Brianne walks through the streets of the Capital with Levi by her side, her hand on her bulging stomach to keep her on balance. Brianne's due any day now, and she likes to keep herself preoccupied by taking strolls. Levi always offers to take a stroll with Brianne because he worries for her safety. He knows petty criminals would target her because she's pregnant, and she seems vulnerable in her current state. As Brianne and Levi walk together, they notice that all the MP soldiers walking around are doing meaningless things and chatting away as if they're not on duty. They notice a group of MP soldiers walk out of a bar, drunk out of their minds at 2 in the afternoon.
Brianne: (scoffs) Look at them. They're piss-ass drunk in the early afternoon.
Levi: Incompetent fools.
Brianne and Levi scowl at the drunk MP causing a commotion for no good reason on the street.
Levi: Are you still planning to join the MP?
Brianne: Yeah. But my squad isn't gonna be like that. We're gonna deal with real situations and take care of real problems.
Levi: You know that all rookies are the bottom-feeders, don't you?
Brianne: Yeah, but I'm telling you. My squad isn't gonna be like that. We'll never end up like those MP's.
Levi: (scoffs) That's what you say now. Wait till you actually get there.
Brianne: Fine, I'll prove to you that my squad's gonna change things around here. We're gonna keep the streets safe, just like Nightman does.
Levi dismisses Brianne's optimistic notion, and the two continue on their stroll. Brianne notices Niles Dok with his fellow MP squad as rookies. Brianne decides to say hello to him to see what he's been doing as a rookie. Brianne approaches Niles while Levi follows from behind, and Niles notices her and stares at her belly noting how pregnant she is.
Brianne: (smiles) Hello Niles. Do you remember me?
Niles: (nods) Scarface.
Brianne nods, having accepted that terrible nickname because of her physical deformity.
Brianne: So, how's it been?
Niles: It's been fine.
Brianne: (annoyed that he doesn't elaborate) Hm. Well, you know, I've noticed a few citizens carrying around rifles.
Niles: (nervous) H-Have you?
Brianne: Yes. I mean...it's obvious who's giving them the guns, isn't it?
Niles: It's not me.
Brianne: No, but it is the people you work with.
Niles: (offended) So? What are you trying to say?
Brianne: (blunt) Are you going to do something about it?
Niles: About what?
Brianne: About making the MP stop distributing illegal firearms to citizens.
Niles: (scoffs and shakes head) That was always your problem, Scarface. You think everyone has your morals.
Brianne: So you won't do anything about it?
Niles: What can a rookie do about something that's been going on for years?
Brianne: A lot more than what you're doing now.
Niles: If you're here to lecture me, kid, then I'm leaving. I don't need to take this crap from you.
Niles storms off first, and Brianne and Levi watch.
Levi: What a jackass.
Brianne: Seriously.
Brianne visits her parents' grave, and Levi joins. Brianne sits down on the grass in front of their tombstones while Levi keeps watch for any suspicious MP out there. Brianne sits there quietly looking at the etched words on her parents' gravestones. She wonders if her parents can hear her thoughts from the heavens or if they're even there. Brianne gets emotional as she stares into the etched words, and she becomes upset thinking about her conversation with Niles.
Brianne's upset that Niles was so nonchalant about the illegal activities going on the streets, and she's upset that he keeps referring to her as Scarface. People usually say that behind her back, but Niles didn't give a crap about saying that hurtful nickname to her face. It's times like that when Brianne feels like a complete outcast. She feels as if there's no one that can truly understand her feelings and what she's going through except for one person: Erwin Smith. She sometimes feels like Levi doesn't understand her, even when they've spent so many years living together and seeing each other 24/7. It hurts Brianne that the one person who truly understands her will now be gone for months on end and has a high probability of never returning from beyond the Wall. She always wishes and prays for Erwin's safety beyond the Wall, and she waits everyday for the big bells to ring signaling the arrival of the Scout Regiment from their mission.
Brianne wonders if her parents have ever been through such ordeals before. She always imagined her mother and father to be perfect human beings: strong, lovable, unable to be hated. But as life has been teaching Brianne, she knows that many things are not so black-and-white all the time. Brianne wonders why some people are blessed with such untainted lives, why some people don't have to live with such stressful lives while others do. She feels as if her life is spectacularly more tainted and stressful than many others.
Brianne's emotional turbulence is perpetuated by her own cynical thoughts, and she feels tattered and torn. The wind of misfortune has been blowing Brianne off her feet since the night her parents died, and sometimes she even questions what her purpose is being alive. She wonders why fate chose her to be alive while taking her parents away. She believes that there's a higher purpose for her current state of being alone and torn, and she constantly seeks for the answer to why fate is on her side keeping her alive.
Levi: Let's go.
Brianne snaps out of her thoughts, and Levi helps her onto her feet. The two quickly walk away as a family arrives to the cemetery to mourn their loss.
Brianne, Levi, Isabel, and Farlan are at the park. They all sit on top of a large hill, and they all watch the sun setting behind the Wall. Brianne nearly jumps when she feels some liquid substance come out from her private area, and she feels a sharp pain in her stomach. She gasps, and Levi, Isabel, and Farlan look at Brianne.
Isabel: What is it?
Brianne: Holy shit. (grabs her stomach) Holy shit! Ah, it hurts!
Farlan: What do you mean it hurts?
Brianne: I think the baby's coming out.
Levi: Farlan, help me carry her.
Levi and Farlan hang Brianne's arms over their shoulder so that they can carry her quickly to the hospital while Isabel leads the way.
Isabel: Make way! Make way! Baby mama coming through!
Isabel runs into the hospital and she shouts for a doctor.
Isabel: Somebody please help! My friend's having a baby!
A doctor immediately runs to the 4, and a nurse comes running with a wheelchair. Levi and Farlan help Brianne into the wheelchair, and the nurse immediately takes Brianne away...Mike Zacharius is in crutches, having twisted his right ankle while on the previous mission outside the Walls as a Scout. He's walking in his crutches when he hears a nurse shouting for everyone to clear the path. Mike quickly leans back against the wall, and he's shocked seeing Brianne being wheeled in. He watches the nurse wheel Brianne into a room, and he has to take a minute to soak in the fact that Brianne is pregnant during the middle of her Military training...
Levi, Farlan, and Isabel find Brianne's room, and they see Brianne standing on top of a flimsy pile of boxes trying to fix the fan on the ceiling.
Farlan: Whoa whoa whoa! What the hell are you doing, Bri?!
Brianne: (looks back) Oh, I'm trying to fix the fan. It's not working.
Farlan: Get off of those boxes! You're gonna fall down, for god's sake. Get down now!
Brianne: Alright, alright.
Isabel: What the hell were you thinking, Bri?
Brianne: I need some air in this room. It's suffocating me, and I can't have this baby while I'm being suffocated.
Brianne throws her shoe at the fan angrily.
Isabel: Dude, stop it, Bri!
Brianne: I'm mad at the-
Levi: Just go lie down. Lie down there, and I'll get you a new fan, alright?
Levi walks out of Brianne's room and goes to the nearest nurse sitting on a chair at the desk.
Levi: Excuse me, my friend is going to have a baby and her fan isn't working. She needs a replacement.
Nurse: Oh, I'm sorry but the fans in the hospital aren't working today. There's some sort of technical malfunction with them.
Levi: All of them?
Nurse: Yes. You should try opening the windows-
Levi: Wait, I don't understand how ALL the fans aren't working.
Nurse: Well, that's why the technicians are coming in about 2 hours to fix them.
Levi: No, no no, my friend needs a fan now because she's having the baby now.
Nurse: Look, I don't know what to tell you-
Levi: (frustrated) I just don't understand how there's not a single working fan in this hospital. I want that fan, I want it, I want it now.
Nurse: I don't know where you think I'm going to get it from. I don't have any.
Levi: (glares) If you do not get my friend a working fan as soon as possible, then I will come down on this hospital with a force stronger than any titan out there!
Nurse: You know what, I don't have time for this.
The nurse walks away from Levi talking to herself as Levi watches, thinking that maybe he went a little overboard. But it's only because Brianne is about to give birth to her first baby.
Nurse: (walking away) I am not going to jail over you. I will beat your ass and think nothing of it. I'm not doing this with you today. I'm not!
Brianne: (walks over to Levi with Isabel and Farlan) So what's the word on my fans?
Levi: What are you doing out of bed?
Brianne: Oh, I came out to grab a sandwich. I was getting hungry, but mostly I was just bored.
Levi: Goddamn it, kid, just get in your room. Get in your room now!
Levi pushes Brianne back to her room.
Levi: Get in the bed.
Brianne: Alright, alright, just don't push me. I'm pregnant and - wait a minute, what's this?
The 4 friends see an old man sleeping on a bed next to Brianne's bed.
Brianne: (frantic) Why is there a strange man in my room?
Isabel: They probably slipped this man in here thinking you weren't going to use the room.
Brianne: Well that's no good. I don't want there to be a strange man in my room who looks dead. Oh god, you guys, he looks dead. Is he dead?
Isabel: I'm sure he's just sleeping, Bri. Now get in bed-
Brianne: I'm gonna scream in his face to see if he's dead.
Levi: No, no do not scream in the man's face. Look, I'll jiggle his ankle to wake him up. (shakes the man by the ankle) Wake up, sir. Wake up - oh god, he's cold. He's really cold.
Brianne: Oh god, he's dead. He's dead, you guys. I definitely think he's dead. Oh god, why would they do that?! Why would they put a dead old man in my room when I'm about to give birth?!
Farlan: Because you weren't using the room, Bri, and the hospital is filled with patients.
Brianne: Okay, well this was not part of my birth plan. This was not part of my birth plan - get him out of my room now. Get the nurse and make her take this dead man out!
Levi: Getting the nurse won't do you any good. That woman is stubborn as shit.
Brianne: Well do something. You gotta do something about this cus I can't. I just can't!
Levi: Alright, alright! Alright, goddamn it! (growls loudly) Yes, I will get this man out of your room. I will think of something awesome...
Levi wheels the old man out of Brianne's room on a wheelchair with Brianne, Farlan, and Isabel walking by his side. They put sunglasses over the man's eyes and tie a thin rope around the man's wrist connected to Levi's wrist.
Brianne: Are you sure this is gonna work, Levi?
Levi: Trust me, it will. Just play it cool, kid.
Nurse: Hey there, Mr. Jones!
Levi lifts his arm and the man's arm raises too. As the 4 walk past the nurse, they laugh together.
Brianne: Alright, I gotta admit the waving thing is pretty awesome.
Levi: It's pretty sweet, isn't it? I told you I'd think of something awesome.
Farlan: Alright, so what's the plan here? Are we gonna throw him in the trash or find a laundry chute to throw him in?
Levi: I was just gonna put him in an empty room if I can find one.
Brianne: No but if you do that they'll just put him back into my room.
Levi: Hm, that's true. Maybe we can put him in a drawer or closet to buy us more time.
Isabel: Ooh, makes me feel like I have to touch him and I don't want to touch a dead old man. Let's just put him in the trash.
Man: Please don't put me in the trash.
The 4 scream and jump back from fright.
Isabel: Whoa! You're alive?! / Brianne: Oh my goodness! / Levi: Jesus Christ, man! / Farlan: What the hell, old man!
Man: Please don't put me in the trash.
Nurse: Whoa, what's going on here?
It's the same nurse that mouthed off to Levi earlier.
Man: They're trying to put me in the trash.
Farlan: No, no don't, no-
Brianne: Okay, you know what? I refuse to stay in a room with an old man who pretends to be dead.
Isabel: Yeah, he's a liar.
Nurse: You are not allowed to move the patients.
Brianne: Oh! (grabs her stomach) Oh shit!
Levi: What? What's wrong?
Brianne: I think I'm having this baby. Ooh, god this hurts. Oh, this sucks hard!
The doctor and nurses take Brianne away, leaving Levi, Isabel, and Farlan with the old man.
Farlan: (sighs) Wow, this whole thing is just settling in now. I mean, we're gonna have a baby guys. (laughs) We're gonna have a baby. It's so cool.
Man: Please don't throw me in the trash.
Isabel: (annoyed) Oh, will you stop saying that? No one's gonna put you in the trash. Stop saying that.
Levi, Farlan, and Isabel walk off to the waiting room leaving the old man behind...The same MP who killed Brianne's mother, the same MP who was the prosecutor for Brianne's trial for associating with Kenny Ackerman, is there at the hospital with his two squad members of one man and one woman. The leader of the squad and the woman are talking to doctors about what happened to the other squad member: he was cornered and beat by a group of thugs for selling them not-working guns although they left out the part where the MP sold civilians guns. The two notice Brianne being taken away into the delivery room, and the two look at one another. They excuse themselves from the nurse, and they walk a bit closer towards Brianne's room. They both glance in and see her lying on a bed about to give birth.
Woman: That's Brianne Ackerman, isn't it?
Man: Yes, it is.
Woman: You know, I didn't want to say anything before, captain, but she actually kinda reminds me of a Turgard.
The leader looks at the woman.
Woman: She has Mary Turgard's hair and eyes, and she has Thomas Turgard's facial features.
Man: (looks back at Brianne pushing the baby out) Now that you mention it, I do see it...
The leader of the squad sees a nurse walking out of Brianne's room, and he approaches the nurse.
Man: Excuse me, but what is the girl's name in this room?
Nurse: It's Brianne Ackerman.
Man: Would you be so kind as to do us a favor, ma'am?
Nurse: Of course, anything for the Military Police.
Man: Would you mind calling her as Brianne Turgard?
Nurse: Turgard?
Man: Yes. It's of Military Police matter. It would be very helpful if you could do that for us, ma'am.
Nurse: Sure, I could do that.
Man: And it would be helpful if you could leave us out if she asks you anything about where you heard that name from.
The nurse nods and walks back into Brianne's room, and the leader watches through the window. He sees the nurse speaking, which he assumes is her speaking Brianne's real last name, and he sees the look on Brianne's face. He sees her mouth drop when the nurse calls her by Turgard. He can see Brianne ask the nurse why she is calling her Turgard when her last name is Ackerman, and the leader knows they've finally caught the last remaining Turgard who is to be executed discreetly.
Man: (to the woman) That is Brianne Turgard. You could see it on her face when the nurse called her by her last name.
Woman: So what do we do, captain?
Man: We need to tie up some loose ends. After she delivers birth, we'll finish the job and we'll get rid of the Turgard girl. We need to be quick and clean. We cannot leave any trace that we killed the last Turgard, understood?
Woman: (salutes) Yes, captain. And captain...what about the baby?
Man: We'll get rid of it too. No more loose ends, or the King will have us executed.
Mike can't believe what he's listening to. Brianne is the daughter of the murdered commander of the Military Police, Thomas Turgard, and these MP soldiers are going to kill her and get rid of the baby to cut off some loose ends. He's hiding behind a nearby wall after he heard them say Brianne's name, knowing the kind of shit Brianne was into before with the government. Mike knows that there's no way he can stop 3 MP's with a twisted ankle, and he remembers that Brianne came with other people. Mike quickly walks off as if he heard nothing, and he walks into the waiting room. He sees Levi, Farlan, and Isabel there. He walks up to the 3, and the 3 look up at Mike.
Isabel: Can we help you?
Mike: I'm a friend of Brianne. Listen, there are 2 MP's waiting in front of Brianne's room, and they're going to kill her and her baby.
Isabel, Farlan, and Levi all look at one another.
Mike: Please, I'm telling the truth. My name is Mike Zacharius, and Brianne was a first year when I was a fifth year in the Military training camp.
Levi: How do we know you're telling us the truth?
Mike: Look, you have to believe me. I just heard the MP's talking about it, and if you want to keep Brianne safe then I suggest you go to her room right now and protect her and her baby!
Isabel and Farlan are suspicious, but Levi doesn't care about his skeptical intuitions. He doesn't want to take any chances, and he runs towards Brianne's room. He runs inside and he sees nurses cleaning Brianne. Levi can tell Brianne just gave birth to the baby because of the way she looks, and Brianne is knocked out from delivering her baby girl.
Nurse: Sir, you can't be in here-
Levi: Were there 2 MP soldiers here?
Nurse: They were waiting outside, yes.
Levi: Where did they go?
Nurse: I don't know-
Levi: WHERE DID THEY GO?!
Nurse: (jumps) I don't know! They followed the nurse who carried out the baby.
Farlan and Isabel walk into the room, and Levi looks back at them.
Levi: Izzie, you stay here with the kid. Farlan, we're gonna find those MP's. They went after the baby.
Levi and Farlan run out of Brianne's room while Isabel stays with her. The two run towards the room where all the newborns are kept, and they run to the nurse checking her notepad.
Levi: Where's Brianne Ackerman's baby?
Nurse: Oh she's right...
The nurse's face immediately darkens when she looks around the room and doesn't see the MP with the baby.
Nurse: There was an MP soldier here holding the baby.
Farlan: There was?
Nurse: He's gone. He's gone. He has black hair held back in a ponytail.
Levi and Farlan immediately run out of the room, and as they make a left in the hallway they see a woman MP walking back as if heading back to Brianne. Levi walks towards the woman, and right when they pass by each other Levi whacks the MP in the head knocking her down to the ground. He then puts the woman in a sleeper choke-hold, and he knocks the woman out unconscious. Levi then quickly carries the MP on his back, and Farlan opens the exit door. The two leave the hospital at night with the MP knocked out cold...The MP slowly regains her consciousness, and she sees herself in the dark sewers. There's absolutely no light anywhere except for the light in Levi and Farlan's eyes. She looks into Levi and Farlan's faces who are cornering her to the wall so that she can't have the advantage.
Woman: Who are you?
Levi: Where's the soldier who took Brianne Ackerman's baby?
Woman: What?
Levi: (growls) Don't play dumb, or we'll make your life living hell.
Levi takes out a pocketknife, and it glistens under the moonlight.
Levi: Start talking now.
Woman: Who the hell do you kids think you are, threatening an MP soldier?
Levi: (scoffs) I bet you didn't know Kenny Ackerman has a family, do you? I'm his nephew, Levi Ackerman. And you, as an MP, should know very well that if anything happens to Brianne, Kenny will destroy all of you. (plays with the knife) And trust me, we'll save you for last.
Woman: You think I believe what you're saying? You're Kenny Ackerman's nephew? (laughs)
Farlan: You don't have to believe a word he's saying, but if you don't start talking soon it's gonna be one hell of a painful night for you.
The woman now laughs at Farlan, and Levi jams the knife into her knee. Farlan quickly covers the woman's mouth as she screams in pain.
Levi: (keeps the knife in the woman's knee) Where is the soldier who took Brianne Ackerman's baby?!
Woman: I'm not going to tell you anything.
Levi starts moving the knife around even more, and the woman screams again in pain.
Levi: WHERE IS THE BABY?!
The woman shakes from the pain but doesn't say anything.
Levi: Look, you're going to die no matter what. Accept it. But now the question remains, how do you want to die? If you don't say anything, we'll (moves the knife around again) torture you-
The woman screams again in Farlan's hand, muffling the noise to not draw any attention.
Levi: -and you'll die many hours later after feeling every single pain we inflict on you. Tell us now where the baby is, and you'll go swiftly and painlessly.
Woman: (sobbing) Captain Burke took it. Captain Burke took the baby.
Farlan: The man with the black hair tied in a ponytail?
Woman: Yes, yes, that's him. Please, just kill me now.
Levi: Where did he take the baby?
The woman just cries, and Levi moves the knife around again. It finally hits the woman's bone, and they can all hear the bone crackling under the knife. She screams at the top of her lungs in Farlan's hands.
Woman: Near the canal that leads outside of the Wall!
Farlan looks at Levi, and Levi nods knowing that she's telling the truth. Levi then takes the knife out of the woman's knee, and he hands the knife to Farlan. He immediately slits the woman's throat and stabs her through her heart, and Levi then throws the woman into the sewer. Levi and Farlan immediately run as fast as they can to the canal that leads outside of the Wall as a sewer system. They can see a man standing there near the canal, and they can see his ponytail.
Levi: HEY!
The MP doesn't expect to be ambushed by the two, and they knock the MP down to the ground. They both pin the MP down, and they point the bloodied knife to the captured MP.
Levi: Where is the baby?!
The MP doesn't answer, surprised that these children know about his plan to get rid of the Turgard's.
Levi: WHERE IS THE BABY?!
Man: You're too late.
Farlan: We're gonna ask you one more time, where is the goddamn baby?!
The MP doesn't answer.
Farlan: All you need to do is talk, man, and we'll end you quickly. No pain, we promise.
Levi grabs the knife from Farlan and stabs the MP in the abdomen away from the vital organs. The man screams, and Farlan muffles the man's scream with his hand.
Levi: (trembling from anger) Where is the baby?
The man still doesn't talk, so Levi grabs the MP and dunks his head into the canal for a long time.
Farlan: He's gonna die before he starts talking.
Levi keeps drowning the man, and with the knife in his other hand he stabs the man in the back multiple times. After a few seconds before the MP can drown, Levi pulls his head up and starts slashing away at the man's torso with his knife.
Levi: Where is the baby?!
The man still doesn't answer, so Levi drowns the man again stabbing him multiple times again in the back. Levi pulls him up again, and the man gasps for air.
Man: (gasping) It's gone. It's gone. It's past the Wall.
Levi looks at the man.
Man: I put it in a basket, and I watched it float out of the Wall.
Levi knows the man is telling the truth. Farlan looks up at the Wall, and he knows there's no way they can get the baby now being unequipped to fight off titans from outside the Wall. Levi stabs the MP upwards through the chin/jaw. The man's blood trickles down Levi's arm as Levi moves the knife around under the man's jaw, looking into his eyes as the man slowly loses his life. He watches the life leave from the MP's eyes, and he takes the knife out of the MP's jaw. Levi then tosses the man's body into the canal, and they watch him float out past the Wall.
Farlan: How are we gonna tell this to Bri?
Levi: ...we're just gonna have to tell her the truth...I'll handle it.
Levi and Farlan head back to the hospital, and they walk to Brianne's hospital room where Isabel is with Brianne who is now awake. Brianne sits up when she sees Levi and Farlan enter her room.
Levi: Give me the room, Izzie.
Isabel and Farlan leave Levi and Brianne alone.
Brianne: Where's my baby? Where is she?
Levi sits at the edge of Brianne's bed, and he holds her hand.
Levi: I'm so sorry, kid...
Brianne: (tears) Levi...where's my baby?
Levi: This guy, Mike Zacharius, told us there were 2 MP's who were gonna kill you and your baby. Farlan and I tracked down the guy to the canal that leads out to the Wall...but we were too late. I'm so sorry, kid. I'm...I'm really sorry.
Brianne's mouth is open, unable to say any words. Tears stream down and Levi embraces Brianne tightly. Brianne is paralyzed, frozen and shocked at the information Levi just told her.