01x07 - You Can Call Her Caroline

[bunniefuu]

My dad was the first to be told

the truth about what they found.

- MAN: Big shoes to fill.

- MAN 2: He was buried five months ago.

- How was this even possible?

- MAN 3: We're looking into it, Harris.

BRYAN: That story that you shared

in the plane, it stuck with me.

Why are you asking me

about my father, Bryan?

Because your father's alive.

BRYAN: What are you not telling me?

FINOLA: Something is going on

that both of us don't understand.

I need to know if I can trust you.

FINOLA: You can.

LINDA: Do you see it?

No.

I told them we'd be

on the ferry by nine.

I'm not gonna stress out because

your father has to micromanage

every single thing, Linda.

I guess I ruined that

the ferries are on time.

LINDA: What?

Just text him and tell him

the ferries are off schedule.

MAN [on speaker]: Excuse me, folks.

Sorry for the delay.

The ferry's about 15 minutes out.

[phone chimes]

No. No.

- [g*nsh*t]

- [gulls squawking]

[theme]

- Kenny, good to see you.

- Brian.

Hey.

MADDOX: Have a seat.

I need to get you up to speed.

His name is Anson Ash.

Ex-SAS.

Long history of recovery experience.

British Intelligence says

he went AWOL six years ago.

He was a decorated soldier

and then became an issue for them.

Have you got any more clarity on INFLUX?

Where it started?

Anti-government ideological movement

organized to dismantle the

government's control over the Debris.

So far, we don't know

where they started,

and we don't know where

the dark money's coming from.

Largely, we think

they're autonomous cells.

I, um We got his phone

but there's some sort of

proprietary encryption on it.

Have you ever seen anything like that?

- Calls keep coming into it.

- No.

The caller's coming

from somewhere in Maine.

- What's in Maine?

- Another operating cell

or an impending event.

I need you to go

and investigate quietly.

We wanna keep the lights off.

At least then I can tell how dark

this thing is we're looking at.

I don't wanna lose any more

lives, Bryan, okay?

Has Anson Ash revealed what

they wanted with George Jones?

Not yet, but he will.

What?

I think Finola and MI6 know he's alive.

How?

Just intuition.

I've spent a lot of time

with her recently,

and she's acting differently.

I just wanted you to be aware,

in case what I'm saying is true.

Okay. Thanks.

Hey.

Hey.

I got new briefing from Maine.

Did Maddox get any more intel

about my father?

No, not yet.

Yeah, well, I think he's just going

to hold on to whatever he learns.

If it is an INFLUX cell out there,

at least I'll be able to interview

them myself before Maddox,

see what else I can find out.

I told him you know your father's alive.

- Why?

- I didn't tell him I told you,

but I can't let him

be vulnerable to Ferris.

He needed to know.

Until there's incontrovertible

evidence against him,

I can't accept what you've been told.

Okay.

Hmm.

AC-130s I spent way too many

hours in those things.

Hey, guys.

Hey, Tom. What do we got?

We tracked the calls

made to Anson Ash's phone.

They were placed from a burner

purchased at a local Best Buy.

Purchaser was a Bar Harbor

resident with a long rap sheet.

He k*lled himself this morning.

Thing is he did it

in front of witnesses,

but nobody remembers anything.

They say they don't know what happened.

BRYAN: It looks like everyone

else is in some kind of trance.

Hmm.

TOM: She took that blue bag

he has with him.

He's fighting against something.

We found the woman wandering

on a highway six miles away.

No bag or any Debris.

She doesn't remember a thing.

He was clicking out at 240

when he brought him in.

Well

he was definitely near Debris recently.

New divorce,

got into some small-time trouble

here in Maine,

and he doesn't even have a passport.

So?

Well, he doesn't seem

like an ideological t*rror1st.

Well, clear-skins are usually

chosen by t*rror1st organizations

for exactly that reason.

they're unremarkable,

they're under the radar.

Yeah, but he didn't keep it clean.

I mean, there's check kiting, forgery,

Liam Packard's been committing petty

crimes since he was 15 years old.

He and Anson Ash were

trading calls several times.

There had to be a reason.

Yeah.

Maybe he was part of a sleeper cell.

Maine is an easy hop

to the Canadian border.

It's right on the Atlantic.

I mean, it's the perfect spot

for Influx to set up.

Let's go check out his house.

Stand by.

- You Luke Packard?

- I am.

FINOLA: Hey. We've come to talk

to you about your brother Liam.

That's a lot of man power

for a dead man.

Is it about the UFO?

BRYAN: Why would you say that?

Liam found some small pieces

of a strange metal

out in the wash behind our property.

- When was that?

- A few weeks ago.

There's this group on the Internet

that tracks this sort of thing,

like it's some kind of alien tech.

Supposedly, pieces of

this spacecraft fall to Earth.

Liam said this was a part of it.

And what did he do with what he found?

He was always chasing after

some get-rich-quick scheme.

He was gonna sell it to some people

he met online on the dark web.

Do you know who he was gonna sell it to?

It was a black market type of thing

he said offered him a lot of money.

Like, 50 thousand dollars.

He said he was on his way to Winter

Harbor this morning to do it.

To trade. At least that's what he said.

Caroline, hey, sweetie, can you

can you give us a few minutes?

I'm just talking to my friends here.

It's okay.

Caroline's Liam's daughter.

I haven't found a way to tell her yet.

Luke, is there anything else

that you can tell us

about the metal that Liam found?

Yeah. Yeah, ever since he found

it, he'd been acting funny.

Funny how?

It made him intense.

It reminded me what I used to

see when I was in Afghanistan.

Almost like he was suffering

from shellshock,

only there was no shells.

You know what I mean?

He'd just stare at the walls for hours.

But then it'd pass,

and he'd go back to himself.

I was in Afghanistan.

Oh, yeah? What branch?

Marines MARSOC.

Oh-h*! MARSOC?

You guys were no joke.

We should probably take

a look at his laptop,

- if that's okay.

- Yeah, sure.

We're also gonna need

to take a look at the marsh,

where Liam found the pieces.

It's right out back.

I'll, uh, grab the laptop.

[jet roars overhead]

The guy fights to keep

from giving up a bag

to a woman who doesn't remember

what she did with it,

and then he kills himself.

He said his brother was acting

strange after he found it.

Maybe the Debris somehow

took control of them all.

Like what happened to me in Kansas.

The Debris was in the bag

mind-controlling him.

Hmm. And it's still out there.

We should get some SAT scans going,

see if we can pick anything up.

I, uh, wrote down the password for you.

Oh. Okay. Thank you.

You don't have any experience

telling children of a loss, do you?

Uh, yeah, it's, um

It's not easy.

But, um, no matter

what words are spoken,

just just focus

on being there for her.

That's all that really matters.

- Thanks.

- Yeah.

Oh, wow, yeah,

he definitely did frequent all

sorts of conspiracy websites.

There's a lot of chat logs in here.

Like what?

Just things

that people heard, saw.

Hey, what was his reaction about?

Luke. When he heard what

unit you were involved with.

Nothing.

We were just both there.

What?

We never searched the marsh.

How could we leave without searching it?

[Bryan whistles]

[device beeps]

390. I don't wanna get too close.

I don't wanna be here.

You okay?

I don't think it wants us to be here.

- You okay?

- Mm-hmm.

What was going on back there?

It was like it spoke to me.

But it was different

to what I experienced in Kansas.

This was more like a

a whisper in my ear.

TECH BRANDT: Hey, Bryan.

You pick up any signatures

on where that bag of Debris

might've traveled?

TECH BRANDT: Nothing yet. Not a blip.

BRYAN: All right, let's get that

family to a hotel for the night.

Lock down the whole property

and dispatch the situation team

to the location.

We're gonna need a water unit,

so should give them a heads up.

Got it. Closest team is in Boston.

Should be there by morning.

Boston

Then drop me a pin on a good,

clean, hotel for the night

with a reasonably stocked minibar.

TECH BRANDT: Copy that.

[device powering up]

[powering surging]

MADDOX: You're a soldier.

I respect that.

It takes a certain, um

discipline, right?

A certain, uh, ability

to endure, don't you think?

You know, to have the career you've had,

you must have a very strong spirit.

I've been called obstinate.

[chuckles] Yeah, me too.

This new terrain that we're

all in with this Debris,

it's not the first time I've found

myself in uncharted regions.

But I've always found it comfortable

to make my own way

in times of great duress.

You may have even benefitted

from some of my work

in the w*r on terror.

Some of the information

I pulled from the t*rrorists

I shared with the UK

when you were a soldier.

It's just Novocain.

It's better if it's numb.

- [squelching]

- [wincing]

MADDOX: Breathe. Breathe!

That's it. That's it.

You're from Lancashire, right?

[device beeping]

Preston?

You know I've been there?

There's a church there,

if I remember, a beautiful,

beautiful church.

Is it still there, that church?

You know, I I always wanted

to do a painting of it in oils.

- [electricity surging]

- [grunting]

I want you to think of that church.

Just picture it.

Think of the spire.

Think of the of the way

the bell sounds in winter.

[device powering down]

The tone of that bell

as it sends a vibration

right through your body.

[panting]

Now I want you to think of George Jones.

- [device power surging]

- [grunting]

Maybe you just could just

pull up a chair to the buffet.

It would be easier.

I stayed up all night

watching the shopping network.

Got a three-in-one titanium

strainer for the kitchen.

It's definitely worth it,

but I will be running off sugar and

coffee for the rest of the day.

FINOLA: What? You couldn't sleep?

By an active military base?

Tom told me they got into Liam's phone.

The last number that Liam

dialed the day he died

at the ferry slip was not to INFLUX.

- Who then?

- His ex-wife.

Ten minutes before he shot himself.

Hi, Mrs. Hernandez?

I'm Agent Finola Jones,

this is Agent Beneventi.

Just wondering if we could

ask you a few questions

about your ex-husband

and your daughter Caroline.

We understand that Liam contacted you

the morning that he died.

Can you tell us what

he was calling you about?

He was upset. He told me

if something happened to him

to go get Caroline from his house.

He was pleading with me.

And then And what happened next?

I told him no.

How long were you divorced from Liam?

- Two years.

- Were you refused custody of Caroline?

No. I won custody.

It was a long, drawn-out court battle.

But I fought like hell for my daughter.

She's the most important thing

in the world to me.

So why didn't you go get

Caroline when Liam asked?

Because she belongs there.

What do you mean, she belongs there?

That's where she belongs.

- Luke?

- LUKE: What's going on?

- Where's Caroline?

- She's inside watching TV. Why?

[man chattering on TV, indistinct]

Why didn't you go to a hotel,

like we instructed?

What's I don't remember that.

What's happening?

BRYAN: We believe Caroline's involved

with what your brother found.

We think the material in the marsh

is controlling people's thoughts,

trying to keep them away.

[birds twittering]

FINOLA: Caroline?

Hi. Do you remember me?

I came here yesterday

to talk to your Uncle Luke.

I saw your mom today.

I told her I was going to check on

you to make sure that you're okay.

This is just like

a no-touch thermometer.

Like the ones they use at the doctors?

See?

Can I?

Okay.

MAN: I'm getting signatures

all over the marsh bed.

There's Debris everywhere in here.

I know there's a lot going on,

but they're just looking

for something we think

might have gotten lost out there.

And you know what I think?

I think you know what I'm talking about.

Do you know what your mom told me?

She told me that you

are the most important person

in the whole world.

You miss your mom?

Yeah.

FINOLA: You don't need to worry

about them, Caroline.

You have to leave.

You'll be hurt.

What do you think might hurt me?

Is it the metal that your dad found?

Hey, I see how strong you are,

trying to handle all of this

all by yourself.

I'm here to help you now.

You don't have to be strong

alone anymore.

I'm the one who has to get it.

BRYAN: We're concerned

about Caroline's safety.

About what it might do to her.

Until we have this under control,

we think that you should collect

a few of her items,

enough for a few days, and

and as soon as they get back,

we'll get going.

Okay. Of course.

And do you know why it comes to me?

I don't want it to, but it does.

Is it hurting you?

He makes me get them for him,

so he'll have enough.

I think he hurt my father.

And he keeps my mom away.

CAROLINE: The pieces let

my uncle control people

with his thoughts,

but he's not like me.

He's angry.

We were used as cannon fodder

by bureaucrats

pulling w*r levers in Washington.

You know, rich politicians and

their children don't go to w*r.

But the he rest of us

It isn't right.

They are in control of the will

of us soldiers

like we were machines.

And all the while,

they get no real blood on their hands.

Sometimes I hide pieces.

But my uncle, he always wants more,

so he can get strong again.

And they get used up fast.

I need you to stop this, Luke,

what you're doing.

My brother found them.

But he didn't care what they can do,

where the real power was.

Well, what happened to him?

I'm not gonna lie to you.

What I did to him is gonna hurt

me for the rest of my life.

And I gotta live with that.

But he interfered with the mission.

And the mission must be ex*cuted.

What mission?

You know the upper levels of command,

the guys who decide

what happens to us pawns?

Yeah.

Well, a few of them are

meeting for a conference

at an Air Force base right near here,

no doubt making plans to do to

others what they did to my unit.

[plane roaring overhead]

I'll stop them.

I don't want to hurt Caroline.

But I need her to find more.

I know that you're haunted by regret,

by what the military put you through.

They want us to be machines.

I'll give them one.

And when I tell you that I understand

it's not empty.

When I was in Surabi, I lost brothers.

Destroyed families.

There are people

that can help you get through

what you're going through right now,

like they helped me.

There is a way to get back

from this pain.

I was where you were,

and that darkness almost ended me.

And then somebody put out his hand.

He was there for me.

I wanna be there for you

if you'll let me.

You should go find your partner.

Bryan, Luke is the one

controlling the Debris.

Agent Jones, there's nothing down there.

We've checked everything.

Okay, let's get going.

Let's pack it up.

- [doors slamming]

- [engines starting]

Bye. It was nice to meet you.

You have such pretty eyes.

See what you did, Caroline?

You made me waste too much on them.

I need more now.

You keep telling me that

you're not finding anything.

But I know.

I know that's a lie.

I know you've been hiding

what you found.

How is it protecting you?

Where are you hiding it?

Where?

Where?

Good. Good girl.

AGENT LI: Tom and the team are back.

They're prepping to leave.

Great.

Tell him we'll see him back in Virginia.

Hey, what happened

with that little girl?

Caroline? She's fine.

She's at the house with her uncle.

There was nothing there.

What are you talking about?

It's all good. She belongs there.

Bryan.

How did we get here?

Luke! Stop! Stop, Luke!

You can't sh**t me.

Don't move! Now get on your knees!

LUKE: So you're with them now?

I'm just getting started.

Don't listen to him.

Walk away. Go on.

I said go on, do it.

Do it. Pull the trigger.

Do it!

[Finola gasps]

Did you do that?

Or was that the first time?

He was gonna hurt you.

It's over now. You did the right thing.

GLORIA: I would never leave

you, Caroline.

Do you understand?

There are moments when I would remember

just how much I love you,

that I had to come for you.

But when I got to the house to

get you, it would be gone again.

I am so sorry.

There was nothing you could do,

no matter how hard you fought.

What did this?

What did he find?

We're still trying to figure that out.

But you you were

the strongest of all.

I'll forever be grateful

that you saved our lives.

Thank you.

Bye, Caroline.

- What'd you tell her?

- Nothing.

[phone vibrating]

It's my sister. One second.

- FINOLA: Hi, Dee Dee.

- Finola.

Listen, I feel like

I'm in a downward spiral,

and I need you to come home.

Okay. What's going on?

DEE DEE: I just I feel like

I'm gonna relapse,

and I just really need you

back here, like, seriously.

FINOLA: Okay, okay. Um, have

you called your sponsor?

- No.

- Well, I need you to do that now.

- Okay, but please

- Dee Dee.

You need to call your sponsor.

Your place is in London,

Finola, with me.

You're the only person that could help.

I was thinking we could go

to Michelle's country house.

Just the two of us.

You wanna go

to Michelle's country house?

Something like that, yeah.

Are you there?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm

I'm still here.

Well, nothing would make me happier

than to go to Michelle's country house,

- but I can't make it back right now.

- [phone ringing]

Yes, sir.

MADDOX: Hey, so listen up.

I just got done interrogating Anson Ash.

I need you and Finola

back here right away

to prep for a raid.

You're going to

the Washington Scablands.

I already spoke with Ferris.

And I'm gonna do my best

to come back and see you, okay?

DEE DEE: Promise?

FINOLA: I promise.

- I love you.

- I love you.

Thank you.

I just had the strangest call

with my sister.

She used a code from my childhood

when our parents were around and

we didn't want them to hear us.

It's like she was trying to

tell me something but couldn't.

What?

What's up?

They found your father.

MAN: Roger that. Approaching

Debris Field 56 now. Over.

[beep]

I see it.

It appears to have a strange

shimmering wall near it.

It’s undulating, and it