This may be the end for all of us.
We may not make that bunker.
♪
Josiah: I'm sorry, brother.
Mr. Jones may have got the best of me today...
but there's always tomorrow. [Growls]
If I hear that you've hurt anybody I care about,
I swear to God --
What Morgan? What?
I will come for you, Victor.
Shit in a sandbox.Come on!
Who the hell are you?
Don't ask the pilot any questions.
She's here to help. The less you know, the better.
[Wind whistling]
[Walker growling]
[Gasps]
The hell is this place?
[Door creaks]
Hello?
[Walker growling]
[Grunts] Aw, hell.
[Grunts]
[Gunshot, growling stops]
You're awake.
She's awake!
Sarah.
Wes: Did you just say what I think you said?
[Chuckles]
♪
Luciana: Welcome back.
♪
[Geiger counter clicking]
How long was I out?
Two days.
Al: These readings are off the charts.
What the hell did this thing walk through?
You didn't get anything on you, right?
Mm.
It shouldn't have gotten past the gate.
Unless somebody left it open.
I closed it.
Are -- Are you sure, Daniel?
Yes.
No. I don't think so.
[Speaks Spanish]
Sorry, uh, where are we?
It's called Fort San Vicente.
Least it used to be.
Decommissioned in the '60s,
and then some rich guy bought it,
turned it into a B&B.
How'd I get here?
Last thing I remember, the bombs went kablooey,
the chopper was spinning, and --
The engine overheated.
The pilot had to set it down a few miles short.
The pilot. Yeah. Right.
Who the hell was that, Al?
It's better if you don't know.
You're not the only one she's not telling.
Mm.Wes: It was a pretty rough landing.
You hit your head and got knocked unconscious.
Jacob and I -- we pulled you from the chopper,
then we carried you here.Luciana: Past the dead.
So many dead.
Luci and I stabilized you
and patched you up as best we could,
but Jacob's really been keeping an eye on you.
Yeah.
He's out marking the east boundary now,
but, well, he'll be happy to see you back on your feet.
Where's Wendell? He make it here?
He...
He what? What?
We haven't heard from him since he left the dam.
We've been searching for him,
but the only thing we've found so far is this.
♪
[Scoffs]
What are we sitting here for?
Let's -- Let's go find him.
Hey, Sarah --Al: Hey, hey, hey.
Wes: You don't want to do that.
He's right. It's not safe.
I'd step aside, if you want to keep your teeth.
We already searched the safe zone.
If you go past it,
you will end up like that Cesium-laced corpse.
Cesium?
It's more dangerous out there than we imagined.
Al: The pilot already gave us
just enough courses of Prussian Blue
for a few of us to have a shot at getting out of here.
If you just burn one up --Burn this.
Hey! Sarah, you don't understand!
If you go out there, you will die!
No, you don't understand!
However hard you think you looked,
I will look harder.
♪
He's alive.
And I will find him.
♪
[Birds chirping]
♪
Wen, can you hear me?
♪
I've been trying every channel on this damn radio.
♪
[Gasps]
♪
Hey, Wen, it's me again.
[Gasps]
♪
Wen, if you can hear me, give me a sign.
[Gasps]
♪
If you're out there, Wendell,
I want you to know, I'm still looking.
♪
Alright, bro.
I'll be riding the airwaves again tomorrow.
Over and out, buddy.
[Static]
Man: Somebody there?
Wendell?
Sarah? Is that you?
Who is this? Morgan.
Momo? [Chuckles]
That's what we're calling the baby.
Wh-- Whose baby?
Oh, um, it's a long story.
Morgan, I gotta tell you,
hearing your voice is music to my ears.
Yeah, it's good to hear yours, too.
I thought you were dead.
No, I'm alright. Grace, too.
But what happened to Wendell?
I caught the end of your broadcast.
Yeah, that's what I'm trying to figure out.
Where are you?
You haven't heard from him, have you?
No. We've been holed up in The Pennsylvania.
Where are you?
With Daniel, Luci, Wes, Charlie, Jacob, and Al.
Al? [Chuckles]
Yeah, she saved our keisters.
Tell me where you are. I'll come to you.
I'm at a lookout point.
Uh, a few miles from a spot called Fort San Vicente.
I'd steer clear, though, Morgan.
Uh, things look good in our immediate vicinity,
but we think one of the warheads was a dud.
It's leaking like a sieve somewhere near here.
[Static]
Morgan, you there?
[Static]
Morgan?
♪
Yes. Alright.
Come on.
[Sighs]
Come on, come on!
♪
[Groans, scoffs]
Shit in a sandbox.
[Groans]
[Sighs]
♪
And who might you be?
♪
Someone here?
[Dog barks]Rufus!
[Chuckles] Hey, buddy.
Hey, how'd you get here, huh?
Where's Momo?
Here you go.
[Dog barks]
There you go.
[Walker growling]
♪
[Gun cocks]
Man: Step away from my brother.
♪
Who the hell are you?
What's your brother's head doing in a box
with my friend's name on it?
Your friend's head was meant to be in that box,
not my brother.
Your brother was the psycho who tried to kill Morgan?
His name was Emile.
And Mr. Jones killed him.
I'm sure he deserved it.
What's your beef got to do with me?
Been tracking you for days.
You're the one who's gonna help me find Mr. Jones.
Tough to do when you don't know where he is.
I heard you on the radio.
He's in The Pennsylvania.
Is that a hotel?
Restaurant?[Walker growling]
Whatever it is, you're gonna take me there.
[Growling continues]
[Grunts]
[Growling continues]
♪
[Dog barks]
♪
[Panting]
Sarah: Shoot me if you want, asshole.
I don't rat out my friends to human guillotines.
I'd reconsider it if I were you.And why is that?
Because I'm the only hope you got of finding yourbrother.
How do you know about Wendell?
I told you.
I heard what you said.
I suggest you accept my offer,
unless you want your brother to wind up like mine.
[Walker growling]
You can find him?
I found you, didn't I?
It's more than just blood I share with Emile.
When I need to find somebody, I will stop at nothing,
and I do mean nothing, until I find them.
Morgan Jones in exchange for your brother.
Tell Mr. Jones to meet us outside the rest stop...
...off Exit 74A at dawn tomorrow.
We find Wendell first.
That's what I intend.
I work fast.
What happens to Morgan?
You're asking the wrong question.
You should be asking what's gonna happen to Wendell
if you don't accept my terms.
♪
Morgan, you copy?
♪
[Brakes squeal]
[Engine shuts off]
[Birds chirping]
[Door closes]
What makes you so sure he went this way?
Only place I haven't checked.
If I get exposed,
you're giving me some of those pills you got.
Same goes for Rufus.
Hell no.
I only swiped enough for me and my bro.
I don't even know your name, amigo.
I agreed to help you find your brother.
I didn't agree to die for him.
The name's Josiah.Sarah Rabinowitz.
[Walkers growling]
Well, Sarah Rabinowitz...
...it's time for me to get to work.
[Growling stops]
I don't think you're gonna find him in there.
I will if they ate him.
How long has he been missing?
78 days.
And you still think he's alive?
Wendell's a fighter.
I warn you, if he's dead,
we might not find him.
The dead can cover a mile and half an hour,
up to 36 miles in a day.
If your brother's a dead man walking,
he could be as far as Spokane.
"Dead man walking."
Wen will love that.
He hasn't taken a step in almost 40 years.
Been in a wheelchair since he was a kid.
Well, that there narrows our search radius.
Do you have anything that belongs to him?
Yeah.
[Bag unzips]
[Whistles]
[Dog barks]
Rufus is a cadaver dog.
He can smell the living and the dead.
Attaboy.
Here. Go find.
[Dog barks]
Should we follow?
We'll give these two their proper rest first.
♪
Things would go a helluva lot quicker
if we didn't have to bury
every skinbag we shunked along the way.
Dead should be treated with respect.
Besides, the readings are still safe.
If you respected the dead,
you wouldn't be toting around your brother's head in a box
like a goddamn pet rock.
Don't talk about my brother.
Look, I get it.
Wendell and I -- we're twins, too,
but you got to think about what he would want.
I made him a promise.
He ain't gonna hold you to it.
And I will not bury him until it is kept.
You're so full of shit.
Driving around in a search and rescue SUV,
and all you're looking to do is kill.
Using a dog ain't even yours
to help you do that killing.
You don't know a damn thing about me.
Oh, I know a stone-cold psycho when I see one,
and I see you, asshole.
You so fear the loss of your brother
that you offered me Morgan Jones' life in exchange,
and you got the nerve to stand there and call me crazy.
Not just crazy.
You're a dead man.
What makes you think
you're gonna be able to do what your brother couldn't?
When you've endured what I have,
it makes you capable of things you never thought possible.
[Dog barks]
Man: Come on, now! Get out!
[Barking continues]
Get! I said get!
[Barking continues]Get out of here!
[Walkers growling]
[Barking continues]
[Gunshots]
Don't move!
Hang on, now! I didn't do nothing.
You put my dog in danger.
For that alone, I should kill you.
Hecame at me.
And I intend to find out why.
Mask off.
No way.Readings are clean.
And I'm not asking.
[Walkers growling]
What have you got in there?
More.
Like them.
[Growling continues]
Any of these Wendell?
Mnh-mnh.
What the hell are you doing with 'em?
What happened to their clothes?
I'm just supposed to spread them around.
Why?
If Rufus wasn't interested in them,
he must've been interested in you.
Strip.
Just like you do to them.
Whoa, whoa.
He's hiding something.Maybe, but --
Do you want to find your brother or not?
Strip.
Now!
♪
[Dog barks]
♪
You recognize this?
It's got Wendell's scent on it.
♪
Show us where you found it.
[Walkers growling]
Josiah: This is what you do?
Herd them, strip them of all their worldly possessions?
Man: Something like that.
You're a real twisted piece of shit, you know that?
He's not here.
What?
♪
Sarah: His chair.
♪
That's his chair.
♪
Where is he? Who?
The man who was in that chair.
The skinbag who was tangled in it?
Eh, he was no use to me.
He's probably crawling somewhere around here,
if you want to look.
[Growling continues]
Stop him!
♪
Hey! No!
[Growling continues]
We need to get out of here.
Move!
♪
Sarah? You copy?
I'm on my way to the rendezvous.[Engine starts]
Tell me what this is about.
Are you okay?
[Growling continues]
♪
Sarah, do you copy?
Will you please tell me what the hell is going on?
♪
What the hell are you doing?!
[Engine revs]
Have you lost your mind?!
We had a deal.
I kept up my end.
He's dead.
You know it. I know it.
We're done!
[Tires screech]
♪
[High-pitched ringing]
[Gasping]
[Geiger counter clicking]
[Walkers growling]
Shit.
What?
That.
That God damn warhead.
♪
[Door handle rattling]
We gotta get out of here.
[Breathing heavily]
♪
[Growling continues]
Where the hell's my mask?
You have asthma? No.
Do your ribs hurt? Maybe you punctured a lung.
I didn't puncture shit!
Well, then, maybe you're just having a panic attack.
Breathe.
We are 50 feet from an open warhead,
and I just found out my brother died.
If your brother was dead,
you wouldn't have gone looking for him in the first place.
[Gasping]
[Sighs]
[Growling continues]
We will get out of here.
I promise.
It's what I do.
Or what I used to do.
The hell are you talking about?
I was a park ranger.
Search and rescue, for 15 years.
It's only a matter of time before more dead show up.
We're not gonna be able to do this on our own.
You gotta call Morgan.
Why? So you can put his head in a box?
'Cause we'll both die.
Well, then, you call somebody.
All that time,
I only ever had to be rescued once myself.
I can't call them now,
'cause they're in this SUV.
Bet it had nothing on this.
[Sighs]
♪
Emile and I were out -- searching for some hikers
that had got trapped in a forest fire.
I twisted my ankle.
Wound up in the heart of the burn zone.
I didn't think there was any way in hell
I was gonna get out of there alive.
The other rangers,
they said that it was too dangerous, too late.
Emile -- he wouldn't listen to them.
He was determined.
Still, no matter how hard he fought,
how hard he looked, [Chuckles]
he just kept getting trapped in the smoke.
[Growling continues]
We both did.
How'd he find you? He didn't.
It was Rufus.
♪
Later on, he told me
he knew I was alive the whole time.
He said he could feel my heart beating across the woods,
and I thought it was a bunch of bull when I heard it.
'Til the day that I felt mine stop.
And I knew he was gone.
♪
I didn't need to see it.
I just knew.
Maybe sounds crazy to you, huh?
That's what you meant when you said
I wouldn't be looking for him if he was dead.
You'd feel it.
You'd know it.
We can still find him.
♪
Morgan, you there?
[Sighs]
Morgan, I'm in a little bit of trouble.
About a mile south of the rendezvous.
[Growling continues]
Morgan, did you hear me?
♪
You ready to honor our deal?
♪
We're gonna keep looking for Wendell,
but you ain't gonna kill Morgan.
And why is that?
Because you're not a killer.
You're just all mixed up because of your bro.
Just like I was...
when I saw Wendell's chair.
♪
That wasn't me back there
leaving you to die like I did.
And this ain't you.
♪
Morgan, did you hear me?
It's pretty safe to say that thing ain't working.
[Growling intensifies]
More of them.
♪
It's time to take our chance.
♪
[Dog barks]
♪
[Grunts]
♪
Morgan!
I killed you.
I cut your head off.
Morgan Jones.
♪
Sarah: Josiah, no![Grunts]
♪
Hey!
I'm here!
[Grunts]
Waited a long time for this.
♪
Josiah, you're not a killer!
I'm not gonna kill you.
My brother is.
[Walker growling]
I made you a promise,
and now I can finally keep it.
♪
[Dog barks]
♪
[Dog whimpers]
No.
[Sobbing]
♪
What have I done?
♪
[Dog whimpering]
How's he doing?
He's hurting pretty bad.
Beans are his favorite.
I thought they might bring him some peace.
I am so sorry, Josiah.
Youdidn't do this.
Idid.
He doesn't deserve this.
He shouldn't have to suffer for my mistakes.
He's a good dog.
He saved my life, twice now.
[Voice breaking] Now I have to take his.
[Dog whines]
I thought I was doing the right thing,
thought I was keeping a promise.
I thought it was about Emile.
The whole time, it was about me.
I didn't want to let him go.
[Dog whining]
Sarah: I get it.
Wendell and I --
we're not exactly twins, in the conventional terms.
I was born premature,
and my mom died having me.
They put me in the NICU
'cause I was having trouble breathing on my own.
Every time they tried to take the tubes out,
I just stopped sucking in oxygen.
♪
But every time they put my incubator
next to the other baby that was born that day,
I started breathing.
[Chuckles]
That's Wendell, huh?
♪
I took my cue to breathe from him.
I know why you didn't want to let your brother go,
'cause every moment that I am without mine...
I feel like I can't catch my breath.
[Sighs]
[Dog whining]
♪
I'm sorry about my brother Emile coming after you like that.
He wasn't always like that.
None of us were.
We should get on the road.
Where we headed?
Wendell doesn't have his chair.
He would've needed help from somebody.
And you know who mighta helped Wendell?
Victor?
He's alive. He's got a place.
He's collecting people. Our people.
Thinks he's got something to prove to me.
If he found Wendell out here,
there's every chance that's where he is.
We leave now, we'll make it by dawn.
I'd like to come with you.
I can still hold up my end of the deal,
make sure you see your brother again.
♪
That okay with you, Momo?
♪
Yeah.Yeah.
Where we're going,
we're gonna need all the help we can get.
♪
[Walkers growling]
♪
That's it?
Yep. That is it.
[Growling continues]
Hoo doctor.
♪
Safe to say Vic still enjoys the smell of his own farts.
And he's already got June and John's dad in there.
Let's see if he's got Wendell with 'em.
C'mon, Vic.
Answer the phone.
[Gun cocks]
♪
Not until you tell us why you're here.
♪
Victor's too much of a coward to come down here himself?
Strand: [Laughs]
It's okay, Howard.
I'd rather have this conversation face-to-face
to dispel any misconceptions our friends may have.
♪
We saw you coming from miles away.
[Chuckles]
You bringing strays to my doorstep now?
Finally realize you can't offer them what I can?
Well, this isn't about me, Victor. Oh.
Wendell -- is he in the tower with you?
Why would you assume he was here?
Morgan: Because of what you said.
What you were gonna do.
♪
[Sighs]
Your instincts...
are correct. Wendell is indeed here.
♪
Is he okay?More than okay.
He's thriving.
Wendell has a real knack
for supply logistics and management.
[Chuckles]
Must be from his days
of keeping you on the road.
I need to see him.
I remember who stood by me when it mattered.
You weren't among them.
She went through hell to get here.
Nearly died trying to find him.
♪
She's not going in. None of you are.
If you want to see your brother, I'll tell him to come out.
But I'm warning you, it's not a revolving door.
Once he's out, there's no going back in.
The hell is that supposed to mean?
Your friend here just said it.
You almost died getting here.
You think your journey back to wherever you came from
will be any less fraught?
We'll manage.Like Wendell did?
Or like Morgan at the submarine?
Or didn't he tell you?
Perhaps he didn't want you to know
how dire his own circumstances are.That's enough.
He, Grace, and that baby are barely scraping by.
It's true. I saw it for myself.
♪
What are they talking about, Momo?
♪
Strand: [Chuckles]
This new world -- it's punishing.
You really want what's best for Wendell?
♪
Protect him from it.
♪
Don't tell him I was here.
If Wendell knew, he'd come looking for me.
You're in no position to be making any --Sarah: Please.
♪
Promise me that.
♪
Agreed.
♪
[Gasps]
[Crying]
Sarah.
Hey. Sarah.
Breathe. With me.
Come on. One, two, three, four.
Nice and easy. Breathe.
I didn't want -- I didn't want to let him to go.
I know. But you did the right thing.
You did what I couldn't.
♪
And look...
you're still breathing.
♪
Yeah.
♪
Yeah, I am.
Thank you.
No. Thank you.
♪
Both of you.
♪
Where are you going?
[Sighs]
I don't completely know,
but there's got to be other places out there.
You can come back with me.
Both of you could.
But Vic said that --
Yeah, what he said was right.
We're strapped. We are.
We're stretched thin.
But we won't always be.
So --
But the warhead -- I was exposed for too long.
You don't want a sick man on your hands.
You're not gonna get sick.
♪
Saving that for Wendell,
but now that I know he's safe...
[Sighs]
Thank you.
♪
What you all have --
I...still need some time before I'm ready.
♪
When you change your mind,
you know how to reach us.
[Both chuckle]
♪
[Sighs]
The others back at the fort,
they're gonna wonder what happened to me.
Well, they won't have to wonder long.
Can't be safe with an open warhead that close.
We're gonna get everybody back, Sarah.
And then we're gonna get ready
for whatever happens next, right?
♪
Why aren't you out dispersing them?
I found something.
I need to show it to Arno.It can wait.
It can't. He's going to want to see this himself.What is it?
The thing that's going to get us exactly what we want.
♪
[Horse neighs]Is that...
The Dark Horses?
Strand: It's a new world now.
At least allow me the pleasure of showing you around.
We're gonna find Padre.
[Walkers growling]
Come on.
♪
Sherry! Hey!
♪
[Gunshot echoes]
[Grunts]
[Laughing]
♪
Goldberg: We didn't want people to know where Sarah was
when we came into this episode.
The last time we saw her, she was getting on
a CRM-branded helicopter at the end of Season 6,
flying off to we didn't know where.
So we wanted to preserve the mystery
as long as we could of where she wound up,
what she's been up to.
And there's a lot of fun in that opening sequence,
seeing her walk around this strange place,
which we pretty quickly realize isn't the tower and figure out
just where she wound up and who she wound up with.
Sarah learns a lot of things when she starts to talk
to everyone else in the group.
She learns that they're at this kind of historic fort
that had been converted into an Airbnb
shortly before the apocalypse.
It's in the safe zone, so they are not as vulnerable
to the ravages of the nuclear apocalypse
as some of the other characters we've seen in previous episodes.
But the one thing that we do know is that in their scouting,
they have learned about an undetonated warhead,
a dud that's out there, that is leaking radiation.
And really the most devastating thing that she learns
is that Wendell never made it.
He's been missing for a long time,
and that just sets Sarah back on her heels
because Wendell is the person
who means more to her than anything.
What are we sitting here for? Let's -- Let's go find him.
-Hey, Sarah. -Hey, hey, hey.
-Okay. -You don't want to do that.
-He's right. It's not safe. -Step aside
if you want to keep your teeth.
When faced with the loss of Wendell,
Sarah goes to some places that
we have never seen her go before.
However hard you think you looked,
I will look harder.
And I will find him.
Ultimately, her encounter with Josiah
is going to really put that into perspective for her,
because that is a story about someone
who has drastically changed
because of the loss of their twin brother.
Brother Psycho tried to kill Morgan.
His name was Emile.
You're the one who's going to help me find Mr. Jones
in exchange for your brother.
I think there's part of Sarah
that is trying to figure out Josiah.
She's trying to appeal to his humanity
and also just trying to get to the bottom
of who is this guy that would be
carrying around his brother's severed head in a box.
She's trying to figure out how did he go from whatever
he was before to this killer that he's become now.
And ultimately, for Sarah in the episode, it's realizing that
while she sees him as crazy and unhinged
at the beginning of their relationship,
when faced with the loss of Wendell herself,
she realizes she's not that far off from what Josiah has become.
We wanted the moment when Sarah saw Wendell's wheelchair
to really feel like that was the end.
And we wanted to, more importantly,
see what that would do for Sarah,
how she would take action as a result.
And I think what we see there is that she ditches Josiah
and is going to leave him there to die,
which is something that Sarah would not have done before.
But she feels like
now that Wendell's not around, what does it matter?
We're done!
♪
The moment when Josiah and Sarah are stranded down
in that ravine together
after the car crashes is a real moment of connection
for both of them and their relationship
because from Josiah's perspective,
seeing Sarah struggle to breathe,
thinking that Wendell is dead,
it triggers Josiah's own feelings
of his relationship with his brother,
and it forces a connection from him
saying that "If your brother was dead,
you wouldn't be out here looking for him. You'd know it."
And it doesn't mean that Josiah is in a place
where he's ready to stand down from his revenge for Morgan yet.
But you can see these characters
starting to form a bond together
that's ultimately going to help them both pull back
from the edge of their own worst instincts.
You ready to honor our deal?
We're going to keep looking for Wendell,
but you ain't going to kill Morgan.
And why is that?
Because you're not a killer.
While Josiah lost his brother, Emile,
there is someone that's still around
that he has a real connection to, and that's Rufus.
And it's the moment when Rufus is bit by Emile's own head
that it sort of knocks Josiah back and he realizes,
"My God, what have I done?
In my quest for revenge
and not being able to say goodbye to my brother,
I've now cost myself my dog that I love,"
and it sort of wakes and shakes Josiah up out of this
just obsession that he's been in about revenge
and he realizes the cost of it.
I'm sorry about my brother Emile coming after you like that.
He wasn't always like that.None of us were.
Goldberg: I think Morgan sees a great change in Josiah there,
and Morgan also understands from his own experiences
what grief can do to you.
Wendell doesn't have his chair.
He would have needed help from somebody.
You know who might have helped Wendell?
Victor. He's alive.
This is a very loaded moment for Strand
when he sees Morgan face to face.
What we're seeing is just him doubling down
on what we saw him do in the premiere episode this season,
which is he is not allowing personal connections
to get in the way of what he's built,
and he's remembering who stood with him and who didn't.
And he doesn't see Sarah as enough of a loyalist
to let her into the tower.
He's extremely pragmatic and even a bit cruel.
But we also see that he hasn't become a monster.
There is still part of him that,
while he's not going to let Sarah into the tower,
he also does agree to not tell Wendell that Sarah is out there
because it's the way to sort of honor
Sarah's wish that her brother stay safe.
Morgan: We're gonna get everybody back, Sarah.
And then we're going to get ready
for whatever happens next, right?
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