Man: Grimes, freeze!
[Electricity zapping]
Rick: A Lieutenant Colonel named Okafor.
He wanted me to join his program.
The CRM needs to change.
The CRM needs strong leaders to change them.
I will try you every morning on this walkie
for as long as I can.
I'll take it everywhere.
I'm in.
[Projectile whooshing]
[Explosion]
[Grunting]
[Rattling, walkers growling]
[Rocket launches]
[Walker growling]
♪
[Explosion]
♪
[Explosion]
♪
My name is Michonne.
I lost someone years ago.
[Gunshot]
[Explosions]
Rick!
But I just found out that he might...
I just found out that he's alive.
♪
I saw two people who needed me, your people, and I helped them.
That's it.
No other reason.
No agenda.
But I see what you have,
and I've still got a long way to go.
So, I need to ask for some help myself,
and if you're not in a position to give it,
I understand, and I will be on my way.
First, I just want to thank you.
I appreciate that. Could I have a horse?
Before we get into that,
I just wanted to get to know a little bit about you
and tell you about our community.
Thank you. I am impressed
with what you have, with what this is.
But that "someone..."
I am eager to go because I just found out that he's--
You could be an asset to this place, you know,
if you don't find this person.
Elle, just give her a horse.
I could just go.
I didn't mean to offend you.
You saved my sister's boyfriend and my sister.
So we should talk about more than--
Just give her a horse.
I meant to say
if you do find him, you could be part
of this community, both of you.
We have a community.
We have kids, kids who need to see their father,
kids who I need to see.
So I have to find him, and I have to go, now.
Go where?
[Sighs in frustration]
It's a place called Bridgers Terminal.
It's north.
You don't want to go north. Not now.
Stay with us until the migration is over.
Migration?
The tri-state area had millions of people before.
Now they're the Wailing.
We don't know why, but this time of year,
a lotta crowds, they move south.
A couple months, they move north.
It'll be safe then.
Just stay with us for a little while, get to know us.
They say you don't stop for anyone, ever.
Not even your own sister.
We're a community.
We live by the same rules. We don't stop.
Trying to save two, we could lose 200.
That doesn't sound like a community.
Well, this is how we've survived.
But not everyone, right?
If you don't want to give me a horse, I'm good.
[Door opens]
Wait. I'm out.
You know the rear guard tried to stop me from going after them?
Of course you do. Because I keep this place going!
Well, I'm done. I'm packing my wagon.
I'm packing my wagon
and the rest of my goddamn toys, too.
She was your sister, and they were my friends.
This system is bullshit, Elle.
We're strong enough to stop.
We're strong enough to save people.
What the hell is the point otherwise?
I mean, Jesus Christ, she was your sister.
Nat.
[Gasps] Holy shit.
[Both chuckle happily]
What the hell happened? Hurt my ankle.
I w-- I went after both of you.
Nat, Nat, she saved us.
[Horses whinnying in distance]
Hi.
And you just... brought them back?
They asked for my help, so I helped them.
You want your own wagon?
You ride VIP with us from now on. Say the word.
Thanks, but, uh, even if I didn't have somewhere to be,
I don't leave people behind.
Yeah. Me either.
But you're here.
[Clears throat]
Where's this "somewhere" you gotta be?
A place called Bridgers Shipyard.
North. Well, shit.
That's a stupid-ass plan.
You know about the migration?
Five-mile-wide hordes of the Wailing?
I'm going.
Looks like you are.
Lemme get you a horse. You can have your pick.
Nat-- She can have her goddamn pick!
♪
You waiting on a call?
Just trying to be home some way till I can.
Come with me.
♪
[Indistinct conversations]
♪
[Walkie clicks]
Shoto.
♪
[Walkie clicks]
Love you.
I love you both.
[Horses whinnying in distance]
You said one hour.
Where's the horse, Nat?
You need more than a horse, and I need more than an hour.
Come on. You ain't got much daylight left.
Stick with us for a night.
Sleep in a bed.
Do your suicide commission tomorrow.
Bailey: Got you one of the best.
That's my sister's horse, and she doesn't know it yet.
And we can't wait to tell her.
There you go, Michonne.
You can bounce right now.
But if you give us a night, give us a chance to equip you,
tell you how some of said equipment works,
well, maybe you'll survive 30 more seconds of your trip
once you hit the Delaware border.
One night.
And I'm leaving at dawn. Lovebirds!
None of those emergency hides for her.
No. Something custom.
We measure, you get to work,
I walk right through the screamsticks--
God help her-- then she sleeps
so she can face oblivion with some pep,
and we do an all-nighter.
Copy that.
Measure what?
And what are screamsticks?
Bailey: You'll find out.
Really?
♪
Thank you for the armor, the horse, and everything else.
Michonne, you're gonna find him.
I know it.
'Cause I found him, you found us.
Circles, you know?
Nat: So, let me get this straight.
Rick blew up on a bridge, and it's been years?
Tread lightly, Nat. What he said.
Alright, alright, alright. It's just...
I like these two, and now I like you.
I'm not too keen on losing 33% of the people
I can stand on this planet, however recent the acquaintance.
They leave people to die.
Why do you stay with them?
I didn't like it before, either.
It was the same thing then, right?
People were left to die.
Yeah, but it's not before anymore.
I think you're all too smart not to find another way.
Ah. I guess we're surprisingly stupid, Michonne.
Or afraid.
I'm glad I met you three.
Good luck.
You, too.
Come on. Let's go.
Hey.
You said your kids were in Virginia, right?
You can try, but you're gonna be out of range soon
if you aren't already.
You can still talk to them, though.
Then you can show it to them when you get back.
I thought this was suicide.
It is.
I was just being nice.
[Clicks tongue]
♪
Shoto.
[Static crackling]
♪
Shoto.
[Walker growling]
[Dramatic music plays]
♪
[Herd growling]
♪
Hyah!
[Horse whinnies]
♪
[Zipper runs]
♪
[Rocket launches]
[Explosion]
[Herd growling]
♪
[Walker growling]
♪
[Shouts]
[Horse whinnies]
[Groans, panting]
♪
[Herd growling]
♪
[Groaning]
♪
[Explosion]
♪
[Explosion]
♪
[Sighs]
[Chuckles]
[Grunts] Would you look at that.
What are you guys doing here?
Well, we didn't want to be afraid and stupid anymore.
Turns out, others felt the same way.
Good thing we went looking for you, huh?
Wait with us while the Wailings split.
You see these fires? They're gonna burn
on either side of the valley for a while.
Ugh.
Yep.
Natty said you'd need a beer.
Dude's never wrong. It's annoying as hell.
Yeah, I'm gonna need some.
♪
Michonne: Alright. I-I know the story well.
[Laughs] Oh, my gosh.
You fell off your horse?
Oh, my God.
I didn't fall off.
I was knocked off.
There was a Gasman.
A Gasman? Yeah.
I'm not gonna ask further about that.
The purple light, what was that?
If I ever left, I had this idea for clearing valleys--
huge, localized, long-lasting burns.
I had the chemicals in my red wagon.
I got a lotta toys in there.
And, uh, the fuel is out there--
you know, buildings, vehicles, whatever.
Bailey and Aiden wanted to go after you,
which is insane for a multitude of reasons,
but they had enough.
I had enough a long time ago, but I stuck.
Kept on thinking, "Just a little longer.
Next spring."
Maybe when I made the right weapon,
had the right plan, and years went by.
[Lighter lights, clicks shut]
It was time to go a long time ago.
I knew it. And look at that.
You know, a lot of people felt the same way, and suddenly,
I had more than just the chemicals in my red wagon.
Thank you.
Thank you for waking our asses up.
It's a big move for us.
Yeah, it was.
I know how to build things and I know how to burn things.
But it takes more than that at the end of the world.
You showed them that.
You showed me that.
We'll take you as far as you need.
When I get Rick, you'll come back home with me, all of you.
You'll be a part of it.
It's just gonna take a little building.
That I can do.
And now I am going to sleep.
Mm.
I'm gonna get you something to eat.
No, no. I'm fine.
I know.
You need to eat.
You're pregnant.
[Door closes]
[Laughs]
I was, um, craving honey.
And I was just hoping we were gonna come across a hive
at some point, and Bailey saw me looking in the trees,
and he told me that he saw a billboard for a big-box store.
He was trying to surprise me.
Apparently, honey just never expires, I guess.
[Laughs]
♪
That's why-- That's why he was out there.
♪
But I found him.
♪
And you found us.
♪
[Sighs]
♪
[Crying]
[Chair drags]
It's okay.
You and Bailey should go back now.
I'll tell you what to tell them.
You should take some others to help you get there.
It'll take a week or two.
The map says we're close to Bridgers Terminal.
We want to be there when you find Rick.
No. You should go.
We will.
After you find Rick.
♪
Okay.
♪
Nat, if you only like us,
what about all these people who came with you?
They've gone up a letter grade, that's for sure.
♪
But not quite to "like".
[Laughs]
Who else in your life?
Uh, me and my mom.
My dad wasn't in the picture.
Supreme asshole didn't want a "little" little kid.
Nice, huh? [Laughs]
And I had bullies.
A lot of 'em.
So I started burning things,
blowing things up in the woods.
And then my mom, she, uh-- she met this guy--
called himself Danger, if you can believe it.
She worked at a truly horrible chicken place
14 hours a day and had one very troubled kid,
who hated Danger as soon as he looked at him.
And this guy, with this stupid name,
looked at that and said, "Hell yes."
Bailey: Whoa!
What's wrong?
There's something in the front.
I got it.
Anyway, he married my mom, and right after he moved in,
suddenly, Danger had these problems he needed solved.
You know, like, that he needed me to solve.
Couldn't load his truck with his bum shoulder,
so I built him a lift and runners
out of stuff from the garage.
I built him a temperature gauge he could call on his phone
to see if he left the stove on,
a timer that shut off the sink so he wouldn't leave it running,
but could he have loaded his truck?
Did he forget to turn off the stove, the sink?
♪
Or did the sonofabitch focus me up
on how I could build things instead of burn them?
Guess that's somebody else I liked.
Sounds like you loved him.
Well, shit.
Sure sounds like it.
Well, I love you, Nat.
Please shut up.
Me, too, Nat.
I love you.
[Bailey groans]
[Helicopter blades whirring]
♪
[Bomb dropping]
Scatter!
Man: Cover your mouths with fabric!
Wet it with your canteens!
[Bombs dropping]
[People shouting and screaming]
[People screaming and coughing]
[Walkers growling]
[Dramatic music plays]
♪
[Shouts]
[Coughing]
♪
Guys!
[People screaming]
[Panting]
[Walkers growling]
[Shouts]
♪
[Shouts]
♪
[Panting and wheezing]
♪
[All wheezing]
♪
Go back... to them.
♪
Go back to your babies.
Don't-- Don't risk it.
♪
Don't risk it.
[Crying]
♪
Can't get air.
Air.
[Weakly] Air.
♪
[Choking] There's a medical plaza back there.
They may have oxygen tanks.
♪
Find something to tie her to the bed.
♪
Don't fall asleep next to her.
♪
[Walkers growling]
[Michonne wheezing]
♪
[Cart clattering]
[Aiden rasping]
♪
[Snarling]
♪
[Squelch, snarling stops]
♪
[Sobs]
♪
[Walker growling]
♪
[Growling]
♪
[Snarling]
[Shouts]
[Crying]
[Snarling stops]
♪
[Panting]
[Wheezing]
♪
Thank you.
I couldn't do it.
[Crying]
♪
Not him.
♪
She was-- She was right.
When you can, you need to go home.
It's been too long.
♪
He's gone.
No.
[Lighter clicks shut]
[Crying] No.
[Tank hissing]
♪
Nat: [Weakly] It was chlorine gas.
Read about it as a kid.
Used to dream about dropping it on the football team.
♪
The gas burned out our lungs, our throats.
Gonna take a while to get better,
if we do get better.
♪
[Breathing heavily]
♪
[Coughing]
♪
[Retches]
♪
I told you.
I knew when to go.
And I didn't.
And they all died.
You gotta know when to go.
You gotta know when to go, you gotta know when to give up.
Michonne: [Weakly] That guy, Danger, your stepdad.
He didn't give up, right?
Didn't give up on you.
Gotta think it was 'cause of your mom.
You gotta think it was 'cause of love.
♪
[Breathing heavily]
♪
[Coughing]
♪
[Panting]
♪
I marked the map.
You can go to Alexandria.
You're strong enough now.
I go to your home and you go to Bridgers Terminal?
Should be the other way around.
This is how it's gotta be. No.
Aiden and Bailey were supposed to go.
They didn't. Now you--
This is all I got!
Okay?
You.
That's it.
We'll leave in the morning.
One stop first.
My wagon. It's close.
And I'll fix that cart, load it with my gear.
What, you expecting me to pull it?
Yeah, I am.
You coming--
is it about wanting to see how it ends?
Nope.
♪
I know how it ends.
♪
[Walkers growling]
♪
Hey, hold up.
Yeah, I didn't think so.
♪
[Footsteps approaching]
♪
[Crying]
The boat where you found his boots...
this is where it was last.
These people are all burnt up.
Can't tell one from the other.
And most of 'em, they don't have any shoes.
I felt him.
I still feel him.
Your phone, you know what it says?
The Japanese?
"Believe a little bit longer."
You've been telling me to go home.
You should.
But you can still believe he's out there.
It's been right in front of me, hasn't it?
♪
All this time, it's been right in front of me.
It's been so long.
♪
If he were alive...
...he would've found his way.
You don't know.
Not for sure.
♪
You can believe he's out there, that he's not gone.
You can believe a little longer and still go home to your kids.
♪
You-- You can know when to go.
You can do both.
♪
I can do it with you.
I will.
♪
It's not giving up.
♪
[Walkie crackling]
♪
[Sobbing]
♪
Michonne: Shoto.
[Walkie clicks]
♪
Shoto.
We'll start getting close enough in the next few days.
♪
We should find a place to sleep.
Just a little farther.
Whoa, whoa.
[Walker growling]
What?
It's them.
[Helicopter blades whirring]
♪
Grab the cart from that thing. We gotta go.
I'm not running from them, Nat. Neither am I.
Let's go!
♪
Two minutes, five minutes.
I don't know. They're flying low as shit.
♪
- Like this? - Yeah.
It's for protection.
I've practiced with it.
♪
[Missile launches]
♪
Damn it. It was a dud.
♪
[Missile fires]
♪
[Missile fires]
[Crash]
Lay low. We're wide open.
♪
[Missile fires]
[Explosion]
Man: Free fire to the line!
I got them.
Unless you get them first.
Got eyes on you and them.
♪
Michonne: You should go.
We will.
After you find Rick.
You're pregnant.
♪
[Missile fires]
[Explosion]
♪
[Man groaning]
♪
Nat: I couldn't do it.
Not him.
♪
[Man choking]
♪
Look at me.
♪
Nat: You can believe a little longer
and still go home to your kids.
[Michonne shouting]
♪
Rick: You can lose me.
♪
[Breathing deeply]
[Breathes sharply]
♪
[Both crying]
♪
I found you!
♪
[Crying] Oh, God.
Judith-- is she-- is she alive?
She's okay.
She's okay, Rick.
Yeah.
I'm-- I'm not-- I'm not with them.
♪
I know.
♪
[Rumbling in distance]
They're coming.
More. Of them?
Yes. Then we go.
No, no, no. It's too late.
They're coming.
Say you have another name, that--
that you came out of the forest
and you saw the solders being attacked.
You-- You were part of a community that fell
years ago-- some-- someplace small.
What? Don't show them who you are.
What I am?
Strong.
A leader.
You hide it.
They're-- They're gonna be here.
We'll go back with them. We-- We have to. No.
What? I promise. I-- Michonne, I promise.
I'll make it so we get away.
♪
I found you.
Michonne?
Christ.
Is that him?
Uh, he-- he-- he's not with them.
Well, how the hell-- [Gunshot]
♪
Nat!
♪
Is-- Is it still him?
♪
Can you tell?
I can.
See?
You can still believe and know when--
Nat?
No, no. No, no, no.
Nat. Nat.
No, no, no.
[Crying] Nat.
No.
♪
Rick: He helped you get here?
Yeah.
♪
Sorry.
♪
Michonne, do you have anything with you
that could tell them about you or Alexandria?
Maps, notes, anything?
A-A-A journal.
A-A radio.
A phone.
Your boots.
I need 'em.
You need to say he had the sword,
that you took one of the soldiers' guns
off the ground and you stopped him.
We're gonna be separated,
but I'll find you as soon as it's safe.
I promise. [Helicopter approaching]
I need to have my gun on you,
and you need to put your hands up.
They have to see that.
And call them something else.
Don't call them walkers.
I called them that.
We will get away.
I love you!
♪
My name is Dana,
and I've been out there a long time by myself--
so long that it's strange to hear my own voice.
I was in Georgia for a long time with my boyfriend
and about 40 people,
with some leaders that I thought were good.
My sister, Elle.
And then things changed.
They changed.
I saw it.
I knew we should go.
You always really know when to go.
Man: And what was your weapon of choice out there?
Bo staff.
I lost it, like, months ago.
I've been making do with that knife.
Woman: Does it bother you that you're being observed?
No.
I just haven't seen myself in a while.
This is a place of law.
We are on a base on the outskirts of a city
that is a remnant of the life we knew.
Its security is our top priority,
which means you can never leave.
How do you feel about that?
I feel that what's here,
it's what I've been looking for.
It's what I've been trying to believe in
just a little while longer.
♪
[Radio chatter]
♪
[Helicopters flying overhead]
♪
They believed you.
How do you know?
You're here.
♪
It happened a long time ago, one of the last times
I tried to get home.
One of the last times?
They had me trapped.
They don't have me anymore.
We will get away.
Together.
They're okay? She's okay?
Yes.
She's okay.
She-- [Laughs]
What is it?
When we get away-- No, she's okay?
She's us, Rick.
The rest when we get away.
Look, if I pass you a note somehow,
you read it and destroy it.
They killed people, Rick. Dozens of people.
They're killing people out there.
Have you had to-- No.
The ones in red.
They go out sometimes.
They come back covered in blood.
Most of us don't know what they do.
I didn't know.
But I knew.
I was stuck here.
Could we stop them?
No.
Could we try?
We'd never get back.
Sorry about your friend.
He should have lived.
They all should have lived.
I'm here now.
We're here together now.
And we're gonna get home.
♪
Woman: Does it bother you that you're being observed?
No. I just haven't seen myself in a while.
This is a place of law.
We are on a base on the outskirts of a city
that is a remnant of the life we knew.
♪
[Radio chatter]
♪
Man: Move!
♪
[Man shouting]
[Helicopters flying overhead]
♪
[Radio chatter]
♪
[Radio chatter]
♪
[Lighter clicks]
♪
[Keys jingle]
[Door opens]
Hi, Rick.
Sorry for breaking in.
Technically, this is an investigation,
but I'm not filing paperwork.
Let's keep this off the books.
Let's continue to keep certain things between you and me,
as we have.
It's been a while.
You look good.
It's amazing what's happened.
Truly amazing.
I mean, in a world where most people are dead,
the living can continue to bump into each other.
I can see that.
But still, she found you.
If anyone could, she could.
She was with him.
The little one.
I mean, of course, it was her sword.
But I'm keeping that off the books.
Just up here.
This doesn't fall under our longstanding deal.
You have to know that if you try to escape with her,
I will make sure that all those people that you love die,
including a few that I like very much.
♪
You have to know that.
♪
I'm certain that you do.
I've had to do things like that.
My hands are already covered in blood.
They can't get any bloodier.
So I have to ask you this question,
and I'm sorry for the language,
but you've heard a lot of language from me.
Yes, yes, yes.
♪
Rick, what the fuck are you doing?
♪
Jadis: You and her, leaving?
You know that can't be had.
Rick: There's a woman who saved me
and I don't want them to send her away.
Thorne: She said that she was looking for safety in numbers.
Thing is, she doesn't look like someone
who relies on others for safety.
♪
So my question is, who are you?
Just Dana.
♪
My name is Michonne.
I lost someone.
Years ago.
Rick!
Scott: It's been a long time since we've seen Michonne.
And this is a pickup from a different time
than we saw Rick in.
Danai: At the start of the series,
Michonne is on a very specific task.
She needs to follow this trail and hopefully find her man.
And she has, from the very beginning,
really believed that he was not gone forever
and that he had not died.
So she has a very clear mission in mind.
She was sidetracked by saving some people.
Danai: When people do need help, that's who she is
and that is what slows her down.
But then it's also what introduces her
to this wonderful few friends that she finds
that really help her along the way.
They leave people to die.
Why do you stay with them?
I didn't like it before either.
It's not before anymore.
Scott: She recognizes Nat and Bailey and Aiden as strong,
smart people, but they have their own pragmatism,
this group, which is like, hey,
if people fall out of this caravan, we cannot stop.
But Michonne doesn't leave people behind.
And that is something that strikes a chord.
And a small group splinters off to join Michonne,
and they're attacked by this mysterious and brutal force
that attacks them for seemingly no reason.
Scatter!
It's pouring down!
Scott: The reason is that
they were getting close to Philadelphia.
I mean, they weren't knocking on the door of it,
but if the CRM sees a caravan of people
moving north in New Jersey,
they're just going to eliminate them.
It's that attack that builds a great deal of hatred
in Michonne towards them.
You've been telling me to go home.
You should.
But you can still believe he's out there.
Matthew: I think Nat's encouraging Michonne
to keep going is really tricky,
because I don't know if Nat really believed
that Rick was still alive.
He gave her the remedy of how to go on
without trying to actually pursue finding Rick anymore,
and she just accepted it.
Matthew: And Nat is the one to bolster her up,
in the same way that Michonne inspired Nat
to finally leave his toxic community.
Nat: Grab the card from that thing.
We gotta go. I'm not running from them Nat.
Neither am I. Let's go.
Nat comes from a tech background,
so he really is brilliant
at knowing how to create survival tactics,
and has been thinking up ways to overcome the Walker issue
and creating things all along the way.
And really, what he is able to do
with all these technological things,
the little missiles that he creates,
is what brings Rick's helicopter down
and reunites Rick and Michonne.
♪
[Crying] I found you. Oh. Oh.
Scott: The reunion of Michonne and Rick,
I mean, Andy and Danai and I mapped out these episodes.
So this is something we were talking about
in a hotel conference room in New York a year before,
and here we are all doing it, and it was incredibly emotional.
But it's also amazing to see them embody their own ideas
and get to play the story that we wrote together.
I was like, "Yes!" like, "Yes!"
I'm so glad you guys are back.
And there's this passion
and it was just exciting to watch.
Danai: It was really, really powerful to be reconnected.
Her belief and her faith actually paid off.
♪
[Laughing] I found you.
Rick and Michonne have always had a really strong chemistry
and their love for each other.
It was an intense, powerful, beautiful day,
and a lot of different emotions coursed through both characters
that were expected and unexpected.
Is that him?
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Uh, he-- He's not with them.
[Sighs]
Well, how the hell...
[Gurgling, choking]
Matthew: I think it's a very cinematic ending for Nat.
He goes knowing that he kind of completed his-- his journey.
Danai: The idea that he then sees that her love
and her faith won out and broke through,
and that he actually helped her get there.
I think it was a very important, beautiful thing for him.
Matthew: He's dying, but there's this spark of joy,
almost nirvana.
You know that for the first time,
he felt like his tools
were put to good use.
Scott: There's so much horror to what's happening,
but there is this strange valence of light.
We're gonna be separated.
But I'll find you
as soon as it's safe, I promise.
Michonne is just thrust into another situation,
another world, and another Rick
that she doesn't entirely recognize.
But the way that he's acting speaks
to the impossible situation that they're in,
and he is certain they're going to get out of it.
They've got to play it a certain way.
Hi, Rick.
Sorry for breaking in.
Technically, this is an investigation.
Scott: When Danai and Andy
started talking about this story
we all had a mind that we wanted to bring Jadis back in.
Jadis heightens the stakes,
and she was never worried about Rick escaping.
But Michonne shows up, the two of them together,
they can do anything.
I have to ask you this question.
Rick, what the [bleep] are you doing?
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