Zoo (2015–2017): Season 2, Episode 2 - Caraquet - full transcript

My, God.

What is that?

That killed my entire team.

And Dr. Vickers?

Him, too.

Did Vickers know
what he was looking for?

That the Phase Two animal was a man?

That look like a man to you?

Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey, hey!

Easy, Lara Croft.

You need to stand back.



This thing killed six rangers.

One of them was my best friend.

His first daughter just
about to be born,

so if you think I'm
gonna show this thing

any kindness at all...

- He's dying.
- Good.

He can't get dead enough for me.

Look, we're sorry about your team,

but this man, we haven't seen anything

like him before.

No one has. Lieutenant,

we need to take him back with us, alive,

so lower your weapon.

We have to get him back to the plane.



What about my squad?

I'll put in a
request for a recovery team.

Request?

I'll bury them myself.

There's no time for that.

I'm not asking for permission.

I'll stay and help her bury them.

If that poor man has the same
mutation as the animals,

you have to find out why.

- You see that?
- Yeah.

The scarring looks like...

Yeah. Looks like my arm.

Yeah, I know.

You two want to share with the class?

Yeah, we were just, um,

looking at where you
patched him up, unbelievable.

He heals quick.

Okay, fine, keep your secrets.

I'm more concerned about him.

His heart rate is holding steady at 170.

It's twice what it should be.

Respiration is off the charts
for a human being.

The way he's changing,
the heightened metabolism,

accelerated healing...

We saw that in other animals.

Yeah, mutation made
them better, stronger, right?

Him...

it's like he's...

turning into the perfect predator.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

And do you have any update

- on the compound?
- Not yet,

but I expect to send a team
to look for Jamie soon.

We're just stretched so thin right now.

I-I was lucky

to be able to task the rangers

to accompany Dr. Vickers.

Have you located him?

He's dead. The Phase Two animal
he was chasing killed him

and the rangers, too.

Were you able to secure the animal?

No, there was no sign of
it by the time we arrived.

It took weeks for Vickers
to get this close.

I'd like to keep

the team in Patagonia.

Continue the search.

It's too dangerous

without a military escort.

With all due respect, Eleanor,

just walking out the
front door is a risk these days.

I'll take my chances out here

with the rest of my team.

Fair enough.

Thank you.

Why didn't you tell Eleanor about the...

man we found out there?

He has a Phase Two mutation.
So could you.

If I tell her the truth, he disappears

into a government lab,
and we never see him again.

Chloe, we have to be honest with...

Studying him might be our only
chance to understand this.

There's only one thing that
matters now... finding a cure.

I'm sorry, but I'm
not going to lose you.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, shh.

We don't know what's
going to happen to me.

Well, you saw the scar tissue, Jackson.

You said it yourself.
It's just like your arm.

If we can figure out
what happened to him,

then we can stop it
from happening to you.

His arm looks like it was bitten off.

More like it was gnawed.

Whatever happened, it wasn't fast.

It wasn't clean. It
probably hurt like hell.

Son of a bitch.

Why is this thing still alive?

Okay, so I got a hit
on his fingerprints.

He's a doctor from Hungary
working with the Red Cross.

Janos Kovacs.

Kovacs?

Do you know him?

Yeah. I-I mean, not well,
but we worked the same

refugee camp

in Egypt a few years back.

According to his visa,
he arrived five weeks ago.

Was headed for a village called Ydermo.

Well,

- then that's where we start.
- Don't bother.

My team was there two days
ago. Everyone's dead.

Massacred by

this thing Kovacs turned into.

Well, it's our only lead.

You all are insane.

What if there are more
like him out there?

She has a point.

We don't know what we're walking into.

We should wait until
Mitch has finished his tests,

so we know more about this new mutation.

Why am I not surprised

you want to stay on the plane?

Excuse me?

You heard me.

You know,

sometimes what's out there
is worth the risk.

But if you want to hang
back, take a bubble bath,

that's cool with me.

Just stay out of my way, okay?

- Bubble bath?
- Yes.

This is how, out of anger,

you'd characterize me...
as a man that has

been taking bubble baths since we've

- begun this?
- Metaphorically-speaking, yeah,

I'm comfortable with
that characterization.

Okay, guys, enough. We need

to find the animal
responsible for transferring the mutation.

Lieutenant Marzan, you'll take
Jackson and Abe to Ydermo.

Is that an order? 'Cause I don't
see stripes on your sleeve.

I don't need stripes. I have a plane.

The quicker we get what we need,

the quicker you get back to Sao Paolo.

We're in the valley.

Shouldn't the fauna be more lush?

We humped through here on foot.

It's all like this.

So what's up between
you and the scientist?

We left a member of our team behind.

He blames me.

Is he right to?

What the hell kind of rain is this?

That's not rain.

Trail gets hairy from here on.

We walk the rest of the way on foot.

- I think it's acidic.
- Acid rain?

Probably

explains the dying fauna.

Sure, but how?

Not a lot of sources of chemical
pollution up here.

Look at this.

Is that ice?

It's nowhere near freezing.

Doesn't make sense.

Nothing has since we've arrived.

Stand back!

I said stand back!

Drop your weapon!

I said drop the weapon!

- Drop the weapon!
- Hey, hey!

No habla Español.

No habla Español.

Do you speak English? English?

You.

You take the bodies?

Kovacs... can you hear me?

I don't think he's gonna answer you.

Pretty sure he can't.

His physiology,
biochemistry... it's all changing.

How?

Well, his brain's
only lighting up around

the basal ganglia. It's the most
primitive part of the brain.

It's responsible for our survival,

instinct, aggression.

Conversation, not so much.

But the parts of his brain
that make him human...

they're still there?

Mm-hmm.

It's like they're switched off, though.

And can we switch 'em back on?

Uh, actually, yeah,
there might be a way.

You should use tranqs.

Whatever animal we find
we may need alive.

Yeah, I've had this conversation before.

Not gonna happen.

Is it just me, or are they following us?

When we were here before,
there were more bodies.

- A lot more.
- Tomas,

what happened here?

First, rain like blood.

Poison the water, food.

Then come the Devil.

Kill everyone.

The Devil?

Is he talking about...?

Kovacs.

Hey, Tomas, there was
a man, okay, a doctor.

No.

No doctor. We wait. He no come.

Kovacs never arrived. Rafiki,

does this look like an elephant bite?

It does.

And those look like
the marks on Kovacs' body.

This could lead to the cure.

Could he have been
bitten by an elephant?

- Elephante.
- Elephant?

- In Patagonia?
- Sí.

- Elephante.
- Where?

Come. I show.

This is crazy.

What the hell?!

Unknown caller. Say again. Over.

- Unknown caller. I do not copy.
- Come on!

Not copy! Say again. Over.

Come on. It could just be
interference. Let's go.

This radio operates on my
squad's secure channel.

Only another team radio can access it.

Okay, so where are the other radios?

We buried them along
with the rest of her squad.

Who the hell is this!?

I'm heading back to the hostel.

Look, we have to find
the elephant that bit Kovacs.

Stop calling him that!

That thing is not Kovacs.

I knew Kovacs. He's
long gone. But this...?

If one of my guys is alive,

the last thing I'm doing is
chasing down some elephant.

Look, I was there with you.

I still have the blood and
dirt under my fingernails.

Those men we put under
the ground are dead.

I don't have time for this.

Are you going to give me the keys?

Or am I going to have
to take them from you?

If you don't want

to give her the keys, rafiki,

you can give them to me.

We'll meet you at the main road.

You be careful.

You didn't have to do that for me.

Actually, I did it for him.

You looked pretty
serious about getting the keys.

I'll drive.

Hey. Hey!

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

Officer!

Officer, help.

Officer.

Oh, please, please,
please, please, please.

Oh, come on.

Oh, come on.

No, no, no, no, no, God.

You're okay.

You're okay.

Caraquet.

Caraquet.

Caraquet.

So the plan is to stimulate
the neocortex.

That's the most evolved
part of the brain.

That's the part of the brain

responsible for speech?

More precisely, the part
that makes us human.

Language,

social structure,

self-control, empathy.

Putting the toilet seat down.

All the things we know we should do

to be productive members of society.

All thanks to the neocortex.

Will it hurt him?

No, he'll be fine.

Just a small electronic pulse,

kind of like a static shock.

What?

Is there something
you're not telling me?

Kovacs proves that the mutation

has spread to humans.

Finding a new cure

is more important than ever.

Isabel... bella.

What is that?

I think he's... crying.

- He's crashing.
- What did you do?

I didn't even start the test yet.

- What's happening?
- We've got to cut him loose.

- We can't lose him.
- Turn him over on his side.

He's going to choke.

Come on, over.

If one of my guys is effected,

changed like Kovacs,
I'm putting him down.

End of discussion.

Let's hope it does not come to that.

The body.

This is where we buried Ward.

He's gone.

There are no tracks around the grave.

No signs to say that was dragged out,

or walked away.

It's like he just...

Disappeared.

Trotter?

Trotter, if you can
hear me, stay in the cockpit.

Lock the door.

Screw this.

I think we should go check the bar.

Why?

Well, I don't know,
wasn't alcohol invented

for times like this?

I'm sorry we couldn't find anything.

Ward was going to name
his daughter Hermione.

She's due any day now.

Hermione.

That's a terrible name.

He loved Harry Potter.

She's a character in Harry Potter.

Girl wizard or witch... whatever.

Ward said he wanted that
for his daughter.

That she be a witch?

That she have magic in her.

Magic.

How come you've been
acting so nice to me,

Bubble Bath?

Well, I find, all things considered,

it's easier being nice, than not nice.

Did you see...?

It's Ward's body.

150 yards out.

2:00.

Faster.

Faster, we're losing him!

I see something.

What is that?

Oh, my God.

It looks like they're stockpiling food.

But why?

I don't know.

Vultures are not hoarders.

They eat their fill and move on.

Is that ice?

Dariela, no!

We have to go.

We have to go!

Why did you do that?

For this.

One more step.

Just one more step.

Put your foot in front of the other,

and then repeat.

Like, a million more times.

Just a critter.

Yeah, just a critter

says the woman who saw a
raccoon family eat dinner

on a police officer's chest.

Help me.

Help me.

Come, mira.

Elefante?

Sí.

This way.

Damn.

Isabella...

Kovacs.

, Isabella.

A man couldn't bite off
his own arm to get free...

but a man with the
Phase Two mutation could.

Elefante.

We need to get his blood.

No, no.

No good, no good.

No choice.

Mitch.

He's alive.

Son of a bitch is just toying with us.

Go! Go! Go!

Run!

Damn it.

That was an elephant.

I think it's behind us.

Come on, come on.

Stop!

We got to run.

Come on!

Come on, rafiki!

Go, go, go!

Come on.

Tomas.

Hey! Tomas! Tomas!

Tomas!

No!

Ayúdame!

Oh!

Come on, come on!

Go! Go, go!

Get in the car!

Get in, get in, get in!

Go, go, go!

Come on, Abe, let's get out of here!

How did an African elephant find its way

to Patagonia?

I don't know, Abe.

You want to jump out and ask him?

Get out!

Watch out!

Quick, out of the way!

Go!

Next time you're the bait.

You're welcome.

These aren't working!

We need a new plan.

I have an idea.

You're lucky to be alive.

I'm fine, Doc.

- Abraham.
- Chloe.

Tell Trotter to get
the plane moving now.

- What?
- Now!

Please tell me you're okay to fly.

- I'm always okay to fly.
- Good.

We're good to fly.

Good.

Tell him to start takeoff procedures.

But we're not leaving without you.

You better not.

Open the cargo ramp

and tell Trotter to
be ready to floor it.

Are you... Okay, just don't miss.

I'm out.

Come on, he's gaining on us.

Is that an elephant?

Faster, Abe, faster.

You got this, come on.

Go, go.

- Yeah, come on.
- Come on, it's now or never.

Okay, hold on!

- Faster, come on.
- Abe, faster!

Trotter, go.

We did it!

You scared the hell out of me.

Sorry.

- The name is Logan.
- I'm Jamie.

Logan... use your armpits.

For what?

Tuck your fingers under your armpits.

When your body's freezing,

it focuses all its energy

to keep your vital organs warm,

so your torso stays toasty.

Thanks.

So were you just chilling in the woods,

waiting for someone to scare
the bejeezus out of?

Yeah.

You got me.

I was about to give up, too.

Lucky for me that you came along.

You made it all... worthwhile.

Well, I'm happy to be of service.

Thank you for the coat.

Sure.

Some kind of gentleman

I'm turning out to be, right?

It's the man who's supposed

to give up his coat for the lady.

Not vice versa.

We're gonna die out here, aren't we?

Oh, no.

No, no, no, no, no.

No one's dying out here.

We made it this far,

we're gonna make it the rest of the way.

Rest of the way to what?

Look around, there's nothing out here.

Hey.

See this?

This is where we're going.

There's shelter.

There's hope.

And if we're lucky,

there's a hell of a lot of vodka...

in Caraquet.

There were bodies everywhere.

Stacked like firewood.

Never before have I seen
a wake this large

descend from above the clouds.

What were they doing up there?

I think they were responsible
for the blood rain

that drove the villagers away.

How is that possible?

As much as I hate to admit it...

he's right.

Ran some tests on the rain

while I was waiting for
the results on that, uh,

elephant blood you brought back.

So the vultures are responsible
for the rain?

This blood rain

is highly acidic,

and the protein structure

matches the corrosive bile that vultures

have in their digestive tract.

How did the bile get into the rain?

The frozen feather.

It's cold at 40,000 feet.

The vultures feed, they fly
above the cloud cover.

And that high up,
they can seed the clouds

with acidic bile.

But they were stockpiling human bodies.

So you're saying that...

The red color?

It's blood.

Human blood.

So not only did they
feed on the villagers,

but they poisoned their water supply,

destroyed their crops.

This is a whole new level
aberrant aggressive behavior.

“My dear, sweet Hermione.

I can only pray that
you never have to read this.

That your young life will,
of course, include me.

But if you are reading this,

it is because...”

Well, how about the elephant

blood that I brought back in?

Unremarkable.

We've seen plenty

of animals with the
same mutation, right?

If there was something special
about the elephant,

I could attribute that mutation transfer

to that, but it's...

But it isn't about the elephant.

It's about the man.

So you're saying that there's something

specific about Kovacs' genetic makeup

that made it possible for
the mutation to occur in him.

Yeah, that's what it looks like.

Now, I think it's gonna take

a little time to figure
out what that is exactly.

Fine.

Then you run more tests.

We have him, we have a chance.

We can study him and maybe

learn how to reverse it.

You let that thing loose again?

Dariela, now is not the time.

Instead of putting it
down, you let it loose again...

I'm sorry about your friends,
but they died in the line of duty.

And right now, there's only

one person that matters.

Janos Kovacs.

Stop saying that. That's not him.

Yes, it is.

He's still in there!

No, he's not.