02x04 - Episode 4

[bunniefuu]

[Wes] We’re stuck in an infinite
time loop of three weeks.

They’re scientists.

They built the machine that
caused the second singularity.

We’re going to make you
build us a time machine.

- Can you tell me about Dr Gray?
- [Samson] She was God-like, to us.

Musta' been really
difficult when she d*ed.

- When she was m*rder*d.
- [man] I think there was a mission in 2012.

[George] This guy Ross was sent
to k*ll a scientist called Dr Gray

and destroy all her
research into time travel.

And I think Wes is behind it.

[George] Question is, why?

[man] When you were on the machine,
did you see who was sent back?

Yes. Both of them.

Oh, what? Becky?! And you
sat right there, every time?

- Why?
- So I can save your life.

- Run! - Who is that?
- It’s Bryson!

You are a monster my
friend, you are evil.

[light flashes] - [George] I just miss you.
- [Sarah] Why?

- Why does anyone feel anything? I just do.
- Why don't I, though?

- It’s an instruction manual.
- It’s for a time machine.

[Samson] I mean this
is the silver b*llet!

On 1st of June 2023.

That should get us back
to around a month before

the second singularity
is created.

[explosions]

If we stop it, we stop Janet and
her daughter being sent back.

We can save the world.

[dramatic music]

[electronic interference sounds]

[sound of jet engine]

- [warning alarms]
- [crashes]

Oh no, we’re going down.

Have we gone back in time? Have
we d*ed, do we die, do we die?

I don’t f*cking know!

[planes shakes]

[Rebrov] Have we gone back?

[noise intensifies]

[noise plateaus]

- [silence]
- [slow tapping]

[external expl*si*n]

Samson!

If we die we die!
If we die we die!

Oh f*ck, f*ck, f*ck.

- [alarm sounds] - Oh Jesus, oh
Jesus Christ, oh Jesus Christ

- [alarm continues] - It’s gonna be okay.
- OH, WE’RE GONNA DIE!

[engine noise intensifies]

[alarm continues]

[extreme turbulence]

[windows implode]

[plane thumps]

[safety bleeps]

[gasps]

[gasp]

Is everyone alright?

- Yeah. - Yeah.
- [gasps]

[door opens]

[Archie] Dane?

[eerie music]

He’s dead.

[thudding sound]

[Rebrov] Becky! What the
f*ck are you doing here?

- You're gonna stop them sending my mum back to 2012.
- Yeah?

What happens to me? If six year old me
never goes back to 2012, I won't exist!

Yeah, but you, Ok. This is turning
my brains to f*cking scrambled egg.

- Alright...
- I lived through 2023 twice. What's one more time?

- [Sarah] Except we’re not in 2023.
- [Zhang] What do you mean?

- [George] 2018?!
- [Archie] Oh, for f*ck's sake!

- Why what happened in 2018?
- That was the year I, erm...

- Ross?
- Yeah, it was a multiple reset year.

[expl*si*n]

[Archie] It was a bad year.

We reset the clock, I
don't even know, 15 times?

Sixteen. The year Janet
were pregnant with you.

[Rebrov] It were, were
when I left Lazarus.

If we're here now, we're gonna
experience those 16 loops again

When we loop back to this day, we'll
all wake up exactly where we just were.

Back in the air.

So how do we get to 2023
to stop the time break

causing the singularity and rescue
Janet, without waiting for five years

We need a new plane for a start.

How? The plane’s
not the problem.

It's the computer.

It malfunctioned and dropped
us off in this year by mistake.

If this checkpoint takes us back to
when we come back through the wormhole

we're just going to crash again.

I need to get into
the Lazarus Project.

And run some simulation
on your operating system

Look at how to fix it.

I can get you in. No one even
has to know, we're there.

- I'll come too.
- What do the rest of us do?

Lazarus has a safe house in
London. No one used it in 2018.

Go there. Lay low. Try
not to get into trouble.

- Wait, you not coming to the safehouse?
- No.

- Look after Becky, will you?
- I can look after myself.

[Sarah] Grab what
you can and let's go.

[George] 2018.

- Doesn't feel that different.
- It’s really not that different. - Isn't that different?

Vertonghen and Alderweireld
still play for Spurs.

This is the season we
get to the Final...

- You gonna cry again when you lose?
- I didn't. It wasn't a penalty.

- He kicked the ball at his hand!
- I can't have this conversation with you again George.

What, right now, we don't
even know each other.

We're about to meet for the
first time. Fall in love.

- Aw, that's sweet.
- I mean after 16 loops, yeah.

Where are we going anyway?

Map says there's a railway station
about a mile away from here

so we’ll be in London
in a couple of hours.

[George] What?

[George] What are you doing?

Please with the rhetorical
questions, I’m begging you!

Get out of the car!

That's not a real g*n.

- [g*nsh*t] - [driver] Woah!
- [George] Sarah!

When Lazarus puts the clock
back, he won’t remember it.

- Get out the car! - It's not the point!
- Of course it’s the point.

He could remember it for
the next month, so...

This is a glass houses
and those with stones

not throwing them
situation. Get in.

- Mate I’m so sorry, she's...
- Get in!

[George] Sorry.

[George] Ow!

[hip hop music playing]

[Archie] Alright.
You better stay here.

- [engine runs]
- [door slams]

Follow me and stay close.

- [lift bell rings]
- [door opens]

Let’s do this quickly.

Listen, listen.

- Stay here, don't talk to anyone.
- Where are you going?

- I need to check on something.
- Okay.

[suspenseful music]

[George] I think there
was a mission in 2012.

This guy Ross was sent
to k*ll scientist,

Dr Gray, and destroy all her
research into time travel.

And, I think Wes
is covering it up.

[files hits the floor]

I'm so sorry.

What are you doing here?

I, I just needed to
pick up some stuff.

Ah, there’s a lot going around.

- [Ross] You ready for tomorrow?
- Hmm? - The flight.

- Oh, yeah. I'm ready.
- We'll talk to Kasan. Hopefully, it won't be a big deal.

Yeah. Piece of cake.

I checked us into a nice hotel.
Separate rooms but you know...

- Just be me and you away, almost a holiday.
- Almost.

- I’d better, er.
- Yeah.

[soft piano music]

Sorry. Couldn't resist.
See you tomorrow.

- Where have you been?
- Are you done?

- There's something wrong here.
- Yeah no sh*t, let's go.

Is it okay if I
take this laptop?

Sure. It's mine and I'm about
to be pretty preoccupied.

Yeah.

[engine starts]

- You okay?
- Yeah, I'm good.

[Siren wails]

[baby gurgles]

- [Janet] Well go on then.
- This is it; this is me asking you out.

- This is it, right now?
- Right now, yeah.

- [Janet] Giggles.
- [Rebrov] I think about you all the time

and it’s starting
to do my head in.

- [Janet] Dennis are you there? Dennis?
- [Rebrov] Janet, I'm sorry.

You need to run.

[Janet] What did you do?

It’s not what I did.
It’s what I’m gonna do.

- Dennis...
- [Rebrov] I love you.

[SMS beep]

[Rebrov] A phrase that
meant, I’m in trouble.

I need ya. Come and get me.

[Becky] Did you fix it?

Yes, I fixed the time machine
supercomputer in one evening.

It was really easy.

You know, some of this code
I just don't recognise.

Everyone might wanna make themselves
comfortable, this could take some time.

You okay?

I looked up Ross'
mission files for 2012.

- Yeah, there aren't any.
- There is on Wes' system.

One entry.

Operation Midnight.

Gee I wonder what that could be.

[mysterious music]

[Archie] Yeah.

- [knock at the door]
- [door opens]

- [George] Hi.
- [Sarah] Hi.

Look this is awkward but basically
erm, there's only two rooms

and Samson's asleep
on one of the...

- [Sarah] It's fine.
- [George] You sure?

[door closes]

[zip unfastens]

[George] That business with the bloke
in the car. You gotta be careful.

[Geore] Every time you
do something like that,

it’s like breaking
off a bit of yourself.

Is that what k*lling
someone's like?

- I hope you never have to find out.
- Think I can't handle it?

- Does this not feel weird to you now?
- Being in bed together?

Like, I'm aware of it. We
slept next to each other

for years and it was
normal and now it's like...

I just want to
know how to fix us.

Do you think no one else
will make you happy?

With you and me, it always
felt like it was fate.

I can't explain it. But I met
you, and everything clicked.

- It was like God put a piece of jigsaw...
- You're religious now?

You think God's just
like wikka-wikka-wikka

record scratching us
over and over again?

I didn't think time
travel was possible

so, yeah I’m actually open
to a theological debate.

Let me ask you something.

Did you give me the serum cause you
wanted us to be together or to free me?

- Both.
- Here's the thing. I love you. I don't doubt that.

But I broke up with
you for a reason.

And yeah, right now, it would make
sense for us to get back together,

I mean, how would either of
us ever make a relationship

with someone else
work, right now?

I don't want to be together because it
makes sense. That's not love, is it?

We got together because
I was feeling sad

after a boy I fancied
rejected me at a party.

We fell into our relationship.

But if we’d met at
a different time.

Maybe we never would
have got together.

- We would have got together anyway.
- [sighs]

How do you know?

I just know. If it
hadn’t been that night

a different night, or party, or we'd
have bumped into each other on the street

or matched on the apps,
or found each other.

It would have been me and you,
not you and some, some other guy.

Cormac.

- You don't know that.
- I do know that.

- [Sarah] You don’t.
- [George] I do.

- [George] Oh, sorry.
- Sorry.

- No, please, you, you have it.
- You sure? It's the last one.

- Yeah, go on.
- Thanks.

You never get a toy in
there anymore, do ya?

- What?
- Ah sorry, cereal.

D’you remember, you always used to
get a little figure or something?

They don't do that anymore.

I used to collect the little
reflector things in cornflakes.

Erm, yeah, you put them in the spokes of
your bike. They clicked when you rode them.

- In the shape of a chicken.
- [laughs]

Yeah, the kids in my class are all
obsessed with fidget spinner things.

- Oh you're a teacher?
- No, just a really big eight year old.

- Yeah, I teach Year Four.
- I'm a teacher.

- No way?!
- I teach Year Four as well.

- [laughs]
- Er.

Alright, look as I let you have the last
of the Frosties, can I get your advice?

I'm supposed to be doing assembly
on Monday. But, I haven’t prepared.

Don’t know what I'm doing
it on. You got any advice?

- Road safety.
- Road safety?

Tell them horror stories, kids
that didn't look both ways

and got squashed under milk
floats, that sort of thing.

- Oh.
- Kids love to be scared.

- Right, yeah, that's great advice.
- Good luck with it.

- Thank you.
- I'll let you have the last Frosties next time.

[both laugh]

- I'm George, by the way.
- Sarah.

"Next time I'll let you
have the last Frosties"?

- It's how you ended it.
- Christ, am I bad at flirting?

- Ah, you were flirting.
- I don't know, I wasn't there.

There was a spark,
what can I say?

- What did we talk about?
- Oh it’s great, you, erm, you were giving me advice

- on my assembly.
- Your what?

Er...

- Did, did I tell you I was a teacher?
- Well that's cheating.

Well, no. Because we were
creating a shorthand...

Hmm, it's a lie, is what it
is. Did you get my number?

- No.
- Oh so, it wasn’t like a huge spark.

It was first thing and you
were in your dressing gown

so, it wasn't really
a numbers vibe.

Did you feel like you were
meeting your future wife?

Was it butterflies?

Well, it was never gonna
be the same as when we met.

What about for me? Did it look
like it felt that way for me?

I think you'll still
be thinking about me.

[gentle piano music plays]

I have to go.

Ross.

I need to know, if he was
behind Dr Gray’s death.

- You already know.
- No. I'm already 90% sure. But I don't know.

And I don't know why.

I feel like we're in a maze. And if we don't
stick together, we're going to lose you.

What's this?

Do you know what you're
supposed to do in a maze?

Tie a rope round yourself. And the
other person holds the other end.

And that way you
don’t lose each other.

How long's the rope?

[soft piano notes]

It's long.

This code doesn't make sense.

[plane screeches into landing]

[anticipating music]

[music intensifies]

[suspenseful music]

I wish it could
always be like this.

[Ross] It could be. It could be
me and you, like this, forever.

- People will get hurt.
- They'll heal.

Everyone heals.

We just have to
be brave, Archie.

Brave enough to live the
lives that we want to.

Come on, let's get something to
eat before the restaurant closes.

You go.

I'll call Jim.

Brave enough to live
the lives, we want to.

I'm telling you,
it's the only way.

[suspenseful music]

- Changed your mind.
- I did.

- You hungry?
- I’m good.

- How was Jim?
- Fine.

- He'll be okay, you know.
- I know.

I need to ask you something.

What do you know about
Operation Midnight?

I don't know anything.

Wes told me about 2012.
She told me about Dr Gray,

about the lab in London.

- What did she tell you?
- Everything.

But I want to hear it from you. I
need to know about that mission.

It was a k*ll mission. k*ll the
scientists, destroy the lab.

- What did Wes tell you before the mission?
- What do you mean?

I mean, did she tell you
you were saving the world,

or did she tell you you were
assassinating an innocent woman?

- She wasn't innocent.
- She was just a scientist.

- Do you know what she’d discovered?
- Time travel.

True time travel.

If she’d been allowed
to complete her research

she'd have created
true time travel.

The potential consequences of
that kind of power, Archie.

Oppenheimer had nothing on
her. Jesus, can you imagine?

In the wrong hands,
what that'd mean?

None of us'd have control
over our lives again.

The world would be chaos. There'd be no
order, no rules. It'd be the end of us.

- You said erm, you said 'scientists.'
- Six disciples.

We were supposed to take them
out, but couldn't find them.

Wes will never stop looking.

You wanna know, if
I feel bad? I don't.

That doctor needed to be k*lled,
her work needed to be destroyed

and when we find her disciples,
they need to be k*lled too.

We have to stop it, before
it becomes a reality, Archie.

And Wes wants to keep
this under wraps?

She doesn't want
it getting out, no.

What would you do,
if I d*ed tomorrow?

I’d find a way to
bring you back.

So, time travel
has its advantages?

The checkpoints have advantages.

And they also have
limits. They have rules.

How would you do it though?

I mean, you can't use the
machine for one person.

I have leverage
over Wes, remember?

Blackmail.

Wes wouldn't like that.

[g*nsh*t]

[expl*si*n]

- She'd probably find a way to get back at you.
- It wouldn't matter.

I'd do it anyway.

We have to try again.

[Wes] The opposition took the
Parliament Building and TV station.

- [Archie] Wes, please Wes...
- [Wes] Our intelligence shows t he mission was successful.

[Archie] Please.

I shouldn't have asked. I'm not
really supposed to know all of this.

It'd be safer for us both, if we
pretend we never had this conversation.

"We just have to be brave enough
to live the lives we want."

I will never forget that.

[delicate piano playing]

Tell him, tell him. Everybody
likes to be fancied.

Unless it's someone they
find repulsive in which case

that's a bad situation. But you're
not repulsive. You're what I'd call

an attractive woman talking
to herself in the toilet.

You've had three and a half pints and
one line of what I assume was cocaine.

You’re gonna go down and
you’re gonna tell him

you’re ready to
ruin the friendship.

In a sexy way. And that's
just what you're gonna do.

[loud electronic music playing]

Hi. I'm Sarah.

Hi, George. Hey I'm, I’m supposed to
be looking for a girl called Sarah.

- Yeah er, it's a different Sarah.
- Well, how do you know that?

- Your friend's brother is trying to set you up.
- Exactly.

- That's not you?
- [Sarah] No. - [George] No?

- [George] Oh, alright.
- Who do you know here?

Uh, no one, really, just my mate
Lawrence but no idea where he is.

- So you're all alone.
- I got you now

and this other Sarah who I'm
supposed to be falling in love with

and living happily ever after but I
got no idea what she looks like so...

Do you want me to
help you find her?

- Seeing as, she's your future soulmate.
- Uh.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, why
not? Let’s, let’s go find her.

Maybe erm, hey maybe we
should look by the punch-bowl?

- Yeah.
- You wanna go look by the punch-bowl?

Let’s, yeah

- Have you ever been speed dating?
- Er, no.

- Well I have been and it's bad, but erm...
- [laughs]

Thank you. There is this thing

where you ask really
important questions

in a small amount of time
to gauge who a person is.

- Do you want to do that?
- I do want to do that. That's exactly what I wanna do.

- It's better than small talk?
- Sure.

[dance music playing]

- Alright, hit me.
- Okay.

If you could look
into a crystal ball

and see five years
into the future,

how would you want
your life to look?

- In five years?
- [Sarah] Yeah.

Er. I just wanna be happy.

- Everyone wants to be happy.
- No, they don't.

Most people don't
want to be happy.

They wanna be chasing something.

D’you know what I mean? They want
more respect, or they want more money

or they want more women, or men, or
fans or followers or clout or whatever.

You know, those people that just never
stop grinding, I do not wanna be that.

No I think that happiness,
actual contentment,

is something that most people
are never gonna achieve.

And d’you know why?

Cause they, they're always on the
journey, they’re never at the destination

and that’s not gonna be me.

Like, I wanna arrive at
the life I’m gonna live

and I wanna be able to look around and
realise I got it and should be happy.

- That's actually, that's actually really nice.
- Right?

Ah sh*t, erm, I gotta

- can you wait?
- Yeah.

- I’ll just be two secs.
- Don't run off with any other Sarahs.

I won't.

[George] Hello?

[music intensifies]

Lawrence, what the f*ck is
wrong with this guy, man?

[groans]

- Hey.
- Oh, hey. Hey.

You didn't run off then.

Er, no, no, I didn't

cause, cause we were already, we were already
chatting, obviously. Ah ok, that's good.

No I didn’t, I didn’t,
didn't run off.

- Good I'm glad.
- Hmm.

So, erm, where were we?

We were talking about where we
want our lives to be in five years.

Fine, where do you want your
life to be in five years?

I actually liked your answer.
I think I wanna be happy, too.

- Oh what, so you’re, you’re not happy?
- Sometimes.

My life is a little
complicated at the moment.

- Why?
- Relationship stuff.

Oh, you too? Like, what,
do you like someone?

- Yeah I do.
- Not sure if they like you back.

No I know he likes me back.

Er.

Honestly, my life’s been f*cking

turned on its head and
it's just been a lot.

I mean honestly, I completely
understand what that feels like.

Well here's to life
being turned on its head.

[glass clinks]

- Do you want another one?
- Yeah, why not.



No matter what year I'm in, I'm still stuck
trying to fix that bloody time machine

for dung wielding lunatics

Same thing I've been
doing all my life

I should go back to 1976,
tell my dad to wear a condom.

Do me a favor.

[Zhang] What the f*ck.

What’s that?

I don't think The Dane was on the
same mission as the rest of us.

[suspenseful music]

- You know, I was thinking about what you said earlier.
- What was that?

Well, just about how children
actually like to be scared.

- Wait, what?
- What you said in the newsagent this morning.

- The newsagent, George?
- Yeah?

- No. George. You're George.
- Yeah, I am.

- No, you're f*cking 2024 George!
- Sarah? - Yeah.

Why are you, what, what
are you doing here?

I don't know, I came, I wanted,
just what are you doing here?!

- I came here to see you!
- Me? - Well, yeah .

- Other me.
- Er.

You prefer her, don't you?
What did you do to yourself?

I dunno, Sarah, everything's
been so hard recently...

No, I mean what did you do with
yourself. Where's old George?

Oh, I tranquillised him
and left him in a garden.

Yeah, yeah we should...

[George] Don't worry,
this stuff knocks you out.

He ain't gonna
know hat day it is.

sh*t. I swear I left me here.

[sighs]

[groans]

[Sarah] Are you okay?

I think someone att*cked me.

Oh my God. Come and sit down.

- What happened?
- I dunno. Some bloke just came up behind me.

He must have bashed me
over the head or something.

He stole my shirt.

We met earlier at the
shop. Do you remember?

sh*t, I must have
concussion, cause I don't.

I mean, I definitely would
remember meeting you.

We met, it was really
nice, actually.

Yeah?

This is so weird.

Just cause, I have been
thinking about you all day.

Well, I bet I was thinking
about you all day too.

- Is that you?
- Er, I'll get the next one.

[bus roars past]

See. We always find each other.

Yeah, I guess we do.

Because he hit you hard...
- [g*nsh*t]

[George groaning]

[George] What the sh*t.

- No, no, no, no, no! Wait! Wait...
- [g*nshots]

- [Becky] How are you here?
- You were at the underground station.

[Becky] Answer the
question. How are you here?

[Bryson] There was a light.

Felt like I was being pulled,
like I was being catapulted

[panting]

[suspenseful music]

Me and him are connected
somehow. Where he goes, I go.

[Becky] You don't remember
me, do you? Bryson.

[Bryson] Becky?

- I was sure you would have d*ed.
- I lived.

I lived for a reason.
To keep him safe.

- Well, he's dead now.
- No, it's only for five weeks. He'll come back.

Then I'll find him
and k*ll him again.

- You don't know what he is.
- Yes, I do. He's going to save us.

He does terrible things,
Becky, I've seen him.

Whatever he does, he does
for the right reasons.

You go, wherever he goes
and you'll see that.

I should have protected
you. At the lab.

I tried. I'm so sorry.

I don't need protecting.

You wanna help me,
then you help him.

Or you stay out of our way.

[melancholy music]

You're still up?

[Zhang] Did you speak to Ross?

Wes ordered the hit on Gray.

Ross and Janet carried it out
and then they covered it up.

[Samson] Why the cover up?

[Rebrov] The Lazarus Project like to think
of themselves as a benevolent organisation.

Executing civilians
rather undoes that.

It wasn't just Gray
they were after.

Wes wanted the disciples k*lled.

She still does.

I think Wes sent the Dane to blow
up the machine and k*ll everyone.

The disciples

Janet and Becky.

- f*cking snake!
- Tell them.

[Archie] Tell us, what?

Someone reprogrammed the
machine before we left.

We were never going back to 2023. We were
on our way to 2012 when the system crashed.

Hence, how we got here.


go back to the source.

Wipe out any trace of anyone who might
be able to build a true time machine.

- k*ll the idea, before it became an idea.
- Can you fix the machine?

I have.

When we loop back, when
we're back in the air,

I think, I can stop
us crashing into 2018

but I can't reprogram the destination
with the equipment I’ve got.

We're going to 2012.
Whether we like it, or not.

Okay. We loop back
in five weeks.

We'll wake up on the plane again,
Samson will fix the computer

So we can complete our mission
in 2012 and rescue Janet.

I can't wait that long.

[sh*ts fired]

- Don't you f*cking...
- [sh*t fired]

[dramatic music]

[g*nsh*t]

[plane turbulence]

[Samson] Hold on!

Let me just... she's going on.

[expl*si*n]

[Archie] Fix it, Samson, fix it.

[plane jolts]

[screen flickers]

[Samson] Hold on it's happening!

[expl*si*n]

[alarms sounding]

[gasps]

Everyone okay?

[Rebrov] They know
what’s in your bag.

What are you really doing here?

I have orders.

Total destruction.
Everything missed last time

the lab, the scientists, the
documents, everything. Everyone.

Janet?

It can’t survive. None
of it. It all has to go.

k*ll it at the
root. You know this.

Do you have orders
to k*ll Janet?

You know. You have to do this.

- Do you have orders to k*ll Janet?
- [Archie] Rebrov.

- Everyone! They all...
- [g*nsh*t]

[Sarah] Oh my God!

[George] What the sh*t?

[Rebrov] Archie.

- [Archie] That man was a friend of mine.
- Get better f*cking friends.

- Who's gonna k*ll my mum?
- If someone was gonna k*ll your mum, what would you do?

- Probably sh**t them in the head.
- There you go then.

We’re on a rescue mission
Archie. He were on a k*ll mission

We're saving Janet.

We're here now

We're saving Janet.

And Becky.

We're bringing them home.

A home that makes sense. No loops,
no more time travel, just...

just

home.