Fear the Walking Dead (2015–…): Season 3, Episode 12 - Brother's Keeper - full transcript

Don't forget your blade.

The dead are drawn
by the cattle.

They'll all die soon
for lack of water.

Putting down
the herd.

I know.
It's the right call.

It wasn't my call.

- It was the nation.
- Nick backed it.

I back it.

But we'll keep
some milking cows.

You know, it's--
we used to have
400 head once.

This, it's--



it's not even
a ranch anymore.

Well, you never wanted
to be a rancher.

I just didn't think
it would bother me this much.

Look...

Rain will fall
and we'll start over.

And if we live long enough,
I'll get you more cows.

I promise.

You know, if dad knew
what was gonna happen
to this place,

he would have
killed himself.

Look, we've survived.
That's something.

The ranch is livable.
We can't say that about
any other place.

I can.

Vernon wasn't wrong.

There are-- there are
other places like this.



Otto didn't have
the monopoly.

The pacific northwest
was prepper central.

That's a long trip.

There are
closer places.

We have a cabin
in the low desert,
near the border.

There's game enough
to hunt.

It's-- it's
not much, but...

For two.

Are you serious?

Everything I was
fighting for is gone.

It's just dead land,
a bunker full of supplies.

We're lucky
to have that.

It was supposed
to be more.

Ofelia:
Hey,

we're in
a better place.

Take a breath.

We dug a well to nowhere.

Doesn't improve our lot,
and it doesn't make us friends.

Greater good,
higher purpose.

Besides, you're in charge.
Take solace in that.

Yeah, I'm not
the leader.

That's for taqa.

Walker and Madison
don't make it back,
it's on us.

And Alicia
and Otto's son.

Jake is weak.

True.

I know they have to
gain your trust,

I get that.

But I have to
gain theirs.

So we meet
in the middle.

Nick's already
in the middle.

Ofelia:
You trust him?

Crazy dog:
Everyone does.

Got no want to lead.

That's why
he should.

You didn't like
your steak?

We're gonna have
enough jerky to
last a year.

I'll pass.

I'm corrupting you.

You look like shit.

- You sleeping?
- Yeah, fits and starts.

I killed a man,
now I'm sleeping
in his house.

- You could pitch a tent
in the field.
- That a joke?

You killed
an evil, old man
to save your family.

I did it so mom
didn't have to.

You're worried
about her?

Yeah, of course.

You're worried
about Troy?

I took his father
from him.

That's what's
keeping you up at night?

Nick, how many fathers
has Troy killed?

How many sons,
how many daughters?

You don't owe Troy.

You like him.

You share the same
self-destruction.

Maybe I'm as sick
as he is.

Jesus!

That shit
will kill you, Nicky.

Uh, you can't
be here.

Here I am.

Wanna sit down?

No.

I can't sit down,

'cause if I sit down,
then I'm gonna pass out.

And I can't pass out
'cause I'm on a mission.

It's good you're alive.

I don't think
you believe that.

But you saved me

in your own way,
so...

I'm here to return
the favor.

There's a reckoning
at hand.

Something new,
something to--

something
to delight in.

What reckoning, Troy?

A beast, man.

From the desert,
i think.

Where there's
no obstacles,

nothing to keep it
from growing.

It's bigger
than you can imagine.

It's biblical.

Okay, you got
two options.

Either you sneak out
the way you came in

before crazy dog
sees you

or I can hide you
a couple of days.

Troy.

There is
a third way.

Now, you need
to listen to me,

okay, 'cause this--
this is important.

In a few hours,
this--

this whole place
is gonna be obliterated.

Open up.
Open the door, Troy.

- Open the door, Troy.
- I want you to get Jake

'cause I want him
to see this.

It's beautiful.

Troy.

We should talk about
another well.

No, everything runs
off the same aquifer.

All right, so then
we go outside the ranch.

We pump it in,
truck it in.

That's what Madison
and Walker are doing.

She didn't call in last night
or the night before.

We have no idea
if they'll find water

or if they're
even coming back.

They're coming back.

They'll survive the trip,

but what they
bring back, Alicia,
it won't be enough to sustain.

We need a plan b.

How can you talk
about leaving?

I'm fighting
for this place, Jake.

We need to do
something here.

Why?

We're staying here.

Get right with it.

I can't worry
about you on top of--

look, Alicia,
i don't need your worry.

You sure as hell did
when I looked after you.

Well, thank you,
and you're released
from your obligation.

I didn't do it
out of obligation.

So, why did you do it?

Who is it
you're fighting for?

Is it the ranch,
your family?

What are you
actually fighting for?

You know, when you
came here that day,
you seemed so lost.

I almost thought that I had
taken advantage of you.

But was it
the other way around?

- Go to hell.
- I knew what you
were going through

and I knew
it was impulsive, but--

but I did convince myself
that you actually liked me.

I did!

- I do.
- So then,
what is this, Alicia?

Is this a relationship
or is it an alliance?

Was that the plan
all along?

Madison works Otto,
Nick bonds with Troy,

while you--
while you seduce me?

Troy was
at the house.

- Jesus Christ.
- Yeah.

Looked like
he hadn't slept in days.

- I think he's lost it.
- Where is he now?

Ran off.

He said he wanted to warn us.
Something's coming.

Wanted you to see
whatever it is.

All right.

All right,
Madison drove him north.
He doesn't know that land.

So he probably
followed the sun west
to McCarthy's outpost.

- Let's go.
- Troy is full of shit.

- He's baiting you,
both of you.
- Well, it worked.

I warned him
not to come back,
and he has to face that.

I have to face him.

Nick, you can't go.

I'm responsible.

Plus, someone's gotta
look after your boyfriend.

Jake.

No, walkies,
they're useless.

Just take it anyway.

Look...

I did it for you.

You're the last
good man I know.

you know, Troy could've
killed me last night.

Why would
he kill you?

Well, he wouldn't, but,
you know, he could've hurt me.

That's my point--
he could've hurt any of us,
and he didn't.

I think he came
to warn, not harm.

When I was 12,

coyotes were
hassling the herds
during breeding season,

so I went out to hunt
at twilight

just over that hill.

And I find this rabbit

staked to the ground,
skinned alive.

What'd you do?

I put it down because
that's what you do

when something's
lame or sick.

He's not gonna stop.

He's not gonna get better.

I warned him.

- Alicia,
can you hear me? Over.

Nick?
Where are you?

Nick:
...An infected...

- Infected what?
- ...Coming your...

- Do you copy?
- Tell me where you are
and I'll come get you.

It's a horde,
and it's coming.

If they go right,
there's no turning
them back.

Let's go.
We'll take the truck.

We'll lead them to the left,
they'll follow us.

No, no, no, no.

Nick and Jake
are in trouble.

They went out
this morning,

and I think they
came across a horde.

- You think?
- Well, the radio's
for shit, but, yeah.

We need to go out there
and see what we're
dealing with.

Wait, why'd they
go alone?

- Does it matter?
- Yeah, it matters.

We scout in packs,
safety in numbers.

It's protocol,
you know that.

- Troy snuck into
the camp last night...

...and told Nick
there was something wrong
going on out there.

Troy,
how wonderful.

Yeah, crazy dog
is gonna be overjoyed.

He doesn't have to know
how we know.

- We just need to stop it.
- How do I know Troy's not
waiting to ambush?

You don't.

But I trust Nick
and Jake to stop it.

Have a little faith,
ofelia.

Hey, just give me
a minute with him?

Nick, Nick, look at
everything he's done.

- He's not coming
back from this.
- Can I try?

If he fires...

It's a cleansing.

Troy.

Listen.

You're not
in your right head, man.

Yeah.

A little punchy,
i admit.

Leading these guys
on foot for two days,

two nights.

I stop, they stop.

They need
constant stimuli--

sight, smell, sound.

They love loud noises.

Jake:
Don't do this, Troy.

I love that sound.

I love that sound

the way some love
when a--

when a ball hits
the fat of a bat,
you know?

Good wood.

You ever one for
organized sports, Nick?

No.

Jake was.

Jake was
all-everything.

I told you
it was beautiful, didn't I?

And this...

This is evolution.

This is--
this is darwinian.

No, this is murder, Troy,
nothing more.

Murder?

You really wanna
go there, Nick?

You don't wanna kill
everybody at the ranch.

Troy:
They see this,
they'll run.

They don't,
it's eviction
or extinction.

Drop the launcher, Troy.

Don't make me
do this.

Don't make you do what?

You were gonna shoot me,
you'd have done that
a long time ago.

I swear on dad's grave,
I'll shoot you.

I'll kill you,
brother, I will.

Jake, stop, okay?

- We can still beat them
back to the ranch.
- Go!

Just go, Nick!
There's still time
to evacuate.

- It's not that easy.
One road in, one road out.
- Shut up.

- You face the monsters
or you die in the wasteland.
- Shut up!

Jake, you'll never
live it down.

You know
they scream, Nick?

Rabbits, they--

they scream like
human beings.

Tell me
about the rabbits.

But I still
protected him.

- You left me, brother.
- I always protected you!

Jake, you pull
that trigger,

you're gonna wake up
with it every day.

You will never get it
out of your head.

It's still ricocheting
inside your skull, Nick?

What-- what are you
talking about?

What is he
talking about?!

You tell it best,
Nick.

I don't wanna
steal your thunder.

I am sorry.

Don't say sorry to me.

Say it to him.

Troy:
You didn't know?

I was sure as shit
Alicia would've told.

Oh, you--
you know she knows.

She doesn't, okay?

Jake, she didn't.

It doesn't matter.

I don't care
what you did.

It just doesn't matter.

I don't care.

You thinking
of checking out?

Hey, we can--
we can do it together.

No, little brother.

You have to
take this trip
on your own.

Nick:
Jake.

Jake, no!

- Ofelia: Jesus.
- Alicia: How far do you think?

Crazy dog:
No more than
half a mile away.

Fair estimate.

We gotta evac.

Taqa left us
to protect this place.

We can't run.

Last stand it is.

Troy: Jake!

- How long, Troy?
- What?

- How long?
- Nick.

How long
before it spreads?

How long before
the infection takes him?

- I-- I don't know.
- Just do it!

Do it!

Do it.

All right.

Stretch out his arm.

- Stretch it out.
- Just shut up and do it!

Stretch out
his goddamn arm!
Come on!

Why were Nick
and Jake out there?

Troy came up on Nick
before dawn.

He was here?

He said something
was coming.

Something that
might wipe us all out.

Something he saw or
something he brought
down on us?

You don't know
he did this.

Troy may have
saved our lives.

Should have shot him
when I had the chance.

That's not
what taqa wanted.

This isn't helping.

We could start with sticks
and stones, brother,

bows and blades,
but if the dead
come in droves,

we're gonna
need bullets,
all of us.

Lee.

Fine.

Let's arm up.

keep pressure on it.
We can treat him back
at the ranch.

There's no ranch
to go back to.

Nudge it forward
a little.

Tight seal.

Good.

Is this really
gonna stop anything?

It's not supposed
to stop them.

Keep 'em moving
east and west
alongside us.

We hunker down behind
while they go past.

You got a better idea?

Time!

All right, guys,
let's go, let's go!

Behind the wall.

Let's go!
Drop it!

- Let's go, follow me.
Come on!
- Move!

Man:
Grab your sister. Go!

Oh, my god.

Man: Brace up against it.

Whoa!

Man:
Let's go.
Here they come!

Man #2: Underneath!
Underneath!

Woman:
Watch your feet!

Troy:
He wasn't
supposed to die.

Not like this.

He was the one that
wasn't supposed to die.

You need
to put him down now.

I wanted him
to see.

I wanted him
to see what I'd--

what I'd done
for us, you know?

You wanted him
to see what?

Here, come, let me
show you what you did.
Come on.

Look, this is what
you did for us, Troy.

Look at it.
That's you.

Alicia,
can you hear me, over?

Just kill me, Nick.

Do what my brother
should've done.

Kill yourself.

They've stopped
going under.

They're packed
too tight to move.

It's not gonna hold.

Once this gives,
everyone out here
is gonna die.

That's the job.

Protect the others.

Everyone
to the pantry!

Let's go!

Ofelia:
Alicia!

Get to the pantry.

Go! Go,
I'll cover you, go!

- No, I got it!
- Alicia!

They'll follow you.

Lead them, go!

Coop!

Alicia:
Into the pantry.
Go, that way.

Everyone, let's go,
let's go, come on!

No! You go, go! Go!

Everyone get
into the pantry!

Let's go,
let's go!

Come on!
Go, go, go!

Coop.

I got you.

Ofelia!

Let's go, let's go.

Troy.

Hey, brother.

Here, come on.

I need some sleep.

No, we gotta find
a way to save everyone
you tried to kill.

You can sleep
when you're dead.