Épisode L'initiative longévité S02E17 - The Blacklist Saison 2

Loyd Munroe et Julian Powell se disputent dans le laboratoire d'échantillon d'une clinique médicale qui est murée par des aquariums remplis d'espèces de méduses. Munroe veut que Powell soit plus prudent et Powell invite Munroe à renoncer mais il continue le travail de nuit,  le transport de quelque chose dans un camion. Plus tard dans la nuit, un policier arrête le camion et demande à voir la cargaison. Abassourdi par ce qu’il voit, le policier va chercher son arme de service mais Munroe est plus rapide. Quelques instants plus tard, Munroe vide le chargeur sur le flic et quand il entend les sirènes des renforts  approcher, il saute dans la voiture de police et part à toute vitesse. C’est à ce moment que nous découvrons le contenu  à l'arrière du camion: trois cadavres, tous avec des calottes d'os enlevées et le cerveau exposé.

Plus tard dans la matinée : Cooper dit à sa femme qu'il n'a plus besoin de sa canne pour marcher. Le traitement de l’essai clinique doit fonctionner, sa tumeur diminue. Les choses ne semblent pas fonctionner aussi bien pour Tom qui a appelé Liz mais cette dernière n’est pas disposée à lui parler. Il est en fuite depuis que Red a grillé sa couverture avec les Allemands et il ne peut pas contacter le major. A même moment, le major arrive dans une limousine, ordonnant à Tom de monter. Avant de raccrocher, Tom dit à Liz qu’il sait ce qui se passe aujourd’hui et qu’il espère qu’elle va s’amuser ce soir au Wing Yee. Au même moment, Red apparaît avec un cadeau pour le 31ème anniversaire de Liz : une bouteille de vin fait par Liz et son père adoptif, Sam, quand elle était une enfant. Comme il a sans doute tourné, Red lui offre une seconde bouteille. Il enchaine sur le prochain blacklisté, une société privée appelée The Longevity Initiative, qui se consacre à percer la clé du mystère de l'immortalité humaine grâce au financement du milliardaire Roger Hobbs. Red a refusé une invitation pour devenir membre fondateur. Les corps à l'arrière du camion n’ont pas été mutilés mais expérimentés par The Longevity Initiative, qui est entré dans la phase d’essai humain.

Red organise une rencontre entre Liz, Ressler et Hobbs, qui explique que son initiative globale incorpore des technologies de pointe que l'établissement ordinaire ne touchera pas. Lorsque Ressler l’interroge sur les trois cadavres, Hobbs explique que même s'il a assez d’avocats pour traiter ce sujet, il n’a rien à cacher et promet son entière collaboration. Après avoir demandé une liste de tous ses chercheurs, Liz et Ressler passent à la morgue, où le médecin légiste, Phil Ryerson confirme que les trois sujets sont décédés au cours d’interventions neurochirurgicales pendant lesquelles des cellules étrangères non humaines, ont été introduites dans le tissu cérébral. En outre, les trois victimes avaient subi des dommages catastrophiques du lobe frontal avant l'expérience. En fait, l'un d'eux, William Eckhoff, a été porté disparu il y a trois jours d’un établissement de soins local. À la clinique, Powell, furieux, crie sur Munroe au téléphone. Pourquoi ses patients font-ils la une des infos ? Munroe s’en fout. Maintenant qu'il a tué un flic, il quitte le pays. Après avoir raccroché, Powell reprend son travail avec un patient, une femme qui semble avoir des dommages au lobe frontal et une craniotomie. Powell lui demande son nom à plusieurs reprises, mais cette femme ne peut pas parler et quand il s’énerve, elle commence à convulser.

Connolly s’arrête au bureau de Cooper prétextant une visite amicale mais son vrai message concerne Roger Hobbs, l'un des «bons gars», qui doit être traité comme un ami. On doit lui accorder le bénéfice du doute. C’est un terrain glissant et Cooper n’aime pas ça mais l'avertissement de Connolly est implicite. En attendant, Liz et Ressler se sont rendus à l'établissement de soins de Saint-Barthélemy d’où William Eckhoff a été enlevé. L’administratrice, Alisson Cruz propose d’aller chercher la liste de toutes les personnes ayant accès à l'installation et explique que Daniel était assis avec un autre patient, John Paul, juste avant qu'il ne disparaisse. John Paul est muet, il joue au solitaire pendant son entrevue avec Liz  et ne s’arrête que pour faire glisser le roi des carreaux vers Liz. Pensant qu’il ne peut être d’aucune aide, Liz tourne son attention vers la liste d'accès, où Loyd Munroe du groupe Gold Crown Pharmaceuticals attire son attention. Le regard de John Paul semble confirmer que Munroe est sous l'homme. Lorsque Aram découvre que Munroe vient d'acheter un billet d'autobus pour le Canada, Liz lui ordonne d'envoyer la police locale à l’arrêt de bus. Pensant à Tom, Ressler sait qu’il va quitter le pays. A-t-il appelé Liz ? Tom est un meurtrier et Liz doit être prudente ...

Le major dit à Tom qu’il a tout mis en place pour un vol vers Londres mais quand Tom ne trouve pas son arme, il comprend qu’il est foutu. Tom propose de disparaître mais le major ne veut pas en entendre parler. Tom a doublé Reddington pour Liz, puis il est allé voir les fédéraux. Au moment où le major va tuer Tom, leur voiture est percutée. Gerst et les membres restants de Die Entretetchen sont venus se venger.

Liz et Ressler s’engagent à essayer de garder Munroe loin du couloir de la mort en échange d’informations. Ils obtiennent rapidement le nom de Julian Powell, son employeur. Le travail de Munroe était de localiser des sujets d'essai avec des lésions du lobe frontal et de les amener à la clinique où les expériences ont lieu. Il n'y a aucun signe de Powell, mais Maynard est déjà sur les lieux : l'examen de la femme qu’on a vue plus tôt, a mal tourné et elle est morte. Il s’avère que Powell a injecté  à ses sujets  une combinaison de cellules souches fœtales avec des cellules de méduses et a gardé des registres méticuleux. Son plus récent travail a porté sur Turritopsis dohrnii, également connu comme la méduse immortelle, qui pourrait bien être la seule créature sur terre que peut inverser son processus de vieillissement. Ryerson croit que Powell doit expérimenter sur les humains atteints de lésions du lobe frontal dans l'espoir de créer la régénéressence des tissus. En peu de temps, Aram apprend qu'après que Powell est quitté son emploi à la société de biotechnologie Sadovo Solutions en 2004, il  a disparu de la circulation. Et qui possédait Solutions Sadovo ? Roger Hobbs est au téléphone avec Powell à ce moment-là, lui ordonnant de revenir, maintenant qu’il a mis en danger le projet Longevity Initiative. Mais Powell refuse. Il est sur le point de faire une découverte et son travail est trop important pour être arrêté.

Hobbs raccroche et se tourne et fait face à son hôte : Red. Tant investir sur Powell était un pari risqué mais Hobbs n’avait aucun moyen de croire qu'il serait si téméraire. Revendiquer le prix du progrès, Hobbs demande Red s'il va l’aider ou non en tuant Julian Powell. Juste à ce moment, l'assistant de Hobbs annonce que Liz et Ressler sont en bas, de sorte que Red accepte un fichier sur Powell promettant de voir ce qu'il peut faire et sort par la porte arrière.

Quelque part dans un appartement sale, Elias, Gerst et ses hommes déshabillent Tom et le major et les attachent. Elias commence tout juste à tailler  l'intérieur de la cuisse de Tom quand Gerst l’interrompt car il a trouvé un élément intéressant dans le portefeuille de Tom :  une photo d’échographie avec le nom de Liz écrit au le dos. Le major dit à Tom de garder sa bouche fermée mais Tom explique aussitôt qu’il a été embauché pour savoir qui a tué une personne nommée Sarah Hastings puis promet qu’il ne dira pas un mot à moins qu’Elias promet de ne pas nuire à Liz, qui, en passant, est du FBI. Après avoir discuté avec Gerst, Elias recule, laissant à Tom une dernière chance de parler au major. «Vous savez que cette fille qui m'a coûté la vie? Elle vient juste de me la sauver. »

Le Dr Levin appelle Cooper avec une mauvaise nouvelle : malgré tous les progrès qui ont été faits, la place de Cooper dans l'essai clinique doit être supprimée en raison d’une réduction inattendue de paramètres d'âge. Ailleurs dans le bureau de poste, Liz et Ressler interrogent Hobbs, essayant de le connecter à Powell. Comme prévu, les avocats d'Hobbs sont déjà là et il est à peu près impénétrable. Liz et Ressler disent à Cooper que Hobbs ment et demandent à le retenir. Cooper leur ordonne de lacher Hobbs. Essayant une approche différente, Liz demande à Aram de l’aider à trouver Powell afin qu'ils puissent le relier à Hobbs. Aram a trouvé une femme avec des dommages au lobe frontal notée dans les dossiers de Powell qui est encore vivante, Leann McGrath. En effet, Powell est déjà au Twin Pines Assisted Living Center pour dire à Leann qu'il a échoué. Powell amène Leann vers la porte et tombe dans les griffes de Red. Liz et Ressler arrivent juste à temps pour voir Red amener Powell. Red essaie de détendre Powell, expliquant qu'il n'a pas l'intention de le tuer. Au lieu de cela, il espère utiliser la recherche de Powell pour aider à la récupération des souvenirs d'un ami. Si Powell peut régénérer les cellules du cerveau au fil du temps, sa découverte pourrait être utilisée pour restaurer la mémoire de quelqu'un. Powell avoue que si en théorie la suggestion de Red a du sens, il y a un problème fondamental…

Retour au Twin Pines, Liz et Ressler interrogent l’aide-soignante qui leur explique que Leann est la fiancée de Powell. Elle a subi des dommages cérébraux suite au tragique accident de voiture où Powell était au volant. Liz comprend que tout le travail de Powell n'a pas été à propos de l'immortalité mais pour aider l'amour de sa vie. Pendant ce temps, Powell amène Red à la maison de Leann pour lui expliquer comment sa vie été heureuse avant l’accident. Ayant besoin d'argent pour financer ses recherches, Powell a dit à Hobbs ce qu'il voulait entendre, que cette recherche pourrait aider à vivre éternellement alors Hobbs a fait un chèque. La vérité est que la recherche de Powell a échoué. Il a menti et a falsifié des données pour conserver son financement. Powell ouvre le tiroir du bureau, sort une arme et se tire une balle dans la tête.

Cette nuit-là, Hobbs félicite Red pour s’être débarrassé de Powell. Red encourage Hobbs à continuer. Il n’a peut-être pas été en mesure d'épargner l'humanité d’une mort prématurée, mais un jour il pourra être en mesure d’épargner Red… Plus tard, Red rejoint Liz qui est très en colère et exige de savoir pourquoi il a tué Powell. Red admet qu'il a porté l'affaire au groupe de travail parce qu'il voulait débusquer Powell. Red voulait la science et ils savent tous les deux que la science n’était pas là. Mais Liz sait que c’est seulement la moitié de la vérité. Red a utilisé le FBI pour créer un problème à Hobbs. Il voulait que Hobbs ait besoin de lui. Liz ne peut pas encore le voir mais un nuage noir s’approche et quand il arrive, Hobbs là.

Connolly vient voir Cooper, avant d’aller à une collecte de fonds pour parler de Hobbs. Il veut que rien ne se mette entre eux. Lorsque Cooper demande si Connolly sait quelque chose à propos de la possibilité d'être éliminé de l'essai clinique, Connolly semble surpris. Cooper ne devrait pas s’inquiéter, Connolly va juste faire un appel, parce que c’est ce que les amis font.

Ressler trouve Liz assise dans son bureau. Que fait-elle toute seule le jour de son anniversaire ? La vérité est qu’elle ne se sent pas d’humeur à le célébrer. Le fait est que Liz n’est pas sûre que ce soit vraiment son anniversaire ou ce que soit son nom … Elle sait juste qu'elle est la marionnette d'un sociopathe de haut niveau. Heureusement, Ressler a une surprise, il a apporté un repas du Wing Yee, la tradition d'anniversaire de Liz. Liz sort la bouteille de vin qu'elle a fait avec Sam.

Dans une ruelle déserte, le major appelle tous ses contacts, n’épargnant aucune dépense. Il veut Jacob Phelps. Tom brûle ses passeports dans un évier de salle de bain puis se regarde dans un miroir. Liz retourne chez elle et obtient la peur de sa vie. Tom ensanglanté attend dans l'obscurité dans sa chambre de motel, n’ayant nulle part où aller.

Traduit et adapté du résumé du site officiel par albi2302.

NEW-YORK CITY

POWELL'S LAB

LLOYD : This is the third one this month.
DR POWELL: I’m well aware of that.
LLOYD : I wasn’t brought on for this. I thought we agreed we’re just supposed to find them.
POWELL: Things change, Lloyd.
LLOYD : I need you to be more careful.
POWELL: Are you telling me how to do my job?
LLOYD : I’m warning you. One or two more of these experiments goes south, and someone’s gonna get wind of what we’re doing here.
POWELL: And you’re being well compensated to take on that risk, Lloyd, but if you’re telling me that you’d rather not continue, we will find somebody else. Is that what you’d prefer?

ON A ROAD

Lloyd drives a truck

Police radio chatter : control of police

OFFICER: License and registration, please.
LLOYD: Evening, Officer.
OFFICER: Evening.
LLOYD: Sure. No problem.
OFFICER: What are you hauling here?
LLOYD: Produce.
OFFICER: And, uh, where to?
LLOYD: Sanborn.
OFFICER: Sanborn, huh? Are you aware that this highway’s a drug-smuggling route into Ontario?
LLOYD: I wouldn’t know anything about that.
OFFICER: Good, then you wouldn’t mind me taking a look in the back of the vehicle, would you?

Lloyd opens the truck

OFFICER: You want to remove the sheet, please?

Lloyd pulls back sheet revealing woman w a craniotomy, mutilated bodies in the back of the truck.

OFFICER: What the–

Lloyd hits him; struggle; Loyd gets Officer’s gun, points it at him

OFFICER: Don’t–

Lloyd shoots Officer several times, leaps into his police car and takes off
Siren wailing.Alarm blaring. Blaring stops

Lloyd steals the police car

COOPER'S HOUSE

CHARLENE : Honey, what’s wrong? You left your cane.
COOPER : I didn’t need it. For the first time in... I don’t know how long, Char, I just got up and walked.

Both chuckle

COOPER : Just a few steps. Hurt like hell.
CHARLENE : Well, the treatment?
COOPER :It’s working. After the attack, I didn’t think I’d ever be the same, and after the diagnosis–
CHARLENE : And you heard what the doctor said– tumor’s shrinking. And it’s working. Mm.

IN THE STREET

A payphone

TOM : Hey, don’t hang up. I’m in trouble.
LIZ : The judge cleared you of everything.
TOM : It’s not about the harbormaster.
LIZ : I can’t.
TOM : Look, when Reddington blew my cover, he exposed me to some very dangerous people, and now they’re looking for me. And the guy who places me, I can’t get in touch with him.

Liz sternly

LIZ : Tom–
TOM : And these people, these Germans–

Car pulls up with The Major in back seat

TOM : Hold on.
THE MAJOR : Get in.
TOM : Where the hell you been? How’d you find me?
MAJOR : If I can, they can. They flagged you leaving Dresden. Your passports are burned.
Throw me the bag! Get in!

To Liz

TOM : All right, look, I got to go, – but I’ll be all right.
MAJOR : We got to leave!
TOM : I know! Give me a second!
MAJOR : Now!
TOM : I know what today is. Have fun at Wing Yee’s tonight.
LIZ : Goodbye, Tom.

LIZ'S OFFICE

Red enters, pulls out bottle of wine

LIZ : What’s this?
RED : You don’t remember, do you?
LIZ : What?
RED : The grapevines. The ones you and Sam harvested.
LIZ : Of course. I- I remember. Along the garden fence, we would pick– Is this from–
RED : A bottle of wine you made with Sam when you were a child. Happy birthday, Lizzy. You’ve become everything Sam dreamed you would and more. Share it with someone special. That said, it’s probably undrinkable by now, so I also brought you an ’82 Brunello as a backup.

Liz sighs

LIZ : 31! No offense, but that’s old.
RED : My yogi tells me that time doesn’t exist. He fully intends to live forever, and tragically, he’s not the only one. Tell me, what do you know about the Longevity Initiative?
LIZ : I haven’t heard of it.
RED : It’s a private company dedicated to extending human life indefinitely, funded by none other than Roger Hobbs.
LIZ : The tech billionaire?
RED : Yes. He started years ago. I know because he offered me the opportunity to invest as a founding partner in the project. I passed.
LIZ : You know Roger Hobbs personally?
RED : Roger is considerably smarter than the above-average bear, and now it appears he may also be as deadly. You’re aware of the New York state trooper who was gunned down last night in the line of duty?
LIZ : The suspect’s still missing, but they found mutilated bodies in the back of the truck.
RED : Not mutilated. Experimented on. The Longevity Initiative has entered the human-trial phase. If they’ve made a breakthrough, they need to test it.
LIZ : On innocent victims.
RED : With any luck, I’ll be dead-wrong. Perhaps you’ll have a better sense once you’ve spoken with Roger Hobbs.

LONGEVITY INITIATIVE

RESSLER : Sorry to bother you at home.
HOBBS : Actually, the Longevity Initiative does not have any dedicated office space. We fund research all over the world.
LIZ : How many employees?
HOBBS : About a thousand.
LIZ : All doing research on immortality?
HOBBS : Sounds like science-fiction, I know, but it’s all grounded work. We have a goal– to solve the death riddle. To do that, we target the issue from every angle. We support unproven advanced genetic technologies that the mainstream establishment won’t even touch. Simply put, we are trying to extend the life of the human body as long as possible.
RESSLER : How about we talk about the three dead bodies, all with craniotomies, found being smuggled in the back of a truck? What are the chances that we connect those dead bodies back to you and your, uh, experiment?
HOBBS : You can’t possibly think one of my scientists was responsible.
LIZ : There is speculation that some of your employees might have thought it was time for human trials.
HOBBS : I mean, look, I have enough lawyers on speed dial to fill a stadium. I’m here talking to you because this project means everything to me. We have nothing to hide.
LIZ : We’ll need a list of all of your researchers.

Ressler's phone ring, he answers

HOBBS : Done. You have my full cooperation.

Ressler hangs up

RESSLER : That was the ME’s office. We have to go. Thank you.
LIZ : Thank you for your time.
HOBBS : Mm-hmm.

MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE

MAYNARD: You were right– these people were experimented on. All three victims died during a neurosurgical procedure.
RESSLER : For what purpose?
MAYNARD: Unclear. But foreign cells were introduced into their brain tissue.
LIZ : What kinds of cells?
MAYNARD: Well, some of them were fetal stem cells, but some were, well not human.
LIZ : Bizarre
MAYNARD: When the bodies came in, they all had catastrophic damage to the frontal lobe of the brain. Naturally, I thought that damage was caused by whatever experiment led to their death, but then, I got an ID of one of the victims, and ...

He exhales sharply

RESSLER : So, the experiments didn’t cause the brain damage.
MAYNARD: No. You’re looking at William Eckhoff. He was in a skiing accident, suffered multiple bone fractures, but most importantly, a traumatic brain injury– couldn’t speak. In fact, he was reported missing three days ago from a care facility in Hagerstown.
LIZ : Who would abduct a defenseless, disabled man and subject him to such cruelty?

POWELL'S LAB

On phone with Lloyd

DR POWELL : What did you do? Why am I looking at my patients on every newscast?!
LLOYD : I could care less about your patients. I murdered a cop.

Powel inhales sharply

POWELL: I don’t believe this.
LLOYD : I told you if we kept going, we’d attract unwanted attention. I’m gone. I’m leaving the country. You do the same.
POWELL: I can’t do that. I have to go. I’m with a patient.

Monitor beeping

POWELL: Well, then

Sighs. Powel to the patient in a chair, still

POWELL:Let’s continue. Tell me your name, please.

Machine beeping

POWELL: There we go. Let’s try that again. Tell me your name. Tell me your name. Come on, you can try harder. Tell me your name, please.

Shouts

POWELL: Tell me your name!

Monitor beeping rapidly

POWELL: That’s it. Tell me your name.

Patient has seizure

POWELL: Get in here! She’s seizing!

Flatline

COOPER'S OFFICE

Knock on door

CONNOLLY : Is this a bad time?
COOPER : Of course not. Have a seat.
CONNOLLY :You look good, Harold. How have you been feeling?
COOPER : Much better, actually, thanks in part to you. Thank you, Tom.
CONNOLLY : You’re welcome.
COOPER : So, what is it that brings you by?
CONNOLLY : It came to my attention that a couple of your people paid a visit to Roger Hobbs.
COOPER : Came to your attention. Are you monitoring our investigations now?
CONNOLLY : Easy, Harold. It’s not like that.
COOPER : This Hobbs a friend of yours, then?
CONNOLLY : He’s a friend of ours. His companies hold multiple defense contracts. He’s one of the good guys.
COOPER : Why do I need to know this?
CONNOLLY : I’m sensing some defensiveness.
COOPER : It sounds like you’re suggesting that all of this information should somehow impact my investigation, which can’t be true because we’ve known each other too long for you to cross that line.
CONNOLLY : I’m not crossing any lines. I’m just passing along some background. That said, all things being equal, I’d like to see this guy given the benefit of the doubt.
COOPER : All things are never equal.
CONNOLLY : Listen, Harold, you should do what you think is right. I certainly hope that nothing I’ve said would imply otherwise.

A CARE FACILITY, HAGERSTOWN

CRUZ : We were all heartbroken when we heard about what happened to William. We were mortified when we thought he might have wandered away under our supervision.
LIZ : Are you saying he was abducted?
RESSLER : We think so, yes.
LIZ : I imagine you must have some security measures in place. Would you be able to provide us with a list of people who had access to the facility the day he disappeared?
CRUZ : I’ll get that for you right away.
LIZ : And where was William last seen?
CRUZ : The south yard. Diane, one of our best caretakers, was taking the patients out for some air. William was sitting with John Paul. Diane said she turned away for just a few moments and when she looked back, he was gone.
LIZ : May I talk to John Paul?
CRUZ : You can try, but he’s not very communicative.

Liz tries to speak with John Paul

LIZ : Looks like a good hand you’ve got there. I’m Elizabeth. I’m with the FBI. I was wondering if I could ask you some questions about William Eckhoff? You were with him when he disappeared, am I right? The people I work with– we’re looking for him. Is there anything you can tell us? Did you see anything?

He shoves King of Diamonds card at her

LIZ :Was there anyone else there with you that we could speak to?

Shoves King of Diamonds closer to her

LIZ : Thank you for your time.
RESSLER : Any luck?
LIZ : No. You?
RESSLER : Security log the day of the disappearance. Everyone on site was authorized to be here.

Looks at log

LIZ : Hmm. “Gold Crown Pharmaceuticals.”
CRUZ : Lloyd Munroe.He’s one of their reps. He visited one of our physicians that afternoon.
RESSLER : Does that mean something to you?

Liz returns to John Paul

RESSLER : Gold Crown Pharmaceuticals? Is that what you’re trying to tell me?

FBI'S CAR

Liz on phone

LIZ :Hey, guys, what you got?
ARAM : A birthday card and 31 red-velvet cupcakes. Uh, well, uh, 30. I couldn’t resist. When are you coming back?
LIZ : Aram, the suspect.
ARAM : Work. Right.
Okay, Lloyd Munroe– 37 years old, of North Beach, Maryland. No criminal history. I just called Gold Crown. They said he didn’t report for work today. I’m running his phone and financials now.
SAMAR : I’ve got something. One of the other victims was a patient at Landover Hills. Guess which pharmaceutical rep was there the morning he disappeared.
LIZ : Lloyd Munroe. That’s got to be our guy. That can’t be a coincidence.
RESSLER : Let’s bring him in.
ARAM : That might actually be a problem. According to his recent credit-card activity, Lloyd Munroe just bought a bus ticket out of Buffalo on the Silver Line.
LIZ : Get the local PD on the line. Tell them they need to stop that bus.
RESSLER : You know, not everyone’s so anxious to leave. Put a flag on Tom, all his known aliases– he hasn’t left.
LIZ : You don’t know that for sure.
RESSLER : Has he reached out to you?
LIZ : No.
RESSLER : He’s a murderer, Keen. Just ’cause he got off doesn’t change that.
LIZ : I don’t even know where he is.

MAJOR'S CAR

MAJOR : I’ll drop you off at Hilltop Lanes. There’s a locker there– B-15. Tickets are in a go bag. Take the first flight you can to London. Mr. Pitts will be waiting.
TOM: Reddington just showed up. I don’t know how.
MAJOR : It’s not on Reddington.

TOM : I haven't the choice, buddy. I'm sorry. Where is my gun?...I'am not going to London?

Sighs, pointing the gun at him

MAJOR : My uncle was a farmer. He had a beautiful border collie– smart, well-trained, loyal as hell– but one summer, that dog, he got into the hen house, killed half the chickens. My uncle loved that dog, but he knew he had to be put down.
TOM : I can go someplace far away from here.
MAJOR : You burned Reddington for the girl, and I looked the other way. And then there’s Dresden.
TOM : This is me!
MAJOR : You went to the feds for the girl, Jacob.
TOM/JAKE : You’re gonna put a bullet in my head? After Cape Town?
MAJOR : Roll down the window.
TOM : I’m not just some operative, all right? You know me. You raised me.
MAJOR : You knew the rules, kid. I warned you about the girl, and she’s cost you your life.

Tires screech, crash! German guys get out and grab Tom and The Major

In German

OLD MAN : Christof, old pal. We've been looking for you.

INTERROGATION CELL

To Lloyd Munroe

LIZ : You know what this is? It’s the ballistics report that proves the gun you had on you was the same one used to murder that cop. Killing a police officer is a capital offense. That makes you eligible for the death penalty.
LLOYD : I don’t know anything.
RESSLER : Right, which is why we found you on a bus fleeing the country.
LIZ : We want the people you work for. Give them to us, and we’ll talk to the US Attorney, recommend a life sentence. You do enough, you might even get the possibility of parole.
LLOYD : Julian Powell. That’s who paid me– a doctor named Julian Powell.
RESSLER : Paid you to do what?
LLOYD : He needed test subjects, ones that fit very specific requirements.
LIZ : People with frontal-lobe damage.
LLOYD : And I was able to locate them because, as a drug rep, I had access to care facilities.
RESSLER : Tell us about Roger Hobbs. What’s his connection to all of this?
LLOYD : I don’t know who that is.
LIZ : If you’re lying–
LLOYD : I’m not lying. I can help you. I always deliver and pick up the test subjects from the same place.

POWELL'S LAB

Outside

POLICE OFFICER: Clinic’s secure. Upon entry, our team encountered two unknown subs– white males, mid-30s. They appeared to be med techs of some kind. They’re in custody.
RESSLER : What about Powell?
POLICE OFFICER : Not a sign of him, but what we did find, you got to see for yourself.

Inside

LIZ : Dr. Maynard.
MAYNARD : Meet victim number four. Same profile as the others, unfortunately, but at least now we know what we’re looking at.
RESSLER : We do?
MAYNARD : Powell’s been experimenting on patients with a very specific and severe form of brain damage. He’s been injecting their brains with a collection of cells– a combination of fetal stem cells and some kind of foreign matter.

RESSLER : So, he’s injecting their brains with jellyfish cells.
MAYNARD : Yes. He’s been keeping meticulous records, and jellyfish are at the center of all his experiments.
LIZ : We should get those files over to Aram as quickly as possible.
MAYNARD : According to his notes, Powell’s focused on transgenic research, which is the transferring of genes from one species into the genome of another. Look. These two rabbits are sisters. Now, before their mother gave birth, Powell removed the embryos that made them and injected one with jellyfish DNA. He then inserted the embryos back into the mother. Do you see the difference?
LIZ : They look identical.

Maynard turns off lights and one rabbit is glowing

MAYNARD : Legitimate researchers around the world are doing this. They’ve made glowing cats, monkeys, cockroaches. I mean, this is very impressive, but the new work he’s doing that’s in here.
Behold– turritopsis dohrnii, known to modern science as the immortal jellyfish. As far as we know, it’s the only living creature on Earth that never dies. Well, I mean, it’s born and grows old like we do, but then, when it encounters environmental stress or assault, it reverses the aging process until it’s just a little polyp again.
RESSLER : How is that even possible?
MAYNARD : It has the amazing ability to change its own cells. Some say it’s like a butterfly that turns into a caterpillar that grows back into a butterfly or a chicken that becomes an egg that hatches a new chicken.
LIZ : So Powell is using these jellyfish to conduct experiments on human brains.
MAYNARD : He must be trying to regenerate the damaged brain tissue. He wants our cells to learn from the turritopsis dohrnii. I mean, look, Julian Powell, clearly insane, if this ever worked, it would be a concrete first step toward human immortality.

FBI SPECIAL OPS DIVISION

COOPER : So, what do we know about this guy?
ARAM : He joined Sadovo Solutions in 2005. It was a biotech company in Chapel Hill. Mostly worked on the research side. He was an endocrinologist.
RESSLER : Why do you keep saying “Was” like he died or something?
ARAM : Because it’s kind of like he did. The guy’s a ghost.
SAMAR : After he left the company in 2007, he stopped paying taxes. No residence on file, no active credit lines, and no medical or driver’s-license renewals in the last eight years.
LIZ : He dropped off the face of the Earth.
ARAM : Wait a sec. Get this– Sadovo Solutions, the biotech company that Powell worked for before he disappeared, guess who owned it.
COOPER : Roger Hobbs. That’s not enough of a link to secure an arrest warrant, but it’s certainly enough to bring him in for another chat.

LIZ'S OFFICE

RESSLER : Hey, big day. Plans to celebrate?
LIZ : Oh, uh, yeah, I’m gonna go to Wing Yee’s with a few friends.

She laughs

LIZ : No big deal.
RESSLER : Wow. Restrain yourself, Keen. Come on, smile. It’s your birthday. You got plenty to celebrate.
LIZ : Thanks. You’re sweet.

LONGEVITY INITIATIVE

Powell on phone

POWELL : You’re not listening. My lab was raided. The FBI took everything.
HOBBS : I am aware of that, Julian, which is why you need to come in.
POWELL : You authorized my research. You knew what I was doing.
HOBBS : I authorized you to begin preliminary trials for the purposes of second-stage research.
POWELL : I’m on the verge of a breakthrough. You’ve seen the data.
HOBBS : You’ve jeopardized the entire Longevity Initiative, not to mention putting me and everything that I have worked for at risk. Julian, you need to come in.
POWELL : No. This is bigger than you, Roger. This is bigger than any of us.

Call ends

HOBBS : This has become a serious problem.

Red, who has been in room

RED : It’s not easy being God.
HOBBS : You got any idea how much this guy’s cost me? Not just his work, but the security.
There’s people out there that would pay a fortune just to know his name and steal his research away.
RED : What’s it worth?
HOBBS : Hard to say. A foot in the door to human immortality on the open market? Now I got to get rid of him. I’m not gonna lie to you, it hurts.
RED : You know my feeling. Humans as a species are untrustworthy creatures. We don’t deserve to live forever.What the hell were you thinking, Roger, even to consider authorizing this Powell to conduct human trials?
HOBBS : It was necessary for the research to reach the next level. I didn’t know he was gonna be so reckless.
RED : You had to know there was a risk innocent people would die.
HOBBS : How many innocents died in the search for the smallpox vaccine? All in the name of the advancement of science.
RED : This isn’t about science, Roger. This is about you actually believing that death is beneath you.
HOBBS : No, this is what it takes. Louis Pasteur– he wasn’t even a physician. The day that he injected that first small boy with the rabies vaccine, he was risking criminal prosecution. Jonas Salk injected the flu virus into men in an insane asylum in Michigan. Decade later, he’s being hailed as the genius who cured polio.
RED : I know of a doctor who agreed with you, a relatively young man also fascinated by genetics, a man who didn’t concern himself with morality, humanity. That was Josef Mengele.
HOBBS : I don’t need you to agree with what I’ve already done, Red. But I would like to know if you’re willing to help me now.
WOMAN : Sir, there are two agents from the FBI at the front door, and they’re insisting on seeing you right away.
HOBBS : I’ll be right down.

She leaves; Hobbs gives folder to Red

HOBBS :The identity of my scientist– everything you need to know to take care of the problem.
RED : If it were anyone else, I’d decline, but for you, Roger, I’ll see what I can do.

At front door

HOBBS : Agent Keen, Ressler, come on in.

HOTEL ROOM, LOCATION UNKNOWN

older German guy

GERST : You are going to tell me! You are going to talk! You know that, right? Is it Reddington? You work for him? Because you are not cops.
MAJOR : If you’re gonna do it, do it. Two bullets. Get it over with.
GESRT : No, no, no, that’s not how we do things, not with boys like you.

Grunts, breathes heavily

ELIAS : Everything ready?
MAN : Ja.

To Tom

ELIAS : Him first.

Elias torture Tom with a knife. Groaning.Grunts

German with eagle tattoo on his neck

ELIAS : Have you heard of the blood eagle?

Groans. Breathing heavily

ELIAS : We cut the skin along the spine –

Groaning loudly

ELIAS :– pull the lungs out through the ribs watch them flutter like bloodstained wings. It’s actually quite beautiful.
TOM : That’s a cute story. I’m not gonna talk.

In German

OLD MAN : Got something.

Looks through Tom’s wallet, finds ultrasound of baby w Liz’s name on it

End subtitle

ELIAS : Okay! “Elizabeth Keen.” You still not gonna talk?

COOPER'S OFFICE

COOPER : Dr. Levin, you have excellent timing. I was intending to call you today.
LEVIN : Well, I hope it’s not because you’re feeling worse.
COOPER : No, actually, it’s the opposite. For the first time in a while, I feel like myself again.
This new drug you’re testing– I think we’re really on to something … Dr. Levin?
LEVIN : I’m here. I’m so pleased we’re having success, Harold, but to be honest, it makes this call all the more difficult. The study is evolving, as these things do. They’re always looking at the results and the funding and making adjustments.
COOPER : What kind of adjustments?
LEVIN : I heard today that they’re lowering the age parameters as we move into this next round of treatment. No final decisions have been made, but I need to let you know It’s possible we won’t be able to continue with the trial.
COOPER : So, they’re removing me from the program?
LEVIN : No. We’re still waiting on a decision, and I promise to do what I can to avoid any change. I really am sorry, Harold. You know how I feel about you and Charlene.

HOTEL ROOM, LOCATION UNKNOWN

MAJOR : Keep your mouth shut!
ELIAS : Cut him open.

Tom grunts

TOM : Sarah Hastings.
MAJOR : You son of a bitch.
GERMAN : And what about her?
MAJOR : Don’t say a word.
TOM : I’m not gonna say anything until you guarantee me that you don’t touch Elizabeth Keen.
ELIAS : What I can guarantee about Elizabeth Keen is, I’m gonna find her ...

Laughing

ELIAS : ... and I’m gonna kill her.
TOM : She’s FBI.
GERMAN : You a cop?
TOM : No. I was married to one.
ELIAS : But not now. Why do you care?
MAJOR : Jacob, no! Oh, God.
TOM : Someone in your group has murdered Sarah Hastings. I was hired to find out who. Powerful people are looking for you, Elias. If you want to know who, then you promise me you never, ever touch Elizabeth Keen.

In German

OLD MAN : Elias, if she's FBI …

End subtitle

MAJOR : You sell me out for that bitch, and I swear I’ll hunt you down.

In German

OLD MAN : We touch her... or for all we know him... We can’t afford to have the whole FBI looking for us. We don’t need that.

End subtitle

TOM : You need to let me go. I can help you.

Knife clicks .Groans

MAJOR : Don’t say another word.

Groans

Tom to The Major

TOM : You know that girl you said cost me my life? She just saved it.

INTERROGATION CELL

To Hobbs

LIZ : We don’t see a lot of billionaires suspected of murder.
LAWYER : And you’d be wise to remember that my client hasn’t been charged with anything, Agent Keen.
RESSLER : Earlier today, we raided a clinic being used to conduct experimental transgenic research on human test subjects. That research was being conducted by a Dr. Julian Powell, and you failed to mentioned your connection with Powell the last time we spoke.
HOBBS : What connection?
RESSLER : He worked for you at a biotech company called Sadovo Solutions. And now he surfaces, abducting disabled patients, doing illegal experiments, – killing people.
HOBBS : Have you any idea how many people I’ve employed over the last 20 years?
LIZ : This is one hell of a coincidence, Mr. Hobbs. We come around asking about human experiments, and when we find the man responsible, he has a direct connection to you.
HOBBS : He may have been an employee of mine many years ago, but I’m sorry, I’ve absolutely no recollection of him.
LAWYER : And I’m gonna guess you’ve got nothing to suggest otherwise.
RESSLER : We’re looking into every phone call, every correspondence, every shred of data that we can pull on Julian Powell and that clinic. If you’re funding him, we will prove it.

NEAR THE INTERROGATION CELL

COOPER : What do you have?
LIZ : We’ve got straight denial. He’s pretty much calling our bluff.
COOPER : He say anything we could use to connect him to Powell?
RESSLER : Nothing of value, but it’s early. We’ll keep at him.
COOPER : If that’s all we have, it’s not enough to arrest him.
RESSLER : Look, he’s lying to us about Powell. We can make a circumstantial argument that he’s involved.
LIZ : If he is directly connected to Powell and we let him go, the first thing he’s gonna do is destroy the evidence. We should hold him.
COOPER : You see that lawyer in there? He can afford that suit and the beach house he owns because he’ll never let that happen.
LIZ : Let him file. By the time he gets heard, we’ll probably have what we need.
RESSLER : What’s going on, boss?
COOPER : I’m just saying– not all suspects are created equal.
RESSLER : Look, if somebody told me that you were gonna say that, I’d have bet every damn dime that they were wrong. So, he’s got friends in high places. Since when do you care?
COOPER : Hey, if we don’t have enough, go get enough. But in the meantime, kick him loose.

FBI SPECIAL OPS DIVISION

LIZ : Maybe we can’t connect Hobbs directly with the victims, but I have a feeling Dr. Powell can. All we have to do is find him.
ARAM : I think I can help with that. Been going over the files we recovered from Powell’s facility, and check this out–
RESSLER : These are the test subjects?
ARAM : Yes and no. All of them are deceased except for one, the woman on the bottom right.
Leann McGrath– 34 years old, currently a resident of Twin Pines Assisted-Living Center in Springdale. Powell’s collected all of her medical files. He’s been tracking her condition for years. LIZ : She has the same frontal-lobe condition as the others. I have a feeling we just found Dr. Powell’s next test subject.

TWIN PINES ASSISTED-LIVING CENTER, SPRINGDALE

Indistinct PA announcement

In a room

DR JULIAN POWELL: Sweetheart, I’m so sorry but I failed you.

Sighs

POWELL: We need to go away from here. Don’t worry. I haven’t forgot your things.
NURSE/TODD : Julian? I wasn’t expecting you today. What’s going on? A- are you taking her somewhere?
POWELL: Todd, I don’t have time to explain, but I need you to understand that that this isn’t personal.

He knocks him out

Liz and Ressler arrive at Twin Pines

LIZ: We need you to escort us to Leann McGrath’s room immediately.
ANOTHER NURSE :Yes, of course, Agent.

In the room

RESSLER : ‘What happened? You okay?
NURSE/TODD : He took Ms McGrath toward client pickup.

Powell has pushed Ms McGrath to client pickup

Outside, Red arrives in his car

RED : Dr. Powell. Let’s go for a ride.

Powell gets in car; they drive off

Liz and Ressler don't get here in time

LIZ : Reddington!

RED'S CAR

POWELL : I’m sorry, but I don’t know who the hell you are.
RED : My name is Raymond Reddington. I’m the man who was sent by Roger Hobbs to get rid of you. Relax, Doctor. I have no intention of killing you. You are a potential solution to a problem.
POWELL : How so?

RED : A young woman I know and care for had a distant memory quite literally taken away from her when she was a little girl– erased.
POWELL : So, you want to apply my work to the field of memory extraction.
RED : Not your work, Doctor– your research. If you’ve been able to prove that brain cells can regenerate, with time, would your breakthrough relate in any way to the restoration of this young woman’s memory?
POWELL : No, my work will not help the woman remember. In theory, transgenics can help rebuild damaged memory synapses, but there’s a more– There’s a more fundamental problem.
RED : And that is?
POWELL :’Let me show you.

TWIN PINES ASSISTED-LIVING CENTER, SPRINGDALE

RESSLER : You know Julian Powell?
NURSE/TODD : Of course. She’s his fiancé. Ms. McGrath was in a car accident. She suffered catastrophic damage to the frontal lobe of her brain. There’s an article here about the accident. I think it might have more of the story.
LIZ : “The car Ms. McGrath was riding in jumped a center divide and hit an oncoming tractor trailer. Officers at the scene said Ms. McGrath’s car was being driven by her fiancé, Julian Powell.”

MS MCGRATH'S HOUSE

POWELL : This is where she lived. It’s all I have left of who she was. I proposed in this room. Wasn’t supposed to happen like that. I had a more romantic plan, but once I had the ring, I couldn’t help it. Six weeks later, she was gone. We were in the hospital – St. Michael’s – and a good friend of mine and his wife were having a baby, and Leann and I were in the maternity ward until 4:00 AM. It was one of the happiest nights of my life. And then, in the car on the way home, we were both so tired.
RED : You fell asleep at the wheel.

TWIN PINES ASSISTED-LIVING CENTER, SPRINGDALE

RESSLER : So this is why he’s been experimenting on patients with frontal-lobe damage.
LIZ : He’s not looking for immortality. He’s trying to bring back the woman he loves.

MS MCGRATH'S HOUSE

RED : I suppose Roger Hobbs doesn’t care about your motives or practices, as long as he profits from your findings.
POWELL : I needed money to fund my research, and it was the only way that I could fix what I’ve done and the only way that I could get Leann back.
RED : So, what did you say to him, Doctor?
POWELL : Told him that my work would help him live forever. And he wrote a check that afternoon.This is where I do most of my real work. Thousands of hours spent sitting here, just searching, planning, believing. And for what? Look– look at this. Look at– Useless.
RED : You never found anything.
POWELL : I lied, falsified the data. I had to. Hobbs would have cut me off. But none of this works. My research is a failure. I am a failure. I can’t save her.
RED : You killed a lot of innocent people, Dr. Powell.
POWELL : I wanted to help them. What life did they have? What kind of life can she have now?

Powell takes gun from drawer, cocks gun, fires. Body thuds

LONGEVITY INITIATIVE

TV: « Once again, police have identified the man who died earlier today. We can now confirm his name is Dr. Julian Powell. So far, we’ve been unable to locate ...»

HOBBS : Nicely done. Every station’s calling it a suicide.
RED : It’s done.
HOBBS : And the FBI?
RED : Nothing leads back to you. Why so dour, Roger?
HOBBS : I lost a lot of money on this, Red. Tens of millions.
RED : This has nothing to do with the money. You wanted it to work. For all you’ve achieved, you actually thought this might be your legacy.
HOBBS : If it wasn’t for you, my legacy would be life without parole.
RED : Well, maybe you didn’t save mankind from an untimely death, but someday, you may be able to spare me from one.

Glasses clink

RED'S CAR

LIZ : Care to tell me what the hell happened today?
RED : I suppose I should.
LIZ : You stole Powell out from under us, and then an hour later, he ends up dead? Did you kill that man?!
RED : I’m happy to discuss the day’s events, but not if you insist on doing so at this volume.
LIZ : You gave us this case because you wanted Powell, and then you used us to flush him out.
RED : Yes.
LIZ : “Yes.” You wanted the science.
RED : The science didn’t work. Powell was falsifying his results. He was never interested in immortality, but you know that.
LIZ : He wanted to get his fiancé back.
RED : He knew it was over, so he ended it. That’s the truth.
LIZ : That’s half the truth. I don’t take anything you say at face value.
RED : Fair enough. My interest in Powell’s research was only half the picture. This was always about Roger Hobbs. I used the FBI to create a problem for Roger. I needed the man to be in my debt, and now he is.
LIZ : Roger Hobbs is a murderer. He may not have conducted those experiments, but according to the law, he is just as guilty, and now without Powell, we can’t prove it.
RED : Don’t be so quick to make an enemy of Roger Hobbs. You don’t see it yet, Lizzy, but a dark cloud is approaching, and when it arrives, Roger Hobbs will be a very good friend at exactly the moment he needs to be.

COOPER'S OFFICE

CONNOLLY : Harold, sorry to pull you away.
COOPER : Looking sharp.

Chuckles

CONNOLLY : I’m on my way to some fundraiser– another $5 piece of chicken for $50,000 a plate.
COOPER : I have a feeling you’ll be seeing a lot more of those in the future.
CONNOLLY : Heard things worked out for Roger Hobbs.I’m glad to hear it. Hey, I just came by to clear the air about our conversation earlier.I hope you didn’t misconstrue my intent.
COOPER : Not a problem.
CONNOLLY : Good. I wouldn’t want anything to come between us.
COOPER : Let me ask you a question– I got a call earlier from Dr. Levin. He said I might get cut from the trial. You know anything about that?
CONNOLLY : How would I know anything about that? But I wouldn’t sweat it. I’ll make a call. That’s what friends do.

LIZ'S OFFICE

RESSLER : Hey.
LIZ : Hey. What are you still doing here?
RESSLER : I could ask you the same thing. What happened to dinner?
LIZ : I just didn’t feel like going out.
RESSLER : What’s going on, Keen?
LIZ : You said earlier that I had so much to celebrate. You know that isn’t true. I mean, I thought by the time I was in my 30s, I’d have something to show for it. I would at least be a prestigious profiler. I mean, I was the top in my class. I thought I’d have a loving relationship with someone, maybe we would be raising a family together.
RESSLER : At least you’ve got a dog. That’s one up on me.
LIZ : I don’t know who I am. I don’t know if this is my birthday. I don’t even know my own name. No, I know who I am. I am the puppet of some high-functioning sociopath. I don’t even know what I’m doing here.
RESSLER : What you’re doing here is celebrating your birthday with me.

Laughing

LIZ : What did you–
RESSLER : See, I called the restaurant. I thought I’d send you and your friends a bottle of wine.
Turns out, there wasn’t a reservation, so I figured since you weren’t going to Wing Yee, I was bringing Wing Yee to you.

Liz takes bottle of wine out of her drawer

RESSLER : Oh, look at you!
LIZ : I’ve been saving this for a special occasion.

RESSLER : Well I’m honored.

RED'S CAR

Red is looking through old pictures of Lizzy on her birthdays

IN A STREET

on phone

MAJOR : I don’t care how long it takes or what expense you have to go to. I want Jacob Phelps found.

TOM'S ROOM

Tom is burning his passports

LIZ'S MOTEL

Beeping as Liz unlocks her room. Gasps as someone grabs her : it's Tom

TOM : Shh! Shh!
LIZ : What are you doing?!
TOM: I didn’t know where else to go.

 

Adapté du site «The Blacklist Classified», mise en page par mnoandco