Previously on The Walking Dead: World Beyond.
I live for my mom who died that night ten years ago today.
Mom! Please!
I'm sorry!
The CRM is bad and our dad's in trouble.
He didn't ask for help but he might need it.
I'm not trying to talk you out of it.
I'm trying to talk you into letting me go with you.
Me too.
[Felix] They'll never make it.
They'll die.
[Huck] Let's make sure they don't.
[Iris grunting, empty snarling]
[empty snarling]
[Felix] You're face to face with one of the dead.
To eliminate the threat you go straight for the brain.
[empty rasping]
A direct stab through the eye is the easiest way.
[Hope] Iris! Let us help!
Say you can't get to the brain.
That's okay.
You take it down by sweeping out its legs.
[Hope] Iris!
If none of that works
The last thing that you want to do is tire yourself out.
In the end it is all about avoidance.
Keeping a safe distance is the difference between life and death.
[Hope] Iris! We're not ready! You're not ready!
I am!
[shrieking]
Iris!
[empty rasping]
You'll be scared the first time.
You should be.
You should be scared every single time that you are outside those walls.
[empty wheezing, flies buzzing]
Ugh! Phew!
Oh, shit.
[Hope] Hold on, we're coming.
[empty wheezing]
-Jesus! -No, it's alright.
-Did she—are you—? -I'm okay.
You could have died!
I didn't!
[empty wheezing]
Its physiology is so different.
[empty wheezing]
Like you tackled a bag of ravioli and candy canes.
[empty wheezing]
I got this.
[empty wheezing]
So that's what you get!
[empty wheezing]
I'm sorry.
[empty wheezing]
[Iris] Didn't we used to take piano lessons on this street?
You did—I quit, remember?
[crows cawing]
-I can't believe she gave the girls a map. -[Felix] A map of New York State.
She said that's where their father is.
If we just told the supe the truth we might have ten more hands.
If you spill that old professor doctor was sending messages here from the CR.
-That's a basket of deep fried shit. -[Felix] I just don't get it.
-It's odd, that man does not take risks. -Neither do we—look at us now.
He loves his girls, you love him and I love you, idiot.
Which is why I'm here. That and Hope's a good kid.
-I might have put dumb ideas in her head. -I love you too, Huck, and no you did not.
[Huck] Way too early to be nimble.
-I've seen you limbo, girl, you'll manage. -Nobody gets lower than me.
But that's when the sun's down and the music's up.
I mean, he was risking the whole alliance by sending those.
-Civic Republic doesn't play. -You really think he may be in trouble?
-Gah... -That Will is?
[Huck] None of his messages said the CR were bad people.
-Yeah, well. -Just sayin'.
[Felix] Maybe their facility's in trouble, maybe their whole community is.
-I don't know. -[Huck] Say what you will.
That they're a bunch of black-wearing paranoids?
Who are light years ahead of us in manufacturing, fuel and chicory?
-[Huck] It's good chicory. -They don't tell anyone where they are.
They don't allow any sort of communication in or out.
That means they enforce that from inside.
Wherever they are.
Say what you will, but they handle their shit.
-You sure they're headed east? -This road's the straightest shot.
You know what's east.
[Huck] It's a funnel.
[Huck] It'll stop 'em, we'll catch 'em.
The second they see it they'll be glad they still have a home to go back to.
Hey, Dad, finally got my check for all that overtime.
-Can deposit it into your account— -Used your computer.
Got on that job website you wanted me to try.
Found these emails.
Are you a faggot?
You don't say that word to me.
-I love you, but you don't say that to me. -Because you are?
-This isn't how— -Are you?
I'm gay, Dad.
Get out of my house.
Dad, you've had it hard.
-You're muddled, we can talk about this. Get out of my house.
Right now.
And don't come back.
I don't know you.
-Dad, I'm your son. -No.
You're not.
-I am. -You're not.
I'm your son!
Goddamit! I've been paying your bills! I've been holding you together!
I've been believing in you when nobody else would!
I'm gonna walk out that door and you'll have to live with that.
Yeah.
I will.
You need that.
Nope.
We don't need your help.
I didn't know you could fight empties.
Me either.
Kinda music are you into?
-Different. -Kinds?
You should play some for us sometime. You know, when it's safe to.
Okay. [Hope] Crate!
[Hope] Strike!
[Hope] That's the game.
[Hope] You pick the target and then you bowl the ball.
-[Iris] Hm. -Yeah, name's Big Mo.
Found him sittin' all alone abandoned on the curb.
[camera clicking, winding]
[empty rasping inaudibly]
Goddam.
The wind always wins.
What?
Just something my mom said about nature deciding who lives and who dies.
Turns out she was right.
About what?
Well, us being at the conclusion of the Holocene extinction.
The 6th extinction event on the planet.
We were already killing ourselves, but nature made a shortcut.
You know, took the dinosaurs possibly 60,000 years to die.
After 240 million of living. So, following that ratio...
Given the human race's 600,000 and factoring in miscellaneous variables
I'd say we have about 15 years till we're gone.
-Fifteen years, huh? -Yup.
I'd have given it way less, but that's just me.
Never pegged you for the doomsday type.
You seem so chill about it.
It's just how it is.
You seem at peace with it too.
Most people aren't.
Guess we're not most people.
[Hope] What is it?
It's The Blaze.
[Elton] So it's real.
[Elton] The Blaze of Gory.
Blaze of... gory?
The B.O.G.
People have been talking about it since everything fell apart.
It's an everlasting fire of totally Old Testament proportions.
The predominant theory is it's tires.
A lot of tires. Left unattended, they can burn for years.
Even decades.
-It's just a fire, though. -No.
It's much more than that.
The smoke plume and firelight after dark have attracted empties to it for years.
Like moths to a flame—the more that come, the louder it gets, which attracts more.
Thus explaining why we haven't seen too many around here.
Can we get through it?
Yeah.
We don't know that.
Why risk it? Let's just go around.
We go around, the river cuts us off, we go 60 miles out of the way.
We should at least see if it's doable.
You talk me out of stuff like this, not the other way around
-That was a long time ago. -It was yesterday.
Exactly! So, let's keep moving.
Okay.
Let's see what we see.
I want to see it regardless.
[Felix] Ahem.
[empty wheezing]
[Felix] This was them.
[Felix] Or one of 'em.
[Huck] Whichever one ate chocolate for breakfast.
That's fun.
[empty wheezing]
I swear, Hope is going to be composting mulch for a year when I find her.
Just Hope?
-Not iris or the others? -You think Iris is behind this?
[Huck] I was in the weeds for a while.
[Huck] Who you are inside those walls ain't who you are outside.
[empty wheezing]
-You okay? -Yup!
Aces.
[horns and alarms blaring, tires screeching]
[crashing, screaming]
[pandemonium, panic]
[screaming, blaring, explosions]
[chaos]
-[Iris] What's with the spray paint? -[Elton] Science.
While on our journey I can continue Dr Bavolar's migration experiments.
Track how the empties move, merge and break off from each other.
Maybe you can help me.
Okay.
[Iris] Is that an empty?
[faint buzzing]
[Silas] What happened to it?
[Iris] You hear that?
[buzzing growing louder]
Help, Silas!
Hit it!
Use the wrench!
[empty snarling]
You lost it.
Bummed you didn't kill it?
Yeah.
Don't be.
Why'd you try to kill yours?
I had to.
I'm the reason we're out here, and we'll all have to kill one eventually.
Hey, guys, I think that's our shelter for the evening.
Looks like a whole lot of rooms to clear.
Well, yes, but not that.
Why be on terra firma when you can be on summus locus ?
Hope, remember how we'd beg Dad to build us a treehouse in the backyard?
Yeah, I remember
Big Mo!
-Big Mo! -Big Mo!
Big Mo.
Oh, come on, give him a helping hand coming back home.
He's cool.
But: you gotta say it when you do it.
-Big— -Come on, Silas, loud and proud.
Big Mo!
[laughter]
[empty rasping outside]
[Iris] He found us?
[empty rasping]
[Silas] I'm sorry, guys.
[Iris] We can drop something on it, uhm.
-[Iris] Oh! Big Mo.
Okay, I will do it.
[empty rasping outside]
We'll get him back.
I didn't wanna crack his glossy goodness.
Taking the hit for us, papi.
[crunch]
Oh, shit!
[Elton] There's gotta be something else in here.
[empty rasping and gurgling]
I'm... sorry.
I should have killed it.
It's okay, empties are supposed to get distracted pretty easy.
If it's still around in the morning we'll deal with it then.
[empty snarling and gnarring]
Oh, score!
[cheerful voices, empty snarling]
[cheerful voices, empty grunting]
[empty rasping outside]
[empty rasping]
[empty snarling and hissing]
Come on, hot stud.
[Hope crying out]
[empty snarling]
[empty rasping and hissing]
[empty snarling and spitting]
[empty snarling]
[empty hissing and spitting]
Did... did you...
Get rid of it?
I didn't do anything.
Th... thank you.
-It should've been me, it was my mistake. -[Hope sighing]
It wasn't.
But fine, say it was.
Doesn't mean it has to follow you around forever.
Look, can we keep this our little secret?
[whooshing overhead]
[alarms going off]
What's up, Felix?
Nothing, I... I used to live around here.
Hope stole this from my apartment.
[Huck] Think they'd do a better job covering up their tracks, then.
[Felix] Think they would, huh? Come on.
Well?
[Hope] You wanted to take a look, we took a look, and what I saw was crazy.
-[Silas] It's big. -Quite big.
I think we can do this.
Map has an airfield on the other side.
It's surrounded by a fence.
Which means empties coming from the east have to go around it.
That leaves us a path through.
-We just go due east and we're home free. -What about the ones before the fence?
It's all about evasion.
Like Felix taught us in self-defense class last spring.
The key isn't fighting, it's avoiding.
We can sneak past them and use the buses for cover.
Did you guys see the same screwed up shit that I did?
We had two close encounters with empties and we barely made it past them.
Two of them.
Come on, guys. Let's put our brains back in.
If we go around...
We'll probably get caught, and... I can't go back.
Seconded.
I came out here to see what the world is, start to finish.
I don't intend to finish before I start.
Blaze of glory, right, guys?
It'll be dark soon.
If we leave at dawn, shadows will be long and we'll have more cover.
[Huck] Holy God!
-[Huck] Air tastes like a skid mark. -That's the tire fire, we're close.
[Felix] Which means they are too. They should hit The Blaze tomorrow.
[Huck] Can afford to rest, we're goin' on 48 hours.
-[Felix] I'm fine. -You're not.
You're not even thinking right.
We don't rest, we get whupped by the janitor kid when we find 'em.
Hey! Huck!
-[Huck knocking] [Felix] I swear to God...
Huck!
[Huck] I get it, you're worried for 'em.
But if you don't clean your head, start thinking big picture...
You'll end up one of these—or worse.
So you're not gonna sleep and you're not gonna tell me what's up.
Great.
You know...
You were out in the wild for years.
Barely said two words about it. You know that, right?
I got my rep as the strong, silent type to think about.
And besides, past is the past, you know.
I was, uhm...
I was at the university the Night the Sky Fell.
-Yeah, you mentioned that. -Yeah, well.
As soon as it started to get bad, I just...
I just took off.
And I... I had to...
To get back to them... you know.
Get back to my family.
I just wanted to see if they were okay.
See if I could be with them at the end.
Took two days.
Mostly by foot.
I get it.
Might've been shitty parents.
-But they're still your parents. -Huh.
You make it back?
[explosions, dogs barking]
Mom! Dad!
[machine gun fire, explosions, sirens, dogs barking]
Mom!
[machine gun fire, explosions, sirens, dogs barking]
Mom!
Dad! Let me help you get somewhere safe.
-[Felix's father] We don't need your help. -Come on, Mom! I'm home!
[explosions, dogs barking]
[Felix sobbing]
[dogs barking]
It doesn't matter.
-Past is the past, right? -Yeah, it is.
[Felix] Hey.
-Get some sleep, Huck. -You don't gotta tell me twice.
[Huck] Ah!
[Elton] Got about a half hour till sunup.
-Your and Iris's jackets look spiffy. -Silas fixed them so they'd fit us.
His grandma taught him how to sew.
Who knew?
Hey, can I ask you something?
Does it bother you that we're gonna end up like the dinosaurs?
Does it bother you?
Think I always knew it was gonna go that way.
Or at least since...
Wait.
Are you dodging?
No, I was just curious.
[Elton] It doesn't bother me.
[Elton] Just the opposite. There had to have been a last generation.
Wonder if they knew they were the end, were therefore special.
We're the last generation?
Or the endlings.
As the last of a species is called.
That makes us special.
I'm lucky to know that.
To know that I... need to make my life count.
It's all I can do.
Really, it's all any of us can do.
We're the endlings.
-Endlings, huh? -Actually, I misspoke.
We aren't the endlings.
The last member of a species, very last one, that's an endling.
Of this faux species that is our quartet crossing the continent...
The last one alive...
They're the endling.
And it's their life... their death... that defines us all.
Does that bother you?
Yeah.
We should... get going. Soon the sun will start to rise.
Yeah.
Oh, uhm...
Do you still have the spray paint?
Yeah.
-[Felix's alarm beeping] -[Huck] Jesus!
I was out like a light.
-You sleep at all? -No.
Nah, I couldn't if I wanted to.
-Too bad. -Yeah, we should go.
[empties rasping]
[Iris] We need to keep moving east.
[empties rasping]
[Iris] That's it, that's our way out.
-[Iris] We have to go around them. -[Hope] So much for east.
[empties rasping]
[Felix] Knowing where you're going
is everything.
[empties rasping]
[Felix] If you know what time it is
you got a compass in the sky.
[empties rasping]
Now you lose that... you're flying blind.
[empties rasping]
Keep moving.
[empties rasping]
[Felix] Forget standing your ground.
This is about survival.
[empties rasping]
Sometimes you don't choose your direction.
[empties rasping]
-Where's the fence? -I can't see it.
Sometimes you don't get to know where you're goin'.
[empties rasping]
[Hope] There it is!
[Hope] It's this way!
[empties rasping]
[empties snarling]
[empties snarling, kids coughing]
[empties banging against gate, kids coughing]
It's okay, we did it.
[Iris] We made it.
[empties rasping]
What the hell?
[empties rasping]
[Elton coughing]
[empties rasping]
We didn't do it, not even close.
[Felix] "The endlings"?
-[Huck] They got themselves a nickname. -She wants us to find 'em.
-Iris or Hope? -I don't know.
One of 'em doesn't want to do this.
[Felix] One of 'em wants our help.
So let's get 'em.
[empty rasping]
[Huck] Yo, keep up.
I'm not letting you sneak off like last night.
[empty rasping]
Felix!
[empty rasping]
[empty rasping, rattling]
[empty rasping inside]
[Felix taking a deep breath]
Mom! Dad!
[empty rasping inside]
Come on, Mom! I'm home!
[empty rasping inside]
[Felix exhaling]
[empty rasping inside]
You gonna tell me where you went last night?
To kill my parents.
[empties rasping in the distance]
The airfield must be behind the rest of The Blaze.
I should've known there'd be a "rest" of The Blaze.
It was behind the smoke, right? None of us saw it.
[empties rasping in the distance]
I'm going to propose something unpopular but it might be the only one we have.
There's a tornado siren on that roof.
If somebody could manually sound it, it'd create a diversion for the others.
[Iris] For the others?
The idea is that whoever sounds the siren would be able to get down too.
-You wanna send someone in as bait? -[Elton] No.
No, not as bait, more like...
-It's bait, but I don't want to— -[Iris] Too dangerous for the bait.
We all came in, we all come out.
[empties rasping in the distance]
[Silas] But... how?
[Hope] Iris.
You were right to question me.
I thought I was ready for this.
I wanted to be brave.
I wanted to be more like you.
I'm not brave.
I'm a shit person who does shit things cos I don't give a shit about anything.
-That's not true. -Yes it is!
You had the guts to do something big.
Something crazy that meant something, and not just to you but... all of us.
You should be proud.
No matter what.
Let's get some rest. We'll do better with fresh heads.
[empties rasping in the distance]
[quiet sobbing]
[empties rasping in the distance] er with fresh heads.