The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020) s02e01 Episode Script

Previously on "The Walking
Dead: World Beyond"
You have loaned us
your greatest mind ..
Dr. Leo Bennett.
I'm sure Iris
is helping someone.
That's what you get.
And Hope -- I'm sure
she's with friends
getting into
some kind of trouble.
So, you admit it,
you're one of them!
Yeah.
Will's scouting expedition
was due back a few days ago.
I think it's possible
we're being lied to.
Woman: Your dad's
not in danger. Never was.
Hope: They need me to help
my dad with his research.
Huck's mission
was to get me there.
They think they need me
to save the world,
but they have no clue
what you can do.
This is how we
give our lives meaning.
What the hell?
I thought you were dead.
Wait. Why?
Why would you think that?
You don't know?
The ones that are still out
there, they're not a threat.
We'll talk.
A lot's happened since you left.
You Bennetts are going to
accomplish great things
together.
Hope: Yeah, we are.
Man: Clearing the lane.
Woman: Asset on vector
at three clicks.
Ready egress charges.
Man #2: Alpha leader,
stand by for extraction.
Woman: Asset on vector.
Both the Campus Colony
and the Portland
are concerned about
the communication break.
There's talk they're sending
an envoy to investigate.
As we expected.
Clear Major Mullins
to reach out,
offer to collaborate
on the investigation.
And the lane
to the Campus Colony?
Cleared.
We'll have the column there
within 72 hours,
once its work
is done here.
Good.
Your decision not to inform
Staff Sergeant Mallick.
Her mission is separate
from this.
With any luck, she's, uh,
reached
a minimum safe distance.
Man: Firing egress charges.
New orders from
Major General Beale.
Doing this
and then again
to the Campus Colony,
it's only the beginning.
Alert delta team
we found their escapee.
Help
me'
Ho.
I thought
I heard someone up.
I'm sure she's okay.
You know it's her
birthday today?
Uh
Yeah.
I'll bet your dad's
doing something for her.
Will you promise me
you'll try to get
at least a little shut.eye?
Little sleep?
I'll promise if you promise.
Alright.
Wish me luck.
Hope: What the hell?
Your research place
is here?
Change of plan.
The hell?
Why are we here?
Hey,
what the hell is this?
What this is, Hope,
is a lesson.
Don't worry. I know you know
don't like school.
Think of it as more
of a field trip.
You said you were taking me
to my dad.
Was that a lie, too?
Why am I even asking?
Kid, she's taking you
to your dad.
No, I'm not.
Not yet.
You gave us the map.
You told us
it was New York.
You pushed us,
and you lied ab..
The other helicopters.
You said you went
to the university alone.
What was that even about?
We're 10 years
into this new world,
Hope, and there
are dead columns.
You -- You call them
mega clusters.
Others call them hordes.
Some call them herds --
roaming the continent,
and, as far as we can tell,
the whole world.
And these columns, they're now
so big, they ..
They just
break through everything,
just run through anything,
whole cities.
The day after Monument Day,
we were on our way to Omaha,
and we saw one such column.
So huge. It was like nothing
we'd ever seen before.
It was unimaginable.
It had run through Omaha
and was headed
for the Campus Colony.
We were mobilizing
the rescue effort
and contacting
Campus Colony officials
when a second column
nearly just as big,
merged with the first.
There must've been
over 100,000 in total.
We did everything we could to
save as many lives as we could.
It wasn't enough.
For the few who came out alive,
we airlifted them to Portland,
but, uh
both Omaha
and the Campus Colony are gone.
What?
No, that's crazy. What
are you talking about?
Yeah, search and rescue
are still ..
Still combing through,
but at this point it's ..
No, you're wrong.
Don't touch me.
Elizabeth:
I'm so sorry, both of you.
It's small words
for something so big.
I don't care.
I brought us here to Albany
because this was my home
at the end.
I was here, working as
an attaché for the UK
Ministry of Defence
when everything fell apart.
And it was then that I realized
just how quickly any chance
for a future can crumble,
even when everyone
does their best.
You've been through so much,
but with everything
that's happened,
Hope, do you still believe
a future's possible?
I, uh
Uh, I did.
You should, because despite
all of the fallen cities,
it still is.
And getting you to think
differently,
think more positively
about the future,
yeah, that was why we pushed you
to go on this journey.
And I'm sorry, but now that you
see how fragile civilization is,
I trust that you're
understanding that no ..
No one makes it alone.
No one.
It takes everyone
coming together
to have a shot at that future.
No, no, you -- you said
you were taking me to my father.
I hope I can.
You hope?
We both know you're not ready.
For a community with
a long.term plan predicated
on generational education
and .. and scientific progress,
geniuses are
an invaluable resource,
but a genius who's a rebellious,
strong.willed troublemaker,
that's a risk.
Used against us, those qualities
can spread like rot.
And they make any kind of
common goal unattainable.
We can't bring in someone
who would jeopardize that.
Don't misunderstand me.
We want you to work with us.
Now, you have a lot to offer,
but I cannot bring you in
to join your father
unless I know that,
despite your grief
and despite your anger,
you are fully committed
to being an asset
for the future, right,
to dedicating the rest
of your life
to learning,
furthering his research,
and handing that knowledge
onto the next generation
'cause only then --
only then will you be
an asset to the future.
I am.
That's why I came with you guys,
because I'm ready.
And I-I think
you need more time.
For what?
To think about what you want,
Hope.
What do you truly want?
I'll need your answer by dawn.
After all the shit
you just put me through,
I can just walk away,
and you're gonna let me?
Um, I'm giving you
that option, yeah.
You'd have every reason to,
given the extent
of our manipulation.
I'll take my chances.
Alone.
You think you can find
your sister and friends?
You can't.
Out there on your own, you
won't make it out of the city,
never mind
to any kind of future.
Being alive today,
that's a gift,
and you can choose to waste it
alone, waste all of your gifts,
or you can fight for a future --
with others, for others ..
So that what happened here
and to the 100,000 souls
in Omaha
and your friends back home
never happens again.
You don't have to like us,
Hope, but you do
have to embrace
what we're fighting for.
The choice is yours.
Hope.
The Dunn Memorial Bridge
is the only way out.
It's eight blocks east.
I'm not recommending it.
You really doing this?
After everything I did
to get her here?
She could die. Yeah, she could,
or she could choose to join us.
We need her to choose.
Mission incomplete.
Felix:
Tell us what happened.
The CRM controls
all communications in and out.
Each message is coded and
scheduled to avoid detection.
They don't mess around.
I'm worried.
It's been weeks,
and nothing.
Officer Campbell,
I understand your concern,
but it could be anything --
sun flares, equipment failure.
I've been waiting on
a security update from Omaha
that was weeks late.
As more time went by,
they kept stonewalling.
I told them as much.
That was my mistake.
Romano and I heard
they were sending a team
to a relay station
a few hundred miles
out to look into
the communication break.
Leo gave us his blessing
to go with them.
He, uh -- We downplayed it
so he wouldn't worry,
told him it was
a scouting mission.
Lieutenant, it was good to hear
you had room for two more.
Looking forward to finally
getting to the bottom of this.
Newton:
You know the protocol.
Looking back, there were
signs it was a setup.
They didn't put up a fight when
we told them we wanted to go.
I overheard one of them make
a cryptic comment
about picking up
a patrol shift the next day,
but it was
a three.day trip.
And for a three-day trip,
they were light
on supplies.
I was on the run
for a few days
when
I heard the helicopters.
They were looking for you?
They were dropping off
shipping containers,
containers full of equipment
from the Campus Colony, Omaha ..
Generators, computers.
Some of it
was covered in blood.
All of it was loaded up
into trucks and driven off.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Blood?
Are you sure?
I heard them call it
a salvage mission.
Said something about
shit being messed up
by the giant column
that ran through.
A few days later,
they found me, took me in.
I joined a hunting party to help
out when I ran into you.
Wait, you're saying
that Omaha
that empties just ran through?
I don't know how else
to take it.
How?
How can it just be gone?
Wait, wait, my dad, is --
is he okay?
There's no reason to believe
he's not okay.
Same with Hope.
I kicked the hornets' nest,
asked too many questions.
Must've made me
and Romano targets.
Did CRM know
the whole time?
Why would they lie?
I don't know.
All I know
is they want me dead
and I will be
if they find me.
We should go.
Will: Whole place is secure.
Storm last night knocked
some trees onto the wall.
It's possible some empties
breached,
but we got it patched up
pretty quick.
That's a Jean-Charles.
It's a Haitian sculptor I read
about in a book back home.
That one's
called "Vérité."
What is this place?
The Perimeter.
It was an abandoned farm town
back in the day.
Before things fell apart,
it was bought,
turned into an artist colony.
They've built things up
since then, brought people in.
Felix, Iris, this is the head
of the council
that runs this place.
Indira.
A runner gave us a head's up
you were coming.
So sorry about your home.
But with Will vouching for you,
you have one here,
at least until a more permanent
solution presents itself.
I can't tell you how much
we appreciate that.
You may keep your knives,
but for the safety
and comfort of others,
we do ask that you surrender
all other weapons
while you're on our land.
You agree to this?
There's a spare bedroom
in the house Will's staying in.
Once you're cleaned up and fed,
I'll send someone
to look at that leg.
The council will want to ask you
both some questions,
but I'll hold them off
till morning.
Come on.
It's just ahead.
Uh, let me ask you something
before you go.
What do you live for?
Living takes effort now.
It takes everything.
Those still alive
have their reasons,
and I realize I need
to know those reasons
if you're going
to be with us.
What do you live for?
These two.
And a few others.
And you?
I guess I live for hope.
The world is nothing
without hope.
Go.
Will: Come on.
Hi.
How safe are we here?
It's pretty rare for the CRM to
cross into Perimeter territory.
It's part of the deal Indira
struck with them.
Her people cleared the area
of the dead
and ward strangers
away from the facility.
In return, the CRM gives them
supplies and neutrality.
They don't bother the CRM,
the CRM doesn't bother them.
They're risking everything
by harboring us.
Iris: So I finished decoding
these books.
Anything? Supply.depot
locations, fuel inventories,
stuff we could use once we get
Hope and my dad back.
Nothing to help
get Hope and my dad back.
And you're sure?
Come on. There's got to be
something, right?
We should scout the facility
while it's dark,
see for ourselves
what we're up against.
How far is it?
Now, come on.
You said you were drawing up
a layout, right?
Yeah, but
there's nothing
any of us can do just yet.
I want Hope and your dad safe
from those assholes
as much as you do,
but I know that place.
I'm not -- I'm not just gonna
sit here and wait.
They've got guards, patrols,
long.range security.
Getting within a mile of it
is dangerous,
and I won't tell you anything
that I don't already know.
Okay.
Hey.
This is about the long game,
not just how we get in
but how we get them out
and where we go after.
It's not just about Hope and
Leo's safety or ours anymore.
It's about the safety of
everyone here giving us shelter.
One wrong move,
and it's over
for all of us.
Aah!
Aah!
Iris?
Felix?
Dad?
Think about what you want,
Hope,
what you truly want.
Hello?
You thinking of
going after her?
You said we needed her
to keep her dad motivated,
to maybe even take
over his research someday.
I said we could use her
for those things, yeah.
So, what, none of that
matters anymore?
It matters that you succeed,
Jennifer.
It was your idea to get the girl
across country this way.
You insisted she was
worth the risk.
You convinced me that this trip
was the only way to change her.
It did change her.
Not enough.
This little nudge?
I think, with this, your mission
can still be a win,
like Omaha was,
and it'll all but erase
what happened before you left.
I've only ever wanted
the best for you.
You know that?
She reminds me a bit of you
at that age.
Is that why
you took her on?
She was lost.
Angry.
She needed someone to look up
to, someone to believe in her.
I could relate.
How come you didn't tell me
about the Campus Colony
or Omaha before,
when we met for the debriefing?
It would only have been
a needless distraction,
and it would've made
your mission that much harder.
Being under for
an extended period
it's easier to form
attachments, blur the lines.
If you want to go after her,
I won't stop you.
What about the others?
You said you found one.
Who was it?
Based on the description
you gave us,
we believe
it's Silas Plaskett.
Plaskett's an innocent.
He doesn't know anything.
He's been interrogated.
He's stonewalling.
We've gleaned nothing,
which is why I'm focused
on finding the others.
If they know too much
or if they're still resolved
on saving Dr. Bennett
or now Hope
they'll need to
be dealt with.
So, tell me, how much do
they know about us?
About the mission?
Hope: She's CRM.
Five miles north,
you'll find safety.
Why are you doing this?
I want what you have.
You have a helicopter.
I heard it.
You have clothes and food,
and when you have it,
you fight to keep it.
And when you have nothing,
you take.
You have to take.
You have to feed!
Aah!
You.
You're her.
I saw your picture.
It's you.
I know it's you.
You're wrong. I'm not.
You're Candice.
No, I-I'm not her.
I can't be,
because you are.
See?
You can't run away.
There isn't
anyplace better.
You know that.
You got out
and had to come back
and come back and come back,
come back, come back.
You should've done so many
things at the start.
So many things.
You should've
done them, Candice,
but couldn't.
Stop.
Why couldn't you?
Please stop, stop.
I don't want to hurt you, okay?
- I just want to go.
- Go where?
You'll just die.
Someone else gets the clothes,
the food, supplies, the meat.
Don't make me kill you.
Please don't make me kill you.
Tell me what you're doing
out here.
What are you doing here
if you won't feed?!
I'm just
trying to make it.
Oh, Candice
you stupid little bitch.
Aah!
Youfed.
Stay, Stay.
This is your home.
It's yours now.
Elizabeth: Think about
what you want, Hope,
what you truly want.
I was very happy
to get your call.
You were right.
I wasn't gonna
make it alone.
But I don't want this
to be all there is.
I don't know if that's
what you want to hear,
but it's
the Goddamn truth.
Did I pass your test?
Can I see my dad now?
It's okay to hate us,
Hope.
You should.
But the bad things we do
must be done.
We carry that burden so that
others don't have to,
so there can still
be good in the world.
And maybe one day
this won't be all there is.
I'm willing to offer
your sister
and Officer Carlucci
a home with us,
seeing as they don't have one
to go back to.
I would imagine you understand
that very differently now.
Huck: You wanted to see
if I'd go after her
if she and the others
have changed me.
I'm really glad
I was wrong.
I've been thinking about Silas,
what we can do with him.
No more loose ends,
like you said, right?
I'm afraid I have some tragic
news about the Campus Colony
that I need
to share with you.
It is tempered by some very
good news about your family.
Hey.
How you feeling?
Doc said you have
a concussion.
Look, got every reason
to hate me,
but I need you to listen.
You ever want to see Iris
and Felix again,
we got to get on
the same page about something.
Before we left them
at that farmhouse,
I sent them to a settlement
a few miles from here.
People there
will keep them safe.
Wait, what?
And my mother
I told her
they didn't know anything.
It guarantees their safety
if she finds them,
long as they don't divulge
what they know.
Why?
What happens if they do?
The CRM finds out
you decoded their intel,
that you all knew
that I had orders
to take out Iris and Felix
if that's what it took,
and that I let them live,
knowing that,
I don't know what happens,
but I know we've killed
people for less.
You really think
I'm an idiot, huh?
You're just trying to cover
your own ass'
Mm, that's not
what this is about.
Why shouldn't
I tell your mother
how bad her daughter
screwed up her mission?
Why shouldn't I screw
with your life
just the way you did
with mine?
Just told you why.
You go to her, you could be
putting a target
not just on my back
but on yours,
on Felix's and Iris',
and on your dad's, too,
if you tell them
what really went down.
You'll have to lie to him
about where they are,
about what you know.
It's the only way you can
be sure he stays safe.
You and me, we're just
tiny pieces of a big mosaic,
little players in the game
that will be played out
over decades,
maybe centuries.
But this place, it's safe.
It's good for everybody,
long as we play by the rules
and don't stir shit up.
Is that a threat?
It's how it is.
After last night,
I thought you got that.
No, I got that I wanted
to get to a future,
maybe help work for one.
But there is no way in hell
I'm working with you assholes
to make that happen.
I knew I wasn't gonna
make it back there.
You were just
my ticket out.
It's past midnight.
Happy Birthday, kid.
Will you promise you'll try to
get at least a little shut.eye?
Little sleep?
I'll promise if you promise.
Wish me luck.
Felix.
Felix?
Yeah?
Why do you think the CRM
would cover up
what happened back home?
Just doesn't make sense,
does it?
No, it doesn't.
I keep thinking
about everybody who's gone,
and the only reason we're not
is 'cause we left.
We took a risk.
Maybe that's how
we keep living,
how we get
Hope and my dad back.
We do what we need to do
no matter the risk.
Look, it's great that the
council is letting us stay here.
We can only sit tight
for so long.
The rules
are different now.
CRM changed the game.
So we change
how we play.
Will: Said something about
shit being messed up
by the giant column
that ran through.
Felix: That empties
just ran through?
I don't know how else
to take it.
It wasn't empties.
It was you.
That's what you get.