Previously on "The Walking Dead: World Beyond"...
Omaha and the Campus Colony are gone.What?
Will: I kicked the hornets' nest, asked too many questions.
All I know is they want me dead.
Huck: What about the others? You said you found one.
Elizabeth: We believe it's Silas Plaskett.
What is this place?The Perimeter.
This is the head of the council that runs this place.
Indira.
I was very happy to get your call.
You were right.
I wasn't gonna make it alone.
[Crying]
[Grunts]
That's what you get.
Iris: [Breathing heavily]
That's what you get.
[Grunts]
[High-pitched ringing, heavy breathing]
♪
What are you -- Hey! I picked up your trail.
Are you all right?
You hurt?
He was going to find me.
We gotta get outta here.
Wait. They'll find him like this.
Oh, shit. Go. Let's go.
♪
[Grunts]
♪
[Leaves rustle, twigs snap]
[Walker growling]
♪
Hear it?
♪
[Chatter, walkers growling]
They heard us.
We can't let them hit the ground.
♪
[Grunting]
♪
Here's my knife! You gotta do it!
♪
Do it!
[Growling stops]
[Sighs]
Man: Gamma 5, Gamma 5, this is base team.
Way is clear to marker 6.
Felix: Stay down.
...north to northwest, over.
Gamma 5, copy.
♪
Should I even ask her questions, or...?
just let her tell me when she's ready?
Who knows what she saw out there,
what she had to do.
And then to find out what happened to everybody back home,
it's just...
I can't...But...
she'll be here.
That's what's important.
♪
And Iris...
They know where she is, right?
By this time tomorrow,
they'll have her and Felix back here, too.
Safe.
Just like Hope.
What time is it?
I know.
It's late. I should probably...
It's just, I -- I need to get the other room ready.
It's okay.
I -- I do want them to know about this.
Just when the time is something...
closer to right.
The time will be "something close to right" soon.
♪
What?
I just can't stop thinking if...
I hadn't mentioned her to Sergeant Mills...
It's not exactly classified information.
Still, I...
should've known.
No useful data here goes to waste.
Okay.
Maybe, um...
Maybe we need to be scientific about this.
[Chuckles]
You know, if we allow for
secondary interpretations of data
viewed from a more holistic vantage point...
your indiscretion saved my daughters' lives.
If they hadn't left home when they did...
You're being kind.I'm being honest.
♪
I'll see you tomorrow. Okay.
♪
Leo: Make a wish.
Here's some protein.
Dad, Dad! I turned 17.
I didn't become a weightlifter.
Sorry. It's...
just, the thought of you being hungry --
I wasn't.
Okay? Felix took really good care of us.
I could go without seeing another can of beans
for the rest of my life, but...
We were luckier than most.
Did you... [Sighs]
Were you ever in any kind of danger?
Would it be okay if we just didn't talk about it?
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
♪
Honestly?
The hardest thing about being out there
was worrying about you.
♪
[Voice breaking] Not knowing if you were hurt.
♪
But seeing you okay,
it makes it all worth it.
♪
Just wish I knew if Iris and Felix were okay, too.
They are.
We toughened up a lot out there, you know?
You should see Iris.
She's gotten pretty good at killing 'em.
Empties, I mean.
♪
The CR's military...
They approach everything with an ice-cold pragmatism
that I was never on board with.
But I had no idea --Dad, Dad...
You don't have to explain.
No.
I do.
See, even though I'd always been careful not to push you,
so you could choose your own path...
there was always a part of me that hoped someday
you'd choose mine.
♪
And now here you are, with me,
in the exact same place,
without any choices at all.
♪
[Chuckles]
So we just have to go along with it?
♪
I don't know.
♪
What about the one in the jacket?
Right here? Mm-hmm.
It's the right height.
He's a little thin, but maybe --A little?
He's practically dust.
We gotta keep looking.
[Walkers growling]
I got this.
[Growling echoes]
[High-pitched ringing]
[Knife plunges, growling stops]
[Body thuds]
[Walkers growling]
Hey. You good?
Yeah, I'm fine.
There's a gully a mile north.
Dumdums sometimes build up there.
Yeah, but even if we get lucky, we'd still have to --
If you've got a better idea, I'd love to hear it.
[Sighs] Okay.
You told us coming out here was dangerous.
I -- I get it.
If I were you, I'd be mad, too.
So why did you?
Yeah.
Why did you?
I don't think it was empties.
The CRM, they killed Romano.
They tried to kill Will.
They were willing to kill all of us.
So why not everybody back home?
Or Omaha?Wait.
You think that the CRM was behind all of this?
Why else would they cover it up?
I don't know.
But we're talking a hundred thousand people here.
And you're saying, what --
they wanted all of us just dead?
Why?
We weren't a threat.
Maybe we had something they wanted.
They wanted Hope.
You saw how far they went to take her.
♪
I'd be lying if I said it hadn't crossed my mind, too.
[Sighs]
[Growling continues]
Hold up.
I think we got a winner.
[Walker growling]
Only needs to work from a distance.
You two go grab the soldier.
I'll take him.
We'll meet at the drop-off.
Hey.
It'll work.
♪
Come on.
[The Allman Brothers Band's "Trouble No More" plays]
♪
♪ Don't care how long you go♪
♪ I don't care how long you stay♪
♪ It's good kind treatment♪
♪ Bring you home someday♪
♪ Someday, baby♪
Tell me your name.
Uh, Silas.
Plaskett.
♪
What's yours?
♪ Now, you keep on bettin'♪
♪ That the dice won't pass♪
Dennis.
They find you alone?
Uh...
Yeah.
♪
We still in New York?
♪ I'll tell everybody♪
If you try for the knife,
I'll stop you, and you'll go to prison.
Probably for a long, long time.
♪ You're a kind little woman♪
♪ But you don't do me no good♪
You gonna tell me where we're going, or...?
♪ But someday baby, you ain't gonna trouble♪
♪
[Walker growling]
[Growling stops, body thuds]
One less to worry about.
♪
We're here.
♪ Oh, yeah
♪ Oh, yeah, baby
♪
Man: Lieutenant Colonel.
Dr. Bennett is asking to see you.
Yeah, send him in.
[Drawer opens]
[Radio chatter]
Dr. Bennett, how are you doing?
How's Hope settling in?
Well, she found out
everyone she knew back home was killed
after she was tricked into coming here, so...
With respect, there won't be any "settling in"
until her sister and Felix are brought to safety.
Understandably.
It's why bringing them in is our top priority.
I want to join the team that's going to get them.
They should be met by a familiar face,
not a bunch of helmets.
[Chuckles] Unfortunately, that's not going to be possible.
The extraction team already left.
I dispatched them as soon as I heard.
I will update you personally, Dr. Bennett --
Like you've updated me on my security detail?
Oh.
Um, I'm sorry.
Air reconnaissance showed a large column
passing through their area, and it delayed their return.
Like the others, I'm sure they'll get here
safe and sound before you know it.
Your daughters' journey must have come as a shock.
You've manipulated them into traveling over a thousand miles,
completely unprotected.
[Chuckles] Staff Sergeant Mallick
is more than capable of dealing with any threat.
Oh, right. "Huck."
Your mole.
That's how much my daughters' safety meant to you.
You sent one soldier.
That, uh --
That one soldier means more to me than 1 million.
Jennifer Mallick is my daughter.
[Scoffs]
I want the rest of my family here.
Tonight.
Or I'm done working for you.
You don't work for me, Dr. Bennett.
Your efforts are for the Civic Republic,
as are mine.
We protect the CR, and we secure resources.
Your daughter is one such resource.
When we opted to deliver her here, to you,
it was on condition she change.
We knew that you'd discover that,
and we knew that she would, too.
She was raised behind walls.
I needed her to experience and see the world as it is
in order for her to understand the stakes
and to see her role, and we were willing to do that
even if it meant you forgetting yours.
We wouldn't enter into a plan like this
without running a full psychological profile
on both you and her.
We knew, however angry you would be
and however betrayed you'd feel,
you would still keep working towards
what was most important --
building an apparatus of knowledge
and research to save humanity.
♪
Nothing's more important to me than my family.
Oh, of course.
So you repeatedly told them
in the transmissions that we intercepted.
But you left them, didn't you?
You broke our laws, Dr. Bennett.
You put them at risk.
We were the ones who chose to look away.
What was it you said?
It was an error in judgment?
Word of advice -- I wouldn't make any more.
♪
You're excused.
[Pen scratching]
♪
Any update on our missing soldier?
Six teams have been scouring all morning.
Still nothing.
And what about the missing member
of Dr. Bennett's security detail?
Trail's gone cold.
♪
You think there's a connection?
Ready a transport.
♪
[Indistinct conversations]
♪
Okay, sounds good.
♪
Young woman: That's her, right?
♪
Hope, hi.
Sorry. [Chuckles]
I -- I saw you sitting there,
and I recognized you from the photo on your dad's desk.
The one where you're wearing a satin gown with combat boots?
Oh. Right.
Yeah, winter formal.
Um, I'm Lyla, a colleague of his.
Uh, I know your dad was supposed to meet you,
but he's waiting on an update on your sister.
I was thinking I could give you a tour?
♪
[Scanner beeps]
Or we could do it some other time if that's better.
♪
No, no. It's -- It's cool.
Show me everything.
[Chuckles]
[Door creaks]
Put this on.
♪
[Walker growling]
♪
Keep moving.
♪
[Walker growling]
[Growling stops]
[Whistles]
♪
Webb.
Report.
Reeled in a B-Oh-Four, sir.
Dead battery.
Put him in Two.
Just finishing up the stage-sixers,
then it's clean-up and load-up.
Should be done by 1800.
Right on schedule.Good.
No turned unstoned, yeah?
Dude...What?
It -- It was clever.Really wasn't.
Webb, Tiga, Grady, this is Plaskett.
Plaskett is joining us here in decontamination.
You're all responsible for training him
and setting him up with gear.
[Walker growling]
Kill it.
Stab and twist.
♪
[Growling stops]
And I want a count of those damaged killsticks
on my desk before sundown.
Yes, sir.
Back to work.
"No turned unstoned"?
Get outta here with that shit.
TCFT -- Too clever for Tiga.
[Walkers growling, spears plunging]
So what was this place before?
Before the world turned?
It was a government-funded educational research lab.
It housed experiments
in dark matter and neutrino physics.
And before that, it was an old diamond mine.
The shafts and rock stability were ideal for experiments
that required shielding from the sun's cosmic radiation.
And now...[Scanner beeps]
...we are using the labs for our own purposes.
Come on. I'll show you.
Down here, we're laying the foundation
to one day find out why the world turned.
So you're trying to find a cure.
Pinpointing what inside us makes us turn --
whether it be fungal, bacterial, viral,
or something else entirely --
sure, that's one part of it.
But it's also about finding a way
to get rid of the ones who have already turned.
By investigating and hopefully discovering
what keeps the dead animated,
what inside them slows their decomposition rates
and feeds their appetite,
we hope to one day turn off those triggers,
eliminate the dead as a threat,
and eradicate them from the earth.
You think that's possible?
Wouldn't be here if I didn't.
Don't you?
Just sounds a little far-fetched.
It's definitely a big-picture approach.
We teach you everything you need to know,
and as you research and investigate...
you teach, and pass on that knowledge
to the next generation, and so on.
So I just turned 17,
and you already have my whole life planned out?
We also select all your meals
for optimal nutrition as you age
and have tests to help you find your ideal genetic mate.
♪
[Chuckles] [Chuckles]
Sorry.
I couldn't resist.
Your dad's office is right up there.
Hi. Hey.
Oh, right.
Those were the forms for the discrepancies.
I'll look them over first thing in the morning.
I'm almost positive it was just a data-entry error,
but I want to double-check just to make sure.
Thank you.Okay.
Hey, is it cool if I meet you there?
I think I saw a bathroom with four walls,
and that's a pretty hard thing to pass up.
Your dad's lab is right through this door,
to the right, all the way at the end.
[Door closes]
♪
Young man: Need some help?
Um, yeah.
Yeah, I'm just looking for the bathroom.
For... Authorized Personnel Only?
Yeah.
Well, everyone knows that the best bathrooms
are for authorized personnel only.
Right. Yeah.
No, I must've known and forgot that I knew.
Because that is definitely not a fake thing
that you are making up right now.
I'm Mason.
You're the new girl, right?
The one who got flown in yesterday?
Yeah. How did you know that?
It's a pretty small place.
Right.
I'm sorry about what happened in Omaha.
That's why we're wearing the armbands.
Hey, if you're really curious about what's in there,
allow me.
[Sighs]
This needed a warning sign?
Yeah, they take their shit pretty seriously here.
They don't want people, uh,
helping themselves without permission.
But I'm happy to break the rules for you
if there's something you want.
♪
I want a mop.
♪
Mm-hmm.
♪
Okay, stop.
No, I'm screwing with you.
Wh-Why would I want a mop?
I don't know. [Chuckles]
I just wanted to see if you would do it.
Okay. You did it.
♪
Well, hey, um, uh, I was gonna meet my study group later,
but I'm happy to show you around.
I'm actually already in the middle of a tour, so...
Do you mind if I ask your name?
You said it's a pretty small place,
which means you probably already know that.
♪
I'll see you around, Hope.
♪
Brody: They can't be trusted.
She killed a CRM soldier with one of our weapons.
He's wanted by the CRM.
They've put us all at risk.
We have a plan, and it'll fix that.
We're asking you to give us a chance to make this right.
They can't stay with us.
It's too dangerous.
Especially since they haven't been forthcoming.
You went through my stuff?
It's got the location of CRM supply drops, fuel depots...
If they find out we have --They won't.
If our plan works, it won't just take some heat off me,
it'll help protect all of you.
We're just asking you to let us stay.
[Wind chimes clanging]
You have to hide. Now!
Shit.
They only want me.
Come on.
Oh, wait. My code books!
Go!
♪
If we don't hand them over, you know what we could lose.
And that's not what we're about.
Not a word.
♪
[Engines shut off, doors slam]
[Radio chatter]
Lieutenant Colonel.
This is a surprise.
Indira, sorry to come unannounced.
Although I'm sure your lookouts gave you ample warning.
[Chuckles]
Well, you're always welcome anytime.
Thanks.
I only wish this was a social visit.
Well, how can we assist you, Lieutenant Colonel?
I'm here because we're looking into something.
Is that one of yours?
It is.
Oh, wow.
It's beautiful.
[Wind whistling, papers rustling]
Mm, I still have the one you did of Jennifer.
♪
I love it.
How is your daughter?
We haven't seen her in --
I... What's it been?
Two years? Mm.
♪
Is she still on assignment?
She's just returned home.
Yeah, it's good to have her back.Oh.
♪
Oh, it's so much responsibility, isn't it?
Having so many people entrust their well-being
and their survival with you.
I'm here because of a security issue.
One of my soldiers went missing last night.
Not far from here.
♪
Well, you're not thinking that one of my men --
Oh, no, no, no. Of course not.
I can't imagine anybody here would endanger our agreement.
No, we think it's someone at the facility
who's giving us a bit of bother.
♪
Well, we haven't seen any new faces.
I noticed your wall had some damage.
I think, for your own security,
I should probably have my soldiers search the village
just to make sure that no one slipped in unnoticed.
No, no, no, that's not necessary.
The wall's been fixed, and our lookouts do a fine job.
[Chuckles] They do. Of course they do.
You can never be too careful.
♪
[Radio chatter]
♪
These are so lovely.
♪
Mm.
This one's new.
Oh, look at the detail.
♪
[Static]
Man: Lieutenant Colonel, come in.
[Radio beeps]
Go on.
We have eyes on four-nine-six,
grid three, Watkins Glen.
Copy that. I'm en route.
Out.
Looks like we've located our missing soldier.
I'm so sorry for the intrusion, Indira.
I hope that next time,
I'll have an opportunity to talk more.
I'm sure we will.
[Radio chatter]
♪
Hey.
I was thinking it would be good if your dad filled you in
on what he's been up to here.
So, where is my dad?
Um, I'm not sure. [Chuckles]
But I-I know he really wanted --
I know, he probably really wanted to be here, yeah.
I -- I happen to know he loves you very much.
It's just, he...
he doesn't have a choice except to work this hard.
He's -- He's doing it for --
Yeah, for me, my sister, the future...
I already know.
[Inhales sharply]
I've met...
so many parents who feel helpless now.
They...
want to make their own children's lives better.
They want to do something to fight this.
But they can't.
They don't have the knowledge.
Just the desire.
They're, um...
relying on people like your father to do what they can't.
Can you imagine what being under that kind of pressure
must feel like?
Hey.
Even though your dad's not here,
he can still fill you in.
Uh, can you hit the lights?
[Lightswitch clicks]
Greetings to our partners in the Civic Republic.
It's my pleasure to update you
on the progress we've been making here at the facility.
[Walker growling] Last spring,
we took the biorecorder we've been developing
and fused it to the brain stem of a dead one.
Despite some glitches we're still working out,
it's given us the ability to record and transmit
the dead's biological responses to environmental stimuli
and provided us valuable tracking data
that'll help us approximate and predict behavior.
We'd tried for years,
but your father cracked it in two months.
[Chuckles]
His mind is truly something else.
The program, while still in its infancy,
has already allowed us to collect
troves of information --
small variations in brain chemistry,
variations in speed, implying pursuit behaviors,
the effect of weather on movement and awareness --
massive amounts of data
that will open the doors to further avenues of research.
One of these avenues I've been exploring personally --
infecting the dead with strains of fungi
that grow on necrotic flesh.
It's conceivable if we can modify an existing fungus,
then we can one day accelerate the dead's rate of decay,
virtually neutralizing them as an active, mobile threat.
And now we'll handle things over to Dr. Ellis
to talk about the progress he's been making
in the field of...
Evidence points to a struggle, which led to this.
You're sure it's them?
We can deploy a recovery team to examine the --
The bodies look likely to wash away before they get here.
But we should try.
Let's limit this to authorized CRM personnel.
Dr. Bennett doesn't need more bad news tonight.
♪
[Sniffles]
♪
[Knock on door]
♪
Sorry. I've...
been meaning to straighten up in here.
[Chuckles] Dad, it's okay.
All your stuff everywhere, it kinda feels like home.
♪
I've been out trying to get an update on Iris and Felix,
and, to be honest,
I was trying to clear my head.
♪
Lyla said she gave you a tour.
What'd you think? H-Honestly?
I -- I thought there'd be a lot more guard towers
and attack dogs. [Chuckles]
Yeah.
Oh.
Were you asking about your girlfriend?
Uh...
uh...
She told you?
She didn't have to.
I saw her stuff in your bathroom,
and she called you "brilliant" like 89 times.
Yeah, well...
She's all right. And...
if your work is important to you,
then it's important to me, too.
[Scoffs] It is, but...
But what?
♪
Iris and Felix.
They weren't at the retirement home.
The CRM is searching the area,
but they haven't found them.
You and Huck took the truck,
and you said that Felix could barely walk, so...
No, i-if they felt like they should move,
Felix would move.
♪
You sure there isn't something you're leaving out?
♪
Whatever it is, I need you to be honest with me.
♪
Hope...
what the hell's going on?
♪
[Walker growling]
[Growling stops]
[Walker growling]
Thanks.
I, um...
I still -- I-I don't understand.
What happens here?
Few times a week,
we lure the dead in with lights and music,
blow 'em up, then we clean 'em up.
So where -- where do the parts go?
Resort in the Cayman Islands.
[Chuckles] Uh, we take them off-site.
We got trucks.
♪
Plaskett.
Leave that.
Follow me.
♪
So, when the CRM finds people out there,
do they always send 'em here?
No.
What, so the others, like Grady and Tiga and --
They signed on.
They want to be a part of something bigger.
This?
♪
You know, this place was the first of its kind?
♪
Now there are six others spread across the state,
only bigger.
Stadiums, arenas,
all operated by trained military personnel,
all playing a role in an experiment in mass culling.
♪
And if the modeling's right...
we can clear out the state
while the measures keep more from coming in,
we can gain a foothold.
We can start to bring back what this place had in energy,
agriculture, commerce.
This?
♪
This is a training ground for that.
♪
That's what we're doing here.
Starting over.
♪
And is that what you're doing here?
♪
I'm a mechanic.
Trucks, choppers...
♪
Train the others, I fix what's broke.
♪
That trailer on the end, that's yours.
I'll be back in the morning. Until then, Webb's in charge.
Wait. You're leaving?
Where's he going?
RF.
He's gonna drop off a dead one.
RF?
RF, like --CR's Research Facility.
Yeah.
I'm gonna get there one day,
maybe as a guard.
But that place can change everything.
Yo, man, why you asking?
Know someone there?
Yeah, secret lady friend, perhaps?
Tiga: Maybe him and Dennis got that in common.
♪
[Walker growling]
♪
[Keys jingle]
[Engine starts]
♪
You haven't said much about what happened.
You doing okay?
Yeah.
[Chuckles]
It worked out.
We took some of the heat off of Will,
Indira's letting us stay...
When I was in that room,
I wasn't worried about us getting caught
or about this place getting torn apart because of us.
I -- I was scared
that I wouldn't get a chance to hit them back.
Hey.
You sure you're ready for this?
Hmm?
Killing that soldier...
I thought I was numb.
But I wasn't.
I was angry.
This is war.
Even if they don't know it yet.
♪
Yes, it is.
Come on.
And until we can figure out a way to hit them back...
well, at least we can hit something.
[Walkers growling]
♪
[Walker growling]
Lyla: Yes, Hope seems to be coming around.
Which is good, because we might need her help
to bring her father around.
He will.
He's anxious about his other daughter, but we'll find her.
I-It's not just that.
The whole, uh...
manipulation to get Hope here,
it's eroded some of his...
enthusiasm towards the CRM,
towards all the very promising work he's doing.
I think we'll need her to keep him motivated.
I thought that was what you were for.
[Chuckles]
I'm...
doing my best.
I just hope it's good enough.
For his sake.
And yours.
Um, Lieutenant Colonel?
One more thing.
When will I be receiving the next test subject?
It's been a while since my last premortem,
and I'm assuming Major General Beale's plans
are moving ahead as scheduled?
They are, yeah.
♪
I think you'll have what you need in time.
Thank you.
♪
[Walker growling]
♪
Man: Let's begin.
♪
Man: Your work in Omaha
furthered the priorities of the CRM.
I don't give a damn about how you justify your lies.
You find my daughter.Hope: You said it yourself!
If the CRM finds them first, or if your mom figures out
what Felix and Iris know --Huck: There's guards, patrols.
It isn't as easy as you think.
Go.
♪
Elton: Ow!
♪
Negrete: When we first see Hope, in Episode 2,
she's marveling at the fact that she has running water.
For her, it's really about feeling a sense of almost PTSD.
When you're out there in the world,
you're not behind walls,
and there's always a danger that lurks.
It's really about showing a difference of her condition.
Leo: Make a wish.
Not only does it feel foreign, based on what she's been through
but also she thought her dad was in trouble.
For all she knew, maybe he was behind bars somewhere.
But to see that he's been living
in these fairly swanky conditions,
that's part of the shock that she's feeling.
The hardest part about being out there
was worrying about you.
Whereas, with Iris, she's out in the world.
Yeah.
Her and Felix are killing Empties.
And she has just killed a soldier.
It's really about kind of processing what she's done,
but not being upset about it.
We're seeing a different side of Iris,
who's not afraid to fight, who actually is craving a fight.
It's really her call to action
and the thing that kind of keeps her going --
Hyah!
The fact that she's not afraid to do this again if she has to.
What's she's realized in Episode 2 is
that she has no regrets.
This is war...
even if they don't know it yet.
I think, when Felix sees what Iris has done
at the beginning of the episode, I think he's pretty stunned.
We sort of hinted this --
we don't quite come out and say this,
but Felix himself, as this group's protector,
has never killed a human being.
So it's, in a way, shifted the balance between them
a little bit.
Like, he's someone that wants to offer advice
and give guidance, and this is the one area
of the apocalypse that he can't do that for her.
So it's really put them
on different footing with each other.
[Gasps]
[Breathing heavily]
One of the things that was really important for us
in Season 2 was to start pulling back more of the curtain
and revealing more about who the CRM is,
what the CRM wants.
At the end of Episode 1,
Hope is really ready to hate on this place.
What ends up happening
throughout the course of this episode
is that she starts to see the world
a little bit like her dad did
at the beginning of this alliance,
which is, there are possibilities
and things that can happen
with scientific minds coming together.
She's seeing that as bad as CRM is,
as horrible as things that they've done,
at least the people here -- some of these people,
some of these civilians, some of these scientists,
and some of the work they're doing is good.
And so she's starting to see
that maybe things aren't quite as black-and-white
as she initially thought they'd be.
♪
Dennis starts off as a very mysterious figure,
and he doesn't screw around.
[Growls]
One less to worry about.
He's up-front about that from the get-go.
He obviously is in a position of authority.
We know he's tangentially part of the CRM,
but he's not wearing a CRM uniform.
He seems to have a lot going on in his head.
When Silas asks Dennis about what this place means
and what it's for,
he gives this very heartfelt, emotional answer.
If the modeling is right, we can clear out the state
while the measures keep more from coming in,
we can gain a foothold.
That's what we're doing here.
Starting over.
It obviously means a lot to Dennis.
So we get the sense that this place
is about starting over, but more than that,
it provides others an opportunity to start over.
So it sort of begs the question, "For Dennis,
why does he feel the need to start over,
and what was his life before?"
Those are things that we'll be exploring
in the episodes to come.
This is the first episode,
but we really have gotten an extended look at Elizabeth
behind the scenes, as it were.
We've seen scenes of her in her apartment last season.
We've seen her surveying the battlefield.
But in terms of how she operates this place,
that's really the thing that we're exploring.
Dr. Bennett, how are you doing?
She always knew this plan of Huck's.
Eventually, Hope would find out the truth,
which means her father would find out the truth,
and there'd be a lot of anger toward the CRM.
That's how much my daughter's safety meant to you.
You sent one soldier.
Elizabeth knew that when it comes to Leo,
his priority is always going to be for the future
and working for the future, so, to that end...
You're excused.
...be angry, have your tantrum,
but we know you're still gonna remain loyal to the CRM.
♪
Elizabeth goes to the perimeter
to poke around, to ask some questions.
Lieutenant Colonel. This is a surprise.
Indira, sorry to come unannounced,
although I'm sure your lookouts gave you ample warning.
And we learn that Elizabeth and Indira
have a history together.
These are two strong female leaders...
You can never be too careful.
...but at the same time, make no mistake
that Elizabeth is in charge, and you don't want to cross her.
And kind of flexes that muscle and makes it very clear to her
that, "I hope you didn't betray us.
I hope you're not harboring any fugitives.
'Cause if you're lying to me in any way,
there will be hell to pay."
Oh, it's so much responsibility, isn't it,
having so many people entrust their well-being
and their survival with you?
♪