06x03 - Alaska

[bunniefuu]

♪♪

I want your word that you're gonna

keep us all together.

No can do. You're each gonna go

where I think is best.

We're just gonna turn ourselves in?

Is that what's happening?

She can take us wherever she wants.

I'm gonna need you to tell me everything you know about that helicopter you mentioned.

♪♪

Boy or a girl?

We have a daughter.

We named her Morgan.

♪♪

[BABY CRYING]

MORGAN: Hey.

How's that?

RACHEL: She likes it.

- Yeah.
- [BABY COOING]

RACHEL: You brought back a lot.

Thank you, Morgan.

I-I brought you some... things, too.

There's, uh, clothes, food, books.

You know, 'cause you got to keep eating.

When Jenny was, uh, nursing Duane, she couldn't keep the weight on, so it didn't even matter how much Chinese take-out I bring home, but...

[BOTH LAUGH]

Where did you get this?

I got somebody on the inside.

- Can you trust them?
- Yes, I can.

And he don't know where we are.

And he won't. Not until we're ready to get everybody else out.

[BABY COOING]

I will leave you to it.

D-Do you want to hold her?

[BABY COOS]

No, I don't think my arm's quite up to it yet.

It'll be nice when Morgan has a playmate around here.

[COOING CONTINUES]

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

Yeah.

Yeah, it will be.

Morgan, where are you going?

♪♪

People didn't used to change much before.

♪♪

I mean, that was the dream, though, right?

That's why diets and the lottery and self-help...

♪♪

And it happened.

Sometimes, but not much.

- Right?
- No.

'Cause I feel like I've been different somebodies since it all ended.

♪♪

I'm gonna find Grace.

I'm gonna find the rest of them, and I'm gonna bring them here.

Just by that time when what I'm probably gonna have to do, hell, what I've already done...

♪♪

I'm scared, Rachel.

Scared I'm not gonna be the man that they knew.

♪♪

Maybe you've changed.

But you'll still be the man they knew.

♪♪

♪♪

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AL: Ready?

Yeah, let's roll.

[GLASS SHATTERS]

[LOCK DISENGAGES]

[DOOR CREAKS]

[WALKERS GROWLING]

Yours. And mine.

AL: Mm-hmm.

[GROWLING INTENSIFIES]

[BLADE STABS]

[WALKER GROWLING]

[BLADE STABS]

[GRUNTS]

[WALKER GROWLING]

Camera "A."

Location .

Day .

hours.

Initial breach. No live ones.

What do you think? Two, three months?

Let her figure it out.

- Come on, Al.
- [CAMERA BEEPS]

Well, if she wanted our opinion, she wouldn't make us tape it.

Your k*ll. Your state.

Arizona.

You got something against the Copper State?

Got like of them.

Well, Hawaii and Alaska don't just fall into your lap, Al.

- You gotta work for it.
- Mm.

[WALKER GROWLING]

Now, him, he... he could be an Alaska.

Yours.

[GRUNTS]

[SIGHS]

Damn.

Montana.

Hey, I count at least sleeping bags.

- How many did we drop?
- Not enough.

I'll go check upstairs.

Basement.

[METAL CLANGING]

MAN: What's your current location?

Repeat, what is your current location?

WOMAN: Go again, Ground Command.

You're breaking up.

Repeat. What's your current location, Ground ?

We're waiting out some weather.

Then we'll make the hop to drop site Baker for a refuel.

Will you arrive by ?

Affirmative.

Do you copy?

Do you copy?

♪♪

I copy, Isabelle.

Roger that, Ground .

♪♪

♪♪

[WALKER GROWLING]

♪♪

You okay?

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

No.

Did she just turn?

Smells like formaldehyde. I think someone embalmed her.

What kind of psycho would do that?

- Location .
- Christ.

dead. No living.

MAN: Copy that.

We'll head to the rally point.

Not until you're done there.

It's a funeral home.

There's nothing worth scavenging here.

There are dead.

You know the drill.

Find out why.

So we make sure what happened to them

doesn't happen to us.

Copy.

I'm not staying here.

Well, w-we don't really have a choice.

This is bullshit.

I used to interview people who were alive, not figure out why they're all dead.

How many of these do you think we've checked out for her?

I don't know. A couple hundred.

It's always the same.

People die because sh*t went wrong, and if Virginia actually gave a sh*t, she would have gotten to them before it happened.

At least we're not inside one of the settlements.

Oh, uh... when I said there wasn't anything worth scavenging,

I lied. [CHUCKLES]

Mnh-mnh. [CHUCKLES]

That good, huh?

Oh, it's skunked.

- [SNIFFS]
- Ah.

Ah.

Thinking about beer lady?

[CHUCKLES]

Sorry?

What?

What am I supposed to call her?

Anything. Anything but that.

Okay, well, then tell me her name.

Mnh-mnh.

Ohh! [SPITS]

Ugh!

[LAUGHS]

You know, this would go down a lot better with a bag of pretzels.

That's what Sherry used to say about bad beer.

- Ahh.
- To your wife.

To beer lady.

ISABELLE: Weather's clear.

We're en route to drop site Baker for a refuel.

- No.
- Dwight.

- T-minus hours.
- Hey. Dwight. Dwight.

- No, who the... No, no, who the hell is that?
- Shh!

MAN: Copy that, Ground .

- Who's Ground sev... What's drop site Baker?
- Just give it to me.

[SIGHS]

Do you know? Who is it?

- I can't tell you.
- Why not?

Trust me.

The less you know about this the better.

[SCOFFS]

You say that every time I ask about beer lady.

Oh, my God.

Ground ... that's her, isn't it?

Is your camera on?

Is it on?

No. It's off.

Give it.

Yeah. Yeah, it's her.

[CHUCKLING] Holy sh*t!

And what... and... and drop site Baker?

It's in the city, I think.

Wow.

They switch channels a lot, but I've caught their chatter a few times.

And been trying to track their movements, figure out what stuff means.

Do you... you really know, like, where she might be?

Where she might be.

Okay, why aren't we heading there right now?

She has protocols. I'm not even supposed to know she exists.

Screw protocol.

We have them, too.

Yeah, and here we are talking about breaking them.

Maybe she's having the exact same conversation with someone right now.

[SIGHS]

I mean, you could be there when that helicopter lands.

And do what?

I don't know, uh, r-run off with her, go back to where she's from?

I go AWOL, Ginny will k*ll us, or she'll k*ll our friends.

♪♪

Not if she thinks you're dead.

♪♪

- [LAUGHS]
- No, I've... No...

- Alright.
- ...I've thought about it a lot, Al, seriously.

Find a walker your size, recent turn, mess up its face, toss the camera on it,

I tell her you bought it.

♪♪

It's my escape hatch if I ever found Sherry out here.

♪♪

That's crazy.

- Yeah, well...
- I can't put that on you.

Yeah. I mean, you're talking to a guy who walked halfway across the country 'cause his wife left him a note.

And you haven't found her yet.

No, but if, you know, if I... if I knew she was out there and you didn't push me to go, I'd kick your ass.

I'd like to see you try.

[CHUCKLES]

♪♪

Get in the truck, bitch.

Burning daylight.

Let's go find beer lady.

♪♪

[WALKER GROWLING]

[RODENTS SQUEAKING]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACH]

That's drop site Baker?

Yep.

Must be a helipad on the roof.

You think that elevator's working?

[SCOFFS] Better start climbing now.

Ohh!

Look at that.

Alaska.

No!

- Get the...
- [CHUCKLES]

Yeah, tell me that's not a good omen.

I mean, I guess it wasn't for him, but...

[SIGHS]

Yeah.

♪♪

[WATCH BEEPING]

♪♪

Hey, Al.

♪♪

The world goes to sh*t.

Everybody's a philosopher.

[CHUCKLES]

Let's hit the stairs.

♪♪

[DOOR OPENS]

[WALKERS GROWLING]

♪♪

- [DOOR CLOSES]
- One...

[GROWLING CONTINUES]

...two... three.

♪♪

[FLASHLIGHT CLICKS]

[RODENTS SQUEAKING]

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What the hell?

[CAMERA BEEPS]

[SQUEAKING CONTINUES]

Hey, don't touch that thing.

What's the matter? You've never seen a rat before?

I had one in my sleeping bag the other night,

- but that doesn't mean I like 'em.
- Okay.

[WALKER GROWLING]

♪♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

Alright, we better get moving.

♪♪

[WALKERS GROWLING IN DISTANCE]

♪♪

[GROWLING INTENSIFIES]

That furniture is not gonna hold.

No.

We can't go up.

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[g*n COCKS]

Whoa!

Okay, easy there.

- Don't move.
- How'd you get up here?

- We... We don't want any trouble.
- We were just trying to

- get away from those walkers.
- No, I'll rephrase.

What are you doing in the building?

I said what are you doing in the building?

We're just trying to get to the roof.

- You're with them?
- We're not with anybody.

If you think whoever's been landing on that roof is here to save you, think again.

DWIGHT: Why's that?

'Cause the last guy who went up there to find out got a b*llet instead.

- They sh*t him?
- NORA: I heard it.

Right before I saw him go over the side, and he was a friend of mine.

Okay.

Now, you want to tell me why you're recording us?

Hmm?

Uh...

Lee, put them in the office, lock the door.

What the hell, Al?! Huh?

How was I supposed to know?

I'm not talking about them.

Do you think it was her?

Beer lady?

Do you think she sh*t our friend Alaska down there?

sh*t. We're...

Look, I-I told you she has her protocols, but we have no way of knowing...

So you were just gonna let me walk you up there?

No, of course not. I would never let her see you.

Well, how do you know you weren't gonna get sh*t?!

I don't.

[DOOR OPENS]

So, this is what you do?

You go around recording places that have gone south?

- No, not exactly.
- I watched everything that's on here,

- and it's just a whole...
- It's so we can stop it from happening to people that are still here.

- Is that the truth?
- AL: Yes.

You better turn 'em on.

Why?

'Cause we need your help.

[PEOPLE COUGHING]

AL: How long have they been sick?

A few days.

Is this everyone?

Everyone who's left.

Lee, we need more water.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

We have to go.

- Leave him.
- Huh?

Al, hey... Al, hey, hey, hey.

We can do right by these people.

- We can radio in to Ginny.
- Listen to me.

No, Ginny will k*ll us for going off map.

[CAMERA BEEPS]

- We can't stay here.
- [CAMERA BEEPS]

Well, she doesn't have to know how we ended up here.

The... The rats, the [WHISPERING] bumps on their neck.

It's bubonic plague.

You've seen it before?

In the field in Algeria.

What happened?

[SIGHS] We couldn't get antibiotics in time. Everyone in the village d*ed.

- Well, then we'll get them antibiotics in time.
- It's too late.

- Ginny is not gonna take that risk.
- Ow.

Listen to me.

We'll be lucky if she takes us back.

Come on. We can't do it for them.

It's too late.

♪♪

NORA: Hey.

Hey! Where are you going?

Where are you going?

We're just gonna let them die?!

- [DOOR SLAMS]
- Back up.

[GLASS SHATTERS]

They are days away from turning out like every place we've seen.

NORA: You can't do this.

- Ginny is not gonna help them.
- Your people... You have to call them.

What are we gonna do?

- Are you still going up there?
- Hey!

You're the one who convinced me to come out here.

Yeah, before I knew

- she was maybe gonna sh**t you on site.
- You can't leave us like this.

Hey, if she does, she does.

[CHUCKLING] Al, this is crazy!

What's crazy is doing what we've been doing

- and calling it living.
- Hello? Hello?

Come on, Al! Think... Just think about it for a second, Al!

We made a game out of seeing where dead people came from.

[SIGHS]

Dwight... [SCOFFS]

♪♪

The last time I felt

[SIGHS] just alive was with her.

♪♪

And I want to feel it again.

And even if that means just taking the risk that it's just for a moment, then I would still choose that over this.

♪♪

[SIGHS, CHUCKLES]

Uh, how much time do we have left?

♪♪

hours, minutes.

Well, we better get going.

♪♪

[WALKER GROWLING]

Mine!

[BODY THUDS]

We're gonna have to find another way up.

[WALKERS GROWLING IN DISTANCE]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Come on.

[CHUCKLES] Tennessee.

[CHUCKLES] Keep it.

DWIGHT: Maybe you're right.

Maybe we shouldn't be doing this.

- [SIGHS]
- I didn't mean it.

Where'd that come from, anyways? The license thing?

Uh, a game I used to play with my brother on road trips.

Only back then, it was with license plates and no dead people.

[BELL DINGS]

What are you gonna say to her?

The beer lady.

You mean when she's pointing a g*n at me?

No, when she puts the g*n down, if she puts the g*n down.

What are you gonna say?

I don't know. I only knew her for two days.

[CHUCKLING] So?

Me and Sherry met pretty quick.

It's different.

What are you gonna say to Sherry when you finally see her?

I had... I came to peace with the fact that's not gonna happen, so...

What are you talking about?

What about all the things Ginny was saying about she knew somebody who "broke bread" with her?

It's bullshit.

We know that.

You heard her voice on the walkie, so...

Well, I-I was dehydrated and I hadn't slept for days and I thought I was gonna die.

I think I heard it

'cause I needed something to keep me going.

Let's see if it's clear.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

sh*t.

Maybe beer lady's gonna be late.

- [RATS SQUEAKING]
- sh*t!

Maybe they know another way up.

What the hell?

I thought those things were carrying the plague.

They are.

And you still want to go up?

- [LIGHT SCRATCHING]
- You hear that?

[RATS SQUEAKING]

♪♪

[CHUCKLES]

♪♪

[RATS SQUEAKING]

♪♪

♪♪

I think there's more up there.

Let's just keep moving.

[GRUNTING]

Go. You got it.

♪♪

WOMAN: Ground to Ground Command.

We're T-minus to set down at Baker.

MAN: Roger that, .

Keep us apprised. Over.

We gotta haul ass.

Yeah, I'm not gonna argue with that.

Dwight?

- Yeah?
- You're not gonna like this.

[RATS SQUEAKING]

[SIGHS]

DWIGHT: sh*t. They could be infected.

Yeah, but we have to keep moving.

Let's go.

♪♪

♪♪

Come on.

♪♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

- You okay?
- Yeah. Nothing's broke.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

- There's more of them with the plague?
- Yeah.

They d*ed of it. Let's go.

[GROWLING CONTINUES]

DWIGHT: In here.

Alright. Uh...

Dwight, what is that?

What?

On your neck. What is it?

♪♪

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

♪♪

You're infected.

♪♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

I told you not to come.

- It's not your fault, Al.
- No, I...

You were trying to help me.

You got sick. I'm gonna make this right.

Right, just stay away from me 'cause I don't want to pass it to you.

No, it doesn't work like that.

It doesn't spread person to person.

Well, how long before the symptoms show up?

A day, t-two days, usually.

[SCOFFS] I couldn't have got it here.

Oh, there was the rat in my sleeping... in my... in my sleeping bag.

Could've picked it up days ago.

Maybe.

You were trying to do a good thing for me.

- Hey, Al.
- We'll figure this out.

It's not over, Al.

I'm gonna get you up to the roof.

Are you kidding? No.

- No, we need to get help.
- No, do you know how much crazy sh*t

I-I went through to try to find Sherry?

This is the least I can do for you.

Dwight, listen to me.

We need to get you Cipro fast.

Maybe we can get to the rally point early.

[BANGING ON DOOR, g*nshots]

- Thank you.
- You're lucky I don't sh**t you.

Your boss. Call her now.

Trust me, she will not help you.

She will. She'll find antibiotics, and it looks like your friend could use some, too.

That blockade's not gonna hold much longer.

Look, Al's right. We can't make the call

'cause it's not gonna do anything for you.

But I got enough gas in my truck.

We can go find a pharmacy.

You've been around those rats.

You're exposed, too, you know.

I can take care of myself.

Fine. Let's go.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

Roof access is on the other side of this floor.

How do you know that?

Holiday party, .

Too much tequila.

You worked here. So, you knew these people?

We lived on this floor all this time, and the rest of us left last week when people started dying.

We only made it down to the fifth floor before more of us got sick.
We couldn't go any further.

♪♪

[GROWLING CONTINUES]

Alright, you let them out.

I'll k*ll them.

We'll take it nice and slow.

♪♪

[WALKER GROWLING]

♪♪

How many b*ll*ts do you have?

[g*nshots]

Three.

♪♪

♪♪

Move!

♪♪

Let's go.

♪♪

[WALKER GROWLING]

[GROWLING STOPS]

♪♪

Al.

♪♪

AL: Nora.

[FIRE EXTINGUISHER CLANGS]

Nora, we need to go.

Don't record them like this.

[SNIFFLES]

No one should remember them like this.

♪♪

[SNIFFLES]

It's hard to even remember what they looked like before.

♪♪

[CRYING]

♪♪

♪♪

Your friend, the one who went up to the roof?

What was his name?

Mark.

[SNIFFLES]

Why?

♪♪

♪♪

Uh...

♪♪

Thank you.

[SOBBING]

♪♪

[SNIFFLES]

♪♪

Let's go.

♪♪

Roof access is two flights up.

Five minutes ahead of schedule.

You better get going.

You'll hit every pharmacy you can find?

I will.

You'll make sure he's okay.

Of course.

You probably still think I'm an assh*le.

Mm. No.

I-I worked down on the fifth floor selling timeshares to desperate people who were trying to escape their boring lives in places like Peoria and Wichita, which is funny 'cause I was too much of a chicken sh*t to go to any of the exotic locales myself.

So, you're a lot braver than I am.

Or maybe just stupid.

[LAUGHS]

[CHUCKLES]

♪♪

[SIGHS]

I don't think I'd say anything.

♪♪

Uh, to Sherry. [CHUCKLES]

You know, if I saw her,

I think I'd just hold her as tight as I can.

♪♪

I hope you get to do that with beer lady.

[BOTH CHUCKLE]

I don't think she's gonna sh**t you.

♪♪

Here. Um...

Oh, no, no.

L-L... [SIGHS]

I left something on there. [CHUCKLES]

- For you. For the chopper ride.
- [CHUCKLES]

- It's...
- Alright.

Hold on to it.

♪♪

Thank you.

DWIGHT: Yeah.

♪♪

[DOOR OPENS]

[CRICKETS CHIRPING, WIND BLOWING]

[WATCH BEEPS]

[METAL LID UNCLASPS]

[BOX SCRAPES]

[CAMERA BEEPING]

DWIGHT: Hey, bud.

Uh, I think you're taking a leak or something,

so I only have a minute till you get back.

But, uh, do me a favor.

When you end up wherever it is you two are going to end up,

cr*ck one open for me, please.

Oh, and, uh, don't forget the pretzels.

That way you can get 'em down.

Alright.

Love ya.

♪♪

[CAMERA BEEPS]

♪♪

♪♪

[HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING IN DISTANCE]

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[SIGHS]

♪♪

Ground , reverse course.

I repeat, Ground , reverse course.

ISABELLE: Who is on this channel?

Just someone who wants to help you out.

With what?

This place is filled with the dead.

They're infected with the plague.

It's not safe to land.

And you?

Are you infected?

♪♪

I don't know. Maybe.

Thank you for the warning.

You should stay off this channel.

♪♪

Copy that.

♪♪

There's some beer in the supply crates.

Hope it's not your last.

♪♪

Thank you.

♪♪

Wait.

I told you to stay off this channel.

I just want to say... it is good to hear your voice.

♪♪

Because there aren't many people left.

Copy that.

Ground Command, do you copy?

MAN: We copy.

Drop site Baker has been b*rned.

Proceeding to drop site Delta.

I repeat, proceeding to drop site Delta.

♪♪

♪♪

[BOTTLES CLINKING]

♪♪

[PILLS RATTLE]

[LAUGHS]

♪♪

Dwight?

DWIGHT: What's going on?
Why is the chopper leaving?

Stay where you are.

I'm coming down to you.

♪♪

♪♪

♪♪

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

What happened up there?

♪♪

I lost a brother once.

Tapes are all I have left of him.

♪♪

Guess I didn't want that to happen again.

[CHUCKLES] Come here.

♪♪

Get yourself some Cipro.

I will.

♪♪

Have you really been here since the beginning?

Yep.

♪♪

It's not like that out there anymore.

Not that it ever really was.

♪♪

This place you're from.

What's it like?

You don't want to go there.

But we will find you someplace better.

♪♪

♪♪

[CHATTER]

♪♪

♪♪

Al.

The plague, the rats...

I don't think it's an accident.

What, do you think someone made these people sick?

Like Ginny? [CHUCKLES]

We're outside of her territory.

If I had to guess, I'd say it was whoever spray-painted that message in the lobby.

Look, maybe we should just check in, you know,

- so the rangers don't start asking questions.
- Yeah.

- Yeah.
- Of course.

♪♪

WOMAN: I repeat, I saw your signal flare.

Is someone in trouble on the roof?

[RADIO CRACKLES]

- Is someone in trouble on the roof?
- I'm sorry.

- What?
- Give me that.

Wh...

Uh...

Honey, is that you?

♪♪

[CHUCKLES]

Dwight?

[JESPER MUNK'S "SLOW DOWN" PLAYS]

♪♪

♪♪

♪ You kept your beauty whole ♪

♪♪

♪ Don't need my help to grow ♪

♪♪

♪ But I can shout ♪

♪ Without you, babe ♪

♪♪

♪ Slow you down ♪

♪ Slow down ♪

♪ Slow down for me now ♪

♪ Slow down ♪

[GASPS]

♪ Slow, slow down ♪

♪ Slow down ♪

♪ For me ♪

[LAUGHING]