ALEX ATTACKER BOB_HARTLEY CREEM DESAI DR_WEISS DUTCH EDDIE EICHORST EPH FET GIRL GUARD GUS HERBERT_HARTLEY JASON JEREMY MAN MAN_2 MARCUS MARTA MEGYN_JONES MOTHER NURSE_GREENWOOD RAUL ROACH ROSALINDA SETRAKIAN SOPHIE WOMAN ZACH MAN Previously on The Strain. EICHORST Mr. Desai, your duties are about to expand greatly. You will be pleased to learn that we have a great need for a helpful human confederate. ZACH I hate you. FET Behind the wall, come on. MEGYN JONES No one will forget the terrors of Illumination Day. Nine months later we are marching forward into a new era. Thanks to the cooperation that is at the heart of the partnership, everyone's needs are being met. Just keep your blood donations up to date and comprehensive healthcare will be yours at absolutely no cost. MAN Strigs! MAN 2 Why don't you just get it over with now? EPH Sit down. JASON Help me. Help me. Please if you walk away I'll die. EPH God dammit. BOB HARTLEY Where are you going? HERBERT HARTLEY Going out to get a newspaper. BOB HARTLEY There's more I want to tell you. HERBERT HARTLEY Tell it to the moon. She takes it all by messages. BOB HARTLEY Hey, what're you doing Christmas? MEGYN JONES Safety. Nutrition. Health care. The chance to work, to be challenged, and to grow. The sad truth is that, in our former world, these were all privileges of the elite. Now they're available to all of us. That's all thanks to The Partnership. They understand what it takes to let the human spirit thrive. And all they ask for in return is something we can all very easily part with. RAUL Morning, Eddie. How's it going? EDDIE It's going. Have a good one, Raul. DESAI Hi. I'm Sanjay Desai, Chief Health Care Officer for The Partnership. Now, these donations you're making, they're vital. Vital to the society we are building all around you. A society that will benefit every living creature on this planet. There'll be no more violence, no crime. And we will all get to pursue our own happiness in peace. This is our future, my friends. And it's a bright one. ATTACKER Didn't I always tell you to watch your back. RAUL Gus? GUS What's up, little cousin? Good to see you, man. Look at you. How you been? RAUL I thought you were dead, man. GUS Yeah, yeah. A couple times I thought I was too, but here I am. RAUL Look, so what's going on? GUS Look, man. I need you to help get me into that building where you work. You know, when no one's around. RAUL Look, I can't help you steal from the- GUS Hey, hey, hey. Who said anything about stealing? It's more like reallocating. RAUL Huh? GUS You just gotta trust me. RAUL It's just--if I get caught helping you.. GUS You think I'd let something happen to you? RAUL It's not that, man, it's just- GUS Raul, just listen to me, okay? You remember what your dad used to always tell us? RAUL A good man takes care of his family. GUS That's right. I'm here to take care of you now. We gotta take care of each other. DR WEISS The ultrasound shows that your uterus is perfectly normal. No reason why a baby couldn't settle in nicely there. Now, we know from your hormonal tests that you've been ovulating as expected. Your eggs should be healthy. So are you eating enough? Getting enough rest? DUTCH Plenty. DR WEISS Well, then, maybe this next cycle will be the one. You should be ovulating five or six days from now, so I'll see you then and we will do our very best, all right? BOB HARTLEY It's a nice place you got here. HERBERT HARTLEY It's a hell-hole and you know it. BOB HARTLEY Kinda homey. HERBERT HARTLEY If your home's in hell. HERBERT HARTLEY Look, Bob, don't patronize me. I know this place is a dump and it's not as clean as what's-her-name would keep it. ROSALINDA Hey. Good luck. WOMAN Thanks. BOB HARTLEY A veritable monsoon. HERBERT HARTLEY Look, son it's not going to work. Now, look, you're too old to spank and I'm too old to challenge you to a fight, so why don't you get off my back. NURSE GREENWOOD Take this form down to ultrasound for me. Thank you. BOB HARTLEY Look, Dad, the reason I came over here was to talk to you about having Christmas. HERBERT HARTLEY Bob, do you think I'd be still wet behind the ears? You're gonna invite what's-her-name to come over too, aren't you? NURSE GREENWOOD Hello, this is Nurse Greenwood. I'd like an update on that file I gave you yesterday. BOB HARTLEY I did invite Mom but she's going to visit Aunt Dorothy. HERBERT HARTLEY Oh, she always changes her mind. You know, after you were born we were trying to decide on a name to call you. She wanted to call you Herb. SOPHIE Don't worry, Miranda. Sometimes it just takes a little while. MARCUS He's in the back. Your customers are here. GUS Professor. And the Duchess. What have you got for me today? Are they fresh? DUTCH Don't insult me, Elizalde. SETRAKIAN It seems your operation has expanded. GUS Yeah, I got a new partner now. You remember Creem. SETRAKIAN Yes, I remember. CREEM It's the old man that bought the magic book. Looks like that didn't work out too well for you, huh? GUS It was either this or our gangs were going to kill each other. SETRAKIAN At least I still have the book. It doesn't seem you can say the same for your $323 million. CREEM Yeah, well, nuclear war wasn't good for the economy. No one wanted my gold certificates. SETRAKIAN Or your paintings or all your other material trappings. Even greed has its limits. CREEM What about your book? SETRAKIAN The Lumen continues to be of vital importance. CREEM Whatever you say. GUS Hey, I believe you, Professor. SETRAKIAN When the time comes, we're gonna need people like you. Experienced fighters. GUS I'd say I've had too much experience already, if you know what I mean. This is my fight now. Besides, who else is gonna make sure you got your pills, right? SETRAKIAN He is capable of so much more. DUTCH You can't force someone to fight if their heart's not in it. WOMAN Where are they taking me? Why are they doing this? DUTCH God, they're doing a raid on our building. Come on, Professor, let's get out of here. SETRAKIAN No, the Lumen. DUTCH The book'll be fine, they'll never find it. We'll come back for it later. Come on! SETRAKIAN No, look! We cannot let the Lumen burn. DUTCH Professor? SETRAKIAN Please. DUTCH All right, look. Meet me at our spot by the river. Stay out of sight. SETRAKIAN I was a fool. I realize now that everything gained can just as easily be lost. DUTCH The book is safe, Professor. We'll go back there and get it, as soon as we get out of this. SETRAKIAN I'm not talking about the book, Ms. Velders, but about humanity. For every stride, every turn toward goodness people make, we want to believe that the progress is lasting. Irreversible. We wanted to believe this so badly that we let down our guard. And our own evil crept back into us. DESAI Hi, this is Sanjay Desai, Chief Health Care Officer for The Partnership, offering you a warm welcome. In an effort to improve the lives of all of our residents of New York, you are being transferred to more secure and comfortable residential facilities. This process is simply a security check. Thank you for your patience, cooperation, and welcome to your new community. SETRAKIAN I have seen this before. MOTHER No! No! No! No! GIRL No, Mommy, no! No! MOTHER No! No! DUTCH Leave him alone! DUTCH No! Stop it! Stop it! Get off of- DUTCH No! Setrakian! Stop it! Setrakian! Stop! Stop! Stop! ROSALINDA You want some fruit? DUTCH No, thanks. Not a big fan of pineapple. ROSALINDA Hey, look. Lucy's painting again. What's your call? Puppy or red-headed beefcake? DUTCH Puppy. ROSALINDA Hey, Lucy, let us see it! Beautiful! I love him. Give it up, loser. So, one more day 'til you ride that bozo out into the sunset DUTCH Well, there really sunsets anymore, but yeah, that's the plan. Unless you've changed your mind? If you want to get out with me, we still can come up with something. ROSALINDA Nah. Thanks, I'm good. DUTCH You sure? ROSALINDA Yeah. It took six damn tries, but I'm finally pregnant. Which means I'm safe. DUTCH Safe is a relative term, Rosalinda. ROSALINDA Look, I know this isn't paradise. But at least in here I can pretend things are normal. It's a hell of a lot better than being out there. DUTCH Not for me it isn't. JASON Any word from Wilkins and Roach? EPH Sorry. ALEX He can take it. He's been known to argue vociferously about how men have a higher pain tolerance than women. EPH That's definitely not true. ALEX See? And that's coming from a doctor. So you can admit that it hurts. JASON Doesn't hurt. I love it. ALEX Isn't there anything else that we can do? EPH In the absence of antibiotics, we just have to wait and see. What's with the firepower? You have a bigger target or what? ALEX What firepower? EPH The fertilizer bombs. From the smell, it's either that, or you're raising livestock in here. ALEX Fair enough. Yeah, the plan is to take out as many busses as we can. It's the easiest way to take out multiple Strigoi. EPH And multiple people. ALEX There's no guarantee of safety in this world. EPH I understand that but you're pushing your luck with that shit. ALEX What luck? And anyway, what's the alternative? Pretend like everything's normal? Trust the powers that be to act in our best interest? That's how we got to where we are right now. Too many people sitting back just hoping for the best. EPH That I agree with. CREEM Your cousin pussied out. We came all the way out here for nothing. RAUL Gus! Gus! GUS I told you we could trust him. W'sup, cuz? You all right, man? RAUL Yeah. GUS You good? RAUL Hey, guys. GUS So, what do we do? What's the move? RAUL So, that's the way in. Right there. CREEM Good. Let's go. GUS Hold on. Hold on. First, we gotta take out that sentinel. I'll take care of it. You guys lay low, all right? RAUL Okay. This way. MARCUS Two of you, make sure one of the trucks is ready to go. GUS Woo! That's what I'm talking about, Raul. What'd I tell you, man? CREEM How'd they even grow this shit without sunlight? RAUL The Partnership has grow houses run with ultraviolet light. CREEM That's perfect. They're using tricks they got from the drug dealers. Come on, let's get this shit out of here. GUS Give us a hand. I see you looking at it. There you go. EDDIE Raul? GUS Back up! Back up! RAUL Gus! It's cool! I know him. What's going on, Eddie? EDDIE Hey, man. You're not supposed to be in here. RAUL Right. Yeah, man. My mistake. Look, we're just gonna get out of here, okay? I mean, you and me, we're cool, right? No one needs to know about this? EDDIE No, look, I'm supposed to be keeping an eye on this place, I gotta report this. GUS Listen. Eddie. It's Eddie, right? EDDIE Yeah. GUS Look, there's gotta be something or some way we can work this out. Right? We have a lot of things we can offer you. Food, medicine, liquor? EDDIE No, man, no. I don't need any of those things. I need this job. I've got a family, Raul GUS Creem, what're you doing? MARCUS Take it and go! Move, move, move! GUS Damn it! GUS Creem! Chill, man? GUS Eddie! Eddie, come out, bro. Just come out and talk to us, man. You're not going to get hurt. Creem, we gotta get out of here. Come on. MARCUS Everybody inside. RAUL Where's Eddie, man? GUS We lost him. RAUL No, but he saw me. He's gonna report me. I gotta find him. GUS Raul. You're coming with us, all right? Come on! GUS This is it. Home sweet home. You got the kitchen over there, couches. Cozy, right? Make yourself comfortable. RAUL Um, where's the bathroom at? GUS It's right back there to the left. The toilet might not be working so there's a bucket. CREEM So, this wasn't quite a gold mine like you said it would be. Your cousin should have known. GUS He had no reason to. It's on me. I should have done more recon. CREEM He can stay here tonight but that's it. GUS You think I'm gonna kick him out after what he just did for us? He don't got a job no more, Creem. CREEM In case you forgot, this is a business. Not some charity group-home bullshit. GUS I'm not doing charity. Raul's gonna hold it down, trust me. CREEM You're not getting it, man. GUS No, you're not getting it. Raul's family. He stays. You got a problem with that, you take it up with me. DUTCH I'll be back. Hi, Jeremy. JEREMY Oh, hey, Miranda. DUTCH We all set for tomorrow? JEREMY Um, what's happening tomorrow? DUTCH Don't get cute with me. You're bringing in the jizz fridge and, when it's empty, you're going to carry me back out in it. JEREMY Okay listen. I know I said I would do it, and I want to do it. I mean, I want to help you- DUTCH Look, they haven't stopped you once on your way out, no matter what you've been carrying. You just need to get me back out onto the truck, and we're home free. JEREMY And once they realize you're gone? DUTCH They'll never suspect you. You're loyal. They trust you. JEREMY Look, I just can't do it, Miranda. I'm sorry. DUTCH I knew you'd do this. I just knew you'd pull the rug out right from under me when I finally gave in and slept with you. JEREMY That didn't happen. DUTCH Oh, but it did. And if you don't follow through with this, I am going to tell everyone what we did in the medical storage room. I think Mr. Desai will be particularly interested. He's very protective of us B-positive girls. I wonder what he'll think when he finds out that you got your material into the mix? MARTA This is bullshit! SOPHIE What's going on? MARTA Krystal never came back from her doctor's appointment this morning, and now all of her stuff's gone. She was only on her fifth insemination. Now she's probably dead- DUTCH What are you talking about? SOPHIE She must've been relocated. MARTA Oh, right. To the wonderful "B-positive living facility"? Hey, dummies, we are here because Strigoi like the taste of our blood and they want us to make more of it. So if we can't breed for them, then what else are we good for? DUTCH This is not the time to be talking about this! SOPHIE They can get more blood if they keep us alive. They'll want to make sure that we're healthy, that we're eating- MARTA If that were true, then why wouldn't they just keep us all here? And why all the goddamn secrecy? NURSE GREENWOOD What's going on here? MARTA Just the same bullshit. NURSE GREENWOOD All right. You need to settle down, Miss. MARTA And you need to stop lying to us, bitch! NURSE GREENWOOD Now you've done it. DUTCH You need to stop this. MARTA I'm not just some idiot- DUTCH Yeah, I know that. DUTCH But they're never going to tell us where Krystal and the others went. But we both know it's not a place that anyone would want to go. So it's a good thing you get to stay here, right? That is, unless you keep making scenes like this. NURSE GREENWOOD Sir, I just hate to see you have to interrupt your work. DESAI This is my goddamn work! If you and your staff can't handle these little disturbances, I'm gonna have to. DUTCH No disturbances here. Everything's fine. DESAI Is it? DUTCH Just hunky-dory. Right, girls? DESAI Well, it looks like one of your patients has done your job for you. Miranda, isn't it? DESAI Absolutely. I give you my word. Okay. Thank you, Lauren. Have a seat, Miranda. I can see you're very frustrated here. DUTCH Why would anyone be frustrated? DESAI Right? I get it. You're an intelligent woman, you have skills, and you find it a bit of an insult that you're being asked to be a baby vessel, right? Believe it or not, I'm very familiar with the feeling of being undervalued. I'll always be grateful to people who saw my potential. Gave me the opportunity to excel. That's what I'm doing with you. I want you to work for me, Miranda. Be my special liaison between DESAI myself and the ward. I've seen these women. They respect you. They will listen to you. DUTCH So you want me to be the mouthpiece for your bullshit? DESAI Excuse me? DUTCH You know, the "B-positive living facility" that all the infertile women disappear to? DESAI That is a very spacious, very accommodating place. Barely a downgrade from the luxury of this place. DUTCH Sure. What about the babies? What's going to happen to the first one when it's born? DESAI Let me assure you, those babies are of unbelievable value to the Partnership. They will want for nothing. DUTCH So they can eventually end up as breeders, like us? DESAI Okay, I'm a very pragmatic person, Miranda, and I'm getting a sense that you are, too. So, why don't we cut all the bullshit, okay? Just be honest. So, this whole, uh, post-Illumination new-world crap, it's not really my preference. But, hey, it's the world we're living in now, right? Now, does that I mean I don't understand why some people might be resisting it? No, of course not. I'm not an idiot. But these people, they're DESAI delusional. And, quite frankly, they're selfish. DUTCH You think people trying to resist this nightmare are selfish? DESAI Yeah, I do, actually. They're putting their own misguided sense of righteousness above the well-being of all of humanity. If, instead, they would follow, I don't know, my example, maybe put all that energy into actually helping one another, then it wouldn't be such a nightmare, would it? No, it, uh, it'd actually would be pretty great, right? So what do you say? You gonna help me, Miranda? DUTCH No. Thank you. Guess I'm not as civic-minded as you are. Quite the misanthrope, actually. DESAI Misanthrope? All right. I guess that's your call. Well, I hope you end up on the right side of things, Miranda. Because the sad thing is, these delusional people? They don't exactly thrive in the new world. Anyways, you know where to find me. EPH Still no fever. I think you're out of the danger zone. Just keep him clean, let him get some rest, he should be fine. ALEX Thank you. I don't know what we would have done. JASON Thank you. EPH So, food and supplies? ALEX Help yourself. So, is this really the only reason you came with us? EPH What other reason would there be? ALEX I don't know. It just seems like maybe you're more- ROACH It's Roach! Alex! ALEX Roach! What happened? Are you okay? ROACH Right after the bomb went off, we got attacked by Strigoi. I had to hide out by the river until I was sure I wasn't being followed. ALEX Where's Wilkins? ROACH He didn't make it. ALEX They captured him? ROACH No, that's the crazy thing-they just drained him. It's weird, right? I didn't think they were doing that anymore. EPH They only do that when there's a purpose. After they've turned him, they'll have access to all of his memories, every piece of information he had. He'll be a part of their collective consciousness. They drank him to get to the rest of you. You need to go. They could be on their way here right now. ALEX You heard him. Let's pack up. Fast! EPH Where are you headed? ALEX It's fine. We have other hiding spots. EPH Did this Wilkins know about them? ALEX Shit. If he knew about them, they're all blown. EPH I've got a place you can go. But we need to go now. JASON Guys, come help me get these bombs out. EPH No, it's not enough time. Take the propane JASON But we need them. EPH Go. I'll handle it. MAN All right, guys, let's move it. ROACH I've got your stuff. ALEX Let's get out of here. EPH One second. EPH Okay. We can go now. DUTCH Is everything all right in there? ROSALINDA Miranda? DUTCH Yeah. Hi. ROSALINDA I'm bleeding. DUTCH Oh, shit. I'm so sorry. ROSALINDA This is the second time for me. If Desai finds out about this one, I'm gone, just like Krystal. DUTCH It's okay. It's okay. We just--we should just think for a minute. ROSALINDA You need to help me, Miranda. My next exam is in less than a week. DUTCH Okay, follow me. Come on. Come on. Come on. JEREMY What is this? I can't take two. There's barely room for one! DUTCH You're only taking one. For now. JEREMY Wait, what do you mean "for now"? DUTCH You're taking me next week. JEREMY Oh, you've got to be kidding me. I'm not doing this twice. DUTCH Yes, you are, or do you want me to speak to Mr. Desai? JEREMY Oh, you bitch. DUTCH Yeah, I've heard worse. This is your air tube. If you hide it here, then they'll never be able to see it from the outside. ROSALINDA Okay. DUTCH Remember. The Olympian Club, west 54th Street. When I get out, I'm gonna come find you there. It's gonna be okay. ROSALINDA Okay. JEREMY If I'm not back outside in two minutes, they're going to come in here looking for me. ROSALINDA I can't do it! I'm sorry! I can't breathe in there. DUTCH It's okay, it's okay. Yes, you can. You just need to stay calm and breathe slowly, okay? ROSALINDA No, you go. DUTCH I'm not leaving you here while you're in trouble. JEREMY Okay, seriously, I need to leave! DUTCH This is your last chance! Go on. Hey! Help me! JEREMY Oh, shit. JEREMY I can't be here. I can't be here. I've gotta go! I've gotta go! DUTCH No! You wait a sec! GUARD I just found two of your patients in the medical storage room. DUTCH This isn't what it looks like. It's all- we were just trying to- NURSE GREENWOOD Jeremy, care to explain? JEREMY I didn't touch them. NURSE GREENWOOD Is this true? Take him away. JEREMY Oh my God! No! No! She set me up! She set me up! She was trying to escape! I didn't do anything! She blackmailed me! I didn't do anything! This is bullshit! NURSE GREENWOOD You ladies better come with me. Mr. Desai is going to have a few questions for you. Come along! Let's go. ROACH All right, when she gets back you give her this bag. You're gonna take this one, we've gotta get them up as fast as possible. Okay? EPH If you stick somebody up there, they can see anyone coming from either direction. And if you get in trouble, there's exits everywhere. ALEX I take it you've stayed here before? EPH Yeah, yeah, it would have been perfect, except I didn't have enough fuel to keep warm. But, with your supplies, you should be golden. Good luck. ALEX Listen, why do you stay with us? Help us? EPH I'm good where I am, thank you. ALEX I don't believe that. Hey, I've seen you. You're a fighter. So why the hell aren't you fighting? EPH Fighting cost me my kid. ALEX Yeah? I lost a kid, too. So did Roach. And Sway, he lost his whole family. You think that means we should all just lie down and give up? EPH It would do about the same amount of good. ALEX That's bullshit. EPH All right. Nobody here is going to say this to you, so here goes. You're just provoking them and getting people injured and killed. You're not going to win. ALEX We just need to show people that the Strigoi aren't invincible. If we can inspire just one single person to put down their stupid Partnership- EPH You're trying to inspire people? That's what you're doing? ALEX Yes! EPH Well you need to be smarter. You need to think bigger. Anybody can plant a bomb under a bus, but those big Partnership buildings? I saw them pumping tankerfuls of blood into the pipes. If you could find a way to put something poisonous into that blood, you could take out thousands of Strigoi and they wouldn't know what hit them. You should be doing things like that, instead of messing around with random bombings. ALEX Okay, let's do that.