Fear The Walking Dead (2015) s07e16 Episode Script
Gone
1
I'm sorry I didn't do what I
said I would with the Tower.
You got everybody onto the rafts.
That's all that matters.
I've been hearing some chatter - [CRYING.]
- on the radio and I think it might be PADRE.
I think PADRE is real and I think we might actually have someplace to go to.
Alicia! - Get on the raft! - No! I don't know how fast I'll turn.
I don't know how much longer I have left.
It's up to you [VOICE BREAKING.]
to make sure everything we've been through means something.
♪ [HEAVY BREATHING, WHEEZING.]
[COUGHING.]
[VOICE OVER INTERCOM.]
: You made it.
You don't sound like you're doing so hot.
We can help with that.
But first, you have to decide if you want to be part of this.
And if so, whether you're willing to do what needs to be done.
To get the thing we know you want.
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING.]
♪ [BIRDS CALLING IN DISTANCE.]
[WALKER GROWLING IN DISTANCE.]
[GROWLING CONTINUES.]
[WALKIE-TALKIE BEEPS.]
Can anybody hear me? [STATIC.]
Is anybody out there? Anybody? [BABY CRYING.]
Okay.
I got you.
I know.
You're hungry, right? We're gonna go shopping.
Hey, look.
Should we take Mama with us? Huh? GRACE: Sittin' in the mornin' sun ♪ Look what we got.
- I'll be sittin' when the evening comes ♪ - Got it? - Watchin' the ships roll in ♪ - [WALKER GROWLING.]
Then I watch 'em roll away again ♪ Yeah ♪ I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay ♪ - Watchin' the tide roll away ♪ - [GROWLING.]
Ooh, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay ♪ Wastin' time ♪ ♪ I left my home in Georgia ♪ Headed for the Frisco Bay ♪ 'Cause I've had nothin' to live for ♪ It look like nothin's gonna come my way ♪ Mm ♪ Sittin' on the dock of the bay ♪ Watchin' the tide roll away ♪ Ooh ♪ I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay ♪ Wastin' time ♪ [GATE CREAKS.]
♪ [DOOR CREAKS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[BABY FUSSING.]
It's okay.
WOMAN: [MUFFLED.]
I'm here.
Where are you? Jim, where are you? What are you doing here? ♪ I'm just looking for food.
- [BABY FUSSING.]
- Well, I don't have any.
♪ Okay.
[WEAPON CLINKS.]
♪ How far along are you? Oh, my name is Morgan.
This is my daughter, Mo.
♪ Ava.
Okay.
Ava, I think we can help each other.
- You want my help? - Yeah.
Take that little girl and get as far away from here as you can.
Oh, I can't do that.
Not until I find her mother and the rest of my family.
Look like you were looking for yours, too.
♪ I'd reconsider.
This is no place for kids.
♪ MORGAN: Grace, I hope you can hear me.
Look, I don't know how much longer I can keep doing this without you.
I did what you asked.
I did.
I got Mo someplace safe, but she needs you.
She needs you, and I need you.
'Cause I'm scared.
Scared, so I need my family.
- I need - MAN: Is somebody up there? I could really use some help down here! [ZIPPER RASPING.]
Evening.
[BLOW LANDS.]
♪ ♪ - Don't be a hero.
- Okay, okay.
I don't know what you want, but whatever it is, we can work it out.
You gotta give me my little girl back.
She don't belong to you, just like all the others didn't.
Others? What others? The kids you took.
I did not take anybody's kid.
Where are they? ♪ Just give me back my daughter, and you will never see us again.
♪ Get in that hole.
- Bury him.
- [MUFFLED GRUNT.]
MORGAN: Ow! Why are you doing this? So every other shithead can see what happens when they come here and steal our kids from us.
[MORGAN GRUNTS.]
That's it.
Cover him up.
- It's what he deserves.
- MORGAN: No, please.
Please! - MAN: Hey! - [GUNSHOTS.]
[GRUNTING, INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
[GUNSHOTS, BODIES THUDDING.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
[CRYING CONTINUES.]
Whoever you are, thank you for saving my life.
WOMAN: I'm not here to save you.
They thought I was you.
That baby is everything to me.
I'm not gonna let you take her.
♪ She's better off with me than you.
And you'll get over it.
I did.
♪ [GUN COCKS.]
[GUNSHOT.]
♪ [INHALES DEEPLY.]
♪ Stop.
[GUN COCKS.]
Please, stop.
[GUNSHOT.]
I'll kill you if you follow us.
♪ ♪ ♪ [WALKERS GROWLING, FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING.]
Oriole, I'm approaching the drop.
Do you copy? MAN: We copy.
Come on.
[BIRDS CALLING, WATER LAPPING.]
[HAMMER CLATTERS.]
You're late.
We found some new eggs.
Getting them processed now.
How long is that gonna take? As long as it takes.
[BABY FUSSES.]
Ready? Hey, come on.
[BABY CRYING.]
You hungry, baby girl? Here you go.
[WALKIE-TALKIE CLICKS.]
AVA: Jim, are you out there? Jim, can you hear me? Do you copy? We need you, Jim.
This baby needs you.
I got a lead on a new egg, Oriole.
I'll leave this one in the birdhouse and go check it out.
Copy that.
I know you miss your daddy, but you're gonna be better off without him.
[GROWLING.]
[WALKIE-TALKIE CLICKS.]
Jim, are you Jim, I need Hello? Who is this? Just someone who wants to help.
I heard your message.
Where are you? [WALKERS GROWLING.]
How do I know you're not the one who's been taking everybody's kids? I'm a mother myself.
You can trust me.
I know how hard it is.
I just want my baby to be okay.
They will.
You just have to tell me where you are.
Can you do that? ♪ [GROWLS.]
♪ [GRUNTING.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[INHALES DEEPLY.]
[AIR HISSING.]
Are you still there? I'll tell you where I am if you're really gonna help me.
Of course I am.
Where are you? You can understand what It's hard to know who to trust, especially with Turn off the walkie.
- Are you there? He - Hand over your gun.
Right now.
♪ You're making a big mistake.
Not as big as the one you made when you took my daughter.
Drop your weapon.
Turn yourself around.
♪ Where is she? Somewhere you'll never find her.
That's the wrong answer.
Where the hell's my oxygen? Someplace you'll never find it, not unless you take me to her.
You don't know who you're dealing with.
Somebody who's gonna run out of air.
I'm the least of your problems.
The people I'm with? They'll kill you in ways you can't even imagine.
If you wanna keep breathing, you should get moving.
♪ You know, you can still get out of this.
- I said - Those people? If they find out you've interfered with an egg An egg? That's what you call the kids that you steal? Not stealing.
Rescuing.
From what? Parents who think they can give their kids what they need.
Oh, but you think you can? If you saw where I'm from, you'd get it.
[COUGHS WEAKLY.]
Where exactly are you from? And why are you taking these kids that don't belong to you? [INHALES DEEPLY.]
[VOICE OVER INTERCOM.]
: Have you considered our offer? I'll do what you asked.
But you have to hold up your end of the deal.
[COUGHS.]
We will.
How do I know? The only reason you're still breathing is because of us.
What's your name? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Madison.
Not anymore.
We will tell you who you're going to be from now on.
♪ We're too late.
And what does that mean? She's already rescued.
My people came sooner than I expected.
No.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
♪ You kidding me? Are you with PADRE? ♪ What do you know about PADRE? Let's move.
Let's go.
♪ Which way would they go? That baby's better off without you.
You don't get to decide what's best for my family.
I already did.
I used to be just like you.
[WALKER GROWLING.]
♪ [GRUNTING.]
You are nothing like me.
Not anymore.
[GRUNTING.]
♪ Get off me.
Let me go.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
♪ Oh, dear God.
♪ You're Madison Clark.
How do you know my name? Jesus.
Your kids.
- Your kids told me.
- You're full of shit.
No, you died.
That's what they said, and I saw the stadium.
My kids they're alive? ♪ I will tell you everything I know, - in exchange for my daughter.
- Yeah.
There's only one way PADRE's ever gonna give her back to you.
You're gonna have to help me rescue someone else's kid.
Take the place of yours.
No, I'm not doing that.
The kid's gonna be better off.
What, there's no other way to give them what they want without taking some child away from its family? There isn't.
No.
[COUGHING.]
♪ What if the kid isn't born yet? Would PADRE be interested in somebody who's pregnant? Maybe.
Because that woman you were talking to on the walkie is pregnant, and she's not doing so good.
♪ And I know where she is.
♪ You sure you're ready to go down that road? Will I get my daughter back? Yeah, you will.
And PADRE they'll be able to look after her - and her baby, right? - Yeah.
Then I'm not taking a child away from its mother, so ♪ so yeah.
♪ ♪ [INHALES DEEPLY.]
♪ [INHALES DEEPLY.]
You get smoke in your lungs trying to escape from that stadium? Is that why you need this? Something like that.
Way I heard it, there was no way you could have gotten out of that place alive.
I'm full of surprises.
What else did my kids tell you? Oh, quite a bit.
And you are not what I imagined.
You don't know anything.
- You're stealing kids.
- Rescuing.
Oh, is that you talking, or PADRE? What do you know about PADRE? You didn't answer my question before.
I know they're putting out radio messages.
I know that nobody can find them, and I know that Alicia was looking for them.
Why was Alicia looking for them? I'm not telling you anything more until I get my kid back.
You think you're doing the right thing, fighting to get her back, but she's in the right place.
- Believe me.
- Why? Because we can give her a life people like you can't.
People like me? Parents.
You couldn't even feed her.
I would've found food.
Well, it looked to me like you were barely scraping by out there on your own.
It's my daughter.
Her mother she's coming.
[SIGHS.]
What difference is that gonna make? You don't know what we endured, okay? We survived the bombs.
You were in Galveston? - Nick and Alicia were there too? - I told you I'm not telling you anything more about them.
I'm just saying that our family have gotten through worse than this.
Family is not the answer.
It's the problem.
That's what PADRE's figured out.
That's why what they're building is different.
You're the woman who put her life on the line for her family.
What the hell happened to you? - Is this the place? - Yeah, this is it.
So, what now? We go in, we tell her the truth.
- And what's that? - That we'll take her to a place where her baby will be taken care of.
And then what happens to her after her baby's born? She doesn't need to know.
I need to know.
No, you don't.
How can you do this to people? You get used to it.
[INHALES DEEPLY.]
I did what you asked.
Now it's your turn.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[VOICE OVER INTERCOM.]
: More.
What did you say? One time isn't enough.
We're gonna need you to keep doing it.
♪ ♪ MORGAN: Ava? Ava, you there? What are you doing here? Hey.
I, um I found somebody I think can help.
- Who are you? - We spoke on the walkie.
Morgan told me where you were.
I just want Jim.
Is that the baby's father? This house, it belonged to my family.
I was born here.
I thought I'd be safe here.
Well, we can help you and your baby.
How? Place I'm from, it's safe, it's good people.
It's the kind of place a kid would dream about growing up.
Sounds too good to be true.
It's for real.
It's the best shot our kids have for a future.
They even got Morgan's kid in there, don't they, Morgan? MORGAN: Yeah, that's right.
I didn't think it was possible for a place like it to exist, but it does.
What's it called? PADRE.
I'll get my things.
Tell me what's gonna happen to her once the baby's born.
A little late, don't you think? Well, you didn't answer before.
So, what happens? You know otherwise you would have pressed for an answer.
They get split up.
And why is that? - Because that's how PADRE works.
- Yeah, but why? How does that give the kids their best shot? You're looking at this all wrong.
The way we see each other, the things we do for each other, PADRE's rewritten the book on all of it.
And what does that look like? No attachments.
No connections.
I'm not doing this.
I've seen a mother lose her baby once before.
I don't want to see that ever again.
Then you'll never see your daughter again.
♪ Everything alright? Yeah.
It is for me.
♪ How about you, Morgan? No, everything's fine.
It's fine.
We should just get you to PADRE.
That's what we should do.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
♪ [INDISTINCT VOICES.]
Shit.
- What? - They found me.
Is there a back way out of here? Why are they after you? I pissed them off trying to save some kids.
Now how the hell do we get out of here? Yeah, follow me.
♪ [GROWLING.]
♪ MADISON: Wait.
Wait.
Come on.
We gotta keep going.
[INHALES DEEPLY.]
- Let me have it.
- No way.
Come on.
Come on.
The beach is this way.
[GRUNTS.]
[GROWLING.]
♪ - You okay? - I'm fine.
Oh, you're hurt.
Did you get bit? No, it's from the vines.
I'm good to keep moving.
- Come on.
- Aah! Oh, we gotta stop.
If they catch up with us, they're gonna kill us.
If something happens to this baby because of us I'm fine.
It's fine.
Let's just go.
Please.
He's right.
If something happens, it's on me.
Where can we go? There? That crypt? AVA: Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, come on.
[AVA GROANS.]
♪ Okay.
Let's get that closed.
♪ [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[DOORS CREAK, BANG.]
Here.
[SCRAPING.]
♪ It's gonna be okay.
- What's that? - Heart rate monitor.
Just to make sure nothing's wrong.
I'm fine.
Really.
The baby's fine, too.
Just Who was out there? Who's after you? [DEVICE BEEPS, WHIRS.]
What is it? I can't get a heartbeat.
PADRE they have doctors? - Yes.
- MORGAN: Then get them here.
Listen.
Stop.
You're making this worse.
[WHIRRING CONTINUES.]
Can't hear it? You can't hear the heartbeat? No.
[WHIRRING STOPS.]
So keep looking.
She's not pregnant.
She never was.
I don't understand.
She's tricking us.
Why? To get me to take you to PADRE? Is that what you thought would happen? Is that true? Are you not pregnant? Oh, it doesn't matter.
Tie her up.
Leave her some food and water.
She'll only slow us down.
You really don't remember? ♪ You took my daughter.
♪ A year ago.
♪ Told me it was for the best.
♪ Oh, shit, you really don't remember.
She was 6.
Her name was Odessa.
She cried when you pulled her from me on the beach.
What she told you it's not true.
He knows exactly what's going on.
We still have time to get out of here before they find us.
You need me to take me to her.
Your plan never would've worked.
They'd have checked for a heartbeat before we got on the boat.
They'd have checked for one when we arrived.
They'd have checked for one every day you were there.
I need to see her.
She needs to see me.
If she's not pregnant and there's no baby, how are we getting Mo back? ♪ We're not.
Even with a trade, there was no guarantee.
You were gonna trade me for your kid? You told me that we would get her back.
I said we might.
♪ Hey.
You need to find a way to get me to my kid, or you will never know where your children are.
You think that's a threat? I want my kid.
And you want yours.
That's the thing, Morgan.
I don't want to find them.
♪ I'm never gonna see them again.
And that's okay.
I told you I got over it before.
I wasn't lying.
No.
No, you are just saying that, and we had a deal.
So I could get what I wanted from you, which was her.
♪ Why else would you be doing all of this? ♪ [INHALES DEEPLY.]
♪ [VOICE OVER INTERCOM.]
: Not yet.
We need you to rescue more.
♪ AVA: You have kids? ♪ We're all doing what we're doing for our own reasons.
- You know them? - You really can't help me? Be smart.
Let's go before they find us.
Whoa! Easy now! [AIR HISSING, CANISTER CLANKING.]
♪ [GUN COCKS.]
First thing in my grand-daddy's will.
To be buried with his favorite hunting gun.
Said he wanted to be prepared in case he didn't end up in front of the pearly gates.
I don't think you will, either.
[DOOR RATTLING, WALKER GROWLING.]
Let's just take it easy.
I know you're angry, but we gotta get out of here alive.
Only way we're gonna find our kids, right? I have another way.
You might not want to see your kids, but I don't think you want them to die.
♪ Are you there? The ones looking for the collector? MAN: Who's this? Someone like you.
Someone she stole a child from.
What do you want? I just found a way to motivate her to do what we want.
But I'm gonna need your help.
- I'm listening.
- It's not gonna work.
♪ Tell him where her kids are.
I can't help you.
Where I'm from, they don't give a shit what I think.
I'm waiting.
What is it? You better find a way to make them.
You heard me.
Tell him where her kids are.
Tell him where to find her goddamn kids! - I can't.
- I will shoot you.
And your daughter will never see you again.
So just tell him where they are.
She's right.
This is not gonna work.
- Why not? - Because Because they're already dead.
I'm sorry.
I really am.
But your kids they're gone.
Hey! You said they were alive.
You said you knew where they were.
I said that so I'd get what I wanted from you.
- You're lying.
- I wouldn't lie about something like that.
You don't know anything about my kids.
- You never did.
- I do.
Madison, I do.
I know that Nick got shot.
♪ Victor, Alicia, Luciana we were all there when it happened.
We buried him ourselves.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
♪ And Alicia? ♪ She got bit by a walker not so long ago.
She had to amputate, took her own arm off, but she didn't do it in time, and the infection set in.
But she fought it for months, longer than anybody I know.
- But the last time I saw her - Ah! last time I spoke to her No.
the last time I talked to her ♪ she was close to the end.
[SOBS.]
No.
♪ I'm sorry.
♪ [WALKERS GROWLING.]
♪ ♪ At least 30 walkers out there.
More on the way.
[MAN OVER WALKIE-TALKIE.]
: Are you there? I repeat are you there? They're still waiting on your deal.
AVA: They could still get us out.
Why aren't you answering? We're willing to make that deal.
You can't give them what you promised.
They're liable to kill us.
They already tried to kill me.
Did she hurt you? - Where are - [SWITCH CLICKS.]
How long before they find us? Property's big.
If they're still at the house, it could take hours.
Walkers ain't gonna make it easy for us.
We're gonna have to fight our way through 'em and hope we get out before the posse finds us.
It's gonna take all of us.
Madison, we're gonna need you.
Look, I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth about your kids at the beginning.
I just did what I thought I had to.
[GROWLING CONTINUES, DOORS RATTLING.]
What were they doing when they died? ♪ Nick was going through a bad patch when I met him.
Alicia, too.
They thought that you were gone.
But he was making the first steps towards something better, you know, and, well, that's when it happened.
♪ A-Alicia how did she get bit? The bombs we were talking about she was trying to stop them from going off.
She survived the explosion.
She helped me, my little girl, and some people that we cared about escape the fallout, and ♪ Like I said, she fought the infection for as long as she could.
But you didn't see her die? I did not.
I had to leave with Mo.
She could still be out there.
People don't survive bites.
Yeah, but Alicia was different.
We know that.
Maybe she found a way.
Even if she did, I don't want to find her.
♪ Why? ♪ [VOICE OVER INTERCOM.]
: We think it's time.
You've rescued more children than any other Collector.
We'll help you find yours now.
♪ ♪ No.
♪ I don't want to find them.
♪ I was willing to die at the stadium, so my kids could see what what I was building was worth fighting for.
But if they knew what I was doing to find them PADRE played me from the start.
Made me do things I didn't want to, so when I could finally get them back, I'd say no.
If you didn't want to find them, why are you still taking kids for PADRE? Because I knew what they'd do if I walked away.
- What? - They'd find Nick and Alicia and make them do what I wouldn't anymore.
But I don't have to worry about that now.
[GROWLING CONTINUES.]
[DOORS BANGING.]
I wish I knew that before I took your daughter.
[GUNFIRE.]
- The posse.
- They found us.
They get through that door, they're gonna kill us both.
MAN: Open up.
We know you're in there.
She saved me once before.
They think we're working together.
If we give her up, maybe they'll spare you.
No, we need her to get our kids, and so do they.
I don't think they're gonna see it that way.
[DOORS RATTLE.]
MAN: If you're hiding her, we're gonna have a problem.
♪ Let them in, Morgan.
Don't sacrifice yourself for me.
I'm not doing it for you.
I'm doing it so you can get my daughter back for me.
I can't get your daughter back.
I can't get yours back, either.
I can't undo any of this.
Yes, you can.
You just need to find a reason.
- [BANGING.]
- MAN: Hey! Open the door! - Morgan.
- They're gonna kill you.
There's only one way to show them you're not with me.
MAN: Open the damn door! Okay, wait! Just wait.
♪ We're gonna open the door.
♪ We're gonna hand her over to you.
Sorry.
It's the only way to live to see your daughter one day.
♪ [BENCH SCRAPING.]
♪ Hands where we can see them.
♪ ♪ Remember me? You took my boy last winter.
♪ You'll remember me now.
Get up.
And start digging.
High tide's in less than two hours.
♪ You made the right call.
MORGAN: What did you do to her? WILT: Left her to watch the tide come in.
Worse when you can see it coming.
- What'd she tell you? - Not much.
But she didn't need to.
We found this in her pack.
We know when they're coming to pick her up.
Put it on.
Why would I do that? We're gonna surprise her friends at the beach.
Bury them all in the sand if we have to.
Someone will talk.
Someone will tell us where our kids are.
There a problem? This is not gonna get our kids back.
This is gonna get everybody killed.
Let him go.
That's not how this works.
They took our kids.
So why are we fighting each other? Just let him go.
You know what happens if you get in our way.
I know.
I won't.
Don't go with them.
You don't have to.
I have to get to my kid, Morgan.
I have to do something.
Odessa lost this the day before Madison took her.
I promised I'd find it and I'd get it back to her.
I'm not gonna break that promise.
I know.
♪ ♪ [GROANS LIGHTLY.]
♪ [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[COUGHING.]
♪ [WALKERS GROWLING.]
♪ ♪ ♪ [BABY CRYING.]
♪ ♪ [GROWLING.]
♪ ♪ ♪ [WHEEZING.]
You don't deserve to go out like this.
I told you, I can't help you.
That's not why I'm here.
♪ You know, when I met your kids, I was in a place not too different from where you are now.
I wanted to get away from everything and everybody.
But meeting Nick and Alicia, seeing what you had given them, they were a big part of when things started turning around for me.
So, in a way, I kinda owe you.
So, I think you should show the people who did this to you that they're wrong.
You can fight for the people you care about without losing yourself.
- I can't.
- Hey.
No one's gone until they're gone.
Alicia said that was something you used to say.
That's the thing.
Everything I've done I am gone.
[COUGHS.]
Hang on.
Hang on.
I got your tanks.
[WHEEZING.]
[WALKERS GROWLING.]
♪ Oh, dear God, they're all ♪ I told them not to go to the dock.
♪ Hang on, Madison! ♪ [WEAKLY.]
Morgan.
Morgan! [GROWLING.]
♪ ♪ No.
No, no.
♪ Morgan! Never should've pulled you into this.
[GROWLING.]
Morgan.
♪ ♪ ♪ I'm sorry.
♪ [INHALES DEEPLY.]
What the hell was that? She's dead because of something I did.
Not gonna see her daughter because of me.
No, she's dead because of PADRE.
You were just ready to give up.
What's changed? I'm gone, Morgan.
I'm gone, but you're not.
♪ I'll help you get to your daughter.
I'll help you show PADRE they're wrong.
And then what? I don't know.
But I wasn't lying.
The only way you're gonna get to PADRE ♪ is if you take them another child.
There's gotta be another way.
♪ There isn't.
♪ No, there is.
♪ It just means we can't fail.
♪ ♪ GUARD: Who's he? Collector.
He has something to offer.
I don't see anything.
MORGAN: I got information.
There's rafts out there with people on them.
What kind of people? - Ones we might want.
- There's children.
Pregnant woman.
I can tell you more, but, um, you gotta let me go with you.
♪ Get in.
♪ ♪ Where the hell are we going? Where is PADRE? Been meaning to tell you.
♪ I don't know.
♪ ♪ ♪ [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS.]
This episode is all about family Morgan and what he thinks for Mo and it's the return of a character who gave up everything for her family Madison Clark.
It is very exciting to have Kim come back to the show and continue to tell her story.
Very exciting to get to do it through the eyes of Morgan Jones, a character who knows about Madison Clark, but has never actually crossed paths with her, and it's just such lightning in a bottle to get these two characters together in this way.
She's better off with me than you.
And you'll get over it.
[MO CRYING.]
I did.
The audience starts to put it together, as Morgan does, is that Madison is actually this person that Hey, stop! the people who buried him were after and that she is stealing children? Which leaves us with this huge question why in the hell is Madison Clark stealing kids and taking kids away from their parents.
- [CRYING.]
- Someone who family was everything to her, why is she now ripping families apart? I know you miss your daddy.
But you're going to be better off without him.
Someone who has been working for PADRE and what we come to learn about PADRE is that they are an organization that has a philosophy family is a weakness, family is something to fight against .
We start to then gain some insight into the way that PADRE has manipulated Madison into collecting children for them.
One time isn't enough.
We're going to need you to keep doing it.
We see how they dangled the carrot of reuniting her with her children, but then break her to the point where she wouldn't want to be around them.
And it gives us insight into Madison's way of justifying things, as a character, but it also gives us insight into what PADRE's doing.
You interfered with an egg.
An egg? That's what you call the kids that you steal? Not stealing, rescuing.
We have heard about PADRE in a positive light.
What is PADRE? Something better.
Or, at least, the possibility of it.
But what we find out here is that, yes, maybe it is trying to rebuild civilization, but it's trying to do it in a pretty unconventional way, so I don't think this is what anyone was expecting.
Get off me.
Let me go.
Madison is shocked when Morgan recognizes the names on the tattoos on her wrists because Madison hasn't encountered anyone who knows her kids for a very long time.
From Morgan's perspective, seeing Madison is literally like coming face-to-face with a ghost.
You're Madison Clark.
♪ How do you know my name? Madison's point of view of Morgan is pretty complicated because she knows that there is not a whole lot that they can do to get Mo back, now that she's been handed over to PADRE.
There's only one way PADRE's ever going to give her back to you.
You're going to have to help me rescue someone else's kid to take the place of yours.
No, I'm not doing that.
What, there's no other way to give them what they want without taking some child - away from its family? - There isn't.
No.
There's a lot that Madison can relate to on an emotional level.
Morgan is in a position where he is willing to kidnap a pregnant woman to make a trade for his own child.
He's sacrificing kind of his ideals for Mo.
I've seen a mother lose her baby once before.
I don't want to see that ever again.
Then you'll never see your daughter again.
GOLDBERG: Morgan doesn't want to think he is going down the same path as Madison, although Madison does warn him and say, "Are you sure you want to go down this path?" Everything alright? Yeah, it is for me.
GOLDBERG: Morgan realizes it is a very slippery slope.
It's fine.
We should just get you to PADRE.
- That's what we should do.
- Okay.
GOLDBERG: When family is leveraged, you'll do a lot of things that you don't want to do.
MAN: Check the house first.
Shit.
What? They found me.
MAN: Who's this? Someone she stole a child from.
What do you want? I just found a way to motivate her to do what we want.
- I'm listening.
- It's not gonna work.
♪ Tell him where to find her goddamn kids! I can't.
Because they're already dead.
GOLDBERG: Seeing Madison have that emotional reaction at least for Morgan makes him realize the Madison that he heard about is still in there somewhere.
This is where kind of the hard exterior that Madison has built up to protect herself, to allow herself to do the things she was doing for PADRE all melts away, and her real emotion comes out.
[WALKERS GROWL NEARBY.]
We found this in her pack.
We know when they're coming to pick her up.
We're gonna surprise her friends at the beach.
Bury them all in the sand if we have to.
Someone will talk.
Someone will tell us where our kids are.
GOLDBERG: Something you see in a lot of old Westerns, it's called a "sand necktie.
" We thought that there could be a really horrifying zombie apocalypse spin on that.
[GROWLING.]
[GASPING.]
♪ You don't deserve to go out like this.
I told you, I can't [GROWLING.]
CHAMBLISS: When Morgan's standing opposite Walker Ava when he realizes that his actions may have actually contributed to her death, it lands on him that he's doing the same exact thing that Madison did, and it's kind of in that moment that Madison reignited her kind of will to live, and she saves Morgan.
I'm gone, but you're not.
She doesn't want to see him go down the same road that she went down with PADRE, and there's one way she can get revenge on PADRE, it's by helping Morgan get his daughter back and by preventing someone else from being manipulated by them in the same way she was.
♪ GUARD: Who's he? Collector.
He has something to offer.
There's rafts out there with people on them.
GOLDBERG: Morgan's playing a very dangerous game.
He feels like he has to give something up in order to get PADRE to trust him.
- Get in.
- And that means he's gonna have to give up everybody else in the rafts.
Now, there's a piece of that, which is "If they're on the inside with me, they can help me.
" And I think that Morgan believes with their help, with Madison's help, it's all gonna be okay.
But it's definitely a gamble, and looking forward into Season 8, we're just gonna have to see how that gamble works out.
Where is PADRE? Been meaning to tell you.
♪ I don't know.
We will most definitely get to see PADRE in Season 8.
It's something that we have been teasing since the beginning of Season 7, and there are many more surprises to come with what that place is like and the people who live there.
You're just gonna have to watch and see, but it's not gonna look like anything you've seen.
♪ [WIND HOWLS.]
♪ ♪
You got everybody onto the rafts.
That's all that matters.
I've been hearing some chatter - [CRYING.]
- on the radio and I think it might be PADRE.
I think PADRE is real and I think we might actually have someplace to go to.
Alicia! - Get on the raft! - No! I don't know how fast I'll turn.
I don't know how much longer I have left.
It's up to you [VOICE BREAKING.]
to make sure everything we've been through means something.
♪ [HEAVY BREATHING, WHEEZING.]
[COUGHING.]
[VOICE OVER INTERCOM.]
: You made it.
You don't sound like you're doing so hot.
We can help with that.
But first, you have to decide if you want to be part of this.
And if so, whether you're willing to do what needs to be done.
To get the thing we know you want.
[ELECTRICITY BUZZING.]
♪ [BIRDS CALLING IN DISTANCE.]
[WALKER GROWLING IN DISTANCE.]
[GROWLING CONTINUES.]
[WALKIE-TALKIE BEEPS.]
Can anybody hear me? [STATIC.]
Is anybody out there? Anybody? [BABY CRYING.]
Okay.
I got you.
I know.
You're hungry, right? We're gonna go shopping.
Hey, look.
Should we take Mama with us? Huh? GRACE: Sittin' in the mornin' sun ♪ Look what we got.
- I'll be sittin' when the evening comes ♪ - Got it? - Watchin' the ships roll in ♪ - [WALKER GROWLING.]
Then I watch 'em roll away again ♪ Yeah ♪ I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay ♪ - Watchin' the tide roll away ♪ - [GROWLING.]
Ooh, I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay ♪ Wastin' time ♪ ♪ I left my home in Georgia ♪ Headed for the Frisco Bay ♪ 'Cause I've had nothin' to live for ♪ It look like nothin's gonna come my way ♪ Mm ♪ Sittin' on the dock of the bay ♪ Watchin' the tide roll away ♪ Ooh ♪ I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay ♪ Wastin' time ♪ [GATE CREAKS.]
♪ [DOOR CREAKS.]
[DOOR CLOSES.]
[BABY FUSSING.]
It's okay.
WOMAN: [MUFFLED.]
I'm here.
Where are you? Jim, where are you? What are you doing here? ♪ I'm just looking for food.
- [BABY FUSSING.]
- Well, I don't have any.
♪ Okay.
[WEAPON CLINKS.]
♪ How far along are you? Oh, my name is Morgan.
This is my daughter, Mo.
♪ Ava.
Okay.
Ava, I think we can help each other.
- You want my help? - Yeah.
Take that little girl and get as far away from here as you can.
Oh, I can't do that.
Not until I find her mother and the rest of my family.
Look like you were looking for yours, too.
♪ I'd reconsider.
This is no place for kids.
♪ MORGAN: Grace, I hope you can hear me.
Look, I don't know how much longer I can keep doing this without you.
I did what you asked.
I did.
I got Mo someplace safe, but she needs you.
She needs you, and I need you.
'Cause I'm scared.
Scared, so I need my family.
- I need - MAN: Is somebody up there? I could really use some help down here! [ZIPPER RASPING.]
Evening.
[BLOW LANDS.]
♪ ♪ - Don't be a hero.
- Okay, okay.
I don't know what you want, but whatever it is, we can work it out.
You gotta give me my little girl back.
She don't belong to you, just like all the others didn't.
Others? What others? The kids you took.
I did not take anybody's kid.
Where are they? ♪ Just give me back my daughter, and you will never see us again.
♪ Get in that hole.
- Bury him.
- [MUFFLED GRUNT.]
MORGAN: Ow! Why are you doing this? So every other shithead can see what happens when they come here and steal our kids from us.
[MORGAN GRUNTS.]
That's it.
Cover him up.
- It's what he deserves.
- MORGAN: No, please.
Please! - MAN: Hey! - [GUNSHOTS.]
[GRUNTING, INDISTINCT SHOUTING.]
[GUNSHOTS, BODIES THUDDING.]
[BABY CRYING.]
[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY.]
[CRYING CONTINUES.]
Whoever you are, thank you for saving my life.
WOMAN: I'm not here to save you.
They thought I was you.
That baby is everything to me.
I'm not gonna let you take her.
♪ She's better off with me than you.
And you'll get over it.
I did.
♪ [GUN COCKS.]
[GUNSHOT.]
♪ [INHALES DEEPLY.]
♪ Stop.
[GUN COCKS.]
Please, stop.
[GUNSHOT.]
I'll kill you if you follow us.
♪ ♪ ♪ [WALKERS GROWLING, FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING.]
Oriole, I'm approaching the drop.
Do you copy? MAN: We copy.
Come on.
[BIRDS CALLING, WATER LAPPING.]
[HAMMER CLATTERS.]
You're late.
We found some new eggs.
Getting them processed now.
How long is that gonna take? As long as it takes.
[BABY FUSSES.]
Ready? Hey, come on.
[BABY CRYING.]
You hungry, baby girl? Here you go.
[WALKIE-TALKIE CLICKS.]
AVA: Jim, are you out there? Jim, can you hear me? Do you copy? We need you, Jim.
This baby needs you.
I got a lead on a new egg, Oriole.
I'll leave this one in the birdhouse and go check it out.
Copy that.
I know you miss your daddy, but you're gonna be better off without him.
[GROWLING.]
[WALKIE-TALKIE CLICKS.]
Jim, are you Jim, I need Hello? Who is this? Just someone who wants to help.
I heard your message.
Where are you? [WALKERS GROWLING.]
How do I know you're not the one who's been taking everybody's kids? I'm a mother myself.
You can trust me.
I know how hard it is.
I just want my baby to be okay.
They will.
You just have to tell me where you are.
Can you do that? ♪ [GROWLS.]
♪ [GRUNTING.]
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[INHALES DEEPLY.]
[AIR HISSING.]
Are you still there? I'll tell you where I am if you're really gonna help me.
Of course I am.
Where are you? You can understand what It's hard to know who to trust, especially with Turn off the walkie.
- Are you there? He - Hand over your gun.
Right now.
♪ You're making a big mistake.
Not as big as the one you made when you took my daughter.
Drop your weapon.
Turn yourself around.
♪ Where is she? Somewhere you'll never find her.
That's the wrong answer.
Where the hell's my oxygen? Someplace you'll never find it, not unless you take me to her.
You don't know who you're dealing with.
Somebody who's gonna run out of air.
I'm the least of your problems.
The people I'm with? They'll kill you in ways you can't even imagine.
If you wanna keep breathing, you should get moving.
♪ You know, you can still get out of this.
- I said - Those people? If they find out you've interfered with an egg An egg? That's what you call the kids that you steal? Not stealing.
Rescuing.
From what? Parents who think they can give their kids what they need.
Oh, but you think you can? If you saw where I'm from, you'd get it.
[COUGHS WEAKLY.]
Where exactly are you from? And why are you taking these kids that don't belong to you? [INHALES DEEPLY.]
[VOICE OVER INTERCOM.]
: Have you considered our offer? I'll do what you asked.
But you have to hold up your end of the deal.
[COUGHS.]
We will.
How do I know? The only reason you're still breathing is because of us.
What's your name? [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
Madison.
Not anymore.
We will tell you who you're going to be from now on.
♪ We're too late.
And what does that mean? She's already rescued.
My people came sooner than I expected.
No.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS.]
♪ You kidding me? Are you with PADRE? ♪ What do you know about PADRE? Let's move.
Let's go.
♪ Which way would they go? That baby's better off without you.
You don't get to decide what's best for my family.
I already did.
I used to be just like you.
[WALKER GROWLING.]
♪ [GRUNTING.]
You are nothing like me.
Not anymore.
[GRUNTING.]
♪ Get off me.
Let me go.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
♪ Oh, dear God.
♪ You're Madison Clark.
How do you know my name? Jesus.
Your kids.
- Your kids told me.
- You're full of shit.
No, you died.
That's what they said, and I saw the stadium.
My kids they're alive? ♪ I will tell you everything I know, - in exchange for my daughter.
- Yeah.
There's only one way PADRE's ever gonna give her back to you.
You're gonna have to help me rescue someone else's kid.
Take the place of yours.
No, I'm not doing that.
The kid's gonna be better off.
What, there's no other way to give them what they want without taking some child away from its family? There isn't.
No.
[COUGHING.]
♪ What if the kid isn't born yet? Would PADRE be interested in somebody who's pregnant? Maybe.
Because that woman you were talking to on the walkie is pregnant, and she's not doing so good.
♪ And I know where she is.
♪ You sure you're ready to go down that road? Will I get my daughter back? Yeah, you will.
And PADRE they'll be able to look after her - and her baby, right? - Yeah.
Then I'm not taking a child away from its mother, so ♪ so yeah.
♪ ♪ [INHALES DEEPLY.]
♪ [INHALES DEEPLY.]
You get smoke in your lungs trying to escape from that stadium? Is that why you need this? Something like that.
Way I heard it, there was no way you could have gotten out of that place alive.
I'm full of surprises.
What else did my kids tell you? Oh, quite a bit.
And you are not what I imagined.
You don't know anything.
- You're stealing kids.
- Rescuing.
Oh, is that you talking, or PADRE? What do you know about PADRE? You didn't answer my question before.
I know they're putting out radio messages.
I know that nobody can find them, and I know that Alicia was looking for them.
Why was Alicia looking for them? I'm not telling you anything more until I get my kid back.
You think you're doing the right thing, fighting to get her back, but she's in the right place.
- Believe me.
- Why? Because we can give her a life people like you can't.
People like me? Parents.
You couldn't even feed her.
I would've found food.
Well, it looked to me like you were barely scraping by out there on your own.
It's my daughter.
Her mother she's coming.
[SIGHS.]
What difference is that gonna make? You don't know what we endured, okay? We survived the bombs.
You were in Galveston? - Nick and Alicia were there too? - I told you I'm not telling you anything more about them.
I'm just saying that our family have gotten through worse than this.
Family is not the answer.
It's the problem.
That's what PADRE's figured out.
That's why what they're building is different.
You're the woman who put her life on the line for her family.
What the hell happened to you? - Is this the place? - Yeah, this is it.
So, what now? We go in, we tell her the truth.
- And what's that? - That we'll take her to a place where her baby will be taken care of.
And then what happens to her after her baby's born? She doesn't need to know.
I need to know.
No, you don't.
How can you do this to people? You get used to it.
[INHALES DEEPLY.]
I did what you asked.
Now it's your turn.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[VOICE OVER INTERCOM.]
: More.
What did you say? One time isn't enough.
We're gonna need you to keep doing it.
♪ ♪ MORGAN: Ava? Ava, you there? What are you doing here? Hey.
I, um I found somebody I think can help.
- Who are you? - We spoke on the walkie.
Morgan told me where you were.
I just want Jim.
Is that the baby's father? This house, it belonged to my family.
I was born here.
I thought I'd be safe here.
Well, we can help you and your baby.
How? Place I'm from, it's safe, it's good people.
It's the kind of place a kid would dream about growing up.
Sounds too good to be true.
It's for real.
It's the best shot our kids have for a future.
They even got Morgan's kid in there, don't they, Morgan? MORGAN: Yeah, that's right.
I didn't think it was possible for a place like it to exist, but it does.
What's it called? PADRE.
I'll get my things.
Tell me what's gonna happen to her once the baby's born.
A little late, don't you think? Well, you didn't answer before.
So, what happens? You know otherwise you would have pressed for an answer.
They get split up.
And why is that? - Because that's how PADRE works.
- Yeah, but why? How does that give the kids their best shot? You're looking at this all wrong.
The way we see each other, the things we do for each other, PADRE's rewritten the book on all of it.
And what does that look like? No attachments.
No connections.
I'm not doing this.
I've seen a mother lose her baby once before.
I don't want to see that ever again.
Then you'll never see your daughter again.
♪ Everything alright? Yeah.
It is for me.
♪ How about you, Morgan? No, everything's fine.
It's fine.
We should just get you to PADRE.
That's what we should do.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
♪ [INDISTINCT VOICES.]
Shit.
- What? - They found me.
Is there a back way out of here? Why are they after you? I pissed them off trying to save some kids.
Now how the hell do we get out of here? Yeah, follow me.
♪ [GROWLING.]
♪ MADISON: Wait.
Wait.
Come on.
We gotta keep going.
[INHALES DEEPLY.]
- Let me have it.
- No way.
Come on.
Come on.
The beach is this way.
[GRUNTS.]
[GROWLING.]
♪ - You okay? - I'm fine.
Oh, you're hurt.
Did you get bit? No, it's from the vines.
I'm good to keep moving.
- Come on.
- Aah! Oh, we gotta stop.
If they catch up with us, they're gonna kill us.
If something happens to this baby because of us I'm fine.
It's fine.
Let's just go.
Please.
He's right.
If something happens, it's on me.
Where can we go? There? That crypt? AVA: Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, come on.
[AVA GROANS.]
♪ Okay.
Let's get that closed.
♪ [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[DOORS CREAK, BANG.]
Here.
[SCRAPING.]
♪ It's gonna be okay.
- What's that? - Heart rate monitor.
Just to make sure nothing's wrong.
I'm fine.
Really.
The baby's fine, too.
Just Who was out there? Who's after you? [DEVICE BEEPS, WHIRS.]
What is it? I can't get a heartbeat.
PADRE they have doctors? - Yes.
- MORGAN: Then get them here.
Listen.
Stop.
You're making this worse.
[WHIRRING CONTINUES.]
Can't hear it? You can't hear the heartbeat? No.
[WHIRRING STOPS.]
So keep looking.
She's not pregnant.
She never was.
I don't understand.
She's tricking us.
Why? To get me to take you to PADRE? Is that what you thought would happen? Is that true? Are you not pregnant? Oh, it doesn't matter.
Tie her up.
Leave her some food and water.
She'll only slow us down.
You really don't remember? ♪ You took my daughter.
♪ A year ago.
♪ Told me it was for the best.
♪ Oh, shit, you really don't remember.
She was 6.
Her name was Odessa.
She cried when you pulled her from me on the beach.
What she told you it's not true.
He knows exactly what's going on.
We still have time to get out of here before they find us.
You need me to take me to her.
Your plan never would've worked.
They'd have checked for a heartbeat before we got on the boat.
They'd have checked for one when we arrived.
They'd have checked for one every day you were there.
I need to see her.
She needs to see me.
If she's not pregnant and there's no baby, how are we getting Mo back? ♪ We're not.
Even with a trade, there was no guarantee.
You were gonna trade me for your kid? You told me that we would get her back.
I said we might.
♪ Hey.
You need to find a way to get me to my kid, or you will never know where your children are.
You think that's a threat? I want my kid.
And you want yours.
That's the thing, Morgan.
I don't want to find them.
♪ I'm never gonna see them again.
And that's okay.
I told you I got over it before.
I wasn't lying.
No.
No, you are just saying that, and we had a deal.
So I could get what I wanted from you, which was her.
♪ Why else would you be doing all of this? ♪ [INHALES DEEPLY.]
♪ [VOICE OVER INTERCOM.]
: Not yet.
We need you to rescue more.
♪ AVA: You have kids? ♪ We're all doing what we're doing for our own reasons.
- You know them? - You really can't help me? Be smart.
Let's go before they find us.
Whoa! Easy now! [AIR HISSING, CANISTER CLANKING.]
♪ [GUN COCKS.]
First thing in my grand-daddy's will.
To be buried with his favorite hunting gun.
Said he wanted to be prepared in case he didn't end up in front of the pearly gates.
I don't think you will, either.
[DOOR RATTLING, WALKER GROWLING.]
Let's just take it easy.
I know you're angry, but we gotta get out of here alive.
Only way we're gonna find our kids, right? I have another way.
You might not want to see your kids, but I don't think you want them to die.
♪ Are you there? The ones looking for the collector? MAN: Who's this? Someone like you.
Someone she stole a child from.
What do you want? I just found a way to motivate her to do what we want.
But I'm gonna need your help.
- I'm listening.
- It's not gonna work.
♪ Tell him where her kids are.
I can't help you.
Where I'm from, they don't give a shit what I think.
I'm waiting.
What is it? You better find a way to make them.
You heard me.
Tell him where her kids are.
Tell him where to find her goddamn kids! - I can't.
- I will shoot you.
And your daughter will never see you again.
So just tell him where they are.
She's right.
This is not gonna work.
- Why not? - Because Because they're already dead.
I'm sorry.
I really am.
But your kids they're gone.
Hey! You said they were alive.
You said you knew where they were.
I said that so I'd get what I wanted from you.
- You're lying.
- I wouldn't lie about something like that.
You don't know anything about my kids.
- You never did.
- I do.
Madison, I do.
I know that Nick got shot.
♪ Victor, Alicia, Luciana we were all there when it happened.
We buried him ourselves.
[BREATHING HEAVILY.]
♪ And Alicia? ♪ She got bit by a walker not so long ago.
She had to amputate, took her own arm off, but she didn't do it in time, and the infection set in.
But she fought it for months, longer than anybody I know.
- But the last time I saw her - Ah! last time I spoke to her No.
the last time I talked to her ♪ she was close to the end.
[SOBS.]
No.
♪ I'm sorry.
♪ [WALKERS GROWLING.]
♪ ♪ At least 30 walkers out there.
More on the way.
[MAN OVER WALKIE-TALKIE.]
: Are you there? I repeat are you there? They're still waiting on your deal.
AVA: They could still get us out.
Why aren't you answering? We're willing to make that deal.
You can't give them what you promised.
They're liable to kill us.
They already tried to kill me.
Did she hurt you? - Where are - [SWITCH CLICKS.]
How long before they find us? Property's big.
If they're still at the house, it could take hours.
Walkers ain't gonna make it easy for us.
We're gonna have to fight our way through 'em and hope we get out before the posse finds us.
It's gonna take all of us.
Madison, we're gonna need you.
Look, I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth about your kids at the beginning.
I just did what I thought I had to.
[GROWLING CONTINUES, DOORS RATTLING.]
What were they doing when they died? ♪ Nick was going through a bad patch when I met him.
Alicia, too.
They thought that you were gone.
But he was making the first steps towards something better, you know, and, well, that's when it happened.
♪ A-Alicia how did she get bit? The bombs we were talking about she was trying to stop them from going off.
She survived the explosion.
She helped me, my little girl, and some people that we cared about escape the fallout, and ♪ Like I said, she fought the infection for as long as she could.
But you didn't see her die? I did not.
I had to leave with Mo.
She could still be out there.
People don't survive bites.
Yeah, but Alicia was different.
We know that.
Maybe she found a way.
Even if she did, I don't want to find her.
♪ Why? ♪ [VOICE OVER INTERCOM.]
: We think it's time.
You've rescued more children than any other Collector.
We'll help you find yours now.
♪ ♪ No.
♪ I don't want to find them.
♪ I was willing to die at the stadium, so my kids could see what what I was building was worth fighting for.
But if they knew what I was doing to find them PADRE played me from the start.
Made me do things I didn't want to, so when I could finally get them back, I'd say no.
If you didn't want to find them, why are you still taking kids for PADRE? Because I knew what they'd do if I walked away.
- What? - They'd find Nick and Alicia and make them do what I wouldn't anymore.
But I don't have to worry about that now.
[GROWLING CONTINUES.]
[DOORS BANGING.]
I wish I knew that before I took your daughter.
[GUNFIRE.]
- The posse.
- They found us.
They get through that door, they're gonna kill us both.
MAN: Open up.
We know you're in there.
She saved me once before.
They think we're working together.
If we give her up, maybe they'll spare you.
No, we need her to get our kids, and so do they.
I don't think they're gonna see it that way.
[DOORS RATTLE.]
MAN: If you're hiding her, we're gonna have a problem.
♪ Let them in, Morgan.
Don't sacrifice yourself for me.
I'm not doing it for you.
I'm doing it so you can get my daughter back for me.
I can't get your daughter back.
I can't get yours back, either.
I can't undo any of this.
Yes, you can.
You just need to find a reason.
- [BANGING.]
- MAN: Hey! Open the door! - Morgan.
- They're gonna kill you.
There's only one way to show them you're not with me.
MAN: Open the damn door! Okay, wait! Just wait.
♪ We're gonna open the door.
♪ We're gonna hand her over to you.
Sorry.
It's the only way to live to see your daughter one day.
♪ [BENCH SCRAPING.]
♪ Hands where we can see them.
♪ ♪ Remember me? You took my boy last winter.
♪ You'll remember me now.
Get up.
And start digging.
High tide's in less than two hours.
♪ You made the right call.
MORGAN: What did you do to her? WILT: Left her to watch the tide come in.
Worse when you can see it coming.
- What'd she tell you? - Not much.
But she didn't need to.
We found this in her pack.
We know when they're coming to pick her up.
Put it on.
Why would I do that? We're gonna surprise her friends at the beach.
Bury them all in the sand if we have to.
Someone will talk.
Someone will tell us where our kids are.
There a problem? This is not gonna get our kids back.
This is gonna get everybody killed.
Let him go.
That's not how this works.
They took our kids.
So why are we fighting each other? Just let him go.
You know what happens if you get in our way.
I know.
I won't.
Don't go with them.
You don't have to.
I have to get to my kid, Morgan.
I have to do something.
Odessa lost this the day before Madison took her.
I promised I'd find it and I'd get it back to her.
I'm not gonna break that promise.
I know.
♪ ♪ [GROANS LIGHTLY.]
♪ [BREATHING HEAVILY.]
[COUGHING.]
♪ [WALKERS GROWLING.]
♪ ♪ ♪ [BABY CRYING.]
♪ ♪ [GROWLING.]
♪ ♪ ♪ [WHEEZING.]
You don't deserve to go out like this.
I told you, I can't help you.
That's not why I'm here.
♪ You know, when I met your kids, I was in a place not too different from where you are now.
I wanted to get away from everything and everybody.
But meeting Nick and Alicia, seeing what you had given them, they were a big part of when things started turning around for me.
So, in a way, I kinda owe you.
So, I think you should show the people who did this to you that they're wrong.
You can fight for the people you care about without losing yourself.
- I can't.
- Hey.
No one's gone until they're gone.
Alicia said that was something you used to say.
That's the thing.
Everything I've done I am gone.
[COUGHS.]
Hang on.
Hang on.
I got your tanks.
[WHEEZING.]
[WALKERS GROWLING.]
♪ Oh, dear God, they're all ♪ I told them not to go to the dock.
♪ Hang on, Madison! ♪ [WEAKLY.]
Morgan.
Morgan! [GROWLING.]
♪ ♪ No.
No, no.
♪ Morgan! Never should've pulled you into this.
[GROWLING.]
Morgan.
♪ ♪ ♪ I'm sorry.
♪ [INHALES DEEPLY.]
What the hell was that? She's dead because of something I did.
Not gonna see her daughter because of me.
No, she's dead because of PADRE.
You were just ready to give up.
What's changed? I'm gone, Morgan.
I'm gone, but you're not.
♪ I'll help you get to your daughter.
I'll help you show PADRE they're wrong.
And then what? I don't know.
But I wasn't lying.
The only way you're gonna get to PADRE ♪ is if you take them another child.
There's gotta be another way.
♪ There isn't.
♪ No, there is.
♪ It just means we can't fail.
♪ ♪ GUARD: Who's he? Collector.
He has something to offer.
I don't see anything.
MORGAN: I got information.
There's rafts out there with people on them.
What kind of people? - Ones we might want.
- There's children.
Pregnant woman.
I can tell you more, but, um, you gotta let me go with you.
♪ Get in.
♪ ♪ Where the hell are we going? Where is PADRE? Been meaning to tell you.
♪ I don't know.
♪ ♪ ♪ [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS.]
This episode is all about family Morgan and what he thinks for Mo and it's the return of a character who gave up everything for her family Madison Clark.
It is very exciting to have Kim come back to the show and continue to tell her story.
Very exciting to get to do it through the eyes of Morgan Jones, a character who knows about Madison Clark, but has never actually crossed paths with her, and it's just such lightning in a bottle to get these two characters together in this way.
She's better off with me than you.
And you'll get over it.
[MO CRYING.]
I did.
The audience starts to put it together, as Morgan does, is that Madison is actually this person that Hey, stop! the people who buried him were after and that she is stealing children? Which leaves us with this huge question why in the hell is Madison Clark stealing kids and taking kids away from their parents.
- [CRYING.]
- Someone who family was everything to her, why is she now ripping families apart? I know you miss your daddy.
But you're going to be better off without him.
Someone who has been working for PADRE and what we come to learn about PADRE is that they are an organization that has a philosophy family is a weakness, family is something to fight against .
We start to then gain some insight into the way that PADRE has manipulated Madison into collecting children for them.
One time isn't enough.
We're going to need you to keep doing it.
We see how they dangled the carrot of reuniting her with her children, but then break her to the point where she wouldn't want to be around them.
And it gives us insight into Madison's way of justifying things, as a character, but it also gives us insight into what PADRE's doing.
You interfered with an egg.
An egg? That's what you call the kids that you steal? Not stealing, rescuing.
We have heard about PADRE in a positive light.
What is PADRE? Something better.
Or, at least, the possibility of it.
But what we find out here is that, yes, maybe it is trying to rebuild civilization, but it's trying to do it in a pretty unconventional way, so I don't think this is what anyone was expecting.
Get off me.
Let me go.
Madison is shocked when Morgan recognizes the names on the tattoos on her wrists because Madison hasn't encountered anyone who knows her kids for a very long time.
From Morgan's perspective, seeing Madison is literally like coming face-to-face with a ghost.
You're Madison Clark.
♪ How do you know my name? Madison's point of view of Morgan is pretty complicated because she knows that there is not a whole lot that they can do to get Mo back, now that she's been handed over to PADRE.
There's only one way PADRE's ever going to give her back to you.
You're going to have to help me rescue someone else's kid to take the place of yours.
No, I'm not doing that.
What, there's no other way to give them what they want without taking some child - away from its family? - There isn't.
No.
There's a lot that Madison can relate to on an emotional level.
Morgan is in a position where he is willing to kidnap a pregnant woman to make a trade for his own child.
He's sacrificing kind of his ideals for Mo.
I've seen a mother lose her baby once before.
I don't want to see that ever again.
Then you'll never see your daughter again.
GOLDBERG: Morgan doesn't want to think he is going down the same path as Madison, although Madison does warn him and say, "Are you sure you want to go down this path?" Everything alright? Yeah, it is for me.
GOLDBERG: Morgan realizes it is a very slippery slope.
It's fine.
We should just get you to PADRE.
- That's what we should do.
- Okay.
GOLDBERG: When family is leveraged, you'll do a lot of things that you don't want to do.
MAN: Check the house first.
Shit.
What? They found me.
MAN: Who's this? Someone she stole a child from.
What do you want? I just found a way to motivate her to do what we want.
- I'm listening.
- It's not gonna work.
♪ Tell him where to find her goddamn kids! I can't.
Because they're already dead.
GOLDBERG: Seeing Madison have that emotional reaction at least for Morgan makes him realize the Madison that he heard about is still in there somewhere.
This is where kind of the hard exterior that Madison has built up to protect herself, to allow herself to do the things she was doing for PADRE all melts away, and her real emotion comes out.
[WALKERS GROWL NEARBY.]
We found this in her pack.
We know when they're coming to pick her up.
We're gonna surprise her friends at the beach.
Bury them all in the sand if we have to.
Someone will talk.
Someone will tell us where our kids are.
GOLDBERG: Something you see in a lot of old Westerns, it's called a "sand necktie.
" We thought that there could be a really horrifying zombie apocalypse spin on that.
[GROWLING.]
[GASPING.]
♪ You don't deserve to go out like this.
I told you, I can't [GROWLING.]
CHAMBLISS: When Morgan's standing opposite Walker Ava when he realizes that his actions may have actually contributed to her death, it lands on him that he's doing the same exact thing that Madison did, and it's kind of in that moment that Madison reignited her kind of will to live, and she saves Morgan.
I'm gone, but you're not.
She doesn't want to see him go down the same road that she went down with PADRE, and there's one way she can get revenge on PADRE, it's by helping Morgan get his daughter back and by preventing someone else from being manipulated by them in the same way she was.
♪ GUARD: Who's he? Collector.
He has something to offer.
There's rafts out there with people on them.
GOLDBERG: Morgan's playing a very dangerous game.
He feels like he has to give something up in order to get PADRE to trust him.
- Get in.
- And that means he's gonna have to give up everybody else in the rafts.
Now, there's a piece of that, which is "If they're on the inside with me, they can help me.
" And I think that Morgan believes with their help, with Madison's help, it's all gonna be okay.
But it's definitely a gamble, and looking forward into Season 8, we're just gonna have to see how that gamble works out.
Where is PADRE? Been meaning to tell you.
♪ I don't know.
We will most definitely get to see PADRE in Season 8.
It's something that we have been teasing since the beginning of Season 7, and there are many more surprises to come with what that place is like and the people who live there.
You're just gonna have to watch and see, but it's not gonna look like anything you've seen.
♪ [WIND HOWLS.]
♪ ♪