The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020) s02e02 Episode Script
Foothold
Previously on "The Walking
Dead: World Beyond"
Omaha and the Campus
Colony are gone. What?
Will: I kicked the hornets'
nest, asked too many questions.
All I know
is they want me dead.
Huck: What about the others?
You said you found one.
Elizabeth: We believe
it's Silas Plaskett.
What is this place?
The Perimeter.
This is the head of the council
that runs this place.
Indira.
I was very happy
to get your call.
You were right.
I wasn't gonna
make it alone.
That's what you get.
Iris:
That's what you get.
What are you -- Hey!
I picked up your trail.
Are you all right?
You hurt?
He was
going to find me.
We gotta
get outta here.
Wait.
They'll find him like this.
Oh, shit.
Go. Let's go.
Hear it?
They heard us.
We can't let them
hit the ground.
Here's my knife!
You gotta do it!
Do it!
Man: Gamma 5, Gamma 5,
this is base team.
Way is clear to marker 6.
Felix:
Stay down.
north to northwest,
over'
Gamma 5, copy.
Should I even
ask her questions, or?
Just let her tell me
when she's ready?
Who knows
what she saw out there,
what she had to do.
And then to find out what
happened to everybody back home,
it's just
I can't
But
she'll be here.
That's what's important.
And Iris
They know
where she is, right?
By this time tomorrow,
they'll have her and Felix
back here, too.
Safe.
Just like Hope.
What time is it?
I know.
It's late.
I should probably
It's just, I -- I need to get
the other room ready.
It's okay.
I -- I do want them
to know about this.
Just when the time
is something
closer to right.
The time will be
"something close to right" soon.
What?
I just
can't stop thinking if
I hadn't mentioned her
to Sergeant Mills
It's not exactly
classified information.
Still, I
should've known.
No useful data here
goes to waste.
Okay.
Maybe, um
Maybe we need to be
scientific about this.
You know,
if we allow for
secondary interpretations
of data
viewed from a more
holistic vantage point
your indiscretion
saved my daughters' lives.
If they hadn't left home
when they did
You're being kind.
I'm being honest.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Okay.
Leo:
Make a wish.
Here's some protein.
Dad, Dad!
I turned 17.
I didn't
become a weightlifter.
Sorry. It's
just, the thought of you
being hungry ..
I wasn't.
Okay? Felix took
really good care of us.
I could go without seeing
another can of beans
for the rest
of my life, but
We were luckier
than most.
Did you
Were you ever in
any kind of danger?
Would it be okay if
we just didn't talk about it?
Yeah.
Yeah,
of course.
Honestly?
The hardest thing about
being out there
was worrying about you.
Not knowing if you were hurt.
But seeing you okay,
it makes it
all worth it.
Just wish I knew if Iris
and Felix were okay, too.
They are.
We toughened up a lot
out there, you know?
You should see Iris.
She's gotten pretty good
at killing 'em.
Empties, I mean.
The CR's military
They approach everything
with an ice.cold pragmatism
that I was never
on board with.
But I had no idea --
Dad, Dad
You don't
have to explain.
No.
I do.
See, even though I'd always
been careful not to push you,
so you could choose
your own path
there was always a part of me
that hoped someday
you'd choose mine.
And now here you are,
with me,
in the exact
same place,
without any choices
at all.
So we just have to
go along with it?
I don't know.
What about the one
in the jacket?
Right here?
Mm.hmm.
It's the right height.
He's a little thin,
but maybe .. A little?
He's practically dust.
We gotta keep looking.
I got this.
Hey.
You good?
Yeah, I'm fine.
There's a gully
a mile north.
Dumdums sometimes
build up there.
Yeah, but even if we get lucky,
we'd still have to ..
If you've got a better idea,
I'd love to hear it.
Okay.
You told us coming out here
was dangerous.
I -- I get it.
If I were you,
I'd be mad, too.
So why did you?
Yeah.
Why did you?
I don't think
it was empties.
The CRM,
they killed Romano.
They tried
to kill Will.
They were willing
to kill all of us.
So why not
everybody back home?
Or Omaha?
Wait.
You think that the CRM
was behind all of this?
Why else
would they cover it up?
I don't know.
But we're talking
a hundred thousand people here.
And you're saying,
what ..
They wanted
all of us just dead?
Why?
We weren't a threat.
Maybe we had something
they wanted.
They wanted Hope.
You saw how far they went
to take her.
I'd be lying if I said
it hadn't crossed my mind, too.
Hold up.
I think
we got a winner.
Only needs to work
from a distance.
You two
go grab the soldier.
I'll take him.
We'll meet
at the drop.off.
Hey.
It'll work.
Come on.
Tell me your name.
Uh, Silas.
Plaskett.
What's yours?
Dennis.
They find you alone?
Uh
Yeah.
We still in New York?
If you try
for the knife,
I'll stop you,
and you'll go to prison.
Probably for a long,
long time.
You gonna tell me
where we're going, or?
One less
to worry about.
We're here.
Man:
Lieutenant Colonel.
Dr. Bennett
is asking to see you.
Yeah,
send him in.
Dr. Bennett,
how are you doing?
How's Hope
settling in?
Well,
she found out
everyone she knew back home
was killed
after she was tricked
into coming here, so
With respect, there won't be
any "settling in"
until her sister and Felix
are brought to safety.
Understandably.
It's why bringing them in
is our top priority.
I want to join the team
that's going to get them.
They should be met
by a familiar face,
not a bunch
of helmets.
Unfortunately,
that's not going to be possible.
The extraction team
already left.
I dispatched them
as soon as I heard.
I will update you personally,
Dr. Bennett ..
Like you've updated me
on my security detail?
Oh.
Um, I'm sorry.
Air reconnaissance showed
a large column
passing through their area,
and it delayed their return.
Like the others,
I'm sure they'll get here
safe and sound
before you know it.
Your daughters' journey
must have come as a shock.
You've manipulated them into
traveling over a thousand miles,
completely unprotected.
Staff Sergeant Mallick
is more than capable
of dealing with any threat.
Oh, right.
"Huck."
Your mole.
That's how much my daughters'
safety meant to you.
You sent one soldier.
That, uh --
That one soldier means
more to me than 1 million.
Jennifer Mallick
is my daughter.
I want the rest
of my family here.
Tonight.
Or I'm done
working for you.
You don't work for me,
Dr. Bennett.
Your efforts
are for the Civic Republic,
as are mine.
We protect the CR,
and we secure resources.
Your daughter
is one such resource.
When we opted
to deliver her here, to you,
it was on condition
she change.
We knew that
you'd discover that,
and we knew
that she would, too.
She was raised
behind walls.
I needed her to experience
and see the world as it is
in order for her
to understand the stakes
and to see her role,
and we were willing to do that
even if it meant
you forgetting yours.
We wouldn't enter into
a plan like this
without running a full
psychological profile
on both you
and her.
We knew, however angry
you would be
and however betrayed
you'd feel,
you would still
keep working towards
what was
most important ..
Building an apparatus
of knowledge
and research
to save humanity.
Nothing's more important to me
than my family.
Oh, of course.
So you repeatedly
told them
in the transmissions
that we intercepted.
But you left them,
didn't you?
You broke our laws,
Dr. Bennett.
You put them
at risk.
We were the ones
who chose to look away.
What was it you said?
It was an error
in judgment?
Word of advice --
I wouldn't make any more.
You're excused.
Any update on
our missing soldier?
Six teams have been scouring
all morning.
Still nothing.
And what about
the missing member
of Dr. Bennett's
security detail?
Trail's gone cold.
You think
there's a connection?
Ready a transport.
Okay,
sounds good.
Young woman:
That's her, right?
Hope, hi.
Sorry.
I -- I saw you
sitting there,
and I recognized you from
the photo on your dad's desk.
The one where you're wearing
a satin gown with combat boots?
Oh. Right.
Yeah,
winter formal.
Um, I'm Lyla,
a colleague of his.
Uh, I know your dad
was supposed to meet you,
but he's waiting
on an update on your sister.
I was thinking
I could give you a tour?
Or we could do it some
other time if that's better.
No, no.
It's .. It's cool.
Show me everything.
Put this on.
Keep moving.
Webb.
Report.
Reeled in
a B.Oh.Four, sir.
Dead battery.
Put him in Two.
Just finishing up
the stage-sixers,
then it's clean-up
and load.up.
Should be done
by 1800.
Right on schedule.
Good.
No turned unstoned,
yeah?
Dude
What?
It -- It was clever.
Really wasn't.
Webb, Tiga, Grady,
this is Plaskett.
Plaskett is joining us here
in decontamination.
You're all responsible
for training him
and setting him up
with gear.
Kill it.
Stab and twist.
And I want a count
of those damaged kill sticks
on my desk
before sundown.
Yes, sir.
Back to work.
'"No turned unstoned"?
Get outta here
with that shit.
TCFT --
Too clever for Tiga.
So what was
this place before?
Before the world turned?
It was a government-funded
educational research lab.
It housed experiments
in dark matter
and neutrino physics.
And before that,
it was an old diamond mine.
The shafts and rock stability
were ideal for experiments
that required shielding
from the sun's cosmic radiation.
And now
we are using the labs
for our own purposes.
Come on.
I'll show you.
Down here,
we're laying the foundation
to one day find out
why the world turned.
So you're trying
to find a cure.
Pinpointing what inside us
makes us turn ..
Whether it be fungal,
bacterial, viral,
or something else
entirely ..
Sure,
that's one part of it.
But it's also about
finding a way
to get rid of the ones
who have already turned.
By investigating
and hopefully discovering
what keeps
the dead animated,
what inside them
slows their decomposition rates
and feeds
their appetite,
we hope to one day
turn off those triggers,
eliminate the dead
as a threat,
and eradicate them
from the earth.
You think
that's possible?
Wouldn't be here
if I didn't.
Don't you?
Just sounds
a little far.fetched.
It's definitely
a big.picture approach.
We teach you everything
you need to know,
and as you research
and investigate
you teach,
and pass on that knowledge
to the next generation,
and so on.
So I just turned 17,
and you already have
my whole life planned out?
We also select
all your meals
for optimal nutrition
as you age
and have tests to help you find
your ideal genetic mate.
Sorry.
I couldn't resist.
Your dad's office
is right up there.
Hi.
Hey.
Oh, right.
Those were the forms
for the discrepancies.
I'll look them over
first thing in the morning.
I'm almost positive
it was just a data.entry error,
but I want to double-check
just to make sure.
Thank you.
Okay.
Hey, is it cool
if I meet you there?
I think I saw a bathroom
with four walls,
and that's a pretty hard thing
to pass up.
Your dad's lab
is right through this door,
to the right,
all the way at the end.
Young man:
Need some help?
Um, yeah.
Yeah, I'm just looking
for the bathroom.
For
Authorized Personnel Only?
Yeah.
Well, everyone knows
that the best bathrooms
are for
authorized personnel only.
Right. Yeah.
No, I must've known and forgot
that I knew.
Because that is
definitely not a fake thing
that you are
making up right now.
I'm Mason.
You're the new girl,
right?
The one who got
flown in yesterday?
Yeah.
How did you know that?
It's a pretty
small place.
Right.
I'm sorry about what happened
in Omaha.
That's why we're wearing
the armbands.
Hey, if you're really curious
about what's in there,
allow me.
This needed
a warning sign?
Yeah, they take their shit
pretty seriously here.
They don't
want people, uh,
helping themselves
without permission.
But I'm happy
to break the rules for you
if there's
something you want.
I want a mop.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, stop.
No,
I'm screwing with you.
Wh-Why would I want
a mop?
I don't know.
I just wanted to see
if you would do it.
Okay.
You did it.
Well, hey, um, uh, I was gonna
meet my study group later,
but I'm happy
to show you around.
I'm actually already
in the middle of a tour, so
Do you mind
if I ask your name?
You said
it's a pretty small place,
which means you probably
already know that.
I'll see you around,
Hope.
Brody:
They can't be trusted.
She killed a CRM soldier
with one of our weapons.
He's wanted
by the CRM.
They've put us all
at risk.
We have a plan,
and it'll fix that.
We're asking you to give us
a chance to make this right.
They can't stay
with us.
It's too dangerous.
Especially since
they haven't been forthcoming.
You went through
my stuff?
It's got the location of
CRM supply drops, fuel depots
If they find out we
have .. They won't.
If our plan works, it won't just
take some heat off me,
it'll help protect
all of you.
We're just asking you
to let us stay.
You have to hide.
Now!
Shit.
They only want me.
Come on.
Oh, wait.
My code books!
Go!
If we don't hand them over,
you know what we could lose.
And that's not
what we're about.
Not a word.
Lieutenant Colonel.
This is a surprise.
Indira,
sorry to come unannounced.
Although I'm sure your lookouts
gave you ample warning.
Well,
you're always welcome anytime.
Thanks.
I only wish this was
a social visit.
Well, how can we assist you,
Lieutenant Colonel?
I'm here because
we're looking into something.
Is that
one of yours?
It is.
Oh, wow.
It's beautiful.
Mm, I still have
the one you did of Jennifer.
I love it.
How is
your daughter?
We haven't seen her
in ..
I
What's it been?
Two years?
Mm.
Is she still
on assignment?
She's just
returned home.
Yeah, it's good to
have her back. Oh.
Oh, it's so much responsibility,
isn't it?
Having so many people
entrust their well.being
and their survival
with you.
I'm here because of
a security issue.
One of my soldiers
went missing last night.
Not far from here.
Well, you're not thinking
that one of my men ..
Oh, no, no, no.
Of course not.
I can't imagine anybody here
would endanger our agreement.
No, we think it's someone
at the facility
who's giving us
a bit of bother.
Well, we haven't seen
any new faces.
I noticed your wall
had some damage.
I think,
for your own security,
I should probably have
my soldiers search the village
just to make sure that
no one slipped in unnoticed.
No, no, no,
that's not necessary.
The wall's been fixed,
and our lookouts do a fine job.
They do.
Of course they do.
You can never
be too careful.
These are so lovely.
Mm.
This one's new.
Oh,
look at the detail.
Man: Lieutenant Colonel,
come in.
Go on.
We have eyes
on four.nine.six,
grid three,
Watkins Glen.
Copy that.
I'm en route.
Out.
Looks like we've located
our missing soldier.
I'm so sorry for the intrusion,
Indira.
I hope
that next time,
I'll have
an opportunity to talk more.
I'm sure we will.
Hey.
I was thinking it would be good
if your dad filled you in
on what
he's been up to here.
So,
where is my dad?
Um, I'm not sure.
But I-I know
he really wanted ..
I know, he probably
really wanted to be here, yeah.
I -- I happen to know
he loves you very much.
It's just, he
he doesn't have a choice
except to work this hard.
He's --
He's doing it for ..
Yeah, for me, my sister,
the future
I already know.
I've met
so many parents
who feel helpless now.
They
want to make their own
children's lives better.
They want to do something
to fight this.
But they can't.
They don't have
the knowledge.
Just the desire.
They're, um
relying on people like your
father to do what they can't.
Can you imagine what being
under that kind of pressure
must feel like?
Hey.
Even though
your dad's not here,
he can still
fill you in.
Uh,
can you hit the lights?
Greetings to our partners
in the Civic Republic.
It's my pleasure to update you
on the progress we've been
making here at the facility.
Last spring,
we took the bio recorder
we've been developing
and fused it to the brain stem
of a dead one.
Despite some glitches
we're still working out,
it's given us the ability
to record and transmit
the dead's biological responses
to environmental stimuli
and provided us
valuable tracking data
that'll help us approximate
and predict behavior.
We'd tried for years,
but your father
cracked it in two months.
His mind is truly
something else.
The program,
while still in its infancy,
has already allowed us
to collect
troves of information --
small variations
in brain chemistry,
variations in speed,
implying pursuit behaviors,
the effect of weather
on movement and awareness ..
Massive amounts of data
that will open the doors
to further avenues of research.
One of these avenues I've
been exploring personally ..
Infecting the dead
with strains of fungi
that grow on necrotic flesh.
It's conceivable if we can
modify an existing fungus,
then we can one day accelerate
the dead's rate of decay,
virtually neutralizing them
as an active, mobile threat.
And now we'll handle things
over to Dr. Ellis
to talk about the progress
he's been making
in the field of
Evidence points to a struggle,
which led to this.
You're sure it's them?
We can deploy a recovery team
to examine the ..
The bodies look likely to
wash away before they get here.
But we should try.
Let's limit this
to authorized CRM personnel.
Dr. Bennett doesn't need
more bad news tonight.
Sorry. I've
been meaning
to straighten up in here.
Dad, it's okay.
All your stuff everywhere,
it kinda feels like home.
I've been out trying to get
an update on Iris and Felix,
and,
to be honest,
I was trying
to clear my head.
Lyla said
she gave you a tour.
What'd you think?
H-Honestly?
I -- I thought there'd be
a lot more guard towers
and attack dogs.
Yeah.
Oh.
Were you asking
about your girlfriend?
Uh
uh
She told you?
She didn't have to.
I saw her stuff
in your bathroom,
and she called you "brilliant"
like 89 times.
Yeah, well
She's all right.
And
if your work
is important to you,
then it's important
to me, too.
It is, but
But what?
Iris and Felix.
They weren't at
the retirement home.
The CRM
is searching the area,
but they haven't
found them.
You and Huck
took the truck,
and you said that
Felix could barely walk, so
No, i-if they felt like
they should move,
Felix would move.
You sure there isn't something
you're leaving out?
Whatever it is, I need you
to be honest with me.
Hope
what the hell's
going on?
Thanks.
I, um
I still --
I.I don't understand.
What happens here?
Few times a week,
we lure the dead in
with lights and music,
blow 'em up,
then we clean 'em up.
So where --
where do the parts go?
Resort in
the Cayman Islands.
Uh, we take them off.site.
We got trucks.
Plaskett.
Leave that.
Follow me.
So, when the CRM finds people
out there,
do they always
send 'em here?
No.
What, so the others,
like Grady and Tiga and ..
They signed on.
They want to be a part
of something bigger.
This?
You know, this place
was the first of its kind?
Now there are six others
spread across the state,
only bigger.
Stadiums, arenas,
all operated
by trained military personnel,
all playing a role in
an experiment in mass culling.
And if
the modeling's right
we can
clear out the state
while the measures
keep more from coming in,
we can gain
a foothold.
We can start to bring back
what this place had in energy,
agriculture, commerce.
This?
This is a training ground
for that.
That's what
we're doing here.
Starting over.
And is that what
you're doing here?
I'm a mechanic.
Trucks, choppers
Train the others,
I fix what's broke.
That trailer on the end,
that's yours.
I'll be back in the morning.
Until then, Webb's in charge.
Wait.
You're leaving?
Where's he going?
RF.
He's gonna drop off
a dead one.
RF?
RF, like --
CR's Research Facility.
Yeah.
I'm gonna get there
one day,
maybe as a guard.
But that place
can change everything.
Yo, man,
why you asking?
Know someone there?
Yeah, secret lady friend,
perhaps?
Tiga: Maybe him and Dennis
got that in common.
You haven't said much
about what happened.
You doing okay?
Yeah.
It worked out.
We took some of the heat
off of Will,
Indira's letting us
stay
When I was in
that room,
I wasn't worried
about us getting caught
or about this place getting
torn apart because of us.
I -- I was scared
that I wouldn't
get a chance to hit them back.
Hey.
You sure
you're ready for this?
Hmm?
Killing that soldier
I thought I was numb.
But I wasn't.
I was angry.
This is war.
Even if
they don't know it yet.
Yes, it is.
Come on.
And until we can figure out
a way to hit them back
well, at least we can
hit something.
Lyla: Yes, Hope seems to be
coming around.
Which is good,
because we might need her help
to bring
her father around.
He will.
He's anxious about his other
daughter, but we'll find her.
I-It's not just that.
The whole, uh
manipulation
to get Hope here,
it's eroded
some of his
enthusiasm towards
the CRM,
towards all the very
promising work he's doing.
I think we'll need her
to keep him motivated.
I thought that was
what you were for.
I'm
doing my best.
I just hope
it's good enough.
For his sake.
And yours.
Um,
Lieutenant Colonel?
One more thing.
When will I be receiving
the next test subject?
It's been a while
since my last premortem,
and I'm assuming
Major General Beale's plans
are moving ahead
as scheduled?
They are,
yeah.
I think you'll have
what you need in time.
Thank you.
Dead: World Beyond"
Omaha and the Campus
Colony are gone. What?
Will: I kicked the hornets'
nest, asked too many questions.
All I know
is they want me dead.
Huck: What about the others?
You said you found one.
Elizabeth: We believe
it's Silas Plaskett.
What is this place?
The Perimeter.
This is the head of the council
that runs this place.
Indira.
I was very happy
to get your call.
You were right.
I wasn't gonna
make it alone.
That's what you get.
Iris:
That's what you get.
What are you -- Hey!
I picked up your trail.
Are you all right?
You hurt?
He was
going to find me.
We gotta
get outta here.
Wait.
They'll find him like this.
Oh, shit.
Go. Let's go.
Hear it?
They heard us.
We can't let them
hit the ground.
Here's my knife!
You gotta do it!
Do it!
Man: Gamma 5, Gamma 5,
this is base team.
Way is clear to marker 6.
Felix:
Stay down.
north to northwest,
over'
Gamma 5, copy.
Should I even
ask her questions, or?
Just let her tell me
when she's ready?
Who knows
what she saw out there,
what she had to do.
And then to find out what
happened to everybody back home,
it's just
I can't
But
she'll be here.
That's what's important.
And Iris
They know
where she is, right?
By this time tomorrow,
they'll have her and Felix
back here, too.
Safe.
Just like Hope.
What time is it?
I know.
It's late.
I should probably
It's just, I -- I need to get
the other room ready.
It's okay.
I -- I do want them
to know about this.
Just when the time
is something
closer to right.
The time will be
"something close to right" soon.
What?
I just
can't stop thinking if
I hadn't mentioned her
to Sergeant Mills
It's not exactly
classified information.
Still, I
should've known.
No useful data here
goes to waste.
Okay.
Maybe, um
Maybe we need to be
scientific about this.
You know,
if we allow for
secondary interpretations
of data
viewed from a more
holistic vantage point
your indiscretion
saved my daughters' lives.
If they hadn't left home
when they did
You're being kind.
I'm being honest.
I'll see you tomorrow.
Okay.
Leo:
Make a wish.
Here's some protein.
Dad, Dad!
I turned 17.
I didn't
become a weightlifter.
Sorry. It's
just, the thought of you
being hungry ..
I wasn't.
Okay? Felix took
really good care of us.
I could go without seeing
another can of beans
for the rest
of my life, but
We were luckier
than most.
Did you
Were you ever in
any kind of danger?
Would it be okay if
we just didn't talk about it?
Yeah.
Yeah,
of course.
Honestly?
The hardest thing about
being out there
was worrying about you.
Not knowing if you were hurt.
But seeing you okay,
it makes it
all worth it.
Just wish I knew if Iris
and Felix were okay, too.
They are.
We toughened up a lot
out there, you know?
You should see Iris.
She's gotten pretty good
at killing 'em.
Empties, I mean.
The CR's military
They approach everything
with an ice.cold pragmatism
that I was never
on board with.
But I had no idea --
Dad, Dad
You don't
have to explain.
No.
I do.
See, even though I'd always
been careful not to push you,
so you could choose
your own path
there was always a part of me
that hoped someday
you'd choose mine.
And now here you are,
with me,
in the exact
same place,
without any choices
at all.
So we just have to
go along with it?
I don't know.
What about the one
in the jacket?
Right here?
Mm.hmm.
It's the right height.
He's a little thin,
but maybe .. A little?
He's practically dust.
We gotta keep looking.
I got this.
Hey.
You good?
Yeah, I'm fine.
There's a gully
a mile north.
Dumdums sometimes
build up there.
Yeah, but even if we get lucky,
we'd still have to ..
If you've got a better idea,
I'd love to hear it.
Okay.
You told us coming out here
was dangerous.
I -- I get it.
If I were you,
I'd be mad, too.
So why did you?
Yeah.
Why did you?
I don't think
it was empties.
The CRM,
they killed Romano.
They tried
to kill Will.
They were willing
to kill all of us.
So why not
everybody back home?
Or Omaha?
Wait.
You think that the CRM
was behind all of this?
Why else
would they cover it up?
I don't know.
But we're talking
a hundred thousand people here.
And you're saying,
what ..
They wanted
all of us just dead?
Why?
We weren't a threat.
Maybe we had something
they wanted.
They wanted Hope.
You saw how far they went
to take her.
I'd be lying if I said
it hadn't crossed my mind, too.
Hold up.
I think
we got a winner.
Only needs to work
from a distance.
You two
go grab the soldier.
I'll take him.
We'll meet
at the drop.off.
Hey.
It'll work.
Come on.
Tell me your name.
Uh, Silas.
Plaskett.
What's yours?
Dennis.
They find you alone?
Uh
Yeah.
We still in New York?
If you try
for the knife,
I'll stop you,
and you'll go to prison.
Probably for a long,
long time.
You gonna tell me
where we're going, or?
One less
to worry about.
We're here.
Man:
Lieutenant Colonel.
Dr. Bennett
is asking to see you.
Yeah,
send him in.
Dr. Bennett,
how are you doing?
How's Hope
settling in?
Well,
she found out
everyone she knew back home
was killed
after she was tricked
into coming here, so
With respect, there won't be
any "settling in"
until her sister and Felix
are brought to safety.
Understandably.
It's why bringing them in
is our top priority.
I want to join the team
that's going to get them.
They should be met
by a familiar face,
not a bunch
of helmets.
Unfortunately,
that's not going to be possible.
The extraction team
already left.
I dispatched them
as soon as I heard.
I will update you personally,
Dr. Bennett ..
Like you've updated me
on my security detail?
Oh.
Um, I'm sorry.
Air reconnaissance showed
a large column
passing through their area,
and it delayed their return.
Like the others,
I'm sure they'll get here
safe and sound
before you know it.
Your daughters' journey
must have come as a shock.
You've manipulated them into
traveling over a thousand miles,
completely unprotected.
Staff Sergeant Mallick
is more than capable
of dealing with any threat.
Oh, right.
"Huck."
Your mole.
That's how much my daughters'
safety meant to you.
You sent one soldier.
That, uh --
That one soldier means
more to me than 1 million.
Jennifer Mallick
is my daughter.
I want the rest
of my family here.
Tonight.
Or I'm done
working for you.
You don't work for me,
Dr. Bennett.
Your efforts
are for the Civic Republic,
as are mine.
We protect the CR,
and we secure resources.
Your daughter
is one such resource.
When we opted
to deliver her here, to you,
it was on condition
she change.
We knew that
you'd discover that,
and we knew
that she would, too.
She was raised
behind walls.
I needed her to experience
and see the world as it is
in order for her
to understand the stakes
and to see her role,
and we were willing to do that
even if it meant
you forgetting yours.
We wouldn't enter into
a plan like this
without running a full
psychological profile
on both you
and her.
We knew, however angry
you would be
and however betrayed
you'd feel,
you would still
keep working towards
what was
most important ..
Building an apparatus
of knowledge
and research
to save humanity.
Nothing's more important to me
than my family.
Oh, of course.
So you repeatedly
told them
in the transmissions
that we intercepted.
But you left them,
didn't you?
You broke our laws,
Dr. Bennett.
You put them
at risk.
We were the ones
who chose to look away.
What was it you said?
It was an error
in judgment?
Word of advice --
I wouldn't make any more.
You're excused.
Any update on
our missing soldier?
Six teams have been scouring
all morning.
Still nothing.
And what about
the missing member
of Dr. Bennett's
security detail?
Trail's gone cold.
You think
there's a connection?
Ready a transport.
Okay,
sounds good.
Young woman:
That's her, right?
Hope, hi.
Sorry.
I -- I saw you
sitting there,
and I recognized you from
the photo on your dad's desk.
The one where you're wearing
a satin gown with combat boots?
Oh. Right.
Yeah,
winter formal.
Um, I'm Lyla,
a colleague of his.
Uh, I know your dad
was supposed to meet you,
but he's waiting
on an update on your sister.
I was thinking
I could give you a tour?
Or we could do it some
other time if that's better.
No, no.
It's .. It's cool.
Show me everything.
Put this on.
Keep moving.
Webb.
Report.
Reeled in
a B.Oh.Four, sir.
Dead battery.
Put him in Two.
Just finishing up
the stage-sixers,
then it's clean-up
and load.up.
Should be done
by 1800.
Right on schedule.
Good.
No turned unstoned,
yeah?
Dude
What?
It -- It was clever.
Really wasn't.
Webb, Tiga, Grady,
this is Plaskett.
Plaskett is joining us here
in decontamination.
You're all responsible
for training him
and setting him up
with gear.
Kill it.
Stab and twist.
And I want a count
of those damaged kill sticks
on my desk
before sundown.
Yes, sir.
Back to work.
'"No turned unstoned"?
Get outta here
with that shit.
TCFT --
Too clever for Tiga.
So what was
this place before?
Before the world turned?
It was a government-funded
educational research lab.
It housed experiments
in dark matter
and neutrino physics.
And before that,
it was an old diamond mine.
The shafts and rock stability
were ideal for experiments
that required shielding
from the sun's cosmic radiation.
And now
we are using the labs
for our own purposes.
Come on.
I'll show you.
Down here,
we're laying the foundation
to one day find out
why the world turned.
So you're trying
to find a cure.
Pinpointing what inside us
makes us turn ..
Whether it be fungal,
bacterial, viral,
or something else
entirely ..
Sure,
that's one part of it.
But it's also about
finding a way
to get rid of the ones
who have already turned.
By investigating
and hopefully discovering
what keeps
the dead animated,
what inside them
slows their decomposition rates
and feeds
their appetite,
we hope to one day
turn off those triggers,
eliminate the dead
as a threat,
and eradicate them
from the earth.
You think
that's possible?
Wouldn't be here
if I didn't.
Don't you?
Just sounds
a little far.fetched.
It's definitely
a big.picture approach.
We teach you everything
you need to know,
and as you research
and investigate
you teach,
and pass on that knowledge
to the next generation,
and so on.
So I just turned 17,
and you already have
my whole life planned out?
We also select
all your meals
for optimal nutrition
as you age
and have tests to help you find
your ideal genetic mate.
Sorry.
I couldn't resist.
Your dad's office
is right up there.
Hi.
Hey.
Oh, right.
Those were the forms
for the discrepancies.
I'll look them over
first thing in the morning.
I'm almost positive
it was just a data.entry error,
but I want to double-check
just to make sure.
Thank you.
Okay.
Hey, is it cool
if I meet you there?
I think I saw a bathroom
with four walls,
and that's a pretty hard thing
to pass up.
Your dad's lab
is right through this door,
to the right,
all the way at the end.
Young man:
Need some help?
Um, yeah.
Yeah, I'm just looking
for the bathroom.
For
Authorized Personnel Only?
Yeah.
Well, everyone knows
that the best bathrooms
are for
authorized personnel only.
Right. Yeah.
No, I must've known and forgot
that I knew.
Because that is
definitely not a fake thing
that you are
making up right now.
I'm Mason.
You're the new girl,
right?
The one who got
flown in yesterday?
Yeah.
How did you know that?
It's a pretty
small place.
Right.
I'm sorry about what happened
in Omaha.
That's why we're wearing
the armbands.
Hey, if you're really curious
about what's in there,
allow me.
This needed
a warning sign?
Yeah, they take their shit
pretty seriously here.
They don't
want people, uh,
helping themselves
without permission.
But I'm happy
to break the rules for you
if there's
something you want.
I want a mop.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, stop.
No,
I'm screwing with you.
Wh-Why would I want
a mop?
I don't know.
I just wanted to see
if you would do it.
Okay.
You did it.
Well, hey, um, uh, I was gonna
meet my study group later,
but I'm happy
to show you around.
I'm actually already
in the middle of a tour, so
Do you mind
if I ask your name?
You said
it's a pretty small place,
which means you probably
already know that.
I'll see you around,
Hope.
Brody:
They can't be trusted.
She killed a CRM soldier
with one of our weapons.
He's wanted
by the CRM.
They've put us all
at risk.
We have a plan,
and it'll fix that.
We're asking you to give us
a chance to make this right.
They can't stay
with us.
It's too dangerous.
Especially since
they haven't been forthcoming.
You went through
my stuff?
It's got the location of
CRM supply drops, fuel depots
If they find out we
have .. They won't.
If our plan works, it won't just
take some heat off me,
it'll help protect
all of you.
We're just asking you
to let us stay.
You have to hide.
Now!
Shit.
They only want me.
Come on.
Oh, wait.
My code books!
Go!
If we don't hand them over,
you know what we could lose.
And that's not
what we're about.
Not a word.
Lieutenant Colonel.
This is a surprise.
Indira,
sorry to come unannounced.
Although I'm sure your lookouts
gave you ample warning.
Well,
you're always welcome anytime.
Thanks.
I only wish this was
a social visit.
Well, how can we assist you,
Lieutenant Colonel?
I'm here because
we're looking into something.
Is that
one of yours?
It is.
Oh, wow.
It's beautiful.
Mm, I still have
the one you did of Jennifer.
I love it.
How is
your daughter?
We haven't seen her
in ..
I
What's it been?
Two years?
Mm.
Is she still
on assignment?
She's just
returned home.
Yeah, it's good to
have her back. Oh.
Oh, it's so much responsibility,
isn't it?
Having so many people
entrust their well.being
and their survival
with you.
I'm here because of
a security issue.
One of my soldiers
went missing last night.
Not far from here.
Well, you're not thinking
that one of my men ..
Oh, no, no, no.
Of course not.
I can't imagine anybody here
would endanger our agreement.
No, we think it's someone
at the facility
who's giving us
a bit of bother.
Well, we haven't seen
any new faces.
I noticed your wall
had some damage.
I think,
for your own security,
I should probably have
my soldiers search the village
just to make sure that
no one slipped in unnoticed.
No, no, no,
that's not necessary.
The wall's been fixed,
and our lookouts do a fine job.
They do.
Of course they do.
You can never
be too careful.
These are so lovely.
Mm.
This one's new.
Oh,
look at the detail.
Man: Lieutenant Colonel,
come in.
Go on.
We have eyes
on four.nine.six,
grid three,
Watkins Glen.
Copy that.
I'm en route.
Out.
Looks like we've located
our missing soldier.
I'm so sorry for the intrusion,
Indira.
I hope
that next time,
I'll have
an opportunity to talk more.
I'm sure we will.
Hey.
I was thinking it would be good
if your dad filled you in
on what
he's been up to here.
So,
where is my dad?
Um, I'm not sure.
But I-I know
he really wanted ..
I know, he probably
really wanted to be here, yeah.
I -- I happen to know
he loves you very much.
It's just, he
he doesn't have a choice
except to work this hard.
He's --
He's doing it for ..
Yeah, for me, my sister,
the future
I already know.
I've met
so many parents
who feel helpless now.
They
want to make their own
children's lives better.
They want to do something
to fight this.
But they can't.
They don't have
the knowledge.
Just the desire.
They're, um
relying on people like your
father to do what they can't.
Can you imagine what being
under that kind of pressure
must feel like?
Hey.
Even though
your dad's not here,
he can still
fill you in.
Uh,
can you hit the lights?
Greetings to our partners
in the Civic Republic.
It's my pleasure to update you
on the progress we've been
making here at the facility.
Last spring,
we took the bio recorder
we've been developing
and fused it to the brain stem
of a dead one.
Despite some glitches
we're still working out,
it's given us the ability
to record and transmit
the dead's biological responses
to environmental stimuli
and provided us
valuable tracking data
that'll help us approximate
and predict behavior.
We'd tried for years,
but your father
cracked it in two months.
His mind is truly
something else.
The program,
while still in its infancy,
has already allowed us
to collect
troves of information --
small variations
in brain chemistry,
variations in speed,
implying pursuit behaviors,
the effect of weather
on movement and awareness ..
Massive amounts of data
that will open the doors
to further avenues of research.
One of these avenues I've
been exploring personally ..
Infecting the dead
with strains of fungi
that grow on necrotic flesh.
It's conceivable if we can
modify an existing fungus,
then we can one day accelerate
the dead's rate of decay,
virtually neutralizing them
as an active, mobile threat.
And now we'll handle things
over to Dr. Ellis
to talk about the progress
he's been making
in the field of
Evidence points to a struggle,
which led to this.
You're sure it's them?
We can deploy a recovery team
to examine the ..
The bodies look likely to
wash away before they get here.
But we should try.
Let's limit this
to authorized CRM personnel.
Dr. Bennett doesn't need
more bad news tonight.
Sorry. I've
been meaning
to straighten up in here.
Dad, it's okay.
All your stuff everywhere,
it kinda feels like home.
I've been out trying to get
an update on Iris and Felix,
and,
to be honest,
I was trying
to clear my head.
Lyla said
she gave you a tour.
What'd you think?
H-Honestly?
I -- I thought there'd be
a lot more guard towers
and attack dogs.
Yeah.
Oh.
Were you asking
about your girlfriend?
Uh
uh
She told you?
She didn't have to.
I saw her stuff
in your bathroom,
and she called you "brilliant"
like 89 times.
Yeah, well
She's all right.
And
if your work
is important to you,
then it's important
to me, too.
It is, but
But what?
Iris and Felix.
They weren't at
the retirement home.
The CRM
is searching the area,
but they haven't
found them.
You and Huck
took the truck,
and you said that
Felix could barely walk, so
No, i-if they felt like
they should move,
Felix would move.
You sure there isn't something
you're leaving out?
Whatever it is, I need you
to be honest with me.
Hope
what the hell's
going on?
Thanks.
I, um
I still --
I.I don't understand.
What happens here?
Few times a week,
we lure the dead in
with lights and music,
blow 'em up,
then we clean 'em up.
So where --
where do the parts go?
Resort in
the Cayman Islands.
Uh, we take them off.site.
We got trucks.
Plaskett.
Leave that.
Follow me.
So, when the CRM finds people
out there,
do they always
send 'em here?
No.
What, so the others,
like Grady and Tiga and ..
They signed on.
They want to be a part
of something bigger.
This?
You know, this place
was the first of its kind?
Now there are six others
spread across the state,
only bigger.
Stadiums, arenas,
all operated
by trained military personnel,
all playing a role in
an experiment in mass culling.
And if
the modeling's right
we can
clear out the state
while the measures
keep more from coming in,
we can gain
a foothold.
We can start to bring back
what this place had in energy,
agriculture, commerce.
This?
This is a training ground
for that.
That's what
we're doing here.
Starting over.
And is that what
you're doing here?
I'm a mechanic.
Trucks, choppers
Train the others,
I fix what's broke.
That trailer on the end,
that's yours.
I'll be back in the morning.
Until then, Webb's in charge.
Wait.
You're leaving?
Where's he going?
RF.
He's gonna drop off
a dead one.
RF?
RF, like --
CR's Research Facility.
Yeah.
I'm gonna get there
one day,
maybe as a guard.
But that place
can change everything.
Yo, man,
why you asking?
Know someone there?
Yeah, secret lady friend,
perhaps?
Tiga: Maybe him and Dennis
got that in common.
You haven't said much
about what happened.
You doing okay?
Yeah.
It worked out.
We took some of the heat
off of Will,
Indira's letting us
stay
When I was in
that room,
I wasn't worried
about us getting caught
or about this place getting
torn apart because of us.
I -- I was scared
that I wouldn't
get a chance to hit them back.
Hey.
You sure
you're ready for this?
Hmm?
Killing that soldier
I thought I was numb.
But I wasn't.
I was angry.
This is war.
Even if
they don't know it yet.
Yes, it is.
Come on.
And until we can figure out
a way to hit them back
well, at least we can
hit something.
Lyla: Yes, Hope seems to be
coming around.
Which is good,
because we might need her help
to bring
her father around.
He will.
He's anxious about his other
daughter, but we'll find her.
I-It's not just that.
The whole, uh
manipulation
to get Hope here,
it's eroded
some of his
enthusiasm towards
the CRM,
towards all the very
promising work he's doing.
I think we'll need her
to keep him motivated.
I thought that was
what you were for.
I'm
doing my best.
I just hope
it's good enough.
For his sake.
And yours.
Um,
Lieutenant Colonel?
One more thing.
When will I be receiving
the next test subject?
It's been a while
since my last premortem,
and I'm assuming
Major General Beale's plans
are moving ahead
as scheduled?
They are,
yeah.
I think you'll have
what you need in time.
Thank you.