07x12 - Sonny Boy

[bunniefuu]

Now!

- [BABY VOCALIZING]
- It's all right.

Morgan sent me.

I'm supposed to turn off the
beacon on the roof tonight.

Clear out the walkers so they
can get Grace and the baby out.

There's only one way
things are gonna change,

and that's if I can get in Strand's ear.

He needs me. More than he needs you.

Charlie stays with me, under my care.

That's the deal.

WES: I need to talk to Victor.
Tell him I want to make a deal.

MAN: Why would he want
to make a deal with you?

Because I can help save his Tower.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

Victor, we need to talk.

And I'll be straight with you.

I've got some concerns about
how you're running this place.

♪

If there's one thing I
know from my days as a cop,

you're only as good as your partner.

♪

♪

I think you deserve a partner

to help remind you which way is up.

[SCREAMING] No! No!

No! Please, please.

I didn't do anything.

We found a walkie in your mattress.

But that doesn't mean... [SCREAMING]

[BODY THUDS]

♪

You built this place
using your instincts.

[GRUNTING]

[SCREAMING]

[SCREAMING]

[BODY THUDS]

[WALKERS GROWLING]

Well, I've got a few of my own.

I'm willing to share them

if you're willing to listen.

Well?

It's never gonna work, John.

Why not?

Because the only voice Victor
Strand listens to is his own.

And he has a yes-man like
Howard who won't question him.

That's exactly why he likes him.

Well, what he likes and what he needs

are two different things.

What does that mean, John?

Things are starting to go sideways here.

He's paranoid.

Every since Morgan poisoned
him, he's got it in his head

that there's some kind of
resistance inside the Tower.

That's why he's
cracking down on walkies.

CHARLIE: June?

I'll be right in.

Her skin, are those... ?

It's radiation burns.

How's she doing?

Nothing can be done?

Not with her level of exposure.

All I can do is keep her comfortable

for whatever time she has left.

I should go, John.

What happened to Charlie

doesn't have to happen to anyone else.

I can get through to Strand.

I just need the right opportunity.

You think you can change Victor?

- What makes you think Victor won't change you?
- That's not gonna happen.

That's exactly what
happened to your son.

He was trying to b*at
Ginny at her own game,

and it destroyed him.

Don't make that same mistake.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

Anything in here?

It's clean.

We found another walkie.

Where?

Who had one?

[CHUCKLES] Howard.

♪

What?

I told you I needed the right
opportunity to get to Strand.

I think I just found it.

♪

♪

Come in.

♪

What can I do for you, John?

I'll be straight with you, Victor.

I've got some concerns about
how you're running this place.

♪

♪

No! No, wait!

It wasn't mine, I swear!

And yet it was found in your room!

- Victor, you know me!
- Do I?

I've been by your side
since the beginning.

Why would I throw that all away?

Your family, your son.

Perhaps you've joined the
chorus of dissenters from within.

No, this place is everything to me.

You know the rules, Howard.

I didn't do this!

I need people I can
trust, now more than ever.

You no longer fit that
description, old friend.

Wait, no! Victor, please!

Someone planted the
walkie so you'd doubt me.

♪

[GROANS]

It worked.

Regardless of how it got there,

I can't believe a word
you say until I have proof.

♪

And you're gonna get it for me.

[TELEPHONE RINGS]

Answer it.

♪

Yeah?

When?

Are you sure?

♪

We got a problem.

♪

STRAND: What do you mean, she's missing?

Infants don't just vanish into thin air.

She wasn't in her crib
when I came to check on her.

I'll find her.

Victor, please, let me do this.

I told you, I don't trust you.

Then let me show you you still can.

Put whatever rangers you want on me,

make sure I'm not hiding anything.

[RAIN PATTERING ON WINDOWS]

STRAND: Retrieve her by sunrise

or I'll finish what
we started on the roof.

I will find her.

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

John, a word.

I'd like for you to find that baby.

- But you just told Howard...
- Howard may be stalling.

As such, I'd rather hedge my bets.

You're betting on me?

I've seen the Dorie spirit in action.

I once saw your son build a
raft from a broke-down truck

just to get back to June.

He cared about the right things.

As do you.

Which is, I assume,

why you came to me and
spoke of your desire

to recalibrate things here.

Too many people are getting hurt

that don't need to.

This Tower is bigger
than the both of us.

It is my future.

It is the way I'll be remembered,

my legacy.

That may well be,

but take it from me, Victor...

legacy can slip away
if you're not careful.

How so?

Well, let's just say
I know what it's like

to do the wrong thing
for the right reason.

It doesn't end well.

♪

I'm willing to listen.

But first, I need to
know that you can deliver.

Succeeding where Howard fails

will do wonders for your prospects here.

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

Good luck, John.

♪

I don't know anything.

You're Mo's nanny.

She's your responsibility.

John, what is this?

If I knew where she was, I'd tell you.

I didn't take her. You
have to let me help.

We need to find her.

You think I can keep a baby secret?

You think I want that kind of heat?

The baby went missing shortly
after you showed up here.

Of course I'd be the
first person he'd suspect.

Why would I put her in danger like that?

Because you don't want
her to grow up here.

Because you're angry about
what happened with Ali.

Aren't you?

That's not what this is about.

Then what is this about?

Making sure that baby is safe.

[CHUCKLES]

Something that will never happen here.

Do you know something, June?

Do you know where Mo is?

[INHALES DEEPLY]

We both want the same things, John.

And the only way that
is going to happen...

... is if we take out Strand.

And what does that have to do with Mo?

Morgan and the others are
not gonna make their move

as long as the baby is in this Tower.

And Strand knows that.

He loses her,

he loses all his leverage.

You're gonna sneak her out.

I didn't say that.

Strand was right.

The resistance is real,
and you're part of it.

The less you know, the better.

Don't give me that.

Talk to me, June.

Maybe I can help.

You really want to help?

Keep Howard distracted.

I'll do the rest.

He's not part of this?

The walkie in his room?

That wasn't me.

You'd tell me if it was?

I have to go, John.

♪

♪

Don't touch that.

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

Quite the collection
you've got here, Howard.

Look, I don't got time for this.

I have to find that baby.

Yeah, so do I.

Victor asked me to look, too.

[SCOFFS]

He didn't mention that to me.

Can you blame him

after that walkie turned up in here?

It wasn't mine!

Whoever put it here,

they are getting exactly what they want.

Oh, I believe you.

But you understand why I
also have to question you,

just like I would anybody else.

[RAIN PATTERING ON WINDOWS]

Drink?

Ah, I don't touch the stuff anymore.

Suit yourself.

So what is it you want to know?

What I heard up on the roof...

There's a great deal

I don't know about you, Howard.

Like what?

Well, for starters,

you never struck me as a family man.

Why not?

Oh, let's just call it a general
lack of compassion and restraint.

Mm.

And this coming from a man
who abandoned his own son.

We're not talking about me right now.

Strand mentioned a wife, a son.

That them?

Where are they?

I don't know.

Get split up after the b*mb?

My wife left me

before the world did what
it did the first time.

She took our son with her.

Why?

You ever hear of the Travis Letter?

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

William Barrett Travis, .

On the second day of
the siege of the Alamo,

he writes a letter
asking for reinforcements.

He signs it "victory or death."

What's that got to do with your family?

The Travis Letter is one
of the most famous documents

in the history of Texas.

What people didn't know was
that there was more to it,

an addendum that I
personally discovered.

It made me the toast of
the historical community.

I traveled all over, giving lectures,

months and months away
from Matin and his mom.

Sounds like quite the achievement.

I forged it.

Suddenly, all those papers
that had been praising me

were smearing my name.

One day, I come home,

my wife's at the door, bags packed.

All over the letter?

She said I was more concerned with
making history than I was with...

making a life for her and my son.

♪

But this place...

I have made history here.

My wife and boy are out there somewhere,

and if they find it, they'll see
that this history can be their life.

♪

So what you call a lack of
compassion and restraint,

I call building a legacy.

[KNOCK ON DOOR]

What?

[DOOR OPENS]

We've covered a five-mile radius.

The baby is not out there.

Maybe you didn't search hard enough.

The storm's getting bad, Howard.

Then we'll keep searching inside.

- We've already combed the place.
- Then comb again.

♪

Are we done here?

♪

Those people you've thrown off the roof.

How do they fit into that legacy?

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

Look, I'm not proud of
everything I've done here,

but if it all leads to my
family finding this place,

then it will have been worth it.

And if they don't find it?

I don't like to think about that

because then that would
mean everything I've done...

has been for nothing.

♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

June.

John.

- How did you know?
- Your boots.

The ground down here
gets muddy when it rains.

[MO CRYING]

♪

How'd you hide her?

Does it matter?

♪

What's this?

For protection, in case I ran
into trouble with the moat.

You actually think that
would have protected you?

It's worked before.

That woman, the wrestler?

You think you could do the same.

Well, hopefully, I won't have to,

but if that's what it takes.

[GROWLING CONTINUES]

The tunnel's flooding.

That's why this needs to happen now.

It's not safe.

Morgan is posted up
about a half a mile away.

He's ready to take her
as soon as we get her out.

June!

John, I can't!

I need help with this gate!

I'm coming!

♪

John, hurry!

♪

♪

[MO CRYING]

♪

We just need to get to the elevator.

What are you talking about?

I'm sorry, June, but I
can't let you leave with her.

I'm gonna cement my legacy,
and you're gonna help me.

♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

DORIE SR.: We have to get moving
before more come washing in.

My g*n's over there, by the tunnel.

If I can get to it, we can
clear a path to the elevator.

I thought you came down here to help me.

♪

I came to help her.

Why are you doing this?

♪ Climb up on my knee, Sonny Boy ♪

What's that?

It's just a song John used to like.

Shh.

[MO CRYING]

You want to do for her what
you couldn't do for him.

I lost a child, too, John.

I get it.

We need to give Mo her best chance.

She has it here, now, with Victor,

which is why I have to get her
up there before Howard does.

John, have you been drinking again?

Why the hell would you ask me that?

Because you're not making any sense.

- Strand is not going to listen to you.
- He will.

- He has to.
- Why?

Because I set this all in motion!

What are you talking about?

The walkie.

I planted it in Howard's room.

I knew it was the only
way I was gonna get Strand

to listen to me over Howard.

♪

- You're doing it again.
- What?

The same thing you did
when you planted that purse

to make sure that Teddy went to jail.

John, it destroyed your life.

It destroyed you.

Please don't make that
same mistake twice.

- This is different.
- How?

Because the last time
I did the wrong thing

for the right reason,
I abandoned my son.

I won't do that to her.

Won't have what happened to John,

what's happening to Charlie...

won't happen to her.

I'll make this place

the world I should have made for my boy.

You can still do that.

We can change things here,

but not while Strand is in charge.

What you want... I can't risk it.

Why not?

You can't answer me
because you know I'm right.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

We've got to move.

I'm gonna go for the g*n.

You guard her with your life.

What are you gonna do?

Get through them, same way Mickey did.

Go!

John!

We're not gonna make it.

The tunnel!

- Take her before more come!
- I can't!

You have to, John!

You want to secure your legacy,

you want to help Mo?

This is how.

Go!

Go! John, go!

[GRUNTS]

♪

Get out of here! Take the baby!

♪

I only have one left.

You don't need it. The tunnel.

I'm not leaving.

♪

We gotta get back.

♪

You had a way out!

Still do.

- Call them.
- Who?

Whoever helped you
plan this little escape.

Get them down here to help us.

If they get caught,
Strand will k*ll them.

Call them!

Why don't you want her to
leave? What are you so afraid of?

Because she'll die outside these walls.

Not if we're careful.

- That won't matter.
- Why not?

Because it didn't for Charlie.

- Because it didn't for me.
- I don't understand.

♪

I don't have much time, June.

♪

♪

♪

Grace...

I need some help.

♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

Grace should have been here by now.

Why didn't you tell me sooner?

Would it have made any difference?

How did it happen?

Bringing Charlie back
from that building.

I must have got exposed
to the same thing she did.

I was careful.

I was quick.

It still got me.

Like it or not, this is the
only place she'll be safe.

- I don't have much time left.
- You don't know that.

I thought John was gonna
be my legacy, and now...

I can't lose another child.

I can't have that be the
last thing I do in this life.

You and Grace, you'll be
able to keep her safe in here.

You'll be able to control Strand.

[g*nshots]

♪

Victor.

Caught Grace in the elevator

on the way down here.

She wouldn't say why.

Seems to me we've
identified the resistance.

It's exactly who we thought.

It's not what it looks like.

Oh, I'm sure.

[MO COOING]

[LAUGHS]

Hmm.

♪

♪

Told you I'd find her.

You didn't find her.

He did.

♪

♪

I got you.

♪

♪

What we're building here

is no less than a civilization,

and no civilization can stand

without a unified people.

I've been fighting by your side

since the beginning, Victor.

And you, John?

Do you believe in this place?

I believe in what it can be.

I believe it's the best way
for that child to survive.

He's lying to you.

He was trying to help her escape.

Shut up.

You said you believed in this place.

Show me.

How?

Push him over the edge.

- What?
- You heard me.

We had a deal, Victor.

I said I'd spare you
if you found the baby.

- You didn't.
- After everything I've done!

The moment we found that walkie,

any faith I had in you eroded.

- It wasn't mine!
- He's right.

He doesn't deserve this, Victor.

Why is that?

Because I planted that walkie.

You see, Victor?

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

Wait.

You framed Howard in order
to gain audience with me?

[LAUGHS]

Wow.

Oh. [LAUGHS]

I underestimated you, John.

You don't do something like
that unless you're invested.

Come on! You can't be serious?

I'm still gonna need you to do

that other thing I asked.

I won't do that.

You will do it, unless you
want me to bring June up here.

- No.
- Or Grace.

John, no, my family.

I'm sorry, but you did the
same to others for far less.

Please! No, John! Wait, no!

John, no!

[SCREAMING]

♪

STRAND: I wouldn't
worry about him too much.

His family was never
gonna find this place.

- Why not?
- Because they're dead.

Our scouts found them months ago.

They'd been turned for
a long time, so it seems.

You knew his wife and son
were dead and you said nothing?

Why would I?

It's what drove him to help me

build this place to what it's become.

Everyone needs something
to drive them, John.

His apartment is all yours.

You can move in immediately.

Consider it a signing bonus.

What is it that you said?

You're only as good as your partner.

Well, here's to a great
partnership, my friend.

[THUNDER RUMBLES]

♪

[COUGHING]

♪

[SIGHS]

♪

[GROANS]

♪

♪

♪

[DOOR OPENS]

♪

I thought you were off the sauce.

I was.

Well, far be it from me to judge.

Pour me one, would you?

Come on, baby.

[COOING]

[BOTTLE THUDS]

To our future.

Feel free to junk all this stuff.

Howard certainly has
no use for them anymore.

[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS]

Hm.

♪

[VOLUME INCREASES]

♪

Why so loud?

So we're not overheard.

I don't want what happened
today to happen ever again.

♪

Things need to change.

♪

Are you ready to listen
to those ideas I mentioned?

I have some ideas of my own.

♪

I know that Grace was in
on what happened today,

as was June.

I'm going to remand Mo

to my sole custody permanently.

How exactly does that work?

Mo will be raised in
the penthouse by me,

without any outside interference.

You can't keep her away from her mother.

Her mother is dead.

Grace is a stand-in.

♪

So how do I fit into all this?

You do whatever it is you need to do

to ensure that no one takes that baby.

[MO COOING]

♪

That baby is never going
to give you what you want.

♪

And what is that?

To love you.

To look up to you.

And the more you want it,
the more you fight for it,

the more you'll end up driving her away.

♪

And remind me,

what happened to your son, John?

Why do you think I'm trying
to get through to you here?

♪

If you really want her to love you,

then let me help you change
how you do things here.

♪

When I want your counsel, I'll ask.

♪

You were never going to listen
to what I had to say, were you?

As I told you before,

everyone needs something
to drive them, John.

What you did today

will echo long into the future.

It will outlive you.

It will be your legacy.

♪

No, it won't.

This place isn't my legacy.

She is.

♪

Morgan, do you copy?

MORGAN: Hey, Mr. Dorie. That you?

Are you still close by?

Just beyond the wall, why?

- Stay where you are.
- [MO CRYING]

♪

♪

I'm bringing her to you.

♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

♪

JUNE: You don't have to do this, John.

I can do it. I can take her.

I can do this.

I want to do this.

- Should we do the thing?
- What thing?

You know, pull in a
skinbag and gut him up,

spread the nasty to
throw them off the scent.

We don't have time,

and it wouldn't be safe for Mo.

I got this.

You got some brass cojones, my friend.

It's not about me.

[BABBLING]

Be brave, my little girl, okay?

- Be brave.
- [CRYING]

It's okay.

It's okay.

Be brave.

♪

You don't stop 'til
you get to Morgan, okay?

♪

A lot of things I got
wrong in this life.

This won't be one of them.

JUNE: You need to go, John.

♪

It's never too late.

Thanks for helping me
remember that, June.

♪

♪

Oh, wait.

She likes it when I sing to her.

It soothes her.

John was the same way.

♪

What'd you sing to him?

♪

WES: Victor.

Hey, Victor.

Hey.

Where is he?

Where's the baby? [SIGHS]

Take the edge off.

[GROANS]

The rangers are combing the Tower.

They'll find her.

The tunnel's flooded.

There's no other way out.

[SIGHS]

There's one.

♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

♪

♪

DORIE SR.: ♪ Climb up
on my knee, Sonny Boy ♪

♪

GRACE: ♪ Oh, you're
only three, Sonny Boy ♪

♪ You've no way of knowing ♪

♪ There's no way of showing ♪

♪ What you mean to me, Sonny Boy ♪

Victor.

♪

What do you want to do?

You know, I thought
I found a new partner.

He said he wanted to
make this place better.

- He disappointed me.
- [SCOFFS]

That's what people do.

You still looking?

For what?

A partner.

♪

There's an old antennae in storage.

Bring it to me.

Antennae?

♪

GRACE: ♪ When there are gray skies ♪

DORIE SR.: ♪ I don't
mind the gray skies ♪

♪ You make them blue, Sonny Boy ♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

♪ Friends may forsake me ♪

♪ Let them all forsake me ♪

♪ I still have you, Sonny Boy ♪

♪

[DOOR OPENS]

♪

♪ You're sent from heaven ♪

♪ And I know your worth ♪

♪ You made a heaven

♪ For me here on Earth ♪

♪

Mr. Dorie.

♪

I got you. I got you.

Hey, you're good.

You're good.

♪

- We need to move.
- I can't.

Why not?

What is...

Oh, my God.

[MO CRYING]

♪

I'll buy you some time.

I'm sorry.

You take care of her, Morgan!

I will.

And thanks, John.

DORIE SR.: ♪ When I'm
old and gray, dear ♪

GRACE: ♪ Promise you won't stray, dear ♪

♪ For I love you so, Sonny Boy ♪

♪

Is it ready?

It's done.

Give me that walkie.

♪

You may have won the
battle today, Morgan,

but the w*r is just beginning.

I have people here that you care about.

June, Grace,

and if you take a step into this place,

I will k*ll them.

♪

As for the rest of you,

you know who you are.

The offer to join me still stands.

I need good people here

to help me secure the
future of this place.

♪

If you're listening...

you know where to find me.

♪

DORIE SR.: ♪ When I'm
old and gray, dear ♪

GRACE: ♪ Promise you won't stray, dear ♪

♪ For I love you so, Sonny Boy ♪

♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

The Tower's unguarded
at least until dawn.

- We're not ready.
- Why?

[WALKERS GROWLING]

You think we're gonna lose.

We're outmanned and outgunned.

[g*nf*re]

It's starting to leak radiation.

I got a plan. Trust me.

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTS]

[expl*si*n]

[ALARM BLARING]

MAN: What the hell?

♪

♪

You were never going to listen
to what I had to say, were you?

As I told you before,
everyone needs something

to drive them, John.

What you did today will
echo long into the future.

There's a few reasons why
Dorie Sr. makes his move now.

You know, the biggest
one is, as we learn later

in the episode, Dorie
Sr. has been exposed

to radiation poisoning,
and he's got a very limited

amount of time left.

There's also the fact that
he's looking at Charlie,

with her radiation poisoning
there in that early scene

with June, and we just
see this weighing on him.

He's going to have to make
some changes here in the Tower,

because he also sees Strand
going down this bad path,

giving into his worst impulses.

And so Dorie Sr. now feels
like, "I've got to get in his ear

and change the way he does
things before it's too late."

♪

Great deal I don't
know about you, Howard.

I think Dorie Sr.'s perception of Howard

changes as the episode goes on.

At the beginning of the
episode, I think he sees him

as someone who, as he says,
lacks compassion and restraint.

That he's just this
ultimate Strand loyalist.

My wife left me before the world
did what it did the first time.

She took our son with her.

As he gets to know him a little better,

he realizes that he's
not that different,

and that Howard is
ultimately driven by this need

to make a place for his family,

that he believes is still out there,

and that this is going to make
everything he's done worth it.

No! No, wait!

It wasn't mine! I swear!

You know the rules, Howard!

I didn't do this!

I need people I can trust,

now more than ever.

I think the rule about
no walkies in the Tower

just is another example of
Strand's increasing paranoia,

and him locking things down,
you know, ruling this place

with an iron fist because he
has grown more and more concerned

about enemies forming
against him from the inside.

He really is backed into
a corner, and he's acting

in an extreme, extreme way.

The moment we found that walkie,

any faith I had in you eroded.

It wasn't mine!

He's right!

He doesn't deserve this, Victor.

Why is that?

Because I planted that walkie.

John planting the walkie is
very much a move Victor Strand

himself would have done, so
I think he probably senses

a bit of a kindred
spirit there, and also,

as he says, "You wouldn't have done that

unless you were invested."

[LAUGHS]

This was all sort of a test,

and John has passed the test.

And then ultimately,
there is one more piece

of that test that Strand needs to see.

No, John! Wait, no!

John! No! [SCREAMS]

The gut punch that comes from that,

aside from having to k*ll Howard,

is the reveal that Strand
gives him right after that,
which is...

His family was never
going to find this place.

Why not? Because they're dead.

And Dorie Sr. realizes in that moment,

that is exactly what
Strand has done to him...

he has dangled this carrot of
getting into the inner sanctum,

having Strand as an
audience, to motivate John

to do what he wants.

And that's why when we find
Dorie again, it causes him

to do the thing he
hasn't done in so long,

which is pick up the bottle again.

[BABY CRYING]

I'm going to make this place the world

I should have made for my boy.

You could still do that.

We can change things here,

but not while Strand is in charge.

I think when John looks at
Mo, he's not just seeing Mo,

he's seeing John Dorie
Jr., he's seeing Charlie,

he's seeing, you know, these young kids

that he feels responsible
for not being able to help.

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He realizes that he's
going to have to take

a really desperate action
to make sure that baby Mo

has the life that he wanted
for her, and he realizes that

that life can't happen in the Tower.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

It's so hard to watch this episode
and say goodbye to Keith Carradine.

He is this character. He's got
so much gravitas and strength.

There are a lot of things
I got wrong in this life.

This won't be one of them.

He just brings something
that no one else

could have brought to this role.

We were such big fans of
his from his, you know, very,

you know, long and
impressive body of work,

bringing him into the show.

And what we always like to
say is that when characters die

or when we say goodbye to characters,

we want it to hurt. We
want it to be impactful

because that means that you cared.

[BABY CRYING]

- We need to move.
- I can't.

Why not?

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Let me see.

Oh, my...

And this episode is
just so painful to watch.

His final sacrifice, you know,
both painful and beautiful,

just is a real testament
to Keith's incredible work

as an actor and what
he brought to this role,

and we're very, very grateful
to have had the chance

to work with him.

[FLESH TEARING, WALKERS GROWLING]

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