Previously on The Walking Dead: World Beyond.
You have loaned us your greatest mind,
Dr. Leo Bennett.
I'm sure Iris is helping someone.
That's what you get.
And Hope? I'm sure she's with friends.
Getting into trouble.
-So you admit it. You're one of them. -Yeah.
Will's scouting expedition was due back days ago.
I think it's possible we're being lied to.
Your dad's not in danger. Never was.
I need to help Dad with his research. Huck's mission was to get me there.
They think they need me to save the world,
but they have no clue what you can do.
This is how we give our lives meaning.
Will?
I thought you were dead.
Why would you think that?
You don't know?
The ones that are still out there, they're not a threat.
We'll talk. A lot's happened since you left.
You Bennetts are going to accomplish great things together.
Yeah, we are.
Clearing the lane.
Asset on vector at three clicks.
Ready ingress charges.
Alpha leader, stand by for extraction.
Asset on vector.
Both the Campus Colony and Portland
are concerned about the communication break.
There's talk they're sending an envoy to investigate.
As we expected.
Clear Major Mullins to reach out,
offer to collaborate on the investigation.
-And the lane to the Campus Colony? -Cleared.
We'll have the column there within 72 hours,
once its work is done here.
Good.
Your decision not to inform Staff Sergeant Mallick…
Her mission is separate from this.
With any luck, she's, uh… reached a minimum safe distance.
Fire ingress charges.
New orders from Major General Beale.
Doing this…
And then again to the Campus Colony…
It's only the beginning.
Alert delta team. We found their escapee.
Help… me.
Ho.
I thought I heard someone up.
I'm sure she's okay.
It's her birthday today.
Yeah.
I bet your dad's doing something for her.
Will you promise me
you'll try to get
at least a little shut-eye?
Little sleep?
I'll promise if you promise.
Alright.
Wish me luck.
What the hell?
Your research place is here?
Change of plan.
The hell?
Why are we here?
Hey, what the hell is this?
What this is, Hope, is a lesson.
Don't worry, I know you don't like school.
Think of it as more of a field trip.
You said you were taking me to my dad.
Was that a lie too?
Why am I even asking?
Kid, she's taking you to your dad--
No, I'm not. Not yet.
You gave us the map.
You told us it was New York.
You pushed us and you lied about--
The other helicopters.
You said you went to the university alone.
What was that even about?
We're ten years into this new world, Hope.
And there are dead columns - you call them mega clusters,
others call them hordes,
some call them herds -
roaming the continent, and as far as we can tell, the whole world.
And these columns, they're now so big they just break through everything.
Just run through anything, whole cities.
The day after Monument Day, we were on our way to Omaha,
and we saw one such column.
So huge it was like nothing we'd ever seen before.
It was unimaginable.
It had run through Omaha and was headed for the Campus Colony.
We were mobilizing the rescue effort
and contacting Campus Colony officials
when a second column,
nearly just as big, merged with the first.
There must have been over a hundred thousand in total.
We did everything we could to save as many lives as we could,
but it wasn't enough.
For the few who came out alive,
we airlifted them to Portland, but, uh…
Both Omaha and the Campus Colony are gone.
What?
-No. That's crazy. -What are you talking about?
Yeah. Search and rescue are still…
still combing through, but at this point, it's…
No, you're wrong. You're…
Don't touch me!
I'm so sorry, both of you.
It's small words for something so big, but…
I don't care.
I brought us here to Albany,
because this was my home, at the end.
I was here working as an attaché for the UK Ministry of Defence
when everything fell apart.
And it was then that I realized
just how quickly any chance for a future can crumble,
even when everyone does their best.
You've been through so much,
but with everything that's happened, Hope,
do you still believe a future's possible?
I, uh…
Uh… I did.
You should.
Because despite all of the fallen cities, it still is.
And getting you to think differently,
think more positively about the future, yeah,
that was why we pushed you to go on this journey.
And I'm sorry, but now that you see how fragile civilization is,
just you understanding that no one makes it alone.
No one. It takes everyone coming together
to have a shot at that future.
No. You said you were taking me to my father.
I hope I can.
You hope?
We both know you're not ready.
For a community with a long-term plan,
predicated on generational education
and scientific progress,
geniuses are an invaluable resource.
But a genius who's a rebellious, strong-willed troublemaker?
That's a risk.
Used against us, those qualities can spread like rot,
and they make any kind of common goal unobtainable.
We can't bring in someone who would jeopardize that.
Don't misunderstand me.
We want you to work with us, and you have a lot to offer,
but I cannot bring you in to join your father
unless I know that despite your grief and despite your anger,
you are fully committed to being an asset for the future.
Right? To dedicating the rest of your life to learning,
furthering his research,
and handing that knowledge on to the next generation,
'cause only then, only then will you be an asset to the future.
I am.
That's why I came with you guys, because I'm ready.
-I think you need more time. -For what?!
To think about what you want, Hope.
What do you truly want?
I'll need your answer by dawn.
After all the shit you put me through,
I can walk away and you're just gonna let me?
Um, I'm giving you that option, yeah.
You'd have every reason to,
given the extent of our manipulation.
I'll take my chances. Alone!
You think you can find your sister, your friends?
You can't.
Out there, on your own, you won't make it out of the city,
never mind to any kind of future.
Being alive today, that's a gift.
And you can choose to waste it, alone, waste all of your gifts,
or you can fight for a future with others, for others,
so that what happened here, and to the hundred thousand souls in Omaha,
and your friends back home never happens again.
You don't have to like us,
but you do have to embrace what we're fighting for.
The choice is yours.
Hope!
The Dunn Memorial Bridge is the only way out.
It's eight blocks east.
I'm not recommending it.
You really doing this?
After everything I did to get her here?
-She could die. -Yeah, she could.
Or she could choose to join us. We need her to choose.
Mission incomplete.
Tell us what happened.
The CRM controls all communications in and out.
Each message is coded and scheduled to avoid detection.
They don't mess around.
I'm worried. It's been weeks, and nothing.
Officer Campbell, I understand your concern.
But it could be anything. Sun flares, equipment failure…
I'd been waiting on a security update from Omaha that was weeks late.
As more time went by, they kept stonewalling.
I told them as much.
That was my mistake.
Romano and I heard a team was being sent to a relay station
a few hundred miles out, to look into the communication break.
Leo gave us his blessing to go with them.
We downplayed it so he wouldn't worry,
told him it was a scouting mission.
Lieutenant. It was good to hear you had room for two more.
Looking forward to getting to the bottom of this.
You know the protocol.
Looking back, there were signs it was a setup.
They didn't put up a fight when we told them we wanted to go.
I overheard one of them make a cryptic comment
about picking up a patrol shift the next day,
but it was a three-day trip.
And for a three-day trip, they were light on supplies.
I was on the run for a few days when I heard the helicopters.
They were looking for you?
They were dropping off shipping containers.
Containers full of equipment from the Campus Colony, Omaha.
Generators, computers…
Some of it was covered in blood.
It was loaded into trucks and driven off--
Wait, wait, wait.
Blood?
Are you sure?
I heard them call it a salvage mission.
Said something about shit being messed up by
a giant column that ran through.
A few days later, they found me.
Took me in.
I'd joined a hunting party to help out when I ran into you.
Wait! You're saying that Omaha…
That empties just ran through?
I don't know how else to take it.
How?
How can it just be gone? I…
Wait, my dad. Is he okay?
There's no reason to believe he's not okay.
Same with Hope.
I kicked a hornets' nest. Asked too many questions.
Must have made me and Romano targets.
Did CRM know the whole time? Why would they lie?
I don't know.
All I know is they want me dead,
and I will be if they find me.
We should go.
Whole place is secure.
A storm last night knocked some trees onto the wall.
It's possible some empties breached, but we patched it up quick.
That's a… A Jean-Charles.
He's a Haitian sculptor I read about in a book back home.
That one's called Vérité.
What is this place?
The Perimeter.
It was an abandoned farm town back in the day.
Before things fell apart,
it was bought, turned into an artists' colony.
They've built things up since then, brought people in.
Felix, Iris, this is the head of the council that runs this place.
Indira. A runner gave us a heads-up you were coming.
I'm so sorry about your home.
But with Will vouching for you,
you have one here,
at least until a more permanent solution presents itself.
I can't tell you how much we appreciate that.
You may keep your knives, but for the safety of others,
we do ask that you surrender all other weapons
while you're on our land.
You agree to this?
There's a spare bedroom in the house Will's staying in.
Once you're cleaned up and fed, I'll send someone to look at that leg.
The council will want to ask you both some questions,
but I'll hold them off till morning.
Come on. It's just ahead.
Uh, let me ask you something before you go.
What do you live for?
Living takes effort now. It takes everything.
Those still alive have their reasons.
And I realize I need to know those reasons
if you're going to be with us.
What do you live for?
These two.
And a few others.
And you?
I guess I live for Hope.
The world is nothing without hope.
-Go. -Come on.
Hi.
How safe are we here?
It's pretty rare for the CRM to cross into Perimeter territory.
It's part of the deal Indira struck with them.
Her people clear the area of the dead
and ward strangers away from the facility.
In return, the CRM gives them supplies and neutrality.
They don't bother the CRM, the CRM doesn't bother them.
They're risking everything by harboring us.
-So I finished decoding these books. -Anything?
Supply depot locations,
fuel inventories, stuff we could use once we get Hope and my dad back.
Nothing to help get Hope and my dad back.
And you're sure?
Come on. There's got to be something, right?
Let's scout the facility while it's dark.
See for ourselves what we're up against.
How far is it?
Come on. You said you were drawing up a layout.
Yeah, but…
There's nothing any of us can do just yet.
Look, I want Hope and your dad
safe from those assholes as much as you do,
but I know that place.
I'm not just gonna sit here and wait.
They've got guards, patrols, long-range security.
Getting close is dangerous
and won't tell you anything I don't already know.
-Okay… -Hey.
This is about the long game.
Not just how we get in, but how we get 'em out,
and where we go after.
It's not just about Hope and Leo's safety, or ours anymore.
It's about the safety of everyone here giving us shelter.
One wrong move, and it's over.
For all of us.
Iris?
Felix?
Dad?
Think about what you want, Hope.
What you truly want.
Hello?
You thinking of going after her?
You said we needed her to keep her dad motivated.
To maybe even take over his research someday.
I said we could use her for those things, yeah.
So what, none of that matters anymore?
It matters that you succeed, Jennifer.
It was your idea to get the girl across country this way.
You insisted she was worth the risk.
You convinced me that this trip was the only way to change her.
It did change her.
Not enough.
This little nudge?
I think with this, your mission can still be a win.
Like Omaha was.
And it'll all but erase what happened before you left.
I've only ever wanted the best for you, you know that?
She reminds me a bit of you at that age.
Is that why you took her on?
She was lost.
Angry.
She needed someone to look up to.
Someone to believe in her.
I could relate.
How come you didn't tell me about the Campus Colony or Omaha before?
When we met for the debriefing?
It would only have been a needless distraction,
and it would have made your mission that much harder.
Being under for an extended period…
It's easier to form attachments. Blur the lines.
If you want to go after her, I won't stop you.
What about the others?
You said you found one. Who was it?
Based on the description you gave us, we believe it's Silas Plaskett.
Plaskett's an innocent. He doesn't know anything.
He's been interrogated.
He's stonewalling.
We've gleaned nothing, which is why I'm focused on finding the others.
If they know too much, or…
if they're still resolved on "saving" Dr. Bennett, or now Hope…
They'll need to be dealt with.
So…
Tell me, how much do they know about us?
About the mission.
She's CRM.
Five miles north, you'll find safety.
Why are you doing this?
I want what you have.
You have a helicopter. I heard it.
You have clothes, and food, and when you have it, you fight to keep it.
And when you have nothing, you take.
You have to take. You have to feed!
You. You're her.
I saw your picture. It's you. I know it's you!
You're wrong. I'm not.
-You're Candice! -No.
I'm not her. I can't be, because you are.
See?
You can't run away. There isn't anyplace better.
You know that.
You got out, and had to come back.
And come back, and come back, and come back, and come back.
You should have done so many things at the start.
So many things.
You should have done them, Candice, but couldn't.
-Stop. -Why couldn't you?
Please stop. Stop. I don't want to hurt you, okay?
I just want to go.
Go where?
You'll just die.
Someone else gets the clothes, the food, supplies, the meat.
Don't make me kill you. Please don't make me kill you.
Tell me what you're doing out here.
What?
What are you doing here if you won't feed?!
I'm just trying to make it.
Oh, Candice.
You stupid little bitch.
You fed.
Stay.
This is your home.
It's yours now.
Think about what you want, Hope. What you truly want.
I was very happy to get your call.
You were right.
I wasn't gonna make it alone.
But I don't want this to be all there is.
I don't know if you want to hear that, but it's the goddamned truth.
Did I pass your test?
Can I see my dad now?
It's okay to hate us, Hope.
You should.
But the bad things we do must be done.
We carry that burden so that others don't have to,
so there can still be good in the world.
And maybe one day, this won't be all there is.
I'm willing to offer your sister and Officer Carlucci a home with us,
seeing as they don't have one to go back to.
I would imagine you understand that very differently now.
You wanted to see if I'd go after her.
If she and the others have changed me.
I'm really glad I was wrong.
I've been thinking about Silas.
What we can do with him.
No more loose ends, like you said, right?
I'm afraid I have some tragic news about the Campus Colony
that I need to share with you.
It is tempered by some very good news about your family.
Hey.
How you feeling?
Doc said you have a concussion.
Look.
You got every reason to hate me.
But I need you to listen.
You ever want to see Iris and Felix again?
We got to get on the same page about something.
Before we left them at that farmhouse,
I sent them to a settlement a few miles from here.
People there will keep them safe.
Wait, what?
And my mother…
I told her they didn't know anything.
It guarantees their safety if she finds them.
As long as they don't divulge what they know.
Why? What happens if they do?
The CRM finds out you decoded their intel?
That you all knew that I had orders to take out Iris and Felix
if that's what it took?
And that I let them live, knowing that?
I don't know what happens.
But I know we've killed people for less.
You really think I'm an idiot, huh?
You're just trying to cover your ass.
No. That's not what this is about.
Why don't I tell your mother how bad her daughter screwed up her mission?
Why don't I screw with your life the way you did with mine?
I just told you why.
You go to her,
you could be putting a target not just on my back, but on yours.
On Felix and Iris's.
And on your dad's, too.
If you tell them what really went down.
You'll have to lie to him.
About where they are.
About what you know.
It's the only way you can be sure he stays safe.
You and me?
We're just tiny pieces of a big mosaic.
Little players in a game that will be played out over decades.
Maybe centuries.
But this place?
It's safe. It's good for everybody.
As long as we play by their rules and don't stir shit up.
Is that a threat?
It's how it is. After last night, I thought you got that.
No, I got that I wanted to get to a future.
Maybe help work for one.
But there is no way in hell I am working with you assholes
to make that happen.
I knew I wasn't gonna make it back there.
You were just my ticket out.
It's past midnight. Happy birthday, kid.
Will you promise me you'll try to get
at least a little shut-eye?
Little sleep?
I'll promise if you promise.
Wish me luck.
Felix.
Felix?
Yeah.
Why do you think the CRM would cover up what happened back home?
Just doesn't make sense, does it?
No.
It doesn't.
I keep thinking about everybody who's gone.
And the only reason we're not is 'cause we left.
We took a risk.
Maybe that's how we keep living.
How we get Hope and my dad back.
We do what we need to do, no matter the risk.
Look, it's great that the council is letting us stay here, but…
We can only sit tight for so long. The rules are different now.
The CRM changed the game.
So we change how we play.
Said something about shit being messed up
by a giant column that ran through.
That empties just ran through?
I don't know how else to take it.
It wasn't empties.
It was you.
That's what you get. to take it.