Previously on "Last Light..."
This Dr. Yeats, what do we know?
He's an oil industry contractor.
-How does a contamination grow? -Because it's alive.
I developed a bacteria with a partner, Tobias Heller.
You and your best friend
wrote that shit out 25 years ago.
It was an academic exercise.
We've got, like, a day to figure out
how to turn this around
or the world is gonna change forever.
Your dad was an environmentalist?
I think we need to get this to someone in government.
His family are all that matter to him.
If we find his wife, he behaves.
He's blind! He can't see.
THOMPSON: This is James Bradford.
We've developed intel linking him to Apocalypse Watch.
That's Tobias Heller.
-(buzzing) -Why do you have this?
-I was just trying to protect you. -Time to go.
-Get your hands off me! -Time to go!
-(grunting) -(gunshot)
We need to engineer a virus.
As long as there's oil for the bacteria to consume,
it will continue to grow.
ELENA: They've taken Sam.
I'm at Folkestone Immigration Center.
-Elena! -Andy?
(crying)
Let's go get our boy.
We're looking for Tobias Heller.
He must be on TV. It's all over the country.
Karl Bergmann is Tobias Heller.
He's on the PM's task force.
Hi. You're Laura?
Can we go check on Mercy?
I want to make sure she's okay.
Sure we can. Yeah.
Laura?
Laura!
ELENA: Oh, my God.
They've ransacked the place.
All right, let's go check on Mercy.
Laura?
See? She's all good.
We're home now, safe and snug.
No, it's sleep time, buddy.
Come on, let's go.
-He went out like a light. -Good.
There's nothing in her diary, there's nothing in her planner.
I'm gonna bike over to Jill's and see if she's there.
Yeah, or if not, maybe, uh, maybe Robin's.
Robin...
-Beachwood Drive. -Beachwood Drive.
Jill, Robin.
(FaceTime ringing)
Where is that?
ANDY: What the hell?
ELENA: Laura? Where are you?
Where are you, sweetheart?
Laura, are you, are you okay?
Who is that with you?
"I have your daughter.
"You are going to do exactly as I say,
otherwise I will kill her."
You will receive instructions.
Dad?
Please.
* *
-(FaceTime ringing) -Call incoming.
Number unknown. Here we go.
MI6 TECH AGENT: Coming in on Mr. Yeats' computer.
Ready in five, four...
-What do I do? -Just answer it.
Look at me if you don't know what to say.
AGENT: Ready.
(exhales sharply)
-Baby. Baby... -Laura.
"I have killed for my cause,
"but what I do I do for all of us,
"and I will keep doing it until I see real change.
"Andy, I've arranged for us to meet.
And there, the world will hear my list of demands."
Baby, are you okay?
-Tell us you're okay. -"When my demands are met,
I will return your daughter."
ELENA: Laura...
"I will text you instructions.
"And as I'm sure MI6 is listening,
"let them be warned.
It's Laura Yeats's life they play with."
Tobias, stop. You've got to stop this.
He can't hear you. It's a recording.
Smart. Can't trace his actual location.
"You will meet me alone.
"Fail to follow my instructions,
and I will not be responsible for what happens to her."
Mom, Dad.
Oh, my God.
Help me!
(crying): Help me! Help!
(Laura sobbing)
Get this off me. Get this off me.
(panting)
I'm guessing your parents just watched
your outstanding performance.
Look, I get what you're trying to do here,
but I don't see what I have to do with any of this.
You're going to help me correct your father's thinking.
You don't know my father.
Well, I know that when it comes to what's really important,
he's got his head in the sand.
And when it comes to listening to you
and what really matters,
he's just not engaged, is he?
That is none of your business.
You're a very dynamic young woman, Laura.
Capable of many things. Your dad ever tell you that?
What are you doing here?
Everything we can.
And we're running out of time.
What do we do, Andy? I don't know the right thing.
We have to do what he says.
You can't go on your own.
What choice do we have?
I'm scared.
I know.
So am I.
We should go together.
I'll come with you.
I know you would.
But we have to think about Sam.
Andy, you'll be wearing a device.
We'll be tracking you the whole time.
Can you guarantee that he won't detect it?
No, I can't, but I can guarantee that without it
he'll have complete power to do whatever he wants
to you and your daughter.
-And you heard what he said. -I heard him say come alone.
He shut down the whole world.
This is not a man to underestimate.
I'm not underestimating him.
Show me the tracking device.
Go ahead, try it.
I'm not hungry.
It's all living food, just the way you like it.
So you've been spying on me, too.
It's all over your livestream.
I like to follow all the young voices of the movement.
You're our future, after all.
We're not in the same movement.
You're a terrorist.
I'm not a terrorist, Laura.
What's being done to our planet,
now, that's terrorism.
Do you think I'm being overly dramatic,
or do you agree that we're there?
You know what I'm talking about, don't you?
Tipping point.
Yes. The point of no return.
With what you've seen with your eyes,
read in the science, are we there?
-Maybe. -Maybe?
-Yeah. -Yes.
And people like us have been shouting alarms for decades.
We've marched, we've rallied, we've thrown red paint.
We laid down across motorways
and runways, and what has really changed?!
The first Earth Day was in 1970,
and since then things have only got worse.
I need you to understand, Laura, that what we're doing...
it's the only way.
It's the only way to wake the dead.
And I didn't say that, you did.
When our group's actions grounded flights worldwide,
we effectively killed the aviation industry.
That's a CO2 emissions reduction of...
That's over a billion tons.
Yeah.
-Huh. -Over a billion tons.
Probably easier to eat, huh?
Good?
I trust you, Laura.
I trust that you understand, here,
that what we're doing
is the only way.
And it's worth dying for.
* *
We're all in position, sir.
He'll figure this out eventually, but until he does
it will keep you close.
You understand his first instruction?
I have the address.
That's just what you'll do, nothing more.
No heroics, Professor.
And don't worry, we'll be right here
watching over your shoulder.
(over comm): Team two and three, get in position.
Yeats is two minutes from the first location.
Let's go get him.
You're not gonna hurt him, are you?
No. I'm trying to help him.
He's not the enemy.
Your dad works for one of the most destructive industries
the world has ever known.
I'm not telling you to hate your dad, Laura.
I'm merely telling you the truth.
RUBY: Ready, sir.
I know this place.
THOMPSON (over comm): I'm in position under the arch.
Andy?
Yeah.
Andy Yeats, right?
(chuckles) Oh...
It's been a long time.
Welcome to our end of the world party.
Bill, right?
Yeah, that's me.
Pints on the house for old time's sake.
Did you know that I was coming?
A mate of yours come in the pub yesterday.
Don't recall his name. Um...
Guy with a temper.
-Tobias. -Yeah, that-that's-that's it.
Anyway, he said you might be dropping by,
to give you this.
Cheers.
TOBIAS (over comm): Andy?
-Yeah, I'm here. -Andy, how are you?
-It's been what? -It's been a while.
What do you want me to do?
-See if you can get a lock on that signal. -We're on it.
TOBIAS: I thought you'd appreciate being back in our old spot.
ANDY: Very romantic.
But you remember all our times there?
What we talked about, what we came up with?
What difference does it make?
I need you to remember, Andy.
We talked about a lot of things, Tobias.
Yes, we talked and we did the math
and we planned, didn't we?
Look, I, I need to talk to my daughter.
And I need you to remember, Andy.
So does Laura.
Just to make sure nothing happens.
No, don't-don't do anything. I remember.
I know why you brought me back to this place.
Yeah.
We were supposed to meet here that night.
Yeah.
And I didn't show.
It was a fucking bad idea, Tobias.
It still is.
Just, just tell me what I got to do.
He's coming out. Stay on him.
Andy's on the move.
Shut them down.
-Wait, what's happened? -Checking.
Malware attack, ma'am. It's attacking our servers.
Well, fix it, please. Someone!
What's going on?
He's hacked into our surveillance network.
He's up ahead.
CAMERON: He could be in trouble. Don't lose him.
Team two, you got him?
STERNS (over comm): We have a visual,
yes, sir.
Why is he going so fast?
THOMPSON: He's heading east towards the river.
We'll meet him at the underpass.
(tires screech)
(grunting)
I need eyes on him now.
-STERNS: Team three is on him. -AGENT: We see him.
He's at the train tracks. We'll follow him.
Don't stop. As fast as you can now, Andy.
AGENT: He's now between the tracks.
STERNS: We cannot see him anymore.
He must have changed direction.
Where are you, Andy?
Can you see him?
I've lost visual.
AGENT: Yes, we're just ahead.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. We're back in business.
-Do you have him? -He's moving.
He stopped. His location's with you.
STERNS: I'm going to him now.
I'm on my way.
STERNS: Copy that. We'll be right there.
(scoffs)
-We lost him. -Shit.
TOBIAS: MI6 are so predictable.
You're enjoying this.
No, Andy, I'm not.
Just up ahead there's a boat waiting.
Get in.
* *
What the hell happened out there?
Do we have any leads?
Any idea where he might have gone at all?
We're expanding the search perimeter now.
CAMERON: We need to find him.
The bacteria is spreading.
Look, if we have any hope, we need Yeats
-back in the lab. -We've got a lead.
A car abandoned outside Whitehall.
We believe it's the car Laura Yeats was driving.
-THOMPSON: We have an ID? -Just came in off registration.
The owner's name is Ashford Stephen Wiles.
-CAMERON: Where's Mr. Wiles now? -He's dead, ma'am.
Fatal gunshot wound yesterday.
-You think he's involved? -Known associate:
Apocalypse Watch.
Good work. Get us that address.
Let's go.
(overlapping shouting)
Clear. Area clear.
AGENT: Let's move out.
Come on.
Sterns, anything on device recovery?
Uh, everything is encrypted.
We can crack it, but we'll need to bring it in.
-Sir? -What is it?
Something you should see.
THOMPSON: Sweet Jesus.
Bag and tag all of this.
Photos and prints. I want everything.
AGENT: Yes, sir.
Sterns, you're a football fan, right?
I try and keep up, sir.
-Go, Gunners. -Yeah, Thetford Football Club.
Uh, not a club I've heard of.
There's a Thetford Industrial Estate, but it's-it's derelict.
-Could be something from back in the day, a company club. -Where is it?
Uh, South London. New Cross.
Let's check it out. Let's go!
This way.
Where's my daughter?
Close by. She's safe.
After you.
Tobias said that you'd know this place.
THOMPSON: We have a possible location. We're en route now.
Grab the team and meet us. Thetford Industrial Estate.
New Cross SE 18.
Yes, sir. Understood.
-We're on the move. Let's go. -Where are you going?
We have a lead. We think we know where they're holding them,
and they need backup. We'll keep you informed
as soon as we know something.
Stay on location with the subjects.
Monitor the line for any new contact.
Yes, sir.
Andy!
(chuckles) Welcome back to Thetford.
I need to see her.
Of course. You'll see her in time.
But first let's have a little chat.
What the fuck are you doing, Tobias?
Targeting me is one thing, but... my family?
(sighs) Your daughter will be fine.
Did you know that there are only
a few scientists in the entire world
who can fix this crisis in time?
And two of them are standing right here.
You've done the calculations.
Well, I imagine you have as well.
We're nearly at zero hour.
The point where the bacterial load in the oil
becomes irreversible.
The fossil economy as we know it...
(exhales sharply) ...over.
So all of this was about getting me out of the equation.
To keep me from stopping you.
Well, that was the first part, yes.
Let's take a little stroll, shall we?
(shuddering)
(phone ringing in distance)
* *
(sniffling)
(gasps)
(sighs)
(dogs barking, indistinct chatter in distance)
So, looks like you're finally getting your big moment.
Our moment, Andy. It was always ours.
(indistinct chatter)
(dog growling)
Laura. Laura.
-Laura. -Dad.
-Oh, my God. -(gasps)
(Laura chuckles)
-Are you all right? -Yeah, I'm fine.
-Did they hurt you? -No.
Seriously, Dad, I'm fine. Fine... yeah.
THOMPSON: Yankee Zulu Two, this is Charlie Lima One,
approaching target site west of woodland.
CAMERON: Roger, Charlie Lima One. Target presumed heavily armed.
I repeat, heavily armed.
Approach with caution.
AGENT: Entering building now.
Move out.
Go, go, go.
Clear.
AGENT: Area clear.
AGENT 2: Spread out a little.
Is this...?
Did they go to Thetford?
Yes, ma'am. In New Cross.
No. No, that's not right.
What isn't?
What do you mean?
Mum, what is it?
They went to the wrong place.
It's not Thetford Industrial Estate,
it's Thetford Forest.
CAMERON: Charlie Lima One, this is Yankee Zulu Two.
Mission aborted. New location being confirmed. Out.
Your dad and I used to hike in these woods,
camp out right over there.
Talk for days. And beer.
There was always lots of beer, huh?
We were in school together.
A bunch of us used to hang out here.
Just science nerds with a playground, that's all.
Well, now, he's being modest.
He was brilliant, inspiring.
Laura, you might want to capture this.
Always good for social media.
See, your dad here, he knew
we were looking down the barrel
of a catastrophic climate crisis.
LAURA: So-so how did you go from knowing that
to working for the oil companies?
Now, that is an excellent question.
Don't stop filming,
I want this whole confession to be witnessed.
What was it, Andy?
Exxon? BP? Who first came calling?
And how much was the signing bonus?
We didn't all grow up with trust funds, Tobias.
I had to provide for my family. I took a job.
You're-- you're a fucking terrorist,
and you're gonna go to jail for it.
Oh, I'm not going to jail.
Isn't this something?
We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
Why don't we just get to the point,
what this is really about?
I betrayed you. Is that it?
No, Andy, that's not it.
He didn't betray me, Laura.
He betrayed himself.
Let's go.
CAMERON: Where are the team with the damn virus?
SANJIT: Patching them in now.
CAMERON: Talk to me.
SCIENTIST: We're trying everything, ma'am,
but the bacterium's cellular makeup
may as well be made of titanium.
The viruses can't penetrate.
And the bacteria keeps on growing. We need Andy.
(sighs)
You see, Laura,
your dad understood the hyper-problem.
LAURA: I don't know what that is.
The hyper-problem is the problem is too big.
-Too big? Exactly. -ANDY: Too many people.
Corporations, organizations,
all with different priorities.
And that's where the idea for the bacteria came from.
A way to align everyone's priorities.
LAURA: I don't understand.
People pull together in crisis.
So your dad came up with a crisis.
An oil-eating bacteria.
Yeah, but that was to clean up oil spills.
(exhales sharply) We were just kids.
It was an experiment, a college boy challenge.
It was never a fucking plan!
That's a lie. It was a plan.
To use the bacteria as a weapon.
He just didn't have the courage to see it through.
ANDY: Courage?
People are dying, Tobias.
How much death is acceptable for you to impose your solution?
Seven million people die each year
from air pollution alone, and we do nothing.
What more evidence will it take to convince people
of the absolute calamity we're facing?
So, show me another way. Change my mind.
Power from wind and solar has more than doubled.
The internal combustion engine is done, over.
Not-not in decades, but now.
-You're talking half measures. -No.
These are huge leaps
in turbine and-and solar capacity.
Carbon capture.
There are serious people working on serious solutions.
The world has turned a corner.
It will take radical action!
"A cause worth dying for."
Those...
were your exact words, Andy.
Yes.
I did say that.
All this time, he's been right, and you've known it.
I know you think I don't care about your beliefs.
Maybe I just... I didn't want to admit
how desperate the situation is.
I didn't want that to be the truth of the world
that my daughter is growing up in.
But it is the truth.
Yes, it is.
And I denied that.
And every time you brought it up,
I pushed it further away. I-I pushed you away.
And I'm so sorry.
But this...
what he's doing...
this is not the answer, Laura.
TOBIAS: Laura...
...don't you see?
We're just trying to finish your father's work.
(grunting, shouting)
Dad, stop. Stop.
Let him go.
Laura...
W-What are you doing?
-People are dying... -(groans)
...and you expect me to help you?!
-Fuck you! -Run!
I want them alive.
(barking)
RUBY: Head out!
(Laura cries out)
-come on, come on, let's go. -Okay.
THOMPSON: This is Charlie Lima One. Approaching new target location.
Five mikes inbound.
CAMERON: Charlie Lima One, this is Yankee Zulu Two.
Operation order changed.
I say again, operation order changed.
Shoot to kill.
I repeat, shoot to kill.
ANDY: Here. Right here.
Move out.
THOMPSON: Target location two mikes out.
Proceeding on foot.
(quietly): Hey.
-We're gonna be okay. Okay? -Yeah.
You stay here. I'm gonna create a diversion,
and then you run.
(panting)
MAN: Hey!
Hey, stay where you are!
(gunshots)
Shots fired.
TOBIAS: Andy.
No way out.
Andy.
Andy...
you're making this harder than it has to be.
Just let it go, Tobias.
You've done enough damage. You made your point.
It's not about making a point.
It's about passing the baton.
I know who you really are.
What's inside you.
(both grunting, shouting)
(grunting)
-(groans) -Don't you see, Andy,
I'm giving you the chance to redeem yourself?
THOMPSON: Drop it!
Everybody down on the ground now!
(indistinct shouting)
AGENT 2: Drop the gun! I said down!
THOMPSON: Drop it! Drop it!
Drop it! Drop it!
Drop the gun. Now!
(sniffles)
It'll all be up to you, Andy.
You know how to write the next chapter.
(gunshot)
(exhales)
(measured clicking)
* *
(clicking continues)
* *
(sirens wail in distance)
CAMERON: I thought you went home.
I did.
Family's good.
I just needed to know how it ended.
Ended? It just began.
-Tobias? -Dead.
As the martyr he wanted to be.
-Andy? -Alive.
As Tobias wanted it as well.
He creates the darkness, Andy helps lead us out.
They're partners again, to the end.
I suppose Andy was right.
Tobias was smarter than us all.
What now?
Things are gonna change, to say the least,
but the world still turns.
So...
we just carry on, for our children.
We get on with the business of what we do.
Of who we are.
What a mess we've made.
ANDY: It should have been hell.
It should have been the end of the world.
And, for a time, it was.
People reverted to their base instincts.
* *
But this is how we got here in the first place.
We'd had enough.
People decided to work together...
...to stop pointing fingers and selling lies,
and to get on with the future.
Unchained by corrupt governments and lying bureaucrats,
entire nations came together.
The collective wisdom, intelligence, ingenuity
and creative vision of every person on earth
focused on one thing:
a better tomorrow.
This is what saved us all from a new dark age.
Us. The people, unchained.
Suddenly, technology that didn't even seem possible
blossomed in the blink of an eye.
Because it was allowed to.
We realized what we knew to be true all along.
Together, we can do anything.
It's so beautiful.