Fear the Walking Dead (2015–…): Season 6, Episode 13 - J.D. - full transcript
June splits off from the group in an effort to gather any information to help stop an oncoming threat.
I don't understand.
I... I just wanted to say,
uh... be safe.
Thank you.
Dear June...
I've been thinkin'
about my dad a lot lately.
Maybe it's bein' away from you
that my thoughts now
drift to family.
My family wasn't together
nearly as long
as I would've liked.
I s'ppose I could say
the same thing now.
How's she doing?
Holed up at the old church.
Won't see anybody.
Myself included.
I can't stop thinking about
how the baby might be alive
if we didn't
have to come to you.
Morgan,
even if I had been here,
it wouldn't have made
a difference.
Don't you say it.
Don't.
'Cause she's already gone there,
talking about how
the only reason she's alive
is because her baby absorbed
all the bad shit from her body.
I just want to make sure
she's okay.
You know there is nothing
that you or I could say or do
that's gonna make
any of this okay, right?
You're right. It won't.
But as the closest thing
to a doctor that she has,
I need to examine her.
Not letting you come in.
She needs to see me.
She does, or you do?
What's that supposed to mean?
Grace lost the baby
because you couldn't o
the one thing that John wanted.
That's why
I couldn't let you stay here,
and that is why
you were not here
when she needed you.
So, tell me againw
you're here right now for Grace,
and that you're not here
right now for yourself.
Whoa, whoa. Hey. Easy there.
I tried to radio,
but you didn't answer.
What are you doing here?
I'm here to ask you
the same question.
I mean, don't... don't you have
a hospital to build?
Sarah can manage.
She thought I might be able
to do my part
trying to figure out
what we're up against.
Does this have something to do
with what Morgan said?
You heard that?
I was on guard duty.
Look, the man's...
hurting, okay?
He didn't mean it.
Ah, Dwight, you didn't have to
follow me here to babysit me.
Hey, you and John
were there for me at the Gulch.
You're probably the only reason
I'm still breathing.
Also, I couldn't stand the idea
of you being out here all alone.
Morgan was right.
I did the one thing
John didn't want me to do.
He didn't want me
to come in here, but I did.
He... He was just
worried, is all. No.
He told me Ginny was just
working things for her own ends.
He asked me to leave with him
before we even got here.
Eh, whoa.
Don't do this to yourself.
Well, I can't help but think
if I had just listened to him
maybe he'd still be here.
And the people
you saved here wouldn't.I saved Ginny.
Didn't make much of a difference
in the end.
Whoa, easy.
I brought company.
Sherry?
Are you two...
No,Uh,
she was trading supplies
behind the wall,and
she asked to come
when she saw me leaving.
Why?
I'm not sure.
She hasn't said much
since we left.
Keep talking.
Don't mean to interrupt.
Horses don't take unleaded.
There's nothing here.
They must've taken all the gas
when they painted the message.
Well, where to next?
Not a place, but a person.
Ginny's old lieutenant.
He's been on the run
ever since... you know?
Figure if anyone knows
what she knew,
what we're up against, it's him.
Do you have any idea
where to find him?
I picked up
a muffled signal out...
Did you bring more company?
Get down!
Must be one of them!
I'm gonna take him out! He might
have information!
We need him alive!
Screw this.
I said we needed him alive!
June.
June!
Cover me so I can see
if you killed my lead.
We gotcha. Be careful.
Ah.
Why are you here?
My friends... They're fending off
a buncha dead
that heard our firefight,
so you're gonna have to answer
for yourself.
What are you doing here?
You one of them?
One of who?
The folks painting the slogans.
Answer me.
Looks like you're the one
with the answers,
and I think we might be
on the same team.
Well, if that's true,
you and your pals
need to kick rocks.
I know what these people
are capable of,
and trust me,
you don't want any part of it.
How? What do you know?
I've been around these parts
since the fire at the garage.
The trail's run cold,
but if these people catch anyone
getting too close,
they'll move up their plan.
What plan?
Please. Lives are at stake.
Not if
I get to the bottom of it.
Well, maybe we should be
sharing information.
We've been searching for days.
I've been searching
a lot longer than that.
So let me help. How the hell
are you gonna help?
I didn't realize
they tagged that far south.
And you missed one.
At the orchard.
You wanna help?
You say we're on the same side?
Prove it.
Bring me to this orchard.
Show me something
I haven't already seen.
But if you're lying,
if you're wasting my time,
it won't be mirrors and windows
I put a bullet into.
You catch my drift?
I'm not leaving
my friends behind.
Drive.
That's really not necessary.
I want this as bad as you do.
Just keep your eyes on the road,
sweetheart.
Don't call me that.
Well, what am I
supposed to call you?
Anything else.
You know what?
I didn't ask you to come
and gum up my investigation.
Matter of fact,
I'm burning time and resources
letting you take me
on this little trip,
so with all due respect,
sweetheart,
shut up and drive.
Where'd you get that gun?
Why should I tell you?
Because it belongs to me.
The "JD" on the handle?
That's me.
I'm John Dorie.
Hey, look.
I wanna find June
just as bad as you do,
but we keep running
these horses like this,
we're gonna kill them.
Hey, even if that thing was
full, we'd get what, huh?
Six miles out of the MRAP?
I just want to find June
and be done with it.
Really?
Why are you really here?
Huh?
Is it to play detective,
or did Morgan tell you
to keep an eye on June?
Neither.
You know,
when I was out looking for you,
things got desperate.
Your trail ran cold.
I was tired, hungry,
and I was thinking about
ending it.
Not just the search.
Everything.
The only reason
I'm standing right here
is because of John and June.
They changed everything.
Changed how?
I don't know.
Seeing two people together,
two people that were separated
like us,
made it seem possible
that just maybe...
Maybe we'd find each other.
So, you wanna tell me
why you're here?
There's no time.
Okay.
Hah!
It's just
the way John talked about you
the few times that he did,
I figured you were dead.
Well, as far
as he was concerned, I was.
When did you last see him?
Oh, I don't know.
He couldn't have been
more than 12 or so.
Should have known
you were a Dorie
with all that sharpshooting
back there.
If he was a good shot,
it had nothing to do with me.
Don't you have any questions?
'Bout what?
Where he is.
What he's been up to
for the past 40 years.
I already know the answer.
Why else would you be here
with that look on your face,
that gun on your hip,
two wedding rings?
I was a cop.
I notice things.
So was he.
He became a cop?
Thought he would've learned
better from his old man.
No, no, no.Oh, no, no.
I lost my jacket.
We need to go back.
You can have one of mine.
No, we need to go back.
I ain't wasting gas
to go get some jacket
covered in muck and guts.
It's not the jacket that I need.
There's a letter in
the pocket. A letter?
What's in this letter
that's so important?
I don't know. I haven't read it.
Well, then,
it must not be that important.
You're welcome to go get it,
but this RV's only going
one direction,that's forward.
Shh! Kill it!
Kill it! Kill it!
Shit.
We got a stowaway.
Oh, great.
Goddammit!
Probably ran it over
during your little maneuver.
We got anything to pull it out?
Yeah.
Fire up the engine.
Give it a little gas.
See if we can loosen her up.
Tiny bit. Listen for my signal.
Nice and easy.
Whoa, whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa! Softer?
Cut the engine, dammit!
Cut the engine!
Anything?
That ain't just blood
under there.
Transmission fluid, too.
Probably knicked the line
when you hit him.
Well, can you fix it?
This thing's toast.
Thanks to you.
Honey!
You okay?
Dammit, I told you to slow down.
Its heart's giving out.
We're gonna have to...
Let's go.
Sherry...
Hey.
What is going on here?
It's...
It's not about
these cult assholes,
just like it wasn't about Ginny.
Then what are we doing
chasing gas, huh?
Look, I'm going back home
to Virginia,
okay?
I need to take out the person that's...
really
to blame for all of this.
Negan?
I'm gonna find him,
and I'm gonna put a bullet
in his head.
That's why I came with you, D.
So I could find the right way
to say goodbye.
I get it.
Lord knows I've done things
I'm not proud of, so...
You help me find June,
I'll help you get out of here.
You said that before.
You mean it this time? Yeah.
I do.
We're going at my speed.
Not running that horse
into the ground.
Alright.
Come on.
Whoa.
Hey. Come on. Whoa.
That's June's jacket.
Really?
Yeah.
Hold that. Come on.
Whoa. Come on.
I've got all that up there
a certain way,
so don't go messing it up.
So, this is you?
Yeah. That's me.
And him?
Teddy Maddox.
Psycho killing,
two-bit preaching mortician
I put away for life.
Least he was supposed to be.
What does that mean?
"The End is the Beginning".
He was spewing that same
malarkey back in the '70s.
Are you saying
the person responsie
for all of this is...
Teddy.
Should have killed him
when I had the chance.
Guess it's not too late.
Are you sure it's him?
Few months ago,
I'm out foraging,
and I spot it...
"The End is the Beginning".
Hit me like a punch in the gut,
seeing those words
after all this time.
I went back to the prison,
hoping I'd find
a rotting corpse.
Instead, his cell door was open,
and he's nowhere to be found.
I guess ruining my life once
wasn't enough
for that son of a bitch.
What do you mean?
When I put him away,
it wasn't exactly clean.
I had to do the wrong things
for the right reason.
You framed him.
Did anyone ever find out?
No.
People started looking at me
like I was some hero.
I couldn't sleep.
I started drinking.
I mean, my whole life
was suddenly a lie.
I was so goddamn angry
all the time.
It must've been hard
for John, too.
Which is why the best thing
for my family
was for me to get as far away
from them as possible.
So, you abandoned them?
You don't understand.
Well, then explain it to me.
'Cause it sounds like after
40 years, you went to check
if the man that ruined
your family was alive,
but not your son.
He was better off without me.
Everyone was.
Best thing I did for him
was not showing up
at that cabin.
The cabin.
That's where Hill's hiding out.
Who?
You may not have wanted
to go there before,
but you're going there now.
And why's that?
Because that's what's gonna
lead us to Teddy.
I'm not going to that cabin.
This is our best lead!
I got other leads. Better leads.
The orchard.
Teddy's childhood home.
Hill might know something,
and he is at the cabin.
What? You don't have time
for a short detour?
It's not about that. What is it?
That cabin
is where I left my boy,
40 years ago.
I won't go back there.
I met and lost my husband
at that cabin.
The table inside is set up
with medical supplies
to save his life,
but I didn't get the chance.
And despite tha,
I'm willing to go back there
because finding Hill
and hearing what he knows
could save a lot of lives.
Plus,
he's got something of mine,
and I want it back.
What's that?
John's other pistol.
Well, those guns
do belong together.
That's Teddy's doing.
How do you know?
Embalming fluid.
Did the same to his victims
back when the dead stayed dead.
What does Teddy want?
What he's always wanted...
Destruction.
He's been hollering the same
"sperm to worm",
"Circle of Life" mumbo jumbo
to just about anyone
with ears to bend
since before you were born.
Why the embalming fluid?
That's how
he keeps out the unworthy.
Preservation prevents folks
from "moving on"
to the next world.
Oh, yes, ma'am.
He's crazy as a cut snake.
But he could sell ice
to an Eskimo,
and you can bet
that his new followers
are armed and highly motivated.
They're not the only ones.
Oh, I don't doubt it.
How's that hand?
I'm a nurse. I can take a look.
Well, there's a little
bait shop nearby.
If it's still standing,
maybe we can stop on the way.
Bill's?
You know it.
Did you and John get married
before or after?
After.
He used a candy wrapper.
A candy wrapper.
It was the best he could do
at the time.
Oh, I proposed to his mama
the same way.
'Cept it was
a Juicy Fruit wrapper.
I was still in the academy,
not a dime to my name.
Looks like he's been
hunting this guy named Teddy
for a lifetime.
Long before
the world fell apart.
John Dorie Sr.
I can't believe
he's John's father.
What are the odds?
I never thought
shooting at John and June
in an old west town
would lead me to you, but
here we are.
She left a note.
They think Hill might be at,
uh, John's cabin.
We should go.
Hill was a ranger.
I bet he's got a truck
I could take back east.
I think John took some gas
when he ran off, you know?
There's a good chance
that'll be there, too.
Okay.
Well, seems pretty clear
which direction
things are pointing me in.
Guess so.
Eh, place has changed
since the last time I was here.
Yeah.
That's where
the freezer used to be.
We'd sit on that bench out there
eating ice cream.
Always butterscotch for Junior.
He has such a sweet tooth.
Had, I mean.
I'm gonna get you something
for that hand.
John did love his movies.
I always warned him that, uh,
he'd wind up with square eyes
if he wasn't careful.
We watched "Bullitt" on TV
over and over and over...
Let's get you patched up.
That's my shooting hand, too.
John ever tell you about
those guns?
Oh.
Just that they've been
your family for generations.
Six.
The first John Dorie
brought 'em west on the trail.
JD the second gunned down
Deadeye Driscoll in Blackwater.
Hell of a shot.
Got his picture in the paper.
John was a good shot, too?
Yeah.
He taught me.
Mm.
You ever hear of Humbug's Gulch?
Uh-huh.
He worked there on the weekend
as a trick shot.
I'll be.
That's where we were married.
There was singing and
all our friends were there.
Sounds like a nice affair.
You know...
John wrote his initials on the wall
in that room back there
when he was a kid.
Wonder if they're still there.
Let's see.
Hey! What are you doing?!
You and Junior
shared a life together.
We may not be blood,but
you're the closest thing
to a family I got now.
So, you're just ditching me?
Like you did John?
That's not what
this is. Oh, it is.
You think you're protecting me,
but you're not.
You're just punishing yourself.
It's the same reason
you never made amends
with your son!
You don't think you deserve it.
Well, you're the one
carrying around
a letter from him
you never even opened!
So, you come at me all you want!
We all got ways
of protecting ourselves.
Look...
I know you think
you're doing the "wrong thing
for the right reason,"
but we really need
to be working together.
Please!
Damn.
It actually turned over.
Barely.
Wasn't this the same
kind of truck your grandpa had?
No, that was a '69.
You see the rounded cap?
This is older.
Oh.
Remember
we got it stuck in the mud
the summer
after senior year? Yeah.
On the way to that bonfire?
We just gave up
and drank beers in the bak
'til we passed out.
Is this really
what you wanna do?
D.
Look, I mean, eh... eh... eh,
let's say you get there
and you do it.
You know, then... then what?
You come back?
That's the plan.
So you may not.
I don't know
what's gonna happen.
You're really ready
to say goodbye?
The hell was that?
I don't know.
You picked the wrong cabin
to rob, old timer.
This is my son's cabin.
That makes you a trespasser.
John's old man, eh?
And this is his gun.
Now, tell me everything you know
about Theodore Maddox,
or I'll use it
to blow your head off.
Who the hell is Theodore Maddox?
The folks with the spray paint.
He's the one behind it.
Hell's it matter to you?
That's my business.
All I know is whatever
they got planned, it's big.
How big?
I don't know.
We could never get anyone
to talk.
All we know
is they wanna kill everybody.
I'm gonna give you five minutes
to get your shit
and get the hell out of here.
I live here now.
Previous occupant moved out.
Permanently.
In case you hadn't heard.
Aah!
Aah!
Help me get him inside.
Hurry.
Oh, my God.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You really
shouldn't be out of bed.
I took a bullet out of you.
You lost a lot of blood.
We were meant to fix
this old girl up together,
he and I.
It was gonna be his first car.
I didn't run from my boy
'cause I didn't care.
I did it 'cause I do.
Just like you and Bill's.
I know.
You were right.
I was punishing myself.
But I was also
punishing my wife,
punishing my boy.
I did come back that summer.
Stopped at Bill's
to fill up the tank,
and saw him there.
Boy looked so content eating
his butterscotch ice cream.
He looked so happy.
John had this light about him.
'Course you know.
I was afraid I'd snuff it out.
Like the Teddy case did to me.
So, I decided then and there
he's better off without me.
I drove back here,
left those pistols on the porch,
and never looked back.
Never even said goodbye.
It's not too late.
For either of us.
It was right
here
when I first met him.
I was broken.
John sewed me back up
with fishing line
and butterscotch brittle,
and light,
and love.
"June."
This the hardest decision
of my life.
One that I hope you can find
in your heart
to forgive me for making...
Leaving you behind to save
an innocent person's life.
Knowing it might mean
I never see you again.
Even so, I believe
you'll forgive me one day.
"Same way I forgave..."
"Same way I forgave Dad"
for leaving me.
Took me a few years
to see it from his shoes,
but I forgave him.
He was a good man,
and in his own way,
he did what he did
because he loved me,
just like I'm doing
what I'm doing
'cause I love you.
But no matter what happens,
sure as the sun sets,
"I will never..."
"I will never stop trying
to get back to you.
Back to those early days
at the cabin."
"When a pretty lady named Laura
washed up on my shore
and my life was forever changed.
You are the most amazing woman
I've ever known."
"You rekindled
the light in me, June."
You brought me back to people,
made me believe
in goodness again.
That doing good
was worth fighting for,
like how I fought for you.
And if I die,
"I die knowing
I lived a life worth living."
"And a nurse named June
was the light guiding my way."
"I love you, Junebug.
Forever."
Whoever worked on this truck
did a good job.
Probably make it as far
as Louisiana.
What is it?
I'm not ready for this
to be goodbye, D.
Okay. W-W-What do you mean?
I mean, that man
has been chasing after Teddy
for how many years?
He missed out
on his entire life.
I can't let that happen to me.
To us.
I have been using Negan...
as an excuse
for why we can't be together.
I know, I...
Look, I saw how, you know,
you were able to change,
and how you were able to get back
to how you once were.
And I think
that's what I'm afraid of.
That I won't be able to do that.
Look, I've...
I've changed,
but I am not
the same person I used to be
And you don't have to
be that, either.
Yeah.
I don't even know if I want to.
You're probably right.
We were young.
Hey. Hey, hey.
Why don't we just
start over?
I'm willing to give it a shot
if you are.
Yeah?
Hey.
These are yours.
Thank you for letg
me and John borrow them.
You don't have to do that.
I want to.
John would, too.
They belong
with their rightful owners.
Morgan,
there's someone
I'd like you to meet.
Hey.
This is John Dorie.
It's John's father.
Oh, I'm sorry. It's alright.
A little tender.
I'm pleased to meet you,
but...
how?
It's a long story.
You know, your son was...
He saved my life
in more ways than one.
Well, his wife
just did the same for me.
Thank you for letting me
come stay a while.
Well, you're a welcome addition,
Mr. Dorie.
The man we're looking for,
the one who sent those people
who attacked you and Grace...
John's father knows
everything about him.
We can help each other.
It seems like you already are.
I know I can't change
what I did before, but...
You don't have to say that.
What you did today
is what John would have wanted.
I'd like another chance
to do the same here.
At this place.
I might've been wrong,
when I said
that there wasn't anything
you could do or say to
make things better.
I'll check on her.
Please.
Well, we better
put our heads together.
This man you're up against...
I know him bow to stern.
And if he's doing now
what he wanted to do before,
he's not gonna stop
'til we're all dead.
Then let's get to work.
On the next episode of.
"Fear the Walking Dead"...
Before we take our
first steps together, Alicia,
I need some assurances...
Is that you?
Where'd you get that gun?
Why should I tell you?
Because it belongs to me.
The "J.D." on the handle?
That's me.
I'm John Dorie.
This episode is called "J.D.",
and the title has
a bunch of different meanings,
all of them revolving around
characters' initials.
It could refer to John Dorie.
It could refer to June Dorie.
Or it could also refer to a new
character that we introduce
in this episode, and that is
John Dorie, Sr.
It's just
the way John talked about you,
the few times that he did,
I figured you were dead.
Well, as far as he was
concerned, I was.
Morgan and June's relationship
really is at the lowest
we've ever seen it.
The things the Morgan says
to June here
are pretty hard for June
to hear,
and a lot of it is really
motivated by the pain
and the rawness that Morgan
is feeling
after just having delivered
Grace's baby stillborn.
I can't stop thinking about
how the baby might be alive
if we didn't
have to come to you.
In his mind, he, I think,
is looking for somewhere
to place the blame,
and June, unfortunately,
is on the receiving end of it.
Grace lost the baby
because you couldn't do
the one thing that John wanted.
That's why
I couldn't let you stay here,
and that is why
you were not here
when she needed you.
And that's something else that,
you know,
is unspoken between
the two of them.
Instead of trying to
help each other through it,
they're really kind of at each
other's throats over it.
We saw June get that letter
that Jacob gave her,
but she has not looked at it,
and really, I think June's been
in this place
where she hasn't been ready to
actually grieve
John Dorie's death.
She really has kind of just
been moving forward,
not allowing herself to feel
any of the kind of more
difficult emotions.
Even though she loses it,
I think she's upset because
she's worried she'll never
find it again,
but she doesn't want to go back
for it because
she's not ready to face it
and see what John's kind of
final goodbyes to her were.
Seeing all of these clippings
in the RV,
the primary reason for putting
them there
was to show John Dorie's
obsession with Teddy
and with the case,
and this was the thing that
consumed his life.
It cost him really everything,
and 40 years later,
we find him still living
in this RV,
where he's obsessed with it.
Well, maybe we should be
sharing information.
We've been searching for days.
I've been searching
a lot longer than that.
June and John Dorie...
It takes them a while
to I think understand that there
are a lot of similarities
between the two of them,
and it ultimately comes when
they're facing off with Hill
and John Dorie ends up
getting shot.
June was too late to save
John's life.
By the time he washed up,
he was already dead,
but she had prepared a table
with all the medical supplies,
so she could treat
the gunshot wound,
and even though she didn't get
to do that for John Dorie,
she's now getting to do it
for his father.
I didn't run from my boy
'cause I didn't care.
I did it 'cause I do.
I think that's really kind of
when they start to bond
because I think
at the end of the day,
they both realize they're
experiencing the same pain
and they're both missing
the same person.
It's not too late.
For either of us.
For June, reading this letter
is about her accepting that
John is gone
and starting the process of
truly grieving him.
"This the hardest decision
of my life."
One that I hope you can find
in your heart
to forgive me for making...
The reason she chooses to
read it out loud
is because she knows
John Dorie, Sr.
Needs to go through that same
grieving process.
"I believe
you'll forgive me one day.
Same way I forgave Dad."
John Dorie, Sr. Hears that
in spite of abandoning his son,
his son still found a way
to forgive him,
and it really is kind of
all about that light
that John Dorie just had in him
that people were drawn to,
that optimism.
"You are the most amazing woman
I've ever known."
"You rekindled
the light in me, June."
Once again, it kind of gets
reignited,
and John Dorie, Sr.
Gets reignited
and June, and those are kind of
the two characters
who are gonna carry
John Dorie forward
in their spirit going into the
future of the show.
Morgan, there's someone
I'd like you to meet.
June: This is John Dorie.
It's John's father.
This episode really was about
saying goodbye to John Dorie
in a way that hopefully brings
catharsis for the characters
and for the audience,
and we really wanted the end of
this episode just to feel like
a proper send-off to him
and it was honoring
the spirit of who
John Dorie was,
the spirit of what the character
brought to the show.
Thank you for letting me
come stay a while.
Well, you're a welcome addition,
Mr. Dorie.
The man we're looking for,
the one who sent those people
who attacked you and Grace...
John's father knows
everything about him.
There is a little bit of a hint
about what's to come
in terms of the kind of
growing conflict.
But yeah, we wanted to have an
uplifting ending
for once this season.
If he's doing now
what he wanted to do before,
he's not gonna stop
'til we're all dead.
Then let's get to work.
I... I just wanted to say,
uh... be safe.
Thank you.
Dear June...
I've been thinkin'
about my dad a lot lately.
Maybe it's bein' away from you
that my thoughts now
drift to family.
My family wasn't together
nearly as long
as I would've liked.
I s'ppose I could say
the same thing now.
How's she doing?
Holed up at the old church.
Won't see anybody.
Myself included.
I can't stop thinking about
how the baby might be alive
if we didn't
have to come to you.
Morgan,
even if I had been here,
it wouldn't have made
a difference.
Don't you say it.
Don't.
'Cause she's already gone there,
talking about how
the only reason she's alive
is because her baby absorbed
all the bad shit from her body.
I just want to make sure
she's okay.
You know there is nothing
that you or I could say or do
that's gonna make
any of this okay, right?
You're right. It won't.
But as the closest thing
to a doctor that she has,
I need to examine her.
Not letting you come in.
She needs to see me.
She does, or you do?
What's that supposed to mean?
Grace lost the baby
because you couldn't o
the one thing that John wanted.
That's why
I couldn't let you stay here,
and that is why
you were not here
when she needed you.
So, tell me againw
you're here right now for Grace,
and that you're not here
right now for yourself.
Whoa, whoa. Hey. Easy there.
I tried to radio,
but you didn't answer.
What are you doing here?
I'm here to ask you
the same question.
I mean, don't... don't you have
a hospital to build?
Sarah can manage.
She thought I might be able
to do my part
trying to figure out
what we're up against.
Does this have something to do
with what Morgan said?
You heard that?
I was on guard duty.
Look, the man's...
hurting, okay?
He didn't mean it.
Ah, Dwight, you didn't have to
follow me here to babysit me.
Hey, you and John
were there for me at the Gulch.
You're probably the only reason
I'm still breathing.
Also, I couldn't stand the idea
of you being out here all alone.
Morgan was right.
I did the one thing
John didn't want me to do.
He didn't want me
to come in here, but I did.
He... He was just
worried, is all. No.
He told me Ginny was just
working things for her own ends.
He asked me to leave with him
before we even got here.
Eh, whoa.
Don't do this to yourself.
Well, I can't help but think
if I had just listened to him
maybe he'd still be here.
And the people
you saved here wouldn't.I saved Ginny.
Didn't make much of a difference
in the end.
Whoa, easy.
I brought company.
Sherry?
Are you two...
No,Uh,
she was trading supplies
behind the wall,and
she asked to come
when she saw me leaving.
Why?
I'm not sure.
She hasn't said much
since we left.
Keep talking.
Don't mean to interrupt.
Horses don't take unleaded.
There's nothing here.
They must've taken all the gas
when they painted the message.
Well, where to next?
Not a place, but a person.
Ginny's old lieutenant.
He's been on the run
ever since... you know?
Figure if anyone knows
what she knew,
what we're up against, it's him.
Do you have any idea
where to find him?
I picked up
a muffled signal out...
Did you bring more company?
Get down!
Must be one of them!
I'm gonna take him out! He might
have information!
We need him alive!
Screw this.
I said we needed him alive!
June.
June!
Cover me so I can see
if you killed my lead.
We gotcha. Be careful.
Ah.
Why are you here?
My friends... They're fending off
a buncha dead
that heard our firefight,
so you're gonna have to answer
for yourself.
What are you doing here?
You one of them?
One of who?
The folks painting the slogans.
Answer me.
Looks like you're the one
with the answers,
and I think we might be
on the same team.
Well, if that's true,
you and your pals
need to kick rocks.
I know what these people
are capable of,
and trust me,
you don't want any part of it.
How? What do you know?
I've been around these parts
since the fire at the garage.
The trail's run cold,
but if these people catch anyone
getting too close,
they'll move up their plan.
What plan?
Please. Lives are at stake.
Not if
I get to the bottom of it.
Well, maybe we should be
sharing information.
We've been searching for days.
I've been searching
a lot longer than that.
So let me help. How the hell
are you gonna help?
I didn't realize
they tagged that far south.
And you missed one.
At the orchard.
You wanna help?
You say we're on the same side?
Prove it.
Bring me to this orchard.
Show me something
I haven't already seen.
But if you're lying,
if you're wasting my time,
it won't be mirrors and windows
I put a bullet into.
You catch my drift?
I'm not leaving
my friends behind.
Drive.
That's really not necessary.
I want this as bad as you do.
Just keep your eyes on the road,
sweetheart.
Don't call me that.
Well, what am I
supposed to call you?
Anything else.
You know what?
I didn't ask you to come
and gum up my investigation.
Matter of fact,
I'm burning time and resources
letting you take me
on this little trip,
so with all due respect,
sweetheart,
shut up and drive.
Where'd you get that gun?
Why should I tell you?
Because it belongs to me.
The "JD" on the handle?
That's me.
I'm John Dorie.
Hey, look.
I wanna find June
just as bad as you do,
but we keep running
these horses like this,
we're gonna kill them.
Hey, even if that thing was
full, we'd get what, huh?
Six miles out of the MRAP?
I just want to find June
and be done with it.
Really?
Why are you really here?
Huh?
Is it to play detective,
or did Morgan tell you
to keep an eye on June?
Neither.
You know,
when I was out looking for you,
things got desperate.
Your trail ran cold.
I was tired, hungry,
and I was thinking about
ending it.
Not just the search.
Everything.
The only reason
I'm standing right here
is because of John and June.
They changed everything.
Changed how?
I don't know.
Seeing two people together,
two people that were separated
like us,
made it seem possible
that just maybe...
Maybe we'd find each other.
So, you wanna tell me
why you're here?
There's no time.
Okay.
Hah!
It's just
the way John talked about you
the few times that he did,
I figured you were dead.
Well, as far
as he was concerned, I was.
When did you last see him?
Oh, I don't know.
He couldn't have been
more than 12 or so.
Should have known
you were a Dorie
with all that sharpshooting
back there.
If he was a good shot,
it had nothing to do with me.
Don't you have any questions?
'Bout what?
Where he is.
What he's been up to
for the past 40 years.
I already know the answer.
Why else would you be here
with that look on your face,
that gun on your hip,
two wedding rings?
I was a cop.
I notice things.
So was he.
He became a cop?
Thought he would've learned
better from his old man.
No, no, no.Oh, no, no.
I lost my jacket.
We need to go back.
You can have one of mine.
No, we need to go back.
I ain't wasting gas
to go get some jacket
covered in muck and guts.
It's not the jacket that I need.
There's a letter in
the pocket. A letter?
What's in this letter
that's so important?
I don't know. I haven't read it.
Well, then,
it must not be that important.
You're welcome to go get it,
but this RV's only going
one direction,that's forward.
Shh! Kill it!
Kill it! Kill it!
Shit.
We got a stowaway.
Oh, great.
Goddammit!
Probably ran it over
during your little maneuver.
We got anything to pull it out?
Yeah.
Fire up the engine.
Give it a little gas.
See if we can loosen her up.
Tiny bit. Listen for my signal.
Nice and easy.
Whoa, whoa.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Whoa! Softer?
Cut the engine, dammit!
Cut the engine!
Anything?
That ain't just blood
under there.
Transmission fluid, too.
Probably knicked the line
when you hit him.
Well, can you fix it?
This thing's toast.
Thanks to you.
Honey!
You okay?
Dammit, I told you to slow down.
Its heart's giving out.
We're gonna have to...
Let's go.
Sherry...
Hey.
What is going on here?
It's...
It's not about
these cult assholes,
just like it wasn't about Ginny.
Then what are we doing
chasing gas, huh?
Look, I'm going back home
to Virginia,
okay?
I need to take out the person that's...
really
to blame for all of this.
Negan?
I'm gonna find him,
and I'm gonna put a bullet
in his head.
That's why I came with you, D.
So I could find the right way
to say goodbye.
I get it.
Lord knows I've done things
I'm not proud of, so...
You help me find June,
I'll help you get out of here.
You said that before.
You mean it this time? Yeah.
I do.
We're going at my speed.
Not running that horse
into the ground.
Alright.
Come on.
Whoa.
Hey. Come on. Whoa.
That's June's jacket.
Really?
Yeah.
Hold that. Come on.
Whoa. Come on.
I've got all that up there
a certain way,
so don't go messing it up.
So, this is you?
Yeah. That's me.
And him?
Teddy Maddox.
Psycho killing,
two-bit preaching mortician
I put away for life.
Least he was supposed to be.
What does that mean?
"The End is the Beginning".
He was spewing that same
malarkey back in the '70s.
Are you saying
the person responsie
for all of this is...
Teddy.
Should have killed him
when I had the chance.
Guess it's not too late.
Are you sure it's him?
Few months ago,
I'm out foraging,
and I spot it...
"The End is the Beginning".
Hit me like a punch in the gut,
seeing those words
after all this time.
I went back to the prison,
hoping I'd find
a rotting corpse.
Instead, his cell door was open,
and he's nowhere to be found.
I guess ruining my life once
wasn't enough
for that son of a bitch.
What do you mean?
When I put him away,
it wasn't exactly clean.
I had to do the wrong things
for the right reason.
You framed him.
Did anyone ever find out?
No.
People started looking at me
like I was some hero.
I couldn't sleep.
I started drinking.
I mean, my whole life
was suddenly a lie.
I was so goddamn angry
all the time.
It must've been hard
for John, too.
Which is why the best thing
for my family
was for me to get as far away
from them as possible.
So, you abandoned them?
You don't understand.
Well, then explain it to me.
'Cause it sounds like after
40 years, you went to check
if the man that ruined
your family was alive,
but not your son.
He was better off without me.
Everyone was.
Best thing I did for him
was not showing up
at that cabin.
The cabin.
That's where Hill's hiding out.
Who?
You may not have wanted
to go there before,
but you're going there now.
And why's that?
Because that's what's gonna
lead us to Teddy.
I'm not going to that cabin.
This is our best lead!
I got other leads. Better leads.
The orchard.
Teddy's childhood home.
Hill might know something,
and he is at the cabin.
What? You don't have time
for a short detour?
It's not about that. What is it?
That cabin
is where I left my boy,
40 years ago.
I won't go back there.
I met and lost my husband
at that cabin.
The table inside is set up
with medical supplies
to save his life,
but I didn't get the chance.
And despite tha,
I'm willing to go back there
because finding Hill
and hearing what he knows
could save a lot of lives.
Plus,
he's got something of mine,
and I want it back.
What's that?
John's other pistol.
Well, those guns
do belong together.
That's Teddy's doing.
How do you know?
Embalming fluid.
Did the same to his victims
back when the dead stayed dead.
What does Teddy want?
What he's always wanted...
Destruction.
He's been hollering the same
"sperm to worm",
"Circle of Life" mumbo jumbo
to just about anyone
with ears to bend
since before you were born.
Why the embalming fluid?
That's how
he keeps out the unworthy.
Preservation prevents folks
from "moving on"
to the next world.
Oh, yes, ma'am.
He's crazy as a cut snake.
But he could sell ice
to an Eskimo,
and you can bet
that his new followers
are armed and highly motivated.
They're not the only ones.
Oh, I don't doubt it.
How's that hand?
I'm a nurse. I can take a look.
Well, there's a little
bait shop nearby.
If it's still standing,
maybe we can stop on the way.
Bill's?
You know it.
Did you and John get married
before or after?
After.
He used a candy wrapper.
A candy wrapper.
It was the best he could do
at the time.
Oh, I proposed to his mama
the same way.
'Cept it was
a Juicy Fruit wrapper.
I was still in the academy,
not a dime to my name.
Looks like he's been
hunting this guy named Teddy
for a lifetime.
Long before
the world fell apart.
John Dorie Sr.
I can't believe
he's John's father.
What are the odds?
I never thought
shooting at John and June
in an old west town
would lead me to you, but
here we are.
She left a note.
They think Hill might be at,
uh, John's cabin.
We should go.
Hill was a ranger.
I bet he's got a truck
I could take back east.
I think John took some gas
when he ran off, you know?
There's a good chance
that'll be there, too.
Okay.
Well, seems pretty clear
which direction
things are pointing me in.
Guess so.
Eh, place has changed
since the last time I was here.
Yeah.
That's where
the freezer used to be.
We'd sit on that bench out there
eating ice cream.
Always butterscotch for Junior.
He has such a sweet tooth.
Had, I mean.
I'm gonna get you something
for that hand.
John did love his movies.
I always warned him that, uh,
he'd wind up with square eyes
if he wasn't careful.
We watched "Bullitt" on TV
over and over and over...
Let's get you patched up.
That's my shooting hand, too.
John ever tell you about
those guns?
Oh.
Just that they've been
your family for generations.
Six.
The first John Dorie
brought 'em west on the trail.
JD the second gunned down
Deadeye Driscoll in Blackwater.
Hell of a shot.
Got his picture in the paper.
John was a good shot, too?
Yeah.
He taught me.
Mm.
You ever hear of Humbug's Gulch?
Uh-huh.
He worked there on the weekend
as a trick shot.
I'll be.
That's where we were married.
There was singing and
all our friends were there.
Sounds like a nice affair.
You know...
John wrote his initials on the wall
in that room back there
when he was a kid.
Wonder if they're still there.
Let's see.
Hey! What are you doing?!
You and Junior
shared a life together.
We may not be blood,but
you're the closest thing
to a family I got now.
So, you're just ditching me?
Like you did John?
That's not what
this is. Oh, it is.
You think you're protecting me,
but you're not.
You're just punishing yourself.
It's the same reason
you never made amends
with your son!
You don't think you deserve it.
Well, you're the one
carrying around
a letter from him
you never even opened!
So, you come at me all you want!
We all got ways
of protecting ourselves.
Look...
I know you think
you're doing the "wrong thing
for the right reason,"
but we really need
to be working together.
Please!
Damn.
It actually turned over.
Barely.
Wasn't this the same
kind of truck your grandpa had?
No, that was a '69.
You see the rounded cap?
This is older.
Oh.
Remember
we got it stuck in the mud
the summer
after senior year? Yeah.
On the way to that bonfire?
We just gave up
and drank beers in the bak
'til we passed out.
Is this really
what you wanna do?
D.
Look, I mean, eh... eh... eh,
let's say you get there
and you do it.
You know, then... then what?
You come back?
That's the plan.
So you may not.
I don't know
what's gonna happen.
You're really ready
to say goodbye?
The hell was that?
I don't know.
You picked the wrong cabin
to rob, old timer.
This is my son's cabin.
That makes you a trespasser.
John's old man, eh?
And this is his gun.
Now, tell me everything you know
about Theodore Maddox,
or I'll use it
to blow your head off.
Who the hell is Theodore Maddox?
The folks with the spray paint.
He's the one behind it.
Hell's it matter to you?
That's my business.
All I know is whatever
they got planned, it's big.
How big?
I don't know.
We could never get anyone
to talk.
All we know
is they wanna kill everybody.
I'm gonna give you five minutes
to get your shit
and get the hell out of here.
I live here now.
Previous occupant moved out.
Permanently.
In case you hadn't heard.
Aah!
Aah!
Help me get him inside.
Hurry.
Oh, my God.
Thank you.
Thank you.
You really
shouldn't be out of bed.
I took a bullet out of you.
You lost a lot of blood.
We were meant to fix
this old girl up together,
he and I.
It was gonna be his first car.
I didn't run from my boy
'cause I didn't care.
I did it 'cause I do.
Just like you and Bill's.
I know.
You were right.
I was punishing myself.
But I was also
punishing my wife,
punishing my boy.
I did come back that summer.
Stopped at Bill's
to fill up the tank,
and saw him there.
Boy looked so content eating
his butterscotch ice cream.
He looked so happy.
John had this light about him.
'Course you know.
I was afraid I'd snuff it out.
Like the Teddy case did to me.
So, I decided then and there
he's better off without me.
I drove back here,
left those pistols on the porch,
and never looked back.
Never even said goodbye.
It's not too late.
For either of us.
It was right
here
when I first met him.
I was broken.
John sewed me back up
with fishing line
and butterscotch brittle,
and light,
and love.
"June."
This the hardest decision
of my life.
One that I hope you can find
in your heart
to forgive me for making...
Leaving you behind to save
an innocent person's life.
Knowing it might mean
I never see you again.
Even so, I believe
you'll forgive me one day.
"Same way I forgave..."
"Same way I forgave Dad"
for leaving me.
Took me a few years
to see it from his shoes,
but I forgave him.
He was a good man,
and in his own way,
he did what he did
because he loved me,
just like I'm doing
what I'm doing
'cause I love you.
But no matter what happens,
sure as the sun sets,
"I will never..."
"I will never stop trying
to get back to you.
Back to those early days
at the cabin."
"When a pretty lady named Laura
washed up on my shore
and my life was forever changed.
You are the most amazing woman
I've ever known."
"You rekindled
the light in me, June."
You brought me back to people,
made me believe
in goodness again.
That doing good
was worth fighting for,
like how I fought for you.
And if I die,
"I die knowing
I lived a life worth living."
"And a nurse named June
was the light guiding my way."
"I love you, Junebug.
Forever."
Whoever worked on this truck
did a good job.
Probably make it as far
as Louisiana.
What is it?
I'm not ready for this
to be goodbye, D.
Okay. W-W-What do you mean?
I mean, that man
has been chasing after Teddy
for how many years?
He missed out
on his entire life.
I can't let that happen to me.
To us.
I have been using Negan...
as an excuse
for why we can't be together.
I know, I...
Look, I saw how, you know,
you were able to change,
and how you were able to get back
to how you once were.
And I think
that's what I'm afraid of.
That I won't be able to do that.
Look, I've...
I've changed,
but I am not
the same person I used to be
And you don't have to
be that, either.
Yeah.
I don't even know if I want to.
You're probably right.
We were young.
Hey. Hey, hey.
Why don't we just
start over?
I'm willing to give it a shot
if you are.
Yeah?
Hey.
These are yours.
Thank you for letg
me and John borrow them.
You don't have to do that.
I want to.
John would, too.
They belong
with their rightful owners.
Morgan,
there's someone
I'd like you to meet.
Hey.
This is John Dorie.
It's John's father.
Oh, I'm sorry. It's alright.
A little tender.
I'm pleased to meet you,
but...
how?
It's a long story.
You know, your son was...
He saved my life
in more ways than one.
Well, his wife
just did the same for me.
Thank you for letting me
come stay a while.
Well, you're a welcome addition,
Mr. Dorie.
The man we're looking for,
the one who sent those people
who attacked you and Grace...
John's father knows
everything about him.
We can help each other.
It seems like you already are.
I know I can't change
what I did before, but...
You don't have to say that.
What you did today
is what John would have wanted.
I'd like another chance
to do the same here.
At this place.
I might've been wrong,
when I said
that there wasn't anything
you could do or say to
make things better.
I'll check on her.
Please.
Well, we better
put our heads together.
This man you're up against...
I know him bow to stern.
And if he's doing now
what he wanted to do before,
he's not gonna stop
'til we're all dead.
Then let's get to work.
On the next episode of.
"Fear the Walking Dead"...
Before we take our
first steps together, Alicia,
I need some assurances...
Is that you?
Where'd you get that gun?
Why should I tell you?
Because it belongs to me.
The "J.D." on the handle?
That's me.
I'm John Dorie.
This episode is called "J.D.",
and the title has
a bunch of different meanings,
all of them revolving around
characters' initials.
It could refer to John Dorie.
It could refer to June Dorie.
Or it could also refer to a new
character that we introduce
in this episode, and that is
John Dorie, Sr.
It's just
the way John talked about you,
the few times that he did,
I figured you were dead.
Well, as far as he was
concerned, I was.
Morgan and June's relationship
really is at the lowest
we've ever seen it.
The things the Morgan says
to June here
are pretty hard for June
to hear,
and a lot of it is really
motivated by the pain
and the rawness that Morgan
is feeling
after just having delivered
Grace's baby stillborn.
I can't stop thinking about
how the baby might be alive
if we didn't
have to come to you.
In his mind, he, I think,
is looking for somewhere
to place the blame,
and June, unfortunately,
is on the receiving end of it.
Grace lost the baby
because you couldn't do
the one thing that John wanted.
That's why
I couldn't let you stay here,
and that is why
you were not here
when she needed you.
And that's something else that,
you know,
is unspoken between
the two of them.
Instead of trying to
help each other through it,
they're really kind of at each
other's throats over it.
We saw June get that letter
that Jacob gave her,
but she has not looked at it,
and really, I think June's been
in this place
where she hasn't been ready to
actually grieve
John Dorie's death.
She really has kind of just
been moving forward,
not allowing herself to feel
any of the kind of more
difficult emotions.
Even though she loses it,
I think she's upset because
she's worried she'll never
find it again,
but she doesn't want to go back
for it because
she's not ready to face it
and see what John's kind of
final goodbyes to her were.
Seeing all of these clippings
in the RV,
the primary reason for putting
them there
was to show John Dorie's
obsession with Teddy
and with the case,
and this was the thing that
consumed his life.
It cost him really everything,
and 40 years later,
we find him still living
in this RV,
where he's obsessed with it.
Well, maybe we should be
sharing information.
We've been searching for days.
I've been searching
a lot longer than that.
June and John Dorie...
It takes them a while
to I think understand that there
are a lot of similarities
between the two of them,
and it ultimately comes when
they're facing off with Hill
and John Dorie ends up
getting shot.
June was too late to save
John's life.
By the time he washed up,
he was already dead,
but she had prepared a table
with all the medical supplies,
so she could treat
the gunshot wound,
and even though she didn't get
to do that for John Dorie,
she's now getting to do it
for his father.
I didn't run from my boy
'cause I didn't care.
I did it 'cause I do.
I think that's really kind of
when they start to bond
because I think
at the end of the day,
they both realize they're
experiencing the same pain
and they're both missing
the same person.
It's not too late.
For either of us.
For June, reading this letter
is about her accepting that
John is gone
and starting the process of
truly grieving him.
"This the hardest decision
of my life."
One that I hope you can find
in your heart
to forgive me for making...
The reason she chooses to
read it out loud
is because she knows
John Dorie, Sr.
Needs to go through that same
grieving process.
"I believe
you'll forgive me one day.
Same way I forgave Dad."
John Dorie, Sr. Hears that
in spite of abandoning his son,
his son still found a way
to forgive him,
and it really is kind of
all about that light
that John Dorie just had in him
that people were drawn to,
that optimism.
"You are the most amazing woman
I've ever known."
"You rekindled
the light in me, June."
Once again, it kind of gets
reignited,
and John Dorie, Sr.
Gets reignited
and June, and those are kind of
the two characters
who are gonna carry
John Dorie forward
in their spirit going into the
future of the show.
Morgan, there's someone
I'd like you to meet.
June: This is John Dorie.
It's John's father.
This episode really was about
saying goodbye to John Dorie
in a way that hopefully brings
catharsis for the characters
and for the audience,
and we really wanted the end of
this episode just to feel like
a proper send-off to him
and it was honoring
the spirit of who
John Dorie was,
the spirit of what the character
brought to the show.
Thank you for letting me
come stay a while.
Well, you're a welcome addition,
Mr. Dorie.
The man we're looking for,
the one who sent those people
who attacked you and Grace...
John's father knows
everything about him.
There is a little bit of a hint
about what's to come
in terms of the kind of
growing conflict.
But yeah, we wanted to have an
uplifting ending
for once this season.
If he's doing now
what he wanted to do before,
he's not gonna stop
'til we're all dead.
Then let's get to work.