Frank McGuire/Season 6

Scene 1
[In a flashback, LUCAS and FRANK are in the house to figure out how to deal with the herd that Rick and Morgan encountered.]

HEATH: My team... we saw it early on, back when we were on one of those first scouts, finding out what was around here. There was a camp at the bottom. The people, they must have blocked the exits with one of those trucks back when everything started to go bad. They didn't make it. They were all roamers. Maybe a dozen of them.

MAGGIE: No one's been back since?

HEATH: DC, every town worth scavenging are all in the other direction. And I never really felt like having a picnic next to the camp that ate itself.

MICHONNE: So all the while the walkers have been drawn by the sound and they're making more sound and they're drawing more in.

RICK: And here we are. Now, what I'm proposing, I know it sounds risky, but walkers are already slipping through the exits. One of the trucks keeping the walkers in could go off the edge any day now. Maybe after one more hard rain. That exit sends them east. All of them, right at us. This isn't about if it gives, it's when. It's gonna happen.

CAROL: This is-- I don't even have another word for it, this is terrifying. All of it. But it doesn't sound like there's any other way.

CARTER: Maybe there is. I mean, couldn't we just build up the weak spots? I could draw up plans, I worked on the wall with Reg. Construction crew -- we can try and make it safe.

LUCAS: Sounds like that'll just delay the inevitable.

RICK: He's right. The sound of those walkers is drawing more and more every day. Building up the exits won't change that.

DEANNA: We're gonna do what Rick says, the plan he's laid out.

RICK: I told you all, we're gonna have Daryl leading them away.

SASHA: Me, too. I'll take a care, ride next to him. Can't just be him. I'll keep 'em coming, Daryl keeps 'em from getting sloppy.

ABRAHAM: I'll go with her. It's a long way to white-knuckle it solo.

RICK: We'll have two teams. One on each side of the forest helping manage this thing. We're gonna have a few people on watch. Rosita, Frank, Spencer and Holly. So they're out. So who's in?

MICHONNE: Me.

[GLENN and MAGGIE whisper to each other and eventually...]

GLENN: I'm in.

GABRIEL: I'd like to help as well.

RICK: No. Who else? We need more.

CARTER: There's got to be another play. We can't just control that many.

RICK: I said it before, walkers herd up. They'll follow a path if something's drawing them. That's how we can get 'em all at once.

CARTER: So, what? We're supposed to just take your word for it? We're all supposed to just fall in line behind you after...

RICK: After what?

CARTER: After you wave a gun around screaming, pointing it at people. After you shoot a man in the face. After you--

DEANNA: Enough!

HEATH: I'll do it.

FRANCINE: Me, too.

TOBIN: Whatever you need, I'm in.

DEANNA: Now who else?

NICHOLAS: I'll go. We have to do this. I need to help.

RICK: You sure you can handle it?

NICHOLAS: You need people.

[FRANK notices GLENN's disapproval.]

RICK: We'll make this work. We'll keep this place safe. Keep our families safe, we will.

CARTER: The plan. Go through it again.

[LUCAS sighs.]

DARYL: Man, he just said it.

CARTER: Every part again. The exact plan.

Scene 2
[Frank walks over to Rosita who is sawing boards in half.]

Frank: Hey, Espinosa. [she turns around and he tosses a water bottle towards her. She catches it and drinks some of the water.]

Rosita: Thanks.

Frank: Yeah. [he has a water bottle of his own and drinks it] How's it coming along?

Rosita: Take a look for yourself. [she gestures her hand to the wall]

Frank: Think it'll work?

Rosita: Hope so.

Frank: Yeah, me too. [chuckles] I gotta say, things have changed a lot since your group got here.

Rosita: [smiles] For better or worse?

Frank: I guess we'll find out after this plan of yours.

Rosita: Wasn't my plan.

Frank: Whatever you say, Espinosa.

Rosita: I hear you're going to be watching with me in the forest.

Frank: Yes, ma'am, I am.

Rosita: I don't get it. Why are you always keeping watch? You never go on supply runs, even though you're more than capable to do so. You don't recruit new people with Aaron & Eric. Why is that?

Frank: Not my thing. Keeping watch, taking shots from a distance if I have to, that's my thing.

Rosita: You're afraid?

Frank: Afraid? Afraid of what? You think I haven't gotten my hands dirty?

Rosita: I don't know. You tell me.

Frank: I don't get involved in the politics around here. I don't have the patience for them. And the different jobs that I can do, I'm not interested. Except for keeping watch in a tower. I've seen enough death... I don't need to go chasing it.

Rosita: Yet you go on runs by yourself.. sometimes for weeks, as I hear. That's dangerous.

Frank: Well, sometimes I need to get away from everything.

Rosita: You're a strange man, Frank.

Frank: [chuckles] Well... maybe one day I'll tell you all about the mystery of Frank McGuire. But for now.... how about I give you a hand?

Scene 1
[Frank hears screaming, he grabs a pistol, and holsters his knife. He runs outside, and sees several people being attacked. Frank kills a couple of the 'Wolves' and runs over to an injured woman.]

Frank: Shhh, shh.. sh... It's alright... you stay with me, alright? I'm gonna get you somewhere safe.

[Frank picks up the woman, carrying her on his back.]

Scene 2
[Frank rushes against a wall, behind a house, he spots several other Wolves and lays the woman down. She is breathing very slowly.]

Frank: Stay with me, Sharon. Stay with me. We're almost there.. Almost there...

[Frank sees Aaron & Rosita crouching behind a crate. They get ambushed by a few Wolves, and Frank runs to help them.]

Scene 3
Frank: You two alright?

Aaron: We're fine. You?

Frank: Oh, just grand. Can one of you help me with Sharon? She's over here and-- [he walks over to her but she's passed out. Frank kneels down and checks for a pulse, but there is none. She's dead.]

[Frank shoots her almost instantly. He clears his throat and turns to Aaron & Rosita.]

Frank: Let's kill these bastards.

Scene 1
[Frank listens to Rick's speech after he returns to Alexandria.]

Scene 2
[A car drives up towards the gate, despite the fact that the walkers have surrounded the main gate. Michonne, Frank and Maggie are watching, confused. Rick runs over as he hears the car honking. Lucas rolls down his window, and starts yelling.]

Lucas: Hey! Come on! Follow me, assholes! Follow me!

[Lucas manages to distract a good portion of them away from the front gate. There's still plenty around the gate, but Lucas is making an opening regardless.]

Lucas: Open the gate! [He kills several walkers and pushes several of them back. Frank and Maggie open the gate with Rick running towards it, Lucas then runs back in and collapses on the ground from exhaustion. They close the gate again and Frank helps Lucas up.]

Frank: Jesus H. Thought you were dead, man.

Lucas: Not yet. [pants heavily] Michonne. Scott, Heath, Annie? They all right?

Michonne: Annie didn't make it. Neither did David. What--

Maggie: Glenn? Where's Glenn?

Lucas: I, uh... [sighs] I don't know. I... I was with them, and then... they surrounded us. I barely got out alive. I think they... I don't think Glenn and Nicholas made it out of there. I'm sorry.

[Maggie is visibly upset. Michonne tries to comfort her but Maggie just walks off.]

Rick: Take him to the infirmary.

[Frank helps Lucas to the infirmary.]