Zoo (2015–2017): Season 2, Episode 5 - The Moon and the Star - 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.

Together, we're going to find a cure

for the animals.

Time is running out.



Previously on Zoo...

I compared your blood to
our one-armed friend.

You have the same mutilation.

If I can save you,

I can save the animals.

I'm a dead man. And so
are you if they find out

that we burned their money.

You have something that belongs to us.

Where's my money?

This is how many animals
they expect to eliminate

with the Noah Objective.

So General Davies knows
his big animal solution

will also kill millions of people.

Best chance we have to stop him

is inside the walls of Reiden Global.

Our nations are facing a dark time.

We must stop these animals.

That's the poison.

There will be nothing to vote on

if they can't do the demonstration.

Let's go!

It's been hit. Run!

Jamie, she's in Caraquet.

Chloe!

Chloe!

Damn it.

Chloe!

Warning. Contamination detected.

- Air purification initiated.
- Chloe!

Warning. Contamination detected.

Air purification initiated.

Air purification completed.

Grab her. Come here.

Come here, Chloe. Oh, my God.

Straighten out her legs. Okay, Chloe?

You're okay. You're okay.

- Okay?
- Shh. Chloe?

Hey, hey.

Here we go.

Come on.

Come on. Breathe. Come on.

Come on, babe. Stay with me.

Come on, come on, come on come on.

Oh! Chloe!

Oh, thank God.

Come on.

This way. Corridor B.

Davies. We got to get her out of here.

- Okay.
- Let's go.

_

Antibiotics remain in short supply

throughout the European Union

as the animal uprising continues.

I don't understand.

Why aren't they saying anything about

the leopard or the cure?

- Jamie...
- Just hold on.

The ongoing border dispute...

Hey!

Just let me get this out, okay?

- You don't have to...
- Jamie, I almost got you killed.

I'm glad

that Mason's dead.

You did what you had to do, but...

what happened back there, that's on me.

Sorry that I got you

mixed up in all of this.

Doesn't matter,
let's just get to Caraquet.

Find a phone so I can call my friends.

Why are you slowing down?

I'm not.

Something's wrong.

Do you know what you're doing?

Yeah, I rebuilt my first

carburetor when I was ten.

No!

I know, it's hard to believe
I'm actually good

- for something, but...
- No, look.

This is not possible.

Is that...

Caraquet.

You're fine. You got this,
you're doing great.

You're good.

Trotter's preparing for takeoff.

He said someone's
been trying to contact us

on the plane's secure channel.

Don't answer. Secure
or not, we can't risk

letting Davies know where we are.

Leave.

What?

- Get her out of here, Abe.
- Rafiki...

Get her out of here, Abe!

Come on.

Let's go help Trotter.

Yeah, come on, yeah.

You're doing great.

Come on, come on, you're all right.

- What is that?
- Adrenaline.

Yeah.

She's okay.

She's okay. You got it.

What's going on?

Jamie...

Did you find Jamie? Do you know...

Do you know where she's at?

Caraquet.

Cara... Caraquet.

Jamie's in Caraquet?

Cour... Courier...

Courier?

What's a "courier," baby?

What do you mean "courier?"

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

Come on.

Stay with me, No, you were doing good.

You were doing good.
You're right here, right?

You're right here.

- Mitch, give her another shot.
- I can't.

Her body can't take it.

Then give her something else.

Give her something!

- There's nothing I can do!
- Come on.

Come on, baby, you're doing great.

- Hey.
- But you...

- Hey!
- You had it.

You had it.

Hey.

You're gonna be fine, sweetie.

So the fuel gauge is busted.

We've probably been running on fumes

for the last 30 miles.

What are you doing?

- I'm walking.
- Look, I'm as optimistic

as the next guy, but you saw what I saw.

There's nothing left.

Caraquet's gone.

Fine, stay here.

What?

I just...

I just wanted to say

how sorry I am.

Tell me what happened.

Tell me.

One of Davies' men
shot the gas canister.

It was leaking, so we ran.

I thought Chloe was right behind me.

But there wasn't enough time,
and then the gas, it...

it was spreading, so I...

I had to.

- You had to what?
- Jackson...

Tell me.

What'd you have to do?

What did you have to do?

I had to shut the door.

I had to shut the door,
there was no other choice.

Couldn't have waited three seconds?

I didn't have three seconds.
You weren't there.

I had to make a decision or all of us,

everyone at the reception,
we'd all be lined up beside her.

So you say.

How's your foot?

Foot's fine.

We're almost there.

Jamie, maybe we should go back.

What is that?

Run.

What is that thing?

I don't know.

Let's not find out.

Come on, I'll help you over.

What the hell was that?

This isn't happening.

- Jackson...
- No, uh, it-it's... none of it.

It can't be. I'm...

imagining it.

I'm imagining all of it. I'm...

She was trying to tell
me something, Abe.

What do you mean?

Before she died,

she was trying to tell me something

about "The Courier."

What is "The Courier"?

I don't know, but it
was important to her.

- Oh...
- What the hell's that?

Trotter.

- Trotter!
- It's not me.

Someone else is flying the plane.

What...

what does that mean,

somebody else is flying the plane?

It must be Davies.

- Well, how?
- He must have hacked our plane.

That's the landing gear coming down.

Everyone strap in.

We're landing,
whether we like it or not.

What were you doing out there?

Trying to stay alive.

What the hell's outside the fence?

Where did you come from?

About 40 kilometers south.

Is anyone else with you?

What's up with the interrogation?

You want to take the bass
out of your voice, son,

- or have me knock it out?
- Whoa.

What happened to Caraquet?

The fires. Did the animals do that?

No.

We did.

There's nobody out there.

We're almost at the end of the runway.

- I don't see anything.
- No.

Stuff this in your ears

and cover your eyes when they breach.

- Why?
- Flashbangs.

Two through the door.
Then they come in shooting.

That's what I would do.

Flank the door.

Get behind cover now.

Hit 'em as soon as
they come through that door.

Don't let 'em hit first.

Hold your fire.

Please don't shoot.

That goes double for you.

Who the hell are you?

This could've all been much simpler

if you'd just picked up
on the secure channel.

We installed

an emergency override just in case

I ever needed to take
remote control of my plane.

Your plane?

Yes. Mine.

Hello, Mitch.

Allison.

You two know each other?

She's my stepmom.

I'm Gwen.

You'll have to excuse Curtis.

We don't get many visitors.

Well, what happened here?

Well, Caraquet was overrun
five months ago.

By the time the military arrived,

we'd lost hundreds of people.

They planned to
evacuate us in three weeks.

The first wave included
the injured and infirm.

But the soldiers never came back.

Word is, they all went home

to save their kin
and head for the hills.

We've been on our own ever since.

What about the fires and the smoke?

That's to keep the animals away.

We burn around the clock.

We ran into something out there.

Something big.

To be honest,

most of us haven't been
outside in months.

How do you get food and supplies?

The school was the town's
emergency relief center.

Lucky for us, it was stocked
before the attacks.

So do you have a sat phone? Or a radio?

We don't.

Sorry.

We have a doctor.

Urologist, but, uh,
I'll have him come by

and take a look at your foot.

Oh, thank you.

But first,

get changed.

You will feel better

with some clean clothes and a shower.

You have running water?

And a temperamental water heater.

But the good news is, you're safe.

Welcome to Caraquet.

Let's just start over, shall we?

My name is Allison Shaw.

I'm the Deputy Secretary
of Defense and, yes,

I was married to Mitch's father.

- Somebody else want to talk now?
- I do.

We've been flying around
on your stepmother's plane

and you didn't think to tell us?

Keeping secrets like this...

Mitch had no idea. I made sure of it.

We haven't spoken in...

12 years.

12 years.

So why now,

Allison?

What do you want with us?

Why'd you bring us here?

With Amelia gone and Eleanor gone,

there's fewer of us left.

We need to work together.

We have to.

My family owns

the largest orchard on the West Coast,

and our trees are all dying.

I need your help to stop it.

You just said that
you work for the Pentagon,

so why would you need our help?

Because the government
can't know anything about this.

If Davies finds out

that our food source is threatened,

he'll use it to leverage
additional resources

to the Noah Objective.

You're the only ones that I can trust.

So...

Chloe's dead.

Jamie's in some Canadian...

Wait, Chloe's... Chloe's dead?

What happened?

We disrupted General Davies'
event in Vancouver and...

- I'm sorry.
- Can you just

back that up for a second?

You knew Chloe?

She and Eleanor were the only ones

who knew that I was behind your team.

I've been secretly working

against Davies,

trying to find an alternative

to the Noah Objective.

Well, then, let us go find
that alternative, okay?

Because that's what Chloe wanted.

Please.

I need you to come with
me to my orchard.

You know, we're not
gonna go anywhere with you.

You can keep your stupid plane.

We'll find another way to
get Jamie and find a cure.

What he said.

Did Chloe ever mention "The Courier"?

Yeah.

Yeah, she did, right...

What the hell do you know?

You save my family's orchard,

and this plane is yours, no strings.

And I'll tell you everything.

Hey.

Hey.

How was the shower?

Uh, freezing.

And wonderful.

You're skinnier than I'd imagined.

'Cause of the parka.

It's, like, three sizes too big for you.

Not that I was imagining anything...

I'm gonna stop talking.

Hey.

Where did you get that?

Excuse me?

That sweatshirt.

Why do you have it?

Easy, man.

It's not yours.

Uh, well, Gwen gave it to me...

Is there a problem here?

Yeah, this guy's hassling Jamie

about the sweatshirt that you gave her.

Is that true, David?

I-I'm sorry. I made a mistake.

I... My bad.

What's his problem?

We've been here a long time.

Some have adjusted better than others.

This time of the season,

these branches
should be heavy with fruit,

but everything's stunted.

It's stopped growing.

It's the same story all over the area.

And it's spreading.

Look at this stuff.

What are you?

It looks like glass to me,

so that's what we've been calling it.

It poisons the trees.

Soaks in through the roots.

It's in the soil throughout
the entire property.

I've been working here

half my life and I've never
seen anything like it.

At this rate, we won't produce

a tenth of our normal yield.

Damn.

With no one eating meat anymore,

fruit is more important than ever.

If this continues to spread,

hundreds of thousands
of people will starve.

And you think that an animal
is behind this glass?

Well, it's not plant-based.

And given your work
connecting mutated animals

to environmental events...

If there is a connection, we'll find it.

Then we can get the hell out of here.

Oh, Bill!

Bill!

Well, it's not glass.

Thought that part was obvious.

Right.

But bet you wouldn't have
guessed it's organic.

Cellular structure's

a lot like skin... with, uh,

traces of toxic residue

that are definitely animal-based.

Well, what animal
do you think it's from?

I don't know yet.

But if we're gonna make it to Caraquet,

I better figure that out quick.

Right?

Oh.

You're not here to talk
about toxic glass,

are you?

All right, look.

If you want to talk about Allison...

Last night, when I was saying good-bye

to Chloe, um...

I started crying...

Yeah. Well...

black tears.

They were thick,

almost like oil.

Anybody see this?

No.

You're displaying the
same symptomology as Kovacs.

Right before he escaped,

I saw the same thing.
It was black tears.

So what does that mean,
that I'm progressing?

I'm one step closer to him?

Okay, I get it. It's your plane.

You've got to learn to knock.

Not now, Mitch.

Please, it's Bill. You have to help him.

He's in here.

What's wrong with him?

Help him!

Bill, hey. Look at me. Can you speak?

Try Dr. Miller again. Hurry.

Can you speak?

No.

Whoa!

Bill?

Is that the stuff from the orchard?

Bill?

Mitch?

Help him, for God's sake!

We gotta pull it out.

Hold him.

We got to pull it out! Go, grab it!

God!

Bill?

Bill?

I keep seeing her face
through the glass.

When I turned back,
Chloe wasn't behind me.

Just a wall of gas.

I didn't want to close that door.

But I did.

And then her face was there.

I'm sorry.

But when I look at you now,

all I see is the fact that
Chloe is no longer with us.

And I have to live with that.

You get the feeling like
we're the new kids in school?

Yeah, except all the teachers are freaks

and the students are weirdos.

I'd stay away

from the mashed potatoes.

Uh, they look good to me.

Looks can be deceiving.

They-they make 'em with rutabaga.

There's a lot of

rutabaga up here.

Um...

- Ooh.
- Oh...

crap, I'm so sorry.

Don't worry about it.

Run.

What?

First chance you get, run.

Maddie.

What happened here?

Clumsy me.

I, uh...

I swear my hands are still
numb from the cold.

Can you get Jamie another plate?

Sure thing, Curtis.

Clean this up, will you?

Sorry.

At least now we know
it's poisoning the trees.

That stuff he threw up, the glass,

same stuff we saw in the orchard.

Snake shed it like

molted skin.

Given the amount of
glass we saw in the orchard,

there must be thousands of snakes.

So where are all the snakes hiding?

Snake came in through the toilet, right?

It certainly looks like it.

I think I got an idea.

This is the aquifer that runs
underneath your property.

It supplies water to

all the farms in the county.
My thought is that

the snakes are shedding
their toxic glass

directly into your farm's water supply.

What about the drinking water?

The county draws it from
the river, so at least

we don't have to worry about

- contamination.
- But we do. Your aquifer

feeds into tons of
other public water sources

for hundreds of miles.

Your farm is only the beginning.

So these snakes, they're
going to poison the entire

- Pacific Northwest.
- Countless

innocent people are gonna
be drinking poison

directly from their kitchen
sinks unless we do something.

So how do we stop it?

Poison them.

Before they poison us.

Hey.

You shouldn't be back here.

Why did you tell us to run?

'Cause you're gonna end up
outside the fence anyway.

Might as well have a chance.

What are you talking about?

Tonight is another vote.

Vote?

Yeah.

What are they voting on?

The feeding.

"The feeding?"

- What the hell is that?
- You'll find out

soon enough.

I'm disappointed, Maddie.

No!

- Hey, hey. No.
- No!

Glad to see you still
have some fight in you.

You're gonna need it.

Both of you.

Just tell me how it will work.

I'd rather not.

Mitch, you are using my lab

to make a poison that
you want to dump into

the water supply, so
just lose the misunderstood

misanthrope act and tell
me how it will work,

or I will shut it down.

I've never known

anybody who threatens to take their

ball away and go home more than you do.

Mom.

I would've thought by now you
wouldn't let personal issues

get in the way of, well, saving the world.
- Personal?

You made it personal.

We were finally on
our way to go get Jamie.

You come and yank us out of the air.

Damn it, Mitch, I brought you here.

I gave you this lab, this plane,

because I believe in you.

Eleanor sent me dozens of alternatives

to the Noah Objective.

I passed on all of them
until I saw your name.

All of this is because I know
you better than anyone.

You're the best at what you
do, you just needed someone

to back you up.

So tell me, did I
bet on the right horse?

The vomeronasal organ.

Also known as Jacobson's organ.

It's a sort of...

primitive olfactory receptor.

It sits in front of the brain.

When a snake flicks its tongue,

it's gathering particles to process

through its Jacobson's organ.

This formula,

when ingested, will cause
that organ to swell.

Till it presses against the brain,

shutting off all the snake's...

bodily functions.

How do we know that
it won't hurt humans?

We good?

Yeah.

- 'Cause I got to make a whole
bunch of this stuff. - Mm-hmm.

Oh, my God.

Uh... we got a problem in here.

Are you okay?

Oh.

Uh, for the moment.

Where's the poison?

Einstein over here drank it.

You did what?

I was making a point.

I'll get the tranqs.

I got this.

Jackson...

Easy. Easy.

You sure you want to do this?

Easy.

Rafiki.

My God.

Rafiki, how did you... We should talk.

Give me the formula

for the poison.

I'll have my guy start synthesizing it.

And then we can leave for Caraquet?

- Yes we can.
- "We?"

You can explain on the way.

Tomorrow another feeding is upon us.

So, tonight we vote.

Why do we have to vote?

Can't we just feed
those two to the animals?

We all agreed to abide by the vote.

You don't have to do this.

Help is coming.

I wish that were true.

But we've all learned

that we need to help ourselves.

We guarantee the safety of the many

with the sacrifice of a few.

Do you really think that
you've made some kind of deal

with what's out there?

We do.

How else to explain
that we're still here?

Since we began the feedings,
we've had no unexpected attacks.

Which is why

it must continue.

Let's just vote, Gwen.

Okay.

Nominations.

I nominate the girl.

Jamie.

Wait a minute.

I'll go with Jamie.

Any seconds?

Aye.

We need another.

I nominate Maddie.

No.

She's just a child.

Who's subject to the vote
like everyone else here.

Any seconds?

- Aye.
- No!

Just take me!

No, that's okay.

I'd rather be eaten by wild goats

then spend another second

- with you monsters.
- Jamie

and Maddie.

All in favor.

Aye.

Opposed.

You people, you're crazy!

Enough.

It's been decided.

Tomorrow morning...

this month's feeding will commence.

My mom used to teach here.

Art.

She was a total hippie.

Always wanted to teach children
the beauty in the world.

What happened to her?

Instead, it was the animals.

I'm sorry.

Yeah.

It's probably better
she never saw any of this.

There's nothing beautiful
left in Caraquet.

Well, Caraquet... the world...

is not what it used to be.

But you cannot give up.

There's nothing we can do.

The Feeding's in a few hours. I mean...

Don't be so sure.

Why did you not tell us this before?

I wanted to.

Chloe and I shut it down.

- But why?
- What if he goes berserk

and starts attacking people,

- like Kovacs did?
- She's right.

Is it even safe for Jackson to be here?

Well, like it or not, I have to be,

because without me, you have no cure.

All right.

There's something you all should see.

This is the DNA molecule

we all came to know and love
in high school biology.

Double helix.

Two strands of genetic information,

elegantly entwined together.

This...

is what Jackson's DNA looks like.

The mutation has caused it
to develop a third strand.

A Triple-Helix?

And this structure
isn't unique to just Jackson.

He shares it

with the vultures, the ants, the sloth,

- the snakes.
- So...

tell us about the cure.

Okay. Well, Jackson is the key.

Because this Triple-Helix structure

isn't the only thing his DNA
shares with these animals.

They also share genomic fossils.

Extinct genes.

Genetic instructions that were silenced

millions of years ago,
thought to be non-functional

until now.

If you think of the rungs on a ladder,

each rung contains

genomic fossils from a different animal.

If I can identify each one,

and its animal source,

I should be able to come up with a cure

and reverse the mutation.

You already know four, right?

And they all check out.

So that leaves us three more animals

to identify and capture.

Once we've identified

all seven genomic fossils,

I should be able to eliminate
that third strand.

Sounds like you got your work

cut out for you.

We could use your help.

Be good to have you with us on the team.

What do you say?

Copy that.

Nice pep rally in there.

Wasn't a pep rally.

It's, uh, it's the truth.

I'm glad you're gonna stay with us.

I know you are.

But you don't want me on the team

because of the way I make
blueberry pancakes

or to borrow my hip-hop mix tape.

You want me here

to put a bullet in your head

if you end up like Kovacs.

That's right.

Mitch, Abe... they won't be able to.

- But I can. Because...
- Yeah.

Because I shut the door on Chloe.

Maybe you're right.

Maybe I did have three seconds.

Maybe not.

I hesitated.

Maybe if I hesitated more,

Chloe would be alive.

But you...

you go sideways,

like the monster that killed my friends?

I won't hesitate.

That's a promise.

He's so cute.

Oh, yes.

Can I touch him?

Absolutely, madam.

You know, I think he wants
you to have this.

Oh, does he?

Ah, yes, madam.

This is the symbol Osram Ne Nsoroma.

It means "the moon and the star."

Love. Harmony.

Harmony.

I think we could all use

a little bit more harmony, you know?

How are you doing?

Thanks.

Chloe never stopped believing
that she could fix this.

It's all she wanted.

It's what she died for.

And she's never gonna be able to see it.

I remember when I was a little boy,

at my grandmother's funeral.

When all the mourners sang,

I asked my papa

"What's the point of singing these songs

if Grandma cannot hear it?"

What did he say?

He said the songs are not sung

for those we sing to,

but for the singer.

I want to see that world again, Abe.

You will.

To Chloe.

To Chloe.

Jamie!

Hey.

- Hey, whoa!
- Stop it!

Can I at least say good-bye?

Go ahead.

Gwen!

Please, please, please!
This isn't fair, please...

I will do anything!
Please, I will do anything!

Take this.

Throw it in one of
the barrels by the fence.

Gwen, please! No!

- This isn't fair! This isn't...
- Let's go.

- Please!
- Unlock it!

Open the gate!

No!

Help!

Stop!

No!

No! Stop!

Stop!

We're not done here.

I think we are.

Did it work?

I hope so.

- Are you okay?
- Yeah.

The bus.

See if you can find the key.

Let me in!

Jamie, let me...

Jamie, please, please!

No.

Jamie!

Let go!

- Take Maddie out the back.
- Where are you going?

I'm gonna draw 'em the other way.

What? Like hell you are.

I brought you to Caraquet,

and I'm gonna get you out.

Go.

Hey!

How many people are in the school?

Oh, my God.