Previously on The Walking Dead: World Beyond.
Hey there. I come in peace.
I don't understand.
We lure the dead in with lights and music, blow 'em up, clean 'em up.
-Where's he going? -CR's Research Facility.
Why you asking? Know someone there?
So I don't give a damn about how you justify your lies.
You find my daughter.
-I thought you were-- -Yeah.
Yeah, I thought I was too.
Hope we're not causing problems.
I need you to take me to Iris and Felix.
What she did to my uncle… Huck is gonna pay for what she did.
Daniel. Daniel, get back. She's turning.
No, she's still breathing.
I think… I think she's waking up.
There you are.
Try not to move.
Your arm's broke, but help's on the way.
Down here!
Looks like you've been through it.
Lord knows how long you've been floating down that river.
Thank God the OPD is quick.
Welcome to Omaha.
Can you tell us your name, dear?
Save your strength.
-We'll just call you-- -Staff Sergeant Mallick.
Indira.
It's been quite some time.
What brings you out so far?
Iris?
Iris?!
Hope?
Iris!
You hesitated.
They're the first we've seen.
A few more might have made it in from the breach.
I'll be sure that Indira knows about that.
Hope?
-And Huck. -What are they…?
No, no. Hey, stop.
When I heard it, I thought maybe they'd…
Okay, if she sees you, right now--
-No. -Hey!
Look, there could be more of them.
Alright? We gotta be smart about this.
Yeah.
We do.
-Stay here. -Felix--
I can't believe you're here.
Is Dad with you?
Uh… No, it's just us.
Huck had to sneak me out.
Where's Dad? He okay?
-Yeah, he's fine. He's fine. -Hope?
-Felix? Felix! -Hi.
What do you know?
Just like old times.
I don't get it.
Why is Staff Sergeant Mallick here with your friend?
I don't know.
You good?
-You alright? Yeah? -Yeah, yeah. A lot's happened.
I hope you're not bringing trouble, Jennifer.
I'm not.
-Does your mother know you're here? -She doesn't.
And she won't.
I just want to talk to them.
Alone.
You're aware this place has not seen bloodshed since its founding.
I'd like to keep it that way.
Yes, ma'am.
So it's Jennifer, huh?
That's nice.
Why are you here, Jennifer?
What do you want?!
What we want,
is for you and Iris to come back with us.
Clear a path. Grady, move in.
Tiga, watch his six.
Open the gate.
Today, Plaskett!
Grady, move! Tiga, eyes on Webb.
Speed it up! Let's go, let's go!
Come on, let's go. Grady, get that in the cage.
Webb, Tiga, you got strays to put down. What's wrong with you?
Move!
What died up his ass and came back to life?
Plaskett!
I said, cut the music and prep for cleanup.
-Yeah. Sorry. I was-- -I don't care.
You're not here.
Unless you wanna end up on the wrong end of a killstick,
pay attention!
Don't.
When we're done here,
you're coming with me.
What are you talking about?
Why the hell would we go with you?
You wouldn't.
We'd take you most of the way,
then you make like you found the place on your own.
What is this about?
Being together.
Keeping you safe, keeping Dad safe.
-You said Dad was okay. -He is, okay? He's…
He's worried, okay, and I'm worried.
He's gonna stir shit up if we don't bring you back soon.
Iris, he could get hurt.
Or worse.
Meanwhile, the CRM's looking for you back at the retirement home--
Not your mom.
No, she was just here. With soldiers.
Is that, is that, is that why you're here now?
Use Hope to lure us out?
Hey, you okay?
I don't know. I, I, I can't really, um, uh…
She knows, she knows I'm here.
They can't see us back here.
I, I, I, she just knows, okay? I…
I'm sorry, I can't be here right now. Um…
Where are you going?
There was a woman with a gun.
It was your mom.
Sit still.
The more you squirm, the longer this will take.
You a fan?
My dad was into music.
Well, rock, mostly, but…
I was more into guitar riffs.
You play?
No.
I'm not, uh, too coordinated.
How did this happen?
So does the music ever, like, bring people here?
People from the Research Facility, or, people looking for the--
The only people you need to worry about are the ones not breathing.
I'm gonna have you down in the action with the crew soon.
No point having you working the lights and sound forever.
A kid your size.
Okay. Go like this.
Just like that.
You don't exercise that hand, the nerves won't heal right.
All you have to do is play dumb about knowing I was CRM,
about the code books, the fuel caches…
And you'll be good.
My mom will take you in.
You'll be safe.
"Safe."
It's just one lie.
What about Omaha?
That just one lie too?
Wait… Uh, you knew?
I-I didn't know that you knew. I was gonna tell you--
So, it's true?
It's just gone?
The Campus Colony too.
The CRM couldn't mobilize fast enough to save either one of them.
Or they were the ones who made it happen.
-It was the dead, a giant cluster. -No, I think you killed those people.
The empties were a cover-up.
We're about bringing the world back. Why would we kill 100,000 people--
Why don't you tell us?
This is crazy.
Do you know something?
If you're asking if I can prove it, I can't.
But there is no way in hell I am going anywhere with her.
-No. -Hey, no, where are you going?
I have nothing to say in front of her.
This is not about her!
It's about Dad! Don't you want to see him?
Of course I want to see him!
But we would be idiots to go back in there without a way out.
She's absolutely right.
We are not doing this.
What about Silas?
He's alive.
On a culling and maintenance post not far from here.
He's being taken care of.
I made sure of it.
You come with us, you get to see him too.
Did you know? You seen him?
This is the first I'm hearing about this.
-Because she's lying! -It's the truth!
I didn't want to complicate things any more than they already are.
Come with us, and you'll see.
I want to talk to you.
Alone.
Hey.
What's up with you?
You shouldn't be out here.
What is this place?
Nothing. Just an old hunting blind.
No, no. It's got all kinds of medical supplies from the CR.
-Is someone sick? Why is it hidden? -Look.
This doesn't have anything to do with you, okay?
Forget you saw anything.
So then what is this? Part of some secret side deal?
Shouldn't your mom know about this?
She already does.
I'm the one who's sick.
Plaskett!
-You going somewhere? -Um…
I was, well, I was just--
Looks to me like he was trying to bail on us.
-No. No, I wasn't. -Yeah.
You were.
Are you gonna tell Dennis?
No. See, Plaskett…
Out here…
We take care of our shit our own way.
I'm taking a walk.
No, you're not. Not alone.
I know it's only been a few days, but…
You just seem older, or something.
You're the one who's older.
I, I can't believe I missed your birthday, Hope.
Oh, it's okay.
Dad put a candle in my eggs, so…
That sounds like Dad.
Yeah.
This is the first time he's been distracted by work since I got there.
Seeing him okay, with all those other doctors from Portland and Omaha…
that are just like him…
I think I'm starting to get it. Why he's so into it, why…
Why it's so important.
So Dad's happy?
Not with the CRM, but…
-He has a girlfriend. -What?
-Shut up. -I'm serious.
She's really smart. She's a scientist.
This guy Mason says she's a really big deal.
Mason? Who's Mason?
Oh, he's just a guy. He's in some of my classes.
It's not how it sounds.
It sounds like you're meeting guys,
and talking about Dad's girlfriend as if--
I'm trying to get us back together,
so we can figure things out in a way that's smart.
What's smart is you staying here, so we can get Dad out together.
If I stay here, they'll find us all before we even get a chance.
Look, at the facility, we can, we can take our time,
w-we can think things through, we can plan.
We'd be prisoners.
We'd be alive.
Portland is 2,700 miles away.
There's no way we'll get there with a target on our back, and you know it.
Our home is gone.
We're all we have.
Yeah, I know.
How did you find out?
About home.
I don't want to talk about it.
Just say you'll come back with us.
Hope.
I can't.
You can.
And you should.
But I get it.
You won't.
Listen.
I need to tell you something.
Don't. No, we're not doing this--
Felix.
Leo and Hope don't even know.
Know what?
My mother.
She sent a team out on a recon mission,
and it, um…
It went bad.
They lost Will.
I know what he meant to you.
-And I can't even begin to tell you-- -Then don't!
How the hell did it get in here?
They'll come. They'll come looking.
And they'll find you. Bit.
Turned.
Miles from here.
Another dead asshole roaming the Earth.
Felix!
No, I'm not gonna kill you tonight.
No, I just wanted to know what it's gonna feel like when I do.
Enjoy your walk, Jennifer.
-Come on, move it. -Where are you taking me?
Shut up! This is it.
So, what exactly happens if he doesn't make it out?
Tough shit.
What's the point of being here if he's gonna screw shit up?
He's got to learn.
Swing at anything that moves.
Holy shitballs.
How many down is that? Nine, ten?
In under two minutes. Almost broke your record.
Yeah, right. I tapped a full baker's dozen my first time.
You know, for the record, I was only a little on board with this.
-What the hell is this place? -We call it The Parade.
It's our training facility. It's where we practice. Keep sharp.
It's dine and dash: you dash, or they dine.
Theoretically, on account of them not having working mouths or teeth.
But did Dennis set this up?
We made it ourselves, but he knows about it.
Look, we want out of here too.
Just in a different way.
Why do you think we're here busting our asses?
You put in the time, do well, Dennis tells the people upstairs.
Then maybe we get bumped up into CRM training. Officially.
That's why we made this extra spicy.
And we were ready to jump in, but…
Damn. You handled it.
And look, you promise to have our backs, we'll have yours.
It's all good, man.
So, no hard, right?
Hey.
Where the hell did you go?
I know this sounds crazy, but I think I saw Percy coming from the armory.
Look at this.
This was here when I got in.
What?
I think this is Percy's.
Shit.
Armory's open.
Shit!
-Wait, wait. Where are you going? -Hey, I think he's alive.
Okay? I think Percy's alive, and if he is, he's going after Huck.
And if we don't get him first, he's gonna get us all killed.
Plaskett.
Are you gonna tell me where you were off to?
Everybody's running from something.
The crew can be tough.
And the work is… work.
But this isn't the end.
This is us saving ourselves from the end.
Webb just got accepted into basic training.
He's leaving tomorrow.
I'm gonna need you to step up.
I was trying to find my friends.
We were going cross-country together, before we got split up.
And, someone in the group, she's… dangerous.
A killer.
And the others might not even know.
Maybe they do.
Maybe they handled it.
You don't know Huck.
"Huck"?
Kid, I don't care what she's done.
You're not allowed to be afraid of some battle-axe named Huck.
I can't just give up.
I can't.
Well, you can be a part of something here, Plaskett.
Your friends.
They're probably a lot stronger than you think.
Just going off to find them in the great big nothing?
How does that work, really?
How do you do that?
You don't.
Running away…
That's giving up.
You got an early morning. Get some sleep.
Do me a favor?
Take that bottle.
I'm sick of staring at it.
You can use it to clean your hand.
Plaskett.
You get one screw-up here.
That was your one.
Hey!
No.
Yeah. It's me.
-No! -Will?
Will, what the hell did you do?
This doesn't make any sense. I thought you were dead.
Yeah. We had to make the CRM think I was, to throw them off my trail.
They're trying to kill me.
They killed Romano. They want me dead.
So, as long as I keep the dialysis thing going,
I feel fine.
No big deal.
-Nobody else knows except-- -My mom and my brother.
It sucks having to rely on the CRM, but…
I just don't want people looking at me different.
You're looking at me different.
Sorry. It's just, um…
Y-You're very…
So, what was up with you bugging out back there?
Well, uh…
Things with my friend Hope are, um…
messy.
They're all scrambled up.
You know, I used to believe that my mother and my sister
were still out in the world somewhere, but, um…
That was just a dumb story I told myself to feel better.
What do you think happens to things when they die?
Well, they, uh… break down into their original compounds.
But after they're absorbed into the ground, then what?
Then they're reabsorbed by plants.
Plants that become food for an insect,
that's eaten by a bird or another animal.
The original thing's now part of a bunch of other things.
But, just because their matter lives on, there's…
no proof their consciousness does.
So?
I have faith that it does.
I should go find my mom.
Thanks for keeping my secret.
I, uh, I th-- I think you're very brave.
That's what I was trying to tell you earlier.
You should talk to your friend.
Maybe she can make things a little less… scrambled.
I was onto the truth about Omaha.
That's why they tried to kill me.
To cover up what they did.
They were trying to keep Omaha quiet till we got Hope there,
so Leo didn't think his family was dead.
Oh, come on. That's bullshit.
-That doesn't mean they were behind-- -Are you blind?
Or just really that stupid?
If the CRM would have destroyed Omaha,
it would have gone through my mother.
-Alright? She would have told me. -Open your eyes.
She's lying to you.
And you spent your whole life lying to everyone around you.
What makes you think she's any different?
Sun'll be up soon. I need to find Hope and go.
No. No.
So you can tell them about Will?
About all of us?
I won't.
You have my word.
You have every reason to hate me,
but like it or not,
I'm the closest thing to a friend in the CR you got.
-Be safe, kid. -Take care of him, okay?
So we're really doing this?
What they tried to do to Will…
That means the CRM really…
You should have told me. This changes everything.
-I wanted to tell you. -Why didn't you?
I don't know, I…
Maybe I should have.
Anything else I should know?
I'll miss you.
We will get you and Dad out of there.
We will.
Just tell him not to worry,
and that I'm okay.
I wish I could.
Did you talk to Percy?
I read him the riot act.
He was only doing what you wanted to. You know that, right?
But I didn't.
Look, I'm glad that he's okay.
But we can't stay here.
It's not safe for us anymore.
It's not safe for you.
The smart play for Huck is to keep this quiet.
She tells the CRM, she exposes herself.
It's mutually-assured destruction.
I'm not gonna lose you again.
We'll find a way out of this.
How are we gonna do that, hm?
I don't even know how to save Hope, and, and Leo.
-Now Silas-- -Silas?
-Wait, he's with them too? -Oh, no. Huck said something about a…
About a culling outpost?
What?
It's a long shot.
But if he's where she says he is…
I might know a way to get everybody out.
Sorry.
I-I-I can, uh… I can come later.
No, it's okay.
Come in.
How are you holding up?
You know, killing has-beens, that's, uh…
That's easy.
I lost track.
But a person? Uh…
I never wanted something so bad in my entire life.
You wanted justice.
And I think we're both willing to go
a little further than most people to get it.
I thought my sister was like that, too.
Are you mad Will stopped you?
She shouldn't be able to walk around like what she did doesn't matter.
But I sh-- I should have been thinking about everyone.
About Will…
Felix…
You.
Percy.
I should, uh…
I should go.
Today, we honor a part of us.
A part of our Alliance of the Three.
The fallen city of Omaha and its Campus Colony.
The tragedy that befell our sister city is an immeasurable loss,
that reminds us just how precious each and every life is.
As the Civic Republic's military emissary to Omaha,
I feel this loss very personally.
Deeply.
But now is not the time for doubt.
To question our resolve.
We could lose everything.
If Elton tells anyone…
If people find out--
They won't.
Because I told him I was the one who was sick.
Now more than ever, we have to stand strong,
united as one alliance.
Congratulations. Transport's picking you up in two hours.
For the Civic Republic and its military
are forever bound to you, Portland, as you are to us.
Today, on behalf of Major General Beale,
I pledge to the citizens of Portland,
and the Civic Republic,
that these tragedies will serve as a clarion call for our military,
to stand even more firmly resolved,
ready to fight for our survival, for the survival of our alliance,
and for the survival of humankind.
And as we pray for the souls we've lost,
we say to you, our allies in Portland:
stay strong, stay vigilant,
and may God bless us all.
Jennifer. Hey. Were you watching?
I hope I didn't come across as nervous.
No. If you were, you did a good job covering.
Good.
It's been a bloody awful, difficult three days.
I'm sorry that I didn't make your reinstatement.
I-I got called to the CR
on some urgent matter at the Health and Welfare Complex.
It's handled, but I was wondering if we could--
How many people actually survived in Omaha?
You have their names?
You said that they were airlifted out.
You know that that, uh…
That kind of confidential information is above a staff sergeant's rank.
-I'm not asking as a staff serge-- -Don't.
You've only just gotten back what you lost
after a horrendous error in judgement.
I would hate for someone…
to think that you hadn't learnt your lesson.
You spent your whole life lying to everyone around you.
What makes you think she's any different?
I'm ready.
Why did you do that?
Raft's ready, team's waiting.
Can we just get this over with?
I'm gonna miss you.
Always know that I love you. h?