The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023) s02e06 Episode Script
Bridge Partners Are Hard to Come By These Days
1
[GINNY] Previously on Dead City
[THE DAMA] Why do you keep
insisting on compromising
everything I built?
[THE CROAT] What am I?
Just a rat in your big maze?
[THE DAMA SCREAMS]
Mile!
[MAGGIE] I made him a promise.
I swore that I would look out for you.
[HERSHEL] I know everyone just
sees this terrifying city.
I guess I just don't see it like that.
[MAGGIE] Does she have
something over you?
It, uh, looks like
I'm late to the party.
[EERIE MUSIC]
[BRUEGEL'S VOICE SLOWED,
INDISTINCT, FOGGY]
The Croat, he was sure
that you were dead.
Well, at least he hoped it.
But I had a feeling
that if you could survive
a methane bomb attack
on the Hudson,
you could certainly
handle an urban park.
We checked Belvedere Castle.
We checked the zoo.
We checked the skating rink.
The boathouse was
almost an afterthought.
And how funny that all this time,
there was this little
collective in our own backyard.
Ahh, and here we are.
Welcome. Right this way.
Come, come, come, come.
Watch for ticks!
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
- [MUSEUM GUARD SCREAMS]
- [GROWLING]
[BIRDS TWITTERING]
[THEME MUSIC]
She fell back.
Stumbled into the candles,
into the clothing rack.
I couldn't have saved her
without endangering myself.
Oh my god, she was
delirious, attacking me
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
What happens next?
We go on,
ready ourselves for New Babylon.
We don't have Christos.
But we still have Bruegel and Burazi.
I mean what happens with me?
Yes.
Yes, of course.
You've lived up to your word.
You've done more than
anyone could have asked.
Last night we had a signal
from across the river.
Your family will be arriving tomorrow.
You can all stay or go.
Whatever you choose.
Is it really that bad?
If he wanted us dead, we'd be dead.
I know he's acting all friendly,
but I saw him with the Croat.
They're on the same side.
You okay?
Just sore from yesterday. I'm fine.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[MAGGIE] Look
seeing as it's just us now,
I think it's fair to say
we're heading home first chance we get.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
- [WALKERS GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANKING]
[BRUEGEL] Don't worry. They don't bite.
I mean, they do, obviously.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
Sure is nice to see one of these again.
Been a while. Found it at the boathouse.
A loaded one would've
been nicer, but, oh well!
Another relic for the museum.
Make yourself comfortable,
please, please.
Please, everybody sit.
Sorry for the prison-like vibes,
but we had to get you
all the way through the park.
But from this moment on,
no one's gonna keep you here.
I mean it.
If you wanna go, go.
But don't leave on an empty stomach.
I gotta say that what New Babylon
has done on the mainland,
it's inspiring.
I mean, I've only heard it
secondhand, but
the scope, the organization.
Can I see your ID?
Special occasion, right?
Pretend we're in Europe.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[CHUCKLES] Down the hatch.
The colonization business.
That's your niche, isn't it?
It's got its cons.
The exploitation of natural resources,
the annihilation of
indigenous peoples' way of life.
But on the pro side,
it's got the exploitation
of natural resources,
the annihilation of indigenous
people [CHUCKLING]
I'm kidding.
Mm, half kidding.
Honestly? I'm all for it.
There's literally
nothing I would like more
than to be colonized by you.
But, there has to be
something to exploit, right?
What if I could give you
what I'm guessing you're already after?
That's right the methane.
I don't have it yet, but I can get it
from the Croat and Negan
and those pesky little minions.
And as a bonus, I will throw in
the bloody extermination
of every single one of them.
[MAGGIE] And we're
supposed to trust you?
Because the last time I checked,
you were pretty chummy
with the Croat and Negan.
Chumminess was necessary at the time.
It now affords us
the element of surprise.
Have you ever seen the painting
Washington Crossing the Dela
Attack them yourself. And
why do you even need us?
'Cause sooner or later,
he'll have to tussle with New Babylon.
Gold star.
See?
Everybody wins.
Well, not everybody.
Not the ones we're gonna rob and kill,
but you understand what I'm saying.
We'll think it over.
Take all the time you need.
[MUSEUM SOLDIER] You, bring that bucket!
Let's go!
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Jesus Christ!
What happened?
We found her outside like this.
Who did this to you?
Who?
[GURGLES]
[BRUEGEL PANTS]
[TENSE, SLOWLY PULSATING MUSIC]
[SILK STOCKING] You think it was the
[BRUEGEL] No, no, no, no,
it's nothing to worry about.
It was obviously a pack of skin sacks.
It's a gentrifying neighborhood.
What do you expect?
[PANTS]
Hey.
Hey, hey, hey.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey.
[BREATHING SLOWS]
It's my fault.
I could've helped her and I didn't.
And now she's gone.
And now you will be leaving too.
But I will be here still.
Why?
I mean, who says that you have to stay?
Who says that you have to
light the city,
guard the island and all that bullshit?
That was her thing, her fight.
You remember how she talked
about, um, fresh starts?
Well, you actually
get to walk that walk.
Clean slate.
[ARMSTRONG] You said it before.
If they don't know we're coming,
that's all we need.
[MAGGIE] It was different then.
[ARMSTRONG] Exactly.
We'll have the numbers now.
It isn't the plan that can't be trusted.
It's him.
If he is willing to
double-cross the Croat
why not you?
I mean, you wanna bring
back the old world?
Guess what? Bruegel is the old world.
Playing games with people.
Chewin' 'em up and
spittin' away what's left
like empty shells.
Maybe you already knew that
because that's what New Babylon
has been about for a long time.
Now you're gonna let
him kill whoever it takes
like enough people haven't already died
to get you your methane.
What do I do, Maggie?
He's offering me a chance to finish it,
to make it all mean something.
Tell me another way.
Do it just us.
The four of us can do it.
[ARMSTRONG] What do you mean?
[MAGGIE] I'd rather it be
us than Bruegel.
I already said you can go home.
Hershel and Ginny can distract
him like we did before,
and then you and I can
You never wanted to come
here in the first place,
let alone with your son.
Now you wanna put yourself
in even more danger?
We can handle it.
Unless this isn't about
you or him or any of us here.
No, it is not
You wanted Negan dead once.
Now you want to save his life.
I don't get it.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Look, we're all exhausted.
Let's just sleep on it.
See where we are in the morning.
[TENSE MUSIC]
If you could do anything,
go anywhere,
what would you do?
You know our Surgeon General says
that can complicate your pregnancy.
Luckily I'm in my third trimester.
I never took you for a smoker.
It's funny. I took you for one.
You know, you, uh, never
answered my question.
Go big, don't hold back.
Swing for the fences.
As many shitty hands
as you've been dealt,
I think you've earned the right.
I would go home, to Croatia.
Have some baby lamb under peka.
Maybe my mother's brodet.
So what's stopping you?
I tried. I told you, I crashed
my boat into the island.
But perhaps the odds of success
would improve
if I wasn't alone.
[LAUGHING] No, I'm serious!
Come with me, Negan.
Eh?!
Your family.
Bring them too.
They will love it!
I want to see your face the first time
you look out on the Plitvice Lakes.
It will silence you all with wonder.
- I can't.
- Who says this?
Who says you could not do anything?
Go anywhere?
Clean slate.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[DOOR CREAKS AND SHUTS]
So, my family, are they
coming in from Jersey City
You brought up the rat. On the stairs.
When we left Christos.
You put the rat in my head.
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[GRUNTS]
No!
[GROANS]
This is between him and me!
You used me. Lied to me!
[GRUNTS]
Betrayed me!
You were my brother!
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[ELECTRICAL ZAPPING]
You think the Dama is toxic?
You are the toxic one.
[CLANK, ZAPPING]
[GRUNTING, STRUGGLING]
[GRUNTING]
I saved you from her!
You should be thanking me.
You should be groveling!
Everything that you are,
all that you have built
your moat, your sanctuary,
your whole goddamn persona,
is because of me!
Tell me I'm wrong.
Call me a liar!
It's true!
[PANTS]
It's true.
Everything.
Everything I am today
is because of you.
You made me what I am.
[SOFT, ETHEREAL MUSIC]
Go.
Go.
And don't ever come back.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
Negan
Please
[SOFTLY] No, no [PANTS]
[SOFTLY] Buraz
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[PANTS]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[WATER DRIPPING, RIPPLING]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
[DOOR CREAKS OPEN, SHUTS]
Um
Whichever way this goes,
when it's done,
Hershel and I will be
heading back to the Bricks.
I'm hoping that you'll join us.
[WATER DRIPPING]
Do you know how many times
I've thought about killing Negan?
How many times I've tried?
Maybe I'm just scared of
what's on the other side of it.
Like it won't get better.
Maybe I should've
just done it right away
and gotten the damn thing over with.
The one thing I know is
that it's cost me a lot.
Almost everything.
I know that things have
been hard between us.
I guess that maybe the truth is that
every time I look at you, I
I see me looking back.
And how can I help you
if I haven't figured out
how to help myself?
Anyway, I'm sorry for rambling.
[WATER DRIPPING]
[SOFT MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
[SOFT MUSIC]
[CLANK]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CLANKING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[LOCK CLANKS]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Jesus H. Christ.
How many days you've been down here?
Um
I'm not sure.
I think it was a punishment
for embarrassing the the lady.
The biting thing?
Makes sense.
Hey, you're not gonna, um [SNIFFS]
Please d don't-don't
put me back in there.
Please, okay? I promise
Relax, you're good.
In fact
You are free to go.
- Really?
- Yeah.
I can leave? I can go home?
Wherever you want.
I
wouldn't have the first
clue how to get there.
[NEGAN SIGHS]
[NEGAN SIGHS]
Sorry.
So you're a historian, huh?
I mean, I was, yeah. Although
now everything just seems so
upside down.
I don't like history.
I mean, is that how
shit really went down
or is that some yarn that
the winners get to spin?
And maybe that is
why you're feeling like
everything's upside down,
because you are on the losing side.
Well, I take it history
on the winner's side
doesn't look much better.
Why the hell would you say that?
No, I just I just meant
I'm fuckin' with you.
[CHUCKLES]
Speaking of ancient history
You know, back in the day I thought
I had it all figured out.
I'd built this system
to protect my people.
Another group would come at us
and I would line them up,
do a little song and dance,
and I would execute one of them.
You know, just to
make an example.
Now, if I didn't get my people killed,
then I sure as hell left
them twisted up, broken.
See, maybe the thing they
needed saving from was
was me [SIGHS].
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Welcome to the winners circle, kid.
[SOFT MUSIC]
- [WALKERS GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANKING]
[MUSIC GROWS MORE SINISTER]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[SQUISHING]
[WATER DRIPPING]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[WATER DRIPPING]
[MAGGIE] What are you doing?
What is in that canteen?
Hershel, answer me.
What were you about
[GASPS]
Hershel!
[CLANKING]
Hershel. Hershel, stop!
- What are you doing?
- I'm leaving.
Are you going to her?
Is that what this is?
You poison those people?
Kill them because
they're New Babylon now?
Is that what she told you to do?
- What?
- When we were here before
I saw her.
I thought that was over.
I thought you were done helping her.
Can't you see what it
is that she is doing?
What do you care?
You get what you want too, right?
I stop them, Negan lives.
You think I don't see it?
Tying yourself in knots
all the time to
So you don't have to say
what it's really about?
I don't know what
you're talking about
Stop lying!
[TENSE MUSIC]
It's not the same as before.
You don't know what
they're doing to Negan.
Of course it's the same.
Okay.
Well, it doesn't matter,
because tomorrow we're gonna go home
like we talked about, okay?
Home? That's not home.
That's just what you call it.
It's just pretending like,
like nothing's wrong,
like we can go out hunting together,
like we can sit there
eating dinner together.
But you're not really there
because you've never really been there.
Like there hasn't been this giant
hole at the center of everything.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Hey.
[GRUNTS]
[PANTS]
[GROWLING]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
What is it?
[GROWLING]
What is that?
Close the door. Close it!
- Close it!
- [GROWLING]
- [BANGING, GROWLING]
- [MAGGIE GRUNTS]
Come on!
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[DOOR BANGING, CLANKING]
This way!
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
Go that way.
Please, go that way!
[GROWLING]
[MAGGIE] Help!
- [WALKERS GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANGING]
[PANTS]
[CREATURE GROWLING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
- [GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANGING]
[GROWLING]
[GROWLING]
[GROWLING]
[BEAR ROARS]
[GRUNTS]
[CHAINS CLANGING]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[BEAR GROWLING]
[CHAINS CLANGING]
[POUNDING ON DOOR]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[BEAR ROARS]
[SMASHING, SQUISHING]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[BEAR GROWLING]
- [GRUNTS]
- [CLANKING]
[KNIFE UNSHEATHED]
- [GRUNTS]
- [CLANKING]
[BEAR GROWLING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[CLATTERING, CLANKING]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[BEAR GROWLING]
[SOFT, TENSE MUSIC]
[BEAR ROARS]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[BEAR ROARS, GROWLS IN PAIN]
[BEAR ROARS]
[STAB, SQUISH]
[BEAR ROARS]
[MAGGIE GRUNTS]
[SQUISHING]
[BEAR GOES SILENT]
[PANTS]
[BLOOD GUSHING, DRIPPING]
[PANTS]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[GRUNTS]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[MAGGIE & WALKER STRUGGLING]
[STABBING, SQUISHING]
[PANTS]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[LIGHT HUMMING]
[LIGHTS HUMMING]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
I'm sorry that he's not here.
I wish he was for your sake.
You sure that he was running
off to find the Dama?
Yes.
Well, if it makes you feel any better,
there was no one for Hershel to find.
The Dama's dead.
Burned to death.
It's not his fault.
You know, the Dama has this way of
reading people, you know?
Getting into their heads
and making them do things
they wouldn't normally do.
And it's not your fault either, Maggie.
You know, I
wasn't lying about my situation.
I just, I figured it out, is all.
You always do.
[NEGAN] Well, I won't be
stickin' around for long.
Just until you get your kid back.
King Francis Theater.
It's the only place I can think of
that Hershel might go
if he thought she was still alive.
45th and 6th.
Bruegel's coming for you.
Planning some kind of ambush.
Means to kill every last one of you.
It should give you
a couple days' head start.
[NEGAN] How is Ginny?
Is she okay?
I mean, is she, uh
She settling in at all?
[SOFT, ETHEREAL MUSIC]
You know, uh, Annie and Joshua
are gonna be here soon.
I've done a real good job
of messing up their lives.
I seem to have made a habit of it.
What do I do? Do I
Do I tell them to stay?
Do I go away with them?
I mean, how can I promise her that it
that it won't happen again?
I'm sorry.
You don't have to answer that.
It's [CHUCKLES]
It's not fair of me to ask.
Do you think the old times,
the good times,
do you think they really
happened that way?
Or is it just easier for us
to remember them wrong?
[SOFT, ETHEREAL MUSIC]
[HAMMERING, CLANKING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I looked all over,
but I can't find them.
Though I got a feeling
they left that bear
as a parting gift.
Okay. I guess they're gone, then.
[SOFT, ETHEREAL MUSIC]
They're here.
[SEAGULLS SQUAWKING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
Tell them to turn around and go back.
Take them back to Tennessee
where they came from.
Do you understand what
I am fucking saying to you?
[TENSE MUSIC]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[CHAINS CLANGING]
Come, come. Please, sit.
[WALKER GROWLING]
Normally it's four players.
Two teams, but, well,
bridge partners are
a little hard to come by these days.
Gotta follow suit unless
you're out of that suit.
Then you lay down a trump card.
This here we call a dummy hand
Yeah, I know bridge.
My grandma taught me.
Wow.
Warren Buffet taught me.
So, your friend and her son,
they really trashed the
joint on their way out, huh?
Did she get to you before she left?
What'd she say? No,
no, no, let me guess.
She said that I am the kind of guy
who manipulates or cheats
whatever it takes to win. Am I right?
You're right.
So it's a no then?
It is.
[SOFTLY] Yeah
- [WALKER GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANGING]
Used to be we celebrated winners.
We gave them medals,
wrote big, fat histories about them.
I mean, I was a winner back then,
so I guess I'm a bit biased.
But here's the secret
it's not about the winning.
It's about the fun of the game.
How lucky were we to have
lived when we lived, right?
The whole human race
had conquered the planet.
We were making medicine
and rockets and bombs,
and these little tiny screens,
and getting so fucking gloriously bored
that we finally felt safe enough
that we could have some
fucking fun for a change.
[WEAKLY] Yay!
Boo.
[WALKER GROWLING]
So you're not worried about Negan?
With the whole second
wave, the big invasion?
Your fellow countrymen
are gonna get here,
and who are they gonna find
when they get to the church?
Negan.
Which shouldn't be possible
because you shot him dead.
- [WALKER GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANGING]
Oh yeah. I heard all about it.
The thrilling adventures
of Marshal Armstrong.
See, you weren't the first ones
that I found in the park.
I was just so surprised
at how far she'd gotten,
because she was fuckin' crawling.
She was all chewed up.
She was bitten, I don't know,
five, ten, twenty times.
[GROWLING]
But still lucid enough
to talk treaties and alliances.
And she told me all about you.
Oh yeah, where to find you.
And not to trust you, of course.
The only thing she wasn't quite clear on
was how many days well, minutes
she had left.
[GROWLING]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
Don't take this the wrong way.
I'm not trying to tattle.
I'm trying to help.
No Negan, no problem.
Look, I'm gonna get that methane
with your help or without it.
So you can go all in or you can fold.
But the thing is,
you're playing the game either way.
You always are.
[GROWLING INTENSIFIES]
- [GRUNTS]
- [STAB, SQUISH]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[DOORS OPEN]
Go on ahead.
[DOORS CREAKING SHUT]
[SIGHS]
[GUN CLICKS]
[RAGGED BREATHING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Where the hell did you get this?
Bellevue.
MAGGIE: Tell me where my son is
or I'll cut off tiny pieces of you.
♪
[LAUGHS]
Don't worry. I know the way.
Keep still.
NEGAN: He's a Burazi, right?
We've got work to do.
Hey!
You need to move.
Now! There's no time.
♪
MAN: And action.
You betrayed me! You were my brother!
COHAN: One more time.
Lauren really wanted to direct,
and she really understands
the show and cares deeply.
It was one of the greatest joys
of getting to work with her,
not only as an actor in the show
and as a producer, but as a director.
♪
COHAN: To work with every department
and to break down the script together
and do that for each character
and for the overarching story,
there is no experience
like collaborating
with the entire crew like that.
JORNÉ: She put so much thought into it.
She spent a lot of time
in the writers room, too.
It's so funny. We were
shooting something,
and she's, like, acting the scene
and she's directing the scene.
So we're doing a scene,
and somebody was like,
"Oh, what's the word?"
And she's like, "Ba da da".
She knows everybody's lines.
I'm like, "How do you know
everybody's lines?"
MAN: And cut.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
♪
COHAN: My favorite scene
to direct in episode six
was with Zeljko and Jeffrey
in the top floor of the cathedral,
reflecting on their past
and sharing a cigarette.
I will go home to Croatia.
There was something about that
that was so stirring to me
as a normal thing,
that two guys might sit
on a stoop and do,
but within this insane context.
MORGAN: I love working with Zeljko.
Any scene with him is a pleasure to do.
What he brings to this role as an actor,
that is stunning.
It was so lucky to have
someone like Zeljko.
♪
COHAN: The sequence that follows them
having the conversation
upstairs in the cathedral
is really one of the most
heartbreaking scenes
in the whole episode.
All of these things that were ideas
are suddenly brought
into a physical altercation.
We have the stunt actors,
but I would say
the majority of that scene
is those guys doing it.
And Lauren was right
there in the thick of it,
pushing them on and helping them
and keeping them motivated.
Let's pause for a second
and switch the bat.
The guys brought so much to it,
and they were broken and
exhausted and drenched in sweat.
MORGAN: I'm too old for that
[BLEEP] is what I've decided.
Suddenly, I can't bounce off the ground
like I could when I was
20 any more at 58.
And, so, what I realized
that day was ouch, it hurts.
So it's like
Yeah.
That's what I remember
more than anything.
Also, Negan has gotten
in fights with everybody
in "The Walking Dead"
world at some point.
Aah!
And then he gets his ass
kicked by [BLEEP] Zeljko,
who's, like, this [BLEEP] big.
[CHUCKLES]
So that was kind of awesome.
I thought there was some
sort of poetry in that.
And I think he took special pleasure
in getting to be the dude
that got to do the beating.
COHAN: To see two men that were brothers
and find each other again
and to rail on each other
in such violence, it was
just a crushing moment.
You made me what I am.
Go.
JORNÉ: With that comes,
I think, a lot of remorse
and a lot of responsibility.
You know, if on some level,
The Croat's almost like one
of his kids, and he
he wasn't there and he broke him,
and it's his responsibility, and
so, when he sends him away,
it's almost like protecting
him from Negan.
♪
[GROWL]
COHAN: The most challenging part
of directing 206 was
definitely the bear sequence,
for a number of reasons.
You have to think of the final edit
and where you're
going to want to see it,
and where it will be of most benefit.
And will be the creepiest.
[GROWLING]
And you have to imagine all of that
before you even start shooting anything.
So we storyboarded to
within an inch of our lives
to see it and to build it.
And when you can hold
back and not see the bear,
and when it will really
make an impact to see it.
And, so, with me,
at this height, the eye line
is proper to bear.
- MAN: Yeah.
- Okay, cool.
KIM: And it was really interesting
because she got to,
like, go in a director mode
and she'd be like, "Okay,
you go here, you go here,
let's try this, let's try this".
And then, immediately, boom,
she'd switch and go like actor mode.
COHAN: Within performing,
especially something like that,
where you are really
fighting for your life,
you have to drum up so
much adrenaline and cortisol.
So it was a funny downregulation
and upregulation
in between each take because I wanted
to stay in the zone as much as I could.
It was such an amazing experience.
[ROARS]
You weren't the first ones
that I found in the park.
♪
[WALKER GROWLING]
COHAN: I can't even start with how I can
sing the praises of Dascha.
She was one of the best
walkers we've ever had.
POLANCO: When I became a walker,
I had to go in there and
get fitted for my contacts.
I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, I wear contacts".
The contact covers my whole eye.
But then they put
this little piece on me
and they ate my leg up.
She just captured something
that was incredibly moving.
And then that's when
I got to work with Kim.
[GROWLING]
Working with everyone was so great.
We just formed a little family.
You know, everybody is very kind.
And I've been really excited
to get the opportunity
to be more of a villain.
You know, it's good
to see myself outside
of stereotypical roles.
I was so happy. I'm out of here.
♪
[OUTRO MUSIC]
[GINNY] Previously on Dead City
[THE DAMA] Why do you keep
insisting on compromising
everything I built?
[THE CROAT] What am I?
Just a rat in your big maze?
[THE DAMA SCREAMS]
Mile!
[MAGGIE] I made him a promise.
I swore that I would look out for you.
[HERSHEL] I know everyone just
sees this terrifying city.
I guess I just don't see it like that.
[MAGGIE] Does she have
something over you?
It, uh, looks like
I'm late to the party.
[EERIE MUSIC]
[BRUEGEL'S VOICE SLOWED,
INDISTINCT, FOGGY]
The Croat, he was sure
that you were dead.
Well, at least he hoped it.
But I had a feeling
that if you could survive
a methane bomb attack
on the Hudson,
you could certainly
handle an urban park.
We checked Belvedere Castle.
We checked the zoo.
We checked the skating rink.
The boathouse was
almost an afterthought.
And how funny that all this time,
there was this little
collective in our own backyard.
Ahh, and here we are.
Welcome. Right this way.
Come, come, come, come.
Watch for ticks!
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
- [MUSEUM GUARD SCREAMS]
- [GROWLING]
[BIRDS TWITTERING]
[THEME MUSIC]
She fell back.
Stumbled into the candles,
into the clothing rack.
I couldn't have saved her
without endangering myself.
Oh my god, she was
delirious, attacking me
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
What happens next?
We go on,
ready ourselves for New Babylon.
We don't have Christos.
But we still have Bruegel and Burazi.
I mean what happens with me?
Yes.
Yes, of course.
You've lived up to your word.
You've done more than
anyone could have asked.
Last night we had a signal
from across the river.
Your family will be arriving tomorrow.
You can all stay or go.
Whatever you choose.
Is it really that bad?
If he wanted us dead, we'd be dead.
I know he's acting all friendly,
but I saw him with the Croat.
They're on the same side.
You okay?
Just sore from yesterday. I'm fine.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[MAGGIE] Look
seeing as it's just us now,
I think it's fair to say
we're heading home first chance we get.
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
- [WALKERS GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANKING]
[BRUEGEL] Don't worry. They don't bite.
I mean, they do, obviously.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
Sure is nice to see one of these again.
Been a while. Found it at the boathouse.
A loaded one would've
been nicer, but, oh well!
Another relic for the museum.
Make yourself comfortable,
please, please.
Please, everybody sit.
Sorry for the prison-like vibes,
but we had to get you
all the way through the park.
But from this moment on,
no one's gonna keep you here.
I mean it.
If you wanna go, go.
But don't leave on an empty stomach.
I gotta say that what New Babylon
has done on the mainland,
it's inspiring.
I mean, I've only heard it
secondhand, but
the scope, the organization.
Can I see your ID?
Special occasion, right?
Pretend we're in Europe.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[CHUCKLES] Down the hatch.
The colonization business.
That's your niche, isn't it?
It's got its cons.
The exploitation of natural resources,
the annihilation of
indigenous peoples' way of life.
But on the pro side,
it's got the exploitation
of natural resources,
the annihilation of indigenous
people [CHUCKLING]
I'm kidding.
Mm, half kidding.
Honestly? I'm all for it.
There's literally
nothing I would like more
than to be colonized by you.
But, there has to be
something to exploit, right?
What if I could give you
what I'm guessing you're already after?
That's right the methane.
I don't have it yet, but I can get it
from the Croat and Negan
and those pesky little minions.
And as a bonus, I will throw in
the bloody extermination
of every single one of them.
[MAGGIE] And we're
supposed to trust you?
Because the last time I checked,
you were pretty chummy
with the Croat and Negan.
Chumminess was necessary at the time.
It now affords us
the element of surprise.
Have you ever seen the painting
Washington Crossing the Dela
Attack them yourself. And
why do you even need us?
'Cause sooner or later,
he'll have to tussle with New Babylon.
Gold star.
See?
Everybody wins.
Well, not everybody.
Not the ones we're gonna rob and kill,
but you understand what I'm saying.
We'll think it over.
Take all the time you need.
[MUSEUM SOLDIER] You, bring that bucket!
Let's go!
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Jesus Christ!
What happened?
We found her outside like this.
Who did this to you?
Who?
[GURGLES]
[BRUEGEL PANTS]
[TENSE, SLOWLY PULSATING MUSIC]
[SILK STOCKING] You think it was the
[BRUEGEL] No, no, no, no,
it's nothing to worry about.
It was obviously a pack of skin sacks.
It's a gentrifying neighborhood.
What do you expect?
[PANTS]
Hey.
Hey, hey, hey.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey.
[BREATHING SLOWS]
It's my fault.
I could've helped her and I didn't.
And now she's gone.
And now you will be leaving too.
But I will be here still.
Why?
I mean, who says that you have to stay?
Who says that you have to
light the city,
guard the island and all that bullshit?
That was her thing, her fight.
You remember how she talked
about, um, fresh starts?
Well, you actually
get to walk that walk.
Clean slate.
[ARMSTRONG] You said it before.
If they don't know we're coming,
that's all we need.
[MAGGIE] It was different then.
[ARMSTRONG] Exactly.
We'll have the numbers now.
It isn't the plan that can't be trusted.
It's him.
If he is willing to
double-cross the Croat
why not you?
I mean, you wanna bring
back the old world?
Guess what? Bruegel is the old world.
Playing games with people.
Chewin' 'em up and
spittin' away what's left
like empty shells.
Maybe you already knew that
because that's what New Babylon
has been about for a long time.
Now you're gonna let
him kill whoever it takes
like enough people haven't already died
to get you your methane.
What do I do, Maggie?
He's offering me a chance to finish it,
to make it all mean something.
Tell me another way.
Do it just us.
The four of us can do it.
[ARMSTRONG] What do you mean?
[MAGGIE] I'd rather it be
us than Bruegel.
I already said you can go home.
Hershel and Ginny can distract
him like we did before,
and then you and I can
You never wanted to come
here in the first place,
let alone with your son.
Now you wanna put yourself
in even more danger?
We can handle it.
Unless this isn't about
you or him or any of us here.
No, it is not
You wanted Negan dead once.
Now you want to save his life.
I don't get it.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Look, we're all exhausted.
Let's just sleep on it.
See where we are in the morning.
[TENSE MUSIC]
If you could do anything,
go anywhere,
what would you do?
You know our Surgeon General says
that can complicate your pregnancy.
Luckily I'm in my third trimester.
I never took you for a smoker.
It's funny. I took you for one.
You know, you, uh, never
answered my question.
Go big, don't hold back.
Swing for the fences.
As many shitty hands
as you've been dealt,
I think you've earned the right.
I would go home, to Croatia.
Have some baby lamb under peka.
Maybe my mother's brodet.
So what's stopping you?
I tried. I told you, I crashed
my boat into the island.
But perhaps the odds of success
would improve
if I wasn't alone.
[LAUGHING] No, I'm serious!
Come with me, Negan.
Eh?!
Your family.
Bring them too.
They will love it!
I want to see your face the first time
you look out on the Plitvice Lakes.
It will silence you all with wonder.
- I can't.
- Who says this?
Who says you could not do anything?
Go anywhere?
Clean slate.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[DOOR CREAKS AND SHUTS]
So, my family, are they
coming in from Jersey City
You brought up the rat. On the stairs.
When we left Christos.
You put the rat in my head.
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[GRUNTS]
No!
[GROANS]
This is between him and me!
You used me. Lied to me!
[GRUNTS]
Betrayed me!
You were my brother!
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[ELECTRICAL ZAPPING]
You think the Dama is toxic?
You are the toxic one.
[CLANK, ZAPPING]
[GRUNTING, STRUGGLING]
[GRUNTING]
I saved you from her!
You should be thanking me.
You should be groveling!
Everything that you are,
all that you have built
your moat, your sanctuary,
your whole goddamn persona,
is because of me!
Tell me I'm wrong.
Call me a liar!
It's true!
[PANTS]
It's true.
Everything.
Everything I am today
is because of you.
You made me what I am.
[SOFT, ETHEREAL MUSIC]
Go.
Go.
And don't ever come back.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
Negan
Please
[SOFTLY] No, no [PANTS]
[SOFTLY] Buraz
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[PANTS]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[WATER DRIPPING, RIPPLING]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
[DOOR CREAKS OPEN, SHUTS]
Um
Whichever way this goes,
when it's done,
Hershel and I will be
heading back to the Bricks.
I'm hoping that you'll join us.
[WATER DRIPPING]
Do you know how many times
I've thought about killing Negan?
How many times I've tried?
Maybe I'm just scared of
what's on the other side of it.
Like it won't get better.
Maybe I should've
just done it right away
and gotten the damn thing over with.
The one thing I know is
that it's cost me a lot.
Almost everything.
I know that things have
been hard between us.
I guess that maybe the truth is that
every time I look at you, I
I see me looking back.
And how can I help you
if I haven't figured out
how to help myself?
Anyway, I'm sorry for rambling.
[WATER DRIPPING]
[SOFT MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
[SOFT MUSIC]
[CLANK]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CLANKING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[LOCK CLANKS]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Jesus H. Christ.
How many days you've been down here?
Um
I'm not sure.
I think it was a punishment
for embarrassing the the lady.
The biting thing?
Makes sense.
Hey, you're not gonna, um [SNIFFS]
Please d don't-don't
put me back in there.
Please, okay? I promise
Relax, you're good.
In fact
You are free to go.
- Really?
- Yeah.
I can leave? I can go home?
Wherever you want.
I
wouldn't have the first
clue how to get there.
[NEGAN SIGHS]
[NEGAN SIGHS]
Sorry.
So you're a historian, huh?
I mean, I was, yeah. Although
now everything just seems so
upside down.
I don't like history.
I mean, is that how
shit really went down
or is that some yarn that
the winners get to spin?
And maybe that is
why you're feeling like
everything's upside down,
because you are on the losing side.
Well, I take it history
on the winner's side
doesn't look much better.
Why the hell would you say that?
No, I just I just meant
I'm fuckin' with you.
[CHUCKLES]
Speaking of ancient history
You know, back in the day I thought
I had it all figured out.
I'd built this system
to protect my people.
Another group would come at us
and I would line them up,
do a little song and dance,
and I would execute one of them.
You know, just to
make an example.
Now, if I didn't get my people killed,
then I sure as hell left
them twisted up, broken.
See, maybe the thing they
needed saving from was
was me [SIGHS].
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Welcome to the winners circle, kid.
[SOFT MUSIC]
- [WALKERS GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANKING]
[MUSIC GROWS MORE SINISTER]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[SQUISHING]
[WATER DRIPPING]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[WATER DRIPPING]
[MAGGIE] What are you doing?
What is in that canteen?
Hershel, answer me.
What were you about
[GASPS]
Hershel!
[CLANKING]
Hershel. Hershel, stop!
- What are you doing?
- I'm leaving.
Are you going to her?
Is that what this is?
You poison those people?
Kill them because
they're New Babylon now?
Is that what she told you to do?
- What?
- When we were here before
I saw her.
I thought that was over.
I thought you were done helping her.
Can't you see what it
is that she is doing?
What do you care?
You get what you want too, right?
I stop them, Negan lives.
You think I don't see it?
Tying yourself in knots
all the time to
So you don't have to say
what it's really about?
I don't know what
you're talking about
Stop lying!
[TENSE MUSIC]
It's not the same as before.
You don't know what
they're doing to Negan.
Of course it's the same.
Okay.
Well, it doesn't matter,
because tomorrow we're gonna go home
like we talked about, okay?
Home? That's not home.
That's just what you call it.
It's just pretending like,
like nothing's wrong,
like we can go out hunting together,
like we can sit there
eating dinner together.
But you're not really there
because you've never really been there.
Like there hasn't been this giant
hole at the center of everything.
[TENSE MUSIC]
Hey.
[GRUNTS]
[PANTS]
[GROWLING]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
What is it?
[GROWLING]
What is that?
Close the door. Close it!
- Close it!
- [GROWLING]
- [BANGING, GROWLING]
- [MAGGIE GRUNTS]
Come on!
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[DOOR BANGING, CLANKING]
This way!
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
Go that way.
Please, go that way!
[GROWLING]
[MAGGIE] Help!
- [WALKERS GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANGING]
[PANTS]
[CREATURE GROWLING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
- [GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANGING]
[GROWLING]
[GROWLING]
[GROWLING]
[BEAR ROARS]
[GRUNTS]
[CHAINS CLANGING]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[BEAR GROWLING]
[CHAINS CLANGING]
[POUNDING ON DOOR]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[BEAR ROARS]
[SMASHING, SQUISHING]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[BEAR GROWLING]
- [GRUNTS]
- [CLANKING]
[KNIFE UNSHEATHED]
- [GRUNTS]
- [CLANKING]
[BEAR GROWLING]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
[CLATTERING, CLANKING]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[BEAR GROWLING]
[SOFT, TENSE MUSIC]
[BEAR ROARS]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[BEAR ROARS, GROWLS IN PAIN]
[BEAR ROARS]
[STAB, SQUISH]
[BEAR ROARS]
[MAGGIE GRUNTS]
[SQUISHING]
[BEAR GOES SILENT]
[PANTS]
[BLOOD GUSHING, DRIPPING]
[PANTS]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[GRUNTS]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[MAGGIE & WALKER STRUGGLING]
[STABBING, SQUISHING]
[PANTS]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[LIGHT HUMMING]
[LIGHTS HUMMING]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
I'm sorry that he's not here.
I wish he was for your sake.
You sure that he was running
off to find the Dama?
Yes.
Well, if it makes you feel any better,
there was no one for Hershel to find.
The Dama's dead.
Burned to death.
It's not his fault.
You know, the Dama has this way of
reading people, you know?
Getting into their heads
and making them do things
they wouldn't normally do.
And it's not your fault either, Maggie.
You know, I
wasn't lying about my situation.
I just, I figured it out, is all.
You always do.
[NEGAN] Well, I won't be
stickin' around for long.
Just until you get your kid back.
King Francis Theater.
It's the only place I can think of
that Hershel might go
if he thought she was still alive.
45th and 6th.
Bruegel's coming for you.
Planning some kind of ambush.
Means to kill every last one of you.
It should give you
a couple days' head start.
[NEGAN] How is Ginny?
Is she okay?
I mean, is she, uh
She settling in at all?
[SOFT, ETHEREAL MUSIC]
You know, uh, Annie and Joshua
are gonna be here soon.
I've done a real good job
of messing up their lives.
I seem to have made a habit of it.
What do I do? Do I
Do I tell them to stay?
Do I go away with them?
I mean, how can I promise her that it
that it won't happen again?
I'm sorry.
You don't have to answer that.
It's [CHUCKLES]
It's not fair of me to ask.
Do you think the old times,
the good times,
do you think they really
happened that way?
Or is it just easier for us
to remember them wrong?
[SOFT, ETHEREAL MUSIC]
[HAMMERING, CLANKING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
I looked all over,
but I can't find them.
Though I got a feeling
they left that bear
as a parting gift.
Okay. I guess they're gone, then.
[SOFT, ETHEREAL MUSIC]
They're here.
[SEAGULLS SQUAWKING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
Tell them to turn around and go back.
Take them back to Tennessee
where they came from.
Do you understand what
I am fucking saying to you?
[TENSE MUSIC]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[CHAINS CLANGING]
Come, come. Please, sit.
[WALKER GROWLING]
Normally it's four players.
Two teams, but, well,
bridge partners are
a little hard to come by these days.
Gotta follow suit unless
you're out of that suit.
Then you lay down a trump card.
This here we call a dummy hand
Yeah, I know bridge.
My grandma taught me.
Wow.
Warren Buffet taught me.
So, your friend and her son,
they really trashed the
joint on their way out, huh?
Did she get to you before she left?
What'd she say? No,
no, no, let me guess.
She said that I am the kind of guy
who manipulates or cheats
whatever it takes to win. Am I right?
You're right.
So it's a no then?
It is.
[SOFTLY] Yeah
- [WALKER GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANGING]
Used to be we celebrated winners.
We gave them medals,
wrote big, fat histories about them.
I mean, I was a winner back then,
so I guess I'm a bit biased.
But here's the secret
it's not about the winning.
It's about the fun of the game.
How lucky were we to have
lived when we lived, right?
The whole human race
had conquered the planet.
We were making medicine
and rockets and bombs,
and these little tiny screens,
and getting so fucking gloriously bored
that we finally felt safe enough
that we could have some
fucking fun for a change.
[WEAKLY] Yay!
Boo.
[WALKER GROWLING]
So you're not worried about Negan?
With the whole second
wave, the big invasion?
Your fellow countrymen
are gonna get here,
and who are they gonna find
when they get to the church?
Negan.
Which shouldn't be possible
because you shot him dead.
- [WALKER GROWLING]
- [CHAINS CLANGING]
Oh yeah. I heard all about it.
The thrilling adventures
of Marshal Armstrong.
See, you weren't the first ones
that I found in the park.
I was just so surprised
at how far she'd gotten,
because she was fuckin' crawling.
She was all chewed up.
She was bitten, I don't know,
five, ten, twenty times.
[GROWLING]
But still lucid enough
to talk treaties and alliances.
And she told me all about you.
Oh yeah, where to find you.
And not to trust you, of course.
The only thing she wasn't quite clear on
was how many days well, minutes
she had left.
[GROWLING]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
Don't take this the wrong way.
I'm not trying to tattle.
I'm trying to help.
No Negan, no problem.
Look, I'm gonna get that methane
with your help or without it.
So you can go all in or you can fold.
But the thing is,
you're playing the game either way.
You always are.
[GROWLING INTENSIFIES]
- [GRUNTS]
- [STAB, SQUISH]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[DOORS OPEN]
Go on ahead.
[DOORS CREAKING SHUT]
[SIGHS]
[GUN CLICKS]
[RAGGED BREATHING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[MUSIC INTENSIFIES]
Where the hell did you get this?
Bellevue.
MAGGIE: Tell me where my son is
or I'll cut off tiny pieces of you.
♪
[LAUGHS]
Don't worry. I know the way.
Keep still.
NEGAN: He's a Burazi, right?
We've got work to do.
Hey!
You need to move.
Now! There's no time.
♪
MAN: And action.
You betrayed me! You were my brother!
COHAN: One more time.
Lauren really wanted to direct,
and she really understands
the show and cares deeply.
It was one of the greatest joys
of getting to work with her,
not only as an actor in the show
and as a producer, but as a director.
♪
COHAN: To work with every department
and to break down the script together
and do that for each character
and for the overarching story,
there is no experience
like collaborating
with the entire crew like that.
JORNÉ: She put so much thought into it.
She spent a lot of time
in the writers room, too.
It's so funny. We were
shooting something,
and she's, like, acting the scene
and she's directing the scene.
So we're doing a scene,
and somebody was like,
"Oh, what's the word?"
And she's like, "Ba da da".
She knows everybody's lines.
I'm like, "How do you know
everybody's lines?"
MAN: And cut.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
♪
COHAN: My favorite scene
to direct in episode six
was with Zeljko and Jeffrey
in the top floor of the cathedral,
reflecting on their past
and sharing a cigarette.
I will go home to Croatia.
There was something about that
that was so stirring to me
as a normal thing,
that two guys might sit
on a stoop and do,
but within this insane context.
MORGAN: I love working with Zeljko.
Any scene with him is a pleasure to do.
What he brings to this role as an actor,
that is stunning.
It was so lucky to have
someone like Zeljko.
♪
COHAN: The sequence that follows them
having the conversation
upstairs in the cathedral
is really one of the most
heartbreaking scenes
in the whole episode.
All of these things that were ideas
are suddenly brought
into a physical altercation.
We have the stunt actors,
but I would say
the majority of that scene
is those guys doing it.
And Lauren was right
there in the thick of it,
pushing them on and helping them
and keeping them motivated.
Let's pause for a second
and switch the bat.
The guys brought so much to it,
and they were broken and
exhausted and drenched in sweat.
MORGAN: I'm too old for that
[BLEEP] is what I've decided.
Suddenly, I can't bounce off the ground
like I could when I was
20 any more at 58.
And, so, what I realized
that day was ouch, it hurts.
So it's like
Yeah.
That's what I remember
more than anything.
Also, Negan has gotten
in fights with everybody
in "The Walking Dead"
world at some point.
Aah!
And then he gets his ass
kicked by [BLEEP] Zeljko,
who's, like, this [BLEEP] big.
[CHUCKLES]
So that was kind of awesome.
I thought there was some
sort of poetry in that.
And I think he took special pleasure
in getting to be the dude
that got to do the beating.
COHAN: To see two men that were brothers
and find each other again
and to rail on each other
in such violence, it was
just a crushing moment.
You made me what I am.
Go.
JORNÉ: With that comes,
I think, a lot of remorse
and a lot of responsibility.
You know, if on some level,
The Croat's almost like one
of his kids, and he
he wasn't there and he broke him,
and it's his responsibility, and
so, when he sends him away,
it's almost like protecting
him from Negan.
♪
[GROWL]
COHAN: The most challenging part
of directing 206 was
definitely the bear sequence,
for a number of reasons.
You have to think of the final edit
and where you're
going to want to see it,
and where it will be of most benefit.
And will be the creepiest.
[GROWLING]
And you have to imagine all of that
before you even start shooting anything.
So we storyboarded to
within an inch of our lives
to see it and to build it.
And when you can hold
back and not see the bear,
and when it will really
make an impact to see it.
And, so, with me,
at this height, the eye line
is proper to bear.
- MAN: Yeah.
- Okay, cool.
KIM: And it was really interesting
because she got to,
like, go in a director mode
and she'd be like, "Okay,
you go here, you go here,
let's try this, let's try this".
And then, immediately, boom,
she'd switch and go like actor mode.
COHAN: Within performing,
especially something like that,
where you are really
fighting for your life,
you have to drum up so
much adrenaline and cortisol.
So it was a funny downregulation
and upregulation
in between each take because I wanted
to stay in the zone as much as I could.
It was such an amazing experience.
[ROARS]
You weren't the first ones
that I found in the park.
♪
[WALKER GROWLING]
COHAN: I can't even start with how I can
sing the praises of Dascha.
She was one of the best
walkers we've ever had.
POLANCO: When I became a walker,
I had to go in there and
get fitted for my contacts.
I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, I wear contacts".
The contact covers my whole eye.
But then they put
this little piece on me
and they ate my leg up.
She just captured something
that was incredibly moving.
And then that's when
I got to work with Kim.
[GROWLING]
Working with everyone was so great.
We just formed a little family.
You know, everybody is very kind.
And I've been really excited
to get the opportunity
to be more of a villain.
You know, it's good
to see myself outside
of stereotypical roles.
I was so happy. I'm out of here.
♪
[OUTRO MUSIC]