Previously on Dead City...
What do you want?
I'm gonna recommend your conscription.
Who is this woman?
You and the 20 soldiers you stood in for,
starting with that one right there.
The Croat is gonna see us coming from miles away.
Boom.
Who were you trying to spare?
We gotta move! Let's go, this way!
The park sits between them.
No man's land.
Because no man comes out alive.
Would you like some?
I am sorry this is how you've been treated.
You shouldn't have been left like this.
None of this has anything to do with you really.
It's like peanut brittle.
Mm, of course, right.
Why would you know what that was?
Well, anyway, this is something different.
It's new.
It's made with walnuts.
I like it better.
I'm going to arrange to get you a proper bed,
and a blanket.
Anything else?
A coat.
Of course.
It's freezing in here.
Paper...
and something to draw with.
Hershel...
you okay?
Yeah.
The Croat and his people might've seen us.
They could be watching us right now.
We gotta find a safe spot to regroup.
Take a break.
Just looking for a landmark or something to get oriented.
- Monkeys? - From the zoo maybe.
Central Park wasn't like this when I was kid,
I'll tell you that much.
You probably didn't know I was from the city.
Let's keep moving.
Saw them heading in up the block.
See that the full perimeter is established,
then search the park.
A wasteland full of the dead.
I doubt the New Babylonians are still alive,
but if they are, we'll find them.
You know, I know why you let the lifeboat get away.
You draw the line at children.
You always have.
I promise, if we encounter the child you saw,
you won't have to be the one to kill it.
Don't worry. I'll do it for you.
This should put us on the West Side near 70th Street.
We should be safe here. For now.
One of the lakes is close, just over that ridge.
It's got a boathouse.
Closest place I could think of that's fortified.
We're runnin' out of food.
We need to start figuring out how to get home.
And cross the river again?
We need to lay low, buy ourselves some time--
And then we keep going for the methane.
In the shape that we're in?
We obviously can't do this alone,
but we can do what we did in Roanoke--
I thought that we were just exploring.
We split the opposition,
we peel off some numbers, we make new alliances--
You just got 50 innocent people killed.
Yeah, and I don't want 50 more to have to die either.
We need to finish this now.
We have to get the methane ourselves,
and then it's done.
If you agree, Colonel.
Look, I'm with you.
We've already lost too many.
We get the methane,
we can help the families those soldiers left behind.
Families whose kids were ripped away from them,
forced to join up.
You think they care about methane?
Did I not fight for you to take the place of 20 of your people?
I'm pretty sure that I'm the one that did the fighting.
And it's a good thing I did
because they would all be dead by now, too.
They'll most certainly be dead if you desert.
That was the deal.
I'm on your side, Maggie.
Look, there's a lot of things you've been right about.
From now on, we do this together.
But we'll do it your way.
The boathouse should be just on the other side.
Stay close.
Stay calm. Don't move.
Hey, wait!
Wait, Hershel!
Hershel!
Ginny!
Hershel!
Mom!
Ginny!
Hello!
Mom!
Pheasant pâté. Just like Baba used to make.
Must be a lot.
All these people at your beck and call.
You have a lot of responsibilities.
Power.
But what I don't get is why the Dama treats you
like her red-headed stepchild.
Dama and I are partners.
She appreciates me. Trusts me.
Trust comes from being honest.
Saying when there's a line.
You don't know her like I do.
When I fled the Sanctuary,
found a little boat,
set sail for Hrvatska. My homeland.
I, of course, could not have foreseen the storm
that sent me crashing into Manhattan's shoreline.
I was alone, an island within an island.
Until one day
I was searching through an old theater.
I collapsed.
When I awoke, I was on a sofa, under a blanket.
I will never forget this.
On the table next to me
there was a plate of krhki kikiriki,
brittle candy.
Yes, she is cruel sometimes. I know.
But it is all in the service
of bringing out our potential.
One thing I know she sees
is you perhaps gone a bit soft.
I told her the old Negan, he's still in there.
You just need to get your hands a little bloody is all.
Maybe.
But nobody's gonna get their hands dirty
sittin' around eating pâté.
Look, I know you have Burazi in the park.
Let me go in there.
If the soldiers are dead, I'll find 'em.
If they're not, I'll finish them off.
Waylen.
I'd like you to accompany Negan into the park.
C'mon, big guy.
Happy hunting!
Hershel! Ginny!
Are you okay?
Where's Hershel?
I assumed he was with you.
Everybody move. Come on.
Wait, I have to find Hershel.
Getting yourself killed is not gonna help him.
Sit down.
You've been making a lot of noise,
getting a lot of attention.
We don't like attention.
And now here you are.
We don't plan on staying.
You realize you're being hunted?
They know you're in here.
They've got the park surrounded.
I don't normally take to strangers,
but since you're here, I'd rather you stay.
Nice and quiet.
What's the catch?
When it's time to go, you go.
Then you never come back.
Like we never existed. 'Cause we don't.
That's very generous of you.
My son is still out there.
It's not safe for you.
We have people searching for the boy.
You've been watching us.
Like I said, you've been noisy.
I can handle walkers and monkeys, okay?
There are worse things out there.
We have lived here a long time.
The best thing to do for your son is let us handle it.
Quietly.
We appreciate the help.
And we think we may be able to help you in return.
We come from the mainland,
a federation of communities, everyone working together.
And joining us can be a complicated process,
but in this case,
we're willing to offer up what we have in good faith.
We have modern tools, medicine, energy.
There's nothing you can offer
that nature doesn't already provide.
You're surrounded by the dead.
We could clear out the park, make it safe.
The dead aren't our problem.
In surrounding us, they protect us.
It's why we're still here.
We don't fear them. They're us.
They were our neighbors, our friends, our sisters,
our parents, our children.
And one day them.
And you, and me.
You're still going?
She said they're looking for him.
I'm sure he's fine.
You don't know that.
Lay off that New Babylon bullshit while I'm gone.
It's not bullshit.
We can help them. Both sides can benefit.
The only side that ever benefits is yours.
They don't need anything from you.
You wanna do things my way?
Let them be.
All right. Where the hell am I?
Keep going. Please.
Why did you choose to draw that?
I don't know. I saw it from the car,
and I guess it just...
stayed with me.
Well, others might have fixed it up,
restored it to how it used to be.
I wouldn't even know what that would look like.
Because you never saw it like that.
You didn't live through it.
I don't care how it was.
I like it like this.
It's better.
I agree.
One of my favorite artists was a sculptor
named Dmitry Allistat.
He was born in 1907,
too young to fight in the Great War,
but young enough to never know what came before it.
All he knew of the world was death and loss,
rage, pain.
And he expressed all of that in his art.
I heard about what that man, Negan, did to your father.
I'm sorry. We don't have to talk about it.
There's nothing to talk about really. I--
I wasn't even born yet, so...
My mom's the one who's all obsessed with him.
With all of that.
Something I loved
was stolen from me once.
I lost everything. I couldn't get it back.
But what was worse than the sadness and anger was that
I had to pull myself through it
without anyone's help.
I've been alone for a very long time.
Like you.
I'm sure your mother has big feelings about what happened.
So big that maybe she hasn't left room
for anyone else's feelings.
Your feelings.
And the one person who is supposed to be there for you
isn't really there.
So you have to manage it
all by yourself.
You don't have to pretend with me.
I see you.
I'll leave you to it.
Damn.
Looks like we're on the right path.
Funny, you showing up outta nowhere,
gettin' all comfortable and shit.
A wanted man on the run, huh?
So what I keep thinking though is,
if you were wanted by the mainlanders,
it means you lived with them.
And that makes you...
a mainlander.
Why did the mainlanders cross the river?
I don't know. Why?
They didn't.
You first.
Hey! Help me!
Help me!
You motherfucker! Traitor!
You were right, by the way.
Bringing up the federation.
She was wrong to chastise you.
She only has her son to think about.
Clearly, all she ever thinks about.
Whereas the rest of us,
we have to think about New Babylon.
And everyone in the federation.
I know you see it.
More soldiers.
A base of operations.
A way to get the methane.
Look at how they live.
They can't see what's possible.
That we can get it all back, back to the way it was.
So we gotta help them see it.
We just have to wait for the right moment.
And we do what we have to do.
It's okay. It's okay.
I'm not gonna hurt you.
Y-You saved me, right?
C-can you understand what I'm saying?
Do you live here in the park?
That's okay. You don't have to answer that.
I-I'm looking for my friends. I'm lost.
The people I was with, did you see them?
Do you know where they went?
You like the drawing?
- Yes. - Good.
Okay. You can understand me.
How did you...
C-Can I show you?
All right.
Like that.
I really need to find my friends.
Ugh.
I think if you knew how to use that,
you'd have done it by now.
Hershel.
Oh, thank God.
What happened? Was she shot?
No.
I thought I heard a gunshot.
Let's go.
Come on. Lay her down.
- What happened? - I don't know.
Shit!
You okay?
Come on. I'm glad you're okay.
I want to show you something.
This was once a theater.
Very old, very prestigious theater.
People say the past is always with us.
You can't escape it even if we tried.
What is this?
Is this your room?
No.
It's yours.
I had it made especially for you.
What if it was possible?
What if we could not just escape our past,
but erase it?
What if there was the potential for reinvention?
I know you see it for what it is.
Empty. Broken.
Our world has been destroyed.
So now we get to build something new.
Room by room. Block by block.
We get to make new rules.
We get to be new people.
I am no artist,
but I've lived too long to un-know what I've known.
All I can do is show you the canvas.
Give you the materials. The resources.
And the power.
Look out at the city.
Don't see what is or was.
See what could be.
It's okay. It's okay.
We're all here.
I was lost.
I couldn't find you and-and I didn't know what to do.
She showed up and started asking about my drawing, so--
Your drawing?
One of the Croat guys attacked us,
but then...
someone killed him.
Who killed him? You?
No.
- It was Negan. - Negan?
- What was he doing there? - I don't know.
Was he with the Burazi? I mean, weren't they--
No. I-I-I-I mean-- I don't know.
Did he say anything? Did you talk to him?
There wasn't time.
Did you see where he went afterwards?
I said--I said I don't know.
You must've seen where he went, Hershel.
- How could you not look to see-- - Because I didn't, okay?
I didn't see anything because I don't give a shit about Negan!
- Hershel, okay-- - 'Cause apparently you're
the only one who gets to give a shit about him
and everything he did, so that I can't even--
I don't know if there's anything that'll help,
but take it.
Please.
When the dead rose up,
she was just a fourth grader on a class field trip.
I happened to run into them at Federal Hall.
All of them.
We've been together a long time.
We've managed it on our own, doing it our own way.
So once we are ready to--
It's time.
What do you mean?
They're distracted. They'll be--
Because the girl is dying.
So--
Stand down, Major.
Any luck?
Didn't find anybody.
There was, um...
There was an accident.
We, uh...
We got stuck in a bit of a thorny situation.
You're saying Waylen...
You were right.
It's a wasteland in there. A death trap.
I mean, if someone like Waylen went down that fast,
those soldiers are long dead.
Accidents happen.
Do you remember when we were at the Bricks,
and I asked you if the city has some kind of pull on you?
You said no.
Were you telling me the truth?
It's okay.
I just wanna understand.
I know everyone just sees this...
terrifying city.
I-I guess I just don't see it like that.
To me, it's this place that's been through so much...
y'know, broken and...
and then ignored and abandoned,
an island no one came to save.
But it's over now.
And now that it's over, it can be something new.
It can be free from all that pain.
It can reinvent itself.
We can make it whatever we want it to be.
That's wonderful.
But not everyone is going to think so.
This new world, we're going to have to protect it.
We're going to have to make some hard sacrifices.
And when you go home...
there may be some things that you're going to have to do.
Looks like you need a fresh pencil.
So, what? Supposed to ring the damn doorbell?
We've only won a battle. We need our army.
Negan's gotta know something about the methane.
We got to find him.
I've got an idea.
I dare any mainlander to set foot in this island.
Maggie. You came back.