... Until Death Parts Us

"... Until Death Parts Us" is the fourth episode of season two of The Last Ones and the twentieth episode overall. It was published for the first time on August 8th 2016. 
==Plot==
Peter is taken aback by how much Lorna has changed as the two see each other for the first time since the death of their son. Meanwhile, the survivors at camp bury Joy and prepare to leave. Also, Charlotte and Michael get to know each other better whilst sitting idle in the woods. Elsewhere, Georgie makes friends at Midway.
==Synopsis==
Having tracked down Lorna at the cabin their family used to stay when on vacation, Peter is thrilled and tells her how excited he is to see her again. She, however, responds angrily. She runs at him, points his sickle at his throat and says "you son of a bitch!" Unbeknownst to them, and Angie who is waiting patiently outside, a massive group of zombies are heading in their very direction.
Lorna demands to know how Peter found her. He reveals that Henry gave him information. Lorna insists to a confused Peter that he had no right coming to look for her. He reminds her that she's his wife, but she disputes that and says "It’s all over. All that’s left… is death." She then goes to leave, but pauses when Peter asks her if she's going to ask about Beatrice.
At the survivors camp, Jai speaks at a funeral service for Joy as Sean, Aimi, Shiro, Javier, Henry, Shiloh, and Donna stand in quiet reflection, listening. Jai mentions remarkable women he knew, including his mother and wife, but he states that Joy might just be the most remarkable of them all, as she acted as a mother to the group and despite not being a violent person, she stepped up to the plate and did what she needed to do to protect Georgie and Beatrice: whom Jai describes as two of the most innocent among us. He says that they will never forget what she did. He finishes up by saying "rest in peace, Joy." Everybody but Henry then walks away. He lingers behind a second later to say "Goodnight, Karen. I love you sweetheart", as she is buried next to Joy.
In the woods close to Summerlyn City, Charlotte and Michael sit and wait for the arrival of zombies. Michael mentions that Charlotte must have loved her mother a lot in order to betray her friends for her. When Charlotte is hesitant to talk, Michael mentions that he wouldn't have done the same for his mother, whom he describes as a walking icicle. He talks about how she was cold and only cared about his learning once she realised he had the potential to follow in her footsteps as a scientist. As such, he was banned from living a normal life and was only allowed to study. His brother, whom was considered unremarkable in comparison to Michael, ended up resenting his brother. Michael, in return, ended up despising his parents, his mother for her coldness and for stopping him from living a life when he had the chance and his father for being too submissive and not intervening. Charlotte is apologetic but points out that her father was violent. Michael reminds her that parents don't have to be violent in order to be abusive. He then says he only cut his mother out of his life shortly before the apocalypse, and as such, he never really got to experience the old life. Just then, Michael decides it might be time to call it a day as no zombies have been alerted to the area since he shot the trashcan. Charlotte insists that zombies are attracted by sound, and Michael agrees, but suggests they try again another time. At that moment, the pair spot a massive group of the undead coming through the trees; heading straight for them.
At the cabin, Lorna discovers that Beatrice is alive and back at Midway, Henry's camp. Lorna brushes off Peter when he says he had to come looking for her as he loves her. She insists he needs to let that go. As there's no such thing as society and families anymore. She mentions they were fools to even try and keep their families together. Peter pleads with Lorna to see sense, as Beatrice needs her. Lorna explains she had a knife on her the night Eli kidnapped her and Milo and that she failed to keep their son safe, but Peter has managed to protect Beatrice and can continue to do so. Peter tells Lorna he feels guilt too, but she insists she's not going to play happy families. Peter is angered and tells Lorna he buried their son yesterday and is under no illusion that things will ever be the same again, but he wants to put together what's left of his family. Lorna refuses, and says that their family is dead. Peter is furious and says Beatrice needs them and she's scared and alone. He asks Lorna if she's really that much of a selfish bitch. When he tries to touch her, she loses her temper and pushes him to the floor. A stunned Peter asks what's happened to her. She heads upstairs after replying "Eli. Eli happened."
In Midway, Georgie and Calvin get to know each other a little better. She reveals that she used to work in a comic book store and preferred The X-Men to The Avengers, whilst Calvin preferred the latter. Annette then comes over and jokingly asks the two if they're done flirting. When they insist they're not, she then kids "And I'm Madonna." She then asks Calvin to help her out with the gardening. Rachel tells Annette she should take it easy, but Annette responds she's capable of pulling her own weight. Georgie is then introduced to Penny and her dog, Dolly. Georgie jokes that she will watch and observe Calvin to see if he's doing a good job.
Charlotte is infuriated when Michael hides in the car and leaves the huge amount of zombies to her. She takes them all out, but doesn't see one creeping up behind her. Michael kills the zombie with a knife,saving her and then jokes "I helped." Unamused, Charlotte punches Michael in the face, and he admits he deserved it. Another zombie then approaches the duo, and Michael stops Charlotte from killing it, as they need one alive. He asks her to tie it up. Charlotte reluctantly agrees, and says she must be out of her mind.
Peter follows Lorna upstairs, apologises for calling her a bitch and asks if she's calmed down. Lorna also says sorry, but points out she did warn Peter. Lorna tells Peter that Eli never really laid a hand on her, except for when she tried to escape, when some of his men would rough her up. When Peter asks if he tried anything sexually, Lorna says no and then goes to leave, but Peter refuses to let her past. She promises Peter he never did anything like that, but that she was taken to his bedroom and he used to lie down beside her and talk, and run his fingers through her hair. Lorna smirks and says had she been made to sleep with him, she would have bit his penis off, which makes Peter cringe. Eventually, Lorna had enough of Eli stroking her like a submissive pet and she attacked him and tried to strangle him, having failed only because one of Eli's men happened to walk into the room and stop her. She then tells Peter when she got to Henry's camp, he took her to a shower area to get cleaned up. There, she found some shaving equipment, and because she could still feel Eli's fingers running through her hair, she shaved it all off without a second's thought. She then says she might feel differently when it grows back, but she sort of likes it the way it is. Peter sadly remarks that she used to love her hair. She replies "I did. I also loved our home, our son, our marriage, and the life we shared, but it’s like I said…all dead." She then goes into the bedroom and tells Peter once more to leave.
In Victoria, Steph approaches Bobby and introduces herself as the idiot who shot him. She tries to explain that she over-reacted because the thought of Eli's men attacking the complex scared her so much. Bobby says he won't forget what happened, but he forgives her, which she appreciates. He then asks where he can find Luke, as he heard he saved his life. Steph points him in the right direction. Having seen Steph talk with Bobby, Alexis interrupts a discussion with Monty, who is busy informing her of all the fruit and vegetables they'll be able to grow thanks to Jenson raiding a plant store nearby. Alexis then walks over to Steph, who assures her she kept their secret from Bobby. Alexis promises Steph she'll be back on patrol soon. Steph says she should hope so.
On their way back to the complex, Michael tells Charlotte that giving him the cold shoulder won't make him shut up. She replies "clearly." He attempts to apologise and admits he panics around the undead but Charlotte snaps at him and tells him to shut up. He angers her again when he says just moments after "home sweet home." The two are then let inside by Alvin, after Michael mocks his way of speaking, and they run into Alexis, who asks how it went. Charlotte walks away without saying a word. Michael explains why she's annoyed. Alexis is concerned when Michael reveals he brought a live zombie back in the car, but she understands when he says they need to come up with a way of collecting them one at a time, as they're often in packs. She tells him he needs to be careful, and he assures her he wants him to carry on living just as much as she wants him to.
In Luke's house, Bobby thanks him for giving him blood when he was shot, thus saving his life. Luke says it's nothing and that he's sure Bobby would do the same for him. Bobby says "For a stranger? With the way things are now? Probably not. That’s why I’m so touched by what you did." Just then, Jasmin enters the room, but walks away without speaking when Luke asks how she is. He explains to Bobby that she just lost someone close to her. Charlotte then walks inside and Bobby introduces her to Luke. She explains that Michael almost got her killed, much to Bobby's shock. Charlotte now says she knows why Alexis wanted her and Bobby to help Michael with his experiments: she wants them dead. Luke asks if she's talking about Alexis, and he agrees she can't be trusted. Bobby asks Charlotte what they should do, but she tells him she needs to think.
With Joy buried and everything packed and ready to go, Sean, Jai, and Aimi gather together and say how much they're going to miss their camp. They then get into vehicles alongside Javier, Shiro, Henry, Shiloh, and Donna, and the group leave for Midway.
With everyone at the cabin still unaware of the approaching zombies, Peter enters the bedroom, where Lorna appears to be talking to herself. Lorna asks if he's been in the other room, he says he hasn't. She tells him there are dead bodies in there and it's an ugly sight. Peter sits on the bed and confesses he was close to saving Milo, and had he been just mere seconds before, he could have saved him. Lorna said it was Eli's plan for him to not get there in time, and he had the entire thing planned to a T. Lorna is enraged when Peter tells him that Alexis refused to give him a vehicle, thus slowing him down considerably and giving him little chance to save Milo. He also informs Lorna about the complex in Summerlyn. Lorna tells Peter he should have killed her. When Peter asks what she's going to do, Lorna reveals she found a map belonging to Eli, and he had marked several settlements on the map. Lorna checked the places out and all but one was abandoned, and she took out everyone at the one that wasn't. Peter is outraged, and says they could be innocent people. Lorna gets angry too and says they were bad people who worked with Eli, and she made sure and will always make sure, as she intends to track down the rest of Eli's allies and make them pay for assisting him. Peter is against this. He talks about his murder of Joel, and says that taking a life should always matter, but Lorna disagrees. Lorna reveals she's doing what she's doing not out of revenge, but to stop those bad people from hurting more people.
When Peter tells Lorna they can have a life at Midway, she calls him stupid to believe that and once again tells him to leave. Suddenly, from outside, Angie, who has noticed the zombies, screams at Peter to come and help. He does so, and they attempt to fight them off, but there's too many. Refusing to leave Lorna behind, Peter heads back inside and Angie follows, but she points out the front door won't keep the undead out for long. The two are surprised to discover that Lorna is holding a man hostage. Peter figures out she was keeping him in the other bedroom. He compares her to Eli, but she rejects that, and says that David, her prisoner, was a bad man who along with his deceased camp mates, raped and killed young girls. Lorna threatens David with her sickle and demands to know where the location marked on the map as Glitz is located. David swears he doesn't know, but eventually confesses and reveals it's a hidden underground nightclub in Little Oak, and that Drake, a man Lorna is after, is located there. Lorna asks him if Drake and his people definitely worked with Eli, and David confirms they did, and that Eli used Drake as a torturer. Angie is disgusted by Lorna's behaviour and asks Peter if she's truly his wife. Peter replies "was." Lorna smiles at this and says "Well done, Peter. You’re getting it. You’re finally getting it. I was your wife. And this here was David." Without warning, she pushes David outside and alerts the undead, before shutting him out.
Angie steps forward to help David, but Lorna warns her to back off. David pounds on the door and screams at Lorna, saying he hopes Drake cuts her in two, but he is soon grabbed and feasted on by the undead. With the zombies all alerted to him, Lorna heads out through the front door, with Peter and Angie right behind her. They fight off a few more zombies and then vacate the area. Lorna tells Peter she has nothing more to say, and tells him to go and play house, as she has important things to attend to. She leaves. Peter begins to cry and tells Angie that his wife is gone, but she tries to tell him she's suffered a terrible trauma and just needs time. Peter says he only has Beatrice left now. She corrects him, and tells Peter he has her, Sean, and the rest of the group. The two then depart, as Lorna watches from a distance. She takes a step forward, as if to go after them, but then pauses, wipes a tear, and turns and walks away in the opposite direction.
==Deaths==
*David
*Numerous counts of zombies.
==Trivia==
*First appearance of Penny.
*First appearance of Dolly.
*First appearance of Monty.
*First (and last) appearance of David.
*First mention of Drake.
*Last appearance of the survivors camp. (Present time)
*Alvin, a previously unnamed, non-speaking survivor at Victoria, is named in this episode.
*The title of this episode refers to a saying in wedding vows, with the first half of this saying being the title of the previous episode. It could also be referring to Peter and Lorna being torn apart by the death of their son.
*Calvin and Georgie discuss the two major comic book distributors Marvel and DC, and also mention the Marvel superhero teams The Avengers and The X-Men respectively.