Promises: Part One

**Promises: Part One** is the eighth and penultimate episode of Season 2 and the sixteenth episode of the show overall.

## Description

*The Scavs attack, and truths are revealed. Pepper seeks revenge, and Blake seeks forgiveness.*

## Synopsis

Moments after the last episode, Blake grabs Charlie and demands to know what he has done. The others finally back him up, afraid, and he confesses that he told the Scavs where Bryce's campsite is in exchange for their safety. Blake panics, calling Charlie a "fucking idiot" before telling him that he is coming with him to help stop what's coming. Charlie resists at first, but has become despondent. Blake then tells the others that he's going to stop this, and needs "as much help as [he] can get." For a few moments, nobody speaks. Blake looks desparate, telling them that "they're human fucking beings! They don't deserve this!" Finally, Chloe asks him to give her a few minutes to prepare. Maeve then says that she wants to go too, and Joely agrees. Trevor tells them that it may mean death, but Claire tells him that "then I guess we have to make sure that doesn't happen." Finally united once more, the go and get ready to fight.

As they gather their weapons, Charlie asks Blake if he really thinks he can save them, to which he says that he isn't sure, but that whatever does happen is his fault. Charlie tries to defend himself, but he is having none of it, and tells him that "this is *your* fault. If one of us dies, then it is because of you." He walks away, leaving Charlie looking devastated.

Joely brings her bag to the car, where Blake is waiting. He asks her if she's okay, and she nods. She tells him that he is doing the right thing, then kisses him. Still holding her, he tells her that it feels like something's ending, she shakes her head and tells him not to think like that. Everyone else then arrives and they climb into two cars.

They arrive in the night, but the fires set at the campsite illuminate the area enough to be able to see. People run away, trying to escape the Scavs that are attacking. They cut down innocents as they try to get away, some even using guns. Blake brings his out and orders the others to try and help as many people as possible. He then tells them that he will go to find Bryce, going off on his own.

They run into camp. Maeve manages to stop a little boy from being stabbed in the back by a Scav. She runs, distracting the man away from the child.

Claire finds Dexter hobbling away as fast as he can, but is cut in the leg by a woman with a bald head. Claire runs at the woman, tackling her. Her head hits the side of a rock, killing her, and Claire scrambles up, terrified. Dexter thanks her, and she starts dragging him back to the car.

Blake finds Bryce behind one of the cabins being attacked by one of the infected, which have now been attracted to the camp. He pushes it away as Blake arrives, and kills it quickly. When Bryce looks at him, Blake sees the bite mark on his neck. Blake apologises for everything, visibly upset, but Bryce yells that he sold him out and lunges at him.

Pepper finds Patrick being eaten by some of the dead. She kills them, looking at the doctor griveingly, before stabbing his eye to prevent him from coming back. She then rounds the corner, where she sees Bryce attacking Blake, and freezes in place. Blake throw him off, yelling that he didn't sell him out, but that Charlie did. He then tells him that he's been bitten. Bryce stays on the ground, crying to himself and talking to someone who isn't there. Blake then looks up, seeing Pepper, and puts his hand up in surrender. He asks her not to do anything, but she runs off. Blake runs to follow her, leaving Bryce alone.

Maeve, out of breath, stops running and hides behind a tree. As the Scav chasing her passes, she swings at his legs, making him trip. She then desparately swings down and hits his head, killing him.

Charlie runs into one of the cabins, finding Porter standing over Grace, an empty gun and a knife in his hands. He sees Charlie and grins, asking if he can kill any other members of his group. Charlie charges and Porter and they fight. Porter slashes at his face, only narrowly missing before Charlie swings with his machete. Porter then kicks him through one of the doors and into the kitchen. Charlie stumbles for a second before jumping over a kitchen counter throwing plates at him. Porter dodges them and charges at him, but Charlie throws a knife instead. It lands in Porter's stomach and he stumbles. Charlie then shoves his machete into his chest, telling him that "that was for Tim, you son of a bitch."

As Porter falls to the ground, the machete still lodged in his chest, Pepper walks in. When she sees Charlie, she throws herself on top of him, punching him wildly and blaming him for what's happening. Just then, Blake walks in, yelling at her to stop with his gun up and ready. He tells her to let him go. She says that it is Charlie's fault and he should die, but he insists, saying that he will shoot her if he has to. Eventually, she gives up, telling them to leave, but warning that if she ever sees them again, she'll kill them.

Blake drags Charlie with him, only turning his gun away when he leaves. Pepper cries to herself, wiping her tears away and smearing blood on herself.

Bryce gets up from the ground, walking into one of the cabins and grabbing a pistol from one of the drawers in his room. Without hesitating, he puts the barrel to his forehead and shoots.

The group make it back to the cars, bloody and broken, with Dexter in tow, and drive back. When they get behind the gates of the school, they stand in the square solemnly. Claire asks what happens now, and Blake says that he doesn't know. Charlie then says that he's sorry for what he did and is about to apologise to Dexter when a gunshot rings out and he falls to the floor. Blood leaks from a hole in Charlie's head and he lays there, motionless. At the gates, Gwyn stands there, a gun in her hand.

## Death

* Bryce Ansem
* Charlie Ipkiss
* Porter
* Grace
* Patrick
* Multiple Scavs
* Multiple members of Bryce's Group

## Quotes

> "You *fucking* idiot. You've just killed those people! I'm going. I have to stop this, before it gets any worse. And you're coming with me. You guys...you don't have to come if you don't want this, but I could use all the help I can get...They're human fucking beings! They don't deserve this!" - Blake asking the group for help.
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> "No. This is this is *your* fault, Charlie. If one of us dies, then it is because of you." - Blake to Charlie.
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> "You! You did this! You told them! This is your fault, you son of a bitch! I'll fucking kill you!" - Bryce upon seeing Blake.
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> "Dani...Dani, please...come back to me...I miss you." - Bryce to himself.
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> "That was for Tim, you son of a bitch." - Charlie avenging Tim's death.
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> "What about them? More people are dying and it's *his* fault! Why does he get to live while others don't?" Pepper about Charlie.
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> "Pepper, I get it, okay? I understand. He's a fucking asshole, I know. But if you don't let him go, the I am going to shoot you. I really *really* don't want to do that. Please, just let him go." - Blake to Pepper.
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## Trivia

* This is the first time that an episode has been split into two parts
* This episode marks the end of Bryce's group