Series 2 Episode 4

The fourth episode of the second series of the British thriller-drama action, Utopia, was first broadcast on 29 July 2014. The episode was produced by Kudos Film and Television for Channel 4.

Synopsis
A shocked Dugdale reluctantly agrees to harbor Jessica. Jessica is searching for Ian, as is Milner who is convinced he will lead her to Carvel.

Plot
In Hartwell, Georgia, a sleeping man is awoken by his phone ringing. His wife picks it up and gives it to him, saying a British woman is on the other end. He talks to the woman and moves to leave, telling his wife it is a work issue. He drives out to a forest, his laid-back demeanor now focused and robotic, and retrieves a buried canister guarded by a keypad. He stashes the canister in the hollowed-out headlight of his car (also guarded by a keypad) and drives it to an airport parking lot, dropping the keys down a sewer drain. He walks home, kills his wife and three children, and after a moment of silence, shoots himself.

Michael Dugdale watches Jessica Hyde sleep. He considers calling his Network contact and becomes indecisive, interrupted by an awakened Jessica. He tells her she was asleep for two straight days and she asks for some food. Hiding out in an unfinished hotel, Grant Leetham rifles through Arby's bag and pulls out his gun. As Philip Carvel flips through The Utopia Experiments, Ian Johnson devises a plan: break into the offices of the news network that caused Carvel to speak English and get a copy of the broadcast that set him off, then talk to Dugdale, as Ian does not believe he is truly with the Network. Becky argues with him over his plan and calling Milner, while he retorts that he is no longer interested in her and tells her to ask Christian Donaldson if she wants to know why. Grant interrupts to complain about "Anton" drawing on his Utopia Experiments copy, and Ian explains his true identity to Grant before leaving, tired of waiting around. Dugdale tries to defend working with the Network when Jessica asks him about it, and she assures him that if she thought he was truly with the Network, she would have killed him. She informs him that Mr. Rabbit is alive, but will not reveal his identity as she does not want to put Dugdale in more danger. She hugs him and tells him she is going to go find Ian, ignoring Dugdale's claim that he and Becky are together.

Grant notices a number tattooed on Carvel's arm. Arby and Lee monitor live footage of a roadside payphone while Donaldson, brought in by Arby, sits confused in the background. Lee explains that "Arby's saving his family" and Donaldson remarks that he never saw Arby as a family man. Arby responds that "this is all about family." Tess and Amanda, who are being taken to their new lives by Network agents, have their car stopped by the phone and Tess picks it up. Arby answers, telling them he has left them their new identities in a nearby bag and they can never go home or contact anyone they once knew. He directs them to a new car and tells them he is not coming with them, having them look into the camera so he can look at them one last time. He thanks them, tells them to get rid of the phone, and hangs up. Lee kills Donaldson and asks after the rest of the group, telling Arby that things have changed and they need to be brought in. Arby asks "where is Jessica Hyde?"

Wilson Wilson is summoned by Milner as she fingers her tonalite. He is aware that Carvel is alive and asks if she is really ready to gamble releasing the vaccine without him, but she insists he loved Jessica and would never put Janus inside her if it would harm her. She says that for her plan to work she needs people like Wilson, and reveals that she was the one who ordered Arby to shoot up a school. She tells Wilson that he needs to meet someone. Becky concludes that Carvel must be a Holocaust survivor and tries to communicate with him using Google Translate, finding through trial and error that he speaks Romanian. Ian disguises himself as a maintenance worker, steals an ID badge, and infiltrates the news center. He copies the newscast onto a disc and improvises his way out when caught. He breaks into Dugdale's house but instead finds Jessica, who aggressively comes on to and has sex with him.

At a shopping mall, Milner reminds Wilson of the damned future overpopulation holds and compares him to Carvel, warning him that what they do must go "beyond morality." She introduces him to Paul, one of three Network sleeper agents disguised as an average middle class worker. At her request, Paul explains to Wilson that if he is chosen, he will receive a call and go into hiding until nine days before V-Day. When the day comes, he will go to a car park and extract a canister of extremely potent Russian flu, which he will fly with over a large area and release it into the general population, then repeat the action four times around the world. Milner reminds him that he will kill thousands including himself, but Paul states that it will not bother him, as he will have saved the world. Jessica promises Ian that Becky will not find out about their encounter and Ian asks if Dugdale is with the Network. She tells him that he is not and reveals that Janus is inside her. When Ian declines her offer for another round of sex, she plants a phone in the liner of his jacket while he showers. She watches Ian run out the back as she makes eggs. Dugdale calls his Network contact and is taken to Jen and Alice Dugdale, who are being held in a Network facility to keep him in line. He embraces them tightly.

While waiting for Milner to return, Wilson takes out the spoon he found in a couch and stares at it intensely, his hand shaking until she returns. He asks how many will die when an agent releases the flu, and she tells him the body count will reach five digits. He insists that there must be another way, but she counters that they would have found it by now. She tells him that she needs to hear him tell her that he can live with their actions, and after an emotional moment, he admits that he can. Becky and Grant hire a translator, Marius, who does not believe their shoddy cover story. Becky convinces him to stay by upping his pay. He realizes that Carvel is speaking Romani, the language of the "gypsy" Roma people. Becky insists that he was speaking Romanian, and after some communication, Marius concludes that he is a Romani-speaking Romanian. Ian returns and Grant explains the situation to him. Dugdale returns home and Jessica laments Ian leaving, then tells him that Milner is Mr. Rabbit, no longer able to bear her knowledge on her own, leaving Dugdale deeply troubled.

Becky notes Ian is quieter than usual. Marius explains that Carvel was placed in the Bełżec concentration camp at five years old, where he watched his family die. He broke the incinerator used to burn the bodies, so the Nazis dumped them in the woods and he hid among them for two days to escape. When he grew older, he decided to use his intellect so there could never be another Bełżec again, and he met Mr. Rabbit (identifying them as female) and developed Janus with her. When directly asked if Janus works, Carvel begins to speak in English again (to Marius' annoyance) and confirms that it works, but not in the way Mr. Rabbit expects. He remembers that "she said we couldn't choose" but he made an adjustment regardless to help evolution. Ian realizes he chose a race and asks which one, but Carvel lapses back into Romani. Ian shows him the news clip and he grabs Grant, shouting "five families" in Romani. Grant notices a story about the Hartwell shooting going by on the news ticker, and Becky recalls a similar story occurring in the United Kingdom. Ian realizes there are still three other families to be accounted for.

Milner shows Wilson that she has captured Ian's brother Roy, having him guarded by two non-Network MI5 agents, in hopes of drawing Ian, and therefore Carvel, out. She casually reveals she is Mr. Rabbit in front of them. She tells Wilson her plan: kill Roy and lure Ian out using his mother, leaving Wilson appalled. Milner reminds him of their plan and how it will save the world, but it will be all for naught if Roy or the guards leave the room knowing who she truly is. She gives Wilson a gun as he starts to cry, begging her to reconsider. He insists that he is unable to go through with it, and Milner tells him that "I've been making decisions like this for forty years. This decision I'm leaving with you." She leaves him alone with the gun. Ian finds exactly five matches when he searches for people abruptly and recently killing their families: the Georgia and UK cases, as well as in Brazil, South Africa, and China, all on the same day. Becky confesses to Ian that she was working with Donaldson but rejected him before she could sell the group out. Grant, wearing Ian's jacket, approaches Ian to insult him and Ian shouts at him to go away. Grant storms off and Ian follows him to apologize, but Grant grabs Arby's gun out of his bag and holds it on Ian, blaming him for his predicament and storming off, only to encounter Arby coming up the stairs, who takes his gun back.

A distressed Dugdale tells Jessica that the Network has his family, and she promises she will help get them back. He gets a knock on his door and Jessica slips away. He answers it to be met by Milner, who is looking for Ian. She notices a bible on Dugdale's couch as he tells her he has not seen Ian. She asks for some water and heads to the kitchen, stopping to ask Dugdale if he is religious. He tells her that he is not and she goes to the kitchen, grabbing a knife. Before she can attack him, Jessica appears behind her and holds her at gunpoint. She stops Jessica from killing her by telling her Carvel is alive and with Ian, asking her to go see him together.

Grant asks Arby if he feels anything when he kills, and Arby confirms he does not, describing it as "unscrewing a bottle to get to the water." When Grant asks if anyone messes with him, Arby says they still do, just "do it different." He agrees to teach Grant to shoot when he asks, but not to kill. Arby mentions that they found out who Anton is, but realizes he is not supposed to tell Arby when Arby asks what he means. Becky points out the correlation in the locations of the shootings: they are all remote areas that have an airfield close by. She concludes they are releasing the flu from the airfields, and Carvel confirms the families are killed to cover the Network's tracks. He explains that the shooters are sleeper agents that take care of the virus canisters until they are activated. He asserts that the Network is "appalling" and lapses back into Romani, showing them the image of Janus and repeating the word "proof." Marius is suddenly shot by Arby, who chases after them. Grant stops him from killing Ian and he instead takes Grant and Carvel, now knowing who the latter is. Ian calls after Grant as Arby forces them out.

Wilson vomits before walking back to Roy and killing the guards. Roy begs for his life and Wilson kills him. He stares at Roy's body for a moment before turning around and walking away.

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
 * Alice Dugdale - Emilia Jones
 * Jen Dugdale - Ruth Gemmell
 * Leah Gorsand - Sylvestra Le Touzel
 * Christian Donaldson - Michael Maloney
 * Philip Carvel - Ian McDiarmid
 * Lee - Paul Ready
 * Paul - Sacha Dhawan
 * Roy Johnson - Sope Dirisu
 * Marius - Emil Hostina

Deaths

 * American Network sleeper agent's three children
 * American Network sleeper agent's wife
 * American Network sleeper agent
 * Brazilian Network sleeper agent's wife
 * Brazilian Network sleeper agent's two children
 * Brazilian Network sleeper agent
 * British Network sleeper agent's three children
 * British Network sleeper agent's wife
 * British Network sleeper agent
 * Chinese Network sleeper agent's two children
 * Chinese Network sleeper agent's wife
 * Chinese Network sleeper agent
 * South African Network sleeper agent's two children
 * South African Network sleeper agent's wife
 * South African Network sleeper agent
 * Christian Donaldson
 * Marius
 * Two MI5 guards
 * Roy Johnson

Music

 * "Satan's Waltz (Metamorphosis Stage 1)" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (The American kills his family, Ian sneaks into the news center, Jessica sneaks a phone into Ian's jacket)
 * "Utopia Finale" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (The American kills himself/Recap)
 * "The Network" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Grant looks in Arby's bag)
 * "A New Brand of Drug" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Ian explains his plan)
 * "Lucidity Gone" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jessica tells Dugdale that Mr. Rabbit is still alive, Dugdale is allowed to see his family)
 * "An Answer" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Grant notices the number on Carvel's arm, Becky figures out the connection between the family murders)
 * "Where is Jessica Hyde? Part 1" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Arby says goodbye to Amanda and Tess/Lee kills Donaldson, the group realizes the meaning of "five families")
 * "Arby's Oratorio" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Arby asks where Jessica is, Ian breaks into Dugdale's house, Grant holds Arby's gun on Ian)
 * "Meditative Chaos" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Milner tells Wilson that she needs him)
 * "I Feel Separated" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Becky tries to communicate with Carvel)
 * "Bekki on Pills Part 2" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Becky leaves Grant with Carvel)
 * "Conspiracy Part 2" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jessica and Ian have sex)
 * "Utopia Descent" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Paul explains his duty to Wilson)
 * "Bambino Illuminatus" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Wilson tells Milner he can live with their actions)
 * "Fertility Control" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Jessica tells Dugdale that Milner is Mr. Rabbit)
 * "Fascinating Child" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Marius relays Carvel's past)
 * "Meditative Chaos" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Milner orders Wilson to make his first kill)
 * "Mind Splitting Lab (Metamorphosis Stage 2)" - Cristobal Tapia De Veer (Milner prepares to kill Dugdale/Jessica holds Milner at gunpoint)