The Last Ship

It's beautiful, yes?

Just like I promised.

Go ahead. Test it.

There are 499 others just like it, ready for delivery.

All over the planet, crops are sick.

No one can grow food.

The people starve to death.

And the one ancient African palm seed

has the secret to feed the whole world

locked inside its DNA.

It's funny, no?

I didn't know you were such a scientist, Mahmoud.

Ah...

I am a thief, but I know business.

And I know the seed's value.

Everyone wants what Omar stole from the seed bank.

And you work for Omar.

Why'd you steal from him?

I don't trust Omar. It's a tribal thing.

Besides, Mr. Fletcher here has made me a better offer.

Okay, Mahmoud, we have a deal.

Vulture team, it's a go. Get ready to move.

Green, check.

Taylor, check.

Miller, check.

Where are the rest of the seeds?

Someplace dear to my heart.

- But first, we negotiate. - No. No, no, no, no, no.

We already negotiated.

Omar's buyer is ready to grow food today.

Who is Omar's buyer?

- Ah! - Mahmoud.

To hell with Omar.

I'm thinking about Mahmoud.

Hold tight. Looks like they're haggling.

They will do what they did with the Blue Cure, eh?

Feed your own people first.

America, UK.

What do you want, Mahmoud?

Contact, 12 o'clock.

Stay with me, Mahmoud!

Mother, this is Vulture! We are under attack!

Say again, multiple attackers!

Commencing an emergency exfil!

Copy all, Vulture. Master Chief?

SCAT team and lookouts are manned and ready.

- Gator? - Sir, recommend course 2-4-5

to position us for ground cover and RHIB recovery.

Very well. Helm, come to course 2-4-5. All ahead flank.

Helm, aye. Turning to 2-4-5, all ahead flank.

CIC, notify GFS and exfil teams.

Move RHIB to Exfil Bravo. Beware of hostile gunfire.

You see anything above or below the water?

Negative. Zero contacts.

Sunshine, Mother, you're clear.

Stay low and head to Exfil Alpha now. Over.

This is Sunshine. Two minutes from Exfil.

It's go time, Nolan.

- (GUN COCKS) - Copy that.

- (DOG BARKING) - (SCREAMING)

Halsey, off. - (HALSEY GROWLING)

Good boy.

Vulture team, this is Sunshine. I'm at your exfil.

On the ground in 30 seconds. Let's go.

Let's move. Let's move!

Mahmoud, look at me. Was that Omar?

Were those his men?

Mmm.

Mahmoud, listen, where are the seeds?

I think we made the gods angry today.

Took too many of their fish.

- They'll get over it. - (LAUGHS)

Latest images from the States.

Reports say the Red Rust now covers 90% of the corn population.

Rice and wheat are at almost 100%.

I remember seeing people with the virus,

blood coming out of their eyes and nose.

This looks the same.

I experienced that myself, if you remember.

The red flu was originally a plant virus, Master Chief.

She only jumped back to plants

when we humans developed immunity.

Very clever.

Yeah. Clever.

The virus is spreading faster than our models predicted.

Plant-eating insects have proven to be a hyper-efficient vector

for the Red Rust.

Now it's affecting sugar cane

in the majority of the Earth's grasslands.

At this rate,

we're looking at a complete breakdown of the Earth's biosphere.

Within a year, there could be no way to sustain human life.

We don't have to wait a year.

In the States, we're at 200,000 dead.

In South America, it's in the millions.

Mr. Fletcher, you tested this dinosaur palm seed.

- Is it the real deal? - Elaeis virilis.

That ancient African palm seed is the only plant alive today

with proven immunity to the Red Rust.

And Mahmoud's people stole all the living samples.

We were so close. They were within my grasp.

And this mystery buyer,

the one who hired Mahmoud's people to rip off the seed bank,

he knows how to engineer the seed's immunity

into our current crop?

That's what Mahmoud claimed, but I highly doubt it.

So, he's just holding the seeds for ransom,

making the rest of the world pay through the nose.

Meanwhile, all humanity starves.

And the only one who knows where the seeds are stashed

is lying in a coma in our medical bay.

Okay, so we resupply at Rota.

And if our prisoner decides to rejoin the living,

well, we'll just convince him to tell us where the seeds are stashed.

That is all.

He walked almost to the top, and it was totally scary,

and it was nothing but rock and water,

and I was like, "No way am I going up there."

And then Yaya went up by herself to show me it wasn't scary,

- and then she... - Oh!

Never falling. Your Yaya never fails.

- It was close. - No, I was preparing to fly.

It's true. She can fly. I've seen it.

Like Pallas Athena, I take the shape of a sea eagle.

I've always wanted to fly.

Okay, fly away.

He lives in a Greek home, he works with a Greek man,

he loves a Greek girl,

and yet, he has no appreciation of our music.

Cali, you must teach him.

I try.

I'm more of a rhythm and blues guy.

Sure you like the blues because it tells a good story.

We Greeks have been telling stories with music

since ancient times.

From the bards.

Think of Homer, The Odyssey.

It's a nice fish, Dad.

A small catch today, Ash.

I'll do better tomorrow.

Come, children, let's walk.

Let's go this way.

You like this one?

What's he singing about?

Mmm...

Another ancient story about a polutropos,

a man of many wanderings, a great captain.

He saved the world from a deadly enemy.

And then, he vanished.

How long you known about me?

I wasn't sure until now.

But I had my doubts.

Does Cali know?

It's not my business.

You wanted to disappear, and you did.

But the world is in trouble again.

You see it.

I'm done playing the hero, Alex.

Bullshit. You cannot run from your destiny, Tom.

Because you are who you are.

Busy night.

Alex...

Could be better.

I hear you're not happy with the new terms.

When you take my whole catch, why should I even fish, mmm?

Because if you don't, then you won't eat at all.

Giorgio,

you control the whole sea.

What is so important about me?

Alex.

Everyone must pay their tax, or else no one will.

(IN ENGLISH) He's nobody.

We got it all, boss.

Happy fishing, Alex.

Opa!

Captain.

Blazes Boylan, six weeks away, you look six years younger.

It's the starvation diet.

- You look like crap, not for nothing. - Love you, too.

Welcome back to Rota.

We'll get you replenished, refueled, and where you need to go.

If only I knew where that was.