Fear the Walking Dead (2015–…): Season 5, Episode 5 - The End of Everything - full transcript
Althea chases a story with dogged determination, putting the mission, and her life in danger.
Shit.
The camera.
Open it.
Where is it?
Have you seen my boot?
Hey, baldy!
Over here!
Over here!
Come on. Come on.
Come on. You can do it.
Here, baldy.
There you go.
There you go.
What the hell are you protecting?
Holy shit.
Morgan, Alicia, do you copy?
Ground 17, respond.
Get out.
Next time, use handcuffs.
Ground 17, go again.
Ground 17, do you copy?
Step away.
Ground 17, respond.
Sounds like you need to answer this.
OK.
OK, OK.
Go for Ground 17.
- Is this the lead?
- Negative. The lead was KIA.
- Report.
- Non-hostiles.
- There was a breach in protocol.
- The payload secure?
- Yes.
- Why aren't you inbound?
Need to refuel.
Do you copy?
I could be inbound in 72 hours.
We're sending a reclamation team.
Roger that.
What's a reclamation team?
Put it on.
Thank you.
Where is it?
You show me where it is, you live.
I have to break one of your legs now.
Doing that will kill me,
more or less.
If you do that,
I'm not telling you shit.
I can be really spiteful like that.
You talk to me and tell me your
story, and I will get you the tape.
Tell me where you're from, what
you are, what you're doing out here,
why it's so important
no one sees that tape.
No.
Then we leave it...
with you killing me for no reason.
I won't answer your questions.
And I won't show you
where the tape is unless you do.
And your helicopter?
My friends are stranded out here.
We'll need a ride out of this place.
You lost someone out here.
You didn't seem upset about that.
You seemed upset
they were sending people.
How much trouble are you gonna be in?
Are they gonna kill you, too?
We could have this done in hours.
- Just answer a few questions.
- I won't.
I don't have a network.
The audience is dead.
I want to know the truth.
That's why I'm here.
Why are you?
The tape first.
No.
We need fuel.
Where are we going to get fuel?
- Fuel drop.
- Fuel drop.
It's high up?
It's for a helicopter.
Well, look at you, crack-wise.
Ascenders? Quickdraws?
How high are we talking?
It's up there.
What was on the map?
What's with the symbol?
Three circles?
Why were you out at the plane?
I know you don't want to
tell me shit, but we have a deal.
So...
start with the basics.
Same thing I ask everyone.
Your name, where you're from,
what you've seen.
OK.
I have to call you something, so...
just gonna call you Happy.
All right, Happy, let's get to it.
Where are you from?
Why does any of this matter?
When we're gone,
our stories will be all that's left.
Wait here.
I said wait here.
I don't take orders from you.
Here. Put this on.
- Not wearing that.
- Can't afford for you to get bit.
I thought we covered this.
I don't take orders from you.
You want to get transactional?
Here's something.
Everything I do is to ensure there's
more than stories left after I die.
There you go, Happy.
Really want me alive?
How about giving me
something more than a jacket?
I've got them.
I don't stay in the car.
That rule kept me alive even before
people ate each other's faces.
Got it!
We have to walk from here,
but we're ten klicks out.
If we move double time,
we make it before sundown.
- Al, it's just a camera.
- I need it.
What the hell was that?
If you weren't wearing that jacket,
you'd be as good as dead.
I needed my bag.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Be careful with that.
Wait, please. That's not
the one you're looking for.
You had it the whole time?
You might want to watch that
before you spray my brains
across the ground.
I don't know how much longer
I can stay here.
But I'm gonna get as much as I can.
The National Guard is coming in
from the East Bridge.
Word is the Army
is mobilizing, too.
They've declared
a national state of emergency,
cordoned off
the entire area for blocks.
I'm gonna have to go dark.
They see me from the street.
The Army is moving in
from one direction,
the National Guard from the other.
Shit.
Shit. They're shooting
at each other.
I'm sorry, Jesse.
I should have stayed.
Before and after.
What is this?
This is not included
in our transaction.
- Not this.
- You could have been killed.
Your friends wouldn't get home.
Why would you do that for that tape?
I could have said goodbye
to my brother.
I got the story instead.
Now he's dead,
and the story is all that's left.
Since we're sharing...
Why did you kill your partner?
If you see someone
wearing this jacket,
you should be afraid.
We are a force who are not
living for ourselves or for now.
You have your stories,
already making every day the past.
We have the future.
Looks like we aren't
the first to make the climb.
We had to fly just to get in here.
None of the roads are passable.
These people...
probably trying to get out.
Keep our eyes open on the way up.
They could still be up there.
How's your foot?
Are you good with heights?
Al, I need you to answer me.
I've answered plenty.
We'll make camp here.
It's dark soon.
We'll climb at the crack.
Wrap your foot and get some sleep.
I'll keep watch.
What I told you today
I've never told anyone.
You and me are the same kind of bird.
Seems like you had a job,
and you kept doing it,
and it mattered more to you
than people's lives.
Me, too.
That's why I killed him.
I was doing my job.
I didn't mean to piss on yours.
I do think stories matter.
Some things matter more
to me, that's all.
If we don't trust each other,
we end up like him.
You fall, I fall.
That's all the trust I need.
Yeah. Just follow my lead, all right?
We have to go by him.
It's the only path.
Al!
I need you to climb over to
this anchor for the final push.
Almost there. You good?
Let's do it.
Are you OK?
Unhook from the line!
No!
Listen, I'm gonna need a little bit
of slack. Can you do that?
Yes!
You fall, I fall.
I'm good!
All right?
You fall, I fall.
He was my friend.
You killed your friend?
We were doing what we always do.
Come get supplies; get in, get out.
Supplies for what?
Purifying water.
There's a nuclear power plant
ten miles from here.
We took every precaution,
timed everything out perfectly.
But on that last run, when Beckett
saw what radiation did to the dead,
he cracked.
He was afraid that he was
going to end up just like them.
And he did.
He kept this with him.
It's a key to this cabin
he always talked about.
It had this view that you could see
all the way to the end of creation.
I see that view every day.
Why didn't you let him go?
Nobody just walks away,
let alone with the maps he carried.
We exchanged fire.
So you didn't just kill him.
You gave him a chance.
I hesitated.
He was afraid, so I measured the
possibility of alleviating his fear.
That's not protocol, is it?
Protocol is to extinguish
threats to operational security.
I hesitated. I made a mistake.
- But I shot him.
- Your friend.
My friend... had to die.
You might as well tell me
everything about everything.
You're gonna have to kill me, too,
aren't you?
No, I'm not. I need your help.
I need that tape.
Right.
Do you have to kill me
for operational security?
Yeah.
I do.
He didn't make it very far.
Left his friend to die
on the side of a cliff.
Stay here.
I told you, I don't follow orders.
I'm gonna hang onto this...
for my operational security.
These two gonna be enough?
It will be enough
to get the chopper up here.
Then we take what's left
and go where we need to.
You're still not gonna fly me
or my friends out of here, are you?
Even if I give you the tape...
I've got the climbing gear,
the fuel and your gun.
Leaving me here would be a bad idea.
You've got food, water.
- You'll manage.
- And you?
We'll go home.
From what I saw, you couldn't keep
a Skyvan in the air. Flown an L3?
- I'll figure it out.
- No, you won't.
The reclamation team will be here
in less than 24 hours,
and if you or your friends are
anywhere near that helicopter...
Just don't be.
Forget the helicopter.
We'll find another way out.
Were you gonna give me that tape?
You have to destroy it!
Why?
You want that interview?
Let's talk.
The place I'm from,
I'm not gonna tell you where it is,
I'm not gonna tell you
what it's called,
but there is something
I will tell you.
What?
It's bigger than me.
It's bigger than you.
- It's bigger than all of us.
- Because it's the future.
And we're the past.
And right now,
it's the only thing that matters.
Look, whatever it is...
I want to see it.
Al...
you don't want to go there.
If someone finds the tape,
if they figure out how to read
the map, it makes what we have,
what we're working towards,
vulnerable.
I need you to give me the tape.
This isn't about me or Beckett.
This is about the future
and rebuilding what we all once had.
I will die here if I have to.
And I understand
why you would leave me,
why you think
the tape is more important.
- It's...
- But if you choose the story,
if you do not destroy the tape,
then Beckett's death...
my death...
it might not amount to anything.
You want your brother's death
to mean something?
You want stories to matter?
You have to make sure there's
people around to hear them one day.
I'll show you where the tape is.
- How long do we have?
- Just the night.
They have beer where you're from?
You left that out.
Here.
We have a brewer.
Well, someone who's trying
to be one, anyway.
Not bad.
I would have much rather met you
before all this.
Or maybe in whatever
it's gonna be after.
- You get it.
- Yeah.
I do.
Sun comes up...
we punch in and shit gets real again.
I get it.
Everything's so ugly nowadays.
This is nice.
Let's go.
We have to hurry.
You could have hidden it anywhere.
I had to be sure
someone would find it...
if you killed me.
So you put it on one of the dead?
Yeah.
Not that one.
Here.
- You want to check it on the cam...
- No.
So, that's it, then.
The tape was only part of the story.
The mission...
No one can know anything.
No one can even see us.
But...
- Turn around.
- You...
Turn around!
Please.
I know.
Then why did you bring me here?
Because for however long
it takes you to pull that trigger...
I'll know I chose something
other than the story.
I get it.
I want you to know that.
And I want you
to do something for me.
I want you to take this.
Make sure this story matters.
Make sure he lives.
I want you to live!
Don't chase this story!
Do not try to find me!
I hope you get back to your friends
and that you can get home somehow.
My name is Isabelle.
I'm from Indiana.
And I got to see...
the prettiest thing I've seen...
since the end of everything.
This is Ground 17.
I've refueled and ready to return.
- With the payload?
- Yes.
Copy, Ground 17.
Is the site buttoned up?
Affirmative.
Everything according to protocol.
Calling off the reclamation team.
You are cleared for return.
Morgan, do you copy?
I repeat, Morgan, do you copy?
Al?
Where are you?
Al.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Come here.
- Are you all right?
- Yeah. Yeah, I'm OK.
We were looking for you everywhere.
What happened?
I went back to the plane
to record that walker
and got overrun by the dead.
Had to run into the woods.
Been trying to stay
ahead of them since.
And what was it, the walker?
You said there was a story.
No.
It was a weird lighting trick
through a scuffed lens on my camera.
See where the helicopter came from?
I heard it.
I tried to get there but...
It's all right.
I'm just glad you're safe.
We're gonna find
another way out of here, Al.
And um... hopefully not just us.
- More new people.
- Yeah.
I'll tell you about it on the way.
Come on, let's get you checked out.
Szewczyk-Przygocki.
What?
It's my last name.
I had two parents with Polish names
who insisted on double-barreling.
- You OK?
- Yeah. Yeah.
Just thought I should
tell you both that.
Right.
The camera.
Open it.
Where is it?
Have you seen my boot?
Hey, baldy!
Over here!
Over here!
Come on. Come on.
Come on. You can do it.
Here, baldy.
There you go.
There you go.
What the hell are you protecting?
Holy shit.
Morgan, Alicia, do you copy?
Ground 17, respond.
Get out.
Next time, use handcuffs.
Ground 17, go again.
Ground 17, do you copy?
Step away.
Ground 17, respond.
Sounds like you need to answer this.
OK.
OK, OK.
Go for Ground 17.
- Is this the lead?
- Negative. The lead was KIA.
- Report.
- Non-hostiles.
- There was a breach in protocol.
- The payload secure?
- Yes.
- Why aren't you inbound?
Need to refuel.
Do you copy?
I could be inbound in 72 hours.
We're sending a reclamation team.
Roger that.
What's a reclamation team?
Put it on.
Thank you.
Where is it?
You show me where it is, you live.
I have to break one of your legs now.
Doing that will kill me,
more or less.
If you do that,
I'm not telling you shit.
I can be really spiteful like that.
You talk to me and tell me your
story, and I will get you the tape.
Tell me where you're from, what
you are, what you're doing out here,
why it's so important
no one sees that tape.
No.
Then we leave it...
with you killing me for no reason.
I won't answer your questions.
And I won't show you
where the tape is unless you do.
And your helicopter?
My friends are stranded out here.
We'll need a ride out of this place.
You lost someone out here.
You didn't seem upset about that.
You seemed upset
they were sending people.
How much trouble are you gonna be in?
Are they gonna kill you, too?
We could have this done in hours.
- Just answer a few questions.
- I won't.
I don't have a network.
The audience is dead.
I want to know the truth.
That's why I'm here.
Why are you?
The tape first.
No.
We need fuel.
Where are we going to get fuel?
- Fuel drop.
- Fuel drop.
It's high up?
It's for a helicopter.
Well, look at you, crack-wise.
Ascenders? Quickdraws?
How high are we talking?
It's up there.
What was on the map?
What's with the symbol?
Three circles?
Why were you out at the plane?
I know you don't want to
tell me shit, but we have a deal.
So...
start with the basics.
Same thing I ask everyone.
Your name, where you're from,
what you've seen.
OK.
I have to call you something, so...
just gonna call you Happy.
All right, Happy, let's get to it.
Where are you from?
Why does any of this matter?
When we're gone,
our stories will be all that's left.
Wait here.
I said wait here.
I don't take orders from you.
Here. Put this on.
- Not wearing that.
- Can't afford for you to get bit.
I thought we covered this.
I don't take orders from you.
You want to get transactional?
Here's something.
Everything I do is to ensure there's
more than stories left after I die.
There you go, Happy.
Really want me alive?
How about giving me
something more than a jacket?
I've got them.
I don't stay in the car.
That rule kept me alive even before
people ate each other's faces.
Got it!
We have to walk from here,
but we're ten klicks out.
If we move double time,
we make it before sundown.
- Al, it's just a camera.
- I need it.
What the hell was that?
If you weren't wearing that jacket,
you'd be as good as dead.
I needed my bag.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Be careful with that.
Wait, please. That's not
the one you're looking for.
You had it the whole time?
You might want to watch that
before you spray my brains
across the ground.
I don't know how much longer
I can stay here.
But I'm gonna get as much as I can.
The National Guard is coming in
from the East Bridge.
Word is the Army
is mobilizing, too.
They've declared
a national state of emergency,
cordoned off
the entire area for blocks.
I'm gonna have to go dark.
They see me from the street.
The Army is moving in
from one direction,
the National Guard from the other.
Shit.
Shit. They're shooting
at each other.
I'm sorry, Jesse.
I should have stayed.
Before and after.
What is this?
This is not included
in our transaction.
- Not this.
- You could have been killed.
Your friends wouldn't get home.
Why would you do that for that tape?
I could have said goodbye
to my brother.
I got the story instead.
Now he's dead,
and the story is all that's left.
Since we're sharing...
Why did you kill your partner?
If you see someone
wearing this jacket,
you should be afraid.
We are a force who are not
living for ourselves or for now.
You have your stories,
already making every day the past.
We have the future.
Looks like we aren't
the first to make the climb.
We had to fly just to get in here.
None of the roads are passable.
These people...
probably trying to get out.
Keep our eyes open on the way up.
They could still be up there.
How's your foot?
Are you good with heights?
Al, I need you to answer me.
I've answered plenty.
We'll make camp here.
It's dark soon.
We'll climb at the crack.
Wrap your foot and get some sleep.
I'll keep watch.
What I told you today
I've never told anyone.
You and me are the same kind of bird.
Seems like you had a job,
and you kept doing it,
and it mattered more to you
than people's lives.
Me, too.
That's why I killed him.
I was doing my job.
I didn't mean to piss on yours.
I do think stories matter.
Some things matter more
to me, that's all.
If we don't trust each other,
we end up like him.
You fall, I fall.
That's all the trust I need.
Yeah. Just follow my lead, all right?
We have to go by him.
It's the only path.
Al!
I need you to climb over to
this anchor for the final push.
Almost there. You good?
Let's do it.
Are you OK?
Unhook from the line!
No!
Listen, I'm gonna need a little bit
of slack. Can you do that?
Yes!
You fall, I fall.
I'm good!
All right?
You fall, I fall.
He was my friend.
You killed your friend?
We were doing what we always do.
Come get supplies; get in, get out.
Supplies for what?
Purifying water.
There's a nuclear power plant
ten miles from here.
We took every precaution,
timed everything out perfectly.
But on that last run, when Beckett
saw what radiation did to the dead,
he cracked.
He was afraid that he was
going to end up just like them.
And he did.
He kept this with him.
It's a key to this cabin
he always talked about.
It had this view that you could see
all the way to the end of creation.
I see that view every day.
Why didn't you let him go?
Nobody just walks away,
let alone with the maps he carried.
We exchanged fire.
So you didn't just kill him.
You gave him a chance.
I hesitated.
He was afraid, so I measured the
possibility of alleviating his fear.
That's not protocol, is it?
Protocol is to extinguish
threats to operational security.
I hesitated. I made a mistake.
- But I shot him.
- Your friend.
My friend... had to die.
You might as well tell me
everything about everything.
You're gonna have to kill me, too,
aren't you?
No, I'm not. I need your help.
I need that tape.
Right.
Do you have to kill me
for operational security?
Yeah.
I do.
He didn't make it very far.
Left his friend to die
on the side of a cliff.
Stay here.
I told you, I don't follow orders.
I'm gonna hang onto this...
for my operational security.
These two gonna be enough?
It will be enough
to get the chopper up here.
Then we take what's left
and go where we need to.
You're still not gonna fly me
or my friends out of here, are you?
Even if I give you the tape...
I've got the climbing gear,
the fuel and your gun.
Leaving me here would be a bad idea.
You've got food, water.
- You'll manage.
- And you?
We'll go home.
From what I saw, you couldn't keep
a Skyvan in the air. Flown an L3?
- I'll figure it out.
- No, you won't.
The reclamation team will be here
in less than 24 hours,
and if you or your friends are
anywhere near that helicopter...
Just don't be.
Forget the helicopter.
We'll find another way out.
Were you gonna give me that tape?
You have to destroy it!
Why?
You want that interview?
Let's talk.
The place I'm from,
I'm not gonna tell you where it is,
I'm not gonna tell you
what it's called,
but there is something
I will tell you.
What?
It's bigger than me.
It's bigger than you.
- It's bigger than all of us.
- Because it's the future.
And we're the past.
And right now,
it's the only thing that matters.
Look, whatever it is...
I want to see it.
Al...
you don't want to go there.
If someone finds the tape,
if they figure out how to read
the map, it makes what we have,
what we're working towards,
vulnerable.
I need you to give me the tape.
This isn't about me or Beckett.
This is about the future
and rebuilding what we all once had.
I will die here if I have to.
And I understand
why you would leave me,
why you think
the tape is more important.
- It's...
- But if you choose the story,
if you do not destroy the tape,
then Beckett's death...
my death...
it might not amount to anything.
You want your brother's death
to mean something?
You want stories to matter?
You have to make sure there's
people around to hear them one day.
I'll show you where the tape is.
- How long do we have?
- Just the night.
They have beer where you're from?
You left that out.
Here.
We have a brewer.
Well, someone who's trying
to be one, anyway.
Not bad.
I would have much rather met you
before all this.
Or maybe in whatever
it's gonna be after.
- You get it.
- Yeah.
I do.
Sun comes up...
we punch in and shit gets real again.
I get it.
Everything's so ugly nowadays.
This is nice.
Let's go.
We have to hurry.
You could have hidden it anywhere.
I had to be sure
someone would find it...
if you killed me.
So you put it on one of the dead?
Yeah.
Not that one.
Here.
- You want to check it on the cam...
- No.
So, that's it, then.
The tape was only part of the story.
The mission...
No one can know anything.
No one can even see us.
But...
- Turn around.
- You...
Turn around!
Please.
I know.
Then why did you bring me here?
Because for however long
it takes you to pull that trigger...
I'll know I chose something
other than the story.
I get it.
I want you to know that.
And I want you
to do something for me.
I want you to take this.
Make sure this story matters.
Make sure he lives.
I want you to live!
Don't chase this story!
Do not try to find me!
I hope you get back to your friends
and that you can get home somehow.
My name is Isabelle.
I'm from Indiana.
And I got to see...
the prettiest thing I've seen...
since the end of everything.
This is Ground 17.
I've refueled and ready to return.
- With the payload?
- Yes.
Copy, Ground 17.
Is the site buttoned up?
Affirmative.
Everything according to protocol.
Calling off the reclamation team.
You are cleared for return.
Morgan, do you copy?
I repeat, Morgan, do you copy?
Al?
Where are you?
Al.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Come here.
- Are you all right?
- Yeah. Yeah, I'm OK.
We were looking for you everywhere.
What happened?
I went back to the plane
to record that walker
and got overrun by the dead.
Had to run into the woods.
Been trying to stay
ahead of them since.
And what was it, the walker?
You said there was a story.
No.
It was a weird lighting trick
through a scuffed lens on my camera.
See where the helicopter came from?
I heard it.
I tried to get there but...
It's all right.
I'm just glad you're safe.
We're gonna find
another way out of here, Al.
And um... hopefully not just us.
- More new people.
- Yeah.
I'll tell you about it on the way.
Come on, let's get you checked out.
Szewczyk-Przygocki.
What?
It's my last name.
I had two parents with Polish names
who insisted on double-barreling.
- You OK?
- Yeah. Yeah.
Just thought I should
tell you both that.
Right.