Series 2 Episode 3

The third episode of the second series of the British thriller-drama action, Utopia, was first broadcast on 21 July 2014. The episode was produced by Kudos Film and Television for Channel 4.

Synopsis
The gang are on the run and find a precocious young hacker, who uncovers the key to The Network's new plan: a real global outbreak of weaponized Russian flu that will prompt the entire world to take up their vaccine on V-Day.

Plot
Joe bikes to work early to find Lee fiddling with Ian Johnson's computer terminal. He tries to pass himself off as a maintenance worker, but Joe tells him they do not hire maintenance people. Lee then tries to pass as a detective looking into Ian on suspicion of terrorism. Joe wants to call the police department to verify and Lee offers him his phone, but Joe decides to use an office phone. Having no other choice, Lee cuts his throat with a razor and calls his Network superior, telling them things have gone off course but are under control. As he tells them he can possibly frame it as a suicide, Joe, still alive, lurches towards the exit. Lee calmly follows him and beats him to death with a fire extinguisher, picks his phone back up, and tells his contact "yeah, suicide's not gonna work."

Becky awakens in the house they are using as base next to an also awakening Grant Leetham and an awake Ian, who is staring at her. Arby enters, having made the group breakfast, which Grant distrusts. Becky, remembering that he said the SWAT team wanted Christian Donaldson, asks if they can leave, but Arby tells her their DNA is all over the building they escaped from. If they want to leave safely, they have to figure out why the Network wants Donaldson dead, Arby wanting to help because he is "turning over a new leaf." Anton tries to talk to Grant, but he flippantly dismisses him. Arby states that for Donaldson to not be already dead, the decision to kill him must have been made in the past few days. Donaldson admits he recently spoke with his old ex-Network professor Dobri Gorski to ask after Tony Bradley. Grant looks Gorski up and informs the group that he is dead, ran over in a hit and run that morning. On Arby's prompting, Donaldson tells them that Gorski told him "Jimmy Deeshell is a fat man" and Donaldson Googled the name, finding no results. Ian connects the dots and realizes his search for the name is what prompted the Network to go after him. Arby tells them that he knows someone who can help and instructs them to get ready to leave. Washing the dishes, Becky hallucinates blood instead of water on her hands. Ian notices and tries to ask what is wrong, but Becky irritatedly dismisses him. He tells her that he missed her and is disappointed by her initial reaction to seeing him, but they are interrupted by Arby asking "where is Jessica Hyde?" Becky explains they do not know, they last they heard of her being her taking the Utopia Experiments manuscript to Milner, who Arby does not recognize by name. Ian explains she is on their side, but Arby muses that "there are no sides. Just people who help you and people who don't." Exasperated, Ian asks Arby how they are supposed to trust him and if the Network is really after them, and Donaldson interrupts to point out a newscast where Ian has been framed as Joe's killer via edited CCTV footage. Grant shows Arby how to break into a car while Becky checks on Ian. Donaldson interrupts and Becky angrily dismisses him, sheepishly explaining to Ian that she slept with him when she first found out she had Deels because of his knowledge.

An exasperated Geoff Lawson rewatches the V-Day promotional video and arranges to meet with Milner, instead being forced to meet with Leah Gorsand. Lawson insists that the health department's support of V-Day will kill his career and he has the potential to be the Prime Minister, but Gorsand informs him that will not be necessary and tells him to announce it by that evening. He asks where Milner is, and Gorsand tells him she is busy. Milner is watching Jessica in her cell, noting that she has not moved for eight hours. Gorsand warns her that she has delayed work on V-Day for too long, and any longer will render their goal impossible. She begs Milner to let the Network extract the information from Jessica's brain, but Milner tearfully insists Jessica is all she has left of Philip Carvel. She gives in, and a guarded Network doctor comes to collect a still unresponsive Jessica. They take her to a surgical facility and the other doctor steps out to fix a step in the procedure. Jessica rises from the table when the doctor's back is turned and injects him with his own sedative. The other doctor returns and Jessica jumps on his back, jamming a needle of more sedative into his neck without injecting him and showing him that she drowned the unconscious doctor in a medical sink, establishing that she will kill him if he does not cooperate. He instructs her on how to leave and he has her walk her there, still on his back. He takes her to a medical waste chute and pleads for her not to inject hm as the dose of sedative has to be exact, but she does anyway after asking him what part of her brain he was going to remove. Jessica climbs out of a medical waste dumpster covered in blood and runs off.

Lee sits down with Wilson Wilson as they wait to be briefed, calling him "the one-eyed freak who shot me in my lung." Wilson reminds Lee that he put out his eye, stating it makes them even. Lee notes that they are not even by a "long shot," pronouncing "long" as "lung." Milner arrives and informs them Donaldson is with Becky, Ian and Grant, and she is sending Wilson with Lee because he knows them. Wilson tries to protest, but Milner orders him to take care of it as she has "other things to focus on." Lee insists they will make a great team, telling Wilson he can "keep an eye out." Lee continues to taunt him in the car, revealing he was the one who killed Wilson's father. They investigate the house the group was staying in, Lee finding and eating a raisin on the floor, realizing Arby is with them.

Arby takes the group to a house and warns Ian that the person inside will only help them if he thinks Arby is still part of the Network, and to take Grant out of the room if Arby has to kill the man. Arby's person turns out to be Ben, a rude young hacker who still lives with his parents. Ben takes them to his garage, where he has set up a computer room and encourages the group to steal from his parents, who he hates despite their patience and tolerance. When Ian mentions Jimmy Deeshell, Ben explains it is actually "Jimmy Deesh, Project L", the "L" being the way Americans would label their classified projects in the sixties. Ben searches for it when Arby asks and becomes panicked when he finds the information completely walled off, switching off his setup and moving to another computer. As Grant watches a pornographic channel on Ben's TV, Anton snatches the remote and starts rapidly flicking through channels. According to Ben, Project L was a kind of flu created by the people who weaponized Ebola, and yet they were so unnerved by their creation that they abandoned it. As Ben steps out to use the bathroom, Ian realizes Gorski was referencing Fat Man, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Anton sees something on the news that causes him to speak urgently in his language, before telling Grant in clear, non-accented English "Janus. You're all going to die."

Jessica washes herself in a public restroom and watches a couple make out, mimicking their mouth movements before stealing the girl's bag, finding it containing clothes and a phone. She watches a mother playing with her children on a playground before searching up a picture of Ian and smiling. Milner informs Gorsand of Jessica's escape, and Gorsand berates her for letting her attachment to Carvel inhibit her judgement. Gorsand calls Lawson and tells him to push the V-Day announcement back, despite Milner's protests. Michael Dugdale is approached by Bridget, a scientist who has noted the vaccine test results have been falsified and has come to alert him. Failing to dissuade her, Dugdale writes her a note warning her she is in danger, and they discretely meet outside. He begs her not to get involved, but she informs him she already has a vaccine sample and has been running tests on it.

Lee finds another raisin on a road, believing Arby is leading him, and tells Wilson he knows where Arby is going. Wilson steals Lee's gun and pulls it on him, which Lee ignores as he gets a crowbar out of his trunk. Lee walks up to him and notes that Milner likes Wilson because he is a "believer," and he begins to crouch, Wilson crouching with him, until the latter loses his balance and Lee hits his knee with the crowbar. Lee smugly tells him he believes Wilson has it in him to kill, but that he would only do it out of necessity. As Lee heads back to the car, Wilson shouts after him not to hurt the group. Arby leaves the group to go run an errand and gives them a meeting place to reconvene at. He goes back to Ben and asks him to make three new identities, and Ben tells him to come back later that night. Donaldson deduces that the Network is going "Fat Man" (making it exceedingly deadly) on the Russian flu, which is how they will convince the world to take their vaccine. He forcefully tries to get Anton to speak English again but is stopped by Becky and Ian. They find Anton sketching drawings in the style of The Utopia Experiments, and are astounded to see he responds when Becky refers to him as "Philip Carvel". They decide to keep it a secret, no longer trusting Milner considering the Network continued to operate even after she promised it was over. Becky admits she missed Ian and leaving him was "the worst decision I've ever made," and they kiss. Donaldson approaches Ian and smugly tells him of how Becky was working with him to get the manuscript to the Network, causing him to storm off.

Bridget meets Dugdale at her house and explains she got the vaccine cells from a nut on one of its shipping containers. She studies the cells and discovers Janus, not understanding what it is. Dugdale leaves and alerts the Network, who sends two agents to kill her while he watches guiltily from a car outside. Milner fingers her tonalite rock in her office as Gorsand insists they can no longer remain inactive. She gets a call from a distressed Ian and she warns him that the Network is starting again and Dugdale is working for them, but he interrupts her and says they have Carvel. Losing her composure, she begs Ian to give her his location so she can "protect" him, Grant, and Becky, but he realizes he never mentioned Becky to her and hangs up. Regaining herself, she tells Gorsand to instruct Lawson to announce V-Day, now confident. Lawson does as instructed.

Lee arrives at Ben's house to find him and his parents dead. Arby approaches him and says he will give Lee Donaldson in exchange for Amanda and Tess' safety, the new identities he had made being for them. He warns Lee that he is "coming for" him once they are safe. Lee, visibly nervous, tells him that he is more important than before and he only wants to bring Arby back to the Network. He turns around to find Arby gone. A despondent Dugdale returns home and rinses his face in the sink before turning to see something that shocks him: Jessica, in her stolen clothes and with her hair dyed blonde, holding a kitchen knife. She tells Dugdale that "we need to talk."

Cast

 * Wilson Wilson - Adeel Akhtar
 * Michael Dugdale - Paul Higgins
 * Milner - Geraldine James
 * Arby - Neil Maskell
 * Jessica Hyde - Fiona O'Shaughnessy
 * Geoff Lawson - Alistair Petrie
 * Becky - Alexandra Roach
 * Ian Johnson - Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
 * Grant Leetham - Oliver Woollford
 * Leah Gorsand - Sylvestra Le Touzel
 * Christian Donaldson - Michael Maloney
 * Anton - Ian McDiarmid
 * Lee - Paul Ready
 * Ben - Will Attenborough
 * Ross - Allen Corduner

Deaths

 * Joe
 * Gorski's hit and run victim
 * Doctor
 * Bridget
 * Ben's parents
 * Ben

Music

 * "Over the Rainbow" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Opening)
 * "Utopia Overture" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Lee kills Joe, Wilson confronts Lee)
 * "Utopia Finale" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Recap/Credits)
 * "Bekki on Pills Part 2" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Becky, Ian and Grant wake up, Anton speaks English to Grant)
 * "I Feel Separated" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Milner finally allows the Network to operate on Jessica, Milner learns that Carvel is alive)
 * "Where is Jessica Hyde? Part 1" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jessica sedates a doctor)
 * "Mind Splitting Lab (Metamorphosis Stage 2)" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jessica escapes)
 * "Sweet Bird of Paradise" - Snowy White (Jessica crawls out of the waste chute)
 * "Mr. Rabbit's Game" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Wilson and Lee search the group's hideout/The group arrive at Ben's)
 * "Lucidity Gone" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Ben shows the group to his room)
 * "Fascinating Child" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jessica washes herself/Jessica watches a couple make out and steals the girl's bag, Becky and Ian decide to keep Anton's identity a secret and kiss)
 * "Conspiracy Part 2" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Dugdale secretly meets with Bridget)
 * "Brainwave Playground" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Arby and the group split up/Arby asks Ben to make new identities)
 * "An Answer" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Becky and Ian realize who Anton is)
 * "Arby's Oratorio" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Arby makes a deal with Lee/Dugdale returns home)