(beeping)
Attendez.
(speaking French)
Pa! Ici.
Le Fur, non! Pas la voiture.
(click)
- Good. And this? - A dog. D-o-g.
- Good. And that? - A cow. C-o-w.
Great. You're on a roll. OK, what about this one?
An owl. O-w-ml?
Good. Very good.
I'm gonna have to take your word on the next one.
It's a pig. Trust me.
Yeah. Hello. Listen, I don't know who I'm calling. I just got a page.
Roosters crow at the dawn, hoping to arouse the barnyard.
Bu! The owl knows it is still late at night.
The foxes are about. The master sleeps.
This is who we are.
(line goes dead)
I'm new to the area, so when my supervisor brought up the idea
I didn't even know where to begin.
So I took a shot and called your hospital.
You were referred to me by Mr Hudson and Dr Thomson.
- They just think the world of you. - Um...
That hospital deals with highly distressed, psychologically scarred people,
which is why I'm a bit puzzled, Ms Knight.
We're an overseas company which just won a small contract with Boeing.
Most of our employees are new to Seattle.
They're away from their friends, have new homes. And the rain.
So most of the problems will be nothing like
the intensity of what you do at the hospital.
It's great that you're willing to help them adjust.
Now, it would only be... Who knows? A couple of nights a week. By appointment.
I'd like to hire a woman. You're perfect for us.
For you, I guess it's something new.
Low stress. The pay is good.
And I understand you and Jordan could use a little extra income.
- Well, you really did your homework. - We only want the kind of people we want.
(beeping)
Open the pod bay door, please, HAL.
Istanna.
(Speaking Arabic)
(alarms sounding)
Ja.
(Speaking German)
Only twice in 2,000 years has the Millennium Group been so divided.
But this is our darkest hour.
I never thought members would kill members.
You think the Owls took the cross?
You have proof they killed Le Fur?
Who else would know we'd finally found it?
We've been searching for the Crucifixion cross for eight centuries, as have others.
They would never have given it up so easily.
Been a change in your ideology?
Of course not. But we're working against the hysteria caused by these times.
We defeat our entire purpose if we succumb to it.
- Why would they do it now? - I agree.
If a theological event does not occur within the next 665 days,
then the Owls' belief in a secular millennium decades from now is correct.
They would gain control of the Millennium Group in 666 days.
Of course, they believe the Roosters create
hysteria crowing about the impending dawn.
And that our beliefs endanger the world.
They know our faith in the power of the cross. Taking it weakens us.
And in their possession, whether they believe it or not, makes them stronger.
You know I believe the time is near, but I will not fight against our own,
unless we have proof.
- We have to begin our investigation. - Yes. Yes.
- Our best people. - Maybe we should open the books.
The Group is already unstable without initiating candidates who aren't ready.
Frank Black. Lara Means. They're ready.
Their abilities could be of great use in this.
An investigation that I believe will heal and reunite the Millennium Group.
There's only one person who could do that, whom both Roosters and Owls respect,
and at this moment is our only hope.
(dialling number)
(phone rings)
Aerotech's a South American company that's
won their first big North American contract.
They build throttle levers and igniter plugs for jet engines.
- Ms Knight told me about how they work. - Jordan has school tomorrow.
I know. I'm sorry. I didn't know that the meeting was gonna go so long.
We got to talking about our families. She wanted to know about you and Jordan.
- Naturally I had to hide some stuff. - Oh.
But overall I felt like I could really open up to her.
It was nice to have somebody to talk to.
Frank, I didn't anticipate wanting this job.
I took the meeting just out of curiosity.
But... I feel like it could be something really good.
Something of your own. You should do it.
I think it'd be really good for you.
If there's anything I can do to help...
Here we go.
So every Tuesday and Thursday night from about six until ten.
Just until I get a permanent sitter.
Let Jordan stay over. I'd like that. I'll take her to school in the morning.
It felt like family there for a minute again.
- Yeah. Good night. - Good night.
(door opens)
(door closes)
(man) Knowing you,
I'd have thought you'd have read every article and research paper on the subject.
It's all right, Lara. We all have our doubts.
And we have our certainties.
And I'm certain that the millennium is not imminent.
There are others in the Millennium Group that know this as well.
The Owls have proof.
We've developed evidence
since Galileo smuggled his work to Group members while under Church arrest.
The earth will change, Lara.
There will be an event, Lara.
But our prophecy is a more secular, scientific understanding.
In the way that I can prophesise that the
sun will set tonight and rise in the morning.
In the way Einstein's theory of relativity prophesised the existence of black holes
decades before anyone could observe the natural phenomena.
Think about it, Lara.
How many times in history has theological apocrypha created hysteria,
been used to assume power, diverted focus from actual vital concerns?
How many times must Ezekiel, Mark 13 and Revelation be wrong?
To prove we are right?
Work with us, Lara.
Work with us and we'll relieve you of your gift
and prevent you from going completely insane.
Is that a prophecy?
(beeping)
(chuckling)
- Bonk. - Bonk.
It's Watts.
Why don't you run upstairs, sweetheart?
It's OK. He's my friend.
I've had enough. You don't ever come to my house again unless I invite you.
- Your modem line's been tapped. - What?
- I could only make contact unannounced. - Did you see her face?
- Why didn't you tell me about this? - I could call the police.
- Are you with them? - I'm not even sure I'm with you.
I don't know who or what you are exactly.
Frank, I've wanted to tell you. Right now I need for you to know.
There's an investigation I need you for.
Lara Means has already agreed to join me, even though... the others disagree.
- It's not the time. - No.
The time is now, Peter. Now.
The Group convinced me to return to a realm,
for the safety of my family and my sanity,
that I never wanted to experience again.
Now, I agreed to work for them
because I believed that they were a criminal investigative consulting firm.
I was devoted. I respected Millennium. I respected you.
Now it's all distorted with hints and intimations.
Passwords and candidacies.
Centuries-old origins. End-of-the-world prophecies.
- Secrets and lies. - I never lied to you.
You knew the identity of the man that stalked my wife. For years.
You never told me. That's a lie.
You knew that I would kill him. You knew I'd get separated from my family.
You left your family. But you didn't leave us.
Over the last year of your candidacy,
this group has shown you a plane of good and evil
and a prophetic direction that you have come to understand and to accept.
Past and future events that we understand can only be known to a select few
in order to guide the world through the coming crisis which is inevitable.
Guide or control?
Can you imagine the effect conclusive evidence of doomsday would have
on a world in which millions believe they've
been abducted and experimented on by aliens
with the cooperation of government officials?
A country which obsessed for decades on Elvis sightings? Roswell?
It's no more ludicrous than you expecting me to believe
that a handful of people, a secret society, can control the destiny of millions.
Look at this. This image dates from 1500 BC.
This is God in the form of the Egyptian Amen-Re. The ever-present eye.
Annuit coeptis. The king sees.
He watches the actions of his people in life, that they may be judged in death.
This is a Masonic seal. A secret society.
Novas ordo seclorum. A new secular order.
The long-standing dream of Freemasonry.
At the Declaration of Independence,
there were so many Masons, they could have formed a lodge.
And the Master of the Alexandria Lodge at that time...
It's not enough.
I have an idea what those men were about, what they created.
The fact is I know nothing about the man standing in the darkness of my house.
Until I know more, I don't want anything to do with Millennium, or you.
Robert Le Fur, based in Paris, but did some
exceptional work for us in the Middle East.
The Holy Land.
I examined his dossier, although there were far too many censored lines
to get a true psychological understanding of the victim.
This is the crate.
The crate?
Peter, I need more information.
If you want a profile on who committed this act,
knowing what the suspect is after is half the distance to the goal line.
- A piece of wood. - A piece of wood.
OK. Like an end table? Tony Gwynn's bat?
The cross of the Crucifixion.
Early in the fourth century, the emperor Constantine allowed his mother Helena
to travel to Jerusalem in search of the cross.
Beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre she found three crosses,
two marked "thief" and one "lNRl" - "one to be mocked or humiliated".
She cut this cross into three pieces,
sending one to Constantinople, one to Rome and leaving one in Jerusalem.
The first two pieces were lost, but the third
was captured by the Muslims in the Crusades.
The Muslims were prepared to return the cross
until Richard Lionheart slaughtered his Arab prisoners.
Legend indicated Saladin then had the cross buried beneath a mosque in Damascus
as a means of humiliating the Christians.
Using the Geographic Information System,
computer cryptography of ancient Muslim text,
ground-penetrating radar,
and under the tightest compartmentalised secrecy,
what was hidden for nearly eight centuries... last week we found.
There's no image of the suspects.
The security camera was subjected to an intense blast from an ultrasonic device.
This is a fairly hi-tech, hard-to- get-your-hands-on piece of equipment.
It isn't some opportunistic crook.
Whoever did this is connected to a group that's well funded, well organised,
and understands the magnitude.
Millennium spent a great deal of effort to discover this. For what purpose?
Obviously you weren't gonna display it in the
Millennium Group Believe It Or Not Museum.
I can't imagine you putting it up for auction or selling it to the Vatican.
The patriarch of Jerusalem carried the cross into battle before the Crusaders.
For nearly a century they did not suffer a single defeat
unless the cross was not present.
The Muslim army was victorious as long as it was in their possession.
They weren't defeated until it was buried.
Even the Nazis had the Vichy government in Damascus looking for the cross,
convinced of its mystical power.
Should a battle...
Should Armageddon occur,
we must have the cross in our possession.
Even if some members believe that it's still the middle of the night?
The Owls have hacked into the Millennium mainframe and sent you messages.
A candidate like you is valuable to either side.
- And Frank? - Frank's a civilian now.
My guess is that you're with others who believe that the Owls are responsible.
I don't believe that they are.
The Owls believe in a secular millennium event.
To them, the cross means nothing.
If the Roosters were to prove the Owls were involved,
all they would accomplish within the Millennium Group is a civil war.
That everyone everywhere would lose.
(knock at door)
- Just on my way out. - First appointment?
- How did it go? - Good. I can't talk about it, of course.
If it's one of our employees, I don't even wanna know.
(starter clicks)
Sorry to bother you. Can I use the phone?
My car's dead. It's the battery or something.
Need to call your husband?
This is Watts. I briefed her.
- And? - She now knows about the object.
I felt, for the good of our goal, she had to know.
I think we can trust her.
I'm on my way to the Capital.
See if our friends at the Company know about what we're looking for.
Drive safe.
Hey. Is it the battery?
From the smell of it, you roasted the whole electrical system out or something.
Hello. I'm Clear Knight. You must be Catherine's husband.
Is this Jordan?
She should come over and play with my little girl.
Maybe we should do that.
Yeah, I think Frank and Carl would hit it off.
Let's do it.
- You need any help here, Frank? - We'll have to leave this here.
No problem. Let's talk about these plans Thursday night, Catherine.
Sure.
(radio) The thing about cigars is that they bind people together.
- That's an interesting point. - No, it's not.
(I "Horse With No Name" by America)
(oar honks)
(music stops)
What the hell...?
It's OK. I got my cellphone. Thanks.
Than ks, anyway.
(music starts again)
Yeah, man, the whole electrical system is gone in one shot.
Got me, what could cause that. I'll have to tow it to a shop.
Hook it up. I'll be right back.
- Ms Knight? - Frank.
- Everything all right? - Yeah. They're gonna tow it.
Thank you for helping Catherine last night.
Any time.
We're so pleased to have both of you in our family.
I have a meeting to run off to, but if you need to use my phone, go right ahead.
Thank you.
Huh.
Millennium Group autopsy. Subject: Gordon Johnston.
You know, this is the room where President Kennedy's body was examined.
Everyone's trust died in this room.
Means is here at my request. I'm responsible.
You know, Peter, I will be very honest with you.
I would have suspected you of working for the other side before I suspected Johnston.
- Out! Millennium Group only. - We are the Millennium Group.
We demand to be involved in this autopsy.
We will not accept your side's findings otherwise.
- Is that a threat? - It's clear Johnston has been murdered.
If any evidence should indicate responsibility of either Owls or Roosters,
I'm sure you know what's in danger.
The future... of the future.
Why else would his stomach be flooded with gasoline?
I'm agreeing with you. You're failing to see my point about the blunt trauma.
Well, these are preliminary reports
of carbon-isotope dating on the wood found in the trunk.
But the carbon build-up from the fire makes a
precise dating of the wood nearly impossible.
Mr Watts?
X-ray and ultraviolet imaging results on Mr Johnston's body.
Thank you.
(door opens)
Peter, I've been comparing this murder to Le Fur's in Amman
and I believe that there actually are some connections.
Lara.
You're excused from the Millennium Group until further notice.
What?
- On what grounds? - I may contact you.
Then we may never contact you again.
Now, get out of my sight.
Now it's time.
Hey. You looking for me?
You must be. I'm the only one that lives here.
Easy, Mr Black.
This is who we are.
Visiontext Subtitles: Gill Parrott
(child) I made this!
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