All language subtitles for Jeremiah S02E01 - Letters from the Other Side (1)

Previously on Jeremiah...

Hey, Lee.

Hey!

There's a page missing
out of Simon's journal.

My position's been
compromised.

You have to
bring me in.

( Markus ): Valhalla sector
is starting to move.

They're reclaiming bases
and building up
their resources.

This might be our last chance
to put up a united front

before they come after us.

You've got to hurry.

You've been followed.
Come on!

No!

She's hurt because of you
and your god damned quest.

Stay the fuck away
from her,

and stay the fuck
away from me!

I'm done, man.

In the coming days,

we will carve out the
framework for our new country

and a new future.

( Markus ):
The desires that unite us

are greater

than the forces
that divide us.

We have made mistakes,
but we have learned from them,

and what we have learned most

is that we cannot trust
our future

to those
who can only see the past.

Hey, Dad.

I'm home.

Not even hello?

I looked for you for 15 years,

not knowing
whether you were
alive or dead,

I finally find you,
and you don't even say hello?

I love you

and I've missed you

and I've wanted to see you
for 15 years...

But I never wanted you
anywhere near this place...

Because by coming here,
you've condemned the world.

God help us both.

( Elizabeth ):
Don't blame Jeremiah for this.

Promise me.

Please, Kurdy?

Promise me you'll find him.

Okay, I promise.

I'm trying, Elizabeth.

God knows, I'm trying.

( Helicopters approaching )

Aw, sh--

It's been 15 years

since a strange disease
wiped out all of the adults

and left us kids
to fend for ourselves.

Now I'm moving ahead,

through the past.

* I Can't Let Go

* I'm Holding Hope So Tight

* It's Hard To Breathe
When the whole world falls *

* I'm Gonna Put The Stars Back
Back up in the sky *

* Let Them All Just Shine Down
I'm gonna try *

* I Believe We'll find
the world together *

* Through Your Eyes

* That's All I Can See

* I Believe
We're looking at forever *

* In A World
Where we can be free *

* I Believe

( Door opening )

Who's that?

Hey?

Jeremiah?

Markus?

What the fuck
are you doing here?

You know how you spent
the last 15 years

looking for Valhalla sector?

Yeah.

I could've saved you
the trouble.

They crashed the big meeting
in St. Louis.

They hit us
with guns, bazookas,

tear gas,
TANKS, APVs,

helicopters,
rockets,

and I'm pretty sure
at least one of them

used really harsh language.

Shit.

So did you find your dad?

Yeah.

I was right.

He was here.

But it wasn't
what you were expecting.

I don't know what I was
expecting, Markus.

I was so worried
about finding him,

it blinded me
to everything else.

I mean,
every day I would wake up

thinking,
"today's gonna be the day,"

and at night I would go to
sleep thinking,
"maybe tomorrow."

It was always about the goal.

Nothing wrong
with that.

It kept you alive.

Yeah...

But the thing is I never

thought about
what happens afterward.

You thought he'd clasp you to
his bosom, welcome you home,

you'd go fishing, and all
would be right with the world.

Yeah.

I know that sounds
pretty stupid.

Not for someone
who loved his dad

as much as you.

If I had five minutes
with my dad again,

I'd be happy
with just those five minutes.

I wouldn't think past that,

because I wouldn't care
what happened after that,

as long as I had
those five minutes.

( Footsteps approaching )

Stop pushing.

Erin?

Erin, is that you?

Yeah, it's me.

I've got a question for you.

Anyone have
any spare toilet paper

they can roll down here?

No.

God says, "you're late."

God says what?

You're late.

I've been waiting here
for almost an hour.

Look, man,
I've got enough trouble.

I don't need somebody
who thinks he's God

giving me shit.

I'm not God.
Did I say I was God?

Look, you just said--

I said, "God said."

I just pass along
what I'm told.

You want something to eat?

Thanks, but I'll pass.

Suit yourself.

You live around here?

Just passing through, huh?

Like I said,
I was waiting for you.

This is where
I was told to wait,

so this is where
I was waiting.

This is so fucked up.

Look, what's the best way
out of here?

I need to travel east,

but I don't want to take
the main roads.

It's too exposed.

I don't know.

Oh, God doesn't know
the best way out of here?

Look, if you're gonna
make fun--

Look, I'm just saying--

God knows the way out,
but I don't.

All I know is what I'm
told to say, okay?

It's not like having
my ass plugged in

to the World encyclopedia
of knowledge.

Does God know you say ass?

The reason I'm here
is to give you a message.

You want to hear it or not?

You've got a message?

Yes.

For me from God?

You wanna hear it?

You might as well
hit me with it,

then, I gotta go.

I've got people to see
and places--

God says...

He says, "stop running."

He says you're not
going to help your friend

by running to him.

If you want to help,

you have to allow yourself
to be given over

to those who are chasing you.

Who the hell are you?
Who sent you?

I told you.

Don't give me
that God shit.

Are you working
for Valhalla sector?

Are you trying
to fuck with me?

I'm telling you the truth.

I'm not working for anybody.
I swear.

You think I like this shit?

I'm just a guy like you.

I eat, sleep, dream.

I get beat up and I travel
around from town to town

selling this crap.

I'm just like you...

Except...

Once in a while,

sometimes I'll go weeks,
even months with nothing,

but then, either way...

Sometimes I get these...

Messages...

And I do what they say.

You ever think
about saying no?

Tried it.

Don't ask. It wasn't pretty.

So don't kill the messenger,
all right?

I don't have a choice.

I'm just doing a job.

( Helicopters approaching )

God says, "catch you later."

And what was it
exactly

you thought you were
trying to accomplish?

I don't know.

It was just supposed to be
a little family get-together.

Later, we were going to go
on one of those egg hunts,

but Erin wouldn't wear
the bunny suit

and I couldn't find one
that fit me,

and then,
for no apparent reason,

a bunch of party crashers

started shooting at us!

Shoot!

Cooperation
will be rewarded.

Resistance
will be punished.

Would you like
something to drink?

Yeah.

In return, will you
give us the names

of the other individuals
involved

in your attempt
to overthrow

the United States
government?

There is
no United States government.

There hasn't been one
in 15 years.

This place
is the government.

The lawfully established
seat of power--

This place is a bad memory.

This place is a testament

to everything that was wrong
with the old world,

a triumph of brute force

over basic humanity.

Does it make it easier
for you

to think of us
in that way?

Easier?

No.

More honest? Fuck, yeah.

Except that it's a lie.

Is it?

Tell me your name.

You won't,

because your job is to
interrogate and intimidate.

You have to be
the voice of the machine,

anonymous
and without compassion.

You still think so,
Mr. Alexander?

Do I look like the monster
you say I am?

I have no desire to harm you,

but by the same token,

I cannot help you
unless you help me.

Give us the names
of your associates

who were not at the assembly

or may have escaped.

Give us their names
and their locations,

and you will
be rewarded.

Just...

Give us something.

I can do that.

How about this?

You want a picture
of the future?

"Imagine a boot stamping on a
human face forever."

That's a quote, George Orwell,
and nice boots
you've got there.

Can I have
that glass of water now?

Is that a no?

Hey!

Was that a no?

Come on. Let's go.

The President
wants to see you.

The President?

President of what?

The United States,
Asshole.

United States, Asshole?

USA.

The initials
are still the same.

Ah, there you are, son.

Thank you for coming.

I didn't have
much choice.

Well, don't take
it personally.

That's how things are done
around here.

Only way we survived--

Discipline, order,
following the rules.

You can go now.

Don't get any ideas.

There are five snipers
in adjoining rooms

watching every move
you make.

Kind of like
having dinner

with your
girlfriend's parents

for the first time.

I used to tend bar
fresh out of college.

Good, clean work.

That's when I learned
how to talk to people,

and how to
listen to them.

You've got to be
a good listener.

You don't have
any idea who I am, do you?

They seem to think
that you're the, uh...

President.

William Emerson,

48th PRESIDENT
of these United States.

That's what they used to call
it before the Civil War,

these united states.

They only started calling it
the United States

after 600,000 of its sons died
trying to define it...

But they made it
what it had to be--

One nation,
whole and indivisible.

That's what we're trying
to do now, Jeremiah,

make the nation whole again.

How can you be the president

if the country
didn't vote for you?

Well, this is what remains

of the structure of the
United States government.

Every four years,
like clockwork,

we have elections
as mandated by
the constitution.

My guess is you've got, what,
a couple thousand people here?

So you being
elected president

by a handful of people,

that's not exactly democratic,
is it?

America's never been
a democracy.

We're a republic.

The people elect
representatives

to make decisions
on their behalf.

Even before the big death,

elected officials
were chosen

by an ever smaller percentage
of the population.

You might say
this is the logical conclusion

to what was going on before.

I'm just saying

that to the millions of us
who grew up after the death,

this...

You...

It's all irrelevant.

How do you plan on controlling
millions of people

with just a couple
of thousand?

What we lack in numbers
we make up for in firepower.

All we need is one thing
to solidify our position.

Your father knows...

How the big death works.

Now, we've tried
to figure it out,

but so far,
we've come a'cropper.

We need the key to the virus.

Your daddy,

he's refused to give it to us.

We've threatened him,
rewarded him,

given him lab space

and enough rope
to hang ten people.

Well, others say
we didn't go far enough...

But killing him
wouldn't do anybody any good,

now, would it?

What we have to
decide right now

is what to do about you.

See, your father
is not expendable.

We need his expertise.

There are others who would say
you are highly expendable...

But you're his last
surviving son.

I imagine it'd be a hard thing

deciding between
saving your son's life...

And giving us
the information we need,

a hard thing indeed.

Best if you talk him

into doing the smart thing,
Jeremiah.

Best for everybody involved.

You understand me, son?

Hey, uh...

They want me
to talk to you,

you know, to, uh...

Try to get you...

I didn't mean
to mess things up

by coming here, Dad.

I just missed you.

Part of me...

I mean, I had to,

because I needed to know
if you were still alive,

and I needed...

I just missed you, Dad.

I wrote you.

I wrote you all the time.

I know. I know.

Well...

You've grown a bit
since the last time I saw you.

Well, I'm a little taller,

but I'm still working
on the growing part.

Still stubborn.

Why didn't you come back, Dad?

Michael and me,

we waited.

Every time we heard a noise
at the window,

we'd run over, you know,
thinking it was you.

The lights went out.

The food ran out.

We walked.

We started walking.

We walked forever...

But Michael...

He was strong, Dad.

You would've been
proud of Michael.

Jeremiah...

He never gave up, see,
and I just...

I turned my back on him.

It was just for a second, dad.

It was just a second, I swear,
and I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Jeremiah...

Jeremiah,

the fact that you survived,
one of you survived,

is a miracle.

I'm not going to
give you forgiveness,

because none is required.

You did
nothing wrong, son.

The fact that you
are still alive

is all that matters to me.

I'd given up hope,
until Ezekiel told me--

Dad--

Oh...

I'm sorry.

I, uh...

I saw the soldiers outside
and I thought
there was trouble.

Yeah, that'd be me.

Liberty,
I'd like you to...

Meet Jeremiah,
my son.

So you're Jeremiah.

Oh, well.

What...

"Oh, well?"

What the hell is that
supposed to mean?

I thought
I'd be more impressed.

To hear Ezekiel talk,
you're 12 feet high

and you shoot lightning bolts
out of your butt.

No lightning bolts,

but I'm a little taller

when I'm standing
on my charisma.

He's got spirit.
I do like that.

I'll take two.

Jeremiah, I'd like you to meet
Liberty Kaufman, my assistant.

Meaning I carry
Petri dishes around

and try not to break anything.

The only reason I'm here

is because nobody else
wanted the job.

The only reason
you're here

is because you're
the only one I trust.

Which is kind of funny,

considering I'm not exactly
easy to get along with.

Really? I'm stunned.

And I like to collect
bright shinies,

even when they're
not necessarily,

you know, mine,

and sometimes I start fires,

small ones.

It's, you know, a thing I do.

Hold it right there.

God says
this is your last chance.

Keep running and you die,
your friends die,

everyone dies.

Stop running.

Stop running!

Don't move!

That's a long drop, Kurdy.

You going to give it a try
anyway,

or you going to come quietly?

Cuff him.

Wait for me
at the chopper.

I'll be there
in a second.

Just want to have
a private conversation.

Okay, listen up.

There's only two ways
this can end.

The first way,

I shoot you in the head
and walk away.

Yeah? What's the second?

You have to trust me.

I'll take the bullet.

Damn it, Kurdy,
you're such an--

You sold us out!

I didn't. I swear.

Bullshit!

You were spying on us.

You were keeping tabs

on everything
we were doing.

I admit that.

Yeah, well,
bra-friggin'-vo.

You want to go ahead

and admit you stole the page
out of Simon's journal?

It wasn't the right time

for you to find out
about the brothers,

and I wasn't reporting back
to Valhalla sector,

not completely, anyway.

I gave them just enough
to keep them happy

so they wouldn't yank me out,

but I wasn't working for them.

I was working
for Jeremiah's father.

I didn't know
Devon was his dad,

at least not at first,

but I was playing
both sides of the street,

trying to protect Jeremiah,
Markus,

everybody at the mountain,

including you.

Look, I can prove
I'm telling the truth,

but you're going to have
to trust me,

at least
for a little while.

Why, Lee?

Because I'm going back
to Thunder mountain

and I need your help,

so I was hoping
you'd stop running

before one of my
guys shot you,

because with you dead,
I've got nowhere to go.

How'd it go?

Ezekiel was right.

I should never, ever have
come here.

But you got to see your father
again. Wasn't that the point?

No, the point
was him getting to see me.

They wanted us
to see each other again,

to be able to touch each
other, hold each other.

After a while,

time, distance,
they make the heart forget.

They wanted you to both know
what was at risk

when they threaten
to take it away.

It's not fair to use the
heart against itself.

It's not fair at all.

They're going to hurt you,
aren't they?

We're coming in low
to avoid the radar target.

I told the pilot
to put down

half a mile
from Thunder mountain.

We'll walk in
the rest of the way.

What's so important
back at the mountain?

You want to see Markus
alive again?

Then you'll just have to wait.

I don't think
you'd believe me anyway.

Like that would be different

from anything else
you've ever said?

You have any idea

how hard these last few years
have been for me?

I didn't want to
lie to Markus,

but there was
no other way.

I had to protect him
from himself

until the time
was right.

We're coming in
on the target.

Take us down.

Screw this up,

do anything I don't like,

and I will kill you.

I thought we were going
through the front door.

I thought
that's why you needed me.

Getting in,
that I can do.

Getting out alive,
that's where I'll need you.

I thought this part of the
mountain was restricted.

It is,

which means
we shouldn't be disturbed.

Enter this code--
7-1-7-5-4.

Markus?

Markus isn't here.

He's been taken prisoner.

What? How did he--

Who the hell is that, and
what is she doing in there?

Her name's Meaghan Lee Rose.

She's got the virus
responsible for the big death.

It's still alive
inside her.

What the f--

She's a carrier.

It doesn't kill her,

but she can spread it
to anyone she touches.

Markus thought
nobody knew,

but I know everything
that goes on here.

What happened to Markus?

What he said, is it true?

Yes.

Oh. Oh, I gotta
get somebody--

No.

I want to hear what he has to
say about Markus.

Please?

Did you have a chance
to talk to your son?

And?

My decision remains the same.

Don't do this.
My son is still a citizen.

He has rights.

We're in a state of national
emergency unprecedented

in this country's
long history.

Certain rights
have to be set aside

until we can get the machine
running again,

and some fine young men

will have to lay down
their lives

for the good
of that machine...

Whether they like it
or not.

I want you to know

I'm sorry
for what's about to happen.

I wish
there was some other way,

but there isn't, son.

There just isn't.

Don't call me
son.

You're not
my father.

He's my father.

And it doesn't matter...

'Cause I've had
my five minutes.

I understand
you've been asking

how a small population
can control a much larger one.

How did England,
a tiny island nation,

hold onto India and Africa
and millions of subjects,

so many they say that the sun

never set
on the British Empire?

If I thought
we were going to have a quiz,

I would have studied, okay?

You have to have an edge,

something the other side
doesn't have,

and then
the proper application

of what the Germans
used to call Schrecklichkeit.

Do you know what
Schrecklichkeit means,

Jeremiah?

It means frightfulness.

Once we have the vaccine,

once we control the virus
that causes the big death,

we can inoculate
our people

and we can let
everyone above know

that unless they cooperate...

We have the option

of sectioning off
one area at a time

and releasing the virus.

Schrecklichkeit.

Not that we'd actually use it.

That's a lie!

I've seen your tac maps!

Your plan relies on

wiping out
a couple of cities

to prove
that you have the virus!

A small demonstration.

No, it's cold-blooded murder!

Everyone up there
is doomed anyway,

doomed to live lives
of brutality and hopelessness,

doomed to die without purpose.

What difference does it make
how it happens?

Until we get this country
back on its feet,

everyone who opposes us
is expendable.

Everyone.

It's called
preparing the battlefield,

doctor.

That's why the big death
is more humane.

It only kills people
old enough to oppose us,

and leaves the infrastructure
intact.

You can't control the virus
once it gets loose.

We'll be careful
to control the situation.

That's what you thought
last time.

That's how the damned thing
got loose in the first place.

If you re-introduce the virus
to the world outside,

it'll be the end
of everything,
you asshole,

the end of everything.

Well, it's an old argument.

It's about time
we resolved it.

This is going to
hurt, Jeremiah,

but it's
for the good of the country.

Yeah, well, fuck you.

No!

No, dad.

Don't do it, dad.

He's not
the President.

There are a lot of
other bases out there

just like this one,

and they all probably have
their own president.

They could--

When me and Kurdy
were on the road, Dad,

we saw a lot of guys,

they all...they all thought
they were the boss,

and they were
just guys, dad...

Just guys on the road.

Just guys on the road--

Well, so you didn't kill me
while I was out.

I commend you
on your restraint.

Don't thank me,
thank her.

Besides, I kill you now,
we don't get any answers.

Now, why'd you want to
come back here, Lee,

and what does she
have to do with this?

Untie me, give me my gun back,
and I'll tell you.

Not a chance.

Look, why can't you just
tell me--

If I leave this
to you,

you'll never
pull it off,

because you don't
have the guts.

I said--

I'm not talking to you,
lady death.

Excuse me?

Who the hell
do you think you are?

You think you can
come in here,

tell me that the man I love
is being tortured,

maybe he's alive,
maybe he's dead,

and you dare treat me

like I'm a piece
of fucking furniture?

You call me lady death.

Well, damned straight.

What touches me dies,

and if Markus is gone

and there's nothing you can do
to bring him back,

understand that I will
claw my way through
this glass,

and where I walk,
death will follow

until everyone
in this whole fucking
world is dead,

because nothing matters to me
anymore.

Do you understand that?

Nothing!

You'd do all that
if Markus was dead.

Would you do half as much
to get Markus out alive?

Yes.

Anything?

Anything.

Okay, Lee,
what the hell is going on?

There is a way

to get Markus and Jeremiah
out of Valhalla sector.

How?

Let's do it.

I thought I was dead.

You must've had
a hard life

to think this was heaven.

The life I've had,

I don't think heaven's
in the cards.

Don't start moving,

okay?

All the nerves in your body
are pretty screwed
up right now.

Took almost an hour

before you stopped twitching
like a fish out of water.

Thanks for the image.

Look, Libby...

I wanted to apologize.

Earlier, when I was talking
to my dad in there,

we were in kind of a
rough spot, you know.

When you walked in,
it was difficult.

I'm okay with that.

I thought
you were going to apologize

for staring
at my tits.

I wasn't staring
at your tits.

Yeah, you were.

You know,
I'm a grown man,

and I know
where I'm looking, okay,

so I was looking at my dad,

I was looking
around the room,

but I wasn't
staring at your tits.

I meant right now.

Oh, now...

It's all the shiny things,
you know,

and it's the--

I didn't say I minded.

Is there any more like you
back home?

One isn't enough?

One's plenty.

So, uh...

What, you collect these?

Yeah.

I wandered
for a really long time

before they found me
and took me in.

I guess
I wanted something tangible

to remind me of
where I'd been,

what I'd seen...done.

I'm a pack rat,
what can I say?

Jeremiah, are you okay?

I'm good.

We showed them,
didn't we, dad?

It's only going to get

more painful,
more dangerous.

You don't know what these men
are capable of doing to you.

I lost Ezekiel,
I lost Michael,

I lost your mother.

I can't lose anybody else.

I--I'm going to give them the
virus. It's the only way--

Devon, you can't.

If I work with them.

Maybe I can talk them
out of a demonstration,

at least make sure
it's controlled.

You can't control it.
You said so yourself.

If it gets outside--

If I don't, they're going to
kill you, Jeremiah.

Don't you understand?

You are the only thing
I care about.

I can't watch you die.

Everybody dies, Dad.

There's nothing we can do
to change that.

No...

But you've got to
go out clean.

See, Dad,

if my living
means thousands of people,

maybe even millions die

if this thing gets loose,

I don't go out clean.

Now, I never thought that
I'd amount to much out there,

and worst of all

was the thought that
I would never see you again,

but I've seen you.

Now, I don't know

what is going to happen next,

but together,

we can save the world

just by saying no.

It'd make me proud, Dad,

and they could never
take that,

and I'd go out clean.

I've got to go out clean.

Promise me.

I love you.

No shit.

Mr. President, I've got
something I want you to see.

We just made contact

with one of our operatives
in Thunder mountain.

This may be
the solution to our problem.

We're bouncing
the frequency

off one of our
remaining satellites,

so it's
catch-as-catch-can.

Lee, can you hear me?

Yes, sir. Good evening,
Mr. President.

What is it, son?

Sir, I've made contact

with elements
within Thunder mountain,

and they're willing
to make a deal.

In exchange for Markus, Erin,
Jeremiah, and his father,

they're willing to give us
the key to the
big death virus--

The vaccine, everything.

And what if they're bluffing?

See for yourself,
sir.

As you know, there should be
no one here at the mountain

over the age of 30 or so.

Just a second
while I transfer video feed.

Her name's Meaghan Lee Rose,
age 43.

In the last days
of the big death,

she received a test vaccine
against the virus.

As you can see, it worked.

She's still alive,
and she's cured.

If you analyze her blood,

you can break down the changes
created by the vaccine

and synthesize more of it.

Sir, we checked the
computer records.

A Meaghan Lee Rose

was brought to Thunder
mountain around that time.

They verify that she was
carrying the big death,

but that's all we got before
everything shut down.

The only way
that she could still be alive

was if they had
a working vaccine.

But if they had it,
why didn't they tell anyone?

The scientists
responsible

for finding the vaccine died
before the final
results were in.

After that, the only ones left
were kids.

Markus has been
keeping her

as his own
personal secret,

figuring once he took over
the rest of the country,

he could get someone
to analyze her blood,

come up with the vaccine

and use it
for his own purposes.

That's why we have to
get there first, sir.

Whoever controls the big death
controls the future.

All right,
tell them we have a deal.

Keep the line open.

I'll be back in a minute
to work out the details.

Risky, General.

If we give them Devon
and it turns out

we can't properly
analyze this woman's blood,

we're back where we started.

Not at all, sir.

They've asked us
for four people.

That's a lot of people,

and who
in this big wide world

gets everything
they ask for?