[Maurine] "My daughter's name is Evie."
[Ish] Hey! Wait up!
I can bring you to our home, but only if you don't have one.
[Maurine] "If you've found this,
I beg to God you found her alive."
She can't or won't speak, won't make eye contact.
- Autism? - Could also be all the trauma.
PTSD.
[Emma] My girls-- I lost them both
on the same day, due to the virus.
[Molly] We just made the trip from Ashland, Oregon.
[Emma] Heather will finally have someone her age to play with.
[Heather] I wonder what the rest of the world looks like.
What if we didn't have to wonder?
- Love you! - Bye!
[Ish] Welcome to the world, little Joey.
- So little. - [Ish] You're gonna teach me
more than all the things I've learned so far,
and I won't ever, ever let you down.
I found it on our shopping trip.
[engine rumbling]
Charlie.
You have a young man in a watchtower.
What'd you think was coming to get ya?
Welcome to San Lupo.
There are two kinds of people--
the weak and the strong.
I get this feeling that while he's digging into our ground,
it's to plant his own root and stay here.
Can you hear yourself?
You saw the way he looked at Evie last night.
I know you did.
[Ish] We had a deal, water for gasoline.
Maybe I like this place a little more than I admitted.
[pensive theme playing]
♪
["And She Was" by Talking Heads playing]
♪
♪ And she was lying in the grass ♪
Fire flowers?
♪ And she could hear the highway breathing ♪
♪ And she could see a nearby factory ♪
♪ She's making sure she is not... ♪
Gracias. Oh.
[exhales]
[exhales deeply] This time, the water just tastes better.
"This time"?
We've been traveling a good while, Jorge.
Some places just feel more like home.
[exhales] Cheers.
♪ The world was moving ♪
♪ She was right there with it, and she was ♪
♪
♪ The world was moving ♪
♪ She was floating above it, and she was ♪
♪ And she was ♪
♪
♪ And she was drifting through the backyard ♪
♪ And she was taking off her dress ♪
♪ And she was moving very slowly ♪
♪ Rising up above the earth ♪
It must be hard,
always being on the road.
Where will you go next?
I don't know. That isn't up to me.
Charlie really likes it here.
I'm asking you.
Not Charlie.
♪ And she was ♪
♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
♪ The world was moving ♪
♪ She was floating above it, and she was ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
- ♪ And she was ♪ - [song ends]
- Oh! - [laughing]
- Nice. - No problem.
[Charlie] This...
is your day, San Lupo.
It belongs to you.
You gave it to us, Charlie!
Sometimes...
you just need to dig a little deeper, son,
to find out what's hidden inside.
To San Lupo.
And to Charlie!
- To Charlie! - Charlie!
[chanting] Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! Charlie!
Charlie! Charlie! Charlie!
Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! Charlie!
[Charlie] Okay, okay, okay.
Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! Charlie!
- Thank you. - Charlie! Charlie!
[crickets chirping]
[animals howling in distance]
[rustling]
[woman screams, thud]
[ominous music playing]
[belt buckle clinking]
[Charlie sighs and chuckles]
Charlie, what the fuck?
Good old Ish, smarter than he looks...
and dumber than he knows.
[panting]
- [woman sobbing] - Oh, my God. Evie.
[woman crying]
Guess I'm sleeping alone tonight.
[Silas] How was it?
[sighs deeply]
Winnin' just feels like winnin'.
So, tomorrow?
Tomorrow.
[lighter clicks shut]
San Lupo.
- [Maurine] What happened? - [Molly] I'm not sure.
She's not okay.
[quietly] Did she...
say anything?
Two words--
"cigarettes" and "no."
[sniffling]
[Maurine] Do you think that he, um...
[Molly] I examined her.
[whispering] Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
[Molly] I know he did.
- Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. - [Maurine] Oh, my God.
Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
Stupid. Stupid. So stupid.
Stupid. Stupid.
Stupid. So stupid. [sniffles]
[Maurine] He raped her!
[sobbing]
[weeps]
He raped my little girl!
[sobbing]
Charlie is a predator.
He travels from place to place searching for new prey.
And we have been wonderful prey.
We stayed still, didn't make a fucking sound.
You're right about him.
There's a pleasure he takes on preying on the weak.
I should've made a sound.
- Emma, who could have known? - [Emma] Ish knew.
- I guessed. - You guessed right. Sorry.
[Jean] He needs to leave.
You don't ask a predator to leave, Jean.
[Jorge] We drive him out a hundred miles.
Oh, he would come back.
No matter how far we drove him away!
We have to make a choice tonight.
He's not hiding his ambition anymore.
Do we build a prison?
If we make San Lupo a prison for one,
it becomes a prison for us all.
[Emma] There's only one option.
Wait, what option?
We have to kill him.
Emma.
If Charlie was the virus,
would we not do everything to survive him?
- [Ezra] Murder as survival? - Justice for Evie!
For all of us.
But we would still be committing fucking murder!
No, no, no, no, no. This is madness!
Do you not realize that the moment we choose to do this,
what we have built vanishes?
If we don't, Charlie's gonna swallow us whole!
We can't really be talking about killing a person.
If not us, then who?
- [Ish] We take a vote. -"Yes" for me.
Everyone needs to write it down.
- We'll count at the end. - [Ish] No.
We're doing this face to face, with conviction.
This has to be unanimous.
Or else?
You are my friends.
You've become my family.
I wouldn't ask you to cross this line
if I wasn't certain
it's the only way.
[Jean] I hear you, Maurine.
If it happened to one of my kids,
I know what I would do.
I change my vote. "Yes."
[sighs]
Ezra?
It's self-defense. Kill the son-of-a-bitch.
Molly?
[exhales]
Jorge?
No, there's got to be another way.
There isn't.
- Well, it's a "no" for me. - Jorge.
Please.
For our little Evie.
For me.
Please.
Jorge.
Goddamnit, Jorge!
He is waiting for us to roll over into our graves!
We need to dig one for him first.
[animal howls in distance]
- [Charlie] There's nobody home. - [dog barking in distance]
Hoping you can come out here, Charlie.
You know, tomorrow morning's better for me.
This one can't wait.
[sighs heavily]
You know what "Lupo" means, Ish?
[lighter clicks shut]
It's Italian for "wolf." Ain't that fucking beautiful?
"San Lupo."
"Saint Wolf."
I guess that means you're the saint,
and I'm the wolf.
[unsheathes knife]
We all know saints die first.
Ish and his fuckin' toy hammer.
[exhales]
I've faced tougher breezes than you.
What, I fucked your trophy retard,
now Daddy's gonna make me pay-- is that it?
[snickers]
I've come to ask you to leave.
Leave?
Only way I'll ever leave is with your wife
saying my eulogy in 50 years.
"I love you, Charlie" will be the last thing I hear
before I disappear into the dark.
[inhales and exhales deeply]
"Blessed are the meek,
for they shall inherit the Earth."
That just means that the weak are buried in the dirt.
That's your inheritance.
Your boys will be looked after, though.
Alex and Joey could both use examples to follow.
[exhales deeply]
San Lupo.
[scoffs] What's that? Final prayer?
Something like that.
San Lupo.
[laughing]
Damn, Ish.
Brought a family to a knife fight?
[grunts]
[gasps]
[thud]
[grunting]
[blow landing]
[Ish] Fucker!
[Ish gasping]
[blow landing]
[Ish panting]
[wheezing]
[Ish panting]
We had to.
[breathing shakily]
[crickets chirping]
[water splashing]
[scrubbing vigorously]
[scrubbing continues]
[Ish exhaling shakily]
I'm trying to wash this off
with water he helped us find.
He took far more than he was ever gonna give.
[continues scrubbing]
Snakebite saved me.
Maybe it made me half a devil, too.
Half a devil is better than a full one, Ish.
I guess we'll see.
Em?
Who do we ask for for forgiveness?
For this?
No one.
So there'll be no... debt to repay?
There's always a debt.
There's not always forgiveness.
[exhales deeply]
[water splashes]
[scrubbing vigorously]
[scrubbing continues]
[water splashing]
[scrubbing continues]
[scrubbing]
[water splashing]
- Dad. - [gasps]
What are you doing awake?
Uh... [sniffling]
Just... waiting to tuck in
any wandering sleepwalkers.
I haven't even fallen asleep.
Come on.
[dramatic music playing]
[waves lapping]
[tapping on soil]
[crow cawing]
[tapping continues]
[chicken purrs]
[chickens clucking and cooing]
Are you a tea or coffee girl?
Charlie likes it black and hot.
"Has to burn the tongue," he says.
In fact, I should go back
and make sure it's ready when he wakes up.
Perry.
Charlie won't be needing any coffee this morning.
I don't--how do you know?
He's...
gone.
It was-- it was just a little fight.
Look, we have them all the time.
Why would he leave without me?
He didn't leave.
He's just... gone.
Where?
No place you can find him.
I won't see him again? Ever?
No.
I don't understand.
[Ezra] He had to go.
We needed him to go.
You understand.
I know you do.
♪
Um, what will happen to us? Do--do I need to leave?
No. No.
You're welcome here.
Welcome? I don't know what that means.
It means a place to lay your head
without being afraid all the time.
You know... I thought I loved him.
But I knew... I hated him.
[birds chirping]
[chickens clucking]
[sighs]
[rooster crows]
[indistinct conversations]
[crow cawing in distance]
Seen Charlie around? He's not gonna wanna miss this.
No Charlie here. Not anymore.
The hell you mean?
He is elsewhere.
You're gonna have to do better than that.
Will I?
[Silas] The man doesn't just up and leave.
He had plans, and Charlie's plans never change.
We changed them.
[cocking gun]
[Ish] Stay with us or leave with Silas.
You decide.
Maybe him leaving was the right thing.
Fuck that, Kori.
Just because Charlie always won
doesn't mean he always would.
I'm sorry.
I can't... anymore.
Gotta admit...
surprised me.
Charlie didn't have a choice. You do.
Leave.
[gun cocks]
What?
Nobody?
Fucking cowards.
[footsteps depart]
[engine starts]
[gate clanking]
Hey, Dad. Where's Charlie?
[sighs]
Charlie hurt Evie.
Hurt her?
Alex, listen to me.
He took things from her that cannot be returned.
Why would he do that?
Because Charlie thought that taking
was the only way you could get.
He was wrong.
He had to go.
How far did he have to go, Dad?
All the way.
Gone.
You didn't teach me about that in school.
No.
[wind chimes ringing gently]
[vehicle approaching]
[engine shuts off]
[cocks gun]
[truck door closes]
[sighs]
Look, man. I got nowhere else to go.
I got no one else.
So...
Come on, man. I'm good with my hands.
Look, Charlie was gonna run you out, or worse.
That's what he did to me, to--to all of us.
You were just the first ones to...
...fight back.
Did Evie fight back when you guarded the door?
Did she cry out for help
and get ignored by you?
Come on, man.
There's gotta be room for one more, right?
Weeds can be tough to tell from natural plants.
You saw our tribe. I mean, they--they all chose Kori.
They all chose to stay.
Come on.
Let me stay, too, Ish.
Please.
Where am I supposed to go, man?
Okay.
Silas.
[clattering]
You'll need this out there.
[knife scrapes ground]
[truck door opens and closes]
[engine starts]
[light, lively music playing]
[birds chirping]
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
♪
[laughter]
[sighing]
[all cheering]
[Ish] Okay! Um, I'm sure you've all heard
the hammering and sawing over the past few weeks
and thought, "What is Joey making
in Jorge's workshop this time?"
- [laughter] - Yes. Yes.
This is what happens
when a person's imagination is combined
with the wisdom of the many.
The past and present, hand in hand.
Take it away.
All right, now... our fuel supplies are low.
We need a new way to explore further,
find food and other resources.
The ancient Chinese thought of it first,
then Leonardo da Vinci and Alexander Graham Bell
refined the idea.
To put it simply, I think sometimes...
you just gotta climb the tallest tree.
[Ish] Ladies and gentlemen,
Joey's ultralight.
[gate creaks]
[all murmuring]
Joey, what?
[Joey] This prototype will achieve an altitude of 200 feet
and can fly a hundred miles and back
on solar power alone.
It still needs a few finishing touches,
but the first flight will be
to find out what Heather and Raif have built
out there in the world.
Oh, what a good idea. Did you hear that, honey?
[laughter]
Joey, this is absolutely incredible.
- It is. - Incredible.
[all murmuring]
[Emma] You helped him build that?
[Ish] And Jorge and Kori.
It was all Joey's mind.
- [indistinct conversations] - You always knew about him.
Just like I knew about you.
Yeah, uh...
You think I'd invite
any "last man in the world" in my bed?
[both laughing]
All these kids, everyone's children,
they're the future,
but Joey?
He can make the future.
And yes, I did always know.
- I wanna see it. - Okay.
Okay, Joey! You get to eat dessert first.
[singing indistinctly]
Yes! Eat up!
- Come on, get it! - Okay, okay.
That's my favorite game.
- All right. Thanks. - Enjoy. Love you.
[indistinct conversations]
I'm so proud of you! Mmm-mmm-mmm-mwah! [laughs]
Come get a plate!
Did you eat stew before you eat?
- Save some for the rest of us. - Right. Eat up.
[Ish] "They had been the underdog,
fit only to endure the punishment
inflicted on them, but sufficiently provoked,
there is hardly a creature on God's Earth
that ultimately won't turn and attempt to fight,
regardless of the odds."
[animal howls in distance]
You okay?
Yeah, I'm just...
cold.
Yeah, it's probably 'cause I'm reading
Shackleton's Incredible Voyage so well.
Let me get you something.
Who's sick?
[tea pouring]
Joey. [sighs] He has a slight fever.
Just a little bug.
Too much excitement today.
[dog barking in distance]
My mom always used to say that.
Like having fun could make you sick.
Mm. She was right.
It isn't fair women are always right.
No. What isn't fair
is that it takes men so long to admit it.
[exhales deeply]
- [chuckles] - [clatter]
[crickets chirping, dog barking in distance]
[breath shaking]
M-Mom?
[panting]
Dad?
- [thud] - Joey?
- Joey. Joey! - Joey!
Hey, hey, hey, hey. Holy shit, what's going on?
- He's soaking wet. - What's going on?
- You're okay. Hey. - Talk to me.
- [Ish] Kori sick, too? - No, stay out. Stay out.
It's bad. It's as bad as last time.
It's just the flu.
No, I know the symptoms.
It's the shakes, it's the bakes, it's the aches,
it's the unrelenting fever.
You can't be sure it's the same.
Ish, you weren't there the first time.
You didn't see the course of the disease.
You only saw its aftermath.
Whatever it is, it is moving fast,
and--and it is infecting
even those who survived the first time.
It's Joey.
He's sick.
[whispers] Oh, I'm sorry.
Do you have any antivirals?
[Molly] No, and none worked the first time.
Ish.
The illness comes too fast
for targeted treatments or vaccines.
Stop calling it "the illness."
We're not sure it's the same. It's been years.
Ish, whatever we are facing, it is highly contagious.
Please, you need to bring Joey here
and--and ask people to mask up and shelter in place.
It doesn't matter what we do!
Okay? These things either get you, or they don't.
We're not hiding. Joey stays with me.
[door opens and closes]
Oh, Penny, not you, too.
Okay. Okay.
[under breath] Oh, my God.
There's a sickness. Can you lend a hand?
Yes.
No, no. Are you sure? Joey has it.
I can help.
Let me... help.
Okay.
Okay. [sighs]
You keep breathing.
I'm gonna put this underneath your armpit, okay?
There.
[water splashing]
- How's the pain? - Uh, it's a lot.
A lot? Better or worse,
we've got to get your fever down.
You feel like eating?
No.
In your plane...
where do you wanna go?
What do you wanna see?
A giant redwood.
Humpback whales.
"Once you have tasted flight,
you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward."
Maybe I won't ever wanna walk again.
Well, right now all you gotta do is sleep.
Come on.
[sighs] There you go.
[kisses] I love you.
Love you, Dad.
Leave us alone.
[breathing heavily]
Love you, buddy.
[ethereal music playing]
♪
[footsteps approaching]
[dish clatters]
- Leave him, love. - [sighs]
Get some sleep.
Eat something.
Do you think
this is what slowed Heather and Raif down?
We can't think like that.
They're safe.
They have to be.
[optimistic music playing]
[birds chirping]
[insect buzzing]
[door opening]
[Ish sighs]
Dad, is Joey gonna be okay?
He has to be.
If that was me...
Alex.
[door opens and closes]
[breathing steadily]
[chuckles]
Heather!
No, no, no, don't come in. Joey's sick.
I don't care!
Oh, I knew you'd come back to us.
Where's Raif?
[crying] I'm alone. He's gone.
[sighs] Oh, no.
We shouldn't have gone, Mama.
No, you had to.
It's okay.
We did have to, and it's not okay.
I know. I know.
[sobbing]
Our Heather's back.
Joey's gonna be so happy to see you.
He's sick, baby.
Real sick.
You're tired. Please, let me be with him.
Yeah.
[weakly] Heather?
I came back to do our secret handshake.
We... we don't have one.
That's how secret it is.
[crying]
Maybe seeing his sister's what he needs.
That's what's making me go crazy.
For the first time, I don't know what he needs.
[menacing music playing]
[tires squealing]
[Ish] I killed a man.
A bad man.
But still, I took a life.
[brakes screech]
[cutting]
And now it seems a life is demanded in return.
What would I have done if I had known this was the cost?
[panting]
[grunting]
[panting]
[grunting]
You're not getting him, you son of a bitch.
[Ish] We had to stop Charlie.
I thought the rules were ours to make.
I was wrong.
Please stop this madness.
I don't know what you want!
Don't take our children.
Take me.
Take me instead of my son.
Without him...
without them...
there'll be no one left to carry on.
We won't be what we were.
We won't even be what we are.
And I will no longer be who I am.
[Ish] I have spent a lifetime focusing on what
and how and when and where.
[strikes match]
I have almost never asked why.
And I'm finally asking.
Why are we here?
[blows air]
♪
[closing theme playing]
♪