Amelia: What is the strongest force in the world?
If you were a layperson, you might say gravity.
♪
If you were a high school student,
you might say electromagnetism.
If you were a physicist,
you might say nuclear.
But you would all be wrong.
Because the strongest force in the world
is the force of nature.
♪
Iris: No way.
Your grandpa does not listen to punk.
I swear. My grandma...
Nature contains us all.
We are nature.
Cogs in a massive machine, playing our part.
...my grandpa would just be like...
[imitates electric guitar][Iris laughs]
Playingmore than our part.
We, as a race, think we can escape
its pronouncements, skirt its rulings,
sneak past its guards.
It gives no consideration to wants or needs,
feelings or sentiment.
We think we can steal from it
and come away with its bounty without consequence.
But it contains us
from our beginning to our end.
♪
The biological imperative that all organisms must survive --
to seek food, water, shelter, to procreate --
is the only reasonable offset
to the crushing power of nature.
[Insects chittering]
Iris: Huck says the military
blew all the bridges over the Mississippi
when things went back.
Means we'll need a boat.
Huck: Crossing's gonna be tough.
And the terrain on the other side,
it's a lot rougher than anything we've seen so far.
You sure you're ready to do this?
[Deadpan] No.
We really should...
turn back.
[Deadpan] Yeah, yeah.No, you've finally convinced us.
Ha.
[Both chuckle]
[Chuckles]
Felix: Hey, Elton, you wanna give me a hand back here?
I got these lines all tangled up.
Yeah. Sure.
There is no tangle, is there?
Look, I think this is the easiest route
back around The Blaze.
Huck and I...
we're gonna bring it upto the others soon,
once you help us lay some groundwork
and make the others seethat if we don't do this --
Well, I ne-- I never -- I never said I was in.
Yeah, but, you never saidthat you weren't.
The Mississippi is our last chance...
for us to... all get home safe.
It just is.
And I need youto help me get Silas
and the girls to see that, you understand?
What makes you think that they'd listen?
Because they care about you,
just like you care about them.
That's gotta countfor something, right?
♪
Yet even with our resolute will to survive,
nature will end us, because that is its law.
[Camera shutter clicks] Death -- inevitable.
[Growling weakly] Extinction --
just another of its rules,
another part of the life cycle of the very old world
churning with energy.[Thunder rumbling]
There's no escape from the inescapable.
There is no respite from the unceasing.
It makes its choices for us.
In short --
accept the wind.
It always wins.
[Rumbling continues]
♪
Hope: Wow.
So many options.
I don't even know where to start.
♪
Any updates?
Elton's with us.
Maybe.
In a perfect world, we'd have one more of them
on our side, but...
this is it.This is the only angle we got.
I know.
That's why I'm thinking ahead to Plan B.
♪
Hell, maybe it doesn't have to be all or nothing.
What do you mean?
I mean, if Corduroy gets Silas to see the light,
best way to keep 'em safe might be if one of us
keeps going with the girls
while the other takes back the boys.
Mm.
[Both exhale sharply]
Just puttin' it out there.
Yeah, well...[Sighs]
Maybe we still got some time
to change somehearts and minds, huh.
♪
[Sighs]
♪
Seems the locals used these boats to evacuate
when things got hairy.
It's likely we're looking at the last of them.
Then we'll get creative.
Build our own.
It's not exactly what I was getting at with --
Hope: Cool.
Let's do it.
Really?
You're gonna build a boat?
Well...
what if it's more of a...
remodel?
[Chuckles]
Seems a bit precarious,
don't you think?
Silas: Could work.
If we fix it up...
add stuff.
There was a warehousefurther north.
See if there's stuffin there we can use.
I say we hit it.
♪
[Scoffs]
[Chuckles]
[Banging on metal]
♪
Iris: [Sighs] This placelooks turned out.
Hope: Maybe...
maybe not.
Uh, split up and keep looking?
[Clattering in distance]
[Classical music plays]
♪
[Door opens]
Amelia: Hi.Isaac: Hi.
A lot of stuff.Yeah.
Let's get some lights.[Chuckles]
Oh, careful.
It's very, very old.
Even older than you?
[Isaac and Amelia exhale sharply]
Older than pretty much everything.
♪
One night when I was 10,
I was trying to take a photo of Mars,
and that fleeeeew across the sky.
Do you know what that is, Elton?
It's a meteor.
It's a bunch of chunk of rock flying through space
at thousands of miles an hour,
faster than anything you've seen.
And when the meteor touches the air around the earth,
it starts to burn up,
kind of like how when you rub your hands together,
they get hot.
Like this?
[Chuckles] Yeah.
And sometimes, the meteor makes it
all the way to the ground.
Then what happens?
That's what made all the dinosaurs go away.
This giant ball of fire just c-- Isaac.
Wh-- He's 5.
If he wants to learn, Amelia, he should learn.
[Chuckles]It's never too early for science, right?
Elt-- Elton, come here.
You want to feel something?
Come here. Come here.
Wait.
Right here?
[Chuckles]Is that my little sister?
Yeah! She's kicking.
Oh, wait, I -- I think she's also saying,
"I can't wait to meet you."
[Chuckles]
If you're gonna teach him about departures,
I'm gonna teach him about arrivals.
It's only fair.[Cellphone vibrating]
Oh.
And my staff meeting at the U just got moved up.
[Sighs] Oh.
I have to go.
[Whimpers] I know.
I'm sorry, baby.
Be safe. There's --
Heard something's going onnear the hospital.
There's a lot of police activity.
Okay.
[Chuckles]
I want to get another one likethat for my Esmerelda today.
Who?
My sister.
That's what I'm naming her.
Oh.
Okay, yeah, maybe... we can talk about that.
Well, a bracelet is a very sweet gift, honey.
I will [Sighs] see you soon.
Okay.
I love you both.
Bye.
♪
Alright.
Come here, noodle.
[Door opens]
Let's [strains] do some work.
[Door closes]I'm gonna give you
my favorite brush.
Young Elton: [Quietly] Thank you.
Blow on it.
[Blows] Good.
Blow on it.
[Blows] Ready?
Yes.
Go with the grain.
[Police sirens wailing]That's -- That's the grain.
Good, good. Give it a little...
Yeah.
[Emergency signal blaring]You can't tell until --
Ah-ha.
Okay, we have barrels for floatation,
straps for binding, fastening.
Hope: A fan blade thatcould make a good propeller.
And I spotted a shit-tonof pallets outside.
Uh, got these, too.
So, you're saying, we're in business?
Except we don't have an engine.
There's nothing to fight the current.
There's not much left here,
other than some long-dead batteries,
huge broken air conditioner, a couple of bags of sand.
W-- Uh, h-hold on.
The A.C.
I read about how those work.
We could use the partsand make some sort of, um...
What's that called. A steam boiler.
It'd be like the still you madeback at the University.
It's like the dorm furnaces I had to fix.
Hope: I guess.
It's worth a shot, right?
♪
A'ight, then.
Let's get to work.
♪
[Doc Robinson's "Meaning of a Songbird Calling"plays]
♪
♪ Feel the sun come slowly
♪ Makes the window glow
Hey.
Thanks.
♪ All I need is a place to dream ♪
♪ And all I need is clouds beneath my feet ♪
♪
[Hammers banging]
[Chuckles] It's reallycoming together.
Yeah.
Looking great.
It's funny.
Working on this boat,
it kinda makes it seemmore possible.
Finding my dad.
I mean, the river's probablythe last big thing in our way.
[Chuckles] And once we cross it...
It's -- It's all downhill from here.
Hey.
[Quietly] Come here.
Look, the closer we getto finishing this boat,
the harder it's gonna beto sway the others,
so...
You wanna make the pitch now?
Yeah.
Yeah, I think I shouldstart things off,
then you an Elton come inwith the backup.
[Hammering continues]Hey, I know you're just looking out for 'em but...
But...?
Maybe it's time to let this plan go.
[Whispering] What areyou talking about
"time to let this plan go?"
You know that this is the only way
that we get everyoneback safe.
[Hammer thuds]
Hey, is it true?
You're working behind our backs,
trying to get us to turn around?
I -- Hold on, what --
Iris: Hey. What's going on?
Him and Felix.
They've been working against us together,
trying to make us do a 180.
No way. He's committed to this.
Iris: Hope, Elton is not working with Felix --
Yes, I am. Sort of.
Can we just talk about this here? Pass.
You've been trying to screw us over
with Elton asyour little sidekick.
What was your Plan B, huh?
Maybe sabotage the boatto make us to back?!
No, of course not.
Listen, h-h-he and Ihave been talking,
and I agree witha lot of what he says, alright?
It j-- m-makes sense. You mean about going back?
Seriously?
What the hell happened to seeing the world
from start to finish?
Listen to me.
Yes, I was gonna have us take the boat downriver,
then head back up along the banks of the Missouri
until we reached the University.
It's safer than cutting through The Blaze,
and it's the smartest thing for us right now.
We don't know where we're going. [Scoffs]
We don't know what we're gonna do if an when we get there.
We don't even know that you're dad's really in trouble![Scoffs]
Hell, for all we know, he could've sent us 10 messages
back at the University right now from him
telling us that he's just fine!
You don't even believe that.It doesn't matter what I believe.
He made me promise him that I would keep you safe,
and that is exactly what I'm doing.You care more about a promisethan you do about his life?!
Calm down, alright. That is not what I'm saying!Iris: Stop! Stop!
Yes, it is!We don't have time for this!
There is still so much left to do!
And you know what, leave your shit at the door.
Because without each and every one of us giving 100%...
we're not making it across that river.
♪
Huck: See anything that could be fuel?
Just driftwood, driftwood,and more driftwood.
Better than nothin'.
Let's grab it all.
I can't believe he would try
and mess with Elton's headlike that.
A-Actually, I can.
They were only trying to do
what they felt was best for everybody.
Not something you can fault them for.
I can fault them for being shady.
You know what, I can fault themfor what you just said, too.
Whatever. They deserve it.
So whose side are you on?
I heard what you said to himabout calling it off.
Not gonna lie.
For a while --
a long while, yeah,
I was all for bringing you back.
But now...
I don't know.
This thing we're doing right now,
going across country, is big,
maybe the biggest thing we'll ever do.
[Scoffs]
It's shit like this that makes us stronger...
[Scoffs] ...makes us better.
Okay.
So everybody knows how I got to the City.
They found me floating down the Missouri in a raft,
arm broken,
messed up,
not sure if I was coming or going.
[Inhales deeply]
Next thing I know, they're calling me Huck.
[Chuckles]
Not that I mind.
It's kinda cool, right?
There's a lot I leave out of that story.
The days of not knowing if I was gonna live or die.
♪
How close I came to giving up.
Letting the water just take me away.
♪
Never woulda lived long enough
for Omaha security to pick me up...
if I didn't keep pushing...
every single moment.
Shit.
[Sniffles]
I'm sorry.
Nah.
Don't be.
[Exhales sharply]
♪
It pushes me to overcome...
to be stronger,
better.
Maybe that's whatthis whole thing is for you.
The others, too.
Even Felix.
Maybe you should tell him that.
I was about to.
Then Hurricane Hope struck.
[Chuckles]
And, um...
maybe it's not my placeto tell him that.
Maybe he's gotta figure it outfor himself.
♪
His own way.
♪
Let me get a word with her alonereal quick.
[Sighs heavily]
I know you're pissed off --I am.
The thing is...
I'm more pissed at myself.
Why's that?
For being dumb enoughto think that we could turn you.
That Icould turn you.
My dad first took you in,
I was so excited.
Iris, too.
We thought we weregonna get a brother,
but we never got one becauseyou never acted like one.
Dad gave you every chanceto be a real part of the family,
and you never took it.
We're not your sisters.We're your problems.
[Voice breaking]All you had to do was
be the oneto tell him not to go.
[Sniffles] He trusted you more than anyone!
He would've listened.Hope, I couldn't.
You know what, no, it's cool!I get it.
You had your reasons.
But still, I-I hoped.
You know?
But joke's on me.
You are who you are.
Guess it's time for me to grow up.
♪
[Fire whooshing]
[Wood clattering]
Fire's not hot enough.
This shit ain't cutting it.
It's the best we could find.
Well, I don't know what to tell you.
Well,there has to be something.
The nail polish box back at the warehouse,
it said it was flammable.
Alright.You and Elton take care of that.
We'll finish up here.
[Thunder crashes]
Maybe double time it,huh?
[Metal creaking]
[Thunder rumbles]
♪
[Thunder rumbles]
I don't like the sound of that.
We should grab what we can fast.
[Sighing] Yeah.
Whoa.
[Chuckles]
Well, that doesn't quite live up to its hype,
now does it?
Uh-uh.
Wow.
Nope.
[Blows]
[Metal thuds]
So, this was your plan?
[Sighs]
You really want to get into this now?
I'm not mad.
Hmm.
I'm just --
Disappointed?
[Grunts]
Do you really think my dad is safe?
[Wind gusting]
This rope's still got some use in it.
Felix.
Yes.
I think they're safe.
Leo and Will.
They haveto be safe.
What do you mean?
I was supposed to be the one to go with your dad,
alright?
Not Will.
Your dad asked me to stay behindand watch after you and Hope...
and so Will took my place.
And that is why
they have to be.
I'm not there to protect them if they aren't.
I mean, I knew all that,but...
I didn't knowhow you felt about it.
Guess I didn't think it mattered.
What, b-being honest?
That matters.
When everything's burning down,
it is the only thingthat matters.
[Thunder crashes]
Well, we should go.
Come on.
[Walkers growling]
[Rumbling continues]
[Nail polish bottles clatter]
[Nail polish dribbling]
What?
[Nail polish bottles clatter]
I just don't want anybody to die.
And yes, I know death is inevitable,
but is it so horrible to try to put it off
for just a little bit longer?
The notion of fear is -- is biologically obsolete.
It's just the body's chemical reaction to risk,
so if you can understand risk on a conscious level,
then there is no need f-- for fear.
[Distorted, distant screaming]
[Screaming, banging]Okay.
You have to listen to me, okay, Elton?
[Whimpers]I need you to stay inside this box
and be as quiet as you can,
and you can't leave, no matter what, okay?
[Screaming, banging continue]Where are you going?
I'm gonna go find us a safe way home.
And I'm gonna lock that door from the outside
so nothing can hurt you.
Okay?
And to be extra sure...
[Screaming, banging]
[Voice breaking] This is a very special horn.
Okay?
It keeps anyone who's holding itsafe forever.
So go ahead and hold it.
Hold onto it tight, okay?
[Crying][Police sirens wailing]
I'm scared.
[Banging in distance]
Don't be.
I'm not scared, okay?
And you shouldn't be, either.[Gunshot, screaming]
It's all gonna work out the way it's supposed to, right?
[Screaming continues]
[Breathing heavily] I love you, Elton.
[Banging on doors]
I love you, too.
[Gunshots]
[Crying]
[Whispering] It's okay.
[Banging intensifies, walkers growling]
[Electricity buzzing]Weird.
Is your skin tingling?
[Thunder rumbles]Get down!
[Thunder crashes]
Shit. The hell did that come from?
[Walkers growling]
[Rumbling continues]
♪
Felix...
[Growling continues]
Go, go, go, go, go, go!
[Growling continues]
[Thunder rumbles]
[Boiler puttering]
It's getting closer.Hope: I know.
Where the hellare Silas and Elton?
[Loud clanking]
Shit!
[Walkers growling]
[Liquid sloshing]
♪
That's a positive strike.
Positive strikes can happen
20 miles awayfrom the storm's center.
Judging by the wind direction,
we're minutes awayfrom being in the line of fire.
Come on!
♪
Hey, there's a --
Lightning storm headed this way real fast.
Yeah, we know.
Iris: Empties, too.
Couple dozen of them,maybe 15 minutes out.
There's not enough time. We need to take cover.
The rising waterwill wash the boat away.
We can't risk that.
Okay, so we launch before the shit hits.
♪
Where are Silas and Elton?
♪
Whoa.
♪
I swear,that wasn't on purpose.
♪
Come on.
[Grunts]
♪
Ow!Felix: What happened?
Damn it! You okay?
I-I'm good. I'm good.
♪
[Toolbox thuds]
[Grunts]
[Thunder crashes]
♪
Here they come.
[Metal creaks]
Thanks.
[Boiler firing]
-Yes. -Alright.
Whoa.
[Metal groaning]No.
[Boiler stops]
[Steam hisses]
♪
Alright. Add another problem.
Elton, throw me your fisherman.
[Walkers growling]
♪
[Fishing reel whirs]
[Growling continues]
[Clanking]
The drive belt's come loose.
Can we fix it?
If somebody can fit down there and reattach it...
[Thunder rumbles]
I can't.
I-I-I'm claustrophobic.
[Walkers growling]
♪
Elton.
[Breathing heavily]
[Distantly] Elton, please.
[Breathing shakily]
♪
You can do it, Elton.
♪
[Walkers growling]
♪
[Screaming and banging][Whispering shakily] Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter...
[Banging continues]Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars...
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars,
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn!
[Walkers growling]
♪
[Breathing heavily]
♪
[Grunts]
[Metal clanking]
♪
[Walkers growling]
♪
O-Okay!
[Boiler firing]
[Screaming] I'm stuck!
I'm stuck!
Help!
[Walkers growling]
[Grunting]
[Screams]
♪
[Growling continues]
♪
[Breathing heavily]
♪
This is a very special horn.
It keeps whomever's holding it safe.
[Banging, gunfire, and police sirens continue]
♪
[Breathing heavily]
You're alright.
[Breathing heavily]
You okay?
I'm okay, I think. Th-Th-Thank you.
Thank you.
Now we just gotta get this thingin the water.
We don't have enough fuel to keep the propeller running.
Not to mention them.
[Walkers growling]Let's move.
♪
Everybody ready?
One three. One, two, three.
[All shouting, grunting]
Come on! We can do this!
Again!
One, two, three.
[All shouting, grunting]
♪
No! No. There's no time.
We have to drop the boat and make a run for it.
The boat won't make it.
Wewon't make it.Watch out.
[Grunting] Come on.I can't do this by myself.
Let's go.
Come on, everyone.[All straining]
Felix: Everybody, keep going.
Come on.
[Straining continues]
♪
-It's moving. -It's moving. It's going.
[Felix shouting]
♪
Come on! It's almost there.
[Walkers growling]
-Go, go, go! -Go!
Aaaaaah!
♪
Get up! Come on.
Come here! Get up. Get up!
[Walkers growling]
♪
Felix: You good?
[Breathing heavily]
-[Sighs] Hey. -We did it.
[Boiler puttering]
♪
[Growling continues]
♪
[Whispering indistinctly]
Why'd you do it?
What?
We would've ditched the boat.
I mean, that would've given you more time to turn us around.
Yeah, well,that woulda done zero good.
And you and your sister...
you really are stubborn as shit.
You know that, right?
Look who's talking.
Huck thinks this'll be good for us.
[Sighs] That it'll turn us
into the people that we're supposed to be.
We'll see.
And for what it's worth...
...it was never just about...
a promise I made
to your dad.
I need you to know that.
I do.
For what it's worth, leaving those clues behind
wasn't just so you'd come and turn us around.
I was also hoping that...
Your here now, alright.
[Chuckles] So, whatever.
[Sighs]
So, I take it you're just --
you're just good with us moving forward?
We'll keep 'em safe,
and when we find Leo and Will,keep 'em safe, too.
Yeah.
But for now...
Yeah.
...I say we divide and conquer.
What do you mean?
Huck: Hey, listen up.Everybody.
I'm gonna spend the next dayor two scouting ahead.
Our intel's weakfor this side of the river,
and you're only as solid as your intel.
[Chuckles] You're going off?
On your own?
Don't sweat it.I'll be back, 48 hours max.
[Sighs] Promise.
Till then...you're in good hands.
♪
[Sighs deeply]
♪
[Fire crackles]
♪
[Insects chittering]
[Sighs shakily]
♪
[Sobs softly]
♪
Elton: Here's the thing --
Nature accounted for everything about the human race
except our self awareness.
Because we know we can change.[Gunfire, walkers growling]
We can act in ways nature wasn't expecting.
Wasn't ready for.
[Whimpering][Gunfire]
[Gunfire stops]
[Banging]
[Radio chatter]
Soldier: Clear!
[Door bangs]
♪
So every now and again,
that lets us see the path through the wind,
even if it's just for a moment.
And sometimes...
a moment is all you need.
♪
[Door creaks]
[Electricity crackling]
[Door creaks]
[Crackling continues]
[Sniffles]
[Crackling continues]
♪
[Wind gusting]
♪
Hope: Hey.
♪
You okay?
Yeah.
[Clears throat]
♪
[Sighs shakily]
The Night the Sky Fell...
♪
...my father told me not to be scared.
♪
He said that he wasn't scared,and that I shouldn't be, either.
♪
But he was.
[Sniffs]
Probably more than he'd ever been in his entire life.
But...
that didn't stop him from doing what needed to be done.
He was brave because he was scared...
not in spiteof it.
♪
I wish I could've met your dad.
And your mom.
They must've been pretty coolto make a kid like you.
♪
[Scoffs] I-I know it's...
crazy to even say,
and [exhales sharply]
the odds against it are astronomical.
♪
[Voice breaking] I sometimes think
that she's still out there...
somewhere.
♪
With my sister, Esmerelda.
Both surviving
together.
♪
That's not so crazy to me.
♪
[Branch breaks]
[Rustling]
Iris: It's an empty.
I can do it.
Elton: Be right behind you.
I got this.
♪