03x01 - Trillium

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[NEGAN] Previously on Dead City.

[THE CROAT] With the methane,
we can bring the city back.

[NEGAN] Right around the time

that the world turned into sh*t soup,

The Croat showed up at my door.

Said that I made him feel safe.

[DAMA] He m*rder*d your husband.

- [NEGAN GRUNTS]
- [MAGGIE GRUNTS]

Just look after Ginny, will ya?

No!

[DAMA] Our world has been destroyed.

So now, we get to build something new.

[EERIE MUSIC]

[HAMMER POUNDING]

[EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES]

[SOLDIER] Hey, who are you?
You're not supposed to be here.

- [REFEREE WHISTLE BLOWS]
- Do you hear that?

Maybe we should get in there.

No... Sarge told us to hang
these up all around, come on.

Lead the way.

You lead the way. Always
tellin' me what to do.

- [g*nshots]
- [PEOPLE SHOUTING]

- [TENSE MUSIC]
- [WIND WHIPPING]

- [TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [SHOUTING]

[WALKERS GROWLING]

- [GENTLE MUSIC]
- [SHOVEL THUDDING]

[GENTLE MUSIC]

What the hell are you doing?

You were sleeping.

- [NEGAN SCOFFING]
- Armstrong and I got to talking.

She was my responsibility. Mine!

I was... I was tryin' to do you a favor.

You're still healing from the wound.

Where you stabbed me
in the g*dd*mn back?

Never ends with you, does it?

Uh, first, you lure me
to this g*dd*mn island,

and then you lie to me,

and then you hand me
over to some psychopath

because you think you're
gonna get your son back.

But you don't get your son back
because he sees the psychopath

as the mama you'll never be.

Don't.

[NEGAN] Doesn't end
there, though, does it?

No.

Why don't you try murdering
me as the cherry on top

of your sh*t sundae of sh*t ideas

and pretend you don't
torch everything you touch

by burying the one person

- on this godforsaken island...
- Listen to me!

I am sorry.

I'm sorry for what I did.
I'm sorry for what you lost.

If I could undo anything
that's been done, I would.

Would you?

This... This is where we are.

And we can either keep
rehashing all this sh*t

that we can't change,
or we can try to move on.

I have nothin' to move
on to thanks to you.

[SOMBER MUSIC]

I'm stayin' put for Hershel.

You got nothin' and
no one to stay put for.

So why don't you go? I'll
help you pack your bags.

Who are you kiddin'?

You're never gonna let me go.

All I am to you, all I ever will be...

is a big old sh*t pile
of the shittiest sh*t

that I have ever done.

The fact of the matter is,

you need someone as shitty as me

because I am the only
person shitty enough

to make you feel less shitty
about your sh*t pile of a life.

So do me a favor and go ahead
and keep twistin' that knife,

because we both know that
is the one g*dd*mn thing

that you'll do without screwin' up.

Okay, then you f*cking stab me.
Take it. Clean slate. Let's go.

- [MAGGIE] Here.
- [CHUCKLING]

I don't wanna die, okay?

But I will gladly bleed a
little if it'll make you shut

that gapin' bullshit hole.

So either do it or for the love
of God, shut the f*ck up.

It is a one-time offer

with a ten-second expiration date,

so you better get to it... Ten.

- Nine, eight, seven, six...
- You are batshit.

Probably... Five, four...

- Three...
- I'm gonna do it.

- Do it! Two, one...
- [RENATA] Drop your weapons!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

She said drop your weapons!

- You got b*ll*ts in those g*ns?
- You wanna find out?

And whatever the hell that is.

What is this, all
right? What do you want?

We were on our way to the cathedral

to steal a methane tank.

Heard you call him Negan.

Rumor has it that's the
name of the Croat's #2.

[LUIS] With your boy here as leverage?

Our plan just got a
hell of a lot easier.

My boy?

He just had a knife on me.

I've got nothin' to do with this.

Oh, she's lyin'.

She is definitely the Croat's #3.

Listen to me. You...

Both of you, shut up!

- [NEGAN CHUCKLING]
- [RENATA] Go!

You are makin' a mistake.

The Croat is in the wind.

It's New Babylon who's got control

of those methane tanks now.

So if you want us to get
close, any of us, we get hanged:

you, us, all of us.

Bullshit. Get walking

- Go.
- Come on. Come on.

[TENSE MUSIC]

- [LUIS] Alley on your right.
- [RENATA] Clear.

[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]

Is he your brother?
I see the resemblance.

Yeah. He yours?

No. Definitely no.

Well, you sure as hell fight like it.

[LUIS] Cellar door on your left.

[RENATA] Looks clear.

[HERSHEL] Mom? Mom?!

- Hershel?
- Mom!

[EXPLOSIONS RUMBLING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

- [EXPLOSIONS RUMBLING]
- [FIRE CRACKLING]

[SHOUTING, SCREAMING]

- [TENSE MUSIC]
- [WALKERS GROANING]

- [LUIS AND RENATA GRUNTING]
- [WALKERS GROANING]

[RENATA] All the dead
in this city are going

to be coming this way
after that expl*si*n.

We need to find cover.

We need to find Negan.

- [WALKER SNARLING]
- [THUDDING]

- [NEGAN GRUNTING]
- [WALKER GROANING AND SNARLING]

- [NEGAN GRUNTING]
- [WALKERS GROANING AND SNARLING]

[MAGGIE] Hershel!
Hershel, where are you?

- Hershel, down here!
- [HERSHEL PANTING]

[MAGGIE] Hershel! Can you hear me?!

Mom?

- [HERSHEL COUGHING]
- [WALKERS GROWLING]

Hershel!

[WALKER SNARLING]

- [GRUNTING]
- [WALKER GROWLING]

I'm sorry for this.

- [NEGAN] For what?
- [MAGGIE GRUNTING]

- [NEGAN GROANING]
- [MAGGIE] That.

God, I so should've stabbed you.

- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- [WALKERS SNARLING]

- [NEGAN GROANING]
- [WALKERS GROWLING AND SNARLING]

- [THE CROAT PANTING]
- [WALKERS GROWLING AND SNARLING]

[GRUNTING]

Luis! [SIGHS] Luis, you
look terrible, my friend.

You're gonna lead us to the tanks.

You're gonna give us one,
and then you're going to die.

[WALKERS SNARLING]

[GRUNTS]

The tanks?

What do you think that expl*si*n was?

Tanks are gone.

- What?
- [THE CROAT] What I created?

Falling into the hands of
those... New Babylon Visigoths?

No. They had to be exploded.

Then you'll make us one.

There won't be time enough for that.

- [DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [THE CROAT BREATHES HEAVILY]

- [NEGAN GROANING]
- [WALKERS SNARLING]

- [DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [THE CROAT BREATHING HEAVILY]

No, Luis! No, no.
[SPEAKS SPANISH] Come on.

It's not worth it. Luis...

[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]

- [NEGAN GROANING]
- [WALKERS SNARLING]

[RATTLING AND THUDDING]

- [NEGAN GROANING AND PANTING]
- [WALKER SNARLING]

[SIGHS WEARILY]

- [WALKER SNARLING]
- [MAGGIE GRUNTING]

- [THUDDING, SPLAT]
- [WALKER GRUNTS]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]

[WALKER SNARLING]

All right, dickhead.

I guess you get the honor.

- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
- [WALKER SNARLING]

- Mom!? Are you down here?
- Over here!

- [WALKER SNARLING]
- [MAGGIE GRUNTING]

Hershel... [TENSE MUSIC]

- Where's your wrists?
- [MAGGIE PANTING] Oh God.

- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- [WALKERS SNARLING]

Luis, it is not safe
out here. We need cover.

- There!
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]

[WALKERS GROWLING]

What are you doin'?

Renata...

Damn it, leave him!

[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]

sh*t!

- [DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [RENATA COUGHING]

- [NEGAN GRUNTING]
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]

Negan!

I had a feeling our paths would
cross again before the end.

You.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

No, no! Stop, stop, stop, stop! Please.

We weren't gonna hurt you.

We were just tryin'
to keep a baby alive.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[UPBEAT LATIN MUSIC]

- [CORK POPPING]
- [CHEERING]

- [UPBEAT LATIN MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTERING]

[RENATA] Yvette, the kids wanna show you

the stuffy they made for the baby.

[YVETTE, BEYOND TOUCHED] Aww.
It better not make me cry.

- Aw, see, Tio Chucho loves it.
- [GIGGLING]

As if the world weren't
f*cked up enough,

now there's gonna be a little
Chucho runnin' around here?

Can't believe it, dude.

I love you, bro.

[LUIS] I love you, man.

[UPBEAT LATIN MUSIC CONTINUES]

[MUSIC STOPS]

No, no, no, no. Don't
stop on my account.

You have much to celebrate.

My eyes and ears tell me
your family is expanding, yes?

Yes.

Yvette and Chucho are having a baby.

[THE CROAT] Well, then.

I suppose congratulations are in order.

Flowers from the cemetery.
And the world begins anew, eh?

[TENSE MUSIC]

And yet, Renata...

all this at the very time I have
an issue to address with you.

We have an arrangement, yes?

We protect you.

With respect, the deal was forced on us.

We didn't need it.

So why don't we just end it?

The Burazi protect this island.

The deal ends when you
leave it. Are you leaving?

[RAMON] Our family's been
here a hell of a lot longer

than you guys have.

Well, good for you.

But the arrangement stands.

And the Dama's vision of the future?

Well, it only succeeds if
everyone contributes something

valuable in return.

And as much as I want to
believe you can... I don't.

I was training some of the others

in emergency medicine.

Okay... Doctors!

Doctors are a resource!

Your brother Chucho! [LAUGHS]

Is he among your trainees?

He is.

Well, Doctor Chucho,

let me take a look at you.

Come, come, come.

- [TENSE MUSIC]
- [THE CROAT] So...

Are you a resource, Doctor?

[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]

Yes.

Well, then prove it.

- [KNIFE THUDDING]
- [GASPING, EXCLAIMING]

- No, no, no.
- [INDISTINCT CLAMORING]

I've given you a patient, Doctor.

Save him.

Don't leave me, tio. Don't leave me!

- Stay with me. Stay with me.
- [RAMON GROANING]

You know... I fear he
is not too good at this.

Maybe you are a bad teacher?

Or maybe you are lying to
me about this whole business?

[CHUCHO] Don't leave me, tio.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Just look at me, tio. No!

[THE CROAT] Huh...

[PANTING]

I have no choice.

- You just don't make the cut.
- No!

[GROUP SCREAMING, CRYING]

[GURGLES]

[SOBS HYSTERICALLY]

Yvette... [SPEAKS SPANISH]

You know, I was someone's trainee once.

Hopefully better than Chucho.

And one of the many things
my mentor taught me was

that k*lling the right person

at the right time makes
everyone else fall in line.

So, I wonder...

Did I pick the right person... persons?

Maybe we should try this again, huh?

Who shall be the next patient, huh?

Huh?

Eenie, meenie, miney...

Renata... Oh, Renata...

Do you really believe one

of those slapdash weapons
can save your family?

Everybody back. [SPEAKS SPANISH]

[GAS HISSING]

I'm willing to die for them.

Are you?

I don't think you would.

You don't know me very well.

[GAS HISSING]

This isn't over. For any of you.

[GAS HISSING]

Again... Congratulations.

- [GAS HISSING]
- [TENSE MUSIC]

No, Chucho! No, Chucho! Chucho, please?

- [SOBBING]
- [SOMBER MUSIC]

[WALKERS SNARLING]

[HERSHEL] They're closed,
but there's no lock.

My sister-in-law is having her baby.

We need to go now.

All right, well, walkers
are swarming out there.

There's nothing any of
us can do about that.

[WALKERS GROANING FAINTLY]

[MAGGIE] Nobody is going anywhere.

[WALKERS GROANING FAINTLY]

He and I are gonna make
sure that this place is safe.

If you would just let us explain.

The baby is coming two months early...

- Nobody...
- [RENATA] If we don't...

... k*ll anybody until we get back.

- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- [WALKERS GROANING FAINTLY]

There's another door up the stairs.

There may be a way out, but it's secure.

Okay.

- How did you...
- I know Ginny's dead.

You know?

I saw you bury her.

And I went looking for you, and...

Just wanted to see if you
were really gonna stay.

You thought that I wouldn't?

I wouldn't blame you if you didn't.

When I got back, the Dama...

She knew what I did.

She started talkin' about
how it wasn't enough for me

to hurt you.

She told me I had to...

She told me I had to k*ll you.

Just like how I told you to k*ll him.

I... I think it came from her.

Just being around her.

And I just didn't see
it. And I should've.

[MAGGIE] No. It's
what she does, Hershel.

She sees what people are
looking for, what they need,

and she uses it to get what she wants.

It's easier than you would
think to lose yourself.

And you were right to be
mad. Because I wasn't there.

Yeah, after she told me to...

I started thinkin' about the
times you were there,

the scary things you made go away.

You made it so I had a life.

I don't want to spend it being
mad anymore, at you, at anyone.

Me neither.

[GENTLE MUSIC]

[MAGGIE] She's not
gonna hurt us anymore.

I won't let her. We won't let her.

Soon as it's safe, we're
gonna get out of here,

go home, and start over.

Hershel, you're gonna move mountains.

[ANGRY SHOUTING]

[YELLING IN SPANISH]

[THE CROAT] You said Yvette
is only 7 months pregnant!

Luis, how can I help you
with your hand on my throat?

- [MAGGIE] Hey, hey!
- [ANGRY SHOUTING]

Were you gonna do anything
to try to stop this?

No, I'm puttin' the little
ball in the little cup.

[THE CROAT BREATHING HEAVILY]

[LUIS] This sociopath k*lled
our brother right in front of us

and our uncle.

[THE CROAT] Okay, maybe...
Maybe I handled things badly.

But I was just trying to make a point.

- As my mentor taught me.
- [RENATA] Mentor?

You said you would help.

They know the baby needs an
incubator to have any chance.

And a tank would make it run.

You need to show us
how to build one now.

There's no need to build.

There's still a tank left.

There is a single prototype
I hid away a long time ago

with plans and detail how to make more.

Where? Where is it?

Oh and I tell you and he kills me? No.

My story does not end
in a musty basement.

No. I'll show you.
It's not far from here.

So we go now.

He shows us where the tank is.

Our family's still waiting at
the hospital with the generator.

I told you, you're not gonna
last five minutes out there.

We don't know how long
he'll last in here.

Luis, she's right.

We are no good to anyone dead, okay?

We wait it out here as long as
we can and then we go.

Listen to her, Luis.
Because what I'm offering

has value far beyond the child's life.

It's my legacy.

Imagine your homes with steady power,

your own fields to plow, fauna to hunt,

all surrounded by water.

This island...

It could be your fortress...

Forever.

We just wanna save this baby.

And we will. [SPEAKS SPANISH]

When it's safe,

we could use some good
fighters to help us out there.

- [GENTLE MUSIC]
- [CUP POPPING]

You can save this baby.

Haven't you learned by now what
happens to people stupid enough

to have hope in this world?

Look, I'm sorry.

You can try whatever you want here,

but that baby doesn't have a chance.

Oh, wow.

You're a real fighter.

[CUP AND BALL CLANK]

You're right.

[TENSE MUSIC]

Where are you goin'?

We're in a bar, right?

I'm gonna go find a drink.

[WALKERS GROWLING FAINTLY]

- [UNSETTLING MUSIC]
- [WALKERS GROWLING]

[WALKER SNARLING]

- [WALKER SNARLING]
- [DILLARD WHISTLING]

[DILLARD] She's still being that way?

[WALKER SNARLING]

[DILLARD] And what'd ya say to her?

[DILLARD] Well, have you thought
about... [GROANS LIKE WALKER]?

That's classic Titicaca.
Don't you wish that... okay.

[LAUGHS] I hear you, buddy.

[FLOOR CREAKING]

Hey there, amigo.

Quite the fustercluck
out there, amiright?

[CHUCKLING]

You wanna pull up a stool?

Me and c*ck's

about to start a game
of f*ck, Marry, k*ll.

And Titicaca's bein' a wet blanket,

so we could use a third.

And don't worry. I made
these guys nice and safe.

Name's Dillard. Skunky brewski?

Sure.

[DILLARD] I thought
pullin' teeth would be hard,

but those nails were
a real son of a b*tch.

- [WALKER GROWLING]
- [NEGAN CHUCKLING]

[DILLARD] He likes you. [CHUCKLES]

Thank you.

Welcome to the bar.

[GLASS RINGING] Cheers.

[DILLARD CHUCKLING]

[WALKERS SNARLING]

Okay. That should hold.

You could've left the Croat to die.

You didn't.

And because of you, that
baby still has a chance.

[WALKERS SNARLING FAINTLY]

San Lazaro, patron
saint of hope and mercy.

It belonged to my dad.

He always told us that we had a choice.

We could choose the fight
or we could choose the light.

- [THUDDING]
- [WALKERS SNARLING FAINTLY]

[HERSHEL] So you can
just forgive the Croat

- after what he did?
- [RENATA] No.

Never. Making him suffer...

I think about that every single day.

[GENTLE MUSIC]

But once the k*lling
starts, when does it stop?

[GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES]

You know, choosing
the light after that...

was the hardest thing I've ever done.

It still is.

[GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES]

But it's a choice that
I wanna keep making.

Me, too.

Just started.

Maybe when we're done here,

Luis can take a look at Negan's back.

I put a knife into it last night.

[RENATA] Oh.

You, like, just just started.

[WALKERS SNARLING FAINTLY]

[WALKER SNARLING]

Okay.

[SNARLING CONTINUES]

That is dastardly!

f*ck, that is fresh, c*ck.

[NEGAN CHUCKLES]

He's gonna k*ll Audrey
Hep, marry Venus Williams.

And he says he's gonna bang
Barbara Bush like a screen door

in a twister.

I gotta ask.

Where are you from, man?

What planet do you come from?

Well, I'm actually from
Earth. I'm from here.

Upstairs studio apartment actually,

from way before sh*t went t*ts up.

So you have survived here
alone this whole time?

How?

[DILLARD] So, over the years,

folks either cut bait or croaked.

But I stayed.

And I stayed above dirt by
turnin' each floor into a link

in a CLVFC.

Closed Loop Vertical Food Chain, okay?

It starts with the
deadies who go slipin'

'n slidin' into the basement.

Here we got those maggoes
maggin' on the deadie...

- [UPBEAT MUSIC]
- [FLIES BUZZING]

Then you got the froggies
froggin' on the maggoes...

- [UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [FROGS CROAKING]

Of course we got the turks
turkin' on the froggies...

Chain goes all the way up to coyotes,

which are surprisingly
delish, by the way.

But I am happy to pump
the brakes on turkeys

if you're feelin' kinda peckish.

[LOCK RATTLING]

Did baloney used to be ill*gal?

[LOCK RATTLING]

Infection is spreading
faster than I'd hoped.

How can you tell?

Rising body temperature,

redness and swelling growing
outward from the wound.

And see this pus and
milky drainage right there?

Not good.

What can I do to help?

Use that water to clean the wound.

I'll find something to dress it with.

[RENATA] So you think

with those plans you could
bring electricity to the Bricks?

We got someone there who
used to be a plumber tryin'

to figure it out.

My cousin Solmari's an engineer.

You should come back with us.

I mean, it's... It has been
hard there with the crops.

Really hard... But with power...

it could be a fresh start for all of us.

And I need a fresh start.

[TENSE MUSIC]

So what kinda doctor are you?

Emergency medicine.

I'd been training my
brother before the Croat...

[SOMBER MUSIC]

Had to brain my uncle after.

But when it came to Chucho,
I just... I couldn't.

You and your people,

you could come with me
and Hershel to The Bricks.

Thanks.

But this godforsaken city has
been our home for generations.

The Croat's right.

The city could still be our home.

[GENTLE MUSIC]

[THE CROAT COUGHING]

[LUIS] Hey, where's the tank?

Tell us where it is.

No, I'm coming with you.

End where I began.

It's not far...

[LUIS] He doesn't have much longer.

We need to go now.

[THE CROAT COUGHING]

I know it's not safe out
there, but we need your help.

We should help. At least try.

Okay.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[WALKERS SNARLING]

[DILLARD] And if I had
spilled the beans on that one,

let's just say a whole boatload
of people would've had diarrhea.

- That is not appetizing.
- It's not.

Oh, sh*t.

Hello. Mason W. Dillard.

Welcome.

The Croat, he doesn't have much time.

We have to go now.

What's the point?

I know that you think that
baby's dead, but that mother.

I know what she's been through.

I know what she's
going through right now.

We need numbers. Please. We need you.

All right, well, you need numbers,

why don't you ask my pal here, Dillard?

I ain't goin' nowhere.

I need you.

[GENTLE MUSIC]

I finally got my son back,

and I need to know that I'm
not gonna lose him again.

I need to know that things can work out.

They can't, Maggie.

Without you, you're probably right.

I'm tired of bein' angry.

[GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES]

Aren't you?

[GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES]

After it's done, Luis can stitch you up

and you can be free of me,
free to do whatever you want.

I just... I need this
one last thing from you.

Please.

[GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES]

God damn it.

I was just gettin'
all comfy and settled.

I really should've stabbed you.

You weren't gonna stab me.

Oh, I was so gonna
stab you a little bit.

- [TENSE MUSIC]
- [WALKERS GROWLING]

- How much further?
- We're close.

- It's just ahead.
- Ahead where?

[RENATA] He needs to
tell us where to go!

[MAGGIE] I got an idea.

Your mother, she sacrificed
everything for you.

- What would she say?
- [SPEAKING CROATIAN]

Her legacy, your legacy, is
about to disappear forever.

- Come on.
- [SPEAKING CROATIAN]

Does anybody speak Croatian?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Wait, I think I know
where it is. Keep goin'.

- [DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [WALKERS GROWLING]

[RENATA GRUNTING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]

[NEGAN] Okay, we're almost there.

I think we're just gonna
have a seat, Maggie.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]

Okay.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]

Oh, sorry... I know.

[SOMBER MUSIC]

I was so arrogant.

I tried to lead...

someone who only knows...

... How to lead.

[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]

Hey...

[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]

[SPEAKING CROATIAN]

- [SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [NEGAN CRYING]

- [FLAG RATTLING]
- [SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]

- [SNIFFLING]
- [SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

- Solmari. We got it.
- Oh, thank God!

Through those doors.

She's in the O.R.
Contractions are close.

- Take this.
- Can I help?

C'mon.

- [RENATA] Evie!
- [YVETTE MOANS]

Evie, we're here.

Mira, Solmari is setting
up the tank across the hall.

- [SPEAKING SPANISH]
- [LAUGHING HAPPILY]

The baby's head is crowning.

Yvette, I'm gonna need
you to start pushing, okay?

I need blankets, water to boil,

and an extension cord for the incubator.

[RENATA] Okay! [SPEAKS SPANISH]

[GENTLE MUSIC]

Okay.

[GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES]

Come on. That's a good push.

- Another one just like that.
- Okay.

Push . Good, good, good.

- [LUIS] C'mon.
- [GASPING AND PANTING]

Solmari?

When you're done over there,

I need you to come
here and help Hershel.

Why? Where are you going?

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

Tanks need methane.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

[TENSE MUSIC]

- [CHUCHO SNARLING]
- [TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]

- [BLADE SQUELCHING]
- [TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES]

- [LUIS BREATHING HEAVILY]
- [SOMBER MUSIC]

- [GENTLE MUSIC]
- [MACHINES BEEPING]

[NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

- [BABY CRYING]
- [NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE]

[GENTLE MUSIC CONTINUES]

- [UPBEAT LATIN MUSIC]
- [LIVELY CHATTER]

Feels like I finally
got my brother back.

I'm so proud of him.

I'm sure he's proud of you.

You're just as responsible as
he is for things workin' out,

for what you chose.

[UPBEAT LATIN MUSIC CONTINUES FAINTLY]

I was thinkin' when I
go back to the Bricks

and get things settled down...

maybe your people and my
people, we could be in business.

Maggie, you should
bring your people here.

Hey, everything the Croat
said about this place is true.

It is a fortress.

The only thing that we are
missing is someone who knows how

to keep things safe.

This isn't my home.

Why can't it be? I'm serious, Maggie.

Give me one good reason why
this can't be your fresh start.

I mean, Maggie, you and me together.

Just imagine.

I'll have to think about it.

I have to talk to Hershel.

Of course.

Nothing's more important than family.

- [NEGAN GROANING]
- [FAINT LATIN MUSIC]

Are you really gonna leave
without sayin' goodbye?

Well, you know me.

Never one to overstay my welcome.

Thank you.

For what you did today.

I wasn't sure that I'd convince you.

Well, you did.

How?

I mean, you, um...
You said you needed me.

[NEGAN SIGHS]

You know what happened this
morning at Ginny's grave?

There was a lotta sh*t
goin' on, you know? But...

I wasn't mad at you for
tryin' to k*ll me.

I was mad at you because you didn't.

[SOMBER MUSIC] [NEGAN SIGHING]

Why didn't you finish the job, Maggie?

[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]

'Cause somewhere inside,

I knew you were capable
of what you did today.

You better be careful.

You're makin' my head
get all kinds of big.

[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]

[CHUCKLING]

You know, I don't think
I've ever seen you smile.

It suits you.

- [SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]
- [NEGAN GROANING]

Well, you need me again...

- You know where I'll be.
- That bar? Really?

Turns out we might not be goin' far.

Thinkin' about staying.

I think Hershel really likes it here.

You really think you can change it here?

Once we find the Dama,
who's left to stop us?

[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

- [TENSE MUSIC]
- [WALKERS SNARLING]

[DUMPSTER RUMBLING]

That's it...

- Oh, god... Oh, god.
- [GROANING]

[WALKERS GROWLING]

sh*t!

[EERIE MUSIC]

Oh, you poor boys.

You're hurt.

Half of Midtown... is gone.

- [LINUS] There's no one left.
- No. There must be others.

You'll rest, you'll heal...

And when you're ready,
you'll help me find them.

And then we begin again.

Every empire starts with the broken.

[EERIE MUSIC CONTINUES]

Yes, our work is just beginning.

[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]

This place is the
start of something else,

something better.

We could bring in even more people.

Here we go.

The whole, you know,
New York City thing,

it is starting to feel like home.

♪

You and Renata really got
something here, Maggie.

It's your job to protect this place.

This is what we asked for
when we turned on that light.

♪

We've come to make a deal.

It gets in the wrong hands,
it could be dangerous.

If you were in charge, none
of this would be happening.

- What's going on?
- We're taking our home back.

I'm guessing this isn't
your first suicide mission.

Not hardly.

Look out!

♪

Together, we can do something

bigger than we've ever done before.

♪

- You guys rolling?
- Yeah. I mean, I'm rolling.

Yeah. [LAUGHS]

After this much time we did a season...

- It shocked us.
- That shocked us.

Yeah.

You f*cking stabbed me.

It is a one time offer with
a 10-second expiration date,

so you better get to it.

For the first couple of
years I was on the show,

Lauren can hardly look at me.

Her process as an actor, and...

I just didn't have my glasses on.

Maybe didn't have her glasses on.

[BOTH GRUNT]

Sorry. I thought you
were better on your feet.

Good to see you, too.

And then we started this spin off.

Every scene, it was always so heavy.

There was never a
lightness or a humor to it.

We are quite silly people
in a very dark world.

- And now it's...
- And now we...

- ... we can do it.
- We get to bring that

in front of the camera.

I'm going to flip you around like this,

and you're gonna f*cking
Bruce Lee the f*ck out of them.

[LAUGHS] I'm no help.

In this season, they
actually work together.

Heard you call him Negan.

Rumor has it that's the name
of the Croat's number two.

Maggy and Negan are zip tied
together, and there we go.

- Yeah, and you never see us...
- No.

... under other people's control.

They're at it with
each other, but this was

a great way of us being joined

in misery against another force.

- Yeah.
- Let's talk about this scene.

We need to find cover.

We need to find Negan.

One of the cellar doors
leading to the street is open.

Beneath the open door, makeshift slide.

A beat later, Maggie,
Negan tumble down the slide.

- [GRUNTS]
- [GRUNTS]

The walkers immediately on them.

That was a cool
sequence that was sort of

still being worked out
closer to production.

- It got worked out on the day.
- That too.

[BOTH LAUGH]

You were being so nice.

[LAUGHTER]

Originally it's a fight
in the streets, remember?

- And it was the dust.
- You had an eye infection.

- I had an eye infection.
- I had a nose,

- a sinus infection.
- Yeah, and we were...

So we couldn't do the super dusty scene.

We were both like,
"We'll die, you know?"

- Yeah.
- My eye is going to fall

out of my head, and
she's just gonna die.

Yeah, and my nose was
going into my face.

I know we seem like superheroes, but...

No, just kidding. [LAUGHS]

I mean, I believe us for what
it's worth working together

that I'm here doing this,
and then Negan comes in.

I'm sorry for this.

- For what?
- [WALKERS GROWLING]

- [GRUNTS]
- [WALKER CRASHING]

And cut. Good.

It's the first time we've
seen them really fight together

since season... yeah.

It could have been 11.

We need numbers, please. We need you.

I need you.

I think what sets the
whole thing in motion,

of being able to move forward
is, for herself and for her son,

there has to be a life without anger.

There has to be a moving forward.

The possibilities for this new world

and for us are tremendous.

I really should have stabbed you.

You weren't gonna stab me.

Oh, I was so gonna
stab you a little bit.

♪

[OUTRO MUSIC]