The Tomorrow People : Season 2
Episode 1 - Dead Like Me
Starring: Robbie Amell. Peyton List. Luke Mitchell. Aaron Yoo. Madeline Mantock. Mark Pellegrino. with Alexa Vega and Simon Merrells.
Guest Starring: Leven Rambin . Shawn Roberts with Mekenna Melvin (as Jessica) and Sarah Clarke.
My name is Stephen Jameson. I am one of the Tomorrow People, the next step in human evolution. They call our powers the three Ts: telepathy... telekinesis and teleportation. There was a war going on between us and a secret organisation Ultra. But we won. We now live in peace and our kind is growing stronger than ever...
Night has fallen. A woman walks out of an apartment building in a long red leather jacket, jeans and boots. She shields her face as if someone may notice her at a glance. Her long dark hair has been tied into a ponytail. She approaches a car and looks around for anyone else. The coast is clear. She smirks to herself as she puts her hand close to the window of the car and it opens. She checks around once again and then slips in. She checks and finds the keys in the glove compartment and slots the key in and the car roars into action.
"You don't wanna do that," comes a voice. The woman jumps at the sound and slams the door shut. "You really don't wanna do that," The woman looks round to see a man sat in the passengers seat. She tries the door but it won't open.
"Help! Somebody help me!" she cries. The man laughs at her unsuccessful effort. She glances back at him. "Teleport" she whispers. She closes her eyes and concentrates hard. "Teleport,"
"Try all you like," the man smirks. "It won't work." The woman opens her eyes.
"Who...who are you?" The man leans in close to her. He has piercing blue eyes. He's dressed in a black suit with a white shirt underneath. He smells of cologne.
"My name...my name is..." the woman frowns. He just stares past her, like he's preoccupied. After several moments, he looks up at her. "My name doesn't matter," he continues. "But yours is."
"I'm not telling you shit," the woman declares. She looks at him harshly. "Who are you? Why don't my powers work?" he clears his throat.
"Well. Come with me and I'll tell you," he holds his hand out. She backs away from it. "It'll be OK. Just trust me." She shakes her head. He sighs and then in a split second, he grabs her hand and she lets out a scream before they disappear completely.
Ultra Building AKA "The Refuge" - NEXT DAY
Cara sits in the Founders chair stiffly. She places her head high, her arms on the table. Well, what's left of it. She wriggles about. Something about this all just feels...wrong. The office is still burnt. Next door the rest are still partying. Like they were last night and the night before that. Music blaring, alcohol out and dodgy dancing. To believe a place they'd been fearing for so long had now become their safe haven. Cara lets out a deep sigh before getting up and looking at the chair. She bites her lip.
"What's wrong?" comes Stephen's voice. Cara swings round.
"Nothing. Well, nothing important." Stephen looks at the chair and then at Cara.
"Y'know, you don't have to have that chair. We can get a cool couch in here." Cara opens her mouth as if she's about to speak and then she thinks over what he's just said.
"Your right," she turns to the chair and extends her arm out and flings it too the right. The chair slides to the right, mirroring Cara's image and bashes against the wall. "Couch it is," Stephen laughs. "What?"
"Ahh. Nothing," she shrugs her shoulders.
"It just doesn't feel right," she says. "I still...feel like he's here." Stephen looks at the floor. His final battle with The Founder was a tough one. Stephen still couldn't get over the fact he'd actually beaten the man. But that didn't matter. Stephen wanted to avenge people The Founder had killed. Stephen had to avenge his father. Cassie. Hillary. The Founder wanted to wipe out billions. He had to be stopped.
"He's definitely not. I saw it with my own eyes Cara. The man is dead." Cara nods.
"Maybe it's just me being paranoid," she shrugs and walks through to the next room where everyone else is still partying. "I'm still surprised noone else has come back from Ultra. Wasn't this what they worked against?"
"They were just doing their jobs. Anyway. How would they be able to take all of us down?" Cara grins.
"They wouldn't." Stephen repeats.
"Are your Mum and Luca back yet?"
"Nope. But they are on their way. Just been visiting some places."
"Do...do they know-"
"-not yet. But you never know. My mum could have read my mind for all I know." Cara looks at him. He has a glint of sorrow in his eye.
"He gave his life for us. We are all in your debt."
"It's what he would have wanted," Stephen says. "Any word on John?" Cara looks down at the mention of his name.
"None. I can't read him anywhere. Nothing."
The woman and man suddenly appear inside a lab. The woman breaks free from the man's grasp and tries to run away. She looks around frantically for an exit. All she see's are tables filled with equipment ranging from Bunsen burners to test tubes.
"John. I see you've bought me who I need," a voice comes from the shadows. A man, mid forties steps out. He wears a white lab coat. He smiles at her and she backs away to the wall. "Hello Jessica. I'm Dr. Price," he holds his hand out as he steps closer. She shakes her head and begins to cry. "Don't cry,"
"Who are you people?" she whimpers. John steps in and places a hand on her shoulder. She smacks it away and runs to the other side of the room. She grabs a Bunsen burner and holds it to them. "Don't touch me!" she cries, tears streaming down her face. Neither of the men look worried in the slightest. Jedikiah steps towards her with his arms up.
"You won't hurt me Jessica. You can't," she frowns. He turns to John."She doesn't know." he steps closer. Jessica lets out a freakish squeal before turning on the Bunsen burner. Fire spouts out the opening towards Jedikiah. The fire closes in but when it's just about to hit Jedikiah, it stops. He grins. John behind him holds out his hand. He concentrates his sight on the flames and prevents them from burning the man. Jessica eyes begin twitching. Her hands begin to shake uncontrollably. All of a sudden, a painful headache takes her and she drops the Bunsen burner to the floor. She grabs her head and scrunches up her eyes. The fire stops and John relaxes.
"That's why you shouldn't play with fire." John mumbles.
"You're new to this Jessica. You don't know what your powers can do. You don't know what you are. But I do," Jessica lifts her eyes slowly as the pain begins to subside. "Your gifted. Your a tomorrow person." He extends his hand to her again. She's still uncertain, but after several moments she grabs it.
"...A tomorrow person?" she asks.
"Yes. Those powers of yours, we call them the three T's. Telepathy. Telekinesis and Teleportation." Jessica looks over his shoulder at John.
"He's one too?" she points.
"Yes. Yes he is," Jedikiah answers. "Your probably wondering why you're here. Well, my friend John here has a mission. A very difficult mission. It requires someone to go undercover. That's where you come in Jessica."
"Undercover? Who are you two? Secret agents?" Jedikiah laughs at this remark.
"Very much the opposite. That's John,by the way. We've got some people we have a few...issues with."
Pitch black. All of it it just...pitch black. The sound of nothing. Just one man floating for eternity. A dead man that didn't die. No matter how much he tries to shout or cry for help, he can't. No voice comes out of his mouth. Silence. Bitter silence. But he will never give up. Not until the world he craved so much is finished. His face half burned off. The Founder will return.
Stephen closes the door to his house. He walks into the living room and collapses on the sofa. He lets out a loud sigh and fetches the remote and turns the TV on. The image pops on to the local news. A man stands giving the forecast. Apparently their likely to get a fair few showers in the next week. Stephen grunts. Great. When everything's great it decides to chuck it down. Typical. He gets up and goes into the kitchen. He opens the fridge and grabs a soda. He turns round and see's a blonde woman. Though this isn't just some random woman. She stands there in a green blouse and a pencil skirt. She shakes her head at him.
"Bored are we?" Stephen drops the soda and it smashes on the floor. Soda goes everywhere. He closes his eyes and opens them again, but she's still there. "Are you feeling OK?" he goes closer to her. She looks at him with a puzzled look. "Stephen?"
"Hillary?"
"Stephen," she goes to touch him. Both of their eyes follow her fingers until it makes contact with his skin. "Real." their eyes look up and meet.
"But you died. I saw you die." she puts the finger to his lips.
"Does it matter? I'm here right here, right now." she leans in and kisses him. Everything so very real. He kisses her back. He touches her cheeks. Real. His hand slides down her back. The pair begin backing back into the living room. Hillary drops to the sofa and unbuttons her blouse. Stephen takes off his shirt and climbs on top of her. She's real.
"Stephen. We need you back at the Refuge" comes Cara's voice telepathically. Stephen ignores her and carries on. Now Cara's voice sounds very worried "Stephen! Help us!" Stephen stops kissing Hillary and jumps up.
"Stephen?" Hillary sits up confused.
"It's Cara. There's something going on," he grabs his shirt. "Come with me." he says. Hillary's mouth opens as if she was about to say something. She looks away from him and stands up. She makes a fist and puts it to her mouth. "Hillary?"
"I can't Stephen!" she cries. "I can't teleport ."
"What? Why not?"
"Because...cause I'm not actually here." Stephen's eyes widen.
"I knew it was too good to be true," he sighs. "You're...dead?" Hillary sits back down and stares into space.
"Not exactly,"
Jessica sits on one of the lab benches watching Jedikiah fill test tubes with various substances.
"What are you doing? What is that stuff?" he mixes the solution and places it in a metallic bowl over the Bunsen burner.
"This is what is going to block the other's out of your head." he tells her.
"So let me just go over what you told me. There are these people with the "Three T's" called the "Tomorrow People" that live out of sight from humans. And something about human evolution or whatever crap that is," Jedikiah grunts at her statement. "You need me to go into some dump by the subway and play happy family with them and then lead them right to you."
"You've got it." John says. He's at the bench opposite. He fiddles with a handgun. He checks the ammo and places a silencer on the end.
"So...in a way their kinda like the X-Men." Jessica concludes. Jedikiah stops working at her statement. He ponders on what she has just said and nods.
"Basically...yeah." he tells her. Jessica jumps off the lab bench and wanders round aimlessly. She glances at what John's doing and looks him up and down. She hadn't really had the chance before because she was to busy screaming and trying to avoid the guy. He's tall, blonde, well built. But who is he? She stands next to him and observes his work. He begins to chuckle.
"Gettin' a bit close?" he says and Jessica looks him in the eye. Those blue eyes.
"Why? Are you uncomfortable?" she gives him a wink and nudges his arm. "I forgot to ask. Why did you guys come after me for your secret mission?"
"I heard you."
"What do you mean? Was I really that loud? Was the car alarm goin' off?"
"Na. I heard you," he points to her head. She nods and laughs.
"Of course. Tomorrow People,"
"Exactly,"
"So...exactly what did you hear?"
"I heard that you were strong, fresh and capable."
"Capable?"
"You can get the job done. Say, why were you stealing that car anyway?"
"I...have a few problems with some people. A bit like you guys and the other Tomorrow People."
Jedikiah walks up to them shaking around a test tube. It contains a purple like liquid. He inspects it on his way over with a gleeful look on his face. That evil scientist look.
"Done. Now if you could drink this for me we can work on stage two." Jessica looks at the liquid.
"Just one more thing. What do I get out of this situation?" John and Jedikiah look at each other.
"You need cash?" John asks. Jessica nods. "Then cash it is. How's one hundred thousand?" Jessica's eyes lighten up. She grabs the test tube and gulps it down.
"One hundred thousands great."
Stephen appears outside the Refuge. No sign of forced entry or damage from outside. Though, Stephen just continues to think about his recent meeting with Hillary. Exactly what was that? Stephen runs inside. He runs up the stairs. Still nothing. No screaming. He runs into the main office area where he left Cara and the others and it's empty. The place isn't wrecked. Well, apart from the load of beer cans, smashed glass from the bomb explosion, toilet roll thrown around everywhere. Everything looked fine. Stephen walks into Cara's office and it's empty as well. All of a sudden, Stephen hears a gust of wind coming from behind him. He swings around and in the doorway stands Natalie holding Cara by the neck. She has a gun pressed to her temple. Cara struggles in Natalie's grasp.
"Stephen Jameson. Bit late to the party aren't we?" Natalie says. Stephen steps towards them and Natalie presses the gun harder into Cara's temple. "I don't think so. Make another move and I'll shoot the bitch for a second time." A puzzled expression comes over Cara's face. She can't remember because it didn't happen. But how did Natalie?
"I have no idea what you're talking about,"Stephen stands with his hands up. "What do you want Natalie?"
"I want you Stephen," Natalie says. "I want your power. Your able to stop time. Stop certain things from ever happening."
"But I can't do that all the time."
"I want to trade. Cara for you."
"What do you plan to do with me?"
"You'll find that out when you come with me. Or would you rather I blow a hole in this bitch?"
"OK, Ok. I'll go with you." Stephen backs away. Natalie pulls the gun away slowly from Cara. Cara slowly edges away from her. Stephen places his hands behind his back. The chair. He begins to move with chair with his telekinesis. Natalie doesn't appear to notice. Natalie throws her arms back and the force sends Cara flying to the floor. In the blink of an eye, Natalie disappears. But she doesn't return.
"Stephen. You shouldn't of done that," Cara says. "How do you think they got through all of us? It's not just Natalie. There are more."
Behind Stephen, The Founder's former first in command appears. Cara remembers fighting him outside the Ultra building allowing Stephen to find The Founder. He grabs Stephen and the two vanish.
Astrid presses the button to signal the traffic lights. Rain begins falling and she looks up. The sky is plastered with dark clouds. The rain gets heavier in a matter of seconds. She pulls her hood up as the beeping goes off signalling her to cross the road. She see's people around her talking on the phone, walking their dog, pushing prams and more. These people didn't know the world was going to end not that long ago. They didn't even know. She takes cover under a shop entrance. Her hood dripping she pulls it back and fetches her phone from her pocket. She looks through her contacts and comes to the letter "J". Under that is John. She bites her lower lip. No one knows what happened to him. Did he just get up and leave? Did he just want to start over? She scrolls down and finds Stephen's number. She rings it but no one picks up. Maybe he didn't hear it. Astrid rings it again. This time someone picks up. But it's not Stephen.
"Hello?" comes a woman's voice.
"Oh! Hey Mrs Jameson. It's Astrid.I was just wondering if Stephen's there?"
"He's not actually. We've just got back and his phone was just on the couch."
"Oh. Are you and Luca alright?"
"We're fine thank you. I don't suppose you know where my husband is either do you?" Astrid's mouth opens. She doesn't know he's dead.
"No idea. I've gotta go, it's just started chucking down and-"
"-oh! Sorry Astrid, I'll let you go. Bye."
"Bye!" Astrid hangs up and puts her head in her hands. She felt butterflies in her stomach. Why hadn't Stephen told her yet? Where was Stephen? Astrid pops her hood up and continues walking. She passes people running quickly into shelter. The rain was still coming down hard. A finger then touches Astrid on the shoulder and she jumps. She turns round and her jaw feels as if it's dropped to the floor.
"You're...you're dead." Hillary stands there, hair soaking wet.
"You...you killed me."
THE TOMORROW PEOPLE .
Next Episode Sunday!
