Episode 9.13: Bleed the Wound Dry

Bleed the Wound Dry is the thirteenth episode and finale of the Ninth season of The Walking Dead The Survival.
==Synopsis==
To save their home and lay demons to rest some survivors embark on a dangerous hunt.
==Episode==
We open to the sound of engines going; an alien yet familiar sound to them. It is a sound that few have heard since all this began and, fewer still would risk employing, let alone know how to restart in this new world.
A walker lumbers onto a stretch of road; turning hungrily to face the alien noise.... only to be run down by a fast moving metal behemoth. 
Russian Soldier: Spokoynoy nochi trup (Goodnight corpse)
We pull out to see a diesel train traveling down the tracks pulling something on a covered flat bed. The camera pans over it before taking a binocular view of the train from a distance.
Soldier one: Shit.
We see two soldier from the city at a make shift watch post that was once a gas station. From the road it dosent look like much but, up on the well camoflagued roof its a mini fort. 
Soldier one: Get on the radio now.
Soldier two: And tell them what?
Soldier one: What do you think? I somehow doubt whoever is driving that drain is delivering long overdue mail.
He looks back through the binoculars while the other soldier has gone for the radio. He picks it up and we jump cut to the nerve centre of the city and a montage of people getting ready include are survivors in various rolls. Some like Amy help out with medical while others like Karina and Nathan help with escorting people to shelters. We see Tobias with Penny and Penelope sorting through shelter supplies while Adam and a few other techs work of defences and security.
This time if things go pair shape they are going to be more than prepared for any possibility.
Henderson V.O: Best estimate this where they are gonna hit us from.
We switch over to an area outside the city and a map on an overturned box with Henderson pointing at a circled area. On closer inspection we see its part of the train line that was likely salvaged from a nearby train station.
Moe v.o: And the line?
We see Moe, Slade, Cage and James with a group of other people; a make shift defence and strike force team. 
Henderson: An old service line, night or goods line more than likely.
James: Make sense, less likely to have been log jammed or destroyed in the chaos when all this started. 
Cage: Quite to... got to hand it to these guys they know how to be sneaky.
Slade: Well lucky for us people took home defence seriously... so when do we blow this sucker?
Henderson: That's not the plan.
Slade: What?
Henderson: Tech boys don't want to risk it; we don't know the exact ins and out of the device they are transporting. Could be airborne, could be waterborne so the last thing we need is this thing coming back to bite us in a few months down the line in a supply run/
Slade: So what's the plan then? Stand in front of the tracks and ask nicely for them to stop?
Henderson smirks.
Henderson: Something like that, and of you boys like Westerns?
Slade: What are you suggesting?...
We switch back to the train going slowly along the line to its intended target; from the view its easy to see they could aim the device into the heart of the city and they would be gone before anyone knew what hit them. 
The train is also going slow for another reason which we see with occasional pit noise has gunners pick off walker that are stumbling after the train. 
Inside we see people going about their business; men in uniform and some in protective gear; the ones who will no doubt fire the device. Overhead is a countdown clock and a small monitor like the ones you would find in a plane that will tell you how far you are from your destination.
Everything seems to be going to plan only for the train to suddenly come to a halt hard. 
People are jostled and an irate commander gets up. Not the one from the previous season but, from the scars on his face and an air of unpleasantness he is clearly not a friendly guy.
Commander: Mat' Ublyudok, razve eti duraki ne mogut sdelat' chto-nibud' pravil'no? (Mother Fucker, can't those fools do Anything right?)
He heads up to the engine where the soldier from the start and a few others are looking out the window.
Commander: Vy ved' pomnite svoi prikazy? Potomu chto my nakhodimsya v neskol'kikh milyakh ot tseli! (You do remember your orders right? Because we are several miles from the target!)
The soldiers look round sheepishly.
Russian Soldier: Ser ... vot ... prepyatstviye na linii ... nu prosto posmotrite. (Sir... there... an obstecale on the line... well just look.)
He makes room for the man to see and the audience gets a look at what seems to be the remains of a make shift barrier or a collision between viechles. What draws the eye is a large armoured truck that looks very out of place in this scenario. It screams a trap and a bomb waiting to off in all their faces. The commander smirks.
Commander: Itak, lisichki starayutsya byt' umnymi (So, the little foxes are trying to be clever)
He motions to the soldier.
Commander: Pokazhi im, chto my delayem s umnymi lisam (Show them what we do to clever foxes)
The soldier nods and we pan to outside and a gun coming into view has a squad of Russian soldier cautiously approach the viechle. Just because it looks like a bomb does not mean there are other surprises around the area. One soldier holds a metal detector and runs it along the tracks and dirt has they approach wile other soldiers keep an eye out for snippers and other attacker. A few others are keeping and eye on the area and bodies; you never know what could be a walker lying in wait.
They approach the the armoured car, spreading out and ivesitigating it. One soldier with a device to detect explosives gives the all clear while another goes to open the back. 
Russian Soldier 1: Chto eto?
We see the inside of the van is not full of explosives, people walker or, hell even money. Instead there is a scarecrow; the kind oof the thing you see on Bonfire Night and in its lap is a white board with a message in Russian.
Zastavil tebya smotret (Made you look)
Before they can react a huge shriek fills the air followed by gunfire. We switch to the top of the train and see that the bed with the weapon has been separated; blown away vy a small charge. The bed is rolling away and actually being led away by a makeshift winch attached to a few trucks that have appeared being guarded by the squad of city soldiers. We see Cage driving one truck while Moe and Slade help with cover fire. James is on the back of the covered truck with a few other men who set the charges. 
It is obvious to the Russians they have been had. 
And the best is yet to come.
Henderson: Das be Danian boys.
We see him on a cliff above the fighting with a detonator. There is tense moment has we zoom in and the button presses. and we fade out and back in to a hanger inside the city where the device is being unloaded from the back of a lorry.
Moe: That went better than hoped.
Slade: And your complaining?
We see them watching has Henderson walks up with a smirk.
Henderson: Like my Grandfather used to say, first rule of magic is to get people looking in the other direction.
Slade: Same applies to a con but, hey I aint complaining.
Moe is smiling to; a propper peaceful smile; he might be uncertain if this truly over but, removing this threat had certainly put his mind at rest and slain his demons from the previous season.
Moe: I think a celebration is in order.
Slade only if you are buying the drinks.
They chuckle at the joke and we fade to back.
End