1 00:00:10,488 --> 00:00:11,881 Thorne, I need to speak with you privately. 2 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:13,448 - Let's take a ride. - Yes, sir. 3 00:00:13,578 --> 00:00:15,537 He told me everything, gave me the full briefing. 4 00:00:15,798 --> 00:00:16,929 The Echelon Briefing? 5 00:00:17,582 --> 00:00:20,411 The CRM will bring the world back. 6 00:00:20,542 --> 00:00:22,413 Tell me you won't come after them. 7 00:00:22,544 --> 00:00:25,199 No. Because we are coming for them. 8 00:00:25,329 --> 00:00:27,375 We're gonna get the dossier. 9 00:00:27,549 --> 00:00:29,942 He's gonna get the Echelon Briefing 10 00:00:30,073 --> 00:00:32,423 and find out everything that they do 11 00:00:32,554 --> 00:00:34,208 that the city doesn't know about. 12 00:00:34,382 --> 00:00:37,646 We're gonna help the city stop them. 13 00:00:40,997 --> 00:00:43,043 I remember it all. 14 00:00:43,173 --> 00:00:45,915 What it was like. 15 00:00:46,046 --> 00:00:50,093 Who we were. Who we are now. 16 00:00:54,967 --> 00:00:57,405 My name is Michonne. 17 00:00:57,535 --> 00:00:59,407 I lost someone. 18 00:00:59,537 --> 00:01:02,062 Years ago. 19 00:01:02,192 --> 00:01:05,978 Both of them have something I believe the CRM 20 00:01:06,109 --> 00:01:10,244 needs to become what it needs to be. 21 00:01:10,374 --> 00:01:12,507 People are a resource. 22 00:01:14,813 --> 00:01:16,511 I know how to build things, 23 00:01:16,641 --> 00:01:18,817 and I know how to burn things, 24 00:01:18,948 --> 00:01:21,429 but it takes more than that at the end of the world. 25 00:01:24,954 --> 00:01:28,523 You tried to escape four times. 26 00:01:28,653 --> 00:01:29,959 Why are you here? 27 00:01:34,398 --> 00:01:36,313 There's someone you love out there. 28 00:01:40,056 --> 00:01:42,276 Do you still love me? 29 00:01:42,406 --> 00:01:44,321 Always. 30 00:01:53,330 --> 00:01:55,202 It sounds simple, right? 31 00:01:55,332 --> 00:01:56,812 We each go in. You get the briefing, 32 00:01:56,942 --> 00:01:59,162 I get the dossier she left behind. 33 00:01:59,293 --> 00:02:02,948 We bring what we know to the city, then go home. 34 00:02:03,079 --> 00:02:05,603 Together. 35 00:02:05,734 --> 00:02:08,258 It's never that simple. 36 00:02:15,657 --> 00:02:19,008 I'm Sergeant Major Rick Grimes. 37 00:02:19,139 --> 00:02:21,576 You probably think I'm dead. 38 00:02:34,066 --> 00:02:36,243 He said I didn't need to be scared, 39 00:02:36,373 --> 00:02:39,115 that it was just "the burning." 40 00:03:30,253 --> 00:03:32,429 You're really here. 41 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,170 Yeah. 42 00:03:34,301 --> 00:03:36,912 You gave them the debrief. Now tell me what happened. 43 00:03:37,042 --> 00:03:38,392 Well, there was turbulence. 44 00:03:38,522 --> 00:03:40,916 We-- We went low to get out of it. 45 00:03:41,046 --> 00:03:42,657 - We were struck by lightning. - Yeah. 46 00:03:42,787 --> 00:03:46,095 We were going down over water, and Bethune shoved me out. 47 00:03:46,226 --> 00:03:47,705 She saved my life. 48 00:03:47,836 --> 00:03:49,838 Not hers, mine. 49 00:03:49,968 --> 00:03:51,318 So thank you for bringing her in. 50 00:03:51,448 --> 00:03:53,711 No, you brought her in. 51 00:03:53,842 --> 00:03:55,800 Why don't we just say it was Okafor? 52 00:03:55,931 --> 00:03:58,325 That we were just keeping his thing going. 53 00:04:03,547 --> 00:04:05,245 I used to think that giving up 54 00:04:05,375 --> 00:04:07,638 meant a lack of character 55 00:04:07,769 --> 00:04:09,423 and a-- a weak will. 56 00:04:12,034 --> 00:04:14,689 But you and I, we gave up so much to be here. 57 00:04:16,778 --> 00:04:20,564 And now I realize that giving up can be a sign of strength. 58 00:04:20,695 --> 00:04:24,002 A commitment to something bigger than oneself. 59 00:04:24,133 --> 00:04:28,050 Giving up made me understand what we're really doing here. 60 00:04:30,052 --> 00:04:31,967 Hopefully, you will understand, too. 61 00:04:32,097 --> 00:04:34,056 I want to. 62 00:04:37,059 --> 00:04:39,627 I'm glad you made it, Rick. 63 00:04:39,757 --> 00:04:41,368 You are needed. 64 00:04:41,498 --> 00:04:42,978 It is up to us, but not like 65 00:04:43,108 --> 00:04:45,676 Okafor said. 66 00:04:45,807 --> 00:04:47,112 Okafor, he... 67 00:04:49,114 --> 00:04:52,379 He was never really here, not in the way he should have been. 68 00:04:52,509 --> 00:04:53,945 That's why he died. 69 00:04:54,076 --> 00:04:57,253 But you lived. I lived. 70 00:04:57,384 --> 00:04:59,734 We are meant to be a part of this. 71 00:05:01,866 --> 00:05:03,738 It's time to let go of his bullshit. 72 00:05:03,868 --> 00:05:06,915 Well, show me the other way. 73 00:05:39,556 --> 00:05:41,253 Threat neutralized. 74 00:05:41,384 --> 00:05:43,473 I'm gonna take a sweep of the perimeter. 75 00:06:19,466 --> 00:06:21,163 He wants to talk to you. 76 00:06:30,041 --> 00:06:31,739 Rick. 77 00:06:33,001 --> 00:06:34,829 This is it. 78 00:06:47,450 --> 00:06:50,671 I never had to do this. 79 00:06:50,801 --> 00:06:53,761 I never had to do my six for citizenship because I-- 80 00:06:53,891 --> 00:06:56,024 I never really became a citizen. 81 00:06:58,983 --> 00:07:02,552 The end of the world and the beginning of the world. 82 00:07:02,683 --> 00:07:05,163 And we're the dead ones, Rick. 83 00:07:05,294 --> 00:07:07,514 We're kind of like them. 84 00:07:07,644 --> 00:07:12,519 But they only kill for food or out of compulsion. 85 00:07:12,649 --> 00:07:15,217 Isn't that right? It is. 86 00:07:16,914 --> 00:07:19,656 Our scientists haven't figured it out. 87 00:07:19,787 --> 00:07:22,137 Maybe they never will. 88 00:07:23,399 --> 00:07:27,708 But us, the other kind of dead ones, 89 00:07:27,838 --> 00:07:30,754 we have this. 90 00:07:30,885 --> 00:07:34,192 The sword that kills is the sword that gives life. 91 00:07:34,323 --> 00:07:36,543 And that's us. We're the sword. 92 00:07:38,370 --> 00:07:41,504 I have my aides and lieutenants leave me in solitude 93 00:07:41,635 --> 00:07:43,158 the day before an operation. 94 00:07:43,288 --> 00:07:45,377 I don't like distractions. 95 00:07:45,508 --> 00:07:47,989 I alone decided the path ahead, 96 00:07:48,119 --> 00:07:50,948 and I alone want to feel the weight of it. 97 00:07:51,079 --> 00:07:54,517 I never interrupt that time. 98 00:07:54,648 --> 00:07:56,084 But you are here. 99 00:07:58,129 --> 00:08:00,480 After everything. 100 00:08:00,610 --> 00:08:02,656 And I am humbled by that. 101 00:08:04,527 --> 00:08:07,530 So, I'll share some time with you, 102 00:08:07,661 --> 00:08:10,098 maybe even ask you to carry some of that weight. 103 00:10:13,134 --> 00:10:15,615 Officer Stokes? Are you in there? 104 00:10:48,038 --> 00:10:49,997 Put your gun on the table. 105 00:10:57,134 --> 00:10:59,354 That prosthetic with the blade. 106 00:11:02,923 --> 00:11:05,273 In front of me. Away from you. 107 00:11:17,764 --> 00:11:23,291 I want you to reflect on your life. 108 00:11:23,421 --> 00:11:27,164 On all your lives before and after. 109 00:11:27,295 --> 00:11:29,776 All the before and afters. 110 00:11:29,906 --> 00:11:35,390 All the things you did before this moment. 111 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:37,958 Because... 112 00:11:38,088 --> 00:11:40,700 after this next moment, 113 00:11:40,830 --> 00:11:43,137 everything will change. 114 00:11:47,489 --> 00:11:49,665 What was the worst thing you did 115 00:11:49,796 --> 00:11:52,363 to make sure someone else survived? 116 00:11:55,062 --> 00:11:56,237 No! 117 00:11:58,500 --> 00:11:59,849 Aah! 118 00:12:05,028 --> 00:12:07,814 I killed someone with my teeth. 119 00:12:09,076 --> 00:12:10,599 Like they do. 120 00:12:10,730 --> 00:12:12,383 I'm sorry you had to do that. 121 00:12:12,514 --> 00:12:14,037 Oh, you don't have to be. 122 00:12:14,168 --> 00:12:16,170 Still, it's a damn thing, isn't it? 123 00:12:17,911 --> 00:12:20,652 Yes. Yes, it is, sir. 124 00:12:20,783 --> 00:12:23,612 You've made some extraordinary choices, Grimes. 125 00:12:25,266 --> 00:12:27,007 I've given this briefing, 126 00:12:27,137 --> 00:12:32,621 the Echelon Briefing, 2,533 times. 127 00:12:34,144 --> 00:12:37,104 Just me and the elite soldier in question. 128 00:12:42,196 --> 00:12:45,286 And the soldier in question 129 00:12:45,416 --> 00:12:47,549 has never been someone like you. 130 00:12:49,681 --> 00:12:50,813 Never. 131 00:12:53,773 --> 00:12:55,731 This is the first. 132 00:12:57,646 --> 00:13:00,736 It's the start of what's next. 133 00:13:00,867 --> 00:13:03,565 And that couldn't be more appropriate for today. 134 00:13:04,740 --> 00:13:06,786 A day completely about... 135 00:13:09,571 --> 00:13:11,225 tomorrow. 136 00:13:16,491 --> 00:13:18,754 I missed you so much. 137 00:13:20,756 --> 00:13:23,019 Words can't even say it right. 138 00:13:23,150 --> 00:13:24,891 You don't have to. 139 00:13:26,936 --> 00:13:29,547 I know. 140 00:13:29,678 --> 00:13:31,985 Are we crazy? 141 00:13:32,115 --> 00:13:34,248 Certifiable. 142 00:13:41,385 --> 00:13:43,344 I grew up in Pittsburgh. 143 00:13:43,474 --> 00:13:47,565 The same day my alcoholic father broke my jaw, 144 00:13:47,696 --> 00:13:52,266 I left home and landed a job at a VFW hall. 145 00:13:52,396 --> 00:13:55,008 Barback. 146 00:13:55,138 --> 00:13:56,357 I was 15. 147 00:13:59,273 --> 00:14:01,275 And those men and women at the VFW, 148 00:14:01,405 --> 00:14:04,104 they became my real parents. 149 00:14:04,234 --> 00:14:05,801 They were who formed me. 150 00:14:09,283 --> 00:14:13,026 So when I was 18, I signed up to fight. 151 00:14:15,376 --> 00:14:16,812 I went to Vietnam. 152 00:14:16,943 --> 00:14:18,248 Twice. 153 00:14:18,379 --> 00:14:20,207 But there was a whole journey beyond that. 154 00:14:20,337 --> 00:14:22,600 Fort Benning, officer training. 155 00:14:22,731 --> 00:14:24,385 Then the journey led me back to Pennsylvania, 156 00:14:24,515 --> 00:14:27,649 to its National Guard, and through its command, 157 00:14:27,779 --> 00:14:28,955 thank God. 158 00:14:29,085 --> 00:14:30,826 I went away. 159 00:14:30,957 --> 00:14:33,742 I had to. 160 00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:35,962 I could've let the world take me away. 161 00:14:37,398 --> 00:14:39,704 But I came back... 162 00:14:39,835 --> 00:14:41,228 like you. 163 00:14:59,159 --> 00:15:01,335 Copy that, sir. 164 00:15:40,809 --> 00:15:42,506 You said you saw what the federal forces 165 00:15:42,637 --> 00:15:44,073 did at the beginning. 166 00:15:44,204 --> 00:15:45,727 I did. 167 00:15:45,857 --> 00:15:47,903 They bombed the cities. 168 00:15:48,034 --> 00:15:52,386 Okafor said that they called it "clearing disease vectors." 169 00:15:52,516 --> 00:15:55,389 "Vectors," yeah. Their word. 170 00:15:58,305 --> 00:16:01,438 I made the decision to take them on ourselves. 171 00:16:01,569 --> 00:16:05,268 Second Civil War fought on good Pennsylvania ground. 172 00:16:05,399 --> 00:16:07,879 There were two fronts-- Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. 173 00:16:08,010 --> 00:16:09,664 And we were losing. 174 00:16:09,794 --> 00:16:12,014 We couldn't sustain two theaters of battle. 175 00:16:12,145 --> 00:16:15,713 In my hometown, we had an opportunity of terrain, 176 00:16:15,844 --> 00:16:18,716 tactics, and a massive incoming dead mass 177 00:16:18,847 --> 00:16:21,328 that the federal forces were unaware of. 178 00:16:21,458 --> 00:16:24,679 So, uh, I evacuated our forces under the cover of night 179 00:16:24,809 --> 00:16:28,117 and let the dead overwhelm their troops. 180 00:16:30,511 --> 00:16:32,121 And that whole city. 181 00:16:35,429 --> 00:16:38,867 I saved Philadelphia by sacrificing Pittsburgh. 182 00:16:38,998 --> 00:16:43,176 My enemies, my friends... 183 00:16:43,306 --> 00:16:45,265 my home. 184 00:16:51,575 --> 00:16:54,100 It's not exactly tearing into a person with your canines, 185 00:16:54,230 --> 00:16:57,668 but it's not nothing. Isn't that right? 186 00:16:57,799 --> 00:16:59,975 No, it's not nothing, sir. 187 00:17:02,021 --> 00:17:06,808 My dad taught me, for better or worse... 188 00:17:08,418 --> 00:17:12,553 ...sometimes things have to burn to bring things back. 189 00:17:12,683 --> 00:17:14,424 It was that. 190 00:17:14,555 --> 00:17:18,298 The sword that kills is the sword that gives life. 191 00:17:18,428 --> 00:17:21,823 I killed my past and a whole city 192 00:17:21,953 --> 00:17:24,260 so another could live. 193 00:17:28,569 --> 00:17:30,223 Let me tell you the first secret, Grimes. 194 00:17:30,353 --> 00:17:32,616 The first one that I share with each Frontliner 195 00:17:32,747 --> 00:17:34,444 I've briefed. 196 00:17:34,575 --> 00:17:37,708 The most likely outcome after all the fighting and killing, 197 00:17:37,839 --> 00:17:40,755 all the plans and sacrifices, we lose. 198 00:17:40,885 --> 00:17:44,019 Most likely outcome is that we're all gonna die. 199 00:17:48,545 --> 00:17:51,461 The CEP overview will begin imminently. 200 00:17:51,592 --> 00:17:53,898 This is a mandatory briefing. 201 00:17:54,029 --> 00:17:56,205 Please sign for review. 202 00:18:00,383 --> 00:18:02,864 Man Eyes front. 203 00:18:06,389 --> 00:18:08,087 Man sensitive aspects 204 00:18:08,217 --> 00:18:11,655 to Operation N1W is the Child Evacuation Protocol. 205 00:18:11,786 --> 00:18:14,093 So, we were born this way. 206 00:18:15,224 --> 00:18:17,270 - Aah! - Aah! 207 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:18,923 Aah! 208 00:18:19,054 --> 00:18:21,361 I guess so. 209 00:18:22,971 --> 00:18:26,496 We've discovered million-strong dead masses out there. 210 00:18:27,758 --> 00:18:31,675 Our modeling shows that non-necrotic human life-- 211 00:18:31,806 --> 00:18:36,506 people-- now have 14 or so years left on this planet. 212 00:18:36,637 --> 00:18:38,465 Could be quicker. 213 00:18:38,595 --> 00:18:40,119 And it isn't just the delts. 214 00:18:40,249 --> 00:18:43,034 It's starvation-- the tenuous balance 215 00:18:43,165 --> 00:18:45,080 between population and yield. 216 00:18:45,211 --> 00:18:48,823 Disease, with a billion petri dishes 217 00:18:48,953 --> 00:18:51,695 out there stumbling and cooking in the sun, 218 00:18:51,826 --> 00:18:54,045 waiting to transmit God knows what to us 219 00:18:54,176 --> 00:18:57,571 while it transforms into God knows what. 220 00:18:59,355 --> 00:19:00,922 And in the end, the most likely outcome 221 00:19:01,052 --> 00:19:05,709 is that this rock will be cluttered with corpses 222 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,148 to eventually rot into food for the trees. 223 00:19:09,278 --> 00:19:12,673 And it all becomes a strange temporary museum 224 00:19:12,803 --> 00:19:15,066 to an even stranger species that conquered it 225 00:19:15,197 --> 00:19:19,114 and marked it for a blink of its existence. 226 00:19:21,421 --> 00:19:23,379 This is why we do what we do. 227 00:19:26,948 --> 00:19:29,516 What do you do, sir? 228 00:19:29,646 --> 00:19:32,040 We're trying to beat the odds, Grimes. 229 00:19:35,348 --> 00:19:37,741 Aah! 230 00:19:37,872 --> 00:19:41,180 Man embeds living in Portland 231 00:19:41,310 --> 00:19:44,270 under false identities, we have, over years, 232 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,360 had operatives enmeshed in the Portland school system 233 00:19:47,490 --> 00:19:51,059 to facilitate an evacuation of selected children. 234 00:19:51,190 --> 00:19:54,410 The CRM destroys communities for resources, 235 00:19:54,541 --> 00:19:56,282 for strategic superiority, 236 00:19:56,412 --> 00:20:00,895 and to ensure the city's secrecy and security above all. 237 00:20:01,025 --> 00:20:03,463 Once the operation on Portland begins, 238 00:20:03,593 --> 00:20:07,118 children will be airlifted away from three school sites. 239 00:20:07,249 --> 00:20:10,687 It will result in an evacuation of possibly 10% of the children 240 00:20:10,818 --> 00:20:13,124 in the city before the area is gassed 241 00:20:13,255 --> 00:20:15,518 and its population is liquidated. 242 00:20:15,649 --> 00:20:18,304 We have embeds--spies-- 243 00:20:18,434 --> 00:20:20,871 in selected communities throughout the continent 244 00:20:21,002 --> 00:20:25,876 and the world to monitor them, to potentially sabotage them, 245 00:20:26,007 --> 00:20:29,663 to influence their politics and approaches. 246 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:33,536 Up until recently, we supplied test subjects 247 00:20:33,667 --> 00:20:36,104 for scientific experiments to CRM-run labs. 248 00:20:38,237 --> 00:20:41,849 Omaha didn't just die. 249 00:20:43,851 --> 00:20:47,855 We destroyed it, along with its Campus Colony. 250 00:20:49,900 --> 00:20:53,774 And in 18 hours, we will take our final action 251 00:20:53,904 --> 00:20:56,907 to leave us as the supreme force on this continent, 252 00:20:57,038 --> 00:20:59,562 maybe the world. 253 00:20:59,693 --> 00:21:01,347 We will destroy Portland. 254 00:21:01,477 --> 00:21:04,828 We tell the Civic Republic what the CRM does. 255 00:21:04,959 --> 00:21:07,701 Like the bombing, whatever else they do. 256 00:21:07,831 --> 00:21:09,746 If we don't, who will? 257 00:21:09,877 --> 00:21:11,574 No one. 258 00:21:11,705 --> 00:21:15,143 You don't leave people behind. 259 00:21:21,497 --> 00:21:23,456 This is the shit we do. 260 00:21:23,586 --> 00:21:26,023 In response to the loss of Portland, 261 00:21:26,154 --> 00:21:27,808 our last alliance partner-- 262 00:21:27,938 --> 00:21:30,898 which we will report as another tragic, mysterious, 263 00:21:31,028 --> 00:21:34,118 shocking incident-- the Civic Republic Military 264 00:21:34,249 --> 00:21:36,207 will declare martial law on the city, 265 00:21:36,338 --> 00:21:38,079 doing away with the Council. 266 00:21:38,209 --> 00:21:39,907 Stakes are too high for freedom. 267 00:21:40,037 --> 00:21:42,953 With the city under CRM control and our Alliance partners dead, 268 00:21:43,084 --> 00:21:45,173 we will march across this country 269 00:21:45,304 --> 00:21:47,436 and further eliminate any growing competition. 270 00:21:47,567 --> 00:21:50,874 We will take their resources and ensure supremacy. 271 00:21:51,005 --> 00:21:52,746 And maybe... 272 00:21:54,748 --> 00:21:56,576 Maybe we get to survive. 273 00:22:04,845 --> 00:22:06,673 Man will be in blackout. 274 00:22:06,803 --> 00:22:08,457 The children will not see or hear 275 00:22:08,588 --> 00:22:10,329 what is happening to the city. 276 00:22:10,459 --> 00:22:13,723 It is critical to remain even, to be steady, 277 00:22:13,854 --> 00:22:16,857 to not give in to the trauma the children will experience-- 278 00:22:16,987 --> 00:22:19,947 or that the participating forces will experience. 279 00:22:21,949 --> 00:22:25,300 We'll get back to the Civic Republic in Jadis's helicopter. 280 00:22:26,475 --> 00:22:29,783 I'll fly us to jump points for the refuels they won't expect. 281 00:22:31,524 --> 00:22:34,788 Anything changes on base, key the walkie. 282 00:22:36,050 --> 00:22:38,139 I'll get back to you when I can. 283 00:22:38,269 --> 00:22:41,664 If I can be gotten back to. 284 00:22:48,279 --> 00:22:50,760 You expecting a call? 285 00:22:50,891 --> 00:22:54,590 That was Thorne. 286 00:22:54,721 --> 00:22:56,897 She went through this. 287 00:22:57,027 --> 00:22:59,813 Thought it would be good to talk it out. 288 00:23:01,554 --> 00:23:03,382 Man the children's focus 289 00:23:03,512 --> 00:23:05,688 on the comfort items we'll furnish them with. 290 00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:09,518 Avoid saying, "It's going to be okay." 291 00:23:09,649 --> 00:23:12,956 Just say "they" will be okay. 292 00:23:13,087 --> 00:23:15,829 Any one of them could prove to be the difference 293 00:23:15,959 --> 00:23:18,353 in our civilization's survival. 294 00:23:18,484 --> 00:23:20,921 We will, in many ways, scavenge... 295 00:23:25,882 --> 00:23:28,102 After everything, 296 00:23:28,232 --> 00:23:32,585 after all the escape attempts to right here, now... 297 00:23:34,325 --> 00:23:38,634 I think that the next leader in the next decade, 298 00:23:38,765 --> 00:23:40,680 that might be you. 299 00:23:41,855 --> 00:23:44,031 After trying to get away so many times, 300 00:23:44,161 --> 00:23:48,688 after so many years, you found yourself free, dead to us. 301 00:23:48,818 --> 00:23:52,300 You could've gone wherever it was you wanted to go. 302 00:23:52,431 --> 00:23:53,693 And you came back. 303 00:23:55,085 --> 00:23:58,088 You've become a powerful story. 304 00:23:58,219 --> 00:24:00,221 A powerful symbol, one the CRM 305 00:24:00,351 --> 00:24:02,528 may need to tell to win the hearts of the people 306 00:24:02,658 --> 00:24:06,706 who will see some of their freedoms delayed yet again. 307 00:24:06,836 --> 00:24:11,101 I sacrificed. Okafor sacrificed. 308 00:24:11,232 --> 00:24:13,103 I would expect the same for you. 309 00:24:13,234 --> 00:24:15,236 But you said it-- you already have. 310 00:24:19,327 --> 00:24:22,809 Who's the person closest to you who's died in all of this? 311 00:24:28,597 --> 00:24:30,251 My son. 312 00:24:31,774 --> 00:24:36,431 He's who I saved tearing out that man's throat. 313 00:24:38,346 --> 00:24:40,000 But you couldn't save him in the end? 314 00:24:44,831 --> 00:24:46,267 No. 315 00:24:47,834 --> 00:24:50,271 What if I told you you would never have to suffer 316 00:24:50,401 --> 00:24:52,273 that kind of loss again, 317 00:24:52,403 --> 00:24:53,840 that wherever you were running to, 318 00:24:53,970 --> 00:24:56,582 whoever you were running to... 319 00:24:56,712 --> 00:25:00,368 you could keep them safe, you could bring them to us? 320 00:25:03,589 --> 00:25:06,592 Family, friends, a lov-- I don't give a damn. 321 00:25:06,722 --> 00:25:08,158 They will be spared from our march, 322 00:25:08,289 --> 00:25:10,117 whenever we would have found them. 323 00:25:12,423 --> 00:25:14,513 I'll take that chance. 324 00:25:14,643 --> 00:25:17,037 I'm taking that chance on you. 325 00:25:28,875 --> 00:25:30,398 Portland will die, 326 00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:33,575 and this force will take over the Civic Republic. 327 00:25:33,706 --> 00:25:35,577 We will begin our march on the countryside. 328 00:25:35,708 --> 00:25:38,885 The Next World will begin, 329 00:25:39,015 --> 00:25:43,106 and through that, somehow, some way, we will survive. 330 00:25:43,237 --> 00:25:46,240 We will burn things to bring things back. 331 00:25:46,370 --> 00:25:50,244 The sword that kills is the sword that brings life. 332 00:26:04,258 --> 00:26:05,738 Swear on the sword. 333 00:26:06,956 --> 00:26:08,741 Let me ask you a question, Grimes. 334 00:26:08,871 --> 00:26:10,917 I'm just gonna ask it and look in your eyes. 335 00:26:15,617 --> 00:26:18,098 Swear on the sword. 336 00:26:18,228 --> 00:26:20,013 Don't let it take. 337 00:26:34,201 --> 00:26:35,376 No. 338 00:26:45,168 --> 00:26:47,388 Why did you come back?! Aah! 339 00:26:47,518 --> 00:26:48,955 You were gone! You were dead! 340 00:26:49,085 --> 00:26:50,739 You could've saved whoever you wanted to 341 00:26:50,870 --> 00:26:52,393 and then saved the world. Why? 342 00:26:52,523 --> 00:26:54,264 The world isn't gonna end! 343 00:26:54,395 --> 00:26:56,658 It is! I'm trying to make sure we don't! 344 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,103 Goddamn Okafor! 345 00:27:09,149 --> 00:27:10,890 I never lost my son. 346 00:27:11,020 --> 00:27:12,761 I lost myself. 347 00:27:12,892 --> 00:27:16,678 He brought me back. My wife brought me back. 348 00:27:19,376 --> 00:27:21,901 We're the sword that kills. 349 00:27:22,031 --> 00:27:23,990 We're the sword that gives life. 350 00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:27,080 One life. One unstoppable life. 351 00:27:27,210 --> 00:27:28,516 We're not dead. 352 00:27:28,647 --> 00:27:30,953 Aah! 353 00:27:33,434 --> 00:27:35,523 You are. 354 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,461 Thorne? It's Grimes, over. 355 00:28:00,591 --> 00:28:02,855 Copy. Over. 356 00:28:02,985 --> 00:28:06,249 I got the briefing. We'll talk later. 357 00:28:06,380 --> 00:28:08,295 Beale went to the woods to be on his own 358 00:28:08,425 --> 00:28:10,601 before the all-hands, over. 359 00:28:10,732 --> 00:28:12,516 Do you want to meet now? Over. 360 00:28:12,647 --> 00:28:13,953 No. 361 00:28:14,083 --> 00:28:16,303 Beale gave me something to do already. 362 00:28:16,433 --> 00:28:17,957 Over. 363 00:29:48,525 --> 00:29:50,223 Damn it. 364 00:29:50,353 --> 00:29:52,399 Got to do it. 365 00:31:26,580 --> 00:31:29,844 Rick! 366 00:31:29,975 --> 00:31:32,542 - We can't go home. - Not yet. 367 00:31:32,673 --> 00:31:34,805 No. Do you know what they're gonna do? 368 00:31:34,936 --> 00:31:36,459 I got the Echelon. How did you-- 369 00:31:36,590 --> 00:31:38,418 They have an entire tent of bombs out there. 370 00:31:38,548 --> 00:31:40,289 They're evacuating the kids, 371 00:31:40,420 --> 00:31:42,813 then it's a whole city of people, Rick. 372 00:31:42,944 --> 00:31:44,772 This is happening now. 373 00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:46,992 We can still get home, but not yet. 374 00:31:47,122 --> 00:31:50,038 We have to stop them, because we can stop them. 375 00:31:52,954 --> 00:31:55,304 Is this yours? Yeah. 376 00:31:55,435 --> 00:31:56,915 What's in it? 377 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,798 What are you up to, Grimes? 378 00:32:23,854 --> 00:32:25,856 How'd you come up with this? 379 00:32:25,987 --> 00:32:29,034 Took some inspiration from the genius known as Nat. 380 00:32:32,863 --> 00:32:36,998 You know, Beale said I could lead the CRM one day. 381 00:32:37,129 --> 00:32:39,305 Shit. 382 00:32:39,435 --> 00:32:41,089 Guess you were right. 383 00:32:41,220 --> 00:32:43,483 You could do this all by yourself. 384 00:32:47,922 --> 00:32:49,880 We could just go. 385 00:32:52,927 --> 00:32:54,320 This is-- 386 00:32:54,450 --> 00:32:55,930 What we have to do. 387 00:32:58,585 --> 00:33:00,413 What sort of world are we making for them 388 00:33:00,543 --> 00:33:02,676 if we walk away from something like this? 389 00:33:04,591 --> 00:33:06,071 You know... 390 00:33:08,638 --> 00:33:10,901 I'm mad at the time I missed. 391 00:33:13,643 --> 00:33:16,342 Not seeing our kids growing up. 392 00:33:19,258 --> 00:33:22,348 I know we can't, but I just... 393 00:33:22,478 --> 00:33:25,438 I think about that time and... 394 00:33:25,568 --> 00:33:27,440 I just want to go back. 395 00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:44,022 We are back. 396 00:33:46,241 --> 00:33:48,461 And this is the shit we do. 397 00:33:50,332 --> 00:33:51,464 Yes, it is. 398 00:33:59,428 --> 00:34:00,647 Grimes? 399 00:34:20,623 --> 00:34:23,583 All-hands briefing in 10. Squad assignments posted. 400 00:34:23,713 --> 00:34:27,282 All-hands briefing in 10. Squad assignments posted. 401 00:35:05,625 --> 00:35:07,583 ...after final intelligence... 402 00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,074 ...Alpha, Bravo, Charlie... 403 00:35:25,514 --> 00:35:28,126 ...confirmed at squad level. 404 00:35:28,256 --> 00:35:31,085 Confirmed at squad level. 405 00:35:34,567 --> 00:35:36,786 This is it. Yeah. 406 00:35:36,917 --> 00:35:39,572 This is the last we're apart. 407 00:35:39,702 --> 00:35:41,791 I should be scared. 408 00:35:41,922 --> 00:35:46,492 Just standing here, I should scared, but I'm not. 409 00:35:46,622 --> 00:35:48,842 Because of you. 410 00:35:48,972 --> 00:35:52,280 I forgot. 411 00:35:52,411 --> 00:35:54,413 I have something for you. 412 00:36:16,304 --> 00:36:18,915 But if I argue for her, they'll think I'm emotional, indebted. 413 00:36:19,046 --> 00:36:21,657 You gotta make sure she stays. 414 00:36:21,788 --> 00:36:24,094 I put my neck out for her. For you. 415 00:36:26,314 --> 00:36:27,968 We need to take care of this. 416 00:36:30,579 --> 00:36:32,625 She's not gone. 417 00:37:29,595 --> 00:37:31,205 Hey! 418 00:37:31,336 --> 00:37:33,076 Hands! 419 00:37:33,207 --> 00:37:35,253 Hands! 420 00:37:40,170 --> 00:37:41,868 Where's Beale? 421 00:37:41,998 --> 00:37:44,349 I know you lied to me. 422 00:37:44,479 --> 00:37:46,525 What did you do? 423 00:37:46,655 --> 00:37:48,135 Rick. 424 00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:49,571 Dana. 425 00:37:49,702 --> 00:37:51,660 Thorne. 426 00:37:51,791 --> 00:37:54,054 Take off your helmets. 427 00:38:03,455 --> 00:38:05,674 Put your bag down. 428 00:38:17,599 --> 00:38:22,169 You are going to turn around, you are going to go back inside, 429 00:38:22,300 --> 00:38:25,041 and you are going to undo whatever you did. 430 00:38:30,220 --> 00:38:34,050 And when I find Beale, you're going to regret this. 431 00:38:44,931 --> 00:38:46,889 Keep going! 432 00:38:48,804 --> 00:38:50,676 You're going to fix this. 433 00:38:53,853 --> 00:38:55,333 It never died. 434 00:38:55,463 --> 00:38:56,986 It won't stop. It can't stop. 435 00:39:09,085 --> 00:39:10,565 This way! 436 00:39:17,572 --> 00:39:19,444 Pull the flag down over us! 437 00:39:50,170 --> 00:39:52,128 Just a little longer. 438 00:39:52,259 --> 00:39:54,217 It breaks up quick. 439 00:39:54,348 --> 00:39:55,654 Grimes! 440 00:39:59,875 --> 00:40:01,616 There's Thorne. 441 00:40:01,747 --> 00:40:03,226 She's got a mask. 442 00:40:03,357 --> 00:40:05,577 I'll rush her. You get the other mask. 443 00:40:05,707 --> 00:40:06,839 Why you? 444 00:40:06,969 --> 00:40:08,928 - You got the sword. - We go? 445 00:40:09,058 --> 00:40:10,843 We go. 446 00:40:29,557 --> 00:40:32,691 You-- You destroyed our chance! 447 00:40:32,821 --> 00:40:34,693 You destroyed the whole world! 448 00:41:27,006 --> 00:41:29,312 You were the one he was always trying to get to. 449 00:41:29,443 --> 00:41:30,879 How did you get to him? 450 00:41:31,010 --> 00:41:32,098 I didn't give up. 451 00:41:32,228 --> 00:41:33,882 I didn't give me up like you did! 452 00:41:34,013 --> 00:41:35,710 Where is he?! 453 00:41:41,020 --> 00:41:42,978 Where is he?! 454 00:41:43,109 --> 00:41:44,371 Turn around. 455 00:42:00,387 --> 00:42:02,476 You don't understand. 456 00:42:04,173 --> 00:42:06,741 In a dead world, love is dead! 457 00:42:06,872 --> 00:42:10,049 Love doesn't die. 458 00:42:10,179 --> 00:42:11,790 Watch. 459 00:42:19,667 --> 00:42:21,582 Love... 460 00:42:21,713 --> 00:42:23,410 doesn't... 461 00:42:23,541 --> 00:42:24,585 die! 462 00:43:17,116 --> 00:43:20,075 Okafor was right. 463 00:43:20,206 --> 00:43:22,382 He was right. 464 00:43:23,513 --> 00:43:26,604 You just have to hope Beale was wrong. 465 00:43:58,026 --> 00:43:59,724 Come on! Come on! 466 00:44:24,052 --> 00:44:25,837 ...N1W. 467 00:44:25,967 --> 00:44:29,188 With the CRM's Frontliner force and the CRM Force Command-- 468 00:44:29,318 --> 00:44:31,843 including Major General Johnathan Beale-- 469 00:44:31,973 --> 00:44:34,193 all casualties of the incident connected 470 00:44:34,323 --> 00:44:35,934 with the shocking revelations 471 00:44:36,064 --> 00:44:39,111 regarding all their operations and activities, 472 00:44:39,241 --> 00:44:43,071 the CRC voted unanimously for emergency oversight 473 00:44:43,202 --> 00:44:46,596 over the remaining forces of the CRM. 474 00:44:46,727 --> 00:44:50,078 Command hierarchies and layers of operational secrecy 475 00:44:50,209 --> 00:44:52,690 indicate infantry and enhanced infantry units 476 00:44:52,820 --> 00:44:56,128 were unaware of and did not participate in the atrocities 477 00:44:56,258 --> 00:44:59,044 perpetrated by these highest levels of the CRM, 478 00:44:59,174 --> 00:45:01,742 thus presenting hope for immediate reform. 479 00:45:01,873 --> 00:45:05,137 And in another stunning, unanimous vote by the CRC, 480 00:45:05,267 --> 00:45:08,444 overturning more than a decade of CRM guidance, 481 00:45:08,575 --> 00:45:11,186 free movement has been established for the Republic. 482 00:45:11,317 --> 00:45:13,449 Citizens are now free to leave at will, 483 00:45:13,580 --> 00:45:15,843 and the city will now welcome new citizens, 484 00:45:15,974 --> 00:45:17,715 as they may arrive. 485 00:45:17,845 --> 00:45:21,327 A historic day to begin a new chapter for the Republic. 486 00:45:23,721 --> 00:45:26,462 Shoto? It's Daito. 487 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:02,934 - Hi. - Hi. 488 00:46:03,064 --> 00:46:05,458 Hi. Hi. 489 00:46:05,588 --> 00:46:08,983 How are you doing? Oh, my. You're so big. 490 00:46:18,253 --> 00:46:20,299 Hi there. 491 00:46:29,830 --> 00:46:32,702 I knew it, Dad. 492 00:46:32,833 --> 00:46:34,966 I knew you were still out there. 493 00:46:41,146 --> 00:46:44,540 I just never wanted you to feel alone. 494 00:46:44,671 --> 00:46:46,542 I thought I was. 495 00:46:48,980 --> 00:46:50,764 Then I realized... 496 00:46:54,899 --> 00:46:56,814 ...I wasn't. 497 00:47:02,776 --> 00:47:05,997 You got him back. 498 00:47:06,127 --> 00:47:08,086 You told me to. 499 00:47:19,575 --> 00:47:21,229 You're the brave man? 500 00:47:29,281 --> 00:47:30,630 I am. 501 00:47:33,676 --> 00:47:35,809 He is. 502 00:47:43,164 --> 00:47:45,079 But maybe you can call me Dad. 503 00:47:48,082 --> 00:47:49,867 I knew you'd come back. 504 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,783 How? 505 00:47:53,914 --> 00:47:55,785 I believed. 506 00:48:40,265 --> 00:48:41,570 We tell the Civic Republic 507 00:48:41,701 --> 00:48:43,311 what the CRM does, 508 00:48:43,442 --> 00:48:45,748 like the bombing, whatever else they do. 509 00:48:45,879 --> 00:48:47,315 If we don't, who will? 510 00:48:47,489 --> 00:48:48,882 No one. 511 00:48:49,013 --> 00:48:50,492 At the start of this episode, 512 00:48:50,623 --> 00:48:51,929 Rick and Michonne couldn't be closer, 513 00:48:52,103 --> 00:48:53,713 and it's just everything coming together 514 00:48:53,843 --> 00:48:55,497 towards a final reckoning. 515 00:48:55,628 --> 00:48:57,195 What we need to do is find out 516 00:48:57,369 --> 00:48:59,023 what the CRM have been doing, 517 00:48:59,197 --> 00:49:01,199 and also destroy the information 518 00:49:01,373 --> 00:49:03,288 that Jadis has by Alexandria. 519 00:49:03,418 --> 00:49:06,204 So there are these two conflicting plot lines 520 00:49:06,334 --> 00:49:08,554 that are happening simultaneously. 521 00:49:08,728 --> 00:49:10,948 The world that we were finding ourselves in 522 00:49:11,078 --> 00:49:12,210 has been hinted at. 523 00:49:12,384 --> 00:49:14,168 We're talking five, six years 524 00:49:14,342 --> 00:49:16,344 of leaving breadcrumbs 525 00:49:16,475 --> 00:49:18,694 to see it all come together like this. 526 00:49:18,825 --> 00:49:21,523 It's incredibly satisfying. It's crazy. 527 00:49:21,697 --> 00:49:22,916 I saved Philadelphia 528 00:49:23,047 --> 00:49:25,788 by sacrificing Pittsburgh. 529 00:49:25,919 --> 00:49:29,183 My enemies, my friends, 530 00:49:29,357 --> 00:49:30,968 my home. 531 00:49:31,098 --> 00:49:33,666 Beale made his own sacrifice. 532 00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:37,278 That, I think, instilled a real pragmatism to Beale, 533 00:49:37,409 --> 00:49:39,759 to do what he had to do to bring the world back. 534 00:49:39,889 --> 00:49:41,326 And this is where we find out 535 00:49:41,456 --> 00:49:43,023 that one man's vision for the future 536 00:49:43,197 --> 00:49:45,112 is despotic and wrong. 537 00:49:45,243 --> 00:49:47,071 What they're about to do at Portland 538 00:49:47,245 --> 00:49:48,986 is to pretty much gas everybody 539 00:49:49,116 --> 00:49:50,988 and most of the children as well. 540 00:49:51,162 --> 00:49:53,164 And it's born out of an idea 541 00:49:53,294 --> 00:49:56,080 that happened in season two with Shane. 542 00:49:56,254 --> 00:49:57,733 I'm sorry. 543 00:49:59,866 --> 00:50:02,173 Basically, it's about pruning the weak. 544 00:50:02,347 --> 00:50:05,219 This is the only way that you survive in this world. 545 00:50:05,350 --> 00:50:07,874 It's not natural selection, it's artificial selection. 546 00:50:08,005 --> 00:50:10,398 I think that the next leader 547 00:50:10,529 --> 00:50:14,054 in the next decade, that might be you. 548 00:50:14,185 --> 00:50:16,970 Beale detects that Rick can't go along with him 549 00:50:17,101 --> 00:50:18,754 before Rick says anything. 550 00:50:21,975 --> 00:50:23,324 We're not dead. 551 00:50:23,498 --> 00:50:24,543 Agh! 552 00:50:24,673 --> 00:50:25,979 You are. 553 00:50:27,981 --> 00:50:32,246 The architect of this appalling dictatorship is dead. 554 00:50:32,420 --> 00:50:35,467 There's a power vacuum now, and Thorne will take it. 555 00:50:35,641 --> 00:50:37,643 Unless Rick deals with this thing. 556 00:50:37,817 --> 00:50:39,427 And then also the front liners, 557 00:50:39,558 --> 00:50:42,300 they have to get rid of this army of 3,000. 558 00:50:42,430 --> 00:50:43,997 We can still get home, but not yet. 559 00:50:44,128 --> 00:50:45,433 We have to stop them. 560 00:50:45,607 --> 00:50:47,174 They both have the same instincts 561 00:50:47,305 --> 00:50:48,523 in that last episode. 562 00:50:48,654 --> 00:50:49,742 They're both, like, 563 00:50:49,916 --> 00:50:51,222 right on par with each other. 564 00:50:51,352 --> 00:50:52,788 If they look to the left or the right, 565 00:50:52,962 --> 00:50:54,268 they're right next to each other. 566 00:50:54,442 --> 00:50:55,791 They just have this compatibility, 567 00:50:55,965 --> 00:50:57,880 and they both fit into this realm 568 00:50:58,011 --> 00:51:00,013 where they are driven in the exact same way 569 00:51:00,144 --> 00:51:01,797 and will go the exact same lengths 570 00:51:01,971 --> 00:51:03,495 that most people would not go. 571 00:51:05,149 --> 00:51:06,454 Hands! 572 00:51:06,628 --> 00:51:08,456 Rick and Thorne 573 00:51:08,587 --> 00:51:10,502 are kind of mirror images of each other. 574 00:51:10,676 --> 00:51:11,938 They've had a similar journey, 575 00:51:12,069 --> 00:51:14,114 but Thorne and Michonne are, 576 00:51:14,288 --> 00:51:16,247 you know, even more mirror images 577 00:51:16,377 --> 00:51:20,077 'cause Thorne gave up, Michonne never gave up. 578 00:51:20,207 --> 00:51:22,296 In a dead world, love is dead. 579 00:51:22,427 --> 00:51:25,343 Maybe in another life they would maybe have been friends. 580 00:51:25,473 --> 00:51:27,693 But in terms of Michonne's state of mind, 581 00:51:27,867 --> 00:51:29,129 Thorne is just a part of something 582 00:51:29,260 --> 00:51:31,871 that Michonne wants removed. 583 00:51:34,178 --> 00:51:37,442 These are two people that were separated by time 584 00:51:37,616 --> 00:51:40,358 and space and circumstance 585 00:51:40,532 --> 00:51:42,925 in a world where it's impossible to go a few miles 586 00:51:43,100 --> 00:51:45,493 without experiencing danger. 587 00:51:45,624 --> 00:51:48,105 And they found each other. 588 00:51:48,235 --> 00:51:50,150 She knew, she said, "I just kept feeling 589 00:51:50,324 --> 00:51:53,458 that you were still out there needing help, needing me." 590 00:51:53,588 --> 00:51:55,547 And he was. That type of connection 591 00:51:55,721 --> 00:51:59,551 that just never died between them is epic. 592 00:51:59,725 --> 00:52:01,770 You're not stuck anywhere. 593 00:52:01,901 --> 00:52:04,556 I'm not stuck either. 594 00:52:04,686 --> 00:52:08,299 We can make this whole damn world ours if we want to. 595 00:52:08,473 --> 00:52:11,519 What Danai and myself and Scott 596 00:52:11,693 --> 00:52:14,131 and all the people involved in the writers room 597 00:52:14,305 --> 00:52:17,830 wanted to do is to give a story that felt complete, 598 00:52:18,004 --> 00:52:19,875 that was heightened, 599 00:52:20,049 --> 00:52:23,749 that each episode felt like its own kind of film. 600 00:52:25,577 --> 00:52:27,361 When I woke up in the hospital bed 601 00:52:27,535 --> 00:52:28,841 all those years ago. 602 00:52:28,971 --> 00:52:30,582 It's one continuous story 603 00:52:30,756 --> 00:52:32,497 that began with a man waking up 604 00:52:32,627 --> 00:52:34,412 three weeks into the apocalypse, 605 00:52:34,586 --> 00:52:38,024 half dead, looking for his family. 606 00:52:38,198 --> 00:52:40,983 And his family obviously became this apocalyptic family, 607 00:52:41,114 --> 00:52:43,595 the people that they collect along the way. 608 00:52:44,944 --> 00:52:46,902 And I wanted the reunion. 609 00:52:52,778 --> 00:52:54,954 And then I love a "Shawshank Redemption" finish, 610 00:52:55,128 --> 00:52:57,609 which is get them together, see the emotion, 611 00:52:57,739 --> 00:53:00,177 and then pull away into a God's eye view. 612 00:53:00,351 --> 00:53:03,702 That last image is the visual expression of them 613 00:53:03,832 --> 00:53:05,834 making the whole world theirs if they want to. 614 00:53:06,008 --> 00:53:07,053 And they did. 615 00:53:07,184 --> 00:53:08,924 I knew it, Dad. 616 00:53:10,448 --> 00:53:12,493 I knew you were still out there.