dollhouse ep13 epitaph one
TRANSCRIPT
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX
INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION
DOLLHOUSE
“EPITAPH ONE”
SEASON 1 - EPISODE #1APK13
As Broadcast Script
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DOLLHOUSE
“EPITAPH ONE”
ACT ONE
EXT. ALLEY-NIGHT
(A WOMAN NAMED MEG IS IN A DARK ALLEY WITH A GUN AND WEARING
A BACKPACK; THERE ARE FIRES IN THE ALLEY)
MEG: (sigh)
VOICES: (os) (unintelligible shouting all around)
MEG: (sighs)
(SHE PUTS A RADIO TO HER MOUTH)
MEG (CONT’D): (into radio) Exaltation, this is Meg.
GRIFF: (vo) This is Griff. Go, Meg.
MEG: (into radio) Northeast of Spring and
Fifth. Green Room is open but the party
is crashed.
GRIFF: (vo) Roger that. Any wielders?
MEG: (into radio) Negative. Just butchers and
dumb shows. But it’s pretty thick. Come
in as soft as you can.
VOICE: (vo) Will do. Ditch the tech.
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MEG: (into radio) Ditch the tech.
(MEG THROWS THE RADIO AS FAR AS SHE CAN AND SITS DOWN)
MEG (CONT’D): (sighs) (starts crying)
(THE CAMERA PANS UP OVER THE BUILDING; THERE ARE MORE FIRES
AND PEOPLE ARE FIGHTING)
MAIN TITLE
TITLE: Dollhouse
EXT. ALLEY-LATER
(A GROUP OF PEOPLE, GRIFF, LYNN, ZONE, IRIS, AND MR. MILLER,
APPROACH MEG)
CHYRON: Los Angeles 2019
VOICES: (os) (screams/unintelligible shouts
throughout)
GRIFF: Okay. How far to the new hole?
MEG: Where’s Laura?
GRIFF: Butcher.
MEG: She got torn?
LYNN: She got printed. Almost (os) took a bit
out of Iris before we noticed.
ZONE: I put her down.
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GRIFF: She’s at peace.
(ZONE LOOKS CLOSER AT MEG’S FACE)
ZONE: What’s wrong with your face?
MEG: It’s my face. Get out of it.
(THERE’S AN EXPLOSION SOMEWHERE)
ZONE: Were you crying?
GRIFF: (os) Hey, (on camera) let’s focus,
people. We need to get underground.
ZONE: (os) We need to get out of the city.
GRIFF: We wouldn’t make it three miles.
ZONE: (os) Yeah? So we live in the (on camera)
sewer? Come on. We need to get into the
desert. No tech, no printing.
LYNN: Unless China puts down another blanket
(os) signal.
(MEG MOVES NEXT TO GRIFF)
GRIFF: (os) Look, we decided. (on camera) We go
underground, deep as we can. (os) How’s
the crossing?
MEG: (os) Doable. (on camera) We’ll need a
barker though. It’s crowded out there.
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ZONE: Let’s draw straws.
(ZONE STEPS FORWARD)
ZONE (CONT’D): Oh, mine’s shorter. Damn it. Tell Trudy
I loved her best.
(ZONE COCKS HIS WEAPON)
GRIFF: Zone’s barker. Meg, you’re on point.
Lynn is the (os) mother. (on camera) We
good?
(ZONE NODS)
MEG: Let’s go.
(ZONE RUNS TOWARD THE FIGHTING PEOPLE AND STARTS SHOOTING AS
THE GROUP HEADS ANOTHER DIRECTION)
ZONE: (loud cries)
(ZONE JUMPS UP ON A CAR AND CONTINUES SHOOTING PEOPLE)
ZONE (CONT’D): I’m insane!
(THE GROUP COMES AROUND NEAR HIM)
ZONE (CONT’D): (os) And none of you (on camera) gonna be
spared!
(HE CONTINUES SHOOTING AS THE GROUP REACHES THEIR
DESTINATION)
GRIFF: Zone? Now’s (os) now!
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(ZONE JUMPS DOWN AND HEADS TOWARD THEM)
INT. UNDERGROUND-LATER
(THE GROUP GETS TO THE BOTTOM OF A LADDER; ZONE WATCHES
MILLER AND IRIS AS HE TALKS TO MEG)
ZONE: Look, the kid is one thing. But dragging
that dumb show around...
MEG: The kid won’t leave his side yet.
ZONE: We don’t go near those freaks of
nature... ever. (os) We only roll with
actuals. Those... we put out of their
misery.
MEG: You want to be the one to tell the little
girl we gotta plug her dad?
ZONE: Sure. (louder) Hey, kid. Guess what...?
GRIFF: (interrupting) Stop it.
(GRIFF, MEG, AND ZONE STOP TO TALK)
GRIFF (CONT’D): Look. We let her get used to us for a
few days. And then we’ll ditch the old
man.
ZONE: (sigh)
(THEY CONTINUE ON; THEY HEAR A RADIO MAKING NOISES; ZONE
SHOOTS IT)
ZONE (CONT’D): (os) Fine.
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(THEY MOVE ON AND MEG COVERS HER FACE WHEN SHE SMELLS
SOMETHING)
MEG: (sniff)
(THEY PASS BY A DEAD MAN AND HIS DEAD DOG)
GRIFF: (breathes in) Smells like home.
(THE GROUP CONTINUES FORWARD)
LYNN: (os) Guys, check this out!
(THEY SEE A HOLE IN THE FLOOR; GRIFF TOSSES DOWN A FLARE;
IT DROPS INTO A ROOM BELOW)
MEG: Who said “the deeper the better?”
(GRIFF HOOKS A ROPE TO A RAILING AND DROPS THE ROPE THROUGH
THE HOLE; THEY HEAR A NOISE)
ZONE: (os) Butchers coming. If they smell us,
they will come down.
(ZONE PUTS IRIS ON HIS BACK)
ZONE (CONT’D): Cover our tracks with a tripper. (os) At
least now we’ll know if they crash the
party.
MONTAGE OF CLIPS
(MEG LOWERS INTO THE ROOM BELOW AS GRIFF SETS A CHARGE WITH
A TRIPWIRE ABOVE; CUT TO MEG AND THE OTHERS LOOKING AROUND
AS GRIFF JOINS THEM)
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GRIFF: God. That was long. There was supposed
to be a subway service tunnel there.
(GRIFF LOOKS AROUND WITH HIS FLASHLIGHT AND WE KNOW FOR SURE
THAT THEY ARE IN THE DOLLHOUSE’S MAIN ROOM)
GRIFF (CONT’D): It’s something else.
MEG: (os) So I guess we’re (on camera) not in
a sewer.
ZONE: Any ideas?
LYNN: It looks like a spa.
MEG: Eight stories underground?
LYNN: It’s got air.
GRIFF: Yeah.
LYNN: Air for who?
GRIFF: Some kind of power’s (os) on.
LYNN: This place is empty.
GRIFF: Let’s make sure of that. Let’s split.
Lynn and I will check the perimeter.
Look for a generator. And hey. There’s
no signal can get through down here. (os)
No sewage. (on camera) Which means we
just walked into paradise. Keep your
eyes open and your weapons (os) cocked.
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(on camera) Paradise wasn’t built to take
in strays.
(GRIFF AND LYNN WALK AWAY AS THE OTHERS LOOK AROUND)
ZONE: That guy sure loves the sound of his own
voice.
MEG: We all love the sound of our own voices.
(os) That’s why we’re here. To keep our
own voices.
(CUT TO THE TREATMENT ROOM)
ZONE: (os) With no signal down here, how’s
anyone gonna take it?
(A PLASTIC IS PULLED OFF THE TREATMENT CHAIR BY SOMEONE)
END ACT ONE
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ACT TWO
INT. TOPHER’S OFFICE/TREATMENT ROOM-NIGHT
(ZONE AND MEG LEAD THE WAY IN)
ZONE/MEG: (ragged breathing)
ZONE: What was this? Some kind of Romper Room?
MEG: Must’ve been a daycare. Had the kids
play where everyone could see ‘em.
ZONE: Lot of tech for a playroom.
(IRIS AND MILLER LOOK AROUND BEHIND THEM)
MEG: You see who printed Laura?
ZONE: Mm-mm. Could’ve gotten too close to a
boom box.
MEG: She say anything?
ZONE: Yeah. She read her last will and
testament. (os) Then...
(IRIS PICKS UP A TOY AND PLAYS WITH IT)
ZONE (CONT’D): (os) ...she recited the Gettysburg
Address. She was (on camera) walking and
she was wiped. I put her down and moved
the hell on. Don’t get all... womanly.
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MEG: I just wish...
ZONE: (os) What? That you could’ve (on camera)
said goodbye?
MEG: I wish it’d been you.
ZONE: (laugh)
(SUDDENLY THERE IS A NOISE AND SOME LIGHTS COME IN THE MAIN
ROOM; THEY LOOK OUT THE WINDOWS AS IRIS RUNS DOWN TO THE
LOWER LEVEL)
MILLER: (os) Wow. They got the genny running.
(ZONE AND MEG TAKE OFF THEIR GEAR AS IRIS SITS IN A CHAIR
BELOW WITH ANOTHER TOY)
MEG: (os) Zone.
ZONE: (os) (grunt)
(MEG AND ZONE HEAD TOWARD A DOOR)
MEG: Over here.
(THEY ENTER THE TREATMENT ROOM AND SEE THE CHAIR AS GRIFF
AND LYNN JOIN THEM)
LYNN: We found some breakers. That was easier
than I thought...
(THEY STARE AT THE CHAIR WITH MEG, ZONE, AND MILLER)
GRIFF: What the hell is this?
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MEG: It looks familiar.
ZONE: Yeah. Grandpa used to kick back in one
of these, watch the Dodger game.
LYNN: (os) No, no. She’s right. (on camera)
Was it on the news?
GRIFF: Not this place.
ZONE: I more and more feel we should’ve gone to
the desert.
(GRIFF PRESSES A MONITOR SCREEN BEHIND THE CHAIR AND THE
SCREEN COMES ON; ZONE QUICKLY AIMS HIS RIFLE)
ZONE (CONT’D): Tech!
GRIFF: (os) Easy. (on camera) There’s no signal
down here.
ZONE: No bars. What about a hard line?
LYNN: (os) No. I don’t think so. (on camera) I
saw some fiber optics cut over by the
power box. I think this place is closed
off.
ZONE: Well, I’ll just wait over here.
(ZONE MOVES TOWARD THE DOOR)
GRIFF: This is for printing.
MEG: Crap.
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(MEG STEPS BACK AS GRIFF PLAYS WITH THE MONITOR)
GRIFF: (os) No, no. This is (on camera)
different. You can control everything.
Ultra simple interface, memory banks...
LYNN: What kind of memories?
(GRIFF LOOKS AT MILLER)
GRIFF: Well, there’s one way to find out.
(ZONE STEPS FORWARD)
ZONE: (os) Whoa, (on camera) whoa, whoa. Are
you nuts?
GRIFF: We heard rumors about a cure, right?
ZONE: Rumors, man.
GRIFF: Well, maybe this will tell us something.
(os) I say we load some memories (on
camera) into Mr. Miller. We’ll ask him
some questions.
(MILLER DOESN’T REACT AT ALL AND IT’S CLEAR THAT HE HAS BEEN
WIPED)
LYNN: Well, a memory in Mr. Miller wouldn’t be
hard to (os) spot.
ZONE: Uh, objection. Insanely stupid idea. No
tech ever, right? That’s our theme song?
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GRIFF: (os) How (on camera) long can we just
run? (os) This place (on camera) is here
for a reason.
ZONE: And it’s empty for a reason.
MEG: I’m in.
LYNN: Me, too.
ZONE: I’m downstairs.
(ZONE HEADS AWAY AND THEY SET UP)
INT. TREATMENT ROOM-LATER
(VIEW OF ZONE STANDING GUARD IN THE MAIN ROOM; GRIFF IS
WORKING THE MONITOR AS LYNN TIES MILLER’S ARMS TO THE CHAIR)
GRIFF: There’s so many bits (os) in here. (on
camera) I mean there’s whole personas.
But there is this. One file open with a
list of memories.
MEG: What are you gonna give him?
GRIFF: No persona.
(GRIFF LOWERS THE CHAIR)
GRIFF (CONT’D): I’m just gonna give him one single
memory. (os) And we’ll go from there.
(THE CHAIR TURNS ON)
MILLER: (gasps)
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(MEG AND LYNN DRAW THEIR GUNS AS THE CHAIR SITS UP)
MILLER (CONT’D): Did I fall asleep?
GRIFF: Yeah.
(MILLER LOOKS AT GRIFF)
GRIFF (CONT’D): Mr. Miller, can you remember anything?
MILLER: Yes. I was talking with someone. A man.
GRIFF: Who?
MILLER: I’m not sure.
GRIFF: (os) Do you remember what he was saying?
MILLER: It all...
INT. ADELLE’S OFFICE-IN THE PAST
(ADELLE IS TALKING TO A CLIENT)
CLIENT: ...seems pretty clear to me.
ADELLE: Does it?
CLIENT: (os) Whatever I want, right?
ADELLE: (os) Within reason, yes.
CLIENT: It doesn’t seem possible.
ADELLE: Would you be here if it did?
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(HE LEANS FORWARD)
CLIENT: Suppose I just want somebody to pretend
that they’re in love with me?
ADELLE: Then you are out of luck. (os) If you
engage an active, then (on camera) he or
she...
CLIENT: (interrupting) She. She.
ADELLE: Then she will see you and totally,
romantically, chemically fall in utter
and unexpected love with you.
(SHE STANDS UP)
ADELLE (CONT’D): You are a man who can have everything he
wants.
(ADELLE POURS HIM SOME TEA)
ADELLE (CONT’D): This isn’t just about what you want.
This is about what you need.
(SHE SITS BACK DOWN)
ADELLE (CONT’D): (os) An active doesn’t judge, (on camera)
doesn’t pretend. This will be the
purest, most genuine human encounter of
your life... (os) and hers. It is a
treasure. (on camera) One I guarantee you
will never, never forget.
ZONE: (vo) (laugh)
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INT. TREATMENT ROOM/TOPHER’S OFFICE-PRESENT
(CLOSE ON MILLER)
ZONE: (os) (laugh)
(ZONE IS SPRAWLED OUT ON TOPHER’S COUCH)
ZONE (CONT’D): (continues laughing) A brothel? (os) You
mean to tell me that the tech that punt
kicked the (on camera) ass of mankind was
(os) originally designed to create (on
camera) more believable hookers? (os)
(laugh)
GRIFF: They called them actives. I think they
were used for a variety of things.
ZONE: (os) Yeah, for millionaires. Money (on
camera) men is like the main ingredient
in crazy.
(MEG LOOKS DOWN AT IRIS)
MEG: Iris, honey. (os) Do you have to pee?
IRIS: No.
LYNN: I saw where the bathrooms are. I’ll take
her. Come on. You don’t want to miss
the “Mr. Miller Comedy Hour.”
ZONE: (os) Oh, wait. (on camera) Kid, if you
find any food...
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LYNN: Eat it.
GRIFF: Take that .45 (os) with you.
(LYNN HOLDS UP THE GUN AS SHE AND IRIS LEAVE; MEG JOINS
GRIFF AND MILLER AT THE CHAIR)
MEG: What’s next?
GRIFF: I guess we’ll jump ahead a bit.
MEG: Are the memories stored in order?
(GRIFF GETS READY TO ADD MORE MEMORIES TO MILLER)
GRIFF: Some kind of order. I mean, whoever set
this thing up was unorthodox, to say the
least.
(MILLER IS LOWERED BACK DOWN)
MILLER: (gasp)
INT. TOPHER’S OFFICE-IN THE PAST
(ADELLE BRINGS TOPHER INTO HIS OFFICE FOR THE FIRST TIME)
ADELLE: Is it as you’d imagined, Mr. Brink?
TOPHER: It’s actually weirder. (laugh) Which may
be a first.
ADELLE: This obviously...
(LAWRENCE ENTERS)
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ADELLE (CONT’D): ...is the programming center.
TOPHER: It’s great. I love what you haven’t done
with the place. (laugh) I get up in this,
I’m gonna need a couple throw pillows and
a fridge.
LAWRENCE: (os) Shall we order you a (on camera)
poster with a cat, maybe hanging off a
tree?
TOPHER: (laugh) I like this guy (os) already.
LAWRENCE: It’s not a dorm room.
ADELLE: Mr. Dominic is our head of security.
LAWRENCE: (os) I’m here to make sure the house (on
camera) runs smoothly. No unstable
elements.
TOPHER: So do you get me the fridge? Or do I
talk to someone higher up?
(LAWRENCE STARES AT HIM)
ADELLE: Perhaps you’d like to see the imprinting
process.
(TOPHER AND LAWRENCE FOLLOW ADELLE INTO THE TREATMENT ROOM
WHERE AN ACTIVE IS ALREADY IN AN OLDER VERSION OF THE CHAIR
AS TWO SCIENTISTS WORK)
TOPHER: You build it there. It comes out here.
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ADELLE: (os) We have access to over a hundred
thousand brain (on camera) models. Every
scan that Rossum makes sends a full 3-D
map to our mainframe. In three years,
we’ll have a million.
TOPHER: It’s beautiful. (to Lawrence) I’m also
gonna need a trampoline. Just...
LAWRENCE: We have at least 10 actives sent out per
day. It takes two hours to upload an
imprint. So I don’t see you having the
time...
TOPHER: (interrupting) Whoa. Two hours? What?
Are they memorizing their personalities?
(ADELLE WALKS OVER)
ADELLE: Two hours is the standing record for any
house. Do you think you can beat it?
TOPHER: Uhhh... to a pulp, yeah. (laugh) First of
all...
(TOPHER HOLDS UP THE CABLE ATTACHED TO THE ACTIVE’S HEAD)
TOPHER (CONT’D): ...the analog cables have got to go.
You’re uploading the personal history
(os) chronologically, right?
(ADELLE AND LAWRENCE NOD)
TOPHER (CONT’D): Endless. The information bottlenecks.
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ADELLE: To preserve the integrity of the memory
structure.
TOPHER: No, no, no, no. You don’t have to. They
can experience it teleologically. And
the imprinted memory can sort it out (os)
for you.
ADELLE: Dump it all at once.
TOPHER: Come at him from all sides. It’s basic
micro-pulse. In and out, five minutes,
tops.
LAWRENCE: What if their brains turn to jelly?
TOPHER: (os) Well, (on camera) (clears his
throat) with the obvious exception of
yours, the human brain is a massively
powerful creature. Underestimating it is
usually the last (os) mistake any culture
makes.
LAWRENCE: Cities don’t burn because everyone got
smarter. They burn because someone lost
control of them.
TOPHER: I’m sorry. But whence this clown? Did
Idi Amin turn down (os) the job?
(ADELLE WALKS CLOSE TO TOPHER)
ADELLE: Mr. Dominic is my eyes and ears.
TOPHER: Can I be nose and throat?
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ADELLE: In matters of security, my assent is a
formality, including the termination of
unstable employees.
(TOPHER NODS AND SHUTS UP)
ADELLE (CONT’D): Mr. Dominic?
LAWRENCE: Ma’am?
ADELLE: Get this man a refrigerator.
INT. DOLLHOUSE SHOWER ROOM-PRESENT
(LYNN CARRIES A FLASHLIGHT AS SHE AND IRIS ENTER THE DARK
ROOM)
IRIS: What’s a brothel?
LYNN: I’ll explain it when you’re older.
(THEY STEP INTO THE SHOWER AREA AND ONE OF THE SHOWERS COMES
ON)
LYNN/IRIS: (gasps)
(THEY STEP BACK AND IT SHUTS OFF)
LYNN/IRIS (CONT’D): (laughter)
LYNN: Did I have a stupid look on my face?
IRIS: (laugh)
LYNN: Yeah? Well, you, too.
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IRIS: (laugh)
(LYNN STEPS UP AND WHEN THE WATER COMES ON, SHE PUTS HER
HAND UNDER IT)
LYNN: (longingly) Hot water. No way.
(LYNN STARTS DISROBING)
LYNN (CONT’D): Okay, sweetie. The toilet’s around that
corner. You do your thing. I’m gonna
take a quick shower.
IRIS: (scared) I don’t want to do it alone.
LYNN: But I haven’t had a shower this year...!
(LYNN SEES HOW AFRAID IRIS IS)
LYNN (CONT’D): Okay. Don’t worry. I’ll be right here.
(os) Okay?
IRIS: Okay.
LYNN: Okay.
(IRIS HEADS AWAY AS LYN FINISHES TAKING OFF HER CLOTHES;
LYNN TURNS THE WATER BACK ON AND TAKES A SHOWER)
LYNN (CONT’D): (happy sigh)
(SHE REACTS WHEN SHE SEES A SHADOW PASS; SHE CHECKS TO MAKE
SURE HER GUN AND FLASHLIGHT ARE STILL THERE; SHE THINKS
SHE’S SEEING THINGS AND GOES BACK TO ENJOYING HER SHOWER)
LYNN (CONT’D): (sigh)
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(HER EYES GO WIDE WHEN SHE SEES SOMEONE PICK UP HER
FLASHLIGHT; SOMEONE KNOCKS HER OUT WITH THE FLASHLIGHT)
LYNN (CONT’D): (gasp)
END ACT TWO
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ACT THREE
INT. TREATMENT ROOM-NIGHT
(MILLER IS BEING GIVEN ANOTHER TREATMENT)
MILLER: (gasps)
INT. TREATMENT ROOM-IN THE PAST
(ECHO IS IN THE CHAIR AS TOPHER JOINS HER)
TOPHER: Hello, Echo. Does a treatment sound
nice?
ECHO: It does.
TOPHER: Good. Lie back, please. This girl (os)
is gonna be fresh out of...
ECHO: (gasps throughout)
TOPHER: (over Echo) ...the shipping container
from a little town called Dolinsk.
(BALLARD IS ACROSS THE ROOM WATCHING THE PROCEDURE)
TOPHER (CONT’D): (os) No skills. No English. (on camera)
You know what you’re doing?
BALLARD: What’s better to infiltrate the herd? A
wolf in sheep’s clothing or a sheep?
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TOPHER: (laugh) (os) I haven’t taken on the
Russian mob lately. So I don’t know.
BALLARD: They start trusting her, and then we can
give her the skills.
(THE TREATMENT ENDS)
ECHO: (speaks Russian)
SUBTITLES: Thank you. That felt great. May I come
back again?
(TOPHER GIVES HER TWO THUMBS UP)
TOPHER: I don’t know what you’re saying!
ECHO: Mm.
INT. ELEVATOR-MOMENTS LATER
(BALLARD AND ECHO ENTER THE ELEVATOR AND SHE WAVES AT
TOPHER)
ECHO: (speaks Russian)
SUBTITLES: See you soon.
(THE DOOR SHUTS AND BALLARD LOOKS AT HER)
BALLARD: How are you feeling?
ECHO: Not exactly good as new. You’ve gotta
pick up the pace. I don’t know if I can
hold out much longer.
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BALLARD: Hang in there. And the Russian girl?
ECHO: (on camera and os) (speaks Russian)
SUBTITLES: Don’t worry, Paul. The little Russian
girl with the big American dream is still
intact.
ECHO (CONT’D): But as for me...
(SHE PUTS HER HANDS TO HER HEAD)
ECHO (CONT’D): ...the headaches are getting worse.
(painful) Oh! Ohh...!
INT. DOLLHOUSE SHOWER ROOM-PRESENT
(IRIS IS SCREAMING AS THE OTHERS COME RUNNING)
IRIS: (piercing screams)
(ZONE RUSHES UP AND COVERS IRIS’ MOUTH)
IRIS (CONT’D): (muffled screams)
ZONE: (over Irish) Shhh...
(MEG PUTS A HAND TO HER MOUTH WHEN SHE SEES THE BLOODY HOLE
IN LYNN’S FOREHEAD)
IRIS: (muffled gasps throughout)
(GRIFF QUICKLY COLLECTS THE FLASHLIGHT AND GUN)
ZONE: (loud whisper) Meg! Now go, go, go.
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(THEY LEAVE THE SHOWER ROOM)
ZONE (CONT’D): Shh...
INT. DOLLHOUSE HALLWAY/MAIN ROOM-CONTINUOUS
(THEY SEARCH WITH THEIR FLASHLIGHTS WITH GUNS READY)
MEG: (weepy breathing) I can’t believe it.
Lynn.
GRIFF: At least she went as herself. We’re
gonna hunker down (os) in the Romper
Room. We’ll set up some (on camera)
trippers. There’s good visibility up
there.
ZONE: Yeah. So the whole world can see us?
Nice little display case for our
potential corpses.
MEG: The answer’s up there.
ZONE: No. The big creepy slabs of tech are up
there. There’s no answers, Meg. Just
history.
MEG: So it seems like this is the place where
the tech originated. Maybe there’s a way
to stop it.
ZONE: Fine. But since we agreed to keep her
around, I think it’s time to birthmark
the girl.
GRIFF: Agreed.
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MEG: Agreed.
(THEY HEAD UP THE STAIRS)
ZONE: Good. Don’t worry, sweetie. Everybody’s
gotta grow up sometime.
INT. DOLLHOUSE MAIN ROOM/CLAIRE’S OFFICE-IN THE PAST
(BOYD IS WITH CLAIRE)
CLAIRE: I’m not ready for this. Where will you
go?
(BOYD IS PACKING SOME CLOTHES)
BOYD: I don’t know yet. I’ll have to figure
that out on the move. Somewhere they
can’t pinpoint me.
CLAIRE: Where is that?
BOYD: I don’t know! And I wouldn’t tell you if
I did. Echo’s already in danger. I
don’t want you to be. It’s an
understatement to say they have ways of
making you talk. Maybe I’ll just keep
moving. I’ll be okay...
(BOYD NEARLY DOUBLES OVER IN PAIN AND CLAIRE GETS HIM
SOMETHING TO HELP)
CLAIRE: You won’t be able to go to the hospital
if you need to. Here. Some extra
bandages if you need to re-wrap it.
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BOYD: I’m healing fine, Claire.
CLAIRE: You’ll need these to fight off infection.
Fever is the first sign...
(HE TAKES HER ARMS AS HE INTERRUPTS)
BOYD: Claire... I’ll be okay.
CLAIRE: (crying) I wish we had more time.
(SHE PUTS HER HEAD ON HIS SHOULDER AND HE HOLDS HER)
BOYD: I know.
(HE TAKES HER HEAD SO THEY CAN SEE EACH OTHER)
BOYD (CONT’D): I’ll come back for you.
CLAIRE: (sigh)
BOYD: You understand?
CLAIRE: (sniffs/ragged breaths)
BOYD: I will come back for you.
(BOYD GRABS THE BAG AND LEAVES)
INT. TREATMENT ROOM-PRESENT
(MILLER SITS UP IN THE TREATMENT CHAIR)
INT. DOLLHOUSE MAIN ROOM-CONTINUOUS
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(ZONE GIVES IRIS A TATTOO READING, “I AM IRIS MILLER”)
MEG: (os) We call it a birthmark. It’s the
only way we (on camera) can tell a person
really is who they say. (os) If you...
IRIS: Iris Miller.
MEG: (os) Yeah. So if (on camera) you start
acting strange, we can ask you your full
name and know that you’re okay. The word
has been spreading for awhile among
actuals. So if we meet any new actuals,
we can check to verify. And this makes
you one of us.
IRIS: I want to be like Zone.
(ZONE LOOKS UP)
MEG: (os) (snort) (on camera) Why on earth?
IRIS: Because he’s funny and mean.
(ZONE PATS HER HEAD AS HE KEEPS WORKING)
IRIS (CONT’D): (os) (amused grunt)
(MEG GETS UP AND STARTS UPSTAIRS)
IRIS (CONT’D): (os) You don’t (on camera) have to tattoo
my dad. He doesn’t know who he is
anymore.
(THEY ALL LOOK SERIOUS FOR A MOMENT)
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INT. TREATMENT ROOM/TOPHER’S OFFICE-MOMENTS LATER
(MEG JOINS GRIFF)
GRIFF: (sigh) How’s she doing?
MEG: The tattoo is the least painful thing the
girl has ever gone through.
GRIFF: (sigh)
MEG: We need real food.
GRIFF: I’ll think on it. This place has running
water though.
MEG: (os) And power. (on camera) And... and
heat. And no signal. Griff, if we
fortify and find whatever’s down here
with us, blast it to pieces, we could set
up in this place.
(GRIFF SEES SOMETHING)
MEG (CONT’D): Griff?
(THEY STAND)
GRIFF: I think it found us.
(THEY LOOK DOWN AT A GHOSTLY LOOKING WOMAN IN A GOWN WITH
HER ARMS OUTSTRETCHED)
MEG: (os) (gasp)
(CLOSE ON THE WOMAN AS SHE LOOKS UP AT THEM; IT’S CLAIRE
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WITH HER SCARS HEALED)
CLAIRE: I found your friend.
END ACT THREE
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ACT FOUR
INT. DOLLHOUSE MAIN ROOM-NIGHT
(THE TEAM SURROUNDS CLAIRE)
MEG: (os) Move and you die!
GRIFF: (os) You’re surrounded!
ZONE: I will shoot you very hard!
MEG: Who are you?!
CLAIRE: My name is Whiskey.
GRIFF: What’s your last name?
CLAIRE: I don’t know.
ZONE: She’s a dumb show. A dumb show that
bashed Lynn in the head!
GRIFF: Where were you born?
CLAIRE: I don’t know.
ZONE: (os) Let’s blow this (on camera) bitch
back to the Bush years.
GRIFF: Did you kill our friend?
CLAIRE: I found her. She was sleeping.
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ZONE: You wouldn’t even know it (os) if you
did...
MEG: (interrupting) Hold on a second, guys.
Hold on. How did you get down here?
CLAIRE: I’ve always been here.
ZONE: I’m... I’m gonna blast her!
MEG: Power it down a second, Zone!
ZONE: Since when do we mull this over?!
CLAIRE: Are you looking for Safe Haven?
(ZONE STEPS AROUND HER TO STARE AT CLAIRE WITH THE OTHERS)
ZONE: What?
MEG: What do you know about Safe Haven?
GRIFF: It’s a myth.
ZONE: She’s empty.
CLAIRE: Where no one can be changed. You die as
you were born. Heart in concert with the
mind.
(CLAIRE RAISES HER HANDS)
ZONE: She’s empty, man.
CLAIRE: I know the way to Safe Haven.
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GRIFF: You do?
CLAIRE: I can show you the way.
INT. TOPHER’S OFFICE-SHORT TIME LATER
(THE GROUP JOINS IRIS)
GRIFF: There must be a secret tunnel (os) or
something.
MEG: I wonder how many actuals are there?
CLAIRE: Here.
(GRIFF AND ZONE POINT AT THE ELEVATOR DOOR)
GRIFF: Here?
ZONE: This? Meg, grab a heavy thing.
(MEG FINDS SOMETHING AS THEY TRY TO OPEN THE DOOR; CLAIRE IS
ACTUALLY POINTING AT MILLER IN THE CHAIR)
CLAIRE: This is the way to Safe Haven.
ZONE: Oh, you gotta be kidding me!
(ZONE RAISES HIS WEAPON AND MEG PUSHES IT DOWN)
MEG: Wait! The chair? The memories will tell
us how to get there?
(CLAIRE NODS)
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MEG (CONT’D): So we (os) are on the right track.
ZONE: Because the windup doll says so?
MEG: I told you there were answers!
GRIFF: She’s right. (os) Keep going.
ZONE: (over Griff) Are you guys printed?! This
girl probably killed Lynn! We should
waste her, not take her advice! Now
instead of finding food, y’all want to
hang with dumb shows and play with tech
all day!
CLAIRE: Food?
GRIFF: I think we’re close. There was this one
girl, Echo. She seemed like she could
withstand the prints.
CLAIRE: I know where to find food.
GRIFF/MEG: Where?
ZONE: If you point at the frickin’ chair, I
will end you!
CLAIRE: In the kitchen.
ZONE: In the kitchen.
INT. DOLLHOUSE KITCHEN-IN THE PAST
(VICTOR IS WEARING A SUIT AND EATING CRAB LEGS AS ADELLE
APPROACHES)
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VICTOR: Mm!
(TOPHER IS STARING AT VICTOR)
VICTOR (CONT’D): (laugh) Mm! Mm! Sorry to make you come
down. I’m allergic to shellfish. So
this is a real treat.
ADELLE: Topher, I’m looking for Mr. Ambrose.
VICTOR: You don’t recognize me? Well, of course
not. I don’t recognize me.
ADELLE: (realizing) Mr. Ambrose? (to Topher)
What’s going on?
VICTOR: I’ve come here.
ADELLE: How?
TOPHER: Delivered on a hard drive.
VICTOR: I’m here to inform you that this...
(VICTOR TOUCHES HIMSELF)
VICTOR (CONT’D): ...is a service we now provide.
ADELLE: I’m sorry. I can...
VICTOR: Upgrades. We at Rossum now provide
select clients with complete anatomy
upgrades.
ADELLE: You’re giving away our actives?
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VICTOR: No. We’re not giving them away. We’re
charging them a lump nine figure sum.
ADELLE: This is wrong. You can’t do this.
(VICTOR TURNS BACK TO HIS FOOD)
VICTOR: I think you’ll find in the coming months,
we can do whatever we want.
ADELLE: What about the laws?
VICTOR: We’ve always been above the law, Adelle.
Only now, we’re also writing it. This
will all be legal within a year.
Everybody who matters is either a client
or one of ours.
ADELLE: (os) I was talking (on camera) about the
laws of humanity.
VICTOR: Laws of evolution, Adelle. Imagine what
one man can achieve if he has no fear and
will live forever.
ADELLE: This is not what we set out to do.
VICTOR: It’s not what you set out to do, Adelle.
ADELLE: (os) You cannot have that body, Mr.
Ambrose. (on camera) It belongs to
another soul. And I will not sell these
people off at any price!
(VICTOR PUTS HIS FORK DOWN WITH A CLATTER AND TURNS TO HER)
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VICTOR: Listen carefully. This is the time to
choose, Adelle, Mr. Brink, whether you
want to be someone who lives on with the
endless epoch ark of history, or a
quickly discarded, decomposing vessel,
enriching the soil. You’ve both earned a
place on the ark. Mr. Brink, you
practically built it. (os) So you can
take this body if you want. I won’t
fight. (on camera) Right now, I’m in 10
others. Having this conversation in 10
other houses.
(ADELLE REACTS)
VICTOR (CONT’D): If you do reclaim this body though, we’ll
know. And you’ll have made a choice. A
defining choice. So... (takes a bite of
crab)
INT. TREATMENT ROOM-PRESENT
(CLOSE ON MILLER)
MILLER: ...what do you say?
(GRIFF IS WITH MILLER)
GRIFF: This is sick. I thought knowing how it
happened would somehow...
(IRIS HAS JOINED THEM)
GRIFF (CONT’D): ...make it not as bad.
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IRIS: Does it hurt? It looks like it hurts?
GRIFF: He doesn’t remember it hurting when it’s
over though, kiddo.
IRIS: So can that machine take people out of
people and put them in other (os) people?
GRIFF: Yeah. I think so.
(IRIS RAISES A GUN SHE’S BEEN CONCEALING AND SHOOTS GRIFF)
GRIFF (CONT’D): (painful cries)
(IRIS UNTIES MILLER’S HAND AND PUTS THE GUN IN IT; SHE GOES
TO A CORNER AND GETS DOWN)
IRIS: (piercing scream)
END ACT FOUR
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ACT FIVE
INT. TREATMENT ROOM-NIGHT
(ZONE AND MEG RUN INTO THE ROOM AND FIND MILLER STILL
HOLDING THE GUN AND GRIFF DEAD)
IRIS: (os) (continues screaming)
MEG: (under Iris) Oh, my God.
(CLAIRE APPROACHES)
MEG (CONT’D): What? What? (gasps)
IRIS: (os) Daddy’s angry! (on camera) Daddy’s
angry!
(ZONE GOES OVER TO MILLER AND PUTS THE GUN TO HIS HEAD)
ZONE: Hey, son of a bitch.
MILLER: Did I fall asleep?
MEG: No! Not in front of Iris.
(ZONE PULLS MILLER OUT OF THE CHAIR BY HIS TIE AND TAKES HIM
OUT OF THE ROOM)
MEG (CONT’D): (os) What do we do now?
(CLAIRE WORKS THE CHAIR CONTROLS)
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CLAIRE: I will help you find Safe Haven.
(CLAIRE SITS IN THE CHAIR)
MEG: (weepy) There is no Safe Haven!
CLAIRE: Not for everyone.
(THE CHAIR GOES DOWN)
INT. ADELLE’S OFFICE-IN THE PAST
(LAWRENCE PUSHES ADELLE DOWN ON THE COUCH AND POINTS HIS
GUN AT HER FACE)
LAWRENCE: I regret to inform you, ma’am, but we’ve
had a security breach.
ADELLE: I sent for you, Mr. Dominic.
LAWRENCE: After everything we’ve been through, you
think I’m still your faithful lapdog?
(AN AIR SIREN SOUNDS OUTSIDE)
LAWRENCE (CONT’D): After the attic? After what you did with
my body?
ADELLE: You were a spy. You were caught. What
did you think would happen?
LAWRENCE: Exactly what happened... everywhere.
(HE LETS HER UP)
ADELLE: So you’ve been briefed.
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LAWRENCE: I saw Topher’s face. Almost worth the
price of the ticket. And I took a little
walk outside.
ADELLE: That wasn’t a good idea.
LAWRENCE: I ran into a guy. Business guy, very
nice suit. It’s three buttons again.
Who saw that coming? (os) Guy asked me to
help find his mommy. And (on camera) did
I want to play Pretty Princess with him.
Said he’s not gonna like kindergarten
because there’s boys.
(LAWRENCE SITS DOWN AND THERE ARE EXPLOSIONS OUTSIDE)
LAWRENCE (CONT’D): (os) So I’m thinking, “God. Some twisted
freak’s imprinted this poor guy.” (on
camera) But naw, but maybe I’m wrong.
Maybe this sick sap saw what was coming
and just decided, “I can be whoever I
want.”
ADELLE: (sighs under Lawrence)
LAWRENCE: (os) That’s what this whole operation was
about, right? (on camera) Giving people
what they want? (laugh) No, no, no, no.
What they need. (os) Everybody needs to
get away.
(ADELLE GETS UP)
LAWRENCE (CONT’D): (os) Just slip out of (on camera) their
lives.
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(LAWRENCE GETS UP)
LAWRENCE (CONT’D): The thing they couldn’t do. The girl
they couldn’t (os) have. The pretty
princess they (on camera) never got to
be.
(LAWRENCE SHOOTS THE BOTTLE ADELLE IS OPENING)
LAWRENCE (CONT’D): (sniff) I miss anything?
(ADELLE POURS FROM ANOTHER BOTTLE)
ADELLE: Just the vodka, thank God.
LAWRENCE: How does it feel to end the world, Ms.
DeWitt?
ADELLE: There may be a way to stop it.
LAWRENCE: (sigh) Tech’s out there. You can’t make
it go away.
ADELLE: There’s a block. A defense against being
imprinted.
LAWRENCE: (os) Topher has a cure?
ADELLE: (sighs after drinking) Caroline (os) has
it.
LAWRENCE: Which one’s Caroline?
INT. DOLLHOUSE SHOWER ROOM-PRESENT
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(MILLER WALKS AHEAD OF ZONE INTO THE ROOM)
MILLER: (os) This way?
ZONE: (os) Yup. (on camera) Straight ahead.
Big ol’ plate of chicken.
(ZONE SHOOTS MILLER AND HE FALLS NEAR LYNN’S BODY)
MILLER: (os) (grunt)
INT. TREATMENT ROOM-CONTINUOUS
(MEG IS SEARCHING THE CHAIR’S COMPUTER AS CLAIRE TALKS TO
HER AND IRIS WATCHES THEM)
MEG: But there’s no Caroline in here. It’s
like she didn’t exist.
CLAIRE: She exists.
MEG: But how do we find her?
(CLAIRE POINTS TO THE DISK OPENING BEHIND HER ON THE CHAIR)
MEG: Something goes in there?
CLAIRE: (os) Yes.
MEG: What?! What, ma’am? What goes in there?
CLAIRE: I don’t remember... yet.
(ZONE RETURNS AS CLAIRE SINKS BACK DOWN IN THE CHAIR)
IRIS: Where’s my dad?
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ZONE: Dead.
INT. DOLLHOUSE LOCKER ROOM-IN THE PAST
(SIERRA IS SITTING AND STARING AT NOTHING AND SURROUNDED BY
WEAPONS AS VICTOR ENTERS WITH A BAG)
VICTOR: You should be in the bed chambers with
the others.
SIERRA: I don’t want to be with them. Too much
talk makes the headaches worse.
VICTOR: Just take the damn meds.
SIERRA: No! (beat) No. If this is what it means
to be me, I’d rather (os) deal with the
pain.
(VICTOR UNPACKS THE WEAPONS FROM HIS BAG)
SIERRA (CONT’D): Juliette had another one of her dreams
last night. (os) We were all in a boat
this time. (on camera) A giant boat.
Even her dreams are hacky. Should’ve
seen them all cooing about at her feet.
VICTOR: So what? That offends you?
SIERRA: Hope seems almost cruel at this point.
Just these people, they make me crazy.
Maybe I should just go above ground.
VICTOR: Don’t talk like that. (os) You know how
dangerous it is. (on camera) Tech’s gone
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wild. Those people are stealing bodies
left and right. You don’t want to end up
like November.
SIERRA: Which one?
VICTOR: Safest thing we can do is just cut our
lines and go on lockdown.
SIERRA: Lockdown.
(SIERRA EMBRACES VICTOR)
SIERRA (CONT’D): Have we ever known anything else?
VICTOR/SIERRA: (sighs)
VICTOR: Don’t.
(SHE MOVES AWAY)
SIERRA: Right. That’s over with now.
(VICTOR HAS BLOOD ON HIS HAND)
VICTOR: You’re bleeding?
SIERRA: Yeah.
(THERE’S BLOOD ON THE BACK OF HER SHIRT AND VICTOR LIFTS IT
UP TO SEE)
SIERRA (CONT’D): Uh, my new birthmark. I made Charlie do
it for me. So that...
TATTOO: I am Priya Tsetsang
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SIERRA (CONT’D): ...I always know who I am.
VICTOR: (laugh)
SIERRA: If I think I’m someone else, I’ll have to
face up to that hideous lie.
VICTOR: I want to show you something.
(VICTOR SHOWS HER A SECRET STASH OF MEMORY TAPES)
VICTOR (CONT’D): (sigh) From the lab. (os) So no matter
what happens, we have a backup here. (on
camera) All of us, even Caroline.
(HE COVERS THEM UP AGAIN)
VICTOR (CONT’D): So now you can always be your self again.
SIERRA: As long as there’s someone...
INT. DOLLHOUSE LOCKER ROOM-PRESENT
(MEG IS SEARCHING)
SIERRA: (vo) ...to lead us back.
(IRIS AND ZONE WATCH HER; ZONE GETS DOWN BY IRIS)
ZONE: Kid, listen. There’s only three of us
now. So I think it’s time to give you a
gun.
IRIS: I’m scared of guns.
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ZONE: I know. Small gun.
(MEG BREAKS THROUGH A LOCKED SECTION AS ZONE SHOWS IRIS HOW
TO USE A SMALL GUN)
MEG: (grunts)
ZONE: (over Meg) All you gotta do is point...
and pull the trigger.
(HE GIVES IRIS THE GUN)
ZONE (CONT’D): Just be careful, okay?
(MEG FINDS THE TAPES)
INT. TREATMENT ROOM-LATER
(THEY ENTER THE ROOM AND ZONE HAS THE TAPES)
ZONE: Old school. So each one of these holds
an entire personality, huh? How do we
know which one is Caroline?
MEG: One by one. (looking at Claire) We load
up Whiskey and introduce ourselves.
ZONE: God that’s gotta (os) suck. Waking up
one day (on camera) in a different body.
(IRIS AIMS HER GUN AT THEM)
IRIS: You have no idea.
MEG: (os) (confused) Iris? Oh, God. (on
camera) You?
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ZONE: You murdered (os) them all.
IRIS: I really didn’t want to. But you guys
kill everyone that’s printed. Bigots.
MEG: We saved your life. Griff saved your
life! This whole time...
IRIS: (interrupting) Easy part to play. A (os)
stupid kid. (on camera) I don’t know how
I got dumped into this little bitch’s
body. But that chair is my chance to get
out.
ZONE: (sniff) You want Meg or you want me?
IRIS: Meg, thank you. And I need Caroline, or
Whiskey, or whoever, to lead the way. So
sorry, Zone. Been really nice. A little
patronizing, but...
(SHE SHOOTS BUT THE GUN IS EMPTY; ZONE GRABS HER AND PUTS
HER IN THE CHAIR)
IRIS (CONT’D): (screams/frantic cries)
(THE LIGHT COMES ON AND IRIS SETTLES DOWN)
MEG: How did you know?
ZONE: I saw Mr. Miller’s birthmark after his
body hit the ground. His name wasn’t
Miller.
INT. DOLLHOUSE MAIN ROOM-IN THE PAST
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(ADELLE WATCHES AS A FEMALE TALKS TO OTHERS GATHERED AROUND
SOME CANDLES)
FEMALE: (os) I am humble in (on camera) prayer,
and hopeful that we’ll be able to go
outside. Even if not tomorrow, (os) Then
someday.
GROUP: (unintelligible murmurs) Yeah...
(THE FEMALE GETS UP HOLDING HER PREGNANT BELLY AND SOMEONE
ELSE TAKES HER PLACE)
MALE: (sigh) I am humble...
(CLAIRE WALKS UP TO ADELLE)
MALE (CONT’D): (os) ...in prayer. I am grateful for my
memories.
GROUP: (os) (unintelligible murmurs) Amen...
CLAIRE: I tried to give him haloperidol, but he
won’t take anything without you.
ADELLE: All right.
(ADELLE TAKES A PILL BOTTLE FROM CLAIRE)
ADELLE (CONT’D): Thank you, Dr. Saunders.
CLAIRE: (sigh)
ADELLE: It’s one of his bad days.
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(ADELLE WALKS AWAY)
CLAIRE: (sigh)
INT. DOLLHOUSE SLEEP CHAMBER-MOMENTS LATER
(ADELLE WALKS IN AND HEARS TAPPING; THERE ARE BOOKS AND
KNICKKNACKS LAYING AROUND A POD WHERE TOPHER IS SITTING
INSIDE WRITING ON THE SIDES; HE IS HAPPY TO SEE ADELLE)
TOPHER: There you are!
ADELLE: I’m sorry. I was at circle.
(HE SITS OUTSIDE THE POD)
TOPHER: Come here.
(ADELLE GETS DOWN BY HIM AND HE TAKES HER HANDS)
TOPHER (CONT’D): I need to... I need to tell you. (sigh)
Ultra enprisonic emitters. You don’t
need a translator when speaking directly
to the brain.
ADELLE: Have you had anything to eat today?
TOPHER: No. No, no, no. No. Nana was just one
phone call. (sigh) One robo-call to a
city. That’s all it takes. An entire
army in a single instant in the hands of
any government, and boom. We went... we
went boom. Millions programmed to kill
anyone who’s not programmed to kill
anyone. And then the war has two sides.
Those who answered the phone, and those
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who didn’t. You know what? Don’t answer
the phone. (anguished) Promise me you
won’t answer the phone!
ADELLE: I... I promise, sweetheart. I...
TOPHER: (sniff)
ADELLE: I could read to you. Do you like that?
(ADELLE GETS UP AND GETS A BOOK)
TOPHER: So which is worse? (os) Pick up the phone
or don’t pick up the phone? (on camera) I
can’t tell. It’s an interesting
question. An entire army (os) in a
single instant. (on camera) That’s all it
takes. That’s brilliant! That’s so
brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that?
(beat) Did I think of that?
ADELLE: (sigh)
TOPHER: Did I? (crying) Oh, God. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
(HE GETS BACK INTO THE POD AND GRABS A PILLOW)
TOPHER (CONT’D): If I think I can figure things out, is
that curiosity or arrogance? (os) Oh, my
God.
ADELLE: (quiet sobs)
TOPHER: I know what I know. I know what I know.
I know what I know.
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(ADELLE GETS DOWN IN THE POD WITH HIM)
TOPHER (CONT’D): I know what I know.
ADELLE: Shhh...
TOPHER: I know what I know.
ADELLE: Darling, it’s all right. (kisses his
forehead)
TOPHER: I know what I know.
(SHE HOLDS TOPHER CLOSE)
ADELLE: I’m here. It’s okay. It’s okay.
TOPHER: (over Adelle) I know what I know. I know
what I know.
ADELLE: It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s okay.
TOPHER: (sob) I know what I know.
(ADELLE LOOKS UP WHEN SHE HEARS BANGING)
ADELLE: (gasp)
INT. DOLLHOUSE MAIN ROOM-CONTINUOUS
(EVERYONE IS STARING UP AT A BRICKED UP WALL THAT’S BEING
BANGED AT FROM THE OTHER SIDE)
CROWD: (unintelligible frightened chatter)
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(VICTOR AND OTHER ARMED MEN HEAD UP AND AIM THEIR RIFLES
AT THE WALL; ADELLE RUSHES UP)
ADELLE: Wait!
(THEY LET HER THROUGH AND VICTOR HANDS HER A RIFLE; WHEN
THE HOLE IS OPENED, ECHO AND BALLARD COME THROUGH)
ECHO: Home sweet home.
END ACT FIVE
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ACT SIX
INT. CLAIRE’S OFFICE/MAIN ROOM - IN THE PAST
(CLAIRE IS STITCHING UP A NASTY CUT ON ECHO’S LEG)
ECHO: Glad to see the doctor back in the house.
(os) Didn’t expect to after they fixed
your face. (on camera) How did that
happen?
CLAIRE: Long story.
ECHO: It’s gonna be tough getting everyone to
the compound. (gasp) The tech they need
doesn’t travel.
CLAIRE: It works then?
ECHO: No one’s been printed there. We have
Alpha to thank for that.
(ECHO LOOKS OUT AT BALLARD EATING AS HE TALKS TO VICTOR)
CLAIRE: I’m surprised to see you and Paul
together.
ECHO: Jury’s out on together. (os) But he’s got
my back. (on camera) Listen. I need
Topher to put me in the chair. Back me
up on a drive. A hard copy.
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CLAIRE: Uh, Topher doesn’t go up there anymore.
I can do it for you. You’re copying
yourself?
ECHO: In case (os) something happens to me. I
know (on camera) exactly where we’re
going. Gotta keep that close for now.
But someday someone may need to know.
CLAIRE: How will they know where to look?
ECHO: I’m working on that.
BALLARD: (os) Once we hit the ground...
(BALLARD IS TALKING TO THE GROUP OF PEOPLE AS VICTOR HANDS
OUT WEAPONS)
BALLARD (CONT’D): ...there’s no time to cry about how
different it is up there. It’s
different. You stay...
(CLOSE ON A GUY WALKING WITH A WEAPON)
BALLARD (CONT’D): ...close to the person in front of you
(os) and you keep your weapon ready.
Someone from outside of this group comes
up, then...
(ECHO PASSES BY ADELLE CARRYING A WEAPON)
ADELLE: You’ve come to save the innocent (os)
lambs?
ECHO: They’re not lambs, DeWitt. (os) I think
I’ve mentioned that (on camera) before.
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ADELLE: What about the rest of us, Caroline? Are
you going to save us, too? Or have you
come to kill us?
ECHO: Can you give me a reason not to?
ADELLE: I’m not going to plead with you. Your
mind’s made up.
(ECHO PULLS OUT A PISTOL AND COCKS IT)
ECHO: Yes, it is.
INT. TREATMENT ROOM/MAIN ROOM-PRESENT
(IRIS SITS UP IN THE CHAIR)
MEG: Caroline?
(IRIS LOOKS DOWN AT HERSELF)
IRIS: Yeah. Great. Puberty all over again.
How many we got?
ZONE: You’re looking at ‘em.
IRIS: What year is this?
MEG: 2019.
IRIS: 19. Dr. Saunders!
(IRIS RUNS OVER TO CLAIRE)
IRIS (CONT’D): I can’t believe you held out!
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CLAIRE: My name is Whiskey.
(IRIS STARES AT HER A MOMENT)
IRIS: Oh. Well, thank you, Whiskey, for
helping them find me.
CLAIRE: Was I my best?
IRIS: Better. (sniff)
MEG: You knew her before?
IRIS: I told her if she stayed, she’d lose her
mind. I guess she decided that was
better.
ZONE: But you discovered a cure?
IRIS: Yeah.
ZONE: Where is Safe Haven?
IRIS: (laugh) That’s what they’re calling it?
Far.
MONTAGE OF CLIPS
(THEY HEAR AN EXPLOSION; THEY SEE SOMETHING ON FIRE FALL TO
THE MAIN ROOM FLOOR)
ZONE: That’s our tripper. Party’s crashed.
(os) Let’s move.
(PEOPLE CALLED BUTCHERS START SLIDING DOWN ROPES INTO THE
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MAIN ROOM)
BUTCHERS: (grunts)
IRIS: Come with me, Whiskey.
CLAIRE: (os) I need to (on camera) wait.
MEG: Come with us. Butchers are coming.
CLAIRE: I have to wait here.
BUTCHERS: (os) (unintelligible shouts throughout)
MEG: They’ll waste you.
CLAIRE: I need to wait.
(IRIS AND ZONE HEAD OUT ONTO THE WALKWAY FOLLOWED BY MEG;
THEY START SHOOTING THE PEOPLE DOWN BELOW)
BUTCHERS: (os) (painful cries)
(CLAIRE HEADS DOWN ANOTHER WALKWAY)
IRIS: This way. (os) The elevator shaft.
(CLAIRE ENTERS A ROOM AS THEY RUN THROUGH THE HOLE ECHO
MADE YEARS EARLIER)
MEG: (grunts)
(CUT TO CLAIRE APPROACHING AN ELECTRICAL PANEL; BACK TO ZONE
AS HE GETS THE ELEVATOR DOOR OPEN)
ZONE: Meg, you go first. I’ll hold them off.
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(MEG STARTS CLIMBING THE SHAFT STAIRS AND IRIS FOLLOWS HER)
ZONE (CONT’D): I’m (os) right behind you.
(ZONE SHOOTS A BUTCHER AND THEN FOLLOWS THEM INTO THE SHAFT;
HE SHUTS THE DOOR AND JAMS IT WITH A KNIFE BEFORE CLIMBING)
BUTCHERS: (os) (angry cries)
(CUT TO CLAIRE AS SHE PRESSES BUTTONS; CUT TO GAS BEING
SHOT INTO THE MAIN ROOM; THE BUTCHERS BEGIN COLLAPSING; CUT
TO THE THREE CLIMBING THE SHAFT; BACK TO THE MAIN ROOM AS
THEY GO DOWN; CLAIRE SITS DOWN ON THE WALKWAY ABOVE AND
WATCHES THEM)
SINGER: (vo) (singing) “Burn down my home. My
memory’s hardened and the bread is
chrome. Good times escape.”
(CUT TO THE THREE STILL CLIMBING)
SINGER (CONT’D): (vo) (singing) “While every mistake seems
to be caught on tape.”
(THEY EXIT ON AN UPPER FLOOR)
SINGER (CONT’D): (vo) (singing) “I will go rolling fast,
arms out in the rain. Feel momentum
building to lift off ground like an
airplane. Baptizing down to the pains.”
(THEY’RE IN ADELLE’S OFFICE AND STARING OUT THE BROKEN
WINDOWS AT THE DESTROYED CITY OF LOS ANGELES)
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SINGER (CONT’D): (vo) (singing) “A billion eyes are
watching (unintelligible). They see what
remains... remains.”
MEG: They really thought they were helping,
huh? Giving people what they needed. Is
this what we needed?
IRIS: No. Kids playing with matches. And they
burned the house down.
(THEY LOOK AROUND THE ROOM AND FIND A WALL FILLED WITH
PHOTOS LABELED “TO REMEMBER”)
SINGER: (vo) (singing) “Gave up this town. What
a waste are we left with when it’s boiled
down. Shine light on me. Your image
reflected is all you’ll ever see.”
(IRIS LOOKS AT PHOTOS OF THE OTHER ACTIVES)
SINGER (CONT’D): (vo) (singing) “I will go rolling fast,
arms out in the rain. Feel momentum
building to lift off ground like an
airplane.”
(IRIS TAKES DOWN A PHOTO OF HERSELF AS ECHO)
SINGER (CONT’D): (vo) (singing) “Baptizing down to the
pains.”
IRIS: I hope we find me alive.
SINGER: (vo) (singing over Iris) “A billion eyes
are watching (unintelligible). They see
what remains... remains.”
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(SHE PUTS THE PHOTO BACK; THEY GO TO THE WINDOW AND FIND A
LADDER; THEY STEP OUT THE WINDOW AND KEEP CLIMBING; CUT BACK
TO THE PHOTO OF ECHO)
LOGO
MONSTER: Grr. Argh.
THE END
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MAIN TITLES
ELIZA DUSHKU
HARRY LENNIX
FRAN KRANZ
TAHMOH PENIKETT
ENVER GJOKAJ
DICHEN LACHMAN
and
OLIVIA WILLIAMS
Guest Starring
AMY ACKER
FELICIA DAY
REED DIAMOND
JANINA GAVANKAR
CHRIS WILLIAM MARTIN
ADAIR TISHLER
ZACK WARD
CLAYTON ROHNER
Producer
ELIZA DUSHKU
Consulting Producer
TIM MINEAR
Co-Executive Producer
DAVID SOLOMON
Co-Executive Producers
ELIZABETH CRAFTS
SARAH FAIN
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Produced by
KELLY A. MANNERS
Executive Producer
JOSS WHEDON
Executive Producer
JOSS WHEDON
Created by
JOSS WHEDON
Teleplay by
MAURISSA TANCHAROEN &
JED WHEDON
Story by
JOSS WHEDON
Directed by
DAVID SOLOMON
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END TITLES
Associate Producer
CHRIS CHERAMIE
Staff Writers
TRACY BELLOMO
ANDREW CHAMBLISS
MAURISSA TANCHARDEN
JED WHEDON
Guest Starring
JOSH KELLY
Male
SHELLEY MACK
Female
WARREN SWEENEY
Mr. Miller
Casting by
AMY MCINTYRE BRITT
&
ANYA COLLIFF
MICHAEL NOCOLO
Director of Photography
RODNEY CHARTERS, A.S.C., A.C.S.
Production Designer
STUART BLATT
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Edited by
PETER BASINSKI, A.C.E.
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ROBERT D. NELLANS
First Assistant Director
W. SCOTT WOLF
Second Assistant Director
PAUL C. DOMICK
Score by
MYCHAEL DANNA
and
ROB SIMONSEN
Theme Song Written by
JONATHA BROOKE
and
ERIC BAZILIAN
Performed by
JONATHA BROOKE
Costume Designer
SHAWNA TRPCIC
Art Director
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Set Decorator
DAVID KONEFF
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TED WILSON
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