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Previously on Dead City.

There's methane from the sewers.

You got your kid. We kill the psycho.

Everybody wins a prize.

Jenny!

Let's go!

Here's one.

Come on.

I know who you are.

I think we bought ourselves a little bit of time.

Where is it?

We can get out through these doors. Let's go!

These look recent.

These ones are.

First deposited to his methane bank.

Called it feeding the beast.

So this is what hot boxing dead people looks like.

Yeah, and smells like.

Did anyone say what happened to Negan?

Uh -uh.

Nah.

How's that kid?

She's with me.

Hey, got a name?

She doesn't talk much.

Doesn't follow orders either.

Thought I had an extra flashlight.

We have one.

Here. Yo, yo, I got it. I got it.

This is all my fault.

Hey, I pushed us to attack them.

No, I must have missed something. Hey, I should have... Don't do this to

yourself, all right?

Paparazzi.

Thank you.

Hey, we don't got time to wonder how we got here.

We just need to focus on getting the hell out.

All right?

Yeah.

I'm good.

And your heart starts pounding?

Feels like there's a jackhammer going off in your head?

Let's go.

Can't keep your eyes open or you feel like you're gonna puke?

That's the methane kicking in.

That's when we start running.

Just be cautious.

Your boat sunk by now.

The guy back at the arena, he's got the whole island on lockdown.

You do remember I saved your ass back there.

Whatever that was had nothing to do with me.

And everything to do with you and your friend.

You ain't my friend.

Anyway, you saving me doesn't bring back the magistrate that you did kill.

Are the four of the men with him?

Those assholes, they damn near killed my wife.

If you had seen what she looked like when I found her, I guarantee you'd done

the same.

Hey Come

on

Yo, Amaya, check this out.

What the hell is that?

No idea.

Oh, I

think it's fat.

Oh. Ginny!

Yo.

Manholes are sealed.

You're trying to go after Negan?

Is that it?

He wanted you to stay at the bricks.

We were so close.

You don't even know him.

Who do you think he's wanted for?

Stealing a loaf of bread?

You do not know the monster that I know. But if you stick around long enough,

you will.

Let go.

You want to tell me where the hell we're going, or is it just some big -ass

surprise?

Chelsea Piers.

Like I said, the boats are sunk.

Piers, no boats?

Don't that seem a few asshairs short of a dingleberry?

Don't need boats.

Just a dock.

It floats.

All we got to do is disconnect it.

You're from here.

You're a New Yorker.

Bronx.

Worked for the state.

Drift collection boats.

Scooping up debris.

Keeping the rivers clean.

What were you?

Worked for the state, too.

Gym teacher.

This will - COME ON!

I mean, like some avant -garde artist from before?

Or someone who lost their mind from after?

Where do you think we are?

Probably Hell's Kitchen or Chelsea.

Holy shit!

Oxygen.

Must be extras for the Baratsi.

These ones got mask and shit on them.

Crazy lucky, right?

Now we can breathe easy. Here.

It work?

Let's find out.

The kid gets one.

We can trade off the other.

Here.

What? You got to keep huffing fleshies?

I just can't figure it out.

How they knew?

Maybe it was Luther who tipped them off.

He left them.

He didn't want to go through with any of it.

No.

No, no, no, no, no.

It can't be Luther.

What would he get out of it?

It was him.

Then how are you talking about him?

You knew exactly how to get out last night.

You knew to go to the sewers.

You even knew how to get inside with that bullshit no -no story.

Bullshit? Are you... Yo, are you bugging me?

That's how I got off the first time when I was being tortured?

Or he'd cut you a deal.

A deal?

That meth is going to your head.

You hearing this?

Had him tell you where your hideouts were so he could raid him.

Probably gave him a signal to let him know that we were coming.

You're paranoid, you know that?

You don't trust nobody.

Why did you take off your pack?

What?

Before you found the oxygen tank, why did you take your pack off?

Do you want to say it or should I?

Amaya.

Amaya, hey, hey.

Amaya, you're not going to believe this shit, right?

You can't believe it. He had the tanks in his pack the whole time.

I bet taking them was the signal.

Why?

Because he's a liar.

He doesn't care about anybody but himself.

Amaya, it was a fantasy.

Amaya, it was a fantasy.

Taking back the island.

Reclaiming our home.

Our home is gone, Amaya. It's been gone.

Everyone is dead.

What I did, it was the only way. I did it for you.

No, no.

That's true.

No.

Amaya.

Jesus Christ.

You were right.

Definitely an after situation.

Hey, let's go. Yeah

Believe it or not, I don't like leaving people behind to die.

Even huge assholes.

Here's the deal.

I help you, and no more of this dragging me back to New Babylon bullshit.

No. No?

You think you know me? Is that it? Because I guarantee you, you don't.

Just tell me.

Why are you doing this?

God be a mind.

about him.

But you can go to my home.

The bricks.

You'll be safe there. You just give him my name.

Come on. Hey.

Go ahead and break.

You almost just face -planted.

Huh?

You know what it's been like five can't put down roots when all you're doing is

running for your life My no -no story

That shit was real.

I didn't make that shit up was this close to getting out, but he followed me

I Gave up our hideouts to stay alive to get back to Amaya He

said if I brought my people to me

He said he'd give me a boat.

Left the tanks for me, like you said.

And he told me about this place on the mainland.

He said they got homes with kitchens, rooms for your things, a

farm, school for your kids.

It's just out of the safe because everything was made of brick.

He said that's the kind of place we could get to.

I don't know.

I didn't mean for it to go down the way it did.

I thought at least they'd have a choice. I thought he...

I should have known.

But I had to try.

For Maya.

For...

Like

you said.

You gotta do whatever it takes to make it safe.

No! God!

It's all my fault.

No.

What?

We'll be right back.

Out of my way, bitch.

Lady.

We're talking to them now.

That's none of your concern.

My plan was a success.

Beyond expectations.

So, it went well.

My informant delivers.

The threat has been neutralized.

And also, Negan is on the island.

I saw him with my own eyes. Then where is he?

Let me see if I understand.

The show started out with a bang.

Kept me up all night, actually.

But then, there was a plot twist.

You thought you had your hero, but he got away.

And what good is a hero offstage?

So naturally, the ending fizzled. And let's face it, everyone knows the ending

is all that matters.

They're here.

Only one so far. A marshal.

But he comes from the mainland.

It's just as you said.

There will be those who try to bring it all back.

The old laws and prisons.

To protect and serve, but...

Really like before, just to punish and steal and feed the fat millies.

Now, they'll come for what we've built.

What's ours.

So we have to be ready.

Which is why we need him.

Which is why you fucked up so royally. I will find him.

There is absolutely no way Negan will be getting off this island.

I promise you.

Jenny, take me.

You're going to need it on the way back to the bricks.

Take it.

Look, I don't know what you saw in my bag, and I don't know when,

but I'm guessing that you saw something.

I never showed him your doll because I didn't even know if you were still here

or where you were, if you were even still alive.

And the truth is, I still can't let him know that you're here or else. He'd all

fall apart.

He'll leave.

He'll take you back.

A very bad man.

Took all of our grain and all of our food.

Took us months to produce.

And he's going to keep on taking it every single harvest until we all starve

death.

And worse than that, he has my son.

His name's Herschel.

And I have to think of Herschel.

And Megan, Megan's the key to

getting him back.

You understand?

How did you know?

Right.

Gym teacher.

That's right.

Okay.

Sorry.

Why are you doing this?

I don't know.

My luck, they pin your death on me, and I'm wanted twice as bad.

Next guy on my ass, way worse than you.

I guarantee it.

All right, get some rest.

His name was Joel.

We were close.

Even though I know I'd have to have a living hell out of him.

Would have followed Joel anywhere.

So when he got that job on the docks, I got one too.

He was funny.

Had this charisma.

But he was restless too.

Got in the fights.

In and out of jail.

Had problems we just couldn't see.

One night my folks caught him breaking and looking to steal from them.

He attacked my mother.

So high he didn't know what he was doing.

They were too scared to do anything about it.

Maybe they hoped it would go away.

So it fell on me, which left me

angry.

He was my big brother.

He let me down, abandoned me.

So I guess I wanted to abandon him right back.

This was the last time I ever heard from Joel.

Couldn't bring myself to open it.

Three years later, this city fell apart.

Mom and Dad and I got out just in time, but it happened so fast, I didn't

think... He was left to die.

All alone.

In the worst possible place on the planet.

Is that what he deserved?

Is it really so black and white?

You'd have asked me back then, I would have said yes.

But now, I don't know.

Is it gray?

Is it something else?

Drink with disorderness.

What if it's just stories we tell ourselves to sleep easier?

Go. Go, baby, go!

Now! Go! You can do it! Go!

I think the plan's gonna work.

I have a feeling he and I may be able to work something out.

Guess you were right all along.

Let's go.

I'm Eli Jornet, EP and showrunner of Dead City, and this is Episode 5,

We Tell Ourselves.

The title of Episode 5 comes from a line in the episode when Hurley Armstrong is

in the school bus with Negan.

Why are you doing this?

I don't know.

Negan is saving his life, and it's forcing Armstrong to look at Negan and

realize, like, this is not the villain that he thought he was. If he goes all

the way back and realizes that... Maybe his brother also wasn't the villain in

his life story.

Then all of a sudden, everything falls apart.

He attacked my mother so high he didn't know what he was doing.

Three years later, the city fell apart.

Mom and Dad and I got out just in time, but it happened so fast, I didn't think,

is that what he deserved?

Is it really so black and white?

What if it's just stories we tell ourselves to sleep easier?

For Armstrong, he's having this revelation where he's realizing maybe it

more nuanced than I ever thought it was.

So in episode five, we meet a new character, the Dama. She's somebody in

Croats' orbit who, to some extent, seems to be pulling the strings a bit. We're

talking to them now.

That's none of your concern.

She kind of foretold that one day these forces of civilization might come for

their island. So I think this is our first hint for the larger story here,

Adama seems to be at the center of it.

These are greasiness.

These ones are.

First deposits to his methane bank.

Called it feeding the beast.

Maggie and Negan have made this plan with the tribe's people. They get down

the sewers, and Maggie starts to realize something's off here.

Why did you take your pack off?

Do you want to say it or shall I?

In fact... She inspired Tommaso to do all this. And so in that way, you could

say she's kind of complicit.

I gave up our hideout to stay alive, to get back to Amaya.

And he told me about this place on the mainland.

He said they got homes with kitchens.

It's just out of the safe because everything was made of brick.

Like you said, got to do whatever it takes to make it safe.

When Maggie sees Amaya lying there dead and then she cradles Tommaso trying to

keep him from dying and his last words are about, you know, is Amaya okay? And

her realizing he didn't do it because he's a rat.

He didn't do it because he's selfish. He did it for her.

And when Maggie comes to understand that, that it's so much more nuanced.

than she first thought it was. I think she does feel a lot of regret, a lot of

guilt over that. The more she has to spend time with Negan and see him as a

human being, the more the story she's told herself all these years just starts

to get unraveled a little bit.

Maggie and Ginny eventually come across this terrifying,

monstrous, creepy thing made of walkers. It's something that I...

I had thought of, a few years before, what if a walker kind of stepped through

one walker and then another walker stuck its head through that walker and they

got all, like, tangled in that way and they had to start to kind of move

together.

It was so fun to watch the Walker King come to life. There were puppeteers that

you guys don't see, you know, that we cut out, all dressed in green. Someone

that suit and there was someone, you know, puppeteering all the arms and

battery -operated faces.

pop it out of the chest and whatnot.

I hope everybody all over the world gets to one day build and watch a Walker

King come to life because it's pretty cool.