04x01 - In Medias Res

[bunniefuu]

[Motor Rumbling]

- [Birds Chirping]

[Engine Turns Off]

♪

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It's beautiful, yes?

Just like I promised.

Go ahead. Test it.

There are others just
like it, ready for delivery.

[Indistinct Conversations]

[Device Beeps]

[Man Speaking Arabic] _

[Speaking Arabic] _

All over the planet, crops are sick.

No one can grow food.

- The people starve to death.
- [Beep]

And the one ancient African Palm seed

has the secret to feed the whole world

locked inside its DNA. [Chuckles]

It's funny, no?

I didn't know you were
such a scientist, Mahmoud.

Ah. I am a thief, but I know business.

And I know the seed's value.

[Beeps]

Everyone wants what Omar
stole from the seed bank.

And you work for Omar.

Why'd you steal from him?

I don't trust Omar. It's
a, uh, it's a tribal thing.

Besides, Mr. Fletcher here
has made me a better offer.

Okay, Mahmoud, we have a deal.

BURK: Vulture team, it's
a go. Get ready to move.

Green, check.

- Taylor, check.
- Miller, check.

Where are the rest of the seeds?

Someplace dear to my heart.

- But first, we negotiate.
- No. No, no, no, no, no.

We already negotiated.

Omar's buyer is ready
to grow food today.

Who is Omar's buyer?

- Ah.
- Mahmoud.

To hell with Omar.

I'm thinking about Mahmoud.

Hold tight. Looks like they're haggling.

MAHMOUD: They will do what
they did with the blue cure, eh?

Feed your own people first.

America, U.K.

What do you want, Mahmoud?

[g*nsh*t]

[Shoppers Screaming]

Contact, o'clock!

[Rapid g*nf*re]

- Stay with me, Mahmoud!
- [Grunts]

Mother, this is Vulture!
We are under att*ck!

Say again, multiple attackers!

Commencing an emergency exfil!

Copy all, Vulture. Master Chief?

SCAT team and lookouts
are manned and ready.

- Gator?
- Sir, recommend course - -

to position us for ground
cover and RHIB recovery.

Very well. Helm, come to
course - - . All ahead flank.

- Helm, aye. Turning to - - , all ahead flank.
- CIC, notify GFS and exfil teams.

Move RHIB to Exfil Bravo.
Beware of hostile g*nf*re.

You see anything above
or below the water?

Negative. Zero contacts.

Sunshine, Mother, you're clear.

Stay low and head to
Exfil Alpha now. Over.

This is Sunshine. Two
minutes from Exfil.

- It's go time, Nolan.
- Copy that.

[g*nf*re Continues]

[Pottery Shatters]

[Grunting]

- [Barking]
- [g*nsh*t]

[Grunting]

- DANNY: Halsey, off.
- [Growling]

Good boy.

Vulture team, this is
Sunshine. I'm at your Exfil.

On the ground in seconds. Let's go.

Let's move. Let's move!

[Man Shouts Indistinctly]

[g*nsh*t, Thud]

[Helicopter Blades Whirring]

Mahmoud, look at me. Was that Omar?

- Were those his men?
- [Grunts]

SASHA: Mahmoud, listen,
where are the seeds?

[Shouting In Arabic]

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[Seabirds Calling]

[Indistinct Conversations In Greek]

I think we made the gods angry today.

Took too many of their fish.

They'll get over it. [Laughs]

[Speaking Greek]

[Motor Starts]

JETER: Latest images from the States.

Reports say the red rust now covers

% of the corn population.

Rice and wheat are at almost %.

I remember seeing people with the virus,

blood coming out of their eyes and nose.

This looks the same.

I experienced that myself,
if you remember.

The red flu was originally
a plant virus, Master Chief.

She only jumped back to plants

when we humans developed immunity.

Very clever.

Yeah. Clever.

SASHA: The virus is spreading
faster than our models predicted.

Plant-eating insects have proven
to be a hyper-efficient vector

for the red rust.

Now it's affecting sugar cane

and the majority of
the Earth's grasslands.

At this rate,

we're looking at a complete breakdown

of the Earth's biosphere.

Within a year, there could be
no way to sustain human life.

We don't have to wait a year.

In the States, we're at , dead.

In South America, it's in the millions.

Mr. Fletcher, you tested
this dinosaur palm seed.

- Is it the real deal?
- Elaeis virilis.

That ancient African palm seed
is the only plant alive today

with proven immunity to the red rust.

And Mahmoud's people stole
all the living samples.

We were so close. They
were within my grasp.

And this mystery buyer,

the one who hired Mahmoud's
people to rip off the seed bank,

he knows how to engineer
the seed's immunity

into our current crop?

That's what Mahmoud claimed,
but I highly doubt it.

So he's just holding
the seeds for ransom,

making the rest of the
world pay through the nose.

Meanwhile, all humanity starves.

And the only one who knows
where the seeds are stashed

is lying in a coma in our medical bay.

Okay, so we resupply at Rota.

And if our prisoner decides
to rejoin the living,

well, we'll just convince him

to tell us where the seeds are stashed.

That is all.

[Door Opens]

[Door Closes]

♪

[Playing Folk Tune]

SAM: He walked almost to the
top, and it was totally scary,

and it was nothing but rock and water,

and I was like, "No way
am I going up there."

And then Yaya went up by herself
to show me it wasn't scary,

- and then she...
- Oh!

[Laughs] Never falling.
Your Yaya never fails.

- It was close.
- No, I was preparing to fly.

It's true. She can fly. I've seen it.

Like Pallas Athena, I take
the shape of a Sea Eagle.

[Imitates Wind Blowing]

[Laughs]

I've always wanted to fly.

Okay, fly away.

[Laughter]

[Speaks Greek]

[Speaking Greek] _

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He lives in a Greek home,
he works with a Greek man,

he loves a Greek girl,

and yet, he has no
appreciation of our music.

Cali, you must teach him.

I try.

I'm more of a rhythm and blues guy.

Sure you like the blues
because it tells a good story.

We Greeks have been
telling stories with music

since ancient times.

From the bards.

Hmm?

Think of Homer, "The Odyssey."

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[Speaks Greek]

It's a nice fish, Dad.

A small catch today, Ash.

I'll do better tomorrow.

[Song Ends]

Come, children, let's walk.

[Singing Greek Ballad]

[Whispers] Let's go this way.

♪

[Sighs]

You like this one?

[Man Continues Singing In Greek]

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What's he singing about?

Mm.

Another ancient story
about a polutropos...

A man of many wanderings,
a great captain.

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He saved the world from a deadly enemy.

And then, he vanished.

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How long you known about me?

I wasn't sure until now.

But I had my doubts.

Does Cali know?

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It's not my business.

You wanted to disappear, and you did.

But the world is in trouble again.

You see it.

I'm done playing the hero, Alex.

Bullshit. You cannot run
from your destiny, Tom.

Because you are who you are.

MAN: [Speaks Greek]

[Music Stops]

Busy night.

Alex... [Speaking Greek] _

Could be better.

Oh, I hear you're not happy
with the new terms.

When you take my whole catch,
why should I even fish, hmm?

Because if you don't,
then you won't eat at all.

Giorgio...

you control the whole sea.

What is so important about me?

Shh, Alex.

Everyone must pay their
tax, or else no one will.

[Speaking Greek] _

[Cali Speaking Greek]

[Speaking Greek] _

[Whistles]

ALEX: He's nobody.

MAN: We got it all, boss.

Happy fishing, Alex.

[Speaking Greek] _

Huh? Opa! [Snaps Fingers]

[Birds Chirping]

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Captain.

Blazes Boylan, six weeks away,
you look six years younger.

It's the starvation diet.

- You look like crap, not for nothing.
- Love you, too.

Welcome back to Rota.

We'll get you replenished, refueled,

and where you need to go.

If only I knew where that was.

[All Shouting At Once In Spanish]

There he is. [Gasps]

Oh! [Laughs] Is that Daddy?

[Gasps] That's who it is.

Hi! Oh!

Yes!

- Hey.
- Mwah. Hello.

- He wanted to see Daddy.
- Mm.

Looks like things
have gotten worse here.

You okay?

Rota's out of supplies.

As soon as we replenish the James,

- we're pulling up stakes.
- Back to Norfolk?

With the food crisis, we just
can't sustain all our bases.

The fuel depot has enough to
keep the James operational

- for a while longer, though.
- But the base is closing?

[Whispers] Yeah.

Doesn't give us much time together.

WOLF: Well, I am impressed, Kandie.

Only two years in the Kenyan Navy.

How'd you learn to fight like that?

The plague is a good teacher.

Well, you're pretty damn good.

We move well together, you and I.

Kind of like we could
sense each other's body.

Like a good w*apon.

All of the parts working together.

Well-oiled.

Yeah. Well-oiled. Exactly.

[Object Thuds]

[Man Speaking Indistinctly Over PA]

[Chuckles]

- Thanks, Chief.
- Sir.

ALISHA: They're having a
fire sale. Everything must go.

- BURK: Well, that's good for us.
- I guess.

New comms, fresh batteries, headsets.

Pass 'em out to your people.

You got it, LT.

So if I call you, will you answer?

That's the general idea.

Yeah.

Good.

Keep yourself turned on.

See you later, Burk.

This is gonna be fun. [Sighs]

[Indistinct Conversations]

So this could be one of
the world's last apples?

Nah, virus hasn't hit apples yet.

Yet?

Six months ago, we said
the same thing about corn.

[Sighs]

FLETCHER: New intel on Mahmoud's boss...

Omar Bin Dalik.

He's got major wasta and connections

stretching from Tangier to Benghazi.

And you're sure this is the guy
who broke into the seed bank?

I was skeptical.

Omar and Mahmoud come
from very different tribes.

But with the plague and the famine,

Omar's pulling in soldiers
from all across Maghreb.

Omar doesn't work for free.

Someone's paying him,

someone who knew the seed's existence,

knew where to find them,

and knows that it's our last
chance to save the human race.

We have no idea who that person is.

And unless we're very lucky,

that mystery may also die with Mahmoud.

♪

[Camera Shutter Clicks]

[Monitor Beeping Steadily]

[Camera Shutter Clicking]

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[Monitor Beeping Steadily]

[Exhales]

[Weakly] What...

Mahmoud, you're on a U.S. Navy base.

- What?
- I'm James Fletcher.

I'm with British Intelligence.

This is Sasha Cooper
and Captain Slattery.

Navy.

You lied to me.

And I'm sorry. But you're safe now.

[Exhales] No.

I am dead.

We're all dead.

SASHA: Mahmoud, listen,
we know about Omar.

We can protect you.

But first, you need to tell
us where the seeds are.

We are... We are not safe.

Ah, this is bullshit.

Captain Linsky, can't you pump him up

- with adrenaline or something?
- Not if you want him to live.

Hey, Mahmoud. Hey.

Wake up, Mahmoud.

Still wanna sell those
seeds? We're still buyin'.

- Where'd you stash 'em?
- Mahmoud...

where are the seeds?

My family.

He will spare my family.

Okay.

Mahmoud, we will look after your family.

We will.

But first, we need to protect the seeds.

You need to tell us where they are.

- Who has the seeds?
- [Breathing Heavily]

- Who has the seeds?
- [Exhales]

[Monitor Beeping Steadily]

[Speaks Arabic]

What'd he say?

[Exhales Deeply]

Lion?

- [Crowd Cheering]
- [Grunting]

CROWD: Oh!

- [Cheering]
- Uhh!

[Crowd Shouting Indistinctly]

MAN: Whoo!

Giorgio just started
throwing these fights

in every town on the islands.

Bread and Circus...
That's what he calls them.

He entertains the people
and earns their love

by handing out scraps of food.

Meanwhile, he takes our livelihood.

[Grunting]

And no one stands up to him.

They're too high on the
tea from that infected weed.

Can you blame 'em?

We've all lost everything.

We all have pain.

Is that a reason to... to give up?

[Punch Lands]

No.

- If you cannot fight...
- [Grunting]

you might as well join the dead.

Yeah!

[Cheering]

MAN: Yeah!

We're not dead yet.

BOYLAN: You haven't heard
one word from Chandler?

Not even a postcard. months.

Where do you think he went?

No clue. I hope he found peace.

Lord knows the rest of us haven't.

So the prisoner wasn't helpful.
Where does that leave you?

Same mission, no plan.

What can I do?

Just keep him alive till
I can figure something out.

We'll do our best.

Michelle...

Thanks.

I know you delayed
your return home for us.

Anything for you, Mike.

Besides, home isn't much these days.

Every day, we keep
handing out food and water,

and every day, more
folks show up hungry.

After we pull out, then what?

Don't matter.

Unless we figure that sh*t out soon,

we'll all be in the same boat.

Hey, when you gonna get rid of that?

- My beard?
- Beard?

The only thing on this
planet that keeps growing

- is that bush on your face.
- I'll tell you what,

I'll shave it off as soon as
you can grow one on your head.

- [Laughs]
- Mr. Clean.

- Here, water that thing.
- Come on, man.

[Indistinct Shouting In Spanish]

[Indistinct Shouting]

[Yelling In Distance]

[Speaks Greek]

[Cheering]

[Punches Landing]

[Indistinct Shouting Continues]

[Grunting]

[Shouting Continues]

[Motor Starts]

Okay, come. Let's go.

[Motor Revs]

[Cheering Continues]

We are going to eat
well tonight. [Laughs]

♪

- MAN: Opa! [Laughs]
- WOMAN: Opa! Opa! [Laughs]

ALL: Opa! [Laughter]

Whoo! [Laughs]

Opa! Opa!

♪

Opa. Opa!

[Speaking Greek]

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[Woman Speaking Italian] _

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MAN: Consider that a warning.

If you enter into
Turkey's territorial wa...

[Radio Turns Off]

♪

[Indistinct Conversations
In Greek, Laughter Continues]

Did you hear the siren call?

I was just curious.

[Sighs]

And what do you learn
from the voices you hear?

That it's gonna get worse
before it gets better.

[Sighs]

♪

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Fletch...

[Indistinct Conversations]

[Children Laughing]

Lieutenant Burk, you're relieved, sir.

- Thank you much.
- You're very welcome.

Later, bro.

Hey! Hola!

You guys speak English? You
gotta keep the kids back.

Sí. Sí, okay.

Come on. This is what
I'm talkin' about, fellas.

Está bien.

♪

- Commander...
- [expl*si*n]

♪

- [Muffled Voice] Cam! Cam!
- [Groaning]

Cam! Cam! What happened?!

I'm sorry! I tried to warn him!

- [Moaning]
- What happened?!

[Rapid g*nf*re, Man Shouting In Spanish]

- Cover me!
- Aah!

[g*nf*re Continues]

[Indistinct Shouting]

[g*nf*re Continues]

Hang in there! Come on!

[Alarm Blaring]

- What's going on?
- There's been an att*ck on the base.

Omar.

[Siren Blaring]

[g*nf*re]

Uhh!

[Alarm Continues Blaring]

Nolan, get on the !

Sentries, on the rail!

SLATTERY: They're boxing us in.

- Cut the fuel line. Protect the ship.
- Yes, sir!

[g*nf*re, Indistinct Shouting]

Security, we have multiple breaches.

Seal all entries. Lock
down the medical wing.

You guys, with me.

What... what's going on?

MAN: We have a situation,
Doc. Shelter in place.

[Indistinct Shouting]

Uhh!

- BURK: Hey, hey, hey. It's gonna be okay.
- [Groaning]

Hey, Doc! Doc!

The barracks.

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[Soft Click]

- [Grunting]
- DANNY: Kara!

- [g*nf*re]
- Who's left?! Who's left?!

There's more!

[expl*si*n]

DANNY: All clear. Move!

[Indistinct Shouting]

Cheng is down! Corpsman! Corpsman!

[Indistinct Shouting]

You're gonna be okay. Doc! Doc!

- Brother, you're gonna be okay.
- I got him. I got him. I'm here.

- Hold on.
- [Weakly] I'm sorry, man.

No, no, no, man. Hey, hey, hey.

You're fine, big brother.
It's nothing. Okay?

It's nothing. He's got... he's got frags

- all over his body.
- Okay. Got it. I got him.

- I have...
- Fix his leg, Doc!

- I got him. He's gonna be okay.
- Come on! Come on.

[g*nf*re In Distance]

♪

Uhh! Aah! Aah!

- [expl*si*n]
- Uhh!

- Uhh!
- Aah!

Uhh!

Aah!

[Breathing Heavily]

Mahmoud.

[Mahmoud Whimpering]

[Engines Droning]

He could lose his leg by
the time he gets to Germany.

We don't know that.

Burk, he's alive.

When is it gonna stop, Danny?

We're the good guys, right?

I don't know, man.

- [Pats Back]
- SLATTERY: Americans dead,

another seriously injured.

[Camera Shutter Clicking]

locals k*lled,

including children.

[g*nf*re]

And I've lost yet another dear friend.

[Sighs] All this mayhem...

Just a diversion for
that animal to waltz in,

slaughter the only lead
we had on those seeds.

Omar had at least one man on
the inside. One of our locals.

Probably bought him off when
he found out we were here.

[g*nshots]

[Mahmoud Breathing Heavily]

OMAR: Mahmoud... [Speaking Arabic]

[Translating] Mahmoud,
do you know who I am?

[Continuing In Arabic]

We are not tribesmen, but
I trusted you as a brother.

Made a mistake, but it's
not too late to fix it.

Where are the seeds?

[Speaking In Arabic]

Anything?

He's praying.

Mahmoud...

[Speaking Arabic]

[Translating] Mahmoud, you
are a warrior, but you're stupid.

It's not your fault
your people are savages.

Do you want to die like them now?

Or do you want a second chance from me?

[Translates] You will help me?

Yes. Of course. I swear it.

[Speaks Arabic]

- [Fletcher And Sasha Sigh]
- What'd he say?

"Eat sh*t."

- [Speaks Arabic]
- [Groans, Shouts]

[Translates] What's this?

Something on his wrist.

[Speaking Arabic]

[Translates] Poor dumb
Mahmoud. You're so, um...

[Clicks Tongue] uh... "sentimental."

[Mahmoud Grunts]

[Grunts] Aah!

[Turns Off Video]

Here.

Didn't see it before because
of the bandages and I.V. tubes.

- Two lions?
- Yes, of course.

He said "lion" before.

That's what I thought I heard.
What he said was "uharan."

It's a Berber word... "two lions."

- In Arabic, it's "wahran."
- Oran.

The seeds are headed to Algeria.

And Omar's going to get them back.

Not if we get them first.

[Indistinct Conversations]

[Speaking Greek]

CHANDLER: Alex.

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[Flames Whoosh]

[expl*si*n]

Alex? Alex!

[Indistinct Conversations]

♪

[Laughter]

[Seabirds Calling]

[Laughter]

[Crying]

You are leaving.

I can see it in your eyes.

Alex told me that I
couldn't run from destiny.

I left home because I was confused...

between justice and revenge.

And now?

I want both.

♪

[Seabirds Calling]

♪

[Indistinct Conversations]

It's about a half-day journey
to the Strait of Gibraltar

and another nautical miles to Oran.

Well, if we can get as
far as Nador, Morocco,

we'll be within helo range,

and we can have boots on the
ground in Oran by nightfall,

best time to set up an operation.

I concur. That's the plan.

Commander.

I don't see any bags.

Sir, you've lost your
Cheng, and we're down a TAO.

No one knows the combat
systems like I do.

Our family's joining the
remaining base personnel

on the last plane to Norfolk.

Respectfully request
to join ship's company.

We understand the risks,
sir, and the rules.

Please, sir.

Let me serve.

Very well. Get to your post.

I want a report on all weapons
and guidance systems by .

Yes, sir. Thank you, sir.

Gettin' the band back together.

I'm a big fan.

Listen, Joe. [Sighs]

I know it hasn't been easy for ya.

Cutbacks with the Navy, you
didn't get back your command.

I just want you to know
I appreciate you being...

I know you do, Captain.

Right now, the mission's more
important that my command.

We do this right, save the world,

there'll be plenty of ships.

Until then, I've got your back.

OOD, time to find those seeds.

Let's get the hell outta here.

♪

[Engine Turns Off]

[Engine Starts]

[Camel Grunts]

[Shouting In Greek] _

- Yeah?
- Hey.

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[Grunts]

- Aah!
- [Cheering]

[Cheering continues]

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