I never thought I would see you again.
I wanted to reach out to you so much,
but I was afraid that I would jeopardize your safety.
We need your help, Nina.
Hastings, give Dr. Bishop anything he wants.
Oh, it would be an honor.
Who is that?
It was a case that we worked.
He started to exhibit empathic abilities.
Why would I need an empath?
We used this place to hide him
until someone could return for him.
There it is.
He's not here.
I think whoever took the boy left this behind.
It's picking up a signal.
This is where the signal originates.
What do you want?
He definitely doesn't have the tech.
Maybe it was removed.
No, there's no scar tissue.
Here, try this.
Go on. It's good.
Michael, you used to write things down for me.
You helped us catch a bad man. Do you remember that?
Michael, you're very special,
and there's a lot that we would like to learn about you.
My father was working on a plan with a man named Donald.
You were a very important part of that plan.
Do you remember that?
You do, and you know me.
We should just go into his mind, like we did with September.
September was in a coma.
So we put him in one too.
We're not putting him in a coma.
Then, we put an electromagnetic probe
into the base of his skull,
and ply him full of serotonin, Neurontin, and LSD.
Walter, he is just a child.
He is not just a child!
He's more than a child.
He is an integral part of my plan.
He must know that! He's just not saying anything
for some reason or other. You said yourself,
he wrote things before.
Why is he not doing that now?
Who is Donald? Where is he? Is he alive?
I must find him. Tell me.
Hey! Walter, calm down.
How can I calm down, Peter? We're running out of time.
Don't you understand? We got a world to save!
Acid, get back to cutting out those tapes.
We're not gonna get any answers out of him.
Peter, it doesn't make any sense.
I mean, he's an empath.
We used to have a connection.
He used to feel what I wanted
and then he'd communicate it to me.
Now, it just seems like he can't.
Nina, it's Olivia.
Is everything all right?
Nina, we need your help with something.
What?
It's not safe for me to talk here.
Let me call you in ten minutes.
Can I help you?
You are a Loyalist.
Then you know how important it is
that you answer my questions.
Where is your superior?
I'm not sure.
She got a call a little while ago
and then told me she was taking an early lunch.
Who was the call from?
It came in on her private comm.
When did this occur?
About 20 minutes ago.
Bring an LQ7 unit. We don't have much time.
When is she expected to return?
She's always back by 1:00.
Fugitives we are seeking
recently used a sublimation device
to access an abandoned storage facility.
We have traced the device to the Ministry of Science.
Someone here has supplied them with it,
I suspect from this office.
It is not you I am concerned with.
This is Nina Sharp.
Is everything all right?
We've never seen one before.
What? A child?
A child Observer?
We've never seen one before.
It's not safe for me to talk here.
Let me call you in ten minutes.
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Nina, thank you so much for doing this.
I know the risk you're taking.
Nonsense. I'm nothing if I can't be a resource for you.
Now, where is he?
Hello.
My name is Nina.
What are we doing here?
I'm cold.
I have access to tech
that I think will be helpful for you to communicate with him.
It's in a lab not far from here.
A ministry lab? You think that's safe?
Not a ministry lab. A black lab.
I thought Massive Dynamic black labs didn't exist.
Well, I'm glad I can still surprise you.
Since the invasion, I've allowed it
to be used by the resistance.
We should get going.
How's Walter doing?
Which one? Ah.
He's vacillating lately.
And he dropped acid yesterday, so that didn't exactly help.
Well, he hasn't changed that much.
He catches me off guard.
I look him in the eyes sometimes,
and I see a stare that I don't recognize.
He told me that you agreed to remove the pieces of his brain
once he completed the plan to defeat the Observers.
Never underestimate the power of incentive.
You don't approve?
What happens to him?
After the tissue has been removed,
what happens to Walter?
How many times can a human brain endure something like that?
Walter told me that that was a risk
that he was willing to take.
I don't accept that.
You may not have to.
If the plan isn't completed in time,
he may regress completely
and no longer want to go through with it.
So what you're saying is I lose him either way?
What you're saying is that your father understands
that anything worth fighting for
comes with a cost.
Perhaps she has been alerted to our presence here.
It would not be the first time.
Every conspiracy has a network.
I want to see the facility from which
the sublimation device was taken.
It's okay.
It's better if he stays
back there for a moment.
The resistance experimented on Observers here?
Yes. Among other things, we wanted to understand
how they were reading us.
Perhaps create technology
that would give us the same advantage.
Did it work?
No. We were only able
to extract bits and pieces of data.
Images, words in their conscious minds,
but not enough to be useful.
However, if you were able to communicate
with the Observer child
using neural stimulation once before,
this technology might be able to help you do it again.
You all right?
You're thinking about her?
Yeah, every time I see one of those posters,
my heart jumps.
Yeah, mine too.
It's hard to see her face, but at the same time, I want to.
You ready in there?
Yeah, yeah. It's all good.
Like ours, Observer brains translate external stimuli—
language, sights, sounds—
into patterns of electrical activity,
which we commonly call "thoughts."
Come on, Michael.
This is an electro-cognitive translator.
An "ECOG" for short.
How does it work?
By interpreting patterns of electrical activity
into words and images that we can understand.
Allowing you to read their thoughts.
For all intents and purposes, yes.
This will suffice.
Prep the subject.
His name's Michael.
Captain Windmark, we've been unable to locate
Nina Sharp's comm device.
Continue looking.
Mr. Rhode,
we have determined that Nina Sharp is a traitor.
She is working for the resistance.
Do you have any knowledge of that?
No.
Do you know where she is?
No.
I believe you.
This is gonna be a little cold.
We're just gonna do a test,
but it won't hurt. I promise.
His cortical activity is off the charts.
The neural link is good. We're ready.
Okay.
Michael, if at any point, you want to stop,
you just squeeze my hand.
Okay?
Michael, do you remember
why you're so important to Walter's plan?
His mind is responding to the question.
Hmm.
The ECOG is attempting to translate his neural activity,
but he's processing information
in a way I've never seen before.
This is not like any of the other Observers
from our trials.
The software can't interpret it.
Something has fundamentally changed with the subject.
Michael.
Whatever allowed us to communicate before
is no longer viable.
You said the boy formed a bond with Olivia,
helped her solve a case once.
That's right.
So he did so,
because he knew what you wanted.
He could feel it
through the empathic connection with you.
Maybe he can't help us now
because that connection no longer exists.
So you're saying he can't understand what we want?
So how can he help us?
We've been trying to get into his mind.
Maybe the answer is letting him get into ours.
Yes.
That is brilliant, Nina.
We need to create a link
between one of our conscious minds and the boy's.
Well, how do we do that?
Well, it's going to take some time,
I have to reconfigure the ECOG's software,
and you've got to return to the warehouse
at the Ministry of Science to get another ECOG halo
and a neural adaptor for the second person.
Is that going to be a problem?
No, I've got a man in archives. He'll give us what we want.
Hastings? Yes.
Next.
Name?
Hastings, Darryl R.
I still can't get through to Hastings.
This is intolerable.
Without the neural adaptor and the second E.C.O.G. halo,
we have no way to communicate with the boy.
Don't worry, Walter. We'll get 'em.
Nina will have the pass code.
Well, her comm doesn't work underground,
so there's no way to contact her.
Do you think that we can bypass this?
Hey, guys.
Astrid, I need your help
breaking through a security lock.
I'm on it. Give me the model number.
Next.
I'm a quality assurance engineer.
I assess and maintain the technology
warehoused in this facility.
I don't report directly to Nina Sharp,
but indirectly, sometimes I do.
Mr. Hastings, we believe—
Doctor.
It's Dr. Hastings.
Dr. Hastings.
Okay, you're gonna want to take the brown wire
from the pad and attach it to the comm's receiving node.
All right, the comm's attached.
Now, I'm going to send a continuous stream of data
to your comm device. Hopefully, it'll be enough
to short out the locking circuitry.
Hopefully? I thought she knew what she was doing.
Okay, I'm sending it now.
You might want to step back.
Okay, we're in.
We believe a sublimation device from this facility
was provided to known fugitives.
Are you aware of this?
No.
I do not believe you.
Restrain him.
Dismiss the rest.
We may as well be looking
for a needle in a haystack.
No, it's all arranged according to serial number. Look.
There's a terminal.
Maybe we can access the database.
Can you run a search?
Yeah.
There. 18-C-6.
Up there, on the top shelf.
Windmark's here.
What?
He's with Hastings.
It was an outdated model.
I didn't know what they were using it for.
You wanted to help them.
You admire them.
You admire Dr. Bishop.
Yes.
I admire him.
Where is Nina Sharp now?
I swear, I don't know.
Where are the fugitives?
Your loyalty will be rewarded.
I don't know. I don't know.
Michael, I need you to stay here.
I'll be right back.
There.
That's her signal.
The components are intact.
We got to get out of here, now.
It's Nina.
Olivia, is everything all right?
Nina, I need you to listen to me.
You've been compromised.
What? The Observers and Windmark
are here. They're interrogating Hastings now.
You can't come back to the ministry,
and you can't go home.
It's okay.
I have to go now.
I'm sorry.
Okay, we're ready. Let's go.
Wait.
They're gone. A guard just came in
and told Windmark something, and then they left.
We're going to make an example out of you.
My thoughts exactly.
Dr. Hastings, can you hear me?
I tried. I tried.
It's okay.
He knows.
What? What does Windmark know?
Nina, they tracked her.
They know where she is.
It's okay. Everything's going to be fine.
I'm just...
It doesn't matter.
There's nothing for you to worry about.
Oh, my God.
Michael,
come with me, quickly.
What's wrong? Why are we stopping?
Checkpoint.
We need to turn around.
If I back up now, I turn around, we're gonna draw
too much attention. We need to ditch the car.
One at a time. Walter, you first.
Get out now.
Okay, go.
It's clear. They can go.
Find them.
Captain Windmark.
The fugitives. Where are they?
You're too late. They're long gone.
You are trying to protect them.
What is it about the fugitives,
I wonder, that instills such misguided loyalty?
You are trying to block your thoughts from me,
but it will not last.
You...
Animals.
You are thinking of him.
The boy.
This morning, you were contacted in your office.
You said something about a child Observer.
He is important to the fugitives.
Why is he important to them?
What is his purpose?
Why does a child worry you so much?
He is merely a curiosity,
and you are mistaken about him.
He is no child.
He is a chromosomal mistake. A genetic anomaly.
Progeny XB-6783746.
Like all anomalies, he was scheduled to be destroyed.
But he went missing.
It was a great mystery in my time.
No one knew what became of him...
until now.
I would very much like to meet him.
Tell me where he is.
Captain Windmark?
There's no sign of anyone else here.
Then I will have to resort to a deeper extraction.
Why?
"Why?"
Why are you not frightened?
Do you know why you tilt your head in that way?
It's an involuntary reflex in your physiology.
It changes the angle at which sound waves hit the eardrum,
allowing in more stimuli.
Like a lizard.
I've studied them too.
Intriguing characters.
Their brains have evolved over 320 million years,
yet for all their evolution, they form no bonds.
Love does not exist for them.
They are incapable of dreaming,
of contemplating beauty,
of knowing something greater than themselves,
not unlike your kind.
The experiments we conducted right here in this lab,
yielded a surprising result,
because for all your years of evolution,
you inadvertently redeveloped and honed primitive instincts
that we moved beyond long ago.
So in reality, you're the animal.
Restrain her.
You cannot hurt me with that.
I know.
Walter, maybe you should stay in the van.
I'm coming with you.
Nina?
They've got the boy.
Who knows what they'll do to him.
What did he do to her?
Where's she going?
She stopped Windmark from reading her.
To protect us. To protect the plan.
And to protect the boy.
They left without him. He's still here.
Michael?
Michael, you can come out now! It's safe!
Michael!
Michael?
Michael.
Peter!
You all right?
It's okay.
Michael?
He's crying.
You ready?
Yeah.
If you understand me, touch your nose.
Good.
That's very good.
Do you remember meeting me a long time ago,
with a man named Donald?
He does. He remembers.
Do you know why I needed you for my plan?
Can you tell me why you are important?
The boy is important. He has to live.
What happened?
I know who Donald is.
Donald is September.
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Bad robot.