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| - Veritas Directed by: Amanda Tapping Written by: Alan McCullough INT SANCTUARY HALLWAY [Will rounds corner obviously agitated with Declan who is following behind him.] WILL Where is he? DECLAN Just calm down. WILL Don't tell me to calm down. I want to see him. Where is he? WILL Come on. [Will stops at the elevator and pushes the call button repeatedly. The doors open and they enter the elevator.] WILL How the hell did this happen? DECLAN We're still piecing it together. They found him last in an alley near the shipyards. WILL And who found him? DECLAN An anonymous tip; by the time they got there it was too late. WILL And when did you get here? DECLAN This morning; Henry called, I caught the next flight. WILL Well, why the hell wouldn't anyone tell me as soon as... DECLAN You were already on your way back. You wouldn't have done any good. [The elevator opens and Will rushes out. Will stops in front of a door and Declan moves in front and opens the door; holding it open for Will. Declan then moves to a row of cabinets and pulls one open. He pulls out a body covered by a sheet and pulls down the sheet to reveal Biggie.] DECLAN I'm sorry. Will sniffs, crying. WILL Do we know who did this? DECLAN I'm still looking into it. WILL But you have some idea. DECLAN We...we should talk when you're settled. WILL Why? What's going on? Who did this? DECLAN Look, it's too early to know for sure, but so far all the evidence I've gathered points to Helen Magnus. CREDITS INT SANCTUARY MORGUE [Declan replaces the sheet over Biggie, pushes the slab back into the cabinet and closes the door.] WILL You're out of your mind. DECLAN I didn't believe it either at first. WILL At first? DECLAN We ran ballistics on the bullets we pulled from the body; they came from Magnus' nine mil. WILL So? DECLAN And she had gunshot residue on her coat. WILL All that proves is that she fired the gun at some point. DECLAN And he contacted me. WILL Who, the big guy? DECLAN Two nights before he died; he was concerned about Magnus. WILL Concerned? Concerned about what? DECLAN He said she'd started to slip; mentally. WILL I never saw any evidence of that. DECLAN Yeah, well, she was hiding it. WILL I'm a psychiatrist. DECLAN Look, all I can tell you is what he told me. Apparently, it's a condition she's had for years. He found out about it recently, agreed to let it slide, but it got to a point where he thought he had to do something. WILL This is...this is crazy. This is Magnus we're talking about. DECLAN Why would he make something like that up? Will, just so you know...I have no choice but to invoke Article 9. WILL Wait a second. Where is she? DECLAN Level three isolation. WILL What?! [Angry, Will leaves the room.] WILL She didn't do this! DECLAN Then she has nothing to worry about! INT SANCTUARY LEVEL THREE ISOLATION [Will enters a code and enters a room. Helen is sitting in the corner of the room staring out the window but rises quickly when Will enters.] HELEN Will...Oh, thank God. [Helen rushes to Will and embraces him in a hug. Will is off balance at Helen's odd behavior. Will drops his arms from around her and Helen pulls back. Helen's eyes are red and puffy from crying.] WILL Are you okay? HELEN How could I be? They're telling me that I killed one of my dearest friends. WILL What do you mean, telling you? HELEN I don't remember what happened. [Helen walks away from him and sits down on a couch.] HELEN Honestly, I have...I've absolutely no memory of the past week. WILL Well, were you injured? [Will moves to sit in a chair opposite Helen.] WILL Were you exposed to something? HELEN No, physically I'm fine. The tox screen was negative. Someone did this to me. Someone deliberately erased my memories. WILL How? HELEN I don't know! Aren't you listening to me? [Will stares at Helen trying to make sense of her odd behavior.] HELEN I'm sorry. I just...I'm just as confused as you are. Someone's trying to set me up. Someone's trying to make it look like I killed... [Helen starts crying.] WILL All right, listen to me, listen to me. Okay? We're going to get to the bottom of this, I promise. HELEN He was one of my oldest friends, Will. You have to help me. Please? WILL Of course. INT SANCTUARY CRYPT [Sunlight pours in from the window over a wreath of flowers placed over a coffin. Henry is sitting on a step in front of the crypt, lost in thought. Kate slowly walks in.] KATE There you are. I've been looking all over for you. Is he, uh... HENRY Yeah. [Kate sits down next to Henry.] HENRY We moved him over an hour ago. He always said he wanted to be laid to rest here, on the grounds. KATE It looks nice. You did a good job. Will's back. He wants to see us. HENRY You tell him to wait a bit. KATE He says it's important; something about Article 9. HENRY What? INT SANCTUARY WILL'S OFFICE [Kate and Henry are sitting in front of Will's desk.] HENRY Declan doesn't actually believe she did it. WILL Doesn't matter. KATE What's Article 9? WILL Ah, according to the Sanctuary charter, any time there's suspicion of wrongdoing, they refer the matter to the other heads of household for review. It's Magnus' rule. HENRY What the hell are we going to do? WILL Well, we can start by finding out who's really behind this. What do you guys know? HENRY Uh, big guy came to me. He said he was going to old city to meet someone. KATE I went to Magnus' office before bed, but the door was closed. WILL Come on...there's got to be somebody who knows something, some proof that she's innocent. [pause] All right, I'm going to check out the crime scene. KATE I'll go with you. HENRY I guess I should try to go through her files, see if there's anything to indicate who was after her. WILL Yeah, that's a good idea. You're the only guy who can do this. No one else can crack her encryption codes. [Kate squeezes Henry's shoulder as she rises. Will and Kate leave.] HENRY Damn. EXT OLD CITY ALLEY [Will is kneeling in an alley while Kate is looking around.] WILL This is where they found his body. I should have been here. KATE You think it would have helped? WILL I don't know. KATE Come on, let's look around. Get those freaky eyeballs of yours into action. [Will begins snapping pictures of the alley.] WILL Have you noticed Magnus acting strangely lately? KATE You're asking me? I mean, she's a weirdo pretty much all the time. WILL Declan said that the big guy told him that she was starting to slip. KATE Like Amy Winehouse slip? WILL I don't know if screaming at paparazzi is quite her speed. It's more like little things. KATE Huh... WILL What? KATE It's probably nothing. Last week she sends me this email, asked me to pick up a new intake. I go to the address, but it wasn't there. WILL The abnormal wasn't there? KATE No, like, the whole building wasn't there. The address didn't exist. WILL It must have been a mistake. Did you ask her about it? KATE Yeah, she denied ever having sent the email. Then the next day, I get another email from her with the exact same request. It was weird. [Will's attention is drawn to something up on the wall of the building.] KATE And you're not listening to me anymore. WILL What is that? KATE I knew your freaky eyeballs would come up with something. [Will snaps pictures of wires protruding out of the wall.] INT SANCTUARY HENRY'S ARRAY [Henry is working at his computer with Kate and Will looking over his shoulder.] HENRY It's a surveillance camera. The cops set up hundreds of 'em all over the city. WILL Well, this one was pointed directly at our crime scene. HENRY No scheduled maintenance. There's no reason it should be gone. WILL So it could have caught the whole thing. HENRY Yeah, well, the footage gets uploaded to the main server. I might be able to hack in and retrieve it. WILL Nice. That's the best news I've had all day. KATE I'll put the word out to some of my contacts. Maybe somebody knows something. HENRY Oh, hey, I managed to get into the doc's computer. Felt like crap doing it, WILL What'd you get? HENRY I'm just getting started, but I did find these. WILL Brain scans? HENRY Yeah, going back six years; Doc's been scanning herself regularly. The most recent one is two weeks ago. WILL Huh... KATE What is it? WILL Find that video. HENRY All right. INT SANCTUARY LIBRARY [Declan is looking at the brain scans Henry found. Will is sitting on the arm of the couch across from Declan.] DECLAN How did you get these? WILL How do you think? DECLAN Bloody hell. WILL Don't tell me you're actually buying into this. DECLAN What do you mean? WILL These scans show a pattern of deterioration lasting years. You're telling me nobody; none of us would have noticed anything? DECLAN Well, the big guy noticed. In fact, coming clean about it Is probably what got him killed. WILL Just stop it. Stop it! Magnus didn't do this! She's been set up. Somebody must have planted these. DECLAN Who? Who had access to her computer? Think about it, Will. Why'd she bring you onboard last year? She's never needed any help before. She was looking for someone to replace her. WILL This is ridiculous. DECLAN Look, if you can provide me with an alternate theory that works, I'm happy to listen. Until then, I got to proceed based on the evidence. WILL And what does that mean? DECLAN The other Sanctuary heads have charged me with gathering evidence against her. WILL What is this, a witch hunt? DECLAN We want to get to the truth, just like you. WILL After all she's done for you, huh? DECLAN That's not all. [Will has turned to leave but stops.] DECLAN They've voted to send in a triad. WILL A triad? DECLAN A team of investigators uniquely qualified for situations like this. WILL And what makes them so "uniquely qualified"? DECLAN They're telepaths. They're going to get inside her mind. INT SANCTUARY FRONT DOOR [Will opens the door to reveal a woman and two men awaiting entry. Henry and Declan are behind Will as he opens the door.] INT SANCTUARY HALLWAY [Will is escorting the woman telepath.] WILL You know, I got to admit, I feel kind of... TELEPATH 1 Invaded, compromised. It's a common reaction. People tend to feel nervous around our skill set. WILL Skill set. That's an interesting way of putting it. Listen, can I get you... TELEPATH 1 No, we ate on the way here. I'm sorry, when we begin an investigation; it's really very hard not to read everybody's thoughts. You see, the first emotions we sense are often the most important. WILL Okay, so, um, what am I thinking now? TELEPATH 1 That you don't even know my name, Emma Correia. WILL It's nice to meet you. I just wish it could have been under more pleasant circumstances. EMMA I've been an admirer of Dr. Magnus for years. WILL Oh, really? When did you meet? EMMA We never have. Her work saved me. I've never felt at home anywhere except the Sanctuary network. WILL Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. EMMA How's your investigation going? WILL Shouldn't you know already? EMMA Actually no, it's not an exact science, Will. The mind is tricky, and to read it takes focus, concentration, proximity, you know, and even then, a person's thoughts aren't always out there in the open. That's why there's three of us. WILL Doesn't it get noisy with all the, you know... [They stop in front of the elevator.] EMMA Luckily, we can shield our thoughts from each other. It helps us to remain objective. WILL Huh...Well, just...I wish I could get Magnus to remember what happened. EMMA We'll be questioning her later on this afternoon. You're welcome to sit in. WILL Yeah. Yeah, I'd like that. [The door to the elevator opens and Will holds the elevator and stares at Emma.] EMMA I'm... flattered, Will. WILL This is going to be tough. INT SANCTUARY HENRY'S ARRAY [Will enters and walks in and goes straight to Henry who is sitting at his computer.] WILL Is this going to upset me? HENRY Oh, yeah, it's bad news. You know that video you wanted me to look at? WILL Yeah. HENRY It's been deleted from the police database. WILL So someone on the police force is gunning for Magnus? HENRY Well, that's what I thought, too, so I did some digging. It turns out The chief deleted it himself. WILL The chief? Well, why would he do that? He and Magnus are old friends. HENRY Exactly, so...I hacked into his email account. WILL Oh, boy. HENRY Don't worry, it's completely untraceable, but look what I found. HENRY That is an email requesting the file be deleted. WILL From Magnus. What? EXT OLD CITY UNDER ELEVATED RAILWAY [A man is waiting for Kate and she walks up to talk to him.] KATE Okay, Remy. You got your money. Now, what have you heard? REMY Your boss has been very busy lately. KATE Meaning? REMY I tracked down this dealer, and he said that she bought a whack of red-list freaks last week. KATE Red-list? Are you sure? REMY Oh, yeah. According to him, she was all over the weird, creepy stuff. Stuff nobody else wants. KATE What exactly did she buy? REMY Wouldn't tell me; didn't want to rat out a client. But whatever it was, she paid a lot for it. Way over market. KATE That doesn't make any sense. What would Magnus want with a bunch of Red-Listers? REMY Nothing legal. INT SANCTUARY LIBRARY [Helen is sitting in chair facing the three telepaths. Declan is behind her on one side and Will is sitting in a chair beside Helen.] EMMA Shall we begin? I'm going to ask you to open your mind and allow us inside. Do you know why we're here? HELEN You're the triad, Emma. You're here to interrogate me. EMMA We don't want you to think of it that way. This is an important matter, but you are still innocent until proven otherwise. Now, three nights ago, there was an incident in old city. Do you remember it? HELEN No. EMMA One of your oldest friends was killed. HELEN I don't remember. EMMA Do you remember going into the alley and firing your weapon? HELEN I can't...I don't know what happened. TELEPATH 2 What is your relationship like with your staff? [Helen appears alarmed at the question.] HELEN I didn't do this. TELEPATH 2 Please, just answer the questions. [Helen has become agitated.] HELEN Why are you treating me like a common criminal? EMMA This investigation is in accordance with your charter... HELEN Someone did this to me, and you're all just sitting here instead of trying to find them! You're all in on this, aren't you? You've done something to me. WILL Magnus... HELEN No! No, leave me alone, all of you! [Helen gets up out of the chair and stands away from everyone.] HELEN Get out of my house! WILL Okay, this is over. We can reconvene later. INT SANCTUARY HALLWAY [Will and Emma are talking; lagging behind as everyone walks down the hallway.] EMMA Her mind is chaotic, damaged. I've seen this type of thing before. Symptoms of advanced dementia, it makes it impossible to read her thoughts, even with basic prompts to focus them. [Will stops and faces Emma.] WILL W... what does that mean? EMMA Telepathy is our most reliable means of investigation, but it's not the only one. We'll need to look over the existing physical evidence until we can understand why we can't read her mind. Will, I'm... I'm sorry. I know you were hoping for better news. [Will walks away upset.] INT SANCTUARY HENRY'S ARRAY WILL Hey, you wanted to see me? HENRY Yeah. Firewall intercepted an outgoing email. [Henry hands Will the email.] WILL No way. INT SANCTUARY HELEN'S OFFICE WILL What the hell are you trying to pull? DECLAN Sorry? WILL You sent an email to the heads of household requesting to be put in charge of this Sanctuary. DECLAN You read my email? WILL You're trying to discredit Magnus before the triad renders judgment because you want her job. DECLAN Watch yourself, mate, you're out of line. WILL I'm out of line? You're making an end run around her, but I'm the one who's out of line? DECLAN You realize what'll happen if she's found guilty? There's a list of candidates a mile long to take her place and let me tell you, none of them will be as pleasant to work for as me. For starters, they'll fire the whole staff, you included. And a year from now, if her memory clears up and she's found not guilty, I'm more than happy to step down, let her take command again. That's more than I can say for anyone else. You have no idea of the political landscape you're dealing with. WILL I want a copy of all the evidence you've collected so far. DECLAN Oh, you think I'm fabricating this, do you? WILL Yeah. [Will's cell phone rings.] WILL Hello? INT SANCTUARY HENRY'S ARRAY HENRY Hey, it's me. I got the video from the alley. It's downloading now. WILL (on phone) Good, we'll be right there. INT SANCTUARY HENRY'S ARRAY [Will and Declan are standing behind Henry looking at his computer monitor.] HENRY Turns out the police maintain a backup database. It's only updated every three days, so there's some lag time between the main system and... WILL Yeah, yeah, I... I get it. So, what do you got? [They watch the video on the monitor which shows the empty alley.] WILL Can you fast forward a bit? Right there. [Biggie enters the alley.] DECLAN It looks like he's waiting for someone. WILL Oh. There. [A person wearing a cloak is standing with their back to the camera.] WILL Damn it, who is that? [The person shoots Biggie and then kneels down beside him. They stand again still with their back to the camera.] WILL Aw, come on, turnaround. [The person turns toward the camera. Helen looks up at the camera and Henry freezes the video.] INT SANCTUARY WILL'S OFFICE [Will is sitting at his desk idly playing with a baseball in his hand.] WILL Come in. [Telepath 3 enters.] WILL Scofield, have a seat. SCOFIELD It's not necessary. I just wanted to inform you, my colleagues and I have gone through the evidence, discussed the issue at length. WILL Let me guess. SCOFIELD Dr. Magnus has a mental deficiency. She needs treatment. She's a hazard to herself and others. WILL She's being set up. SCOFIELD How can you still believe that? You've seen the video. WILL I don't care about the video. I don't care what anyone says, telepathic or otherwise. SCOFIELD I see you may not agree with our methods, Dr. Zimmerman, but I can assure you they're effective, and there's a good reason Dr. Magnus assigned this task to our kind. WILL So what happens now? SCOFIELD In the interim, Declan MaCrae will be assuming responsibilities of this Sanctuary. I know that you believe he's somehow connected to Magnus' crime, but I can assure you that's not true. I have questioned him fully and read his mind. WILL Yeah, well...a lot of good that did Magnus. SCOFIELD You know, I'm sorry that you're disappointed, doctor, but really, it's for the best. Now, Dr. Magnus will be transported first thing in the morning. I suggest you take the opportunity to say goodbye before then. INT SANCTUARY ISOLATION 3 [Helen is agitated and pacing the room.] HELEN You can't let them do this to me. WILL We're doing everything we can to get you out of here. Henry is pulling out all the stops. Kate is talking to... HELEN No, you don't understand. They're all out to get me! WILL Who? HELEN Declan, and that other one, what's his name, Scofield? They're working together. WILL How do you know? HELEN Isn't it obvious? Will, they're trying to kill me! Look. [Helen picks up a tray of food and gives it to Will.] HELEN Look at this. It's poisoned. Smell it. [Will stares down at tray.] HELEN Smell it! They're going to destroy everything. Ashley told me. WILL Magnus, this has nothing to do with Ashley. [Will sets tray on end table.] HELEN They killed her too! They killed my daughter! WILL Okay, listen to me. You're exhausted. You need to rest. HELEN Don't patronize me. You said you were going to help me. WILL I am trying to help you. HELEN Oh, no. WILL What? HELEN Oh, no...they got to you too. WILL No, look, I swear, I am fighting for you. HELEN You're lying! Why is everyone lying to me? [Helen walks to corner of room and Will, feeling dejected, looks down and then keys the code to leave. Helen elbows him to the back of his head, knocking him down and opens the door and leaves.] INT SANCTUARY HALLWAY [Helen nears the elevator and the doors open and Telepath 3 exits.] TELEPATH 3 Dr. Magnus? [Helen grabs Telepath 3 and puts him in a choke hold. He passes out and Helen gets in elevator.] INT SANCTUARY ISOLATION 3 [Will attempts to get up. Declan enters and finds Will.] DECLAN Zimmerman! DECLAN (on walkie) Henry, I need an immediate perimeter lockdown. HENRY Uh, yeah, you're too late. [Henry is watching the video of Helen opening a door.] HENRY She's already gone. [Helen exits; closing the door behind her.] DECLAN (on walkie) Fisher, take Collins and go after her. DECLAN What the hell were you doing here, anyway? WILL We were just talking. INT SANCTUARY HENRY'S ARRAY WILL Where are you on Magnus' files? HENRY Still scratching the surface, why? WILL There's something in there that Declan wants. I mean, think about it. He knew exactly what he had to do to discredit Magnus, and now that she's out of the picture, he can take his time, go through the files one by one. HENRY Yeah, but wouldn't the telepaths know what he was up to? WILL Not if one of them's in on it. HENRY Aw, you think? WILL One of them could be blocking the other two from reading his mind. HENRY Telepathic criminal, great. WILL I know. [Will's cell phone rings. He looks at display before answering it.] WILL Hey. KATE Hey, meet me at the pier in twenty. [A dial tone is heard.] WILL Hello? EXT OLD CITY PIER [Kate is leading Will down a stairwell leading from the outside of a building.] KATE I had to get you out of the range of the telepaths before I brought you here. WILL What is this place? KATE Storage facility, part of the university before they shut it down. My guy swears he spotted her coming in. WILL Magnus? KATE Doc? Are you down here? WILL Magnus, it's Will and Kate. [Helen swings a board at Will and Kate.] HELEN Ahhh.. Ah... WILL Hold on a second! HELEN Leave me alone! Stay back! WILL We don't want to hurt you. We're here to help you. Come on, Magnus. Now, you already knocked me out once today. One per day, that's your limit. HELEN Will? [Helen drops the board and turns away distressed.] HELEN What's happening to me? WILL Magnus, let me help you. INT SANCTUARY HENRY'S ARRAY [Henry is working on his computer.] HENRY No, that can't be right. [Henry looks puzzled at the monitor.] HENRY What the..? Oh, yeah? Try this one on for size. [Henry taps keys.] HENRY Oh, come on. [An encrypted file appears.] HENRY Oh, man. INT STORAGE FACILITY WILL We're not leaving her here. KATE Well, you can't take her back there. [Will's cell phone rings.] WILL Henry, what's going on? HENRY (on phone) Hey, I kind of hit the mother lode here. Where are you? WILL I'll be right there... [Kate grabs Will's arm.] WILL What? KATE Hello, Mcfly? You can't go back there. The amazing Kreskins will read your mind and find out where Magnus is. HENRY (on phone) What's going on? H... hello? WILL Henry, can you meet me at Dead Bridge? HENRY (on phone) Yeah, why? WILL I can't tell you. HENRY (on phone) Okay, I have no idea what that means. WILL Good. Okay. KATE Smooth. INT SANCTUARY HENRY'S ARRAY HENRY H... hello? Bye. [Henry waits impatiently for file to download.] HENRY Come on, come on, come on, come on. INT SANCTUARY LIBRARY [Declan watches as Henry runs down hallway.] EXT OLD CITY DEAD BRIDGE [Henry and Will are sitting in van talking.] HENRY So I was going through her backup drive when I stumbled across a ghost directory labeled "Big Bertha." I tried to open it, and I found this. WILL What is this? HENRY Some sort of encryption cipher. Csis-level coding, so whatever's in there's got to be important. WILL And you think this is what Declan's after? HENRY I'd say it's a fair bet. WILL Big Bertha? Does that mean anything to you? HENRY No. WILL All right, stay on it. Let me know what you find out. HENRY Yeah. You got it. OLD CITY STORAGE FACILITY [Will returns to find Kate sitting on stairs and Helen still pacing.] KATE How did it go? WILL Good. Henry thinks he's found something, so... [Declan and his men rush in the door with weapons drawn.] DECLAN Magnus! [Kate pulls out her gun.] DECLAN Put it down, Miss Freelander. Right now! HELEN You brought them here? WILL No. No, it wasn't me. DECLAN Actually, it was. WILL What the hell is this? DECLAN I could very well ask you the same question. Dr. Magnus, you are hereby remanded into custody. You'll come quietly, please. HELEN No. No! No! [Declan's men try to grab Helen's arms but she pulls away and runs stumbling into boarded enclosure. The men grab her again.] HELEN No! Get your hands off me! Let go of me! WILL Hey, take it easy! HELEN Let go of me! DECLAN She's becoming more dangerous. It's time to take extreme measures. Confine her in the SHU; maximum security. HELEN Will! Ow! Will! INT SANCTUARY LIBRARY [Will, Declan and the telepaths are all gathered.] DECLAN You made a very big mistake, mate. We're not the enemy. What do you know about Big Bertha? [Will turns to look at Declan but doesn't answer him.] SCOFIELD Your silence won't help you, Dr. Zimmerman. You can't control your thoughts. EMMA Stop it, Scofield. You know as well as I do he knows nothing. Will, I can assure you there is no conspiracy here. WILL How do you know? You said yourself you can't read each other's thoughts, so- SCOFIELD We can read his, Dr. Zimmerman. TELEPATH 3 And yours; harboring a fugitive is a serious crime under the Sanctuary Charter, Doctor. WILL So you want to lock me up, too? Go ahead. [Will leaves the library and Emma follows him out.] SANCTUARY HALLWAY EMMA Will, wait. Look, I want to apologize for the way Scofield treated you. You didn't deserve that. The emergence of information on Big Bertha has everybody rattled. WILL What the hell is Big Bertha anyway? [Emma looks at Will uncertain and then looks at floor.] WILL Oh...I get it. So you get to know all my inner thoughts, but when it comes to telling me why I'm being treated like a criminal, then everything's off limits, huh? EMMA Look, all right...but what I'm about to tell you is heavily classified. Only a handful of people in the world know it. WILL Fine. EMMA As you know, we house many species of deadly abnormals within the network. Normally, this isn't a problem, provided certain precautions are taken. However, there are certain abnormals that are so dangerous; we simply can't risk keeping them around. WILL How dangerous? EMMA Earthquakes, mass flooding, fires, atmospheric toxins, and believe me, the list of what these abnormals are capable of goes on. Big bertha was one such abnormal. She could alter the magnetic resonance in her body to manipulate tectonic plates. The destruction she caused was unimaginable. Dr. Magnus tracked, captured, and euthanized her according to protocol, or so everybody thought, and now these files indicate that Big Bertha may still actually be alive. I'm sure you can understand how unsafe that is. Whoever controls her has the power to ransom governments, level entire cities... WILL Let me explain something to you. I know Magnus. I work with her every day. There's no way that she would ever unleash something like this. EMMA There was a time when I would have believed you without question, Will, but now I'm not so sure. INT SANCTUARY HENRY'S ARRAY [Will, Declan and the telepaths are gathered around Henry and his computer.] DECLAN I thought you said you had it. HENRY Yeah, I did, I just...It's a lot different with you guys standing over me like this. There. There's your Big Bertha file. EMMA Oh, my God. She's alive. DECLAN Not only that, Magnus is moving her. WILL Where? DECLAN It just says she's in a container on the Arabian Sea. Look at the latest AIS data. TELEPATH 3 What is she thinking? SCOFIELD We need to mobilize the nearest Sanctuary retrieval team immediately. If Big Bertha falls into the wrong hands, it'll be disastrous. DECLAN I'll make the arrangements. SCOFIELD Still think she's innocent? INT SANCTUARY WILL'S OFFICE [Will is packing up his office.] EMMA I understand that you're leaving. May I ask why? WILL Don't you know already? EMMA You feel that remaining here will put constraints on your ability to exonerate Dr. Magnus. Will, I admire your loyalty, but there comes a time when you have to put your emotions aside and face the logic of the situation. WILL You think it's logical...that she would shoot her lifelong friend in cold blood, that she would lie for years about harboring a deadly abnormal, and then send it on a pleasure cruise across the East African coast? You think that's logical? EMMA She's sick, Will. She's not herself. WILL Right, I forgot; the mysterious degenerative brain disease. EMMA Look, I know you're hurting. I feel the same way. WILL Then why are you leaving? EMMA Well, because our work is done. The evidence speaks for itself, and... WILL Sure EMMA At least we found Big Bertha before something terrible happened. [Will returns to packing his books.] EMMA Well, goodbye, Will. I'm sorry that we ended up on the opposite sides of this. INT SANCTUARY SHU [Will enters the observation room and looks in on Helen. She is restrained to a bed and on monitors and appears to be unconscious.] WILL Magnus...I don't know if you can hear me...or if you even care anymore...I just came to say goodbye. I'm sorry this happened. And I'm sorry I let you down, but I want you to know that I'm going to keep searching for the truth as long as I can. I just...I can't do it from here anymore. [Helen starts to convulse.] WILL Magnus? Magnus! [Will rushes to help her.] WILL I need help down here! INT SANCTUARY INFIRMARY [Declan is standing over Helen who is on a bed. Will, Kate, and Henry are on the opposite side of the bed.] DECLAN We put her in a drug-induced coma to stop the seizures. I'm afraid her condition is accelerating. It doesn't look good. I'm sorry. [Declan walks around bed to stand before them.] DECLAN Now, there's more bad news. We just got word from our retrieval team. The ship we were tracking was attacked by mercenaries. By the time we boarded it, the cargo had been stolen. Big Bertha's gone. INT SANCTUARY CRYPT [Will is leaning against crypt.] WILL None of this makes any sense. [Will notices the flowers on the floor and pushes the crypt open. No body is inside. Will flashes back: DECLAN They've voted to send in a triad. EMMA When we're beginning an investigation it's really very hard not to read everyone's thoughts. HENRY Telepathic criminal, great. EMPATH 3 If Big Bertha falls into the wrong hands, it'll be disastrous. DECLAN So far, all the evidence I've gathered points to Helen Magnus. Will returns to the present.] WILL Oh, my God. INT SANCTUARY INFIRMARY [Henry is sitting next to an unconscious Helen as Will rushes in.] WILL Where's the triad? HENRY They left hours ago, why? WILL All right, we've got to run a scan on Magnus' brain right now. Big guy's not dead. INT SANCTUARY HENRY'S ARRAY [The team is looking at the new brain scans.] HENRY This can't be right. Where's the deterioration? WILL It never existed. Those other brain scans weren't real. KATE Then why did she flake out? WILL I don't know, but I'm guessing she did it on purpose to conceal her thoughts from the triad. Okay, so you're Magnus, and you want to create these symptoms what do you do? HENRY I don't follow you. WILL Is there a type of abnormal that would cause her to act this way? KATE Ozone beetle. HENRY What, are you crazy? KATE Right there on the scan, the dark spot. WILL What's an ozone beetle? HENRY It's a bug that crawls into your brain and nests in your hippocampus, but they're... KATE Red-listed. WILL The dealer she met last week. What does it do? KATE It secretes this fluid that gives you this wicked high, but if you leave it in there too long... HENRY It causes memory loss, paranoia, increased sensitivity to light. KATE Which is why she hid in the basement. WILL Okay, we've got to get it out of her. HENRY All right, I'll go get a room ready. KATE Why would she do this? WILL Do you still have that email that she sent you last week? KATE Yeah, I think so. [Kate moves to the computer.] KATE There. WILL Right there; she spelled "retrieve" wrong. KATE So? WILL No, Magnus is a spelling Nazi. She'd never do that. KATE Five minutes ago I would have thought she'd never put a bug in her head, either. [After Will clicks on the spelling error a map appears on the screen showing tracking.] KATE Whoa...What the hell is that? WILL Africa. I think we just found Big Bertha. EXT EAST AFRICA PORT OF DJIBOUTI [A cargo container is being lowered to the dock. Emma is walking with some men.] MAN 1 We took the ship yesterday. They gave up the cargo with no resistance. EMMA Good. We'll need to move it again to our more secure location before the Sanctuary picks up the trail. MAN 1 There is a truck standing by. MAN 1 (on walkie) Ouvrez-le, vite, vite! EMMA Some things are simply too powerful to be left in the wrong hands. [The container is opened and but only a small device is inside. Man 1 goes and picks up device.] MAN 1 It's a tracking device. [He brings the device back to Emma. Suddenly Declan appears with Will and Kate and some men.] DECLAN Freeze! Hold it! Don't move! DECLAN'S MEN Move it! Come on, let's go. [Will walks to Emma.] WILL Can you read my mind now? EMMA Big Bertha's dead. WILL I'm sorry we ended up on opposite sides of this. INT SANCTUARY INFIRMARY [A recovering Helen is sitting up looking much better.] WILL Okay, so let me get this straight. You knew Emma was bad news from day one? HELEN Day one might be pushing it, but over the past few years, I'd noticed a series of information leaks that couldn't be traced back to the Cabal. WILL So you came up with this insane plan to dangle Big Bertha in front of her. Drop an ozone beetle to take yourself out of the picture. Kill the big guy, which I'm still not entirely sure about, by the way. KATE And not tell any of us, so that we couldn't blow your cover. HELEN Quite simple really. KATE Oh, yeah. WILL Yeah, yeah, it's totally simple. KATE Okay, so spill. What is the gag on the big guy? HELEN The subcutaneous facial layer of his species is four times thicker than that of humans. WILL The bullets didn't penetrate. KATE But Henry examined him. I mean, he was dead. HELEN In a manner of speaking; I tipped the bullets with the secretion of a Chilean Shepherd Frog. It slowed his heart enough to feign death. WILL Oh, my God, oh, my God, you're crazy. You're certifiably crazy. I should have let them take you away. HELEN Nonsense, I knew you'd figure it out. Besides, I'd left careful instructions to call the whole thing off in two days' time if things went badly. WILL The big guy. KATE Huh... WILL Speaking of which, shouldn't he be back by now? INT SANCTUARY ELEVATOR [Henry exits the elevator.] BIGGIE Henry. [Henry smacks Biggie upside the head.] HENRY If you ever do that to me again, I will shoot you myself, you got it? BIGGIE Got it. HENRY All right, what are you standing there for? Let's go eat lunch. [The two get back on the elevator and before the doors close we see Biggie smack Henry's head.] THE END
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