Series 2 Episode 6

The sixth episode of the second series of the British thriller-drama action, Utopia, was first broadcast on 12 August 2014. The episode was produced by Kudos Film and Television for Channel 4.

Synopsis
The gang face a race against time to work out who is going to release the flu, and stop them in order to prevent global disaster.

Plot
Waiting at a bus station, Terrence encounters a little boy with the flu and his mother. She asks if he is going anywhere nice, and he tells her he is "just going away for a bit. Somewhere no one can find me." She mentions that she is going to France for a holiday but is taking the bus for the environment, saying "we've all got a responsibility." Terrence agrees, but asks her why she had her son, explaining the environmental cost of a child and telling her the only thing she can do if she truly cares is to kill him. He offers to do it for her, but then realizes his bus is about to leave. He stands, grabs his duffel bag, and says "I really hope he gets over that flu...but maybe he just shouldn't." He leaves as she holds her son protectively.

Jessica Hyde sits with her wounded brother in a Network hospital. Becky tells Wilson Wilson that Arby is not expected to live and muses "families, eh?" in regards to Arby being shot by his father. Wilson asks what to do with Grant Leetham, and she tells him that Michael Dugdale is taking him in. She tells him the situation is his fault and the Network needs to set things right. Ian Johnson is watching a report on the murders he was framed for when Becky and Wilson enter, the latter switching the TV off. Wilson explains that Leah Gorsand informed him that they have ninety days to find the sleeper agent, but if the agent feels his mission is in danger, he is to collect the flu canisters and release them as soon as possible. He will be monitoring all media and Network channels, so they cannot use the Network and must find him themselves. Wilson plans to go check on Paul, the agent he met, in hopes that he is the one selected should he not be there. He tells Ian that they are on the same side now, but Ian warns him that they are not. Alice Dugdale does homework with her father when Grant comes down, not understanding why she is bothering to learn. They invite him to join them, but he instead grabs a kitchen knife and takes it up to his room, ignoring Dugdale's protests.

While waiting to see Paul, Wilson asks Becky and Ian if they are angry with him. Ian retorts that he betrayed them and joined the people that killed his brother. Wilson justifies it by reminding Ian that the Network killed his father, and Becky and Ian stare at him in disgust. Paul walks by and Wilson prepares to kill him, stopped by a horrified Becky and Ian. He insists that Paul is still dangerous and there could be a backup plan that involves him, but Ian talks him down to merely breaking into Paul's house to look for clues. Wilson urinates on Paul's bed to make it look like a robbery as Becky finds his house phone has something inside of it. They take out a cell phone, finding that it only has "Dobri Gorski", Christian Donaldson's old professor, in its contacts. Ian remembers that he died a week ago, but Wilson notes that Gorski called the phone yesterday. Ian watches Becky take Thoraxin, her supply dwindling, and she tells him she was not able to find any more and she is going to commit suicide, asking him to be there when she does. Wilson returns and tells them Gorski is in custody, him being the perpetrator of the hit and run, not the victim. Knowing that Ian cannot be seen at a police station, he goes to see Gorski with Becky. Terrence breaks into the house of Network agent Danny Silbert while he is in the bathtub. He gets two of the five locations of the flu canisters and kills Silbert by tossing a radio into the tub.

Carvel, still covered in Milner's blood, mutters to himself in Romani while he draws molecular structures on a whiteboard. Jessica approaches him and tells him they need to get to know each other, then starts cleans Milner's blood off of him. Lee, disguised as a doctor, enters Arby's hospital room with a gas canister and puts his hand on his breathing tubes, stopped by Jessica, who holds him at gunpoint. Lee admits that Arby is the only thing in the world that scares him and killing him would only be speeding up the inevitable, but lets go of the tubes regardless and leaves. Becky takes more Thoraxin at the police station and Marius appears to her again, complaining of a headache, then asks if she has a boyfriend. Wilson interrupts, explaining that Gorski ran over a man of a similar age and physical appearance as himself, removed his own teeth with a hammer and nail, and embedded them into the man's head. They find Gorski with his mouth horribly disfigured, raving that he is not safe even in his cell. He insists that he gave his life to the Network but now does not want to die, and knows the activated agent is coming to kill him because he knows all of the agents' identities. Wilson insists that they can protect Gorski if he gives them the other two names, but he is adamant that he will be killed regardless. He identifies the other two as "Michael Johns" and "Terrence Truman".

Jessica shaves Arby's facial hair. Wilson asks Carvel how he could shoot at his children, and Carvel tells him the world is full of love that will evaporate when the planet's resources die. Gorsand informs Wilson that she has had Paul and Johns killed but cannot find Terrence, which marks him as the agent. Terrence visits John Trager, another Network agent disguised as a fish vendor, who gives him two more locations. Terrence kills him. Gorsand informs the group of Silbert and Trager's murders and concludes that Terrence is following the backup plan. She points out that Terrence's victims were professors at the same university and gives them several boxes of data related to the school. Wilson asks Ian what he would have done should Wilson have tried to kill Paul. Ian says that a person cannot come back from killing, and Wilson remembers that Milner described killing as "bleeding inside." He nevertheless insists that there is a way back and that "things change." Put off, Ian goes to find Becky.

Geoff Lawson meets Dugdale, having brought a drive confessing to his involvemet in the Network and planning to flee to Brazil, willing to pay Dugdale a quarter of his ransom money for turning the drive over to the authorities. Enraged when he learns Lawson is abandoning his family and jeopardizing his own, Dugdale beats him and warns him to stay in the country or he will kill him himself. Grant sits down with Alice and ridicules her for doing schoolwork until Jen Dugdale stops him and makes him bring the knife from his room back. Ian forlornly stares at Becky and is interrupted by Jessica, who notes that he has not told Becky about their sexual encounter yet. They offer condolences on each other's brothers and she asks Ian if he wants to have sex again, but he rejects her, stating that he is with Becky now. Jessica notes that he will not be for much longer. Becky realizes that Trager, Silber and Donaldson were all taught by Gorski. Terrence immolates Gorski by snaking cloth ropes doused in gasoline through his cell's vent and lighting them on fire. Gorsand explains that Gorski's house was broken into the previous night, Terrence having obtained the last location.

They track Terrence to a parking garage, Ian and Jessica going to stop him. Terrence extracts the United Kingdom flu canister from a car headlight and begins driving to the top of the garage to release it. Jessica blocks his way with a dumpster and fires on him, pursuing him through a stairwell when he crashes his car. He makes it to the roof but is stabbed by a profusely apologetic Ian. Regardless of his wound, Terrence crawls towards the edge of the roof and starts opening the canister, Ian begging him to stop the entire time and shooting him dead at the last second. He stands over Terrence's body in stunned silence and Jessica approaches him, taking his hand. Becky embraces Ian when they return to the hospital as Wilson watches.

Becky hallucinates Marius again the next morning and he stays until Ian holds her. She tells him she plans to commit suicide today and begs him to let her spend her last hours with someone she loves, and he reluctantly agrees. Dugdale returns home to find Grant much more cooperative and polite. He tells Jen that Wilson has gotten the Network to arrange new lives for them in a different country. He meets Wilson at a Network base, who informs him that the Network have collected the other four canisters. He muses that he is stunned that Milner thought it was acceptable to sacrifice so many lives, but starts to plan out loud about releasing the virus in smaller, less populated areas, saying Milner was wrong because "you don't need a pandemic for people to take the vaccine. You just need the fear of a pandemic." He tells Dugdale that the deal is off and he will now be tracked everywhere he goes, his family being killed if he disobeys the Network. Dugdale pleads with him, insisting that "this isn't you," and Wilson responds with "I don't think I am me. Not anymore." He sends the Dugdales away and stares at his spoon. In a hotel room, an exuberant Lawson is given his demanded twenty million sterling and notices a powdery substance on the money. The substance is revealed to be a fatal toxin, and hazmat-suited Network agents take the money back and frame his death as a suicide.

Ian gets Becky a drink and is stopped by Jessica, who tells him he is doing well in the face of Becky's imminent death. She asks Becky if she is scared of her death and Becky admits that she is, but she knows it is what she wants. Jessica asks her if she is in the right for involving Ian, as she knows from experience that looking someone one loves in the eyes while they die is an experience that haunts them forever. Wilson summons Lee and tosses the spoon on the floor, distracting him so Wilson can take out his gun. Lee calmly tells him that "this isn't you" and that he needs a reason to kill him, but Wilson shoots him dead. Carvel approaches Ian and tells him Thoraxin does not exist and Donaldson was giving Becky opiates, and while Becky does have the Deels mutation, her symptoms are just side effects and withdrawl from the drug. He rushes to Becky to find her having already overdosed and dying on the floor. Gorsand shows Wilson to a room with a large storage container.

Ian begins frantically performing CPR on Becky. Wilson begins carving up his chest as a table nearby is shown with a picture of him and his father, the spoon, Milner's tonalite, and a picture of the Chinese symbol for "rabbit" on it. Carvel is grabbed by Network agents as Becky revives, vomiting up the drug just as Ian and Jessica are grabbed by agents as well. Arby opens his eyes. Wilson, shrieking in pain, is shown with the symbol fully carved into his chest. He limps to the storage container and opens it to show the five flu canisters, perfectly preserved.

Cast

 * Wilson Wilson - Adeel Akhtar
 * Michael Dugdale - Paul Higgins
 * Arby - Neil Maskell
 * Jessica Hyde - Fiona O'Shaughnessy
 * Geoff Lawson - Alistair Petrie
 * Becky - Alexandra Roach
 * Ian Johnson - Nathan Stewart-Jarrett
 * Grant Leetham - Oliver Woollford
 * Dobri Gorski - David Calder
 * Jen Dugdale - Ruth Gemmell
 * Marius - Emil Hostina
 * Alice Dugdale - Emilia Jones
 * Leah Gorsand - Sylvestra Le Touzel
 * Philip Carvel - Ian McDiarmid
 * Lee - Paul Ready
 * Terrence - Steven Robertson

Deaths

 * Danny Silber
 * Michael Johns
 * Paul Simpson
 * John Trager
 * Dobri Gorski
 * Terrence Truman
 * Geoff Lawson
 * Lee

Music

 * "Arby's Oratorio" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Terrence explains the cost of a child, Terrence kills Gorski)
 * "The Monarch's Pyramid" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Recap)
 * "Satan's Waltz (Metamorphosis Stage 1)" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Grant grabs a knife, Jessica fires on Terrence, Lawson's death)
 * "Mind Splitting Lab (Metamorphosis Stage 2)" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Wilson prepares to kill Paul, Terrence kills the Network agent in the tub, Terrence retrieves the flu canister)
 * "The Moaning Pyramid" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Becky tells Ian she is going to commit suicide)
 * "Fascinating Child" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jessica cleans her father)
 * "An Answer" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Becky hallucinates Marius)
 * "Evil Prevails" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Gorski names the sleeper agents)
 * "The Network" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (The other two sleeper agents are assassinated, Ian and Jessica leave to stop Terrence)
 * "Bekki on Pills Part 2" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jen puts Grant in his place, Grant and the Dugdales prepare to leave the country)
 * "Conspiracy Part 2" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Ian kills Terrenece)
 * "To You All Kids Will Come... (Metamorphosis Complete)" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jessica takes Ian's hand/Jessica and Ian return to the group, final scene/credits)
 * "Twat" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Becky hallucinates Marius while Ian sleeps)
 * "Where is Jessica Hyde? Part 1" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Wilson threatens Dugdale)
 * "Life Out of Balance" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Becky attempts suicide)
 * "Bambino Illuminatus" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Ian tries to reveal Becky/Wilson carves up his chest)
 * "Utopia Finale" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Credits)