The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023) s01e06 Episode Script

Coming Home

1
I told Isabelle
I'd drop you off at the nest.
She'll come looking for you there.
MAN: Laurent made it out of the city
with your American friend.
MAN: I believe in redemption.
WOMAN: You've disappointed me.
I can explain this.
Get your hands off.
Hang on a second. Wait.
You know, I held up my end of things.
And if you'd have done your part,
none of this would be happening.
[CROWD CHANTING]
[YELLS]
[EXPLOSIONS, GUNFIRE IN DISTANCE]
[AIRPLANE PASSING]
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]
[MEN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]

MAN: We need a medic over here!

MAN: Dixon!
Dixon!
[CROWD CHANTING INDISTINCTLY,
VOICES ECHOING]

MAN: [FRENCH ACCENT] Dixon!
[CROWD CHANTING]
[WALKER SNARLING]
CODRON: Dixon!
Today you die!
For my brother!
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[WALKER SNARLING]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[GRUNTS]
[CROWD BOOING]
[WALKER GROWLING]

[BOOING CONTINUES]
[WALKER SNARLING]
[CROWD CHEERING,
WALKER GRUNTING, SNARLING]

[SIZZLING]
Aah! [BREATHING HEAVILY]
ISABELLE: [SPEAKING FRENCH]
[CROWD CHANTING IN DISTANCE]
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
[CHANTING CONTINUES, WALKER GROWLING]

[CROWD CHEERING]

[WALKER GRUNTS, GROWLS]

[CROWD BOOING, WALKER SNARLING]

[CROWD BOOING, SNARLING STOPS]

[POLE CLATTERS]

[CROWD BOOING]
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
[DOOR OPENS, CROWD SHOUTING]


[SHOUTING CONTINUES]

Yeah.

Your wrist.

[CROWD CHEERING]

It's you against me, then, eh?
I ain't gonna die in here.
You look half dead already.
I'll be quick with the last half.

[SWITCH CLICKS]
[CROWD MURMURING, WALKERS GROWLING]
[SWITCH CLICKS, CROWD CHEERING]

[WALKERS SNARLING]
[SWITCH CLICKS]
[CHEERING CONTINUES]
[SWITCH CLICKS]

[SWITCH CLICKS]

[SWITCH CLICKS]
[WALKER SNARLING, CHEERING CONTINUES]

[THEME MUSIC PLAYS]



[CROWD CHANTING, WALKERS GROWLING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[GRUNTS]
[CHEERING CONTINUES]
[GUNSHOT, WALKER SNARLING]

[GUNSHOTS, WALKERS SNARLING]

[CHAIN RATTLING]
What the fuck is that?

[CROWD CHEERING]


[SPEAKING FRENCH]
[CROWD SHOUTING]


[WALKERS SNARLING]
- Follow my lead.
- Sure thing, mate.
Duck!
[CROWD CHEERING]
[WALKERS SNARLING]
[BONES CRACKING]
[CROWD BOOING]
[WALKER SNARLING]
[WALKER GROWLING]


[WALKER GROWLING]
[DARYL GRUNTING]
[CROWD CHEERING]
[METAL CLANKING]


[WALKER SNARLING]
[CROWD CHEERING]

[METAL CLANKING, WALKER GRUNTING]

[WALKER SNARLING]
[CROWD CHEERING]


[CROWD CHEERING]

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

[CHANTING] Dixon! Dixon! Dixon!
Dixon! Dixon! Dixon! Dixon! Dixon!
Dixon! Dixon! Dixon! Dixon! Dixon!
[CHEERING CONTINUES]

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
[GROWLING WEAKLY]

[WALKER GROWLING]
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]


[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
[GUN COCKS]
[CROWD MURMURING]
[GUNFIRE, CROWD SCREAMING]

[GUN COCKS]

[MAN SHOUTING IN FRENCH]

[GRUNTS]

[CROWD SHOUTING]
Come on. Let's go.

[SHOUTING CONTINUES]
Madame.


[MEN SHOUTING IN FRENCH]

Nice one, mate.

What?
It's just a burn. It's fine.
It's nothing. I don't even feel it.
You sure?
Yeah.
Should we stand here taking
the piss or should we go?
[DOOR OPENS]
Aah!
[MAN GRUNTS]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]

[MUSIC CONTINUES]

[LOCK CLICKING]
- Wait. I
- Man, get up!
I just got to rest for a second.
I told you. I ain't dying here, man.
- Get the fuck up!
- You got to die somewhere.
What does it matter where?
It matters to me.
[METAL CLANKING]
You know, I was terrible to her.
Izzy.
I thought I'd get it right
the next time around,
and I made it worse.
Yeah.
Using your own kid to get her back?
Yeah. Well, I, uh, I didn't
see it like that, did I?
Doesn't matter now, does it?
It's too late.
You know it doesn't have to be.
You could buy me some time,
help save her and Laurent.
Yeah. Right.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
My wrist?
Yeah.
I'm gonna need your belt.
Come on.
Make it clean. One cut.
Yeah. Come on.
Right.
You ready?
Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Do something for me.
You'll tell her what I done for her.
You got it.
[GROANS, CRIES]
- Let's go.
- [GROANS]
[BLADE SCRAPES]
[MEN SHOUTING IN DISTANCE]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
Aah!
[MAN GRUNTS]
[SHOUTS ECHOING IN DISTANCE]

[MEN SPEAKING FRENCH]

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

[VEHICLE PASSING]

[GURGLING]


Daryl! Thank God.
Have you seen Isabelle and Laurent?
No.
Any idea where they are?
Cellblocks, I think.
I know how to get there.
Can you get one of these cars running?
My uncle ran a garage.
- Great.
- Hey, come here.

Okay. Don't move.
All right.
[METAL CLANKS]

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]


Hey!
Daryl.
Get that pipe over there
and try to break the lock.
[WALKER HISSING]
Come on. Isabelle!
No.
[WALKER GROWLING, SNARLING]

[GRUNTS]
[WALKER SNARLING]
[SCREAMS]

Hey! Hey!
[WALKERS GROWLING]
Take it. Take it. You can save her.
- You can do this.
- [SCREAMS]
You can save her. You can do this.
You can do it! You can do this.
You can do this. Save her.
Do it! Save her!
Save her!
[ISABELLE SCREAMS]
Do it!
Do it!
[WALKER GROWLING]
Laurent!
God will forgive you.

[SCREAMS]
Aah!
[BLADE SLICING, BODY THUDS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[BLADE CLANGS]
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]
You know where is the Nest?
We know.
Mm.
Good luck.
You too. Thank you.
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]


FALLOU: Ready.



ISABELLE: Daryl.

[ENGINE STARTS]


Fallou ain't gonna let anything
happen to him.
Have you ever been in love?
[ENGINE REVS]
It wasn't him anymore,
and he was never my father.
Sometimes you have to do
horrible things,
and no matter how bad you feel,
if there is no other choice,
God will forgive you.
Like with my mother.
[ENGINE SPUTTERING]
Oh, man.
What is it?
I don't know.
[ENGINE SPUTTERING]
All right. I'm gonna have to
check this out.
[ENGINE STOPS]
[METAL SCRAPING, CLANKING]
My father tried to teach me
how to change a tire once.
He gave up after two hours.
Mine used to have us take apart engines.
If we couldn't put them back
together, we got no dinner.
That sounds hard.
Yeah, it was when he was around.
Which was hardly ever.
He grew up without a father.
I guess history repeats itself
if you're not careful.
You got that screwdriver?
Ah. Thank you.
What do you mean,
history repeats itself?
Mm. My grandfather died here.
In the war?
Yeah.
You never said.
There's not much to say.
He enlisted,
left his pregnant wife
back home my grandma
never came back.
He gave his life for France.
Yeah, while his family
fell apart back home.
Hardly seems worth it.
Fighting for what you believe?
Wasn't much of a fight.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
He never made it off the beach.
I'm sorry.
Don't be.
He's changed so much since he met you.
[METAL RATTLING, DOOR CLOSES]
Mm. Kids grow up.
I didn't have much to do with that.
He's never had that kind
of influence in his life.
I guess growing up with
no father was better than Quinn.
Quinn thought about you before he died.
[METAL RATTLING]
Did he ask you to tell me that?
Nah. I just thought you should know.
[SNIFFS]
You know, at first, I was afraid of you.
- Why?
- There's something in your eyes.
I could tell you've been through stuff.
Your scars.
I could tell that you were dangerous.
[CHUCKLES]
That you could get us
where we needed to go.
Well, I'm glad I could help.
[EXHALES DEEPLY, GRUNTS]
There's something else
I have to confess.
[BOLT CLICKING]
I lied to you.
Oh, yeah? About what?
[GRUNTS]
About that picture on the beach.
I asked Laurent to draw that
once you got to the abbey.
I thought it might convince you
to help us.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY] Yeah.
It was stupid.
I don't know. Was it?
[GRUNTS] I'm here now.
It's not because
of your picture, either.
Hey, can you hand me that
that big wrench?
[METAL SCRAPING]
Isabelle.
Isabelle.
[SIGHS]
Isabelle.
Looking for this?
[GRUNTS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[WRENCH CLATTERS]
No, no, no. Don't do this.
Please. I-I'll go with you.
Sorry. Madame said you all die today.
The boy first.
[GRUNTS]
LAURENT: Isabelle !
Isabelle !

ISABELLE: Il m'enverra
du ciel le salut
No, no, no, no, no.
I I'm sorry.
Don't do this. Please. I'll go with you.
MAN: Dieu vous aime.
No, no, no, no. [BREATHING HEAVILY]
SYLVIE: [SPEAKING FRENCH]

[MUSIC BUILDS, CONTINUES]

No, no, no, no.
[MUSIC SLOWS, CONTINUES]
[GASPS, BREATHING HEAVILY]


Not today, Dixon.
Next time.


Mont-Saint-Michel.
The Nest?
A day's walk north.
Not even.
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]

Burn the truck.
Easy to track.
[MUSIC CONTINUES,
GROUP SINGING IN FRENCH]




[SOPHIE HUNGER'S
"LE VENT NOUS PORTERA" PLAYS]

Je n'ai pas peur de la route ♪
Faudrait voir, faut qu'on y goûte ♪
Des méandres au creux des reins ♪
Et tout ira bien ♪
The Nest.
Le vent nous portera ♪
La caresse et la mitraille ♪
Et cette plaie qui nous tiraille ♪
Le palais des autres jours ♪
D'hier et demain ♪

- Le vent les portera ♪
- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

Génétique en bandoulière ♪
Des chromosomes dans l'atmosphère ♪
Des taxis pour les galaxies ♪
Et mon tapis volant, dis ? ♪
Laurent.
Merci.
WOMAN: Isabelle.
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]

Uh, vous êtes Monsieur Dixon ?
His name is Daryl, and
he doesn't speak French.
Ah! Bien sûr.
Uh, the American. Welcome to the Nest.
I'm Losang.
Are you French?
[CHUCKLES] No. Hoboken.
Straight out of New Jersey.
I came to Paris as a student
in the '90s.
Wow. Your friend didn't mention that.
That's my dirty little secret.
Oh, and Azlan?
He didn't make it.

He was a good man.
Devoted and kind.
Genet She'll be coming for us.
We'll pray not, but if the day
comes, we'll be prepared.
Allons-y, mes amis. Hmm?
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS]
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
Le vent nous portera ♪

Pendant que la marée monte ♪
Et que chacun refait ses comptes ♪
J'emmène au creux de mon ombre ♪
Des poussières de toi ♪

Le vent les portera ♪

[BIRDS CHIRPING]
Mm.
[EXHALES DEEPLY]
[INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS,
LAUGHTER IN DISTANCE]
DARYL: Come on. All right. Guns up.
- Open.
- [GUNS COCKING]
Close.
And fire.
That's right. Open. Close.
Aim. Stick it in your shoulder.
[CHILDREN LAUGHING]
All right. In your shoulder, like this.
Open it.
Issa!
Guns up.
- Open.
- [GUNS COCKING]
Close.
Fire.
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]
Guns up.
- Open.
- [GUNS COCKING]
Shut it. Raise them up.
Fire.
[MUSIC CONTINUES, GROUP VOCALIZING]
[BIRDS SQUAWKING]
LOSANG: What makes us human?
LAURENT: Aristotle said humans
have the ability to reason.
That's right. Rationality.
Yeah. It's so good. Wow.
Santé.

Santé.
Santé. Santé. Santé. Santé.

[LAURENT LAUGHING, DARYL
SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

[LAUGHS]

- There.
- Not even close.
LOSANG: We are led to believe in
the belief of a supreme being,
but God does not exist
unless we believe in God.
Okay.
But God is not a deceiver,
and we are beings capable of
individual thought and reason.



I'm sorry. I, uh, didn't
mean to interrupt.
Wait.
Can you help me?
I can't reach my back.
Sure.
[WATER SPLASHING]
[CHAIR SLIDING]
[CLEARS THROAT]
Oof.
Is it that bad?
It's a pretty impressive
battle wound for a nun.
I think you said "killer nun".
Killer nun.
[WATER SPLASHING]
Do you like it here?
It's not what I expected.
What did you expect?
Bunch of Amish people running around.
Straw hats, people
churning butter, bonnets.
[EXHALES DEEPLY] It hurts to laugh.
[WATER SPLASHING]
I like it here.
Yeah.
Kind of grows on you.
Feels like home.
LOSANG: Now, I was skeptical
when Pere Jean first
sent word of the boy,
but I decided to do the
pilgrim's camino to Santiago,
so I stopped at the Abbaye
de Bernadette to meet him,
and I knew.
Yeah. He's a good kid.
Who looks up to you.
And he's here because of you.
Well, Isabelle, really.
Well, we're grateful to you both,
and I'm sorry to see you go.
You kept your word. We've kept ours.
Found a vessel to help get you home.
Fishermen from Dover.
Safe passage to England.
They know of boats that can
get you as far as Newfoundland.
You'll have to manage from there.
When does it leave?
It'll be there in two days.
You'll have to walk to the north coast.
Uh, so set out at dawn.
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]
Unless you've changed your mind.
Well, I-I got family
waiting for me back home.
Well, you've got people here
who'll hope you stay.

It's not so easy.

Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
And an ocean away,
the world being what it is.
But we need you here, now.

Pouvoir It isn't my fight.

Maybe the fight's
not the reason you're torn.
Sometimes, when a person leaves home,
he comes to find
he belongs someplace else.

No, Madame.
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]

[LIGHTER CLICKS]



[GRUNTS]



[DOOR OPENS]




I just heard.
You weren't gonna say anything?
I made a promise to them,
just like I made to you.
Which you kept, and I appreciate it.
[BIRDS CRYING]
But you also told me
that you left Commonwealth
to see what was out in the world.
I think you found something.
Maybe not what you were
looking for, but
This has always been the story,
ever since I washed ashore here.
What about Laurent?
Are you going to leave
without saying goodbye?
Are you gonna abandon him,
like your father did to you?
This is not that.
I think you care about him
and I think it scares you.
You think you're escaping
history by doing this,
but you are not.
You're repeating it.
You know, you believe what you believe,
and I respect you for that.
And this place feels like home to you,
and I truly hope it is for both of you.
But I have my own home to get back to.
Well, I'm glad we met.
Godspeed on your journey.
[FOOTSTEPS ECHOING]
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]







[BIRDS CRYING IN DISTANCE]


[BIRDS CRYING]
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]



[THUNDER RUMBLING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]


[WALKER GROWLING IN DISTANCE]


[WAVES BREAKING, METAL CLANKING]









[MUSIC BUILDS, CONTINUES]



[WIND WHISTLING]
[SNIFFS]
[MUSIC CONTINUES]




Hey!
Hey!
[MUSIC BUILDS, CONTINUES]


[WALKERS GROWLING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]







[MUSIC BUILDS, CONTINUES]

LAURENT: Daryl!
[WIND WHISTLING, WALKERS GROWLING]
Daryl!
Daryl!
[U2'S "SECONDS" PLAYING]


Takes a second to say goodbye ♪
Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh ♪
Takes a second to say goodbye ♪
Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh ♪
Say bye-bye ♪
Where you going to now? ♪
[VOCALIZING]


[ENGINE REVVING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]




[ENGINE REVVING]
[GUNSHOT ECHOES, TIRES SCREECHING]

[ENGINE STOPS, STEAM HISSING]


Get out.
I want to see your hands.


The hell you want, lady?
I don't want any trouble.
I'm looking for a friend of mine.
Name's Daryl Dixon.
Never heard of no Dixon.
That's his bike you're riding.
Found it.
Sure about that?
I've come a long way
trying to track him down.
Then I guess you got
a long walk home, don't you?
After I have a look through your stuff.
Now move.

That's right.
Open that.
Now.
[KEYS JINGLING]
[LATCH CLICKS, HINGES SQUEAK]


[GRUNTS]


Easy, lady.
Don't kill me.
Where'd you get the bike?
I swear to God,
I traded some shit for it.
- With who?
- Some dudes.
Camped back down the road a few miles.
Go right when you see
an old gas station.
If you're lying, I won't be back.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
- Aah! Come on!
- [ENGINE STARTS]
- Hey! Hey!
- [U2'S "SECONDS" RESUMES]
Come on!
- Say goodbye, say goodbye ♪
- You can't leave me in here!
- Say goodbye ♪
- Say goodbye ♪
Say goodbye ♪
[U2'S "SECONDS" PLAYING]
It takes a second to say goodbye ♪
Say goodbye, oh, oh, oh ♪
[VOCALIZING]
Missing is the rise and fall ♪

Say goodbye, say goodbye ♪
Say goodbye, say goodbye ♪
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