[snarling]
[panting]
[door handles rattling]
[infected snarling]
[panting]
- [snarling] - [Al grunts]
[radio tuning]
Morgan? June? Do you copy?
Morgan? June?
Do you copy?
[static crackling]
I got out through the basement.
Had to hole up in a post office for the night.
I'm in a parking garage a couple miles south of the hospital.
- If you... - [radio dies]
[panting]
You've got to be shitting me.
[electricity crackles]
[engine starts]
[infected snarling in distance]
[loud snarling]
Shit.
He's strong now.
[Al] Where is everyone else?
What did you do to them?
You took my tapes.
You took my van.
You owe me.
I don't want to hurt you.
I like you.
You don't make people weak.
Lady, I don't know what that means.
I watched your interviews.
So many people needing something.
But you? You just gave them whatever it took to get their story.
Nothing more.
That's real strength.
Where are my tapes?
Where's my van?
Where are they?
If I know Morgan, he's looking for you.
I want you to give him a message when he finds you.
I'm not telling him shit.
- You got a message, tell him yourself. - [Martha chuckles]
All right.
- [snarling] - [Al grunts]
[gunshot]
[Al grunts]
[opening theme music playing]
[June softly] Al?
Al?
[groans]
Where, where is sh...
Where... What... What happened? Where is she?
- Who? - The woman who's trying to kill us.
You were in the street. We didn't see her.
[John] We heard you over the walkie.
Then we went to that parking garage.
And when we didn't find you,
we figured you must have doubled back to the hospital and tried to find us.
I saw Jim.
Did everyone else make it?
We're all here.
We're just circling the wagons before we make the push to Virginia.
What did she say to you?
Bitch said she liked me.
Wanted me to deliver a message.
I demurred.
[sighs] Well, she delivered it anyway.
She kind of made you her carrier pigeon.
What?
I am so disappointed in you, Morgan.
I gave you so many chances to be strong.
But you didn't take any of them.
But maybe it was my fault.
Maybe I wasn't strong enough.
You'll see me again, and when you do,
I'll be stronger than ever.
And I'll make you strong, too. I will.
So, Mo-Mo,
you finally going to tell us
where the hell in Virginia we're actually going?
It's called Alexandria.
And there's a few places more or less nearby.
Place with the king?
Uh-huh.
Pet tiger?
We'll go there.
How's the patient?
Better now.
[Luciana on radio] Found a truck with a full tank. On our way back.
Copy.
It appears we'll be arriving in Alexandria via caravan.
Well, we're going to need the extra room.
Thought we'd make a stop where we first met,
Polar Bear's truck stop.
We load up the boxes, and we'll drop them on the road,
whole way to Virginia.
Well, we should get some sleep.
We hit the road at dawn.
[Victor] Let's pack it in.
Maybe I wasn't strong enough.
But don't worry. I will be.
[John] I can take over.
When did...
Nature called. I answered.
I expected to find you walking away.
I thought I was going to have to jog after you
just to tell you that I know what you're up to.
What am I up to, John?
[John] Oh, you're going to run again.
You found a reason to leave us.
No. It's not...
It's not running.
She's dying, John.
We already tried to help her. She don't want it.
She thinks the only way to be strong is to die and turn.
She tried to kill you. She tried to kill June.
She's stuck.
Whatever happened to her, she thinks killing is the only way.
How you going to convince her otherwise?
Because I understand her. I...
I used to be her.
- I'll come with you. - No. No, this is...
this is something I've got to do on my own.
All of you, you go here.
This is how you get there, to Alexandria.
I put it on paper just in case.
- Oh, come on. - You heard me, John.
[tuts]
Got to do this on my own.
Now, you told me something like that once before.
You almost got yourself killed.
Now you're going to go off and do the exact same thing again?
Why?
Why? [chuckles]
Because I do.
Man, that sounds like she's not the only one who's stuck.
[chuckles dryly]
I will get to Alexandria.
I will meet you all there.
Hopefully, with her.
[John] I'm going to wait at that truck stop.
I bet everyone else will, too.
You don't come back inside of two days,
I'm going to come looking for you.
I will be there.
You know, there are some fish in this world, just won't be caught,
no matter what you dangle in front of them.
You could go after them, sure.
My gut tells me just to leave them be.
Now, I'm talking about fish, in this case.
But I think it applies to this woman, too.
I still got to try, though.
I know. I know you do.
You know, hell, you might be the fish.
Maybe I am. [chuckles]
I know you're listening.
And I know you think this is the only way that you can be strong.
But I'm telling you there's another way.
Let me show you.
Let me try to.
[Martha on radio] Morgan?
I knew you'd come looking.
Where are you?
[Martha] Mile marker 54.
I'm on my way.
- [door opens] - [bell jingles]
- [switch clicks] - [electricity buzzing]
Thank you.
[tap running]
Are we really doing this?
[Victor] We could always go back to the mansion.
The Château Lafite is waiting for us.
[Alicia] It's gone.
There's nothing for us back there.
So let's find something else to do.
Let's find another reason to live.
[John] What?
Oh, now.
Come on.
What?
It's just, reminds me of shopping at Bill's.
- Have you seen the movie selection here? - [chuckles]
I don't think we'll be getting back to Bill's anytime soon.
Or my cabin.
Storm pretty much made that a near certainty.
Hey.
Before the storm, when you asked if I wanted to go...
No, that... That doesn't matter, June.
No. I want you to hear this.
I was scared that you'd realise that I wasn't who you thought I was.
A lot has happened between then and now.
[John] I know who you are.
Doesn't matter what your name is.
I know you.
Doesn't take a whole day to recognise sunshine.
Well, I wanted you to know that I know who I am now.
You gave that to me.
I didn't even know it.
I needed to.
I needed you, John.
[muffled snarling]
[continues snarling]
[banging]
[snarling]
[Morgan grunts]
[Morgan] You armed?
Hey.
Not yet.
My people,
we can help you.
[Martha] No.
No. Not yet. No!
- [moaning] - There's no time. I'm taking you back.
[Martha gasping and groaning]
[Martha] No!
[grunts]
[loud banging]
- Hey... - You weren't supposed to see me like this.
- [banging continues] - Hey.
You're going to take these.
[grunts]
They'll clear up the infection.
[pills rattle]
So, what was that place?
What happened back there?
Who'd you lose?
It's a long trip.
Thought talking might help.
[John on radio] Morgan, do you copy?
Morgan, I repeat, do you copy?
John, I copy.
I found her.
I'm bringing her back.
Where are you taking me?
To Mississippi.
John, do you copy?
John?
Morgan, I repeat, do you copy?
[radio static]
I never should have let him go.
You saw the transmitter outside.
That baby's 50 watts. If he's got ears, he can hear you.
But there's no way his signal's getting back here,
at least not until he gets closer.
Told Wendell to lay off the sweetener.
[sighs]
[Victor] How's it going up there?
This ought to get us to Virginia.
Smiley rode the engine without coolant.
Care to channel that anger into something a bit more productive?
We could use some help with the boxes.
[infected snarling]
Got these.
[snarling]
Al?
[groans]
Al!
[gun firing]
Al? Okay.
Come on.
Better get inside.
We're going to have more company.
[sighs]
My husband.
What was his name?
Hank.
What happened to him?
Back when everything was starting,
we were trying to get out of the city.
I was driving.
Someone was weaving in and out of the traffic,
trying to get ahead,
trying to get theirs.
And they clipped me.
My Hank,
he needed my help.
And I didn't know what to do.
I went out to the road, tried to flag someone down.
But no one stopped.
No one pulled over to help.
And that is not your fault.
He needed me to be strong.
And I wasn't.
Hey, I know that's what you think.
But that isn't true.
You're...
you are stuck.
[Martha sniffles]
[June on radio] Morgan, if you can hear this, please hurry back.
Something's wrong.
Al got sick.
[gasps] We thought it was what she had before.
- [infected snarling] - But it's not just her.
It's all of us.
[both breathing heavily]
[John groans]
[panting] Morgan, something's not right.
Please, if you hear this...
[gasping]
...get back.
Can you hear me?
If you can hear me, I'm on my way back, okay?
I am on my way back.
[car accelerating and bumping]
[groaning]
You hang on.
[Martha] I can't.
Just pull over.
There's no time. I need to get back.
- Pull over. - I said I can't!
Okay, okay. I'll take the damn medicine.
- Here. [yells] - [Martha grunts]
[tyres squeal]
[Martha yelling]
[tyres screech]
[Martha groaning]
I told you not...
I told you
- I was going to make you strong. - [Morgan groans]
I think, Morgan, that's what you always wanted.
[Morgan groans]
[grunts]
[breathing heavily]
[coughing]
[Morgan groaning]
[panting]
It doesn't have to end this way for us.
[chuckles]
It does for me.
I made sure you couldn't help.
Now, you either kill me, or I kill you.
I don't kill.
[groans]
I got to get to them.
You'll never make it.
I got to try.
- Why? - What?
It's not for them.
It's for you.
You're scared.
If they die...
[June on radio] Morgan?
...you'll become what you used to be.
That's why you left that place back east,
- before. - [June] Morgan, please hurry back.
[Morgan groans]
That's why you came to find me on your own.
I came to find you because you needed help.
You knew I wouldn't take it.
I have been where you are. I have.
[June] Morgan, are you there?
You still are.
[June] Whatever this is, it's getting worse.
You always will be unless you decide to be strong.
- [Martha groaning] - [June] Morgan?
Morgan?
Now, you either kill me, and become what you used to be,
or you let me make you strong.
[muffled snarling]
[groaning]
[Sarah groaning]
What the hell is this?
[June groaning] We just need to stay hydrated.
No.
No. No.
[gasping]
These bottles, all of the seals have been broken.
Someone poisoned us.
[gasping]
[sighing]
She did.
[June on radio] Morgan. Morgan, she did this.
She put something in the water.
Is that true?
Last time I was there, I did.
I didn't know you and your friends were going to stop.
It's like I was saying.
That's what you get for helping people.
You made them weak, Morgan.
What did you do? What is it?
It doesn't matter.
There's nothing you can do.
What is it?
What?
Antifreeze.
[Martha laughing]
[grunts]
God!
She put antifreeze in the water.
Do you copy? It's antifreeze.
- [sing-song] They can't hear you. - Oh, God.
- [panting] - You can't help them.
Don't you understand?
They are going to die.
And there is nothing you can do about it.
[grunting]
[choking]
[strained] Now you're strong.
[continues choking, coughs]
I knew it was still in you.
[Martha coughing]
[continues choking]
[Martha wheezing]
[Martha coughs]
[wheezes, coughing]
I won't.
[Martha] They're going to die.
And there's nothing you can do.
[Martha chuckling]
Yes, there is.
[groaning]
[groans]
[continues groaning]
You're going to be strong.
We both will.
You'll see.
- [grunts] - [Martha wails]
What are you doing?
No! No! [sobs]
[Martha yells]
Listen.
- [sobbing] - I won't kill you.
But I'm also not going to let you kill anybody after you've turned.
It's not supposed to be this way.
- It's not supposed to be this way! - [Morgan panting and grunting]
It's not supposed to be this way!
[bawling]
[grunting softly]
[groaning]
Anybody hear me?
I repeat, can anybody hear me?
[muffled snarling]
Anybody copy?
Come on. Does anybody copy?
[coughs]
[tapping]
[engine starts]
[muffled snarling]
[Al moans]
[grunts]
[groans]
[laughs and sobs quietly]
[Al sniffles]
[inhales sharply]
Does anybody hear me?
[snarling]
[person coughing]
[Al groaning]
I'm not going to let that bitch beat me.
[panting]
[radio clicks]
Morgan, you're out there,
you tell her I'm coming for her.
[static hissing, AI's voice breaking up]
- Al? Al? - [Al] I don't know how.
[groans]
[static hissing, AI's voice breaking up]
- But I will. - Al?
Do you copy?
Al, do you copy?
[chuckles]
Yeah.
What took you so long?
Oh, thank God.
It's antifreeze, okay? It's antifreeze.
[June] Ethanol.
The antidote is ethanol.
It'll stop us from metabolising the antifreeze.
There's a goddamn tanker truck full of it crashed outside.
All we got to do is get to it.
[gasping]
Well, what are we waiting for?
[Al chuckling]
[all laughing]
We're going to be okay.
You just get your ass back here.
[chuckles]
I'm on my way.
Come on!
[infected snarling]
Everybody ready?
[Alicia] We're ready.
[Sarah sighs]
Let's stir up some beef.
[tapping]
Now.
[Al grunts]
[grunts]
[tapping continues]
[Victor] John, come on.
[gunshots]
Incoming!
[gunshot]
- [Sarah] Ow! - [gunshots continue]
[Sarah groaning]
- Come on. - [Sarah] To the truck.
[Alicia] We need to get you back inside.
[knob creaking]
[Victor straining]
[coughing]
[Victor] It's stuck.
[Luciana] Come on. Hurry.
[Victor] I can't get it.
[tapping]
Get down!
[gasps]
[shells clattering]
[panting]
[liquid trickling]
[Luciana coughing]
[breathing shakily]
[muffled snarling]
[Morgan on radio] How's it all going over there?
[weakly] Morgan, we lost the ethanol.
There was a whole truck full of it outside.
It was going to save us.
Hey, but there's got to be more, right?
There isn't.
Even if there was, I don't think any of us are in any shape to get it.
[sighs]
No, no, you got to find a way.
[John] Morgan, it's John.
I don't think that's going to happen, bud.
No, see...
[infected snarling]
I can't lose you. I can't lose any of you.
I can't go back to what I was.
[John] You won't.
I did. I almost did.
But you didn't.
[Morgan] I will.
You see, she was right.
I'm not... I'm not strong enough.
[breathing heavily]
You're the strongest person I know, Morgan.
Whether we're here or not, you're still going to be you.
[snarling]
And people out there need you.
- It's not like... - [radio static]
- [radio clicking, static stops] - John?
John?
[snarling continues]
[radio clatters]
[exhales]
[footsteps coming closer]
[Morgan grunting and yelling]
[yells]
[muffled snarling]
Whoever finds these,
keep them safe.
Make sure they survive.
Make sure they matter.
What's the final count?
How many of those meat puppets we take out?
Not enough.
Just when I stopped trying to drink myself to death,
I succeed.
I thought
we would get a chance
to make up for what we did.
I thought I'd get a second chance.
At least I got to see the beach.
Yeah, you did.
[engine roaring in distance]
[vehicle brakes squeak]
[muffled grunting in distance]
- [door opens] - [bell jingles]
[panting]
Morgan.
You came back.
Yeah, I told you I would.
[grunts weakly]
Ethanol, that's just a fancy word for alcohol, right?
Yeah.
I made a stop along the way.
[bell jingles]
That's twice Jimbo's saved our keisters.
Here's to you, asshole.
[Victor chuckles]
You know,
there was a time I thought
I didn't have anyone to share a drink with anymore.
Charlie, you know this is a one-time deal, right?
She was poisoned, John.
I know.
Just don't go getting poisoned again till you're at least 21.
Yeah?
[John exhales]
[both laughing]
I get it.
I get why this is what you wanted.
[chuckles]
[tap running]
[snarling]
- [tapping] - [snarling stops]
[snarling resumes]
[body thuds]
Morgan, can we get our asses in gear, and get to Alexandria now?
We're not going there.
At least, I'm not.
That woman, she was the way she was
because nobody stopped to help her when she needed it, nobody.
And there are still more people like her out there.
You see, Polar Bear was...
His journals, you still got them?
Yeah.
When Polar Bear started doing what he was doing,
he tried to set up a system that'd last.
The supplies, the fuel,
even those trucks at the truck stop, they all came from here.
This is where it all started.
Used to be a denim factory.
He said he used to make deliveries for them, you now, before.
And then after, he set up shop here
because look at it.
So out of the way.
I don't need a new pair of dungarees, Mo-Mo.
That wasn't our deal, man.
Well, look, nobody is being forced to stay.
You want to make up for what you did to Clayton?
This is where you start.
Morgan, it can't just be about the boxes.
We have to do what my mom did, build this into something more.
That's how you help people.
And where are we going to find these people?
They're in short supply, in case we hadn't noticed.
[Al] Got tapes.
Interviews with people all over the area.
Some of them weren't doing so hot.
Start with them.
What?
I got layers.
[John] You think we'll find him there?
I think it's a good place to start.
Ready?
Ready.
[Wendell] Now we good.
Let's boogie.
We're ready.
Let's go.
[Morgan] Don't know if any of you are out there.
Don't know if any of you are listening.
But if you are, hang in there.
We're coming for you.
[closing theme music playing]