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| - WILL: [voiceover] Magnus? WILL: Magnus, wait! What are you going to do to her? KATE: [gesturing at food] You know, this isn't bad. Though I find the peas are a little overcooked. MAGNUS: The Cabal location you gave us was a trap. We barely escaped with our lives. KATE: Well, I could see how that would suck. MAGNUS: You set us up. KATE: Okay, time out for a second! I did not set you up. You asked for a location, that's the only one I know. Don't blame me if the Cabal is one step ahead of you. It's what they do! MAGNUS: [yelling] Are you completely incapable of understanding what's happening here? They've turned my daughter into a... [Helen stops and glares at Kate for a long moment before continuing calmly] I want to talk to your contact at the Cabal. Now. DANA: Dana Whitcomb. MAGNUS: [over phone] Is that your real name, or just the one we'll put on your headstone? DANA: Helen. Nice of you to call. MAGNUS: You have my daughter. I want her back. Before this escalates any further, I'm willing to listen to your terms. DANA: Well, actually, they're very simple. We would happily arrange for Ashley to be returned to you, provided you're willing to give us what we want. MAGNUS: Which is? DANA: Surrender the entire Sanctuary global network into our hands immediately. DANA: [over phone] Your daughter, or your work. DANA: You choose. WILL: [voiceover] Tell me you're not actually considering this. MAGNUS: It's an impossible choice. DRUITT: Is it? MAGNUS: If I did capitulate, do you honestly believe that the Cabal would honor their end of the deal? DRUITT: She's our daughter! TESLA: Actually, I'm not so sure about that anymore. HENRY: What the hell is she, then? WILL: She exhibited multiple powers. Teleportation, speed, strength- TESLA: Healing powers, super reflexes, vampiric tendencies. Sound familiar? HENRY: Multiple powers? DRUITT: In one very violent package. MAGNUS: Whatever the Cabal has done to Ashley, it's obvious that the source blood is a key element. We need to find a way to interfere with it. TESLA: You mean a weapon? MAGNUS: Yes. DRUITT: Helen! MAGNUS: To disable her. Neutralize her powers. HENRY: Doc, I'm totally on board with all this, but we have no idea how much they've messed with her genetic make-up. Making a weapon to stop her, it kinda feels like a shot in the dark. TESLA: Not to mention neutralizing the effects of the source blood, or any mind control drugs, it could kill her outright. MAGNUS: Then make certain it doesn't. TESLA: I'll need two weeks. MAGNUS: We don't have that. You'll have every resource available, Nikola. I want a working prototype ready immediately. Henry, you'll assist. WILL: Okay, so we know the Cabal's real agenda now. They want the entire Sanctuary network under their control. DRUITT: Or destroyed. WILL: Either way, Ashley has intimate knowledge of our security protocols, communications systems, defense designs. HENRY: We changed all the codes when Ashley went rogue, but if she's as powerful as you say she is, we're gonna have to alter every single security protocol in the network. MAGNUS: I'll speak to the heads of every facility, let them know what to expect. DRUITT: With Ashley? They could bring this entire network to its knees. MAGNUS: Which means that every second is critical. Work fast, gentlemen. MAGNUS: Spare me! DRUITT: You are intent on going to war while I'm pushing for compromise. MAGNUS: So we surrender every abnormal under our protection? I don't think so. DRUITT: Only enough to get Ashley back. Fight another day when we're stronger. MAGNUS: We both know that day will never come. DRUITT: But you saw what they've done to her! MAGNUS: How dare you! You think your sentiments come from some generous place? They do not! It's pure ego! DRUITT: Ego? [scoffs] Try regret. MAGNUS: Ashley and I did fine on our own, John. Don't waste your time on the past. DRUITT: You misunderstand me. Again. My regret is not that I wasn't here to change nappies or watch her take her first steps. It's what I gave her. What the Cabal has summoned from within her. The gifts she inherited from me. My blood-lust. MAGNUS: You weren't always that way, John. You were changed. And like your condition, I'm convinced hers can be managed. DRUITT: And if you're wrong? DRUITT: What's bred in the bone can't be undone in the flesh. TESLA: You'd think with all the resources available to her, she'd have a more updated facility. This place is as backward as Oxford before the war. The first war. HENRY: Yeah, well, I think Dr. Magnus likes to keep the old stuff around for old times' sake. She trusts it more than the high-tech stuff I try to push on her. TESLA: She's incredibly cheap, to boot. HENRY: I really can't comment on that. TESLA: What, paycheck that low? HENRY: You don't think we can make a working prototype in time. TESLA: Not even close. A weapon to disable, not kill, someone who possesses the abilities of five of the most powerful abnormals on Earth. Ludicrous. Pass me that. So, how do we instantly affect the viability of Ashley's altered blood? HENRY: Localized radiation burst. TESLA: Obvious. What kind of radiation? HENRY: Beta, x, gamma. Concentrated, focused exposure. TESLA: Possibly. But how to modulate the energy spectrum so that it has the desired benign effect? HENRY: While still taking her out. TESLA: The reason I'm asking is because I don't know the answer. And I'm me. HENRY: Well. [Henry's phone begins to ring with a werewolf ring tone] Oh, excuse me. Back in five. TESLA: Oh, I'll be here working. Trying to save the world. Single-handedly. Ugh. HENRY: I don't understand why you can't just use what we gave you. KATE: A bedpan? Dude, I draw the line at sitting on a metal salad bowl. HENRY: All right, fine, but the cuffs stay on. KATE: Yeah, I can deal. Just get me to a powder room. KATE: Patient? HENRY: Friend. KATE: You have got to be kidding me... Is that a- HENRY: Yes. KATE: [laughing] For real? HENRY: Do you mind? KATE: Do you know what one of those is worth on the black market? HENRY: Seriously. KATE: More than you can make in ten years, dummy. KATE: Lazarus virus? But I heard there was a cure. HENRY: Let's just keep moving. TECHNICIAN:: We're ready for mission start on your mark. DANA: Start the clock. You have a go. MAN: Mayday! Mayday! MAGNUS: John! I need you to Nikola and I there right away. We need to get into this fight. DRUITT: We can't help them. MAGNUS: What are you talking about? Why? WILL: Because the entire facility fell in 20 minutes. HENRY: Tokyo's gone. MEDUSA: [voiceover]Doctor Hiromara refused to evacuate until his staff were already out. MEDUSA: We found his body in the main lab. Most of the residents got out safely, but if we'd been housing anything dangerous at the time... MAGNUS: We'd have a much larger problem on our hands. WILL: Do you have any idea how they beat the EM shield? That should've prevented them from transporting within the facility. Teleporting within it would disrupt their molecular structure beyond recognition. MEDUSA: They targeted the EM shield right after the breech. After that, we had no hope against them. All our defensive weapons were useless. MACRAE: Get in by brute force, turn off our best defense, take out the head of the house. All in just minutes. MEDUSA: There's more. We detected a remotely-activated data burst just before the facility was set on fire. MAGNUS: How much information did they steal? MEDUSA: All of it, Doctor Magnus. MACRAE: The EM shield is the only thing that can stop them. If they continue finding ways to counteract it, we'll have no defense. MAGNUS: Henry Foss is working with his counterparts at all of your sanctuaries. He's assembled a list of new security upgrades which include modified shield codes and better perimeter safeguards. MEDUSA: With all respect, Ashley knows every facility, every security protocol. MAGNUS: I'm aware of that. Henry's new countermeasures were designed with Ashley's knowledge in mind. And that said, I've asked each of you to evacuate all residents and personnel until this crisis is over. MACRAE: You mentioned a weapon that could potentially stop these beings. When can that come into play? MAGNUS: Soon, I hope. In the meantime, we're working on finding out which of the sanctuaries will be the Cabal's next target. As much as I hate to use this terminology, we are at war. And one that we are ill-prepared for. MACRAE: Can't we request assistance from the intelligence community? MAGNUS: Our job is to handle situations exactly like this one. It's why governments allow us to exist. If we can't deal with this, there is no other line of defense. HENRY: Did you really inject your own blood into little Damian here? TESLA: We have to see the effects of the radiation blast on source blood physiology and I'm hardly going to do the test on myself. HENRY: I hope it doesn't make him too sick. TESLA: Oh yes. Me, too. Stand back. HENRY: Dude, it's losing its mind. TESLA: Interesting. HENRY: Hey, making Ashley crazy-mad is not in the same category as disabling her. TESLA: We learn more from failure than from success. Or so I've heard. HENRY: Okay, so basically, we're back at Square One. That's awesome. TESLA: Listen. The Cabal have been planning this move for decades. I've had two days, a crappy lab, and Tiny Tim for an assistant, so please cut me some slack. HENRY: If you think working with you is a party, think again, Vlad! TESLA: Good, you finally showed up. Quit your whining and get to work. KATE: You look happy. WILL: You heard about Tokyo. KATE: Hmm. Sounded rough. WILL: You could help stop this from happening again. And spare me the "I don't work for free" speech. You know the Cabal, their strategies, their methods. Look, this is a great opportunity for you to buy yourself some credibility. The head of the sanctuary plus other key personnel were targeted in the Tokyo attack. KATE: And I'm betting they sent a remote data burst before they torched the place, too. WILL: Yeah. KATE: You're in for a world of hurt, my friend. WILL: What are they planning? KATE: The Cabal has been dying to cut off the snake's head of the network for decades. WILL: But they can't get to Magnus directly. KATE: But now, thanks to Ashley, they can work both ends against the middle. WILL: So they plan to target the heads of every house. KATE: And I'm betting Magnus Junior knows all the codes, schematics, and protocols to get her and her freaky friends into every Sanctuary in the world, right? WILL: So they want to isolate us. Cut us off from each other, knock out the other sanctuaries before going after the crown jewel. KATE: This Sanctuary is the most heavily fortified. Once they weaken the global network... I'm betting they'll hit London as a dry run before coming here. WILL: You seem to know a lot about us. For somebody who's just a hired gun. KATE: You seem to know squat about the Cabal. Not good news for your team, boy scout. WILL: Magnus knows a hell of a lot more than you think. KATE: Well, then she should use it. WILL: What about Ashley? You must know something. About what they've done to her and how they've changed her. KATE: Uh uh. Like you said, I'm just a free-lancer. WILL: Really. Well, you seemed important enough for them to want to kill you when they thought you were compromised. KATE: That doesn't mean I have an inside track to all things Cabal. It just means they like to kill people they don't trust. Honestly, I'm just here because I'm pretty sure they'll take this place last. And I just wanna enjoy the last remaining peaceful hours of my life, before I begin my career as a hunted fugitive. You should do the same. WILL: Thanks. KATE: Mmm hmm. MAGNUS: Declan. MACRAE: We just got word. Moscow's been hit. MAGNUS: How badly? MACRAE: Fifteen human casualties, twelve abnormal. Lots of damage. MAGNUS: Beijing, New Delhi, now Moscow. None of our new security protocols are making any difference. Did you get the shipment I sent? MACRAE: Both species are in the secured area now. MAGNUS: Good. I want them ready for deployment as soon as possible. If the pattern holds, we should have at least seven hours before the next attack. MACRAE: Welcome to London, gentlemen. MAGNUS: Will, Nikola, this is Declan MacRae, acting head of the UK facility. MACRAE: Doctor Tesla, it's an honor. TESLA: Is it? Surely James Watson told you about me before he died. MACRAE: He did, indeed. In the most respectful terms. TESLA: Oh, then the honor is mine. You have big shoes to fill, Mr. MacRae. MACRAE: We have a lab set up for you to continue your work. All according to the specifications you sent us. TESLA: I'll need wine. The good stuff, nothing cheap. MACRAE: Of course. This way. CLARA: Will! WILL: Hey, Clara! WILL: My god. CLARA: God, I missed you. MAGNUS: You seem well, Clara. CLARA: Hey, Doctor Magnus. Mr. Druitt, nice to see you. DRUITT: I see time in the Empire has taught you some manners. CLARA: Um... Can you guys excuse us for a bit? I'm gonna rip Will's clothes off before the bad guys attack. WILL: Okay, whoa whoa whoa, hold- Hold on a second. What are you still doing here? I thought you were going to evacuate with the other residents. CLARA: Well, I didn't join up so I could just run away when the going got tough. I wanna help defend the place. And I think I owe Magnus that. WILL: Look, you heard what happened at the other sanctuaries. It's gonna get really bad here. CLARA: Invisible girl. CLARA: Really. We need all the help we can get. Okay, so. They have all these old movies here, the ones with old British dudes acting in them. Now, I don't have any bandages, but... WILL: Okay, that's... spooky. CLARA: I have control now, Dr. Zimmerman. WILL: [stammering] Uh, we- we- we don't have time for this. CLARA: They are going to be recalibrating the EM shield for the next two hours and I haven't seen you in weeks. WILL: Okay. Two hours. TECHNICIAN: [voiceover] We have a tap on their security monitors and we're detecting high-spectrum EM frequencies covering the entire compound. DANA: They have their shield up. Very smart. It essentially takes Druitt out of play. Make it clear they cannot teleport until they disable the shield. TECHNICIAN: Do you have a preferred point for initial breach? DANA: How about the front door? MACRAE: Perimeter cameras show four targets outside the facility. MAGNUS: EM shield is active and holding. Initiate countermeasures. DRUITT: The front door. They're getting bolder. MACRAE: It's 2-inch steel plate. There's no way they're gonna- TECHNICIAN: Initial defenses breached. They're beginning their sweep now. DANA: Priority targets are Magnus, Druitt, Tesla, Clara Griffen, and MacRae. Oh, and Zimmerman if he gets in the way. Proceed to the databanks on foot until we can disengage the EM shield. DRUITT: Stand down, Ashley. MACRAE: They aren't talking to each other, but they're operating in sync. MAGNUS: Telepathic communication. MACRAE: They'll head to the main databanks in the central lab, send their data burst from there. Then they'll target me. MAGNUS: I'm not quite ready to surrender yet, Declan. We stick to the plan. [into radio] Nikola, how long? NIKOLA: [into radio] Almost there. Stop bugging me. WILL: Tag! You're it. WILL: Now that's what I"m talking about. WILL: That's not cool. TESLA: How goes the home-invasion? MAGNUS: Not as well as we'd hoped. We're moving to Plan B, which means I need the weapon right now. TESLA: Just finished powering it up. But you should know it's hardly my best work. MAGNUS: It'll have to do. It's time you got into the fray. TECHNICIAN: Ashley's approaching the computer core now. TESLA: [vampire voice] Your mother would be so disappointed. TESLA:[raising an eye] Am I supposed to be impressed? CLARA: Are you okay? WILL: You're kidding, right? [into radio] Magnus, Operation Exxon Valdez is a bust. MAGNUS: [over radio] Can you draw them into the main lab? WILL: [into radio]Oh yeah, that shouldn't be a problem. Seeing as they're trying to kill me an all. MAGNUS: [over radio] Don't take it personally. CLARA: Okay. Get going. I'll give you a head start. WILL: You stay out of sight, okay? Meet me in the main lab. TESLA: Okay, I'm impressed. WILL: Two of them on their way. TESLA: Okay! It's officially a party now. DRUITT: Ashley? TESLA: She'll be right along, despite my best efforts. MACRAE: C'mon! MAGNUS: [quietly] Sorry, Ashley. TECHNICIAN: Uh, they're down. DANA: Life signs? MACRAE: They're still alive. MAGNUS: Good work, Nikola. TESLA: Believe me, I'm moderately shocked right now. MAGNUS: [to MacRae] Quickly, get them into secure cells. MACRAE: Fall back! MAGNUS: Ashley! MACRAE: C'mon, c'mon! DRUITT: So much for plans A to E. MAGNUS: We barely slowed them down! WILL: Clara! MAGNUS: Will! Damn it! MACRAE: Fire-suppression protocols have been deactivated for the main lab. Now they are locked in. MAGNUS: [long pause] Release the elemental. MAGNUS: The EM shield should keep them from teleporting. TECHNICIAN: They're under attack! MAGNUS: Dear God. TECHNICIAN: Damage levels are increasing. We're losing epidermal viability. DANA: How about the EM shield? TECHNICIAN: Still up. Our jamming device still hasn't cracked the code. DANA: [heavy sigh] Abort. Get them out of there. DRUITT: There were only three of them in here. MAGNUS: The fourth one must've broken them out. MACRAE: We held the line. That was the objective. TESLA: Though Churchill may have been wrong. Victory at any cost? WILL: [over radio] Magnus! MAGNUS:[ A look of horror and guilt on her face] Will, I'm so sorry. WILL:[ Looks up at her his face a mixture of gief and anger directed souly at Magnus] She wasn't supposed to be here. She wasn't supposed to have any part of this. DRUITT: What now? MAGNUS: We defend our home. MAGNUS: Goodbye, Ms. Freelander. You're free to go. KATE: I heard about London. MAGNUS: I recommend you get yourself to one of the safe-houses. Things are going to get very un-sanctuary-like around here. KATE: Look, I can see why you don't trust me. But let's face it, you could use me in this fight! MAGNUS: I know your type. Greedy, self-interested. I doubt you even know the meaning of the word loyalty. We both know when things get rough, you'll simply disappear. KATE: If I was gonna disappear, that was days ago. MAGNUS: Or you're biding your time to see who wins this war, and you'll offer your services to the winner. Either way, I want you gone. HENRY: Hey, Doc. EM shield's at max power on a rotating frequency, the perimeter defenses are set to long-range and I brought a change of underwear for the night shift. MAGNUS: Have all the residents been evacuated? HENRY: Yeah, everyone's been moved to secure, off-site locations. Even the SHU's empty now, which feels crazy. MAGNUS: I know. HENRY: Uh, better news. Looks like we've broken the pattern. 23 hours, still no sign of the Super Ashley Gang. [awkward pause] God, I'm sorry. It's a coping mechanism. MAGNUS: It's fine. HENRY: You know, a lot of the residents wanted to stay and fight. MAGNUS: Told you. I won't see any more abnormals hurt or killed by this war. HENRY: I know. Just saying this is their home, too. HELEN: I understand this has been rough on all of us. And I haven't been available much, to you or anyone. Has he spoke to you? HENRY: He won't let us move him and he still won't take the treatment. He's falling apart in there. It's like he wants to die, so... MAGNUS: I'll talk to him. HENRY: Hey Doc? HENRY: You're doing what you have to. We've got your back. MAGNUS: Thank you, Henry. MAGNUS: You've looked better. The others may question your choices, your beliefs. I don't. We've known each other too long. We've always understood the need for space, freedom to live as we want. It's the very thing that defines us. Once we let go of who we are, what we believe to be true, who the hell are we, for God's sake? Chattel for the fates like everyone else. I've always held that despite how complex this world is, compromise is for the weak. And the cost of that weakness is too high a price, no matter how dire the circumstances. Truth is, I've been wrong all along. MAGNUS: I won't be visiting you again. TESLA: I know, I know, I know, the spectrum settings were totally off. I'll fix it. MAGNUS: Nikola, did I ever tell you why my father founded this Sanctuary network all those decades ago? TESLA: Because he was a crappy doctor? MAGNUS: Because there was a need. A multitude of beings lost, in need of help. The Sanctuary facility was founded more out of necessity than for science. We protect the two dominant species of life from one another: Humans and abnormals. It's a fragile balance that cannot be compromised. If we fail, fear and chaos would reign, and the Cabal would win. [pause] You knew the weapon wouldn't work. TESLA:[gets defensive] Helen- MAGNUS: I asked you to make something that would only disable Ashley, not kill her. I realize now that was an impossible task. TESLA:[ Look at Helen and this is one of those rare times he wishes he wasn't right] Quite impossible. MAGNUS: This is Ashley's. Before she was changed. TESLA: You realize if I do this, the weapon will be completely effective. I mean completely. WILL: Once more into the breach, dear friends. MAGNUS: Once more, or close up the wall with our English dead. WILL: [sitting] Or we could all just run away. HELEN: If only we were that smart. WILL: So that's it? MAGNUS: Nikola promises me it's his finest work. WILL: I'm sure it is. Maybe somebody else should use it. MAGNUS: It has to be me and we both know it. WILL: Magnus, she's not Ashley anymore. I know that's difficult for you to accept, but you- MAGNUS: You should leave while you still can, Will. You've done more than your share. WILL: Yeah, I should. [Will's phone starts to ring] But like you said, I'm just not that smart. [into phone] This is Will. MAGNUS: Bloody hell! HENRY: What the hell? HENRY: Oh, c'mon! No way! [into radio] Uh, Magnus, we've been hit by a remote hack. I've lost links to all external networks. It looks like it piggy-backed on a cell signal. MAGNUS: [into radio] What about the EM shield? HENRY: Yeah, it's still up. HENRY: No, no no no no! [into radio] We just lost it. HENRY: Which means we're hooped. HENRY: [over PA system] Ashley and two friends just appeared in the main lab and sensors indicate three more in the residential level. MAGNUS: Ashley, please, for the love of God- TESLA: You think it'll go better this time? DRUITT: Where's your courage, dear boy? We'll be fine. TESLA: I'm not British. All that tally-ho crap doesn't work on me. MAGNUS: [over radio] Henry, what happened? HENRY: [into radio] Uh, someone slid a virus past our jamming countermeasures, targeted all of our primary defensive systems. MAGNUS: [over radio] Can you get the shield back up? HENRY: [into radio] Yeah, that's exactly what I'm trying to do, but I need to get to the mainframe array to do an override. It's gonna be kind of a slow bitch without my remote tablet, which I left in my room. WILL: [into radio] Henry, it's Will. I'm headed your way. I'll grab your stuff and meet you at the mainframe. HENRY: Awesome. Listen, watch yourself, okay? WILL: [into radio] All right. BIGFOOT: Sorry I'm late. WILL: Big Guy? C'mon, get in here before they kill you. WILL: It's good to see you, man. TESLA: [to Henry] Run! TESLA: I hate you guys. TESLA: Nice. HENRY: Aw, damage is bad. I gotta defrag half the commands in here. WILL: Yeah, well, you know, take your time. MAGNUS: Ashley. Listen to me. Please. I don't want to do this. You don't want to do this. MAGNUS: Ashley! MAGNUS: Do you remember when you were small? You used to come into my room in the middle of the night. You'd crawl into my arms and you'd say, "Mummy, I'm afraid." [Magnus sets the weapon aside, crying.] Ashley, I'm afraid. KATE: Hey, Blondie! WILL: Henry! HENRY: I know! WILL: Get that shield up! WILL: Seriously! Any time! HENRY: We're good! HENRY: [into radio] Magnus! Druitt! EM shield's active again. HENRY: [over radio] Anyone teleporting now will be vaporized. KATE: We have got to move! MAGNUS:[ tearfull and realising what her daughter is about to do] Ashley, please... ASHLEY: Mom?
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