The Walking Dead (2010–…): Season 8, Episode 3 - Monsters - full transcript

Man: How about double time it,
and meet us at the rally point?

Radio back as soon
as you're on post.

Let's just keep
pushing east.

They are coming for us.

Got a visual on two.

Coming for us
at this very moment.

A powerful force
of bloodthirsty rogues

and unrepentant cutthroats

bent on nothing short than
our pitiless destruction.

...about 50 yards,
on their way.

And yet I smile.



And yet Carol smiles.

[Man speaking indistinctly
over radio]

Why, boss?

[Saviors whistling]

They probably
have the numbers.

But we have strategy.

Ezekiel: [Chuckles]

Yes, we do.

Yes, we do.

[Gunfire]

Aah!

[Gunfire continues]

I am binding
a hope to my heart,

perhaps unwisely...



but we have come this far,

all of us, still here.

If we follow this plan,
if we keep to our training,

if the fates continue
to shine brightly upon us,

allowing us this...

this dream?

We will lose
not one of our ranks.

We will lose
not one of our ranks.

Ezekiel: Not one.

We move onward.

[Tiger growling]

[Roars]

[Breathing heavily]

Guns down...now.

[Guns tap softly]

[Breathes sharply]

So, you're the Rick
from Alexandria.

This whole time,
it was you.

You called your men in
for nothing.

The fight's out there.

It's just me in here.

Did you hear
what I just said?

I know who you are.

I saw it in the mirror
through the open door.

And it wasn't any kind of
blast from the past.

As soon as I saw you...

I knew you'd made
the same trip as me.

From there to here.

[Scoffs]

Shit, well...

Well, I guess we aren't
the same guys

we used to be, huh?

'Cause you're a monster.

I called them back
because you're a prize, Rick.

We've been told.

We don't kill you,
the Widow, or the King...

not if we don't have to.

So why are you here,
Rick?

I know you...

Just like before.

You're always the guy
willing to rush in.

But why?

What is it
you're looking for?

Nothing to say, huh?

It doesn't matter.

Not anymore.

Not for you

or anyone else
you brought in here.

'Cause what's left
of my people...

They're coming.

And we'll get you
to Negan.

Or we won't.

Either way,

we're gonna settle your shit,
Peaches.

[Gunfire]

[Walker growling]

Savior #1: Come on,
let's stay together!

Savior #2: Falling back!

[Gunfire]

Savior #1:
[Shouting indistinctly]

I'm going in!

Hold fire! Hold fire!

Morales
wants us back inside!

All force towards
the courtyard door on my mark!

They stopped shooting.

Savior #2: [In distance ]
On main flank, we need fire!

[Gunfire]

No, they stopped
shooting at us.

Savior #2:
Where's that backup?

[Gunfire]

Savior #1:
Fire from the rear!

[Gunfire continues]

Go, go! Get in there!

[ Gunfire ]

Savior #2: Go!

[Growling]

[Groans]

[Panting]
Here. Here.

[Gunfire in distance]

[Gasping]

It's okay. I got you.

Okay, okay.

I'm here.

How bad is it?

[Groans]

There's an exit wound.

That's good.

[Gasping]

[Exhaling sharply]

We can get you
to the Kingdom's doctor.

We just have
to keep pressure.

[Gasping]

Eric.

[Crying] I'm so sorry...

Were you the one
who shot me?

[Chuckles]

[Exhaling sharply]

I...

I pulled you into this.

You didn't want to fight.

Until -- Until I did.

[Sniffles]
You need to help them --

What? I can't --
You need to go.

I can bleed here
fine on my own --
I'm not leaving you.

Don't be an idiot.

They need you.

Aaron, look at me.

[Sighs]

Look at me.

[Sniffles]

You know I love you.

You know I'm right.

[Crying]

[Sniffles]

[Sobbing]
Okay.

Now...

stand your ass up,

get back to the fight,

and you win this thing.

[Clears throat]

I will.
Okay.

We will.

I love you.

I always had a hunch.

[Breathing shallowly]

Now go.

[Sniffles]

[Birds chirping]

Eduardo: When we get back,
we'll talk to Maggie.

She'll know what to do
with them.

Yeah.

She will.

Because she knows
what they did.

Jared: [Whistling]

[Whistling continues]

[Grunts]

We're not far.

From the Hilltop.

We're far from somewhere else,
I guess.

We made our decision --
Nothing's been decided.

Well, nothing's permanent
except impermanence, I guess.

In that way, I'll agree.

But we are taking these men
to the Hilltop.

That's where we're going,

and that's
what we're doing.

You know
how dangerous this is?

Who these people are?

No matter
what they've done...

They're people.

There's many kinds
of danger,

many kinds of dying.

I kill.

I've killed.

You do.

You have.

But we don't execute.

I have.

Is your family here?

We never made it
to Birmingham.

They didn't.

Rick: Well, I'm sorry.

Really, Rick?

I am.

I lost people, too.

Lori.

Shane.

Andrea.

Glenn...

Negan killed him.

Forced him to his knees.

Bashed his head in
right in front of me.

In front of
his pregnant wife.

He had a wife?

Not before.

He met her.

In this?

Yeah. In this.

She's the Widow.

Are you Negan, too?

I lost my family.

I lost my mind.

I was in some...
tow trailer,

sleeping myself to death.

Waiting to become nothing.

And the Saviors --

they found me.

They thought
I was worth a damn.

Worth bringing back
with 'em.

So, yeah.

Yeah, I'm Negan.

To make it this far,
this long,

I had to be.

I had to be something.

Just like you.

We're not the same.
[Scoffs]

How's that?

Well, look at you.
Look at me?

Look at us, Rick.

Look at us.

We're two assholes
who'll do whatever we have to

just to keep going.

And the only difference is

I'm the one
holding the gun.

That doesn't make me
any worse than you, Rick --

that just makes me luckier.

'Cause let's face it,

if it wasn't me,

if it was
you holding the gun,

I'd be brains out on the floor
right now.

You don't know that.
And you do?

Huh?

I know
I wouldn't want to.

Come on.

Is that the best
you can do?

I'd -- I'd at least try
to find another way.

Yeah? Why?

'Cause we knew each
other for a few days
back at the start?

Look, I know --

I-I wouldn't --
I wouldn't just --

You want to know
what I think?

I think you can talk
all you want.

You can say all the words.

Lori, Shane,
Andrea, Glenn...

They're all dead,

and somewhere
along the way,

Officer Friendly died
right along with 'em.

Just like I did
with them.

That's what I know, Rick.

Wait, no!

[Grunts]

[Thuds]

You good?

That -- T-That was...
I know who it was.

It don't matter.
Not one little bit.

[Grunts]

You find them guns?

They aren't here.

What?

He called the Saviors back
from the courtyard.

We gotta get out
before --

[Door thuds open
in distance]

They're here.

[Birds chirping]

You know, I've been
trying to figure out

what's different
about you.

'Cause something's
definitely different.

[Singsong voice]
I think I finally got it.

[Normal voice]
It's your armor.

It's different.

Smaller.

Almost like it --

like it shrunk
or something.

Oh, shit.

Was that the kid's?
It is, isn't it?

Why the -- [chuckles]

Why the hell
would you wear that?

Didn't do shit for him.

[Walker growling in distance]

Woman:
Walker's on the hill!

[Indistinct shouting]

[Walkers growling]

[Gunfire]

[Growling]

[Walkers growling]

[Gunfire continues]

[Walkers growling]

[Screaming]

[Gunfire continues]

[Gun cocks]

[Walkers growling]

[Screaming]

Let's go! Let's go!
Let's go!

[Screaming]

Go! Go!

Follow 'em! C'mon!

They got guns, huh?
Stop!

[Bullet case clatters]

Jared: God!

-Didn't make it this far to die!
-Come on!

[Gunshots ]
C'mon! C'mon!

[All panting]

-Go!
-Go left! Go left!

-[Grunts] No!
-Wait!

-Get up! Get up! Get up!
Get him up! Come on. Come on.

-Pull him up!
Get him up! Get him up!

-[Grunts] Wait!
-Get up.

Savior POW:
Don't shoot! Please! We give up!

[Gunshot]

[Gasps]

[Grunts]

Morgan. Stop.

C'mon. On your feet.
Let's go.

They ran off to get away.

Then what happens after?

We stopped them.
And they keep trying.

Again and again.

What? You think they were
gonna come back?

That they will change?

That they will be
something else?

It doesn't change.

It never changes.

Once you turn --
Morgan.

We're gonna find
another way.

Maggie will find
another way.

Really think
she won't want 'em dead?

Every last one?
After what they've done?

And it isn't just them.

'Cause we're here now,

to be this,

do the same thing
they do,

but we go on.

You see,
we are the same --

Morgan.
We're the same.

We're the same,

so there's no choice.

Everybody turns,
but w-we w--

There's war,
and then there's peace.

We're gonna have to live
with these people after.

We're gonna have to find
a way to peace.

Morgan...

[Grunts]
Oh!

[Both grunting]

[Grunts]

Ezekiel:
Make no mistake,

those we've
so swiftly extinguished

are but perhaps one garrison
in a compound of three.

[Gunfire]

[Gunfire]

But our first victory
will allow our second.

Our second
will deliver our third.

Man: Come on! Come on!
Let's go!

[Gunfire]

[People grunting]

[Gunfire continues]

Clear.

[Gunfire]

Rick: Damn it!

Man: It's them!

[Man shouts indistinctly]
There! Go!

[Gunfire continues]

[Grunts]

[Panting]

Jesus: Okay.

You're having
a little trouble.

[Grunting]

[Growls]

You want to stop now?

Maybe not?

[Grunting]

[Grunts]

[Gunfire]

Daryl: Hey! Hey!

I'm out!

[Gunfire continues]

Hey!

[Air hisses]

Come on!

[Gunfire continues]

[Grunts]

[Man screaming]

[All grunt]

Aaron: Teams of four,
sweep the offices!

Rick: Aaron!
Rick!

We're by the elevator!

[Both grunting]

[Grunts]

[Breathing sharply]

Aah!

[Panting]

Is it over, Morgan?

Is it?

What?

I'm not right.

I know that --
I'm not right.

But that doesn't
make me wrong.

I can't be a part of this.

Tara: Morgan.

You are right.

[Horn honking in distance]

It's him.

Hey!
[Knock on gate]

Hello!

Open the gates!

I -- I need help!

I've been through hell!

I know you're in there!
I know you can hear me!

[Bangs on gate]

[Sighs]

What, is the gate broken?

I-I've told them
to oil that --

The gate's not broken.

What are you doing
with Gabriel's car?

Where is he?

I don't know
who that is.

The --
The car was just there.

So what are you
doing here?

I live here.

This is my home.

I built this place.

Uh, you weren't here
for that,

but some of us
didn't just show up.

Shut your damn mouth!

You're really gonna
stand there and pretend

you didn't try
to sell us out,

sell this place out
to the Saviors?

I was working
for the side of sanity.

I was working for peace.

You threatened
to kick people out.

I tried to save lives.

Now those people
are cannon fodder.

Those people are fighting
for a better life.
[Sighs]

Look, the "throwing out
the families" line

was all Negan.

He made me say
those horrible things.

I went to them
in -- in -- in --

you know,
in the interest of --

of furthering [stammers]
good-faith diplomacy.

I tried to save lives.

Some people,

without opinions
colored by

a preoccupation
with vengeance,

might call that heroic.

You were looking out
for yourself.

You went there
to betray us.

To warn Negan
that we were gonna fight.

That's what you told Kal
when you dragged him there.

It's why
Kal left you there.

Kal? Pfft.
Kal is delusional.

What the hell?

Kal!

Hey. C'mon, man.

Y-You -- You know
you can be dramatic.

That -- That thing with
the sorghum pancakes, huh?

You mean when you ate
a little girl's pancakes?

I did not
eat those pancakes!

[Sighs]

Listen,
for what it's worth,

I did exactly zero harm
to your cause.

Negan already knew
everything.

Goodbye, Gregory.

Wait! No! Please!

I -- All right, I went there
because I was scared,

all right?

I knew you were
going to fight,

and -- and I didn't
want to be complicit.

Because I didn't think
you could win.

But I see now what --
what you saw all along.

That -- That --

That the Saviors can't
be reasoned with.

That fighting them
is the only way.

I was wrong.

I-I-I made a mistake,
and I'm sorry.

Please, Maggie.

We're all just human beings

with faults and flaws
and -- and fears!

But i-is this who you are?

H-Have you no mercy?

Have you no humanity?

Have you no charity?

[Voice breaking] Please!

Open the gate.

Open your heart.

Don't leave another human being
out here to die!

Let him in.

[Gate creaking]

[Softly]
With everything he did...

Why?

[Softly]
He's not worth killin'.

Not yet, anyway.

You won't regret this.

I've changed.

I-I'm a believer now.

You'll see.

Uhhh...Maggie?

Gregory:
We are not letting them in!

No way!

With what they did?

With what they do?

They are monsters!

Gregory --
No!

This is not a sanctuary
for killers.

We'll be putting the safety
of everyone in jeopardy!

Get out of here.

I know what they are.

I have stared
into the face of th--
Gregory!

Go.

He actually came back
after all that.

And I actually
let him in.

No offense, Jesus,

but I kind of agree
with that prick.

There are families here.

Children.

There's two empty trailers
out back.

We could lock them up
in there

with
'round-the-clock guards

until this whole thing
is over.

And go from there...

You know what
they've done to us.

What they've taken
from us.

Of course I do.

But they surrendered.

Jesus --

[Scoffs]

We can't let them go,

and we can't kill them.

We can't.

[Walkers growling]

[Crossbow firing]

[Clicks]

[Camera shutter clicks]

Aaron!

[Walker growls in distance]

[Crying]

[Cries]

[Sobbing] He's there.

Eric's there.

[Sniffles]

I can't...

I can't...

I can't just let him...

Aaron...

that's not him.

[Sobbing]

Okay.

Oh!

Oh.
We gotta go.

No. No.

Come on.

Scott: Guns aren't here.

We gotta go right now,
people!

They're gonna
pull away the herd,

but we aren't taking
any chances!

[Baby crying]

Tobin: She was inside?

She was.

[Engine starts]
I have a --

I have a stop to make,
and Daryl's got his bike.

Maybe she can go back
with you or Scott...

Aaron:
She can go with me.

I can, uh,
t-take her to the Hilltop.

She'll be safe there.

Aaron.

You sure?

Eric and I
were gonna go up...

[Cries]

We were gonna go there after
and update Maggie.

So...that's what
I'm gonna do.

[Voice breaking] Please.

[Whispering] I have to.

Yeah.

Her name's Gracie.

[Vehicle doors close]

[Engine starts]

Hey, Gracie.

Daryl: See you back home.

Sure you wanna talk
to them assholes alone?

[Grunts] Yeah.

That's how it gets done.

All right.
You're gone too long,

I'm gonna come
lookin' for you.

That's the plan.
[Gunshots]

Hey!

Hey!

You're alone.

You got to be.

There's not enough room
for two of you

behind that tree.

And there's a herd coming.

I'm just sayin'.

Hey, I tell you what...

...we'll make you a deal.

You drop your gun
and come on out --

you tell us
what we need to know.

You do that,

you can take a car.

You go. You live.

How about it?

Todd: [Voice breaking]
Why should I trust you?

'Cause I'm giving you
my word.

There's not a lot
that's worth much these days,

but a man's word...

that's got to mean something,
right?

O-O-Okay.

Todd:
W-What do you wanna know?

Rick: You ever have any

M2 Browning
.50-caliber guns here?

We did. For a while.

What happened to 'em?

They got sent to
another outpost yesterday.

Which one?

It was Gavin's --

it's west of here.

Can I, uh --
Can...Can I go?

Which team's at Gavin's?

Everyone is accounted for,
Your Majesty.

Carol: Ezekiel?

Not one.

We need to sweep
the compound.

Your counsel, your plan.

Let me take a look...

Alvaro: If we're gonna
be here a while,

might as well
take care of them.

We should do it
either way, man.

We or they.

One or the other.

It cannot be --

Scatter, now!

Cover the King!

[ Gunfire ]

Ezekiel: No!