Jadis: You were sloppy with sensitive research. You lied to us.
We need to pick a side.
I have no choice, but to propose a vote
of no confidence in our chairperson.
Hope: Your dad?Yeah, he's Major General Beale.
Dennis: Yeah, they're gonna wipe out Portland.
Using gas they've been storing at the RF,
using the empties to cover it up.
♪
This isn't just about
saving Portland and getting out of here.
We have to get the scientists out and their research.
We take it and -- and we keep it going.
[Whirring]
♪
Elizabeth: Indira.
Hello again.
That's good. You can take a break.
Lieutenant Colonel.
What do you think?
This is exactly
the finishing touch that the facility needed.
We asked you
for something that would be a reminder
of why we're here and what's at stake
that would stand for generations to come,
and it's -- it's magnificent.
Thank you.
I'm glad you like it.
So, what's wrong?
The non-aggression pact we struck
when you first arrived.
I'd like your word
that you will continue to honor that after I'm gone.
Are you going somewhere?
It's not where.
It's when -- It's my kidneys.
I might not have much time left.
My mother died of kidney failure when I was young.
I've been ignoring the signs for months, but...
I'm at the point where I can't anymore.
We have plenty of doctors here,
medicine, dialysis equipment.
That's very kind.
But I can't put my personal health
over the interests of my community.
Isn't staying alive...
in the best interest of your community?
I'm not asking for anything in return.
What would you have to gain?
Peace of mind.
Sparing...
your family the ordeal
that Jennifer and I went through with her father.
And you'd be sparing me the uncertainty
of dealing with whoever your lesser successor would be.
I can't imagine their artistic talents
would hold a candle to yours.
No one need know.
It would be just between us, no strings attached.
What do you say?
[Chuckles]
♪
[Chimes clang]
♪
Leo: Our entire purpose now
is to find a way to a healed planet --
not for us but for our children,
maybe our children's children.
We can still give them that life.
We owe it to them, but not here.
Not with the people responsible for that.
But how?
They won't just let us leave.
No, they won't.
You can be damn sure they never will.
So, you're talking about an escape?
No, I'm past talking about it.
A plan's already in motion,
one that involves help from the outside
and uses the CRM's own security protocols against them.
But even if we have a place to go,
how can we live in the long term?
I mean, how can we possibly find facilit--
I realize this is a giant leap
I'm asking you to take.
And I don't have every answer.
But I know we can't stay here.
Dr. Belshaw wasn't killed in a laboratory accident.
They murdered her, like they murdered Dr. Abbott,
like they murdered my security detail.
But --
They've committed genocide.
They're going to again. We have proof.
If we stay, we become a party to all they do.
Or they kill us.
We're working to stop the monsters...
and to save people from turning into monsters.
But we need to save ourselves from that fate first.
And right now, I need to know --
are you in?
♪
[♪ Ten Years After: "I'd Love to Change the World"]
Dennis: Let's hope this does it.
Yeah, let's hope.
I'm supposed to be on patrol.
All this coming and going,
I can't risk another trip out here.
Jadis could trace all of this back to the outpost.
To you.
Yeah.
And I know what happens to me if she does.
And if she doesn't.
I guess we'll figure out the "after"...
after.
Dennis, I'm sorry --
We both have things to be sorry for.
But no matter how this turns out...
you're the one part of all this I don't regret.
♪
I'm gonna say it again.
I didn't send you to him because he was my husband.
I sent you to him because he was --
He's a good guy.
I got that.
You can hate me,
but you're gonna have to trust me.
It's the only way this works.
[Car door closes]
[Engine starts]
Let's go.
-Hey. -Hey.
Almost everything's packed.
Good.
Cameras in the north stairwell
are still down from the outage.
Percy's taking down the rest of the go-bags.
Okay.
Cool.
What's up?
It just got real, you know?
All of them are putting their lives in our hands.
I know you think it's smarter
to just go for the gas and save Portland --
Getting everyone out...
there's a lot that could go wrong.
[Inhales deeply] But we'll make it work.
We do whatever we have to do...
to make sure we win.
♪
Things roll our way,
it'll be just enough to pull this thing off.
Get all of you out.
Get you someplace where they can't get you.
What about you?
If this works, what happens to you?
If I can get back to the CR,
I can let the civilian government know
what the military's done.
You almost had me fooled yesterday.
[Scoffs]
What she had me do to Lyla --
Lyla... did it to her self.
And if she had to die at someone else's hands,
I just wished they'd been mine.
No.
You don't.
So how does this play out without them killing you?
The empty Jadis had me use to kill Lyla,
I'm pretty sure he was a soldier tied to Omaha
who'd been trying to talk.
If there's one, there's more.
A resistance that can help me
get to the people I need to talk to.
It won't be easy, but...
I have to try.
And who knows.
Maybe in the end, it'll be me and Dennis,
trying together.
♪
Take these.
♪
Wait for my go.
They all set up for us on the outside?
Dennis and Silas are on their way now
to relay the plan to Indira's people.
Once they radio that they're on board,
we move.
Silas: So what did you tell them?
Grady and Tiga, what do they know about this?
Nothing.
Told 'em to stay there, keep their distance,
keep luring more dead towards the outpost.
From there, they're reporting
to Cull Station Six in Binghamton.
Didn't tell them why?
Less they know, the better.
Keeps them safe if they get caught.
You knew what they did to Omaha.
You've known for days. You didn't say a thing.
Yeah, because you're them.
You andyour wife.
She killed people and made me think I did it.
What, she was just doing her job?
The world went to shit, and the CRM was
the last, best hope for bringing it back.
It was a cause worth dying for, worth killing for.
You know, on the inside, they tell you
everything you do is in service to the greater good,
that what you do today...
can help create the next 500 years.
You go in not knowing exactly who you are,
you lose perspective.
You lose yourself.
Yeah, there's right and wrong, Dennis.
No.
There isn't.
Not for a long time now.
You were taking me down that path.
No.
You were going nowhere.
Just like me.
♪
[Growling]
[Walkers growling]
Get down.
♪
Could be hundreds.
We wait for them to pass.
Silas: We don't have time.
We don't have a choice. We wait.
♪
Jennifer.
I want to see about that briefing
you promised me yesterday.
What's going on?
We were finally able to get some
of the operational monitoring systems
back online after the power outage.
Diagnostics report from the last hour.
Shows variants in keycard activity.
Water and power usage in the labs dropped
to almost nothing.
Data could be scrambled from the outage.
I'm concerned Dr. Bennett is not keeping quiet
about what he knows.
Your mother's psychological profile of him
indicated he would fall in line to keep his family safe.
I'm starting to wonder if her report was wrong.
Or if there are other variables at play.
I don't think he'd ever put his girls in danger.
You want me to sniff around?
Oh, we're way past that.
If I'm right, and I usually am,
this is about stopping the rot before it spreads.
Showing Dr. Bennett what happens
to one or both of his daughters
if he steps out of line.
Lieutenant.
♪
My team is ready when yours is.
Let's move.
♪
[Birds chirping]
I didn't want to leave him.
I just --
I knew that if... they saw us together...
Thing is, they might've.
If they did, Indira, I --
I am so sorry.
Your son is dead because...
He was out there because of me.
No.
No, that's not true.
I was dying.
Lt. Colonel Kublek offered me treatment
so I could live.
I was too selfish, too scared
to let go of my life,
my community...
...my children.
Dev died helping me get medicine.
Medicine I was taking so that I could hold onto things
I had no right to still be holding onto.
I handed the CRM control of my life,
and because of that decision,
they took the life of my boy.
♪
And now we could lose everything.
Indira...
We have to assume that the CRM knows my son trespassed.
That our non-aggression pact with them is nullified.
Things are escalating.
And we all know what they're capable of.
♪
It's not safe for us here.
For any of us.
We have to leave.
Robin: We'll gather what we can carry,
head to the way station near Cornell,
go from there.
Let the others know.
And...
tell everyone that as soon as we get to safety...
...I'll step down as your leader.
♪
Indira...
♪
I'm...
I'm sorry for your loss.
I-If there's anything I can do for you right now --
Thanks, but...
I'm not sure you can.
Dev was a lot like you.
Questioning everything.
I think he was still trying to figure it out, too.
[Voice breaking] I just wonder, in the end...
...if he ever did.
♪
Maybe for some people...
it takes facing the end to...
ever really know.
♪
Huck: Felix, Hope, Iris.
You read me?
We need to start everything.
Now.
Jadis and some armed guards are on their way
to your dad's place to take everybody in.
You need to get the hell out of there,
head to rendezvous one.
We haven't heard from Will or Elton.
Listen to me. There's no time.
We can't wait for them.
We need to start now.
I'll do whatever I can to help,
but if this plan is going to happen,
it needs to happen now.
♪
Hey, we got this.
Find Felix and Dad. Spread the word.
Get everybody in place, okay? I'll meet you there.
♪
Clear.
Soldier: Clear.
Soldier #2: All clear.
♪
Copy.
As we suspected.
Dr. Bennett's not in his usual class.
Carlucci has abandoned his post.
Initiate standard evacuation drill protocols
for the Facility's civilian personnel.
You think that'll flush them out?
No.
I think it'll tell me just how deep the rot's spread.
♪
Announcer: This is a mandatory evacuation drill.
Please proceed to the nearest exit.
This is a mandatory evacuation drill.
Please proceed to the nearest exit.
This is a mandatory evacuation drill.
♪
Go.
I'll meet you in there.
♪
Everything good?
The others are already inside.
Hope?
Is she -- Not yet.
But she'll be here.
Let's go.
♪
This is a mandatory evacuation drill.
Please proceed to the nearest exit.
Mason.
Hey.
Hey, what's going on?
Listen, I need you to get Ian or someone you trust
to sign you in with the evac guards,
and I need you to come with me.
Uh... [Chuckles]
I just need you to trust me, okay?
Please.
Just tell me what's going on.
It's life and death.
♪
We're still awaiting the final manifest
from transport three,
but this is everyone that's checked in
for evacuation.
No sign of the Bennetts.
And none of the civilian research staff,
or their security details.
Must be an error.
That's cute.
Now we know.
This goes far beyond the Bennetts.
Initiate full facility lockdown.
Close off every door, window, and air vent.
Once the complex is secure, you're to sweep every inch --
building by building, wing by wing, room by room --
until you find where they're hiding.
♪
[Door opens]
♪
Something's wrong.
She should've been here.
[Sighs]
[Alarm blares]
Stay with the others.
I need to find Hope.
I'm here!
Hope...
What's going on?
I wish there was another way.
♪
But our plan doesn't work without you.
Whoa! Hey!
Hey, welcome to the Bio-Containment Unit.
♪
Hope?
Hope!
[Device beeps]
Huck: Lt. Newton.
No signal down here.
Stokes is requesting an update.
They're inside the Bio-Containment Unit.
They've locked themselves in. No way in or out.
But we're picking up indistinct chatter
through the walls.
They're in there.
So, why aren't we?
It's reinforced titanium.
Sealed shut as a fail-safe, triggered by the lockdown.
Blunt force won't do it.
We'll have to wait for a full system reboot
to override the locking system.
Mm. How long's that gonna take?
At least two hours.
[Sighs] I'll let her know.
♪
It's a good thing I told Will
I wouldn't do anything reckless.
Leo: We didn't get a choice here.
I don't know.
Don't you think it's all a choice?
You chose to give me a life, and...
I'm choosing to make it count.
You already have.
You know that.
We're gonna get you back to Will.
And then...
you're finally gonna start living for yourself.
Yeah, well, that goes for you, too.
[Clanging in distance]
[Growling]
[Screams]
[Breathing heavily]
Hope: It's one-way glass.
We can see them, but they can't see us.
What is this?
What are those things doing in here?
Hope, just -- just tell me what's going on.
Please.
Talk to me!
Mason, the CRM isn't what you think it is.
Okay? They've done terrible things.
What kind of things?
Whatever it is, it can't be that bad.
My dad would know about it.
♪
Wait, is that why you took me?
Because of my dad?
There was no other way. Okay?
We're gonna leverage who you are to get what we want,
and then once we do, we'll let you go.
And what do you want?
And if you don't get it, then what?
Huh?
You feed me to them?
[Growling]
No one's gonna hurt you.
I promise.
♪
I understand.
Let me know when you have an update on the server.
What's going on?
He approached long-range security
and asked to speak with your mother.
If he's to be believed, there's a lot been going on here
that's off the books.
Oh, yeah?
Like what?
Well, for starters, it seems your mother's
been diverting CRM medical supplies
to the leader of the Perimeters.
What?
More immediately, they've become
a significant threat to this facility's security,
and thus the security of the Civic Republic.
He's saying that the intruder we shot the other night,
the one we were trying to identify,
was Indira's son.
He's saying that she and her community
have been actively working with the Bennetts against us,
harboring them, planting them inside the complex
for what's obviously some kind of escape attempt.
You, uh -- You sure we can trust him?
Sergeant Mills' team is on its way to deal with them.
And there's not gonna be an investigation?
An investigation would take time
and cause vulnerabilities.
No.
For a security threat such as this,
CRM Uniform Regulations mandate any and all
points of contact must be removed --
immediately.
♪
[Birds chirping]
I have this dream of my future.
I'm with Felix. We're older.
We got a beautiful family.
It's what I live for.
Everything that I do is in service of that.
Maybe that makes me selfish.
I don't think it makes me wrong.
What you did to live for your son,
for your family...
I don't think that's wrong, either.
♪
Indira!
Robin.
[Panting]It's Brody.
He split off from the first caravan that headed east.
He was ranting about...
making things right with the CRM.
♪
[Engines turn off]
♪
Move! Move!
Over there.
♪
Keep going.
Soldier: Drop your bag.
♪
Line up with the others.
♪
We took out a good-sized piece of your wall
on the way in.
But you won't have a need for it after today.
♪
Ma'am, I received the update you requested on the server.
[Door closes]
Do you realize what you've done?
To your own community?
You marked them for death.
No, we were already marked.
Indira made a deal
with your mother to save her own life.
Why shouldn't I do the same?
You know, I could tell them about you.
I should.
You've been playing both sides the whole time.
Trying to get me killed, too? Huh?
Alright, permanent residency inside the Civic Republic.
Promise me that, and I will keep quiet.
I can't.
Oh.
Okay.
Well, then, you have
until Warrant Officer Stokes comes back
to figure out a way that you can.
On your knees!
♪
Please.
Let me speak to the Lt. Colonel.
♪
So...
do we have a deal or not?
Time's almost up.
You don't do this, you're dead.
♪
Stand fast.
What the hell did you do?
He was a rat, playing angles,
saying shit about us
being behind what happened in Omaha.
That is we didn't let him into the CR,
he'd go screaming it from the rooftops.
How could he have known?
No clue.
But people like him? They're the security threat.
For all we know,
the scumbag was lying about Indira,
using us to settle some personal grudge.
No.
He was a threat.
And so is she.
Sergeant Mills, put me on with our leader.
I'd like to speak with her.
Please.
Please, whoever you are...
...call your soldiers off.
You can take me...
but let my people live.
Indira...
I'm impressed by the globe sculpture
Lt. Colonel commissioned from you some years back.
It's beautiful.
Kind of welding is tricky.
I know.
I was like you once.
Leading a community of artists,
but they never really stood a chance,
as yours don't now.
Larger, more powerful communities
overtake smaller ones.
It's become their responsibility to.
They're ascendent because they've adapted,
equipped themselves for survival,
not just in might,
but in seeing the world
for what it is...
and what it must be.
All of this to say, your vision is lovely,
but it doesn't portray what is.
You don't see it.
You can't.
And that is why we can't let you live.
I'm sorry.
♪
Hostiles are secured.
Warrant Officer,
we are awaiting your final order.
♪
They provide a valuable service to us.
They're a resource.
♪
Eliminate them all.
Leave no one alive.
♪
Assume firing positions.
[Weapons cock]
♪
[Wind whistles]
It's gonna be okay.
On my mark.
♪
Ready.
[Pistol cocks]
And...
♪
Soldier: Fall back!
Soldier #2: Force right!
♪
Squad, Code Five.
Multiple hostiles incoming. Abandon positions.
Fall back to the mill.
Formation Beta! Now!
Indira: Arm yourselves and find cover!
♪
Robin: They're all in front of the mill.
Stay down.
♪
Robin!
♪
[Pin clangs]
♪
Soldier: Grenade!
Get down!
Elton: How did you know to come?
Silas: We didn't.
We came to tell you about the plan.
Will: What? What plan?
They're escaping.
What? When?
Dennis: Silas.
Get your friends and the supplies
to the rendezvous.
Be ready.
Ready for what?
What's the plan?
♪
Silas: Dennis?
♪
Dennis!
Iris: So, as long as we make this left...
We're good, yeah.
12 minutes till they're in.
I'll get everyone ready.
I'll set the C-4.
♪
I'm not going anywhere
till you assholes tell me where you're taking me!
Percy, don't --Wait, let him handle it.
♪
Iris, he didn't do anything.
Neither did we.
There is too much at stake.
We need to get it done.
Let's move!
Announcer: System reset.
5, 4, 3...
Jadis: We'll have to assume Mills and his team are dead.
And as for our mutinous scientists...
...they were counting on us initiating lockdown protocols.
♪
They knew sealing that containment door
would buy them enough time to escape
into the old mining tunnels.
♪
And they used the explosives
to stop us from following them in.
♪
When did you know?
Facility's central server confirmed it.
All the research has been wiped.
Every drop of data.
Everything.
Every paper,
every theory.
They're trying to take it with them.
This isn't just an escape plan.
This is a rebellion.
The Civic Republic stands to lose
every scrap of knowledge and progress
that we've built since -- since the end of everything.
This could be the second end.
♪
So, what's the damn plan, Jadis.
I've ordered Pierce
to station soldiers at every tunnel exit.
When they emerge, we'll be waiting.
Pierce to Warrant Officer Stokes.
Go.
Fireteams are moving into position.
What are the rules of engagement?
Inform your teams
I'm rescinding all arrest protocols.
We're to make an example of the Bennetts.
If you see them or any of the scientists,
shoot to kill.
Eliminate some to traumatize the many.
They've been safe for too long.
They've forgotten too much.
This is an opportunity to make them remember.
♪
[Walkers growling]
They brought us to this.
No goin' back now.
We'll be right behind you.
No goodbyes.
Woman: Let's see who blinks first.
[Growling]Come on!
One-shot kill!
Hope, don't!
We're prepared to escalate.
♪
We're working to stop the monsters.
And to save people from turning into monsters.
But we need to save ourselves from that fate first.
And right now, I need to know -- are you in?
Negrete: One of the things about the end of season 1 is
the audience was aware of a lot more than our characters were.
And I'll say that in episode 8, it's really the first time
I think the characters are ahead of the audience.
They've concocted this plan, but we as an audience
don't know exactly what their plan is.
Find Felix and Dad. Spread the word.
Get everybody in place, okay? I'll meet you there.
We don't know where Hope is going,
and what we find out shortly that is she's approaching Mason.
I need you to come with me.
Uh...[Chuckles]
I just need you to trust me, okay?
As an audience, we know that Mason
is Major General Beale's son.
And that's a huge deal.
Hope, just -- just tell me what's going on, please.
Okay, we're going to leverage who you are
to get what we want, and then once we do,
we'll let you go.
And that's really the tip off to the audience that,
oh, no, Hope knew what she was doing this whole time.
She wasn't going rogue.
Getting Mason was part of the plan.
And it's how they're going to use him
as leverage going forward.
That's really the question mark.
What's going on?
He approached long-range security
and asked to speak with your mother.
Ever since Huck came back to the research facility,
once she was back in active duty,
she's only been between a rock and a hard place.
You know, here's this guy Brody
who was part of the perimeter encampment.
He's now betrayed his own people.
He sold all of them out to Jadis.
Indira made a deal with your mother
to save her own life.
Why shouldn't I do the same?
But he's also willing to sell Huck out
to Jadis, as well.
She's scrambling to come up with some sort of solution.
And literally the only thing she can do in that moment
to keep him silent to is to kill him.
When Jadis comes in, like, Jadis I think is shocked.
What the hell did you do?He was a rat.
It's really left a question of what Jadis thinks
Huck is up to,
if she believes Huck, is she suspicious of Huck.
And none of that is resolved in this episode,
but we'll learn more about that and how that affects
their relationship going forward.
Sergeant Mills, put me on with our leader.
I'd like to speak with her.
Here's Jadis, who came from this community of artists.
Actually, she created this community of artists.
And I think that she has some guilt that they all died
and she lived.
Let my people live.
She feels like she lived to survive
to shepherd in a future for an even greater community,
and that community is the CRM.
I was like you once.
Leading a community of artists.
But they never really stood a chance,
as yours don't now.
I really do think in that talk with Indira,
she's not happy about what she has to do,
but for her in this moment, it's really about,
it sort of is the mantra of the CRM,
which is, sometimes you have to do bad to do good.
Jadis: Eliminate them all.
Leave no one alive.
Here's Elton facing down the barrel of a CRM rifle
about to be executed, and he finds this moment of peace.
And what he sees is this leaf wafting through the air.
Elton has gone on a fairly spiritual journey this season.
You know, he's always been a man of science.
Dad was a lot like you. Questioning everything.
Here's Asha.
There's a sense of faith that she has.
For Elton, the first half of the season was him
gripping with a loss of faith.
Maybe for some people, it takes facing the end to...
ever really know.
This is him planting in feet again in belief that
humanity is good, that things can work out,
that maybe instead of questioning things all the time,
it's about accepting things and just fighting for
what you believe in.
That's what that leaf and what that moment
really represents for Elton.
It's gonna be okay.
♪