Z Nation (2014–…): Season 4, Episode 11 - Return to Mercy Labs - full transcript
Warren's dream leads the group back to Mercy Labs where she must perform a dangerous task without knowing why.
Previously on Z Nation...
I was the founder and CEO of Mercy Labs.
We were able to stop
the virus from spreading.
But the side effects were too horrible.
Mayday. Mayday. Request
emergency assistance.
We can hear here, but she can't hear us.
What do you want?
I want to see my boy.
- Simon?
- Kaya.
It's your father.
Zona soldiers just attacked
us. They stole files.
All we know is the name
of the label on the files.
- Black Rainbow.
- Black Rainbow is real.
The rain is coming.
Hey, Warren!
We've been walking
south for two weeks now!
Any idea where we're going yet?
Not since you asked me an hour ago!
Give it a rest, Murphy.
You can't rush these things.
It seems like we're going a hell
of a long way based on two words:
Black Rainbow, whatever that is.
It sounds like some kind
of acid from the sixties.
Yeah, well I definitely would've done
a few tabs of that back in the day.
- Apocalyptic trippin.' Hell ya.
- Yeah?
Something tells me Warren's Black
Rainbow ain't the same thing.
No shit.
What do you think those
two have to talk about?
I dunno. Arithmetic and killing?
Well I mean what else
are they gonna talk about?
Politics and movies?
Poor kids got screwed.
No TV. No Internet. No rock n' roll.
No casual teenage sex.
Wouldn't be too sure about that.
- Really?
- Just sayin.'
What was it like being in the Marines?
I'm still a Marine. I
reckon' I'll die as one.
They were my family.
After they rescued
me from my old family.
Gave me something to live
for other than myself.
Still does.
What about you? What keeps
you going, Ten Thousand?
Just trying to get back to my girl.
Red?
Yeah.
I'm hoping she made it to Newmerica.
You know that's back that way, right?
Yeah, well, my dad said that the
shortest route between two points
is never a straight line.
So if Red's alive,
following Warren is gonna get me to her.
Why am I not surprised?
Crap.
Not this place again!
What? What is it?
We've been here before.
Warren?
Why the hell did you lead us back here?
I don't know.
But I intend to find out.
I was afraid she was gonna say that.
Look. I have one word for all of you.
Kracken.
Our man with the plan wasn't just
erasing files and hacking around
for Black Rainbow data.
Rawr!
Give me that, you little rascal.
He also cracked his way into NORAD
looking for nuclear codes
or something worse.
Are you even listening to me?
Yes.
Some evil dude is trying
to destroy the rawrorld!
That doesn't worry you?
I think we're annoying
Mommy. Stay right here.
Yes, of course it matters to me.
But, you're on the case, right?
Hey, the only thing I'm
worried about is you.
And this little human we made.
Rawr!
Okay, well our little
person needs some Vitamin D.
So take your son out for some daylight.
Roger that.
Hey, let's go work on our tans.
So wait.
You weren't just
downloading files from NORAD?
You were uploading files?!
To a top secret sys admin account
for Black Rainbow.
The plot thickens.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you right back.
All right, we should go back to Mommy.
I know. We have to,
though. She's gonna miss us.
- Yeah, I know, I know.
- I wanna stay here.
I know. It was fun, wasn't it?
You know when I was a little boy,
we used to play outside all
day long, even in the winter.
So we'd get on our bikes
and we would ride everywhere.
And we didn't have to wear helmets.
Why?
Because they didn't make us.
Yeah!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
It was a different world.
The only thing we had to worry about
were neighborhood bullies and
the occasional serial killer.
One day I'm gonna find a
place for you to play outside.
And I'm gonna get you that bike.
Of course your mom's gonna
make you wear a helmet.
- You again.
- A puppy.
I need you to run and tell
Mommy about the puppy, okay?
Run straight to Mommy!
Run, little boy! Run!
Hey!
Let's rock 'n roll!
Got a name?
It's Ten Thousand.
But everybody calls me 10K.
Ten Thousand?
That's not a name. That's a number.
That's how many zombies I'm gonna kill.
So what's your name?
Red.
That's not a name. That's a color.
Now!
What in the holy heck happened here?
We tried to help some people.
It didn't work out.
Big ass Z, 3 o'clock!
Kracken!
Save your bullets! He's mercyproofed!
The damn thing's blind. He's
got his helmet on backwards.
Hey, dumb-ass!
Olé!
Hey!
Stop playing with that Kracken!
Now let's suit up.
Just look at exactly
what you want to hit,
and the gear's gonna follow.
Cawww!
Hey.
Suit up. We're waiting on you.
Yeah. Sorry.
Why don't you go ahead,
and we'll see you in there.
Zompocalypse is bad enough
without having memorabilia.
Sorry, kid.
I just wish I knew if
Red was still alive.
Well maybe she'll be
waiting for us in Newmerica.
Wouldn't be the first time
she came back from the dead.
Do you think this is
ever all gonna be over?
Yeah, I don't know, kid.
You know, my brain says no.
Humanity's screwed every way to Sunday
and there's nothing we can do about it.
But my heart says yes.
It will be over someday.
I have no reason to believe that.
But if I didn't, I may as
well just crawl in a hole
and mercy myself.
Thanks, Doc.
I think.
You're welcome.
Take a minute. We'll see you inside.
Warren?
Warren?
You're sure in a hurry for someone
who doesn't know what she's doing.
We need batteries for the radio.
I saw solar panels on the roof.
If any place will have
power, it'll be Teller's lab.
You didn't come all
this way for batteries.
I have the same feeling.
You think Teller had
something to do with this?
The dream?
But how?
Clearly somebody messed with your head.
- Did you bring the radio?
- Yes, right here.
There might be a solar outlet,
maybe a charger back in Teller's lab.
If it's hot, I'll get us on the air.
Yeah, he's coming.
All right, lab's back this way.
Now, Sarge, try not to step
in any of that glowing fungus.
Yeah, it might be somebody's kin folk.
Besides, this goo is nasty.
Warren?
Warren?
Warren?
What the hell were you doing
on an old secure landline?
Logging on to an 80 baud modem?
Picking up emails from the 70's?
No, wait. You were uploading
some kind of run exec file.
Launch codes?
Launch codes for what?
Mama?
Mama.
Why hack your way back to the 80's?
Mama!
Mama?
Puppy!
My hero.
That was so...
efficient.
What is that?
Zombie heart?
Where's JZ?
I sent him back to you.
I told him to run straight to Mommy.
My God! Hurry!
Nana, no.
Where's the puppy?
What happened to Warren and 10K?
They were right behind us.
Well I wish we'd stick together.
Some creepy creepy stuff going
on around here, you know really.
I mean it's... it's creepy.
You mean like this?
I told you.
- What is it?
- Not what.
Who.
This is Teller's wife.
She was infected by one
of their experiments.
You sure this Doctor
Teller's a good guy?
They were trying to
cure the zombie virus.
Instead, this happened.
Thanks, Science.
Where the hell is Warren?
Warren?
What are you doing?
Warren?
It's cool to take these off now?
Seven. Eight.
Three.
Zero.
You really think there's any
juice left after all these years?
This conduit looks like
somebody retrofitted the electric
to bring in power from
that solar on the roof.
If we're lucky, that's been
feeding some of the batteries
that haven't gone bad yet.
Hey, guys. I think I
got something back here.
Now turn your lights off.
See that glow coming from
behind all that stuff?
He's right. Something's got
to be powering that light.
Yeah. Let's move this crap.
There's another lab back here.
What is it?
I dunno. There's something in there,
but the glass is too dirty to see it.
Man, there's a kid in there.
I think I know who's kid this is.
It's Doctor Teller's kid.
Quick, let's drag it out to the
snow before he wakes up again.
- Grab his feet.
- Which end is his feet?
Three. Two. One.
The batteries aren't holding.
Are you sure you want to do that?
Two. Five. Zero. Nine.
It seems like maybe whatever
is locked in there should
stay in there.
One. Two.
Five. Zero.
Down. Down. Right.
Six. Seven.
Warren! Look out!
Warren!
Have mercy.
- What are you doing here?
- I was following you.
What am I doing here?
You were trying to get into that.
I think you were having
one of your vision things.
I need to get in there.
You knew the combination
to all the other locks.
You're on the last one.
I don't remember.
This is Teller's kid.
He told his wife he was dead. But...
he was right here the whole time.
She wants to know about somebody.
Somebody she can't see.
Andrew.
She needs to know.
Where is Andrew?
Who is Andrew?
He was their son.
It's hard being a
parent in the Apocalypse.
What? So like is he frozen in
some kind of suspended animation?
What kind of monster would
leave their kid like that?
Maybe the pain of losing
his kid was too much.
If I could've frozen Lucy,
I might have done it.
This panel controls the
life support for the kid.
I should be able to
divert power for the radio.
Well don't cut off the little
glowing dude's life support.
Don't worry. He's way
beyond life support.
This kid's been dead a long time.
How can you be so sure?
Back in the day, in my blue period,
I used to be able to feel
what the undead were feeling.
But now I have to rely
on more subtle clues like
the giant bullet wound in his head.
Good enough for me. Disconnecting.
What?
Wait. Stop.
Stop. Turn it back on! Turn it back on!
Okay. What's wrong?
He's alive.
This kid's alive.
Okay.
What do we do?
Well we can't just disconnect him.
Well I'm gonna find Warren and 10K
and see if they maybe found
a different power source.
Look for anything from 1982 forward.
Easy peasy.
Russian intercepts 1982 to 1983.
Chemtrail cover stories.
Putin's lovers 1993 to 1994.
Three. Two. One. Go.
Over here. I got her fired up.
Wow. Super high tech, circa 1979.
What are we looking for?
Anything Black Rainbow related.
- Sorry.
- This could take a while.
Warren?
This is just about the time
something jumps out at you.
Hammertime.
Break it down.
I can't do it.
I can't see the numbers.
I'm not in the dream.
Hit me.
- What?
- Hit me.
Sometimes fighting triggers the dream.
Hit me.
Hit me.
Harder.
Hit me.
One. One. One.
Warren, wait! Your mask!
We go now.
Here's something in the list of
black budget defense programs.
Everything's redacted but
the final budget numbers.
You smell just like I remember.
That scent kept me going for two years.
Four point two billion dollars
for a top secret program
called Black Rainbow.
Sounds like a lot of money.
Is that a lot of money for 1982?
I don't know.
I never had any.
That is a lot of money for 1982.
Of course these days it
wouldn't buy you a cup of coffee.
Here's some more docs,
but they're all redacted.
Baby,
can we put the Apocalypse
on hold for a while?
It'll be waiting for us.
Did you miss me?
I ached for you, baby.
Fourth strike weapon?
What the hell is a fourth strike weapon?
Who's left to kill
after the third strike?
We are.
All right.
I'll go pull 1982 and 83.
Anything fourth strike related.
Got it.
I couldn't find them.
What the hell happened to you?
Dude, there's a fungus among us.
There you are.
Where have you been?
Collecting souvenirs.
Well, you were right
about the solar chargers.
But, we also came
across a little surprise.
Who is it?
It's Teller's kid.
Andrew.
We have to get this information
over to Lieutenant Warren.
How's the Cincinnati Kid?
He cheats?
Operation Bitemark has no
idea what they're walking into.
Try scanning the low end
of the military frequencies.
There aren't that many
working radios at this point.
I'll just keep working the dials
until somebody hits me back.
Delta Xray Delta.
Delta Xray Delta. It's
burned into my brain.
Delta Xray Delta!
Nana, will you get him a snack?
Delta Xray Delta.
Calling Delta Xray Delta.
This is KayalnTheSkyA. Over.
Lieutenant Warren, are you there?
I have important information. Over.
Is he alive?
If you can call it that.
Despite having a hole in his head
you could drive a model train through.
I'm sorry.
Is this it?
Is this why Teller sent you here?
No.
This is.
- What the hell are we supposed to do with that?
- I don't know yet!
He should have been mercied.
Maybe Teller thought
he could bring him back.
- Cure him.
- Well sometimes the Zompocalypse
has a way of ruining
the best laid plans.
Right now we... we got to
get power to the transmitter.
Well you're not gonna unplug
the little guy, are you?
I can divert power
from half the batteries.
That should leave him
enough power to stay alive.
Or whatever he is.
Do it.
Delta Xray Delta. This
is Citizen Z. Do you copy?
Delta Xray Delta. This
is Citizen Z. Do you copy?
Murphy?
Doc?
Addy, are you there?
Warren, do you copy?
This is Citizen Z.
We have vital information
regarding Black Rainbow.
Repeat. We have vital information
regarding Black Rainbow.
Delta Xray Delta. This
is Citizen Z. Do you copy?
That's it. Go back.
- Yeah, that's Citizen Z all right.
- Copy you.
Citizen Z, this is Warren. Repeat.
Citizen Z, this is Warren. Do you copy?
Copy you, Warren. This is Citizen Z.
- How are you, Lieutenant?
- We're alive.
Most of us anyway.
Bad signal, low battery. Talk fast.
Okay, I'll get right to it.
Kaya's been drilling
down into deep storage
looking for anything Black Rainbow.
What'd you find?
We had intruders here. Zona soldiers.
They copied all the Black Rainbow files
then wiped the servers.
Dammit. Why?
They also used a secure NSA hardline
to spoof their way into
the NORAD computers.
They logged onto the
administrator account
for a defunct weapons program.
Guess what it was called.
Black Rainbow?
What is Black Rainbow?
You won't believe...
Hello?
We're out of juice.
I need this radio. We need this radio.
Chief, if we take any more
batteries from that kid,
his life support's gonna fail.
What if he can be saved?
My parents left me.
Left me locked in the trunk
of a car, trying to save me.
But they never came back.
Not alive.
I should be dead.
But somebody found me.
We found him. Maybe we're
supposed to save him.
We don't know how to save him.
Well we can't leave him
here for all eternity.
That's exactly what we're gonna do.
But not like that.
His mother's dead over there.
His father's dead on Zona.
No one's coming for him.
He is trapped in amber
like a bug that can't die.
If it were me,
if it were my son,
I'd want mercy.
Sergeant,
sometimes in war,
we have to make hard decisions.
The needs of the many
outweigh the needs of one.
Divert the power to the radio.
That's an order.
- It's okay.
- Sorry.
Go.
I give you mercy.
Do you copy, Citizen Z?
Citizen Z, this is Lieutenant
Warren. Do you copy?
Copy you, Lieutenant
Warren. Loud and clear.
Talk fast. We're losing our charge.
What do you know about
the Black Rainbow?
Zona soldiers hacked
the Black Rainbow files
and then logged into a
server at an air force base
in Quantico, Virginia.
We believe they changed the
launch codes for Black Rainbow.
Launch codes? Launch codes for what?
Black Rainbow is a biological
weapon of mass destruction.
It's a fourth strike weapon
meant to kill anything left
after an allout nuclear war.
The Reset.
That's what Zona was working on.
Killing everything so
that they could start over.
That must be what the Black Rainbow is.
I thought you said
these folks were nice.
Yeah, for billionaires.
You said that they
changed the launch codes.
- Can we change them back?
- Not remotely.
After they changed the code,
they sent the server a
command to disable itself.
We got to stop that launch.
That's what my dream is about.
There is another way
to change the codes.
I found it in a training
manual they missed.
It's a little tricky.
We can handle tricky.
The codes can be changed manually
on the control panel at the launch site.
Well that's gonna be tricky.
That's not the tricky part.
You need the President's thumbprint
to verify you have clearance
to change the codes.
Do you copy? You must
have the thumbprint
of the President of the United States
to change the codes. Do you copy?
Copy.
Over and out.
Looks like
we're going to Washington.
Well at least they'll be together now.
Do you think they care?
No.
But I do.
It's a beautiful sunset.
It's only beautiful if
someone's there to watch it.
I was the founder and CEO of Mercy Labs.
We were able to stop
the virus from spreading.
But the side effects were too horrible.
Mayday. Mayday. Request
emergency assistance.
We can hear here, but she can't hear us.
What do you want?
I want to see my boy.
- Simon?
- Kaya.
It's your father.
Zona soldiers just attacked
us. They stole files.
All we know is the name
of the label on the files.
- Black Rainbow.
- Black Rainbow is real.
The rain is coming.
Hey, Warren!
We've been walking
south for two weeks now!
Any idea where we're going yet?
Not since you asked me an hour ago!
Give it a rest, Murphy.
You can't rush these things.
It seems like we're going a hell
of a long way based on two words:
Black Rainbow, whatever that is.
It sounds like some kind
of acid from the sixties.
Yeah, well I definitely would've done
a few tabs of that back in the day.
- Apocalyptic trippin.' Hell ya.
- Yeah?
Something tells me Warren's Black
Rainbow ain't the same thing.
No shit.
What do you think those
two have to talk about?
I dunno. Arithmetic and killing?
Well I mean what else
are they gonna talk about?
Politics and movies?
Poor kids got screwed.
No TV. No Internet. No rock n' roll.
No casual teenage sex.
Wouldn't be too sure about that.
- Really?
- Just sayin.'
What was it like being in the Marines?
I'm still a Marine. I
reckon' I'll die as one.
They were my family.
After they rescued
me from my old family.
Gave me something to live
for other than myself.
Still does.
What about you? What keeps
you going, Ten Thousand?
Just trying to get back to my girl.
Red?
Yeah.
I'm hoping she made it to Newmerica.
You know that's back that way, right?
Yeah, well, my dad said that the
shortest route between two points
is never a straight line.
So if Red's alive,
following Warren is gonna get me to her.
Why am I not surprised?
Crap.
Not this place again!
What? What is it?
We've been here before.
Warren?
Why the hell did you lead us back here?
I don't know.
But I intend to find out.
I was afraid she was gonna say that.
Look. I have one word for all of you.
Kracken.
Our man with the plan wasn't just
erasing files and hacking around
for Black Rainbow data.
Rawr!
Give me that, you little rascal.
He also cracked his way into NORAD
looking for nuclear codes
or something worse.
Are you even listening to me?
Yes.
Some evil dude is trying
to destroy the rawrorld!
That doesn't worry you?
I think we're annoying
Mommy. Stay right here.
Yes, of course it matters to me.
But, you're on the case, right?
Hey, the only thing I'm
worried about is you.
And this little human we made.
Rawr!
Okay, well our little
person needs some Vitamin D.
So take your son out for some daylight.
Roger that.
Hey, let's go work on our tans.
So wait.
You weren't just
downloading files from NORAD?
You were uploading files?!
To a top secret sys admin account
for Black Rainbow.
The plot thickens.
I love you.
I love you.
I love you right back.
All right, we should go back to Mommy.
I know. We have to,
though. She's gonna miss us.
- Yeah, I know, I know.
- I wanna stay here.
I know. It was fun, wasn't it?
You know when I was a little boy,
we used to play outside all
day long, even in the winter.
So we'd get on our bikes
and we would ride everywhere.
And we didn't have to wear helmets.
Why?
Because they didn't make us.
Yeah!
- Yeah!
- Yeah!
It was a different world.
The only thing we had to worry about
were neighborhood bullies and
the occasional serial killer.
One day I'm gonna find a
place for you to play outside.
And I'm gonna get you that bike.
Of course your mom's gonna
make you wear a helmet.
- You again.
- A puppy.
I need you to run and tell
Mommy about the puppy, okay?
Run straight to Mommy!
Run, little boy! Run!
Hey!
Let's rock 'n roll!
Got a name?
It's Ten Thousand.
But everybody calls me 10K.
Ten Thousand?
That's not a name. That's a number.
That's how many zombies I'm gonna kill.
So what's your name?
Red.
That's not a name. That's a color.
Now!
What in the holy heck happened here?
We tried to help some people.
It didn't work out.
Big ass Z, 3 o'clock!
Kracken!
Save your bullets! He's mercyproofed!
The damn thing's blind. He's
got his helmet on backwards.
Hey, dumb-ass!
Olé!
Hey!
Stop playing with that Kracken!
Now let's suit up.
Just look at exactly
what you want to hit,
and the gear's gonna follow.
Cawww!
Hey.
Suit up. We're waiting on you.
Yeah. Sorry.
Why don't you go ahead,
and we'll see you in there.
Zompocalypse is bad enough
without having memorabilia.
Sorry, kid.
I just wish I knew if
Red was still alive.
Well maybe she'll be
waiting for us in Newmerica.
Wouldn't be the first time
she came back from the dead.
Do you think this is
ever all gonna be over?
Yeah, I don't know, kid.
You know, my brain says no.
Humanity's screwed every way to Sunday
and there's nothing we can do about it.
But my heart says yes.
It will be over someday.
I have no reason to believe that.
But if I didn't, I may as
well just crawl in a hole
and mercy myself.
Thanks, Doc.
I think.
You're welcome.
Take a minute. We'll see you inside.
Warren?
Warren?
You're sure in a hurry for someone
who doesn't know what she's doing.
We need batteries for the radio.
I saw solar panels on the roof.
If any place will have
power, it'll be Teller's lab.
You didn't come all
this way for batteries.
I have the same feeling.
You think Teller had
something to do with this?
The dream?
But how?
Clearly somebody messed with your head.
- Did you bring the radio?
- Yes, right here.
There might be a solar outlet,
maybe a charger back in Teller's lab.
If it's hot, I'll get us on the air.
Yeah, he's coming.
All right, lab's back this way.
Now, Sarge, try not to step
in any of that glowing fungus.
Yeah, it might be somebody's kin folk.
Besides, this goo is nasty.
Warren?
Warren?
Warren?
What the hell were you doing
on an old secure landline?
Logging on to an 80 baud modem?
Picking up emails from the 70's?
No, wait. You were uploading
some kind of run exec file.
Launch codes?
Launch codes for what?
Mama?
Mama.
Why hack your way back to the 80's?
Mama!
Mama?
Puppy!
My hero.
That was so...
efficient.
What is that?
Zombie heart?
Where's JZ?
I sent him back to you.
I told him to run straight to Mommy.
My God! Hurry!
Nana, no.
Where's the puppy?
What happened to Warren and 10K?
They were right behind us.
Well I wish we'd stick together.
Some creepy creepy stuff going
on around here, you know really.
I mean it's... it's creepy.
You mean like this?
I told you.
- What is it?
- Not what.
Who.
This is Teller's wife.
She was infected by one
of their experiments.
You sure this Doctor
Teller's a good guy?
They were trying to
cure the zombie virus.
Instead, this happened.
Thanks, Science.
Where the hell is Warren?
Warren?
What are you doing?
Warren?
It's cool to take these off now?
Seven. Eight.
Three.
Zero.
You really think there's any
juice left after all these years?
This conduit looks like
somebody retrofitted the electric
to bring in power from
that solar on the roof.
If we're lucky, that's been
feeding some of the batteries
that haven't gone bad yet.
Hey, guys. I think I
got something back here.
Now turn your lights off.
See that glow coming from
behind all that stuff?
He's right. Something's got
to be powering that light.
Yeah. Let's move this crap.
There's another lab back here.
What is it?
I dunno. There's something in there,
but the glass is too dirty to see it.
Man, there's a kid in there.
I think I know who's kid this is.
It's Doctor Teller's kid.
Quick, let's drag it out to the
snow before he wakes up again.
- Grab his feet.
- Which end is his feet?
Three. Two. One.
The batteries aren't holding.
Are you sure you want to do that?
Two. Five. Zero. Nine.
It seems like maybe whatever
is locked in there should
stay in there.
One. Two.
Five. Zero.
Down. Down. Right.
Six. Seven.
Warren! Look out!
Warren!
Have mercy.
- What are you doing here?
- I was following you.
What am I doing here?
You were trying to get into that.
I think you were having
one of your vision things.
I need to get in there.
You knew the combination
to all the other locks.
You're on the last one.
I don't remember.
This is Teller's kid.
He told his wife he was dead. But...
he was right here the whole time.
She wants to know about somebody.
Somebody she can't see.
Andrew.
She needs to know.
Where is Andrew?
Who is Andrew?
He was their son.
It's hard being a
parent in the Apocalypse.
What? So like is he frozen in
some kind of suspended animation?
What kind of monster would
leave their kid like that?
Maybe the pain of losing
his kid was too much.
If I could've frozen Lucy,
I might have done it.
This panel controls the
life support for the kid.
I should be able to
divert power for the radio.
Well don't cut off the little
glowing dude's life support.
Don't worry. He's way
beyond life support.
This kid's been dead a long time.
How can you be so sure?
Back in the day, in my blue period,
I used to be able to feel
what the undead were feeling.
But now I have to rely
on more subtle clues like
the giant bullet wound in his head.
Good enough for me. Disconnecting.
What?
Wait. Stop.
Stop. Turn it back on! Turn it back on!
Okay. What's wrong?
He's alive.
This kid's alive.
Okay.
What do we do?
Well we can't just disconnect him.
Well I'm gonna find Warren and 10K
and see if they maybe found
a different power source.
Look for anything from 1982 forward.
Easy peasy.
Russian intercepts 1982 to 1983.
Chemtrail cover stories.
Putin's lovers 1993 to 1994.
Three. Two. One. Go.
Over here. I got her fired up.
Wow. Super high tech, circa 1979.
What are we looking for?
Anything Black Rainbow related.
- Sorry.
- This could take a while.
Warren?
This is just about the time
something jumps out at you.
Hammertime.
Break it down.
I can't do it.
I can't see the numbers.
I'm not in the dream.
Hit me.
- What?
- Hit me.
Sometimes fighting triggers the dream.
Hit me.
Hit me.
Harder.
Hit me.
One. One. One.
Warren, wait! Your mask!
We go now.
Here's something in the list of
black budget defense programs.
Everything's redacted but
the final budget numbers.
You smell just like I remember.
That scent kept me going for two years.
Four point two billion dollars
for a top secret program
called Black Rainbow.
Sounds like a lot of money.
Is that a lot of money for 1982?
I don't know.
I never had any.
That is a lot of money for 1982.
Of course these days it
wouldn't buy you a cup of coffee.
Here's some more docs,
but they're all redacted.
Baby,
can we put the Apocalypse
on hold for a while?
It'll be waiting for us.
Did you miss me?
I ached for you, baby.
Fourth strike weapon?
What the hell is a fourth strike weapon?
Who's left to kill
after the third strike?
We are.
All right.
I'll go pull 1982 and 83.
Anything fourth strike related.
Got it.
I couldn't find them.
What the hell happened to you?
Dude, there's a fungus among us.
There you are.
Where have you been?
Collecting souvenirs.
Well, you were right
about the solar chargers.
But, we also came
across a little surprise.
Who is it?
It's Teller's kid.
Andrew.
We have to get this information
over to Lieutenant Warren.
How's the Cincinnati Kid?
He cheats?
Operation Bitemark has no
idea what they're walking into.
Try scanning the low end
of the military frequencies.
There aren't that many
working radios at this point.
I'll just keep working the dials
until somebody hits me back.
Delta Xray Delta.
Delta Xray Delta. It's
burned into my brain.
Delta Xray Delta!
Nana, will you get him a snack?
Delta Xray Delta.
Calling Delta Xray Delta.
This is KayalnTheSkyA. Over.
Lieutenant Warren, are you there?
I have important information. Over.
Is he alive?
If you can call it that.
Despite having a hole in his head
you could drive a model train through.
I'm sorry.
Is this it?
Is this why Teller sent you here?
No.
This is.
- What the hell are we supposed to do with that?
- I don't know yet!
He should have been mercied.
Maybe Teller thought
he could bring him back.
- Cure him.
- Well sometimes the Zompocalypse
has a way of ruining
the best laid plans.
Right now we... we got to
get power to the transmitter.
Well you're not gonna unplug
the little guy, are you?
I can divert power
from half the batteries.
That should leave him
enough power to stay alive.
Or whatever he is.
Do it.
Delta Xray Delta. This
is Citizen Z. Do you copy?
Delta Xray Delta. This
is Citizen Z. Do you copy?
Murphy?
Doc?
Addy, are you there?
Warren, do you copy?
This is Citizen Z.
We have vital information
regarding Black Rainbow.
Repeat. We have vital information
regarding Black Rainbow.
Delta Xray Delta. This
is Citizen Z. Do you copy?
That's it. Go back.
- Yeah, that's Citizen Z all right.
- Copy you.
Citizen Z, this is Warren. Repeat.
Citizen Z, this is Warren. Do you copy?
Copy you, Warren. This is Citizen Z.
- How are you, Lieutenant?
- We're alive.
Most of us anyway.
Bad signal, low battery. Talk fast.
Okay, I'll get right to it.
Kaya's been drilling
down into deep storage
looking for anything Black Rainbow.
What'd you find?
We had intruders here. Zona soldiers.
They copied all the Black Rainbow files
then wiped the servers.
Dammit. Why?
They also used a secure NSA hardline
to spoof their way into
the NORAD computers.
They logged onto the
administrator account
for a defunct weapons program.
Guess what it was called.
Black Rainbow?
What is Black Rainbow?
You won't believe...
Hello?
We're out of juice.
I need this radio. We need this radio.
Chief, if we take any more
batteries from that kid,
his life support's gonna fail.
What if he can be saved?
My parents left me.
Left me locked in the trunk
of a car, trying to save me.
But they never came back.
Not alive.
I should be dead.
But somebody found me.
We found him. Maybe we're
supposed to save him.
We don't know how to save him.
Well we can't leave him
here for all eternity.
That's exactly what we're gonna do.
But not like that.
His mother's dead over there.
His father's dead on Zona.
No one's coming for him.
He is trapped in amber
like a bug that can't die.
If it were me,
if it were my son,
I'd want mercy.
Sergeant,
sometimes in war,
we have to make hard decisions.
The needs of the many
outweigh the needs of one.
Divert the power to the radio.
That's an order.
- It's okay.
- Sorry.
Go.
I give you mercy.
Do you copy, Citizen Z?
Citizen Z, this is Lieutenant
Warren. Do you copy?
Copy you, Lieutenant
Warren. Loud and clear.
Talk fast. We're losing our charge.
What do you know about
the Black Rainbow?
Zona soldiers hacked
the Black Rainbow files
and then logged into a
server at an air force base
in Quantico, Virginia.
We believe they changed the
launch codes for Black Rainbow.
Launch codes? Launch codes for what?
Black Rainbow is a biological
weapon of mass destruction.
It's a fourth strike weapon
meant to kill anything left
after an allout nuclear war.
The Reset.
That's what Zona was working on.
Killing everything so
that they could start over.
That must be what the Black Rainbow is.
I thought you said
these folks were nice.
Yeah, for billionaires.
You said that they
changed the launch codes.
- Can we change them back?
- Not remotely.
After they changed the code,
they sent the server a
command to disable itself.
We got to stop that launch.
That's what my dream is about.
There is another way
to change the codes.
I found it in a training
manual they missed.
It's a little tricky.
We can handle tricky.
The codes can be changed manually
on the control panel at the launch site.
Well that's gonna be tricky.
That's not the tricky part.
You need the President's thumbprint
to verify you have clearance
to change the codes.
Do you copy? You must
have the thumbprint
of the President of the United States
to change the codes. Do you copy?
Copy.
Over and out.
Looks like
we're going to Washington.
Well at least they'll be together now.
Do you think they care?
No.
But I do.
It's a beautiful sunset.
It's only beautiful if
someone's there to watch it.