What do you really want?
All the Talkers you have hidden away in there.
They're not mine to give.
Then you won't mind if I just take them?
NARRATOR: Previously on Z Nation...
What's gonna happen to them?
Don't worry. We'll take good care of them.
I promise. They'll be safer in their own space.
CITIZEN Z: Do you have that thumb drive I gave you?
Right here.
As soon as you get to Estes' computer, deploy it.
KAYA: Wait a minute. What is this?
Guys, anybody know what this is?
What's final mercy?
Hey!
Hey, there! Estes!
Hey!
Yo! Hey! Estes! Hey, I'm talking to you!
Murphy.
This is what they used to call a show of good faith.
Me and my Talker friends coming along nice and easy.
Well, you had a choice.
There's always a choice.
Roman! Roman! Roman! Listen, listen, listen.
My friends here, they are tired
and could use a couple of bizkits.
So, I am asking you
undead super demigod to dweeby megalomaniac
how long you gonna make us stand here in this hot frickin' sun?
I have a vote to prepare for.
A vote? Great!
I'll help pass out ballots to my friends here.
They live for democracy.
"They live for democracy," cute.
Problem is, Mr Murphy, my democracy is only for the living.
Well, let's put that to a vote, huh?
Put them on the buses. - Hey! This is voter suppression, you know!
Alright, God, I'm going. Take it easy.
You know, you guys need to watch out for these Talkers.
They get a little iffy when they're hungry.
How long is this ride?
Hey, stewardess. Will there be bizkits?
You need a little help with that tire there, scout?
I'm going, I'm going.
TALKERS GROWL
Where's the driver?
Hey! Wait...
Hey!
You can't just lock us in here!
They're going feral!
TALKERS GROWL
TALKERS QUIETEN
MAN: Hey, what's going on?
These buses aren't going anywhere.
MAN: Why'd they shut up?
MAN: Keep your eyes open!
DEVICE BEEPS
DEVICE BUZZES
Traitor! - No, wait!
GUNSHOT
DEVICE BEEPS
KAYA: One down.
DEVICE BEEPS
KAYA: Alright, George, it's your turn.
DEVICE BEEPS
DEVICE BUZZES
KAYA: Come on, come on, don't do this to me now.
DEVICE BUZZES
Try again.
SCANNER BEEPS
Maybe lift martial law before voting day?
Estes is unreal.
It's fear at work.
"Estes for Supreme Leader."
Not letting that happen.
Alright...
Remember, no matter what
we stick to the plan.
I'm gonna go find Kaya.
Alright. Stay alive.
HE WHISPERS: Kaya?
Come to mama.
Hey, babe.
Did you get it? - Yeah.
The computer keys to the kingdom.
DOOR SLAMS
SHE SIGHS
DEVICE BEEPS
Every password and key in the network.
Altura is at my fingertips.
Ah! Tapped directly into the node. Crafty.
It's a perfect set-up.
Power moves only, babe.
Let's rock.
Estes' office is this way.
When the time comes, I'll deal with Estes.
Justice, not vengeance.
You!
Stop right there!
GUNSHOTS
Freeze!
On your knees!
WARREN: Ready to do this?
You traitors got a lot of nerve showing up here.
Yeah, you gon' regret this.
SHE GRUNTS
♪ Have mercy ♪
GUNSHOTS
♪ Oh, have mercy. ♪
Human.
All the blood is human.
I'm supposed to believe a bunch of strung-out Talkers did all this?
Don't shoot! Don't shoo...
Wow. Uh, hello.
HE CHUCKLES - Loved you in Phantom of the Apocalypse.
What happened to my men?
Your men?
Oh...
you're Estes' mascot.
Hello.
And you're the Big Red One.
Proprietor of Limbo.
Well, I was, until Estes' goons forced me out of business.
Friend to Talker and Talker-lovers.
Friend to traitors.
HE LAUGHS
Sweetheart, I have been called much worse.
I'm sorry, where do I look? The real eye or the pretty one?
You really love listening to the sound of your own voice, don't you?
Well I've been told I could've had a career.
What happened here?
The Altura scum forced us into this bus.
The Talkers went batshit. Surprise!
SHE LAUGHS
You honestly expect me to believe that my armed militia was overrun
by a few starving Talkers?
Well your guys weren't exactly Seal Team Six. Know what I'm saying?
And where are the Talkers now?
Um, I dunno. They ran off.
North by northwest?
What?
Or is that east by eastwest? I dunno.
I could just eat your brains.
Find out everything I need to know.
Can I take a quick peak under that mask? I am just dying to see what...
HE SPLUTTERS
Hey! Alright, sensitive about the mask. I get it.
Stop stalling.
I got knocked out during the fight. I woke up here, and everyone was gone.
HE GASPS
MURPHY: God... OK!
It doesn't matter because you can't protect them anyway.
PHONE RINGS
Where is everyone getting these phones?
I should take this.
Do you have a phone?
Yes?
Yes.
I understand, Roman.
Yes.
I'm on my way.
Hold on.
You're not taking me to Altura?
No need.
Estes has already arrested your little friends
George and Lieutenant Warren.
The election is happening.
And you...
will never be welcome in Altura.
I don't want to go to Altura.
Hey.
They'll find us.
GEORGE SIGHS - WARREN: Hey.
They will.
Anything?
Not yet. Still checking cameras.
We need eyes on them.
I don't like this.
The Talkers are in the wind.
George and Warren infiltrate Altura the day before the election.
They're up to something.
Let me find out what they're up to.
What about the Talkers? They need to stay lost.
Don't you worry.
The Talkers won't be voting.
And I'll make sure George tells us everything we need to know.
This it?
I think so.
Yeah, it's right where Warren said.
Let's get to it.
Let's go, everybody! You got your orders!
Here, guys. Just a little bit.
OK, there it is. Pass it back, OK?
That Swiss Army claw really works.
ESTES: Hello, George.
Lieutenant Warren. - Save it.
What happened to you? Have you been lying to me this whole time?
Unbridled idealism is rather easy to direct.
I think the word you want is "manipulate."
I see, I saw.
Final mercy, Estes?
That's your idea of democracy?
So you hacked me?
We know everything.
How do you think your fellow Alturans are gonna feel
when they find out you're behind the blast?
And who's gonna tell them?
You?
The truth always gets out.
Does it, though?
While you're locked in this cell
Altura's gonna elect me Supreme Commander of Security Forces.
And you'll be convicted of treason.
Treason?
Harbouring fugitive Talkers, theft of Altura lithium
and the illegal hack of Altura computers. Mm-mm.
We take a very dim view of election interference here.
Why, Estes? Why?
It's not personal, just evolution.
Bring her.
GEORGE: Hey, wait.
Where are you taking her?
Just to answer a few questions.
Don't worry about her, George. I'm playing good cop.
Hi.
I'm never gonna get used to that.
The zombie virus is singularly focused.
It wants brains.
I feel so bad for Becky.
She's at peace now.
The only thing making her hand move is the virus.
After all the trials and horrific tests
it all comes back to where my mission started.
Murphy's blood.
The virus works in mysterious ways.
Something in the primordial ooze that runs in Murphy's veins
binds to the same neuro-receptors as the zombie virus.
It can be any one of a hundred unidentified antibodies.
But the other 99 could kill you.
But you're close, right?
Maybe we'll get lucky.
Hold it still.
Another moment.
What should I do?
Let go of it.
Oh, sh...!
Careful.
It wants something.
What does it mean?
Some mysterious contaminate in Murphy's blood
killed the virus and re-humanized Becky's hand.
The cure.
You found the cure.
ESTES: Welcome back to Altura, Lieutenant Warren.
Your return is unexpected
and your timing curious.
Thank you for the warm welcome.
I gotta say, Altura's hospitality...
still needs a little work.
Where are the Talkers?
Hmm?
What Talkers?
You and George are planning something with the Talkers
which is doomed to fail.
Haven't we mercied enough already?
You can't stop the vote, but you can stop the bloodshed right now.
Think of your kind.
You willing to decide for every human in Altura that your way is right?
Isn't that what you're doing?
Where... are... the Talkers?
SHE CHUCKLES
OK, Warren gave the high sign. Go back to George.
That chick with the creepy mask makes me nervous.
What are they doing?
They're torturing her.
What happened? - I don't know.
CITIZEN Z: Must've been a power surge.
Is there a signal?
The system rebooted. I have to find my way back in.
CITIZEN-Z: Hurry.
CLATTER
MUFFLED: Ah, what the hell? Damn thing stole my money.
MUFFLED: Come on, man, you gotta be kidding me.
MUFFLED: Finally.
FOOTSTEPS RECEDE - KAYA EXHALES
SHE WHISPERS: This could take a while.
♪ I'll break your fingers I'll break your toes ♪
Or...
Or I'll break your nose.
GEORGE GROANS
Oh, did you not learn that when you were a kid?
What's it like being Estes' pet?
Jealousy does not become you, George.
He's using you.
PANDORA: We're using each other.
Oh, and we have big plans.
I'm his queen.
You keep telling yourself that.
Why are you and Warren in Altura?
We're sight-seeing.
Where... are... the Talkers?
Well, you rounded them up.
You tell me.
I'm actually glad you're not cooperating.
ELECTRICITY ZAPS
Why are you siding with Estes over your own kind?
ELECTRICITY SIZZLES - GEORGE GROANS
They are not my kind!
You're a Talker.
PANDORA LAUGHS I...
I am not a Talker.
There's no shame in being dead.
My best friend is...
was a Talker.
PANDORA CHUCKLES Oh, yes.
The poor rebel Dante.
He was so helplessly devoted to you.
Don't talk about him.
Oh, I think I've earned the right to say whatever I want about Dante.
What's that supposed to mean?
Oh...
you really don't know, do you?
Oh, that's precious.
This is gonna be way better than electricity.
What?
You see, George
it was me that killed Dante.
Not some random vigilantes.
SHE CHUCKLES
Bullshit.
He did ask me to give you a message though.
His last words, so to speak.
Now, what were they? Hmm.
Oh, yes.
SHE MOCK WHIMPERS: "George."
"George, please help me."
"Why... why did you leave me all alone? George, I need you."
"Please. Oh, no, stop."
"Please don't do that." - Shut up.
"Please stop. Just, just stop. Don't do that, please."
"Just stop. No! No!"
ELECTRICITY ZAPS - You freak!
PANDORA YELLS AND LAUGHS
SHE LAUGHS
Now you're getting it!
Dante was the best person I ever knew! - He wasn't a person.
By the time I got through with him, he wasn't even a Talker.
All that was left was a bag of garbage.
Now, I'm gonna ask you one more time.
Where... are... the Talkers?
ELECTRICITY SIZZLES - GEORGE SCREAMS
PANDORA LAUGHS
Ever notice how Murphy's never around for the heavy lifting?
He's clever that way.
Why can't I be clever that way?
Cos you are a good man.
Thanks, Doc. - You're welcome.
Nice to know a compliment still means something in a world like this.
You know, kid
there's no telling how this is gonna turn out.
But whatever happens
you keep going.
You're resilient.
You're my damn cockroach, right?
I know your dad would be real proud.
I sure am.
I love you, kid.
Like you were my own son.
Thanks, Doc.
You too.
You think this is gonna work?
Well, it better. A whole lot of lives depend on it.
Hey, can we get some more cable over here?
It's gonna be alright.
DISTANT WHISTLE
Get down. Get down!
WHISTLE APPROACHES
Murphy!
Hey! - Hey! It's just me.
Everything's OK.
Everyone OK? - Yeah.
Yeah. They're almost ready.
So, um...
back there at the buses.
Wow.
You got a lot of issues to work out.
Thanks.
I did it for them.
Not for you.
Look, I'm just trying to say you...
you got a way with that Z-Whacker.
Are you trying to give me a compliment?
While I can.
Any attack on Altura by the Talkers would be folly.
I sense you know that.
I think you're confusing me with someone who scares easily.
Hmm, am I?
Tell me where the Talkers are hiding.
You tell the people of Altura
what you did to their friends and their neighbours.
You let the Talkers come back and vote, and then maybe I'll let you live.
I find it amusing that you think there's still a debate to be had.
Goodbye, Lieutenant Warren.
There comes a time when everyone turns Talker.
Remember that, Estes!
Everything?
Everything you can carry.
Where can we go?
Anywhere to get this out of Estes' hands.
Pacifica. Hackerville.
Even zombie territory.
My friend has access to an Altura truck.
Maybe I can get it.
OK.
But be careful.
Red?
Hurry.
DOOR OPENS
That was fast.
Estes?
Going somewhere?
With my lab?
WARREN GRUNTS Get...
Oh, you know what...?
Where's George?
Ah!
SHE BANGS ON GLASS - Where'd you take her?
The power surge corrupted the password generator.
I'm trying to patch a work-around.
Want me to try? - No, I got this.
OK.
KAYA: We're back in.
Oh, go back. It's Warren.
Can you get the door?
Any second...
Hang on.
HE GRUMBLES
KAYA: OK, got it.
Alright... she's out.
One down. Now where's George?
There's Sun Mei.
CITIZEN-Z: And Estes.
Does that feel funny to you?
That dude is seven kinds of wrong.
Find George and we'll go back to that.
Oh, no.
This is bad.
Alright, I'll get with Warren and we'll find George.
Keep an eye on Sun Mei. - Be careful, baby.
Hand me a Diet Coke.
ELECTRICITY SIZZLES - GEORGE YELLS
You can tell me, George.
Are the Talkers planning an attack on Altura?
I'm sorry about earlier.
Is your hand OK?
I hope you didn't break your little bird bones on my face.
ELECTRICITY SIZZLES - GEORGE GROANS
GEORGE LAUGHS
What are you and the Talkers planning?
Tell me now.
GEORGE PANTS AND SPITS
Ruin all your fun?
Come on.
I can do this for as long as it takes.
Ditto.
DOOR OPENS
MUFFLED GROWLS
ZOMBIE GROWLS
Oh, come on.
ZOMBIE GROWLS
What's the matter?
You OK, Sun Mei? - We were just sanitizing the lab
so the samples don't get contaminated.
Why don't you have a seat? You've been working so hard lately.
I suppose that's true.
The trials have... taken a toll on me.
But I have to cont-- - I insist.
I haven't seen you in days. You look...
tired.
How do you keep all this straight?
VN-5. What's this one?
Just another failure.
Hm. Why keep it?
To learn why it failed.
Ah, yes, the scientific method.
What's in here?
Careful. That's pure zombie virus.
Well, look at that.
DRONE WHIRS
Impressive work with that zombie hand, if it means what I think it does.
You're spying on me?
Is that a real question?
What do you want?
Another question you already know the answer to.
Lean back. Get comfortable.
Estes, you don't have to do this.
What are you doing?
Compelling the witness.
SUN MEI: No.
No, no, no, no, no. Please.
You don't have to, OK?
No!
SHE WHIMPERS: No!
HE MOUTHS - SUN MEI GROANS
SHE GASPS
Now maybe you'll tell me.
Is this the zombie cure?
This one?
Pick the right one. I wanna watch the cure work on a live human subject.
SHE GROANS
SHE GASPS
Which one is the vaccine?
Never.
OK, I'll just find it myself.
I have no shortage of human subjects
starting with your friends.
DISTANT THUD
You had one job.
I'm sorry, boss. - You let Warren escape?
Don't go anywhere.
SHE GASPS
SHE GROANS
ZOMBIE GROWLS
When are the Talkers planning an attack on Altura?
Election day?
I'm not telling you.
Oh.
So they are planning an attack?
Pandora... - Where are the Talkers hiding?
I can't.
Where are the Talkers?
GEORGE GROANS - I'm gonna kill you.
Oh, please.
I barely touched you.
Now hold still.
Or don't.
GEORGE: Don't do this.
GEORGE GRUNTS
Such exquisite bone structure you have.
And those cheeks...
marvellous.
And your eyes are so exotic.
PANDORA MOANS
Pierre is gonna find you delicious.
Where are the Talkers?
Pierre?
He's French.
Through the face is the long way to the brain.
But the nose cartilage and the eye cavities go down so easy.
Where are the Talkers?
Don't do this.
SHE LAUGHS
Oh, we are well past the point of listening.
Besides
I couldn't possibly disappoint Pierre, now could I?
PANDORA COOS: Oh, who's a hungry zombie?
Who's a hungry zombie? Yes, you are!
Who wants to eat yummy brains? - ZOMBIE GROWLS
Who does? Yes, it's you! - ZOMBIE GROWLS
Who wants to eat the face of the dirty rotten disgusting traitor?
ZOMBIE GROWLS - Where are the Talkers?
GEORGE: Stop!
PANDORA LAUGHS - ZOMBIE GROWLS
PANDORA COOS: Oh, yes, he does! Good boy.
Y'know, George, I really would recommend you telling Pierre
where the Talkers are before he eats your lips off.
ZOMBIE GROWLS
Where... are... the Talkers, George?
GEORGE SOBS: Get him away from me! Get him away!
ZOMBIE GROWLS - Oh, good boy. Down, boy, down.
GEORGE SOBS
I'm gonna ask you one more time.
Where are the Talkers?
Hey.
I got the truck.
I don't know if there's enough gas.
Sun Mei?
SUN MEI SNARLS - Oh! Sun Mei, what happened?
I... I don't understand.
The vaccine turned the hand back.
Which one is it, Sun Mei?
Uh...
this one? VN-8?
Uh, VN-4? This one?
This one has no label.
Why would you remove the label? - SUN MEI GROWLS
SUN MEI GROWLS
Right...
This is it.
Got it!
SUN MEI SNARLS - RED: Oh, shit!
SUN MEI SNARLS
SUN MEI GROWLS
RED YELLS
SUN MEI SNARLS - RED YELLS
SUN MEI GROWLS - RED GROANS
SUN MEI SNARLS
SUN MEI SCREECHES - RED GASPS
RED GASPS
SUN MEI RASPS
Red?
Sun Mei?
It really works.
Sun Mei, no...
Even if the Talkers get the vote
do you think they'll ever fit in?
Fit in about as well as you or I, I guess.
Just about.
I just feel like Estes is never gonna let it happen.
Warren and George will take care of Estes.
Yeah, but what about the next Estes? There's always gonna be another one.
Humans aren't evolving.
No.
But we are.
I'm just afraid there's no place for us, Murphy.
Wanna take these Talkers up over the hill?
Start over.
I don't know.
Double the perimeter security.
Take a couple of men and find Lieutenant Warren.
I don't want her skulking about, today of all days.
George broke.
I hope that was fun for you.
Mmm. She spilled her guts...
SHE CHUCKLES literally.
It seems they set a staging area for the Talkers near Pacifica.
I'll activate the security force and the reserves.
I'm gonna send every available Alturan
to wipe their kind off this godforsaken Earth.
Everyone?
But what about guarding Altura?
I've accounted for that. - Of course, Estes. I only meant...
Where is George?
Well, she and Pierre...
Well, they're having a little snack.
Good for Pierre.
ZOMBIE GROWLS
ZOMBIE SNARLS
Which one was it?
They all look the same.
No kidding.
Hey.
Down here.
WARREN: Open it.
Kaya?
Almost there...
Almost there.
Oh, hurry, Kaya.
SHE SIGHS
George?
GEORGE GASPS - It's me. It's me. It's me.
It's me. Hey, it's me.
Hey.
A little close for comfort?
A little.
How did you do this exactly?
WARREN: Hey.
Did you give it up?
All of it?
All of it.
Good girl.
We need to find Sun Mei.
Last I saw, she was alone with Estes, and that can't be good.
Let's go. - Alright, let me help you.
No, I got it.
SUN MEI GROANS
No, no.
Leave it.
It's holding in my guts.
DOOR CLATTERS
Oh, no.
What happened?
Where's Estes? - He's coming back.
This does not look good.
I did it.
The vaccine works.
Zombie and back.
Zombie and back? Like a bizkit booster shot?
Can you restore Talkers?
Talkers, zombies...
fresh ones, anyways.
It's a cure.
It's a start.
OK.
Uh...
we can't let Estes find out.
Let's grab your research and let's go. - I can't go with you.
Wh...?
I can't.
But what you need for the cure
is right up here.
One last smoke?
Now, now, don't be a fatalist.
I'm gonna go hide the truck.
Alright, be careful.
Last smoke, my ass.
They seem nervous.
They are.
Hold tight, guys. It's almost time.
The vote is waiting for you.
Citizenship is waiting for you
if you want it.
But you're gonna have to take it.
And we're gonna be there with you. Arm up!
Pierre? No!
The lab. They went to the lab.
PANDORA SCREAMS
Sun Mei
we can't do this.
SUN MEI: I'm dying.
I'll be the first death since the Black Rain.
If this is this about Murphy's blood...
we can get more.
The antibodies in Murphy's blood are evolving daily.
The only way to be sure is to take my brain and preserve it before I die.
Maybe we could sew you up, give you a transfusion, something?
I've lost too much blood.
If Estes gets ahold of me... - I won't let him.
Get the syringe.
I can't inject you with poison.
SUN MEI: Yes, you can.
The poison will leave a dead end for Estes.
He'll have nothing to work with.
Tie me off
so the injection doesn't interfere with the vaccine in the brain tissue.
You'll have what you need to recreate the cure.
SUN MEI: Hurry before Estes comes back.
Sun Mei. Sun Mei, please.
No.
This is my part.
RED SOBS
ALARM WAILS
Guys, hurry.
WARREN: Have mercy, my sister.
Give it to Murphy. He'll know what to do.
ALARM WAILS
RED SOBS
ALARM WAILS
Use a manual override. I need in this lab now!
LOCK BUZZES
Spiteful. You are spiteful!
What did they do?
The last time I saw this woman, she was a zombie.
I infected her myself.
Looks like they took her brain
and the cure with it.
They think they can keep her discovery from me.
Drain every drop of blood from her.
Maybe I can recover some traces of the vaccine.
Yes, Commander.
I want you to go to that camp. I want you to mercy every Talker, every traitor.
No one stands against Altura!
Yes. - Find them and kill them all!
Yes.
Where did your little brain go?
MUSIC: "Nothing to Escape" by Fairbanks And The Lonesome Light