Life After Beth Page #7

- Look, I am not shitting you.

I haven't heard from her. She's gone.

No, but she left the Slocums',

right before Beth came back,

right before all the zombies came,

so she must have known something.

- Slocums'?

- Yeah.

- That's not why she quit.

- Well, why then?

She quit, because Mr. Slocum wanted her

to touch his (MISPRONOUNCING) penis.

- His what? What?

- His (MISPRONOUNCING) penis.

He wanted her to... He would walk around

all naked. He had sex problems.

- Maury?

- Yeah.

Oh, my God, that's so f***ed up.

Yes, there's a lot of f***ed up sh*t

going around here.

Dead people walking around. No TV.

Have to sit here and listen

to some smooth jazz sh*t.

I hate that sh*t, you know. What is that?

Excuse me, I think I'm lost.

Shouldn't this be a car wash?

(MUMBLING)

- No. I don't think so.

- Huh.

- MAURY:
Come on, Bethy. Come on.

- Sh*t!

Beth! Beth!

I guess Pearline wasn't much help.

- Let her go.

- BETH:
Why is it dark?

- Zach, is that you?

- It's okay, sweetie.

- BETH:
What did Pearline say?

- She said that your father...

- (BETH SCREAMING)

- Bethy, here.

Maury, look at yourself.

Okay? Look at what you've become.

Zach's going to say goodbye now, sweetie.

- Aren't you, Zach?

- BETH:
No, Zach. No, Zach.

No, Zach's going to make me better.

He loves me. We're in love.

- We're going to go hiking, right? Say it!

- ZACH:
Yes.

I've been thinking about it.

BETH:
Say we're gonna be together forever.

Say it. Together forever!

There is no forever.

Come on, sweetie. Come on, baby.

(CAR ENGINE STARTING)

(MAN BREATHING HEAVILY)

(INAUDIBLE TALK ON RADIO)

Who are you?

Mom?

Dad?

(FLIES BUZZING)

(GUNSHOTS FIRING)

(SMOOTH JAZZ PLAYING)

(INDISTINCT TALK)

Hello?

BETH:
Feed me. I'm hungry.

GEENIE:
I know you're hungry, honey.

That's my hungry baby, yeah.

- Geenie, what are you doing?

- GEENIE:
She's got to eat something.

- I just don't know why it was all...

- Okay.

- Okay, where's Maury? Where's Maury?

- I don't... Oh.

He tried to, um...

- Beth accidently...

- Jesus Christ.

- He's dead, Zach.

- What?

- She ate him.

- (SCREAMING)

Geenie, you should go,

and I will take care of Beth.

- And... Yeah.

- I can't. I can't.

- No. No.

- Geenie, you've done enough.

- But...

- Okay, just go and find safety, and it's okay.

It's going to be okay.

It's okay. Keep your hand raised.

Up all the way up.

There you go. Okay.

- Can I just give you the camera?

- Yeah.

All right, if you need me,

I'll just be in the other room.

Okay.

Hey, Beth. Are you okay?

Hungry, hungry, hungry!

Yeah, well, don't you think you ate enough

for a little while?

I can't help it.

Not like you f***ing care! (GROWLING)

I'm really sorry about

all that "together forever" stuff.

- Okay, but I just...

- (IMITATING WHIMSICALLY)

Together forever. Together forever.

Beth, all of my family was just massacred,

so if you could just be

a little bit more supportive.

Together forever. Together forever.

Beth.

Beth, let's go hiking.

- (PANTING) Hiking?

- Hiking! Yeah, let's go hiking.

Right? Let's just go. I mean,

you always wanted to, and I never did,

and now's our opportunity,

so let's just do it, right?

Let's just do it. Let's just do it.

(STRAINING)

Aren't you afraid of me?

No.

- Promise?

- Everyone else I love is dead.

So, you're all I have right now.

I have to tell my mom.

Mom! Mom!

Hey, no, it's cool. Let's just go.

But don't eat me. Don't eat me.

And let's just go.

Okay.

(GRUNTING)

(BETH PANTING)

Kyle, you're alive!

- Hit the deck.

- What?

- Hit the deck.

- Wait, no, no, no, no. Stop.

She'll eat brains out

of your cranium, Zach.

No, she' got a stove on her back.

We're going hiking.

What are you talking about?

Move. I got to shoot her in the head. Move.

WOMAN:
Excuse me.

(ZACH GASPS)

I'm saving you. Get down.

No, no, what about all the burnt bodies

at the house and Mom and Dad?

It was horrible, Zach.

I shot them all.

You shot Mom and Dad?

No. No, I didn't shoot Mom and Dad.

They're at the Levine'.

- Oh.

- We cleared eagle's nest.

I'm working on Briar Grove now,

but I shot Poppy in the head.

Hey, that's okay. That's okay.

All I ever wanted to do was shoot people.

They were going to eat everybody.

You did the right thing.

They were suffering.

- Yeah.

- They were suffering.

But hey, maybe the shooting,

maybe that's not the best dream, Kyle.

Maybe you should think of

a different dream, right? A better one.

- Yeah. Listen, Zach, you're a great brother.

- Thanks.

And I'm really sorry

I didn't believe you about Beth.

- That's okay.

- (BETH GRUNTING)

What's with the jumpsuit?

I forgot to tell you. I got deputized, man.

I'm part of the resistance.

It's so sweet. We have choppers.

We have AR-15s. We have Stinger missiles.

We're gonna win this war, Zach.

I swear to God, we're gonna win this war.

Wait, no. Stop, Kyle.

I'm serious. Just let me do this.

Let me take her for a hike.

Are you out of your mind?

Look at her, Zach.

BETH:
Zach. Zach.

Okay, I see how it is.

- Here, you do it.

- BETH:
Zach. Zach.

You got to shoot her in the head, though,

all right?

- No.

- She's going to kill us all.

- They eat everybody. They all eat people.

- I know.

- Please, just be quiet and let me...

- She'll f***ing eat you.

Let me take her for a hike

and clean my conscience.

She's tasted the flesh.

Now, she's got to die.

I can't do it. I love her.

You said it was okay

to shoot Grammy and Poppy.

- You said it was right.

- BETH:
Zach.

- And she's suffering too.

- ZACH:
Okay, we're all suffering.

Just let me take her for a hike,

and then I'll meet you at the Levine'.

What's going on?

- I'm doing my job protecting Briar Grove.

- We're going on a hike, baby.

Just this one thing.

- All right, do what you got to do, Romeo.

- BETH:
Zach!

Do what you got to do,

but be at the Levine' at 1600, all right?

- Zach.

- You know when that is? It's 4:00 p.m.

- Do what you got to do.

- Kyle.

- Do what you got to do.

- Kyle!

- Do what you got to do.

- (BETH GRUNTING)

White Lightning Strike, this is Red Dog

Leader. Briar Grave's a 47.

- MAN:
(ON RADIO) What's a 47 again?

- All clear, man. Come on.

ZACH:
Hey!

BETH; Hiking.

(SMOOTH JAZZ CONTINUES PLAYING)

- It's pretty.

- It's beautiful.

Pretty!

(SNARLING)

Don't do that, okay?

Smell.

Lavender!

Yeah. Yeah, it's really soothing.

Wow.

You were right.

- It's a really beautiful view.

- (GROWLING)

I wish we could flamenco dance.

Flamenco dance.

Um...

But we got to do a lot of things.

And I never got to say goodbye to you,

but at least I get to now.

Oh, f***! I can't...

I can't do this. This f***ing sucks.

Why? I thought you liked it.

No, I do. It's not...

This is not the... Not the hike.

Look, you were right, okay? Hey.

Hey-

Thank you

for coming back

and for giving me a second chance.

I, um...

I'm sorry the whole world went to sh*t.

But it was totally worth it,

and I'm sorry if I screwed everything up.

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