Zoo (2015–2017): Season 2, Episode 8 - Episode #2.8 - 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.



You cannot exterminate
every animal on the planet

and then repopulate it.

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.

Dariela Marzan,

army ranger.

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...

This sloth was capable
of creating an earthquake

in Costa Rica.

We need that sloth.

Clearly, its switch is turned on

and if I can understand his switch,

I might be able to figure out a way

to keep yours from turning on at all.

That's the first six nucleotides
of the ghost gene.

How could Davies create a gas

that targets a gene
that you can't even find?

He'd have to have somebody
even smarter than me

to figure it out.

What if he was right?

- Who?
- Robert.

What if something in his work

- could keep other people from dying?
- It can't.

- Mom.
- Then why are you bringing

all of this back?

What about me? Does my father

have this ghost gene?

Maybe you didn't inherit the gene.

Maybe your dad

made a synthetic version of it,

and he injected you with it.

The professor's asking about his son.

He's refusing to continue.

Reach out to our asset.

- It's me.
- Is Jackson Oz still on board?

Yeah. You want me to take care of him?

No, sit tight. I'll be in touch.

_

Nope!

All right, get the needle.
Get the needle.

Why didn't the nitrous oxide work?

It froze before it could take effect.

Injection's the only way.

Okay, I got him.

Easy. Hold him tight.

Okay, okay, okay.

Injection's in.

Okay.

Is he unconscious?

Looks like he's getting there.

Damn, that thing is ugly.

Imagine if it made it downtown.

Would have turned South Beach
into the South Pole.

Yeah, I've had enough cold for a while.

So, Logan and I are gonna
take the other SUV.

Sounds good to me.

Wish I could put Logan
in there with you.

Let's go, move!

Everything all right?

It's just my sister.

She's a bit dramatic.

Mom used to call her Chicken Little.

Look outside lately?

The sky's falling.

Do you think that they would miss us

if we just turned back around?

We could go check out
a little beach bar.

I'll buy you a drink.

Are you serious?

Dude, we're kind of in
the middle of something.

Yeah, they got it. Let's just go.

We can't just take off.

Forget I said anything.

Rain check.

First time we captured
a Triple-Helix animal

before it was able

to create an environmental catastrophe.

Local authorities have been notified

in case any more flash-freezing lizards

turn up in Florida.

Well, we're gonna try and have a cure

before they do.

So, what's the last
Triple-whatever animal

that we need to track down?

Triple-Helix.

Try and keep up, genius.

And to answer your question,
I don't know yet.

The rest of these bones,

I could put together
with my eyes closed.

The vulture...

the sloth, the snake.

Lizard.

This last set just doesn't
make any sense.

Gonna take me a while to figure it out.

Are you okay?

Y-Yeah.

I'm fine.

Jackson.

Jackson, are you all right?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Really, I'm fine.

We're going to fix this.

I'm not so sure it can be fixed.

What do you mean?

When Mitch was poking
around inside my head,

I remembered what happened in Boston,

with my father before we left.

The experiments, the fire.

The ghost gene.

Abe, my father...

...injected me with it.

Why?

He must have had a reason.

Maybe he was punishing me.

I don't know what kind of father
does that to their own son.

Jackson.

So you asked me how I'm doing
and the truth is, Abe,

is that I am barely holding on.

It's taking everything I have
to just keep my head straight.

Hey, keeping you in one piece
has always been my job.

Perhaps some things never change.

We got an emergency call

from Allison Shaw. She wants
to talk to Jackson.

Says it's urgent.

Trotter, put her through.

She wants to talk to you.

Alone.

We have to tell Jackson
about his father.

He deserves to know.

But we don't even know
if it is the truth.

Jackson has just
found out that his father

injected him with the ghost gene.

If Robert Oz is alive,

he's the last person
he would want to see.

If we tell Jackson now,

it could break him.

And I fear we would never get him back.

Okay. So what do we do?

We find out if Robert
Oz is, in fact, alive.

Until then, we say nothing
of this to Jackson.

Jackson, there's something
that we need to discuss.

It concerns your mother.

What about her?

She was traveling with a group,

- fleeing Botswana.
- I'm aware.

They were due at a
checkpoint in Mozambique three days ago.

They never made it.

What are you saying?

No one's heard from her or
from anyone in her caravan.

Jackson, your mother's missing.

Okay, we are still on
the ground here in Florida.

It'll be hours be...

Allison, you need to send an IADG team

to find them, now.

Jackson, I'm so sorry, but there's

no one left to send. I wish
that there was something...

No. No, no, no, no. I don't care.

You find someone. You find anyone.

After everything that we have
done for you, don't tell me...

don't tell me that you
can't send a team out there...

What the hell?

Jillion dollars in medical equipment

and we can't afford
to keep the lights on.

Clear.

Target at twelve o'clock.

Copy.

Oh, hello.

Down on your knees, now.

Does that line ever really work for you?

Where is Oz?

Oz?

Oh, the munchkins out
front didn't tell you?

I'll radio the perimeter team.

Find Jackson Oz. Non-lethal rounds.

Davies wants him alive.

Check the top deck.

Listen, there's four of them on board.

There's more
outside. They're here for me.

I know.

They've cut main power,

but we still have control
of the critical systems.

Trotter has sealed
himself in the cockpit.

I've told him to get us airborne,

to stop reinforcements from boarding.

I wish we had more than tranqs.

We'll be fine.

They'll be using rubber bullets
if they want to take you alive.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Shaw said that my mother's
caravan has gone missing.

- Missing?
- Outside Botswana.

We have to get to Africa.

If we let Davies' men take control...

Then it's time to take back our plane.

Over here!

Down! Down!

Ugh!

Brown's been hit.

Tango's on the upper
level. Move to flank.

If they get behind us,

we're finished.

- Unless I hit them first.
- They'll never see it coming.

- Cover me!
- All right, you ready?

- Yes.
- One... two... three!

Abe, go!

Get on the ground, pretty boy.

You wouldn't want to
shoot me this close.

Ruin Davies' prize.

That's not how this works.

I've got the rifle.

Where's Davies?

Where is Davies?

Hello, Jackson.

It's a good thing the
army ranger wasn't here.

She could've complicated things.

Just find Campbell.

Triple-Helix animals,

environmental anomalies,

genomic fossils.

You can't be serious.

You want me to explain
it using smaller words?

That research will lead us to a cure.

When are you going to accept
the fact that there is no cure?

You found your cure once
and it failed. You failed.

The Noah Objective is the only
way to stop the animals now.

Sir, you should see this.

Kovacs.

Poor bastard.

Went from a healer to a monster

in a matter of weeks.

This man right here is proof

that we need to stop
the spread of this mutation

by any means necessary.

Before it happens again.

That's right, I know
you've got the mutation.

What I don't know is how or why.

But I got a whole team of scientists

just waiting to pick
you apart to figure it out.

Okay, Davies.

I'll go with you.

Your men can do whatever you want to me.

Under one condition.

Jackson, no.

My mother and her caravan
are missing outside of Botswana.

No one knows what's
happened. You send a team for help,

and I will tell Trotter
to land this plane right now.

I will walk out of here with you
without a fight, do you hear me?

I sympathize, Jackson, I do,

but I'm afraid your mother
is a lost cause.

Botswana has all but fallen.

So I suggest that you focus on
the people that you can help.

Namely your team.

Because my men are gonna cut
through that cockpit door,

and they are gonna land this aircraft.

And what happens then,
what happens to your team,

is entirely up to you.

Trotter.

Trotter.

The signal's blocked.

Oh, Logan.

Thank God.

Where have you been?

I've been looking for you everywhere.

Davies has some kind of
scrambling device set up.

You can't get anything out.

Well, unless we disable it.

Those are trained killers down there.

And they already have everybody else.

There's no fighting this thing.

We need to go.

What are you talking about?

You and I, we need to jump.

- Together.
- Are you kidding me?

We get out of this plane.

We'll go back to South Beach.

Any beach, okay?

I could buy you a drink.

Just come with me now.

Uh...

I'm not jumping out of a plane.

And I'm not leaving my friends.

You should know that.

Yeah, I do.

The scrambler should
be down by the cockpit.

It'll be patched into the comms.

Okay, just follow me.

But don't say I didn't try.

Miss Campbell.

I was starting to worry we'd lost you.

Nice job, Logan.

- You son of a bitch!
- Jamie...

Ginger's got a mean right.

Jamie,

I tried to give you an out twice.

I thought you would've learned
your lesson in Caraquet.

Why?

Jamie, these days you have
to look out for yourself.

You okay?

You were right, never
should've trusted him.

Hey.

Money's in your account.

Yeah, that seems about right.

You opened the door.

I just walked through.

That's enough!

Come here.

Get them upstairs.

This op's already taken longer
than it should have.

What did you do?

The sloth can tear the plane apart.

Just go with it.

It's okay.

Ouch.

Ow.

Hey!

Could you give me a little help here?

It's supposed to be uncomfortable.

Well, look at these bruises.

They're all over.

Oh, we'll have to confirm that.

Don't you dare touch her.

What are you gonna do
about it, Beastie Boy?

Jamie, look out!

Logan's getting away.

Davies!

Son of a bitch!

Go.

Jamie, where are you going?

To find Logan! The sloth!

Stay with me, Davies.

You and I are going to have
a little conversation

about Robert Oz.

The whole time?

You were working for
Davies the whole time!

Come on, Jamie.

I saw the moment that
you changed in Caraquet.

When you held Gwen's arm
and you wouldn't let her go.

In that moment, you made the choice.

You made the same choice that I made.

That you're gonna
survive in this new world.

Whatever it takes.

Was any of it real?

I'm sorry.

I really did want to
have a drink with you.

Logan, wait.

You're right.

Whatever it takes.

Good luck opening your chute.

Got the power back up.

Comms, too.

Jackson, what is going on over there?

Did you send a rescue
team to find my mother?

No, I told you, we're just
spread too thin right now.

I'm sorry, but...

No, this is not a request, Allison,

this is a demand, okay?

We have General Davies.

What?

General Davies and some hired men

tried to storm our plane and kidnap me.

- But we stopped them.
- You stopped them?

Jackson, do you have any
idea what this could mean?

Allison,

If the IADG wants General Davies
to live through the night,

I expect a rescue team
to have found my mother

by the time we land in Mozambique.

Just think about this

for a second, okay?

You're holding hostages.

You're making demands.

You sound like a terrorist.

If the government finds out you've taken

a four-star general hostage,
you'll be lucky

if all they do is
lock you up in Guantanamo

for the rest of your life.

I guess we'll be sharing a cell.

After the administration discovers that

you've been secretly
funding an operation

in opposition of their
very public embrace

of the Noah Objective,

well, I'm pretty sure that
they'll consider that treason,

don't you think, Allison?

Just so we're clear,
if you go down this path,

you're putting everything
that we do here at risk.

Things will never be the same.

Just find my mother and bring her back.

Abe.

You're really doing this.

Yes, I am.

Has he said anything about Robert Oz?

No.

And I won't.

Even if Robert Oz was still alive,

what use would I have for a lunatic

who can't even get a job
teaching high school biology?

We have it on good authority
that that lunatic

is working for you.

Once a reporter, always a reporter, huh?

Well, there's no story here.

No matter how much you make me bleed.

Everyone talks, given time.

I don't know how much time we have.

Remember the venom dealer in Portugal?

Are you serious?

You said it yourself,
we're short on time.

We need answers. Get the venom.

Venom dealer?

Well, that sounds scary.

So, it never occurred to
you that blackmailing

our only ally in Washington

might not be in the best
interest to the team?

I made a decision. Deal with it.

What are you gonna do if they say no?

You gonna throw Davies off the plane?

Are you actually
crazy enough now to do that?

- You gonna kill him?
- How is this any different from the time

that you offered to turn
the Mother Cell over to Reiden

to save Clementine?

Well, I can think of one big difference.

- Oh, yeah? What's that?
- I didn't go through with it!

That's not even true!

Thinking about
betraying the team and doing it,

not the same thing.

Hey!

What going on up there?

Where's Davies?

He's with Abe. What's the plan?

Great, while you guys figure that out,

I'm gonna go help Abe.

Jackson... I'm done talking.

Me, too.

We got a bigger problem.

Oh.

The lizard could be anywhere.

Which is not good because planes
and ice don't really mix well.

Oh, hey.

Hey, hey.

Is it alive?

Barely.

If this thing dies,

the cure dies with it.

This is the venom of the inland taipan.

Deadliest snake in the world.

You are going to tell us

what we want to know,

or I am going to inject you with it.

Once it enters your bloodstream,

it will feel like

every nerve in your
body is firing at once.

This pain

will only end with antivenom...

or your death.

If I were you, I'd start
talking, General.

Just do it already,
so I don't have to listen

to your endlessly inane clucking.

Very well.

Where is Robert Oz?

Go to hell.

We know about the TX gas.

It's gonna kill 2.2 million people.

It's going to save seven billion.

- It's murder.
- Murder?

The animals are slaughtering us.

What do you call that?

Abe, we got to give him the antivenom.

- No.
- What?

No.

What does Robert Oz
have to do with any of this?

You are going to die

if you don't you answer me.

Where is Robert Oz?

So...

what if I die?

The TX gas will be my... legacy.

He'll-he'll make sure of that.

Who?

Who do you think?

Robert Oz?

He wanted this?

Wa... wanted it?

The gas, the Noah Objective.

Repopulating the planet

with animals

using clean DNA.

It was all... his idea.

- Why?
- Tell us why!

Davies?

Davies!

Abe, give him the antivenom now!

Abe!

He's dead.

Anything?

No.

I'll get the defibrillator.

Hurry. Hurry!

Gonna have to open him up.

See if there's any
internal bleeding. Sure it's safe?

Well, its body temperature
is still within normal range.

Yeah, for now, but happens

when he wakes up and
gets all Mr. Freeze on us?

Unless you want to turn this
plane around and go back...

No, no, no, no, we
have to get to my mother.

Oh, no, no, no.

Crap.

This lizard is our only shot.

And with the new protocol,

His DNA is only good to
us when he's still alive.

- It's Shaw, I have to take this.
- What.. hey...

I can't do this surgery alone!

Which is why I'll be quick.

Where's the defibrillator?

It's out of commission,
so I got the next best thing.

Ants?

A defibrillator delivers
an electric charge

straight to the heart.

So some electrically charged
ants ought to do the trick.

Do we have a choice?

Tell me you have
good news for me, Allison.

A rescue team is en route.

Thank you. Don't thank me.

I had to falsify documents
to a fake crisis

and lie to a decorated colonel.

If your team finds my mother,

then you will get the general
back when we land in Mozambique.

You have my word.

But right now, I don't have
time for this, okay?

We are about to lose an animal
and our only shot at the cure...

Whatever it is,

I need to speak with Davies right now.

I need to make sure
that he's still breathing.

Fine.

Jackson?

What the hell is going on here?

Jackson.

Is he dead? Just for a minute.

Use the ants.

Jackson, what the hell is going on?

Just hold on a second, Allison.

Okay, now what?

I don't know, they
don't have an on/off switch.

We are gonna lose this lizard
unless we... What the?

Is that Mitch? Put him on the phone.

What are you doing?

You put him on the phone now.

Someone wants to talk to you.

Uh...

I need to speak with Davies.

Okay, let me see if I
can wake him up. What?

What's plan B, 'cause it's not working!

What's not working?

It's hard to explain.

And harder to imagine.

Phew.

He's back!

He's back.

You used

the antivenom.

You coward.

The information you hold is far
more valuable than your life.

Lucky for you.

Okay, Allison, you heard Davies.

He's alive.

Now find her.

Jackson?

I don't know what happened here,

and I don't want to, but we've
got a lizard to save.

So, you, you, come with me.

You, stay here with him.

Try not to kill him this time.

I'll try.

Grab that syringe.

Here.

Now, I need you to drain the bladder.

- What?
- I've only got two hands here.

They're both wrist-deep in lizard guts.

Come over here.

See that thing right there,
looks like a little chestnut?

- Yeah.
- Just stick

the needle in there

and pull back on the plunger.

Slowly. All right. There you go.

Beautiful. All right, that's enough.

Well done, doctor.

Hey. I grabbed the de-icer

just in case our friend
decides to wake up.

Hopefully we won't need it.

Okay, tying off the bleeder.

Uh-oh.

Mitch...

That's ice.

- Okay, that's enough. Back off.
- Just give me a second, okay?

I got it.

Mitch, I'm not messing around. Back off.

Jackson, you can't do that.

Okay? You're gonna kill him.

Guys, his body temperature's dropping.

- Mitch, get away from the ta...
- Not now, Jackson!

Ah!

Okay.

- Done. Grab the blanket.
- Go.

Hurry up!

All right.

Here we go.

All right.

I'll get the freezer.

Oh.

Anybody want a cold one?

I'll wager that's the first
time since this started

that an animal
actually saved someone's life.

Keep your mouth shut.

Seriously, how many people

do the animals have to
kill before you wake up?

The animals are sick.

When people are ill,
you take them to the doctor.

And when a dog has rabies,
you put it down.

You don't travel around the world

looking for a magic wand.

You may not like this,

but the Noah Objective is the
only way to protect the people

and save the animals.
Robert Oz said so himself.

I'll believe that when I
hear it come out of his own mouth.

Tell me where he is.

No.

And if you ask me that
question one more time,

when your friend Jackson comes back,

I'm gonna tell him your little secret.

What secret?

That meeting Jackson
in Uwei as a young man

wasn't a coincidence.

That you knew Robert Oz
long before you met his son.

Robert told you that?

Actually, you just did.

You okay?

Yeah, I'm fine.

Did he say anything about Jackson's dad?

He doesn't know anything.

You are going to leave this plane

without what you came for.

Sounds like something
you should worry about,

not me.

If you want Jackson,

you're going to have to go through me.

I killed you once. And
I will gladly do it again.

There's going to come a day very soon

when you'll come looking for me.

Today is not that day, General.

So get the hell off our plane.

Get.

Ah, Allison.

You look beautiful as always.

You look like the dog's dinner.

Your team may have had something
to do with that.

I believe you're confused, General.

That's understandable,

given the stress of surviving
a lion attack.

A lion attack?

You were taken hostage

by a group of extremists
when your convoy was overrun

by lions. Is that so?

It is indeed.

And why would I agree
to any of this nonsense?

Because my staff is assembling
a committee to investigate

this little black-ops mission of yours.

A congressional investigation

would slow the Noah
Objective to a crawl.

Don't you think?

Oh, I think even all your red
tape can't delay this, Allison.

I have the international

support I need to make
the Noah Objective a reality.

We'll see.

Next round of voting is coming up.

I trust you'll be there?

I look forward to it.

Sir.

I trusted you.

You undermined this mission,

this team, and my authority.

Just tell me where my mother is.

The rescue team found her caravan.

It was...

Well, there was some
sort of animal attack.

An aid group is still
looking for survivors.

Take me there.

Oh, man.

It's even worse with the lights on.

Oh, don't worry about this.

I don't know if you've noticed,

but our messes seem to
get magically cleaned up

despite the lack of a crew
on this plane. Drink?

Yeah. Sure.

Well, thanks for...

helping me save the freeze-y
lizard. Well,

yeah, that's kind of what I do.

Jamie Campbell.

Helper of Saving Stuff.

That what you were
trying to do with Logan?

Help save him?

Listen, I don't blame you
for trusting that guy.

Especially when you...
you probably thought you had to.

Stop.

All I'm saying... Just stop.

You don't have a fraction of a clue

what I had to do to survive.

That's true.

Because you haven't really
been sharing, have you?

Well, what difference
would that make, exactly?

I mean, you've been cocooned
in this flying Ritz-Carlton.

You don't have a clue what's
actually happening out there.

True again.

But is it so wrong for me
to want to look out for you?

You don't need to look out for me.

If you want to protect someone,
go be with your daughter.

Wow.

You're gonna make this about Clementine
now, really? No, no.

It's about you.

And me. This, this...

If I don't have a fraction
of a clue about something,

it's what this even is.

Well, yeah, that makes two of us.

Don't worry, I'm sure somebody
will clean it up.

More bodies here.

Did you know these people?

Yes.

They're from Elizabeth's village.

Jackson, these bodies...

they look like the people
Kovacs killed in Patagonia.

- Hujambo.
- Hujambo.

Are there any survivors?

In the med tent over there.

Is there no one else?

I'm sorry.

Jackson.

Dede, have you seen my mother?

Have you seen Elizabeth?

What happened here?

Dede, it's okay.

We were sleeping,

I heard screams of terror.

Everyone was dead.

Elizabeth ran into the woods.

What did this?

Your mother.

She did.

She killed all of them.