All language subtitles for Room.104.S03E12.The.Specimen.Collector.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-NTb

( music playing )

( cell phone ringing )

- ( ringing )
- Ohh.

Hey. ( laughs )

No. My flight was canceled.

Now I'm gonna
have to stay overnight.

Well, just tell Roderick
not to worry, OK?

I sent the specimen
via charter,

they should be
getting there tomorrow.

Yeah, no, I think the investors
are gonna be really thrilled.

We got some great additions
for the new wing.

Well, he should be happy.

Yes, he should think
it's worth it, because I don't--

( sighs ) Yeah. That's fine.

I'm just exhausted.

Finally had a shower, though,
and that was heaven. ( laughs )

No, I'm just tired
of the same old thing.

The investors
will be pleased,

I just wanted to find
something special...

Yeah, I'll take some time off
and we can finally...

( continues, indistinct )

( continues talking,
indistinct )

Just hold them off
until I get there,

and no, I don't trust you.
OK? Bye.

( lightly snoring )

Mmm.

Hmm.

OK. Huh--

( whimpers )

What--

( panting )

( panting )

- ( thud )
- Ow.

Ow.

( grunts )

( sniffs )

Hmm.

Holy shit.

( laughing )

Oh, my God.

( laughing )

( phone ringing )

( ringing )

( ringing )

( ringing )

Hello?

Oh. Right.

Wake-up call.

Um, actually,

I-I'm not gonna be
checking out today.

Ah... Well, I'm not sure.

How-- How long
can you give me?

The what? The Ren Faire?

People actually come for that?

Uh-huh.

Yeah, no, I understand.

Yeah. OK.

Yeah. One week. Got it.

( gasps )

What are you?

( camera clicks )

( line out ringing )

Man:
Hey. You almost here?

Uh, actually,
I'm gonna be a bit longer.

- What? Why?
- I think I found something.

On your layover?

Or it found me, but yeah. Kinda.

What am I supposed
to tell Roderick
and the investors?

Everyone came in
on the weekend.

Well, tell them this
is more important than the wing.

- What do you mean?
- I'm not entirely sure yet,

but I think maybe...

( laughs ) Honestly,
I have no idea what it is.

Hey, have my specimen
arrived yet?

Yes, and we desperately
need your help

in deciphering
your shitty handwriting.

OK. Do me a favor.
Look at the crates
that they came in.

We're looking for pollen grains,
red-orange in color.

I'm gonna send you
a picture now.

Found some remnants
on my clothing.

I don't know how I missed this,

but I seem to have
brought some back with me.

It's the only thing I can think
of that would explain--

( breathing heavily )

Male Vocalist:
♪ Who do you suppose ♪

♪ I really love? ♪

♪ Who do you suppose ♪

♪ I'm thinking of? ♪

- ♪ Who do you suppose ♪
- ( cell phone ringing )

♪ I dream of ♪

♪ Both day and night? ♪

- ( ringing )
- ♪ And whose loving arms ♪

♪ I need ♪

- ♪ To hold me tight? ♪
- ( camera clicks )

♪ Everybody knows ♪

♪ I'm hypnotized ♪

♪ Every time I look ♪

♪ Right into your eyes ♪

♪ Who do you suppose ♪

♪ I'll always miss ♪

♪ Whose lips
I love to kiss ♪

♪ Who do you suppose? ♪

♪ Dear, it's you ♪

- ( sniffs )
- Ohh.

( zips bag )

Mm.

- ( knocking on door )
- Woman: Housekeeping.

No. No, no, no, no.
Hold on, hold on. No.

- Do not disturb.
- What in God's name?

Is everything OK in there?

Thank you. I'm fine.

( housekeeping cart
rumbles away )

( sighs )

( sighs )

( shower faucet squeaks )

Come on.

( gasps )

( camera clicking )

( splashing )

( phone beeps )

Oh-- Shit.

( breathing heavily )

Text Joe.

Joe. Joe, check this out.
I can't ID--

I've never seen
anything like it before.

There's an entire ecosystem
growing before my eyes.

( beeps )

- Hey.
- ( text alert )

( chuckles )

( knocking on door )

( knocking )

Oh, fuck, not again.

( rattling )

- Coming!
- What's going on in there?!

Sir. Sir. Sir, sir.

My name is Dr. Merian Wallace.

No, I'm-- I'm a scientist, OK?

What we have in this room
is a phenomenon,

- a major scientific discovery.
- Open the door.

No, sir, I cannot do that.
I can't let you in here.

- I need to continue
my field research.
- ( grunts )

What on God's earth
did you do to this room?!

Nothing. I've done nothing.

I may have trailed in
a bit of pollen,

but it's what the room did.

If you don't open this door,
I'm gonna call the police.

- No. The police are not
gonna know what this is.
- ( cell phone ringing )

OK, look, I want you
and your-- your plants
out of my motel now.

You said that I had a week.

Well, the maid said something
fishy was going on in here.

We don't tolerate vandalism,
and you're gonna have to pay
for all that damage.

Look, listen to me.

If this is about money,

I have investors who will pay
to preserve this.

- ( cell phone ringing )
- This is my colleague, Joe.

I'm gonna put him on,
and he's gonna confirm that.
Joe?

Merian, I have been
trying to get ahold of you.

Do you have any idea
what we have on our hands?

- Tell me.
- The images and recordings
you're sending me, Merian,

I've checked over
and over again,
and across the board,

I'm finding consistent proof,
spanning all of the species
you are presenting.

Proof of what?

Everything in that room
exhibits characteristics

that mimic archaic species.

- ( panting )
- Manager: What's he saying?

- Who is that?
- Don't worry.

Are-Are you saying that--

I believe the ecosystem
you are experiencing

is supporting
the reintroduction of
long-extinct life.

I-- Say that again?

Somehow this habitat
has brought species
back to life.

- Did you hear me?
- Yeah, I hear you.

Look, I've tested similar
pollen that we found on
the crates, as you asked,

with no results,
but there is something about
the components of that room

that is allowing this system
to flourish.

Merian, you could be
at the center

of the biggest
scientific discovery
of our time.

- We have to tell Roderick.
- No.

Joe, I gotta call you back.

Sir, listen, I work for a very
heavily backed natural history
museum and trust.

You give me some more time
in here, I promise that you
will be compensated heavily.

- How much?
- Well--

I need somethin'.

Um...

Uh, listen, I have, um...

Here. Take--

What, four bucks?
And some weird foreign money
I can't do anything with?

All right. Here.
Try running this.

What--

Take it all, then.

I'm sorry, but please,
you have to help me.

No, listen to me!
This is very important!

You have to help me, OK?
You have to help me.

I'll get you whatever you want.
I'll get you whatever you want.

OK? Please.
( crying ) You just--

My keys. Take my keys.
It's a really nice car.

I'll get it up to you
somehow, OK?

OK! OK. You can have
till the rest of the week.

Thank you. Wait. Sir.

I have to ask one more thing.

We keep this between us.

Why? What--

We have to keep it safe.

( crickets chirping )

Tiny geniuses.

( cell phone ringing )

- ( thud )
- Ow. Jeez.

- Hey.
- Joe: Merian, you OK?

( laughs ) Yeah. I'm great.

The best.

God, Joe, I wish
you were here to see this.

I know. You get the fun part of
the job, seein' things alive.

Speakin' of which, I'm gonna
need another specimen.

Why, what happened
to the one I sent?

- It was DOA.
- What?!

Joe, do you know
what I had to go through
to get that to you?

Just send another.

No. Joe, I don't have
any of my equipment here

to do proper research, OK?
And I can't leave.

I even had to give the maid
my expedition windbreaker

just to go to FedEx for me.

But Roderick's
gonna need proof!

Joe, I don't know
what to tell you, OK?

I've sent photos.

The pollen didn't react for you,

- my specimen didn't survive.
- Merian--

I'm not taking
any more chances, OK?

These species, they don't exist
anywhere else. This is it.

This is the only place,
and now I'm even doubting

if they're gonna survive
if I take them out of this room.

Until I know for sure, I'm--

I don't want to
take them out of here.

Then what's your plan?

( stammers )
To study. To learn.

But I mean, like, what,
are you just gonna
stay there forever?

You haven't even
left the room.

- ( scoffs )
- Merian, I'm worried about you.

I can't help you if I don't
know what we're dealing with.

Will you please,
for the love of God,
call your husband?

He's freaking the fuck out.

( sighs )

Morning, Magna fugatura.

Oh, good morning,
Fem asinuscaudu Merianema.

Morning, Vinea Franklyn.

( cell phone ringing )

- Hey, Joe.
- I'm so sorry.

- About what?
- You were starting
to scare me yesterday

talking like you
might not come home,
and I had to--

It's the INH Museum
Code of Ethics--

we don't really know
what we're dealing with.

Wait, what are you
talking about?

And you haven't
even called Andy.

What if you've been
infected with something?

This is insane.

Not to mention
the rate of growth

- and patterns that--
- Joe, what did you do?

I had to tell Roderick,
and he gave them everything,

not just the pollen,
but everything.

And they quarantined our lab--

Joe, who is coming?

- ( banging on door )
- Man: NIASDI, open up!

Joe:
You have to believe me,
I did this for you.

Man: The National Invasive
& Alien Species Department
of the Interior!

We have reason to believe you
are harboring invasive species

foreign to the US
and possibly threatening!

Joe:
Just do what they say, Merian.

What?! No!
They'll take everything!

Merian, it's the government.

- Joe, they'll destroy it.
- I know.

- ( banging on door )
- Man: Mrs. Wallace, open up!

This is a matter
of national security!

Fuck you!
And it's Dr. Wallace!

- Joe: Merian, no. Merian--
- Fuck you too, Joe.
You don't care.

Man:
Dr. Wallace,
we do not want to hurt you,

but if you don't cooperate,

we will be forced to treat you
as a terrorist.

- A terrorist?!
- An ecological terrorist.

What a load of fuckhead shit!

A terrorist.
You want me to be a terrorist?

I can be a terrorist!

You come in here,
and these pollen grains

are gonna get out there
and kill all of you!

Man 2:
OK, folks,
we're gonna need a quarantine.

( panting )

Fuck. Oh, fuck,
fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

Fuck.

( indistinct
radio communication )

Ahh.

( siren wails in distance )

( sighs )

( sighs )

No. No, no, no.

Fuck. Come on.

Come on, you piece of shit.

Fuck you!

Fuck.

Fuck!

( sobbing )

( knocking on door )

( knocking )

Who is it?

Man:
Dr. Eugene Hill.

I'm a mediator.

Your mediator.

( scoffs )

What do I need
a mediator for?

To help make sure
they don't destroy this.

I want to save this
as much as you do.

I've seen your observations.

I agree, Merian.

This is important.

You don't need
a hazmat suit?

You seem to be fine
without one.

You got a cell phone?

Yeah.

I'm gonna take that
for now.

What else?

Um, I thought
you might be thirsty.

I'm surviving on bark
just fine.

Huh.

How do I know
it's not poisonous?

You don't.

Forget it, I was just--

I'll take it.

Take off your clothes.

- Say what?
- I said take off your clothes.

I need to make sure
you're not carrying
any weapons or explosives.

( clears throat )

Wow.

So, Dr. Hill,
what's your spiel?

- Call me Eugene.
- OK, Eugene.

- Dr. Eugene.
- Dr. Merian.

( laughs )

I can understand
why you're fighting for this.

This is truly astounding.

I want to help this survive.

But we have to work with them.

"Them" will destroy it.

We don't know that.

If we can prove to them

the enormity of what this is,

and that this will not
be a threat,

I think we can save this.

Do you even know
what "this" is?

Do you?

What I know is that
this environment

is recycling itself,

that these leaves
are fortifying the fungi,
providing nutrients,

and the fungi are thereby
fueling an entire species
of ancient ants

who then spread the fungi
underneath the bed
where there is no sunlight.

I know that the larvae of
an unknown beetle-like colony

is adapting into
its own subspecies
in the closet region.

The walking-fish
is pooping out
the only nutrients

that is keeping
a long-extinct
form of lily

flourishing in the toilet.

Growth is all around us.

Adaptation and codependence.

This environment
is self-sufficient--

and efficient.

I've even seen entire species
killed off in one day

because of
its own natural selection.

Well, then maybe
not all of this
is meant to survive.

But who are we
to decide that?

Look, before we came here,
forests covered most
of this earth,

just like this!

- The primordial jungle.
- Exactly.

But this is but a snippet
of that abundance,

a window into our past,
and a giant landscape

of possibility
for our future.

Look, I don't think
that all hope is lost here.

I just think
we need an opportunity
to understand this.

And can you really say
that you know what this is,
and that this is safe?

No, I can't tell you that.

Yes.

So why not let us
study it and protect it?

( sighs )

So what now?

You let 'em in.

Let me fight with you.

Let's prove to them
that this is not a threat,

and then maybe
we can create a space

where these ancient species
can survive,

and allow for this to be larger
than just this room.

( sighs ) Just don't
touch anything.

( dialing phone )

( line out ringing )

( ringing )

( clears throat )

Man:
Hey, it's Andy.
Please leave a message.

- ( beep )
- Hey.

It's me. Um...

I'm sorry I haven't
called until now. I, uh...

You know how I get.

But I think you
would understand
if you saw this place.

I-I just finally found
something special.

It's like I've been looking
for it my whole life,

and I don't know what to do.

( voice breaking )
I'm sorry.

Fuck, I'm sorry.

( sighs )

I miss you.

And, um...

I don't know when
I'm gonna be home,

but I-I think it's gonna be...

sooner rather than later. Um...

I'm getting some--
some help in here.

So, uh...

I love you.

Mm. ( sniffles )

Don't touch them.

I was just gonna
hand you some water.

I'm fine.

It's safe.

OK, look, I'll do it.

All right?
They're not gonna hurt me.

See?

Oh.

( both laughing )

Ohh.

I believe you.

I want to help.

Thank you.

Thank you.

For protecting this.

This is really beau--

( gagging )

What--

( indistinct radio
communications )

Vitals good.
Let's get them out.

( medieval music playing )

( music continues )