04x04 - Nostos

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As a deadly virus rages through the world's population, the crew of a lone unaffected naval vessel tries to save humanity from total extinction. "The Last Ship" is based on the novel of the same name by William Brinkley.
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04x04 - Nostos

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[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS IN DISTANCE]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]



KARA: Captain Slattery was last seen

underneath the fight arena.

Vulture team split up
to take on the hostiles.

CO had the package.

Somehow he got cut off from the rest,

and he's been radio silent ever since.

- With the seeds?
- Yes, sir. With the seeds.

And no word on the buyer. Who
he is? What his assets are?

No, sir. As a precaution,

I recommend Nathan James
move to a more secure location.

I've identified a jagged
stretch of coastline here.

nautical miles north of our PIM.

It will hide the ship, but also
allow us to remain close enough

to maintain radio contact
and help with exfil.

Very well. And you're
sure of what you heard,

about who joined the team on the ground?

Yes, sir. Tom Chandler.



All right. The fight pit's
here. Nora Pula's this way.

Where are your rally points?

Rally point Alpha is here.

Abandoned square outside
of town, clicks west.

Helo's still doing racetracks.

BURK: Should've only taken
him, what, minutes on foot?

- DANNY: He's gotta be hurt.
- Or they already found him.

No, I don't think so.

There's still too many
bad guys out there looking.

Uh, RHIB's parked at rally
point Bravo, on the beach.

It'll be crawling with
Giorgio's men very soon.

We took his yacht into town.

Diaz, this is Green. Be on
the lookout for the CO on E&E.

RAY: Roger that. Eyes open.

How many men does Giorgio have?

Dozen or so fighters.
His personal detail.

Omar travels with an army.

[MEN SHOUT INDISTINCTLY]

Streets are getting hot. We gotta move.

All right, we break up into small teams.

Hit both rally points
simultaneously in case...

Split up?

We're already outnumbered.

We stay together, we stand
a chance if things go south.

Who are you? Who is he?

Part of the team that's
been saving the world

for the last year.

Captain Slattery is on evade and escape,

operating in the blind.

No comms, no weapons, possibly injured,

and carrying what seems to be

the most important thing in the world.

Since we know where he's
heading, we have an advantage.

Small groups means more flexibility,

the ability to move faster

and possibly... hopefully... Find him.

But that's just my opinion.

I'm new here. It's your show.

We split up.

It is an honor, Captain Tom.





[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

[GRUNTS SOFTLY]

[GROANING]

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

MAN: You two are the
butt of the biggest con

since Ulysses jumped
out of a wooden horse.

Tom Chandler, on my yacht, in my house.

And you two let it happen.

I was that close to that guy.

I was that close.

He could've recognized me.

I didn't know it was Tom Chandler.

I-I thought he was just a fisherman.

What did you say?
What did you say to me?

Hmm? What did you say to me?

I thought he was just a fisherman.

A fisherman. You thought.

God, Giorgio, we are in the midst

of a tectonic shift of a
paradigm of human behavior.

Now is not the time for you to think.

We sealed off the ports.

He can't have gone far.
Not with just a few men.

It wasn't just a few men.

He was working for the U.S. Navy
and the British Intelligence.

- You don't know that.
- Omar told us.

He was stalling you until
his team could arrive.

- I was doing my job.
- Giorgio, that's why he tricked you

- into getting the seeds!
- At least I kept my clothes on!

Shut up! Listen!

Okay.

Okay. [SIGHS]

Giorgio, you will get your
mongrels out onto the street

and you will bring me seeds,
or you will bring me hostages.

- Clear?
- Yes.

Lucia, darling, there
is a U.S. Navy ship

out there somewhere. I don't know where.

But you will find it
and you will sink it

to the bottom of the
great sea. Understood?

Those seeds do not leave
this godforsaken island.

He hurt you. Didn't he?

Yes.

And now there's a great storm

- welling up inside you, right?
- Yes.

- You're angry.
- Yes, Father.

And how does anger feel?

It feels terrible.

So put it to good use.

Won't be long now.

Set up more checkpoints,
break down doors,

whatever it takes.

- I want my money.
- And I want my seeds.

You were working with the Americans.

I was set up. We all were.

If you k*ll me,

- you get nothing.
- Double.

- What?
- I will help you find the seeds,

- you pay me double.
- [SIGHS] Fine.

We started on the east
side. You take the west.

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

DANNY: Been in Italy all this time?

CHANDLER: Greece.

MILLER: Leave the Navy, see the world?

Something like that.

Rally point Alpha is up ahead.

Miller, Green, you
approach from the south.

- We'll take it from the east.
- Copy that.



So what are we supposed to call him now?

"Hey, Tom"? "Mr. Chandler"?

I'd stick with "Captain."

Right.

[MEN SPEAK INDISTINCTLY]

Sunshine, what's your whiskey?

RODNEY: [FILTERED VOICE]
seconds from rally Alpha.


Local search came up empty.

FLETCHER: Copy that.



Our intel said the buyer
had the know-how and the labs

to fight the plant virus.

You were with him.

Giorgio's a thug, but
he answers to somebody.

The woman he was with at the Coliseum?

The one watching you fight?

His sister.



- SASHA: Green, any sign of the CO?
- Negative.

[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]

FLETCHER: Sunshine, we
have a visual on you.


No sign of Charlie Oscar.

Nothing from up here either.

- I'll put her down and...
- [g*nf*re]

KATHLEEN: Contact, three o'clock!

- Hold your fire!
- [g*nf*re CONTINUES]

[GRUNTS]

[SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

Too many! Too many! Do not engage!

It's too hot!

Mother, we're taking heavy
fire. We gotta get outta here!

Should we engage?

Rally point is blown.
Mike'll go for Bravo.

Negative, Green. Abort.

Too many hostiles and no sign of
the CO. Scram rally point Alpha.

Copy that. Moving to rally point Bravo.

Hang on!

Let's go.

Copy that, Sunshine. Scram point Alpha.

Widen your aerial search
and proceed to Bravo.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[EXHALES DEEPLY, GRUNTS]

[HELICOPTER APPROACHING]

Cobra team, Alpha's blown.
Request SITREP Bravo.

All quiet here. No sign of hostiles.

No sign of the CO either.

- Mike has to be hurt or pinned down.
- I know.

We need to do a full grid search,

- go street by street...
- Tom, I know. I've got it.

All teams, this is Vulture.
We need to sweep the area.

Burk, stay at Bravo with the RHIB.

If the CO turns up, get
him the hell out of there.

Everyone else, we need to circle out

from each rally point and
start the grid search.


Fletcher, Chandler, and I
will work from the north.


Miller, Green, start from the south.

Talk to the locals, go door-to-door,

do whatever you have to, but find him.

Be advised, hostiles
are doing the same thing.

Cobra copies.

- Captain Chandler?
- You heard right.



Just can't help yourself, can you?

- Old habits.
- Glad to see you still have 'em.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[PANTING]

[GRUNTING]

[MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

[PANTING]

[CLATTER]

[CONTINUES PANTING]

[GASPS]

[SPEAKS ITALIAN]

It's okay.







No, no, no, no, no. No.
[SPEAKS ITALIAN] No.

[SPEAKING ITALIAN]

I have to go. I have to go.

[CONTINUES SPEAKING ITALIAN]

[CONTINUES SPEAKING ITALIAN]

[EXHALES]

[CONTINUES SPEAKING ITALIAN]

Si?

Si.

Thank you.

[OBJECTS CLATTERING]

[SIPS]

[EXHALES DEEPLY]



- Your son?
- Si.

[SPEAKING ITALIAN] _

_

I've lost family, too.

[SIGHS] I'm sorry.

This smell... What is this?

Nostos.

[DRAPES WHOOSH]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

[AZIMA SPEAKS ITALIAN]

- [MAN SPEAKS ITALIAN]
- AZIMA: Grazie.

He says he has not seen
an American here in months.

- You believe him?
- Not a word.



[WHISPERS] Hold on, hold on.

DANNY: Looks like Omar's
guys and the new assholes.

Well, aren't they just
one big happy family?

No one will talk. They're too scared.

Giorgio has a lot of
influence in this region.

The longer this takes,

the more time they have
to find the Captain and us.

So we level the playing field.

[SPEAKING GREEK]

[GRUNTS]

[SHOUTING IN GREEK]

[GRUNTING]

[g*n THUDS]



[GRUNTS]

- [CUP THUDS]
- No. No, no, no, no.

[SPEAKING ITALIAN]

- [INHALES SHARPLY]
- [SPEAKS ITALIAN]

- [KNOCK ON DOOR]
- [GASPS]

[POUNDING ON DOOR]

Go. [SPEAKS ITALIAN] Go, go. Vai, vai!

[SPEAKS ITALIAN]

[GRUNTS]

[POUNDING ON DOOR RESUMES]

[SPEAKING ITALIAN] _

_

[SPEAKING ITALIAN] _

_

_

_

_

_

[CONVERSATION CONTINUES
IN ITALIAN, DISTORTED]



I didn't know a staycation
could be so much fun.

We should send the kids
to Grandma's more often.



[TYPING]

TAO! EW detecting a new radar
emission at bearing true,

moving south-southwest.

It's rounding the tip of
the island. What is it?

Analyzing radar band and frequency, sir.

We've got an X-band radar signal.
Plugging it into the library now.

SSES has indication of an EHF
transmission signal.

Aye, ma'am.

Based on the parameters,
I've identified contact

as a... Hellenic Navy vessel...

Hydra Class.

- A Greek warship?
- That's no coincidence.

Is it possible the Greeks
are behind this whole thing?

Let's not jump to conclusions. Not
long ago, we were all part of NATO.

Which means they know our battle plans.

EW, any signs of hostile intent?

No, ma'am, so far, no
aggressive maneuvering.

And fire control is not engaged.

Gator, how protected are
we along this coastline?

Well, sir, as long as
we stay close to land,

they shouldn't be able to
distinguish us from the rocks, sir.

- Set EMCON Condition Alpha.
- Aye, sir.

This is your TAO. Set
EMCON Condition Alpha.

And get eyes on the
horizon for that ship.

Yes, sir.

Hydra Class.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS IN DISTANCE]

Stavros.

- Where's Giorgio?
- Do I look like Giorgio to you?

Where are we?

Almost to Nora Pula, Ms. Lucia.

And the U.S. Navy ship?

If it's out there, we haven't seen it.

It's out there. I can feel it.

Keep looking.

[FOOTSTEPS DEPART]

[MAN SPEAKING GREEK ON RADIO]

- Can you make out what they're saying?
- No.

Well, wait, wait, wait.

[MAN CONTINUES SPEAKING IN GREEK]

Something's happened.

- American...
- You speak Greek now?

[MAN CONTINUES IN GREEK]

At a house a few blocks from here.

That's gotta be Mike.



- [DOOR CREAKS OPEN]
- Jesus.

[DOOR CLOSES]

[CLATTER]

Did you at least get something
from her before you...

He's close.

And he's hurt.

[SIGHS]

[CLICK]

CHRISTINE'S VOICE: [WHISPERING] Mikey.

Mikey.

[LAUGHTER]

[BELL TOLLING]

[BELL CONTINUES TOLLING]

[MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY IN DISTANCE]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Copy that, Nathan James.

There's a Greek warship
approaching the island.

Stavros.

He came by Giorgio's house.

Got something.

The CO's injured.

Looks like she was trying to help him.

And he's been drugged.

How do you know?

I've seen this before.

Mike won't make it
far in this condition.

Let's move.



[MEN SPEAKING GREEK]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

HANNAH: Okay, open your eyes.

I'm a warrior princess, Daddy.





[WIND WHOOSHES]

Hey, Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

I made this for you, Dad.

It's a Navy SEAL.

[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

It says, "For my dad."

This is the Navy SEALs.

His name is... [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]

And he likes to...
[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

And he has a lot of friends...

I think he's really
cool. Do you like it?

Do you like it, Dad?

You're a commander.

I love it, pal.

[GRUNTS]

[PANTING]

[WHIRRING]

- [SNIPPING]
- How's it look?

Molto brutto.

So the latest genetic
modification didn't work.

We need the code. We need those seeds.

We'll get the seeds.

Listen, Dad, the other research,
I've been reading it over.

- And?
- It's gonna work.

You think so?

The other subjects... They
all had the same result.

No side effects, no hindrance
of other normal brain function.

- We're gonna do this.
- That's what I've been saying.

- My boy.
- They're gonna get those seeds.

They're gonna get 'em, Dad.

And then, we'll finish
this. We're so close.

[SPEAKING ITALIAN]



[EQUIPMENT BEEPING STEADILY]

Master Chief?

[BEEPING CONTINUES]

Looks like someone's
trying to get our attention.

Let's take a closer look.

JETER: It's definitely a signal mirror.

Long, short, long, short.

Morse code.

Long, long, long. Now
it's starting over.

Charlie Oscar.

- Charlie Oscar. Do you see him?
- No.

But I do see where the
signal is coming from.

The top of that cathedral.



ALISHA: All teams, be advised.

We have Charlie Oscar's location.

He's at the cathedral.

Copy that.

Copy that.

We see it.

He found high ground.

Let's go get him.



Mother, this is Sunshine.

We are mikes out, heading
to high ground for exfil.

Copy, Sunshine. Vulture,
what's your whiskey?

Vulture team is
approaching the cathedral.

Miller, Green, you're with us. Burk.

Move.

- [g*nsh*t, g*nf*re]
- Aah!

- [MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
- Aah!

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING CONTINUES]

[GRUNTS]



[PANTING]

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]

[g*nf*re CONTINUES]


[SHOUTING CONTINUES]

Aah!

[SHOUTING CONTINUES]

[g*nf*re CONTINUES]

[SHOUTING IN GREEK]

Go, go, go! Inside! Inside!

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]

Staircase in back.

- Sunshine, we need...
- [g*nshots]

Aah!

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

[g*nf*re CONTINUES]

[BREATHES UNEVENLY]

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

Don't worry. They're
trapped. I'll get my seeds.

[GRUNTS]

- And I'll keep my money.
- [HAMMER CLICKS]

LUCIA: Giorgio, where are you?

We got them. They're
on the cathedral roof.

Look for their helicopter.

Ugh.

I've got something.

What is it? Moving quickly, staying low.

TAO, EW detecting
active fire control radar

from the Greek warship, track - - - !

All stations. Stand by
to intercept if they fire.

Prepare countermeasures.

MAN: Aye, prepare countermeasures.

Sir?

They're not aiming for us.

[RAPID BEEPING]

Nathan James, we're being painted.

- Attempting to evade.
- Do not let it touch down.

If those seeds get on board, we're done.

Yes, Lucia.

[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]

Move!

- [INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
- Calculating fire solutions now.

k*ll them.

- [RAPID BEEPING]
- Damn it, they've still got us.

Hang on, Nolan.

[BEEPING CONTINUES]

- Damn it.
- Where did they go?

I don't know.

[ENGINE DRONING LOUDLY]

- Nice trick, Warrant.
- Mother, we shook 'em for now,

but I'm gonna have to stick
out my neck to get up there.

He'll need at least
seconds to clearance.

Recommend we engage the Greek ship.

- We know where she is...
- Negative.

Right now we're hiding in plain sight.

The moment we fire,
they'll be able to see us.

If they get one lucky sh*t on us,

Vulture team will be
stranded along with the seeds.

What if they saw two of us, sir?

[EQUIPMENT BEEPS]

It's not quite what it was designed for,

but I think it'll work.

Ready Nulka.

- Gator, find me a new hiding spot.
- Yes, sir.

Stand by to exfil on my command.

Copy that. Nolan?

Ready.

Mike!

[DISTORTED SHOUTING]

[ECHOES] Mike!

Mike?

It is Mike, right?

Tom Chandler. Nice to meet you.

Same here. Hell of a ship you got here.

I got lucky.

[EQUIPMENT BEEPING]

[INHALES SHARPLY]

[SEABIRDS CALLING]



You're looking pretty good
in that chair, XO.


[INHALES, EXHALES]

How does it feel?

[CLICKS TONGUE] I think
I'm gonna like this view.

You like Cubans?

BURK: I can hear 'em
coming. Hurry it up.

DANNY: Hand me one more.



WOLF: Charge set. Here you go, Fletcher.

Okay, everyone take cover.

Is he okay? Is he hit?

DANNY: Let's go, Nathan
James,
where's that helo?

It's now or never, Sunshine!

KARA: Sunshine, stand by
to exfil on my command.


- Nulka ready?
- Yes, ESSM ready to fire.

- Gator, are we in position?
- Yes, sir. We can make it.

- KARA: Sunshine, go for exfil.
- RODNEY: Roger that.

Here we go!

[RAPID BEEPING]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

There you are.

We have a target.

Fire.



[WHOOSHING]

SAM inbound to helo, bearing !

Air, k*ll track, with birds.

Aye, k*lling track with birds.

[RAPID BEEPING]

Damn it!

- Battle damage assessment?
- m*ssile splashed.

Ah.

But we have the U.S. Navy ship.

Prepare to fire.



I have the ship.

Target solution confirmed.

- They see us now.
- X-band radar detected,

- down bearing line - - true!
- [RAPID BEEPING]

Let's give that ship a bigger target.

Stand by for Nulka!

- Fire!
- [WHOOSHING]

Bulldog inbound, bearing !

Heads up track , deploy
Nulka countermeasures now!

Nulka away.

[WHOOSHING]



[BEEPING]

[SPEAKING GREEK] _

- Did we hit it?
- It's like we fired at a ghost.

NISHIOKA: m*ssile splashed.

Nulka was successful.

Gator?

We made it to the inlet,
sir. That ship can't see us.

- [POUNDING ON DOOR]
- Door won't hold for long!

When the door blows, I'll
aim low, and you aim high.

Stay down, Mike. Stay down!

- [POUNDING CONTINUES]
- [GROANS]

[MEN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]

[DISTORTED SPEAKING]

Mike.

[BOTTLE THUDS]

Meant to give you this.

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Spear of the Navy, huh?

Damn right.



A last minute FRAGO.

They want us to escort some
scientist to the Arctic.

Quick deployment just for the summer.

Yeah, but it's summer for the kids.

No camping trips, no fishing, no Dad.

- You tell them yet?
- Tonight.

[CHILDREN SHOUTING PLAYFULLY]

Lucas...

Lucas!

Lucas!



[MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY, g*nf*re]

Can't wait on that helo,
Fletcher. Let her go!

-inch steel!

[expl*si*n]

[g*nf*re, INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

[FIRECRACKERS POPPING]

[FIREWORKS WHISTLING]

[POPPING CONTINUES]

Lucas!

[POPPING CONTINUES]

Where are you, buddy?!

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

[POPPING CONTINUES]

[g*nf*re, INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

[g*nf*re CONTINUES]

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING CONTINUES]

Lucas.

Lucas.

Hey, Lucas, hey. I
know it's a few months,

and that's a long time,

but I'll still read
your bedtime stories.

How?

I'll make recordings before I deploy.

You can play a chapter every night.

Well, maybe I could record
something for you, too.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'd love that.

Okay.

Let's get you down.

All you gotta do is jump,
buddy. I'll catch ya.

[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]

That's your ride, Mike!

Come on, son. Now's the time.

I'll catch you. I promise.



Oh!

[BLADES WHIRRING LOUDLY]

CHANDLER: Easy, Mike.

We got the seeds. You can let go now!

I wanna go back.

I wanna go back.



The Americans won't get far.

They have no allies in
the Med. They're all alone.

Apparently, they're
doing just fine that way.

I couldn't sh**t down
the helicopter, Father,

not with those seeds on board.

Those seeds should not have
been on board to begin with.

Listen, Dad, we know you're upset...

Upset? Upset?

I don't even know what upset means.

I'm distraught, I'm
frustrated, I'm disappointed,

I'm... I'm disillusioned.

I coddled you two.

I gave you everything, everything...

Money, power, trust, an entire
m*llitary at your disposal.

What am I supposed to do now?

What am I to do?

Even if we find that ship,

how can I declare w*r against
it with the seeds on board?

I'm rendered impotent.

Impotent!

Maybe a m*llitary option
isn't the only answer.

- Dad, look, I...
- Shh.

Maybe there's another
way to get our seeds.

[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING]

["SHIVER ME TIMBERS"
BY TOM WAITS PLAYING]





♪ I'm leavin' my family ♪

♪ And leavin' all my friends ♪

♪ My body's at home ♪

♪ But my heart's in the wind ♪

♪ Where the clouds
are like headlines ♪

♪ On a new front page sky ♪

♪ My tears are salt water ♪

♪ And the moon's full and high ♪

♪ And I know Martin Eden's ♪

♪ Gonna be proud of me ♪

♪ And many before me ♪

♪ Who've been called by the sea ♪

♪ To be up in the crow's nest ♪

♪ And singin' my say ♪

♪ Shiver me timbers ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm a-sailin' away ♪

♪ And the fog's liftin' ♪

♪ And the sand's shiftin' ♪

♪ And I'm driftin' on out ♪

♪ And Ol' Captain Ahab ♪

♪ He ain't got nothin' on me ♪

♪ So come on and swallow me, follow me ♪

♪ I'm trav'lin' alone ♪

♪ Blue water's my daughter ♪

♪ I'm gonna skip like a stone ♪

♪ And I'm leavin' my family ♪

♪ Leavin' all my friends ♪

♪ And shiver me timbers ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm a-sailin' ♪

♪ Away ♪
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