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Previously on Talamasca...

What the hell is that?!

Something very important has gone missing.

It's called the 752.

It doesn't exist.

This is what Soledad ditched the night she died.

Encryption. Next-level shit.

Ancient vampire blood. More valuable than anything.

Have you seen these trainers?

Someone cares about you, you know.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Do not worry, my dude.

Between the two of us, I'm sure we can figure it out.

I don't think I'll like being here without her.

Don't worry, love.

You're not staying in this place much longer.

You get to go on a train ride soon.

Sorry, no fruit and nut.

Just plain old Dairy Milk.

So, what color loafers was the man in 9C wearing?

Blue suede. Left one had a scuffed toe.

Where are we going?

Oh, somewhere special.

Do they have fruit and nuts there?

They have anything you want.

What about Coca-Cola?

Bathtubs full of it.

Pineapple? Pineapple?

You'll have pineapple coming out of your ears.

When will they bring my sister?

Emma. Do you know what I was wondering?

I was wondering how many steps it was

from our taxi to the train platform.

Depends. 466 for me.

But you take longer strides, so you were 327.

I am sure you're right.

What do I do when I get to the new place?

Not more tests...

No, no, we're done with tests.

No. You'll be doing something much more important.

Come on.

Just tell me who she is.

Why do you care so much about some freaking girl?

I don't. I care about my book.

And I care when someone gets between it and me.

You know what? I'm done. You want your stupid book?

Go get it yourself. Y-You're just using me.

You know, you're right.

Sometimes I do use people.

We all do, though, don't we?

Just a matter of degree.

There are things that I want.

A life outside the shadows.

Some fucking respect. Dignity.

And I tend to see talented people around me

as tools to get those things.

I obsess. I strategize.

But there is one thing that I do not do.

I do not lie.

And I cannot stand it when someone lies to me.

Hey!

Who the hell do you think you are?

Let me go. You child! Huh?

You think you can come into my world and toss me in the ditch?

I don't know what you think happened with her.

You don't want things the way I want things.

You can't. You haven't been alive long enough.

You puppy! I walked from Bolivia to Texas.

I had nothing, I had no one.

I've told you how determined I am.

I've shown you what I'm building down here.

You know what I want to destroy.

But you don't take me at my word.

Instead, you try to get in my head and root around.

Yeah, yeah.

I felt you trying to read my mind since we left the hotel.

You think you're smooth? Think you got moves?

You have no moves. I... have all... the moves.

Say it. Say what?

You know what.

See, unlike you, I'm really good at this.

And I've been bopping around your porridge bowl all night,

and you got stuff locked up tight.

Like, does the girl have my fucking book?

But it's the primal shit

that you just cannot hide.

So go ahead, say... what you're thinking.

Say it.

Say it.

I don't wanna die.

What?

I don't wanna die.

Oh, you're not gonna die.

I'm gonna give you purpose.

No. Please.

You know, for a moment

I actually thought you were different.

But you're exactly what the Talamasca ropes in.

The same kind of venal turncoat who got my family killed.

Start digging.

Fuck you.

So if I feed you to them,

I'm gonna do it a little at a time.

Keep you in a hole as their snack forever.

And trust me, it's painful and smelly.

And it'll drive you to a madness that you cannot possibly fathom.

Far worse than what that poor soul in the hotel

was going through.

And way worse than becoming one of them.

I mean, sure, it's no picnic,

but listen to those crazy fuckers.

They're pumped. They have enthusiasm.

Theygot purpose.

You really wanna know who the girl is?

Okay. I'll tell you.

I don't know.

I've been trying to figure it out, just like you.

And that's the goddamn truth.

Doesn't matter. Dig.

Go to hell. Oh, we're already there, baby.

Hey.

Come on!

Come on.

Run!

Doris! Come on!

The door!

Holy shit.

Holy shit. What the fuck was that?

Who are you?

Uh, I'm the girl who just saved your life twice.

So you're welcome.

Why do you keep following me?

God. Don't flatter yourself.

Look, even though you have your doubts,

I'm pretty sure he's the one who had Keves killed.

Jasper? Yeah.

You think he's dead? No, I doubt it.

Okay. Well, we need to ditch this van and then get lost.

Really lost.

We? We. Yes, we.

So what?

Like the countryside? No.

Jasper has all the resources of the London Mother House.

It's only a matter of time before he finds us.

We can't go anywhere in England.

So what does that mean?

Reconstructive plastic surgery.

Sandpaper our fingerprints off.

Are you okay?

I mean... yeah.

Okay, well, we've gotta leave the country.

Yeah.

You think the Maida Vale coven might help us?

No, no, no, no, no. I don't want them.

Um...

They're way too wrapped up in all this.

Have you got anyone that you can really trust?

Yeah, maybe.

There's a rule against that in the employee handbook.

No, there isn't.

You've actually checked, haven't you?

What's so important it couldn't wait until morning?

It looks the same as before.

Mmm. It is.

I'm running a brute force script.

Could take days, months, centuries, I don't know.

Whatever it is, it's important enough

that it got Soledad Marcel killed.

But that's not why I called.

Mm-hmm. Dah-dah.

Tell a lot about a man by his shoes.

Our man with the yellow trainers.

Mm-hmm.

Tweaked some facial recognition code

to search raw camera feeds for his kicks, et voila.

You're brilliant.

Seems almost unfair for a man so handsome.

Least you got healthy gums.

It's the lab.

DNA match for a third person at the scene.

What? At Hepworth Lane? Our murder-sui?

Safe to call it a double murder now.

We're keyed directly into the city's CCTV network.

I have an entire team scraping

and searching the footage in real time.

We're inside the servers at passport control

and have agents at Heathrow,

and Gatwick, and all major rail stations.

-But... -Owen...

is something bothering you?

No. No?

Are you sure?

Then why won't you look at me?

I'd hate to think I was offending

your delicate British sensibilities.

We'll find them, I promise you.

May take a little time, that's all.

They set me on fire, Owen.

So I'd kind of prefer to find them right the fuck now.

Of course.

But even with all of our capabilities,

tracking two people in a city of nine million?

It's like trying to hear a whisper in a hurricane.

Well, I might know a little butterfly

who can cut through all the noise.

I'll be right back.

Make it quick.

You are not gonna believe this.

Straight on down through the door on the right.

Put a coin in the slot.

Can we go and talk?

We're talking here.

This isn't how we do things.

I need to know what's happening.

This is exactly how you do things.

You put people in the dark and you keep them there.

We contact you. That is the protocol.

You didn't respond.

We're a long way from protocol, Helen.

I need an exfiltration pack ASAP.

Cash, passport, airline tickets.

I'm out of the country by the end of the day.

This is ridiculous. I'm not doing this.

Sit down.

Sit down.

I need you, I need your help, and you're gonna give it to me.

I did everything that you asked. I went to the Mother House.

I got close to Jasper. So close, I almost got killed.

And now I'm in a lot of danger.

And I need to leave England,

and you're the only person that can help me do that.

What about our mission?

What mission?

There is no mission.

There are bigger forces at play

that you couldn't possibly understand, Guy.

I'm burned, Helen.

It isn't about you.

But it is about me.

Right now, it is.

And you know it.

And I know there's an empty space inside of you.

I know there's a wound that has never really healed.

I can feel it. Trust me.

And I don't know exactly what that is,

but I do know that you care about me.

And that it's hard for you to show that.

Because if you do, it might compromise what we're doing.

It might get me hurt, and you don't want that, do you?

No.

Then don't rip open a new wound

right alongside your old one.

If you don't help me, Helen, if you won't help me...

I'm dead.

The mission's off the books, isn't it?

Yes.

And I'm off the books, aren't I?

Yes.

And you're looking for something, aren't you?

Something more than just the book?

Yes.

Something very personal.

And the Talamasca Elders, they wouldn't be too happy

if they found out about that, now, would they?

If you help me get outta here, I promise

I'll do whatever it takes to help you find

what it is you're looking for, I promise you.

You need me and we both know that.

No more freelancing. No more bucking protocol.

I get you out, if you do exactly as I say.

I promise.

I'll need a day to put all the materials together.

You must stay quiet until then.

Use the safe house, you'll be out of harms way.

Why is my mom a fugitive?

What did she do to piss off the Talamasca?

Now is not the moment to irritate me, Guy.

Okay, one more thing. I need two exit packs.

I'm getting out of here and I'm taking someone with me.

Who? Doris, you don't know her.

Oh, for God's sake.

Yeah, well, she helped me, Helen.

She helped me.

And now I'm gonna help her.

Very well. Have it your way.

I have a plan. Come on.

Take only what's necessary.

Leave everything else behind.

Let us help you.

Tell me where you're going, Doris?

It's for your own good.

You'll each need a passport photo

and an alias.

Leave the photos for my associate in Lansdowne Road.

There's a Sunday Reporter box.

Tuck the photos in at knee level.

Go directly to the safe house. There's everything you need.

There's food and a change of clothes.

Once you are there,

do not set foot outside until nightfall,

the day after tomorrow.

We'll meet at Waterloo Station, platform 9, 8 o'clock.

Sure about this?

No, but it's what we've got.

-Hey, Jay. -Hey. Are you alone?

Yeah.

Something's popped up on my radar,

and I wasn't sure if I should... You know, It's sensitive.

And it could be nothing, but...

Please don't tell me this is about Helen.

Olive, we've got a serious problem with her.

I just can't make sense of what I'm looking at.

I think I need some help here.

Are you there? Olive?

Who was that?

Jay.

Jay?

It was a background check on that sector agent in Parma.

He checks out.

There's nothing out of the ordinary.

Guy's in trouble.

We need to get him out of the country.

Where is he?

He's been laying low in Maida Vale.

With the witches? On the houseboat. Yes.

Come on, let's go.

What is this place?

It's a Talamasca safe house.

Why exactly do you believe this woman?

I mean, maybe she will help you.

It's a big maybe, but why on earth

would she go out of her way to help me?

Because she promised me that she would.

And what kind of promises do you think she made to someone

like Soledad Marcel?

I don't know, I have no idea what exactly

happened to Soledad Marcel.

And neither do you.

What if she was fed to Jasper by your Helen?

What if your Helen is a mole?

That's the thing with the Talamasca.

You'll never know where you stand with them,

or how they're using you.

I don't trust the Talamasca.

No, but you trust her. Someone who's always hiding.

You're not exactly an open book yourself.

Oh, I never said you should trust me.

Why did you join the Talamasca in the first place?

Okay. So

I'm in the third grade.

Miss Rosewood's class, times tables.

And I was having a hard time remembering six times eight.

And she kept saying,

"Six times eight is 48 and ain't that great?"

And then she'd do this big exaggerated wink at me like, ah.

And it was really dumb, and it didn't help me at all.

But I had this massive crush on her.

And so she keeps doing that,

"Six times eight is 48."

And I'm standing there and I'm watching her.

And then the principal walks in,

and there was, like, this charge in the room,

and he whispered something to her.

And I just remember she turned...

and she looked right at me.

And it was a look I hadn't seen before.

Not on anybody.

It was as if all the color in my world was about to leave,

and... she was the first person to know about it.

And I just knew before anyone had told me,

that my mom was dead.

I didn't have anyone else,

so I was sent to live with foster parents.

And that was...

Um...

Hard?

It's cold.

All these years later...

I meet Helen and she tells me that...

my mother had actually been a Talamasca agent.

And that story that she had died,

was a lie made up by the Talamasca.

She didn't die. She just...

She just did something to piss 'em off.

What? I don't know.

All I know is that she's still alive

and that she's been in hiding from them

ever since that day when I was 9.

So that's why you joined?

Yeah.

To find her.

So the whole mortals versus immortals,

good versus bad, um, future of the world...

I was meant to be starting a job in contract law.

You know, I resented her?

All my life, since I was a kid.

I'd been told that she was a junkie,

that she was irresponsible and selfish,

and that she hadn't given a shit about me.

It's one thing to find out that that isn't true.

But for her?

She's been out there, all these years,

knowing that her son felt abandoned.

Can you imagine what that's like for a mother to feel that?

No.

So if there's a chance, I mean,

even a small chance that I can get her out of trouble...

I'd go to the end of the earth to do it.

What was her name?

Anna.

Anna Lemus.

♪ I was a boy

♪ With a wild imagination ♪

♪ I'd create worlds ♪

♪ With cities and with nations ♪

♪ And I like it ♪

♪ Everyone was happy as can be ♪

♪ I love the town ♪

♪ And I called it Jubilee ♪

Mm, mm, mm.

We found them.

We'll move in after sundown.

Well, plenty of clothes.

I don't know what we're supposed to do here

for two days.

Jackpot.

Hmm. Yeah.

I'd say you look like a James.

You look nothing like a Julia.

That was the first name that came to mind.

Okay, so, say you get stopped by a border agent,

what's Julia's backstory?

Well, she's a dodgy one, actually.

She followed a childhood passion for herpetology.

Herpetology?

Come on, it's the study of reptiles.

Anyway,

she falls madly in love with her hard-driving thesis advisor,

who was this Brazilian hunk

who would seduce her with his long-winded monologs,

about the Amazonian boa constrictor.

Until she found out that he was as cold blooded as the animals

he claimed to love.

And so she is off to Yorkshire to start up a lizard sanctuary.

Very good.

What about our man, James?

James?

Well...

You've heard about his, um, father,

the famous anchovy fisherman,

Fitzgerald MacArthur? Oh, of course, I'm an adult.

Of course.

And his one-legged second wife, Cora, the salty dog,

cheated on him with that intercontinental balloonist?

Oh. Chester Oklahoma. Chester Oklahoma. Right.

And how Fitzgerald was so despondent,

that he threw himself into the, uh, the blowhole

of a passing sperm whale,

leaving his young son, James, to ply his father's trade,

trolling the lonely seas to farm the one friend he ever had.

The humble anchovy. Oh.

Now here he is,

roaming the countryside in search of this woman

who started up a, um, lizard sanctuary.

I win.

Aw!

So, what now?

Well, if we go to New York, we could try out there,

but they might be looking for us.

So might be easier for us to get lost upstate.

Uh, or we can go West Coast, California, maybe.

Have you heard of Big Sur?

Guy...

It's supposed to be beautiful there.

I meant for the rest of today.

I can't do another board game.

I...

We should probably get some rest.

What? Nothing.

Pretty face, toots.

Nothing yet, huh?

Should go home, get some sleep.

Oh. Keeps me out of trouble.

At least take a break.

Maybe let me buy you some food and a pint.

Look about starved.

Oh, I wouldn't turn my nose up at a little nibble, I guess.

You're hiding something from me.

Where is it?

This is what happens when people get close to me.

Would you just tell me the truth?

We can't trust Helen anymore.

They're gonna try and flee.

Who are you?

I think I know where your mother is.

Just tell me who she is.

Why do you care so much about some freaking girl?

I don't. I care about my book.

And I care when someone gets between it and me.

In episode five, what we very quickly come to find out

is that Jasper has some plans for Guy.

You think you're smooth?

Think you got moves? You have no moves.

I have all the moves.

Now Guy has really crossed the line with Jasper,

and Jasper lets him know it.

I'm scared of Jasper. I'm scared of.

Let's be real.

It was important for us to set this scene in the basement.

It's a place that we've only seen

in which these horrible animals are either made or kept.

Now we're in revenant world.

We really are in revenant world at the start of episode five.

Yeah, we're down on this freezing floor in a basement.

I'm like, "Couldn't we do this on a sound stage with a heater?

Can I get a latte?"

Start digging.

Yeah, the cages really do work.

I have a big lever, which Nick keeps teasing me.

He goes, "You really like playing with that thing."

And I'm like, "Listen to the sound on it."

I said, "Listen, take that piece off the set,

give it to me as a wrap gift

so I can put it in my garage at home,

and I'll just lift it up and things will happen."

When Guy gets in deep trouble with Jasper

over what's happened at the hotel

and the fact that he's been keeping stuff from Jasper,

Doris jumps in to save him.

When I read it, I was... I was like, yeah,

go on, Doris.

I shot the fire myself, but not at Bill.

They had Bill here, a green screen here,

so he shot his reaction to me throwing the flame.

Then they removed the green screen and shot me

shooting the flame out of the aerosol.

And then they combined the two images together

so it will look like I am shooting the flame at Bill.

But, in fact, I'm not.

We're watching Jasper set on fire,

done by the stuntman Ben, who is...

That looks so real.

This part here is amazing.

-I mean, it is real. -Action, A!

He's got protection and stuff, but he is really on fire.

I've gone through my storyboards,

and what I want to do here is that as he goes up into flames,

he carries on, pushing away Doris

until he pushes her down the stairs.

She's going to fall down and then he's going to get hit.

He's going to go down.

It's a super dynamic, exciting shot.

And at the end,

the revenants are going to go from those cages

charging around this corner to follow.

So, yeah, it's super dynamic. It's all shot in little bits.

But in the end, it all comes together

in a gorgeous conflagration of delight.

On the next day, we had me and Guy running to the car,

all the revenants climbing onto the car.

It is a big action sequence,

and I think it's a lot of fun and violent.

Both the capture and escape of Guy and Doris

from Jasper and the revenants

is a real crescendo to this great series.

The action really comes out in full effect.

Put a coin in the slot.

I really loved that scene at Cupid's Arrow,

where we were playing in the peep show between Helen and Guy.

If you don't help me, Helen, if you won't help me, I'm dead.

I think at that point,

Helen's ambivalence about the Talamasca

has so chipped away at her inner resolve

that she is particularly vulnerable to turning.

And I love the way the scene is written,

because Guy has reached a point of maturation

where he's now calling the shots.

He knows that she's looking for her sister,

and he knows that the 752 may be the answer for her.

And so he's got the upper hand here.

Sure about this?

No, but it's what we got.

Doris is immediately skeptical

of going into the safe house from the start.

And she thinks this is potentially perilous.

But the two find themselves in this place overnight there,

and all they have is each other.

Guy and Doris have bonded together

and attached to the hip a little bit,

even though they're still wary of one another.

It kind of feels like an oasis,

a slower pace than the rest of the show.

It was nice because the characters felt very vulnerable

and like two kids.

I win.

We think that the revenants

are coming for Guy and Doris,

hopefully up until the last second,

in which we find out that that's not where they're headed.

We had four or five kills on the boat,

but timed out so that as the revenant landed on the roof,

it goes with her, flying through the air, lands,

the roof comes down into the first window,

and we see someone getting their neck eaten,

and then we see someone get slashed across the throat.

So we had, in the four windows, we had a kill on each window.

I knew that Olive was a mole pretty early on.

I was like, fantastic. Of course she is.

It makes total sense.

She is here for the bigger picture...

"What is going to get me to the 752?"

And that's Jasper.

And Jasper is alive, but he's been burned by them,

and now he's got a renewed sense of vengeance

to come after them in episode six.