Silo – S02E08 – The Book of Quinn – Transcript

Silo
Season 2 – Episode 8
Episode title: The Book of Quinn
Original release date: January 3, 2025

Plot: Juliette gets the bends and has to dive again to recover. After surfacing, she is confronted by a figure who shoots her with an arrow and threatens to kill her. Juliette searches for her attacker and finds three young people. In Silo 18, Lukas tracks down Quinn’s descendants and learns that they gave Quinn’s copy of the Pact to Meadows years earlier. Bernard tells Lukas that Quinn destroyed the records 140 years ago and drugged the water in order to make citizens forget their history, to stop the rebellions that had been occurring every 20 years. Using Quinn’s Pact, Lukas starts decoding Quinn’s letter. Sims, with Camille’s help, learns that Lukas is investigating for Bernard. Walker meets Bernard and agrees to be his informant in order to save Carla. Consequently a group of Mechanical who break into Supply are arrested by raiders. Billings’s wife Kathleen learns that Billings saved a page of a picturebook from the ‘before times’, and demands to see it.

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Transcript

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[panting, shivering]

Fuck. [breathes shakily]

[panting, shivering]

Come on.

[panting]

[high-pitched ringing]

[grunting]

[high-pitched ringing stops]

[panting]

[breathes heavily]

Okay. [breathing heavily]

[grunting, exclaiming]

[breathes heavily]

[exclaims] Oh, come on.

[groaning, panting]

Come on.

[breathing heavily]

[panting, grunting]

[grunts]

[Shirley] This seat taken?

Um, no.

Please, sit.

[sighs]

You are one brave man.

How’s that?

We mostly use Maeve’s biscuits for counterweights.

Two friends of mine lost teeth trying to bite into them.

My wife’s always trying to get me to chew my food more.

It was good exercise.

So, what are you gonna do now?

I’ll do what I can to get some answers.

Down here?

Are you even sheriff anymore?

Until I’m told otherwise.

So basically, you’re hiding out?

No.

Maybe.

Well, in the meantime, why don’t you do something useful?

Help us.

As far as the Pact allows.

I got a question for you.

What does the Pact say about people who stab someone in the heart and try to pin it on others?

I need proof that…

Give me a fucking break.

You know it’ll never be proven.

The mayor and Sims, they’ll be laughing their heads off at your pitiful attempt to bring them to justice.

While Walker, Knox and I swing from the bridge to Judicial.

The Founders established a process,

a-a due process.

The Founders?

Have you… Have you ever considered that the Founders, whoever the fuck they were, were lying through their teeth about everything?

No.

No.

[sighs]

If we don’t respect the order of things, then it all falls apart.

The Pact is what we have.

Those are the words we live by.

There comes a time you need to stand up and call bullshit.

[sighs] All right.

Hey, who the fuck are you?

Lukas Kyle.

The shadow to the head of IT.

Holland doesn’t have a shadow.

Meaning you can fuck off.

Oh, no. I have a…

Hey, that was us being nice.

Mm-hmm.

Do you want it to go the other direction?

It’s blue.

Yeah, I know colors. [chuckles]

[sighs]

What are you doing here?

Mayor Holland asked me to find something in the judge’s apartment.

What?

I can’t tell you.

Judge Sims ordered us to pack everything and bring it to Judicial.

I don’t know what you’re gonna tell him, but I need to be alone.

Now.

[sighs]

[sighs]

[sighs]

[kisses]

[sighs]

So what are you gonna do? Saw your way up again?

No, we’re gonna go late.

Up the far side, in those chairs Jules and Coop used on the generator.

And somehow, by breaking into Medical Supply without getting noticed, without getting your asses burned, you’ll magically make things okay?

We’re running low on everything, Walk.

We’re down to tearing up rags for bandages, using rotgut for anesthesia.

If your daughter were here, she’d tell these knuckleheads they’re insane to go through with this plan.

Can you come up with a better idea?

[Martha] Damn right I can.

You don’t need to get to Supply to get bandages.

You need to get McLain back, so she can get bandages.

Getting McLain out of detention is 200% more difficult than breaking into Supply.

I don’t give a shit about the odds.

We should at least try.

She sacrificed herself for our sorry asses.

That should count for something.

Of course it does. But…

Don’t give me any fucking buts.

You go ahead and do this thing, get yourselves arrested or maybe killed.

And guess what?

McLain’s still locked up, and we’re doubly fucked.

Walk, it’s just that we have to go about this…

Oh, do you know what? Get the hell out of my shop.

Go play your stupid game someplace else. I got real work to do.

Come on, Walk!

You heard me. Out.

We all know how much McLain means to you, Walk.

Go!

[computer chimes]

You gotta be kidding.

[Juliette grunting]

[pants, groans]

[groans]

[grunting]

[engine rumbling]

[groaning]

[breathes heavily]

[groaning]

Two of my men were boxing up Meadows’s apartment when Lukas Kyle, that little shit you and I sent to the mines, barges in, flashes his new blue ID, says he’s there on Bernard’s behalf.

What’s he doing?

I don’t know.

And even if I did, I couldn’t tell you.

Last I looked, you work for Judicial.

And since I am Judge Sims, that means you work for me.

Come on, Rob.

When you had my job, did you report to Judge Meadows, other than on paper?

Hmm.

[Shirley] Walk!

Wait. Hey, stop.

Where are you going?

None of your business.

[Shirley] Actually, it is.

‘Cause if you’re going more than ten levels, you need protection.

I had a message on my computer.

They shut down messaging.

Well, they opened it up for me.

Who did?

Groundwater Removal.

There’s a request for a service call.

The pump on 90 isn’t working.

Last time I overhauled that, you were still in diapers.

Walk, it’s a trap.

I’m guaranteed safe passage.

For someone who they said is connected to a conspiracy to murder the judge?

They said pump maintenance supersedes everything.

I still think it’s a trap.

Well, if they throw me in a cell, maybe they’ll put me in with Carla.

At least I’ll have a few hours away from all of you and your stupid plans.

[inhales sharply]

[blows]

What?

I have some questions.

Good for you.

[breathes shakily]

No, no. [breathes shakily]

[clears throat]

[person 1] Look, tell your boss he’ll have his wool before the next cleaning, okay?

Okay. [stammers] Ma’am, this has nothing to do with wool.

It’s about something of vital importance to the Silo.

Oh, you mean like wool?

It’s about Salvador Quinn.

Don’t know anyone by that name.

Okay, well, does Terrance Penbrook live here?

That’s my father-in-law, but he’s up at the farms right now so…

Okay. Well, your father-in-law is a direct descendant

of Salvador…

[person 2] Who’s there, Josey?

He’s from IT.

Says he needs to talk to you about Salvador Quinn.

What do you need to know about that fucking bastard you don’t know already?

[inhales sharply] Sir, could I just come in? It…

No, no, no, I gotta see to the sheep. I’m already late.

[stammers] Sir, sir, I don’t think you got a close look at this, at what color it is.

You want to be hauled upstairs for an official interrogation?

Thank you.

[machinery whirring]

You make the wool for the cleanings, huh?

Yes, sir. Four generations.

Brandon here will be the fifth.

Of course, we do more than that.

We also make blankets, mostly for Up-Toppers.

What do you want?

There’s property that’s missing from the archives in IT, property which Mr. Quinn took without authority and that we believe is still in his descendants’ possession.

Don’t know anything about that.

No. [chuckles]

No, um, papers… relics… books?

[Terrance] Books?

[chuckles] All the books were destroyed in the rebellion.

And why the hell would we keep anything of his anyway?

The name “Salvador Quinn” has brought this family only shame and dishonor.

I believe you and I wish that that were enough, but I’m afraid I’m gonna have to call for a Judicial search team.

What? No, we don’t have anything.

Hey, hey, just a minute.

Okay, well, then maybe you should just do a thorough search to make sure.

I’m gonna get a coffee and then I’ll be back.

Oh, come on. We don’t have anything.

[door opens]

[door closes]

[sighs]

Hey!

Can I give you some advice?

Sir, as I explained to you…

You haven’t had that badge very long, have you?

[inhales sharply] I see you trying so hard to be a tough guy, but it ain’t you.

Real tough guys, they hardly say anything at all.

We don’t talk about Salvador Quinn.

My family got rid of that name a long time ago.

Okay.

Do you know why we make the wool for the cleanings?

No, why?

140 years and we are still trying to make up for being related to the man who almost destroyed the Silo.

[sighs]

[Lukas] Quinn’s legacy of failure continues.

His family were no help.

Salvador Quinn was not a failure.

He let the rebels erase the servers and burn the books.

That’s what we’ve been taught, but it’s not the truth.

Salvador Quinn saved the Silo.

[inhales sharply] Before him, there were rebellions every 20 years or so.

And every rebellion risked the opening of the air lock and the death of 10,000 people.

Quinn realized that part of the problem was that people knew about the rebellions that had come before, so he came up with a radical solution: sever the Silo from its history.

He cut off access to the servers, confiscated the books, then blamed the rebels.

Then how did no one know that that’s what he’d done?

Surely there was someone…

He put something in the water.

A chemical compound.

A drug to make us forget.

Not all at once.

Over the course of weeks and months and years.

And the consequence of this… was 140 years of peace.

Until now.

[gasping]

[gasps]

[footsteps running]

[panting]

Oh, holy shit.

That tastes like my brother’s armpit.

[chuckles]

I won’t ask how you know what your brother’s armpits taste like, but you still need to drink it.

What’s in it anyway?

It’s an old recipe passed down from generation to generation since maybe even the before times.

You and your husband seem to know a lot about the before times.

How’s that?

He showed me that page… with all the trees… all the green.

What did you think of it?

[Kathleen] It was something.

Yeah, it was something.

[breathing shakily]

[metal clangs]

Hey!

I don’t know where you are and I don’t care, okay?

But the man you took has something I need.

[breathes shakily]

[footsteps approaching]

[screeches, chitters]

[gasps]

[metal clangs]

[person] Stop!

The man you took has something that I need!

I killed him…

What?

And I’ll kill you too if you don’t go away.

No, no, no. Listen, listen, let me talk to him please.

I warned you.

[grunting, groaning]

[grunts, groans]

Hi there, stranger.

Camille.

Coffee, when you get a chance, please. Black.

Sure thing.

So, you must be in the deep of it.

Burning both ends.

Pretty much 24/7.

Tough on Marcy, I’ll bet.

[inhales sharply] Yeah, I know all about those hours.

Wasn’t easy wondering when Rob was coming home.

If he was gonna come home.

Marcy doesn’t complain too much.

[chuckles]

I remember when you two came over for dinner.

Mmm.

You were just dating.

Yeah, I knew right then she was made of strong stuff.

That she is.

You know that was the first time Rob ever asked one of his agents over?

And now what? You already have a child on the way.

Due in two months.

That is wonderful.

A blessing.

And yet, I’m afraid for our children.

I’m not sure I follow.

Things are out of control.

You more than anyone can see that.

We’re gonna have everything sorted out soon.

It’s those damn greasers from down deep that…

They’re not making things any easier.

But isn’t the real problem in IT?

No, I don’t think so.

The mayor’s new shadow is some guy who a minute ago was busting rocks in the mines and we’re seconds from an all-out rebellion.

Bernard knows what he’s doing.

I hope so, but people are having doubts.

On all levels, not just the lower ones.

I’m just doing my job, like your husband’s just doing his.

We’re all gonna die if we’re not careful.

My husband has the best interests of the Silo in his heart.

You have to believe that.

[sighs]

He needs you to find out what Bernard’s shadow is up to.

Even if I were to help… if Bernard were to find out…

One thing.

One thing is all he’s asking.

Track Lukas Kyle.

I swore an oath, Camille.

Like we all did. Judge Sims included.

You didn’t just swear an oath to one man.

You swore it to the Silo.

And right now, the Silo needs your help.

I have to go.

I’m sorry.

Mr. Mayor.

I heard the pump needs fixing.

[Bernard] Not anymore.

That was easy.

I heard you wanted to see me.

What gave you that idea?

You turned your camera back on, for one thing.

Oh, that… [stammers, sighs]

That was a mistake.

Well, see, I took it as an invitation.

To what? To shoot the shit, ’cause we’re such good buddies and all?

All that, yes.

But what I was really hoping for was the chance to negotiate.

[grunting]

Come on.

[grunting]

[groans, breathing heavily]

[groans]

[breathing heavily]

[breathing heavily]

[chimes]

I tried eating the fruit off this tree.

Bitter as shit.

Guess it fits, since my old man was a nasty bastard.

I ran a track-and-trace on Lukas Kyle.

I appreciate that very much.

He went from Judge Meadows’s place to an apartment in lower-mids occupied by Terrance Penbrook.

Then he went to Bernard’s office.

What was he doing?

Looking for something. A book.

Belonged to Salvador Quinn.

What book?

I don’t know.

I don’t think he knows.

Where is he now?

On the stairs, headed down.

Well, let me know where he is when he gets…

No.

And stop sending your wife asking for favors.

I did this for you, Judge Sims, this one time…

’cause I owe you that.

But we are done.

She’s a stubborn one, your McLain.

And then some.

But detention isn’t easy for most, especially someone her age.

I don’t know how long she can hold out.

[Martha] So, let her go.

Well…

No, I’m serious.

What are you doing messing around with a couple of old ladies who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time?

Come now.

You know very well that is not the case.

Well, I’m guessing if you really knew something, you wouldn’t need to dick around like this.

I think you don’t know what to do or where to start and you’re just taking shots in the dark and hoping you’ll hit something.

I’m trying to save the Silo, Martha.

And I am forced to go to any lengths to do it.

Well, bully for you.

What Mechanical is doing, to put it bluntly, will get us all killed.

So you say.

I do say, and I also say that before I let that happen, your wife will suffer more pain than she ever thought could exist in this life.

She won’t die but she will be pleading to the Founders to let her die.

Please don’t.

Not to be overly dramatic, but her life is in your hands.

What do you want?

If I had someone that could tell me in advance just what it is your little band of rebels is planning, then I might have a shot of getting things back to normal.

Hey.

Hey.

Where’s Claire?

Asleep.

Damn, it’s that late already?

Everything okay?

No, actually.

What?

What happened?

I took some food to Patrick Kennedy today.

Okay.

You showed him a page from a book made in the before times.

Is that true?

I should have known he couldn’t keep it to himself.

Is it true?

Yes.

And you show it to him and not me?

I shouldn’t have shown it to anyone but I needed to convince him to-to tell me what he need…

I don’t care why!

Why would you hold back on sharing something

as important as that with me?

Because it’s dangerous.

I don’t care how dangerous it is!

Is it true… that there was a world outside that was beautiful?

Show it to me.

Kathleen, you…

Show it to me!

[breathes deeply]

There is a whole book of pictures.

People.

Sky.

Animals.

[chuckles]

Children.

[Kathleen] What happened, Paul?

I don’t know.

I don’t know.

[inhales sharply] I don’t know what to do, baby. I…

I don’t know what to do.

I need to apologize for before.

I’m trying to find out something and it is very important, but… it doesn’t excuse how I acted.

The truth is I’m a kid from the lower-mids and I got lucky getting this job and a fancy ID.

And… [inhales sharply]

I made the mistake of thinking maybe I’m something special, but I’m not.

Not by a long shot.

Salvador Quinn, he’s special.

He was a hero.

I knew it.

[sighs] Don’t lie to us, son.

Sir, I wish I could tell you how I know, but I can’t.

And it might be hard for you to trust me, given what an asshole I was before.

But I am telling you… [inhales deeply]… he saved the Silo.

When Judge Meadows visited us, she tried to tell us the same thing.

Judge Meadows came here?

When?

Years ago. Before Brandon was born.

I-I think before she became Judge.

What did she want?

Books.

Same as you.

Didn’t care if they were relics.

Said we wouldn’t get into any trouble.

She had a blue ID, like you.

Said she’d be willing to make an exchange.

And you-you, um…

Brandon.

[breathes shakily]

What were the books you traded for these?

Just one.

An old copy of the Pact.

It was Quinn’s.

At least, his name was on the inside.

That’s it, huh?

That’s all she wanted.

Never saw her again.

Is it true she was murdered by a couple of Mechanicals?

That’s what they say.

I don’t know.

Thank you.

Take solace in knowing that 10,000 of your fellow citizens will be grateful for your co-operation.

Can I see her now?

Of course.

A deal’s a deal.

[breathing shakily]

[breathing shakily]

[rebels panting]

[Raiders chattering]

[Teddy] This is it.

Come on.

Here.

Ben, you hit the meds.

[Ben] Got it.

Sarah, you hit the ba…

What have you done to her?

It’s more what she’s done to herself.

Carla!

Carla!

She can’t hear you.

[sighs]

I said that you could see her, and now you have.

What? [sighs]

You can see she’s alive.

And if you want it to stay that way, you’ll continue to be my eyes and ears in the Down Deep.

[stammers] What happened to a deal’s a deal?

I will make you this promise.

No harm will come to her if you continue to co-operate.

And, uh, once this mess is all cleaned up, you will be reunited with your true love once again.

You are quite the bastard, aren’t you?

Yes or no?

[smacks lips] Yes, damn it.

Yes.

Good.

[clicks tongue] And, um… it’s not like I don’t trust you…

Actually, I don’t.

But, um, there will be eyes and ears in the Down Deep that will make sure that you keep your end of the bargain.

And, um, I also need you to turn your camera back on.

And until this is over, you will stay in your workshop.

[sighs]

[sighs]

Okay.

[sighs, murmurs]

[sighs]

Fuck!

[breathes heavily]

[murmurs] Proceed…

20 pa-pa-pac… 20 pace…

20 paces for-for… Forward.

Proceed 20 paces forward, then two.

[murmurs]

Page 99.

Come on. [exhales sharply]

Come on, Lukas.

[murmurs]

“If you’ve gotten this far, you already know the game is rigged.”

You kicked my agents out of this apartment.

What’s in the bag?

You can’t touch me.

I’m… I’m Bernard Holland’s shadow. [breathes shakily]

You have no idea what I can do.

The Pact.

Mayor Holland asked me to bring it to him.

Why?

It belonged to her.

I don’t pretend to know what’s in Bernard’s mind, as far as you’re concerned.

But whatever it is, you should know, once he gets what he needs from you, he’ll throw you back to the mines.

Sometime soon, you’re gonna need a friend.

A friend like you?

You might think you know what he wants.

I thought I did.

But he’ll always be four moves ahead of you.

Watch yourself.

That’s my advice.

Thank you.

Now, if you don’t mind, I gotta go.

Your mother, she works in hospice on 85, isn’t that right?

I’m just guessing she’d hate to have her son as a patient.

[door opens]

How’d it go?

Everything okay with the pump?

Burnt out capacitor.

It could have been worse.

Couldn’t be worse down here.

We should have listened to you, Walk.

What about?

Breaking into Supply.

They caught ’em.

Teddy and his team got arrested.

[sighs]

Anybody killed?

Honestly, we don’t know.

It’s possible, but we can’t get any information.

Shit.

Knox and I aren’t sure how the raiders found out.

You know, there’s… there’s gotta be someone down here, a snitch.

You know, we thought we were careful, but I guess not. [sighs]

[sighs]

Y-You all right?

Yeah, I’m just tired.

It’s a long walk.

I-I don’t think I’ll be up for that again.

[sighs]

Did you see something?

People freaking the fuck out.

Raiders on every level, armed to the teeth, waiting for someone to make the wrong move.

That’s it?

Yeah. That’s not enough for you?

[sighs]

Look, I’m sorry, I’m just beat.

Can I get you something?

No, no, I’m just, uh…

Look, I just need a rest, okay?

Thank you.

[Shirley] Okay.

Well…

You know where to find me.

Always.

[chuckles]

[breathing heavily]

[breathing shakily]

[person 1 exclaims, grunts]

[screams, grunts]

Hey! [pants]

[both grunting, groaning]

[breathing heavily] Wait! Wai… [grunting, groaning]

No!

[Juliette grunting]

[person 1 groaning, panting]

[breathes heavily]

[person 2] Hey!

[Juliette exclaims]

I already put one arrow in your shoulder.

One more move and this one goes straight into your heart.