I have type 1 narcolepsy with cataplexy.
BENEDICT: Quite severely, I might add.
Brought on by extremes, mainly from a root of joy.
A good joke.
(laughs) Okay.
I can't remember where I am, what my name is.
MILLIGAN: Though, I realize I'm clutching something.
A small key, fashioned from toenail clippings.
Sticky! Kate still hasn't come back to her room.
KATE: Where did you even come from?
Come to extract you and the others from the island.
What do you mean, he looked like me?
-I would describe it as... -Identical.
Give me the exact location.
NUMBER TWO: Prepare for landing.
BENEDICT: Flight path perfect.
NUMBER TWO: Adjusting pitch.
RHONDA: Looking good.
BENEDICT: Oh, no.
NUMBER TWO: I think we're down.
Are you enjoying the carving station?
Vegan prime rib.
It's very thoughtful.
No, only the best.
Now...
Well...
Big day.
Agreed.
I hope you know how much I appreciate your work on this.
And when the time comes, I want you to step into the spotlight.
I intend to share the stage.
Well, proportionally.
I don't need any kind of recognition.
I mean, you've done amazing things.
The world should know.
Well, if there's one thing to trumpet...
Yes, please.
It's the geometrical progression we've realized
with signal amplification and efficiency.
I don't need any kind of recognition,
but if put to other uses, the technology could truly help.
It does help.
We are helping.
We have amplified our voice, haven't we?
MARTINA: Dr. Curtain!
Do you hear something?
SECURITY: Stop her!
Dr. Curtain!
Martina?
I'm innocent.
What?
What is that?
How many times do I have to say "it's go-time"?
It is go-time. Tower raid. Now.
Yes, Kate. We're going to raid the tower.
Finally!
The Improvement starts at 8:00. After that...
Goodbye, free will.
Sticky, you're on Messenger duty, right?
Yeah.
You're the best at it, so he wants to use you to start the Improvement.
I just need to hold off the Whisperer until you get there.
To not give in.
I can do that, but can you guys destroy it?
Hydrochloric acid. Eats through anything.
Where are you going to get hydrochloric acid?
I'll get the acid.
I won't be alone in the Whispering Room.
Curtain will be there.
We pour the acid on his feet.
Hobble him.
-Um... -I can handle him.
I've been doing some research.
Curtain and Mr. Benedict are twins,
so there's a good chance that Curtain has narcolepsy, too.
I have a way to get myself into the tower.
After that, I make Curtain laugh, he passes out,
and Kate destroys the Whisperer.
How are you gonna make him laugh?
I'll tell him a joke.
This is where the plan falls apart.
I don't understand.
You're not funny.
I'm not?
Sticky?
CONSTANCE: Tell him this joke.
A bowhunter accidentally shoots his best friend...
Guys. I got this. I can do it.
REYNIE: This plan is...
-Not a good plan. -It's gonna fail.
STICKY: Odds aren't great.
SCIENTIST: We're all set.
Ready to titrate.
Okay.
Good night.
Titration, as much as I love it, and I really do, I just adore it...
Uh, I have to dine with my family.
SCIENTIST: They'll still be there when we finish.
Oh, tomorrow. Titration tomorrow!
-(knocks) -Isaac?
Muldoon?
It's so early.
Martina needs you!
She does?
She needs to get off the island.
She says you are the only one who can help.
-She said that? About me? -Yeah.
Where is she?
There's a canoe.
It's far, so you need to get going.
And I need your key.
My key?
Why?
She's been captured! I have to break her out!
Wait by the canoe. Don't stop to talk to anyone!
Ms. Crowe has been placed in the Waiting Room.
As for the other student,
we are conducting a roving, multi-point search...
Does that just mean you've looked in different places?
-Yes, but with a strategy that maximize... -Then just say that.
You're a security professional, right?
That is correct.
Does it concern you that we're experiencing these breaches
so close to our launch of the Improvement?
It is concerning, yes, sir.
Yeah.
Because you know what they say about coincidences, don't you?
It is one of the great shames of my life that I'm not as well read...
There's no such thing as coincidence. Oh, my god.
Okay.
Someone has found us out.
Sir.
-So where's the acid? -Pool shed.
Hydrochloric acid is one of the chemicals they use to clean pools.
How do you know?
Constance.
These are the basics.
You must know these things.
I will learn.
But only for you.
But I want my own acid.
For his feet.
Okay. I trust you.
-Kate Wetherall? -Nope!
Constance!
We need to keep going south. The dorm is over there.
We're going the wrong way.
All due respect, I was a ranked orienteer back in university.
Hard for me to acknowledge that
when the governing body that determines those rankings is notoriously corrupt.
The NAFIO, corrupt?
Big time. Snakes abound.
Says who?
Lot of people. People in the know.
I sense jealousy.
I'm simply stating that if we go...
Stop! Please, stop.
We're under an enormous amount of stress and more than likely concussed.
We must lay down our individual concerns and fears.
We are one entity now.
A fearsome yet empathetic Cerberus, charging forward with a singular goal,
and that is to get the children.
We got the children into this, we must get them out.
We cannot fail.
Oh, we will not fail.
I think we can all agree on that. Yes?
Yeah.
Thank you.
Gorp?
Thank you.
Lead the way.
South.
You're needed for Whisperer duty.
-Big day today. -Big day today.
That sounded cool.
We should always say the same thing.
I'm ready.
Martina...
Judas.
You disrespected me.
And you disrespected the game.
MARTINA: Shame on you.
CURTAIN: Do you see my dilemma?
Two very different pieces of evidence.
Pointing to...
very...
different...
conclusions.
What to think?
What conclusions am I to make about... this espionage?
This betrayal?
I'm open to suggestion.
I did it.
I copied her keycard and broke into the Server Room.
Martina had nothing to do with it.
It's as I expected.
Ms. Crowe, you're restored to full rank and privilege.
One mistake should not define you.
Just choose your friends more carefully next time.
Kate...
You may leave.
KATE: I'm sorry.
CURTAIN: Ms. Crowe?
As for you...
Prepare her for the Brainsweeper.
-(gasps) -Oh, Ms. Wetherall.
Check your bucket.
Yes, yes, yes. Yes, yes, yes.
-(knocking) -Yes.
Yes?
SECURITY: This man turned himself in. He says he's...
I'm the one you want.
Fascinating.
You look very familiar to me.
Have we met before?
I'm not good with faces.
Oh. (scoffs)
So you're the one I want.
What exactly do I want you for?
-Everything. -Everything?
Why so cryptic? (scoffs)
Can no one execute a clear and efficient statement? Is this...
I work for your brother, and we're trying to stop you.
Ah...
And there it is.
Of course, he sent you.
Please.
So, why surrender? What's the play?
Spare the girl.
I'm the spy.
You're talking about Ms. Wetherall.
I'm afraid she has a date with the Brainsweeper.
Spare her...
and I'll tell you when and where Benedict is coming for you.
All right.
I'm going to need to take you back a bit...
Not a chance.
It's a variation on Hannibal's crossing of the Alps.
Are you familiar with the Second Punic War? Or...
...elephants?
I've heard of them.
Ah, then, I'll skip to Benedict's final approach,
which involves quite a few moving parts...
You're trying to stall me.
You failed.
As evidenced by...
It's time.
-See? -(door closes)
I knew exactly how long it would take to summon my Messenger,
and that's exactly how long I allowed you to drone on.
But you've spun a wonderful tale and kept me amused.
You see...
I can handle anything my brother throws at me.
Including the man whose brain I swept years ago.
I do remember you.
A chemist with a conscience, yes?
Oh.
But you don't know that.
Well...
You won't remember this much longer, either.
Sweep him again, and the girl as well.
TECHNICIAN: We can start in just a moment.
Well, Wetherall... it's been a good run.
Overall, more ups than downs.
You made some good friends...
good memories.
If I don't remember you after this, it's been fun.
Well, see you on the other side.
I'm thinking, "The Mysterious Constance Society."
With Kate.
I'll consider it.
Thanks for coming back for me.
You are a quality person.
-Come on, Reynie... -(door beeps)
So... are you ready to make history?
SECURITY: Groups Echo and Foxtrot, meet at rally points ASAP.
Copy that.
Puna flamingo call?
Chilean.
Refined choice.
You just astonish me, Number Two. The Ivanov technique. Wow.
Now...
WHISPERER: Let's take a deep breath to appreciate the occasion.
We're going to try something new today.
WHISPERER: Please repeat.
Don't listen, but you must hear.
WHISPERER: The first sequence is...
Triplane. Pascal. Ferric. Pontoon. Parliament. Perfectible.
The first sequence is... Triplane. Pascal. Ferris. Ponder.
That's not quite correct, is it?
Sorry. Nervous.
Don't listen, but you can't hear.
The first sequence is...
Triplane. Pascal. Ferric.
Pontoon. Parliament. Perfectible.
Is something wrong, Sticky?
No, everything's good.
Is it?
You're not... fighting the process, are you?
I'm just anxious. I just... really want to do a good job.
Pause!
His impedance levels are sky-high. He's saying the right words, but...
He can't just say them, he has to commit.
CURTAIN: He has to want it to work.
Are you thinking...
Get a back-up Messenger. Now.
Careful.
Very sharp.
-How? -Metal shop.
Yes!
JACKSON: The tower. Watch our way!
JILLSON: Approaching the tower. Repeat. We will advise.
Constance, grab the anchor line!
JILLSON: Intruder!
JACKSON: We're at the tower!
We've got them!
CONSTANCE: Whoa.
-Now, you care to keep trying? -(doorbell beeps)
That's your replacement, but there's still time to send him back.
CURTAIN: Reynie?
Sticky!
What are you doing? What exactly is happening here?
Where's Kate? Where's the acid?
Acid?
Oh, you're kidding me.
Well, seems this conspiracy is vaster and more diminutive than I thought.
I have plans for you two, but Sticky, back in the machine.
-One hundred... -Oh, no.
One hundred drops of water walk into a bar.
The bartender says, "We don't serve drops of water here,"
and the drops of water say,
"Can we just go in the back and play pool?"
What?
One hundred pencils walk into a bar...
Wait...
What's happening?
This is what we are reduced to.
One hundred baby goats walk into a bar.
The bartender says, "We can't serve goats here,"
and the goats say, "Why not?"
And the bartender says, "Because you're kids!"
Okay, that was a good one.
I didn't know you had it in you. I was always told you were devoid of wit.
What? Did you expect something else?
CURTAIN: Oh...
You thought you could trigger a narcoleptic seizure, didn't you?
Aw... (chuckles)
The narcolepsy I conquered years ago through force of will?
And I didn't have the same triggers as my brother.
They had nothing to do with humor or emotion.
Nothing at all.
Security to the Whispering Room.
-Code Red. -SECURITY: Affirmative.
ANNOUNCER: All available security personnel...
Oh, god.
-...to the Whispering Gallery immediately. -Where is it?
Repeat, all available...
You think this is the only way up to that?
Yes. They'll be coming this way. We can't let them in.
-You go. -No. We all go!
The kids need you! We'll hold them here.
Go!
I won't disappoint you.
It has been the honor of my life to serve with you.
Mine as well.
In many ways, I didn't understand you. I pushed your friendship away.
There are things, of course, I'd have done differently.
The responsibility is shared.
That's very generous.
I feel seen in this moment now.
-Good. -Hmm.
I feel seen as well.
Sometimes, it's hard for me to take such positivity
in a person at face value, so I tend to sabotage...
Okay. We are good now, yeah? Thanks.
We're good.
Stay back!
JILLSON: This is so upsetting to me!
It's offensive!
You were given so many opportunities!
Opportunities to shine!
MILLIGAN: Hey!
Mr. Washington, get in the Whisperer.
I won't.
Sticky, I can easily wait for your replacement,
but I want this for you.
You have no idea how gifted you are, and you deserve to be a part of this.
Out of everyone here, you, you are the one, Sticky.
And I will always bet on someone recognizing their destiny.
-Dr. Curtain. -No more humor.
You don't really want to do this, Dr. Curtain.
Hmm. (chuckles softly)
I expressly wanna do this. I've been very clear.
I don't think you are a bad person.
I don't think I'm a bad person, either. Who thinks that?
I know there is good in there somewhere.
-(scoffs) -REYNIE: I know there's good in everyone.
Okay, this is embarrassing.
I've seen you with S.Q. You care about your son.
You have a sense of humor.
You're really, really smart...
All right, that's enough. That's enough.
So why do you have to do all this?
REYNIE: There's a good person in there.
And it's not that person's fault
that life is so hard and so unfair, and so out of control.
It's not your fault what happened to you.
I said enough!
I'm just saying that it's okay to be sad,
but you can do it without hurting other people.
I'm not sad.
-I'm not. I'm completely fine. -No, you aren't.
And if you realized that,
you wouldn't need to tell everybody what to do.
And you could forgive.
How dare you!
You are a child!
You have no idea what I've been through.
You don't know me! You don't see me!
I am not some weak, vulnerable, damaged person in need of self-healing!
-Or some... -(thuds)
It's anger.
His trigger is anger.
No. It's being vulnerable.
Being seen for who he is.
It was a good strategy.
I'm impressed.
It wasn't a strategy.
What now?
This... is my friend.
My best friend! A person who believes in honor!
And these are the best of the best!
And they do what I say!
-KID 1: Yeah! -KID 2: Here for you, Martina!
Your friends... They need you.
Go, Katie Cat!
KATE: I remember how his arms felt...
lifting me out of the water.
Kate!
Where's the acid?
There's no acid.
We need the acid!
It was a Hail Mary, guys. Poorly thought out.
He's gonna wake up any second.
REYNIE: And he called for help.
In many ways, this was coming from the start.
What are you doing?
REYNIE: Constance, don't!
All that is left is to break its will.
It's a machine.
Then it will be more difficult.
Press the button.
WHISPERER: Well, hello.
This has all been a bit stressful, wouldn't you say?
What's your name?
Contraire.
WHISPERER: Wouldn't you like to begin?
We have something so important to share!
What is your favorite color?
No.
WHISPERER: That's not a color.
No is a color.
WHISPERER: Imagine yourself on a cool autumn day...
Unimaginable.
No.
WHISPERER: Let's begin with the first sequence.
Please repeat.
Don't listen but hear.
The first sequence is... Triplane. Pascal. Ferric.
I can't hear you. You'll have to speak up.
You can hear me.
WHISPERER: But you're not speaking.
Got it?
WHISPERER: Oh.
Have you ever wanted to be part of something?
What are you afraid of?
No need for... hostility.
Is she okay?
WHISPERER: Disagreeable.
Yes!
WHISPERER: Insubor...
Yes!
WHISPERER: Why can't you just go along?
CONSTANCE: Never!
WHISPERER: Why can't you just go...
Go... (mumbling)
KATE: She did it.
So...
Oh, my. Oh, my.
Oh, I know.
I'm so happy to see you. So happy.
I can only imagine what you've been through.
First things first.
All right. Uh...
BENEDICT: This is Curtain. Stand down.
Stand down. The Emergency is over.
Stand down.
I repeat. Stand down.
-Standing down. -(radio clicks)
How was that?
I tried so hard to get here,
but I knew it wouldn't be about me getting here in time.
I knew it was you who would save us.
Not the adults. Not me. You.
We are so lucky to have found you.
Number Two and Rhonda should just be just moments away.
Please go. You've done your part.
Are you sure you're okay? We could stay.
For the reckoning.
I will be okay.
This is my part.
Now, go, go, go.
Um...
-How could you even walk in here after... -How could you do this to children?
-...all this time as though you are right. -I mean not just the moral implications...
-Mister Good, who will set everything... -...but the recklessness over such...
-...who will set everything straight... -...a period of time. Did you think...
-...for his misguided brother... -...for a second where this was headed?
-...not taking one minute... -Or where it might take us...
-...to consider... -...or were you so myopic that...
That little girl is psychic, isn't she?
Perhaps.
I should have anticipated that.
Why didn't you try to reach me?
I did.
Attempting to kidnap me is not trying to reach me.
So what do you want?
To gloat, I assume?
What?
Why would you say that?
Did you really think I came here to gloat?
Are you that deeply damaged that...
I was actually happy to see you.
Despite everything.
I want to acknowledge my part in this.
The hurt you suffered because I failed to help.
Oh, really?
I'm not here to judge you, Nathaniel.
Oh. Thank you for that. That's so kind and generous of you.
I'm here to reclaim you! To reclaim us!
We're brothers.
We were so close, once.
I disappointed you...
To say the least. To say the very least!
Yes.
I didn't come back for you,
but that was partly because I needed freedom!
You always wanted to control!
To control me. To control your friends. To control everyone!
And controlling people is wrong!
Oh, really?
Well, I need to write that down.
CURTAIN: It's just like Tommy Jacobs.
What?
Tommy Jacobs.
You remember him.
From the orphanage?
Of course.
Well, then you remember he was a disaster at dancing. Right?
Hopeless.
And I remember, one year,
when we were preparing for the pageant and Tommy was just... Ooh.
Desperately clumsy, absolutely no rhythm.
But do you remember what I said to you?
Hmm?
To stay away from him.
I was literally terrified he would infect us with his incompetence.
But you said, "Why can't you just see the best in him?
Why do you have to judge him?"
And I watched how you encouraged him and how hard he worked to get better.
Of course, I thought, "Why are you wasting your time?"
But you believed in him.
And that belief built in Tommy Jacobs.
And when that pageant came around, he stepped on that stage with a smile.
And delivered the worst performance in recorded history.
Mr. Benedict? Mr. Benedict.
Yes?
What is that noise?
Oh, no. Oh, no.
REYNIE: Sorry, Mr. Benedict.
BENEDICT: We do the best we can.
And sometimes, it's good enough.
Do you feel that? A weight has been lifted.
The Emergency is gone.
And it's you who have done it.
The Helpers are returning to normal. To their family and friends.
To life as it was.
It's good to be home.
She likes you.
As much as an inscrutable being can be said to feel anything.
I understand that you were a circus performer?
Oh, yeah.
I thought I might get back to it someday.
Maybe I've outgrown it.
Lots of great people, but it gets kind of political,
acrobats versus clowns, me stuck in between...
What does it feel like?
Having no memory.
It felt like... searching.
Always searching for a word, or...
or the answer to a riddle that was right in front of me,
but just out of reach.
Do you know that feeling?
I couldn't give up, though.
Because I knew that what I was looking for was special.
Incredibly special.
I just couldn't put a name to it.
It was you, Kate.
It was always you.
And now, I...
I'm remembering more.
Bit by bit.
Interesting things.
I seem to know an incredible amount of trivia
about the building of the...
Transcontinental railroad.
MS. PERUMAL: Reynie.
Hi.
I missed you.
I am so proud of you.
I wrote you letters. In my head.
You did?
-What is it? -I wondered if...
You can ask me anything.
I want to come live with you.
I've been thinking about that, too.
There's always a reason not to do something that's... so big.
But sometimes, you realize that you just can.
That you do have room.
Have you given any thought to your continued studies?
I have spoken to my aunt...
Oh, you have? How was that?
It was fine.
I think we understood each other.
Oh, good, good.
So, what do you want to do?
You know you're more than welcome here.
Thank you, but I was hoping to go to the Boatwright Academy.
(chuckles softly) Of course.
You richly deserve that.
It's the best.
I've heard the science lab is...
Amazing.
-You'll be valued there. -(door opens)
And we'll do everything in our power to help.
Yes?
Now...
The idea of family is one that should be expansive,
and not reductive.
So, for that reason...
I see where this is going.
Constance, I have made arrangements...
Respectfully decline.
Decline?
The adoption.
Oh.
I will stay here, but let's not paper this.
Of course. Of course.
Don't worry. Just a short vacation.
You'll all be fine without me.
This is good.
We will. Where are you going?
I'm just going to indulge my passion for airshows.
Season's beginning...
Oh, I know. Sao Paolo World of Wings starts this week.
You like airshows?
Love a good airshow.
And honestly, which of them aren't good?
I could delay my departure a day, if you have interest...
-I do! -It's an exacting itinerary.
Ooh. Sounds exciting!
Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.
I can pack in two seconds.
What are you going to do?
I'm going to find him.
I won't give up on him.
That is my mission.
But for now, the most important thing is to live in the moment.
Oh...
Having us all together.
Let's just live in this moment for as long as we can, shall we?
CURTAIN: Disgrace and exile.
Perfect.
It's going to be okay.
No, S.Q.
Life has equipped you for disappointment.
And I mean that as a sincere compliment.
MAN: Are you sure I can't stow your baggage?
It might get a bit choppy.
No, don't touch them.
I suggest you let him take it.
Really?
Whisperer is just a souvenir.
Well, that's consoling.
I've got something better.
-Is this... -DR. GARRISON: Yes.
Well, this could be interesting.