(drumroll)
(rousing orchestral fanfare playing)
(fanfare ends)
MAN: See here?
This is what you need to look for.
We now know that a virus activates it.
This virus plays some unknown role
in the birth ofThe Brothers.
Of course, the mutation occurs very rarely these days.
And only in males.
Strange, isn't it?
MAN 2: Strange?
MAN: That God would choose such a humble vehicle
for a miracle.
You don't need to worry.
The Brotherhood will take him...
raise him in the church.
It's a blessing really.
He'll want for nothing.
Not like the rest of us.
(water splashing)
(baby cries)
(baby crying)
Silus...
this is your brother.
Because you share the same mother, you will help guide him
as has he grows.
We will call him Edgar.
Silus.
Welcome to the world, little brother.
(crying)
(engine rumbling)
(echoes): Silus...
(slight purring)
(water lapping)
(meows)
(metallic whirring)
(gasping)
(plunks)
(loud splash)
(electrical sizzling)
(metal clangs)
(bell tolling)
... which all led up to this
one defining moment.
300 years ago...
with these simple instruments...
the alchemist, Giuseppe D'Angelo...
discovered what we today call genetic science.
Now, he deciphered that The Brothers were in fact
a new race of beings...
sent by God...
to serve and protect you human beings.
He truly was a great, great man.
But there were others, bad men...
who took what D'Angelo had discovered
and experimented without concern for the end results.
The science of genetics and all its power
has been banned ever since.
Who can tell me what came from these bad experiments?
Yes?
All the bad things...
like plagues and influenza.
That's right.
All the bad things.
(sizzling)
(gurgling, sizzling)
I think perhaps this is beyond us.
We should inform the authorities...
the... human beings
about Edgar.
For now, The Brothers feel that we should deal with this ourselves.
Have you thought about what would happen
if they found out we were covering up these deaths?
Which is why you must find him, Silus.
Listen to me.
For centuries, we Brothers have served mankind
and them us-
the great union.
But you need to remember your history.
300 years ago when our kind were first born into this world...
they burnt our children as monsters.
They had no notion of evolution.
In another world, we might all have been slaughtered
only to be remembered in myth-
monsters to frighten the young...
a puzzle for anthropologists.
We must refuse to let one aberrant individual
destroy the balance between the two races.
Nothing has changed.
The old prejudices are still there.
Human beings are paranoid
creatures by nature.
Perhaps they have good reason.
Silus, simply concern yourself with finding Edgar.
Find your brother so we can help him...
before he kills again.
(thunder booming)
On three, gents.
One, two...
Police!
Get down! Down, down, down!
Don't move!
Don't you dare!
Drop it.
Jones!
- Well, it's downstairs. - What do you mean influenza vaccines?
I give 'em out. I make sure everyone gets one.
That's a lie.
We know you've been trading influenza vaccine
- in the workhouses. - Lil.
I think you should see this.
I'd wear a mask if I were you.
(water dripping)
(groans)
WOMAN: Please.
Please...
I'm sick.
Please.
Look at me, you fucking liar.
L-I gave them their booster.
- Both of them. - Bullshit.
I am a respectable landlord!
I swear to God!
This is a civil health violation.
You're going to the hell house for this.
I don't even know what you're on about.
I have done nothing. I swear to God.
I have done nothing.
There's bullshit.
Honestly, the only bullshit, mate, is whoever
you've been talking to. I have done nothing.
JONES: Where are the fucking vaccines?
It's my pleasure to inform you that you are under arrest
for trafficking influenza vaccine.
I want my lawyer.
This is a violation of the 1210 Health Act...
whereby you've withheld borough-sponsored vaccine
from your tenants.
I want a lawyer.
Anything you say will be used as evidence against you.
And by endangering the public good...
you're not entitled to a lawyer.
There's just one other thing.
Come on.
(indistinct shouting)
(horn honking)
Come on.
I'll get out here.
You sure?
Yeah.
Jones, is she all right?
Yeah.
Lilly's kid.
Died of the influenza, didn't it?
She never said anything about a kid.
No.
No, she never says anything.
(thunder crashes)
(winding)
CHILD'S VOICE: Mommy!
Mom!
(rapid stomping)
Come now!
WOMAN: Oh, will you kids shut up and leave me alone!
(indistinct conversations)
MAN: Any work?! Can you help me?!
Anybody got any work?!
(indistinct shouting)
(screaming)
No! No!
(grunting)
Where are you going in such
a hurry, my little my little ruffian, eh?
What's going on here?
What did you do to her?
I didn't do nothing. It was a Brother.
It was a Brother did it.
Dear God.
(siren wailing)
(indistinct shouting)
Get a picture.
Ma'am, ma'am, The Tribune.
- Do you have any comments on the dead? - No.
Well, they're saying it was a Brother.
- Arrest her. - Arrest? Arrest me?
COP: Come, madam. Keep quiet now.
Who do you think you're- Keep your hands off me.
COP: Ah, shut your mouth.
- What's going on, mate?! - Calm down.
Find me witnesses and shut them up.
Can I step in?
Yes, if you like.
Lil.
- Hello, Dominic. - Have you seen it?
It's a bite.
There's a kid who saw her down there.
Says it was a Brother.
I've got another witness. That's all who saw it.
All right, Jones, let's close this down.
None of you to say a word, not even to your own mother.
A Brother accused of murder. Can you imagine if this got out?
COP: Getting tired of this. You're gonna talk...
You saw what happened?
Now he won't talk. He didn't see anything.
What's your name, then?
Elbert.
You live around here?
I grew up three streets from here.
Matson Lane. It's Grommer's Workhouse.
You did?
Or should I say, I crawled out of here.
No one else will do anything about this, you know?
They just think this place is a slum.
No one really cares what happens
to the people around here.
Except for maybe you.
And me.
Now, what did you see?
A man.
What kind of man?
A Brother.
You sure it was a Brother?
Where did he go?
Up there.
(exhales deeply)
All right, you need to go with these men.
They'll look after you, I promise.
Get him to describe it all, and keep him away from everyone.
Come on, son. Let's go.
And get him some food.
(hissing)
I've quarantined the neighborhood.
As far as anyone knows, we have a new influenza outbreak.
Sit, sit.
You've done well, Lilly.
But the reporter's another problem.
By law, we have two days before we have
to release her- then it's out.
I want you to handle these murders, Lilly.
You know Jamestown better than anyone.
The Brotherhood have requested to be part of the investigation.
Now, this is political.
(exhales deeply)
Lil.
He's here.
Do you know who he is?
That's Brother Silus.
They say one day he'll lead The Brotherhood.
He's a great man.
Yeah, I think I hear choir music.
- Do you have respect for any... - Hey.
My old mum goes to the church three times a week and gives her blood.
She's happy as a lark.
Just don't expect me to kiss him.
(loud tapping)
(loud rustling)
Senior Brother Edgar.
How long have you known about this?
Matter of weeks.
Is something wrong?
Yes.
Withholding evidence, covering up two murders
and no one's worried.
If I, or one of the people in Jamestown did that...
we'd be in the Hell House with the key thrown away.
Seems the Church is able to do whatever it wants.
You're right not to like it.
It is political.
We thought we could catch Brother Edgar ourselves.
We were wrong.
But now any debate is pointless.
(sighs): All right, then...
what do you suggest?
First there's something you should hear.
Gentlemen, there's no other way of putting this.
We have just two days
- to find the suspect. - Not a hope in hell...
He's right- don't even know where to begin.
Now, what you're about to hear will not leave this room.
Understand?
Everyone?
This is Brother Silus.
Thank you, Captain.
Could we have the plate, please?
Senior Brother Edgar.
Until three weeks ago...
he was a trusted and talented theologian and scientist.
What did he do?
He was personally responsible
for developing the most recent influenza antivirals.
It's because of him that most of you are alive today.
His behavior appeared normal.
Next.
The victims: John Anders...
Tanya Garfield...
Julie Danes.
All in their early 20s...
but beyond that, no obvious connection.
There is no precedent for Brother Edgar's behavior.
No Brother has ever taken a human life.
Not in the 300 years since we began.
Not one.
Our role has been to preserve and maintain a human life...
not take it.
Next he'll want a fucking medal.
What I am saying to you is that Brother Edgar's
behavior is aberrant- we don't understand it...
and therefore it's difficult to predict.
The only thing we do know is where he will strike next.
And how do you know that?
(woman sobbing)
WOMAN: Please!
- No more! - EDGAR: Quiet. Quiet!
- (knife scraping, stabbing) - Shit. Shut up!
(stabbing, gagging)
(stabbing, gagging continue)
(clattering)
EDGAR: Good. Now you're quiet.
Did you hear that, Silus?
Do you like the game we are playing?
Just like a game from our childhood.
Hide-and-seek.
There is a group of buildings
around a sad playground.
It's called Bridge Square.
I will take the next one from there.
(Edgar chuckles)
Please, try harder this time.
Please...
try harder, my brother.
(clattering)
He sent this to you...
specifically?
We share the same mother.
There is a bond.
LILLY: Map!
Okay, there'll be two teams.
Frank, I want
you and Abernathy around the buildings in Bridge Square.
I'll lead the other two with Dominic, Jones
Queen's Guard and Support.
He's to be taken alive.
(metallic squeaking, creaking)
(squeaking, creaking continue)
(electrical zapping)
- SILUS: Yes? - Anything?
No.
We're in position.
This is a dud.
Frank?
Yeah, Lil?
- Anything? - Not a thing.
Check each floor again.
You heard- one more for the empire.
(muffled voice nearby)
(muffled voices)
(shrieks)
(rattling)
(clattering)
(quiet, echoed breathing)
(grunts)
(quiet squeak)
(muffled grunting, yelling)
Lil?
- Lil? - Frank.
- He's on the sixth floor. - Let's go.
(vicious growl)
Move! Come on! Come on!
Lock it down.
(exhales)
Clear.
(grunting)
(panting): Lilly?
(muffled panting)
Lil?
Lilly!
You're so strong.
(banging)
(grunts)
Aw, shit.
Lilly's hurt!
Lilly's hurt.
She's hurt.
She's dying.
She's dying!
He's in the ventilation shaft.
She's dying!
(groans)
No.
Stay away from her.
Stay away, or I'll stick you.
Do you want me to save her?
(knife slicing)
Stop fighting, Lilly.
Fall back now.
He's getting away!
Quiet.
He's going up.
(panting)
(gunshot)
(whirring, glass breaking)
(gun cocks)
Get out of my way.
No.
Bang.
(roars)
Antibiotics.
They say it's like an animal bite.
I want to thank you.
We all caught Edgar.
I don't mean that.
The blood.
They say it saved my life.
Is it true that people who go to church are given your blood?
Sometimes the rituals call for it.
Some say they have visions from it.
That it restores their health.
So smooth.
It's healed already.
In some ways, my body is like a human embryo.
Cells regenerate quickly.
(thunder cracks)
It's why we live so long.
Will someone come for you?
- Your family? - I don't have anyone.
Not anymore.
I see.
Influenza.
My husband was quick.
My daughter, Mary, her little body
fought for a long time.
I just waited. Hoped.
In the end, you realize how cruel hope is...
and you just want it to stop.
Not for her sake, but for my own.
I'm so sorry.
Do we seem pathetic to you?
No.
Fragile.
Worn down by nature.
But you fight back.
Yes. We're good at that.
I think yours will be a good life to watch, Lilly.
Good-bye.
Nicely done.
You're more human than I thought.
Fucking cover-up.
(bell tolling)
Silus, you know Professor Liepsky.
How is he?
See for yourself.
(electrical zapping)
SILUS: Is the brace necessary?
He decapitated a guard when they brought him in here
even though he was sedated.
He says he will drink us all dry.
Insane then?
Not quite.
No, go on.
Brother Silus will soon be part
of the inner circle ofThe Brotherhood.
You should know this.
He's become infected.
Let me show you.
(roaring)
If she wasn't restrained, she would try to kill you.
But don't worry. It's only transmissible
through their blood.
- We designed it that way. - Designed?
Genetically designed.
Edgar was experimenting with a virus that created
new Brothers.
It was sanctioned by The Brotherhood.
Since when do they sanction such things?
Since not one Brother's been born in 70 years.
And never a female of your kind from which we could breed.
And we need to breed more Brothers.
You bring hope to the world.
Something for the people to believe in.
This is what Edgar was doing, Silus.
Trying to genetically control the birth of Brothers.
And Edgar was successful.
Each of these women carried
a Brother for a time.
But the virus changed.
Most of them are dead now
and these will die, too, soon.
Edgar may be the first Brother to ever die.
But before that...
his brain would wither like these women.
Containment will be the issue.
The police officer, Lilly-
Did he infect her with this?
No. She was very lucky.
But it's in Edgar's blood and always will be.
(door closes)
Hello, my Brother.
Like what they've done for me, Silus?
You're safe.
We'll help you if we can.
I am only being what I was meant to be.
How can you help me from that?
Or is it that you want to tame me?
To brainwash me?
Animal or vegetable...
are those my options, Silus?
Brother...
I want to share the feeling with you.
To feel their blood flow
till every last drop is yours.
Until that weak...
- (gushing) - Pointless, little
pump...
finally stops.
The one I had-
Policewoman. She was so strong.
I found it hard to leave her.
Is she dead?
She survived.
Good.
I will have her again.
No, Edgar.
You won't touch her.
You've chosen to watch over her.
You want her, don't you?
I can see it in your eyes.
You're just... like... me.
I will pray for your cure, brother.
(bangs loudly)
(breathing heavily)
Pray for my cure.
I will get out of here
and I will make you join me, brother.
I will make you see.
I will see you drink your policewoman
right through.
(banging loudly, grunting)
(thunder rumbling, rain falling)
Go, go, go, go, go.
Nobody move, nobody move.
(all shouting)
Get off me!
(scraping loudly)
(breathing heavily)
(grunts)
I hate it when he does that.
Stop that
or we'll use the gas.
(crackling)
Come on, move it.
Get in there.
Get in the car, get in the car.
(banging)
If you don't stop doing that, we'll turn the gas on now.
You hear me?
I knocked.
TVANNOUNCER: He will now be the highest ranking cardinal outside...
So what's this, then?
My apartment was condemned.
Keep your hair on, what's left of it.
Shh.
You have been an opponent of those wanting an easing
in the ban on genetic research.
- SILUS: Yes. - Isn't he amazing?
- A saint. - Quiet.
WOMAN: They would say you're denying legitimate research
into a science that would change the world.
The Church does not deny the potential...
only the motivations of those who want to exploit it
and the fact that we understand so little of its power.
WOMAN: With the elimination of influenza...
are we approaching a new era
where disease might be a thing of the past?
SILUS: Disease is a part of nature.
It will always be a part of our lives.
(scoffs): How true.
WOMAN: Brother Silus' confirmation ceremony will be held today
in Sacred Chapel of St. Augustine.
I dimmed the lights to try and calm him.
- (snaps fingers) - Light.
We gassed him as usual.
We waited ten minutes.
He must have held his breath.
Go back now.
Go back.
Everything's all right.
Breathe deeply.
Go back now.
Go on.
Move back.
The blood flows through them to us, and we preserve them...
preserve the blood we are bound to protect.
Today, my brother enters the history books...
Professor.
Tonight, all the Brothers
will be with him.
Let the blood be one and the two races join
as the perfect creature.
What a wonderful time for me
to celebrate.
(grunts)
- Open your mouth. - No.
Open your mouth.
(shuddering)
Open your mouth.
Take some.
Take some!
(gagging)
(doors opening)
(alarm beeping)
WOMAN: Hello? Hello?
Hello?
(gasps)
You won't be taking any more calls today.
(screaming)
Now he carries this thing out into the world.
Can you imagine what will happen if he infects others?
If these experiments are to become known?
He said he'd kill us all, but especially the police officer.
Lilly.
(indistinct shouting)
Papers! Papers!
Get your papers.
(chickens clucking, pigs squealing)
MAN: Get the fuck down on your knees now.
Would you like me to cut your tongue out?
Do you want me to cut you?
Get the fuck down on the ground. You've been ripping me off.
- No... - Yes, you have.
Me and everybody else.
- (whimpers) - Yes, you have!
I might cut your nose off.
No, I think I'll cut your tongue off.
Maybe I'll just cut your whole face off.
Police!
Put the knife down.
It's okay, Officer, I'm...
- I'm complying. - Put it down now.
Doing it.
Down.
Right now, down on the ground.
Aw...
- I'm getting wet now. - Shut up.
Put your hands behind your back.
(screams)
What's wrong?
- You brought me the wrong one. - Does it matter?
One's as good as the next.
Open her mouth.
Old boy...
y-you promised I could have some of that.
(panting)
What do you see, Freddy?
Visions?
Can you see your future?
- Hey! - Don't be a greedy pig...
Freddy.
You have to earn it.
We have more to do.
Shopkeeper heard some yelling.
Went to see, found this.
One witness, a prostitute...
she identified this fine citizen.
We think maybe he... had a grudge or was crazy.
It's Edgar.
What do you mean it's Edgar?
I know, and he's got Steph.
She's not what he was after.
It was me he was after, wasn't it?
Yes. He'll come for you, Lilly.
All right, then we put you somewhere safe.
We seal off this place, shooters on the roof...
He'll know. He'll see and hear it.
It has to be me. It has to be here.
It's what he wants. It's the only chance Steph's got.
- Steph's already dead. - No.
It has to be here. It can't be too easy...
but he has to be able to get in.
He mustn't suspect a thing.
That is the way it will be.
I will be the bait.
Help me.
(panting)
Please, I'm sick. Help me.
Don't fucking touch me.
Hey!
Where's he gone now?
(sniffing)
What are you doing?
(floorboards creaking)
(fluttering)
- What is it, Jones? - Shh.
Stay here.
(sighs)
(mechanical whirring)
(panting)
(groaning)
- (glass shattering) - Cover me.
I got you.
- (grunting) - (gasping)
Lilly!
The policewoman.
(grunting): Silus will take my...
Give her to me.
Lilly.
Give her to me.
Come to me, Lilly.
(grunts)
(grunting)
(grunts)
(Lilly screams)
Fuck, where are you?
(coughing)
(mumbling): You, bitch, by doing whatever you want.
You said you'd come... Shit.
You scared the shit out of me.
That policewoman, she's really sick.
Tell you the truth...
I don't feel so hot myself.
I want you to take her
and put her where she'll be found.
But I'm sick!
Freddy.
She's given me something...
(grunting)
What did I say, Freddy?
Not to test my name.
(panting)
"Everything flows from me.
My blood will change the world."
(panting)
(train passing in distance)
(train passing)
Stephanie Richards, you just brought her in.
(indistinct voices)
(grunting)
(grunting and moaning)
No!
(grunting and moaning)
DOCTOR: I've never seen anything like this.
It's spreading like wildfire.
Will she recover?
No. Containment is the problem now.
She's insane.
And we've had more cases.
Ten in the last hour.
What is this?
Edgar shared his blood with them.
Are you telling me that he's out there
spreading this around?
He'll give it to Lilly.
Jones, back off.
This is spreading?
Brother Silus?
That's it, Lilly's dead.
- No, he'll keep her alive. - Why?
So that I will come for him.
That's what he wants.
We found this on her.
"Everything flows from me.
My blood will change the world."
What does that mean?
(screaming and moaning)
(screaming)
WOMAN (on radio): This new plague now rages
out of control in theJamestown slums.
Sources close to the police
report this plague as the result of genetic experimentation
by The Brothers.
The government has decreed that everyone
within the quarantine zone must stay within their homes.
Any residents caught trying to escape
the quarantine zone will be shot.
The queen is reported to have left the city.
This is martial law.
We've roped up this section.
Containing theJamestown slums.
(engine roaring)
(distant, muffled screaming)
It almost sounds like children playing.
Don't you think?
No.
I looked at your body.
You have borne a child.
Did you abandon it?
Your race are good at that.
Why don't you just kill me?
(groaning)
I can see why he likes you.
But I have a better use for you.
To save you, Silus will take my blood
and join me.
You're insane.
The world is insane.
I am better than you, yet I am forced to serve you.
Forced to watch you waste
the most precious thing you have.
Life.
Do you know the sum of our existence?
When we're born...
we are taken from our mothers...
forced into a life of...
Ioneliness and denial.
A life born only to serve.
Can you imagine
a life like that?
You don't have to do this.
You can change things.
Change things?
(roars)
I will.
I will make the world
a very... different... place.
(crowd clamoring)
EDGAR: Do you like the world I'm creating for us, Silus?
I haven't hurt
your policewoman yet, but I will.
Soon.
You'll just have to find me.
It's like a game, my brother.
Everything flows from me.
You should think about that.
Think harder.
The infection is spreading.
Each day, he shares his blood with more of them.
Even though they are locked in their own homes.
He's somewhere in the quarantine zone.
I will find him.
Clear.
So very clear, your eyes.
The way they were when you were born.
There will be no search.
No search?
The Brotherhood has instructed the government
to evacuate the city around the quarantine zone.
Once this has been completed...
we will take action.
What kind of action?
Eradication.
Everything within the area will be burned...
including Edgar.
It is a necessary step.
And the innocents there who are not infected?
We cannot allow this to escape.
No.
No!
Silus!
Is it the policewoman?
Is this affecting your thinking?
There is no love for our kind, Silus.
Only service.
We have done this...
released this- this thing into the world.
We have betrayed their trust in us more than once.
I will not do it again!
There is no debate.
They will be sacrificed so the rest will be pure.
These are hard things that we do.
But you must think of the greater good.
And of your own future.
(footsteps receding)
(thunder cracks)
What do you want?
I want to help you.
They know you talked to the press.
Yeah, well, they can fuck off.
For that matter, so can you.
You'd be the last person I'd trust.
Why?
I saw you, remember?
Watching Lilly while she was asleep.
Maybe you're just like your brother.
Maybe you know where he is.
Now, there's a thought.
Huh?
Do you know where he is, hmm?
How you've changed.
Not on the outside, but the inside.
I know you.
(gasps)
I'm trying to help you.
(sizzling)
Coffee's ready.
EDGAR: You know where I am.
Everything flows from me.
Do you have a map?
There's their quarantine zone.
It's a pit.
Slums.
The water supply, where is it?
There.
All the old suburbs are supplied
by their own artesian wells.
Mineral springs.
That's why it hasn't broken out ofJamestown.
It's in the water.
Jamestown's water.
He's there.
With Lilly.
(drilling, mechanical clanking)
(men chattering, shouting)
You'll never get in.
They've circled the whole borough.
I will get in.
You must go to the press, tell them about the water...
tell them what The Brothers will do.
You're dead after this. You know that.
Whatever happens.
Watch for me, OfficerJones.
(clattering, woman screams in distance)
Who has done this, Brother?
We have.
(clattering)
- I have something to show you. - (thunder rumbles softly)
(thunder cracks)
MAN (over megaphone): This is theJamestown Police.
You must all return to your homes.
(footsteps approaching)
(loud bang in distance)
He's coming.
He's coming for you.
(chains rattling)
(grunting)
(banging in distance)
(grunting)
(growling)
LILLY: Silus!
Silus! Down here!
Silus!
(grunts)
(gasps)
(growling)
(grunting)
(growling)
(screams)
(growling)
(grunting)
(gagging growls)
(grunts)
(grunting)
- (grunting) - Where is she?
Where is she?!
She's mine now!
(panting)
(groans)
Silus, please!
Where is she?
(hissing)
Where, Edgar?
(hissing)
- (groaning) - (grunting)
(screaming)
(grunts)
(hissing)
(grunts)
(panting)
If I burned the skin from your face...
how would that be?
If you were a monster...
(panting)
(hissing)
(soft groan)
(rumble)
(clattering)
(gasps)
(gasping)
(quiet choking)
(gasps)
(thwack)
(hissing)
(thudding)
(hissing)
(birds singing)
What is it?
In there.
What, is something wrong?
No.
(both panting)
But there's something very precious.
(panting)
You must take it.
Keep it secret.
(panting)
Don't let them touch it.
I don't understand.
You will.
You... will.
(panting)
Hurry.
(exhales loudly)
(baby crying)
She is the first of her kind.
(crying)
Whatever infected the people helped
make her.
She is an accident.
- Shh, shh, shh. - A miracle.
(crying)
Come before they find her.
(crying continues)
(inhales and exhales loudly)
(baby crying)
We must go.
(baby crying)
SILUS: Do you see it?
Can you see this perfect creature?
And I have hidden her away from them...
far away from The Brotherhood and its lies.
(steam hissing)
And me...
I am hunted.
A heretic.
But I will fight them now.