Series 1 Episode 6

The sixth episode of the first series of the British thriller-drama action, Utopia, was first broadcast on 19 February 2013. The episode was produced by Kudos Film and Television for Channel 4.

Synopsis
Time is running out, the gang must find Mr. Rabbit and stop The Network before they release Janus. As a daring plan is formed, only one question remains—will the true secrets of Utopia finally be revealed?

Plot
As a newscast reports outbreaks of Russian flu in three English towns, Jessica Hyde returns to the group and gives them the Utopia Experiments manuscript, having read it and claiming everything the Network has done is inside. Both Becky and Ian Johnson are infuriated with her behavior, but she ignores them, asking after Grant Leetham being that he has the pages that confirm the identity of Mr. Rabbit. As Jessica searches for the hidden pages, Wilson Wilson reads the manuscript for clues about Janus. He explains that Philip Carvel hid Janus in his "greatest creation," but it is not specified in the book what it is. He also shows them an image of Janus the god, his face made out of numbers. Becky and Jessica argue about her tearing apart the house for the pages until Alice Ward interrupts them with the pages themselves, having seen Grant hide them. She asks if they can focus on saving Grant now that the manuscript has been fully recovered.

Grant awakens in an desolate room with yellow walls and is greeted by the assistant, who has Grant's sketches of the manuscript. He explains the numbers on the page with Janus' face represents the protein's molecular structure, and that it is missing three numbers. Speaking calmly, the assistant tries to get Grant to remember the numbers, but Grant defiantly spits at him. He opens a laptop which shows Grant a live feed of his mother, and explains a nearby Network operative will do anything he orders to her should Grant continue to disobey him. He leaves him with the laptop and a crayon to write in the numbers when he remembers. The group finds Mr. Rabbit's name is "Letan", but they have no idea who that could be. Jessica instructs Wilson to hack the GCHQ and search the name, revealing that she stole a van with a remote satellite connection. Michael and Jen Dugdale show Anya her new apartment after she agrees to their deal. Jen takes Anya to go meet with a doctor, and to Dugdale's surprise, kisses his cheek before leaving. He turns on the TV and sees Geoff Lawson on the news, who tells the public to take proper precautions and that the vaccine will be distributed the next day. Lawson later calls Dugdale to his office and tells him he is the last person who needs to approve the vaccine, ordering him to do so. Dugdale is taken to a facility where he is shown a warehouse full of hundreds of vaccine boxes.

Becky meets with Christian Donaldson to inform him she will no longer be helping him. Suddenly panicked, Donaldson insists that he needs the manuscript as he has already told the Network he has it and has a meeting arranged, and a bemused Becky tells him to run. When he asks why she met with him at all, she asks him to do one decent thing and give her the Thoraxin. Unamused, he throws his supply in the lake. Becky later checks her hand for tremors and is approached by Ian. She tells him that she is unsure if her Deels symptoms have started, and Ian promises that he will not leave her. She recounts seeing her father die of it, and states she is unsure if she wants Ian to watch her go like that. Ian watches her sit down with Alice to continue decoding the manuscript and he takes Jessica's nearby gun and leaves. Wilson is searching the GCHQ's databases for the name Letan when Jessica checks in on him, getting no results. Grant finishes the first number and calls the assistant, who checks and approves its validity. Grant begs him to stop, unable to remember the other two, but the assistant warns him they will bring in his mother and torture her in front of him if he does not comply. When the assistant leaves, Grant removes a part of the laptop and starts to bend it against the table.

Dugdale is attacked by Ian outside Anya's apartment when he goes to visit her. Dugdale begs him not to shoot, insisting he turned Grant in to protect his family and that he knows where the vaccine is. Ian forces him into the apartment and holds them both at gunpoint, making Dugdale validate his information on Google Maps when he gives him the address of the vaccine facility. Anya incapacitates them both and seizes the gun, calling someone on her phone and suddenly dropping her accent. As she insists that she needs to talk to someone at "control," Dugdale realizes she is Network and the pregnancy scans were falsified. When she turns her back, Dugdale trips her by pulling the rug she is standing on and smashing her head into a glass table, unintentionally killing her. Ian quickly escorts a stunned Dugdale out.

While Jessica is distracted searching civilian channels, Wilson writes an email to the assistant informing him the group has the manuscript, but is stopped from sending it when he gets a match on Letan. He deletes the email and shows Jessica what he found: "Letan" was someone in attendance of a meeting of the "Committee of Genetic Discovery" in 1976, although the document providing this information is mostly redacted and Letan themself is not listed on the meeting's roster, only mentioned in a footnote. They print out a photo of the conference as well as seven men in attendance still around and hang them up, but no one in the group recognizes any of them. Jessica concludes that they need to kill all of them as any one of them could be Mr. Rabbit. Becky tries to stop her and sympathize, knowing what her childhood was like thanks to the manuscript, but Jessica angrily brushes her off. Ian returns with Dugdale, much to the group's chagrin, but Dugdale explains he knows where the vaccines are. He notices the pictures on the walls and identifies the assistant among them.

Having fashioned the broken laptop piece into a shiv, Grant finishes the second number and hides the weapon behind his back before calling the assistant in. Grant asks if he gets to go home if he gives him the third number, and the assistant assures him he will before leaving. Ian withholds Jessica's gun, more concerned about stopping the vaccine than killing Mr. Rabbit. Jessica threatens to kill him if he does not give it back and their confrontation is stopped by Alice, who tells the adults they need to see something. She has assembled the pages of the manuscript into a perfectly fitting puzzle that forms Janus' molecular structure. As the adults gear up, Dugdale awkwardly makes conversation with Alice by complimenting her cleverness and apologizing for turning Grant in, explaining that he needed to protect Jen and the son he thought he was going to have. Alice tells him her mother tried the same methods Dugdale and Jen used, and she admits that she saw her mother killed in front of her, becoming emotional. Dugdale sits with her and encourages her to talk about it, and she obliges. Jessica and Becky watch and Becky asks if her father really experimented on her as a child. Jessica notes that in the first issue of The Utopia Experiments, the devil was the one who imprisoned her, but in the manuscript, Carvel is. She was a living thing to neither of them, and they both deserve death as such. Becky asks if killing Mr. Rabbit will really make her feel better and Jessica bluntly states that it will. Dugdale hugs Alice.

Wilson and Ian have written up an email detailing the existence of the Network, its connection to Corvadt, and Mr. Rabbit's identity, having prepared it to be sent to dozens of trusted sources. Hesitant, Wilson asks Ian if they are doing the right thing, as Janus will theoretically stop the world from falling into chaos. Ian tells him to send it regardless, and he reluctantly does. Wilson asks if the recipients will take it seriously, and Ian says they will when the vaccine facility burns. Wanting revenge for his father, Wilson goes with Jessica to kill Mr. Rabbit. At nightfall, Ian, Becky, Dugdale and Alice arrive at the vaccine facility, and an armed Dugdale is sent in to disable the security cameras. Dugdale makes it to the outside of the security room and prepares to burst in with his gun drawn, but is tackled by security guards. At the same time, guards surround the van with the rest of the group inside. Wilson and Jessica break into Corvadt, and Jessica finds it strange that there are no guards while she tries to pick a door lock. Wilson grabs her gun and holds it on her, revealing he never sent the email and that he freed Letts, having done so because he truly believes in Janus. He orders her to give him the manuscript.

Grant finishes the third number and calls the assistant, who claims he has gotten it wrong. Grant has him lean over to check which number he got wrong and jams the shiv into his throat, killing him. Jessica refuses to hand the manuscript over despite Wilson's insistence that "we can't be the people that destroys humanity's chance at life." He begs her to reconsider, not wanting to kill her. Doing his best to impersonate the assistant, Grant calls the Network agent and convinces him to stand down from his mother. He pulls up the assistant's shirt and finds the Chinese symbol for "rabbit" carved on his stomach, confirming his identity. Jessica, referring to the manuscript as "my dad," continues to refuse it to Wilson. Grant emerges from a nearby elevator and distracts Wilson, allowing Jessica to stab him and take her gun back. She and Grant hug and he tells her he killed the assistant. They flee, leaving a bleeding Wilson behind. The facility group is bound and gagged when Milner arrives, meeting with a guard and drawing a pistol. She ungags Dugdale, who begs her to send Alice to another room so she does not have to watch them die, and she obliges. Instead of killing them, she kills the guard, unties the group, and helps them douse the vaccine warehouse in petrol. Becky and Ian create a molotov cocktail and use it to ignite the vaccines, taking each other's hands as they flee.

The group reunites at the manor. Alice is overjoyed to see Grant, and Jessica merely shakes her head when Ian asks where Wilson is. Dugdale watches over the kids while they sleep, Jessica stands guard, and Ian and Becky, in bed together, officiate their relationship with a kiss. The next morning, Jessica confirms that no Network agents came for them and that they must be safe. Becky and Ian explain to her their plans to lie low in Scotland for a month as per Milner's instructions, but Milner needs the manuscript to return things to normal. Dugdale has decided to adopt Alice, while Grant will be staying with Ian and Becky until he is able to go back to his mother. Alice gives Grant a hug and cheek kiss goodbye as the group splits up. Jessica goes to MI5 to give the manuscript to Milner, who meets her inside and takes her to her office. Jessica expresses clear hesitance when Milner says she is going to destroy the manuscript but enters her office anyway. Noting Jessica's hesitance, Milner gives her time alone to say goodbye to the manuscript. Ian leaves Becky and Grant at a waiting area in the train station while he goes to get tickets. Becky has a Deels-induced seizure and Grant shouts for Ian, who comforts her as she comes out of it. He has Grant stay with her as he goes to find help.

Jessica notices a piece of tonalite on Milner's desk and remembers something about the conference photo: a woman was sitting at the head of the table. She realizes Milner is Mr. Rabbit and tries to flee the building, cut off by agents that force her to run to the roof. The group's train arrives, and Becky sends Grant to find Ian. Ian realizes she tricked Grant, their train not leaving for another ten minutes, and runs back to find her gone, having gotten on another train. Ian runs after it as it leaves. Jessica barricades herself on the roof and burns the manuscript as Milner and her men burst through the door. Milner dismisses her men. Jessica asks who Grant killed, and Milner says he was "a man so dedicated to the cause that he carved lines into his own flesh to act as cover." Jessica proclaims Janus gone now that the manuscript is burnt, but Milner dismisses it as "a bunch of old drawings done by a crazy man" and that she only wanted it because she knew Jessica would be bringing it. She shoots her in the thigh to prevent her from jumping off the roof and tells her that Carvel considered Jessica "his greatest achievement." Milner tells her she should be happy, because her father loved her so much that he embedded Janus inside of her. She stands over her, excited, telling Jessica "we better get started, you and I. We have so much to do."

Cast

 * Wilson Wilson - Adeel Akhtar
 * The Assistant - James Fox
 * Michael Dugdale - Paul Higgins
 * Milner - Geraldine James
 * Alice Ward - Emilia Jones
 * Arby - Neil Maskell
 * Christian Donaldson - Simon McBurney
 * Jessica Hyde - Fiona O'Shaughnessy
 * Geoff Lawson - Alistair Petrie
 * Becky - Alexandra Roach
 * Ian Johnson - Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
 * Grant - Oliver Woollford
 * Jen - Ruth Gemmell
 * Anya - Anna Madeley
 * The Tramp - Alan Williams

Deaths

 * Anya
 * The Assistant
 * Network agent

Music

 * "Where is Jessica Hyde? Part 1" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Opening, Wilson holds Jessica at gunpoint/Grant saves his mother and confirms the assistant's identity, Jessica realizes Milner is Mr. Rabbit)
 * "Utopia Overture" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jessica gives the group the manuscript, the group douses the warehouse)
 * "Utopia Finale" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Recap, the warehouse burns, credits)
 * "Utopia Descent" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (The assistant shows Grant his mother, Dugdale tries to disable the vaccine facility's cameras, Jessica barricades herself on the roof)
 * "Utopia's Death Cargo" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Lawson orders Dugdale to sign off on the vaccine/Dugdale is shown the vaccine facility)
 * "The Experiment" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Ian and Becky talk about her Deels, Grant removes the laptop piece)
 * "Arby's Oratorio" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Anya reveals herself)
 * "Conspiracy" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Wilson writes an email to the assistant/Wilson and Jessica narrow down their suspects)
 * "Where is Jessica Hyde? Part 2" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Dugdale identifies the assistant as Mr. Rabbit)
 * "Twat" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Dugdale and Alice bond/Becky asks Jessica about her father)
 * "Evil Prevails" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Wilson asks Ian if they are doing the right thing/Wilson goes with Jessica to kill Mr. Rabbit)
 * "Fertility Control" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Grant kills the assistant)
 * "Jessica Gets Off" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (The group reuinites, Jessica takes the manuscript to Milner)
 * "Bekki on Pills Part 2" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Becky has a seizure)
 * "Conspiracy Part 2" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jessica tries to flee MI5)
 * "Meditative Chaos" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jessica burns the manuscript/Becky leaves Ian and Grant)