Previously on The Walking Dead: World Beyond
The pregnant lady we saw that night... I scared her and she shot Mom.
I knew there was something you didn't tell me.
[Silas] I don't wanna be who everybody thinks I am here.
In case we have to kill any, think you can do it?
[Hope] I told him not to go. I screamed at him not to go.
If you wanna keep your promise to our dad, you'll help us find him.
Great.
[Elton] So we know based on the coded map the CR's facility is in New York State.
[Iris] But we don't know where exactly, not yet.
-All the more reason to turn around. -[Hope] Nice try.
We may have taken a wrong turn back there but this should lead to the interstate.
We're almost out of supplies and looks like rain's comin'.
[Huck] Had that way station panned out...
-That'd be one thing, but... -It's cool.
We'll... we'll figure it out.
How come he's smiling?
Hey, how come you're smilin'?
[thunder in the distance]
[Elton] Where'd you think the CR is?
[Elton] The so-called hidden city.
[Iris] During initial talk of an alliance, I pictured this "hidden city" underground.
[Elton] Me too—but they refine fuel, fly helicopters, grow crops.
[Elton] Can't do that underground.
Their research place where our dad is.
That's not actually where they are.
Maybe they do all that other stuff somewhere else too.
Their high resource output indicates a large population.
If so, a security approach of not saying where they are would be understandable.
-Sounds like some shady shit to me. -[Elton] It does.
[Elton] And your father's messages are cause for concern.
But if they have technology, agriculture and sophisticated governmental systems
it'd be smart to stay hidden even if it raises questions about their motives.
I guess what I'm saying is we're lucky that they haven't taken over, you know.
We don't know they haven't.
We know that because we trade with them. Portland does, too.
-[Huck] We have joint protection pacts. -[Iris] They took our dad, so...
[Felix] Bottom line is we know nothing.
[Hope] Ergo the long walk, champ.
Look, we got just enough food and water to get us to Omaha, that's it.
-Omaha's north and they're headed east. -Yeah.
By the looks of it they're not changing their minds.
-At least not Iris. -Yeah.
Silas neither.
Any idea why Corduroy decided to play tag along?
-I don't think he knew the girls so well. -The kid may be the wedge.
Hey, why don't you talk to him, convince him to change his mind?
-I'll handle Hope. -Copy.
[Iris] Hey! Come look at this.
[thunder approaching]
[thunder nearby]
-[Iris] Worth checking out, right? -It is—let's go.
[Felix] Place like this, hidden from the world.
[Felix] Maybe we find some supplies, something to eat if we're lucky.
[Huck] And ride out the rain.
[thunder rumbling, wind blowing]
[Iris] Never been inside a real high school before.
[storm brewing]
[rain falling outside]
[clanging, clattering]
-[Iris] You okay? -[Hope] Oh shit, yeah, sorry.
I was looking for anything useful while we wait for our babysitters to get back.
[rain falling outside]
Turns out not much.
-[Iris] Hey. -[Silas] We can use these to collect rain.
[Felix] This place is huge.
No sign of empties, but that does not mean they're not around.
Priorities are food, clothes for Hope and anything we can use to collect water.
-Take advantage of the downpour outside. -[Felix] Yeah.
[Huck] Yeah, like that.
Good work.
We can cover more ground if we split up.
[Iris] We can handle ourselves.
Someone taught us [aping Felix] "In the end, it's all about avoidance".
[Iris aping Felix] "Keeping distance is the difference between life and death."
[Felix] That's good. That's what I sound like?
Okay.
[Felix] Silas, you keep your walkie on.
Elton, you're with me on water duty. Let's go.
Would be my honor.
-[Iris] Uh, so— -[Hope] We haven't talked much since, uh…
I was just hoping we could talk or whatever.
-But it's cool. -We can talk later.
Yeah, totally.
Cool.
-Silas and I will take the first floor. -[Felix] Copy.
Hey, you keep your eyes open, alright? Weapons drawn.
And if you see one of them, you run, you understand?
We meet back here in one hour. Be careful.
-[Iris] "Be careful." -[Felix] I heard that.
[Huck] Looks like it's me and you, kid.
Yeah.
It's all about avoidance.
[Hope] Yes!
[thunder rumbling]
[Hope] No way!
People actually wore these?
[Hope] They tried to look like dicks?
Wait, did you?
I can neither confirm nor deny.
[rain falling outside]
[Hope chuckling]
[Hope] Oh my God!
Stop! So embarrassed for you right now. I would laugh if I wasn't so hungry.
[rain falling outside]
[thunder rumbling]
[Huck] So, uh, what happened?
Last we talked you thought the world was ending and people were shit.
Now you walking through 1,000 miles of empties on a hunch.
[Hope] Think it's too late to reinvent myself?
[Hope] Check it out, the options are endless.
You led me and Felix right to you.
Get roped into this or did you have second thoughts?
I did.
But then I got second thoughts on my second thoughts.
-You goin' to be straight with me or what? -Yeah.
Once you're straight with me about where Cool Huck went.
Cos right now you're starting to sound a lot like my dad.
[flashback] You never showed up.
Principal Kallenbach's office? Ring any bells?
I sat and waited for you all day and you never showed.
-Right—that. -So you forgot.
Well, I was gonna go between classes, but...
Then I thought of the right opening phrase for the advanced immunology preface.
The one giving me trouble, remember? That's when I forgot.
By that point I had another class.
Then I decided that if you sat there all day
maybe you'd think twice before setting off stink bombs
to try to get a day off of school.
Then I wondered if all that transpired
was just the product of the background processes of my brain.
Which made me forget again until... right now.
So... you want to tell me what's going on with you?
-This is getting to be a regular thing. -They weren't just stink bombs.
They were time-release stink bombs.
They took two weeks to perfect.
Never mind.
Picking a dud like me, probably kick yourself some days.
At least you did good with Iris.
The agency told me and your mother...
You shared a crib.
You two were inseparable.
You were bonded before we ever met you.
The moment we laid eyes on you both.
We just... wanted to protect you.
We knew that even if we couldn't, you'd protect each other.
You did good with Iris, and she did good with you.
I've never wished for another Iris.
I love you—unconditionally.
I just hate that you don't see yourself the way I do.
Because you are exceptional.
I gotta go help Iris before she burns dinner again.
So, those stink bombs: ammonium sulfide?
Please—try 60% dipropylene glycol and 20% thioglycolic acid.
Not what I would've done, but...
It's not bad.
[Huck] Sup?
[Huck] Seen a few of those outlines.
First one with an actual sign attached.
-[Hope] Think it's by accident? -Maybe not.
-Someone took 'em all down but missed one? -Don't know.
[Huck] If somebody pulled the signs, maybe there's something worth hiding.
-Maybe got a shot at resupply after all. -Yeah, now we just got to find it.
[thunder rumbling]
-[Elton] Where'd you learn to do that? -Not in high school.
[Felix knocking against the door]
Alright, we're good.
We're looking for whatever collects water. Bottles, beakers, anything that seals.
Roger that.
[rain falling outside]
So these pictures you take.
-Science is like your thing, huh? -It's pretty much my raison d'être, yeah.
[Felix] Hey, come here.
Yeah, grab that.
Nice!
-You know, research is going on back home. -But this is much better—it's visceral.
Instead of books and laboratories I'm seeing the world firsthand.
[Elton] Documenting it.
What about helping Iris and Hope find their dad, huh?
-Where does that fit in? -I'm all about that, too.
Worried about their father, and I don't want them to worry.
-I mean, you barely knew 'em before. -Yeah.
Now I know everything from morning breath to bathroom habits.
[Felix] Hehe!
Monumental shared experience such as this pretty much bonds you for life.
[Felix] Yeah.
Score!
Iodine.
-The holy grail of water purification. -You grab that.
Alright, good to go.
[rain falling outside, thunder rumbling]
[Felix] Well, that wasn't here before.
Is it from an empty?
[Elton] Must've been injured and dragged itself away.
Maybe.
Maybe not.
[softly] Hey, Silas.
[softly] Iris, you copy?
[Felix] Shh.
[whisper] Silas!
Stay behind me.
[padding, dragging]
[empty wheezing, dragging itself]
[creature growling]
[thunder rumbling, rain falling outside]
[rain falling outside]
[Iris] Looks like a party.
[rain falling outside, thunder rumbling]
[rain falling outside]
[empty rasping, banging on door]
[Silas] The door's holding, it's okay.
[empty rasping and banging, thunder rumbling]
"Sadie Hawkins", huh.
Must've gone to school here, hmm.
[empty banging and rasping]
[empty banging and rasping, rain falling outside]
[empty banging]
Uh, probably not the most useful, huh?
[empty banging]
Says who?
[empty rasping and banging, rain falling outside]
[Iris] Hmm!
[rain falling outside, empty banging]
Let's go to the staffroom down the hall, maybe we'll have better luck there.
[empty banging and barking]
[Silas] Lemme try.
[empty banging and rasping]
[Silas] It's water damage. Ground's uneven, door frame's shifted.
-I think it's stuck for good. -Hand me your walkie.
Thanks—hey, Felix, do you copy?
[creature growling, empty rasping]
Felix.
[empty banging and rasping]
-Hey, what's...? -Maybe the batteries need a charge.
Nope, they're corroded.
[empty banging and rasping]
[rain falling outside, thunder rumbling]
[Hope] You never talk about your parents.
What was your dad like?
You were in the army or whatever, right?
-He must have been so proud. -He was.
It's always complicated shit with dads, you know?
What do you mean?
They just, you know, have a funny way of showing they give a shit sometimes.
[rain falling outside]
Yeah.
[flashback] I'm sorry, Hope.
But I have to go.
To put yourself in danger who knows where for a bunch of people you don't even know?
-Seriously? -They're good people, Hope, I mean...
At least they seem to be. The Civic Republic goals are our goals.
We need to trust them.
Good people would tell you where they're taking you.
And I'm sorry if I don't trust you, of all people, to see things clearly here.
Well, I trust my brain.
And my brain is telling me the clear thing is to trust these people.
Any chance I can get to school young minds and teach others what we all need to know.
That's the way forward, Hope. It's the only way.
This world you're trying to save is over.
That's what my brain is telling me.
This isn't the end.
If it was, it'd be easy, but it's not.
We still got a shot.
I'm gonna take it.
I'll be better.
I'll stop being a screwup.
I'm not goin' on this trip because of you.
-You are not a screwup. -Of course I am.
You're frustrated.
It's not your fault why you're frustrated.
What do you mean?
I've been meaning to talk to you for a while.
About a lot of things, I just...
I can't right now.
But we will when I get back, and I will be back.
It's big stuff, but it's not bad stuff.
You know how they said we couldn't communicate?
How the Civic Republic doesn't allow any messages to go in or out?
Well, I figured somethin' out.
-What? -A little tweak on some old technology.
I'll share it with the Omaha Council when I get back, but not until.
I'll show it to you and your sister.
-Felix already knows. -Felix?
He's family, Hope.
You made a communications device?
See?
I can be bad, too.
It's gonna be fine.
I love you.
More than you'll ever know.
[rain falling outside]
[thunder rumbling]
[Elton] Can I be honest about something?
Yeah.
Instead of turning a blind corner and potentially facing who knows what...
Maybe we draw it out.
Face it on our turf versus theirs, so to speak.
[Felix scoffing]
-Maybe? -Just stay behind me.
[Felix banging on door]
[rattling, rasping]
[locker rattling, empty snarling inside]
[rattling, snarling]
[Felix] Hey!
[rattling, snarling]
[Felix] You okay?
[rattling, snarling]
Yeah, I'm just claustrophobic so I'd rather not think about it.
[Felix] This one's goin' nowhere.
[rattling, snarling]
Come on, we should keep movin'.
[rattling, snarling]
[locker rattling, empty snarling inside]
-You want some water? Hmm? -Yeah.
[thunder rumbling, rain falling outside]
I get that you have your reasons for being out here, okay?
But you're not ready for this.
None of you are. Hell, I don't even know if I am.
[thunder rumbling]
Look, there may not be something around that corner right now.
But sooner or later there will be, okay?
And if you care about Iris, Hope or Silas...
You've seen this before, right?
Ever wonder why I got this tattoo?
This is to remind myself of everything that I've ever lost.
[thunder rumbling]
Who I've lost.
I lost my parents too, Elton.
Just like you did.
And there were others... friends.
The person who taught me how to pick that lock back there.
Hell... I can't lose anyone else.
Okay? I won't.
That's exactly why I need your help, okay?
I need your help convincing the others just to turn around.
All I'm asking is for you to think about it, okay?
Just think about it.
Come on.
Let's go.
[thunder rumbling]
[Felix] Oh!
[empty wheezing]
[Felix gasping]
[empty wheezing]
Did an empty do this?
No.
[empty wheezing]
No, it did not.
[empty wheezing]
Look, we need to find the others, okay? We need to get the hell outta here.
Whatever did this might not be alone.
[empty wheezing]
[empty banging and rasping]
[Silas] If we have to we can make our way past the empty, find a way upstairs.
[empty banging]
[Iris] Uh-huh.
You thirsty?
[empty banging]
-Where did you find...? -Under the bleachers.
[Iris] Huh!
I've never had soda in a can before.
[empty banging]
-Oh, shit, that's good. -Yeah.
[empty banging]
[rain falling outside]
You think they knew how good they had it here?
[rain falling outside]
Sodas, dances, art class.
The freedom to be whoever and whatever.
[rain falling outside]
Except for these, didn't you have all those things back at the university?
[rain falling outside]
Yeah...
[rain falling outside]
I just wish I knew then what I know now.
[rain falling outside]
Maybe I wouldn't have put so much pressure on myself to try make up for everything.
Living for everybody else...
Make up for what?
[rain falling outside]
Stuff.
[rain falling outside]
But I will tell you one thing, I definitely would've gone to more dances.
I mean...
[rain falling outside]
I wouldn't have been so afraid to just... have fun.
What about art?
[rain falling outside]
Oh.
[rain falling outside]
-What about it? -You're... an artist.
[rain falling outside]
You're different now.
Leading us.
-Yeah, I'm trying. -You are.
You're different, too.
I mean, what you did back at The Blaze.
[rain falling outside]
I know how people talked about me.
[rain falling outside]
-[Iris] Stupid people. -Most people.
Yeah, stupid people.
If they said something about me, talking about what they thought I did,
I'd hear it all day in my head, over and over.
I don't out here.
Good!
[rain falling outside]
You promised to play me a song once it was safe.
[Iris] Hehe, come on.
Pleeez!
[rain falling outside]
-[Iris] Alright, it's uh, like this, yeah? -Yeah.
[Iris] Hmm!
[headphone classical music playing]
[Iris] Oh!
[Iris] I didn't realize, uh...
[headphone classical music playing]
-Haha! I just didn't peg you for, uhm... -It was my grandma's favorite.
You know what?
I like it.
[headphone classical music playing]
[rain falling outside, thunder rumbling]
[Huck] The basement steps should be just up ahead.
-[Hope] This place is amazing. -[creature growling]
Get back.
[wolf growling and yelping]
[Hope] No! Not the gun.
[wolf growling]
[Huck] The hell?
It's so crazy to think of all those old-timey dances, I mean...
Women in ball gowns waltzing to a song just like this.
[rain falling outside]
Must've been so...
[headphone classical music playing]
Glamorous—hehe!
[rain falling outside]
[Silas] When I was four my grandma took me to a ballroom dance class.
At the senior center.
-It was not so glamorous. -Busted!
So you do know how to dance. Okay, come on, show me.
[rain falling outside]
I can't.
I don't—I don't remember.
I don't believe you.
I really don't remember.
[Silas] So.
[rain falling outside]
Come on, we'll do it together.
[Iris] Come on.
[rain falling outside]
[Iris] Hee-hee.
[rain falling outside]
[Iris in a posh voice] That way.
[rain falling outside]
Uhm... like this... riiight?
-I think so. -Hehe.
[Iris] Okay.
[Iris] And—whoa—oh—uh—ha!
[Iris laughing]
Yup, that's—that was—okay—alright.
[Iris] We're getting there!
[Iris giggling]
-[Silas] Ahem! -Come on.
We got this.
[Iris] Hehe.
[Iris] Oh, of course! [giggling] -[Silas giggling]
[Hope] There's gotta be a way past it.
[Hope] If it would just move or go away.
[wolf growling]
[Huck] It's not movin' for a reason.
[Huck] I mean, look at it. Posted there like it's standing guard.
-[Hope] I think it's defending its young. -I think I know how we can get around it.
[wolf snarling]
[Huck] Go slow.
[wolf growling and snarling]
[wolf growling]
[wolf growling and snarling]
[wolf growling]
[Huck] Come on.
[thunder rumbling]
[Felix] Silas, you copy?
[rain falling outside, thunder rumbling]
-[Iris] I have to chase you. -Okay.
[Iris giggling]
[Elton] Found 'em.
[thunder rumbling]
[Felix knocking on door]
[Felix] Hey! Iris!
Silas!
-[Iris] It won't open, trust us. -[Elton] Hmm.
Is there another way out?
-[Iris] A back way leads to the basement. -But there's an empty there.
Alright, we'll go down and come back up.
I'll take care of the empty.
I need you two to stay here until then, alright?
There's something else roaming the halls and I don't think it's friendly.
[rain falling outside, thunder rumbling]
[Hope] So that wolf and its young thing?
[Huck] Something I picked up being out there as long as I was.
[rain falling outside]
[Huck] See, it's easy to think you're reading a situation the right way.
[Huck] Sometimes, though, there's a whole other thing goin' on.
-[Huck] That you had no idea about. -Like you trying to get me to turn back?
That's what that was, right?
-I mean, all those questions. -You should.
A few days ago, I would've.
Right, but now I know I can't.
[rain falling outside]
Dads have a weird way of showing they give a shit.
And maybe I had my dad shit all wrong.
What do you mean?
Before my dad left he told me it wasn't my fault I was so frustrated.
[thunder rumbling]
I thought he was just saying shit to try to make me feel better, but...
Maybe...
Maybe he was trying to protect me like that wolf.
Protect you from what?
I don't know.
Something.
When I find him, I'll ask him.
[rain falling outside]
[thunder rumbling]
[rain falling outside]
[Huck] Still hungry?
[empty wheezing]
Start packing up supplies.
[empty wheezing]
[Huck] I got this.
[empty wheezing]
[empty banging and rasping]
[empty rasping and banging]
[faint howling]
Do you hear that?
Yeah, don't know what it is, though.
[empty banging]
[growling, snarling]
We gotta get past this empty.
-[Silas] Uh, yeah. -[Iris] Uh...
I'm going to open this door, okay?
And when I say, you open that one.
Right.
[empty rasping, creature growling]
[Iris] Hey! Look at me!
Come on!
[empty rasping, creature growling]
Silas! Door!
[empty rasping]
[creature growling]
[creature barking]
[Iris] What is it?
I think it's a flare.
Watch your eyes.
[empty rasping]
[clanging]
[thunder rumbling]
Silas, be careful.
[empty rasping, clanging]
[empty rasping]
Silas!
Silas! Door!
[empties rasping and snarling]
[empties rasping and banging on door]
You okay?
-Yeah, and you? -Uh-huh.
We gotta get out of here.
[empties rasping and banging]
[empties rasping]
Silas!
[empties rasping and banging]
-[Hope] Ugh, gross! -Gotta get those Omega-3s somehow.
[muffled female voice]
Did you hear that?
-[muffled grunting, pounding] -[Hope] Iris?
[Hope] Iris!
Hope?
We need to get this door open, there's empties in here.
[Iris] It's about to get bad.
-[Huck] Iris, we'll get you out, hang on. -Hurry!
[Silas] It's coming.
[empty rasping]
[Silas] They just keep coming.
[empty rasping]
[empties banging and rasping]
[big empty barking and snarling]
You get a fresh start.
Even his own mom testified against him.
Can't believe they let him in here.
Dude should be in jail.
Felix! Hurry!
[Iris] Silas! Stop!
[Iris] Silas!
[Elton] Hey! Silas! Silas!
[Felix] Silas!
[rain falling outside]
I'm sorry.
[rain falling outside]
[Hope] When I heard you screaming...
[Iris] Yeah, I know, but I'm okay.
Are we?
There's a lot I missed out on.
Maybe if I would've just...
Or if you...
We should've talked.
We should have told each other about what happened that night.
We would've been there for each other.
That's what we both missed out on.
[Iris] Hmm!
[Huck] Yeah... phew!
[Huck] You put the tough in TuffyStitch, you know that, kid?
-[Huck] Had me worried for a second. -[Elton] Thank you.
[Elton] I'm more worried about Silas.
[Felix] Whew.
[door opening and closing]
[Elton] So, uhm.
If you did have a plan to turn around...
How would that even work?
Going back through the B.O.G. would be suicide.
Depending on how long it takes to convince everyone.
-There's ways around. -Such as?
Put it this way.
Our last best chance is the Mississippi.
Huck and I... we could really use your help on this one.
This is how we keep everyone alive.
You in?
[footsteps approaching]
[Iris] Hey.
Everyone is ready to go.
[Iris] So...
You should leave me here.
Okay, well, we're not leaving you here.
-I hurt Elton. -It was an accident.
He knows that.
I know you've heard what they say...
What they said.
Do you think I killed my dad?
Do you?
It's okay.
-Whatever you think... I just— -Don't.
It doesn't matter.
Maybe I could've done it myself.
Maybe you should've let me.
But you saved us—twice now.
You did that, Silas.
Hey.
That's what matters.
So, come on, let's get you cleaned up.
Hey, you good?
You are.
[Elton] Uh, wait, hold on, excuse me.
-[Hope] Did you forget your prom crown? -[Elton] No.
I just want to get a group photo. Come on, everybody in.
[Iris] Thought you only documented stuff. Since when do you snap actual people?
I don't know.
Since now.
Come on.
[Elton] Smile.
[buzz, whirr]
[woman] Test subject A402.
[woman] That's good there, thank you.
[woman] Test subject displayed no responses to psychological stimuli.
[woman] Necrotic plasma and brain fluid are being drawn for further testing.
[woman] Results to be compared to test performed during and after reanimation.
Tomorrow we'll begin the climate variation tests as scheduled.
[test subject rasping]
[woman] Again, this is test subject A402.
[woman] Known in life as Dr. Samuel Abbott of Portland, Oregon.
[test subjects rasping]
Thank you, bring out the next TS, please.
[buzz, whirr]
[test subjects rasping]
[device wheeling, test subjects rasping]
Fat's gud there, fankoo.
[buzz, whirr]
[test subjects rasping]
Test subject A403. ing]