The Walking Dead s10e16 Episode Script
A Certain Doom
1
(indistinct shouting)
Watch where you're
Sorry.
GABRIEL: Dammit! Yeah.
Me, too.
(shouting continues) (herd growling) RJ: I'm scared.
But we're safe up here.
GRACIE: We've seen how many are coming.
Lots more than we have.
You see these fingers? Not much to look at, right? But together, they make a mighty weapon.
That's who we are.
Alexandria.
Hilltop.
Oceanside.
People of the Kingdom.
Is that enough? I'm not done yet.
Who's that for? The others.
(herd growling) The ones that aren't here.
- Go, go, go! - CAROL: Come on! GABRIEL: Those that might find us help.
Or come here and help.
Together, we will fight.
And that's how we will survive.
Together.
(herd growling) TOGETHER: We are ready.
Are you? (growling continues) We are the end of the world.
This is the end of the world.
Begin.
(growling continues) (theme music playing) - Okay.
- (grunts) - Maybe we can bend this back.
- PRINCESS: Pound that puppy.
Hammer.
I have one in my bag.
I don't know about this chain, though.
Eugene, we could use some of these problem-solving skills over here.
Hey.
It's not that bad.
We'll be back on the road soon.
Don't bother.
- Come on, mate, we've - It's too late.
I may have taken a shot to the noggin, but I'm still capable of running calculations and estimates.
And the ticks it would take to execute necessary repairs and vamoose is simply too great a mountain to climb.
We'll figure something out.
Unless it involves slowing the passage of time, there's nothing else to figure.
Our rendezvous was set in stone.
And if we're not there, Stephanie won't be, either.
I'm truly sorry.
After all we hoped, after all we went through to hold on to said hope.
I believe it's time we go eye to eye with reality and turn back for home.
(sighs) We are not going back.
We set out to do this, and we're gonna do this.
In my own moment of doubt, you did not waver, and I'm not about to let you do it now.
This journey your journey must be completed.
Not just for you, but for all of us here and the ones we left behind.
We must try.
That's what's gotten us this far.
On this journey and in this life.
And that's what I want to remember.
That we gave it everything we had.
Even if it means I gotta carry you over my damn shoulder to do it.
(whimpers) Come on.
(voice breaking) I want that, too.
But it doesn't change that Stephanie will not stay past sundown tomorrow.
She say that to you? Then you don't know.
I mean, I thought I'd never see people again, and, wow, look at me now.
- She's right.
- I am.
We keep going, and we get there.
Tomorrow's problems are for tomorrow.
CAROL: Helping some people? That's all she said? DARYL: Yeah.
If they're like us, I get it.
DARYL: I just wish she would've told me.
I would've gone with her.
Only way she would go anywhere is knowing you were here.
For Judith and RJ.
Everyone.
Just keep thinking I'm never gonna see her again.
Just like everyone else.
I'm still here.
GABRIEL: Our plan is the same.
We lead the horde away, just not from Oceanside as we had planned.
Once the walkers are clear, we evacuate to Rendezvous Point B.
Luke.
We ready? Yeah, yeah.
Uh, technically.
Okay.
So, these are the final pieces that we need to connect to the wagon.
But in order for it to do the pied piper thing that we need it to do over the cliff, we gotta get from A to B, and I gotta plug and plug, and then we should be good to go.
That wagon is on the other side of the horde.
So someone's gotta go through it? With skins in there? Four groups.
Two in each.
One carries the cargo, one protects.
It's crucial that all the equipment makes it to the wagon.
LYDIA: We can make it through.
I'll help.
We're willing.
But not if she goes.
And we know she's earned trust with you, but Oceanside isn't ready.
- Not with this.
- That's fine.
As it happens, Lydia's role is in here.
Look, we're not all gonna make it through.
But this is the only way.
If Daryl's going, then so am I.
Negan helped them attack Hilltop.
- That couldn't have happened - Dianne, I know.
And I'm sorry about that.
LYDIA: Need help? I've got it.
Okay.
If you're avoiding me, please stop.
I don't hate you for what you did.
You should.
- Didn't fix anything.
- It did for me.
A little, at least.
I know that sounds awful, but She was never really my mother.
Not in the way that matters.
So, thanks.
And I-I I'd like it if we can still talk.
About whatever.
Lydia You need to be yourself.
You need to find your own way.
I'm not looking for another mom, you know? That's not what this has to be.
It can be something else.
So can you.
(sighs) (groans) Got your back for you, dear? (chuckles) You know I got your back out there, too, right? Oh.
And the rest of me? Yeah, I'm good to get that, too.
(door closes) Hey.
You okay? I mean, going back into the herd after everything I'm fine.
You? Not at all.
Hi.
- Why you clean? - I ain't going.
You've done this more than any of us.
I am on the tip-top of every skins' kill list.
Especially fee fi fo asshole.
So if the idea is to get through without drawing a shitload of attention, then I am the last person these people want standing next to them.
That's a bunch of bullshit.
You wanna be a part of this? You gotta put your ass on the line.
Just like everybody else.
- (sighs) - GABRIEL: It's time.
(door creaks) (herd growling) (shuddered breathing) (herd growling) (grunts) (screaming) (growling continues) There.
In the center.
- Brown plaid shirt.
- Just wound.
Got it.
(herd growling) (grunts) (screaming) Tighten the herd.
Together.
Together.
Together.
(growling continues) WHISPERER: Together.
Together.
Right now.
I can't find any of them.
Beta knows they're in there.
What do we do? Hey, I've got one.
- Are you sure? - Uh yeah, I think so.
Wait.
We need to be certain.
It might be one of our own people (clattering, man screams) (groans) They're coming up.
You all know what to do.
Dianne, you get the first group.
Children and wounded come second.
If Rosita argues, just come and find me.
You know how this ends.
I don't.
Neither do you.
Come on, kid.
You being here when the shitstorm hits ain't changing what definitely is happening.
I'm not leaving.
They're never gonna trust me, you.
Doesn't matter what we do now.
You can just slip out, down, and dance your way through the dead.
So can you.
Like you said, I ain't no hero.
You could be.
Well I guess that's what I'm doing now.
(walkers growling) What if we're the only ones? Where's Carol, where's Beatrice? (growling continues) (grunts) (screams) (screams) (flesh tearing) Carol! Take it! Take it! (screams) (flesh tearing) Need to start soon.
They're not up yet, but they will be.
DARYL: Yeah, right on it.
But Luke's duct taping a bunch of wires to a tape d e ck so - My prayers are with you.
- Gonna need 'em.
(Dog barking) Go get Dog.
(walkers growling) The end almost here Ah Watch out You might get what you're after Boom babies Strange but not a stranger - Our end.
- I'm an ordinary guy Burning down the house Hold tight Wait till the party's over Hold tight We're in for nasty w eather There has got to be a way Burning down the house Here's your ticket, pack your bag Time for jumpin' overboard The transportation is here Close enough but not too far Maybe you know The evacuation started, but it's gonna take time getting everybody down.
We'll give it to 'em.
Move! (explosion) Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees Burning down the house Ah, it was once upon a place Sometimes I listen to myself Gonna come in first place People on their way to work And, baby, what did you expect? Gonna burst into flame LYDIA: They're coming! They're coming! Burning down the house My house! Is out of the ordinary - That's right! - Speed up! Go! - (horse neighs) - Over here! Come on! Protect the horses! Burning down the house - (grunts) - No visible means of support And you have not seen nothin' yet Everything's stuck together And I don't know what you expect Staring into th e TV set Fighting fire w ith fire (clattering) (horse neighs) Go! Go! - Move! - (horse neighs) (electricity crackles) (distorted music, feedback) (thunder rumbles) DARYL: Gabriel, we lost the wagon.
You got walkers coming right back at you.
They should've evacuated by now.
Then they're unprotected.
We need to turn that horde around.
- How? - Look, this ain't a good plan, but it's all I got.
I say we go back in there, and we hunt the skins.
We take 'em out, one by one.
If we don't do this, all our people are gonna die.
Then what? How do we lead them away? I-I will.
No, we'll think of another way.
I know how.
She taught me.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Let's say we actually do this, and you lead them to the cliff, there's no wagon to bring them over the edge.
I mean, it's suicide.
It has to be me.
I can do it.
DARYL: We're gonna deal with this later.
Come on.
We gotta go.
Right now.
(clattering) You all need to go.
Now.
You're not coming.
Someone needs to stop them from cutting the rope.
Does Rosita know? Tell her, "Eres mi media naranja.
" Half orange? (clattering continues) She'll know.
Jude.
Come on.
Go.
The Lord's house is a tower.
The righteous enter and are safe.
Aah! (groans) It's okay.
He's with me.
(herd growling) (grunts) (man screams) (growling continues) Aah! (man screams in distance) (woman screams in distance) Alpha.
(screaming continues) NEGAN: Hey, shithead (grunts) For Alpha.
(growling continues) (grunts) ALPHA: In darkness, we are free.
You bath e in blood.
You are not broken! We ar e free.
We love nothing.
We ar e free.
We fear nothing.
We ar e free.
We embrac e our death.
Now is the e nd of the world.
We are the end of the world.
Holy shit.
You know who that asshole was? Yeah.
Nobody.
(herd growling) Go.
My choice.
I finish it.
(growling continues) I told you to go.
You told me to find my own way.
Thank you.
(birds chirping) (indistinct conversations) - (chuckles) - Hi.
Hi.
Is it? It is.
Thanks to her.
And her.
LUKE: Thanks all around, people.
I can't believe we pulled it off.
(sighs) You're still here.
For now.
You good? Yeah.
It's over.
Right? It is.
- You get what you wanted? - No.
And I won't.
Not really.
Well, you still got me.
Yeah? Yeah.
(sighs) New Mexico's still out there.
(chuckles) Maybe someday.
(sniffles) Yeah.
We still have things to do here.
(hooves clomping) (horse snorts) Did you guys set up, like, a secret code or something to let 'em know you're here? Greetings! I am Eugene Porter! So, no code.
Or, really lame code.
We can stay in one of the cars.
Maybe in the morning She's not here anymore.
If she ever was Hey.
No regrets, Eugene.
That bolo can work its magic some other time.
We're not turning back.
There are people out here.
Maybe not in this very train yard or a hundred mile radius, but they are.
Stephanie is.
So we'll keep trekking until we find them.
The very reason we boldly voyaged as to make what we built stronger by assimilating with like-minded folks.
So we'll keep looking for them.
And assimilate we shall.
(chuckles) Damn, you're one really horny dude.
- (chuckles) - (laughs) MAN: Weapons down! Hands in the air! Now! MAN #2: Move, move, move! MAN #3: Hands up! Up! - Freeze! - Hands in the air! Do it now! This is your last chance! Weapons down now! (theme music playing)
GABRIEL: Dammit! Yeah.
Me, too.
(shouting continues) (herd growling) RJ: I'm scared.
But we're safe up here.
GRACIE: We've seen how many are coming.
Lots more than we have.
You see these fingers? Not much to look at, right? But together, they make a mighty weapon.
That's who we are.
Alexandria.
Hilltop.
Oceanside.
People of the Kingdom.
Is that enough? I'm not done yet.
Who's that for? The others.
(herd growling) The ones that aren't here.
- Go, go, go! - CAROL: Come on! GABRIEL: Those that might find us help.
Or come here and help.
Together, we will fight.
And that's how we will survive.
Together.
(herd growling) TOGETHER: We are ready.
Are you? (growling continues) We are the end of the world.
This is the end of the world.
Begin.
(growling continues) (theme music playing) - Okay.
- (grunts) - Maybe we can bend this back.
- PRINCESS: Pound that puppy.
Hammer.
I have one in my bag.
I don't know about this chain, though.
Eugene, we could use some of these problem-solving skills over here.
Hey.
It's not that bad.
We'll be back on the road soon.
Don't bother.
- Come on, mate, we've - It's too late.
I may have taken a shot to the noggin, but I'm still capable of running calculations and estimates.
And the ticks it would take to execute necessary repairs and vamoose is simply too great a mountain to climb.
We'll figure something out.
Unless it involves slowing the passage of time, there's nothing else to figure.
Our rendezvous was set in stone.
And if we're not there, Stephanie won't be, either.
I'm truly sorry.
After all we hoped, after all we went through to hold on to said hope.
I believe it's time we go eye to eye with reality and turn back for home.
(sighs) We are not going back.
We set out to do this, and we're gonna do this.
In my own moment of doubt, you did not waver, and I'm not about to let you do it now.
This journey your journey must be completed.
Not just for you, but for all of us here and the ones we left behind.
We must try.
That's what's gotten us this far.
On this journey and in this life.
And that's what I want to remember.
That we gave it everything we had.
Even if it means I gotta carry you over my damn shoulder to do it.
(whimpers) Come on.
(voice breaking) I want that, too.
But it doesn't change that Stephanie will not stay past sundown tomorrow.
She say that to you? Then you don't know.
I mean, I thought I'd never see people again, and, wow, look at me now.
- She's right.
- I am.
We keep going, and we get there.
Tomorrow's problems are for tomorrow.
CAROL: Helping some people? That's all she said? DARYL: Yeah.
If they're like us, I get it.
DARYL: I just wish she would've told me.
I would've gone with her.
Only way she would go anywhere is knowing you were here.
For Judith and RJ.
Everyone.
Just keep thinking I'm never gonna see her again.
Just like everyone else.
I'm still here.
GABRIEL: Our plan is the same.
We lead the horde away, just not from Oceanside as we had planned.
Once the walkers are clear, we evacuate to Rendezvous Point B.
Luke.
We ready? Yeah, yeah.
Uh, technically.
Okay.
So, these are the final pieces that we need to connect to the wagon.
But in order for it to do the pied piper thing that we need it to do over the cliff, we gotta get from A to B, and I gotta plug and plug, and then we should be good to go.
That wagon is on the other side of the horde.
So someone's gotta go through it? With skins in there? Four groups.
Two in each.
One carries the cargo, one protects.
It's crucial that all the equipment makes it to the wagon.
LYDIA: We can make it through.
I'll help.
We're willing.
But not if she goes.
And we know she's earned trust with you, but Oceanside isn't ready.
- Not with this.
- That's fine.
As it happens, Lydia's role is in here.
Look, we're not all gonna make it through.
But this is the only way.
If Daryl's going, then so am I.
Negan helped them attack Hilltop.
- That couldn't have happened - Dianne, I know.
And I'm sorry about that.
LYDIA: Need help? I've got it.
Okay.
If you're avoiding me, please stop.
I don't hate you for what you did.
You should.
- Didn't fix anything.
- It did for me.
A little, at least.
I know that sounds awful, but She was never really my mother.
Not in the way that matters.
So, thanks.
And I-I I'd like it if we can still talk.
About whatever.
Lydia You need to be yourself.
You need to find your own way.
I'm not looking for another mom, you know? That's not what this has to be.
It can be something else.
So can you.
(sighs) (groans) Got your back for you, dear? (chuckles) You know I got your back out there, too, right? Oh.
And the rest of me? Yeah, I'm good to get that, too.
(door closes) Hey.
You okay? I mean, going back into the herd after everything I'm fine.
You? Not at all.
Hi.
- Why you clean? - I ain't going.
You've done this more than any of us.
I am on the tip-top of every skins' kill list.
Especially fee fi fo asshole.
So if the idea is to get through without drawing a shitload of attention, then I am the last person these people want standing next to them.
That's a bunch of bullshit.
You wanna be a part of this? You gotta put your ass on the line.
Just like everybody else.
- (sighs) - GABRIEL: It's time.
(door creaks) (herd growling) (shuddered breathing) (herd growling) (grunts) (screaming) (growling continues) There.
In the center.
- Brown plaid shirt.
- Just wound.
Got it.
(herd growling) (grunts) (screaming) Tighten the herd.
Together.
Together.
Together.
(growling continues) WHISPERER: Together.
Together.
Right now.
I can't find any of them.
Beta knows they're in there.
What do we do? Hey, I've got one.
- Are you sure? - Uh yeah, I think so.
Wait.
We need to be certain.
It might be one of our own people (clattering, man screams) (groans) They're coming up.
You all know what to do.
Dianne, you get the first group.
Children and wounded come second.
If Rosita argues, just come and find me.
You know how this ends.
I don't.
Neither do you.
Come on, kid.
You being here when the shitstorm hits ain't changing what definitely is happening.
I'm not leaving.
They're never gonna trust me, you.
Doesn't matter what we do now.
You can just slip out, down, and dance your way through the dead.
So can you.
Like you said, I ain't no hero.
You could be.
Well I guess that's what I'm doing now.
(walkers growling) What if we're the only ones? Where's Carol, where's Beatrice? (growling continues) (grunts) (screams) (screams) (flesh tearing) Carol! Take it! Take it! (screams) (flesh tearing) Need to start soon.
They're not up yet, but they will be.
DARYL: Yeah, right on it.
But Luke's duct taping a bunch of wires to a tape d e ck so - My prayers are with you.
- Gonna need 'em.
(Dog barking) Go get Dog.
(walkers growling) The end almost here Ah Watch out You might get what you're after Boom babies Strange but not a stranger - Our end.
- I'm an ordinary guy Burning down the house Hold tight Wait till the party's over Hold tight We're in for nasty w eather There has got to be a way Burning down the house Here's your ticket, pack your bag Time for jumpin' overboard The transportation is here Close enough but not too far Maybe you know The evacuation started, but it's gonna take time getting everybody down.
We'll give it to 'em.
Move! (explosion) Three hun-dred six-ty five de-grees Burning down the house Ah, it was once upon a place Sometimes I listen to myself Gonna come in first place People on their way to work And, baby, what did you expect? Gonna burst into flame LYDIA: They're coming! They're coming! Burning down the house My house! Is out of the ordinary - That's right! - Speed up! Go! - (horse neighs) - Over here! Come on! Protect the horses! Burning down the house - (grunts) - No visible means of support And you have not seen nothin' yet Everything's stuck together And I don't know what you expect Staring into th e TV set Fighting fire w ith fire (clattering) (horse neighs) Go! Go! - Move! - (horse neighs) (electricity crackles) (distorted music, feedback) (thunder rumbles) DARYL: Gabriel, we lost the wagon.
You got walkers coming right back at you.
They should've evacuated by now.
Then they're unprotected.
We need to turn that horde around.
- How? - Look, this ain't a good plan, but it's all I got.
I say we go back in there, and we hunt the skins.
We take 'em out, one by one.
If we don't do this, all our people are gonna die.
Then what? How do we lead them away? I-I will.
No, we'll think of another way.
I know how.
She taught me.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Let's say we actually do this, and you lead them to the cliff, there's no wagon to bring them over the edge.
I mean, it's suicide.
It has to be me.
I can do it.
DARYL: We're gonna deal with this later.
Come on.
We gotta go.
Right now.
(clattering) You all need to go.
Now.
You're not coming.
Someone needs to stop them from cutting the rope.
Does Rosita know? Tell her, "Eres mi media naranja.
" Half orange? (clattering continues) She'll know.
Jude.
Come on.
Go.
The Lord's house is a tower.
The righteous enter and are safe.
Aah! (groans) It's okay.
He's with me.
(herd growling) (grunts) (man screams) (growling continues) Aah! (man screams in distance) (woman screams in distance) Alpha.
(screaming continues) NEGAN: Hey, shithead (grunts) For Alpha.
(growling continues) (grunts) ALPHA: In darkness, we are free.
You bath e in blood.
You are not broken! We ar e free.
We love nothing.
We ar e free.
We fear nothing.
We ar e free.
We embrac e our death.
Now is the e nd of the world.
We are the end of the world.
Holy shit.
You know who that asshole was? Yeah.
Nobody.
(herd growling) Go.
My choice.
I finish it.
(growling continues) I told you to go.
You told me to find my own way.
Thank you.
(birds chirping) (indistinct conversations) - (chuckles) - Hi.
Hi.
Is it? It is.
Thanks to her.
And her.
LUKE: Thanks all around, people.
I can't believe we pulled it off.
(sighs) You're still here.
For now.
You good? Yeah.
It's over.
Right? It is.
- You get what you wanted? - No.
And I won't.
Not really.
Well, you still got me.
Yeah? Yeah.
(sighs) New Mexico's still out there.
(chuckles) Maybe someday.
(sniffles) Yeah.
We still have things to do here.
(hooves clomping) (horse snorts) Did you guys set up, like, a secret code or something to let 'em know you're here? Greetings! I am Eugene Porter! So, no code.
Or, really lame code.
We can stay in one of the cars.
Maybe in the morning She's not here anymore.
If she ever was Hey.
No regrets, Eugene.
That bolo can work its magic some other time.
We're not turning back.
There are people out here.
Maybe not in this very train yard or a hundred mile radius, but they are.
Stephanie is.
So we'll keep trekking until we find them.
The very reason we boldly voyaged as to make what we built stronger by assimilating with like-minded folks.
So we'll keep looking for them.
And assimilate we shall.
(chuckles) Damn, you're one really horny dude.
- (chuckles) - (laughs) MAN: Weapons down! Hands in the air! Now! MAN #2: Move, move, move! MAN #3: Hands up! Up! - Freeze! - Hands in the air! Do it now! This is your last chance! Weapons down now! (theme music playing)