11x09 - No Other Way

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Previously on The Walking Dead...

Daryl: My people...

They're here for the food
that Pope took from them.

They'll starve without it,
and they're good people.

[Screaming]

Go, go, go!

♪

[Shuddering]

- Leah: Pope is dead.
- [Shouts]

Dixon m*rder*d him.

He's with the enemy.

I should have k*lled him
when I had the chance.

We're gonna k*ll everything
inside these walls.

[Arrows launching]

[Growling]

[m*ssile whistling]

[Growling continues]

[Missiles whistling]

[Explosions]

♪

[Breathing heavily]

Come on. Come on.

[Whistling, explosions continue]

♪

[Grunting]

♪

[Shouting]

♪

Let go!

♪

[Both grunting]

♪

Aah!

- Oh!
- [Grunts]

[Sizzling]

♪

[expl*si*n]

[Whistling, explosions continue]

♪

[Door closes]

♪

[Door opens]

[Door closes]

♪

[Door closes]

♪

[Door opens, closes in distance]

♪

[Man grunts]

♪

[Groaning]

♪

I've got one on my tail.

We lost ours.

We need to take care of
that bleeding. Let's go.

♪

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This way.

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Okay. What now?

Wait 'til dawn, hunt them down.

Or we just get the food and go.

And what? Walk out of
here with our arms full?

As long as we walk out of here, yeah.

Unless chow ain't the
only thing we're here for.

I'm not leaving Daryl and Gabriel.

And I won't risk being followed home.

♪

Leah: Carver, report.

Carver: In the infirmary.

The leader slipped me, but I'll get her.

Just find her.

Not one of them's
getting out of here alive.

Copy that.

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[Women shouting, walkers growling]

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Hey... we can't find Judith and Gracie.

They never made it up.

Okay. You're with us.

We get through this and we find them.

[Growling, shouting continue]

[Walker growling]

♪

[Pounding on door]

♪

[Thunder rumbling]

♪

[Pounding on door]

It's not gonna hold.

It will.

Come on.

[Door thudding]

♪

♪

- [Walker growls]
- [Gasps]

I've got it.

[Walkers growling]

♪

What else can we use?

[Door thudding, walkers growling]

♪

♪

[Both coughing]

[Wind howling]

Rain's not helping.

The wind just keeps stoking the flames.

[Coughs]

Sorry, boss, but it's
scorching in there.

Might be time to call it off.

No.

Just gotta try something else.

[Wheezing] Like a firetruck.

[Coughing]

Hey! Hey!

Come here! Come on!

Come on!

Hey. Hey. The breach?

We closed the one by the gate.

Good, now let's focus on the flames.

Hang on. There's too many
sickos inside the walls.

There's gotta be another breach.

Scott and the others are
checking the cul-de-sac,

and we're headed toward the east wall.

If this windmill falls,

it could create an
opening too big to close.

♪

I'll go with you.

We find the breach, and you
take care of the windmill, okay?

Okay.

♪

[Whistle blowing in distance]

Carol: What's that?

Gracie. That's our emergency signal.

[Whistle continues]

Put out that fire or we
could lose everything.

Go!

♪

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[g*n cocks]

[Rapid footsteps approach]

[Grunting]

♪

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For Pope.

[Grunting]

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Aah!

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[Blade plunges]

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[Walker growling]

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[Splat]

[Body thuds]

[Doorknob rattling]

Wash: Austin, you in there?

Austin?

Leah: Break it down.

[Cracking]

♪

[Glass breaking]

♪

[Lock clicks]

♪

No, no, no.

- sh*t.
- [Breathing heavily]

♪

No more.

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[Whistle blowing]

[Walker growling]

♪

We need to get to the window.

[Walker growling]

[Walker grunts]

♪

[Walker growling]

If we could reach this pipe...

It's too high!

No!

[Walker growling]

No!

♪

- Gracie!
- Judith!

♪

[Grunts]

[Growling continues]

♪

Aah!

Gracie!

- Hang on!
- Daddy!

Dad!

[Walker growling]

Stay there! Stay there!

Come on! Come on!

Come on!

[Growling continues]

♪

Go to the window!

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The window.

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Gracie: Dad, you okay?

Are you?

There's more!

[Walkers growling]

Okay. Up you go.

♪

[Grunts]

[Growling continues]

♪

Come on, Judith.

♪

[Grunts]

♪

- You go ahead!
- What about you?

- I'll get help...
- Go! Get Gracie to safety first!

I've got this!

[Walkers growling]

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[Walkers growling]

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[Groaning]

[Breathing heavily]

[Metal clinks]

That's far enough.

♪

I can't let you harm one of my flock.

[Metal clinks]

♪

Worry about yourself first.

God will stay your hand.

Just like he did at
the graves yesterday.

♪

- You knew I was there?
- The Lord did.

He told me I had nothing to fear.

- You hear him?
- I do.

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And he tells you to defend these people?

His hand guides my every step.

These are monsters...

who slaughter entire
towns without provocation.

m*ssacre children.

And you pray for them?

How could God speak to you?

My role is not to question.

I listen and serve.

♪

Just following orders, huh?

Where have I heard that before?

True faith requires
doubt and I have mine.

v*olence is not the path I'd take,

but blood has been spilt
in God's name for centuries.

His will is unknown to us.

All I can do is trust in Him.

♪

God wouldn't allow you
to m*rder my friends

and neither will I.

Move aside.

♪

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You don't hear him anymore, do you?

♪

My flock is worth saving.

Is that your choice or His?

Do you even listen anymore? Listen.

♪

He's here with us right now.

Asking you to hear him again.

Will you?

Or will you cut down a man
that he has placed in your path?

♪

The path of peace is hard.

♪

But we can take the
first steps together.

For both of our flocks.

Take my hand.

♪

Renew your faith.

Allow yourself to be saved.

No matter what any of us have done,

no one is above saving.

♪

[g*nsh*t in distance]

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[Groaning]

♪

[Body thuds]

I don't believe that.

- [Blade slides]
- [Grunts]

♪

♪

[Door rattles]

♪

[Doorknob rattling]

♪

- [Doorknob rattling]
- [Sighs]

♪

Oops.

Wrong turn.

[Door opens]

♪

You k*lled my sister.

♪

Okay.

[Door opens, closes]

♪

[Chuckles]

♪

Well, I gotta say thanks for this.

Was getting tired of all the searching.

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[Grunting]

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[Elijah breathing heavily]

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[Screaming]

♪

[Groaning]

[Breathing heavily]

Negan: Hey!

♪

Over here, shitdick.

♪

This should be fun.

♪

[Shouts]

♪

[Bell clangs]

Well, ding-ding.

♪

Thanks, kid.

♪

[Breathing heavily]

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[Whimpers]

[Breathing heavily]

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Stop!

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Should've took you out right off.

♪

[Chuckles]

♪

We don't k*ll him yet.

He needs to pay for what he did.

I agree. But if we go down that route...

...we ain't all gonna make it out alive.

No offense.

I hate this prick.

But we got him now. Let's use him.

Get what we want and go home.

Are you doing this for her?

No.

No, I'm not. I'm doing it for us.

Leah wants us gone, but not
more than saving her own family.

Especially this assh*le.

Negan: This can go
wrong different ways.

Me... I am down with us
getting out of this alive.

- Elijah: No!
- Maggie: Elijah...

You're just gonna let him walk away?

They will get what's coming to them.

Maybe not today, but they will.

I promise.

Leah, it's me.

We need to talk.

♪

[Walkers growling]

[Grunting]

sh*t.

[Growling continues]

That whistle came
from downstairs, right?

Use that window. Get to the cellar.

- We got this.
- Okay.

[Grunts]

[Wind howling]

[Walkers growling]

♪

[Pipe creaking]

♪

♪

sh*t! sh*t.

[Growling continues]

♪

[Grunting]

♪

Aaron?

- Aaron!
- In here!

Okay. Hold on. I'll be right back.

Sure.

I'm not going anywhere.

[Growling continues]

[Lydia and Aaron grunting]

♪

Okay.

Are you okay?

- Thank you.
- Yeah.

You would've done the same for me.

I would.

Gracie, Judith?

They're safe.

The walkers?

Dianne and Rosita, they're on it.

[Walkers growling]

- [Grunts]
- Okay.

Let's go help with the windmill.

Okay. Okay.

♪

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Leave me here if you have to.

♪

Just make sure he's dead.

I'm not going anywhere without you.

No matter what happens.

Okay?

♪

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You ready?

♪

Yeah.

Here.

Take this.

Just in case.

♪

Leah.

Leah: We're here.

[Door opens]

♪

Come out.

Throw your weapons on the ground.

I need to see Carver first!

♪

Take that.

Come out!

♪

Throw your weapons on the ground!

♪

What are you offering?

♪

Daryl: Lose the weapons
and we let you leave.

Is that all?

You head north, don't turn back.

I see anyone, anyone at
all, I'm gonna k*ll him.

Once we're far out
enough, I'll let him go.

- [Muffled] Screw this sh*t, Shaw.
- Shut up.

You expect me to trust you now?

Yeah. I do.

We're doing this all wrong.

We survived everything for what?

To keep fighting and k*lling each other?

If that's what it takes.

Don't have to.

♪

I'm giving you a chance to
save what's left of your family.

And mine.

♪

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No more lies.

Jenson.

♪

[g*nsh*t]

That was a warning.

The last one.

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Everybody out!

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Lower the Kn*fe, cut the rope.

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Jenson. The woman.

♪

Fine.

♪

[Smooches]

♪

Elijah, don't.

No one moves!

Elijah.

He takes one more step, he dies!

- Josephine!
- Carve, don't.

- Stop.
- Jenson, pull the trigger!

Her name was Josephine.

[Gasping]

♪

- [g*nsh*t]
- Aah!

Jenson, what the hell?!

Jenson!

Gabriel: Nope.

No Jenson here.

♪

Call me Gabriel.

♪

The other two better
back off or they're next.

♪

Leah: Stand down.

♪

Ah.

Your deal still stand?

You had your chance.

You would've k*lled us.

Picked us off one by one, right?

Now Gabriel does the same thing to you.

♪

Maybe you're right.

♪

Your friend has the r*fle.

♪

But I bet we take a couple of you down

before he takes us all.

You can have your town.

We walk.

♪

You save your family.

I save mine.

Yeah.

♪

Negan?

♪

You know what I think.

♪

Drop your weapons and go.

♪

Not without Carver.

♪

No.

♪

Do it.

♪

I said do it.

[w*apon clinks]

♪

I'll see you soon.

♪

[Elijah groaning]

♪

Elijah.

♪

For Josephine.

For all of them.

Get up.

♪

Get up.

♪

♪

[g*n cocks]

Maggie, no!

[g*nshots]

Aah! Aah!

♪

[g*nsh*t]

The hell was that?!

♪

♪

[g*n clicks]

♪

- [Groans]
- [Kn*fe clatters]

♪

Aah!

♪

[Gagging]

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♪

♪

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This is not what I wanted.

♪

You could've had a second chance.

We both could have.

♪

Go.

Go before I change my mind.

[Sighs, breathing heavily]

♪

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[Grunts]

♪

[Dog barking]

♪

♪

I'm gonna head out.

We'll catch up with
you when we can, okay?

Be careful.

♪

I'll be back soon.

Promise.

♪

[Sniffles]

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Alden!

[Soft thudding]

[Door creaks]

[Growling]

♪

[Soft thudding]

Alden?

♪

[Soft growling]

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[Blade stabs, squishing]

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[Sobbing]

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You were always gonna
do what you did, Maggie.

♪

I don't blame you really.

♪

But, see, when it comes to me...

promise or not...

it's just a matter of time
before you make the same call.

♪

So...

I ain't gonna give you
the chance to do that.

♪

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I'm gonna be on my own way.

♪

♪

Gabriel: I heard what you said.

We're doing it wrong.

♪

I'm just thinking about choices.

I mean, do they even matter anymore?

Depends on who's making the choice.

♪

Doubt's important.

But it doesn't make you wrong.

[Walker growling in distance]

You telling me to have faith?

♪

Yeah, I suppose so, yes.

What about you?

[Dog barking]

Yeah. I'm trying.

[Walker growling, dog barking]

♪

- I'm trying.
- [Blade plunges]

[Growling stops]

♪

♪

Alden?

♪

[Dog whining]

♪

You see Negan?

Said he'd catch up.

♪

He left.

♪

Daryl: Hey, Maggie.

♪

Come on.

♪

♪

[Grunting]

All quiet?

♪

♪

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Where's everyone else?

♪

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RJ: Uncle Daryl!

♪

Yeah. Ohh.

Hey, buddy. Ohh!

- Missed you, Mom.
- You too, kiddo.

♪

Look at you.

♪

Daryl: Hey.

Is that it?

Yeah.

Yeah. Hello.

♪

Where's Negan?

He left.

Ain't coming back here.

Here you go. Just take one.

♪

You want one?

♪

Want one?

♪

Is that all food?

Made a promise and we kept it.

Yes, you did.

♪

Yeah, just one, yeah.

♪

[Dog barks]

No way.

♪

Happy to see you.

Yeah.

♪

You want an apple?

Yeah?

♪

♪

I have so many questions for you.

Yeah.

We'll fix it up.

Hey, man.

♪

You alright?

Alden?

He's gone.

♪

So many didn't make it.

All so we could survive.

♪

And we will.

♪

After the storm, we had nothing left.

Thank you.

♪

Hey! Got something coming!

♪

♪

These guys with you?

[Horse neighs]

Guess not.

♪

Everyone get ready!

♪

Eugene: No, no, no, no, no. No. Wait.

Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.
Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.

We're all friends.

♪

We're all friends.

♪

They're here to help.

Ezekiel, Yumiko, and
I set out on a journey.

Charged ourselves with finding
hope in our darkest of days.

Suffice to say, we hit
the proverbial jackpot.

It's probably best that I step aside

so you all can hear it from
the horse's mouth as it were.

I give you Mr. Lance Hornsby,

diplomatic representative
of The Commonwealth.

♪

Hello. I'm Lance.

♪

Thank you for allowing
us into your home.

I must say I am impressed with
everything you've built here

and what I've heard of
your other communities.

But it's clear...

you've fallen on hard times

and that is where The Commonwealth

is more than willing to help.

If you remain, we can
provide labor and materials

to help you build back all you've lost.

However, if any are interested...

I do have another,

potentially more
interesting choice to offer.

♪

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_

♪

Open up.

♪

Doesn't have to be this way.

♪

Yeah.

Yeah, it does.

♪

Daryl: Takes a minute
to get used to all this.

[Cheers and applause]

Maybe we don't have to do
anything to make it work.

There's always something
you gotta do to make it work.

This place is like a city from before.

People who can't fit in get cast out.

So you found a way to
get outside the walls?

What do you want from me?

Brick by brick and block by block,

putting the world back
together the way it was.

♪

♪

Kang: This episode really starts
off with this huge action sequence.

And our characters are
so formidible as heroes

at this point.

And it take a lot for them
to really be challenged

by a group in a fight,
but the Reapers just really

are stronger than any other
group they've come across.

Like, as individuals.

And so, whenever you see our
heroes up against any Reaper,

it's not gonna be easy.

[Grunting]

We have never used a
bell before as a w*apon.

You know, there was this
idea of, like, well, you know,

Maggie was a really good leader,
so she would've had, like,

a primitive way of alerting
people, of like, sand

so that you could kind of
like, dump it on a small fire.

That became the makeshift
w*apon that Negan uses.

But I don't believe we've
used a bell other than that.

Well, ding ding.

We've been telling a story with Gabriel

about the struggle with
his faith and where is he

with his feelings about
God and being a priest.

Gabriel has had to do
so many things, recently,

that feels so dark that
he feels like adrift

and, like, he feels
like he's lost his sense

of closeness to a higher power.

And we thought, like, an
interesting test for Gabriel

would be seeing somebody that is
a mirror in some ways, you know.

Like, somebody who is
also a person of faith,

but applying that faith in
a very particular direction.

And, like, what does
that mean for Gabriel.

In a previous episode, he
saw this minister out there

and hesitated to k*ll him when
he saw that this person seemed

to be having a conversation with God.

And it's frustrating for him.

How could God speak to you?!

My role is not the
question, I listen and serve,

But we see, at the end of the day,

when he's up against this
person he doesn't trust them,

he thinks that person's
faith is built on lies.

And so, he takes him out
for the good of his group.

No one is above saving.

[Gasps]

I don't believe that.

Aah.

It is definitely hard to
put children in grave danger.

We obviously have to be
really careful about, like,

making sure that it's safe for the kids.

So, the t*nk is, like,
very, very controlled.

That whole basement sits inside a t*nk.

There's like a steel cage,
basically, surrounding it,

like, that fills with water.

The water is heated so
they're not even cold, like,

it's very, very balmy
and, like, being in,

like, a warm bath, I think.

And the, you know, obviously
story-wise I think we want to

be mindful of not going,
like, too far with anything

with kids, but at the same time,

Judith is a really strong character.

[Grunts]

I think you can really tell Judith is

Rick and Michonne's daughter.

Just in the way that
she kinda keeps her head

in the middle of a
pretty intense situation.

She has this calmness
that washes over her

exterior presentation so
that you can really see

the leadership qualities that
both Rick and Michonne had,

like coming out in her.

She's really quite strong.

Alden's death for Maggie is
actually very devastating.

For people who've been watching
the show for a long time,

like, you can remember back
to when Maggie and Alden

first kind of met.

And Alden was a Savior.

And he really was one of the
first Saviors to kind of say

"I'm throwing in my lot with you.

I believe in what you're trying to do

and I'm gonna help you build it."

Okay.

And this character really
was a loyal friend to Maggie.

So I think, like, really the whole thing

is pretty awful for her,
'cause I think she feels like

I asked people to come
out on this mission

and here's the price, here's
the cost that was paid,

the sacrifice.

And I think also, it's
crushing to her to feel

like he had a bad ending.

He suffered as a Walker before
she came to get him again.

And I think that that's
really hard for her.

♪

You were always gonna
do what you did, Maggie.

Maggie and Negan, you
know, they really start off,

like, heavily at odds at
the beginning of the season.

But over time, you know, they've
been forced to work together.

They'd often disagree on tactics.

But I think they're both strong leaders.

Obviously Negan's form of leadership

was not always positive, but
Maggie has also been through

a lot and has had to make
some dark decisions of her own

so I think, really, like,
at this point in the story

they're seeing elements of
their own decision-making

in the other and it, like,
definitely for Maggie,

that's a unsettling feeling
and an unsettling idea.

'Cause she wants
nothing to do with Negan.

And yet, you know,
she makes this decision

in this episode to
basically k*ll them all.

- [g*nshots]
- [Screams, grunts]

That puts her in kind
of this really dark place

an emotional place where
she felt like she did

what had to be done.

And, yet, it leaves her unsettled

about the whole thing.

And I think from Negan's
side, he's looking at a mirror

of himself and going, this
is unsettling for me, too.

I think he realizes the way
that he led, in some ways,

caused a lot of unease and was
not the positive way of bringing

people into his organization,
like he maybe thought it was.

And so I think both characters are doing

a lot of soul searching at this point.

I'm going to be on my own way.

We really wanted to show
that our people at this point,

they're being hit by thing
after thing after thing.

Even the weather is against them.

One of my favorite
moments, in that montage,

after they've come home is
when Jerry's up on the wall

and he's shouting like
something's coming.

Hey! Got something coming!

And there's just this tiny
moment where Father Gabriel

just puts his head back,
like, can we just catch a break

for, like, two seconds, you know.

The world is pushing
against them at all times.

We're all friends, they're here to help.

Our characters and Lance Hornsby,

they see this guy and he rolls
up and he's wearing this suit.

And he's got, like, this slick hair

and, like, a big smile.

And they're just looking at him
and going, like, what is this?

Like, who are we looking at, you know.

Our people at this point,
they're not very trusting

of strangers, in general.

So they kinda look at
the guy and go, like,

I don't know about you, in the suit.

But at the same time, like,
he's making a really nice offer

and they're really in trouble.

Their place had just
been trashed by the storm

and all the difficulties
they've been facing

because of the Whisperers aftermath.

And lack of food and
everything that goes with it.

We thought it'd be interesting
at the end of this episode

to do, like, just a deep flash forward.

And we had been thinking for
awhile that Maggie was going to

stay at the Hilltop and
that Daryl was gonna go to

the Commonwealth and
eventually become a trooper.

And the, we're like, well, I
mean, like, you could show them

at, like, this point of
conflict way down the line

so that we wonder,
like, what has happened

in the intervene time.

Doesn't have to be this way.

Yeah, it does.