The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020) s01e01 Episode Script
Brave
1
You heard the rumors
about what he did, right?
Back in Omaha?
He should be in jail.
- Hey, Silas.
- Hi, Iris.
My sister throws this big
Feast Day rager every year.
Tomorrow night, 10:00 p.m.,
storage room C-12.
You should go.
You're new.
I never see you out.
Go.
Okay.
Hey, it's okay.
Hi.
Hello! Hi! Hey!
- Madam President.
- Yes?
I got the banner out f
the student council office.
Ah! Thank you, Madam Vice President.
Are you readyto do some welcoming?
Damn right. We're gonna
welcome the hell out of them.
Hey, Iris.
Oh.Think we'll need those?
Probably won't need 'em,
but we should have 'em.
We'll be behind the barrier,
but you never know.
You tryin' to scare
her right now or what?
I don't think I could
if I tried.
Oh, you can't.
It's cool you're
doing this, kid.
Just doing my part.
Come on.
Alright, everybody,
let's get going.
- Alright.
- Okay.
Okay, let's get the gates.
Damn it!
Let's just hold in place
until they get here.
Damn it.
Bye, Mom.
Okay.
I worked on this
all night last night. Oh, wait. Oh, damn.
Well done.
No, no, no, no, no.
I-I don't know what happened.
It was Was the student council
office locked?
No.
My sister happened.
I can fix it.
Lieutenant
Colonel Elizabeth Kublek
of the Civic
Republic Military.
Felix Carluccci, Senior
Security Force Officer,
Campus Colony of Omaha.
People call me "Huck."
Long story.
So, is it just
the CRM here?
There was talk of having
somegovernment officials join us,
but Major General Beale
wasn'tcomfortable sending civilians.
And we could only spareone
helicopter for the trip.
So you are stuck with me
as the sole representative
of the Civic Republic.
Your "Monument Day" holiday,
though,
is wonderful,
and I feel
honored to, uh to
commemorate it with you.
I'm sure you're tired. It
was probably a long trip
from wherever it is
you're from.
It was.
Uh, it's okay.
We can take care of it.
The helicopter has another stop
before it'll circle back.
We fire disruption charges
to scatter the sound.
We won't draw any more.
We're quite good at this Hmm.
wherever we're from.
"The Civic Republic
'us.'"
We're the same.
Portland, Omaha,
the Civic Republic.
That's what the Alliance
of the Three is about.
We're all in this together,
right?
Right.
Hey.
Silas, right?
Yeah.
Did you see mesneak outta the bus?
Yeah.
Could you not tell my sisteryou
saw me, you know, stow away?
Yeah.
Cool.
Listen, uh, I'm having aFeast
Day rager tomorrow night,
storage room C-12
at 10:00.
Be there.
Good talk, Silas.
Hey.
Hey.
Cool.
You made me dinner?
Oh, you're my hero.
Oh.
- You working on your speech?
- Yeah.
You good?
'Course. Totally.
Eat.
So you're notgood.
No, I'm good.
I am totally good.
But this was screwed up, Hope.
The Civic Republic
Oh, you mean the
SecretNon-Public Civic Republic?
We don't know where
they areor what they do.
You were fine with them
before Dad left.
Well, I'm not anymore, alright,
because they sent ussome soldier
and we sent them our dad.
Yes, our dad
is with them.
He's sharing his knowledge
so that there is another place
working towards
some sort of cure.
Which means the crap
you pulled Was hilarious.
Yeah, I stopped unrolling it
once we got to "sucks."
Wait,
"sucks" or "ass"?
Oh, yeah. "Ass."
We stopped at "ass."
Did you poison
my food?
Oh, yeah.
Sign Felix's card.
You do know he hates me,
right?
Oh, Felix
doesn't hate you.
He totally hates me.
Then that is another reason
you should sign it.
For Dad.
It's really good.
Why don't you
draw and paint
and, like, forget
all the science
and AP classes
and volunteering?
Drawing and painting
won't put an end
to reanimated
necrotic matter.
You check
the cabinet today?
Nothing.
Again.
I told him not to go.
No, I screamed at him
not to go.
So screw it.
I did what I could.
Tomorrow is "Celebrationbefore
commemoration."
Oh.You're coming to my party.
There is no escape.
Maybe.
T-There is a small chance that
this speech may kill me first.
No, screw that.
You're coming.
Grin, girl.
Tomorrow night,
we rage.
Representatives
from our home city of Omaha
and the Alliance cities
ofPortland and the Civic Republic,
citizens, teachers,
and students.
We say that it's called
Monument Day
because we are all monuments
to the past.
We survived,
and the rest didn't.
We found safety,
and the rest didn't.
We live.
We live for the rest who didn't.
I live for my mom, who did
that night 10 years ago today,
like so many others.
And I live for my father,
who is far away,
doing important work that will
one day benefit us all.
We're 10 years in now.
10 years.
I was a little kid.
I can barely remember
the Night the Sky Fell,
let alone what the world
was like before.
We still live behind walls, and
the dead still have this world.
And I think that with
everythingthat went away,
with everything we lost,
with everyonewe lost,
some people think
it can happen again.
Some people think that
what we have can't last.
Some can't believe.
But I'm certain of our home
and our home city
and our Alliance with Portland,
with the Civic Republic,
and I am certain
of what's ahead.
We're monuments to the past,
but everyone here, all of you,
you are the future.
Weare the future.
I'm sure of it.
Happy Feast Day, people.
I hope you've all been writing
in your journals.
Today on Feast Day,
we celebrate life.
Tomorrow, on Monument Day,
we remember what we lost,
who we lost, how we got here,
and who got us here,
because for nearly all of us,
that came at a cost.
But we should be the monument
we want to be,
regardless of the past.
That's what you all
should be writing about.
What kind of monument
are you going to be, Elton?
I would like to be complete
and aware and kind.
I don't want to be afraid
ever again,
but I know
I probably will be.
I'd also like to see
what this world is now,
which is what my parents
spent their lives trying to do.
I also hope to be much,
much taller.
Do you want to stand tall,
like the Washington Monument?
Okay.
Want to be sitting down,
comfortable and confident
like the Lincoln Memorial?
Sure.
Think about it.
Write it down.
Hope.
So what?
I brewed a littlet
of illegal alcohol.
Yeah, this isa lifetime supply, Hope.
And here I thought
you were finally
getting your act togetherwith
your dad gone, but, nope.
Hey.
We still haven't heard
anythingfrom him yet, right?
It's been months.
Let me
ask you something.
Why do you do what you
dowhen you have what you have?
What are you doing here,
Felix?
What am I doing here?
Well, uh, your dad
gave me a life,
something I can
be grateful for.
Even if that means
trying to get you
to stop pulling this crapthat you do.
Iris! Thank God!
My rights are totally
being violated right now.
Felix, she doesn't
need to be in there.
Yeah, well, you see, I needa
family member to sign for her,
pending an appearance
before the CCC.
Look, you know,
those are the rules.
Yeah.
Oh, you are
a family member.
Dad gave you guardianship
while he's gone.
Oh, yeah.
How could I forgetsomething like that?
I mean, it's almostlike
I wanted you to just
think about
what you did.
Felix is
the worst guardian ever!
What was Dad
even thinking?
Checked the cabinet. Still nothing.
If he were here, he'd
say,"Making that amount of alcohol
shows a solid grasp
of chemistry."
Let's get the hell
out of here.
It's Hope and Iris Bennett, right?
Lieutenant Colonel.
Call me Elizabeth.
You know who we are?
Of course. I recognized you earlier.
I just didn't want to
sayanything in front of everyone.
I wanted to thank you both
for your sacrifice
on behalfof the Civic Republic.
Being away from your fatherfor
months on end can't be easy.
But as I'm sure you know,
this first science exchange
is critical for the Alliancefor
the future of the planet.
But I can see
you know that.
I do.
And I've heard you're
pursuingbiochemistry and immunology?
Taking after
your father.
I should thank you
for that, too.
Oh, gotta do it.
And you.
One of your security personnelfilled me in.
Sounds like you hadquite
the distillery going.
That's also impressive.
So, how did you get
You know what?
I'm good.
I don't need
to listen to this crap.
Thank you.
Lieutenant Colonel,
I'm so sorry.
It's okay. I am not.
Sorry.
Hope. Hope, what the hell?
You don't trust
them, either. Hi.
I know you don't.
Yes, I do. Why would you even
Because you've been
having nightmares
every night
since Dad left.
Are they about Dad?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah. Because we don't
talk about stuff like that,
not what went on,
not what goes on.
Here's what
just happened.
That bitch
is gonna come at me,
and I'm gonna have to listen
to what she says?
Screw that.
She is part of the reason whywe're
never gonna see Dad again.
And deep down inside,
you know that.
I gotta go.
Hi, Dr. K.
Iris.
Hello. Come in.
These doors are only
supposed to be hard to open
once you're dead.
But I do like that they
consider me slightly dangerous.
Well, you do bore people
todeath on a regular basis, so
Smartass.
Get in here.
Get in here.
Thank you.
Sit down.
It's the same thing.
I see myselfstumbling around dead.
I wake up.
I start thinking aboutall
the stuff I have to do.
So I get up
and I do it.
How's the tea?
It's good.
That's why I come here.
I come here for the tea.
You come here because you keep
trying to cure your trauma
in 15 minutes or less.
How's that going?
You still haven't talked to her
about it, huh?
Talking to your sister honestly
about what happened,
about how you feel about
what happened, it'll help.
This is the first Monument
Daywe're on our own,
you know, with my dad being gone.
It's just It's just us, you know,
and I didn't want to
right now.
Yeah, yeah, but you
You want to
You want to stop
having these dreams
so you can sleep
so you can get more done.
Yes, I have got a lotto do.
Yes, well, I am not here
to enhance your productivity.
I am here to help you
be the best you.
It's not likewe've never talked about it.
Talked about what?
You know.
Tell me like I don't.
It was chaos that night.
Let's go!
We were trying to getto
the campus, to safety.
There was a woman.
She was pregnant.
- Can you help me?
- Stay there!
We wanted to help her, but we couldn't.
We'll come get you!
We lost herbecause the sky was falling.
And our mom died.
'Cause of
Not because of
the plane crash.
Tell me why.
It was empties.
It was later
that night.
It happenedright in front of Hope.
She saw it happen.
She was all alone.
And I should havebeen
there, but I was Iris.
What happened that night,
the reason
you weren't there for her,
it's defined
who you are today.
Come on, come on, go!
I was scared.
I just froze up.
Me and my dad got
separatedfrom Mom and Hope.
And that's the last timel saw my mom.
See, you feel like
you didn't do enough then,
so now now you have to
do everything for everyone.
I'm I'm building
a better future.
Iris, I think you're
dreaming you're dead
because you are
neglecting you.
You are not dating.
You are not
You're not pursuing your art.
Oh, I told you don't
have time for that.Exactly.
Your head is shoved so far
up the future's ass,
you've completely
abandoned the now.
There are
9,671 people here.
That is too many people
to be living for.
I've been thinking about
the endquite a lot lately,
for obvious reasons.
Our lives are more precious
than ever.
You don't want to wind up
in my position
and realize you haven't used
the years for yourself.
So how do I live
for myself?
Talk to your sister.
Let go of all that you have
been holding on to for her.
That's all I got.
Other than, well, after that,
it's your life.
Only you can figure out
how to give it meaning.
It's got a helmet!
Knock it back!
All that booze?
Three! You really
thoughtyou'd get away with it?
Four! I almost did.
Five! It's too bad I don't know
anyonesuper cool in security
that could have
given me a heads-up.
Even if I could've, you makethe
wine, you serve the time.
How come you never talk about
your life in the City?
Wasn't there long.
I like it better here.
That's insane.
Why is that insane?
'Cause the City's
like 10 times bigger
and cooler
than this place.
You know there's overa
hundred miles of crap
between us and them.
You know that, right?
If you're even
thinking of I amthinking about going.
One way or another.
It's all gonna be gone
by the time I'm old enough
to decide to go see it
by myself.
We're gonna be gone.
Everybody is so torqued up
aboutbuilding things back up again,
but it's so pointless.
You really thinkthe world's gonna end?
I knowit is.
It's not even about
the empties.
I mean, it is,
but it's about the people.
People are shit.
People turn.
It's just the odds.
It just is.
It ain't
"it is what it is."
I think it iswhat we're gonna make it.
And that's my blow line.
Everybody get low
in your horse stance.
Ready?
Repeat after me
and punch forward.
We are the masters
of our fate!
How do we form our fate?!
Hope, we have to
go through, okay?
It's the only way out.
- Health!
- Health!
- Friendship!
- Friendship!
Honesty!
- Integrity!
- Integrity!
Attention.
Bow.
Iris?
Uh, hi!
Oh, I didn't Uh, we were just, uh
We were at the janitor's
officeand saw you walk by,
and, uh, Elton found
an Easy-Bake Oven.
We made cake.
Oh, thank you, but, um.
Hey, Iris.
Hey, guys.
You have the cabinet open.
With our classmates
here.
When did it
I mean
Uh, it must have come
earlier today.
His safety
isn't assured?
Your dad's
sending messages?
You can't say anything.
We won't.
How do we know
you won't?
I sneak out.
Out there?
Regularly.
That's how I found
the Easy-Bake Oven.
That's why I wear the suit.
It's a TuffyStitch.
Kids can wear 'em.
Kids can't tear 'em.
Durable clothes
from the '90s.
Bite-proof.
I know from
controlled experiments.
Anyway, I-I go out there
lookingfor something that I lost.
And I want to see
how our world is changing.
Now you have my secret,
and I have yours.
I won't tell.
That message could mean
a lot of things.
It could mean nothing.
The CR's been
very up front about
There were
more helicopters.
Yeah, uh, Elizabeth
saidthey could only spare one,
but there were five, and someof
them had shipping containers.
You were out there?
Why the hell didn't you Who cares?
The CRM is bad, and our dad's in trouble.
And there's only one
personwho can help us help him.
Thanks for helping me
tag those empties.
I like it out here.
And if painting empties
helps Dr. Bavolar
studytheir migration patterns,
I'm happy to do it.
It's important work.
It is.
That's why I do it.
Yeah.
That's one reason.
You thrive
on the unglamorous
because you're
stilltrying to prove yourself.
Wow.
I thrive on the un
After what your parentsdid to you?
Yeah, I think so.
Man.
Alright.
You're the only one around
heredoesn't realize you're aces.
Will sure as hell
thought so.
I'm sure he still does.
Don't think I didn't
noticeyou're wearing his jacket.
Hey, he left it at my place
before he shipped out,
so what are you
gonna do?
You miss him.
I mean, he's off who knows
whereprotecting the girls' father.
I mean, what's
You miss him.
You can say it.
Yeah. I do.
I really do, okay?
Felix. What?
Your folksdealt you a bad hand.
I just want you
to be happy.
You deserve it.
And that's all
I'm trying to say.
That's nice. So, happy birthday, bitch!
Felix, you copy?
Yeah, Izzy.
Go for Felix.
I got Hope Bennett here
looking for you.
Says it's urgent.
The science exchangewith the Civic Republic
is about building trust.
This is the first time
that they've let
anyoneinside their borders,
wherever the hell
their borders are.
He's breaking
like 10 provisions
of the Four Corners Agreement
by even sending us
these messages.
Now, we knew that
before we left.
We talked about it.
So what?
He could be in danger,
Felix.
I mean, we
We have to tell someone,
or we have to have someone
check on him.
He told us not to say
anythingabout these messages
because we don't know
whatthe Civic Republic would do
if they found out.
He's such an idiot.
He's probablythe smartest person alive.
He told us not to say anything
to keep you safe.
Alright.
I promised himthat I'd keep you safe.
We don't know
if he's in trouble,
and if we did, we would
have to put our faith
in his security detail. And your boyfriend.
Will is head of your dad's
security detail
because he can
handle himself.
He can fight his way
out of anything if he has to.
I'm sorry.
We don't have
any other choice.
Hope.
Hope, come on.
Would you please
talk to me?
Hope, stop!
"My safety
not assured."
That's what it said.
That might have been
what it said,
but it's letters
and numbers.
It could be radio static.
How can you not see this?!
They are bad people,
Iris, and they have our dad!
Are you talking
about us?
The Civic Republic?
One of your
Alliance partners?
How are we bad,
exactly?
Come on.
Tell me.
You don'tlet anyone in or out.
You won't let peoplecommunicate
with your people.
Or vice versa.
You don't tell anyonewhere you are.
And you have our dad.
I have a daughter.
She's a bit older
than you guys.
She's a soldier in the CRM.
She's away from me
a great deal.
And that makes me scared
sometimes.
Then I remember
that she's helping
to protect
the Civic Republic.
She's helping us with
the Alliance of the Three.
She's taking that risk
to help us eventually
bring this world back.
And that makes me brave.
We have to be brave
in this life we have.
Simply to exist now.
I'm I'm gonna tell you
something so you can trust me.
Something that will make me
need to trust you.
Your father is teaching in
aCivic Republic research facility
in New York State.
So, this
This is a coded map,
so it doesn't show you
where in New York,
but that watermark
and that stamp,
that will show certain people
that I gave that to you.
I told you.
And if those certain people
found that out,
I would certainly
go to jail.
We have those.
Are you for real?
I am.
I also might be
a bit drunk.
How did you learn
to make champagne?
I read a book
in the Ag library.
Wait, Felix gave you
my alcohol?
Well, he said it was a generous
gift form the Campus Colony.
You really are
your father's daughter.
You both are.
I saw that when I landed,
you with your banner,
you flipping me off.
How does that make us
like our dad?
You're brave.
How'd you get out there
when she landed?
I rode in the luggage
compartment.
You're an idiot.
I am my father's daughter.
I also need a drink,
and the bitch in black
has all my alcohol.
Dad left a bottle of brandy
in his office.
Yes!
Okay, maybe that wasmore than one drink.
Hope, we slept through it.
It's bad.
Yeah.
What do we do?
Nothing.
There's nothing
we can do.
So we just deal.
We hope and we wait.
Your speech
is in an hour.
If it means anything,
I think
I think Dad
would want you to.
Dr. K?
And the message
I am here to deliver
on behalf of the Civic Republic
on this your 10th Monument Day
is one of solidarity.
The Civic Republic stands
with Portland, with Omaha,
and with you,
the Campus Colony.
You have loaned us
your greatest mind,
Dr. Leo Bennett,
who will bring other
great mindson a journey
to create the sciencethat
will bring this world back.
And it's trust we've built
that allows this to happen.
No one has given us more trust
than Leo's two daughters.
And it's my honor now
to introduce one of them.
She is Monument High
Student Council President
and future scientist
Iris Bennett.
Representatives from our
Uh, our
I have these dreams
that I'm dead.
I don't talk about them.
The person who was helping me,
she's gone.
And the last thing she told me
is that it's up to me now.
And I guess that's growing up
When the person in charge
of your life is you.
When I'm in these dreams
I feel like I've always beenin
them, like I was never alive,
like I never made it to now,
let alone the future.
The Night the Sky Fell,
I was just a little kid,
and I just jumped
to living for the future.
I think a lot of us did.
And what I figured out
I have to start with now.
And I think "now"
starts with the truth.
And the truth is
I don't trust you.
I don't know who you are.
I-I don't know
what you're doing.
You will.
Your father does.
Someday
you will understand.
That's just not
good enough.
Science is about finding the
truth, not just deciding on it.
And that that's
That's hard.
That's That's scary.
Because it means admitting that
we don't have all the answers.
And we don't know
what we'll find
when we're looking for them.
But someone once told me
that I'm brave.
That I have to be.
So I'm gonna keep working
in the now to find it.
For me.
For the Civic Republic.
For Portland.
For all of us.
Happy Monument Day.
He wasn't asking for help,
but we know he might need it.
And that's enough. Enough for what?
Enough for us to go
and help him somehow.
A-Are you serious?
Felix won't go, okay?
Not with us here
to protect.
And And Dad's message
isn't going to make him.
It's us.
We have to do it.
We know where he is.
So we go? Just us? Mm-hmm.
If things were like before,
this would still be crazy.
No one else
is gonna do it.
I know you're scared.
I am, too.
But I can't
look away anymore.
I can't lie.
And I know
you can't, either.
I froze that night.
But I'm not
freezing anymore.
Seeing Mom die
You shouldn't have had to
go through that by yourself.
Iris.
I'm glad you didn't
have to see it.
Watch out.
Watch out, baby!
Okay. Okay. You okay?
It's okay.
It's okay.
Mom!
The The truck!
We could take it.
Looks like you're the one
saving me, baby.
- Come on!
- No, no, stay, stay, stay.
Stay where you are.
- I'm taking I'm taking.
- -I'm taking this truck.
- And, uh, I'm gonna go.
- -I'm gonna go find my family.
Listen, I'm I'm not
gonna hurt you, okay?
My My husband and
And my other daughter,
they they could be
right behind us.
We can all
go together, okay?
I can't wait. I can't wait anymore.
I'm sorry.
I can't wait any
Please! Please!
Mom?
Mom!
Mom!
Mom!
Mom, please! Mom!
I'm right here, Mom!
- I'm
- Mom.
I'm glad you didn't see it.
I'm glad you didn'thave to see any of it.
So you're in?
We could die.
We could live.
And when we get there, what are we gonna
When we get there,
we'll be different.
We'll be ready.
We know a way out.
So how do you know
whereto go?
Elizabeth gave us a map
to try and get us to trust her.
He's somewhere
in New York.
You're gonna go?
All that way?
It's 1,100 miles
on foot.
We've already
mapped it out.
To get there
before it gets cold,
you'll have to
keep a good pace.
We will.
Have you seen an empty
up close before?
I've been training
how to kill them.
Look, if you're trying
to talk us out of it
Sorry. I'm not trying
to talk you out of it.
I'm trying to talk you
into letting me go with you.
Me too.
Why?
Well, you need help,
and I'd like for the time
I have left on this Earth
to mean something.
And full disclosure here,
I just want to see what's
out there before we're gone.
Before I'mgone.
Plus, I know karate.
Why do you wanna come?
I don't wanna be who everybody
thinks I am here.
Marco Voci
from the physical plant
says his nephew is missing.
It's the big kid.
Silas.
Yeah, and Elton Ortiz from
theindependent dorm is gone, too.
What?
I was training her
to fight the dead.
I was trying to help her
in my own way, man.
Listen, if they left together,
they gotta be headed for Omaha.
That's where she said
she wanted to go.
No.
No, I know where they're going.
They'll never make it.
They'll die.
What is it?
It's a-a h-horn.
From a triceratops.
It's mine.
It's what I've been going
outside the walls looking for.
I lost it a long,
long time ago.
It was supposed to be a gift
for my sister.
You had a sister?
My mother
was pregnant with her
the night
that things went bad.
We weren't together.
I never saw her again.
I'm sorry.
Don't be.
My mother used to say
the wind always wins
That is, nature decides,
and it obviously decided.
Hey, guys, you coming?
You go ahead.
I-I'll be right there.
We should get going. Felix
is gonna be coming for us.
So much cooler than the dummy
I was training with!
Sorry you got
my hand-me-downs.
Oh, don't be.
Gave it a bit
of an upgrade.
Oh, hell, yes!
Whoo!
Let's see what
discoveriesawait us, shall we?
So, you gonna tell me
what you've been writing
in your sketchbook?
Stuff I've beenthinking about,
stuff about living
in the now.
And guess what. I didn't dream last night.
Wait, no, no, no, no.
I'll do it.
I want to.
I brought us out here.
You sure?
'Cause I can do it.
I know.
The truth is the words
I say to myself.
And the truth is, I don't know
how this is going to work out.
Or if it even will.
But I'm finally living for me
in the now.
Searching for my own truth.
And do you know what?
It feels good.
Yes.
We've searched every building
on campus
and the surrounding areas.
We can't find her.
Good.
You heard the rumors
about what he did, right?
Back in Omaha?
He should be in jail.
- Hey, Silas.
- Hi, Iris.
My sister throws this big
Feast Day rager every year.
Tomorrow night, 10:00 p.m.,
storage room C-12.
You should go.
You're new.
I never see you out.
Go.
Okay.
Hey, it's okay.
Hi.
Hello! Hi! Hey!
- Madam President.
- Yes?
I got the banner out f
the student council office.
Ah! Thank you, Madam Vice President.
Are you readyto do some welcoming?
Damn right. We're gonna
welcome the hell out of them.
Hey, Iris.
Oh.Think we'll need those?
Probably won't need 'em,
but we should have 'em.
We'll be behind the barrier,
but you never know.
You tryin' to scare
her right now or what?
I don't think I could
if I tried.
Oh, you can't.
It's cool you're
doing this, kid.
Just doing my part.
Come on.
Alright, everybody,
let's get going.
- Alright.
- Okay.
Okay, let's get the gates.
Damn it!
Let's just hold in place
until they get here.
Damn it.
Bye, Mom.
Okay.
I worked on this
all night last night. Oh, wait. Oh, damn.
Well done.
No, no, no, no, no.
I-I don't know what happened.
It was Was the student council
office locked?
No.
My sister happened.
I can fix it.
Lieutenant
Colonel Elizabeth Kublek
of the Civic
Republic Military.
Felix Carluccci, Senior
Security Force Officer,
Campus Colony of Omaha.
People call me "Huck."
Long story.
So, is it just
the CRM here?
There was talk of having
somegovernment officials join us,
but Major General Beale
wasn'tcomfortable sending civilians.
And we could only spareone
helicopter for the trip.
So you are stuck with me
as the sole representative
of the Civic Republic.
Your "Monument Day" holiday,
though,
is wonderful,
and I feel
honored to, uh to
commemorate it with you.
I'm sure you're tired. It
was probably a long trip
from wherever it is
you're from.
It was.
Uh, it's okay.
We can take care of it.
The helicopter has another stop
before it'll circle back.
We fire disruption charges
to scatter the sound.
We won't draw any more.
We're quite good at this Hmm.
wherever we're from.
"The Civic Republic
'us.'"
We're the same.
Portland, Omaha,
the Civic Republic.
That's what the Alliance
of the Three is about.
We're all in this together,
right?
Right.
Hey.
Silas, right?
Yeah.
Did you see mesneak outta the bus?
Yeah.
Could you not tell my sisteryou
saw me, you know, stow away?
Yeah.
Cool.
Listen, uh, I'm having aFeast
Day rager tomorrow night,
storage room C-12
at 10:00.
Be there.
Good talk, Silas.
Hey.
Hey.
Cool.
You made me dinner?
Oh, you're my hero.
Oh.
- You working on your speech?
- Yeah.
You good?
'Course. Totally.
Eat.
So you're notgood.
No, I'm good.
I am totally good.
But this was screwed up, Hope.
The Civic Republic
Oh, you mean the
SecretNon-Public Civic Republic?
We don't know where
they areor what they do.
You were fine with them
before Dad left.
Well, I'm not anymore, alright,
because they sent ussome soldier
and we sent them our dad.
Yes, our dad
is with them.
He's sharing his knowledge
so that there is another place
working towards
some sort of cure.
Which means the crap
you pulled Was hilarious.
Yeah, I stopped unrolling it
once we got to "sucks."
Wait,
"sucks" or "ass"?
Oh, yeah. "Ass."
We stopped at "ass."
Did you poison
my food?
Oh, yeah.
Sign Felix's card.
You do know he hates me,
right?
Oh, Felix
doesn't hate you.
He totally hates me.
Then that is another reason
you should sign it.
For Dad.
It's really good.
Why don't you
draw and paint
and, like, forget
all the science
and AP classes
and volunteering?
Drawing and painting
won't put an end
to reanimated
necrotic matter.
You check
the cabinet today?
Nothing.
Again.
I told him not to go.
No, I screamed at him
not to go.
So screw it.
I did what I could.
Tomorrow is "Celebrationbefore
commemoration."
Oh.You're coming to my party.
There is no escape.
Maybe.
T-There is a small chance that
this speech may kill me first.
No, screw that.
You're coming.
Grin, girl.
Tomorrow night,
we rage.
Representatives
from our home city of Omaha
and the Alliance cities
ofPortland and the Civic Republic,
citizens, teachers,
and students.
We say that it's called
Monument Day
because we are all monuments
to the past.
We survived,
and the rest didn't.
We found safety,
and the rest didn't.
We live.
We live for the rest who didn't.
I live for my mom, who did
that night 10 years ago today,
like so many others.
And I live for my father,
who is far away,
doing important work that will
one day benefit us all.
We're 10 years in now.
10 years.
I was a little kid.
I can barely remember
the Night the Sky Fell,
let alone what the world
was like before.
We still live behind walls, and
the dead still have this world.
And I think that with
everythingthat went away,
with everything we lost,
with everyonewe lost,
some people think
it can happen again.
Some people think that
what we have can't last.
Some can't believe.
But I'm certain of our home
and our home city
and our Alliance with Portland,
with the Civic Republic,
and I am certain
of what's ahead.
We're monuments to the past,
but everyone here, all of you,
you are the future.
Weare the future.
I'm sure of it.
Happy Feast Day, people.
I hope you've all been writing
in your journals.
Today on Feast Day,
we celebrate life.
Tomorrow, on Monument Day,
we remember what we lost,
who we lost, how we got here,
and who got us here,
because for nearly all of us,
that came at a cost.
But we should be the monument
we want to be,
regardless of the past.
That's what you all
should be writing about.
What kind of monument
are you going to be, Elton?
I would like to be complete
and aware and kind.
I don't want to be afraid
ever again,
but I know
I probably will be.
I'd also like to see
what this world is now,
which is what my parents
spent their lives trying to do.
I also hope to be much,
much taller.
Do you want to stand tall,
like the Washington Monument?
Okay.
Want to be sitting down,
comfortable and confident
like the Lincoln Memorial?
Sure.
Think about it.
Write it down.
Hope.
So what?
I brewed a littlet
of illegal alcohol.
Yeah, this isa lifetime supply, Hope.
And here I thought
you were finally
getting your act togetherwith
your dad gone, but, nope.
Hey.
We still haven't heard
anythingfrom him yet, right?
It's been months.
Let me
ask you something.
Why do you do what you
dowhen you have what you have?
What are you doing here,
Felix?
What am I doing here?
Well, uh, your dad
gave me a life,
something I can
be grateful for.
Even if that means
trying to get you
to stop pulling this crapthat you do.
Iris! Thank God!
My rights are totally
being violated right now.
Felix, she doesn't
need to be in there.
Yeah, well, you see, I needa
family member to sign for her,
pending an appearance
before the CCC.
Look, you know,
those are the rules.
Yeah.
Oh, you are
a family member.
Dad gave you guardianship
while he's gone.
Oh, yeah.
How could I forgetsomething like that?
I mean, it's almostlike
I wanted you to just
think about
what you did.
Felix is
the worst guardian ever!
What was Dad
even thinking?
Checked the cabinet. Still nothing.
If he were here, he'd
say,"Making that amount of alcohol
shows a solid grasp
of chemistry."
Let's get the hell
out of here.
It's Hope and Iris Bennett, right?
Lieutenant Colonel.
Call me Elizabeth.
You know who we are?
Of course. I recognized you earlier.
I just didn't want to
sayanything in front of everyone.
I wanted to thank you both
for your sacrifice
on behalfof the Civic Republic.
Being away from your fatherfor
months on end can't be easy.
But as I'm sure you know,
this first science exchange
is critical for the Alliancefor
the future of the planet.
But I can see
you know that.
I do.
And I've heard you're
pursuingbiochemistry and immunology?
Taking after
your father.
I should thank you
for that, too.
Oh, gotta do it.
And you.
One of your security personnelfilled me in.
Sounds like you hadquite
the distillery going.
That's also impressive.
So, how did you get
You know what?
I'm good.
I don't need
to listen to this crap.
Thank you.
Lieutenant Colonel,
I'm so sorry.
It's okay. I am not.
Sorry.
Hope. Hope, what the hell?
You don't trust
them, either. Hi.
I know you don't.
Yes, I do. Why would you even
Because you've been
having nightmares
every night
since Dad left.
Are they about Dad?
I don't know what you're talking about.
Yeah. Because we don't
talk about stuff like that,
not what went on,
not what goes on.
Here's what
just happened.
That bitch
is gonna come at me,
and I'm gonna have to listen
to what she says?
Screw that.
She is part of the reason whywe're
never gonna see Dad again.
And deep down inside,
you know that.
I gotta go.
Hi, Dr. K.
Iris.
Hello. Come in.
These doors are only
supposed to be hard to open
once you're dead.
But I do like that they
consider me slightly dangerous.
Well, you do bore people
todeath on a regular basis, so
Smartass.
Get in here.
Get in here.
Thank you.
Sit down.
It's the same thing.
I see myselfstumbling around dead.
I wake up.
I start thinking aboutall
the stuff I have to do.
So I get up
and I do it.
How's the tea?
It's good.
That's why I come here.
I come here for the tea.
You come here because you keep
trying to cure your trauma
in 15 minutes or less.
How's that going?
You still haven't talked to her
about it, huh?
Talking to your sister honestly
about what happened,
about how you feel about
what happened, it'll help.
This is the first Monument
Daywe're on our own,
you know, with my dad being gone.
It's just It's just us, you know,
and I didn't want to
right now.
Yeah, yeah, but you
You want to
You want to stop
having these dreams
so you can sleep
so you can get more done.
Yes, I have got a lotto do.
Yes, well, I am not here
to enhance your productivity.
I am here to help you
be the best you.
It's not likewe've never talked about it.
Talked about what?
You know.
Tell me like I don't.
It was chaos that night.
Let's go!
We were trying to getto
the campus, to safety.
There was a woman.
She was pregnant.
- Can you help me?
- Stay there!
We wanted to help her, but we couldn't.
We'll come get you!
We lost herbecause the sky was falling.
And our mom died.
'Cause of
Not because of
the plane crash.
Tell me why.
It was empties.
It was later
that night.
It happenedright in front of Hope.
She saw it happen.
She was all alone.
And I should havebeen
there, but I was Iris.
What happened that night,
the reason
you weren't there for her,
it's defined
who you are today.
Come on, come on, go!
I was scared.
I just froze up.
Me and my dad got
separatedfrom Mom and Hope.
And that's the last timel saw my mom.
See, you feel like
you didn't do enough then,
so now now you have to
do everything for everyone.
I'm I'm building
a better future.
Iris, I think you're
dreaming you're dead
because you are
neglecting you.
You are not dating.
You are not
You're not pursuing your art.
Oh, I told you don't
have time for that.Exactly.
Your head is shoved so far
up the future's ass,
you've completely
abandoned the now.
There are
9,671 people here.
That is too many people
to be living for.
I've been thinking about
the endquite a lot lately,
for obvious reasons.
Our lives are more precious
than ever.
You don't want to wind up
in my position
and realize you haven't used
the years for yourself.
So how do I live
for myself?
Talk to your sister.
Let go of all that you have
been holding on to for her.
That's all I got.
Other than, well, after that,
it's your life.
Only you can figure out
how to give it meaning.
It's got a helmet!
Knock it back!
All that booze?
Three! You really
thoughtyou'd get away with it?
Four! I almost did.
Five! It's too bad I don't know
anyonesuper cool in security
that could have
given me a heads-up.
Even if I could've, you makethe
wine, you serve the time.
How come you never talk about
your life in the City?
Wasn't there long.
I like it better here.
That's insane.
Why is that insane?
'Cause the City's
like 10 times bigger
and cooler
than this place.
You know there's overa
hundred miles of crap
between us and them.
You know that, right?
If you're even
thinking of I amthinking about going.
One way or another.
It's all gonna be gone
by the time I'm old enough
to decide to go see it
by myself.
We're gonna be gone.
Everybody is so torqued up
aboutbuilding things back up again,
but it's so pointless.
You really thinkthe world's gonna end?
I knowit is.
It's not even about
the empties.
I mean, it is,
but it's about the people.
People are shit.
People turn.
It's just the odds.
It just is.
It ain't
"it is what it is."
I think it iswhat we're gonna make it.
And that's my blow line.
Everybody get low
in your horse stance.
Ready?
Repeat after me
and punch forward.
We are the masters
of our fate!
How do we form our fate?!
Hope, we have to
go through, okay?
It's the only way out.
- Health!
- Health!
- Friendship!
- Friendship!
Honesty!
- Integrity!
- Integrity!
Attention.
Bow.
Iris?
Uh, hi!
Oh, I didn't Uh, we were just, uh
We were at the janitor's
officeand saw you walk by,
and, uh, Elton found
an Easy-Bake Oven.
We made cake.
Oh, thank you, but, um.
Hey, Iris.
Hey, guys.
You have the cabinet open.
With our classmates
here.
When did it
I mean
Uh, it must have come
earlier today.
His safety
isn't assured?
Your dad's
sending messages?
You can't say anything.
We won't.
How do we know
you won't?
I sneak out.
Out there?
Regularly.
That's how I found
the Easy-Bake Oven.
That's why I wear the suit.
It's a TuffyStitch.
Kids can wear 'em.
Kids can't tear 'em.
Durable clothes
from the '90s.
Bite-proof.
I know from
controlled experiments.
Anyway, I-I go out there
lookingfor something that I lost.
And I want to see
how our world is changing.
Now you have my secret,
and I have yours.
I won't tell.
That message could mean
a lot of things.
It could mean nothing.
The CR's been
very up front about
There were
more helicopters.
Yeah, uh, Elizabeth
saidthey could only spare one,
but there were five, and someof
them had shipping containers.
You were out there?
Why the hell didn't you Who cares?
The CRM is bad, and our dad's in trouble.
And there's only one
personwho can help us help him.
Thanks for helping me
tag those empties.
I like it out here.
And if painting empties
helps Dr. Bavolar
studytheir migration patterns,
I'm happy to do it.
It's important work.
It is.
That's why I do it.
Yeah.
That's one reason.
You thrive
on the unglamorous
because you're
stilltrying to prove yourself.
Wow.
I thrive on the un
After what your parentsdid to you?
Yeah, I think so.
Man.
Alright.
You're the only one around
heredoesn't realize you're aces.
Will sure as hell
thought so.
I'm sure he still does.
Don't think I didn't
noticeyou're wearing his jacket.
Hey, he left it at my place
before he shipped out,
so what are you
gonna do?
You miss him.
I mean, he's off who knows
whereprotecting the girls' father.
I mean, what's
You miss him.
You can say it.
Yeah. I do.
I really do, okay?
Felix. What?
Your folksdealt you a bad hand.
I just want you
to be happy.
You deserve it.
And that's all
I'm trying to say.
That's nice. So, happy birthday, bitch!
Felix, you copy?
Yeah, Izzy.
Go for Felix.
I got Hope Bennett here
looking for you.
Says it's urgent.
The science exchangewith the Civic Republic
is about building trust.
This is the first time
that they've let
anyoneinside their borders,
wherever the hell
their borders are.
He's breaking
like 10 provisions
of the Four Corners Agreement
by even sending us
these messages.
Now, we knew that
before we left.
We talked about it.
So what?
He could be in danger,
Felix.
I mean, we
We have to tell someone,
or we have to have someone
check on him.
He told us not to say
anythingabout these messages
because we don't know
whatthe Civic Republic would do
if they found out.
He's such an idiot.
He's probablythe smartest person alive.
He told us not to say anything
to keep you safe.
Alright.
I promised himthat I'd keep you safe.
We don't know
if he's in trouble,
and if we did, we would
have to put our faith
in his security detail. And your boyfriend.
Will is head of your dad's
security detail
because he can
handle himself.
He can fight his way
out of anything if he has to.
I'm sorry.
We don't have
any other choice.
Hope.
Hope, come on.
Would you please
talk to me?
Hope, stop!
"My safety
not assured."
That's what it said.
That might have been
what it said,
but it's letters
and numbers.
It could be radio static.
How can you not see this?!
They are bad people,
Iris, and they have our dad!
Are you talking
about us?
The Civic Republic?
One of your
Alliance partners?
How are we bad,
exactly?
Come on.
Tell me.
You don'tlet anyone in or out.
You won't let peoplecommunicate
with your people.
Or vice versa.
You don't tell anyonewhere you are.
And you have our dad.
I have a daughter.
She's a bit older
than you guys.
She's a soldier in the CRM.
She's away from me
a great deal.
And that makes me scared
sometimes.
Then I remember
that she's helping
to protect
the Civic Republic.
She's helping us with
the Alliance of the Three.
She's taking that risk
to help us eventually
bring this world back.
And that makes me brave.
We have to be brave
in this life we have.
Simply to exist now.
I'm I'm gonna tell you
something so you can trust me.
Something that will make me
need to trust you.
Your father is teaching in
aCivic Republic research facility
in New York State.
So, this
This is a coded map,
so it doesn't show you
where in New York,
but that watermark
and that stamp,
that will show certain people
that I gave that to you.
I told you.
And if those certain people
found that out,
I would certainly
go to jail.
We have those.
Are you for real?
I am.
I also might be
a bit drunk.
How did you learn
to make champagne?
I read a book
in the Ag library.
Wait, Felix gave you
my alcohol?
Well, he said it was a generous
gift form the Campus Colony.
You really are
your father's daughter.
You both are.
I saw that when I landed,
you with your banner,
you flipping me off.
How does that make us
like our dad?
You're brave.
How'd you get out there
when she landed?
I rode in the luggage
compartment.
You're an idiot.
I am my father's daughter.
I also need a drink,
and the bitch in black
has all my alcohol.
Dad left a bottle of brandy
in his office.
Yes!
Okay, maybe that wasmore than one drink.
Hope, we slept through it.
It's bad.
Yeah.
What do we do?
Nothing.
There's nothing
we can do.
So we just deal.
We hope and we wait.
Your speech
is in an hour.
If it means anything,
I think
I think Dad
would want you to.
Dr. K?
And the message
I am here to deliver
on behalf of the Civic Republic
on this your 10th Monument Day
is one of solidarity.
The Civic Republic stands
with Portland, with Omaha,
and with you,
the Campus Colony.
You have loaned us
your greatest mind,
Dr. Leo Bennett,
who will bring other
great mindson a journey
to create the sciencethat
will bring this world back.
And it's trust we've built
that allows this to happen.
No one has given us more trust
than Leo's two daughters.
And it's my honor now
to introduce one of them.
She is Monument High
Student Council President
and future scientist
Iris Bennett.
Representatives from our
Uh, our
I have these dreams
that I'm dead.
I don't talk about them.
The person who was helping me,
she's gone.
And the last thing she told me
is that it's up to me now.
And I guess that's growing up
When the person in charge
of your life is you.
When I'm in these dreams
I feel like I've always beenin
them, like I was never alive,
like I never made it to now,
let alone the future.
The Night the Sky Fell,
I was just a little kid,
and I just jumped
to living for the future.
I think a lot of us did.
And what I figured out
I have to start with now.
And I think "now"
starts with the truth.
And the truth is
I don't trust you.
I don't know who you are.
I-I don't know
what you're doing.
You will.
Your father does.
Someday
you will understand.
That's just not
good enough.
Science is about finding the
truth, not just deciding on it.
And that that's
That's hard.
That's That's scary.
Because it means admitting that
we don't have all the answers.
And we don't know
what we'll find
when we're looking for them.
But someone once told me
that I'm brave.
That I have to be.
So I'm gonna keep working
in the now to find it.
For me.
For the Civic Republic.
For Portland.
For all of us.
Happy Monument Day.
He wasn't asking for help,
but we know he might need it.
And that's enough. Enough for what?
Enough for us to go
and help him somehow.
A-Are you serious?
Felix won't go, okay?
Not with us here
to protect.
And And Dad's message
isn't going to make him.
It's us.
We have to do it.
We know where he is.
So we go? Just us? Mm-hmm.
If things were like before,
this would still be crazy.
No one else
is gonna do it.
I know you're scared.
I am, too.
But I can't
look away anymore.
I can't lie.
And I know
you can't, either.
I froze that night.
But I'm not
freezing anymore.
Seeing Mom die
You shouldn't have had to
go through that by yourself.
Iris.
I'm glad you didn't
have to see it.
Watch out.
Watch out, baby!
Okay. Okay. You okay?
It's okay.
It's okay.
Mom!
The The truck!
We could take it.
Looks like you're the one
saving me, baby.
- Come on!
- No, no, stay, stay, stay.
Stay where you are.
- I'm taking I'm taking.
- -I'm taking this truck.
- And, uh, I'm gonna go.
- -I'm gonna go find my family.
Listen, I'm I'm not
gonna hurt you, okay?
My My husband and
And my other daughter,
they they could be
right behind us.
We can all
go together, okay?
I can't wait. I can't wait anymore.
I'm sorry.
I can't wait any
Please! Please!
Mom?
Mom!
Mom!
Mom!
Mom, please! Mom!
I'm right here, Mom!
- I'm
- Mom.
I'm glad you didn't see it.
I'm glad you didn'thave to see any of it.
So you're in?
We could die.
We could live.
And when we get there, what are we gonna
When we get there,
we'll be different.
We'll be ready.
We know a way out.
So how do you know
whereto go?
Elizabeth gave us a map
to try and get us to trust her.
He's somewhere
in New York.
You're gonna go?
All that way?
It's 1,100 miles
on foot.
We've already
mapped it out.
To get there
before it gets cold,
you'll have to
keep a good pace.
We will.
Have you seen an empty
up close before?
I've been training
how to kill them.
Look, if you're trying
to talk us out of it
Sorry. I'm not trying
to talk you out of it.
I'm trying to talk you
into letting me go with you.
Me too.
Why?
Well, you need help,
and I'd like for the time
I have left on this Earth
to mean something.
And full disclosure here,
I just want to see what's
out there before we're gone.
Before I'mgone.
Plus, I know karate.
Why do you wanna come?
I don't wanna be who everybody
thinks I am here.
Marco Voci
from the physical plant
says his nephew is missing.
It's the big kid.
Silas.
Yeah, and Elton Ortiz from
theindependent dorm is gone, too.
What?
I was training her
to fight the dead.
I was trying to help her
in my own way, man.
Listen, if they left together,
they gotta be headed for Omaha.
That's where she said
she wanted to go.
No.
No, I know where they're going.
They'll never make it.
They'll die.
What is it?
It's a-a h-horn.
From a triceratops.
It's mine.
It's what I've been going
outside the walls looking for.
I lost it a long,
long time ago.
It was supposed to be a gift
for my sister.
You had a sister?
My mother
was pregnant with her
the night
that things went bad.
We weren't together.
I never saw her again.
I'm sorry.
Don't be.
My mother used to say
the wind always wins
That is, nature decides,
and it obviously decided.
Hey, guys, you coming?
You go ahead.
I-I'll be right there.
We should get going. Felix
is gonna be coming for us.
So much cooler than the dummy
I was training with!
Sorry you got
my hand-me-downs.
Oh, don't be.
Gave it a bit
of an upgrade.
Oh, hell, yes!
Whoo!
Let's see what
discoveriesawait us, shall we?
So, you gonna tell me
what you've been writing
in your sketchbook?
Stuff I've beenthinking about,
stuff about living
in the now.
And guess what. I didn't dream last night.
Wait, no, no, no, no.
I'll do it.
I want to.
I brought us out here.
You sure?
'Cause I can do it.
I know.
The truth is the words
I say to myself.
And the truth is, I don't know
how this is going to work out.
Or if it even will.
But I'm finally living for me
in the now.
Searching for my own truth.
And do you know what?
It feels good.
Yes.
We've searched every building
on campus
and the surrounding areas.
We can't find her.
Good.