The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023) s03e02 Episode Script

La Ofrenda

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[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]


[WATER SPLASHES, LAUGHTER]

[CONVERSING IN SPANISH]


[CONVERSING IN SPANISH]


What the hell are you doing?
Are you alright?
Shh. Look.
[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]

They're so perfect.



They got a lot of stuff.
Don't.
I'll just take a little.
No, but but I'm feeling better.
They ain't gonna put up a fight.
Well, then, what's that for?
Icebreaker.
[SIGHS]
[VEHICLE APPROACHING]


[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
Fuck me.


[THEME MUSIC PLAYS]



[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]



[LAUGHS]


[BOTH GRUNT]
Roberto!
[CROSSBOW BOLT WHIRS]
[SHOUTS IN SPANISH]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
[SHOUTING IN SPANISH]
- MAN: [SHOUTS IN SPANISH]
- [CROSSBOW BOLT WHIRS]



[SHOUTS IN SPANISH]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]


[GUNSHOT]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[GROANS]
[GRUNTS]
CAROL: English.
Ah. Um
- Thank you.
- Justina
Thank God you were here.
Thank you very much.
My friend needs a doctor. Is
there a doctor around here?
We don't come from this area.
May Maybe you could
just give us some food.
- Yes, yes.
- Something for my head.
- Yeah.
- Let me see.
What about a village? Is
there a village nearby?
- No.
- Yes. Um
You don't look like you've
been out on the road too long.
We have how you say?
Hey, what's she saying?
I have herbs in here
and some pain medicines.
Uh, my grandmother is a healer, okay?
- Maybe
- Can you take us to her?
I am sorry. It is not possible.
Point us in the right direction, then.
A few kilometres that way.
But it's bad there.
They do not welcome strangers.
They will if you take us.
You don't want to go there.
It's not a good place.
Yeah, it's true sir, what he says.
We'll take that chance.
- Daryl, it's okay.
- ROBERTO: We cannot go back.
Where we come from,
there is no hope for us.
There's no hope for her out here.
You don't understand. They
will send her away and kill me.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
Here. I give you all my
medicines, everything you want.
- Our water. Have it all. But
- [GUN COCKS]
I'm not letting my friend die out here.
Get up!

Start walking.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
[WALKERS GROWLING]


[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]



[SPEAKING SPANISH]
What did you just say to her?
He only wants for us to
find a way to go again.
I really appreciate you doing this,
even if it's not really your choice.
It's fine.
Where were you headed anyway?
To see the world.
Not so great out there in the world.
It's not so great in there either.



- [COWBELL CLANGING, WALKERS GROWLING]
- MAN: Vamos!
Vamos! Aquí!
Hey!

Vamos!

[HORSE NEIGHING]

[HORSE NEIGHS]

She needs help.
She's hurt real bad.


[WALKERS GROWLING]




[SHEEP BLEATS, CONVERSING IN SPANISH]


[KIDS LAUGHING]



- [WHISTLES]
- [GUN COCKS]


He says to put it down.
Them first.

Welcome to Solaz del Mar.
[CONVERSING IN SPANISH]
- What is that?
- DOÑA MARGA: Medicina.
My grandmother is a meiga.
She knows how to heal people.
[MOANS SOFTLY]
She needs to lay down.
My name is Federico de Rivera.
I'm
el alcalde ¿Cómo se dice en Inglés?
the mayor.
You have a quiet place maybe
maybe she can get some rest?
I apologise, my friend, but we allow no
- outsiders to stay in our town.
- No.
It's just one night.
Until her fever breaks.
We can provide you with
some supplies for the road.
We have room for you.
Two days.
That should be enough to
get la señorita healthy.
Thank you.
I am Roberto's father.
My name is Antonio. Come.
Follow me.
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]



[INSECTS CHIRPING]
I don't mean to be trouble.
No. It's, uh
no trouble.
[CAT MEOWING]
Hey.
"See you later, Gringo?"
A spaghetti Western.
A terrible film, really,
but very delightful.
[GROANS]
Let me find disinfectant and bandages.
ROBERTO: Dinner's almost ready.
You know, I need to borrow
some tools to fix up that boat.
[DOOR OPENS]
They watch us like hawks now.
When you sneak away secret in the night,
that can only work one time.
So you got some tools I can borrow?
Maybe I help you fix your boat.
And you help us to leave again.
It is you who forced us back.
Man, I don't get it.
What's so bad about this place?
They won't let us be together.
Are you talking about your parents?
La Ofrenda.
It's It's a lottería,
and it will come soon.
We have no time.
Yeah, well, me neither.
When I'm not with her, nothing is good.
Do you know how that
is, to feel that way?
Because my own father has forgotten.
Maybe he's just old enough to know
that that ain't the
only thing that matters.
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]
[COOKWARE CLATTERS]

[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[BELLS RINGING]

[ROOSTER CROWING]


[ROOSTER CROWING]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

[DOG BARKING]
[DRAWERS RATTLING]

- Hi.
- Hey.
- DARYL: How you feeling?
- Much better. Thanks.

[CONVERSING IN SPANISH]

[SPEAKING SPANISH]

Huh?

Are you hungry?
You like churrasco?
Mmm. Barbecue.
Galician beef.
And, also, androllas
lamprea, percebes.
Barnacles a delicacy.
Yeah.
So, you have what you
need to fix your boat?
Yeah, yeah. Just about
ready to patch it up.
Mm.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
ANTONIO: Paz
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[CROWD CHEERING]



This is the convoy from El Alcazar

the last vestige
of the Spanish monarchy.
Or so they claim.
That man there, Guillermo Torres,
is to be the next king.
Once a year, they visit
the northern villages,
bringing gifts, offering protection.
They say the alliance keeps us safe.
[APPLAUSE]
[FEDE LAUGHS]
[ALL MURMURING]
[CRYING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
[SPEAKING SPANISH]


[SOFT MUSIC PLAYS]


- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
- [GUILLERMO SPEAKING SPANISH]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

What's he saying?
ANTONIO: Tomorrow is La Ofrenda.
A girl chosen and taken to El Alcazar.
Taken?
Why taken?
To marry them off, they say.
Who knows? We never see them again.
It's here now
the thing we were running from.
[JAIME SCREAMING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]


[ROPE CREAKING]
[GROANING]

[SCREAMING]

[SCREAMING]

Hey. Look at what I found.
Six cans of beans.
CAROL: Ooh! And they
just let you have that?
Goes good with hot dogs.
Roberto's upset.
He wants to run away again.
I think it's best
if we stay out of that.
[SHOUTING IN SPANISH]
They'd be free if it wasn't for us.
No, they'd be dead.
We made them come back.
I just think we owe it to them to help.
I just think we should
get our asses back home.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[CONVERSING IN SPANISH]


[LAUGHTER]

[WHISTLING]

[CONVERSING IN SPANISH]





[JUSTINA SIGHS]

[DOOR OPENS]
Mm.
[CONVERSING IN SPANISH]
[DOWN-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]




[SPEAKS SPANISH]

So, the town offers up
one of your daughters
and in return you get
a truck full of guns?
Fede calls it security.
I call it extortion.
ANTONIO: But if it
helps us to survive
that's all I want for my boy.
Maybe sometimes it
makes me a bad father.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
Guess if you're worried
about how you're doing,
you must be doing it right.


[SPEAKING SPANISH]
He's talking about the town's
connection to El Alcazar.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
He says to be chosen is an honour.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
It is to be offered into a better life.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
An older, better world than
El Alcazar is keeping alive.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
The fastest will determine
who will be chosen.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
[DRUMS BEATING, WHISTLE BLOWING]

[MAN SPEAKING SPANISH]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]




Alba. Alba Guerrero.
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

ALBA: Mama!
[CRYING]

[WHISPERING IN SPANISH]

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

Guess we dodged that bullet.


[UP-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]
[CROWD CHEERING]





You kind of do it all, don't you?
[GROANS] Take care of
the animals, the walkers.
Walkers?
You mean los huecos?
We call them
the hollow ones
men with I'll say
no heart, no soul.
We use them to patrol the walls.
It's how I could help
Justina and Roberto to escape.
We planned it for weeks
so nobody would know.
You did that, too, huh?
And it worked
until you came.
Be right back.

Come on. Hey! [GRUNTS]

Come on.

[WHISTLES]

[CHUCKLES]
[CHUCKLES]




Here you go.

You have a way.
With the pigs.
My neighbours had some down the road
- where I grew up.
- Yeah?
It's almost time for dinner.
Please join us at our table,
you and your friend both.
Oh, we'd like that. Thank you.
Perfecto.


[CROWD CHEERING]


[CONVERSING IN SPANISH]
[MAN SHOUTS IN SPANISH]
[CROWD CHEERING]



[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]


FEDE: So, tell us, friends
how did you come from America?
Boat.
And a plane,
and another boat.
Maybe this time we'll try a blimp.
[CHUCKLING]
You must miss who you
left behind very much.
CAROL: That's why we're in
a hurry to get back there.
My husband wonders what
news you have from the world.
Pretty much sucks everywhere,
except London. England sucks the most.
- GUILLERMO: Oh, really?
- Mm.
There's no people left there.
How sad.
FEDE: I was concerned
when you came into town.
Strangers. I really was.
But Justina has told me about you.
You, señor, a tracker and a hunter.
And I hear you work in running
communities back in the U.S.
I welcome your wisdom and insights.
I got insight. Your
food's fucking delicious.
- CAROL: And your town is beautiful.
- Thank you.
But some of your traditions
are a bit surprising.
One thing I have learned
is that the old ways
are not always the best ways.
Can you pass the pork?
El puerco?
- It's delicious.
- FEDE: Pata negra. From the southwest.
Some newcomers brought the pigs up here.
They have done well.
- Traders?
- Travelers.
Over time, Solaz became a destination
for people from all over
España, not only Galicia.
The Basque Country, Valencia.
We are a
how say?
a melting pot.
FEDE: Few towns have
prospered as Solaz has.
And there is a reason for that.
Ah.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]

[BREATHES SHAKILY]

[JUSTINA WHISPERING IN SPANISH]
Um


You asked for our wisdom, Fede.
Want a drink? I'll get you a drink.
But I have a question.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
Why?
Why surrender your
daughters to these people?
All for what some grains
and seeds, a jug of ethanol.
Forgive me.
But El Alcazar is Spain's
hope for the future.
An La Ofrenda gives these
girls the opportunity
to thrive and to be safe.
Look at me.
I'm the living proof.

FEDE: You see, El Alcazar
has been good to us.

And your family?
[LAUGHTER]
Didn't your mother's heart
break when she lost you?
Can you just imagine
how unthinkable this is for any parent?
The problem here is until
we joined the Alliance,
Solaz was under constant siege.
As alcalde, I found a way to protect us,
and no one regrets that.
No one?
I'm gonna go check
on our stuff, alright?
Make sure everything's okay.
- Mm-hmm.
- Thank you for dinner.

[MEN CONVERSING IN SPANISH]


[SPEAKING SPANISH]
Abuelita says you're a
guest who needs our help.
- Yes, I am. And I appreciate
- [SPEAKING SPANISH]
This is our house, our home.
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
We've found a way
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
to make this world work for us.
- [SPEAKS SPANISH]
- Have you?
- [SPEAKS SPANISH]
- Stranded
- [SPEAKS SPANISH]
- lost
- [SPEAKS SPANISH]
- far from home?
- [SPEAKS SPANISH]
- Where do you belong?
Eh?
[SPEAKING SPANISH]
Come back to us when
you find a better way.

Well
time for the dance.


[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

[CONVERSING IN SPANISH]

[CLATTERING NOISE]

[DOGS BARKING]


- FEDE: Vamos!
- [CROWD CHEERING]
Vamos!
[UP-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]
[CROWD CLAPPING RHYTHMICALLY]

FEDE: My mother is
she's very passionate.
She has a point.
Who am I to judge?

We make sacrifices.
But in that way, we
are all the same, no?
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey! ♪
We couldn't have gotten
this far without that.
How else could we have survived?
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]

[UP-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]

We burn old things
como Las Fallas
to welcome the new.

It's like a ritual of renewal.
La quema.

Hoping to be reborn and find
a better life than this
[WALKERS GROWLING]
a better future before us.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]
[UP-TEMPO MUSIC PLAYS]
Ay, España, España, España.
She is chaotic
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS]
impulsive
[WALKERS GROWLING, GLASS SHATTERS]
violent.
Yet cultured
and, also, proud.
Not so long ago, we conquered the world.
Hmm? We rule an empire all our own.

[ROCK CLATTERS]
And then what happened?
We could not figure
out what to do with it,
and just a moment later, Spain
imploded.

[BOTH GRUNT, BLADES CLANGING]
We turned on each other.

Brother against brother.

Imagine
to be capable of so much

Cervantes

Picasso

[MAN SCREAMS]
Gaudí

yet to be our own worst enemy.

My duty is to protect my
people from every threat.
Do you understand?
[WALKERS GROWLING]

Even the most
persistent one of all
ourselves.
[WALKERS GROWLING]
[WHIMPERING]
- [BLADE SLICES]
- [SCREAMS]
[WALKERS SNARLING, FLESH RIPPING]


[WALKERS GROWLING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS]



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