The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live - First Season

Thorne, I need to speak with you privately.

Let's take a ride. Yes, sir.

He told me everything, gave me the full briefing.

The Echelon Briefing?

The CRM will bring the world back.

Tell me you won't come after them.

No. Because we are coming for them.

We're gonna get the dossier.

He's gonna get the Echelon Briefing

and find out everything that they do

that the city doesn't know about.

We're gonna help the city stop them.

I remember it all.

What it was like.

Who we were. Who we are now.

My name is Michonne.

I lost someone.

Years ago.

Both of them have something I believe the CRM

needs to become what it needs to be.

People are a resource.

I know how to build things,

and I know how to burn things,

but it takes more than that at the end of the world.

You tried to escape four times.

Why are you here?

There's someone you love out there.

Do you still love me?

Always.

It sounds simple, right?

We each go in. You get the briefing,

I get the dossier she left behind.

We bring what we know to the city, then go home.

Together.

It's never that simple.

I'm Sergeant Major Rick Grimes.

You probably think I'm dead.

He said I didn't need to be scared,

that it was just "the burning."

You're really here.

Yeah.

You gave them the debrief. Now tell me what happened.

Well, there was turbulence.

We... We went low to get out of it.

We were struck by lightning.Yeah.

We were going down over water, and Bethune shoved me out.

She saved my life.

Not hers, mine.

So thank you for bringing her in.

No, you brought her in.

Why don't we just say it was Okafor?

That we were just keeping his thing going.

I used to think that giving up

meant a lack of character

and a... a weak will.

But you and I, we gave up so much to be here.

And now I realize that giving up can be a sign of strength.

A commitment to something bigger than oneself.

Giving up made me understand what we're really doing here.

Hopefully, you will understand, too.

I want to.

I'm glad you made it, Rick.

You are needed.

It is up to us, but not like.

Okafor said.

Okafor, he...

He was never really here, not in the way he should have been.

That's why he died.

But you lived. I lived.

We are meant to be a part of this.

It's time to let go of his bullshit.

Well, show me the other way.

Threat neutralized.

I'm gonna take a sweep of the perimeter.

He wants to talk to you.

Rick.

This is it.

I never had to do this.

I never had to do my six for citizenship because I

I never really became a citizen.

The end of the world and the beginning of the world.

And we're the dead ones, Rick.

We're kind of like them.

But they only kill for food or out of compulsion.

Isn't that right? It is.

Our scientists haven't figured it out.

Maybe they never will.

But us, the other kind of dead ones,

we have this.

The sword that kills is the sword that gives life.

And that's us. We're the sword.

I have my aides and lieutenants leave me in solitude

the day before an operation.

I don't like distractions.

I alone decided the path ahead,

and I alone want to feel the weight of it.

I never interrupt that time.

But you are here.

After everything.

And I am humbled by that.

So, I'll share some time with you,

maybe even ask you to carry some of that weight.

Officer Stokes? Are you in there?

Put your gun on the table.

That prosthetic with the blade.

In front of me. Away from you.

I want you to reflect on your life.

On all your lives before and after.

All the before and afters.

All the things you did before this moment.

Because

after this next moment,

everything will change.

What was the worst thing you did

to make sure someone else survived?

No!

I killed someone with my teeth.

Like they do.

I'm sorry you had to do that.

You don't have to be.

Still, it's a damn thing, isn't it?

Yes. Yes, it is, sir.

You've made some extraordinary choices, Grimes.

I've given this briefing,

the Echelon Briefing, 2,533 times.

Just me and the elite soldier in question.

And the soldier in question

has never been someone like you.

Never.

This is the first.

It's the start of what's next.

And that couldn't be more appropriate for today.

A day completely about

tomorrow.

I missed you so much.

Words can't even say it right.

You don't have to.

I know.

Are we crazy?

Certifiable.

I grew up in Pittsburgh.

The same day my alcoholic father broke my jaw,

I left home and landed a job at a VFW hall.

Barback.

I was 15.

And those men and women at the VFW,

they became my real parents.

They were who formed me.

So when I was 18, I signed up to fight.

I went to Vietnam.

Twice.

But there was a whole journey beyond that.

Fort Benning, officer training.

Then the journey led me back to Pennsylvania,

to its National Guard, and through its command,

thank God.

I went away.

I had to.

I could've let the world take me away.

But I came back

like you.

Copy that, sir.

You said you saw what the federal forces

did at the beginning.

I did.

They bombed the cities.

Okafor said that they called it "clearing disease vectors."

"Vectors," yeah. Their word.

I made the decision to take them on ourselves.

Second Civil War fought on good Pennsylvania ground.

There were two fronts... Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

And we were losing.

We couldn't sustain two theaters of battle.

In my hometown, we had an opportunity of terrain,

tactics, and a massive incoming dead mass

that the federal forces were unaware of.

So, I evacuated our forces under the cover of night

and let the dead overwhelm their troops.

And that whole city.

I saved Philadelphia by sacrificing Pittsburgh.

My enemies, my friends

my home.

It's not exactly tearing into a person with your canines,

but it's not nothing. Isn't that right?

No, it's not nothing, sir.

My dad taught me, for better or worse

sometimes things have to burn to bring things back.

It was that.

The sword that kills is the sword that gives life.

I killed my past and a whole city

so another could live.

Let me tell you the first secret, Grimes.

The first one that I share with each Frontliner

I've briefed.

The most likely outcome after all the fighting and killing,

all the plans and sacrifices, we lose.

Most likely outcome is that we're all gonna die.

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