The Walking Dead: Dead City

Another round?

I really shouldn't.

I'm not in the best headspace.

What's wrong?

I got a cabin about an hour from here.

I went out scavenging. Came home to find it overrun by groaners.

Came to the right place.

We uh, got a guy here, he does groaner work.

Could maybe loan him out.

Really? '5 he any good?

He's the best I ever saw.

So he's, like, based out of here, lives at the motel?

Generator needs a refill by now.

Wh... where's the little girl's room?

Down the hall. First on the left.

You know, I had a hunch you were up to something.

Let me guess, Vasquez from down the road sent you here to snoop?

Mm-mm-mm.

Well...

I've got a little message for Vasquez.

Hold her still.

I reckon you're gonna have trouble

sniffing around after this.

Ah!

Ugh.

Hey! Where you going?

Come here, baby.

Sorry, thought you were better on your feet.

Good to see you, too.

Wanted by the New Babylon Marshals.

Well, goddamn.

For a wanted man, I look good.

Can I keep this?

I'm keeping this.

Ginny. Hey, come here.

You remember what I taught you?

Where's Annie and your kid?

Ginny, this here is Maggie.

See, Maggie and I are...

old acquaintances.

So, you are either here not to kill me,

or you have gotten seriously rusty.

A few weeks back, I got raided.

Outnumbered, overpowered, stole all our grain.

Said they'd be back in a month for more.

Then a month after that...

took a hostage as collateral.

They took your kid.

I tracked them all the way up the Hudson,

by then they'd already made it across.

Across to what?

Manhattan.

Hey...

That is a really nice job.

Will you do me a favor and go finish checking on our shit?

Thank you.

I hate to even ask, but

how do I figure into this, Maggie?

The man who's got Hershel,

they call him the Croat.

Bullshit. You know him.

When he scaled our walls,

had us surrounded in the dark,

right before he took my son.

Do you know what he did?

That rings a bell, doesn't it? It did for me.

That's the last thing I heard before I met you.

Oh, that Croat.

All right, so what you're thinking is,

since I knew this guy back in the day

when I was running the show,

that maybe I had some special insight into his modus operandi.

Or, hell, maybe I could just sweet-talk him

into giving you your boy back.

We're talking about the same Croat?

Let's just say there were a lot of psychos in my crew back then.

But he always stood out as being

an exceptionally insane son of a bitch.

So the odds are

if it's the Croat that's got him...

No.

All right, tell me this.

Why would I help you?

- Because you owe me... - Because I owe you, right.

You're the last person that I wanted to ask for help.

It doesn't look like you got too many options yourself.

Because if I found you here, the marshals will too.

Far as I can tell, you have exhausted every shithole.

Still got a decent setup at Hilltop?

Kids? School?

I'll put up that girl.

You, we see how things play out.

Fair enough.

Here, take this. There you go.

Hey. I don't recall this being the way to Hilltop.

It's because it isn't.

That's not what we talked about, Maggie.

It's the same people, same setup.

Just had to relocate after you help burn it down.

If you recall that.

Here you go, kid.

I was on the run, doing a stint on a farm about a year ago.

The marshals came poking around. She asked to go with me.

Why doesn't she talk?

The tale the people on the farm told,

she was living with her dad.

He took off one night, didn't come back.

She went looking for him.

She found him.

He, uh, he'd turned.

It was bad.

She could tell by looking at him that it wasn't the dead.

It wasn't an animal.

It was a person or people.

She just hasn't spoken since.

It's me.

Marshals!

What? Shit, put that away! Put that away!

- Check the rooms. - Sorry. For sure.

Have you seen this man?

Goes by the name of Negan.

The reason it's crucial we find this man

is because he's murdered a magistrate in cold blood,

along with four others.

Which means under Code 14, Section 2 of New Babylon law,

he'll be executed.

But not just executed.

Nothing so magnanimous as a hanging or beheading, no.

For what this man has done,

he'll be dangled upside down

and sawed in half lengthwise

from the groin to the head

very, very slowly.

This is a man who's built up an empire

like a greedy king.

Story goes, he once lined up a group of unarmed folks

and he bashed in a man's head with a baseball bat

in front of the man's pregnant wife.

Tranquillitas ordinis.

Tranquility, order, justice, the law.

That's what keeps our Federation of States at peace.

Safe, stable.

I'm going to ask you one last time,

have you seen this man?

Alright, then.

Liquor, drugs, gambling, whoredom,

all prohibited under Code 19,

together amounting to a public execution.

Damnit, you're breaking my arm!

I am. You're very perceptive.

Okay. Yes. Yeah, Yeah.

Yeah, no, I did see him. I did see him.

He... he's... he worked here. He killed the walkers.

- Someone took him. A woman. - A woman?

Yeah. I... I'd never seen her before today.

- Where'd she take him? - I don't know.

- She drove off in a car! - Describe the car.

I don't know!

It was a blue truck parked out front.

That's it! That's it! I swear! I swear!

That's it, I swear!

See. That's all you needed to say.

The truth.

- And yet, Code 14, Section 8. - What?

Aiding and abetting.

Ah! No!

I promise you something.

Alright? I will come back for you soon.

'Kay?

It's getting late.

You be good.

They're going to take care of her, right?

They're gonna... Good people?

That's how it's going to be?

Unless you want the law catching up with you.

So it's her, huh?

Same woman's been looking for him

and leaving all those broken bones behind.

Hey.