Lucas Black/Season 6

Scene 1
[In a flashforward, RICK is speaking to everyone about the plan.]

RICK: This is where it all starts tomorrow. Tobin gets in the truck, opens the exit and we're off. He hops out, catches up with his team at red staying on the west side of the road. Daryl gets on his bike--

[The semi-truck begins to collapse.]

SASHA: You see that?

LUCAS: What the hell?

[The semi-truck collapses and the plan is set into motion.]

RICK: It's open! We got to do this now! We're doing this now! Tobin's group, get moving, go!

CARTER: No, Rick, we're not ready!

LUCAS: Well, shit.

RICK: Sasha, Abraham!

ABRAHAM: Damn straight, we'll do it live.

RICK: You meet Daryl at red. Let him take them through the gauntlet.

SASHA: Yeah, we meet at red!

[SASHA and ABRAHAM enter the car and drive off.]

RICK: Go!

GLENN: Rick, I'll hit the tractor place.

RICK: Okay, who else!?

LUCAS: Screw this, I'll tag along with Glenn.

GLENN: Alright. Heath, we've got to take them out or they'll distract the horde.

NICHOLAS: I'm here, let me help.

GLENN: No.

NICHOLAS: I'm here!

GLENN: Do everything I say!

NICHOLAS: I will.

[They head to the tractor place.]

Scene 2
RICK: [over radio] Glenn, you have to hurry. The noise could distract the herd right off the road. Talk to me.

GLENN: We're here!

NICHOLAS: Sounds like a lot.

LUCAS: It's never easy, is it?

GLENN: We need it quiet.

HEATH: So what's the plan?

GLENN: Take them out a few at a time. Nicholas, you're at the door.

[NICHOLAS grabs the door, preparing to open it.]

GLENN: You let one or two out and then you close it. Keep doing that, that's the trick. That's how we control. ... Heath --

HEATH: Wait, what if he can't close it?

NICHOLAS: I'll be able to.

GLENN: Then we take them on.

HEATH: We take them on!?

LUCAS: We don't have any goddamn time to debate how we do this. We need to do this shit, now. Whether we have to dirty our knives or fire some bullets, whatever. We get it done.

GLENN: If we get into trouble, we go behind the building into the woods and we draw them away.

NICHOLAS: Hey, you've been out on runs since he got here. He knows what he's doing. Me and Aiden, we didn't.

LUCAS: The kid's pretty damn resourceful.

HEATH: [sighs] This was supposed to be a dress rehearsal.

GLENN: [laughs] I'm supposed to be delivering pizzas, man. Daryl's leading the this way and they're closing is. That noise is gonna pull the herd right off the road and then we have serious trouble. We have to do this.

LUCAS: Capiche?

HEATH: Yeah, okay.

GLENN: All right. On three. Ready? One... two... three!

[NICHOLAS opens the door but the entrance is blocked.]

LUCAS: Shit.

Scene 3
[In a flashback, LUCAS and MICKEY 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.

LUCAS: I agree.

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, Spencer and Holly. So they're out. So who's in?

MICHONNE: Me.

LUCAS: Ah, why the hell not, I'll pitch in.

[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.

[LUCAS quietly laughs, barely anyone notices.]

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.

[LUCAS 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 4
[Outside ALEXANDRIA, the group is preparing for the plan, MICKEY is talking to MAGGIE, with a tone that sounds a bit rude.]

MICKEY: Excuse me, but I don't think I know who you are.

MAGGIE: My name's Maggie.

MICKEY: Maggie, I appreciate the sentiment, but I don't need your help, alright.

LUCAS: The hell's your problem, Mick?

MICKEY: Nothin', man. She's just bein' nosy.

LUCAS: What's wrong?

MAGGIE: I was just offering some water.

MICKEY: And prying into my personal business.

LUCAS: Christ, Mickey. Go lay down. We don't need you passing out here.

MICKEY: Stupid sumbitch. I ain't gonna have a heart attack.

LUCAS: Oh, yeah, you're too young for that.

MICKEY: Screw you.

[He leaves.]

LUCAS: Sorry about that. He's got a temper.

MAGGIE: It's fine. There wasn't anything happening.

LUCAS: You're Maggie, right? Glenn's wife?

MAGGIE: Yeah.

LUCAS: Great. Nice to meet you. I don't suppose... you brought some water for me?

MAGGIE: No, I didn't, sorry. There's water over there, I just thought he needed it. He didn't seem to be doing so hot.

LUCAS: I was just joking around. Yeah, that's Mickey. He doesn't have a great heart. I tried to convince him not to come out here, but he wants to do something other than sit around. That's the only reason he comes out on supplies.

MAGGIE: Is he sick?

LUCAS: Not really. I mean, yeah, it seems weird for a thirty-eight year old dude to have heart issues, but that's just how it is. I'm not a doctor, you'll have to ask him for the specifics, but I doubt he'll tell you. I appreciate your concern, though. I'm sure he does too, it's just hard to get it out of him.

MAGGIE: Yeah, I guess so.

LUCAS: I haven't really gotten a good read on Rick yet. From what I hear, you've been with him since nearly the start of this shitstorm, huh?

MAGGIE: About, yeah. He showed up to my daddy's farm, with his son in his hands.

LUCAS: His son? He dead?

MAGGIE: No, he was shot. Carl. He made it out, okay, then.

LUCAS: You a doctor?

MAGGIE: No. If I was, I would've said something earlier.

LUCAS: [laughs] I guess, yeah. How'd you save the boy? Your dad a doctor?

MAGGIE: Yeah. He was.

LUCAS: ....I'm sorry. Didn't mean to... remind you of that.

MAGGIE: It's okay.

LUCAS: I lost my dad too. About a few hours before all this started. I didn't even get to mourn him, not after all that happened.

MAGGIE: I'm sorry, that's terrible.

LUCAS: Yeah, it is. You guys started out around here?

MAGGIE: No, we were in Georgia.

LUCAS: Whoa, shit, Georgia? Huh. You're a long way from home. I guess, so am I, Kentucky -- except I wasn't born and raised there. I don't know where I was born.

MAGGIE: Where were you born?

LUCAS: Eh, I think I've taken up too much of your time. Maybe let's get together some other time and I'll give you the life story of Mr. Lucas Black. [he nods] Adios.

Scene 5
[At the tractor place, the walkers pound against the windows.]

HEATH: This is a bad idea.

GLENN: This is the only idea.

LUCAS: Where's your sense of adventure, man?

HEATH: My sense of adventure doesn't involve taking on thirty roamers at once.

LUCAS: Well, you don't have an exciting sense of adventure.

NICHOLAS: Looks like there's like a dozen in there.

GLENN: We stay back, we get on opposite ends, we draw them to each of us.

NICHOLAS: Try and take down three each?

GLENN: No. You stay back. We'll handle this. Things go south, you tell Rick and you draw them away.

[NICHOLAS hesitates.]

GLENN: Just move back.

[Lucas, Glenn, Nicholas and Heath prepare to take out the walkers at the tractor place.]

GLENN: You ready?

HEATH: No. But since you're doing this thing anyway....

GLENN: All right. [He shoots the window and it shatters, walkers come out.]

[The three of them kill walkers while NICHOLAS stands back. A walker grabs HEATH and Lucas tries to help him but a walker grabs him, NICHOLAS stabs the one grabbing HEATH while Glenn keeps shooting. LUCAS grabs the walker by the lower body and picks it up and shoves it to the ground, then stomps on its head, killing it.]

GLENN: Nice.

LUCAS: [pants] Thanks.

[The last walker roams forward. NICHOLAS looks to GLENN for permission.]

GLENN: Get it.

[NICHOLAS kills it.]

GLENN: Good. Let's go.

[The four of them leave.]

Scene 6
CARTER: Time is running out. He's talking about a dry run tomorrow. That's it.

OLIVIA: Rick stopped Pete. He stopped him.

CARTER: This is not taking out a wife-beater.

LUCAS: He slit Reg's throat, did you forget that part?

CARTER: What Rick wants to do is suicide. I'm sorry, Spencer, but Deanna is asleep at the wheel. So it's on us. We've got to stop him.

LUCAS: Shut up, man.

CARTER: What the priest said about him, these people, he was right. How many more of us have to die before we do something? 'Cause pretty soon, it's gonna be late.

LUCAS: Tread carefully, Carter. What you're proposing is a really bad idea. It's a shitty idea.

CARTER: It's plain and simple. We kill him before he kills us.

LUCAS: You kill him, his group's gonna want retaliation. How are we going to deal with that?

CARTER: We take their guns.

LUCAS: It won't be that sim--

[Glass shatters. EUGENE trips backwards and hits a shelf. CARTER holds a gun in his hand.]

EUGENE: [nervously] Hello.

TOBIN: Carter.

CARTER: He heard.

LUCAS: Now, hey, wait a second, asshole....

EUGENE: I didn't. I mean, I didn't--

LUCAS: Carter!

CARTER: He heard. [he aims the gun at EUGENE.]

LUCAS: Lower the gun, dammit!

[RICK opens the door, DARYL and MORGAN are behind him.]

RICK: What the hell's going on? What are you doing!?

CARTER: I'm taking this place back from you.

RICK: That's what you were talking about in here?

SPENCER: That's what he was talking about.

RICK: See, I would have-- I would have set up some lookouts. That would've been the smart thing... in case I happened to--

[RICK grabs the gun and kicks him in the leg and CARTER falls to his knees. RICK points the gun to the back of his head.]

RICK: You really think you're gonna take this community from us? From Glenn, from Michonne, from Daryl, from me? Do you have any IDEA who you're talking to?

CARTER: It was just me.

RICK: What?

CARTER: It was--It was just me. Just-- Just kill me.

DARYL: Rick.

RICK: I'm good. I'm good. [he hands the gun to LUCAS, who holsters it.] You can try to work with us. You can try to survive. Would you do that?

Scene 7
[LUCAS is with Glenn, Michonne, Rick, and the others who hear the horn and start to head back to Alexandria.]