum
don't kick in right away?

No. There's still time for me
to reverse the effects.

- How long is the delay?
- I can't say, actually.

Could be a gradual shift

as different effects
start to manifest.

They won't become your slaves
right away.

They just...

(GRUNTS)

Oops! Did I do that?

(CHUCKLES)

WARREN: What the hell
is wrong with him?

Jesus, Warren.
Give a guy a heart attack.

Really? You could still have
a heart attack?

Actually, that's a good point.

Hey, Dr Mengele.
Can I still have a heart attack?

Answer me.

Maybe. I don't know.

You see what I have to put up with?
Get back to work.

Faster.

Damn it, Murphy. I'm doing it.
Leave me alone.

Hey. Check this out. Thirsty?

(LIQUID POURS)

Good dog.

(SNARLING)

(GROWLING AND THUDDING)

You think
you're better than me?

Think you're somehow
above all this?

I didn't kill anyone
I didn't have to.

Seriously, bro?
We're exactly the same.

-I'm nothing like you.
- Yes, you are.

We come from the same place.

Just a little turn of the wheel,

one step left instead of right

and I'm in there
and you're out here.

Maybe you were some pure altar boy
before the apocalypse.

But what about since then?

At least your wife and daughter,
they died quickly.

They didn't have to see
what this world became.

(GRUNTS)

So, when he injected himself

and La Reina
and all those other Zeros in there,

that wasn't the vaccine?

- Nope.
- Then what was it?

(CHUCKLES) The good doctor here
is building me an army.

- What?!
- Yeah.

So I guess this means
you're not going to California.

Maybe. Maybe not.

But if I do,
it'll be with an army.

A zombie army?

Correction - a blend army,

one that I control.

Mmm.

Because you controlled
Cassandra so well.

OK.

Look on the bright side.

You didn't get injected.

- I didn't let you.
- Yeah.

Why didn't you?

'Cause I like you
just the way you are.

I'm gonna go find the others.

You stay put.

This is a good thing, Warren!

- Back to work.
-(GRUNTS)

- Murphy?
- Yeah, Murphy.

What did he do now?

Conspired with Kurian
to make a fake vaccine

that turns people into
zombie blends that he controls.

Kinda like a zombie slave army?

Exactly
like a zombie slave army.

- Damn!
- ADDY: So...

Zombie slave strippers
weren't enough.

That's the dark side
of ambition.

So all those Zeros,
he controls them?

- Yep.
- So no California?

No. We're still going
to California, all of us.

Absolutely, even if we gotta
take Murphy by force again.

What about
the zombie slave army?

Yeah, well, seems like
there's an incubation period

before he has total control.

We gotta get out of here
before then.

- And then there's Vasquez.
- Gotta get him too.

Are you sure about that, chief?
He damn near got us killed.

He let emotion
get the better of him,

but he'd come
for any of us.

- We can get him.
- My brains, 10K's guns, Doc's...

Dumb luck?

Good karma? Funky mojo?

- We can get him.
- Good. Let's do it.

(GNASHES)

You see this?

November 12, 1973.

That's when the apocalypse
started for me.

I was 12 years old.

My brother Julio was 10.

And he was shot dead
in a drive-by

right in front of me.

I held him in my arms
and I watched him die.

To this day, I can't see my
hands without seeing his blood.

You think the apocalypse
gave you a reason to kill?

Hey, let me tell you
something, brother.

We all got an apocalypse.
You hear me?

We all got an apocalypse.

WOMAN: Jefe. She wants you.

Did you use that vaccine?

Everyone used the vaccine?

I'll be back.

Lucky for you,
there's more to the story.

(KNOCK AT DOOR)

I think he wants you
to go with him.

You think?

Alright, you 90-

I'll meet you at the entrance
of the tunnels in one hour.

Ah! There you are, Roberta.

Now, Hector...

...would you like to tell us

what you found out
about our assassin?

They were all part of it-

a United States military plot
to assassinate you, mi Reina,

and take over our operation.

She was the head of it.

(SCOFFS)

You know he's lying, right?

Yeah, I was a part of the military.
But you know that.

I was a lieutenant
in the National Guard

before the apocalypse.

And, yeah, Murphy?
I guess you can call him a military plot.

But all I ever wanted to do

was get him to a doctor
who could make a vaccine.

And Vasquez?
He wasn't trying to kill you.

All he wanted was revenge

on a man who killed his wife
and his little girl.

And that was you, Hector.

Enough,huh?

This El Murphy,
Kurian, this woman...

If we don't stop 'em,
they will destroy us.

Give me the word
and I will end this threat.

BOTH: I will not tolerate this treatment
of an honoured guest.

This disloyalty to me.

Mi Reina, no.

Mi Reina... Mi Reina, please.

I beg you. You don't know
what you're doing.

BOTH: I know exactly
what I'm doing.

You bruja! You're messing
with La Reina's mind!

I will kill you.
You hear me? I will kill you!

LA REINA: Warren...

...kill him.

Do it. Finish him.
Kill him, Warren.

Kill him!

(MURPHY CHUCKLES)

I won't. It's done.

It's over.

LA REINA:
Are you loyal to me or not?

It's done. Say it.

Fine.

It's done.

Do with him
what you will.

You mother...

They're all teed up.
Ready to take control.

- I don't want any part of this.
-lt's too late.

If you're not part
of the solution,

you're part of the problem.

Pfft.

Take me to Vasquez...

...if you wanna live.

Well...that was exciting.

We're gonna have a lot of fun.

(SNARLING)

Doing OK there, Doctor?

Dr Kurian?

What's wrong with you?
You don't look so good.

- Ahh...
- What's wrong with you?

Stop...

(SNARLS)

- No!
-(ALL SNARL)

No!

Back! Back!

Alright, alright.
You're with me, Doc.

Looks like everybody needs
a booster shot.

- Kill 'em.
- ADDY: Oh, hey, hey, hey!

-10K: No! It's us. It's us.
- And me!

- Oh, man.
-(SNARLING)

ADDY: Oh, God...

(EXCLAIMS IN SPANISH)

Let me guess.

Get back! Murphy's zombie army plan
went horribly wrong?

- Yeah.
- Could be worse.

- Could've gone right.
-ls he in there?

Yeah. Careful.
He's not alone.

-(SNARLING)
- Oh, there!

DOC: There you go.

WARREN: Are you bitten?

No.

(CHUCKLES)

WARREN: Oh!
No, no, no, no, no. Hey, hey!

We're gonna let that thing
take care of him. We gotta go.

This will be a slow
and excruciating death for you,

nothing like you deserve.

Doc.

One little turn of the wheel...

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

WARREN: Think you can
make it out of here?

Yeah, slowly.

Aim for the border.
Let's get Murphy.

(SCREAMING AND THUDDING)

Arggh!

(SNIFFS)

Ah!

(GIBBERS)

No. No. Kurian, no!

No, Kurian. No!

-(PANTS)
- No, Kurian! Bad Kurian!

(GRUNTS)

Ohh, ohh...

MURPHY: You zombie quack.

I should have known
you couldn't pull this off.

-(SLICE!)
- Uh...

(DEFIANT MUSIC)

-(BLADE RINGS)
-(SPLATTERING)

Now you ready
to go to California?

Yes. Fine. California. Whatever.

Just get me out of here.

- Addy!
- Puppy and kitten free.

What? It's my travelling outfit.

You should see the rest
of the closet. Let's go.

Wait. Don't leave me here!
Murphy!

KURIAN: Murphy!

Murphy...

(FOOTSTEPS APPROACH)

- Doctor?
- KURIAN: Yes, yes.

Yes! Down here. Down here.

LA REINA: Where's Murphy?

Escaping-

(WAILING IN DISTANCE)

Murphy! (LAUGHS)

(WAILING)

VASQUEZ: Where is she?

- She'll be here.
- Before those...

What are we calling 'em now?

Yeah. We're gonna need something
to slow 'em down.

(MUFFLED SNARLING)

What better way to fight half zombies
than with full zombies?

I can think of
lots of better ways,

but if this is
all we got...

It's a multi-door release
just like in prisons.

Another story for another time,
grasshopper.

(DOOR RATTLES AND THUDS)

Murphy...

- DOC: It's getting closer.
-(WAILING)

(INHALES) Where are they?

What are you guys doing?
We gotta go!

(WAILING ECHOES)

No way to outrun those things.

We had a plan, except
we couldn't get the doors open.

Open the doors
and let 'em loose?

DOC: Yeah.

Right.

(SNARLING)

"Murphy...
-om

Let your people go-

(MUFFLED SNARLING)

(LOW RUMBLING)

(METAL RATTLES)

Murphy!

Run. Run!

Come on. Get him and run.

(ZOMBIES SNARL)

Get him.

WARREN: We're close! Go, go, go!

Where's Murphy?

He'll come. Go.

Go.

Alright, we'll get to the hatch.
We'll be safe at the ladder.

But we won't go any further
without you!

You let 'em go.

You gave 'em a chance.

(SNARLING IN DISTANCE)

It's not right.

You know?

I know.

Let's go.

WARREN: Come on.

Come on.

(SNARLING)

(SNARLING ECHOES)

WARREN: Move it, Addy! Go!

Yo soy Escorpion.

I don't die. I kill.

No-one disrespects me and lives.

Who wants to die first, huh?

Who wants to die?!

Come on, cabron. Come on!

- I got a shot.
- No.

- He's gonna kill him.
- No, he's gotta do this.

We gotta let him.

(ESCORPION'S VOICE ECHOES)
I'm gonna do you a favour.

(GUNSHOTS)

(YELLS)

ESCORPION: Shit...

Arggh!

(GAGS)

Oh!

(SNARLING)

Arggh!

Ohh! Get off me!

Get off of me!

Get me out of here!

(GRUNTS)

You're gonna pay for this!
Get me out of here!

No!

Get me out!

(ESCORPION GRUNTS
AND GROANS)

(ESCORPION CALLS OUT)

Ohh!

(ESCORPION SCREAMS)

El Camino.

(GROOVY ROCK MUSIC)

(ENGINE SPUTTERS)

(ENGINE REVS)

(ENGINES START)

SONG: ♪ El Camino! ♪

(MOTOR WHIRRS)

(BEEPING AND BUZZING)

♪ El Camino! ♪

Hell, yeah!

(WEAK GNASHING)

(GASPS) It's you.

You...you're alive.

Ohh...!