NARRATOR: Previously on Z Nation...
WARREN: We are at war...
and we don't even know who the hell we're fighting.
The one drug I never tried. This stuff is strong, ain't it?
We use it to guide us spiritually.
The kid needs antibiotics. - The Water Keepers will have something.
Yeah, we know all about that Native American medicine.
BOTH: But we were nowhere near the Grand Canyon.
I sure hope these Water Keepers are friendly.
You got to be kidding.
Doc!
HE PANTS
TALKER: It's the chafing that really gets to you after a while, you know?
Or the butt sores from sitting all day.
You'd think they could turn a guy once in a while, right?
And of course, there's the constant decay.
Hey, 10K. Wake it up.
TALKER: But that's what they do to saboteurs.
And I am, you know, a saboteur.
IN FRENCH ACCENT: Saboteur.
Sounds rather continental.
Saboteur, c'est moi!
10K: Ow, quit it.
Your friend there looks a little pale.
Just transitioned, has he?
I'm not a Talker. - Then how come your hand fell off?
DOC: Hey, who did this to you?
IN SING SONG: ♪ Warriors. ♪
Fierce and quick as lightning.
You don't see them, but they see you.
And then, psht, psht! Arrow in your arm!
Saboteurs! Saboteurs! Saboteurs!
You! You! You!
TALKER SCREAMS
That's enough out of you.
GEORGE: Gotcha, buddy.
WARREN: Hey, you.
DOC GROANS
AIR WHISTLES - I've never been so glad to see you, chief!
WARREN: I'm not the chief you need to worry about.
DOC: Argh! - THEY GROAN
WARREN: Keep your heads down!
DOC GROANS
WARREN: We're not here to fight.
We're not your enemy. Look.
GEORGE: Doc? - DOC GROANS
SHE WHISPERS: Put your hands up.
♪ Have mercy ♪
AIR WHISTLES
♪ Oh, have mercy. ♪
CHILD: Hey, zombies?
HE WHISTLES
DISTANT WHISTLE
GIRL: Good lookin' out, Little Foot.
We did kill a couple Zs over at Redbird Rock.
GIRL: What we got here is worse.
Bombers. - Could be. I'm bringing them in.
Hey, precious.
You were bombed too? - Lotsa times.
Got hit by a zombie ball too...
GIRL: Shh.
Hey, little sister, listen...
WARREN: Uh, easy.
OK? Patience.
They haven't hurt us.
Speak for yourself.
OK. Killed us.
WARREN: Yet.
Look, if she wanted you dead, something tells me you'd be dead.
We need to wait and watch, alright?
And... - SHE GRUNTS
...they'll see we're not the enemy.
CROWD MURMURS
GEORGE: Still think we're the ones who need patience?
Hang in there. I know a few natives down south.
It may take some time to sort this out.
Hopefully we won't get our asses kicked in the meantime.
Oh!
WOMAN: Doc? I mean... Stephen, is that you?
Death knows my name.
SHE CHUCKLES: Stephen!
DOC GASPS
It's me!
I thought death would look meaner. - SHE LAUGHS
Kuruk?
Well, of all the gin joints in all the world...!
Ow! Oh... That hurt.
KURUK: It would hurt a lot worse if that long arrow got caught on something.
Yeah... - GEORGE: Kuruk?
George?
I know you. Lieutenant Warren, 10K. You're also Doc's people.
A little help?
Hmm, two noted military leaders and champions for Newmerica.
Wise elder. Young warrior.
Something tells me you're not here by chance.
Unfortunately not.
Yeah, we came about the water.
SHE WHISPERS: Doc! - What we came about was keeping the peace.
Sure.
It always begins with the word "peace."
You know me.
Your father knows me. I'm true to my word.
And you know me.
The apocalypse changes people.
Yeah, not that much.
Look, what George started was working.
It was working.
Before the bombing.
But the idea that we're stronger together can still work.
We'll argue politics later, my friend.
Right now, we just want to know why you shut off the water.
SHE SIGHS
We didn't.
KURUK: Come with me.
DOC GROANS
WOMAN: Neeznáá Mííl.
I know you.
Ayalla?
You're here.
What happened there? - Oh...
You know, zombies.
Come on.
You want me to help you or not?
There have been attacks.
Zombies?
Old ones.
Long walkers. They came here from far away.
But they're just a distraction
trying to divert attention from more sophisticated sabotage.
Talkers? - Like that saboteur dude
that we were tied up next to.
They're lethal.
We've lost most of our strongest warriors.
And now...
the whole dam is failing.
It's time for us to go. We can't stay here.
No. Kuruk, you can't do that. You control the dam.
You have stewardship of the water. Finally.
Your people are vital to Newmerica.
We had a-- - Don't say treaty.
We had an agreement.
Your father made an agreement.
He's a friend, an ally.
Was.
Was?
Is... is he...?
Up at the powerhouse.
He keeps trying to fix the damage from the attacks.
But they're coming faster and faster.
If another one comes before he fixes the damage from the last attack
the whole dam could fail.
And all of us could go with it.
GEORGE: We'll talk to the chief, he's a reasonable man.
10K: Hey, what was that you called me back there?
Neeznáá Mííl. It's Navajo for Ten Thousand.
Well, what's Navajo for "girl that just led me in a circle"?
I wanted to see if you trusted me or not.
Well, I thought I could trust you, and then you led me in a circle.
AYALLA: Too late.
You followed me, so you're cool. It's done.
Just don't get a big head about it.
It's looking a lot better.
Were you the one that bandaged me up? - Mm-hmm.
But you didn't untie me.
It's been a while. I wanted to make sure you were still you.
Hey, shouldn't you be back at camp helping pack up?
No.
What I should be doing is helping the best shot in the Apocalypse
so he can help us not get run off our land for like the billionth time in history.
AYALLA: Sounds like a fair deal. Don't you think?
Who are you and why are you here?
I'm Georgia St Claire. This is Lieutenant Roberta Warren.
We're friends with the chief. We need to talk to him.
He's busy.
He'll want to hear what I have to say.
You know our chief?
Then you'll know his name.
He told me to call him Eddy.
Everybody knows that.
Aha-Edohi. That's his name.
He who goes to the water.
Aha-Edohi!
DISTANT VOICES: Aha-Edohi!
What's with all this racket? I'm trying to work here.
AHA-EDOHI: Oh, for Great Spirit.
George, is that you? Here? Now? Why?
No time for that. What are you doing here?
We came because the water was cut off.
Kuruk told us about the attacks.
She said your people are leaving.
That you need to abandon the dam.
Fear, that's what that is.
AHA-EDOHI: The young ones are afraid of everything.
Zombies, Talkers, the power of the water.
Pretty healthy fears these days, don't you think?
Sure. You have a healthy respect for the forces that can harm you.
And then you learn to work with them. Live with them.
Our ancestors are here.
GEORGE: You mean your Talkers?
AHA-EDOHI: Talkers, zombies.
This was Dakelh ancestral land.
It was flooded when they built this dam. Ancestors here.
AHA-EDOHI: New generations out there.
I'm not abandoning any of them.
So, what, you want to go down with the ship... or, uh, dam?
Not if I can help it.
WATER HISSES AND RUMBLES
These acts of sabotage have stopped the turbines.
There's too much pressure building up so we have to open the spillway gates
but there's still time!
If anyone can fix the dam, he can.
Yeah, but what if he can't?
DAM RUMBLES
AYALLA: What do you think? It's got a lot of sharp edges
plus a fish scaler, toothpick, corkscrew?
I'm trying to kill zombies, not take 'em out for a picnic.
Fair point. We need you killing zombies.
You just need the right hand.
AYALLA: Hmm...
Ooh!
I'm not a cook.
No.
IN SQUEAKY VOICE: Pick me! - 10K CHUCKLES
Zhoom! Zhoom...! - Maybe this isn't such a good idea.
Wait...
Here.
What is that?
Deer antler.
The deer is known for its intelligence, energy, and speed.
See how this part hooks out right here?
A perfect place to put the barrel of your rifle.
You shoot left-handed now? - Yeah.
The antler could also hold a slingshot.
The tips are pretty sharp, could be made sharper.
You think I should choose this hand? - No.
The hand must choose you.
How does that happen?
First, you must strip naked.
Free yourself of all worldly attachments.
Then you stand in the sun for a whole day
and if you're still standing when night falls
the hand is yours.
SHE SIGHS
SHE CHANTS FAINTLY
ZIPPER UNZIPS - Wait!
SHE LAUGHS
Kidding!
You white boys are so gullible.
Hold still.
DRILL WHIRS
DOC: Working your magic again.
Thanks.
I wish there was something I could do to help you stay.
I wish there was too.
Maybe there's something you hadn't thought of yet.
SHE CHUCKLES - You sound like my father.
Did I meet him in Arizona?
No. He was in Minnesota when the Apocalypse came.
I only found him about a year ago.
Now it looks like I might lose him again.
You know, it's kinda strange to say, but...
I kinda miss the simpler times
when we were running away from plain old-fashioned zombie hordes
and sending them into the Grand Canyon.
I thought you were nowhere near the Grand Canyon.
Ha! No, you're right. That was not us.
SHE CHUCKLES
But kinda near the Grand Canyon
I met a pretty special lady.
You'd probably have to ask her, but...
it seems like we shared something kind of spiritual.
We did.
You know, I never thought I'd see you again.
I lost that necklace you gave me.
I didn't mean to. But you know, zombies.
But then...
the necklace found me.
It was weird.
Kind of a miracle, really.
And it got me thinking that if I ever found you again...
I...
We, we could...
What?
Settle down? Grow old together?
Yeah, well...
A man can dream, right?
And where would we settle in this dream?
Here seems nice.
It was.
Before the attacks.
And now we don't have enough warriors to defend ourselves or the dam.
Well, let us help you.
This could be a nice place again.
All of Newmerica can be.
But not if you leave and let your enemies win.
I'm not letting anyone win.
DISTANT GROWLS
ZOMBIE GROWLS
- WOMEN GROAN
KURUK: Wilma!
You have to give Mika a shot!
ZOMBIE GROWLS
On three, shove!
One!
Two!
Three!
ZOMBIE SNARLS
SHE SCREAMS
GUNSHOT
WILMA GASPS
Gloria. Amu.
KURUK: Hold her.
Help her!
WILMA GASPS
SHE SPUTTERS
KURUK SIGHS
SHE GASPS
KURUK: She has changed.
You know what you have to do.
Where do you take them?
Every living thing has its place and purpose.
Every dead thing too.
DOC: Things will get better here, Kuruk.
I promise.
I'm not gonna stay here and watch our people get wiped out
for some pie-in-the-sky idea.
We have to save ourselves.
Finish gathering your things.
KURUK: We need to leave before nightfall.
Will you just leave your father behind?
Because it doesn't look like he's going anywhere.
Then we're just gonna have to change his mind.
Good?
Then stop looking at it. Try it out.
Whoa!
I see him.
Outsider.
GUNSHOT - What was that for?
I was gonna make that shot.
We need him to talk.
Follow him. Don't shoot unless you have to.
AYALLA: I'll alert the others.
10K PANTS
Tell my father I'm leaving.
If he doesn't come out now, he might never see me again.
HE WHISTLES
HE SIGHS
METAL CLANKS
METAL SCREECHES
You're leaving?
It's the only way.
May the Great Spirit watch over your journey.
Dad, please.
Come with us.
Our people have run enough.
I'm not running anymore. Our place is here.
We can help you. I know there's a way.
Somebody's trying to stop Newmerica from coming together.
They're trying to drive us all apart.
Drive you and your people apart too, by the looks of things.
Everything you say is true, George.
But Newmerica is about hope.
My people are choosing fear.
We're choosing to live.
There aren't enough of you.
The only way our people survive is to come together with all humans
all our relatives.
Dad, please.
DAM RUMBLES
Not again!
DAM RUMBLES
PIPES HISS
MAN YELLS - AHA-EDOHI GROANS
PIPES HISS - THEY GRUNT
MAN YELLS
PIPES HISS
THEY GRUNT
PIPES HISS
MAN LAUGHS
PIPES HISS
THEY GRUNT
AHA-EDOHI GROANS - MAN: Give up, old man!
AHA-EDOHI: Never!
MAN GROANS
AHA-EDOHI CHOKES
THEY GRUNT
AHA-EDOHI GROANS
HE GROANS
AHA-EDOHI YELLS
AHA-EDOHI SCREAMS
PIPES HISS AND RATTLE
KURUK: What am I supposed to do? Tie him up?
Drag him out?
Doesn't look like your Talkers would let you.
He's my elder.
I should be following his guidance, not the other way around.
OK, so maybe there's a way we can help him.
AYALLA: Kuruk!
Outsider, a new one.
10K's following him. He's headed inside.
OK. We gotta find a way in. - We've tried.
Everything's guarded or blocked. - Hey, maybe we should do
like we did before.
A Spirit Walk.
Doc, what happened before was... a fluke.
Or a miracle, like you said.
Well, it's worth a try. I could probably do it again.
Yeah, I think I could. - Wait, Doc. What did you do?
Kuruk gave me some medicine and I left my body and I spirit-walked
and then I killed a zombie and I saved 10K.
What do you think happened?
We got really stoned, and Doc had a hallucination.
Yeah, well it worked.
OK, are you saying you think you can...
what, separate your spirit from your body
and get inside the powerhouse that way?
Well, unless somebody's got a better idea.
Doc, I want to help.
KURUK: I do.
If there's anything I can do to save my dad.
But if you're asking me if I can make some kind of concoctions
so your spirit can go where your body can't
my medicine isn't that strong.
Well, what about Ashki?
Who's Ashki?
Our medicine man.
DOC: Well, where is he? - Sleeping, probably.
ASHKI SNORES
AYALLA: Wake up.
ASHKI YAWNS
What... I wasn't sleeping. I was...
HE YAWNS: ...dreaming.
Grandfather died before he could finish my training.
How else am I supposed to talk to him?
Who are these people?
ASHKI: So...
you want me to betray the lineage of my people
and induct you on a vision quest that you aren't prepared for
or even entitled to?
And then guide you through the spirit world
so you can protect the water for a nation
that just keeps breaking its treaties with us?
Well, when you put it like that...
What we want is to find a way into the powerhouse
so Kuruk can talk to her father.
And you told them I could do this?
I know it sounds crazy, but I can't think of another way.
You wouldn't have to bastardize your rituals.
I mean, last time all it took was some good peyote.
I don't have peyote.
Look, the old ways never took account of zombies and Talkers.
This is a new world we're living in.
Maybe it's time for a new ceremony.
Say I do what you want.
What then?
We help you save the dam.
Find out who's behind the attacks.
And we stop them.
Yeah, your people keep control of the water.
And you believe them? - I do.
HE SIGHS
Grandfather says to give it a shot.
But she has to come too.
Why me?
He says he knows you.
From where?
From the spirit world.
Here you go.
Alright.
It ain't gonna take you anywhere you ain't prepared to go.
Promise?
Yep. - I'll be here the whole time.
Don't worry.
Cheers, guys.
SHE EXHALES
Whoo!
WARREN GROANS
Ugh...
HE HUFFS
What...?
Just in case, you know.
ASHKI: It'll be fine.
THEY GASP
THEY SPUTTER AND GROAN
Give them a minute.
THEY GASP AND SPUTTER
SILENCE
THEY BREATHE HEAVILY
See? It's all good.
DAM RUMBLES
SHE SHOUTS: Dad?
DAM RUMBLES
10K!
Oh, damn. That's right.
I got to do this psychically.
HE EXHALES DEEPLY - 10K!
Wake up!
10K! Wake up!
Wake up, man!
PIPES RATTLE
PIPES HISS
Wilma!
Pom!
Where's my father?
I need to find my father!
Hear me!
See me!
KURUK: Please.
Something is here.
Wilma, listen.
A-danv-do.
Yes. I'm here.
Spirit, come.
This way.
How long are we supposed to leave them in there?
I dunno.
I've never done this before.
GUNSHOT - WARREN: No!
WARREN: Oh, no, you don't.
SHE GASPS
SHE BREATHES RAGGEDLY
GEORGE: Warren?
She's not breathing.
Help!
Come on, Warren. Come back to me.
Give me the paddles.
PADDLES WHIR
GEORGE INHALES - OK.
Clear.
GEORGE: OK.
GEORGE: Clear.
WARREN GASPS
I found the saboteur.
What? - I know how he got in.
SHE GASPS - GEORGE: Hey, hey!
We need to make sure you're OK.
We need to save the damn dam, dammit.
KURUK: Dad!
HE GROANS
Good. You're alive.
Keep breathing.
HE RASPS
HE GASPS
Kuruk?
I'm here.
My daughter, is that you?
It's me.
Please, see me.
HE GROANS - I'm going now.
I'll see you on the other side of the river.
HE GROANS - Kuruk, will you sing me...
sing me along the trail? Will you?
SHE SOBS: No.
HE RASPS - Dad, please. We need you here.
HE GASPS
KURUK SOBS: We need you here.
SHE SOBS
SHE SINGS
HE GASPS
Kuruk.
There you are.
MAN: He's over here!
AHA-EDOHI: There you are.
MAN: Chief.
HE SIGHS
PIPES HISS
Oh, no.
PIPES HISS AND RATTLE
Oh!
Oh...
come on!
PIPES RATTLE
Wake up!
HE ROARS
HE YELLS
It worked!
HE ROARS
HE YELLS
HE GASPS - No, wait!
Ashki!
I gotta go back! It's starting to work!
Wait, what happened? What's going on?
No, Doc! That's too much!
You can't drink that much.
I don't need to spirit walk. I need to spirit fly!
DOC GASPS
HE YELLS
ALARM WAILS
DOC: Here we go, 10K.
DOC: Right...
and left.
DOC GROANS
DOC GROANS: Up we go.
DOC: Oh, there you go.
DOC: OK.
DOC: Now we're walking...
DOC: One more step. Come on, you got this.
DOC: Good, good, we got it.
DOC: Grab it.
DOC: Good, good. And heave!
PIPES SQUEAK
DOC: Far out! It worked.
I saw it. This way.
AHA-EDOHI BREATHES HEAVILY
DAM RUMBLES - Ch'iidii!
DAM RUMBLES
There's too much pressure! The dam is failing!
PIPES HISS
PIPES SQUEAK - DOC GRUNTS
PIPE HISSES
AHA-EDOHI: Who's there?
10K: The water stopped then started again! I'm trying to stop it!
Stop it? You started it!
What?
Dad! He's not an outsider!
He's George's people!
Kuruk, you made it!
Oh, and sorry, Chief. I guess you didn't.
10K? - Oh, no, it's me, Doc.
10K's still unconscious. I'm just borrowing his extremities.
DOC'S VOICE: Oh, to be 20 again.
We can't open the spill gates from here.
The saboteur must have gone to the emergency panel.
I've never seen a Talker kill their own kind before.
This way.
Stop right there! - GUNSHOTS
GUNFIRE
GEORGE SHOUTS: Who are you?
GUNSHOTS - Who sent you?
Goddammit... Come on.
He's in here!
PIPES HISS
AHA-EDOHI: You see my daughter, yes?
Take them outside. Block the exits.
Don't let him escape.
Lever number one, Doc. See it?
Crank it to three.
10K SNORTS AND GASPS
I feel old.
Kinda stoned.
DOC: 10K, you're awake!
Doc?
Where are you?
DOC: Oh, I... uh, sorry. I was just...
DOC: Ah...
DOC: See you soon, kid.
What happened? - Saboteur.
George and Warren are after him.
Hey! Where you going?
I need your help! - I know. You need my gun.
THEY GRUNT
GEORGE GROANS
THEY GRUNT
Tell me who sent you!
GEORGE GASPS
GUNSHOT
RHYTHMIC DRUMS PLAY
- THEY CHANT AND SING
We have our warriors back.
We are stronger together.
You brought your Talkers back into the tribe.
Now we need to do the same.
Ashki had a vision for a new ceremony.
It's derived from the Ghost Dance of the 19th century.
It's a dance that will reunite the living with the spirits of the dead.
Bring the spirits of the dead to fight on their behalf
and make the white colonists leave.
Sorry. - Oh, no, it's cool.
I've been getting a lot of that lately.
Anyway, it's meant to bring peace, prosperity, and unity
to all the native peoples throughout the region.
The new ceremony includes everyone.
THEY CHANT AND SING - A man after my own heart.
Does that mean you changed your mind about Newmerica?
Yes. We will come to the new Congress.
And we will vote for a country that includes everyone.
I'm not exactly sure what you did inside there with 10K.
I still feel a little weird.
Good weird or bad weird?
Weird weird.
Well, better weird than dead, kid.
RHYTHMIC DRUMS PLAY - THEY CHANT AND SING
Thank you. You helped save the dam. You helped save our home.
Well, it really does feel like a home.
Like a place people could settle down.
That is, if settling down ever comes back.
You'll always have a place here.
And here.
I'll meet you there whenever I can.
Oh!
A little something
from Ashki.
RHYTHMIC DRUMS PLAY - THEY CHANT AND SING
Thanks for this. - So it works, then?
Pretty damn good, actually.
What will you trade me for to keep it?
Nothing in life is free.
If you want to keep your hand, you're gonna have to...
trade me another body part.
I'm kidding.
THEY LAUGH
Take your hand and use it well.
Thanks. - You're welcome.
RHYTHMIC DRUMS PLAY - THEY CHANT AND SING
Grandfather gave me a message for you.
He said the knowledge that you seek
is buried under the past. But beware.
It is guarded by demons with sharp claws.
Buried under the past?
What does that mean?
Um, did you hear the part about the demons with the sharp claws?
Sounds like another Tuesday in the apocalypse.
You see.
Well, you tell your grandfather I said thank you.
You're welcome.
RHYTHMIC DRUMS PLAY - THEY CHANT AND SING