"Nice." "Nice, nice, nice, nice." "You hungry?" "You know, you gotta come get it." "Don't play hard to get." "You'll like it." "It's cat." "There you go." "I don't know what..." "Leave room for breakfast." "Hello?" "Please." "Don't hurt me." "Here, take anything you want." "You want some food?" "Take it." "I'm not gonna hurt you." "Yeah?" "That's what the last guy said." "Could..." "Could you help me?" "The wheel came off." "I can't fix it." "Maybe if I..." "If I could, but I can't." "You know, the only good thing about no soap is that you can smell hijackers a mile off." "I am impressed!" "This man smelled us from 30 feet away!" "Damn!" "What's that say about our hygiene?" "What you got there in that pack?" "What pack?" "He got a gun." "Shit, it ain't loaded." "They never are." "Ain't that right, old man?" "Open the pack and tip it out on the road, nice and slow." "Can't do that." "Take off the fucking pack and put it on the ground." "Or die!" "Are you listening to me?" "I am now." "Good." "You listening to me?" "Yeah." "Good." "Put that hand on me again, you won't get it back." "Do you believe this fucking guy?" "All right, you wanna do it the hard way." "How'd you do that?" "He just cut my hand off!" "What are you standing around for?" "Kiss him!" "What did he say?" "He's in shock." "I think he meant "Kill him."" "I can't feel my hand." "My hand." "I told you you weren't gonna get that back." "Yeah, you did." "Who are you?" "Where's your water?" "They don't have none." "They were gonna take yours." "And then eat you." "It's true." "It's in the cart." "You're not taking it?" "Where are you going?" "West." "Can I come with you?" "No." "But..." "We'll find shelter for tonight." "My legs still hurt." "God." "No!" "No!" "Nice shot!" "Mike!" "No!" "No!" "We got her." "Honey?" "Come here!" "No, no." "Please, don't." "Please, God, no!" "Stay on the path." "Stop!" "Hey, guys." "Stay on the path." "It's not your concern." "No!" "Come on!" "Stay on the path." "It's not your concern." "Stay on the path." "It's not your concern." "I don't know you." "I know, I'm not from around here." "No shit you're not from around here." "All right, I don't want any trouble." "Oh, yeah." "Okay." "I'm just a customer." "Okay?" "Okay." "I'm sorry, I gotta see the hands." "I'm not one of them." "Okay." "I'm gonna take something out of my pack." "Take your finger off the trigger." "Yeah." "Sweet!" "That's a Fathom 900, man." "Is it?" "I haven't seen one of those since the '90s." "Yeah, I got it back east." "Still work?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Just need it charged." "Can you do that for me?" "Give me a..." "I got cables." "I don't need the cables." "I can put a trickle charger on it, though, for you." "Good." "I mean, if you got the coin." "Yes, sir." "Yes, I do." "I got something..." "Okay." "It's American-made." "Oh, yeah." "I got a whole bunch of these." "Do you?" "Yeah." "How about ChapStick?" "You got any ChapStick?" "No ChapStick, no." "I got cat oil." "Fresh cat oil." "No, no." "It's good, it's good for the..." "No, no." "Works the same way." "What about toys?" "You got any toys?" "No, I don't play..." "Oh, I got..." "Oh, yeah." "Yeah, yeah." "We do chicken right." "Eh, finger lickin' good." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "Okay." "All right, all right, all right." "All right, now this, with these." "Absolutely, those are yours." "Okay." "Give me a couple of hours." "Charge it up for you." "Thank you." "You can wait over there across the street, at the Orpheum." "No, I'll wait here." "Bar is about ready to open." "I'll wait here." "You don't trust me, do you?" "I'll wait here." "All right." "Carnegie." "One of the road crews just pulled into town." "They've got something for you." "Books?" "Whole bag of them." "Tell them I wanna see them right now." "Stay." "No problem." "Come on, let's go." "We did good." "The one you want, it ain't there?" "No." "I just don't understand." "That's a shitload of books." "You don't have to understand." "I understand." "Leave that to me and we can be friends." "I have faith in you." "You'll find it." "Wait." "I got this, too." "Now, this is a treat." "That's shampoo." "Yeah?" "Go get slammed." "Get some pussy." "Everything on me, as much as you and your boys can stand." "Then go back on the road." "And we'll get you your book." "Of that I have no doubt." "You're sending guys out who can't even read to look for one book." "Well, no wonder they never find anything." "Yeah, I use the tools I have at hand." "Unless you'd like to go with them?" "What about these?" "Burn them." "This place across the street, they got any water?" "Yeah, if you can pay for it." "Here." "Smell this." "One of the road crews found it." "Who knows?" "It may be the last shampoo on the planet." "And it's yours." "Did they find your book?" "No." "Outlander?" "Let me see." "All right, what'll it be?" "Water." "That's the good stuff." "I've gotta eat into my own ration to sell it, so it don't come cheap." "Right." "Get you maybe halfway." "Solara!" "Take this and get it filled." "Wait." "You need this." "Can you please move?" "Thank you." "That was my cat." "Fine specimen." "I saw you knock him off the bar." "No." "I kind of shooed him, I didn't really knock him." "You raised your hand at him." "Won't happen again, I promise you." "Hey, Martz, how about another drink?" "That cat's been coming in here for two years." "It's got more right to be here than you." "I don't want any trouble." "Well, that's too bad, 'cause you got..." "I know who you are." "Murderer of innocent travelers on the road." "You are gonna be held to account for the things you've done, do you know that?" "Do you?" "It's okay." "I'm gonna grab my things and I'm gonna walk out of here." "All right." "All right, brother?" "Yeah." ""Cursed be the ground for our sake." ""Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us." ""For out of the ground, we were taken." "For the dust, we are." ""And to the dust, we shall return."" "Stop!" "Please." "Redridge!" "Redridge." "And who are you?" "Nobody." "I doubt that." "The men you killed in my bar, now, they were nobody." "But you, now." "He ain't got the shakes." "He ain't one of them." "Good." "This is a civilized town." "We don't eat humans." "We don't see too many people from before." "Not anymore." "Do you read?" "Every day." "All right." "Well, good for you." "Me, too." "You know, it's funny." "As old as we are, people like you and me, we're the future." "What do you want with me?" "Straight to the point!" "I like that!" "You're not just educated." "I never saw anyone handle themselves the way you did." "I don't know where you learned it, but I sure as hell could use it." "This little town, just the beginning." "I'm about to expand." "I need expert help." "I could use someone like you." "Thank you, but I'm really not interested." "Well, the people who work for me live better than any walker ever dreamed." "Ask Redridge here." "Ask the boys, anyone." "Real beds, hot food, women." "Clean water." "You could do a lot worse, my friend." "Thank you, but I got somewhere I need to be." "Where?" "West." "There is nothing west." "I've been told different." "By who?" "Tell you what." "Stay the night." "Try a little local hospitality, see how you like it." "We'll talk again in the morning." "Word of advice, Walker." "It's not a choice." "It's always a choice." "There'll be someone outside your room all night if you need anything." "I don't need anything." "You never know." "This is for you." "It's some water for washing and some food." "Little special reserve, too, compliments of the house." "I need you to take this or say something so I can find you." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "Can I get you anything else?" "No, I'm fine." "Thank you." "Did you get blinded in the war or by the sun after?" "I was born this way." "I think probably I'm lucky, because I was already used to being like this by the time it happened." "Right, well, thank you for the food." "You're welcome." "I like your perfume." "It's just shampoo, but thank you." "Good night." "I don't think he's gonna change his mind by the morning." "He's not gonna stay." "He's different than the others." "You're not gonna be able to make him do what you want him to do." "Who said anything about me?" "I'll send Solara." "You can't do that." "It's about time I got better use out of her." "Don't." "Please." "Please, don't." "Please." "Please." "Please!" "Can I come in?" "Give me a minute." "Somebody already came with food and water." "I got everything I need." "Are you sure about that?" "It's really bright in here." "I'm Solara." "Right." "You filled my canteen downstairs." "Yeah." "You're the walker, right?" "Right." "If you're worried about paying, it's on the house." "Paying for what?" "Why don't you take a seat?" "No." "No, I can't go." "I can't." "If I do, he'll hurt my mom." "Who?" "Carnegie." "He's your father?" "No." "No, but we belong to him just the same." "Look, I'll sleep on the floor." "Tomorrow you can tell him you had a good time." "I promise you I will be no trouble." "Please?" "Knight to bishop four." "Your move." "So, how old are you?" "Excuse me?" "It's just that I haven't really seen too many people your age come through here before." "Well, it's been" "30 winters since the flash." "I really don't remember." "Do you remember what it was like?" "I mean, in the world before." "Yeah." "Well, what was it like?" "People had more than they needed." "We had no idea what was precious, what wasn't." "We threw away things people kill each other for now." "Really?" "Yeah." "You have a book." "Can I see it?" "No, you cannot." "I just, I just wanna look at it." "No." "I said no." "Listen, I can't even read!" "Come on, please, let me just see it." "What is with you?" "It is just a book!" "It's not just a book." "What do you mean, it's not just a book?" "Look." "No more questions about the book, all right?" "No more questions." "All right?" "I got a question for you, since you're here." "Well, maybe I'll answer it and maybe I won't." "Where do you get your water?" "Can't tell you that." "You can't tell me or you don't know?" "Oh, I know." "But if you're not talking about the book, I'm not talking about the water." "You're something else, you know." "All right, I got another question for you." "Right." "You hungry?" "There's a lot of food there, more than I can eat." "Tell you what." "We can share it, you know, like old people used to." "Okay." "Okay?" "Wait a minute, wait a minute." "Wait." "Sit." "Sit." "This'll be for you." "Give me your hands." "What are you doing?" "Trust me." "Give me your hands." "Close your eyes." "Dear Lord, we thank you for this meal." "We thank you for a warm bed and a roof over our head on cold nights such as this." "It's been too long." "Is this from your book?" "Don't interrupt." "Close your eyes." "We thank you for the gift of companionship in hard times like these." "Amen." "Now we eat?" "Now we eat." "Good morning, Solara." "How was your night?" "Did you sleep well?" "I did like you said." "Of course you did what I said." "But did it work?" "Is he staying?" "We didn't do much talking." "Solara, honey, eat something." "Mom, give me your hand." "Close your eyes." "Mom, trust me." "Dear Lord." "We thank you for our food." "Thank you for my mother." "Thank you for the roof over our heads and our new friends." "And..." "Well, I guess that's all for now." "Amen." "That's the word you're looking for." "Amen." "That's how you stop." "You said you didn't talk much." "But did he do any reading?" "I asked you a question." "Bill, don't." "You." "Shut your mouth." "Stop!" "You're hurting your mother, Solara." "He said he read every day." "Did he?" "Stop it!" "Your mother would like you to tell me." "I don't know!" "Yes, okay!" "Yes, yes, he was reading." "What kind of book was he reading?" "I don't know!" "I don't know!" "An old leather one!" "And?" "I don't know, it had some kind of thing on the front of it!" "Show me." "I need you to let her go!" "Show me!" "Redridge!" "Shit!" "He was here the whole night." "Where is he?" "I don't..." "I don't..." "I just wanna make sure that you know that..." "I understand." "...there's no acid in there." "That's swamp water." "It doesn't matter." "Just take these off." "Take them off." "All right." "Well, let me, all right, just..." "Take them off." "Hey!" "All right." "You got it, coming off." "Thank you." "Coming off." "You can tell them I made you do it, all right?" "All right." "Say it." "You made me do it." "Is that thing loaded?" "I don't think it's loaded." "One way to find out." "Look, I need that book." "I mean, I want the book and you, but if you make me choose, I'll kill you, I'll take the book." "Why?" "Why do you want it?" "I grew up with it." "I know its power." "And if you read it, then so do you." "That's why they burned them all after the war." "Just staying alive is an act of faith." "Building this town is an even bigger act of faith, but they don't understand that, none of them." "And I don't have the right words to help them, but the book does." "Now, I admit that I've had to do things, many, many things, that I hate, to build this." "I confess that." "But if we have that book," "I wouldn't have to." "Now imagine." "Imagine how different, how righteous this little world could be if we had the right words for our faith." "The people would truly understand why they're here and what they're doing and they wouldn't need any of the uglier motivations." "It's not right to keep that book hidden away." "It's meant to be shared with others." "It's meant to be spread." "lsn't that what you want?" "With all of my heart and soul." "I always believed that" "I'd find a place where this book belonged, where it was needed." "But I haven't found it yet." "I love this guy." "Shoot him, please." "What are you standing around for?" "Take him out, God damn it!" "Take him out!" "I don't like being followed." "I wanna come with you!" "No, you don't." "I hate it here." "Then change it." "My mother thinks I'll be safer with you." "I'll take you to where we get our water." "You can have all that you can carry." "I mean, all that we can carry." "Carnegie knows about two more springs up north." "He says he's gonna build more towns." "How'd he know about this one?" "He'd been here when he was young." "In the world before." "I guess everyone else who knew about it died." "We really better hurry." "I think I left my glasses inside." "Just take a look for me." "I'll look out here." "Okay." "What are you doing?" "You are such a liar!" "I'm not a liar." "You said I could come with you if you got your water!" "I didn't say that." "You said that." "Besides, the road's no place for you." "It's much worse than you think." "Goodbye, Solara." "It's nice knowing you, I mean that." "Hey." "Yeah?" "Fuck you!" "Have you washed your filthy fucking hands?" "Twice." "With your soap." "Put a crew together." "We're going after him." "For a fucking book." "It's not a fucking book!" "It's a weapon!" "A weapon aimed right at the hearts and minds of the weak and the desperate!" "It will give us control of them!" "If we wanna rule more than one small fucking town, we have to have it!" "People will come from all over, they'll do exactly what I tell them if the words are from the book." "It's happened before, and it'll happen again." "All we need is that book." "Then I want Solara." "Are you bargaining with me?" "Is this a deal we're making here?" "We lost a lot of men." "You need me more than ever." "Now, you say that book's worth the trouble." "Well, I believe you, but I want Solara for it." "Why not?" "Why not?" "Let's get the fuck out of here." "Stay on the path." "It's not your concern." "Stay on the path." "It's not your concern." "Which way are we headed?" "West." "Hello?" "Can anyone help me?" "Hello?" "Is anybody there?" "Are you okay?" "Yes." "I'm fine." "You go along." "I'll be okay." "No, no, here, let me just help you." "No, really, please." "I'm fine." "Really." "I need a man to help, not you." "You just go along." "It's okay, it'll just take a minute." "No!" "It's fine." "Please." "Help!" "Help!" "Get off me!" "Thank you!"