Zoo (2015–2017): Season 2, Episode 1 - The Day of the Beast - full transcript

A year ago, the animals
started acting strangely,

but no one noticed...

until they began attacking,

coordinating,

evolving.

The animals were mutating,

and it was happening faster
than anyone expected.

The government came up with a plan.

Thanks to the Noah Objective,

in six to ten years

the world's animal population



will be thriving once again.

Killing the animals?
Play God and repopulate

the planet?

This is ridiculous.

But messing with Mother Nature

could be catastrophic.

So a group of us are trying
to save the animals.

Jackson Oz and Abraham Kenyatta,

animal experts.

Chloe Tousignant,

an intel operative.

Jamie Campbell,

a reporter who's been

following this story, found me,



Mitch Morgan,

a veterinary pathologist.

We thought all hope was lost

when the key to our cure

crashed and burned...

but we were wrong.

I still have it.

I have the leopard, I have the cure.

Now we just have to get to Jamie

and the leopard,
but time is running out.

What's the plan?

There's a boat that
will take us to Jamie.

A boat?

It'll take 18 hours or so,

but, you know, air travel.

Yeah, I'm okay not getting
on a plane for a while.

Hey.

What is that?

You all right?

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's nothing.

It's a dog bite, it's fine.

That needs to be cleaned up.

It doesn't look too good.

Will do.

What the hell?

This doesn't look so good, either.

Any ideas?

I'm open to suggestions.

Yeah, man, get us out of here.

Hold on.

Turn here!

We need to get to Jamie.

And the cure.

We got to keep moving.

If the harbor's anything like this,

the captain won't wait long.

Neither will they.

Abe.

Count to five, light me.

What are you doing?

I'm making a wall. Meet me at

Amelia's office, she'll
get us another car.

Are you out of your mind?

Probably.

Oh, boy.

- Let's go.
- No!

- We can't just leave him.
- He said he'll

meet us at Amelia's office and he will.

- No.
- He's an African

safari guide, I like his

chances way better than ours.

Run, Chloe.

Guys.

Go, go, go!

Help.

Help!

Save my baby.

Please help.

Take her.

I got her.

New arrivals

without family members...

Hey.

Hey, uh, we're-we're here
to see Amelia Sage.

And we're looking for
Chloe Tousignant and Jackson Oz.

Have they checked in yet?

Couldn't tell you, pal,
we're a little busy.

I can't see them anywhere.

The National Guard struggles
to regain control of the city

from the escaped zoo animals.

The death toll continues to rise
with 362 known fatalities

and thousands injured
in what many are calling

the Day of the Beast.

Chloe!

Hey.

Where's Jackson?

We hoped he was here.

Why do you have a baby?

It happened after the hornets.

A mother, she...

sh-she, she didn't survive.

- That's terrible.
- Yeah.

This day's chock-full of terrible.

Hopefully Amelia can salvage it.

Find us a way out of town.

She hasn't

- checked in yet.
- Jackson!

Hey.

What happened to you?

You okay?

Yeah, yeah, I'm fine.

I'm fine.

Rafiki, what happened out there?

Brakes failed.

I had to jump but

fire did the trick.

Scared all the animals away?

Yeah, didn't see
any after the explosion.

Got lucky, I guess.

My friends are coming to get us.

You have a very important job to do.

You know, they are going

to write books about
you, the man who saved

the leopard who saved the world.

I'm going to

make sure that they're translated.

Nawok.

Nawok?

That's... uh, rope?

Hey.

What is it?

Hey, there, little, uh...

little gremlin guy.

How'd you get in here?

You've lost a lot of blood.

Well, then why are you taking more?

- Typing and crossing.
- All right.

You may need a transfusion.

- I'm fine.
- Hey,

she's just trying to help.

I will save you the trouble.

O-negative, I'm a universal donor.

Still got to check, handsome.

You got banged up pretty good.

May have internal bleeding.

And what about his bite?

Keep it clean.

Watch for infection, and

if you're wondering,
just like everyone else,

the animals can't pass
the virus on to humans.

It's not a virus.

Whatever it is, it's not contagious.

You could have been killed.

I wasn't, okay?

And I'm not waiting around

for some ridiculous blood results.

I'm fine.

You're not fine.

None of this is fine.

Chloe, I'm okay.

Everything's okay.

Tell that to the mother of this child

or anyone else who died today.

The sooner we get out of here,

the sooner that we can get to
the leopard and find the cure,

and everything will be okay.

Yes, and what if it isn't?

The mutation has spread to insects.

They were the dispersal method.

Yeah, well, that's
still our best chance.

It's time for a solution
we know will work.

There are over 42 million
species of animal.

Wreaking havoc on the world.

So, you're in favor
of the Noah Objective

now, huh? You want to

call all the animals,

exterminate them, and then repopulate.

- If it means saving lives.
- It is straight up murder.

And what do you call what
happened to this child's mother?

- I call it terrible.
- Huh?

It's terrible.

After everything we've been through,

wasn't there a moment when

you felt that putting a bullet
in them was the right thing?

Hey, Danny and Sandy.

We finally got somebody from
Amelia's office to talk to us.

Guys, this is Eleanor Lewis.

She's with IADG.

Okay. Where's Amelia?

Her motorcade was attacked.

There were no survivors.

It's not just here.

The animals have attacked

Berlin, Moscow, Paris, Hong Kong...

Not to make bad news worse,

but the mutation has
jumped to the insects.

The mosquitoes might not be
able to distribute the cure.

- It's worse than that.
- What do you mean?

There are five species

known to be essential to human survival,

bees, bats, butterflies,
primates and plankton.

We've already lost bats and primates.

Without the insects, the
only thing we have left

on our side is the oh-so-useful
plankton we're losing.

Our only shot is the leopards.

Can you get us another car
so we can make it to the boat?

Okay, that won't be necessary.

I'm sending choppers
and a team to New Brunswick

to get Ms. Campbell and the cure.

I want to see.

This is a military
operation, Dr. Morgan.

No, you need a vet on board.

The cure's in a leopard.

Leopards have a very high
sensitivity to sound.

A chopper's kind of loud.

So if that animal is
not sedated properly...

I'm talking .2 milligrams of diazepam

too much or too
little... then your cure is gonna

wake up and chew
somebody's face off or they're gonna...

Oh, go no further. I get it.

Why do I get the sense your
passion goes past the leopard?

By the way, I'm on that chopper, too.

If he goes, I go.

Well, I suppose you want on as well?

I want to get this child to its father.

I think I can help with that.

You pulled her from an urban transport.

I think I can call the
station to find out

where the mother and
infant were picked up.

Thank you.

Bring Jamie home safe.

President just
declared a state of emergency.

He's starting mandatory evacuations

all across New England.

Mandatory evacuations?

But where will everybody go?

Apparently the
government's setting up safe zones...

Albany, Dover, Portland.

Chopper's on its way.

Did you install those
titanium clamps I asked for

to secure the crate?

Yes, sir.

So you're the ones who figured
out why the animals went crazy.

That would be us.

Didn't think you guys really existed.

Thought you were some urban myth.

So what happens
when we get this leopard?

We use its DNA to make
a cure, fix the animals.

Just like that... wow.

It's an honor to serve alongside you.

Oh, the honor is all ours.

Well, we're still one leopard
short of a cure,

so let's keep the champagne
on ice, okay?

Copy that.

We'll have you in
the air in two minutes.

Wait here.

After everything we've been through,

we're finally going to do this.

We're going to get a cure.

And Jamie.

It's going to be okay.

It's okay.

Just... just stay here.

They're coming for you.

You'll be safe here.

15 minutes out from the
coordinates you gave us.

Copy. Command Five
on the drop right now.

Hey, come and get me!

On your approach,

look lively down there.

Tranqs ready. No live rounds.

We're coming in.

Brace yourselves.

Jamie!

Jamie!

They found a body, male.

No sign of the leopard.

The leopard.

What?

You got him?

We have eyes on the target.

Any sign of the girl?

Negative!

Jamie did this.

Yes, Mitch.

She was here.

She was right here.

Jamie!

Jamie!

- Let's go!
- No, no, there's a woman here.

- We've got to go.
- There's a woman here.

Let's roll.

Everyone fall in line.

Jamie!

We have to go.

- We have to go.
- I am not leaving her here.

She left that rope.

That means she's still alive, okay?

She left the rope so we could
find the leopard, and we did.

- We can't leave her here, okay?
- We can come back

- and find Jamie.
- No, no, no.

No. I'm not... I'm not leaving.

I'm not leaving.

What the hell are you doing?

- I'm not leaving without you.
- I'm not leaving.

Get your hands off me.

I'm taking you back home to...

Come on.

Fall in! Fall in!

We've got to go! Come on!

We can still find her, come on.

We did it to save your life.

We can come back for Jamie.

Hey, keep your head.

Keep your head.

I hate you for this.

She's right over here.

Oh, my God, Bella... Bella.

Hi.

You're okay.

Your wife was very brave.

She saved your daughter's life.

Oh...

Thank you.

Excuse me. You ran
Jackson Oz's blood earlier

for internal bleeding.

Oz.

Oh... here it is.

Can I have his results?

I'm his wife.

You sure this is right?

Yes, ma'am. Ran it myself.

Hello.

Okay, I'll be right there.

Where's Jamie?

Ask him.

There was nothing you could do for her?

- We were surrounded.
- Didn't look for her?

It was not viable.

Can you send a team back up there

- to look for her, immediately?
- Yes. I'm on it.

I need to talk to Eleanor.

Look, I have to tell you something.

I got a copy of your blood tests.

What did they find?

Nothing. You're perfectly healthy.

Okay.

Except your blood...

You said you were a universal
donor, right?

Yeah, I am.

Not anymore.

Uh...

maybe they got it wrong.

Right? Universal donor,
universal recipient...

I got your medical records.

You were born O-negative.

But it changed.

Recently.

The mutation isn't
contagious, all right?

It can't spread to humans. We know that.

Maybe we don't know
as much as we thought.

It's been ten minutes since
we administered the cure.

It took a while for the cure
to work in Zambia, too.

Not this long.

It's not working.

It works.

You're doing it wrong.

You! You did something wrong.

Dr. Morgan, we followed your protocols

to the last detail.

Dog seems to disagree.

Did you verify the viability
of these stem cells?

Measured 89% with 7-AAD dye exclusion.

- Cross-check for contamination?
- Zero ppm detected.

Resuspend at the right temperature.

Obviously.

Well, obviously not. Something's wrong.

You don't have clearance...

Clearance? We didn't fly

around the world for that leopard

so that you textbook hacks
could screw it up.

Hey, what's he gonna do, Doc, huh?

Make it not work more? It's okay.

Easy. Easy, easy.

Good boy.

Just drop.

Come on, just drop.

Just drop!

This baseline heart rate is way higher

than anything we've seen before.

It's like...

it's like the dog's still mutating.

We're too late.

Everything that we've done,

all for nothing.

Total waste!

Wait...

Get your hands off
me, Kenyatta. All right?

Don't touch me,

don't even think about me, all right?

We can find another way!

We will not find another way!

We will not find another way.

This... is over.

I'm done.

Believe me, I'm just as
disappointed as you are.

Whatever was in the leopard

when it cured the dog in Zambia is gone.

- We're starting from scratch.
- It's still there. Okay?

The-the leopard, the cure,
was isolated for three months,

showed no signs of contamination.

The cure didn't change.

Then why didn't it work?

I stayed down there with the dog,

looked through everything,

the cure did not change.

I believe the animals did.

The mutation in the animals
has moved past the Mother Cell.

I'm afraid that we were too late.

I think that the mutation

is still mutating.

Assuming you're right,
what is it you're asking for?

More time.

Okay, time is something
we have fairly little of.

Amelia and I are... were
some of the last IADG members

looking for a non-lethal
solution to the animal problem.

After today's attacks,

the Noah Objective seems unstoppable.

Well, we found a solution once,

we can do it again.

Eleanor...

We will do everything we can

to get ahead of this thing.

All right? That dog...

probably all the animals out there...

are still changing.

Everything that we have seen so far

could just be the
beginning. I've heard this before.

What do you mean?

Dr. Mark Vickers.

Another scientist I'm working with.

How did he put it?

?The initial
mutation is just the preamble.

The main event is coming.?

We need to talk to him.

He's on a research mission in Argentina

with a team of Army Rangers,
searching for an animal

with what he calls a ?phase
two mutation.?

Then Argentina is our next stop.

- Abby?
- No.

- Sarah?
- No.

Michelle?

Mary? Miranda?

Nope, nope, no.

You want to take a guess,
there, Dr. Vickers?

What are we guessing?

Ward's wife is nine months pregnant.

It's a girl, but he won't
tell us the name.

Well, it's your guess.

I've been friends with Ward since Basic.

- I don't need a guess, I know.
- Oh, so he told you.

I didn't tell her zip.
She just thinks she knows.

- Oh, I know!
- What's the name, then?

My boy here's obsessed with
all things Harry Potter,

so I'm gonna go with Hermione!

Is she right, Ward?

Like I said, I didn't tell her zip.

Hermione. Damn old lady name.

I know what I know.

Clear the area.

- Check the river.
- On it.

The animal we're tracking did this?

It would appear that way,

but just to be sure...

Get that side.

Eyes out.

Clear.

Yes.

An animal with a phase two

mutation inflicted these wounds.

We're switching to live ammo.

Whatever did this isn't
going down with tranqs.

What? No, no, no, no, no, no.

Absolutely not.

This-this creature is the key.

It's the pivotal link in
the next phase of the mutation.

It must be captured alive.

The tranquilizers will take it down.

You have orders.

Yeah, to keep you alive.

No, to help me capture this creature.

Or do I need to call Washington?

Stay with tranqs.

Keep your sidearms close.

Staying with tranqs.

Roger that, staying with tranqs.

Let's move out.

We pushed our luck already with
the trip to New Brunswick.

The friendly skies haven't
been so friendly to us.

Hey, don't worry.

Apparently, according to Eleanor,

this plane has been equipped

with some sort of countermeasures.

So, they're going to try and

squeeze us into a fighter jet.

Looks like the skies just
got a whole lot friendlier.

This is your pilot,

Greg Trotter. Greg,
this is Jackson Oz...

- Hey.
- Welcome.

- Abraham Kenyatta...
- Hi, how are you?

- And Chloe Tousignant.
- Hi.

Well, nice meeting y'all.

I'm off to do preflight.

Be in the air in no time.

Enjoy your tour.

The sleeping quarters and
the lounge are upstairs.

You'll have to decide amongst yourselves

who gets the master bedroom.

This kitchen is bigger than

my first apartment.

Vehicle bay is in the tail
and this is the lab.

Eleanor...

whose plane is this?

An interested third party
who has a lot to lose

if the Noah Objective goes forward.

And this third party is
giving us a ride to meet a scientist?

Not giving you a ride,
giving you a plane.

What's the catch?

No catch.

Hey.

That was the first question

I asked, too.

I also asked for

a basketball hoop right up there.

Guess we haven't gotten around
to that one yet, huh?

So, you're back?

I thought you quit.

Well, to be honest, I got
no place else to go...

and I made a deal

with our new pal, Eleanor, here.

She's gonna send a team
to look for Jamie,

and if they can't find
her, she's gonna send another

and another and another
until we do find her.

Right, Eleanor?

As soon as a team becomes available,

I'll dispatch them to New Brunswick.

Eleanor,

thank you, truly.

It's the least I can do.

And thank you for using your leverage.

All right, if I won
all of you in a raffle,

I'd probably give you back
to the guy who won second place.

Although he probably
wouldn't want you, either.

Nor would he want me,

because I've been behaving
like a five-year-old.

As to why we're all being raffled off

in the first place, I can't really...

Look, I'm...

What I'm trying to say is

we don't get to choose our families.

For better, for worse,

we're pretty much family now.

Right?

We've got work to do, so let's do it.

And what is

that work, Eleanor?

Do we have an official assignment?

Stop the mutation.

Oh.

That's all.

Thanks to

aggressive lobbying by Reiden Global,

the IADG is set to vote on the
Noah Objective in six weeks.

If it's approved, there
will be no turning back.

Hang on a second. Reiden Global?

The biotech company that started
this whole animal mess...

they still have a say in this?

They offered a solution,
and people are listening.

The Noah Objective

is not a solution.

- It's murder.
- We're part

of a dwindling few who believe
that. The only way

we're gonna convince the others is

by giving them a viable alternative.

Start in Argentina.

Meet with Dr. Vickers, see
if his work... if this animal

he's hunting can help you.

We don't have much time.

It's clear.

We're good to go.

Okay, we'll bunk here tonight.

Oh, wait. Look, we're so close.

Trail's washed away. Tracker's
on the fritz.

We'll leave at 0500.

Ward, you got first watch.

We now have confirmation
from the IADG that

the rumored cure has failed.

And in light of the attacks
in Washington D.C.,

suburbs all along the
Eastern Seaboard are being evacuated.

Residents are encouraged to take shelter

in the nearest protected city
or government safe zone.

I have the feeling things
are going to get worse

before they get better.

I need a drink.

We got to the safe zone a few hours ago.

But there's a long line
for the computers.

And the food.

And showers.

There's so many people here.

And they all seem... angry.

Yeah, well, people are scared, Clem.

And they're frustrated.

I'm just glad you're safe...
you and your mom.

And... Justin.

How you feeling?

I'm fine.

They took Henry.

Who did?

The people here... in charge.

They put him in the quarantine
with the other pets.

Well, I'm sure they'll take
good care of him, okay? Don't worry.

Do you think they'll let me visit him?

I don't think that's a good idea, kiddo.

Henry's going to be fine.

Okay?

Dad...

when's this going to be over?

Soon.

How do you know?

I know because I'm the one
who's gonna make it over.

Here, check... check this out.

Look at this.

Oh.

See all that?

Would you believe me if I told you

I'm on an airplane right now?

Whoa.

- No way.
- Way.

And I've got everything I need here

to, uh... to fix the animals.

So you don't have
to worry about anything

except for staying safe
and staying healthy, okay?

Okay.

I love you.

I love you, too.

I pulled a few
strings... slightly illegal strings...

and I changed your medical records.

Well, then, uh...

we got nothing to worry about, huh?

We don't have to worry about
anyone else finding out.

We'll keep this between the two of us.

Our little secret.

Our little secret

that what?

My blood's changing?

That I'm changing?

Changing into what?

Yes, that is our current position.

Well, I look forward to their arrival.

Thank you, Ms. Lewis.

A team is en route to join us.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

That mean our tour's extended.

Above your pay grade, Ward.

I need to be home when Hermione is born.

Hermione?

She was right.

I know what I know.

Whatever.

I need to be there.

Yeah, I understand.

Completely.

But if you want what is
best for your daughter,

for your sons, your wives,
we need to stay here.

If we don't succeed here,
you don't have families

to go back to.

Everything will be gone.
Life as we know it will change.

I am talking about the
extinction of the human race.

But we can stop it.

Our work here will
make it so our children

have a future.

They will be able to...

ride bikes and play baseball,

hold our hands when we cross the street.

Look, we may not be
home, but I assure you,

we are on the front lines
of their future.

How many?

Six Rangers and Vickers.

Where was their last checkpoint?

A hostel ten kilometers north.

Okay. Follow us.

No, follow us.

Romi, Augie, flank 'em.

Look out!

They're fast.

Stay back!

Keep your distance!

Hey, there!

This thing between you and Abe,

you got to put it behind you.

You're the team?

We're here to help.

Little late.