The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023) s02e07 Episode Script

Novi Dan, Novi Početak

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Previously on "Dead City"
What was that drawing,
the one with the fallen sky bridge?
You are nothing without me!

Mile!
Dama's dead.
You used me. Aah!
Aah!
Jesus H. Christ.
You've never really been there.
How is Jenny? Is she okay?
King Francis Theater.
It's the only place I can think
of that Hershel might go
if he thought she was still alive.
[FOOTSTEPS]
[OPERA ARIA PLAYS
EERILY IN THE DISTANCE]
[OPERA ARIA INTO FOCUS, DISTORTED]
[DISTORTED OPERA ARIA KEEPS PLAYING]
[MUSIC WOBBLES, WARPS]
[MUSIC STOPS]
[THE CROAT] You don't like Puccini.
I need you to tell me where my son is.
Right now.
Don't you bullshit me.
I'm not playing your games.
Look around.
Do you see him?
He has to be here.
Where else would he be
if he went looking for her?
I wouldn't know.
You're lying.
Tell me where he is,
or I'll cut off tiny pieces of you.
One by one.
Starting with your toe.
I may be able to help you.
[EXHALES]
[THEME MUSIC]
[WATER DRIPPING]
[SIGHS]
[LOW, SOFT RUMBLING]
[RUMBLING INTENSIFIES]
[EERIE, HIGH-PITCHED STING]
[PANTS]
[SIGHS]
I found what I could.
She's still breathing okay.
It means her body's
still fighting the infection,
I think.
And once she's better, we can
Once she's better,
she's going straight home.
Found this in an old donation box.
Thank you.
[CHUCKLES]
My first wife, Lucille
She, uh She had cancer.
And I was basically
her stay-at-home nurse,
you know?
I would wake her up every morning and
get her cleaned up, get her dressed.
Towards the end there, I was
having to run machines and monitors.
You know what intubation is?
Yeah, me neither,
until I had to figure out a ventilator.
Sounds like she was lucky to have you.
No, see, I was a selfish piece of shit.
I failed her.
But God, man, he, um
gave me a second chance, you know?
With a smart, sexy, take-no-shit,
grab-you-by-the-balls kind of gal.
You know what I'm talking about?
Yeah.
Annie.
You know, we had a little boy.
Biggest, brightest,
mischievous grin you've ever seen.
And when he laughs, oh, my God,
he could wake the
- [SIGHS]
- [SOMBER MUSIC]
I failed her.
I failed them both.
But God, he, uh
He keeps giving me second chances.
And I got no fucking idea why.
[SIGHS]
[SNIFFS]
What is this?
That's for burns, I think.
It probably wouldn't
help, but I figured
Where the hell'd you get it?
[CHATTER STOPS]
- Is this yours?
- Yeah.
He said you were looking
for medical stuff, so
What else you got?
No, I, I'm I'm talking medicine.
What?
Nothing, just
I got all this at a hospital.
But what I was really
looking for was pills.
There's a story.
It's been going around for a while.
All right, let me hear it.
When shit was getting bombed out,
the city was kind of crazy.
Some hospital nurse was going around
grabbing up all the meds she could find,
stashed them in
the third floor operating room.
Old shit's better than no shit, so
You're talking, like, antibiotics, yeah?
Yeah, sure.
Whatever you're looking for,
but it's just a story.
All right, what hospital?
Lots of people have gone looking,
but no one's ever come back out.
What hospital?
Bellevue.
[LAMP BEADS CLINKING]
[THE CROAT] The elevator still works.
But instead of transporting freight
it's more of a lookout.
The view is much nicer from above.
And you figured he would come here?
Well, the Dama asked me
to restore it for him.
Provide him with his own personal space.
[SPEAKING CROATIAN]
Novi dan, novi početak.
New day, new beginning.
Was that before or after
you cut off his toe?
That was for her.
And you just did
whatever she asked you to?
[CHUCKLING] I wasn't the only one.
When she explained
the reasons for needing the toe,
your son
he gave it to her.
Willingly.
He let me cut it off.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
You're tired.
You need sleep.
I'm good.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
There is another place.
A safe house.
What kind of a safe house?
It's a place only
the Dama and I knew about,
but I showed it to him once.
She had told him to go there
if the shit ever hit the fan,
as you say.
Not that it would be easy.
And what does that mean?
You'll see when we get there.
You're sure about this?
Yeah. Look,
just check her lungs, her vitals.
If she wakes up,
she is not gonna know where she is
or who you are, so you be ready.
It's very likely
she is gonna kick your ass a little.
Oh. Okay.
- [NEGAN] Why are you doing this?
- Well, you just asked me
[NEGAN] No, no. I mean
Why are you helping me?
Why are you helping her?
Mm. [SIGHS]
I, uh
don't have a lot of experience.
Of the world, of other people.
I'm sure you could tell.
I was 10 when it happened.
But I don't remember
anything from before.
Or anyone.
It's just a big blank.
I guess
even if I don't remember,
it's nice to remember.
[SOFT, MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS] All right, kiddo.
Hey. I
will be right back. Okay?
I will be back before you know it.
I promise.
[LABORED, SCRATCHY BREATHING]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
You take care of her.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[THE CROAT] Top floor has been furnished
with food, water, weapons.
But the bottom floors
are insurmountable.
So, in order to get up
we must traverse the bridge.
[CHUCKLES]
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
- [WIND WHISTLING]
- [WALKERS GROWLING]
- [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[WALKERS RATTLE GATE]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[GRUNTS]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[LOUD BANG]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[WALKER THUDS AGAINST GLASS]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[THE CROAT] Another one.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
You set all these traps,
and you don't remember where they're at?
[CHUCKLES]
It's a lot to remember.
Yeah, too much, it seems like.
Huh.
Careful.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
This one
will be taking a little more effort.
Keep still.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[THE CROAT GRUNTS]
They call it a fear of heights.
But it's not really about the heights.
It's the fear of the compulsion to jump.
I've always wondered, is it genetic?
Or is it shaped by the events of life?
If you've lost someone
everyone
it's only natural to want to follow them
down into the darkness,
end the pain.
Or maybe to see them again.
- [LOUD CLANK]
- [BANG]
- [GASPS]
- [DRAMATIC STING]
[SPIKED BALL CREAKING]
I did say keep still.
You're telling me that
my son got past all this?
You underestimate him.
[TENSE MUSIC]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[THE CROAT] Don't worry.
I know the way.
[GROWLING GETS LOUDER]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CHILD WALKER GROWLING]
[CHILD WALKER GROWLING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[CLANK]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[TENSE MUSIC]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[WALKER GROWLS, SCREAMS]
[WALKER'S BODY THUDS]
[SIGHS]
[GASPS, PANTS]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[MAGGIE PANTS]
[ECHOEY, INDISTINCT BREATHING]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[PANTS]
[TENSE, PULSATING MUSIC]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[MAGGIE GRUNTS]
[PULSATING TEMPO INCREASES]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[MAGGIE GRUNTS, STRUGGLES]
[GRUNTS, PANTS]
- [WALKER GROWLING]
- [GRUNTS]
[PULSATING TEMPO INCREASES]
Bravo.
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[CHILD WALKER GROWLING]
[CHILD WALKER GROWLING]
[THUD]
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[GROANS]
- [HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
- [CHILD WALKER GROWLING]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[SIGHS]
- [CLICKING]
- [WALKER GROWLING IN DISTANCE]
Pliers, please.
[METALLIC CLANKING]
[THE CROAT] I feared the problem
was the diode.
But when I discovered
it was the flywheel,
it was only a matter of
repairing the broken cogs.
[CHUCKLES]
You're wondering how I knew to do this.
No.
When I was a child,
no one believed in this path for me.
Engineering, science
I myself had trouble believing.
I'm still this way.
Too dependent on others.
But my mother
She believed.
She said to me, "Mile
[SPEAKING CROATIAN]
I know you".
She was my protector.
Like you and your son.
You must have had a good model.
She died.
When I was young.
Which sent my dad to the bottle.
Hm.
My mother never left Croatia.
Perhaps after you and I are finished,
I will make the long trip home.
Maybe my mother and I
will meet again.
[SOFT MUSIC]
[DORMANT WALKER SOUNDS]
[DORMANT WALKER SOUNDS]
[DORMANT WALKER SOUNDS]
[SCUTTLING FROM ABOVE]
[DORMANT WALKER SOUNDS]
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[DOOR CREAKING]
[EERIE MUSIC]
[DISTANT CLANGING, RUMBLING]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[DISTANT CLANGING]
Okay.
Here we go.
[DISTANT CLANGING]
Ready?
[DISTANT CREAKING]
[BREATHS]
[DISTANT CREAKING, CLANGING]
- [EERIE MUSIC]
- [WALKERS GROWLING]
[CLANGING, RUMBLING]
It's okay. It's okay. Go.
Okay?
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
Come on.
Come on.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
Good.
Okay?
Okay.
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[BREATHS]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
[ECHOEY, LOUD EXHALE]
[PULSATING MUSIC]
[ECHOEY, LOUD BREATHING]
[MUSIC SOFTENS]
[EXHALES]
- [WALKER GROWLING]
- [GASPS]
[MAGGIE GRUNTING]
- [SCREAMS]
- [WALKER GROWLING]
[GRUNTING]
[PANTING]
[DRAMATIC STING]
[RUMBLING]
[GLASS CRACKING]
[GLASS CRACKING]
[DRAMATIC, PULSATING MUSIC]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[THE CROAT] Go! Get up!
You need to move!
Now! There's no time!
- [WHIMPERS]
- [WALKER GROWLING]
[THE CROAT] Maggie.
Maggie.
Spread yourself out.
Distribute your weight.
Just like you're on a frozen lake.
You can do it.
That's it.
Just like that.
Okay.
[GLASS CRACKING]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[MAGGIE GRUNTING, STRUGGLING]
- [WALKER GROWLING]
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC]
No.
[GLASS CRACKING]
No.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[GLASS SHATTERING]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[GASPING]
[PANTING]
[BREATHING SLOWS]
[LOUD CLANKING]
[EFFORTS]
[WATER FLOWING, DRIPPING]
[SCUTTLING ABOVE]
[UNSETTLING MUSIC]
Hey!
[PULSATING MUSIC]
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[GRUNTS]
[PULSATING MUSIC]
[GROANS]
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[PANTS]
Lucille.
[NEGAN CHUCKLES HAPPILY]
[CHUCKLES]
I'm sorry. I am so sorry.
You got me up every morning.
You washed me.
It wasn't enough.
You got me dressed.
You undressed me. [CHUCKLES]
Lucille.
It wasn't enough.
- [LOW, SOFT RUMBLING]
- [HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[ECHOEY, LOUD BREATHING]
It's rude to stare, you know.
[CHUCKLES] Annie.
[TENDER MUSIC]
[CHUCKLES] Dude.
[CHUCKLES]
I failed you.
I don't know what to do.
W-what do I do?
[TENDER MUSIC]
- [WALKER GROWLING]
- [THUDDING ON GLASS]
[WALKER GROWLING]
[NEGAN GRUNTS]
[WALKER'S BODY THUDS]
[TWO-NOTE WHISTLE]
[TENDER, MELANCHOLY MUSIC]
[SOFT, TENSE MUSIC]
[PANTING]
You said this was a safe house.
You lied to me.
Yes.
I did.
But you knew this place.
You set all those traps.
You've been here before.
Was this a fucking game to you?
Was this a fucking game to you?!
- Why did you bring me?
- [WIND GUSTING]
- Why?!
- [THE CROAT SCREAMS]
Why?
To say goodbye.
[WIND GUSTING]
[MAGGIE] That's why you brought me here.
Because you're too much
of a fucking coward
to kill yourself?
You needed me to do it?
Hershel has to be here.
He has to.
[GRUNTS]
[PANTS]
[BREATHING SLOWS]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[SIGHS]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[THE CROAT] My mother left
when I was 12 years old.
I woke up one morning
and she was gone.
I looked for her for years,
and as fate would have it,
I found her.
Two days after she had passed.
She had been living in Vrapce, alone.
10 kilometers from our house.
So after I ended up on the island,
all I wanted was to join her.
It's why I climbed up here
in the first place.
The traps, the maze,
that was all done by others.
How many times did I tell myself
jump?
But instead, I kept
wandering the streets,
until a candle in the window
of a theater drew me in.
I don't blame the Dama.
She read my mind, spoke it back to me.
This was her gift.
She saw pain.
And she knew exactly what to do.
[SOMBER MUSIC]
[WISTFUL MUSIC]
[VENTILATOR PUMPING]
[FOOTSTEPS]
This was all I could find.
[NEGAN] Listen.
People are gonna be coming soon.
And they are coming to kill me,
but not just me.
They will kill everyone in the church.
Then we should go. We should
We can't go.
I can't go.
She stays here just like this.
It's her best chance for recovery.
It's okay.
I know how to protect her now.
I know where I got it wrong before.
Back in the day when
when I built the Sanctuary
to protect my people
I showed mercy.
But now
Now I'm just gonna line 'em all up.
And I'm gonna kill 'em all.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
Get the Burazi ready.
We got work to do.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
You're not coming?
No.
No, this is for you.
And your son.
You are lucky.
[SPEAKING CROATIAN]
Novi dan, novi početak.
[CHUCKLES]
[TENSE MUSIC]
Mom?
I'm glad you're here.
I was hoping you'd see it.
Our signal.
[TENDER MUSIC]
I'm so sorry.
About how everything went.
I never meant for it
to happen like that.
I know.
Me too.
I-I mean
I was mad.
I was really angry.
But now that you're here, it
it's all gonna be okay now.
Everything's gonna work out.
[NERVOUSLY BREATHES]
[SINISTER MUSIC]
[THUD]
I was hoping we'd get to meet.
MAGGIE: This is about Negan.
I have to finish it.

NEGAN: The show's about to start.
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo.


I need you to tell me where my son is,
or I'll cut off tiny pieces of you,
starting with your toe.
ELI JORNÉ: At the end
of season one, the Dama
presents Negan with
Hershel's cut off toe,
and we understand that
it's being used as leverage.
And then, we see that there
was a deeper relationship
that developed there,
that it wasn't just torture.
When she explained the reasons
for needing the toe, your son
he gave it to her, willingly.
LOGAN KIM: Hershel lets
the Croat cut his toe off
because he's making
a promise to the Dama.
It's like a trusting,
bonding kind of thing.
I supply a lot of things that I sensed
that he was missing from Maggie,
and that gives me a way in right away.
JORNÉ: This is really
a scene about Maggie
and realizing that's how connected
to the Dama her son became.
That's how safe he felt with the Dama,
that he was willing
to make that kind of sacrifice
to protect whatever project
the Dama and Hershel are working on,
which means that it's not
happening with Maggie.
And she's his mom.
That's what that moment is really about.
Isn't this a nice surprise?
JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN: Lisa
is so good at what she does.
The fact that we get her
shocks me sometimes.
LAUREN COHAN: A big reason
of why we were all excited
for her to come on the show
is because she does not hold back,
and she fully embraces
playing the bad guy
and doing all these sort of, like,
just sinister, wonderful things.
LISA EMERY: The thing that
intrigued me the most about her
was that in this weird world,
she has so much power,
and you know, she's a killer.
That adds spice to any role.
[GROANS]
JORNÉ: 207 is an episode where Negan
goes on a real journey
of self-exploration,
so to me, it was important
that he had to, kind of, face the people
who he feels like he let down in life.
And it all started with Lucille.
Lucille.
MORGAN: I think this shows
kind of the strain that Negan's under
and kind of how [BLEEP] up
he gets towards the end there.
JORNÉ: To face her and
confront her in his own way,
even if it's only a hallucination,
it felt crucial
to his emotional journey.
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
You got me dressed.
You undressed me.
[BOTH LAUGH]
It wasn't enough.
MORGAN: A lot of the apology
has to do with,
he feels responsible for her dying.
And he's apologizing for that.
I think he's apologizing for the man
that he became after she died,
he went off on this warpath.
And that's good, it kept him alive,
but it also turned him
into a monster for a while.
MAN: And Action.
JORNÉ: It was really cool
to have Hilarie on set.
She's his real-life wife.
They were really emotional
together in the scene,
and then they cut,
and then they'd be
these, like, goofballs.
And it was fun to see the two of them,
actual husband and wife and
then fake husband and wife.
MORGAN: One, I think
that everybody looks at her
and they see how great she is,
and it makes up for a lot of my [BLEEP]
and how difficult I can be
because she's so the opposite of me.
They're all like, "Oh, okay".
She's like the good side, you know?
As well as Lucille being that for Negan.
And I just [BLEEP] love her, so
It's rude to stare, you know.
[CHUCKLES]
MORGAN: We've been talking
about Annie for two years,
and he spends the better
part of this year
sacrificing everything
to protect Annie and his son, Joshua.
So, it was important
at some point this year
that they interact.
I don't know what to do.
What do I do?
MORGAN: I got to work with her
on the same day that
I worked with Hillarie.
And so, I had my two wives,
and it was one of my favorite
days of the season to shoot.
It was so nice just to have her back.
It reminded me of the last
season of "Walking Dead",
which, of course I have, you
know, very fond feelings of.
And she's not dead yet,
so let's see if we can
get her back some more.
[OUTRO MUSIC]
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