The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024) s01e02 Episode Script
Gone
Grimes, freeze!
A Lieutenant Colonel named Okafor.
He wanted me to join his program.
The CRM needs to change.
The CRM needs strong
leaders to change them.
I will try you every
morning on this walkie
for as long as I can.
I'll take it everywhere.
I'm in.
My name is Michonne.
I lost someone years ago.
Rick!
But I just found out that he might
I just found out that he's alive.
I saw two people who needed me,
your people, and I helped them.
That's it.
No other reason.
No agenda.
But I see what you have,
and I've still got a long way to go.
So, I need to ask for some help myself,
and if you're not in
a position to give it,
I understand, and I will be on my way.
First, I just want to thank you.
I appreciate that. Could I have a horse?
Before we get into that,
I just wanted to get to
know a little bit about you
and tell you about our community.
Thank you. I am impressed
with what you have, with what this is.
But that "someone "
I am eager to go because I
just found out that he's
You could be an asset
to this place, you know,
if you don't find this person.
Elle, just give her a horse.
I could just go.
I didn't mean to offend you.
You saved my sister's
boyfriend and my sister.
So we should talk about more than
Just give her a horse.
I meant to say
if you do find him, you could be part
of this community, both of you.
We have a community.
We have kids, kids who
need to see their father,
kids who I need to see.
So I have to find him,
and I have to go, now.
Go where?
It's a place called Bridgers Terminal.
It's north.
You don't want to go north. Not now.
Stay with us until
the migration is over.
Migration?
The tri-state area had
millions of people before.
Now they're the Wailing.
We don't know why,
but this time of year,
a lotta crowds, they move south.
A couple months, they move north.
It'll be safe then.
Just stay with us for a
little while, get to know us.
They say you don't
stop for anyone, ever.
Not even your own sister.
We're a community.
We live by the same
rules. We don't stop.
Trying to save two, we could lose 200.
That doesn't sound like a community.
Well, this is how we've survived.
But not everyone, right?
If you don't want to
give me a horse, I'm good.
- Wait.
- I'm out.
You know the rear guard tried
to stop me from going after them?
Of course you do. Because
I keep this place going!
Well, I'm done. I'm packing my wagon.
- Nat
- I'm packing my wagon
and the rest of my goddamn toys, too.
She was your sister,
and they were my friends.
This system is bullshit, Elle.
We're strong enough to stop.
We're strong enough to save people.
What the hell is the point otherwise?
I mean, Jesus Christ,
she was your sister.
Nat.
Holy shit.
- What the hell happened?
- Hurt my ankle.
I w I went after both of you.
Nat, Nat, she saved us.
Hi.
And you just brought them back?
They asked for my
help, so I helped them.
You want your own wagon?
You ride VIP with us
from now on. Say the word.
Thanks, but, uh, even if I
didn't have somewhere to be,
I don't leave people behind.
Yeah. Me either.
But you're here.
Where's this "somewhere" you gotta be?
A place called Bridgers Shipyard.
- North.
- Well, shit.
That's a stupid-ass plan.
You know about the migration?
Five-mile-wide hordes of the Wailing?
I'm going.
Looks like you are.
Lemme get you a horse.
You can have your pick.
- Nat
- She can have her goddamn pick!
You waiting on a call?
Just trying to be home
some way till I can.
Come with me.
Shoto.
Love you.
I love you both.
You said one hour.
Where's the horse, Nat?
You need more than a horse,
and I need more than an hour.
Come on. You ain't
got much daylight left.
Stick with us for a night.
Sleep in a bed.
Do your suicide commission tomorrow.
Got you one of the best.
That's my sister's horse,
and she doesn't know it yet.
And we can't wait to tell her.
There you go, Michonne.
You can bounce right now.
But if you give us a night,
give us a chance to equip you,
tell you how some of
said equipment works,
well, maybe you'll survive
30 more seconds of your trip
once you hit the Delaware border.
One night.
- And I'm leaving at dawn.
- Lovebirds!
None of those emergency hides for her.
No. Something custom.
We measure, you get to work,
I walk right through the screamsticks
God help her then she sleeps
so she can face oblivion with some pep,
and we do an all-nighter.
Copy that.
Measure what?
And what are screamsticks?
You'll find out.
Really?
Thank you for the armor, the
horse, and everything else.
Michonne, you're gonna find him.
I know it.
'Cause I found him, you found us.
Circles, you know?
So, let me get this straight.
Rick blew up on a bridge,
and it's been years?
- Tread lightly, Nat.
- What he said.
Alright, alright, alright. It's just
I like these two, and now I like you.
I'm not too keen on
losing 33% of the people
I can stand on this planet,
however recent the acquaintance.
They leave people to die.
Why do you stay with them?
I didn't like it before, either.
It was the same thing then, right?
People were left to die.
Yeah, but it's not before anymore.
I think you're all too smart
not to find another way.
Ah. I guess we're
surprisingly stupid, Michonne.
Or afraid.
I'm glad I met you three.
Good luck.
You, too.
Come on. Let's go.
Hey.
You said your kids
were in Virginia, right?
You can try, but you're
gonna be out of range soon
if you aren't already.
You can still talk to them, though.
Then you can show it to
them when you get back.
I thought this was suicide.
It is.
I was just being nice.
Shoto.
Shoto.
Hyah!
Would you look at that.
What are you guys doing here?
Well, we didn't want to be
afraid and stupid anymore.
Turns out, others felt the same way.
Good thing we went looking for you, huh?
Wait with us while the Wailings split.
You see these fires? They're gonna burn
on either side of the
valley for a while.
Ugh.
Yep.
Natty said you'd need a beer.
Dude's never wrong.
It's annoying as hell.
Yeah, I'm gonna need some.
Alright. I-I know the story well.
Oh, my gosh.
You fell off your horse?
Oh, my God.
I didn't fall off.
I was knocked off.
There was a Gasman.
- A Gasman?
- Yeah.
I'm not gonna ask further about that.
The purple light, what was that?
If I ever left, I had this
idea for clearing valleys
huge, localized, long-lasting burns.
I had the chemicals in my red wagon.
I got a lotta toys in there.
And, uh, the fuel is out there
you know, buildings, vehicles, whatever.
Bailey and Aiden wanted to go after you,
which is insane for a
multitude of reasons,
but they had enough.
I had enough a long
time ago, but I stuck.
Kept on thinking, "Just a little longer.
Next spring."
Maybe when I made the right weapon,
had the right plan, and years went by.
It was time to go a long time ago.
I knew it. And look at that.
You know, a lot of people felt
the same way, and suddenly,
I had more than just the
chemicals in my red wagon.
Thank you.
Thank you for waking our asses up.
It's a big move for us.
Yeah, it was.
I know how to build things
and I know how to burn things.
But it takes more than that
at the end of the world.
You showed them that.
You showed me that.
We'll take you as far as you need.
When I get Rick, you'll come
back home with me, all of you.
You'll be a part of it.
It's just gonna take a little building.
That I can do.
And now I am going to sleep.
Mm.
I'm gonna get you something to eat.
No, no. I'm fine.
I know.
You need to eat.
You're pregnant.
I was, um, craving honey.
And I was just hoping we
were gonna come across a hive
at some point, and Bailey
saw me looking in the trees,
and he told me that he saw a
billboard for a big-box store.
He was trying to surprise me.
Apparently, honey just
never expires, I guess.
That's why That's
why he was out there.
But I found him.
And you found us.
It's okay.
You and Bailey should go back now.
I'll tell you what to tell them.
You should take some others
to help you get there.
It'll take a week or two.
The map says we're close
to Bridgers Terminal.
We want to be there when you find Rick.
No. You should go.
We will.
After you find Rick.
Okay.
Nat, if you only like us,
what about all these
people who came with you?
They've gone up a letter
grade, that's for sure.
But not quite to "like".
Who else in your life?
Uh, me and my mom.
My dad wasn't in the picture.
Supreme asshole didn't
want a "little" little kid.
Nice, huh?
And I had bullies.
A lot of 'em.
So I started burning things,
blowing things up in the woods.
And then my mom, she,
uh she met this guy
called himself Danger,
if you can believe it.
She worked at a truly
horrible chicken place
14 hours a day and had
one very troubled kid,
who hated Danger as
soon as he looked at him.
And this guy, with this stupid name,
looked at that and said, "Hell yes."
Whoa!
What's wrong?
There's something in the front.
I got it.
Anyway, he married my mom,
and right after he moved in,
suddenly, Danger had these
problems he needed solved.
You know, like, that
he needed me to solve.
Couldn't load his truck
with his bum shoulder,
so I built him a lift and runners
out of stuff from the garage.
I built him a temperature
gauge he could call on his phone
to see if he left the stove on,
a timer that shut off the sink
so he wouldn't leave it running,
but could he have loaded his truck?
Did he forget to turn
off the stove, the sink?
Or did the sonofabitch focus me up
on how I could build
things instead of burn them?
Guess that's somebody else I liked.
Sounds like you loved him.
Well, shit.
Sure sounds like it.
Well, I love you, Nat.
Please shut up.
Me, too, Nat.
I love you.
Scatter!
Cover your mouths with fabric!
Wet it with your canteens!
Guys!
Go back to them.
Go back to your babies.
Don't don't risk it.
Don't risk it.
Can't get air.
Air.
Air.
There's a medical plaza back there.
They may have oxygen tanks.
Find something to tie her to the bed.
Don't fall asleep next to her.
Thank you.
I couldn't do it.
Not him.
She was she was right.
When you can, you need to go home.
It's been too long.
He's gone.
No.
No.
It was chlorine gas.
Read about it as a kid.
Used to dream about dropping
it on the football team.
The gas burned out
our lungs, our throats.
Gonna take a while to get better,
if we do get better.
I told you.
I knew when to go.
And I didn't.
And they all died.
You gotta know when to go.
You gotta know when to go,
you gotta know when to give up.
That guy, Danger, your stepdad.
He didn't give up, right?
Didn't give up on you.
Gotta think it was 'cause of your mom.
You gotta think it was 'cause of love.
I marked the map.
You can go to Alexandria.
You're strong enough now.
I go to your home and you
go to Bridgers Terminal?
Should be the other way around.
- This is how it's gotta be.
- No.
Aiden and Bailey were supposed to go.
- They didn't. Now you
- This is all I got!
Okay?
You.
That's it.
That's it.
We'll leave in the morning.
One stop first.
My wagon. It's close.
And I'll fix that cart,
load it with my gear.
What, you expecting me to pull it?
Yeah, I am.
You coming
is it about wanting to see how it ends?
Nope.
I know how it ends.
Hey, hold up.
Yeah, I didn't think so.
The boat where you found his boots
this is where it was last.
These people are all burnt up.
Can't tell one from the other.
And most of 'em, they
don't have any shoes.
I felt him.
I still feel him.
Your phone, you know what it says?
The Japanese?
"Believe a little bit longer."
You've been telling me to go home.
You should.
But you can still
believe he's out there.
It's been right in
front of me, hasn't it?
All this time, it's been
right in front of me.
It's been so long.
If he were alive
he would've found his way.
You don't know.
Not for sure.
You can believe he's out
there, that he's not gone.
You can believe a little longer
and still go home to your kids.
You you can know when to go.
You can do both.
I can do it with you.
I will.
It's not giving up.
Shoto.
Shoto.
We'll start getting close
enough in the next few days.
We should find a place to sleep.
Just a little farther.
Whoa, whoa.
What?
It's them.
Grab the cart from
that thing. We gotta go.
- I'm not running from them, Nat.
- Neither am I.
Let's go!
Two minutes, five minutes.
I don't know. They're
flying low as shit.
- Like this?
- Yeah.
It's for protection.
I've practiced with it.
Damn it. It was a dud.
Lay low. We're wide open.
Free fire to the line!
I got them.
Unless you get them first.
Got eyes on you and them.
You should go.
We will.
After you find Rick.
You're pregnant.
I couldn't do it.
Not him.
Look at me.
You can believe a little longer
and still go home to your kids.
You can lose me.
I found you!
Oh, God.
Judith is she is she alive?
She's okay.
She's okay, Rick.
Yeah.
I'm I'm not I'm not with them.
I know.
They're coming.
- More.
- Of them?
- Yes.
- Then we go.
No, no, no. It's too late.
They're coming.
Say you have another name, that
that you came out of the forest
and you saw the solders being attacked.
You you were part
of a community that fell
years ago some someplace small.
- What?
- Don't show them who you are.
What I am?
Strong.
A leader.
You hide it.
They're they're gonna be here.
- We'll go back with them. We We have to.
- No.
- What?
- I promise. I Michonne, I promise.
I'll make it so we get away.
I found you.
Michonne?
Christ.
Is that him?
Uh, he he he's not with them.
Well, how the hell
Nat!
Is is it still him?
Can you tell?
I can.
See?
You can still believe and know when
Nat?
No, no. No, no, no.
Nat. Nat.
No, no, no.
Nat.
No.
He helped you get here?
Yeah.
Sorry.
Michonne, do you have anything with you
that could tell them
about you or Alexandria?
Maps, notes, anything?
A a a journal.
A-a radio.
A phone.
Your boots.
I need 'em.
You need to say he had the sword,
that you took one of the soldiers' guns
off the ground and you stopped him.
We're gonna be separated,
but I'll find you as soon as it's safe.
I promise.
I need to have my gun on you,
and you need to put your hands up.
They have to see that.
And call them something else.
Don't call them walkers.
I called them that.
We will get away.
I love you!
My name is Dana,
and I've been out there
a long time by myself
so long that it's strange
to hear my own voice.
I was in Georgia for a
long time with my boyfriend
and about 40 people,
with some leaders that
I thought were good.
My sister, Elle.
And then things changed.
They changed.
I saw it.
I knew we should go.
You always really know when to go.
And what was your weapon
of choice out there?
Bo staff.
I lost it, like, months ago.
I've been making do with that knife.
Does it bother you that
you're being observed?
No.
I just haven't seen myself in a while.
This is a place of law.
We are on a base on
the outskirts of a city
that is a remnant of the life we knew.
Its security is our top priority,
which means you can never leave.
How do you feel about that?
I feel that what's here,
it's what I've been looking for.
It's what I've been trying to believe in
just a little while longer.
They believed you.
How do you know?
You're here.
It happened a long time
ago, one of the last times
I tried to get home.
One of the last times?
They had me trapped.
They don't have me anymore.
We will get away.
Together.
They're okay? She's okay?
Yes.
She's okay.
She
What is it?
- When we get away
- No, she's okay?
She's us, Rick.
The rest when we get away.
Look, if I pass you a note somehow,
you read it and destroy it.
They killed people,
Rick. Dozens of people.
They're killing people out there.
- Have you had to
- No.
No.
The ones in red.
They go out sometimes.
They come back covered in blood.
Most of us don't know what they do.
I didn't know.
But I knew.
I was stuck here.
Could we stop them?
No.
Could we try?
We'd never get back.
Sorry about your friend.
He should have lived.
They all should have lived.
I'm here now.
We're here together now.
And we're gonna get home.
Does it bother you that
you're being observed?
No. I just haven't
seen myself in a while.
This is a place of law.
We are on a base on
the outskirts of a city
that is a remnant of the life we knew.
Move!
Hi, Rick.
Sorry for breaking in.
Technically, this is an investigation,
but I'm not filing paperwork.
Let's keep this off the books.
Let's continue to keep certain
things between you and me,
as we have.
It's been a while.
You look good.
It's amazing what's happened.
Truly amazing.
I mean, in a world where
most people are dead,
the living can continue
to bump into each other.
I can see that.
But still, she found you.
If anyone could, she could.
She was with him.
The little one.
I mean, of course, it was her sword.
But I'm keeping that off the books.
Just up here.
This doesn't fall under
our longstanding deal.
You have to know that if
you try to escape with her,
I will make sure that all
those people that you love die,
including a few that I like very much.
You have to know that.
I'm certain that you do.
I've had to do things like that.
My hands are already covered in blood.
They can't get any bloodier.
So I have to ask you this question,
and I'm sorry for the language,
but you've heard a lot
of language from me.
Yes, yes, yes.
Rick, what the fuck are you doing?
You and her, leaving?
You know that can't be had.
There's a woman who saved me
and I don't want them to send her away.
She said that she was
looking for safety in numbers.
Thing is, she doesn't look like someone
who relies on others for safety.
So my question is, who are you?
Just Dana.
My name is Michonne.
I lost someone.
Years ago.
Rick!
It's been a long time
since we've seen Michonne.
And this is a pickup
from a different time
than we saw Rick in.
At the start of the series,
Michonne is on a very specific task.
She needs to follow this trail
and hopefully find her man.
And she has, from the very beginning,
really believed that
he was not gone forever
and that he had not died.
So she has a very clear mission in mind.
She was sidetracked
by saving some people.
When people do need
help, that's who she is
and that is what slows her down.
But then it's also what introduces her
to this wonderful few
friends that she finds
that really help her along the way.
They leave people to die.
Why do you stay with them?
I didn't like it before either.
It's not before anymore.
She recognizes Nat and
Bailey and Aiden as strong,
smart people, but they
have their own pragmatism,
this group, which is like, hey,
if people fall out of this
caravan, we cannot stop.
But Michonne doesn't
leave people behind.
And that is something
that strikes a chord.
And a small group splinters
off to join Michonne,
and they're attacked by this
mysterious and brutal force
that attacks them for
seemingly no reason.
Scatter!
It's pouring down!
The reason is that
they were getting close to Philadelphia.
I mean, they weren't
knocking on the door of it,
but if the CRM sees a caravan of people
moving north in New Jersey,
they're just going to eliminate them.
It's that attack that
builds a great deal of hatred
in Michonne towards them.
You've been telling me to go home.
You should.
But you can still
believe he's out there.
I think Nat's encouraging Michonne
to keep going is really tricky,
because I don't know
if Nat really believed
that Rick was still alive.
He gave her the remedy of how to go on
without trying to actually
pursue finding Rick anymore,
and she just accepted it.
And Nat is the one to bolster her up,
in the same way that
Michonne inspired Nat
to finally leave his toxic community.
Grab the card from that thing.
- We gotta go.
- I'm not running from them Nat.
Neither am I. Let's go.
Nat comes from a tech background,
so he really is brilliant
at knowing how to
create survival tactics,
and has been thinking up ways
to overcome the Walker issue
and creating things all along the way.
And really, what he is able to do
with all these technological things,
the little missiles that he creates,
is what brings Rick's helicopter down
and reunites Rick and Michonne.
I found you. Oh. Oh.
The reunion of Michonne and Rick,
I mean, Andy and Danai and
I mapped out these episodes.
So this is something
we were talking about
in a hotel conference room
in New York a year before,
and here we are all doing it,
and it was incredibly emotional.
But it's also amazing to see
them embody their own ideas
and get to play the story
that we wrote together.
I was like, "Yes!" like, "Yes!"
I'm so glad you guys are back.
And there's this passion
and it was just exciting to watch.
It was really, really
powerful to be reconnected.
Her belief and her
faith actually paid off.
I found you.
Rick and Michonne have always
had a really strong chemistry
and their love for each other.
It was an intense,
powerful, beautiful day,
and a lot of different emotions
coursed through both characters
that were expected and unexpected.
Is that him?
Uh, he he's not with them.
Well, how the hell
I think it's a very
cinematic ending for Nat.
He goes knowing that he kind
of completed his his journey.
The idea that he then sees that her love
and her faith won out and broke through,
and that he actually
helped her get there.
I think it was a very important,
beautiful thing for him.
He's dying, but there's
this spark of joy,
almost nirvana. You know
that for the first time,
he felt like his tools
were put to good use.
There's so much horror
to what's happening,
but there is this
strange valence of light.
We're gonna be separated.
But I'll find you
as soon as it's safe, I promise.
Michonne is just thrust
into another situation,
another world, and another Rick
that she doesn't entirely recognize.
But the way that he's acting speaks
to the impossible
situation that they're in,
and he is certain they're
going to get out of it.
They've got to play it a certain way.
Hi, Rick.
Sorry for breaking in.
Technically, this is an investigation.
When Danai and Andy
started talking about this story
we all had a mind that we
wanted to bring Jadis back in.
Jadis heightens the stakes,
and she was never worried
about Rick escaping.
But Michonne shows up,
the two of them together,
they can do anything.
I have to ask you this question.
Rick, what the fuck are you doing?
A Lieutenant Colonel named Okafor.
He wanted me to join his program.
The CRM needs to change.
The CRM needs strong
leaders to change them.
I will try you every
morning on this walkie
for as long as I can.
I'll take it everywhere.
I'm in.
My name is Michonne.
I lost someone years ago.
Rick!
But I just found out that he might
I just found out that he's alive.
I saw two people who needed me,
your people, and I helped them.
That's it.
No other reason.
No agenda.
But I see what you have,
and I've still got a long way to go.
So, I need to ask for some help myself,
and if you're not in
a position to give it,
I understand, and I will be on my way.
First, I just want to thank you.
I appreciate that. Could I have a horse?
Before we get into that,
I just wanted to get to
know a little bit about you
and tell you about our community.
Thank you. I am impressed
with what you have, with what this is.
But that "someone "
I am eager to go because I
just found out that he's
You could be an asset
to this place, you know,
if you don't find this person.
Elle, just give her a horse.
I could just go.
I didn't mean to offend you.
You saved my sister's
boyfriend and my sister.
So we should talk about more than
Just give her a horse.
I meant to say
if you do find him, you could be part
of this community, both of you.
We have a community.
We have kids, kids who
need to see their father,
kids who I need to see.
So I have to find him,
and I have to go, now.
Go where?
It's a place called Bridgers Terminal.
It's north.
You don't want to go north. Not now.
Stay with us until
the migration is over.
Migration?
The tri-state area had
millions of people before.
Now they're the Wailing.
We don't know why,
but this time of year,
a lotta crowds, they move south.
A couple months, they move north.
It'll be safe then.
Just stay with us for a
little while, get to know us.
They say you don't
stop for anyone, ever.
Not even your own sister.
We're a community.
We live by the same
rules. We don't stop.
Trying to save two, we could lose 200.
That doesn't sound like a community.
Well, this is how we've survived.
But not everyone, right?
If you don't want to
give me a horse, I'm good.
- Wait.
- I'm out.
You know the rear guard tried
to stop me from going after them?
Of course you do. Because
I keep this place going!
Well, I'm done. I'm packing my wagon.
- Nat
- I'm packing my wagon
and the rest of my goddamn toys, too.
She was your sister,
and they were my friends.
This system is bullshit, Elle.
We're strong enough to stop.
We're strong enough to save people.
What the hell is the point otherwise?
I mean, Jesus Christ,
she was your sister.
Nat.
Holy shit.
- What the hell happened?
- Hurt my ankle.
I w I went after both of you.
Nat, Nat, she saved us.
Hi.
And you just brought them back?
They asked for my
help, so I helped them.
You want your own wagon?
You ride VIP with us
from now on. Say the word.
Thanks, but, uh, even if I
didn't have somewhere to be,
I don't leave people behind.
Yeah. Me either.
But you're here.
Where's this "somewhere" you gotta be?
A place called Bridgers Shipyard.
- North.
- Well, shit.
That's a stupid-ass plan.
You know about the migration?
Five-mile-wide hordes of the Wailing?
I'm going.
Looks like you are.
Lemme get you a horse.
You can have your pick.
- Nat
- She can have her goddamn pick!
You waiting on a call?
Just trying to be home
some way till I can.
Come with me.
Shoto.
Love you.
I love you both.
You said one hour.
Where's the horse, Nat?
You need more than a horse,
and I need more than an hour.
Come on. You ain't
got much daylight left.
Stick with us for a night.
Sleep in a bed.
Do your suicide commission tomorrow.
Got you one of the best.
That's my sister's horse,
and she doesn't know it yet.
And we can't wait to tell her.
There you go, Michonne.
You can bounce right now.
But if you give us a night,
give us a chance to equip you,
tell you how some of
said equipment works,
well, maybe you'll survive
30 more seconds of your trip
once you hit the Delaware border.
One night.
- And I'm leaving at dawn.
- Lovebirds!
None of those emergency hides for her.
No. Something custom.
We measure, you get to work,
I walk right through the screamsticks
God help her then she sleeps
so she can face oblivion with some pep,
and we do an all-nighter.
Copy that.
Measure what?
And what are screamsticks?
You'll find out.
Really?
Thank you for the armor, the
horse, and everything else.
Michonne, you're gonna find him.
I know it.
'Cause I found him, you found us.
Circles, you know?
So, let me get this straight.
Rick blew up on a bridge,
and it's been years?
- Tread lightly, Nat.
- What he said.
Alright, alright, alright. It's just
I like these two, and now I like you.
I'm not too keen on
losing 33% of the people
I can stand on this planet,
however recent the acquaintance.
They leave people to die.
Why do you stay with them?
I didn't like it before, either.
It was the same thing then, right?
People were left to die.
Yeah, but it's not before anymore.
I think you're all too smart
not to find another way.
Ah. I guess we're
surprisingly stupid, Michonne.
Or afraid.
I'm glad I met you three.
Good luck.
You, too.
Come on. Let's go.
Hey.
You said your kids
were in Virginia, right?
You can try, but you're
gonna be out of range soon
if you aren't already.
You can still talk to them, though.
Then you can show it to
them when you get back.
I thought this was suicide.
It is.
I was just being nice.
Shoto.
Shoto.
Hyah!
Would you look at that.
What are you guys doing here?
Well, we didn't want to be
afraid and stupid anymore.
Turns out, others felt the same way.
Good thing we went looking for you, huh?
Wait with us while the Wailings split.
You see these fires? They're gonna burn
on either side of the
valley for a while.
Ugh.
Yep.
Natty said you'd need a beer.
Dude's never wrong.
It's annoying as hell.
Yeah, I'm gonna need some.
Alright. I-I know the story well.
Oh, my gosh.
You fell off your horse?
Oh, my God.
I didn't fall off.
I was knocked off.
There was a Gasman.
- A Gasman?
- Yeah.
I'm not gonna ask further about that.
The purple light, what was that?
If I ever left, I had this
idea for clearing valleys
huge, localized, long-lasting burns.
I had the chemicals in my red wagon.
I got a lotta toys in there.
And, uh, the fuel is out there
you know, buildings, vehicles, whatever.
Bailey and Aiden wanted to go after you,
which is insane for a
multitude of reasons,
but they had enough.
I had enough a long
time ago, but I stuck.
Kept on thinking, "Just a little longer.
Next spring."
Maybe when I made the right weapon,
had the right plan, and years went by.
It was time to go a long time ago.
I knew it. And look at that.
You know, a lot of people felt
the same way, and suddenly,
I had more than just the
chemicals in my red wagon.
Thank you.
Thank you for waking our asses up.
It's a big move for us.
Yeah, it was.
I know how to build things
and I know how to burn things.
But it takes more than that
at the end of the world.
You showed them that.
You showed me that.
We'll take you as far as you need.
When I get Rick, you'll come
back home with me, all of you.
You'll be a part of it.
It's just gonna take a little building.
That I can do.
And now I am going to sleep.
Mm.
I'm gonna get you something to eat.
No, no. I'm fine.
I know.
You need to eat.
You're pregnant.
I was, um, craving honey.
And I was just hoping we
were gonna come across a hive
at some point, and Bailey
saw me looking in the trees,
and he told me that he saw a
billboard for a big-box store.
He was trying to surprise me.
Apparently, honey just
never expires, I guess.
That's why That's
why he was out there.
But I found him.
And you found us.
It's okay.
You and Bailey should go back now.
I'll tell you what to tell them.
You should take some others
to help you get there.
It'll take a week or two.
The map says we're close
to Bridgers Terminal.
We want to be there when you find Rick.
No. You should go.
We will.
After you find Rick.
Okay.
Nat, if you only like us,
what about all these
people who came with you?
They've gone up a letter
grade, that's for sure.
But not quite to "like".
Who else in your life?
Uh, me and my mom.
My dad wasn't in the picture.
Supreme asshole didn't
want a "little" little kid.
Nice, huh?
And I had bullies.
A lot of 'em.
So I started burning things,
blowing things up in the woods.
And then my mom, she,
uh she met this guy
called himself Danger,
if you can believe it.
She worked at a truly
horrible chicken place
14 hours a day and had
one very troubled kid,
who hated Danger as
soon as he looked at him.
And this guy, with this stupid name,
looked at that and said, "Hell yes."
Whoa!
What's wrong?
There's something in the front.
I got it.
Anyway, he married my mom,
and right after he moved in,
suddenly, Danger had these
problems he needed solved.
You know, like, that
he needed me to solve.
Couldn't load his truck
with his bum shoulder,
so I built him a lift and runners
out of stuff from the garage.
I built him a temperature
gauge he could call on his phone
to see if he left the stove on,
a timer that shut off the sink
so he wouldn't leave it running,
but could he have loaded his truck?
Did he forget to turn
off the stove, the sink?
Or did the sonofabitch focus me up
on how I could build
things instead of burn them?
Guess that's somebody else I liked.
Sounds like you loved him.
Well, shit.
Sure sounds like it.
Well, I love you, Nat.
Please shut up.
Me, too, Nat.
I love you.
Scatter!
Cover your mouths with fabric!
Wet it with your canteens!
Guys!
Go back to them.
Go back to your babies.
Don't don't risk it.
Don't risk it.
Can't get air.
Air.
Air.
There's a medical plaza back there.
They may have oxygen tanks.
Find something to tie her to the bed.
Don't fall asleep next to her.
Thank you.
I couldn't do it.
Not him.
She was she was right.
When you can, you need to go home.
It's been too long.
He's gone.
No.
No.
It was chlorine gas.
Read about it as a kid.
Used to dream about dropping
it on the football team.
The gas burned out
our lungs, our throats.
Gonna take a while to get better,
if we do get better.
I told you.
I knew when to go.
And I didn't.
And they all died.
You gotta know when to go.
You gotta know when to go,
you gotta know when to give up.
That guy, Danger, your stepdad.
He didn't give up, right?
Didn't give up on you.
Gotta think it was 'cause of your mom.
You gotta think it was 'cause of love.
I marked the map.
You can go to Alexandria.
You're strong enough now.
I go to your home and you
go to Bridgers Terminal?
Should be the other way around.
- This is how it's gotta be.
- No.
Aiden and Bailey were supposed to go.
- They didn't. Now you
- This is all I got!
Okay?
You.
That's it.
That's it.
We'll leave in the morning.
One stop first.
My wagon. It's close.
And I'll fix that cart,
load it with my gear.
What, you expecting me to pull it?
Yeah, I am.
You coming
is it about wanting to see how it ends?
Nope.
I know how it ends.
Hey, hold up.
Yeah, I didn't think so.
The boat where you found his boots
this is where it was last.
These people are all burnt up.
Can't tell one from the other.
And most of 'em, they
don't have any shoes.
I felt him.
I still feel him.
Your phone, you know what it says?
The Japanese?
"Believe a little bit longer."
You've been telling me to go home.
You should.
But you can still
believe he's out there.
It's been right in
front of me, hasn't it?
All this time, it's been
right in front of me.
It's been so long.
If he were alive
he would've found his way.
You don't know.
Not for sure.
You can believe he's out
there, that he's not gone.
You can believe a little longer
and still go home to your kids.
You you can know when to go.
You can do both.
I can do it with you.
I will.
It's not giving up.
Shoto.
Shoto.
We'll start getting close
enough in the next few days.
We should find a place to sleep.
Just a little farther.
Whoa, whoa.
What?
It's them.
Grab the cart from
that thing. We gotta go.
- I'm not running from them, Nat.
- Neither am I.
Let's go!
Two minutes, five minutes.
I don't know. They're
flying low as shit.
- Like this?
- Yeah.
It's for protection.
I've practiced with it.
Damn it. It was a dud.
Lay low. We're wide open.
Free fire to the line!
I got them.
Unless you get them first.
Got eyes on you and them.
You should go.
We will.
After you find Rick.
You're pregnant.
I couldn't do it.
Not him.
Look at me.
You can believe a little longer
and still go home to your kids.
You can lose me.
I found you!
Oh, God.
Judith is she is she alive?
She's okay.
She's okay, Rick.
Yeah.
I'm I'm not I'm not with them.
I know.
They're coming.
- More.
- Of them?
- Yes.
- Then we go.
No, no, no. It's too late.
They're coming.
Say you have another name, that
that you came out of the forest
and you saw the solders being attacked.
You you were part
of a community that fell
years ago some someplace small.
- What?
- Don't show them who you are.
What I am?
Strong.
A leader.
You hide it.
They're they're gonna be here.
- We'll go back with them. We We have to.
- No.
- What?
- I promise. I Michonne, I promise.
I'll make it so we get away.
I found you.
Michonne?
Christ.
Is that him?
Uh, he he he's not with them.
Well, how the hell
Nat!
Is is it still him?
Can you tell?
I can.
See?
You can still believe and know when
Nat?
No, no. No, no, no.
Nat. Nat.
No, no, no.
Nat.
No.
He helped you get here?
Yeah.
Sorry.
Michonne, do you have anything with you
that could tell them
about you or Alexandria?
Maps, notes, anything?
A a a journal.
A-a radio.
A phone.
Your boots.
I need 'em.
You need to say he had the sword,
that you took one of the soldiers' guns
off the ground and you stopped him.
We're gonna be separated,
but I'll find you as soon as it's safe.
I promise.
I need to have my gun on you,
and you need to put your hands up.
They have to see that.
And call them something else.
Don't call them walkers.
I called them that.
We will get away.
I love you!
My name is Dana,
and I've been out there
a long time by myself
so long that it's strange
to hear my own voice.
I was in Georgia for a
long time with my boyfriend
and about 40 people,
with some leaders that
I thought were good.
My sister, Elle.
And then things changed.
They changed.
I saw it.
I knew we should go.
You always really know when to go.
And what was your weapon
of choice out there?
Bo staff.
I lost it, like, months ago.
I've been making do with that knife.
Does it bother you that
you're being observed?
No.
I just haven't seen myself in a while.
This is a place of law.
We are on a base on
the outskirts of a city
that is a remnant of the life we knew.
Its security is our top priority,
which means you can never leave.
How do you feel about that?
I feel that what's here,
it's what I've been looking for.
It's what I've been trying to believe in
just a little while longer.
They believed you.
How do you know?
You're here.
It happened a long time
ago, one of the last times
I tried to get home.
One of the last times?
They had me trapped.
They don't have me anymore.
We will get away.
Together.
They're okay? She's okay?
Yes.
She's okay.
She
What is it?
- When we get away
- No, she's okay?
She's us, Rick.
The rest when we get away.
Look, if I pass you a note somehow,
you read it and destroy it.
They killed people,
Rick. Dozens of people.
They're killing people out there.
- Have you had to
- No.
No.
The ones in red.
They go out sometimes.
They come back covered in blood.
Most of us don't know what they do.
I didn't know.
But I knew.
I was stuck here.
Could we stop them?
No.
Could we try?
We'd never get back.
Sorry about your friend.
He should have lived.
They all should have lived.
I'm here now.
We're here together now.
And we're gonna get home.
Does it bother you that
you're being observed?
No. I just haven't
seen myself in a while.
This is a place of law.
We are on a base on
the outskirts of a city
that is a remnant of the life we knew.
Move!
Hi, Rick.
Sorry for breaking in.
Technically, this is an investigation,
but I'm not filing paperwork.
Let's keep this off the books.
Let's continue to keep certain
things between you and me,
as we have.
It's been a while.
You look good.
It's amazing what's happened.
Truly amazing.
I mean, in a world where
most people are dead,
the living can continue
to bump into each other.
I can see that.
But still, she found you.
If anyone could, she could.
She was with him.
The little one.
I mean, of course, it was her sword.
But I'm keeping that off the books.
Just up here.
This doesn't fall under
our longstanding deal.
You have to know that if
you try to escape with her,
I will make sure that all
those people that you love die,
including a few that I like very much.
You have to know that.
I'm certain that you do.
I've had to do things like that.
My hands are already covered in blood.
They can't get any bloodier.
So I have to ask you this question,
and I'm sorry for the language,
but you've heard a lot
of language from me.
Yes, yes, yes.
Rick, what the fuck are you doing?
You and her, leaving?
You know that can't be had.
There's a woman who saved me
and I don't want them to send her away.
She said that she was
looking for safety in numbers.
Thing is, she doesn't look like someone
who relies on others for safety.
So my question is, who are you?
Just Dana.
My name is Michonne.
I lost someone.
Years ago.
Rick!
It's been a long time
since we've seen Michonne.
And this is a pickup
from a different time
than we saw Rick in.
At the start of the series,
Michonne is on a very specific task.
She needs to follow this trail
and hopefully find her man.
And she has, from the very beginning,
really believed that
he was not gone forever
and that he had not died.
So she has a very clear mission in mind.
She was sidetracked
by saving some people.
When people do need
help, that's who she is
and that is what slows her down.
But then it's also what introduces her
to this wonderful few
friends that she finds
that really help her along the way.
They leave people to die.
Why do you stay with them?
I didn't like it before either.
It's not before anymore.
She recognizes Nat and
Bailey and Aiden as strong,
smart people, but they
have their own pragmatism,
this group, which is like, hey,
if people fall out of this
caravan, we cannot stop.
But Michonne doesn't
leave people behind.
And that is something
that strikes a chord.
And a small group splinters
off to join Michonne,
and they're attacked by this
mysterious and brutal force
that attacks them for
seemingly no reason.
Scatter!
It's pouring down!
The reason is that
they were getting close to Philadelphia.
I mean, they weren't
knocking on the door of it,
but if the CRM sees a caravan of people
moving north in New Jersey,
they're just going to eliminate them.
It's that attack that
builds a great deal of hatred
in Michonne towards them.
You've been telling me to go home.
You should.
But you can still
believe he's out there.
I think Nat's encouraging Michonne
to keep going is really tricky,
because I don't know
if Nat really believed
that Rick was still alive.
He gave her the remedy of how to go on
without trying to actually
pursue finding Rick anymore,
and she just accepted it.
And Nat is the one to bolster her up,
in the same way that
Michonne inspired Nat
to finally leave his toxic community.
Grab the card from that thing.
- We gotta go.
- I'm not running from them Nat.
Neither am I. Let's go.
Nat comes from a tech background,
so he really is brilliant
at knowing how to
create survival tactics,
and has been thinking up ways
to overcome the Walker issue
and creating things all along the way.
And really, what he is able to do
with all these technological things,
the little missiles that he creates,
is what brings Rick's helicopter down
and reunites Rick and Michonne.
I found you. Oh. Oh.
The reunion of Michonne and Rick,
I mean, Andy and Danai and
I mapped out these episodes.
So this is something
we were talking about
in a hotel conference room
in New York a year before,
and here we are all doing it,
and it was incredibly emotional.
But it's also amazing to see
them embody their own ideas
and get to play the story
that we wrote together.
I was like, "Yes!" like, "Yes!"
I'm so glad you guys are back.
And there's this passion
and it was just exciting to watch.
It was really, really
powerful to be reconnected.
Her belief and her
faith actually paid off.
I found you.
Rick and Michonne have always
had a really strong chemistry
and their love for each other.
It was an intense,
powerful, beautiful day,
and a lot of different emotions
coursed through both characters
that were expected and unexpected.
Is that him?
Uh, he he's not with them.
Well, how the hell
I think it's a very
cinematic ending for Nat.
He goes knowing that he kind
of completed his his journey.
The idea that he then sees that her love
and her faith won out and broke through,
and that he actually
helped her get there.
I think it was a very important,
beautiful thing for him.
He's dying, but there's
this spark of joy,
almost nirvana. You know
that for the first time,
he felt like his tools
were put to good use.
There's so much horror
to what's happening,
but there is this
strange valence of light.
We're gonna be separated.
But I'll find you
as soon as it's safe, I promise.
Michonne is just thrust
into another situation,
another world, and another Rick
that she doesn't entirely recognize.
But the way that he's acting speaks
to the impossible
situation that they're in,
and he is certain they're
going to get out of it.
They've got to play it a certain way.
Hi, Rick.
Sorry for breaking in.
Technically, this is an investigation.
When Danai and Andy
started talking about this story
we all had a mind that we
wanted to bring Jadis back in.
Jadis heightens the stakes,
and she was never worried
about Rick escaping.
But Michonne shows up,
the two of them together,
they can do anything.
I have to ask you this question.
Rick, what the fuck are you doing?