Keep thinking about how far away from home we are. Yeah, me too.
I'm glad I found you!
We're going home. You got it?
Morning, sunshine.
You alright?
You're burning up.
Can't we please just deal with this tomorrow?
We can wait here for a while.
Carol?!
Carol!
What the hell are you doing?
Are you alright?
Shh. Look.
They're so perfect.
They got a lot of stuff.
Don't.
I'll just take a little.
No, but... but I'm feeling better.
They ain't gonna put up a fight.
Well, then, what's that for?
Icebreaker.
Fuck me.
Roberto!
English.
Thank you. Justina...
thank god you were here. Thank you very much.
My friend needs a doctor. Is there a doctor around here?
We don't come from this area.
May... maybe you could just give us some food.
Yes, yes. Something for my head.
Yeah. Let me see.
What about a village? Is there a village nearby?
No. Yes.
You don't look like you've been out on the road too long.
We have... how you say?
Hey, what's she saying?
I have herbs in here and some pain medicines.
My grandmother is a healer, okay?
Maybe... can you take us to her?
I am sorry. It is not possible.
Point us in the right direction, then.
A few kilometers that way.
But it's bad there.
They do not welcome strangers.
They will if you take us.
You don't want to go there.
It's not a good place.
Yeah, it's true sir, what he says.
We'll take that chance.
- Daryl, it's okay. - We cannot go back.
Where we come from, there is no hope for us.
There's no hope for her out here.
You don't understand. They will send her away and kill me.
Here. I give you all my medicines, everything you want.
Our water. Have it all. But...
I'm not letting my friend die out here.
Get up!
Start walking.
What did you just say to her?
He only wants for us to find a way to go again.
I really appreciate you doing this,
even if it's not really your choice.
It's fine.
Where were you headed anyway?
To see the world.
Not so great out there in the world.
It's not so great in there either.
Vamos! Aquí!
Hey!
Vamos!
She needs help.
She's hurt real bad.
He says to put it down.
Them first.
Welcome to solaz del mar.
- What is that? - Medicina.
My grandmother is a meiga.
She knows how to heal people.
She needs to lay down.
My name is federico de Rivera.
I'm... El alcalde... ¿cómo se dice en inglés?
The mayor.
You have a quiet place maybe...
maybe she can get some rest?
I apologize, my friend,
but we allow no outsiders to stay in our town. No.
It's just one night.
Until her fever breaks.
We can provide you with some supplies for the road.
We have room for you.
Two days.
That should be enough to get la señorita healthy.
Thank you.
I am Roberto's father.
My name is Antonio. Come.
Follow me.
I don't mean to be trouble.
No. It's... No trouble.
Hey.
"See you later, gringo?"
A spaghetti western.
A terrible film, really, but very delightful.
Let me find disinfectant and bandages.
Dinner's almost ready.
You know, I need to borrow some tools to fix up that boat.
They watch us like hawks now.
When you sneak away secret in the night,
that can only work one time.
So you got some tools I can borrow?
Maybe I help you fix your boat.
And you help us to leave again.
It is you who forced us back.
Man, I don't get it.
What's so bad about this place?
They won't let us be together.
Are you talking about your parents?
La ofrenda.
It's... it's a lottería, and it will come soon.
We have no time.
Yeah, well, me neither.
When I'm not with her, nothing is good.
Do you know how that is, to feel that way?
Because my own father has forgotten.
Maybe he's just old enough to know
that that ain't the only thing that matters.
Hi. Hey.
How you feeling? Much better. Thanks.
Are you hungry?
You like churrasco?
Barbecue.
Galician beef.
And, also, and roll as... Lamprea, percebes.
Barnacles... a delicacy.
Yeah.
So, you have what you need to fix your boat?
Yeah, yeah. Just about ready to patch it up.
Paz...
This is the convoy from El alcazar...
the last vestige of the Spanish monarchy.
Or so they claim.
That man there, Guillermo torres,
is to be the next king.
Once a year, they visit the northern villages,
bringing gifts, offering protection.
They say the alliance keeps us safe.
What's he saying?
Tomorrow is la ofrenda.
A girl chosen and taken to El alcazar.
Taken?
Why taken?
To marry them off, they say.
Who knows? We never see them again.
It's here now...
the thing we were running from.
Hey. Look at what I found.
Six cans of beans.
Ooh! And they just let you have that?
Goes good with hot dogs.
Roberto's upset.
He wants to run away again.
I think it's best... If we stay out of that.
They'd be free if it wasn't for us.
No, they'd be dead.
We made them come back.
I just think we owe it to them to help.
I just think we should get our asses back home.
So, the town offers up one of your daughters...
And in return you get a truck full of guns?
Fede calls it security.
I call it... extortion.
But if it helps us to survive...
That's all I want for my boy.
Maybe sometimes it makes me a bad father.
Guess if you're worried about how you're doing,
you must be doing it right.
He's talking about the town's connection to El alcazar.
He says to be chosen is an honor.
It is to be offered into a better life.
An older, better world than El alcazar is keeping alive.
The fastest will determine who will be chosen.
Alba. Alba guerrero.
Mama!
Guess we dodged that bullet.
You kind of do it all, don't you?
Take care of the animals, the walkers.
Walkers?
You mean los huecos?
We call them... The hollow ones...
men with I'll say... No heart, no soul.
We use them to patrol the walls.
It's how I could help just in a and Roberto to escape.
We planned it for weeks so nobody would know.
You did that, too?
And it worked... Until you came.
Be right back.
Come on. Hey!
Come on.
Here you go.
You have a way.
With the pigs.
My neighbors had some down the road
where I grew up. Yeah?
It's almost time for dinner.
Please join us at our table, you and your friend both.
We'd like that. Thank you.
Perfecto.
So, tell us, friends... How did you come from america?
Boat.
And a plane, and another boat.
Maybe this time we'll try a blimp.
You must miss who you left behind very much.
That's why we're in a hurry to get back there.
My husband wonders what news you have from the world.
Pretty much sucks everywhere, except London.
England sucks the most.
Really?
There's no people left there.
How sad.
I was concerned when you came into town.
Strangers. I really was.
But just in a has told me about you.
You, señor, a tracker and a hunter.
And I hear you work in running communities back in the U.S.
I welcome your wisdom and insights.
I got insight. Your food's fucking delicious.
And your town is beautiful. Thank you.
But some of your traditions are a bit surprising.
One thing I have learned is that the old ways
are not always the best ways.
Can you pass the pork?
El puerco?
It's delicious. Pata negra. From the southwest.
Some newcomers brought the pigs up here.
They have done well.
Traders?
Travelers.
Over time, solaz became a destination
for people from all over españa, not only galicia.
The basque country, valencia.
We are a...
how say? A melting pot.
Few towns have prospered as solaz has.
And there is a reason for that.
You asked for our wisdom, fede.
Want a drink? I'll get you a drink.
But I have a question.
Why?
Why surrender your daughters to these people?
All for what... some grains and seeds, a jug of ethanol.
Forgive me.
But El alcazar is Spain's hope for the future.
An la ofrenda gives these girls the opportunity
to thrive and to be safe.
Look at me.
I'm the living proof.
You see, El alcazar has been good to us.
And your family?
Didn't your mother's heart break when she lost you?
Can you just imagine
how unthinkable this is for any parent?
The problem here is until we joined the alliance,
solaz was under constant siege.
As alcalde, I found a way to protect us,
and no one regrets that.
No one?
I'm gonna go check on our stuff, alright?
Make sure everything's okay.
Thank you for dinner.
Abuelita says you're a guest who needs our help.
- Yes, I am. - And I appreciate...
this is our house, our home.
We've found a way...
to make this world work for us.
Have you?
Stranded... lost... far from home?
Where do you belong?
Come back to us when you find a better way.
Well... Time for the dance.
Vamos!
My mother is... she's very passionate.
She has a point.
Who am I to judge?
We make sacrifices.
But in that way, we are all the same, no?
We couldn't have gotten this far without that.
How else could we have survived?
We burn old things... como las fall as...
to welcome the new.
It's like a ritual of renewal.
La quema.
Hoping to be reborn and find a better life than this...
a better future before us.
Ay, españa, españa, españa.
She is chaotic...
impulsive...
violent.
Yet cultured... And, also, proud.
Not so long ago, we conquered the world.
We rule an empire all our own.
And then what happened?
We could not figure out what to do with it,
and just a moment later, Spain...
Imploded.
We turned on each other.
Brother against brother.
Imagine... To be capable of so much...
cervantes...
Picasso...
Gaudí...
yet to be our own worst enemy.
My duty is to protect my people from every threat.
Do you understand?
Even the most... Persistent one of all...
ourselves.
Roberto -need help fixing a boat.
I can't just let it happen.
You feel like you could fix it, but sometimes you can't.
I have to do something.
Is there a village nearby?
They do not welcome strangers.
They will if you take us.
When Carol and I wash ashore and she's injured,
we run into a young couple,
and the young couple bring us to this town.
This location we are in is northeast of Madrid,
in a region called segovia.
And within that region is sepúlveda.
Sepúlveda was one of the first places that we came to,
and we fell in love with this town.
It has a lot of heart. It has a lot of soul.
It has sort of an earthy warmth to it,
and you really feel like you're in Spain.
Part of the reason we chose it
is because this town already exists as a community.
A lot of our extras are from the community.
And the great thing is we're able to use that
and help make our world as believable as possible.
It's such a beautiful location and just perfect for the scenes.
One of the things that we really were excited about
was the idea of investigating
how our show could echo spaghetti westerns.
I, from the very beginning, was looking at
the man with no name movies,
the Clint Eastwood movies that he did with Sergio Leone.
That was one of the things
that attracted us to Spain, to give it a really different feel
than when we were in France.
Daryl and Carol are,
for all intents and purposes, people with no name.
They come from a faraway place.
Nobody knows anything about them.
They don't know anything about the town they're walking into.
And that sort of is a classic makeup of a Sergio Leone movie.
Welcome to solaz del mar.
Man, I don't get it. What's so bad about this place?
They won't let us be together.
We really wanted to explore this season
love in the apocalypse.
The idea was to have a story
that was provoked by some kind of pure love
that's trying to exist in a very dark world.
That's what Roberto and just in a represent to Carol
when she sees them at the top of episode 2.
Forbidden love is a theme
that runs through this story line,
not just Roberto and just in a,
where the two families are trying to keep them apart,
for reasons we will discover later in the show.
And there's a love story between paz and Elena,
which is also forbidden love.
Elena has to hide her love for paz
from her husband, Guillermo.
Having the chance to develop
this relationship between paz and Elena was beautiful.
And also, working with Dan about it,
he was really sensitive with the relationship of both characters.
Big action scenes, big zombie scenes are great fun to shoot,
but what I really love is shooting two people
in a room together, too afraid to say they love each other.
I just remember looking at him
and getting so emotional about it.
Once a year, they visit the northern villages,
bringing gifts, offering protection.
In our story, Carol and I get sort of wrapped up
in this sort of underlying drama of what unfolds here
to keep this place alive.
"La ofrenda" means "the offering,"
and it refers to this event
where the last vestiges of Spanish royalty come to the town
and offer gifts in exchange for a girl.
These traditions have been around for a long time,
but may also be exacerbated by the situation
that they're in now, that resources are low
and they have to do what they have to do in order to survive.
- Thank you. - Your town is beautiful.
But some of your traditions are a bit surprising.
This is their system, which is sort of corrupt in our eyes.
And it becomes clear that that's the thing
that Roberto and just in a are running from
when Daryl and Carol force them to come back to the village.
Obviously they're a couple in love,
and the threat is that just in a may be chosen.
Three. Two. One.
Today we're filming a pig race.
It's a raffle which sort of makes decisions
amongst the town.
What an interesting way to have a lottery...
whichever little piglet comes in first.
These are our pigs. They are all females.
And I've been with them like for two days now.
Beautiful.
You can be taking the pigs... we've made friends.
Yeah. Exactly. 'Cause I know you like that.
So you can be getting the pigs over. Okay. Great.
For weeks and weeks now,
we've been training piglets to race.
Pigs are not normally a trainable animal.
They have bags of individuality
and bags of personality, and they will do what they do.
But they have been training, they've been doing very well,
and I'm very proud of them.