- So, did you find Skinner? - Babylonia City.
At the homeless community.
- Are you kidding? That's practically right next door!
♪
- Aw, yeah!
- We're taking Hersch back.
- Tell me, what will I get for cooperating
with your investigation?
- Are you serious?
Get your head out of your ass.
- Be sure to look after Skinner for me!
- For sure! We'll find him!
[ Cellphone vibrates ]
[ Theme music plays ]
♪
[ Birds chirping ]
- What a lovely invitation for a date.
It's a shame you're not gonna make it.
- You're telling me.
I can't go anywhere in this condition.
- "Where the angel watches." Isn't that romantic?
- Yeah, I guess.
Maybe one of us will end up in Heaven
when this is all over.
- You mean Hell, right?
- Ahh.
Yeah, I don't think I'll be leaving anytime soon.
- Not unless that bed grows legs.
[ Both laugh ]
♪
- We're already aware that people within INSCOM
are guilty of violating international law
by secretly developing biological weapons.
You took Skinner's research and turned it into a deadly toxin.
Then you attacked Skinner at Schiphol Airport
when he tried to publicly leak that information.
And in the resulting clash with local police,
your bio-weapon was dispersed into the air,
which resulted in multiple casualties.
But that was all swept under the rug as a "terrorist attack."
Oh, I forgot to mention.
The one we're here to arrest happens to be you,
2nd Lieutenant Schneider.
- This is stupid.
Governments all over the world
have been ignoring the Geneva Convention for years.
And now our country has fallen way behind.
Who exactly do you think will pay the price
for this hypocrisy? - Fortunately,
that's not something you get to decide.
- Just imagine the day those bastards use
a bio-weapon on our soil.
The people will see us as heroes.
- You can save that kind of crap for your court-martial.
- Only if your so-called "living proof"
turns out to still be alive.
♪
- I'm seeing a top-secret document here called
"Testimony on the Hundun Program."
But accessing it requires...
approval from both the president and the secretary of state.
Apparently.
- That would take forever to get.
We'd run out of time! - Right.
Then I'll just have to fabricate the approval myself.
- Huh? - You know...
that happens to be my specialty.
♪
- How was your ride? - It was perfect.
And the car? - It's ready for you.
♪
- Abel?
- No time to talk.
We've found Skinner.
I want you to head over there right away.
I'll follow along after we settle things here.
- We're certain that Skinner is somewhere in the homeless camp.
But the search area is too wide.
- Any clues? What could we use to narrow his location?
- We need to look for something only Skinner would have.
- He has a deep love for plants.
His room used to be filled with them.
But that alone isn't going to help us very much.
- Oh, wait. I remember.
That rare variety of tulip!
[ Display chiming ]
- All right! We're in!
Let's see.
"The following testimony was given by Zhang Jianguo,
former Chinese Minister of State Security,
as he was seeking asylum in the United States."
- "Please note he was killed by an unknown assailant
shortly after providing this testimony."
There's no doubt about it.
This is what we're after!
- He's gone?! - Yeah. Can you believe it?
It blows my mind so much that I'm at a loss for words.
What could he possibly accomplish
with the shape he's in? - Do you know where he went?
- Apparently,
"where the angel watches," I assume.
- All right then.
Leland, you meet up with Hersch and head over to Skinner.
I have a dumbass to go pick up.
- Got it!
- Target Alpha has been sighted.
- Copy. Proceeding with operation
in anticipation of him making contact with Target Beta.
Emergency alert. This is U.S. Army INSCOM.
We have received intel that two wanted terrorists
are currently hiding atop Babylonia Tower.
- Roger. We'll work with the police
to issue evacuation orders immediately.
- We're heading there via helicopter now.
♪
- Attention, an emergency evacuation order
has been issued for the area surrounding Babylonia Tower.
Please evacuate immediately if you live within the vicinity.
♪
- [ Grunts ]
♪
So, the wait is finally over.
That's some heavy artillery you have there.
The world's literally about to end
and all you can think about is me.
- This is the end.
There's no way I can let you live.
- Okay, I'm ready.
But you want to know something, don'tcha?
Better ask me now.
It'll be too late to talk after I'm dead.
- The Hundun.
- Time for our last dance.
Let's make it a good one.
♪
[ Both grunting ]
♪
[ Groans ]
Yeah, that's the spirit!
- It says here that a secret project meant to train assassins
was carried out under the oversight
of the Ministry of State Security.
The project indoctrinated children from a young age
to completely discard their emotions and humanity,
turning them into faceless monsters
that were impossible to negotiate with.
♪
These assassins were likened to a faceless creature
from Chinese mythology...
known as the "Hundun."
- So, that's the Hundun Program.
- [ Grunting ]
- You are no longer human.
♪
You will become a faceless monster.
Rid yourself of your heart.
And kill everything.
[ Groaning ]
♪
The Hundun had holes bored into its face...
but then what happened next?!
♪
- [ Grunts ]
♪
- [ Groaning ]
♪
- At some point, one of the assassins snapped
killed all of the students as well as the instructor,
before vanishing without a trace.
- Good. You are this project's masterpiece.
- [ Panting ]
- You've become a true monster,
But no one can control you anymore.
Because you're going to forget everything right here.
[ Finger snaps ]
♪
- Hey, I'm over here!
♪
[ Gasps ]
♪
- [ Gasps ]
♪
- [ Grunting ]
♪
[ Debris settling ]
[ Wind gusting ]
- [ Sighs ]
Hey, you still alive?
Here's the answer to your question.
After the Hundun got those holes bored into its face,
on the 7th day, it died.
- Yeah, I just remembered.
So now, I'm no longer a monster.
Isn't that right?
- [ Sighs ]
[ Vehicle approaching ]
[ Sirens wailing in distance ]
- Axel.
Hey there, how ya doing?
- So, so, I guess.
- I think we found Skinner's location.
Want a ride?
♪
- Yeah, everything's finished on my end.
And you?
- I got a Hapna-induced fever,
but it went down for some reason
and now I'm all right.
I'd like to know why.
- Right. I guess it's time for me to share all the details.
Skinner was opposed to his research being used to create
biological weapons, but nobody would listen to him.
So he decided to leak proof of it in Europe.
But then the Army found out and sent troops to Schiphol Airport.
They ended up clashing with the local airport police.
During the shootout, Skinner's suitcase was damaged
and started leaking the toxin, which killed many people.
And as it turns out, all five of you were there when it happened.
While countless victims lay there dying,
your genes underwent a sudden mutation,
giving you a resistance to the drug.
Essentially, you all died and then came back to life.
- The raising of Lazarus.
- That's when Skinner came up with a plan.
A way to leak the existence of the drug to the whole world
without it ever getting covered up.
And now that drug exists within the bodies
of all mankind as Hapna.
- A problem that no one can afford to ignore.
♪
- You must be Hersch and Leland, right?
I'm Jill. Heard all about you.
- Hey, I think I have a clue.
Both Skinner's house and his grandmother's
had the exact flower displayed.
It happens to be an incredibly rare type of tulip.
- This one here.
I'm pretty sure it's a Tulipa sprengeri.
- Oh, how pretty! I've seen that before!
- Huh? - Come on, I'll show you.
[ Vehicle approaching ]
- Hmm?
Oh, I recognize you! You're that escaped convict!
- Hey! We don't have time for this!
Skinner's right over there. - Huh?!
- It's too risky for you to go after him by yourself!
Call for some backup and go catch him!
- Oh! Yeah, of course, sir!
- The fate of humanity depends on you, officer!
Go get him!
- All right!
- [ Chuckles ]
- He showed up out of nowhere around three years ago.
All he had with him was a pot of strange looking tulips.
He has really poor eyesight,
so I try to help him whenever I can.
[ Tires squeal ]
- [ Groans ]
- Are you all right?
- This place. Huh?
Was that... really him?
- Hang in there, okay?
- There he is.
- Skinner! [ Gun cocks ]
- Hello, Hersch.
I wish I could see you one last time.
But at this stage, I can barely see anything at all.
- [ Gasps ]
Why haven't you taken the cure?
Trying to assume responsibility by killing yourself?
The life of one man versus the human race?
That doesn't add up. - [ Gasps ]
- Yes, I know.
Seems like I've lost our game of hide and seek.
So as I promised, the fate of the world is now in your hands.
- So where's the cure?
Why did you leave without saying anything?
- I'm sorry.
I couldn't bear to take you down with me.
- Well, I... would have gone.
- I know.
That day changed my life forever.
♪
[ Gunfire ]
♪
In that moment, I lost my faith in humanity.
I started to doubt if there was any value in me,
or mankind continuing to exist.
♪
I was broken.
And in that instant,
I decided that I didn't want you to see what I had become.
- That's not true.
You haven't changed.
You're still the same person I know and love.
- Hey, Dr. Skinner. Mind if I ask you something?
- I know that voice.
You're the one who paid a visit to Belinda.
- Is it really a good thing that we found you?
Or would it have been better for humanity to get wiped out?
- You tell me.
How do you see the world, young man?
- [ Sighs ]
- I'd say the world's a pretty screwed-up place,
but it still got some redeeming qualities.
- [ Sighs ]
- [ Sobbing ]
♪
[ Birds chirping ]
[ Sirens wailing ]
♪
- My apologies, I really wish we didn't have to do this.
- But now we know way to much, don't we?
We can't let you erase us.
- Leland told us everything we needed to know.
- Including the fact that you were keeping tabs on us.
- It's true. Those were the instructions
I was originally given.
However...
- The president just issued an executive order.
[ Bracelets click, whir ]
You all have been formally recognized
for your contributions in securing Skinner,
as well as preventing the Army's bioweapon development.
For that, you are being granted your release.
All records pertaining to your pasts and criminal histories
are going to be wiped clean, meaning...
you have complete freedom.
But I have a proposal.
To be honest, I would hate to disband
such a capable group of people.
And the world still has a multitude of problems
that need solving.
Which is why I'm asking you,
would you be willing to join Lazarus again?
Of course, you're entirely free to decline if you so choose.
- I'm in! I'm up for it!
Well, I have no plans.
So, sure, why not?
- Same here. I would like to join.
- Sounds good. Count me in, too.
- Hmm.
Well, personally...
I was hoping for an excuse to kick some more ass.
[ Chuckles ]
[ Slow bluesy music plays ]
♪
- ♪ Darkness comes like a fire ♪
♪ Draped in war, death, and desire ♪
♪ Beelzebub done signed my name, I'm on his mind ♪
♪ Gave me everything but my heart's desire ♪
♪ He came in like a flood ♪
♪ Fire blazing, hotter than the sun ♪
♪ I done drowned in the flames ♪
♪ Far from the shore ♪
♪ Ain't nothing else could help ♪
♪ So I done begged for more ♪
♪ Can't turn back ♪
♪ I'm yours now ♪
♪ Ain't letting go, we made a vow ♪
♪ Sun will rise, dark will fall ♪
♪ Feet, don't fail me now ♪
♪
♪ Whatever my lot ♪
♪
♪ Whatever my lot ♪
- ♪ Whatever my lot ♪
♪ Whatever my lot ♪
- ♪ Whatever my lot ♪
♪ Whatever my lot ♪
- ♪ Whatever my lot ♪
- ♪ Oh, my ♪ - ♪ Whatever my lot ♪
- ♪ Whoo ♪
♪