The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024) s01e05 Episode Script
Become
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In the event of my untimely demise,
I put a little file
among my possessions,
telling them everything
they need to know about you.
I imagine that a CRM reclamation team
would have everybody that you love
dead within hours
of that file's receipt.
[DEBRIS CLATTERING]
- [GRUNTS]
- [WALKER GROWLING]
Despite all the odds, I found you, Rick.
I came here to take you home.
And we figure out how
to protect it together.
[WALKER GROWLING]
♪
[HELICOPTER FLIES OVERHEAD]
[WALKER GROWLING]
♪
[KNIFE THUDS]
[KNIFE THUDS]
[HELICOPTER FLIES OVERHEAD]
Our Father, who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
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Oh, the good life ♪
Full of fun, seems to be the ideal ♪
[CHUCKLES]
Mm, the good life lets you hide ♪
Tasteful Noods?
All the sadness you feel ♪
You won't really fall in love ♪
For you can't take the chance ♪
So please be honest with yourself ♪
Don't try to fake romance ♪
It's the good life ♪
[WALKER GROWLING]
To be free and explore the unknown ♪
[WALKER GROWLING]
Please remember I still want you ♪
And in case you wonder why ♪
Well, just wake up ♪
Kiss the good life ♪
Goodbye ♪
Never did like those.
No 'Michonne's", huh?
Not even once.
Hmm.
Is this a terrible gift
to bring to R.J.?
No one has ever once
called him "Junior".
Ah. Okay.
You're bringing yourself back.
That's more than enough.
"The Brave Man", huh?
You are.
More than ever.
He might be ready for this.
Is that who he is?
Judith has a sword.
They're us.
Mm.
I got you something.
I think it was baking soda
and spearmint.
- As requested.
- [LAUGHS]
Man of his word.
It only took a couple lifetimes.
I was in love with my son's best friend.
I didn't know what to do.
Then you asked for that toothpaste.
I was damned if I wasn't
gonna find something.
You found your moment.
Is this one?
You tell me.
"Three Pines Cabin".
You see that sign on the road?
Looks like we found a place
to stay for the night.
Luck's holding up.
♪
Thorne was so uptight.
She was trying so hard for this army.
Too hard.
She was trying to get home,
to South Africa,
to someone she loves.
Okafor found her,
and she stopped trying.
You know, I never let go.
I denied it,
and I pushed you away,
but I never let go.
I didn't know.
What is it?
"The people from the people".
WOMAN: Look out!
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[GRUNTING]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
Their skin's like stone.
It cracks. I break, you stab.
Hm.
[GRUNTING]
We should We should
thank these folks.
They get crusty like that, uh,
'cause of the seam vents.
Calcified or something.
And there's the wet ones.
You got your baked and your boiled.
Kind of like pierogies.
I lived in, uh, Pittsburgh for a bit.
They look pretty hungry.
Okay.
Oh!
Are Are you kidding?
Stay safe.
Appreciate the help, but
we're gonna need more.
All of it, in fact.
Red, no. They helped us.
It's nothing personal,
and we are grateful.
It's just the way things are.
You know what I mean?
Shit gets worse by the hour these days.
You want to just take it back?
Yeah, we can just roll this back to you
just saying thanks, if you want.
Hell no.
What do we say?
New shit presents itself,
always take the new
[GRUNTING]
[GROANS]
I'd like I'd like to roll
do the roll back now.
Nope.
We wouldn't be alive without him.
How do we know you won't
do this to someone else?
You don't, but if you let me
and my family live,
I'd consider that
an instructive experience.
Promise us to leave people be.
- Hmm.
- You serious?
Why would you care about
saving anybody's skin
other than your own?
You look after you.
Anything else in this world
is a fairytale.
You think?
It's very hard to think right now.
Well, how about you just listen?
I-I'm peeing.
We saved you, and the only
people in danger
of being killed well,
it isn't the helpers here.
Why don't you just promise,
and we'll believe you?
- Red.
- Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I'll leave people be.
Promise.
Yeah. Yeah, that's that's fair.
Really?
- Yes.
- Okay.
I was really looking forward to that.
- Okay.
- Hmm.
Wait 'til we're gone.
Keep your promise, asshole.
Red's red gun.
You think it was okay
to leave them the other one?
I don't think they'll come after
us, if that's what you mean.
And maybe he'll keep that promise.
What were you saying about
"the people from the people"?
[SIGHS] I don't know.
It's just something
that's stuck in my head.
Protect the people from the people.
You think they would've made it?
What, if we hadn't come along?
I don't know.
Broken axe, low on bullets,
three walkers.
They'd made it this far,
and just like that,
the sister steps in an old snare.
Lucky for them, someone was nearby.
Lucky for them, it was us.
Yeah.
We didn't even think about it.
Nope.
Might be strange to admit it,
but that felt good.
Us against the world.
Or savin' it.
I am surprised you took back
the noodles, though.
[CHUCKLES] They pulled a gun on us.
You don't get noodles for that.
[SIGHS]
Toothpaste, booze.
What are you up to, Grimes?
I'm just working with what I got.
[SIGHS]
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Come, Holy Spirit.
Bless this water that it may
become your Holy Water.
Gabriel.
It's okay. I'm alone.
Is it okay?
Even if you are alone?
Yeah.
Is this coming back?
No.
I just wanted to see you.
But you can't say to anyone
that I was here, okay?
I was using Eugene's ham radio with
with Rosita's help, trying
to somehow find you.
You You found me.
You left because you were
being judged for things
you did in your past
instead of who you were trying to be.
But I was up to something,
and you trusted me,
and it was a mistake.
Rick brought you in because he believed
that people could change.
He called you "one of us".
He died trying to bring people together.
He died?
The bridge.
He had to destroy it
to stop an incoming herd.
He was caught in the explosion.
My mistake wasn't trusting you.
It was losing my faith in you.
Can you forgive me for that?
What about all the people
that can't forgive you?
What about the ones that you made gone?
How do you live with that?
Prayer.
Amends.
Talk.
I can't talk about the things
I've been a part of,
things I will be a part of.
Not even to your people?
No.
Not without telling them
about all of you.
You can talk to me.
Clergy confidentiality.
- [CHUCKLES]
- You weren't even here, Anne.
I forgive you.
ANNE: Morning, lovebirds.
Tie him to the bed, then yourself.
Sit down.
[KNIFE CLANGS]
[AXE THUDS]
Sit down.
[HANDCUFF CLICKS]
You think she's alone?
She's alone, and I bet
nobody know's she's here.
That's just rude.
How do you think she found us?
Just gonna jump in.
The circumstances of your disappearance
together were suspicious,
so I'm back with the reclamation team.
Then I saw the wreck.
It felt like a profound moment.
Strange, the things your brain
remembers in a moment like that.
The smell of ozone, a spider
on the floor of a helicopter,
and a yellow truck sitting there.
I had this nagging feeling.
I insisted on going back,
but I wouldn't pull anyone
away from the Summit.
It's too important.
Flew myself to the nearest
jump point, supplied up,
borrowed the emergency vehicle there.
Your crash site was rubble
when I returned.
Then I saw you left bread crumbs.
Dead delts. Ramen wrappers?
All the way down Highway 90.
The most direct route to Virginia.
- Nobody knows she's here.
- Mm.
She missed her chance.
Should've killed us
while we were sleeping.
See, I've been thinking
about someone else I killed.
A confidante.
Someone monumental
in my development as me,
as a person who will help
turn the world.
I left things unsaid between us.
I didn't want to do that
before I killed both of you.
You just play games, Anne.
You don't give a shit
about that army or that city.
I do.
You think I'm still her. I'm not.
I'm not that woman
from the heaps either.
We take. We don't bother. Didn't work.
I am decorated Warrant
Officer Jadis Stokes
of the Civic Republic Military,
defender of the Republic.
You're doing this for you, Anne.
No. For the Republic.
If I were to let you go home
and somehow,
some other enterprising warrant officer
were to find you, my connection
with Alexandria would be discovered,
and that important work would end.
I saved your life.
You took it.
You took it from him,
you took it from me,
you took it from our children.
All those years they grew up
without their father.
All those years I didn't know
if he was alive or dead.
You stole our family, Anne.
I didn't kill you in your
sleep because I wanted
I needed to thank you.
By dying here today,
Alexandria will remain safe
and your children will
have a better world.
You could have made other choices,
but you didn't lose here.
You won a different way.
It's the end of your story.
Let that be your peace.
[GUNSHOTS]
[RICK GRUNTS]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
- Ah!
- No!
- Rick!
- We got to go!
[GRUNTS]
ANNE: How's Rick's wife doing?
Michonne?
She's away, helping people.
Why did you call her his wife?
I mean, wasn't she?
Well, not officially, but
If that matters anymore.
It's funny.
One day, Rick said that
I should marry them.
Maybe we should do it
right there on the bridge
that we were building.
But I couldn't see the future
he described,
so I sat on a log in the forest,
and there at my feet, in the dirt,
right in front of me, was a ring.
It seemed like it'd make
a pretty nice wedding ring,
so I kept it, and I thought
to put it someplace
where Rick would find it
because I could suddenly
see that "someday".
But what happened happened.
Well, I have spent the last year
looking forward to our next visit.
Just sitting here and talking.
Almost makes me feel like
how it was, like who I was.
The other 364 days back there,
it's less about personal connection
and more about responsibility
to something greater than myself.
Even if that means I have to do
things that are difficult.
Even cruel.
If you're here expressing doubts,
then isn't that a sign that
that isn't who you are?
Knowing you're doing wrong,
it means that
It's about survival.
It's about what comes after.
Survival of others.
And that part of me
that I've harnessed,
it has kept me alive,
and maybe it can keep the rest
of the world alive, too.
The group we were in conflict with
they compromised our walls.
Food is scarce.
Children are hungry.
Maybe you and your people could help?
It wouldn't have to be much.
We'd repay you as soon as we got
Gabriel, you know that I can't.
I'm not even here.
Please know that my remorse is real.
As you do cruel and difficult things.
Yeah. I should go.
Wait. I'm sorry.
Please.
Take this with you.
You've been questioning things.
This is a symbol of faith.
Of love.
Maybe it'll give you something you need.
Giving it to you is giving me
something that I need.
Next year?
Same day, same place?
If I'm alive.
[PANTING]
Go, go, go.
- We can't kill her.
- Oh, we can.
I told you, she left a file about
home for the CRM to find.
To destroy Alexandria,
because that's what she does, Rick!
She destroys!
She robbed us of you being there
to see your son being born,
taking his first step.
Okay, what do we do after she's dead?
Whatever we have to do.
Hold on.
Shit!
Ah!
Do you see that drop-off?
Yep.
Fuck!
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
We got company.
On three. One, two, three!
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
Which way to that jump point?
You think that I give an antelope's ass
about some ramen?!
That's just pasta.
The hell I care about pasta?
Hel Hello.
[GROANS]
Good goddamn.
You look like a pile
of hippo shit, sister.
I'm not here to hurt anyone.
I just need a little help.
Please.
I'm being pursued by some
very dangerous people,
and I just need a little help.
My community is safe.
And it has walls and food,
and I can offer you
a place that is you just
if you just get me somewhere, you know?
It's not far.
Yeah, well, how far is "not far"?
It's just a few miles.
What?
You're tall.
RICK: The bases are spread out
across the country.
We need to know which one she hid it in.
If we can take her alive, talk to her
You heard her hate being called Anne.
I think she's still in there somewhere.
And if there's something
she can give us first,
something to help
keep Alexandria safe
We'll keep it safe.
But she's gonna die.
We need to keep it safe
without risking anything.
I couldn't see some things.
I couldn't. You helped me.
Maybe we can help her,
and if we can't
Then I can kill her?
Be my guest.
Maybe just maim first.
You see this?
Yeah.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[WHISTLES]
[GUN COCKS]
It's you. I'm sorry.
She promised she's take us with her.
All we had to do was lure you in here.
We're not like you. We wouldn't
have made it on our own.
ANNE: That's four on two.
People are a resource.
Whatever she said, it's
not what you think it is.
So long as I got a meal and
a new pair of pants, I'm good.
There's still time to roll this back.
No, there's ain't.
Goodbye, Rick.
[GRUNTING]
Red!
[SCREAMS]
[GUNFIRE]
[SCREAMING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
I half thought you wouldn't
show up this time.
After what I denied you,
I wouldn't have blamed you.
I was
sharp.
And I don't pretend to understand
your community
or your commitment to them.
But I do know something
about that part of yourself
that you're scared of losing.
What if it's already gone?
Every year, I come back here,
I've done worse things.
I know why they're done.
I believe in what we're trying to do.
But there's the Plan and the "why".
And then there's the blood.
I know you feel you can't tell me.
But you can.
I'm here.
I can't.
And if I can't, I'm not here.
No.
You are.
Can I confide in you?
Of course.
I look forward to these days,
to have this, to have you to myself.
This secret.
These days.
I have you,
and that proves that you're
still here, Anne.
It just does.
Why don't you come with
me back to Alexandria?
Gabriel.
Nobody needs to know
about your community,
- about anything.
- I can't.
For all the reasons
that I've already told you.
That's just it.
You haven't told me anything
about your group,
other than that they're people
who horde supplies
while others starve.
You think that the purpose of what we do
is to make people suffer?
That I'd be part of a group like that?
Is that what you think of me?
No. I know you're not them.
I see it when I look in your eyes.
I did this.
This was me.
What?
I'm sorry I came here.
[WALKER GROWLING]
I'm sorry I made myself vulnerable.
I'm sorry for turning you
into a loose end.
What?
[WALKER GROWLING]
I'm sorry.
RICK: How about you show yourself?
We talk?
You mean "get me to talk", right?
Ambush me, break all my bones one by one
'til I spill where I hid
my file on Alexandria?
Not gonna happen, Rick.
I live for the cause, and
I will die for the cause.
I'm not a traitor.
Not like you.
- [WALKERS GROWLING]
- I'm alright.
- MICHONNE: You okay?
- Yeah.
That was close.
You two together you are unstoppable.
But that won't save your kids.
You kill me, they're dead.
I die from my wounds, they're dead.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
I get killed by walkers, they're dead.
Michonne.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
Michonne!
Shit!
[GROANS]
It didn't have to be this way.
You were on the path, Rick.
After all these years,
you were finally feeling
the responsibility to fight for
something bigger than yourself.
And Beale saw it, too.
He was gonna give you
the Echelon Briefing
the moment you returned.
Your eyes would have been opened
to the true size and scope
of what the CRM is gonna do
to bring this world back.
You could have ensured
Alexandria's security.
But you didn't.
You let Michonne pull
you away from that.
All you had to do was leave when
Rick arranged for your escape.
But you didn't.
And now, here we are,
and the fates of your friends,
your children, sealed
because you are just like her.
"You look out for you".
You don't really want to kill
everyone back home, Anne.
I know you don't.
It's not about "want".
It's about keeping your humanity
or saving humanity,
and it is a choice.
I've chosen my community.
I've chosen my life.
So, who's gonna die today?
The two of you?
Or me and everyone back home?
She's right.
Rick.
I didn't want to see it.
I wanted her dead so
I didn't have to see it.
But, Rick, there has to be a sacrifice.
Since I found you, all that
I've done has been for us.
But now I see this can't end
with us going home.
Well, what's it gonna be?
Okay.
There's still a deal to be made,
one where we all can
live and Alexandria.
Michonne gets some supplies
to keep you alive long enough
to get you to the jump point,
and I'll go back with you.
We'll say I was injured
in the crash, the lone survivor,
and I'll go back to the CRM,
to working for a future,
like none of this ever happened,
on one condition.
Michonne gets away and I never
tell them about Alexandria.
It's the only way this works.
We got a deal?
Why should I trust you,
after all the shit that you've pulled?
We got a deal or not?
Yeah.
We got a deal.
[CLANGS]
Come closer, Rick.
Show yourself.
We laid down our weapons.
Lay down yours.
[CLATTERS]
[GROANS]
You've looked better.
I was a fool to think I could take you
down with you two together,
which is why I agreed to your deal.
Her getting the med kit.
[SIGHS]
I don't trust you, either,
but I respect you, Rick.
You're lying to yourself.
You keep lying to yourself.
You don't keep coming back here.
You never left.
You're wrong.
I'm not
Go ahead.
Shoot me.
Make me understand. Show me who you are.
MICHONNE: Drop it.
[GROANS]
I said drop it.
You double-crossed me before
I double-crossed you.
That's a good plan.
Drop the gun, or I will kill you.
Even if it means that
Alexandria is destroyed?
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[GUNSHOT]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[SCREAMS]
[GROANS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GROANS]
Everything I've ever had or lost.
My people, my friends, everyone.
I was tired of losing.
I was finally part of something
that could last.
And I couldn't lose another community.
My old one.
And my new one.
I knew if I didn't kill you all,
somehow, some way,
you'd come for the CRM.
So, I drew up the dossier
to protect myself
and make sure you couldn't.
I thought, in my death, it was worth it.
I'd chosen a side, right?
I thought I had.
Back and forth.
Jadis,
Anne,
Alexandrians,
CRM.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
Go.
You came to me to help
you find an answer.
You just found it.
I'll see you next year, Anne.
He already showed me.
I found my answer.
The dossier it's in my
room at the Cascadia Base.
Just destroy it and go home.
The CRM will bring the world back.
Tell me you won't come after them.
MICHONNE: No.
Because we are coming for them.
We're gonna get the dossier.
And then the CRM
we're gonna stop them.
He's gonna get the Echelon Briefing
and find out everything that they do
that the city doesn't know about.
The city I saw won't stand
for what they are,
and we're gonna help the city stop them,
because, Anne,
the CRM is not the answer,
and they must end.
We're gonna do that.
You kept us alive for a reason.
Mm.
I wish I'd died an artist.
It was never about
survival in that life.
It was just about truth.
And this is mine.
The end of my story.
My peace.
♪
On the bridge, you told
Gabriel you wanted to marry her.
He found this, and he wanted
to give it to you.
How did you
You weren't dreaming, Rick.
Go ahead.
Do what you said you would do.
Please.
♪
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♪
[GUNSHOT]
The jump point's just over that ridge.
What you said to me before,
in front of her
it wasn't just for her.
MICHONNE: You couldn't have
changed them by yourself, Rick,
but together?
The whole damn world
I see how we could make it better,
and if we can,
Rick, we have to.
Michonne, wait.
I've been wanting to say something.
It's a broken world, Michonne,
and you're the only thing
that puts it back together.
'Til my last breath, I am yours.
♪
I could never have imagined this.
But it could only ever have been you.
♪
I'm yours.
♪
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[HELICOPTER CHUFFING]
♪
RICK: Show me the other way.
MICHONNE: We go in, you get the briefing
and get the dossier she left behind,
then go home together.
♪
Anything changes on base, keep walking.
This is it.
After this next moment,
everything will change.
Are we crazy?
Certifiable.
♪
♪
- [LAUGHS]
- GIMPLE: Episode five,
it's a throwback, a little bit,
to an episode that we had
during "The Walking Dead".
It's like a honeymoon.
An apocalyptic honeymoon,
but a honeymoon.
There's a sweetness to it,
and they're so together
and everything's going to be fine,
but obviously the world
is still coming for them.
Gabriel. It's okay. I'm alone.
Is it okay?
Even if you are alone?
This is something that
we were kicking around
a little bit in the writers' room.
The character of Father Gabriel
really did open up things
about Jadis that we hadn't seen.
And in fact, really, as Anne
before she took on that persona.
MCINTOSH: I think in many ways,
Jadis is trying
really, really hard to be
Warrant Officer Jadis Stokes,
who is working for the cause
and will stop at nothing
to get her job done
because there is this other
part of her that she misses,
and there is this other part of her
that feels guilt for the deaths
and for the fact that she's
keeping this massive secret
that she knows where Rick is.
You're doing this for you, Anne.
No, for the Republic.
GIMPLE: The stuff that
goes down in the cabin,
I think, is the tell
that Jadis is conflicted.
[GUNSHOT]
In some way, she couldn't make a choice.
She doesn't want to lose the CRM.
She doesn't want to lose Alexandria
the way that she lost her own people.
It didn't have to be this way.
After all these years,
you were finally feeling
the responsibility
to fight for something
bigger than yourself.
And Beale saw it, too.
MCINTOSH: In Jadis's mind,
it's extremely selfish of him
to try and get in the way
of such a greater plan
for everybody, forever,
beyond this little blip in the universe
in which we're living.
So, she doesn't want to kill him,
but if she has to, she has to.
It's central to Jadis
to be thinking grandiosely
about the entire world,
but she isn't lying.
She thinks this is the way it works.
The dossier it's in my room.
You just destroy it and go home.
GIMPLE: In the end, in telling
them about the dossier,
she chose Anne,
which is kind of what Gabriel
was saying all along.
MCINTOSH: I think Jadis's
death is a very
"Walking Dead" classic kind of death.
There's emotion,
there's conflicted choices
that have been made,
and Rick has to end things for her.
It just makes it that much more complex.
Do what you said you would do.
Please.
♪
In my experience as an actor,
I've always carried
characters on with me.
I hope I hold on to her
groundedness and her quiet
and her unabashed sense of self,
as odd as that might sound,
because she has been many people.
She's a very grounding
character to play,
and I'm like a hyperactive puppy,
so she's been really
good for me for that.
And, um, this fandom rewatches,
and this fandom comes
to you from all angles.
And so, I feel like I'll
probably be talking about Jadis
in the street with people
for the rest of my life,
and I hope so.
Michonne, wait.
I've been wanting to say something.
GIMPLE: The marriage proposal
was driven by Danai
as a story idea to bind
them even closer.
That's their last moment
they get to have in that way
before all hell breaks loose.
♪
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In the event of my untimely demise,
I put a little file
among my possessions,
telling them everything
they need to know about you.
I imagine that a CRM reclamation team
would have everybody that you love
dead within hours
of that file's receipt.
[DEBRIS CLATTERING]
- [GRUNTS]
- [WALKER GROWLING]
Despite all the odds, I found you, Rick.
I came here to take you home.
And we figure out how
to protect it together.
[WALKER GROWLING]
♪
[HELICOPTER FLIES OVERHEAD]
[WALKER GROWLING]
♪
[KNIFE THUDS]
[KNIFE THUDS]
[HELICOPTER FLIES OVERHEAD]
Our Father, who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done on earth
as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread
And forgive us our trespasses
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
Oh, the good life ♪
Full of fun, seems to be the ideal ♪
[CHUCKLES]
Mm, the good life lets you hide ♪
Tasteful Noods?
All the sadness you feel ♪
You won't really fall in love ♪
For you can't take the chance ♪
So please be honest with yourself ♪
Don't try to fake romance ♪
It's the good life ♪
[WALKER GROWLING]
To be free and explore the unknown ♪
[WALKER GROWLING]
Please remember I still want you ♪
And in case you wonder why ♪
Well, just wake up ♪
Kiss the good life ♪
Goodbye ♪
Never did like those.
No 'Michonne's", huh?
Not even once.
Hmm.
Is this a terrible gift
to bring to R.J.?
No one has ever once
called him "Junior".
Ah. Okay.
You're bringing yourself back.
That's more than enough.
"The Brave Man", huh?
You are.
More than ever.
He might be ready for this.
Is that who he is?
Judith has a sword.
They're us.
Mm.
I got you something.
I think it was baking soda
and spearmint.
- As requested.
- [LAUGHS]
Man of his word.
It only took a couple lifetimes.
I was in love with my son's best friend.
I didn't know what to do.
Then you asked for that toothpaste.
I was damned if I wasn't
gonna find something.
You found your moment.
Is this one?
You tell me.
"Three Pines Cabin".
You see that sign on the road?
Looks like we found a place
to stay for the night.
Luck's holding up.
♪
Thorne was so uptight.
She was trying so hard for this army.
Too hard.
She was trying to get home,
to South Africa,
to someone she loves.
Okafor found her,
and she stopped trying.
You know, I never let go.
I denied it,
and I pushed you away,
but I never let go.
I didn't know.
What is it?
"The people from the people".
WOMAN: Look out!
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[GRUNTING]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
Their skin's like stone.
It cracks. I break, you stab.
Hm.
[GRUNTING]
We should We should
thank these folks.
They get crusty like that, uh,
'cause of the seam vents.
Calcified or something.
And there's the wet ones.
You got your baked and your boiled.
Kind of like pierogies.
I lived in, uh, Pittsburgh for a bit.
They look pretty hungry.
Okay.
Oh!
Are Are you kidding?
Stay safe.
Appreciate the help, but
we're gonna need more.
All of it, in fact.
Red, no. They helped us.
It's nothing personal,
and we are grateful.
It's just the way things are.
You know what I mean?
Shit gets worse by the hour these days.
You want to just take it back?
Yeah, we can just roll this back to you
just saying thanks, if you want.
Hell no.
What do we say?
New shit presents itself,
always take the new
[GRUNTING]
[GROANS]
I'd like I'd like to roll
do the roll back now.
Nope.
We wouldn't be alive without him.
How do we know you won't
do this to someone else?
You don't, but if you let me
and my family live,
I'd consider that
an instructive experience.
Promise us to leave people be.
- Hmm.
- You serious?
Why would you care about
saving anybody's skin
other than your own?
You look after you.
Anything else in this world
is a fairytale.
You think?
It's very hard to think right now.
Well, how about you just listen?
I-I'm peeing.
We saved you, and the only
people in danger
of being killed well,
it isn't the helpers here.
Why don't you just promise,
and we'll believe you?
- Red.
- Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I'll leave people be.
Promise.
Yeah. Yeah, that's that's fair.
Really?
- Yes.
- Okay.
I was really looking forward to that.
- Okay.
- Hmm.
Wait 'til we're gone.
Keep your promise, asshole.
Red's red gun.
You think it was okay
to leave them the other one?
I don't think they'll come after
us, if that's what you mean.
And maybe he'll keep that promise.
What were you saying about
"the people from the people"?
[SIGHS] I don't know.
It's just something
that's stuck in my head.
Protect the people from the people.
You think they would've made it?
What, if we hadn't come along?
I don't know.
Broken axe, low on bullets,
three walkers.
They'd made it this far,
and just like that,
the sister steps in an old snare.
Lucky for them, someone was nearby.
Lucky for them, it was us.
Yeah.
We didn't even think about it.
Nope.
Might be strange to admit it,
but that felt good.
Us against the world.
Or savin' it.
I am surprised you took back
the noodles, though.
[CHUCKLES] They pulled a gun on us.
You don't get noodles for that.
[SIGHS]
Toothpaste, booze.
What are you up to, Grimes?
I'm just working with what I got.
[SIGHS]
♪
Come, Holy Spirit.
Bless this water that it may
become your Holy Water.
Gabriel.
It's okay. I'm alone.
Is it okay?
Even if you are alone?
Yeah.
Is this coming back?
No.
I just wanted to see you.
But you can't say to anyone
that I was here, okay?
I was using Eugene's ham radio with
with Rosita's help, trying
to somehow find you.
You You found me.
You left because you were
being judged for things
you did in your past
instead of who you were trying to be.
But I was up to something,
and you trusted me,
and it was a mistake.
Rick brought you in because he believed
that people could change.
He called you "one of us".
He died trying to bring people together.
He died?
The bridge.
He had to destroy it
to stop an incoming herd.
He was caught in the explosion.
My mistake wasn't trusting you.
It was losing my faith in you.
Can you forgive me for that?
What about all the people
that can't forgive you?
What about the ones that you made gone?
How do you live with that?
Prayer.
Amends.
Talk.
I can't talk about the things
I've been a part of,
things I will be a part of.
Not even to your people?
No.
Not without telling them
about all of you.
You can talk to me.
Clergy confidentiality.
- [CHUCKLES]
- You weren't even here, Anne.
I forgive you.
ANNE: Morning, lovebirds.
Tie him to the bed, then yourself.
Sit down.
[KNIFE CLANGS]
[AXE THUDS]
Sit down.
[HANDCUFF CLICKS]
You think she's alone?
She's alone, and I bet
nobody know's she's here.
That's just rude.
How do you think she found us?
Just gonna jump in.
The circumstances of your disappearance
together were suspicious,
so I'm back with the reclamation team.
Then I saw the wreck.
It felt like a profound moment.
Strange, the things your brain
remembers in a moment like that.
The smell of ozone, a spider
on the floor of a helicopter,
and a yellow truck sitting there.
I had this nagging feeling.
I insisted on going back,
but I wouldn't pull anyone
away from the Summit.
It's too important.
Flew myself to the nearest
jump point, supplied up,
borrowed the emergency vehicle there.
Your crash site was rubble
when I returned.
Then I saw you left bread crumbs.
Dead delts. Ramen wrappers?
All the way down Highway 90.
The most direct route to Virginia.
- Nobody knows she's here.
- Mm.
She missed her chance.
Should've killed us
while we were sleeping.
See, I've been thinking
about someone else I killed.
A confidante.
Someone monumental
in my development as me,
as a person who will help
turn the world.
I left things unsaid between us.
I didn't want to do that
before I killed both of you.
You just play games, Anne.
You don't give a shit
about that army or that city.
I do.
You think I'm still her. I'm not.
I'm not that woman
from the heaps either.
We take. We don't bother. Didn't work.
I am decorated Warrant
Officer Jadis Stokes
of the Civic Republic Military,
defender of the Republic.
You're doing this for you, Anne.
No. For the Republic.
If I were to let you go home
and somehow,
some other enterprising warrant officer
were to find you, my connection
with Alexandria would be discovered,
and that important work would end.
I saved your life.
You took it.
You took it from him,
you took it from me,
you took it from our children.
All those years they grew up
without their father.
All those years I didn't know
if he was alive or dead.
You stole our family, Anne.
I didn't kill you in your
sleep because I wanted
I needed to thank you.
By dying here today,
Alexandria will remain safe
and your children will
have a better world.
You could have made other choices,
but you didn't lose here.
You won a different way.
It's the end of your story.
Let that be your peace.
[GUNSHOTS]
[RICK GRUNTS]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
- Ah!
- No!
- Rick!
- We got to go!
[GRUNTS]
ANNE: How's Rick's wife doing?
Michonne?
She's away, helping people.
Why did you call her his wife?
I mean, wasn't she?
Well, not officially, but
If that matters anymore.
It's funny.
One day, Rick said that
I should marry them.
Maybe we should do it
right there on the bridge
that we were building.
But I couldn't see the future
he described,
so I sat on a log in the forest,
and there at my feet, in the dirt,
right in front of me, was a ring.
It seemed like it'd make
a pretty nice wedding ring,
so I kept it, and I thought
to put it someplace
where Rick would find it
because I could suddenly
see that "someday".
But what happened happened.
Well, I have spent the last year
looking forward to our next visit.
Just sitting here and talking.
Almost makes me feel like
how it was, like who I was.
The other 364 days back there,
it's less about personal connection
and more about responsibility
to something greater than myself.
Even if that means I have to do
things that are difficult.
Even cruel.
If you're here expressing doubts,
then isn't that a sign that
that isn't who you are?
Knowing you're doing wrong,
it means that
It's about survival.
It's about what comes after.
Survival of others.
And that part of me
that I've harnessed,
it has kept me alive,
and maybe it can keep the rest
of the world alive, too.
The group we were in conflict with
they compromised our walls.
Food is scarce.
Children are hungry.
Maybe you and your people could help?
It wouldn't have to be much.
We'd repay you as soon as we got
Gabriel, you know that I can't.
I'm not even here.
Please know that my remorse is real.
As you do cruel and difficult things.
Yeah. I should go.
Wait. I'm sorry.
Please.
Take this with you.
You've been questioning things.
This is a symbol of faith.
Of love.
Maybe it'll give you something you need.
Giving it to you is giving me
something that I need.
Next year?
Same day, same place?
If I'm alive.
[PANTING]
Go, go, go.
- We can't kill her.
- Oh, we can.
I told you, she left a file about
home for the CRM to find.
To destroy Alexandria,
because that's what she does, Rick!
She destroys!
She robbed us of you being there
to see your son being born,
taking his first step.
Okay, what do we do after she's dead?
Whatever we have to do.
Hold on.
Shit!
Ah!
Do you see that drop-off?
Yep.
Fuck!
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
We got company.
On three. One, two, three!
[GRUNTS]
[GRUNTS]
Which way to that jump point?
You think that I give an antelope's ass
about some ramen?!
That's just pasta.
The hell I care about pasta?
Hel Hello.
[GROANS]
Good goddamn.
You look like a pile
of hippo shit, sister.
I'm not here to hurt anyone.
I just need a little help.
Please.
I'm being pursued by some
very dangerous people,
and I just need a little help.
My community is safe.
And it has walls and food,
and I can offer you
a place that is you just
if you just get me somewhere, you know?
It's not far.
Yeah, well, how far is "not far"?
It's just a few miles.
What?
You're tall.
RICK: The bases are spread out
across the country.
We need to know which one she hid it in.
If we can take her alive, talk to her
You heard her hate being called Anne.
I think she's still in there somewhere.
And if there's something
she can give us first,
something to help
keep Alexandria safe
We'll keep it safe.
But she's gonna die.
We need to keep it safe
without risking anything.
I couldn't see some things.
I couldn't. You helped me.
Maybe we can help her,
and if we can't
Then I can kill her?
Be my guest.
Maybe just maim first.
You see this?
Yeah.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[WHISTLES]
[GUN COCKS]
It's you. I'm sorry.
She promised she's take us with her.
All we had to do was lure you in here.
We're not like you. We wouldn't
have made it on our own.
ANNE: That's four on two.
People are a resource.
Whatever she said, it's
not what you think it is.
So long as I got a meal and
a new pair of pants, I'm good.
There's still time to roll this back.
No, there's ain't.
Goodbye, Rick.
[GRUNTING]
Red!
[SCREAMS]
[GUNFIRE]
[SCREAMING]
[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]
I half thought you wouldn't
show up this time.
After what I denied you,
I wouldn't have blamed you.
I was
sharp.
And I don't pretend to understand
your community
or your commitment to them.
But I do know something
about that part of yourself
that you're scared of losing.
What if it's already gone?
Every year, I come back here,
I've done worse things.
I know why they're done.
I believe in what we're trying to do.
But there's the Plan and the "why".
And then there's the blood.
I know you feel you can't tell me.
But you can.
I'm here.
I can't.
And if I can't, I'm not here.
No.
You are.
Can I confide in you?
Of course.
I look forward to these days,
to have this, to have you to myself.
This secret.
These days.
I have you,
and that proves that you're
still here, Anne.
It just does.
Why don't you come with
me back to Alexandria?
Gabriel.
Nobody needs to know
about your community,
- about anything.
- I can't.
For all the reasons
that I've already told you.
That's just it.
You haven't told me anything
about your group,
other than that they're people
who horde supplies
while others starve.
You think that the purpose of what we do
is to make people suffer?
That I'd be part of a group like that?
Is that what you think of me?
No. I know you're not them.
I see it when I look in your eyes.
I did this.
This was me.
What?
I'm sorry I came here.
[WALKER GROWLING]
I'm sorry I made myself vulnerable.
I'm sorry for turning you
into a loose end.
What?
[WALKER GROWLING]
I'm sorry.
RICK: How about you show yourself?
We talk?
You mean "get me to talk", right?
Ambush me, break all my bones one by one
'til I spill where I hid
my file on Alexandria?
Not gonna happen, Rick.
I live for the cause, and
I will die for the cause.
I'm not a traitor.
Not like you.
- [WALKERS GROWLING]
- I'm alright.
- MICHONNE: You okay?
- Yeah.
That was close.
You two together you are unstoppable.
But that won't save your kids.
You kill me, they're dead.
I die from my wounds, they're dead.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
I get killed by walkers, they're dead.
Michonne.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
Michonne!
Shit!
[GROANS]
It didn't have to be this way.
You were on the path, Rick.
After all these years,
you were finally feeling
the responsibility to fight for
something bigger than yourself.
And Beale saw it, too.
He was gonna give you
the Echelon Briefing
the moment you returned.
Your eyes would have been opened
to the true size and scope
of what the CRM is gonna do
to bring this world back.
You could have ensured
Alexandria's security.
But you didn't.
You let Michonne pull
you away from that.
All you had to do was leave when
Rick arranged for your escape.
But you didn't.
And now, here we are,
and the fates of your friends,
your children, sealed
because you are just like her.
"You look out for you".
You don't really want to kill
everyone back home, Anne.
I know you don't.
It's not about "want".
It's about keeping your humanity
or saving humanity,
and it is a choice.
I've chosen my community.
I've chosen my life.
So, who's gonna die today?
The two of you?
Or me and everyone back home?
She's right.
Rick.
I didn't want to see it.
I wanted her dead so
I didn't have to see it.
But, Rick, there has to be a sacrifice.
Since I found you, all that
I've done has been for us.
But now I see this can't end
with us going home.
Well, what's it gonna be?
Okay.
There's still a deal to be made,
one where we all can
live and Alexandria.
Michonne gets some supplies
to keep you alive long enough
to get you to the jump point,
and I'll go back with you.
We'll say I was injured
in the crash, the lone survivor,
and I'll go back to the CRM,
to working for a future,
like none of this ever happened,
on one condition.
Michonne gets away and I never
tell them about Alexandria.
It's the only way this works.
We got a deal?
Why should I trust you,
after all the shit that you've pulled?
We got a deal or not?
Yeah.
We got a deal.
[CLANGS]
Come closer, Rick.
Show yourself.
We laid down our weapons.
Lay down yours.
[CLATTERS]
[GROANS]
You've looked better.
I was a fool to think I could take you
down with you two together,
which is why I agreed to your deal.
Her getting the med kit.
[SIGHS]
I don't trust you, either,
but I respect you, Rick.
You're lying to yourself.
You keep lying to yourself.
You don't keep coming back here.
You never left.
You're wrong.
I'm not
Go ahead.
Shoot me.
Make me understand. Show me who you are.
MICHONNE: Drop it.
[GROANS]
I said drop it.
You double-crossed me before
I double-crossed you.
That's a good plan.
Drop the gun, or I will kill you.
Even if it means that
Alexandria is destroyed?
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[GUNSHOT]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[SCREAMS]
[GROANS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[GROANS]
Everything I've ever had or lost.
My people, my friends, everyone.
I was tired of losing.
I was finally part of something
that could last.
And I couldn't lose another community.
My old one.
And my new one.
I knew if I didn't kill you all,
somehow, some way,
you'd come for the CRM.
So, I drew up the dossier
to protect myself
and make sure you couldn't.
I thought, in my death, it was worth it.
I'd chosen a side, right?
I thought I had.
Back and forth.
Jadis,
Anne,
Alexandrians,
CRM.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
Go.
You came to me to help
you find an answer.
You just found it.
I'll see you next year, Anne.
He already showed me.
I found my answer.
The dossier it's in my
room at the Cascadia Base.
Just destroy it and go home.
The CRM will bring the world back.
Tell me you won't come after them.
MICHONNE: No.
Because we are coming for them.
We're gonna get the dossier.
And then the CRM
we're gonna stop them.
He's gonna get the Echelon Briefing
and find out everything that they do
that the city doesn't know about.
The city I saw won't stand
for what they are,
and we're gonna help the city stop them,
because, Anne,
the CRM is not the answer,
and they must end.
We're gonna do that.
You kept us alive for a reason.
Mm.
I wish I'd died an artist.
It was never about
survival in that life.
It was just about truth.
And this is mine.
The end of my story.
My peace.
♪
On the bridge, you told
Gabriel you wanted to marry her.
He found this, and he wanted
to give it to you.
How did you
You weren't dreaming, Rick.
Go ahead.
Do what you said you would do.
Please.
♪
♪
♪
[GUNSHOT]
The jump point's just over that ridge.
What you said to me before,
in front of her
it wasn't just for her.
MICHONNE: You couldn't have
changed them by yourself, Rick,
but together?
The whole damn world
I see how we could make it better,
and if we can,
Rick, we have to.
Michonne, wait.
I've been wanting to say something.
It's a broken world, Michonne,
and you're the only thing
that puts it back together.
'Til my last breath, I am yours.
♪
I could never have imagined this.
But it could only ever have been you.
♪
I'm yours.
♪
♪
♪
♪
♪
[HELICOPTER CHUFFING]
♪
RICK: Show me the other way.
MICHONNE: We go in, you get the briefing
and get the dossier she left behind,
then go home together.
♪
Anything changes on base, keep walking.
This is it.
After this next moment,
everything will change.
Are we crazy?
Certifiable.
♪
♪
- [LAUGHS]
- GIMPLE: Episode five,
it's a throwback, a little bit,
to an episode that we had
during "The Walking Dead".
It's like a honeymoon.
An apocalyptic honeymoon,
but a honeymoon.
There's a sweetness to it,
and they're so together
and everything's going to be fine,
but obviously the world
is still coming for them.
Gabriel. It's okay. I'm alone.
Is it okay?
Even if you are alone?
This is something that
we were kicking around
a little bit in the writers' room.
The character of Father Gabriel
really did open up things
about Jadis that we hadn't seen.
And in fact, really, as Anne
before she took on that persona.
MCINTOSH: I think in many ways,
Jadis is trying
really, really hard to be
Warrant Officer Jadis Stokes,
who is working for the cause
and will stop at nothing
to get her job done
because there is this other
part of her that she misses,
and there is this other part of her
that feels guilt for the deaths
and for the fact that she's
keeping this massive secret
that she knows where Rick is.
You're doing this for you, Anne.
No, for the Republic.
GIMPLE: The stuff that
goes down in the cabin,
I think, is the tell
that Jadis is conflicted.
[GUNSHOT]
In some way, she couldn't make a choice.
She doesn't want to lose the CRM.
She doesn't want to lose Alexandria
the way that she lost her own people.
It didn't have to be this way.
After all these years,
you were finally feeling
the responsibility
to fight for something
bigger than yourself.
And Beale saw it, too.
MCINTOSH: In Jadis's mind,
it's extremely selfish of him
to try and get in the way
of such a greater plan
for everybody, forever,
beyond this little blip in the universe
in which we're living.
So, she doesn't want to kill him,
but if she has to, she has to.
It's central to Jadis
to be thinking grandiosely
about the entire world,
but she isn't lying.
She thinks this is the way it works.
The dossier it's in my room.
You just destroy it and go home.
GIMPLE: In the end, in telling
them about the dossier,
she chose Anne,
which is kind of what Gabriel
was saying all along.
MCINTOSH: I think Jadis's
death is a very
"Walking Dead" classic kind of death.
There's emotion,
there's conflicted choices
that have been made,
and Rick has to end things for her.
It just makes it that much more complex.
Do what you said you would do.
Please.
♪
In my experience as an actor,
I've always carried
characters on with me.
I hope I hold on to her
groundedness and her quiet
and her unabashed sense of self,
as odd as that might sound,
because she has been many people.
She's a very grounding
character to play,
and I'm like a hyperactive puppy,
so she's been really
good for me for that.
And, um, this fandom rewatches,
and this fandom comes
to you from all angles.
And so, I feel like I'll
probably be talking about Jadis
in the street with people
for the rest of my life,
and I hope so.
Michonne, wait.
I've been wanting to say something.
GIMPLE: The marriage proposal
was driven by Danai
as a story idea to bind
them even closer.
That's their last moment
they get to have in that way
before all hell breaks loose.
♪
♪
♪