08x01 - Remember What They Took From You

[bunniefuu]

I think we might actually

have someplace to go to.

She's better off with me than you.

You don't get to decide

what's best for my family.

- Let me go.

- I want my kid.

And you want yours.

I don't want to find them.

MAN: Hands where we can see them.

Hey. No one's gone until they're gone.

- Who's he?

- Collector.

He has something to offer.

Where the hell are we going?

Where is PADRE?

I don't know.

[DOOR CREAKS OPENS]

[MORGAN BREATHING HEAVILY]

[DOOR CLOSES]

♪

♪

PADRE: I don't believe

introductions are necessary.

Uh

no.

I know who you are.

And we know who you are.

Or we know who you were.

♪

How long have I been here?

Long enough to verify your story.

We found the raft you told us about.

We're processing the passengers now.

How many people were on those rafts?

Not as many as you thought,

but enough to satisfy our needs.

How did you know they were out there?

I heard chatter on the radio,

and I thought you might

be interested in them.

If you want to be

part of what we're doing,

you need to show us that

you're committed to our vision.

No, I am.

I am, and I will.

We'll see about that.

♪

[BABY MONITOR CRACKLING]

[BABY CRYING]

What is this?

Our newest intake.

Why are you playing it for me?

PADRE: We want you to be a Collector,

to bring us children like this

one who recently joined the community,

brought to us by the same

Collector who recruited you.

♪

What are What are they doing to her?

- Her?

- I had a daughter.

That's why I know.

We're drawing blood, giving her sh*ts

to make sure she doesn't get sick.

To make sure she doesn't make

other children sick.

What about the parents?

Why can't we bring them in, too?

We tried.

We found they don't want

to build something better.

They want to re-build what we had,

and what we had got us into this mess.

She's not happy.

S-Somebody should comfort her.

[BABY CONTINUES CRYING]

Come on! She sounds scared!

Like all the children here,

she will learn to separate

herself from her emotions.

[CRYING CONTINUES]

Okay, stop!

- What's the matter?

- This is a setup.

How did you know?

How did he know?! Did you tell him?!

A Collector bringing us

a child and a new recruit

in one day doesn't happen often.

We had to be sure.

[CRYING CONTINUES]

[GRUNTING]

♪

Does it look like I sold you out?

You need to bring me that child.

If you want to live long enough

to see any of the things

you're trying to build here,

you will bring me

that child at the dock,

let me get on a boat,

and get out of here with my daughter.

Do what's best for her, not you.

That's what I'm doing.

Go.

I'll keep him honest till you're clear.

You sure?

I'm doing what I said I would do.

Your kid's not gonna grow up

on this island.

♪

Thank you.

♪

Do you really want to do this?

There's nothing you could do to me

that's worse than what

I'm already living.

We'll see about that.

♪

♪

♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

♪

♪

[WALKERS SNARLING]

♪

♪

[GATE RATTLING]

♪

MAN: Hold her!

♪

♪

Where did it come from?

Same place they always do.

The mainland.

Don't worry about it.

You're doing this for the same

reason we do everything.

♪

For PADRE.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

[GRUNTING]

[WALKER SNARLS]

[SNARLING]

♪

♪

♪

Dove, help me!

♪

What the hell happened in there?

- Why'd you freeze?

- I don't know.

PADRE should've never let you in here.

- You're just too young for this.

- I'm not.

You've gotta train me.

You've gotta show me

what you did in your trial.

I have my offshore training next week.

That means I've got to cram

on my survival basics.

What if I do your chores

so you can study?

For how long?

A week.

A month.

♪

♪

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

♪

♪

Hey, Wren.

♪

MAN: Who are we learning this for?

STUDENTS: PADRE!

Who sustains our way of life?

PADRE!

Who is teaching us to be strong?

PADRE!

♪

Who is rebuilding the world?

PADRE!

♪

♪

[CANISTER CLATTERING]

sh**t.

[HISSING IN DISTANCE]

Hello?

[LIGHT BUZZES]

[HISSING CONTINUES]

WOMAN: [MUFFLED] Is someone there?

Hey! Can I get some help?

Closer

Are you okay?

[AIR RUSHING]

Hello?

Is anyone in there?

[GASPS]

Wait, wait! Please!

I'm not gonna hurt you!

I just need your help.

[DOOR OPENS]

[AIR HISSING]

Good morning, Lark.

It's that time of the week.

You gonna play nice today?

I see you're skipping meals again.

We have ways to make you eat.

See you next week, Lark.

♪

- [TRIGGER CLICKS]

- [GROANS]

Aah! Aah!

You really think we'd

bring live a*mo down here?

♪

I know you want to die, Lark.

[DISTORTED] But PADRE's

not gonna let that happen.

♪

♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

♪

♪

- You don't have to go in there again.

- I want to.

I have to go to the Mainland

to help build our future.

- Then wait till you're old enough.

- I can't.

Every time I look out there,

I feel like something really big

is missing inside of me.

And you think you're gonna

find that on the Mainland?

Only thing that's out there

is more Carrion.

Ones with teeth.

That prisoner down there in the

cellar, why is she in there?

- How do you know about her?

- A t*nk fell down the stairs.

I went to get it,

and she asked for help

You talked to her?

- I called for the guard, but then she

- No.

Listen, you stay away from her.

That woman is dangerous.

We could get in

a lot of trouble if PADRE

found out you were down

there doing my chores.

Why is she there?

What did she do?

I shouldn't be telling you this.

Her name is Lark.

She was a Collector.

Rescued more kids than anybody.

Until, for some reason,

she helped some new recruit

and his kid get off the island.

Who?

I don't know, Wren.

Some dad and his baby girl.

I thought PADRE never lost a kid before.

I'm just telling you

what people told me.

She's down there for a reason.

They say she took out

over a dozen guards

with just a sledgehammer.

Twice as many Carrion.

She almost k*lled PADRE.

We training or not?

♪

[GRUNTING]

[GRUNTS]

Why can't you do that in the Circle?

I don't know.

♪

[KNOCKING]

You assholes were

already here this morning.

YOUNG GIRL: I'm not here to hurt you.

You came back.

How did you get down here?

I snuck past the guards.

They leave it unmanned when they

do their rounds at shift change.

Why'd you come back?

I need you to teach me.

Teach you? What?

Teach you what?

How to k*ll Carrion.

Where'd you get that?

Gardening shed.

I know you helped someone

escape from the island.

I know you took out half the

settlement's guards with this.

Heard you even almost k*lled PADRE.

And y-you want to finish the job?

I shouldn't have come here.

No. Please, no.

I can help you.

You'll teach me?

What do you care about k*lling the dead?

I need to show PADRE he's wrong.

I'm not too young to wear the mantle.

I'll help you.

If you do something for me.

- What?

- See that valve?

See it?

I need you to turn it off.

What will that do?

Exactly what you think.

You want to die.

You want to know

how I took out so many guards?

I didn't care whether or not I lived.

I already did what I set out to do.

So, I show you how to use this,

you turn the valve.

Do we have a deal?

Yeah.

Yeah, we do.

Well, let me see your grip.

Okay. Now swing it.

[SLEDGEHAMMER CLATTERS]

You gotta let the the weight

of the hammer do the work.

I don't understand.

Well, I just think

you're gripping it too tight.

So, here let me show you.

Let me show you.

[AIR HISSES]

Okay. Yeah.

Here.

Back up. Back up!

Don't!

What are you doing?!

sh*t!

You lied to me!

You didn't hold up your end of the deal.

What the hell's wrong with you, kid?!

I'm not getting in trouble

because of you!

Where'd you get that scar?

I don't know. I had

it since I was little.

♪

- How old are you?

- 8.

Why are you asking me this?

sh*t!

- What?

- God dammit!

What?!

- It can't have been that long.

- What are you talking about?

What's your name?

Wren.

No.

No, it's not.

It's Mo.

I brought you here seven years ago.

I also helped you and

your father escape.

- What?

- That's why they locked me up.

- You're not supposed to be here.

- No.

I'm not the kid you got off the island.

You are. You got this during the escape.

- That doesn't make sense!

- I know it doesn't make sense!

So they must have brought you back.

MAN: Down here! Come on!

Change of plans.

We're leaving.

Don't do anything stupid, Lark.

- Let her go!

- Hand her over!

- I'll k*ll her!

- Step away from the girl!

♪

♪

Where are you taking me?

Where I thought your dad

took you a long time ago

as far away from PADRE as possible.

♪

♪

♪

♪

MAN: This is PADRE 1 I want patrols

in every direction for a 15-mile radius.

She needs to be found and

brought back immediately.

MAN #2: Copy that, PADRE 1.

♪

MADISON: We walk the rest of the way.

No. I'm not getting off.

I made a promise to your dad,

and I intend to keep it.

Here, put this on.

It'll help hide you

when they come looking.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[AIR HISSES]

Let's go.

Where are we going?

To find your dad.

Do you even know if he's alive?

This is why PADRE built things

the way he did,

so people like you don't

do things like this.

You're gonna get us k*lled!

I'm not here to argue.

[WALKER GROWLING]

Head into the marsh.

It'll be impossible for anyone

to track us there.

Here. Here, let me

My foot, it's stuck.

Grab this.

Hey! Hey! What the hell

are you doing, kid?

♪

Ahh. [COUGHING]

♪

[RADIO STATIC]

PADRE, can you hear me?

This is Wren.

I repeat this is Wren.

I don't think so!

Back off, lady.

They're coming for me.

They're going to find me.

So are the dead.

And they're already here.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

sh*t.

Lost my g*n over there, too.

I can't to protect you out here.

We gotta move inland.

You won't get far without oxygen.

Come on. This way.

They won't find us the deeper

we go in the swamp.

You can't breathe.

You're gonna die out there.

You comin' or not?

No.

I told you I'm waiting for PADRE.

It's gonna take them weeks

to find you out here.

I'm trained in survival.

But you never k*lled the dead.

We're already drawing them

in from all over.

I can handle myself.

♪

[SNARLING]

♪

What the hell happened? What was that?

I don't know.

Hey. You're 8 years old.

It's okay to be scared of them.

I'm not scared.

Okay. Let's go.

MAN: I wouldn't go that way.

Not safe in there.

♪

Who's that?

That's your dad.

♪

I knew you'd be alive, Morgan.

I'm not that easy to get rid of.

What the hell happened?

Why was she back at PADRE?

How'd you find us?

I heard the chatter on the walkies.

And this is where we landed

when we escaped seven years ago.

♪

Are you really my father?

♪

I am, Mo

Wren.

My name is Wren.

Right.

Right.

I don't know what PADRE

told you about parents,

but I promise you, it is okay.

'Cause I'm here to take you back to him.

♪

[MADISON BREATHING HEAVILY]

MAN: This is PADRE 1

Wren, do you copy?

Here. Can you take this?

Wren, do you copy?

This is PADRE 1. We heard your message.

What is your location?

- I repeat what is your location?

- This is Nightingale.

I have Wren.

Nightingale? This isn't

a sanctioned operation.

I heard the alert. I was nearby,

and I had an idea where they would land.

MADISON: You're with them?

You've been locked away for a long time.

What are they holding over you?

Just had to accept what you said

to me the first time we met.

She's better off with them than me.

It's okay.

I want to go back.

I spent seven years in a cell

so you could be with her.

This isn't about you.

This is about what's best for my kid.

Always was.

I know! I'm doing this for her!

Unh!

No. You're doing it

to make yourself feel better

about all those other kids you took.

I do not want to hurt you.

Incoming.

[COUGHING]

[WALKERS GROWLING]

I am bringing them both in.

MAN: Negative. Just the fledgling.

We no longer need Lark.

Wren is fine, and Lark

is no longer a thr*at.

I repeat we no longer need Lark.

She's become a liability

to the settlement.

What's that mean?

Means I'm not going back with you.

♪

MAN: Do you copy, Nightingale?

♪

Copy that.

♪

I need you to go wait for me over there.

♪

Please.

♪

♪

[g*n COCKS]

♪

Seriously?

I'm sorry.

But if I don't do this,

they might not let her back in.

And if we're honest, this

is exactly what you wanted

when we were back

on that beach in Louisiana.

♪

♪

Can you go and wait for me

over there, please?

I need you to go wait for me.

Take her hammer with you.

♪

♪

Back on that beach, I said

I was gonna save your daughter.

I also said I was gonna save you.

I guess that's what

I'm gonna have to do.

We don't need saving!

He's right. I want to go back.

It's because you don't know

anything else.

And something made you forget.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

We can't wait here.

That's our only option.

Get up.

We are screwed,

because that's the way I went

with her seven years ago.

What happened there?

No use scaring her.

This time's different.

She's got both of us now.

I'm not sure that's gonna be enough.

♪

[WALKER GROWLING]

♪

Swamps are like flypaper to walkers.

They all come in here,

but they can't get back out.

And it's only gonna get harder.

So how much you got left in that t*nk?

- I broke it.

- I'll get it working.

Just keep going. I can manage.

Doesn't sound like it to me.

I just need to last

long enough to convince

you not to take her back.

That's not gonna happen.

Hey.

We get out of this swamp,

I'm gonna take you back

so you can live on that island

like me and you never met.

You understand?

I'll go back to doing

what I've been doing

for the past seven years.

Yeah, you're a Collector, aren't you?

That's why PADRE let you live.

You know, the least she knows

about me the better.

They got Mo. Who else they got?

Her mother?

Is that why you're doing this?

I don't understand.

That's how PADRE gets people

to do what they want.

They find out what matters

to you and thr*aten it.

They provide a way of life that works.

You really buy that bullshit, Morgan?

You need to call me

Nightingale in front of her.

MO: "Morgan"?

What kind of name is that?

It's your name, too, kid.

♪

Wren suits you better.

♪

Is that why you were a Collector?

Because PADRE threatened people

you cared about?

Is that why you rescued me?

They said they'd go after my kids

if I didn't do what they wanted.

- You have kids?

- I did.

A son and a daughter.

Were they on the island, too?

No.

PADRE didn't take Nick and Alicia

because they were already dead.

But PADRE lied to me,

made me think they were alive,

that he knew where they were.

When I found out the truth,

that's when I decided

to help your dad get you back.

Probably be dead if you hadn't

brought me to the island.

- Is that what you want? Her thinking this?

- I want her to be alive.

And, also, she's right.

'Cause when you found us,

we were out of food,

damn near out of water,

and at the mercy of a posse.

It was only a matter of time

before things ended for us.

♪

Morgan.

There's boats. PADRE.

Where the hell are they getting gas?

I don't know, but we need

to get out of here.

Come on. I was supposed

to get back with you.

You okay?

Yeah.

Now they think we're running.

♪

They're trying to

flush us out to an estuary.

- It's a couple of miles ahead.

- How do you know?

Because that's exactly what

they did to us seven years ago.

[WALKER SNARLING]

You okay, kid?

- I'm fine.

- Give me my radio back.

I can call this off

and get us picked up.

- [RADIO SPLASHES IN DISTANCE]

- What the hell?

We're gonna need that.

Guess you can't take

the easy way out now.

We could die out here!

PADRE did that.

That's how they're keeping her "safe".

Because you took her off the island!

No. No, we have to go back.

We have to get that walkie!

Wren!

You need to forget the walkie.

You're gonna get yourself hurt.

I can handle myself!

Okay.

We have to find shelter.

Yeah.

I know a place.

♪

♪

♪

Home, sweet home.

Is it safe?

Yeah, as long as we don't draw any more.

♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

♪

♪

MADISON: Hey, kid.

Kid.

You okay?

Did something happen to me here?

Told you, the less you know the better.

Come on. We need to stay ahead of them.

♪

MO: They're still coming.

- MORGAN: I'd stay away from the window.

- [MADISON COUGHS]

When we don't show up at that estuary,

PADRE's gonna come looking for us here.

[COUGHING]

Let me.

God, what were they doing

to you back there?

They drew blood.

Once a week.

I didn't always cooperate.

I'm sorry.

I didn't know they locked you up.

I'm still here.

Should've seen this coming.

They manipulated you

just like they did me.

Well, I gave myself a set of rules.

I only take kids who have

lost their parents

or kids whose parents give them

up willingly for a better life.

What's PADRE think about that?

PADRE doesn't know.

What happened here?

Is this where PADRE caught you and Mo?

That's not worth talking about.

You know what PADRE's training

the kids for on the island?

Come on. He doesn't

share his plans with me.

You don't train 8-year-olds

to k*ll without a good reason.

You think she's not safe there?

I've been locked up a long time.

I don't know what to think.

Who else is on that island?

Who was on those rafts?

Not many you would know.

Daniel, Luciana

I don't know where they ended up.

And Victor?

Well, he wasn't on the raft

when PADRE found them,

and nobody knows where he is now.

MO: What's this?

♪

Don't.

- What is it?

- I don't know. It's, uh

some kinda graffiti.

♪

- "King County"?

- [MADISON COUGHING]

What is that?

♪

What does it mean?

I told you, I don't know.

It was already here

when I found the place.

♪

Here.

What about all this stuff?

Was this here, too?

Did I not say?!

- I told you

- "The less I know"

I get it. You don't want to tell me.

What are you trying to hide?

Nothing, Wren. It is

nothing.

Come on.

[GRACE SINGING "IN DREAMS" DISTORTEDLY]

I said it was nothing.

♪

Who's that?

That is just a song.

♪

No.

No, it's not!

Yeah, I'm ♪

Who's that?!

[DISTORTED SHOUTING]

It's just just a song.

♪

I remember.

It's okay.

[WALKERS SNARLING]

[CREAKING]

They're gonna pull us under.

- What's she talking about?

- I remember!

- No.

- What's she talking about?

The Carrion are gonna pull us under.

Shouldn't have done this.

You shouldn't have taken me

off that island!

- Hey, stop!

- Whoa!

PADRE are gonna find us

before anything happens.

They don't even know we're here!

The Carrion are gonna

k*ll us because of you.

But you don't care!

Because that's what you want to die!

It's not true.

Wren, no!

♪

More are gonna come now.

♪

Why did you bring me here?

Because, Mo, I needed to save you.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

Well, you can't save me.

♪

♪

Just get over on that side.

We need to get her out of here.

No, we'll get torn apart.

Here.

♪

We wait for PADRE.

- What if they don't show up?

- They will.

Just like they did before.

How did they find us last time?

I radioed them.

I called them, told them to come.

I tried to k*ll the walkers to stop them

from pulling us under, but I couldn't.

There were too many of them.

Couldn't protect you then,

and I can't protect you now.

We don't have a radio.

We can't call them.

We have to do this ourselves.

You can barely stand, let alone fight.

I don't need to.

Then we go out this way.

There's not as many of them.

Okay?

♪

♪

Come on.

Go! I'll draw them away.

Eyes ahead. Keep your eyes ahead.

♪

We're all right.

♪

♪

My foot! My foot, it's stuck!

- Stuck?

- My foot's stuck!

[WALKERS SNARLING]

She's stuck!

♪

♪

♪

♪

MORGAN: [DISTORTED] I'm sorry.

I thought this was what you needed.

I'm doing this for you.

♪

You take care of her, all right?

Like you said.

You take care of her!

♪

Take care of her. Get out of here!

♪

Get her out of here.

Get her out of here!

This is what happened

last time, isn't it?

Yes. I'm so sorry.

♪

MADISON: Over here!

[SLEDGEHAMMER THUDDING]

Over here!

Over here!

Over here!

Over here!

Over here!

♪

MO: They're going to k*ll her!

Over here!

Over here!

Come on.

No! No, we can't leave her behind!

You have to!

That's why I'm doing this.

- No!

- Mo!

♪

- Come on!

- You did the same thing.

Because your boat was being

pulled under by the walkers!

Go, please!

♪

How did you survive?

I k*lled as many as I could,

and then PADRE came and saved me,

but I don't think

they're coming this time.

Mo!

♪

[g*nshots f*ring]

♪

I heard the radio chatter!

I got here as fast as I could.

Who are you?

I'm your mother.

Now let's get the hell out of here.

Come on.

[INSECTS, BIRDS CHIRPING]

You're with PADRE, too?

He's got me maintaining

their radio towers.

Radio traffic exploded when you escaped.

I heard Nightingale's message.

Figured you'd end up

here at the houseboat

after he went silent.

Nightingale? Jesus

They got all of you.

Your voice.

You were the one singing on the tape.

I made that a long time ago.

I remembered it even

before I heard it on the boat.

You've got to try to put

that out of your mind.

Here.

You all dried off?

Just in case.

They still looking for us?

Haven't heard anything yet.

We don't have to go back.

What are you talking about?

MO: You did save me, you know.

Back then.

You called PADRE seven years

ago, and you didn't want to.

You almost d*ed fighting

to get me back to them.

Did you not see what happened today?

MO: You showed up.

We can do this.

Yesterday, you're fighting

to get back to the island,

- and then today

- PADRE's been lying to me this whole time.

Telling me that you were selfish,

that you couldn't make

the hard calls to protect me.

But you did before.

And you did just now.

You can come with us.

I'll just slow you down.

I did what I set out to do.

So you think it's okay to

give up and die out here?

What about everyone else?

What are you talking about, Mo?

I can't be the only one you took.

What about all the other kids

you "rescued" for PADRE?

I can't help them.

Why not?

You helped me, and we wouldn't

be doing it alone.

Right?

It may not be that simple.

Why not?

[MOTORS WHIRRING IN DISTANCE]

- PADRE?

- How'd they find us?

We radioed them.

- What?

- Morgan?

They can protect you

in ways that we can't.

No. That's not true.

This is not up for debate.

I won't go.

I don't want to.

There's so much I don't know about you.

You have to go back, Mo!

You have to forget everything

that happened back at the boat.

♪

No.

I can't.

When I looked ashore,

I knew something was missing.

It was you.

- You're my parents

- No, we're not.

Okay? We're not. We're not your parents.

Your parents were Isaac

and Rachel, and they're dead.

♪

They d*ed a long time ago,

and they made me promise

to take care of you.

And that is what I'm doing.

And that's why you're

going back to PADRE.

What the hell is wrong with you?

You have a chance to be with her,

and you're throwing it all away.

You You need to get out of here.

You need to run and not make

this any harder

than it already is.

You're making the biggest

mistake of your life.

PADRE will k*ll you.

Let him.

You have to save yourself.

You have to save yourself

so you can help everyone else.

I'm not gonna make it.

You have to try.

♪

SHRIKE: Get her.

♪

Don't worry. I still have use for you.

Remember what I showed you.

Remember what they took from you.

Let's go, Wren.

♪

Heron, go to the Delta Receiver

for repairs.

♪

[MOTOR STARTS]

♪

Well, at least we got to see her.

♪

[VOICE BREAKING]

That's what makes it harder.

♪

I'm sorry.

♪

Me too.

♪

♪

♪

Where does PADRE want me to patrol now?

PADRE is retiring you as a Collector.

- I brought her back. I

- He's invested too much in that girl

to run the risk that she'll

cross paths with you again.

Not when she knows you're her father.

I made sure that that's not

gonna happen again.

Because you thought

that's what's best for her now.

That might not always be the case.

Take him away!

♪

♪

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

Write that down.

PADRE: You've had quite a day, Wren.

- I'm sorry.

- Sometimes we have to

learn lessons the hard way.

I'm just glad you're okay.

I have a feeling you're about

to play a crucial role

in the next steps the

settlement is about to take.

We need to talk.

I shouldn't have gone down there.

I want to be a part of the future

PADRE's building.

I'm glad to hear that.

We need citizens like you.

Lark showed me what it's like out there.

She showed me how lucky I am to be here.

Let me show PADRE

I'm not too young to protect it.

And that's why I'm willing to

let today's transgression slide.

But, Wren, any future transgressions

will bring harsh consequences.

Hope you learned your lesson.

Don't worry. I did.

[WALKER SNARLING]

♪

I'm not gonna have to worry

about you ever again,

am I, Wren?

No, sir.

Nothing to worry about at all.

Do I have your word on that?

♪

Yes, sir.

♪

MO: PADRE isn't telling us the truth.

Something bad happened in there.

- [GASPS]

- [WALKER GROWLS]

ADRIAN: We're forming an army.

You can help take on PADRE.

MADISON: Your parents

they could still be out there.

Our parents abandoned us.

DWIGHT: There's nowhere to go, Morgan!

Why are you really here?

Ready?

♪

♪

[GATE CLATTERS, WALKER GROWLS]

[WALKER GROWLS]

♪

[SQUELCHING]

[WALKER MOANING]

GOLDBERG: When we come

into season eight,

we're introduced to this new character,

Wren, a young girl at Padre.

And she really, really

wants to prove herself.

[WALKER GROWLING]

We see that she's struggling

a bit with it,

and then to be quite sure why

[WALKER GROWLS, WREN GROANS]

to gain a higher status

in Padre's eyes.

[SQUELCHES, WALKER GROANS]

[WREN GROANS]

CHAMBLISS: Padre is all about

putting the settlement first,

putting community first.

In many ways, we kind of thought of this

as kind of like a modern-day

version of Sparta,

where the children were taken

and were raised in barracks

and were taught how to fight,

were taught how to put

the city state first.

That's kind of what Padre is all about.

- [GRUNTING]

- MAN: Who sustains our way of life.

ALL: Padre!

GOLDBERG: And then she learns about

this mysterious prisoner named Lark.

- Hello?

- [LATCH CLANKS]

Is anyone in there?

Wait, wait. Please.

I'm not going to hurt you.

Lark was put in this prison

for trying to help

one of the collectors

get his daughter off of Padre.

We realize, of course, that

Wren is Mo and Madison

failed to get Mo off

of the island seven years ago.

♪

Where'd did you get that scar?

- [BREATHING HEAVILY]

- WREN: What?

What?!

It can't have been that long.

So what Wren wants to do initially

is she wants Madison

to teach her how to fight.

I'll help you.

What are you doing?

[MALLET CLATTERS]

- [WREN GRUNTS]

- [LARK GRUNTS]

[GUARD GROANS]

♪

GOLDBERG: What we were trying to achieve

with the houseboat sequence

was sort of this nod to this mystery

that's slowly unspooling

in the premiere episode

of what exactly happened when

Morgan tried to escape with Mo.

Why didn't it work out?

Home sweet home.

Is it safe?

Yeah, as long as we don't draw any more.

What we like with these set pieces

whenever we can is of course

we want them to be cool

and we want we want it to be,

you know, seeing swamp walkers

attacking the houseboat

and it's sinking.

But the most successful ones

are the the ones that sort of dovetail

with the emotional reveal

that as this is all happening,

it forces Morgan to reveal to Mo

what happened seven years ago.

♪

MORGAN: We wait for Padre?

What if they don't show up?

They will.

Just like they did before.

How did they find us last time?

I radioed them.

I called them, told them to come.

It's kind of this huge shock

for both Madison,

for Wren, for the audience.

The thing that Madison thinks

will give him what he wants,

kind of their mission completed,

and he picks up his walkie

and he calls into Padre

and he says, "I've got her.

Let's get her back to the island".

What's wrong with you?

You have a chance to be with her

and you're throwing it all away.

It's all about creating

this question of

"What has to happen to a man

to make him lose

kind of his belief in family.

To think that giving his

daughter to a place like Padre

that wants to essentially kind of drive

any sort of personal

connection out of her,

what makes him think

that that's the right move?"

[GRUNTS]

WREN: They're going to k*ll her.

We can't leave her behind.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

[g*nshots]

Grace shows up at this pivotal moment

to help rescue Morgan,

Madison and Mo from these walkers

that are kind of threatening

to pull them under.

Who are you?

I'm your mother.

And here it feels like family

is saving the day.

For Mo it's this, like, glimmer

of what she's been missing.

Maybe Padre is wrong.

Maybe I'm meant to be out here.

Maybe I'm meant to be

with these two people.

And maybe we're going to get to

kind of ride off into the sunset

and finally be a family.

It's really setting Mo up for a fall

when she realizes that

both Morgan and Grace,

they've called Padre, and

they're handing her over.

- Padre.

- How did they find us?

We radioed them.

♪

- What?

- Morgan.

MORGAN: They can protect you

in ways that we can't.

We realize that they do still love her,

that they do still want

what's best for her,

but they just think that's

her living on the island.

That's her being raised by Padre.

It's all about showing

how far they've fallen

and really creating some real

mystery about what it is

that makes them think that they

can't give Mo what she needs.

And that's kind of the question

that we spend

in the next five episodes unpacking.

[MOTOR WHIRS]

♪

♪

♪

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