03x12 - Incandescence

[bunniefuu]

Big Jim: Four weeks ago, an invisible dome crashed down on Chester's Mill, cutting us off from the rest of the world.

The dome has tested our limits, forcing each of us to confront our own personal demons... rage... grief... fear.

My God.

(people exclaiming)

Now, in order to survive, we must battle our most dangerous adversary... the enemy within.

Inside Eva is the queen, who will lead our kinship out of the dome.

Push now!

No!

(grunting)

(crying)

That baby is half mine.

She is my queen.

We need to split the amethyst into seven pieces.

Julia: If the cure works and Joe figures out how to take down the dome, maybe we can all get out of here the same way we came in.

When will the cure be ready for the rest of the town?

When I say it's ready.

Hektor: We have to k*ll them all...

Hunter, Norrie, Joe, Barbie... everyone.

♪ Lullaby and good night ♪

(grunting)

♪ Is baby's wee bed. ♪
♪

I just abandoned my newborn.

You had no choice. The kinship would have k*lled us.

So we should have followed them!

There were a dozen people closing in on us.

We're gonna go back to the day care and figure out our next move.

No.

No, I can't.

Sorry, I got to find her.

Barbie, they are gonna have her hidden, under heavy guard.

This is their new queen.

That's ridiculous!

She's a baby!

She's nobody's queen.

She was conceived and born in three days.

She is my daughter.

She's not human.

Look, I know how you feel...

No, you don't.

You have no idea how I feel.

You're right.

But I do know what we're up against.

And our next move has to be smart.

When I left the day care, Junior was doing well.

He was back to his old self.

So if Hektor's cure works, it can help your baby.

She's the first person we're using this on.

(engine revving)

Lily: Can't sleep either, huh?

My favorite part of the day.

Usually there's no one around to bother me.

I know why you're awake.

Same reason I am.

I heard you make that deal with Hektor.

To k*ll everyone infected with the Life Force.

You don't know what you heard.

You talk to anyone else?

I will if you don't help me stop Hektor.

You obviously don't know who you're talking to.

I worked surveillance on the dome.

I've seen you go all Ted Bundy on people.

I also saw how much you care about this town.

You don't want to do this.

And neither does Hektor.

He seemed all gung ho last night.

Hektor's not a m*rder*r.

He's just desperate because the cure failed.

Well, he needs to grow thicker skin.

I think he'll listen to you, if you explain to him that... losing Junior doesn't have to be the end of all his hard work.

That there's still time to keep trying.

Well, time's the one thing we don't have.

So, what... we give everyone in your town the same homemade doomsday punch?

What, you think a-a pep talk with Hektor's gonna stop him from murdering everyone?

If it doesn't work... then we use force.

(sighs)

If I do this, I'm gonna need something from you.

Get rid of that... surveillance footage you mentioned.

Something like that could get in my way, after the dome comes down.

You're asking me to erase m*rder evidence?

I help you, you help me.

Or... I could tell Hektor about our little chat.

Fine.

I'll erase your file.

And I'll see what I can do to stop Hektor.

That's enough. He's with us.

Thank you.

Dale.

I finally get to meet you. Your father spoke highly of you.

You know, it's funny.

All these years, I thought that it was my dad running a dirty company.

Turns out the real scumbag was you.

Look, I made a lot of mistakes at Aktaion.

That's why I came under the dome... make things right.

Hey. We were afraid you wouldn't find us.

Oh... you only have yourself to blame for that.

You drew us a square on the door.

Only reason we knew to look here was because "paper mill" was next on the list of hideouts.

So, we saw the bodies at the day care. What happened?

The cure, it made Junior go totally aggro.

He k*lled the guards, ran off. That's why we had to move.

Dr. bloom: The virus mutated faster than we predicted.

Instead of extinguishing the Life Force, it may have enhanced some qualities in James Rennie.

So the cure failed.

What happened to the new alien queen?

She landed yet?

My daughter was born yesterday.

Norrie: Where is she?

Is she okay?

Julia: She's... infected.

Christine's troops found us.

They took the baby.

This baby, did it have an umbilical cord?

Yeah, why?

Stem cells contain the purest form of the virus.

Purer than what we've drawn from Christine.

If you can get your hands on that cord, there's still a chance.

Well, consider that done.

All right. Dr. Bloom and I will set up the lab. Come with me.

Is there any way we can help?

Barbie: Yeah, if you've got any ideas on where to find Christine, then sh**t.

The drone we brought in.

Yeah, we could fly it around town, see if we can spot her.

Julia: That's a great idea.

All right, everybody, remember to check in, okay?

It's beautiful.

It's the dome's dying light.

I'm draining what's left of its energy into the baby.

It will hasten the calcification, but without the amethysts, we have no choice.

The new queen has to be cocooned.

No, let me go.

(baby cries)

It's for the baby.

(crying)

Christine...

It's expiring too fast.

If the dome seals up before the queen is ready, the kinship won't make it out of here alive.

(crying)

So this stem cell thing's for real?

We're so close.

We just need a fresh sample of the most recent viral strain.

There's some more lab equipment outside.

Can you go bring it in, please?

Dr. Bloom's enthusiasm is misplaced, as I think you know.

Synthesizing a new formula will take months.

And by that time, the virus will have mutated again.

Aluminum phosphide?

It's a grain fumigant.

I brought it in with us to help preserve the cattle feed.

Conveniently, it's extremely toxic.

And it only takes a few minutes to work.

So you want to poison the infected.

All you have to do is get us access to the food supply.

Look, there might be other options.

I'm the first one that wants to rid the planet of these freaks, but with the dome calcifying, we need their help.

The dome is calcifying?

Yeah, our little magic bubble here is turning to stone.

I mean, it already feels hot as a damn sauna in here.

Pretty soon, no fresh air will get through at all.

We're all going to asphyxiate.

Unless we let the Life Forcers bring down the dome with that device thing they're building.

Which means we let the infected get out.

More importantly, we get out.

It's not like the aliens are gonna run free.

Government's already set up a perimeter manned by your company.

They're gonna work on a cure, and, by then, I'll be in "Timbuk-freakin-tu."

You're welcome to join me, if you'd like.

How long before they finish this device?

Well, shouldn't be more than a couple days.

Conscripted Joe McAlister.

Kid's a pain in the ass, but he's smart as they come.

By the way, you might want to get rid of the special sauce.

You don't want a m*rder rap on your record when we get out.

Trust me.

(liquid pouring)

You're back.

Where have you been? Are you all right?

Big Jim kidnapped me so Aktaion could inject me with some BS cure.

Something made from your DNA.

They injected you with something?

It had no effect.

If anything, the Life Force in me is stronger.

I k*lled two Aktaion guards before I got back here.

I'm relieved to have you back.

We need you for what's coming.

Barbie, as you suspected, regained his humanity.

He kidnapped Eva, held her c*ptive until she gave birth.

Are they safe?

Eva served her purpose.

Her time is done.

What about the baby?

Being prepared to meet her flock.

Sam and I started the cocooning process.

You and Sam?

Shouldn't you be babysitting Joe?

Man: Hey, Sam, need some help out here.

Go.

I'll catch up to you.

(sighs)

(groans, shudders)

What's happening to her?

She's not getting enough oxygen.

Looks like there's a bunch of people who can't breathe. Why?

The energy we used from the dome to cocoon the queen sped up its calcification.

People are feeling the effects.

I feel fine.

Well, the elderly will be hit first.

Their bodies aren't as efficient.

Pretty soon we'll all feel it.

Heart palpitations, motor problems, trouble breathing.

How do we stop it?

We can't.

Unfortunately, it's only going to get worse.

We need to leave the dome sooner than planned, and we have a lot of work to do before then.

Tell me what to do.

You and Sam help the ill into the beds.

I'll meet you back here in an hour.

(groaning with effort)

Thank God.

I was dying here.

The heat is rising as the dome hardens.

I'd say we have 24 hours left before it seals up completely.

You can't be serious.

How close are you to finishing?

Well... these amethysts will work, but now I need to find a replacement for the egg.

Something powerful enough to amplify the tone so the dome can receive them.

And what ideas do you have for replacing the egg?

I don't know.

(sighs)

This is crazy.

I'm a kid.

You are one of the smartest, most inventive people I know.

You wouldn't be here if I didn't believe you could save us.

I-I can't be responsible for whether 2,000 people live or die.

Anyone would be overwhelmed thinking that.

Think of it as saving your girlfriend.

Who you vowed to k*ll.

We're way past that now.

Our priority, like yours, is to get out of here alive.

Can we focus on that?

Only if you promise me that Norrie will be safe when the dome comes down.

You have my word I won't harm Norrie.

Close your eyes.

Like you did in the alternate reality.

The ideas will come.

They always have.

(sighs)

(wry laugh)

I'm so sorry.

I can't imagine how hard this must be, seeing someone you love like this.

I didn't love her.

I never even knew her.

Not the real her.

What do you think happened?

That nursing session was like nothing I've ever seen.

The baby didn't do this.

Got it.

Barbie... look at her eyes.

Barbie: That's hemorrhaging.

She was suffocated.

Who would do this?

It doesn't make any sense.

Why k*ll Eva?

A newborn needs its mother.

So Christine said that everybody serves a purpose.

Eva's was to carry the new queen.

What if once she gave birth, they didn't need her anymore?

I'm not gonna let Christine use my daughter the same way she used me.

I'm gonna find her and I'm gonna k*ll her.

(shutter clicks)

Norrie: It's like watching pre-schoolers cross the street.

Are they always this synchronized?

Even when they're jumping off roofs.

Let's check in on town hall.

We've checked in on town hall, like, three times in the past 20 minutes.

There's nothing happening there.

Let's figure out where these zombies are going.

Maybe they'll lead us to Christine.

What's that?

Something's on the dome.

What the hell is all over it?

I don't know, but I'm gonna find out.

(gasps)

Here you are.

Slow and easy.

Can you tell me where you are?

You're the queen?

That's right.

You're doing just fine.

They're pretty sick.

They're dying.

We all are.

Even healthy hearts are already in panic mode, pumping harder to supply oxygen to our brains.

The kinship won't survive until the dome comes down, not like this.

What if we eliminate competition for air?

Reducing the drain on our oxygen supply ensures that the young and healthy survive to propagate outside the dome.

I have one final task to ask of you before my cycle ends.

It might even inform whom the new queen chooses as her alpha.

Anything, Christine.

Whatever the kinship needs.

Take the elderly to the lake.

Do what needs to be done.

What are you doing here?

Someone could see you.

You knew I'd come back for you.

That's why you hung this on the window, right?

What's the matter?

Something's wrong with the dome, Joe.

I know. It's calcifying.

Christine said we only have a day before the air supply is cut off.

Are we gonna die?

I will get the dome down before then.

I promise.

How?

The transmitter from the radio station, I can use it to amplify the tones for the device.

(sighs) It was the last missing piece, but if it works, then...

Then we'll be sleeping outside the dome tomorrow night.

I'll get a sleeping bag.

(sighs)

I know this little spot, in Westlake Park, no one knows about but me.

Christine's never gonna let you leave.

As soon as you're done helping her...

No. She promised.

We'll both go free.

And you believe her?

As soon as you're done building this, meet me at the old paper mill.

I'll wait for you there.

No, you're not waiting anywhere.

I'm not leaving this dome without you.

Promise me.

I love you.

That counts.

Christine: I will be gone by tomorrow.

A new world is dawning that many in the kinship won't live to see.

You will face challenges when the dome is down, but you'll have my recordings to guide you.

And you'll have your instincts; trust them.

They'll help you find your alpha and tell you how to fight against the others when they arrive.

Our entire race rests on your shoulders.

You are our last hope.

Good luck, my queen.

Any sign of Hektor and me k*lling everybody?

Not yet.

Well, we can stand down.

I convinced the old man that mass extermination will screw up his own chance of survival.

He's not an idiot, but I'll keep an eye on him, just in case.

You wipe my file?

I keep my word.

Proof, buttercup.

Later.

(panting)

Where you been?

I talked to Joe.

He said the dome's gonna be sealed up by tomorrow.

We have to be ready.

(coughs) For what?

Everyone's running out of oxygen.

We're all gonna feel it.

The more we move around and panic, the more oxygen we use up.

We just have to sit tight until Joe finishes that device.

Is he close?

The final piece he needs is at the radio station.

He's on his way there now.

Guys, something's going down at the cement factory.

Norrie: Hey, who is that?

Looks like Christine.

Barbie?

Julia?

Julia: We're on our way back.

We found something on the drone feed.

It looks like Christine's left the cement factory with a ton of guards.

Okay, we got to get over there.

But we have the umbilical cord.

I'll pick up the cord and take it to Bloom.

Old Ridge Road, ten minutes.

(panting)

Move it. You're holding up the line.

Give him a sec.

We don't have a second.

He's sick.

I just want to help the kinship.

I know you do, Arnold. Come here.

Let me help you.

(coughs, sniffs)

Get this right to Dr. Bloom.

We can't have much time before the dome runs out of air.

24 hours.

Norrie's been sneaking out to see Joe.

Kid doesn't finish his device by tomorrow, it's game over.

Barbie: Well, however this thing ends, I'm gonna make sure Christine ain't here to see it.

What she did to my kid... and yours... when you k*ll her, you make sure it ain't quick.

There's no curing these mutants.

Come on, boy, we got work to do.

It's time for the final transfer, for my work to end, and yours to begin.

I give you my Life Force.

(indistinct radio chatter)

(whispering): I think someone's there.

(whispering): All right, I got it.

N-N-No, stop!

Where the hell's my baby?

We are... moments away... from the queen's final transfer.

The queen?

Is my daughter in there?

Stop!

Go! Go, I got her.

(sobs)

Are you... crying?

(cries)

(crying): My God, what have I done?

You destroyed this town and everyone in it.

(sobs)

Where's my kid?

Sh-She was in the cocoon.

I put her there, I swear.

What just came out of there, that thing, did it take her?

Barbie: Where did it go?

Christine: I don't kn...

Where?!

Julia: Barbie, stop.

She's different, look at her.

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

She's playing us.

Tell me where she is, or I will pull this trigger right now.

(whimpering): The thing that came out of the cocoon... I think that is your baby.

Bloom: The two of you were talking about poisoning people.

It was a moment of weakness, never a real plan.

Come on, Bloom, you know me.

Could I do something like that?

You locked Patrick Walters in a pod and told his daughter he was dead.

I have to tell Julia what you're planning.

No, no. H-Hold on.

I can't let you do that.

♪

What happened?

There's blood dripping from the ceiling.

What's that?

No, Lily. Lily...

(gasps)

(gasps) Dr. Bloom?

Oh, God, she was working on a cure, trying to save people, like my dad.

Why would you do this to her?!

I can't let the infected get out in the world.

Dr. Bloom disagreed.

So you m*rder*d her?!

And now you're gonna m*rder the whole town?!

These people are sick.

When we get out of here, the government will quarantine them.

Lily, how can you be so naive?

The government will never admit that an alien Life Force infected U.S. citizens.

Covering that up will be their only agenda.

You saw what this infection did to your father.

We can't let others end up like that, Lily.

You're not gonna k*ll the town.

You're gonna k*ll Joe.

If he doesn't complete the device, then the dome never comes down.

The world will be spared.

Everyone will die.

Us too.

You can't do this, Hektor.

I have to.

I unleashed this plague.

I came back here to try to fix things and... and I failed.

All I can do now is contain the damage.

Not this way.

Joe is innocent.

Everyone under this dome is innocent.

Believe me, what I have to do, it... it breaks my heart.

Barbie: That couldn't have been my daughter.

She's less than a day old.

What'd you do to her?

I'm not sure.

Now, see, you're lying.

If you really were human, you'd remember everything you did while you were infected.

I do.

I know there was a plan and I was following it, I just can't remember what it was.

Wait.

Transferring my knowledge of the Life Force to the new queen was to be my final act... I should be dead.

Okay, so then why the hell are you still alive?!

I don't know!

We interrupted the process.

So the transfer was incomplete.

You should still retain some of the Life Force's agenda, right?

I don't know.

I'm trying, I-I am trying.

Christine: Oh, God, the lake.

We've got to get there now!

Why?

I've done something terrible.

♪

What are you doing?

Sacrificing the elderly wasn't enough.

The effects of oxygen deprivation are worsening.

We have to protect the most fertile members of the Life Force.

In a few years, these kids will be vitally important.

We don't have years.

Christine's cycle is finished.

It's up to us to make sure a strong kinship awaits our new queen.

Help me, or get out of my way.

Lily (muffled): Hunter, Hunter!

Norrie, help!

In the lab!

Norrie: What happened?

Hektor k*lled Dr. Bloom.

He's going after Joe.

He thinks he's saving humanity.

What?

He wants to k*ll the people infected with the Life Force.

Murdering Joe before he finishes the device is the easiest way to do that.

No, we have to stop him.

Where's Big Jim?

Well, he never came back from picking up the cord.

Oh, God.

Hey, what are you doing?

It's Joe.

Lily (over radio): Jim?

Jim, come in.

I don't know what's gonna be waiting for us when the dome comes down, boy, but we are gonna be ready.

Jim, come in. We have a situation.

Hektor k*lled Dr. Bloom and he's on the move.

Where are you?

I'm almost back. What the hell is going on?

Hektor's gonna stop the dome from coming down.

You have to get to the radio station before he kills Joe.

Joe?

Oh, the device.

Damn it.

I didn't think that S.O.B. was loony enough to sacrifice himself.

Norrie's heading there now.

Hey, listen, you and Hunter stay put.

I'll take care of Hektor.

All right, you stay here.

I'll be back.

Careful.

I think what I need is under here.

This is it.

(blows)

The transmitter.

And now, if it's not broken, and the transistors aren't fried, then...

Julia: Oh, my God.

Those are children.

I didn't tell them to do this.

Barbie, wait.

If you go, Junior and Sam will fight back and those kids could get hurt. Let me handle it.

You caused this.

Why should we trust you?

Because they'll listen to me.

You move one inch in the wrong direction and we're coming after you.

If this is all an act, we're just letting her go out there and finish the job.

I don't see how we have any other options.

We just have to wait and see, for the sake of those kids.

Sam: Christine...

This isn't what I instructed.

Junior: You trusted us to do what's best.

We made a judgment call to assure our survival.

These children are our future.

If you can't see that, there's a problem.

Take them back to Town Hall, now.

Perhaps what happened to you at the hands of the Resistance is affecting you more than you care to admit.

I feel fine.

I just wanted to help.

And you can do that by helping Sam take the children back to Town Hall.

Come on, sweetie. Let's go home.

You are not our queen.

Run!

You're human.

I'm so sorry I did this to you.

(grunts)

(gasping)

(grunting)

That little girl almost drowned right in front of me.

But she didn't.

You saved her.

Let's go back to the paper mill.

We'll talk her through what she remembers.

(panting)

...so I'll raise the transmitter's signal until the tones are strong enough for the dome to receive them, and whammo!

Dome unlocked.

Town freed.

It's all Greek to me, kid.

But I like the ending.

(g*nsh*t)

(grunts) Take cover!

Norrie!

Why was Aktaion sh**ting at me?

It's a long story.

We gotta go, Joe.

I wish there was another way.

(g*nsh*t)

(panting): You have to let me do this.

I'm saving the world.

The world's better off without you.

I-I-I ju... I just don't understand.

Christine enslaved most of the town and tried to k*ll us all.

Now-now you're saying that she's a good guy.

Just like that.

How do we know the two of you aren't Life Forcing it up?

I was never cocooned.

I'm human, remember?

I wouldn't have brought Christine here if I thought she was dangerous.

If I wasn't certain she was one of us now.

Barbie: She's here to help us find my daughter.

Is Dr. Bloom still working on the umbilical cord?

When Hektor went after Joe, it wasn't just me who tried to stop him.

Dr. Bloom did, too.

She's dead.

I'm really sorry.

We're exhausted.

Why don't we take a break?

Then we'll regroup and go over everything Christine remembers about the kinship.

Hunter: Yeah.

I know there's no way I can make up for what happened.

I can't believe the things I did.

If you knew me, the real me...

However I can help, I'll do it.

I keep blaming Christine for everything that happened.

But I let her control me.

She pulled the strings... and I marched.

You were manipulated by whatever was in those cocoons.

Both of you.

Other people fought back.

I almost k*lled you.

Yeah, I could say that I was infected... you know? That-that wasn't me doing those things.

But I was in there, somewhere.

And now my child is paying the price for my weakness.

You're back.

You're you.

The man I fell in love with.

And we are gonna figure this out together.

There's still hope.

If Christine can be saved, anyone can.

Christine started out human.

But my baby...

You were right.

Whatever she is... she was never human.

She's a monster.

There's no "coming back" for her.

(sighs)

(sighs heavily)

Eva?

It's you.

You have your father's eyes.

Why are you doing this?

You have something I need.

(grunts)

I'm the queen now.