[ominous dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- The Lord is my shepherd;
I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures;
He leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul;
He leadeth me on the paths of righteousness
for His namesake.
Though I walk through the valley
of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil;
for thou art with me;
Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
- We are live at the Texas State Cemetery
for the memorial service of Blake Redding,
son of Texas Governor Dean Redding,
who lost his life when he failed
his thinning exam last week
at Vista Point High School.
[drill whirs] [syringe hisses]
Reports have since indicated
that Blake Redding was not among
the initial students to fail the exam,
which has shrouded the Governor's campaign
for president in a flurry of controversy.
- Thank you. [crowd cheering]
- Governor, your thoughts on the Vista Point scandal?
- Not today.
- Attending the service
is former Vista Point High School student
Laina Michaels,
who has become a public figure
since she was wrongfully accused of failing her exam
and framed for committing acts of domestic terrorism.
- Laina, do you have any plans
for taking legal action against the Board of Education
for mishandling your test scores?
[drill whirring]
- I don't know.
- Do you hold Governor Redding personally responsible
for implicating you as a domestic terrorist?
[camera shutters snapping]
- No comment. all: Miss Michaels!
- I hate to be all business,
but the DPC has appointed a special investigator
for the Vista Point incident.
- It's Agent Joanne Morris.
They didn't waste any time. [camera shutter snaps]
- Fortunately for you, Mason King
has signed an affidavit absolving you
of any connection to the events.
Per your request, he's been reassigned.
- Good. Where is he?
- I'll handle this myself.
You just focus on what's important:
getting elected.
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- How close would you say you were to Blake Redding?
♪ ♪
- I barely knew him.
Talked to him a few times over the years
but that was it.
- Was he your boyfriend?
You guys have a personal relationship?
- He was with Ellie until last year.
Then he kept to himself.
I barely knew him.
- Barely knew him.
[distant chattering]
You don't have to tell me about some boy you had feelings for,
but we need to be honest with each other.
Let's go over the timeline.
An hour before the kiss,
I have you on the internal server computer.
I need to know what you saw.
- I was working fast.
Everything I saw was posted on the news.
I knew they switched my test, I was just trying to prove it.
- Anything regarding the school or sensitive material?
- I really wish I could help you.
- Here's my card.
If you remember anything
or need someone you can trust,
I just want you to know you're not alone.
[kids giggling]
- What's so funny? - Joey's on TV.
- No, guys, cut it out.
- That's my cue.
Take care of yourself, Laina.
- Guys.
I need you two to focus. both: Okay.
[pounding on door]
- No interviews.
- Miss Michaels,
it's Jack Prescott with Governor Redding's team.
- What does he want?
- He needs to see you.
It's about Blake.
[door opening]
- Hi.
- You said something about Blake?
[distant traffic blaring]
- I can't believe I'm walking these floors.
Two years ago, I put a picture
of this place on my vision board.
Now I'm here.
- Loving the new look, Wendy.
Auburn? - Rosewood.
This is the bullpen.
A lot of the junior staffers get thrown here,
but since I took a chance getting the station
to hire the first non-intern under 20,
you get your own office.
- [exhales] Now we're talking.
- This room used to be a closet. Now it's yours.
- In real estate terms, they call this
"cozy with potential." [soft laugh]
- There are still a lot of questions that need answers
about what happened at Vista Point High.
- I get it.
You want me to dig deep and uncover what's really
going on at Vista Point High, right?
Question authorities, make it clear that BNC News
is gonna ask hard questions and accept the blowback
regardless of the consequences.
- No.
Kellan, this is your first day.
You're starting at the bottom. That's how this works.
First up, a science piece.
Parents want to know what chemicals are being administered
to the students who go to the thinning.
I'm gonna send you out to do a prelim.
- Uh, two things.
Number one, what's a prelim?
Number two, when are you grabbing dinner?
- Talk to people. Find an angle.
Set up interviews, chase leads.
You do that, we'll get dinner.
- It's a date. - I'm married.
Get to work.
[brooding music]
♪ ♪
- Miss Michaels.
It's so nice to finally meet you.
- You went on TV and said I was a terrorist.
- Right to the chase. I love it.
[exhales softly]
I was given misleading information from my people.
I want to apologize.
- You didn't call me in here to apologize.
- I wanted to offer you an advisory role
on our new Thinning Oversight Committee.
- No thanks.
- The thinning isn't perfect, but it's the law.
And with this recent incident,
there's been strong headwinds against it.
People want to see the other side of the story.
- You want me to stump for you.
- It'd be a very generous paycheck
for you and your siblings,
take care of you for quite some time.
- Thanks for the water.
[soft somber music]
Hi, guys. Let's go.
♪ ♪
- Laina. Georgina Preston.
[gasps softly] Oh, this must be your family.
I hear you will be taking your first test this year.
How exciting.
Corrine has 11 more years of testing.
I'd imagine it would be nice to have a little...
support.
[sinister music]
♪ ♪
Jack will take you home.
♪ ♪
- Excuse me? You just passed our house.
[dramatic music]
- Laina?
[both coughing]
- Help!
♪ ♪
[coughing]
♪ ♪
Who are you? Where are Corrine and Joey?
- They're safe.
Everything is okay.
See?
- [soft giggle]
- Miss Cole?
all: Morning, Miss Cole.
- Maggie.
I'm sorry for the scare.
This is kind of a sensitive operation.
- Tell the Governor I'm not working for him.
- We're not with the Governor.
We're with The Fight.
- We're hiding in plain sight
at all levels of government
to garner influence to end the thinning,
and transport at-risk students to safe houses.
- You can get people out?
- That's what we do.
Mister Leonard over there has personally escorted
over 100 students across the border
to a secure island off the Gulf.
- Corrine and Joey-- you have to get them out.
- That's why we need you to help the Governor.
- No.
I'm not going to be a mouthpiece for the thinning.
If you won't help me get them out,
then I'm going to do it myself.
- You know what happens when they catch a runaway?
The kids get split up.
They bounce around in state homes.
They get a third-rate education
and a guaranteed trip to the thinning.
You don't want that.
- With the right candidate in place,
we can do a full repeal of the thinning,
and find a more humane way to combat our population crisis.
- But if Redding becomes president,
the thinning will stay strong
and continue to send innocent kids to die.
And that could just be the tip of the iceberg.
[dramatic music]
- What does Georgina have to do with all this?
- We don't know.
That's what we need you to find out.
If she has her way,
when Governor Redding becomes President Redding,
we lose our window to stop the thinning.
I mean, who knows what the future could hold.
♪ ♪
- So, uh, you worked the day Blake's body was being prepared?
- Yes, I was on-site.
- And did you handle the body?
- Not personally, no.
[knocking on door]
- Kellan, it's 3:00 in the morning.
- I know. Um, weird question.
Do you own a shovel?
And out of all nine employees who worked that 72-hour period,
not one person ever saw or handled the body.
- That's crazy.
- No. We're crazy.
[suspenseful music]
Okay--oh.
Hey.
Are you good? - Yeah.
- Be careful.
Wait.
No.
♪ ♪
Yeah.
Are we doing this?
- Here.
- [sighs]
[owl hooting]
I can't believe you're doing all this for a guy
that doesn't even know your name.
- Light. - Yeah, sorry.
[thud]
♪ ♪
[sinister music]
♪ ♪
[cheerful music]
♪ ♪
- Congratulations.
Your class has been spared.
Every single one of you was chosen by our system
and deemed worthy to receive
a second chance at life.
I realize you may have a couple of questions.
Okay, let's begin.
Our first, most commonly-asked question is:
"Am I dead?"
No. [laughs] You're not dead.
Question two:
"Where am I?"
Well, you're in The Incubator,
a special facility designed and sponsored
by the great minds at Assuru Global.
We are here to help you grow
from a parasitic leech on our society
to a productive member of the working class.
I know what you're thinking: "Why me?"
Using our patented algorithm,
we analyzed the test scores of this year's
failing students and determined that
you still have value and special skills
that can be utilized to better America.
[laughs] Sorry, that was a lot of words.
To put it simply: you were chosen, silly.
[excited chattering]
Last question:
"Do I get to go back?"
The most productive members of the Incubator program
will be considered for reintroduction to society.
Again, congratulations on being selected
and getting to begin your new life.
Be worthy.
[cheerful music]
[lights humming]
[all cheering, chattering]
- We made it! - Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
- Please proceed to the assignment room.
[equipment thrumming]
[computer chimes]
- Heather Forester, you have
been assigned to "Assembly."
Please proceed to the door labeled "Assembly."
Today you will be observing only.
[equipment hisses, thrumming]
[computer chimes] Ned Walker.
You have been assigned to "Advanced Systems."
[ominous music]
[equipment thrumming]
[computer chimes]
Blake Redding.
You have been assigned to "Packaging."
- What happens if I say no?
[alarms beep]
♪ ♪
- Please proceed to the door labeled "Packaging."
Today you will be observing only.
As a member of the Incubator,
your day breaks down into three sections:
work, eat, and sleep.
[cheerful music]
During work hours, each member will report to
their assigned section
for 14 hours of labor.
Then, each member will be released
to have one hour of dining and personal time.
At curfew, each member must return
to their domiciles for rest and recuperation.
♪ ♪
Please proceed to the factory floor for observation.
[chime]
Please proceed to the... - Ellie.
[machines clanking, whirring]
[melancholic music]
[machines hum, power down]
- All workers please return
to living and dining quarters.
All workers please return
to living and dining quarters.
All workers please return to living and dining quarters.
Remember: be worthy.
♪ ♪
- Ellie!
Ellie!
[somber dramatic music]
♪ ♪
You're alive.
- I am alive.
[both laughing softly]
- I thought I was seeing things.
Where are we?
- They didn't tell you?
We were chosen.
- I never thought I'd see you again.
- No.
Not here.
We have a curfew in an hour.
♪ ♪
[electronic chirp] [machine hisses]
[electronic clank]
[gentle piano music]
♪ ♪
- Ellie, I love you.
- I can't believe it's been a year.
[moans]
I don't know how I'd live without you.
♪ ♪
- I missed you so much.
[equipment rumbling]
- It's crazy that we're still alive.
I thought it was all over.
- When they put that needle into my neck,
I really thought that that was it.
I thought I was gonna die.
- Hey.
This place gives us a purpose.
Like, a second chance to help and do right.
- Why would they kill some kids and spare others?
That doesn't make any sense.
You don't really believe that, do you?
- Of course.
We were chosen.
I mean, they believe that
we have something to contribute.
We can be worthy.
- If they lied to everyone before,
why wouldn't they lie to us now?
[alarm blaring] - Refusal to work.
Refusal to work.
[distant indistinct shouting]
[alarm blaring continues]
[shouting, whistling]
[ominous music]
- Oh, you've had enough?
[shouting, laughter]
- Do it! - Do it!
Jump, jump! Come on!
Jump, jump! - You're weak!
- Come on! You're weak!
[whistling, shouting]
You hear me?
- Come on! Do it!
- You're weak! - Jump!
- Come on! - Jump! Jump!
- He's weak. - You're not worthy!
Now jump!
[suspenseful music builds]
- Get the net!
[pneumatic hiss]
[cheering, whistling]
- Snip, snip.
- "Snip, snip"?
- I heard anyone who refuses to work
is sent to the infirmary, and within a few hours
they come back with alterations.
[jeering, shouting]
- What'd he get?
- That's him.
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪
[boys chattering]
♪ ♪
- You must be new.
I'm Cage.
- Blake Redding.
- Governor's kid, right?
[scoffs] That's cute.
Probably used to getting whatever you want,
like Ellie.
You know,
since you're new here,
I'm gonna take it easy on you.
Ellie belongs
to me now.
You can do whatever you want.
But if you look at her again,
I'm gonna kill you.
Okay.
♪ ♪
[door opens]
[door slams]
- It's not gonna stop.
[indistinct chatter]
- [kisses]
- What's up, boss? - Hey.
- Hey, what's the deal with those kids with the patches?
- Oh.
That's The Worthy.
They're hand-selected by The Incubator
to help supervise the other workers.
- They're like cops? - Yeah, more like mall cops.
- They're first in line for reintroduction.
- Oh, that's pretty awesome. All this shit's co-ed.
- We're slaves, idiot.
- I'm not a slave.
I'm nobody's slave.
I'm Wade Freeman, bitch.
- You know what?
Yeah, that's a really good point.
You're Wade Freeman. - Bitch.
He's Wade Freeman Bitch.
- [laughing]
[chairs clattering]
- Go.
- Ellie, what is this?
- Just leave.
- I'm not going anywhere without you.
- They will kill you.
Please go.
- Uh, this is Cage's girl, Redding.
So you can move along now.
- We're just talking.
- Move along now.
- No.
I'm not leaving without her.
- Let's go.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [grunts] - [groans]
- Security! - [groaning]
[beep] - It's over.
- [grunts]
[dramatic percussive music]
[beep]
♪ ♪
Come on.
- [distorted] They're approaching Sector 24!
♪ ♪
Come on.
[indistinct radio chatter]
Run. Go!
Run, Ellie! Run!
♪ ♪
- [shaky breathing]
[baton clicks]
[blows lands] - [grunting]
[baton clicks]
[yelping]
- Blake! - Keep them separate.
- Ellie!
- Blake! - Ellie!
[sinister music]
You.
- Going somewhere, Blake?
♪ ♪
- [groaning]
No. - Not anymore.
[bones twist]
- [screaming]
[upbeat news broadcast music]
♪ ♪
- Things are heating up in an election that
could be a turning point in American history.
Texas Governor Dean Redding,
backed by tech leader Assuru Global,
is running on the strength and success
of the national thinning program.
Vermont Senator Elaine Davis
has taken a strong anti-thinning platform
that has brought her all the wa to her party's nomination.
She calls for a complete repeal of the thinning,
which has proven very popular among young voters.
- Enough is enough.
It's time to protect our kids
from this inhumane and unconstitutional law.
It's time to end the thinning. [crowd cheering]
- Even with a chance to reform, Laina Michaels
continues her unwavering support
for Governor Redding and the thinning.
[crowd cheering]
- Being against the thinning is a dishonor
to all the brave students who sacrificed their lives
so we could be here today.
[cheering and applause]
- The Governor went on television
and called you a domestic terrorist,
a murderer, without any evidence.
How can you support someone
who would so viciously slander you?
And what does that say about the Governor's leadership?
- I credit a man who will correct his mistakes
and own up to them.
Governor Redding is that kind of man.
- But the investigation--
- It's been nearly a year,
and nothing substantial against the Governor has emerged.
- Why should people vote for Governor Redding next week?
- Governor Redding has sacrificed everything
for us to move forward as a society.
He will do whatever it takes to lead this country
and I proudly stand with him.
[soft music]
- And we're out.
[bell rings]
All right, let's reset for the next shot.
Can I get escort for talent off set?
Thank you very much.
[indistinct chatter]
- [retching]
I can't keep doing this.
It's been eight months.
I've been giving you everything.
Rifling through building files,
photos of restricted areas.
- Now is the time to focus and do our jobs.
- What do you even do?
I'm out there every day
destroying my reputation for a few bread crumbs.
I'm putting my life on the line,
and it feels like I'm the only one!
["one" echoes] [pigeons flutter]
♪ ♪
I'm sorry.
It's just-- this is eating away at me.
- If you stop now, it's over.
- I need to know Corrine and Joey are taken care of.
- I will see to it myself.
We now believe that
the files are on Georgina's private computer.
If you can get access, we can get what we need and pull you.
- No one is allowed inside that office
without Georgina present.
- We didn't say this was gonna be easy.
Find a way in.
If anyone can do it, you can.
- How am I going to get access to her computer?
They all have password locks
or need special key card access.
- Jean's a digital safe cracker.
- This provides both the clearance and the file space
needed to secure any and all files
from Georgina's database.
- The election is next week.
It's now or never, Laina.
And, also, we know about your friend.
[suspenseful music]
- What friend?
- The one who's been at every meeting
for the last eight months.
- He's listening in right now.
- Kellan, you can take off the glasses now.
- No habla inglés.
- My opponent doesn't want to invest in the future.
He thinks things are going fine just the way they are.
And I'm here to tell you, they aren't.
[coughing]
- Your state has more students with higher test scores
than in the history of Vermont,
and your entire campaign is about rolling back
all that progress.
- That's a good point, but I refuse to--
- "That's a good point"?
We're never gonna hear that in the debate, Alan.
[sighs]
- You mind if I took a brief recess?
- No. Go ahead, Congressman.
And, please, take your time.
- Let's have Thomas flown in. - The former energy secretary?
- Yeah, he won't let up on anybody.
- Thomas Hausman? That's no good.
You need to get used to debating a woman.
- I'll have Lindsay get you a list of names.
- I can do it.
I'll debate you.
- Well, I appreciate the sentiment, Laina,
but we're looking for someone a little more qualified.
- The thinning is a barbaric program
that blames students for the failures
of a broken education system.
But it sure makes it easier to put the blame on students
than having to look higher on the totem pole.
[suspenseful music]
- Why not?
♪ ♪
- Our teachers are the finest in the world.
And if you're gonna blame them because
a few students are unwilling to push themselves
to realize their full potential,
well, I won't stand for that.
- But you will stand for a program that preys on
the most disadvantaged students in our society,
students who are less likely to pass
because of their socioeconomic background.
Whereas those born with a silver spoon in their mouths
never truly have to worry about whether or not
they get to see the next school year.
♪ ♪
- I think we all know that my son had to worry.
- Blake was one of the kindest souls
I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.
And he failed the test on purpose,
to protest this rigged system.
You tried to bail him out,
but you got caught,
and you threw him under the bus
to advance your political career.
Is there enough room for the American people
under that bus?
How was that?
- Uh, that was good.
- Yeah, it was good. - Really good.
[dramatic music]
- Assuru global stocks are soaring this morning
as the company announces its quarterly earnings report,
surpassing expectations
of analysts and shareholders respectively.
- Software and services growth
are crucial, but it's the hardware...
- Analysts are saying that's a 36% jump in R&D spending...
- That's what it takes to have stakes in this game.
- Assuru Global ensures made-in-America quality.
[brooding music]
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
[machinery beeping, whirring]
[somber music]
♪ ♪
[horn blares]
- All workers, please return to living and dining quarters.
All workers, please return to living and dining quarters.
♪ ♪
All workers, please return to living and dining quarters.
Remember: be worthy.
♪ ♪
- [distorted] Hold it, hold it. You know the rules.
Only The Worthy and residents of this sector
are allowed in this area.
[radio chatter]
[distant old-timey music]
[crowd cheering]
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪
- [grunts]
[cheering, screaming]
♪ ♪
- Finish his ass! - Get him, Cage!
- He's a parasite! Flush him!
- Get up!
I'm not done with you yet.
- You're not worthy! - Stand up, man, let's go!
- You're not worthy!
[crowd shouting, taunting]
- You just don't got it in you!
- [yelping]
- Punch him in the face, Cage!
- He was asking about you.
- [groans loudly] - Who?
- Cage.
He's waiting for you to slip,
force you in there with him.
- Why hasn't anyone kicked his ass yet?
- I don't know, bro.
Don't look like a bitch to me.
[crowd cheering]
- [singsong] He's not worthy!
- Yeah.
- Get this parasite out of here!
- If you're not worthy, you're nothing!
[crowd chanting] Worthy! Worthy! Worthy!
- Let's go, Cage!
[crowd chanting] Worthy! Worthy! Worthy!
- Isn't anybody gonna help him?
- [distorted] Not till after the fight.
- Hey. - Oh, come on.
- This kid needs serious medical attention now.
Are you really gonna make me take him?
- Let's see it!
- [distorted] Come on, let's go.
- Who's next on the list? - Next victim!
- If you win, you lead.
- Who's got it, baby?
Who's going next?
- Sooner or later, Redding,
you'll be in here.
Sooner or later.
[crowd cheering]
- Come on, daddy's boy, let's see it!
Let's see the daddy's boy!
[shower running]
[somber piano music]
♪ ♪
[alarm blaring] - Curfew is now in effect.
Curfew is now in effect.
[doors clank, hissing]
- [soft laugh]
- This is gonna be good. [chuckles]
- Get off.
[baton clicks] [electricity hums]
[sinister music]
♪ ♪
- [muffled shouting] [blows landing]
[muffled scream]
[blows landing]
[muffled scream]
[coughs]
[shaky breathing]
- See you tomorrow.
- [soft shuddering]
[pained gulp]
[inhales sharply]
That's about an eight. - Eight?
How about this?
- [groans]
Nine.
- This thing just won't heal.
Blake, what are they doing to you?
- I fell in the shower again.
[door closes, beeps]
What's the deal with her?
- She refused to work.
[sinister music]
♪ ♪
- There is no reintroduction,
is there?
[dramatic music]
Do you know that we're all here against our will?
- The law is the law.
- But they tell everyone that we're dead.
- I can't be having this conversation.
- Help me get out of here, Doc.
[whispering] Doc, please.
[door closes, beeps]
[door beeps, opens]
- I'll see you in a few weeks.
[door closes, beeps]
[indistinct radio chatter]
- [distorted] Let's go, Blake.
On way to living quarters, King.
[camera whirring]
♪ ♪
[panels chirping, beeping]
♪ ♪
- Hey.
- Hi. - Hi.
Have you talked to Ellie recently?
- Yeah, but she's always with Cage,
so not for long.
- I need you to get a message to her, from me.
- You spend so much time caring for her.
I think it's time you let somebody take care of you.
[tender music]
- Tell Ellie to come to the cage match tomorrow.
It's important.
- This isn't gonna take more than five minutes, is it?
- I'll talk fast. - Shoot.
- Okay, so I was looking into the Vista Point story--
- Oh, my God, Kellan, you have a new angle
on this story every week.
- This one's different. Five minutes.
- You have one minute.
- I practiced it for five.
Okay, I'll talk very fast.
The machines the T-2401 tests are performed on
are made by Assuru Global.
both: But we already knew that. - Right, exactly.
And Assuru Global has been touting their massive increase
in production, which I thought I had figured out
when I bum-rushed Georgina Preston at her office.
- You did what? [phone beeps]
- Where you headed, Georgina? - Shareholders' meeting.
We're talking about how Assuru has tripled
its production and is on its way
to having a record-shattering year.
- How could you have increased production?
You laid off half your workforce.
- [chuckles] Obviously our young friend
hasn't heard of automation.
Excuse me. [laughter]
- I know, it was premature, you know,
but that gave me everything.
Automation.
If they're making more tablets now,
then they're using a lot more machines to make them, right?
So I dug up their expenditures.
- How did you get those?
- I have a friend... who hacks.
Not important.
But I found that they are paying for machines
that they're not actually receiving.
So I took a tour of the new campus,
which is really nice.
- Assuru Global is the industry leader
in cutting-edge consumer electronics.
- And you should really see their manufacturing room.
Really, you should. Because I didn't.
Because they don't have one.
I walked the entire campus with a pedometer.
And if you were to fill the entire thing with machines,
even in the places I walked-- which had none--
you wouldn't be able to get to half
of the output that they're shipping.
- So they're outsourcing.
- Right, I though the same thing.
But according to their expenditures,
they're also regularly "in-sourcing"
100 million pounds of food per year
from a company called TXPAK.
[dramatic music]
Military rations.
Let me just make sure I got this right.
TXPAK is the sole distributor of MREs
for the entire U.S. military? - One of three, actually.
We're very proud to be one of three major suppliers
for heat-and-serve meal packages.
- The average human eats three pounds of food per day.
They have enough food to feed 100,000 people per year.
And that's just what I've found so far.
- What are you saying?
- I think they're using failed students
to make tablets and phones and whatever,
and I think it's all connected to Vista Point.
- How?
- Have you ever looked at
the blueprints for the original build?
[camera shutter snapping] - Of course not.
- I just did. Massive vents, by the way.
You could fit a human in there.
They also have special designated areas
for freight elevators.
And these elevators only go from the first floor down.
15 stories, and--and they go to nothing,
nothing that's on the plans.
So I say we call the cops.
[phone ringing]
- Hi, Brad. Now's a good time.
- Oh, my God.
- What you have is circumstantial.
It's a conspiracy theory.
No photos, no videos, no proof?
No story.
- So you want me to get video?
- Yes, we are working on confirming that interview.
- Of an illegal, underground slave operation
run by the biggest corporation in the world,
which also happens to be the single largest donor
to Governor Redding's campaign for president.
- Can you get a truck ready for me?
- Super.
- Shut the door on your way out.
- I'm only 18.
It's my first job out of high school,
but you got it, boss.
Wish I got thinned.
I don't mean that.
Maybe I do.
Yeah.
[traffic honking]
[car alarm beeps]
[intense dramatic music]
[choking, gasping]
♪ ♪
[car alarm blaring]
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪
- Blake?
- Shh.
We don't have much time.
[tender music]
- I can't keep doing this. - You have to.
You're so close.
Don't give up now.
♪ ♪
[knocking on door]
[pounding on door]
[knocking]
- What's up?
I got some brews.
Paid a homeless dude 50 bucks for this.
- Kellan, it's 2:00 in the morning.
- It's 2:00 in the morning?
That means it's time to party!
Whoo! Let's cruise and do some shots!
So, you know, I was hanging out at my place, alone,
and I was thinking,
"Do you know who I want to hang out with?
My best friend, Laina." - Kellan.
- Now, full disclosure, I drank some of them,
so you have some catching up to do.
- Kellan, what the hell? They're sleeping.
- Yeah, "what the hell" is right.
We've gotta get some tunes in here, it's too quiet.
[rock music plays loudly] Oh!
- Kellan, stop.
♪ ♪
Kellan, knock it off. Kellan!
Kellan, why in the world--
[sinister music]
♪ ♪
[horn blares]
- All workers, return to living and dining quarters.
[horn blaring]
All workers, return to living and dining quarters.
- Hey. - Remember: be worthy.
- Heather. - Hey.
- Have you seen Blake?
- I don't know how to tell you this...
- What?
Did something happen?
[tense music]
- Blake, he--
he doesn't want to see you anymore.
♪ ♪
- I--I didn't-- - Ellie.
You should just move on.
I know that this is a terrible thing to say,
but you have to live your life without Blake Redding.
I'm sorry.
Okay.
It's done. - She gonna be okay?
- Yeah, she'll be fine.
So you're gonna put in a good word for me, right?
- Absolutely.
I'm very close with Mason.
He takes my recommendations
for a reintroduction seriously.
You did good.
♪ ♪
- Dean Redding believes in a strong and prosperous nation,
creating unlimited possibilities
for its best and brightest citizens.
While Elaine Davis wants to live
in a country of poor, uneducated losers
and sink America's ranking
to the bottom of global competition.
If you want to continue winning,
vote Dean Redding.
- I'm Dean Redding, and I approve this message.
[foreboding music]
- Okay, you guys.
Everything's going to be okay.
Just be good to Miss Cole.
- Okay. - I love you both so much.
- I love you, too.
[somber music]
[whimpers]
♪ ♪
- You ready?
[doorbell ringing]
[knocks]
- Hey, guys. I have breakfast ready for you.
Hurry before it's cold.
- So this is our last chance at this, right?
- You're going to be fine.
I'll be unreachable for a little bit
while we get them to safety.
Once you get the information, all you have to do
is get it to Jack, and you're home free.
And no matter what happens,
Corrine and Joey are going to be safe.
We'll be seeing you.
♪ ♪
Okay, you can eat those on the way.
Let's go.
Just down here a little.
This way, guys. Come on.
[dramatic music]
Just wait here.
♪ ♪
[beeping]
[lock hisses]
Come on.
- Everything's gonna be okay.
I've got a good feeling.
- Why are you doing this?
- My map is telling me this is a faster route.
- No, I mean,
why are you helping?
- My little sister, Kelli,
uh, she was dyslexic.
Everything took a little more time.
Every day after school, I would stay and help her,
make sure she didn't fall behind.
Senior year came around, and,
you know, I got too wrapped up into partying,
and overconfident with the idea that she would be fine.
And I started to let things slip.
She was taken from me.
And not a day goes by that I don't wish
I had done more.
That's why I'm here.
- Well, if this works, no one will ever have to
go through something like that again.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[soft Muzak playing]
♪ ♪
[elevator dings]
♪ ♪
- Good luck in there.
- You too. [elevator dings]
[indistinct chatter]
- [soft laugh]
[rousing music]
- It's gonna be an exciting race, for sure.
It's really, really difficult to know who's gonna
come out on top here, so we're interested to see
how the day will play out.
[rock music playing over speakers]
[indistinct chatter]
♪ ♪
- Bathroom?
- Ma'am, this is a secure facility.
I'll have to escort you.
This way.
[beeping]
[pensive music]
♪ ♪
Miss?
The bathroom.
[crowd cheering]
[blow lands]
- If you don't want to work on the line,
then you work in here with me.
[cheering]
- Cage! Cage! Cage! Cage!
[crowd chanting] Cage! Cage! Cage! Cage!
- I don't want to work on the line.
[crowd quiets]
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪
- I'm gonna enjoy this.
Someone get ole limpy up here.
[crowd cheering]
♪ ♪
- Now this is entertainment.
- [gasps]
[breathing deeply]
[crowd cheering]
- He was faking it!
He was faking it!
- When you go down,
you're gonna stay down.
- If you go down,
I lead The Worthy.
- I never go down.
[grunts]
[both grunting]
[dramatic music pounds]
♪ ♪
[stirring music]
♪ ♪
[wind whooshing]
- [gasps]
- [distorted] Ellie Harper, you are in direct violation
of Section 6 work order.
Proceed to your workstation now.
[crowd cheering]
[both grunting]
- Come on!
- [grunting]
[sinister music]
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
- Yeah, Cage! Get him!
[laughing]
[crowd groans]
♪ ♪
- [distorted] No response? - [distorted] Nothing.
She won't get up.
[finger crunches] [yelps]
- [grunting]
I'm getting out of here!
- [distorted groan]
- [yelps] - [distorted] Take her down!
- [yelps]
- [straining]
- [distorted] Take her down. - No! No!
- [distorted] Come on. - [crying] No!
- [distorted] Lock her down. - Get off of me!
Let me go! - [distorted] That's it, guys.
Hey, back to your sector!
- Oh, my God. - [crying] No!
Stop! - Ellie.
[crowd cheering]
- [screams]
- Cage!
- Get up, Cage, come on!
♪ ♪
- [coughs weakly]
[thuds]
- No!
- Come on, Cage, get up!
[crowd chanting] Blake! Blake! Blake! Blake!
♪ ♪
- [grunts]
[blow lands] - [screams]
[screaming]
[blows land]
[blow lands]
[crowd chanting] Blake! Blake! Blake!
- The new leader of The Worthy!
[crowd cheering]
[alarm blaring]
[crowd quiets]
- It's Ellie.
[alarm blaring]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Everything you've been told about this place is a lie.
There were no killed students.
They did it for cheap labor to help Assuru make products.
- So...
there's no reintroduction?
- No.
The alarm was for Ellie.
And I can get to her.
But I'm gonna need all of your help to get her out.
- No one's ever gotten out before.
- Then this is gonna end quickly,
but I have to try.
- [sniffs]
What do you need us to do?
[rousing music]
- We just received audio of presidential candidate
Elaine Davis having a sordid conversation with a staffer.
- We have to warn you, there is some
crude language within the tape.
- Oh, come the [bleep] on, Meredith,
voters have their head up their [bleep] ass [bleep].
They shouldn't even have the right to vote, because
when they do, they just [bleep] this country up.
[laughing] Everyone between California and New York
are dumb [bleep] [bleep] for brains.
[phone ringing] It's not even exaggeration.
It's [bleep] true. [laughing]
- This is a game-changer.
I mean, this could cost her Iowa.
- Is this getting played everywhere?
[phones ringing]
- Yeah. Everywhere.
- Oh.
Whoever leaked this, I love you.
- She was very...
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
[computer beeping]
[knocking on door]
- You okay in there?
[faucet running]
Miss Michaels?
[computer chirping]
♪ ♪
- Oh, my God.
[gasps]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Blake.
- Georgina, Frank Paulsen's calling for you.
- I left something in my office.
[rock music playing over speakers]
♪ ♪
[phone message warbles]
[phone chimes]
[phone message warbles]
- Excuse me. Miss Preston?
The Governor would like to see you right away.
- Give me a minute.
[suspenseful music pounds]
[keys clacking]
- No.
He said it's urgent.
[computer beeps]
♪ ♪
- That's excellent. Thank you so much for that.
- What? - Beg your pardon?
- You told Jack you needed me for something urgent.
- No. No, I didn't.
[sinister music]
♪ ♪
- [grunting]
- Yeah, go ahead. Just take it off.
Take the whole thing off, I don't care.
- Everything okay?
- [stammering]
You didn't respond.
- I had to use the bathroom.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- Laina.
What happened to you?
- Laundry day.
- Laundry.
- [laughs] I've never done my own laundry.
- [laughs weakly]
- Go, go, go. Just--don't stop.
[indistinct whispering]
- Is the shuttle on time?
- It leaves out of Matamoros at 6:00.
- We'll make if we go now.
I'll lead the way.
[call signal beeps]
- I'm sorry, the number you have--
[phone dialing]
- You've reached Agent Joanne Morris.
Please leave a message. - This is Laina Michaels.
I need to see you right away.
[monitor beeping]
[horn blaring]
[machinery humming]
[dramatic music builds]
♪ ♪
[flesh sizzles] - [screams]
[yelping]
- [distorted] Got a worker down.
- Oh, chief, he's bleeding. You gotta do something.
- [distorted] Take him to the infirmary. Let's go.
- Production ceased until further notice.
- Watch where you're going, Freeman.
- Don't touch me, bro.
- I'm not your bro.
- [soft laugh] That's right.
'Cause you're my bitch. - Bitch.
- Yeah. - Bitch!
- Fight! [indistinct shouting]
[dramatic music]
- [distorted] Let's go, let's go!
- Take out the boys!
♪ ♪
- Seal all exits.
Code 695.
All DPC Guards report to the mess hall.
Code 695!
- [distorted] I got an injured student
here at the East Corridor.
[all grunting]
- [screams]
- [grunts]
[alarm blaring]
[both breathing heavily]
- You know what to do.
[rousing dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[panel beeps]
[door opens]
- Sorry for all the theatrics.
I don't know who might be after you.
- Blake Redding is alive. - What?
- I saw him.
Assuru Global has a remote complex
where failed students are being put to work
in some kind of labor camps.
- Who else knows about this?
- You're my first call.
- Is your theory backed up by evidence?
- Here. It's all here.
- We're gonna have to hide you.
They might be onto you already.
I need your phone, keys, wallet,
anything they might have bugged you with.
[sighs]
More importantly, your family.
Where are your siblings? - They're with a friend.
- You don't have friends anymore.
Who's this friend?
- Maggie Cole, their teacher.
She's taking them out of the country.
- How? - I don't know.
Through some kind of tunnel system to the border.
- Okay.
They're safe. We can work with that.
Do you have any other devices on you?
- That's it. - Good.
[dramatic music]
Turn around. - What?
- Walk to the edge.
♪ ♪
- Wait.
That sign says "El Toro."
We're going the wrong way.
[gunshot] [gasps]
- [screaming]
Joey!
- John.
- They found my kids.
[yelps] - [screams]
[groans]
- [sobbing] No! [drill whirring]
Please! Please!
- [panting]
- You're with Assuru?
- Kind of.
- Help!
- [grunts]
- [gasping] Blake.
- It's way harder for a coroner to explain bullets in your back
from an unmarked weapon
than an overworked employee cracking under pressure
and taking the plunge.
But I'll leave it up to you.
- [screams]
[phone ringing]
[both grunting]
[blows land]
[both groaning, grunting]
- Damn it!
- [screams]
[dramatic music pounds]
[gunshot]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- She may just handed this race over
to Governor Redding.
- Shit.
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- It's okay.
You're safe now.
We just have to hurry.
Come on.
[both breathing heavily]
- We don't have much time.
You might want to look away for this.
[pained groaning]
- Oh, no.
- [groans]
[groans] - Oh, God...
[all clamoring]
[dramatic music pounds]
[baton clicks]
- [grunts]
What are you doing?
- [soft laugh] It was all a lie.
- [grunts]
Who? Who put you up to this?
[screams] Who put you up to this?
- [laughs]
- [grunts]
[device beeping]
Redding.
♪ ♪
[screams]
- California then goes to Davis, but...
- [groans] Shit.
- It may be too late in the game.
I mean, what's happening here in the Midwest...
- Hi.
Sorry.
[rousing music on TV]
I credit a man who will correct his mistakes
and own up to them.
Governor Redding is that kind of man.
- BNC can now confirm
that North Carolina has gone to Governor Redding.
[all cheering]
- Congratulations! - Thank you, Donna.
Thank you, thank you.
Barbara, thank you.
It's still early. It's still early.
- How could this have happened?
My property was stolen and you did nothing?
Where's the girl?
Has anyone found the girl?
[scoffs] I'll handle this myself.
[knocking on door]
- Is this a bad time?
[tea kettle whistling]
You have a high-tech program that can
extract data from damaged drives, right?
- For water damage?
Oh, yeah.
- Oh.
- It's 2040. It's the best we've got.
- You don't have something more cutting-edge?
- Oh, wait, I got it.
One sec.
This is the latest in fan technology.
[fan beeps]
- Clearly.
- So you've been good?
Okay, here goes nothing.
[computer beeping]
It worked.
[gentle ambient music]
♪ ♪
I, uh--
I gotta make a copy of this.
This is way too big to have on one waterlogged drive.
- Thank you, Kellan.
You're literally the only person I can trust anymore.
- Well, until Blake comes back.
- Kellan, I-- - No, it's--it's cool.
We're good.
I've, uh, moved on.
Actually, I'm really into this one coworker of mine.
It's getting pretty serious.
She's a little more into me than I'm into her,
but I'm warming to her.
- Isn't Wendy married?
- Oh, she is.
But we can trust her.
And once she sees what you've got,
she won't be able to ignore this anymore.
Or me.
[computer chirps]
All right. We're all set.
- Perfect, I'll bring it to Wendy.
- Whoa, no. No way.
They're looking for you.
Just stay here and lay low.
I'll take this to Wendy and she'll get it live.
You're, uh-- you're gonna be okay.
- Thank you.
- Oh, and whatever you do,
don't look through my browser history.
No, I need you to promise me
you won't look through my browser history.
You know what, I'm just gonna, um--
I'm just gonna delete it quickly.
Can you close your eyes?
- Are you serious? - Please.
[mouse clicking]
Okay.
See you soon.
[door opens]
[car alarm beeps]
[console beeps]
- [gasps]
[sinister music]
♪ ♪
[dramatic music pounds]
♪ ♪
[blade clicks]
[device beeping]
[suspenseful music]
♪ ♪
- Where are we going?
- Home.
[faint hissing]
- Wait!
[gas whooshes]
- [grunts]
Go for it. - Okay.
- Did she say where they were going?
[rollicking music playing over speakers]
- Georgina, what's going on?
- The drive is all that matters. The girl is of no further use.
Thank you, Joanna. [phone beeps]
- Who was that?
- None of your concern, honey. - Sir.
Sir, that was Ohio.
You're over 270. - What?
[all cheering]
- May I be the first
to congratulate you, Mister President.
- We did it?
- Yes, we did it. - We did it? We did it!
[both laughing]
We did it!
We did it, everybody! We did it!
Outstanding!
[dramatic music]
- [grunts]
- Medical staffers. Where did they go?
- [distorted] Uh, southwest corridor.
- [yelps, groans]
[groaning]
[water dripping]
Thanks. - Are you okay?
- Yeah.
Let's go.
♪ ♪
[both grunt]
[baton clanking]
- Where is it?
- [grunts] - Where is the drive?
- Go to hell.
- Where is the drive?
Where is it?
Is it with your sister?
Your brother?
'Cause that's where I'm going next.
[flesh pierces] [groans]
[groaning] - [grunts]
[pained groaning]
- [soft crying]
Oh, my--oh, my God.
[crying]
[somber dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[birds chirping]
[suspenseful dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- [panting]
[dramatic music pounds]
- Go.
- Hey, Marvin, did you get an ID
on the car-bombing victim?
- Wendy.
- Oh, my God...
[somber music]
♪ ♪
- We just received word that Senator Elaine Davis
did call Governor Redding to concede the election.
- Which means that we are only moments away from
hearing the President Elect's acceptance speech.
- This is amazing.
- What a historic night indeed.
[keys clacking]
[phone chimes] - Where's Laina?
- She's coming.
- Ellie. Come on.
[grunting]
♪ ♪
[distant traffic blaring]
[indistinct chatter]
[distant phones ringing]
- Can I help you?
- I need to see Wendy Banks, please.
- Do you have an appointment, or...
You know what, I'll just go get her.
[soft music]
- [panting]
[groans]
♪ ♪
[groans] - [whimpering]
Oh, my God.
You did it. - We did it.
- Oh, my God.
- Yeah, they must have tracking devices
on all of the failed students.
- Do you know where this is?
- The coordinates. Right there.
- Kellan was right.
- We have to get this out tonight.
[dramatic music]
- Marvin, I need two vans and a chopper.
- They're all booked out. It's election night.
- Forget election night!
I need a chopper! Now!
[helicopter blades whirring]
- There's nothing for miles.
Which way are we going?
[baton clicks] - To hell!
- [grunts]
[sinister music]
- [pained grunts]
[blows land]
- [yelps]
[panting]
♪ ♪
- [gagging] - This time...
you'll die for real.
- [coughing, gagging]
[helicopter blades whirring]
- [growls]
- [grunts]
- [gasping, coughing]
[triumphant music]
♪ ♪
- I'd hate to be Elaine Davis right about now.
- [chuckles]
So I implemented a few last-minute changes
to your acceptance speech. Here you go.
- Changes? - Uh, yeah.
Georgina's team requested that
we omit your son from the speech.
I'm sorry, she found it too macabre.
[phone chimes]
Excuse me.
Carl--Carl, what's up?
We're about to go on.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow-- slow down.
What?
[country music playing over speakers]
I'll call you back.
[phone beeps] [remote clicks]
- We're getting breaking news, folks,
right here, live, at the BNC.
Blake Redding is alive.
I repeat, Blake Redding is alive.
- Blake?
- We're gonna go live to
a helicopter in the Texas desert
and you will see Blake Redding is there...
- What is this? - I--I don't know.
- This isn't very funny. What is this?
- Calm down, sir.
- Somebody tell me what the fuck is going on!
- ...and the legitimacy
of the entire thinning program.
- Dean.
Dean?
It's time to make your speech.
Just go out there and smile for the cameras.
[brooding dramatic music]
You're on, Mister President.
♪ ♪
- You guys, check the fire escape.
Out there in two, three minutes, got it?
[somber music]
[horn honking]
[tires screech]
♪ ♪
[distant sirens wailing]
- [laughs]
[stirring music]
♪ ♪
- Thank you.
- [exhales]
Hi.
- Hi.
- From this moment,
united, determined,
we move forward together.
- I've worked in PR my entire professional life.
There is no way we can spin this.
- We don't have to.
- Look, I don't mean to be a downer, here,
but all of this is extremely illegal.
- Not anymore.
[phone beeps] [line trilling]
Advanced systems.
Give me the list of everyone who has ever opposed the thinning.
We can't break the law, because now
we are the law.
[stirring opera music]
[woman singing in foreign language]
♪ ♪
[tires screech]
♪ ♪
[sirens wailing]
- Moving in. Moving in.
Blake Redding.
Laina Michaels. - Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa!
- Ellie Harper, you're all under arrest.
- No, stop, stop!
[sirens wailing]
[muffled sirens wailing]
- Where are they taking us?
This doesn't add up.
- Assuru already had access
to everyone's locations, cameras, keystrokes.
[foreboding music]
They had to go through the courts to spy on a civilian.
It'll only take the wrong person in power
to end freedom as we know it.
- We have to stop them.
- I don't think we can do--
[metal crashing] [all screaming]
[metal squealing]
[loud crash]
[gasps]
[soft brooding music]
[metal crunching]
- [groans]
[metal crunching] [metal clatters]
♪ ♪
[coughing]
- Come on. - Jack?
- We gotta go.
- Who are you?
- I'm FBI, come on.
There we go.
We gotta go, now.
- Where?
- We're going to war.
[dramatic music]
[dramatic music pounds]
♪ ♪
[foreboding music]
♪ ♪