Original subtitles

That doesn't just happen.

♪

Are you with them? Hey, easy, easy, easy.

Look, we don't want any trouble. We thought it was empty.

Y'all need to get out of here.

If you know a place to hold up --

We have a place.

You have any idea who those people in the gas masks are?

I've been asking myself the same question.

Perhaps we can answer it together.

Come on! Get inside!

♪

Looky what I got.

It's clean. I checked it.

The hell is it?

Most people call 'em dragon fruits

on account of the leathery skin and the scaly spikes.

Looks more like a strawberry pear, you ask me.

What do we do with it?

We eat it.

Is that...

The Dark Horses?

Sure looks like it.

♪

You're the assholes who killed Milus and his boys, aren't you?

♪

Look, we don't want no trouble.

Then why are you stealing shit?

We gotta eat.

Yeah, well, so does the guy you stole it from.

♪

You gonna kill us, too?

Depends. On?

You.

All this over some stolen fruit?

Well, it's not about the fruit.

It's the principle of it.

What's that supposed to mean?

Let's just say we got a code.

So, what?

We return it, you leave us alone?

Now you're getting it.

And what if we say no?

I'd think twice about that.

Oh, yeah?

Well, Milus and his boys...

they said no.

♪

So what's it gonna be?

Screw your code!

You play with fire, you're gonna get burned.

♪

Eli, go!

He's going for his gun!

No! No! No!

Walkers!

Stay put!

♪

Hey! Hey!

♪

Incoming!

♪

You okay? No, no, okay?

I really did not want to kill anybody today, you know?

Hey, anybody that's willing to kill over a cart of fruit

deserves what he gets.

And, honestly, like, the more people hear about

what we're willing to do...Yeah.

...to keep things right...

I know, the less people we have to do it to.

I got it.

Hey, D...

...we stuck to the code.

The kill was clean.

We're not gonna turn into him.

Hey.

Alright.

Okay.

I don't know what I'd do without you.

I really don't.

♪

Let's hope neither one of us ever has to find out again.

Okay.

Alright.

♪

♪

Briga, they're back.

Did you find any bad guys?

We found more than that.

Where'd those come from?

Somebody stole them, we returned them,

and the owner gave us a sample.

D, you see that? Look.

What? What is that?

Oh, my God. Hold on. Don't move.

Hold on.

Whoa.

That's just to pass the time, you know,

until we get to where we're going next.

Thank you.

You're welcome. Oh!

I've been listening all day.

Nothing about Padre.

Hey, it's alright. Keep listening.

Yeah. We're gonna keep looking.

We'll get there.

Honey, why don't you go play?

Yeah, we're gonna catch up with Dwight and Sherry, okay?

Listen, there's no easy way to say this.

We can't wait anymore.

Wait for what?

This place, it's falling apart.

We are almost out of food --

Yeah, we're not gonna run out.

You can use the cellar as long as you'd like.

But we've got other things to consider.

We gotta find someplace else.

Look, hey, Kevin, Kim --

we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you guys.

We wouldn't be able to do what we're doing right now

if you didn't open the doors for us. Yeah.

We're gonna find Padre.

Yeah. We don't even know what it is.

It's just some rumors on the radio.

It's out there.

How do you know? Hey.

What makes you think we'll ever find it?

Because every time we're out there,

we hear more and more about Padre.

I think if we just keep doing what we're doing right now,

it's a matter of time before we find it. We're so close.

♪

Hey, hey.

Hey.

You can trust us.

Please.

♪

I reckon we can wait a bit longer.

♪

Is this -- We're in some trouble --

We heard the Dark Horses were on this channel.

Where are you?

♪

I don't see him. You sure this is the spot?

These are the coordinates.

I'm not sure how much longer

we can dangle this Padre carrot.

I don't want to promise something

that we can't deliver on.

Well, we've been out here doing our thing for a while.

You know, leveling the field.

Trying to make things better.

Maybe Padre is the reward for it all.

Could be a new base for us to keep doing what we're doing.

A place for Briga to grow up.

Here!

Over here!

Hurry up!

What happened?

They stabbed him!

Robbed us!

Alright, let me take a look.

These people, well, wh-where are they?

Whoa! Whoa!

Hey!

Oh, they're still here.

♪

You don't know who you're messing with!

Wait! Actually, I do.

You call yourselves the Dark Horses?

Lose the masks.

Readings are clear here.

Look, if we wanted you dead,

it'd have been done already.

Your reputation is the reason I was asked to find you.

Asked by who?

Hey, hey! Hey!

The Dark Horses, per your request.

Ha!

Strand?

So you're the outlaws I've heard so much about.

Ah!

What delicious irony.

You know each other?

Oh, we go way back.

We would've come if you'd just asked.

What the hell is this place, Victor?

What the hell is that sound?

Ambience.

Apologies.

We're very particular about who we let in

and out of our little sanctuary.

Now, had I known you were you,

I would have used a more, uh, gentle fashion.

Why'd you bring us here?

I have a proposal.

What kind of proposal?

Straight to business, must we?

You've come all this way.

At least allow me the pleasure of showing you around.

We've taken in some people you've been kind enough to help.

They hail the Dark Horses as a new breed of ethical outlaws.

Peace officers of a modern frontier.

How many people are in here?

Current occupancy's just over 200.

But we estimate we can support over 1,000.

You just go out and find whoever you can bring back?

It's a bit more complicated than that.

Well, who have you found?

June is here.

Wendell. John Dorie's father.

Morgan?

We've crossed paths.

Grace and Sarah, too.

They're all in here?

Not exactly. Why not?

As I said, uh, we are very particular about

who we let in and out.

Which brings me to Mickey.

Who the hell is that?

One of our denizens and the subject of the proposal

that I brought you here to discuss.

Well, if you don't open the door for Grace,

Sarah, and Morgan, you can take your proposal,

and you can shove it up your ass.

I assumed that would be your first blush, but hear me out.

When we first found Mickey, she was half dead,

starving, delirious.

We brought her in, after a couple of days,

she made an extraordinary recovery.

But she was fixated in finding her husband,

whose fate seemed obvious to everyone but her.

So she went to go look for him.

What do you care?

I take great interest in the welfare

of the people who inhabit this tower.

I invest in them.

You mean you want to see it pay off.

Which is why I can't sit idly by

while Mickey puts herself in grave danger

for a man who is dead or a place that doesn't exist.

What place?

Transmission she heard.

She was obsessed.

How do you know it doesn't exist?

Well, we've scouted 50 miles in every direction.

There's only one remotely inhabitable place

with any future in said radius, and you are standing in it.

Alright. What's your proposal, Victor?

We know where Mickey's holed herself up.

But my people have been unable to recover her.

People come back bruised and tattered --

if they come back at all.

And given your reputation as the Dark Horses,

I figured maybe you can find success where we have failed.

Sounds like she doesn't want to be recovered.

People don't know what they want until you give it to them.

Why would we do something like this for you?

The million-dollar question.

Bring Mickey back safely,

and I'll grant you residency here.

We already have a place.

And how's that working out for you?

We're getting by.

Surely, your aspirations are greater

than just "getting by."

You know, we lived in a place like this before.

And that didn't turn out so hot.

And the fact that you're even calling this a sanctuary

makes me pretty damn sure that it's anything but.

Our way of keeping track of the dead.

Please, I beg you.

Help me save Mickey from this fate.

♪

Well, thank you for the tour, Victor,

but we're gonna have to pass.

May I ask why?

We got a code of honor.

What exactly does that entail?

Keeping people safe from assholes like you.

Ha ha!

♪

It's a new world now.

You've seen it. You've been out there.

To put it in your parlance,

it's assholes like me

that are keeping people safe now.

Sleep on it.

Should you change your minds

or require my assistance, you know where to find me.

♪

How the -- How the hell did we get here?

The horse is yours to keep.

Consider it a down payment in the hopes that you'd reconsider.

You didn't answer his question.

Alright, hey.

I know.

Why not?

Because that's how we keep this place safe.

Don't follow us.

You think Victor would take in the Larsons?

What? Look, I mean, maybe we could strike up our own deal.

You know, keep Kevin and Kim safe, Briga.

I-I know it is not the best thing, but it's a sure thing.

D, you and I both know that nothing that's worth having

is ever a sure thing.

So what do we do?

It sounds to me like Mickey's

looking for the same place that we are.

If we find her, help her find her husband...

and we all go to Padre together.

♪

♪

♪

What? You want to test it out?

You stay here. I'll go around back.

Is anyone there?

Go away!

Mickey?

Tell Strand I'm not coming back!

♪

Hey. I just want to talk.

♪

You gonna put that down?

Alright.

♪

♪

No, hey! Listen, wait!

We're -- We're not with Strand!

Yeah? Then how'd you find me, huh?

And how do you know my name?! He told us!

It's not what you think, alright?

We're not here to help him.

Then why are you here? Aah!

To help you find your husband.

So how 'bout you let go of mine?

♪

So, what else did Strand tell you?

He said he was worried about you.

Have we met before? It --

Mm. I don't think so.

The only thing worrying Strand is how I got out of that place.

How did you? It's on the bar.

Look, Strand and his rangers,

they got their own ways of getting in and out.

For the rest of us, the only way out was

through the moat of the dead.

Just wish I'd found thicker phone books.

Those ones got chewed up all the way down to Zalinsky.

You walked through that herd?

I mean, there were thousands of 'em.

Why do you think Strand wants me brought back?

So no one else finds out how you escaped.

You got it.

So you made that suit?

Every night, when the rangers weren't looking.

Are you sure we don't know each other?

Look, champ, no offense,

but I'd remember a face like that, alright?

If you don't mind, I got work to do.

Dearly Beloved.

What'd you say?

You're The Bride.

Oh!

You were amazing!

What was the move, the special move that you had

when you were, uh...

He would be distracting them,

and you would get up on the top ropes and --

What the hell are you talking about here?

Her and her husband were one of the best tag team in wrestling.

No. Yes!

I was there when you won the belt in Atlanta,

State Farm, '05.

Yeah, my dad used to take me

to all those matches when I was a kid.

That is you, right?

Look, people stopped recognizing me

way before the world went to shit, alright?

Well, hey, one of your fans is, uh...

still here.

What happened to y'all?

We stopped touring...

a long time ago.

Opened a training gym down the road, Texas City.

And, uh, that's where Cliff and I said we'd meet up

if we ever got split.

When the bomb went off, Strand found me, took me in.

I've been trying to get back to the gym ever since.

What's stopping you?

Let's just say, if there's a herd out there,

my suit couldn't handle it like that,

and phone books aren't exactly easy to come by out here.

So I've been stuck here, trying to fix it.

We'll help you get back to him.

Why would you do that?

Well, we're sort of a tag team ourselves, I guess.

Yeah, well...

Alright. Alright, I'll bite.

What kind of tag team?

The kind that protects people from guys like Strand.

He said I was crazy for looking for Cliff.

If you're crazy, then so are we.

We spent a long time criss-crossing the country,

trying to find each other with nothing --

like, nothing to go on but letters.

And we found each other.

We'll help you find Cliff.

Yeah, then we can find Padre.

You know where it is?

We've heard messages.

But I-I-I think if we all work together,

we can figure it out.

We'll get you to Texas City.

Make a stop along the way.

Where?

A place where we can get weapons and supplies.

Not to mention some good people

that'll be coming with us when we find Padre.

♪

Alright.

♪

Not much further now.

Should be on our way to the gym before dark.

Til Death Do Us Part.

That was our finisher.

Yeah. Yeah, that's it.

You gotta show me that one of these days.

Well, it's a two-man maneuver, you know?

Can't do it without Cliff.

You'll be with him soon enough.

Shit. What?

Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

♪

♪

Kim?!

Kevin!

Briga?

♪

D.

♪

No.

♪

Oh, my God.

♪

♪

I'm so sorry.

We shouldn't stay long,

in case the wind changes direction.

Play with fire, you'll get burned.

They wanted to leave.

This wasn't our fault.

They stayed because they thought we were

onto something better.

We did everything the right way, you know?

Stuck to the code, helped people...

Maybe it's not enough.

Maybe Strand was right.

You know, it's a -- this is a -a new world.

Maybe the sure thing is the right thing.

Come on.

Mickey?

Look, I'm -I'm real sorry about your friends.

Alright, look, we were trying to help them out,

and it turns out we were doing the opposite.

We don't want that to happen to you.

I don't understand.

Odds are Cliff's dead.

You don't know that. You all found each other.

And that was a different world.

We gotta face the one we're in right now.

What are you trying to say?

I'm sorry, Mickey, but you got lucky...

getting through the moat at Strand's place.

You may not get so lucky again, alright?

I-I-I think Strand's tower is the best place for you.

For us, for us.

You chickenshits.

Whoa. Hey, hey, hey. Hey.

We're trying to save you from getting yourself killed.

We'll bring you back.

Strand, he'll give you a second chance.

He will lock me up and throw away the key.

Anything he can do to make sure

no one finds out how I escaped, he'll do it.

No way.

I'm not going back there.

Alright?

Don't do this. Don't make me.

I'm gonna find Cliff,

and then we're gonna find Padre.

You're gonna die.

Just like them.

I made it this far just fine on my own.

Alright.

Wait. You're not doing this alone.

I'm coming with you.

Honey, what are you doing?

D, I'm sorry. It's not right.

We can't just hand her over like this.

I thought we agreed on this.

We have a code for a reason.

Right?

And I'm not sure if sending her back there is sticking to it.

We can say it's for her,

but I really think it'd be for us.

Honey, just come on.

♪

The old bar -- go back there.

Sherry?

Sherry.

I'll help her get to Cliff, then come back for you,

and we'll figure out where to go next.

Come on.

Sherry, hey!

♪

We're almost there.

You should definitely be able to make it back

to the bar by sundown.

I'm not leaving till we find Cliff.

Dwight can wait.

You know, I used to do the same thing

when I'd have a fight with Cliff.

Take a walk. Let him cool down.

You and me are a lot alike.

I don't know what got into him back there.

I get it.

He thought taking me back to Strand would keep you safe.

Kinda makes me wonder why you wouldn't take that deal.

We made a bargain with a guy like Strand before --

to keep each other safe -- and it nearly destroyed us.

What we're doing now, he's doing it for me.

You think his heart's not in it?

No, it is.

It is, but I -- I think he wants something else.

What? A place in Strand's tower?

I'm not sure.

Look, you all were separated,

and you found each other.

So whatever this is, it...

sounds like nothing.

I'm not worried about Dwight giving up, you know?

Before, you know, I told him to stop looking for me

in one of my letters, and he still found me.

Why'd you tell him to stop looking?

I didn't want him to get killed doing it.

♪

Cliff said the same thing to me, you know.

Told me he'd whoop my ass if I ever came looking for him.

I thought you were supposed to meet him at the gym

if you got separated.

Yeah, I told you that

'cause I thought it'd make you more inclined to help me.

So he's not at the gym?

He may be.

He may not be.

It's the last place I know to look.

Because...

I can't do what he said.

Maybe it's me and Dwight who are more alike.

Whoa.

♪

♪

This the place? Yep.

Our humble abode.

That's what drew 'em.

That's what's keeping them here.

How long you think your suit will hold up against them?

Not as long as last time.

Took a lot of damage escaping that moat.

Why?

I got an idea.

Come on.

Hey, girl.

Hey. Hey.

Hey.

Hey, hey.

Oh, I thought we'd lost you.

You did. Turn around. Hands up.

Nothing stupid.

Take your mask off.

Take your mask off, or I'll take it off for you.

♪

I found her.

Which means she's mine now.

And I believe you know firsthand what happens

when you try to take back something that's mine.

I saw what you did at the cellar.

They were good people.

So was my friend.

But that didn't stop you from killing him.

Although...

I got something besides a horse out of it.

♪

I said nothing stupid.

I'm riding out of here.

And I'd rather not waste a bullet if I don't have to.

♪

There.

That wasn't so hard, was it?

That hurt, huh?

♪

The hell are those?

♪

Holy shit.

Strand put you up to this, didn't he?

Answer me, you son of a bitch!

I don't know his name!

♪

What'd he offer you?

Tell me!

A place in his settlement if I took those people out.

I got what I wanted, and I got to screw you over!

♪

♪

You may have screwed me over,

but you're not getting what you want.

♪

I thought you had a code!

♪

♪

You sure this'll work?

It will if you do it fast.

And if they smell you through the blood,

let's hope the phone books hold.

Alright, turn around.

If anything goes wrong, I got you.

Okay?

♪

♪

How are you gonna get inside?

Let's worry about you first.

♪

♪

Thank you.

♪

Okay.

♪

♪

♪

♪

Shit.

♪

♪

Aah!

♪

Over here, assholes!

Hey!

Hey, over here!

Hey!

Get inside!

The doors are chained!

Get down!

Go!

I'm not going in without you!

Go!

Go!

♪

♪

Don't move.

I'm out. Now what?

We made it in.

Now we just have to figure how to keep them out.

♪

Anything else we can use to block them off?

Not unless we drag that thing over.

All this and he isn't even here.

He could be nearby.

You know, he could've had a hard time getting back.

Maybe he found Padre.

He was the one that first heard about it.

Said when we found it, he was gonna build us a chapel

so we could finally get married.

You're not? We never got around to it.

Funny, I know, considering, right?

He always told me he didn't want Til Death Do Us Part

to be something we just did in the ring.

It won't.

We'll find him.

Just so much stuff we never got around to, you know?

So many things we were waiting to do

until we got this place up and running.

Have a wedding and build a house on the land

his daddy left him, and...

kids.

They're piling up.

This isn't gonna hold.

The ring.

Maybe we can get up there, pick 'em off one by one.

Let's go.

♪

Mickey -- Oh, no.

♪

Oh, no.

I'm so sorry.

♪

I love you.

♪

You gotta get up.

Come on. We have to keep moving.

Let's go!

♪

Come on. Come on.

Come on, come on. Come here.

It's over.

It's over.

I know how much you're hurting.

But you have to remember what he said

if you two ever got split up.

Alright? He'd want you to keep going.

Why?

For what?

You'll find something.

It might not be what you thought,

but you will find something.

♪

♪

Hold on to me.

♪

There's no way out.

There is. One.

♪

You want to call Strand?

Maybe he's right.

You know, the world is different now.

Maybe this is the way it's gotta be.

♪

Call him.

♪

Honey!

D!

Who are you calling?!

Strand! Okay, don't do it!

Why not?! You -You wanted to go back there.

He killed the Larsons.

What?! Yes!

He hired that guy Eli to do it. Alright?

Offered him a place in the Tower.

Why? Why would he do that? I don't know.

Make us doubt ourselves, make us doubt our code.

Make us think his way is the only way, but it's not.

Alright? I-I'd rather

die fighting with you than live hiding with him.

♪

We're out!

♪

♪ Out in the street, they call it murder ♪

Hey!

♪ Camp where the thugs dem camp at ♪

Mickey!

♪ It inna your hand bag, your knapsack ♪

♪ It inna your backpack

♪ The smell ah give your girlfriend contact ♪

♪ Some boy nuh know dis

♪ Dem only come around like tourist ♪

♪ On the beach with a few club sodas ♪

♪ Bedtime stories, and pose like dem name Chuck Norris ♪

♪ And don't know the real hardcore ♪

♪ 'Cause Sandals ah nuh back too the thugs ♪

♪ Dem will do whe dem got to

♪ And won't think twice to shot you ♪

♪ Don't make dem spot you

♪ Unless you carry guns a lot too ♪

♪ A bare tuff tings come at you ♪

♪ When Trench Town man stop laugh and block off traffic ♪

♪ Then dem wheel and pop off and dem start clap it ♪

♪ With the pin file dung an it ah beat rapid ♪

♪ Police come inna jeep and dem can't stop it ♪

♪ Some say them ah playboy, ah playboy rabbit ♪

♪ Get dropped like a bad habit ♪

♪ So nuh bodah pose tuff if you don't have it ♪

♪ Rastafari stands alone

♪ Welcome to Jamrock

♪ Welcome to Jamrock

♪ Out in the street, they call it murder ♪

Mickey!

♪ Welcome to Jamrock

♪

♪ Welcome to Jamrock

♪

♪ Welcome to Jamrock

♪

♪ Welcome to Jamrock

How was that?

Nailed it.

Was that a...?

That was Til Death Do Us Part.

Yeah.

I'm so sorry, Mickey.

He's outside.

Cleaned him up as best as I could.

You know, if you want to say your goodbyes or...

Oh, and I, uh...

...found this.

♪

He knew you'd come looking for him.

♪

♪

"Mickey,

if you're reading this, it means I didn't make it.

I looked everywhere for that place where I'd hoped

we could finally tie the knot.

There's some maps in the desk

that'll help you know where not to look."

♪

"Don't give up, baby.

Keep going. Find it.

Don't stay sad too long.

Find someone else who will stand in your corner like I did.

I love you, always.

Till death do us part.

Cliff."

♪

Just waited too long to get started.

Why did we think this place had to be perfect

to do what we wanted to do?

Don't do this to yourself.

I gotta find Padre.

For him. You will.

Hey, we will.

Like he said, find someone else who can stand in your corner,

you got us right here.

♪

Thank you.

♪

♪

Hey.

I'm sorry for ditching you.

I'm sorry for being a dick.

Look, I get why you wanted to take Strand's deal.

You were looking out for me, for us.

Oh. It wasn't about that.

What was it about, then?

Look, I don't know if it was thinking about my dad

or everything that happened with Briga or, um...

maybe both.

But it made me realize something that I've been thinking about

for a really long time.

What?

I want us to have a family.

♪

Why didn't you tell me?

Because I didn't even know that's what I wanted.

D --

Look, this life that we're living, it's good for us.

And I just didn't see any room for a family.

And looking at the Larsons, I thought, you know, the...

only way to do this was under Strand.

We do what we do

because we couldn't face each other if we didn't.

But there's room.

We could have both.

I want us to have both.

Really? Yeah.

You know, look -- look at Mickey, you know?

We don't --

We don't have to wait until everything's perfect.

We could just let life happen.

Okay.

♪

I love you.

I love you.

Is anyone there?

I heard the Dark Horses were on this channel.

♪

You heard right.

♪

So, how does this work?

We go, we see what's what,

we find out who the asshole is.

And then?

We give 'em hell.

I can do that.

I know you can.

♪

♪

So you're the Dark Horses?

Where are the rest of you?

Sorry?

You think you're the first person to try and ambush us?

It's not an ambush.

Come on out!

♪

This...

is an invitation.

To what? To work together.

Word is you know how to retrieve things for people.

What is it you want retrieved?

Not what.

Where.

We want to find Padre.

♪

And you're going to help us.

♪

This is a Reclamation team.

They have one mission --

to destroy any evidence they were ever here.

Which means us?

Right now, yeah.

Get in!

We got company.

Ready one...

...two... No.

...three.

♪

This episode is called "Till Death."

♪

The title comes from the signature move

of the wrestling duo Dearly Beloved

that Dwight and Sherry get to know in this episode,

or at least they get to know half of the tag team

that was Mickey and Cliff.

♪

Is that...

The Dark Horses?

♪

We don't want no trouble.

Then why are you stealing shit?

We actually started to plant seeds for the Dark Horses

at the end of Season 6.

These jackasses showed up. Forced us out.

They helped the Larson family get their home back

by taking out some of Teddy's henchmen.

We just saw the initial sparks of shared purpose

that Dwight and Sherry suddenly realize,

that this might be a way for them

to mend both of their shared wounds.

I haven't seen that side of you in a long time.

Maybe we should have been doing more of that the whole time.

Come on! Get inside!

Alright. Go.

We knew that's how we wanted to reintroduce them

this season, as these sort of benevolent outlaws.

Their legend has grown to the point

where people are starting to take notice,

and we'll see in this episode

that among those people who have heard about them

is none other than Victor Strand.

I really did not want to kill anybody today.

Hey, D...

we stuck to the code. The kill was clean.

The code is really important to both Dwight and Sherry.

It really defines who the Dark Horses are

and who they want to be, so that they're always

essentially doing bad to do good.

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Briga, they're back.

I think the scenes with the Larson family

establish a connection

that Dwight and Sherry have with Briga.

Dwight in particular has this closeness with Briga,

which we come to understand has a lot of layers for Dwight

because he's wrestling with the idea

that he wants a family of his own

and he doesn't know how to communicate that to Sherry.

The other thing that we learned is,

the Larsons are looking for something more.

We're gonna find Padre.

We don't even know what it is.

Dwight and Sherry are in a position

where they really want to believe in Padre,

but they don't have a whole lot to go on,

other than some sounds on the radio and a lot of hope.

You know, there's still a long road to go to finding it,

if it even exists.

♪

The Dark Horses, per your request.

Ha!

Strand?

It's a real surprise for Strand

to see that the heroes that are the Dark Horses

are, in fact, people that Strand already knows.

There are a couple of aspects to the Polaroids on the wall.

Victor says that he wants to give his denizens closure

in case they're looking for people on the outside.

That's one aspect of it

that I think Dwight and Sherry don't entirely buy.

And then, of course, we see as this episode goes on

that there's an entirely different function to it,

which is Strand literally hiring Eli

to -to kill the Larsons and bring back Polaroids as proof.

We lived in a place like this before.

And that didn't turn out so hot.

And the fact that you're even calling this a sanctuary

makes me pretty damn sure that it's anything but.

There's just a lot of mistrust that plays on

Dwight's own trauma from his past, what happened with Negan,

and he's rightfully suspicious of Strand's motives.

There's also a wall of the dead outside.

There is Strand looking to hunt down someone

who -who escaped the Tower

and saying that he has her best interests at heart.

We know where Mickey's holed herself up.

But my people have been unable to recover her.

People come back bruised and tattered --

if they come back at all.

And given your reputation as the Dark Horses,

I figured maybe you can find success where we have failed.

Sounds like she doesn't want to be recovered.

♪

Set. And...action, Pete.

So Andrew and I had a great experience working with Aisha

in the episode she directed in Season 6.

And we knew that she was a brilliant mind for genre,

she loved "The Walking Dead" universe.

When we were coming up with this role of Mickey,

we said to ourselves the entire time, "Wouldn't it be amazing

if we could get Aisha to play this role?"

She brought such life to Mickey, such fun.

Are you sure we don't know each other?

Look, champ, no offense,

but I'd remember a face like that, alright?

One of my favorite moments in this episode

is the moment when we see Dwight put the pieces together

and realize he does recognize this woman.

And you just see him light up.

He's meeting a celebrity.

You're The Bride.

Oh!

You were amazing!

Something that we don't see a lot

in "The Walking Dead" universe.

Dwight was essentially meeting one of his childhood heroes.

♪

Seeing what Strand does to the Larsons

speaks volumes about what Strand is willing to do

to get what he wants.

This harkens back to the Strand

that we saw throw Will off the roof in 701.

Aaahhh!

This Victor Strand is not above doing

some very morally gray actions to preserve what he's built

and to hold on to who he's become.

I think it's the moment when Dwight

sees those Polaroids with Eli

and he realizes that taking any kind of deal with Strand

is tantamount to throwing in with Negan at the Sanctuary.

Strand put you up to this, didn't he?

It is just a new iteration of that,

and he will not let himself go there again.

Who are you calling?!

Strand! Okay, don't do it!

Even when everything in the universe,

the walkers that are surrounding the wrestling ring,

Cliff being dead, where the easiest choice

would be just to pick up that walkie and call Strand,

Dwight is absolutely not gonna let that happen.

I'd rather die fighting with you than live hiding with him.

♪

She comes running through. Right to left?

We were very excited that Lennie

agreed to direct another episode for us

and in particular this one because there's so much

to -to dig into from a performance level.

A great showcase episode for Dwight and Sherry,

but also for Aisha Tyler.

Lennie brought fun to it with the wrestling component.

This sequence was probably the most number

of fun conversations we had, but, you know,

there were certain things that we knew

we wanted to get in there.

We need a walker's head bashed into a turnbuckle.

We need the steel chair. We need the piledriver.

We knew we wanted it to culminate

with the Till Death Do Us Part.

Dwight gets to work in tandem with Mickey

to perform Till Death Do Us Part,

the ultimate finishing move of Dearly Beloved,

which is just this -this beautiful moment of Dwight

getting to kind of live a childhood fantasy.

Cliff wrote Mickey this letter

that said, "Find someone to stand in your corner,"

and Dwight and Sherry become those people to Mickey.

And the three of them are gonna kind of continue

to take on the world together,

and they're gonna continue to live by this code.

And then, of course, the -the karmic reward

for that for the three of them is,

they end up getting one step closer to Padre

at the end of the episode, even if it's in a way

that I don't think any of them anticipated.

...is an invitation.

To what? To work together.

We want to find Padre.

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And you're going to help us.

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