08x09 - Honor

[bunniefuu]

[WALKER GROWLING]

Previously on AMC's "The Walking Dead"...

Save him. Like you saved me.

- Wait.

- I liked you, Ezekiel.

Your people are gonna look up at the sanctuary fence, and they're going to see their king is dead.

We can't just let them have this place.

We can.

All we need to do is survive tonight.

♪ ♪

[BREATHES SHARPLY]

"My mercy... prevails... over my wrath."

[BREATHES SHARPLY]

♪ ♪

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

Jerry!

S'up, Jude?!

[LAUGHS]

Hey, Rick.

Everything okay?

Just came for some of that butternut skillet cake you guys make.

- [CHUCKLES]

You rode out from the Kingdom for dessert?

Hells yah.

[CHUCKLES]

You got roped into masonry duty.

[SIGHS]

Siddiq, man.

[CHUCKLING] Dude's impossible to say no to.

Back to it.

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[SHOVELS SCRAPING - RICK and Michonne bury body]

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SIDDIQ: Just go! You don't have to do this.

[WALKER GROWLING]

[GROWLING CONTINUES]

[GRUNTING]

[TEETH CRUNCHING - Carl gets bit on stomach]

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[g*nsh*t]

[GROWLS]

[g*nsh*t, THUDS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

SIDDIQ: Are you okay?

CARL: Yeah.

[BRIGHT EYES' "AT THE BOTTOM OF EVERYTHING" PLAYS]

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CARL: It's just 'til I can talk to my dad.

♪ We must talk in every telephone ♪

♪ Get eaten off the web ♪

♪ We must rip out all the epilogues ♪

♪ From the books that we have read ♪

♪ And to the face of every criminal ♪

♪ Strapped firmly to a chair ♪

♪ We must stare, we must stare, we must stare ♪

♪ We must take all of the medicines ♪

♪ Too expensive now to sell ♪

♪ Set fire to the preacher ♪

♪ Who is promising us hell ♪

♪ Into the ear of every anarchist ♪

♪ That sleeps but doesn't dream ♪

♪ We must sing, we must sing, we must sing ♪

♪ It'll go like this, all right? ♪

♪ While my mother waters plants ♪

♪ My father loads his g*n ♪

♪ He says death will give us back to God ♪

♪ Just like the setting sun ♪

♪ Is returned to the lonesome ocean ♪

♪ ♪

If he's not back soon, we'll meet him there.

Hopefully, they'll be with him.

What about Michonne?

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Ah.

♪ We must blend into the choir ♪

♪ Sing a static with the whole ♪

♪ We must memorize nine numbers ♪

♪ And deny we have a soul ♪

♪ And in this endless race for property ♪

♪ And privilege to be won ♪

♪ We must run, we must run, we must run ♪

♪ We must hang up in the belfry ♪

♪ Where the bats and moonlight laugh ♪

♪ We must stare into a crystal ball ♪

♪ And only see the past ♪

♪ Into the caverns of tomorrow ♪

♪ With just our flashlights and our love ♪

♪ We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge ♪

♪ And then we'll get down there ♪

♪ Way down to the very bottom of everything ♪

♪ And then we'll see it, oh, we'll see it ♪

♪ We'll see it, we'll see it ♪

♪ Oh, my morning's coming back ♪

♪ The whole world's waking up ♪

♪ All the city buses swimming past ♪

♪ I'm happy just because ♪

♪ I found out I am really no one ♪

♪ ♪

[SHUTTER CLICKS, WHIRS]

♪ We must talk in every telephone ♪

♪ Get eaten off the web ♪

♪ We must rip out all the epilogues ♪

♪ From the books that we have read ♪

♪ And to the face of every criminal ♪

♪ Strapped firmly to a chair ♪

♪ We must stare, we must stare, we must stare ♪

♪ We must take all of the medicines ♪

♪ Too expensive now to sell ♪

♪ Set fire to the preacher ♪

♪ Who is promising us hell ♪

♪ Into the ear of every anarchist ♪

♪ That sleeps but doesn't dream ♪

♪ We must sing, we must sing, we must sing ♪

♪ It'll go like this, all right? ♪

♪ While my mother waters plants ♪

♪ My father loads his g*n ♪

♪ He says death will give us back to God ♪

♪ Just like the setting sun ♪

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[MUSIC ENDS]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

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[g*nf*re]

MAN # : You seeing this?

WOMAN: North copies. Got sh*ts here.

MAN # : West, too. What are they doing?

They'll run outta a*mo before they run outta walkers.

[g*nf*re CONTINUES]

- I got eyes on it.

South out.

[g*nf*re]

[g*nf*re CONTINUES]

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[g*nf*re CONTINUES]

[WALKIE-TALKIE CLICKS]

MORGAN: They're trying to make a path. Blocking out the walkers with bodies. They're gonna get out. Man, we need to tell everybody...

♪ ♪

[g*nf*re CONTINUES]

MORGAN: South down! Get out! Everybody, get out now!

[g*nf*re CONTINUES]

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[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS IN DISTANCE]

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[WOMAN SINGING OPERATICALLY OVER SPEAKERS]

[CLANGING]

Hey! Hey!

[WALKERS GROWLING]

[WALKERS GROWLING]

[ENGINES RUMBLING]

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[SOFT CLATTERING]

[WALKER GROWLING SOFTLY]

CAROL: I see it. It got tripped up on my wire. I got it.

[GROWLING STOPS]

CAROL: The cottage is just ahead, out of the tree-line. It's got a wrought-iron fence. There's food and water inside. The Saviors don't know about it. You'll be safe there until I make it back with Ezekiel.

You versus all of them?

CAROL: Yeah.

They don't stand a chance.

It's not just Carol. I'm going, too.

CAROL: No. You're not.

They k*lled my brother.

CAROL: And I'm not gonna let 'em k*ll you.

[SCOFFS LIGHTLY] I can do it. I can help you. Morgan taught me the stick. You taught me the g*n.

CAROL: It's not happening.

[INSECTS CHIRPING]

Come on.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[MUFFLED expl*si*n IN DISTANCE]

[MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS

CONTINUE, ROCKS CLATTER]

I-I don't...

CARL: Dad.

RICK: How...

CARL: Dad... it's all right. It's gotta be. I wasn't sure if you'd make it back before... But just in case, you know... I wanted to make sure I was able to say goodbye.

No. It's them. It's them.

They... They don't...

It wasn't...

[CRYING]

RICK: Carl. No.

CARL: I got bit. I was bringing someone back. His name's Siddiq. We saw him at that gas station, before... It wasn't the Saviors. It just happened. I got bit.

GAVIN: Negan's gonna k*ll you now. I said he's gonna k*ll you. And there's nothing I can do to stop that. Hey. You hear me?

EZEKIEL: I ferried my people to freedom. What befalls me now matters not.

GAVIN: No. It matters, idiot. I liked you, Ezekiel. You got it. You got that you couldn't do better than you had it. You accepted things for what they were, and you didn't get any big ideas in your head. And then Rick went and planted one right in there. And here we are. sh*t's getting shittier. And you're gonna die.

EZEKIEL: I made a choice I could live with. Now it's your turn to do the same.

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[WHISPERING] Henry!

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Hey.

[WHISPERING] They don't have enough people to guard all the walls.

No, but they do have people.

MORGAN: And they have Ezekiel. I saw him. They got him on the other side of this place. We can take them. One by one.

CAROL: No, if we hit one of them, that could call them all. It's better just to avoid them until we can't.

MORGAN: Henry. He's here, too.

CAROL: Where? Did you see him? Do they have him?

MORGAN: Yeah, I saw him run this way, and then he was gone.

But he'll hide.

He won't take them on face-to-face.

We have to do this now.

So if we have to take them, we take them.

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[GRUNTS]

[MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS IN DISTANCE]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

MICHONNE: Is that better?

CARL: Yeah... Thanks.

SIDDIQ: I, um, I got these. They're over-the-counter, non-steroidal anti-inflammatories. They'll, um... They'll help a little with the fever. They did for my mom and dad.

[VOICE BREAKING] Please take them.

SIDDIQ: Your son... he should have them.

RICK: You're a doctor?

SIDDIQ: I was a resident... before.

Yeah.

RICK: Your name is Siddiq?

SIDDIQ: Yes.

RICK: Did you know he was a doctor? Is that why you brought him back?

CARL: He wasn't gonna make it alone. He needed us. That's why. He was the one at the gas station.

[LOUD THUMP, ROCKS CLATTER]

[COUGHING]

Shh!

MICHONNE: Water. Give him water.

[COUGHING CONTINUES]

Easy. You got it? Slowly, slowly.

[GRUNTING]

[MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE]

MICHONNE: Make it stop. Make them stop.

[MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE]

- I can't.

MICHONNE: You can. You're one of them. They'll listen to you.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

MICHONNE: Please.

[MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE]

MICHONNE: Please.

[MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE]

[MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE]

You said that Hilltop's safe, right?

Yeah.

We need to get everybody there.

We can get Carl there.

And they think all of you got away in the woods.

They're out there, looking.

They saw us go West, so we won't go West.

Your best chance is to stay here until they're gone.

DARYL: No. They find us here, we're dead.

They're almost done.

They gotta be.

It wasn't about destroying the place.

They don't have the a*mo for that.

After they let up, after they're gone, that's when we go.

[MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS CONTINUE]

Okay.

We wait.

You sure going to Hilltop's the best plan?

You got a better one?

All of you in one place, together...

DARYL: All of us together... We'll be their worst damn nightmare.

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[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

[FIRE CRACKLING]

[FIRE EXTINGUISHER SPRAYING]

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[WHISPERING]
MORGAN: If we don't go through 'em, we gotta go through the courtyard. Exposed.

This is it.

This is it.

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[GRUNTS]

[FLESH TEARS]

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You want me to just do it?

No.

[DOOR OPENS]

[BOTH GRUNT]

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[GURGLING]

[GROANING]

No. No.

[THUDS]

[FLESH TEARS]

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Got all of 'em.

They could've found Henry.

I know.

I'm not worried about them.

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GAVIN: Come on, boys. Get the damn gum off your shoes. Let's go! Is it gonna go bad, Ezekiel? Is this going to turn into something else?

EZEKIEL: You are the author of this night, Gavin. Its close shall be fashioned by your start.

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You left.

[MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS IN DISTANCE]

You were supposed to be resting.

I'm not tired.

Yeah.

You look great.

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

[SIGHS] It's gotta stop, Michonne.

It's not supposed to be like this.

I know it can be better.

[WATER DRIPPING SOFTLY]

SCOTT: Sounds like they're letting up.

Looks like you were right.

They're leaving.

DARYL: Maybe.

[SIGHS]

Want me to go take a look?

JUDITH: [COOING]

[WHISPERING] Hey. Hey.

[FOOTSTEPS]

CAROL: There.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

MAN # : sure as sh*t gonna b*at living in that chemical dump.

MAN # : Hell, you want that room. You're gonna have to fight me for it...

[WHISPERING] Leave it.

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Leave it.

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Hey.

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- [SILENCED g*nsh*t]

- [GROANS]

Let's go.

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GAVIN: Leave some room for Ezekiel. Get him a pillow or something. It's gonna be his last ride. Let's at least try to make him comfortable. You try, and you try, and you try, and you hope, and you hope, and you hope. Just wantin' things to finally just settle. Achieve some g*dd*mn, hard-fought equilibrium. But, no. It always comes down to this. It always has to get dark and ugly... and inhuman. You know I don't like this, right?

It is not too late to walk back from something decided.

[SCOFFS LIGHTLY]

You did, and look where it got you.

[WALKIE-TALKIE CLICKS]

GAVIN: Duke. Paulie. Where you at?

[CLICKS]

GAVIN: Stop pickin' dingles, grab your walkie, and respond!

[CLICKS]

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

[CLICKS, STATIC HISSES]

GAVIN: Gomez?

[CLICKS]

♪ ♪

- [CLICKS, STATIC HISSES]

GAVIN: Gomez!

[CLICKS]

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It is not too late to walk back from something decided.

[g*nf*re IN DISTANCE]

GAVIN: sh*t. There it is. Get him inside. Now!

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[INSECTS CHIRPING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[MID-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

EUGENE: I calibrate this cooker properly, we'll be lousy with baked apples ad infinitum. It would be my honor if you considered to be the sous to my chef. Or I could be said sous, and you shall surely chef. 'Til then, this Golden Delicious has your name on it.

JUDITH: Thanks, Eugene.

Thanks.

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The Saviors are gone.

We can get everyone to Hilltop.

We can get Carl there.

Carl? No.

Daryl can get one of the cars.

RICK: Carl won't make... He can't leave here. I have to stay with him.

MICHONNE: Rick.

RICK: He can't. I have to stay.

MICHONNE: We'll both stay.

Will you...

[SIGHS]

Will you take Judith?

She needs to be there.

If she...

[VOICE BREAKING] If... happens...

DARYL: I'll take her. I'll get her there. I'll keep her safe. I got this.

CARL: Let me say goodbye.

[CREAKING]

[BREATHES SHARPLY]

CARL: (speaking to Judith) You be good, okay? For Michonne. For Dad. You gotta honor him. Listen when he tells you stuff. You don't have to always. Sometimes, kids got to show their parents the way.

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[SIGHS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

CARL: (Giving Hat to Judith) This was Dad's before it was mine. Now it's yours.

[SNIFFLES]

CARL: I don't know... Just... Just having it and... It always kept Dad with me. It made me feel as strong as him. It helped me. Maybe it'll help you, too.

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CARL: Before Mom d*ed... she told me that I was gonna b*at this world.

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CARL: I didn't. But you will.

[JUDITH WHINES SOFTLY]

CARL: I know you will.

[CRYING]

DARYL: Here we go.

[CRYING CONTINUES]

DARYL: (speaking to Carl) These people. You saved them all. That's all you, man.

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You were helping me honor my mom...

Not just yours.

Mine, too.

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You brought me here. You gave me a chance. I know I can never repay you... but I can honor you by showing your people, your f-friends, your... your family that what you did wasn't for nothing. That it mattered. That it... That it meant something.

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Because it did.

So that's what I'm gonna do.

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I'm gonna honor you, Carl.

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[BREATHING DEEPLY]

CARL: Congratulations. You're stuck with us.

[BREATHES SHARPLY]

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[CREAKING]

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[FOOTSTEPS]

GAVIN: Okay.

There can't be a lot of 'em 'cause there aren't a lot left.

We got room for us and controlled access.

Force projected on the doors, now!

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

We end this, whatever the hell it is.

I gotta settle this sh*t under the penalty of that g*dd*mn bat.

You don't.

Shut up about that, okay?

This is it!

It is too late.

I'm the "author," you're the dead man, and that's how it's gonna be.

You think I can be someone else?

This is who I am.

I live, you die... This is what this is!

The petty compromises I made to avoid conflict were always done in the name of saving my people's lives.

Now I realize... I was saving yours.

No more.

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[THUDS]

[g*nf*re]

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♪ ♪

Give up, or he's dead.

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[THUDS]

[g*nf*re]

[GRUNTS]

♪ ♪

MAN: Aah!

[g*nf*re]

[GRUNTS]

[g*nf*re CONTINUES]

[GROANS]

♪ ♪

[BOTH GRUNTING]

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[GRUNTING]

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MORGAN: [SCREAMS]

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[SCREAMING]

[GRUNTS]

[SCREAMING]

[SCREAMING STOPS]

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Jesus.

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[g*nshots]

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Morgan, we should take our leave.

MORGAN: We don't need to go. All of them are dead.

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You okay?

CARL: I don't want you to be sad after this.

MICHONNE: Carl...

CARL: Or angry.

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CARL: You're gonna have to be strong. For my dad. For Judith.

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CARL: For yourself.

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MICHONNE: I will.

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CARL: Don't carry this. Not this part.

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CARL: You're my best friend, Michonne.

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[CRYING]

MICHONNE: You're mine, too. You're mine.

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RICK: I need your help.

MICHONNE: With what?

RICK: Getting him out of here.

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[GRUNTING]

[GASPING]

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[FIRE CRACKLING]

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CARL: [GROANING SOFTLY]

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CARL: We need to stop.

The house up ahead. We can make it.

CARL: It's okay. Just put me down here.

It's okay.

- No. We'll make it.

CARL: Please.

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There.

[GROANS]

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[BREATHING QUICKLY]

[SCRAPING]

[BREATHING QUICKLY]

[SCRAPING]

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[DOOR THUDS OPEN]

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CARL: [BREATHING HEAVILY]

[FIRE CRACKLING]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

CARL: Thanks... for... For getting me here.

I'm... I'm sorry.

RICK: I-I just... I didn't... I didn't want you out there.

- I-I...

- No.

CARL: No... for getting me here. For... For making it so I could be who... Who I wound up.

[SHALLOW BREATHING]

CARL: Back at the prison... when we got att*cked... there was a kid, a little older than me. He had a g*n. He was... He was starting to put it down, and I-I s... I sh*t him. He was... He was giving it up, and I... I just... I sh*t him. I think about him. What I did to him and how... How easy it was to just... k*ll him.

GAVIN: [GRUNTING]

You're sick!

♪ ♪

Only a sick man would do it like this.

You think I wanted this?

There wasn't a lot on the menu.

I ran a good crew. I kept my word. You ask Ezekiel... I kept my word!

[GROANS]

You... You could...

You could go back to the Hilltop. It's still standing. They're keeping them going.

Just turn around.

♪ ♪

You think you can b*at Negan? You can't.

We can go back to how it was.

We can go back...

[GASPS]

No.

Carl, no.

No.

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What happened... what you'd lost...

[CRYING]

All those things you had to...

[SNIFFLES]

All those thing you had to do...

You... You... You... You were just... You were just a boy.

And you saw it.

What it did.

How... How easy it got.

You just k*lled all those men because of the kid?!

♪ ♪

k*lling me won't make any of it go away.

You'll still wake up to the same sh*t tomorrow.

♪ ♪

Get up.

- [GRUNTING]

- Up.

GAVIN: Ugh! Aah!

[PANTING]

CARL: That's why you changed... why you brought those people from Woodbury in... You brought them in, and we all lived together. We were enemies. You put away your g*n. You did it so I could change, so I could be who I am now.

♪ ♪

CARL: What you did then... How you... How you stopped fighting.. it was right.

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It still is.

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CARL: It can be like that again. You can still be like that again.

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EZEKIEL: Morgan.

Morgan, cease this.

Relent.

Ending him is the coward's way.

We've won.

We don't have to k*ll him.

He will see what he has wrought, and all of it will be his to live with.

♪ ♪

RICK: I can't be who I was. It's different now.

CARL: You can't k*ll all of 'em, Dad. There's gotta be something after. For you... and for them.

♪ ♪

There's gotta be something after.

CAROL: Morgan, stop it. You don't want to do this. You don't have to.

♪ ♪

CAROL: You told me we can be better than them. You said that to me.

♪ ♪

CAROL: You don't want to do this. I know it. I can see it.

[CRYING]

MORGAN: I have... I have to.

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MORGAN: I have to.

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[GURGLING]

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[THUDS]

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[EXHALES SHARPLY]

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CARL: I know... you can't see it yet... how it could be.

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CARL: But I have... You have a beard. It's... It's bigger... and grayer... Michonne's happy... Judith is older, and she's listening to the songs that I used to before... Alexandria's bigger. There's... There's new houses... crops... and people working. Everybody living... helping everybody else live. If you can still be who you were... that's how it could be. It could.

RICK: Carl. It was all for you. Right from the start. Back in Atlanta, the farm... Everything I did, it was for you. Then, at the prison, it was for you and Judith. It still is. It's gonna be. And nothing... Nothing is gonna change that.

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CARL: I want this for you, Dad.

♪ ♪

RICK: I'm gonna make it real, Carl. I promise. I'm gonna make it real.

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Henry.

It's okay.

It's all right.

Don't look at him. You look at me.

I had to.

You were supposed to stay at the cottage.

This wasn't what you were supposed to do.

- This wasn't for you.

- Carol.

[SIGHS]

Henry.

All will be resolved.

All will be resolved.

RICK: Carl... I'm sorry. I'm sorry I couldn't protect you. A father's job is to protect his son.

CARL: Love. It's just to love.

[BREATHING SHALLOWLY]

[RAGGED BREATHING]

No. No.

MICHONNE: Carl...

It... It... It... It should be...

CARL: I know. I know. Somebody you love. When you can't do it yourself. But I still can.

[VOICE BREAKING]

CARL: I grew up. I have to do this. Me.

♪ ♪

I love you.

[CRYING] I love you, too.

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♪ ♪

[VOICE BREAKING]

CARL: I love you, Dad.

[SNIFFLES]

♪ ♪

[CRYING]

RICK: I love you, Carl. I love you so much.

[SOBBING]

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[WHISPERING]

RICK: I'll make it real. I will. I will.

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[SILENCED g*nsh*t - CARL sh**t HIMSELF]

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[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Good morning.

NEGAN: Well, good morning to you, darlin'.

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[BREATHING HEAVILY]