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Previously on Dead City. The man who's got Herschel, they call him the Croat.

Who is worth following here?

His name is Negan. I knew that he was a rabid dog that needed to be put down.

Blew off his ear, the rest of them got away.

So he's gonna want to kill you. Want to get to the Croat?

Just gotta get through that.

He and the Croat know each other. They go back, he can bait him.

Blur him out of the arena, and they kill him.

Hey needs

We

got a problem

I told him to kibosh that shit. He gave the order, but, you know, he don't

listen to me.

I mean, I'm not going to say I told you so.

I'm not that kind of guy. But certain folks, a lot of folks, are saying it's

time to rein his ass in.

Invest more authority in, you know, someone not unlike...

We did it.

Megan, we did it.

The girl, she confessed.

She was sent by the king.

Exactly like you said. Who said to let her walk?

He gave a direct order.

Egan, you know these things.

My process takes time.

Your process?

Yes, Simon, my process.

Who determined the location of the hidden arms cache at the hilltop? I

have found that shit. Oh, really?

Your keen sense of observation, your emotional intelligence.

Blah, blah, blah. This is what I'm talking about, Egan.

Using these highfalutin words to cover up what we all know you really are.

A Slavic, psychopathic, nutjob. Oh, my God, I refuse

to participate in these childish conversations.

Kids? Kids!

It's a mine.

We do not cross.

We all know that. Enough.

Enough.

I know you understand.

We have to be sure.

I looked everywhere.

What's that mean?

It means I looked everywhere.

So what, he took off?

Passed him on my way in last night.

Anybody outside last night?

Maybe see Luther head out?

You still know Luther?

Where would he go?

Not saying he went anywhere. Just trying to figure it out.

Well, it's a little hard to picture a guy like that playing hide and seek.

All I know is he wasn't real keen on this plan.

Yeah, it's true.

He didn't want no part in this.

How long we gonna wait?

Every hour is more time for the psycho to figure out we're coming.

Hey.

Hey. Come on. Luther's his own guy, right?

He can do what he wants.

Tell you what.

By the time he gets back and sees the shit we pulled, his thankful ass gonna

kissing your butt -ugly feet.

Yeah?

We good.

Nah, it's cool. It's, uh... It's getting better.

You

ready?

Yeah.

You know what?

Honestly...

No, it's not because he wants me dead. Hell, lots of people have wanted me

It's hard to explain.

You know, it's the closer we get to the crowd, it just starts to feel a bit too

goddamn familiar.

Like, if he starts talking, it won't be him at all. It's going to be the echo of

some song that I don't want to hear no more.

What is it?

When Herschel was a baby, at four or five months old, there was this guy,

living above us, and Herschel was having trouble sleeping, and Amos decided it

was a good time to learn the harmonica.

I asked him very nicely if he could stop practicing at night, and he said that

he would.

Come that night, he did it again.

So the next time he was out on the Honey Expedition, I snuck into his room and I

stole the harmonica and I went and buried it in the fucking ground.

Well, I bet you lost a couple Girl Scout badges for that.

Yeah, but I'm sure you would have buried it somewhere way worse.

Have you, uh, have you seen my match?

No.

It's methane from the sewers.

It's not him.

We'll wait here a bit so the psycho won't sniff us out. Should give you

time to jack a car while Megan baits the Croat down to the garage.

You both hightail it out of here. Lure him halfway across the city. Get him

alone. That's when we start skull -bashing and throat -cutting the

You get your kid. We kill the psycho.

Everybody wins a prize.

How do we know if she'll go sideways for you?

You don't.

Don't screw it up.

Figured out how to bait him yet?

Yeah, I got a thought or two.

I feel good about this.

It's gonna work, Maggie.

I'm gonna get your boy back.

I have to tell you something.

i can explain you've done enough

explaining don't act like you never did something you needed to explain we

don't have time for this

Do you understand how to operate it?

You inject

the

disc and you press the button.

You seem nervous.

Are you afraid of me?

No, of course not.

You are.

You know, I still recall the day you joined us.

You were hiding in a fire station with a group of barbarians.

But you... You were smart.

and lay down your weapon.

It has been a joy over these past few years watching

you blossom into this strong, faithful,

confident protector.

You have made me so proud.

You should have no reason to ever be afraid of me.

Okay?

Did you know that?

You good?

Negan!

Jamie! You're

not

here.

Thank you.

You coming?

Granny, granny.

I'll catch up.

Hey.

Hey.

We have a guest.

Search.

Lucky, the chain.

Hey! Grab these!

Fall in! Get tight!

Stay tight! Stay tight!

This way! Come on! Come on!

Sit! No!

Come on!

Come on!

Nothing to be afraid of.

You're safe, Negan.

It's only me.

I see you have a weapon of choice.

Truth.

No?

You know, I heard what happened at

that bank.

It sounded like your handiwork.

You assumed I wanted revenge.

It's for that.

So you found common cause with your new friends.

You blew up my ear. So what? I have another.

Where is Lucille?

She's gone.

She broken?

One too many hits to the head, eh?

Now, I understand.

I saw Jerome on the mainland.

He told me about the war with the hilltop of the kingdom, Alexandria.

I should have been there.

I can only imagine the damage.

Simon Cause, he never listened.

Never really listened to you.

It's okay.

It's okay you lost the sanctuary.

Because I have built a new one.

And we'll keep going.

We'll build something bigger, stronger.

The whole island will become our sanctuary.

fueled by the death in its bowels.

Okay.

Business first, then pleasure.

I know who you want.

He's here with me. Just sit now.

Let me see him.

Of course.

Yes, yes, of course.

You recognize him, no?

It's the Marshal, who's been pursuing you so doggedly.

I am here for the kid, Herschel.

Yes, that's right. The Marshal told me.

He told me.

So, you're still helping the widow.

What did she promise you?

What will you get for him?

Just give me the kid.

This will be difficult.

This will require a conversation.

Come to me.

Come, come, come, come.

Come, we'll discuss.

You don't trust me yet. I understand.

I will make a gesture to show you that I come only in the

spirit of friendship and brotherly love.

Let's go!

I

told

you. It's too dangerous.

All the dead are down there and we can't breathe. Maya, what have we got?

We got you.

We bought ourselves a little bit of time to figure out what the hell.

Code 14, Section 2.

Intentional killing shall be defined as first -degree murder and shall be

punishable by supplementary execution.

I just can't figure it out.

The Barad 'vi.

They knew.

They knew what they would happen to Negan.

He's got the whole island locked down.

Where is he?

I will find him.

There is no way of getting off this island.

I'm Eli Jornet, EP and showrunner of Dead City, and this is episode four.

Everybody wins a prize.

You got your kid. We kill the psycho.

Everybody wins a prize. I like that as a title for the episode because there's a

kind of, like, tragic irony to it.

As soon as I decided that the crowd was going to be holed up in this arena, I

was like, well, we've got to fill it up with walkers, obviously, and there has

to be a giant battle.

I was excited for that whole sequence. I knew it was going to be epic, and I'm

so blown away.

The director, Kevin Dowling, just did an incredible job.

Everybody involved did such a great job. I think he did it in just a couple

days. So many shots, so much you've got to cover.

It's not just about seeing the violence and the fighting. It's also about

catching those really important emotional moments of, you know, when

Amaya see each other across the arena and you see, you know, the love in their

eyes, the longing, the fear, and you realize, like, these people have so much

lose as they watch each other, you know, get swallowed up by mobs of walkers.

So there's this crucial moment, you know, where Maggie, she sees a way out

then she stops with this sort of sixth sense and she turns.

And there's Ginny inside the octagon, safe but trapped.

And she has a moment there where she has to decide, am I going to keep going or

am I going to turn back? And I like to think of that moment as connected to

earlier moment when Maggie finds the tin of beeswax.

Don't act like you never did something you needed to explain.

He basically says, we're not that different. Don't pretend that you're

than me. I think on some level it's a combination for her of when she's

at that little girl.

She can't leave her behind, but also her needing to not be the person that Negan

is, to not be at his level, to be better than that.

So episode four opens with a flashback of Negan and the Cro -Op. Hopefully

everybody gets a kick out of seeing Simon again. I sure did.

We got a problem.

When the actor Steven Ogg showed up, he and Jeffrey were like cracking jokes and

having the time of their lives like two little kids.

And it's a scene where we really get to see that experience of what that felt

like for Negan to walk into this room and see this young girl, the same age as

Ginny, maybe, that the crowd has tortured to death and he doesn't even

he's done.

And it's really hard and painful for Negan to witness. And then we kind of

out in the present and we realize this isn't just a generic flashback. This is

what's on Negan's mind. The closer we get to the crowd, it just starts to feel

bit too damn familiar.

I know it maybe sounds odd to say, thinking of the fact that the Kraut is

probably older than Negan, but in some ways the Kraut was his first child. He

taught him how to bounce back from the tragedy of the loss of his family and

to survive in this threatening world.

The Croft is so excited to see Negan, and he kind of wants to show off this

world that he's built, you know, in a kind of, like, look, Dad, look what you

showed me, and look what I built. I have built a new one.

The whole island will become our sanctuary.

I think the most fun thing to watch as a producer on set was when they threw

Armstrong over the edge of the catwalk.

Oh, man, that catwalk.

That was scary.

I have a terrible fear of heights, and in pre -production, we went to go, you

know, like, scout the catwalk above the arena.

Even before we were, like, out on the catwalk, I just started shaking, and I

couldn't move, and I had to stop and turn around, and I never went up there

again.

Leon!

What are you doing?

The moment where Negan saves Armstrong's life was something that I always knew

was going to happen. And that was inspired by the story from Les

I think that's a big moment for Armstrong that the man who he's been

down to hang him just saved his life.