I need to forget who I am.
Don't you ever forget.
- You locked me in here!
I'm not gonna make the world
the way you want it to be!
- sh*t on a stick.
- Let's get out of here!
[expl*si*n]
[Grunts]
[Screaming]
Go! Go! Go!
[expl*si*n]
VICTOR: We have a...
great future behind us.
It feels like the dawning
of a new day to me.
[Wind blowing]
[Footsteps approach]
[Walker growling]
[Rat squeaking]
[Footsteps approach]
[Growling stops]
[Geiger counter clicking]
[Walker growling]
[Breathing heavily]
[Sighs]
[Wind whistling]
[Walker growling]
[Walkers growling]
[g*n cocks]
[Fabric tearing in distance]
MAN: [In distance]
Come on. Let's go. Hurry up.
[Growling continues]
[Wind whistling]
[Pounding on door]
[Walker growling]
[Growling stops]
[Breathing heavily]
[Wind whistling]
[Crying]
[Footsteps approach]
[Walker growling]
[g*nsh*t]
[Horse neighs]
Who the hell are you?
[Camera shutter clicks]
You the ones who've
been stripping the dead?
Let's go.
Hey, stop!
[Grunts]
[Scissors scraping, fabric tearing]
What is this? Where am I?
[Panting]
♪
♪
[Sighs]
What the hell is going on?
Where are you taking me?
[Elevator bell dings]
[Grunts]
♪
Hey! Open the gate!
Get back here!
♪
You're making a big mistake!
♪
[g*n cocks]
STRAND: Magnificent, isn't it?
Belonged to George Hockley,
friend to Sam Houston,
commander of the Twin Sisters.
The sword dates back to the w*r of .
I don't want any trouble.
[Laughs]
♪
Turn around.
♪
Slowly.
♪
♪
Who the hell are you?
My name is Victor Strand.
♪
And, uh, who might you be?
♪
♪
Is this some kind of trick?
You've been bathed,
given a meal and a drink.
What trick?
What's in this for you?
A few questions.
That's it?
That's it.
What's your name?
Will.
What did you do before, Will?
Before the dead started walking,
or before someone decided to blow it up?
Both.
I was a senator's aide.
Something close to it.
- Which senator?
- Elias Vazquez.
A Democrat.
What did you do for him, Will?
PR.
Campaign strategy.
Where did you come from?
WILL: Originally Oklahoma.
Most recently, we were at a settlement
that protected us from the blast.
Who's "us"?
Me, Senator Vazquez,
um, a few other aides.
Why aren't you there with them now?
Things went bad.
I wound up on the outside.
And Senator Vazquez?
He didn't make it.
How long have you been out there?
[Chuckles, scoffs]
days.
Give or take.
What have you seen?
Who have you seen?
Not much.
Not many.
My scouts said you mentioned
people stripping the dead.
Stalkers.
Least, that's what I call them.
Couple of times I caught sight of them,
they were sneaking up on the dead.
Why are they doing that?
I haven't figured that part out yet.
Who are they?
There's no faces out there anymore.
It's just masks.
When was the last time you were outside?
Why should I leave,
when I have everything
I need right here?
Come.
Let me show you.
[Woman singing opera]
Nice putt, Toby.
Right this way.
Where did all this come from?
Department stores, homes, museums.
My rangers scoured the landscape
for anything of value.
Anything worth preserving is here.
[Indistinct conversations]
And them?
They with you before?
We brought them in.
Just like you.
- You let them stay.
- If they're of value.
What does that mean?
He's the one asking the questions.
♪
And over here?
Photos of every walker
my rangers encounter.
Even the ones no longer walking.
You looking for someone in particular?
Some of my denizens still have
loved ones out in the world.
I believe in giving them closure.
I meant you.
Anyone you're hoping to find?
♪
I have everything I need right here.
♪
Everything you see,
everything we've cultivated,
came together after
the great destruction.
The world saw fire, ash, devastation.
We were gifted with growth,
vitality, a new dawn.
This place was empty
when I first arrived.
Ha. Well, except for Howard.
[Laughs]
We looked out on the horizon together
and watched as the world was
destroyed before our eyes.
We thought it was the end.
But when the dust settled,
we were still standing.
As well as this place.
The weather patterns took
the fallout away from us.
This tower is the only
inhabitable place for miles,
but I don't have to tell you that.
What we're doing is nothing less
than laying the foundations
of a new civilization.
We're making history.
You did all of this since
the bombs went off?
How?
Same way I ended up here.
My instincts.
You sound pretty sure of yourself.
If you'd seen your instincts bear out
the way I have, you would, too.
Which is why I'm gonna
have to bid you adieu.
Can someone please bring his
belongings up to the roof?
- He's gonna be leaving us soon.
- Wait. You're... You're kicking me out?
- Bring up his things.
- I'm afraid so.
- I answered all your questions.
- You did.
You're just not quite
what I'm looking for.
Oh, because I didn't give you
the answers you wanted?
Nothing personal, Will.
Just an instinct.
Take care.
Good luck out there.
WILL: Please.
Don't do this.
I-I-I won't make it out there.
I'm sorry.
- I'm not sorry.
- If you didn't want me to stay,
why would you give me the tour?
I mean, why go to all the trouble?
I had to see if you shared my vision.
You don't.
Oh.
Fresh.
I, uh... found this out there.
Once read, it's...
it's meant to help people
carry heavy burdens.
[g*n cocks]
I think you're gonna need
this more than I do.
Alright, come on. Let's go.
♪
Stop.
Where'd you find this?
- I told you. Out there.
- Where?
I'm gonna ask you one more time.
I found it on one of the dead.
- Don't lie.
- I'm not.
I thought it might bring me good luck.
So much for that.
Could you take me there?
To where you found it?
I don't know. Maybe.
I'm gonna make you a deal, Will.
Take me to where you found this,
help me find the owner of
this necklace, and I'll...
I'll spare you the horrors
of a life out there
and let you move in to our humble abode.
Do we have a deal?
♪
Good. Get me my sword.
♪
[Hooves clomping]
Levels are low here.
We can take the masks off.
You don't have to worry about the
ones that were k*lled by the blast.
It's the ones that d*ed from
radiation are dangerous.
This isn't my first rodeo.
Thought you said you hadn't been
out in this nightmare before.
Not this one.
How much further?
It's about a mile or so.
I can see why you were resistant
to coming back out here.
It ain't exactly spaghetti and scotch.
This settlement where you came from...
why not try to return?
Your tower's not the only
place I'm not welcome.
Why not?
Let's just say my exit wasn't by choice.
I've been trying to find a way
to make it up to those
people ever since.
Success is the best revenge, Will.
Come again?
Don't spend a moment trying
to make things right.
Focus on showing them
that they were wrong.
Why would I want to do that?
Because that's how you win.
If you procure a place at the tower,
you'll see that you don't need to
remember anyone from your past.
History is written by the victors.
I'm gonna ensure that's us.
[Thunder rumbles]
Now, where exactly did
you find this medallion?
We need to mask up!
Take cover! Now!
The water pulls contaminates
out of the air.
Back to the tower!
No! It's too far! We won't make it!
- What do you suggest, then?
- Follow me!
[Horse neighs]
♪
♪
It should be safe enough under here.
♪
♪
- What is this place?
- The last days?
- Home.
- Cozy.
Hey! Stop! That's mine.
[Camera shutter clicks]
Yo, Vic!
[Thunder rumbles]
The handiwork of those people
you were telling me about?
Stalkers.
What are we really doing out here?
I'm sorry?
Whoever that medallion belongs to,
you must know them, right?
What difference does it make?
Just funny.
I don't quite see the humor.
You said you had everything
you needed in your tower.
I do.
How come you're out
here looking for her?
I never told you I was
looking for a woman.
♪
Gentlemen, gentlemen,
I believe that we have been lured
here under false pretenses.
I suggest you start talking.
Where is she?
- Who?
- Alicia.
[Scoffs]
Answer me.
- [g*nf*re]
- Stalkers!
[Horses neigh]
[g*nf*re continues]
[Grunts]
♪
[Groans] They clipped my leg!
[Walkers growling]
♪
[Groans]
♪
We need to get out of here.
Not until you answer my question.
- I already did.
- The truth!
- Where is Alicia?
- I told you, I don't know.
- [Groans]
- Where's Alicia?
I don't know who that is!
The Franklin... that's
where Teddy took her.
I was right the first time.
I don't need you.
- I'll make the journey myself.
- Wait.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
She'll never forgive you if you do this.
What makes you think that's what I want?
Because I know who you
are, Victor. She told me.
And I think you want to
make things right with her.
Nice try. But no.
Then why did you risk all
of this just to find her?
I want to show her how wrong she was...
about everything.
That's how I win.
Wait. Wait. Wait.
[Groans]
♪
WILL: Victor!
♪
[Walkers growling]
♪
[Horse whinnies]
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
Ah.
♪
_
Bingo.
♪
[Footsteps approach]
- WILL: Hold it!
- [g*n cocks]
How'd you find me?
There's only so many places
to hole up around here.
I know. Now, how about you start
answering some of my questions?
- Alright. [Chuckles]
- Sit!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
[Laughs]
You tried to k*ll me twice today.
[Chuckles]
You left the comforts
of your humble abode.
You sacrificed every single
one of your guards,
all so you could find Alicia
and tell her how great you are?
I don't know. I just
don't buy it, Victor.
You knew who I was
the minute you saw me,
and yet, you lied anyway.
- You're damn right I did.
- Why?
Because Alicia said you
weren't exactly trustworthy.
Ah. So, you were biding your time.
No. I was testing you.
For what?
To see if you were worth saving.
Ah.
What makes you think
showing her that tower's
gonna change her opinion of you?
That tower succeeds because of me.
- [Sighs] Okay.
- My choices.
- My instincts.
- Succeeds?
All those people you got living there...
you think they actually
give a damn about you?
They're just afraid of what you
might do if they step out of line.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
It's not leadership.
You think you're an
authority on the subject
because you worked for a Senator?
[Laughs]
I learned about it from him.
I learned more about it from her.
Alicia... she didn't wanna
be in that bunker.
She was locked up by that psycho
who dropped the bombs on us.
She was locked up with his followers,
and she could have become a
cynical assh*le like you, but no.
And you know why?
Because she knew what Vazquez knew.
You cannot lead alone.
If you want people to believe in you,
you have to believe in them.
You think she's so wonderful,
why aren't you there with her?
Still got the medallion?
Truth is, I needed this
just as much as you.
She asked me to do something,
and I couldn't do it.
What did she ask you to do?
- It doesn't matter.
- Why didn't you do it?
It would have protected everyone there,
except for her.
It must have been pretty
bad if she cast you out.
I've been looking for a way
back every day since.
I didn't think I'd find it.
Then I woke up in your tower.
I thought, maybe...
maybe if I brought you to her,
maybe that would do it.
But after what I've seen today,
I doubt she would even recognize you.
♪
No.
I don't think she would.
♪
I don't know if she told you, but...
I was the one that gave that to her.
She did.
I knew it would get your attention.
I gave it to her
so she could remember who she was
because I feared I wouldn't be
able to do the same for myself.
♪
Hmm.
[Sighs]
I guess we both held up
our end of the bargain.
♪
May I?
♪
♪
[Grunts]
♪
[Grunts]
♪
[g*n cocks]
♪
That's three times now, Victor.
- What are you doing?
- I thought if I took you there,
it might have brought us together,
but she's better off without you.
Everyone is.
[Walkers growling]
♪
♪
♪
Will.
Get inside.
♪
[Breathing heavily]
What the hell was that?
I know them.
From the bunker.
Something bad must've happened.
♪
Alicia.
[Walkers growling]
That's not possible.
We were underground.
We had enough food to last years.
Air and water was filtered.
That place was built
to outlast all of us.
Did you see her? Was she...
No, no, no.
But I-I didn't see all of them.
Well, then, let's find out.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
You can't see more than
two feet in front of you.
But I think I can help.
[Growling continues]
That's never gonna work.
The odds that diesel even
burns are one in a million.
That's better than we'd do out there.
- [Sputtering]
- Come on.
[Rumbling]
♪
♪
Go!
♪
♪
That's it!
Follow the light!
♪
♪
[Sputtering]
sh*t.
♪
STRAND: Will?
[Walkers growling]
♪
Come on!
Victor!
♪
Victor!
♪
♪
Victor!
♪
♪
♪
STRAND: Get down!
♪
♪
[g*nsh*t]
♪
Was she... ?
♪
I didn't see her.
We need to get to the hotel.
Wait. Why did you save me?
You could have just walked
away, but you stayed.
You still care about her.
You don't run into the fog like that
because you want to prove
a point to someone.
You do it 'cause you want to save them.
Then let's go do that.
♪
♪
So, this is the fabled Franklin?
Yeah. What's left of it.
[Grunts]
♪
♪
[Electricity buzzing]
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
It's a ghost town.
Whatever happened happened a while ago.
How many people lived here?
.
It was me, Senator Vazquez,
a few other staff
before Teddy's scouts found the place.
What happened to them?
Scouts k*lled everyone while
I was doing maintenance
in the air filter.
I stayed up in the service corridors
until we all got locked in here.
Hmm.
Alicia!
♪
This wasn't Stalkers.
Nothing was taken.
I don't think they were att*cked.
Then what the hell happened?
This wasn't here before.
She paint it?
♪
♪
Yeah.
I think she did.
♪
What is Padre?
It doesn't matter.
Why not?
Because it's probably
gonna get her k*lled.
Is it a person? Place?
I don't know. I don't know.
Nobody knows.
It might not even exist.
"It"?
Something better.
At least the possibility of it.
I thought maybe if I found it first,
she wouldn't have to, but...
[Sighs]
If anything happens to them...
to her... that's on me.
[Scoffs]
You don't know that.
I should have been here.
I should have found a way
to make things up to her.
You loved her.
[Scoffs]
Doesn't matter.
[Sniffles]
It's all for nothing anyway.
It wasn't all for nothing.
[Scoffs]
You were right.
This wasn't about proving
something to her.
It was about proving
something to myself.
What?
That I didn't need her.
But I do.
As do you.
Maybe that's the point of all of this.
Maybe we're supposed
to find her. Together.
♪
Hmm.
♪
Or perhaps she'll find us.
♪
♪
[Walkers growling]
♪
♪
[Electricity buzzing]
♪
[Walker growling]
♪
♪
♪
How far will it reach?
miles, maybe.
It appears our flame has
already drawn a few moths.
She'll see it.
She'll follow it.
She'll find this place.
Alicia is the closest thing
I have left to family, Will.
You're not the only one who loves her.
I never had the chance to
tell her, but I-I would've.
If we found her.
And perhaps she would
have, uh, reminded me
of the man I once tried to be.
She still can.
She can help you be him.
I never should have left this place.
It almost got me k*lled.
I had a feeling that it would, but I...
I didn't trust my instincts.
I can't let that happen again.
It could destroy everything
I've built here.
That's not true. Hey.
You will make this place even better.
You both will. Together.
You said you can't lead alone.
You're wrong. It's the only way.
- That's not true.
- It is.
I've watched as others tried
to build a place like this,
and each of them came close,
but they all fell short
for the same reason.
What?
Love.
Attachments don't make you strong, Will.
They destroy you.
That light's not to draw Alicia here?
No.
It's to keep her and everyone
else as far away as possible.
It won't work.
- She'll find this place.
- [Chuckles]
She'll get through to you. Aah!
[Screaming]
No, she won't!
She won't have anything
to do with me after this.
[Walkers growling]
You want me to send somebody down
to get a picture for the wall?
No one in here's looking for him.
Someone out there might be.
That's gonna draw more than the dead.
Maybe even some of those
people you were with before.
- People like Morgan Jones.
- I'm not worried about him.
♪
- Or anyone else.
- Why not?
Anyone who tries to get to me...
♪
... is gonna have to get through them.
[Walkers growling]
♪
♪
MORGAN: We can build
something someplace else
that would actually last.
[Walkers growling]
[Baby crying]
♪
[Grunts]
Take another step, I'll sh**t.
[g*nsh*t]
- Morgan!
- Ah!
[g*n cocks]
Mommy's here. Mommy's here.
You know why I have to do this!
You can take everything from me!
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- [Suspenseful music plays]
- _
[Groaning]
♪
The end of Season ,
the world changed in a drastic way,
with the detonation of the warheads
that Teddy launched from the sub.
It completely ravaged the landscape
and redefined the apocalypse
as we know it.
We knew that things were
going to be different,
but we wanted to come into the season
showing just how dire and
scary this landscape was,
as a result of those bombs.
CHAMBLISS: We wanted
to see that firsthand
through a new character's point of view,
someone who the audience could
experience this new world with,
and that's the character of Will.
And the opening, really,
is all about establishing
just how punishing the
environment is out there.
It's not just about walkers.
It's about all the things
that our characters
would've taken for granted
prior to the detonations...
shelter that safe from
the radioactive fallout,
water that's clean to drink,
food that's safe to eat.
Even the Walkers take on new danger
because you don't know if they're
contaminated or they're not.
[Growling]
On the other hand, we also see
how someone who is lucky enough
to be in an area that
the fallout missed,
like Strand,
could create a world to live in
that is actually pretty good,
when you compare it
to the way things are out there.
We knew that a new Victor
Strand was going to emerge
out of the ashes of
the nuclear apocalypse.
This was a man who was
no longer apologizing
for the things he'd done.
This was a self-possessed,
reinvented Victor Strand
and we see that, in the months
in between that episode
and Season and where we find him now,
that reinvention has continued.
He is sporting a whole new wardrobe,
this historic-looking
tunic that he's wearing.
He has a sword that he carries,
that goes back to th-century
Texas history.
I think it speaks to how
Strand feels about himself,
how he is really the king
of the castle, here.
As we learn in this episode,
he's actually finding that
to not quite be enough.
He actually needs something more
and, ultimately, we find out
what he needs is Alicia.
But I think, in terms
of kind of bragging
about everything he's built,
getting great pleasure
in showing Will around,
it's trying to fill that hole that
he has kind of in himself,
that he's not getting from any
of the people around him.
And then, ultimately, that ends
up kind of being hollow to him
and that's what sends him out on
the journey he takes with Will.
Alicia and Strand have a
long and complex history
and, through everything
they've been through,
there's a deep amount of emotion
and care for each other
that underlies all of it.
Now, saying that,
Strand and Alicia did not end
in a particularly good place
at the end of Season .
Hello?
STRAND: Alicia?
Victor?
Yes, it's Victor. Are you okay?
Can I trust you?
Of course. What's wrong?
[Speaking indistinctly] ... right now.
You need to get to Morgan.
Tell him I know where the
keys are, what they're for.
He needs to find a beached
submarine near Galveston.
♪
Ultimately, Strand did
not prove trustworthy
and he was not able to stop it
and there's been no communication
between them since.
So, there's an unresolved part of Strand
that is still harboring
some guilt for that.
And there's also a part of him...
and this is the surface
level... where he says,
you know, he wants to find
Alicia, to prove to her
that he was right about everything.
He has done something
that no one else has done.
Creating a settlement where
everyone could be safe
is something that Morgan
attempted to do in Season
when he set up the community
behind the dam wall
and, ultimately, it failed.
You know, and if you look
around the landscape,
it failed in a really big way
because Teddy detonated those warheads,
kind of destroyed everything.
So the fact that Strand is able
to do, at least in his mind,
what Morgan wasn't able
to do, in many ways,
is proof that he is the person
who should be in charge,
who should've always been in charge.
And, ultimately, it's really
about proving to Alicia,
way back when, at the
beginning of Season ,
when he said he had to
kind of push her away
so he could do the things
he needed to do,
it's his way of saying,
"I was right to do that."
The only difference is, now,
Alicia's nowhere to be found,
so he has no one he can
actually say that to.
Or, at least, he doesn't
have the one person
he wants to be able to say that to.
I was the one who gave that to her,
so she could remember who she was.
Because I figured I wouldn't be
able to do the same for myself.
Victor has some interesting and,
in some ways, misguided ideas
of what makes a good leader.
He talks about it with Will.
That tower succeeds because of me.
- [Sigh] Okay.
- My choices.
- My instincts.
- "Succeeds"?
Will really doesn't subscribe to
the way Strand is doing things
and, ultimately, that all comes down
to the things that Alicia must
have told him about Strand.
From Strand's point of view,
I think he's wondering what
it is that Alicia told him
because I think, in many
ways, that will signal
how Alicia feels about him
when he finally does meet her.
And, when he thinks that
Alicia might be in danger,
when all the walkers show up
at the lighthouse, you know,
he steps out into the fog
to fight the walkers.
He risks his own life
and that's ultimately the thing
that makes him realize
just how much he actually
cares about Alicia
and just how much her
validation means to him.
Ultimately, that's why
he makes the decision
not to bring Alicia to the tower
and, in fact, to do something,
to take this terrible
action, of k*lling Will,
that will ensure that Alicia
wants nothing to do with him.
And that's sort of Strand's
Darth Vader moment,
where he chooses to cut off
this connection in his heart
for the sake of his power
and for the sake of
protecting what he's built.
Aah! Aah!
Aah, aah, aah!
♪
[Growling]
It's a pretty dark turn for Strand
to take at the end of the episode
and, yes, he's kind of become
what he always wanted to be,
but he's really left on
the roof of that tower,
I think, wondering
just what it cost him.
It may, in fact, have cost him
the person he cared about most
and, you know, as we see
him standing up there,
kind of having all the dead
walkers come towards the tower,
it's kind of a metaphor for,
you know, who he is...
someone who's driven all the
living people away from him
and is now just kind of surrounded
by death and destruction.
Anyone who tries to get to me
is going to have to get through them.
♪
♪
♪
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07x01 - The Beacon
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"Fear the Walking Dead" is a spin-off and a prequel to the "The Walking Dead", set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world.
"Fear the Walking Dead" is a spin-off and a prequel to the "The Walking Dead", set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world.