Original subtitles

Alicia is the closest thing I have left to family, Will.

You're not the only one who loves her.

♪ ♪

- She'll find this place. - [CHUCKLES]

She'll get through to you. Aah!

[SCREAMING]

No, she won't!

What do you want?

Same thing we wanted when we called before.

A new beginning for my people.

- That's not gonna happen. - Well, this might change your mind.

We found a warhead out here.

♪ ♪

I brought you here 'cause I need your help.

[CHUCKLES]

Good luck, Alicia.

[TAPPING]

[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING SLOWLY]

You... You lock me in here,

I'm not gonna make the world the way you want it to be!

I know. That's what I'm counting on.

♪ ♪

[LABORED BREATHING]

[STIFLED SOBS]

♪ ♪

Hey. Hey!

You can't leave me down here!

No!

Let me out!

[BEEPING]

[GRUNTING, PANICKED BREATHING]

♪ ♪

Let me out!

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[SHUDDERS]

[STIFLED SOBS]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[SQUEAK, WATER SPRAYING, GASPS]

♪ ♪

[RODENTS SQUEAKING]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[CREAKING]

[LIGHTS SNAPPING ON]

[ELECTRICITY BUZZING SOFTLY]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[GUN COCKS]

Don't move.

Turn around.

♪ ♪

Do you know what Teddy's doing up there?

Why does he have us down here?

MAN: I found another straggler.

[ALICIA PANTING]

If you ask me what I see when I look at him,

I will gouge your eyes out.

I don't care what you see.

We need fresh compost for the garden.

[WALKER GROWLING]

No. No!

No! No! No! No!

MAN: Wait!

You Alicia Clark?

Who the hell are you?

My name's Arno.

Teddy didn't have the chance to tell us that you arrived.

[WALKER GROWLING]

She's the one we've been waiting for.

The one that's gonna lead us to our new beginning.

I'm not leading you psychos anywhere.

He warned us you might say that but...

He also said you'd come around.

[SCREAMING]

[SQUELCHING]

Teddy's full of shit.

Get out of the way.

Now! Move!

Move! Move!

Let her.

Not going anywhere.

- [EXPLOSION ECHOING] - Go, go!

Masks on, now!

[INDISTINCT SHOUTING]

Leave it all! Leave everything!

About a hundred walkers over the ridge!

We need to stay ahead of the smoke.

Come on! Move!

Back!

[WALKERS GROWLING]

Who are these people, Alicia?

Where have you been?

It's a long story, Morgan.

And now's not the time to tell it.

- Go! - Come on!

Let's go!

[WALKERS GROWLING]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Synced and corrected by Firefly - - www.addic7ed.com -

♪ ♪

[JINGLING, HORSE NICKERS]

We're all clear, D.

You heard her!

We're clear! Masks off!

Hydrate while you can!

Do we have a head count.

28, minus Mickey and the patrol.

Sherry, see if you can find them before they head back to camp.

Okay.

[SIGHS, CLICKS TONGUE]

How long until you think it's safe for us to return?

The people who set those explosives...

If they were tellin' the truth?

The camp is done, Alicia.

No, that's our food... supplies.

Everything we had was back there.

I know!

No, we don't have any more time.

Tell them to bring the Senator.

I can't stick around out here.

Victor and me... We had a falling out,

and there's some things that I need to take care of.

Look, he's gonna let you in.

Your people, too.

He wanted me to try and find you for him.

No. I don't want to see Strand.

He didn't think you would.

Look, he's got Grace and the baby.

He's holding 'em hostage.

Is he gonna hurt them?

I don't think so.

He needs Grace.

He needs her help.

Okay.

Then they can wait.

There's a reason I asked Dwight and Sherry to find you.

I need your help.

With him.

[WALKER GROWLING]

Who is that?

Dwight and Sherry found him a few days ago.

I don't understand.

Is he somebody she lost?

She won't tell us.

But it's why all the walkers have been stripped around here.

The guy who attacked Strand?

He didn't want her finding that one.

Why not?

You'll have to hear it from her.

Get him ready.

[GRUNTING, CLANGING]

[GRUNTING, CLANGING]

Wait! Don't!

- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. - Make one more sound,

and it'll be your last.

That door is rated to withstand

a 50 kiloton nuclear blast, okay?

Y-you are not gonna get out that way.

How the hell do you know that?

Because I lived here before these assholes found it,

and I've been trying to find a way out ever since.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

I'm Will.

♪ ♪

Is there another way out of here?

Maybe.

Come on.

♪ ♪

How long have you been down here?

Since Senator Vasquez's security detail brought us in.

Who's Senator Vasquez?

Junior senator from Oklahoma?

We came here after the hospitals

started getting overcrowded to regroup

with other government officials.

They never made it.

You've been down here since the start,

but that was years ago.

It was our protocol to ensure continuity of government.

[ELECTRICITY BUZZING SOFTLY]

Lock the door until we got word that it was safe to come out.

Where's everybody else?

Dead. Survivors found the entrance to the bunker,

said they were starving.

We weren't supposed to let anybody else in,

but it'd been years since we'd seen any other living people.

We didn't want to watch them die through that window,

so the Senator opened the door.

And they killed him?

[SIGHS] They killed everyone.

Except you.

I was doing maintenance on the air filters

when the door opened.

I could hear everything from the upper level when they attacked,

so I hid, and, uh,

that's what I've been doing ever since.

So, how do I get out of here?

[SIGHS]

Those people activated the timed lock.

There's no way to open that door.

You said there's another way out.

I... There might be another way.

What? You haven't tried?

Look, I don't...

I haven't been up there yet, alright?

I-I've been, you know, working up the courage.

I don't have time to hand-hold.

Listen, someone up there is trying to destroy everything.

I've warned someone, but I'm not sure he's gonna come through.

What do you mean everything?

MAN: Alicia! Alicia!

Where are you?

You don't have to hide!

Go back to them.

Play along with whatever they want.

What are you gonna do?

I'm gonna find a way out for you.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[GROWLING]

He'll be easier to see this way.

Alicia.

The hell's going on here?

And what does it all have to do with me?

Okay.

I need you to help me find a place called PADRE.

Yeah, I met some folk who were looking for that place.

- What do you know about it? - It's some place

safe from all this,

with plans to rebuild, resources to do it.

Yeah.

You know where?

No, I don't, but...

He does.

[WALKER GROWLING]

He does?

Yeah.

What makes you think that?

You wouldn't understand.

Look, no one has, okay?

You're just gonna have to trust me.

Okay.

- [WALKERS GROWLING] - Everybody up.

- Get up. - Come on.

[GROWLING]

[SQUELCHING]

They're ours.

It's the patrol.

We got company.

There were Rangers on horseback.

They opened fire on us.

Rangers? Whose?

- Strand's. - Why would he do that?

'Cause y'all are dressed in the same clothes

as the people who attacked the Tower.

We need to go now.

Find some place safe for everyone else to lay low.

The sub... there's room for everybody there.

Then let's go there.

Where's Mickey? Is she okay?

She's fine, but she heard the chatter on the walkie

about the Senator.

She doesn't want any part of it.

I'll draw Strand's people away.

Why don't you get everyone moving.

This better work.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

Do you trust me?

Yes, I do.

♪ ♪

[SQUELCHING]

Alicia?

♪ ♪

It's so he doesn't follow us.

Oh, I know what you're doing,

and I've seen people get sick from a lot less.

[RAPID GUNFIRE IN DISTANCE]

♪ ♪

You in or not?

♪ ♪

[GROWLING]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

ALICIA: What is this place?

It's your new room.

Teddy thought you might want this.

[SIGHS]

What is this?

Something the old tenants left behind.

We'll clear it out for you.

[RADIO STATIC CLICKS]

[SIGHS]

I'm listening.

MAN: Found an intruder in the service area.

Looks like one of the Senator's people slipped past us.

Return him to the earth.

One step ahead of you.

♪ ♪

[SCREAMING] Please! Stop!

Please stop!

You might want to listen to him!

[GROWLING]

♪ ♪

Teddy was right!

I am the person that's gonna lead you to a new beginning.

And that starts now.

And that means no one gets returned to the earth.

Let him go.

Let him go!

You heard her.

Let him go.

Leave us.

Leave us! Now!

Go!

Go, now!

[GROWLING]

Thank you.

I need that way out.

And here I thought it was because you were starting

to like me.

Can they remember anything?

What?

It really is the first time you've seen one up close.

Yeah, but it's not

it's not that, it's...

[STIFLED SOB]

That's Senator Vasquez.

I'm sorry.

They don't remember anything.

They're just walking corpses, okay?

And if you forget that,

that's when things become dangerous.

Look, there was a binder in the senator's quarters.

It was marked "PADRE".

It said "Rebuilding Our Country's Future".

That's where we were supposed to go

when it was safe to leave here.

The Senator said it was stocked full

of everything we needed to start over.

Where is it? Padre Island?

No. That'd be too obvious.

The location was classified. He's the only one who knew.

He got a message to his family to go there when it became clear

that they wouldn't be able to make the trip here.

Did they make it?

We don't know if anyone made it.

Senator tried to make contact on a radio in his room,

but he could never get a clear signal.

Do you think you could find it if I got us out of here?

I don't...

Your guess is as good as mine.

But, Alicia, I...

If we find a way out...

And I have to be clear...

I'm not going with you, okay?

They will kill you if I leave.

I'm... I'm not ready for whatever's out there.

Do you get that?

Okay, okay, okay.

Okay.

♪ ♪

This protects people who wear it.

♪ ♪

Thank you.

♪ ♪

[GROWLING]

If you turn it off, he'll hear it.

And if we follow without this, we may end up just like him.

- Hey, hey, hey. - [COUGHING]

You alright?

God, Alicia, you are sweating.

I haven't had a meal in a week.

I haven't slept in twice as long.

My camp just got destroyed by radiation.

It's about 100 degrees out here, so...

I think I'm doing pretty well.

- Any idea where we are? - It doesn't matter.

We follow him for as long as he goes.

[BULLET RICOCHETS, GUNFIRE]

♪ ♪

You should show yourself.

If they know you're here, they won't fire.

- I don't wanna see Strand! - And I don't want to get shot!

[RAPID GUNFIRE]

Hey!

Hey!

The people you're chasing out here...

They are not the people who attacked the Tower!

We're not here for the people who attacked the Tower!

We're here for you, Mr. Jones.

[GUNFIRE]

Me and Strand had a deal!

You tried to kill him in his house!

- What?! - It's not what it sounds like.

[GUNFIRE]

[GROWLING]

Shit.

Alicia!

[RAPID GUNFIRE, WALKERS GROWLING]

- They will kill you. - They're gonna kill him.

We will find PADRE another way.

- There is no other way. - I'm not gonna let you die

for something that's already dead.

Morgan...

[GUNFIRE, WALKERS GROWLING]

Hey, I can't lose you, alright?!

- I need you! - You were fine without me!

I'm not talking about me, I'm talking about everybody else.

[GUNFIRE]

Out of the way!

[GUNSHOTS]

Just come on! We gotta go!

[GUNFIRE]

Follow me!

MAN: Give up! [INDISTINCT]

Nowhere to run now!

- Hold your fire. - You're gonna get us killed.

- Hey! - Stop!

Move again and I will shoot you!

What do you think they're gonna do?

Wait.

Alicia.

I'm sorry. I didn't know you were with him.

♪ ♪

Don't do it.

♪ ♪

Well, I see that you found her.

I did.

And you were right, Victor.

She really didn't want to see you.

[GUNSHOT]

What are you looking at?! Get down there!

Now!

♪ ♪

[WALKER GROWLING]

What are we even doing here?

I know what I'm doing. I'm not sure what you are.

Did you really try to kill him?

Man tried to kill me.

I know... on the sub.

I'm just trying to keep you alive.

- I didn't ask you to. - Then what am I doing here?

Why'd you send Dwight and Sherry out looking for me?

What did you mean back there?

When you said you couldn't do this anymore.

I gotta stop doing what I've been doing.

Seems like I been wishing a world into existence

that just doesn't want to be, and I need your help.

I need... I need...

I need somebody to step in and help me.

What makes you think I can do that?

God, look around. You think we can do any worse?

I'm sorry, Morgan. I can't.

Then tell me why.

'Cause all I'm asking is that you help me make sure

that everybody ends up some place safe.

Well, if you want to help, help me find PADRE.

Help me find a place everyone can be safe.

We don't even know if that place really exists.

- Yes! I do! - How?! Where is it?

Because all I can see is this walker who has been dead

for a long time that you keep risking your life to save.

They're not

totally gone; They're there.

There's an echo of who they once were.

- No, there's not. - Yes, there has to be!

No, they don't! I thought that...

I thought that, and then my son died because of it.

We need to keep moving before Strand's rangers turn up.

We need to gut this walker and cover ourselves so...

Morgan! Hey! Stop! Stop!

I'm gonna kill this thing

because you're asking me to risk my life

and watch you risk yours, and you're not telling me why.

- I need him. - I am serious!

Unless you tell me why you think this walker

is our only chance of finding some place safe.

- Drop your weapons! - [GUNS COCKING]

♪ ♪

[RODENTS SQUEAKING]

[GROWLING, FOOTSTEPS PLODDING]

These pipes are part of the sump system

that keeps the bunker dry.

They gotta drain somewhere outside this place.

[GROWLING]

This isn't gonna work.

- We can take it from here. - The tunnels branch.

If we don't find how the rats are getting in and out,

we're not going anywhere.

[GROWLING]

I need you to pin him to the ground.

Are you squeamish?

No.

Oh, God! What the hell are you doing?

[SQUELCHING, ALICIA GRUNTING]

We don't have a choice.

Just don't get it in your eyes or in your mouth.

Why? What happens?

It could make you really sick.

You could end up like him.

I'm sorry, Elias.

But I think you'd understand.

This is the only way we're gonna find PADRE.

That's the only way we're gonna find your family.

I'm sorry.

You didn't kill him, Alicia.

No, I'm... I'm sorry,

for not remembering.

You know, you spend so much time up there, you start

to forget the dead used to be alive.

Well, maybe that's why I'm here.

Help you remember how things used to be.

♪ ♪

[RATS SQUEAKING, WALKER GROWLING]

♪ ♪

I'll go first.

♪ ♪

We'll get out.

Okay?

I'll find my people.

We'll stop him.

Then we'll find PADRE,

finish what your boss started.

Alicia...

What?

♪ ♪

You know what, I'll tell you when we get up there.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

- Still see him? - Yeah.

He's moving faster than I thought.

Come on.

♪ ♪

[GROWLING]

♪ ♪

[RUMBLING]

[RINGING, GROWLING]

[DEBRIS CLATTERING]

Alicia!

Alicia!

Do you hear me?

Alicia!

[WALKER GROWLING]

We could've been out of here by now, Morgan.

They would've caught up to us anyway.

You wanna tell me why you were fighting over that skinbag?

[GROWLING]

Get my friends up.

You didn't have to run.

We gave each other our word, Victor.

My word may mean something in a civilized place

such as the Tower, but out here, words are just words.

Which means there's nothing you can say that can change my mind.

Who's this?

ALICIA: No one.

Why's he on a leash?

Why did you save him back there?

- Who was he? - Don't. I'm warning you.

He's already dead, Alicia.

Don't make things worse than they already are.

I know what you've done.

What you've built.

You should know that it's worked.

It's better than anything we've ever had.

Yeah, and I know what it cost you.

I don't think you do.

I thought I could do it alone.

I thought I had to.

And now...

I'm starting to realize that I need someone.

You're the only person left I can trust, Alicia.

You sure about that?

I don't need your tower.

I don't need what you're offering.

- I don't need... - What do you need? PADRE?

I've been to the bunker, Alicia.

I saw the note that you left behind.

You should know that PADRE is a myth.

Many people have ended up at my doorstep

because they almost died looking for a place

that someone on the other end of a radio made up.

Don't make the same mistake.

I'm not settling for what you have.

Or how you got it.

Are you sure about that?

Yes.

[INHALES, EXHALES]

Kill it... she'll come if she doesn't have a choice.

- No. - Better yet...

Kill him, then kill it.

- No! - Hey!

No!

Come on, Victor!

No! No!

- No! No! No! - Don't do this!

[BITING]

Everyone stand back!

♪ ♪

- Alicia, your arm. - I'm fine.

- I'm fine. - You okay?

- I'm fine! - I'm sorry.

This isn't the way I wanted things to go down.

You need to leave.

Alicia, let me help you...

I said leave!

Now!

Go!

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[DRAMATIC MUSIC, WALKER GROWLING FAINTLY]

[ALICIA COUGHING]

♪ ♪

[WEAKLY] Will?

Will?

Will?

[COUGHS]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[WALKER GROWLING]

♪ ♪

[HUSHED] Will?!

[GROWLING]

[HUSHED] Will?!

♪ ♪

[SHOUTING] Will!

Alicia! I'm here!

I can hear you! Hang on!

I-I-I-I-I'm trying to get you out of here!

I don't think I have time, Will.

The senator is in here.

♪ ♪

[GROWLING]

♪ ♪

- [GROWLING] - No, no, no, no, no.

Will? He turned around.

He's coming back.

[GRUNTING]

[GROWLING]

[GROANING]

[STRAINING]

♪ ♪

Hang in there, Alicia!

I'm trying!

[GRUNTING]

Hurry, Will!

I don't know if this is gonna hold!

[GRUNTING]

♪ ♪

[PANTING]

[GROWLS, STOPS]

[PANTING]

I think I got it.

I don't think it can get through.

Okay.

Okay. Okay.

I can clear the rest.

It's just, uh... It's just...

Just hang in there a little longer.

Thank you.

I wouldn't have been able to do this without you...

- [RUMBLING] - No!

- No! - Alicia!

[GROWLING]

No! No!

[SMASHES]

[BITE CRUNCHING]

[ALICIA SCREAMS]

♪ ♪

Alicia!

[GROWLING, RUMBLING]

Alicia? Alicia, what the hell was that.

Are you okay?

[SOFTLY] No, no...

Alicia!

- Are you okay? - He... H-he bit me.

What does that mean?

[SOBBING] It means it's over, Will.

No. No, there's got to be a way to stop it.

It doesn't matter, there's nothing up there

to save anyway.

The warheads... they went off.

You don't know that.

And the people down here... They need you.

They just think that because Teddy told them to.

Fine, I need you.

I couldn't... I couldn't stop Teddy.

I-I didn't help anyone.

You're gonna get through this.

[RAGGED BREATHING]

No, it's... it's spreading.

There's got to be a way to stop it!

No, Will, it's over.

You don't have to rebuild the world the way

Teddy wanted you to, okay?

You can rebuild it the way you want to.

And you need to survive.

Because that's... that's...

That's a world that I want to be a part of.

Alicia, I-I know...

I know I haven't known you long, but I...

- Don't. - Don't what?

Don't

say something to me

just because I'm dying.

Fine. Fine, I won't.

♪ ♪

Because you're gonna survive.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[SOFT GROWLING]

[INSECTS CHIRPING, FIRE CRACKLING]

So, I'm gonna keep asking until you let me have a look.

You got bit and you can't ignore it,

and there still might be

something we can do about it, so...

Dear God.

I told you, I'm fine.

I'm so sorry.

Don't worry about it.

Are those, um...

Mine?

Yeah.

Yeah.

How did it happen?

Wait, is that... is that why you've been following him?

Is...

It's okay. It's okay.

No.

You can tell me whenever you're ready.

[GROWLING]

I still need to gut this walker.

♪ ♪

You coming or not?

[SHALLOW BREATHING]

♪ ♪

Alicia.

Before I do this, if it's been too long,

you have to promise me

you won't let me hurt anyone down here.

- I don't understand. - If I get a fever...

If it looks like I'm going to turn...

I need you to kill me first.

- Can you promise me that? - That's not gonna happen.

Can you promise me that?!

♪ ♪

I promise.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[EXHALES]

[INHALES, EXHALES]

[SCREAMING]

Alicia?!

Alicia?!

[GROWLING]

♪ ♪

[SOFT SQUELCHING IN BACKGROUND]

[SOFT GASP]

Will?

Will?

- Will?! - Alicia!

Alicia.

Oh, thank God!

What... What happened?

The bombs struck nearby.

M... My friends.

I need to get to them.

Are they okay?

Do you know something?

Arno heard from some of Teddy's people above ground

before the bombs detonated.

Your friends...

They tried to stop that psycho,

but...

What?

Victor... he got in the way.

[LABORED BREATHING]

Will, how long have I been out?

A week.

Your fever broke.

You passed out after you amputated your arm.

You almost bled out before I got to you.

But I got you back here.

Arno and some of the others... They helped stop the bleeding.

What do you mean my fever?

You started running a fever.

It got pretty bad.

But...

No.

No, I didn't get to it in time.

- Didn't get to what? - My... My arm.

- No. - The infection.

No. We don't know that.

We do!

You amputated your own arm.

In a drain. Okay?

The infection could be from anything...

Sepsis, tetanus...

Or the bite!

The fever broke.

Okay?

I could've killed everyone in here.

I was never gonna let that happen.

You promised.

You said you would kill me.

- Alicia... - No, like it or not,

these people are my responsibility now.

I couldn't save anybody up there.

I'm not gonna make that same mistake again.

I know. I know. And I...

And you're here now,

and you still can, and I can help you.

No, Will, you can't.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[GROWLING]

You don't have to tell me what's happening...

Not until you're ready.

[GROWLING]

We can't let him out of our sight.

[GROWLING]

[GASPS]

We found it.

♪ ♪

This has to be it.

[SIGHS]

It's not.

That's not PADRE.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

♪ ♪

He's gone.

We're not gonna be getting him back now.

[WALKERS GROWLING]

He was supposed to lead us to a place

where everyone could be safe.

It's not in there.

Let me take you back to the sub.

No, I can't.

You can't take me there.

No, it's okay. You'll be safe there.

Yeah, but you won't.

You wanna tell me what's really going on here or what?

I didn't amputate my arm in time.

The infection's still inside me.

My body's trying to fight it.

It's only a matter of time before I lose.

I'll have June take a look.

Give you some antibiotics.

- You can... - No, I tried all that.

♪ ♪

Nothing's stopped it.

That's why I can't help you, Morgan.

I can't be the person you need me to be.

♪ ♪

I don't know how much longer I have left.

♪ ♪

I thought it was long enough to find PADRE.

We'll find some place else. [CHUCKLES]

The longer we look, the more chance I have

of hurting a lot of people.

That's why I need you.

This is why you been trying to believe

that there was something left in that walker.

♪ ♪

I'm gonna be one soon.

No.

[LOUD SNARL]

♪ ♪

Stay here.

♪ ♪

[WALKERS GROWLING]

[LOUD SNARL]

[GRUNTS, SQUELCHING]

The light's drawing 'em.

Gonna be more if we stay here.

[JINGLING, HOOFBEATS APPROACH]

Alicia.

Oh, my God.

I'm sorry.

We'll get you to June.

For once, it wasn't your fault.

What happened to your arm?

It doesn't matter.

Where's the walker?

In your moat.

Must have underestimated you, Alicia.

That walker

led you to where you're supposed to be.

Don't you see?

You belong here.

Bring your people.

Will you take care of them?

Like I invited them in myself.

You know you can't trust him.

She wasn't asking you.

What if I'm not here?

- But you will be. - Promise me.

Alicia, I don't understand. Are you still sick?

Promise me.

I promise.

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[WALKER GROWLING]

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I'll take care of it.

No.

[HORSE NICKERS]

[GROWLING CONTINUES]

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[GASPING]

Will?

Will? Will?!

Will?

W-Will, I think I know what we need to do.

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WILL: I'm sorry I couldn't keep my promise to you.

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I said I'd help you remember how the world used to work,

but now I wonder if that's what you really need.

If I stay, I'll just remind you of a way of life

that no longer exists.

You need to build something better.

Don't worry about me.

I'll figure it out up there.

And maybe one day, I'll get to see the world you built.

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Did you do this?

Answer me! Did you know where he came from?

That I knew him?!

Why would you kill him?!

Because I knew that it would hurt you.

I wanted to keep you away so that I could build this tower

the way it needed to be built.

And why would killing him do that?

Because he told me that he loved you!

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How long can we hold out on the sub?

With everybody? A week.

Two tops.

That's enough.

You have taken so much from me.

And now I'm gonna take something from you.

I don't want to do this with you, Alicia.

It's too late for that!

I am taking the one thing that matters to you the most.

I am taking that tower.

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I'll protect it if I must.

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Then we're going to war.

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You locked me in here!

I'm not gonna make the world the way you want it to be!

I know. That's what I'm counting on.

CHAMBLISS: We find Alicia, at the beginning of this episode,

picking up moments after we left her in Season 6,

just after Teddy had locked her behind the doors

of the fallout bunker.

The reason Teddy chose her to be the person to go in this bunker

to ultimately lead his people, is the fact that she

wasn't someone who was just gonna follow his philosophy

and do what he would've done, she's someone who, Teddy sees,

has the potential to be a great leader.

And that's kind of the journey

she's going on in the flashback.

And it's paired with this journey

that we see in the present day, where she is leading

this band of people and we really don't know a whole lot

about what happened in that bunker.

But we know one thing, we know it was serious.

And we know that it changed her because the light that we,

kind of know from Alicia, the warmth,

those all seem to be very dim in the Alicia that Morgan

is meeting in the present.

And it's really all about asking that question,

"Why? What happened?"

Who are these people, Alicia?

Where have you been?

It's a long story, Morgan.

And now's not the time to tell it.

Morgan is finding himself in a very interesting place.

It's clear that Alicia doesn't want to just come out

and tell him what happened, that what happened is too painful.

And I think Morgan understands Alicia enough

and has enough trust in her that even though everything

she's doing seems so out of character for her,

seems in many ways kind of crazy,

I mean following a Walker, thinking it's gonna

lead you somewhere, isn't something

that most people do in the apocalypse.

But it really is all about Morgan's trust and faith

in Alicia that he can see how important this is to her,

that he is willing to kind of go along for the ride.

[GUNSHOTS]

MAN: Wait.

Alicia.

CHAMBLISS: The moment when Strand sees Alicia, I think it really

catches him off guard.

I think it's the thing that proves to him

that he actually is missing something in that tower.

The suspicions that he had in episode 707 where he asks Morgan

to find Alicia, are actually turning out to be true.

Seeing her is essentially him realizing what he's missing,

realizing the human connection that he doesn't have.

I'm starting to realize that I need someone.

You're the only person left I can trust, Alicia.

You sure about that?

I don't think Strand would want to admit that it hurts him,

but he's definitely wounded when Alicia rejects his offer

to come live in the tower.

Strand knows that Alicia is his weakness.

He doesn't like having a weakness.

He tried to get rid of it by killing Will

at the beginning of the season, but it didn't work.

And it's, honestly, something that Strand thinks he's

gonna be able to remedy by offering Alicia and her followers

a place in the tower.

You belong here.

Bring your people.

They come pretty close to making a deal.

But then Strand's past actions come back to haunt him

once again, when Alicia actually sees.

Will's Walker remains outside the tower.

She sees that medallion around his neck.

And she starts to put two and two together

and realizes that if Will is dead at the tower, if he's part of the moat,

then that probably means Strand had something to do with it.

Did you do this?

Strand's in a place where he knows he's not gonna be able to

lie his way out of this one, so he actually admits

the truth to Alicia.

Why would you kill him?!

Because I knew that it would hurt you.

That's the thing that Alicia can't bear.

That Strand would be willing to do something so dark

just to get to Alicia to protect that tower that he built.

You have taken so much from me.

And now I'm gonna take something from you.

I don't want to do this with you, Alicia.

It's too late for that!

When we were thinking of what it would take to transform

a character like Alicia, it felt like it needed to be

something pretty big.

And, we landed on the idea of a Walker bite,

- [GROANS] - and Alicia cutting her arm off.

We wanted the impact of that reveal to be

as powerful as possible.

And we get it, kind of in two pieces.

We get the flashback where we see her bit

and then we get the present-day reveal where we see her

take her sleeve off and reveal that she's fashioned

a prosthetic from her arm bones.

And it's something that is definitely making a statement.

You know, we see it on Morgan's face.

His mind goes to many different places,

concern, because he's worried about Alicia.

But then he's also seeing that she used the bones

to make a prosthetic and that this must have something

to do with why she's been acting so strangely all episode.

And I think one of the biggest things

that we'll continue to explore is what Alicia admits to Morgan

near the end of the episode where she tells him

that, yes, she amputated the arm but that she's not sure

if she did it in time.

The infection's still inside me.

My body's trying to fight it.

We have seen many characters bit by Walkers.

We've seen many characters turn because of Walker bites.

But we haven't actually seen anyone battle a Walker bite

long-term.

And, Alicia is going to have a very tumultuous

emotional journey, in the back half of this season.

And we wanted a physical journey to go along with that.

The bite, the fevers, and what Alicia's

going to be going through with Strand

and some of the other characters this season

are all really gonna work hand in hand.

Your friends... they tried to stop that psycho,

- but... - What?

Victor... he got in the way.

Strand's need to be the one to save the day

actually ended up being the thing that allowed Teddy

to fire the nuclear missiles.

So in Alicia's mind, she is blaming Strand

as being the impetus for this entire world

that they're now living in, and ultimately,

also being the impetus for what happened to her in the bunker.

If those bombs hadn't gone off,

the tunnels may not have collapsed,

she may not have been bitten,

she might not have had to amputate her arm.

And she might not be suffering like the way she is.

So in her mind, Strand is at the center of everything

that's gone wrong with them.

I am taking the one thing that matters to you the most.

I am taking that tower.

I'll protect it if I must.

Then we're going to war.

Alicia declaring a war on Strand really is.

Strand's worst nightmare come true.

The one person who he wanted to live in that tower with him,

who he wanted to show that he could build

something like that, too, was Alicia.

And she is now standing opposite him saying,

"I'm gonna do everything in my power

to make sure you don't have that tower".

And that is really going to drive the conflict

as we go forward.

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