What Have You Done?

"**What Have You Done?**" is the second episode of Season 2 and the tenth episode of the series overall.

## Description

*The group arrives at the campsite and are introduced to their leader. Pepper wrestles with the consequences of the run to the fire-station. Maeve struggles with her mental state.*

## Synopsis

### Part One

#### Flash-Back

On the day of the outbreak, a young man, Bryce, drives down a long stretch of road, his eyes wild. In the back, his fiancé Dani clutches her shoulder and cringes in pain. Blood pours from a bite mark and she asks him to slow down. He is forced to, anyway, when they come across a pileup on the road. Bryce turns off into a different road, telling Dani to "hold on until we get to a hospital." Ahead, they see a woman signalling for help, a broken down car at her side. Bryce appears to be about to drive past, but Dani tells him to stop, saying that "she needs help." The woman turns out to be Pepper, who tells them that she was also trying to get away from the chaos when her car broke down. When she sees Dani clutching her shoulder, she freaks out, yelling that "she's bit!" Panicking, Bryce stops the car once more.

Pepper leaves the car and Bryce follows, asking what's wrong, to which she tells him that "it's the bites that *do* it*.* Y'know...change people into those things. You die first, and then..." After a moment, Bryce looks back at Dani, who looks on at him through the window.

#### Present Day

Cut to a shot of Pepper during the present. She sits next to Claire in the back of the car, Dexter in the boot with his ankle elevated, while Joely drives, Blake in the passenger side. As they travel down a dirt road surrounded by trees, she tells them to turn left. They soon stop at a gathering of cars, people stand on the roofs and one of them yells to "identify yourselves!". Pepper climbs out and calls out, telling them "it's us! Get Bryce, we need to talk." The others then climb out, save for Dexter and those on the cars immediately raise their weapons, asking who they are. All but Blake raise their hands in surrender as they approach. Before they can try to search them, however, Bryce appears behind them, telling them that "if they were Scavs, Pepper wouldn't be here right now." Bryce's clothes are largely the same, though now, he wears a worn out coat and his stubble is more pronounced. One of the guards, a tall, muscled woman, states that "they could be armed," to which Bryce tells her with a smile that he'd "be worried if they weren't, Grace." He then looks at Pepper, his face growing still, and asks "the others?" She tells him that "Dex's in the boot with a fucked up ankle. Sam's alright, she's just staying behind. Simon..." Bryce sighs.

Grace and another guard open up the boot, revealing an uncomfortable looking Dexter. He greets them with a pained "hey guys, what'd I miss?" before they help him out of the car. They help him hobble over the wall of cars while Bryce listens to Blake and the others' story. Pepper says that "I hope I made the right call. I mean, it just seemed like the right idea at the time." Bryce nods, saying that "I'm sure we can work something out. It's not everyday we come across someone with as much resources as you guys. Especially with a group as young as yours." He beckons for them to follow. Blake, Joely, and Claire exchange looks, but Blake tells them that "I guess it's too late, now."

### Part Two

At the school, Maeve stands on the truck and overlooks the street outside. After a moment, she hears a sound behind her and when she turns around, her surroundings go dark and she is tied to a chair. Panicking, she begins to scream, but finds her mouth taped shut. She begins to hear an echoey voice in the background, telling her to "shut the fuck up."

Then, she jolts back to the school, with Sam grabbing her shoulder and asking her if she's okay. Maeve looks around frantically, panting a little. Sam tells her that she was "making some weird noises, I thought you were having a panic attack or something. Do you want me to get your sister?" Maeve shrugs her off and tells her no, stating that she's "fine. Just...I'm fine." She drops down and walks off, passing Tim. Sam sighs, but he tells her that "she's been through a lot. More than most of us, actually. Just give her time." She asks what he means, but he says that "it's a long story." She then shakes her head, saying "it always it, nowadays."

At the campsite, Bryce leads Blake, Joely, and Claire into one of a long line of log cabins. Before they enter, he tells Pepper that she "should be the one to tell Clyde about Simon. It'd be better if it came from someone closer to him." She looks away and tells him that she was "worried you'd ask me that," but ultimately agrees and says goodbye to the others. As they enter the cabin, Bryce explains that the camp has "five log cabins and a whole bunch of tents. We try to make as much room in the cabins as possible, but our numbers are growing all the time—we're almost a hundred now—so they go to the people who need it the most. The pregnant, the elderly, you know." He leads them to an empty room with a map of the surrounding area on a table in the center. They sit down and Blake tells him that "if you're trying to advertise this place to us, you're wasting your breath. We fought for the school. Shed blood for it." Bryce holds up his hands in surrender and tells them not to worry. He mentions that he is "wondering what you mean by 'shed blood'," to which Blake says that "nobody's hands are clean anymore."

Pepper, mumbling something to herself, works her way through a city of tents outside one of the cabins. She eventually reaches a yellow tent and taps on the material, asking if Clyde is in there. After a moment, a large man with blond hair emerges, telling Pepper that he's "glad you're back. I was starting to get worried there. You guys find anything out there? Gotta be worth it if you were gone for a whole day." She stays silent, looking at him with a sorrowful look on her face.

Back in the cabin, Bryce leans back and says that "if I'm being honest, we do need fuel. We can find food enough, yes, but without the cars to go out and *get* them..." Blake then tells him that they haven't been able to find much food at all anymore, to which he replies "then you haven't been looking in the right places." He then proposes that in exchange for fuel and "whatever else," they could trade some of their food and techniques for finding it. He then tells them to "think about it. Stay here for the night, get back to me in the morning." As they leave the cabin, loud shouting comes from the tents outside. After a moment of hesitation, Bryce and the others go to investigate.

### Part Three

#### Flashback

Having stopped at the side of the road, Pepper explains to Bryce and Dani that she saw "a guy get bitten in the neck by one of those things. When he died...he came back as one of them." Dani, sitting in the car with the door open, sighs to herself. Bryce rubs his neck and says "maybe it was something different that caused it." Pepper shakes her head solemnly, but Bryce yells that "you're wrong! We just need to get her to a hospital!" He goes to open the driver's side door, but Dani calls him back, telling him that "she's right..." she uncovers the wound on her shoulder, revealing the bite mark, where the veins around it have turned black along with her blood.

#### Present Day

Bryce and the others arrive at the origin of the shouting, which is revealed to be Clyde, teary eyed and accusing Pepper and saying she "left my brother to rot out there! Like bait, just so you could get away!". Bryce tries to intervene, asking Clyde to "calm down and we can have talk about this inside" but Clyde doesn't back down and instead insists on going back to the fire-station. Pepper tries to tell him that "there's...there's nothing of him left." At this point, a crowd has gathered around and is watching on. Bryce approached Clyde slowly, his hands raised in surrender, and tells him that he is "so, so sorry. But your brother's gone, and we don't have enough fuel to bring him back. Not yet anyway." Clyde's face contorts in rage, but he says nothing and walks off. Blake asks Pepper if she's okay, but she tells him she "wish[es] that had gone better. Simon was my friend, even if he annoyed the shit out of me."

In one of the cabins, Dexter lays on the floor, his leg propped up by a set of pillows. He curses as a young man examines his foot carefully just as Claire walks into the room. She asks him how he's feeling, to which is tells her he "feel[s] great! I'll be walking again any day now!" Claire rolls her eyes at him and looks at the man tending to him. He tells her that "he's gonna be fine, but I'm not letting him stand for at least a week." He then introduces himself as Patrick, before complimenting her on her treatment of Dexter's foot "despite your lack of experience." She shrugs and says that "all I know comes from basic first aid books," to which he tells him it's "good enough." As Patrick leaves Claire sits on the floor with him saying that she's "sorry about your friend." Dexter lies back and, after a moment, tells her that "he was a bit of a prick sometimes, but...he didn't deserve to go out like that. It just ain't right." he then sighs and rubs the bridge of his nose, saying "if I hadn't fell..." but Claire shakes her head and tells him "there's no point in thinking like that. Not anymore." Dexter turns to her and says "you guys have been through some shit, haven't you?" She nods quietly, not looking at him.

Later that night, Blake and Joely sit outside of a couple of tents near the edge of the tent-city and the row of cabins. Blake—watching the patrolling guards intently—asks her what she "think[s] of this place." She turns to look at him and, after a moment of thought, says that "I think we need each other's help here. And we'd be getting a pretty good deal out of this trade." He looks at her and says that "he seems just...too perfect. Like he's trying way too hard to look like someone who has his shit together." She shrugs, saying "aren't we all? I don't know about you, but I haven't had slept without one eye open since before this shit started." Blake laughs and she gets up. When he asks her where she's going, she says she's going "to sleep with one eye open." She puts her hand on his shoulder and he reciprocates by holding onto it for a moment before she pulls away and goes into one of the tents, leaving him alone outside.

At the school, Maeve tosses and turns in her room. The voice of Cain echoes in her head, taunting her and telling her she "couldn't even save yourself" and that "Frank died because of you." She wakes suddenly, gasping and clutching at her throat. She calms down after a moment, but then begins crying. With it still dark outside, she visits Frank's grave. As if speaking to him, she says that she "can't do this," before she looks up and sees Cain standing before her, his bite mark still still visible on his arm. Maeve takes a step back and he disappears immediately. She rubs her eyes with her palms and breathes a shaky sigh before whispering "fuck" to herself and walking off as the sun begins to rise.

Sitting outside his tent, Blake accepts some food from Pepper, who asks him if he slept well. He tells her that he thinks he "slept on a rock or something, my back is killing me." She laughs and agrees, telling him it's "not as luxurious as a school table." Seeing Bryce approaching, Pepper says she "might as well check on Clyde. I don't know if he's taking it too well." Blake nods and she leaves just as Bryce arrives. He says to Blake that "after all you've seen of this place, are you still gonna be cautious around me?" After a moment of thought, Blake answers by telling him that "this place is...impressive. I think you have a good thing going here. But you...there's something about you that I can't quite put my finger on. You aren't the squeaky clean person you seem to be trying to pretend to be. Everyone here's done something to survive." Bryce's face has gone blank as Blake talked. He answers after a second, replying "And you? What have *you* done?" Joely slowly emerges from her tent, listening to the conversation attentively. Without breaking eye contact, Blake immediately tells him that he "killed a member of my group. He'd already killed one of ours. He'd been bit and was going to kill me and two others, so I stopped him." The tension in the conversation rising, Bryce opens his mouth to say something, but is interrupted by Pepper who calls out to them. Noticing other people, she gets closer to them and says in a hushed voice that "Clyde's gone. I can't find him anywhere. I think he's gone to find his brother."

### Part Four

As they approach the entrance, Grace approaches the group and tells them that they aren't "missing any cars. He must have gone on foot." Bryce then concludes that "depending on when he left, he could almost be there by now". Before he can say anything else, Pepper volunteers herself to go after him, citing that "it's my fault, I should've handled it better." Grace then says that there "isn't exactly a ton of petrol left for us to use for this, boss," to which Pepper states that "we can't just leave him out there! You know how Clyde gets when he's not himself, who knows what'll happen to him!" Blake watches on, conflicted as Pepper and Grace argue for a moment, before interrupting and telling them that he'll go, saying that "our car has enough fuel for the trip." Bryce breathes a sigh of relief and says "thank you" before Pepper tells him that she's going too." Blake nods and turns to Joely and Claire, who look worried. He tells them to stay at the camp, and that "if anything happens, then get the hell out of here while you have the chance."

Meanwhile at the school, Chloe yells Maeve's name out to the streets as she stands atop the truck. Charlie approaches, telling her that "nobody can find her here, she's not in the school." She yells "dammit!" before climbing down and grabbing a backpack from the floor and saying that she's "going out there to look for her." Charlie tries to stop her, saying that "you can't just go—" before he is cut off by Chloe telling him that she "promised Claire I'd look after her sister. I can't just let Maeve run around Brompton on her own." Charlie then raises his hands and tells her that he agrees, saying that "I was gonna say: you can't just go on your own." Chloe breathes a sigh of relief before he tells her to "give me a moment to get my shit."

An infected is killed by Maeve as she walks down a street. She pulls the knife out of its skull and wipes the blood off using her jeans. A few moments later, she arrives at her destination. The supermarket. As she enters, Maeve tries her best to keep herself together, walking past a puddle of dried blood and approaching the chair that she was tied up on. After a moment of staring at it, she remembers the few minutes before Blake's arrival in What We Become. She sees herself tied up and wrestling to get free, before Cain crouches down and whispers for her to "be quiet, or I'll make you be quiet." His arm, still recently bitten at this point, has begun to turn black and his forehead is covered in sweat. He then looks up at the present-day Maeve, then saying that she "came all the way back here, and for what?" She replies that she is "tired of being afraid. Of you. Of myself. I want to stop feeling so...*goddamn* weak." As the hallucination Cain stares at her, she takes a deep breath and says that "I'm done being afraid. I came her to make sure of that. You were pathetic. You killed a good person that day, and I wish I could have killed you myself." Suddenly, Cain and Maeve's past self disappear, and she is once more alone.

Blake and Pepper make their way to the fire-station in the car, with the latter behind the wheel. Pepper thanks him for letting her drive, stating that "I didn't exactly feel comfortable with you guys' driving skills on the way to camp, no offense." Blake chuckles and says that "the end of the world kind of removed the need to learn the highway code." As she turns a corner, Pepper asks if she can ask Blake a question, to which he nods. She then asks him "where did you get the gun? I saw your friend give it to you when we left." Blake looks away, only saying that "a friend gave it to me." She looks like she is about to ask a question until she sees the look on Blake's face.

They then arrive at the fire-station, only a few infected now occupy the area. Blake climbs out of the car first, a large knife ready in his right hand. As Pepper leaves, Blake takes out an infected whose attention they had drawn. The two of them make their way to the front of the building, taking out only a couple more of the dead before finding Clyde sat on the ground, facing away from them as he looks upon what is left of Simon. Hearing them approach, Clyde tells them that he had "never told him how much I loved him. Those first few days, when we didn't even know if our own mother was alive...he kept me going. What am I supposed to do now?" Pepper then crouches down next to him, saying that "you have to stay alive and remember him." Clyde then yells at her to "look at him! There's nothing left *to* remember!" Blake tells him that "there is. The first day, I saw both my mum and dad...anyway, I had to face it on my own. Eventually, I chose not to remember them in the way I saw them last and just focus on everything else." Clyde looks up at Blake as he finishes, stating that "it doesn't make things easier—nothing will—but it helps, at least." After a moment, Clyde stands and says that "we'll need something to bring him back in." The two others nod and they head back to the car.

### Part Five

At the school, Sam stabs at an infected through the fence near the entrance, killing it and adding it to a small pile on the ground on the other side. She wipes the sweat off her brow as Tim approaches. He hands her a bottle of water, asking her if she needs any help, to which she says no, telling him that "it's much easier when they can't get to you," then going on to say that "there's no fence like this at the campsite, so we have to patrol twenty-four seven." After a moment of silence, she then asks if she knows Tim from somewhere, telling him that she recognises him. He then tells her that they went to school together. Sam thinks for a moment and remembers, saying that "you started hanging out with these two older guys and then just disappeared." Tim's smile fades and he tells her that "they were assholes. Gone now."

Cut to Chloe and Charlie as they find the corpse of an infected on the ground. Charlie kneels down to take a closer look and says that they "can't be much further from her by now," and Chloe nods in agreement. As he stands up, Chloe sighs and says "how could I let this happen?" Charlie tries telling her it's not her fault, to which she tells him that "Claire trusted me to look after Maeve while she was gone. I'm not exactly great with other people, Charlie, especially people with obvious signs of PTSD." The two continue walking down the street as she keeps talking, saying that "Blake left me in charge while he's away. If I can't keep members of the group from running off, how do I know he made the right decision?" Charlie tells her that "he *did* make the right decision. The fact that you're out here looking for Maeve proves that." Before she can reply, a voice ahead asks "are you guys talking about me?," with Maeve emerging from around the corner.

Blake and Pepper arrive back at the campsite with Clyde in the back seat. The three of them climb out and Clyde pulls a long bag with Simon's body inside, carrying it into camp. Lingering behind, Pepper thanks Blake for coming with her, to which he says that "it's alright. I think we've all been where he is right now." Joely then approaches but before Blake can say anything to her, Bryce soon follows, thanking the two of them for bringing Clyde back. Blake says that "it wasn't a problem," before asking how much food their group would be willing to trade. Bryce smiles, leading them back into camp and telling him that "I'm sure we can work something out."

#### Flash-Back

Dani sits at the side of the road, her skin grey and her eyes barely open, the veins around her bite mark have turned black, as has the blood that is still escaping. Bryce kneels in front of her, Pepper a few steps behind chewing her fingernails. He tells Dani that he's sorry. She reaches out and strokes his cheek, wiping blood on him. After a moment, her hand falls and her eyes glaze over. Bryce then breaks down into sobs before Pepper kneels down next to him and tells him that "I don't think we have long before..." When he doesn't reply, she asks if he wants her to "do it" but he continues to ignore her, instead standing up and climbing back in the car. He starts it, then asks Pepper if she's coming. Reluctantly, she nods, climbing in the other side. They then drive off down the road, leaving Dani's body at the side of the road. Before the episode cuts to black, her arm begins twitching.

## Deaths

* Dani (*Flash-back*)
* Multiple infected

## Trivia

* First appearance of Bryce Ansem
* First appearance of Clyde Gilbert
* First appearance of Grace
* First appearance of Patrick
* First (and last) appearance of Dani
* Last appearance of Simon Gilbert (*Corpse*)
* Last appearance of Cain Fletcher (*Hallucination*)
* While Maeve visits the supermarket, a number of references to What We Become and other previous episodes can be seen, including:
	+ A puddle of blood in the spot where Cain died.
	+ The chair that Maeve was tied to.
	+ Smashed glass that Blake used to cause Tony's death.
* Since Cain's body is no longer in the place where he died, it can be assumed that he turned shortly after being killed.