Rest in Peace

The Walking Dead 11×24

Lydia: That's just what happens. You know, people die. Cities fall. And things just don't work out. People tell me they do, but they don't.

Eugene: I have, uh... Well, it was gonna be a surprise. But in all my research on child-rearing, I stumbled upon a great many scientific essay that outlined the benefits of teaching infants to swim. It improves cognitive function, builds muscle, and, uh... confidence. Not that there will be any deficit in this tyke since you have it in spades. Which means it's in her, too. I can't wait for summer. Can you?

Daryl: You built this place to be like the old world. That was the fuckin' problem.

Daryl: We got one enemy. We ain't the walkin' dead.

Pamela: It's not easy having so many lives in your hands. There are decisions you'll have to make that are ugly. How do you pick who does the jobs no one wants? Who gets the nicer house?
Carol: We've already had to make an ugly decision. We kept you alive.

Gabriel: Receive her into your arms of mercy, into the blessed rest of everlasting peace and into the glorious company of the saints and light. May her soul and the soul of all those departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

Judith: Uncle Daryl?
Daryl: Yeah?
Judith: You deserve a happy ending, too.

Daryl: I'll be back.

— Consignee Grimes! You have been located and are instructed to surrender! Remain in place and put your hands up!

— Come on, Rick. It's like he told you, there's no escape for the living.

Rick: Remember what I said.
Michonne: It's what he said. Hold it to your heart. It's true. Forever.
— We're the ones who live.

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Family

The Walking Dead 11×23

Judith: A new beginning. ...that comes with a cost. There's always a cost.

Negan: Any thoughts on how you're planning to do this?
Maggie: Do what?
Negan: Take out the bitch.
Maggie: Pamela?

Negan: Look, Maggie, together, you and I, we get this done. We don't need the others.
Maggie: .... We're not a "we."

Annie: You be careful.
Negan: Ah, you know me. I always am.

Eugene: You've joined a long line of people who've saved my ass through the years. I will never forget.

Mercer: Let's get this dog and pony show started.

Ezekiel: I don't want to live out whatever days I got left in bitterness. You know? I'm not even supposed to be here, man... The dead came for me, and yet I smile. War came for me, yeah, and yet I smile. Cancer. Yet I smile. I try to, anyway. I try.

Vickers: The dead are in the Commonwealth, Governor.

Vickers: The dead, they are climbing the walls.

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Faith

The Walking Dead 11×22

Tyler Davis: The same thing always happens. People who shouldn't die end up dead.

Maggie: I want to be better. I want to do better. But... Sometimes... Sometimes I think it wasn't even fair to... To bring Hershel into this world. Was I being selfish? Is it true?

Carol: You will always try to make the world better because of him and for him. That's hope.

Mercer: Time to fuck shit up.

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Outpost 22

The Walking Dead 11×21

The Warden: Good morning, and welcome. Today is the first day of a new beginning. The world works when everyone knows their place. Your place is at the bottom.

The Warden: You should take comfort in knowing that good people will benefit from your labor here. That is your redemption. That is your salvation.

The Warden: Your children are safe and being attended to. Play by the rules, you get to see them again. In order to do that, you must work as one.

The Warden: Here... nobody has a name because we have no need for them. I'm not gonna tell you mine, and you will not... address each other by yours.

Gabriel: What do you tell me when I beat myself up?
Rosita: Quit bitching and move forward.

Gabriel: People remember the last thing that you do. The end of each story is very important. How do you want yours to end?

Negan: I know this Warden's playbook, using fear as a weapon.
Ezekiel: You wanna scare people into an uprising?
Negan: That only works if you're the one holding the gun. Fear's not gonna work. But hope? Hope will. And that is your thing, Ezekiel. It is definitely not mine.

Rosita: Thanks, 22. I'll see you soon.

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What's Been Lost

The Walking Dead 11×20

Carol: ...this isn't gonna be easy.
Daryl: When is it ever?

Tomi: Sunlight is supposed to be the best disinfectant, right? But Pamela is still standing. What does that tell you?... There isn't some kind of "justice" waiting round the corner.
Yumiko: And you can just accept that?
Tomi: It's not acceptance. It's survival.

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Variant

The Walking Dead 11×19

Judith: Sometimes I wonder if it takes more courage to live or die...

Judith: We've all done things to still be here... things we'd like to forget. We became whoever we needed to be. But who we are now, the choices we make now, maybe that's all that matters.

Juanita: What is the point of this place if a good man is put to death?

Aaron: You know, after he died, I thought, you know, I'd give anything to take back just one of those nos so that we could have one more day together... Lydia, loss is inevitable. It always has been. The only thing we can control is when we say yes.

Eugene: You'd be wise to step aside, hoss. No need for this to get ugly... Very well...

Eugene: I'm a liability. Always have been. Relying on others to survive, counting on their courage due to a dearth of my own. Hell, the only way I bucked natural selection was my penchant for prevarication. Means lying.
Daryl: I figured.

Eugene: Do you think people are born brave, or do they become it?
Daryl: Both.

Pamela Milton: Body's still warm. Feed my son, Lance.

Jerry: Since when do the dead use frickin' doorknobs?!

Aaron: How the hell... did a walker... do that?

Eugene: My name is Eugene Porter, and I'm here to confess.

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A New Deal

The Walking Dead 11×18

Daryl: What have you done?
Carol: I made a deal for us.

Pamela Milton: You're an angry, delusional little boy, Lance. Trying to win a game, but too foolish to realize that you've never actually been a player in it.

Carol: You take happiness wherever you can get it. And don't ever be sorry for it.

Daryl: I never thanked you for saving her.
Lydia: I never thanked you for saving me. We don't have to. We just do it.

Pamela Milton: You were born to lead this place.

Daryl: I don't know what I'm doing. But I'm trying really hard. I wish things were like how you want them to be. That's the way they should be. But they aren't. And I have to keep you safe.

Maxxine: Maybe... maybe you just choose to be a spoiled asshole. I mean, if everyone else expects it, who's left to disappoint?

Sebastian: The Commonwealth is built on buying into bullshit. The desperate need to believe that the ol' American dream is still real. You know, "Anything is possible!" "We... We could rise above our station!" It's a friggin' joke. The reality is that the poor stay poor so that the rich can do whatever the hell we want. The game is rigged.

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Lockdown

The Walking Dead 11×17

Negan: Alright. So what's the play?

Mercer: I can't just let you in. We got rules here.
Negan: Oh, rules? Right. Well, if no one else is playing by those rules, then why are you?

Negan: Hey, did I, uh... Did I tell you I got married?
Carol: Mm. Why are you telling me this now?

Sebastian: Do you know who I am?
Negan: Aw. Do you know who I am?

Negan: This one here, well, she is a goddamn magician. I have seen her pull little bunnies right out of her ass with my very own two eyes. So if, for whatever reason, she is throwing you a life raft, well, then I recommend you jump in that sucker and save yourself from drowning.

Pamela Milton: It was about what could have happened. It was about safety. It always is.

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Acts of God

The Walking Dead 11×16

Eugene: Just so you know... you are the most remarkable human I have ever met in my heretofore uneventful life.

Max: I just can't stop thinking about what happens after we do this. This place pushes on people to keep things the same. I just worry they'll keep pushing till we all break.

Maggie: Hershel... Everything I've done... And everything I still do... is so that we have choices.

Negan: He doesn't exactly trust me, you know?
Maggie: But I'm starting to.

Maggie: Whatever else happens, and whatever else has happened, I will never forget that.
Negan: Wow... You have big balls, Maggie Rhee. I got you. And I got your boy.

Max: It's okay. That's fine. Always clumsy after one too many afternoon coffees, you know?
Sebastian: Yeah, it's, uh... poor man's drug. Caffeine.

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Trust

The Walking Dead 11×15

Lance: At the end of the day, we all want the same thing, right? Justice.

Aaron: To the Commonwealth?
Lance: Oh, no. There's monsters running loose. We need to smoke them out...

Kelly: We need inside access to dig it out.
Eugene: I might know someone...

Carol: I just have some things that I need to figure out first, to fix. Uh, it's better that you don't even know about it, okay? Just trust me.
Ezekiel: I trust you... more than anyone.

Ezekiel: You'd think this place would make life easier, huh? Feels like there's a lot more gray instead.

Maggie: It doesn't have to be this way.
Daryl: .... Yeah, it does.

Maggie: You expect me to trust him?
Daryl: I ain't asking you to trust him. I'm asking you to trust me.

Ezekiel: I was hoping this new job of yours had connections here...
Carol: Yeah, well, my old man used to say, "It's the hope that kills you."

Maggie: Plenty others have made the mistake of threatening my family. Most of them are dead now.

Ezekiel: Darkness is heavy. Some of us carry more than others because we're strong enough to hold the weight. But we make the light. Hey. You make the light, Carol. You know that, don't you?

Shira: There is no choice because... there is no back to normal. We know what we know. And because of that, things have to change. ...
Eugene: I can promise you this. Whatever we find, whatever comes our way, you will not face it alone. I'll be by your side, hell or high water.

Lance: My name is Lance Hornsby. And I'm here to offer you a job...

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The Rotten Core

The Walking Dead 11×14

Negan: Everybody... Let's put our shit back in our pants and zip up. Shall we?

Lydia: They're like the Whisperers. They just wear different masks.

Maggie: If anything happens to him...
Negan: It'll have to happen to me first.

Annie: He's in good hands.
Maggie: He's in the hands of the man who killed his father.

Annie: None of us have clean hands. I've seen what people will do to each other to survive. Sometimes, it was done to me. Other times, I did it to them. I'm not proud of it, but it happened. All I can do now is try to be better. Just like him.
Maggie: He doesn't get to forget.
Annie: He hasn't... What matters to me is who he is now.

Hershel: Are you a bad man?
Negan: I was. Look, kid, I...
Hershel: My mom told me a bad man killed my dad.

Lance: Look... this place works because everyone plays their part. If you can't or won't, it hurts everyone else. That's when the system breaks down, and we can't let that happen. You know what I'm saying?
Carol: Yeah. Yeah, people can either be part be of the problem or part of the solution.
Lance: I knew you'd get it.

Gabriel: But if Ian didn't steal the weapons, who did?

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Warlords

The Walking Dead 11×13

Maggie: What's easier isn't always better.

Maggie: You think The Commonwealth knows better?
Lydia: Is that crazy to think?
Maggie: Yes! Those people have not been tested for 10 years. Do you wanna be there when they are?
Lydia: I just... want things to be the same every day.

Gabriel: I'm not doing this. Places like that usually have some old man with a shotgun inside just looking for an excuse to kill some dumbass who stepped on his front lawn. Practically screams "do not disturb."

Warlord: Ian: Okay. Let's say this place is... like the old world, and they do have a church, then they have to have hookers, too. Right? And gambling? Shit side of town where addicts swap needles with runaways. Got all that, too?

Carlson: And what about when things turn and I have to tell them what's what?
Lance: They'll fall in line. Everyone does.

Carlson: Ready the shelf, warlord. Top shelf, dead center. How's that sound?

Aaron: We are supposed to be helping people.
Carlson: We are. This is the other side of it. Snuffing out threats.

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The Lucky Ones

The Walking Dead 11×12

Eugene: The big guy in the orange armor who hates me. That's your brother?

Pamela Milton: I'm not convinced we need to stretch our resources like this. Grow your empire further than your power can extend and lose your empire.

Maggie: Why do you trust these people?
Daryl: Who says we do? When do I ever?

Aaron: There's like 50,000 people living there. At least 49.9 seem like decent enough folks.

Maggie: I've met so many communities, and I still can't figure out what makes some lucky and able to fight off the world while others can't.
Pamela Milton: I don't believe in luck.
Maggie: That's interesting.v Pamela Milton: I'm sensing more of an opinion.
Maggie: I mean, luck is about opportunity. I don't know anybody who's had more opportunity than you.

Maggie: I think that's called an autocracy.
Pamela Milton: No, it's not. Liberties haven't gone anywhere. You're the leader at Hilltop. You make the decisions. You consider yourself an autocrat?
Maggie: I-I lead the way I was taught by Deanna and Georgie. The communities that we built are fair.
Pamela Milton: The Commonwealth is fair.v Maggie: Yeah, but you drive a nicer car and live in a nicer house than everybody else.
Pamela Milton: I have more responsibilities than the average worker. A leader has to give her people something to look up to.
Maggie: Alright, well, I want people to look up to what I've done and what I do, not what I have that they don't.

Lance Hornsby: Look around. We can have so much more... Imagine being able to pick Hershel up from a concert at the Commonwealth, take him to a doctor's appointment in Alexandria, then jump on a boat at Oceanside, traveling up the coast. And what's up that coast? Another port town? Another school? How about a university? Have you ever imagined being able to drop your son off for his freshman year of college?...

Pamela Milton: ...why?
Maggie: 'Cause, like you said, everything costs something.

Eugene: I never meant to hurt you... But my intent does not excuse my impact. How can I make this up to you? Will you allow me to try?

Maggie: You need to be careful who you trust.

Lance Hornsby: Get ready, Aaron. We are going to remake the world.

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Rogue Element

The Walking Dead 11×11

Eugene: I'm merely just trying to retroactively manage your expectations is all.

Eugene: You know, uh, I was thinking about you yesterday while I was getting my knives sharpened, and...
Stephanie: Should I be alarmed here?
Eugene: Uh, no. The thought which sprang to mind was decidedly not homicidal.

Eugene: Stephanie... I love you.

Juanita: Do you love her?
Eugene: A strong affirmative. And she has said that she reciprocates.
Juanita: Then relax... When a woman tells you that she loves you, believe her.

Lance Hornsby: If you're in with the right people, Carol, the sky's the limit.

Lance Hornsby: One of the things you learn as you're climbing your way up is that there are two types of people in any organization. On the one hand, you've got the mercenaries. They're in it for the money and whatever psychological itch their position allows them to scratch. And on the other, you have the patriots, the true believers, the ones who want to do good. And whether they are or not might be up to debate, but in their hearts, they're there because they believe in the organization.

Juanita: Uh, so can you let me in? I brought lasagne.
Eugene: .... This is an empty dish.
Juanita: Oh, yeah, sorry. I didn't make lasagne. People just always have to let you in if you're carrying food.

Lance Hornsby: It's nice when your hobby is also an apocalypse skill.

Eugene: She told me, "You can't wait till after you've lived through it, 'cause ready or not, right now is all we've got."

Juanita: I don't want to get in trouble, Eugene. I got a little job. I got a little bed. I might get a little cat. This is so bad.

Eugene: Now I realize the depths of my self-delusion, because Occam's razor should have led me to this conclusion before a well-placed kick to the belly ever did.

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New Haunts

The Walking Dead 11×10

Daryl: It takes a minute to get used to all this, you know?
Carol: You know, this place was up and running long before we ever got here. Maybe we don't have to do anything to make it work.
Daryl: No, there's always something you got to do to make it work.

Rosita: Worrying about money again is so weird.

Mercer: You're used to handling things on your own. I get that. But that's not how it works around here. Sometimes we have to set each other up to win.

Lance: How did you know?
Carol: My mother always taught me to be observant.

Tyler Davis: Resist the Commonwealth! Visibility for workers! Equality for all!

Pamela Milton: Are there thousands more?
Lance Hornsby: No.
Pamela Milton: Make sure.

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No Other Way

The Walking Dead 11×9

Gabriel: How could God speak to you?
Minister: My role is not to question. I listen and serve.
Gabriel: Just following orders, huh? Where have I heard that before?

Minister: You don't hear him anymore, do you?
Gabriel: My flock is worth saving.
Minister: Is that your choice or His? Do you even listen anymore? Listen. He's here with us right now. Asking you to hear him again. Will you?

Minister: The path of peace is hard. ... Take my hand. Renew your faith. Allow yourself to be saved. No matter what any of us have done, no one is above saving.
Gabriel: .... I don't believe that.

Negan: Over here, shitdick.
Carver: This should be fun...
Negan: Well, ding-ding.

Negan: This can go wrong 800 different ways. Me... I am down with us getting out of this alive.

Daryl: We're doing this all wrong. We survived everything for what? To keep fighting and killing each other?
Leah: If that's what it takes.
Daryl: Don't have to.

Gabriel: Nope. No Jenson here... Call me Gabriel.

Maggie: Negan?
Negan: You know what I think.

Elijah: For Josephine. For all of them.

Negan: You were always gonna do what you did, Maggie. I don't blame you really. But, see, when it comes to me... promise or not... it's just a matter of time before you make the same call. So... I ain't gonna give you the chance to do that.

Daryl: I'm just thinking about choices. I mean, do they even matter anymore?
Gabriel: Depends on who's making the choice.

Gabriel: Doubt's important. But it doesn't make you wrong.
Daryl: You telling me to have faith?
Gabriel: Yeah, I suppose so, yes.
Daryl: What about you?
Gabriel: Yeah. I'm trying... I'm trying.

Jerry: Where's everyone else?

Gabriel: So many didn't make it. All so we could survive.

Lance Hornsby: However, if any are interested... I do have another, potentially more interesting choice to offer...

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For Blood

The Walking Dead 11×8

Pope: There's a reason for everything.

Judith: Remember what Mom said about storms? They're always followed by clear skies.

Pope: Ha-ha.
Daryl: What is it?
Pope: Somehow, she has turned the dead against the living. Ooh, that's impressive.

Judith: I haven't heard from her in so long. I just wish she was here.
Virgil: She is. I see her in the way you hold your sword. The way you're ready to run into the storm... and how you talk to those kids, helping them believe in themselves. Your mama's still with you. And you can bet that wherever she is, you're with her.

Pope: My enemy never gives up. Secure the gate. Shaw. Ready the hwacha.
Daryl: What's that?
Leah: It's how we're going to end this.

Pope: I knew this war was coming. And in every war, there is... sacrifice.

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Promises Broken

The Walking Dead 11×7

Negan: Alright, tell you what. You make me a promise... In front of the goddamn preacher... And I will stick around.
Maggie: Promise you what?
Negan: I do this for you, and we're even, we are good. I don't have to keep looking over my shoulder.
Maggie: We will never be even.
Negan: Then you are gonna be down a soldier that you desperately need. Your call.

Eugene: You're doing great.
Stephanie: I'm doing okay, not great.
Eugene: The timeline since this was last an essential activity in your daily routine and the necessity for it should be factors in your self-judgment.

Stephanie: The military does this for us. It's been so long since I've had to. It's not like riding a bicycle, turns out. You do forget.
Eugene: That's the good ol' cerebellum protecting you from unpleasant memories.

Maggie: You're gonna have to find me four strangers.
Negan: Only need three. I kept my mask for practical and sentimental reasons.
Maggie: This is not fun!
Negan: Well, not with that attitude.

Negan: Lower your shoulders. Arms limp. That's good, Maggie...

Maggie: This piece of shit!
Negan: It's not gonna fit you perfectly. It was... someone else's face.

Tomi: Someone like me would never meet Ms. Milton.
Yumiko: Why not?
Tomi: You have to know your place.

Elijah: Has he changed?
Maggie: We can't know that... He's helpful. He would be, long as there's something in it for him.
Elijah: So, your promise?
Maggie: I hope I can keep it...

Maggie: You killed people who had families. And you did it in front of their families.

Maggie: Are you saying you'd do things differently?
Negan: Yeah. Yeah, if I could do it all over again... I'd have killed every single one of you.
Maggie: .... Why would you say that?
Negan: It's the truth. We got to do whatever we can to protect our people, right? I mean, that's why we're here. That's why we're doing this.
Maggie: Why would you say that to me?
Negan: We had a good day, you and I. And the only way this works, Maggie, is... Is if we're honest.

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Out of the Ashes

The Walking Dead 11×5

Eugene: "Eugene Porter. Work Detail... high-school teaching pool. Boarding Detail... Bungalow 13, Sector 1..."

Eugene: Wait. What jobs did you guys get?
Juanita: I-I was just curious 'cause they gave me "retail clerk." Made me wonder if they have a mall here, 'cause that'd be frickin' amazing. I used to love working in the mall.
Ezekiel: They put me in animal control. I imagine all of these are based on jobs from before the fall.

Negan: You know the only way this works is if we trust each other.
Maggie: Why would I ever trust you?
Negan: I don't know, Maggie. 'Cause you want to stay alive, same as me.
Maggie: If I stay alive, it'll be in spite of you, not because of you.
Negan: Jesus. You know, if... if that's how you feel, I don't understand why you haven't put me down yet-- Shit!
Maggie: ... I ask myself that question every day.

Negan: How long?
Maggie: How long would you want someone to wait for you?

Negan: Maggie, you need to know when to cut your losses.

Eugene: If you don't mind me saying, this place has all kinds of creature comforts I never knew how much I missed. I'm an interesting creature, so this is a fine day for me.

Yumiko: Look, just tell me one thing. Is this place really as good as it seems?
Tomi: Better.
Yumiko: So if I wanted to get help for people, I could do that here?
Tomi: Anything's possible, as long as you follow the rules. Want some cake?

Carol: Everything that I do, I carry that.

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Rendition

The Walking Dead 11×4

Leah: Just as stubborn as ever.
Daryl: Is that what you think this is? Hmm? Me being stubborn?
Leah: Fine. Hard-headed.

Pope: God is here. He's angry. I'm angry. Do you feel that? Hmm? Go make them feel our wrath.

Pope: Forged by fire. Ordained by God. Welcome him!
— Fortitudo Saludis!

Pope: We were the Chosen Ones. These men... These men upon whose bodies the fire had no power. God chose you tonight. I mean, you... you came out of that fire alive and whole. And look at you now, sitting right here. Are you hurt? Hmm? Any burns? A scratch?
Daryl: ... I've been through worse before.
Pope: Are. You. Hungry?

Pope: You see... there's one thing I forgot to tell you. Never turn your back on your brother.

Pope: God doesn't only use fire as His baptism. It's also His wrath.

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