06x16 - The Beginning

[bunniefuu]

You're not supposed to be doing this by yourself.

I told you I don't want to let anybody else die.

[Grunting]

You didn't want any of us to die?

You're gonna get your wish.

Aah!

Dakota: It is because of people like you

that the world has to end!

Dakota, don't do this.

He's going to k*ll everyone.

- [Beep]

- Riley: One...

two...

three.

- Stop them!

- We can't!

[Seagulls calling]

[Soft clanking]

Rachel: [Grunting]

[Sighs]

[Grunts]

[Baby Morgan crying]

[Grunts]

Oh, it's okay.

Shh.

It's gonna be okay, sweetpea.

[Radio static crackling]

Is anyone there?

Can anyone hear me?

I need help.

I repeat...

can you hear me?

Anybody?

[Rocket blasting]

[Crying continues]

♪♪ [Rufus barking]

[Static crackles]

Morgan:

...we did our best.

You know, I'm still gonna try and stop

what Teddy started, but I'm not at all sure

that that's gonna be possible.

You see, the m*ssile...

Well, it's gonna re-enter the atmosphere,

and it's got multiple warheads.

So this... this may be all the time that we have left.

So you should use it.

You should...

You should make it mean something.

You should give yourselves the ends that you wanted...

even if it's not the one we all imagined.

[Baby Morgan continues crying]

He's wrong.

[Sniffles]

This isn't the end.

[Creaking]

[Exhales sharply]

[Grunting]

[Creaking]

[Breathing heavily]

Ah!

Aah!

_ Ow!

[Groans softly]

[Gasps]

[Whimpers]

[Breathing heavily]

[Baby Morgan crying]

[Breathing heavily]

♪♪ [Groans]

Aah!

I'm coming.

[Crying continues]

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's okay.

I'm here.

I'm here.

It's okay.

[Indistinct]

[Crying continues]

♪♪ ♪♪ [Groans]

♪♪ Uh!

[Crying stops]

[Breathing heavily]

[Rufus barks]

[Crying]

Come on.

Come on.

[Gasping]

Oh!

[Baby Morgan crying]

[Breathlessly]

You're okay.

[Gasping]

I'm sorry.

I can't do it.

[Explosions in distance]

[Rufus barking]

♪♪ [Sniffles]

♪♪ [Sighs]

[Softly]

I thought I could.

But I just can't.

[Sniffles]

♪♪ [Gasps]

♪♪ [Breathing heavily]

♪♪ This is the end for me.

Not you.

♪♪ ♪♪ [Rufus barks]

Rufus.

Come here.

Come here.

Oh, good boy.

You're good at finding people.

Promise me you'll find someone, please.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪

[Muffled] I'm sorry.

[Sniffles]

I love you.

♪♪ - [Kn*fe plunges]

- [Groans]

♪♪ [Groans]

♪♪ [Baby Morgan crying]

♪♪ ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪



[Radio warbling indistinctly]

♪♪ [Radio static]

Morgan:

...it mean something.

You should give yourselves the end that you wanted.

Hey!

Let's go, Danny-boy!

What?

What's wrong with this place?

Some soggy skin-munchers using the basement as the jacuzzi.

We're wasting our time.

[Tires squeal, engine revs]

[Tires screech]

- How's it looking here?

- The basement is a no-go.

You find anything?

- Yeah, a bunker.

- What bunker?

The one where they're holding Alicia.

One where we can all ride this thing out.

Old hotel about miles east.

So, he just... told you where it was?

It's funny what you can get a "true believer" to spill when you pull 'em away from their leader.

- Why should we believe him?

- You got a better idea?

Yes.

I was with the radio.

I heard a voice broadcasting coordinates, and the voice said it was a safe place to go to, and I wrote 'em down.

Who said that?

Daniel, who was broadcasting?

Was it Morgan?

I didn't hear him say anything about coordinates.

Daniel: No, someone else.

I know that voice.

I just don't know who it is.

And then it cut out.

You sure you're not just confused again, old-timer?

You remember what happened last time we took your word?

Luciana: We don't have time for this.

Daniel, you sure you heard what you're telling us?

I'm not sure.

Alright, then.

We go where Rollie says.

This is our only choice, okay?

- Okay!

- Go, go!

♪♪ [Walkers growling]

[Engine revs]

[Thudding]

Sarah: Wen...

Wen, if you can hear this, we're seeking shelter.

Just...

if you're at the dam, just, uh...

just stay there.

Uh, we're headed up east side, , mile marker .

Why tell us about the bunker now, so close to the end?

Why not just remain silent and die for your cause?

♪♪ [Thudding]

[Tires screeching]

What's going on, kemosabe?

Damn brakes just went out.

You ever fix air brakes before, Rabbi?

[Walkers growling]

First time for everything.

Grab that welding kit and follow me.

All hands on deck.

We got company.

♪♪ Spread out!

Cover me, Jake.

I gotta patch the hole in this accumulator.

♪♪ I know what you're thinking, Sarah.

You and your brother...

You're gonna find each other.

You heard what Momo said.

This may be the end for all of us.

- We may not make that bunker.

- We will.

And if not, what does the Talmud say about what comes next?

- I mean, Wen...

I mean, we could...

- What the Talmud says doesn't matter.

I know you'll be together.

You will.

One way or another.

Okay.

♪♪ If this whole thing is about destruction, why would you want to survive?

Just to see your face when it all turns to ash.

I know you doubt us.

You think we're... we're all insane.

But it's just the beginning.

♪♪ ♪♪ Seen worse.

The phoenix will rise, and quicker than you think.

Keep an eye on him.

Did you fix it?

Well, it's about as piss-poor a patch as I've ever done, but it should get us to the hotel in one piece.

Let's boogie, Rollie!

Rollie: Aye-eye, cap'n.

We'll make it out of this thing yet.

Like a phoenix.

♪♪ [Speaking Spanish]

[Speaking Spanish]

- [g*nsh*t fires]

- [Gasps]

What the hell?

He wasn't going to the hotel, he was one of them.

That's how they find out that we were coming to the sub.

That's why they were prepared for us.

- Charlie: Daniel, look out!

- [g*nsh*t fires]

[Gasps, groaning]

♪♪ He was going for the g*n.

So, it's true?

Rollie was with you?

He lost his faith when he saw how all of you turned on each other behind the dam wall.

You have yourself to thank for that, old-timer.

We were just driving you all someplace where you'd have a prime view.

[expl*si*n in distance]

Uh... guys?

Nobody's going anywhere.

The coordinates.

We can still make it.

Sarah: I don't know, maybe we should find, like, an overpass or a parking garage or something.

No.

Daniel figured out the truth about Rollie.

If he thinks he heard the coordinates, we have to put our faith in him.

Alright.

I'll drive, chief.

- Okay.

- I just hope you're right.

One at a time, please.

♪♪ ♪♪ Whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

The map said there was a school here.

We must have taken a wrong turn somewhere.

- Then we'll go back.

- D...

I mean, there's gotta be something nearby.

- C'mon, boy, let's go.

- [Horse whinnies]

♪♪ Morgan: You should give yourselves the ends that you wanted...

even if it's not the one we all imagined.

Hey, look.

Huh?

Maybe they have some beer, maybe some pretzels.

- You serious?

- Yeah.

D, it's the one thing that we said we were gonna do when we found each other, and haven't done it yet.

If this really is the end, then this is how I want to go out.

Okay?

Just us.

Alright, just us.

[Door creaks]

I'm gonna check the kitchen.

Okay.

[Leaves rustling gently]

Hey, I couldn't find any pretzels, but, uh...

Found some of these bad boys.

They're warm, but they'll do the trick.

Cheers.

You alright?

Why didn't we do this sooner?

We could have had a place like this.

Or a life like this.

I mean, we could have tried.

We found each other.

[Chuckles]

We found each other!

After everything...

That doesn't just happen.

But I couldn't get past the past.

[Voice breaking]

I wasted so much time.

I wasted so much time just being pissed off, trying to fight the bad guys.

But the bad guys always win.

You and I have seen that, every time.

Nothing that I did was gonna change that.

And all it did was cost me time with you.

[Inhales shakily]

Hey...

[Crying]

Hey.

Everything you did, everything you've done, you have nothing

to be sorry for.

- Okay?

- Okay.

We can still have this life.

[Chuckles]

Okay?

Even if it's just for a couple of minutes.

Woman: Are you...

Are you with them?

- Whoa, whoa!

- Man: Hands up, jackoff!

Hey, easy, easy, easy.

Look, we don't want any trouble.

We thought it was empty.

Easy.

You all need to get out of here.

If you know a place to hole up...

We have a place.

They took it.

What are you talking about?

There's a storm cellar out back.

We saw the m*ssile.

We were loading up to go down there when these jackasses showed up, forced us out.

- Who were they?

- Didn't exactly introduce themselves.

They just started ranting about "the end is the beginning." Held a g*n right in my baby's face.

Oh...

It's okay, Briga.

It's okay.

Just go.

Give us our house back.

Where's your cellar?

Why?

We'll get it back for you.

How?

You have any rope?

♪♪ Hya!

[Whinnying]

♪♪ [Clattering]

[Rapid g*nf*re]

♪♪ ♪♪ [g*nsh*t fires]

[Yelps, grunts]

[Gasping, groans]

♪♪ [Groans]

Go on!

Do it!

Are you scared?

You look scared.

Please...

[Walker growling]

Nah.

Nah, I don't think so.

I think I'm gonna do for you what you tried to do for that nice family back there, and that's give you a front row seat to the sh*t show that you helped bring down on us.

♪♪ Enjoy the view, assh*le.

[g*nsh*t fires]

[Groans, crying]

No!

Wait!

Where the hell did that come from?

I haven't seen that side of you in a long time.

Well, maybe we were both right.

- About what?

- Helping people.

Making sure the bad guys don't win.

Or at least that one.

Maybe we should have been doing more of that the whole time.

Come on!

Get inside.

[expl*si*n in distance]

♪♪ Morgan: You know, I'm still gonna try and stop

what Teddy started, but I'm not at all sure

that that's gonna be possible.

You see, the m*ssile...

Well, it's gonna re-enter the atmosphere, and it...

Tch.

Idiot.

Jesus.

I'm sorry.

Sorry, what for?

- I saved Morgan.

- No.

I'm the only reason that he's even alive.

If he would have just d*ed at the Gulch, then...

Then nobody could be stopping all these missiles that you're trying to launch.

Well, I'm glad things went the way they did.

Otherwise, I might never have met you.

You really mean that?

Oh, come on.

I mean, you get me.

All those others... all those people hanging on my every word, doing exactly what I tell 'em, not one of them...

Not a single one of 'em every really understand what I am doing the way you do.

[Sighs]

_ [Crow cawing]

Oh, boy.

It's almost time.

Oh, look at this.

Oh!

Look at it.

Here we are.

Front row seat.

You know, you told me that I...

I got you like no one else.

You were the first person that didn't look at me like I had something wrong with me.

Didn't try and make me change.

Told me that it was okay to be who I am.

Yeah.

Well, imagine, Sioux, if we found each other sooner.

- [g*n cocks]

- Step away from the girl, Teddy.

Officer Dorie!

Spending your last moments before you turn to mulch putting me down?

[Chuckles]

There are more layers to you than I thought, Johnny-boy.

I'm not here for you.

I'm here for her.

I'm not fixing to hurt you.

I just need to say something and I hope you're willing to listen.

You're just trying to make me change my mind, like your son did.

He was right, what he told you.

You can still make his life...

Your life...

mean something.

You just have to believe that people are better than the way they act at their worst.

[Chuckles]

This is how he ended up with a b*llet in him.

Dorie Sr.: People will surprise you if you give 'em a chance.

I walked out on John, on his mother...

Left him with a world of hurt.

He still found it in himself to forgive me, years later.

What does that have to do with me?

I forgive you for k*lling John.

For taking my son's life.

Oh, don't listen to him, Sioux.

You have nothing to feel sorry about.

- Nothing.

- You really mean that?

I do.

♪♪ ♪♪ [g*nsh*t fires]

♪♪ He didn't come alone.

She's an even better sh*t than me.

Why are you here?

I forgive you, too.

John was right... what he said.

It's not too late.

Even if you only believe it for however long we have left.

You don't think people can change.

I do.

Then why did you...

Why did you k*ll Virginia?

After I lost John, I lost what he believed.

But I found it again.

So can you.

♪♪ [Metal clanking]

The hell is under there?

♪♪ Thought you were the end?

Looks to me like you're planning on sticking around for the beginning.

Unless, of course, that was all just a bunch of hot air to get your lambs to march to their slaughter.

We're here doing what we believe.

We're not lying to you.

♪♪ Teddy?

- What the hell is that?

- You're right, Sioux.

We didn't sh**t off all those missiles.

So when the dust clears, we're gonna go back and finish what we started.

Did you even mean what you said?

About understanding me?

Oh, of course I did.

I...

Then why didn't you tell me about that?

I...

I couldn't take that risk, Sioux.

I mean... For anybody else to find out about this place, I want...

I want this to be about you and me.

Why else would I have brought you?

Because he needs two people.

What?

He needs two people to launch the missiles.

One person can't turn both keys.

He doesn't care about you.

- He just needs you.

- No.

No, we're family.

He doesn't want to...

Me to be something that I'm not.

- So you can finish what he wants.

- Oh, no, no, no, no.

He doesn't know anything about family.

- He abandoned his own son.

- Dorie Sr.: He'll k*ll you when it's over.

That's what he does, he discards people when he's done with 'em.

June: That bunker.

That's a chance to survive.

See it as a sign you can have a second chance.

[Explosions in distance]

Teddy: It's starting, Sioux.

It's like I told you, you can either die bringing about the end with me by your side, and you just being who you are, or you can...

No, no, go on with them and pretend to be somebody you're not.

It's your choice.

It's your choice.

♪♪ Morgan: You know, I'm still gonna try and stop

what Teddy started, but I'm not at all sure

that that's gonna be possible.

You see, the m*ssile...

Well, it's gonna re-enter the atmosphere,

and it's got multiple warheads.

This may be all the time that we have left.

So you should use it.

You should make it mean something.

[Walkers growling]

_ ♪♪ ♪♪

♪♪ ♪♪

[Growling stops]

Hello?!

Anybody here?!

♪♪ ♪♪

[Walkers growling in distance]

♪♪ ♪♪

[Screams]

♪♪ [Sighs]

♪♪ ♪♪

[Exhales slowly]

["Sunshine Special" by Blind Lemon Jefferson playing]

♪♪ ♪♪

[Breathing heavily]

♪♪ [Music grows louder]

♪♪ ♪♪

♪ Going to leave on the Sunshine Special ♪ ♪ Goin' in on the Santa Fe ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Leave on the Sunshine Special ♪ ♪ Goin' in on the Santa Fe[/i ♪ ♪♪ ♪ Don't say nothin' about that Katy ♪ ♪ Because it's taken my brown from me ♪

[g*n cocks]

Man: How did you get past the dead I let in?

Your g*n.

Hand it over.

[g*n clatters]

You need to start talkin', my friend.

♪♪ Did you see it?

It's hard to miss.

Is it gonna hit here?

It's gonna hit anywhere.

- How do you know?

- Because I was there.

So unless you've got someplace we can shelter underground imminently, I'm afraid there's nothing more we can do.

Well.

I guess that's the ballgame.

Yeah.

You like bourbon?

Thurston's Reserve.

year.

One of the oldest distilleries in Texas.

- It used to be, anyway.

- [Record crackling]

Uh, you mind turning that over?

It's Blind Lemon Jefferson.

Born near Wortham.

Mostly played around Dallas, though.

Did most of his recordings between, uh...

' and ' .

Strand: You know your history.

I should hope so.

I'm a historian.

Used to teach at UT before the world did what it did.

[Record crackling]

["See That My Grave's Kept Clean" playing]

♪♪ Is that where all of this came from?

Oh, those came after.

Went to museums, city halls...

Hell, that flag over there came from the Alamo.

I just figured somebody should try to preserve history.

♪♪ Right?

♪♪ You a religious man?

No.

My wife was.

Said it would protect me.

So much for that.

I gave one just like it to someone once.

A dear friend.

What were you trying to protect them from?

Oh.

It's complicated.

Not exactly the time to be cryptic, my friend.

[Both chuckle]

Who are you?

What are you doing up here?

What happened out there?

[Sighs]

We were trying to build a future.

The others... the ones we were up against were trying to end it all.

We almost stopped them.

We should have stopped them.

Why didn't you?

It came down to two men.

They had to give their lives to save everyone, but when push came to shove, one of them couldn't do it.

Why not?

[Chuckles]

He wanted to survive.

To take the glory for himself.

And in the end, consigned everyone to the very destruction he was hoping to circumvent.

And which man are you?

I'm the one...

that was ready to die.

♪♪ [Sighs]

♪♪ So why are you here?

Why aren't you with the rest of your people?

Something led me here.

Huh.

Must be the ending I deserved.

Or thought I did.

[Explosions in distance]

♪♪ ♪♪ I wish I'd met you sooner, friend.

My name's Howard.

I'm Morgan.

Morgan Jones.

♪♪ ♪♪ Did you know?

Is that why you aren't here?

Morgan: We did our best.

You know, I'm still gonna try

and stop what Teddy started, but I'm not at all sure

that that's gonna be possible.

You see, the m*ssile...

Well, it's gonna re-enter the atmosphere,

and it's got multiple warheads.

So this... this may be all the time that we have left.

So you should use it.

You should...

You should make it mean something.

You should give yourselves the ends that you wanted...

even if it's not the one we all imagined.

Aah!

[Screams]

♪♪ ♪♪ I know the ending I want.

♪♪ Come on!

Morgan.

- I said I would keep trying.

- Morgan, you can't...

I gotta make this happen!

We can't make it stop!

It's not over!

We don't know where all those warheads are gonna hit, but they're gonna be close enough.

Even if we survive the initial blast, the radiation, the fallout...

We're not gonna want to live in that world.

I have seen what radiation poisoning does to people.

And what happened at the plant?

That was contained.

This?

This won't be.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl...

It's gonna be a lot worse.

I watched Athena's father die from radiation exposure...

It was long, it was painful, and there's no escaping it.

I'm not gonna watch that happen again.

Not to someone else I love.

Yeah, Morgan.

That's the problem with me.

I never tell anyone how I feel until it's too late.

That's you and me both.

[Chuckles]

I love you, Grace.

[Softly]

I know.

I know.

[Sighs]

Please, Morgan.

Don't make me watch that again.

If I'm honest, I thought I was gonna die at the Gulch.

I did have another reason for breathing, though.

It was you.

I wanted to take care of you.

I wanted...

to build something for Athena.

I'm sorry that's not gonna happen, Morgan.

Right.

I'm alive because my daughter isn't.

Neither of us were meant to be here.

I'm sorry.

I truly am.

Sorry for you and me, sorry for what could have been.

You know, I actually thought...

I actually let myself believe that I could have a family again.

You know, with you...

That I could be a husband.

I...

Be a father.

And you can be.

Just not here.

Huh.

When she was born, I waited so long to hear her cry, but it never came.

I need to hear my baby cry, Morgan.

[Explosions in distance]

The warheads are separating.

We don't have much time.

♪♪ I'm sorry it has to end this way.

This is for the best.

Okay.

Are you ready?

♪♪ [Baby's crying echoes softly]

I can hear her, Morgan.

I can hear her.

I can, too.

[Crying grows louder]

Morgan?

♪♪ That's not her.

♪♪ [Rufus barking]

[Baby Morgan crying]

♪♪ [Rachel growling]

[Rufus barks]

♪♪ Rachel.

[Growling]

♪♪ Rufus, come here.

Come here.

♪♪ [Rachel growling]

♪♪ [Growling stops]

[Baby Morgan crying]

Shh.

Shh.

It's alright.

It's alright.

Oh, it's alright.

Okay.

It's okay.

It's okay.

It's alright.

♪♪ [Chuckles]

♪♪ She feels like a gift from Athena.

♪♪ [Baby Morgan fussing]

[Truck rumbling]

_ Are you sure these are the right coordinates?

I don't get lost, compadre.

There's...

There's nobody here.

I'm sorry.

At least maybe Wen will be okay.

[Riley laughs weakly]

I told you there was no escaping it.

Daniel...

Daniel, don't!

Hey.

He's gone.

You guys?

[Helicopter blades whirring]

sh*t in a sand box!

Come on!

You were right.

I knew it.

♪♪ [Paint can spraying]

♪♪ - Who the hell are you?

- Al: Thank God you got the coordinates!

I would have been there myself,

- but we're low on fuel.

- That's Al!

Didn't know how many people we'd be able to lift out.

Listen, don't ask the pilot any questions.

She's here to help.

The less you know, the better.

- Please.

- [Crying]

No, this is a trick.

It isn't real.

I shouldn't have to change for anyone.

I'm staying up here.

I'm staying up here!

June, did my son ever tell you about the Saint Louis Barn Raiser?

June: Yeah.

[g*nshots f*ring]

You're going to die.

I have to see the end.

♪♪ ♪♪ Sioux?

What?

Did you ever really give a sh*t about me?

Or did you just need me to turn that key?

[Chuckles]

Aah!

[Gasping]

That's what I thought.

[g*nsh*t fires]

♪♪ You said that I should never change, and I'm not.

Now you never get to see your ending.

♪♪ ♪♪ [expl*si*n]

♪♪ [expl*si*n]

♪♪ [Rumbling]

[Screaming]

♪♪ [Rumbling continues]

[Screaming continues]

[Rumbling stops]

Oh, my God.

Oh.

[Crying]

[Helicopter blades whirring in distance]

[Growls]

[Speaking in Spanish]

_ [Speaking in Spanish]

♪♪ Alright, let's get out of here!

- Luciana: Let's go!

- Go, go!

♪♪ [Riley growling]

_ ♪♪ [expl*si*n]

[expl*si*n]

[Rumbling]

- [Baby Morgan crying]

- [expl*si*n]

[Rumbling]

Go.

Go, go!

[Rufus barks]

♪♪ ♪♪ [Rumbling continues]

♪♪ [Rumbling, rattling]

♪♪ [Rumbling, rattling stop]

♪♪ ♪♪ [Laughs]

What?

Why are you laughing?

Because I'm alive.

After everything I did, I'm still here.

Everything you did?

I'm not the man I told you I was.

I'm the other one.

I'm not Morgan Jones.

I'm Victor Strand.

I'm a man who has thrown men to the wolves when necessary.

Who has not been afraid to cut the cord if I had to.

I'm a backroom dealer, a grifter, a shark.

Hell, I've cheated at chess when a back was turned.

Again, and again, and again.

Without fail.

And, if the opportunity had presented itself...

Why?

Survival.

I've done it all my life.

And despite the critics, I'm still here.

I come from nothing, my friend, and I know how to survive.

And I've had to build and rebuild myself from the ground up, over and over and over again!

Like a civilization.

We have a... great future behind us.

We can take that future and rebuild.

With art and books and music and...

good bourbon.

It feels like the dawning of a new day to me.

♪♪ How about you?

♪♪ [Both coughing]

[Walker growling]

[Growling stops]

[expl*si*n in distance]

♪♪ [expl*si*n in distance]

♪♪ ♪♪