01x12 - A Message from Ground Control

[bunniefuu]

Previously on Debris

I'm going to miss you

when you're gone, Bryan.

BRYAN: Cease fire! Cease fire!

FINOLA: I know about Asalah.

[cries out]

MADDOX: I don't know

why this happened to you.

I just know that I don't

want it to happen again.

- [buzzer sounds]

- GEORGE: INFLUX.

They are actively seeking

a very dangerous piece of Debris.

They believed that I was

the only one that can find it.

BRYAN: What does it do?

GEORGE: I don't quite remember.

Ferris just sent me the Laghari files.

BRYAN: That memory.

Why?

FINOLA: I think all of the

Debris may be connected.

They chose you for a reason.

- [device beeps]

- KELSO: No.

- [beep]

- No.

- [beep]

- No.

- [beep]

- Twenty-four Hang on.

Uh, four-five, two-twenty-two.

And that was it.

Oh, man, I'm losing my mind here.

Uh, give me a call back

when you get the authorization.

[phone beeps]

[clattering in distance]

What the heck are you

doing over here?

[device whirring]

[alarm sounding]

Kelso! Kelso!

[alarm continues]

[plastic clattering]

[powering down]

[theme]

[crows cawing]

Yes, yes, I come in peace.

[door opens]

[George coughing]

- [switch clicks]

- [beep]

[generator powering up]

[typing]

[computer beeps]

[horn honks in distance]

- BRYAN: Hey, George.

- FINOLA: Hey, Dad.

GEORGE: Hey.

What is this place?

GEORGE: It was used

to transmit news reports

to the Allied nations

during World w*r Two.

- BRYAN: Voice of America?

- GEORGE: Yes, yes.

And also shortwave radio

communication with spies,

and now its signal boosting

capabilities or servers, well

Dad, I got you some new clothes.

Oh, I don't need them.

It's, uh, more for us, really.

Oh, well, um, is that for me?

Yes.

- Laghari's files are all on here.

- Complete?

Yeah. That's what Ferris said.

That's a lot on there. It's gonna

take you a while to get through

No, no, no. I know what I need.

These boxes need to go inside, George?

Yes. Yes, please. I need them all.

Driving across the country by yourself

wasn't the smartest thing to do.

There are people looking for you.

I know, I know.

I'm perfectly capable

of protecting myself.

- Besides, I had to.

- Why?

It came to me at Garcia's.

I remember what it does,

the piece that we're looking for.

See, INFLUX believes that

it can create a kind of map,

showing the location of all the Debris,

every piece on the face of the earth.

This is what I've been telling you.

The race for Debris

and the power that it holds,

and it could end here,

if INFLUX gets this piece first.

It's a good thing I know

what I'm talking about, hmm?

What I'm going to do is hack

into the satellites

operated by the European Space

Agency's so-called Swarm

the Earth Observation System

and reconfigure them

to collect the data I need.

See, the piece of Debris

that we're looking for

could be anywhere in North America,

but I need to acquire the

high-altitude satellite data,

if I have any chance of finding it.

FINOLA: And can the Swarm

satellites even detect it?

When INFLUX was forcing me

to make the scanner,

they told me that the signal

they're looking for

is as a result of a unique interaction

between the piece

and, uh, magnetic fields,

and that Swarm can detect.

So if you recalibrate the Swarm,

then you can find the anomalies

in the earth's magnetic field?

Exactly.

I'm following you, George.

So then, why are Dr. Laghari's

files important?

They're a road map for me, you see.

Before I brought

Dr. Laghari into Orbital,

he spent years working on calculations

to interpret magnetic field data.

Mathematical calculations

that I can't remember.

But with this, I'll be able

to determine exactly

where the piece will warp

the magnetic field.

I'm going to go get the rest of the boxes.

I'll be back in a minute.

[typing]

[computer beeping]

Dad, I think it's really great

that you're remembering well now.

I just need to know when you remember.

We need to know if you remember

why Maddox wants you dead.

Well, I have been thinking

about that, and

maybe it's because he fears

what he can't control.

What do you mean,

he fears what he can't control?

He works for Government.

That's what governments do.

Even our own, the subjugation of India,

the colonization, I mean,

right here in the U.S.,

the m*ssacre at Wounded Knee,

the Japanese internment camps.

I mean, do I need to go on?

Governments are created

to serve the public interest.

And everywhere, inevitably,

they serve their own,

and people are left to suffer.

Please, sweetheart,

be careful with this

so-called coalition.

I know.

I believe in Bryan, but Orbital

doesn't feel like a coalition at all.

[chuckles] Smart girl.

[chuckles]

- [door opens]

- Hey, we got to go.

- What's wrong?

- Tom called.

There's been a Debris incident

back at Orbital.

Lost power, and the entire

facility had to be evacuated.

There's still eight technicians

unaccounted for in the hangar area.

- How many pieces are affected?

- We don't know yet.

Got CCTV of what happened

before the alarms went off.

Debris went right through the wall,

connected with the ship.

- That wall's the lockup warehouse?

- TOM: Yeah.

So the power went down soon afterward,

so all the footage we tried

getting from there is black.

Any theories?

MADDOX: We think INFLUX is

doing something with the Debris.

If what you suggest is true, that

the Debris is all connected,

then whatever they're doing

could have triggered this

from literally anywhere on Earth.

Has anyone been inside?

Chin has a team standing by.

BRYAN: Let's suit up.

CHIN: Chin for Bryan, come in.

BRYAN: Go for Bryan.

CHIN: Be advised, Corridor C is clear.

BRYAN: Copy that.

We're entering Corridor D, over.

BRYAN: Hey.

Looks like they're in some

sort of trance-like state.

Base Camp, we've located five

of the missing techs. Stand by.

[device scanning]

BRYAN: Clocking in at a 230.

Yeah.

[slamming in distance]

BRYAN: Let's spread out.

BRYAN: Got one deceased male,

massive head trauma.

FINOLA: Straight through.

CHIN: Bryan, we've got something.

- Hey, check this out.

- BRYAN: Huh.

FINOLA: Bryan, what's this?

BRYAN: Hey, what are you guys doing?

Hold on a second. Hey, hold on a second.

What were you doing?

Do you know where you are?

Zimmer? Zimmer, can you hear me?

Hello? What were you doing here?

- They're all under the same influence.

- FINOLA: Yeah.

Let's get them with the others,

keep them out of here.

We're gonna move you out

of here. Do you understand?

MAN: Got it.

FINOLA: Bryan, look at this.

The cases, they're all crushed.

BRYAN: Well, where's the

Debris that was in them?

Whoa.

- What happened?

- Careful! Careful.

Stay on the other side.

It looks like it just passed through

some sort of invisible pocket

right here.

The Debris is being ripped out

as it passes through from the

inside and then spat out over here.

FINOLA: Is that why

they're lining them up

and putting them there?

They're selecting Debris for a reason.

Hold on.

Remember what we saw in Ohio.

Entire dimensions can exist

within a 2-D square.

But these are passing through it.

But without the Debris.

Where'd it go?

[chatter, indistinct]

- MADDOX: Any changes?

- BRYAN: So far they're unresponsive.

Where's the Debris going?

We think it's some sort of

pocket dimension.

Is it connected to what happened

in the hangar?

- You think that's what initiated it?

- It was first.

The situation team

is setting up the N-U's

to try and stop everything

from progressing any further.

How's Zimmer doing?

MEDIC: Temp 98.2.

Pulse 82, normal.

Whoa. There is a strong gravitational

pull coming from inside.

What do you think is happening?

I don't know.

The Debris pieces aren't going anywhere.

It's possible they're being

contained inside the Seam.

It's large enough to create

a detectable gravitational pull.

CHIN: It seems to be taking

one piece at a time.

- Is it assembling something?

- I don't know.

CHIN: Well, let's hope the N-U's

will neutralize whatever's in there.

- Dialed in.

- All right.

Let's shut it down, guys.

- FINOLA: It's not working.

- CHIN: Trying to recalibrate.

[groaning]

It's okay, lay back.

Hey, what's happening? Calm down.

MEDIC: He's tachycardic.

He could stroke out or have an MI.

- Calm down. Why?

- I don't know!

- Why? Hey!

- I don't know!

I've dumped 15 CCs of sedative

into him, and it's done nothing.

BRYAN: Breathe right now.

I need you to relax.

Bryan! Bryan!

- Zimmer!

- Bryan!

Hey, hey, hey!

Hold him, hold him, hold him, hey.

Let him go, let him go, let him go.

Let them go. Let them go.

Go with him, go with him.

What?

CHIN: Maybe there's

too many different pieces.

With all the different signatures

in there, it can't zero in.

That's a really good idea.

Mark, I need you to inventory

all the empty cases.

I want to know which pieces

are being pulled into the Seam,

and then we can crosscheck

with the case reports.

And that way, we can figure out

if there's anything

that might connect them.

- That does sound about right.

- Careful.

FINOLA: Bryan.

Bryan, what are you doing?

I need your help. Come on.

Let's secure this room. Lock the doors.

They must be bound by proximity

to this thing somehow.

- Yeah. Makes no sense.

- No.

Hey, the N-U's, they didn't work.

I'm gonna go check the ship.

Okay.

[computer beeps]

[tapping]

[beeps]

GEORGE: Oh, come on.

Hello.

- CHIN: Agent Jones?

- FINOLA: Yeah.

We've cataloged every piece that's

been pulled into the Seam so far.

Some of the pieces involved

manipulation of thermodynamics,

others affected botanical gene

expression and acoustical distortion.

But it seems they aren't being

used for any of those functions.

There's no commonalities

between any of them.

Wildly varying sizes, textures,

Laghari signatures all over the map.

I don't understand.

These Debris pieces were brought

together for a reason.

Maybe we should try and get

these cases out of here.

The Seam can't take what's not here.

All right, let's do it.

Grab the other side.

[grunts]

Whoa! Lester! Lester! Hey!

Hey! Hey! Can you hear me?

Now take it up slowly.

Oh, my goodness, what happened?

Are you okay? Lester, hey!

Oh, my goodness.

Whoa! Whoa! Hey!

No, Lester!

Hey.

Lester, where are you going?

BRYAN: Why do you think

the affected techs

can touch the cases but Chin couldn't?

I don't know.

Because they're a part of it?

What did you find with the ship

in the hangar?

I didn't find anything.

It's the same as it's been.

There's no excess Laghari signatures.

So if the event started there,

it's not there anymore.

What if it's building something

inside the Seam to destroy us?

I'm not sure that we

can get out of this, Bryan.

BRYAN: Oh, we're going to figure it out.

I can't comprehend what

is going on in there.

We're not meant to.

We thought we were in control,

but maybe we need to acknowledge

that we are in the presence of

something bigger and stronger than us.

And impossibly unknowable.

It's just moving so fast.

Hey! What is wrong with him?

Arturo! Look at me! Chin up!

He's dead.

FINOLA: How long before the same

thing happens to the rest of them?

Nice.

There you go.

[electricity hums]

[power surging]

[phone rings]

The signatures of the pieces

that it's selecting,

what can you tell me about them?

It's random signatures 933,

- 467, 311, 233.

- No, no. No, no.

That's not random.

That's a series of ratios;

a half, a third, a quarter.

It's a harmonic sequence.

Oh, God. Yes, yes, yes.

[chuckles] Of course.

Finola, prolonged exposure

to Laghari harmonics

can cause catastrophic brain damage.

That would explain

what happened to Zimmer.

- Right.

- The Seam.

You have to focus on that.

It could widen. It could swallow

up everything in its path.

It could emit a kinetic pulse

that can throw the earth off its axis.

The N-U's, they weren't effective?

No. They weren't effective at all.

All right, the N-U's were designed

to contain Debris emissions.

If you reverse the polarity,

that could create

an energy fence.

So like, um, a protective force field

to stop the new pieces

from passing through?

Yes. Exactly. That could interrupt

and suspend the process.

At least I'll give you some time to

try to figure out how

to stop this thing.

- Right.

- Just go back

and see if reversing the polarity works,

- all right?

- Okay.

And Finola, be careful.

[phone beeps]

[beeping]

Wait, what's that noise?

It started just a few minutes ago

after the last case got sucked in.

Whatever the Seam is doing,

it's getting near completion.

You have any ideas?

FINOLA: Yeah. I'm not sure

it's going to work,

but it is worth a try.

We need to reverse

the polarity on the N-U's

to stop any more new pieces

from entering.

That would externalize the energy field.

The whole point of the N-U's

is containment.

Yes. But we have to stop

the rest of those cases from

- joining whatever is being assembled.

- Yeah, correct.

This might be our best chance.

[plastic case clattering]

Yeah.

I'm zeroed in. We're stable.

Okay. Great. Shut it down?

Prepare to recalibrate.

Recalibrating now.

Reversing polarity, powering up again.

[energy humming]

Oh. Good job.

Three-eleven. Second harmonic ratio.

- What was that?

- What is it?

There's a second Laghari reading 467.

- Finola

- There's something happening below us.

Security is disabled. It should be open.

[device scanning]

Okay. All right.

FINOLA: What is this place?

BRYAN: Never been down here.

[device scanning]

BRYAN: Wow.

Looks like there was some

sort of an expl*si*n here.

FINOLA: Oh, there it is.

Wow.

This is interesting.

These are schematics.

For an antimatter b*mb using Debris.

This is a weapons lab.

Orbital is weaponizing the Debris.

BRYAN: I'm not surprised.

They were gonna do it eventually.

FINOLA: So this experiment

BRYAN: It might have

triggered the event.

Did Maddox know about this

and then just say it was INFLUX?

Bryan. Oh, my God.

What?

This is my father's notes.

They are engineering

all of these weapons

using my father's work!

I must ask you this.

To your theory about INFLUX

being responsible for all of this,

what part did you play?

Because I know what you're doing.

You've been to the lab on the sub floor.

Is this why you're here?

Because you're worried

that we would find it?

'Cause you know what? From what I saw,

it could have triggered

this whole event.

Finola, no one in our classified

division has been doing any testing,

so no, we are not responsible for it.

But you are weaponizing the Debris.

To deter potential adversaries

from attacking the United States,

from attacking our allies, from

attacking our vital interests.

The Chinese are doing it,

the Russians are doing it.

And you know what?

The Brits are doing it.

Did my father know that you were

using his work for this?

No, he didn't.

Not at first.

But he did find out.

And what did he feel about it?

Pretty much the same way you do.

Finola, I know how personal

this is for you,

but you have to understand

men like your father,

they're like pieces

of Debris themselves,

useful in the right hands,

dangerous in the wrong hands.

Orbital had no choice but

to follow this direction,

because if we didn't do it,

someone else would have done it.

In fact, Finola, someone else did do it.

It's exactly what INFLUX

has been doing with your father,

so I know you know how vital

it is that we find him.

I know you feel that way.

You don't know anything

about what I feel.

My father took his life for all of this.

[gasping]

[grunts]

HAZMAT #3: Cain. Cain!

Hey, hey, hey, hey, look!

Stop! Just stop! [straining]

Bryan! Bryan, they're leaving

the boardroom!

We can't hold them back.

They're trying to get back

to the lockup.

- I'm almost there.

- FINOLA: Bryan, I'm on my way back.

Hey! We need some help.

Hey, hey, get him, get him.

- BRYAN: Hey, hey!

- FINOLA: Hey, hey, hey! I got him.

- BRYAN: Hey, hey! Hey!

- FINOLA: Hey! Stop!

They're after the N-U's.

Chin! Chin! Get up! Hey!

Let's get these guys back

to the boardroom right now.

FINOLA: What have we got?

APRIL HAN: The leakage from their

ears is cerebral spinal fluid,

must have been massive

intracranial pressure.

DOCTOR #2:

There was necrotic cell death,

like the cells literally exploded.

What could cause that?

Chemical agents or ultrasound or

Harmonic frequencies

in the Laghari spectrum?

Yes, that's possible.

No.

[latches slam]

- [electricity surging]

- [gasps]

[Mariel whispering, indistinct]

TOGETHER: Why?

[page turning in distance]

[Ash whistles] Morrison.

GUARD: What do you want, Ash?

I'm sick. I need to see a doctor.

GUARD: Open 108.

[buzzer sounds]

Out.

What the hell?

We need to get him to an emergency room.

He's got something inside him.

Told you I was sick.

[neck cracks]

That's it.

Let's get the keys for these cuffs

out of his belt, shall we?

Need to get in there.

Six-eight-six-eight-zero-eight.

- [buzzer sounds]

- Go on.

APRIL HAN: Let's try a new CSF

sample, expose it to Laghari waves,

- try to replicate the effect.

- WOMAN: Yes, Doctor.

Okay. When you're done here,

let me know.

I'll take it to the boardroom,

where we're keeping the techs.

Hey.

What's wrong?

I saw Mariel Caldwell.

What are you talking about?

The Debris manifested her for me.

- What?

- She appeared.

Yeah.

Remember when I told you in my memory

she came to me and I asked her why?

Why she needed me to relive

that memory in Afghanistan?

And I put my hand out,

but you you pulled me back

before I could grab it.

She did it again.

But this time

- I touched her.

- FINOLA: What?

And in that moment,

I understood everything,

without a single word being spoken.

What did you understand?

I understood it wanted to comprehend

my need to protect people.

Why would it do that?

I don't know. It sought me out.

And we need to let the Seam

complete what it's doing.

Okay. Listen, I think

we should take you outside

- and just get you checked out.

- I know what I'm saying.

I know how I must sound right now,

but if we interfere with this process,

we are going to k*ll people.

We're not gonna be able to save them.

I can feel it. I can feel it.

What happened to the man who said

we need to sacrifice the few

to save the many?

This isn't you.

I know.

But this is what it's asking

of us right now.

I can't describe it any better.

Not so long ago, you told me

that you were not scared of the Debris,

that you thought it could change the world.

and I thought you were crazy.

But now I understand it.

And that's faith, right?

Yeah.

That's what you've been

telling me all about,

trust in something that

you cannot know for certain.

But we don't know what it's building.

We don't know.

You're afraid

and that's not you.

I'm asking you to believe again.

For the first time, I do.

Take that defibrillator

to the middle of the room.

Hurry, hurry. Come on. Chop chop.

Hurry, hurry, hurry.

Next to this one, closer.

A little bit closer.

That's perfect.

Now go and get that wheelchair.

Hurry!

Power these up.

- This is going to k*ll you.

- Do it to me, or I'll do it to you.

All the way up. Full power.

That one too.

[power increasing]

[power surges]

- [horn honks]

- [glass shatters]

[groans]

[neck cracks]

Can I trouble you for your car keys?

[whirring, beeping]

Shut it down.

You sure?

Shut it down.

[machine beeps]

[powering down]

[case clattering]

That was the last one.

No, I don't think so.

The Debris that we found downstairs

did not initiate this.

It's a piece of the Seam.

it's trying to get

- Go get me a Nacho.

- Copy that.

[whispers] We're ready.

Copy.

Do it.

It's the ball of light.

GEORGE: And the techs were

released as soon as it left?

FINOLA: Yes. It's like nothing happened.

GEORGE: That's utterly amazing.

FINOLA: It was the most

beautiful thing I've ever seen.

But it's just so unsettling not

knowing what happened to it.

Dad, are you listening to me?

I found it.

The piece that we're looking for,

I've found it.

It's in Virginia.

[line ringing]

MADDOX [on phone]: Yeah.

Are you ready?

Is the rest of it here?

It's in the state, a remote location.

It just got here, we can do it tomorrow.

Okay.

- Let me know when.

- I will.

[hands rubbing]

- You're early.

- Turn on the heat.

A burger, a taco, and a milkshake.

Anything with fats, meat, and oil.

[ringtone chimes]

[chuckles]

Otto says George Jones has identified

the location of the piece.

Man's a genius.

WOMAN: We've put him

in a barometric chamber.

[beep]

He keeps repeating himself.

He keeps saying the word

"telesphere" over and over.

[beep]

What is that?

[beep]

- MAN: I don't know.

- [beep]