[Hershel] Previously onDead City...
Look, I'm gonna get that methane,
with your help or without it.
Exploratory mission, huh?
'Cause we're just the first wave,
the conscripts.
[Pierce] We should go. We should--
[Negan] We can't go. I can't go.
She stays here just like this.
It's her best chance for recovery.
Get the Burazi ready.
We've got work to do.
It's all gonna be okay now. Everything's gonna work out.
[gasps]
[thumping]
[pants]
[contemplative music]
[theme music]
[tense, pulsating music]
[indistinct chatter]
[clanking]
Well, hello.
Hey! Fuck off!
How are ya? How's it goin'?
I've got good news.
Negan's willing to meet.
We're gonna get the kids together for a playdate
and us moms are gonna talk strategy.
I better get the fucking keys to the city
when this is all done. Call me Mayor.
Any sign of the girl yet?
It's so strange to think
that centuries ago,
so long ago, these same weapons
were used for the same purpose.
That's how long we've been at this killing thing, right?
Not that it isn't for a good cause,
'cause we gotta kill people to get the old world back
so we can just keep on killin' people--
- I asked you about the girl. - What?
The girl.
Oh, the girl.
Oh, I'm sure she's fine.
Yeah, she was catching up to that woman and her kid.
That's what I'd be doin'
because those two are just a barrel of laughs.
[chuckles] Relax.
Don't worry about it.
You're already making new friends.
[ominous music]
[grunting]
Where is she?
It's- it's not what you think.
She came to me. She- she said
that she'd kill Negan.
But she couldn't get to church 'cause she was...
I don't know, sick or hurt, so we just gave her a lift.
You don't know what you've done.
Well clearly, sh- she didn't pull it off, right?
'Cause she doesn't wanna kill him.
She's confused. It's not...
That's not what it's about.
Well- well, what's it about?
Is she, she like his kid or something?
[nervous chuckling]
See the look on your face.
[Armstrong shouts]
[laughing] Come on!
This is good!
I knew Negan mattered to her.
And now, thanks to you, I know she matters to him.
So if things go sideways for us, she's our insurance.
You touch her and I swear to God
that'll be the last thing you do.
I'm not saying it needs to go down that way.
I hope it doesn't, truly!
See?
[whispers] This is fun. It's what I'm talking about.
The fun of the game.
You know what else, on top of everything?
I learned something new about you.
Behind all this gruff cowboy act,
you're a softie.
I learned something about you too.
Yeah.
[ventilator pumping and whooshing]
They're asking for you upstairs.
[ventilator pumping and whooshing]
The show is about to start.
You don't have to stick around
if you don't have the stomach for it.
Like I said, I have nowhere to go.
I'm with you all the way.
Although...
I guess I could be here more in spirit, per se.
[ventilator pumping and whooshing]
Open, or...?
I'll just...
[ethereal music]
[music turns sinister]
[panting]
[suspenseful music]
[struggles]
[panting]
[struggles] [keys drop]
[door clicks open]
[breathing slows]
I was hoping we'd get to meet.
You're everything I was expecting and more,
I'm sure.
- Where's my son? - Oh, he's here!
Of his own volition.
You must be famished.
[clanking]
[nuts cracking]
[Maggie] Aren't you supposed to be dead?
[chuckles]
There was a body.
Oh! So you've been to my humble pied-à-terre.
Yes, that was one of the already dead.
I let her burn until she got nice and crispy.
[unsettling music]
There's that more I was waiting for.
Give it.
I don't want to have to punish you.
Or anyone else.
[unsettling music]
[keys clanking]
[sighs]
[organ playing]
[swords clanking]
[Bruegel] Up, up, up, up, careful.
Careful! Careful.
Down, down.
Easy. Nicely.
Fingers! Watch your fingers.
Gentle!
Good. Well done.
I figured you could use a new piece, you know,
to help pull the room together,
seeing as how that old one's been there
for 150 years.
Call it a housewarming gift.
It looks used.
Ah, it was-- by the Spanish. 13th century.
Um, where is your buddy, by the way?
Oh, The Croat? He, uh...
is taking a leave of absence.
Some shit like that.
Oh!
I got something for you too.
A little... welcome gift.
See, I know we have a little talking to do.
We gotta plot our next moves, right?
We both know that New Babylon isn't done with us yet.
So please, step up, help yourselves.
[Armstrong, quietly] Something's off.
Don't wanna strategize on an empty stomach.
You know, actually...
[chuckles] we ate before we came.
I don't think we should waste any more time.
You got somewhere to be?
No! No, no. It's just what you said.
New Babylon is just starting.
Who's to say they're not here, right now, on this island?
Rather than food,
let's just dive into our thoughts.
- I've got so many. - Oh, I have no doubt.
But see, the thing is,
so much work was put into this big, beautiful feast
that I'd hate to have it go to waste.
I'd feel like such a bad host.
[indistinct whispering]
Go ahead. You eat. We'll wait.
You think I put something in the food.
- [Negan chuckles] - Course not.
[taps the table]
Your loss.
[organ playing in distance]
[chuckles] We good?
We're good.
[doors slamming]
[shouting]
[walkers growling]
[menacing music]
[Bruegel] No, no, no, get back!
Everyone back!
I know you think I'm using your son.
You're right. I am.
The old world was rigged,
designed to break us and rip us apart.
But Hershel never knew that world,
which is why he can dream up something
that you and I never could.
We'll of course need someone to protect that new world.
I'd hoped that person could be Negan.
But thoughts can be deceiving.
Hershel told me what you were capable of.
But the fact that you're here now,
you still haven't given up.
I'm only sorry
it took me so long to see it.
So that is what all of this is about.
You want me to come at Negan.
[The Dama] Huh.
I would've thought that we would have this in common,
wanting Negan dead.
But I understand.
When Negan is up, you feel the need to knock him down.
And when he's down, you have to prop him back up.
You're stuck in a loop.
[sighs]
You can't let it go. You can't let him go.
And how could you?
He murdered your husband.
Violently. Gleefully.
After losing so many people who meant so much to you--
your mother,
your father...
your sister...
and now your son.
He needed you.
But how could you be there for him
when you couldn't be there for yourself?
It's okay, Maggie. You can still get him back.
Negan is still out there,
widowing wives and orphaning children.
Only you can stop him.
Only you can kill him.
Don't do it for me. Do it for you.
Do it for Hershel.
Set yourselves free.
[people screaming]
[walkers growling]
[struggling]
[grunts]
No!
[walker growling]
[sinister music]
[walkers growling]
Statue!
[suspenseful music]
[struggling]
[thud]
[suspenseful music]
[walkers growling]
[grunts]
[walker growling]
[Negan] Go!
- Come on! - Let's go!
[walkers growling]
[sinister music]
- [walker growling] - [grunts]
[walker growling]
[sinister music]
[grunting]
[sinister music]
[walker growling]
Mom?
I didn't-- I didn't know she'd hit your head like that.
I'm sorry.
She said that you- you talked.
You were right.
I'm not over it.
I've never been over it.
I think about him all the time.
I think about what he did.
And I know that I have to let it go.
I know that it's the only way.
But no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to do it.
I'm sorry.
I know, Mom.
I know you try.
But it's like you said...
it's not working.
I want us to be a family.
I want to move on...
and- and- and be free.
But there's only one way.
And then...
we can just be done with it.
We can start over.
[Maggie whispers] Okay.
I'll finish it.
Then I'll come back for you.
[ominous music]
[seagull squawking] [water lapping]
So this is what you used to encrust the bodies.
The bombs.
[water lapping]
[Buraz Lookout] You really came up here
just to look at those cannons?
Definitely.
It's because of them that you defeated New Babylon
on the water.
If history were a conflagration,
then these cannons would be the embers--
Or is it 'cause you're a huge fucking pussy
who doesn't want to be at the church
while shit goes down?
[seagulls squawking] [water lapping]
[unsettling music]
[Pierce] Was that boat there before?
Um...
[suspenseful music]
Shit.
[grunts]
Who are you? Who are you with?
New Babylon.
[seagulls squawking]
[unsettling music]
[Bruegel coughs]
[clanking]
[panting]
[ventilator pumping and whooshing]
[suspenseful music]
[Bruegel] Little girl, don't be scared.
It's me, your old pal.
[grunting]
What!?
[suspenseful music]
Okay, okay. Okay, okay.
[sinister music]
It was him.
This guy.
He got me to do this.
The rest of his people, they're hiding in the park.
Oh, there's dozens of them, like 50 at least.
They ambushed us. They took hostages.
Now, you know how I care about my people.
I couldn't just, like...
[sinister music]
Negan, I know things about New Babylon.
I do. I know how they operate.
And with the methane, we can beat them.
And then we can bring back the old world,
the way it used to be.
Not just a couple of blocks, but the whole city.
The whole fuckin' planet!
And then you and me, we'll be back on top.
The winners, with all the spoils,
just like it used to be.
On your knees.
You too, Marshal.
[tense music]
Eenie, meenie,
miney, mo.
Catch a tiger by his toe.
If he hollers, let him go.
Eenie, meenie,
miney,
mo!
[struggling]
Hey, hey.
[Negan] Ha, ha, ha, oh!
[taps Lucille on ground]
You know what? Fuck it.
See, you'rethe one that I reallywanna kill first.
[Bruegel] Negan, no, come on, please, please!
There's nothing we can't do, you and me.
- The methane! - The methane!
The goddamn methane!
That is all you talk about!
You really want the methane that bad?
[methane whooshes]
Take it.
[struggles]
[gasps, struggles]
[sizzling]
[gurgling, struggling]
[sinister nusic]
[splat]
[Armstrong grunts]
[unnerving music]
I got this.
Shouldn't have come here!
Glad you did.
See, I know what you are thinking.
[chuckles]
See, you're thinking
you should've shot me when you had the chance.
And you'd be right.
You sure as shit should've.
The thing is, now...
Well, now it's too late.
[music intensifies]
[stab] [grunts]
[grunting, struggling]
[grunts]
[Armstrong] Whatever you think you saw,
it's not like that. I was protecting her.
Maybe, but see,
I am so fucking sick of maybes.
[pants]
[grunts]
[stab]
[Negan groans]
[Maggie grunts]
[sinister music]
[grunts]
[clank]
[groans]
[ventilator pumping and whooshing]
[Negan grunts, struggles]
[sinister music]
[ventilator pumping and whooshing]
[walker growling]
[Negan grunts, struggles]
No. No...
Ginny! [groans]
Ginny...
[Negan groans]
[walker Ginny growling]
[Negan] Ginny, no...
No!
[walker Ginny growling]
[Negan] No!
[ventilator pumping and whooshing]
[Negan groans]
[walker Ginny growling]
[Negan] No...
No!
[Negan grunts]
[ventilator pumping and whooshing]
[walker Ginny growling]
No...
No.
[walker Ginny growling]
Ginny...
[gentle music]
[ventilator pumping and whooshing]
[walker Ginny growling]
[gentle music]
[pants]
[Negan groans]
I'm doing this. You got no choice.
[screams]
[Armstrong pants]
[slowly breathing]
I was...
I was so busy...
looking out for her...
thinking I was looking out for her.
I missed it.
I just...
I just missed it.
And now...
now she died...
she died alone.
[Maggie] There's something I gotta do.
I have to go.
[door opens]
You promised.
You promised me.
You- you said you understood.
You said we could start over, but...
you didn't mean it.
You just...
It's the same as it always is.
We were wrong.
It's not like how we said.
And killing Negan would only make it worse.
And that's not how we're gonna...
Don't!
Whatever. It doesn't matter.
She and I'll get there together.
I know what you're going through.
You think that you wanna run off and be somebody different.
You wanna hurt me. You wanna hurt me back.
Just know--
Right, 'cause you got it all figured out.
'Cause you did so fucking perfectly yourself.
Just know I will always be here for you.
I won't leave the city.
[somber music]
[door shuts]
[cries softly]
[somber music]
[marching outside]
[man shouting]
New Babylon. Second wave.
That's it, then.
They'll get the methane and...
[Maggie] So where do we go from here?
Walking through the woods, a man comes to
a fork in his path.
To go left is to go home, his past.
To go right is to go out into the unknown, his future.
He knows his past. It's comforting.
But will it be like he remembers?
And his future is full of possibilities, but...
what if he gets lost?
Which way does he go?
He goes left.
[Maggie] Back home, to the way things were.
But all that's waiting for him is an old story
that hurts too much to remember.
[Negan] So he goes right.
But there's nothing there for him either.
'Cause what's the future without the past?
What's an ending without that old story?
[Maggie] The truth is there is only one way forward.
One way to move on.
We gotta work through what was.
[Negan] To get to what will be.
It's a path that's hard and rough,
all uphill.
We keep thinking we'll never make it.
[Maggie] Sometimes we see where we're headed.
We catch a glimpse of the mountaintop.
It's so beautiful, it takes our breath away.
[Negan] But then we lose our footing.
[Maggie] We tumble backwards.
[Negan] Right back to the bottom.
[Maggie] So that it feels like we'll never get up again.
[Negan] But we do. We help each other up.
[Maggie] And the path becomes much clearer now.
[Negan] We move on.
[Maggie] Together.
[Maggie & Negan] And we get there.
I was hoping we'd get to meet.
♪♪
Cohan: Lisa, she started on the show last year,
and for all of the season,
we haven't been able to work together.
I've never done a scene in this series
with another woman, so finally we got to meet.
God, was I happy.
I would have thought that
we would have this in common.
Wanting Negan dead.
I think my talk with Maggie was manipulation.
All I really want is for her to kill Negan.
Don't do it for me. Do it for Hershel.
Set yourselves free.
♪♪
[Grunts]
[Gasps]
Negan just gets screwed, you know what I mean?
Cohan: It's the culmination of the years of tension
that have wound her so tightly
and in some ways kept her upright,
that then she's able to just release in a way
that she'd never otherwise be able to release.
I think for Lauren and Jeffrey,
it was a big deal, and it was a big moment.
Grab the bat and go.
♪♪
Cohan: I have never picked up that bat.
The moment that Maggie actually picks it up
sent chills down my spine.
Holding it,
it was just an interesting transfer of energy
that was surprising to me.
♪♪
[Ginny growling]
Jorné: When Ginny emerges as a walker
from the cell, it was powerful for all of us,
you know, because not only is this character dying,
this is the actor's last scene.
Morgan: The Negan-Ginny story line was
such an important part of last season
to then kind of take that away and build it elsewhere,
it was an interesting way to go.
Jorné: On all levels, it was a hard scene,
but a beautiful scene, and she was a good walker
and we were all emotional that day.
[Growling]
I think we know, you and I,
and I think the audience will know
it's exactly how it played out with Lucille,
and it breaks him because he loves Ginny.
[Growls]
♪♪
You promised.
Jorné: Hershel, he keeps sort of expecting
that maybe this time he and his mom can
move past the trauma that seems to be holding them back.
The Negan of it all.
And every time he makes himself vulnerable
and lets himself believe that they can move past this,
he's reminded that they're not over it
and that they're not past it.
And then it hurts all over again for him.
And so he lashes out.
Just know I will always be here for you.
I won't leave the city.
To me, it's like the kernel of what could be
some kind of new relationship.
They got a long way to go,
but for a second, you could see a glimpse of the type
of relationship that these two could have
if they could work through this.
So where do we go from here?
We end the season on Negan,
Maggie, and Armstrong inspired to work together
to fight for a better world.
And that world is not going to be the Dama's world.
And it's not going to be New Babylon's world.
It's something else.
I think that it means that the story is not over yet.
Maggie: There is only one way forward.
We got to work through what was...
Negan: To get to what will be.
♪♪
[outro music]