♪ I'm comin' home, I've done my time ♪
♪ Now I've got to know what is and isn't mine ♪
♪ If you received my letter ♪
♪ Telling you I'd soon be free ♪
♪ Then you'll know just what to do ♪
♪ If you still want me ♪
♪ Whoa, tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree ♪
♪ It's been three long years ♪
♪ Do you still want me? ♪
Welcome home.
♪ Old oak tree ♪
♪ I'll stay on the bus, forget about us, put the blame on me ♪
♪ If I don't see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree ♪
We needed a time out.
I can't believe you did that.
I can't believe you said that.
Your preferred temperature
will be reached in 10 minutes.
Shit.
What the hell is this place?
You lose yours, huh?
I know what they do.
You wanna call them here?
This was one of my favs growing up.
This little girl, listening to her own rhythm,
free spirited, just like Judith.
I loved her so much, I thought I was meant
to be a writer for a while there.
Judith's gonna love this.
I thought I was a computer scientist myself once, too.
Then art history.
Then creative writing again.
Then I dropped out.
You've become a bit of a creative writer these days.
That note in the getaway boat?
Poetry.
Oh, here.
Why don't you give another masterpiece for your children?
Because I'm not gonna be the one to tell them
that I found their father and he sent me away
and chose not to come home to them.
Children?
You said children.
His name is Rick.
We call him RJ.
I was pregnant when the bridge happened.
He's -- He's almost 8.
You need to give me the PRB.
What? I just told you have a son!
I don't know who you are anymore!
I am trying to keep you and them alive.
You need to give it to me.
What did you say?
"Everything we had is broken"?
After saying that we were gonna get away?
You have no idea who we're dealing with.
I don't know what game you're playing, Rick!
You need to give it to me!
Raising our kids, believe you were alive, and you were!
With them! You think I didn't want --
want to be with you?
I tr-- I tried everything!
We need to go back.
Your preferred temperature will be reached --
What is that thing?!
I told you not to show them who you are,
and you break the kill record,
you grab the R-DIM from Thorne,
and nearly get yourself killed.
I'm trying to get you out of here alive, and --
and you pull us out of a goddamn helicopter!
That's because I don't like who you are with them.
What they make you.
It isn't you.
You think -- You think I want this?
Your preferred temperature has been reached.
Are you gonna give it to me?
So what?
We just let them win?
Look at me.
They won a long time ago.
They won the day Jadis brought me here.
She brought you?
She was working for them, wasn't she?
With them.
She was running away from Alexandria.
She saw me half dead at the riverbank.
She will destroy our home if I try to leave.
I was making her let you go.
I got that much out of her.
You want me to go?
I want you to live.
She's threatened by us because, together, you and me,
she thinks we can do anything.
We can.
We can stop her.
You saw what happened to your friends.
It will happen to everyone we know.
To our children. Our son.
If we get to Alexandria first --
Hide everyone we know?
If we get there in time? You want to risk that?
We kill her then.
Should have done that in the beginning.
She left it all behind -- who we are, where we're from --
so people will find us if we did that.
Please, just give me the PRB.
Why all the bullshit?
I had to get you out.
To lie?
To leave that note and think I would just leave? Me?
Both of us couldn't go home.
Would you have gone if I told you?
Okay.
We go back.
We find her evidence.
We destroy it.
We kill her.
And then, we go home.
Do you think we can do anything?
Because I do.
What did they do to you?
We need to go back.
And after that?
Do you still love me?
Always.
I've never stopped loving you.
That's our helicopter.
You saved our lives.
It's gone.
So, we're gone.
Yeah.
We can go home.
Jadis will think we died in there.
They all will.
Rick?
No.
What did you say?
I'm not going home.
Temperature control malfunction.
"I know how it ends."
You know, your son...
...the one you haven't asked anything about...
...he calls you "The Brave Man".
He and Judith tell each other the story of what you did.
He started calling himself "Little Brave Man."
I loved that.
"I know how it ends."
Nat, my friend, who your people killed --
They're not my damn people.
He said that to me once when I said
I had to keep looking for you.
He knew how it ended, but he still had my back.
I was so sure he was wrong, but he wasn't.
'Cause here I am.
I found you.
But I didn't.
This is -- whoo.
This is not what I had in my head at all.
Okay.
So, just -- just to get this straight --
we just got a way out.
They think we're dead, and you want to stay,
stay with an army
that kept you against your will for years.
I have to make sure you're protected.
Oh. That's not it.
I have to keep them from coming for our home.
They're coming for it? You know that?
They could, one day.
One day?
I've been looking the other way, and you said it.
They -- They kill innocent people.
Isn't that what you wanted?
I'm in. I stay and make sure Judith
and our son are protected from them.
Oh, this is bullshit. Listen to me.
The first man you and Nat killed, his name was Okafor,
and he's who saved my life.
He wanted me to become part of the CRM,
move up, help him change it.
I didn't have anything left, so I gave myself to his mission.
His mission.
Do you remember the life we built?
What we had?
What we were building -- it's kept people alive.
I saw you, standing there, behind her.
A soldier at attention for this army, and I thought,
"He's a prisoner here, and we have to break out."
You don't choose to stay in prison.
When the doors open, you leave.
We've been crawling around in the dirt so long,
Michonne, losing people we love.
This felt like a way or a chance to -- to stop that.
Not to surrender to it, to fight, for everyone.
That place is not your responsibility.
You have a family.
Okafor's gone.
Thorne's one of them now. I'm the only one left.
So, you're trying to, uh, keep us safe,
by maybe changing the CRM one day,
who might come after our home and put it in danger?
That's it?
You won't come home with me, to your life?
Your kids?
I don't want to do this. I have to.
So, no.
That's not it.
You're lying. But you know what?
Your wish is granted. I'm out.
Back to my kids, who I left to find you.
Well, I found you.
I fought for you.
I tried to reason with you.
I pleaded with you, and now, I have to go.
You're lying, and you'll see it, and it'll be too late.
That leads us farther into dead mass.
This way. Damn it.
Come on.
Are you okay?
Yeah. Yeah.
Are you sure? Yeah. You?
We need to find a way out.
We need to find a place to hunker down
until the numbers thin out.
We do that, we get trapped.
We can't breach from this high up,
even if it's a defensible position.
I don't even have a weapon, Commando,
so how are we supposed to get past all those walkers?
Goddamn "defensible position."
"Commando." Really?
Come on!
They destroy any evidence that they exist.
That's why they took out the helicopter.
This whole building is buckling.
Michonne?
"It's just time.
When I conceived of Greenwood, it was so clear --
like-minded innovators in various fields
seeking to live off the grid, to create a new, more sustained,
and hopeful tomorrow.
Our motto -- 'Progress and Redemption
Through Innovation' -- is now like a sick joke to me,
but I can't face how much I have failed everyone.
I cannot go another day continuing to watch
our mission die.
I am sorry.
Let me be remembered as one who refused to leave the world
the same way I found it.
Lakshmi Patel."
When folks try to save the world their own way,
it tends to go to shit.
Sound familiar?
It's just like this place.
They thought they knew it all.
Oh, except without the killing of innocent people.
Except that part.
The city stands.
And I'll stop the killing. I'll find a way.
Just like her?
You still don't understand.
Signing up for lifelong duty to the enemy?
This is about ending the enemy.
This is not you, Rick.
This isn't me? How?
That I would give everything -- my --
my hand, my life -- for you?
That's not me?
This is what I need to do to keep you safe!
The only time I feel safe is when I'm with you.
We don't have to be afraid, Rick.
Yes, we do.
So that's what I tell your son?
That his father didn't want to know anything about him
because he was so afraid?
I'm not the Brave Man.
You shouldn't have come.
I was taken away. I didn't have a choice.
You did.
You don't know a goddamn thing anymore, do you?
Not a goddamn thing.
So, this is who you are now?
Big guy, huh?
Soldier of the CRM.
You're moving up, right?
That's the plan?
Maybe I should be afraid of you in the red uniforms.
I don't know what you're capable of.
You lied to me. You keep lying to me.
You think I'm not beating myself up for not being
with my kids right now?!
That I'm not wondering how I will ever live with myself if,
God forbid --
That's why you should go.
Okay.
I don't know who you are.
'Cause the man I knew
would never talk to me like that.
Ever.
We're getting out of here.
I had this.
Really?
Sorry.
Oh, shit. Goddamn it, hug the wall.
I know that.
Can you move it?
Yeah. It's just trapped.
If I can just --
Okay, on the count of three.
Alright. Okay.
One, two, three.
You should go.
Grab that. Handle those while I get this thing.
Rick. How?
There's no time. You've got to go.
These bolts are holding this thing together.
Okay.
God damn it!
Michonne!
You've got to go.
That is never happening.
I just needed to hear that.
One, two, three.
Almost there.
Again.
One, two, three.
You okay?
Yeah.
Thank you.
You never have to thank me ever.
-Got that? -Yeah. To your left.
That way out.
This side hasn't started buckling yet.
Welcome home.
Temperature control malfunction.
Hey.
He looks like me?
So, he's really good looking?
It's nuts how much he looks like you.
Save the light brown skin, it's hard to tell
I had anything to do with it.
Oh, but he does have my eyes.
Hm.
And he's stubborn?
Just like his daddy, yes.
Like his mama.
He does have your good, kind heart, though.
That's what reminds me the most of you.
What the f--
It's just a Roomba.
A-A what?
I just got one when it started.
It cleans the floor on a timer.
That explains why it's so spotless in here.
You notice how thin they were?
The walkers?
City's intact, no burned out buildings,
so fallen walls, no bullet holes.
Just the dead, rail thin.
Food. They may have starved.
Oh, they kept this place going a good while.
Well, they did more than that.
They kept innovating.
I guess they were sick of scavenging
and wanted to create another way.
But no crops?
Well, even if they did have them, crops fail.
One bad harvest -- Something has to burn to bring it back.
What?
If I can change the CRM,
there's a chance for future generations, a real chance.
You're still lying to me.
You're lying to yourself.
This mark on your back --
Yeah.
It was a woman that I let into Alexandria.
A college buddy.
Wait, you knew her?
Yep.
I was, um, searching for you every day, me an Daryl.
There was no body, no trace.
I couldn't stop believe you were still out there,
needing help, needing me.
Everyone thought I was crazy.
She encouraged me to keep looking.
I was seven months pregnant.
She stole Judith and some other kids.
She was sick, twisted.
Did this to me and Daryl.
We stopped her.
I don't want to go into how.
You killed her?
Yes.
Good.
I stopped looking for you.
I had to take care of the baby, take care of Judith,
but I kept believing that you were not gone forever.
I still believe that.
You did this to get away?
It was the only way.
You were trying to come home?
I was trying to come home.
You're still trying.
I see it.
Even through the bullshit.
You have the button.
You could have hit it, Rick.
You haven't.
You say you can't go home,
but I don't think you can go back.
I'm sorry for what they did to you.
We got to get out of here.
We're running out of time.
No.
Michonne.
We need to decide what's next right now.
This place is going down.
Sit, Rick.
We're not moving until we decide.
Nat used to say, "You got to know when to go."
It's not time to go.
Not until we know where we're going.
After I left here, why did you come after me?
You know why.
Say it.
I need you to.
You're the love of my life.
I couldn't just let you go.
It felt like my heart ripped --
ripped itself out of my chest and walked out the door.
Then come home with me. It's that simple.
It's not -- It's not that easy.
Listen to me.
When this army attacked my friends, I got hit, too.
I nearly died.
I was holed up in a mall
trying to recover with Nat for a year.
They took a year from me, from my time with my kids.
I lied to you. I don't know how Judith is.
I don't know if she's okay.
She stopped answering the walkie.
They've taken so much from us.
Why give them any more?
This hope that you have in the CRM,
sacrificing yourself -- it's not real.
We, your family, are real.
I'm real.
Our love? This?
It doesn't get denied.
No matter what you keep trying to tell me or yourself.
And this -- this back and forth...
...it's hurting me, Rick.
It's making me become someone I don't recognize.
You're hurting me.
And I know you.
That is not how you love.
What did they do to you?
Rick, I need you to try to tell me
what is really going on here.
What did they take from you?
Carl. They took Carl.
I lost him again.
When I got taken, and I fought
and I fought, and I just --
I tried to get away, but -- but --
but how I would dream.
I'd meet up with Carl in my dreams.
And that's how I survived in here.
Kept me alive.
And then one day, he was just gone.
He just left.
But then I started dreaming of you.
And there you were.
You and I fell in love in different ways,
and it kept me going.
And then you were gone, too.
I couldn't see your face anymore,
just like I couldn't see Carl's.
I can't live without you.
Without you, I die.
And I figured out how to do that.
I know how to be dead and live now.
You can't just come back here,
make me come alive again if --
I don't know if I won't lose you again.
What if I lose you and I can't figure out
how to die all over again?
I can't --
I need to get ahead of it, Michonne.
I can't. I can't.
When I -- When I saw you,
I got so scared, and I --
I needed to get ahead of it.
I had to.
At least if I think you will love on longer
than me without knowing if you do,
I can just believe that it's true.
Knowing...
Seeing that loss?
I can't.
I won't survive that, Michonne.
I just won't.
If Carl were here right now, what would he say?
What would he want you to do with this new chance
to be with those you love?
Hm?
Despite all the odds, all the years,
I found you, Rick.
I came here through the hell
that we have both been through to take you home.
You think that's all for nothing?
For us to just go our separate ways?
No.
We go home, Rick,
and we figure out how to protect it together.
That's how we make it all make sense.
We love on each other, as hard as we can,
while we can.
System malfunction.
Elevator has 10 minutes left of reserve power.
Ready? Yeah.
I got him.
System malfunction.
Elevator has two minutes left of reserve power.
Stick shift.
Baby, I got to drive.
Right. They made a stick shift electric car.
And left tanks of ethanol in the back seat.
It's a hybrid.
Oh, they equipped us with enough to get home.
Got to thank them for that.
Clearly, they thought they could do anything.
Yep. But we can.
"We can make this world damn world ours if we want to."
Yes, we can.
That sounds like something I'd say.
It is.
Okay.