2.19 - The Woken Apocalypse

"Season Two comes to its thrilling conclusion as things seem in danger of falling apart, the centre is unlikely to hold, and mere anarchy is most definitely loosed on HartLife."

Synopsis
Herbert and Andrew follow the horde of Woken through the city. They aren't being attacked as Herbert's flesh isn't fresh enough, and Andrew's brain is implied to not be big enough. Caligari finds and confronts them. Herbert is glad to see her alive, as he wanted to be able to watch her being torn apart by the Woken. He tells her if she gives them Elizabeth, they'll be on their way.

Caligari realizes that Herbert used her formula from the Containment Tube to revive Elizabeth, and makes it clear that she doesn't have her. When she calls Elizabeth Herbert's "girlfriend", he reacts flustered and calls her "more of a mother figure". Caligari pulls out some form of gun, "Professor Machina's Deus Ex 20 Neural Disrupter", intending to incapacitate the Woken. She is stopped by Chamberlain appearing and cocking his gun. Caligari congratulates him on finding her. He makes her hand over the gun and breaks it. Caligari is upset and tells him this gun could've ended the Woken. Chamberlain argues that the rest of them would've died as well, to which Caligari replies that she would've survived. Herbert asks Chamberlain if he could torture Elizabeth's location out of Caligari. He instead points his gun at Herbert and makes it clear he intents to talk to him as well, and tells Andrew to run.

Caligari tries to reason with Chamberlain and tells him he could be a hero for saving the city, but he says that isn't his job. Elizabeth shows up behind Chamberlain. After a brief scuffle he gets thrown down a putrescible waste chute. Since Elizabeth is still in her feral Woken state, Herbert, Caligari and Andrew flee. While they're running, Caligari confronts Herbert about his crazy plan to retrieve Elizabeth and asks him how he ever planned to stop the army of Woken from killing everyone in the city. She then realizes that he never meant to deal with them at all, and Herbert confirms that there are "other cities". When she indignantly asks him if he was just going to let all the people of HartLife become Woken, he tells her to not be ridiculous; the Woken are agamogenetic, meaning they produce asexually, not via an infection. Just as they realize this, every Woken splits into two.

Andrew yells at them to just work together to stop this. Herbert's first idea, "a four headed badger of inordinate size", programmed to feed on Elizabeth's DNA, gets shut down by Caligari, as it didn't work in Raleigh. When Herbert asks how she knows about Raleigh, she reveals she's been checking up on him. Caligari tells everyone to empty their pockets, to see what equipment they have at their disposal. Herbert wants to create a miniature sun, which Caligari shuts down as it would be insane. Elizabeth finds them and tries to attack Andrew. By pretending to be Nathan he manages to snap her out of her feral state and she comes back to herself. She feels extremely tired and needs to sit down. Andrew asks Caligari what one of the items, a Sonic Locational Extrapolator, does. Caligari explains it tracks specific sounds. She then realizes she can tune it to the sound of the Woken's moans. She and Herbert feed the Sonic Locational Extrapolator into a Gravity Well Emitter, which, when activated, kills all of the Woken.

Caligari and Herbert go right back to arguing, as they blame each other for what happened. Elizabeth gets involved and knocks Caligari down. She threatens to kill Caligari if she doesn't tell her where Nathan is. Caligari says she doesn't know, as she never cared enough to find out. While Caligari doubts that he's still alive, she says that the only person who would know where Nathan is would be Chamberlain. Elizabeth then tells Caligari to leave.

Herbert asks if they should go rescue Nathan now. Elizabeth tells him to leave and never come back because of what he did to the city and because he turned her into a monster. She says she is starting to understand why the Company restricts science, as it can be brutal and cause carnage, while not caring about how many people get hurt. Herbert agrees to leave because Elizabeth asked him to. He asks Andrew to come along, but Elizabeth tells him to stay here. Herbert says he should listen to her and turns to leave alone. He says he hopes Elizabeth finds her son, and Elizabeth thanks him for trying to save her.

Cast

 * Narrator — Ansel Burch
 * Dr. Herbert West — Ryan Schile
 * Andrew Snidge — Frank Sjodin
 * Dr. Emily Caligari — Martine Moore
 * Elizabeth Rourke — Tara Schile
 * Agent George Chamberlain — Jim McDoniel