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(theme music)

(♪♪)

- It's absurd that you should
have to go to work at this hour.

- Well, it's just
until halley's comet is set.

It brings out the crazy
in people, you know?

(hadfield): Unhand me,
constable!

I will not be treated
as a thief.

I didn't take anything
of value.

- Uh, what's going on here?

- I confiscated some pills
from a charlatan

Who claimed they'd provide
protection against the cyanogen

From the comet's tail.

- Well, we pass through
the comet's tail tomorrow night.

- Yes, but the... The gas
will be way too diffuse
to have any effect.

He was just preying
on weak minds.

- I'll take care of this,
constable.

So, this offended you
as a citizen?

- It offended me
as a rational human being.

- Well, I appreciate
your rationality, sir.

I'll let you off with it
this time,

But no more confiscating pills.

- People just need to see that

Halley's comet is this
big snowball

That's circling around the sun

And this is our
once-in-a-lifetime privilege

To be able to see it.

- Well, it is going to be
a wonderful sight.

You seem to know a lot
about it.

- Space is an interest of mine.
I'm a scientist.

- Oh! So's my father.
What field?

- Uh, engineering, mostly.

But I'm also a rocket man.

- A rocket man?

- Yeah, low earth orbit,
mostly.

Circling the earth
every 92 minutes.

It's lonely out in space.

- What did I tell you?
People are going mad already.

(indistinct chatter)

(man): So long, world.

So long!
We're all going to die!

- It's lovely, isn't it?
- It is.

I just wish people weren't so...

- Stupid?
- Well, that's one word.

Look, I have to check out
a break-in that was reported
earlier on tate st.

(groaning softly)

- Suppose I'll see you at home.

- You will.

- Mm.

Goodnight, constable.

(hubbub)

- It's the end of the world!
- Sir, wait, let go of me!

- You have to believe me!

- Sir.
- It's the end.

- Sir.
- The end.

(thudding)

(intriguing music)

(crabtree): Just rushed up
and grabbed me, sir!

Nearly scared me to death.

He was going on
about the end of the world.

I just assumed it was another
chap gone loony from the comet.

- Any witnesses?

- Not to his stabbing, sir,
but somebody remembered

Seeing him
near king and sumach.

- Appears to have been stabbed
at least four times.

(crabtree): Sir, have a look
at his knees.

(murdoch): Yes, he was
definitely kneeling
in something.

(♪♪)

(brackenreid): Humber station
to don station, 8:15 pm.

- Humber station is just
north of bolton on the cp line.

- So, if he left at 8:15...

- He'd have arrived at
don station shortly after nine.

- And he was killed when?

- Roughly 11:30.

- So he knocked around
for a couple of hours.

Perhaps he's from here.
Do we have a name?

- No name. No witnesses.
No motive.

I've asked henry to pass
his photograph around the area.

- If you ask me,
it's all this comet madness.

The whole city's gone crackers.

Thank god it only happens
once every 76 years.

- Sirs, look at this.

- What is it, george?

- Well, it's not pertaining
to the case directly, sir.

(murdoch): "mr. Crabtree,
your skills as a creative

And original thinker
make you an ideal asset

For a project
of great importance

For the future of humanity."

- Huh.

(murdoch): "please attend
our presentation.

Convene outside the elmwood
arms hotel at noon."

Today?
- Not bloody likely.

- But, sir, it's regarding
the, uh, uh...

Future of humanity.

- An original thinker?
That's a kind way of putting it.

(sighs)
- you don't know who sent this?

- No, sir.

- Well, george, we do have
a case to solve.

- Well, I know, but--
- good morning, all.

Look, william.
This came in the mail.

- Oh, that's just like mine!
- Oh! So it is.

Ha! Curious.

- "dr. Ogden, your skills
in the fields of medicine

And psychology make you
an ideal asset

For a project
of great importance

For the future of humanity."

(julia): They want us to convene
at noon.

- You're going, then?

- Of course we are! We wouldn't
want the future of humanity

To be imperiled by our absence.

- My thought exactly, doctor.

- Oh! Look at the time.
We should run.

- Thank you, sir.

- Bloody hell, murdoch.
You're a soft touch.

- Well, I--

- Well, this is quite
the gathering.

- I recognize a few people.

- As do I.

From the university, mostly.

- George crabtree!

- Miss struthers!

Are you also considered
indispensable to the future
of humanity?

- I'm needed for my innovative
approach to applied mathematics.

- Ah! Indeed.

Ah, dr. Ogden,
this is melody struthers.

- Do you know
what this is all about?

- Not the foggiest.

And if anyone else does,
they're not saying.

(bartman): Ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you for coming.

(julia): Oh my goodness.

- Do you know this chap?

- That's mason bartman,
the philanthropist.

(brackenreid): What's all this,
then?

- The victim had been kneeling
in some kind of solution.

If I can determine what it is,
it could inform our search.

- Hence the apparatus.

- The a...

Apparatus! Yes.

Yes. Ah, pure water is
conductive, but salt water...

(electricity crackling)

Is more so.

- Bloody hell, look at that.

So, if you knew it was salt,
why not just taste it?

- Because.

Could have been arsenic.

- Genius.

So, he was kneeling in salt?

- Brine, I suspect.
Fairly concentrated at that.

- Where would that happen?

A salt lick.
He was a farmer.

Or meat packing?
Lots of salt there.

- Most use refrigeration
nowadays.

- Salt mine.

There's an old brine well up
near bolton.

Margaret's brother-in-law
used to work there.

- Bolton?

(rustling)

Bolton.

There it is.

(brackenreid): Less than
a mile from humber station.

- That can't be a coincidence.

- Probably not.

- If we hurry we can make
the 12:45.

(intriguing music)

(train chugging)

(birds squawking)

- It looks to be abandoned.

- Hm.
Doesn't seem operational.

But there were loads of fresh
carriage tracks at the gate.

- Oh...

What's this then?

- Not as derelict as we assumed.

- Looks like an elevator.

But there's no buttons.

- There's a ladder here.

(brackenreid): How far,
do you think?

(murdoch): I can't see
the bottom.

If it reaches the saline
stratum,

Could be several hundred feet.

- You go ahead.
I'll stay up here.

(mysterious music)

- After you.

(indistinct chatter)

Oh.
- Crikey.

- Names, please.

- Oh, uh,
this is detective murdoch

And I'm inspector brackenreid
of the toronto constabulary.

- Neither of you is an invitee.

- We're here on police business.

- You're out
of your jurisdiction.

I must ask you to leave.
- What are you two doing here?

- Oh! I could ask the same.

- Uh, sir, we're still not quite
sure, but look:

We've been given these lovely
pocket watches.

- Ooh! I'll have one of those.

- Ah, ah, ah, ah.
- Oi.

- Perhaps I haven't made
myself clear.

- We're on a murder
investigation.

Now unless--
- shush.

The presentation's
about to begin.

- Hm.

(mysterious music)

- Ladies and gentlemen,
ladies and gentlemen.

Thank you for coming

And welcome
to the end of the world.

(♪♪)

For 76 years, we knew this
fellow was coming.

We didn't know exactly
when or where.

The complexities of orbital
mechanics

Make such predictions
impossible.

But among them was
a low probability

That halley's comet
would collide with earth.

(indistinct whispering)

It's happened before,
more times than we can count.

The meteor that made this
was 150 feet in diameter.

The resulting crater
was 40 times that size.

Now imagine if earth
was struck by an object

10 million times as massive.

That's halley's comet.

A collision of that magnitude
would destroy

Every remnant
of human civilization.

(panicked whispering)

I wish I could say that this was
the greatest danger we face.

But with each technology comes
new and more terrible weapons.

We know too much of the folly
of human nature

To believe that we wouldn't use
them against each other

In an orgy
of self-annihilation.

So, what are we to do?

While the threats we face
are existential,

Their probability is unknowable.

But as I say,
it's happened before.

(laughter)

Laugh if you must, but this
is what I'm proposing, folks.

A repository of our accumulated
human knowledge

And those humans best suited
to its continuation.

Thanks to our benefactor,
mason bartman.

And the tireless efforts
of the team tasked with its
design and construction,

We have made such an ark here,
in the cavity

Left by this old brine well.

Each of you has been chosen
for your skills and expertise

In not just maintaining
the human species,

But of society itself
and accumulated knowledge.

These are more than
just party gifts.

In the event of a sudden
catastrophe, an alarm will
sound.

(alarm ringing)

Upon hearing this,

You are to return
to this facility
with your immediate family.

You will likely never get
the call,

But if you do,

The future of mankind depends
on your heeding it.

Thank you.

(applause)

- I'm not sure I want
the responsibility

Of saving humanity.

- I suspect you won't be
required to heed the call

Anytime soon.

- I suppose some of us are
not good enough?

- Well, inspector,
I'd invite you,

But you heard what he said:
Immediate family only.

- Mm.

- Thank you so much for coming.
I really appreciate--

- Ah, james!
Quite the presentation.

- George, julia.
Thank you so much for coming.

- Murdoch and I are just
here on business, apparently.

- I'm afraid to ask.

(murdoch): You happen to know
this man?

- Dear god.
That's kenvyn.

- Kenvyn?

- Wiley. He worked for me.

- He was found stabbed to death
last night in corktown.

- Corktown.
- Does this surprise you?

- Well, I thought
he was here last night.

I didn't know that he'd left.

Vagle, what time
did kenvyn sign out?

- He didn't. I noted his absence
as I was closing up.

- What time was that?
- Shortly before midnight.

- When did you last see him?

- Well, at supper. He was dining
with mr. Pendrick and bartman.

- That's right. About 7:00.

- Did you notice anything
unusual in his demeanour?

- It was the night before
the launch. I doubt I'd notice.

Thank you.

- He had been kneeling in brine.

- Where could this have
happened?

- Above us is 600 feet of shale
and limestone

But flowing over that is
the humber river.

Water gets in.
It's rare, but it happens.

Is it important?

- I don't know yet.

- Well, my team
is at your disposal.

How can we help you,
detective?

- Now that our victim
has a name,

I suppose I'd like to know
more about him.

- Well, all my personnel files
are kept in the library.

Come with me.

- Mr. Pendrick,
um, why a brine well?

- Well, no excavation
was necessary.

We simply moved into
an existing space

And salt is an excellent medium
for long-term storage.

And being 600 feet deep,
we're insulated

From the effects of any calamity
that may occur on the surface.

(julia): This is your library?

- To save space, all documents
are filmed and then projected.

These cabinets contain all
current scientific publications,

Plus an assortment of
the great works of literature.

I'm afraid your respective
works have not been included

In spite of their obvious merit.

In your case, a crime-solving
manual would be unnecessary

In a society without crime.

- Wh--
- is that why william
wasn't invited?

- Indeed.
Although a moot point,

Given that he would be included
as a member of your family.

- Ah.
(brackenreid): Where does
that leave me?

- I'm sorry, tom, but,
um, friendship alone

Cannot be a determining factor.

- But crabtree makes the cut?

- Well, george crabtree
sees things that others don't.

He thinks outside the, um...

- Realm of sanity?

- Outside the box.

- The bloody box? What box?

- The box that holds the way
everybody else thinks.

- Exactly. Well put.

- Sir, I just felt a drop.

(murdoch): Oh, yes.
Look at this.

(brackenreid): Is this where
he kneeled, then?

- I believe so.

And if it was,

Then it was likely...

- How do you know
what he was looking for?

- Well, this one is out
of place.

"modern technology quarterly,
spring 1906."

- Allow me.

(whirring)

- Seems the entire issue
is dedicated

To the mechanized dispersal
of liquid aerosols.

- Ooh.
It's a page-turner.

- So why was wiley looking
at it?

- I have no idea.
Excuse me, gentlemen.

(whirring)

Huh.

Kenvyn had a master's degree
in biology.

He lived in parkdale.

- His ticket was
for the don station.

- He likely wasn't going home,
then.

- Oh! He was studying under
dr. Henry sandford.

- Someone you know?
- Well, I did know him.

He died a few years ago.

He was working
on a plague vaccine.

- Sandford.
- I've heard it's back.

In india.
Maybe china?

- Listen to this:
An ernestine sandford

Reported a break-in
at her father's lab

At 43 tate st.

- When was this?
- 9:35 last night, sir.

- Maybe that's what
wiley was doing in corktown.

- I was fetching coal from
the bin

When I heard someone rummaging
back here.

They must have entered
through the window.

- Did you get a look at him?

- I didn't see him at all.

I went back into the house
and telephoned the police.

When I returned, I found
the tarp has been pulled off
my father's desk.

His journal was opened
and this box was here.

- This appears to be
a lab journal.

(murdoch): This looks like
it's been in a fire.

- Why would someone be
looking at these?

- No idea. I didn't follow
my father's work.

- Your father was researching
the bubonic plague?

(julia): Pneumonic, actually.

- Is there a difference?

- Uh, bubonic is spread
by fleas.

Pneumonic is transmissible
between humans

And, in this case, rats.

Oh, my goodness.

- What is it?

- There was an accidental
outbreak.

Rats in separate cages
became infected.

- Aerosol transmission?

(julia): That's unusual for
the plague.

- Perhaps it was a new strain?

- The speed of infection
suggests a transmissibility

Equal to or greater
than the measles.

- My goodness.

You can get the measles
from someone across the street.

- He's left instructions that
these vials be burned in a kiln.

- Why not do that himself?

- Perhaps he realized that
he was infected.

- That must be it.

He never told me.

I found the body and he left
instructions to be cremated.

- He took his own life?

- I never knew why until now.

- He's highlighted a sequence
of numbers here.

What are they?

(julia): Ga-1731

Through to ga-1738.

Those are the vials he's
instructed to be incinerated.

- These have been incinerated,
but the numbers don't match.

Perhaps the wrong batch
was incinerated?

- So what happened to the vials
containing the plague?

- Is that why mr. Wiley
was looking at schematics

For aerosol dispersal
mechanisms?

- William, the pneumonic form
of the plague is 99% fatal.

- It seems someone has created
a way of releasing a plague

That would wipe out humanity.

- Perhaps it is
the end of the world.

(dramatic music)

Ia): Here, look at this.

- This is what
he was looking at?

- Or one just like it.

- The entire issue is
dedicated

To pressurized liquid dispersal
mechanisms.

- For what purpose?

- Artificial pollination.

- Fragrance.

- Paint.

- Paint?

- The point is one of these
could be used

For the rapid dispersal
of an aerosolized plague.

- So what you're saying is that
there's some nutcase out there

Hellbent on wiping out
humanity.

- I honestly don't know
what is happening, sir,

Only that we've discovered what
mr. Wiley himself was seeking.

- So was wiley killed
by someone trying to stop him

From releasing the plague?

- I would think it was
the other way around:

That he was trying to stop
his killer from releasing
the plague.

- How's that?

- Well, here he's been stabbed
several times

And instead of finding himself
help, he comes to me

To tell me that
it's the end of the world.

- You think he was trying
to warn you.

- Given the potential peril,

We should assume
the threat remains.

- If the intent is to release
a plague,

Wouldn't it also come
with a plan to survive it?

- The ark.

Is pendrick behind this?

- Impossible.

- Kenvyn wiley worked with
dr. Sandford.

He also worked on the ark.

- I'm not denying
the coincidence of it, murdoch.

Or the logic. I simply find it
beyond contemplation.

- Who knew of the ark project?

- Couple of hundred people.
It wasn't a well-kept secret.

- Which of the invitees knew?

(sighs)

- I have no idea.

None were told before
the launch,

But word gets around.

- Who originally
conceived of the ark?

- I did, I suppose.

- When?

- Three years ago or
thereabouts.

- Could you be more specific?

- If necessary. Why?

- Because we're bloody asking,
james!

- The outbreak in dr. Sandford's
laboratory

Occurred in June 1907.

What we would like to know
is if the idea of the ark

Arose subsequent to that.

- The discussion was first
broached on the pendrick parlour

Early in the fall semester.

Someone posted a calculation
of the probability

Of halley's comet colliding
with earth.

It stirred a vigorous discussion

In which I was
an active participant.

Oh, dear god, murdoch.

Was I manipulated?
Have I been duped?

- Who else took part
in this discussion?

- Mason bartman is the only one
I knew by name.

Most people preferred
pseudonyms.

- Is there any record
of these discussions?

- Yes. The parlour
is closed,

But most of the exchanges
in the public forum

Have been archived.

I'll have a portal
delivered immediately.

- Sirs.

- What have you, george?

- I've been going through
dr. Sandford's research;

A familiar name came up.

- Well, spit it out, crabtree.

- All this plague research

Was funded by mason bartman.

- I'm a philanthropist,
detective.

I give to dozens of charities.

- Why plague research?

- Is that a serious question?

Bubonic plague has devastated
the poor countries of asia.

And, if I'm being serious,

I was fearful of the outbreak
reaching canada.

- Is that why you funded
the ark project?

- It's one of the reasons.

- Whose idea was it to build
this ark?

- For all I know, it was mine.

I'm a fearful man,
detective.

I fear for my family.

I fear for myself.
I fear for...

We fly through
the comet's tail tonight.

Scientists predicted that
cyanogen would poison us all.

- Apparently that won't happen.

- Perhaps,

But I'll be spending tonight
in the ark with my family,

Just in case.

- Sir, I think
I've found something.

- Thank you for your time,
mr. Bartman.

- Yes, sir.
- Good day.

- I've been through
the pendrick archives.

- Did you find any relevant
discussions?

- I did and then I went further
back and I found an exchange

You'll definitely be interested
in between two people:

"cat lady" and "lmn 899."
lmn writes:

"population growth is
an exponential function.

Humanity may be the pinnacle
of evolution,

But it is a cancer on
the natural world."

Cat lady responds: "well,
perhaps a cull is in order.

What percentage do we
eliminate?"

Lmn: "I say we go back
to day one."

Cat lady: "make it day two.

We'll need an adam
and an eve."

Lmn: "h-a, h-a, h-a."

- What is a--

(laughing)

- "we'll need an ark, too, if
we want to ride out the storm."

- What date was this exchange?

- Sir, August 12, 1907.

- So about a month before
the purported ark discussions.

- Cat lady then writes:

"well, adam, it's a big job
we have ahead of us.

How do you propose we go about
killing everybody but us?"

And here's the clincher, sir.

He writes, "well, eve.

Pneumonic plague is
99% deadly.

I'll take care of that.
You start building the ark."

- Oh, we need to find
those two.

- Sir, I have no idea
who lmn 899 could be,

But I used to work
with a woman

Whose parlour name was cat lady.

- Your pseudonym is cat lady?

- Yes.

I like cats.

Oh my god.
I remember this.

- Mm.

You're discussing
using pneumonic plague

To wipe out humanity.
- Yes.

But we weren't serious.

You can't think this
represents an actual plan.

It was a flirtation.

With a perfect stranger.
It was...

Fun to be so wicked.

For god's sakes!

We're talking about the death of
almost two billion people.

You can't think...

I know nothing
about plague science.

- But you knew about
mr. Pendrick's ark project.

- Yes. But I didn't know
I'd be included.

- Who is lmn 899?

- I don't know.

That's the truth.

- Lmn eight double nine.

- Could it be a telephone
number?

- Or a name?
- What kind of name's that?

- Well, initials, sir.
First, middle and last.

Uh, uh, lucy maude...

Nontgomery.

- And the numbers? 899?

- A birth year? Month?

- September '89.

If that is it, well the bugger
should be easy to find.

Well, get cracking, crabtree!

- Just a moment.

George, say it again once,
quickly.

- Lmn 899.

(intriguing music)

Try it now.

(crabtree): Lmn 8, 99.

Eliminate 99. As in percent.

- That's it. It's got to be.

Eliminate is our man.

- Yes, almost definitely,
but he'll be difficult to find.

- Eliminate 99 was likely
an invitee to the pendrick ark.

That should narrow the range.

Look into everything
eliminate has ever written

On the pendrick parlour.

- I can help.

- August 10, 1907.
Is this his first message?

- Read it.

- The problem's mathematical.

All population growth
is exponential.

It will double per unit time

Until it encounters
a constraint.

In the case of bacteria
that constraint is often

The death of its host.

- And I write back,

"that's kind of like us.

Body is to bacteria as earth
is to us.

It's scale symmetry."

- Scale symmetry?

- Yes! I was trying to impress
him with my cleverness.

- Effie!

I'm sorry.
I should have called.

- There's been a change
of plans?

- You could say that.

- Constable!

Constable!

You must do something
about this!

- See the comet through
a telescope.

59 cornwall street.
What's the problem with that?

- It's my telescope.

My address!

- This is fascinating.

Is this a reference
to the doubling penny wager?

- Yes.
- The what?

- It's an idea meant
to convey the concept

Of exponential growth.

- Would you rather have
a million dollars,

Or a penny which doubles
every day for a month?

- A million dollars.

Surely that's--
- the same.

- But a doubling penny
would take--

- It takes a week to reach
a dollar.

Another week takes you
to a hundred bucks.

- Times a hundred each week.

- So the third week would go
from a hundred to...

10,000. And the fourth...

A million.

- 10 more days
and you've got a billion.

How much longer to reach
two billion?

- One more day.

- Thanks to modern medicine
and agriculture

We're doubling every
50 years.

In a hundred years, we could
have seven billion people.

- Seven billion!
That's hardly sustainable.

W-we'd starve to death first.
There's your constraint.

- Want to make the world livable
for another 10,000 years?

Go back a few weeks.

- It's logical.

Completely barmy,
but logical.

- All right, listen up.

You're all on private property
and need to disband immediately!

(indistinct chatter)
oi!

Whoever's still here
in 30 seconds

Will be wearing these tonight.

If you'd like to live
your final moments in a cell,

I'd be happy to oblige.

(chuckles)

(intriguing music)

What on earth is that?

- Yes.
This is definitely one.

- There's a triggering device
set to release it at midnight.

- Right after the comet
is due to set.

- The two chambers allow
for the rapid compression
of contents

Before it's released
as a fine aerosol.

The droplet size is 20 microns.

- Just one droplet inhaled
could start a pandemic.

- Mm-hmm.

- So the vial itself
isn't pressurized then?

- Mm-hmm.

- William.

Please be careful!

(suspenseful music)

- Ga-1735.

This is one of them.

- We need to get it
into a kiln right away!

There's one at the university.

- Henry, notify every
station house.

Each constable in this city

Needs to be on the lookout
for these.

There are seven remaining.

They all need to be found
before midnight.

Hurry!

- Sir.

(alarm beeping)

(dramatic music)

- The plague must have
been released.

- We should hurry.

- Someone at the ark
was alerted.

- Give us a moment, james.

- 'course.

- I can't go.

- I'm not leaving without you.

- Julia, you have to.

For susannah's sake,
you have to.

(soft music)

It's all right.

- Who triggered the alarm?

- I did.

I thought a plague had been
released.

- And how did you find out?

- Mason bartman arrived
with information

I should have received
from you.

- You overstepped
your authority.

- I had no knowledge
of your whereabouts.

As head of logistics, it was
left to me to make the decision.

- It was a rash decision.

The plague has not been
released

And we've identified
the culprit.

- Well, who is it?

- He goes by "eliminate 99."

- That's not a name.

- We've already discovered
one dispersal device

And the entire constabulary
has been alerted.

I'm confident
we'll find the others.

- Hm. Indeed.

And how confident are you?

- More confident than
I am in you at the moment.

- Very well.

If that is your evaluation,

Then consider
this my resignation.

- Oh for god sakes! Ian!

Ian, I misspoke.

(sighs)

It's 10:30.

We have an hour and a half.

Let's not waste it.

(phone ringing)

(henry): Sir?

Somebody rented out
a cargo hold.

- Of a ship?

- Claimed it would be protected
from the cyanogen.

- And was there a disperser
on board?

- They found it
in the air intake.

- Good lord.

And the vial?

- Ah, taken to the university
as per instruction.

- Very good.
Which serial number?

- Ah...

Ga-1737.

- Very good, henry.

Um...

Get back out there.

- Sir.

- 37...

(rhythmic music)

(laughter)

♪ it's the end of the world
lord lord lord ♪

- You check that direction.
I'll head over here.

♪ it's the end of the world
dear lord ♪

♪ well it's the end
of the world ♪

♪ lord lord lord ♪

♪ it's the end of the world
dear lord ♪

♪ there's a comet in
the sky ♪

♪ coming down on us ♪

♪ raining down a poison
from above ♪

♪ we done wrecked this
old world ♪

♪ so we got to pay the price ♪

♪ of fire and death
from above ♪

(exclamation)

♪ alrighty, now ♪
- ♪ lord help us ♪

♪ help us indeed ♪

♪ it's a-comin ♪

♪ no stopping it ♪

♪ help us, now ♪

♪ ooh lordy! ♪

♪ any day now
it's a-comin' ♪

♪ all right coming round ♪

♪ raining hellfire ♪

♪ won't you sing along ♪

♪ well it's the end
of the world ♪

♪ lord lord lord ♪

♪ it's the end of the world
dear lord ♪

♪ there's a comet in the sky
coming down on us ♪

♪ raining fire and poison
from above ♪

♪ let me tell you all
about it ♪

♪ we done wrecked
this old world ♪

♪ so we got to pay the price ♪

♪ so the fire and death
from above ♪

♪ yes indeed ♪

♪ well it's the end of
the world ♪

♪ lord lord lord ♪

♪ it's the end of the world
dear lord ♪

♪ say it again ♪

♪ it's the end of the world
dear lord ♪♪

- I don't believe it.

- George, you have to see this!

- Adam ivy.
Password, tesla.

- It's pendrick.

Eliminate 99 is pendrick!

- What?

- I think we should start
at the beginning.

(crabtree): Yes, please.

- Eliminate 99's first chat
was August 7th,

But I remember chats
from before,

So I conducted a search
for specific words he used.

- Clever idea.

- And we found this name.

- Before he was eliminate 99,
he was adam ivy.

- Isn't that a plant?
- Yes.

And mr. Pendrick had one
in his office.

- And that's why you think--
- shh!

- So I checked and every one
of his posts

Came from inside pendrick
headquarters, executive suite.

- Still.

- So I was able to reverse
engineer the passcode.

- And it was tesla. So?

- Tesla was the name
of pendrick's dog at the time.

- Coincidence?

- Yes, it has to be.

- What was your passcode?

- Violet.

- Who's violet?

- She was my dog.

But this is pendrick
we're talking about.

I mean, he... He's trying to
save humanity, not destroy it.

- Unless this is his way
of saving humanity.

- This is testable.
What was pendrick's passcode?

(beeping)

(crabtree): My god.
It can't be.

- What is this?

- Where was it?

- The academy theatre, sir.

Take a look at this.

It seems every disperser
we've found

Had some connection
to halley's comet.

- I suppose that's where
the crowds are.

He's a little too clever
for his own good.

Right, then.

So, we're only looking for
things related to the comet.

(murdoch): That's right.

- Sirs, I've got some names.

Both the cargo hold
and the observatory

Were rented
by mr. L. M. Nate

And hugh manetti.

- Well, let's look 'em up
and bring them in.

- You won't find them.

If you say both names quickly
you get,

"eliminate humanity."

- I really want to get
this bugger.

- I don't know what to say.

I'm astonished you'd think me
capable of such a crime,

Let alone carrying it out.

- So you're not adam ivy.

- No.

- His posts came from
the executive portal

Using your passcode.

If not you, then who?

- Anybody on the executive floor
had access.

- Well, the critical point
is that he worked

For pendrick enterprises
on or before July 1907.

So who's here now
that worked for you then?

- There would be several.

- Mr. Vagle.

- Can't be him.
He just left in high dudgeon.

- Ian vagle.

Initials I.V.

- Right. But then adam?

- We should check
his personnel file.

- Right.

(suspenseful music)

(james): My god! It is him.

- And he earned his biology
degree the same year as wiley.

- It was vagle who convinced me
to invite you to the ark.

- I always thought
he fancied me.

- But he just left.

- Well, maybe he knew
we'd be on to him.

- No signal.
He's cut the lines.

- We'll make the call from
humber station.

- The elevator's not working.

- He's shut us in!

- Well, there's this ladder.

- It's 600 feet straight up!

- I'm claustrophobic.
I can't do it.

- I can.

- Excellent.
- I'll go with you.

- Seven out of eight.

Only one more to go.

- It may as well be
a hundred if we don't find it.

- So what now?

We've checked every
comet-related event.

- We expand our search.

(sighs)

Ah, if only we knew
who was behind this.

- Have you talked to pendrick?

- I've tried calling
but I can't get through.

- If they'd found something,
they would've told us.

(panting)

(grunting)

- Are you okay?

- Um, I'm all right.
I'll be right there.

- Okay.

(brackenreid): Thank you.

That was station house five.

They've sent constables
down every street

Looking for gatherings.

Nothing.

- I've heard the same from
station houses one and three.

- Look, murdoch, the last train
to humber station

Leaves in 15 minutes.

Save yourself.

- I'm not going anywhere, sir.

- We just got a telegram from
humber station.

It's a message from george.

(murdoch): Culprit ian vagle.
Stop.

Bought ticket to parkdale
at 10:17.

Address 1201 queen street west.

- Do you think he's been
here already?

- Sir, look.

- Clock's about
to strike midnight.

- The vial's been removed.

- Sirs, the landlady saw vagle
leave about a half an hour ago.

(city hubbub)

- Oh! Look at that.

(murdoch): We pass through
the tail tonight.

- With a bit of luck,
that'll kill us before
the plague gets us.

- Look, it's george.

- We got the first train
we could.

(brackenreid): Vagle was gone
when we arrived.

- He took the plague vial
with him.

- I think I know where
he's gone.

The roof of
pendrick enterprises.

We used to have lunch there.
It's his favourite place.

- Murdoch, you take
miss struthers and check it out.

We'll get copies of his photos

Out to all the other
station houses. Come on.

(soft music)

(murdoch): Hold it right there,
mr. Vagle.

- Ian! Don't.

- What are you doing here?
I locked you in!

You shouldn't be here!

- Hand me that vial
and we can all walk away.

- You don't understand.

We're a cancer.

We'll destroy the planet
and then ourselves.

It's inevitable!

- It's not! Look at me.

No children.

Maybe that's our future.

- If you release the contents
of that vial,

Then it's all over.

For everyone.

- I can still be eve to
your adam.

We can go live on
an island.

- You know it's too late
for that.

Stand back.

(dramatic music)

- I don't want to die.
Not like this.

(♪♪)

- No!
(gasping)

- Ian, no!

(screaming)

(man): No! Get back, get back.

(soft music)

- So that's it then?
The world is safe?

- For now.

- Unless he was right.

- Right?

- Maybe we're the ones
destroying the planet?

- Well, it's our planet,
isn't it?

Besides that's for future
generations to worry about.

- Oh, my goodness.

It's beautiful.

- Look at that, susannah.

That's halley's comet.

The next time you see that
you'll be an old woman.

- And the world will be
a very different place.

(soft music)

(theme music)

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