Woman: Leo, Kari, meet your daughter -- Iris.
Would you like to hold her?
Leo, she is absolutely perfect.
Hello.
Hi.
♪
Who's this little lady?Hope.
They've been looking out for each other
since the moment they met.
From the moment we laid eyes on you both, we just...
wanted to protect you.
We knew that even if we couldn't,
you'd protect each other.
♪
Lyla: Paging Dr. Bennett.
[Chuckles]
Scattered Brain Syndromestrikes again.
Sorry. [Chuckles]
I was -- I was thinkingabout the girls.
Leo. You --
You don't have to apologize for missing your daughters.
♪
I just get lost thinking aboutwhat they're doing.
You love them so much.
And that is one of the things I love about you.
That and your incredibly sexy Scattered Brain Syndrome.
[Both laugh]
Hey, uh, pretend you're with them now.
What would you be doing
on a Tuesday night at 8:30?
Okay.
[Inhales deeply]
I'm sure Irisis helping someone...
Mm.
...or working onan assignment from school.
And Hope --
[Chuckles] I'm sure she's with friends,
getting intosome kind of trouble.
[Both chuckle]
♪
Damn thing keeps jamming.
♪
Who the hell are you?
♪
[Birds chirping]
[Fire crackling]
[Wind whistling]
♪
[Sizzling]
♪
You shouldn't have come.
♪
I-I followed the smoke, hoping it was you.
H-How are you? Are you okay?
I-I brought your bag,and I found your headphones
and your cassette playerand...
♪
Well, I-I foundsomething else, too.
[Groans]
♪
Just for the record, I'm doing great.
♪
Alright.
Mnh.
Oh, yeah.
It fits like a glove.
Iris: I still can't believe they left
without saying goodbye.
Sometimes it's easier.
Hope wasn't actinglike herself yesterday.
She was so pissed offtrying to pick a fight.
Any idea why?
I told her something she didn't want to hear.
Yeah?
I told her I thought something was off with Huck.
That I didn't trust her.
[Chuckles]
And why would you saysomething like that, hmm?
Because it's true. I don't.
Huck has her own gun, plenty of bullets.
Why take yours?
Something is off with her.
Look...
just because Silasisn't who we thought he was
doesn't mean Huck isn't Huck.
I know this isn't what you want to hear, but --
You're actinglike she's a stranger.
Maybe she is. [Sighs]
I can't shake the feeling that she's hiding something,
that she's --That she's what?
♪
There is only one room in this place
that we haven't searched.
Huck said it was filled with bodies.
♪
Tell me who you are.
Huck: The hell you talkin' about?
Tell me.
Hope, come on.
Put the pistol away,and we'll talk.
I decoded those numbers.
I know you're CRM. I want you to say it.
This is crazy.
What are you, some kind of spy or something?
The story about how they found you messed up on that raft,
all of that --
was that just a plan to get into Omaha?
Pretend you were somebody else?
I'm the same person I've always been.
If you'll justput that weapon away,
I can explain.
♪
I know you don't wanna shoot that.
You don't wanna hurtanybody else.
♪
Not like before...
that night with your mom.
♪
[Gunshot]
♪
Thing is, you kill me,
they'll stillcome looking for you.
♪
So you admit it. You're one of them.
♪
Yeah.
I am.
♪
You knew that,and you still came with me.
I think it's 'cause part of youknows I'm on your side.
Screw. You.
I only came with you to keep Felix and Iris safe.
The second you said you'd come with me,
I knew I was the asset,
whatever the hell that is,
and that they were expendable.
♪
The others -- what do they know?
Nothing.
So you and the rest of those assholes
can leave them the hell alone.
[Leaves rustling, walker growling]
♪
Remember our training?
♪
I said to surviveoutside those walls,
you got to make big choices quick.
♪
What are you gonna do,Hope?
♪
The lentils were overcooked, weren't they?
Leo: Mm. Not at all.
I had two helpings,
and I'm goodfor at least one more.
[Chuckles]
Uh-huh. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm.
[Soft piano music playing]
♪
Did you ever hear from Dr. Abbott
since he went back to Portland?
♪
Not a word.
We were sad to lose him.
It was just so sudden.
Before he left,he wouldn't stop talking about
how much he loved it here.
The opportunity to moldthe best young scientific minds.
I know.
Apparently, he got word his sister wasn't well.
Mm.
Okay, mister, your...
[Dish clatters]
...extra lentils... Alright.
...as requested.
Just, um...
Mm-hmm. Oh, I knew it.
They are terrible.
But you're incredible.
[Chuckles] Oh.
Well, I am.
But no more lies, okay?
No more lies.
Mm.
[Smooches]
They were terrible.
[Laughs]
Hope, come on.
You gotta let me get my pole.
I'm not gonna hurt you,I swear.
Put the pistol downso we can fight these things.
Together.
[Walkers growling]
♪
[Gunshot]
Hope, put it down.
The sound's just gonnabring more.
Watch your back.
Use your forms. Like I showed you.
♪
[Grunts]
Huck: Work your angles.
Trust yourself.
♪
You got this, girl. You got this.
♪
[Door creaks]
♪
Holy shit.
Are you sure thatthis is the room that Huck --
I'm sure.
We could've used this stuff to fix your ankle.
Or fix the tire.
Huck didn't want us to.
This doesn't make any sense.
Then why would she leavewith Hope?
I don't know.
Oh, my God.
But when we catch up to them, you can ask her yourself.
She just shot him.
I just ran,thinking I was next.
Thinking I couldn't yell for help
'cause maybeyou were all in on it.
Huck is the one with blood on her hands.
After what she did to my uncle...
to me.
But...why?
How?
We don't know.
But we know that it wasn't you.
It wasn't you, Silas.
[Sighs]
♪
I didn't do it.
No.
[Sighs]
No, you didn't.
You're not a monster, Silas.
You never were.
Not even close.
♪
[Chair creaks]
♪
Where's Iris? Where's Hope?
Are -- Are they with Huck?
♪
We have to save them.
♪
[Chuckles]
Damn, girl.
You learned your shit.
All that training.
Shows what you can dowhen you apply yourself.
Pistol's gone.
We should keep walking.
I thought you came to me as a friend.
I did.
I care about all of you.
Then why are they expendable?
Look, it was never supposed tobe this complicated.
Truth is...
your dad's not in danger.
Never was.
Those last two messages he sent
saying he was in trouble?
They weren't from him.
♪
They were from me.
What?
♪
I thought it was the easiest way
to get you to leave the University.
The CR found out about the messages
and intercepted the rest.
So we took advantage of that.
I wanted you to want to go.
To see if you would.
I thought you were strong enough.
I was right.
Figured your sister'd try and talk you out of it,
so you'd come to me.
And the two of us would go.
Just the two of us.
Why?
[Sniffles, sighs]
You were convinced the world was gonna end.
So I taught you how to fight.
I needed you to see what was worth fighting for.
So, what's worth fighting for?
♪
Civilization.
A future.
The same future the Civic Republic is fighting for.
♪
Sure, we could've gotten you here easy.
♪
But getting you to see the world right?
That what your father was working for
was important?
[Chuckles]
That was gonna take a lot more.
♪
It would've been easier if it was just you and me.
♪
But you came to see it.
Why it's always about the big picture.
The greater good.
♪
The CRM -- they take their shit seriously.
They have to.
The world's future is at stake.
Having other people trying to find out where they are,
getting in the way of you seeing
what we have to do to save it?
That wasn't gonna work.
That's why the others were expendable.
♪
I did everything I could to split up the group
without hurting anybody.
Everything.
Hope: Tony and Percy.
Was that you?
Is thathow you spilt us up?
♪
The truck, the maps. [Gasps]
We were two days away
from knocking at the CR's door.
The second their location got compromised,
it would have been over for everybody.
That's what I had to do to stop that from happening.
You killed them!
To save everybody else!
There was no other way!
♪
We do what we have to do for the greater good.
So why me?
Why do you peoplegive a shit about me?
Kid, you have no idea who you are.
♪
Cheers.
It's a 2004 cabernet from Napa.
One of the few left from before.
Mmm.
I think Hope mightwant to be a vintner.
With that mind?
Maybe.
I found a few books on winemaking in her room
before I left, which...
come to think of it,
could just be her wanting to drink booze.
[Chuckles]
[Soft piano music playing]
Did I ever tell you about how I first knew?
She was all of 6 years old.
And I walk into the study to find processor chips
and circuitry everywhere.
I thought she was just being disruptive
to try to get my attention.
♪
I was wrong.
She was just doing what Hope does.
♪
She was being curious.
[Computer chimes]Next day I walked in,
she put the whole thing back together all by herself.
♪
[Chuckles]
This isn't somethingnormal kids do.
It's not. She's special.
She's extraordinary.
I know. They both are.
♪
She's gonna make some amazing wine.
♪
Or maybe she'll save the world.
Huck: We have to pick up the pace.
What do they want from me? And where are we going?
Hope,you cracked a CRM cypher.
[Chuckles]
It takes a special kindof smarts to pull that off.
You're idiots. I am not worth all this.
It's not just about you.
It's about people like you.
Making sure their giftsaren't being wasted.
It's gonna take a lotto bring this world back.
People like you need to bea big part of that.
I radioed the CR this morningafter we left.
A chopper's meeting us15 miles up
to take you to your dad.
I-If things didn't go the way they did,
if we had just made it there...
It would have been easier.
You would've been happyyour dad's okay.
They would've asked you to stay,and you would've stayed.
What if I didn't want to?
If I don't?
You do.
You will.
♪
It'll be dark soon.
We need to find shelter.
♪
I wouldn'tthink about running.
Why? What would they do to me?
To you?
Nothing.
But they'll find you.
They always find you.
♪
They have to be a ways ahead of us by now.
100 miles ahead and gaining. That's more than a ways.
It's okay.
We'll figure it out.
Yeah. We will.
I'm sorry about your uncle.
Thanks.
And I'm glad you're okay.
And I'm sorry about how I was with you.
Let's just focus on catching up to them,
finding Huck.
Cool?
She's gonna pay for what she did.
It's gonna be me who does it.
♪
[Engine revs in distance]
♪
[Brakes squeal]
That refueling station we raided -- it's close by.
They must've been there, seen smoke.
♪
We need to go.
Now.
♪
[Air hissing]
It's holding.
[Grunts]
With any luck,
we'll get about 50 miles out of this thing.
Well, if they stickto the planned route,
then we just need to get 20.
Cut 'em off at Murray Road.
Hey. Hold up.
This thing is stick.
I'm not gonna be able to put my foot down on that clutch.
You're looking at me?Mm-hmm.
I can't drive. I never learned.
Well,you're gonna learn now.
♪
Off the brake.Iris: The left brake?
There's only one brake.Okay.
Yep. There you go.
Okay.Now ease into the clutch.
No, no, but we -- Okay, okay.
Just stop.
♪
I don't think I can do this.
You can.
You're gonna let the carroll forward,
take your footoff the clutch slowly,
and listen to the engine.
That's it.
You're gonna be onewith the car. [Chuckles]
You did not just say "be one with the car."
[Chuckles] Okay.
That's totally something my dad would say.
♪
Who do you thinktaught me how to drive?
[Chuckles]
♪
I'm glad you're here, Felix.
Yeah.
I'm glad I'm here, too.
Now focus, alright?
♪
We gota lot of ground to cover.
[Sighs]
Okay. Here we go.
[Engine revs, tires screech]
Here we go. There you go.
♪
[Chuckles] Hey.
Heads up.
Found 'em when I was scouting ahead
after the Mississippi.
I was gonna save 'em for your birthday.
Thought we'd still be on the road then, but...
[Snaps fingers]
[Sighs]
This mission -- it's about you.
But, um...
it's about me, too.
[Sighs]
There's a lot more going on than you know.
Maybe more than I know.
I once told you that it was complicated with dads.
Thing is, it's complicated with moms, too.
[Vehicle approaching]
Stay back.
[Blows]
[Brakes squeal]
♪
[Vehicle door opens]
Must've seen the light from the road.
♪
You want them to be safe,
they can't know we're here.
♪
This is life and death.
You gotta trust me on this.
♪
Another big choice.
Time to make it.
♪
Hope?
♪
[Stairs creaking]
Iris: Hope?
♪
Holy shit. [Chuckles]
What's going on? You okay?
Yeah. I'm fine.
The truck --how'd you get it going?
We checked the room you tried to hide from us.
What?
The one you told us not to go into
because there were bodies.
There weren't any.
You lied. Why?
I'm sorry, kid.
Must have beena crossed-wires thing.
I never said --Yes, you did.
Kid...
Iris, she meant the basement.
You must have heard wrong.
You all just left.
Without even saying goodbye.
I'm sorry. We just...
We just thought it'd be easier.
For all of us.Yeah.
But you guys are here now. And -- And you fixed the truck.
That's -- That's awesome.
You're here, you're safe,
and we're all together.
All good things, huh?
[Chuckles]
Yeah.
♪
All good things.
♪
And we should get some shut-eye,
hit the road in the morning.
And you shouldn't beon that leg.
I'll grab the rest of your stufffrom the truck.
Ah, no. Iris here made me a splint.
Mm.
I can get it.
Felix, come on.
When the hell are you gonnastart letting other people
take care of you for a change?
Yeah.
Old habits.
[Chuckles]
Got the key? Yeah.
I'll pull the truck around the corner,
out of sight from the road,just in case.
[Keys jingle]
♪
Hope, give me a hand.
♪
Not one more step.
Not one more word of bullshit.
You're gonna drop that key,
and you're gonna tell me
what the hell you're doingwith Hope.
♪
Lyla: Leo, there's something I need to talk to you about.
But before I do,
I just want to reiterate how much I care about you
and about us, our future, and everyone's future.
That's what this is all about --the future.
In 24 hours,
you're going to be reunited with Hope.
She's on her way here.
Don't say anything.
Just take a moment to process it, okay?
All those months ago, when you told me about her gifts,
about her genius, when you haven't even told her,
you trusted me.
But I told them.
I had to.
We need generations of great minds.
You were frustrated with her.
She was frustrated with herself.
But she is safe, and she's seen the world now.
And because of that, she is ready.
To...bring back the world, it's going to take
the brightest minds working together.
And she is one of those minds.
Every model shows that if we don't make progress
in the next 30 years, human lifewill be gone from the planet.
This is bigger than us.
So, you can hate me.
And I'll live with that.
♪
I'll live with that so that the world can live.
♪
[Sighs]
♪
Mm.
♪
Leo: Paging Dr. Belshaw.
[Soft piano music playing]
♪
What's on your mind?
♪
Drop the key.
♪
[Key clatters]
Felix.
Just grab Iris and go.
Get in the truck and go.
No, you are not gonna tell mewhat to do right now.
It's how you live.
Felix, please.
I don't want to hurt you.
Hope: Felix,you got to listen to her.
She's CRM.
She wants me.
You can't save me.
Walking away is the only wayyou'll live.
Hope, what?
Felix, I never wanted to hurt you.
♪
I just wanted you to be happy.
I really did.
Is it true?
Is it?
Are you -- Yeah.
It's true.
And I'm sorry.
♪
Iris: No! Felix!
♪
They really care this muchabout somebody starting a fire?
I don't think this is about Silas.
I mean, we -- we had their truck, their maps.
We stole their gas.
I radioed Huck on an open channel.
Maybe they overheard and put two and two together.
I think I might know a way out.
Follow me.
♪
Felix,don't make this worse.
[Grunts]
Felix?
Hope, Iris,take the truck and go!
Not without you!
Get out of the house!
Hope: Huck, stop!
♪
We need to find that gun.
♪
You got one last chance, Felix.
Let us walk, everybody lives.
You're not taking her.
♪
Keep looking. It has to be here.
♪
Ahh! Ahh!
♪
Felix!
♪
Get out of the house! Just go!
[Groans] Get out of here!
You're dead!
[Grunts]
♪
[Grunts]
♪
I got it.
♪
Shit.You alright?
My wound opened up. It's bleeding bad.
Just keep going.
♪
No.
Come on. We can make it.
You can.
I'm slowing you down.
This blood is just gonna lead 'em right to you.
I didn't give up on you before. I'm not going to now. Move.
Iris: Hey, Silas.
Come on.
Hey.
♪
You saved us.
You get a fresh start.
Twice now.
You're not a monster, Silas.
♪
Iris: You did that, Silas.
[Laughter]
Yeah!
That's what matters.
♪
Wait.
Whoa, whoa. What are you doing?
Saving you.
♪
So you can save the others.
♪
Hope: Huck! Huck, stop!
♪
Hope, do it.
Come on. Take the shot.
What if I --It's okay.
You don't need me to protect you.
[Both grunting]
Do it, Hope. Just shoot.
It's okay.
[Walkers growling]
♪
[Gunshots]
♪
[Grunts]
♪
I'm sorry.
[Gunshot]
[Gasps]
♪
Hope, what are you doing?
Get away from him!
♪
I will do it! I swear to God I'll do it.
♪
Iris, you and Felix take the truck.
Get as far back to the university as you can.
We're not leaving you.
Nothing is gonna happen to me.
Felix: You don't know what's gonna happen to you.
I do.
They need me to help my dad with his research.
Because of who I am.
♪
What I am.
♪
Huck's mission was to get me there.
♪
I decoded the message.
♪
I'm the asset.
♪
Turns out I'm smarterthan I thought.
♪
Don't worry about me.
I'll be okay, no matter what happens.
You don't have to do this.Silas, no, no.
They don't know you're here.
Getting me will slow them down.
Protect Iris.
Keep her safe.
But no matter what Huck did, don't be the monster.
Elton, you believed in me when I didn't.
You're my best friend.
Thank you.
♪
Go before they see you.
♪
No. Silas.
♪
Come on. Nothing you can do.
We got to go.
[Dog barking in distance]
♪ It has to end
♪
Hey.
You know, it's not too late.
You can give me that gun right now.
You, me, and Iris -- we can just leave.
They'd just come after youlooking for me.
This is the only way.
I'm doing what I'm doingbecause I have what I have.
♪
♪ It has to end
♪
I was never gonnaleave for Omaha without you.
I know.
I only left last night
'cause I was trying to protect you.
I know.
'Cause that's what we do.
We protect each other.
And we always will.
♪
I love you, Iris.
And I know you're gonna be okay.
♪
We all will.
♪
Five miles north, you'll find safety.
♪
She's just a kid.
No.
Not anymore.
♪
You are aces.
I want you to know that.
[Scoffs]
In this life...
♪
...sometimes you got to do badto do good.
♪
So grin, girl.
♪
♪ It has to end
♪
♪ I don't need this
♪ I won't lock it away
♪
[Soft piano music playing]
Come on.
What's on your mind?
[Inhales sharply] Leo?
Yeah?
♪
It's...
It's nothing.
♪
Well, I've got somethingon mine.
[Glass thuds]
Something that's beeneating at me,
something sensitive.
What is it?
You can tell me anything.
This placeis important to you.
It is to me, too.
The civilian governmentis doing great things.
You should know that's notwhat I'm questioning here.
But I do have my suspicionsabout your military.
♪
Will's scouting expeditionwith them
was due back a few days ago.
♪
Well, things happen.
I-I-I mean, I'm sure they're f-fine, but --
Dr. Abbott?
How can you be certainhe went to visit a sister?
I just...
I think it's possiblewe're being lied to.
♪
I have an idea, though.
How we can know for certain.
But I'll need your help.
♪
[Engine shuts off]
Huck: We're here.
You can put that away now.
[Sighs]
Gotta admit.
Considering how this all went down,
I was afraid you'd fight this harder.
It's not about the now.
It's about the future.
Greater good.
Thinking about the big picture.
That's what I'm doing.
♪
Good.
♪
Ahh. [Clears throat]
♪
Where do you think they took him?
♪
I don't know.
♪
How are we gonna findthe others?
♪
I-I don't know.
So what are we gonna do?
I don't know.
♪
But I know we're gonna figure it out.
What lies ahead is not gonna be easy, but...
♪
...we're a part of it now.
♪
[Chuckles]
I used to think we were the last of the species,
but since then, so much has changed.
♪
I've seen the impossible happen.
♪
That's how I know we're gonna find the others and save them.
Because we can do the impossible.
♪
We're gonna make our lives count.
♪
Not because we're the last generation.
♪
Because we're the beginning.
♪
Mothers can be complicated, too.
It's good to see you again, Hope.
You've had quite the adventure.
Would you please relieve Miss Bennett of her belongings?
Well-done.
Seems we need a bit more workwith her,
but she's not fighting it.
She won't.
She knows what's at stake.
And I assume you were gonnatell me about the loose ends?
That truck,the others still out there.
We heard the transmission.
Makes me wonder what they know.
The ones that are still out there --
they're not a threat.
I'm taking care of them.We've found one.
We'll get the rest.
You should've let me handle this.
I was gonna make sure they get back to the Campus Colony.
I didn't want to have to step in,
but that incident back home before you left for Omaha
put your judgment in question.
At least in the eyes of others.
I had to see to it that your bringing us the asset
was an unmitigated success,
no loose ends, so I did.
I am.
And as far as the Campus Colony...
we'll talk.
A lot's happened since you left.
♪
Hope.
I can't tell you how pleased I am
to have you at the facility.
You Bennettsare going to accomplish
great things together.
Yeah, we are.
♪
Ah, storm's coming in.
We're gonna have to find some shelter.
Food.
We'll find some.
Then we'll get them back.
And then we'll kickthe Civic Republic's ass.
How?
♪
I love you, Iris.
And I know you're gonna be okay.
We all will.
♪
I'm pretty surethis one goes over there.
You're right. Thanks.
♪
Because I'm not the real asset.
We are.
The two of us together.
We have spent our whole lives making each other better.
Stronger.
Your smarts.
Your instincts.
What if we can't trust her?
Hope: Your bravery.
Your fight.
They have no clue what you can do.
That's how we're gonna beat them.
They think they need me to save the world, but you --
you are gonna save the world from them.
We will.
We got this.
So grin, girl.
♪
How?
We just will.
Because we can.
Ah.
This is howwe give our lives meaning.
We're the future.
♪
[Leaves rustling, twigs snapping]
Get behind me.
♪
Will?
♪
[Chuckles]
[Sobs]
♪
I thought you were dead.
♪
I thought you all were.
Why?
Wait. Why? Why would you think that?
♪
You don't know?
Know what?
♪
We've got a lot to catch up on.
♪
[Helicopter blades whirring]
♪